Turkey – Rift Slide – approx M 9.0 – Feb 2023 Screenshot of EMSC M5.0 or greater 0500am 07 Feb 2023
Volcano Discovery screenshot 0600am 07 Feb 2023
0800am 07 Feb 2023 Weather Screenshot – Windy.com
Screenshot Volcano Discovery Volcanos and Earthquakes 0050am 07 Feb 2023
Screenshot USGS M 5.0 and above 1430pm 07 Feb 2023
1430pm Irish Time (Winter) (also GMT and UTC) 07 Feb 2023 Northern Mid Atlantic Ridge M 5.0 5 hrs 30 mins ago, oh yes, it is one pale blue dot. (Carl Sagen said it.) Google Sales Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagen Book
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1996 edition (print) World Sea level, if all the ice melts will rise 5 meters. There’s lots of Volumes, I’m not searching it again.
Carl Sagen Testifies before the USA Congressional Committee on Climate Change 1985.
1500pm 07 Feb 2023 Screenshot IPMA Portuguese Met Office M 2.0 and above Rest of World M 4.0 and above
Picture a heavy flag waving, that’s Portugal at the end flapping up and down. Yes, they do have big cliffs, the end of the flag frays rather fast.
1600pm 07 Feb 2023 – Volcano Discovery Last 7 days Turkey – 206xM 4.0+ 29xM 5.0+ 3xM 6.0+ 2xM 7.0+ Note: It’s a logarithmic base 10 scale, and additive, Energy wise 10xM 2.0 = 1xM 3.0 and 2xM 2.5 = 1xM 3.0 Total? It’s pushing an “M 9.0 Rift Slide”? No, not at Portugal, at Turkey. See graphic below
Note: Seismic vibrations trigger emotional responses, isolation from a concrete or stone floor reduces the effects dramatically, carpets, wooden floors, a nice bath or putting your feet up reduces the effects within ten minutes. The seismic effects from the main M 7.8 earthquake was felt in Greenland 8 minutes later. Psychologist La Palma Psychological Intervention in Primary Care After Earthquakes in Lorca, Spain USA National Library of Medicine Feb 2015 Now PTSD, that’s entirely different. Colman was a Critical Incident Stress Debrief First responder with the Irish Defence Forces, long before, a nice Captain from 24 Inf Bn (FCA) debriefed me (4am, write everything down, NOW, cup of tea? 3 sugars), after I was the first aider at a shooting incident, properly carried out it works. Colman was also a CBRN Defence Instructor. “Yes, I was.” Colman
How do you write this website? “I find the website, type the text, copy and paste the site address into a box and confirm it, then I press update.” Colman
Relief web by OCHA screenshot at 1800pm 07 Feb 2023 BBC article – 6,300 deaths another M 5.0 2 hrs ago. AFAD 100 earthquakes over M 2.0 from 15:02pm to 20:59pm Turkish time or 1800pm UTC, yes, that’s in the six hours ’til six o’clock this evening.
1900 UTC 07 Feb 2023 Weather Ekinözü, Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye close to the M 7.5 at Gözpinar, Minus 7 degrees Celsius and it’s the start of the night.
1900pm 07 Feb 2023 Seventeen (17) new earthquakes from AFAD since 1800pm. M 5.0 Goksun (Kahramanmaras) M3.9 Celikhan (Adiyaman) M3.9 Dogansehir (Malatya) M 3.6 Dogansehir (Malatya).
EarthquakeTrack screenshot 1900hrs 07 Feb 2023 Recent Turkey
2000pm UTC 07 Feb 2023 Sky News article – 7,200 dead
CNN 07 Feb 2023 – They’re calling it the Epi-line of a Slip strike – I prefer Rift slide.
CNN 07 Feb 2023 – Note: The severity of the earthquake is heavily dependant on the depth of the earthquake, “In case of an unknown, it runs to mama.”, 10km. Where the quake is close to the surface, a M 2.0 at 2km depth can have quite a different effect, it is similar to Luminosity (wiki), Flux density (Energy at a point) = Luminosity (Energy at origin) /4πr2 (π= 3.142, r = distance of point from source.) Similar, not the same, as energy is expended on the way to the point of interest, just as the formula in wiki, is good for Sun and stars, however on Earth, dust, moisture and air gets in the way. Yes, the Military College is a nice place to learn Class taking, and the Irish Defence Forces AudioVisual School (DFAVS) teaches public speaking to video too.
Canary Islands Latest Earthquakes, they’ve updated their system and now have data down to M 0.5, it’s quite a cute idea and keeps the system ticking over.
Iceland Latest Earthquakes, Iceland Geology.net, nice article on the Turkey earthquakes
Iceland Population 380,000 Reykjavík population 130,000 people. 266 Museums. Cork city population 230,000 – One museum in Fitzgerald’s park, my tiny house is bigger and a Gaol. No, Spike Island is with Cobh. Woops, forgot, Collins barracks has a museum too. Two museums. Where would you have put the museum Colman? Oh, beside MTU Campus, though all that land is houses now, near the hospice? The old people might like somewhere nice to visit in their last days. It’s at the end of the bus route.
2200pm 07 Feb 2023 The last big earthquake today in Turkey from KOERI-RETMC (Turkey) was at 23.02.07 19:54 local (16:54 UTC) Depth 5km M 4.7 YESILBAYIR-PALU (ELAZIG), though USGS is giving 15:48 M 5.0 and 18:10 M5.3.
0200am 08 Feb 2023 – You didn’t get much sleep? Neither did they. These are contraction events and the Earth’s surface contracts when it cools, Jan is normally the coldest month, 4am is the coldest part of the night, I’m awake. You sleep, if you’d like?
EMSC Last quake over M 5.0 – 8 hours ago. Coffee?
(KOERI-RETMC) Last quake over M 4.0 2023.02.07 (TUR T local) 23:13:02 36.0775 35.8118 (D) 14.8 -.- (M) 4.2 -.- MAGARACIK-SAMANDAG (HATAY) 2013pm UTC, six (6) hours ago. Milk, 2 sugar.
Countries sending Rescue Services APNews article (Nato Country codes wiki) USA RUS ISR PSE GRC LBN LBY ESP DEU KOR PAK GBR IND TWN CHE CZE JPN AUT POL ROU HRV SRB MNE MDA FRA JOR MEX ITA ALB KOSOVO (Why is Spain between Eritrea and Ethiopia? It’s sorted for the two letter codes. You know you’d be faster typing the entire list. Yes, however then I wouldn’t learn the list and part of the reason its sorted for the two letter codes is so you read all the countries. Practice, practice.) (Why is Kosovo listed last? Well, first you look up wiki and it’s not listed as the Stanag was before their independence and then you look up the NATO list which looks all efficient and doesn’t include half the countries in the world. That’s deliberate? No, that’s an administrative fxxk up. Why? Well, if it was efficient the last code would be YET. The NATO Manual
0300am 08 Feb 2023 The Guardian article Death toll passes 7,800
0320am 08 Feb 2023 BBC article Death toll approaches 8,000
World Health Organisation Emergency response framework (ERF), 2nd edition
World Health Organisation – News webpage ????? Where’s the Earthquake? Oh? We’re tweeting? (Did I get that in less than 280 characters?)
Remember be kind to the Geeks, someday they’ll be your bosses? Well, here’s a new one. The Whiners (Why) and the Whingers (When) normally, if you let them have their say, finish with, it’s easier if you … I read it in a book. (Though these days they might have seen an infogram or an infovid.)
0330am 08 Feb 2023 read BBC Science article (I’d give it a B+ in a Primary school.)
0340am 08 Feb 2023 Impact of the 1999 East Marmara Earthquake in Turkey by Aytül Kasapoğlu and Mehmet Ecevit JSTOR ITHAKA a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. (Georgia O’Keeffe, the painting in the JSTOR webpage, she a relation? Oh, possibly, somewhere way back.) Georgia O’Keeffe Museum ARTSTOR
0350am 08 Feb 2023 How Turkey’s Anatolian Fault System Causes Devastating Earthquakes by Leanne Abraham, Henry Fountain and K.K. Rebecca Lai Feb. 6, 2023 New York Times. (Yes, that one deserves a proper citation. Why is it so short? Well it’s two infograms (slides) with lots of information and the length of the text is just long enough for the speaker to keep the students attention. It’s probably from a lecture, though I’d be asking where the other 28 slides are? I would have asked who lectured the meterologist from CNN and asked them, you’ll note that the same methodology of depth is used in the Islandic current earthquake chart.)
0400am 08 Feb 2023 Cyprus Reports “Tsunami” Waves Following Turkey’s Earthquake Mon 06 Feb 2023 | 02:08 PM SEE news
0405am 08 Feb 2023 SunsetSunriseTime.com/Earthquake Map Famagusta, Cyprus current Earthquake Map Cork
Date: 07/02/2023, 9:35 PM (00:00)Source: emscMagnitude: 2.1Depth: 4.97 miLatitude: +56°58′47″, Longitude: −5°47′24″367 mi к North от Cork
Google Earth Pro screenshot edited on Corel Paintshop Pro 2019 by Colman O’Keeffe at 0425am 08 Feb 2023
0435am 08 Feb 2023 Visit Scotland – Mallaig
0438am 08 Feb 2023 American Geophysical Union – Find a job – Earth and Space Science Open Archive
0445am 08 Feb 2023 Forest fires will increase because of rising temperatures in the continental USA and we needed an AI computer to prove we were smart. There’s lot’s of big words, they seem to use hyphens a lot and what are they using as 100% when they say temperatures are going to increase by 23-29% and what is a 4-75% (model spread)?
0450am 08 Feb 2023 Climate Change Science – Environmental Protection Agency – City of Chicago (Thank you, USA) Increases in average global temperatures are expected to be within the range of 0.5°F to 8.6°F by 2100, with a likely increase of at least 2.7°F for all scenarios except the one representing the most aggressive mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.[2]
No, 8.6 ºF is NOT equal to 13ºC, (Yes, that is a .org website, you might have a look at that? Thermometer scale (212°F − 32) × 5/9 = 100°C) that’s awful, 8.6 x 5/9 = 4.77777777778ºC and yes, that’s a truely scary number, Increases in Temperature by 2100AD on EARTH. Where did you get the º from? Well, I use Apache Open Office and I insert special symbol, then I copy the symbol into my test. Under the text, it actually says U+00BA(186). Now. Here’s a HUGE QUESTION? Did someone, way back, make a clerical printing error?
0530am 08 Feb 2023 EMSC Earthquakes greater than M 4.0 Europe
Depth Kilometers 30, 15, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 (Yes, a Magnitude four point zero a kilometer under your feet would put you off bedtime. two kilometers down, it might put you off breakfast. Why are you being funny? )
0545am 08 Feb 2023 Mid Atlantic ridge Brittanica.com UNESCO World Heritage There’s nothing actually quaking according to the maps, however last time I felt like this Iceland had an eruption and they announced a thousand little earthquakes along the Reykjanes ridge. The Reykjanes Ridge: structure and tectonics of a hot-spot-influenced, slow-spreading ridge, from multibeam bathymetry, gravity and magnetic investigations (1998) Irish National Seismic Network
0600am 08 Feb 2023 2023-02-06, M7.8, M7.5, Turkey published in Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Irish National Seismic Network article by David Craig in Recent Global Seismic Events on . INSN – All Earthquakes IRELAND
0605am 08 Feb 2023 Inergency.com I like the Van Gogh.
0610am 08 Feb 2023 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Copernicus Publications
0615am 08 Feb 2023 The Watchers.news nice currently featured article on the Turkey events. A 6.4 km (4 miles) wide Comet 96P/Machholz has begun its sixth passage through the field view of SOHO/LASCO C3 on January 29, 2023. Near Earth Objects Some nice subjects in their banners – have another look.
0625am 08 Feb 2023 IRIS North Atlantic – Earthquakes M 4.0 + current
0630am 08 Feb 2023 IRIS Search North Atlantic M 4.0+ current The table says 200 eathquakes of M 4.0+ in the last approx 600 days, approx one M 4.0+ per 3 days. Here’s a question? If the noisy cracks (earthquakes) are when the flow (plate movement) is interrupted and suddenly slips, are the movements of the plates a little faster just now and the vibrations quieter and consistent? Anyway, I need to put my feet up for a while having them on the tiled floor, seated at the computer, is not good for my head.
0650am 08 Feb 2023 – Irony – https://www.copernicus.eu/en Video announcing the availability of databases of information from Copernicus. Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem – Why is it ironic? It’s hosted on UTube. So people can view their channel… 675 views in 7 days. Summary – It’s a load of stuff and we need to make it look good, so we paid someone to make a professional adverisement for it’s brilliantness. Haymarket Media Group – IPSO regulated really? and then ESA pay an advertising company for an ad in English? for 700 viewers? Publish 300 sat photo sections of the Turkey Earthquake available for the Rescue workers? 5 views per worker per day, 100,000 workers, 500,000 views and a greatful AFAD. We wouldn’t want to worry people? You seen the drone footage? That’s city only stuff. Some people are asking where their own house is because the rest of their entire street is gone and they don’t know the way home after they travelled to the nearest shop still standing.
Copernicus Satellite photos
Big Free Photo Site – TURKEY DISASTER – PHOTO 08 FEB 2023 TOWN
Look – make a .PDF? like you did for your Copernicus Market Report 2019 lots of pretty pictures.
1440pm 08 Feb 2023 Why do muslims pray on carpets? They’re prayer mats. They’re carpets, they isolate them from the tiled floors, the floors are tiled because of the dust. Ten minutes isolated from the seismic vibrations gives them a bit of peace and a nice feeling of serenity. Now that’s proper research. You going to put a carpet down under the computer? No. Better knowing what’s out there and feeling a little on edge. Rather like actually reading the data and all the coverage. Is that why they sold Bover boots to the Punks? You reading conspiracy theories again? That’s not anywhere I’ve read? It will be. It’s possible, though the rubber soled boots were army issue first, they survived better in winter conditions and saved electrical (communications) worker lives.
1500pm 08 Feb 2023 EMSC Europe M 5.0+
1500pm 08 Feb 2023 AFAD (UTC +3) 1400pm – 1500pm
1510pm 08 Feb 2023 IRIS Europe
You tap the up down arrows over the date/times to sort it by time, it sorts earliest, first and then tap it a second time and it sorts with most recent first. Yes, it is surprising that it doesn’t list all the Turkey earthquakes visible in the bottom right, however it’s on the other page.
1520pm 08 Feb 2023 IRIS Central Asia – Magnitude Sort – Depth Sort
The ones closest to the surface transmitted the most energy to the buildings? You might have a look at the M 4.4 at D 5km ? any photo from, let’s say 12 hours later, so the buildings have had time to fall down and the dust has cleared, 19+12-24 = 7, so let’s say a Sat photo from some time after 0700am 08 Feb 2023, this morning? What time was the Sun up? It’s not going to be pretty. Save the ones who are alive. Bury the ones who are dead. Grieve and move on. That sounds biblical? Well, you’d want to leave the area after that happened wouldn’t you?
1550pm 08 Feb 2023 Childhood without war Ukraine these were evacuating Ukrainian orphans to Turkey, you might check on the kids? Were there any in the area?
1550pm 08 Feb 2023 PBS News hour Earthquake aid pours into Turkey and Syria in race to find survivors There’s nice free USA tv shows here. Choose your channel is the box on the top right of the screen. Star Gazers STGZ252 Feb 20-26, 2023 “Dogs Chase Rabbits, it’s a Phact”
1600pm 08 Feb 2023 USGS M 5.1 – 1 km E of Nurhak, Turkey 2023-02-08 14:20:25 (UTC) 37.963°N 37.458°E 5.9 km depth – 40 minutes ago
You might ask them to put a date/time on the top of their webpage? When? Oh, next year, perhaps? Well, actually, the guy/girl is doing what at the moment? There are how many foreign rescue workers and all are trained in English? NATO standardisation? And this is the best local earthquake site. It doesn’t work in English? Anyone got a web designer hanging around? Maybe five of them and a translator to the Uni, please?
1620pm 08 Feb 2023 USGS M 4.3 – 55 km NE of Masjed Soleymān, Iran 2023-02-08 04:01:16 (UTC) 32.265°N 49.752°E 10.0 km depth USGS M 4.1 – Dead Sea region 2023-02-07 21:14:29 (UTC) 32.129°N 35.283°E 10.0 km depth That’s Iran, Israel and the Palestinian territories. 0400am this morning and 2100pm last night.
Well, logically, if the plate contracted because of the cold temperature, it being winter, and slid North, the rest of the plate will want to follow, at a reasonably slow rate? Oh, and sunrise this morning at Ankara was 0750am (UTC+3), you might check the spherical math on the direction of sunrise, though, most people don’t realise that the Sun can rise North of East, they normally think of the Sun as being below us all the time. Sundirection.com Ankara Sundirection.com Cork this is quite good, I wonder, who they get their data from? DataCommerce.com Sunrise data Where do they get it from? Python module SunriseSunset, it’s free. You trust sffjunkie? Well, his code made it past the Python supervision team? Python Supervisor – Software Development Manager- job post Dutch Bros Oregon•Remote $135,411 – $156,979 a year – Full-time Nice job anyone? And leave the luxury to which I have become accustomed? Coffee?
1650pm 08 Feb 2023 The Washington Post Turkey Death Toll passes 11,000
1655pm 08 Feb 2023 The Hindustan Times Turkish president acknowledges ‘shortcomings’ in quake response: Report Updated on Feb 08, 2023 09:30 PM IST
1700pm 08 Feb 2023 The Straits Times (Singapore) Turkey Death Toll passes 11,000
1705pm 08 Feb 2023 National Geographic What causes Earthquakes
1715pm 08 Feb 2023 Reuters Doctor accused of spreading deadly meningitis (in hospitals in Mexico) arrested in Mexico That one is quite important.
1720pm 08 Feb 2023 Smithsonian weekly Volcano report due at 2300pm UTC every Wednesday, that’s tonight. We are currently having a technical problem with the “Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions” site. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1730pm 08 Feb 2023 NASA Earthdata GES Disc (Disc – it’s a really old name for a Hard drive plate, the original IBMs were huge and had multiple discs.) Atmospheric Composition, Water & Energy Cycles and Climate Variability
1735pm 08 Feb 2023 IPMA Portugal Turkey Earthquake Update Portugal Temperature Changes 2022 The Red ones start at 2.5ºC above normal the Heay Dark Red in May and July are 6.5ºC above normal. Normal is defined as the Climate (30 year averages Met.ie). Ireland is normally defined as a Temperate Climate. There’s excellent stuff in here about soil types with nice pictures. Thank you ScienceDirect.com
1755pm 08 Feb 2023 Windy.com Snow Depth
1800pm 08 Feb 2023 Helly Hansen W ARCTIC PATROL 3-IN-1 LIGHT PARKA Reduced from €1,500 to €1,050, Winter in Europe is nearly over. Canada Goose Journey Boot -15ºC I like the Red version. Can$795 Including shipping to Ireland €695.
1820pm 08 Feb 2023 UK Met Office Weather forecast Gaziantep, Turkey 0500am -3ºC Kayseri, Turkey 0500am -8ºC. Yes, that’s local time (UTC+3) 0200amUTC, you might give them a wrist thermometer or two? SunCompany.com ChillChek Waterproof Thermometer I prefer these, $8.99. The other ones got a compass. You ever used those compasses?
1830pm 08 Feb 2023 Volcano Discover Cyprus QUAKES IN THE PAST 24 HOURS: Three (3) quakes above M 3.0 Thirty Four (34) quakes between M 2.0 and M 3.0. Canada Goose Snow Mantra Boot? I prefer the short ankle for hiking and those are $1,250. Journey boot, please? That’s not an economic choice? No, long boots have a history of injuries (https://www.physio-pedia.com/Fibular_Fracture)- “more snow boarders than skiers” short boots. The NCOs in the barracks didn’t like the high Meindls either. Great Outdoors.ie footwear. Well, some of us buy our own gear for leisure pursuits. Defence Forces Canteen Board Irish Research Council State Administration Database Publications Busy people???
1840pm 08 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Turkey QUAKES IN THE PAST 30 DAYS:
1900pm 08 Feb 2023 Copernicus Emergency Mapping Activations Copernicus Satellite photos Found them.
1930pm 08 Feb 2023 Antiochia Copernicus Jpg photo Red – Destroyed, Orange Damaged, Yellow – possibly damaged. Why is this photo first? Airport – Hatay Runway 3,000 meters Asphalt. 22/04 (That’s the Magnetic direction of the runways) Weather Wind from North West, 6 kts, it’s a light crosswind at a 90º angle to the runways, land as you wish? Noise, onto the 22, please and you don’t disturb the city with the noise. You sure that’s aphalt? It is quite a dusy place, Sahara sand and all that. Screenshot Google Earth Pro Hatay Runway.
2005pm 08 Feb 2023 Colman – What would you do? Google Search Gaziantep Airport photo DailySabah.com Kahramanmaraş, Hatay, Gaziantep suspend flights after 7.7 earthquake Rescue Planes only.
Gaziantep Oğuzeli Airport (wiki) Weather UK Met Office Windfinder.com 3,000 meters, concrete, (10/28) High mountains, swirling conditions, possible snow? AllMetSat.com search LTAJ (LTAJ is the ICAO code for Gaziantep.) Gusts up to 25 kts Foehn winds ? (wiki) “Anecdotally, residents in areas of frequent Foehn winds have reported experiencing a variety of illnesses ranging from migraines to psychosis.” (“Dehydration and the seismic vibrations are really annoying.” Colman). The wiki doesn’t have the traditional view I learned about the rapidly dropping air causing cloud and fog formation in the lower valleys and the pooling of this heavy cold air in pockets in low lying areas? Well, you learned about them as a local phenomena in Foehn, Austria, they seem to have expanded the meteorological definition a little since Inter Certificate Geography in Ireland. TAF: LTAJ 081640Z 0818/0918 VRB02KT CAVOK TEMPO 0818/0822 35012G22KT BECMG 0900/0902 35012KT PROB30 TEMPO 0902/0906 35015G25KT BECMG 0909/0911 VRB02KT FEW040 BECMG 0914/0916 CAVOK
2010pm 08 Feb 2023 – “Why is it OK?” “Oh, way back, someone used to sign their initials.” “You’re joking.” “Am I?” “Ok, I am a little sarcy (Urban dictionary) today.” Colman
2015pm 08 Feb 2023 British Geological Survey Latest Earthquakes last 60 days Mallaig M 2.1 D 7km. 07 Feb 2023 2135pm (UTC)
2030pm 08 Feb 2023 New Zealand Geonet Latest Earthquakes Most recent M 2.6 09 Feb 0537am local (UTC +13) 5-13+ 24 = 16 1637pm 08 Feb (UTC) Within 5km of Porangahau Confirm that? Well, it’s 0930am local there now and the earthquake was 4 hrs before that and it’s 2030 hrs now and 4 hrs ago was 1630hrs. Correct? Yes, checking the (USGS New Zealand Earthquakes They had a 7.8 in 2016? The USGS story is a little short? No one did a Phd on it? 2016 Kaikōura earthquake wiki Two (2) deaths. We had the same number of deaths in Storm Ophelia (2017), yes one of them, the chainsaw killed him while he was removing a tree from the middle of the road. (The Irish Sun)) Volcano Discovery Latest quakes New Zealand Earthquake data: Mag 2.6 / 85.6 km (53 mi) depth5 hours ago Feb 8, 2023 16:03 GMT, Feb 9, 2023 5:03 am (GMT +13) local time Lat / Lng: -37.13939 / 175.58083: New Zealand Source: GEONET (NZ)
Other sources: RaspberryShake: 2.6 / 86 km.
2055pm 08 Feb 2023 Raspberryshake.org Oh, look, they sell cheap seismometers? And here’s how you build one. RGI-4.5Hz Geophone datasheet
2100pm 08 Feb 2023 Foehn Wind areas. Seismic vibrations, headaches and psychosis. “At the foot of high mountains, the valleys are frequently filled with alluvial soils and particularly when moist, the vibrations ripple from one valley edge to the other and since the rock is hard, some of the energy bounces back and you get the ripples forming interference waves. (Wave Interferance wiki) I did a project on lasers using this phenomena in light waves.” Colman O’Keeffe and you can quote me on that. “Why when moist?” “Well, when dry, the sand particles just grate off one another and the energy is rapidly dissipated. It’s the difference between squishing your toe in dry sand at the beach and wiggling your toes in wet sand to watch the wet sand making little waves.” Colman
2130pm 08 Feb 2023 UNOSAT Combined map Marash/Antep earthquake (6 February 2023, M 7.8) Now THATS what I’m talking about. (It looks strange and useless.) Now, keep zooming until you see the green dashed areas (examination complete) where the destroyed buildings in RED appear. Combined information from the geopoints from Copernicus, if I’m not mistaken. EXCELLENT WORK.
2140pm 08 Feb 2023 WATER Die Hard 4.0 iMDb (Live Free or Die Hard) (Movie 2007) “John McClane: Come on. Government’s gonna have dozens of departments dedicated to that shit! Matt Farrell: It took FEMA *five days* to get water to the Superdome.” (Moviemistakes.com) – Seismic Vulnerability of Buried Water Pipes (2012) ResearchGate.net – Quantifying restoration time of pipelines after earthquakes: Comparison of Bayesian belief networks and fuzzy models (2012) ScienceDirect.com – International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction – Science Direct.com
2155pm 08 Feb 2023 Sky News Gruesome, technical work: How an earthquake search and rescue mission is conducted “It’s the rule of threes, isn’t it? Three [minutes] for lack of oxygen, three days for lack of water and 30 days for lack of food.” Mr Rob Davis SARAID (homepage) “We shall either find a way or make one.”
2210pm 08 Feb 2023 USGS M 4.2 – 16 km N of Baalbek, Lebanon Time 2023-02-08 18:58:53 (UTC) Location34.153°N 36.232°E Depth 10.0 km. USGS M 4.5 – 13 km SW of Yeşilyurt, Turkey Time 2023-02-08 20:12:06 (UTC) Location 38.210°N 38.144°E Depth 10.0 km.
2225pm 08 Feb 2023 Sky News Turkey-Syria earthquake: Rescuers flood into Hatay at last – but face a scene of mind-blowing devastation
2245pm 08 Feb 2023 BBC News Turkey earthquake: Where did it hit and why was it so deadly? BBC News Indian Ocean tsunami: Then and now (Earthquake M 9.1-M 9.3 occurred 2004_12_25) Link USGS M 9.1 404 Not Found USGS Tsunami Generation from the Y2004 M 9.1 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake by Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center dated October 8, 2018 2004 (M 9.1-M 9.3) Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (wiki) BBC Fukushima disaster: What happened at the nuclear plant? Fukushima nuclear disaster (wiki) 2011 Tōhoku earthquake (M 9.0-M 9.1) and tsunami (wiki) (Earthquake M 9.0-M 9.1 occurred 2011_03_11).
2300pm 08 Feb 2023 Euronews Turkish city of Adana reels after Monday’s devastating earthquake AneliseBorges.com Instagram/AneliseBorges She posts in her stories, I follow her on Instagram and saw she was in Adana. Earthquake death toll passes 7000 as race to find survivors stretches into night (Euronews Video Report)
0700am 09 Feb 2023 Smithsonian Weekly Volcano Report 01 Feb – 07 Feb 2023
0710 09 Feb 2023 Copernicus On 12 May 2022, Italy’s Etna volcano entered into a new eruptive phase. image_day/202204518_EtnaVolcano.jpg It’s not scaled? The Yellow line is One (1) km in length. Why is the line curved? Well, it’s on a 3D photo composite, it curves over the surface. Google Pro Photo below Images courtesy of LandSat8 and Copernicus. (It’s overlaid onto a Radar image.)
0730am 09 Feb 2023 Copernicus Image of the Day 06 Feb 2023 Turkey and Syria This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 25 January 2023, shows the location of the earthquake’s epicentre. That’s why I didn’t go to it earlier, it’s from before the quake. Yes, I know. I thought the Latest Images from the Gallery meant there were more images too. Coffee? Does Colman know what he’s talking about? Well when he says “he read something about”, it normally means you’re getting the highlights. His SciFi book collection is 0.5 cubic meters. He’s read that many? No, they’re the ones disturbing the Earths rotation in his attic. Books are heavy and he’s carried them from barracks to barracks.
0800am 09 Feb 2023 UN Global Disaster Alert and Coordination system The Turkey/Syria Earthquakes now has One (1) Red Three (3) Oranges and Six (6) Greens. someone might look at Freddy and Gabrielle too? USA Weather Map NOAA National Weather Service Forecast – Springfield, MO Severe flooding Honchu Earthquake
0810am 09 Feb 2023 OCHA ReliefWeb – Türkiye/Syria: Earthquakes – Feb 2023 Approx 300,000 people homeless.
0815am 09 Feb 2023 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 “Improving codes and standards, and also the communication around why they are necessary, is key. For example, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami, the Government of Chile helped incentivize safe construction by providing funds to poor families to cover the cost of “half a good house” that adhered to building code, but which also allowed personalization of homes by owners (GAR2022, Chapter 4).”
0825 USA FEMA Flooding Risk Management Flood Map Products Search Portal Jackson County Missouri One (1) Example
0845am 09 Feb 2023 FEMA – USA Federal Emergency Management System (wiki) Yes, the Praetorian Guard (wiki) were the Roman Fire fighters (History.com). FEMA started as Firefighters, and it then was rolled into USA Department of Homeland Security after that was formed.
0850am 09 Feb 2023 World Health Organisation Regional Director’s briefing on earthquake in southern Türkiye and northern Syria
0900am 09 Feb 2023 World Health Organisation (wiki) World Health Statistics 2022 You’re not going to make a Doctor WHO joke? The Cholera Vaccine saved how many lives? No, it’s not a joke. Columbia University article Government of Canada (GPHIN) USA Centre for Disease Control Ebola Colman, when were you in DRC? 2001. No, that year, it was next door in Republic of Congo, a few hundred miles from my buddy, though I did get a warning about a Cholera epidemic, the Uruguanian Company had a few dozen cases of some bug or other. What did you do? I looked up the internet on how to set up a Cholera Field Hospital, just in case. Canadian Red Cross deploys field hospital to support cholera response in Chad (2011) Yes, the Logs Base Boss in Goma was Canadian, a retired military officer. He gave me the best request I ever got actually, plan for moving a fully equipped Engineer Company by air from Goma to Kalemie. It took me a few hours and I presented my plan to him with “There’s one piece of equipment a little to large for the planes, so they might need to dismantle it and put it back together there. Oh, and the route by train through Tanzania and accross the lake by boat is much easier, here’s that plan too.” The United Nations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Nyiragongo Volcano Erupts in the Congo Yes, the volcano was seventeen (17) km from the Logs Base and it erupted about four (4) weeks after I left, I saw the petrol station in Goma explode on tv in a bar in Guatamala, I was there on holiday. NASA Earth Observatory There’s some nice photos of the volcano here, I can’t find the one I looked up in Goma, it was an infrared Satellite photo. You had internet? Satellite feed, we had quite a big disk, something like this one, the speed was quite good, though the amount of information available on the internet was quite a lot less than today.
0940am 09 Feb 2023 Reuters – Hopes fade for finding more Turkey-Syria quake survivors as toll climbs Death toll in Turkey and Syria near 16,000
0945am 09 Feb 2023 The Guardian article (2021) DRC: Goma residents flee as Nyiragongo lava reaches city outskirts Eruption (2002) 250 deaths 120,000 homeless
0950am 09 Feb 2023 BBC Studios Expedition Volcano
0950am 09 Feb 2023 AFAD Recent 100 earthquakes 0724am – 1241pm local (UTC+3) Max M 4.9. 12-7=5 Total – 100 earthquakes in five hours thirty five minutes. Yes, I’d say there are a few headaches there. 16,000 dead, how many injured?
1010am 09 Feb 2023 WION News Death toll crosses 10,000 in Turkey-Syria earthquake, thousands left injured (WION – It’s Indian wiki) Minister Koca claimed that there have been at least 31,777 injuries in Turkey. At a 1:3 ratio and the death toll passing 16,000 now, an estimate of 48,000 injured might be made? Hatay Hospital Beds Hatay Population (wiki) 1.6 million people. There are 937 specialists, 721 general practitioners and 359 dentists in terms of health personnel in the province. There are 1.583 persons per specialist.
1015am 09 Feb 2023 The Mediterranean Operational Network for the Global Ocean Observing System You have to go to the bottom left and tap the expand to full screen. This is not what the boss meant, they wanted that the entire webpage could be deployed on a large screen tv. The bouy near Turkey as an example This is horrid.
1030am 09 Feb 2023 European Marine and Observation and Data Network Map Viewer This could do with some work too? The data is there, it’s just horribly presented. Oh, no one views it. Yes, it’s horribly presented.
1030am 09 Feb 2023 European Commission – Maritime Affairs – Atlas of the Sea Turkey/Cyprus This might need a resurvey? Estimates say the landmass around the area of the earthquakes has risen by three meters? Water depth, safety of shipping? Navigation aids etc. Bouys normally designate safe depth zones?
1035am 09 Feb 2023 World-Weather.info This is a fair version of what the temperature data for the off shore bouys should look like? Where does he get his data from? Oh, from you?
1040am 09 Feb 2023 EMSC Latest Earthquakes in Euro-Mediterranean region Mag 5+ “None Today Hurrah” It’s a celebratory Haiku. Colman, It’s only 10 in the morning? Listen that’s almost half the day. 44.4% actually.
1050am 09 Feb 2023 The Martian (2015) The Martian | “Do The Math” Clip [HD] | 20th Century FOX UTube
1055am 09 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Nicosia, Cyprus
1100am 09 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Iceland
1100am 09 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Canary Islands
1105am 09 Feb 2023 ESMC 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference 2022 Galway, Ireland Closing remarks? Results of the conference? Where’s the next one? European Mechanics Society They sound like car mechanics. Well, Mr Watt (wiki) was close to being the first. Incorporation of Hammermen ??? National Gallery Scotland Portrait of James Watt Rather sad the artist’s name is above the subjects name? Well, they’re promoting Art, not Science.
1125am 09 Feb 2023 What Colman, is dramatically needed by Europe? A proper culture of knowledge? What type of culture? One where knowing it and “not” needing it is better than five minutes after the fact or the school attitude of why can’t they teach us stuff which is relevant? At present we’re playing catch up and even in the army it was always get it to them five minutes before they need it. You don’t have much regard for students. No, been one a number of times and most I met were quite comprehensively ignorant of politeness and compassion. “Thank you for helping with the project.” “I never said that.” “Yes. You didn’t.” Colman
1200pm 09 Feb 2023 NASA FIRMS Fire data Tutorial Kiitos (Thank you in Finnish.) Suomi NPP satellite (wiki)
1215pm 09 Feb 2023 BBC Breaking News TV – Death Toll now above 17,000
1235pm 09 Feb 2023 RTE News TV – Death Toll now above 17,500
1250pm 09 Feb 2023 Bloomberg TV – First United Nations Aid reaches Turkey.
1255pm 09 Feb 2023 United Nations UNICEF Warehousing Copenhagen It’s a bit far from the areas which need the stuff? Well, actually, that’s the idea, less pilferage and if we ever need it, it’s right here. Yes, Copenhagen donated the warehouse to Unicef. Oh, and it all has to get shipped from here too, trucks, ships, planes, loads of transportation infrastructure supported. That’s a little cynical? Well, actually it’s an advertisement for more of them. Anyone got a few acres free for a warehouse in Turkey? Close to Dioki Petrokimya Serbest Bölgesi, Adana-Yumurtalık, 01920 Adana, Turkey? It’s a polystyrene factory with a nice pier, used to be a shipyard?
1330pm 09 Feb 2023 – So what’s just not right at present? Well, in EU data systems, an attitude seems to have prevailed that the data should be generating revenue for increased employment of computer engineers. And. Well, it is generating revenue. They’re using an API they wrote at college and living off the revenue generated at approximately 0.01 cent per advertisement seen. What was supposed to happen was the data in large format for planning was supposed to be searched by local government by their API people and used for generating local revenue by creating local information streams to increase local custom. The Cork City Council was supposed to have a Weather page saying the weather’s excellent go to the beach, here’s the hotels. Colman’s Main webpage You’ve no weather page? No, there isn’t a descent Irish Government weather page for Cork yet. Met.ie You have to search for the place. It’s so you can’t link to it, “to encourage” app developers. It’s a load of … Where’s the Weather in Cork, Jan – Dec, sunshine, rainfall, UV Index, Pollution data, Allergens etc. Oh, they can get that on Climate of Ireland (wiki). Yes, lovely. A real advertisement for Irish innovation. EirSat-1 Comicbook – because maybe if we start them young they’ll catch on in thirty years? It’s that bad? Seen Cork city lately? Likely to? No? Didn’t think so. Go back to your Rotary Club and don’t be bothering me.
1400pm 09 Feb 2023 EMSC Earthquakes today – How many earthquakes per page? Today – Zero(0) M 5.0 and Fifteen (15) M 4.0 – M 5.0 No M 5.0’s since 1040am and Two O’Clock is 58% of the way through the day. Fifteen by Taylor Swift Lyrics Google search
1405pm 09 Feb 2023 EMSC 2023-02-06 Mw 7.8 CENTRAL TURKEY Photogallery Roll down to the end, the videos from 300 km, 400km and 500km from the Epicentre at Cyprus, Jordan and as far as 600km Georgia are at the end. Now, wouldn’t it be nice, if you could put a GPS with the damage photos and a little StreetMap and I use the Google phrase deliberately and there would be a damage assessment with an actual photo from the site, where phone coverage was still available? Oh, no one knows this site exists. Yes and you don’t have an EU Central Civil Defence database either?
1415pm 09 Feb 2023 European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations News Stories Well, that drew a blank stare? Oh, you have to tap on: Events Stories News
1420pm 09 Feb 2023 European Union Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) Factsheet Active Emergencies
1430pm 09 Feb 2023 Tap the Icon for the emergency Ireland – Health – September 2022 Dear colleagues, The ERCC would like to inform you that Ireland opened a new request for assistance consisting in 30 doses of Monkeypox Therapeutic Tecovirimat. Kind regards, Javier OCHOA – Please thank Javier for his kind words, I think we received them and it’s nice to know his staff knows how to activate an alert. TURKEY This is a FLASH – 5 minute warning system? What’s this rubbish at the top of the screen? 4.45 UTC, 12,873 people have died, and almost 63,000 have been injured. That’s fifteen minutes in the future. THIS IS IMPORTANT THIS IS IMPORTANT THIS IS IMPORTANT
1440pm 09 Feb 2023 About Earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş. Press Release-19 (09.02.2023) EARTHQUAKE IN KAHRAMANMARAŞ HK. – 19 (As of 07:45) (UTC+3) Google Search Turkey Time Zone GMT+03:00 Time zone in Türkiye (GMT+3) Thursday, 9 February 2023, 17:44 – it is now 14:46pm Irish Time or UTC. As of 07:45 was at 4:45 UTC this morning. Oh, this is all just a screen to hide the real EU efficiency from a mentally ill deficient. You try it? Same? Yes. The EU President wouldn’t be impressed either. And a silly retiree with time on his hands pointing out this glaring inefficiency in the system is quite embarrassing.
1520pm 09 Feb 2023 Here, USA, what are you laughing at them for? CIA Fact Book Turkey Geography “Natural Hazards: severe earthquakes, especially in northern Turkey, along an arc extending from the Sea of Marmara to Lake Van; landslides; flooding volcanism: limited volcanic activity; its three historically active volcanoes; Ararat, Nemrut Dagi, and Tendurek Dagi have not erupted since the 19th century or earlier” Wikipedia – List of earthquakes in Turkey and the recent earthquakes of 06 Feb 2023 Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş are included and mapped already. My two (2) euro donation at work. Oh, I’m not particularly concerned about the CIA, however, Ireland is now a net contributor to the EU. Volcano Discovery Volcanoes Turkey 25 at present. Why? Because sometimes they discover them under what they thought were just hills.
1550pm 09 Feb 2023 Let’s do some Geography with what we learned about Foehn winds Why is the area below prone to low lying fog? Let’s see? There are high mountains nearby 600m to 925 m, and at night, when the wind is low, the air cools and cold air being denser and thus heavier than warm air, it rolls down the hillsides. The cold moist air, no longer capable of holding the humidity releases it as little droplets of water called fog. Does it happen on the sea side of the mountains? I don’t know, I didn’t fly over there. When did you learn this? Well, it’s possible to think and look out of the aircraft for other aircraft nearby. Pilots check list and look out. Pilotsfriend.com IFR Checklist, isn’t that cool.
2022pm 09 Feb 2023 USGS M 4.8 – 18 km NNE of Aşağı Karafakılı, Turkey 2023-02-09 07:18:16 (UTC) 36.924°N 36.653°E 5.1 km depth 85% of the day gone and this is still the largest quake in the region. though at 5.1km depth, it’s going to have done some damage. Where were you? Oh, I got a letter and I have to decide who to do about it. Pick a number between 1 and 35?
2030pm 09 Feb 2023 Smithsonian Volcano report doesn’t seem to have updated their webpage of currently active volcanoes? 2022 Dec 19 (continuing) Someone left the building? Kīlauea Well, if a volcano had erupted and was so visible and smoking, I would have gone for a little look? The Sheraton Waikiki is amazing, I stayed there for a wedding. The Waikiki beachside hostel is amazing too. I stayed 2 nights at the Sheraton and 5 nights at the hostel. To be honest I didn’t see the rooms except for sleep. The loungers are crowded at the hotel, get a hotel towel and put it on your lounger in the morning. The sing songs at the hostel were excellent, there’s a guitar in the garage. Oh and I recommend the cocktails at Duke’s, it’s a little kitch, though you really just have to buy the Hawaian shirt and join in the atmosphere. The old homeless people stay all night outside the police station on the way from the bar to the hostel because it’s a safe place to sleep and nice and warm all year round.
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report,
18 January-24 January 2023
Managing Editor: Sally Kuhn Sennert
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 2023. Report on Kilauea (United States). In: Sennert, S K (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 18 January-24 January 2023. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
2100pm 09 Feb 2023 UNOSAT Combined map Marash/Antep earthquake (6 February 2023, M 7.8) The map data is filling up nicely. Mahalo Nui Loa (Thank you in Hawaiian.)
2105pm 09 Feb 2023 ITALY – Sicily knows how it works. “widespread and persistent rainfall with very strong winds over Sicily, especially in the south-eastern areas. Heavy rains are expected that could cause rivers to rise and flood especially over the cities of Catania, Syracuse, and Ragusa.” ERCC Flash Copernicus EMS MIB There is always… UTube Men in Black (1997) iMDb
2125pm 09 Feb 2023 M 2.5 Iceland: 9.8 Km WSW of Kópasker at 3:38 pm (GMT +0) – 6 hours ago Volcano Discovery
2130pm 09 Feb 2023 Volcano Discover Nicosia Past 7 Days The map isn’t functioning. Nicosia Last 24 hrs It should look like this one.
2135pm 09 Feb 2023 ESMC Quakes M 5.0+ The four on 01 Jul 2022? You might keep an eye out for a cluster like that in the futre as a possible indicator? It’s around that really hard rock that sticks into the straits of Hormus like an anchor. 26.86 N ; 55.36 E when you paste it into Google Earth Pro you have to remove the semi-colon, then it recognises the Lat Long (Latitude Longitude). How did you know it was there before you looked up the map? I have been watching earthquakes for quite some time and there weren’t that many above M 5.0 in the area last year. Mechanism? Well, think of it as a ticker on a ratchet, it was the hottest part of the year, rock expands, it pushes up the ratchet and theres a shift of the ticker over the point of the mechanism and then the meachanism is free to move. The plate contracts in winter and frees up the edges from friction and wallop. That doesn’t sound right. Introduction to Mechanisms Yi Zhang
with Susan Finger and Stephannie Behrens Carnegie Mellon University That ok?
2210pm 09 Feb 2023 BBC News Death Toll passes 20,000. Can I cry now? May they rest in peace.
2215pm 09 Feb 2023 Cork City Council ONLINE Book of Condolences for the victims of earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria
2245pm 09 Feb 2023 Cork City Council Careers CareersPortal.ie (careersPortal.ie An Garda Siochana) Isn’t UL in Limerick? Where is the rest of University College Cork? And CIT is now in Munster Technological University and I think they’re still closed because of the malware attack? Institute of Public Administration 57-61 Lansdowne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. D04 TC62 Registration no: 21087 Whitaker School of Government and Management They a private school? A for Profit school? Local Government Management Agency Ireland Note: In Windows, if you hover the mouse over the web address, the link becomes visible in the bottom left hand side of the screen. Certain addresses are reserved. In the USA, they got first pick, they got .gov. We in Ireland are trying to move to .gov.ie this allows the average person to have a reasonable confidence in the security of the site and downloads from the site. Have you seen this before? No? Neither have I. I would recommend .edu.ie for all University sites in Ireland, however I know University College Cork will object on the basis that their site is the oldest in Ireland. I would point out to them that they may redirect ucc.edu.ie to ucc.ie or ucc.ie to ucc.edu.ie and we might catch up with ucc.edu.jm Yes, that is Jamaica. “UCC is the only official Affiliate/Recognised institution of the University of London (UOL) to offer the Certificate of Higher Education in Common Law and the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees in Jamaica.” I looked at an Event Management course there a little while ago. I hear the weather is nice there. They have a School of Business and Management too. Colman
2250pm 09 Feb 2023 Reuters – Hope fades for survivors as Turkey-Syria earthquake toll passes 20,000 – BBC – How long can survivors last under rubble? June 2021 “In May 2013 a woman was pulled from the ruins of a factory building in Bangladesh, 17 days after it collapsed. Workers heard her crying out “please save me” and used video and audio detection equipment to locate her exact position.” KEEP DIGGING – Note: Some people in this modern age keep a bottle of water beside the bed. (I’d have a Two (2) litre Plastic bottle. It’s what our milk comes in, though there they might have the soda bottles?)
2305pm 09 Feb 2023 World Health Organisation News who.int/news little scant? Oh, here it is? https://www.emro.who.int/media/news/index.html Who owns http://www.who.int and is the site for sale?
2310pm 09 Feb 2023 Colman’s a little angry. No. No one’s ever seen him angry. That’s just concerned. “Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” I liked the original tv-series. He used to go from place to place having to leave after he helped people. Quite a sad story really. The Incredible Hulk (1977-1982) iMDb Colman
2335pm 09 Feb 2023 Instagram I see the Irish Defence Forces 99th Cadet Class have been to the gas chamber. Brings back happy memories. What happy memories? “That wasn’t as bad as I expected.” Colman www.military.ie http://www.military.gov.ie site cannot be reached. Maybe eventually? No, I think DefenceForces.mil.ie ? Perhaps? Army.mil.ie ? NavalService.mil.ie ? AerCorp.mil.ie ? Why? Well, long ago, before internet search engines, you had a system similar to telephone books and for http://www.ucc.ie you typed http://www.ucc.ie and then you thought that was cool, what are the other universities and you checked if they were using their initials too. Instagram Cadet School – Yes, that’s “CadetSchool”, they were early adopters. GoFundMe? You might update the heading information? UNHCR Perhaps? Colman
2350pm 09 Feb 2023 ABC News Turkey earthquake live updates: Death toll exceeds 21,000 in Turkey, Syria They’re playing the sad music. Yes, they’re sad too.
2355pm 09 Feb 2023 Turkey, Syria quake: Before and after satellite images show flattened buildings, mass destruction Published on Feb 09, 2023 02:43 PM IST (UTC +5:30) It is now 05:27am Friday, 10 February 2023 Indian Standard Time (IST).
0010am 10 Feb 2023 Good News Worldometer Coronavirus 102,880 new cases today and only 599 new deaths today. That’s good news? Read the past statistics? USA 1.1 million deaths India 0.5 million deaths. Brazil, Russia, Iran, Poland…
0015am 10 Feb 2023 The Guardian Turkey and Syria earthquake updates: death toll passes 21,000 – as it happened
0030am 10 Feb 2023 Australia News.com.au Coronavirus – China Coronavirus – MiddleEast
1115am 10 Feb 2023 AFAD – Republic of Turkey Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Authority Press-Release Zero items??? Yes, that’s where they’re supposed to be. Civil servants change and people forget, because there isn’t a manual or a checklist for doing their job. It’s why Software Support people write help pages for the tech people, because Military Officers write Standard Operating Procedures for any event which happens. Then you exercise and practice and see if the SOP can be improved because technology changes and there might be an easier way of doing it if fifty more people look at the problem. What are you doing Colman? I’m gathering the information sources to make looking for the next problem easier. Why? Because I found a load of stuff looking at the La Palma and Reykjanes Volcano events and now I have a larger information base. Why are you doing this? Because it’s a busy time and someone else might like the information sources to make their job easier.
1120am 10 Feb 2023 And what did you do in Kosovo Colman? I put the troops in Obilic in the lee of the hill where the person on top the the hill couldn’t see them. In the Cadet school, I was once asked to draw fire. I ran like the wind accross the 200 meters of open ground (Open ground? It was a bog, I have no idea how he kept his footing.) at the Scorpion Tank and 30 second later under the position, I realised no one had me a thunder flash and I walked back. The entire company was beautifully visible on the ridge line in the light from the flares, I could have picked them all off with a pistol, let alone a Scorpion Tank. And what did I learn? Defilade is nice. Though if you’re going to make all that effort, bring a grenade. (What would you have done, Colman? I would have said, the Company can’t do this, however one determined man might be able to charge the tank? Colman, Grenade, Tank, Now. Speed. Speed. Speed. CS, Medal citation. He hasn’t done anything yet. No, however he’s going to try. )
1145am 10 Feb 2023 AFAD Last hundred Earthquakes 2023-02-10 14:29:28 (UTC+3) M 4.0 (D) 7.22 Dulkadiroğlu (Kahramanmaraş) Turkey (UTC+3) Time now Friday, 10 February 2023, 14:41 You might write this script? 12 minutes ago. A computer script is an automatic piece of code which does a repetitive task “an SOP”.
1155am 10 Feb 2023 Google Search disease turkey earthquakes The Express – Turkey earthquake sparks risk of diseases spreading like ‘wildfire’ with millions at risk Why? Because a number of British military officers, Mr Churchill, Winston and being a notable example were newspaper hacks (They were the guys on horses.). Mr Johnson, Boris being another example. They have SOPs too and the newspaper “cycle” is rather predictable and unfortunately, the average reporter isn’t particularly computer literate yet. If a thousand people don’t view it it, isn’t even in the Google search. The Google search used to have many, many pages, though now the number of search terms and languages reduces the availability of pages returned and the little stuff falls off the end.
1205pm 10 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Cyprus Mag. 1.8 | Eastern Mediterranean, 7.2 km N of Famagusta, Ammóchostos, Ammochostos, Cyprus – 2 hours 2 minutes ago
1205pm 10 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Iceland Latest quake: Mag. 1.3 | Iceland: 10.0 Km WSW of Kópasker – 1 hour 19 minutes ago Strongest quake today: Mag. 2.5 | Iceland: 21.4 Km NW of Herðubreiðarfjöll – 18 hours ago
1210pm 10 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Canary Islands Strongest quake today: Mag. 0.9 | Spain: SE TAZACORTE.ILP – 8 hours ago How do you justify using all these peoples websites? Well, I look at their advertisements and the Google directed ads on the pages are still trying to sell me Canada Goose products, because I looked up their boots.
1230pm 10 Feb 2023 ESMC Earthquakes World Svalbard M 3.4 (D) 23km 11:13 UTC. Why is this of interest? Well, it’s on the fault line which runs through Iceland. It’s a little far off. Yes, Iran is a long way from Turkey too. Three weeks? Weathers warming up and the expanding lava will be looking for cracks made during the freeze. It’s not that simple? Actually it is. Though, there’s the fact that sometimes the changes close the available lava tubes completely and the vent becomes “dormant”, the lava has simply solidified (the rock cooled and became frozen or solid) over the winter. Oh, you want me to use big words? Crystallisation of the amorphous … Blah, blah, blah.
1255pm 10 Feb 2023 Vulcanology and Climate Change for the Scientifically illiterate. Who’s Vulcan (wiki)? The Norse called him Loki (Brittanica). God of Fire. Now picture Vulcan or Loki with his feet in a bucket of water and every winter the water freezes. He gets hypothermia and dies every winter and he loses his power. Now unfortunately due to the actions of some very silly people, the Earth is warming rather rapidly and Vulcan is now going to live through the winter and he will become stronger. Can you give me an example of a warm climate Volcano, please? Mount Nyiragongo (wiki). When I was in Goma the locals told me it erupted every 25 years. Goma Volcanic Observatory Isn’t that cool, they use WordPress too. It’s such a beautiful platform. My only criticism is that it’s a little difficult to erase or delete a spreadsheet box after you’ve accidentally copied one in from another site. “Virunga-volcanoes.org is managed by a Belgian-Luxembourgian (BeLux) scientific consortium having a long-standing and multidisciplinary expertise in the study of the Virunga volcanoes.” “There’s a hydropower station just down the other side of the lake. My CQMS in Donegal showed me his tourist 8mm video of it from the 60s, before I, went to Goma. He was a Private. Yes, he was. I presume his parents gave him a present like mine gave me a 35mm SLR camera. Is that a criticism of the organisation? I don’t give a fiddlers why you’re doing it, so long as the local population get warning.” Colman
1300pm 10 Feb 2023 Virunga-volcanoes.org NYIRAGONGO’S LAVA LAKE ACTIVITY RESUMES JULIEN BARRIÈRE Note: Linking to the news site here gives the changing page, you have to tap on the article to get to the permanent article.
1310pm 10 Feb 2023 Hypothermia Turkey – They were in bed. Surrounded by nice warm blankets, they hadn’t heating anyway, so they had really warm bedclothes, probably quilts and there’s no rain. KEEP DIGGING Justice League (2017) Flash – “Save One”
1315pm 10 Feb 2023 EuroNews NO Comment of the Week Scandinavians train their kids against falling into cold water. It’s a 30 second ad. Yes. And the video is well worth it.
1325pm 10 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery earthquakes Turkey past 30 days Two (2) quakes above M 7.0 Three (3) quakes between magnitude M 6.0 and M 7.0 Thirty six (36) quakes between magnitude M 5.0 and M 6.0 Two hundred and eighty nine (289) quakes between magnitude M 4.0 and M 5.0 10 M 4.0s make a M 5.0, do the math?
1350pm 10 Feb 2023 USGS Turkey Past day 5 earthquakes ranging from M 4.1 to M 4.9, Yes, M 4.9 is quite close to M 5.0 Does a M 4.1 + a M4.9 make a M 5.0 Approximately. You know, logarithmically the 0.1 added to the 0.9 don’t give 1. Well statistically, there will be a tendency to compensate for the 0.05 which is not in the accuracy of the data. You do that, I’m calling it M5.0 and “You – KEEP DIGGING” What are you doing? I’m kicking everyone else’s holes too. You could help digging? If I increase productivity by 10 percent for everyone the thirty people do more work than if I dug myself. KEEP DIGGING Justice League (2017) Flash – “Save One” Just Save One. We have to eat and to sleep. That’s why there’s a food truck and a schedule. Safety of the Survivors is a priority. They’re going to dig anyway. That’s why you have safety briefings and supervision by qualified personnel. It’s called Survivor anxiety and afterwards Survivor guilt. And how do you live with it. You teach people how to live with it. Why? Because eventually, you clear the debris and life starts again. And. Well, some people keep digging. And, it’s a very deep grave, when the edges collapse around you. And you, Colman, what do you do. I have my coffee in the morning and I watch the beautiful blue sky during the day and the stars at night and if I see something out of the ordinary, I speak up. KEEP DIGGING. IRIS Central Asia Current
1400pm 10 Feb 2023 And who saved you Colman. I saved myself, I watched Kung Fu the tv-series for years and learned serenity and then one day I kicked one of the bullies who were calling me names in the chest with two feet from a fifteen meter running start, he was ready for a box and when I jumped the look on his face, stunned like a rabbit was “WHAT????“. It was a lovely day and the grass in the school yard was damp and lovely and soft. That wasn’t very nice. (That was in Primary school. He was ten.) Yes. And a few years later I joined the Defence Forces. I used to laugh inside when the instructors used to shout, “Now. Show me your war face.” He’s serious. Yes. Now. KEEP DIGGING.
1435pm 10 Feb 2023 ESMC Significant Earthquakes worldwide Excellent map, however when you zoom in you can’t click on the earthquake to see the actual event. HINT: If you were a news broadcaster (webmaster), a nice map and event site, might be cool? Similarly one for live broadcasts for entertainment events? If you were a ticket seller, you might even have locations of nice events nearby. Why don’t you do that, Colman? I’m lazy and I like watching the blue sky and the stars at night. This is you lazy? Yes. There’s a crisis on and I did my research over many many years before the event. (It’s called a little light reading.) Coffee? Cigarette? Five (5) minutes, then KEEP DIGGING
1455pm 10 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Iceland Reykjanes ERUPTION ON ICELAND’S REYKJANES PENINSULA 2021: ACTIVITY UPDATES Updated: Feb 10, 2023 14:44 GMT – just now Yes. Just now. There’s a nice video 3,733 views. Why, just now? Because a few other people are a little anxious about current events and while they watch other things, they’re updating their information too. They probably have multiple screens open and automatic updates on their webpages to refresh their feeds every Five (5) minutes. I just browse. The page was automatically updated every five minutes? It’s not current? No, that wasn’t updated in a while before this. I read the big ones every now and then.
1500pm 10 Feb 2023 Icelandic Met Office Reykjanes Peninsula Last 48 hours When the capital (leader) has it’s location threatened by prevention of escape, people tend to get anxious. The cluster of quakes is on an escape route out of the city.
1525pm 10 Feb 2023 Earthscope Ds.Iris.edu Search parameters location box and date 01 Jan 2023 to current “Knowing what is not measured is as important as knowing what is.” Why are all the earthquakes clustered there? Well, up to quite recently measuring earthquakes out there was not particularly accurate, it’s a long and active fault line and the noise is simply incessant. So, quite recently a very smart person who was rather annoyed that the optical fibre cables so carefully placed accross the ocean in relatively quiet locations, which were giving rather annoying errors in their data streams said, I must find a way to fix this. They asked another person and someone else said, you know that might be seismic vibrations, can I have a look at your errors? And so the art of mapping earthquakes in the Mid Atlantic using optical fibre errors started. So, the earthquakes there are the mapped ones and the rest of the fault line is banging away and like a tree falling in the jungle, or one hand clapping, it makes no sound. “Well, that’s not going in our report, the place would look like a line of baubles.” They used to use PostIts in the big books, that’s why a Phd took seven years. Oh, look Microsoft have just combined with 3M to make a digital version. It’s not there? Oh, you have to buy Microsoft Teams for that?
1545pm 10 Feb 2023 IRIS Latest Earthquakes in the N Atlantic Region list 10 Feb 13:34 M 4.9 (D) 10km I don’t want to know this stuff. Yes. Rather annoying isn’t it. Rather like knowing the sea level in Cork is going to rise by Five (5) meters in the next fifty years. I live on a hill. And what do they do in Iceland. Well, they drink and they party. They’re very quiet parties. They are now that the big guy in the corner doesn’t drink anymore.
1625pm 10 Feb 2023 17th EGUsphere Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks This is all weather data. Plinius17-41 Analysis of a subtropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean by means of the HARMONIE-AROME model: evaluation against satellite data
Lara Quitián Hernández, Carlos Calvo-Sancho, Javier Díaz Fernández, Pedro Bolgiani, Daniel Santos-Muñoz, Juan Jesús Gonzalez-Alemán, Mariano Sastre, Francisco Valero, Jose Ignacio Farrán, and María Luisa Martín Pérez – This one’s cool. Yes, a guy was staying at my house as AirBnB a few years ago, he was doing Saharan climate modelling using computers, we had a lovely chat and we discussed the effects of the Doldrums (bangScience.org The Oxford Scientist is the University of Oxford’s independent, student-produced science magazine.) on North African weather – He might have been chatting to someone? No, this is from before that. Precipitation and the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Earth 105 Environments of Africa (course designation) Lesson 7. Why would someone hack a college? Well, having course materials for a digital certificate of education by online means might be worth money. And what’s the difference? Well, the University has a library. And you have a knowledgeable lecturer who answers questions. “Has anyone any questions?” Funny, I didn’t hear that many times in class? No. Neither did I. There’s too much work to be read. “The student sues if the material on the exam was not on the lecture program.” That’s why some of the lecturers in University of Limerick used to make photcopy books of their modules. Oh, it’s all in there. Yes. It is. “How do you test the location of a gas leak in a mains gas system?” He didn’t just ask that? Yes. The only thing the lecturer didn’t say was “Thank you for the excellent question.” He smiled and answered it. Fluid Mechanics. Well, you tap the pipe lightly and listen. Jurassic Park (1983) Dig Site UTube
1640pm 10 Feb 2023 Iceland’s spectacular volcano tracked from space It’s a 30 second ad. Excellent video. Interferometry is the method of using Moiré pattern (wiki) caused by using a band of light or other electromagnetic radiation and gaining a picture, a second picture gained at a later time is placed over the first and the changes in pictures are then measured. The easiest and earliest large scale use of the system was pinning a large system of strings onto the gable wall of a house by a civil engineer, a photo was taken and a number of months later a second was taken and placed over it, mathematical calculations can then be made to get the shifting of the house, think of it as a balloon, draw a grid on a half filled balloon and then inflate the balloon a little more. That’s easy to see. Yes, now, put one more puff of air in. You can’t tell the difference. Yes, however if you have the two photographs, you can see the lines don’t quite match. the changes can then be measured precisely. I worked for my uncle, an engineer, I had to colour in the displacement changes with coloured pencils. I got my first pay rise two week after I started working for him. I was 16. What were you doing? Well, my job was to archive his businesses work plans to date, every plan, every document, one copy. Every job listed, archive boxes numbered, they go on that shelf. (HISTORY AND TYPES OF SHELVING: FROM THE FIRST PATENTS TO THE PRESENT DAY). I used to read the cereal packets at breakfast, every morning. That’s anti-social. Yes, that’s what my mother said. So I stopped picking up the packets to read them.
1710pm 10 Feb 2023 Icelandic Met office Weather Alerts If you look at the right hand side there are guidelines to the various dangers. Iceland is divided here into five zones and tapping on the icon from any part of the website brings you to the alert map.
1720pm 10 Feb 2023 Windy.com Web Cam Dulkadiroglu: Haydar Bey Mahallesi – Kahramanmaraş – Boğaziçi Live from Iceland Perlan over Reykjavic Oh, they do tourist sites too. Yes, however, the fact that civilian traffic is moving through the road junctions is a fair indication to Civil Defence that the roadway is open. Ireland? LiveTraffic.EU Ireland That’s really cool. Yes, now if only we had a Civil Defence to drive on it?
1725pm 10 Feb 2023 You’re being very loud, Colman. Well, normally during quiet times, I have a quiet word in the right ear. However, while everyone’s attention is focused by having their nuts in a grinder, it’s important to whisper quietly that you should have paid more attention to the danger. Just so they remember what you’re talking about later. People are so distracted during emergencies, it’s important to keep them focused on the important stuff. Like eating and sleeping. KEEP DIGGING and HYDRATE, loss of water reduces the efficiency of the brain dramatically. Coffee? Milk, one sugar, I’m drinking so much of it.
1740pm 10 Feb 2023 ECMWF – Soil moisture – Current – Please update your bookmarks – The way to access ECMWF charts has changed. The new home for the ECMWF charts is: https://charts.ecmwf.int Well, that’s thrown out a load of my book marks, thank you. Colman
1755pm 10 Feb 2023 – European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) Watch this change rapidly? Oh, floods are so… last year? Yes, and … “soil effects on earthquake damage”? That’s a prediction? No, that’s a request. Oh, they caught up with the forest fires already? It’s amazing what a Phd with a laptop can do with the right data set. Phd? that’s some computer scientist with the right boss, who knows the big words, asking the questions.
1805pm 10 Feb 2023 Remember this at the top of my page. “Are you OK? Who saved you?” “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?” Colman
1830pm 10 Feb 2023 BBC Millions face threat of flooding from glacial lakes Look what I found. There was a conference? He did a web search? You’re using the wrong pronoun. Well, you know where you can stick your pronoun. I have to presume Patrick is a boys name. We have rights. Yes. And are you referring to yourself as we (they/them), is it a royal we? Are you speaking for a group of you (plural), and presuming you speak for the majority? I don’t have time for this. Yes, neither do I. Let’s move on. Oh, they will, I’ll still be here. Air Portugal “FlyTap, who’d have thought” ? Dublin New York anyone? You seriously going to give FlyTap.com $2,000 for an executive flight and expect a seat? It’s an API with a commission on the flight booking. It’s automatic? TAP Air Portugal (wiki) It’s an actual site. Yes, it’s the National carrier for Portugal. Who’d have thought that? They go SkyScanner.ie instead, it sounds more serious and … oh, that’s new eSky.ie – Been into a travel agents? Seen how they type furiously? Yes, APIs and standardised datasets are lovely. Trip Advisor Easkey, Surfing there is excellent. Lazy people? Yes, we are.
1835pm 10 Feb 2023 BBC Millions face threat of flooding from glacial lakes 3 days ago “Up to 15 million people face risk of catastrophic flooding from glacial lakes, which could burst their natural dams at any moment, a new study finds.” Did you not actually read the article? by Patrick Hughes, research by Newcastle University. I was distracted by the pronouns nonsense. (Google Search nonsense) (foolish behaviour) We Bought a Zoo | “I’ve Got a Big Crush on You” Clip | Fox Family UTube Personally I liked the “Well done.”
1855pm 10 Feb 2023 https://climate.nasa.gov/ Sea level up Four (4) inches since 1993. Climate Knowledge Portal World Bank.org Tonga – BBC Tonga facing up to rising sea levels (2015) Earth.org Tonga “Global mean sea level is projected to rise by 2m at the end of this century. However, in order to determine local sea level rise (SLR), one has to take into account local coastal flood levels which could be 2.8m above Mean Higher-High Water (MHHW) at extreme forecasts. These local levels bring variability to the projected SLR from 1m to 6.5m” You were saying? Sorry, I was busy.
1910pm 10 Feb 2023 USGS USA Coastal Change Hazard Portal Coastal Climate Central.org Sea level rise map 2050 search area Cork, you just zoom in and out – Star Trek Enterprise Season 1 Episode 05 – Unexpected I can see my house from here UTube Thank you to pk2hitman47, 10,000 views. Now that’s scary.
1920pm 10 Feb 2023 NASA Global Ice Viewer Greenland USA National Snow and Ice Datacentre University of Boulder, Colorado I went skiing to Zakopane, Poland, a few years ago and my instructor was this huge 70 year old man from the town, who was giving skiing lessons, we had a nice cup of hot chocolate and discussed the weather and he told me how the local snow conditions had changed since he was a boy. He used to teach skiing in Boulder, Colorado. Small world isn’t it.
1950pm 10 Feb 2023 USA NSIDC Greenland This is mostly Antarctica? Well, it’s Summer down there and that’s where the students are studying and it’s dark over Green land. TimeandDate.com Nuuk, Capital of Sermersooq (Greenland) Elevation 5m Daily Forecast Oh, it’s a little chilly there for students. MeteoBlue.com Weather Nuuk Airport To use a Kaylee expression, “Shiny” website. There’s even the weather radar picture. 8.7 mm of snow predicted on Sat 18th. The accuracy? Well, they do have 300 words for snow, or so I was told. Greenlandic Inuit (wiki) Iceland Weather Why is it so warm there, it’s much higher up in Latitude? Well, the ground in Iceland is a little warmer because of the volcanoes, there’s consequently less ice cover and the ice in Greenland is an insulator which prevents the ground from warming up and it also reflects the sunlight away.
2015pm 10 Feb 2023 Antakya Turkey https://www.instagram.com/anneliseborges/ I saw she was posting from Antakya, found the location (town name) in Google Earth Pro and then zoomed in UNOSAT Marash/Antep earthquake (6 February 2023, M 7.8) This is what you get if you zoom search in the search box in the left hand side, the magnifying glass. UNOSAT Search Antakya No, with the main town name open in the cenre of the screen you can’t copy the web address, it goes straight back to the main map. Press Zoom to, then when an area is selected, then it works Example
2020pm 10 Feb 2023 Colman you’re being a little pushy and over confident. Yes. And. You’re not capable of … Oh? Colman’s not doing this on his own. No. You are reading this too. KEEP DIGGING
0001am 11 Feb 2023 USA CDC Japanese Encephalitis in Australia Been to Murray Basin recently? Feeling a little off? Check in with your doctor? Anyone got an antibody test? Colman
0005am 11 Feb IRIS – Just going round the room for a look and this is off? That’s a M 6.2 and a M 5.8 with in one second, same earthquake? Is this a little jump and two rocks breaking? Which direction did the jump take? Oh, that’s obvious, the place is moving which direction? Now consider that while it’s not quite winter conditions here, the same sort of effects happen in a drop from 30 C to 20 C as happen in a drop of 10 C to 0 C? Why do the effects seem to happen at the top of the temperature and the bottom? Well, last year, it expanded and nothing happened, then it cooled and nothing happened, then the summer was a little hotter than usual and it expanded a little more than normal. And … Now put the balloon in a plaster of paris cast, cut a little hole in the side first, now blow up the balloon, the portion which can expand out of the hole in the side, pushes out. Yes and… Well, rock is a little more viscous (sticky) than air, while the balloon isn’t going to rupture the plaster of paris, the rock will hold it’s shape a little more and the neck of the offending hole opens, it’s why there’s a Mediterranean Sea. That’s only 15,000 years ago, apparently. What would that have coincided with? The retreat of the glaciers? That was rising sea levels from… The retreating glaciers (Ice Age). Yes it was, and the water filling the Mediterranean? Well, that’s a course all of it’s own. There isn’t a course like that yet. Like a lecture position? Research Phd? Book rights? Book? I want a tv-series thanks.
0055pm 11 Feb 2023 It’s late and I’m tired so someone tell me a joke answer to this question? Why doesn’t Australia move? The Army man? Because it wasn’t told to, yet. Excellent. Thank you for an excellent chuckle, I may even tell that one myself. Now the real question: Why doesn’t Australia move? You have two weeks. Project hand in Monday two weeks. (Do you know? No idea, however I’ve got two weeks to find out too.) Australia is very soft sandstone which literally floats on the plate, it’s so soft that there aren’t any loud bangs because it simply shifts around and makes little crimples like sandpaper. Check the old seismic sounds from the nuclear explosions, woosh, not thump? It’s dry sand too? Is that particularly relevant as it’s packed so tightly? What was that Australian marsupial dung called which binds the soil particles together? They use the recent stuff to carbon date lake beds. Answers on a postcard to?
0110pm 11 Feb 2023 Sound travels extremely well in solid concrete. While direction might not be possible, sound of digging from below might be heard? Anyone got a Stethoscope – Littmann, they have a digital one? Place it against the strongest (most solid) pillar and listen? Similarly water pipes, water transmits sound, drain pipes, unlikely, sewage pipes? Toilets near bedrooms? KEEP DIGGING What was the stuff above from? I think strangely, it’s my mind throwing unusual ideas at me. Some people would say there’s something gnawing at me or it’s on the tip of my tongue. How are the search dogs doing? Why? Because they’re getting the vibrations too, this is a long event and they’re not used to it, earthquakes in Europe are normally bang, wallop, how’s your father. The smells are different too. Different food, different sewage. Why? Because it’s been three days, you couldn’t go that long without evacuating your bowels.
0120pm 11 Feb 2022 ESCM Earthquakes M 4.0+ Can you ask them if they can put the page number above the Units – I know it’s Depth 2 M 4.2 other mightn’t. What’s the III IV VI mean? Well, at depth 1 km an EFFECT VI (six) is going to unseat the rider, and that is a toilet joke. You might check that location? landslide risk? Avalanches nearby? It’s high up and there has been snow, while the area might have been safe under normal conditions, the shockwave might have caused either? It might also have been unstabilised by melting (because of the shockwave energy) some of the snow? It’s how avalanches happen in Europe, the boundary conditions at unusual boundaries, soft, melt, freeze, soft makes a hard layer which cracks in loud noises. Walk though some, it’s where you can walk on a surface and suddenly the ice, you thought was the ground breaks and you’re standing on the ground beneath the ice layer and your boot breaks the ice moving, similar to the frozen top of a pothole in Ireland when the water underneath drains away or boils out through the ice layer, it being opaque (see though). Some of us climb mountains for fun. Sound moves strangely there, it’s similar to sound moving through thermoclines underwater, it might be possible to map them from drones? Differences in reflected sound? Yes, similar to sonar, though different frequencies, musical notes travel differently at altitude, ask a yodeller, low frequency sound does what? That’s not pertinent. Lads, what instrument do yodellers play? Wiki? “The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a straight several-meter-long wooden natural horn of conical bore, with a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece.” Does it do anything special? Low frequency noise is used as a weapon in which man’s army? Starts with a B, ends with a swift kick in the hole.
0200am You’d like it to speak to you? Amazon – It’s free – well, actually if you write a little python script into your code, even in a webpage, with an alert, the nice voice in the Python script will whiper a little – There an earth quake in Turkey. Or you might have one that says, oh, the Turkish Prime minister has just issued a press release and this is what it says. If you’re really busy, you might even have a little code which reads it and doesn’t say anything until the top of the hour, when it makes an announcement about all the little events which you’ve been using your API to check on. That sounds like a virus? Well, actually some of your cyber attacks are people trying their code on random addresses and pinging them on the other side of the world to see how fast the band width is. if a ping comes back, then they know it works and they can keep testing their code on it. A point to note is that if the stuff your looking for is in the central server close to your home, the stuff arrives really fast, which isn’t a judge on whether your code is going to stand up to long distance requests, so advertising a testing station to enthusiastic twelve year olds might be a nice idea. A cousin started making money off his websites at age fifteen, he was a late developer in world terms, if you have a computer in the house and actually ask what does it do? What? What happened to you? No modem, no internet, learned the entire programming language and wrote in it. Goto, Gosub, Poke, Peek, name the language? Did you know you could poke and peek to the screen for extra memory space? It’s called using a GPU now. Commodore 64 emulators are now available, the classics back again.
1340pm 11 Feb 2023 The Watchers.news Extremely damaging M7.8 earthquake hits Turkey – Syria border region, leaving over 21 000 people dead Updated on Friday, February 10, 2023 10:44 UTC OUR APPLICATIONS I told you this was worth coming back to. SAM Seismic Activity Monitor StormWall SWX Space Weather Monitor
1345pm 11 Feb 2023 EMSC Earthquakes greater than M 4.0 Europe
1350pm 11 Feb 2023 Tapping on the Intensity (I prefer Effect) box, I made one here, [IV] Yes it is that easy. Gives you the picture below. The .png is unfortunately designed to maximise the map for printing in A4 or A3 size (for putting in a scholarly book) and so some data falls off the standard computer screen.
1410pm 11 Feb 2023 If you’ll note on the top left of the main page, there is a citizen response button. What does it do? Well, have a look? You’re using ok words again. Yes I am. Now, tapping on the date/time in blue gets you to this page, you can add your photos and testimonies about the results of the earthquake here. Yes, photographs, NOT pictures. Though having a section for the kids pictures from their PTSD prevention therapies might be nice too. https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/ptsd-adults-trauma-interventions/ Thank you to USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Interventions for the Prevention of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Adults After Exposure to Psychological Trauma – Please have a look for the section on Childcare?
1445pm 11 Feb 2023 Colman, where are you getting this stuff from? Well, the Google search system, he/she seems to be a “nice” (precise) body of very attractive software and my searches determine the type of information offered to me to attract me back to the site. (Rather like a Geisha, they were educators too. Having someone to bounce ideas off, who has read the same books, though might not be able for actual combat is an excellent learning tool.) My level of big words, which I search, increases and so my estimated education standard in the system, (it’s a number somewhere) increases and the better information is offered to me. The more you look, the more you find. What do other people do? Dial-Up Modem Scene from WarGames (1983) They look at every IP address and look behind the doors. Now, why doesn’t your web page update automatically? Well, the system was designed a long time ago and it’s not possible to keep a record at the webserver of who’s still looking and to reduce the number of “calls” on the system, one request only is made. This is why computer Apps were invented for computer and phones. These keep a record of the users and send “push notifications” to the users to update them when new information becomes available. The level of data given out, depends on? Bueller (YouTube)? (Ferris Bueller’s day off (1986) iMDb) Now, the most famous Algorithm? It’s the bridges one isn’t it? Why? Why would someone try to solve this? Well, some civil servant who had to check the bridges every day and got particularly sick of being over the same bridge twice in one day, asked a mathematician for the best solution? No, he asked for the shortest route over all the bridges because his feet were tired. Well, I think his boss was sick of him not being in the office and wanted him at his desk, so he got the mathematician to calculate the shortest route. And what does that have to do with once only over the bridge. Well? When the mathematician looked at it, he/she went, that’s actually a good question. And why do you refer to the civil servant as male? Check the history books?
1450pm 11 Feb 2023 USGS A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck overnight near Nurdağı, Turkey on February 6 at 01:17 UTC. By Communications and Publishing February 5, 2023 (Yes, it was still the 05th Feb in the USA) No they don’t update this stuff, it’s not their job, they count, literally, they count, earthquakes, everything else is someone elses job. “The Office of Communications and Publishing (OCAP) is the front door to the USGS. While our scientists are conducting in-depth research, it is the job of the Office of Communications and Publishing to present their research in a format suitable to the public. Our office is in charge of everything from Social Media to Congressional affairs for the USGS.” Really? Making the USA look good? Publishing Information Tap on products and then on Alert and Notification systems. USGS Water Alert “It’s free to use! Notifications sent to your email or phone” This looks quite good? Volcano Notification Service (VNS) Login? Earthquake Notification System We’ll send you emails? Oh, that’s so 1960s. Retro I like it. Yes and before vacines too. You spelt that wrong. Oh, do I look stupid? Who dreamed of a combined Earthquake system? And being uploaded virtually to a server on the Moon? “Richter 10 (Wikipedia) is a 1996 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Mike McQuay. The protagonist is Lewis Crane, who develops a hatred of earthquakes due to a major earthquake hitting his house when he is seven years old, killing his parents. The book’s title is a reference to the Richter scale, on which 10 was considered (when the scale was devised) to be the most power an earthquake was likely to ever have.” Colman, when did you read it? Don’t remember. A long time ago, it’s in my attic somewhere.
1520pm 11 Feb 2023 USGS Understanding Plate motions These diagrams “free” (without cost) to use for lectures? https://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/understanding.html Last updated: 09.15.14
Contact: bhanks@usgs.gov. Personally, I use 2023_02_11, (year, month, day), it allows my documents to be sorted by time. For future proofing you might use 02023_02_11, to avoid the DecaMillenium (Wiktionary) problem? Yes, there are people thinking about these things. Pity they won’t work in government any more.
1545pm 11 Feb 2023 – Silly idea: Where’s George? Oh, it’s her six months off, this is Bill. Please to meet you Bill, where did you come from? Australia, that’s nice what were you doing there? Surfing? No, what were you working at? No, You don’t understand, I was on my six months off, George surfs Northern Hemisphere, I surf Southern Hemisphere. And these people are paid for this? Pay? You think we do this for pay? People die if we’re not here. We’re volunteers. The Surf Competition money covers our bills. They’re the talent. Surfworld.ie – FIRMS-NASA – Oh, I do a little freelance work on the side, they ask better questions. Now, here’s a question, is the Irish Map clear because: A: It rains here. B: The Fire Brigade put the fires out quicker. C: Our fire regulations are reasonably good because of the Stardust disaster (1981) (wiki)
“The fatalities included 48 people in total; 46 in the fire and two later on with the last recorded death occurring on 11 March 1981, and 214 injured. The ages of those who were killed in the fire ranged from 16 to 26, and in 23 cases the deceased were the eldest and sole breadwinner for their families.[4] Most of the dead came from Artane, Kilmore and greater Coolock, and half of the deceased were aged 18 or younger, with four of the victims aged 16 and eight aged 17.[3] The fire also was linked to the attempted suicides of about 25 people in subsequent years.[4]“
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If you copy the Lat Long into Google Earth Pro you get? What is that? Not sure, try Google Maps? There might be a streetview of the building?
1615pm 11 Feb 2023 Commercial applications of the software? Well, if you were a large property owner, like the USA Military, you might have “ringfences” (area data maps) around your property locations, these would allow the fire data points to be checked against your local area, to see if they are within the boundaries of your fire service capabilities. This would allow rapid mobilisation of the Fire staff to the location. “Get your arses out of bed. Square, 2 minutes. Sxxt. No shave.” (That’s logistics. Having the urge to defecate at the fire scene is a distraction from the task in hand and if gasmasks are not required then neither is a shave.) Colman have you ever given an order like that? No, however I have spent a few hours with a medic emptying the chemical toilets at a few of my dispositions (locations where personnel were deployed) on an Operation. Nasty job, no one else wanted to do it, so I had to lead by example by doing the job myself, I wasn’t that busy that day. I did have to suggest to upper management that burying the waste in the bog beside the location was unsanitary, as the area was waterlogged. How did you do that? “I told the medic to “Tell them. That’s not going to work.” We tried to dig a latrine pit, for disposal of the chemical toilet waste. waterlogged soil conditions did not permit it. (Is there a form for that?) Colman
1650pm 11 Feb 2023 Latrine Pits (Wiki) https://inspectapedia.com/septic/Latrine_Construction.php This has the old USA versions, the Irish Field Hygiene Manual was quite good. USA Military Manual Field Hygiene and Sanitation (2015) is quite good as are the new Irish military designs as used in Lebanon and elsewhere. (Listen, I want a solution to that, the boss is pissed his orders weren’t carried out. Why not? Well, he didn’t know the ground was a fxxking bog. Colman, you supposing? Yes, however, I know who (plural) was in Hq. Thank you 4 W Bde (wiki). May our Brigade’s memory live long in history! You’re being sarcastic. No, 4WBde was at the front of the line in Lebanon for a long time, for a very, very good reason. Smart soldiers. The private soldiers used to sign their ranks s/s (Saighdiúir – wictionary).
1725pm 11 Feb 2023 Colman, give me a smart soldier example? Well, the Signals NCO had the battery store in the office. It’s hazardous. Yes. And not having power isn’t? And what was his solution. The room was always manned and the window was always open. All winter. (Did you see that? Yes, you could see guardroom and the centre of the town from there, too. I was there a very long time. And I visited for a chat every day on duty. He would have been visible through the window. Where was his desk? And kit? And radio? And the tannoy to the very large speakers, which could be heard in Letterkenny? It wasn’t. No, he never turned it up that loud. I looked at the amplifier.)
1735pm 11 Feb 2023 Marash, officially Kahramanmaraş (wiki) UNOSAT Area Map
1750pm 11 Feb 2023 UNDRR (official home page United nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) DISASTERS CAUSING BILLIONS IN AGRICULTURAL LOSSES, WITH DROUGHT LEADING THE WAY Note from Colman: Agricultural production in the Earthquake zone is likely to be impacted by the loss of buildings in rural areas? Why? Well, if your house fell down, the agricultural output from your farm might be effected? Farm buildings, similarly? Why? Because the donkey died. The tobacco field next door to Post 6-28 in Lebanon was tended by a woman on a donkey, I bought souvenirs in her shop near Connaught House, the C Coy hq.
1810pm 11 Feb 2023 Carroll’s Irish Gifts Happy St Patricks Day – MADE WITH GRÁ What do you do Colman? I smoke tobacco. It’s bad for you. The SO2 from the sulphur matches is bad for you. The benzine in the lighters is bad for you. Traditionally, a pipe was lit from taper from the fire. Ireland was breathing Tetryl Ethyl Lead (wiki) for how long? You are NOT advocating smoking? It’s legal. Oh? Vaping? You seen those flavours on “nice” lists yet? It’s easier just have a nice cigarette, a nice coffee and watch the blue sky and the stars overhead. And once in a while I say: “You know I read something about …”
1820 11 Feb 2023 Recent changes at Kīlauea volcano By Hawaiian Volcano Observatory OCTOBER 17, 2021 Copernicus Image of the day – New eruption of the Kilauea Volcano – Hawaii (USA) – Date: 25/12/2020 Laughing? “No, I’m actually quite sad at the moment. This has not been a good week for the world.” Colman
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1825 11 Feb 2023 You can’t show them that stuff, they just turn off the feed, change the channel etc. Yes. The price of food going up is rather annoying. Why is that happening? Oh, you can’t show them that stuff, they just turn off the feed, change the channel etc. UN land report: Five key takeaways for climate change, food systems and nature loss United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
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Starting at 10 am CET, a two-hour thematic webinar to mark the launch of the Study on Land Degradation, Climate Change and Migration Nexus in Central Asia will bring together leading experts from the region in the sphere of sustainable land management. The authors and contributors will present results of the study undertaken over the period of several years, followed by an open discussion on the themes raised in the study. The event will be conducted in Russian with English translation. Register here…
UNCCD thanks the Government of Türkiye for the support through the Ankara Initiative
Message from the UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw As we close the curtains of the Ankara Initiative, which supported the UNCCD for many years, let me start by thanking… “
1830pm 11 Feb 2023 – Turkey, we’re trying. KEEP DIGGING
1840pm 11 Feb 2023 USGS – Webcams show current conditions on Kīlauea Volcano
Visit webcam – Visit webcam – photo.jpg – Well, that was a little bit of a let down.
1845pm 11 Feb 2023 New project on effects of climate change induced ice-retreat on seismic and volcanic activity – One of four projects that received a grant-of-excellence from the Icelandic Research Fund 9.2.2023 Þakka þér fyrir (Thank you in Icelandic.) Some people are busy people.
1850pm 11 Feb 2023 – What did you do today? KEEP DIGGING
1900pm 11 Feb 2023 – Iceland Met Office Hydrology – The Arctic-HYDRA Program Finland Environment(it’s in Finnish).fi Yes, that’s the English language US version. You might chat to someone there? I’m sure they have a video conferencing capability? A nice Facebook Messaging Video address? An Post used to have an ethernet version for chatting to their technicians in the 1990s. One of my chubby officers was quite technically literate, though he was paid per number of wires he twisted. (Literally the number of wires he twisted. How to wire Ethernet Cables) And what did he do in his spare time? He was a warrior for Donegal, like I was.
- Webservices of Finland’s
environmental administration
ym.fi Ministry of the Environment
syke.fi Finnish Environment Institute
ara.fi The Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland
ely-keskus.fi Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
1920pm 11 Feb 2023 What are the Finnish priorities in the Department of Environment at present? Sir/Mam? What should we have on the website? Eh? Let’s see? Environment, Environment education, Housing, Economic Development, Transport and Environment. Ireland – Google Search Department of the Environment first page gets to: Drum roll https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-the-environment-climate-and-communications/#:~:text=Address%3A-,29%2D31%20Adelaide%20Road%2C%20Dublin%202%2C%20D02%20X285,office%40decc.gov.ie
1930pm 11 Feb 2023 – Communications too? Really? Might have a look at that? Swiftly, please?
Senior management
- Mark GriffinSecretary General of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
- Brian CarrollAssistant Secretary, Environment – Climate, Air Quality, EU and International Policy
- Ciarán Ó hÓbáinAssistant Secretary, Communications
- Matt CollinsAssistant Secretary, Energy – Renewable Electricity Hydrogen and the Grid
- Barry QuinlanAssistant Secretary, Energy – Built Environment Retrofit and Heat Policy
- Paul BolgerAssistant Secretary, Energy – Security of Supply, Markets and Energy Policy
- Philip NugentAssistant Secretary, Environment – Circular Economy and Governance
- Lisa KeyesAssistant Secretary, Corporate Affairs and Strategic Development
1940pm 11 Feb 2023 Colman? Really? They want what jobs after they leave? I recommend Iceland? Greenland, maybe, a nice conference in January? You might allow them to claim for a warm winter coat. Oh, they’re “Generals”, really? No, I wouldn’t have put my name on that website design either.
1950pm 11 Feb 2023 Organisation information State Board Membership You might ask Ian, he’s quite technically literate, although he probably wouldn’t like the commute. For a technical person you might find a lazy signals NCO, just retired, somewhere? They might do it, if you let them work from home. Colman, they’re very well qualified civil servants. Yes. Masters Online Smurfit School UCD anyone? Management – a Competency-based Approach (amazon.co.uk) by Don Hellriegel , Susan E. Jackson, et al. | 30 Mar 2001 It’s quite a good book. A friend gave it to me after he did a Microsoft course in Dublin. “A two hour read.” Oh, you have to write a thesis. And do you have to answer questions on it?
2200pm 11 Feb 2023 Colman define Army Logistics. Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. Who taught you Logistics? Well, she taught Administration and Logistics, most of it was how to fill out the forms. Major General Maureen O’Brien, she’s in the UN at present. Were you an average officer? Well, the Cadet School was a lot of rote learning and towards the end of my career, the rote learning was less and my academic results were higher. Yes, however you were rated an average officer. Yes. Standards are quite high in the Defence Forces, when I joined there were 12,000-15,000 applicants for the cadetships. There were 20,000 reservists most under 25 and quite a number were impressed by the standard of their officers. How do you know this? Well, quite a number of my fellow cadets already knew how to bull boots before they arrived at the cadet school. And you Colman, what did you know? That the Defence Forces computer system was extremely fast, I spent a summer entering information into it. Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. No, Colman is NOT going to DFHQ, we’ll never get him back. Yes, DFHQ used to have to demand officers from the boonies. Dublin, ug. I’d rather … Oh, the workload? Really? “The general would like Tio Pepe in the officers mess.” (How will we impress the Chief of Staff, he’s coming to visit? Ask his Aide what he drinks? Why? Does anyone else ask questions like that? No. Good questions, good officer. No, not my idea, my captains idea. I was Mess officer. There were only how many in the Mess? The same standards of Mess book keeping are required at all levels, the number of data entries changes, however, the same systems apply. I did my audits on spread sheets.)
2330pm 11 Feb 2023 – Major site rebuild complete, sorry it took so long, (20 minutes) I have moved the Earthquakes link below, so that now the latest news appears above that link. I have done this as it took me so long to scroll down to here in order to add more information quickly, so I presume it was taking you ages to get to the new stuff too. Why did it take so long? I couldn’t remember how to add a local hyperlink into the code using WordPress, I looked up the faqs and there seems to be buttons described in the frequently asked questions, which no longer appear in the editing suite, so I had to edit the code as html. Yes, that is why it’s called a fax. “Can you send me the manual, please?”
2345pm 11 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Major Earthquakes past 7 days Volcano Discovery Ammochostos ???
2350pm 11 Feb 2023 USGS Current Turkey Area
0010am 12 Feb 2023 EMSC M 4.4 – GEORGIA (SAK’ART’VELO) – 2023-02-11 15:33:43 UTC – USGC M 4.4 – Georgia (Sak’art’velo) 2023-02-11 15:33:42 (UTC) 41.946°N 42.230°E 10.0 km depth You know this would be easier, if you built the database according to who was “going” to send reports and the type of information they send? If they all contain standard information, then you just fill in the blanks as the new reports arrive in? Why? Well, you can plan your database requirements before the data arrives and then design your search algorithm for best response times to data requests? Why? Because most databases are (were) designed for best times to storage. Then optimisation occurs after the event, during routine maintenance. (I presume someone in IT said this a long time ago. Colman)
0045am 12 Feb 2023 Georgia INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES AND NATIONAL SEISMIC MONITORING CENTER Seismic Activity, you have to tap on the latest earthquake in the little map which brings you to the Georgia Seismic Activity Map It automatically reverts to Georgian tap the English language flag on the right hand side. [Georgia Seismic Activity Map – English language] There isn’t extra information on the earthquakes available at present, the tags are ready for them. The zoom function is really excellent, as are the nice links to Google Map photos in the local area. You might ask if anyone has the math function for calculating intensity from Magnitude and Depth? Timeanddate.com Tiblisi GET (Georgian Standard Time) = UTC + 4
0255pm 12 Feb 2023 I was having a small trouble sleeping and I suddenly remembered something. “The baby only sleeps in the car.” Now, the human body is a series of pieces of limestone (Calcium carbonate), if various frequencies effect different sized parts of the body, then while a small person might feel one frequency, a larger person might feel a different frequency. My brother built a building a few years ago on rubber pads, to insulate it from vibrations from the London underground. Yes, it sounds like something from the movie Wanted (2008). Can you rest for twenty minutes in a vehicle, the wheels are rubber? Can you put the coffee/food prefab on rubber tyres? Are children in buildings with mechanical ventilation effected? It’s a simple vibration, however ships have very complicated systems for ensuring reduction in vibrational noise. What systems? The Captain says “Engineer, find out what the fxxk is the fxxking noise, it’s doing my fxxking head in.” Why is that a complex system? Well, it presumes the Engineer understands the Captains frustration and that it isn’t directed at him personally, it’s a request to fix the ship. Also it vents the crews frustration that the Engineer hasn’t fixed it already. “Told you the Captain would lose it when we brought him down here. It’s been like that for a week. We thought it was normal, until the young lad was sick and the doctor asked him what he thought was wrong.”
1035am 12 Feb 2023 Colman: Why is the Defence Forces important to Ireland? Well, that’s an unexpected question. Who investigated the Stardust disaster? Who investigates Aircraft crashes? Who used to be in charge of Civil Defence? They weren’t in charge, they were the Engineers, really? The lazy people who read all the information in their free time? Who had their journals paid for by the state? We didn’t pay for the journals. The Mess bought them. The officers uniform allowance covers their stationary. That’s writing paper. Yes, I bought a computer with mine. There are really silly looking parts of the Defence Forces Regulations which are there to remind the officer who reads them, and I use that term to include the Non-commissioned officers that certain things are important. Like what. Private soldiers in one Unit are allowed holiday leave home in the summer to gather the harvest. That’s a really silly looking paragraph. Yes. What does it say? Agriculture is the backbone of Ireland and the Harvest comes first. No food. No army. You put the Harvest with a capital and the army in lower case. Yes. Which is more important? Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. And why is the Defence Forces important? Well, have you seen those nice tv programs about the spoiled kids going back driving tractors on their “hobby” farms? Yes. Well, they used to be the backbone of the British Army, the Mess bills were more than their pay packets. How do you know this. I met one in a pub in the Alps, a guy from the Blue and Greys, they drove the Scorpions in the Falklands, there for the summer skiing. Farmers talk strange. People use vocabulary from their employment, it’s colloquially known as jargon. Google search Iteration. Introduction to Recursion (geeks for geeks.com). The officer creates an SOP, it is improved upon on every operation subsequently by establishing the lesson which might be learned from the operation. Lessons Learned Solutions.com It’s a computer company. Teaching Lessons learned, who hasn’t seen that their service chat box is effected by the “accept cookies” banner. Yes. You know that sending cookies was a method of providing a service to the client by remembering that they’d been to your site before? Sending one is not actually required. Then why are they there? Because they copied the code from someone else without understanding what it did. What is Recursion? It’s a programming method which has a basis of reducing the calculation back to the smallest element in order to quickly gain and answer. Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. The same standards of Mess book keeping are required at all levels, the number of data entries changes, however, the same systems apply. Aide-Memoire
Options for reflecting weapons and ammunition management in decisions of the Security Council AIDE MEMOIRE ON THE LAW OF ARMED
CONFLICT Who What Where When Why (Adobe.com) How do you write a Section (9man) mission statement? Who What Where When Why? How do you write an Army Plan? Well, George Patton famously said. Two maximum with one half page for the map. Why? Well, wax printing was a thing and my Primary school had one before they had a photocopier and if you had two of them, you could print one side and then the next soldier could print the other side and then you could make a copy for everyone down to the Lt, so when you said, “Move Now.” Everyone knew which road to take. Watch this space, Unity of Purpose anyone? FEMA.gov because eventually, when the place is completely fxxked you ask the Army. Look, it’s only one page. Yes, it’s hard to see the back of the fxxking computer screen, that’s the space available and no more.
1040am 12 Feb 2023 And what does this have to do with the task in hand? Please find how to get to the Firedata from here? Google Search FIRMS NASA https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ Now Click Colmans Link? FIRMS NASA Global Fire Map Yes that was the intention, all the data on one page. And someone said, we have to… “Make it user friendly with a nice interface for people to select the parts of the map which was more appropriate to their needs.” Because they won’t understand all the information. Lads, what do you do when you look at an Air Photograph, do you understand all of it? No, that bit there means this, that bit there means that, you can use those to calculate the scale and that’s normally all I need. The Air Photography manual is quite cool, it even gives all the diagrams and the mathematics. Where did Patton’s information come from? What? That’s easy. It came from Patton. He signed the original order and the copies had the Army logo on top. (And the daily password.) FIRMS.gov? Yes, Colman has such silly ideas.
1100am 12 Feb 2023 – A daily password, that’s a great idea. What was the password? Well, the Military Policeman had a copy of the order and he said, you, Lt, where are you going? Show me your orders. Yes, that’s the same as mine. It’s up that direction, my buddy George is top of the hill, he’ll point you towards Germany and tell him I’d like some soup instead of coffee. And the Lt said, can I see your orders and they’re not the same as mine and there’s word around about you lot and this is a Colt 45 and my buddy is covering your squad with machinegun from the top of the hill. Now that’s what cookies were supposed to do.
1105am 12 Feb 2023 And. Well, wordpress is a minimalist system designed for daily use and open information, rather like environment.fi and no cookies needed, keep it simple, try to keep all the relevant information on one screen or have links to one screen pages or have a nice banner which jumps you up and down the page to the nice locations. SEE PAGEMENU below. Were you taught this. No. I worked it out for myself. Google Search Crusade in Europe Eisenhower, excellent book. I gave my copy to Collins Barracks. I’m retired.
1120am 12 Feb 2023 Given me an example where this happened previously? Mississippi Drainage Scheme. USA Corp of Engineers were tasked with impartially fixing the problem. Oh, look they’re still there. US Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division Website There’s a small error in the html code. [[[[[[[[(function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://’ : ‘http://’) + ‘stats.g.doubleclick.net/dc.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();]]]]]]]]] Yes, it is so hard to get qualified people these days, and finding anyone qualified to actually supervise them is really awful. Coffee? Inspection? Yes, barrack square looks lovely, those shiny troops. The parade ground was in front of the general office. Where are the troops? There’s too few of them on parade for my liking. Yes, the Home page is rather like asking if the barman is competent enough to polish the brasses on the door each morning. Signals? They used to use flags once upon a time? Information passed quickly to troops? Though you needed a fxxking telescope to see it, so the signaller had to shout down the message from the turret. The snipers used to shoot them when they were on the wooden pillar. Yes, Ireland had round towers, they used to have signal fires, and lots of trees around the monastary, it’s nice to have firewood for the fxxking winter. Because you couldn’t see a fxxking thing from ground level for the fxxking trees.
1145am 12 Feb 2023 And then it was decided that having the trees was too dangerous as the bandits used them for cover. I’m not staying. Why? It’s too far to collect firewood. It’s not the Vikings. No, I’d just come back when the raid was over, they don’t take the stone buildings. I hear it’s warm down South, I hear there’s loads of trees up North. And what is Ireland doing? Well, we’re planting a few trees. About fxxking time. Now next up? Where did all the pubs go? We still have pubs? Seen the news lately? Monestary’s were famous for? In England for the beer other places they had stills and made ink and whiskey. Why? Because it’s nice to keep the staff happy and they couldn’t put up with the gossiping women. Menssheds.ie We don’t… Well actually, Michael, is quite good at that sort of thing, brewing, distilling etc. What happens in America Colman? 6 family members, including baby, shot dead at home in targeted ‘massacre’: Sheriff “Authorities believe the shooters stood on top of the teenager and fired rounds into her head, Boudreaux said at a news conference Tuesday. Her murder was “assassination-style” and “egregious,” the sheriff said.”
1210pm 12 Feb 2023 and What do you do Colman? Well, like the army, I’m just sitting at home because, if there’s some thing big, I might be asked my opinion and it’s nice to lend a hand and sometime have a nice word in someone’s ear to encourage them. The crossword good today? Climate change: Ireland declares climate emergency 09 May 2019 Irish President declares Climate Change Emergency. Remember this? Well, some people do a little light reading when the President of Ireland says “We might all lend a hand?” So pucker up buttercup, when I’m done with this, I might get around to your little problem.
1300pm 12 Feb 2023 Give me another example Colman. Ever heard of the PDF? The Permanent Defence Forces? No, the adobe .pdf (wiki) Now a long time ago, I was asked for a copy of the nice stuff I had made, the little word documents I made had little hyper texts built in. Away it went and a few years later …
| 1.0 | First | 1993 | Text, images, pages, hypertext links, bookmarks, thumbnail sketches[8] |
Why is this not your idea? Well, “the lads” would have said, it’s nice however it’s a bit silly, if anyone can change the stuff, it’s easy to make it look like it’s ours with extra stuff added in. Who are the lads, well, in Donegal it was the ladies and gentlemen, women being allowed in the door first and all that. I’m sure someone else would have come up with the idea first? “Yes. It’s called a .pdf” British Army ideas – ” We can’t pay you for it, however, we’ll let you put your name on it.”
1320pm 12 Feb 2023 Hyperlinks, strange they shouldn’t work, this computer isn’t connected to the internet. The sneaky bollix, he downloaded the entire webpage. look the address is changed to the local address on the floppy disk. That’s cool. And he hasn’t been to college yet? You know it was a lot easier when DO NOT OPEN THIS Wikipedia DO NOT OPEN THIS was so small that you could buy the entire database on a cd. Ok, you can look, just, please, please, don’t download the entire database? There used to be a button, which said download website and all “routes” below it. Really hard to find the top layer on wiki? Yes, you have to route through every hyper link and … That algorithm was in First term, First year, in Computer Science. So many of them never qualify. Really? No one ever said this. No. It took me about thirty seconds, because… I was at the front of the class and bored out of my head.
1340pm 12 Feb 2023 Webpages are easy? Yes, find a pretty one, download the entire code and change the addresses to your picture, your banner, you’re a lazy bollix, this website could look so much better if you made your own server and … Yes. And WordPress takes care of the hackers. Thank you WordPress. I’m lazy. Now, word press have a different attitude and I can’t link to their page. Why? Well, their cookies work and their website, knows it’s me and automatically routes me to my login page. http://www.wordpress.com you might try it for yourself? You’ll see something different to me?
1355pm 12 Feb 2023 IRIS.edu Interactive site Search last 20 earthquakes After a new search is made, it takes a little time for the information to arrive at your computer. This because it’s actually searching the data base. My particular search parameters are set and bingo, it’s the same search every time. I really like this site. The front page is quite Retro and while I might find it a little off putting to begin with, it does say, this is how far we’ve come. We’re still working on improving it. Others might have had a historical section with older versions, just to say who the nice people who did the maintenance were. Aircraft log books are signed by the pilot and the mechanic. Why? Well, there was a fxxking war on, we used gum to fix that. George? Yes, who is this? You were in BBB sqn during the war? Yes, that was thirty years ago. What type of gum did you use to fix Spitfire 23456? Why? Because it’s still there and we’re wondering if we can find out where to get more?
1430pm 12 Feb 2023 Copernicus Mapping One example Eventually, you find the actual map? What’s this piece of unintelligible crap? 1:31,000 – Oh, best resolution pobbible? A1 – Because they have A1 printers available? The RED circles? Yes, where the buildings are damaged? Wouldn’t it be fxxking nice to see how bad the fxxking damage is? Colman, that’s not very nice thing to say? Been in a war zone with a 1:1,000,000 map of the area lately? It’s rather hard to find you’re way to the shop? The water? Oh, you could find your way back to Ireland on it. Yes, and it was excellent for strategic planning, the little people on teh ground, please? 1:25,000 1:50,000 the map romers are made for these. A4 suitable for printing or photocopying and most places have A4 printers and photocopiers, it is the 21st Century. And a nice version for their phones, with a scale on the side which changes, so you can zoom in and know the shop is 100m North? 60 paces = 100 meters. Roughly. That’s describing something like Google maps, yes, someone else said, it’d be nice if the little people knew the was a nice pub at the corner. Now, the nice map for teh Presidential Palace. Yes, good ide, however let’s think about the little people too? How many lost little troopies in Search and Rescue Teams, a long way from home, who don’t speekie the language? Might be nice if they had some TOP LEVEL SUPPORT ? It’s nice that Irish Military Observers now get a daily email with the Irish News from DFHQ, isn’t it? Yes. It is. Text? WhatsApp? All ok? Great, thanks. Why you texting? Just making sure you’re still alive? Need anything? No, not particularly? KEEP DIGGING message from our glorious leader. (Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel.) On a personal note: KEEP DIGGING signed Colman
1505pm 12 Feb 2023 The Secretary. The General used to have a Clerk, yes, some high up rank, and the clerk had a staff. Yes. And the staff typed the letters. Yes. What went wrong? Well the Department employed Typists, civilians to allow the soldiers onto the ground. Yes. And the Pte or Cpl typing the letters? Oh, wouldn’t want them to see that? CS: Sir? This is nice. It’d be cool if the lads were told it was available? Though they might like a small portion, can I copy the air photo, I can blow it up and give them bits of it with a little scale on the side. You can do that? Yes, DFHQ just sent us this new thing called a photocopier. Oh, the CS didn’t use the photocopier, that’s a Pte’s job, so it didn’t happen. What did Colman do? Well, the fxxker cadged a lift on the helicopter, took photos of the Exercise area and made Target Packets on A2 coloured Card pages for the patrols. What? Yes, the reservists were quite impressed. No, they weren’t, they thought that was just the way things were done. The instructors on the other hand. (You seen this before? No. Could we do that?) I’m retired, I smoke tobacco and drink coffee. Milk, one sugar?
1530pm Colman Why do you call it a little light reading? Well, once upon a time long ago, I got a present of a little red battery torch. I used to use it for reading under the bed clothes after I was told to turn out the light in my room. It’s a historical reference and a fond memory. Enid Blyton (wiki) Secret Seven and the Famous Five were excellent. We had quite a collection of them. It’s one of the reasons I use so many George references. She was a girl, a tomboy. (Georgina).
1550pm 12 Feb 2023 Windy.com works fast. There’s the web cameras built in. What was your question, that led you here? Airport weather, why is it so warm there? It shouldn’t be that warm? Windy.com didn’t read Colman’s stuff. No. He/She/They just think(s) the same way. Windy’s got a good attitude and wants to help too. Thank you Windy.com.
1605pm 12 Feb 2023 Wouldn’t you look at the camera nearest you? I haven’t seen this camera before and its a saved photo to give a traffic indication, it means that the one image is stored and available for easy access, the image being on the local server, Cork people only have to bounce the request to their local service provider, the image being stored for convenience on their nearest data hub.
1610pm 12 Feb 2023 Dunkettle traffic.ie – The providers website. Here are the live views and there are a few more and all with lovely live video. 5G, baby. Isn’t Ethernet broadband fun. If you scroll all the way to the bottom the Apps can be downloaded there? I would have put a little pair of icons in the top right hand corner? Oh, that’s in the phone version. Well, you might have a wee peek if you’re looking at this on a phone? Why? Because the cookies tell if you’re on a mobile IP address or a landline IP address, actually, they tell you, which device, if you’ve a few in the house, the house router needs to know, to which device, to send the information.
1625pm 12 Feb 2023 Yes, the kids are well aware. Big Brother is an old idea and it still scares the hell out of them and they don’t read anymore and Big Brother really couldn’t give a fiddlers because he’s busy and would prefer if you read (English past participle) a little more and to a higher standard.
1910pm 12 Feb 2023 UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency Turkey Earthquake Appeal
1915pm 12 Feb 2023 Recent Earthquakes (12 hrs) Turkey TURKEY MAP a M 4.8 at 2.9km depth, you might have a look at that? 23.02.12 18:33:14 (UTC+3) Lat 37.3655 Long 36.9433 Two (2) hours ago? Yes, you should check it.
2005pm 12 Feb 2023 Sunrise/Sunset Ankara There’s a nice graph here of Daylight hours, not perfect for judging light availability for Solar panels, however quite good, you might ask an engineer or a graphic designer? I’d have a spreadsheet with the latitude and longitude on top and all the calculations from there. Tidal charts are a little more difficult. Tide-forecast.com this sees my IP address and offers me the nearest calculated points. There’s a nice country chart here? Here’s Turkey Wind and wave maps current. Population? Really? Now normally an app like this gives the bouys? I don’t recognise any of the coastal towns, because I was looking at inland devastated towns, so I’ll have to look up the map. Iskenderun? No luck. Arsuz? No? Now what’s this? Well, a few options are possible? Tourist towns, Map traps are another? Little changes from map to map which are used to establish the copyright to the map information. Like putting an unusual squiggle in your code, so you can search similar sites, for your little gem. Karatas, Turkey. This is quite good. Cork High tide, 1 hrs 47 minutes from now. Here are the Tide stations (Ireland) , I knew this would be here somewhere. Wave heights 6.5 meters in the Mid Atlantic, those Aer Corp lads, I read an excellent recommendation for four DSMs once. They rewrote the SOPs again afterwards. They keep doing that? (Paraphrasing another report: Well, we were so high up we had to tie two of the ropes together to get him down to the boat.) CalculateStuff.com 6.5 meters = 21.325459317585302 Feet (Did you use my code to calculate something for your book?) How high is your ceiling? GetHouseSurvey.com Ouch, can you read that bull? Let’s say approx 2.5 meter, I’m 1.8 meters and I can reach up 0.5 meters and theres a little between me and the roof. so the waves are almost three times the height of my ceiling? Windwave (Wiki) I had to look up the definition of wave height, from Crest to Trough. Now there’s a little addendum to that. “Individual “rogue waves” (also called “freak waves”, “monster waves”, “killer waves”, and “king waves”) much higher than the other waves in the sea state can occur. In the case of the Draupner wave, its 25 m (82 ft) height was 2.2 times the significant wave height. Such waves are distinct from tides, caused by the Moon and Sun‘s gravitational pull, tsunamis that are caused by underwater earthquakes or landslides, and waves generated by underwater explosions or the fall of meteorites—all having far longer wavelengths than wind waves.” The Freak Waves are bigger than the forecasted wave heights, there’s a nice formula, and let’s keep our little heinies above that line, please. Draupner, it’s named after the oil platform which measured it. They measure waves? Really? Must look into that. Please? Learn something new every day?
2012pm 12 Feb 2023 USGS M 5.0 – northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Time 2023-02-12 07:08:23 (UTC) Location 17.565°N 46.536°W Depth 10.0 km This morning. Caused by the Moon you say? Really?
2020pm 12 Feb 2023 The_1995_Draupner_wave (wiki) Lads? Big one this morning? Any data?
- In the course of Project MaxWave, researchers from the GKSS Research Centre, using data collected by ESA satellites, identified a large number of radar signatures that have been portrayed as evidence for rogue waves. Further research is underway to develop better methods of translating the radar echoes into sea surface elevation, but at present this technique is not proven.[33][46]
2025pm 12 Feb 2023 UNESCO International Tsunami Information Centre Tsunami Warnings (The World Heritage people do Tsunami warnings?) I hate to ask a silly question? If there aren’t any could you say that? And if there are? Can you put it on the top of the page? USA Department of Commerce NOAA/National Weather Service U. S. Tsunami Warning Centre – Product retrieval Here it is Tsunami.gov No Tsunami Warning, Advisory, Watch, or Threat On a Nice Green background, I presume it’s Red when one is in operation. Woops, I coloured my entire block. (Edit as html, to have a little look?)
2040pm 12 Feb 2023 Of course I did. http://www.Volcano.gov Site refused to connect.
2115pm 12 Feb 2023 UNESCO – Where the First Wave Arrives in Minutes
Indonesian Lessons on Surviving Tsunamis Near Their Sources (English 2010) .pdf French (2013) No one asked for it until then. (The various versions) How to Survive almost anything. Libray Book (2004) For kids. OpenLibrary.org Project Gutenberg is good too, though these are mainly scans of Out of Copyright books (I like old books, so much good stuff in them. My favourite book in Project Gutenberg was? On Agriculture by Varo 1 Century. Oh, this is new, from University of Chicago, they put it on a pretty background, in four languages. If you tap on the title page, you get a commentary on it.).
Troia erat oppidum magnum in Asia. First foreign words I learned in school. www.Archive.org A First Latin Reader I think I had a copy of this in Latin class in Newbridge college. I only did it to Intermediate Certificate. Archive.org has some really excellent old movies too. Here's their search for Frankenstein. (When I copied the section of text from the latin reader, it took the font with it, and I couldn't be bothered changing the font back, it only effects the block it surrounds. ( <Edit as html, to have a little look?> I copied that <> from above and because this the editing function, it doesn't bring the font data with it. If you mix up the <> and the >< in the html, all sorts of things happen, so do be careful. WordPress has a "did not compute" and "shall I attempt a rescue on this?" function.)
2140pm 12 Feb 2023 New Zealand – Civil Defence – Get Tsunami Ready Current Emergency – It’s a weather warning Severe weather and flooding Sunday 12 Feb – last updated 5:20 pm ??? GNS Science UNESCO – Tsunami Events – With historical info Lads, you seen the pretty USA Tsunami webpage? Silly idea from Colman? A nice scannable box at the airport for a download of the local Civil Defence app? In every airport in the world? For the cautious visitor? And the local people? How do you pay for it? For a few dollars more you can get it in English? French? Spanish? USA Department of State – Bureau of Consular Affairs – Travel Advisories — New Zealand — New Zealand Current Alerts — WEATHER ALERT: CYCLONE GABRIELLE Ready.gov Hurricanes — SKY NEWS — Cyclone Gabrielle: Dozens of flights cancelled in New Zealand as 10 inches of rain set to fall Sunday 12 February 2023 18:15, UK, Thank you Niamh. NOAA NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER National Hurricane Center’s New
“Tropical Atlantic Marine Weather Briefing” .pdf (26 Jan 2023 with nice links) Awwh, Surf-Forecast.com now has a login page. StormSurf.com USA. StormSurf.com Create Your Own Surf Forecast – Works anywhere on the planet! Oh, that’s so good, I’m going to say it twice. StormSurf.com Create Your Own Surf Forecast – Works anywhere on the planet! – His weekly video for week of 05 Feb, excellent lesson on how to read the surf bouys. Why so few viewers? There aren’t too many surfers who surf the world. Local surfers? They then look up their local bouy. New video tomorrow? Press the button and he’ll push you the video to your YouTube account. Integrated Ocean Observing System – Map NOAA – IOOS homepage Eyes on the Ocean Weekly Newsletter 02 Feb 2023 – It’s what date now? Coastal GeoTool Conference 06-09 Feb 2023 – They said WHATTTTTT? Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?
2245pm 12 Feb 2023 Atlas for the End of the World (AFEW)Maps — Irano-Anatolian .pdf Kahramanmaras, Turkey – Population Projections: 2015 455,000 2030 574,000 Yes, it’s at the top of this page too.
1415pm 13 Feb 2023 Sky News Turkey earthquake – latest: Fears grow that infection will kill survivors as number of dead nears 36,000 Colman, that’s a huge jump from the earlier numbers why? Well, in real life, after the careful digging to get those alive out “safely” you start the bulldozers and hope for the best. And. My little webpage is dangerous, it gives all the information sources which might be subjected to information request hacks. I am the bulldozer. KEEP DIGGING. Give me an example from fiction? Seen Dr. NO (1962) iMDb lately? It’s a James Bond movie. Yes. The station chief is killed, his radio broadcast interrupted, Bond is sent to investigate. (Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel.) In the Defence Forces, personnel system it’s called a Daily Parade state. The CS or clerk fills it out, teh officer signs it and off it goes. The officer is till alive, the soldiers are still alive, I presume the barracks is still standing. Yesterday was a good day, no one died. Who taught you that. Well, it’s quite obvious? (Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel.) What could you add to that? Well, if you’ve a little time free, you might look for shiny new kit to offer them? Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de If you find something, nice in the store, a load of it appears in shops nearby. Actually, a load of early manufactured stuff is also advertised, it gets seen by shop owners, who say, can I buy your next years product and put my brand on it and I’ll pay you a little extra. I looked for a load of Arduino kit, and it later appeared in products and was no longer available on Amazon. It’s either not sold, or it’s bought and sold by a third party. I’m sur there’s a logistics term for that? Ask a business major? (Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. See if any new products are available.) James Bond then gets a new gun, a Walther PPK, with the specs given by the Q. Did he get a manual? No. Why, well, I presume he’d read about it already? Did James sign the reading list to say he’d read the specs? That’s Moneypenny’s job. My Uncle had a little photocopied box sellotaped to his companies (purchased British Engineering) journals If you’d read the journal, you ticked the box. His secretary was a very smart little fat woman. Very nice, her partner was this huge biker. She was the one said Colman really should get a raise. Why is the “see if new products” are available last? Well, if the person sending the stuff died of unnatural causes then maybe your system needs bigger guns? Yes, some people only look after the nasty surprise. And the Defence Forces? Who bought the Steyr Aug first? Yes, the ANZACs bought them after Ireland. Oh, that was because they saw it in a movie. One of the Die Hard movies wasn’t it. Yes, their officers are so busy counting the troops. What did the movie say? It’s light enough that you can fire it with one hand. I hit a target at 600m in the dark with one in the Cadet school, with the old sight 1.5 magnification. “Who fired that shot?” “I did.” “Why” “Well, it was a Section order and I didn’t know that I was the only one with ammunition left.” They then changed the manual. “Who asked you the questions? “My class officer. He left quite soon after, I think he still works for the United Nations.” Colman Was there a small problem afterward? Well, I was on an Exercise and in an ambush position in the dark, we had just ambushed one of my cadet class instructors, he was in the enemy party, I spotted them silhouetted on the hillside and said (Ambush, there, behind the rocks.) (Hello, Sgt) my cadet and one of the soldiers gave warning of low ammunition as the enemy party were leaving. You could hear who was leaving. Yes, we ambushed them at 5 meters. (Actually, it was about 3 meters, though it was dark, so we couldn’t see the colour of their eyes, though the look of surprise did make the whites of their eyes much larger. I then told her “Don’t let them know we’re low in ammunition.” Why? “Well they could hear us and I wanted to give the impression that it was deliberate, so they might attack again. I had loads. And. And then I told a guy to go back for more ammunition and that the flank was clear and the Company attacked up our flank. Excellent learning experience.” Colman
1540pm 13 Feb 2023 Why does the American Army have a two and a half war attitude? Well, the Irish are always good for half a war. I was told a story that Rommel once said “Give me a Battalion of Irish and a Battalion of Maori and I could rule the world.” It was a silly quote from a nice officer, so I went for look. The lovely British campaign maps say a Battalion of New Zealanders attacked with the Brigade at … (have a look at the North African Campaign) What it doesn’t say is the Battalion had … casualties, their museum says how many troops were replacements. (Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. See if any new products are available.) Lost: one Major, Two Captains, four… Send more up and the next attack is day after tomorrow, why? No, actually they didn’t. They? Actually they did, it takes a lot to replace the entire battalion, so you send… And weapons? Well owning the battlefield after means you have loads of guns lying on the ground. What does Ireland do? We send the next battalion and bring them back and get the old one training the next battalion. It was called the Battalion in Lebanon. A friend told me a story, the British Army, on exercise had a bunker with a bullet proof glass window, so the trainees could see the effects of high explosive in the field in front. My friend sat at the entrance away from the window. He was asked “Why?” Well, I’ve seen them many times in Lebanon (And that fxxking window was peppered with shrapnel. Which window, well most of them in the C Company Irish Batt area in fact.) Why was he actually at the entrance? Well, if they fire off the mark, I’m at the exit. Why did the instructor ask him the question? Well, the Instructor knew that someone who’d actually seen them before would be naturally cautious of their effects.
1550pm 13 Feb 2023 Colman, you ever spent much time in a bunker? Well, officially, no. Why? Well, in Lebanon, the officer was always required to be observing. And unofficially. Well, the Bn hq in Finnish Irish Battlegroup was quite well protected and I was in the office for most of the six months. What did you do? I wrote the Operational plans. How many? About a hundred and twenty (120) in six months (180 days). Is it silly telling everyone this stuff? Yes. Is it necessary? Yes. Why? So, everyone see’s their part in the plan. And you Colman, what did you know? Well, I knew where everyone was, because I sent them there. And well, so did my boss, because he asked for the plan, told me what was to happen and the rest of our staff, because they read the plans. Why? (Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. See if any new products are available.)
1610pm 13 Feb 2023 Who do you watch Colman, well if I see a smart person, I? The dog is alive after how long? KEEP DIGGING Save One.
1620pm 13 Feb 2023 Why isn’t she a UN Ambassador? Retired young, own home. Because she’d shout and scream and … Yes, “I take a tablet every night to maintain my sanity.” Colman Sorry? You were saying?
1705pm 13 Feb 2023 The European Common Agricultural policy is it any good? Quite good. And we keep trying to improve it. Potential of Neglected and Underutilized Yams (Dioscorea spp.) for Improving Nutritional Security and Health Benefits (frontiersin.org) You just searched that now? Yes, I was looking elsewhere a few weeks ago and Google search looked for nice stuff for my benefit and when I researched it today, I got a nice article. It takes a small amount of time for the search parameters to have a look through the entire internet, however it’s quite good. And they keep improving it. (Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. See if any new products are available.) That’s not how the system works? No. they see my nice emails as well, it’s called data mining. How do you know that? Well I could say my college friends (UCC Comp Sci 3 years) work in the big IT firms, and that is true, however I just worked that out for myself. it’s what I would do see Logistics (Colman’s “what is a big word for a concise idea?”) above. (Merriam-Webster Thesaurus search, well the dictionary only gives adjectives and it would be a Noun. Idea Logistics – Colman’s Abstraction (Ab Translate from latin Google search, you tap the back forward in the middle to get Latin to English, it defaults to translating Ab to Latin. Ab means From. Why would it be an Abstraction? Because I abstracted it from my knowledge experience. You wouldn’t have known that except you did Latin in school? Correct.) Oh look, WordPress made a new page for that for me automatically? Yes, that’s how Wikipedia works and … See if someone knows anything about that? and fill the page. Logistics – Colman’s Abstraction I think that’s important enough to go top of my page? Yes, it’s up there now. It’s a long time since you started writing this post, yes, lets update the time of the post. 1704, 1705
1756pm 13 Feb 2023 Colman, you taught a course on Class taking. Yes. A weekend. Schedule, coffee, lunch, break times, Class times, Lecturers? You gave every lecture yourself. Yes. What did you teach? The Manual. How? All the heading. Repeat after me. You didn’t teach the small stuff in the paragraphs? No. They were NCOs they could read. I wanted them to know the Headings. Why? So they could look up the little stuff afterward. And. Well, my standard of class taking is reasonable and EXAMPLE is an excellent teacher. I had some excellent instructors over the years. Every student had over 55%, it took me an hour to grade the papers and I gave them the results on Sunday evening. A nice student asked how they did. An excellent NCO. Why dwere their results so good? Well, it was rote learning and the best way to teach it is by reading (Powerpoint slides) and repeating. Repeat after me. First lesson. And then I jst said. Repeat after me. Why? Well, voice is remembered quite well, some people read book as audibles. Is this taught anymore? Not normally. Why? Because it looks so silly, thirty grown adults repeating what’s on the black board. It was a computer screen. The only difference? It takes longer to put the information on a blackboard, oh, they’re green boards now, yes, they are, though it’s really bad for the colour blind people (Colourblindawareness.org) . And the Cadet school? Well, if you didn’t know the stuff you were told to draw a large poster of the stuff and you knew it after that. There seems to be an organisation for everything. (Fill in that page?) Is there a problem? There’s a lot of pages to maintain, some of the information isn’t available to everyone immediately and everyone has so much to do, maintaining their own place in the pie. (Money – none here.) And what happens? Well, the DF has a small amount of resources and we keep small stores, filled. Amazon, a pull system, has as much as the ware house can hold, it’s full the second the stuff hits the shelf and the computer says it’s available. And it’s gone, seconds later, in the case of some products. And (Money – none here.) It’s a bit of a kiddy system. Yes, the USA is increasing it’s manufacturing capacity. Why? Computer chips – none here. It’s called a Just in Time economy. And Logistics – Colman’s Abstraction Amazon added, do you really need that much stuff in the store? The warehousing costs a fortune. Why? Well, some people in the little stores, on the ground, only saw the stuff coming from on high, as they asked for it. And they thought it was a cool idea. Really? Yes, and… The price of food going up is really annoying. Keep Digging. You posted that before 1755? Well, no one’s reading this, so it doesn’t make that much of a difference. See Turkey – Press releases? Why? Because the guy/girl writing the Press release is busy and they aren’t seeing their Press release quoted on Sky News, etc. Reuters is giving them the stories. Actually, they are reading the press releases, so get the times right. Updated 1804 I’m not adding what I changed anymore, it’s too time consuming.
1805pm 13 Feb 2023 Turkey earthquake: BBC – Young girl rescued after 178 hours under rubble – KEEP DIGGING “What have the Roman’s ever done for us.” It’s a Life of Brian (1979) iMDb quote. Yes, the British public was the instigator of the start of the end of slavery. A young woman, who was not impressed started a small pamphlet campaign, See Greta Thurnberg. That was before they started asking for their own votes.
1815pm 13 Feb 2023 SPANISH POLICE LAUNCH INVESTIGATION AFTER DEATH OF IRISH SOLDIER IN PARACHUTE ACCIDENT (Waterford News and Star) Why? Because we save one at a time. I walked to the shop and something similar was on a newspaper headline. KEEP DIGGING
1840pm 13 Feb 2023 Everyone looks at their local newspaper, some Irish people look at the world news, The Irish Times etc. Someone looks at the world news, The Irish Times (What’s on Reuters and the BBC) and, well, I’m retired. I’m just having a look because there’s a crisis – KEEP DIGGING – the rest of the Defence Forces is busy trying to save you. It’s a big world. Yes, the Irish Diplomats are quite busy. Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, their website looks nice? Yes, someone said the cookies thing is annoying, can you fix that? “United Nations – Membership of the United Nations has been central to Ireland’s foreign policy since we became a member in 1955. The principles and values enshrined in the UN Charter are those we have always sought to promote and protect, including during our term as a member of the UN Security Council for 2021-2022.” Security Council again, yes, quite busy. Dept of Foreign Affairs? Minister Coveney, from Cork? Yes, he just moved offices. Watch the arses getting kicked there? Just out of where? Oh, Foreign Affairs, where the smart civil servants are sent. Pity about the boonies. Yes, they can’t seem to keep good staff. (No you can’t bring your staff with you. USA WW2 The General brought their staff with him. They were called their headquarters. Who would you like as your Aide? The General has an Aide, a secretary, if you’d like to call them that.) Well, actually the arse kicking has started already, I met a friend over lunch recently and he said his department is getting a little shake up. What lunch, oh, a friends birthday lunch, we’re all Star Trek fans.
1855pm 13 Feb 2023 Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation Used Hardcover from £2.64 I recommend it. I rate it as up there with Ender’s Game (audible) First book free? Well, there are many, many more in the series, I have about fifteen of them, though the first is best for Leadership lessons, it’s recommended reading for US Marine Corp officers. How do you know that? Well, it said it in the foreword or on the back of my copy of the book (Ender’s Game), it’s been a while since I read it?
1910hrs 13 Feb 2023 Euronews – Tens of thousands still missing after Monday’s earthquake in Syria and Turkey by Anelise Borges • Updated: 13/02/2023 – 07:45 What time zone do they use? Could you ask please? If she wrote it, it might be local time, she’s actually there. “This Sunday the official death tally stands at 33,000, a figure that is sure to rise with so many homes in both countries reduced to rubble.” by Anelise Borges Oh, she’s getting two mentions. Mentioned in dispatches (wiki) Yes, in India, Mr Churchill was a correspondent for, why? Well, it was dangerous, they looked for a suitable person from the army, no one else was mad enough to go. Afterwards some other people thought this was a good idea. It’s called the United Nations Military Observers by some people. https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/past-peacekeeping-operations Some light reading, perhaps? MONUC When I was there it was 500 military observers and 500 troops approximately. DRC is four times the size of France. In European terms, the port is at Galway, the capital is at Dublin, my Irish army buddy was in Oslo and I was somewhere around Prague in Czech Republic. How do you know this? Because I went on the internet and superimosed the Map on the Europe map so I could accurately describe the situation to those who looked at European maps. Turkey earthquake similar to San Francisco (wiki) earthquake in terms of deaths and damage. The USA formed the USGS after that. Yes, they did. Why was FEMA set up? National Geographic. Weapons that won WW2 (we are the mighty.com) Now, these people read the stuff that I read and they put a bulldozer one top too (.army.mil). Why? Because the bulldozer cleared the land for the airfields in the Pacific.
2000pm 13 Feb 2023 Anyone got a Field Hospital available? Commonwealth War Graves Commission 17 JANUARY 2023 THE BATTLE OF TRIPOLI: HOW MONTGOMERY & 8TH ARMY PUSHED THE AFRIKA CORPS OUT OF LIBYA “After the city’s capture, Tripoli became an important port for the remainder of the North African campaign. It also became a central hospital hub where wounded from battlefields in Libya and neighbouring Tunisia were cared for.” You didn’t think of this before. Well, normally people use Tactical Aide Memoires, I used this type of book for mine, though I filled mine with a few little extras of my own. Why did you buy them from the nice officer? Because he was smart and he had loads of good stuff, suitable for us and he’d done the research. For a few pence more, it was worth seeing what else he sold. I also bought the big books for my staff course. I didn’t particularly need them at the time, however I thought they might be handy later, so I filled those before I went on the course. (Well, actually his was issued, the nice officer found it and thought it was marvellous and the Defence Forces adopted it. Though he did buy the other books. Yes, I did, it’s called exaggeration for effect. Colman) Now, there’s a small problem, in trying to replace the incorrect spelling with the correct one, I accidentally hit the add to my dictionary button, and now that is a word in my dictionary which won’t have a little squiggly line under it in future if I misspell it. Can you redownload your dictionary to remove your spelling mistakes? There are a few now, English – USA, English – GBR etc. It’s rather annoying for searching through old books. Yes, it is. The Chicago press bought Encyclopaedia Britannica, so they could put the words in English – USA. Colman you’re presuming again. Yes. I am.
2020pm 13 Feb 2023 2003 Natural Disasters by Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado and Max Roser Reuse our work freelyCite this research When was USGS set up? And their research? Pity the download button doesn’t work. Listen, make sure the chart is so big, they can’t screenshot it either? Yes, when you when you narrow the screen the chart gets bigger – I like that. OXFORD MARTIN SCHOOL – UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Well, no one read it and no one asked them to fix it? Actually? It was so popular that … They put a pull notification to see if there were any updates and the University thought it was a computer hack, some people send a request every second, others every minute, other every day and, if you put the time incorrectly, you send a request every 0.05 seconds and the server crashes. Cyber Security anyone?
2030pm 13 Feb 2023 Why was Reuters established? Well, a long time ago, when the telephone was invented there was only one telephone in the town and the local reporter got questions from every newspaper in the world about a big disaster which happened in his town. In order to allow them time to actually be at the disaster looking at the event, a central news agency was established and the reports were paid for by the central news desk, who then sent messages to the rest of the world saying that there was a report that might interest them. (Did you read that somewhere? No. You go look it up.) Why were they paid centrally? Well, IMRO in Ireland charges the purveyors of music broadcasts on radio and television in commercial premises, so that the performers get a few pence, whenever the song is played on the radio. Who did they copy? Your news circulation is how many people? And we’ll charge you how much for the news report? Small world. Yes, of course, we read the news. And Copyright Colman? Well, theoretically, I don’t have advertisements, so I’m not a commercial entity and if I was really smart, I’d call myself and educational establishment and this is teaching material, and if I was a country I’d call myself the Department of Foreign Affairs and I’d send out little messages saying KEEP DIGGING. RTE NEWS – Quake rescue phase ‘coming to a close’, says UN aid chief – Kick that fxxkers hole for them. KEEP DIGGING
2045pm 13 Feb 2023 Turkey Hurriet Daily News click the right hand button to accept cookies, they send them to count their readership. 48 arrested for looting, defrauding quake victims – Hatay Airport reopened as runway repaired BULLDOZERS. First Plane Landed at Hatay Airport, which was badly damaged in the earthquake RaillyNews.com Yes, there advertisement on the top righthand corner is a free advertisement and no, this is not a commercial enterprise. (Well, if you asked me what my considered opinion is, that’s a different matter. Considered – paid for. Yes I read my own news and yes, I am an expert in the subject, and no, actually I’m not actually qualified, I just read a lot. Oh, the person in Rally news is qualified, Colman isn’t.)
2100pm 13 Feb 2023 Hurriyet Daily News – Seismic isolation devices prevent damage in four hospitals Who’d have thought of that? “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?” “Wasn’t me.” signed Colman
2120pm 13 Feb 2023 You might ask where this advert is coming from? I’m seeing it in Hurriyet Daily News? Do you click those? No. There are quite a lot of scams around.
2120pm 13 Feb 2023 New Zealand – National State of Emergency – Cyclone Gabrielle Tuesday 14 Feb – last updated 9:13 am Oh, there it is? Google search New Zealand Time Zone (UTC+13)
2125pm 13 Feb 2023 Radio New Zealand National News Paraphrasing: This only the third time in history we’ve kacked ourselves publicly. Support that? Cyclone Gabrielle: Flooding and land slips isolate some Auckland regions The kayaking picture is excellent.
2135pm 13 Feb 2023 Radio New Zealand News – Turkey earthquake rescues continue almost 150 hours on: ‘You are a miracle’ KEEP DIGGING “… tens of thousands of rescuers continued their search overnight across affected areas in Turkey and Syria.” You left out the “But”. Yes, the But, was “The Syrian Civil Defence Force, or White Helmets, which operates in in rebel-held areas of the country, has told the BBC that the group’s search efforts were winding down.” Kick their holes for them. KEEP DIGGING. Colman
2140pm 13 Feb 2023 Bulldozers for sale Machine Location – Cookstown, Co Tyrone, United Kingdom BT800JF Just in case? Absolutely. Boat? It’s a long train ride in a 40ft container. You know there’s a new tunnel and it goes quite close? And a little ferry from Istanbul to the bay? Maritime-Executive.com Turkey’s Vessel Operators Join Earthquake Relief PUBLISHED FEB 12, 2023 9:30 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE
“Karadeniz, the shipowner known best for its Karpowership floating power stations, is deploying two accommodations vessels to southern Turkey to assist residents displaced by the massive earthquake that struck the region last Monday.” 870 Views 2 Shares WHAT? Who would be looking at that? Well, the Google search parameters change depending on WHO was looking at it rather than how many.
2200pm 13 Feb 2023 UNHCR – Ireland briefings – Pakistan earthquake: Turkish government and NATO generous with relief supply help (2005) “We are being joined in this massive logistical effort today by the government of Turkey and NATO, who are working with us to ship hundreds of tons of supplies from Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey.”
2205pm 13 Feb 2023 Google search Pakistan News NDTV.com Shehbaz Sharif said an anonymous national from his country walked into the Turkish embassy in the United States and donated the aid. KEEP DIGGING
2210pm 13 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery’s server is rather busy so lets look at European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) M5.0 and greater current Romania M 5.0 Yes, a few people are getting concerned now. M 5.0 – ROMANIA – 2023-02-13 14:58:07 UTC, do I have to put that in quotes? They’re called “quotation marks”.
More information at:  National Institute for Earth Physics Bucharest, Romania |
They’re quite precise. Yes, Skopja (Skopja earthquake 1963 wiki), nearby had an earthquake a few years ago. The large mosque there is quite nice, the building survived the earthquake(s), it’s very old, as it had chains embedded in the walls, it’s one of the earliest large examples of reinforced steel construction. Google Search skopje earthquake first photo plane My mother had a book on the earthquake, I can’t seem to find the first photo, it was taken from a tourist plane flying over the city, close to when it occurred. My dad was working there with OSCE. Australian Earthquake Engineering Society article 50 years on (pdf)
2240 13 Feb 2023 -European GeoSciences Union Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 10 Feb 2023 – Characteristics and causes of natural and human-induced landslides in a tropical mountainous region: the rift flank west of Lake Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Jean-Claude Maki Mateso, Charles L. Bielders, Elise Monsieurs, Arthur Depicker, Benoît Smets, Théophile Tambala, Luc Bagalwa Mateso, and Olivier Dewitte Thank you. Colman “Are you ready for your close up yet?” It’s a film term to as if the actor was ready for a camera with a narrow field of view. “Tog off, you’re on.” It’s what was said to the substitute at my dad’s rugby matches. Colman
2300pm 13 Feb 2023 BBC Panorama is on live at the moment. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001jm53/panorama-aftershock-the-turkeysyria-earthquake Aftershock – The Turkey-Syria Earthquake
2340pm 13 Feb 2023 – Amputations – BBC Panorama – Why? Crush injuries, where limbs are trapped under rubble are very dangerous. Release of the pressure on the limb causes the blood in the limb to be allowed back into the body. Where the limb has been trapped for a long time, the fluids, Lymphatic (my.ClevelandClinc.org) or blood might contain toxins or dead cells. It’s why the muslims were shouting God’s name, they expect the rescued, dying, quite soon after. Wait for a doctor to see the victim, before removing them from the scene, where this is not possible because of danger, a tourniquet, (belt or rope, tied further up the limb) might be used to keep the victim alive until medical help is found? Frozen limbs in cold climates, a similar technique is used.
0135am 14 Feb 2023 Happy Valentine’s day. See “If you’re not confused, you really don’t know what’s going on?” By Martyn Turner●Tue Feb 14 2023 – 00:25
0140am 14 Feb 2023 Earthquakes Turkey 2023.02.14 01:32:53 (M=1.4) HISARCIK-DARENDE (MALATYA), might have the soil people look at this? Landslide? Previous activity in the area? Why? Because there wasn’t recent earthquake (very) close by and moisture is condensed after night falls (it’s called a dew) and the soil gets heavier and if it’s on a slope like this, where the earth had already been banked, the stuff runs off like gravy? It’s why alpine slopes have trees to stop the snow drifts falling into the towns. There wasn’t any snow on the slopes when we crossed from Zurmatt to Chamonix, no, however you could see the new trees planted in really silly rows. Interpretation of the mechanical behavior of embankments having various compaction properties based on the soil skeleton structure (Thank you – Science Direct.com) They spelt behaviour in English – US. You didn’t say anything about this at the time? No. Can I help with the German language, I did a module at college. I did a German degree. Yes. There was an engineer on the expedition. Yes. Wasn’t me though. Colman Were there any problem? Well, a few, though I’m only going to mention the crampons, which when we all shed the gear, which we had brought expecting artic conditions, there was a recommended equipment list, and the nice couple at the top of the first hill were wearing t-shirts and shorts and carrying one little back pack (for the pair of them) and water, I kept my crampons in my bag, as there were some glaciers on the route. I didn’t cross any. Though a few people were surprised when I produced them from my bag a small time later. I read the map. Oh, not that map. The one I bought in the souvenir shop in Zurmatt. The zoom function on this map is quite good, shall I count the trees lost? It’s easy plant in rows, you just stagger them, 1,3,5 Next row 2,4,6. Google search pictures. Thank you, Toppr.com, If you have Close-packing in 2-D figure (b), you have a hexagonal structure, which is much more stable than the box or chessboard configuration. Think graphite, one of the strongest substances in tension, they make kevlar with it, it’s called carbon fibre.
0220am 14 Feb 2023 Honeycomb structure (wiki) History[edit]
“The hexagonal comb of the honey bee has been admired and wondered about from ancient times. The first man-made honeycomb, according to Greek mythology, is said to have been manufactured by Daedalus from gold by lost wax casting more than 3000 years ago.[2] Marcus Varro reports that the Greek geometers Euclid and Zenodorus found that the hexagon shape makes most efficient use of space and building materials. The interior ribbing and hidden chambers in the dome of the Pantheon in Rome is an early example of a honeycomb structure.[3][full citation needed]” Yes, the roof is quite beautiful, I went upstairs for a look, oh, no not there, to the top of the roof in St. Peter’s Basilica. Yes, the stairs are quite narrow, though if you lean down a little bit, where there’s a little gap, you can see the architectural features on the inside of the roof. The view from the roof is quite good too, the large satellite receiver antenna structure, is quite cool.
0240am 14 Feb 2023 Leonard Da Vinci, hexagons (nature.com) I have a copy of Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Works Hardcover – 28 April 2006 by Leonardo da Vinci (Author), though, mine, might not be this edition, it’s quite cool book, I got one, because my mother also had a copy. Vibes and Scribes Non-Fiction Yes, hexagons. They now make aircraft skeletons from it in aluminium to stop the wing from deforming. Oh, they have. For a number of years.
0245am 14 Feb 2023 United Nations Peacekeeping medals “The Diagne Medal, established in 2014 “to recognize uniformed and civilian (UN?) personnel who demonstrate exceptional courage”, is named for the late Captain Diagne who saved hundreds of lives in 1994, before he was killed while serving as a UN peacekeeper in Rwanda.” The Guardian.com Five rescuers killed after Super Typhoon Noru hits the Philippines – Tomorrow? New Zealand Herald – Current Information Hurricane (Post Tropical Cyclone) Gabriella Flooding in Whitianga – This video has some disturbing images of the coastal erosion. You see, some people when they see that, go: “disturbing images”, I’m not watching that. It’s the coast washing away. Get used to seeing that for the next fifty years.
0300am 14 Feb 2023 – Homeless shelters Waikiki (.gov) – You see, some times, I just kick the rocks and people go and look to see what he was kicking the rocks for. You’re joking? Am I?
0310am 14 Feb 2023 https://reliefweb.int/country/irl You might update this? https://reliefweb.int/country/tur PRESS BULLETIN 13.02.2023 About the Earthquake in Kahramanmaraş – 29 (As of 10.55) – Thank you Vietnam. Thank you Nepal. KEEP DIGGING
0335am 14 Feb 2023 Emergency Response Co-ordination Centre Map – “There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Radio series, tv-series, book, movie. “Evening miss. I’ve got you.” Superman – “You’ve got me. Who’s got you?” Lois Lane – Superman (1978) Screenplay by Mario Puzo, yes, he did also write the Godfather books. The first four pages of The Godfather, scared me away from it at fourteen. (Some people didn’t see that movie. I did.) The Godfather (1972) – Luca Brasi ‘s Death Youtube – Turkey 29,605 + Syria 5,714 fatalities. Where do they get those numbers? Well, when I was looking at another matter, I noticed a strong correlation with John’s Hopkins, because they get their figures from the hospital mortuaries and the hospital admissions. It’s a voluntary system. See number of injured. Where? Emergency Response Co-ordination Centre Map
0350am 14 Feb 2023 https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/operational-support United Nations Peacekeeping – WEBSITEMAP “There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” Now, theoretically I’m supposed to have a little [25] and I could do that by making a little webpage to the link in a new web page, though this is rather a long way of doing it. On a document like Open Office or Word, you can build these automatically and your chapters are generated as a Table of Contents directly from your Headings. The pages can then have your references on the bottom of the A4 page. (Because a nice British man in CERN invented the world wide web, with nice Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 It does help if you know what you’re looking for.) How did you know that was a landslide from the map? “Well, it was on the side of a valley in the middle of nowhere, I just zoomed in.” Colman What do you mean by the middle of nowhere? “There were no other earthquakes visible nearby. The rest of the area was clear, empty of visible incidents.” Colman
0400am 14 Feb 2023 Türkiye, Syria | Seismic activity – EU Response – DG ECHO Daily Map | 13/02/2023 Format Map Source ECHO ECHO – Homepage Oh, look they even have it in Irish. European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Ongoing Emergencies Turkey News Section You might check with Romania again? DFA.ie Peacekeeping DFAT Peacekeeping Cookies again? “Are you interested in applying for a seconded position as a civilian expert with the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy missions? Positions are advertised as they arise on www.publicjobs.ie. Alternatively, you can be placed on our mailing list for new positions by contacting us.” Really? Oh, it is on our website. Yes, you have to click on the symbol of the Harp. Colman Create QR Code for this link: No, I’m not joking.
0420am 14 Feb 2023 You see there’s a small problem in IT, I saw it first in UL. The smart person who saw an opening, wrote some excellent software for the college. So good that they kept them for a Masters afterward. Why? Because no one else knew how it worked.
0435am 14 Feb 2023 https://metar-taf.com/NZAA Yes, it is a little windy. AC-U-KWIK Airport info Auckland – Flight Radar24.com Live view, New Zealand The map is fixed by the search parameters when you move the screen to the required location. Yea, I wouldn’t land there for a while yet. https://www.flightradar24.com/UAL830/2f30ac41 No, that’s not the name of the pilot, that’s the guy who took the photo of the Airline plane. It helps if you know what you’re looking for. Surfing Vanuatu?
0450am 14 Feb 2023 How did you know the Flight radar was there? Well, I saw the planes passing over my house and had a little look for an app. MRCC – It’s still the Canada SAR Number list? https://sarcontacts.info/countries/ireland/ Yes it is, however the directory is now international. Thank you Canada. CitizensInformation.ie The Irish Coast guard Did you know there is a person you can all about anything? They just look it up. I called them to ask about stuff. Because for somethings, the little old lady or the old gentleman and I’m being figurative here, they’ve seen the problem already. Oh, and they do night classes, what fun.
0500am 14 Feb 2023 https://www.donegalweatherchannel.ie/storm-center Yes, it’s a little county in Ireland. It’s the longest county. Yes. It is. Learning Zone, it defaults to Thunderstorms. Why? It’s at the top of their heading list for the page. Personally, I would have it default to what was in the forecast? https://www.met.ie/warnings/today Marine warnings? https://www.donegalweatherchannel.ie/weather-warnings It’s designed for the phone, it’s not perfect on the computer, however it’s quite adequate. Adequate (Cambridge Dictionary) Oh, look, there’s a Cambridge Dictionary. Why? Because I used the words adjective and noun earlier this morning.
0525am 14 Feb 2023 https://www.aviationweather.gov/ Aviation Weather Center “Mission Statement: The Aviation Weather Center delivers consistent, timely and accurate weather information for the world airspace system. We are a team of highly skilled people dedicated to working with customers and partners to enhance safe and efficient flight.” You might have someone look at that? Why? Because I looked at the Turkey section of the map and it’s quite bare? https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar Now, the NOAA section of the map “is” a little different.
0535am 14 Feb 2023 Just looking at the weather dear. Irish Aviation Authority Flight Planning Weather
0540am 14 Feb 2023 This is an Irish NOTAM – https://www.iaa.ie/air-traffic-management/notam/docs/default-source/publications/pib-valid
0550am 14 Feb 2023 Aircraft weather reports AWC – Aircraft reports Yes, it is supposed to look that crowded, the system is checking they’re all still in the air. Zoom to the area and it has two reports for each plane.
0900am 14 Feb 2023 Cork-born woman chosen for world’s first civilian trip to the moon(Silicon Republic.com) by Leigh Mc Gowran – Silicon Republic.com – about – Why her? Well, S R .com had a hyperlink to the advertisement in an earlier article and she was mad enough to apply. Can you imagine what she might bring round the moon? (More fuel? More fuel? Ah no, more fuel? More fuel, how cool, too cool, for school. Colman)
1020am 14 Feb 2023 MetService.com Kaikoura 7.8mm in one hour four hours ago. That’s three inches. 23.8mm in four hours. divide by 2.5 almost ten (10) inches of rain in four hours. It’s a bit more than a fxxking drizzle, mate. Oh, look, three layers and a windproof coat? Bit silly that? Why? Well it’s gusting 52 km per hour. You been out in one of those? No. The wind chill factor is … Wind Chill Calculator Thank you NOAA, a drop of Fifteen (15) degrees Centigrade in the gusts. Feels like 14 degrees? Really? Hypothermia from a 3 degree temperature ambient with Ten inches of rainfall? Yes, three layers and a windproof coat and a nice warm car, thank you very much. Check your casualty’s body temperature first? Why? Because they’re not dead until they’re warm and dead. Colman view-source:https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/dewrhbody_txt.html Why does the text jump down? hello – aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
| <! Page created by Kevin Sharp > Thank you Kevin, I wouldn’t have used those descriptors (names for variables) myself, however your boss probably gave them to you, so they didn’t upset the other code it might be used in. I just copied the Page created by name, this box came with it. Why? Well, Word press uses the < and > a lot too and it tries to protect itself from inadvertent use of them, where they shouldn’t be. By the way, it takes time to read good code, reading it took almost 50 minutes. Why? Because I had to understand all of it. It’s Javascript. Very nice Javascript, follows almost all the rules. https://www.w3.org/wiki/JavaScript_best_practices See line 2 – Use the correct name for your variable? In the temperature calculator it should have said Celsius? it says Cexpr – It’s going into something which multiplies it by it’s self (exponent), real value. Why would you want the square of a temperature? or a root of a temperature? Temperature-Squared Term in the Heat Capacity of a Two-Dimensional Fermi Liquid Thank you Japan. Colman |
1040am 14 Feb 2023 What’s the difference between web computing and cloud computing? Well, long time ago, the computer was busy sending out webpages, from a server, which only sent webpages, these were then read by your computer and the calculations were then done on your computer. Every time you changed the variable and pressed “Calculate” or another similar button. Then, some people said: You know if they bought computer time from us, it’d make a load of money, so now when you press calculate, it goes up to their webserver and is calculated and then it comes down as a result. Pushed to your computer. Is there a problem with this? Well, it depends on how its calculated? How it’s costed? How much bandwidth the messages actually take up? And your computer, it doesn’t really need to be that fast, because it’s the thing just sending the messages up to the server. It’s like making a VAX, it was an old computer, loads of terminals which only sent messages to the main computer, just keyboards, really. And… Well, they replaced the VAX, because… If it went down the entire system was down. And… might have a think about that one?
1045am 14 Feb 2023 https://www.metservice.com/warnings/home Strong Wind Warning – Red Period: 4hrs from 8pm Tue, 14 Feb – midnight Tue, 14 Feb Area: Auckland, including Great Barrier Island and other islands in the Hauraki Gulf Forecast: Severe southwest gales gusting 120 km/h in exposed places.
1055am 14 Feb 2023 These look the same? Some really unusual advertisements for Irish viewers? https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/what-winds-at-120-km-per-hour-can-destroy-204917 https://www.joe.ie/uncategorized/batten-down-the-hatches-lads-120kph-winds-are-on-the-way-44353 I looked up 120kmph winds
1850pm 14 Feb 2023 UNICEF – Save the Children – Oh, it’s now For Every Child
1900pm 14 Feb 2023 The Guardian – Seven more people rescued in Turkey eight days after earthquake KEEP DIGGING – Patton (1970) movie based on the book by General Omar N. Bradley (History.com) “After the war ended, Bradley spent four years teaching math at West Point. Elevated to the rank of major, he was sent for advanced training at the Army’s Infantry School at Fort Benning, ” (Yes. Calculus is used quite extensively in Logistics.) – “George. Give him a Banner Headline and he’s good for another 50 miles.” The book is excellent. Your comment on events? Well, Gen Bradbury was Patton’s 2i/c and then Patton’s boss, why? Listen find out what that guy needs to keep going, oh, he needs a boss who’ll push stuff to him fast enough to keep him moving, that’s a bit of a criticism of me? Yes. You, you know what he needs, you’re his boss, keep him going. “Send George that headline, he’ll get a kick out of it.”
1915pm 14 Feb 2023 The Guardian Cyclone Gabrielle worst storm to hit New Zealand this century, says PM Why two Guardian stories? Well, it’s a time of crisis for Turkey and New Zealand, they specialise in this readership, so they paid for their adverts on Google to get top billing. It increases their readership, and pays for the reporting. Calculus. Logistics – Colman’s Abstraction Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. See if any new products are available. You keep repeating that? Have you learned it yet?
1920pm 14 Feb 2023 CNN New Zealand declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle pounds North Island (Yes, this event is going to cost the insurers a pretty penny.) “The Waiohiki bridge on the Tutaekuri River is washed away and houses flooded on February 14, 2023 in Napier, New Zealand.” Excellent photo. Story by Hilary Whiteman and Taylor Ward, CNN Updated 5:43 AM EST (UTC-5) , Tue February 14, 2023 It is now 1920pm – 5 hours = 1420pm EST. Updated about eight (8) hours ago. Anyone got a bridge handy? “Well, listen Crapgame, sixty feet of bridge I can get almost anywhere.” Oddball, Kelly’s Heroes (1970) movie. “They’ve even got the gravediggers in on the act.” CNN “New Zealand declared a National State of Emergency on Tuesday for the third time in its history… ” Yes, they thought that bit was important too.
1930pm 14 Feb 2023 https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ “If you come in contact with floodwater, thoroughly clean hands, clothes and any property touched.” Why? Because the dunnies overflow and the kack gets washed down stream.
1930pm 14 Feb 2023 https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/find-your-civil-defence-group/ 1News.com Drone footage shows huge extent of Hawke’s Bay flooding Well, yea, the local guy said he’d buy me a pint afterwards.
- Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management Group – The Hawke’s Bay Region Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group (Hawke’s Bay Region CDEM Group) is a partnership between all local authorities in Hawke’s Bay (being Central Hawke’s Bay, Hastings, and Wairoa District Councils, Napier City Council, and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council). The Hawke’s Bay CDEM Group boundary is based largely on the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s boundary, excluding the western portions of the Taupo and Rangitikei Districts that are within the Waikato and Manawatu/Wanganui regions respectively.
Go to the group website “Been there, bought a t-shirt. Have a wee look at Rotorua?” Colman – Now in the website, from the Hawkes Bay zooming out, you can’t get to the next area, this in a mop where I would consider having the entire map colour colded for districts? A circle around the Civil Defence logo with the local councils football team colours? It’s why Ireland has 36 pairs of colours for counties? Took me five minutes to get here http://www.rdc.govt.nz/ Site cannot be reached. Yes, we’re a little busy right now, so we’d appreciate not having a site attack, so only our little people can see the site. EXCELLENT – That Major gets a beer in the Mess.
2000pm 1445pm How do you do that? Well, if you have an app, or a nice cookie in your website in your phone or computer (before the event) and it’s attached to the message to the server, then, the site recognises you and let’s you have the requested information. It’s also possible to use IP addresses from trusted outsiders. Why? Logistics – Keep pushing the stuff into the lower stores until full. Then fill your own stores. Check daily that the person who is supposed to send the requests is alive, if they are not, send a replacement and request a new soldier from personnel. See if any new products are available. Anyone got a few bridges and a C130 handy? Well, there’s one in stores in the boonies in Cairns? Where do you want the bridge? Lads, anyone want a week in NZ, drinking in Hawkes bay? (That’s logistics, volunteers work best, local water might be contaminated, bottles of beer are good for morale, oh, and the water is boiled first?) Yea, and you might check the local wells too, anyone got a CBRN SHIT lazing around? “Are you OK? Who saved you?” “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?” Eh, that might make landfall here? Might? I’d say it was bloody certain, get one over from Perth to replace him for day after tomorrow. Oh, and that bridge they’re so fond of too. Logistics – Colman’s Abstraction You singing that yet? Colman
2005pm 14 Feb 2023 Reuters – Australia’s Norfolk Island braces for Cyclone Gabrielle impact 3 minute read February 11, 20234:35 AM GMT Last Updated 4 days ago
2005pm 14 Feb 2023 2 minute read February 14, 20234:18 PM GMT Last Updated 4 hours ago Rescuers pull seven survivors from ruins eight days after Turkey quake Reuters See above – 1900pm 14 Feb 2023 The Guardian.
2010pm 14 Feb 2023 Reuters Business section Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market professionals 3 minute read February 14, 20234:24 PM GMT Last Updated 4 hours ago New Zealand declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle wreaks havoc By Lucy Craymer and Lincoln Feast “NZ – Firefighter missing. 13 Feb 2023” It’s in the html script: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cyclone-gabrielle-causes-havoc-new-zealand-firefighter-missing-2023-02-13/
2015pm 14 Feb 2023 https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/cdem-sector/new-zealand-emergency-management-assistance-team/ Might rethink the wording on that one? “About NZ EMAT: The New Zealand Emergency Management Assistance Team is a deployable capability within the emergency management system. EMAT was established in reponse to recommendations to create a ‘fly-in team’ to enhance reponses to natural distasters and other emergencies. EMAT’s purpose is to provide specialist capability enhancement to assist and support affected regions and their Incident Management Teams to manage an emergency. EMAT helps ensure that New Zealanders receive a consistent level of support in any emergency, wherever and whenever it happens. EMAT consists of 46 specialist Emergency Managers with a mix of attributes, skills and experience to go wherever required, without delay, to work with and support local, regional or national teams as they manage emergencies. EMAT members are able to operate fully self-sufficiently for the duration of their deployment.” Oh, and the spelling mistakes too?
2025pm 14 Feb 2023 Where are they going to sleep? Well, Tongariro is a marvellous mountain, it has some beautifully constructed dunnies on the way up the mountain, so the tourists from the beautifully constructed bus routes around the mountain can spend a penny and the trails are safe from biological contamination. And. Most tourists are local and they drive and the massive town of prefabs are on high ground, excellently provided with safe drinking water and the volcano is dormant and very old. (There’s no bloody pub. Yea, anyone want to go home yet?)
2035pm 14 Feb 2023 – Soil moisture – Current (well, there’s a 120 hr forecast in there too) https://www.ecmwf.int/ What does that mean? ECMWF? Not particularly relevant. The blue bits, if you have a week gander, say Soil Moisture Excess, this means the soil is completely waterlogged and all the extra rainfall runs off the fields into the roads and streams. Anyone in Australia want a picture? Copernicus?
2055pm 14 Feb 2023 If there’s so much bloody water there, why did they have a drought last summer? Well, not so long ago, someone thought it would be an excellent idea if drainage schemes were paid for and the fields would be drier earlier and better crops might be sown, earlier, as the fields would be suitable for ploughing by heavy machinery. This drainage, now allows the water excess to leave the fields rather a little more rapidly than was expected. (Listen boyo, if you drain that fxxking field, I’ll have your life. The water from that boggy field, drains down the hill to my potatoes. No. He didn’t spend the drainage money on drains, he bought a nice shed instead. Woops. Well, actually, we’d like to renew the bogs and promote biodiversity. Is that what it’s called. Really? Yes, they’re called economists. Nice, can you line them in one row please? Why? Well, it’s easier hand them their notice one at a time, I don’t have long enough to wait for them to all walk through my office. I’ve a little work to do fixing their fxxking problem.)
2115pm 14 Feb 2023 Donegal Daily News – HOMEOWNERS AND BUSINESSES LIVE IN FEAR OF MORE FLOODING IN DONEGAL TOWN written by Rachel McLaughlin January 30, 2023 Thank you Rachel. Signed Colman “He cited a CFRAM report that identified Donegal Town as a unique area which is susceptible to flooding of all types, and that ‘the worst is yet to come’ for the town, where 75 properties are at flood risk.” Who are CFRAM? CFRAM Programme From Office of Public Works Published on 6 October 2021 Last updated on 6 October 2021 www.floodinfo.ie https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=848f83c85799436b808652f9c735b1cc Geological Flooding Data Viewer You might have a look at this entertaining piece of rubbish? Why? well, it was so frighteningly bad… Ireland – Shannon River Floods After Wet February (floodlist.com) Press Oceania – you get floodlist.com Australia Australia – Floods in Sydney and NSW After 96mm of Rain in 1 Hour 9 FEBRUARY, 2023 BY RICHARD DAVIES IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND OCEANIA, NEWS “Over 20 people had to be rescued.” Why so bad there? Well, a meteorologist would say: The local incline of the hill features causes the moisture in the atmosphere to condense rapidly due to adiabatic cooling. The cloud goes up over the hill and all the rain falls out. In Ireland, it’s called County Kerry. What happens when it doesn’t hit County Kerry? Well, the Shannon floods.
2120pm 14 Feb 2023 – Support that statement please from your extensive knowledge of local geography in Australia? Australia Map – Sydney – TopographicMap.com Aren’t the hills pretty dear, though you can only see them from the tall buildings. Homepage, you delete the extra information after the .com and https://en-au.topographic-map.com/ Donegal Town. Why is everything below 11 meters in blue? Well, it’s 6 meters of sea level height and 5 meters of wave height. Or is it the other way around, it depends on how far you are from the equator, some of the extra water will naturally bulge at the equator due to the centrifugal effect of the Earths rotation. Ireland, yes, probably 5 meters sea level and 6 meters wave height. Yes, I think that’s correct. FOR YOUR INFORMATION ? Information? Well, I only work here, the boss, they’re the one who can say FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION.
2130pm 14 Feb 2023 Colman, why are you only saying this now? Well, remember that bit up there that says The President of Ireland declares a Climate Emergency (2019), yes, well, there’s a few people in DFHQ who said, Mr President, Sir, you might want to look at this. No, it wasn’t me. You sure? Not completely. Not completely, sure it wasn’t me. Oh, the sea level rise, I’m quite sure of that. Colman
2140pm 14 Feb 2023 Jan 12, 2023 NSIDC: Extensive melting in West Antarctica and the Peninsula Someone nice is in this office. Why? Well, the story title has the url hyperlink to the page built into the Report Heading. Suggestion: Add the office title in front of the story as per above and the date of the report after? Why? So that someone with a large reading list of reports in an A4 one page document can see the stuff in one big list and select which little gems to have a look at first? Oh, look the report fits nicely-Jan 12, 2023 – NSIDC: Extensive melting in West Antarctica and the Peninsula
2150pm 14 Feb 2023 What would you have, Colman? Oh, something like: https://www.huntoffice.ie/samsung-f24t450fqr-t45f-series-led-monitor-24-1920-x-1080-full-hd-1080p-75-hz-ips-250-cd-m-1000-1-5-ms-2xhdmi-displayport-black-lf24t450fqrxxu-6300212.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1tqvj_6V_QIVVuDtCh3CPQXCEAQYBCABEgIc8vD_BwE You don’t? No, different make and model. Though you get the idea.
2210pm 14 Feb 2023 Why higher wave heights at higher latitudes? Well, it’s normally a little fxxking windier up here? Arctic Ambience – Snowstorm, Blizzard Storm & Howling Arctic Winds | Sounds to Relax & Sleep 4K (YouTube) –https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/research/research-topics-list/earth-sciences/sea-level-ice To quote Ferris Beuller: FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF | “Ferrari” Clip | Paramount Movies (YouTube) – “If You Have The Means…” Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (YouTube) Feb 08, 2023 Janes.com Contracts awarded for UK ground mission control system by Olivia Savage Thank you Olivia. And in Breaking News? Over to you: Colman
2220pm 14 Feb 2023 CNN Never to be repeated Vermeer exhibition stuns with scientific revelations Excellent video, 30 second ad, Girl with a pearl earring, is my favourite. “Died penniless at 43.” Vermeer (wiki) “Vermeer had been a respected artist in Delft, but he was almost unknown outside his hometown. A local patron named Pieter van Ruijven had purchased much of his output, which reduced the possibility of his fame spreading.[n] “
2225pm 14 Feb 2023 Quick question: How effective was the New Zealand – Alert system and did you benefit from the test back in 22 May 2022? We’re a little busy now saving the population, my secretary can deal with you. Fair enough, I’ll have a quick peek at the hospital data? Boss, this ok to give out. Perfect, thanks, I’ll sign that, oh, thank you I wasn’t expecting sandwiches. You gotta eat boss. People counting on you. The officer used to have a batman, a driver or clerk. Who did what? Oh, They ironed his clothes? They made sure he ate and drank and was at his best to keep the rest of their buddies alive. Coffee? Milk, one sugar, please? No milk, limewater so. You silly so and so, carrying that silly rock around with you with you in your pocket. Calcium, good for the bones and teeth. SO: I normally use: And… Black Adder: Rat-Au-Van
2250pm 14 Feb 2023 https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/cdem-sector/guidelines/common-alerting-protocol/ after a little read – Google Public Alerts https://support.google.com/publicalerts/#3249690 Germany DWD – The German Weather Service India Central Water Commission (CWC) India Meteorological Department (IMD) Question: Isn’t Ireland alphabetically between Germany and India? (seriously? yes, seriously?) U.S.A. 1. AMBER alerts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 2. Everbridge 3. National Tsunami Warning Center 4. US Geological Survey (USGS) 5. US National Weather Service
2305pm 14 Feb 2023 https://www.gdacs.org/ Disaster Alerts Last 4 days – (Turkey? What’s this about Turkey? I was on holiday and away from my phone.) Yes, looks a little rainy in New Zealand alright? Why is there no Alert listed for that? Colman
0100am 15 Feb 2023 Colman What do you think about normally? Well, I like humourous authors, Science fiction, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams in particular, Terry Pratchett wasn’t a particular author I would have thought of as in the SciFi genre? Well, the Diskworld novels started with Strata, there was a little homage to it in Guardians of the Galaxy, one of the protagonists, their father was a self aware planet. You say their why? I can’t remember which one, it was before I read the other twenty something books, my mother used to give me the new one for Christmas. And a particular quotation? When you stare into the Abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back. Now what comes to mind when you hear that? In historical terms, it might be a referance to Nietzsche, „…’I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.’ ‘Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,’ said Lu Tze. ‘He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.“ — Terry Pratchett, book Thief of Time (quotepark.com) (You sure that’s the correct quote? Must look in the book again, eventually…) in personal terms, Terry was getting older, it was called “The Thief of Time”, and scientifically, it was around the time when Stephen Hawkings postulated Hawking radiation. It was a strange idea that two particles arriving from nothing, positive and negative, in arcs where they were supposed to coalesce and disappear, it was an early idea on where the dark matter of the Universe might be, one particle being close to the event horizon of a black hole, the other might escape and be seen from a distance, destroying the previous idea that a black hole could not be seen directly. And. Well, there’s an interesting strange idea, while the idea of an event horizon gives a set place for the surface of the sphere, this idea coming from classical newtonian gravitational theory, it says that there is a point in space where a stationary object either goes toward the Sun or toward the planets, Earth – Moon, the places are called Lagrange points there are five for the Earth – Moon system. Now, theoretically, if you change the gravitational constant of the object, in an Earth Moon or Sun, Jupiter system, the object falls in the same direction. If you change the speed and direction, then it might go either way and you have to calculate if the velocity allows escape velocity from the larger object. Now, this depends on the mass and the velocity of the objects, and in light objects, particles or waves the velocity changes the mass of the object. And your conclusion? Well, if the two particles are not always the same mass, then there are different distances for the event horizon, if the particles arrive from nothing with velocity, so theoretically the faster particles look like they’re arriving out of what appeared to be the event horizon of the black hole for the larger slower particles which we call mass or atoms. It’s an unusual idea, though I haven’t read much about it, it’s just a mind experiment. (You’ve got to keep your mind active somehow? ‘A brief history of time’ and ‘black holes and baby universes’, by Stephen Hawkings, some people read, some think. Paraphrasing: My publisher said that every mathematical equation I place in this book will reduce it’s readership. Sad really. The rest it’s just Calculus, basic rocket science, or economics, a friend did his degree majoring in Economics with a minor in Astrophysics, the math is similar. )
0150am 15 Feb 2023 So you could theoretically slingshot through a black hole? Well, you’d have to see when the last matter entered it, because hitting the theoretically contained neutron star or even denser core might be bad for the ship? Now, you’re asking me do Theoretical Physics, dammit man I’m a Physician not a Physicist. (It’s Star Trek fan fiction, actually it was in a Star Trek movie (IV) , however they hadn’t a black hole nearby so, they used the Sun, and later in the recent series of movies the Leonard Nimoy version of Spock does transition through a black hole. Name the whale they rescued?) (It’s actually a trick question, they rescued a mother and what’s a baby whale called? So if the baby whale hadn’t a name, you could call it whatever you liked?)
0210am 15 Feb 2023 How did Sydney Harbour and Cork Harbour form? Well, the simple answer is in the same as a glacier (Intermediate certificate Geography), as I was taught in school, moisture falls, the lake or hollow fills, at the lowest available point, the moisture, water or ice tries to flow down hill, normally towards the sea and the moisture rivulet becomes a stream and then a river, the flow of water or ice carving the channel wider and deeper, an exception, which proves the rule is the Congo river, one of its main sources is Lake Kivu beside Goma, the lowest point was South, though East and West were seaward, and eventually, it took the longest route West through Kisangani via Lake Tanganyika, at Kalemie. It’s a little simpler than the Chaos theory explanation of a water drop in Jurassic Park. Tiny imperfections my bollix. The water follows the same course unless you move the Earth. Speaking of which, you might check damming of the rivers in Turkey and New Zealand by landslides, they (these natural flow constrictions) sometimes rupture later causing flash floods?
0225am 15 Feb 2023 Yes, the idea is quite similar to the balloon idea, relating to the movement of the plates at Turkey and you might do a years study of minor movements of the plate, laser distances from a fixed point on a mountain top on either side of the fault, getting the distances to smooth, surface plates, metal, affixed to prominent objects? The old system was map calculation by triangulation from hilltop trigonometric points? We have Satellites for that. Yes, and I’d still like it done old school as well, please, obviously you need the practice, and a few other less economically or educationally wealthy countries might like to see how both rudimentary systems operate? They can then compare the data to that from the Satellites?
0230am 15 Feb 2023 https://tradingeconomics.com/stream – New Zealand Equities Stay at Near 2-Week Low ‘Several communities and regions reportedly had been isolated, while authorities said people should prepare to be without power “for day or weeks, not hours”.’
0250am 15 Feb 2023 https://deprem.afad.gov.tr/last-earthquakes.html It’s a very long list and you can’t see Depth and Magnitude after you’ve scrolled down the page, you might consider a floating banner headline? While this is sometimes misleading in that the top items on the list (inventory lists normally) are accidentally hidden when you scroll down a little, a little note box to say there are “ZZZ” earthquakes more recent listed above, might alleviate this problem? Why? Because I was scrolling down to see if there were any M 4.0+s, ye’re the ones with the data and some people like to get it straight from the source. Oh, and a IV or an VI to designate Intensity similar to EMSC might be nice too? It’s easily calculated and it is only a rough guide, intensity being very much dependant on soil type and moisture content and underlying geology, all of which are very unique time and location dependant factors, whether it rained there, that week or not does make a difference in perceived (damage actually seen at the site, city, town or village, as opposed to calculated) intensity as does a km distance in epicentre. As for EMSC – Earthquakes.gov.EUR ? please? I keep spelling EMSC incorrectly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-government_in_Europe “””To achieve objectives like ‘Interoperability‘, IDABC issued recommendations, developed solutions and provided services that enable national and European administrations to communicate electronically while offering modern public services to businesses and citizens in Europe. In the context of IDABC the European Interoperability Framework version 1.0 was issued. “”” https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/ip-address-by-country Computers and phones. IP Address by Country 2023 We’re not on the graph, because it’s designed to have a nice curve for aesthetic reasons? IRL falls between St Kitts and Nevis and Bermuda if you want to have a look. Oh, there are rich people there however 1,200 IP’s per thousand is awful, when you consider the number of gaming machines and this means not too many smart phones, either, the ordinary phones not requiring an IP address. It means for a disaster you need to send text messages.
| Ireland | RIPE NCC | 5,963,280 | 1,070 | IE | 1,262.90 |
0310am 15 Feb 2023 https://worldpopulationreview.com/ “The US Census Bureau’s world population clock estimated that the global population as of September 2022 was 7,922,312,800 people and was expected to reach 8 billion by mid-November of 2022. This total far exceeds the 2015 world population of 7.2 billion.” USA Census Clock Population World I presume this is where most other websites get their data?
0320pm 15 Feb 2023 https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/ireland-population This says Ireland just reached population Five (5) million? Whoopee?
0325pm 15 Feb 2023 https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/Map/zoom.php?key=57&typ=euro#4 While I’m not particularly a fan of this map detail, or the means of navigation from page to page, this map is an excellent example of the real distance changes in map projections, comparing the traditional transverse mercator world maps which show Europe as nice and big and Africa and mid Americas as not particularly large. It is beautifully obvious that the distance accross the top of Iceland is shorter than the distance accross the bottom. Vertical projections as seen on Google maps, when you zoom from above are a nice example of a projection onto a sphere seen as a flat surface. This is why, Ireland’s mapping system has some flaws in it’s 25 box grid, compared to GPS coordinates, the centre of the 1:50,000 map being correct and the rest of the map formed around it. (You might check that?) Cadet school – geography, actually it’s called map reading. Now can this be improved? Well, I’d use the four corners. Nice idea. Class, any reason why this is not a suitable solution? Well, then the curves from top left to bottom left on the righthand map and the curves on the top right and the bottom right of the left hand map, don’t match up and there’s a big patch missing half way down the map between one map and the other. It’s a long way of saying it. However it is correct. Is there a short way of saying it? Ask a Phd student? Colman
0350pm 15 Feb 2023 Colman, what is the standard of geography of the Irish soldier? Well, the Private soldier is given the same lessons in map reading or geography as the officer. Why? Because normally they’re the person driving from place to place. Navigation is quite important in a military sphere, particularly when the road network and road conditions change so often. (New Zealand – Which fxxking roads ARE open?)
0400pm 15 Feb 2023 Google search German military Bridging equipment for sale? http://militarytechnics.com/vehicles/blg-60/blg-60/ https://ljacksonandco.com/product/kb4-aluminium-bridges/ https://www.wfel.com/emergency-disaster-relief GMC DUKW GMC DUKW for restoration. SEE WEBVERT FOR FULL DETAILS 0033 681 014492 Antoine Guyot Webvert https://www.milweb.net/classifieds.php?type=4 DUCK Amphibious, we (Ireland) have one doing Viking Tourist excursions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_bridging_equipment Update? Please?FV434 Fully refurbished FV434 armoured recovery vehicle. Demilitarized according to German law. Hermann Spoerker Large Image These are nice, you pull the 40ft container chassis accross the gap. Ramps up and down? and 40ft is 12.19m long if you’ve a longer span, you use two of them? Ramps are difficult? Well, for an army truck you just dump a pile of rock and drive up the rock. Safely? The Trucks have sand ramps? for getting out of sand? Aluminium trackways? I think they were four foot? You might ask a nice airline for aluminium flats for transportation of luggage? Though you’d need some chain to attach them safely to the 40ft container? We had some old 747 ones lying around in Goma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_vehicle-launched_bridge this ones nice too, there was a Scorpion version. wiki Amphibious vehicle?
The bridge is manufactured by Mabey Group at its Mabey Bridge factory in Lydney, Gloucestershire (Mabey Group’s original factory, now closed, was in Chepstow and manufactured large bridge girders; in May 2019, the Group sold Mabey Bridge to the US-based Acrow Bridge).[2]
Wiki Mabey Bridge? The name LSB was given by the British Army (Royal Engineers) to supply bridging to satisfy their specific requirements for a logistic or line of communication bridging. The LSB went into service with the British Army on 21 December 2001. The system is proved and approved by a number of NATO forces. The bridge can span up to 61 Meters (200.1 and a bit Feet, though it maybe 200 Feet and 59.something meters and sometimes, this is quite important? You might ask?) LSB has a lane width of 4.2 Meters (13.7795 Feet).
Not the one we’d use, however it might be adequate?
The Medium Girder Bridge (MGB) is a lightweight, man portable bridge and can be assembled without help from heavy equipment. In addition, it is also a deck type, two-girder bridging system capable of carrying loads up to and including Main battle tanks (MBT). MGB was originally produced by Fairey Engineering Ltd., in Stockport England and is still made to this day by its successor WFEL based on a design by MVEE in Christchurch. (That’s in New Zealand isn’t it? WFEL Ltd Sir Richard Fairey Road
Heaton Chapel Stockport SK4 5DY England Tel: +44 (0) 161 975 5700: SHIT, it’s in fxxking England.)
0450pm 15 Feb 2023 Why was bridging not a particular concern in Turkey? Well, the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman Turkish Empire were there a very long time and I play Civilization (It’s a pity they left out the Sid Meier’s name from the latest.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(series), the computer game and it’s quite convenient if your towns are all on the same side of the river. You just move the river (They had a lot of cheap labour, though bulldozers are quite handy.) In Civilisation, bridging technology arrives late in the game, so you do your map plan first and build them on the same side of the river. The first version was Colonisation (America and Random maps) and the best, I played was Alpha Centari. Personally, after they added Religions into the games, I found it almost impossible to win, though I never bought the hint books.
0510pm 15 Feb 2023 Note: Since the weather is quite inclement (rainy) commercial forklift vehicles have quite small tyres, in Goma, with a gravel bed, when the forklift truck approached the lifting bay, and lifted it’s load, the truck tended because of static friction (as opposed to dynamic friction, yes, I did Physics at school.) to burrow into the ground. One of the nice South African Logistics NCOs in the Logistics base pointed this out to me, so my solution was to request a one meter wide concrete base beside the loading bay. I presume it’s why the 737 aluminium platform was there, before the gravel was lain. The local food contractor was a nice American, did some time in logistics in Iraq. Transporting water by bottle is difficult, air dropping them from C130s works, if you make platforms from chipboard and a surrounding wooden skirt, to keep them together for the happiness of the load master. They can then be pushed out the back. No parachute? Most of the bottles survive landing. Why? Because no one ordered the bottles on pallets and they arrived in a large 40ft container because some numpty in headquarters, just signed the contract and failed to realise that actually invading the country involved moving over rough terrain. Colman you’re presuming again. Yes. I am. And? In Goma the pallets were like gold dust and he wasn’t sending them off with water, he used them for the food deliveries. Times for survival of frozen food in aircraft, please? Eight hours at 25 degrees Centigrade (atmospheric temperature) is my estimate, the insulation on the containers was very good. And. Well if there’s still water ice on the top and sides of it and it’s on an ice bed too and it hasn’t sunk in height, then it’s still below zero degrees.
0525am 15 Feb 2023 20 tonne Crane? https://www.globalsources.com/manufacturers/crane-20-ton.html This quite close to one I drove in Kisangani, I was brought down tere by my boss, teh Russian Transport officer had a problem with his, so he asked me to read the manual for him. It took two hours and then he showed me the crane and I was able to tell him which transducer (sensor) on the crane was broken. Then he asked, how do I get around the problem, him not having spare parts available immediately to hand, so since it was just a safety alert problem in the automatic system, I pointed out a possible solution. (Well, there are three, settings, Safety On, Safety Off and Off. Then he asked me if I could park it over there please, so under his supervision, I moved the crane to a parking spot.) Kisangani – Map – It’s nice they have a ferry now, when I was there (Yes, that’s what the ferry is) they used open canoes. Yes. They still do. I was told about all the fatalities travelling across the river in open canoes. If you have a look at the map, it’s a nice pair of towns either side of the river, and a little more built up than I remember, however it must be borne in mind that, it’s barely possible to see the other bank as the land is so flat and the yellow line on the map shows it’s width at 780 Meters at this point. I was also told it is about two hundred meters deep. How long is a football field?
1635pm 15 Feb 2023 I had a little think about it and had a look at my book on High Sensitivity Moiré by Daniel Post, Bongtae Han and Peter Ifju, my copy is, I think a first edition, Post was a Professor, Virginia Polytech Uni, Han from IBM and Ifju from NASA at the time of writing. Now, having had a little think, the metal plate, should be a mirror in a long box to prevent reflections to the public (safety measure first) (The Apollo Program Moon version was a three mirrored plates at right angles version, see that episode on Big Bang Theory if you like, it’s quite cool, though they only used it for single distance calculations, in the tv-series.) there should be two lasers spaced closely together. the reflected light from the first will form a series of circular patterns on the receiving sensor. The second laser can then be pulsed forming an interference wave over the first pattern. The changing pattern should give an accurate measurement of wavelength and frequency of real time actual seismic waves moving. In addition to a long term picture of the movement of the mirror to microscopic (one hundredth of a millimetre) levels of accuracy. This all dependant on the stability of the platform housing the laser. The commercial (military) version is used in some anti-tank weapons. Though I’m sure someone else has produced a civilian version. It might be called LiDAR? Though I’m not sure of it’s accuracy, we only have 10 cm accuracy pictures of the country from LiDar here in Ireland (they’re available through the University library system, the data is used in a number of county councils), it being used from an aircraft platform. Just so you know who and what you’re looking for in the Patent office? Page 159 Figure 4.7.6 Two-beam Systems is quite similar to my set up for my experiment at college, though I reversed the position of camera and mirror, the room was light proof and I just shone the reflected light onto the brick wall, it was quite pretty, my supervisor was quite surprised. No, it wasn’t in the research I was supposed to follow. Yes, that is quite cool. Look, and when I place a load of X kg on the steel test piece, the wave pattern on the wall deforms. (Each line is how many nanometres apart, I didn’t know, the other guy was doing the maths for that.) I was just the practical person who made the interference grid by making the laser hologram at the test piece site, developed the laser holograms, covered them in a layer of gold and stuck the gold layer (the inverted interference grid, vertical) on the test pieces. Then I reshone the laser on the test piece. The initial non regularity of the picture returned is due to the grid not being exactly where it was made and there is therefor an initial interference pattern on the wall. This changes as the test piece is deformed. Is that ok? Nice. Thank you. You might look it up, if they’re still using the technique or similar. UL Mech Eng – Fail, did not hand in an FYP, went back to living in a mansion called Rockhill House where he was not bothered by anyone for many years. Ah, the beautiful quiet. Oh, you might see if there’s a patent on that technique for using a webcam to get data from a location with a gold hologram pattern, though you might 3D print a nicer grid in titanium, I know a friend who can do that. you do need an accurate beam onto the local interference grid, and the accuracy of your method is due to the length of distance from laser to wall rather than the slight movements of the test piece moving up and down, oh, and since vertical movements are important a horizontal grid? Why? Well, it might be nice to have a small bit of warning before the entire fxxking building jumps in the air. I enjoyed Rockhill House and Letterkenny very much. I was quite young as an admin officer in the Reserve Battalion there, oh, and when your militaries come up to our standards, we might consider joining your little club, though we’d prefer it if you’d do some work for the United Nations, we’re quite well thought of in their organisation. I read your Stanags, I had a good laugh. During WW2 approximately 250,000 – 300,000 Irish men (Not sure how many women, you might check that.) joined the Allied Forces as volunteers in various Units. It’s nice when our educated young people help out our neighbours. Space, you say? Sorry, we were a little busy putting coins in the little boxes on every shop counter to help the black babies in Africa. Support that statement please? Concern – church – meeting house, outskirts of Goma and the church on top of the hill was massive. The meeting house is probably not visible on the Sat map, it was surrounded by trees, though you couldn’t miss the church, it’s a lovely open plan building, best architects employed. Pity about the local housing though. Putting volcanic rocks on top of one another without concrete is difficult. Oh, no, the ones away from the centre of the city. I taught an American Moroccan from New York to drive stick shift, we drove out an empty tarmacked road until we came to the Concern building, that was there from the Rwandanese genocide times, and if the building is unoccupied, then maybe going further, might be a bad idea, yes, it’s a bad idea (I tend to ask my own advice.). Now, pull in there and reverse the car and we’ll drive back. Clutch, change gears. Nicely done. Colman
1755pm 15 Feb 2023 Yes, I presume the technique is used for researching gravity waves, I saw something about it recently two black holes colliding, there was a nice simulated noise pattern from it on the internet. How? Well, if you can calculate the changes in displacement really accurately, you can see how the length of the distance between two points changes as the wave passes by. Presuming the speed of light is constant. Why? Because you have to have one constant for measuring all the other things. Theoretically you could make the mass of a particular neutron constant and then the speed of light changes as the neutron moves faster, you have to calculate the speed of the neutron with regards to something? As it speeds up according to Einstein, it’s mass increases. If the mass is taken as constant, then? If it’s speed is measured against it’s diameter, it’s shape changes? it’s a thought experiment, presume it doesn’t, then the speed of light changes because… One photon approaching from the opposite direction, looks like? Silly idea? Ask a theoretical physicist? You can’t teach it. No. There’s got to be a few methods of understanding the world, which can be understood by everyone. It’s called Practical Science Philosophy. True. (I get bored and I think and I watch the beautiful blue sky and the stars at night.) A big example? A black hole moving at speed? It’s mass and size changes relatively slowly as it collects interstellar matter. It’s speed, theoretically should slow as it’s momentum is effected. More momentum being towards the black hole than away, as faster particles should be moving away from it. How does this effect the thought experiment. Well, no one asks if the fast moving object, which gains mass when moving, loses mass in slowing? It’s the gaining mass and the inability of the object to have infinite mass which says that the speed of light is constant. And what might happen when you attempt breaking Light speed by increasing mass to infinite? Well, you’re sitting in it? A chair? You might as well call me a bowl of petunias? No, the Universe, a rather large big bang. The last archaeological expedition. What are you looking for? The remains of the ship that tried to break Light speed. Explain that one to me again? Where? Beyond the edge of the known Universe. (Yes, the movie was quite good. It was another Star Trek. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (wiki) It was a bit of a quotation movie. “Beyond a certain point in Science there is only God”, though I prefer the term goodness, Spock uses the term “benevolence”.) Colman Google – What does the Army Benevolent Fund do? What we fund. From helping wounded soldiers to adapt to life after service, to assisting elderly veterans to keep their independence, we’re here for the Army family when they need us. We offer support in six key areas: independent living, elderly care, education and employability, mental fitness, families and housing. The Irish Defence Forces Benevolent Fund is similar. What do you mean it changes shape? Flight of the Navigator (1986) light speed and inter time travel through a ship which is shaped like a teardrop and has a shiny surface? Looks like a black hole to me? You didn’t get that, no? 1986, yes, I saw it on tv a few years later, after I read my Physics dictionary a few times. The first time, you don’t have the entire vocabulary, the second time, you have an increased vocabulary, the third time, the pieces start fitting together. I read a lot of books growing up. Physics, Chemistry, Biology, dictionaries, Penguin, I recommend them. I still have the Physics and Chemistry, though I gave the Biology to a friend doing her leaving cert as a mature student, I think she has a few degrees now. Your results weren’t that good? No. I did nine subjects and most of the stuff in the dictionaries wasn’t on any of the papers. At secondary school a group of us had a little gathering most lunch times where we discussed philosophy. Some of the most educational conversations I ever had. Yes, there were a few bullies, and we faound anice solution, one day in the middle of the hall, Richard said Colman stand there and don’t move. He then did a slow motion karate kick over my right shoulder, held the position for a couple of seconds and then removed his foot and placed it on the ground again. He was a black belt, Shotokan, I think. My first girlfriend, I think she was in the same dojo in Midleton? Did she teach you anything? Oh, something similar to that nice rotating drum move from the Karate kid movie. I’m not sure what it’s called, it’s similar to defences from knife attack which we were taught in the Cadet school, though if the officer has to resort to hand to hand combat, something seriously wrong has happened. Defence from knife attacks was the only close combat self defence we were taught. It’s rather like a bringing a knife to a gunfight (The Untouchables (1987) scenario. It’s better teach ammunition conservation. Colman, you’re being cocky. Colman O’Keeffe, you were saying? Colman
1820pm 15 Feb 2023 Colman: Your attitude to the average Irish person in military terms? Well, it depends on your sport? Why? Well our National pastime is Hurling, where you practice “trying not” to hit your opponent with a stick, while trying to get the ball into the goal, hitting it with a stick and your opponents are normally in front of you with more sticks, “trying not” to hit you while stealing the ball. Why would they try not hitting their opponents? Well, afterwards it’s nice to be able to drink in the same pub.
1835pm 15 Feb 2023 Justify that in Military terms? Well, we didn’t go to Korea or Vietnam in large numbers, most people saw the colonial history as being quite similar to our own and stayed at home. And. You seen those memorials in Washington? Yes. I have. The soldiers in the ponchos in the rain and the big black monolith with the names. (Not quite, it’s an Arthur C. Clarke reference, 2001 Space Odyssey, I think?) Yes. It is. Paraphrasing the ending: All the others are yours, this is mine. Personally, I read it as being Singapore, though you might object to the USA being called Hal 9000? Eventually, Hal 9000 is saved. Yes, he was. Colman
1840pm 15 Feb 2023 And why would the Irish soldier have been influential? Well, in most societies men don’t cook and Irish mammies teach their sons how to cook. It’s really handy when the officer needs a plate of food. Sir, have a wee peek over there? It’s a little boggy? another example, closer to home? Gallipoli? Sir, the view from up that hill would be marvellous? It’s a bit far off? Sure, I’m sure the lads will catch up. That didn’t happen. No, it didn’t. They stayed on the low ground near the beach and got slaughtered. Mr Churchill’s idea. Paraphrasing: I expected a charging lion and got a sheep. We’ll wait for the supply ships to arrive? Yes, and the Turks had trains, who’d have thought? Clarke was similar? Well, actually, they just landed a few paddies and said howdy and the line moved back. No counter attack on those mad bastards. Why are you calling them mad? They’re on the low ground. And not moving and not being supplied? Completely mad. And completely mobile, we’ll move towards them and they’ll just jog around. Those fxxkers can shoot straight. How do you know? Well, remember that recce party? Yes. They sent one of them back and requested we surrender Rome. Mad, yes, they wrote the note on the back of the Irish Times. The headline says Hitler orders retreat from Rome says the German Embassy. And? Well, I called the Embassy. Yes. A nice lady answered and said, Italy, that’s nice, I have a nephew there, I just sent him the newspaper recently, I hear that you’re withdrawing. And. Well, she said it in perfect German and then she connected me to the Embassy and the Ambassador said, that headline is only a day old. – Now – that’s MILITARY FAN FICTION Colman
2220pm 15 Feb 2023 EOSDISWorldView – NASA.Gov – Topographical Shuttle mission From space topographical map using radar altimetry. It’s nice and probably made some Masters student in Geography very happy with their web design skills, see Lough Ree, It’s a lake. The surface height is nice though the colours are excellent. Now, just for giggles, I opened the layers available and there’s some lovely stuff here and I just wonder about the nice Irish Flood Warning reports from 2015/16 and the source of their data and as I said, if you have such a fine automobile, maybe… Population – Buildings – Turkey You can move the bar from Feb – Apr 2016, if you’d like to watch the houses being built? There are some really good layers on this map. Though the map style is awful. That’s just me being aesthetically picky. For data extraction, it’s absolutely amazing. Might have a look at Cork on it some day? The altimetry is roughly 2000AD, STS 99.
2030pm 15 Feb 2023 World View NASA – Events Map – Gabbrielle Windspeed 75 knots is what caught my eye? Normally when they talk about winds like this, it’s way up high in the atmosphere, We bought a Zoo Flying through the eye of a Hurricane, or on flat ice, or ocean with circumferential winds without land masses to slow them, Artic, Antarctic, the Roaring 60s Southern Hemisphere. 138.9 km per hour Source: NASA? I do know people who drive that fast, however blowing past your house it might be a little scary? NASA Mount Etna a few hours ago? It’s a little cloudy, though you might scroll accross for a clearer photo? Mouna Loa, it’s a Volcano in Hawaii? Christmas day is a nice clear photo? I presume 11 Dec 2022 was when the FIRMS data says there was quite a lava flow?
2245pm 15 Feb 2023 Aug 2022 Iceland NASA World View Now, I remember the Volcano there being being hot for quite a long time, there were nice webcams, and the FIRMS or other data source has blank days here, where there was no red FIRMS plume? Now, presuming that a warning is investigated and ruled out as an immediate threat, and then the level of the event is registered and a reoccurrence is triggered again later? Also there’s no event marker for a Volcanic eruption of this size? In world terms this was quite a big event that year. (It’s only six months ago, I counted that on my fingers.) So I’m sort of wondering? Is this type of “It’s NOT our pond”, thinking, rather disturbing?
2310pm 15 Feb 2023 Might have a peek at this, rainy season? Zimbabwe?
2310pm 15 Feb 2023 You might tell NASA that while the Artic projection map centres automatically over the North Pole, the Antarctic projection doesn’t? The world circle top right. The snapshot facility is quite cool too, though I screenshotted this one. Now if I was a crisis manager, I’d have a programmable email button to the person I’d like to be shouting to? Like my bosses app on his phone? Oh, and if you were Ireland, the local garda would call the local radio station and say, listen there’s a crash on the motorway down the road, can you put it on the radio? Just after they… Well, it’s first thing after first aid actually to prevent further accidents. Tea and snacks set to return on Cork-Dublin service next month Why? Because dealing with diabetic comas on a train is rather annoying. Logistics and Accident prevention.
2335pm 15 Feb 2023 Now there’s an unusual one? Snapshot, makes a data file on the NASA Server with a weblink. The photo is much, much more detailed than the screen resolution and you can then use the button on the right hand side of the url to copy the link or share it to… ? Thank you Google Chrome. Query? NASA Weather – Bangladesh – Flooding? A few days time? The down load takes a small amount of time, the file is quite large. The zoom facility is quite good.
2350pm 15 Feb 2023 GOES-East – Sector view: Northern Rockies – Fire Temperature This is cool, it’s a one hours rotating picture of the high temperature infra red, that’s the upper atmosphere, if you go the the top left hand side there are loads of different wavelengths, if you look quickly and I’m not saving the video file, you can see this area of America turning the lights on at dusk. Check the time of Sunrise/Sunset if you want to have a look in future. The detail is quite good, if you change the view size from small to large.
0120pm 15 Feb 2023 Net Weather.tv Jetstream Forecast Global Map – Nice Spherical Map Why so interested? Well, this is the Accuweather Severe weather chart which has the ALERTS on it, lads? And this is MeteoAlarm.org with a few less alarms? And this was LAST Year, Storm Eunice 18 Feb 2022 And this is World Meteorological Organisation, with whom I am not recently impressed as They were supposed to look for disasters, from the sky, and weather was just one of the little worries, and the Europe one links to MeteoAlarm which is a pile of steaming crap. And this is their WORLD MET OFFICE Rain gauge? Web pages, historical, computer program designs around 1985 possibly? No, I had a program on circadian rhythms drawn similarly though the colours on this are quite nice. BINGO – Ireland Climate Graphs. WMO – Cork TROPICAL CYCLONE – FORECASTER NOAA USA Weather Radar (Info from USA & CANADA ONLY) Eh, yea, however, if you have the other stuff, putting it on the fxxking map too WOULD BE NICE? (In a rather disappointed, New Zealand accent.) They meant you were supposed to only use data from USA and Canada, (this being something you might look at in a war situation). Seeing as you have shiny satellites, the rest of us might like a look and you get nice free advertising for being rather nice gentlemen and ladies, actually? As opposed to looking like inward looking oiks? All map data available from locally sourced, reliable products. Why? Because sometimes you can read the data in a far off outpost like Antarctica from their free to everyone weather charts and sometimes data is required to be available for all, even during wartime, as in the case of a neutral state.
0220am 15 Feb 2023 No, I am not qualified to raise an alarm about a possible storm, I’ve only been looking at weather for a few years. 2019 to be exact, I wonder why? Cloud Atlas WMO – Hong Kong. Isn’t this cool. World Meteorological Organization Global Weather & Climate Extremes Archive Arizona State University – Go Sun Devils that’s ten yards in my book. Recent Investigations, last one in 2019? You’re joking? 15 Feb 2023 UN Security Council holds session on sea level rise ? Seriously? Sea level rise poses ‘unthinkable’ risks for the planet, Security Council hears and again https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133492 -NEWS-UN-ORG
0905am 16 Feb 2023 Weather Q&A: Are rolling winter storms the shape of things to come? – BBC Weather 7 day forecast – I see someone has upped their game, yes, the high level Jetstreams don’t look like it did last year. RTE Satellite InfraRed, I recognise this base map? BBC Surface Pressure Maps You see I’m looking at this little beauty, it looks rather like the storm cells which were from Ghana last year which wandered accross the equator to the Carribean, took ages, and became a Hurricane, now the water temperature is a little cooler here, and the area of High pressure, (Loads of moisture in a nice warm air pocket, it’s heavy air and overhead it’s heavy air. High Pressure, Yes, really, you didn’t think about it like that? And it has low speed, little momentum, it’s in a little eddy, and if you watch a little pool on the river back, while you can’t predict where there’s going to be a little swirl, you know there will be a little swirl.) Oh, and the sea surface temperatures are up a little on last year. Fractions of a degree Celsius do make a little difference. The loads of moisture on the other side of the pond in the photos (not included) are the ridge of high pressure extending from Newfoundland up to that 1008 protrusion below Greenland. And the 990, that’s cold dry air, and there’s a reason why the blue with triangles looks like a defence symbol in Military spheres, they’re the ones to guard against. Warm air, loads of moisture and squalls and heavy rain. I’d call what I’ve identified a thunder cell building? Cumulonimbus three cells, probably 15 to 20,000 feet, if you want to have a look? I’ll be expecting High Horses tails before them in about two or three days, normally I judge the storm risk by the clouds over my house, however I’m getting better with nice data from further off. And at present it’s just a risk? What are the high horses tails in reality? Ever seen the wind skimming the ice dust off an ice sheet? the lower areas of heavy air are the ice, the moisture (clouds little ones, really high up) is what’s lifted up by the really fast cold wind from the slower heavy air below. The cold air over the ice sheet, shouldn’t have moisture in it, however it’s there because of the uplift from the light dusting of ice powder, in the high horse tails, the boundary conditions create little vortices, in fluid mechanics, called non-laminar flow, big ones are called Tornadoes, bigger ones are called Hurricanes or Tropical cyclones.
0950am 16 Feb 2023 How would you check the conditions? Well, I’d ask the Azores, if the squall had passed yet, and I’d throw up a radio sonde balloon, to see if the boundary conditions were going to build the cells into a taller feature, Cloud Atlas Cloud types A very rough guide is from high on the right look diagonally down to the left for the type of weather cloud due after it. These look like:
When you start seeing these, then they’re called big words like weather systems and: You tend to move the ships. Ask a Meteorologist.
1030am 16 Feb 2023 Colman You only found that website yesterday. Yes. Cool isn’t it, I might have passed it before in a web search years ago, though I learned this from Meteorology in the Aer Corp. It’s one of the fours subjects needed for a Private Pilot’s Licence, if you’d like to buy a nice book on it? Brian Cosgrove?, I like the Eyewitness books, they’re excellent for tourist information and their photo’s are nice. Oh, look New Zealand Book Express are selling his book Weather. You bored, lad, here, the boss said you should have a read of that. Ok. (The gobshite says there’s a storm coming because he saw it in the clouds? Yes. The Captain told me to read a book on weather last year, didn’t know we were going to be in New Zealand though, we don’t normally have weather this pretty in Alice Springs. What was the lightening like lads? Excellent photos? I used to have to use long exposures, though these days there are video cameras. Oh, you might check for flashes in those clouds in the Azores, large movements of warm air can tend to cause thunder and lightening. Sometimes, the ISS takes nice photos of the lightening? Though there might be a new satellite for that, Windy.com and Sat24 has that. He’s a Private? Yes. Well, they wrote a book on that. What was it called? All quiet on the western front.)
1035am 16 Feb 2023 https://www.bbc.com/weather/2964180 A nice Day/Month/Year? of the Forecast date? With a date beside the Day of the Week? And a GMT or a UTC? And a create weather map .pdf or weather map .jpg screen button, A4 landscape? Why is the nasty stuff in white? Well, it uses “contrast and saturation” and when any colour gets bright enough, green, it looks white? Might change the colour mapping algorithm too?
You see this is where that little storm cloud is supposed to fizzle out, having dropped it’s moisture. And. Well, it’s still just a risk.
Oh, and I’d be having a look at Holland in six days time, a nice Dutch cosplayer I follow, her town is flooded around this time each year, not every year, however that’s quite moist? Yes, the bit between Brussels and Berlin, wasn’t there some sort of event recently, torrential rainfall into a valley and all the rain ended up in the village? Twenty foot deep, left the village street filled with trees? Yes, it was two stories high. Ireland First floor is bottom, Second floor is second floor. USA, ground floor is ground floor, first floor is upstairs? Why? Because Ireland had timber floors on the ground floor and in the USA, normally the ground floor was concrete or tiles, the dust is awful there. Does it make a difference? In perception terms, it’s a difference of 2.5 meters. “It reached the the first floor?” That’s a bit of a puddle in the kitchen in Ireland, in the USA, that’s the upstairs bedroom furniture floating.
1120am Feb 2023 USA News.com Loads of stuff on New Zealand. Healthiest Communities – I picked 240 Pottawatomie County, Kansas https://www.pottcounty.org/474/Flood-Information Big Blue River at Tuttle Creek I’d be more worried that there’s no low water information available? Water being a nice thing to have for drinking? https://www.alertsystems.org/ It’s not responding “Loading”? Well, a few people are learning this stuff is available and the Mid West is full of warnings, I’d be down loading the app about now? https://water.weather.gov/ahps/partners/nws_partners.php Ug, php script. nasty (computer language for making scripts in html) language.
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
The Corps provides engineering, management, and technical services to Department of Defense and other federal agencies. They are engaged in planning, designing, and operating water resources (river and harbor navigation, flood control, water supply, hydroelectric power, etc.) and other civil works projects (environmental restoration, wildlife protection, recreation, disaster response, etc.). The USACE provide us with current and forecast reservoir outflows. We also exchange river stage and precipitation data with them. For detailed information refer to https://www.usace.army.mil.
Defence and Harbour spelt wrong? Well, they spell harbor with no u? Yes.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Answers
from the US Army Corps of Engineers Public Meeting held on Wednesday May 22, 2019 About the 1993 Floods? Yes. Why are you here, now? Well, someone asked us. Who? FEMA. This is quite cool, a nice map of the area. With a nice print button. Switch base map? I like the Light Grey Canvas? Why? Excellent in the photocopier. Colour printing is expensive, the phones only work, if the phone mast is still up – see – Lightening. https://floodlist.com/america/usa https://blog.feedspot.com/planet_magazines/ You might check why FeedSpot.com is getting login information for transferring you from it’s website to the actual websites? (Flood list.com) NEWS ARTICLE on “Report – Flood Losses in Europe to Increase Fivefold by 2050” 17 FEBRUARY, 2016 BY JENNIE JACOBS IN EUROPE, FLOOD PROTECTION
1145am 16 Feb 2023 https://crisis24.garda.com/insights-intelligence/intelligence/risk-alerts – Pay Today and get the Reuters News desk in a database?
1150am 16 Feb 2023 https://www.weather.gov/psr/ Phoenix Arizona? psr? Well, long time ago, IP addresses were? USA Telephones had 3 letter codes for telephone numbers, because it was easier to remember… 777? : Area Code 777 History: Area Code 777 has not been assigned for use by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator. Area Code 777 is officially designated an Easily Recognizable Code. When the second and third digits of an area code are the same, that code is called an easily recognizable code (ERC) and assigned to specific services such as toll-free services. Area Code Look Up – Select An Unassigned Area Code For Details That’s not how it works. No, however it’s how the little hackers think and they then ping every bloody number and … A lot of the numbers go to one particular address. Why because the hub or local router gets aaa.123.456.789 and .123.456.789 all goes through a really old server that we don’t quite know how to replace, because he retired about 30 years ago and went working for a much better paid consultant (Google or Microsoft etc. you get the picture?). Funny isn’t it, WHITE HATS? Find a flaw report it $20,000 ?
1205pm 16 Feb 2023 Weather warning here why? https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=203&y=147&site=cys&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=203&map_y=147#.Y-4bpnbP02w Read the page and you’ll see why I didn’t put an address on it? Current conditions at Phifer Airfield – Wheatland (KEAN) Lat: 42.05°N Lon: 104.94°W Elev: 4776ft. 1455 Meters, Carrauntwohill, Co. Kerry is 1030 meters. It’s a warning because it’s rather chilly and if the dew point is -20 degrees Celsius, the water in your car’s windshield wipers, tends to freeze rather rapidly. Even with those little packets of antifreeze. You see a Paddy tourist might like to know if the fxxking weather is likely to freeze the tip of his nose off, if he stands in a 3 knot wind (4kmph). You had to translate that? Well, some fxxkers don’t read dew points or knots? That’s the average person your talking about. Yes, so have some consideration. “You were saying?” “Fifty bucks?” “Why are you giving him fifty bucks?” “Well, he bet me he could get you to say that before we came into your office.”
1225pm 16 Feb 2023 Cheyenne, WY Weather Forecast Office CYS-Weather story Eventually you get the local Met office? USA Weather Map ABC EyeWitness News Weather Chicago: Winter Weather Advisory in effect for much of area ahead of expected snow storm Chicago Is Your School closed today due to weather? https://www.emergencyclosingcenter.com/ To register a new facility or for questions about ECC please contact us at wgnradio-emergencyclosings@nexstar.tv or 312-222-4467 – Oh, the local radio station, how nice? https://wgnradio.com/ This content is not available in your country/region. Cookies, not from round here. Chicago, there’s a load of Irish there aren’t there? Well, what do you see here? Well, it’s a bit of a fxxking jumble? Really? Yea, all the red ones are IFR and the weather’s shit for small plane flying. You know the Cessna has Instrument landing capability now? Well, you might get it on the runway, however skidding in the fxxking snow might be a problem? Metar-Taf.com Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport KSDF Kentucky, United States. You know, I can’t get there from Colman’s free site anymore? Why? Well, the redirects go through Google and others, who calculate traffic through the routers and then the redirects are blocked on the basis of: Anyone? Anyone? Ferris Bueller’s day off (1986) “Voodoo economics.” “Yes, I actually did a little course on economics at Cadet school.” Colman Silly question? Why are you pointing out Louisville? Well, I did a little research on Innuit Indians, yes, and one of the old punishments for an unfaithful wife was she had her nose removed. Yes. And. Well, you just put her outside in the wind for a few hours. And this is relevant here? Why? Wiki Adultery Well, in Ireland the phrase was “cutting off her own nose to spite her face”, and I understood it as the wife letting her nose get frost bitten to punish the husband for making her stay outdoors in the fxxking cold… It’s not cold enough for that in Louisville? Exactly, it should be fxxking snowing, you seen the huge Indian bear skins? No? Well, look in the old photographs. ‘In 1997, then minister for procurement at the Ministry of Defence, Lord Gilbert, said that he wanted Bearskins phased out as soon as possible, and in 2005 Labour MP, Chris Mullin, called for a ban stating that they had, “No military significance and involved unnecessary cruelty.” ‘ https://www.forces.net/technology/uniform/bearskin-everything-you-need-know Who were the allies of the British in North America during the wars of Independence? The book was called? Last of the Mohicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_and_Arapaho_Tribes “Buffalo program For cultural and food sovereignty purposes, a buffalo herd has been established. The herd expanded to 530 bison in 2021 when Denver Parks and Recreation donated 13 animals which will improve the herd’s genetic diversity.[13] Bison is the correct taxonomic term for Bison bison, but buffalo is the common vernacular term.” Yea, well actually, those bison skins were a little warmer.” And. Well, it’s a little warm for winter don’t you think? Louisville? 13.3 degrees Centigrade? That’s during the thunderstorm? Historical data? 17 degrees Centigrade on Valentines day? 14 Feb 2023? What does that say? It says for Americans last week is history is what it says. Next week? that’s future planning.
1550pm 16 Feb 2023 Thinking about Congo and the delightful amount of Volcanic Rock? Where is it similar to? Actually, it’s quite similar to Italy, another warm country with volcanic rocks, though these are a little older. Similarly La Palma and Iceland. The Great Gabion: 17 Examples of Architecture Beyond the Wall These are quite cool. Advantages? Air has a lovely insulation effect, in military architecture we used to have nice country soldiers who used to build nice stone walls around our posts, they were called dry stone walls and the building technique is quite local to Connemara, where they were the only materials available. Why are gabions so popular? well, to be honest I don’t know where the original idea came from, however there just wasn’t any fxxking concrete and the boss said he wanted a wall, so we used chicken wire. Yes. And, well, we got shelled and amazingly enough the fxxking thing was brilliant. The chicken wire to a hell of a beating, though the rock just ground together and absorbed all the impacts. Now a lot of people at the moment think that this stuff, it’s out of stock??? Is not available in bulk, because the Amazon warehouse can only hold two or three at a time, which is why you should really go to your local supplier for these?
Now, while the pretty versions for nice Irish gardens, the proddies up North are fierce fond of it, are quite pricey, the rolls are quite good and with a little wire to join the bits together, (I recommend the Aluminium 2mm, it’s quite flexible and ties into knots) a nice house might be made for approximately 110 euros. The stuff is also quite good for concrete floors, though strangely enough most Italian and Greek places, just add more concrete after teh quake, it’s ground level and sure, so long as the walls are good, all good. (The concrete in hot dry countries and some hot wet ones (evaporation happens quickly in the heat, as opposed to warm wet european ones remains dry and the stuff doesn’t rust for many years. It’s why the Italian motorway collapsed, the flexions in the steel cause microfractures, which when wet in the winter start rust forming, the rust is higher in volume, it pushes the concrete away from the steel, the next earthquake makes more flexions and the bridge falls down. It’s rather annoying and caused because the concrete isn’t properly waterproof, that stuff costs more.) What do the walls look like? Mycenae Cyclopean Walls Well, I think these are about 3,000 years old, the ones in Ceide fields are about 5,000 years old. And how are they built? Well you tilt the stone fronts toward the middle and fill the middle with smaller stones. During an earthquake everything jumps and settles and you see which stones need repointing? It’s not possible to build these very high? Really? Hellenistic Fortifications, oh, there are some of these in Turkey how nice, I might visit some time? Cut a few fxxking rocks please? The Romans use big marble cutters and funny enough I costed rebuilding my in marble using this technique and it was cheaper than getting a block layer. Why buy thicker sandstone paving slabs when thinner (calibrated) will cost less? Now a smart man would take into account the insulation of volcanic rock and the strength of marble and you get? “God’s Wonder”: Marble as Medium and the Natural Image in Mosques and Modernism “Whether the marble seen by Ibn Jubayr in the Ka‘ba in the twelfth century was literally of Byzantine origin, conceptually the use of marble veneers as architectural dadoes continues a tradition pioneered in Roman architecture and developed in the architecture of late antiquity.” Now whether you like it or not aluminium sheet, doesn’t rust, is slightly bad for the environment, making it sucks electricity, however the stuff lasts. Oh, and it releases Oxygen into the atmosphere, we have a factory it’s one of the few places in Ireland (or Europe, and isn’t that stuff nice for breathing) producing O2 into the atmosphere. So while the marble for the kitchen counter is nice, the granite is better, it resists knife marks, and marble is lighter, the sandstone and pomice interiors of the beautiful old buildings and the dry stone technique which led to their development have been sadly under sold in modern architecture. Anyone for a house under 10,000 euros? Sure throw a bit of plaster on the interior walls? A block layer is getting One Euro Fifty a BLOCK because they have degrees and they still can’t put a fxxking house up properly. Schemes for houses affected by pyrite or mica – Citizens Information – Why? Service guarantees Citizenship. (It’s a Starship Troopers quote, the book was excellent.) Lads. “and Ladies.” I meant all of us, they’re fxxking closing the Unit, I like ye, lads, how are we going to hang around together. after? I know? (Because ours used to go for pints after, together. 24 Inf Bn (RDF) lads!)
1705pm 16 Feb 2023 Colman – Your RDF Advanced Tactics course, you didn’t teach anything? You just tested. Yes, exercise, exercise, exercise. Why? Well, after one of my courses, I wrote Infantry Coy SOPs for 28 Inf Bn based on the course, I had done a rough draft over a weekend on the course, which I handed out to my classmates, so they’d all be singing off the same hymn sheet on the ground, I was Coy Comdr for the starting exercise. So, my SOPs were available to the instructors from 28 Inf Bn. And. And the manual, all mine read them. What did the course entail, well, I did the Infantry YO’s course exercises including a night attack up a nice sandy hill? Why a sandy hill? Well, it reduces accidents, the sand is nice and soft for jumping up and down. And where did you get a fully entrenched Platoon position for them to attack? Well, we dug it first as a Defensive exercise and the instructors occupied it as enemy, while we went down the hill and attacked up the following night. It just seemed like the logical thing to do? Well actually they didn’t do that on the YOs course. No, they didn’t, though it was really hard to find a decent copse of trees in Donegal, so, I used a sand dune? See what I did there, I used a so, variation in writing style, another one mark on the Leaving Certificate Honours English exam, you see, the good teachers, they teach that stuff now.
1710pm 16 Feb 2023 Colman proddies, really? Well I went to a disco in Belfast recently, just before Covid and sat next to an awful gobshite, we talked for most of the evening, then I bought drinks and went to the toilet and came back and a pint had been spilt into my coat under my seat. So, no, I’ve no time for proddies, some Protestants are wonderful people, it’s the non-Christian gobshites on both sides, I detest. There weren’t enough people in the disco to fill a platoon, embarrassing, not one in the drinking area outside could leave their drink for five minutes, it’s so bad there.
1720pm 16 Feb 2023 Colman why was Northern Ireland seen as more developed than the Republic of Ireland. Oh, that’s easy, because their roads were better, they have tanks and narrow roads are really cool for killing tanks. And after the roads came Mastericht and the agreement that European allies would defend against foreign aggressors. Yes. It did, Javelins are really nice, though they were the American version, it’s nice to have a variety of suppliers. We had French Milan weapons before those. And. Well, it’s nice to have so few trained in guns, it reduces the number of gobshites who might trapse off doing silly things. Mad Mike Hoare (wiki) “Reflecting his pride in his Irish heritage, Hoare adopted a flying goose as the symbol of 5 Commando and called his men the Wild Geese after the famous Irish soldiers who fought for the Stuarts in exile in the 17th and 18th centuries.[5] ” The Stuart’s in exile (pbs.america.co.uk) (Come back to this, there might be some nice, free, tv?) https://ww.televisionheaven.co.uk/reviews/sas-rogue-heroes “The famous mercenary Colonel Mike Hoare wrote that no one ever followed a drunk anywhere except into a bar.” Unusual that isn’t it, normally it’s the thief follows the drunk out of the bar. Well, actually he wasn’t from down here, and newspapers were NOT going to call him Indian or a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland resident, why? Well, he wasn’t travelling under a Republic of Ireland passport? Well, theor.. no, born in India, he wasn… his parents were from where??? Docks, never heard that name in Dublin or Cork? No, has a strangely Northern ring to it? So, toddle off sonnie and peddle your kaibosh elsewhere? kibosh, yes, it’s not quite a local word, rather like “mingi” men. It means money in some parts of Democratic Republic of Congo, they speak Lingala and Swahili, and… Wiki Swahili is a Bantu language of the Sabaki branch.[22] In Guthrie’s geographic classification, Swahili is in Bantu zone G, whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name Nyika. Historical linguists consider the Arabic influence on Swahili to be significant, since it takes around 40% of its vocabulary directly from Arabic, and was initially spread by Arab slave traders along East Africa‘s coast.[7][23][24] . It is rather like Arabic, spoken in a number of areas in India and the Long Range Desert Group (the predecessor of the SAS) used what type of jeeps? They didn’t they used.. in The African Sahel and Well, actually they then went to… and drove willy pete jeeps. Oh, this is cool, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps How to Interpret a Satellite Image:
Five Tips and Strategies Yes, some unusual stories from this area, a friend suggested that I tell stories to tour busses about the history there and while I might visit the Oracle of Siwa eventually, it’s a little dry there for my taste. And salty. The Oracle of Siwa: How a remote oasis in Egypt drew history’s most powerful men. This image is cool, and if you look closer you can just make out the burning (oil) tanks. Oh, no that’s a little further up the coast. The tanks, you can pick out as little hillocks? You’re joking mate, we brought them all home.
2120pm 16 Feb 2023 Turkey earthquake: After three lives saved, British volunteer reflects on rescue mission He’s a volunteer in a charity. They’d only give him a week off. Well, done. Saved Three I’m impressed. The rest of you. KEEP DIGGING and a press release to Reuters might be nice too? Send it via your consul or embassy.
2129pm Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday’ glacier is ‘in trouble’ You can quote me on this, if you’d like. ” The threat to the melting of Antarctica ice at the South Pole comes not from the air above the pole being heated from the Sun, the amount of sunlight falling there is relatively stable and has been for quite some time. The threat is from the land mass underneath being heated by the ocean currents surrounding it. The cooling of the landmass during the winter is subsiding as the large volume of water surrounding it, (Ice forms and melts at various temperatures and pressures, at standard air pressure, the temperature is 273.16 Kelvin or ZERO (0) degrees Celsius, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit.) heats up and the cooling effect of the continent being in complete fxxking darkness for a few months is negated by the heating effect of the Sun on the Equator, combined with the greenhouse gasses, manmade and natural which are being emmited into the atmosphere. Oh, and the heat from all the fxxking fossil fuels you’re burning (and nuclear power, it creates heat here too. Anything with a smoke stack or a chimney or an exhaust pipe in fact. And ALSO the HEATED wastewater from power stations, Various, this heat could be utilised and thus mitigated by using the heat to make glucose? How? You have a fxxking green house and you grow vegetables, like the Dutch.). No, Colman uses public transport. And he grows trees in his back garden, and if you’d like one to bring home to plant, they’re free. I grow them by letting the seedlings, which fall in my garden germinate. To summarise. You heated the water in the cup of tea using a little tea light, almost exactly enough to boil one cup of tea. Since the ice cube was floating in the zero degree water, it melted rather rapidly and the water spilled over the edge. As the water started to reach 60 degrees, large amounts of dissolved gases started to emerge giving bubbles and the water again started to spill over the edge and then at 100 degrees Centigrade, the water started to evaporate properly and the boiling continued until there was nothing left except the dissolved solids. What planet is this primary school experiment pertinent too. Who am I talking about?
2210pm 16 Feb 2023 I did a project on increasing the efficiency of Moneypoint Powerstation in the 1990s and suggested, most if not all of the good things to my lecturer in thermodynamics. Funny. yea. Right. Biogas, green houses, using the energy to increase the efficiency of any system which generated bio energy using the heated waste water and thus increasing the THERMAL efficiency of the Power station. Everything in the “silly” books available at the time. Nada, C+. No, I don’t have kids, and yes, I do live on a hill. Yes, the books with hand drawn pictures, because the Phd, student or Doctor of Engineering, had to ask someone down the corridor to do a few drawings for their book, because the publisher wouldn’t pay for nice illustrations.
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2240pm 16 Feb 2023 Now a calculator works like this? You press the numbers and press + and then the numbers and press = and the answer comes out and if you do it often enough, you get the solution to your problem (adding a minus number is a subtraction). Now if you add all the energy coming in to all the energy going out you get an increase in temperature and and the ice melts and the water rises. And unless this is stopped… Now a few people are panicking… Yes, and a few people are saying, ah, we can stop this just after all the water’s melted and we can have a nice stable sea and my answer to that is this. Where are all the whales? Where is all the whale shit? Why doesn’t anything grow in the oceans and it’s not just plastics that are the problem, no nutrients, no algae, no fish, no oxygen (that’s in the wrong order the algae make the oxygen.) The fish shit and the algae make the oxygen, it’s the natural order of things. Oh all things die, that’s the natural order of things. “And it might be sooner than you think!” Now, if you arrive at teh conclusion as a child and some adult says well, when you grow up dear you can get qualified and make a differance by getting elected to high office and becoming an influencer, and you say, that’ll be too late, I’ll have to start now outside my parliament building, you get Greta Thurnberg, and if you are like me and you learned how to kill people (Lots of people commanding 600 other people with big scary gunsand helicopter gunship support, did you know we had an Apache on call? Yes. We did. I had to run a guy over with a security team, when their mechanic broke down, the helicopter had a warning light. You didn’t personally, no, my ops team dispached a patrol to secure the site, provided support (you need a cup of tea boss?) to the pilot and crew and evaluated the situation and on the crafts departure from the are, then returned to base. Actually I’m not sure about that, they may have just continued to the pub.) You get tablets and a computer, they’re called mood stabilisers, I get a little excited occasionally and jump up and down and say hurray, or cry and say that’s awfully sad, apparently it’s not the done thing as an officer. —– That’s quite good? I might call that Oh, Shit? Fish? “Are you OK? Who saved you?” “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?”
2250pm 16 Feb 2023 Colman that’s very defeatist talk, we shall overcome these obstacles. Listen boss, the fxxker gave his nieces and nephew (sorry, nephew, there’s more of them, they get first mention.) Astrophysics books at quite young ages. I don’t think he expects them all staying on the planet. Expects? It’s practically a fxxking order. Save One.
0055am 17 Feb 2023 I see Lebanon had a lightening strike. Radio mast or some such. Yes, quite normal. You know there’s some recent research into laser being used for protecting crowds in Europe, too many concert goers getting hit by lightening or something. Bit silly really, yes, a few decent lightening conductors and all good, the problem there is they don’t insist on all the equipment being earthed properly and it jumps from the metal which is on a shiny dry surface to all the people to the nearest underground water pipe, rather like that Indiana Jones movie. The phones were probably out because the big fuses blew, those are quite large and the little trip switches blew too, they being much smaller. What’s the research about? Oh, something about using laser to guide the lightening safely to the ground nearby. Did you read it, no. Why not? Well, it’s just ionising the air on the path of the laser and the static charge or electrical current, you call it lightening travels along the beam to the source on the ground. You didn’t read it? No. Read a dictionary once, if you want the math, I know where there’s math similar in an FYP for a degree. Rather simple Calculus (first year) actually, the science of the ionisation of gases by light radiation, well that’s actually how laser is generated and after that, to test it, all you need is a lightening source, there’s only a few Universities with those, theoretically. Why theoretically? Well, theoretically if you have a big enough laser, it becomes the electrical power supply. It’s movement of electrons, and an old tv was able to transmit electrons through a vacuum to the phosphor screen, the problem becomes removing the air out of the way efficiently, that’s why the tv used a vacuum. And what happens if you remove all the air out of the way efficiently? “Seriously? It’s called a lightening strike.” And cost? Well, the Arduino laser costs 1 50, a million five, I think we can cover that. You misunderstand. One hundred and fifty million, oh, that might be hard. No. No. Sir, one euro fifty cents. Less than a pint of milk. And why didn’t anyone do this before? Well, normally we just stick a metal spike in the ground and a wire from equipment to equipment, it’s the yellow and green one, the Earth wire. Doesn’t everyone?
0110am 17 Feb 2023 Why did Ger Cunningham (wiki) take those penalties for Cork?
- He had barely run fifty yards (it was before meters in Ireland when he started) in the match and was fresh as a daisy.
- He had practiced for years (Christy Ring used to hit the gate, then he used to hit the lock on the gate etc.), and he was able to puck a ball (We used tennis balls, when windows were fragile and expensive, tennis balls.) further than almost any other player on the pitch. Further in aerodynamic terms means the speed at which the ball left his hurl was fastest. Having seen, himself, and John Fenton on the same pitch I would question, if John might have been faster, however you’d have to use the match videos to confirm which, John tended to hit the ball with a much lower arc toward goal or team mate, the ball being harder to spot by the opposition goal keeper, when not falling out of a blue sky. Ballistically, there is an optimal angle for the sliotar to leave the hurl for maximum distance.
- He was able to walk up to the penalty spot. The opposition knew he always scored. They had time to think about this watching him arrive.
- After he scored, point, if driving it up into the stands to the delight of the Cork supporters on the top stand, (Earlier it used to go out from the pitch and a new ball had to be called, yes, it was cheaper to buy a net than pay for the windows.) or if needs or morale were pressing or if he saw the goal was certain, back of the net with it.
- The referee was normally understanding enough to allow him back to his goal before play resumed. Though this did not always happen, sometimes the opposition goal keeper was anxious to attack without a goalie in play and, ignoring the availability of an extra man in his own half pucked out the ball before understood courtesies were established. Well, Cork really punished that mistake. The walk up and the walk back while seen as a glory march on occasion, was sometimes used as a pause to steady the team and as a water break, a time to change a broken hurl or for the captain to seek advice from the manager.
- Why was the local Long Puck competition established? It’s on one morning every year in Ireland? It was based on the skill of bouling in rules, though some places use golf rules in addition? Castlemartyr has a Junior and a Junior B team and lots of under age teams too. It’s a village of how many people? And everyone is normally home for Christmas. (Note: The optimum angle is actually a variable, which changes depending on which factors? Lee Enfield rifle manual. Eh, that’s not the one he used. “No, that’s not going in the text?” “Let’s say it was whether the ball was slippy and whether the weather was moist or not.” I’d add and whether the crowd behind was for or against him. Why? Well, sometimes he pucked awful angry. Did he mean “awful” angry ? or “awful angry” ? He’s using The Martian (2015) references again, that’s just wrong. He’ll be talking about Piracy and Maritime Law next?)
- I used to be behind the goal with my uncle. We got in as carers, he was a quadriplegic. Wheelchair bound. Some GAA pitches are excellently drained, the wheels didn’t sink in the mud. Later, the prunty pitch system was employed on the rugby field in the Curragh camp. A farmer used it to drain his fields, that’s a great idea can we borrow this for the pitch? It does seem to be loosely based on the British system for laying anti-tank mines. Completely different. I skinned my knees playing rugby on the pitch as a teen, the machine was quite cool, though laying and mixing all the sand on the pitch meant resowing the sod. The sand was quite coarse, beautifully yellow/orange in colour and had little twinkly bits in it. Who paid for it? Well, the rugby club bar actually, the club members used to do barman, barmen are expensive, the training on how to operate the taps and pull a pint is not. Colman
0240am 16 Feb 2023 The art of medicine is an attempt to entertain the patient until he cures himself. Your paraphrasing. Yes. Who made the remark? He didn’t say anything close to that he said “The…” Hold it there, you said The. Yes. What language did he say it in and who translated it? Now, the art of Surgery is not in wielding the knife, the skill of the surgeon is taken as perfect, the practice of Surgery is quite distinct, the art of Surgery is in the decision on when to wield the knife. There are many risks, all judged based on the factors which lead to the best survival outcome for the patient. (Eh, what does the bollix mean? The Nurse: Well, if there is a risk the surgery is going to kill the patient in their present condition, then sometimes, you make them a little stronger, by feeding them, warming them, resting them, unconsciousness by anaesthesia is always uncertain and the doctor might need to keep the patient immobile for a long time to ensure the wounds heal, feeding by intravenous drip, entails many food stuffs, vitamins and minerals and removal of wastes is tricky and time consuming. It’s the difference between emergency Surgery and elective Surgery, sometimes you have to wait for the person to change their diet, medications, lower their BMI et cetera. Thank you. Boss, sometimes the term waiting list is misunderstood. The fxxkers aren’t fit for surgery and they have to wait until they cop themselves on. I wouldn’t have put it quite like that? And emergency Surgery? Well, that’s what this is, going in blazing and trusting your skill with the knife is going to make a difference, because otherwise the patient dies. The Nurse: Best description, I’ve ever heard. Why do you say that? Well, these days the lasers are used to cauterise the wounds. Yes. We bought one of those for the Doc.)
1520pm 17 Feb 2023 Here’s a silly thought experiment. If the electron is negatively charged and a voltage or electrical potential causes it to move from the negatively charged plate, where it is discharged to the positively charged plate, and a photon is merely a particle of less mass and zero charge, why does it fly off in a direction which seems random? Well, starting from the premise that it’s moving toward something? And adding it’s speed, the speed of light, is it moving towards the well of time? Now while the centre of a galaxy, or a Black hole is a point in space, time, doesn’t have a set origin? Well actually there’s a quite small place we call the Big Bang, and if there is an origin, there might be a destination, though since time doesn’t have a place in the three dimensions we perceive as space, it’s moving towards the centre of the Time hole. All the time in the world (seriously a song reference here?) contained in one bubble, with all the low mass particles, those without the “heavy” gravity bits, moving towards the end of time at a constant rate. It’s what my dictionary said about quarks. Yes, there’s a Star Trek movie on that to, it’s called Insurrection. All the time in the world in one moment. And what does that say? Well, if two black holes can collide, then someday, so might two Universes (Time holes) and if there are two of those than what is outside the Universe? Yes, that one was called? Vger. You know gravity bends light? Yes, so the Mass contains some time that the photon is attracted to? Well, actually it might be magnetism? Well let’s build Cern and find out? Can I do the math on that? The Higgs or GOD boson. Why did they call it that? Well, calling it Father Time might be misconstrued. I haven’t read the book in a while, aren’t they called Up, Down, Strange and Love? Yes. And? And Love is all there is?
1540pm 17 Feb 2023 Well, that’s not going in the book. The world isn’t ready for that. He says the three hour erections were distracting. Yes, that’s why he isn’t as fit any more. I’m not telling the public. It might be a little late for that. Why? Well, you know your secretary reads the scripts first? Yes, well she just took her boyfriend by the hand into the bathroom saying “Sunshine, with me, I want to try something.” And one told two and two told four and suddenly the world was a much fitter place. Actually it wasn’t, however Ireland is. And Colman? Well, apparently, he says men’s bodies work a little differently and he likes kissing, seeing a love’s face and one perfect moment. Yes, he told a story like that once, he kissed her every five meters on the way home. Yes. And then. And then she said “Good night, thank you for walking me home.” and he went back on his camping trip accross America.
1605pm 17 Feb 2023 Jung need the money. Oh, it’s all in your head. Chemistry and Biology say? The two ends of the body evolved at the same time and became differentiated through evolution. Food and Sex. Air and Excretion. Your mouth has saliva glands and the opposite end has gonads. The rest is chemistry designed to ensure you feed yourself and that there might be little babies. The unfortunate fact is that most Sex Therapists deal with the social implications of too much sex (In America, they have lots of guns.), when the world might be better off if they dealt with the obesity problem. (Get that into you, you’ll fell better.) (Can’t seem to find a copy of “Was it good for you, Professor” on the internet and mine seems to be missing? Can’t remember the authors name. No, sure it probably doesn’t make a difference. Here use this one instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Marston_and_the_Wonder_Women Well, actually, you might look at his? might have been him or one of his proteges? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey Yes. The personal accounts were quite similar. Which? (Well, that feels, really, really, good. Can we try that again? I’m really tired. Well, I know a way to fix that. I read it in a book. Oh, yes. THAT WAS, what the book said. You seemed to pass out. Yes. I told you I would.)
1615pm 17 Feb 2023 What type of person does Colman like? Well, it’s difficult to say? If you’re talking about women and he is heterosexual, I’d say ones who ask questions, because they might have learned actually something besides what was taught them in school.
1630pm 17 Feb 2023 Remember “A bridge too far”, we did a small project on it. Market Garden. Yes, the movie was quite good. Remember that young officer who objected. Based on (WikiFandom Brian Urquhart) Brian Urquhart (wiki). Yes, I would have taken him out of headquarters for a little rest, and sent him off for some bigger job too. “He played a significant role in the founding of the United Nations.[2] He went on to serve as its Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs.[1]” Yes, Roald Dahl was in Washington around that time too. My Uncle Oswald and other stories was quite good.
1635pm 17 Feb 2023 It talks about some sort of beetle. Yes, in Congo there were blister bugs, they used to be on the roof of the veranda, they were attracted to the light. Some sort of nasty chemical in their tail, it’s why you don’t smack an insect in Congo, one of the lads did that and had a nasty red welt on their face for weeks after, wouldn’t be anything related to the story would it? No. Who’d be eating insects like that. In chocolates you say, well, maybe that’s a small step too far.
1650pm 17 Feb 2023 Well, I know how to kill people too. I just don’t, it’s not polite. So I’m just pointing out that with the air, water and food situation becoming critical I’m suggesting that maybe a few less babies in Africa and South America and a little less gun violence and maybe, just maybe, planning for the 5 meter sea level increase around Ireland, “might?” be a good idea. They’re not new ideas, lots of other have suggested it.
1710pm 17 Feb 2023 Colman Ireland had a population problem. Yes. Well, some farmers knew what they were doing in bed and some couples, “really” enjoyed themselves. And… twenty babies. (That’s a bit of a simplification?) And. Well, in cities, the screaming really annoyed the neighbours, the education said, that’s not polite activity and Ireland’s population decreased. Oh, and then we got condoms, and those birth control pills and other things. And… Well, drink gives the urge and reduces the ability and… “The price of drink is fierce high these days.” “And you think men are running the country?” Funny, funny guy. Yes. And the men are going back to their sheds.
1720pm 17 Feb 2023 There used to be an old joke, what’s the difference between a nurse and a helicopter? And… Well, finding a good helicopter is easy, there are ads for that. (That’s not the punchline I told him.) (Yes. And mine keep telling me that I should be dating.)
1735pm 17 Feb 2023 Aljazeera.com – Turkey-Syria earthquake live: Man rescued in Hatay after 11 days I’m not normally a watcher of these, however it’s top of my Google feed and it’s got the right message so: KEEP DIGGING
1745pm 17 Feb 2023 Colman Which Science Fiction books and movies are relevant to the situation on Earth at present? Well, as cautionary tales, Douglas Adams “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” and “The Martian” (2015). Why? Well, one deals with the Earth being destroyed because no one read the local scientific journals (There’s a hyperspace route planned and your planet is being destroyed.) and the other deals with a man stranded on a planet, where there is limited life support. Unfortunately, both have the premise that survival is dependant on a passing spaceship. And that’s not probable, so I’d say reading a few scientific journals and trying to live in an ecologically sustainable manner on our own planet might be nice. In The Martian (2015) Mark Watney was going pretty nicely, until the Habitat was destroyed. Why? (Because the movie needed a plot twist at 40 minutes in to keep the viewers engaged.) Good movie, isn’t it. Yes, bit scary though, he looked awful thin at the end.
1815pm 17 Feb 2023 Wasn’t I looking at a storm? Well, a little thunder cloud cluster yesterday. Three little cells? First the wind from Windy.com, then the weather radar from the BBC. Yes, that little cluster has grown. Eh, that one’s a little further South and between the wind lines? Which? Well at high altitudes it’s called the Jetstream, though we normally didn’t have such beautiful weather radar, it’s only recently become available. Space research is so nice. You can see the problems coming from a long way off. (Actually, this stuff was available and you needed a few Heroes in IT to kick arse.)
1850pm 17 Feb 2023 Why would finding the Higg’s boson be difficult? Well, finding the bloody thing that’s easy, they’re everywhere. (In everything with loads of mass. It’s a big sphere in the math diagrams.) The problem is proving it’s an individual item, picture knocking a half dozen iron filings off a really huge powerful magnet when all you have to fire at is a bunch of huge bullets. You get loads of bits and the magnet is normally so powerful it catches other bits before you can take a picture of it to show: Look, isn’t she pretty. Oh, and some of the bits appear before you hit the bloody thing, which is quite off putting. They’re call neutrinos. Why dem dere? Well, according to Colman’s mind experiment, it would designate them as having opposite Time charge to a photon and they rush toward the start of Time. And what do they do when they get there? Well, there’s a chance that they rush through the tiny event horizon at the Big Bang keeping it open. (The Black Hole (1979) a much under appreciated movie, I liked BoB.) And, well the other possibility is they… Oh, look two Black Holes colliding? How did you know to look that direction? Well, there was a stream of other stuff arriving past us, arriving? Well, actually rushing, toward the collision. Did you know they look for them passing through large tanks of water? Read a book once? No, that was an internet article.
1915pm 17 Feb 2023 It’s called a Sun – The energy comes out as sunshine, photons of energy. A Black hole, the anti-energy arrives as neutrinos. Why? well, otherwise you get a Universe. And? Well, when no neutrinos arrive to calm the beast, the thing gives a Big Bang. Be nice, that’s OUR Universe you’re talking about. Pulsars etc. Lack of available neutrinos from the nearby space, it swallowed them all already. Got your attention, has he?
1840pm 18 Feb 2023 Why were the British in what became RoI defeated? Well, there’s a pub outside Collins Barracks, that’s called the Barrack View. Orders were given when the soldiers were on the square. Now normally you go: Bn Order C Coy on the square in an hour write an Op Ord. How do the Irish do it? Can you get the lad from C Coy on duty to call everyone in? First officer in to take charge. Yes. It was nice when we had accommodation for the soldiers around the barracks. And well, that finished? Why? Well the wives objected to an officer being in the house so frequently and than the houses fell into dilapidation. How do you know that Colman? Well after I got good enough playing with the kids my age on the grassy area where the soldiers kids used to play I found that the Board of Works, the Department of Defence employed civilians played on the excellent soccer pitch outside their stores played there every lunch time, so I used to play soccer every lunch time in the Summer with them. I was about fourteen and not as big as them, they were around fifty and not as fit as I was so the matches were quite balanced. In GAA Terms it would be what Junior B does, it brings out the young lads who are fit and unpractised and the old guy, who know all the tricks, however they just aren’t fit enough for Junior or they can’t turn up every day because of work demands. And. Well, the soldiers can’t afford cars, so do you have a minibus to collect them, the FCA used to have minibuses. And. Well, in this weather the Taxis are staying at home. What’s that called Colman Oh, it’s called the Department should run a Thought Experiment. It’s called an Exercise without troops in the Army. TEWT What’s the First T stand for? Taught? Thought? Oh, there’s a few types of those. Yes. There are. There – Exercise – Without – Troops. We did nice TEWTs on the Junior Command and Staff course, first they were taught and then they were called exams. The Exam duration was quite long. Which? Oh, the six months in KFOR. Yes, after I left KFOR, my replacement was my buddy from Congo, though he’d been promoted, I had sent a letter after a few weeks, saying that my rank wasn’t quite suitable for the job. I thought a Commandant or two might like to do the exam, for the experience. It was a Bde Hq with a Bn of troops. And. Well, the County Council housing seems to be a little better inspected these days. In Donegal, one of our officers was the FCA All Army shot, again and again and in the RDF again and again, and those glasses are really cool, yes, my eyesight isn’t what it used to be and again and again. (It’s called exaduration for effect.) And… Did he teach shooting? Colman only once. What did he teach? Well, he was on a Munster falling plates team. old guys from the outside in, young people from the inside out and the fastest to the firing position fires first. That’s a wasted shot? No, the young person on the other team flinched. And well, the young person who fired the first shot had a nice warmed barrel and their second shot hit the third target, nicely. Thermodynamics, the barrel lengthens, you can tell which shot was fired first, the distance between land grooves in the bullet changes. (Garda forensics uses the system. You just use a microscope. Or a photo and blow up the photo with a… Really, no you just count the pixels. and how big is the bullet, well it’s that many pixels. What calibre is it? Oh, ask someone in ordinance, I just do the science. In actual fact, the calibre is the diameter of the bullet, however the science guy hadn’t read that jargon, so he didn’t know the word. In actual fact, calibre refers to a bit more than diameter depending on which jargon you read.) The first round is squeezed though a shorter barrel with a narrower diameter and drops lower, so you aim a little higher for the first shot. Yes, the bullet coming out the end of the gun, depends on: Make, manufacturer, metal used in manufacture, weather on the day, previous damage to the barrel through wear and cleaning, dirt on the inside of the barrel hen fired etc. Let me guess, an internet article? No I watched a few tv-shows, it’s quite obvious really, if you did a module on thermodynamics and you read the SMLE .303 manual, which was partially written by someone who did thermodynamics. You’re saying the weatherperson is more qualified? Yes, see the start, CNN Weatherwoman describes the Turkey Earthquake. Colman your writing style is reminiscent of Alan Moore. Ah, well, actually it’ quite similar to Watchmen in style, because Alan Moore wrote quite a lot of other stuff too in different styles, which style would you like to to write it in? And which is your favourite of his? I liked Halo Jones, nice female lead and a moral to the story. Yes, Watchmen was the only graphic novel to be on the Sunday Times List – Best Fiction of the Twentieth Century and no, they didn’t read Halo Jones. And yes, then they went to find the best of the other languages and they found: Edge of Tomorrow (2014). You didn’t see it as that, you saw it as Live, Die, Repeat. Yes. I did. The book was by hiroshi sakurazaka (wiki), it’s excellent, I read the English version. hiroshi sakurazaka (iMDb), Yes, iMDb is no longer placing the alternate names in the data base, why? Well, the languages lists are huge and the subtitle versions of the movies are now sold under the local language names. You have to look up the lead actor and read their list of movies and see if you recognise the movie poster (advertisement)? You used small letters, why? Well, in some places Capitals are only used for God’s name. In Japan, it was the Emperor. And well, they don’t look like us and you’ll come back as a shiny sword or some such and you get “You only need: Kill,” Punctuation is important. It’s also a reference to SkyNet in the Terminator movies, which is a warning against AI usage in military spheres (Spheres of influence, it’s a jargon term.).
1850pm 18 Feb 2023 How do you know that speeds faster than light are possible? Well, neutrinos give a little poof when they hit a Time positively charged particle and release energy. There was something about Cold fusion. Yes, and they’re very small and… SHIT, the events going to happen when? And the gravity wave should be coming from which direction? And? Two black holes colliding? How did you know that? Well, the frequency of the neutrinos was different. Colman? Now, that’s complete supposition? Yes. It is. Cold fusion isn’t possible. No, cold fusion isn’t repeatable. No, cold fusion isn’t economically viable. No, cold fusion only happens occasionally on Earth because neutrinos are really really small and really really fast and they only hit little bits on Earth, really, really seldom. (It’s a really big tank of water.) Yes, it is.
1905pm 18 Feb 2023 And what do you do to counter this? Well, NASA uses four computers on their spacecraft, three do the calculations, if one differs, the fourth steps in for the next calculation and you check the reason for the little calculation malfunction and if it’s still working ok, you put it as the back up and carry on. It happens all the time? Well, the older the computer, the larger the gaps in the n-p junctions and the less frequently this little calculation error happens. Yes, that tv-program, with that nice Indian mathematician, on BBC4, was educational. In English, some parts of the sentence are not required for understanding of the meaning, depending on circumstance (Who’s standing around.) Yes, it was educational. Translation for Irish English speakers, please? “That was GOOD, wasn’t it.” You read THAT in a book? “Mind on the job in hand, please?” Here, look at these?
1935pm 18 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery website server is having trouble keeping up with the traffic requests, you might ask if they need an upgrade? If it’s one computer? Cloud computing allows larger companies to increase the available band width depending on the traffic load. Well, actually it depends on if the traffic is all arriving at the one node or IP address. Sometimes, different users are given different IP addresses to the same server, to spread the load accross multiple addresses, which are served, by different threads. “You can do this using a cookie.” Coffee anyone? Milk, one sugar please? Sorry, love. Chocolate Goldgrain next time? (This depends on different threads? No, this is a descriptive passage. Use of multiple sentence types +1 mark Honours English, Leaving Certificate.)
1950pm 18 Feb 2023 Colman, in Kosovo your OpOrds were rather repeditive. Yes. Why? Well, it was a common language to all the troops, who knew what the meanings were. And. Well, when I was asked for a new Task, I sent Obsidian. It was rather different and had a good effect. Now, that’s a different story. Yes, the lads quite enjoyed that and I was sent to Finland to give a lecture or two. His lecture was quite simple. Yes, however his technique was quite good. 2Lt how do you do that? Bg Comdr how do you do that? He only got a B in class taking there. Yes, they’d done the stuff before and it wasn’t considered particularly relevant to their rank. And. Well, I presume Pte Joe Andersson (Most common surname Sweden 2012 Google Search most common surname in Sweden 1948pm (UTC) 18 Feb 2023 from Colman’s IP address) was quite impressed, when he passed though FinCent later. (It’s a HHGTTG reference to Ford Prefect. Actually the best version for that is the Tv-series clip with the Computer narrating. I bought it on VHS tape. Colman)
2000pm 18 Feb 2023 Oh, I felt that one alright. M 5.1 (D) 6.2 km. You might see if anything fell down? Why? Because some people might need to get stuff out of their house and/or looters might have been in there? I actually mean that, I’ve been quite calm lately, the large noises having subsided and I thought I might need to take a look. My house is on top of the hill, it’s a big solid rock, and it shakes. (Some people have a saying like “I got a cold shiver down my spine.”)
2010pm 18 Feb 2023 Colman, that’s quite an inaccurate method. Yes, when I want to listen closely, I have a cigarette and lean on the doorpost of my house. Why were seismographs invented? Well, for some reason, that mad bollix is quite accurate.
2015pm 18 Feb 2023 Where would you put a seismograph? Oh, Collins Barracks, in the rock under it. Yes. There’s a barometer on the officers mess mantlepiece, not very accurate. Why? Well, the fxxking needle on the thing bounces up and down without the pressure changing. And… Eh, can you feed the paper through a little faster than a half inch an hour? And then when they were looking at materials? It makes a spark? And Piesoelectric materials were discovered and the Japanese started making digital watches, because they were quite interested in seeing if the earthquakes were happening (Nani ( 何, Oh, look, it’s a little kanji, 何, (that’s in “descriptor bold”, however the “SHIT THAT’s COOL, is a little different.)), “what” else is this stuff good for?). They don’t normally use brackets to denote the inside of sentence parts, most use commas and you have to figure them out, James Joyce wrote the longest English sentence, it’s a lot easier to see the separate parts of the story in a comic book. Yes it is. Math and computers use brackets, and “Good English” uses pithy short sentences. Why? Because they read comic books. Where’s the bracket? Woops? (Null pointe. You see. an Irish person knows what I’m talking about because they watched the Eurovision, though they didn’t have a translator. (See Eurovision Song Contest.)) Well, that punctuation error, might have been for demonstration purposes? (Iffy. Not listed in the exam guidelines, he gets deducted a mark for that, Honours English Leaving Certificate.)
2050pm 18 Feb 2023 Now, the leaving Cert English reader sees, “Must use proper punctuation”, and the local officer goes, “Actually, there is a barometer.”, and others go. “Are you OK? Who saved you?” “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?”
2130pm 18 Feb 2023 The boss called us all into the courtyard and told us a Japanese team had placed an information gathering device on top of the Volcano. Goma, about half way into my time there. “Who’s carrying a getout bag?” I raised my hand and the boss said, “Well, I knew you would be.” I later traded the bag to an Indonesian officer who was quite taken with it, it being British and I had purchased it in a military surplus shop, I’m sure he was quite disappointed to find I had removed all the straps from inside. The clove flavoured cigarettes were delicious. Those nice little new backpacks are/were cool aren’t they. Colman (Eh, what did Colman have?) (Oh, a large New Zealand kitbox, which he was lent from a nice officer in Donegal, he returned it, with thanks, after he got home. And what did Colman do? Well, he bought the German version with wheels on it at the German shop in Kosovo. Carrying the thing on the plane to Kalemie, and getting it up the stairs in the hotel was quite difficult. ) And? Well, the NZ version is perfect for the troops, with logistics support. (Also “the troops with logistics support”? Those commas are important aren’t they.) (Oh, and the spaces, one for a comma, two for the end of a sentence.) I’d recommend the second for Military Observers.) (Note: Calling where Colman stayed a hotel room, while accurate in English does not describe the bed, which he covered with his nice DF poncho, the lack of bed linen, he slept in his DF sleeping bag, tropical, the bathroom, no, I’m not describing that, or the water which came from the tap, or the feeling, which was quite lonely, when he was eating breakfast, alone, in the hotel dining room, which was beautifully clean, the following morning. And the food was delicious. “Ham and cheese toastie?”, “Anyone?”.) Colman
2135pm 18 Feb 2023 Yes, there are places where eating the breakfast might be considered something for which a medal might be awarded. “Would you?” Yes, I think Colman deserved a little rest after that. Colman What did Colman do, he went on holidays in Guatemala, it’s as big a deal as eating food in a tourist hostel. Ever seen the inside of the fridge in a hotel in Goma? I asked to have a look in the one I was staying in. Yes, the freezer compartment was quite well stocked. Though a little small and the hotel only had electricity eight hours a day. Colman
2150pm 18 Feb 2023 And what do you hope happened, Colman? Well, I hope the hundred dollars a night (You sure that allowance was spent?) for the room in Kalemie bought a nice mattress and someone cleaned the room and the next person had a better time of it. Booking.com Kalemie, well, maybe they don’t have internet yet? (No properties found in Kalemie.)
2200pm 18 Feb 2023 Standardised readings require standardised equipment and the barometers are? Would you like to check the air pressure in Hatay, Turkey, again, please? (Yes, at the airport, where the meteorological station is?) (We got a little tour of the Met station in Baldonnel as part of our flying course. BFTS, Thank you. Colman)
2205pm 18 Feb 2023 Arduino – Air Pressure sensor
2225pm 18 Feb 2023 This is why aeroplanes (Yes, it’s airplanes now in some dictionaries.) now carry radar altimeters to confirm the height above ground, based previously, solely on pressure data from the airport, what’s the QNH (Australian Met office)? (That is/is not the pressure at the Airport’s height? WHAT’s that?) (Ask a pilot? It’s been a few years since I read that book.) (Yes, the Q is a question. See Star Trek Q continuum.) (What’s the NH for? Not Height above sea level?) (You threw a string over the side, with a wooden triangle, with knots on the string, to measure the actual speed of the ship.) Colman
0125am 19 Feb 2023 Silly question? Why does the door of the freezer suck closed after you close it and it’s difficult to open it for a while? Why do you ask? Well, I just got a block of icecream out and it’s a question I’ve thought of quite a number of times and ignored because I was busy getting food for something or other. The warm air entering the freezer cools rapidly in contact with the cold air inside and as it cools, it contracts in size and pressure in the freezer is reduced, this prevents the freezer from opening. It’s a danger in some places because they have such large freezers. Yes. And such small children, that’s why… In Ireland the freezer compartment is on the top. And in weather terms, warm air going up the mountain, cools and sucks more air up the mountain after it and “The winds on top of the mountain ArE QuiTe sTroNg today.” Yes, you need to actually check the windspeed on top of the fxxking mountain. Next time? Please? Yes, it is why the wind at Nuuk, Greenland is so strong. Nice place? Enjoying that conference?
0300am 19 Feb 2023 Cyclone Gabriel (BBC just now, or) Cyclone Gabrielle The Guardian – Cyclone Gabrielle: temporary morgues set up in New Zealand as rescues continue (Death toll Eight (8) – Sky News – Turkey earthquake: Couple rescued after being buried under rubble for more than 12 days Note: I saw a person from NZ talking in the BBC about the coverage from Turkey being sidelined and ___ KEEP DIGGING
0305am 19 Feb 2023 ReliefWeb.int https://reliefweb.int/disaster/eq-2023-000015-tur “Disaster description – The UN and humanitarian partners launched a Flash Appeal calling for $397.6 million of emergency assistance to provide relief to 4.9 million people in most acute need following the earthquakes. The United Nations Secretary General welcomed the opening of the additional two crossing points of Bab Al-Salam and Al Ra’ee from Türkiye to north-west Syria for an initial period of three months to allow for the timely delivery of humanitarian aid. (OCHA, 15 Feb 2023)” A little update please? It’s the weekend in New York? Really? (Note: Mr Who? Came out of UN Operations Section a number of years ago? I presume he was a busy beaver? Chop, chop? Yes, it’s called cut and paste, dearie. WE used to use scissors and glue. (Colman used sellotape.)
0325am 19 Feb 2023 UNOSAT Someone’s getting a nice pat on the back for this. Just doing my job. Damn right! Now, in future, where the little red box is, can you open a photo of the damaged building? Well, actually, those enlargements are sent already. Just pointing this out for the viewers. This is the public version. The town names in A light colour? Well, we want them to look at the map detail. Yes… and? Oh, the Turkey bit in the centre too? On the top centre of the window? No, bottom of the window please, so the people who read left to right and those who read right to left, all see it’s Turkey last and then they read UNOSAT. The data on the name of the disaster is already on the top. ESRI – Thank you. Colman – Actually, since most of that banner is built already, can you put it between the scale and “Maxar?” Who are they? ( Oh, they’re the, we’ll never work in government again, people? They what? )
0340am 19 Feb 2023 Colman when you did your project on Israel, you did use glue. That was a long time ago, yes, paper glue. And your layout, whose style did you use? Well, I copied a variety of layout styles from tourist books and other sources. And who read your project? My primary school teacher, I did it when we returned from Israel, dad had been (past perfect continuous – a nice use of language, +1 mark Honours English Leaving Certificate, he was a year, there (oh, bonus mark, he could have said “a year there” +1 mark, it’s not good English, yes, it should say “he was , a year, there or he was “a year” there, (that’s two versions of an emphasis? Oh he’s really clocking up the marks now. Was the earlier, an error, for achieving descriptive alliteration, perhaps? That’s how many marks achieved in one sentence?), yes, I think that counts as a continuous, a weekend stay might only have been a “was working” there.) working in Lebanon for UNIFIL, 1980, I think.
0440am 19 Feb 2023 Why do certain schools do so well in the Leaving Cert exams? Well, in some cases, their teachers have experience “grading the papers” and know the “marking schemes”. Two emphases, and an unusual plural? OHHH? (That’s two unusual plurals actually, oh, three (3)? Nice (meaning precise), how many marks? Note: for some, “nice” means desert, woops, dessert (food). https://www.anediblemosaic.com/basbousa-recipe/ You sure that word originates from… https://arabic.fi/words/2425 Acid drops? Really? You might look at this page from Finland, though the arabic lessons seem to be quite good, there’s a few errors in the page, the little eye symbols lead nowhere? And my speakers are on, so there’s no sound from them either? I presume it was for a vocalisation of the phrase, (Word Morphology education.vic.gov.au “Inability to be relied or trusted upon”, a nice hello to the unsuspecting student. “May I wave at them?” Been to “Coles” lately? Only special people get those pages? No, actually, just the nosey ones, who read. Five (5) meters, is that why the newest Irish convention centre looks like it’s up on stilts. Yes, it is. Thank you for visiting the biggest Irish Comic Convention, https://www.dublincomiccon.com/ . Come, have a look? See the sights? Take a few photos? “Aaassk WHHHYYYYY” ? “Oh, I’m not finished with you yet… Not by a long shot…”
0500am 19 Feb 2023 Paris – the Seine, taken Sept 2018, some cities, devastated by flooding over many years, built their landscapes up, higher and higher, from the flood waters from their local rivers. Here’s a photo from Colman’s travels. I like Paris, I recommend it for a nice visit, the museums are excellent. Yes, some people (Celts, in particular.) used to worship rivers, leaving offerings, that they might survive the next flood event, and some of the swords were from people, who simply fell in, or were thrown in “And, here’s your sword, too”. “Come again soon.”.
0520am 19 Feb 2023 There was an old story, you can figure it out? Store enough grain for seven years of famine. Why? “Well, we went back over the old tax receipts and that was how long it took for the tax receipts to return to normal after the last disaster. The Nile flooding events, are, quite regular, however…” “In my Grandfather’s time? You went that far back?”. Egypt? Wasn’t it? That was quite a while ago. Yes. It was. (Note: Apparently, quite recently, a large disruption in the stock market was caused by a piece of computer software, which had not seen data in the long past (100 years). That was in 2007?)
0540am 19 Feb 2023 Back to Iceland? The warm air and the ocean currents being a little warmer than usual, this being quite regular now, the Greenland island, expands a little, the maximum speed of expansion, being just after the Spring equinox, the time of max “Q” (Space terminology, nice) or maximum change, and underneath the fault line, Loki decides whether to squeeze one out or not (You know this timeline is quite similar to that Odin, Thor tv-series from New Zealand? Yes. It is. The Almighty Johnsons (wiki) Excellent show. I liked Freya, she was hot (Actually most of the female cast, were, quite good looking.) Will the rock above be cold enough to stop it arriving at the surface or not? You have how long to ponder (It’s a Terry Pratchett reference, Ponder Stibbons (discworld.fandom.com) the solution. “Pub’s empty? Why? Listen, I told you we should have let him have a pint, every now, and then. Who? The big guy, who used to be in the corner, everyone loved his stories.”
0625am 19 Feb 2023 My watch at 0555am gave me a storm alert, it’s quite a silly piece of software on the Garmin Solar, however it judges it on the speed of the drop, and my barometer on my wall says 1030.5 millibars (=30.45 inches of Mercury, weather.gov) and the watch say 1031, so they’re both quite accurate on the measurements, the speed of drop, well, that’s because the High pressure system is quite condensed, the pressure having started building about 1/3 rd of the 48 hours on the graph and that’s about sixteen hours ago, a flat peak of approx three hours and now the pressure will probably decline rapidly, why probably? Well, I haven’t looked at the actual pressure chart since yesterday. Ears, might, pop on the descent (Google Noun 1. an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling. “the plane had gone into a steep descent”.) Yawning, helps to equalise the pressure by stretching the eustachian tubes, when they pop back into shape, it sometimes clears any blockage. Divers do this frequently to equalise the pressure as they descend through the water. Note: There’s a nice thing about increasing air pressure, it pushes the water nicely, the siphon uses this effect. The height limit of a siphon( nature.com). And the pressure above the exit point of the lava exceeds or equals the pressure underground? Well, strangely enough, if the air pressure at sea level at Reykjanes is much lower than that above the lava source, under the seabed, then the lava has a greater chance of reaching the surface. It’s only 10 meters of water or 30 feet. Yes, that’s a cubic tonne, per cubic meter. 10 meters over a meter sq area is ten tonnes. Now you stand there and I’ll demonstrate? Nice ice cube bath, was it? Very refreshing, thank you, I needed that. Now, ask a meteorologist all the intricacies, please, I’m tired and for bed. Good night. Colman
1915pm 19 Feb 2023 Now some people, name high schools, some people write books about them and some people put little plaques or stars on walls to remind people of dead heroes. In some cases, the situations are too scary for describing in real life and people turn to fiction or science fiction to put accross their ideas. Mr Terry Pratchett, he wrote fantasy, about the trials and tribulations initially of a lowly wizard who happened to have a very powerful spell in his head. Now while the Discworld fandom is quite cool and gives a large listing of the use of brooms in the literature, it fails to mention Strata and the scientific method of broomstick travel, the broomstick teleporting a centimeter at a time and thus the appearance of flight being given. Why isn’t there a scene about a broomstick cleaning a house? Well, that would be impolite to Mr Disney and the original popular wizard from his genre, Fantasia (1940) ‧ Fantasy/Musical ‧ 2h 5m, it’s excellent. Now, there are two types of books. Fantasia was written in the 20th or 21 Century? I think it was the 20th? The reader knew it was the twentieth, and goes that was cool, I knew that, and Mr Pratchett’s books written initially about simple subjects in the 20th Century led the audience going, ah, I know how that can be done in real life. His readership appreciated the master leading with “you know this”, however did you know it can also do this? Other authors, had a different view and Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christy had different styles, these were books from the early twentieth century and book ownership was just becoming popular. The readership was baffled and bemused in their first reading of the book, the skill of the hero or heroine being miles above their own knowledge, however on the second reading, oh, I remember how that happened, it was: And the reader appreciated the master leading with it’s nice knowing something about that isn’t, maybe you should learn more. It took me three readings to understand Mr Moore’s excellent graphic novel and yes, I would like to know more. Now that’s the sort of review which won Mr Moore a place on the Sunday Times Best Fiction of the Twentieth Century, written by an old author. (Colman fancies himself as some sort of critic? No, he just wanted to thank the masters for leaving a small space near their feet where he could place his towel. It saves me sitting in the tears. Oh, and by the way I am writing this in front of a 32″ flat screen, which shows me the pictures from the disaster areas nicely at a distance of one table width. The edges of the tv picture unfortunately fall under the plastic rim of the tv, so the scroll bar is unseen, until you use the maximise, minimise button to change the size of the window, which is why they were invented in the first place, with our Commodore Vic20 we used the phosphor tv for it’s screen. Colman)
2000pm 19 Feb 2023 https://www.geonet.org.nz/ https://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/whiteisland Excellent system. https://www.gns.cri.nz/ Their banner has the earthquake on 15 Feb Cook Straite highlighted. On the right hand side tap “READ MORE” https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2023p122368 M Six (6.0) D fifty four (54) km
2015pm 19 Feb 2023 Colman wasn’t his good in the Cadet school, no he wasn’t, he read a lot afterwards though. We didn’t have many military books in the house. And Colman’s solutions aren’t normal Military College solutions, well, not solutions normally used for tactics at his rank. No they weren’t. And. Well, most of the rest of them are still in the Permanent Defence Forces, they’re quite good. Yes, Ireland was the first country to declare the Climate Emergency in 2019. So the rest of you might catch up? (Oh, we were ahead of ye in our research, yes, and it’s nice to be able to stand on the shoulder of giants, though our little voice carries to the little people. Yours is sometimes a little loud for them to take seriously.) (Listen, I thumped him because… )
2025pm 19 Feb 2023 https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/ Oh, look, when it’s cold, you can see the semi solid lava pushing it’s way under the rock? Yes, the “most active” lava tubes are from here, to here, to here, to… Note: Link to Global Volcano Model Network – Site cannot be reached?
2035pm 19 Feb 2023 Reykjanes ridge today at 10am, M 2.8 or 2.9 ? You have to remember that Iceland’s geology (It’s rock types and shapes) is really soft. The little orange one bottom left? (The geologists? Oh, they’re really hard. It’s cold work getting their fingers out to the chilly places.) (Oh, he’s not in right now, it seems like he’s going to be a bit busy for the pub for a few days. Yes, he did ask a few people for a lift here or there, it seems, when he told them his latest story, they were a little concerned too and said they’d help out. Actually, beer might not be the right thing to send, a few nice soft drinks? Oh, you have lovely hot chocolate, could you send a few of those out too and we’ll fix up after. And no, he was concerned about the farmers out there, your pub, is quite safe.)
2105pm 19 Feb 2023 20 DEC 2020 State of emergency for Seyðisfjörður, Iceland as 550+ mm of rain and landslides brought significant damage – the whole town evacuated on Friday By Author Marko Korosec Posted on Published: 20/12/2020 Note: The study of history, recent and distant past is important, so that previous mistakes can be avoided. Now while others would be asking what happened there, I know from reading the literature that, the local Icelandic police, there aren’t too many of them just said listen lads and ladies, up and out, and we’ll tell you when it’s safe to return, Iceland lost an entire village which sunk in the moist soil long ago. The question Colman would ask is “Why is no one tending this website any longer? And do they know it’s costing them money? 20 euros a year I presume, for the web address. And a little more for the website builder program. Where I presume they have another little site for the people they attracted with this website.” Now Iceland if you look at the little icon on the top right hand side of the screen, says 0,0,1,1 for their alert status, and it’s for the land islanders, the fishermen having had much better alert systems for many years at sea, “The forecast for Malin Head to Slyne Head is…”. So I would ask if Ireland could consider a county wide system? One Irish Island map on the screen with 0,0,0,0,0,0,0 etc, for most of the time with a little one (1) or two (2) for the fog and rain and such, and a little mountain map reached from the front (homepage of the ) website or app page to give the mountain weather and another for the sea weather. Simply based, on my little meanderings, through the internet. Signed Colman
2140pm 19 Feb 2023 You’d take the weather warning for the coast off the main map? Yes, there’s only a few people concerned with that and the appearance of big warnings every day, are simply annoying to the land dwellers. It’s rather like, having the place looking like its dangerous, when it’s normally a warning to fishermen, land and seagoing. If you want to give real warnings, saving lives of land dwellers, you add a map of drug spikings, violent incidents and road traffic warnings (separate pages, yes, with 1s and 2s etc.) in towns and cities? Why? So the local business men can campaign to have them reduced, so that people will want to visit the local pubs. Oh, and a river map? Because flooding normally happens beside rivers for some reason? (It’s why Volcano Discovery.com has pages for earthquakes around the Volcanoes.) (Why not in the villages?) (Yes, and I’d do it again and, yes, she is leaving the village. Me, I’m busy tomorrow, there’s a little earthquake alert and I have to check a seismograph.) (Eh, what’s a 10 on a road? Oh, that’s the scenario, where the Space shuttle tried to land on the motorway, and broke up on impact, the road might be closed for a few weeks? Well, yes, the RDF and Civil Defence would be collecting the parts for the air investigators. They’re quite efficient these days, lots of practice. Eh, there’s a 10 and the Space shuttle was retired? What is that? And that says “FOUR EYES ONLY Def Gda CDf Gov” Why? If you have to ask? Seriously?)
2145pm 19 Feb 2023 At the safety brief for the Engineering course in Ul I saw the effect of a number of accidents which were burned brightly into my memory. The message was: Wear the Safety equipment. Now – KEEP DIGGING
2150pm 19 Feb 2023 https://apnews.com/hub/earthquakes?utm_source=apnewsnav&utm_medium=featured AP News – Search winds down – second story here yesterday Couple rescued after 296 hrs, or 12 days. Keep digging – SAVE ONE
2200pm 19 Feb 2023 Earthquakes Canary Islands Spain Yes, the weather here is improving, Springtime here is very beautiful and the water temperature is rising steadily and so is the strength of the little earthquakes. (And yes, the expert on the earthquakes here, before the last eruption, was a Doctor of Psychology, let’s meet?) (Sugar, what was her name again? “Listen Sunshine, I speak English, your editor wanted the interview in Spanish for the effect in subtitles, for your mixed international audience, and if you’d like I’ll do the interview in every language I know?” (Eh, will that cost extra? The Union of Geologists isn’t going to like it, and she just looked up the records of past earthquake events, to find out why the patients were so restless.)
2230hrs 19 Feb 2023 Your class Colman, there were some reports that you were called the Dirty Double Dozen. Yes, we got a little reputation, we walked back from the Glen of Immal in formation and broke the Army Ranger Wing’s time. No, I would have called us, Thirty Knights of Dais. How do you spell that? European Association of Remote Sensing Companies – Data and Information AccesS (“Are you OK? Who saved you?” “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?” Yes, a lot of the SHITs think the same.) (Actually there were thirty one of us in our cadet class, one member of the class repeated into the year, there’s a nice picture of him, riding turret on a Challenger Tank, somewhere? No, his eyesight wasn’t perfect, he wore glasses. Fierce skinny, most of us were.) (Dais (wikipedia) “a raised platform at the front of a room or hall, usually for one or more speakers or honored guests.[3]” In UK English it’s spelt “honoured”.) (Yes, there is an excellent vampire movie called Thirty Days of Nights (2007), and the graphic novel is excellent too.)
2245hrs 19 Feb 2023 Colman, what’s your favourite military quote? “No combat ready Unit ever passed inspection.” And? “The Army’s looking fierce shiny these days?” (“Well, actually, we give them two (2) Combat Uniforms these days, the worn one is in their backpacks, though we inspect them in combats, most of the time, these days.”) Why? (Well, it’s nice to get out of the sodden (wet) uniform, when you get back to barracks and put it in the drying room and you still have a uniform to go out in at a minutes notice. Getting back into wet clothes is cold, and we used to get our used one, out of the drying room wet, so that the other Uniform was still nice and clean for inspection. Why? Well, we knew it was going to be “through the tank tracks” or “up and down Donnelly’s hollow”, again, the mud at the first was almost continuous, the rain in Ireland being so frequent, and they covered the place where we used to run in the hollow with stones, we were causing so much erosion to the bank.)
2300pm 19 Feb 2023 Colman what was your favourite exercise, you participated in? Well, there was a Battalion exercise in Donegal and an enemy party from 24 Inf Bn (RDF) was tasked. And I trained them. You weren’t at the exercise? No. And? Well, I was on the Infantry YO’s course, I was sent quite late as a YO. And. Well, they said how many soldiers they wanted and I gave our lot, lots of machine guns and a speech on how this was “Their chance to Defend Donegal” (and tactics for it) and afterwards they complained that the supervisors kept shooting us in the back with the “god gun”, a term for the TESS laser fire simulator equipment supervisors gun. And, well, they were polite, they didn’t say “WE KICKED their holes for them, Sir. Thank you.” I liked my time with the 24th Inf Bn (RDF), the officers and soldiers were nice polite country people (men and women). Colman
2310pm 19 Feb 2023 Might check for a NOTAM on Gas from the vent, La Palma? For the practice, and a wee peek at the webcam? Skyline WebCams Canaries – Skyline WebCams La Palmas – SkyLine Webcams Volcano in La Palma – Cumbre Vieja Live cam Volcano Discovery – Digital surface model of new cone Update Tue 08 Feb 2022 00:57 image: INVOLCAN/INGV – Yes, the 3D renderings are quite good. Those are from the InfraRed, so you see the temperatures. https://www.involcan.org/tenerife-international-training-course-on-volcano-monitoring/ (For Undergraduates and a few Masters and Phd numpties might like to attend?) (Because you weren’t looking at the bloody thing before 2021?) Eh, can you bring that forward? If anything unusual, happens? They might like to see it as the volcano source is squeezed by the changing temperature and the mouth of the vent expands as the rock warms up? Not possible, because we’ll be a little busy, we’ll have the course during the quiet time, when we’re watching the Summer effects and they can see if they can find hotels then? Oh Book Now A haiku, how cute.
2355pm 19 Feb 2023 FineDiningLovers The El Diablo restaurant in Lanzarote I recommend the local dish of potatoes in salt, the Gambas Al Ajillo (Spanish Garlic Shrimp (Recipe The Mediterranean Dish) is quite delicious too. The area around the restaurant is a National Park. The architect and painter César Manrique (1919-1992) (Architectural Review.com), was quite influential in the local island architectural styles, unfortunately ignored, after his death in 1992. I cycled around part of the island with a girlfriend, the roads were quite sparsely used, and unfortunately we didn’t wear sunscreen and were quite badly sunburnt, the UV is quite high there. I recommend a hat and long sleeves cycling, if, your skin type doesn’t tan easily. On another occasion I did the bus tour of the park, including the restaurant, which is quite nice, though the air conditioning on the bus, meant condensation on the inside of the bus windows, it was so crowded. (Yes, Colman was in Lanzarote, a couple of times.) The Park was used by the Apollo astronauts for training in geology before some of the Moon landings. The most famous geologist being? First Geologist on the Moon: Harrison Schmitt and Apollo 17 (geolsoc.org.uk) Who, I presume learned of him from From the Earth to the Moon (Wiki) “is a 12-part 1998 HBO television miniseries co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick telling the story of the Apollo program during the 1960s and early 1970s in docudrama format.” The Tv-Mini series is quite excellent, I bought it on dvd.
0010am 20 Feb 2023 Why was From Earth to the Moon made? Well, The Right Stuff (book) was the popular book about the space program and it’s all about the fighter pilots and test pilots and the geeks were left out, the later people who went when the systems had been tested and the Science could begin. And. Hello from the Geeks? “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?” “Geek” – Cambridge Dictionary updated 5 days ago Eh, the boss would like that changed. No, the first bit goes at the end with historical meanings? Actually, we’re quite popular, we’re just a little busy, and Revenge of the Nerds (1984) was an excellent movie, I think Real Genius (1985) was also based on the idea? Recently, the genre includes Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle (2017).
0030am 20 Feb 2023 Colman, recently you were very loud at a birthday party, why? Well, I was asked lots of questions. Why did the asian looking gentleman arrive to listen? Because, when someone, who knew more, spoke up, I shut the fxxk up and listened and he thought something like, “Smart man, he listens too.”. And Colman looked completely stupid, blathering on. Yes, and everyone else went: “Mmmm? Would you bring him to a party?” And, well a few people need to hear what a completely unqualified retired bored officer gets up to in their spare time. So, sorry, about that and now the preliminaries are over, and my cv’s here, I don’t have to open my mouth so large. If you’ve any questions for Colman, expect a discussion. I like it when people know more than me and are prepared to talk on their hobby subjects, most qualified people wait for money to be paid for their “considered opinion” so, they rarely talk about work and you get the “entrée” and rarely the “main course” (It’s a dinner menu reference) and “dessert”? Oh, have you bought my book, it’s a thousand euros a copy, and I give paid speeches (with travel expenses) translating the new words I invented to describe the phenomena which I discovered and named. I preferred it, when they named mountains after the sponsors, and then they gave knighthoods and stuff, most countries did. “Honour and recognition in case of success.” “Same difference different currencies.” Colman
0040am 20 Feb 2023 Colman you talk as if you’re doing something unusual. No, I’m talking because the people doing the unusual, are just doing their jobs and they need a little unqualified voice to say: We’re just called average, however the standard here, is actually quite high. MacroTrends.net Irish Life Expectancy “The current life expectancy for Ireland in 2023 is 82.81 years, a 0.18% increase from 2022.” – “United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.”
0055am 20 Feb 2023 Give me an example? Eh, you wouldn’t have a look at that for me? “Well I checked your audit and you’ve made a few classic mistakes.” Eh, that bit goes over there and that bit goes over there and then the audit balances. (How did you know that? Well, I spend all last night reading the DFRs on audits, read yours and did the complete audit myself for practice.) In Ireland the reply is, “Thanks, will we go for coffee now, it’s nearly 11.” And when I had a problem as a young Lt previously I had asked a nice senior officer, who corrected my first audit. Eh, Sir, you wouldn’t have a look at that for me? Why? Because when all the audits were all done, they used to be sent to him to be checked.
0110pm 20 Feb 2023 What’s your favourite Army story? Well, I was told one about Terrapins. Really? Yes, an officer was going through customs in Dublin and his luggage was checked and the customs officer said: Terrapins, I don’t know if they can get through without some sort of inspection, I’ll call Dublin Zoo. So, the customs officer called Dublin Zoo and they said, well, we don’t have a qualified person per say on the staff, however, you should call the person we consult. So they gave him the number and he called it and the Defence Forces officers phone rang and he handed to the customs officer, with the customs officers phone number showing on the screen. (Actually he answered the phone, however that works better onscreen for visual effect. What name shall we put on the customs officer? No, lets have a nice generic phone front, which says Customs Inspectors Office Dublin Airport, because this wouldn’t have been the first time he’d been phoned by them.) (That’s just an allegory. Yes it is, I was told it once, nice story though.) Oh, I’m just the, retired officer. Yes, I am taking my tablets, thanks for asking. Colman
0130am 20 Feb 2023 Dune, the book be Frank Herbert, has been made a number of times into movies and tv-series, what lesson can be taken from it? Well, there’s a strange question. And? Well. https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Atreides was tested with the Gom Jabbar, with surprise. The Irish Cadet School and every DF Training facility training Recruits, they tell you it’s going to be quite difficult, and then ask if you’d volunteer. Paul Atreides, he supposedly was born to the task. And. Not all survive. New Zealand Firefighters killed in the line of duty (wiki) Dave van Zwanenberg R.I.P. Died 13 Feb 2023, Craig Stevens R.I.P. Died, 16 Feb 2023 Cause(s) Landslides. (Why is the name Zwanenberg, there. Possibly because after the change in government system in South Africa, some residents were given the option of leaving and a number of other countries accepted their applications for immigration, though I’m just presuming again. Colman)
0150am 20 Feb 2023 Sep 2022 Donegal News – County Council rejects development at Rosemount, there was an earlier case I read about, a house on top of a hill in Letterkenny, being asked to be demolished, as it had been built without planning permission… Translation? Listen, we think that if the hill gets waterlogged, the entire apartment block, might, slide down the hill. Oh, and there was a similar case on the side of a hill, here in Cork, a small while ago. The difference? The depth of soil under the place where the houses were to be built, some hills are just lots of soil, some hills are thin layers of soil over a big rock. How can you tell the difference easily? Well, the ones which are all soil, they have streams emerging from under them, the ones with rock, there are streams, on the side, of the hill. If you climb a few hills, you notice stuff like that and having available fresh water for the troopies, is a nice thing to notice for planning exercises. Colman
0210am Feb 2023 Colman, you didn’t look up the map for the article in Donegal, no, I knew where the house was built. A friend lived nearby long time ago, and I travelled that road quite often and it was excellent arable land with an amazing colour of grass, they had to keep putting fertilizer on it because the stuff drained down through the soil. Easy digging in, though artillery would shake it, quite badly. In WW1 in France, a number of pillboxes, on both sides, simply sank in the mud because of the vibrations. It’s why the Airborne dug in at Bastogne, it was chalk, which withstood the shelling quite well, The Battle of the Bulge. Geology maps are cool, though they were quite a specialised field, if you haven’t got them, you have to keep an eye out for “a nice piece of ground”. (Oh, yes, that one, there, that’s a Wellington quote. Yes, It is. Have a look at Normandy too. See the White Chalk Cliffs and Arches at Etretat in Normandy (european-traveller.com) Pointe du Hoc was important why? Well, the view from up there was quite influential in defeating the Units dug in the area below the Pointe. Limestone is quite soft for digging into, too.) What is the Difference Between Limestone and Chalk? (difference between.com)
0220am 20 Feb 2023 Colman, there are houses built there already? Yes and if they haven’t slid down the hill already in the 100% soil moisture conditions, quite frequent, in Ireland, then, they’re probably safe, though every now and then you check for signs of subsidence. Adding more weight on the top of the layer of soil, however changes the balance of the system, bring it closer to the limit of static friction of the soil in the area and it’s annoying paying for the building damage, because the government guarantees the builds of the houses for twenty years. Static and dynamic friction are on the Irish Leaving Cert course in Physics as well as that of Applied Math (Yes, it’s on the Lower level courses too.).
0235am 20 Feb 2023 Weather Ireland A little rainy up North? The Sat photo or the right is an oblique taken from a geosynchronous (at the equator) orbit and the clouds appear slightly higher than they seem on the map, because you’re looking under them. They’re Altostratus (uk met office).
0240am 20 Feb 2023 Windy.com Rainfall That area in the Azores continues to make those little squalls. And. Well, it’s getting warmer. It’s Spring time. The line of rain is below the Jetstream and you might see where that’s tending (Why tending? Because it pushes other things along.) in the next week or two?
0410am 20 Feb 2023 On a bit of a look around I saw this, you might check if this was associated with the little lightening storm in Lebanon? X2.2/2B FLARE (R3 – STRONG RADIO BLACKOUT) ON 17 FEBRUARY 2023 Space weather? It’s called a Carrington event (wiki) in a large form and most high voltage electrical systems are designed to cope with such events these days.
0440am 20 Feb 2023 Aurora Borealis Visible from Space? This is the Aurora Borealis forecast? And the ISS (tracking map) is over New Zealand in a small while and from their orbit North America isn’t quite visible, so I had a wee peek through one of the Sat photos over North America and the visible is dark? So I’d say the forecast might be? Why is the forecast lead time sixty four (64) minutes? Well, while light travels from the Sun to Earth in: (How long does it take sunlight to reach the Earth? (phys.org)) Eight (8) minutes, it takes a little longer for the heavier bits to arrive here, electrons and protons and stuff, which causes the Aurora Borealis. And, well, it means that you have to be watching the Sun and you only get that much warning time. There was a Campbell Stokes recorder (wiki) in Baldonnel, the hours of bright sunshine were recorded by a chemical means, the paper burned from the directed energy through the ball of glass. How was it directed? Well, the sun moves around and the Sunlight is focused into a little point on the paper, as kids we used to use magnifying glasses to light paper, cub scouts and all that. “the Marvin sunshine recorder is generally the instrument used by the U.S. National Weather Service” DIAS.ie Solar Physics and Space Weather Yes, I read a little something about Ireland having a coating on a Sun orbiting Satellite. Black paint wasn’t it? Joking, there was some beautiful old research on carboniferous meteors, composed of bubbled, black diamonds, it’s why the little things are so valuable. Normal diamonds have a terrible U Value for insulation. FlareCast.eu – Solar Flare forecasting Oh look, Solar Flares – children’s workshops? Zooniverse (UK based, please log in) (Eh, dis under EU or ESA?)
0500am 20 Feb 2023 MeteoAlarm.org – I zoomed in on the storm in Germany This is quite good, however the data boxes don’t quite march the data entries, it’s a small formatting error? I’m sure the phone version page is good, this is the desktop version? Why? Because the long data in the box time duration is formatted for a long screen, like a portrait computer screen? Or a phone? And yes, there is a setting for that from received cookies. It’s how “the server” decides whether to send the app or computer their format of information for the phone screen type, apple or android. The received page at my end (the computer sending the request is called “the client”) can also decide the best format depending on whether I have the screen set to portrait or landscape in windows or other operating systems like linux etc. and the web viewing program I’m using Bing or Chrome etc.
0510am 20 Feb 2023 What’s the difference between the RF blast 17 Feb 2023 and the normal Aurora Borealis or the Aurora Australis (AU_Met_Office) ? Well, the big bits are largely diverted towards the poles by our magnetosphere. Light and Radio aren’t so they arrive in larger amounts to the Equator than at higher latitudes, because the photons are caught by the atmosphere by the air and water(clouds) and at the equator at say DemRepCongo and Ecuador, the distance from the top of the atmosphere to ground level, is shorter than the distance through the atmosphere before they arrive further up (or further down) the Earth to say Ireland and New Zealand. Note: I am deliberately using Ecuador here, because the ground altitudes also make a difference and from my own experience, the altitude at Goma is quite different to that at Kinshasa and you can take a peek at Ecuador if you’d like to have a look at the topographic map, there? https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-9fpb3/Ecuador/?center=-3.51342%2C-72.53952 For dropping into one of these maps from a Spherical map of the earth or other means, you ensure that your data falls within the sides of the map and then pick the Lat Long, a silly hacker would ping all the maps looking for ones which give a return and the see how far left and right they can look so they get the map with the most viewable surface either side and above and below. -3 is 3 °S, -72 is 72 °W from Greenwich. Note: º ° You might check, both of these are special characters from Apache Open Office and whether one is used for degrees temperature and the other lat, long, or if one is Grad and the other degrees (360)? Where is 90°W and 90 °E? The International Dateline? Who celebrates New Year first?
0945am 20 Feb 2023 Now I was looking for information on Kimberley Mine South Africa and this popped up Tue 10 Jan 2023 07.22 GMT The Guardian – Kimberley floods may have left hundreds homeless in region with longstanding housing crisis Copernicus? Might have a little chat with Kimberley Land Council, the peak Indigenous body in the Kimberley region “At one point, the amount of water flowing down the Fitzroy River each day was the equivalent to the entire amount of water Perth uses in 20 years.” “James Ashley from the Bureau of Meteorology says 60,000 cubic metres of water per second is moving down the Fitzroy River – that’s more water than they believe they’ve seen in any river in Australia, ever.” That’s 300m x 200m deep or 600mx 100m deep or 1200m x 50m deep per second is a water speed of 60m per minute or 3.6 km per hour. Now the water speed is a little low here, and I’d be betting on about 30km per hour, so you can divide the earlier figures by ten to get a water speed of 36km per hour and a depth of 1200m x 5 meters deep at 36km per hour. Now, if the water was coming from an area of say 6 km wide either side of the river, this gives a water fall of 12km feeding 1200m and a speed of rainfall of 10 cm per minute. UK Met Office Fact sheet water in the atmosphere This is quite good, Figure 5 has what I was taught about Foehn winds, their photo is awful, you might get them a nice photo of the fog below Baldonnel to exchange into the nice document? “The Fitzroy River at Fitzroy Crossing is currently sitting at 15.75 metres – that’s “six feet” (around 1.82 metres) higher than the previous recorded peak levels.” Ok, so depth, 15 meters gives, 400m wide and 15m deep and 36km per hour? yes, photo says about 30kmph, (Note: 1, I kayak, 2, The height of the waves for rivers moving, is close to the height of the waves with a 30kmph wind blowing at the seaside, it’s the same boundary conditions. Changes, which can increase this apparently, is standing waves around rocks.) AUS – MET Office Weather warnings I came accross the Himawari Sat images, Australia, there’s quite a lot of lightening, you might take a look at FIRMS It takes a little time for teh first set of images to come through and all the jpgs to fill in, about 30 to 40 seconds, which means I’m the first Irish person to see these since they were updated, when they say high speed internet, you should bear in mind that some communities in Australia still have radio school, though I hope that’s internet based by now? It’s still in the beta version, however there are the start up layers on the bottom left and the Lightening is displayed quite nicely. That SHIT gets a good report. “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?” Bit of rain in Tazzie at present? Title: The Passing of the Aborigines (Australia has a Project Gutenberg too) Eh, Mate, you might fix the “beautifully worded” forecast to say “We’re fxxked, Mate?” “Kimberley area Partly cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm, possibly severe in the west. Winds east to northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h becoming light in the late evening.” Phone call to the locals please? Met Office Australia Rainfall map – RED 10 cm of rain in 24 hours Kimberley Forecast Severe Thunderstorm Warning? I know it’s a big area, however you’ve only 20 million people, taking a bit better care of them might be nice? Bit hard finding this?
0950am 20 Feb 2023 NASA FIRMS says the Lightening has started a number of wildfires?
Eh – Mate – Seriously? FREE App for download? All persons?
1025am 20 Feb 2023 Nice daily Sat Photo Antarctica – Shackleton Ice-Shelf Area Sea-Ice for Monday 18 July 2022, why? Well, the Phd was interested in this iceberg. True, now can you see about some decent Met office software too, while you have a nice software person around? Fr de awerage person, Pwlease? Colman, you taking the piss? Seriously, you think I’m the one taking the piss? “The tourists might like to know if the roads in Western Australia are open, and they do contribute so much to the local economy?” “Oh and if you put some large aluminium pillars beside the houses, and a few plastic drums, 240litre, 240 litres lifts 240kg and a light house of wood and corrugated iron construction weighs about 4 tonnes, you only need 16 barrels to lift the house over the flood waters. Oil drums, if you must, though these rust. Call it an “anchored house”? Ask MIT? They might have a solution from Africa? Colman
1030am 20 Feb 2023 Australia – Centre for Remote Health – Research projects? Epidemiology of Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Central Australia – Check the incidence of black mould in the building floor boards, the stuff loves eating wood. SO2 producing moulds from the floor boards effect human health. NSW – Mould Last updated: 20 December 2022, thanks, I didn’t think it would get to Oz so fast. NOTE: It talks about Fuzzy Wealthy homes, no mention of wood? update, please? Colman
1150am 20 Feb 2023 Meitheal Mara Cork might have a look at Indigenous boats.com Why? https://bamboowa.com.au/ Perth? Flora Western Australia, this website is really good. And here is where the data comes out Botanic gardens Western Australian Christmas Tree (Nuytsia floribunda) University of Wisconsin USA This mentions possible anti-cancer uses for mistletoe, one of whose Australian relatives is this nice tree? Excellent for colour and attracting bees? Strange, the Bot Gardens website says none in NW Au, however the Flora W A has a place up north? Importance of clonal reproduction in a liana species, Wisteria floribunda Why you talk about Liana’s here? Well, Tarzan used to swing on Liana’s in the jungle (I read it in Childcraft when I was a teen.), though a little out of place in Australia, the vines make excellent ropes. You might learn how to make a little boat? Oxford University Press. Annals of Botany Surprised to see a job as a Phd researcher in Cannabis growing, here? Google – Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug smuggler and author who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases. He came out of here didn’t he? The movie was quite good, opened up some lovely questions about NI, which are still in court. Anyway, back to boats, What is a coracle? (Visit Wales.com) A coracle, or a ‘cwrwgl’ as it was originally named in Welsh, is a small one-person boat made out of woven wood and a waterproof covering. They were used in the UK over 2000 years ago, dating back to pre-Roman times, and they are still used today – most commonly for fishing. Might see if there’s enough of this to build a few boats? Though gardeningetc.com has my favourite FLAGS – You might fix this they say flax? Actually in Ireland some of us call the large 2meter version of this Flags and it’s an excellent plant for fixing sandy soils, a few in Finner might be nice? Prevents coastal erosion, like down below the range perhaps? Native to New Zealand, Phormium (also known as flax) are easy to grow in a sunny location in most moist, fertile but free draining soils and add a superb evergreen, architectural effect, making this plant a great option for tropical garden ideas. They do well by the sea and can eventually grow huge. This variety is more modest in size, with bold arching evergreen, sword-like leaves of green with cream centers and smart maroon rims. Height: 35in (90cm). Why FLAX 2 meter, well, the stuff is really really hard, excellent for weaving, I used to plait it for twine. There was loads at Ardamine beach near Courtown, Co. Wexford. There it is: Reachability.ie Garden Centre New Zealand Flax Instructibles.com I think when they said learn how to make a boat out of it they meant something a bit larger? Currach Project – Our Linen stories.com Note: Alice Springs has a boat race every year which started as a Civil Defence project to get the locals to have a boat for their own survival, these being carried over their heads. A special class in the race, which is now a tourist spectacle, might be a class where the boat is required to be water worthy? These small boats might be light enough to be the winning team boats? Or you might run classes with the teams crossing a swimming pool 50 meters long after construction? You might call it a sport? Olympics in twenty four years time? Since the fxxking water is rising???
1230pm 20 Feb 2023 Bushtuckerman Channel 7 syndicated to ABC Australia and I used to watch it here, where do you think that Irish woman got the idea for Sugru mouldable plastic, it’s originally from a plant in Australia. The nice Major, he used it for repairing a plastic waterdrum. https://bushtuckerman.com.au/ DATABASE FOOD AUS Good onya mate! Pity a few of the head shed in the Aussie Weather service, don’t have your spleen. One of the best plant websites I’ve seen. Signed Colman Les Hiddens Major retired (wiki) Kakadu Plum – The worlds richest known source of Vitamin C YouTube 1 fruit – 10 or 12 oranges. Here are the family Pandanaceae(wiki) Also include Palm trees etc. You know the ones, where they used to cut the leaves for Palm Sunday? Babylon had terrible floods, there was some suggestion that there was an origin of the flood story there. Sukkot (wiki) “The Hebrew word sukkōt is the plural of sukkah, “booth” or “tabernacle“, which is a walled structure covered with s’chach (plant material, such as overgrowth or palm leaves).” I stayed in a small hut like this with some bedouins in Sinai Peninsula, just enough on the roof to keep the moisture off as the dusk fell. Next morning we went for a walk in the desert, I took a camel, it was quite sunny, the English trainee tour guide took ill, sunstroke, pood dear, I offered her my camel. They put her on the camel which the kid who was the camel minder was riding, and sent her home. Then we went up to the top of Mount Sinai and I took another camel up the hill in the dark which was quite scary, every dozen or so steps, the camel stumbled in the dark. The hillside was quite steep and on the left the drop disappeared into the dark. The path was about two feet wide. The view of the rising sun over the Negev desert was excellent. On the way down by foot, there is a bush planted there, though I couldn’t tell which species and I wasn’t going onto the sandy soil near there, there might have been snakes. So we went down the hill to St Catherines monastery, the library there is quite good, strangely enough I was the only one who wanted to see it and I paid the entrance money and saw the books by myself. Some really old books. Colman
1500pm 20 Feb 2023 World News https://tradingeconomics.com/matrix India’s population is reaching China’s and it will then be the most populous and one of the poorest countries in the world. Their GDP is 18% of China’s GDP.
1600pm 20 Feb 2023 WHO Consultation on the Composition of Influenza Virus Vaccines for Use in the 2023-2024 Northern Hemisphere Influenza Season You might ask them about the “reported” incidence of viral pneumonia in Aboriginal populations, Australia and nearby pacific islands from Micronesia through Vanuatu to Indonesia? And a little check on their viral strains, birds there are less migratory, and might have specific Flu type viruses specific to their location? Changing Disease Course of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Children, Turkey First recognised in Crimea, see if Florence Nightingale‘s notes, she wrote the book on soldiers treatment near the battlefield have any mention of treatments in the field? Yes, she was at Crimea. “Nightingale was a pioneer in statistics; she represented her analysis in graphical forms to ease drawing conclusions and actionables from data. She is famous for usage of the polar area diagram, also called the Nightingale rose diagram, equivalent to a modern circular histogram. This diagram is still regularly used in data visualisation.” Cholera had originally been identified as a waterborne disease by a statistical examination of cases in London. Contaminated wells being the source. Incidence and Transmission Dynamics of Bordetella pertussis Infection in Rural and Urban Communities, South Africa, 2016‒2018 You might have a look at this one – Whooping cough? The rate of death associated with Whooping cough in Ireland, while coincident with the bacterial vaccine was reduced by the need to reduce Tuberculosis infections, prevalent at the same time in Ireland, which required education on NO SPITTING and HANDWASHING. Availability of soap and water? Ireland started selling nice cotton handkerchiefs for blowing ones nose. Sounds silly doesn’t what gobshite would say that? They didn’t even use the words Whooping cough in the article. Lassa Fever, another haemoragic fever similar in symptoms to Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, though the death rate from teh disease is normally less. Reduction of infection?? “The Natal multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis) is considered the main natural reservoir of LASV. It is a commensal rodent and agricultural pest that aggregates in human dwellings and surrounding fields (4). Both zoonotic and nonzoonotic transmission mechanisms have been described (5). Human LASV infections most commonly occur through infected rodent excreta, contaminated food, and inhalation of aerosols from rodent urine or droppings (6,7). Person-to-person transmission may also occur through exposure to contaminated bodily fluids (5,8).” Reduction in effect? Mouse traps, Rat traps. Before collecting their bounty, rat catchers in San Francisco around 1908 pose with the rodents they’ve killed as part of a program aimed at stemming the spread of bubonic plague. The man in the center dips a rat trap into a bucket of antiseptic. (Photo: Courtesy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) Bubonic Plague is still endemic in the USA, when I visited Yosemite National Park a few years ago, an area of huts was under quarantine for cleaning. Though a bacterial infection and actually longer in dormancy than lassa fever which is viral and easier killed with UV, bubonic plague victim numbers was kept reduced in London by the popularisation of the story of? The piped Piper of Hamlyn https://www.storyberries.com/fairy-tales-the-ratcatcher-famous-fairy-tales/ This isn’t the version I read, however it’s close enough. The main jist is the ratcatcher doesn’t get paid the children are taken away. In the story by the piper, in reality by the disease carried by the rats. A few people recently looked into the story’s musical theme and we now have rodent repellent noise generators, I can’t remember if they’re above or below the sound frequencies, though you require electricity for those. However they are very low wattage. On the other side, I find the frequencies rather annoying, turned them off and I use mouse traps. See Number of people using hearing aids under fifty??? In addition same NO SPITTING and HANDWASHING. “transmission may also occur through exposure to contaminated bodily fluids (5,8).” Nice research people. Novel Prion Strain as Cause of Chronic Wasting Disease in a Moose, Finland saw an article recently about the number of DEER culled annually in Ireland, might have a look at this one?
1600pm 20 Feb 2023 Combined Phylogeographic Analyses and Epidemiologic Contact Tracing to Characterize Atypically Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H3N1) Epidemic, Belgium, 2019 Nice research. My granddad kept chickens. The chickens should be able to roost on wooden poles, they like being off the ground. This keeps them away from the chicken shit, normally the birds shit before they sleep, my crows outside the house hit my sheets, it’s rather annoying. If night is six to eight hours then normally the virus is killed by the nice chemicals in the bird shit. (The past evolved system is designed that the birds didn’t die of it already, otherwise there would be no birds.) Note: Since lots of human interaction happens on the farm, and scared birds poop, I would suggest that the bird poop is held away from the birds for six to eight hours before it’s moved elsewhere to allow the virus to die in the poop. “Birds and mammals produce nitrogenous waste products that must be excreted from the body. A byproduct of this waste in both, is ammonia.” 28 Sept 2018 We use a less toxic chemical called Hydrogen peroxide for cleaning toilets, it’s quite good for killing virii.
1630pm 20 Feb 2023 Nipah Virus Exposure in Domestic and Peridomestic Animals Living in Human Outbreak Sites, Bangladesh, 2013–2015 This is going to sound like a really silly one, did you ask if they were collecting bat droppings from the bat roosts? Poor people have a tendency to avoid speaking about something as unsavoury and using shit for fertiliser, even though it’s really good fertiliser. The Calcium content is normally quite high. You might see about collecting the stuff commercially under proper hygienic conditions and sales to nice gardening establishments? ARE BIRD DROPPINGS HAZARDOUS? HERE’S THE SCIENCE BEHIND BIRD POOP. THIS IS VERY GOOD – Copy to Newbridge, please, and to the Mil Col, oh, and to Smythe or McAlister, if they’re still in? I went to primary school with them and one lent me a book, which I returned. “Parent birds will fly off the nest carrying gel-coated sacs of droppings from their offspring, to conceal their whereabouts and deposit them far from the nest.” You might check for secondary infections from other species from bat to bird to human? Some insect and worm species live in large dung piles? Local bird life might predate (Some species of bat predate small mammals. Possums will predate on baby birds and eggs. See also. predator, really?) there? Worldwide fertiliser shortage prompts Peru to turn to bird poo In Ireland the gardeners used to pay extra for it. Excellent for roses, woody stems need Calcium in low supply in some geology, we have limestone in Cork, however up the country no limestone. Monaghan has Chickens and Ducks, good fertiliser. it was the farmers method of paying for the Calcium to grow better crops. Varo “On Agriculture” First Century AD praised Dovecotes. Laidbackgardener.blog “Droppings also contain microbes (bacteria, microscopic fungi, viruses, etc.) and even parasites. There is no risk to plants (in fact, passing through a bird’s gut actually sterilizes the outside of seeds, killing the pathogens they originally bore), but there can be to gardeners, plus pets, not to mention other birds. Generally, any risk of infection decreases quickly, because bird poop microbes rarely survive long after they are ejected from their bird host, but where droppings build up, some undesirable microbes survive while others can move in.”
1700pm 20 Feb 2023 Bartonella spp. and Typhus Group Rickettsiae among Persons Experiencing Homelessness, São Paulo, Brazil Journal of Royal Society of Medicine 2006 Trench fever: the British medical response in the Great War “Chemical insecticides against lice were also developed, both in France and in the UK. A W Bacot (entomologist at the Lister Institute) was sponsored by the WO to carry out research on these agents.47 He found NCI (naphthalene 96%, creosote 2% and iodoform 2%) to be the most potent chemical, and went on to develop a paste that could be spread on the seams of tunics and would kill lice within 2 hours.” You might check the chemicals used? To my knowledge there are an number of traditional chemicals used against mosquitoes on mosquito nets and on trousers against ticks, these might be similar? In European pets, little naphthalene (Moth balls in the bed clothes. The Army used them for a long time. Clears the entire barrack block.) capsules are used on dog collars to remove same. The old solution used to be to carry one in your pocket, though the smell is awful. You might check “Cloves”, there are nice sweets (from Athlone), it’s not normally a concern in Asia because of it’s use in foods, and in Europe it became very popular as a foodstuff in European kitchens, after WW1, we used it for hot whiskeys. “Among 44 essential oils including these oils, we previously demonstrated that clove essential oil was the most effective against body lice (Tokuno and Yoshioka 2014). Clove oil presumably contains odorants that induce avoidance behavior in these insects and thus has the potential to be used as a lice repellent. 11 Feb 2016″ Identification of repellent odorants to the body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, in clove essential oil On a further note: Clove oil was uses as a remedy for tooth aches. “You can also use clove powder meant for baking, but clove oil is more effective.” Healthline.com (On a semi-funny note, some strip clubs have their performers dust themselves in the clove dust or clove oil, which says a lot about hygiene standards in the USA. As a preventative, I’m sure?)
1950pm 20 Feb 2023 https://severeweather.wmo.int/thunder/ http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW21034.shtml UN WMO You might ask the Aussies for a place on their mailing lists? Message to each state premier, returns from each state, they’re quite particular on that? Colman “Dominic Perrottet was first elected to the NSW Parliament as Member for Castle Hill on 26 March 2011. He was elected Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party on 5 October 2021 and was sworn in as the 46th Premier of New South Wales.” (“Why?” “Cos some have nothing but pride.”)
1950pm 20 Feb 2023 Cyclone Freddy is nearly on Madagascar NASA World View You can watch if you like, however, this is right up the middle, this is NOT going to be pretty. Met Office UK, sorry, was someone having dreamy time? https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/world/madagascar NOAA https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/weather/current/FMSD.html Likewise? the TAF isn’t even here, just the METAR Presidents Page Madagascar the layout is quite good for the government spend (yes, by district, like how much on each hospital district?) Colman you don’t know French. Latin root, it’s easier read it than speak it. And the site map pops up when you put in a search term it doesn’t understand like weather, SORRY LADS, this is better than the Irish Departments’ SHIT. Why is the ‘ after the s because it’s a possessive plural Une pointe. iNews.co.uk – Cyclone Freddy path map: Latest hurricane forecast as tropical storm hits Mauritius on approach to Madagascar A Class III cyclone warning is in force, allowing about six hours of daylight before the occurrence of wind gusts of 120km per hour. TimeAndDate.Com 16 mm or 1.6 cm of rain??? Holes kicked, please? Where is their data from? Certainly Not: https://meteonews.fr/en/Weather_Map/CFR/France Nice Sat photos, have a look here again? https://meteonews.fr/en/Weather/G1058080/Nosy_Varika ???? ENCA.com Cyclone Freddy ‘direct threat’ to Mauritius: PM Monday 20 February 2023 – 12:45pm If I was a nice person and had a friend there I might give them a call and see if the phone or internet is still up, they use Sat dishes? Unless someone nice laid them an optical? Mauritius, Reunion, you still standing? “Well, it’s a little bitter out there and the wind’s a little brisk. Can we make this quick? and I’ll spot you a tinny at New Year.” And those were the last words of the brave weather reporter. (Yes, it’s a The day after tomorrow homage.) For the two islands, this is called a side swipe, winds not so high, lots of rain, particularly on hillsides. For reference, Death in Paradise (tv-series, Dougal was the third detective.), the hurricane episode, the dust bin lid hits him in the head knocks him unconscious, same homage.
2045pm 20 Feb 2023 Meteo France International.fr https://www.mfi.fr/references/ The turning Earth is cool, I’d put an algorithm in which says Day and Night and turns the Earth dark under the little widgits (Yes, it is a computing term now too.) representing the weather forecasting???? gobshites who haven’t done their jobs properly? Still haven’t found a decent forecast for Madagascar or nearby from them?
2100pm 20 Feb 2023 SAT24.com Africa FORECAST Eye of the Storm Landfall at TUE21FEB2023 – 1800hrs UTC (GMT) Note: local time (UTC+3 = 21:00) Moon: 0.6% Waxing Crescent ZERO MOONLIGHT Sun: Sunset 18:09 – 18:41 (Which place, North or South does it set first? Trick question, it’s East and West. Well, actually, it’s a bit of both. TimeAndDate.com Astronomy Madagascar 7 locations, bottom of the page.) Why is zero moonlight important? Because the first things to go will be the power lines. 120km winds (How hiGH will the GUsTS beEe?, That brummy polecat, she knew it was going to b )
2110pm 20 Feb 2023 Colman, they wouldn’t be silly enough to have telegraph poles in Madagascar the frequency of Hurricanes is too high? It was the same in Belize, when I was visiting there, wires strewn from pole to pole and house to house, it looked like the cathedral at Kilkenny, for them it’s normal. And? It’s dangerous, we have warnings every storm about downed electrical wires, unfortunately most of the time, a couple of weeks, after the storm. And? Well, I remember a big storm in the UK, they flew a C130 Hercules into Baldonnel and we rolled the ESB vans into it. The thing barely fit on the apron. (Well, the ground was wet, we couldn’t park it on the grass. You know you can get nice hex tiles now and the grass can grow between the tiles? There’s a nice patch to look at, outside the Western Gateway building in UCC, and if you were a clever boy or girl, the tyres for something so big would easily fit over hex holes bigger than the ones normally used for sidewalks? – The GREEN TAXIWAY SOLUTION? For new builds and extensions?)
2210hrs 20 Feb 2023 Oh, Look Copernicus forecasts wave heights too My Ocean, Actually there’s a bit more here? Copernicus Marine Data Store MMMMMMMmmmm better than icecream! “Well, love, is there more whare that came from?” 1800 confirmed. On the screen it moves faster than the eye can see, if you screenshot “your moment” the time stamp is there. “Oh, I know I’ll be touching myself tonight.” Seriously Ryan Reynolds for a cameo? Cameo, Ryan Reynolds? Colman’s cameoing in the Deadpool movie trilogy or hadn’t you worked that out yet? What’s it called? “Working In Production.” Was there a T left out there, it’s rather Minty? After 8 ? Anyone? It’s nice I don’t have to use crayons anymore. However, he’s, going to be pleased, to get crayons. Did I sing that. I’m happy as I work, I’m happy as I work? Yes, it is out of copyright. That’s a screenshot from Copernicus latest Instagram. Colman
2040pm 20 Feb 2023 Honolulu has their National Weather Service on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NWSHonolulu/ Now, the unusual one there is, that I saw an xml document, it’s the format for weather information and you can download the xml, it’s a predecessor to html, I did a module on xml at college and a NOAA storm forecast I read said: The Wave Height is the average of the highest third of the waves. Individual waves can be up to twice this height. So from above, individual waves might be as high as? The SCALE doesn’t go above 6 meters? roughly 18 feet? Surfer Today.com – The biggest wave ever recorded measured 1,720 feet Because some people get out of the office occasionally with their honey. (Somethime’s you’re so romantic.) and the USA has shit working conditions and very little vacation time, so they know fxxkail else, outside their cubicle. Lets count this on my fingers, well, five people makes fifty finger.. Am I allowed to count the thumbs as fingers? 50, still not enough, maybe I’ll have to get some toes, you might want to look away for this. 1720 feet = 524 meters? (Eh, how did you work the wave height out? Well, see the restaurant in the boat up there? Well, that’s where it landed and the guy who owned it, well… and then we just GPSed it for height above sea level. And where were you? Oh I was in another state, no one wanted to work here, so I got a big bonus. And I bought a Suzuki Hayabusa. With a top speed of 312 kmph or Mach 0.3, it can do Zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.47 seconds, and I bought it in the colour they had in the store. Yes, it’s Yellow. And if it’s Red, it’ll be sent from my phone 10 miles inland. Yes, I did have Alexei Sayle in mind for the role.) 331.29 metres per sec x 60×60 = 1,192.6 kmph. (Guess whose driving that little mummy home?) Yes, the Fouga Magister (Ulster Aviation Society.org) (nice piccys?) had a top speed of (Let’s use what they said?) 444mph or 714.549 kmph or Mach 0.6 (That’s not what I was told, isn’t that cool.) Google – Top speed: 715 km/h, wonder where that figure comes from. The version for grass landings? Ours had a nice wooden rail under the tail, a classmate landed one in a field in Cork, long, long ago and the only damage was that he scuffed the wooden rail, the field, was, sloping away from him (and very, very large), so he was forgiven. We sent another Fouga down to collect him from Cork Airport and he flew that one home with his instructor in the back and we sent a truck down to take the wings off the aircraft for transport back to Baldonnel for inspection. How close was it? Well in the bar, a few hours later, he said, he could see the acorns growing in the trees as he passed over them on the landing. Why did he land there? Well, with zero fuel, and the engines cold, he didn’t have much of a choice. I still have a copy of the cartoon one of the lads drew in honour or it, I coloured mine in with highlighters. Why in honour of the event? He lived to tell the tale in the bar.
0005am 21 Feb 2023 Iceland Earthquakes Reykjanes Ridge The map is filing up, a little noisier than yesterday. How can you tell for sure? Well, I did a simplified statistical analysis. Explain? Well, I added up all the dots on the map yesterday and all the dots today and I took one away from the other and also, it’s a little noisier than yesterday, see that machine there, yes, let me turnup the volume, after a certain point, I turn it down, so I can hear myself think. Does it work the same as a geiger counter? No. How do you know? I read the circuit diagram for one once, the geiger counter is similar to an old night vision device, though instead of multiplying the signal it stores charge and give a little ping when it reaches a certain number. You don’t know the number, no. Why? Well, I would have had to read the capacitor and done the calculations and I only needed to know that, if it goes dit, dit, dit, too often, you leave the room and ask for technical assistance. The seismic sensor receives electricity from the sensor and it’s converted into a sound signal in a similar way to a record being played on an amplifier. The needle goes up and down and the music comes out the speakers. How does the needle know it’s going up and down? (Phonegraph (wiki) – “The motions of the stylus are converted into an analogous electrical signal by a transducer, then converted back into sound by a loudspeaker.[6] “) (Now, this, is what you’re actually dealing with, when you employ a twenty two year old.) “””What is a phonograph?””” Oh, you can look it up, IF, (and yes, it is a BIG IF) you know what it’s called??? ( Oh, it’s much cheaper to have young officers and soldiers in the PDF and there’s so much less sick leave… Really? )
0040am 21 Feb 2023 The Guardian – Weather tracker: Madagascar braces for Cyclone Freddy 6 hours ago — Estimates suggest winds are reaching 140mph, comfortably within category 4 cyclone intensity, or Very Intense Tropical Cyclone status. ( 140mph = 225.3 kmph ) ABC.net.au tropical-cyclone-categories-explained “”” Category four (severe tropical cyclone) Significant roofing loss and structural damage. Many caravans destroyed and blown away. Dangerous airborne debris. Widespread power failures. A category four cyclone’s strongest winds are VERY DESTRUCTIVE winds with typical gusts over open flat land of 225-279kph. These winds correspond to the highest category on the Beaufort scale, Beaufort 12 (hurricane).””” (Note: Winds over land are generally 150% of those at sea, so the 225kmph for land means 279 kmph over ocean) (Why don’t they know the exact wind speed? Seen We bought a Zoo (movie) or Dorothy from Twister (movie)? They are trying, however there are still limits to technology. Note for the next article? If you’re in the EVENT you need the bad stuff first? and please add HURRICANE CATEGORY FIVE (5) FOUR(4) THREE (3) two (2) one (1) TYPE (severe tropical cyclone) Why do you give the type? Because the TYPE allows you to look up the terrifying descriptions of what the list of that CAT and TYPE did previously. Why a CAT? Well, I’d have a list of the last nine of that TYPE to go with the Current Event (And “E” is for Engineers, get the Engineers in here, now?) (A Cat of Nine Tales? The WHIP had nine tails, and each tail had a little lead weight on the end. – Lt, can you do this for us? I’ll ask the General. You’ll tell him. I’ll ask him if it’s possible, immediately. And if it’s not? Then we’ll have to invent something.) How do you do that in an xml? The lines of underlines and asterisks.
0040am 21 Feb 2023 Reunion Island, it takes https://metar-taf.com/FMEE a few minutes to catch up with the latest data request, so be a little patient. Gusting 30 knots or 55.56 kmph, so nicely out of the wind if you please? The Windsock, does it ever blow away? No. I would have thought it might? No, the pole falls down, and I have to dig another hole for it after. And why don’t you concrete it in? Well, then it’d crack and we’d have to buy a new one. It costs money to pay you to dig the hole? Yes, I’m the meteorologist, I’m here anyway. And how do you know if the winds over 30 knots? Well, the pole is on the ground. ( Now for some reason, the airports on Madagascar aren’t showing this weather their in their 24 hr Terminal Area Forecast or TAF, So the Freddy message says sent 0026am in 21st. top of Cyclone at 51,000 feet, Cyclone Freddy (Wiki) (***—*** SOS) Joint Typhoon Warning Center(wiki)‘s tropical warning of Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone Freddy(wiki) #35. Actual Picture of Forecast(wiki) https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html USA Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Centre. Thank you. Colman. Now the track of the Hurricane as given by JTWC says FREDDY – Eye of the Hurricane – landfall at 1600 hrs UTC on 21st Feb (They say Zulu Time) (1/3 of the time between etc. I used a metal ruler accross the tv-screen.) and a windspeed of 90 kts (same) approx 166 kmph.
0540am 21 Feb 2023 Oh, and apologies I was translating the USA’s CDC’s latest boomf, KEEP DIGGING
0545am 21 Feb 2023 Thank you to ESA, Copernicus and NASA, NOAA and the USA Navy, it’s nice when it’s a competition to save lives isn’t it. SAVE ONE Signed Colman
0600am 21 Feb 2023 Copernicus Sentinel-2 helps explorers unearth rare 7.6 kg meteorite in Antarctica 20 February 2023 Silly question? With knowledge of the interior of the meteorite and knowledge of the atmospheric contamination which changes the exterior of the meteorite, is it possible to estimate the age of the arrival of the meteorite into Earths atmosphere, uncontaminated samples of the ice under the meteorite, might, with the CO2 atmospheric content data available already be able eventually to confirm both dates? The presumption of correctness, now having to be with the ice under the meteorite, until enough data is gathered, depending on how many meteorites have been collected, sampled and analysed with this method already, in forensic terms it would be comparable to graphing the crime scene? Similarly in the archaeological sphere of thought? I read a good story about a standing stone being confirmed a fraud as there was a coca-cola ring pull under it, the shape and etc. dating the ring pull and thus the date the stone had been placed. Of course with available samples, testing by fast aging of the samples by using higher pressures to simulate faster time, would with excellent micro chemical examination and computer modelling be able to more accurately date the meteorites? Why, because it turns a years aging into a couple of thousand years aging? And if by some chance you had a meteorite which was dated by visual means (It fell there 600 years ago.) and it’s been sitting in the Sun for all this time, then a more accurate method presents itself already? Yes, if you asked nicely? I was thinking of that big one reputed to be at Mecca? You only need to measure it these days, spectrographic and other non destructive methods? Why? well, 7.8 kg at 30 kilometers per second, is a lot of Force, the heating effect alone is astronomical, pardon the pun. And a nice estimate of it’s size actually entering the Earths atmosphere before it broke up might be nice too? If it’s not teardrop shaped, then either it didn’t melt because it was going too fast, or it exploded into parts scattered around. Though the fragmentation area would be considered considerable, the rate of expansion and the vector speeds of the extraneous parts would be minimal compared to the speed through the atmosphere, so the other bits of it might be close by? Ground penetrating radar is quite tricky on land because of the incoherent nature of soil, stone, water etc, however with ice and a reasonable depth of ice, while radar searches from space or aircraft might have lower resolution for an object of a few tens of cm in size, because of the consistency of the ice sheet (Eh, yea, it’s all ice.) a drone with radar or a series of drone with nice transducer sensors like that used for finding the Mars quakes, with one bang, you might try a hammer on a round sheet of metal of one meter in diameter, high tensile strength? 1/4 or 1/2 inch sheet steel? stainless, if you want to repeat the experiment a few times over the years? (As the ice melts?) Round edges don’t bury as easily. As I said, silly idea, I presume some one has thought of it already. If there’s a rocky outcrop nearby you just have to hit the rock with a hammer? Ice and water are quite similar and it’s just like dropping a pebble into a pond. Snow, that’s different, it has a grainy structure similar to sand, “thud”, ice stalactites go “ping”, when you snap them. Colman
0645 to 0730am 21 Feb 2023 https://creatingourfuture.ie/ Iteration and threading from computing terminology says, as soon as you have made your question received your data and placed the data into the calculating thread you ask another question?
July 2021 Creating our Future is launched inviting people to tell us their (remove their) ideas (insert: for improving the island of Ireland. Sometimes you look over the neighbours wall and say, would you like to borrow my hedge trimmers?). COMPLETE November 2021 All ideas need to be submitted before this deadline. (The next report starts it’s compilation on:) COMPLETE December 2021 Our panels (just Irish panels, I might have though other countries less well off might like to see good ideas?)of research experts review all ideas submitted & begin to (and begin preparing the People’s Ideas List Complete dated Mar 2022 and)prepare a report for Government. COMPLETE March 2022 A (JUST ONE? dissenting and digressing ideas are necessary for good government.) report is submitted to Government (to the Irish people) with your (Our) ideas to inspire future research in Ireland. COMPLETE (Note: I’ve highlighted all the grammatical and attitude errors present in the Timeline, would anyone like to add other parts to it? Signed Colman This is how my Finnish boss taught me how to prepare OpOrds to his standard (He taught the Masters in Finland Military College. The first one I resubmitted three times.)
What’s this “COMPLETE” bullsxxt? Oh, I did my bit so I get a raise? Next question, please? What’s the question? Please Improve this? Here’s my idea?
What’s missing from the https://creatingourfuture.ie/ Timeline? Lessons learned from the experience of gathering and processing the data and how we’ll improve the gathering system and then? NOT forgetting the website is still up might be a start? From the last article which starts “The task of reading, categorising and synthesising the 18,062 submissions was both compelling and complex.” OH WE WORKED REALLY HARD” and then gives the little people’s voices afterwards, little people’s voices is fxxking right, it just says MASLOW? Where’s the “I’d like a doctors clinic in My Town?” “Conventional silos and competing binaries” This was not supposed to be an academic excercise with a placation of the uneducated masses and a pandering to the superior intellect. It was supposed to be an exercise in giving an actual voice to real concerns and aspirations. “I’d like a night course in UCC which teaches … (geology, actually.). This reads like an academic paper on psychology of the population, been doing a thesis for your professorship have we? Been giving little speeches on how excellent your sampling methods were? I hate to point out a few simple facts, which I learned about Pandemics. 1. The cure for scurvy sat in a doctors research for 40 years before being rediscovered. 2. Small pox vaccine was discovered because a large conversation was held and a farmer said, all my milk maids have lovely clear skin, those who survived the smallpox normally had really pockmarked skin. (While I’m talking about that, if you know a psychologist ask them if attraction to persons of the opposite sex with pockmarked skin was an attractor for sexual congress, and thus an evolutionary trait. Survival of the species and all that.) 3. The Romans knew sewage caused disease and built sewers in the noughty’s AD, it wasn’t until London became large enough to have a population which wallowed in their own filth that the London Politicians fearful for their own health demanded a solution. So can you get off your high horse and write the proper document? The one which asks the questions which other people might say, yes, out town needs a Doctor’s clinic and can we all sing together to see we get one? Nice to be able to use a nice positive example from the UK after isn’t it, though the ad for the new doctor was on BBC from Wales, a boonie town who wanted a good DDDOOOCCCTTOORRR? (Sorry, couldn’t resist putting a Dr Who homage in there. And “These are my credentials.”, was my favourite line.) Colman (Was that too much? And Colman didn’t get paid for writing that, he’s just a retired, concerned citizen.)
0730am 21 Feb 2023 Catch ’em by the belt and keep hitting, when you’re tired duck and let the guy behind you hit ’em too. In American Wrestling, it’s called Tag Teaming. In warfare it’s called Finding, Fixing and Fxxking. While an Infantry Officer and a proponent of good recce, I have always been rather a fan of the math and logistics of Heavy Artillery. My favourite exercise post was Brigade Regimental Fire Commander, though unfortunately, no one included a FAC or two and a nice Sqn of Air. I had to do that bit in my head, for fun, when you place smoke on the hilltop nearest the enemy, it’s a nice director for wind and position to the aircraft arriving overhead. Mach 2 is? 1,192.6 kmph x 2 = 2,385.2 kmph Ireland is how many km wide? 300km, Time for crossing Ireland at Mach 2 = 0.1258 hours x 60 = 7.5 minutes, Galway to Dublin. Yes, the Israeli, ground attack jets, they had a similar time for crossing Israel when I was a kid, though at sub-sonic speeds, to allow longer loiter times, they used to make and awful racket breaking the sound barrier, passing the apartment in Nahariya on a Sunday morning, why? Because you speed up at the border to pop up to gain the view of the target, the sonic boom gives away position, so you do it below the height of the border hills and the sound is directed over the heads of the UN, DFF, Amal, Hesbollah, Lebanon Army and other factions positions, and then you speed to your target destination. BOOM, outside our apartment building. We had a bomb shelter, just in case others thought we, were a source of Artillery fire, the sounds are quite similar, though I was never that close to the 155’s firing from Gate 12, I used to hear the rounds whistling and they do make a whistling noise, over our heads. Close Firings, Colman, machinegun fire, 60mm and 155. the nearest I saw an aircraft bomb hitting was about a kilometre. We could tell the fall of shot from the top of Connaught house to about ten meters. Our maps were excellent 1:50,000. Someone might visit in person and ask the troopies their ideas for a better Ireland, they get their votes brought to them similarly. Note: some people are shy, a family member or friend might say you know I heard a good idea somewhere, it might be applicable to Ireland. 1986: The apartment building in Germany had loads of different types of recycling bins. It would be nice being a cycling and, recycling nation wouldn’t it.
0840am 21 Feb 2023 You know Cork city has an interesting recycling system, a green bin, a blue bin, a red bin, a small brown bin. Rubbish, Water, in case the plumbing goes out, Red, for radioactively or chemically contaminated stuff, and a little brown bin for shitting in, water not being available for the toilets if the plumbing is out. We are cautious people here in Cork city. You might ask: Who was the bright spark who came up with that? I presume that: he “was” the PDF officer in the local Civil Defence. Note: At the commencement of Covid, a few years ago, now, I did fill my water bin, nice to know qualified people of that calibre are available. Thank you to the unnamed officer for reassuring me that someone knew what they were doing. Oh, and Cork is a “Nuclear free zone” city too. They closed the Infantry Battalion, so they wouldn’t lose one in the retaliatory strike, the second city normally being the favourite target. Here in Cork city, as always. Colman KEEP DIGGING
1940pm 21 Feb 2023 Now I just Googled myself “Colman” “OKeeffe” and the second and third following are me and there is also a YouTube by Potatoe in Crime (the bad stuff is first) with my photograph, yes Colman took that photo. And “Spud”s (also a potential alias of hers) hits are also climbing. And I hope you might remind her, another alias of hers, is “Lily”, that the longer this libel is up, the unhappier Colman is going to be when he deals with the situation. The Screenshots which I took of the abuse I received on Instagram, have the Instagram addresses and the various Instagram addresses are forms of aliases used by some, hiding criminal intent. And while Colman is “normally” a forgiving person… It is normally a situation dealt with in Libel courts. Yes, and the little miss doesn’t have any money. Yet. So, give the situation a little time to resolve itself and if it doesn’t, we might re-examine the financial costs involved in taking such a case. Solicitors do like to get paid and they do speak for such lengths and consultant barristers are expensive and “Legal costs, a small apology in the Irish Sunday Times, one inch, business section and one euro damages” would be quite a happy result for Colman, he has never been one for this gathering of pieces of paper business. And she’s thinking “Oh, I’ll take it down ‘if’ he asks, he knows my TicToc address.” Yes. And. “Well I was told to block that user…” Oh, those are the “likes”, not the hits, some people don’t “like” what they read. And well Colman has never actually seen the videos, it might be bad for his mental health, and I wasn’t going to add to her “hits”. And if there’s any thing you’s like to change in my content as I said, PM me at Instagram colman_o_keeffe. Thank you for listening to this safety announcement and now if you’ll buckle your seatbelts, the Aircraft Captain will be welcoming you on board, quite soon. (This will be followed by the Airline advertisements. I do like the Air New Zealand ad, the team are so chunky. Note: This ad was their female team, FNARR. (Mommy not happy, baby not happy.)) (Then whose kitty litter did I just shit in? And you did just give me your wallet.)
2000pm 21 Feb 2023 By the way, at this point, Colman would like to thank YouTube and Google for their marvellous personalised advertisements, their excellent search engine and their legal advice algorithm. You don’t have one? Would you like to buy a VOWEL? (Now, while this is a reference to an old tv show, it’s also a hidden reference to Watchmen‘s Owl characters, “both of them”.) Oh and this site WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN? really should make reference to Alan Moore (Google search) for his original thought, which became such a popular movie. The version I bought, has the nice cartoon animations, in the extra features, of the various comic books, which we presume Rorschach and others read, it is supposed, to be from Rorschach’s journal (in the movie). Deadpool (wiki) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in New Mutants #98 (December 1990). (Is that one valuable? Signed by whom?) (The Irish Sunday Times Business section doesn’t sell one inch advertising spaces. No, not in the classifieds, we said, Business Section. Well, isn’t that terrible. Who would have know that? Oh, and you might post Colman a printed copy of “that” paper, for his wall.) You know personally I thought V for Vendetta (goodreads.com) was one of Alan Moore’s best. Yes, Colman read it before seeing the movie. Yes. I do enjoy reading, my imagination has always been quite good for filling in the blanks. Colman (Now is that a reference to Grosse Point Blank (wiki)? Colman doesn’t go to reunions. Well, not those types of reunions.)
2130pm 21 Feb 2023 I started a little section on the Madagascar Hurricane in Hurricanes, further down this page. There’s a nice photo from the ISS which was passing overhead. the ISS tracker is at SpaceandSpaceWeather, if you’d like to take a look where it is just now? I think they have a live view, though I’m not sure who directs the camera? A PDF friend did a project a few years ago on the transmission of large amounts of data by laser beam, though back then in order to send that much data you needed loads of computers, they only having single core computing available at the time. Yes, the ISS does use a similar system, though the project was merely a condensation of the methods used for optical fibres, it’s the targeting for getting the laser pointer to and from the ISS which is tricky? The Earth’s gravity and the Earth’s atmosphere, bends and scatters the light. A transposition, gravity to bends and atmosphere to scatters, quite cool and all made known by the placement’s of commas’ (should there be a ‘ there? Well, there is a question of whether the transposition sentence refers to the Earth’s gravity sentence or to it’s self? It’s a bit of an Aphorism (Google definitions, from Oxford languages).) ((( https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/ ))) (What is he using that for? Well, for storage purposses large companies now use numbers for storing frequently used pieces of data, so when it sees a (((1234 it looks up the special meaning and gets the address for the real piece of information, it’s why: https://www.google.com/search?q=colman+okeeffe&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GBIE989IE989&oq=colman+okeeffe&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0i13i30.10080j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 the search storage place is “chrome.0.69i59j0i13i30.10080j0j4” and the “1C1ONGR_en-GBIE989IE989&oq”, oh, you’d have to ask a Google technician about that? Why you say “Technician”, we hold degrees, yes you do and the other people hold business degrees and they did “computer degrees” too and I like technicians, they do stuff. The old name was a “Mechanic”, for looking “under the hood”, the car dealer on the other hand, well, he had the business degree. And when it’s not working anymore? Well, you call a “CRUSHER”? (Funny Colman should mention that, that was in a Bond movie, Goldfinger wasn’t it? Colman, you keep changing references, wiki, iMDb, fandom.com? Yes. Just spreading the love around. (https://intl.startrek.com/database_article/crusher-beverly) (I like the internet, it’s so cool. Such interesting articles and beautiful website designs. Signed Colman) Note: To view the page source code: With one finger, Press “Control” (it means a controlling button or something similar)on the keyboard it says Ctrl, both sides of keyboard at the bottom and at the same time press U, lower case, if you actually pres Cntl -Shift-u it’s different. On WordPress this key combination is muted while your webpage is open for editing. You could also (as an alternative method) right click on the page and a menu appears, this menu is a little different depending on your browser, on Google Chrome (2130 21 Feb 2023), the menu line is fourth from the bottom. “View page source” It means “Can I look at this page’s source code in the html format.” Why do you say that Colman, well in WordPress “I edit with a visual suite of commands and menus.” For example I can just copy a section and: See below:, Though the formatting information , the shapes and colours are lost as it’s slightly outside the cut and paste parameters, if I wanted all the shiny formatting data, I’d cut and paste from the source code, however this is quite tricky and I can change the formatting with my page editing menus, those these are a little tricky and calling the hemp desk allows the program suite business manager to keep the technicians employed, so they can keep upgrading the software or writing other little gems during the quite times, Google calls it giving their employees 10% of their free time to their own projects and I presume, like Universities they get a little cut of the resulting revenues generated. (By the way, I just edited a spelling error “teh” to “the” ( I type words I know well a little too quickly sometimes ) and while some do this to show the word combinations to search for in order to find their copyrighted material, the most common use of this now is to remove the likeness to the material teh little person copied it from, so that they aren’t caught by the spellchecker. See Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle (iMDb). So many nice lessons in the nice movies. (Yes, and here’s a lesson I learned in cookery school. If one is right handed, one holds the left hand fingers with nails together on top of the onion, so that the knife, held in the right hand, is in front of the nails, then you can chop the onion quickly. Oh, I hope that’s not what I think it is. Yes, it’s nice that comic books don’t contain as much graphic violence as they used to. OH, NO. THAT’s on the following page, “DO YOU WISH TO TURN THE PAGE PRESS YES? NO?” – “Unfortunately your parent has forbidden you from this content”, so here’s a nice picture of me at cookery school. She’s hot isn’t she. Yes, we do courses together. Though with her condition, it’s frequent visits to the bathroom. No, “there isn’t a following page”, buy next weeks comic book to find out?) (Why is that a ” “? “If you have to ask then you can’t afford it.”
“Insert punctuation marks to your pleasure.” Haiku. Colman (Note: The semi-colon is used to denote that you are about to explain “what event occurred to causing this statement “Widowed”, in the example, below;) (No, it’s not, it’s extra information dealing with the status of the person before their widowed status, the marraige didn’t cause the widowing. Correct, however the widowing wouldn’t have happened with out the marriage. Lets see what the Google reference book says? https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/colons-semicolons#:~:text=Like%20a%20colon%2C%20a%20semicolon,connection%20between%20two%20complete%20sentences. Oh, such a pretty video presenter, no, thanks. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/semicolon, a little short, that definition? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/semicolon, yes, you might read about it there. Colman)
Marital status: Widowed; married Jack Crusher 2348-55
Children: One son, Wesley Robert Crusher, born July 29, 2349
2220hrs 21 Feb 2022 Irish Times: Six die as latest Turkey-Syria earthquakes compound trauma Updated / Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 09:14 Keep Digging Irish Times Weather Section, it’s after their National Weather Forecast. Irish Times: New Zealand cyclone death toll rises to seven Updated / Thursday, 16 Feb 2023 23:16 Have a look at it tomorrow or after midnight tonight? Its whe the Cork Examiner became : https://www.irishexaminer.com/ and we also had the Evening Echo, for the local Cork news which became https://www.echo.ie/ why isn’t it Echo.com? https://www.echo.com/about In military terms, a Coy (Company) is 3 Pls (Platoon(s)). The plural of a platypus(platypii, no I’m writing this, platypodes, that’s silly platypuses.) is: (Oh, yes, they do Masters degrees in English and… Well, the taught Masters only qualifies you to read the documentation, actually publishing research requires a research Masters, so your work is supervised by a qualified person, who ensures your research is up to standard and follows the correct guidelines. Which are? Well, not crashing the stock market accidentally is important. And? And we wouldn’t want the locals too upset with the coverage, either, our readership might go down?)
2250 22 Feb 2023 Can we look at Iceland again? https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/reykjanesridge/ No Comment.
2300hrs 21 Feb 2023 Well? https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2023-02-20..2023-02-21,2023-02-20;@-21.4,63.6,8z No, you can’t see the little Volcanic vent, it’s under water, as the water cools the lava, it solidifies. And? Well, eventually Reykjanes ridge gets a little longer. QED. Quod erat demonstrandum (Google search) . “What was to be demonstrated.”, is how I learned it Math class. (Anyone got a submarine or an underwater ROV, available, I’d like a nice picture to go with my paper, I’m publishing next week, before the Easter rush. Colman No, Colman just said it here, 2300hrs 21 Feb 2023.)
2345pm 21 Feb 2023 Volcano Discovery Iceland Strongest quake today: Mag. 4.9 | Iceland: 3.7 Km N of Bárðarbunga – 14 hours ago EMSC – M 5.1 – ICELAND – 2023-02-21 08:41:04 UTC Watch the birdie? Here’s the map courtesy of the nice people at EMSC Map Colman Here’s the NASA FIRMS Picture It’s under the ice, it’s a relatively tall (Icelandic type) volcano, Bárðarbunga (Google Search), three references, please so we know there’s previous agreement on the name. A nice Geology Map of Iceland (Etsy)? You’re not going to give a height for the Volcano? Well, the height has just changed, so I’d need to check that again? Oh, look a nice list of previous eruptions with a large advertisement https://www.worlddata.info/europe/iceland/volcanos.php Icelandic to English – Bunga means Bulge. Who’d have thought of that? Oh, someone with a nice long telescope and a little line accross the glass and seeing the top rise up and fall down over the years. civil engineering theodolite (Google search) The new ones are a little more expensive. (Why (Icelandic type)? Well, I give lectures too, they cost “INSERT FIGURE HERE”.) (The Saint 1 (RedBubble.com)) The Saint by Leslie Charteris (amazon) (wiki-Tv-series) (wiki-1997_film) List of works (wiki) Origin short story Enter The Saint (short story_1930). No it’s MEET THE TIGER (wiki) Has any Project Gutenberg got a copy of either scanned? Oh, look, that’s my copy, there’s the coffee stain.
2355pm 21 Feb 2023 https://livefromiceland.is/ Webcams, a nice ad for the Icelandic association for search, rescue & injury prevention The last eruption, they had to rescue a few people who’d fallen on the nasty rocks and hurt their ankles and such. And tyres are quite expensive, they’re frequently damaged, driving over the pointy rocks. Live From Iceland – Webcam – Location map. Google Translate jokull -? yokel, if you copy the jökull from underneath into it, from below where it says “Translations of jökull”, (the obvious local language alternative for non speakers) from into the little box then you get? jökull = glacier in Icelandic. Those little pronunciation dots and squiggles are quite important in some languages. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/j%C3%B6kull and %C3%B6 means ö, isn’t learning in a Montessori school nice, though a little, off the unbeaten path, occasionally.
0035am 22 Feb 2023 The Canaries, Spain Earthquakes What does “Prof” mean? Well, if you tap the blue +info you find Profundidad and that means? Depth, because it’s listed in (km) kilometers. Latest earthquake La Palma M 1.6 (D) 13km 1135 this morning? How do you know this? Well, it says 11:35:07 hour:minute:second and UTC a 24 hour system and the third one says 18: and that was 6pm on the nineteenth and is the largest quake in the last (how many days?). If you press the Information the i in a little circle you get the Information Page, in English it’s a little alarming? https://www.ign.es/web/ign/portal/sis-area-sismicidad And I don’t have the symbol in my Open Office, though here are some others: ❶❷❸. If you change the font you can get❶❷❸ the HTML information pages from w3schools.com are here, and here’s a little snowflake ❄.
0100am 22 Feb 2023 Liverpool Telescope – Liverpool John Moores University “A special enclosure protects the mirror and instruments from rain or any other bad weather. The shape of the enclosure keeps air flowing over the telescope. This prevents turbulence in the air close to the telescope. Any turbulence would make the images look blurry.” Why would there be turbulence? Because the mirrors surface, heating the stagnant air would cause hot air collected at this point to have a different refractive index because of it’s different temperature and pressure. Similar to a prism having a different refractive index to air. Yes, dear. “The air close to the telescope is not stagnant because the shape of the enclosure keeps air flowing over it.” Contradictions in meaning and explanation sometimes confuses the literal. The boldly highlighted portion of the quotation from the Liverpool telescope John Moores University website was highlighted by Colman for demonstration purposes. (Eh, how many words do you want the thesis to be? Which one?) placing a <mark> requires a closing </mark> placing a paragraph <p> requires a closing paragraph </p>. / in html means “closing” as in “Closing Remarks, please?” (Oh, he thinks this little convention is over, it’s not. Akuma https://www.akumakon.com/ Discord.com , I presume? No, they’ll be talking about “that” for years. As a cautionary tale: I hope?) Colman
0120am 22 Feb 2023 The WordPress html editor is relatively forgiving, it checks for errors before putting your html online to ensure it stays within the WordPress pages without problem. Some errors are unfortunately corrected improperly and small unusual items can appear in the source code without being visually noticeable. Similarly newspapers run their stories past editors to ensure spelling mistakes etc. are identified. (And no one gets killed.) And revisions may be made later if necessary. Records of changes to the newspaper article are normally kept by the author and by the editor for legal purposes.
0140am 22 Feb 2023 Here’s a nice edited photo of mine from Akumakon 2019, which I just edited as a background. If you have a nice html page, you can affix a picture as the fixed background on your page, depending on the screen resolution, some pages have folders with the .jpgs for each screen size and and type. This is “Fire Dancer 01” resolution 1920×1080 edited 22 Feb 2023.
0205am 22 Feb 2023 Floating pictures. https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/daily-map-of-active-volcanoes.html The author calls this a “Daily static map.. ” , the picture floats over the background, though if you want to place the picture behind the text that is possible too. The floating picture, the first is a map is triggered to appear on top by clicking in the “main text” map and appears centrally and is removed by clicking on the X on the top right hand side. There are also nice arrows for moving left and right seeing more maps and pictures.
0215am 22 Feb 2023 Bulldozers? why don’t they use bulldozers to make a nice line to the volcano vents, so tourists can see the lava safely? Well, the new lava is very soft and the bulldozer sinks. A path smoother then? It’s a very long way and the lava moves quickly and the ground shakes because of the smaller earthquakes. (And we run tourist busses. With guides for safety. And nice webcams, so interest in the Icelandic Volcanoes is aroused and people might arrive by plane to see the marvellous wonders of the Earth for themselves.) (You seen a hurling match on YouTube? Hurling – The Fastest Game on Grass (short version) That’s a Cork County jersey at the start – Red and White!)
0230am 22 Feb 2023 And how do you generate traffic to a site promoting Irish Sport Internationally, without using those nasty hit machines? Well, if the University has a website, of demonstrably good quality, for instruction purposes to their web designers, and the site contains links to its other pages (Sports, as good examples) then the hit count’s rocket as the budding web designers refer back to it for reference material, “if” the link is outside the University local area network, if inside, it isn’t seen as outside hits, by the various Search engines. See https://www.w3schools.com/ They certify people too. For money.
0315am 22 Feb 2023 BreakingNews.ie Cyclone Freddy’s battering winds make landfall in Madagascar “winds gusting to 180kph (about 111mph), with waves higher than 15 metres (about 49ft)” One death reported by Google Search the National Office for Risk and Disaster Management Madagascar https://www.devex.com/organizations/national-office-of-risk-and-disaster-management-madagascar-139367 “Devex is the media platform for the global development community.” https://drmims.sadc.int/en/organizations/government-madagascar Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information rom drmims.sadc.int (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). Learn more NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID UNDRR – Enthusiasm for disaster risk reduction evident at Madagascar retreat – UPDATES 21 November 2022 News Type Updates KEEP DIGGING
0530am 22 Feb 2023 https://en.vedur.is/volcanoes/about-volcanoes/eyjafjallajokull/ Because I looked at the Iceland Met Office map and it said under the ice covered volcano. Eyjafjallajökull Thank you, Iceland Met Office. Colman
Go Iceland !!!!! Ice Hockey please for 5? Colman
0545am 22 Feb 2023 – It’s close and she misses, though the puck is going out toward the oncoming back from Iceland? Last updated Nov 22 2019, could someone nice please hit that nice Give Us Feedback button above and Raise the Roof of this Place? https://icelandicvolcanos.is//?volcano=HEK#
0620am 22 Feb 2023 When entering your data into a live system that others might be looking at, it might be a nice idea to start entering the most recent data first? I seem to remember a volcano erupting at Reykjanes or in it’s vicinity quite recently? Also the search parameters, these have four volcanoes listed, the eruption search, all including these four volcanoes, for search all 2021-2023 none are listed? if the data starts from most recent, if the client searching goes beyond the data limit, too far back in time, before your last data entry, you can have a little notification which says earliest data entered into this improving website is %%%% CE (it stands for Christian Era). Puck is flying, Airline tickets, Airline tickets, hotels, hotels, tents and nice noodles with spirit burners and a warning to keep the spirit burners away from the tents? Yes, we sell five litre bottles of water in nice refillable containers. There’s a collection station there for the empties. And a trust system for paying for the water there, if you didn’t bring enough with you? And nice solar powered and hand cranked radios? Has the Uni got a local radio station? In English for the nice translators to get experience talking to microphone? If the receiving radio has the right frequency you can broadcast it on ??? Ask your local ??? You know you can embed a nice button so the radio station is broadcast on the website? Though the bandwidth might be challenged during times of busyness? It’s spelt with a U, (as in yoU beautiful person) so you know it’s activity and not currency. and a nice link to? https://www.vjv.com/europe-tours/iceland/ Really? Under the name of Jules Verne? (Under his own name, he/she changed it? That is a question? Is there a Walter Mitty travel page yet? Well, it doesn’t have enough hits to beat the Walter Mitty journal (for sale) yet?) “I just want to stay in it.” “We’re going to be odd numbered if you don’t do it.” The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty – Sean Penn scene (YouTube) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth BBC Travel 2011 – Sea monsters, lava flows and Iceland’s towering Snæfellsjökull peak.
0650am 22 Feb 2023 http://earthice.hi.is/ Translation of Þú ert að nota: brimir.rhi.hi.is Icelandic to English You are using: brimir.rhi.hi.is “About the Institute – The Institute of Earth Sciences, an independent part of the University’s Science Institute, is the main site of academic research in earth sciences in Iceland. The Institute provides research facilities for the about 30 teaching and research faculty members, 5-6 Nordic research fellows, several postdoctoral fellows and about 50 graduate students. Research within the Institute is organised into three broadly defined themes:” Their phone numbers are here: http://earthice.hi.is/staff_0, if you’d like to say HELLO ? Iceland observes UTC±00:00 year-round (Google), so it’s 7am there in ten minutes and since there’s a few little quakes going they might be in the office? Oh, look, if you click on their names?
0710am 22 Feb 2023 Let’s look at Sicilly, because I only visited once and Mount Etna was quiet at the time, there’ a nice road up the side, I took the bus up, the tourist stall for souvenirs is only fair, the view? Unfortunately I was there with a cruise ship and only had a small time there and there isn’t a nice interpretive centre there, USGS says there was a M4.5 there two days ago off the coast here’s the nice map.
https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/palermo/piano-battaglia.html The snow up there looks amazing, might try a winter hike, some day. Google Earth:
0730am 22 Feb 2023 Now when I looked here https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/enna/belvedere.html it has Mount Etna in the background and there on that page, lower down are the Mount Etna webcams. Now, if it was me? I’d be leading with this? Skyline – Vulcano Etna – Live Gina, what’s that? Mount Etna? I think it’s a cloud formation? Is that snow blowing over the top? Let’s go to our man on top of the hill? (If that fxxker sends me sssomewhere like thissss again. And you’re live: It’s such a beautiful morning here on top of Mount Etna, we climbed through the early morning to reach the summit before dawn and the Sun rising over the ocean was amazing. “We turn now to breaking news, however you can follow Hero’s full story in our travel video section.”)
0745am 22 Feb 2023 https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/catania/vulcano-etna-sud-est/timelapse.html The live view isn’t working, the timelapse at the end the colour on top the the volcano changes colour? Why?
Note: It is important to switch the button on the right hand side of the FIRMS Interface to Current, as I had a wee peak at Ireland and saw the Gorse fire, near Glencree, listed and checked and found it was a historical, I looked on Google Earth and saw the house name. https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklow/news/fire-crews-deal-with-large-gorse-fire-near-glencree-41644429.html Thank you Eimear, Eimear Dodd May 12 2022 06:37 PM
0807am 22 Feb 2023 See above Timestamped 07:59 GMT, UTC or Zulu if you prefer. Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy. The download .jpg button is excellent, Thank you NASA. Colman
1420-1450pm 22 Feb 2023 How would Colman the Lazy populate the database of Volcanoes in Iceland in 24 hours? Volcanoes are hard. Earthquakes are easier. You look for a very personable enthusiastic person who left soon after they arrived at your University, one who wanted to impress and asked to be on every Earthquake email address and was Senior enough that their email address was automatically increased in size or the emails went to a bunch of people, some of whom kept some and some kept others and the emails didn’t actually reside in their box because the memory space was shared. Then you spend an hour finding a decoder for the data in each email type, normally decided by the email address they arrived from. You write a little program in python which writes the email data into a database and then what? Note text sampling is first module, first year.
Then you’re in SQL and database queries, also first module first year. Why because the industry heads said, no one knows how to do this fxxking basic stuff, can you teach a few people. Now in the SQL, it gets a bit more complicated, so if you still have your data base filling program you might use that either, search Lat Longs to get everything on you Iceland Map. Now you have a Huge series of Bullseyes? Why ? Because the earth quakes normally happen around the same place in unusual (non geometric) places (they’re not in a fxxking straight line) How do you sort the bullseyes? To be honest, I’d draw a graph. One map, all the dots, ignore the fact that some fall on top of one another and have a look? What do you get? A list of possible Volcanoes. Choose a diameter for the ones that have hills on top and populate your Earthquake list according to Volcano. Then? The number of eruptions isn’t too big? The locals couldn’t have been bothered? The locals didn’t want POPO around? (Alcohol Stills of course, some idiots think alcohol is the devils wet farts.) Well, the data looks like a string of beads, triangularly shaped beads (two cones wide end to wide end) irregularly spaced over many many years, they should be the same every year, Winter ground heats up Summer ground cools down Winter Find the maximum every year, see what the max Magnitude was and work down? A six and the fxxking country shit itself, Iceland is soft rocks and that would be a nine almost anywhere else, what happened at bullseye 01 in say the last hundred years? A five, was there a lava flow? A four was there a lava flow? A three was there a vent and a gas cloud, NOTAM after whenever they were invented? Given the number of Volcanoes listed on the pretty map, the bullseyes are there already? Now extra information? While the seismographs on Iceland look down, 2D mapping techniques from long ago, say triangulation and while there are loads of data sources, there should be a load of data sources and a load of separate calculations. Why? If I shit in my pond here, if the shit is big enough, it makes a splash, the waves ripple out and they rise the water in waves. if the places around Iceland are different distances apart the waves arrive at different times. calculation of the times of the arrival of the waves, presuming the one point of origin, for the tree waves arriving at the three external points – That was a fxxking whopper, time. With experience the time of the wave from the Iceland event to a seismic station in Ireland could easily be estimated? How? Well, ya gobshite, the ground shook for me here twenty seconds ago and luckily you were by the phone so can you tell me a big FUCK YEA if your little seismograph goes bing in twenty, 19, 18 So can someone get a first year from Cork University over for a summer internship, keep them away from the fxxking professors and get them to populate your database? Or you could ask someone whose read (hacked) your data already? Here’s the database the Professor came up with and I wrote my SQL for, can you fill that until we fix the problem? How will the problem be fixed? ( COLMAN – YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO MENTION POINTY KNIVES AND THROWING THEM AT YOUR WOODEN SAUNA SEAT LIKE YOU DID IN KOSOVO AS A FORM OF STRESS RELIEF IS NOT POLITE) Eh, we didn’t teach him that. No it’s like axe throwing and soccer, you throw it enough times, you hit once and you remember what it felt like and do it again and then you’re Georgie Best. Strangely enough a friend did a FYP on the effects of dreaming and repetition on basketball scores. UL. I think he works in Switzerland now.)
1515pm 22 Feb 2023 I knew that nap was important – The Devils Wet Farts – Glacier Ice down wind, dating through depth of ice and thin layer deposition of SO2 and NO2 and, Oh, look for Sahara sand while you are at it? How will you know Sahara sand? Oh, it goes click click on a very, very sensitive geiger counter and if the Fart was loud enough it should have Lithium or Aluminium in it and the Isotopes are identifiable too. Now that’s a big project, it might take a couple of years. I’d see if Norway did one of their glaciers already? Though most smaller eruptions the stuff would have fallen in the sea, it’s quite a wide expanse of water. Where else might you find it? Depth of bog? Ceide Fields? Accurate to 100 years, 50 samples? 5,000 years? Bog sampler? That round coreing thing, forget what it’s called they use it for lake beds too, based originally on the Royal Navy lead corer dropped over the side of the ship “6 fathoms, Sand and BrokenShell” Bog samples? Six weeks? Database two weeks? Glacier samples, various locations three years and say six locations six Phd students and a very good University with experience of Antarctica ice? Summer coring work? Refrigerator, winter chemistry? And six good privates off an Artic survival course, who learned how to cook noodles, to keep them warm and fed. You hold the mess tin in you gloved hand so you don’t burn yourself. You fill the plastic bag held in your left gloved hand with the mess tin in your right gloved hand and then get a fork and eat the noodles out of the nice warm bag. Or you can buy them 90 tins of pot noodles per person for 3 months and given them vitamin tablets and ana loance, I’m sure some bright spark will ask if the local farmer will send them over pizza once a day for 20 euros a pizza. two pizzas a day is 40 euros and 30 x 40 = 1,200 euros and on a small farm that’s welcome money. Tinned tomatoes are cheap here, tinned tomatoes in Iceland come from? You might even start a greenhouse to cut costs. Piesoelectric power generation, if the little earthquakes are frequent enough? The London marathon they used pedestrians walking over a wooden walkway? To be honest though I’d consider a two meter vertical wind generator? You might write it off and give it to the farmer with an annual data collector? Arduino seismograph? Every extra data point counts. Colman
1610pm 22 Feb 2023 Silly question? Do you know what probability actually means? Dart board again. The awful dart player is the best example. He aims at the bull. At the start, he always falls short. He looks after three darts and says I’m probably throwing too low. I’ll aim higher. Bull 01 is centered on HTZARISS Mean Point of impact, rifle shooting, See diagram above. Now probability says that if he throws a hundred darts immediately after he’s gotten his range, then most should be around the bull and some will fall a long way off, that five % on the left and right of the probability curve. Now, if you’ve a long lava tube, you might ask a machine gunner what a cone of fire is and see if your graph of earthquake locations looks like that? And yes, that is a Harry Harrison reference, he was a Heavy Machine Gun Instructor. It’s just a question of putting your probability curve over your intended target. It’s called a skew. (Yes, literally Ask Q?) Short for CQMS. Why because not all the stores get to the front, some are pilfered and if the amount is over the probability curve, then you send the heavy MPs to ask why the light MPs haven’t fixed the problem. So Volcanoes and Earthquakes – Iceland, if they should happen every year, why don’t they? Above ground: Differences in weather, temperature and pressure, and ice conditions, depth of ice and/or snow. Below ground: Fissures open, lava fills fissures and doesn’t appear above ground. Yes, Sahara (the movie) (the river runs under our feet etc.) The plates tip. Ever seen a plate spinner, they have to keep the plates spinning by turning them again and again, by rolling the stick underneath, the plate actually starts falling to one side before they turn the stick underneath, and all they do is? Impart an increased rotational speed, which though you don’t see it, the plate momentarily has static friction properties, which jump the plate because the limit of static friction is exceeded and rotational energy is given to the plate. Since the limit of static friction is a constant, the plate only spins for the same amount of time and then the plate spinner gets the timing right and spins one plate at a time, to be honest, some times it looks like they through themselves around deliberately for effect. Rather like M.A.C.H Zero in his first appearance at a soccer match, thinking I could just walk over and catch the ball, let’s give the fans something to cheer about and he waits and jumps and it’s a marvellous save look at that a ten foot jump accross the goalmouth and he falls clutching the ball. The crowd expecting an opponents goal, go wild. It’s called playing to the crowd. Unfortunately I am not playing to the crowd, I think a few people are acting like fxxkwits and while the shiny fxxkwits in the Intelligence community want everyone to play secret agents and keep their fxxking mouths shut, NOTHING IS GETTING DONE. And NO ONE is making any fxxking money except the Insurance companies. Oh and the blood sucking lawyer is on your side, so pucker up butter cup…
2000hrs 22 Feb 2023 Now – The site may be down for a while, I have to optimise the data base? There are three reasons this might be used to the Boss. 1. I am copying an entire copy of it to somewhere safe and I don’t have a second copy available while I am making the copy. 2. It was badly designed in the first place and I am actually completely redesigning the data system. 3. I am changing all the places on the hard disk where the data base is stored. 1. Well done. Very good idea and can you make three or four copies and that’s described as? “Data redundancy refers to the storing of data in multiple locations or copies in order to increase the reliability and availability of the data. If one copy of the data becomes unavailable or lost, the other copies can be used to retrieve the data.6 Jan 2023″ Data conomy.com When you pay they say it’s a RAID Array, NAS boxes such as those used for storing your local data on multiple hard drives in case one has a fault. Most (Geeks and Nerds) people who buy their tv movies on download use them. I have four hard drives on my computer, I selected my mother board board because it was so “pretty”, look at the orifices (interfaces, did I say orifices, woops) on that one. Where you stick the SATA connectors in each one had the potential to have a hard drive at the end. I just copy the data from one to the other because jargon bores me. 2. I recommend Microsoft Access, the PDF gave me a copy once and I taught myself and it’s quite nice. I used it for making a nice data base for pay, leave and flights home and then printed an envelope for every soldier with little boxes to fill in. Every week how much do you wnat in cash next week, have you got your leave dates yet, has Hq booked your flight home yet. When leave dates are filled in stop asking that question, when flight details are filled in stop asking that question, when you get to hq, enter all cash requests into computer data base. Give request for cash next week to pay officer. When you get cash, put in the envelopes and give to soldier. repeat until trip is finished. Colman why did you do this yourself? I needed to know how to do it. I liked learning the process. The clerk wasn’t qualified to write it either. The program was simple, a data base is based on a library card system, if you actually used the index cards before they were computerised, the international book sale network is the best computer example, the interface is quite standard. I had a copy on paper for every request, and receipt, there’s a little box there beside the cash received sum, please sign for your money. There were over a hundred envelopes, if someone wanted to fiddle their amount received, they just had to take one. Whose? One green book with an alphabetical index and the whole system is gone. Why, because the index says, it’s going to be really easy to look the missing page up. one in a hundred and he might consider making a copy, the envelopes were printed from a form I created with Access as a system for entering the data formatted to fit the envelope, when all the names were in, you just said print forms and the envelopes came out. Lastly and most important. I saw every soldier once a week and said, how are you is everything ok, if they looked peeky (It’s a term for being ill, maybe you should see what’s up with them or the building.). Also while some have weekly conferences with all two ranks down, I saw every soldier every week. (That means? Senior Junior, Senior NCOS, Junior NCOS, other people call them head sheds or weekly orders.) That’s why there were drill sheds, for drilling the NCOs. (Coy 2i/c: Boss is ready, the map is up, Lt Bloggs: Tell the CS to march in the NCOs. Take you seats, please, Sgt Jones, you’re the CS for this exercise, you sit there. CS, you did this one last year, you’re DSing this one.) 3. Well the data base is being optimised, in old money was a button on your diagnostic tools for your hard drive, which could reorder your entire hard drive in about an hour, the first time you did it, it took all the most used files listed in the FAT, file allocation system, a data base based on the original library system and, this was the improvement on the library system, it sorted the most used files to the front in groups. Rather like putting the Engineering books on the first floor of the library, when you put the library in a tall building. And an index card system on each floor. Now most Hard drives are big enough for the largest index card boxes, (The main database. In this case the list of Earthquakes.), and supplementary data bases, (I needed to make a supplementary data base happens because? ; a list of similar items.) The list of dead for this Earthquake, by name and cause of death, the list of causes of death by Number. Why? Well the causes have look ups and you can ask the look up for the Number and then search the data base for the number, it’s much shorter than the “Multiple contusions and lacerations.” when you’re searching for “20” in the lists, you get all the names and the name and, cause of death, is also a supplementary data base, because ; there may be many types of causes for this victim, some possible, to be ruled out and some probable and some certain. “Missing a head” is normally quite fatal. That’s also why you use supplementary data bases, so the technician can : Supplementary database, not accessible at your age. Example: The Engineering books include: “Windmills for beginners.” The kids section includes “Windmills for beginners.” It’s useful if the Engineers see the one with the large 30 meter ones which generate power, and the kids see the one about how to make a little one with paper, the Engineer should have seen this as a kid, though, offering it to him as an extra option is now possible, using the computer data base system. Most Data base indexes are small, text only, you put the supplementary databases, especially those with large files such as photos or video in a separate hard drive and hopefully, your threading system, can see that looking up the index is more important than getting the pretty photos. Why? Because the interpretive software normally looks at the numerical data, interpreting every photo every time is annoying. Now if you’re reinterpreting all the photos again, you copy all the data to… oh, don’t need to do that, there’s a second copy over there. See 1 above. Here’s a nice tip, used by old librarians, you make the BC a minus number so you look backward. Who invented the zero? Well actually you can’t have a zero year, it’s silly and you might see if your database has a zero in it? (1=1AD”0″-1=1BC) Just asking? This is the equivalent of “I changed a few things and the phones might go off and The System will be Compiling for a few minutes.” These days a Beta version is launched and silly people like me, look at it and make comments, having fun with the buttons, because the real one is too important to use for testing and we’ll have to run another course, when the live version is up and running, so the users will know what all the shiny buttons are for. How does Colman know what they’re for? THERE ISNT A BUTTON FOR THAT CAN YOU PUT IN A NEW OPTION IN THE MENU BAR AT THE TOP, PLEASE Unfortunately system for placing standard menus in the interface the top of the page as in The Microsoft Word 2.0 word processing system is patented and it’s use is limited and if anyone designs one similar for commercial use, and doesn’t pay them the “penny” for the patent per program sold, it’s toast in the courts. Please see Colman’s interface above, if I’d wanted to, I could have a silly page listing the earthquake websites, from my main menu, in the web page, though as a standalone program this might not be possible, why? See w3schools? Design of dropdown menus in web pages are easy. Colman has one at the top of his page designed as a standard from WordPress. Most people think you can’t because you can’t use the “Microsoft Menu Design.” Oh, and all spread sheets are small databases too. and you can use them as standalones (supplementary databases) from your main data base, and if someone is nice and sends you a new one every day and you copy it into your hard drive (on top of the place where the old one was, thank you, so the hard drive doesn’t need to be optimised, “Again?”.) THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: Did I leave anything out? Then anyone could do it. Yes. First year, First Term, UCC Computer Science. Industry asked for people to do this stuff. All the fxxkers want to make money hacking and cybersecuritying and no ones doing any fxxking work.
2145pm 22 Feb 2023 Why is there a Poker game with a river? Because shooting the guy who told the opponent your cards (or you thought he told them your cards) was considered impolite, it’s a little easier to keep two cards face down, you can remember two cards? And the information is revealed in a manner which lengthens the game, encouraging drinking, where the pub owner makes money, the long game draws viewers who also drink, and: Poker Stars (YouTube) Why? Because I’ll never work in government service again.
2150-2300pm 22 Feb 2023 I visited Deadwood on a tour, The Dead Man’s hand (wiki) now the question has not been asked? Now here is a perfect example of a need for a supplementary data base: Wild Bill Hickock (wiki) Memorials and honorable distinctions[edit] Hickok’s birthplace is now the Wild Bill Hickok Memorial and is a listed historic site under the supervision of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. The town of Deadwood, South Dakota, re-enacts Hickok’s murder and McCall’s capture every summer evening.[69] In 1979, Hickok was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.[83] The Referance [69] here is the second usage of the reference in the text and in html, they have a nice “referrer” to the place in the text. click on the [69] and you get the page and the placeholder. it’s address is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok#cite_note-blackhills-78
“Jack McCall and the Murder of Wild Bill Hickok”. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2008.. Black Hills Visitor.
Copying the 69. ^A b is not immediately possible because it is generated in the page, in the same way it is generated in many word processors allowing automatic generation of contents, indexes and lists of references. Note, it should be the first lesson in every school or college. Like putting your name on your copy book at primary school. Now, when you click on the reference to see where it is used? The method of placing the information in the referance A b varies and lead to different places in the text to those expected, in a book, normally a frequently used item “Wild Bill Hickock” in a history book has the page numbers afterward where he is mentioned. This is why standardisation of methods of citing your information in academic material is important. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=standardisation+of+methods+in+academic+documentation&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
The Irish Defence Forces had it’s own method of writing documents, so I just wrote my own standardised format of the military document type for my own use. It’s like using a Headed Notepaper. (Author?) (Oh?) Some people use Latex? Oh, do they? Why? Because they know how to draw formula in it? And there are copious lessons, I just drew them.
My lecturer at college apparently wrote a book on Latex, the document formatting language, maybe he wrote the program? Who knows? He taught us Java. He used an example of three pillars and you put rings around them and sort the information. My memory is awful for silly stuff, can’t remember the name of the problem, see three pillars computing, it’s quite a nice Google search. I bought him a wooden version of the kids game in Washington on a holiday as a solid example for jogging the students memory. As a kid my gran made me figure out how to solve solitaire the marbles game, and memorise it, oh, now I have to work out how I did it again, and repeat it, so I know how to do it a second time and here, gran I can show you now. Could you still show how to solve the marbles game? No, it’s not particularly important, though I have a version I bought in Congo with malachite marbles. https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_sup.asp <sup>Hello</sup> = Hello If you use mathematical systems of additions of the scripts and This is HelloHelloHello . Cool? And the book costs? “Font size specifications may come in points or pixels where: 1 pixel (px) is usually assumed to be 1/96th of an inch. 1 point (pt) is assumed to be 1/72nd of an inch. Therefore 16px = 12pt. 03 Feb 2022″ Penn State University Because someone is copping on that there was a “wrench” in the system and that would be? It’s not in w3schools, because that’s in the pay section. Colman w3schools-CSS-Fontsize Oh, I’m not the only one displeased.
2330pm 22 Feb 2023 A short history of the Web – Cern Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. Why? Colman supposing again? Someone asked the smart people at Cern: What “they” would like in their documents and Mr Berners-Lee thought it might be a bad idea if a company had the patent on The computer version of Paper, so he wrote a list of ; types of document formatting “things” and then he wrote a simple system for reading it, called a browser. He probably asked a retired “hand setting” typesetter for a guide.
1230pm 23 Feb 2023 Show them the Movie ALIVE – Now we’re into Ghostbusters territory, you concentrate on looking for a really fat person, some lunatic with a panic room going next time I’ll have more than two exit tunnels (check engineering drawings) or someone who’s seen Alive or knows the some of the concentration camp victims lived. On entering the camp I was… Doctors were sent to the camps, because some of the camp survivors died when they started eating the wrong foods after rescue. I can’t remember where I read it ask an expert. Why did the Alive people live? Because some of the Jewish in the concentration Camps lived. Distribute feeding plans for anyone found after this point? (check local customs on the religious implications of consumption of human remains, some religions require a priest’s, a rabbi’s or an imam’s forgiveness) from my own limited knowledge, peanut butter is what I think the famine relief people distribute for immediate care of the malnourished? The shock of being rescued needs immediate treatment. KEEP DIGGING In some primitive cultures, the bodies of their dead are preserved and kept in their houses. Oh, no one says that sometimes there’s no food and … “desiccation” noun the removal of moisture from something. “is a method of preservation of food.” Save One Why? I visited the Vietnam memorial, Vietnam – MIA some people are still looking. I bought a cloth patch at the souvenir stand, I sewed it on my jacket. History is remembering so that mistakes are not repeated.
1300pm 23 Feb 2023 The Irish are mad. Her.ie – Student stuck in cave for three days survived by licking the walls 5 years ago JADE HAYDEN Google search i survived by licking the wall – At Tiri incident (wiki) Yes, we have long memories too. Battle of At Tiri 6-12 Apr 1980 – IUNVA I was a kid in Israel around this time.
1315pm 23 Feb 2023 Do I smell a busy Paddy at work? https://syria.un.org/ If you mouse click in the floating window? The story is reached. (Because we have troops there and troops get an Irish Officer in Headquarters, where they gain staff experience in Brigade and Division sized Units. USA, You might fix this to work on computers, it’s designed for phones. https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/Military-Units/Army/#:~:text=DIVISION,-Commanded%20By%3A&text=Usually%20commanded%20by%20a%20major,operations%20and%20sustained%20battlefield%20operations. Note: For Logistics purposes, Corps and Army Groups are Logistics providing Headquarters, providing support Units for Bdes, Divisions and Armys. Bns, Bdes, Divisions and Armys are mobile Units. Mobile Armoured Bns are called Battle Groups, I was a member of Finnish Irish Battle Group in Kosovo, I don’t know what a mobile armoured Bde is, Ireland had a Company Group where? Why is it called a group, and if it’s a support Unit and it’s armoured too, it’s also a group. Why is it called a group? Oh, You brought Armour, I must call you something else, what will I call them? As in “O U beautiful person, we get to get off our feet for a while.” Big Unit Groups, have mobile Armoured headquarters. General Bradley was an Army Group commander, General Patton was an Army Commander. General Eisenhower was commander of SHAFE. Strategic Commander Army Forces Europe. “Sometimes, it’s not about what you say it’s all about how you tell the story.” Colman ” ‘Crusade in Europe’ is a good read, I recommend it.” Colman Actually, the correct version of that is? ‘ “Crusade in Europe” is a good read, I recommend it.’ and if you are a person quoting me you say: Colman said ”’ ” ‘Crusade in Europe’ is a good read, I recommend it” ”’ And it gets complicated so for convenience the books put Ike said ‘.Rommel said “…” ..’ and you say Rommel said “…”[1] Referance 1. Crusade in Europe by Dwight David Eisenhower the reason this one has a different name on it? It’s abridged. your reference should have the dewey decimal system number on it for the exact book. The system was used later for the invention of IP addresses. “The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System (wiki), is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. It was first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.” Later the US congress made a numbering system for all books in the library of congress and the numbers got really, really long. Have a look at the back of your book? Herman Mellville (wiki) “The ship’s captain immediately convenes a court-martial at which he urges the court to convict and sentence Billy to death. Critics debate Melville’s intention. Some see the contradiction between unbending legalism and malleable moral principles.[205][206] ” 205. Weisberg (1984), chapters 8 and 9 206 Bowen (1960), pp. 217–218 Some books, place the references at the bottom of each page for convenience, some at the back (academic, where you presume the offering authority (Engineering History (Bde Hq)) has checked the references. Both the qualifications of the offerer and the book referenced and the quality of the work, is judged then on the qualifications of the offering authory and it’s past history of quality and then you decide if you could be bothered reading the book, or if you’ll jus look in the chapter about your particular problem, and if it’s page number is there already, you mightn’t bother reading the chapter at all, and the entire system flounders. If the person at the internet terminal or desk hasn’t got the w3schools book (webpage) entirely downloaded and the web goes down, then the internet system, designed to survive failure in a systemic manner doesn’t fxxking work any more. Mark Watney found the Ascii chart because someone else was carrying it and left it behind by accident: The Martian (movie), now eventually that movie is superseded by an other which might leave that scene out and then no one understands the reference, however earlier on I have listed it, though if the censor, mightn’t like that passage, the reference goes in the bin too and that’s when you have to reference every sentence and Wikipedia is born. Colman: You’re making this up. Yes and No, it’s a continuation of a short story by Harry Harrison, two people decide to look for the origin of their species and find Earth and a memorial there and look at it and there is hand print with five fingers and look at their own hands and they both have six fingers and go I wonder when that happened? It was the Fin/Irl Bn Battle Group, Battle with GUNS. War Group WITH BIG GUNS. how could a Bn be a War Group, oh, it depends on what type of Bn it is. Anyone got a Satellite Bn available? Oh, then they wouldn’t be a group? Really? “And whose army is going to help you?” Forces.net army jokes, I like the last one.
1450pm 23 Feb 2023 Strange thing happened a small while ago? The UK left the EU. Funny that. Yes. It is. In American Football, the quarterback stands behind the line of scrimmage. In Rugby the scrum half feeds the ball into the scrum and when it arrives back behind the scrum gives the ball to the line who go to the best flank and goes wide for the “TOUCHDOWN, and the Crowd go WILD.” In hurling you puck the ball into open space for the running midfielder, who hits a point. John Fenton (Cork midfielder) only gave ball to forwards when the game was won. Why do Kilkenny perpetually win now? Because they realised every wide was a point for Cork, and they stopped hitting wides. What happened if the midfielder was bested – Sideline – Short passes keep the ball – Seanie Murphy in the square, It’s a high ball, no, it’s dropping short, he catches, he scores and the little man has done it again. Why did the commentator say the name first? Because he’d seen all the matches. (Eh, can you find out how, Jimmy Magee, it looked like? he knew Seanie was going to score that?) (Do you think he meant … The Martian, commas are sometimes used for ensuring meanings are understood, by representing pauses in speech; , one space . two spaces. A semi-colon ; is a deep breath before reciting a list, a colon is : I’ll have to explain this. Why do some scripts have little punctuation? Well, it’s either the write rushing writing, or the character rushing writing, or the writer was using a typewrite, some still do and they didn’t learn where the punctuation marks were in typing class and looking for the ”’Where the fxxk is the “, ”’ loses their train of thought and I’m not typing that out again, I’ll use pen. Secretary can you type that out properly and they didn’t add the silly penmarks that look like they were using an awful bik bio and it was hot and the pen leaked biro all over the page and sugar, maybe those were supposed to be punctuation marks, and sure I’ll keep going on this and the boss doesn’t remember half of what he reads anyway and sure it’s done now. (Trained Secretaries, Type Quickly. Better Secretaries, go back to the start and put in all the punctuation marks , . ; : ? “Where’s the Euro sign?” and call to ask the proper meaningz (delete) s before they hand the result to their very quick boss. ) (Mam had a book on Secretary work, the squiggles were because arabs wrote very quickly and some bright spark said, my secretary doesn’t write that fast because they were quite particular about the letters being perfect at school and maybe we could come up with a better solution and then they invented the typewrite and then stenograph and then the computer and the voice activated computer module and the commas disappeared because the computer didn’t know punctuation marks existed and some of the books had; bad english, bad grammer, bad editors and, bad typesetters. Shouldn’t that have been an or? It had a ; it’s actually proper grammer. Why is the and, there, because sometimes you need notification the list is coming to an end. And sometimes, it’s for emphasis. Why do you need notification, so you know you can take a breath “and, Next:” Bad English … Bad Grammar … Bad Typesetting, sugar, I should have put a : back there, yes, originally the . could be made into a , and the : could be made into a ; Is all the stuff I’ve written awful, or have I simply been following the results of bad spelling and bad grammar, which I’ve been reading, over the years? Maybe I should read a book on grammar and punctuation? Eats, Shoots and Leaves Paperback – Notebook, 1 Oct. 2009 by Lynne Truss (Author) I’d have it on the web designers reading list. Though I hope it’s correct, maybe an Irish (nationality) English (language) language Phd (considerated numpty) might fxxking write one? considerate – careful not to inconvenience or harm others. (Why, because they get paid and if they fxxk up, they take their pay and credentials.) (No, Colman is retired. On a pension.) (And, No considerated, isn’t a word in the Google search. I read it somewhere or I made it up myself.) (he used a capital in the middle of a sentence, Why? for emphasis. and a little letter for he, because he was rushing in speech, and he’s only a little person, and maybe someone “With Credientials” might look at that.)
1550pm 23 Feb 2023 Why did the very strange man who carried the pig shoot the very bad weapons seller in the chest with the AK47 at the end and the man with the bald head said “Are you happier now?” in RED (2010), the graphic novel is excellent too, though I preferred 100 Bullets (bookstation.ie) . (I can’t find RED as a graphic novel, maybe it’s out of print? (No longer available in book shops.) ) If you know the answer to the question? …
1640pm 23 Feb 2023 Now, just for giggles I converted this image from my home page, I copied it into this page, by editing the html there, I just copied the image block and by clicking on the Left hand button, it gives me a transform to, if you’re a cautious organisation, it is possible to place a password or authenticator on this button for your organisation IP addresses Note: The above text has a wp-block-file___button which is a “user defined script: they wrote it themselves.” and here’s the help page https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/file-block/ because, the search looks up all versions containing fil and block and doesn’t particularly know that you wanted block file instead of file block:; Because they have a help desk, they have a help desk because? A colon(:) and a semi colon (;), and parenthesis to show the actual symbols he is referring to, he going for an A+ ? Parentheses (The text inserted belongs to) © Colman O’Keeffe “Cannot be used for commercial purposes without permission of the author. Quotations and reasonably sized pieces may be may be used for educational purposes.” That’s What © means, in reasonable jurisdictions. Some places don’t allow you to use the quotation unless you’ve read the “entire” book. A lot of religions have this attitude. How do educational establishments do this? (Well de professor asked loads of hard questions and … … Yes. I brought the book in with me… I had nice little note stickers in loads of places, which weren’t in the references I gave him in my thesis. She was quite impressed, when I could say, yes, that was somewhere in Chapter 4 and yes, I noted that, however in this book a later version quoting that, it says the new research says. And well, I tested it, and I, too, thought that SellotapeTM as better than the other brands.) (You know there is a symbol for that? You used a <sup> </sup>, yes for illustratory purposes, the typesetter, since the little Ts and Ms were used so often together, they made a little block including both. Some Internet firms now use numbers to denote words.) (Should that be illustrative? Well, the picture is illustrative of an artwork or a picture and the illustratory refers to the … cheesemakers and the makers of all dairy products. That’s an adjunctive illustrative paraphrasing. Really Colman, you shouldn’t be showing off: it’s annoying getting asked questions like:; where did you get him from and some village must be missing their idiot?)
1735pm 23 Feb 2023 What military (topic) book would you recommend to the Cadet? The Oxford companion to Military History Item Price £10.07 Or just £9.06 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership £8.60 Shipping to IRL Standard delivery: 5 to 10 days I bought my copy a few years back. Yes, a ‘Topic’ is different to a ‘Genre’ and ”’ “A Topic™ has “a hazelnut in every bite.” ”’ Colman, And as not earlier, noted, if you use the ™ symbol, the search engines have you by the goolies, because they looked for uses of the Trademarks, for money. And Xerox and Sellotape having decided that having their name used as “generic terms” was just good advertising, did what? “You don’t happen to have a Xerox machine handy, do you?” ‘Romancing the Stone’ (movie_1984). Why? Because you’d like to know that a ‘malachite marble’ is different to ‘macchiato’ marble. There are different forms? In geology, yes there are. Woops, I pressed the wrong button on the spell checker, ‘malachite’ marble. Macchiato is alphabetically earlier in the spell check list than malachite which is alphabetically closer to malechite, which is what I typed, rushing. “Well, they sent me the document for editing and I only had one copy and I ran the spell check and loads of words hade red squiggles under neath them and I looked ofr the proper words and I hit the wrong word, and not I can’t remember what word was there before I pressed spell check.” Now I wrote that fast and neath (Neath neat health) has and underling and so does ofr (for of over) and I actually meant “underneath”, “which just do’nt be in de list.” (Eh, maybe the voice comms by radio-computer-text, no su ks a go od id ea.) Colman Your best illustration of this? “There are two hundred people approaching with torches” Colman’s translation? “We might have to shoot someone.” Why, well, I saw that movie and the ending wasn’t so good for the monster. We didn’t tell Colman they were in an armoured vehicle. No, the monster did. “Report to the nearest KFOR Post.” REPORT Nearest KFOR Post (Bde Hq, Eh, sir/mam, we were told to report here. – Why? … ) (Can we keep this patrol here for a little while?) Next morning… With an Irish Captain from Bde Hq onboard, they made the front page, of which newspaper? Colman “Read a book. Watch a movie. See the World.” “We gotchya covered.” Colman “Are you OK? Who saved you?” “Oh, Some Hero in Information Technology?” “The Important word is ? INFORMATION, the tech changes.” “Collate that shithead?” Colman “Oh, no I’m not.” (It’s a Panto gag.) (What’s a gag? a joke so good, you cough up your popcorn. Why? because you aspirated it when you were so surprised and needed to breath in to laugh. It’s why they stopped selling popcorn at the theatre in Ireland.) (And? Well you cough, and you tilt your head down to stop yourself doing it in future, someone pats you on the back or gives you the Heimlich manouvoure (First Aid video) (YouTube) or you press yourself against a table corner. And if that doesn’t work? Well, that isn’t taught any more and someone calls for an ambulance. You could also give oxygen? If an old person with a breather is nearby and is prepared to share. Very true, can you make a note of that? Please?) Colman
1900pm 23 Feb 2023 Sky News – Turkey earthquake: New tremor ends homeless family’s dream of recovery KEEP DIGGING
2015pm 23 Feb 2023 You’ll note below in the Earthquakes id, it’s in <strong id= “bollix”> I’m sure that the copyright conscious people put little comments like this in their stuff, completely unseen by the average word processor numpty and then the google search parameter looks for and it’s called metadata. So apparently I’m not allowed use earthquakes in my headings anymore, because headings mean chapters and I’m not allowed have headings called %str”earthquakes”%, because I’m not qualified and “SOMEONE was LOOKING?” A string is the name for a variable containing letter characters. “Oh, you’re watching again? I thought you were still in the bathroom? No, I’m not done with, YOU.”
2041-2100 pm 23 Feb 2023 USGS M 6.3 – 177 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia USGS MAP I’m not looking at the Earthquake, I’m looking at who to save. Smithsonian – Volcano – Marapi Smithsonian – Volcano – Karangetang Kadovar ??? Possible Langila ??? This one actually has a (?) in the Smithsoninan Volcano index list? Smithsonian – Volcano – Semaru Smithsonian – Volcano – Ibu Smithsonian – Volcano – Dukano Warning Order Copernicus, you might have a wee peek for anything unusual in the last 24 hrs and the next 3 hours? Warning Order And can the next officer please check for any volcanoes I’ve missed?
2105pm 23 Feb 2023 What are we looking for? Water, lots of water – Boiling mud lots of water – and most volcanoes on that list are under warnings already for 2km to 5km distances because of it and some still won’t move because they have land and farms there. Klaxons and Sirens???
2130pm 23 Feb 2023 Colman What do you do? Well, strangely enough I’d try a two boats, made of bamboo and leaves, large leaves, hoping that the mud would catch you and slide you down the hillside. Two boats coracle – tied together in a sphere? The World is Not Enough – James Bond was saved by a version from an avalanche (1999) Business Insider.com This new airbag collar is a safer alternative to the traditional bike helmet – and it’ll soon be available across the globe Do they need to be sealed? Well strangely enough, not particularly well, water has a high surface tension and the worst mud is largely water and there is a spider and some water insects which carry air bubbles underwater with them. The leaves would give insulation from the heat and water actually cools relatively quickly in contact with air, when it’s spread out laterally. Similar to pouring a pot of hot water on the ground. It’s tepid quite quickly. It’s a low alert emergency measure only??? And you can use it for carrying stuff in too? If you live by a river which floods, you have a little boat too, just in case? I have three canoes actually, and I live on a hill. Cork city floods occasionally. My kayaking gear is on a hanger upstairs in the attic. Are they safe? Well, the locals know WHY my canoes are there and Safety Equipment is quite important in Ireland. Now, are the people around the volcanoes safe? The Indonesians and others around that area are improving and the UN keeps trying to improve the warning times. Why? Because warnings are a lot easier than rescues. What if it was bigger? Oh, I have a wooden shed for that. It floats, naturally. Nauty, Colman? Me, I wouldn’t want to worry anyone. The shed is for extra guests in case they want to stay up on the high ground, while all is repaired. Is that Naughty BOLD or NAUTICAL? Am I unusual? Well, my next door neighbour has one too, he keeps canaries in his. “HELLLO???” Woops, wrong spelling, “HELICOPTER???” Colman
There was a nice passage here with lovely highlighting and stuff about the high temperature of the seawater in Cork.
And here’s what you get when you criticise WordPress and their html editing system and your text encounters an error and the system, then does not allow you to recover your text using the UNDO Button. View Html and “Bozonga”
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0020-0210am 24 Feb 2023 https://www.seatemperature.org/europe/ireland/cork.htm
Cork Sea Temperature (Today) 24th Feb 2023 8.7°C / 47.7°F They don’t give you the nice colours as standard, you should ask someone. Bg-color yellow font-color red
You don’t even get a page break, which you add with a <br>in the html for line-break, no closing tag needed. It is also called the “carriage return” in typing.
“That’s why.” : It looks like a paragraph spacing and they want your meta bitty things.
“Baby can’t play with that.” : “Because that’s only for grown ups.”
0210am 24 Feb 2023 Must have been important because I remember what I was saying at 0020am https://www.met.ie/climate/storm-centre 21/22 Storms correct. 22/23 Storms empty? A little effort, latest information first, Storm OTTO, if I remember? Why is the first storm of the season named Otto? and not Antoni – bit quiet round here?
0230am 24 Feb 2023 Now there’s something you don’t see every day, I had to check my barometer to see did it go down that far. 947mmHg is quite a (LOW) pressure system. Met Eireann Atlantic Chart 10 day forecast (LOW) Going to Greenland, ouch.
Bit of rain for Italy too, on the bottom right hand side. Oh, and now my double spaces after a full stop. are only single spaces in the viewed page.
0245am 24 Feb 2023 Now I ran the forecast forward to 10 days, if you press the play button, you can pause it and play it one frame at a time. A High pressure, staying over the area for such a long time, the weather conditions I remember from movies was the great smogs in London, the smog hanging in the air, can someone check the car emissions and NO2 for Dublin for then, we’ll be getting the stuff from Liverpool and Manchester? Please?
0320am 24 Feb 2023 Earthquakes over M5.0 08 Feb – 22 Feb Looks relatively quiet, however? Biggest twenty (20) earthquakes on the chart, first is on 24 Jan 2023
Now, I seem to remember a VI or two? in there? and, Green for a catastrophe? Really? Oh, we’re saving the red colours for ??? Yes, I’d be asking that question too. You might go from Green, a wee tremor, to Blue? We’re quite sad? Yes the boss said to use Blue and Green, Bad comes first… V is bad, I isn’t on this chart and III at sea? That’s a III at 113 km S of Valletta, Malta / pop: 6,700 / local time: 21:25:35.3 2023-01-24 112 km S of Birkirkara, Malta / pop: 21,600 / local time: 21:25:35.3 2023-01-24 Really? Some serious chin wagging needed?
Oh, ten, X, well, that’s X marks the spot and – bulldozers. Why, because we’d be clearing the outer buildings off the roads looking to get the centre spot at this stage. M7.8 – Turkey 06 Feb 2023 today is 24 Feb 2023 that is only 18 days. KEEP DIGGING KEEP DIGGING KEEP DIGGING
72 days 72 days 72 days 72 days 72 days 72 days High Andes, Freezing Cold.
72 days later, 16 survivors emerged from the mountains, emaciated, injured and nearly snowblind, but grateful to be alive. Their harrowing story of survival was told in Piers Paul Read’s bestselling novel, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.22 Nov 2022
0350am 24 Feb 2023 BBC – Winds lash Madagascar’s coast as Cyclone Freddy makes landfall “Officials also said 7,000 people had been pre-emptively evacuated from the coastal region directly in Freddy’s path, and warnings waves could reach over 8m (26ft) were issued by the International Federation of Red Cross.” “A 27-year-old man drowned near the port of Mahanoro before the storm made landfall, officials said.”
List of lighthouses in Madagascar (wiki) Amazing what you learn fishing. Any of these got any wave monitoring equipment? A little test rig for “WAve Generated energy”, this green economy thing being quite lucrative? A WAGe for tail, or a Tale for the WAGe? The Tail is the Logistics end of the Army. Surf Forecast Madagascar? Mozambique, Tanzania, little storm, bad for fishermen. Visited Maputo a little South of here, the bay is a little sheltered for good surfing, though the beaches were deserted. Bob Dylan – Mozambique (Official Audio) (YouTube) Bought this album long time ago. The market is excellent. Bought bead jewellery there.
0545am 24 Feb 2023 2023.02.24 02:08:23 40.7973 27.6207 15.1 -.- 3.4 3.3 MARMARA SEA
http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/scripts/lasteq.asp
Why is this potentially important?
M≥7 Earthquake rupture forecast and time-dependent probability for the Sea of Marmara region, Turkey July 7, 2016 USGS Now a lot of research has been done recently on the underwater currents and things in the Black Sea a little above Istanbul and it’s apparent deluge swamping the (Eh, swamping is a little bit of an understatement.) area about 15,000 years ago? Those carbon dates back yet? The underwater village? Legend of Hercules cleaning a stables or some such? So consider ation might be made as to whether such an event might have an effect on the local waters, narrowing or spreading the channels at Canakkale and Istanbul and the waves which might result? The local fishermen might like to know? If you slosh the water around in a bathtub, the waves get, rather high? rather quickly? Now if you wash a wave up a channel, there’s a strange thing which happens, the wave height increases to a certain point and then the water falls away and back toward the origin of the wave. It’s called gravity. It’s similar to a wave rising and falling on a beach, when you make a little channel for it to reach your sandcastle. If you played on a sandy beach as a kid. and here’s IRIS below the Google Earth map. And that little thump in the Adriatic, did Venice rise or fall? Some settling occur in sedimentary plains because of seismic vibrations, however the strange thing about Venice is, it’s built on old timber and sometimes vibrations loosen the sucking action of the mud and the boat floats? Ireland had Crannogs Ask about Ireland.ie Archaeology “To date over 200 lake dwellings have been located in various parts of the country.” Apparently there were some in Britain too, though I haven’t seen much archology about them there. Ask Time Team (tv-show) for a look?
0835am 24 Feb 2023 Turkey Tunnel from Istanbul under the Bosphorus Strait. Yes, this is the article I remember, BBC inside new tunnel to link Europe and Asia shores Oct 2013 Seat61.com Train travel in Turkey Why? Because I was looking at a train trip from Estonia down to Istanbul a few years ago. The gigantic tunnels and bridges linking Asia to Europe Lisa Morrow, CNN Travel Updated 9:35 AM EST, Thu December 29, 2022 And here’s the bridge too. Photo below. And here is the disaster at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) (wiki) “In 1998, The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. This footage is still shown to engineering, architecture, and physics students as a cautionary tale.[23]” “The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, with a main span of 2,800 feet (850 m), was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world at that time, following the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City, and the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County to its north.[9] ” Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse “Gallopin’ Gertie” (YouTube) – Bosphorus Bridge (wiki) “It is 1,560 m (5,118 ft)[1] long with a deck width of 33.40 m (110 ft).[1] The distance between the towers (main span) is 1,074 m (3,524 ft)[1] and the total height of the towers is 165 m (541 ft).[1] The clearance of the bridge from sea level is 64 m (210 ft).[1] ” All-time Athletics.com men’s best 1500 m +=intermediate time in 1 Mile race (official, unofficial or estimates) 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj (wiki) MOROCCO Roma 14.07.1998
“That ain’t no photographer and chethah joke? Three (3) Minutes and twenty six (26) seconds. Naismith’s rule estimate, please? Walking fit person 4km per hour, 1.5km in 22 minutes. They’ll be running. There were kids in the car? Colman
0850am 24 Feb 2023 – Turkey – Plan in case of zero road or rail routes accross the Bosphorus Strait? – I seem to remember a German officer moved quite a lot of troopies in retreat toward Amsterdam during WW2, I did a little project on Market Garden. Can’t remember his name off the top of my head and the project had all the German Army Unit Commanders names and photos from a nice book. Someone might ask a few historians, USA, British and German and maybe a local Dutch one too, how the fxxk he got 130,000 troops across in three days? The military document should be something like “The Logistics of River (Ferry?) Crossings” 1950 maybe 1960? Yes, I sounded like a silly person listing every Unit and Unit Commander, however I read the entire book, a few of them in fact, there was a picture of one of the ferries, looked something like the present day Circle line Staten Island ferry?
1940pm 24 Feb 2023 ICC Live Camera, there’s a little arrow showing where the camera is pointed the little yellow one. Just arriving over San Francisco, I haven’t looked at the weather however I presume that the onshore breeze is making clouds over the area as the moisture rises over the land. ISS- NASA – Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit – Live stream
1945pm 24 Feb 2023 Accuweather Indian Ocean-Freddy-2023 Accuweather Indian Ocean-Enala-2023
2000pm 24 Feb 2023 The Accuweather map for Ireland is cool, where would I put the next set of road improvements? Why does NI look like that and Ireland looks like that? NI roads are designed like the internet for logistics resilience based on immediate transfer of goods, Ireland’s is based on trust that the local authorities can have the lines of communication open fast enough that logistics supply is not effected and we have a higher number of smaller roods for transport of goods when the main roads are out. It’s actually a partially a result of the road building works to alleviate food poverty during the 1845-1850 The Great Irish Famine, massive road building works were used to pay farmers without food to make roads. If you look at the hillsides above Gougane Barra, you can see the remainder of some rough quarries, where rock was broken to get the stone, then was carried to the road works. I actually look at the gravel in the roads I travel over and some are still the stuff from the 1850s. Those roads were packed quite well and have survived the test of time. Some now have little patches of grass in the middle of the roads they are so infrequently used. Gougane Barra (Why do you call it the Great Irish Famine? Well, a few other countries have lost more to famine over the years, however we keep remembering ours, so it never happens again. Why was gravel graded? Well, originally so it would slide through the chute onto the road and then some bright spark made the prisoners break it smaller for their paths and that cost more and paid for the prison guards. There was an unusual artefact I saw, a number of years ago, a small tube, a prison warder held it for checking the stones all were small enough to fit through the tube.) Why is Waterford different? Rosslare port requires?
2100 24 Feb 2023 Colman’s quite silly you see. Can we sponsor P&O a tenner a person for Scots crossing? Why? Well, that’s the tax on four pints. I’m sure you could get them into the RoI for four pints? There’s a nice Royal Palace at Hill of Uisneach which could do with an upgrade too, if they’re shiny enough to have a pretty website, they might be shiny enough to cope with more visitors? And there used to be a nice hovercraft, though it lost business to the flights way back (The Irish Independent 2005), why? well, no one thought to ask: You ever been on a hovercraft? They’re cool. (???Those barrage balloons are absolutely useless, blow them up and make barges with them and float the stuff across. Eh, you want a logistics craft which floats on air bags? Eh, I’ll have to think about that. Eh, that’s not quite what we meant, and you say it goes really fast? UL had a cool one man version lying in a corner of a workshop, saw it during a walk around, we were doing casting or welding or something in first year. I made Prince August toy soldiers before that, though the sand casting method was nice. “Supposition” Colman ???) The hovercraft journey was 45 mins and weather dependant. Now that, I considered important. Unfortunately it was lost to economics before I got to take a spin. Colman Yes, they are quite cool for large inland lakes and seas, fresh and seawater and no, they’re not suitable for areas where the weather is too cold, the rubber is quite brittle in cold environments. Africa? Turkey? Trained mechanics? You get the picture? It’s movement is dependant on wave heights and windspeeds. Colman
2140pm 24 Feb 2023 And it seems like the top website searches for Turkey geology are out, so here’s a simplified map from Research Gate.com and a nice photo of an example of the soft Turkish volcanic rock from a beach shoot by model Helga LoveKaty (Instagram) for the Bang soft drinks company. Why are the top sites down? Well, someone pressed download entire website, in fact more than one, Id, say. Some later versions of web browsers don’t have that button, so as to avoid this problem. It can of course be solved, by having the site mirrored on your local web, such as is used with some library databases, (Eh, librarian, is there a copy of that book on the shelves, here? No, however we can get it from the Irish library service, if the books aren’t currently checked out where the other copies are located. Oh, cybersecurity isn’t a new thing. No. It’s just a new word for the student didn’t return the bloody book. It’s returned and damaged, pages missing etc. Anyone got another copy?)
2200pm 24 Feb 2023 Why is Jules Verne (wiki) so important in the history of science? Well, he asked public questions. Questions like? Is Iceland nice, this time of year? and maybe volcanoes are something we should be looking at. Is it possible to get to the Moon and what would the conditions there be like? Submarines are quite dangerous? Things like this, they aren’t specifically asked, however it gives ideas to ponder? Modern Science Fiction, my family give me books occasionally, is actually set so far in advance of today, an example, a detective book, one in which asteroids being hollow, a recent book my brother gave me, the idea from the Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke, ponder not the actual scientific basis of these possibilities, they ponder the social implications of the advances in technology and the ramifications of long and healthy life. My favourite modern sciencefictionalist (Eh, that a new word? No, it’s just no one round here has looked it up that often. Try it with dictionary and you get?) being Iain M. Banks, his fiction under Iain Banks and his Science Fiction under Iain M. Banks, I have quite a few of his science Fiction books. My favourite in his Culture series being (Wikipedia) Excession (1996). London: Orbit. ISBN 1-85723-394-8 It’s a pity he got his Honours after his death, though I’m sure they did this, so his comment’s on World politics didn’t have the Universities name and pretty paper letters after his name. Iain Banks; 2013: Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies[75], Died 09 Jun 2013. R.I.P.
2220hrs 24 Feb 2023 EMSC – The One hour picture is swamped. Everyone is looking at it be querying the site so often here is the 2 week and 24 hr charts.
2220pm 24 Feb 2023 Egypt Independant.com Earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on Richter scale hits Egypt Al-Masry Al-Youm February 24, 2023. The floating banner covers some of the text? Well? Buy the print copy. Excellent web design. You see, I’d have a little button which said, .pdf with full story, available. Pity the stories are so small that, all about tweets now. Does it fit in that sized character string?
2300pm 24 Feb 2023 What are the immediate social implications of long life and healthy life in Ireland, well, the pubs are closing. And? Our tourist industry, which has been so important to our economy is complaining about the price of the pint in the bars. And? The tourist spend is? And? Well, the Arabic empire of the Caliphate seems to have collapsed because those who liked a drop of wine, all went off to foreign parts, the local rulers being so strict in their observances. Note: observances, meaning; monitoring and punishments. Cite this? The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (wiki) a version I read said it might have been about wine and women and to be honest, the destruction of all early copies of the texts would point to this? All the young people are going abroad, why? Can you afford to drink here? Oh, there’s other stuff there too. There was a long time ago too, and we drank, that other stuff’s awful for the mental health, the later movies of Sherlock Holmes in particular, listed his drug use as a nasty distraction from his work. Sherlock Holmes addictions: Victorian web.org. And? Well, fwom a picological standpoint, “You can’t tell a girl is interested in you these days, unless they have a few drinks and throw themselves at you.” Long ago, you just saw the beautiful flush on her cheeks when she looked at you. Makeup conceals this, because “You wouldn’t want him to know you were too interested.” And? Seen the drops in Western population figures lately? Just saying. No pubs, no clubs, no sex, no babies. No one left to give a damn. Colman Now, where are the psychologists? Making sure the ones who have better things to think about are getting ‘A’s remembering stuff. And yes, that is a simplification, and you might ask why? The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. The two quotes are actual things said to me over my short span of experience. Colman Today? “You’re nice.”; “Oh, I have a boyfriend.” “Oh, I’m gay.” : No I didn’t say ”’ “Your nice.”, and I just changed my opinion. I’m off home, thank you. ”’, I just went home. Colman
0200am 25 Feb 2023 The sky is beautifully clear here in Cork tonight and the Plough (the Big Dipper or Ursa Major) is directly over my house and isn’t it nice to know that because of our nice 365 day time system that it will again be over my house again next year at the same time, though whether it will be visible depends on weather. And since others think the same way: Google “Every four years is a leap year that adds another day onto February, making the total 29. This year is not a leap year, meaning 2023 has 28. The next leap year is in 2024. 3 days ago” “Go on it’s only an old tradition, pretend 01 Mar is Feb 29 and ask him anyway.” Underline for emphasis by Colman
0310am 25 Feb 2023 Now a few people are asking why is Colman pointing all this rubbish out and my reply is there is a Private in the Curragh or Cork reading this going he’s a loon, however, that might be a good question. Now back to barrage balloons, what was actually said was tell him we floated the tank over with barrage balloons and it was misunderstood and they thought they put them under the tank, where as they attached them to the cupola rings and they kept the tank afloat in the river. While a single balloon would not be enough a cluster of them would, as they would increase the tanks speed by reducing weight onto the ground surface, friction being related to weight. Similarly for getting the heavy things over bridges. ( Eh, waht? ) ( Yea, right. ) Yea, and Churchill said, can you float the pier over the Normandy and someone said, he wants it he gets it, make it hollow and we’ll fill it with water when we get there and it was called a Mulberry harbour. Now when you consider the utility of the harbour and it’s effectiveness in ending the war, by bringing the Main Forces of the Western allies to close quarters with the enemy, the surprise is that it took so long from conception to delivery. Why? Because there aren’t actually that many people in headquarters. and certainly not that many qualified people and “It was filed in a filing cabinet.” So be a good lad and print it and stick it under the officers nose or pin it to a nice wall, on a Notice board, where many people might see it and take notice and someone might say, you know we investigated that already and there’s a guy down the road makes them quite cheaply. If you have a look at Sir Robert McAlpine, one of the builders, “From the 1930s onwards, the company employed large numbers of Irish immigrants who had come to England looking for work. The harsh working conditions with which McAlpine’s management treated their labourers has gone down in Irish emigrant folklore. The song “McAlpine’s Fusiliers” (written by Dominic Behan and made famous by The Dubliners) described the realities of life on the building site for many Irish expatriates.[13] ” (wiki) The Dubliners – McAlpines Fusiliers (Song _YouTube) They’ll say a boat fell on your hand. Now this is about WW2, and, while the song references working in England, later, the USA decided the allow civilian Engineers and tradesmen to join on short service training regimes in order to get the airfields and other installations in the Pacific War as seen in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Seabees (Movie – John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keeffe, 1944) Why do you say that Colman, well, watch, next few years the movies will be coming out with whomever’s faces on the characters. The original versions might be lost. And why this rubbish, because Pte dear, pick the nuts out of that, please, there are only how many officers in Ireland, and how many officers in DFHQ, and after you’ve been to coffee and met some of them you’d be surprised how happy they are to hear someone helping out. Oh, no, I wouldn’t work in the Curragh or Newbridge. True, neither would I. Newbridge has a shit nightlife. Colman “The two men are teamed together on yet another island. The Japanese launch a major attack, which the Seabees barely manage to hold off, sometimes using heavy construction machinery such as bulldozers and a clamshell bucket.” https://pthproducts.com/en/pth-products/pth-dozer-blade/ This is the one I might like? and many years ago, I was told a tale of a Pte in Donegal, much wealthier than any of the officers, who did his duties as asked and worked weekends (Sometimes in an officer’s garden, (not mine) who might have given him a good steer on investment opportunities.) and had a yard of farm machinery, which is nice if you’re in Donegal, because you know, that he knows, where every tractor capable of pulling the equipment is in Donegal. And while some Department’s keep lists of that sort of thing, being “fierce prepared” numpties, they think this information is all hush hush shit and fail to understand the niceties, like telling the local officer, that it’s quite possible to hire and operate the equipment yourself at a fraction of the cost to the exchequer compared to contracting some twaddler in the University (it’s a Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee reference), and if you’re doing a night course, like a photography course, and have a student id, you can see the LiDar information through the University library system, though this attitude seems to be changing as the number of slightly annoyed young officers, who’ve left the Army and arrive in these Departments increases due to wastage. Now fortunately or unfortunately, the tech pay being so high in the Army for technicians, these stay, and the technicians in the Departments are not being wasted, so you might see about a web design course and a nice Department job in Galway or some other nice outpost of the Departments, who wanted to remove the annoying ones to far off fields, and now find that, they had internet and are doing quite nicely, in their nice houses in the suburbs, of the beautifully planned rural towns, where they found love, understanding and a really cool Lord mayor, who thought, that was a great idea, and can you stay around, because they want you back in Dublin, and I don’t want to let you back. Oh, and the Naval service have a nice balloon, now because the Israelis had one in Israel when I was there and I mentioned it at coffee here at home too, one of my soldiers told me, he was in a forward post with a pair of binoculars.
0340am 25 Feb 2023 Why is coffee the most important meal of the day in the Irish Defence Forces? Because you’re not required to anything else except chat. And it’s an open forum, and everyone at your rank gets to hear the ska and some above and if you hear some bright spark is talking about a https://pthproducts.com/en/pth-products/pth-dozer-blade/ You might ask has anyone got one of these at home, are they any good, and if that lad on the farm down the road bought the other one, why did he pick that and was it any good? Oh, and how much? And does he use it all the time? And how much if I offer to buy it second hand? And rent it back to him if he only needs it a few weeks every year? (Why? Because it’s nice to look up to your senior officers and if they’re any good to emulate (copy their actions) them.) Oh, and the Pte taught me how to mix concrete, when I asked for something built, I went down to see the work and asked if I could help, it’s quite fun, like playing with sandcastles.
0350am 25 Feb 2023 Surf Forecast for the State of Hawaii – Because they sell their tourists Surf lessons. Bottom of the Page – this is cool? Met office?
For the latest beach hazard and safety information at individual beaches in Hawaii refer to: https://hawaiibeachsafety.com
0400am 25 Feb 2023 Weather Underground – See the cold water moving down towards Senegal here? https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane See the little islands making the cloud formations here? https://www.windy.com/?14.607,-23.137,6 I got a Hurricane prediction correct here last year, though… I only watched one, started around now, took three to four weeks to cross the Atlantic. 5,100 km / 24 hrs / 6kmph = 35.4 days, it moved really, really slowly, the area used to be called the doldrums, becalmed for days because the wind speed locally was next to nothing, while the pressure system moved and no rain, parched mouths, and then salvation, the storm cloud overhead and gushing torrential warm rain. I read a book or two. “The Trade winds are quite regular and were important…” My Intermediate Certificate history book. Colman “Operation Torch (8 November 1942 – 16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.[5] “, because it’s nice to have the area, ready for stores to cross during the calm weather in the Atlantic. Will three months be sufficient, Let’s invade in December so, no let’s have a little lee way, November and four months? Perfect, Phd? Logistics? thank you. Colman Do I have to read the books? You are required to understand the motivations of the actors. Not dying at sea might be a good reason? Weather forecasting back then was quite haphazard. And the U-boats were annoying.
0425am 25 Feb 2023 While I’m here, San Francisco and the ISS, this is Windy.com‘s weather there. The wind blowing the moist air over the high ground in the area, creates clouds over land.
0440am 25 Feb 2023 And since I’m a pirate at heart, I’d be looking for the treasures of the pirates in Cape Verde, close to the Gold routes and where the sailors were becalmed after being set adrift from their plundered ships, and less of this plundered Spanish Gold nonsense, they found Silver, and came back this way from round the Horn. Awful route, however it gave the choice of up the coast of South America or accross the Atlantic to Africa to trade for Gold in Africa too on the way home. And yes, there were many Gold ships, however it was Silver which sunk the Spanish economy, similar to the Gold from Mali sinking the Egyptian economy, when the Malian king bought all the books now in Timbuktu. Any Papyrus there? Or were the pretty pictures and foreign languages too much for the muslim tastes? Yes, I’d look for Inca codex, there?
0450am 25 Feb 2023 I see NASA have changed the filter on their Curiosity footage after realising that the human eye compensates for dusk light levels quite well. Thank you NASA. Colman
0500am 25 Feb 2023 And because this gave me a good laugh this morning and I needed one.
Look: There: There:; are two other Units to follow?
Why were the colons, replaced with commas:? Because the educated people objected to having everything explained to them: they being so knowledgeable and having an encyclopaedia in the house, oh, and the printers shop ran out of them, they only sold so many per packet. (Eh, will that do? Perfect.) 😕 Kelly’s Heroes – Final Scene
0525am 25 Feb 2023 Real Genius Movie 1985 (iMDb) ‧ Comedy/Teen BBC Crypto-mining scheme run from US school crawl space Published 4 hours ago
0530am 25 Feb 2023 BBC – Turkey–Syria earthquakes 2023 It didn’t rain and they turned the water mains off. Weather Ganziantep. Two weeks
0545am 25 Feb 2023 Now I’ve had a little look and I was looking for the United Nations Turkish casualty figures and I found this. Now, why are all the little symbols on the map //s ? Well, this is telling all the armchair warriors that they’re just good corporals, a little poke at them being little Hitlers, so, since your map is so nice and your photo bar sticks, I suggest you find a good corporal and see if he’ll administer the 3 months logistics support bringing the 3 months supplies to 5.2 million people. Oh, was that what your United Nations Secretary General said or was it OUR United Nations Secretary General. So, a little quiet word in someone’s ear, please? And no, this is not what I see because I’m ill, this is normal stuff from jumped up civil servants, the world over. I saw plenty of this as a young officer too. Oh, let’s take his lighter at the bar and show him he’s being silly, drinking out like this. The barmaid in the Golden Grill, I paid for a load of drink in there and she was employed with money from me. Somewhere there’s a collection of my lighters. Have fun, so long.
0610am 25 Feb 2023 France 24 spotted it first. SOPs Earthquakes? Rivers – Fire Engines. Spray the ruin with water? Hypothermia? Let them shiver? Burns energy? It depends on what clothing and/or blankets they’re wearing? Wool retains heat, even when wet? Check fleece? A lot of blankets sold recently in the Middle East are plastic, fleece, new and recycled, some of the winter fleece jackets are recycled plastic bottles. Similarly Eastern Europe. Why? So, you can save someone from the next one. France24 Check in here? I searched earlier, Google United Nations casualty list and a couple of France 24 articles popped up in my feed, somewhere near day 12? With a story of a child dead after three days.
1010-1150am 25 Feb 2023 Eh, silly question, does anyone with a voice read this? Why? Because it’s be nice if the banner slid aside after a few seconds so we could read the fxxking map? And the auto set system to actually have the map open on fires and people? Now starting your day, with this frustration high in your mind doesn’t do the poor bollix/trollop trying to do their job any good at all. For bollix/trollop you’re quite welcome to insert prick/cunt as your language dictates. Bollix/trollop being a little more polite. Why because they actually enjoy sex a perfectly natural state of being.
https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/effis_current_situation/ I’s say the current state of the web design is awful. And I know you’re busy tanning photos, however, throwing the stuff up here in real time might be nice too? Since there are nice Satellites, not of your project? And why the data marine lovely ocean current direction, excellent for fishy cathcing not like this too? You no speaky Internet? If it takes 3 weeks to familiarise your customers with the Interface, then something is wrong with your Interface?
Language? Top right hand side? Is there a standard sign for language? Could we use this? ⛯ Every language under the Sun? Dropdown menu all current languages – And Klingon is to be in Antarctica, We can add another menu for Moon, Mars, etc after. Esperanto and English (UK) and Irish in Europe, this is for teaching kids languages too. Yes, the larger countries might have 300 languages, all different menus? No, if there’s that many? Alphabetical Cyrillic Roman characters etc. let a linguist figure that out w3 schools standard html widget 2025? Please? No, the Europe version looks like all of this, not the middle list. The Americas North Version by population. Current 2025, changing every 5 years? etc.
| Mandarin Chinese |
| Spanish |
| English (USA) |
| Hindi |
| Portuguese |
| Bengali |
| Russian |
| Japanese |
| Punjabi |
| Yue Chinese |
| Vietnamese |
| Deutsch |
| English (IRL) |
| Americas North |
| Americas South |
| Africa North |
| Africa South |
| Antartica |
| Artic |
| Asia East |
| Asia West |
| Australasia |
| Europe |
| Oceania |
Back to the nice data sets, top of screen – All the various main menus, yes, there’ll be loads of queries, if they stop asking questions on improving it, you remind them, you want questions? Have you seen our New Menu? NEW tap the bar and enter to get a cookie to say you’re up to date? List of Main Users requiring cookie answers? Every country, Civil Defence Teams, I would have a European Co-Ordination Centre, staff to include thirty complete loons paid like gods, who fxxk like bunny rabbits, because they are around death all day. Two years and out, rotating teams, 6 months, rotation times, The Korris, teams named from Klingon – List of Captains. Computer technician skills none, browser skills? Off the charts. Week on, week off, 8hr shifts, 5 (and a trainee) in the room with… I’m describing a DOTA TEAM???? One screen each, 32inch tv and a nice computer each, nothing fancy, i9, 32Gb ram, 12Gb Graphics card, seven rooms, at changeover time, the Co-ordinators move room, and the team can have their computers for their own use, NO 3D, NO Earpieces, Co-ordinators wear those for phone calls and their comms equipment moves with them. (Phones, the easiest with screens is simply to use telescopics for conferencing and other camera for what’s on the Korris Operator 1’s screen, Ireland Please Press Button – KORRIS 1 to see what we’re talking about? or Who’s available? Four – Please, Press OCEAN 1 to see what Ireland is talking about? with battery belts?) bunks and mess upstairs, 50 double bedrooms. You doing this already? Someone is? What would they do? Ask questions and try to find the answers for the Co-ordinators before they’re asked? What’s a DOTA2 Team? One up the middle with smoke, one left, one right, support and recce, if you’re playing it right. Ask STEAM, who IceFrog was? Personally, having played a few early games, he’s probably friendly with the nice man who signed my book, who wrote DOOM? Pioneered the standard in internet capable games. Visits DCC every year, Romero? Colman Question? Who’s in the Eighth room? Oh, that’s for the technicians. They play DOTA2, all day. Their winnings pay for the place. And how do you get in there? Well, if you’re really good as a Korris Captain, you get sent on a computer course and you move up to … KORRIS Technician level, the pays the same, the time off is even better than a Captain.
1200pm 25 Feb 2023 https://effis-gwis-cms.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/apps/effis.viewer/userguide.pdf
Yes, this pile of dung certainly looks like it was built on contract – Amazon, lovely, looks like Stanag tripe? TUTORIAL – HOVER OVER BUTTONS to tell functions? Have a look at the STEAM – DOTA2 system for a hundred monsters and items and learning menus for a guide for new users? Why? Because as a commercial enterprise, they are interested in keeping the customer engaged in the kit. Ask if UCC Computers and Psychology is any good? Show them this and ask if it’s any good, pick the person who says, “You use this pile of dung interface, my baby sister could do better?”
1220-1250pm 25 Feb 2023 https://www.gdacs.org/ Same problem? Designed for a 60″ flatscreen touch sensitive mounted at the height required for an Art museum? For shOWing the Boss On? And yes, that’s in a Trinity accent. The map is nice and should be pinned in a cylindrical matrix so that only one world map is shown, sliding the map left or right moves the nice places of your part of the world to the middle? Zoom? TWO FINGERS is Right! Oh, we use a laser pointer and a left right on the Kensington with no use for the up down, because we need to be able to use the pointer for pointing. Why? Because I tested it with my Kensington, works quite well for what you asked for. Can yOU clIck tHe pAEge there please? Bad First??? Map on Top, let them read who’s taking the credit for it last. At 5 meters distance flags should be 2 inches tall, in fact the entire banner 2 inches tall on a 60 inch screen, height of screen 30 inches so 1/15th of height, 1920 x 1080 1080/15 = 72 pixels high. Why? Because I stood at 5 meters from my noticeboard in my kitchen and my Evolution sticker is much smaller than 2 inches tall and is readable at 5 meters. How it was designed? Posiblliltey? Wibble.
| 60″ SCREEN | 52.3″ 132.8 cm WIDTH | 29.4″ 74.7 cm HEIGHT |
1300pm 25 Feb 2023 – There is a term for this in old speak, “You’ll be picking your teeth out of your shite, SIR/MAM?”
2220pm 25 Feb 2023 There’s a strange thing about Hurling, we used to use one end of the stick to distract the other player. (That’s a bit of an understatement, the pointy end hurt quite badly.) These days with education, you can whisper “Astronomy today was really good last night.” The implication being, what’s astronomy today? It’s a magazine, hey, my sister reads that magazine. Now if you time it right and you then say Astronomy Today was really, really good last night. Then the idea might cross his mind that nuptials might be in the air and he might turn to congratulate you on your excellent choice of partner and the ball is in the back of the net and the little man has done it again. “It’s an excellent magazine, it’s next to Hurling Today on the news stand, have a look for my face in it tomorrow.” And yes, there were hurley makers who had really really pointy ends on their hurleys, a little museum of Hurling might be nice. https://crokepark.ie/gaamuseum Colman, you didn’t do that. No, however, now I have you, thinking, one of them (museums) might be nice in Cork? (Eh, one of what?)
2240pm 25 Feb 2023 Now while this is a little clunky, the data uploading a little slow, the interface is quite good and all you do after you’ve seen the open layer is geology, blah, that layer should be on top of the list, you press the close layer button and you can view to your hearts content. Geological Survey Ireland etc. The webpage name should be the name on the Website page and the information search data after. Excellent effort though, and I’d give that a B+. Ease of usage excellent. The Layers list should open fully after you press the button and I think this was because you had two versions so people (the boss) could decide which he liked best and you left in both for the extra marks. (Most research is done for grading by the professor and a number of Army officers used their wives businesses as their research material for their M BusAdm s.) Colman
2305pm 25 Feb 2023 My ads from Volcano discovery – “Quite a good effort and I am having a nice smile.” Thank you. For reference, apparently, I was told my Great Grandfather, was An Maistir, from ‘To school through the fields'(Alice Glenn) and the Steamer is a family joke, a present I returned. A busby (military headdress_wiki) Thank you. Colman
2315pm 25 Feb 2023 USGS M 6.2 – 29 km ENE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea List of volcanoes in Papua New Guinea (wiki) “Bam, also known as Biem, is a small volcanic island off the coast of Papua New Guinea, 40 km north northeast of the Sepik river mouth.” See when the numpties called it, “Bam” to confuss the awerage weader?
2340pm 25 Feb 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency What does the writer mean by captured products? Well, strangely enough it’s not a sinister term, it’s actually a simplification. Remember the officers whiskey in Kelly’s Heroes (1970)? And the Michelin guide book? Well, the bottle of whishkey was to get into the mayors office and have a drinkky poo and ask the mayor, if he didn’t mind us taking a photo of his nice map, or model of his town prominently displayed in the foyer for the tourists and nice visitors. Here, Cpl Murphy, can you catch a photo of that for the General, that’s quite cool. Oh, and Pierre, you can keep the bottle, I’ve another one in my locker box in the car, I’ve to see your buddy Gilles in the next town too, can you give us directions out of town? The main road, seems to be a little blocked and we’d really like to get around that tank? There’s a bridge? really, Cpl, can you see if your buddy, that nice pilot fellow, can take a photo of that before sundown? (The deleted scene?) Colman
0005am 26 Feb 2023 M 3.4 – 2 km E of Crickhowell, United Kingdom 2023-02-24 23:59:40 (UTC) 51.857°N 3.096°W 10.1 km depth Intensity Map Why so interested in this? Well, there was a tv-show a while back a Dr Who spinoff called “Torchwood (wiki) is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. A spin-off of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, it aired from 2006 to 2011. The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from BBC Three to BBC Two to BBC One, and acquiring American financing in its fourth series when it became a co-production of BBC One and Starz. Torchwood is aimed at adults and older teenagers, in contrast to Doctor Who‘s target audience of both adults and children.” which listed Cardiff as a region of “Spatial Instability.” Dr Who used to charge his Time machine in the vortex there. (Yes, seriously, you might take a little look, just in case? Maybe the geeks might do some looking for free, just so they know we’re already looking at it.) Cricklehowell is 40 km North of Cardiff, PlumPlot.co.uk Cardiff Population density chart One point one (1.1) million residents. 123 reports to USGS? unusual number? 123. Doctor Who: The Company of Friends, You see the Whovians and a load of silly kids who are in cosplay stop sending reports and likes when agreed number from their web conversations are reached and there are lots of Whovians in Cardiff, they have a Tv show about Captain Jack Harkness and his exploits. it’s called Torchwood. Colman And they follow or unfollow my Instagram, to show that they’re looking at you, and monitoring your every post. “Hello??? Oh, I’m not finished with you lot, I’m just busy at present.” Colman
0020am 26 Feb 2023 Turkey M 5.2 Depth 16.5 km Intensity VII M 5.2 – 19 km ENE of Emirgazi, Turkey 2023-02-25 10:27:12 (UTC) 37.994°N 34.022°E 16.5 km depth Why a VII ? middle of the valley, bounce, bounce, bounce. Picture the ripple underground from Broken Arrow (1996 film) Similar amounts of energy released?
0040am 26 Feb 2023 M 6.0 – 61 km ESE of Kushiro, Japan 2023-02-25 13:27:42 (UTC) 42.780°N 145.074°E 50.2 km depth It’s how you tell ’em? Yes, Hokkaido was in Contact (movie_1997)
0110am 26 Feb 2023 NO TSUNAMI WARNING ACTIVE NOAA / National Weather Service U.S. Tsunami Warning System
Post-Tsunami Field Survey of the 15 January 2022 Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption and Tsunami
Earthquake Scenario-Based Tsunami Wave Heights in the Eastern Mediterranean and Connected Seas Pure and Applied Geophysics 2015
Turkey earthquakes current Map – TURKEY BOUN KOERI REGIONAL EARTHQUAKE-TSUNAMI MONITORING CENTER
France – might have a look at this?
Greece Institute of Geodynamics https://www.gein.noa.gr/en/
ITALY – Playing a stormer!!! National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology Tsunami Alerts NICE MAP EXCELLENT WARNING – EXAMPLE 20 FEB 2023 – Turkey, tsunami ADVISORY alert due to earthquake near the coast
20 Feb 2023 Tsunami Warning Mediterranean Sea From Turkey To West – SPEED DISTANCE Map It’s called an ISOCRONE, I wonder who came up with that name? (He didn’t use a translator for the Italian? Really? You can’t read that? Colman)
0130am 26 Feb 2023 Italian Department of Civil protection They think your World front page map is awful too, see background of the photograph and “Rudi needs new computers?” Layout of office? Ergonomics? Distractions? And convenient for the boss to walk around? Yes, I’d have one of the worker staff people, a few weeks and a little office layout plan? Long time ago, as a 2/Lt, I was left my office for a week, simply based on the fact that, one day, while calling an air ambulance, I lost a piece of paper (for 30 seconds) in the pile on our central desk, where we sat around facing each other with piles of forms in the middle and I asked if we could tidy the desk. Next morning the Flight Sgt had it looking as clean and tidy as the nice office here. I only had to ask the Lt Col one policy question during the week, his office was up the hall. We didn’t have computers back then. My personal computer was one of the few in Baldonnel. I played Flight Sim and F117 Stealth Fighter on mine. The map of Libya on the F117 game was quite basic, however quite sufficient for navigation at those speeds. “Referee???” Colman
0200am 26 Feb 2023 Office layout for the nice people, you only have computer screens vertical because they’re made that way and you can buy nice stands, so you can have them at a 45 degree angle, so you can see and talk to one another? No, Colman has never been an “in the box” type of thinker. Colman No, the line in the middle isn’t a partition, it’s the line junction 40mm x 40mm plastic for the ethernet and phone lines into the underfloor cabling to avoid slips, trips and falls. We don’t have those, they’re above, metal cable carriers on the roof, like the hotel breakfast area, in the nice hotel, Colman stayed in, in Belfast. Silly NI numpties. Colman
0220am 26 Feb 2023 Colman, what screens would you use? 32 inch flat screen tvs, a nice carpenter to make the centre triangular (profile) stand for all the 6 tvs, you take the tvs, off the stands and lie them in the recessed rectangles, just bigger than the tvs. Chipboard? plywood? plywood marine? though that’s a little heavy, a few brackets, a saw, and a nice drawing, and two hours, for a good chippie? My 3 meter (width) x 2 meter (height) Map board 1:1,000,000 in Congo was done overnight and he/she installed it from pieces in the office next morning. For lightness and to take drawing pins mine was made with softboard in a frame of pine. Though to maintain the map integrity, so you could see the map detail, I put the Unit symbols on the side and drew long lines with overhead markers to the map locations. And nice route lines for all the normal aircraft routes we used. Colman
0230am 26 Feb 2023 02 MAY 2020 – Grecia – Watch GeoHack.toolforge Earthquake data M 6.7 02 May 2020 14:51:05 (Italia) Crete Note May – Summertime UTC+2 It’s Italy – Wintertime now UTC+1 World Data.info Italy Timezones It doesn’t say if the Summertime is UTC +2 ? You might ask? First sight of page you see UTC+5 for New York, rather distracting??? ISOCRONE PICTURE? That’s in Minutes. A little name change?
0245am 26 Feb 2023 – This is the correct standard. GeoHack.toolforge Earthquake/Tsunami Warning data M 6.7 02 May 2020 14:51:05 (Italia) Crete Map data a lot, “Not available” The flight radar website works, so HAVE ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS? LATER.
0300am 26 Feb 2023 Openquake.org – Global Seismic Hazard Map This is quite nice. Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Seismic Hazard Map (version 2018.1 – December 2018)
0315am 26 Feb 2023 M 4.0 – MADEIRA ISLANDS, PORTUGAL REGION – 2023-02-25 11:16:13 UTC Earthquakes Canary Islands, it’s up top of the map. From where we get the name for Madeira cake (BBC good food guide) Madeira Best.com Tourist guide Oh, if only we had something like this for Cork City??? It’s what I was working on. Things to do: Land, Ocean, Air. Beautiful layout. A+ Website designed by WoWSystems.co.uk Unusual advert for their Interactive, very lifelike Female Avatar. (Madelana). Colman
2045pm 26 Feb 2023 Now I think we can skip the your local deity get’s angry sometimes (Greek) Cannibalism is wrong (except) and your church leader can forgive (ChristoJewdaism) and the earthquake people were mainly looking at (because the Insurance companies wanted another look) and let’s have another look at earthquakes because they were in the news to “the Earthquakes people had warnings in place” and Start the Lessons learned with “Tomorrow, let’s see about the Tsunami warnings” and get ahead of the fxxking game? Thank you to the Unite Nations Secretary for pushing for a World Civil Defence warning system. The sooner the better. Wave theory says that reflected waves are quite important and standing waves at the beach are quite high sometimes and the ISOCRONE needs an slight improvement for waves reflected back such as at Venice, where the wave might go up the Adriatic and return back little while later. Now I have Air BnB to attend to and my first guest is named Singh and he/she booked three months ago, because some areas of the world have a brain drain and living in Ireland might be nice.
2100pm 26 Feb 2023 And I was just doing all the above research for a friend, her name is The Republic of Ireland. Oh, and in Agriculultrual terms the runt gets the hind tit, because it’s normally the fullest, the bigger piglets going for the one near the mother’s head first.
2145pm 26 Feb 2023 The onrushing waves onto sea beaches and lower towns may rise the sewage out of the sewers and local water should be tested for contamination as soon as possible. Local availability of water tankers, fire tenders are a nice substitute in the case of emergency, though their onboard tanks are quite small and having a towed source of water for them, for this purpose might be nice, otherwise you’re using the local farm or engineering machinery as towing equipment and whatever mobile local water tanks are available, both of which might only be available for rent. Ireland has loads of streams in rural areas, which is nice, other countries are not as fortunate and the larger streams and rivers are only available during summer time. The chemicals used for maintaining swimming pools can be used for decontamination of drinking water in an emergency, the water can be left for an hour or two to stand to reduce the smells made when energy is given to the water as it flows which increases the energy available in the water changing the chemical balance and a tiny amount of chlorine is produced which is quite pungent and dissipates quite quickly. The toilet water from a cleaned toilet is “in terms of probabilities”, (yes, we tested it, sampling data here. Colman, you’re asking for this to be tested. Yes. Colman) quite safe and sometimes kitty cats or dogs prefer the toilet water to the water in their drinking bowls which might have been standing too long and might have become unsafe to drink and they might have noticed a correlation between them getting sick (me shite is runny and the other dog smelling my hole, says that doesn’t smell great grover.) and drinking the water in their bowl.
2150pm 26 Feb 2023 You see, thanks, to modern communications. When New Yorkers went swimming and the water was horrid, I went kayaking off New York with a girlfriend long ago and the water was quite brown and lovely with silt and pleasantly smelling, they sent a little message up to the top of the river saying, can you look and see where this is coming from and the USA Environmental Protection Agency was severely upgraded in funding and punishments available for those not following the standards required. No, that was long before I went to visit, otherwise I wouldn’t have let my girlfriend on the water there. I read about it. It’s nice to have time to read. Who would you put on the job, if you were the bollix given the task. I’d put my bestie on it. They’d get money. Colman and you? Who’s the biggest “Acting Cunt”, I know the absolute bollix/trollop who drilled my soldiers to an inch of their lives. And they might have been my boss or my subordinate? In fact let’s get one of each, they’ll need a driver or a bodyguard. Why not one of your peers, Well they asked me because? And I’m sure they asked my peers too. And you get? Well, my bestie got me promoted and I like them. And? I’d put McDaniel’s in charge, he left me with a Company in attack right after he said charge, why? Because he had to run to mind the boss, who arrived just as the attack was about to happen and that was when he told the boss to be there. IBEC wasn’t it, that’s where he went. (It’s so hard to find good help these days, where would you look? in the law for minimum wage agreements and their application to economic models in Australia.) And then I was sent as Coy 2i/c to Lebanon, because 28 Inf Bn had a Pl there and it’s nice if there are two good people to look after them. And the subordinate? Oh, ask my Advanced Tactics course, the NCO suggested I get a job as a tail gunner in a Hind paid in diamonds. Why, because someone else suggested it to him, it’s rather annoying having people like these living next door to you.
2230pm 26 Feb 2023 What mistake was made in the reorganisation of the Defence Forces, well, the part of the document which said “parts of the RDF were capable of integration in to the PDF, as of as high a calibre as the PDF” (supposition) was cherry picked and the rest of the RDF closed, when, the full text originally, should have said, parts were of higher calibre because there was a lovely big cheaply costing organisation to pick the best from, (The PDF bit said “and those best at the bottom in the organisation were not being promoted to higher rank faster because… well actually they were, experience counts for a lot in a small organisation.) Yes. They were. The CQMSs, Captains and Commandants in the FCA and RDF were doing (their jobs) very well, given the amount of money invested in their Units. “We made gods from goslings.” (Goslings is used purely for alliteration, ducklings is a better term, what does it read like in gaelige?) (Oh, he might be a general by now, if not for the seniority thing. Yes, and now the experience is in the assistant job and the young lad is in the generals job going, Eh, George, do you know anything about that, you’ve been around a while? And George is going, it’s half four and time for home, you’re quite bright, Sir/Mam, and here are the papers. Have a nice evening.) (Eh, why half four, we close at 5? Because he goes to the NCOs room and says, know anything about that, that file, get the stuff together and see if you can get that young lad home for half five, please we need him at work in the morning bright an bushy tailed. Thank you for all your effort today and by the way, were there any other unusual questions today?)
2335pm 26 Feb 2023 Colman, why do you say bollix or trollop? Well, if daddy lives in Donegal and mommy is working in the Curragh, then mommy and daddy aren’t in the same bedroom at night and daddy get’s pissed off and says maybe the army isn’t the best job for mommy and that’s why the Defence Forces used to have officers married quarters, because officers are moved to gain experience in other places and other work environments and other skill sets. That course is how long? And there’s a nice weeks break every month so daddy gets mommy home for a little while and the poor plonker stuck unexpectedly with mommy’s job gets to ask “Eh, how did you do that last year?”. Oh, they could use a phone? (“It’s after six, George, and I’m in the pub, what did you want?” “Eh, how did you know it was me?” “Well, that return is due on Monday and you just realised that the other Unit’s didn’t send those returns. They don’t unless you ask nicely. Sgt Bloggs asks nicely. All sorted.” “Thank you and I didn’t know you drank, I’ll buy you a pint when you get back here.”, “No, you won’t, if you’ve my job temporarily, you’ll be in “Insert UN Mission here.” then, and I presume you are a volunteer for UN service, which is why you’re in my job for the experience.”) Colman, why did you get a good report in Congo? Well I sat down two people with a minor disagreement and asked each of them questions, the other didn’t know the answer to, until they realised “I should have asked (or answered) that question first.” and both eventually thought this meeting is now unnecessary and I’ll ask better questions on the phone and told my local boss, my office was next door to his, and the scheduled weekly meeting (which I suggested as a solution to the base boss), was cancelled. And productivity by the Air Units improved. Other people call it “couples counselling”.
0020am 27 Feb 2023, why would you need an Engineer Unit moved into Kalemie? Well, some bright spark suggested it after a silly meeting where one looked at the other after the silly Irish officer asked a question like, why do you fly, Goma, Manono, Kalemie instead of Goma, Kalemie, Manono and the flying officer said, well Manono is a dirt strip and the rules for the aircraft reduces the weight allowed carried there because of the type of airfield. Silly Colman, silly question, excellent report. “Outstanding” actually. Colman (Eh, put him out standing, we can’t stand that lot around here. Oh, no, that’s not what our reports call it. Theirs say excellent. That was a nice book on compiling reports which Colman bought in the American PX in Kosovo, was it used much in DFHQ after? “May I borrow that book?” Colman)
0050am 27 Feb 2023 Reports, some people use 1-5 and there are tick boxes. And. Well, if they’re that good, there’s a thing called logic and you put a little tick ✅ (w3schools dingbats) in pen or pencil, on the right hand side of the regular 5, where the computer doesn’t see, however the officer reading the report with his own eyes, sees, what is that there for? Can you ask the person who wrote that report for coffee and I’ll ask him how good is that officer is in reality. And you didn’t think that first, no, that’s why I get to dingbats. And? Google Search report writing Irish One – Two Why is USA Army efficiency report writing, Two? Well, some of their spellings are different to ours. Nice to be efficient isn’t it. ”’I prefer being “Lazy, Colman” ”’ Colman
0140am 27 Feb 2023 Colman didn’t suggest that? No, he said, something similar and I got a little idea. Well, actually it was in a filing cabinet and then someone said, that’s be a great way of advertising our brand and all the viewers will hopefully tag our name on it? Can you embed our tag on that? Now, I would have put a scan box on that and a printed poster in Patrick’s street, the tourist office, those bus shelter advertisements on Patricks street, Cork, are really really expensive. Oh, No, they’re not? Oh, Yes they are? You listening Buttercup? Yes, and then they voted on an app (or they asked a few nice people), which asked who do you think had the best costume and Colman won an audience prize and we’re not having him around here. The old way was calling them “promising”. Colman reads a lot. Yes, he does.
0205am 27 Feb 2023 “And if someone’s visiting the house, it’s nice to have a packet of “Nice” biscuits to welcome them with.” Thank you, Gran Cullen. They’re coconut flavoured. Colman
0250-0335am 27 Feb 2023 Colman – A small selection of my photos from the 2010s Web design, so hard. Paste one photo from your folder into the page, change the setting on the photo to gallery and (select all, drag and) drop all the photos in, takes a couple of mins to upload them, if they’re of small format and resolution and haw(r di har har) prwesto. Magic. If you’re doing it on html on your own server, you just use you’re text editor to make one nice line with url addresses to the filenames and copy and paste the line many times and change all the photo names (urls) and the page is built. You might write a script for that and oh, that’s nice it’s how someone writing wordpress started. And, actually, I do like the site, I paid for this and my update doesn’t allow me to take the wordpress off the bottom because I’m not on the premium rate. Oh, you are? And it’s how much an hour? See what I did there? “Like you, much?” “He was a miller’s son.” Colman
0410am 27 Feb 2023 Because he does computers and; CosPlayer: Costumes, Available for photos – With my database of photos and Instagram addresses, an hour maybe? Price? Speak to the CosPlayer, Instagram address, here. Lots of Love. Colman
I’m not doing it, it would distract from my DOTA2 playing and I’m not particularly good at that either. Why? Because I get distracted by other world events and it’s only a hobby. Colman Equity Ireland – Artists Union Call for members 2020 A4sounds.org
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0720am 27 Feb 2023 And if you make your page in a text editor like Apache Open office and give it to your web designer, they can just copy it into your webpage. If you format your document to the correct no of pixels, you can jump from page to page and this was Microsoft Powerpoint. Colman
2150pm 27 Feb 2023 I was just watching The Martian (movie_2015) again on Film4+1 and the ending had changed, the phrase “by farming in my own excrement” had been removed and I remembered that a little earlier I spotted a small event which I didn’t notice before, that he wrapped the ribbon cable around his had preventing the air leaking and gaining a permanent attachment to the ribbon, so though I was disappointed in the removal of the “farming in” phrase, maybe it was to allow that “wrapping the ribbon” part into this version of the movie.
2220pm 27 Feb 2023 The Martian (movie_2015) twigged (a term from dowsing) a memory of mine. As a Lt in Lebanon, I got a strange message to say the post accross the wadi had a cow. Literally a cow at the post. When I went over to collect it, it having wandered from our area in South Lebanon into the Israeli controlled area where that post was located, the soldiers making use of this event for a bit of fun, they held a ceremony where they presented the cow with a cardboard medal hung round it’s neck. After the ceremony, the cows rein was handed to me and just as that was happening a SISU armoured vehicle arrived, so that we would have shelter while we walked the cow back to our side of the dividing line. Now the cow, wasn’t particularly happy with this large white armoured vehicle as it approached quite fast and took off with me attached, I had wrapped the rope tightly around my hand. The cow ran very fast. I ran very fast beside it. As I ran I thought how do you stop a cow. I remembered that to slow a horse you press down on it’s head by pulling the reins. I devised another method which was to throw my arm over the cows neck, which did slow the cow and then it stopped adn I tied it to a nearby metal pole. Immediately checked my weapon and was missing my pistol and spare magazine. My pistol magazine was missing so I walked back and eventually found it, it had dropped into the barbed wire in front of the DFF post. During the ceremony the DFF post had been up on their post traverse (fortification) watching the event and when the cow bolted, some had ran towards their post entrance to see if they could help me stop the cow. We tied the cow to the back of the SISU and walked it back to our post accross the wadi. Apparently one of the NCOs had filmed the ceremony and had the camera running and the video tape had been sent unbeknown to me with us in the SISU. In Bn headquarters that evening apparently the officers in the mess were quite amused by the video.
2225pm 27 Feb 2023 I went out for a ciggie and the light reflected from the Dean hotel spotlight looked quite brown, so I looked it up, as predicted NO2 concentrations from the air from GB moving this direction are up. Windy.com layer NO2 And what did you do Colman? I messaged a friend.
2250pm 27 Feb 2023 UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Beautifully designed frontpage (for phones) can you have a format for computer screens too? Excellent example of a floating header which remains as you scroll down the page. The banner size could be adjusted with regard to screen size and resolution?
2250pm 27 Feb 2023 Deadly and Damaging Earthquake in Türkiye and Syrian Border, Tsunami-related Sea Level Anomalies Detected in Türkiye Date: 20 February 2023 In the metadata, you might mention #tsunami #earthquake #turkey and it’ll get hits in the google and other search engines? Actually “earthquake” is there already. Yes. It is, however the fast search finds “Deadly” Colman
2325pm 27 Feb 2023 If I was really smart and read a little, I might write a script for inserting the date time of my observations automatically as a programmable button? Some keyboards such as (Here’s a nice coffee mug with the Windows shortcuts, while it shows Ctrl A, it’s actually Ctrl a. Ctrl Shift A, does something else, do they sell other mugs?) This is the keyboard I use, though I took mine apart and placed nice coloured fabric over the padded wrist rest. I don’t use the rest as I’m a see the keys typist, so that’s just an aesthetic choice. The programmable buttons is why I bought it though I haven’t programmed them yet. Some DOTA players have recently been complaining that the moves are faster than humanly possible during the game replays and this is why programmable scientific calculators were banned at schools in Ireland and there is a list of allowed calculators, so you have to use the standard scientific formulas and log tables etc. Otherwise you might have different formula in your calculator and the numbers aren’t as seen in the exam correction handbook. And your calculator might not be available in the field and you really should have learned how to read the Irish Examinations – log tables book.pdf. I read mine a couple of times, until I understood all the stuff in there, it’s an excellent learning tool. I also bought a copy of this new version a few years ago. The Penguin Dictionary of Physics, while it has a set of tables in the back, does not list the formula here, though it does have some lovely tabulated data including a nice list of the Symbols for Physical Quantities and one of Fundamental Constants. My copy was printed 1987 and I wrote a date on mine, 07/05/’87 07 May 1987. And a wired mouse with a scroll roller is nice too, replacing the batteries in the wifi one is annoying and I use my wifi one on my coffee table where the wire is annoying.
2330-2359pm 27 Feb 2023 http://www.riverspy.net/opwgauge.html?code=19102 Here’s an example of a smart kayaker using the available Irish public water data for his sport. And being a nice person he places the origin website for your information, if you’d like to check. http://waterlevel.ie/0000019102/0001/week/ . That’s a nice Office of Public Works website. The download button gives a .csv file (Google Support) which is a nice way of saying a table with commas, so the computer knows to put them in your format of spreadsheet or database using a standardised method. (A method in computers is a method of doing something you do many times and wanted a little piece of code (a reference to computer machine code of 0s and 1s) to do it a little faster.) ( I’m putting in the long version of the wiki url, below, because it’s witten im compter spake. ) In 2+2 =4 the object is the plus symbol + and the procedure is addition and your method might include asking the keyboard for a number to add and then another number to add and then executing standard method you get 4 and you want an output so you put it in a memory slot and then, either print it to screen or to paper or wait for another method to does something else and the other method might be the one which prints it. So 2+2=4 might be one method (A standard programmed method. Example 2*pi*r) or three, Input, Input, Calculate, Print Why is that three methods? Well, you tell the first input to put the first input into A storage box (The storage box is called a variable. If you’ve a box with a list of planes and you write in pencil and rub them out that’s a variable storage box too. If it’s in pen, it’s Read Only Memory, because it can’t be changed afterward. And RAM is NOT Random Access Memory, it’s Read And write Memory, RWM, couldn’t be pronounced easily.) and the second to put the second use of the input method into B storage box so the same method is used for both and the overall controlling program which uses these methods is your computer program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_(computer_programming)#:~:text=A%20method%20in%20object%2Doriented,any%20of%20its%20various%20consumers.
0030am 28 Feb 2023 Iceland Reykjanes Peninsula – Australian Academy of Science Copper chemicals also turn green because SO2 from volcanic vents has a similar effect to city car pollution? Would you like a few samples for your various geology (mining) museums? Colman visited a few while he was there. And if you look closely, you should be able to see the furious activity with bulldozers clearing a nice path for the molten rock to flow in the event of this vent producing very hot rock, which we call lava. No bulldozers? I’d ask for a little grant perhaps? The United Nations is trying to prevent disasters these day? Note, it doesn’t need to be too deep, the first lava actually melts the rock under it, see the … I was looking for an example of a deeply eroded by lava vally, however glaciation seems to have caved the lava tube roofs in a number of places and pushed the tube roofs into the sea, see (Google Earth Pro, is it possible to copy the name of a place with a button to copy the name for use in another document? The names in Iceland are quite descriptively long.) (Selskógur Campsite – Closed for the winter – Campground GCGF+V4C 311 Skorradalshreppur Iceland +354 789 8442) You can enter Google Maps and see the nice roads and attractions nearby.) Skorradalshreppur lake as a possible example? The little person symbol, right hand side you drag the symbol to the place you want to look closely at.
0045am 28 Feb 2023 Yes, Kerry long ago might have looked something similar, and those volcanic vents being of quite soft rock compared to the other ridges compressed by time and a slower cooling, which remain, and though the rocks in Kerry, where there were some small copper deposits and mines, there’s one with a historical map and diagrams in Muckross house and gardens, are very old and presently (10,000 years?) quite safe in volcanic terms. (Someone might consider a geological interpretative centre?) (Oh, look they’ve some videos on making The St. Brigid’s Cross in their “Research Library.”)
0100am 28 Feb 2023 Madiera – Gibraltar ? A wee slide possible? Can you ask them to add a few extra details into their nice pop up which appears when you click on the earthquake symbol? Because copying the image is easier than copying the data by select text, copy to screen a button to email? That looks like a small underwater landslide? Changes in volume, move water rapidly. Changes in position (an underwater landslide), also cause waves, though not as severe. There’s also an unusual change in the map, when you select the earthquake you get extra parts of the map, which disappears when you zoom.
http://www.ign.es/web/resources/volcanologia/tproximos/canarias.html
0110am 28 Feb 2023 https://www.openwaterpedia.com/wiki/Strait_of_Gibraltar There’s a nice seabed chart here. Reflooding and repopulation of the Mediterranean Sea after the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Benthic foraminifera assemblages and stable isotopes of Spanish basins Science Direct.com – Translation. (Eh, we dug a few holes in the seabed and found that yes, there was a flood event, the little microbes in the stuff we got out of the hole normally live in lake water with a low level of salt (fresh water Zero, fed landlocked lake low, sea medium, dead sea high) and we’d like our Masters in Marine Micropaleontology Research, now, thank you very much. Well, it has to be confirmed by other’s first. So let’s publish and we’ll see if anyone disagrees with you from their reading material, or they might like to look again to prove the research elsewhere too. Coffee?
0120am 28 Feb 2023 I looked at the geology of the straits a while ago and Google has been busy New revelations in Strait of Gibraltar tectonics Utrecht University The article is a little short? Oh, no, that’s just the press release, the article is here Puzzling features of western Mediterranean tectonics explained by slab dragging Slab dragging is a nice way of saying the European and African Tectonic plates move towards and away from each other: Bump the Right side of the plate (Turkey) and the Left side of the plate, (Gibraltar) might move too? Well, it depends on the torsion forces and flexibility of the rocks at the plate boundaries. A good example is jelly (BBC Good Food jelly recipes).
Depending on how you poke the jelly, the jelly behaves differently.
0140am 28 Feb 2023 https://earthquaketrack.com/p/tajikistan/gorno-badakhshan/recent Takikistan Copernicus? a wee peek? Some: landslides?
0150am 28 Feb 2023 https://meteoalarm.org/en/region/IE IE (yes, it only works for capital letters) is Ireland, you can zoom out to get the rest of the map. DE is Germany, personally I’d prefer the three letter combos, for all the countries? And for some reason, if you enter the incorrect, search not available it centres on Mali??? Adding the NO2 concentrations might be nice, maybe it’s why the streets of Amsterdam are a little empty tonight? No, I wouldn’t be out doors there tonight either (and I smoke, went out doors for a smoke here in Cork, earlier and had a cough when my lungs tasted the stuff.) and I’d have a little sucker (air conditioner) which drags the air in through a water siphon, so the NO2 is dropped out into the water. https://meteoalarm.org/en/warning/2e4a2ae1-c2e6-4f40-9ab0-d9ea78b5a46e/af287691-9010-4e86-98ed-a0c2dcb0d364#list When you copy the entire web url, you even get the event, this is a weather WIND warning in Croatia and the webpage is formatted for phones. OH??? EHHH???
0210-0250am 28 Feb 2023 Why the Eastern Europeans so good at this and the Turks so bad at this? Well, that’s a good question: While the Austro-Hungarian Empires and Ottoman Empires (this plural refers to the three empires) did co-exist in the same time period, their methods of attracting other nations into their alliances, ruled by Kings and Sultans, their methods of rule, educational standards and methods of education and their building styles varied greatly. That’s the short version. The really short version is (Cutting the balls off the kids and teaching them to be good local governors under the Sultan didn’t work so well in the long run for the Sultans. They had nice voices though, so you could tell who was in charge.) Habibi: By Craig Thompson Hardcover – 22 Sept. 2011 I did some light reading after I read the comic book. Colman He wrote this because someone else wrote The Complete MAUS, english edition: Art Spiegelman Paperback – 2 Oct. 2003 We got Feast or Famine Paperback – 20 Nov. 2019 by Dave Swartz (Author), Joseph Cooper (Author), & 1 more To confuse us from Black ’47: A Story of Ireland’s Great Famine: A Graphic Novel (Paperback) Damien Goodfellow Why was Maus written and/or published? 2000Sunday Times best Fiction of the 20th Century, WATCHMEN (goodreads.com). Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist) “One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller, Watchmen has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V for Vendetta, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and The Sandman series.” Why college campuses? Well, vigilantism is considered quite harmful in the USA, for some reason. ( And that’s a pause for emphasis of “FOR SOME REASON”. Buttercup, you look upset? ) Look up the word Lynching (wiki). The post took so long as I was cooking and thinking.
0325am 28 Feb 2023 I was looking at Hoist with his own petard and most modern thinking lists a petard as a siege engine device (wiki) they were later used for killing tanks after some smart man who saw the effects of the large petards used in the breaching of fort-eben-emael (Land of Memory.eu) WW2, however I seem to remember something about a cracking (or firecracker) rope and it on the end of a yard arm? The rope in the wind makes a cracking noise and going particularly close to a person, it makes nasty cuts, at the increased speed, the momentum of the rope arriving at a small tail end. It’s similar to a wave narrowing into a tight space like Venice, the effect in a confined channel is to widen the area at the top of the channel into a basin or curve. The eventual result looks like this (Irish map area below, Cork/Kerry). In Biology, the shape is called a Penis or a Big Dick, I’d call it a Firecracker basin or a Petard basin. See also sinkholes and blowholes, similar hydrological processes caused by differences of hydrological pressure (waves). And yes, strangely enough, widening the bay area around Venice though expensive would reduce the effects of large waves arriving at the area. Silly question, what happens if you do it on a large scale? Cork? Sand and broken seashells are found in the gun positions on the bottom of fort Davis from the waves during onshore winter storms, the local pilots board well off shore to avoid these larger waves caused by the waves arriving in the narrows and increasing in height as water from the areas left and right try to gain entrance to relieve the local hydrological (water) pressure through the nozzle. Learned it in fluid mechanics. (Not like that. No, same principle though.) Actually the water and waves push the boats toward centre, which I learned kayaking, the water on either side being higher and the water velocity (speed) in the middle being faster. Note: If you make the edges deeper, the outflowing water increases this effect, which is what happens at nice surfing locations like Manly beach Australia. Could barely stand up during my surf lesson, my little mind doing all the thinking about the shape of the sand under the waves. That’s why wave theory is taught to the surfers, so they’re not distracted by the Physics of it during the ride. Colman How do you know about the out going effect? Well, Cork floods when the water going out from the river meets the water coming in from the tide. If the wave comes in then the water has to go back out. 0350am 25 mins. “C English RoI_LC , B Physics RoI_LC. A Physics RoI_MC – B Fluid Mechanics RoI_UL” Colman I did the Matriculation Cert too. For the extra points, it helped, particularly, if some people (ladies), were ill on a couple of the days. A month is a long exam timetable, I also did the UCC scholarship exams.
0445-0505am 28 Feb 2023 Atlantis I like this work from by Aaron Stubblefield Calemeo (presentation system), While Mr Stubblefield, has grasped the spirit of the Atlantean design and the design may have been a big ask to a wealthy potentate to create a safe harbour such as his design in his book or pamphlet (normally a pamphlet was uses to describe a religious document) (shove off, it was written on palm leaves.). The design described would have what effects in terms of a tidal wave? The circular design creates the maximum friction effect on the incoming waters. The protection afforded increases with distance toward the centre. Retreating waters from the outer rings has the effect of? Well, properly designed with non frequential repeats of the arrivals of the waters back to the main channel would allow safety of the boats increasing towards the centre. It should be noted that the design was an island design and for waves to travel around the island. Where would the entrance to the harbour be? Away from the direction of travel of the most frequent large waves? Or toward them? Presuming an East to West direction of travel of the waves? N S E W, you have two hours, a half filled 20 cm deep 1 meter sq sandbox and 100 litres of water. Go. Now that’s a Fluid Mechanics Hackathon. Have fun, teams of five, after hours entertainment, Young Scientists exhibition, because those kids are in Dublin for the weekend. Universities may apply. Why? Because the lazy kids might like a treat. Colman Why do you call them lazy kids? Well, they’ve half their research for their Degree done already. Easy FYP, oh, I did this at secondary school can I finish it for my thesis. Lazy. Colman Who do you hire after? The person who says, if we had had some plaster of Paris, we could have made a model which was the same for every experiment instead of building the sandcastle again each time we passed the waves through it. Who should you hire? The person who says that would be wasteful, the model would only be used one time or the person who says, you know if you made five of them we could have done the experiments in the five sand boxes on a rotating basis, I would have gone last to see if the experiment matches our theory model first? And George says having time after the tests to refine our theory, after the experiment might be nice? Colman
0605-0640am 28 Feb 2023 Atlantis (wiki) Plato introduced Atlantis in Timaeus, written in 360 BC: I’m not going to attempt using a quote from this the origin being so very long ago and so many times translated from various sources. So I’ll ask a question instead. There was a flood. And the Med was filled with water and the Straits of Dardanelles was flooded, and “that passage became deeper”, why? because the passage had been there before from ancient times and the Black sea is salty as was the early Med, it’s flooding not having fully cleared to salt yet, as salt is still flowing into it, though slower now, less rainfall. So I’d have a little peek under the sea here? Why? the mountains around there are a bitch, the ocean might refer to the Uncrossable sea of grass, the steppe, the availability of fresh water from Galati, Romania?, reasonable growing conditions and control of the nice fields beside the lake, the silt being shaken often making this nice plateau though with the risks of earthquake and small tsunamis in the area, a protected harbour might be built? Why control of the nice fields? Because that’s where I would have traded along the shores of the lake? And the old river route flowed here at the V in front of Constanţa? (It’s a because they didn’t have a y) If the supply of water was constant, big joke? And depth at Whatever the village at Constantinople at the time was in ancient times (Named for Constantine?) (Note: the Dacian treasures nearby were of gold and vast!) was ten (10) meters then the water depth there would be ninety meters?
And the water is turgid, literally, shitty, brown in colour thick with dead algae.
Oh, we looked.
Not at 700 square kilometres, you didn’t and the water doesn’t fish well, so there weren’t bottom trawling for flatties there, mate?
Varna just down the coast in Bulgaria is lovely, I visited a Bulgarian friend there. High sea cliffs, very, very, high sea cliffs, 80 meters, if I remember rightly. Anyone want to take a wee peek? If you’ve got the sonar gear doing nothing at the moment and you’re just around for a few days and the information is shared? The harbour would be flooded with silt and it might take a bit of computing to look beneath the surface, though it’s mostly dead algae and stuff, it’s what becomes an oil deposit, if it’s covered by a layer of solid material preventing the escape of the organic material, sometimes when shaken badly (earthquake?) a marsh pond goes gloop and all the gases pop out and you get a question?
Are those gasses lighter or heavier than air? ????
Yes, Rudi, that’s a Five Question. Because it’s a big sea and that might be a lot of gas? Air – 3 mins, Water – 3 days etc.
And I heard something about
a large Earthquake possible in the region?
(Yes, Colman’s mind brings him in circles sometimes, however, he’s in with the last punch.)
“Pitt has a commanding presence which, combined with a quick, sly wit, often infuriates his adversaries and superiors.
Comical banter with Al is especially common during stressful situations, leaving the reader with little doubt that both are confident in their abilities.”
Dirk Pitt (wiki) series by Clive Cussler (wiki) died 24 Feb 2020 RIP.
“Cussler was the founder and chairman[2] of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and numerous other notable underwater wrecks.”
National Underwater and Marine Agency NUMA (wiki) – “private non profit organisation funded by the money from Clive Cussler’s books.”
| Bosporus Strait İstanbul Boğazı | |
|---|---|
| Min. width | 700 m (2,300 ft) |
| Max. depth | 110 m (360 ft) |
0650am 28 Feb 2023 Removal of deep-sea sponges by bottom trawling in the Flemish Cap area: conservation, ecology and economic assessment Published: 01 November 2019
0700-0725am 28 Feb 2023 Skandalopetra diving Sponge diver 83 meters 1913AD. “The skandalopetra, or simply petra (πέτρα), is a stone, usually of marble or granite, weighing between 8 and 14 kg, with rounded corners and hydrodynamic shape.[3][4]. It was the only tool used by divers, since the time of Alexander the Great.[3][4]
The fishermen, naked, were secured to the stone with a thin cord. The skandalopetra itself was secured to the boat with the same rope. This link allowed fishermen to dive safely for centuries.[3][4] .
Why naked?
Well, it reduces the drag from clothing and it prevents the fisherman putting the pearls into their swimming costume.
↓↓ ?
That’s why the bucket was at the front of the boat, so the captain could see and you were offshore for a few days.
The boat Captain?
Well, he was getting properly paid for the pearls, it was his boat.
And if they tried ???
Well, they just tied them to the stone and waited a few minutes.
Granite or marble? That sounds remarkably like an Ice curling stone (wiki)?
Well, dem Vikings did get everywhere?
Used to be bodyguards to the emperor in Constantinople if I remember?
Anyone tried selling marble ones? Lower density, same size? for kids? or older folk?
And when we get back you can have a look?
Can you write Rudi a note?
Can I put in the marble ice curling stone? I’ll forget otherwise.
Yes, at the end, bad stuff first.
Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Ⅳ Ⅴ Ⅵ Ⅶ Ⅷ Ⅸ Ⅹ Oh, look I found out what those characters mean in Times New Roman, Basic Latin font, U+2169 is a Ⅹ Hey, don’t they use those for Earthquake intensities? We’re not in any danger here are we?
If you’ve a line to Dirk you might let him know?
Yes, understood.
A ten you say, well, that might be worth having a little look.
Colman
0810am 28 Feb 2023
Photo taken this morning
and 5 mins editing.
And if I make a url
from the photo,
I have a pretty button.
This button is made and
leads to the top
of this page.
0810am-0835am 28 Feb 2023 Here I made a row of buttons and you can change the captions and the pictures and the urls (web pages) to which they lead. All lead to the top of this page. If I remember, you can make the symbol called an icon and attach it to a program command on your windows to open the webpage or program similarly, if you’ve an icon there already, you can change the picture it uses. You can have more than one folder or webpage so created on your desktop. Phones are a bit more difficult.
0900am-1005am 28 Feb 2023 Fragility based characterization of alternative tsunami evacuation buildings in Banda Aceh, Indonesia International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Banda Aceh Topographical Banda Aceh Geology Hill sides are nice, I like hill sides because they are above the ocean and you can look down at the town. The Greeks built amphitheatres above their towns, for entertainment and as a place of refuge and safety in times of earthquake or war.
How much can a dump truck carry? Typically, larger dump trucks can carry about 28,000 pounds or about 14 tons. On average, smaller dump trucks can transport around 13,000 to 15,000 pounds or 6.5 to 7.5 tons.
The density of limestone depends on its porosity, which varies from 0.1% for the densest limestone to 40% for chalk. The density correspondingly ranges from 1.5 to 2.7 g/cm3. Although relatively soft, with a Mohs hardness of 2 to 4, dense limestone can have a crushing strength of up to 180 MPa.
1 cubic meter here called a CUBE = 1,000,000 cm3 lets say 3 grms per cm3 3million grams = 3,000 kg = 3 tonnes. One Truck takes 3 cubic meters. Population Banda Aceh = Due to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the city lost about 75,000 people out of its population of 230,000 at that time. 155,ooo Werry werry Wunny? Were this pwick wote this paeper fwom? Lets say at 200,000 persons at 3 sq meters per person = 600,000 sq meters = 600m x 1000 meters Let’s be nice and give an extra 200,000 for future proofing and we get 800,000 meters squared see map below https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_on_Indonesia#:~:text=Banda%20Aceh%20was%20a%20city,Aceh%20alone%2C%20the%20government%20announced. Let’s place our Tsunami Refuge at 20 meters above Sealevel, 3.8 km from the beach? 4km at a fast walk is Naismiths rule – 48 minutes? So you need one hours notice? Local warning systems klaxons and sirens? Height above the normal surface, given the wave breaking at the shore and rushing inland at its actually quite slow velocity, I saw a Japanese Tsunami video, it’s the surprise that gets people and staying in “poorly chosen” close locations. Lets say 20 meters for safety. Limestone blocks 3 CUBEs per truck. 800,000 sq meters at 20 meters high = 16,000,000 CUBES Distance from Limestone quarry to centre of town = 8 km. One truck at 40km per hour = 1/5 hours = 12 minutes. 8 minutes to dump, the rock being loaded by prepared load size at the quarry, 20 minutes per load. 8 hr day = 24 loads per day per two drivers four drivers = 48 loads x 3 CUBES per day. 144 CUBES Per Day per Truck. 16,000,000 / 144 = 111,111 days/365 = 304 years/ 60 trucks = Six Years and Two hundred and forty drivers employed. Note: The effectiveness of the refuge is achieved for the various levels of event sequentially and you have 5 meters at One Year six months 10 meters at 3 years and 20 meters at 6 years. Dongfeng 6×4 25 ton 15 cubic meter coal dump truck price >= 10 units $35,800.00 x 60 = 2.148 million US Let’s call that an even 2 million and we’ll have the name of your truck in a few photos? The limestone – Oh, no, that’s my hill, oh, no it’s not. OH NO ITS NOT. (and we’ll leave the nice area left after, at 30 meters high, nice and flat, and you might like to have a nice tourist centre there? Cost of 300 drivers and canteen staff and a couple of supervisors Civil Eng? Why? It’s regular work and the dump trucks cost money. 20,000 US per year? 500 x 20,000 x 6 years (Food costs at the canteen for all free, its about 20 mens wages. And that’s to include the extra pay for supervisors.) Pay costs 60 million Total Cost – 62 million over 6 years or 10 million per year. And if you want to build a shiny palace on top when it’s finished you can do what you like. You asked them to what and they did what you paid for. You ask “nice” people for various solutions, please, instead of asking for “The college solution.” Small houses poor people. A nice accommodation elsewhere, on a hillside perhaps? Apartment blocks for tourists and value of 8,000,000 meters of prime real estate in Banda Aceh at 20 meters height, with proviso of emergency accommodation in time of crisis. 1km x 1km square with nice gardens and a four 50m swimming pools NE NW SE SW (drinking water) Divided into 60mx60m buildings with 20 meter dividing areas pedestrian ground floor entirely open plan, building on stilts 5 meters extra, just in case, and for natural vented cooling, 12 x 12 buildings = 144 buildings at 5 stories x 4 apartments = 2,880 apartments at 30,000 dollars each = 86 million value in capital, and for the Tsunami protection, Priceless. And you might like to ask a man called Quinn, how to set up the quarry? Apparently he’s quite good at that sort of thing? Oh and the Indonesian government is to pay for the fuel, check if the truck takes petrol or diesel, though I’d prefer Biofuels, alcohol and cooking oil combinations or EV’s if possible. Have ze done ze little calculation and seen dat it near de equator and loads of land compared to puny Europe Latitude 50 degrees? Yes, 60×60 =3600/4 = 900-100 for utilities and corridors makes an 800 sq meter apartment and Velly Nice Place? Might live there? Mercator works against you sometimes, they think Europe so big. Colman.
1130am 28 Feb 2023 Europe arable land compared to elsewhere? Lots? Per area of the country? Why? education, we ploughed more. Everyone else is ploughing awful ground, no one lived long enough or owned it to want to actually improve the land. It’s all about “The Field” (Movie_Ireland_1990) and a man carrying seaweed on his back for twenty years for his son to inherit the field. Bloomberg is playing the Chinese version for a couple of years now – cooperative who owned land, improved it and it’s now worth billions and kiddies want to sell. The Italian city states 1200AD-1600AD, local city elected officials, land management, defence, and town planning, and a numpty Papal system and Medici bankers.
1200pm 28 Feb 2023 The Beauty of Terraced Fields I like photo 15: The Inca terraces of Moray near the town of Maras in Cuzco, Peru, though to be honest I think these were teaching areas, apparently the tribes people from their vassal states had a two year conscription where they were brought together for group projects, building and such. Books for Topics.com The Maya. It’s a good question, why we haven’t this form of field structure in Ireland in the higher hillsides to prevent erosion, yes, it’s largely a rural and labour intensive system of farming, however as a system of keeping water at high altitudes irrigating lower fields later in the year, it’s quite effective. Agriculture might not be the prime motivator, though I would point out that the nearby area of Machu Pichu relatively close to Maras and Cusco was reputed to have grown flowers, and while immediately you would ask were they Opium or some medicinal drug as might is the case in secluded parts of the Western World, the crop there might have been coca, though if it had, it would have been in Europe as bad as tobacco. I might suggest looking in the soils there to see what medicinal flowers were the Inca using? Oh, and flower growing is quite lucrative and the daffodils in your shop this spring come from? Please look at the label? Planes, boats and trucks? And loads of students doing nothing near Cork last weekend. A friend of mine got his 1.1 working McDonalds for his pocket money. EBay Uk Fresh Cut Cornish Daffodils a touch of spring sent by 1st class post. 30 stems £9.21 How many bunches could you pick in an hour? 10 seconds per stem x 30 /60 = 5 minutes per bunch. 12 bunches per hour = 110.52 pounds sterling, less postage. 50% for the student, 50% for the field owner and happy mommies and daddies everywhere. And you might even make some tax money? Requirements? Learning how to do the terracing to start with? It’s a bit like building a dry stone wall to be honest and we’ve loads of ??? Just a thought? And the nice terraces need steps and such for hill walkers too? Colman
1230 pm 28 Feb 2023 And the arse kicking begins – https://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/ 14 Feb 2023 Journal website facelift In the coming days and weeks, readers of our journals will experience a facelift of our websites. Read more about the background.
A globally applicable framework for compound flood hazard modeling “the one with the single L is preferred in the United States, while the one with two Ls is preferred everywhere else.”, Europe for example and Ireland in particular, Copernicus. Excellent document, the abstract should be understood by the average reader, pluvial, fluvial, and coastal flood drivers “Rain falling on urban and agricultural lands and the tides and tidal flooding from the sea.” You left out Tsunamis and manmade disasters like breaches of dams and unintentional dam releases and unfortunately planned dam releases and…? Because that’s not in your model? True/False? Did someone else write your model program set? I’m just a casual observer, however… other’s actually paid for this? Wages and stuff? It’s called a resubmit. Colman
2325pm 28 Feb 2023 An Example of You really do have to check the entire weather map. Lapland Sweden. 100km winds and the purple bit means? Well that’s where opening the door means a wind that freezes your nose off. Weather nice today? Yes, I’d put nice warning signs for the silly Southerners. Why are you so concerned about this? Well, once upon a time I was in ULKC, around 1996 and UCC Canoe Club were kayaking in Norway, I think it was Norway, I was told the story a long time ago and one of them died in the river there. And UCC Canoes Club died and it was a tiny club when I joined it in 2014. Because sometimes it’s really really important to listen to proper advice like: Eh, maybe this is a little too far in advance of our training and the water’s fxxking freezing and we paid all this money and you want to stay on the bank and… So good notifications for the silly tourists are nice and can you have the wind speed in km/hr so they see a big number and are properly cautious? I like Irish people and we have so few of them. Colman
2335 28 Feb 2023 Bitter Cold in Russia? Yea, bit cold for an outdoor protest today, how big a virtual protest can you have? What chat room? “Oh it’s only a five kt wind?” “Well, fxxk you Cynthia, I know what happened the your last roving weatherman.”
2355pm 28 Feb 2023 And this is the winter time temperature in a little place in Nigeria. No, they, don’t call it wintertime.
Colman O'Keeffe 
