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“BlackBerry Launches First-of-its-Kind Flood Risk and Clean Water Monitoring Solution”
Floods interfere with everything:
One summer storm doesn’t end Utah’s drought, weather expert says
“Utah’s main water source is the mountain snowpack, Steenburgh said. “That’s our primary reservoir for water, so to speak,” he said. “There’s a lot more water in a wintertime snowpack in the spring than is produced by one of these thunderstorms.”
A big storm like Sunday’s, Steenburgh said, might produce a couple of inches of rain in a small area. On the other hand, “in the spring, you have a snowpack that might have 20 or 30 or 40 or even 50 inches of water stored in it. So there’s just no comparison between the amount of water available in the spring in the wintertime snowpack and what’s being produced by these storms.”
According to the National Weather Service, Sunday’s storm brought 1.68 inches of rain along the S-turns in Big Cottonwood Canyon, 1.52 inches of rain to the University of Utah, 1.5 inches to Bountiful, 1.13 inches to Tooele, and lesser amounts elsewhere in northern Utah.
In recent weeks, the Great Salt Lake surpassed the lowest water level ever recorded, and Lake Powell is on the verge of hitting its lowest level since the Glen Canyon Dam started trapping the Colorado River’s water in 1963.
“The Great Salt Lake’s not going to recover from these storms, and Lake Powell’s not going to recover,” Steenburgh said. “Most of the water to raise the level of those lakes is coming from snowpack runoff.”
Das Quickening continues apace:
“Dozens of NATO Warship Positions Near Russia Being Faked, But Why?”
“Is there a length limit on posts?”
Depends on how well you’ve centered the topical center of gravity, I suppose.
“…ones’elf”
WIth one selfie, over all, indivisible, with free news and free shows, for everyone (with commercials).
I checked to make sure it wasn’t something ‘shopped, but the Baltimore Sun covid/Russia meme is genuine:
“Despite ample data that the vaccines are safe, false stories circulate on the internet claiming that scientists are lying to us, that the vaccines can make you infertile, that they contain microchips, that they can alter your DNA. Do these worries arise organically? Maybe some do. But such disinformation is often intentionally created to serve someone’s financial, political or ideological interests.
“Among those with something to gain is the Russian government, which is diligently working to undermine confidence in the vaccines as part of its goal of destabilizing American society. It has been spreading misinformation for years on a host of other virus-related topics, including flu and Ebola. From there, it’s a short hop to having their message amplified by conspiracy-embracing, right-wing media, whether witting or not, and by the soulless churn of algorithms on social media.
“And it doesn’t take many people amplifying a false message to have an outsized effect. According to a recent PBS story, 65% of the anti-vaccine propaganda on Twitter was due to just 12 people, some of whom are profiting from the creation of bogus skepticism through the promotion of alternative treatments and cures.”
Why does this article have me saying to the wall, Quit whining and get off your ass and do something useful! For starters, picking up your head from the chair where you were just sitting on it.?
The Epstein Syndrome is incurable:
Variants and Vaccines August 1, 2021
Only vaccine that gets a pass is Russian vaccines, which pass by dint of not being mentioned. The article itself is insane, but that’s per norm most everywhere, right? I double-down on hinking that Putin knows what’s up, and wants as many Russians vaccinated as voluntarily possible.
btw, now I know someone who had two Moderna shots last spring, got covid last week and was very sick for five days.
Ah, the Ineractive Earth:
Shipping crisis from floods in Europe, China threatens holiday shopping
“Industry insiders are warning that recent bouts of flooding in Europe and China are hitting global supply chains, threatening to drive up prices and cause shipping delays by Black Friday and the holiday shopping season.
Western Europe and China’s Henan province, an important industrial and shipping hub, are both recovering from severe floods.
While travel infrastructure and power have been restored in both regions, the flooding has damaged transportation routes like highways and — especially in China — is disrupting the country’s supply chain, including the production of food, cars and coal.
“Black Friday and the holiday season, for which products (and raw materials) are being staged, will face the brunt of the impact,” Pawan Joshi, executive vice president of Texas-based supply chain software firm E2open, told CNBC.”
Meanwhile, in Texas, it seems that the Empire of Karens is attempting some counter-attack on sanity and the respect we call mutual pefrsonal freedom:
“COVID-19 is spreading fast among Texas’ unvaccinated. Here’s who they are and where they live.”
KSAT TV in San Antonio, Texas’ Blue Team main stronghold in Red Team Texas.
“For example : someone tells you that they want the truth.”
I DO want the truth. So I can hide it in the back of my bottom drawer next to those tacky little pamphlets:
And now, perhaps the moment we’ve all been waiting for:
“The vacation outbreaks among vaccinated people on Cape Cod is proof that vaccines work, CDC director says”
Run out of weasel-words and evasive distration concepts, and maybe you’re left telling the truth and not even recognizing it…?
Covid court case in the making?
Tyson Foods will require its 120,000 U.S. workforce to get vaccinated
Headline/lead fluff:
“Israel’s Gantz Urges Action Against Iran ‘Right Now’ Over Tanker Attack
Blinken said the US is working with allies on an ‘appropriate response,’ Iran denies it was responsible for the attack”An appropriate response is bitch and whine but don’t do squat. Go pick on somebody your own size, like… gawrsh, you’re a small little critter, aren’t you?
tdk: I can envision paper-only voting happening in the flyvoer states that increasingly fit the label ‘holdout states’. The Federal government is obviously a house of cards altready in full collapse, probably awaiting a major populist leader taking over what’s left of it.
Integrity in elections and effective competence in governance will be built from the opposite end, small neighborhood groups copncerned about their neighborhood not the fate of the mysterious planet reported by the media.
pheonix voice: thanx for that Dolores anecdote. Shared it with friends. Perfect grass-roots reality-shaping.
My Georgia cousin’s Granddaddy Hack told us the way to keep a rooster from coming at you is to spit some of their shit at them. We, uh, took his word for it without testing it. 😉
“Life is a bass akwards sort of race in which the objective seems to be coming in dead last. To attain that objective it may be occasionally necessary to help some others across the finish line.”
Sweet.;)
My official position on covid is what deflationista called “excessive faith in (my) immune system”.
I deal with the following (see link below) on a regular basis. Some coronafied cousin of the flu with HIV rainbow colors and stitched-on bat wings is not going to touch me so long as I take care of myself and work to enjoy life and appreciate others. I take comfort in the idea some have that this is a planned populatin decimation aimed at the weak and infirm: I intend to stay strong. The virus doesn’t like the taste of strong blood, just like how dog fleas won’t jump to a human unless there’s no room left on the dog: we taste bad.
TOO MUCH INFO ALERT: Bleeding Man
Of all the things I’ve heard advised to do against catching covid in a bad way, hydrating diligently, abundantly, and frequently is for me the single most important thing to do: keep that serum transport system running brisk. No global supply chain clogs. Keep those microships moving.
I’ll even quote the Bad Orange Man himself: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.”
For counterpoint illustration, here’s CNN’s response to that: “The president’s tweet left many friends and families of coronavirus victims disgusted and angered. How could they not let a virus that snatched their loved one from them dominate their lives?”
Ah, TAE comment section: I remember when you led a multi-faceted life of our own.
(link safe to click unless you hate Billy Joel)
Summer, Highland Falls“Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said he has spent more than $2.5 million in crisis management after a massive ransomware hack crippled the agency in April and potentially exposed gigabytes of personal and confidential records on the dark web.
The taxpayer money is being used to rebuild computer systems, notify individuals their personal information may be at risk and get the office fully back online following the April 10 attack, carried out under a name linked to a notorious gang of cybercriminals based in Russia.
The breach came just eight weeks after state auditors met with officials at the attorney general’s office to warn of deficiencies in the agency’s cybersecurity programs.”
Coronavirus: how T cells are involved and what it might mean for vaccine development june 11 2020
“We are still learning about COVID-19 and questions remain as to whether complete protection against it is even possible.
Issues still to be tackled
Another area of debate is whether some protection can arise from being infected with another coronavirus. There is some similarity between the version of coronavirus causing the current pandemic and others that cause a mild cold.Some studies show a cross-reactivity, but others show none. Differences in these results may be down to how immune responses were analysed, or variations between people who could have had different prior exposures. Either way, such conflicting observations highlight the complexities involved.
Concerns have also been raised about the possibility of vaccines eliciting a response that could, at least in principle, produce antibodies that help the virus get into cells – a phenomenon known as antibody dependent enhancement.
The pressure to develop a vaccine is huge. The rush must not override the need for safety. There are other issues we must also tackle – not least, the manufacturing and fair distribution of anything that works. But right now, understanding the human immune response to this virus is our best hope and our greatest challenge.The Conversation”
^&*
“Further research will need to address the durability of protective immunity and the optimal platforms for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for humans (26). Although our data are restricted to DNA vaccines, our findings may be generalizable to other gene-based vaccines as well, including RNA vaccines and recombinant vector-based vaccines. Additional research should also evaluate vaccine immunogenicity and protective efficacy in older animals. Future studies should also address the question of enhanced respiratory disease, which may result from antibody-dependent enhancement (27–29). Although our study was not designed to examine safety issues, it is worth noting that the DNA vaccines induced TH1 rather than TH2 responses, and we did not observe enhanced clinical disease even with the suboptimal vaccine constructs that failed to protect against infection.”
DNA vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques August 14 2020
Many mainstream academic voices raised the question of ADE along with many other issues before Bossche. His concerns are not revolutionary or specious.
NYTimes 3 weeks ago:
“ILLINOIS CORN A FAILURE.; FROM HALF TO THREE-QUARTERS OF A CROP ONLY EXPECTED.”
NYTimes 18 days ago:
“The Maryland Fruit Crop Almost a Failure”
“Industry members say stigma still exists around discussing mental health
Farmers across Saskatchewan say they are feeling the overwhelming mental and financial stress of crop contracts and poor harvests as dry conditions bake their fields.
Only about half of the crops across the province are at their normal stages of development for this time of year, according to the latest provincial crop report.
The report attributes the problems to lack of moisture, noting about eight per cent of cropland topsoil in the province has what it needs. And farmers can see the effects.”
Wildfire season is already here:
I encourage thought experiments regarding the intersection of vakzine agendas and more pressing concerns like not self-BBQing, or drowning, or getting quickie cholera from unpotable water.
I suspect a crucial determinant in such intersections would be how well and quickly the gubmint can roll out Nat Guard/adequate supplies, etc. If they can, they might have a shot at Orwelling the situation for mandatory vakzination. If they can’t, little chance, methinks.
We often say that humans dealt with weather like this before, and indeed they did: but not nearly so many of them, and not so many of them in locations and structures unable top withstand recyclic freaky weather.
Hurricane season is around the corner:
The CYA factor regarding bureaucracies and covid is becoming critically undefined. Should they double down on the Vakz or join the dissenters? Which would hold up better against a lawsuit of grievance? WIn reelection? Make them less likely to be attacked in public?
It would be apt if ironic, if a typical lawesuit against an insurance company were what finally broke our national constitution.
Lindsey Graham:
“South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he has a case of the breakthrough coronavirus.
“I was just informed by the House physician I have tested positive for #COVID19 even after being vaccinated,” Graham tweeted at about 3:15 p.m. ET. “I started having flu-like symptoms Saturday night and went to the doctor this morning.”
“In consecutive tweets, he also said: “I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for ten days. I am very glad I was vaccinated because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do now. My symptoms would be far worse.”
Amazing act of unwitting group hari-kari.
HUman lessons we are likely to be relearning soon:
“m.c. ¿high? heels?”
There’s no swish in me. Not a trace of queen although I’ll wear anything for a joke or just to prove I can. But I love telling women how pretty they look in that swell outfit they’re so obviously delighted by. And I come across kinda gay, I’m told, which suits me fine.
If I were a woman, I couldn’t wear high heels. And I’d complain big time about the no/small/useless pockets situation with so many womens’ clothing. And I’d carry a miniature but wickedly weighted assassin’s hatchet in my purse. Men have a tendency to get nasty with uppity women, and all this feminist/LGBT tolerance is a fassing group high. I’d carry an equalizer.
“He should not expect that shot to afford him travel ‘privileges’ in Europe.”
Which “proves” the truth about Brexit: Britain isn’t part of Europe. It’s the Japan of Europe.
@Robin-Madamski, who identifies as “cafone”
Others identify me as such and I do not oppose their designation if it pleases them to use it. I had worse nicknames in jail.
Me, fwiw, like ‘mc’. Hollerboyz/’hood ring to it. If I identified as a gender-of-choice as is the new fad, I’d identify as very male from the solar plexus down and very female from the solar plexus up.
Not that I ever felt any confusuion other than Why does society demand a man act this or that way, and why should I care? But ociety does, and the profile they calibrate repels me, while the primary jobs and attributes of women attract me… both above and below the sternum.
I love women, wanna marry all of ’em but am super-happy and grateful to be allowed to share my life with even one of those radiant beings. I aspire to emulate their higher traits while trying to understand their lesser traits and working to master my masculine traits.
madamski cafone translates, for me, into ‘weird old lady who some people think is a boor and a cad, and are sometimes very right about that’. Lotta interstitial room in that one, and it covers the spread enough to let me be me, whatever on earth that is beside a piece of God bouncing aroun d other pieces.
Inshallah,
mc
