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I just heard that the plane flipped just before landing. Winds of up to 75. 5 People hurt, one of them serious. They were lucky. Video shows the nose of the plane about 25 feet from the gully at the end of the runway where a plane crashed into years ago.
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I saw how it works during my grad studies in molecular bio (in the 80s, it hasn't changed). We had a NIH or NSF grant (can't remember which- it was ~40 years ago). About 5 months before the end of the grant, our advisor told us to go on a buying spree and get anything we wanted for the lab. We would not have spent the entire grant by the end and would lose that money, Instead of rolling it over that to the next grant and ask for less next year, the next grant would get less $ (by a lot). Across the whole govt., that is mega moola.
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I think when DOGE goes into a new office, they carry boom boxes that are blaring the theme from "Team America".😀
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Hobert. I think he played for NO before we got him. Played in one game and was a mile high heap of steaming dung . He admitted that he hadn't read the playbook! Bills cut him the next day.
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Best or Worst (or whatever) SNL Music Performers
Wacka replied to SinceThe70s's topic in Off the Wall
Or wren Frank Zappa was on. He did Conehead sketch where it as so obvious he was reading off of cue cards. He ssang "I am the slime" while they had slime coming out from the top of the monitors on the stage. -
Best or Worst (or whatever) SNL Music Performers
Wacka replied to SinceThe70s's topic in Off the Wall
Wasn't that song but they played a video that had someone in a baby mask in a large playpen sticking a fork in a toaster. Was altered then too. -
Best or Worst (or whatever) SNL Music Performers
Wacka replied to SinceThe70s's topic in Off the Wall
Remember seeing it live in an "altered " state. We went "did ne just stop the song?" -
Sponge candy, especially the orange chocolate kind.
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But "we have to pass the bill to see what's in it" was perfectly fine with the Libs.
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If I were the PM of India I would want to pick Musk's (Harry Bolz's) brain for everything I could. They have an emerging space program and Elon has figured out how to land and reuse boosters and grab the main rocket out of the air.
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Glad to see this. Took the tour in the 80s when Ronnie was there. Contacted my Rep (think it was Henry Nowak then). Got passes to the Capitol, White House, and the FBI tour.
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USS Harry S. Truman collision at sea.
Wacka replied to sherpa's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The HST could have been stationary. Maybe the pilot of the merchant ship was impaired or negligent. They have piots that guide them through and into canals and harbors. -
Trumponomics Is Giving Us Stagflation.
Wacka replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Had pulmonary tests today. Transplant center just wanted to be sure everything was OK. Passed with flying colors! Saturday is 1 year anniversary! -
Trumponomics Is Giving Us Stagflation.
Wacka replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Every post of yours convinces me that you should take a breathalyzer test before posting. -
Is she still alive? She is Rosa DeLauro D-CT. She had just taken her seat when I left CT 30 years ago. She looked the same but just a little less wrinkly then. Her hair was dark then. Now the blue is to hide the gray and to honor the Huskies?
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The iron law again shows up.
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For the ignorant, cancer is basically a genetic disease. Whatever the cause-radiation,chemicals, random mutations, etc, it boils down to a change in the DNA that removes the controls on genes that control the unrestricted growth of cells. Each type of cancer is a separate disease. Roswell Park is having some success in tailoring the treatment to individuals. That research takes $.
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This Saturday (2/15) will be be a year since my kidney transplant! Got the call last Valentines Day at noon. Got the transplant at 7:30 AM on 2/15. Was on the birthday of my late nephew after only being on the waiting list for a month. Was in the hospital and rehab for a little over a month. The only bad (painful) thing about the ordeal was the healing process as I had 35 staples and then had to wear a wound vac for a month after the incision had healed and they had to drain fluid from it (no infections). At first had weekly checkups, then monthly, and then every 2 months. On 2/20 I will be going for my one year checkup! After that it should be every 6 months. They and my nephrologist want me to get blood and urine tests monthly. At my last nephrologist visit (2/6) he was ecstatic about my lab test results. I will be posting future updates only if something changes for the worse or for big anniversaries of the date. I am feeling better than I have in years and am itching to be outside a lot once the weather changes. If you or a loved one has to go through the process, don't hesitate. It may change your life. Think about being a living donor.
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