jon

Warm blooded animals have an internal temperature which appears to be maintained through the bloodstream, but where in the body is the blood heated to that temperature?

As executor to a deceased person's estate, I have to pay money to relatives in South Africa. If I just write out a cheque from the estate account in sterling, would that cause problems or delays for the recipients overseas? Is there a better way? A bankers draft for example?

i have a very expensive house in the sims, but all the youngsters have left or aged, now i am faced with looking after a few elders. i dont want to lose the house (which has 7 beds and a swimming pool) because everyone dies and i have to start over again.

Is there a way of inviting young adults to share my house, without actually marrying them? (They are hardly likely to want a serious relationship with a grey haired old git.)

They also do a manic dance through the song, and look very familiar - even though the song must be about 30 years old now. Does anyone know their names? Are they now famous in showbiz, but I am too sad to recognise who they grew into?

I have never really thought about this before, so it is really just thinking aloud. Large passenger ships in the 19th century would have spent weeks at sea. The engines would be coal fired and located below the water line. I presume they had some mechanism which prevented the fires from becoming choked with hot ash, and also to dispose of said ash (into the water?).

I often find supermarket tomatoes to be almost tasteless, but if I fry one in a little sunflower oil, the taste becomes much stronger.

This is a long shot. As a teenager in the late 1960s I taped some songs from John Peel radio 1 shows, but made few notes of the titles/artists. I still have the tapes but they are not really playable, so I have embarked on a nostalgic trip to try and acquire cd or mp3 versions of the songs that I remember. I have had some success but Backwater Blues still eludes me, although I found the title through Googling the lyrics. The version I have is a lengthy electric one with quite decent guitar riffs, not the Bessie Smith original, but still with a female singer. I thought maybe Chicken Shack, but I cannot find any evidence they recorded this song. Jo Ann Kelly was another candidate, but I am not sure that she performed with electric guitarists at the time. I have looked through the John Peel Sessions lists, but there are no recordings of Backwater Blues from any likely candidates and no indication that Chicken Shack ever played live for John Peel.

Basically, I have hit a brick wall. Does anyone know of or remember any versions of this song?

In case you are wondering, the lyrics go:-

When it rained five days and the skies turned dark as night

When it rained five days and the skies turned dark as night

There was trouble takin' place in the lowland at night

I woke up this mornin', couldn't even get out of my door

I woke up this mornin', couldn't even get out of my door

Enough trouble to make a poor woman wonder where she's gonna go

They rowed a little boat just about five miles across the farm

Said they rowed a little boat just about five miles across the farm

I packed up all of my clothes, throwed them in, and they rowed me along

Well it thundered and lightnin'd, and the winds began to blow

Said it thundered and lightnin'd, and the winds began to blow

There was thousands of people

They had no place to go

I went out and I stood on a high old lonesome hill

I went out and I stood on a high old lonesome hill

I looked down on the house where I used to live

Back Water Blues that calls me to pack my things and go

Back Water Blues that calls me to pack my things and go

Cause my house fell down, and I can't live there no more

Ooh, I can't live there no more

Ooh, I can't live there no more

There ain't no place for a poor old woman to go

I have just read this on Wikipedia :-

GRB 090423 is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) discovered by the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission on April 23, 2009 at 07:55:19 UTC.[1] The burst lasted 10 seconds and was located in the constellation Leo (RA: 09h 55m 33.08s; Dec: +18° 08′ 58.9″).[1][2] At a redshift of z = 8.2,[3][4][5][6] the burst is the current record holder for the most distant observed GRB,[7] as well as the most distant object of any kind.[2][8] GRB 090423 is also the oldest known object in the universe, as the light from the burst took approximately 13 billion years to reach Earth.[9] The event occurred roughly 630 million years after the Big Bang,[7] confirming that massive stellar births (and deaths) did indeed occur in the very early universe.[10]

The light from the GRB 13 billion years ago reached Earth this year and that was only 630 million years after the big bang. So, my 'logic' suggests that a creature on earth 630 million years ago would have seen the big bang, and 631 million years ago it would have witnessed the universe 1 million years before the big bang.

Can this really be true, or am I going completely mad?