From Nation.Cymru: "Tidal energy scheme trials solar powered bird tracker".
I am having major difficulty parsing that sentence....
I agree. I think it's:-
Tidal-energy-scheme = Subject
trials = Verb (usually a noun but being used as a verb)
solar-powered = Adjective qualifying Object.
bird-tracker = Object.
I was happy to see the BBC announce that, Scottish bog gets world heritage status, and wondered if it was one of the many I had been grateful for on my travels. But it turns out to be the enormous peat bog of the Flow Country in Caithness, familiar to some of us as the view from the train to Thurso and Wick.
Not a headline, but out of the mouth of a reporter giving the result of one of today's rowing events. (not verbatim)
"The winning team made a powerful start and did not look back"
Suggestion from across the room is that someone was fishing the hip replacements out of the ashes and selling as scrap metal. There's a fair amount of titanium in those things!
That's true; about ten years after my s-i-l had hers done, the titanium started leaking out of it, making her very ill (she had to have the whole thing done again).
My late father-in-law had a spare.
Don't ask, I have no idea, neither does Mr RoS. After the death of FiL said spare became part of the detritus that my hoarder of a husband filled odd corners of the house. It now seems to have vanished, possibly disposed of in the downsizing declutter of a few years ago.
Or maybe it is still in one of the boxes of memorabilia that Mr RoS has under his bed - is it worth looking for? Might we get a good price for it in China?
Unlike the rest of you, any artificial hip doesn't burn in cremation, though I understand the temperature is sufficient to make it not suitable to be recycled for use by someone else.
I've not heard of titanium leaking out of artificial hips, but I have known of people who have outlived their artificial hips and had them break up inside them painfully and needing to be replaced.
Presumably the spare was because he had it redone - my mother had 3 replacements on each side, followed by a spontaneous fracture of the femur as the last gave way (we have a genetic disorder which causes joint anomalies so she had her first hip operation in her 40s).
I have not heard of titanium leaking, but it is certainly possible to have a delayed hypersensitivity to titanium which can present in many different ways and so evade immediate detection.
Unlike the rest of you, any artificial hip doesn't burn in cremation, though I understand the temperature is sufficient to make it not suitable to be recycled for use by someone else.
I've not heard of titanium leaking out of artificial hips, but I have known of people who have outlived their artificial hips and had them break up inside them painfully and needing to be replaced.
Yes, my dad had 3 on one side, and the second actually went through the side of his femur, the replacement for that went almost down to his knee.
A little googling suggests that the scrap price of titanium is £1.40-£2.00 per kilo (presumably including titanium alloys), which seems hardly worth the bother of stealing such small quantities. There is quite a bit of expensive reprocessing required before the metal can be certified for reuse.
Large desert tortoise rescued from Arizona highway after escaping from ostrich ranch 3 miles away
The article fails to explain why the ostriches were holding the tortoise captive in the first place. Although, presumably, he was a hard case and they refused to just stick their heads in the sand about it.
The CBC reports Economics professor says No Frills store's decision to lock up cheese speaks to broader societal issues. Cheese and guns are treated the same way in Canada, you know. They are both threats to public morals and safety.
Not a headline, but from a poster in a local shop window advertising an event to take place at "Mount Without Crypt".
Decrypting this location for the benefit of non-locals it would be the crypt of the former Church of St Michael-on-the-Mount-Without.
Those who have to ask what the church is "without" must not have been paying attention. It is, of course, without the city wall, which is about a mile away at the bottom of the hill.
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[A certain Presidential candidate] opposes abortion except in cases of mother's health, rap, or incest.
Well, that should make music listenable again.
Well, I suppose anything can happen on Anglesey!
Really? Did they grab all the cakes and run?
Tidal-energy-scheme = Subject
trials = Verb (usually a noun but being used as a verb)
solar-powered = Adjective qualifying Object.
bird-tracker = Object.
But I might be completely wrong.
Atmosphere at Olympic Swimming electrified
Didn't their mothers tell them not to go swimming during a thunderstorm?
Girl born 15 weeks premature happy to be in school
Already?
"The winning team made a powerful start and did not look back"
Premature in so many ways?
Don't ask, I have no idea, neither does Mr RoS. After the death of FiL said spare became part of the detritus that my hoarder of a husband filled odd corners of the house. It now seems to have vanished, possibly disposed of in the downsizing declutter of a few years ago.
Or maybe it is still in one of the boxes of memorabilia that Mr RoS has under his bed - is it worth looking for? Might we get a good price for it in China?
I've not heard of titanium leaking out of artificial hips, but I have known of people who have outlived their artificial hips and had them break up inside them painfully and needing to be replaced.
Yes, my dad had 3 on one side, and the second actually went through the side of his femur, the replacement for that went almost down to his knee.
@Heavenlyannie that's scary!
I hope you can make the thing shut up! - There's nowt worse than clothes talking when all you want is a quiet, pleaceful amble in town and country.
Large desert tortoise rescued from Arizona highway after escaping from ostrich ranch 3 miles away
The article fails to explain why the ostriches were holding the tortoise captive in the first place. Although, presumably, he was a hard case and they refused to just stick their heads in the sand about it.
And how did the Tortoise outrun the Ostriches, who must surely have noticed his attempt to escape?
Decrypting this location for the benefit of non-locals it would be the crypt of the former Church of St Michael-on-the-Mount-Without.
Those who have to ask what the church is "without" must not have been paying attention. It is, of course, without the city wall, which is about a mile away at the bottom of the hill.
Not for a long time. It was part of the medieval urban expansion of the city.
TSA [Transportation Safety Administration] to introduce dangerous liquid scanners
Why not just stick with the current X-ray scanners? How would a liquid scanner be more efficient, especially if it's dangerous?
It's actually a really serious story, but your mind has probably just gone where my mind went.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce802dv1gjno
Counties prepare to eliminate cesspools that pollute their communities
You mean there's going to be a general election?
Michigan crushes Texas in Ann Arbor
But in fact (as the story connected to the headline states) Texas beat Michigan, 31-12.
Boy rescued from between two boulders after being rapped for nine hours
Poor kid. Nine seconds of rap is more than I can take.