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I want to start the process of hearing evaluation and getting aids but worry about up-sell pressure at brand clinics that advertise a lot. Has anyone recently had hearing tested at LSU Speech & Hearing? How would you rate their service?

Lod Cook was great and very generous LSU alum. He wasn't a founder of companies but an executive who made things run better. A fun YouTube feature is: LINK

He would have rather not be known for his Global Crossing affiliation. Winnick, a financier, founded the company headquartered in Bermuda to lay cable. Cook provided a face for the company that went bankrupt. There was suspicion of executive insider trading and use of peculiar telecom accounting that allowed expenses to be counted as assets.

Have done and greatly enjoyed both. Iberian Peninsula is great. Lots of culture. Modern Spain is much like the rest of modern Europe. Portugal is more laid back. Add in the Azores and your experience ramps up considerably.

New Zealand is far more about the dramatic and dynamic geography. At the northern end things can be semi-tropical, At the southern end you'll feel that Antarctica isn't far away. The culture is relatively new British colonial. The Maori are a bit more interesting than the Brits. Queensland/Auckland are good choices. We did a week in Auckland, flew to Queensland, rented a car, drove to Christchurch via Dunedin. You can get flights to/from Ca from Christchurch.

For your family, I'd pick New Zealand. It's great and they speak English. You can do Port/Spain anytime in the future.

It can be a pretty miserable travel experience. See if a layover in Hawaii is possible. You can do Port/Spain anytime in the future

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Scotch-Irish and somehow ended up in Alabama

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When sorting out Irish ancestors you need some approximate arrival dates. Much of the Irish history we get is about the potato famine mass Irish immigration 1845-55. Most were Catholic.

Your southern Scotch-Irish ancestors, they likely arrived around 1750 and came from what is now Northern Ireland. The English settled many Scots there to work plantations. Many families mixed surnames and DNA with the local Irish then moved on to the North America frontier due to land availability. Most were farmers and Protestant.

Great tip. My prompts should be asking for scripts that fix my problems rather than asking for how I can fix them.

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Moving there

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Lots of good suggestions especially Ocean Springs and Walter Anderson Museum. But it's a vacation home rather than permanent-residence area.

If you are planning to live in a gated enclave you might enjoy your neighbors. Otherwise expect to be meeting characters out of Grisham novels. Casino workers are pretty transient. Hurricanes, evacuations, damage, insurance, etc. are things you do not need in retirement. At least look for places inland enough to be 30' above sea level. Hattiesburg is worth a look.

Fort Walton Fl offers a better retirement situation. Niceville is high enough to provide some safety.

Transmitted light 35mm scanners are much better than flatbeds that many people use. Plustek's $500-600 range is attractive. Look on eBay for new Nikon Super Coolscan. Those could have run you $5k new. I had 2 at work.

For 8mm use a service to make sure frames-per-seconds get converted correctly.

The French Catholic angle was probably more influential than most admit.

The fact that Kennedy was the 1st Catholic president generated some sympathy for the country's leadership. Those leaders and families played well on TV which was the increasingly powerful media.

The Domino Theory wasn't far off. China was going to keep arming nationalists across IndoChina. The US could either defeat their clients or run the costs way up. Initially So Korea and Australia were in the fight too.

Walter Cronkite gets some credit for making middle Americans against the war. Probably more people started opposing it was conservative radio journalist Paul Harvey "President Nixon ... you are wrong".

Seeing all the crews, trucks and equip owned by Treppendahl Landscaping, it must be possible to profit with a scaled up operation. Organizing and paying those Hispanic crews must be a huge headache. Imagine getting a lucrative sounding contract from a HOA only to find that you don't get paid because few people pay their membership. Good Luck.

My cheap uncle would not pay to get his kid's teeth straightened. As soon as they left home and had some income they got braces on their own. He took the rebuke pretty hard.

Just started thinking about local LLM while pondering which free-level AI agent I'm willing to start paying for. My current prompts are mostly requests for Python scripts both freestanding and for Blender and Photoshop. I also track some science lit.

Gemini tells me that I can do all or most locally if I keep an eye on the model's training cutoff date.

Asking about hardware, Gemini told me to watch: LINK

It's not for a 5 year old, but it's 20-min length lets you get used to "English on the Ganges".