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Radio amateurs in Ukraine appear to be diligently maintaining radio silence as the state of emergency declared there just prior to the Russian military invasion remains in effect. A February 24 decree from President Volodymyr Zelensky included “a ban on the operation of amateur radio transmitters for personal and collective use.” The Ukraine Amateur Radio League (UARL/LRU) reported this past week that it has received many messages of encouragement from the worldwide amateur radio community.“The LRU informed international amateur radio organizations about Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine,” said the message from UARL Vice President Anatoly Kirilenko, UT3UY. “To date, there...

The Prime Minsters of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic have departed on a train bound for Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. The train with the leaders on board departed before 9 a.m. local time, the head of the chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, Michal Dworczyk, said Tuesday. Traveling to the Ukrainian capital is Poland's Mateusz Morawiecki and his deputy Jarosław Kaczyński, Slovenia's Janez Janša and the Czech Republic's Petr Fiala. The purpose of the visit is "to confirm the unequivocal support of the entire European Union for the sovereignty...

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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (officially the Vladimir Lenin Nuclear Power Plant) in Ukraine lies just outside the abandoned town of Pripyat, about sixty miles north of Kyiv and ten miles from the southern border of Belarus. It is the site of the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident SNIP required over a half-million recovery workers to decontaminate the area, and killed or disabled a third of the Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians, and others involved in that cleanup. Those workers, as well as the surrounding populations, have all experienced increased rates of miscarriages, cancer, and life-threatening ailments. Had so many not...

<p>To fill its upcoming Rachel Maddow void, MSNBC almost took a time machine back to the good old days of 2011.</p><p>Keith Olbermann, who shaped the network’s liberal voice before being canned more than a decade ago, was in lengthy discussions with NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and news boss Cesar Conde to return to MSNBC and take over the key 9 p.m. time slot, the former Countdown host told Source Material.</p>

...In an opinion piece posted Monday morning criticizing the Biden administration’s move as “too arrogant,” Chinese commentator Hu Xijin nonetheless offered that, “as a major military industrial power, Russia does not need to ask China to provide substantial military assistance for the limited scale war in Ukraine.” “Moreover, China is not obligated to promise nor to export arms to Russia,” Hu said in a video circulated by the state-sponsored English-language Global Times, for which he was executive editor until December. Though not a direct mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, the news agency is aligned with its views and seen...

....As Russia stepped up its assault on Kyiv, the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia announced they would travel to Ukraine’s capital Tuesday on a European Union mission to show support for the country “The aim of the visit is to express the European Union’s unequivocal support for Ukraine and its freedom and independence,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in a tweet....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic on Tuesday, with 293 deaths reported in the latest 24 hours, as the country grapples with a record surge in coronavirus infections driven by the fast-moving omicron variant. ...South Korea has reported a daily average of around 337,000 new cases in the past seven days, including 362,283 on Tuesday, representing more than an 80-fold increase from levels seen in mid-January, when omicron emerged as the dominant strain. The country’s caseload is now over 7.2 million...

A prolific offender identified by police as homeless has been charged for the apparently random brutal assault on a 62-year-old nurse who was exiting a light rail station in Seattle at midday. Surveillance video shows Alexander Jay, 40, throwing the woman down a flight of stairs multiple times at the city's Union Station just before noon on March 2, reported Seattle talk-radio host Jason Rantz for MyNorthwest.com. She suffered three broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

Republican Gabi Grossbard of Southfield announced his campaign for Congress and released the following statement:"In this incredibly divided political environment, I want to focus on our community and fight against radical agendas and extreme rhetoric," says Gabi Grossbard.Gabi Grossbard of Southfield announced he would seek the Republican Nomination to serve in the United States Congress. Gabi is a husband, father, grandfather, and businessman. He was born & raised in Israel to parents who were American citizens. Gabi served in the Israeli Defense Forces before living in New York from 1993-1998. He would later move to the Great Lakes State in...

Roi Kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס (@kaisos1987) Tweeted: Mar 14, 2022 Strange incident - an American source tells the New York Times reporter that the facility that Iran attacked in Arbil is Israeli and in fact aligns with the Iranians' claims. A moment later a senior official in the Biden administration denies to the same reporter the things and says it is a civilian facility. So what's going on here?((Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi: A senior Biden administration official refuted the earlier comment by a US official...)) https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1503497953671102467 ______REPLIES: One posted the picture: and added: Listen, there are here los...

The internal campaign survey, first reported by the New York Post, showed in a hypothetical matchup between Zeldin and Hochul, he would receive 45.5 percent of the vote, slightly edging out the Democrat’s 44 percent. The rest said they were undecided. “Over the last year, we have built an unparalleled movement, powered by thousands of volunteers, tens of thousands of grassroots donations and scores of New Yorkers who are waking up and all in to Save Our State,” said Zeldin told the Post. (Snip) The respondents were also asked about President Joe Biden where only 43 percent approved of Biden,...

As of Tuesday, 8 March 2022, it has been 12 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. After a yearlong period of building up its forces along Ukraine’s borders, Russia has commenced on a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Within the first 12 days of the war Russian forces have advanced rapidly, but neither military nor political victory is within sight. The war has followed a largely predictable course with few major surprises, yet nevertheless the Russian war effort is unusual for a number of reasons. I would like give a recap of the war thus far with analysis,...

Fox News reporter Steve Harrigan returned from Ukraine with a grim message about the future of Ukraine, but also a prediction that the Russian people “are going to rise up” and overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin.“I think Putin is being bled. And he will be bled for years and it will take years. Maybe the oligarchs who are making as much money will hurt. Maybe the Russian people will rise up,” said Harrigan on America’s Newsroom on Monday. “I think for me, Ukraine is a done deal. It’s flattened and they lost. But the next story, I think, is Russia....

It is billed as the largest economic development project in the history of Georgia, an electric vehicle factory that could grow to be five times as large as the Pentagon and produce as many as 400,000 emissions-free trucks a year. **SNIP** But in recent months, the project has gotten tangled in the kind of partisan politics that is pulsing through many aspects of American life. Opponents have been holding rallies, organizing online, dabbling in conspiracy theories and even threatening local officials. And beyond the political disputes, the debate over the factory is emblematic of broader tensions bedeviling the environmental movement,...

Developing a new drug and bringing it to market typically costs around $2.6 billion and takes about 12 years...In Tissue Dynamics' platform, a robot makes microfluidic models of human tissues...It can perform, by itself, safety assessments in the microtissues and identify the drug that works best and causes the least damage to human organs..."We can do it in 19,000 tissue samples at once. It is the equivalent of [testing on] 5,000 patients..."

For 25# bags of rice/beans, which size mylar bag & oxygen absorbers and where to mail order? Can i use "gamma vault" as is or is the seal inadequate? Thank you, Sorry for vanity

The Russian occupiers continue to accumulate reserves on their territory for waging war against Ukraine. However, to date, the main tasks of defeating the AFU groups, reaching the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and establishing control over part of Ukraine by the enemy have not been completed, and in some areas the Ukrainian defenders have launched a counteroffensive. This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the armed forces of Ukraine. It is noted that detachments of mercenaries are being formed in the Russian Federation, which are ready to carry out criminal orders of Russian...

Hristo Grozev said about the panic in the Kremlin and the possible timing of the end of the war in Ukraine In Moscow, panic began due to the lack of a new action plan for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Elites are already openly declaring that Russia's course is suicidal, it is impossible to continue the war, and repressions have begun in the special services of the aggressor country. This was stated by a well-known investigative journalist, Head of the Bellingcat organization Hristo Grozev in an interview with the Navalny Live YouTube channel. According to Grozev, the Kremlin's short-term blitzkrieg...

The American Heart Association has issued its yearly reminder that incidents of heart disease and stroke go up at daylight saving time — a biological "clock shock" thus far unexplained. Changing the clock changes up our body's production of hormones, including melatonin, the night-time hormone that affects sleep; cortisol, the stress hormone; and serotonin, the "feel-good" hormone that helps keep depression and anxiety at bay. It's especially important over the next few days to try to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, even, as difficult as it is to hear, on weekends. Bhat says...