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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 6, 2020 10:29:32 GMT -5
About the next book: My agent loved the first 2/3 but thought the last part needed work, and I agree. So that's on the list. The other stuff takes priority right now though, so I'm not looking for a speedy outcome on the literary front.
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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 5, 2020 21:44:26 GMT -5
Thanks for the PMs wondering why I haven't been on the board lately. I'm just putting full attention on a couple of projects, and have decided to keep full focus on them for a while. See you in spring maybe/probably, unless of course I see something I just can't keep quiet about.
PS: Michael - Chester A. Arthur House is hanging in there, but by a thread. We've stopped taking reservations for the foreseeable future.
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Post by Chesapeake on Sept 1, 2020 15:27:59 GMT -5
I've heard him play Celtic, blues, country and bluegrass, but never heard him work his wizadry with slide. Looking forward to hearing it.
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 29, 2020 18:33:27 GMT -5
I've created a gmail account. Now all that remains is forwarding from compuserve, as you suggest, gbacklin. Terror abated.
Dub, the reason I stuck with compuserve in the first place is because I was under the impression that it was more oriented toward business/professional users and had less adds. AI was willing to cough up $10/month for that, but I'm sure it is no longer true.
Thanks again for all the ideas and insights
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 29, 2020 9:16:21 GMT -5
What they are saying is that in fact you are still using that mail account, as of Oct 20, that way will no longer work. If you do use that email and want to keep it, the safest option is then to get their app (if iOS for example, Apple’s App Store is wheee you would get it). The other options are a bunch of configurations that you would have to set up. I had a CompuServe account in the early days of 300 baud modems and it was that or configure uucp mail through the old Network Solutions. So if indeed you still use that email, truthfully as was suggested it would probably be easier to create a new gmail account, but if you want to keep it, I would get the mobile app as indicated in Option 1. Thanks all for your thoughts. I guess I'll assume it's legit since I haven't seen anything on the Internet about an AOL email scam, though I'm still reluctant to click on any of the links. I guess the simplest and safest route would be to set up a gmail account, though I'm not sure how to make sure my compuserve traffic gets forwarded. This is kind of terrifying.
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 28, 2020 15:08:21 GMT -5
Does anyone here use Compuserve (now owned by AOL) for their email? I recently received the following email from AOL:
Hey donaldsmith1,
We love that you love using AOL email. And we want to make sure you always have the best experience. That’s why we’re reaching out today.
We’ve noticed that you’re using non-AOL applications (such as third-party email, calendar, or contact applications) that may use a less secure sign-in method. To protect you and your data, AOL will no longer support the current sign-in functionality in your application starting on October 20, 2020. This means that you will need to take one of the steps below to continue using your AOL Mail without interruption.
But don’t worry, you have options:
Option 1: We recommend that you access your mail using our free AOL app for iOS and Android or simply go to mail.aol.com to access AOL Mail on the web.
Option 2: Keep your current, non-AOL app, BUT follow a few steps to get it to sync with our secure sign-in method. The steps vary across different email applications, but in most cases, you will have to remove your AOL account from the app and then add it back again to update sign-in security. Use the links below to follow the specific steps for your current application:
iOS Mail Gmail Samsung Mail Others
Option 3: You can generate a one-time, unique password that will allow you to sign in to your account using your non-AOL email application. Once created, this password will continue to allow your app to securely sync your AOL email unless you sign out (or are signed out) from your app. You can find instructions on how to do this here.
If you want more details on these changes, please visit our help page. If you’ve already taken action, we’d like to think you haven’t read this far, but if you have... we appreciate the diligence!
Thanks for rocking that AOL email address!
The AOL Team
Assuming this is on the level (despite the fact that my Norton antivirus software says the links are "suspicious), this sounds like a huge PITA for somebody who just wants an email provider. Any thoughts on this?
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 18, 2020 13:39:16 GMT -5
Positive thoughts and prayers for you and Joy, Dub.
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 1, 2020 22:20:20 GMT -5
Happy birthday milady.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 24, 2020 12:46:44 GMT -5
As a Washington {********} fan, I have a bad feeling about this.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 24, 2020 12:29:06 GMT -5
Washington NFL NFL franchise to go by ‘Washington Football Team’ this season, delaying permanent name change
By
Les Carpenter and Mark Maske Washington Post
July 23, 2020 at 4:39 p.m. EDT
As officials from Washington’s NFL team began the process of changing the franchise’s name from the Redskins, it became apparent that there was no simple way to pick a new name, navigate trademark issues and design a logo before the start of training camp next week. So on Thursday, the team announced publicly what had already become a clear choice to many inside the organization: It will play the 2020 season as the Washington Football Team and pick a permanent replacement name later.
“A rebrand like this is a 12- to 18-month process if you want to do it right,” Terry Bateman, the franchise’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, said in a phone interview.
With draft picks arriving and signing their contracts Wednesday and Thursday and veterans such as quarterback Dwayne Haskins and edge rusher Ryan Kerrigan reporting for a camp that is scheduled to open this coming Tuesday, Washington was running out of time to get a new name and logo in place. What it delivered instead was a recasting of the team’s lettering, logo-less uniforms in the club’s burgundy and gold color scheme with the word “Washington” below the neck and helmets with players’ jersey numbers on the sides — a throwback to an old college look and one still used by the University of Alabama.
“A real traditional, classic look,” Bateman said.
The move to Washington Football Team comes near the end of a tumultuous month in which owner Daniel Snyder quickly reversed his long-standing resistance to giving up “Redskins,” the team’s name for the past 87 years. In the wake of the social uprising that followed the late May killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Snyder was forced to move on from the name after the team’s top sponsor, FedEx, threatened to cancel the remaining $45 million of its stadium naming rights contract if Washington didn’t change the name.
A day later, on July 3, the team announced it was undertaking a “thorough review” of the name. It announced July 13 it would be “retiring” the Redskins name at the end of the review.
Washington’s name change happened fast, but it was decades in the making
Thursday’s announcement essentially ended the review, but it does not solve the long-term question of what the team will be called in the future. Though Coach Ron Rivera said in a July 4 interview that he and Snyder had tossed around potential names and had come up with two the coach really liked, Bateman said the team was never close to settling on a particular name.
“I don’t know if you know anything about trademark law and copyright stuff and all the hoops you got to jump through to pull something like that off in the time frame,” Bateman said of the 25 days between the start of the review and the beginning of camp. “That’s one part of it. The other part is we didn’t want to rush it. We wanted to go slow. We wanted to do this right. Whatever we come up with is going to be the name for the next 80, 90, 100 years, I hope.”
The Redskins will retire name after decades of controversy Washington’s NFL team announced that it was reviewing options for a new team name and logo on July 13. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post) Two people familiar with the team’s planning said the club had originally hoped to have a new name and logo in place by the start of the season — something Rivera said in early July that he wanted as well — but it realized a total makeover in such a short time was not possible.
“They were definitely trying to get a final resolution,” one of those people said. “There was no time to do all of that.”
“It takes a while to get there,” the other said. “No one should be surprised.”
Bateman said that by pausing now and playing this season with a temporary name, the franchise can start a process in which fans and sponsors can help pick a new name and look. Several times he used the word “inclusive.”
Initial reaction to the temporary name was mixed. While the team quickly posted pictures of the new uniforms on its website and some fans on social media seemed happy with the look, there also was a sense that something had been left unfinished.
“Just waking back up from my pregame nap to see about The Washington Football Team??? Is that real??” tweeted NBA superstar LeBron James. “No way! Oh man they had a thorough intense long board meeting about that one huh.”
Absent from Thursday’s announcement was Snyder, who has not spoken publicly about the change beyond quotes attributed to him in team news releases. Some inside the team, including Rivera, have said Snyder has been looking at the change as a new start, coming months after he fired unpopular team president Bruce Allen and hired Rivera to rebuild a team that went 3-13 last season. However, two people with knowledge of the situation said Snyder did not arrive at the decision to change the name willingly.
When asked about Snyder on Thursday, Bateman said: “Dan, the whole management team, everybody’s been involved. This is a unanimous decision. This is a smart way to approach this. Everybody’s got the same objective, and that’s to do this right.”
Bateman said the team will start removing signs with the word “Redskins” and begin scrubbing the name and logo from the organization. He said the organization hopes to finish this by the Sept. 13 season opener against Philadelphia.
The name issue is one of many crises facing the organization. The team’s three top minority investors, including FedEx CEO Fred Smith, are trying to sell their shares — which is roughly 40 percent of the franchise. Last week, the team announced an internal review of its culture following a Washington Post report in which 15 female former employees and two female reporters accused team officials of sexual harassment.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 21, 2020 12:21:25 GMT -5
Thank you dudes! Epaul - How did you know? That's my favorite hunk of automotive artistry!
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Bullies
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 14, 2020 17:46:14 GMT -5
1. I do not recommend the following course of action against tailgaters.
2. When I was younger and had even less self-control than now, whenever I would notice somebody following way too closely, I would jam on my brakes. The other guy (it was invariably a guy) would react by jamming on his, hopefully while wetting his pants, and I would hear a satisfying little chirp of burning rubber behind me. The journey would continue with him now following at a respectful distance, maybe trying to figure out if I'd done that on purpose. I never got rear-ended doing this, but I figured if I ever did, I would say I was trying to avoid hitting a child, and the whole thing would be found to be his fault, possibly qualifying me for a nice settlement for the whiplash.
3. See No. 1.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 10, 2020 20:18:25 GMT -5
Apologies if this has already been said - I haven't yet read through the whole thread. Surely the approach that would have made the most sense medically, and saved the most lives, would have been mandatory mask-wearing, social distancing, and sheltering-in-place, the mandates to be applied according a set of clearly defined thresholds developed by CDC, taking into account how each part of the country was faring. Was it worth the price we've paid for just flat ignoring medical advice and doing as we damned pleased? That silence you hear is the dead speaking. Isn't that exactly what most of this board did? That's what y'all been yelling at me for months. Are you seriously saying it apparently didn't work anyways? Not quite what I meant. There should have been national guidelines as defined above, developed by CDC and ordered by the President, instead of the patchwork of responses we continue to see, which sometimes seem to depend on which side of the bed these governors roll out of each morning. It's chaos, like much else about the Trump government. But like I said, I'm not not willing to bet a Democratic president would have had the political courage to brave the predictable howls either. (Unless that president happened to be Andrew Cuomo.)
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 10, 2020 19:44:16 GMT -5
Apologies if this has already been said - I haven't yet read through the whole thread.
Surely the approach that would have made the most sense medically, and saved the most lives, would have been mandatory mask-wearing, social distancing, and sheltering-in-place, the mandates to be applied according a set of clearly defined thresholds developed by CDC, taking into account how each part of the country was faring. Was it worth the price we've paid for just flat ignoring medical advice and doing as we damned pleased? That silence you hear is the dead speaking.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 10, 2020 14:58:56 GMT -5
What are the "right" numbers for cases and deaths? What are the numbers that, if they were the actual numbers, we would say "good!". For the anti-administration partisans, the answer is always "less than what we have". In that sense, other than zero (which is, of course, stupid), there is no number low enough to sate their desire to criticize the administration, and in that sense, their criticisms aren't of any particular value. We've all seen the hymnal, and the songs are all stale. Personally, I haven't got the slightest idea. The only thing of which I'm reasonably certain is that perpetual lockdown isn't a viable strategy. What if there is never a vaccine? What if treatment protocols never improve? What then? Or more realistically, what if both of those are years away? This unending drumbeat ("everything would be just fine if we only had a different president", more or less) is as cheap as it is tedious. Infused with innumeracy and begged questions, the template-driven stories write themselves. It's all so boring. To some extent I could argue the point both ways. The fallback choice of politicians is always to take the least painful path: that is, the one that will cost the least number of votes at the ballot box. I'm pretty sure many thousands of lives would have been saved if Trump had recognized the seriousness of the threat earlier, and instituted countermeasure sooner. Instead, by his own admission he believed the threat would just go away by itself. On the other hand, how much differently would a different president - say, a Democrat - have handled the situation? We can only speculate, but the same fundamental political dynamics apply to everyone. Shutting down businesses and ordering sheltering-in-place are not popular actions. Witness what we have now: buck-passing at every level of government. Trump leaves it to the governors to figure out what to do. The governors leave it to the mayors. I'm sure a lot of mayors look to the city councils for ass-covering. Of course the exception is New York, whose governor invites people to blame him. Guess he hasn't gotten the word. But back to the point about presidents, I don't think there can be any question that hospitalization rates would be dramatically down, and the first wave would have passed through by this time, if Trump hadn't chosen to make mask-wearing a tribal issue. He really blew it on that one. It was just ignorant and stupid - always a great combination - and I believe he will pay the price for needless loss of life.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 10, 2020 14:15:35 GMT -5
On day one in Osteopathic school we were taught that given the opportunity, the body will heal itself. Our job is to remove obstacles to healing. That philosophy gets lost along the way, but is has more than a grain of truth in it. Just as I suspected.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 9, 2020 11:58:17 GMT -5
I don' know that anyone thinks large gatherings where few masks are worn result in spikes only if they are Trump rallies.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 8, 2020 22:19:40 GMT -5
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 8, 2020 21:11:25 GMT -5
I like the song, and of course, guys in skirts are always fun, but I cannot understand anyone's attraction to the sound of bagpipes. I used to feel the same way about banjos. Right, let's not go there.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 8, 2020 19:28:37 GMT -5
It took me ten years to find this. (Just skip over the ads.)
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