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  2. You want to include fruit under vegetables, ok with me. "Fruit" has seed, rest of the plant is non-fruit, but all vege. I wouldn't call a mushroom a plant, although it's a fruit of a fungus, so there's that.
  3. Is your family from East Texas?
  4. Was just told (haven’t verified) that 3 people have died in Mammoth Lakes, CA from Hanta virus.
  5. James Simon looks pretty big there standing next to Cooper.
  6. Gilroy is obsessed with history and revolutions, as said by many of the actors in several interviews, and I have a lot of faith - he started and then brought a lot of arcs to a close last week that were clearly meant to get us to the brink. I think last week's episodes are the last of "normalcy" we see in Andor - I will not be surprised if this week's episodes are Mon Mothma becoming the head of the resistance, because we will only be a few years out from the Battle of Yavin.
  7. You need to go somewhere you are comfortable, confident in the treatment, and is willing to get second opinions. My wifes ENT here, when we went over the first biopsy said that he would go to Memorial Sloan Kettering or MDA for cancer, and to Mayo if there was uncertainty in diagnosis or treatment. Since we were familiar with MDA from our years living in Houston, it was an easy choice for us. Good luck @Dbeasy , I think it all depends on your diagnosis - there are only 1 or 2 places on the planet who have a treatment for my wifes cancer. But if you have a more common type then there are certainly other choices. I will say, maybe again, that we met several people during radiation, and there were at MDA because they were misdiagnosed in their first treatment, and therefore the treatment was not successful; and they were at MDA with a new diagnosis, then going through an entire second treatment regimen. One of the things that is on some of the MDA advertising is a slogan "where you go first for treatment matters" - we have come to believe that. If nothing else, it is certainly worth getting a second opinion to confirm diagnosis and treatment.
  8. I'm convinced there are two things that kept them from making it big. 1. The band name Spoon. It just kinda sucks. 2. Britt Daniel is not classically handsome in a post-MTV world. Send them in a time machine to the 70s and they would have been huge.
  9. Unless, of course, you beat up a cop in the name of Donald Trump, or defraud the fuck out of people and contribute a chunk of money to Trump, in which case you will be given a pardon and called a "patriot." No fucking Republican ever gets to use the phrase "law & order" ever fucking again. The only phrase they can legitimately use is "laws for thee, but not for me."
  10. Just wanted to add that the Mendez B you referenced was achieved after they were taken over by a charter school, the same one that could take over Dobie, Burnet, and Webb and turn them around, but instead AISD is going to force those kids to spend two ours a day on a bus and cram them into A/B schools, thereby bringing down the quality of education at those places. We're not racing to the bottom. We're there already. What we're experiencing now are the final swirls before this district is completely flushed.
  11. I believe a district is limited to 50 cents of tax rate towards I&S. That does not tell you how much in bonds that will finance, because interest rates vary. So, a district can take its tax base, and each year raise up to 50 cents for each $100 in the tax base. They can use that money to pay the interest and principal on bonds. Austin ISD is currently around 12-13 cents in I&S, so they have a lot of room to raise more if they wished.
  12. They didn’t want to let Lemonis get to the slump buster Mizzou at the end of the season
  13. Obnviously, he was being facetious, but is that so different from the current setup where more than half of it is used to fund suburban districts' basic needs so they can afford 8M football stadiums, and thereby secure the republican votes in those communities, or even more on point for republican pork projects that have nothing to do with education at all?
  14. Since they kept talking about the wind, I wondered if it had a chance and was watching kiel the whole time. As he kept drifting back I got more excited.
  15. Ah, you had me confused by calling it a fruit. Although it's not botanically a fruit, I understand what you meant now.
  16. Wow, they didn't even let him finish out the season. It is a good job with a lot of support. If I recall correctly, they almost hired Schloss back in 2018, but their AD couldn't get it across the finish line.
  17. Because they really want to have 4 games on Saturday and Sunday for each of the first 2 weekends of the playoffs. So they stretch a few series to make the schedule work. No telling how they pick which series get extended vs others, but that is the goal.
  18. With the looming budget shortfall, my partial solution has always been to close campuses, consolidate, and sell the real estate. It causes problems in various communities, transportation, and a host of other issues. It can also lead to further enrollment decline, which turbofucks the recapture calculations. However, you can get a one time cash infusion, reduce overhead, and stop maintaining some of the expensive old buildings. You also get kids into the bigger schools with more specialized services. Every time you close a school, you save the cost of principal, AP, music teacher, art teacher, PE teacher, cafeteria workers, custodians, librarian, and office staff. You don’t have to lay these people off, there are so many openings each year that can absorb them.
  19. He’s a liability for all four. The T-Wolves are the worst matchup in the field for the Lakers. This
  20. This brings back some good and bad memories. Bad -Canned pear half and mayo or canned peach half and cottage cheese was a staple "salad" of most southern baptist Wednesday night fellowship dinners. Add in some beef tips and rice or baked chicken and rice with a side of green beans and that's what was served in the 50's - 80's. Probably a product of some of the more "interesting" culinary trends that came out post war, and it was a cheap, easy side to serve a lot of people. The 50's produced some odd combinations. Good - Weekend meals for my grandparents normally were "dinner" at 1 or 2pm and "supper" at 8pm. Dinner was their big meal and supper was usually small and haphazard. Leftover cornbread and buttermilk as mentioned above was a staple for supper and my father would still make cornbread about once a month for no other reason that to put in buttermilk. I don't recall ever doing saltines, but I'm sure it would do the trick. Good - In spring and summer, slice tomatoes, sliced raw onions, cucumbers in vinegar, and white bread/butter was on the table for every dinner. I'm an onion guy raw or sliced, probably because of that. Bad - Warm Dr. Pepper and lemon was a big thing. The company promoted it in advertisements and on the backs of the old steel cans. Warm carbonation is no bueno.
  21. In the past I would be confused. Are they going to serve their prison time? Or are they going to be deported? They can't be both imprisoned and deported. But I guess now we can do that. And all imprisonment is for life. So that's fun.
  22. jimmyjazz

    Spoon

    I've found it so interesting how they've sort of lurked at gold record status for a couple of decades now, with absolutely impeccable critical reception, yet they often seem to be touring as support for far lesser bands, playing the dinner slot at festivals, etc. They're definitely not hurting for money, but man they should be so much bigger.
  23. Aggy should hire him. He knows how to win it all. Even schloss doesn’t know how to do it. He’s no longer a sitting sec coach so they are a little late on that aspect. Trev needs time to count the pennies.
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