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I've had my temperature taken 5 times in the last 4 months-- thrice at the dentist, once at the funeral home after my sister's father in law died, and today when I had to have something notarized at a bank. I've been below 98.6 each time. I believe my high was 98.1. Today was 97.9. It must be all the healthy eating and living habits I abide by.

Maybe because the TV audience feels the same way I do.

Well, I'm disappointed. I thought this was going to be a thread about the problems in my life. ?

Dinosaur fossils could belong to the world's largest ever creature Paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of a 98 million-year-old titanosaur in Neuquén Province in Argentina's northwest Patagonia, in thick, sedimentary deposits known as the Candeleros Formation. The 24 vertebrae of the tail and elements of the pelvic and pectoral girdle discovered are thought to belong to a titanosaur, a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs, characterized by their large size, a long neck and tail, and four-legged stance. In research published in the journal Cretaceous Research, experts say they believe the creature to be "one of the largest sauropods ever found" and could exceed the size of a Patagotitan, a species which lived 100 million to 95 million years ago and measured up to a staggering 37.2 meters (122 feet) long. "It is a huge dinosaur, but we expect to find much more of the skeleton in future field trips, so we'll have the possibility to address with confidence how really big it was," Alejandro Otero, a paleontologist with Argentina's Museo de La Plata, told CNN via email. Titanosaur fossils have been found on all continents except Antarctica. But the biggest "multi-ton" varieties of the species -- including those titanosaurs exceeding 40 tons -- have mostly been discovered in Patagonia. Without analyzing the dinosaur's humerus or femur, experts say it is not yet possible to say how much the creature weighs. However, the partially recovered dinosaur "can be considered one of the largest titanosaurs," experts said, with a probable body mass exceeding or comparable to that of a Patagotitan or Argentinosaurus. The newly discovered dinosaur is thought to have a body mass exceeding or comparable to an Argentinosaurus, which measured up to 40 meters and weighed up to 110 tons. Patagotitans may have been the world's largest terrestrial animal of all time, and weighed up to 77 tons, while Argentinosaurus were similarly gargantuan, and measured up to 40 meters (131 feet) and weighed up to 110 tons -- weighing more than 12 times more than an African elephant (up to 9 tons). Experts believe that the specimen strongly suggests the co-existence of larger titanosaurs together with medium-sized titanosaurs and small-sized rebbachisaurids at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous period, which began 101 million years ago. "These size differences could indeed explain the existence of such sauropod diversity in the Neuquén Basin during the Late Cretaceous in terms of niche partitioning," they wrote. Researchers said that, while they don't believe the creature to belong to a new species, they have so far been unable to assign it to a known genus of dinosaur. The research was conducted by Argentina's The Zapala Museum, Museo de La Plata, Museo Egidio Feruglio and the universities of Río Negro and Zaragoza.

A motorist was killed when her head became trapped between her vehicle and a payment machine at a parking garage in Ohio's capital city. Columbus police responded to the garage around 5:40 a.m. Tuesday after a security guard found the woman, whose name was not released. A review of security camera footage showed the incident had occurred around 11:30 p.m. Monday, as the woman was leaving the garage. The woman was going to use a credit card to pay for her parking but dropped the card outside the vehicle, authorities said. When she reached down to pick it up, she accidentally stepped on the car's accelerator and the vehicle moved forward, trapping her head. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated. A French woman has been trying to prove she’s alive after a court wrongly declared her dead three years ago. Jeanne Pouchain, 58, is alive and well, was never in a coma and did not try to commit insurance fraud. But a stunning decision by a Lyon court in 2017 deemed her dead even though no death certificate was ever produced. The colossal error came at the end of a long legal battle with a disgruntled employee of Pouchain’s former cleaning company, who was seeking compensation for a job she lost two decades ago. The former worker apparently told the court that Pouchain had died because she had not answered her letters. Pouchain’s lawyer says the Appeals Court of Lyon simply took the plaintiff’s word without giving them a hearing, officially declaring her dead, invalidating her driver’s license and other documents and closing her bank account. “I no longer exist,” Pouchain told The Associated Press. “I don’t do anything... I sit on the veranda and write.” The woman lives in the village of Saint Joseph, in the Loire region. She said her car has been seized over an unpaid debt and she fears her furniture will be taken next. Her lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, said she never dealt with such a “crazy” case. “At first, I had a hard time believing my client,” he said. Cormier filed a motion last week seeking to invalidate the 2017 decision, blaming it on a “grave error” by the judges. He said the judges are likely too embarrassed to admit they made such a ridiculous mistake. “When an error is so enormous, it’s hard to admit,” Cormier said.

https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/going-out-in-style.152981/#post-2050134

People in Washington state can now literally push up daisies after their death — as the first human composting efforts in the country recently began there, according to a new report. Two facilities in the Evergreen State received their first bodies for human composting — also known as “natural organic reductions” — last month, local outlet KOIN reported. Herland Forest, a nonprofit research center in Klickitat County, is one of them. Walt Patrick, senior steward at the facility, told the station the “natural organic reductions” are an investment, and it could take several weeks before the composting process is complete. The process begins when the body is placed in a “NOR cradle” along with 200 gallons of wood chips, Patrick said. Bacteria, protozoa and fungi are dispensed into the mixture to speed up the process. Oxygen is also added to keep it between 145 and 155 degrees. Solar panels provide extra heat as needed. The final result is four 55-gallon drums full of usable compost, according to Patrick. The family of the deceased can decide to keep all of it, or donate a portion to Herland Forest to help grow new trees in the cemetery. “This is simply another option at a time when people feel they have no options,” Patrick told the station. “You know, death has intervened and changed your life forever. How can you do something at least to make it the way you want?” Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation in 2019 legalizing human composting. Advocates say that composting uses less energy than cremation, calling it a greener alternative, according to the local report. Composting is now the only legal way for Washingtonians to be laid to rest on their own property, though in the form of mulch, according to the outlet. Besides Herland Forest, the Seattle-based facility Recompose has also begun the process — with eight bodies so far, a spokesperson told the outlet. A total of 420 “Precompose” members have made advance payments for their future death care. A third facility, Return Home in Auburn, expects to open later this year.

An outspoken anti-mask activist idiot in Florida was arrested for refusing to put on a face covering at a bagel shop — with wild video showing the bizarre bust. Cindy Falco-DiCorrado, 62, of Boynton Beach, was arrested Thursday at an Einstein Bros. Bagels in Boca Raton, where she allegedly ignored requests from a customer and a deputy to put on a mask, the Palm Beach Post reported. “You are violating the Constitution,” Falco-DiCorrado told the responding officer, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report. “I am not leaving. That’s discrimination.” Video of the encounter posted to a “Crazy Karens” Instagram account shows Falco-DiCorrado, clad entirely in leopard print, refusing to cooperate inside the bagel shop, WPEC reported. “Get your hand off of me!” she yelled at the deputy. “You are kidnapping me! I will personally … what is your name? Take your hands off of me – you don’t have the right, sir! Get your hand off of me, I’ve done nothing wrong, I’m not a criminal.” Falco-DiCorrado then accused the deputy of violating her constitutional rights as she was dragged outside in front of several other customers, video shows. “This is so illegal,” she said at one point on the clip. “I’m asking you to take your hand off of me!” A second deputy then helped escort Falco-DiCorrado outside, where she was cuffed against a squad car — while repeating: “In the name of Jesus! She was busted on charges of trespassing and resisting an officer without violence, the Palm Beach Post reported. The incident reportedly marked the former Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency advisory board member’s second mask-related arrest since the start of the pandemic. She was also arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest without violence at an anti-mask protest in Lake Worth Beach in May with two other women. She pleaded not guilty in May and has a plea conference hearing set in the case on Feb. 23, according to the newspaper. Falco-DiCorrado was also on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” She was among a group of critics ridiculed by the host for their views on mandatory face masks in Palm Beach County, video shows. “The CDC said itself they made a mistake,” Falco-DiCorrado said on the clip. “There’s not enough to make this a pandemic – this is a ‘plannedemic.’” In late 2017, Falco-DiCorrado was forced to resign from the Boynton Beach advisory board for allegations of being a white supremacist and making racist remarks, including telling one city resident to use “better English,” the Palm Beach Post reported. “You’re lucky we brought you over as slaves, or else you’d be deported, too,” she allegedly told black residents, according to the newspaper. Falco-DiCorrado was released Friday after posting $2,000 bail. She pleaded not guilty to both charges, court records indicate. She claimed Saturday she went to the bagel shop to eat with a friend and has a medical and religious exemption from the county’s mask mandate. “American freedoms are being taken away,” Falco-DiCorrado told the Palm Beach Post. “It’s a sad day when you have people and officers picking on people for just being alive. This is an abuse of humanity.”

Why would you write that, then post a picture of Leann Caldwell?

Another handsome politician;

Yeah, but the man didn't even know he is uncircumcised: https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/capt-jean-luc-picard-thought-he-was-circumcised-it-turns-out-he-isnt.147819/ Some of use were well-aware of Meghan's daddy's hunkiness: https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/his-hairy-chest.111979/page-284#post-1728087 https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/trump-whoever-kept-uss-john-mccain-out-of-sight-was-well-meaning-trump-wont-let-him-rip-meghan-mccain.149228/page-2#post-1728086

Either we saw a particularly boring cast, or there were no good musicals in 1989.

Jerome Robbins' Broadway. I went with 2 friends. I left the theater at intermission, telling them I'd meet them afterwards for dinner. They left 1 or 2 numbers after intermission. Rose: “Oh I thought she was terrific last year in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'” Dorothy: "Oh Rose please, during the entire second act the audience kept yelling, 'She's in the attic! She's in the attic!'”

A woman is in custody after allegedly stealing a mail truck in Brooklyn and slamming it into at least 10 parked cars Friday night. Shocking video of the car carnage shows the driver repeatedly accelerating and reversing into the vehicles around her — including a police car — as she’s surrounded by screaming NYPD officers. The postal panic began just after 6 p.m. on Fulton Street and Patchen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police sources say. That’s where a 21-year-old woman got behind the wheel of an unoccupied Postal Service truck and took it on a reckless joyride that lasted seven blocks, sources alleged. When the mail truck gave out at Fulton and Troop Avenue, she tried to flee on foot but was quickly taken into custody, sources say. Miraculously, no one was hurt in the suspect’s terrifying express ride, but more than 10 parked cars were damaged. Charges are pending against the young woman, and her identity has not been released.

and I bet the sun will rise in the east and set in the west.

So you're as old as Methuselah, but you age like Benjamin Button or Dorian Gray. It must be something in the water in Maryland. :eek:???