Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

34 going to 46 and partly sunny.

RNG - good info on safes and temps. Thanks Read F451 book many years ago...powerful.

LS, nice looking table.

Decided to work on that lightning tree yesterday. Took a tape and measured 94 feet tall...but the top was missing where the tree was still 6" in diameter...looking at the surrounding trees, I estimate that another 10 to 15 feet would have made the tree over 100' if the top hadn't been blown off. I loaded all the remaining split-in-half rounds into my carry all box. All of the remaining tree was over top of, or across the creek from the tractor path. RNG, I couldn't drag it across because of the angle the creek turned, and the neighbor trees...I would just have made a muddy mess. So I sawed up the rest of the trunk, which hadn't split - only the lower 30 or 40 feet. I left the 10 feet or so of trunk over the creek as a temporary bridge and rolled the rounds across. So I have two+ more loads once I split the current load and empty the box. Sure am sore today. But it was fun. These yellow poplars were little saplings when we moved here.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Don, one of the data sets shows the risks in some occupations you wouldn't expect.

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Cancer Causes Control. 2003 Mar;14(2):139-50.
Occupation and the risk of adult glioma in the United States.
De Roos AJ1, Stewart PA, Linet MS, Heineman EF, Dosemeci M, Wilcosky T, Shapiro WR, Selker RG, Fine HA, Black PM, Inskip PD.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
Previous studies have observed increased glioma incidence associated with employment in the petroleum and electrical industries, and in farming. Several other occupations have also been associated with increased risk, but with inconsistent results. We evaluated associations between occupational title and glioma incidence in adults.

METHODS:
Cases were 489 patients with glioma diagnosed from 1994 to 1998 at three United States hospitals. Controls were 799 patients admitted to the same hospitals for non-malignant conditions. An experienced industrial hygienist grouped occupations that were expected to have similar tasks and exposures. The risk of adult glioma was evaluated for those subjects who ever worked in an occupational group for at least six months, those who worked longer than five years in the occupation, and those with more than ten years latency since starting work in the occupation.

RESULTS:
Several occupational groups were associated with increased glioma incidence for having ever worked in the occupation, including butchers and meat cutters (odds ratio [OR] = 2.4; 95% confidence limits [CL]: 1.0, 6.0), computer programmers and analysts (OR = 2.0; 95% CL: 1.0, 3.8), electricians (OR = 1.8; 95% CL: 0.8, 4.1), general farmers and farmworkers (OR = 2.5; 95% CL: 1.4, 4.7), inspectors, checkers, examiners, graders, and testers (OR = 1.5; 95% CL: 0.8, 2.7), investigators, examiners, adjustors, and appraisers (OR = 1.7; 95% CL: 0.8, 3.7), physicians and physician assistants (OR = 2.4; 95% CL: 0.8, 7.2), and store managers (OR = 1.6; 95% CL: 0.8, 3.1), whereas occupation as a childcare worker was associated with decreased glioma incidence (OR = 0.4; 95% CL: 0.2, 0.9). These associations generally persisted when the subjects worked longer than five years in the occupation, and for those with more than ten years latency since starting to work in the occupation.

CONCLUSIONS:
This is our first analysis of occupation and will guide future exposure-specific assessments.

Looks like working in a shell fish occupation is far worse.

Nutr Cancer. 2014;66(3):343-50. doi: 10.1080/01635581.2013.878734. Epub 2014 Feb 24.
A pilot case-cohort study of brain cancer in poultry and control workers.
Gandhi S1, Felini MJ, Ndetan H, Cardarelli K, Jadhav S, Faramawi M, Johnson ES.
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Abstract
We conducted an exploratory study to investigate which exposures (including poultry oncogenic viruses) are associated with brain cancer in poultry workers. A total of 46,819 workers in poultry and nonpoultry plants from the same union were initially followed for mortality. Brain cancer was observed to be in excess among poultry workers. Here we report on a pilot case-cohort study with cases consisting of 26 (55%) of the 47 brain cancer deaths recorded in the cohort, and controls consisting of a random sample of the cohort (n = 124). Exposure information was obtained from telephone interviews, and brain cancer mortality risk estimated by odds ratios. Increased risk of brain cancer was associated with killing chickens, odds ratio (OR) = 5.8 (95% confidence interval, 1.2-28.3); working in a shell-fish farm, OR = 13.0 (95% CI, 1.9-84.2); and eating uncooked fish, OR = 8.2 (95% CI, 1.8-37.0). Decreased risks were observed for chicken pox illness, OR = 0.2 (95% CI, 0.1-0.6), and measles vaccination, OR = 0.2 (95% CI, 0.1-0.6). Killing chickens, an activity associated with the highest occupational exposure to poultry oncogenic viruses, was associated with brain cancer mortality, as were occupational and dietary shellfish exposures. These findings are novel.

PMID: 24564367 DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2013.878734

If I'm understanding correctly, Looks like eating sushi is worse than killing chickens.

 

[Thomas]

19F clear sky upper 20's for high.

Outside chores done time for E muffin. :licking:
Plans for today...clean inside of all feeders and refill,mostly take the day as it comes with afternoon walk about.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I don't think that's the connection, Kyle. The German charges went against a different card that doesn't lodge a foreign transaction fee. It's also the one I use for all the automatic charges, so at least I don't have to change all of those over to the new card number.:thumbsup: The gal at Chase said the fradulent charge was made by an Amazon seller that they'd had problems with before. Yet they allowed additional charges from Amazon until the new card arrived!:confused2::confused2::confused2:

I wish they could imprison these scoundrels.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Here are some progress pics of the tops. I did get them completed yesterday. For those wondering, they are white oak.

Everyone have a great day!

Those are going to be really nice Ted.

 

[check]

Good morning birthday boys!

Here is a question for you. If you could reverse the aging by making your birthdays go backwards each year, would you do it?LOL

On my 2nd cup of coffee, since SWMBO had to leave early for a breakfast get together before work, and she left me her coffee as well.

Meanwhile, more bad news about the coronavirus yet again this morning. Very worrying. The number of cases in China apparently has now outgrown SARS. And British Airways has now suspended all flights to and from China. Still very few cases in Canada and the US, but I expect they will grow. Who knows when and even IF it will end?

Saw an ad this morning for a book “The Coming Plague” Geesh!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I wish they could imprison these scoundrels.

Prison is too good for them, and all they do is learn more ways to be a pestilence. It's like college for criminals. I say we bring back work camps. Put them in isolated areas, or even islands, maybe even start Alcatraz back up. Let 'em break rocks, saw lumber, process/recycle garbage, or any number of other "dirty jobs" that keep 'em so busy they don't have time or energy to misbehave. Good workers are rewarded with time off their sentence, bad ones get more time, or solitary if they won't/can't work at all. Once word gets out, there would be real incentive to not play games with other people's lives. As it is now, crime actually does pay.

 

[desertdog71]

Meanwhile, more bad news about the coronavirus yet again this morning. Very worrying. The number of cases in China apparently has now outgrown SARS. And British Airways has now suspended all flights to and from China. Still very few cases in Canada and the US, but I expect they will grow. Who knows when and even IF it will end?

Saw an ad this morning for a book “The Coming Plague” Geesh!

I just volunteered to go to Wuhan if called upon. They have these virus scares every year it seems.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Here is a question for you. If you could reverse the aging by making your birthdays go backwards each year, would you do it?LOL

In a heartbeat. But only if I could stop the process once I got back into my 30s. I kinda like being an adult, and not having to worry about diapers.:laughing:

 

[Bird]

I was on the phone for 2 hours, trying to get my insurance information updated with my previous Rx supplier. I say previous, because I found out the new insurance has an "in network preferred provider".....Tried to sign up online, it asked me some security questions, then their website screwed up and said I should get an email in 3 hours. Called the phone number and got instituted. Now I have to call my physician and get them to update my new Rx supplier in their system...Argh....

You have my sympathy. I went through the same thing and about the same time, and that was just with a change in our Medicare Supplement this year.