Monday OT: 11/02/2020 - Look for Circles Day

Today is day 307 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Sweetmorn, The Aftermath 14, 3186 YOLD
And let us not forget 13.0.7.17.13 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

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It is also the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (United Nations), but that is waaay to long for a title. Besides that, two words: Julian Assange

So what else is there?  The First broadcast by the First commercial radio station in the US covered the results of the First presidential election in which women were allowed to vote. The winner? Warren G. Harding and his estimable V.P., Calvin Coolidge.

Ah yes, I almost forgot, League of Nations mandates.  These were areas that were formerly conquered and ruled by some of the losers in WWI which wee carved out to be administered by some of the winners not as occupied territories, but for the benefit of the native peoples until they were capable of standing alone.   Along this line, Da wiki tells us 

Two governing principles formed the core of the Mandate System, being non-annexation of the territory and its administration as a “sacred trust of civilisation” to develop the territory for the benefit of its native people.

Heh.  Ha, ha, heeee, hoo!  Uh yes, that's here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations_mandate#:~:text=A%20Leag....  It was all pursuant to Article 22 of the Leagues founding document. 

In case you forgot, World War I lasted until November 2018, and, as a result, the Brits were given a mandate over Palestine at the San Remo Conference in 1920, ostensibly to develop it for the benefit of its native people until such time as they were capable of self rule. Not bloody likely, given that they had already declared on November 2, 1917, that they intended to do nothing of the sort.  But then again it was not for nothing that they had long been known as "Perfidious Albion" , but why the allegedly benevolent League of Nations went along with the gag is a bit of a mystery.

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On this day in history:

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619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic (Onoq)  Khaganate was assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals with the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.  Who knew?
1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, was created.
1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaimed British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" .  Sorry Feisal.
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet held its first meeting.
1920 – Station KDKA of Pittsburgh began broadcasting as the US' first commercial radio station. The first show was the result of the 1920 US presidential election.
1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiated the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" TV service.
1947 – Howard Hughes flew  the "Spruce Goose" on its only flight.
1949 – The  Netherlands agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1951 – Six thousand British troops arrived in Suez after the Egypt abrogated the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936. 
1956 – Imre Nagy requested UN aid for Hungary.
1956 – Israel occupied the Gaza Strip.
1960 – Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity for publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal. (Not the Feisal the Brits betrayed, some other guy)
1965 – Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1967 – LBJ  and others decided to spew propaganda about the course of the Viet Nam War
1983 – Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1988 – The Morris worm was launched from MIT.

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Born this day in:

“Verbal communication is much easier than written communication, because words act on the feelings in a mysterious way and easily establish a current of sympathy between people; it is for this reason that an orator is able to produce conviction by arguments which do not seem very comprehensible to any one reading the speech later.”

-- Georges Sorel

1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, painter and educator
1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf,  violinist and composer
1815 – George Boole, mathematician and philosopher
1844 – John J. Loud, inventor (The ballpoint pen)
1847 – Georges Sorel,  philosopher and author
1885 – Harlow Shapley, astronomer and academic
1893 – Battista Farina, automobile designer (founded the Pininfarina Company )
1894 – Alexander Lippisch, aerodynamicist and engineer
1908 – Bunny Berigan, trumpet player
1911 – Raphael M. Robinson, mathematician, philosopher, and theorist
1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, record producer and engineer
1926 – Charlie Walker, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and DJ
1927 – Steve Ditko, author and illustrator
1929 – Amar Bose, engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation
1929 – Robert Gover,  journalist and author
1929 – Richard E. Taylor, physicist and academic
1931 – Phil Woods, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
1937 – Earl Carroll, singer
1938 – Jay Black, singer
1940 – Phil Minton, singer and trumpet player
1941 – Brian Poole, singer
1941 – Bruce Welch, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1942 – Shere Hite, sexologist, feminist, author, and educator
1944 – Keith Emerson, pianist, keyboard player, and composer
1945 – J. D. Souther, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1947 – Dave Pegg, bass player and producer
1951 – Lindy Morrison, drummer
1952 – Maxine Nightingale, singer
1955 – Chris Burnett, saxophonist and composer
1957 – Carter Beauford, drummer and composer
1961 – k.d. lang, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1963 – Bobby Dall, bass player
1963 – Ron McGovney, bass player
1967 – Kurt Elling, singer and songwriter
1968 – Neal Casal, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and photographer
1969 – Reginald Arvizu, rock musician
1975 – Chris Walla, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer

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Died this day in:

You can fool too many people, too much of the time.

-- James Thurber

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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

--George Boole

1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, botanist and physician
1886 – James Watney junior, brewer, cricketer, and politician
1887 – Jenny Lind,  operatic soprano
1961 – James Thurber, humorist and cartoonist
1966 – Peter Debye, physicist and chemist
1966 – Mississippi John Hurt,  singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1991 – Mort Shuman, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1992 – Robert Arneson, sculptor and academic
1996 – Eva Cassidy, singer
2014 – Acker Bilk, singer and clarinet player
2014 – Michael Coleman, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
2015 – Tommy Overstreet, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Plan Your Epitaph Day
Job Action Day
National Deviled Egg Day
Look for Circles Day
Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
Day of the Dead, the second day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico)
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (United Nations)

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies Wink

Bunny Berigan

 

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Rudy Van Gelder

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Phil Woods

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Earl Carroll

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Jay Black

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Keith Emerson

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J. D. Souther

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Dave Pegg

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Maxine Nightingale

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k.d. lang

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Neal Casal

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Mississippi John Hurt

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Acker Bilk

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Michael Coleman

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I won't be here when this posts, sorry to say. Have fun and be good to each other.

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It's an open thread, so do your thing

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The last day of sanity before the election madness.
And somehow time is different.
I assume WW1 ended closer to 100 years ago, unless
it is still being contested.

World War I lasted until November 2018

cheers

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A chilly one here but didn't get to freezing. Brought in the houseplants and covered the lettuce yesterday. The houseplants get bigger and heavier every year. They do better outside, and slowly degrade inside over the winter. They do better since we installed our radiant floor heat and stopped burning propane heaters indoors.

I'm into circles and cycles...

The Sacred Circle

You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.

In the old days all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation; and so long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our religion.

Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle.The sky is round, and I have heard that the Earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always come back again to where they were.

The life of a man is a circle from childhood-to-childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tipis were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation’s hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children.
—Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“Love settles within the circle, embracing it and thereby lasting forever, turning within itself.” —Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux

Round and round the circle game...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9VoLCO-d6U]

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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almost no formal education. Then started studying journalism, and fell into astronomy. What he stands out for is the hiring and employing women in studying stars and galaxies. He was the long time director at Harvard College Observatory. Just a couple of months ago I read a good book on the women who did ground-breaking work on calculating light year distances, locations and galaxy clusters.
The Glass Universe - Dava Sobel

Unbelievable work done with extremely crude instruments, using their acute abilities to detect infinitesimal differences in measurements with their own eyes.

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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.

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in Texas. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/02/elec-n02.html over the weekend.

It seems like people are getting caught up in dumb arguments. Tensions are high, we all know it, so why provoke dumb people to do dumb things. I wish we could all stay calm until all this nonsense is over.

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@randtntx after the election, muzzle Trump.

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@Granma
would be useful. Just imagine ... how wonderful silent it would be.

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@Granma , good luck with that. If it works you still have the other side, and they are equally as obnoxious.

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@randtntx less violent. I'm with Mimi, shut everyone up for a day or two.

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@Granma , silence would be wonderful. The corporate media seems to specialize in inflaming everyone it possibly can. So yes. The best remedy is to ignore it.

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@Granma

Violence is being encouraged as is divisiveness. Why? To disrupt? To obfuscate? Distract. Seems like it is very much and biggly being promoted. Just sayin'.

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@magiamma ,

Violence is being encouraged

But it takes two to tango. People could just simply refuse to take the bait. They could just not react unnecessarily to unnecessary provocation. Nobody has to fan the flames. The whole charade is B.S. anyway, so the next few nights might be a good time to just stay home and watch old movies or something.

I'm not sure that if even if I watch the news, I'll be able to discern which side is lying/cheating or whatever.

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Doomed to repeat: October marked 102nd anniversary of first Utah shutdown, mask orders

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Reports from Utah newspapers a century ago sound familiar: Maskers and anti-maskers, public health believers and deniers, exhausted care workers, house parties, shutdowns, skeptics. How humans respond to a novel virus apparently hasn’t changed.

“Masks are the vogue from this day forward,” the Ogden Daily Standard announced on Oct. 17, 1918. “If their effect on your handsome countenance is to make you homely, then homely be the word and homely be the deed. To look homely under the present circumstances is the demand of patriotism.”

Sigh: "The government cannot tell me what to do."

Thousands attend Halloween party in Utah County until police arrive

The Utah County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a large party on the west side of Utah Lake, south of Saratoga Springs near the Knolls about 10 p.m. Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon said "several thousand" people were in attendance, with the estimates from those who were there ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 people. The party included a stage, a professional sound system and lights, and DJs.

Cellphone videos of the event posted on social media show people, who appear to be high school or college age, packed together in a large group with no social distancing and very little mask wearing.

There were also several crashes as the crowd tried to leave the area, he said. One social media post appears to show a car ending up on the top of another vehicle.

Another party had been planned, but they cancelled it. They were not happy about it though:

But on Oct. 26, after their event had gained public attention, the groups announced that the party had been canceled and refunds would be given. In announcing the cancellation, Utah Tonight blamed those "in positions of power and authority, including the media, (who) have done nothing but intimidate, harass, and seek to build consensus to shut this event down.

"We find it both disheartening and concerning that some within our society have allowed fear to supplant basic rights of assembly, giving individuals within the media and some public servants the ability to control what we consider to be a 'pursuit of happiness,'" the group said in their prepared statement.

Also Saturday, Lehi police say they responded to a warehouse near 400 South and 850 East in their city and found an estimated 1,500 people attending a party.

Some comments:
- let's not show rioters and protestors for 5 solid months to run amok, then all of a sudden arrest and ticket young people for dancing, they are struggling mentally, they need to be normal.
- What happened to the right to peace able gather? Sorry, no laws or emergencies Trump our constitutional rights.
BINGO
- Why would we ask teens and college students not to plan and participate in mass gatherings when the president is doing exactly what they are doing? Teens and young adults are not renowned for their wisdom and self discipline.They see the leader of the free world and his followers disregarding public health. Should we expect more of teens than we do of the president?
- So, college kids getting together is really, really bad? But not during the week when they're going to college?
UMM?
- Hold on. I agree that the actions were irresponsible, but how does this affect the duration of the pandemic in any way?

Moar Sighing:

At least 31 states set their one-day coronavirus case records in October

Once upon a time Gov. Herbert said that he would only open the state when the daily numbers were below 300. That was sooo long ago. We have been over 1,000 a day with deaths around 5-10 and again 30% or more are happening in long term care centers. I just read that another state will be moving COVID patients from hospitals into nursing homes to free up some beds. How the hell can this still be happening after what we have seen in NYC or CA and elsewhere unless this is a deliberate order given by someone? Way back in March the state Guvs got together to decide how to respond to the pandemic. I think culling the herd-herd immunity was decided then. Talk me down. Another lock down won't work at this stage unless congress gets serious about getting people $$$$, but they can at least close the border to state travel. If possible. It used to be like that.

Meanwhile the asshole president is spreading disease and deaths wherever he goes as well as encouraging his supporters to be as big a brats as they can be. Can you imagine if BLM closed down highways with their cars like what the Trump dudes did? Yeah that's where I see the hypocrisy. You?

I want one of these.

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Only two weeks before, headlines had soothed — “Flu has missed Salt Lake as yet.” The problems appeared to be far away in other states. Even the Telegram’s weather forecast recorded the same phrase for seven days — “not much change.”

But the first 10 cases were discovered in the capital city on Oct. 3, and as the sky gave way to rain, the case count rose, reaching 350 by the board meeting six days later. Thirty patients at the University of Utah had already been moved to the Fort Douglas pest house, the building set aside to isolate the sick. Ogden was reporting almost 200 cases. In two more days there would be 1,200 statewide.

The Salt Lake Herald-Republican ran “Utah bans all meetings” at the bottom of the front page. Adjacent was the newspaper’s own ill-informed opinion — “Epidemic is not serious” — an editorial, equally matched in headline size and shape so as to be the news article’s perfect companion piece.

“It may have been wisdom to close the churches and theatres, although we doubt it,” the Herald-Republican said. “There should be no more forecasts of mortality which serve only to make well people quite sure they are sick.”

There it was — almost as swift as the shutdown itself — the counterblast. No policy was beyond the reach of grievance.

The Ogden Daily Standard supported the shutdown but called out state officials, saying they should have taken action earlier, and accusing them of waiting until after the general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which had been held Oct. 4-6.

“Was the state board of health more concerned over the dollars which were to flow into the capital than the possibility of a spread of the epidemic?” the Standard’s editor wrote.

A century has passed, but it seems people's beliefs have remained the same.

Finally, the day came for the first phase of reopening, Dec. 8. The weather was “unsettled and colder,” and so was the public atmosphere.

The Herald-Republican praised the move. The Standard raised suspicion the state was pressured by business interests.

Interesting story of way back when. Seems like there have been plenty of epidemics that this government could have looked at to decide how to play it. Or did they look and decide to do whatever anyway?

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@snoopydawg , if we criticize the young people for gathering in crowds we have to criticize the political rallies.
And vice versa.

+ A new study from the Department of Economics at Stanford estimates that 18 Trump rallies have led to 30,000 COVID cases and 700 deaths.

From https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/30/roaming-charges-high-anxiety/
I have no idea how good the contact tracing is; are the numbers accurate, higher, lower? Who knows. Common sense is my only tool and thats not reliable either.

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@snoopydawg in the reaction over the highway incident. We already know that would be the reaction, there is no surprise, so why give them the opportunity and the encouragement to increase bully behavior. People just play into this game. The media and TPTB have carefully and consistently cultivated this dumb argument of red versus blue and people accept the premise of the argument, they accept the roles that they have been given without question and behave like puppets in a kid's puppet show.

We all know that neither of these candidates care about any of us, so why do we encourage foolish behavior which is ostensibly a pledge of support for one or the other candidate. It's just an accident waiting to happen.

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if we criticize the young people for gathering in crowds we have to criticize the political rallies.

The parties couldn't have their conventions in person, but it was okay for 'essential workers' to continue working without proper PPE. That both parties pushed for schools/colleges to open even tho the numbers were higher than they agreed on at 1st and for Trump to do his rallies even after evidence show that it's causing the number of infections to rise.

I don't see anyone here thinking otherwise. I certainly don't.

We all know that neither of these candidates care about any of us, so why do we encourage foolish behavior which is ostensibly a pledge of support for one or the other candidate. It's just an accident waiting to happen.

My comment is mostly on the way the flu epidemic was handled and seeing that not much has changed and a lot of the pressure has been coming from big business.

The Standard raised suspicion the state was pressured by business interests.

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@snoopydawg @snoopydawg , I'm just responding to the topic and venting. I'm frustrated that people in general are so easily manipulated into arguing about things that are superficial at best. I have old friends who are Trump supporters and old friends who are Biden supporters. Their friendship means way more to me than this crazy extreme polarizing B.S. that is going on.

Edited to add... These people are so easily manipulated that they are willing to run people off the highway (or whatever they were trying to do). They have taken leave of their sense. Or their sense has taken leave of them.

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el for the intro to Neal Casal. Here's another one.

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Lots of stuff to think about in this morning's edition,
but I'm afraid I must quibble.
By sheer coincidence, I just finished reading "Lawrence in Arabia,"
by Scott Anderson, 2013.
It has the following concerning the Balfour Declaration:

On the afternoon of October 31, 1917, Aaron Aaronsohn and Chaim Weizmann waited tin the antechamber of the British cabinet's conference room in Whitehall. They had been invited there by Mark Sykes for the honor of being the first to learn the result of the British leadership's latest deliberations on "the Zionist question."
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Testament to both that tortuous process and to the deep reservations many senior British officials still harbored on the issue was the curious manner in which the statement would now be delivered: a scribbled, seemingly off-the-cuff note of a mere three sentences from Secretary Balfour to British financier Walter Rothschild.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour," the salient clause read, "the estabishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object."

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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Nother day in the garden. All well out there.

Here's some maybe good news. Thinking we need some. It looks like the original article might be in RT.

Maduro says Venezuela has discovered the drug that “eliminates 100% Covid-19”
https://www.corona24news.com/2020/10/maduro-says-venezuela-has-discovere...

“I want to say that Venezuela has developed a drug that annihilates 100% of the coronavirus,” Maduro said on Sunday, describing it as an “extremely effective antiviral,” RT writes.

It was designed by the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), which has been working on a cure for the virus for the past six months, he said.

The drug is based on a molecule called TR-10, which was isolated and, when confronted with the virus, proved its absolute effectiveness, said Maduro.

Maduro said the study has already been reviewed by experts and scientists and will be presented to the World Health Organization (WHO) so that it can certify its findings.

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Take good care.

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Hey EL! Hope all is well! Great Thurber quote, sadly. Balfour Dec. remains problematic, particularly if you were say a Kurd, whom seemed to be totally left out in the cold.

Big Keith Emerson fan (have vinyl Ars longa vita brevis (the Nice)). That was a great track above. ELP's Benny the Bouncer was a great modern (synth) take on the style. Keith was great!

We had first of season Red-breasted Nuthatch yesterday, not a sure thing every winter a way down south below the 30N. line here. Yesterday also had a Sage Thrasher, also rare here, and a Cactus Wren which are common 20 miles away and absent here. Today a Winter Wren was my first in a few years. Robins got here the last few days but with a poor Hackberry crop they will not stick.

Any birds?

best to all!

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

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@snoopydawg I am a 'lower 48' birder with no international experience save a little bit a long time ago in Mexico. Though I do have field guides for most areas. EL probably is better than I on these sorts of things. This does not look like any U.S. species. I'd guess it is the throat of a sunbird. Sunbirds are the old world species that fill the niche of hummingbirds, which are new world only. Nectar feeders with metallic iridescent plumage, a large and spectacular group.

Hope you are well SD!

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein