Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Nope - never saw her on the road...
It's as if no one hitch hikes any more.
Thank god these gals do, but I'll be damned
to know where they're doing it...
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Shades of Woodstock I guess...
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Epstein's legacy...
Two Caribbean islands that once belonged to the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein have been put up for sale. Great St James and Little St James, two islands in the US Virgin Islands, were part of Epstein’s extensive global property portfolio and have been listed for $125m, the Wall Street Journal reported last Tuesday.
The larger island, Great St James, spans more than 160 acres. According to court records and listing materials reviewed by the journal, Epstein bought the island in 2016 for close to $20m. It remains largely untouched and contains just a small collection of structures and Christmas Cove, a marine preserve.
Little St James, which Epstein bought in 1998, spans more than 70 acres and in addition to a main residential compound and four guest villas, the island includes a helipad, a private dock, two pools, three private beaches, a gym and a tiki hut.
In 2020, US Virgin Island officials, including the attorney general, alleged that Epstein lured women and girls – some as young as 11 – to Little St James, where he “trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted and held captive” his victims, according to court documents.
Proceeds from the islands’ sale will go towards the estate’s resolution of outstanding lawsuits and costs of estate operations, Daniel Weiner, an attorney for the Epstein estate, told the Journal.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
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Your daily Dean...
More adventures of Mandy and her dinosaurs...
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Leaving Cuba - in a hurry. That'll teach ya not to protest...
Tens of thousands have left the communist-ruled country since mass anti-government protests last July but many face life in limbo in Mexico
Last July, Rafael decided to get a provocative tattoo: a faded Cuban flag across his calf above the words “Patria y Vida”, or Fatherland and Life – the title of an anti-government anthem that went viral on the Caribbean island that summer.
That decision triggered a string of frightening confrontations with Cuban police – and ultimately prompted him to flee the country, leaving his two young children behind. Rafael is one of thousands of Cubans who have left the island since the largest anti-government protests in 30 years erupted spontaneously in cities across the country on 11 July.
Well-known dissidents have been able to secure visas or receive asylum from various countries, primarily Spain and the United States, over the past six months while still in Cuba. But many ordinary Cubans whose first political act was taking to the streets last July have begun to leave the island as well, seeing self-exile as a better option than prison.
Those with enough money for a plane ticket – often one to two thousand dollars –fly to Panama or Nicaragua and ride buses up through Central America.
Now Rafael and thousands of other Cubans are stuck in Tapachula, a sweltering town near the Guatemala border, while they wait for the Mexican government to issue documents allowing them to travel up to the United States border where they will apply for political asylum.
Tens of thousands of people joined the July demonstrations. Many of them were peaceful, but others threw rocks at police officers, overturned police cars and set them on fire. Chants of “¡Patria y vida!” rippled through the crowds.
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Maybe the next time you get a blood test...
Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested.
The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs. The impact on health is as yet unknown. But researchers are concerned as microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory and air pollution particles are already known to enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a year.
Huge amounts of plastic waste are dumped in the environment and microplastics now contaminate the entire planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. People were already known to consume the tiny particles via food and water as well as breathing them in, and they have been found in the feces of babies and adults.
The scientists analysed blood samples from 22 anonymous donors, all healthy adults and found plastic particles in 17. Half the samples contained PET plastic, which is commonly used in drinks bottles, while a third contained polystyrene, used for packaging food and other products. A quarter of the blood samples contained polyethylene, from which plastic carrier bags are made.
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Live that long? No thanks, Charlie...
Children born in 2070 could live until the age of 150 thanks to advances in reverse-ageing technology, leading experts claim. Not only could this double the current global average life expectancy, it may slash the time people spend in age-related ill-health.
What was once thought of as a distant pipe dream is now edging closer to reality after a pioneering study earlier this month managed to safely reverse the ageing process in elderly mice.
Dr Andrew Steele, a computational biologist and author of Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old, told the i human trials would soon be on the horizon. 'You’d be a fool to bet against it working in the next 50 years,' he said.
Professor Jürg Bähler, a geneticist at University College London, predicted such tech could help boost lifespans by up to a century-and-half at the maximum. 'Some people, including myself, would say there’s a natural ceiling for human life, about 150, and you can’t go beyond that,' he said.
Life expectancy for men and women born in the UK today is 79 years for men and 82.9 years for women. In the US life expectancy for children born in 2020 is significantly lower, 74.2 years for men and 79.9 for women.
Monday, March 28, 2022
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