Gray Beard
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45 minutes ago, Gugny said:
Lake Placid in August canceled? Why??
Several family members would be flying in from places too far to drive easily (Florida, Texas, Colorado), and they didn’t like the idea of air travel these days. Some of them are 65+ years old and feel particularly vulnerable. We had an opportunity to get our down payment back, so we voted to postpone until next year. We normally only get together for weddings and funerals these days. We were really looking forward to this reunion.
In addition, my son is a nurse and lately some of his patients are covid positive. He would not have come if that was still the case in August.
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A weekend in the Catskills in April was cancelled.
A sightseeing trip to Germany in July has been cancelled.
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You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
- Neil Young
Feel so bad
Feel like a ballgame on a rainy day- written by Chuck Willis, performed by many, Foghat is the one I know best
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Red lights are flashin' around me
Yeah, love it looks like they found me
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there -
Good morning mister sunshine, you brighten up my day
Come sit beside me in your way
I see you every morning, outside the restaurants
The music plays so nonchalantLonely days, lonely nights.
Where would I be without my woman? -
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me -
My father in law is a Vietnam era veteran. He’s 85 years old. He served in Greenland, pushing snow around with a bulldozer. He has a lot of stories about the cold and primitive living conditions. Nobody was shooting at him, but it sounds like it was pretty harsh. He’s more of a Giants fan than a Bills fan, but he follows pro and college sports pretty enthusiastically. He can talk about the Bills pretty knowledgeably.
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The strategy on the final lap would make it a lot of fun to watch.
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Fighting Soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green BeretSilver Wings upon their chest
These are men America's best
100 men will test today
But only 3 win the Green Beret-
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I’ve known about the phrase “Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” for a while. Adding another “Buffalo buffalo buffalo” is confusing to me.
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764?query=featured_home
https://www.wktv.com/content/news/570720892.html
Researchers have finally published the data that led the federal government to recommend the use of the antiviral drug remdesivir in very ill coronavirus patients, and they say the drug alone will not be enough to help patients.
The data, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show the drug shortened the course of illness from an average of 15 days to about 11 days.
"Preliminary results of this trial suggest that a 10-day course of remdesivir was superior to placebo in the treatment of hospitalized patients with Covid-19," the researchers wrote. But it was not a cure and it did not act quickly.
"These preliminary findings support the use of remdesivir for patients who are hospitalized with Covid-19 and require supplemental oxygen therapy," the researchers, led by a team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wrote.
"However, given high mortality despite the use of remdesivir, it is clear that treatment with an antiviral drug alone is not likely to be sufficient," they added. "Future strategies should evaluate antiviral agents in combination with other therapeutic approaches or combinations of antiviral agents to continue to improve patient outcomes in Covid-19."
Other teams are already combining antiviral drugs, including remdesivir, with immune modulating drugs in coronavirus patients. The NIAID says it has started a trial that compares remdesivir alone to remdesivir combined with the anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
The study also showed that it's important to start treatment early.
"Our findings highlight the need to identify Covid-19 cases and start antiviral treatment before the pulmonary disease progresses to require mechanical ventilation," NIAID'S clinical research leaders Dr. John Beigel, Dr. Clifford Lane and their team wrote.
Late last month, the federal government announced that the drug was helping and the US Food and Drug Administration gave remdesivir an emergency use authorization to treat Covid-19.
The study's findings were considered significant because it was the first double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to test the drug in patients. That means some patients got no drug, and neither patient nor doctors knew who was getting the real treatment.
But some critics complained that the data were not published and worried the federal government was rushing the results.
The team tested 1,063 patients. They found those who got the infused drug recovered after an average of 11 days. Those who got placebo treatment took 15 days on average to recover. As previously reported, 7% of patients who got remdesivir died, compare to 11.9% given placebo infusions. But those results were not statistically significant.
Patients who needed oxygen appeared to benefit the most from the drug, the researchers reported.
"These findings support the use of remdesivir in this population, with the largest benefit observed among individuals who required oxygen supplementation but were not mechanically ventilated," Gilead Sciences, which makes the drug, said in a statement.
"We anticipate that results from our Phase 3 SIMPLE-Severe study, which is evaluating remdesivir in a similar population of COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen but not on mechanical ventilation, will be published in the near future. These data from the SIMPLE-Severe study support treatment of some patients for 5 days rather than 10 days, depending on clinical status."
Remdesivir did not cause an excess of side-effects and appeared safer than placebo, they added.
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48 minutes ago, T&C said:
We had a 1970 Falcon station wagon with standard transmission... on the column. Reliable car, that's for sure. Forest green. Later on the parents got another one, a light blue Torino. At that time I bought my Dad's 68 Falcon for $50. My first car, loved that thing... boasted a massive 200 motor lol.
My first car was my parents’ 69 Ford Ranch Wagon. That thing was BIG, based on the Galaxy with a 390 V8. They let me take it to college in my senior year (1979) so that they wouldn’t have to drop me off and pick me up. I should have kept it, but instead I bought a beat up 73 Toyota Celica with a 4 speed manual. Cute car, but not practical at all.
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May the bird of paradise fly up your nose
May an elephant caress you with his toes
May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose -
7 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
I remember when Chevrolet produced three sizes of station wagons, the Nova line had its own wagon. Riding home from Thunder Bay beach, three of us 11 year olds sitting on the fold down tailgate of one of these, Mrs. C driving. Granted, she was easily persuaded; today she would be serving 1-3 years for child abuse. We three kids would be in reform school.
I have fond memories of the station wagons of my youth.
Ford also had three sizes of wagons: Falcon, Tempest/Torino, and Galaxy versions.Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge also had various wagons, bit I don’t remember their model names.
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An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
A-plowing through the ragged sky and up the cloudy drawTheir brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
For he saw the riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cryYippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
Ghost riders in the sky -
You know the night time, darling
Is the right time
To be
With the one you love, now
Say now oh baby
When I come home baby, now
I wanna be with the one I love, now
You know what I'm thinking of -
Under my thumb
The girl who once had me down
Under my thumb
The girl who once pushed me around
It's down to me
The difference in the clothes she wears
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb -
Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down
But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me he don't even try
Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got -
You're a big boy now
You'll never let her go
But that's just the kind of thing
She ought to knowTell her about it
Tell her everything you feel
Give her every reason to accept
That you're for real -
2 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:
Meet the Mets, meet the Mets,
Step right up and greet the Mets.
Bring your kiddies, bring your wife,
Guaranteed to have the time of your life.You asked for it...
Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski the man we call Yaz
Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski what power he has!
Ah, our Boston team is always on the bean, cause we got YazWe Fenway fans we stop and clap our hands at Yaz's Jazz
Those rival pitchers on the mound all shake
They dread each windup that they have to make
When number eight is at the plate, and then he swings, and wow there it goes again
and wow there it goes again, and wow there it goes again
A rival batter hits one off the wall
And there's Yastrzemski going for the ball
They try for two, the runner knows he's through
Look at Yaz, wow he threw him out again
Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski the man we call Yaz
Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski he's the idol of Boston, Mass
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14 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:
After years of buying badly designed rotary mowers powered by these B&S 4 cycles, my father found Lawn Boy mowers, 2 cycles made by OMC of Canada. The problem there was getting the right oil to gas mix, too much oil resulted in gummed up ports.
I had a neighbor who was a fan of Lawn Boy mowers. They were small (because of the 2 cycle engine) and had that funky asymmetrical wheel arrangement with the grass chute toward the front.
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Look closely on top of this engine and you will see that there is a little metal lever that was the kill switch.
You would slap at that lever and it would click over against the top of spark plug and create a grounding circuit to the engine block to prevent electricity from flowing, thus stopping the spark and stopping the engine.
Whenever possible use your foot (assuming you are wearing shoes).Zap!!! That type of kill switch wouldn’t be allowed these days.
I also remember using a screwdriver to short circuit the spark plug to the block if the engine didn’t have a built in lever.
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I like to move it, move it
I like to move it, move it
I like to move it, move it
We like to move it!I like to move it, move it
She like to move it, move it
We like to move it, move it
We like to move it!Keep on jumpin' off the floor
Dancin' 'til your feet is sore
Party hard just like it's Mardi Gras
'Cause that's what life is for-
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Midnight, one more night without sleeping
Watching till the morning comes creeping
Green door, what's that secret you're keeping?There's an old piano
And they play it hot behind the green door
Don't know what they're doing
But they laugh a lot behind the green door
Wish they'd let me in so I could find out
What's behind the green door
Lyrical Response
in Off the Wall
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Alarm clock starts ringin' who could that be singin'
It's me baby with your wake up call
How do you like me now
How do you like me now
Now that I'm on my way
Do you still think I'm crazy standing here today
I couldn't make you love me
But I always dreamed about living in your radio
How do you like me now?!