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People “up to date” with their COVID-19 vaccinations are more likely to get infected, according to a new study. Vaccinated people who received one of the updated bivalent vaccines had a higher risk of becoming infected when compared to people who had not—a group that included both vaccinated and unvaccinated people—researchers with the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio found. The higher risk held even after adjusting for factors such as age and job location. “This study highlights the challenges of counting on protection from a vaccine when the effectiveness of the vaccine decreases over time as new variants emerge that are...

Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing, but it is so difficult to read that only a few hundred experts around the world can decode the clay tablets filled with wedge-shaped symbols. Now, a team of archaeologists and computer scientists from Israel has created an AI-powered translation program for ancient Akkadian cuneiform, allowing tens of thousands of already digitized tablets to be translated into English instantaneously. Globally, libraries, museums, and universities have more than half a million clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform. But the sheer number of texts, and the tiny number of Akkadian readers — a language no...

The UK’s armed forces are considering a proposal to remove gender-specific terms like rifleman or guardsman from the titles of its various ranks and to replace these with less masculine ones, according to measures being appraised by British army chief Patrick Sanders. The potential switch, which would uproot centuries of army tradition, comes amid a review into “terms and terminology” and has reportedly come under consideration after some female soldiers expressed to Sanders that they felt excluded by male-dominated phraseology in the army.

Yeah, he really did that. Folks, I’m not sharing this to be snarky about Ron DeSantis per se’, this isn’t actually his messaging. It’s worth looking at this through the prism of who is operating the management, branding and communication effort. This level of ridiculous religious pandering is stunningly identical to Ted Cruz in the early 2016 GOP nomination. The DeSantis campaign knows they need to target evangelical and faith-based voters. Put a group of people who are not actually centered on the principles of faith in charge of a political campaign, tell them they need to appeal to faith-based...

Today Ron DeSantis is campaigning in Nevada at the 8th Annual #BasqueFry with his former Navy Roommate Adam Laxalt. The signature dish at the Basque Fry is LAMB TESTICLES. In other words, DeSantis and Laxalt are spending the day together shoving balls in their mouth. #PrideMonth Something tells me you will NEVER see @realdonaldTrump with testicles in his mouth.

The U.S. Treasury on Friday said it found that no major U.S. trading partners had manipulated their currencies for an export advantage, adding it ended "enhanced analysis" for Switzerland after the country met only one of three manipulation criteria. In its semi-annual currency report, the Treasury said that Switzerland remains on a "monitoring list" for close attention to foreign exchange and economic policies, along with six other trading partners: China, Taiwan, South Korea, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore. The report covers foreign exchange activity for the four quarters ended December 31, 2022. A Treasury official said a number of countries had switched...

A 1947 American romantic fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R.A. Dick. In 1945, 20th Century Fox bought the film rights to the novel,published only in the United Kingdom at that time. It was shot entirely in California.

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy got ransom requests from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and scientific education facility that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign, a spokesperson said on Friday. The DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defense-related radioactive nuclear waste, were hit in the attack, which was first reported on Thursday. Data was "compromised" at the two DOE entities after hackers breached their systems through a security flaw in the file transfer tool...

The new documentary Surviving Socialism offers the warning that the United States is at a crossroads between freedom and “more government control.” “A recent survey revealed that 70% of young people would support socialist candidates,” Tea Party Patriots Action Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin told the Washington Examiner. “This was alarming because if young people knew the effects of socialism, they would understand that it consistently results in economic failure, loss of basic human freedoms, and the deaths of tens of millions.” Surviving Socialism was funded and produced by the Tea Party Patriots Action group. It features firsthand accounts of...

VIDEOThe FBI is offering a $500,000 reward to identify the J6 pipe bomber and the DUmmie FUnnies wants to collect that reward money. Perhaps the reward money will be used to invest in cell phone technology that can't can't be conveniently "corrupted" while performing an investigation via Geofencing. Would also use that reward money to purchase a kitchen timer that lasts more than an hour.

St. Louis County authorities said 29-year-old Tio Robinson is facing a felony stealing charge (Class C felony) because the value totaled more than $25,000. Investigators said Robinson, along with other men, were able to obtain winnings from the machines by altering a $100 bill with a string attached, then pulling it out, ultimately tricking the machine into thinking money had been inserted.

This month, though, Marvel officially declared the Punisher persona non grata, eliminating the character as readers know him. Did he go out in a blaze of glory? No, in typical woke fashion Frank Castle is captured by progressive heroes, chained up and forced to go through a struggle session in which he is admonished as a murderer and a terrorist. Marvel even brings the Punisher’s wife back from the dead, only so that she can divorce him and take his money and property, and then inform him that his lifelong crusade against the criminal underworld was all for nothing. The...

“The One Man Adam and the One Man Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:6-15) As by one man all mankind fell And, born in sin, was doomed to hell, So by one Man, who took our place, We all were justified by grace. So we just sang, and so is the message of our Epistle reading today, from Romans chapter 5. As it says in verse 15 of our text: “For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.” In...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis talked the talk but never walked the walk on sexual abuse. Declining years of a failed Pontificate.Francis came to the pontificate with an unspoken mandate to cleanse the Augean stables of sexual abuse in the Church, and he soon trumpeted his 'zero tolerance' policy. Ten years on and the cases of McCarrick, Barros, Zanchetta and now Rupnik seem to indicate that the policy in question was little more than a rhetorical slogan."In the face of Marko Rupnik's repeated refusal to obey this mandate, we are unfortunately left with only one solution: resignation from the Society of Jesus,"...

17 June 2023The Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary TimeEcce Homo Shrine, KrakówReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Corinthians 5:14-21 ©From now onwards we do not judge anyone by the standards of the fleshThe love of Christ overwhelms us when we reflect that if one man has died for all, then all men should be dead; and the reason he died for all was so that living men should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was...

Joe Biden left many people puzzled and questioning his intentions after the U.S. president concluded his speech at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut on Friday. What Happened: Speaking with gun safety advocates and survivors of gun violence at the University of Hartford, Biden’s closing statement, “Alright? God save the Queen, man,” generated widespread confusion and criticism across social media platforms.

CHICAGO — A mass shooting left five people injured, four critically, near Lincoln Park Zoo overnight, according to initial information from the scene. The shooting occurred in the 1900 block of North Stockton occurred around 4:40 a.m. “A group of people were gathered outside … when a verbal altercation ensued,” Chicago police said in a media statement. “Unknown offender(s) then opened fired [sic], striking five victims. No one is in custody and Area Three Detectives are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding this incident.” Police officers said found a 23-year-old man at the scene with gunshot wounds throughout his body. He...

The current military operations conducted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are deemed necessary “due to the coercion by the Russian Federation and its Armed Forces,” said Yakubets.“Where we advance by one or one-and-a-half kilometers, those are indeed successes. However, when we progress by 100-300 meters, it essentially amounts to a standstill.”Yakubets said that covering a distance of 100 to 300 meters entails “crossing or overcoming half of the neutral zone,” which, according to him, extends from 300 to 500 meters in certain directions.“Strategically, I am deeply concerned about this issue because if we persist in advancing at the current pace,...

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that former White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly saved the country several times from former President Donald Trump’s “recklessness” and “lack of intellectual curiosity.” Guest anchor John Berman said, “So, in this post, we’re talking about today, you saw the former president attack Bill Barr, John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney. In a separate one, he went after someone you worked with briefly in the White House, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, calling Kelly weak, ineffective, born with a very small brain....

Money makes DC go around. Particularly when there are no effective constraints on the Administration or Congress’s ravenous appetite for insane spending (like Biden bragging about the US funding a large solar energy in Angola while he leaves the southern border wide open). After all, Biden, Schumer and McConnell all believe our money (along with our children) belong to them. So, since the coronation of King Barack in 2009, US public debt has grown by 200% and just breached $32 trillion. US M2 Money is up 152% since Obama/Biden and The Fed’s Balance sheet is up 275% and M2 Money...