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  1. True, there was a pretty useless invention that I saw at the Medical College of Wisconsin, but it was a numbered belt, because waist size change has the best correlation between cardiovascular health and disease.
  2. Nah, it's not him - This guy is a 1000 times smaller.
  3. Interesting - It kind of gave me some Jenna Jameson vibes, by how fast it went down.
  4. What would that guy know about electrical fires?
  5. Good idea to clean 'em before you shoot 'em.
  6. Based on my understanding of the situation, I'm thinking that the cause of the crash was catastrophic duck tape failure encasing the right engine compressor.
  7. Ha, scared me for a minute - there was a guy who was a year or two older who was an engineer who had M&K speakers - and helped do the electrical for PatOs - and I wouldn't be surprised at all if he went to law school - and he would have known Jeff. It is interesting that we know the same people.
  8. I assume you were an engineer, right? How did y'all cross paths? PM me if it is private. I know Jeff and Jerry although I haven't kept up with them.
  9. That's a lot of fentanyl going up in smoke.
  10. 31 Jan 2025 Here is the situation on Friday, January 31: Fighting Nine people were reportedly killed and 13 others injured including a child when a Russian drone hit a multistorey apartment building in northeastern Ukraine’s Sumy city, the region’s Governor Volodymyr Artyukh said. An oil refinery in Russia’s southern Volgograd region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, but the blaze has now been put out, according to regional governor Andrei Bocharov. One injured refinery worker was hospitalised, he said. Kyiv’s military said Moscow launched 81 drones towards Ukraine in an overnight attack with the air force reportedly shooting down 37 drones and 39 failing to reach their targets. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said air deference units downed 17 Ukrainian drones in four regions over the course of two hours. Eleven of the drones were reportedly destroyed over the Kursk region, while the remaining six were taken down over Russia’s Belgorod and Voronezh regions, as well as Russian-occupied Crimea. Russia has accused a former British soldier, who was taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine, of terrorism and mercenary charges. James Anderson could potentially face decades in prison if convicted. United Kingdom Ministry of Foreign Affairs David Lammy said he was aware of the case and the government would do all it could to assist Anderson. Russian oil and gas Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio that halting Russian gas flows via Ukraine and the resulting rise in costs as users seek alternative supply was unacceptable. The Reuters news agency reports that Germany is expanding its natural gas import options to replace Russian supplies after Kyiv suspended transit of Russia’s gas through Ukraine. Politics & diplomacy Slovakia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Myroslav Kastran to convey a “strong protest” over statements made by Ukrainian officials, including claims that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was a “mouthpiece” for Russia. In response, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said it summoned Slovakia’s ambassador to reject accusations of interference in Slovakia’s internal affairs. The ministry, in a statement, also called on Slovakia to return to constructive dialogue. Sweden’s Defence Minister Pal Jonson announced that the country is planning a $1.2bn aid package for Ukraine. Jonson said that Stockholm was negotiating with Swedish and European sources to supply prioritised artillery and drone equipment.
  11. These tariffs are going to be short lived so you can throw the textbooks out. They are for negotiating purposes.
  12. If we can't score from the 1 with that guy, it is all on Sark.
  13. Should have been titled the guacamole war. The tariffs will lead to retaliatory tariffs which will lead to negotiations.
  14. Kyiv, Ukraine CNN — North Korean troops have not been seen on the frontlines in Russia’s Kursk region for several weeks, a Ukrainian military official said Friday, amid reports of mass casualties among Pyongyang’s forces. “The presence of DPRK troops has not been observed for about three weeks, and they were probably forced to withdraw after suffering heavy losses,” a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Special Operations Forces, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, told CNN. It follows reports that some North Korean units have been pulled back from the frontlines after significant losses, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak. About 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia, according to Ukrainian officials and Western intelligence reports, which say around 4,000 those troops have been killed or injured. North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk since at least November to repel Ukraine’s incursion in the southern Russian border region. “We are still in the Kursk region… the Russian forces were not enough to push us out,” Ukrainian President Zelensky said last week at a speech in Davos, Switzerland. Zelensky noted that there were 60,000 Russian troops in Kursk and 12,000 North Koreans. Zelensky also said that one-third of those North Korean troops had been killed. CNN has previously reported on the brutal and near-suicidal tactics of North Korean soldiers, who in some cases have detonated grenades rather than be captured by Ukrainian forces and have written pledges of allegiance on the battlefield to North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. A commander with the 6th Special Operations Forces regiment, who did not want to give his name for security reasons, told CNN that while the North Korean soldiers are “all young, trained, hardy fighters,” they would have not previously faced drones in combat. “They are prepared for the realities of war in 1980 at best,” he said. Another battalion serviceman told CNN the North Koreans had shown good marksmanship when shooting down drones from about a 100-meter distance, suggesting a high level of training in North Korea. However, Russia appears to be using the troops as foot soldiers, using them to carry out mass ground assaults despite major losses in Kursk. Ukraine has recently made advancements in Kursk, according to a battlefield update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think-tank, on January 26. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said earlier this week that Russian forces recaptured the Kursk region village of Nikolayevo-Daryino, which lies on the Russia-Ukraine border. Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have officially acknowledged the presence of North Korean troops in Russia. Last year, months before the deployment of North Koreans to Russia, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a landmark defense pact and pledged to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance in the event the other is attacked. The pact is the most significant agreement signed by Russia and North Korea in decades and has been viewed as something of a revival of their 1961 Cold War-era mutual defense pledge.
  15. I get your point, but I'm pretty sure he is just a four star and rated as an IOL. Nonetheless, I just wanted to get it out there because those are the guys that I think we have a shot at and that I think will be most successful.
  16. My OL dream class - that y'all can give me shit about Offensive line (5) John Turntine III, OT, Fort Worth (Texas) North Crowley Height & weight: 6-3.5, 280 Felix Ojo, OT, Mansfield (Texas) Lake Ridge Height & weight: 6-6, 280 Sam Utu, OT/IOL, Orange (Calif.) Lutheran High School Height & weight: 6-5, 295 Nicolas Robertson, IOL, Klein (Texas) High Height & weight: 6-4, 335 Samuel Roseborough, OT/IOL, Clearwater (Fla.) High Height & weight: 6-5, 285
  17. Unfortunately, I didn't realize there were two threads until it was too late. If only I was using a larger screen than I have on my iPhone.
  18. I think you have recommended Jeff Rasansky in Dallas. I know Arthur (Butch) Schechter in Houston who is retired but his firm is still around (Schechter, Shaffer & Harris). Adam Pulaski in Houston is a good guy but it looks like he ratings are bad (Pulaski Kherkher). Same with Jeff Davis in San Antonio. Damn, I didn't know I knew so many. Anyway, it seems like the larger firms who advertise on TV and are kind of volume shops get lower ratings than the ones who are more hands on.
  19. It looks like neither of of your statements or the tweet in question have anything to do with the crash yesterday, but are just general statements that Trump is making a bad decision cutting things related to aviation. Fine. However, the tweet tries to tie its comments to the crash yesterday. None of the points had any impact on the crash.
  20. Just out of curiosity - please explain your second point quoted above - Homeland Security is trying to prevent terrorist attacks? What is the actual mission? If it is trying to prevent terrorist attacks, wouldn't the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee deal with air safety to prevent terrorist attacks? Wouldn't the FAA be responsible for preventing flying mishaps and catastrophes?
  21. I'm not feeling well today so I may not be understanding. He is a 2026 recruit. The 247 link says: Greg Biggins National Recruiting Analyst Katoanga is an intriguing defensive line prospect with a very high ceiling. He played primarily as an edge rusher as a sophomore but has the frame to bulk up and move inside at the college level. He’s all of 6-5, 250 pounds with an 80” wingspan and we can see him packing on another 40 pounds or so with ease and not losing any of his natural athleticism. He’s a high motor player who’s relentless pursuing the football. He shows some pass rush ability coming off the edge or as a tackle and is physical in run support. He can take on blocks, hold his ground and still get a push up the field. Right now, he has shown more potential than on-field production but the traits are there and he looks set to have a breakout junior season in the fall. Does this mean that the report was from before last season when he was only a sophomore? So as a sophomore he was more potential than production?
  22. Why are you arguing and what are you arguing if you didn't understand the point? If you go back a page my comments were to a tweet that misstated facts - Two people are telling me it isn't a buyout - Well that is one thing that the tweet got wrong then. The tweet got the one week wrong. The tweet got wrong the impact on the ATC staffing at the time of the crash. I don't know what happened to the Aviation Safety Committee last week so if you want, you can fact check that statement as well. Otherwise, I guess the tweet was great???
  23. And how many fewer employees were there 24hrs ago when the crash occurred because of the buyout that was probably officially offered on Tuesday?
  24. For the HHS office (IHS) that I've been visiting this week, an all employee conference call was split between a few days ago and today and the first opportunity to make a decision was yesterday. So I don't think air traffic control people would have had time to leave. Plus, I don't really know how it works - After the resignation is made, does the person immediately walk out or does it have to go through their boss and HR and does paperwork have to be filled out? It just sounds impossible for someone to have already left yesterday, considering the typical red-tape, but I don't know for sure.
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