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Blue_true's JournalThe Houston Texans will hire David Culley, QB Coach and
Assistant Headcoach of the Baltimore Ravens.
A lot of people are having heartburn over this hire. But I want to point out 2 things.
First
DeShaun Watson apparently admire the guy, so Houston now has a chance of keeping him.
Second
Before he became the Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers, the NFL Hall of Fame Coach, the legendary Bill Walsh was a career assistant coach.
Will Culley find a Jerry Rice and the other receivers and running backs that Walsh found? Maybe, maybe not. If he can hold onto Watson and give him a few decent weapons, he certainly has a solid young QB that has a burning desire to win.
Interesting article on a near atomic detonation in North Carolina in the early 60s.
The article is in National Geographics. Interesting reading.
https://apple.news/AZQ4ng5GNQQ65TcanqBG4yg
Coronavirus: This could prove to be problematic.
If I understand correctly, the vaccines work by freezing changes to the spike protein. What the scientists that developed the concept of preventing the spike protein from shifting in copies of the original invading virus theorized was that if copies of the invading virus had the same spike protein as the invading virus, vaccines could be made that would be effective against the invading virus and any copies that it managed to have human cells make.
What the article at the link details is that the mutant Coronavirus that was first found in South Africa can efficiently infect people that had gotten the virus and recovered, as I understand it, the antibodies that people’s bodies made don’t affect the South African mutant, it infects people as if there is no immunity.
At least that is what I get from the article. To me, that outcome is not terribly surprising, the SARS-COV-2 is a distant cousin to the common cold, there is no known cure for the common cold.
https://apple.news/AN7MeX5DyR9ikZzJzfTby5g
Details on Biden's Science Team at link.
Some really impressive people.
https://apple.news/AZ4GruR4VRd2H_PngZz5G0w
People, we are living in historic times.
Never has a President refused to honor a tradition that has existed since John Adams transferred power to his successor.
200 years from now, Historians will analyze the events that we are witnessing with our own eyes.
Some thoughts, one unpleasant to some.
Now that we have apparent control of the Federal Government again, we should play like republicans, use any tool available to us to get our way, and be bloodthirsty MFs in doing so.
Justice Stephen Breyer should retire as soon as Schumer become Senate Majority Leader and we should induce him to do so if he is hesitant. We need a much younger, healthy progressive Justice in his seat. Ageism, yes, fuck it, this situation is war. We need to start reshaping the Courts NOW and we have ostensibly two years to do it, but, we never know what Democratic Senator may vacate office, so we need to shape the Courts with younger, healthy progressives ASAP. Sorry Merrick Garland, you were screwed by McConnell, but you are too old and need to be passed over for a much younger person. We should see whether we can nudge Roberts into retiring, I believe he sees the risk and may be open to being replaced under Biden. We should hope every day that Thomas and/or Alito have to quit for whatever reason, use your own imagination.
There are at least 45 vacancies in lower Federal Courts. We need to fill them forthwith and not only that, pressure old lower Court Justices that are over 70 to retire, even some that are sane conservatives and don’t want to see a Trump clone replace them down the line.
On social policy, we need to push to the very limit that a Joe Manchin will allow and massage him to the left, he is a morally decent man, I believe he realizes the urgency of the coming months. Get every fucking liberal dream policy in place that we can, screw what republicans think. Do the policy so that it will withstand Constitutional challenges.
We can’t sit back and say we have 2022. We have a lot of old Senators, we need to make haste as soon as the Georgia Senators are seated. We can plan for 2022, but the future is NOW!!!!!
Here is an interesting timeline of how work to develop the vaccines for sars-cov-2 started.
The article mentions the young PhD, Kissmayer Corbett that worked with Moderna to develop that company’s vaccine, near the end. BTW, it looks like she works in one of the labs that Dr. Fauci is responsible for. The work on the vaccine DID NOT START UNDER Trump, the original work started in 2008 and picked up steam under President Obama.
Link:
https://apple.news/ADZikonp2Spe32XRF7t04kA
For the coming growing season.
I am interested in cross breeding two tomato varieties. I want to cross breed a branch San Marzano tomato plant with pollen from a Portuguese oxheart tomato plant.
I will look at when to start each variety so that they go in bloom at the same time. What I am interested in is how to cross pollinate tomato flowers so that I don’t get the pollen that I don’t want on a stamen. Since tomato flowers point downward, it seems that preventing an undesired pollination is going to be a difficult task. One person believes that very small eyedroppers that can be used to suck out undesired pollen may work, although painstaking. The desired pollen can then be sprayed on the stamen. All that assumes that bees don’t blow up the entire plan, since they are industrious little beasts by day and I have just so much time to dedicate to the effort.
Any experts that have successfully cross bred tomato plants?
I realize that I won’t see the actual outcome until 2022.
On edit: I have done selection of tomato seeds to improve things like size and color, but I have never tried to cross breed. The reason why I am trying now is that I believe that I can tweak the flavor, San Marzano tomatoes are rich flavored, Portuguese Oxheart tomatoes are mellower flavored. One other option is to select seeds for several seasons until I get the San Marzano variant that I envision and forget about the cross pollination.
Questions about portable drills and Helicoils for wood applications.
Hi, I have tended to use an electric drill during the few times that I have used tools.
I have a home project where I will be building a holder for heavy rectangle boxes for a relative.
I have done the design, but I have two related questions.
What is the best 18v brushless portable drill on the market. It must take a drill bit up to 1/2 inch? I did some reading this weekend and there seem to be conflicting review information. Bosch, DeWalt and Milwaukee are well known names, but I read a lot of claims that their quality has slipped, people buying expensive drills that either didn’t work, lasted a few uses, or failed after a few months. I generally hate to go through the process of sending a defective item back, typically I just swear off the manufacturer and throw or give the thing away. So, since I need the drill for an immediate project and one later on where I will be doing a gardening construction project, I want to get things right on the first pass.
For those of you that use them regular AND have purchased a drill within the last 2 years, what drill should I buy?
I have used Helicoils before, but there is not a lot of information on ones that work well in wood. The item that I am building for my relative will take a lot of dynamic force. I am concerned that if I use self-piercing screws, over time they will chew up the wood fiber around them and loosen. I found only one video online where a guy inserted Helicoils into wood, but he appeared to have used the same ones that are used for metal and didn’t explain his choice of those particular Helicoils for a wood application.
What are the best Helicoils for inserting into wood? I expect to have some cases where I will be using 1/2 relatively fine thread screws. Should I use the same Helicoils that I would use for metal and put Loctite on them during installation, or would that be a mistake?
Masks for Idiots 101.
When I checked news feeds this morning, on Yahoo News, I saw a picture of a group of Trump staffers, including his lying press secretary in masks. Some of them had on Joe Biden Black masks. I laughed spontaneously at their idiocy. Anyone who thinks those idiots should be running the country is ten times more idiotic than they are.
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