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| Hudini...from your unique perspective, thoughts on the new Chinese corona virus (Page 50/146) |
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maryjane
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MAR 03, 10:41 PM
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Interesting data is showing up today.
Some (8 so far) new "retrograde"cases are showing up in the Shanghai area of China and the source of the new infections is not Wuhan, but instead, have been traced back to.............Italy.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/...o-italy-report-says/
Korea's cases are increasing, over 5300 now but only 28 have died.
Europe's cases are expanding and increasing in numbers. A few days ago, only Italy had much red in it. That has quickly changed and will likely get worse as testing increases and the 2 week window narrows.
Italy now has about 1/2 as many total cases as S. Korea, but 79 have died from it in Italy.
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Patrick
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MAR 03, 11:59 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
Actually, paper production results in more trees, not less. A fact that is ignored by most of the Gretanistas.
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Sure, it's a lot of trees... but I'd hardly call it a forest. 
I'm not against forestry, not at all. We need wood. But let's be honest... it takes a very long time to replace an old-growth forest.
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maryjane
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MAR 04, 02:51 AM
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I don't really want to go too far off topic here, but old growth forest, as far as their timber usefulness is concerned comes in board feet, and specifically large beams and wide width dimensional lumber. Paper comes from small and much younger trees and from the byproducts from medium size saw logs....trees with diameter greater than 10". I sold a lot of pulpwood (which is where paper comes from nowadays) that were trunks 3"-4"-8" in diameter. (Byproducts means the limbs and ends of the saw logs...what many mills call chip-N-saw. The mill saws the big part of the trunk into boards and chips everything else for paper and waferboard/MDF)
Here in the lower US, Southern yellow pine species is where most of the dimensional lumber comes from (the 2x4..2x6s...2x8s etc. Also where the majority of utility poles come from. 4 subspecies. long leaf, loblolly, shortleaf, and slash pine are all in the yellow pine family, which is different from white and ponderosa pine.
Utility pole production takes longer than normal pine timber for dimensional lumber, but even 40' tall x 12/13" dia utility pole trees can be grown in 10-15 years if managed correctly.
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maryjane
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MAR 04, 03:05 AM
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This kind of thing irritates me a good bit. Person A tested positive and was supposed to self isolate, but broke isolation..Now, if I understand the paragraph, he has infected someone else..a person B
https://www.thedartmouth.co...cond-person-infected
| quote | A second Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center employee has tested positive for novel coronavirus and is isolated at home.
The man was in close contact with the first case in the state — a DHMC employee who had recently traveled to Italy — who attended an invite-only Tuck School of Business event at The Engine Room in White River Junction. DHMC has contacted anyone who might have been in contact with the first case during the private event.
The first individual attended the event on Friday despite being directed by health officials to self-isolate, and the state has since issued “an official order of isolation” to the man. |
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What a nice guy eh?[This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 03-04-2020).]
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Patrick
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MAR 04, 03:43 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by maryjane:
I don't really want to go too far off topic here, but old growth forest, as far as their timber usefulness is concerned comes in board feet, and specifically large beams and wide width dimensional lumber. Paper comes from small and much younger trees and from the byproducts from medium size saw logs...
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Makes total sense. It would be an absolute crime to use old-growth trees for pulp and paper production.
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MadMark
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MAR 04, 07:35 AM
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MadMark
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MAR 04, 07:36 AM
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MidEngineManiac
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MAR 04, 10:48 AM
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OK, some personal experience.
I was in emerg from 9pm last night to 930 this morning.
I got asked a couple of questions on travel and symptoms on admission but that was it. No signs whatever of special precautions here or anything. Spent a few waiting hours chatting with a cop and cute paramedic and for them its aware but business as usual with the virus.
No it's not serious and nothing is broken but sure as hell feels like it is. Exrays were fine.
I dropped an air conditioner on my foot wearing running shoes.
You can all stop laughing now.
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MadMark
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MAR 04, 03:48 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
OK, some personal experience.
I was in emerg from 9pm last night to 930 this morning.
I got asked a couple of questions on travel and symptoms on admission but that was it. No signs whatever of special precautions here or anything. Spent a few waiting hours chatting with a cop and cute paramedic and for them its aware but business as usual with the virus.
No it's not serious and nothing is broken but sure as hell feels like it is. Exrays were fine.
I dropped an air conditioner on my foot wearing running shoes.
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What? You are putting in an air conditioner at this time of the year? I know you Canadians have a different metabolism, but most air conditioners won't even work if below 45 *F.
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maryjane
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MAR 04, 03:58 PM
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Least expensive time to purchase an air conditioner is usually in the middle of winter.....inversely, buy heaters in August.
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