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Yes that is a good description of the process. A beginner tends to read each note like someone learning to read words by spelling out each letter. With more experience you can read a whole phrase A phrase is sort of like a sentence.

Having been a musician and music teacher my whole working life I have plenty to say about this. Musicians are fine with either system. Although in my youth I was taught crotchets, quavers etc As a teacher I have always taught both naming systems. I agree that whole, half etc is somewhat easier in that unless you have been taught the names of crotchets,quavers etc and rembered them, there is no way to deduce the next shorter note name. There can be a difficulty though. In the fractional system a whole note takes up the whole of a bar but only in 4/4 time. A half note goes for 2 beats, a quarter note goes for 1 and an 8th note goes for half a beat. It gets trickier in more complex time signatures such as 6/8

To be clear this person say: Grusch said he had never seen photos of the alleged recovered craft, but that he had spoken extensively with others who had. His claim is that there is evidence but we can't examine it because there is a cover-up. Whilst this is not impossible it still means that to believe it requires total faith in one person. it is always difficult when some make extraordinary claims and they also claim the evidence is being withheld. If the evidence doesn't exist (as I suspect) the "whistleblower" can use this absence of evidence as evidence of cover-up. There are many people who make grand claims about all sorts of things and use the absence of evidence as evidence for a coverup. On a more general level, it does seem pretty weird that these objects are supposed to be technologically way ahead of us. They would have had to travel many light years to reach Earth and yet when they get here at least some of them crash. If these things have been reverse-engineered for years where are the technological advances? Can anyone point to a technological leap that came out of the blue without a history of research or incremental progress? Of course, the "believers" will say the technological advances from reverse engineering are being kept secret. I would have thought Russia would have had great motivation to use new technology in Ukraine or that the US would have had more of an advantage in Afghanistan. I await real evidence rather than the assertions of one person.

An unidentified Flying Object implies a solid object. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena is a bit more accurate as many videos end up being artifacts of the camera such as bocah or reflections within the camera lens.

Yes, both of these acts are barbaric.

I do fully understand the anxiety that must come with pulling over a car where the driver may very well be armed. My point is that many of the incidents that have heard about seem to lead to confrontation and sometimes the shooting, often of an unarmed motorist who probably should not be the subject of a traffic stop. It often seems like the police in the US are driving around looking for minor infringements and then allowing them to escalate By contrast, I recall pulling up at a red light next to a police car and the policeman wound down his window and signaled me to wind down my window. He called out "One of your headlights is out, get it fixed mate" No need for a traffic stop and no need to tell me to put my hands where they can be seen. My point about authoritarianism is about how they seem to need to treat minor infringements as a big deal. This is the kind of thing. This man was pulled over because he had no rear number plate although he did have a temporary registration in the back window as the car had just been purchased, which is legal. The police did not notice this. Numerous times during this interaction the motorist inquired as to why he had been stopped. As far as I can see the motorist was civil and had the question about the nature of the stop been answered this would have been sorted out efficiently and amicably. Army officer pepper-sprayed by Windsor police, not owed apology, police say

Meteor blazes across north Queensland sky "Footage captured on smartphones, dashcams and security cameras by businesses and residents from Cairns on the east coast to Normanton on the Gulf of Carpentaria circulated on social media on Sunday, showing a fireball growing rapidly in size as it approached the Earth, followed by a blast of greenish-blue light. Colour footage captured by Cairns airport showed the sky lighting up green and then yellow as the meteor approached just after 9.22pm on Saturday." There has never been a time in history when there have been so many image-recording devices. Mobile phones, CCTV, dashcam, doorbell cam, etc. Also, we are monitoring space junk and I believe we can track objects down to 1cm At any one time are large numbers of sensors and people observing the sky. The skies are also full of aircraft 24/7. So-called UFO (or UAP) videos seem to come in 2. types The more common and perhaps understandable ones are of objects in cameras (often military night vision) that appear to be ill-defined and seem to behave erratically. Just about all of these have been explained and even reproduced. Then there is the stereotypical hovering saucer sometimes accompanied by some kind of alien (usually green and stereotypical). These hovering disks never seem to be filmed by more than one person and filmed from a different vantage point. According to NASA, there are very few sightings for which they do not have an explanation. This does not imply aliens, however. NASA shares findings of its first report on unidentified objects "The US government has, in recent years, centralised its system for reporting UAPs (don’t call them UFOs!). As a result, the Pentagon now receives between 50 and 100 reports every month. But only between 2 and 5 per cent of these are “really anomalous”, Dr Kirkpatrick said. And that’s usually more to do with a lack of data than any strange behaviour, he added. “For the few objects that do demonstrate potentially anomalous characteristics, AARO is approaching these cases with the highest level of objectivity and analytical rigour." I do believe that life is likely to exist elsewhere in the universe in fact when my computer is idle I have an app called SETI at home which utilizes some of my computing power to search through signals looking for patterns that may indicate a deliberate transmission from beyond earth. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ We do need to be open-minded but not so open-minded that our brain falls out.

I can somewhat understand that in a country where many people are gun fetishists, pulling over a car may be stressful for the police. What I find hard to understand is the need to actually pull people over. Other than random breath testing I can't remember the last time I was pulled over but it must getting on for 30 years. I know people often complain about speed cameras however they do reduce the interactions between police and motorists. So many interactions in the US that end up in a motorist being shot start with something ultra trivial like a broken tail light etc. I think they have this macho "respect my authority" obsession. Here is an idea, the police spot a car with a broken tail light, report it to their equivalent of our motor registry and let them deal with it at rego time or they could cancel rego until it is inspected. It is dumb for the police to stop people for trivial reasons and in the case of the US often leads to an escalation that benifits no one.

I think that would be a reasonable point if we were talking about wrongful killing in the heat of battle. The allegations are so much more than that. It appears that this man was not only a menace to Afghan civilians but also to the soldiers under his command. How awful must it be for the solider who was relatively inexperienced and was ordered to shoot an unarmed prisoner in order the "blood the rookie" Bringing home the prosthetic leg of a person who was killed and drinking beer out of it does not suggest to me a man who in the heat of battle made a poor decision but suggests someone who is unhinged.

What is the strategic advantage of shooting unarmed civilians? Do you think ordering a junior soldier to execute someone as an initiation (to be so-called "blooded) is either strategically smart or ethical? Are the SAS soldiers who came forward and gave evidence bad in your book? The Taliban are despised by the average Afgahn however these kinds of actions only serve to radicalize the locals. One of the central allegations is about kicking a handcuffed man down a hill or cliff and then shooting him. This was not in the heat of battle. It takes a lot for other soldiers to speak out against one of their own.

This is clearly a joke With my skeptical hat on I would be wondering that given all the other people filming this, there surely be numerous videos from other vantage points. This looks like it is over a built-up area. Literally, thousands of people would have been able to see this. Where are thousands of eyewitness reports. On the other hand, you would surely agree that in the world of CGI, this is not particularly difficult to produce. My son has a computer games development company and his particular field is 3D animation. He did compositing like this even before he studied 3D animation. I am definitely not saying that other life forms don't exist in the universe however I maintain that there is no good quality evidence of visitation.

My problem is that there is no good-quality evidence. I would love it if there was but there isn't.

I was in a similar position (although not $1 million) We sold our property and bought a much smaller manageable place that is cheap to heat and cool and very easy to maintain. With the proceeds, we were able to retire at 57 and concentrate on having fun.

I am actually not particularly interested in the valuation of my place, I don't intend to sell it or borrow against it so its value is only of interest to the beneficiaries of my will. The value of a house is a complex thing. It is a coincidence that we are discussing house prices as today I have just sold my mother's house (on her behalf). The house sold the day after it was listed and went for the asking price which I thought was overly optimistic. The buyer is desperate to move in ASAP. The lack of other available properties in this price range has made this modest house more valuable than it perhaps would be if there were more properties on the market. I have been doing a little reading today about this issue and the reasons for the inflated housing market are numerous and complex. It is simplistic to point the finger at particular groups such as younger buyers or immigrants but these are not the biggest drivers. They do however contribute along with older folks using their super to buy investment properties or downsize but keeping their old properties to rent out. The increase in house prices applies not only to new fancy larger houses but also to small unimpressive houses like mine. It is mostly a question of supply and demand. https://www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au/market-analysis/the-6-key-drivers-of-property-prices

Whilst I think that expectations regarding house size and features have some bearing on the massive jump in house values I don't think it is the only driver and in fact perhaps not the major driver. House prices have gone up by different amounts in different cities which suggest to me that issue of availability may play a part. The long period of low-interest rates also drives up prices as people are able to get bigger loans to ensure their purchase in a tight market. if you follow the value of your own house you can see it rising rapidly over the years without massive improvements being made to the property. My own property has almost doubled in value over the last 6 years.

I feel this is balanced out by the astronomical cost of houses now. I got my first home in the mid-80s and the interest rates were enormous but the price of a house was a lot more manageable. My loan for my first home was I think $55000. I recently looked at a valuation of my first home that I sold in 1990 online and it is now valued at over 1 million. This is for a 3 bedroom house, nothing special.

I think the current financial pressures on the middle and lower classes (I hate these terms) are: 1) inflation 2) stagnant wage growth 3) interest rates 4) the high cost of real estate Inflation seems alarming partly because it has been so low for many years. In the past wages grew more consistently. My father worked in a factory and was a member of a strong union that consistently pushed for better pay and conditions. Today union membership is a lot lower and I can't help wondering if the working and middle classes have given away the power to ensure they don't fall behind. Likewise, interest rates stayed low for many many years. This for some people created a trap whereby they over-committed themselves in terms of how much they borrowed for a house. For those starting out, the cost of housing, either renting or buying has become enormous. Combine this with high interest rates, inflation, and low wage growth and you have a difficult situation. My own personal experience is that my grandparents were poor, living in public housing and never owning a car. My parents immigrated and my father worked in a factory and my mother worked as a nurse. Holidays were camping. My parents later in life could afford to travel overseas. By comparison, I am much "better off" My son is even better off. This means my personal experience is of increasing wealth and standard of living but that may not be indicative of many people. One thing I do sometimes notice is that people who are doing all right will portray themselves as struggling. I think it was the Howard government that started talking about the "Aussie battlers" Suddenly people I knew who lived in big houses and drove nice cars etc. suddenly wanted to portray themselves as struggling "Aussie battlers" In my own situation, I do feel "rich" in the broader definition of the word. I own a humble residence, I do not have to work anymore and I can travel occasionally overseas. I know I can pay my bills.

There are some great pieces of old railway infrastructure on these rail trails. This is Nimmins Bridge on the Ballarat Skipton trail. The trail goes over the bridge but you can also go under it. s

It is a rail trail. Throughout Australia, there are cycling/walking trails built on disused rail lines. This one is the Bellarine rail trail which goes from Geelong to Queenscliff. This rail trail still has the original rail and the bike path mostly runs parallel. This steam train is the only train that uses it. BELLARINE RAIL TRAIL My wife and I have ridden most of the rail trails in Victoria. One of the best rail trails we have ridden is from Bright to Beechworth. Most of the trails no longer have rails but you can see the remnants of stations, trestle bridges, and other historic stuff

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Apologies Marty, I quoted your quote from someone else, sometimes my fingers work faster than my brain For clarity the original quote was this one.

Fortunately, it did not have a toilet. It only does a 16km jaunt. You can actually see glowing coals at one point, could of melted my phone I suppose but well worth the risk.

I have done this so you won't have to get run over by a steam train - you're welcome!