I have family members and friends with children that are autistic. I thought that I was fairly knowledgeable about autism, but I was wrong. When I looked at autism globally, I realized how wrong I was.

I always thought America had the largest population of autistic children. I never thought past America. I am looking at autism with a new set of eyes.

Quote:In recent years, cases of autism have risen. The Center for Disease Control announced in 2021 that the rate of autism in the U.S. during 2018 was 1 child in 44. This is a notable rise from rates given in Scientific American, for 2016 (1 in 68, though other sources claim an even-higher 1 in 54 by age 8), 2008 (1 in 88) and 2000 (1 in 150). Moreover, this trend of rising autism, which dates back to the early 1990s, is a global occurrence not confined to the United States. Prevailing theories suggest that the rise is largely due to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism rather than a massive increase in overall occurrences of autism. However, autism is more likely in babies with older parents, who are more common in today's world, and in babies born prematurely, who survive more often now than in previous eras.

Well, this is awkward for the police officer as it was caught on video.

Sure, we have no idea "what happened" prior to the video but we can see the cop appears to have lost it on something our new "millionaire" said and went to town. Our future "millionaire" was smart enough NOT to fight back or resist and took it for the $$$$$.

End Qualified Immunity.

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Anyone remember Wangari Maathai? Me neither. She was the first African Nobel Peace Prize winner, first woman PhD out of east/central Africa, an outspoken voice against neocapital-colonialism, intellectual and activist, also happened to have choice words regarding a certain immune compromising virus:

Quote:HIV ‘Created by Scientist’ for Biological Warfare, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Says

Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai -- who on Friday became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize -- on Saturday repeated her previous claims that HIV was "created by a scientist for biological warfare," AFP/Yahoo! News reports. In August, Kenya's East African Standard quoted Maathai as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists "for the purpose of mass extermination," according to AFP/Yahoo! News. "We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to primitive people. They have the resources to do this," the Standard quoted Maathai as saying during a workshop on Aug. 30 in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri, according to AFP/Yahoo! News. "AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did," she added, according to the Standard, AFP/Yahoo! News reports (AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/9) Saturday, Maathai repeated her belief that HIV was deliberately "devised to destroy black people," according to Reuters. She added that her comments published in the Standard were "intended to promote an inquiring attitude" toward HIV/AIDS among Africans and "combat the fatalistic notion that it was a curse from God," Reuters reports. "Would you solve the problem if you believed it was a curse from God?" Maathai asked, adding that she was "encouraging people to ask questions." Although Maathai said she never indicated that a specific region or nation was responsible for creating HIV/AIDS, she is "suspicious" about the "secrecy surrounding the origin of the virus," according to Reuters. "Some people say it came from the monkeys, and I doubt it. ... But I say it cannot be that only black people are cursed because we are dying more than any other people on this planet, and that's a fact" (Kanina, Reuters, 10/9).

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Although the United States "congratulated" Maathai on Friday for winning the Nobel Prize, officials also "tempered [their] praise" about her claims that HIV/AIDS was created as a biological weapon, according to South Africa's Star. "She's had many long years of environmental activism," Department of State spokesperson Richard Boucher said, adding, "We're delighted to see that she's the first African woman to have been selected for this unique honor." However, an unnamed State Department senior official said that the department "vehemently" objected to Maathai's comments concerning the origin of HIV, the Star reports. "She said HIV/AIDS was invented as a bioweapon in some laboratory in the West," the official said, adding, "We don't agree with that" (Star, 10/9). Maathai -- Kenya's assistant minister of the environment and founder of the country's Green Belt movement that aims to promote biodiversity and gender equity -- was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for standing at the "front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa," according to AFP/Yahoo! News (AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/9).

Morning Briefing (Oct 12,2004)

Quote:Maathai and her husband, Mwangi Mathai, separated in 1977. After a lengthy separation, Mwangi filed for divorce in 1979. He was said to have believed that Wangari was "too strong-minded for a woman" and that he was "unable to control her". In addition to naming her as "cruel" in court filings, he publicly accused her of adultery with another Member of Parliament, which in turn was thought to cause his high blood pressure and the judge ruled in Mwangi's favour. Shortly after the trial, in an interview with Viva magazine, Maathai referred to the judge as either incompetent or corrupt. The interview later led the judge to charge Maathai with contempt of court. She was found guilty and sentenced to six months in jail. After three days in Lang'ata Women's Prison in Nairobi, her lawyer formulated a statement that the court found sufficient for her release. Shortly after the divorce, her former husband sent a letter via his lawyer demanding that Maathai drop his surname. She chose to add an extra "a" instead of changing her name.
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Just a public service announcement (more food contamination): 

More strawberries sold at Walmart, Costco, HEB recalled over possible hepatitis A contamination!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/mo...tamination

Quote:Oregon-based Willamette Valley Fruit Co. issued a recall for packages of frozen fruit sold at Walmart, Costco and HEB stores around the nation – the latest company to do so amid an outbreak of hepatitis A infections. 


The select packages Great Value and Radar Farms frozen fruit contain strawberries that were grown in Mexico and have the potential to be contained with hepatitis A, according to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

The notice came just after California-based Wawona Frozen Foods issued a recall for year-old bags of frozen fruit that were shipped to Costco stores. 

The FDA has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as with other state public health and regulatory officials, to investigate the multi-state outbreak of infections that started in November 2022 and have been linked to frozen organic strawberries imported from certain farms in Baja California, Mexico. 


To date, nine people have fallen ill in three states, including three people who have been hospitalized. 

The hepatitis A virus strain in this outbreak is genetically identical to the strain that caused the hepatitis A outbreak in 2022 that left over a dozen people hospitalized, according to the CDC.

I am writing another thread about "The Weather". The most boring topic on the internet.

Yet, I am totally fascinated with what most people just pushes off as normal, everyday, cyclical, nothing new under the sun, info.

I find it interesting that though most want to push weather anomalies off as normal and every day, the first thing that comes out of the mouth of those that are interviewed after a catastrophe is, "This has never happened before, and I have never heard of anything like this ever happening here before."

I have to go with the person living the catastrophe, if the town had been standing for 200 years or more, and they are doing the interview in the middle of the rubble of the wiped out town.

I could post a million or more videos of these occurrences, but I am not. I am just posting because I think something else just may be happening. Something as old as before the days of Noah. Something we today maybe should be paying a little more attention to.

Who works a crap job and wants what I would call "Least Resistance Career Opportunity"? 

The least work or investment for a good paying career?

Today, I am going to give you my opinion on that and maybe I can help someone in need with career advice.


Go to a job board. I like to use www.simplyhired.com as they post the pay on many of postings.

Search for "Scrum Master" in your area. Now "Project Manager"


Once you do this, you will have an idea of what the career field pays. Now, the fun part.

Do you know how EASY it is to get PM and Scrum certifications? What if I told you that you can get PM certs for FREE?
All it costs is your time to learn and pass them. Better ones are low cost, a couple hundred bucks. 

The job itself is easy if you have basic to moderate computer skills and can coherently talk on a phone and type an email outline summary of notes about topics reviewed on the conference, follow-up with people who are responsible for action items and drive results. It is pretty easy day to day.

Scrum is a secondary / add on generally to PM. It is easy as shit as well and I still do not understand why they pay so much for a SCRUM Master as you can get the certification within a couple of months easy. (yes, you are reading this right... free training, low cost scrum certification, big money and yes you are reading the job postings correctly, you can make 70-120K or more a year doing this after a couple of years of experience.

OK, where do I start?

Get the easy / fast / overview foundation stuff first so you have an understanding of the basics:

https://www.msicertified.com/project-man...certified/

https://www.scrumstudy.com/certification...-certified

https://www.goskills.com/Course/Project-...ent-Basics 

Quote:For anyone who needs a free project management course for beginners, GoSkills offers a certification that is respected by project management professionals. The Project Management Basics course takes a little under eight hours to complete. It covers the fundamentals of project management principles, along with how to project boundaries using the W questions, how to create a schedule and allocate resources, risk projection, team building, and essential communication skills.


At the end of the course, you'll receive a certificate that has been approved by the Project Management Institute. Though GoSkills is a paid membership site, they offer a seven-day free trial, which can allow you to complete the Basics course for free.

Quote:The Google Project Management Professional Certificate is a good certification for those who want to work as a project manager. In just four months and for less than $200, you can build the skills needed to start a career in project management. The course material is easy to follow and the quality of the instructors is very good making this one of the best entry-level project management certifications.

The Google Project Management Professional Certificate is an entry-level project management certification prepared by Google and offered through Coursera. It helps students build the skills needed to work as project managers in various industries with a starting salary of more than $59K per year.

This Google career certificate is a great first step if you want to start a career as a project manager. It will also give you more than 100 hours of project management education to pursue the CAPM certificate, which is a globally recognized certification in project management.

Quote:What is CAPM Certification?

The Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM) is a globally recognized credential that opens the door to opportunities at every stage of your career in the field of project management.
The current CAPM certification involves taking a 150-question exam that tests your aptitude in:

• Fundamentals of project management and the role of project managers
  
• Project management environment, and project integration management
  
• Project scope, schedule, cost, quality and resource management.
  
• Project procurement, communication, stakeholder and risk management
  

The CAPM certification is an essential first step in building a career as a project manager. It can also aid you in pursuing many of our major certifications including the gold standard PM certification, the Project Management Professional (PMP).

Cost: 300 bucks and maybe a couple of $15 UDEMY courses if you can't find free study materials.

Quote:Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

The Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course is widely considered the epitome of certification in the industry. It provides an interactive and stimulating learning experience delivered by some of the most skilled and enthusiastic agile trainers globally. Each CSM class can be tailored to the individual needs of each student, ensuring they receive the best possible education.

By participating in CSM training, individuals acquire practical skills that they can immediately apply in the workplace and open up new career opportunities. Upon completing the course, your skills will enable you to take the CSM exam confidently.

You must complete a minimum of fourteen hours of training and pass a test after the course to become a CSM.

What could possibly go wrong?

I am sharing this with RN for just a little thought, and because I know of a person that did this and that was the question I asked her, while taking to her in the hospital.

Disclaimer: What happened to her really was not directly related to rental agreements she had with several migrants. But I want to see if anyone comes up with something that I missed.

This guy came up with a couple good points, but he was just preaching to the choir, he came up with nothing new for me. I can see nothing good coming out of this, but that may just be my conformation bias talking.

Dont be so....destructive Be responsible! Stop jerking around with your penis






Want to save the planet? Don't have children! Study finds bringing new life into the world is the most destructive thing you can do to the environment


Is Having Kids Eco Friendly?

Kids Are Cute But They Are Not Really Eco-Friendly



There was that one child policy in China ,  this climate change ideology goes even further -


Imagine if you will------World without kids to save our planet

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I spent my youth on horse back in the sticks of Texas, hunting and fishing with my trusty horse and dog; a childhood I would not want to trade with anyone for anything.

I have always had a great deal of respect for Genghis the great Khan of the steps for what he accomplished and the barriers he faced on his rise to power.

Something like 0ne in eight people today have some Genghis genes in their makeup. I have heard in Asia that number is something like one in three.  I realize few think they have time to listen to this story but if you do enjoy.

Quote:The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols’ “Great Taboo”—Genghis Khan’s homeland and forbidden burial site—tracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation of the world. Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.

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Quote:COVID-Vaccinated More Likely to Be Hospitalized: CDC Data
COVID Vaccines

Zachary Stieber, Reporter
Jun 15 2023
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COVID-19 vaccines at George Washington University Hospital in Washington in a Dec. 14, 2020, file photograph. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

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COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization turned negative over time, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data presented on June 15.
The effectiveness against hospitalization plummeted to negative 8 percent for people who received one of the old COVID-19 vaccines, according to data from a CDC-run hospital network.
A dose of one of the updated bivalent vaccines moved the protection above zero, to 29 percent, but the protection fell back to negative 8 percent beyond 89 days, the data show.
The protection estimates were for adults without a compromised immune system from Jan. 23 to May 24, when the XBB strain was dominant in the United States. The data came from people hospitalized at one of 25 hospitals across 20 states that are part of the Investigating Respiratory Viruses in the Acutely Ill network. Both cases and controls were hospitalized with COVID-like illness but the cases tested positive for COVID-19 and the controls tested negative for COVID-19.
Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles of the CDC presented the data to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel as they consider updating the composition of the vaccines.
Link-Gelles didn’t specifically comment on the negative effectiveness estimates but noted that some of the data she presented had wide confidence intervals.
The bivalent vaccines, made by Moderna and Pfizer, were introduced in the fall of 2022 with the hopes of improving protection against hospitalization and death after the old vaccines proved increasingly incapable of providing sustained shielding.
Dr. Robert Malone, who helped invent the messenger RNA technology utilized by the vaccine companies in their vaccines, said that the negative effectiveness is consistent with prior data such as a study from the Cleveland Clinic that found each successive vaccine dose increased the risk of infection.
Other papers have also estimated that protection against infection turns negative over time. Some datasets have indicated that vaccinated people were at higher risk of hospitalization, long seen as a surrogate for severe disease.
Researchers in one recent paper said that repeated vaccination—some Americans have received a half-dozen COVID-19 shots in under three years—weakens immune systems, potentially making people susceptible to life-threatening conditions such as cancer.
The estimates were negative even after CDC officials made adjustments for factors such as age, sex, and ethnicity. The median time since the last dose for the people who only received one or more doses of an old vaccine was 464 days. For the group who received a bivalent vaccine but saw effectiveness turn negative, the median time was 137 days.
[/url] Information on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness presented by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on June 15, 2023. (CDC via The Epoch Times)
Other Data
Data from another network found that protection neared zero over time.
Among adults deemed immunocompetent after XBB became dominant, the protection from the old vaccines against hospitalization was measured at 9 percent in the CDC’s VISION network. A shot of a bivalent vaccine increased protection to 51 percent, but the shielding plunged to 20 percent 90 to 179 days after the shot.
From September 2022 to May 2023, immunocompromised adults in the same network who only received an old vaccine had just 3 percent protection against hospitalization.
A bivalent shot increased the protection to 39 percent, although the shielding was reduced to 11 percent beyond 119 days.
VISION includes sites across 11 states, including Kaiser Permanente Northern California and Columbia University in New York.
Under half of each age group in the United States has received a bivalent dose, including 43 percent of those age 65 and older and 0.6 percent of 2- to 4-year-olds.
The CDC didn’t present data on the effectiveness against infection.
XBB became dominant in the United States in January, displacing BA.5 and its subvariants. The bivalents contain a BA.4/BA.5 component in addition to the Wuhan component. The FDA [url=https://www.theepochtimes.com/updated-covid-19-vaccines-needed-due-to-waning-effectiveness-fda_5330610.html]plans to update the vaccines to target XBB and its sublineages for a renewed vaccine campaign in late 2023 and early 2024.
“We’re concerned that we may have another wave of COVID-19 during the time when the virus has further evolved, immunity of the population has waned further, and we move indoors for wintertime,” Dr. Peter Marks, an FDA official, said during the meeting.
Turn to ‘Critical Illness’
Officials have increasingly been focusing on protection against so-called critical illness, or intensive care unit admission or death, as protection against hospitalization drops lower and lower.
Protection against critical illness from a bivalent was 58 percent initially and only dropped to 48 percent, according to data from VISION during XBB’s predominance.
There weren’t enough critical cases in the Investigating Respiratory Viruses in the Acutely Ill network to provide estimates of protection against critical illness, Link-Gelles said.
She said that patterns of waning with the bivalent vaccines “have been very similar to what we knew from the monovalent vaccine” and that U.S. officials don’t make vaccine policy decisions “based solely on vaccine effectiveness data.”
Limitations of the data include the high levels of prior infection, or natural immunity, and potential differences between unvaccinated and vaccinated people, officials said.