https://ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/ambasciata_washington/en/sala-stampa/dall_ambasciata/2011/08/pelosi%20grand%20cross.html
Nancy Pelosi bestowed the Knighthood of the Grand Cross at Villa Firenze
>https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/tiniest-dino-ever-discovered-inside-this-amber-fossil
Smallest dino ever discovered inside this amber fossil
This new discovery has been called Oculudentavis khaungraae. It’s the smallest extinct dinosaur on record.
The first part of the name means “eye-teeth-bird,” and the second part honours the woman who found the preserved skull: Khuang Ra.
What was this dino like?
This dinosaur had pupils that shrank and expanded in sunlight, suggesting that it was adapted to hunt during the day.
Dinosaur fossils found in solid amber are much better preserved than fossils found in the ground.
Amber is formed from tree sap that has fossilized over time.
This creature resembles a modern bird, but Ryan McKellar, a Canadian paleontologist, noted some key differences
“They're sort of our neat little guys that scurried around on tree trunks. [They] still had claws in their wings and still had teeth in their snout,” said McKellar.
The fact that this dinosaur was found in amber suggests to scientists that it spent a lot of its time on tree trunks, where it would have been trapped in the liquid tree sap.
The dinosaur also would have had larger eyes than most modern birds, and its eyes would have pointed more sideways.
Modern similarities
Despite living about 99 million years ago, this dinosaur still has some resemblance to modern-day animals.
McKellar, who is a curator at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina, said that the dinosaur is almost the same size as the world’s smallest bird: the bee hummingbird.
>https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-almost-tweeted-that-tom-hanks-died-from-covid-19-2020-3
fucking cicadas
>https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1244457859191992320
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095
FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care
The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, decades-old malaria drugs championed by President Donald Trump for coronavirus treatment despite scant evidence.
The agency allowed for the drugs to be "donated to the Strategic National Stockpile to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible," HHS said in a statement, announcing that Sandoz donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the stockpile and Bayer donated 1 million doses of chloroquine.
The move was supported by the White House, part of a larger Trump-backed effort to speed the use of anti-malaria drugs as a potential therapy for a virus that has no proven treatment or cure. FDA already has allowed New York state to test administering the medication to seriously ill patients, and some hospitals have added it to their treatment protocols.
"Let's see how it works," Trump said at a press briefing on Sunday, referencing New York state's efforts. "It may. It may not."
Career scientists have been skeptical of the effort, noting the lack of data on the drug’s efficacy for coronavirus care and worried that it would siphon medication away from patients who need it for other conditions, calling instead for the agency to pursue its usual clinical trials.
Three officials told POLITICO that FDA’s planned move would facilitate more access to the drug by allowing more manufacturers to produce or donate it.
Hydroxychloroquine, which is already available commercially in the United States, is commonly used to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The drug also has been touted as a therapy for coronavirus by an unusual assortment of investors, TV correspondents and even some advisers to the White House — including some advocates who overstated their claims and credentials — and been championed by guests on Fox News.
https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1244339404753289216
De Blasio: churches and synagogues that hold worship services may be closed permanently
>This is big.
This employee was terminated today [Saturday] after our Human Resources team concluded its investigation. We followed standard procedure, which required that we gather and verify relevant information before taking any disciplinary action.
Dr. Johnson and her team responded with swift and appropriate action. We have always been and continue to be a center serving everyone who needs us. That is core to our mission, our culture and the experience our patients and families can expect every day.
This behavior is not tolerated at Roswell Park. If any team members act in a way that does not accord with that commitment, we will take swift and appropriate action, just as we did in this instance.
https://twitter.com/MichaelRCaputo/status/1243582797429833729
>https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7342
Receipt and disposition of foreign gifts and decorations
> MILF_Tower
>you people