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Sep 21, 2022Liked by Graham Seibert

Ah, something we can agree upon - cast iron cooking. My oldest frying pan that I bought new is 36 years old. I love occasionally get out my cast iron dutch ovens and cooking with them.

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Happy anniversary, may you enjoy many more. 28km/ph and 2990? Just quick mental arithmetic so probably wrong.

As for the 'mobilisation', the Russian army is unable to properly equip and supply the troops that it does have. How will calling up a crowd of untrained or semi trained conscripts help?

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Sep 22, 2022·edited Sep 22, 2022Author

28 is right.

For the other: ((12000+3x9000)*.015 + (800+3*600)) * 12

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Damn, fell for the obvious mistake! That's what comes from rushing through these things without concentrating.

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That's Eddie's problem. We are working on least common multiples and greatest common denominators. It requires you to identify the prime factors of a number. There isn't any easy way, and it will bite you in the tail if you aren't careful. He knows how to do it, but made 3 careless mistakes out of 12 problems. Not good.

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I think that people can be detail orientated or big picture focused. I have to force myself to check the details, making lots of mistakes and going over them, again and again, with practice it's possible to overcome it. As long as you care about those mistakes.

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All Ukrainian children are cute.

I feel sorry for them because they are so young.

Little by little I donated about 50,000 hryvnia to the accounts for Ukrainian refugees at the Embassy of Ukraine in Japan, the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Japan and the Embassy of Moldova.

However, there are rumors that Ukrainian civil servants, like those in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, tend to be more sloppy than in Western Europe?

Winter in Japan lasts about three months.

It looks like it's already snowing in Ukraine.

Please come up with some ideas to get through the long winter of the next six months.

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I've dealt with Ukrainian civil servants quite a bit. I find them courteous and helpful for the most part. Better than Washington D.C. by a long, long shot. Maryland was hit and miss.

Kyiv winters are about the same as Washington D.C. in terms of average temperature. Storms are different. Washington will have two or three that dump 70cm of snow, after which it melts. Ours is seldom more than 20cm, but it can stay on the ground. Last winter was cold every month but without extremes and not too much snow. Previous one we had snow from December to April, but never very deep.

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" I find them courteous and helpful for the most part. $ Better than Washington D.C. $"🤣🤣🤣

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Faint praise indeed!

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