Tuesday - August 19, 2014
here we go again?
St. Louis City police shoot, kill knife-wielding suspect
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says officers warned a suspect multiple times to put down his weapon before they shot and killed him.
The shooting happened around 1 p.m. Tuesday at McLaran and Riverview. Police say the suspect tried to rob the Six Star Market convenience store with a knife. Chief Sam Dotson said the store owner let the man leave the store. A St. Louis City Alderwoman witnessed the man walking erratically around and called police.
When officers arrived, the suspect refused to put down weapon despite multiple verbal command by police. Chief Sam Dotson says the man yelled at officers “shoot me now” several times. Witnesses also confirmed what the man said.
Dotson says the man continued to refuse the officer’s commands, approached within three to four feet of them with the knife in an attack posture.
Both officers opened fire on the suspect killing him. No officers were injured.
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Permalink • Rockin’ Red’s Mystery Rifle
Free caulk to the first one who can properly identify the rifle, with proof.
No forearm, a huge Henry style magazine slide (or is it a super short loading lever hinged waaay forward?), and what looks like a side loading port up on its own boss??
Or is this a stripped down gun, missing the right side plate?Is that a side ejection port? And it looks quite old.
Middle finger behind the trigger, or inside the lever’s trigger guard??
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Permalink • Ferguson Still
There is no other News but Ferguson, and MSNBC is it’s prophet.
Well, no, that’s not completely fair, but it’s fairly close. All the networks seem to be zeroed in on this story, to the exclusion of almost all else.
And now Governor Nixon has brought in the National Guard. And now, while the “10 days in August” continues, overnight violence has lead to the arrest of 31 ne’er-do-wells, and the story in the press starts to turn toward the police’s version of events as one, or perhaps more than a dozen witnesses corroborate the shooting officer’s view: the giant Brown rushed him, and would not stop. Naturally “the other side” now claims these are created witnesses, because their story didn’t hit the media first thing. Well, perhaps it did, but nobody was listening at the time.
“Josie” claimed when Wilson opened the door to get out of the police car, “Michael slammed his door shut.” Brown, according to “Josie,” then “bum rushes him, punches him in the face.” She said at one point Brown “got the gun totally turned against his hip,” and “Darren shoves it away and the gun goes off.”
“Josie” claimed Brown and Johnson started running away and, following protocol, Wilson pursued them while they were 35 feet ahead of him and yelled, “Freeze.” She said Brown then started taunting Wilson by saying,”Oh, what are you going to do about it? You’re not going to shoot me.”
“All of a sudden, he just started to bum rush him, he just started coming at him full speed,” the caller claimed, “And he just started shooting and he just started coming. He really thinks he was on something.”
The caller claimed that Wilson thought “it was unbelievable” and that his “final shot was in the forehead.” Brown then allegedly fell about two to three feet in front of Wilson. “Josie” said Brown was not shot in the back, contrary to initial reports. An eyewitness at the scene has also said that Brown “doubled back” to charge the officer before he was shot and killed.
ONE ... count him; one ... one media talking head may have realized that the media is a culprit here to a very large extent. And that “media” includes new and old, mainstream and backwater.
Former CNN anchor and Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz” host Howie Kurtz criticized some outlets for creating “almost a lynch mob mentality” in Ferguson, MO in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown.
“Some liberal outlets [are] creating almost a lynch mob mentality around this, the Huffington Post today, screaming banner headline ‘Arrest Him.’ Now, the Huffington Post, nor you or I, knows exactly what happened” he said. And “when you cross that line into becoming an advocate and to demanding that somebody be prosecuted before the facts are in, while the investigation is going on, you’re grandstanding, you’re trying to keep the story alive and I really think it’s troubling.”
Kurtz also criticized CNN for showing the house of accused officer Darren Wilson, stating, “It defies my understanding how you could put his life or the life of his family in danger by even briefly showing the house or naming the street.”
I have to agree with that last. Willful endangerment, whatever the proper legal term. CNN ought to be sued for $25-50 million for this. That’s nearly an explicit call to violence. Implicit, absolutely. And for that they should pay heavily.
PS - Please just go fuck yourselves; you’re not helping: Redskins Run Onto Field Before Game with Hands Up for Michael Brown
Meanwhile, Roger Simon beats out Obama by a country mile: he doesn’t blame Bush for Ferguson, he blames LBJ. But since Simon is Conservative, no one will listen.
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Permalink • Monday - August 18, 2014
And Another Slab Goes In
I got a gigantic 6 1/2 pound slab of fresh pork ribs on sale at the grocery store yesterday. A full rack, untrimmed. i peeled the membrane, trimmed the excess fat, mopped things down with cider vinegar, and rubbed in a major handful of my favorite dry rub. Overnighted it in the fridge, and then onto the grill this afternoon. I made up two smoker chip packs with hickory, which produced heavy smoke for about 45 minutes. That will have to be enough, as they have to be positioned under the grill right on top of the burner, and I’m not opening the lid for at least another hour. One hour down, two to go before they get sauced. The Weber is holding at a rock solid 240°F, so I’m guessing about 4 hours should have them super tender. I didn’t trim off the “over slab” of boneless meat. Not sure what it’s called, [ the flap and the sternum ] but an untrimmed slab of ribs comes with a bit of flap meat on the back, along the bones, which I did trim, and another large chunk above the ribs. I’ll check that at the 3 hour mark, and carve it off if it seems done.
OMG, I love slow cooked ribs. This batch ought to last me the rest of the week.
I should look into hooking up an external smoke box to this thing.
update: Sweeties! I used the rub I had from before ... the one that was too hot at first, so I cut it by a quarter with soft paprika, sugar, and salt. Wonderful flavor, but IMO could have used some more zing. Sweet rub plus sweet sauce = too sweet a result. Saved by the smoke! Towards the end I made up a smaller packet of smoke chips and worked them in. Overall the result was a modest hickory smoke flavor. Not the “run for your life, the barn is burning down around us” kind of flavor I was remembering, but something better suited to most other folks. So about an hour’s worth of smoke for a 4 1/2 hour cook. Temperature stayed between 225-275 the whole time, except when I ran it up to 400 for a couple of minutes at the very end to toast on the sauce.
Next time I want to try some apple wood chips. And Amazon has this cool smoker gizmo that fits right inside that you can load from the top. Looks factory; I have to figure out if it’s worth it.
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Permalink • Great poem. Good impression
Impressionist Jim Meskimen reads his beautiful original poem entitled “In Memory of Robin Williams” while doing an incredibly respectful impression of the late great comic.
Robin got his TV start on Happy Days, which was the show my mom, Marion Ross was on for 11 seasons. So I watched the rise and fall from close to the start. I was more than a little jealous. I met Robin two or three times and he was always charming and low key. Professionally, I have done the voice of his Genie character for a variety of Disney projects, so I have had a lot of exposure to his sound, and have a real appreciation for what he did with that marvelous character.As an impressionist myself, I have only admiration for his vocal ability and his acting. This poem comes from the heart.
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Permalink • i do not agree but … sad to say i actually understand
Not only do I understand .... I think I feel a bit of sympathy for the manager.
What’s he supposed to do? Would I have done this? I’d like to think I would not. But I am not walking in his shoes, and it seems he backed down even before the threat was made.
This is what our world has come to. It isn’t new of course. In both world wars, German owned shops and even the next generation were treated badly and many shops were vandalized. Seems to be human nature. Japanese were rounded up in America and Germans here in the UK. Not in the same numbers but it happened.
That said, this is something on a newer scale I think.
The fear not just of looters and the lawless taking advantage of the politics. But the fear of that other group we’re all accused of being so phobic about. As if the phobia isn’t very well earned if it’s there at all.
Sainsbury’s store strips shelves of kosher food as protestors gather outsideThe manager of the store ordered all kosher food to be removed from sale because they thought anti-Israel protestors might trash the shop
By Bill Gardner
A Sainsbury’s branch has caused outrage after staff emptied its shelves of all kosher food over fears that anti-Israel protesters might attack it.
The manager of the store in Holborn, London, ordered all kosher products to be removed while protestors gathered outside calling for a boycott of Israeli goods.
The incident happened on Saturday, the same day pro-Gaza activists attacked police and threw food around at a Tesco store in Birmingham.
Colin Appleby, an actor, took a photo of the empty shelf, prompting furious Twitter users to point out that many of the removed foods were from Poland and Britain.
Mr Appleby claimed a staff member defended the decision, saying: “We support Free Gaza.”
“I didn’t try to point out that kosher goods were not Israeli goods but they walked away,” he wrote on Facebook.
An official complaint was made to Sainsburys by Facebook user Gavin Pitman, who accused the supermarket chain of “targeting a group based on race”.
He wrote: “I presume you are aware that Kosher food is produced in countries other than Israel? You are therefore not making a political statement against Israel but instead are targeting a group based on race - ie Jews. As a Jew I find this deeply offensive.
“I presume you are also removing Halal food in protest against the Islamic state slaughtering Yazidis. Clearly not - therefore you have blurred the line between political statement and hate crime. “
A spokesman for Sainsbury’s said it was “an absolutely non-political organisation” and said the food was returned to the shelves “as soon as was practically possible”.
He said: “It was an isolated decision made by in a very challenging situation. It was chilled food and he was simply trying to preserve it.”
“It was the manager’s decision there and then – not company policy at all. A decision was taken by a store manager faced with a challenging situation outside the store.”
the same day pro-Gaza activists attacked police and threw food around at a Tesco store in Birmingham.
There’s that same cursed word again. “activists.” No they are not. They are scum on a lark or criminals looking for excuses and any one will do.
Shooting them all grave yard dead would be fully justified.
Protest is one thing, but vandalizing and destroying property is purely criminal and gives comfort only to the vermin and defends nobody.
And these activist creatures know full well their protest is meaningless and will change nothing. Except perhaps the inflation of their own self esteem.
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Permalink • “MO” Ferguson: a bit of steyn
Relative to Ferguson, Mark Steyn ruminates on modern policing in this “up armored” age
MRAPS, machine guns, body armor, but no dash cams.
Seriously? Sounds like a recipe for uncontrolled thuggery.
It’s starting to look like a certain PD has gone in the wrong direction. And it has plenty of company around the nation.
They ain’t the boss of us.
And they’d damn better remember that.
This nice map from the NY Times ties in nicely too. Shows who got all the mil-surp stuff.
Same story: Oh, this is just dandy: preliminary autopsy report shows Michael Brown [coroner’s drawing] was hit at least 6 times, but all the bullets came at him from the front. None hit him from behind. At least two of the shots are said to be multiple entry and exit wounds (eg bullet hits hand, comes out forearm, goes in somewhere else). Looks like the feds are going to do a confirmation autopsy as well. Thanks for the picture and those 2 bits of information. Most of the rest of the article is crap and supposition IMO.
PS - look at the autopsy picture, then look at your own right arm. Now try and figure out what kind of body position you have to be in, “with your hands over your head” or perhaps “running away”, to take 4 bullets to the inside of your arm. I’m coming up with a blank myself, although palms forward elbows out, hands extended forward about a foot and a half while in front of or just above the head might work.
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Permalink • Some Perspective
| Location | Area, Sq Mi | Population |
|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8,722 | 8,899,339 |
| Delaware | 1,982 | 917,092 |
| Harney County, Oregon | 10,228 | 7,375 |
| Malheur County, Oregon | 9,926 | 31,445 |
Beats me what this means. I was just amazed to find a state that had two counties, each nearly as big as NJ and DE combined, and then to find that one had a population of a medium town and the other had that of a small town.
Wiki tells me that Harney County is mostly forests, and that Malheur is range land. I’m not sure I could handle the emptiness of either place, not for the long term.
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Permalink • Friday - August 15, 2014
Now WTF
Robbery ‘not related’ to why Michael Brown was initially stopped by Ferguson police
What? What????
The unarmed black teen whose fatal shooting by police in a St. Louis suburb sparked violent protests was a suspect in a robbery moments before, but the deadly encounter was not sparked by the robbery, the city’s police chief said Friday.
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson earlier Friday released documents alleging 18-year-old Michael Brown had been suspected of stealing a $48.99 box of cigars from a convenience store in a “strong-arm” robbery shortly before he was killed.
Jackson said at an afternoon press conference that Brown and his friend were stopped Saturday “because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic.”
The robbery “was not related to the initial contact” between the officer and Brown, he said.
Which is the exact opposite of what they said this morning.
Dorian Johnson, the friend who was with Brown when he was shot and killed by a police officer over the weekend, reportedly confirmed that he and Brown had taken part in the theft of cigars from a convenience store that day. But police have determined that Johnson was not involved in the robbery and will not seek charges against him, Jackson said.
So the guy is confessing, and he’s probably on the security video, but they won’t bother to charge him as an accessory to shoplifting. What’s that, a $20 fine? No, it’s not worth it, not in this situation.
Police reports released Friday under an open-records request showed that at 11:51 a.m. on the day of the shooting, authorities received a 911 call reporting a robbery at the Ferguson Market. An unidentified officer was dispatched to the store, arriving within three minutes. The officer interviewed an employee and customer, who gave a description of a man who stole the cigars and walked off with another man toward a QuikTrip store.
Descriptions of the suspect were broadcast over the police radio. The officer did not find the suspects either on the street or at the Quik Trip, the reports said.
Separately, Wilson had been responding to a nearby call involving a sick 2-month child from 11:48 am until noon, when he left that place. A minute later, he encountered Michael Brown walking down Canfield Drive. The documents contained no description of what happened between Brown and Wilson.
OK, maybe the BOLO from the robbery had nothing to do with the later shooting. But still. There’s something wrong here. Something missing. Some large thing we aren’t hearing about. Something 100 times bigger than just walking in the middle of road. But this changing story from the po-po sure isn’t helping anyone. Anyone. It hurts everyone.
How fast can they get a toxicology screening back on all three of the people involved? Brown, Wilson, and Johnson. Was anyone high on PCP or meth? Got some ‘roid rage going on? There has to be some explanation.
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Permalink • But, But Obama Said
The U.S. military conducted new airstrikes against Islamic militants Friday as sources tell Fox News members of the group killed 90 male members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority in a northern village and kidnapped “dozens” of women and children.
The Kurdish-speaking ethnic and religious group, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands in Iraq, has been persecuted in the north by Islamic State militants, with at least 500 killed prior to Friday’s news, according to Iraq’s human rights minister.
The U.S. military said in a statement Friday that after receiving reports of civilians being attacked, U.S. forces conducted airstrikes on Islamic State vehicles in the village of Kawju. The village is located south of the village of Sinjar.
“[Militants] arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon,’’ senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. “We believe it’s because of their creed: convert or be killed.”
The latest killings came just a day after President Obama said U.S. air strikes and humanitarian aid drops on Sinjar mountain, where thousands of Yazidi have been stranded in an Islamic State siege had been ended.
A Yazidi lawmaker and another senior Kurdish official also said the killings had taken place and that the women of the village were kidnapped.
Iraqi and Yazidi leaders say the brutal Islamic State fighters have buried Yazidi men alive, killed children and kidnapped women to be slaves.
“We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar,” Sudani told Reuters Sunday.
Man, these ISIS guys making my pResident look all naive and stuff.
I’m pissed! Which kind of makes me do a mental Obama/Austin Powers mental mash-up ...
“ISIS Elimination Commencing”
...
“ISIS Elimination Comple”
“ISIS Elimination Com”
“ISIS Elimina”
“ISIS Elimi”
“ISIS Elimination Com”
“ISIS Elimination Comple”
“ISIS Elimina”
“ISIS”
“I”
“IS”
“ISIS Elimination Complet”
“ISIS”
Maybe somebody ought to give the Yazidis ... oh, I don’t know ... some frikkin ammo maybe?? Couple of grenades, a bottle of water, a handful of bullets. Whatever’s handy, right? Or shuttle a few tens of thousands of Iraqi Army guys up there? They do have army guys don’t they? Or are they still running the other way?
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Permalink • Because I Can’t Be There
Flying together in this weekend’s 4 day Eastbourne International Airshow, east of Brighton. In England.
The famous Victorian era Eastbourne pier is visible in one shot; the pier just suffered a major fire the other week.
I have no idea where the planes are flying out of. Lydd Airport perhaps? Somewhere close by with a moderate size runway and not a lot of other traffic.
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Permalink • Um, Never Mind. Maybe?
Police today named Darren Wilson as the officer who fatally shot Michael Brown and released video stills and an incident report on a robbery shortly before the shooting that named the teenager as the ‘prime suspect’.
In a shocking twist to the killing which sparked riots in St Louis over the last few days, the officer investigating the convenience store robbery also attended the scene of the shooting and said the suspect and Brown were the same person.
According to the police report, video shows Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson having an altercation with store staff and allegedly stealing box of Swisher Sweets, a type of cigar.
In the grainy images, a large black man wearing a light-colored shirt, distinctive shoes, a red baseball hat and khaki shorts is seen assaulting a clerk and then stealing cigars.
A photograph of Michael Brown’s body in the street after he was shot dead shows that he was wearing a light grey shirt, the same shoes and khaki cargo shorts. There was also a red baseball cap by the body.
This is NOT a case of mistaken identity; the convenience store crime report names Brown as the suspect, and the officer who shot him had also responded to the store robbery.
6’4” 292lb ... he was just a little kid.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2725917/Ferguson-police-Officer-Darren-Wilson-cop-shot-dead-unarmed-teenager-Michael-Brown.html
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/15/ferguson-police-say-michael-brown-fit-description-strong-arm-robbery-suspect/
The unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer in a St. Louis suburb, fit the description of a suspect in a strong-arm robbery that happened minutes earlier, a suburban St. Louis police chief said at a Friday press conference at which the officer was publicly identified for the first time.
Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Thomas Jackson said that the robbery took place just before noon on Saturday at a nearby convenience store roughly 10 minutes before a police officer identified as Darren Wilson fired the bullet that killed Michael Brown. Police say that the shot was fired after a struggled touched off by Wilson’s confronting Brown. Jackson said Wilson is a six-year veteran with no disciplinary action on his record.
The news conference came after nearly a week of sometimes-violent protests and calls by many, including President Obama, for local law enforcement to be more transparent about the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Police previously said they withheld Wilson’s identity because of the potential for threats on the officer and his family. The officer has been on administrative leave since the shooting.
Police released still images and were planning to release video from the robbery, at a QuikTrip store in Ferguson. Jackson said Wilson, along with other officers, were called to the area after a 911 call reporting a “strong-arm robbery” at a nearby convenience store.
Naturally, there are those whose immediate reaction was that this was some kind of CYA lie put out by the police.
“I am incensed,” Laura Keys, 50, told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I can’t believe this is the tactic they are using, bringing up a robbery to make the victim look like he was the person who created this whole mess.”
Police have said Brown was shot after an officer encountered him and another man on the street. They say one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car, then physically assaulted him in the vehicle and struggled with the officer over the officer’s weapon. At least one shot was fired inside the car before the struggle spilled onto the street, where Brown was shot multiple times, according to police.
But a much different story has been told by Dorian Johnson, who says he was walking down the street with Brown when he was shot. He has said the officer ordered them out of the street, then grabbed his friend’s neck and tried to pull him into the car before brandishing his weapon and firing. He says Brown started to run and the officer pursued him, firing multiple times.
So, is Dorian Johnson under arrest for helping steal those $49 worth of lousy cigars? I have no idea. Tried to pull this gigantic guy into the cop car? With one hand holding his gun? Sounds like bullshit to me. Tase him, cuff him, call for backup with a come-along.
But I still like my idea of multi-angle digital video cameras both in (and inside) police cars, and mounted right on the officer’s uniform. These days they aren’t even as big as a button, and a datastream like this would have cleared this situation up in a minute.
Without a doubt, fingerprints from the store or on those cigars will place Brown and Johnson at the scene. And some people will still say that was planted evidence too.
The report then reads: ‘That is when Brown reached across the counter and grabbed numerous packs of Swisher Sweets and turned to leave the store.’
The attendant then calls 911 as someone else comes out from ‘behind the counter and attempts to stop Brown from leaving’. Someone tried to stop Brown from leaving and locked the door until ‘Brown returned the merchandise to him’.
‘That is when Brown grabbed X by the shirt and forcefully pushed him back into the display rack’.
X backed away and Brown and Johnson exited the store with the cigars’, said the report
The officer writing the robbery report said he attended the scene of Brown’s shooting and that after reviewing the surveillance footage ‘I was able to confirm that Brown is the primary suspect in this incident.
‘A second person, also at that scene, identified himself as being with Brown. That person was later identified as Dorian Johnson. After observing Johnson and reviewing the video, I confirmed he is the second suspect in this incident.’
Dorian Johnson has made multiple TV appearances since the fatal shooting of his friend. At no time did he make reference to being a suspect in a store robbery.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for a single apology, an “oops, we all over reacted” or the return of a single item of looted merchandise. Faux mob outrage and mob violence are the MO of the day.
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Permalink • Betting The Future On A FLiNG
Shell Petroleum is building the largest ship the world has ever known. It’s the first of it’s kind, one of many to come, so naturally they named it the Prelude. The ship is so large that you could fit our biggest aircraft carrier inside the thing with ease. It’s so large that the construction of even little pieces of it make international news. It is so large that it’s existence will change the military strategies of nations in the area. Yet it’s massive engines will likely be used only twice. Once to sail the ship out to sea, and then 25 years later, to sail her back. Welcome to the future ... and talk about “offshoring” your assets!
The largest piece of the turret for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility has set sail from Dubai for the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, where the facility is under construction, informs Shell.
The turret is part of a mooring system designed to ensure Prelude FLNG can operate safely in the most extreme weather conditions. At almost 100 metres high, it is the largest in the world.
The turret will run through the front of the facility and connect to giant chains that will keep it moored securely over the Prelude gas field. The turret mooring system will allow the facility to turn slowly in the wind and with currents – ensuring it can remain safely at its location through the most powerful cyclones.
“Prelude FLNG combines our many years of experience in shipping and in managing complex LNG and offshore projects. It’s great to see our innovative designs and technologies become a reality as we reach significant project milestones like this,” Matthias Bichsel, Projects & Technology Director at Shell said.
“Designed in Monaco, built in Dubai, shipped to South Korea and for use off Australia, the turret is an example of the truly global nature of this project.”
100 meters tall. And really, it’s basically just a hose swivel.
This is going to be one damn big ship. No. It is going to be the biggest thing afloat ever built by the hand of man. By far. A 600,000 ton ship. 600,000 tons!!! 1601 feet long; nearly half a kilometer; 88 meters longer than the biggest container ship. 243 feet wide; 74 meters; 3 meters wider than the wingspan of a 747. That’s a whole lot of boat!
Horry Clap!
FLNG (or FLiNG) means Floating Liquified Natural Gas. The ship is going to be a factory. It will be positioned right over the undersea gas fields, take in what the wells produce, and process that to make what we call natural gas. That gas will then be offloaded onto LNG ships and sent around the world. Prelude is expected to produce 3.6 million metric tons of LNG per year. Which means Shell is going to make billions.
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Permalink • one of the classes of 2014 … you’re the top, you’re the top banannas ….. apology cole porter
A break from my usual. Youngsters countrywide getting their test results, with many off to university.
To be honest ... it’s been so long since I was in skool ..... I very much doubt I could pass any test of my day, if taken today.
It also occurs to me that even with some criticism I have heard from some older folks about dumbing down, some of the subjects these kids are taking today and the tests many have passed with flying colors, would have me floored. I suspect it might floor some of the older fogies too.
So here’s some non famous (yet) good looking and quite bright youngsters, starting out on life’s adventure. And much good fortune and health to them all.
Pretty and pretty darn smart.
Straight A’s and A plus.
HANA BARZINJI (medicine) age 18
subjects derided as ‘Mickey Mouse’ courses fell out of favour.
Their school seems to have a fair number of twins ....
Triplets here are ..
Alexandra, George and Zoe Ellaby (age 18)
Twins, Jenny and Carrie Soderman, age 18
lots more at the link
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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