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I posted about "Broken Prey" by John Sandford before. Nice read but the last three pages after the story ends are special. In the book The main character is hunting a killer and compiling a list of his most liked Rock and Roll songs to install on his iPad. The last three pages of the book are the list of Sandford's top 100 Rock and Roll songs. Nice find in a pretty good book.
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Why most people are right handed but left eyed
This fits me so I wonder why camera viewfinders are oriented for right eye bias.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-people-left-eyed.html
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Strange finding, I was ambidextrous until the teachers picked my right hand, but my left eye was dominant. I was told that this was cross-dominance and responsible for my coordination challenges and scrambling numbers, now this study is saying that it's the norm.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02222-x
"Scientists working with a mouse model of a particular type of headache, called aural migraine, set out to explore this. One-third of migraine sufferers experience a phase before their headache known as aura that has symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light and numbness. It can last five minutes to an hour. During aura, the brain experiences a blackout called a cortical spreading depression (CSD), when neuronal activity shuts down for a short time.
Studies of migraines have suggested that headaches happens when molecules in the cerebrospinal fluid drain from the brain and activate nerves in the meninges, the layers that protect the brain and spinal cord.
Nedergaard’s team wanted to explore whether there are similar leaks in the cerebrospinal fluid that activate the trigeminal nerve, which runs through the face and skull. The nerve branches join at the trigeminal ganglia at the base of the skull. This is a hub for relaying sensory information between the face and jaw to the brain, and contains receptors for pain and inflammatory proteins."
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@First_Warrior said:
Right now " Broken Prey " by John Sandford.
Tried to read a new Reacher book " The Secret" by Lee Child's son Andrew Child. Well, Andrew ain't got the writing skill as his dad. Lost interest after two chapters.agreed. try author Nick Petrie..ex mil that doesn't beat hell out of everybody
sidenote* https://washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/19/lee-child-andrew-jack-reacher-secret/2 -
Lee Child's brother is Andrew not his son. I stand corrected. Still not a writer.
I've read some Petrie mostly the Peter Ash series.Post edited by First_Warrior on0 -
Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery.
This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in 1936, and how it moves — its rotation speed and direction — has been at the center of a decades-long debate. A growing body of evidence suggests the core’s spin has changed dramatically in recent years, but scientists have remained divided over what exactly is happening — and what it means.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn/index.html
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Climate change must have seeped down into the core.
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The earth’s tilt is changing. I tried explaining my theory in a post some time ago but the system flagged it and wouldn’t post it. Pretty sure I had a conversation with @VegasFrank on the vherf about it.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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"The Heathens" by Ace Atkins. Not a bad read, part of a series. Atkins has ghost written 10 Robert Parker novels, and this book is one of seven featuring Quinn Colson's law enforcement adventures in Mississippi .
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Interesting, to say the least, about gun policy up to 02/2023.
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Geopolitical considerations from US-China competition.
https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/disorderly-conduct
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US Sanctions List
https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/sanctions-by-the-numbers-2023-year-in-review
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China economic policy 5 year look ahead.
https://thediplomat.com/2024/07/with-or-without-opening-previewing-chinas-third-plenum-reforms/
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@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:
Interesting, to say the least, about gun policy up to 02/2023.
Total hogwash. The only thing remotely relevant is locking up your guns if you have small kids in your house.
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"The Thin Red Line" by James Jones. A novel of an Army company in combat on the island of Guadalcanal. Captures the line between sanity and the insanity of war.
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SAGE Test Early Detection…Alzheimer’s and/or Dimentia
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:
How often should you 💩Every time.
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Navy and C19 lawsuit settlement.
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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"Chasing Darkness " by Robert Crais 2008. Elvis and Pike are at it again.
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Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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U.S. national debt has crossed $35T for the first time ever, latest data from the Treasury Department showed, with the tide of red ink swelling at a much faster pace than expected amid mounting costs to enact federal programs.
Recall that national debt hit $34T early this year and passed $33T just three months before that. "The borrowing just keeps marching along, reckless and unyielding," said Maya MacGuineas, president of independent think tank Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
MacGuineas said the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act was an "excellent start" to reducing the deficit. "We should extend FRA caps, we should find new revenues, and we should fix our dangerously close to insolvent Social Security and Medicare trust funds." To note, Social Security and Medicare are the biggest drivers of national debt.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4129892-us-national-debt-new-record
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Well, if they’d quit taking our money (social security, Medicare) and giving to other countries by the billions it might help.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Take the alcoholics and drug addicts who are considered "unemployable " by the SSA and force them to get clean and back to work. Stop letting migrants move to this country and collect SS. For people who are on disability who are actually capable of working, make them get jobs and off of disability. And stop sending billions of our tax dollars to other countries. If they need money, loan it to them and make them pay it back.
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Stop growing the government, an extremely large portion of new job creations is in government jobs. Government employees salary and retirement benifits are a huge drain.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
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Full official report…
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/misc/MSA3057-4/RAND_MSA3057-4.pdf
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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This makes me wonder if the US would be the only one engaged in these various theatres, or if other allies such as France, England, Australia, Japan, etc. would be joining in, and how that would be coordinated. I can see where the US would be stretched thin if war broke out on multiple fronts, but we wouldn't be the only ones fighting either, would we?
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@peter4jc said:
This makes me wonder if the US would be the only one engaged in these various theatres, or if other allies such as France, England, Australia, Japan, etc. would be joining in, and how that would be coordinated. I can see where the US would be stretched thin if war broke out on multiple fronts, but we wouldn't be the only ones fighting either, would we?One day we will find out. Remember MC Hammer? Gave money to all his friends and relatives. Then, when he hit hard times, nothing came back to him. Confronting them their response was essentially "Yeah, you were dumb not to keep your money for yourself. I guess that's the lesson you were meant to learn."
I'm dead sure France will be of no use. The others? I'm guessing they'll suddenly remember obligations elsewhere.
I could be wrong. But I don't think so.
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