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About Michael K. Barbour

Michael K. Barbour is the Director of Faculty Development and a Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael's research focuses on the effective design, delivery and support of K-12 online learning, particularly for students located in rural jurisdictions.

Commemorating the No. 2 Construction Battalion

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Drone on drone: Demolition derby of the skies over Ukraine

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Drone on drone: Demolition derby of the skies over Ukraine

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Military drones may not be a new phenomenon, but combatants in Ukraine have taken remote warfare to new heights, pitting drone against drone in what amounts to a kind of airborne demolition derby in the skies over the embattled country.

The weapons of choice in these drone-on-drone battles are not bullets, missiles or bombs, but in many cases cheap, hobby-quality quadcopters and the like, for which altitude and blunt force have proven the great equalizers in aerial duels with more sophisticated, and expensive, hardware.

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Vancouver’s ship killer

STORY BY PAIGE GILMAR

It was April 5, 1958, and Victor Dolmage was given one monumental task: to press a button.

Consulting engineer for the Ministry of Public Work, Dolmage would do just that at 9:31 a.m. One-fifth of a second later, more than half a million tonnes of rock, water and debris would shoot 300 metres into the air, creating one of the largest non-nuclear explosions to ever take place.

Marking its 65th anniversary, this event was none other than the explosion of Ripple Rock, an underwater twin-peaked mountain in North Vancouver’s Seymour Narrows, which became a notorious “ship killer.”

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Reminder – ANZAC Day Service & Reception

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Join the Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion at the annual ANZAC Day organized by the Australian American Chamber of Commerce San Francisco and New Zealand American Association of San Francisco.  While they wouldn’t join Canada for another 35 years, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment landed in Gallipoli in September 1915 and would fight alongside their ANZAC comrades until the Allied withdrawal in January 1916 (for more information on Newfoundland’s involvement, visit https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/classroom/gallipoli ).  Each year the Royal Canadian Legion joins with our Aussie and Kiwi colleagues to commemorate this engagement.

Sunday, April 23
2:00pm – 5:00pm PDT

USS Hornet – Sea, Air and Space Museum
707 W Hornet Ave
Alameda, CA 94501

It is free to attend the service, which is held from 2pm to 3pm.  Tickets for the BBQ that begin at 3pm are $25 and can be purchased at https://www.sfaussies.com/event-5199509