A coupla dopes fed carpi into a computer route planner.
Carpi is in Emilia-Romagna, Don Camillo country.
When the couple arrived at Carpi, they asked for directions
to the Blue Grotto!
Hey, 400 miles south down the road, turn right, don’t forget the wellies.
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Some white powder fell out of the pocket of an arrestee.
He dived down on the floor and started licking it up. (It
was crystal meth.) He’s been charged with tampering
with evidence!
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Now this one is welcome.
One UK insurance scammer is now putting on the bottom of their
ads, “Inflation will erode the value of this
offer”.
Is this a new ‘law’?
Have ‘New’ Labour actually done sommat right
in order to offset their awful ‘education’ cartel?
Of course, most people won’t notice the note, and
if they do, they probably won’t understand it.
“To create the model, the research team designed
a virtual, three-dimensional domain that simulates an
area on the Sun measuring about 31,000 miles by 62,000
miles and about 3,700 miles in depth - an expanse as
long as eight times Earth's diameter and as deep as
Earth's radius.[...] they solved the equations on NCAR's
new bluefire supercomputer, an IBM machine that can
perform 76 trillion calculations per second.
—
“.... The researchers noted, however, that even
their new model does not accurately capture the lengths
of the filaments in parts of the penumbra. They can
refine the model by placing the grid points even closer
together, but that would require more computing power
than is currently available.”
“We're sorry, but many pages on the NCAR and UCAR
websites are temporarily unavailable due to technical
difficulties. We hope to restore service soon. Please
check back later if you experience problems loading a
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The Gallic practice of social kissing is difficult to
perform correctly, even for the French.
The results of an Internet survey
made by Gilles Debunne in 2009. Detailed results.
The survey results in 2020
Here is a map, based on an internet survey on how many
kisses are given in different parts of the country. But
the number of kisses to give is only one of several factors
in the process of attempting this common part of French
greetings.
According to the following, partially tongue-in-cheek,
animated cartoon , there are four components to a social
kiss [une bise sociale]. The cartoon is in French,
made by Arte (the arts channel shared between France and
Germany).
on kissing in France 6:32 minutes
When: at leisure activities, sometimes
in the morning at work, above all amongst friends.
Who: this depends on your relationship
with the other person - familial, position in professional
hierarchy, friend, age, social position. For instance,
you do not kiss your boss (unless he/she proposes it
first).
How: social kissing is generally
air-kissing, especially when the participants are strangers
(skin kissing could be misinterpreted as a intimate
approach). Possibly more difficult to judge is which
side first!
How many times: This is possibly
easier to judge, it mostly depends on where you are
in France (see the map
above).
“How, then, to deal with the kissing conundrum?
There's no point looking to the continent, where social
kissing, despite its prevalence in France, Belgium,
Italy, Spain, Greece and even staid old Switzerland,
is subject to absurdly complex laws. In Belgium, for
example, the rule is one kiss, unless there is an age
gap of at least 10 years, in which case it's three.
In Spain it's generally two, starting with the right;
and in Germany it's none, except between consenting
family members and very close friends (and no one can
tell what exactly constitutes "close".)
“France is the really tricky one: depending on
who you are, who you're kissing and where you both happen
to be, anything between one and four kisses is de rigueur.
Class-wise, the French upper class plump for two pecks;
anything more is vulgar. Women will embrace both men
and women they have never met before; men will likewise
kiss women, perhaps after asking first ("On se
fait la bise?"). French men only kiss other men,
on the other hand, if they know them very well. Then
there are the regional variations.” [Quoted from
guardian.co.uk]
There is a long and detail analysis of kissing in France
in La
Depeche. Here is a translated extract:
“WHO AND HOW TO KISS
“We kiss? Okay, but how? "In France, doing
a social kiss amounts to rubbing cheeks, or touching
the cheek of the other with the lips. Noisy or ostentatious
kissing is rare, "says Dominique Picard. It is
often the preserve of old aunties, champion of endless
smooches.
“It has nothing to do with a connotation of intimacy,
whether being more or less in love, or of strong affection.
“Indeed, in Latin, there are three words for
kiss, the osculum for a friendship kiss on
the cheeks, basium for an affectionate kiss
on the lips and suavium for a kiss of love
and passion.
“Rather than the cheek, some prefer kissing on
the hand. Jacques Chirac was a fan of hand-kissing.
Beware, the lips of the man must not touch the skin
of the lady. Other faux pas (indiscretion)
to avoid is kissing a gloved hand.
“Who kiss who? "As with all rules of politeness,
the person who is in a superior position has the initiative
over the type of relationship that should be had. It's
your boss who say: ''I propose that we use tu
and toi [se tutoier - using the intimate
form of you, rather than using vous], that
we are called by our first names, that we kiss".
“And if you are kissed on the mouth, don't be
offended. It's because the person is Russian. Or else
in love.”
“Workers lifted my car, painted yellow lines
under it and put it down... then the wardens came and
towed it away”
—
“It took a further two months and the involvement
of her local MP Kate Hoey to make the council back down
and waive the fines, which by now totalled £2,240.”
This one is bits of the 1918 flu, in several types of view.
You can drag the model to change the position of the 3-D views
at the website. The site has tens of thousands more protein
models.
jmol
view, a type of ribbon view.
Image: RSCB Protein DataBank
