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When an unlucky-in-love zookeeper tells his romantic troubles to a giraffe, a monkey, a lion and other animals in the zoo, the critters speak up and advise him how to win the heart of the beautiful woman who got away. But will their advice work?
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French, English, Spanish (Neutral), English SDH
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: DVS - Descriptive Video Service, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1
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French, English, Spanish (Neutral), English SDH
French: DTS-HD Master Audio, English: DVS - Descriptive Video Service, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1, English: DTS-HD Master Audio, Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1
PG - Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give parental guidance. May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.
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Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that this PG-rated Kevin James comedy deals with some grown-up issues about dating and mating that may not interest young kids. The humor, while featuring the predictable amount of animal "poop" and "pee" talk, is largely aimed at older audiences and includes some double entendres about sexual relationships -- marking territory, being forceful, highlighting your genitalia, and other jokes. Language includes words like "idiot," "crap," "shut up," and some scatological terms. Ultimately, the titular zookeeper learns a worthy lesson about just being himself, but by then kids will already have seen him act foolishly for an hour and a half.

Sexual Content

The entire plot revolves around Griffin trying to win his ex's heart, and she's depicted as gorgeous, often wearing sexy dresses and outfits. Jokes are made about a bride's "flexibility," and a man boasts about how often he and his girlfriend "made out, hard." Some of the animals make double-meaning jokes about how to mate (show her the "goods," thrust out your loins, "take her down," "she had this extra claw and knew how to use it"). Griffin kisses two different women in the film. A Latin-style ballroom dance is rather spicy.

For most of the movie, the only violence is Griffin's nearly incessant pratfalls (as well as gags in which others also humorously fall). He gets poked twice by a porcupine quill and falls into a pit between two animal enclosures. There's a bicycle race between him and his antagonist (they both get hurt, but it's more comic than violent). The gorilla, Bernie, tells James that another zookeeper was cruel to him. Griffin hits the other zookeeper so hard that he breaks the plaster in the wall.

Language includes "idiot," "hell," "shut up," "crap," "oh my God," and some insults hurled at a woman Griffin is trying to woo: "puppy breath," "hammer thumbs," "freckle chest," etc.

Social Behavior

Even though the movie's overarching message is positive -- that someone should love you for who you are, not who you might become if you nag them enough -- there are many mixed signals about what constitutes someone's worthiness as a mate until the very end. Stephanie is portrayed as beautiful but mean and shallow, yet she's the one that Griffin is interested in for the majority of the film. Meanwhile, he acts surprised that Karen, a colleague, is actually attractive and treats her quite poorly until the end. So is the lesson that men are clueless and until they have an epiphany will reject a beautiful, intelligent woman if someone else is even more beautiful but mean?

Griffin's brother owns an exotic car dealership that sells Ferrari, Mercedes, Ducati, and other luxury vehicle brands. Other product placements include Red Bull, TGI Friday's (which is the location of a key scene), and Benihana.

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Several scenes are at wedding-related events -- engagement party, rehearsal dinner, and wedding reception -- where adults are shown drinking. There's also drinking at the TGI Friday's. Sabrina, The Teenage Witch is shown on TV (which isn't coincidental, since the movie was co-written by the actor who voiced Salem the talking cat).

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I am primarily interested to know:

  1. What is Norwester (localy called Kalboishaku as because in occurs during the Bengali Month Boishak which falls between Mid April to Mid May).
  2. What causes Norwester.
  3. Why does it occur during the month of April and May.
  4. Characteristics of Norwesters (What I have personally seen is, it happens during late afternoon with a sudden onset of Cumulonimbus cloud spreading across within few minutes followed by heavy thunderstorm and rain which persists for an hour followed by clear sky)
  5. What are the areas affected by Norwesters. (I am only aware of the east Gangetic plane)
  6. Why it is called Norwesters (My guess is its because the wind blows from North West)

There are very little information around currently on Norwesters and even the wiki page is a stub. Most of my contextual answers are based on my experience with Norwesters but I couldn't find any studies or articles in this regard. I am possibly looking for answers drawn from credible source (possible links to journals/ books / papers), as this would be a nice opportunity to build a credible wiki on this subject.

Though you have divided your question up into 6 parts, I am combining the information in the answer, as they all link together. Also, as can be seen in the reference list (below), the resources come from the same primary author, but from different aspects of his studies of this phenomena (these are all paywalled, so university access would be required - but I'll paraphrase the main points).

Firstly, a bit of terminology, a Nor'wester are storm gusts between 11 ms$^{-1}$ and 42 ms$^{-1}$, above which are referred to locally as being 'tornadoes' (2). These are collectively known as Severe Low Convective Storms (SLCS) by Yamana et al. (1),(2),(3). The main areas affected are across Bangladesh and north-east India (3).

SLCS generally seasonal, usually occurring during the pre-monsoon months of March to May, peaking in April, usually in the evenings (as you have observed). Although rare, SLCS can actually occur at any time of the day and at any time of the year (2). Records over several years do not show any particular obvious trend in occurrence and frequency of events that occur each year - though they average at around 145 occurring each year (2).

Yamane et al. 2010 (2) note that the most frequent occurrence is in the Dhaka district (north-central Bangladesh) and trends in a northerly direction during the pre-monsoon. However, the authors caution this observation as being the result of the amount of people recording these occurrences in other districts.

Yamana and Hayashi (2006) (3) explain that the SLCS are a result of regional atmospheric thermal instability, where the convective available potential energy (CAPE) is high (greater than 2000 Jkg$^{-1}$) and the shear is moderate (greater than 10 ms$^{-1}$, and that the phenomena also coincides with severe local storms across the Indian Subcontinent.

Yamana et al. (2012) (1) elaborates further on what causes the atmospheric thermal instability, with a synoptic analysis of a SLCS, describing the phenomena as a confluence of (note, the authors use AGL = 'above ground level' for the following information):

  • Moisture inflow (increase in humidity) from the Bay of Bengal, enhanced by a south-west wind intensification at 950 hPa (approx. 500 m AGL). This increases the amount of water vapour available.
  • A temperature increase, due to westerly winds, across the region at 800 hPa (approx. 2 km AGL), leading to
  • A trough leading to an enhancement of cold advection at 550 hPa (approx. 5 km AGL) from the north west.

This, in part, gives a reason for its name and confirms your 6th point, that it blows in from the north-west.

(1) Yamana Y. et al. 2012, Synoptic situations of severe local convective storms during the pre-monsoon season in Bangladesh, International Journal of Climatology

(2) Yamana Y. et al. 2010, Severe local convective storms in Bangladesh: Part I. Climatology, Atmospheric Research

(3) Yamana Y. and Hayashi, T. 2006, Evaluation of environmental conditions for the formation of severe local storms across the Indian subcontinent, Geophysical Research Letters

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A food system hooked on fossil fuels is bad for farmers and families

A surprise result of high gas prices is potential food shortages - but the food system doesn't need to stay hooked on fossil fuels.

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By Matt Williams

Food shortages a surprise result of gas price rises

Kwasi Kwarteng MP portrait shows Kwasi smiling wearing a suit and blue tie
Mr Kwarteng said: "Our exposure to volatile global gas prices underscores the importance of our plan to build a strong, home-grown renewable energy sector". Image: Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Parliament UK

A recent rise in gas prices has caught some off guard, with Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng MP making a statement to parliament in response. But what has been more surprising for many is learning that high gas prices could lead to food shortages.

Spiking gas prices have caused two fertiliser plants to shut down. The Government has now stepped in to cover the costs of natural gas to secure the supply of both fertiliser, and the CO2 sold as a by-product.

These factories supply 60% of the CO2 that the UK food industry relies on for fizzy drinks, for slaughtering animals, and for chilling and packaging produce. This CO2 shortage is having a very real and immediate effect on farmers and wider food supplies. The rise in gas prices leading to the risk of food shortages shows how reliant our lives still are on fossil fuels.

Some economists have previously identified that global surges in oil and gas prices can subsequently cause spikes in food prices. A food system that's hooked up to the lifeline of fossil fuels is not a sustainable one for the planet, a predictable one for farmers, nor an affordable one for families.

Decoupling food production from fossil fuels

Severing the link between our food system and fossil fuels would be needed to buffer it against such shocks in future.

There are other ways to produce CO2 which include capturing it from new technologies such as Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage. This is a technology being developed to suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help climate change, and it’s possible that the CO2 could be sold as a by-product. A company in Switzerland is hoping to do this while this year a plant was activated in Iceland.

Wind turbines on farm with tractor ploughing the field.
Green ammonia is produced from green hydrogen, and green hydrogen is produced by electrolysis using electricity from renewable sources, such as wind turbines. Image by Luke Thornton, Unsplash.

However, technological advancements could mean fertiliser plants don’t have to contribute to climate change or rely on fossil fuels. Current “brown” ammonia (using natural gas) could be replaced by “blue” ammonia with carbon capture and storage technology used on the whole manufacturing process, or “green” ammonia that instead uses renewable electricity, water, and air to make ammonia.

The Australian government has provided almost A$3 million in funding to twoplants that are trialling the production of ammonia from hydrogen (instead of natural gas). The International Energy Agency, meanwhile, has estimated that the production of hydrogen and ammonia in China from renewable energy could be cost-competitive with current fossil-fuel based production.

Some farmers are choosing to reduce or abandon their use of fertilisers. For example, precision spraying using robots can reduce the quantities of fertiliser that need to be applied. Other farmers have stopped using fertilisers completely, opting to improve the condition and richness of the soil using other techniques – like reduced ploughing that lets soils recover and growing plants that “fix” nitrogen (a key nutrient) from the atmosphere into the soil.

Some food industry experts say that the best response is to reduce the food system’s reliance on CO2: by reducing consumption of fizzy drinks to benefit people’s health, or by building more local food systems with fresh produce that don’t need so much packaging or chilling.

Time to transform: farming that combats climate change and protects nature

Many farmers know that a consequence of not tackling climate change could be ruined crops in fields, and empty shelves and higher prices in supermarkets. More intense and unpredictable weather is already affecting some UK crops. Fears of food shortages and food price rises could lead some to call for greater intensification, but this comes with risks of soil depletion, the loss of wildlife, and polluted waterways.

Many farmers are now on a mission to help the country achieve net zero and to decarbonise their sector, while continuing the crucial business of food production. New polling by the NFU shows that 84% of farmers want net zero measures to be part of the new system that will reward farmers for environmentally friendly farming.

The climate impacts of the food system are not limited to production in the UK. Growing numbers of consumers are also aware that the food they eat is causing damage to tropical rainforests - when these are cut and used to rear animals for meat - and food companies are beginning to respond. But new environmental laws, like the one the UK is introducing, can help to remove deforestation from the supply chain.

Today we know that working with nature and stabilising the climate will mean we have the weather, water, soil, and pollinators that we are dependent on for food production, reducing the risks of shortages driven by climate change. Now the Government is choosing to reward farmers not just for their crucial role in feeding the nation but also for helping us to get to net zero and restore nature – this is a farming future the UK can showcase as it prepares to host COP26.


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In Praise of Former Girlfriends or, My Own Private Nanowrimo

November was mostly a lousy month for me, one of too much self-loathing, too much substance abuse, too much self-loathing, too little productivity or socializing (three nights out in a month? I think that's it). Even instant messaging was too much for me, let alone posting entries here (and never mind my Nanowrimo intentions). Mostly what I did do was watch far too many episodes of The Simpsons and various videos (all rented, sad to say - my desktop has died and I have yet to get it working again).

But that's not why I am posting now. Though it's early days yet, the paralysis has lifted and I don't want to bemoan my (self-inflicted) fate any more than you, Gentle Readers, want to hear about it.

What I do want to do is offer up some thanks to my (ex) ex, Siya, who last week - maybe inadvertently - tossed my a live-preserver.

She called me on Wednesday (or was it Thursday?) last week, said she was at her new home working on getting things organized. "Why don't you bring your laptop? I need company and you need to write. You have to promise to do at least 2,000 words."

Gentle Readers, I nearly said no, such was my state of mind, my lack of self-confidence.

"Let me finish breakfast and call you back," I said. During that interregnum, a ridiculous argument raged inside my head, but wisdom won out. I called her back. "I'll be over in an hour," I said, and an hour later (or maybe a little longer) I parked my bike in front of her place and rang the bell.

We talked for a few minutes, she showed me what she'd done with the place (a lot!) and we shared a smoke or two, then I opened my machine and she went off to work on making her place liveable.

And staring at my screen, away from my own home and with no internet connection to distract me, my god I did it. 2,000 words over the course of four or so hours! And another 2,000 the next day, when we repeated the process.

Over the weekend, things fell apart for me again, but yesterday I managed to start writing again and continued again today. The paralysis has left me and I feel better than I have in quite some time - now, to ensure that I make a habit of it, every bloody day ...

Thanks, Siya.
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Believe it or not, but we all have got a habit of shopping online nowadays. The minute we get any spare time, we start scrolling through the websites in search of products for ourselves. be it clothes, home decor, shoes or beauty products, today finding things are as easy as scrolling through the website, doing some swipes and clicks and you will have all the items right at your disposal. And the best thing, this all can be done right from the convenience of your home. That being said, the point of this article is not to tell you all good things about online shopping but the best perfumes you can buy from Nordstrom’s online store. While we understand that buying perfumes online without being able to sniff it just seems so bizarre but shopping for them online comes with its own set of benefits. The convenience of buying things virtually is undoubtedly the biggest benefit but the internet also provides you with a platform where you can find good deals and steals. Apart from that, you might also be able to find all the classic and emerging brands that you may not find at the stores.

If you have been looking to buy perfumes online, then Nordstrom is one of the best online shopping websites you can check out to find the best one for yourself. To make it easier for you, we have rounded up a list of some of the best perfumes you can purchase from Nordstrom.

Chance Eau Fraiche eau de toilette spray

Chanel is one of the most iconic brands and it has some of the craziest collection of perfumes in the market. This perfume from Chanel has a very fresh aroma to it with highlighted notes of citrus, water hyacinth, and jasmine. Along with that, the perfume is also incorporated with woody aroma; including notes of fresh vetiver and amber of patchouli. The perfume is neither too strong nor too light; it strikes a perfect balance between the two and has a very crisp and clean fragrance. Just a little bit of it can go a long way, spray it on all the best spots of your body and you’ll be good to go for hours.

Yves Saint Laurent

Mon Paris Eau de parfum

Are you totally into a fruity and floral fragrance? Then this might just be the right perfume for you which belongs to one of the most well known and reputed brands. This perfume perfectly exudes the passion and romance of Paris, which is known to be the city of love. If you like your perfume to have fruity and floral hints to it and doesn’t want it to feel too strong, then you should definitely consider getting this one for yourself. It is bold and sophisticated at the same time and feels very feminine which is a great thing.

Viktor and Rolf

Flowerbomb Eau de parfum spray

With hints of rose petal and vanilla, this is a perfume spray that explodes with flowers. You can expect the fragrance to be very feminine, sensual and lavish. If you have been looking to buy a perfume with classic floral feel to it, then you should definitely check out this product which is really popular among the masses. The fragrance of this perfume is very pleasing and you’ll never get tired of wearing it.

Le Labo

santal 33 Eau de parfum

If you’re not a big fan of fruity floral and sweet fragrances, then this perfume might just be the one for you. It has a woody and spicy hint to it which can be used by both men and women, making it unisex. You can expect this perfume to last for really long which is a really great thing considering the fact that most of the perfumes don’t stay put for a long time.

twilly d’hermes Eau de parfum

This is one of the most sensual perfumes you can find in the market. The perfume has a warm floral fragrance with hints of ginger, tuberose and sandalwood, this mixture makes the fragrance both spicy and floral at the same time. The intoxicating feel of this perfume is known to uplift your mood. If you have been looking to buy a perfume that has both floral and spicy feel to it, this might just be the right perfume for you.


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What Evolution?

The history of our species is not evolution. It is much more like involution. Here we are, standing on the last step of a planned inevitable decline, which gradually deprived us of our divine power to drive us into men-machines

Two hundred years ago,I pity the Christians who still believe that. Poor them. we were convinced that God had created the world. And then came the theory of evolution and celestial mechanics, Newton and Darwin, chance and necessity. Two centuries later, we realize we dropped one religion to another.

“There once was a picture of the world, demonstrated in a scientifically accurate way, that was aged 200 years. There once were only a few things to explore, and full knowledge covered the world … This modern fairy tale is the result of the theory of celestial mechanics by Isaac Newton and the theory of evolution of Lamarck, endorsed by Charles Darwin.The Theory of Evolution was initiated by the French man Lamarck A universal harmony is supposed to have always dominated.

Under these principles, everything, including our earth, has a gradual and uniform development.

By chance, an amino acid resulted in a single cell. It did not then developed into a two-cell, but directly into a form of complex life, as we were taught by the theory of evolution. Even if this would be correct, it raises a question which so far has not been formulated: where did the second cell, after the first one is formed by an incredible coincidence? There have been several amazing accidents, or two at the beginning? In this case, there must have been at any time, one day, a bicellular.

Why don ‘t we find one of this organism in nature, neither a tricellular nor a tetracellular?” (source)Dr H.J. Zillmer, Darwin’s Mistake, 2009

The objection is powerful. Darwin turned pale in his grave because he had already thought. We were fooled with this long buzz of missing link between ape and man. Nonsense! So many links are missing that we seek in vain for the chain. Obviously there is no need to wait for man to discover a missing link.

And what size! It is neither more nor less than the origin of organic life on this planet: how can we move from a single cell be as simple as an amoeba, to complex multi-cellular beings? They are composed of differentiated cells, assembled according to a blueprint, a timeline called DNA. At this point raises a new insurmountable problem.

“Where does the genetic code come from, how did it entered the cell is still one of the greatest enigmas of science.” (source)Dr H.J. Zillmer, Darwin’s Mistake, 2009 Until a satisfactory response is not given to this crucial issue, it is reasonable to doubt. One more issue is to consider.

More life develops, more complex it becomes, more incredible are the chances and more numerous the missing links. Darwin’s mistake, one more was to rely solely on chance to explain life and mind. All this beautiful bazaar which we belong ro would be here par hasardby chance?

Hearing this nonsense Einstein pitched a stroke: “God do not play dice!” he roared. But the argument did not stop there.

A few decades later, Jacques Monod,This French biologist became famous with his book “Le hasard et la nécessité”, “Chance and necessity.” a faithful Darwinian, presented Life, Universe and Man as a pure product of chance and necessity. But this very necessity, where does it come from? Why ? How? The laws of physics, who made them? Chance is what ? It comes from where? Who? On this point a detour through the etymology may lighten the debate. Chance in French is said hasard. This word comes from the Arabic word azar: the University of Cairo is called Al Azar.

Azar is the same word as ouzir, in Arabic, and it means Osiris. Ouzir is Osiris. “Everything happened par hasard”by chance also means “everything is the work of Osiris”. Osiris, according to Egyptian mythology, is the god who created man.

As a matter of fact, it seems impossible to get rid of creationism. From a scientific perspective, the creationist hypothesis seems excluded. However in genetics, it is as if “they”Who are “they”, the little green men? had intervened several times on the human genome in our evolution.

All new research revealing that one of the support of Darwinism which seemed very solid so far: the fundamental biogenetic law of Ernst Haeckel, is simply a hoax. All these theories date from the 19th century and must be thoroughly rethought. (source)Dr H.J. Zillmer, Darwin’s Mistake, 2009

Only outsiders like Zillmer or Velikowsky may give impetus to these studies by interdisciplinary thinking even if they lead to serious contradictions as did Velikowsky with “Worlds in Collision” in the last century, as Zillmer does today with “Darwin’s Mistake”.

Indeed, two centuries, a scientific theory is too much. Especially when you see everything that happened during these two centuries there. It is urgent, not to “rethink the man” as some say, but to feel otherwise.

From experience in our fibers, this man who fancies himself a god and lives like a beast. In kali-yuga, everything is reversed. So let us reverse Man, he would take himself to a beast and live like a god.

The theory of evolution, which Darwin relied on, has its limitations: many exceptions are added daily to the already long list of refuting facts or fossils.

But as we said the Darwinians have formed a kind of sect, completely unscientific, which claims to hold hostage every deviating thought. For the philosopher, for the epistemologist, it is urgent to denounce the old paradigm in the quarrel that opposed it to the new. The new paradigm is a non-aligned interdisciplinary scientific reflection. A new undertaking systematic doubt, to establish new bases in the picture that science gives us to the World and Man. This is neither a sect nor a religion.

This is not even ideology.
Just fresh air blowin’in the eternal wind.

Pseudo solution consisting to blindly trust science has led us into an impasse. For the holy modern science, daughter of  Descartes and Kant, has been deadlocked on the spirit by substituting the mind.

The elders showed us another science is possible. A science more intuitive, avoiding the hypertrophy of the left brain, refusing anything that cures all that thought petrified into dogma. It will fully utilize all resources of a human being, including the mind power, rejecting all that distorts and melts.

Once restored the Man in his greatness, once found the operability of our light body, what else could we fear?

Doubt is unpleasant condition, but certainty is ridiculous. (Voltaire)

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan


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The Pentathlon of Despair

I wasn't shot, stabbed, or set ablaze, so it was a good day.

Despite the craptacular suckliciousness of the events that permeated it, it was a good day.

First Event: The Flood

Ordinarily, I love the rain. However, I only love it when I am not experiencing a torrential downpour indoors. Especially when there are so many leaks you run out of buckets to hold the water in. Much of my day was spent in mopping up around where the drips were splashing out of all the containers. I mean, seriously, there was a lot of water.

Second Event: The Destitute

It's no secret that my store is crap at adding people to Payroll. So, when one of the newer cashiers asks for his (as yet nonexistant) paycheck, I had to tell him it wasn't in yet. Now, this would be the point where the new guy says, 'Okay, I understand,' except in this situation, 'new' means 'hired a couple of months back.' And yes, still no paycheck. So, I had to call my supervisor and have him approve a temporary loan for the cashier. What with the mopping up and other events (which are yet to be shared), this takes me a good four hours to do.

Third Event: The Transformation

There is a new cashier, whom I will refrain from naming, is a prick. When I was still a cashier, I got along with him. Sure, he had a slightly overbearing demeanor, but it's not like he was actively attempting to kill me. Now that I am a manager, though, all of that has changed. What was once a slightly overbearing demeanor has turned into outright rudeness, and the non-homicidal tendencies have flat-out disappeared. Plus, he's constantly saying I'm on a power-trip whenever I tell him to actually do his job, rather than let him wander through the store doing nothing. I truly despise him now. Especially since he has taken to deliberately sabotaging his register in order to make me stop whatever it was I had been doing, and get to Customer Service so I could kill the massive line that had formed in the time it took for me to get there.

Fourth Event: The Scavenger Hunt

At my most alert and active, I am slightly absentminded. Put me in a situation wherein I have been scurrying to and fro all day, as well as mopping and running register, and you have an Edminster who misplaces his all-important Manager Keys around a dozen times. A manager needs these keys to do anything of importance in my store. Especially for anything that requires changing prices on the registers. Let me break down the most drawn-out search that happened this evening.

01. Get called over to Register to adjust price due to LUser error.
02. Reach in pocket for keys.
03. Discover keys are not in pocket.
04. Check other seven pockets. (Cargo pants. I have this thing abot needing pockets...)
05. Run to the cash office to check inside for keys.
06. Discover cash office door is locked.
07. Climb through the ceiling to get into the cash office, making good use of Ninja Skillz.
08. Discover keys are not in cash office, and leave.
09. Realise that you did not check inside the Safe in the cash office.
10. Repeat steps 5 thru 7.
11. Check inside Safe.
12. Discover keys are not in Safe.
13. Curse own stupidity.
14. Run to the small animals department, checking the desk for keys.
15. Briefly entertain the thought that the keys were just a figment of the imagination.
16. Glance over to the registers and see line stretching into the aisles.
17. Run towards the registers, hoping for some miracle to find your keys.
18. Slip on keys.
19. Curse God's sense of humour.
20. Use keys, and get yelled at for taking so long.

Fifth Event: The Abdication

One of the small animal department's associates announced that tonight would be his last night. Not the most welcome thing in the world to hear, especially since he is damned good at his job. So, I spent most of the evening fretting, and attempting to adjust the schedule so thar I could get along without him for the next week. This is hampered by the fact that he is working an eleven-hour shift the next day. Around 2030, he tells me that he feels really bad about how much stress this is giving me, and instead changes the sudden leaving into a formal two-week's notice. I thanked him quite profusely, and quit worrying so much. Thank you, Dave, for not giving me ulcers.

And that wraps up the Pentathlon. Now, since I never like to dwell on the negative, here are some good things I learned:

Granny Smith Apples are very tasty when nearly frozen. Milk, on the other hand, not so much.

G'night everybody, and stay safe out there in Internet Land!
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Ed Schweppe (edschweppe) wrote,
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Yep, that was a career-limiting move

According to this Central Command / Fifth Fleet press release, the skipper of USS Hartford is no longer the skipper of the USS Hartford:

MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- The commanding officer of USS Hartford (SSN 768) was relieved of command April 14 due to loss of confidence.

Rear Adm. Michael J. Connor, commander, Task Force 54 (CTF 54) and commander, Submarine Group 7, relieved the commanding officer of USS Hartford (SSN 768), Cmdr. Ryan Brookhart.

Connor expressed his loss of confidence in Brookhart's ability to command. Brookhart was in command of Hartford when the submarine collided with USS New Orleans (LPD 18) March 20, in the Strait of Hormuz. Although the investigations into the accident are not complete, Connor determined that there was enough information to make the leadership change.

This isn't exactly what I'd call surprising. Given what little I know about the geometry of the collision, and what even less I know about the "rules of the road" as applied to submarines [1], I figured the odds were pretty good that the Hartford's crew were going to be at least partially at fault for the collision - which automatically puts the skipper's career on the chopping block.

Once those "investigations into the accident" are complete, I expect that a few more punitive actions will be taken - with the XO, Navigator and ship's control party the likely targets. That's not going to be a happy boat for a long while ...

[1] Rule 1: Don't hit anything. Rule 2: Don't break your boat. Rule 3: Don't break anybody else's boat - inadvertently.
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