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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

How automotive recalls are handled has shifted over time.


The world is in the midst of an antibiotic resistance crisis that contributes to the death of nearly 5 million people a year. But bacteria aren't the only mutating pathogens we need to worry about. "The threat of fungal pathogens and antifungal resistance, even though it is a growing global issue, is being left out of the debate," explains molecular biologist Norman van Rhijn from the University of Manchester in the UK.


As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Jurez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso. No one is waiting there now.


Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Police did not identify the discount supermarket chain. However, they said the cocaine was found at stores in several cities across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. read more


Iran is prepared to de-escalate tensions with Israel as long as it sees the same level of commitment on the other side, President Masoud Pezeshkian said. read more


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Tesla Full Self Driving requires human intervention every 13 miles
arstechnica.com

... It gave pedestrians room but ran red lights and crossed into oncoming traffic. ...

www.axios.com

... Florida's entire west coast is at risk for a damaging storm surge, including Tampa Bay, where a 5 to 8-foot surge is forecast above normally dry land if the storm hits at high tide.

This would be one of the city's biggest surge events on record since data began there in 1947. ...


Even before this latest revelation...

GOP governors' campaign group says no more ad spending planned for Robinson in North Carolina
ncnewsline.com

... A national campaign group dedicated to electing Republican governors said Monday that it had no future advertising planned in North Carolina with just over a month remaining before Election Day.

The Republican Governors Association, which as recently as last week made a seven-figure investment attacking Democratic candidate and Attorney General Josh Stein, confirmed that "no further placements" had been made for TV or other advertising in the North Carolina race. ...


So a national Republican campaign group seems not to be in favor of an alleged nazi-supporter and sexual pervert running for office, but only if the office is a governorship?

What about the presidency?


Wow, amazing guitarists playing the blues ...

Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland - The Dream (1987)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt...

www.azlyrics.com

...
[Bob's vocal:]
Last night
Once again I had the dream
I tossed and I turned
That old feeling's still the same
It was so real
I woke up cold and sweating
I wonder did I call her name?

In the dream she was right there with me
Right there with me in the bed
She said, "Bobby, come and kiss me"
"Never leave me!" is what she said
But when I reached out to hold her
Oh, I woke my wife instead

[Collins solo with Bob on rhythm]

Once againnnnnnnnn!
Once again, I had the dream
Six years since I've seen her
Ain't no doubt about what it means, no, no
I tried hard not to think about her
But all she left me was this dream

All she left me was the dream
All she left me was a dream

A dream

All she left me was the dream
...


Yeah, they don't write songs like that anymore...


More from the article...

... Fungal infections are also adapting beyond the means of our medicine, causing a "silent pandemic" that needs to be addressed urgently, according to some researchers.

"The threat of fungal pathogens and antifungal resistance, even though it is a growing global issue, is being left out of the debate," explains molecular biologist Norman van Rhijn from the University of Manchester in the UK.

This September, the United Nations is hosting a meeting in New York City on antimicrobial resistance, which includes discussions on resistant bacteria, fungi, viruses, or parasites.

Ahead of this event, van Rhijn and an international team of scientists are urging governments, the research community, and the pharmaceutical industry to "look beyond just bacteria."

Fungal infections, they write in a correspondence for The Lancet, are left out of too many initiatives to tackle antimicrobial resistance.

Without urgent attention and action, some particularly nasty fungal infections, which already infect 6.5 million a year and claim 3.8 million lives annually, could become even more dangerous.

"The disproportionate focus on bacteria is concerning because many drug resistance problems over the past decades were the result of invasive fungal diseases, which are largely under-recognized by the community and governments alike," write van Rhijn and his colleagues, who hail from institutions in China, the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, Spain, the UK, Brazil, the US, India, Trkiye, and Uganda. ...



Billy Bragg - Ideology (1986)
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Lyrics excerpt...
genius.com

...
When one voice rules the nation
Just because they're on top of the pile
Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest
The voices of the people
Are falling on deaf ears

Our politicians all become careerists
They must declare their interests
But not their company cars
Is there more to a seat in parliament
Then sitting on your arse
And the best of all this bad bunch
Are shouting to be heard
Above the sound of ideologies clashing

Outside the patient millions
Who put them into power
Expect a little more back for their taxes
Like school books, beds in hospitals
And peace in our bloody time
...


(yeah, in case you haven't noticed, the current playlist I'm listening to is the 80's)


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