Last night I went to bed at 10:30, fell asleep
quickly, got up twice during the night, (noticed it was raining about 2/3am)
finally waking/getting up at 7am.
Last night I played 4 games on Chess.com, winning 1,
drawing 1, and losing 2. My rating is now down to 1461.
I left the apt at 8am and arrived at the agreed bus
stop by 8:15. Glenn arrived a minute later. We soon were on a Sabaneta bus and
we arrived at Ganso y Castor exactly at 8:30. James was almost 30
minutes late. I had the Greek yogurt with granola and fruit again. There was an
unorganized exercise class going on in the area next to us. Soon it became
organized, led by a young man, along with loud music provided by a boom box. Luckily,
it only lasted about an hour and it was soon replaced by a cricket match. Most of
the players appeared to be Indian. I saw a family with a dog that looked like a
border collie but the black & white, instead of being separate and distinct,
were mixed together. I talked to the owner and he said it cost 2,500,000 pesos
in Bogota. He said it was a blue border collie. Later I made a trip to the
restroom and I talked briefly with a cricket player who spoke good English. They
are from India and I mentioned how nice it was that they could all get together
to play. He invited me to join them but of course I politely declined.
We left about 11:30 and I took a taxi to Parque Lleras.
The driver asked me a lot of questions which I didn’t mind answering. I arrived
at Patrick’s 10 minutes before kickoff. I met a gringo named Michael from
Chicago and we discussed living in the suburb and the Bear. He told me he, his
girlfriend and her family had the coronavirus. He said is was like have the flu
for 2-3 days. The Bears didn’t look good and were down 26-10 early in the 3rd
quarter. Nagy, the coach, switched in Nick Foles at quarterback for Mitch
Trubisky and they soon scored a touchdown but on review it was declared an
interception. Anyway, Foles led them to an incredible comeback scoring 3
touchdowns and the Bears won 30-26. Next week it’s the 2-1 Indianapolis Colts
in Chicago.
I took a taxi to Viva Envigado where I found a line to
enter Exito. I went into Todo Fresa for a café con leche. I left about 45 minutes
later and there was still a line outside Exito but it moved quickly. I found a
package of hotdog buns but I couldn’t find relish. Sigh! I picked up a couple bags
of milk and took a taxi back to the apt.
Tom Ridge, who was a
cabinet secretary under former Republican president George W. Bush, endorsed
the Democratic nominee on Sunday.
“I will cast my vote for
Joe Biden on Nov. 3. It will be my first vote for a Democratic candidate for
president of the United States,” Ridge, a former governor of Pennsylvania, wrote in an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. "But it is not the first time I
have said ‘no’ to Donald Trump. I urge my fellow Pennsylvanians to join me.
“[Trump] lacks the
empathy, integrity, intellect and maturity to lead,” Ridge continued. “He sows
division along political, racial and religious lines. And he routinely dismisses
the opinions of experts who know far more about the subject at hand than he
does.”
Donald
Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, paid only $750 in federal income taxes in
the year he was elected US president, according to a stunning New York
Times investigation that could shake up the presidential election.
“Trump taxes show chronic losses and
years of tax avoidance,” was the banner headline on the paper’s website on
Sunday. The president’s tax returns have long been the holy grail of American
political reporting.
The president “paid $750 in federal
income taxes the year he won the presidency”, the paper reported, adding that
“in his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
“He had paid no income taxes at all in 10
of the previous 15 years – largely because he reported losing much more money
than he made.”
In all, the paper said, Trump paid no
federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years its reporters examined. Many of his
businesses, including his golf courses, report significant financial losses –
which have helped him to lower his taxes.
The Times also said the documents it had
obtained “comprise information that Mr Trump has disclosed to the IRS, not the
findings of an independent financial examination. They report that Mr Trump
owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but they do not reveal
his true wealth.”
The predicted effects of a warming climate are
increasingly visible in California: Five of the six largest wildfires in state history
ignited in recent weeks, and the state clocked its hottest August on record.
In an effort to combat climate change, California
Gov. Gavin Newsom already has set the goal of 100% zero-emission energy sources for the state's
electricity by 2045.
The latest step in the state's plan to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions came Wednesday, when Newsom pledged to ban all sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. The
executive order wouldn't prevent Californians from owning or selling gasoline
or diesel-powered vehicles on the used-vehicle market.
California
would be the first state in the country with such a ban, joining at least 15
countries, including France and Germany, that have made similar pledges to
phase out gas-powered cars.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and major
automakers on Monday confirmed they had finalized binding agreements to cut
vehicle emissions in the state, defying the Trump administration’s push for
weaker curbs on tailpipe pollution.
The agreements with carmakers, including Ford Motor Co, Volkswagen
AG VOWG_p.DE,
Honda Motor Co and BMW AG, were first announced in July 2019 as voluntary
measures, prompting anger from U.S. President Donald Trump.
A month later, the Justice Department opened an
antitrust probe of the agreements, only to end it without action.
The administration in March finalized a rollback of
U.S. vehicle emissions standards to require 1.5% annual increases in efficiency
through 2026, well below the 5% annual increases in discarded rules under
President Barack Obama.
The Center for Biological Diversity estimates the deal
will improve fuel economy 3.7% year over year between 2022-2026.
MELBOURNE,
Australia, Sept. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- A novel nasal treatment developed to boost the natural human immune
system to fight common colds and flu, has proved remarkably successful in
reducing COVID-19 viral replication test results, released today, reveal.
The novel product, INNA-051, being
developed by Australian biotech company, Ena Respiratory, reduced viral
replication by up to 96 percent in a gold-standard animal study led by Public
Health England's (PHE) Deputy Director, Professor Miles
Carroll and published today on biomedical pre-publication research
site, medRxiv.
The INNA-051 compound works by stimulating
the innate immune system, the first line of defence against the invasion of
pathogens into the body. By boosting the immune response in this way with
INNA-051 prior to infection, the ability of the COVID-19 virus to infect the
animals and replicate was dramatically reduced the PHE study showed. The study
provides evidence that INNA-051 can be used as a stand-alone method of
antiviral preventative therapy, complementary to vaccine programs.
I stayed up late
watching the Packers Saints game.
The
US has 7,050,317 ð 7,100,379 ð 7,138,040 coronavirus cases
with 203,400+ ð 204,300+ ð 204,500+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 798,317 ð 806,038 ð 813,056 cases with 25,488 deaths. Medellin has 63,562 ð 64,192 ð 65,209 cases, an increase of 1,014 from September 26th
to 27th. Envigado has a total of 3,793 cases, an increase of 84 from
September 26th to 27th.
Joke of
the day
A
mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.
The
interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks: "What does two plus two
equal?"
The mathematician
replies: "Four."
The
interviewer asks: "Four, exactly?"
The
mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says: "Yes, four,
exactly."
Then the
interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question.
"What
does two plus two equal?"
The
accountant says: "On average, four - give or take ten percent, but on
average, four."
Then the interviewer
calls in the economist and poses the same question.
"What
does two plus two equal?"
The economist gets up, locks the
door, closes the shade, leans close to the interviewer and whispers: "What
do you want it to equal?"
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