From Associated Press: All 3 National Guard crew were experienced pilots with past deployments to Afghanistan. They were conducting night vision goggle proficiency training and witnesses who called 911 reported hearing an engine sputtering and said the helicopter was flying very low.
Before the drawing a local talk show interviewed a mathematician who specialized in statistics. He was giving odds of buying a million tickets saying the chances were really good to claim the prize.
Jim, I rarely play the lotto and not driven by greed because of a high jackpot.
edison, the jackpot rolls over for each week they don't get a winner. That adds to the frenzy of people spending much more on tickets than they would buy normally.
More details from the Bloomberg/Quint website: "Phil Spector, the music producer who went from the Wall of Sound to the walls of a California prison cell, has died. He was 81. Spector died on Saturday morning at an outside hospital, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement on Sunday. A medical examiner from the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office will determine the official cause of death. TMZ reported"
Focus on something positive: One of the biggest hits of 1958 “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” a simple teenage ballad was written by Spector.
Jim, the drawback is the interface they are used on.
The idea of touch is good with the right software applications and interface. I have 2 Windows based tablet/notebook computers with touch screens that suffer because the interface is mouse based. Also in my office now I have a touch screen monitor that gets annoying when trying to maneuver cells in a spreadsheet.
My cellphone is Samsung Galaxy Note... touch based and Cut & Paste text in any touch environment has the ability to bring on Tourette Syndrome.
Touch apps for touch screen.
I bought the Samsung interface to run a Galaxy phone it with a PC keyboard, mouse and standard keyboard. Works great! That's a viable solution for people who want to run a business from their phone... in the office and not from your back pocket.
Cutting and pasting text in any touch environment brings on Tourette Syndrome.
I did make an attempt with the Logitech Touchpad. Good product. Not perfect and not a substitute for a mouse. I put it back in the box and remember seeing it when I moved around last year.
The way to have peace isn't to ban talking about things, it's to ban people with this mental disorder.
Take it up with the Moderator. Other than the loss of my blogs on politics and virus health, I've had no part of managements decision to remove those blogs.
It was a terrible scene to see a man all green... He's missing his spleen so he went to the Queen She told him to quarantine in the city of Aberdeen Then to eat some amphetamine in a solution with saline. He drank some caffeine and ate a jelly bean that was heated with a torch of acetylene
A public figure recently made some controversial tweets and was permanently banned from that site. There is speculation where he would go next. Since all public forums have rules, the only way to 'get away' with continuing to make comments in the same fashion (that got him banned) is to create his/your own site.
YouTube is like that. People upload full versions of movies for people to watch for free. They have a short lifespan and get removed. Shortly after another copy appears.
Jimi Hendrix performed in Miami Festival 1969 and someone uploaded an unauthorized copy. It disappeared and I'm waiting for another one to be uploaded!
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RE: Photos of President Biden's Oval Office, and his predecessors.
I only spotted one wall electrical receptacle. By code there must be one every 6 feet.Who should I notify to report this violation?