Wedge (mechanics)
mechanical device; triangular shaped tool; portable inclined plane; one of the six classical simple machines
Wedges can also be used to hold objects in place, such as engine parts (poppet valves), bicycle parts (stems and eccentric bottom brackets), and doors.
A door stop (door wedge) is a wedge, and its main function is to generate friction between the bottom of the door and the ground.
Source: Wikipedia
mechanical device; triangular shaped tool; portable inclined plane; one of the six classical simple machines
Wedges can also be used to hold objects in place, such as engine parts (poppet valves), bicycle parts (stems and eccentric bottom brackets), and doors.
A door stop (door wedge) is a wedge, and its main function is to generate friction between the bottom of the door and the ground.
Source: Wikipedia
Visualize each chock as the sandy edge of the canal forming an unwanted "friction seal" that prevents movement! On both ends of the vessel, no less!
Cargo ship Ever Given has been freed, ending week-long Suez Canal crisis - MarketWatch
Published: March 29, 2021 at 10:43 a.m. ET
By Associated Press
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Salvage teams on Monday set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week had clogged one of the world’s most vital maritime arteries.
Helped by the peak of high tide, a flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since last Tuesday.
After hauling the fully laden 220,000-ton vessel over the canal bank, the salvage team was pulling the vessel toward the Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south end of the canal, where the ship will undergo technical inspection, canal authorities said.
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The freeing of the vessel came after dredgers vacuumed up sand and mud from the vessel’s bow and 10 tugboats pushed and pulled the vessel for five days, managing to partially refloat it at dawn.
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The salvage operation successfully relied on tugs and dredgers alone, allowing authorities to avoid the far more complex and lengthy task of lightening the vessel by offloading its 20,000 containers.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cargo-ship-ever-given-has-been-freed-ending-week-long-suez-canal-crisis-01617029017?mod=home-page
Published: March 29, 2021 at 10:43 a.m. ET
By Associated Press
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Salvage teams on Monday set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week had clogged one of the world’s most vital maritime arteries.
Helped by the peak of high tide, a flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since last Tuesday.
After hauling the fully laden 220,000-ton vessel over the canal bank, the salvage team was pulling the vessel toward the Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south end of the canal, where the ship will undergo technical inspection, canal authorities said.
...
The freeing of the vessel came after dredgers vacuumed up sand and mud from the vessel’s bow and 10 tugboats pushed and pulled the vessel for five days, managing to partially refloat it at dawn.
...
The salvage operation successfully relied on tugs and dredgers alone, allowing authorities to avoid the far more complex and lengthy task of lightening the vessel by offloading its 20,000 containers.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cargo-ship-ever-given-has-been-freed-ending-week-long-suez-canal-crisis-01617029017?mod=home-page
MarketWatch
Cargo ship Ever Given has been freed, ending week-long Suez Canal crisis
Helped by the peak of high tide, a flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bulbous bow of the skyscraper-sized ship from the canal's sandy bank.
MV Ever Given - What's Going on in the Suez, Part 8: Heading for the Great Bitter Lake - YouTube
Published on Mar 29, 2021
Associate Professor Sal Mercogliano of Campbell University (www.campbell.edu) and former merchant mariner discuss Ever Given clearing her grounding and setting sail - UNDER HER OWN POWER - for the Great Bitter Lake. He discusses what is next for the ships waiting in the anchorages and in the lake.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HURwhl9un1c
Published on Mar 29, 2021
Associate Professor Sal Mercogliano of Campbell University (www.campbell.edu) and former merchant mariner discuss Ever Given clearing her grounding and setting sail - UNDER HER OWN POWER - for the Great Bitter Lake. He discusses what is next for the ships waiting in the anchorages and in the lake.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HURwhl9un1c
YouTube
MV Ever Given - What's Going on in the Suez, Part 8: Heading for the Great Bitter Lake
Associate Professor Sal Mercogliano of Campbell University (www.campbell.edu) and former merchant mariner discuss Ever Given clearing her grounding and setti...
Spaceweather.com 29 March 2021
PYRAMID-SHAPED ICE CRYSTALS MAKE WEIRD MOON HALOS: We've all seen halos around the Moon. Ruslan Merzlyakov just photographed two. "I enjoyed seeing this rare double Moon halo over Nykøbing Mors, Denmark," he says.
https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=173238
"The outer ring was a common 22° halo--the kind we see all the time," says Merzlyakov. "The inner ring is the unusual one. It was only 9° in radius."
Inner halos like Merzlyakov saw are called "odd radius halos." They are caused by ice crystals in the shape of pyramids. The crystals that create normal halos look more like pencils. On his atmospheric optics website, Les Cowley notes that "Odd radius halos may not be as 'odd' or rare as usually thought. Make a point of routinely searching for them!"
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=29&month=03&year=2021
PYRAMID-SHAPED ICE CRYSTALS MAKE WEIRD MOON HALOS: We've all seen halos around the Moon. Ruslan Merzlyakov just photographed two. "I enjoyed seeing this rare double Moon halo over Nykøbing Mors, Denmark," he says.
https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=173238
"The outer ring was a common 22° halo--the kind we see all the time," says Merzlyakov. "The inner ring is the unusual one. It was only 9° in radius."
Inner halos like Merzlyakov saw are called "odd radius halos." They are caused by ice crystals in the shape of pyramids. The crystals that create normal halos look more like pencils. On his atmospheric optics website, Les Cowley notes that "Odd radius halos may not be as 'odd' or rare as usually thought. Make a point of routinely searching for them!"
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=29&month=03&year=2021
Double Moon Halo by Ruslan Merzlyakov March 21, 2021 @ Nykøbing Mors, Denmark
https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=173238
https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=173238
US Strategic Command Posts Nuke Launch Code For Washington D.C. After Shock Reveal Of Trump Overthrow Plot
March 29, 2021
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A gobsmacking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today sees its trannoscript showing Security Council Members discussing a classified at the highest level “Of Special Importance” document compiled by the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU)—a Russian military intelligence document that shockingly reveals that at 0349 hrs GMT+3 (Moscow local time 3:49 AM) on 29 March, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) activated to alert status Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) in response to a “warlike-belligerent” [Russian word: воинственный] act occurring 60-seconds earlier—an act occurring at 1948 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 7:48 PM) on 28 March, and was when the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) posted on its official Twitter feed the computer cipher message: “;l;;gmlxzssaw”—that was followed nearly 8-hours later, at 0318 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 3:18 AM) on 29 March, by STRATCOM posting another message below their prior one stating: “Apologies for any confusion…Please disregard this post”.
Unmistakable about the first STRATCOM posted message “;l;;gmlxzssaw”, however, this GRU document says, is that this cipher is a character encoding using ASCII whose true message is “059 108 059 059 103 109 108 120 122 115 115 097 119 013 010”—as confirmed by ASCII to Text Conversion and verified by Decimal To Text analysis—is a valid launch code authorizing the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne-Wyoming to release a single SM-65 Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile containing a W49 Thermonuclear Warhead—whose directed release-to-target is Washington D.C.—but for reasons left to be explained, STRATCOM posted this nuclear launch code yesterday knowing that it was only valid during the Cold War year of 1963.
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Because these US military commanders foolishly gave themselves secret access to their nation’s nuclear launch codes using the 8-digit number 00000000, this report concludes, Soviet intelligence officers of the former Committee for State Security (KGB) were able to gain access to them, which, in turn, enabled GRU military intelligence analysts to quickly decode the message STRATCOM posted yesterday—a simple decoding of this ASCII cipher based on limited information, as immediately after President Kennedy was executed these launch codes were changed—and though why this message was sent, who it’s intended for, and who sent it remain unknown...
—all of which are elements further proving that a traitorous plot was deployed to overthrow President Trump, and “someone” with nuclear weapon access knows this is true and plans on doing something about it.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index3522.htm
March 29, 2021
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A gobsmacking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today sees its trannoscript showing Security Council Members discussing a classified at the highest level “Of Special Importance” document compiled by the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU)—a Russian military intelligence document that shockingly reveals that at 0349 hrs GMT+3 (Moscow local time 3:49 AM) on 29 March, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) activated to alert status Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) in response to a “warlike-belligerent” [Russian word: воинственный] act occurring 60-seconds earlier—an act occurring at 1948 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 7:48 PM) on 28 March, and was when the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) posted on its official Twitter feed the computer cipher message: “;l;;gmlxzssaw”—that was followed nearly 8-hours later, at 0318 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 3:18 AM) on 29 March, by STRATCOM posting another message below their prior one stating: “Apologies for any confusion…Please disregard this post”.
Unmistakable about the first STRATCOM posted message “;l;;gmlxzssaw”, however, this GRU document says, is that this cipher is a character encoding using ASCII whose true message is “059 108 059 059 103 109 108 120 122 115 115 097 119 013 010”—as confirmed by ASCII to Text Conversion and verified by Decimal To Text analysis—is a valid launch code authorizing the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne-Wyoming to release a single SM-65 Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile containing a W49 Thermonuclear Warhead—whose directed release-to-target is Washington D.C.—but for reasons left to be explained, STRATCOM posted this nuclear launch code yesterday knowing that it was only valid during the Cold War year of 1963.
...
Because these US military commanders foolishly gave themselves secret access to their nation’s nuclear launch codes using the 8-digit number 00000000, this report concludes, Soviet intelligence officers of the former Committee for State Security (KGB) were able to gain access to them, which, in turn, enabled GRU military intelligence analysts to quickly decode the message STRATCOM posted yesterday—a simple decoding of this ASCII cipher based on limited information, as immediately after President Kennedy was executed these launch codes were changed—and though why this message was sent, who it’s intended for, and who sent it remain unknown...
—all of which are elements further proving that a traitorous plot was deployed to overthrow President Trump, and “someone” with nuclear weapon access knows this is true and plans on doing something about it.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index3522.htm
Whatdoesitmean
US Strategic Command Posts Nuke Launch Code For Washington D.C. After
Shock Reveal Of Trump Overthrow Plot
Shock Reveal Of Trump Overthrow Plot
Sorcha Faal, Whatdoesitmean.com
First message
1948 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 7:48 PM) on 28 March, and was when the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) posted on its official Twitter feed the computer cipher message: “;l;;gmlxzssaw”
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/usc21.jpg
1948 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 7:48 PM) on 28 March, and was when the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) posted on its official Twitter feed the computer cipher message: “;l;;gmlxzssaw”
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/usc21.jpg
Second message
8-hours later, at 0318 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 3:18 AM) on 29 March, by STRATCOM posting another message below their prior one stating: “Apologies for any confusion…Please disregard this post”.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/usc22.png
8-hours later, at 0318 hrs GMT-5 (Washington D.C. local time 3:18 AM) on 29 March, by STRATCOM posting another message below their prior one stating: “Apologies for any confusion…Please disregard this post”.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/usc22.png
Unusual tweet by Strategic Command spurs comedic comments - U.S. - Stripes
“Apologizes for any confusion. Please disregard this post,” the command, at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., tweeted in vain after the original message.
The command did not respond Monday to a phone message from Stars and Stripes.
Strategic Command is responsible for U.S. nuclear forces that can deliver nuclear arms from land- and sea-based missiles and from aircraft.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/unusual-tweet-by-strategic-command-spurs-comedic-comments-1.667633
“Apologizes for any confusion. Please disregard this post,” the command, at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., tweeted in vain after the original message.
The command did not respond Monday to a phone message from Stars and Stripes.
Strategic Command is responsible for U.S. nuclear forces that can deliver nuclear arms from land- and sea-based missiles and from aircraft.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/unusual-tweet-by-strategic-command-spurs-comedic-comments-1.667633
Not nearly as funny as Trump’s garbled ‘covfefe’ tweet back in 2017 😎
File under:
Could be something.
Could be nothing.
File under:
Could be something.
Could be nothing.
How many of us here remember the "golden age" of ye olde ASCII code, the "Morse Code" of the early computer dayz? 😏
ASCII (/ˈæskiː/ (ASS-kee), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.
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With the other special characters and control codes filled in, ASCII was published as ASA X3.4-1963, leaving 28 code positions without any assigned meaning, reserved for future standardization, and one unassigned control code.
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ASCII was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network. TWX originally used the earlier five-bit ITA2, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system.
Source: Wikipedia
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With the other special characters and control codes filled in, ASCII was published as ASA X3.4-1963, leaving 28 code positions without any assigned meaning, reserved for future standardization, and one unassigned control code.
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ASCII was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network. TWX originally used the earlier five-bit ITA2, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system.
Source: Wikipedia
A trip down Memory Lane
All This Is That: Remembering mainframe ASCII printouts (with images of Lincoln, Marilyn, Mickey Mouse, Mona Lisa, Jack B)
Thursday, September 05, 2013
By Jack Brummet, Technology Ed.
I took a tour of some large company with a main frame computer sometime in the mid- to late-60's. We saw the tapes and punchcards, cooling systems, reports, etc. What really stuck in my mind--and they knew this was a hit with visitors--were the ASCII images they generated programmatically and then printed out on their chain/line printers.
https://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2013/09/remembering-mainframe-ascii-printouts.html?m=1
All This Is That: Remembering mainframe ASCII printouts (with images of Lincoln, Marilyn, Mickey Mouse, Mona Lisa, Jack B)
Thursday, September 05, 2013
By Jack Brummet, Technology Ed.
I took a tour of some large company with a main frame computer sometime in the mid- to late-60's. We saw the tapes and punchcards, cooling systems, reports, etc. What really stuck in my mind--and they knew this was a hit with visitors--were the ASCII images they generated programmatically and then printed out on their chain/line printers.
https://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2013/09/remembering-mainframe-ascii-printouts.html?m=1
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Remembering mainframe ASCII printouts (with images of Lincoln, Marilyn, Mickey Mouse, Mona Lisa, Jack B)
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Situation Update, Mar 29: Demons MATERIALIZING in start of epic WAR against humanity – NaturalNews.com
Monday, March 29, 2021
by: Mike Adams
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-03-29-situation-update-mar-29-demons-materializing-epic-war-against-humanity.html
Monday, March 29, 2021
by: Mike Adams
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-03-29-situation-update-mar-29-demons-materializing-epic-war-against-humanity.html
NaturalNews.com
Situation Update, Mar 29: Demons MATERIALIZING in start of epic WAR against humanity – NaturalNews.com
As we are seeing in widely shared media reports and surveillance photos, humanoid-shaped demons are now increasingly materializing as a run-up to Satan’s war against humanity. Corporations like Nike are openly promoting “Satan shoes” that are covered in Satanic…
Brighteon
Situation Update, Mar 29, 2021 - Demons MATERIALIZING in start of epic WAR against humanity
https://www.brighteon.com/c3eb6d3e-f254-4003-a35a-56d3035312da
Situation Update, Mar 29, 2021 - Demons MATERIALIZING in start of epic WAR against humanity
https://www.brighteon.com/c3eb6d3e-f254-4003-a35a-56d3035312da
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Situation Update, Mar 29, 2021 - Demons MATERIALIZING in start of epic WAR against humanity
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As we are seeing in widely shared media reports and surveillance photos, humanoid-shaped demons are now increasingly materializing as a run-up to Satan’s war against humanity. Corporations…
As we are seeing in widely shared media reports and surveillance photos, humanoid-shaped demons are now increasingly materializing as a run-up to Satan’s war against humanity. Corporations…