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[tmerton]

Fellas...breaking news out of Collegeville...John Harrington is resigning as head hockey coach to take a job with a pro team in Switzerland...

Here's a good article on this:
http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/id,15640/HarringtonStepsDownAtStJohns.html

Hope they get another good one.

[Rugman]

After lots of research and waffling back and forth, I finally made a decision on treatment for my acoustic neuroma.

I am having Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at Mayo this Thursday.

I've had a good ol time reading articles from scintillating publications such as Journal of Neurosurgery and Skull Base Surgery.  Those neurosurgeons can really make radiological dose planning thrilling.

Best wishes to you ROR.  We'll all keep spreading karma (the real kind) your direction.  When you mentioned the Gamma Knife I had an image of the TV commercial where the guy is standing there with a steak knife and the doctor is giving him surgical directions over the phone and he says "shouldn't you be doing this?".

[coco]

After lots of research and waffling back and forth, I finally made a decision on treatment for my acoustic neuroma.

I am having Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at Mayo this Thursday.

I've had a good ol time reading articles from scintillating publications such as Journal of Neurosurgery and Skull Base Surgery.  Those neurosurgeons can really make radiological dose planning thrilling.

ROR,

Your post about your acoustic neuroma caught my eye. A friend had surgery for his a few years ago at the local medical school and his outcome was great. I'm sure yours will be as well, especially considering where you'll be having it. We are indeed fortunate to be living in this age where medicine can do so much.
Good luck to you!

Coco

[Mr. Ypsi]

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago
you would have $49.00 left.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer, one year ago, drank
all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling
REFUND, you would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink
heavily and recycle.

Is that a deposit or what the aluminum is worth.  Also is that $1,000 of Hamm's

Let's see, aluminum was going for about $2,600 per ton on Friday, so if flash gets $214 that would mean it took 165 pounds of aluminum to contain that $1,000 worth of beer.  Must be the deposit.  What's it run over there..about $.10 per can?

I can not speak for MN but it is still just a nickel here in Iowa.  So 214 bucks would be 2140 beers at a dime and 4280 at a nickel.  Sounds like some cheap beer either way you look at it.   

Can't be the deposit, because if you bought the beer, you paid the deposit at the time of purchase (thus giving a no-interest loan until the cans were returned). 

Assuming the figures given on aluminum prices were accurate, I just weighed some empties (Labatts Blue) on my wife's postal scale - it takes roughly 22 cans to reach a pound.  That would mean about 3,630 cans to reach 165 lbs., and about 27.5 cents per can to get that many for $1,000.  Yeah, that's some pretty cheap beer!

[57Johnnie]

Fellas...breaking news out of Collegeville...John Harrington is resigning as head hockey coach to take a job with a pro team in Switzerland...

When I was at SJU a different John was hockey coach.
Some of you may have heard of him. 

[OzJohnnie]

I am having Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at Mayo this Thursday.

Sounds like something from Starship Troopers.  It's friggin' unbelievable the type of medical treatments that are available today.  And in a hundred years people will be thinking we lived in the dark ages.

Just remember: don't sneeze.  It's not like you can easily deal with a stray gamma knife inside your scone.

[OzJohnnie]

Did I say a hundred years?  I should have said 20.

I give you the super freaky "Luke" robot arm.

[The White Silly]

The Twins are looking decent right now.  I hope Gomez can continue to play like he has tonight.  He looks like Rickey Henderson (in his prime) 2.0 right now.  I think the Twins will surprise a majority of baseball fans this year.  If I was a betting man ( oh wait...I am)....I am going to throw down some decent money on the Twins to win the Central this year...MARK my words...they got it. 

[finsleft]

I am having Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at Mayo this Thursday.

ROR-
I followed your link and saw that this procedure involves no incision. I can therefore assume you will be under no anesthetic, but mildly sedated. Thus you will be in approximately the same state of mind that you are in at most football games and should have your camera in hand, snapping 1,000 shots of the action. We'll look forward to seeing your photos here on Friday.

[Kilted Rat]

After lots of research and waffling back and forth, I finally made a decision on treatment for my acoustic neuroma.

I am having Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at Mayo this Thursday.

I've had a good ol time reading articles from scintillating publications such as Journal of Neurosurgery and Skull Base Surgery.  Those neurosurgeons can really make radiological dose planning thrilling.

ROR,
Best wishes and prayers for you bud!

Think they can gamma knife the liberal out of your brain while they're at it
In all seriousness, I've seen many patients who have had this surgery with great results. The hearing in that side may not get back to what it was, but otherwise you should have a full recovery.

Keep us posted!






RE: Beer as an investment

Guys, I think this was meant as a means of explaining beer as an investment to women and other persons who don't think and/or do math as much or a well as we do. Take it at face value and drink your damn beers and quit thinking so damn much!

[OzJohnnie]

Guys, I think this was meant as a means of explaining beer as an investment to women and other persons who don't think and/or do math as much or a well as we do. Take it at face value and drink your damn beers and quit thinking so damn much!

Now, if women really can't do math as well as us and we know the airspeed of a coconut laden swallow, then....

[Mr. Ypsi]

RE: Beer as an investment

But you might consider saving the empties - my crude calculations came out to about 5.9 cents per empty aluminum can!  Sneak in a bit of extra water weight, and you might be close to $2 per case at the salvage yard!

KR writes: "Think they can gamma knife the liberal out of your brain ..."  AHA!  My suspicion that conservatives were guys who'd had lobotomies is confirmed!

[I try not to do politics on these boards, but that was an irresistible straight line!  Sorry! ]

[Retired Old Rat]

I am having Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at Mayo this Thursday.

ROR-
I followed your link and saw that this procedure involves no incision. I can therefore assume you will be under no anesthetic, but mildly sedated. Thus you will be in approximately the same state of mind that you are in at most football games and should have your camera in hand, snapping 1,000 shots of the action. We'll look forward to seeing your photos here on Friday.

You are correct, no incisions.  But they do screw this damn headgear thing to your head.  Literally.

I'll do the best I can on photos.  I'll have to bribe the nurses to shoot some photos.

[Retired Old Rat]

ROR,
Best wishes and prayers for you bud!

Think they can gamma knife the liberal out of your brain while they're at it
In all seriousness, I've seen many patients who have had this surgery with great results. The hearing in that side may not get back to what it was, but otherwise you should have a full recovery.

Keep us posted!

The liberal is not only in my brain, but my heart and my soul.   8)

I have asked if they could shoot a little extra radiation at that part of my brain that makes me hungry all the time.  No can do. 

[Retired Old Rat]

RE: Beer as an investment

But you might consider saving the empties - my crude calculations came out to about 5.9 cents per empty aluminum can!  Sneak in a bit of extra water weight, and you might be close to $2 per case at the salvage yard!

KR writes: "Think they can gamma knife the liberal out of your brain ..."  AHA!  My suspicion that conservatives were guys who'd had lobotomies is confirmed!

[I try not to do politics on these boards, but that was an irresistible straight line!  Sorry! ]

Me too.

But, +k for a week on that one.