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[qbawl]

Regarding the Dexcom and FreeStyle sensors, how hard is it to keep them from getting bumped or pushed on or anything like that? Like, the backs of my arms are always in contact with my bedding (if I was using Libre) and I almost always have something balanced on my chest or abdomen (like my computer/tablet). I'm concerned I could accidentally scrape the sensor off or bump it on/with something.

Have you guys had any problems like that or do they do a pretty good job of staying out of the way?

My extremely limited experience With the Dexcom G7 (3 weeks) indicates that as they come out of the box they are very prone to being dislodged. I am not extremely active so this surprised me. Care must be taken when putting on or taking off clothing especially T-shirts. MN-Skeptic pointed me toward some patches from Amazon that sound like just what I need. They arrive Thursday. That info is a few posts upthread.

[Kriselda Gray]

My extremely limited experience With the Dexcom G7 (3 weeks) indicates that as they come out of the box they are very prone to being dislodged. I am not extremely active so this surprised me. Care must be taken when putting on or taking off clothing especially T-shirts. MN-Skeptic pointed me toward some patches from Amazon that sound like just what I need. They arrive Thursday. That info is a few posts upthread.

Thanks!

[Foggy]

Oh, MN-Skeptic, I just found this, and I am so sorry to hear about your SIL's passing. I've been amazed at the strength you've shown since your husband passed. I hope that when people I love pass away, I can have that kind of strength. I know you are sad every day, but you never stop moving forward.

You are a model for me, I want to be like MN-Skeptic when I grow up.

I have been thinking about mortality a lot in the past few whatevers. My dad, I think, is nearing the end.

And we all share the same fate. It isn't even possible to sell your soul to get eternal life. Fun concept but not practically feasible.

I am planning to sing at my dad's funeral, and I will sing one song (Eternal Father, the Navy hymn) and a couple lyrics from And When I Die, by Blood, Sweat, and Tears:

And when I die,
And when I'm dead, dead and gone,
There'll be one child born
In our world, to carry on, to carry on!

For me, that's an affirmation.

We all die, but humanity will carry on.

That's all I can really ask.

I wish you peace and love.

[Volkonski]

For those of us in the USA today is Income Tax Day.

Since I plan ahead, our taxes were filed weeks ago and our refund has already been deposited in our checking account.

Suspect we paid more in taxes than Trump.

[AndyinPA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... ist-slain/

The jewel rested on a cushion in a small black box covered with cloth in a vault at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, put on a pair of white cotton gloves, pulled off the cloth and opened the box. “So, this is the stone,” he said, holding it under the fluorescent lights — a lustrous, green 116-carat gem called a tsavorite.
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With 177 facets, it glittered as he held it. “It’s truly a beautiful stone,” he said. “When you look at the color of it, it just doesn’t look like anything else that we have.” Technically a garnet, it is named the Lion of Merelani. And, as with many a precious gem, it comes with a story.

On Thursday, the Smithsonian plans to unveil the gem — named in part for the Merelani region of Tanzania where it was found — and display it along with the Hope Diamond, the Carmen Lúcia ruby and other spectacular jewels in its hall of geology, gems and minerals.

It is the largest precision-cut tsavorite in the world, the museum says. It arrived at the Smithsonian late last year.

I love green stones and gems.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

I love green stones and gems.

We could buy it and share!!! My twin and I do that!

[AndyinPA]

What a cool idea. A cousin and I both love jewelry, and each of us is going to have to skip a generation to pass them on. My daughter and her two daughters have no interest.

I have nothing approaching that, of course.

[Frater I*I]

We could buy it and share!!! My twin and I do that!

PPPfffffffftttt....please......



I'll be there in DC in OCT.....I'll just pull a heist....the Hope diamond is mine thou...

[RTH10260]

article in story telling style, not good to quote from, please read at link

They cleaned up BP’s massive oil spill. Now they’re sick – and want justice
Thirteen years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, documents shed light on the company’s response and ‘scorched earth’ legal tactics

by Sara Sneath in New Orleans and Oliver Laughland in Houma, Louisiana
Thu 20 Apr 2023 08.00 BST


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... h-lawsuits

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

We could buy it and share!!! My twin and I do that!

PPPfffffffftttt....please......



I'll be there in DC in OCT.....I'll just pull a heist....the Hope diamond is mine thou...

You may keep the Hope Diamond. Beware it's dark powers.

[bill_g]

Precious ....

[AndyinPA]

[RTH10260]

Russian invasion of the US mentioned above

Pentagon explains the mysterious Russian tank at a truck stop in Louisiana — saying it was disarmed and is going to an Army training center

Sophia Ankel
Wed, April 19, 2023 at 11:54 AM GMT+2

• A Russian T-90A tank was left at a casino and travel center in Roanoke, Louisiana last week.
  The Pentagon claimed ownership of the tank on Tuesday, The War Zone reported.
  They said it was headed to a US Army training center when the truck carrying it broke down.

A mysterious Russian tank that appeared at a truck stop in Roanoke, Louisiana, was disarmed and on its way to a US Army training center, a Pentagon spokesperson told The War Zone on Tuesday.

Sue Gough told the military publication that the Russian T-90A tank was being taken to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Harford County, Maryland, when the truck that was transporting it broke down on the Interstate 10 highway.

Gough said that the mechanical issue with the truck has been fixed and that the tank "is secure."

"The tank's explosive reactive armor was inert, it was not armed or carrying any dangerous material, and at no point posed a risk to the public," she added.

The truck transporting the tank broke down near a Peto's Travel Center and Casino in Roanoke last week, prompting confusion among staff working there, The War Zone first reported last week.

Roanoke is around 1,300 miles from Harford County.

Valerie Mott, the assistant manager of the casino and travel center, told The War Zone that she had never seen a tank before in her 7 years of working there.

The tank most likely belonged to Russia's 27th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and was abandoned in Kharkiv Oblast in September last year, open-source intelligence groups, who track military equipment used in Ukraine, told The War Zone.

Gough did not confirm that the tank was captured in Ukraine last year. It is also unclear how it got to the US in the first place, and what the Pentagon will do with the Russian tank once it has been brought to the training center.

However, Gough told The War Zone that it was "part of our ongoing commitment to provide Ukraine the capabilities it needs to counter Russian aggression."




https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-exp ... 14982.html

(original: Business Insider)

[MN-Skeptic]

[pjhimself]

[Volkonski]

Global balance of population and power is shifting

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/global ... ium=social

The distribution of people across our planet is changing pretty dramatically, with populations booming in sub-Saharan Africa and shrinking in parts of Europe and East Asia, including China.

Driving the news: According to a new UN report, India will surpass China as the world’s most populous nation by the middle of this year, if it hasn't already.

China’s population declined last year for the first time in six decades. Decades of strict population control measures helped push China’s fertility rate (1.2) to the lowest in the world other than Singapore and South Korea. Beijing is now encouraging people to have more children.

China also has very little inward migration. Less than 0.1% of the population is foreign-born vs. 15% in the U.S. — a big part of the reason the U.S. workforce is expected to continue to grow as China’s shrinks.

China will increasingly face a similar challenge to Japan — where the population peaked 15 years ago, and the government is turning to automation and foreign workers to help care for the elderly and stoke the economy — at a much larger scale.

The flipside: India’s working-age population is expanding, a potential “demographic dividend” for an economy that’s already the fastest-growing in the G20, and could be the third-largest in the world by 2030.

Companies including Apple are increasing manufacturing in India, often at the expense of China. The UN report had already led to a flurry of stories analyzing whether India could become the more economically powerful Asian giant.

Yes, but: The economy is still not creating nearly enough jobs for all the young people entering the workforce. More than 80% of Indians polled in the UN report said India’s population was already too high, with 63% saying economic issues tied to population growth were a top concern.
While India’s population is expected to keep growing in the 2060s, the fertility rate has gradually fallen over several decades to 2.0 per woman, below the global average of 2.3.

Zoom out: Population growth around the world has slowed significantly due to factors including increased education and access to contraception for young women, per the report.



By contrast, half of all global population growth over that period is expected to come in eight countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo; Egypt; Ethiopia; India; Nigeria; Pakistan; the Philippines and Tanzania.

[RTH10260]

Michigan Republicans Fight Lifting Ban on Unmarried Couples Living Together

BY KATHERINE FUNG
ON 4/20/23 AT 1:43 PM EDT

• Michigan's state Senate passed a bill to end a decades-long ban on unmarried couples living together.
  Half of Senate Republicans voted against repealing the law.

The law was passed in 1931 and criminalizes cohabitation of unmarried men and women. Michigan is one of two states that have such a ban.
Some Republican lawmakers in Michigan are voicing their disagreement after the state Senate voted to end a decades-long ban on unmarried couples living together.

On Wednesday, all Senate Democrats and half of Republicans voted to pass Senate Bill 56, which aims to repeal state law that criminalizes cohabitation of unmarried men and women. Nine Republicans voted against the measure. The bill will now go to the state House, where Democrats hold a slim majority, for consideration.

Michigan is one of two states (Mississippi is the other) that still have policies that prohibit unmarried cohabitation, according to a 2016 analysis by the Senate Fiscal Agency. Under state law, it's a crime for couples who are not married to live together in Michigan. The law, which was passed in 1931, is rarely enforced and carries a fine of $1,000.

"This is really about bringing us into the 21st century," Democratic state Senator Stephanie Chang, who sponsored the bill, said from the Senate floor on Wednesday.

[much ado]

I just informed mrs ado that she and I were in violation of Michigan state law in Ann Arbor from 1978 to 1980.

She said she knew.

[pipistrelle]

I just informed mrs ado that she and I were in violation of Michigan state law in Ann Arbor from 1978 to 1980.

She said she knew.

Same for some friends. I doubt they knew. Or would care.

[Dave from down under]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-22/ ... /102255992

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in north-western Denmark, a museum says.

Key points:
Close to 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been unearthed in Denmark
The coins were found about eight kilometres from the Fyrkat Viking fortress near the town of Hobro
The rare trove was unearthed by a young girl using a metal detector in a cornfield last autumn

The rare trove — lying in two spots not far apart — was unearthed by a young girl using a metal detector in a cornfield last autumn.

"A hoard like this is very rare," Lars Christian Norbach, director of the North Jutland museum where the artefacts will go on display, told AFP on Thursday.

The silver coins were found about eight kilometres from the Fyrkat Viking ring fort near the town of Hobro.

From their inscriptions, they are believed to date back to the 980s.

The trove includes Danish, Arab and Germanic coins as well as pieces of jewellery originating from Scotland or Ireland, according to archaeologists.

[Dave from down under]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-22/ ... /102246048

A study on internet trolling among Australian teenagers has found young men and those who have been trolled themselves are more likely to engage in the behaviour.

Key points:
Psychopathic traits were identified as a key factor in trolling behaviour
Twenty-five per cent of survey respondents said they had been trolled in the previous 12 months
An academic not involved in the study says more research into the issue is needed

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) surveyed more than 150 teenagers aged between 13 and 18 on their attitudes towards trolling.

The behaviour, which is distinct from the broader term of cyberbullying, usually involves a person deliberately trying to upset others online.

Lead author Jessica Marrington said almost a quarter of those surveyed said they had been trolled in the previous year and that 13 per cent said they had trolled others.

She said the survey suggested there was enjoyment in provoking others and that high levels of psychopathic traits were key factors behind the behaviour.

[Kriselda Gray]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-22/ ... /102255992

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in north-western Denmark, a museum says.

Nice!!

[Dave from down under]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-22/ ... /102236144

Renowned Australian actor and satirist Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89.

He was best known for his comic alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, but also appeared in more than 20 films and authored numerous books and stage plays.

A statement from Humphries's family said he passed away peacefully in Sydney while surrounded by family.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Humphries was hysterical as Dame Edna. My mom and I saw him live in New York.

[MsDaisy]

Taxidermy anyone?

As seen in Islington North London last month

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