A feel-good story for your soccerheads: Harry Kane has taken the shirt sponsorship for Leyton Orient and is using it to recognize two charities on the away and third shirts, and frontline workers on the home kit.
"UC Master Gardener volunteers are still available to support your home gardening questions by e-mail, telephone, or ZOOM. Please note that many UC Master Gardener Program public education events statewide are being rescheduled, postponed or moved to a later date."
Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus
There are no proven treatments, but knowledge about the pathogen — and how to help those infected — have increased over the past two months
Jose Pascual, a critical care doctor at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, recalled those first, mad days treating the sick when he had little to offer beyond hunches and Hail Marys. Each new day brought bizarre new complications of the coronavirus that defied textbook treatments.
“We were flying blind,” he said. “There is nothing more disturbing for me as a doctor.”
Now, for the first time since a wave of patients flooded their emergency rooms in March, Pascual and others on the front lines are expressing a feeling they say they haven’t felt in a long time — glimmers of hope. They say they have devised a toolbox, albeit a limited and imperfect one, of drugs and therapies many believe give today’s patients a better shot at survival than those who came only a few weeks before.
To be clear, these are not therapies proved to kill or stop the virus. They range from protocols to diagnose and treat dangerous, but sometimes invisible, breathing problems that can be an early warning of covid-19 in some people, to efforts to reduce the illness’s severity or length. At this stage, they are still experimental approaches by doctors desperate to find ways to help gravely ill people and throwing everything they can think of at the problem.
The only Zoom calls I am in are the DBD ones. I've rotated between a few pictures of my kids, a picture of a beach in Hawaii that No 1 took, and an airliner cockpit.
I think on my friend's Volt it has logic where if the gas has been sitting for a while it will run the gas engine to use it up and you have to fill up. not sure what the time range is but 6 months sounds about right.
I'm a huge Irish whiskey fan, I much prefer it to Scotch. Redbreast and the "Spots" are my go-to. Jameson is for shots and Bushmill's has its moments. There are a ton of new distilleries and product is starting to come online after it has aged appropriately. Be interesting to see where it goes
Irish whiskey was my avenue of introduction to whiskeys generally. I've always had a soft spot for them, even if they're less of a go-to for me nowadays.
I had tried some blended scotches that my dad and his friends had favored, but they didn't make much of an impression on me. Irish whiskey was a lot more flavorful and enjoyable to me.
I heard on a podcast that Irish Whiskey - at its nadir was down to a single amalgamated distiller to make Jamesons, Bushmills, and Powers. It is only recently that the industry has sprung back and distilleries are opening back up again. Irish Whiskey is just a geographic distinction without a fixed format or formula. Hence, the podcaster was saying that one should go out and try Irish Whiskeys because they are broadly diversifying away from the core Jamesons/Bushmills/Powers, which all taste somewhat similar. I've just now started buying random bottles to see how they are.
I've bought a bottle of "Writers Tears". I have no idea if it's good or not.
I just opened the Writers Tears. Apricot jam front with spicy notes on the back. Very much like a floral SM Scotch than Jameson's. Analogy: Glenmorangie. It's GD delicious. I am pairing it with take-out Chinese food from the place where, if you dine in, nobody is speaking English.
I thought that prior to Prohibition Rye was the undisputed King of Brown Goods. It was after the passage of the 21st Amendment that Bourbon makers used good marketing to outstrip Rye in sales.
agree. The wife got me 2 bottles of Red Spot for Xmas which I have since crushed. Just bought a Redbreast 12 for sipping and for $55, it is perfection for my palate. Even Mrs FS gave an "oh shit" when she tried it. She doesn't like neat whiskey but loved that one. My new go to until I can get back to Ireland and snatch up some Redbreast 21
More frequently since the shutdowns. That's because I stopped taking BART out of deference to my immuno-compromised wife and have started to drive. Fortunately, I have a place to park close to work and my employer pays for the parking.
My commutes have gone from 35 to 40 minutes to 20 minutes or less.
No - but I typically only need to go somewhere once or twice a week, typically less than 10 miles round trip, and it’s a Honda Civic. I’m more surprised that my wife hasn’t needed to gas up the minivan but she also is only using it twice a week max.
Mostly because I'm not driving. I pretty much only drive to the grocery store and back. I did go for a leisure drive with the gf once about a month ago, but if it's just going to be me cruising, I'm taking the bike.
On average, once per week, but that's because I've been topping it off to stay prepared and take advantage of pricing as soon as it gets close to half empty. The last fill came almost 2 weeks since the prior one. There was only 1 instance in the last 2 months that I filled up twice in the same week.
Envy! Locally, we hit $1.859, but my closest station went back to $1.899. The nearby truck stop and some stations in the area didn't, so shortly they went back down to $1.859.
Since today and tomorrow, much of Oregon is going into Phase 1 of reopening, and Memorial Day is within 2 weeks, I fully anticipate the delayed but imminent beginning of the traditional spring gas price raising season.
It's never NOT going to be too soon, no other way around it. Best to just come to grips with it and move on from the guy who single-handedly set Cal basketball back 10 years....
One should read about the 1880 Republican National Convention. It is bananas. There were 14 candidates to be nominated as the Republican candidate, including two-term president Ulysses Grant. Because the party was so fragmented, Grant could not quite get enough votes to gain outright nomination. So the Convention went through THIRTY SIX votes to try to win the majority of the 755 delegates. Through 33 tries, Garfield had won a maximum of 2 delegates. The #2 and #3 candidates made a deal to slide votes to #7 Garfield.
One piece of good news (for me), all trials in my county for tomorrow have been settled, so I don't have to report for jury duty! Whoo-Whoo! I'm not that adverse to civic duty, but in the current circumstances, I'm not at all upset about not having to interact with literally hundreds of random people, some with recent questionable exposure situations, in an early 20th century era building that from work experience I know makes a '67 Chevy look like state of the art technology. I have no idea how they think they are managing exposures, but that might be part of why its the county with the 3rd highest case total in the state. That and the majority of the correctional institutions in the state, which provides some of the trial participants!
A feel-good story for your soccerheads: Harry Kane has taken the shirt sponsorship for Leyton Orient and is using it to recognize two charities on the away and third shirts, and frontline workers on the home kit.
https://www.leytonorient.com/2020/05/14/breaking-the-os-announce-groundbreaking-shirt-sponsorship-guess-whos-back/
I for one am irritated that a player I dislike profoundly on the field has turned out to be a solid citizen.
Leyton Orient are wankers
http://mg.ucanr.edu/?utm_source=UCnetwork+-+systemwide+staff&utm_campaign=01f3f1b3f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_30_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f094b95b76-01f3f1b3f3-186913985
"UC Master Gardener volunteers are still available to support your home gardening questions by e-mail, telephone, or ZOOM. Please note that many UC Master Gardener Program public education events statewide are being rescheduled, postponed or moved to a later date."
I don't know how to make this link not-ugly (sometimes I can get rid of the extra social media referral parts) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/13/coronavirus-treatments/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJjb29raWVuYW1lIjoid3BfY3J0aWQiLCJpc3MiOiJDYXJ0YSIsImNvb2tpZXZhbHVlIjoiNWNjY2E1ZmQ5YmJjMGYwYmY4MGE3YjE3IiwidGFnIjoiNWViYzU3MGZmZTFmZjY1NGMyZGMyNDA5IiwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL2hlYWx0aC8yMDIwLzA1LzEzL2Nvcm9uYXZpcnVzLXRyZWF0bWVudHMvP3V0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj13cF90b195b3VyX2hlYWx0aCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ3cGlzcmM9bmxfdHloJndwbWs9MSJ9.XbAkYF4WH0hbfbsvNhRorp9k-eRfkqTnr_td3kitAzM&utm_campaign=wp_to_your_health&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_tyh&wpmk=1
Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus
There are no proven treatments, but knowledge about the pathogen — and how to help those infected — have increased over the past two months
Jose Pascual, a critical care doctor at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, recalled those first, mad days treating the sick when he had little to offer beyond hunches and Hail Marys. Each new day brought bizarre new complications of the coronavirus that defied textbook treatments.
“We were flying blind,” he said. “There is nothing more disturbing for me as a doctor.”
Now, for the first time since a wave of patients flooded their emergency rooms in March, Pascual and others on the front lines are expressing a feeling they say they haven’t felt in a long time — glimmers of hope. They say they have devised a toolbox, albeit a limited and imperfect one, of drugs and therapies many believe give today’s patients a better shot at survival than those who came only a few weeks before.
To be clear, these are not therapies proved to kill or stop the virus. They range from protocols to diagnose and treat dangerous, but sometimes invisible, breathing problems that can be an early warning of covid-19 in some people, to efforts to reduce the illness’s severity or length. At this stage, they are still experimental approaches by doctors desperate to find ways to help gravely ill people and throwing everything they can think of at the problem.
Zoom users: what are you using as a background?
An iPhone snap of the sky over Pasadena after the 2020 Rose Bowl...went for a preview of things to come someday for the Bears.
that's the spirit!
The only zoom call I’ve had to endure was for Seder, and the background was our table
I've been using several different ones:
-Oski (via Cal Athletics)
-The view from the park behind my grandmother's house
-Two different videos from Hawaii (one is during the day, with the waves hitting rocks; the other one is at sunset on a sandy beach)
-Red Rock Canyon (from when I tried to go see Cher in concert, but she canceled because of illness, and my friends made me go hiking instead)
-CAUTION: GOATS PARTYING (from Hawaii, too!)
-random firetruck I found online (for when I talk to my boss's son)
-a bear and a rabbit celebrating (via Liz Climo)
i dont. just whatever is the actual background of where i happen to be sitting
The only Zoom calls I am in are the DBD ones. I've rotated between a few pictures of my kids, a picture of a beach in Hawaii that No 1 took, and an airliner cockpit.
I am using this one the most:
https://build-amsterdam.imgix.net/upload/2a27e86d3520581d7f0db5ba2217caf90451d5645402e9562ad524cf1f437106?&w=600&h=337&crop=fit&auto=format
hahahahaha
From Ian Karmel: "IF band names were literal, what would be the scariest band to fight? I'm torn between Megadeth and 10,000 Maniacs"
There were some other good replies to that tweet as well:
The Killers
The Germs
Cannibal Corpse
The Zombies
Anthrax
They Might Be Giants (OTOH, they might be normal sized)
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Death From Above
B-52s
The Police
Massive Attack
Asia (lol)
In the age of Covid:
Cancer Bats
Heh, their name belies their sound.
Twice in three years. Plug in hybrid.
Make sure you top up your gas tank. Gas spoils in 3-5 months through oxidization and water absorption.
I think on my friend's Volt it has logic where if the gas has been sitting for a while it will run the gas engine to use it up and you have to fill up. not sure what the time range is but 6 months sounds about right.
Manic Monday by the Bangles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2w
Irish whiskey
I had to retain at least one baseless old world prejudice: I will not drink it.
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7TKNLBKhbBNfPhEk/giphy.gif
I'm a huge Irish whiskey fan, I much prefer it to Scotch. Redbreast and the "Spots" are my go-to. Jameson is for shots and Bushmill's has its moments. There are a ton of new distilleries and product is starting to come online after it has aged appropriately. Be interesting to see where it goes
Irish whiskey was my avenue of introduction to whiskeys generally. I've always had a soft spot for them, even if they're less of a go-to for me nowadays.
If we're just counting whiskys, Glenlivet was the first for me. The hard stuff in general: Presidente brandy and Bacardi Anejo at my FIL
I had tried some blended scotches that my dad and his friends had favored, but they didn't make much of an impression on me. Irish whiskey was a lot more flavorful and enjoyable to me.
I heard on a podcast that Irish Whiskey - at its nadir was down to a single amalgamated distiller to make Jamesons, Bushmills, and Powers. It is only recently that the industry has sprung back and distilleries are opening back up again. Irish Whiskey is just a geographic distinction without a fixed format or formula. Hence, the podcaster was saying that one should go out and try Irish Whiskeys because they are broadly diversifying away from the core Jamesons/Bushmills/Powers, which all taste somewhat similar. I've just now started buying random bottles to see how they are.
I've bought a bottle of "Writers Tears". I have no idea if it's good or not.
I'm enjoying the Redbreast 12 I keep around, basically I like all the whiskies.
I just opened the Writers Tears. Apricot jam front with spicy notes on the back. Very much like a floral SM Scotch than Jameson's. Analogy: Glenmorangie. It's GD delicious. I am pairing it with take-out Chinese food from the place where, if you dine in, nobody is speaking English.
Fun fact: Irish whiskey was once a fave in America until prohibition; also Rye used to be neck and neck with Bourbon.
I thought that prior to Prohibition Rye was the undisputed King of Brown Goods. It was after the passage of the 21st Amendment that Bourbon makers used good marketing to outstrip Rye in sales.
Midleton Very Rare....mmmm
green spot, yellow spot.
i tend to prefer the pot stilled stuff and generally enjoy it more than Scotch
agree. The wife got me 2 bottles of Red Spot for Xmas which I have since crushed. Just bought a Redbreast 12 for sipping and for $55, it is perfection for my palate. Even Mrs FS gave an "oh shit" when she tried it. She doesn't like neat whiskey but loved that one. My new go to until I can get back to Ireland and snatch up some Redbreast 21
Currently, how long between your gas tank refills?
More frequently since the shutdowns. That's because I stopped taking BART out of deference to my immuno-compromised wife and have started to drive. Fortunately, I have a place to park close to work and my employer pays for the parking.
My commutes have gone from 35 to 40 minutes to 20 minutes or less.
I fill up once every two weeks in the Ranger and about as often with the CR-V.
about every 20 days or so. Driving to all the trailheads around here.
I haven’t had to refill since lockdown started in Maryland, so... 6 weeks? And I still have half a tank to go.
Are you within walking distance of your store, drug store, etc?
No - but I typically only need to go somewhere once or twice a week, typically less than 10 miles round trip, and it’s a Honda Civic. I’m more surprised that my wife hasn’t needed to gas up the minivan but she also is only using it twice a week max.
Only once since the quarantine has started...but it was also 1/3 full then.
It's been about a month and I have half a tank left.
is it because you aren't driving or you're taking the motorcycle more often?
Mostly because I'm not driving. I pretty much only drive to the grocery store and back. I did go for a leisure drive with the gf once about a month ago, but if it's just going to be me cruising, I'm taking the bike.
usually once per week still, but the tank is small and when the light comes on I only have <10mi so I don't ever push it.
about a month. and thats actually been topping off.
I believe I have filled up once in the last ten weeks.
2 -3 months, work from home.
Twice a month - that's it. I'm driving less.
On average, once per week, but that's because I've been topping it off to stay prepared and take advantage of pricing as soon as it gets close to half empty. The last fill came almost 2 weeks since the prior one. There was only 1 instance in the last 2 months that I filled up twice in the same week.
I've been topping off too. Was $1.39/gallon for a long time. Just went back up to an outrageous $1.55.
Lowest I've seen in LA is $2.39
Vallejo Costco was down to 1.99 and Concord Costco as 2.09. Concord was 2.19 yesterday and 2.59 premium.
Envy! Locally, we hit $1.859, but my closest station went back to $1.899. The nearby truck stop and some stations in the area didn't, so shortly they went back down to $1.859.
Since today and tomorrow, much of Oregon is going into Phase 1 of reopening, and Memorial Day is within 2 weeks, I fully anticipate the delayed but imminent beginning of the traditional spring gas price raising season.
And there it was! Up 4 cents/gal on the sign when I went by today.
probably once a month, or more, per car. I probably put max 60 mi each week per car. If that.
What is far more dangerous than people realize?
Wyking Jones game-planning...
I believe you are referring to Why?King Jones?
pqtm & TOO SOON!
It's never NOT going to be too soon, no other way around it. Best to just come to grips with it and move on from the guy who single-handedly set Cal basketball back 10 years....
only 10?
Hippos
Read the novella River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey for a taste of just how dangerous.
Amps, not volts.
Depending on which people you mean... the obvious answer seems to be coronavirus?
Cows. And I'm not talking about bulls.
Garfield
Fluff your -
Whose Line Is It Anyways
https://youtu.be/u-BfQ7hJ6Po?t=85
, James A.
One should read about the 1880 Republican National Convention. It is bananas. There were 14 candidates to be nominated as the Republican candidate, including two-term president Ulysses Grant. Because the party was so fragmented, Grant could not quite get enough votes to gain outright nomination. So the Convention went through THIRTY SIX votes to try to win the majority of the 755 delegates. Through 33 tries, Garfield had won a maximum of 2 delegates. The #2 and #3 candidates made a deal to slide votes to #7 Garfield.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880_Republican_National_Convention
Both Garfield and Grant were Ohioans!
Today in Coronavirus-19
https://gen.medium.com/coronavirus-made-a-big-mistake-invading-the-greatest-goddamn-country-on-earth-9d136359b41f
Poetic genius
I had to invent a whole new 'Murica voice just to read that to myself
One piece of good news (for me), all trials in my county for tomorrow have been settled, so I don't have to report for jury duty! Whoo-Whoo! I'm not that adverse to civic duty, but in the current circumstances, I'm not at all upset about not having to interact with literally hundreds of random people, some with recent questionable exposure situations, in an early 20th century era building that from work experience I know makes a '67 Chevy look like state of the art technology. I have no idea how they think they are managing exposures, but that might be part of why its the county with the 3rd highest case total in the state. That and the majority of the correctional institutions in the state, which provides some of the trial participants!
See on FB:
Seatbelt law: click it or ticket
CV19: mask it or casket
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
PRO
CAL
Go Bears.