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Thanks. This was not the rabbit hole I expected to follow this year.

I have finished one pass through the Duolingo Welsh course. My wife is about 75% through. Another useful app is Say Somthing in Welsh. For a brief sample of the language in song with English/Welsh lyrics: Tan yn Llyn. Music performed by Plethyn.

I built a lot of very specialized capability for PacBell during the years I worked there. They attempted to get me to sign away my rights (and those of my heirs/assigns) in perpetuity to any intellectual property that I had generated. Really? The "agreement" kept landing in the shredder. After 5 weeks, I received a notice from an external legal firm stating that PacBell had no right to ask for such an agreement. The "agreement" stopped being sent to me after that point.

My current employer asked for a disclosure of any current work that I wanted excluded from their purview as well as an "at will" employment agreement. No problem. I had a few specialized embedded systems that were developed for local hospitals that were explicitly excluded. I'm approaching 33 years with the current employer. I'll probably die before I retire.

CA CPS is full of unscrupulous people. I received a FedEx envelope one afternoon in Idaho trying to stick me with child support for some kids in Encino, CA. After much digging, I discovered the CPS employees have full access to CA DMV records. The pieced together my identity and sent nasty grams to my employer making accusations of paternity. My name is VERY COMMON. There are 3 other people in my small town of Pocatello with the same name. It's pretty embarrassing to have people in HR thinking shitty things about you that are just not true.

After some digging, I located the bio dad. He's very black and I'm not. I had cancer in 1985 and haven't been able to have kids since then. The children in question were sired about 1998. I eventually tracked down the supervisor of the miscreant employees and explained what was going on. They were TERMINATED and any further harassment over their fictitious person was terminated.

Thanks for the link. I've tried to operate that way for many years. The ampullary cancer is rare. I don't have a proper staging yet. The Whipple procedure is the only iron clad "cure" assuming metastasis hasn't occurred beyond the scope of tissue that is removed in a Whipple.

I have a lab diagnosed adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater. I'm very anemic and I suspect the cancer is continuing to promote a gastric bleed. I discontinued all blood thinners in January including my usual 800 mg ibuprofen at bedtime to deal with head to toe pain from rheumatoid arthritis. After all the interventions, my blood work still looks bad. Low hemoglobin and ferretin. The staff at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Clinic finally contacted me this morning. The earliest I can come in for a consult preliminary to a Whipple procedure is May 17th. That's just to talk about it. No idea how much longer to schedule the resources to do the procedure.

18 U.S.C. § 242 This provision makes it a crime for someone acting under color of law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. It is not necessary that the offense be motivated by racial bias or by any other animus.Aug 15, 2023

The judge should be pursued under the above statute for her behavior in the trial.

My employer has a presence in all 50 states. The company was founded in San Diego. In recent years, all company real estate was sold to a holding company and leased back to individual contracts. The merit in that approach is that the company can make a rapid exit from a location without the limitation of selling off the real estate.

The advent of working from home has also eased reducing the burden of paying for real estate. The threat to quintuple the unemployment insurance is going to make it financially attractive to have a HUGE reduction in the number of California based employees. Labor costs have a significant impact on the ability to bid contracts. Using less expensive labor away from high cost states is one way to "win" that battle.

My sister and I inherited my mom's home in the San Diego area. It was in a good trust with Prop 13 protection. I had no desire to be a property owner in CA. My sister bought out my "half". The property tax re-assessment and PITI on the sum to buy me out make it necessary to rent it for over $2000 per month to stay even.

I have a couple CS800D rigs. You really have to want to be a perpetual firmware upgrader to keep the radio current. I lost interest in 2017. My two CS800D rigs are years out of date. Too bad. It is a fairly good rig with slightly "glitchy" firmware.

My "good" radios are Yaesu, Icom and Kenwood. I have a cast off Baofeng that works Ok on 2m. My low power HF gear is Xiegu. G90 and X6100. The G90 works fine in the field. I just purchased the X6100 for some QRP ops. Still in the box.

A few years ago I dabbled in DMR. My TYT hand-held had a good open source firmware. It was fun until a malicious individual hacked the computer of the principal software maintainer. No more updates, so the radio is frozen in time with the last updates it will ever have.

Always wanted to visit Wales. On my bucket list for sure.

My great grandparents emigrated to the US from Wales. I was able to find the family home near Ysbty Ystwyth. I've stayed at Bryn y Don (B&B) in Aberystwyth. It is driving distance to Ysbty Ystwyth and walking distance to the National Library of Wales.

On my last trip to Wales, we passed through Cardiff and Carmarthen. The Welsh name for Carmarthen in Caerfyrddin...otherwise known as Merlin's Castle. The Welsh name for Merlin is...Myrddin.

Turns out there’s a perfectly good scrabble word “cwm” (pronounced “koom”)

cwm is the Welsh word for "valley" as part of a place name. The leading "aber" indicates the mouth of a river. Abertawe, Aberystwyth. Upstream from Aberystwyth along the river Ystwyth (Afon Ystwyth) is a small valley, Cwmystwyth with a few homes. My friends Meredydd Evans and his with Phyllis Kinney lived there. I last visited in 1999.

Welsh uses a e i o u w y as vowels. Each one of them has a variant with a caret (^) that modifies the sound. Gaelic uses a e i o u and variants with a grave accent (`) to indicate a lengthening of the sound. German uses a e i o u with variants with the umlaut (double dot) over the vowel to change the sound and usually the meaning of the word.

I was on the tarmac with my scout troop when the first F-14 landed at Miramar with the Secretary of the Navy in the RIO seat. My 2nd home was in Mira Mesa...one mile north of the runway at Miramar. Front row seats for Top Gun training and a short bike ride to the annual air show. When the Navy passed the facility to the Marines, the air traffic changed. Lots of very noisy helicopters and F/A-18 jets. Much noisier than the F-14s.

If you choose to use azithromycin, be very sure that you don't have a heart arrhythmia. My oldest son had 4 open heart surgeries, 2 artificial valves and a pacemaker. Azithromycin causes elongation of the QT interval (interval between heart beats). Taken to the limit, that QT elongation results in cardiac death. Vanderbilt University published a paper detailing cardiac death in 238 cases where azithromycin was prescribed. It was published a mere 5 hours after my son passed.

As an undergrad at UCSD, I had to suffer through the kind of explosive diarrhea contained in the excerpt above. It is exactly the level of thought observed in the graduate students in the Literature department. The key learning experience is identifying this kind of mental masturbation and ensuring that individuals steeped in that mindset never get hired into your own workplace.

I was thinking maybe the thing wasn't designed to kill outright, but to shorten ones lifespan.. (?)

The bioweapon is aimed at both ends. Accelerating cancer in the older generation by damage to DNA repair mechanisms e.g. p53. At the lower end, the lipid nanoparticle coating directed concentration in ovaries, testes, liver and heart. Myocarditis from the heart directed part is taking a toll on the under 30 part of the population. Infertility takes a swipe at birth rates (declining over the vaxxed world).

Interesting to see how they omitted naming Ralph Baric as the inventor of the "no see um" techniques of inserting genetic material. Conventional processes to insert sequences leave tell tale evidence of where and how the insert was accomplished.

Note: 300 Blackout has a short effective range, the rifle in the photo had a very short barrel. That type of rifle will have an effective range of 100-150 yards. It is NOT a sniper rifle.

I custom built my 300BLK SBR with a 10.5" barrel. The powder is burned by 9.5". Nothing to gain with more barrel. The shorter barrel allows for adding a suppressor yielding a nicely balanced SBR. Purpose built for hog hunting. Getting the gas port placement is important. A pistol port placement works well. Tuning for supersonic/subsonic is yet another chore.