When a portion of a normal liver is removed, the remaining liver can grow back (regenerate) to the original size within several weeks.
The FBI don’t believe the terrorist hostage taker at the Texas synagogue was an antisemitic event because it was “singularly focused on one issue” which was not “specifically related to the Jewish community.
“We are continuing to work to find motive.”
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-novak-djokovic-sports-health-australia-2ca1c31f867c05a49e66a8b8f8849477
Djokovic leaves Australia after losing deportation appeal
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/
Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants
As a complement to vaccines, small-molecule therapeutic agents are needed to treat or prevent infections by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants, which cause COVID-19. Affinity selection-mass spectrometry was used for the discovery of botanical ligands to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Cannabinoid acids from hemp (Cannabis sativa) were found to be allosteric as well as orthosteric ligands with micromolar affinity for the spike protein. In follow-up virus neutralization assays, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid prevented infection of human epithelial cells by a pseudovirus expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and prevented entry of live SARS-CoV-2 into cells. Importantly, cannabigerolic acid and cannabidiolic acid were equally effective against the SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant B.1.1.7 and the beta variant B.1.351. Orally bioavailable and with a long history of safe human use, these cannabinoids, isolated or in hemp extracts, have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2.
https://www.adl.org/blog/far-right-extremists-memorialize-martyr-ashli-babbitt
Far-Right Extremists Memorialize “Martyr” Ashli Babbitt
Ashli Babbitt, the Trump supporter and QAnon follower killed during the Capitol siege, has quickly become a celebrated martyr for many on the far right. The symbolic weight of her death in the seat of the national government was immediately evident, and right-wing accounts on platforms such as MeWe, Minds, Rumble, and Telegram moved quickly to memorialize Babbitt in posts calling for “justice,” and demonizing the government and law enforcement.
While some posts have spread baseless conspiracies calling Babbitt a crisis actor, part of an antifa plot or a victim of QAnon who “trusted the plan,” much of the online chatter depicts her as a fallen hero.
>Not one.
>“if the trump people found out how we knew what we knew”
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Amtrak
“And I was getting on the train to go home,” Biden continued. “I was going home to see my mom who was sick. And one of the conductors I’ve known for years walked up and grins, he said, ‘Joey baby,’ grabbed my cheek. Not a joke. And I thought that he was going to get shot. True story.”
Biden once again put on his best working-class-Joe impression to draw out the “Joe-eee” and “bay-bee.”
Biden said, “I said, ‘No, no, it’s OK. We’ve known each other.’ He says, ‘Joey. Big deal. A million miles’ — or whatever it was — ‘a million miles on Air Force Two. Come on, Joey, do you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?’ I said no.”
Virginia Jeffrey I mean Giuffre
https://apnews.com/article/01845eff099c4308b52b5f8863f4e3da
Low-key Obama aide at center of secret Iran talks
December 23, 2013
Last year, while Jake Sullivan was traveling with his boss, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he quietly disappeared during a stop in Paris. He showed up again a few days later, rejoining Clinton’s traveling team in Mongolia.
In between, Sullivan secretly flew to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman to meet with officials from Iran, people familiar with the trip said. The July 2012 meeting is one of the Obama administration’s earliest known face-to-face contacts with Iran and reveals that Sullivan - who moved from the State Department to the White House earlier this year - was personally involved in the administration’s outreach to the Islamic republic far earlier than had been reported.
Senior administration officials had previously confirmed to The Associated Press that Sullivan and other officials held at least five secret meetings with Iran this year, preparing the way for an interim nuclear agreement signed in November by Iran, the United States and five other world powers.
Sullivan is just 37 and looks even younger. Even-keeled and pragmatic, Sullivan’s temperament mirrors that of President Barack Obama, people close to him say. That helped him crack the tight-knit foreign policy team at the White House where he now serves as Vice President Joe Biden’s national security adviser.
While Biden is a possible presidential candidate in 2016, Sullivan remains loyal to Clinton and is seen as her likely pick for White House national security adviser, should she run for president and win.
“He’s essentially a once-in-a-generation talent,” said Philippe Reines, a longtime Clinton aide who worked closely with Sullivan during their tenure at the State Department.
Sullivan has a gleaming resume: undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, Rhodes scholar at Oxford and clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
During the bruising 2008 Democratic primary, Sullivan sided with Clinton, serving as a top adviser on her debate preparation team. But he switched to Team Obama during the general election, taking on a similar role on the debate team.
When Obama chose Clinton to lead the State Department, Sullivan followed her. He had a pair of high-level titles — deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning — and quickly became known as one of Clinton’s most trusted advisers. He traveled with her to nearly all of the 112 countries she visited as secretary and played a leading role in shaping U.S. policy toward Libya and Syria, as well as the historic opening of relations with the isolated Asian nation of Myanmar.
>MARTA Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Parker died late Friday
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/obituaries/fl-ne-michael-moskowitz-attorney-obituary-20220116-pakocfwylzfgrjiyadm24zntx4-story.html
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Michael Moskowitz, a Broward powerbroker known as a go-to lawyer, dies at 68
Michael Moskowitz, the high-power attorney, lobbyist and one of Broward’s most prominent money-raisers for Democratic candidates, died late Saturday, just a year and a half after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed. He was 68.
It was days after he got to see his son sworn in as a Broward County commissioner as an appointee by Gov. Ron DeSantis, an event he was so determined to witness that his family made arrangements to take him to Parkland City Hall by ambulance. Hospice had come to his house to help care for him two days earlier.
The swearing-in was meant to add two new members to the county commission, but Moskowitz was the main attraction: Scores of political well-wishers, and some former clients, waited patiently to kneel down to him in his wheelchair, shake his hand, or rest it on his shoulder and whisper their congratulations about his son’s latest accomplishment.
A graduate of New York University and Brooklyn Law School, Moskowitz had a reputation of being the go-to lawyer to get things done.
As an attorney, Moskowitz in 2020 represented Sheriff Gregory Tony against lawsuits filed by Tony’s former political adversaries, who questioned his eligibility for sheriff. Moskowitz appeared in court by Zoom, apologizing to the judge for his hat while he was undergoing treatment.
He has previously represented the Florida Panthers seeking an $80 million Broward bailout using tourist taxes. And in 2011 he represented the longtime president of the Broward Teachers Union when criminal accusations began to surface.
Broward County Mayor Michael Udine, who has been friends with Moskowitz for 25 years, said he was also a generous philanthropist. “He was a pillar in the community, he was the first call people made [to host for] charitable organizations. … He was a great lawyer and a great family man.”
Moskowitz’s political acumen drew attention as he wined and dined donors at his Parkland estate to help some of the top names in the country get elected.
In 2008, former President Bill Clinton lured more than 120 people to Michael Moskowitz’s 6,000-square-foot Parkland home to stump for his wife.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s staffers greeted guests at the door and collected checks of $1,000 or more per person. Guests dined on hors d’oeuvres brought around on cocktail trays by wait staff, including pigs in a blanket, sushi and lamb chops as Bill Clinton talked about his wife.
Over the years Moskowitz hosted events for former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, former Democrat Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, and former State Education Commissioner Betty Castor when she ran for governor. In 2014, he hosted Joe Biden, then the vice president, as he campaigned for Charlie Crist for Florida’s governor.
Jared Moskowitz said it was his dad who took him to his first presidential rally, that of Democrat Jesse Jackson, in elementary school and encouraged his political ambitions when he was just 25 and naysayers told him he was too young. “He was the only person who thought it was a good idea,” Jared Moskowitz said.
Mitch Ceasar, the former chairman of the Broward Democratic Party, had been friends with Moskowitz for more than 40 years, even attending his son’s bar mitzvah. He said people were attracted to Moskowitz because of his intellect and sense of humor.
Although he was thrilled to support the two new county commissioners sworn into office last Wednesday, it was Michael Moskowitz he went to see and say his goodbyes.
He said Moskowitz believed in the Democratic party in part with how he grew up, in middle class in Brooklyn, he said. “He believed in equal rights and facts matter. He really cared about those things decades ago.”
In addition to his son, Jared, Moskowitz is survived by his wife, Marilyn, and son, Brett Moskowitz, of Atlanta, daughter Jessica Isrow, of Parkland, and four grandchildren.
>In 2008, former President Bill Clinton lured more than 120 people to Michael Moskowitz’s 6,000-square-foot Parkland home to stump for his wife. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s staffers greeted guests at the door and collected checks of $1,000 or more per person. Guests dined on hors d’oeuvres brought around on cocktail trays by wait staff, including pigs in a blanket, sushi and lamb chops as Bill Clinton talked about his wife.
>enough blood in anon's coffee system
gotta check that water level, it gets away from you