In the hospital, the nurse asked her, "What relation to the patient are you?", and she replied,"ex daughter-in-law, I suppose, "the nurse said, "I'll put you down as 'friend'." My grandfather said from behind his oxygen mask, "she always has been".
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In the hospital, the nurse asked her, "What relation to the patient are you?", and she replied,"ex daughter-in-law, I suppose, "the nurse said, "I'll put you down as 'friend'." My grandfather said from behind his oxygen mask, "she always has been".
My mother stayed in touch with my father's parents after my parents' divorce, especially with his father after his wife's death. When she visited and found my grandfather in difficulties, she called the ambulance for him.
I keep in touch with my former stepdaughter.
I missed my mother-in-law and my stepchildren after my divorce. I was unable to attend her funeral a few years later. She wrote to me from her hospice in her final weeks.
I love it when knuckleheads think pork is some kind of Muslim kryptonite or something.
***MY COUSIN VINNY LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES*** This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law. Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.
We did this staying on a farm one summer when I was a child. Nightmare stuff.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Somewhat of a lingua franca in south Asia. The local language changes every few hours along the highway.
DO IT
When Will Smith was in the news after the Oscars slapping incident, I told colleagues, "Of course, Will Smith's pretty old now." Then I looked it up and found he's six months younger than me.
Even worse is the pop-up plug which won't pop up and now you're stuck with the used dirty water in the basin.
Oops, *Hulk, not Hull. Silly autocorrect (or silly fingers)
Please excuse this question from a dumb forriner, but are those Willie Nelson and Tucker Carlson with Hull Hogan?
Listening to the conference shows it to be even worse than your post suggests.
You can't obtain licence plates unless you present the V5 registration document and haven't been able to do so for decades, if ever.
I hope you realise your awesome complicity in this incident.
I once tried warming gazpacho to see what it would taste like. I found it improved.
He's deleted it now.
Be safe please
Good morning to everyone especially this truth seeker!
Trump seems more vulnerable to me now than at any other time since he entered politics.
Bene and the Gesserits
I thought he'd written a grovelling public apology to Trump after their last spat. Why's he decided to kick off again now? Anyway, popcorn out. 🍿
Travolta was the youngest, at 24. One of them had to dye her greying hair.
On the contrary, he marked the occasion by tweeting that the country has too many holidays.
Every time I see the latest of these I think nah, *this* one's gotta be made up, right?" Wrong.
Equal bottom: Godmother (Fleabag): 17% Gemma Teller Morrow (Sons of Anarchy): 17% Don't know either
I got a speeding ticket. Wondering if it's going to be more economical to pay it myself, or bribe Trump to cancel it.
I was about ten when it dawned on me that animals that the vet had 'put to sleep' were not, in fact, sleeping in cages in backrooms at the vets.
You've tried that stuff?
"Duos habet et bene pendentes" (Yes, I know this is urban myth, don't @ me)
India attacked Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir with at least eight deaths reported, and Pakistan called the assault a ‘blatant act of war’ as the worst fighting in more than two decades erupted between the nuclear-armed enemies. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/4d5BJ5F
Hard cheese
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.
Jam is jelly. Clotted cream is made from milk that's been gently heated until the cream fat rises to the surface and is skimmed off. It's a little like whipped butter.
I suggest we stop talking about this and instead talk about Hillary Clinton's emails.
Amongst the very many problems with this is that it takes no account of the seriousness of a crime. An immigrant might steal £10 from a cash register. But a corrupt CEO can defraud tens of millions and yet "that still only counts as one".
The only thing that’s going to get you fired from a Trump 2.0 cabinet is disloyalty to Trump. No act of incompetence, mismanagement, criminality, or malfeasance can get you fired. As long as you are loyal to Trump, you can pretty much do anything.
I found it very moving. It's made from a pair of Nissan Huts pushed end-to-end. What would be marble in an Italian chapel is concrete, laboriously hand sandpapered to a mirror finish. The baptismal font is made from a truck spring. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian...
You may have heard of the Italian Chapel in Orkney, Scotland, that has a story of its own about faith and creativity in adversity. It was built by Italian prisoners of war from concrete and scrap metal.
Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.
Hang in there, Xenta
How do you check the valve clearance on a 2021 Himalayan 450?
Are athletes, coaches, and fans going to be safe attending the World Cup and Olympics?
Don't forget the pawn cocktail.
In my country, we brought out a lettuce.
Hosting the Olympics and World Cup are going to be impossible. What athlete in their right mind would risk coming to the US now?
This is literally something you have to do in Australia. You have to sign up for 6- or 12-month leases at a time. If you need to move out, you have to forfeit rent and pay them to advertise for a new tenant.
Which one is Trump?
Trump is firing national security & intelligence staff AND tanking the US stock market. On the same morning.
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
Economic Suicide by Dipshittery
I have a 100% trade deficit with Woolworths. I buy their stuff, they buy absolutely nothing from me.
I'm convinced someone could get him to disparage Ruritania for its unfair trading practices and announce a trade war with it.
It's like the post-Brexit list of step-by-step reversals.
Bluesky lacks Facebook's laughing emoticon.
*chronological, silly paws
This is so accurate you can place every statement coming out of the Executive in its chronology order in one of these categories.
Schmierigstreit
During that time, I visited Texas and got stopped by a cop at an immigration checkpoint on a road near the border. He tutted at me for not having my UK passport with me in the car. I don't think that's what would be happening to me now.
I worked for 3 years in the US in 2000. It was an adventure, an exciting opportunity to see somewhere new, to meet new people, to do new things. I would not go now. I'd be spending my time looking over my shoulder for ICE agents, and always making sure I had my passport whenever I left the house.
I guess that we're talking about tariffs on car parts or raw materials. Trump is trying to shift car manufacturers' use of these to domestic, but doesn't want them to pass on the concomitant increases to the public, which would hurt him politically.
I thought the whole *point* of tariffs was to raise the price of imports so consumption switches to domestically-produced goods.
6. The next crisis develops and we're all supposed forget about the first
Also, this little event in 1940: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechele...
"Never defend, always counterattack", from the rulebook of L. Ron Hubbard.
Lettuce pray
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
If he succeeds, it will be the only positive thing he has done.
I'm sure this promise will be delivered upon.
But her emails.
That's a lot of beer
It doesn't, at least not to the high voltage system. It was connected via the 66kV substation at North Hyde.
Heathrow average load was 55MW (in 2016). 220MW for a data centre? The largest in the world (in China) is 100 hectares and takes 150MW. I think your interviewee meant 4x the computing load of Heathrow.
North Hyde is not on the boundary: it is several km away. The issue is over the availability of supply. It is unclear why the airport was unable to switch over rapidly to an alternate Grid Supply Point.
I don't know, but it is looking rather like Heathrow tried to save on their use of system charges by disconnecting from their other points of supply. Hoping this is not the case.
Looks like Heathrow had no plans or equipment to switch quickly to a new GSP, such as Laleham. Poor planning if so. One (old?) document I found reported NHYD sub then only supplied the northeast corner of the airport, which suggests the airport had been reconfigured since.
It's quite wrong that Heathrow could not have switched over to an alternate GSP quickly: an operational switching scheme could effect such a switchover within 100 milliseconds of detecting loss of supply from the one in use.
(35 years experience in the electricity industry, of which the first 3 years was researching transformer failure mechanisms and diagnostics, plus 3 later years on substation protection.)
That would have tripped the transformer protection, not cause a fire. This was certainly due to an internal fault.
Brilliantly scripted, brilliantly acted. I went to watch it, and for the first time in my life, found myself alone in a cinema:
But the loss of a single point of supply is not a once-in-a-lifetime event. It's quite likely. The national control centre, where I once worked, is fed from two different substations for precisely this reason. It's a basic design principle.
Lighting will only be a small fraction of the total load.
Depends. Did Heathrow elect to save on use of system charges by removing their secondary power supply from Laleham (I don't know.) If they did, heads ought to roll.
As you say, two routes for power to Heathrow, one via North Hyde, fed from Iver, and the other fed from Laleham. Only the North Hyde route was available; I don't know why. I really, really hope Heathrow didn't decommission one connection to save on connection charges. That would be bad.
Aw, George Foreman has died.
Generally, electricity consumption in the UK has been *decreasing* over the last few years, down from a peak of 405TWh in 2005, despite the small increase in population. www.statista.com/statistics/3...
People asking "why aren't there backup diesels?" likely don't appreciate the size of Heathrow's load: it's an *average* of 55MW, the size of a large town. Google image search for 'Wartsila 80MW' to see the size of the diesel required for this. Not going to happen.
Further to this, the BBC reports that Heathrow wasn't connected at the time via its second GSP at South Laleham, but only via North Hyde. If true, a serious blunder by Heathrow.
Heathrow is normally supplied from several Grid Supply Points, and ultimately from Iver 275kV substation but I don't understand why these supplies failed. The supply points are dotted around the airport perimeter.
There is no backup power supply to Heathrow adjacent to North Hyde substation. You can see the substation from a satellite view. It's not particularly close to the airport, and normally only supplies its northeast corner.
Subtle humour is the best humour.
