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On page 14 of the archived American College of Radiology Bulletin from September, 2015, one can find this fascinating cover story for that month, pointed out to me by a radiologist friend of mine out on the porch enjoying a fire at sunset one recent night with some fine single malt.

http://www.acr.org/~/media/ACR/Documents/PDF/Pubs/Bulletin Archive/2015/September 2015.pdf

My friend was wondering aloud about the most acceptable, least threatening way to direct a patient's attention, for instance, to a tumor on their left ovary if the patient was a transgendered male who would be "injured" and would probably sue for damages from the trauma of hearing the word "ovary " used to refer to this organ, since only women had ovaries.

My doctor friend's initial conclusion that evening was that he would need to ask the man what he thought the organ should be called before talking of the tumor.

After a bit more Scotch he decided he would simply call it an ovary, and use the resultant charges, and lawsuit, and sanctions against his professional license as an occasion to retire early.

The next day, though, when he was sober, he still thought the early retirement plan a good one, but not with the lawsuits and such, and he simply started taking steps to do so, the first of which was to cancel his membership and get a refund on his ACR dues.

One small step for my friend, one giant leap for the collapse of society!
 

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Hey! Like, this is a - you know - a bonsai site, or something . . . and, like, bonsai is, you know, like, a Japanese thing or something, right?

Well, so, you know, I mean, like, uh, Japan is sort of a, um, another country, like, you know, a - what do you call it? - a foreign country or something, so we don't know much about it, right?

So, I got just the thing, right here, to educate us and make us smarter about Japan and all, and maybe we'll make better bonsai, or something.

 

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Mike did you get any Snow yesterday or last night ???
I Garaged my Bonsai yesterday, I try to keep it at 40 Degrees thru the Winter and water lightly every 2 weeks...
How about yours ???
 

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I got mine all put away yesterday. Yeah we got maybe 2 inches yesterday and last night. And a power outage at 2:00a.m. Who knows when that will come back on.
 

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Besides matcha, pu-er and jasmine, sometimes I pick the top 3 leaves of camellia , scrunch it up in my hands, dry it in the sun, pour 180F/83C H20 over the leaves and there you have it. The first settlers up here were Japanese farmers so there's a lot of kuromatsu, many varieties of camellia, maple (but no trident 'till I arrived) persimon, ume and others I'm not remembering. There was no electricity or phones back then. Up in the clouds isolated from the rest of the world.
 

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I have a general question. How do you guys add photos to conversation with someone. I was in a conversation with someone last night and he asked how to include a photo and I realized I didn't know how either. I see something about storing Media then linking from there. Is that the only way? Here on this thread, I see the Upload File button. But cant find anything like that in the conversation windows.

Thanks
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I have a general question. How do you guys add photos to conversation with someone. I was in a conversation with someone last night and he asked how to include a photo and I realized I didn't know how either. I see something about storing Media then linking from there. Is that the only way? Here on this thread, I see the Upload File button. But cant find anything like that in the conversation windows.

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Mike

No you cant include photos in conversations (PMs). You have to load it into you gallery and link from there.
 

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One small step for my friend,

Yes, facing your own destinity might sometimes look like a small step.

I also have friends who are fighting cancer, and have (had) some who couldn't fight it off.....

one giant leap for the collapse of society!

Let it fall, let us grow...
 

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Let it fall, let us grow...

Ah, yes ... you French have much to teach us about the growth that comes out of societal collapse - Liberte', E'galite', Fraternite' - and all that, and 40,000 heads lost to the guillotines (a number held in check only due to a shortage of guillotines).
 

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Ah, yes ... you French have much to teach us about the growth that comes out of societal collapse - Liberte', E'galite', Fraternite' - and all that, and 40,000 heads lost to the guillotines (a number held in check only due to a shortage of guillotines).

Yes, we can go back 350 years ago.

How many n by (100,000) Native Americans slaughtered?

And how respected they are when "invited" to the White House, to take photos with Andrew Jackson'sd portrait on the wall?...

At least we sorted out the the hard way the problems of an oligarchy in a way that I don't back, but at least, more than three centuries ago, we got rid of "toxic" people. Apparently, you're about 3 centuries backward (when I say "you", I mean the US citizens who support this trumper government). "You" still live in a feudal country, that was your choice. And the good little soldiers will go and die for their masters.

Very sad, and pitiful.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/polit...code-talkers-andrew-jackson-tsr-lizza-sot.cnn

Oh, this is "fake news", isn't it? :confused:
 

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I sneak up behind @AlainK .....you can see him gesturing while lecturing, left of scene......I swoop in, as only a true "tree nerd" can because I see he needs a ......:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 

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