JOB SEARCH: Puritan Medical Products (Maine, USA)

Thanks to jhetley for this lead:

https://www.puritanmedproducts.com/careers

Apparently, the company makes medical swabs for use in COVID-19 testing and they really need to ramp up production. They're based in Maine, USA, if that matters right now to whomever you might pass this lead on to.

Meanwhile, back to my own job search closer to home for me...and I'll probably post about other topics as today moves along.

PHOTOS: RIdeau and King Edward, Building Repurposed

Formerly the Confederation Building, which used to be home to several federal offices...now it's becoming student rental housing! Specifically Theo Ottawa by brand-name.



This image was taken back in February, before the lockdowns started in Canada.

SPACE: Finding Sigma-1014

Earlier today:

SIMBAD is still giving me issues with finding stars from the old Struve catalogue, so I wonder if any of you can confirm that (a) the star can be found in the constellation Orion, and (b) the distance to said star in any case?

Update 1: I found a "Struve 1014", but apparently it's in Gemini, not Orion, per the Washington Double Star Catalogue.

Here's its SIMBAD profile, under the catalogue number "BD+26 1451A -- Star ". Apparently, there's yet to be a parallax determined for it, or the GAIA people have yet to input the update at this writing.

Update 2: Found a SIMBAD profile devoted to the whole double-star pairing. Still frustrating me on this search engine-map, though. Stella Doppie insists that it has a GAIA DR2 number, but the number looks, shall we say, incomplete?

Surprising and Saintly News re: Chris Pine

Cue the 1960's TV series theme by Edwin Astley, people.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chris-pine-the-saint-reboot-paramount-1234585628/

Somehow, this strikes me as odd. I mentioned this to the gang at TrekBBS: I can see Pine as a young John Henry Fernack (from The Saint in New York and later stories set in the US). But not as Templar.

(If he actually knows and enjoys the novels and short-story collections, though, I might be persuaded.)