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  1. Supposedly out for delivery today. Expected Delivery on THURSDAY 28 March 2024 between 9:15am and 1:15pm Your item is out for delivery on March 28, 2024 at 6:10 am in SANTA ROSA, CA 95409.
  2. Never the person who committed the crime.
  3. The 9th does what the 9th does, regardless of the Constitution and SCOTUS. Especially the en banc panels.
  4. And once again the NRA ignores California.
  5. It seems that either is acceptable. And, I think that technically, since the projectiles are hollow and filled with explosives, they are "shells." Just as with muzzle loading artillery which had solid shot, "common shell," spherical case, and canister. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16-inch/50-caliber_Mark_7_gun The Mark 7 gun was originally intended to fire the 2,240-pound (1,020 kg) Mark 5 armor-piercing shell. However, the shell-handling system for these guns was redesigned to use the "super-heavy" 2,700-pound (1,200 kg) APCBC (Armor Piercing, Capped, Ballistic Capped) Mark 8 shell before any of the Iowa-class battleship's keels were laid down. The large-caliber guns were designed to fire either an armor-piercing round for anti-ship and anti-structure work, and a high-explosive round for use against unarmored targets and shore bombardment. The North Carolina and South Dakota classes could also fire the 2,700-pound Mark 8 shell with the 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun, although with a shorter range. The Mark 6 gun was not as heavy as the Mark 7, which helped both battleship classes to conform to the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty. However, the two treaty-era battleships fired their shells at a lower muzzle velocity, which made their plunging fire superior to that of the 16"/50 caliber gun.[6] The Mark 8 shells gave the North Carolina, South Dakota, and Iowa classes the second-heaviest broadside of all battleship classes, even though the two ships were treaty battleships, exceeded only by the Yamato-class super-battleships. Each D839 propellant (smokeless powder) grain used for full charges for this gun was 2 in (51 mm) long, 1 in (25 mm) in diameter and had seven perforations, each 0.060 in (1.5 mm) in diameter with a web thickness range of 0.193 to 0.197 in (4.9 to 5.0 mm) between the perforations and the grain diameter. A maximum charge consisted of six silk bags (hence the term "bag gun"), each filled with 110 lb (50 kg) of propellant.[1] and http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_16-50_mk2.php ^Shell stowage for the South Dakota class was to be as follows: Each of the four mountings had 212 projectiles distributed as follows: 62 projectiles in the shell handling room 138 projectiles in the turret stool 12 projectiles in the shell hoists Turret #2 had 48 projectiles on the third deck. There were an additional 541 projectiles stowed in shell rooms on the first platform deck. In total, the planned stowage was 1,437 projectiles.
  6. I ordered a spiffy crochet hook for my wife. OK, it would be late for her birthday. Tracking originally said Thursday, 28 March. Yesterday morning I checked tracking and said it would arrive on Wed. 27 March. Great! Checked tracking a little later, Departed Santa Rosa (where we are) to Ukiah....about an hour north of here. What? Well, maybe the parcel facility is there.....NOPE! Wonder how long USPS will play ping pong with it? Moving Through Network Departed USPS Facility PETALUMA, CA 94954 March 28, 2024, 3:20 am Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility NORTH BAY CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER March 28, 2024, 1:44 am Processing at USPS Facility UKIAH, CA 95482 March 27, 2024, 10:40 am Arrived at USPS Facility SANTA ROSA, CA 95404 March 27, 2024, 2:02 am Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility NORTH BAY CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER March 26, 2024, 11:08 pm Departed USPS Regional Facility AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER March 26, 2024, 9:26 am Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER March 25, 2024, 7:57 pm Accepted at USPS Origin Facility AUSTIN, TX 78744 March 25, 2024, 6:42 pm
  7. If they didn't already know it, listening to the talking heads won't help them. I was pretty sure of it before the blatherers blathered about it, they just confirmed it. One of the local news guys pointed out that the MV was never in the proper channel but ran parallel to it. To me that screams navigation error. It had room to clear until power was lost. Barely clear, but clear the bridge.
  8. From what I understand the talking heads saying about cantilever bridges a failure of any section with bring the whole thing down. And bridges aren't designed to carry much lateral load.
  9. I shall, thank you. In the photo of her in the car she is wearing a sweater she made.
  10. Found on FB: Boat Tail vs Flat Base Battleship Shells In the WW2 era, only the French and Japanese adopted the “Boat Tail” base shape for their Battleship shells. The purpose of the boat tail on the shell base is that it allows the airflow to remain attached to the surface of the shell until it reaches the reduced diameter base, resulting in less base drag. Base drag is caused by the low-pressure ('suction') area created directly behind the shell as it travels through the air, slowing the shell. Interwar testing by the Japanese revealed that just adding the boat tail to their 14” shells achieved a 2,000 yard range increase with no other shell or gun modifications. Ballistician Bryan Litz wrote that the boat tail allows the projectile to "retain velocity / energy at long range, as well as less drop and wind deflection". The 38cm / 15” APC shells manufactured by the US firm of Crucible Steel for Richelieu in 1943 retained the boat tail base, although not exactly identical to the original French shell profile… The Royal Navy discovered in 1945 that putting a tracer on large calibre shells reduced the base drag effect, but information is lacking on how much research was done and the extent these tracers were implemented on existing shells. Post WW2 the RN did have a 14" APC projectile designated "Shell, Breach-Loading, Armour-Piercing with Cap, 14-Inch, Heavy, K, Mark IB Night Tracer" that presumably had a tracer base plug fitted. As a follow-up, in the 1960’s the projectile base bleed or base burn system was developed in Sweden to increase artillery range by expelling burning gas (similar to a tracer) into the low pressure area behind the shell to reduce base drag, this extended the range of the modified shells by around 20–35%. The boat tail projectile shape should be very familiar to you rifle shooters…. Many thanks to Ed Low for his assistance Diagram made by (FB Author)."
  11. I'll stick with the original, Green Jalapeno, or Chipotle. Others I like are Tapatio and Cholula. Get much over that and all it is is hot with no flavor.
  12. Good news https://fb.watch/r42p8xarUo/?mibextid=Nif5oz After a long 22 day stay, our Deputy Nick Dellia was released from a local hospital this morning! He has been hospitalized since he was critically injured in the deputy-involved shooting on March 4. Today marked a big step forward in his recovery with his friends, family, brothers, and sisters by his side. Local agencies joined us in supporting Deputy Dellia as we gave him a warm send off. He’s heading to a rehabilitation facility to continue his journey. Sonoma County, you have been extraordinarily supportive of Deputy Dellia and his family since this frightening incident occurred. We cannot thank you enough for the love and support you’ve provided the past three weeks.
  13. No sense if adventure! These tacos come in a paper pouch rather than wrapped in paper, so any spillage was contained. Good luck to the Devil Rays! We have actually taken a liking to the Giants the last few years. Which puts me in a bind on opening day. I was raised in San Diego County so I have a long standing affection for my original home team. Opening day we will see the Giants v. Padres. As an aside, baseball is the most religious of sports....it has Padres, Cardinals, and Metropolitans!
  14. So do we. Is it great food? No. But it's reasonably tasty, familiar, and modestly priced. We were pleasantly surprised by the BK tacos. The tortilla was crisp and an actual tortilla, not the preformed hard shell. Texture was between a fried flour tortilla and a fried corn tortilla. Meat filling was a crumble, not a paste. A slice of cheese rather than shreads. threads. It's a visual daily weather chart for the year, charting the daily high and low. The crafter picks colors for however they want to break down temperature ranges and each day is a row. See: https://www.guidepatterns.com/free-temperature-blanket-patterns.php Examples found online She's having fun with it. Decided she also wants a different stitch for each month, which means she has to learn some new stitches. Along with it she's making a "rain pillow, " charting weeks with rain, and using color to show how many inches of rain. "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife."
  15. Nice looking pan. How long have you had it?
  16. Her temperature blanket, just the middle section. About 6 foot wide and will end up about 8 foot long. She's up to about March 5th on it now. The stitch she used for February took longer to do than she thought it would. Hmmmm.....this phone saves photos in a weird format that won't work here. I'll have to figure it out.... 20240326_202446.heic
  17. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/april/willis-lee-naval-academy-years https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/us-people/l/lee-willis-a-jr.html Quite a guy! A good video except the guy seems unable to form a paragraph without profanity . So I posted it as a link rather than embedded. https://youtu.be/cu9Mi0ury38?si=E9N2vbLbxEk_mNaN
  18. That's today. She got up about 0400 to use the necessary, when she came back to bed I greeted her with We got up, started the coffee and turned on the news to get information about the Baltimore Bridge I asked if she wanted to go out for breakfast. She said she didn't, but really wanted pancakes. Made a batch at about 0700. She went to the Tuesday Crochet and Cards at the clubhouse at 1100. I did dishes and such. She came home after only about 75 minutes, wanted to go to Taco Bell. As we were on the way I said something about wondering which way to go, at that time of day there isn't any way to get there.....or anywhere in town....that's not a PITA...so she said, "OK, Burger King, McDonald's, I just want to get out and have something different." BK it was. "Ooooo.....tacos, 2 for $2!" she said as we pulled into the drive through. So be it. Those things are pretty good ! As we were waiting I asked if she wanted to go out to Bodega Head. "Yes!!" Away we went. Told her that I wouldn't want a taco until we were on Hwy 12 West. "But feel free to go ah..."(CRUNCH)"had and start," I said as she bit into one. Then had to not snort crisp tortilla out her nose. Got out to Bodega Head....a beautiful N. California drive through some truly gorgeous country which she kept commenting on....and as we were standing there letting the bracing sea breeze (wind about 15, temperature about 58) wash through us I started to take out my phone to get a few pictures, stopped and told myself to just enjoy. Then she said, "Look atthecolors!" Now, she is working on a Crochet "temperature blanket." One row for each day, different color for each 10 degrees, high and low temperature, and some calculations for how many stitches for day and night so there won't be a straight line down the middle. Kinda cool. One of the tools she has is a program that will take an image and generate a color palette for it in however many colors you want. She's already planning the blanket for next year. I looked around and pulled out the phone to capture the colors. She should be able to get some good colors out of those . Only downside is that she has lost enough weight over the last. 6 months that her shoes are loose, so her feet slipped a little in her shoes, took a tumble on the sandstone, got some scrapes and scratches. Nothing serious. But even that had an upside...within about 10 seconds 4 or 5 people were there to help get her up, grab her cane, purse, and hat off the ground, asking if she was OK. Even with the fall she says she has had a great day.
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