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I work with inventors around the country, and one of the things that they all have in common is that they are problem solvers. Now admittedly, some problems that they solve are bigger than others – I was recently pitched an idea to help open those horrible vegetable bags at grocery stores – and also had a call with a guy in the final stages of FDA approval of his lung ablation device that will help solve cardio-pulmonary disease. However, there are also a group of people that I often talk to that wonder where the best ideas come from....

A flight attendant for American Airlines suffered broken bones in her face and had to be hospitalized after a passenger allegedly attacked her Wednesday in an incident the company’s chief executive called “one of the worst displays of unruly behavior we’ve ever witnessed.”

October 29, 2021 Friday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Secondigliano, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 9:1-5 ©I would willingly be condemned if it could help my brothersWhat I want to say now is no pretence; I say it in union with Christ – it is the truth – my conscience in union with the Holy Spirit assures me of it too. What I want to say is this: my sorrow is so great, my mental anguish so endless, I would willingly be condemned and be cut off from...

Look, I know Halloween isn’t until Sunday. But let’s face it, tomorrow night is going to be official Trick or Treat night most everywhere so you have to start preparing today. Here are a few tips to ensure your Halloween revelry will go as smooth as possible. First: While not mandatory, home decoration has grown increasingly important over the past 2 decades. This year will be much more challenging due to all those pesky supply chain problems crimping our ability to buy more crap from China. Creativity may be required. Well played big orange house at the end of the...

KEY POINTS: Apple revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday, which Apple CEO Tim Cook attributed to larger-than-expected supply constraints. Apple’s overall revenue was still up 29% on an annual basis and each of its product categories grew on an annual basis. Apple hasn’t provided official guidance since the start of the pandemic, but Cook said Apple expects “solid year-over-year revenue growth” in the December quarter despite the fact Apple will face worse supply constraints. _____________________________________________________________________ Apple revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday, which Apple...

This week, the president took a trip to Virginia to try to help salvage the gubernatorial prospects of fellow Washington lifer Terry McAuliffe. resident Joe Biden used the appearance to liken the GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to Jan. 6 rioters, to lie about Republicans supporting "book bans" and to attempt to goad former President Donald Trump into coming to Virginia. (Mission accomplished? Perhaps not.) Biden wants to talk about one person these days, and that person isn't Biden. Then again, what does he possibly have to brag about? Shutting down COVID? More Americans have died from the disease during...

New Force of Nature? Tantalizing Evidence for New Physics From CERN’s Large Hadron Collider University Of Cambridge By HARRY CLIFF, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE OCTOBER 26, 2021 Particle Accelerator Physics Concept The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sparked worldwide excitement in March as particle physicists reported tantalizing evidence for new physics — potentially a new force of nature. Now, our new result, yet to be peer reviewed, from CERN’s gargantuan particle collider seems to be adding further support to the idea. Our current best theory of particles and forces is known as the standard model, which describes everything we know about the...

New Amazon Aurora capability gives customers the ability to run applications written for Microsoft SQL Server directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes New open-source Babelfish for PostgreSQL makes it easier for more organizations to run Microsoft SQL Server on PostgreSQL under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses.

Living in California, the COVID dictatorship clamps down on one life pleasure after another, leaving room only for anti-social activities. Chipping away at our sanity, self-worth, autonomy and, as Que Mala would say, “fweedom,” undermining our basic rights, destroying our souls—that is how I would describe the box we’ve been forced into. That this repression and forced constriction are occurring worldwide, makes the situation no less awful nor any more lawful. I yearn, as I’m sure you do, to go where I want, smile at people in stores and restaurants and even on the street, without a moronic face diaper....

It’s becoming increasingly clear that, if there’s a Biden doctrine, it’s not about unity and “normalcy”; instead, it’s intended to destroy America, root and branch. When Joe Biden ran for office, he did a good job of staying on message. He would be the antidote to Trump’s “abnormal” presidency (never mind that the only abnormal thing was the leftist establishment’s furious and often illegal efforts to oust him). Biden would be the calm, unifying leader. This was a lie. From his first day, Biden’s goal has been to upend every American institution, every American value, and America itself. After nine...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 28. The infantry on this shore of the Potomac was concentrated on the parade ground east of the Capitol this morning, for the purpose of being reviewed by Gen. MCCLELLAN. It was about 10,000 strong, and under the immediate command of Gen. CASEY. The field was in excellent condition, the weather unparalleled, and the troops made a splendid appearance. The entire Staff assisted at the review, and the Secretary of War and a number of army officers were present. The attendance of spectators was very large. A bitter controversy is springing up between the friends of Gen....

The Biden administration can convince these so-called experts of anything. On August 25, the “experts” forecast third quarter GDP growth at 5.7%. On Sept. 28, the “experts lowered the projected growth to 4%. On Oct. 28, the first reading of third quarter GDP came out at ... 2%. The experts were so close. While campaigning for Terry McAuliffe the other night, Joe Biden said the economy was doing great because of his policies and that the U.S. now has more jobs than before the pandemic. It was trash. I would not say a decelerating economic growth from 6.7% is doing...

Peter Navarro was one of only three people worked for President Trump from the beginning of his 2016 campaign all the way through to the end of his first term. He was tasked with many important duties, including convincing the coronavirus task force in the early days to support the President’s travel ban. In his first meeting with the task force on January 28, 2020, Navarro went in as the voice of the President to make them see the light about the proposed travel ban from China. This was long before most in DC were taking the disease seriously; Nancy...

Confessions of error are rare enough in woke America that they should be strictly construed against the speaker. Two such confessions (the legal term is "admissions against interest") suddenly appeared last week. The first confession came in an Oct. 20 letter from Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health Lawrence Tabak. He admitted that a "limited experiment" conducted under an NIH grant but not reported on time was "testing if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model." This appears to have been,...

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Pray For The Peace of JerusalemIsaiah 64[a]Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! 2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! 3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. 4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those...

Although he doesn’t even have skin in the game in this fight, Bongino is standing on his principles. I discovered Dan Bongino’s podcast very early on, perhaps in 2016. I liked the clarity with which he described political issues, his insights, and his ebullience. Most of all, I liked his consistent principles. “Dan,” I thought to myself, “means what he says.” Bongino’s fight with Cumulus Media, which syndicates his daily three-hour-long radio, proves that he really does live by his principles. That’s why, despite being vaccinated himself, Bongino is threatening to pull out from Cumulus Media unless it revokes the...

For the first time since Alec Baldwin accidentally shot one crew member and injured another while filming for Rust, the armourer for the film has spoken out. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins passed away on Thursday, October 21, as a result of the incident. The film’s director, Joel Souza was also injured. Baldwin had not known the gun had live ammunition in it, however the 63-year-old has been subject to extreme online abuse in the wake of the incident. The set’s armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, has now spoken out about the tragedy. Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence, Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers said safety was her...

Virginia is a newly blue state, with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators, that Joe Biden won by 10 points. Hence, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe was an early and solid favorite to regain the office he vacated in 2017. But if McAuliffe loses Tuesday, the defeat will be measured on the Richter scale. For if he does lose, it will be because of an elitist belief McAuliffe blurted out during a debate with Republican rival Glenn Youngkin: "I'm not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions. ... I don't...

A Virginia nonprofit released a report this week that shows potential errors in how Virginia has sent absentee ballots to people looking to vote by mail. In one case, out of a sample size of 587 addresses in 22 districts across the state, 217 out of 243 live contacts – nearly 90 percent – the absentee ballot information listed did not match the person living there, the report found. Virginians for America First (VAF), an organization that is trying to help Republicans regain the majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, received absentee ballot data from the Virginia Department of...