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RobertJackson58585858

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Family History, AncestryDNA, rubbish DIY, rubbish DIY guitars, coffee, leftish politics.😎
Colourblindness😭
Sobriety🙄
Enjoyed A level maths 50 years ago, still do!

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https://youtu.be/qnmTcE5-HpI?si=9rINFLP11b0MY4y9

On braids ... Including hair braids!

I wondered how they were handled :))

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https://janeactsandchats.com/2024/05/16/the-prisoner-now/

A blog by Jane Merrow about Patrick McGoohan and his UK 1960s TV series Dangerman and the better known one: The Prisoner, in which she took part.



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:(

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Chemistry is like physics where the particles have personalities - and chemists love talking about the really nasty ones. It makes for fun reading, like Derek Lowe's column "Things I Won't Work With". For example, bromine compounds:

"Most any working chemist will immediately recognize bromine because we don't commonly encounter too many opaque red liquids with a fog of corrosive orange fumes above them in the container. Which is good."

And that's just plain bromine. Then we get compounds like bromine fluorine dioxide.

"You have now prepared the colorless solid bromine fluorine dioxide. What to do with it? Well, what you don't do is let it warm up too far past +10C, because it's almost certainly going to explode. Keep that phrase in mind, it's going to come in handy in this sort of work. Prof. Seppelt, as the first person with a reliable supply of the pure stuff, set forth to react it with a whole list of things and has produced a whole string of weird compounds with brow-furrowing crystal structures. I don't even know what to call these beasts."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-bromine

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@johncarlosbaez @ChateauErin

I've not considered this classification of human activities ... Those which impact us from inside our brains and those from outside.

A quick ponder is asking me if Russell's Paradox applies ...

...
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AAARRGGHH Bisto !!

RobertJackson58585858,
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@nsummers12345

My decorator has detected certain "incidents" conveniently forgotten over the years.

One of my late mother's tended to involve one of those pressure cookers with little weights on that, if lifted off before it cooled, tended to shoot brussel sprouts in the air.

RobertJackson58585858,
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@nsummers12345

I bet the conversation around Bisto getting on the ceiling was worth listening to :))

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Two items of clothing ... pullover and slacks ... have been sitting on a bedroom chair for months awaiting a button and a darn.

Proudly have done both.

Yet more proudly done without extracting blood nor sewing the two together nor sewing either to my shorts, shirt, vest or pants.

The latter, by sheer numbers of ways it could go wrong, is astonishing.

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DavidKButler, to random
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Here is a tweet of mine from 2019 that is still relevant to me.

A fear I find hard to articulate:
When we do "fun maths" activities and then the kids go back to their usual classrooms and do the usual things, are we just emphasising that the "fun maths" isn't real maths and the real maths is the not-fun bit?

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@christianp @DavidKButler

Gentlemen, 50 years ago I did maths at Warwick. Looked forward keenly to topology after seeing some "fun" stuff.

In one of the topology lectures he said with his back to us "I can write on the board faster than you can take notes".

Because that's all it was. No handwavy "this is what we're trying to distinguish when we talk of ..... Spaces compared with ..... Spaces".

Just appalling, in hindsight.

But we knew no better.

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@DavidKButler @christianp

Also, I suppose, it depends in part what is considered "fun" ... I recall being on holiday before university with my parents & they had a bottle of Mateus Rosé Portuguese wine in its uniquely shaped bottle ... I sat there happily trying to calculate its volume with calculus.

Some would say it's an application.

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Will catch up later ... an excellent thread today ... thank you all!

Have a good fortnight (or so).

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Q5 What kinds of changes in the law affected chain migration? @genchat

RobertJackson58585858,
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Stretching "Law" ... change in government policy to subsidised migration ... £10 passages from England to Australia in the 1960s.

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Q3b Beyond immigration records, what are some other indicators of chain migration? @genchat

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Obituaries in newspapers. My New Zealand groups are blessed with access to the NZ free online newspapers. Several have stories or summaries of their migration attached/included.

Also newspaper reports of "after dinner" talks given about their arrival.

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@DebR @genchat @genchat

I also subscribe. I also struggle to get the search to work cleanly ... It's also difficult to reproduce a search to find things again :(

So I adopted the approach of screenshotting on my tablet anything I will want to keep then upload that image to my tree. I don't bother "linking" the articles to Ancestry.

The Australian (Trove) and NZ newspapers are a public database & rather good to search. Trove has a bot on Mastodon which pumps out a snippet every hour or two.

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A1 Wikipedia had a pretty good explanation & further info @genchat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_migration#:~:text=Italian%20immigration%20in%20the%20late,for%20work%20as%20migrant%20laborers.

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@genchat @genchat

So, in that case I have two classic cases ... both being folk going to New Zealand in the 1840s. One on mom's side and one on dad's. Both were groups organised for free passage by their churches.

One was on the Martha Ridgeway the other on a ship whose name escapes me.

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@genchat @genchat

In both cases it was the move by the UK government to try to populate New Zealand with "respectable" folk.

That is, not as a penal colony :(

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@genchat @genchat

I had a third!

My great granny's sister took part in a migration from Winson Green, Brum, to Utah ... she fell in with a group of Mormons recruiting in Brum and went with her husband. Her husband died shortly after arriving in New York but later married a man(on the wagon trail to Utah) widowered when his wife died half way across the US.

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Erm

Erm

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@genchat @genchat

Yes ... I now recall ... The other ship was the Birman.

Unfortunately on a later voyage the Martha Ridgeway sank :((

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ICEBREAKER Do you have instances of chain migration in your family line? @genchat

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Icebreaker ... I do not know.

The word "chain" attached to migration is new to me.

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@genchat @genchat

Right!

In that case I suspect I haven't found any yet.

Most of our migrations seem to be as couples or groups.

Except one mildly scandalous one which turned to tragedy as a couple travelled from England to USA separately to elope secretly but later he brought back their child after she died & married her sister.

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Ahah!

Thank you.

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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Good afternoon ... hope all had a good fortnight.

RobertJackson58585858, to random
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#ArtDeco
Dilapidated and run down. By the bus terminus in Ross on Wye in Herefordshire.

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To say I am blown away is an understatement, What a night! Glastonbury Tor and the Aurora...incredible.

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@Glastomichelle

You have captured the iconic image of the night, Michelle.

First class!

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