Tuesday, February 21, 2023
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/5-year-old-who-emptied-piggybank-for-earthquake-relief-now-wins-48mil-lottery-jackpot-at-18/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=10-02-2023
5-Year-old Who Emptied Piggybank for Earthquake Relief Now Wins $48Mil Lottery Jackpot at 18
By Andy Corbley – Feb 8, 2023
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A delightful story from northern Ontario saw a 5-year-old girl’s good Karma wait 13 years to reward her.
Juliette Lamour won the state’s second-largest lottery jackpot in history, CAD$48 million, on her first-ever try. Local news from her home city of Sault Saint Marie revealed a touching side of the story—that at 5 years old Lamour made a very big act of charity, and the suggestion that her generosity has been rewarded is impossible to resist making.
It was 2010 and the island nation of Haiti had just been ravaged by an earthquake. Aid organizations from across the world rushed to help the people of the obliterated country stabilize and recover.
At the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds hockey team ice rink a branch of the Canadian Red Cross had set up a table to help raise money for Haiti, and Juliette and her sister Sophie were determined to help.
They upturned their big pink sharing piggy bank that day, out of which came $61.38.
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We deal with a lotta “laws” in our lifetimes. I differentiate between man-made “laws” that I call diktats and the natural “laws” of the universe like gravity.
Here we have an example of a “weak” natural law, the Law of Karma. The wheel goes around and what you send out come around. Sometimes if you send out “bad”, it comes around to bite you in the butt. But, like this example, it comes back around a bestows a 782013.685239 * 61.38 reward.
“Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters “meaningtto do something kind or good without expecting anything in return. If you cast your bread upon the waters, you do good deeds for others without expecting anything in return.
Here is a reminder.
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Thursday, February 16, 2023
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-finally-meets-family-that-hid-him-during-nazi-holocaust-80-years-ago-and-visits-the-house/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=10-02-2023
Man Finally Meets Family That Hid Him During Nazi Holocaust 80 Years Ago–And Visits the House
By Andy Corbley – Feb 7, 202
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An elderly Belgian man was able to meet the descendants of a neighbor who saved him from the Holocaust after his perseverant son and a helpful geneticist managed to track down his grandchildren.
The meeting was organized in the same house where a 5-year-old David Rossler was hidden along with his mother. Now 85, Rossler had a chance to thank the grandchildren for what their grandfather, Georges Bourlet, had done.
Mr. Bourlet lived in Auderghem, Brussels with his four adolescent children, Paul, Jacques, Anne-Marie, and Christiane. Together they gave shelter to Rossler and his mother towards the end of the war in 1944 after Rossler’s uncle and grandfather had already been seized and sent to Auschwitz.
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“In Jewish tradition, there is a saying that ‘he who saves one life saves all of humanity’ – Georges Bourlet saved humanity nine times over We are submitting our testimony to Yad Vashem in hopes that he will be recognized for his heroism and granted the title of ‘Righteous Among the Nations,’” said Lionel, referencing the Israeli civilian honor for those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
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I’m not sure I’d have the courage to hide Jews from the Nazis. Not only did Georges Bourlet risk his own life but also that of his family to do a brave thing. He knew the risks and did it. That’s “stones”.
We don’t know how many took the same gamble and were killed for it.
As I said, I’m not sure I could handle a big challenge like that. May all my temptations be small enough for my limited abilities.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/bubble-mystery-da-vinci-solved/
Hard Science — February 8, 2023
Solved: 500-year-old mystery about bubbles that puzzled Leonardo da Vinci
- The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
- Small bubbles shoot straight up in water, but larger bubbles dance and zigzag.
- This effect has intrigued scientists, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci.
- A new study finds a solution that we can understand intuitively.
Tom Hartsfield
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Pour water — or another tasty, bubbly liquid — into a clear glass. Carefully watch bubbles as they nucleate and then float up in the glass: You’ll notice that some of them rise differently than others. The tiniest ones shoot straight up, while bigger bubbles rhythmically bounce back and forth, slowing their trip. If you’ve ever wondered why this occurs, you’re not alone. No less a natural philosopher than Leonardo da Vinci was confounded by it.
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I guess we can say Leonardo da Vinci’s genius had its limits. Took 500 years, modern math, advance computers, and some fudging to get close to an answer. So we can forgive poor old da Vinci for flubbing it.
Found it fascinating that a bubble can become an oval.
Wonder what other mysteries are out there? We know so little.
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Friday, January 27, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11661539/LORD-ASHCROFT-recalls-forgotten-heroine-Holocaust.html
As the world marks liberation of the Nazi concentration camps… LORD ASHCROFT recalls the forgotten heroine of the Holocaust who smuggled 2,500 ghetto children to safety in coffins, suitcases… and even a toolbox
- Irena is all but forgotten despite the fact that she saved around 2,500 children
- She died in 2008 with brief tributes to the bravery of ‘The Angel of Warsaw’
By Lord Ashcroft For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 17:00 EST, 21 January 2023 | Updated: 17:00 EST, 21 January 2023
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The pretty, dark-haired young woman in a nurse’s uniform felt her heart thump inside her chest as she presented her identity papers to the Nazi soldiers guarding one of the few entrances to the Warsaw Ghetto.
It was the summer of 1942 and the truth about the Germans’ brutal genocide of the Jews was becoming horrifyingly clear. The knot in her stomach shifted slightly as the guard gruffly waved her inside. Agonisingly, she knew that if the truth of her secret mission was revealed, she would be tortured by the ruthless, sadistic SS and then shot.
She sighed with relief, but knew an even more heart-rending task lay inside the walls of the ghetto, where up to 500,000 Polish Jews had been corralled ten-to-a-room in a warren of buildings and streets in an area little larger than a square mile. There, the stench of death and disease was appalling. Thousands of half-starved people wandered around with just rags to protect them from the bitter cold.
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On the anniversary of the Nazi concentration camp’s liberation, we would all take the time to read and reflect upon this human tragedy. And the heroes and heroines, who risked everything, to save babies. It’s hard to imagine having that much physical courage. Not sure if I could do it; hope I would but until you have to act will you really know.
All those, who deny that the Holocaust happened, must be repudiated and reviled as mentally ill.
I can’t imagine their mental workings that can ignore all the evidence and personal testimony.
Argh!
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Sunday, January 22, 2023
https://bigthink.com/the-well/attention-span/
The Well
How to unlock your “peak mind”
- “What you pay attention to, is your life.” Where do you place precious brain resources?
Amishi Jha
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There’s a shorthand that we can use to think about this. The term is VUCA: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. The world today feels like it’s a constant VUCA environment, but there’s another challenge that our attention faces, and why many of us feel like we’re in an attentional crisis. Frankly, the brain was designed to be lured by, for our evolutionary success and survival, certain kinds of information; threatening information novel information, self-related information, and even things that are fun and enticing. I’m talking about the ‘Attention Economy.’ Everything is being done by teams of engineers to actually capture your attention and keep it there; your attention is the product. Finally, the mind can be hijacked away by something called ‘Mental Time Travel.’ That means that our attention is not in the present moment, so when we’re thinking about the past, our attention is fully in the past, same thing with the future. About 50% of our waking moments, we aren’t in the present moment.
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When I first learned about “meditation” in Comparative Non-Christian Religions — yes, I got another D — I thought it was a lot of “Barbara Streisand” <synonym for excrement>. Later, when I was in USAF survival school, we were encouraged to practice it for when we became a POW — luckily I never left Maryland. But, the lessons kept being repeated to me. “Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.” — ― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life Not sure when I began to take “mindfulness” seriously; I do now.
YMMV
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Friday, January 13, 2023
If you were born on this date:
You’ve slept for 9,247 days or 25 years!
Your next birthday is 17 days away
You’ve been alive for 665,808 hours
You were born on a Monday in mid January
You are 39,948,480 minutes old
Your next birthday is on a Friday
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Sunday, December 25, 2022
https://bigthink.com/13-8/star-of-bethlehem/
13.8 — December 21, 2022
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
Never stop looking at the skies in wonder.
Marcelo Gleiser
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On the nature of the astronomical phenomenon that took place (or not), there were three disparate reactions: Complete agreement with Molnar, qualified agreement, and radical disagreement. On the chronology of the events, most agreed that Jesus’s birth took place between 7-5 BCE. On the relation between astronomy and astrology, there was mostly disagreement on the intentions and the interpretations of astrologers from different regions in the Middle East. One major difficulty was to justify the visit of only three men, given the alleged power of the celestial portent. Why not a multitude of the devout? As for the “why,” Matthew was the one evangelist who considered celestial portents seriously, using them plentifully in his narrative.
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It seems that the Biblical story is just that, a story.
The “stories” of all the various religions seem to be the “fake news” of ill-remembered past events.
When you try to recount relatively recent events without written records, it’s impossible to make sense or even sort “fact” from the fiction of “false memories”.
In short, everything is suspect the further back you go in time.
Nice “stories”, but not “historical certainty”.
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Friday, December 16, 2022
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/once-devastated-pacific-reefs-see-amazing-rebirth-recovering-with-shocking-speed/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=09-12-2022
Once Devastated Pacific Reefs See Amazing Rebirth, Recovering With ‘Shocking Speed’
By Andy Corbley – Dec 7, 2022
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“The corals that were resistant to the phenomenal 2015-16 El Niño provided the reefs’ resilience,” wrote Sala. “The Southern Line Islands lie in one of the hottest hot spots of warming in the Pacific Ocean, so the corals apparently have adapted to heat.”
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Remember when “everyone” was in “the sky is falling” mode about the reefs and oceans.
It’s like the Creator put in a a feedback loop called “adaption” into “his/her” “Creation”.
Guess that the Earth will survive for another bullion years regardless of what us puny humans do!
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Monday, November 7, 2022
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Elliana Bowers
Oct 15
“I missed my first flight to LA yesterday and had to catch another. I was so upset, but now I know why! When I finally got to LAX baggage claim, I went to the bathroom to check my little makeup and I heard a woman crying so hard. I was wondering if I should say something like, ‘It’s gonna be okay,’ but I was nervous and she was speaking Spanish so I didn’t know if she’d even understand me. I left and came back to the bathroom like four times while I was waiting for my bags to come down (full flight), and I heard her say, ‘But the bus doesn’t come until tomorrow.’ My heart dropped, so I asked her if she had Zelle or CashApp. She said no. So I asked her if I could pay for a hotel until tomorrow and she stopped crying and opened the stall door AND I SAW THE SLEEPING KIDS. I felt so happy to help her, knowing I’d just be spending my little money on bullsh*t. She rode with me to the Marriott and I got her a room. I wanted to share this because I kept thinking, ‘HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME INTO THE BATHROOM, HEARD HER CRYING FOR HOURS, DIDN’T KNOW THERE WERE KIDS, AND KEPT GOING?’ I’m glad I said something because she was super sweet and appreciative and she had babies with her.”
Credit: Cyn Symoné
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No idea if this is authentic or not, but it suonds like it could be.
Reminds me to be alert for opportunities for me to “save my soul”.
YMMV
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
On Oct 2, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Ferdinand Reinke\ wrote:
Greg Schiano, Ryan Day have words after Ohio State’s fake punt
https://nypost.com/2022/10/01/greg-schiano-ryan-day-have-words-after-ohio-states-fake-punt/
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On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 9:54 AM my Old Luddite friend wrote:
Arrogant Ohio State, and they wonder why they are hated
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Agree. But “hated” is imho to strong a word; “not admired” would be my word. I “admire” true sportsmanship. Special Olympics, big pros who try to help and inspire little kids, Roberto Clementi, Sadio Mane with his broken iphone11 are the ones who exemplify the essence of humanity I hope I can emulate.
Crazy Old Ferd
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Hope more MP4B = “Millionaires Playing For Billionaires” can emulate good sportsmanship and remember that we are all brothers.
Isn’t there a saying “to whom much is give, much is expected”?
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/all_it_takes_is_one_hero.html
americanthinker.com
All It Takes Is One Hero
By J.B. Shurk
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No matter how dark things get, all it takes is one hero to push back. Heroes, after all, are not remembered for following the crowd; they emerge because they run in the opposite direction, often into known danger, and spur others to stop, turn around, and act. It is always the lone voice that inspires a people to rise against the injustices of any age. It is the stubborn persistence of the few who marshal real change. It is the resolute among us who peer at the raging inferno without fear. It is the wise who remember that every waterfall begins with just one drop of rain. It is the hopeful who can look around at today’s chaos and see clearly the opportunity for great change.
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Who will it be?
Where are our Patrick Henry’s, Nathan Hales’, or John Paul Jones?
Joe Rogan? Dave Smith? Michael Malice?
We certainly need one.
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Monday, September 12, 2022
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/is-a-fetus-a-person-a-fringe-idea-could-be-the-next-post-roe-v-wade-chapter-editorial/ar-AA11G36N
Is a fetus a ‘person’? A fringe idea could be the next post-Roe v. Wade chapter | Editorial
Opinion by the Miami Herald Editorial Board, Miami Herald – Yesterday 11:56 AM
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A pregnant woman walks into an emergency room experiencing a miscarriage, or she gives birth to a stillborn. Someone becomes suspicious and notifies police. They want to know: Is the woman at fault? Everything she’s done during her pregnancy comes under scrutiny. Did she take any drugs or medication? Did she research abortions on the internet?
A “pro-life” prosecutor decides to make her a pariah. She might face criminal charges, child endangerment or, worst-case scenario, manslaughter or murder if prosecutors believe she intended to end her pregnancy.
This is a dystopian scenario — what could happen if anti-abortion zealots take their positions to an extreme. And it’s not out of the realm of possibility.
Abortion-rights groups fear the next frontier in the fight to take away reproductive rights is to grant fetuses “personhood” status. Anti-abortion groups such as Americans United for Life are pushing for a federal executive order that would recognize “preborn persons as constitutional ‘persons’ ” entitled to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio recently introduced the ‘‘Unborn Child Support Act,” which would grant child-support payments to women “at any stage of development” of a pregnancy. The legislation appears to be a way to make fetal personhood more palatable to Americans.
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The Bible goes even further to explain that the unborn life is valuable because he or she has been uniquely created by God. Paul declares, “He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else” (Acts 17:25).
There is evidence of the “remarkable “flash” at the moment of fertilization”.
A Completely New Organism
However, from a scientific standpoint, at the moment of fertilization of the egg by the sperm, a completely new organism is present. The organism is not a part of the mother’s body although he or she is located within the mother’s body. Half of the time, the organism is a boy. The genetic complement of the new human being is unique and different from that of the mother.
The argument that this unique human being present in the mother’s womb from the moment of fertilization is a part of the mother’s body until sometime later in gestation is, from a scientific viewpoint, bizarre. What this argument would imply is that human beings reproduce by a process of budding, which is a process by which a new individual organism forms from a part of the mother’s body. This is the means of reproduction of some species of worms but it is most certainly not a means of reproduction by human beings.
So, then the question becomes when does a human being deserve the rights that we believe every human being has?
It really doesn’t matter what milestone that society designates. The only one that is “logical” is conception, imho.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/shannon-bream-fired-from-first-job-i-was-worst-person-hed-seen-on-tv/
Shannon Bream fired from first job by ‘man who said I was worst person he’d seen on TV’
By Ariel Zilber
August 15, 2022 10:48am Updated
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Shannon Bream, who has been tapped by the Fox News Channel to moderate its flagship Sunday morning political talk show, said that she was fired from her first job in television by a man “who told me I was the worst person he’d ever seen on TV.”
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There is always room for improvement, and believe me I needed it.”
Bream, a devout Christian and graduate of the evangelical Liberty University, tweeted: “I got a healthy serving of humility, and learned that God often allows us to walk through valleys – for our own good.”
“That was also true when I spent years in chronic pain and was ultimately diagnosed with a genetic condition that has no cure.”
In 2018, Bream revealed that she suffers from excruciating eye pain caused by epithelial basement membrane dystrophy, which is an incurable genetic disorder of the eye.
The painful condition causes the surface cells of the eye to adhere to the eyelids.
Bream says that her career obstacles and health challenges have only served to better her.
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I think this says volumes about this woman’s achievements
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Sunday, July 31, 2022
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/she-found-phage-enemy-of-bacteria-to-save-husbands-life/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=27-07-2022
When Antibiotics Failed, She Found a Natural Enemy of Superbug Bacteria to Save Husband’s Life
By Judy Cole – Jul 23, 2022
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Tom Patterson was dying in a U.S. hospital from a massive bacterial infection he’d contracted while traveling in Egypt. Doctors gave him a prognosis of days.
Fortunately, his wife, Steffanie Strathdee, happened to be an infectious disease epidemiologist, who was not going to give up searching for the needle in a haystack required to cure him.
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However, with more than 10 million-trillion-trillion unique phages on the planet, identifying a handful that specifically fed on the Acinetobacter baumannii afflicting Tom was a task akin to finding one tiny star in a huge galaxy.
The deadly superbug is nicknamed Iraqibacter because wounded combat troops sometimes contracted it in Iraq—and it ranks No. 1 on the World Health Organization’s list of dangerous pathogens. Undaunted, Strathdee quickly began networking to get Tom the treatment he so desperately needed to survive.
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Help from Texas A&M, the FDA, and the U.S. Navy
Her first task was appealing to scientists to track down and purify samples of phages that fed on the specific strain of bacteria that was killing Tom. Texas A&M University biochemist Ryland Young, who’s been tracking phages for more than four and a half decades, was eager to help. Researchers from the U.S. Navy soon signed up for the mission as well.
Strathdee’s plea to the FDA to fast-track a “compassionate use” order allowing doctors to implement an experimental treatment was granted in record time. A scant three weeks later, Tom was injected with his first intravenous dose of a purified “phage cocktail” from the team at Texas A&M. Seeing no negative effects, he received his second IV dose, courtesy of the U.S. Navy, two days later.
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Very impressive effortt by this woman.
And I often don’t have good things to say about the Gooferment, its politicians and bureaucrats, or bureaucracies in general. Here the stars aligned and everyone perform far above expectations to save the man’s life.
From the movie “Master & Commader”, “an extra ration of rum for these men” and women.
The effort be all was nothing less that “heroic” and I don’t apply that adjective often if at all.
God Bless All of them.
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Saturday, June 18, 2022
https://www.boredpanda.com/wholesome-second-graders-wrote-letters-adoption-pet-shelter-racc-shelter/
Second Graders Wrote Adorable Letters On Behalf Of Shelter Animals To Get Them Adopted, And It Worked Interview
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Kensey Jones, a volunteer at RACC (Richmond Animal Care & Control) and a second grade teacher, decided to combine her wholesome activities together. Despite their lack of language skills, children can be very persuasive. The second-graders at St. Michael’s Episcopal School in Richmond, Virginia, practiced their persuasive writing under a very peculiar set of circumstances.
What did they do, exactly? They tried writing from a shelter animal’s perspective to persuade potential adopters to, well, adopt. They wrote cute texts and drew portraits of the animals all by themselves. Scroll down to read the whole story, and see how it turned out! Spoilers: the mission was successful.
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Give that teacher a raise. And, extend the idea across the nation.
I thought the idea was great and the results were even better.
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Saturday, May 21, 2022
https://bigthink.com/health/lupus-gene-mutation/
A Spanish teen’s genome may hold the secret to lupus
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
B. David Zarley — 2022-05May-15
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Researchers may have finally discovered a genetic cause of lupus, the autoimmune disorder (and elusive enemy of Dr. Gregory House).
Their study, published in Nature, points to a mutation in a gene that senses viral RNA.
Previous studies have implicated the gene, called TLR7, in lupus before, El Pais reports, but this new study identified a previously unknown variant of the gene in a Spanish teenager who was diagnosed with lupus as a child.
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Thanks to a little Spanish girl’s suffering, humanity might benefit in several ways — identification, mitigation, and perhaps even a cure.
We know so little about everything.
““We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.” – Albert Einstein” https://buff.ly/3MgGDyH
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Friday, May 20, 2022
https://palexander.substack.com/p/the-last-wishes-of-alexander-the?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MTQyNTAzMCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTQ4NDMyMzUsIl8iOiI4Wkx4aCIsImlhdCI6MTY1MjU0MjE1MSwiZXhwIjoxNjUyNTQ1NzUxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTc5MzU2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.ZJGAnfu5Bt83VIBS_AjP9GF2nPJBx6I-5NZuQn_U07Q&s=r
“The last wishes of Alexander the Great”; I am seeking to verify this by some fast extensive reading, but if so, this is stunning and I wanted to share…so light reading
Dr. Paul Alexander
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The Greatest Military General in History,, who only lived to be 32 Years old
“My first desire is that”, said Alexander, “My physicians alone must” carry my coffin.”
2) After a pause, he continued, “Secondly, I desire that when my coffin is being carried to the grave, the path leading to the graveyard be strewn with gold, silver and precious stones which I have collected in my treasury”.
3) “My third and last wish is that both my hands be kept dangling out of my coffin”.
The people who had gathered there wondered at the king’s strange wishes.
One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain.
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Read further for the logic.
And, I really don’t care if it’s true or apocryphal.
“I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant.” — apocryphal quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto played by Mako in the movie ‘Pearl Harbor’
It’s so true. And, I wish I had GROKKED it as a young lad. I did become a little L libertarian due to Robert A. Heinlein; maybe I should have absorbed the value of my time at that time. Not seven decades later.
Tempus fugit
https://youtu.be/0Zo0zN8ug-M
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
https://www.boredpanda.com/legalizing-euthanasia-holly-warland/
Social Issues
My Journey Of Fighting For The Right To Pass Away Voluntarily
Holly Warland
Community member
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My name is Holly Warland, I’m 30 years old, I have Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, and I have won the right to die. In 2021, my home state of
Queensland (Australia) legalized Voluntary Assisted Dying – a process formerly known as euthanasia – for people suffering from terminal
illnesses. I advocated and fought for this law so that I could control when and how I end my suffering.
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It’s a very sad story of what this woman is afflicted with.
I hope she finds peace.
With all the furor of Roe v Wade, this is a picture from the other end of life’s spectrum.
As a pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I think that the Gooferment, with it’s one size fits all diktats, is the worst way to “regulate” anything. Life and death included.
With the proper safeguards, those in impossible situations should be allowed to “own their own body”.
Sadly, all I can do is empathize and send some good thoughts in her direction.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/05/03/the-age-of-the-absurd/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGEN6lkVYy7Qeh_Yxo1_IRnzTZh9sNXe5H5seFIcbQsvr7Z8zogCtsbhx1d46UtUYZHC-dVZwkTtAGTcWtkcbm8GlmtJe0Y2Rk5gQ5FDRojrJBTbwp5
The Age of the Absurd
Dennis Prager / @DennisPrager / May 03, 2022
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No. 11: America is systemically racist.
The manifest absurdity of this claim is easily demonstrated. In the past decades, more than 3 million black people have immigrated to America from Africa and the Caribbean. And probably tens of millions more would like to. Are all these people fools—choosing to move to a systemically racist country? Are they ignorant—unaware that America is systemically racist?
The non-absurd know the answers: All these blacks are neither fools nor ignorant. They know how lucky they are to move to America—because this country is so tolerant and so overwhelmingly nonracist. People don’t move to countries that hate them. No Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s.
We live in the Age of the Absurd. The only question is, why? I think I know the answer and will discuss it in a future column. In the meantime, share these 11 absurdities with friends and relatives, especially with those who actually think they make sense.
*** end quote ***
I remember a news clip from the corporate media doing a story about how the “evil Republicans” were slowing immigration and that there were long lines at out embassies seeking permission. One fellow in the line, who had been waiting for days, when asked why, replied: “America has fat poor people.” To me, that was the best answer I’d ever heard.
I see immigrants from India opening all sorts of businesses because it’s easy compared to the corruption in India. I see Oriental immigrants whose children seem to succeed in Gooferment Skrules against the odds. I see Mexican immigrants working their butts off at hard labor jobs and proudly showing off their new work truck for their efforts.
“Systematically racist” is something I don’t see. Pockets of idiots who either can’t or won’t try — of all races — seem to seek to blame “society”.
I will stipulate that the Gooferment “welfare” is designed to keep people poor and it is hard to break the cycle. But many do.
Let’s get the Gooferment out of the way.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/aaron-judge-homer-leads-to-fans-wholesome-moment/
Aaron Judge homer leads to fans’ wholesome moment
By Michael Blinn
May 3, 202210:13pm
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What it’s all about 💙 pic.twitter.com/LGt2zkty5J
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 4, 2022
This Aaron Judge home run turned into one very uplifting moment.
Judge’s sixth-inning long-ball in the traveled 427 feet into the upper deck at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Tuesday night during the Yankees’ 9-1 win over the Blue Jays. It was quickly picked up by a fan wearing Blue Jays gear — who almost immediately turned around and offered it to a youngster seated behind him wearing a Judge T-shirt.
*** end quote ***
Take that Philly fans. This is what a “rivalry” is all about. We’re all people. And, this fan certainly racked up a whole lot of “karma points” imho.
It’s really what is it all about.
GBA
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/watch-the-moment-a-guy-jumps-out-of-his-car-to-give-umbrella-to-couple-stuck-in-d-c-downpour/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=25-04-2022
Watch the Moment a Guy Jumps Out of His Car to Give Umbrella to Couple Stuck in D.C. Downpour
By Good News Network-Apr 23, 2022
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Recently, a random act of kindness in the Nation’s Capital inspired a driver to share the video of a Good Samaritan.
Thousands were inspired by the moment that happened on April 14th, after it was shared on Reddit.
It may look like the woman, who was being drenched on the sidewalk, began holding the umbrella over a covered baby stroller, but upon closer inspection, you can see it was someone in a wheelchair holding a newspaper to cover their head.
Not only did the driver go out of his way, the woman used the umbrella to shelter the person in the wheelchair instead of herself.
*** end quote ***
I never really thought about this but I must have some old umbrellas to hand out.
How about you?
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Thursday, March 24, 2022
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/strangers-are-leaving-strollers-diapers-and-toys-at-the-border-for-ukrainian-refugee-moms-look/
Strangers are Leaving Strollers, Diapers, and Toys at the Border for Ukrainian Refugee Moms (LOOK)
By Andy Corbley – Mar 18, 2022
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An image recently shared around social media of empty strollers on a Polish rail border crossing has inspired a mountain of donations for Ukrainian refugees.
Now at Przemyśl Station, women, children, and infants fleeing the war are being greeted by mountains of clothes, stuffed animals, strollers, diapers, and more after they step off the train.
ABC reports that the number of spare carriers and strollers from Polish mothers have been particularly inspiring, with many donators leaving handwritten notes behind, with words of support.
“We see on the television and hear on the radio what happened, and we say ‘okay we can help,’” one Polish mother and volunteer told ABC.
*** end quote ***
The beauty of the charitable spirit brings one to tears.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/california-man-who-fell-off-his-boat-thought-hed-die-until-seal-helped-him-swim-to-safety/
California man survives frigid five-hour night swim with a friendly seal as his guide
By Yaron Steinbuch
February 17, 2022 12:35pm Updated
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His fate was seal-ed.
A California man thought he would die when he fell off his fishing boat and into the frigid Pacific Ocean — but a friendly harbor seal showed up in the nick of time and helped get him to safety.
Scott Thompson, a sea urchin diver, blamed a lapse in judgment for the mishap that sent him falling off his boat into the Santa Barbara Channel in the middle of the night last month.
“I thought to myself, ‘Great, this is how I’m going to die. Today is the day I’m going to die,’” Thompson, who was wearing nothing but his shorts and T-shirt at the time, told KABC-TV.
*** and ***
“Even putting on a wet suit, being prepared, getting in that water, and swimming to the platform was horrendous,” Paul Amaral, president of towing company Channel Watch Marine told KABC.
“I can’t imagine being in the water with shorts and a T-shirt at night. There was no moon, I mean it was pitch black,” he said.
In his post, Thompson wrote: “I’m a believer that there is a higher power now. I don’t know what it is, but there is a power greater than me. That was shown to me and I will never doubt that for the rest of my life.”
*** end quote ***
Guess someone can enumerate for all us land lubbers what this fellow did wrong. I’ve read about dolphins and porpoises rescuing sailors adrift and downed military pilots. It was always chalked up to the animals being “playful”. But, maybe it’s just “Guardian Angels” is wet form.
In any event, an inspirational story.
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Friday, February 18, 2022
For no apparent reason, other than spending a lot of time with a four year old boy, I began to think of the children of a family who ran a Chinese takeout restaurant back in the 70’s. Since I ate a lot of “Chinese food” (and not what was Goood for me), I watched their three children grow up. While Mom and Dad were sweating their asses off, hustling food, the three children sat very quietly and did what looked to be schoolwork. As they got older, the started to work the business. I remember watching an about ten year old girl stop doing schoolwork and help her overwhelmed Mom answer the phones to take orders. I was amused to listen to one side of the conversation and then see her turn to the kitchen and yell the order just like her Mom. She’d put the orders on the carousel and, when the phone volume died off, return to her studies.
It was a model of decorum and hard work.
Last night, when I was drifting off to sleep, I wondered if the Chinese have a secret to raising children?
Certainly seems like that to me.
Hmmmm?
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Monday, February 7, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/3-fishermen-rescued-thanks-to-sharp-eyed-911-caller/
Three fishermen rescued off coast of Massachusetts thanks to sharp-eyed woman who called 911
By Associated Press
February 4, 2022 10:04am
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SCITUATE, Mass. — Three fishermen who clung to debris in the frigid waters off the coast of Massachusetts for nearly an hour after their boat sank survived thanks to a sharp-eyed woman on shore who was the only person to call 911.
The 55-foot (16.75-meter) Bing Bing went down so fast about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from shore on Tuesday afternoon that the crew didn’t have time to don survival suits or even make a distress call.
“The whole boat flipped over; I was thrown in the water,” crew member Joe Roderick told WCVB-TV from his hospital bed, where he was recovering from hypothermia and from swallowing saltwater and diesel fuel. The other two crew members also required hospitalization.
*** end quote ***
Kudos to this lady, who saw something and said something. To save three souls is inspiring. The Talmud teaches, “He who saves a single life, saves the world entire.” Not exactly sure what that means, but I know there are three men who would agree.
From my fat old white guy injineer’s perspective, should not boats, especially commercial ones, have an automatic alert system? Sort of like an airliner’s black box or transponder. If the boat goes down, it should be calling for help with a location — no human intervention required.
In any event, these fellows were lucky she was “on duty” watching over them like an unseen Guardian Angel.
And, speaking up like this, about a life saving event, is certainly not being a “Karen” and the MYOB rule is not applicable in this situation. I am waiting for my turn to “save a life” or, even deliver a baby. (Have to not waste that USAF air survival training. Laugh!)
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Reinke Faces Life 
INSPIRATIONAL: Some of what is screamed out in public is truly “ABSURD”
Tuesday, May 10, 2022https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/05/03/the-age-of-the-absurd/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGEN6lkVYy7Qeh_Yxo1_IRnzTZh9sNXe5H5seFIcbQsvr7Z8zogCtsbhx1d46UtUYZHC-dVZwkTtAGTcWtkcbm8GlmtJe0Y2Rk5gQ5FDRojrJBTbwp5
The Age of the Absurd
Dennis Prager / @DennisPrager / May 03, 2022
*** begin quote ***
No. 11: America is systemically racist.
The manifest absurdity of this claim is easily demonstrated. In the past decades, more than 3 million black people have immigrated to America from Africa and the Caribbean. And probably tens of millions more would like to. Are all these people fools—choosing to move to a systemically racist country? Are they ignorant—unaware that America is systemically racist?
The non-absurd know the answers: All these blacks are neither fools nor ignorant. They know how lucky they are to move to America—because this country is so tolerant and so overwhelmingly nonracist. People don’t move to countries that hate them. No Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s.
We live in the Age of the Absurd. The only question is, why? I think I know the answer and will discuss it in a future column. In the meantime, share these 11 absurdities with friends and relatives, especially with those who actually think they make sense.
*** end quote ***
I remember a news clip from the corporate media doing a story about how the “evil Republicans” were slowing immigration and that there were long lines at out embassies seeking permission. One fellow in the line, who had been waiting for days, when asked why, replied: “America has fat poor people.” To me, that was the best answer I’d ever heard.
I see immigrants from India opening all sorts of businesses because it’s easy compared to the corruption in India. I see Oriental immigrants whose children seem to succeed in Gooferment Skrules against the odds. I see Mexican immigrants working their butts off at hard labor jobs and proudly showing off their new work truck for their efforts.
“Systematically racist” is something I don’t see. Pockets of idiots who either can’t or won’t try — of all races — seem to seek to blame “society”.
I will stipulate that the Gooferment “welfare” is designed to keep people poor and it is hard to break the cycle. But many do.
Let’s get the Gooferment out of the way.
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