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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • The first time I was ever put through a metal scanner and a pat down was when landing at an airport in the UK. Mind you, this was before 2001, but any traveler complaining was given dirty looks or pulled aside, one of my co-travelers was pulled aside and his luggage was searched and he was more thoroughly searched and questioned for a while (can’t remember exactly how long, but it delayed us for a conference and we were too late for our hotel check in, so we had out of pocket expenses).

    I guess borders are a bottle neck…








  • What the article doesn’t mention is that the train driver/engineer was worried that the terrain under the tracks was weakened by the weather and rain. The driver got in touch with the command centre and they agreed to the suggestion of lowering the train’s speed, which meant that the derailment wasn’t as dangerous or critical as it could have been otherwise.

    Also, the brook Susabäck (bäck = brook) is not a river. It is a brook. “The rustling brook river” sounds like “DVD disc”.