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originally posted by: nerbot
This may explain why blue things and blue roof buildings were apparently not burned with as much frequency if green lasers don't pick up blue as well. Any anwsers or speculation welcome on that one.
originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: duncanagain
This has been my take on "Looking Glass" since I heard about it. Not something that tunnels through the time to display a future, but a huge and very sophisticated computer model that has access to incredible amounts of data which is used to project likely outcomes given current situations and trends.
Cheers
originally posted by: Thoughtful3
Pfizer to close Seagen manufacturing plant in Seattle
This makes zero sense. It is almost 70% complete. Why not complete it and then sell it? Unless they are using too much $ buying back Pfizer stock and need to conserve capital.
originally posted by: Thoughtful3
Pfizer to close Seagen manufacturing plant in Seattle
This makes zero sense. It is almost 70% complete. Why not complete it and then sell it? Unless they are using too much $ buying back Pfizer stock and need to conserve capital.
Pfizer to close Seagen manufacturing plant in Seattle
This makes zero sense. It is almost 70% complete. Why not complete it and then sell it? Unless they are using too much $ buying back Pfizer stock and need to conserve capital.
A Texas high school teacher who had all four of her limbs amputated after they turned black and became “mummified” following a seemingly routine infection says she’s choosing to be happy, despite the horrifying ordeal.
Sherri Moody, 51, who taught students in Deer Park outside Houston, started feeling what she thought was a cold coming on during a class trip in April 2023, and paid it little mind.
But within days she found herself running a high fever. After waking up one night with trouble breathing, she went to the hospital.
“I’ve never gone to the ER before in my life,” Sherri told TODAY.com. “I was very healthy, very in shape. I ate right, exercised.”
Doctors determined she was suffering from double pneumonia, which they said had been brought on by streptococcus, the bacteria that causes strep throat.
Kristin Fox lost her arms and legs after contracting the virus and has faced a harrowing journey to what is now her new normal. The 42-year-old high-school principal's ordeal started in March 2020, days before Covid-19 hit the world. It began with a sore throat which gradually got worse and she later tested positive for flu after having the flu vaccine in November.
A retired teacher who awoke from a coma to find her hands and feet "dying" after Covid led to a severe sepsis infection says she knew immediately that her limbs had to go.
Caroline Coster emerged from an induced coma to find her body had been ravaged by sepsis, an extreme infection response that can lead organs to shut down and tissue to die.
She caught the virus in the early stages of the pandemic, and developed sepsis during her recovery period.
A woman who had her hands and feet amputated after coronavirus led to pneumonia, which then caused sepsis, says she is looking forward to her "second life" despite the challenges.
Caroline Coster, 58, from Bedford, said she was put into a medically-induced coma for a month and nearly died twice after catching the virus in March.
She was forced to retire from teaching and is adapting to her new life, but has warned of the dangers of people not taking coronavirus seriously.
Now, the person in the hospital bed – not in Colorado Springs but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – is her daughter Candice. In early August, the 30-year-old flight attendant for Republic Airways tested positive for COVID-19. Her brother tested positive too, though he had been vaccinated and only experienced cold-like symptoms and a loss of smell and taste.
After two weeks in quarantine with COVID-19 symptoms, Candice said she was burning with fever and experiencing “skipping heartbeats.’’ Candice was taken by ambulance and admitted to the hospital on Aug. 17 in critical condition.
COVID-19, she said, had infected her heart. Her blood pressure plummeted. She was placed on a ventilator and in a medically-induced coma, then on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine. ECMO is essentially a set of lungs outside of the body attached to a pump. Blood is pulled from a vein in the neck; the ECMO machine has an oxygenator that removes carbon dioxide from the blood and replenishes it with oxygen. The oxygenated blood then flows back to the heart.
After three weeks on ECMO, Candice woke to find her hands and her feet blackened.
“Seeing my arms and my feet super black, dead, they told me, ‘We’ve got to amputate your arms to keep you alive,’’’ Candice said. “You have to do what you have to do.’’
Surgeons amputated one arm above the elbow, the other below the elbow. In the days that followed, surgeons also amputated half of her right foot and her left leg below the knee.
“When they amputated my left leg, that’s when I really started to get emotional,’’ Candice said. “I am really sad about it.’’
Matthias spent months at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital in Nashville when he was diagnosed with pneumonia, streptococcal toxic shock syndrome and went into cardiac arrest. He was put on a machine that pumped blood throughout his body, which saved his life but not his limbs.
"That flow wasn't getting to all his extremities and they had to amputate all of his four extremities," Edgar Uribe said.
Dr. Katie Boyle was the head of Matthias' care team that was trying to save every inch of his limbs. She said she hardly ever sees what Matthias went through.
"I don't think there's anything they could have done sooner. I think he got really sick, really fast," Boyle said. "It's extremely rare. So, sometimes when you get the flu, it does set you up for a bacterial infection, but even then, most kids don't get nearly as sick as Matthias did."
Is it possible to overthrow the elected government of the United States? One would think not. Jake Mahegan is assigned to protect the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Jake and his small military team are very good at what they do. And then things start to happen. Elected officials are attacked. Officials are murdered. The CIA Director is attacked. What is going on?
“Double Crossfire” by author Anthony J. Tata was published in 2019. It is the sixth novel in the Jake Mahegan series. While this reader has enjoyed every novel that he has read by author Tata, this one was exceptional, simply because the reader can visualize what the author has written. Considering the political situation in the United States in this year 2023, “Double Crossfire” was perhaps written before its time.
When reading this story, one assumes that a certain individual is part of the resistance. There most certainly is a group whose sole purpose is to overthrow the President of the United States. The challenge for the reader is when one assumes a person to be bad, by the end of the story that person might not be bad. You simply keep guessing!
Anthony J. Tata is a retired Brigadier General of the United States Army. When his novels involve military issues, he most certainly knows about what he has written.
BEIJING (AP) — The former chairman of the Bank of China has been indicted on bribery charges, prosecutors said Monday, adding to a long list of business and government officials who have been brought down by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s yearslong anticorruption drive.
Liu Liange is accused of taking advantage of his positions at the Bank of China and previously as president of the Export-Import Bank of China, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said in a statement posted on social media.
He has been charged with helping others with loans and personnel appointments in return for property and cash and with making loans in violation of regulations, causing significant losses, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The anti-corruption campaign, which is popular with the public and has allowed Xi to sideline political rivals, shows no sign of letting up.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate announced last month that Tang Shuangning, the former chairman of China Everbright Group, another state-owned bank, had been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery.
Conviction is all but a foregone conclusion in such cases. The former head of a state-owned asset management company was put to death in 2021 for taking bribes. Others have been sentenced to long prison terms.
Xi, in a speech to the ruling Communist Party’s discipline commission early this year, urged further efforts to win the tough and protracted battle against corruption, saying “the situation remains grave and complex,” Xinhua reported.
Beyond finance, the former chairman of the Chinese Football Association was tried last month on charges of taking 81 million yuan ($11.2 million) in bribes.
The spokesperson for China's National People's Congress says Premier Li Qiang will not give the customary news conference after the legislature's annual session, which opens on Tuesday.
The spokesperson announced the change on Monday, adding that the news conference will be eliminated not just this year but in the coming years.
The congress is held annually in March, with the premier traditionally meeting journalists after the session closes to underline the country's economic and other policies, as well as to take questions.
Dmitry Medvedev
I think that the whitewashing of the ruling political alliance in Germany will now begin in order to soften the public indignation from the conversation of the Luftwaffe officers. Like, this is all the machinations of the military, they love such talk, don’t feed them bread - let them play a war game. And civilian political leadership has nothing to do with it at all. Moreover, at the head of this leadership is a peace-loving guy (aka liverwurst) Scholz, who refuses to hand over extended-range missiles to the Banderaites. He doesn't know and will figure it out.
Nobody knows whether the political leadership and the Liver Chancellor personally are aware. But even if they are not aware and have not ordered anything like this, history knows many examples when the military is able to make decisions for civilian commanders about the start of wars or stimulate them. They’ll come to Scholz and say: “Herr (Reich) Chancellor, a missile was shot down in Ukraine. According to its type and trajectory, it was flying to Berlin.” What will Scholz answer, huh?
Clear as day.
So attempts to present the conversation of Bundeswehr officers as a game of rockets and tanks are a malicious lie.
Germany is preparing for war with Russia.