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[Marcel Birgelen]

Yeah, there are quite some oddities concerning the raising-table's control interface. The least of the security features you could expect, which is also the most low-tech of them all, is that you need to keep pressing the button to keep the thing moving.

[Leo Enticknap]

The organ console likely weighs about the same. Presumably the piano was positioned where it was because that is the acoustic sweet spot on the stage. But unless there were architectural restraints (e.g. limitations on where conduits for control cables can be run) it was a blunder to put the retractable console in the same place. Organists are very used to not being able to hear themselves play as the audience would, due to delays, the swell or choir ranks being enclosed, but the great not, etc. etc.; so having the console on the side of the stage should not have been problematic. You would have thought that a venue with a retractable console on the stage like that would either have a cast iron rule that nothing goes on top of it, or a rigid protocol for when it does (e.g. two switches must be operated to raise it, both far enough apart that two people are needed, with both verifying that top of the retracted console is clear before proceeding).

[Marcel Birgelen]

Knowing that a grand piano weights in about half a metric ton, that's a pretty daring operation... you don't want to get stuck between a floor and a grand piano...

[Frank Cox]

[Leo Enticknap]

Dog interrupts live weather report in Moscow borrowing journalist's microphone

Cat vs. Fox:

[Randy Stankey]

They need to make one with Oscar the Grouch's voice, singing, "I love trash!"

[Frank Cox]

The Swedish city of Malmö is taking dirty talk to a whole new level in its latest effort to clean up the streets.

By installing talking garbage cans that dish out racy audio messages after being fed trash, authorities are hoping for an increase in rubbish being deposited.

Pedestrians that drop trash into one of two bins on the city's Davidshallsbron bridge are rewarded with extremely positive feedback from a sultry female voice, who offers a range of responses.

It says "Come back quickly and do that again", "hmmm, thank you", "ooooh, yeah, right there", and "aaaah, that was crazy good", and "hmmmm, more", and then back to "Come back quickly and do that again".

[Frank Cox]

After 140 years, this old technology still keeps trains safe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAfich6mow

[Frank Cox]

A very interesting look at the limits of human perception.

https://youtu.be/nUHEPmg0sPo

[Frank Cox]

This short claymation film was made by a 12 year old girl from Fort Qu'Appelle, a town not too far from here.

Her dad did the music.

https://youtu.be/HekpOfWixaQ

She said it took her about 17 hours to create the animation.

Here she is working on her next video:

emora-baggett-12-fort-qu-appelle-claymation.jpg

[Frank Cox]

A wild monkey in Mauritius:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQeFK5m04tg

[Frank Cox]

“Spot Me Up” | The Rolling Stones & Boston Dynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnZH4izf_rI

[Frank Cox]

Their town was flooded so this couple floated to their wedding in a large cooking pot.

https://twitter.com/Shilpa1308/status/1450111699378266116

[Frank Cox]

Now that's precision driving.

https://youtu.be/8Cge1zClOrs

[Frank Cox]

All of the pow wows were cancelled last year. This year, the first pow wow at Onion Lake is huge, with an estimated 1200 dancers and community members.

Grand entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pxawjlncA

Senior Men's Traditional Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFM1Kp32Ii0