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My first instinct would be to say the building was there before the boundary line. Why would they build across it? Hmmm... Well, I'm perplexed, then. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14690 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Wikipedia says: The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was a gift from Mrs. Martha Stewart Haskell and her son Col. Horace "Stewart" Haskell. ... The Haskells wanted Canadians and Americans to have equal access to the Library and Opera House and so they chose to build on the border. Construction began in 1901 and the Opera House opened in 1904 and the Library in 1905. |
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Wikipedia says: Wonder about the building codes ... |
anniet ![]() Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 ![]() ![]() |
Trevor who some of you might remember for having made a charming appearance in Tinks's pigeon thread, is, like Tinks is, rather a bit of a lot, no more either sadly :( |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3490 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Who wants to be the first to try this? The New Cheetos Chicken Slop From KFC KFC lovingly describes in a press release: “Made by coating a juicy, hand-breaded Extra Crispy chicken filet with special Cheetos sauce and placing it on a toasted bun with mayo and a layer of crunchy Cheetos, the Cheetos Sandwich will give you a blast of craveable Cheetos in every bite.†In this manner, KFC doubles up on the Cheetos-ness, providing a Cheetos sauce (the mind reels) as well as actual Cheetos in the sandwich. |
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KFC is desperate. That sounds like a sad attempt. ![]() |
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Last evening, I began a 12 week seminar at a place in downtown Louisville called the Neighborhood Institute. https://www.centerforneighborhoods.org/who-we-are It is a community engagement program aimed at helping people like me who love their city. We talk about neighborhood issues and how to resolve problems and make Louisville a better place. Anyway, last night we were asked to introduce ourselves, and as part of that, tell one thing that others should ask you about. I chose SETI, and out of the 30 very intelligent and diverse people in the room, only one had heard of it. Not too surprising really, but made for some interesting conversation. ![]() |
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Today's performance of Hamilton was cancelled in Chicago due to the Polar Blast. Once again, Brrr kills Hamilton. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13959 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
I should say also that there's another part of my order which is a couple sticks of deodorant, and they are apparently coming Wednesday. I wonder why they didn't wait and package both orders together? Deodorants can come under dangerous goods carriage limitations. Being in a stick form would probably make them OK, but it could be a case of a general requirement for deodorants of all types to be treaded as a dangerous good- regardless of their type. Grant Darwin NT |
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Seti@Home has 1.76 million active usersActually that's the number of registered users and there are only 94,240 active users, https://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail. Cheers. |
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Good point. I hadn't looked at it that way. ![]() |
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Another good point! I guess statistics wins. ;~) ![]() |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24930 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Therefore it is not surprising that most people haven't heard of Seti@Home, and also why any opinions |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13959 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
Townsville is certainly doing it tough at the moment. Townsville's flood emergency has been declared a catastrophe by the Insurance Council as rain continues to fall across north Queensland, however the water level in city's dam has stabilised. If the present conditions continue, or worsen, up to 20,000 additional homes will be at risk of flooding. The local water supply/ flood mitigation dam has reached over 212% of capacity, it's capable of holding 340% but since the dam doesn't have an auxiliary spillway the level of storage is being controlled so that it can meet the possible worst case forecasts for inflows. Aplins weir with water going over it in usual conditions. ![]() Aplins weir over the last week or so (you can see the debris where the water has been flowing over the foot bridge. ![]() Gives you an idea of the height of the foot bridge. ![]() Ross River dam. A drone picture taken of the Ross River Dam at 6pm, January 31 when it was at 154 per cent capacity. Picture: Brooks Steff Grant Darwin NT |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13959 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
And then there's Tassie. Fire crews in Tasmania are facing dangerous conditions today, with concerns a number of blazes burning in the state could be driven towards communities by strong winds. Tasmanian lives and properties under bushfire threat 'for foreseeable future'. Grant Darwin NT |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3490 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13959 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
If the present conditions continue, or worsen, up to 20,000 additional homes will be at risk of flooding. Looks like things have gone from bad to worse, and the worst is looking more likely. Townsville residents in more than 20 suburbs have been told to get to higher ground before 8:30pm AEST tonight. The dam has been releasing water at around 1,000 cubic metres of water per second. Doubling the flow will more than double the flooding... Edit- and multiple emergency warnings for the fires in Tasmania. Edit- and 4 emergency fire warnings in Victoria. Grant Darwin NT |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13959 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
Looks like things have gone from bad to worse, and the worst is looking more likely. Dam gates have been fully opened, 21 suburbs are expected to be affected by flooding, from as little as 30cm to over 3m. Image of affected suburbs (too large for thread). Grant Darwin NT |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19716 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
This could make a mess of you and your kitchen if this came in your bag of spuds. ![]() World War One grenade among potatoes |
moomin ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Oh dear. And it looks like a pomegranate... |
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