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More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris, hit Trump
More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday obtained exclusively by USA TODAY.
The letter from alums of the three Republican presidential nominees prior to former President Donald Trump comes on the heels of a Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago that showcased Republican detractors of the GOP nominee. At least five former aides to former President George H.W. Bush also signed the letter, which has 238 signatures in all.
Source: More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris, hit Trump

Watchdogs want US to address extreme plutonium contamination in Los Alamos’ Acid Canyon | AP News
FDA approves first automated insulin delivery system for people with Type 2 diabetes – UPI.com
WHO launches plan to contain mpox | CIDRAP
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the launch of a preparedness strategy and response plan to contain a mpox outbreak rapidly spreading in African countries, with two related cases recently reported in Sweden and Thailand.
The plan, which covers the next 6 months, also includes a more fleshed-out price tag of $135 million, for which the WHO will soon launch a funding appeal.
In a speech today at a meeting of the WHO regional committee for Africa, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the plan hinges on comprehensive surveillance and response, minimizing zoonotic transmission, empowering communities to take an active role, and advancing research on and equitable access to vaccines and other countermeasures.
A complex, dynamic picture
The plan also supplements recently published temporary recommendations from the WHO’s emergency committee and standing recommendations for the earlier spread of the clade 2 mpox virus.
Cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the main hot spot, have topped 18,000 this year, Tedros said, noting that cases are already above the record level in 2023.
So far, 220 cases of the new clade 1b virus, first seen in the DRC, have been reported in four of the DRC’s neighbors that had never reported cases before. He said other clades have been reported in other DRC regions, as well as other African nations.
“It’s a complex and dynamic picture, and responding to each of these outbreaks, and bringing them under control, will require a complex, comprehensive, and coordinated international response,” he said.
First vaccine priority: interrupt transmission chains
Tedros said the WHO on August 23 received information from one vaccine manufacturer to allow consideration for emergency use listing (EUL), which he said could be issued in the next 3 weeks.
“In the meantime, I have given the green light to Gavi and UNICEF to proceed with procurement of vaccines, pending the EUL decision,” he added.
Source: WHO launches plan to contain mpox | CIDRAP

8586 Haiku | jllopart
Una luciérnaga,
en noche de san Juan…,
es todo un clásico.
j.ll.folch 24/8/24
Source: 8586 Haiku | jllopart

Sharpshot Nature .Com 01179-tod-030456 Monarch

2019-08-26 01179-tod-030456 Monarch
NIKON D7500 – ƒ/6 1/250 400mm ISO125 – McGregor, MN
Sharpshot Nature .Com 01545-tod-040462 Milkweed

2020-08-26 01545-tod-040462 Milkweed
Canon PowerShot – ƒ/4 1/40 7.446mm ISO200 – McGregor, MN
Sharpshot Nature .Com 01910-tod-041061 Creek

2021-08-26 01910-tod-041061 Creek
Canon PowerShot – ƒ/4.5 1/500 9.606mm ISO160 – Lake Elmo Park Reserve, MN
व्यथा बादलों की / Agony of Clouds – Kaushal Kishore

मच जाता है हाहाकार धरती पर,
जब कोई बादल फट जाता कहीं है..
कोई उनके दिल का लेकिन हाल नहीं पूछता,
आखिर दिल हल्का करने का हक उन्हें भी है…
🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️
Chaos rains upon the Earth,
when clouds burst and cry…
No one pauses to inquire
why the clouds have to sigh…
But even they deserve a chance
to set their hearts free…
To lighten up their heavy loads,
as all hearts wish to be…
.
–Kaushal Kishore
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