>Ex-NASA administrator James Beggs dies aged 94
>Private Valery Didenko
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2014/03/13/leadership-lessons-for-mr-putin/
Leadership Lessons for Mr. Putin
Vladimir Putin may not remember a Ukrainian named Valery Didenko, but he should. Private Didenko was a conscript soldier in the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan who was captured by Afghan rebels and became the first Soviet POW ever captured after World War 2. In 1985, he returned home as part of a Red Cross prisoner exchange, and if he still lives, I imagine like most Ukrainians he does not look favorably upon Moscow’s latest adventure.
At the time I took this picture, in eastern Afghanistan in 1982, Mr. Putin was a young KGB officer working for his boss and idol Yuri Andropov, who later that year became the Soviet head of state. Andropov, it should be noted, masterminded the suppression of the Hungarian revolution in 1956, ordered the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968, and was the main proponent within the Politburo of the ill-fated Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
diGenova: I’m watching this thing with Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case and the way he has been just frivolous in the way he dealt with Sidney Powell’s pleadings on the violation of due process in Michael Flynn. Just reading his stuff and listening to him, it’s disgusting that a federal judge would sit there and listen to the lies that the Justice Department committed in that case and literally basically do nothing.
Carr: And they’re still foot dragging too Joe. I mean this is Barr’s Justice Department, right. Why aren’t they just coming clean?
diGenova: I think Barr is letting them commit harry carry. Remember the guy running that case, Brandon Van Grack. Van Grack is part of the Mueller cabal. I think he’s letting them dig their own grave. It’s like in that scene in The Irishman when De Niro is over in World War II and he’s having the German soldiers dig their own grave and he says, you know what, I kept saying to myself, why’d these guys keep digging. They know what’s gonna happen and that’s where Van Grack is. He’s a German soldier digging his own friggin’ grave and he just happens to have a name like Van Grack.
Wasn't Tam involved with something like that?
Photodynamic antibacterial therapy (PDAT), an old‐fashioned technique, has been rejuvenated to combat “superbugs” and biofilm‐associated infections owing to its excellent characteristics of noninvasiveness and broad antibacterial spectrum. More importantly, bacteria are less likely to produce drug resistance to PDAT because it does not require specific targeting interaction between photosensitizers (PSs) and bacteria.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071049/
Photodynamic therapy: a new antimicrobial approach to infectious disease?
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) employs a non-toxic dye, termed a photosensitizer (PS), and low intensity visible light which, in the presence of oxygen, combine to produce cytotoxic species. PDT has the advantage of dual selectivity, in that the PS can be targeted to its destination cell or tissue and, in addition, the illumination can be spatially directed to the lesion. PDT has previously been used to kill pathogenic microorganisms in vitro, but its use to treat infections in animal models or patients has not, as yet, been much developed. It is known that Gram-(−) bacteria are resistant to PDT with many commonly used PS that will readily lead to phototoxicity in Gram-(+) species, and that PS bearing a cationic charge or the use of agents that increase the permeability of the outer membrane will increase the efficacy of killing Gram-(−) organisms. All the available evidence suggests that multi-antibiotic resistant strains are as easily killed by PDT as naïve strains, and that bacteria will not readily develop resistance to PDT. Treatment of localized infections with PDT requires selectivity of the PS for microbes over host cells, delivery of the PS into the infected area and the ability to effectively illuminate the lesion. Recently, there have been reports of PDT used to treat infections in selected animal models and some clinical trials: mainly for viral lesions, but also for acne, gastric infection by Helicobacter pylori and brain abcesses. Possible future clinical applications include infections in wounds and burns, rapidly spreading and intractable soft-tissue infections and abscesses, infections in body cavities such as the mouth, ear, nasal sinus, bladder and stomach, and surface infections of the cornea and skin.