http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2LxhE7O5ug
Get off that ice floe, dog.
You are not a seal…etc.
In The Russian port of Magadan, an unfortunate dog – somehow stranded on a chunk of floating ice in the Sea of Okhotsk – is rescued by heroic fishermen.
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A Guinness container outside Trinity College, Dublin, in the wee small hours (2.02am) of this morning.
Earlier: It’s Tank Time.
Thanks Phil Meyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYDfrqkjugc
Wikipedia sez:
At temperatures below about −25 °C (−13 °F), bubbles will freeze in the air and may shatter when hitting the ground. When a bubble is blown with warm air, the bubble will freeze to an almost perfect sphere at first, but when the warm air cools, and a reduction in volume occurs, there will be a partial collapse of the bubble. A bubble, created successfully at this low temperature, will always be rather small; it will freeze quickly and will shatter if increased further.
That’s what we thought.
Previously: What Happens When You Throw Boiling Water Out The Window On A -41°C Day?
The Government plans special legislation to cut the pensions of the highest-paid former public servants by some 5 per cent.
Although the move is part of a general cut in all public pensions above €32,500, the greatest reductions will be imposed on senior figures who held high public office and those who led State and other public institutions.
Those affected by the measure include former taoisigh Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen, John Bruton and Albert Reynolds and many members of the previous government.
Mr Ahern and Mr Cowen will see their pensions cut to €142,655 from €150,163 under the move; Mr Reynolds’s pension will drop to €141,513 from €148,961;and Mr Bruton’s pension will fall to €134,728 from €141,819.
How will they get by?
Former top public servants face 5% pension cut (Arthur Beesley, Martin Wall, Pamela Duncan, Irish Times)
(Laura Hutton, Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
In this clip from an interview with CNN, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson explains the theoretical protection strategy that will be used should a giant asteroid threaten the extinction of humanity.
They won’t be nuking that sucker, either. It’ll be more ‘touchy-feely’ than that.
Abnormal/wide load traveling Dun Laoghaire Port to At James Gatethis evening 10pm -3 am .Motorist advised to useN11 and M50 .
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) February 26, 2013
Related: Container Yourself
(Thanks Cathal O’Rourke)
UPDATE: Chris Donoghue tweetz:
Saw your tweet too late & got stuck…
“I’m not in the business of criticising Brian Lenihan…”
Michael Noonan ‘ends’ the bank guarantee classily this afternoon at the Department of Finance.
Noonan Ends Bank Guarantee (MerrionStreet)
Via Fine Gael.
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What about de trees?
Outlining details this afternoon at Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin, of a private members’ motion (which will be put to a vote in the Dail this week) to halt Coillte’s plan to sell off harvesting rights to Ireland’s 1.2 million acres of public forests, were from left, Joan Collins TD, Catherine Murphy TD, Clare Daly TD and Richard Boyd Barrett TD.
Bertie Ahern is chairman of the International Forestry Fund, a private tree-felling operation.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)