KY_EnviroGuy
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Name: Pet Rock
Gender: Male
Hometown: TN, KY
Home country: USA
Current location: KY
Member since: Thu Jul 6, 2017, 07:43 PM
Number of posts: 12,826
Gender: Male
Hometown: TN, KY
Home country: USA
Current location: KY
Member since: Thu Jul 6, 2017, 07:43 PM
Number of posts: 12,826
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Officials: Gun in supermarket shooting bought 6 days earlier
Officials: Gun in supermarket shooting bought 6 days earlier
By PATTY NIEBERG, THOMAS PEIPERT and COLLEEN SLEVIN AP News Link: https://apnews.com/article/colorado-supermarket-shooting-10-dead-3da92f0d3db65afdb373cc6bb534a711 (snips) BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect who opened fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket, and court documents showed that he purchased an assault rifle less than a week before the attack that killed 10 people, including a police officer.
Supermarket employees told investigators that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shot an elderly man multiple times Monday outside the Boulder grocery store before going inside, according to the documents. Another person was found shot in a vehicle next to a car registered to suspect’s brother. The shooting came 10 days after a judge blocked a ban on assault rifles passed by the city of Boulder in 2018. That ordinance and another banning large-capacity magazines came after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.
A lawsuit challenging the bans was filed quickly, backed by the National Rifle Association. The judge struck down the ordinance under a Colorado law that blocks cities from making their own rules about guns. A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting said the suspect’s family told investigators they believed Alissa was suffering some type of mental illness, including delusions. Relatives described times when Alissa told them people were following or chasing him, which they said may have contributed to the violence, the official said.
One caller said the suspect opened fire out the window of his vehicle. He continued firing in the parking lot and then entered the store, as if in a state of insane rage. KY........ 
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Tue Mar 23, 2021, 03:43 PM (16 replies)
Caesar's Legendary Salad and Restaurant
Caesar's Legendary Salad and Restaurant •May 4, 2020 F S Caesar's Hotel and Restaurant are located on Avenida de Revolución in Tijuana, Mexico. It is a high-end 5-star restaurant where Caesar's salad was invented. Have Beef Wellington and a tableside prepared original salad.
Truly a culinary memorable experience. So cool watching the server prepare this salad using the original technique. Shown on their menu, it's $135 prepared at your table. KY........ 
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Mon Mar 22, 2021, 07:40 PM (9 replies)
60 Minutes/AU goes for a walk in the Scottish Highlands with Mabel, Olive and Andrew.
Relax with this great 4-min. video by 60 Minutes Australia. Love where Andrew says one of their best fan letters said the puppers makes an elderly woman with dementia smile each time she sees their YouTube series.
A walk through the Scottish Highlands with Mabel, Olive and Andrew Cotter 60 Minutes Australia •Nov 2, 2020 Olive and Mabel are the best friends of Andrew Cotter, a famous Scottish sports commentator. He was forced off air when the pandemic hit but refused to take unemployment lying down. Andrew saw magic in the mundane lives of his mutts and in doing so turned them into worldwide internet sensations, with his videos reaching millions of people and making them all smile.
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Mon Mar 22, 2021, 09:56 AM (6 replies)
BBC: Hillary Clinton to publish State of Terror novel
Hillary Clinton to publish State of Terror novel
BBC World News Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56174654 Snips.... Hillary Clinton has written her first novel, a thriller featuring a US government "dangerously out of touch" amid a series of terror attacks.
State of Terror, which follows a novice secretary of state, will be released on 12 October 2021. Mrs Clinton, a former presidential hopeful, secretary of state and first lady, penned the book in partnership with author Louise Penny. It explores a world of "high stakes diplomacy and treachery" she said. +++ Canadian crime author Penny, known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, said it was "an incredible experience to get inside the State Department, inside the White House, inside the mind of the secretary of state as high stake crises explode". 
Credit: Joe McNally and Jean Francois-Berube Anyone else feel those two could pass for sisters? This book should make for an interesting read and I wish Sec. Clinton well with its promotion. KY..........
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Wed Feb 24, 2021, 12:58 AM (2 replies)
UPDATE Fan Blade Failure B777-200 Denver UAL 328
Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Mon Feb 22, 2021, 11:50 PM (2 replies)
Discussion on today's Boeing 777 airline incident by a 777 pilot.
Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Sun Feb 21, 2021, 12:16 AM (11 replies)
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover live coverage schedule and crash course video..
See: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
NASA Live NASA's web page for this mission: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ and this: https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance JPL's web page for this mission: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance-rover Good overview video on this mission: Mars Rover Landing CRASH COURSE- 1 DAY LEFT! •Feb 14, 2021 
Best of luck, JPL and NASA....... 
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Wed Feb 17, 2021, 10:13 PM (3 replies)
Reminder: Avoid frozen and burst water pipes and huge plumbing bills.
Just a reminder for everyone to consider letting one of your faucets drip during this long cold snap. In Kentucky, we're predicted to have below freezing weather all through this week, with the worst on Tuesday night. Especially if you have pipes under your house, it's best to use the faucet furthest from where your water service enters your home.
For many years, I place a bucket under our bathtub faucet and adjust the cold tap for a very slow drip (double-checking it periodically) and it does the trick. The purpose of the bucket is so I can see the drip rate easily. Our water likes to freeze out in the meter pit first so I also started placing a garbage can lid over the meter cover with a brick on it to insure it doesn't blow away. It takes time for the ground to freeze to buried pipe depth but the process is sped up by wind and lower temperatures. Don't forget to run your cars a bit more often in this cold, as extreme temperatures are hard on weak batteries. Always watch your car's temperature as is heats up so you can shut it off quickly in case there's an ice plug in the cooling system. This is the voice of one who learned all these things the hard way, LOL........
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Sat Feb 13, 2021, 07:32 PM (18 replies)
BBC: How will 'chipageddon' affect you?
How will 'chipageddon' affect you?
BBC World News By Leo Kelion, Technology desk editor Read here: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55936011 (snips) There was a hint of the problem last year when gamers struggled to buy new graphics cards, Apple had to stagger the release of its iPhones, and the latest Xbox and PlayStation consoles came nowhere close to meeting demand.
Then, just before Christmas, it emerged the resurgent car industry was facing what one insider called "chipageddon". New cars often include more than 100 microprocessors - and manufacturers were quite simply unable to source them all. Since then, one technology company after another has warned they too face constraints. +++ The consultancy AlixPartners has forecast the automotive industry will lose $64bn (£47bn) of sales because it has had to close or reduce output. +++ That has raised concern in the States, where one lobby group called the current crisis the "canary in the coal mine" for future supply-line shortages. And a group of 15 senators has written to President Biden urging him to take action to "incentivise the domestic production of semiconductors in the future". Thirty or forty years ago, who would have dreamed American auto production could be restrained over shortages of tiny semiconductor chips made in foreign lands? I'm currently researching the build of a new computer for my granddaughter with a good graphics card for video editing and will likely feel the sting of this issue. Those devices, solid-state drives and memory modules are very pricey right now. Just another inflationary effect of COVID-19 that will not disappear anytime soon. KY.......... 
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Fri Feb 5, 2021, 04:38 AM (7 replies)
Next up will be lawn moles rising up to chew holes in our car tires.
My amateur theory is that Russia has a super computer that generates insane random theories from a database of stuff from old editions of Mad magazine, Popular Science and The Inquirer.
Seriously, I do believe Russia plants the seeds for the majority of this crap and people like Alex Jones eat it up like candy. Those seeds sprout in right-wing blogs and social media and spread globally in just a few days. And here I am in covid isolation watching videos on science, music and "how stuff works"...... 
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Posted by KY_EnviroGuy | Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:04 AM (1 replies)
