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marble falls's JournalRequest for prayers for my nephew, a fallen brother ...
My nephew Bobby is on life support and they are waiting for his dad to get to his side before they let him go.
He's not quite 30 and he he's been in rehab for alcoholism five or six times. He never blamed this on anyone, and he never stopped trying. He was a cheerful person and as a child was a bright and pleasant person to be around.
But the damage was done before he entered into this last rehab stay from where he was taken to hospital. He never gave up.
I am in shock and saddened and I did not know how badly he was damaged. He never let on about it to anyone including his dad. He never looked for sympathy.
He's not an example of failure, because he never gave up. We just can't give up. He never gave up on himself and his family never wrote him off.
Its a shock but I will remember his spirit and kindness and that he just never gave up.
Bear with me, please.
MFalls.
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How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
Paleontologists pull inspiration from modern birds and reptiles to design true-to-life T. rexes.
Sara Chodosh
April 11, 2020
https://www.popsci.com/story/science/dinosaur-drawings-accuracte/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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You’ve seen enough museum models, illustrations, and CGI predators that you’d likely recognize a Tyrannosaurus rex if you saw one. But how can you be sure? Nobody has ever clapped eyes on one in real life, and even the best skeletons are often only 90 percent complete. Specialists called paleoartists do base their re-creations on hard evidence (bones, feathers, and bits of skin) but, just as often, well-informed guesses. We may never know exactly how T. rex and other prehistoric creatures like the Microraptor gui looked, but here’s how we landed on the current incarnations of these deceased beasts.
Stance
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Muscle and fat
Like reptiles, dinosaurs probably didn’t have much body fat, so they looked pretty swole. To determine just how stocky or svelte to render a species, paleontologists most often refer to the same muscle groups in birds. But sometimes there’s an evolutionary reason to make an area extra burly: A T. rex, for example, had to kill prey and bite through bone with only its jaw strength—hence its thick-neckedness.
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Limbs
Bones’ structures can indicate how appendages moved. T. rex, for one, used to be shown with its hands facing down, like it was playing a piano, but a 2018 analysis of turkey and alligator shoulders determined their palms may have turned in. Similarly, the angle between M. gui’s shoulder blades and rib cage may have prevented its wings from lifting high enough to flap; wind-tunnel tests suggest these dinos glided.
Skin
Soft tissue generally doesn’t last underground, but sometimes we get lucky. For the T. rex, a small slice of fossilized skin found in Montana enabled artists to make a stamp of the texture and apply it to the rest of the body. Coloring is trickier: Designers take cues from the environment more than the fossil record. T. rex lived in semi-marshy areas and flood plains, so it likely had brownish-greenish dappled skin to blend in.
Feathers
Tiny cellular structures called melanosomes vary in color depending on their shape: Black ones are sausage-like; reds are round. Thanks to a very well-preserved M. gui feather, we know it shone raven. Nanostructures also suggest it had an iridescent sheen, like a crow or magpie. We’ve never dug up a plumed T. rex, but its close relatives often have protofeathers on their heads, backs, and tails, so we suspect the king did, too.
He needed a motive? These low information marginals are the IEDs of the GOP. They don't ...
need motive, they only need activation.
Dead Coronavirus Victims 'Were On Their Last Legs Anyway'
Bill O’Reilly: Dead Coronavirus Victims ‘Were On Their Last Legs Anyway’
The former Fox News host resurfaces with the worst possible take on the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-o-reilly-coronavirus_n_5e8e7f44c5b6b371812bad00
By Ed Mazza
Disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly resurfaced on Wednesday to share his thoughts on the wave of deaths due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
And he doesn’t seem to have much sympathy for the victims, who tend to be older and are more likely to have other health problems.
“Many people who are dying, both here and around the world, were on their last legs anyway,” he said on Sean Hannity’s radio show, according to audio posted online by Media Matters. “I don’t want to sound callous about that.”
Hannity interjected: “You’re gonna get hammered for that.”
“I don’t care,” O’Reilly said. “A simple man tells the truth.”
The infection has killed more than 14,000 Americans since Feb. 28, the date of the first reported coronavirus fatality in the United States, and the toll continues to grow.
On Wednesday, 779 people died in New York alone.
O’Reilly paid at least $45 million to settle sexual harassment allegations, including $32 million to a former Fox News analyst in a scandal that eventually cost him his job on Fox News.
Simple minded PoS. He's on his last legs, too, fer pete's sakes.
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