What’s Walrus Building?

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A whole lot of anxiety. Next Thursday is closing. Fingers crossed all the T’s are dotted and the I’s are all crossed.

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German Staff Car Type 230

The Mercedes-Benz W 153 was a luxury six cylinder passenger car built in parallel with the W 143 from 1938, and first presented in public at the Berlin Motor Show early in 1939. It was one of several Mercedes-Benz models known, in its own time, as the Mercedes-Benz 230 (or sometimes, in this case, as the Mercedes-Benz Typ(e) 230).

The car had the same 3,050 mm (120 in) wheelbase as the longer wheelbase versions of the W143 from 1937, but with a completely new and much more modern body as well as a completely new chassis. In place of the earlier car’s pressed steel subframe the W 153 had an x-shaped oval tube subframe. The car had been developed by Hans Gustav Röhr who headed up the company’s Passenger Car Development Department for two years prior to his death in August 1937.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cartoons and Memes

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“Whoa, what’s with the work out clothes?”

“It’s the food memes this week, A girl has to watch her figure.”

“I know I’m watching it.”

“You always are, aren’t you?”

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Some Things Never Change

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From the Huffington Post, Nov. 15, 2008:

In last night’s documentary on Obama and McCain on PBS’s “Frontline,” Rolling Stone magazine’s Ben Wallace-Wells related an amusing anecdote about Obama attending his first meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which happened to be a confirmation hearing for Condoleezza Rice.

About midway through the meeting, Joe Biden is “going on and on” and Obama scribbles a note and passes it back to his aide.

The note said simply: “SHOOT. ME. NOW.”

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So You’re Telling Me, After All These Years, They’re Still Winging It?

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Inducing labor with drug vaginally shows benefits in study (Misoprostol this way “significantly” reduces oxytocin need)
Medical Xpress / UT Southwestern Medical Center / Obstetrics & Gynecology | April 8, 2024 | Emily H. Adhikari et al.

Labor induction with vaginal misoprostol during childbirth achieves vaginal delivery rates similar to the oral alternative while significantly reducing the need for oxytocin, the most commonly used labor-inducing drug, researchers report.

The findings highlight the potential benefits of standardized labor management to provide safer, more streamlined induction methods for women at term. This research addresses a long-standing challenge in obstetrics, where a lack of standard guidelines often leaves induction decisions dependent on variables such as professional expertise, institutional environment, and patient-specific considerations.

“Obstetricians have very little high-quality evidence to guide the practice of labor induction,” said Emily Adhikari, M.D.

Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!