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#21121 Spy Black

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 08:22 AM

Oh, you think so now, eh?
Gotcha.

I would posit that the veracity of any given statement is certainly bolstered by whether the commenter actually believes what they are saying (posting), or whether they're just throwing crap against the wall to be contrarian and/or see what sticks.

So although I can't ever claim to be "right", I can certainly claim to have full and total belief in what I'm saying when I post.

 

What's really too bad is that there are posters here who don't (or can't) share this rather simple sentiment, one that generally leads to good conversation devoid of theatrics and rancour.


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Posted 26 January 2022 - 08:24 AM

Vaccination against COVID-19 did not affect fertility outcomes in patients undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a new study has found. The findings, which were published in Obstetrics & Gynecology, add to the growing body of evidence providing reassurance that COVID-19 vaccination does not affect fertility.
 
Investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Icahn Mount Sinai), New York City, and Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA of New York) compared rates of fertilization, pregnancy, and early miscarriage in IVF patients who had received two doses of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer or Moderna with the same outcomes in nonvaccinated patients.
 
"This is one of the largest studies to review fertility and IVF cycle outcomes in patients who received COVID-19 vaccinations. The study found no significant differences in response to ovarian stimulation, egg quality, embryo development, or pregnancy outcomes between the vaccinated compared to unvaccinated patients." said Devora A. Aharon, MD, first author of the study. Dr. Aharon is a fellow in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Icahn Mount Sinai and RMA of New York. "Our findings that vaccination had no impact on these outcomes should be reassuring to those who are trying to conceive or are in early pregnancy."

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INDIANAPOLIS -- The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted both the necessity and the difficulty of using clinical data to inform state and national public health policymaking. In a new study, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University researchers demonstrate that machine learning models trained using clinical data from a statewide health information exchange can predict, on a patient level, the likelihood of hospitalization of individuals with the virus.
 
“It has been quite challenging to bring the bread-and-butter data generated by healthcare systems together with public health decision-making – entities which have long been separate and distinct,” said study senior author Shaun Grannis, M.D., M.S., Regenstrief Institute vice president for data and analytics and professor of family medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. “Our work shows how you can build and employ AI (artificial intelligence) models to securely utilize the clinical information in a health information exchange to support public health needs such as predicting hospital utilization within one week and within six weeks of onset of COVID infection.
 
“When new circumstances requiring rapid response arise, such as emergence of omicron or other new variants, once there are sufficient cases to train models, one can confidently access and plug clinical data into these readily available models to make accurate public health predictions and provide valuable insights into patient-level need for healthcare resource utilization,” said Dr. Grannis.

https://www.eurekale...releases/941269
 

To explore the inner workings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel technique.
 
The team—including computational scientists Debsindhu Bhowmik, Serena Chen and John Gounley—ran molecular dynamics simulations of the novel virus that caused the COVID-19 disease pandemic on ORNL's Summit supercomputer, an IBM AC922 system. The researchers then analyzed the output with a customized deep learning approach to produce a complete molecular picture of the "spike" protein on the virus's surface.
 
This method enabled them to pinpoint specific flexible regions, which they studied in extreme detail to reveal promising therapeutic targets. Aiming for these targets could create more reliable treatment avenues that interrupt key structural transitions in the virus's lifecycle while also supporting the body's natural immune response.
 
"A better understanding of the spike protein could complement current COVID-19 vaccines by informing new treatments and providing insights into potential drug design," Bhowmik said.
 
Using the Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics, or NAMD, code on Summit, the nation's most powerful supercomputer, the researchers simulated the spike proteins' molecular structures for SARS-CoV-2 and three other human coronaviruses: SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV and HCoV-HKU1. After completing this unique and comprehensive comparison of four different spike proteins, they compared the components and behavior of SARS-CoV-2 with thousands of sample structures from the other viruses using a deep learning architecture called a convolutional variational autoencoder, or CVAE.

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More than 800 deaths may have been avoided due to air quality improvements during the first lockdown phase in Europe
Government actions linked to road travel had the greatest impact on lowering NO2 concentrations and reducing deaths
https://www.eurekale...releases/941141

National identity predicts support for public health measures during coronavirus pandemic
Analysis of 67 countries shows those who identify more strongly with their nation report greater engagement with public health behaviors and support for public health policies
https://www.eurekale...releases/940946
 

Knesset members have officially banned participants addressing parliamentary committees from sharing screens via the teleconferencing app Zoom after an anti-vaccination activist showed **rnographic photos in a meeting, according to Israeli media reports.
The activist was speaking to the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Sunday when he shared the **rnographic photos. The committee’s chairman, Gilad Kariv, stopped the Zoom broadcast immediately.
 
The photos were not shown on the committee's broadcast online and on television, a spokesperson for the committee said.

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According to Norwegian researchers, the “very surprising” findings from the same time the disease was officially discovered in China “change the history of the corona pandemic both in Norway and in the entire world”.

Researchers at Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) have found antibodies against COVID-19 dating back to December 2019, a month before the first case was detected in Europe.

The first case in Europe was detected on 27 January 2020. Officially, the virus didn't spread to Norway until 24 February of the same year. Ahus’s discovery thus stems from the same period as the first proven case was found in China.

The researchers themselves described the discovery as “very surprising”.
 

“The discovery changes the story of the corona epidemic”, Ahus project manager Anne Eskild said in a statement.


The researchers searched for antibodies in anonymously stored blood samples, in accordance with the Infection Control Act. The samples were taken from pregnant women in the first trimester and as part of maternity care and stored to monitor potential infectious diseases.

 

https://sputniknews....1092520273.html

Pfizer, BioNTech start clinical trial of Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine
http://www.ecns.cn/n...fa9717723.shtml
 
Biden admin withdraws Covid vaccination mandate for businesses
https://www.rawstory...for-businesses/
 
Howard Stern is urging Meat Loaf’s family to advocate for people to be vaccinated against Covid-19 following the singer’s death on Jan. 20, as Variety reports.
https://www.rollings...accine-1290644/

Florida Shuts Down Monoclonal Antibody Site After FDA Says Treatment is Useless Against Omicron
https://sputniknews....1092516170.html

At up to $8,000/week, America's travel nurses keep COVID-slammed hospitals afloat
https://www.rawstory...spitals-afloat/
 

The panoply of economic support measures prompted by the pandemic have been the subject of controversy from the moment they were enacted, almost all of it to do with whether the government was being too generous to working families. There was one program that largely escaped this hand-wringing and criticism, though: the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), meant to prop businesses up through the restrictions and disruptions of the pandemic via forgivable federal loans.
 
It’s interesting that it has, because a recent analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has found the program was everything Washington lawmakers and officials have cited to justify dragging their feet on measures like canceling student debt or stimulus checks: it was un-targeted, inefficient, and regressive, distributing money overwhelmingly to upper-income earners.
 
While ostensibly meant to subsidize workers’ incomes, the majority of the PPP money didn’t go to paychecks, with between 66 and 77 percent flowing to business owners and stakeholders like creditors and suppliers, according to the report, produced by ten economists from the Federal Reserve, MIT, and other entities. The result is that a little less than three-quarters of the $510 billion given out via the program in 2020, or $365.9 billion, went to the top income quintile of households, with the bottom quintile receiving only $13.2 billion.
 
Unlike similar programs in other countries, which paid wage subsidies out on a sliding scale proportional to the declines in businesses’ revenues or as a fraction of their wage bill, the US government took an un-targeted “fire hose approach,” the report states, so that “virtually the entire small business sector was doused with money.” Because business ownership and shareholding tends to be concentrated among upper-income earners, the federal dollars consequently flowed to those at the top.

https://jacobinmag.c...ing-inequality/



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Posted 26 January 2022 - 08:27 AM

No.  CNN and Fox create content.  Spotify doesn't create much original content.  They just host for the most part.

Spotify disagrees with you:

 

At Spotify, we are committed to creating an array of podcasts that engage, inspire, and inform our listeners and can be streamed wherever and whenever, for free.

 

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#21124 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 08:30 AM

Fox and CNN create 99% of their programming.  Spotify creates less than 1%.

 

You see the difference?


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 January 2022 - 08:30 AM.


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Posted 26 January 2022 - 08:33 AM

I guess what makes the world interesting is the multitude of positions and opinions on any given subject ... with no "single" opinion being any more right than any other.

 

https://www.cnn.com/...ovic/index.html

 

So if you feel so strongly about free speech then why do you think it is ok to censor someone you don't agree with? Spotify doesn't force anyone to listen to Rogan nor does SirusXM force anyone to listen to Stern.



#21126 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 08:34 AM

If I was forced to listen to Stern I'd really need mental health support.

 

 

 

 

 

Another 73 people have died in Quebec due to COVID-19, a total of 13,009 since the start of the pandemic.

 

There are eight fewer Quebecers in hospital to be treated for COVID-19, a total of 3,270 people.

 

Intensive care admissions are down by 11, for a total of 252 people receiving care.

 

 

 

https://montreal.ctv...demic-1.5755196

 

 

 

 

 

Ontario has added more than 90 net new deaths to its overall COVID-19 death toll today as the number of patients in hospital with the virus dipped to just over 4,000.

 

Provincial health officials confirmed another 92 virus-related deaths today, including 89 fatalities that occurred within the past month. This is the highest number of deaths reported by the province on a single day since Jan. 15, 2021, when 100 deaths were confirmed. That total however, included more than 40 historical deaths that hadn’t been included in previous tallies.

 

The total number of known virus-related deaths in the province is now 11,160.

 

The number of patients with COVID-19 in hospital is now 4,016, down from 4,132 one week ago. This includes 608 patients in the ICU, down from 626 on Tuesday but up from 589 last Wednesday.

 

The province says about 56 per cent of patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized due to the virus while 44 per cent were admitted for other reasons. In the ICU, 83 per cent of patients with COVID-19 were admitted due to the virus and 17 per cent were admitted for other conditions but have tested positive. About 50 per cent of patients with COVID-19 in the ICU have not been vaccinated.

 

Another 5,368 cases of the virus were confirmed today in Ontario but that number has consistently been far lower than the true total due to restrictions on who is eligible to be tested.

 

https://www.cp24.com...today-1.5755188


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 January 2022 - 08:38 AM.


#21127 Mike K.

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 08:49 AM

I would posit that the veracity of any given statement is certainly bolstered by whether the commenter actually believes what they are saying (posting), or whether they're just throwing crap against the wall to be contrarian and/or see what sticks.

So although I can't ever claim to be "right", I can certainly claim to have full and total belief in what I'm saying when I post.

 

What's really too bad is that there are posters here who don't (or can't) share this rather simple sentiment, one that generally leads to good conversation devoid of theatrics and rancour.

 

 

Neil Young is promoting his new album that flunked.

 

If you want to talk about veracity, look behind the curtain. Neil Young isn't your friend or buddy, he's a businessman who wants to make more money. His attack on Rogan is just the latest headline grabber from him, and because the media dislikes Rogan over pointing out their revenue relationship with Big Pharma and having an audience that far outpaces theirs, they're piling on because they'll take any opportunity to do so.

 

You've caught yourself in an infinite loop though, name calling people you don't agree with, then asking others not to do it to you. It don't work that way.


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Posted 26 January 2022 - 09:58 AM

Neil Young is promoting his new album that flunked.

 

If you want to talk about veracity, look behind the curtain. Neil Young isn't your friend or buddy, he's a businessman who wants to make more money. His attack on Rogan is just the latest headline grabber from him, and because the media dislikes Rogan over pointing out their revenue relationship with Big Pharma and having an audience that far outpaces theirs, they're piling on because they'll take any opportunity to do so.

 

You've caught yourself in an infinite loop though, name calling people you don't agree with, then asking others not to do it to you. It don't work that way.

I just want to quote this for emphasis. Can't really improve on it.... except maybe with a meme. Hang on... be right back.... 



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Posted 26 January 2022 - 10:03 AM

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 10:37 AM

I don’t know where to draw the line on lockdowns vs. deaths. Nor is it obvious lockdowns prevented significant deaths.

 

Are you sure about that 2nd part?  What country would you say has had the most stringent lockdowns?


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#21131 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 10:40 AM

Neil Young has other revenue sources.

https://www.rollings...sic-946192/amp/

What’s really not being reported is that he pulled the demand letter off his website hours later.

Maybe he just drunk posted.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 January 2022 - 10:41 AM.


#21132 Mike K.

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 10:45 AM

I think Spotify said look, old man, it don’t mean that much to us to mean that much to you.
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#21133 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 10:45 AM

UK cases have definitely hit a plateau. At about 80,000 to 100,000 cases daily. Let’s hope HospitAlizatins and deaths follow down accordingly.

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 10:46 AM

I think Spotify said look, old man, it don’t mean that much to us to mean that much to you.


He hasn’t commented since, so it’s not like he is on a publicity campaign over it.

And no artists - none - have joined him.

He likely regrets his error.

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 11:01 AM

In a somewhat hostile tweet, conservative commentator Michael Cervnovich (@Cernovich) wrote, "Neil Young deleted the letter. As it turns out, he sold most of the rights to his music. He had no right to demand Spotify remove 'his' music. He is maybe a victim of elder abuse. There needs to be a conservator appointed. Who really wrote that letter?"

While the mockery may have been a little extreme, Cernovich was correct. It was just over a year ago that Young sold 50 percent of his publishing rights to his entire song catalog to Hipganosis Songs Fund, a UK-based investment fund, in a deal worth a reported $150 million. It gave Hipganosis the rights to the worldwide copyright and income interests from the 1,180 songs composed by Young.

The investment fund has invested in the rights to songs from artists such as Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie. While the Hipganosis Song Fund has said that it would not license Young's songs for commercial use, it does seem that the group might have a say on whether those tunes remain available via Spotify.


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Posted 26 January 2022 - 11:16 AM

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#21137 Mike K.

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 11:49 AM

Next up, Neil Young on Rogan!

… just to claim say he’s still on Spotify.

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Posted 26 January 2022 - 12:15 PM

Are you sure about that 2nd part?  What country would you say has had the most stringent lockdowns?

 

UK had some strict lockdowns.  I don’t know if they were the most stringent though.

They didn’t seem to be that effective.



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Posted 26 January 2022 - 12:17 PM

My guess would be China, by a loooooong mile.

No trucker protest convoys there.
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Posted 26 January 2022 - 01:18 PM

Neil Young has other revenue sources.

https://www.rollings...sic-946192/amp/

What’s really not being reported is that he pulled the demand letter off his website hours later.

Maybe he just drunk posted.


I have heard this reported as part of the story every time.

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