"I must be white"
>Need guidance
>Ask and you shall receive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition
The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions.
The JDAM is not a stand-alone weapon; rather it is a "bolt-on" guidance package that converts unguided gravity bombs into precision-guided munitions (PGMs). The key components of the system consist of a tail section with aerodynamic control surfaces, a (body) strake kit, and a combined inertial guidance system and GPS guidance control unit.
>a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions.
Can someone ID the thing?
>Government calls for national list of homeschooled children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57974170
MPs call for national register of home-educated children
A committee of MPs is calling for a national register of home-educated children in England, saying there is an "unacceptable level of opaqueness" surrounding the issue.
The Commons Education Committee says it is important to "get a grip" on the number in home education.
It says more data must be collected to ensure all children out of school get a suitable education.
Home educators say this will increase families' lack of trust in the system.
The MPs' report - Strengthening Home Education - says the government does not collect national figures for how many children are electively home-educated and parents do not have to register the fact with councils.
Committee chair, Conservative MP Robert Halfon, said it was "frankly astonishing" that the government was only able to make a "best guess" over the standard of education children schooled at home were receiving.
According to research by the BBC, published earlier this month, the number of children registering for home education in the UK rose by 75% in the first eight months of the current school year.
It found more than 40,000 pupils were formally taken out of school in the UK between September 2020 and April 2021, compared with an average of 23,000 over the previous two years.
The figures are based on Freedom of Information responses from 153 of the 205 county councils and unitary authorities in Great Britain, and all of Northern Ireland.
The education select committee's report notes that it is likely the coronavirus pandemic has increased the number of families choosing to pursue home education.
The MPs say some families in England face being forced into home schooling - partly due to a lack of support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
They say there must be assessment of progress in numeracy and literacy to ensure that those who are home-schooled are getting the same opportunities as their school-educated peers.
The report also says the government should meet entry costs of exams for home-educated children to help them "gain the qualifications needed for future education, training and employment, that will allow them to play active roles in society".
'Missing out'
Committee chair Mr Halfon said: "It is frankly astonishing that we are only able to make a best guess at the number of children being educated at home, particularly when the Department for Education itself concedes that there is considerable evidence that many young people are missing out on the teaching and support that they are entitled to.
"Some parents are providing their children with a high-quality educational experience, but those against greater oversight must realise that it does not follow that all home-educated children are in the same boat.
"Getting a grip on the number of young people not being taught in school with a national register for children outside of school must just be the first step in shaking up the status quo."
Mr Halfon added that local authorities must "keep a much closer eye" on how home-educated children were progressing, and that financial and practical support should be given to ensure home-educated children could take exams.
Home-educated child numbers soar by 75%
Covid fears prompt rise in home schooling
But the group Education Otherwise said the select committee's inquiry into home schooling was prejudiced.
Its chair, Wendy Charles-Warner, told the BBC: "Yet again we have policy recommended on the basis of rhetoric and rumour, rather than evidence.
"Parents are deeply aggrieved that the huge majority of their submissions - which make clear that there is no basis, nor benefit, in registration of home-educated children - have been ignored, in what was manifestly a predetermined outcome of a deeply prejudiced inquiry.
"This report will serve to increase home-educating families' lack of trust in public bodies even further."
She added: "The only valid and reasonable recommendation in this report is that home-educated children receive fair access to examinations, a point which should not need making."
'Negative assumption'
Jennifer Skillen, who runs HE Special, an online national support group for parents home-educating children with special educational needs and disabilities, welcomed the call for more support and equal access to exams.
But she said a lack of clarity about the exact numbers of families home-educating did not mean those children were not receiving an education.
"This negative assumption can influence the relationship between local authorities and families and should be avoided if the government wishes to build positive relationships," she said.
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government must "find out the reasons behind so many more families choosing home-education recently".
He added: "NAHT has been calling for an official register of home-educated children for some time - the fact that there is no official source of data is a sign of how unsatisfactory the situation is."
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58032842
Covid: Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin, experts say
>Darth Pompous
>Both sides knew. And it was truly up to us, the people, to make the choice for the future.
the state of these shills.. yikes
>Fauci has not answered: "Did you do any oversight of the taxpayer money you sent to Eco Health, money that you knew was going to the communist Chinese government?"
Same guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9m6wZc-ps
https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1420919852676485122
nice car
3:39
an alien who looked like satan himself, complete with pointy ears
also guy speaking looks like noname
>A group of inmates were whisked to solitary confinement after the notorious gangster’s killing. Nearly three years later, all but one have been moved out.
https://www.downloadtwittervideo.com/
>The police try to regain control with punches, batons, and pepper spray.
nice earring
>“You're going to be asked to prove your vaccination status. Here's how to do it.”
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/thousands-of-people-coming-together-at-the-moment-is-a-disaster/video/9ca5f0b352b4ad7a717a54bcf048b8bb
Thousands of people coming together at the moment ‘is a disaster’
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller says “enormous pressure” is being felt due to the Delta variant and that another “big protest” could “jeopardise Christmas”.
Commissioner Fuller spoke to Sky News Australia about the recent anti-lockdown protest seen in Sydney, and efforts undertaken by Police to block the latest planned rallies.
“I know that we all really want to protect New South Wales,” Commissioner Fuller said.
“I think people need to understand if you don’t take the health orders seriously, we will stay in lockdown an protracted time”.
“Thousands of people coming together at the moment is a disaster”.
“Big numbers of people coming together at the moment just jeopardises the life of all of us,” he said.
>US Navy Virgin gets Hymen attacked in ceremony.
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2715174/navy-christens-future-uss-hyman-g-rickover/
Navy Christens future USS Hyman G. Rickover
31 July 2021
From Lt. Seth Koenig, Submarine Readiness Squadron 32
GROTON, Connecticut – The Navy’s newest Virginia-class attack submarine, future USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795), was christened during a ceremony at General Dynamics’ Electric Boat shipyard facility in Groton, Connecticut, July 31.
“This submarine is a fitting tribute to Admiral Rickover, who truly transformed our Navy,” said Adm. James Caldwell, director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, during his remarks at the celebration.
Caldwell credited Rickover – who served for 63 years in the Navy and is credited with spurring the service to adopt nuclear propulsion after World War II – with not only technological advances but cultural ones. He lauded Rickover’s legendary work ethic, frankness, attention to detail and commitment to excellence, which he said has since permeated throughout the Navy.
“It’s really great to see this ship come together, and to see so many people here to celebrate the christening of the Hyman G. Rickover and honor the Hyman G. Rickover legacy,” said Cmdr. Thomas Niebel, commanding officer of the newly christened submarine.
The Honorable James F. Geurts, performing the duties of Under Secretary of the Navy, told those in attendance that the construction of the future USS Hyman G. Rickover is a testament to the dedication of America’s shipbuilders and sailors.
“We did not close a shipyard, public or private, for one day during the pandemic,” Geurts said. “The sustained commitment to excellence displayed by this workforce shows in the construction of this boat and adheres to the culture of excellence promoted by Hyman G. Rickover.
Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf
We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.
>Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v2
This paper has been withdrawn by its authors. They intend to revise it in response to comments received from the research community on their technical approach and their interpretation of the results. If you have any questions, please contact the corresponding author.
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1420759878788730894
At a time when China has unleashed a virus, possibly deliberately, that has wrecked the world we find CPI(M)'s Yechury congratulating China.
There is NO cure for Communism; it can ONLY be defeated through herd immunity.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing
Epidemiologist & health economist. Senior Fellow, @FAScientists
. Former 16 yrs @Harvard
. Environment, health & social justice. COVID updates since Jan 2020.
>https://twitter.com/DrEricDing
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1421617897617641474
11) reminder — “while vaccine is good, it is not a bulletproof vest against you (vaxxed) getting infected, carrying the virus and you spreading it to others.” ➡️ though remember the risk of infection if vaxxed is much lower. But it’s non zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Feigl-Ding
https://scholar.harvard.edu/andreafeigl/home
Dr. Andrea Feigl-Ding, PhD MPH, is the Founder and CEO of the Health Finance Institute, a former health economist at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and was a former health economist with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She also serves as Scientific Advisor to the Lancet Commission on Non-Communicable Diseases, Injuries, and Poverty. Dr. Feigl currently leads a SDG3 multisector initiative focused on innovative health financing for neglected global health issues.
Her work focuses on health systems financing and governance, universal healthcare, and cost-effectiveness of chronic disease interventions in developing countries. She led the largest worldwide longitudinal analysis of the political, social, and economic determinants of universal healthcare in 196 countries (published in Health Policy). She led the impact evaluation of a nationwide anti-smoking legislation in Chile (published in WHO Bulletin), and led the impact study of the award-winning intervention program for obesity/diabetes prevention in Amman, Jordan (project awarded Global Health Project of the Year from Consortium of Universities for Global Health).
She was notably the primary innovator of the Evidenced Formal Coverage Index for comparative health economics of achieving universal healthcare, and a primary author of the NCD Reframing Initiative, published in Lancet Global Health.
In addition to health systems analysis in Timor-Leste and Bangladesh, she conducted policy research at WHO-PAHO, evaluated projects in Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru, and worked for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She has further authored several high level reports, including Development Aid Flows for Chronic Diseases for the Center for Global Development, a background paper on the political economy of universal healthcare for WHO, and a leading World Economic Forum/Harvard report on the global economic burden of chronic diseases, featured at the UN High Level Summit on NCDs in 2011.
She was a Salzburg Global Fellow, a Harvard Graduate Leadership Initiative Fellow, former President of the Harvard Club of Austria, and an internationally certified teacher in Cecchetti classical ballet from the Imperial Society for Teachers of Dance. A native of Austria, she received her PhD in global health and population from Harvard University, her MPH and BSc (First Class Honors with full scholarship) from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and her IB from Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway.
(*Earned the legacy Sc.D. Doctor of Science degree, which was phased out by Harvard University beginning in 2016. The outdated Sc.D. in Global Health and Population is no longer conferred at Harvard, and has now been entirely replaced by the Ph.D. degree in the same field at Harvard. Thus, in everyday parlance, it has now become common practice that Harvard scientists holding grandfathered Sc.D. degrees often use 'Ph.D.' in lay/general audience settings).
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/public-health-scientist-hopes-take-his-activism-congress
Public health scientist hopes to take his activism to Congress
Eric Ding gave himself a scant 10 weeks to win the Democratic primary for a seat in the U.S. Congress from central Pennsylvania. It’s the latest challenge for the 35-year-old public health scientist, who’s been in a hurry ever since doctors removed a large tumor from his chest as a teenager.
The successful surgery led him to choose public health as his career, and it didn’t take him long to make an impact. By the age of 23, he had earned doctoral degrees in nutrition and epidemiology from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) in Boston.
As a sideline to his graduate work, he co-authored a meta-analysis of the harmful effects of Vioxx, a hugely popular painkiller that had recently been withdrawn. The 2006 paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association received national media coverage. Over the past decade, he’s helped build one of the first web-based platforms to raise money for cancer research and promote healthy lifestyles and more recently, he created a site to help communities learn whether their children are at risk from high lead levels in the water.
So in February, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out a Republican-drawn map of the state’s 18 congressional districts and created a new one that wasn’t based on partisan politics, Ding sensed an opportunity to step up his activism. Declaring his candidacy on 27 February, the first-time candidate seems to relish the challenge of having so little time before the 15 May primary to connect with voters in the 10th congressional district (PA-10), near where he grew up before leaving the area for college 15 years ago.
“Our race is very difficult because we don’t have 6 to 9 months to fundraise and meet everyone at town halls,” he explains during a recent interview at his campaign headquarters here. “So everything is compressed. It’s intense.”
Health care, anyone?
Ding thrives on intense. Knocking on doors in a residential neighborhood here, Ding wastes no time describing how his personal medical crisis motivated his choice of careers. Health care is also the centerpiece of his campaign, and he frames the need for universal health coverage as a matter of expanding personal freedom. He hopes that approach will win over enough Republicans and independents to help him topple the Republican incumbent, Representative Scott Perry, should Ding defeat the three other Democrats running in the primary.
“Do you think health care is an important issue?” he prompts several residents after they fail to answer his question about what they are most worried about. “Well, the doctors at [Milton S.] Hershey Medical Center [in his district] saved my life. And that’s when I decided to become a public health scientist.”
One attentive homeowner gets a full dose of Ding’s major talking points: “I’ve dedicated my career to fighting injustices in the health care system,” he tells her. “I was a whistleblower fighting the big drug companies that were selling a dangerous drug. Then I helped lead the fight against lead poisoning, like in Flint [Michigan]. I’ve never worked for a corporation, and I want to take that fight to Washington [D.C].”
The front porch is a tough place to discuss how to reform the ailing U.S. health care system. One resident, a retired state employee, says he’s in good health and that his top priority is getting motorists to slow down and not run the stop sign at the end of the block—something over which a member of Congress has no input. However, another resident seemed to take up Ding’s invitation by disclosing that his wife has recently been diagnosed with cancer and that she has waited 6 months to begin treatment.
The comment rang Ding’s bell. He explains that the current incentive system in medicine is badly flawed and that doctors should get paid based on their success in treating people rather than on the number of tests they order. Then he pauses, hoping that explanation will strike a chord.
But the homeowner doesn’t see the connection to his wife’s condition. “The doctors are just dragging their feet,” he mutters. After walking away, Ding rejects the suggestion that he might have misunderstood the speaker and moves onto the next house.
His heartfelt appreciation
A misdiagnosis helps explain why Ding is pounding the pavement here, the state capital and largest city in the mostly rural district he hopes to represent. His parents, who emigrated from Shanghai, China, when he was 5 years old, certainly had no idea their son would someday strive to become an elected official. “They aren’t very political,” he says. “My mom is a very shy professor of education at a local university [in nearby Shippensburg, Pennsylvania].”
On the other hand, education was a priority. His mother’s first academic job after earning her Ph.D. in education instruction from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln required her to teach psychology and statistics. She had never studied either subject, he says, so over the summer she purchased and pored over a 26-volume PBS series on each discipline. “And I watched them with her, twice,” Ding recalls. “I was in third grade. I didn’t have a lot of friends. And it was my first foray into real science.”
In high school, he was chosen for a highly competitive statewide summer program for gifted students, and a chest x-ray as part of a routine physical revealed a tumor the size of a baseball attached to his heart and extending to his lungs and thymus. “Based on where the tumor was, they thought it was a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma [NHL],” he says. “And NHL is 95% fatal. So it was pretty scary. But weeks later they discovered it was a different type of tumor, and benign.”
As an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Ding majored in public health and “fell in love with epidemiology.” The next stop was HSPH, where he stood out for wanting to do more than just take the next big step onto the academic ladder.
“He has a strong passion for public health research and policy, which set him apart from others who were primarily interested in publishing papers in their specific area,” says Frank Hu, chair of the nutrition department at HSPH and one of Ding’s advisers. “He wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. And I think running for Congress speaks to that passion and to his dream.”
Ding’s appetite for public health advocacy seems unlimited. While a postdoc at HSPH, he entered medical school at nearby Boston University with the help of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. But after a year he dropped out.
“I thought I wanted to be a physician-scientist,” he recalls. “But I realized that my real passion was to be a changemaker. Life is short, and it’s about what you do, not the number of letters after your name.” He repaid the balance of the scholarship, and retained his ties to the family of billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, several of whom have donated to his campaign.
Ding returned to HSPH as an instructor and research scientist. But again, that wasn’t the only thing on his plate. He watched with amazement as his Campaign for Cancer Research grew to some 6 million users as a Facebook app before being absorbed by a new media company. He also began working with Microclinic International, a nonprofit working on global disease prevention and health management.
After others sounded the alarm over lead poisoning in Flint, Ding used his skills in analyzing massive data sets to create ToxinAlert.org. “By the time a child is tested for lead poisoning, it’s already too late,” he explains. “The brain damage has already happened. So the only way to prevent it is to have a public alert system. And that’s why we aggregated data from USGS the U.S. Geological Survey] and EPA [the Environmental Protection Agency]—which is almost impossible to find, by the way—in one place, showing the water quality in that area.”
Fighting for recognition
Ding is married to Andrea Feigl-Ding, a health economist with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In 2015, after Feigl-Ding completed her Ph.D. from HSPH, Ding began reducing his workload there. By the fall of 2017, Ding had returned to central Pennsylvania to sniff out the possibility of running for Congress.
A friend put him in touch with 314 Action, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–based organization that helps scientists and engineers run for office, and Ding says the staff tutored him in what it would take. “They came down and coached me in person, spending days and weekends with me.”
Their advice, he says, supplemented what he already knew from working on other political campaigns in the Boston area, and from friends who also decided to run for Congress in 2018. His network includes Daniel Koh, a young politico seeking an open House of Representatives seat in a heavily Democrat district in eastern Massachusetts, and Brayden Olson, a web entrepreneur who briefly sought the Democratic nomination for an open seat in Seattle, Washington.
The key to victory in PA-10, Ding says, will be gaining sufficient name recognition in a four-way race of political novices. A win would also serve as a springboard for the November general election contest against Perry in a solidly Republican district.
His 30-second ad that is airing on local TV addresses both those objectives. It starts with Ding, who is labeled “public health scientist” and shown in a lab, shaking a pillbox. He explains how he “fought to protect families” against drugs that “caused heart attacks and kidney failure.” Then he ends with a plea to viewers “to fight [U.S. President] Donald Trump.”
>Ding is married to Andrea Feigl, a health economist with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
>Dr. Andrea Feigl, PhD MPH, is the Founder and CEO of the Health Finance Institute, a former health economist at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and was a former health economist with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She also serves as Scientific Advisor to the Lancet Commission on Non-Communicable Diseases, Injuries, and Poverty.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/predicting-countries-likelihood-of-achieving-universal-health-care/
>https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/predicting-countries-likelihood-of-achieving-universal-health-care/
Predicting countries’ likelihood of achieving universal health care
The new findings are part of a comprehensive analysis by first author Andrea Feigl, a doctoral candidate in the HSPH Department of Global Health and Population, and senior author [[Eric Ding]], research scientist in the HSPH Department of Nutrition. As part of their research, Feigl and Ding developed a standardized index for assessing universal health care coverage, and then calculated the likelihood that a particular country will successfully develop and achieve universal health care over time.
>Dr. Andrea Feigl-Ding
>Someone reverse engineered the mRNA sequences of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Do any anons have protein modelling software they can use to generate the structure of the protein?
just run it through ghidra
>The police try to regain control with punches, batons, and pepper spray.
>Military will be knocking on doors to ensure people are isolating