Wow. BUT Baltimore should have been called for a delay of game on the previous play and the officials missed it! Too late now - Why didn't Detroit appeal?
You have to hit the link -
Antiviral medications not a vaccination. Worth hitting the link.
“Oral antivirals have the potential to not only curtail the duration of one’s Covid-19 syndrome, but also have the potential to limit transmission to people in your household if you are sick,” said Timothy Sheahan, a virologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who has helped pioneer the therapies.
Antivirals are already essential treatments for other viral infections, including hepatitis C and HIV. One of the best known is Tamiflu, the widely prescribed pill that can shorten the duration of influenza and reduce the risk of hospitalization if it is given quickly.
The medications, developed to treat and prevent viral infections in people and animals, work differently depending on the type. But they can be engineered to boost the immune system to fight infection, block receptors so viruses can’t enter healthy cells or lower the amount of active virus in the body.
At least three promising antivirals for Covid are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter, said Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is overseeing antiviral development.
“I think that we will have answers as to what these pills are capable of within the next several months,” Dieffenbach said.
At the Blue Pig ice cream place which is across the street and two doors down from my office. When I went past a few minutes earlier there were more people - probably about 60-65. The pictures are from the end of the rally.
The video is from Bloomberg.
This is from the Guardian (UK). I was never a fan of Brady, but he is amazing. Hit the link.
There is more zip on Brady’s fastball, and he’s more accurate down the field. In Tampa Bay, he’s playing with precision that had faded during his final years with the New England Patriots.
Those last couple of Patriots teams won with Brady, but these Tampa Bay Buccaneers are winning because of Brady. Through two weeks, he has thrown for 655 yards and nine touchdowns. With the NFL moving to a 17-game schedule, all the traditional records are now in play. Touchdown passes in a season, passing yards in a season, whatever, they’re all up for grabs.
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Through two weeks of the new season, nobody – not Patrick Mahomes or Russell Wilson or Kyler Murray or Aaron Rodgers – has come close to Brady. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, he ranks 10th in the league in intended air yards, a measure of how far he’s trying to throw the ball on each dropback. That’s a good number; it’s wild for a 44-year-old at an age when throwing long becomes difficult. It becomes mind-blowing when you consider that he is third in the league in average time to throw – averaging 2.4 seconds per dropback.
This isn’t Brady getting the ball out because he needs to, he’s getting the ball out in a hurry because he wants to. Because he knows where he’s going with the ball. Because he knows each play the opposing defense makes – because he’s seen every defensive play in the book. Best to get on with it now than wait around.
In comparison, Mahomes, the most talented quarterback in the league, is throwing shorter on average than Brady and taking almost half a second longer to make those throws.
In December, 1979 1980 (got an email from my friend John in Australia who was with us - I got the year wrong!) - Brigid and myself with three other couples drove from Port au Prince to Cap Haitien. 128 miles (just looked it up) and I recall it took well over five hours. Along the road it looked exactly like this. Yesterday's NY Post.
I know several people with a strong devotion to Padre Pio. Evidently including Pope Francis - picture below.
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887–1968) was born to peasant farmers in southern Italy. By the time he was 5 years old he practiced a life of penance and made the decision to give himself completely to God. He grew up working in the fields, and at the age of 19 joined the Capuchin Franciscan friars. His Franciscan spirituality was characterized by a life of poverty, love of nature, and charity to those in need, especially to those who were his "spiritual children." St. Padre Pio had many spiritual gifts and was a great miracle-worker. These were well-documented from multiple reliable sources and included bilocation, levitation, reading souls, and physical healing by touch. Word of his holiness spread and people both pious and curious flocked to see him, especially to have him hear their confession. He is the first priest known to have received the stigmata, for which he suffered suspicion and investigation. Because of the unusual supernatural phenomena surrounding his life, he is considered one of the great visionaries and mystics of the Church. Padre Pio died in 1968 at the age of 81. He was canonized by Pope St. John Paul II in 2002. Because of the many miracles he performed during his life, he is commonly invoked as a healing saint for various ailments.
Aurora James. According to this here net worth is $2 million.
From the NY Post. And below it a link to The Independent (UK) on the same subject.
Most of luxe-living James’ arrears center on Cultural Brokerage Agency, an LLC she formed in 2011 to serve as the parent company of her fashion brand, which today is known as Brother Vellies. It’s a favorite of people like Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Meghan Markle.
The company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts — which were incurred before the pandemic — stem from 2018 and 2019. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015.
The company got into a deeper hole with the feds. Between April 2018 and April 2019, the Internal Revenue Service placed six federal liens on Cultural Brokerage Agency totaling $103,220. The liens specifically cite the company’s failure to remit employee payroll taxes.
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“Just because they take it out of your paycheck doesn’t mean they’re sending it to the government,” David Cenedella, a Baruch College taxation lecturer explained after reviewing the liens. “It’s certainly not something you want. I would not say your average business out there has this. Something went wrong.”
While James apparently has no problem stiffing the Taxman, she isn’t shy about taking money from taxpayers — her company received in $41,666 in pandemic relief aid.
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Ex-staffers blasted the operation as a sweatshop that relied on legions of unpaid interns working full-time jobs.
“I experienced a lot of harassment when I worked for her,” one former contract employee told The Post. “Aurora would ask me to do things that were not in anyone’s job description, like scheduling her gynecological appointments. The work environment was so hostile that I was afraid to ask for my check.” The employee was ultimately terminated.
An ex-intern called James “quite cold,” adding that “she never gives recognition or acknowledgement to her team.”
James is also an alleged rent deadbeat, records show.
Here's the Independent article -
I had posted about this - NY Times report: our military Kabul drone strike killed an aid worker & his family; not terrorists
From the WSJ -
“After deeper, post-strike analysis, our conclusion is that innocent civilians were killed,” Gen. Milley said Friday. “This is a horrible tragedy of war and it’s heart wrenching and we are committed to being fully transparent about this incident.”
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President Biden was criticized for the American deaths and had promised justice for the killers. He took credit in a speech for having punished terrorists, claiming it as a vindication of the “over-the-horizon” strategy he says the U.S. can use to counter al Qaeda and ISIS-K terrorist camps in Afghanistan. It’s fair to ask if the military, in its eagerness to show it was acting on Mr. Biden’s orders to take revenge, took too big a risk in blowing up Ahmadi in a crowded civilian area.
The mistaken bombing shows the limits of Mr. Biden’s over-the-horizon strategy. The Pentagon didn’t identify the right target despite having troops, and presumably some intelligence assets, still in theater. It will be much harder to locate terror camps, and kill the most threatening jihadists, using drones with limited flight time over the country and without local allies to provide intelligence.
Remember when Bill Clinton sent cruise missiles against Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1990s? Mr. Biden’s unwise withdrawal is leaving himself with the same limited options. The U.S. owes the Ahmadi family an apology and compensation, and Congress needs to dig further into the deadly Kabul mistake.
Part of the mania to fire people from these non-partisan councils - the were appointed by Trump (death penalty too good for them).
And additionally, in the case of Down Syndrome advocate Kurt Kondrich, Kondrich opposes targeting Down's Syndrome babies prenatally for abortion. Hit the link for the whole sadly revealing article.
UPDATE: More here - her verbal instagram posting - ‘Fear Of The Mob’: Nicki Minaj Rants About Censorship, Covid-19
Amusing, even if you just skim the article in NRO.
The White House apparently felt the need to reach out to Minaj and offered to connect her with a doctor with expertise. MSNBC’s Joy Reid did a whole segment denouncing Minaj, and there have been critical pieces about Minaj at CNN, Vox, CNBC, the BBC, and elsewhere. Minaj claims she is in “Twitter jail,” while Twitter insists it has not shut down her account. The late-night comics made her the butt of their jokes. Overnight, she’s become something akin to Public Enemy Number One.
Sowell just turned 91 years old. His specialty is welfare economics
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
— Thomas Sowell
Thanks to LifeNet for letting me steal this entire post.
To quote the late free speech advocate Nat Hentoff, "Free speech for me, but not for thee".
“At the request of abortion activists, @Google has just BANNED all of @LiveAction’s pro-life ads, including those promoting the Abortion Pill Reversal treatment, a resource that has saved 2,500 children to date,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action, wrote on Twitter.
Censorship by Google means a near blackout of that information online. Google, which owns YouTube and other companies, is one of the most powerful entities in the world, and political leaders in the United States and Europe have been investigating whether it is violating anti-trust laws.
Pro-life and conservative groups, including LifeNews.com, have been feeling the brunt of its censorship powers for years.
“Why they fight so hard to silence us, I struggle to understand. But they do. And they fight dirty,” Cindi Boston-Bilotta, vice president of Heartbeat International, which runs the abortion pill reversal hotline, wrote Tuesday in an email to supporters.
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Studies and medical experts confirm the abortion pill reversal protocol is safe and effective. It works very similarly to a hormonal treatment that has been used for years to help prevent miscarriages.
The censorship comes at a critical time when abortion activists are pushing to expand abortion pills. The Biden administration recently stopped enforcing safety regulations on abortion drugs, meaning abortion groups now can sell them through the mail without ever seeing the woman in person.
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The latest censorship by Google is connected to a new article in the leftist news outlet The Daily Beast. According to the article:
A Google spokesperson said the company does not allow ads that promote harmful health claims, including those for abortion pill reversal. After reviewing a copy of the report provided by The Daily Beast, Google said it had removed all of the ads mentioned. Facebook said it was also reviewing the report and investigating the ads mentioned.
Boston-Bilotta said the abortion pill reversal protocol is safe, and they are appealing Google’s decision.
“We have appealed and are working hard to reach these women,” she said.
Parrots are very intelligent.
Full Disclosure - I recently took the NY Times up on their $1 a week for 52 weeks "special" online subscription deal. Or maybe it was $4 a month - same difference
"Yeah, I'm gonna need a classier paper than that to do my business on," said Penny, a blue and gold macaw from California. "I'm not saying I expect this place to be the Ritz-Carlton, but geez. Can we at least get a copy of the National Enquirer or PC Gamer or something to class the place up a bit?"
"If things don't change, I'm going to be forced to contact my lawyer. This is ridiculous." ...
Sales of the paper have plummeted as fewer and fewer birds were using them to go to the bathroom on, as that was apparently a large chunk of sales for the Times each and every month. Similar fates have met other newspapers and magazines as birds' bathroom standards have raised, such as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Relevant Magazine.
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