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Margaret Thatcher recites the poem attributed to St. Francis of Assisi:

A small asteroid the size of a bus will make an extremely close approach to Earth on Thursday (July 7), passing within just 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers)...And just a few days ago, no one knew it was coming The asteroid, named 2022 NF, is expected to pass safely by our planet, according to calculations by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Astronomers discovered the sneaky asteroid using data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) — a system of cameras and telescopes based in Hawaii with the primary goal of detecting near-Earth objects, or NEOs. On...

Worldwide, breast cancer (BC) is the second most common cancer. Pharmacologically targeting cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4 & 6) has proven to be a successful therapeutic approach in patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer. Abemaciclib is the first FDA-approved CDK4 & 6 inhibitor (CDK4 & 6i) approved for the adjuvant treatment of HR+, HER2–, node-positive early breast cancer (EBC) at high risk of recurrence and a Ki-67 score ≥20%. Differences have been observed in both efficacy and severity of neutropenia among the available CDK4 & 6i, generating interest in a possible mechanistic explanation. In their study published in...

Farmer protests continued in The Netherlands on Thursday. And now the movement is spreading.Farmer protests were launched in Italy and Poland on Thursday.Farmers in The Netherlands blocked supermarket distribution hubs on Monday, July 4th.The farmers are outraged over new government regulations that force them to reduce their nitrogen fertilizer compounds and limit their number of livestock. The farmers argue that these policies will bankrupt their family business.

PARIS, July 7 (Reuters) - The French state has said it will fully nationalise EDF, the debt-laden utility that runs the nation's nuclear power plants and which the government has so far struggled to restructure. It has not said whether it will buy out minority shareholders on the market or take control by law. But however it is nationalised, it doesn't guarantee a fix for EDF's mountain of debt or its corroding reactors and it won't reduce the cost of shielding consumers from sky-high energy prices. SO WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT WANT TO NATIONALISE EDF? Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said...

Latest estimate: -1.9 percent — July 7, 2022 The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2022 is -1.9 percent on July 7, up from -2.1 percent on July 1. After this week's releases from the Institute for Supply Management, the US Census Bureau, and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the nowcasts of second-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and real gross private domestic investment growth increased from 0.8 percent and -15.1 percent, respectively, to 1.3 percent and -14.9 percent, respectively, while the nowcast of the contribution of the change...

Outpatient antibiotic management of selected patients with appendicitis is safe, allowing many patients to avoid surgery and hospitalization, and should be considered as part of shared decision-making between doctor and patient. Of 726 participants who were randomized to receive antibiotics, 46% were discharged from the emergency department within 24 hours. Outpatient management was associated with fewer than 1 serious adverse effect per 100 patients in the week after their discharge. Outpatient management was shown to be safe across a wide range of patients and was done in up to 90% of antibiotic-treated patients across all study sites. Compared to hospitalization,...

Boris Johnson has finally quit the Tory leadership after an onslaught of ministerial resignations and calls for him to go from senior colleagues – even if he hopes to cling on in Downing Street until a new leader is elected. But while several possible successors have been suggested, there is no clear favourite. 4:58pm: Zelensky expresses 'sadness' over Johnson's resignation 4:51pm: Johnson's line about settling relations with EU 'greeted with laughter' in Brussels 4:25pm: Johnson from Brexit to exit 4:22pm: Tory Party has 'many ways of shutting the door on Johnson' 2:40pm: 'The mood is that he should go now'

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took the occasion of America’s Independence Day to declare that the Statue of Liberty should be torn down if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is extradited to the United States and convicted of espionage. Assange is currently facing extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he has been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for having published classified material revealing, among other things, potential war crimes committed by the U.S. military. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. The Australian journalist appealed his extradition to...

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the United States on Wednesday that attempts by the West to punish a nuclear power such as Russia for the war in Ukraine risked endangering humanity. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Medvedev cast the United States as an empire which had spilled blood across the world, citing the killing of Native Americans, U.S. nuclear attacks on Japan and a host of wars ranging...

It's just a thought. No article on the subject(surprising). The public schools are a failure. The boarding schools would be success on day one when you consider abortion was the alternative.

A quarter of the girls in my daughter’s class identify as transgender. Seven out of 28. When I said that on Twitter recently, I was roundly attacked for being a TERF who makes up ridiculous stories to harm trans people. While I may be a TERF, I did not make this up. A quarter of the girls in my kid’s class identify as boys. One of them has had four names this year, all from anime series. I keep seeing people say, both on the hell-site Twitter and in the popular media, that the trans population is a tiny minority,...

John Crump at Ammoland reports thatGun Owners of America (GOA), Bridge City Ordinance, and North Dakota resident Eliezer Jimenez have sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over its new rule on unfinished frames and receivers.After Joe Biden became president, he tasked the ATF to come up with new regulations surrounding privately manufactured firearms (PMF) and pistol stabilizing devices. Biden’s ATF unveiled new rules for a public comment period. Gun owners flooded the comments, but the Bureau moved forward and unveiled the new rules in the White House Rose Garden.The rule is due to go into effect...

The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), a group that partners with dozens of Florida private schools, joined Gender Spectrum to host a June conference for school staff members to teach topics including creating gender-inclusive schools and “best practices for supporting transgender and other gender-expansive students.”

Elon Musk had twins with a top executive at Neuralink, director of operations and special projects Shivon Zilis, in November, according to a report in Insider that cited court documents related to the children. The twins were born shortly before the birth of Musk's second child with musician Grimes, who welcomed a baby girl named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk via surrogate in December. Musk had six children with Canadian author Justine Wilson, who was married to Musk from 2000 to 2008. Their first child died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, when he was 10 weeks old, Wilson wrote...

The Biden administration has approved a Trump-era project finishing a section of the southern border wall in the western-most point of the U.S. along the border with Mexico in California. Completion of this project will lead to the permanent closure of the U.S. side of Friendship Park, which is a binational spot between San Diego and Tijuana where separated families could meet and touch without a wall between them. [this is not an extensive addition to the wall] Please read more at the link...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, CAMP HEAR HARRISON'S LANDING, July 4, 1862. SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC! Your achievements of the last ten days have illustrated the valor and endurance of the American soldier attacked by superior forces and without hope of reinforcements. You have succeeded in changing your base of operations by a flank movement, always regarded as the most hazardous of military expedients. You have saved all your material, all your trains and all your guns except a few lost in battle, taking in return guns and colors from the enemy. Upon your march you have...

A little-known European medical team is poised to become one of the most important groups in the shifting landscape of U.S. abortion bans. Aid Access, an online-only service run by a Dutch physician, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, began shipping abortion pills to Americans from abroad four years ago. The organization’s team consists of about four doctors supervising about 10 medical staff members, and they’re difficult for U.S. authorities to reach because all are outside the country and they ship pills from a pharmacy in India. Opponents of abortion rights have so far largely found themselves powerless to stop Aid Access from...

This story isn’t exactly new: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who wants to set up Planned Parenthood abortion outposts on the edges of national parks, said last week that she and Sen. Bob Menendez were co-sponsoring a bill that would “crack down on so-called ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ that mislead and deceive patients seeking abortion care.” Warren is still on the warpath and told an ABC affiliate in Massachusetts that the state needs to put a stop to crisis pregnancy centers “right now.” Girls walk in looking for an abortion and are met by people who try to talk them out of it...

BRUSSELS – The European Union's parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly condemned the end of constitutional protections for abortion in the United States and called for such safeguards to be enshrined in the EU's fundamental rights charter. In a 324-155 vote with 38 abstentions, European Parliament lawmakers adopted a resolution that crystalized the anger seen in many of the EU's 27 member countries since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling on June 24. “It teaches us a lesson: Women’s and girls’ human rights can never be taken for granted, and we must always fight to defend them,” Swedish politician Helene...