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Or Bruno.

Sorry- cannot recall but will look for that tomorrow.

I suspect that Calgarians feel that they are so much on a different level that they have outgrown the CFL.

Life in Belarus apartments is ....... convenient.

There is a real fear that the jurors may face threats and/or attacks from rabid Trump supporters- the plaintiff, a psychologist, has already received death threats.- thus the anonymous jurors,

From Wine Country To London, Bank's Failure Shakes Worldwide NEW YORK (AP) — It was called Silicon Valley Bank, but its collapse is causing shockwaves around the world. From winemakers in California to startups across the Atlantic Ocean, companies are scrambling to figure out how to manage their finances after their bank suddenly shut down Friday. The meltdown means distress not only for businesses but also for all their workers whose paychecks may get tied up in the chaos. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday that he’s talking with the White House to help “stabilize the situation as quickly as possible, to protect jobs, people’s livelihoods, and the entire innovation ecosystem that has served as a tent pole for our economy.” U.S. customers with less than $250,000 in the bank can count on insurance provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Regulators are trying to find a buyer for the bank in hopes customers with more than that can be made whole. That includes customers like Circle, a big player in the cryptocurrency industry. It said it has about $3.3 billion of the roughly $40 billion in reserves for its USDC coin at SVB. That caused USD Coin’s value, which tries to stay firmly at $1, to briefly plunge below 87 cents Saturday. It later rose back above 97 cents, according to CoinDesk. Across the Atlantic, startup companies woke up Saturday to find SVB’s U.K. business will stop making payments or accepting deposits. The Bank of England said late Friday that it will put Silicon Valley Bank UK in its insolvency procedure, which will pay out eligible depositors up to 170,000 British pounds ($204,544) for joint accounts “as quickly as possible.” “We know that there are a large number of startups and investors in the ecosystem who have significant exposure to SVB UK and will be very concerned,” Dom Hallas, executive director of Coadec, which represents British startups, said on Twitter. He cited “concern and panic.” The Bank of England said SVB UK’s assets would be sold to pay creditors. It’s not just startups feeling the pain. The bank’s collapse is having an effect on another important California industry: fine wines. It’s been an influential lender to vineyards since the 1990s. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/silicon-valley-bank-collapse_n_640cfebee4b0d15457b63f29

The S & L debacle which was a direct result of Reagan de-regulating the near-banks in the US is a compelling example of this.

Donald Trump may face an anonymous jury in rape defamation suit An anonymous jury may hear writer E. Jean Carroll's upcoming rape defamation suit against Donald Trump, a judge in the case indicated Saturday. Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, has accused Trump of raping her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the late 1990s. She sued him for defamation after he derided her claims, said she was not his "type," and that her accusation was politically motivated. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan issued an order Saturday asking Trump and Carroll to respond by March 17 if either side has any objections to using an anonymous jury, Bloomberg reported. Kaplan didn't explain why he might opt for an anonymous jury. But jurors could be targets of threats in the politically charged case. Anonymous juries have been used in the past to protect jurors' safety in cases involving organized crimes and terrorists. Kaplan ruled Friday that Trump's controversial hot-mic comments to an Access Hollywood host in 2005 will be allowed at the trial. Trump boasted then about "grabbing" women without their consent, saying he could get away with it because he was famous. https://www.alternet.org/Bank/trump-anonymous-jury-defamation-case/

There is a multi-party committee overseeing CSIS and national security and Poilievre has been called out by a Conservative MP who sits on that committee. The gist of what was said is that every member of that committee has had full updates and disclosures but are sworn to secrecy to protect sources and the degree of awareness that CSIS has about any meddling by foreign governments and actors in Canadian political affairs. Poilievre has carte blanche to huff and puff knowing full well that the government and committee cannot speak candidly on these matters.

We lost Bud Grant today.

Relatives of the mobilized sent a letter to Putin complaining that some of the mobilized have symptoms of "Pathogenic lymphocytic Venezuelan encephalomyelitis". A disease transmitted mainly by rats.

To Save Physics, Experts Suggest We Need to Assume The Future Can Affect The Past In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the Universe works. Many look at those experiments and conclude that they challenge "locality" – the intuition that distant objects need a physical mediator to interact. And indeed, a mysterious connection between distant particles would be one way to explain these experimental results. Others instead think the experiments challenge "realism" – the intuition that there's an objective state of affairs underlying our experience. After all, the experiments are only difficult to explain if our measurements are thought to correspond to something real. Either way, many physicists agree about what's been called "the death by experiment" of local realism. But what if both of these intuitions can be saved, at the expense of a third? A growing group of experts think that we should abandon instead the assumption that present actions can't affect past events. Called "retrocausality", this option claims to rescue both locality and realism. https://www.sciencealert.com/to-save-physics-experts-suggest-we-need-to-assume-the-future-can-affect-the-past

Many people recall only the accusation but not the retraction or correction.

The named "sources" of this woman are probably no less credible than most, if not all of alternate Fox sources.

Meet the ‘Ghost’ Woman Fox Relied on for Voter Fraud Claims A voting machine company’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News has rocked the conservative media giant, exposing rifts between its journalists and the star hosts and executives more concerned with mollifying pro-Trump viewers than accurately reporting that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. But the strangest revelation so far from the Dominion Voting Systems case against the cable channel may be the alleged source of the voter-fraud claims that sparked the lawsuit: a single email from a previously unknown woman who was convinced, among other things, that late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered while being hunted for sport. That unhinged email to Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell has now become a centerpiece of Dominion’s case, raising questions about how Fox could allow obviously fake claims from a total stranger with no credentials to make it on the air. Even Maria Bartiromo, the Fox host whose show first aired the claims, admitted in a deposition that the email was ridiculous. “It’s kooky, absolutely,” Bartiromo said. But the ideas’ origin is even more “kooky” than Bartiromo might realize. In an interview with The Daily Beast, the woman behind that email—a Minnesota artist named Marlene Bourne—said that she based her now nationally prominent ideas about election fraud on a wide variety of sources, including hidden messages she detects in films, song lyrics she hears on the radio, and overheard conversations she hears while in line at the supermarket checkout. https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-ghost-minnesota-artist-fox-relied-on-for-voter-fraud-claims?ref=home

Mass Backstabbing Spree Over Putin’s War Sweeps Russia - REUTERS Russian citizens are ratting each other out to authorities in droves for anti-war comments made in bars, beauty salons, and grocery stores in roughly a dozen cities across the country, according to a new report from the independent Russian news outlet Vrestka. Legal filings obtained by the outlet from Moscow, Bryansk, Novosibirsk, and other cities indicate that citizens have been turned in for “violations” as minor as cracking a joke about the war, listening to Ukrainian music, or even just talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion in a public space. Many of those jailed after being reported by other citizens were charged under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, a new law signed by Putin last year criminalizing “public actions aimed at discrediting” Russian Armed Forces. One Russian man from Bryansk, Mikhail Kolokolnikov, was reportedly fined and jailed for two days after a stranger called authorities on him for saying the phrase “Glory to Ukraine” at a bar on Jan. 15. In an interview with Vrestka, Kolokolniko said that two officers stormed the bar shortly after he said the phrase to another man, demanding to know, “Who said ‘Glory to Ukraine’ here?” “The other day, a rocket hit a house in Dnipro,” Kolokolnikov, who was born in Ukraine, told the outlet—explaining why he said the slogan in a public place. “And I used to walk past this house every day to the beach, along the Pobeda embankment. In short, I was still a little angry because of this.” In another case, Chita resident Ivan Sleponogov was jailed after being accused of saying an anti-war slogan during an Easter church service last April, according to a legal complaint. Sleponogov had allegedly claimed that he was actually chanting “Glory to the guys who died in Ukraine!” in reference to Russian soldiers who were killed in combat, and the case was eventually dropped—after Sleponogov had spent 10 days in jail. Other cases detailed in the Vrestka investigation include complaints made against Russian citizens for playing a Ukrainian song in the car while driving, drunkenly making pro-Ukrainian statements from a balcony, and criticizing the war in private conversations with friends at a coffee shop. The individuals who made the complaints allegedly include eavesdropping neighbors, coworkers, and janitors. In many of the cases, according to the outlet, little to no evidence was provided by witnesses who reported the alleged violations. In some court filings, however, the “anti-war” sentiments allegedly expressed by accused citizens are not so subtle. In Serpukhov, a city near Moscow, two Russian army veterans accused Yuri Nemtov of approaching them at a shopping mall last November with some choice words. “Well, invaders! Go there to die like meat!” he allegedly said. https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-keep-ratting-each-other-for-criticizing-vladimir-putins-war-in-ukraine?ref=home

A couple of acquaintances have had knee and hip replacements,, respectively and have been pleased with the outcomes. One other one had to have a third hip replacement because the first one squeaked (YES!) and the second one bled metals into her bloodstream. And today the Minster of Health announced additional options for out of province procedures- it almost like there's an election looming.

Apparently Peladeau wanted broadcast rights to Alouette games as part of the purchase. The CFL has agreed to let him bid on these once the current TSN contract runs out in 2025. This has to be good for the league.

Is it about a discontinued automobile marque?

Said bank was doomed by a report that the bank had lost big money on a bond offering, which triggered a run on the bank. The American federal government essentially put the bank into receivership and has advised depositors that the bank will be open for business again Monday morning.

Am totally vaxxed up, have been wearing a mask when in crowds, indoors and out and so far, so good.