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8th April 2022, 20:41 | #521 |
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^^^^^ Very interesting article and to that end we have continued the hard work of AI that my William started in the 80's before AI was even a thing in the science community. The USA finally acknowledged our work when they saw what our drones were capable of in Ukraine and for them to say "you have a better mousetrap" is a major deal.
--------------- If you don't believe that peroxide is dangerous to your health please read on... First off it is no secret that I believe that there is a special place in Hell reserved for influencers so come with me as we read about some people from Russia who have completely lost touch with reality as the rest of the world continues to witness the horrors and atrocities committed by Russian soldiers on a daily basis in Ukraine. Russian influencers destroy Chanel bags to protest compliance with European Union's sanction MARIA JIMENEZ MOYA | USA TODAY | 4 hours ago As luxury brand Chanel cuts off sale to Russia, Russian social media influencers are cutting up the brand – literally taking scissors to their handbags. Chanel closed its stores in Russia in March to comply with European Union sanctions that ban the sale to Russia of luxury goods priced at more than $327. Chanel's handbags often go for thousands. Russian influencers and socialites who claim this is an act of Russianphobia are boycotting the brand and posting videos to Instagram ruining their Chanel bags. Russian TV host and actor Marina Ermoshkina told USA TODAY that she was the first one to start the challenge for Russian influencers to cut up their Chanel handbags. "To make Russian women, who are trying to make a purchase in their store outside territory of former Soviet Union, sign a humiliating document, that they have nothing to do with Russia, and to insist that they prove that, as well as get them to promise they will never wear this items on Russian territory in my view is a total contradiction to the modern world’s values," Ermoshkina wrote in a statement to USA TODAY. Ermoshkina has 300,000 followers on Instagram. She uploaded a video to her social channels on Wednesday where she is destroying a Chanel handbag with garden shears. Other influencers started to join Ermoshkina. Russian model Victoria Bonya showed her 9.3 million followers on Instagram how she cut her Chanel bag to pieces. "If Chanel House does not respect its clients, why do we have to respect Chanel House?" Bonya says in her video |
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Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for blood
apnews.com By CHRISTINA LARSON March 25, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat species and identified 13 genes that are missing or no longer work in vampire bats. Over the years, those gene tweaks helped them adapt to a blood diet rich in iron and protein but with minimal fats or carbohydrates, the researchers reported Friday in the journal Science Advances. The bats live in South and Central America and are basically “living Draculas,” said co-author Michael Hiller of Germany’s Max Planck Institute. About 3 inches (8 centimeters) long with a wingspan of 7 inches (18 centimeters), the bats bite and than lap up blood from livestock or other animals at night. Most mammals couldn’t survive on a low-calorie liquid diet of blood. Only three vampire species of the 1,400 kinds of bats can do that — the others eat mostly insects, fruit, nectar, pollen or meat, such as small frogs and fish. “Blood is a terrible food source,” said Hannah Kim Frank, a bat researcher at Tulane University, who was not involved in the study. “It’s totally bizarre and amazing that vampire bats can survive on blood — they are really weird, even among bats.” Some other creatures also have a taste for blood, including mosquitoes, bedbugs, leeches and fleas. The latest work expands upon research by another team that pinpointed three of the 13 gene losses. “The new paper shows how different vampire bats are from even other closely related bats, which eat nectar and fruit,” said Kate Langwig, a bat researcher at Virginia Tech, who had no role in the study. With such a low-calorie diet, vampire bats can’t go long without a meal. In a pinch, well-fed ones will regurgitate their food to share with a starving neighbor. They seem to keep track of who has helped them in the past, said Hiller, noting that vampire bats have complex social relationships. “It’s not a kin thing,” said Tulane’s Frank. “They just notice and remember: You’re a good sharer, I will reward you.” |
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60 foot Bridge stolen in India
msn.com hindustan times Prasun K Mishra Mar 09,2022 A 60-feet-long iron bridge was dismantled and stolen by a group of men posing as government officials in Bihar’s Sasaram district, police said on Saturday. The bridge was built over the Arrah canal at Amiyawar village under Nasriganj police station limits in 1972, they said. According to police, a group of men, posing as officials of the irrigation department, arrived on the spot on Monday with earthmovers, trucks, gas cutters and technicians and started dismantling the bridge. They convinced the villagers there was an official order for removing the dangerous bridge before the monsoon season and dismantled the defunct bridge over the next three days, police said. Irrigation department’s local office is at only two kilometres from the place. “They were in no hurry and they worked till evening. About 20 tonnes of scrap was weighed at a local weighing machine,” Priyanka Prasad, a district board (DB) member from Nasariganj and resident of Amiyawar village, said. “By the time the locals realised what was happening and informed the police, they had fled with the scrap,” said Subhash Kumar, the station house officer (SHO) of Nasriganj police station. “It appears that the whole operation was executed with the help of unwitting local officials of the irrigation department,” he said. A case was registered and a hunt was on to nab those behind the incident, Kumar said. Scrap dealers in the district have been alerted about the incident, he said. “The bridge was too old and declared dangerous some time back. A new concrete bridge was constructed adjacent to the old one, and that is currently used by the locals,” said Mantu Singh, a resident of the Amiyawar village. Chief engineer (water resources) at Dehri, Rajdev Lal Das, said the local junior engineer had registered a case with Nasariganj police station on Tuesday and it was the duty of police to crack the case. Superintendent of police Ashish Bharti said he was on the way to the spot. “We are working on all angles, including possible involvement of departmental officials in the theft,” he said. Meanwhile, taking a dig at the government over the incident, leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav said the thieves were inspired by chief minister Nitish Kumar and BJP leaders. “If BJP and Nitish Kumar can steal the government of Bihar, then what is a bridge?” he said, apparently referring to Kumar’s JD(U) severing ties with his party RJD to form a government with BJP in the state in 2017. |
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10th April 2022, 22:39 | #524 |
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8 arrested in connection with ‘stolen’ iron bridge in India
Update to the story above ^^^^^ theprint.in 11 April, 2022 Eight persons, including two government officials, have been arrested for the illegal dismantling of a 60-feet-long iron bridge in Bihar, which made headlines, a senior police officer said on Sunday. According to Rohtas Superintendent of Police, those arrested for the “stealth” of the metal bridge over a canal in the district include a sub-divisional officer and an official of the weather department. “During investigations, we learnt that weather department official Arvind Kumar had led the group, armed with gas cutters and other equipment, which dismantled the structure a few days ago,” the SP said. Villagers, who expressed curiosity were told, falsely, by Kumar and his associates that they were acting as per orders of the government. Since the steel structure was in a state of disuse, nobody complained. “We caught hold of Kumar and came to know that the area’s SDO, Radhe Shyam Singh, was the mastermind. The SDO has been arrested along with six other accomplices,” he said. The JCB machine and the pick-up van, besides gas cutters used in the illegal operation, have also been seized, the SP said, adding, further investigation is underway. |
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10th April 2022, 22:58 | #525 |
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Incredible news !
First time I hear of someone actually stealing an entire bridge ! LMAO This is a crazy planet.
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What is happening in China right now because of the severe restrictions
and QUARANTINE is making people commit suicide on a very high number. The police are wearing PPE suits and wearing machine-guns to control the population. Beating civilians hard. Is it an "internal-war" against a Covid-virus ? ... or the government ? They are also killing all dogs and cats they catch. Millions of them. WARNING EXTREME VIEWER DISCRETION Code:
Suicides in Shanghai high-rises by desperate citizens due to LOCKDOWN http://youtube.com/watch?v=wUua-7_nHlU CCP's jungle law: Hiding behind the anonymity of PPE kits, Chinese police are bashing a citizen http://youtube.com/watch?v=CPgs4nk4gcE RIOTING & LOOTING STORES: Shanghai's "ZERO-COVID" lockdown caused desperation for food & medicines - people are starving - http://youtube.com/watch?v=hCnlt-M97tw Gravitas: Shanghai: Residents beaten up by healthcare workers http://youtube.com/watch?v=GWZ1c9Ovswc
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Our world is in really really bad shape.... I read somewhere that 3 of the Apocalypse Horsemen were here:
- war: nuclear power being into war with other nuclear power involved. - famine: war in Ukraine is likely to cause famine in some parts of the world. - disease: covid 19 pandemic that's far from over. - The 4th horseman is unclear: conquest. I can mean different things. Maybe that conquest means large amount of ppl displaced because of war and global warming, somewhat "conquering" countries ? Some experts evalutate to hundred of millions of ppl that could emigrate due to global warming. These are very serious threats, as each of them carry potential for tenth of millions of deaths. Combined, can it means end of humanity, at least as we know it ? In just 2 years, pandemic and war already reconfigure considerably our world. I don't believe in god, but I do think that sometime religions have intuition and insight about the world and what could end it. In the past, wars, famine and pandemic leads to hundred of thousands of death, even millions, so maybe that a combo was thought to be humanity's end ? And I do think that we are somewhat living pre-apocalyptic times as we can't deny that many things seem to coordinate to lead to a global disaster. I really wonder how we're gonna get out of this. Just my 50 cents.
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You may be correct Tristann.
Now that I think about things getting bad, they may get even worse in the year 2029. There is supposed to be a giant meteor coming to Earth and it may crash here. It would mean "Extinction" to all life on Earth. Scientists have named it "Apophis", the Egyptian god of death. So far, they have said, "...don´t worry, it will not crash into Earth, don´t worry", just so people will not panic. I don´t like to worry too much. Let´s drink a beer
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This goes hand-in-hand with the self-defense classes I teach...
Stabbing of Calgary woman prompts founder of safety movement to take action
By Carolyn Kury de Castillo Global News Posted April 10, 2022 5:20 pm EST A Calgary woman has spearheaded a campaign to promote women’s safety that has spread worldwide Like many Calgarians, Steph Colangeli was shocked to hear about the death of Vanessa Ladouceur, the 30-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in a random attack downtown while walking to work last month. “I cried. I mean who wouldn’t. It’s devastating. At the same time it was a bit of a wake up call for us,” Colangeli said. So she turned her grief into action on Sunday, handing out what she calls Pin Up Girl pins to people on 17 avenue S.W. at Tomkins Park. “We are here in memory of Vanessa Ladouceur. We know that one of our sisters didn’t make it to work and that just can’t keep happening. We are here in memory of her. We are here in light of all the things that have been happening in our city and all the recent attacks,” Colangeli said. Pin Up Girl is a campaign she launched in 2017 –women wear pins as a visual cue that they are available to help if, for whatever reason, a female-identifying person feels at risk. Since then, the movement has grown into a global network of women working together to make public spaces safe for everyone. Lorna Selig is the president of Safe 4 Life Personal Safety Training. She joined the Pin Up Girl campaign on Sunday to lend support to women and raise awareness about the importance of having a safety plan. |
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But let's not get too carried away because the probability of Asteroid "99942 Apophis" hitting Earth was 2.7% according to information from the early 2000s. Currently it is classified as a near-earth encounter but this thing is a behemoth with a diameter of 370 meters (1,210 feet). Then again our company private jet has had two "near-misses" in the last year which are basically nothingburgers because a near miss near an airport is one mile apart and in open sky 3-5 miles... and that doesn't even take into account the two times that we were escorted by military fighter jets in the US and China in the last 2 years as they flew just off our wing tips Now pour me a double let's get this party started lol. FYI, I have a friend with a "Don't Panic" sign on their balcony railing overlooking the street and every time I pass by it I look up and say is it time to panic yet |
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