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  • Music is wonderful

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    AndyDA
    Friday night, eyes shut after driving to London today, I could be in a Harlam club listening... https://m. Link to video Such good jazz musicians, individually & as a band, playing a Nat King Cole favourite.
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    https://www.ebay.com/itm/317203317628 Madonna, Italian Vogue, Steven Miesel One of her best magazine covers. There are many of this quality for Vogue and Vanity Fair. Some of them are as good just different. This photograph is stunning when you see it apart from the cover, with its coloring unfiltered. I wish I could show you the photographs inside this magazine, but photographs are arranged in such a haphazard way on the Internet toda Everything is based on brand promotion, and you find bits and pieces. In the old days, all of this was categorized methodically by fans on sites where you could look at every magazine cover and every magazine photograph, arranged chronologically. Those sites don't exist now. I'll catalog my favorite magazine covers for comparison at some point. $700 asking price?!
  • Steve, Urgent Question!

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    D
    Nevermind. I missed my deadline. I'm sure this is right.
  • This is the building that was demolished to build Trump tower

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  • Gas clothes dryer

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    MikM
    Good decision. Long may she run.
  • When do you turn on your heat

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    D
    I turned mine on last night and the result was unsatisfactory. I had trouble choosing between 2 settings. I had to get up and choose the lower one. Then I woke up this morning sweating. I turned the AC back on this morning and left it at 78. At this point, I'm think more of my electric bill than my comfort since I can't seem to get comfortable anyway.
  • What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?

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    ShiroKuroS
    Japan is being impacted by this pretty severely (from what I can from this distance). Tons of sites have been taken offline to try to patch the flaws.
  • For Steve

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    ShiroKuroS
    @mik those are adorable! @Steve-Miller said: fluffy idiots.
  • Goodbye, Landlines

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    Link to video The people get ****** **** * ****** ******* ****, again.
  • Hegseth

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    S
    Absolutely not. You must have the jawline.
  • Devices cause danger to kids...

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  • A flying first for me

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    The best flight attendant instruction that ever was or will be- “In case of a loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks above your seat will deploy, please place the mask first and then assist your child or other passengers. Why do airlines announce like this. It sounds funny and crazy right. For everything we say children first. But here, why do we put them as second. Well, there is a reason for it and let me explain to you simply. You may be thinking in other way, If I do not try to put the oxygen mask to my child first, then child will die before I. Who wants this? No. absolutely not. You are wrong in thinking this way. If the flight is at an higher altitude like 20,000 ft. or above, within 20 to 60 seconds one can get unconscious. This is the main reason flight attendants always advise you to put the oxygen masks first and then assist your children or other passengers – in case of an emergency. Meanwhile, if you try to put your children oxygen mask first and if it takes time, unfortunately you will not get enough time to put your mask within a few seconds, resulting death for both of you due to Hypoxia. Also if you do not give yourself oxygen first, definitely you will not get the chance to assist your child to get the oxygen they need. You should not forget that on high altitudes depressurization and unconsciousness could happen within a few seconds, so during this very minimal time if the parents waste time for putting children oxygen masks, the result will be death for both of them due to nil oxygen. This is the reason flight attendants always announce on board, in case of a cabin pressure, please put your own oxygen mask first and then assist your children or other passengers. Help yourself first so that you can help others, which will save everyone’s life." https://cockpitvoice.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/oxygen-mask-adult-first-and-then-children-why/ It's a good philosophy of life. Many people repeat it out of context for its wisdom including myself. I admit it, through. I haven't always followed this advice. Sometimes I've encountered exigent and complicated circumstances and I've had to wing it (pun intended). This part was was- Yikes!- "If the flight is at an higher altitude like 20,000 ft. or above, within 20 to 60 seconds one can get unconscious." "... you should know that in a commercial passenger flight the oxygen masks contain enough oxygen only for 12 minutes and after that everyone on board will go unconscious due to Hypoxia (oxygen deprivation)." Ftr, The oxygen masks descend during a hard landing on a flight I took a long time ago. It happened once to me. Also, did get lucky in the late '60's and throughout the 70's. Plane crashed seemed to be happening all the time.
  • Daniel's Music

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    @shirokuro Interesting! I don't know why I like like dance music so much and can't dance.
  • Amelia

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    A clump of washed-up trees. Get a life.
  • I made this up out of thin air

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  • Germany is "wrong" to finance Ukraine

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    Putin and his GOP and AfD bitches want peace in Ukraine like Ben Gvir and Smotrich want peace in Gaza. They really do want peace, but on terms that would be devastating to the locals.
  • Chicago, Toy Town

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  • Major Buang-Ly’s Great Escape

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  • Not this S again

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    Link to video This is so stupid. Assertion- They survived the plane crash. Argumentum ad nauseam Maybe these random pieces of shoe leather and whatever else have nothing to do with the crash. Maybe (and there is no evidence of it) they are part of the debris field. Argumentum ad nauseam everywhere you look. Then you get to their imagined survival. This is a mystery. I'd like to know the answer- assuming for the sake of argument they survived the crash- How many days or even hours did they survive on a remote atoll, exposed to the elements, with no food, and no drinking water? Yes, they were heros. Yes, they should be honored. Stop making money off the tragedy, and let them RIP.
  • Joined the Uber club

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    DougGD
    just yesterday I signed up for a voucher program that our local transportation agency offers to seniors/geezers. if you are over 65 you can get a $60 monthly credit for any Uber rides starting and ending in our city. OK, not totally life-changing money, but it makes my monthly round-trip to the airport free and that’s kind of fun.