@AndrewJLowry

An engineer who listens to This Week in Virology, fights in armour, and finds history fascinating. Pronouns, Sir/Herehaveabeer.

 Niagara Falls, ON
Joined May 2009
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Connections Puzzle #1232 🟨πŸŸͺ🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟩🟩 🟩πŸŸͺ🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 break
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Ontario C-19 cases. From the OP β€œCase rates now are more indicative of serious illness than how much COVID is in the community.” Children are vulnerable. Protect young children by vaccination from 6 month and older and those around them such as parents and siblings.
Jeff Gilchrist@jeffgilchrist18h
Replying to @jeffgilchrist
Infants <1 have the highest COVID cases rates per 100k population so far this year, ages 75+ have the second highest rate, followed by ages 65-74 and closely behind ages 1-4. 10/
This bar chart shows the rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population in Ontario for the 2026 year-to-date period across eight distinct age groups. The graph visualizes a U-shaped distribution, revealing that infection rates are highest among seniors aged 75 and older and infants under one year old, while remaining significantly lower for children, adolescents, and younger adults.

ALT This bar chart shows the rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population in Ontario for the 2026 year-to-date period across eight distinct age groups. The graph visualizes a U-shaped distribution, revealing that infection rates are highest among seniors aged 75 and older and infants under one year old, while remaining significantly lower for children, adolescents, and younger adults.

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Great to see VeRA overhead today. @CWHM
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Connections Puzzle #1231 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩πŸŸͺ🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ sit down
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Connections Puzzle #1229 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩πŸŸͺ🟩 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩🟩 failed
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Andrew Lowry πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ retweeted
Lihong | Freeport
@Lihong062Oct 20
Was recently at a bar where drinks were dynamically priced, i.e. the more people bought a particular drink, the more expensive it became (price would then decayed over time towards a floor). Fascinating to watch a few market mechanisms play out in a bar: People ventured outside their usual orders in search of cheaper alternatives, often discovering new favorites in the process. Others treated rising prices as signals of quality, happily paying premiums to try expensive drinks they’d never had before. More experienced drinkers behaved like value investors, picking up underpriced drinks they already knew were good while everyone else chased the popular ones. Price discovery, information leakage, herding, and utility trades all unfolded over rounds of drinks. More bars should try this.
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Project '44
@project4_4Oct 21
Soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade run into snipers and machine gun fire, Campochiaro, Italy. This dramatic photograph shows Canadian soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade pinned down by sniper and machine-gun fire in the streets of Campochiaro, Italy, during the Italian Campaign. It is often misidentified as Ortona, but the image was actually taken earlier, in November 1943, as Canadian troops fought their way through a series of hill towns on the advance to the Moro River. The narrow streets and stone buildings of Campochiaro created a deadly environment for infantry. German and Italian defenders used high vantage points and prepared firing positions to sweep alleyways with machine-gun fire, while rubble and ruined walls made movement slow and exposed. Canadian troops responded with cautious advances, hugging walls, returning fire where they could, and relying on supporting arms to dislodge hidden defenders. Though less well-known than the later house-to-house fighting at Ortona, battles like Campochiaro were typical of the grinding Italian campaign: infantry pushing through fortified towns, enduring ambushes and sniper fire, and paying a heavy price for each step forward. This photograph captures the vulnerability and determination of Canadian soldiers in those momentsβ€”an image that has become symbolic of the difficult fighting in Italy.
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Connections Puzzle #1228 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ wrongs
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morning β˜•οΈ and working when I hear the familiar sound of four Merlin engines. I’m confused because I figured VeRA, the Lancaster bomber was in ❄️ maintenance. I check Flightradar 24. Go outside. I think of πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ airmen, sailors, & soldiers who sacrificed for us. @CWHM οΏΌοΏΌοΏΌοΏΌοΏΌ
A World War Two Lancaster heavy bomber against a blue sky. A Canadian flag in the lower right corner.

ALT A World War Two Lancaster heavy bomber against a blue sky. A Canadian flag in the lower right corner.

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A second fly over in the afternoon. Thank you.
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Then I was in Stoney Creek and saw a third fly over. This is a red letter day.
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Hidden History
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In 1942 a Dutch warship escaped the Japanese Navy by pretending to be an island. It worked. By early March 1942, the Dutch East Indies were falling. The Japanese had crushed the Allied fleet at the Battle of the Java Sea. Java was about to be overrun. The last Dutch ships still afloat were ordered to run for Australia. One of them was HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, a small, slow minesweeper about 180 feet long. She had almost no guns that could stop an airplane, and she couldn't outrun a Japanese destroyer if her life depended on it. Which it did. She was supposed to make the escape with three other Dutch warships. Those ships were caught and sunk. Abraham Crijnssen was on her own. Her captain, Lieutenant Commander Anton van Miert, came up with a plan that sounds insane. The waters between Java and Australia are scattered with thousands of islands. Many of them are just tiny specks of land with a few trees on top. So the crew went ashore and cut down trees and jungle plants. They covered the entire ship in them, from bow to stern, until she looked like a small jungle-covered island. They painted the exposed parts of the hull gray and brown to look like rock and cliffs. There was one catch. Islands don't move. So during the day, the ship anchored right up against real islands and sat completely still. The crew refreshed the wilting leaves and stayed out of sight. Japanese planes flew overhead. They saw nothing but one more island. At night, the "island" pulled up anchor and crept south toward Australia. Night after night, day after day, she slipped through waters crawling with Japanese ships and aircraft. After about eight days, the coast of Australia came into view. On March 20, 1942, Abraham Crijnssen sailed into Fremantle. She was the last Allied ship to escape Java, and the only one of her class in the region to survive. She went on to serve the rest of the war with the Royal Australian Navy hunting submarines. And she's still around today. Abraham Crijnssen is preserved as a museum ship at the Dutch Navy Museum in Den Helder, in the Netherlands.
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