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Post by bicentennial on May 1, 2024 12:41:38 GMT -5
Sounds like just a cold to me. Take bleach. On a much more practical note, does anyone know if our government bothered to restock the supply of masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) in case of another pandemic. As anyone in health care will remember there is a national stockpile of PPE which had not been replenished by congress since about 2005 which meant that when the pandemic started the PPE was unusable. As we no longer make any PPE in the US it could not be rapidly replaced in case of another international crisis. So does anyone know if the government has restocked a supply for the next pandemic.
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 28, 2024 19:32:22 GMT -5
H5N1 is Bird Flu. Over the last 25 years or so there have been periods in other countries where it has crossed from birds to humans and the 58% mortality rate is from confirmed cases investigated by the WHO in foreign countries and it is unknown whether that number has any relevance as the only people tested for bird flu in those countries were people sick enough to be hospitalized. H5N1 Bird Flu in our country has been crossing from birds to cows and is causing some cattle to get sick. News this week that in the ballpark of 20 percent of milk samples tested both by government labs and private labs show particles of this virus in milk samples. It appears routine pasteurization of milk is inactivating the virus so it is not infectious to people drinking milk (unless they were to get it from a farm before it is pasteurized.) There have been two cases of humans in this country getting it from cattle they worked with one this year and one in 2022. Both had mild illness and recovered quickly. There have been no cases reported from drinking unpasteurized milk. Separate issue is surging measles in many countries. Outbreaks are starting in the unvaccinated and sometimes passing to people who's vaccination protection has dropped off. Some states in the United States only required one dose of MMR to be considered fully vaccinated so some people who only received one dose of measles vaccine as a child may not be immune and may be at risk. As another example in Illinois there have been 64 cases already this year which is more cases than were seen in a whole year in more than 30 years in my state.
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 24, 2024 13:38:05 GMT -5
I'm no fan of Trump, but I kind of agree with Elvado here. This case sure does feel like a politically motivated prosecution. A campaign-finance violation from eight years ago? Involving underlying conduct that has been in the public record for years now? Really? That's the charge that's going to topple his candidacy? Put another way, does anyone think New York State bothers to prosecute him for this if he's convicted by the Senate and ineligible to run? I don't think it's really all that difficult to imagine that some voters are buying into the "Trump is being persecuted" angle that his campaign is pushing, and that this trial is "reminding" them that "all Democrats are corrupt and they're after Trump because they can't beat him at the polls." I also agree with Elvado that the documents case is real, and that it should have nothing but negative effects for Trump. But unfortunately, I don't think it's going to have much of an impact on the election. Acting as if the timing is politically motivated is either naive or ignorant. As a physician with a law degree, I have been to court several times. The campaign-finance violation could not be brought while Trump was president. If there was undue delay it was from 2020 to 2022 when the case was being investigated. Since it was filed it has proceeded as quickly as Trump's lawyers and the court would allow the case to proceed. In general, the law favors allowing both sides delay throughout court proceedings in the interest of fairness to both sides.
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 18, 2024 18:58:06 GMT -5
While this probably would be more appropriate in the Pro/College sports section it is a direct follow up to the last post. No, Connor McCaffery is older and has graduated from Iowa and is Caitlin Clark's boyfriend. I believe he works for the Indiana Pacers in some role. Patrick McCaffery is the younger brother. Their father is Fran McCaffery the head coach at Iowa. Interesting that his son has transferred away. I know that Fran McCaffery has expressed that his limited access to NIL for his players is significantly affecting his ability to recruit and retain players at Iowa. I wonder if he is considering leaving IOWA?
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 4, 2024 22:11:57 GMT -5
I'm kind of surprised no one has commented that Mango is wanting to post a bond from a used car salesman!
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 2, 2024 11:04:33 GMT -5
Sorry if this has been posted before, but it's sad that if Georgetown had made the effort, it likely could have hired either Dan Hurley or Kevin Keatts in 2017 ... Hurley's people definitely were throwing his name out there and I don't seem to recall that Keatts was one of the many that proactively turned down the job (before an offer made/interview happened). Keatts not quite the slam dunk HOF coach that Hurley is ... but given what we've seen over the last seven years, he likely would not have been fired ... and maybe would have had his odds defying run at Georgetown. Kevin Keatts coaching record: 211-121 overall (.636 winning percentage), 139-93 since coaching at NC State (.599 winning percentage), 1 Final Four in 7 years coaching at a high major www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/kevin-keatts-1.htmlEd Cooley coaching record: 343-245 overall (.583 winning percentage), 251-176 since coaching at Providence and Georgetown (.588 winning percentage), 1 Sweet Sixteen in 13 years coaching at a high major www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/ed-cooley-1.htmlI am somewhat joking as I post this but I remember a former coach with several terrible seasons and his record was 346-193 (.641) and he was let go. Obviously the hope with any new hire is to put the coach in a position to succeed. Hopefully that is what the next few seasons will bring. Don't want to be the second DePaul in the Big East!
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 31, 2024 13:09:51 GMT -5
Someday Rosslyn will be gone, and no one will believe it existed. Hopefully replaced by the new Georgetown Stadium and Accessory Campus/Entertainment complex with a high speed bullet train between campus and the complex. One can dream!
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 28, 2024 17:02:18 GMT -5
I would hope the innocence project uses this case to try and shorten the prison sentences of anyone serving time for illegally voting one time after a felony in Georgia. I looked up the law and the judge can impose a fine of up to $100,000, a prison term of up to 5 years or both. This suggests this punishment is small compared to what could have been assessed. There was a Tennessee case described in the Washington Post where a woman is serving 6 years despite having been certified by election officials as having completed her sentence. Obviously, the law is different in the two states but if anyone should receive the maximal penalty it would seem to be a person intricately connected to the electoral process.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 23, 2024 11:17:50 GMT -5
Big Ten getting embarrassed with Wisconsin and Nebraska. Same with Mountain West and ACC yet NCAA selection committee blocked Seton Hall, St John’s and Providence from the tournament I watched the Wisconsin game and this is not the right site to start commenting on the officiating in another team's game but this was as egregious officiating as the Greg Monroe bench technical at Duke. Every time Wisonsin had the ball on offense they were fouled repeatedly by every JMU player within reach.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 23, 2024 11:13:06 GMT -5
Can you say shortsell?
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 15, 2024 8:02:25 GMT -5
Need to retain players to grow and develop as a team.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 7, 2024 15:34:13 GMT -5
I was wondering if you were referring to Laundromats or Dry Cleaners as in Breaking Bad?
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 6, 2024 18:45:35 GMT -5
When you watch the games, its clear Cook is not trying to block dribble penetration to the rim but as our starting center he also has not fouled out of games. Fielder has fouled out numerous times in far fewer minutes played. Is it possible that EC does not want Cook to foul out and has told him not to risk fouling out?
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 1, 2024 18:07:39 GMT -5
I'm liking the stones songs but after the last 4 years, I think retaining players and adding both freshman and portal players to not have any gaping holes in the line up has to be the goal. Adding superstars is nice but retaining good players who help create a system and culture has to be a goal. The best teams we have had in the last ten years have all had veteran players. Bring in good players and retain them while building experience and improving quality has to be the year to year goal. Not having enough good players that you can sit a player for not playing defense has been a big problem all year.
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 27, 2024 0:02:04 GMT -5
I really don't know how the RNC usually spends its money but I have to wonder if all the money goes to Trump's Legal Fees and to Trump's campaign, will there be any money funneling down to senate and congressional races?
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 9, 2024 10:11:24 GMT -5
Lets face it as soon as he will be heading for jail the "one" will claim mental incompetence and be in a mental assisted living facility(Mar-A-Lago house arrest.)
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 8, 2024 10:53:06 GMT -5
Some assistant needs to keep handing coach EC the advance metrics on the team playing with and without Ish on the floor. Every ball on the floor goes to the other team when he is on the court and his occasional three could easily be made by Brumbaugh or Fielder if given his minutes!
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 21, 2024 23:00:59 GMT -5
Hoyas 92 Butler 90
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 17, 2024 16:44:07 GMT -5
The year in residence for multiple time transfers is likely to be abandoned this offseason though. There are no certainties at any spot in any program. Either you consider what's on the board at the moment because that is overwhelmingly likely to what we have next year, or maybe throw up your hands and don't talk about the future until the portal is done. I am considering and assessing what's on the court now, I also have no problem stating I want Sorber to start next season however I can't pencil him in as a keeper until he does it on the court. Again, I've seen enough of Fielder to think of him as a core piece in the long term. Epps & Brumbaugh are still question marks to me. I'm not sure how you are questioning Epps. As a Sophmore he is scoring 18 points per game with a reasonable field goal efficiently and leads the big east in points per game as well as averaging 4 assists per game. while he still needs to develop into a better defender, most programs would be happy to take him. While Brumbaugh is a little of a question mark since he has been pulled out of the last two games by his coach, at the least he is a decent backup point guard going forward and has every opportunity to develop into an efficient point guard this early in his college career. When people speak of a foundation, it is players who are likely to stay in college and continue to develop their basketball skills over several years and leading to a winning program. The ability to build a foundation in a program is certainly more difficult since the portal opened transfer madness but the hope is EC can keep the members of the current class while filling the glaring deficiencies with talented players.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 30, 2023 10:59:14 GMT -5
It doesn't seem like all that long ago that Ray Meyer died. Sad that the two best coaches in DePaul History are both dead.
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