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Chinese envoy calls for int'l efforts to help silence guns in Africa
Source:Xinhua Published: 2019/2/28 8:22:51
A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called for international efforts to help silence the guns in Africa by 2020.
Over the past few years, the African Union (AU) and African countries have been vigorously implementing Agenda 2063 and the initiative of silencing the guns in Africa by 2020 alongside the steady improvement of the continent's peace and security situation, said Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.
At the same time, he said, some regions in Africa remain fragile, with traditional security threats intertwined with non-traditional ones and the presence of some prominent issues such as ethnic tensions, terrorism, transnational organized crime, poverty, unemployment, and refugees.
The regional collective security mechanisms in Africa are challenged with underfunding and other constraints. There are challenges to achieving the goal of silencing the guns in Africa by 2020.
In this context, Wu called for closer cooperation between the United Nations and the AU, the strengthening of Africa's capacity building in the areas of peace and security, and continued assistance for Africa's socio-economic development so as to address the root causes of conflicts in Africa.
The United Nations should fully leverage its own strength and provide more assistance to Africa, Wu told the UN Security Council in a debate on silencing the guns in Africa.
The two organizations should work more closely together in conflict prevention and mediation, in the quest for lasting peace, and in addressing the root causes of conflicts in Africa, he said, noting that the UN Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council should further enhance communication and coordination between themselves.
Wu said China welcomes Wednesday's adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2457 on silencing the guns in Africa, which can help the United Nations lend more support to the AU's initiative and bring the United Nations and the AU closer together in their joint endeavor.
He called for international support for Africa's capacity building in the areas of peace and security.
Home to the largest number of developing countries, Africa is the most dynamic continent with the greatest development potential in today's world. Peace and stability in Africa is key to security and development around the world, said Wu.
AU-led peace and security operations are becoming an important means of responding to crises in Africa, and are complementary to the UN peacekeeping operations in important ways, he said.
The United Nations should actively assist the AU and other regional and subregional organizations in bolstering their peacebuilding capacities and support African countries in resolving African issues in the African way, he said.
China supports the United Nations in providing sustainable and predictable financial support to the AU's peace and security operations, and in working with the AU to overcome funding issues concerning the AU's peace and security operations, he said.
Wu asked for international efforts to address the root causes of conflicts in Africa by scaling up assistance for Africa's socio-economic development.
International partners should increase their contributions to Africa in such priority areas as agriculture, health care, education, economics and trade, and connectivity and other infrastructure sectors, and actively help African countries achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, said Wu.
He also asked for efforts to help regional countries reduce poverty, develop the economy and improve people's livelihoods, and to help enhance the capacity of African countries in achieving sustainable development.
At the same time, he said, the international community must pay close attention to such issues as youth, women and children in Africa, refugees and employment.
He asked the international community to provide humanitarian assistance in line with the needs of the AU and African countries. The United Nations should provide constructive assistance by fully utilizing the UN Development Programme, the Peacebuilding Commission and other mechanisms, said Wu.
China has all along been supporting Africa's pursuit of peace, security, prosperity and development, and has stayed actively engaged in matters pertaining to Africa's peace and security, he said.
In 2015, China announced the establishment of the China-UN peace and development fund that covers a 10-year period with a total value of 1 billion US dollars. For more than three years, the fund has focused on Africa's peace and development and provided financial support to a great number of projects related to the initiative of silencing the guns in Africa, said Wu.
In September 2018 at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Chinese and African leaders agreed to define China-Africa peace and security cooperation as one of the eight cooperation priorities, he said. In addition, China will establish a China-Africa peace and security cooperation fund to encourage greater cooperation on peace and security, peacekeeping, and the maintenance of stability, he said.
China is ready to continue to play a constructive role in promoting peace, stability and development in Africa, said the Chinese envoy.
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Official Description: Greg tells Steven the full story of how he met Rose Quartz.
The episode opens with Steven and Greg just chilling in Greg's van as the rain pours outside. I really like the atmosphere her for how sweet and calming it is. Behind Steven, you can see two pictures: the picture of Greg and Rose in the picture frame that Amethyst gave him in Maximum Capacity, and what seems to be the picture of Steven with cat fingers that Ronaldo took in Cat Fingers.
An old picture is stuck to the bottom of Greg's soda can. Steven asks who is in the picture standing next to young Greg. Greg explains that it's Marty (voice: Jon Wurster), his old pal. Smiling, he declares, "he's dead to me."
The fact that Greg, one of the most easygoing and friendly characters on the show, feels that way tells you all you need to know about Marty. Marty has a lot of parallels with Kevin, Stevonnie's human nemesis.
Greg asks if he's told Steven the story of how he and Rose met, and Steven says he hasn't heard the version with Marty. He gets comfy on the mattress in the van while Greg begins.
Greg's tale opens with his younger self on stage, singing the song Comet.
"Some say I have no direction / that I'm a lightspeed distraction / but that's a kneejerk reaction." This seems like a reference to how it's easy to quickly judge Greg for being a washed-up rock star who lives in an old van, but he has a lot more to him than that.
Greg sings the line "to my destiny I steer" with very clear diamonds in his eyes. I'm just saying.
The song is space-themed, naturally, but it's also largely about fame and fortune, two things that Greg doesn't seem to care about much at all in the present day. Given how uninterested he seems in fame later in life, either these themes were put into his head by Marty or he grew out of them. Another possibility could be that he mostly wanted fame and fortune to find love, and once he met Rose he was content.
Even after he becomes rich later in the series, he doesn't seem to care all that much about the riches, only splurging on a few things but continuing to live in the van and work at the car wash.
It was actually this very song, Comet, that Marty sold to a burger chain for advertisements that ended up making Greg his fortune.
One of the last images in the concert / music video scene is a diamond-shaped star falling into Greg's hand, right before he meets Rose.
Greg finishes his song, revealing that he's been playing his heart out to a couple dozen empty folding chairs. The only one around is Rose, who stands in the back, applauding.
She approaches Greg's merch table. You can see that he has stacks of Steven's red star t-shirt, and there are more in Greg's van later in the episode, explaining where Steven's clothes come from.
Rose picks up one of his CDs, "Space Train to the Cosmos," and asks him how he'll get back to Earth from space. "I'm never coming back!" says Greg.
"Oh! That's awful! This is your home," says Rose. By now, we know that Rose fought against Homeworld and, as a result, she and the Crystal Gems can never return to their original home. Considering she also loves the Earth, she may not understand why a human would want to leave and go to space.
In the series, the only time Greg actually ends up in space is less than pleasant for him — when he's kidnapped by Blue Diamond and put in the Human Zoo.
Greg offers her a CD for free, along with a t-shirt, but he needs to go into his van to get a t-shirt large enough for Rose.
When he opens the door to the van, Marty pops out with Vidalia (Jackie Buscarino).
Vidalia is Onion and Sour Cream's mother. We don't learn this until later, although the name makes it fairly obvious. In Drop Beat Dad, we learn that Marty is Sour Cream's father and he skipped town on Vidalia, which means it's entirely possible that Sour Cream was conceived in the back of Greg's van pretty much in this episode. Once Marty left town, Vidalia married the fisherman Yellowtail and had Onion with him.
She's apathetic to Greg here, but she later becomes friends with Greg and lets him crash in her house when Steven is young. She also becomes friends with Amethyst, presumably when Greg was spending a lot of time with the Gems.
Greg fetches an XXL t-shirt, but when he turns around, Rose is gone. Marty is disdainful of Greg giving away t-shirts, asking where his 75% cut will come from.
In Dead Beat Dad, Marty returns to Beach City to give Greg the 25% owed him from selling the rights to Comet, which turns out to be a staggering ten million dollars. Surprisingly, Marty is broke enough to shill for the nasty Guacola Soda in that episode, indicating he blew through most of thirty million dollars somehow.
Greg walks the boardwalk, looking for Rose. He approaches this fence with a sign, "Keep Off Beach – Please." This fence doesn't exist any more in the present time.
There's a purple owl on the fence, and Greg jokingly asks it if it's seen a giant lady with pink hair. The owl turns out to be Amethyst, who can respond just fine. Greg seems a little surprised but otherwise totally okay with the fact that this purple owl can talk. "If I told you any more I'd have to kill you!" she says, spreading her wings and flying off.
Amethyst flies into the cave in the side of the mountain, where the warp pad and the door to the Crystal Temple are. The house does not yet exist.
Let me just say that I am extremely into Pearl's 80s-esque outfit in this era. Her gauzy top and pink leg warmers are too cute.
Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl's early outfits here don't have any stars on them, but Rose has a star cutout around her gem that matches Greg's star shirt. It seems likely that these three adopted the star symbolism after Rose's death to honor her.
Amethyst turns from an owl back into herself, and oh stars, is Baby Amethyst EVER cute. She has short hair and childish clothes, and she crawls around on all fours inspecting Greg. It's interesting that Amethyst, who is thousands of years old by now, acts like such a child here, and in the present day she is far more like a teenager or young adult. This reinforces the idea that she was the "child" of the Gem family until Steven came along and she was forced to mature to help take care of him. She sometimes even seems resentful that Steven took her place as the youngest of the group, much like a jealous sibling.
Amethyst takes an immediate liking to Greg. She admires his hair — and in the present day, Amethyst has hair very much like young Greg's. She also pulls up his shirt to look at his bellybutton, right in the spot where Rose and Steven's gems are.
Pearl pulls Amethyst away, apologizing to Greg, as Garnet appears on the warp pad, brandishing two presumably corrupted Gems in bubbles.
This is genuinely one of my favorite looks for Garnet. It's simple, but appealing, with a great silhouette. I kind of want her shirt.
Garnet asks Greg what his purpose here is, and he says he's looking for a mysterious pink lady. "I don't know how to make him go away," says Pearl. Interestingly enough, she actually seems kind of bemused by Greg compared to how annoyed she can be with humans in the present day of S1 — likely because she's exposed to them far less at this point.
Garnet suggests throwing him over the fence, which Pearl agrees with, before they're stopped by Rose. I have to wonder how much Garnet's Future Vision saw here of Greg getting together with Rose — she blushes as she drops him.
Rose leaps over to Greg, floating slowly to the ground in front of him.
Later in the series, Steven develops the same slow-falling power.
The pose here, with Greg on the ground taking Rose's hand is shot almost exactly the same way as Pearl kneeling on the ground and taking the holographic Rose's hand in Rose's Scabbard, which is almost certainly intentional. It's the beginning of Greg and Rose's relationship, and therefore also the beginning of the end for Rose.
Greg presents Rose with her free t-shirt, which she shows off happily. "His gimmick is space," she explains, causing Pearl to giggle. Amethyst asks him to play a song. "Better make it good," says Garnet, brandishing one gauntlet. Her gauntlet does have a star on it, even if most of their outfits don't.
Greg is suddenly reminded that he needs to get back to the van to drive to his next show. He asks what time it is. "Night… time?" says a clearly confused Pearl. They're so much more divorced from human concerns pre-Steven, as you might expect.
Greg runs off, exclaiming, "I didn't drop out of community college for nothing!"
Later, we learn that he had a very strict home life. Once he dropped out of community college and hit the road to become a musician, he was never in touch with his family again outside of some letters he sent that were never opened.
"I hope the stars will align for us to meet again!" Greg says as he leaves. He doesn't know how right he is.
"I can sing!" Pearl says while transforming into an entire shaker of salt. And thus, we have the very first instance of Pearl being jealous of Greg. It's hard not to feel a little bit bad for her, though, knowing what ultimately happens. She'll never have Rose to herself again, and not long from now she won't have Rose at all.
In Greg's van, Marty is going on about his hookups with Vidalia's friends, while Greg tries to tell him about the "wild ladies" he met as well. Marty ignores him, assuming he's thinking up song lyrics, and pushes play on the van's tape recorder. When it doesn't work, he asks Greg if he's been putting pennies in it. Is that a thing?
Marty asks Greg to play a song, and Greg starts on a new song he's writing: "Do you believe in destiny? / Close your eyes and leave the rest to me." The use of "destiny" here makes me think a lot about Connie's insistence that Steven has a "magical destiny." Marty hates the song, and asks where it's coming from. Greg says, "I can't stop thinking about that woman at the show."
Marty asks, "Oh, here we go, how big was she?" I love how Marty just knows Greg has a thing for giant women. Judging by Steven's enthusiasm for seeing fusions, his son might just have inherited that particular taste (although, to be fair, Connie isn't particularly giant).
Marty: "See, Greg, this is your problem. You want one huge woman, when you could have multiple smaller ones."
Oblique fusion joke?
Greg counters: "Ugh, Marty, women are people." I love that he pushes back on a joke that many would see as harmless. This one little line goes a long way to show why Rose picked Greg out of all of humanity to have her child with.
We'll see later in We Need to Talk that one of the main things that endeared Rose to Greg and brought them closer together was Greg's attempt to honestly communicate with her and treat her as an equal. Apparently, it took her thousands of years to meet a man like that.
Marty dismisses Greg, saying that he'll get Greg everything he wants. "What if I want to go back and be with her?!" Greg yells. Greg dropping everything — including, presumably, an important gig in Empire City — to go be with a woman he just met certainly explains where Steven's romantic and occasionally impulsive streak comes from.
"No one cares about your feelings, Greg! They're making you lose sight of what's important!" screams Marty, proving that he's the antithesis of Steven Universe's moral code. Not paying attention, he accidentally runs the van off of the road.
"Why do you always decide what's important?" asks Greg. Given Marty's surprise, this seems like possibly the first time easygoing Greg has actually pushed back at his manager.
Marty tells him to shut up and go to the city to play, and an angry Greg throws him out of the van and goes driving back to Beach City.
Greg's van careens through Beach City, in a shot similar to the show's opening. He passes a "Vote Buck Dewey" sign — that's the current mayor's father, who the teenaged Buck Dewey is named after.
In a moment of incredibly blatant symbolism, Greg drives his van straight through the fence diving the Crystal Temple from the human world. This fence no longer exists in the present day, indicating it was never rebuilt after this moment.
The Gems aren't around, so Greg stands on the warp pad and sings to the closed temple door.
"Do you believe in fantasy? / I have to when it's right in front of me." It's interesting to me how close Greg's mindset is to Connie's when he encounters the Gems: that they're creatures of fantasy, from a story. It's clear that the human race knows something about Gems, but that knowledge seems to be very limited.
"What are you doing here, in the real world?" sings Greg. I think, even after everything he's been through, Greg still somewhat sees the world of the Gems as not the real world.
Rose emerges, wearing the Mr. Universe shirt and an incredibly sad expression on her face. "You're awfully cute, and I really wanna play with you," she says, and wow, is that ever a loaded choice of words. The fact that Rose wants to "play" with Greg shows what she thinks of humans, and reinforces the idea that Greg is probably the first and only human she ever really respected as an equal — something we'll see more of in later episodes.
Rose's use of the word "play" here brings to mind some of her previous "playthings" and their fates — notably Volleyball, Spinel, and to a lesser extent, Pearl herself. She broke at least two sapient playthings previously through her careless actions. This scene is at the end of Rose's character development, at which point she's presumably come to regret those actions.
"Your life is short and you have dreams," she tells him.
In It's Over Isn't It, Pearl sings about how Rose had previously dated men, but none of them "really mattered" and they were all eventually discarded in favor of Pearl. How many humans with short lives and dreams has Rose destroyed before this moment? The answer is probably "quite a few." Most if not all of these were probably not out of maliciousness, but out of not understanding humanity. The Gems in general have serious, understandable issues grappling with human's short lives, and it's very likely that Rose didn't realize the sort of damage she was causing until it was too late. It may also have taken her significant time to even care enough about individual humans to realize she was doing wrong by harming them emotionally.
This line functions as a sort of dramatic irony: Rose is concerned about Greg's short life, but Greg ends up outliving Rose.
Rose: I won't let you give up on everything you want.
Greg: That's gonna be a problem. You're everything I want!
Smooth, Greg. This cheesy pickup line moves Rose enough to produce stars in her eyes, just like her son.
Back in the present day, in the van, Steven teases Greg about loving Rose. Greg comments that he's glad that Marty made it easy for him to stay, and he puts the old picture next to the picture of him and Rose together.
This is a great episode for giving us insight into both Rose and Greg as people — particularly Rose through the eyes of Greg, which we haven't really seen before. It also starts to hint at some of Rose's less savory qualities. Not only that, but we get a couple of nice songs by Greg, and everyone is wearing sweet 80s-style clothes (even though it's probably not actually the 80s).
Next week on Steven Universe Rewind! Lapis Lazuli returns, kind of, in The Message!
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"Hi Geoff, my bad on the 2 years, maths was never my strong suite:) My engine has given zero problems at all, but it is getting hard to start on a cold morning, as in below 5 deg or so. I put the Camit duel exhausts and oil thermostat, and the Rotec…"
"Hi there Geoff, I see you have been flying your 601 for nearly 2 years now, how is your Jab going? Mine now has 460hrs with no problems at all. How are your temps with the plenum? Happy flying to you.."
My engine has given zero problems at all, but it is getting hard to start on a cold morning, as in below 5 deg or so. I put the Camit duel exhausts and oil thermostat, and the Rotec alternator, and the Jabiru oil seperator on, otherwise the rest of the engine is standard. I just did the cyl leak down tests and all above 78/80 at 450hrs. I am running Shell 100W Plus being a warmer climate up here. I am still using the original VDO oil pressure sender too. This engine is always at about 55-60 psi at 2800-2850 rpm. I also have a hacman valve fitted to the carby and can adjust/lean out the mixture, but this only works above 6000ft or so.So at 8500ft I can cruise at 115ktas using about 17.5 lph. This is also the long term fuel use average since new.
The rest of the airframe hasn't given me any problems either. I did change a rod end bearing for the left aileron but thats it really, I think it was a bit out of round from new.
I have 2 fuel tanks in each wing and full fuel is 200 litres, I have done a few long range flights now, 1 to Ayers Rock and back and another up to Thursday Island. Full fuel and just me and I can still carry 20kg, I put 15 kg in the right wing locker and the other 5 behind me and on the pass seat. I have a MGL Voyager with auto pilot that works just briliantly. My longest flight was 8 hrs Warwick to Cairns non stop.
Sorry that the plenum couldn't be made to work, I really liked the idea and ease of access.
I'm surprised to hear that yours had rocker problems, was this on all the heads? Do you think it was an oil pressure or over heating problem, or just poor Jabiru problem?
Anyway glad your's is sorted, enjoy flying as its a great touring aircraft.
Hi there Geoff, I see you have been flying your 601 for nearly 2 years now, how is your Jab going? Mine now has 460hrs with no problems at all. How are your temps with the plenum?
Hi Jeff, congrats on getting in the air, It's a day that never seems to come isn't it. But now your fuel bills will go thru the roof.
I installed the plenum and gave it a go for a while, but in truth all temps where a lot hotter, esp 3 & 5, these always above 180. All seals appeared to be good, but I went back to the original fibreglass plenums and now temps sit between 150/160 in cruise, not going above 175 in climb. I have cht probes on the small bolt above the plugs. This seems to be where my engine sits.
What serial # is yours? Mine is 1928 so the early 2nd gen hyd.
Why thank you Sir, much appreciated. Please don't go out of your way time wise, I have plenty to do as well.
I sent my MGL Efis back to South Africa last month to have the SD card reader repaired and it is still stuck in customs there a month later, so grounded until I get it back. I have just fitted camit exhaust seals, left side always leaked a bit, hopefully fixed now.
Hi Jeff, thats a fantastic offer, thanks, will take you up on it. Will make up a plenum and we can compare temps. No matter what I have tried, cruise temps are around 150c to 160c so would like to lower those. Where did you get the rubber seal from?
Are you going to register raa or VH?
Long term fuel usage is actually 16.7 litres over 233 hrs, so quite economical really. You look like you are closing in on first flight, what is your estimate?
I would love a copy of your plenum, I would like to make my own but have never made one. Any do's or don'ts to consider?
Hi Jeff, Your pictures are great! I have a couple of questions: You'd you ever consider making more baffles and selling them to people with Jabiru 3300 or do you have any prints/templates/drawings that you could supply so someone could make thier own baffles? Anyway, your work looks fantasitc.
PS Do you have an email address where I could contact you directly vs using the Zenith site?
Jeff I climb at 90 kts at 2950 and cruise at 105 kts at about 2800, 18 lph. I can cruise all day at 2600/85 kts at only 14 lph. The 601 is not really going to cruise much faster than 105 without burning a lot more fuel, seems to hit a wall there, my plane anyway.
Look forward to hearing how your plenum works, did you keep the drawings to make another set?
Jeff I just went into an Autopro store and bought one of there radiator hoses that was the right size, 90 deg and trimmed to size. I put a divider in the middle, vertically, and seems to work ok. What sort of prop are you using?


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"This app is a fantastic opportunity for all citizens to contribute towards controlling the epidemic, protecting their families, and avoiding a resurgence of COVID-19 in their own communities," said team co-leader Dr. David Bonsall. He is a senior researcher at Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Medicine.
His team published a paper on their proposal recently in the journal Science. It stressed that the app would need widespread adoption to be effective.
"We're particularly interested in the overall number of users adopting the app, because we know from our research into the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 that people are infectious, on average, five days before they show any symptoms," Bonsall said.
"In addition, we've assessed that nearly 50% of transmissions in the early phase of China's epidemic were from this early stage of infection," he added. "As such, we need to have the majority of users installed and recording their close contacts so when we are able to ease lockdown measures, citizens at large can confirm infection and alert those people who they have been in close physical contact with over the preceding five days."
Other teams around the world are working on similar apps.
A group led by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is developing a system that augments contact tracing by public health officials, while preserving individual privacy.
The system relies on short-range Bluetooth signals emitted from people's smartphones. These signals are likened to "chirps" that other nearby smartphones can remember hearing, the researchers explained.
If a person tests positive, they can upload the list of chirps their phone has put out in the past 14 days to a database. Other people can then scan the database to see if any of those chirps match the ones picked up by their phones. If there's a match, a notification will inform that person that he or she may have been exposed to the virus, and will include information from public health authorities on the next steps to take.
"I keep track of what I've broadcasted, and you keep track of what you've heard, and this will allow us to tell if someone was in close proximity to an infected person," explained lead investigator Ron Rivest, a professor at MIT.
"But for these broadcasts, we're using cryptographic techniques to generate random, rotating numbers that are not just anonymous, but pseudonymous, constantly changing their 'ID,' and that can't be traced back to an individual," Rivest explained in an MIT news release.
China has already been using a phone app to fight the pandemic. Residents must scan posted barcodes to log locations they are visiting or to use public transport. The app displays their identity and a color code for their health status: green, if symptom-free; yellow, if recently in contact with an infected person and should be in quarantine; or red, infected, the Associated Press reported recently. Officials at checkpoints inspect the color code to see if a person should be traveling or quarantined.
The Oxford team noted that the Chinese app and one employed by South Korea have been criticized for issues with privacy and data protection.
"We looked at the technology used in other Asian countries, early on in the epidemic, and considered what was working effectively at controlling the epidemics," Bonsall said. "With our mathematical modeling and bioethics analyses, we came up with a concept that would be possible in countries committed to placing user and patient privacy at the heart of their intervention strategies," he said.
"We have shared our evidence with several European partners," Bonsall noted. "We are keen to share our research efforts with all countries interested in developing a concept with the same underlying values as ours."
Dr. Mike Sevilla is a practicing family physician at the Family Practice Center of Salem and the Salem Regional Medical Center, both in Ohio. He's written about the role of social media and related technology in medicine.
Sevilla said such an app could combat COVID-19 spread if widely adopted, but he believed its audience in the United States would be limited.
"For those Americans who already report their health status on their phone, this app would work great," Sevilla said. "There are Americans, with smart watches and other wearables, who freely track and report their health. However, this is a minority of the U.S. population," he noted.
"App use is based on ease of use [or lack of ease of use], cost [free or not], the 'fun' factor, and if their friends are using the app," Sevilla noted.
"Targeting a certain population initially would possibly work. For example, what if colleges and universities supported this app for their students? This is a population who use smartphones a lot and I think would be more likely to use the app. If it works with them, then this would give a signal that it could possibly work with other populations," Sevilla said.
Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more on coronavirus.
SOURCES: David Bonsall, M.D., senior researcher, Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Medicine, and clinician, Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom; Mike Sevilla, M.D., Family Practice Center of Salem and the Salem Regional Medical Center, both in Salem, Ohio; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, news release, April 9, 2020; March 31, 2020, Science


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"Christopher Wray Is Part of the Deep State – He's Resisting – He Doesn't Want this Stuff to Come Out" – Judge Jeanine BLASTS Corrupt FBI Director (VIDEO)
Published May 18, 2020 at 9:06pm
Judge Jeanine went off on FBI Director Chris Wray on Monday accusing him of covering for the deep state which he is a part of.
Chris Wray has a lot to hide himself. Wray previously promoted the corrupt DOJ lawyer Andrew Weissmann and pushed to hide exculpatory evidence that exonerated General Michael Flynn.
Judge Jeanine Pirro: Well, Sean I have to tell you, you're actually too good to him when you say he's basically taking his time. He's not taking his time, he is resisting. He is no different than the people he is trying to cover for. Sean, I've said this before on my show, Christopher Wray is part of the deep state. He is connected to them. He has no sense of urgency because he doesn't want this stuff to come out. When the Inspector General's report came out and there were 17 errors by the FBI his response was all you know we'll do better. Hogwash! Nobody was fired. Nobody got rolled out of that agency when he was head of it.
Rep. Jim Jordan played clean-up for Judge Jeanine noting that FBI Director Wray was defending the criminals in the FBI when the IG reported 29 FISA apps had problems.
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The national US Census in 1940 took place on April 1st. No foolin'! Oscar and Ann Aderman, my paternal grandparents lived in Niagara, Wisconsin, USA that year (and for many years). Grandpa was a crane operator at the time, according to the occupation column. Oscar and Ann's youngest son, Bill, was not yet born and her father, Martin Boerner, Sr., was living with the family.
It was fun to see their neighbors on either side of the Aderman house. My father spoke often of the Papaich's, immigrants from Serbia, and the Ponzios. Mary (Boerner) Ponzio was Ann (Boerner) Aderman's sister, my father's aunt. Dad had lots of stories of the cousins playing together.