AdamSmith

Grade A1! Thank you.

Nice point. Reminding that the greatest picker-apart of saints' remains is the Church itself, thanks to the delightful decree by the Second Council of Nicaea that every altar shall contain a relic.

Odd. I see the pictures on my Win7/Firefox laptop, but not on my iPhone 4S where they are just blue "X" boxes.

Intrigued by news that the late Chavez is to become the latest Politico Under Glass, I looked around and found this account of how Lenin's mummy is given an annual preservative bath. (Apparently not a wax substitute after all, despite that time the Moscow sewers overflowed into his tomb.) Bathing of Lenin You can see Vladimir Lenin's embalmed skin sack being taken from its exhibit case at the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow and given its yearly bath in a soup of formaldehyde, methanol and ethanol. Video: Download "lenin.wmv" Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union, and the primary theorist of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory. Lenin died on January 21, 1924, aged 53. Rumors of Lenin having syphilis sprang up shortly after his death. The official cause given for Lenin's death was cerebral arteriosclerosis, or a fourth stroke. But out of the 27 physicians who treated him, only eight signed onto that conclusion in his autopsy report. Documents released after the fall of the U.S.S.R., along with memoirs of Lenin's physicians, suggest that Lenin was treated for syphilis as early as 1895. Documents suggest that Alexei Abrikosov, the pathologist in charge of the autopsy, was ordered to prove that Lenin did not die of syphilis. Abrikosov did not mention syphilis in the autopsy; however, the blood-vessel damage, the paralysis and other incapacities he cited are typical of syphilis. Upon a second release of the autopsy report, none of the organs, major arteries, or brain areas usually affected by syphilis were cited. In 1923, Lenin's doctors treated him with Salvarsan, the only drug at the time specifically used to treat syphilis, and potassium iodide, which was customary at the time in treating the disease. Although he might have had syphilis, he had no visible lesions anywhere on his body that normally accompany the later stages of the disease. Most historians still agree that the most likely cause of his death was a stroke induced by the bullet still lodged in his neck from the assassination attempt. During the early 1920s Leonid Krasin and Alexander Bogdanov proposed to cryonically preserve Lenin's body in order to revive him in the future. Necessary equipment was purchased abroad, but for a variety of reasons the plan was not realized. Instead his body was embalmed and placed on permanent exhibition in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow on January 27, 1924. http://www.charonboat.com/item/135

Right! Hide the silver ... Or, as I surmised, lock down the guys. Eek.

Yeah. "No cell phone for the first month" conjures images of being held hostage incommunicado.

Thank you ... I think!?

You could write for the porn biz.

The handwringing seems a little overdone, all things considered. Let him sow some oats. If I were in his shoes, I would be in an institution already!

Worse than that, even... Blue ice in the context of aviation is the frozen sewage material dispensed mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste tanks, a biowaste mixture of human waste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant. Airlines are not allowed to dump their waste tanks in mid-flight, and pilots have no mechanism by which to do so; however, leaks can occur. Danger of ground impact There were at least 27 documented incidents of blue ice impacts in the United States between 1979 and 2003.[1] These incidents typically happen under airport landing paths as the mass warms sufficiently to detach from the plane during its descent. A rare incident of falling blue ice causing damage to the roof of a home was reported on October 20, 2006 in Chino, California.[2] A similar incident was reported in Leicester, UK, in 2007.[3] In 1971, a chunk of ice from an aircraft tore a large hole in the roof of the Essex Street Chapel in Kensington, London, and was one trigger for the demolition of the building.[4] In November 2011 a chunk of ice, the size of an orange, broke through the roof of a private house in Ratingen-Hösel, Germany. In February 2013 a 'football sized' ball of blue ice smashed through a conservatory roof in Clanfield, Hampshire causing around £10,000 worth of damage.[5] Danger to aircraft Blue ice can also be dangerous to the aircraft itself; the National Transportation Safety Board has recorded three very similar incidents where waste from lavatories caused damage to the leaking aircraft.[6][7][8] All involved Boeing 727s, and in all cases waste from a leaking lavatory hit the number 3 engine, mounted at the rear of the aircraft, causing a power loss.[6][7][8] The flights made safe emergency landings with the two remaining engines. Nobody was injured. Only one report specifically mentions ice,[7] while another mentions "soft body FOD",[8] indicating that in this case the "blue fluid" was not frozen. In popular culture Blue ice became known to many people from the last 2003 episode of the HBO series Six Feet Under, in which a foot-sized chunk drops on an innocent bystander. A similar incident occurs in the 1996 television series Early Edition episode “Frostbite” when the main character saves a man from being crushed by a chunk of blue ice. It was also mentioned in the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory season 2. This also happened in an episode of CSI: NY. The title of the 1992 film Blue Ice is a reference to the phenomenon.[9] The 2001 film Joe Dirt finds the title character (played by David Spade) proudly displaying a large chunk of 'blue ice' which he has mistaken for a meteorite, and the topic has also been covered on the TV show MANswers. Blue ice was also featured in an episode of the television show Mythbusters. Blue ice is a cause of death in season 4 of 1000 Ways to Die. In John Waters' film A Dirty Shame, David Hasselhoff, playing himself, goes to the bathroom in an airplane and his waste is flushed out of the airplane and hits one of the main characters in the head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_%28aircraft%29

Equally amazing they would admit that somebody else could get into the ATM's software.

There has long been a device called a "trolley man's friend" -- an external catheter named in honor of SF trolley operators, who of course have to hold onto the dead man's stick continually in order to keep the car clutched to the moving cable beneath the roadway.

Possibly a feedback loop between the two.

So? In politics, alignment of interests is all. In this case I find utility in his actions and their possible outcome, so could care less about his motives.

(Pardon double-post. Site glitchy.)

... I know I have. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/9914594/Quarter-of-men-admit-to-sitting-down-on-the-loo-so-they-can-keep-using-mobile-phone.html

Good.

What, I also need to worry about them targeting my cup of sugar while I'm borrowing my neighbor? (Sounds like what would have happened had a Hellfire found its way down into my late lamented club The Web.) (Neither subject a laughing matter, of course.)

This should probably go in the Politics forum, but what the hell... http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2013/03/climate_change_flow_chart_how_to_win_any_global_warming_argument.html?wpisrc=most_viral

Meanwhile ... eek! Death of a meme: Mitch McConnell's campaign ruins the Harlem Shake Republicans prove once again that they have a long way to go in capturing the youth vote By Ryu Spaeth | 2:45pm EST 20 Comments The campaign team for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has released a web video in which staffers do the Harlem Shake, in a bid to capitalize on a meme that, if not already in its death throes, has surely received what amounts to a stake in the heart. After all, there is little that screams zany fun times less than McConnell, the poker-faced senator whose only meme-tastic moment was the time when The Daily Caller published a slideshow called, "Turtles that look like Mitch McConnell." "We are putting it out because we plan to work hard but also plan to have a lot of fun," campaign manager Jesse Benton tells CNN. Benton also claims that the participants in the video, who have dressed up as Rosie the Riveter, Captain America, Abraham Lincoln, and other patriotic personages, are college Republicans who "approached us about shooting it because they are all fired up to volunteer for Team Mitch!" While a fluency in pop culture has its obvious political benefits — just watch the crowd erupt as a young Barack Obama brushes some imaginary dirt off his shoulder — Republicans seem particularly maladroit when it comes to engaging the youth vote. And let's face it: Mitch McConnell is never, ever going to be cool. http://theweek.com/article/index/241005/death-of-a-meme-mitch-mcconnells-campaign-ruins-the-harlem-shake

Get our morphine drip ready!

Fascinating... Harlem shaking the Arab world? In America, "Harlem Shake" may be the top pop single. In Egypt and Tunisia, there's some serious Harlem shaking going on. And it's causing leaders to tremble as it becomes a potent symbol of protest, revolt and defiance. Take the kids in the video at a school in Tunisia. They danced en masse to the song and posted their exploits on YouTube. That prompted a quarter of a million hits and reports of an investigation by the country's minister of education and that prompted a backlash. Video after video after video of Tunisians proudly doing the Harlem shake in defiance.And then there's Egypt, where the authorities went further and the backlash was worse. Four pharmaceutical students were arrested for doing this Harlem shake in front of the pyramids, and that set off a big reaction. Late in the week in Cairo, there was a mass shake in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to protest. Now, who says America's popular culture exports have no value? http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/06/harlem-shaking-the-arab-world/?hpt=hp_t3

So much for "Please make it stop!"