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Really cute otter, Sandy

Happy Birthday!!

Thank you!

Randi wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:45 pm Potty-trained cattle could help reduce pollution

I now have a picture of Lulu and Daisy rushing up the field to the barn in a caught-short moment ... only to find a queue for the moo-loo

Happy Birthday Randi, though I am late! May your weather be sunny and warm, may it only rain softly at night, and may someone share half their hold full of chocolate on your special day.
Morgan

(And thanks for the instructions on posting images.)

Thanks, Morgan!

For anyone who is interested: there is a documentary series on Discovery Plus about an expedition team's mission of diving to the deepest points in all five oceans. It's called 'Expedition Deep Ocean.' Here is a trailer for the series:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/s_6q0GSk5L4

The fifth and final episode is on the Arctic Ocean. It's a great way to see what conditions our sailing and whaling vessels experienced (though they had it much rougher, being without today's fancy machinery). The entire series is very well done.

You can watch either through Amazon's subscription of Discovery Plus, or directly through Discovery Plus. The subscription either way would cost money, but I signed up for the free seven-day trial. If you do that, be sure to watch before the weeklong trial is up and to cancel before they charge you (unless you take a liking to it).

Enjoy!

This tale was sent to me yesterday, (if I do not post it now, I will forget on New yrs eve next century.)
I looked on Wikipedia where may have come from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Warrimoo
Do we have the log book somewhere?

"The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia.
The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS.Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo's position was LAT 0º
31' N and LONG 179 30' W. The date was 31 December 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton broke in, "We're only a few miles from the
intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line". Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity
for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.
He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ship's position.
He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.
The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the
International Date Line!

The consequences of this bizarre position were many:

The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer.
The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter.
The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899.
In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900.
This ship was therefore not only in:
Two different days,
Two different months,
Two different years,
Two different seasons
But in two different centuries - all at the same time!

The story was still in popular print circulation in 1942,[8] was popularized by an article in the magazine Ships and the Sea in 1953,[9] and was in online circulation on social media in 2021.[10] However, the navigational technology of the time was not accurate enough to have fixed her position so precisely. Whether Warrimoo ever achieved the feat claimed cannot be verified.[11]

Very cool. I remember seeing this some time ago.

I think New Zealand has lots of log books. Maybe they have for that ship. I doubt the U. S. would have them.

That was seriously cool sailing Stuart What a great idea. So glad that they went for it!

Sandy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:37 am For anyone who is interested: there is a documentary series on Discovery Plus about an expedition team's mission of diving to the deepest points in all five oceans. It's called 'Expedition Deep Ocean.' Here is a trailer for the series:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/s_6q0GSk5L4

I'll have look and see if I can get to it Sandy. Might have to wait until it goes down a level to be accessible on something free. The deep oceans are finally getting a full scientific going over - and just in time given how the top part of the oceans are being knocked about by us

Well so much for spending $600 million for an unnecessary election! We ended up where we started.

Justin Trudeau was riding fairly high in the polls and leading a minority government, being kept in power by the NDP. He was hoping to turn those high polling numbers into a majority, but it turned out his support was softer that it seemed. The Conservatives started moving up in the polls and the Liberals began sinking. Two days before the election the Conservatives were slightly in the lead, and they actually got more votes than the Liberals. However, they win massively in Alberta, Saskatchewan and parts of B. C. whereas in other parts of Canada they and the Liberals are much closer. Think of it this way: three seats, the Conservatives get 10 votes in one and 4 in the other two. The Liberals get none in one seat and six in the other two. The Conservatives get 18 votes in total and the Liberals get 12, but they win two seats to the Conservatives one. It's not that one-sided: the Conservatives got 34% of the votes, and the Liberals got 32%.

Changes in standing:
The Other was a Liberal, I think. who left the party to sit as an Independent. The People's Party is a very right wing party: anti-immigrant; anti-vaccine etc. The Bloc sort of pushes for Quebec Independence. The People's Party got about 5% of the popular vote, and they pulled enough votes from the Conservatives to allow either the NDP or Liberals to win a seat. It looks like they cost the Conservatives about 24 seats. They still wouldn't have had a majority government, but they may have had a minority. The Peoples Party had no seats in the previous parliament. The Greens went from three seats to two. A nasty fight between the new leader and the party's federal council just before the election killed their hopes. The leader, Anname Paul, came fourth in her riding, with only 9% of the votes. Nationally, the Greens got 2% of the popular vote, down from 7% or so in the previous election. All in all, a giant waste of time and money.

Nearly 10 years on OW and I'm only just finding out why they are called log books

You and me both!!!

You, me and I also.

Can you picture the logs of the Jeannette kept on slices of wood?
They were hefty enough on paper...