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Pastorfuzz

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I am partial to pumpkin bread with walnuts. Never put that batter in a muffin tin, but I'm sure I could. Have made it in tube pans, Bundt pans, loaf pans. Betty Crocker's recipe, from the old red cookbook. Also very, very partial to homemade gingerbread with lemon glaze.

There may be a lemon pound cake on my horizon, IF the supplies on hand will support the use of that much butter in a cake. Seems like the recipe calls for a half pound of butter. Will not sub that - the cake just wouldn't be right. However, may order extra butter next time so I can make one then.

Listen to me. Sounds like 1958. The times they are a-changin'.
Butter is like Bacon. Don't forget to use it!
 

Rhianne

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Had an interesting night here. Just got power back had a tornado hit across the river coming right towards us so we beat feet for the basement. Got down there and seconds later we heard it then the house started to shake,(old house) windows all rattled, then the power went out:eek:. Evidently when it got to the river it lifted up and didn't come down again till a mile beyond us, went right over us but still made for an exciting night;)

It’s like the Wizard of Oz! I didn’t know you got them. Glad you’re okay! :hug::hug:
 

MrMeowgi

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Daily check in. Not quarantined yet. One of my daughters turned 18 yesterday so we had a small family party for her. At my oldest daughter's house. Exactly 10 people. Had a great time. So proud of my kids so far. Oldest had a hiccup in life but doing so much better. Last time I got a pic of them all was in 2012
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Synphul

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Still hanging in there. Sun's shining and a much calmer day, so no complaints. Yesterday woke to multiple tornado sirens going off in succession, lasted around 30min or longer. Skipped past, only got some bad thunder and lightning, a few bouts of sudden heavy rain and near hail. I figured why not, coronas, tornadoes. I'm sure by wednesday we'll have had an earthquake and volcanoes will begin sprouting up. lol.
 

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Still hanging in there. Sun's shining and a much calmer day, so no complaints. Yesterday woke to multiple tornado sirens going off in succession, lasted around 30min or longer. Skipped past, only got some bad thunder and lightning, a few bouts of sudden heavy rain and near hail. I figured why not, coronas, tornadoes. I'm sure by wednesday we'll have had an earthquake and volcanoes will begin sprouting up. lol.
Or the killer clowns hiding in bushes will come back
 

DaBunny

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Or the killer clowns hiding in bushes will come back
you called???
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yet,,,, I WANT A ... 3D Printer


These Good Samaritans with a 3D printer are saving lives by making new respirator valves for free

As more and more patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, resources at health facilities are being strained. That’s why flattening the curve is so important, so that there’s not a sudden influx of patients and then a shortage of beds or vital equipment. In Italy, which moved too late to limit exposure, this has already happened: Hospitals in the north of the country are overwhelmed, and running out of space and equipment, causing the death toll to spike. But when one Italian hospital ran out of valves for crucial respiratory machines, local manufacturers stepped in to 3D print replacements.

It started with a call from Nunzia Vallini, a journalist at Giornale di Brescia, a newspaper in Brescia, a provincial capital in northern Italy. On Friday, she explained to Massimo Temporelli, founder of the digital manufacturing lab FabLab, the problem she had learned about: A hospital in Chiari, a small city near the capital, was running out of valves for reanimation devices—also called resuscitation devices or respiratory machines—which help patients breathe by mechanically ventilating their lungs. The company that supplies these valves couldn’t send replacements in such a short time, and people were dying.

Temporelli, who is based in Milan, eventually reached out to Cristian Fracassi, founder and CEO of engineering company Isinnova. Fracassi then contacted Michele Faini, an expert in 3D print manufacturing and a research and development designer at Lonati SpA, a manufacturing company in Brescia. The two have collaborated before, and they worked together to design the valves, which help mix oxygen with air and are an important part of the respirator system.

The hospital supplier didn’t want to give these manufacturers information about the valves’ design, Faini told Fast Company by email, but they were able to reverse engineer the design themselves. Though this was the first time Lonati SpA has printed something for the medical sector, Faini says the company’s SLS 3D printers can print with PA12, a material that can be sanitized and used for biomedical purposes.

“We were ready to print the valves in a couple of hours, and the day after we had 100 valves printed,” Faini says. Fracassi had also brought a 3D printer to the hospital and printed out a few valves there.

Patients with COVID-19 at the Chiari hospital are now able to breathe thanks to these 3D printed valves. As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, though, other hospitals may be at risk of similar shortages. Gerrit Coetzee, a San Francisco-based design engineer, put out a call on the blog Hackaday for designers and engineers to design an open-source ventilator, which he describes as “the device that becomes the decider between life and death” for COVID-19 patients, and which are in short supply.

3D printing, which has already been used in the medical field for everything from creating custom, affordable prosthetics to printing surgical tools to personalizing pills, could be key to making ventilators available everywhere. And the collaboration needed to create such a design would help everyone fare better in this pandemic. Fiani noted how collaboration was crucial to creating these valves. They knew they had to act quickly, because people could die without the respirators. “I hope that all the people understand that we have to work together [to] stop this pandemic,” he says. “All of us have to stay safe and have to use our skills to help [those] who need it.”



I THINK DAT's NEAT.
 
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DaBunny

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and in an update to that artical...
Report: Respirator Valve Manufacturer Threatens to Sue over 3D-Printed Copies That Saved Lives

Engineer Christian Fracassi saved at least ten lives in a Brescia, Italy, hospital by 3D-printing a vital respirator part. Now the manufacturer of that part is reportedly threatening to sue.

When a hospital in Brescia, northern Italy, needed a valve for their ICU respirators, they began with its original — and as yet unidentified — manufacturer. Even at its exorbitant $11,000 price tag, the part was already going to be difficult to acquire during the novel coronavirus epidemic putting countless victims on life-saving respiratory equipment.
When the company said they were sold out, the hospital launched a desperate search for any way to create a replacement. Unfortunately, the original producer of the valve was reportedly unwilling to share a blueprint to produce it independently.

Giornale di Brescia, editor of a local newspaper, joined tech expert Massimo Temporelli to locate a 3D printer that would allow them a fighting chance to make something to bridge the gap. They found what they needed courtesy of an engineer by the name of Christian Fracassi.

The risk, however, was personal. When contacted, the valve’s manufacturer reportedly threatened to sue Fracassi if he produced the part on his own — even in these dire circumstances. Fracassi counted the cost against the lives hanging in the balance and did it anyway.

Within hours, the engineer used one of the valves as a reference to design and print the needed parts, which immediately went to keeping at least ten patients in the hospital alive. The cost? Just $1 — to be clear, yes, that is $10,999 cheaper.

Fracassi, fearing further legal repercussions, is afraid to spread his design further. So far, the unidentified company at the crux of this life and death matter has remained silent.

GREED.. %^$%$##$ yet idoncare
GET ME A 3D Printer
and his program

 

ChainVapeS

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Im still alive!
Wife and I have not killed each other yet.

Trying to apply for small business financial aid thru the state.

Also set up a go fund me for my company so I don't go completely under. I don't expect much from that since I don't have a fb to promote it on....

So much stress.... only thing keeping me sane is knowing that I'm not alone in these struggles.

Glad to see everyone here is still active and doing ok.



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~Don~

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Another day and today is a day full of sunshine... wife is going crazy being home and it seems every few hours she is asking, "Honey lets go for a drive somewhere"

My response is always the same... "What are you... <Insert Word choice here>" ... most of the time its "Stupid, retarded, dumb" which gets the point across, and she truly knows better, just goes crazy on the weekends since the shelter in place order was mandated... M-F she is fine since she is at work.

I look at it in a few ways... San Diego will fine us each $1000 even if in our cars and which can include up to 6months of jail time (although that would be worse case) ... if we get pulled over lets say, 35 miles from our residence, we can't just say we're going to get food... won't fly.

Additionally its the right thing to do, and I want to stress, she knows this, she is just going stir crazy.


Family is well, sis has no signs and she is also going crazy... I am doing fine... just bored... only so many movies to watch or shows to binge


Be safe everyone.
 

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Still vertical when awake and no symptoms. I did venture out into the wild yesterday. Doc wanted me to get a DTAP shot from Walgreens. They have tape on the floor in six foot intervals in front of the pharmacy and check-outs. Other than that nothing exciting happening here.

We have been getting rain off and on all week. Every little bit helps since we had a dry winter. Our farmers will be hurting for water allocations.

Stay well y'all!
 

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Ohio's stats :(
March 28, 2020 - #COVID19 Update in Ohio
1406 Confirmed Cases
123 ICU Admissions
344 Hospitalizations
25 Deaths

On a good note, we have a factory here that can sterilize surgical masks.

Orders are still trickling in. Amazon is marking delivery dates toward the end of April, but most of these orders have delivered already. Our Walmart is still not doing any pickup or delivery, but Aldi's is. So we'll be able to get fresh milk and bread from there.

I haven't left my house in 14 days... but it's nice out today 71° so I may try to do something outside today.
Chris is home til tomorrow night, appears to still be healthy. If I'm right about the illness we had back in January, we'll both be staying healthy.

Oh, and I just ordered an Air Fryer :p
 
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MrMeowgi

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Ohio's stats :(
March 28, 2020 - #COVID19 Update in Ohio
1406 Confirmed Cases
123 ICU Admissions
344 Hospitalizations
25 Deaths

On a good note, we have a factory here that can sterilize surgical masks.

Orders are still trickling in. Amazon is marking delivery dates toward the end of April, but most of these orders have delivered already. Our Walmart is still not doing any pickup or delivery, but Aldi's is. So we'll be able to get fresh milk and bread from there.

I haven't left my house in 14 days... but it's nice out today 71° so I may try to do something outside today.
Chris is home til tomorrow night, appears to still be healthy. If I'm right about the illness we had back in January, we'll both be staying healthy.

Oh, and I just ordered an Air Fryer :p
Air friers are great. Had a cheapo a couple years ago but was really nice to cook with..
 
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JuicyLucy

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Morning everyone - raining but the sun is out at the same time :confused:

Guess the weather is reflective of these times - but we are well and hope you are too

No way am I letting Ballsack in

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MyMagicMist

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It had a red and white cover and a binder type thing. It would be a version from the 50’s maybe or the 70’s,
Think my wife has one from the 1950's. It had belonged to a grandmother, mother and now her. Should tell you what kind of witchery they practice. :)

Morning everyone - raining but the sun is out at the same time :confused:

Y'all will get rain again tomorrow at the same time or there about. Least that's what the old wives tales convey and from my experience it seems to hold true.

So I've checked in now. How are we? We could be better, or worse. We're being content with being okay. :) Run 'er slow and keep safe y'all. :)
 

Jimi

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Sunday check in. better day here today with strong winds. Glad to see everyone staying healthy and using their wits to stay from others as much as possible. I ain't goin out for anything that just isn't an emergency, more and more people gettin it here in town so I am happy right here in the cave.
Please stay safe and be extra careful.
 

Smigo

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Well me and the misses have both got something. Felt it yesterday and woke up with it. Dryness in the throat, something causing the nasal passages to feel and be gunky in the area they meet your throat. No cough, no fever, temps are 36. 6 me and 36.5 her. No aches or any of the covid smptoms. Just an everyday cold I reckon. Out of 10 how unwell do I feel? Just a 2. Definitely not freaking out but it is a little unsettling given whats going on, we are for sure placing ourselves in isolation and not going out at all.
Hope you all feel well.
 

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Spent all day with all 4 kids doing new borders with mulch all around the back yard, 160' of border installed and 45 bags of mulch later, and looks great, and the kids was in really good spirits, probably glad to be out doing something in the beautiful weather here today.

Being outside working for 6-7 hours, with no media, you forget all this is going on, just a normal weekend doing yard work, then you come back in, turn on the tv and go on the computer, you quickly remember what a shit storm we are all in right now

I have a vacation booked for the last week of April to South Dakota, even though I did a non refundable booking for a hotel, I got a email saying I can be refunded due to COVID-19, but I still hoping there might be a chance we can go, as won't be another chance this year if we don't go, I know it's very unlikely, but I don't have to cancel the booking for refund, till 24 hours before we go.
 

JuicyLucy

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Well me and the misses have both got something. Felt it yesterday and woke up with it. Dryness in the throat, something causing the nasal passages to feel and be gunky in the area they meet your throat. No cough, no fever, temps are 36. 6 me and 36.5 her. No aches or any of the covid smptoms. Just an everyday cold I reckon. Out of 10 how unwell do I feel? Just a 2. Definitely not freaking out but it is a little unsettling given whats going on, we are for sure placing ourselves in isolation and not going out at all.
Hope you all feel well.

Please take care of yourselves :hug:
 

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I’m doing okay, just hanging out and not really doing anything. At least I feel pretty good, I’ve got food in the house, enough juice and mods for a good bit. So I’m not panicking, just kinda down.

I’m reading and watching movies on YT that friends upload. We had a live chat that was fun last night during a movie. So that’s an upside. Sorry, I’m being saddish.

Stay safe, everyone!
 

Jimi

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Well me and the misses have both got something. Felt it yesterday and woke up with it. Dryness in the throat, something causing the nasal passages to feel and be gunky in the area they meet your throat. No cough, no fever, temps are 36. 6 me and 36.5 her. No aches or any of the covid smptoms. Just an everyday cold I reckon. Out of 10 how unwell do I feel? Just a 2. Definitely not freaking out but it is a little unsettling given whats going on, we are for sure placing ourselves in isolation and not going out at all.
Hope you all feel well.

Sorry to hear that my friend I just hope it something besides the virus. Please keep us posted and take care.
 

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Checky check check.

Still here! We went for a canoe trip today....just down the river and back. It was nice getting out of the house. Such a beautiful day here. Found a perfect tiny crystal on the bank while my partner fished. Probably the first time in a while I haven’t thought about what’s going on.

Also mixed up a new recipe....RY Pie. It’s rich already.....it’s gonna be a winner, I’m thinking.

Hope y’all are doing alright!
 

ChainVapeS

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I’m doing okay, just hanging out and not really doing anything. At least I feel pretty good, I’ve got food in the house, enough juice and mods for a good bit. So I’m not panicking, just kinda down.

I’m reading and watching movies on YT that friends upload. We had a live chat that was fun last night during a movie. So that’s an upside. Sorry, I’m being saddish.

Stay safe, everyone!
So many people are feeling down.
Cabin fever is getting to us all.
Hang in there and stay safe!

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Smigo

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Please take care of yourselves :hug:
Sorry to hear that my friend I just hope it something besides the virus. Please keep us posted and take care.
Thanks. Basically feel the same right now, definitely dont feel really sick, just at present a common cold like feeling. In fact I've had worse colds than this. Temps still normal 36.4. Misses virtually the same.
I heard though that it's pretty bad in some places in the US, sorry to hear that. It sometimes feels like a dream then you turn on the tv and see or hear about the deaths. Its hard to at times find the words to express how I feel at what I see because it is all so alien, uncharted and new and nothing to compare it to.
Stay safe and well everyone.
 

MyMagicMist

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Yep - you are not alone in feeling this way at all - my feelings about the whole thing change constantly

Well one thing which I feel/think has not been changed. I feel the current POTUS is mentally incompetent to be handling this. Saw him today complaining that hospitals which usually ordered only 3,000 masks were ordering 10,000. He has no clue. His only concern is the money, that's clear. Aw, well ... we may get lucky. The sun could always blow up at random. *shrugs, wanders on*
 

The Cromwell

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yep whomever made PPE stuff disappear from the US needs to be investigated.

The US Sent Tons of Medical Supplies to China Even as Senators Warned of Virus Threat Here

 

Rhianne

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Im staying in my house. There are 2 confirmed cases in my town. Thousands in Michigan.

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I’m so sorry to hear that! I’m glad I ran into you, my friend. Be careful and stay safe, please. :hug::hug:
 

Smigo

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yep whomever made PPE stuff disappear from the US needs to be investigated.

The US Sent Tons of Medical Supplies to China Even as Senators Warned of Virus Threat Here
They make you wonder what they are actually thinking dont they. Here we should have been in lockdown a couple of weeks ago. They know and see what it does, we are not at the critical stage so why not stop it from getting to it! It's as if they are waiting for it to get to the stage that deaths are in the thousands till they say ok lock down. There was actually a person in China, doctor or politician, last week who said we were mad for not paying attention to what we have seen take place there and why are we not in lock down, what on earth are we waiting for? I think many of our western country responses have been pathetic. The cruise ships debarcle here has been like something from a documentary of "what not to do in a pandemic".
 

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Daily check in. Not quarantined yet. One of my daughters turned 18 yesterday so we had a small family party for her. At my oldest daughter's house. Exactly 10 people. Had a great time. So proud of my kids so far. Oldest had a hiccup in life but doing so much better. Last time I got a pic of them all was in 2012
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Nice family
 

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SSDD, about all I can say.

Watched virtual Mass yesterday, our church has a live stream Mass on FB everyday so we can keep that normalcy in place. It's just not the same as going and talking to friends and our priests.

There is a national wildlife reserve about 5 miles from our house. Our dog loves it there with all the different smells and the chance to see rabbits or squirrels, yes she is on a leash so she will not catch them. There's hardly anyone there so we can keep our "social distance" and not be confined to the house.
 

~Don~

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Good morning everyone!


Today is going to be an absolute gorgeous day in San Diego... near perfect 72* with sun galore... low 50's in humidity by mid morning (60+ is when you feel humidity and get all sticky)

Woke up this morning... sinuses plugged, green, headache... lack of taste for my Honey Process Pacamara coffee (a travesty truly) Bones and joints aching (Normal)... hands all stiff, walking hunched over like a neanderthal to the kitchen...

But I am fine... rapid change in temps does this to me ;) Allergies go into overdrive...PA... pollen count is outrageous today... downed my normal plethora of meds and supplements, nasal rinsed and I am right as rain.

Wife is good and gone off to work... YAY! No more nagging of "Honey can we take a drive somewhere" haha

Calls to be made soon to family...


Have to take a trip to the post today... have a potential buyer of one of my FS items... possibly 2... but really hoping I don't have to make 2 trips... plus the post office supplies haven't arrived yet... so I must brave the cooties.


I hope all my fellow VU'rs are safe and staying healthy... I truly mean this with all sincerity... even the buckets of ass turds I have on ignore.


Be rad today everyone
 

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Found this worthwhile (imo) article on CNN.com. I don't really care to hear everyone's opinions about CNN - if you think they're "fake news," then good for you, ignore my post. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything political. But if you'd like a little extra info:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/health/coronavirus-symptoms-list-what-to-do-wellness/index.html

Placed one more order with Walmart early this morning, before all of tomorrow's pickup slots were gone. A gentle reminder to all of you that EBT benefits for a whole lot of people will hit their cards on Wednesday, and from the availability I saw this morning at our WM, there might not be much left by then. If you need food, and you can find any, you might want to get it today or tomorrow.

The few people that will read this post won't make a dent in what's available for the EBT recipients, but the EBT crowd could completely annihilate what's available for these few people. Not trying to take anything from them so much as trying to look after this little family of ours. :inlove:

We're hanging in. I'm trying to work at home. Mighty hard to keep my mind on it.
 

misswish

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Checking in, no changes here. Hubby stayed home yesterday, no big reason to brave the outside world. The sun is shining and the kitty is sleeping. Need to do the floors today. I might start a new bead pattern today, pretty bracelet and earrings.
Stay safe and healthy, please.
 

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