Did you know?

[2020hindsight]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary

thanks mofra
caught the missus a beauty lol

did you know that "six mile creek" at Townsville is a different river system to "six mile creek" at Nowra? - well my sister-in-law didn't lol. (real names of cities/towns amende to protect the innocent - but youget the ghist )

 

[2020hindsight]

did you know that "six mile creek" at Townsville is a different river system to "six mile creek" at Nowra? - well my sister-in-law didn't lol.

then again she was travelling up the coast by car, having just flown out from england, and was just a casual comment about the number of times they'd crossed this particular "six mile creek"

maybe she was having me on lol

 

[noirua]

Not exactly a "did you know" but this UK website is interesting when comparing prices in Australia with U.K. Car Supermarket prices. Some cars have different model names: http://www.cargiant.co.uk

 

[noirua]

A Broadband speed checker, just in case you want to check. I notice some websites have a speed checker on them: http://www.broadband.org/speed_test.html?gclid=CLDUvtOpwpACFQFZQgodNTn4Wg

 

[2020hindsight]

A Broadband speed checker, just in case you want to check. I notice some websites have a speed checker on them: http://www.broadband.org/speed_test.html?gclid=CLDUvtOpwpACFQFZQgodNTn4Wg

noi, gr8
2720 kbps down, 184 kbps up

 

[2020hindsight]

in the 1998 sydney-hobart, the waves reached 70 feet (= 21m) (and were breaking at their tops)

they know this because the rescue helicopters could measure the change in the "altitude" according to their instruments, and the difference between peak and trough was 30m. :eek3::eek3:

http://www.ussailing.org/safety/Studies/1998_sydney_hobart.htm

The 1998 Sydney to Hobart race resulted in the loss of 6 sailors lives, 55 people rescued from sailboats, 5 boats sank and 66 boats retired out of the 115 starters when multiple storms merged and hurricane force wind and waves descended on the fleet.

http://www.oceancruisingclub.org/content/view/351/82/

The Race
The race commenced with a beat out of Sydney Harbour in a 20 knot northeaster, which was great for the spectators - who by then included myself. All the fleet ran down the coast under spinnaker to pass Montagu Island, some reaching speeds of 27 knots, and into a forecast southwesterly with 7-8m swells in 38°S. However it was not forecast that the intense low which then developed would generate a near cyclone, with winds averaging 70 knots but reaching 92 knots with corresponding 15-20m swells.

(This estimate was verified by one of the US-built Australian Navy helicopters, whose instruments measuring height above 'ground' showed 80ft when over a wave trough and 10ft at its peak.) These were the worst conditions experienced in the 54-year history of the race. Parallels were drawn between the 1998 Sydney-Hobart and the 1979 Fastnet, not least the fact that both are raced in comparatively shallow waters subject to rapid changes in the weather, a lethal combination causing steep, close-running waves to build up rapidly.

 

[numbercruncher]

in the 1998 sydney-hobart, the waves reached 70 feet (= 21m) (and were breaking at their tops)

they know this because the rescue helicopters could measure the change in the "altitude" according to their instruments, and the difference between peak and trough was 30m. :eek3::eek3:

http://www.ussailing.org/safety/Studies/1998_sydney_hobart.htm


http://www.oceancruisingclub.org/content/view/351/82/

To give folks an appreciation of 30m waves .....

I went through cyclone sose in 01' on a 40k tonne Ship, we had sustained waves of 6m maybe some as high as 10m, adding a picture of the waves being forced over the bow, picture is from the 9th deck just below the bridge, the sheer power of these waves was enough to crack 20mm reinforced marine glass and cause flooding through most the lower decks.

I can Imagine just how deadly 30m waves would be.

 

[2020hindsight]

To give folks an appreciation of 30m waves .....

I went through cyclone sose in 01' on a 40k tonne Ship, we had sustained waves of 6m maybe some as high as 10m, adding a picture of the waves being forced over the bow, picture is from the 9th deck just below the bridge, the sheer power of these waves was enough to crack 20mm reinforced marine glass and cause flooding through most the lower decks.

I can Imagine just how deadly 30m waves would be.

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nc, wow - thas sumpin

(sorry when I double checked it was 21m not 30m - I didn't correct my first draft properly -
but even then , 21m is one hell of a wave !! - twice those of your photo yes?

 

[numbercruncher]

Yes probably easy double that of the picture ! Actually after saying I could imagine what the destructive force of 30m waves would be I Probably couldnt really, it would be phenomenal, itd surely have to wipe out everything in it path, especially a breaking wave !

 

[noirua]

...after the Romans left in AD410, England was invaded by the Jutes, Angles and Saxons from northern continental Europe, and the original inhabitants were overrun and their leaders killed or driven out.

 

[noirua]

...how good these vitamins and minerals are, or what happens without enough of them: http://www.belleville.k12.wi.us/bhs/health/nutrition/vitaminsminerals.html

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

To give folks an appreciation of 30m waves .....

I went through cyclone sose in 01' on a 40k tonne Ship, we had sustained waves of 6m maybe some as high as 10m, adding a picture of the waves being forced over the bow, picture is from the 9th deck just below the bridge, the sheer power of these waves was enough to crack 20mm reinforced marine glass and cause flooding through most the lower decks.

I can Imagine just how deadly 30m waves would be.

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Looks more like Elle McPherson arriving for afternoon tea at The Lodge.

gg

 

[noirua]

...how good these vitamins and minerals are, or what happens without enough of them: http://www.belleville.k12.wi.us/bhs/health/nutrition/vitaminsminerals.html

Moving on from vitamins and minerals there is the PYRAMID PLAN, from the United States Government: http://www.mypyramid.gov/mypyramid/index.aspx

 

[noirua]

...the Kali Gandaki River flows through the deepest valley in the world and looking upstream towards the main range of the Himilayas, the tallest of the cluster of snow capped peaks is Dhaulagiri which is over 8,000 metres high, the fifth highest mountain in the world.

 

[noirua]

...if the body is not provided with sufficient calcium, together with sufficient vitamin D in the case of non-marine calcium, or you live in an all-year-round sunshine invironment: The body will draw on calcium from the teeth and fingernails, and that can be the reason for brittle nails and teeth. This could also indicate, in some cases, osteoporosis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoporosis
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/osteoporosistreatment.htm

 

[noirua]

...that when starting off tracing ancestors consider: Birth, death and marriage records; the census; Parish records, Graveyard Records and Vestry minutes; Wills; emigrant records; Trades and Professions; Property, tennant records, Deed Polls and Taxes; Newspapers and Libraries; Courts and magistrates; Army, Navy and airforces, war and memorial records ( http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/conflicts.aspx ); Heraldry; Family History Societies; Societies ( http://www.cyndislist.com/soc-frat.htm ); Freemasons; Education records; Mormon records (http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_church_records.htm ); and New York etc., shipping and landing records ( http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com)( http://www.ellisislandrecords.org ).

 

[2020hindsight]

...that when starting off tracing ancestors consider: Birth, death and marriage records; the census; Parish records, Graveyard Records and Vestry minutes; Wills; emigrant records; Trades and Professions; Property, tennant records, Deed Polls and Taxes; Newspapers and Libraries; Courts and magistrates; Army, Navy and airforces, war and memorial records ( http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/conflicts.aspx ); Heraldry; Family History Societies; Societies ( http://www.cyndislist.com/soc-frat.htm ); Freemasons; Education records; Mormon records (http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_church_records.htm ); and New York etc., shipping and landing records ( http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com)( http://www.ellisislandrecords.org ).

jail records are real handy as well

(PS my gran had a stack of Nelson Eddy records - sadly they were indecipherable)

PS thanks, noi

 

[2020hindsight]

It is possible to manipulate the market ! (surprise)

Jim Cramer on Market Manipulation

(already dicussed somewhere else around here)
let's call this a friendly reminder for the new year

 

[noirua]

IOWA CAUCUSES: Mike Huckabee has won the Republican race against Mitt Romney.

 

[noirua]

IOWA CAUCUSES. Voting so far: Barack Obama - 36.86%,
John Edwards - 30.15%, Hillary Clinton - 29.84%.

Latest: Barack Obama has won the Democratic race for IOWA CAUCUSES