But your indoor birthday party with 10 friends or Thanksgiving dinner with the cousins and grandparents? Or dining out in a room full of strangers at a restaurant? Even with masks and ventilation, it’s not a great idea. Scale it down, move it to Zoom/FT, hold it outdoors (distanced, masked), or just skip it. Source: Visualizing How Covid-19 Spreads Indoors
30th Day of October – Fat Cow Co War of the Worlds radio broadcast
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of ‘The War of the Worlds’
“The War of the Worlds” is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds (1898).
It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30th, 1938, over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network.
The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.
The first twenty minutes, the broadcast was presented as a typical evening of radio programming being interrupted by a series of news bulletins. The first few news flashes occur during a presentation of “live” music and describe a series of odd explosions observed on Mars, followed by a seemingly unrelated report of an unusual object falling on a farm in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey.
Source: 30th Day of October – Fat Cow Co
Brain-Machine Interface with Stentrode | NeuroLogica Blog
Windows 10 operating system through the Stentrode device. However, they combined this with eye-tracking technology, so it was not entirely controlled through BMI. The eye-tracking was how they moved the mouse cursor, and the BMI was how they clicked the mouse (with several distinct “mouse click actions”). While very basic, this setup allowed the subjects to interface with the computer – to write texts, send messages, and control devices. That may not seem like much, but if you are paralyzed any measure of independence is a big deal. I see this as mainly a proof of concept study – showing that Stentrode can be safe in humans, and can successfully read signals from the brain, sufficient to train a user to click a mouse with their mind. Yes, this is a baby step, but as I have recounted many times before most scientific advances are journeys may of hundreds or thousands of baby steps. I am actually impressed that this technology has progressed as quickly as it has, with a decade from initial concept to successful human trial.
Source: Brain-Machine Interface with Stentrode | NeuroLogica Blog
Koulourakia: Ancient Τraditional Greek Easter Cookies / Κουλουρακια βουτυρου
- After the establishment of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire- – which also included Greece – by Constantine the Great, (Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity ) he was the first to offer as gifts to his officials, the so-called “palatine bread”, today’s butter cookies and sweet bread (tsoureki). The shape of these Easter cookies and breads varies depending on local traditions.The best known is the braid. Braids and knots come from pagan times, as symbols of the removal of evil spirits.
- So one of the ancient culinary Easter traditions in Greece is the butter cookies called “koulourakia” (kuluràkia). During Holy Week they are found in abundance in Greek bakeries and home kitchens. The dough is mainly made of butter and must be of excellent quality. Low quality butter will give horrible results without consistency, flavor and aroma. For this reason, every home…
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COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 45 new deaths, 3,815 new cases | KSTP.com (Wisc. Courts have repeatedly blocked emergency public health orders)
Wednesday, Wisconsin health officials announced 45 new deaths related to COVID-19, moving the state’s total to 1,897 deaths since the pandemic began. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services also reported 174 new hospitalizations, moving the total number of hospitalizations during the pandemic to 10,810. A total of 210,126 positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Wisconsin, with 3,815 new cases reported Wednesday.
Source: COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 45 new deaths, 3,815 new cases | KSTP.com
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: October 28, 2020 | FDA – warning letters on unapproved products for humans
- The FDA issued warning letters to Everything Aquatic and Mr Frags, LLC, which distribute chloroquine phosphate products intended to treat disease in aquarium fish. Chloroquine phosphate has not been approved, conditionally approved, or indexed to treat disease in aquarium fish. Although the chloroquine phosphate products identified in these warning letters did not make claims about use in people, the agency is concerned that consumers may mistake unapproved chloroquine phosphate animal drugs for the human drug chloroquine phosphate. People should not take any form of chloroquine unless it has been prescribed by a licensed health care provider.
- The FDA issued three warning letters jointly with the Federal Trade Commission to Peterson Research Laboratories dba Covercology, Predator Nutrition, and Beepothecary for selling unapproved and misbranded products with fraudulent COVID-19 claims.
Source: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: October 28, 2020 | FDA
Where Education is a Privilege!
Last year, I worked as a College Lead; Volunteer basically for an organization called “Teach For Nepal”. I was totally unaware about that organization till the morning I applied for it, But Trust me the decision I made so Hastily that morning has helped me a lot to shape myself into who I am today!
Here, I am sharing you my extremely memorable journey of a whole 1 year with Teach for Nepal where I learned how privileged we are and how luck we are to live the life that we are living.
When I applied in Teach for Nepal I had basically very less idea about how my life was gonna change in the upcoming 1 year. I had no clue about how many things I was going to learn about life that I couldn’t learn otherwise. This is a story about my community visit to Sindhupalchowk district…
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Our Mystical Friend
I am not here to live, I am here to change
The Most High doesn’t send me to the Earth,
Just to eat and to drink but for my purpose –
I feel my purpose, to witness how the Earth
Lives to her standards and her expectant.
If you ask me who is the Most High, well,
I don’t know why I said the Most High but,
I know that there is the Spirit World where
No darkness nor sin lives in it.
So I feel that I came to witness the Earth,
How she influence with her natural power,
And my purpose is to remind our humankind,
That the Earth will love for us if we help and heal.
Some people understand their purposes while
Other people don’t understand why they are here,
How I feel that someone among humankind,
Should lead the Earth to fulfill purposes for the heaven.
©️ Ismael Mansoor
Do we need another lockdown? – The poor side of life – (UK)
This morning I was reading the covid related comments on local newspaper Facebook posts. The reality of this situation is out there in black and white for everyone to see. So many people just don’t believe that it exists and the hatred towards covid sufferers like myself is unprecedented. No one appears to be monitoring these comments ether so they continue to spread their vile opinions out there. Meanwhile the government are now starting to talk about another lockdown. Instead of just talking about it they need to do it, but they need to adequately support struggling families, small businesses and self employed and employed people. Adequate support wasn’t given last time and it needs to be so much better than their ‘efforts’ during the last lockdown. I’m not blaming the schools though, I’m blaming the government. They were warned about this virus, how dangerous it is and given advice on how to deal with it, and how to look after the public. Johnson didn’t and doesn’t care though. He gave crucial contracts for PPE etc to his friends and they’ve become richer as a result at the cost of other peoples suffering. This needs to be stopped, he needs to be stopped. He just doesn’t c
Source: Do we need another lockdown? – The poor side of life
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