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The world altitude record for a helicopter led immediately to the the record for unpowered descent of a helicopter…
The Lama was designed specifically for high-altitude performance and during demonstration flights in the Himalayas during 1969, an SA315B carrying a crew of two and 120 kg of fuel landed and took off at the highest altitude then recorded, 7,500 m (24,605 ft). On 21 June 1972 a Lama with a single pilot (Jean Boulet)
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When the Publishers Association mention “illegal content” – here’s an example. HT @PublishersAssoc @OpenRightsGroup
If you go to this page at the University of Pennsylvania, you’ll read the following text: A Celebration of Woman Writers Married Love, or Love in Marriage By Marie Carmichael Stopes, Sc.D., Ph. D. (1880-1958) New York: The Critic And Guide Company, 1918. In the Unites States of America, [sic] the 1918 edition of “Married
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-18
: #Geek #Friday #Bored Check out @schuetzdj & his worked solutions of #Security Conference Badge Contests http://t.co/Qpap7fXp # @nyyrajvggranhre @gigaom @adrianco Cruel, but no argument from me re: some of them… # @tomaszmiklas Thanks for that, I'd entirely missed the ticket registration for #BSidesLondon # @tomaszmiklas done. # Yes! Yes! Precisely! One for @ericjoyce and
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Chase Williams Apple Gin: does make an epic, though simple, clean and strong, G&T – HT @WilliamsGin
As reviewed here. If you want massive herbage in your G&T, stick to Hendricks or Sapphire which are also good, just different.
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Accidental recipe: Fake Spicy Stir-fry Vegetables
2x handfuls mushrooms, coarsely sliced 3x medium carrots, roll-cut 1x medium onion, crescents about 8 cloves pickled garlic, sliced (less if fresh) fry in wok with a little oil; while frying, add 1/2 stem lemongrass, bashed flat and minced fine 2 tbsp spicy hot mango chutney (used: wilkin/tiptree) pepper pinch salt cook through until a
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Just found this referrer from #BlueCoat in my logfiles; does this mean they have blocked me? #security #censorship
Quote: http://notify.bluecoat.com/notify-Grey-List?http/dropsafe_crypticide_com/ aHR0cDovL2Ryb3BzYWZlLmNyeXB0aWNpZGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNDYzMw=%3D It does not appear to load anything – it gives me an IIS 404; but note the infix string: Grey* List? That’s a mail-spam term as far as I am concerned… Hmmm… The Base64 encoded string decodes to the following URL on my site: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4633 …which is about Kindle batteries, so I
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Two Parliamentary Reports: Future of Investigative Journalism / Roots of violent radicalisation; #censorship #regulation
Home Affairs Committee – Nineteenth Report Roots of violent radicalisation The Internet 1, The Internet 2 57. Given the impossibility of comprehensively controlling the internet, it is necessary to employ other methods to tackle the issue. Alyas Karmani argued: If you are thinking about banning the internet, you have just got to provide a counter-narrative.
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Theological reading: #JewishEncyclopedia: the unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia: JESUS OF NAZARETH
O wad some Power the gift tae gie us to see oursels as ithers see us: http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8616-jesus-of-nazareth […] In the New Testament there are four “Gospels” professing to deal with the life of Jesus independently; but it is now almost universally agreed that the first three of these, known by the names of “Matthew,” “Mark,”
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Once again the error of thinking of the Internet as a ‘space’ inveigles into Government thinking
The report described the internet as “one of the few unregulated spaces where radicalisation is able to take place” and suggested it played a greater role in promoting violence than prisons, universities or places of worship. via BBC News – Home Affairs Committee warns of far-right terror threat. It’s not a space, people. The Internet