Odd Thunar behaviour
I took about 145 photos at the American Football rookie camp today. Scrolling through these, some of the photo thumbnails are clearly not of American football, some are clearly of a rugby game.
The Rugby game in Question is actually between Paignton vets vs Chobham, a game that is played in February. This game was a few years ago.
For some reason Thunar is displaying some thumbnails as photos taken a few years ago. If I open one of these, then the photo is the photo taken today 10/9/2023. The file list also confirms this, as does viewing the properties.
I am not sure what is going on. All I can think of is, that the filenames are the same, for some reason Thunar has the old photo in a cache, which it is displaying instead of the actual photo that I took.
Just seems odd behaviour, this is Thunar under Debian 11.
Trojans Rookie camp week 2
**Rookie camp 2 **
Excellent rookie camp today with a real mixture of drills and activities. I
- Date: Sunday 17th September 2023.
- Time: 10:00 to 13:00
- Location: Foxhole Community Centre Field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
- Info : See website and social media
Links
Tags
#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#TorbayTrojans,#AlwaysTrojan
Trojans Recruitment day Write up
**Rookie camp 1 **
Excellent rookie camp today with a real mixture of drills and activities. I managed to take about 145 photos, so these have been shared internally with the team, so should be appearing on the various social media channels.
We started with a warm up, then progressed to the usual footwork drills, before moving on to a tackle practice using bags and then donuts.
After this we broke off to do combine drills, then finally did some work on running / passing skills and then some kicking.
More next week and we will have more rookies joining us.
Next rookie camp
- Date: Sunday 17th September 2023.
- Time: 10:00 to 13:00
- Location: Foxhole Community Centre Field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
- Info : See website and social media
Links
Team Status
We are rebuilding the team, looking for players, coaches and support personnel. Please see team social media for information.
Please join us on this journey.
Tags
#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#TorbayTrojans,
#AlwaysTrojan
Making a Sodium Chloride Solution attempt 3
So further to my previous video, where I measure out the required amount of Sodium Chloride, this video illustrates mixing the solution in a 100ml volumetric flask
Two parts to this video
- Measuring Sodium Chloride
- Making the actual solution
Tags
#Science,#Chemistry,#Molar,#Solutions.#HowTo,#Demonstration
September STEM Group Write up
The September STEM group was fairly quiet. I had one attendee at first and we attempted the planned experiments. These were
1 Add Bicarbonate of Soda to vinegar in a zip lock back, to demonstrate air pressure
2 Repeat but put holes near the top of the zip lock bag, this releases the CO_2 pressure and should produce an endothermic cooling.
In both cases the expected reaction took place. I don't think there was enough ingredients for the size of bag being used.
This is exactly why I need more help, so that I have someone who can help suggest ideas and improvements to experiments.
We also undertook some other experiments including adding Magnesium Ribbon to Vinegar and also added some to Copper Sulfate to demonstrate displacement. This needs to be repeated with better explanation however.
I have also made up a new solution of 0.5 M Citric acid at 100ml volume. This can be used for later sessions.
I also carried out an experiment to compare the reactions of antacid Rennie, in both CItric Acid Solution and White Vinegar. The videos for these are linked below.
I tried to use a Lime and some of the copper / zinc sheets I sent for to make a battery again this needs further experimentation and investigation(s).
There was a 2nd attendee in the afternoon, however all we could do is a basic acid / alkali experiment due to lack of resources.
Trojans Recruitment day
Recruitment day
- Date: Sunday 10th September 2023.
- Time: 10:00 to 13:00
- Location: Foxhole Community Centre Field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
- Info : See website and social media
Links
Team Status
We are rebuilding the team, looking for players, coaches and support personnel. Please see team social media for information.
Please join us on this journey.
Tags
#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#TorbayTrojans,
#AlwaysTrojan
NEW BLOG
My current writefreely blog, at personaljournal.ca is down due to a 502: bad gateway error. So I decided to set up a blog here, so I can share information until the admin is able to fix the issue.
Given this is a free service, I am not going to hurry people in to fixing things, tech failures happen.
NFL 2023 kick off weekend
The 2023 NFL season kicks off Friday, September 8th 2923. See here for the week 1 Schedule.
Links
Tags
#Football,#NFL,#Week1
Astro Pi 2023
Astro Pi 2023 Challenge coming soon.
What is Astro Pi?
The European Astro Pi Challenge offers young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space by writing computer programs that run on Raspberry Pi computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
2023 challenge opens mid September.
Please see website for details.
Note: As I run the STEM group, and we are a bring you own projects event, then I am happy for this to be a safe place to meet up and work on projects. However:-
- If you are working on Mission Zero you will need a PARENT / GUARDIAN to help you.
- If you are undertaking Mission Space Lab you will need a MENTOR to help you.
Tags
#Computing,#Space,#ESA,#AstroPi,#Challenge
A Giant Black Hole Destroyed a Star and Threw the Pieces into Space
I am sharing this 'as-is' the original fediverse post text is quoted below along with a link to the article.
A pair of X-ray telescopes have observed the messy aftermath of a star that came too close to a supermassive black hole 290 million light-years away. It's believed that the star had three times the mass of the Sun, so this was one of the largest tidal disruption events ever seen. Although the black hole consumed some of the star, most of its guts were thrown into the surrounding space, polluting the region with the chemicals that allowed astronomers to estimate its stellar mass.
Tags
#Science,#Astronomy,#Xray,#SuperMassive,#Blackhole