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Have severe sleep apnea. Stopped breathing 26 times/hour as long as 43 seconds. Destroyed some relationships. Unable to tolerate CPAP.
Use an oral device that looks like a pair of dentures, pushes jaw down and out to open airways. Not to be confused with the cheap things you see on TV, this runs $2500+. Insurance covered 80%. Still the best $500 ever spent in my life. Look for Somnident. (way easier to carry on plane, too!).
Has prolonged my life and first time I ever dreamed! (REM sleep)
My dentist required a trachea connection and machine to sleep. His son actually did a procedure to break his jaw and rebuild jaw longer.
Avoid cutting/trimming procedures of tongue/throat/tonsils. Very painful and grows back in three+ years.
Hope this helps!

You guessed right, but exposed yourself as the “Luddite redneck”.

Gee you'd think a learned person would recognize Weare, NH as the home of a US Supreme Court Justice Souter. Deeply enmeshed in the eminent domain ruling, such that the people up here tried to seize his home using the same arguments. Look it up.

Oh, yeah, that “rag” is the Manchester Union Leader. World Famous, just not in your little world. Once called Reagan a liberal!! That far right. Also, torpedoed Ed Muskey campaign, long ago. ( I go back that far)

Nashua, the “Gate city” (on the border with MA, not the “gay city”, get you ears cleaned out!) The problem with Nashua is illegals overflowing from MA. I can remember when signs were in English and French (french Canadians), think there are some churches that still hold services in french.

OK, Nashua= Gate city, Manchester is the “Queen City”, look it up. The “gaiety you seek is on the coast, all 18 miles of it. Try Portsmouth.

The “rag” from Nashua is the “Nashua Telegraph”, total liberal paper. Wouldn't line a birdcage with it, that would be redundant!

Before you besmirch Nashua any further, “Money” magazine called it the best city in the US to live TWICE in ten years. Had to stop identifying cities and switched to “regions after that.

Weare is “small town”, think Mayberry. NH has had some difficulty with the “wiretap” issue. Since I'm in the same county, maybe I can be on the jury and let FR what happens!

Have fun. Rohn

Simple solution:
1) Go to book store
2) Pick up book and pretend to peruse it
3) Replace book cover down
4) Repeat as needed
Did this with anti-Palin magazine at supermarket, no longer at check-out!
Enjoy!

Does that mean you will wake up screaming, every two hours, with a load in your underpants? Sorry, had to ask.

Ever heard of a terrorist that works anonymously????????

Actually, yes. Train station at Bologna(IT) has a memorial to those killed in an attack. Clock is stopped at time of explosion, crack in the wall left as a reminder. No credible claim. Ever. There are suspects, but nothing solid.
Just there recently, very powerful.
Certain there are other examples of anonymous attacks, but that is the one I will remember.
Rohn

Hi,
Reminds me of the old joke about the non-Christian child that was doing miserably in school.
His parents finally got him into a Catholic school. His marks generally improved, but sky rocketed to straight A’s in math.
The parents asked why he was doing so well in math. His reply, “have you seen what they did to the guy on the PLUS SIGN?”
Enjoy,
Rohn

Hi,
Great post!
Just last night the PBS station had a series on the history of India. Seems many of the large cities disappeared due to “global warming”, way back around 1500 B.C. (NOT BCE!).
How many cars were driving then?
Look to the nearest nuclear furnace to Earth, a star, some call it the “Sun”. Tell me about the spike in temperature, or decrease in sunspot activity.
Polar ice caps melting? Happens on Mars!
I could go on, but thanks,
Rohn

This is too scary,
That was my immediate reaction!
Rohn

this can be a serious danger to world peace. just remember those “bloody” Eskimo now have “the Bomb” ;-)
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Reminds me of an old joke (groaner alert)

Q: Why won’t the Russians attack Eskimos?
A: They heard Eskimos have “icy BM’s”.

Sorry, I had to do it!

We have a winner!!
Now, how do you defend yourself when somebody attacks you with a banana?
(apologies to Monty Python)
Rohn

Don’t have to go that far back,
just have all the families of northerners sue slave families for those that fought to free the slaves!
Kaching!!!

Doolittle: Hello, Engine? Are you with me?
Engine #2: Of course.
Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Engine #2: I am always receptive to suggestions.
Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Engine #2: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Engine #2: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Engine #2: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That’s good. That’s very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
Engine #2: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.

With apologies to John Carpenter.
An obscure blast from the past.
Thanks!!

“Toll roads actually will add pollution. I think anyone can figure that out.”

Spot on reply! Think there are some studies proving that.

Also, people should look to why CT eliminated tolls. They had a series of horrible pile-ups at toll booths. The cost of litigation virtually negated the profit from tolls, plus people died. (we won’t mention the bridge on I-95 that fell in the river, so much for revenue maintaining the road)

The Mass. Pike fiasco should be a lesson to all on government hacks running a toll road. The bonds were about to be paid off years ago, and all were expecting the tolls to be eliminated. No, the hacks floated new bonds, so they wouldn’t lose their jobs. Now the tolls are going up again!

There are some places in MA where the toll booth collects little more than the salary of the workers. Most of them are friends or relatives of state politicians. You won’t believe what some toll collectors earn.

Don’t even get started on the Big Dig.....

Didn’t Mars just have it’s closest pass by Earth?

It’s obvious Bush and his minions unloaded warming from Earth to Mars! /s

Thanks for the post!
I’m very sorry to see the anti-clown reaction (except politicos), as I think they really helped my godson’s recovery.

He was deathly ill ( ten days fever over 104F, pneumonia, three viruses, and fluid around the heart). Two hospital volunteers, dressed as clowns, came to visit him and gave him balloons (loofies in Hungarian). It was probably all the IV antibiotics, but he sparked up at their appearance. Suddenly, the little boy that could only groan the day before, was trying to tell me all about the clowns and loofies. I don’t understand Hungarian, but it was very clear that he loved the clowns.

Am heading over to Budapest next week to see him. Released from hospital (tough kid, not even two), but has to go into the hospital every day for dosing and monitoring, next couple of weeks.

Don’t even get me started on National Health plans. He is the third person I’ve almost lost to National Health!

Please let me give you my take on this. Twenty five years in ATC.

Absolutely, controllers are required to monitor their own frequencies, they usually don’t have the time to “go looking for more work”. However, if you get an anomaly, especially interference, it becomes reportable and tapes get pulled. Oh, and BTW, during my 25 years of ATC, only 2 years working in a tower, the rest in dark rooms with no windows. The last 17 were not even anywhere near an airport. So much for “relax in their towers”.

First, when did we declare terrorists were the “brain trust” of this planet. I never have, and some are plenty stupid.

Second, if you have used HF, expect drifting. Pointed out by xkaydet65 (thank you). Have been in the cockpit (jumpseat observer), while pilots were cursing all sorts of problems with HF.

Third, I’ve experienced all sorts of frequency problems over the years. Harmonics, inadvertent jamming, and plain old misuse. Encountered problems in US with CB radio, taxi dispatch, and ham radio operators blocking my frequency. (even the USN screwed up on one excercise)
When did we miss the word SCRAMBLED in the original story? Can you identify and descramble something in English?

No, Bottom Line: Read the story, don’t believe everything in the movies.

My take: Controller working some sector of Oceanic Control (or one requiring HF), gets interference. Tells supervisor. Tapes are pulled and sent to Quality Assurance. They can’t figure it out and send it to another agency. Agency realizes that it is scrambled transmission, and send it to some intelligence agency. They have “experts” decipher and translate transmission. The original objective, stop the interference. The result, something unexpected discovered.

Been there.

Sorry to burst the bubble,
Pref. rte. BDL to CVG will go west, or north. Either BDL/PWL/SAX, BDL/CTR/DNY or BDL/CTR/CAM/SYR.
So unless they have a special clearance for some sort of demo flight, they go out to the NW.
Retired in May. Air Traffic Controller at Boston Center (ZBW) since 1990. That was my airspace. Before that New York Center (ZNY) and MHT. 25 years+ service.
Traffic over BDL to HPN/LGA flies the BDL 255 radial, so they can descend. At the same time, BDL traffic over PWL/SAX runs out to the west to climb around/above NY traffic. It is a “tight corner” as ALB arrivals are descending northbound and BTV/YUL departures are climbing out from NY! (V487 if you have a sectional) YIKES! Still can’t believe I did that for all those years.
EWR traffic is supposed to run BAF/IGN at the same time, During peak periods they get the “bypass” via TALCO, unless they can get cut in toward SAX.
Sorry if this doesn’t help your viewing.
Rohn

Is “Sideshow Bob” on trial again?
the Bart the

Hello ops33!
First, thank you for your service!!
Second, you are totally correct, there is much lacking from this story.
Recently retired from ATC, there have been many cases of aircraft on my frequency in error. Sometimes you have them return to previous. Other times you try to find where they should be. Then, there are times, when known traffic, you call the call/talk to controller responsible and just relay the clearances.
There is much left to be said in this story.
Thanks again,
Rohn

Will forward this to a MA State Police Trooper, with the patrol area of Worcester (Holy Cross). His uncle served in Vietnam and was later a Trooper in the MA State Police.
Let your imagination do the rest.