[Outdoor Life] Jim Kauber can teach anyone, regardless of age or experience level, to be accurate with a centerfire rifle. Though he spent two decades with the Navy SEALs and dedicates much of his time to helping elite shooters become even more precise, his first love has always been hunting. His fascination with the outdoors is what led him to become a SEAL. He’s proud of the military accomplishments, but equally passionate about dialing in hunters’ bolt guns.
He has a keen ability to evaluate your skill set quickly and tailor his instruction to it, which he does each summer at THE SITE as the Director of Training and a firearms instructor. Kauber has trained law enforcement and European Coalition special ops snipers, but he can also make you—the newbie shooter—a better rifle shot. After taking his hunting rifle course in Illinois, I had the chance to talk to Jim about how regular shooters can become more accurate. Here’s what he had to say.
[BBC] Some of the world’s longest-living people aren’t doing anything special to live to 100 — but that may be exactly what’s keeping them alive.
José Bonafacio Villegas has ridden a horse nearly every day for the last 100 years. Villegas learned how to ride in 1921, and spent the next 99 years riding to school, doing farm work or visiting friends on horseback. At 102, riding is still his passion, although he’s currently sidelined — an ear infection hurt his balance and has kept him off the saddle since December.
It’s a temporary setback, says Villegas. He hopes he’ll be back on his horse soon. "Hope keeps you going. Negative thoughts annihilate."
Villegas, who’s turning 103 on 15 May, is one of 44 centenarians that live on the Nicoya peninsula in north-western Costa Rica, an area dotted with wildlife refuges surrounded by some of Costa Rica’s most pristine and isolated beaches. While tourists, surfers and celebrities like Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen frequent the coast, the interior is cowboy country. Motorcycles are the easiest way to get around on the rocky dirt roads, and, if you don’t have an all-wheel-drive car, horses are a close second.
[France24] Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Thursday said he tested positive for Covid-19 and will self-isolate to protect other cabinet members.
"I have just learned that the test on the coronavirus I took was positive," Mishustin said in a video meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting a deputy takes his place while he self-isolates.
Mishustin suggested that Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov should serve as acting prime minister in his absence. Putin supported his proposal and signed a decree appointing Belousov as a temporary replacement.
Russia has so far recorded 106,498 cases and 1,073 coronavirus-related deaths.
Mishustin, 54 was named prime minister in January following the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev. Putin's choice of an obscure former tax service chief to replace Medvedev came as a surprise to most Russians.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his hard-fought trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the coronavirus pandemic and he threatened new tariffs on Beijing, as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over the outbreak.
Trump’s sharpened rhetoric against China reflected his growing frustration with Beijing over the pandemic, which has cost tens of thousands of lives in the United States alone, sparked an economic contraction and threatened his chances of re-election in November.
Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a range of options against China were under discussion, but cautioned that efforts were in the early stages. Recommendations have not yet reached the level of Trump’s top national security team or the president, one official told Reuters.
"There is a discussion as to how hard to hit China and how to calibrate it properly," one of the sources said as Washington walks a tightrope in its ties with Beijing while it imports personal protection equipment (PPE) from there and is wary of harming a sensitive trade deal.
"I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all."
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After nearly 60 years of Washington complicity and betrayal, not certain what actions he can take, but you can bet the Orange Man will not turn his back on these SOB's.
China has refused repeated requests by the World Health Organisation to take part in investigations into the origins of COVID-19, the WHO representative in China has told @SkyNewshttps://t.co/O6dQYxskMx
Per @ODNIgov Intelligence Community agrees COVID-19 was not man-made or genetically modified but "rigorously" examining whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at Wuhan lab
I’m assuming my French is good enough to have translated this correctly as the Chinese Embassy in France but if I’m wrong, I have no doubt twitter will let me know... hope I am https://t.co/Dloq8cx2qq
Also, as someone who's very concerned about an elderly parent in a nursing home, your imputation of bad faith is beyond annoying; it's offensive.
The whole point is MORE focus and attention on and MORE protection for the truly vulnerable i.e. the elderly. As opposed to the crude and draconian approach that makes no distinction based on behaviors or risk profile.
Save the lives of the most vulnerable. Stop risking lives for those suffering from nonCOVID urgent conditions. Stop killing the economy. Win-win-win.
Read Mitch Daniels' announcement.
Read Joe Nocera's wise editorial in Bloomberg.
Listen to Dr John Ioannidis or any of dozens of epidemiologists and scientists who are now speaking out and advocating more or less the above approach.
I submit the above is more worthy of your time than attacking other R'burgers.
'Draconian' measures may have been required to mobilize 100 million citizens while data was collected. Fascinating to watch because it worked.
Now the talking head experts, and authentic lab analysts and epidemiologists, have real data (sparse and poorly representative though it may be) with which to work. Data available through a baseline behavior of keep-you're-distance quarantining that was used to define risk profiles.
Vedomosti says that the Russian Army spring draft campaign has been moved to June because of #Covid19 epidemic. The start of the campaign will depend on the pandemic situation: in regions with a high number of #Covid_19 cases it may be postponed further.https://t.co/3taWaiSoXG
[Daily wire] The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to pressure Australia to back off calls for an international investigation into China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China, appear to have backfired as Australia now supports Taiwan rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO) after it was ousted by Beijing in 2016.
"The position, which follows an appeal from Taiwan’s Health Minister, is consistent with Australia’s long-held view that Taiwan should be able to participate in practical cooperation at the UN health agency," The Sydney Morning Herald reported. "Australia and China’s foreign ministries have traded barbs over the past week, leading to accusations of bullying, coercion and intimidation as the Morrison government pushes global calls into an independent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus."
Taiwan warned the WHO in December about the coronavirus epidemic that was growing inside China but was ignored
[Free Beacon] Two Republican members of Congress have launched an investigation into Chinese espionage operations targeting confidential medical research performed by the National Institutes of Health, according to communications obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
Reps. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) and Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) are petitioning NIH leaders to disclose how researchers with ties to adversarial regimes such as China continue to participate in confidential research projects and receive American grant money, according to a letter sent Thursday to NIH director Francis Collins. The lawmakers express concerns about a lack of oversight at the agency that they say might have allowed foreign spies to gain access to critical research.
Chinese infiltration of the American medical research community has been a concern for federal authorities, including the FBI, for years. China has been responsible for multiple large-scale hacks on the health care industry, including patient data and medical research into cancer and other diseases.
As the coronavirus has swept the globe and amid revelations of China's efforts to deceive the world about the virus, lawmakers are beginning to conduct audits on a range of federal agencies to ferret out Communist Party-backed spy operations. These investigations have become especially critical in light of revelations that NIH may have funded the Wuhan-based lab near where the coronavirus emerged.
Banks and Gallagher are asking NIH to provide Congress with information about individuals they may have identified as having undisclosed ties to foreign countries. This includes some 250 NIH researchers identified in recent years as having "suspicious foreign ties" that could trace back to a state-sponsored spy ring.
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"Everybody likes Lin. He's the lab clown cut up."
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The woke crowd squeals that it's rayciss to take a special look at pisslamics or chinee because "you can't tie ideology to race." But all too often ideology and race are one and the same. It's intelligence malpractice to automatically separate the two. That got us the ironically named "Chinese wall" that begot 9/11.
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A video of Kim Jong Il’s funeral in 2011 has been shared on social media as 'confirmation' of incumbent North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's death. TV9 Bharatvarsh also aired the video in a recent broadcast. #AltNewsFactCheck | @thisisjigneshhttps://t.co/Qdkbbsi8tT
[Mil.com] After extended debate and some controversy, U.S. Transportation Command has inked a massive $7.2 billion, three-year contract with a single company for the relocation of household goods in military permanent change of station moves. The contract is a major step forward in the Pentagon's effort to outsource the military moves process -- an effort that gained steam during a 2018 summer moving season that saw a surge in reports of broken goods and delays.
American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group, Inc., based in Parsippany, New Jersey, confirmed Thursday it had received the contract, which covers moves for the Defense Department and the U.S. Coast Guard. In a statement provided to Military.com, the company said it planned to lead a "full-service, worldwide relocation effort with a team of subcontracting partners" with the intent of improving military moves and offering better service.
"Throughout my career, I’ve been disappointed with what the Defense Personal Property Program does to families," Chief Master Sgt. Jason France, command senior enlisted leader for TRANSCOM, said in a statement. "Today, I’m confident that the Defense Personal Property Program will deliver the care and service they deserve in the coming years."
Related: The Pentagon is Rushing to Outsource Military Moves, and Moving Companies Aren't Happy
ARC CEO Eric Ebeling said in a statement that the company was eager to get to work on behalf of the military. Made a few Norwegians very happy.
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The Army started moving its own PCS after years of lousy service to its Alaskan commands. The claims where greater than so called savings in outsourcing. Of course the Alaskan senators cried but didn't give a damn about the experience of the soldiers and their families when the contractors had nearly zero quality assurance. Let's try this again. You think the apparatchiks who inked this are concerned about Joe Snuffie and his family? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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So now, a single contractor is responsible for survey and examination of what 'household' goods are being moved. Good. I assume there are delay and audit penalties.
[Zero] Today's -4.8% GDP print was dire, but it would have been even worse had it not been for a spike in discretionary spending as Americans found themselves under house arrest for the second half of March. Given the importance of consumer spending on GDP, we looked at trends in the restaurant space amidst Covid-19 related headwinds, courtesy of Clover data compiled by Morgan Stanley. What we found is that for the first time in weeks there was a clear WoW
...that’s week over week, I believe...
improvement in dining spend, an indication that the worst is over for the restaurant industry.
Here are some observations from the dining trends chart below:
#4
Right, so no one should be happy that economic activity is increasing and people are working and life is trying to return to normal. No, the statists wouldn't want that now, would they?
U.S. undergraduates have sued more than 50 schools, demanding partial tuition, room-and-board and fee refunds after they shut down....The proliferating breach-of-contract suits, many of them filed over the last week, target some of the biggest names in higher education, both public (e.g. U. California, Arizona State) and private (e.g. Columbia, Cornell, NYU) and dozens of other universities ... On Thursday alone, students filed complaints against Pennsylvania State University, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania...
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I already know my "fruit jar money" is going to bail my GF after she slugs a Karen. It's coming.
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The fact that lefty gadfly Matt Taibbi is calling BS on this madness indicates that it's not a partisan issue.
Whitmer, De Blasio, Newsom et al: These foolish scolds are playing with fire. The left has been quiet but that will change soon. The people, across the spectrum, will eventually turn on them and rise up and make them pay a heavy price.
De Blasio may do prison time for his criminal incompetence that caused who knows how many needless deaths in NYC.
[The Hill] President Trump said Thursday that he would consider bringing former national security adviser Michael Flynn back into the administration in a different role.
"I think he’s a fine man. I think it’s terrible what [the FBI] did to him," Trump responded when asked by a reporter if he would consider bringing Flynn back. "I would certainly consider it."
Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI in the course of the Russia investigation but documents released late Wednesday in his criminal case have fueled conservative claims that he was entrapped by the bureau.
Trump has expressed support for Flynn while seizing on the new revelations, claiming the FBI tried to "destroy" Flynn. He did not rule out pardoning his former adviser.
"They did everything possible to destroy him but he’s still breathing very strongly," Trump told reporters Thursday following an event on protecting seniors from the novel coronavirus.
Trump said he expected Flynn to be exonerated and would therefore be "capable" of returning to the administration, but said he hadn’t thought about in what capacity.
The documents released Wednesday show FBI agents discussing how to handle a January 2017 interview with Flynn, who was still working as Trump's national security adviser at the time.
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I think the 'time of the generals' is over at the WH. Their weakness in adapting and dumping old institutional biases has become too obvious to one who can adapt, improvise, and overcome.
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They eat beef in Assam. Different states have different prohibitions. Nobody can ban beef in Assam. Actually the majority eat river fish and duck. The Bodos eat pork, among other things, their tastes much like ghetto chinese. Bats, frogs, creepy crawlies and whatever.
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India consumed 2.6 million metric tons CWE of beef and veal in 2019. It expirted 1.63 million metric tons of beef in 2019. Second largest exporter after Brazil.
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[Mil.com] The popular television show "The Jetsons" gave viewers an animated glimpse of a world where flying cars were so common, they were used as family vehicles. Now, the Air Force wants a fleet of its own airborne vehicles by the end of the decade, according to its top technology official.
"We want to have 30 vehicles in the Air Force by 2030,"said Dr. Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, told reporters during a video call Wednesday. "There are multiple companies that can do that."
Once the military proves the safety of these "flying cars" -- part of an initiative known as Agility Prime -- the domestic market stands to benefit as well, he said.
The Air Force kicked off the launch for Agility Prime via a virtual conference focused on the development of flying cars for both the Pentagon and everyday citizens.
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Would settle for my crappy Dick Tracy wristwatch I had as a kid. It was at least as good as most modern military comms today, and all it could do was receive AM radio sporadically.
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Not Bee.
Glad I changed my batting stance the other day.
Novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-2) is a viral infection that replicates in the upper respiratory tract. Approximately 10-15% of those infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have a severe clinical course, with nearly 5% becoming critically ill requiring mechanical ventilation due to respiratory failure. Death resulting from COVID-19 is thought to be due to respiratory failure and/or secondary infections including ventilator associated pneumonia.
To date, there is no known treatment for COVID-19 or conventional means to reduce secondary infections in mechanically ventilated patients. Any safe and effective antiviral and antibacterial treatment option for these patients that could lower viral load and improve factors of respiratory failure would be advantageous.
ULTRAVIOLET (UV) LIGHT
Ultraviolet (UV) is a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from 10 nm to 400 nm. These wavelengths are shorter than that of visible light. Between the wavelengths 100 to 400 nm ultraviolet radiation (UV light) is subcategorized into three different ranges: Ultraviolet C (UVC) 100 — 280 nm, Ultraviolet B (UVB) 280 — 315 nm, and Ultraviolet A (UVA) 315 — 400 nm.
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No but close. X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 0.1 to 10 nanometres, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3×1016 Hz to 3×1019 Hz) and energies in the range 100 eV to 200 keV. X-ray wavelengths are shorter than those of UV rays and typically longer than those of gamma rays.
Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with wavelength from 10 nm (with a corresponding frequency of approximately 30 PHz) to 400 nm (750 THz), shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays. UV radiation is present in sunlight, and constitutes about 10% of the total electromagnetic radiation output from the Sun. It is also produced by electric arcs and specialized lights, such as mercury-vapor lamps, tanning lamps, and black lights. Although long-wavelength ultraviolet is not considered an ionizing radiation because its photons lack the energy to ionize atoms, it can cause chemical reactions and causes many substances to glow or fluoresce. Consequently, the chemical and biological effects of UV are greater than simple heating effects, and many practical applications of UV radiation derive from its interactions with organic molecules.
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UV light has been used for years in ortho ORs. Targeting surgical site infection (almost exclusively bacterial), is a proven technique aka settled science.
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UV light has been used for years in ortho ORs.
As well as post-op OR cleanup.
When the scrubbing and mopping is done, give it a UV soak.
[JPost] - Abbott's coronavirus antibody test, which boasts an accuracy rate of 99%, has received approval for use across Europe, The Independent reported.
Abbott's antibody test had already received Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the end of April, the company announced over social media.
That's False positives + False negatives = 0.01. Wow!
Finally, we'll have the facts about asymptomatic & herd immunity - instead of the bull numbers we been getting from NY & Kalifornia.
Finally, we'll know who is safe and can go back to work and who's just fantasizing.
An additional consequence - this (by comparison with Chinese antibody tests) shows that the West is light years ahead of China when it comes to research and innovation. So they better pull their horns in - because the same goes for military tech.
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#7 Nope.
(a) 0.01 is both False positive (F+) and False negative (F-), fractions, and it's unbelievably good. Most medical tests have F+, F- = 0.1 (10%).
(b) 1% F+ are not infective - they are not immune - there is a difference.
Finally, what's most useful is estimating fraction of immune in the population, Skid (the famous "herd immunity").
Denote True positive (T+).
And say, fraction 0 < x < 1 are immune. Then you run a test on a representative sample and get
(O+) = positive/total = (T+)x + (F+)(1-x) ==>
x = (O+ - F+)/(T+ - F+).
The results Lex always waves around are O+ and they mean zilch if F+ is large.
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p.s. Suppose you use the test to determine who can go to work. So, suppose one F+ sneaks through. And he goes to work. Let us be generous and assume he's asymptomatic carrier (infectious). Whom is he going to infect? The chances of two F+ at the same place are (0.01)^2 = 0.0001*number of workers. And, even then, the other F+ may not be susceptible but rather another asymptomatic.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BBC] Some of the world’s longest-living people aren’t doing anything special to live to 100 — but that may be exactly what’s keeping them alive.
[France24] Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Thursday said he tested positive for Covid-19 and will self-isolate to protect other cabinet members.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his hard-fought trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the coronavirus pandemic and he threatened new tariffs on Beijing, as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over the outbreak.
[Daily wire] The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to pressure Australia to back off calls for an international investigation into China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China, appear to have backfired as Australia now supports Taiwan rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO) after it was ousted by Beijing in 2016.
[Free Beacon] Two Republican members of Congress have launched an investigation into Chinese espionage operations targeting confidential medical research performed by the National Institutes of Health, according to communications obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
[Mil.com] After extended debate and some controversy, U.S. Transportation Command has inked a massive $7.2 billion, three-year contract with a single company for the relocation of household goods in military permanent change of station moves. The contract is a major step forward in the Pentagon's effort to outsource the military moves process -- an effort that gained steam during a 2018 summer moving season that saw a surge in reports of broken goods and delays.
[Zero] Today's -4.8% GDP print was dire, but it would have been even worse had it not been for a spike in discretionary spending as Americans found themselves under house arrest for the second half of March. Given the importance of consumer spending on GDP, we looked at trends in the restaurant space amidst Covid-19 related headwinds, courtesy of Clover data compiled by Morgan Stanley. What we found is that for the first time in weeks there was a clear WoW
[Mil.com] The popular television show "The Jetsons" gave viewers an animated glimpse of a world where flying cars were so common, they were used as family vehicles. Now, the Air Force wants a fleet of its own airborne vehicles by the end of the decade, according to its top technology official.
[AYTU] What is the need?
