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    George K
    wrote on 11 Aug 2024, 13:49 last edited by
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    The Pigg-o-Stat

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      jon-nyc
      wrote on 13 Aug 2024, 10:37 last edited by
      #1875

      Interesting thread.

      Only non-witches get due process.

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        jon-nyc
        wrote on 16 Aug 2024, 12:35 last edited by jon-nyc
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        The Mississippi and its tributaries.

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        Only non-witches get due process.

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 16 Aug 2024, 12:36 last edited by
          #1877

          It’s amazing how close you can live to the Great Lakes and still have your ground water drain to the gulf.

          Only non-witches get due process.

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            Mik
            wrote on 26 Aug 2024, 22:21 last edited by
            #1878

            This is a first.

            https://www.wcpo.com/sports/mlb-manager-confirms-catcher-to-play-for-both-teams-in-same-game

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              26 Aug 2024, 22:21

              This is a first.

              https://www.wcpo.com/sports/mlb-manager-confirms-catcher-to-play-for-both-teams-in-same-game

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              Copper
              wrote on 26 Aug 2024, 23:07 last edited by
              #1879

              @Mik said in Mildly interesting:

              This is a first.

              https://www.wcpo.com/sports/mlb-manager-confirms-catcher-to-play-for-both-teams-in-same-game

              John Kiley played for the Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, all in the same season.

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              He was the organist.

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                Mik
                wrote on 29 Aug 2024, 22:42 last edited by
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                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  George K
                  wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 11:24 last edited by
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                  https://www.gottman.com/blog/research-still-face-experiment/

                  Dr. Edward Tronick of UMass Boston’s Infant-Parent Mental Health Program conducts research on how mothers’ depression and other stressful behaviors affect the emotional development and health of infants and children. Jason Goldman published Thoughtful Animal about Tronick’s 1975 experiment, the impact it had in understanding child development, and how it’s being used, including to predict child behavior:

                  In 1975, Edward Tronick and colleagues first presented the “Still Face Experiment” to colleagues at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. He described a phenomenon in which an infant, after three minutes of “interaction” with a non-responsive expressionless mother, “rapidly sobers and grows wary. He makes repeated attempts to get the interaction into its usual reciprocal pattern. When these attempts fail, the infant withdraws [and] orients his face and body away from his mother with a withdrawn, hopeless facial expression.” It remains one of the most replicated findings in developmental psychology.

                  Once the phenomenon had been thoroughly tested and replicated, it became a standard method for testing hypotheses about person perception, communication differences as a result of gender or cultural differences, individual differences in attachment style, and the effects of maternal depression on infants. The still-face experiment has also been used to investigate cross-cultural differences, deaf infants, infants with Down syndrome, cocaine-exposed infants, autistic children, and children of parents with various psychopathologies, especially depression.

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 12:04 last edited by
                    #1882

                    I think you’d have trouble getting that past an IRB today.

                    Only non-witches get due process.

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                      Mik
                      wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 13:14 last edited by
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                      I agree.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 17:54 last edited by
                        #1884

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                        Only non-witches get due process.

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                          George K
                          wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 21:33 last edited by
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                          Link to video

                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don't_Like_Mondays

                          According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report[8] at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer.

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            jon-nyc
                            wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 22:29 last edited by
                            #1886

                            According to Wiki she said “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day”.

                            Where now?

                            She remains imprisoned at the California Institution for Women in Chino. Her next opportunity for a parole hearing will be in 2025.

                            Only non-witches get due process.

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                              jon-nyc
                              wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 22:30 last edited by
                              #1887

                              Imagine being 62 and having been in jail since you were 16.

                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                Mik
                                wrote on 31 Aug 2024, 13:30 last edited by
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                                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                  jon-nyc
                                  wrote on 1 Sept 2024, 21:43 last edited by
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                                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                                    Copper
                                    wrote on 1 Sept 2024, 23:49 last edited by
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                                    Where is New Zealand on that map?

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                                      jon-nyc
                                      wrote on 2 Sept 2024, 00:43 last edited by
                                      #1891

                                      Good question. And although Australia is on the map, it has no number next to it.

                                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on 3 Sept 2024, 11:15 last edited by
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                                        Only non-witches get due process.

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                                          jon-nyc
                                          wrote on 4 Sept 2024, 18:48 last edited by
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                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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