… and start calling monkeypox “mpox” or something.
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Not too wild about seeing Kiev become Kyiv, either.
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Rock ‘n Roll Throwdown : Group D : Final Four
Good evening, let’s get to the finals through these 4 songs.
Match 1
(8) Pour some sugar on me – Def Leppard vs (12) Welcome to the jungle – Guns ‘n Roses
(8) Pour some sugar on me – Def Leppard
- Defeated (57) Lean on me – Club Nouveau 204-40
- Defeated (25) Higher Love – Stevie Winwood 244-66
- Defeated (41) Looking for a new love – Jody Watley 186-28
- Defeated (48) Paradise city – Guns ‘n Roses 153-127
VS
(12) Welcome to the jungle – Guns ‘n Roses
- Defeated (37) In your eyes – Peter Gabriel 102-101
- Defeated (5) Kiss – Prince 238-75
- Defeated (28) Love bites – Def Leppard 193-28
- Defeated (20) Need you tonight – INXS 214-51
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Match 2
(2) Sweet child o’ mine – Guns ‘n Roses vs (3) Fight for your right to party – Beastie Boys
(2) Sweet child o’ mine – Guns ‘n Roses
- Defeated (63) Human – Human League 240-31
- Defeated (31) Manic Monday – Bangles 250-113
- Defeated (15) The One I love – R.E.M. 180-66
- Defeated (58) New sensation – INXS 191-77
VS
(3) Fight for your right to party – Beastie Boys
- Defeated (62) Dude looks like a lady – Aerosmith 138-66
- Defeated (30) La Bamba – Los Lobos 154-129
- Defeated (14) I wanna dance with somebody – Whitney Houston 141-25
- Defeated (38) Here I go again – Whitesnake 146-110
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You Actually Have To Invest Considerable Time and Effort To Get a Computer *NOT* to Add Correctly
THIS Is Why Those Who Question the 2020 Election Are Being Attacked as Criminals
Flopping Aces | 09-19-22 | Dr. JohnA woman named Michele Long Spears was in a primary running for DeKalb County Commissioner. There were three candidates and the runoff would cull the lowest vote getter out of the race. In the voter machine tabulation Spears seemed to have the lowest vote total but she noticed something odd. She had received zero votes in her own district – despite she and her husband voting for her.
“In all but four of the district’s nearly 40 precincts, no Election Day votes were recorded for Ms. Spears, who had received more than 2,000 early votes. She said that she immediately alerted state and county election authorities.
“When I visited several precincts (including my own) after Election Day and saw ZERO votes reported for myself, I was shocked and knew that wasn’t accurate,” Ms. Spears said in a text message.
“After conducting a hand count over the Memorial Day weekend and auditing those returns, election officials determined that they had drastically underreported the vote totals for Ms. Spears.
“She received 43 percent of the vote, not 24 percent, as reported by an unofficial and incomplete election summary posted on May 25 on the county’s website. As the top vote-getter, Ms. Spears qualified for a June 21 runoff against the second-place candidate, Lauren Alexander.”
She eventually won the runoff. That’s really where the questions begin. The fault was placed on “programming errors” and “technical issues.”
The candidates expressed concerns . . .
[Note: the links are to DeKalb County publications, the New York Times, and CBS. So, you know . . . ]
Shrinkage!
First-Time Dads May Experience Brain Shrinkage, Scientists Find
Science Alert | September 11, 2022 | Carly CasselaBecoming a new parent is an adjustment for both men and women.
A dozen or so previous studies have shown that motherhood can change the structure of a person’s brain, and yet fatherhood is comparatively overlooked.
Now, new international research has identified neurological changes amongst first-time fathers as well.
The study is only small, but it suggests that the neural substrates of parenthood are not exclusive to mothers. Men, as it turns out, can also be impacted by their new role as a parent, albeit in a less pronounced and uniform way.
On average, the researchers found new fathers lost a percentage or two of cortical volume following the birth of their first child.
This shrinkage was mainly confined to an area of the brain known as the ‘default mode network’, which is associated with parental acceptance and warmth.
At first, a loss in cortical volume might sound like a bad thing, but it can actually indicate a refinement of the brain that makes connecting with a child more powerful and efficient.
The study was published in the Cerebral Cortex.
Wow — These Signs Need To Be Much More Common
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Rock ‘n Roll Throwdown : Group D : Round 4 Results
Down to the Final Four, will we get an all Guns ‘n Roses final? Get out and vote.
- (8) Pour some sugar on me – Def Leppard 153 ~~ (48) Paradise City – Guns ‘n Roses 127
- (12) Welcome to the jungle – Guns ‘n Roses 214 ~~ (20) Need you tonight – INXS 51
- (2) Sweet child o’ mine – Guns ‘n Roses 191 ~~ (58) New sensation – INXS 77
- (3) Fight for your right to party – Beastie Boys 146 ~~ (38) Here I go again – Whitesnake 110
See ya at 6:00 pm
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Batman’s Gotham City Provides Test Case for Community Resilience Model
Colorado State University | Phys.org | Jan. 5, 2018
“Our mathematical formula allows you to cause disruption to a community at any location, and see what that disruption would do to the entire community,” said Mahmoud, associate professor of civil engineering.
Batman’s home town
To demonstrate the versatility of their model, the team used the fictional city of Batman, Gotham City, as a test bed. They chose a fictional city to provide a proof-of-concept for their model.
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They verified their model using a map of the fictional Batman home city. Dividing Gotham into uptown, midtown and downtown, they recorded the effects of various “disasters,” including a jail riot at Arkham Asylum, which is located near uptown Gotham.
. . . as every scientist knows.
Canadian Carens Organizing Truck Blockade of Ottawa To Protest Lifting of COVID Mandates
“Caudacity”? What About Simpudence?
Diversity officer at Dept of Defense boasted on Twitter about reprimanding a white woman for her ‘CAUdacity’ after she said ‘black people can be racist too’
Daily Mail | 9/14/22A senior official in the Pentagon’s education wing who has written books on anti-racism has a history of mocking white people on Twitter, recently-resurfaced posts revealed on Tuesday.
Kelisa Wing is the chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in the Department of Defense’s Education Activity office, which oversees schooling for children of Pentagon employees including active duty service members.
But before she landed the role, Wing made a few controversial social media posts including one that disparaged a woman for stating that black people ‘can be racist too.’
She’s also listed as an author on several progressive children’s books in a series called ‘Racial Justice In America.’
One book is called ‘What Is White Privilege,’ while another is ‘What Does it Mean To Defund the Police?’
It also asks white children to consider if they will ‘really feel good at the end of the race when you look back and see others fighting obstacles that you didn’t even have?’
‘I’m exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions,’
[T]his lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too… I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS…we are not the majority, we don’t have power.’
