UV-LED disinfection of Coronavirus: Wavelength effect – ScienceDirect Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
This study shows promise in disinfection for Covid19. The study attempted to find the disinfection efficiency of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes irradiation at different wavelengths or frequencies on coronavirus. It is said to be the first of its kind in the world, according to the Jerusalem Post.UV LED lights kill 99% of COVID in 30 seconds, new study - TheBlaze
There is some research to show that higher humidity levels can help fight the Coronavirus in your indoor spaces. Op-ed: Humidity can aid in the fight against COVID-19 | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
There could be 3 reasons for this: Studies suggest that
I’ve never had much luck with humidifiers, however, we have stopped running the fans when we take a shower and don’t wipe down the water from the tile and glass doors. I leave the door open to the hall when I shower. It’s a small amount, to be sure, but right now it’s OK to steam up the mirror.
Also, the new case load and death rate from Covid is also affected by the temperature and humidity of the country, as research has found, and could be important for policy. In the U.S., however, it is just easier to blame President Trump. Effects of temperature and humidity on the daily new cases and new deaths of COVID-19 in 166 countries - PubMed (nih.gov)
About 2 decades ago, before I started saving everything at my blog, I was searching for the perfect bread pudding recipe—like my mom made from leftover bread. I missed her and wanted that special taste for a memory. And I wrote about it. I found some good ones, but never the exact match because she probably didn’t use a recipe.
This recipe was posted by a guy friend, Brian Good, on Facebook. But the website had a gazillion ads, and I couldn’t read the directions. So I looked it up by name on a different site. It says it is great for brunch or dessert. This one has slightly fewer eggs and cream cheese than the one I saw posted on FB. By soaking the bread overnight, it becomes more of a souffle or a bread pudding. The cream cheese gets creamy and the blueberries add a bit of sweetness and tartness at the same time. Hope you enjoy it! Blueberry French Toast Casserole | Tasty Kitchen: A Happy Recipe Community!
Place the bread cubes in a greased 13×9-inch baking dish; add blueberries and cream cheese evenly throughout the bread cubes.
Beat eggs, milk, cinnamon, nutmeg and syrup with a wire whisk until well blended. Pour over the ingredients in the baking dish; cover. Refrigerate overnight.
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Bake, uncovered, for 35 minutes. Add the pecans if desired, then bake for an additional 10 minutes or until the center is set. Serve with additional syrup, if desired.
If you are making this recipe for dessert, forego the maple syrup and serve with whipped cream.
Enjoy!
Can't believe I'm that old. Genie Francis and Anthony Geary (Luke and Laura), two soap opera stars whose characters married in 1981 will be at the big 40 in the New Year, November 17. I only know that because my daughter watched this SOAP, General Hospital, and so I watched it, too. She was probably in 8th grade. But what was my excuse?
Luke and Laura Today: Where the ‘General Hospital’ Stars Are Now | Heavy.com
"Luke and Laura’s wedding on November 17, 1981 brought in 30 million viewers and remains the highest-rated soap opera episode in American daytime television history. Elizabeth Taylor cameoed during the event, and Princess Diana even sent champagne."Zuckerberg and his wife supported Biden/Harris big time, funneling mega-bucks for training poll workers and campaigners. And we all know how that campaign fraud went. However, it is technically free, and those of us who use it need to know the only product FB sells is us—our information. Personal information about buying habits, religion, politics, opinions, photos—it’s all consumed and regurgitation by Facebook to buy and sell us.
But Facebook is also pushing it’s own politics, and will blacklist our posts that they don’t like. I’m reposting some of my blogs at my Facebook site, and they all come up with a warning—even if it is a recipe or a holiday tradition. FB by technical snooping knows I’m not one of them. I’m just some deranged, low class, low caste college educated American who escaped the clutches of the Democrat party in 2000 for fresh air, liberation and truth. There are a lot of us out there—every ethnicity, age, sex, religion—black, brown, white, rich, poor, employed, retired, Protestant, Jew, Muslim, Catholic. The U.S. capitalist system with freedom of religion and the religion of meritocracy has allowed Zuckerberg to arise to the heights of success, but he landed on a dead branch of socialism and is trying to clip the wings of others. Ironically, it’s the capitalist way. Always kill off the competition.
I got a black mark for pointing out the racism and eugenics of the Leftists among us. I got a black mark for citing Newsmax, a conservative TV News source. I got a black mark for posting a an AA list on how to stay sober just for today. So I’m embedded in the the FB file dungeons as a right wing nut, no matter if I post recipes or voter fraud stories.
I have a lot of cookbooks and recipe files—some almost 100 years old, from my mom and mother-in-law to Inglenook to Betty Crocker to a collection from Ogle County Illinois homemakers. But there are more people who have come forward to testify about voter irregularities at the polls, from the cemeteries and from voting machines than I have recipes. All those patriots are willing to put their reputations (and lives) on the line, and they’ve been silenced by the very government and political parties they want to save.
She was hoping for a white Christmas and she got one. We get very little snow in central Ohio, and only rarely on Christmas, but we had about 3 inches by 10 p.m. last night. Sonja got her wish. Our lights on our deck outside are buried, but muted. And she’s thinking about her friends Ann and Phil. Annie died of kidney cancer in February, and our Phil died of glioblastoma, brain cancer, in April. Sonja is in recovery from breast cancer. As children they were all members of UALC, and their parents all are friends or ours. Sonja spoke at Phil’s service in June at Gender Road Christian Church.
"It is so quiet and peaceful. . .what a blessed Christmas Eve, even as I have a few tears as I am sending love to my Annie and Phil in Heaven. Annie would be loving this snowfall, and Phil would be loving his Christmas tree.
Thank you God for this white Christmas, my soul needed it. . . kinda makes me want to dig out my little tree, and put it up, instead of continuing to bah humbug the festivities, but honestly, not decorating the inside of my house has kept me focused on the reason for the season, and I know it sounds strange, but it has made it really special to me." (Facebook post, Dec. 25, 2020) Photo is Phil and Sonja in February showing off their hair after chemo.
For the last two years I haven't added a newsy letter to Bob's Christmas card--a watercolor with a greeting. Our lives changed forever on Oct. 1, 2019, so there is not much to write about for Christmas 2019 and 2020. And the cards we've been receiving mostly say something like, "stay well," "stay safe," stay safe and well," Hope you staying safe," or "Hope we can see each other soon." A very different holiday, but we certainly look forward to hearing from friends and relatives. This year we’ve received some phone calls in place of cards—don’t recall that from years past. Maybe 5 or 6.
And one said, “From the Left coast” and he reads my blog!
This is an earlier version of his card, but he added more snow and a Christmas tree when it became this year’s “winner.” I didn't take a photo of the finished product.
Just for today I will be agreeable.
I will look as well as I can,
dress becomingly,
keep my voice low,
be courteous,
criticize not one bit.
I won't find fault with anything,
nor try to improve or regulate anybody but myself.
No problem with “look as well as I can or dress becomingly.” Always have my make-up on and completely dressed for the day in something attractive before my feet hit the first floor (in shoes, not slippers) in the morning. But the rest? NO. I doubt I could go 5 minutes. And if you are nodding your head, then you probably have the same problem! You wish I would change!! Some of us, and we know who we are, just can’t resist finding a better way to do something or improve something—or someone. We seem to gravitate to social media, too.
A popular sobriety aid is the Just for Today card that some AA [Al-Anon, Families Anonymous, Overeaters anonymous] members carry in their pocket or purse and refer to when thinking of a drink or they are disturbed by a life event.
Just for today
It's a form of eugenics.
After 9 months of preaching "science" at us (unless it was a therapeutic the President recommended then it wasn't science, it was hate that came to the fore), our national health plan is now to NOT vaccinate seniors after the hospital workers, but to use race as the criteria. Blacks are not less healthy because of their race; it's their lifestyle. Fewer children raised with married parents, more obesity, more life style diseases, poor diets (by choice), and higher crime rates. It's not racist to use medical science instead of social change goals.
Those woke goals have never been shown to improve the health and welfare of minorities. This pandemic and the leftist goals behind the plan to close down the economy, shut down the best chance minorities have had in my lifetime to achieve, thrive and excel--the Trump economy. The Left is terrified that minorities will get ahead--they could lose the lock on their vote. It would take a few months for them to get to me because there are a lot of logistics to get people convinced and lined up. I prefer to get the vaccine after a few bugs are worked out. But minorities are already very reluctant. I watched Dr. Varon of Houston on Newmax this morning, and he said about 50% of his healthcare workers do NOT plan to get the vaccine. At Houston Hospital, Head Of COVID-19 Unit Sees Some Staff Wary Of A Vaccine : NPR When asked why, he said most of them are black and Latinx, and because of a history of racism in the 1950s and 1960s, they are suspicious of being a guinea pig. Add to that the number of educated, wealthy, crunchies who are anti-vaxxers anyway, and you can see we've got a problem.
Our medical ethics swamp has decided the elderly are "too white." But their own history (which includes Medicaid and Obamacare) has made minorities suspicious and reluctant to trust their own industry. Add to that the critical race theory that is invading every level of education, all the non-profits and the corporations, plus many churches, plus four years of demeaning the President who got the Warp Speed program going in record time, and we've got a full fledge mess on our hands. Minority health care workers are also more suspicious of Trump (wonder whose fault that is--Gov. Cuomo and Gov. Newsom and MSM have continually laid a foundation of doubt that this vaccine could be safe).
Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, says because older people are whiter, this will "level the playing field." What? Kill off granny in the nursing home so a Walmart stocker who because of youth isn't at risk can be first in line? Does that make sense? If this is "ethics" is suspiciously pre 20th century. And teachers are too white? Democrats/liberals/progressives definitely plan to keep the schools on lockdown and destroy another generation of black children who are already being short changed.Medical Ethicist: Elderly Shouldn't Get Vaccines First Because They're Too White | National Review
It's shocking how the left is willing to let people die because they hate Trump. Oh, and have you noticed that the AMA has flipped on HCQ American Medical Association Rescinds Hydroxychloroquine Prevention Order – [your]NEWS and now all of a sudden with the vaccine available it's no longer "unscientific" to talk about herd health? Fauci Predicts U.S. Could See Signs Of Herd Immunity By Late March Or Early April : Coronavirus Updates : NPR A few months ago, that concept was ridiculed.
The infamous Zeke Emanuel, buddy and advisor to Obama, and the "too white" for prime time Schmidt co-authored a textbook titled, “Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare.”It’s so difficult to find the right contact to let a tv or radio show know they are doing something right. I think this went to customer service, but I wanted to let Rob Finnerty know I’ve been enjoying his morning show:
“Sending a comment to Rob on Wake Up America to let you know how much I'm enjoying the morning shows (I watch several). I Wake Up with you while on my exercycle--I do about 10 miles, stopping to walk and stretch. I'm 81. I left Fox about 3 weeks ago, so this is some adjustment for an old lady. I think Newsmax is more conservative than Fox, however, there is a clear distinction on Newsmax between opinion shows and news shows. I like that. I can make up my own mind if you provide the sources. Your guests are reasonable, yet conservative, a view difficult to find on the alphabet media and other cable shows. No one is shouting at me or becoming hysterical. I'm a retired university librarian, so I'm not looking for recipes, fashion or theater reviews. Thanks for the news. I've been blogging for over 17 years.”
Copied from Linked IN:
Rob Finnerty is the anchor of 'Wake Up America' on Newsmax in New York City. He is a former Morning News Anchor in market 11 Tampa, Florida at WTSP 10 News. In 2016, he was part of a groundbreaking team that launched a morning show with a completely new format in a newsroom-based studio. The show was unlike anything else in local television, and quickly become the standard for how viewers consume local television news in the market.
Before moving to Newsmax, Finnerty was an Anchor/Reporter in Kansas City, MO, and co-hosted the talk show 'Better Kansas City' with a live studio-audience. He has also worked as an anchor at KBAK/KBFX in Bakersfield, California and as a sports anchor & reporter at New England Cable News (now NBC) in Boston, MA. At just 25, he covered the World Series, Super Bowl & the 2008 NBA Finals. Rob is originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and he graduated with a degree in Communications from Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. His passions in the industry center around politics, sports and major domestic and international headlines and he is represented by Ken Lindner who can be reached directly at Ken@klateam.com.
An Orlando firm, Kalera Inc. has acquired a building near Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, where it will construct a new 75,000-square-foot indoor growing facility that will have the capacity to produce millions of heads of lettuce and create 65 jobs locally when it opens in 2021, CEO Daniel Malechuk said.
This is supposed to be the equivalent of several hundred acres of farm land production--no information on address or the cost of renovating the building.
Orlando firm plans 'vertical farm' in Columbus - Columbus Business First (bizjournals.com)
I'm looking through my blog for Christmas menus using pork roast, and found this meme from 2006.
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg Nog, definitely. I purchase it, then cut it in 1/2 with skim milk. We can't tell the difference.“The New York Times and ProPublica reviewed “thousands of secret government directives and other documents” in creating their report. Specifically, there were “3,200 directives and 1,800 memos and other files” originating from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s internet censor, created by CCP leader Xi Jinping in 2014. The report also draws from data from Urun Big Data Services, which helps China’s local governments monitor and censor China’s internet. The New York Times and ProPublica received these documents from the hacker organization CCP Unmasked, along with some duplicates from China Digital Times.”
Hacked Documents Expose China’s COVID-19 Cover-Up | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
“Though China makes no secret of its belief in rigid internet controls, the documents convey just how much behind-the-scenes effort is involved in maintaining a tight grip. It takes an enormous bureaucracy, armies of people, specialized technology made by private contractors, the constant monitoring of digital news outlets and social media platforms — and, presumably, lots of money.”
No problem. In the U.S. we have Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to do the controlling. They censor Conservatives. We’ve got armies of Democrats.
Cases of a new virus from Wuhan, China, were being reported all over the world, and the few in the U.S. involved foreign travel. These were cases, not fatalities.
On January 29, 2020 the President's Coronavirus Task Force it was established.
On January 30 the President closed tourism coming from China.
On February 26, 2020, U.S. vice president Mike Pence was named to chair the task force, and Deborah Birx was named the response coordinator.
Then a man died in a Washington state on February 29. President Trump had already closed travel from China at the end of January. Ohio by March 3 had yet not had ANY confirmed cases, let alone deaths, when Governor DeWine began cancelling events. At this time, DeBlasio, Pelosi and Cuoma were still inviting tourists to come to their states/cities.
On March 4, when many states had yet not had one case, the HHS announced the intent to purchase approximately 500 million N95 respirators and Secretary Azar announced that HHS was transferring $35 million to the CDC to help state and local jurisdictions that have been impacted most by the coronavirus.
On March 6 the President signed an $8.3 billion bill providing $7.76 billion to federal, state, and local agencies for combating the coronavirus, and authorizing an additional $500 million in waivers for Medicare telehealth restrictions.
On March 11, the WHO announced it was a global pandemic, and the President in a speech to the nation said, “We are cutting massive amounts of red tape to make antiviral therapies available in record time. These treatments will significantly reduce the impact and reach of the virus. . . and he also said:
“The vast majority of Americans: The risk is very, very low. Young and healthy people can expect to recover fully and quickly if they should get the virus. The highest risk is for elderly population with underlying health conditions. The elderly population must be very, very careful.” Today, December 21, that is still the case. Even with thousands of deaths, the fatality rate from this virus is about .3% with the elderly at higher risk, and young people suffering higher than usual deaths from non-Covid reasons.
On March 13, the president also declared an emergency for COVID-19 under Section 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act. The National Emergencies Act (NEA) generally authorizes the president nearly unlimited discretion to declare a national emergency. President Trump Declares State of Emergency for COVID-19 (ncsl.org)
On April 29, Operation Warp Speed announced—a public private partnership initiated by the U.S. government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.
My question for Democrats; if the President had extended the national lockdown to mandatory after the two weeks at Governors’ discretion, how would you or the national media have accepted the order from the president you’d been trying to impeach, whom you called a Nazi, whom you called illegitimate because he won the Electoral College and not the popular vote? Also which has been more effective in your opinion, Operation Warp Speed or the lockdowns?
The Merriam-Webster word of the day is Gelid. Never heard of it, and after reading the explanation, I doubt I would ever use it since I’ve gone 80 years without it.
“Gelid first appeared in English late in the 16th century, coming to our language from Latin gelidus, which ultimately derives from the noun gelu, meaning "frost" or "cold." (The noun gelatin, which can refer to an edible jelly that undergoes a cooling process as part of its formation, comes from a related Latin word: gelare, meaning "to freeze.") Gelid is used to describe anything of extremely cold temperature (as in "the gelid waters of the Arctic Ocean"), but the word can also be used figuratively to describe a person with a cold demeanor (as in "the criminal's gelid stare").
| Examples of GELID |
| "A fleet of military aircraft and navy and merchant ships continue searching the gelid waters north of Antarctica for a Chilean Air Force cargo plane that went missing on Monday evening with 38 people on board." — Pascale Bonnefoy and Austin Ramzy, The New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019 "Back at school, January is gelid. The roads around campus are two inches deep in slush left behind from a New Year's Day snowstorm." — Koren Zailckas, Smashed, 2005 Latin and typing were the most useful classes I ever had in high school. Every job I ever had and all during my retirement (now 20 years) I have appreciated what I learned then. |
I'd been concerned about how dependent American churches had become on Zoom. Hate to see this story about infiltration by Communist China.
Zoom employee was Chinese spy who shut down anti-China video - TheBlaze
Zoom helped China suppress U.S. calls about Tiananmen, prosecutors allege - The Washington Post
FAQ on Zoom Security Issues - The Citizen Lab
Zoom’s Waiting Room Vulnerability - The Citizen Lab
"Zoom and other providers have experienced breakneck growth as people around the world get used to working from home and communicating with family and friends online.My husband was a Hoosier in high school (Arsenal Technical High School) and knew well the story about little Milan High school winning the state championship in basketball in 1954. In those days all schools competed against each other, not just schools their own size. 1954 State Champions - Milan Indians - Milan 1954 Museum (milan54.org) So when the movie Hoosiers came out in 1987, we of course had to see it, and have watched it many times. It also makes it more interesting that Duke Low, one of Bob's high school buddies has a small part in it. It goes by so fast, I can never catch it, however. Duke has been active in community theater most of his adult life and we see him at reunions.
"A Million Movies" is a series narrated by Jeff Terrel and if you are even just an ordinary, once a year movie goer, you'll enjoy the behind the scenes peek at the movies you've forgotten. Here's "Fifteen things you didn't need to know about Hoosiers" https://youtu.be/10ZJHLm-0NU A really great underdog story.
A fan of the movie and the series writes in the comments: "My son and I went to visit as many filming locations from Hoosiers in June of 2019. My son just graduated high school and he and I love the movie. The main gym is a tourist attraction in Knightstown, IN. One of the playoff games’ gym is at Saint Phillip Neri School, in Indianapolis. This gym has not been preserved well. Butler field house, where the state championship was filmed, is exceptional, and the Cafe was in New Richmond, Indiana. Another playoff gym is in Lebanon, Indiana. That gym is part of a senior living facility. The old Hugh school has been converted, and other living corridors have been constructed. If it had not for the head maintenance man, we would not had been able to play on it. This gentleman, and everyone we met in Indiana, were unbelievably kind and welcoming to their Texas visitors. It was so cool to visit those sites."
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