So what about the next Contest? Do you need someone to fill in for you?

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So what about the next Contest? Do you need someone to fill in for you?

That will have to be the case, Uli....I'm back at work this coming night. I will be working on the next seven nights so it would be impractical for me to run another competition just yet. I have written to Celt explaining the situation so just waiting for his reply and decision as to who he passes the next competition onto. It's a shame really for I would have liked to have run this next one...."But I'm a-toughy....cos' I eat MARMITE"...OK-OK so It doesn't make you "tough" but it does keep the mozzies away though.

winning before work.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Buzz, buzz, buzz...

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So what about the next Contest? Do you need someone to fill in for you?

That will have to be the case, Uli....I'm back at work this coming night. I will be working on the next seven nights so it would be impractical for me to run another competition just yet. I have written to Celt explaining the situation so just waiting for his reply and decision as to who he passes the next competition onto. It's a shame really for I would have liked to have run this next one...."But I'm a-toughy....cos' I eat MARMITE"...OK-OK so It doesn't make you "tough" but it does keep the mozzies away though.

Thank you Michael
Evenso it was tongue in cheek, best not have a winner go AWOL.

You all know by now know I hate abreveations. Just can't for the life of me remember AWOL.
Something to do with the Military.

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You all know by now know I hate abreveations. Just can't for the life of me remember AWOL.
Something to do with the Military.

There you go, ULI A.W.O.L...Anyway, I fully understand but was just waiting on Celt's decision after notifying him that I would not be able to find the time to run this next competition....this time around.

Thank you Michael, for the life of me, I could not think what the O stood for.

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Thank you Michael, for the life of me, I could not think what the O stood for.

Winning...for I solved a puzzle for Uli....

Now I'm off to bed....up in the afternoon then judge
Beets caption competition and then go to work.

Got you now.

Absense with out LOVE.

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Vernal falls, 315' odd feet, Sadly some got too close, Just for some lousy pics.

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I read about that Vic. Did they find them?

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I read about that Vic. Did they find them?

No, Not yet, I think they should start near Hetch Hetchy reservoir(John Muir called Hetch Hetchy the Little Yosemite, It's now San Frans water) and work their way up the Merced river, But I'm not in charge, they did name the 3 persons who went over, but I don't recall their names, all for some stupid pics, water there is fast, very cold and prone to make slippery surfaces, algae and all, It might have been ok if they'd been roped to something heavy on shore, but not going beyond the fenced/gated off area which is what they did. sigh. Oops, It's 317' not 315', not that 2' really matters at this point, My bad... Oh and the rock around there is mostly solid hard granite, not the crumbly stuff down south. Fantastic scenery though.

Yosemite: 3 presumed dead, swept over Vernal Fall

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Winning at work.

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uli, if you ever tried something called 'VitamR' (available from the german Reformhaus) that's very similar to Marmite.

Winning with a very light drizzle.

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The stuff I had to eat everyday by the spoonfull?

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A good morning win!

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The stuff I had to eat everyday by the spoonfull?

No, not Lebertran :D

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Carola
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Winning at lunch break.

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Talking of winning .................

I wonder what marnite on cooked black pudding and haggis would taste like.

At least the marmite would tame and suffocate the black pudding as it is eaten.

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NASA'S Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet.

The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km).

"I find it remarkable that Hubble's cameras enabled us to see such a tiny object so clearly from a distance of more than 3 billion miles (5 billion km)," said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble.

The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter.

"This is a fantastic discovery," said New Horizons’ principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby."

The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto.

The dwarf planet’s entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto.

Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far.

"This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries," said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked because it was obscured.

Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. in Washington.