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Amy Klobuchar?

yeah, i was thinking of the USMLE STEP exams. I may have the timing off, it's one we give but I spend less time with the examinees so not an expert. I was under the impression it was taken during the end of residency. I know there are some other exams within doctors pathways, one prior to STEP and some specialty exams for specializations at least. We're not connected with the state's bar, but we have a few once a year exams we do, and a couple that are offered for a few weeks every so often.

There are multiple tests for doctors - the one that they take, i think during residency is in 3 parts. One is 7 hours, the other two are 18 hours each (spread out over two days each) if i recall correctly. There are some pretty intense tests out there. At some point, you stop testing the student on whatever the test is about, and testing their memory of the test. Thats why most tests have retest windows that space out testing. The problem with standardized tests is less that they're stupid and more that they're used for purpose other than they are intended, and used as solitary measures and gatekeepers.

These rules depends on the state, iirc.

prehistoric hell ant preserved eating prehistoric roach relative reveals the ant had vertical mandibles.

Most early comic book zombies existed as instruments of vengence and typically just killed (or were like the will-less living dead). I seem to recall reading at least one comic story from the 1950s where there was implied cannibalism from the undead, but without going and reading a bunch of horror comics again, I can't confirm. That said, if memory serves me Ishtar threatens to raise the dead and send them to eat the populace in Gilgamesh. If that is correct, the idea has been percolating around for awhile but Romero really brought it home.

As I recall, the ghūl in the Arabic tradition was a shapchanging Jinn who, usually in the guise of a pretty woman, would meet travelers and when they'd dropped their guards, kill and eat them.

Guys, move the political discussion to off-topic. Thanks.

I'm kind of surprised they seemed to doubt(?) that the water heater could go through the roof - back in the day when buildings were heated by boilers, a boiler explosion could take down a multi-story building.

"We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away"

Yeah, Mickey Mouse is popular too.

I believe you mean "The Return of the Living Dead", "Night of the Living Dead" is the '68 original.

You can vote for anyone (or anything), however if who you vote for is not a 35 year old, natural born citizen who has lived in the United States for at least 14 years they're not eligible to be President, even if they win. Its been a long tradition to vote for fictional entities (I hear Snoopy did good in '68 and Pogo had a campaign for a few years) as a vote of no-confidence in the official candidates.

Anyone who has seen Fulci's Zombi 2 (aka Zombie Flesh Eaters) will remember the underwater zombie (that ends up fighting a shark).

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Doonesbury, Lil' Abner, Prickly City, Bloom County, Pogo, Non Sequitur, et al, would argue differently. Speaking of Non Sequitur, this is nothing like the hidden message that got Wiley Miller's comic dropped and I'm somewhat dismayed that something so innocuous would rise such ire. Even as politicized to stupidity as everything seems to be, I didn't think it was this bad.

Probably has more to do with Sony having the Spider-Man license, than anything Disney is doing.

17 years between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, wasn't it? I can't help but wonder if the fact that Fantasy and Science Fictions pulp origins makes people believe they should get things done fast. Pulp authors were fast (at one point Charles Gibson wrote 1,680,000 words a year), and a lot of that tradition carried over in the paperback market. So in the 70s and 80s you get things like Stephen R. Donaldson doing 6 books in 7 years and that was seen as the norm. However if you look outside of Fantasy and Science Fiction you get a lot of acclaimed novelists taking years to complete their novels. Thomas Harris too 8 years (on average) to complete the Hannibal Lecter novels. Mind you I don't know if these new trilogies like Rothfuss are stand alone books that link together (like the Lecter novels) or cliffhanger seriels left unsatisfying by their lack of continuation to completion either.

Grace Dieu

First film role I saw Curry in.