The kind of satin-y cover that some duvets and comforters have means they can slip off. Also not very comfy to the skin. IMHO, cotton sheets are much more comfortable, and you don't have to worry about getting sweat on the duvet cover.
I've never seen a satin duvet cover. Sometimes in the summer, I put a sheet under the duvet, so we can throw off the duvet if it gets hot, though.
Miles upthread, Marvin the Martian said something about the extravagance of keeping the central heating on all night in the winter. Not necessarily true. Some years ago, we were recommended to keep the heating on all the time. So we started keeping it on at a lowish heat all night and our bills went down quite a bit- I assume because the heating isn't having to heat up a cold house every morning.
Hmmmm. Oscillating electrons. Radio. Amplitude increases toward source with no change in frequency. Ah HA!!! Sooooooooo. Does amplitude intrinsically decrease with time=distance?
Sure. If you have a uniform point source of light, the amplitude decreases as the square of the distance, because the same amount of light is spread out over a greater surface area.
Consider a light source, and a series of concentric spheres around it. The total luminous flux through the surface of each sphere is the same, but the light crossing the surface of the big sphere is spread out over a larger area than when is crossed the small sphere's surface, so the brightness is reduced.
Yeah, even I get the inverse square law. I've been pretty algebraic in my time. I'm talking a single electro-magnetic wave here. What happens to its amplitude?
Oooh and if I haven't asked already (it's me age), which I haven't, due to ROS, has any effect ever been followed by its cause from its POV? I did ask about the implications of presentist ROS, i.e. without eternalist BTBTB.
My first encounter with a Duvet was at a Bed and Breakfast in Holyhead, Wales. I thought the set-up was brilliant because, between guests, the B&B owner could remove and wash, the bottom sheet, pillowcases and duvet cover and everything would be clean.
When Americans travel, they know the top and bottom sheets and pillowcases are freshly washed but the blanket and bedspread are not washed every time and who knows what's been done on them with who? The spread could have been romped on by Trump and Stormy for all we know! (But then they probably wouldn't stay at the Best Western.)
Back in Ohio, I do the usual two sheet with quilts, comforter or blanket as the seasons change. Ohio can get up to 100 degrees F in the summer and down to below zero in the winter. I have four complete sets of bedding.
1. Mattress
2. Mattress cover
3. Fitted sheet
4. Plain sheet
5. Quilty bedspread -- light in summer (and only for cover during the day), heavier during our few weeks of 'winter'
As I’m 6’4” I’m not a fan of ‘firmly tucked in at the bottom’ as it’s very uncomfortable on the feet.
I was just about to say the same thing, being on the tall side my feet are over the bottom of the bed.
Tightly tucked in bedding is painful - and I end up untucking everything in my sleep and sheets and blankets part company in the night.
Duvets on the other hand stay together and still cover my feet when they still out of the bottom of the bed…
If we go to a hotel where the bedclothes are all tucked in, the first thing that Mrs Teasdale does is to untuck everything. I'm not tall, but tightly fitting sheets at the bottom of the bed seem to me like being put in the stocks.
One of the side-effects of our long-running national train strike is that the first high-speed train to leave town in the morning is announced as running slower than usual precisely because, it is said, it is the first train out.
I was under the impression that in normal operations, a "dummy train" was run along the track before any train in commercial service, or any VIP train, ran, but I can't find any trace of this, or a usual term for it. Can any Ship train enthusiasts help?
Yeah, even I get the inverse square law. I've been pretty algebraic in my time. I'm talking a single electro-magnetic wave here. What happens to its amplitude?
Classically, the electromagnetic wave is reduced in amplitude according to the inverse square law. I don't know what "single" means in that sentence. What do you mean by "a single wave"?
Are you trying to ask whether EM waves somehow "wear out" as they travel? To which the answer is "not in vacuum". An EM wave travelling in some absorptive medium, on the other hand, will have its amplitude reduced as it transfers energy to the medium.
Yeah, even I get the inverse square law. I've been pretty algebraic in my time. I'm talking a single electro-magnetic wave here. What happens to its amplitude?
Classically, the electromagnetic wave is reduced in amplitude according to the inverse square law. I don't know what "single" means in that sentence. What do you mean by "a single wave"?
Are you trying to ask whether EM waves somehow "wear out" as they travel? To which the answer is "not in vacuum". An EM wave travelling in some absorptive medium, on the other hand, will have its amplitude reduced as it transfers energy to the medium.
Wiggle one electron once, what do you get? But you've answered the question. Amplitude of individual EM waves doesn't inherently attenuate. They're immortal. Worse than protons?
One of the side-effects of our long-running national train strike is that the first high-speed train to leave town in the morning is announced as running slower than usual precisely because, it is said, it is the first train out.
I was under the impression that in normal operations, a "dummy train" was run along the track before any train in commercial service, or any VIP train, ran, but I can't find any trace of this, or a usual term for it. Can any Ship train enthusiasts help?
I'm not a train enthusiast, but I have heard anecdotally that the thing you describe is done with roller coasters.
An ex-boyfriend of mine worked at an amusement park in the early 1980s, and he said that one of their morning chores was to run all the coasters once or twice at high speed with the cars empty. They called it a "dew run" (to get the dew off the tracks?).
It was strictly prohibited to ride the coaster on a dew run because of the speed, but seeing as most of the employees were teenage boys...
\ Amplitude of individual EM waves doesn't inherently attenuate. They're immortal. Worse than protons?
We detect photons from the early universe every day - it's the cosmic microwave background. Protons? The current lower bound on the proton lifetime is several septillion times the age of the universe. It's possible that in another decade or two, we might have observed proton decay. Or maybe not.
I could do with some advice on how to clear off candle wax which has been on a surface for a very long time. Our church is having a yard sale, and my job is to clean and polish anything that looks grubby.
In the past few days I have had to deal with about fifteen objects that have wax on them. These items are made of brass, wood, or some unidentified metal. I can scrape off what sticks up, but I can't get rid of the marks. One pretty little brass candlestick still had a half-inch of candle in it. Someone suggested I pour boiling water over it, but that wasn't feasible.
We're putting the items in the yard sale anyway, but they would bring more money if they looked better.
One of the side-effects of our long-running national train strike is that the first high-speed train to leave town in the morning is announced as running slower than usual precisely because, it is said, it is the first train out.
I was under the impression that in normal operations, a "dummy train" was run along the track before any train in commercial service, or any VIP train, ran, but I can't find any trace of this, or a usual term for it. Can any Ship train enthusiasts help?
I'm not a train enthusiast, but I have heard anecdotally that the thing you describe is done with roller coasters.
An ex-boyfriend of mine worked at an amusement park in the early 1980s, and he said that one of their morning chores was to run all the coasters once or twice at high speed with the cars empty. They called it a "dew run" (to get the dew off the tracks?).
It was strictly prohibited to ride the coaster on a dew run because of the speed, but seeing as most of the employees were teenage boys...
I have the English-US spellcheck installed on Firefox here, and when I typed "learnt" it underlined it. Is learnt not a past tense form in US English? Is it "learned"? I learned, I had learned..., not I learnt, I had learned...
It's usage plus the inability of the computer to cope with variation IMHO. It goes for the most common form and penalizes those of us who still use spelt, learnt, etc.
One of the side-effects of our long-running national train strike is that the first high-speed train to leave town in the morning is announced as running slower than usual precisely because, it is said, it is the first train out.
I was under the impression that in normal operations, a "dummy train" was run along the track before any train in commercial service, or any VIP train, ran, but I can't find any trace of this, or a usual term for it. Can any Ship train enthusiasts help?
I'm more enthusiastic than knowledgeable and was quite curious about this.
I can't find any evidence of the existence of dummy trains either. The best I can find is:
- Track inspections (in the UK) must take place regularly, but the frequencies are between two times a week and once every few weeks. They are done either on foot or from a vehicle moving at no more than 10mph. (It's questions like this that make me realise just how labour-intensive the railway network is!)
- There is also such a thing as the New Measurement Train, which is a converted HST that detects track defects, and which is run over the entire mainline network on a four-week cycle. The French equivalent is the TGV Iris 320.
- Nevertheless, unless all your depots are located right next to the terminal stations of all the routes you operate, presumably there is a lot of empty stock movement first thing in the morning just as a matter of logistics.
I have spent the bank holiday weekend clearing 40 years worth of crap from my mother-in-law’s garage. Among all of this we found quite a lot of wine. We don’t know how old some of it is, but how long can wine last and still be drinkable?
A long time - there are stories of bottles of champagne being opened and drunk after 184 years - caramelised and lacking bubbles but still drinkable. The initial quality has to be reasonable though.
Depends on the wine. I have drunk 60 year old white - but it was a trockenbeerenauslese - and 20+ and 30+ old reds, but they were vintages from classic areas such Burgundy, or stonkers such as Chateau Musar (from the Lebanon).
Was you late MiL an oenophile? Are they all different bottles? (If people buy wine to lay down, it’s usually by the case/half case). What is the provenance and does the bottle have a vintage? If so, you can just enter ‘Chateau Pleunk 1995’ and the ‘net will tell you.
As a rough guide, if its white its unlikely to be much good if more than 10 years old unless its a dessert wine - Chateau d'Yquem or similar. Red is another matter (and if you have any 1959 claret let me know - I'll take the lot) .
Most important, though, is that the wine was kept lying horizontal: if not you could well find all you have is vinegar.
A couple of clues to the conservation: the cork needs to be in good condition. You can check by pressing with your thumb. Also look at the space at the top of the bottle. If there's a large gap between the cork and the top of the wine it's probably not drinkable any more.
A GDPR question. My church is part of an ecumenical group of local churches which shares information on church events such as concerts or invited speakers. Each church has one or two representatives (I am one) whose e-mail address is on a list shared amongst the representatives. I can send an e-mail to everyone on the list, or I can be one of those who receives an e-mail. It's quite low-volume, I get less than one e-mail a week. The idea is that each recipient can print off a notice about another church's event for their church notice board, or can pass details to their church secretary to include something in the intimations, or can post something on the church FB page.
One of our representatives thinks we may fall foul of the new GDPR. There is much alarmist talk of large fines. The data held on each representative is: name / church / e-mail.
Does the GDPR really affect us? I don't know what to google for a group such as ours. We are not a charity, although each of us represents a church which is a charity.
I am pretty sure that if you have all given your consent to share your emails you are absolutely fine! Just don't pass them to anyone else - so if you are forwarding an email from your inter-church group to others in your congregation, hide the original email address.
This was part of the concern. I am one of the younger members of this group, and at least one of the others says that he doesn't know how to hide addresses when forwarding to his church secretary.
Would he be able to copy the text of the message and paste it into a new email, or would that also be beyond him? Of course, you could ask the members of the group to agree to having the various churches see their email addresses.
I'm sure he could, but I think any technical solutions are doomed to create more confusion than they solve. Ideally, I'd like to say "GDPR doesn't apply to this group"
(One church was anxious to stress that there must be no mention of their Daffodil Tea on FB in case it "went viral" and hundreds of teenagers turned up to trash the place. There had been a story in the press about a teenager saying on FB that they were having a party while their parents were away, it had "gone viral" and ..... The church rep was afraid the same might happen if "young people" got to hear there was a Daffodil Tea in the offing.)
(One church was anxious to stress that there must be no mention of their Daffodil Tea on FB in case it "went viral" and hundreds of teenagers turned up to trash the place. There had been a story in the press about a teenager saying on FB that they were having a party while their parents were away, it had "gone viral" and ..... The church rep was afraid the same might happen if "young people" got to hear there was a Daffodil Tea in the offing.)
Most churches would love to have their events "go viral" and attract young people. (But I don't think a Daffodil Tea -- lovely as it sounds -- would do the trick.)
Tea made from daffodils? One up from the minister eating a daffodil in the pulpit? (popular sermon illustration at one time, I believe. Possibly while preaching on the madness of Nebuchadnezzar).
Consent is only one of a number of bases on which an organisation may rely to process data, another which may be relevant in your situation, NEQ, is the legitimate interests of the organisation. You still need to allow people to opt out, and you still need to handle their data properly. This page may be helpful.
The GDPR only applies to living individuals, not to organisations, so what you need to do depends whose data you are processing.
But it does apply to anything that can identify a living individual, like a name.
I agree with BroJames, consider 'legitimate interests'. And perhaps draw up a short statement saying how and why you use the information, which can go as a boilerplate on the bottom of every e-mail?
But please explain to me the appeal of the too-warm, hard-to-change duvet? I don't get it.
In the depths of the British winter (so from roughly early September to late May) it’s an absolutely vital item. Unless you want to spend silly amounts of money by leaving the heating on all night, I suppose.
We don't have the heating on at night. Winter is the thinnest duvet available, spring and autumn it depends on the individual day, Summer I have no cover at all. I tend to overheat easily.
I have to dispute this idea the British Summer is short. Summer to me means any temperature above 20C (ie no coat or jacket required) and we've been getting that regularly since the middle of April and it's likely to continue to October. Unbearable temperatures (25C+) frequently occur through June to September. The Summer is long.
I'm afraid Australia and Arizona have never been in my travel plans because of their inclement climate.
Arizona has various climes. The higher elevations are quite nice in spring.
Australia has several climates as well: Venomous, Poisonous, Crushing, Biting, Dehydration...
I'm afraid Australia and Arizona have never been in my travel plans because of their inclement climate.
I specified Central Arizona (i.e., Phoenix area), because as you head north, you also climb quite a bit in elevation. Northern Arizona (e.g., the Grand Canyon) gets real winter. There are popular ski areas up that way. Summers are pleasantly cool. A lot of people down here have summer homes in the north country. Even Tucson, which is to the south, is cooler than the Phoenix area because the elevation in higher. It's a fascinating state, with an amazing variety of climates, environments, etc., and you can drive from one to the other in a few hours.
"Summer temperatures on the South Rim, at 7000 feet (2135 m), are relatively pleasant with high temperatures generally in the 80s (27-32°C)"
This confuses me. 27-32C is not pleasant. It is far too hot, unless there's a pretty consistent 20mph+ breeze.
I think I may have an odd metabolism, but I really can't enjoy temperatures like that. People laugh, but I really do find the UK too hot quite often in Summer.
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Miles upthread, Marvin the Martian said something about the extravagance of keeping the central heating on all night in the winter. Not necessarily true. Some years ago, we were recommended to keep the heating on all the time. So we started keeping it on at a lowish heat all night and our bills went down quite a bit- I assume because the heating isn't having to heat up a cold house every morning.
MMM
When Americans travel, they know the top and bottom sheets and pillowcases are freshly washed but the blanket and bedspread are not washed every time and who knows what's been done on them with who? The spread could have been romped on by Trump and Stormy for all we know! (But then they probably wouldn't stay at the Best Western.)
Back in Ohio, I do the usual two sheet with quilts, comforter or blanket as the seasons change. Ohio can get up to 100 degrees F in the summer and down to below zero in the winter. I have four complete sets of bedding.
Items 4 to 6/7 to be tucked in firmly at the bottom.
2. Mattress cover
3. Fitted sheet
4. Plain sheet
5. Quilty bedspread -- light in summer (and only for cover during the day), heavier during our few weeks of 'winter'
# 4 tucked in at foot of bed
I was just about to say the same thing, being on the tall side my feet are over the bottom of the bed.
Tightly tucked in bedding is painful - and I end up untucking everything in my sleep and sheets and blankets part company in the night.
Duvets on the other hand stay together and still cover my feet when they still out of the bottom of the bed…
I was under the impression that in normal operations, a "dummy train" was run along the track before any train in commercial service, or any VIP train, ran, but I can't find any trace of this, or a usual term for it. Can any Ship train enthusiasts help?
Classically, the electromagnetic wave is reduced in amplitude according to the inverse square law. I don't know what "single" means in that sentence. What do you mean by "a single wave"?
Are you trying to ask whether EM waves somehow "wear out" as they travel? To which the answer is "not in vacuum". An EM wave travelling in some absorptive medium, on the other hand, will have its amplitude reduced as it transfers energy to the medium.
I'm not a train enthusiast, but I have heard anecdotally that the thing you describe is done with roller coasters.
An ex-boyfriend of mine worked at an amusement park in the early 1980s, and he said that one of their morning chores was to run all the coasters once or twice at high speed with the cars empty. They called it a "dew run" (to get the dew off the tracks?).
It was strictly prohibited to ride the coaster on a dew run because of the speed, but seeing as most of the employees were teenage boys...
We detect photons from the early universe every day - it's the cosmic microwave background. Protons? The current lower bound on the proton lifetime is several septillion times the age of the universe. It's possible that in another decade or two, we might have observed proton decay. Or maybe not.
In the past few days I have had to deal with about fifteen objects that have wax on them. These items are made of brass, wood, or some unidentified metal. I can scrape off what sticks up, but I can't get rid of the marks. One pretty little brass candlestick still had a half-inch of candle in it. Someone suggested I pour boiling water over it, but that wasn't feasible.
We're putting the items in the yard sale anyway, but they would bring more money if they looked better.
There is no cost to just being.
Great story!
Let me see if I can page @Baptist Trainfan ...
Yes.
I'm more enthusiastic than knowledgeable and was quite curious about this.
I can't find any evidence of the existence of dummy trains either. The best I can find is:
- Track inspections (in the UK) must take place regularly, but the frequencies are between two times a week and once every few weeks. They are done either on foot or from a vehicle moving at no more than 10mph. (It's questions like this that make me realise just how labour-intensive the railway network is!)
- There is also such a thing as the New Measurement Train, which is a converted HST that detects track defects, and which is run over the entire mainline network on a four-week cycle. The French equivalent is the TGV Iris 320.
- Nevertheless, unless all your depots are located right next to the terminal stations of all the routes you operate, presumably there is a lot of empty stock movement first thing in the morning just as a matter of logistics.
Was you late MiL an oenophile? Are they all different bottles? (If people buy wine to lay down, it’s usually by the case/half case). What is the provenance and does the bottle have a vintage? If so, you can just enter ‘Chateau Pleunk 1995’ and the ‘net will tell you.
In general, a useful book is Hugh Johnson’s pocket wine guide as a guide to wine buying.
Ultimately, the one test is open a bottle and taste it.
As a rough guide, if its white its unlikely to be much good if more than 10 years old unless its a dessert wine - Chateau d'Yquem or similar. Red is another matter (and if you have any 1959 claret let me know - I'll take the lot) .
Most important, though, is that the wine was kept lying horizontal: if not you could well find all you have is vinegar.
One of our representatives thinks we may fall foul of the new GDPR. There is much alarmist talk of large fines. The data held on each representative is: name / church / e-mail.
Does the GDPR really affect us? I don't know what to google for a group such as ours. We are not a charity, although each of us represents a church which is a charity.
(One church was anxious to stress that there must be no mention of their Daffodil Tea on FB in case it "went viral" and hundreds of teenagers turned up to trash the place. There had been a story in the press about a teenager saying on FB that they were having a party while their parents were away, it had "gone viral" and ..... The church rep was afraid the same might happen if "young people" got to hear there was a Daffodil Tea in the offing.)
Most churches would love to have their events "go viral" and attract young people. (But I don't think a Daffodil Tea -- lovely as it sounds -- would do the trick.)
But it does apply to anything that can identify a living individual, like a name.
I agree with BroJames, consider 'legitimate interests'. And perhaps draw up a short statement saying how and why you use the information, which can go as a boilerplate on the bottom of every e-mail?
MMM
We don't have the heating on at night. Winter is the thinnest duvet available, spring and autumn it depends on the individual day, Summer I have no cover at all. I tend to overheat easily.
I have to dispute this idea the British Summer is short. Summer to me means any temperature above 20C (ie no coat or jacket required) and we've been getting that regularly since the middle of April and it's likely to continue to October. Unbearable temperatures (25C+) frequently occur through June to September. The Summer is long.
Don't come down here in February!
Or to central Arizona from around March through November.
Australia has several climates as well: Venomous, Poisonous, Crushing, Biting, Dehydration...
I specified Central Arizona (i.e., Phoenix area), because as you head north, you also climb quite a bit in elevation. Northern Arizona (e.g., the Grand Canyon) gets real winter. There are popular ski areas up that way. Summers are pleasantly cool. A lot of people down here have summer homes in the north country. Even Tucson, which is to the south, is cooler than the Phoenix area because the elevation in higher. It's a fascinating state, with an amazing variety of climates, environments, etc., and you can drive from one to the other in a few hours.
"Summer temperatures on the South Rim, at 7000 feet (2135 m), are relatively pleasant with high temperatures generally in the 80s (27-32°C)"
This confuses me. 27-32C is not pleasant. It is far too hot, unless there's a pretty consistent 20mph+ breeze.
I think I may have an odd metabolism, but I really can't enjoy temperatures like that. People laugh, but I really do find the UK too hot quite often in Summer.