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08-05-14, 11:11 AM
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During my cancer, my business fell apart (hard to shoot when you're hanging out at club med for 6 days at a time, then not able to get off the sofa our bed for another 6, then only have one "good" week until it starts all over again - for an entire year). My wife did her best to protect me from the news that we fell behind on everything. She wanted me to only focus on my health, and not the financial crap the cancer had allowed us to deal with. So, once I was done with treatment, I found out where we stood...and it was scary. This month will be our last payment to the state to get caught up on those taxes, but we have a ways to go with the feds. They were really cool to deal with on the phone, though. They eliminated some penalties and put us on a payment plan. No garnishments, no nothing. And the interest rate is amazingly low. I'd have to go look up the details, but it's like 0.25%. They told us that the biggest thing they care about is that we came to them with the problems and are dealing with it. They were nice, but not nice enough to forgive it all-together!
08-05-14, 11:14 AM
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During my cancer, my business fell apart (hard to shoot when you're hanging out at club med for 6 days at a time, then not able to get off the sofa our bed for another 6, then only have one "good" week until it starts all over again - for an entire year). My wife did her best to protect me from the news that we fell behind on everything. She wanted me to only focus on my health, and not the financial crap the cancer had allowed us to deal with. So, once I was done with treatment, I found out where we stood...and it was scary. This month will be our last payment to the state to get caught up on those taxes, but we have a ways to go with the feds. They were really cool to deal with on the phone, though. They eliminated some penalties and put us on a payment plan. No garnishments, no nothing. And the interest rate is amazingly low. I'd have to go look up the details, but it's like 0.25%. They told us that the biggest thing they care about is that we came to them with the problems and are dealing with it. They were nice, but not nice enough to forgive it all-together!
08-05-14, 11:14 AM
#1604
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I suppose it is only appropriate for me to provide some personal information also:
Retired Ph.D. (Princteon) organic chemist originally specializing in synthesis and screening of novel pharmaceuticals and pesticides. Research for my doctoral thesis was a synthesis of pure methotrexate and many analogous folate antagonists for biological activity screening. The culmination of this research direction (many years after my disconnection from it) was the discovery, development, and commercialization by workers at Princeton and Eli Lilly of the tremendously effective cancer chemotherapeutic drug, Alimta. After making a sharp turn my work evolved into water soluble polymers (for paper manufacturing, waste-water treatment, and oil drilling and recovery) development and then finally into plastics development for medical devices and packaging in which area I spent most of my industrial career.
I have been riding since 1983 and building all my own bikes and wheels since 1985. I live in Houston where it is very hot and very flat.
How about we get a fresh start? I bet I can do this.
Retired Ph.D. (Princteon) organic chemist originally specializing in synthesis and screening of novel pharmaceuticals and pesticides. Research for my doctoral thesis was a synthesis of pure methotrexate and many analogous folate antagonists for biological activity screening. The culmination of this research direction (many years after my disconnection from it) was the discovery, development, and commercialization by workers at Princeton and Eli Lilly of the tremendously effective cancer chemotherapeutic drug, Alimta. After making a sharp turn my work evolved into water soluble polymers (for paper manufacturing, waste-water treatment, and oil drilling and recovery) development and then finally into plastics development for medical devices and packaging in which area I spent most of my industrial career.
I have been riding since 1983 and building all my own bikes and wheels since 1985. I live in Houston where it is very hot and very flat.
How about we get a fresh start? I bet I can do this.
My work must seem down right barbaric, of the order of " Theodoric of York, Barber/surgeon of ye olde times".
08-05-14, 11:16 AM
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Gotta say, I was really anxious to get in with you guys. Right now, not so much.
08-05-14, 11:18 AM
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Au contraire mon frère. You do your work standing next to someone who shoots Propafol. That is the essence of refinement. How barbaric could you be?
08-05-14, 11:19 AM
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During my cancer, my business fell apart (hard to shoot when you're hanging out at club med for 6 days at a time, then not able to get off the sofa our bed for another 6, then only have one "good" week until it starts all over again - for an entire year). My wife did her best to protect me from the news that we fell behind on everything. She wanted me to only focus on my health, and not the financial crap the cancer had allowed us to deal with. So, once I was done with treatment, I found out where we stood...and it was scary. This month will be our last payment to the state to get caught up on those taxes, but we have a ways to go with the feds. They were really cool to deal with on the phone, though. They eliminated some penalties and put us on a payment plan. No garnishments, no nothing. And the interest rate is amazingly low. I'd have to go look up the details, but it's like 0.25%. They told us that the biggest thing they care about is that we came to them with the problems and are dealing with it. They were nice, but not nice enough to forgive it all-together!
We all deserve equal medical care, no matter our wealth. Anything is just wrong.
08-05-14, 11:22 AM
#1608
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Well you know, all those guts and blood and stuff. There has to be a better way.As I say, the job of every good Internist and Researcher is to put a surgeon out of business. A terrible, though at this time necessary way to cure disease.
08-05-14, 11:27 AM
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See this is the kind of thing I think is utterly and completely disgraceful. That we, a nation building 3 billion dollar bombers and shipping billions over seas war efforts, never to be seen again, for us to allow this to happen to our citizens is beyond disgraceful.
We all deserve equal medical care, no matter our wealth. Anything is just wrong.
We all deserve equal medical care, no matter our wealth. Anything is just wrong.
I'm not a big believer in Karma, but if I'm wrong, I hope they get what's coming to them!
08-05-14, 11:32 AM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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08-05-14, 11:42 AM
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wut. I thought they went to car washes.
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08-05-14, 11:44 AM
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08-05-14, 11:44 AM
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08-05-14, 11:44 AM
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08-05-14, 11:46 AM
#1617
So it is
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08-05-14, 11:46 AM
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Just as communication has changed in meaning so much over the last few years, I am sure that surgery will one day be all about healing rays, lasers, and such rather than knives. Like on Star Trek. Some of my work was with folks like J&J Ethicon re: plastics for endoscopic devices. I think that is just the beginning of "refining" surgery.
08-05-14, 11:47 AM
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08-05-14, 11:47 AM
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Luckily scarves were never as big in Portland as they were in NYC.
08-05-14, 11:49 AM
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Did she ever say anything about chocolates?
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08-05-14, 11:50 AM
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??? Dogs do have molars. Here you go, illustration of the under side of a dog skull with the jaw removed. This is from my dissection guide to the dog, freshman anatomy in vet school. Lookee, I have labeled all the teeth. Of course that could be a hoax on my part. I might have just done it ten minutes ago to make a point here. We'll have to get @rjones28 to google it & verify.
08-05-14, 11:50 AM
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One of the most famous of the old time German chemists, a guy who single handedly discovered what there was to know about the structure of sugars was a guy named Emil Fischer. It has been, what, 45 years since I studied about him. To this day I can't hear or see "anal fissure" without thinking about him. Just weird I guess.
08-05-14, 11:54 AM
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Smartwool tee shirts are da bomb.
08-05-14, 11:57 AM
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