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  1. 12 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

    Do you have a medical person you can talk to and help prioritize these surgeries?

    Mom is a retired Respiratory Therapist & was the 2nd female Paramedic in the state of Florida.

    The ortho, Frosty Moore, is considered one of the best in the Austin region.  I've known him for over 15 years & he handled me when I broke a rib & R clavicle (thrown from one of my horses).
    We've worked this out.

  2. Took her to the Orthopedic Surgeon today - Frosty said she def. needs shoulder surgery & also to have some back work done from the 3 through 7's.

    Before the spinal work, however, she needs to have an abdominal hernia done.

    Taking her on Monday to her cardiologist & pulmonary docs for preflight clearances on the shoulder. Frosty expects to do a "regular" without needing the "reverse" version.7d58291afb877e85fa90826ebe6d51fc.jpg

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  3. Mom is looking for something like a mobility scooter.

    I am against this because once you go that route, it is even easier to lose your physical agility & strength.

    If I don't win this issue, do any of y'all have any experience with these products & ha e a referral?

    Apparently it would be 80% paid for via MediCare.

    PS: Obligatory pic to get that dig in here before y'all do.1783140e7146b1368d872f228ccc49e1.jpg

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  4. 14 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    I've rolled with the former (?) US lightweight champion who is actually pretty damn attractive.

    Back around '96 I went to a few sessions with the UT Judo club in the W side upper gym areas of Memorial Stadium.

    Got my ass kicked by the former Junior National Champion of the Netherlands.
    Also, most of the group were into freestyle rock climbing.  After class, damn near everyone was into every crack, crease & crevice of that space & it was like an armpit of wold spiders in there.

  5. On 1/31/2020 at 10:50 PM, NorthLoop said:

    If you had said 2002 instead of "last year" I would've said that must've been my old roommate. Dude was from Delhi... and rich as fuck. His parents owned a bunch of movie theaters in Delhi or something and had a big ass house with servants. But he had no concept of washing his clothes on a regular basis or showering on a regular basis. When we had friends come in to visit we would have to have an intervention with him and explain how bad he smelled. He just didn't get it. He couldn't smell it so why would we? 

    What's his Shag handle?

  6. Alternate title:  Ass-tronomers say sun looks like Mike's Mom's chapped ass-crack.

     

    Astronomers have just released the highest-resolution image of the sun. Taken by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui, it gives us an unprecedented view of our nearest star and brings us closer to solving several long-standing mysteries.

    The new image demonstrates the telescope’s potential power. It shows off a surface that’s divided up into discrete, Texas-size cells, like cracked sections in the desert soil. You can see plasma oozing off the surface, rising high into the solar atmosphere before sinking back into darker lanes.

    “We have now seen the smallest details on the largest object in our solar system,” says Thomas Rimmele, the director of DKIST. The new image was taken December 10, when the telescope achieved first light. It is still technically under construction, with three more instruments set to come online.

     

    When formal observations begin in July, DKIST, with its 13-foot mirror, will be the most powerful solar telescope in the world. Located on Haleakalā (the tallest summit on Maui), the telescope will be able to observe structures on the surface of the sun as small as 18.5 miles (30 kilometers). This resolution is over five times better than that of DKIST’s predecessor, the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico.

    DKIST was specifically designed to make precise measurements of the sun’s magnetic field throughout the corona (the outermost region of its atmosphere) and answer questions like why the corona is millions of degrees hotter than the sun’s surface.

     

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    Other instruments coming online in the next six months will also collect data pertaining to temperature, velocity, and solar structures. The new solar cycle is about to start up again soon, and this means there’s going to be a wealth of solar activity to spot.

    To observe the sun, you can’t just build a telescope the old-fashioned way. DKIST boasts one of the world’s most complex solar-adaptive optics systems. It uses deformable mirrors to offset distortions caused by Earth’s atmosphere. The shape of the mirror adjusts 2,000 times per second. Staring at the sun also makes the telescope hot enough to melt metal. To cool it down, the DKIST team has to use a swimming pool of ice and 7.5 miles of pipe-distributed coolant.

     

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    There’s a good reason why we need to take a closer look at the sun. When the solar atmosphere releases its magnetic energy, it results in explosive phenomena like solar flares that hurl ultra-energized particles through the solar system in all directions, including ours. This “space weather” can wreak havoc on things like GPS and electrical grids. Learning more about solar activity could give us more notice of when hazardous space weather is due to hit.

    The telescope’s history is not without controversy. Haleakalā is important to the culture of Native Hawaiians, who protested its construction of DKIST in the summer of 2015. The DKIST team addressed those concerns in various ways, such as launching a $20 million program at Maui College to teach science in conjunction with Hawaiian culture, and reserving 2% of telescope time for Native Hawaiians.

    The plan is to keep DKIST operational for at least four solar cycles, or around 44 years. “We’re now in the final sprint of what has been a very long marathon,” says Rimmele. “These first images are really just the very beginning.”

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