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One of the problems that is arising with DNA sequencing is if you find out that your gene mutuations make you predisposed to certain medical conditions that affect your quality of life, or which will lead to early death or disablement - then the life insurance companies can refuse to insure you, on the basis you're a bad risk, or have a much higher chance than the average person, of making a claim. And they may start to make a DNA test compulsory, before they insure you.

I'd be questioning the abilities and qualifications of the people who designed a shower chair that could easily trap ones testicles! I could well imagine that company won't get a second chance at the next shower chair tender for supply of same!

This comprehensive DNA study is one of the biggest ones carried out on any Asian nation, and it reveals some interesting things about Japanese ancestry, as well as discovering the sizeable number of Asians who have a predisposition to contracting and dying from COVID-19, due to a DNA weakness inherited via Neanderthal genes. https://scitechdaily.com/who-are-the-japanese-new-dna-study-shocks-scientists/

I'd be disappointed if I got to 99, and didn't make 100! I've known several people who did that, they died just a few months short of their 100th.

It's a compass direction trick question, and a very clever one at that. The picture descriptions of Thorn, Shout, and Stew, are anagrams of the three cardinal directions of the compass: North, South and West. So the answer is A, because Seat is an anagram of East.

In War, psychology plays just as big a part in winning, as the number of soldiers killed. Psychological warfare undermines enemy morale, and low morale leads to a defeatist attitude.

In my experience, high carbon steels rust more quickly than low carbon steels. Low alloy, high tensile steels in the likes of high grade fasteners, such as Grade 8 or metric Grade 10.9 bolts always rust rapidly. The modern high tensile steels in car body panels rust faster than the old car bodies, which used mild steels. But different irons and steels all possess substantially different properties, so nothing is guaranteed. The older steels may have more impurities such as small slag inclusions, which discourage rust, and sometimes there's a high copper content in older steels, and this inhibits corrosion. Steels produced to a standard have a very strict quantity range of copper, phosphorous, sulphur and carbon levels in the steel, and this wasn't the case in older steels that didn't have to meet specific steel standards, they just had to do the job they were produced for. Also, scrap content makes up a surprising amount of furnace feed - even in the old days. Scrap content can be 25%-30% of furnace feed and sometimes even more. It was known early on, that adding scrap of a known quality improved the steel/iron end result, as the scrap has already been refined at least once. But the quality control over the scrap being fed in, is the biggest factor in the quality of the end product.

You might have photographed Facthunter unwittingly?

They didn't make anything lightweight in the old days, and cast iron was always preferred to cast aluminium! - mostly because it was much cheaper!

Ha ha! Don't you just love the fan on the electric motor hanging out in space, with no shroud? - and they keep checking the motor to see if it's getting hot! Makes you wonder why they even left the fan on the shaft! When we had the Blokey Shed going, one of the Victorians on there (he was from out Gippsland way, I STR), had done a lot of slicing and dicing of timber and he reckoned he could never ever, get a good accurate cut with a bandsaw blade. He reckoned, no matter what you did to try and keep it true, it always wanted to woofle around and give you a wavy cut. He swore that steel disc sawblades were the only way to cut timber straight and true. But you need a darn big blade to cut any kind of decent width. I gotta laugh at the Americans referring to their "hardwood". They wouldn't know what a hardwood was! It never ceases to amaze me how fast their timber grows, though.

All the words contain all the vowels, but FACETIOUS is the only one that has them in the correct order.

Heroine

.....in everything, except spelling, obviously.

ENT - The letters are the first letter of the words for consecutive numbers, starting from 1, going through to 10.

I think the most despicable part of any warmongering group is the way they teach their toddler-age children that firearms are something to be worshipped, and how they teach their children that belief in the power of firearms is the way to go. The Middle Eastern terrorism groups are big on this, but they're followed closely by American Fundamentalists. I find their attitude of a love of firearms repugnant, it's nothing short of idol-worship, and yet they fail to see it.

D - the table. The first three are the equivalent of peoples names - Olive, Holly and Cliff. I haven't come across anyone name table yet, but I guess there's always a chance I will, judging by some of the weird names I encounter today!

I think the important thing is to distinguish the introduction of the involvement of innocent civilians into politically driven murders, assassinations and kidnappings. It's one thing to seek out and kill combatant and warmongering enemies who have clearly stated their aims - it's another thing altogether to kidnap and murder innocent civilians, and use them as pawns to gain power and territory. This is the most repugnant of all the acts of warmongering, and almost universally identifies the perpetrators as terrorists and indiscriminate, ruthless killers. However, as ever in this world, civilians are always the ones who suffer greatly when combatants engage. The pure misery on fleeing civilians faces in wartime, is always etched on my mind.

A, because it's the only shape that IS a square.

Jerry, you obviously haven't studied up on the Stern Gang and the Irgun, both groups being essentially terrorism gangs, who indulged in many terrorist acts against the British. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stern-Gang And as for Nick Freitas - well, he's a Fundamentalist Christian Republican who joined the U.S. Army as method of revenge for 9/11 - he supports Trump - is dead against Obamas Affordable Care legislation, and wants it dismantled - is rabidly pro-gun - opposes any increase in the Federal minimum wage - and wants the Wall finished on the Mexican border. A fine example of a rabid right-winger in U.S. politics, and no doubt a vocal backer of the Israel of today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Freitas Regardless of Freitas Crusader approach, I do agree with a lot of what he has pointed out, about the Palestinians and their constant return to terrorism.

Bring Up the Bodies - the first word of each title in the other four books.

This is in the wrong thread - but it's a warning - you'd better stock up on chocolate and Tim-Tams, because the world is facing a drastic cocoa shortage, that has seen the cocoa price reach a 50 year high. Fortunately for me, I'm not a chocolate aficionado, I never eat Tim-Tams, and I only rarely eat chocolate of any kind. But I can see a chocolate tragedy unfolding as chocolate prices go ballistic and people start wearing T-shirts saying, "Step away from the chocolate and no-one gets hurt!!" 🙂 https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/food/chocolate-prices-and-shrinkflation-set-to-soar-with-full-impact-of-global-cocoa-shortage-yet-to-be-felt-c-16186758

Having said the above, I have little time for the Israelis, either. The current day Israelis shoved their way into the "Holy Land", using terrorism tactics (the bombing of the King David Hotel being the worst episode), on the basis they are the Jews, described as the Chosen People in the Bible. But the Israelis of today have very little in common with the original Tribe of Israel as mentioned constantly in the Bible, they have merely imposed their "mission" of rebuilding Jerusalem onto the multitude of Arab nations who now live in the region. These people (todays Israelis) are the descendants of the Pharisees, the people that Jesus Christ didn't have a lot of time for, because of their greed for monetary wealth, and their incessant religious rule making - none of which rules are found in Biblical teachings, or the teachings of Jesus Christ. They are a dysfunctional group, gathered from many races, from all corners of the world, simply on the basis that they have some faint Jewish ancestry, and are worshippers of the Talmud. The ultra-orthodox Jews make claims to a special position in the world, which will not withstand scrutiny when the final Judgement Day arrives. But the part that worries me, and a lot of other people, is how slavishly American Christian Fundamentalists follow the erroneous religious belief that the Jews are the Chosen People and must be protected at all costs. If America stopped supporting Israel slavishly, and with a blank chequebook for armaments, then the Israelis would pose a far lesser problem to world peace, than they do today.

I don't have any problem with Israel taking out many screamingly mad Islamic terrorists. These people live to just murder, their religion tells them constantly to murder anyone who doesn't follow it, and Hezbollah and all the mad Iranians are responsible for a multitude of acts of terrorism, starting with the taking of the American (civilian) hostages in 1979. The way they treated those hostages was animalistic, and that's probably insulting to animals. These people have a constant record of taking innocent hostages for military and political gain, and I for one, would be quite happy to see Lebanon and Iran reduced to rubble. These are the descendants of the Canaanites, they have incessant murder in their DNA. The part that worries me, is we have already allowed too many of these people into Australia, and they will soon infect many others with their murderous teachings.

The Ghan doesn't travel through the Kimberley region, so someone has misled your brother. The region it does travel through is the more heavily timbered, semi-tropical region between Darwin and Katherine, but that area has nothing on the Kimberley region, which is in the far North of W.A. The Kimberley region possesses some of the most stunning and most remote areas of Australia, including the Mitchell Plateau, the Horizontal Falls, the Ord River and the Ord River Dam, Parrys Lagoon, the Gibb River Road, and Purnululu (the Bungle Bungle Ranges).

I see a power saw. Be very careful with power tools, and your already-displayed, lack of care towards body parts. We don't want to have to rename you "Lefty".