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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:34 pm
by keith
pipistrelle wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:48 pm
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:41 pm
Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:39 pm
Its the first and middle names together that are the problem - sounds too much like Queen Elizabeth
Unless they call her by both names I doubt more than a handful of people will even know what it is.
We never used middle names in school.
I did. Even today.
Keith is my middle name.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:47 pm
by neonzx
I like my middle name. It's has two syllables. "Patrick".
James nickname Jim is so boring. A Frenchman friend made fun of my solo syllable name .
His name was Jean-Marie.(pronounced in Francis)
I countered and said he had a girl name.
That was the mean neon cometh.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:28 pm
by Volkonski
Axios
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman announced that the company will lay off around 2,000 employees, the latest tech giant to slash jobs this year.
https://trib.al/EhAGZJF
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:12 pm
by AndyinPA
They are pretty much closing all the Bed, Bath, and Beyond stores in my area. I knew it was coming. The only winners here, Amazon and Walmarts. And I can't remember the last time I was in a Walmarts.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:38 pm
by raison de arizona
Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:28 pm
Axios
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman announced that the company will lay off around 2,000 employees, the latest tech giant to slash jobs this year.
https://trib.al/EhAGZJF
I didn't see it in that article, but others have mentioned that this may be due to some sort of Twitter Pay that is upcoming.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:41 pm
by raison de arizona
AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:12 pm
They are pretty much closing all the Bed, Bath, and Beyond stores in my area. I knew it was coming. The only winners here, Amazon and Walmarts. And I can't remember the last time I was in a Walmarts.
Over the weekend I needed a memory card for the kid's nintendo switch. Checked online, they were available all over, Walmart had them for $31.88. Headed to Target because I don't do Walmart and figured it would be around the same price. $54.99!!! Holy cow, the guy didn't believe me that Walmart was selling them that cheap, so I pulled it up on my phone. He matched the price. Target for the win.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:41 pm
by RTH10260
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:38 pm
Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:28 pm
Axios
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman announced that the company will lay off around 2,000 employees, the latest tech giant to slash jobs this year.
https://trib.al/EhAGZJF
I didn't see it in that article, but others have mentioned that this may be due to
some sort of Twitter Pay that is upcoming.
I bet Elon will promote cryptocurrencies and his very own TwitCoin
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:09 am
by raison de arizona
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my life
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:11 am
by noblepa
RTH10260 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:41 pm
I bet Elon will promote cryptocurrencies and his very own
TwitCoin
What an appropriate name.
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:22 pm
by Flatpoint High
so much for skydiving
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:24 pm
by RTH10260
Woman mistakenly pronounced dead was found alive in body bag, report says
Kerry Breen
Thu, February 2, 2023 at 7:20 PM GMT+1
An Iowa care facility is facing fines totaling $10,000 after mistakenly pronouncing a 66-year-old resident dead and having her transported to a funeral home, where she woke up "gasping for air."
A new report from the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, released on Feb. 1, 2023 and first reported by CBS affiliate KCCI, details the series of events that led up to the woman being mistakenly pronounced dead. The unidentified resident, who had been at the Glen Oaks Alzheimer's Special Care Center since Dec. 2021, was moved into hospice care at the facility on Dec. 28, 2022, because of "senile degeneration of the brain."
While in hospice care, comfort measures were taken. Over the course of several days, staff members recorded occurences of "diminished" lung sounds and minor seizures. On Jan. 3, 2023, the woman was pronounced dead at 6 a.m. after an employee identified as Staff C said that she "did not feel a pulse" and found the "resident was not breathing at that time."
The staff member notified a licensed practical nurse. The woman's family was alerted and a local funeral home was called.
A funeral director arrived shortly after 7:30 a.m., and with the assistance of another nurse, identified as "LPN D," the resident was placed in a body bag which was zipped shut. The funeral director left the facility shortly afterward. At 8:26 a.m., employees at Ankeny Funeral Home and Crematory unzipped the bag.
They "observed (the resident's) chest moving and she gasped for air," the report states.
The funeral home then called 911 and the care facility. When EMS responded, they were able to record a pulse and breathing, but there was no eye movement and no verbal response.
That same day, the resident was returned to the care facility. She passed away early in the morning of Jan. 5, with her family at her side, the report said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-mistak ... 00875.html
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 7:35 pm
by AndyinPA
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/media/ro ... index.html
Roy Wood Jr., the comedian known for his role on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” will be the entertainer at the 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the association announced Thursday.
“It’s an honor to be a part of a long-running tradition of celebrating those members of the media, who work so hard to uncover the truth, and hold our government accountable,” Wood said in a statement. “It will be a great night that will go down in the history books, or not, depending on which state you live in.”
The annual dinner, which traditionally features a standup comedian who roasts the president and the press, is scheduled to take place on April 29. Last year’s event, the first held in person after a two-year hiatus, was headlined by then-“Daily Show” host Trevor Noah and featured President Biden delivering comedic remarks.
Tamara Keith, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said that Wood, who holds a degree in broadcast journalism, will bring “a journalistic eye to his comedy.
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:05 pm
by AndyinPA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... id-balogun
A nine-year-old boy from Pennsylvania who loves science and computer programming has become one of the youngest ever high school graduates, and he has already started accumulating some credits toward his college degree.
David Balogun recently received a diploma from Reach cyber charter school – based in his state’s capital of Harrisburg – after taking classes remotely from his family home in the Philadelphia suburb of Bensalem, the local television station WGAL reported Saturday.
The achievement makes David one of the youngest known children to ever graduate high school, according to a list compiled by the history and culture website oldest.org.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:20 am
by MsDaisy
I like to hunt for treasure in the Goodwill stores and you can find some really cool stuff there sometimes. Yesterday I found a very strange looking wooden chair. It must weigh 40 lbs if it weighs an ounce. It has brass work all over it that looks as though it was all hand applied with bitty little brass nails. I tried to find something like it on the Internet but got nothing. Anyone ever seen anything like this?
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I paid $4.99 for it
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Please excuse the condition of this room, it's known as the Dog room. The half where the chair is use to be a porch and the back half where my Mister is trying to rebuild his chain saw was the old kitchen. Now we feed our 5 children in there (2 dogs & 3 cats) and do projects of all sorts so it pretty much always looks a mess.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:31 am
by raison de arizona
Wow, that's a really interesting chair. I don't believe I've seen anything like it.
In other news, natural selection at work?
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 3:21 pm
by raison de arizona
What a crazy story.
Saint Zoe 🇺🇸🇭🇹 @Jupinapapi3 wrote:
So a man took a paternity test on his daughter and he wasn’t the father. The mom swears she never cheated and the test had to be wrong. She can’t convince him so she also took a test. Turns out she wasn’t the mom either. Now they’re suing the hospital because they switched babies
The update is that they settled with the hospital for $2M, their bio child was found in foster care, and they are now in the process of adopting that child. And keeping the non-bio child.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 3:56 pm
by Sam the Centipede
There was a story a few years ago about a mother who failed a maternity test on her child, causing all sorts of problems. Luckily she had the obstetrician or pediatrician on hand who swore that he had seen the baby pop out of her and it was absolutely definitely hers. After a lot of "genetic tests don't lie!" arguments it was discovered that the mother was chimeral: whenshe was conceived two fertilized egg cells (or small clumps of cells) had merged and happily developed into one baby, so parts of her were from one egg, parts from another, with related but different genetics. Chimeral people can have serious health problems, especially if the two contributing cell lines are of different sexes, and can be visible if skin tones or hair color differ markedly, but her two genotypes/phenotypes were similar enough not to be noticed. But her child was from an ovary from one cell line while the generic tests sampled the other, hence the mismatch.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:49 pm
by keith
MsDaisy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:20 am
I like to hunt for treasure in the Goodwill stores and you can find some really cool stuff there sometimes. Yesterday I found a very strange looking wooden chair. It must weigh 40 lbs if it weighs an ounce. It has brass work all over it that looks as though it was all hand applied with bitty little brass nails. I tried to find something like it on the Internet but got nothing. Anyone ever seen anything like this?
![Confused :confuzzled:](./images/smilies/confused.gif)
I paid $4.99 for it
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Brass work. jpeg
Legs. jpeg
Back. jpeg
Off the cuff, I'd say it was some woodworkers folly. Kind cool.
First thought was that it might have been some ritual throne for a club like the Masons or something, but there dont seem to be any symbols, just decorations. maybe Amish? Old homesteader with too much time on his hands? presentation piece from congregation to beloved pastor?
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:53 pm
by sugar magnolia
keith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:49 pm
First thought was that it might have been some ritual throne for a club like the Masons or something, but there dont seem to be any symbols, just decorations. maybe Amish? Old homesteader with too much time on his hands?
Definitely not Amish. Their style can be decorative, but never decorated.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:02 pm
by RTH10260
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:53 pm
keith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:49 pm
First thought was that it might have been some ritual throne for a club like the Masons or something, but there dont seem to be any symbols, just decorations. maybe Amish? Old homesteader with too much time on his hands?
Definitely not Amish. Their style can be decorative, but never decorated.
My impression was something with Mexican influence, sturdy, possibly off a ranch.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:09 pm
by neonzx
Whatever the origin, that chair is a steal for $5.00
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:03 pm
by MsDaisy
It's to heavy to lug around so I took a photo and went to one of our local antique shops and asked about it, the guy I spoke to said it was not an American piece but likely European and had nothing further to add. But yea, it's a cool chair for 5 bucks., Now I just have to figure out what I'm going to do with the damn thing.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:25 pm
by AndyinPA
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:53 pm
keith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:49 pm
First thought was that it might have been some ritual throne for a club like the Masons or something, but there dont seem to be any symbols, just decorations. maybe Amish? Old homesteader with too much time on his hands?
Definitely not Amish. Their style can be decorative, but never decorated.
Yeah, I agree undoubtedly not Amish, and I also thought Mexican. So since the antique dealer thought European, maybe Spanish or Portuguese?
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:30 pm
by Patagoniagirl
AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:25 pm
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:53 pm
keith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:49 pm
First thought was that it might have been some ritual throne for a club like the Masons or something, but there dont seem to be any symbols, just decorations. maybe Amish? Old homesteader with too much time on his hands?
Definitely not Amish. Their style can be decorative, but never decorated.
Yeah, I agree undoubtedly not Amish, and I also thought Mexican. So since the antique dealer thought European, maybe Spanish or Portuguese?
I agree, Andy.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:11 pm
by raison de arizona