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10 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://deadline.com/2023/01/jeremy-renner-in-critical-but-stable-condition-after-weather-related-accident-while-plowing-snow-1235209718/

Renner was blowing his driveway out at his home at Lake Tahoe after a heavy snowfall and was hit by a passing big snow plow. 

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Jumbo, the Dutch supermarket chain, introduced slow checkouts when it discovered some people enjoy chatting while paying for their goods.

 The added personal touch is helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness.

 

 

[iHeart]

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Jumbo, the Dutch supermarket chain, introduced slow checkouts when it discovered some people enjoy chatting while paying for their goods.

 The added personal touch is helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness.

 

 

 

[TrueBlue4ever]

On 2023-01-02 at 10:34 AM, Tracker said:

Renner was blowing his driveway out at his home at Lake Tahoe after a heavy snowfall and was hit by a passing big snow plow. 

So it turns out it was Renner’s own plow, a fairly sizeable Sno-Cat. He was clearing his private driveway and going to help out neighbours as well. He got out of the plow and at some point it started to roll away. He was injured when he tried to jump back into the moving unoccupied plow to re-gain control over it, according to his own story. 

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This Cancer Vaccine Can Eliminate and Prevent Brain Tumors

Cancer vaccines aren’t a new idea. They use the same fundamentals that enable vaccines for infectious pathogens like viruses and bacteria: priming our immune system into recognizing and attacking something that’s harmful to our bodies. But cancer is a fickle thing—it emerges from the body’s own cells and can be caused by a number of different factors, which means tumors can vary wildly from person to person, and even within the body itself.

So scientists have been trying to hedge their bets around deploying cancer vaccines to stop the most aggressive and lethal kind of cancers first, before perfecting a “universal” cancer vaccine. And they may have just developed one that could stop glioblastoma—a deadly form of brain cancer—in its tracks.

In new findings published in Science Translational Medicine on Jan. 4, Harvard University scientists working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a new cancer vaccine by genetically engineering brain cancer cells themselves, which not only kills the brain tumor in mice but also prevents the resurgence of cancer later on.

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Wakeup Advice

 

                                                   

[FrostyWinnipeg]

File this under the 'murica Thread

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/teacher-injured-by-6-year-old-in-shooting-at-elementary-school-police/ar-AA163uM8

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57 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

File this under the 'murica Thread

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/teacher-injured-by-6-year-old-in-shooting-at-elementary-school-police/ar-AA163uM8

The family that loads together, explodes together. Americans gotta be Americans.

[JCon]

This is why you have to arm teachers. Six year old kids are small, so hard targets, but I'm certain that, with the right training, this teacher could have capped them. Shoot them all. Pew, pew, pew. 

Freedumb. 

[Fatty Liver]

On 2023-01-07 at 8:22 AM, JCon said:

This is why you have to arm teachers. Six year old kids are small, so hard targets, but I'm certain that, with the right training, this teacher could have capped them. Shoot them all. Pew, pew, pew. 

Freedumb. 

As long as they don't restrict school teachers to 5 round clips no problem, minor issue if there's a little bit of collateral damage.

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On 2023-01-07 at 10:22 AM, JCon said:

This is why you have to arm teachers. Six year old kids are small, so hard targets, but I'm certain that, with the right training, this teacher could have capped them. Shoot them all. Pew, pew, pew. 

Freedumb. 

A .50 caliber mounted on the teachers' desks, that ought to instill the proper amount of order in the classroom.

Edited January 9, 2023 by Tracker

[iHeart]

and which nostalgic personality is spearheading this the original cast of Degrassi? ( it's a joke people)

 

Edited January 10, 2023 by iHeart

[Brandon]

It's a small kiosk within a Bay store?  Sorry that will not work.   Only way it works if they have full blown store that offers cheapo crap like Giant Tiger does. 

[iHeart]

5 hours ago, Brandon said:

It's a small kiosk within a Bay store?  Sorry that will not work.   Only way it works if they have full blown store that offers cheapo crap like Giant Tiger does. 

well I don't know Toys R Us actually did that in the US and it went over well IIRC

[Brandon]

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

well I don't know Toys R Us actually did that in the US and it went over well IIRC

Toys are pretty specific and these days are kind of hard to find in retail so that would make sense.    Trying to shrink a full department store into another department store,  I don't see how that works.      Now if they were to flip it and make the store a Zellers with a tiny section of "higher quality clothing" from the Bay.  That might work.   

Edited January 10, 2023 by Brandon

[JCon]

Zellers is volume seller. They don't offer unique products. The hope would be to increase the average Bay sales by adding more items to the "cart". They won't have the buying power or the distribution network for this to actually compete with other retailers, like Walmart and Amazon. 

But, there's no way this survives as more than a niche offering. 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

15 hours ago, Brandon said:

It's a small kiosk within a Bay store?  Sorry that will not work.   Only way it works if they have full blown store that offers cheapo crap like Giant Tiger does. 

Whoa...GT got some good stuff at great prices!

[iHeart]

I don't know why but I kind of like the way  the new name sounds

 

[Rich]

http://www.pubmanitoba.ca/v1/contact-us/media/pubs/2021-2025-nr/nr-mpi-2023-rates.pdf

MPI to raise rates by an average of 1.54%

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• On July 12, 2022, MPI filed a general rate application (GRA) seeking an overall rate decrease of 0.9%. The application was updated on October 12, 2022 and the revised rate sought was 0.05%. In Order 4/23 dated January 11, 2023, the Public Utilities Board varied the application and ordered a rate decrease of 3.8%, effective April 1, 2023.
   

• The rate decrease is offset by the removal of a 5.0% capital release as applied for by MPI and approved by the Board. This results in an average increase in premiums paid by ratepayers of 1.54%.
   

• Rates paid by individual ratepayers will vary depending on: driving record of the registered owner; vehicle make, model and year; purpose for which the vehicle is driven; and the territory in which the registered owner resides.
   

• The Board noted significant increases in operating expenses, driven in large part by staff increases. On a corporate-wide basis, including all lines of MPI’s business, the budgeted staff positions have increased from 1,939 in the pre-Covid budget year 2019/20 to 2348 in the 2023/24 budget. MPI indicated that 34 FTEs will be temporary staff. Salary and benefits costs are 55% of MPI’s total operating costs.
   

• The Board also noted the increases in MPI’s IT renewal project, titled Project Nova. Project Nova was included in the 2020 GRA with a budget of $106.8 million (costs and contingency included). In 2021, the budget was increased to $128.5 million. In this GRA, the completion timeline was extended from three years to five years and the budget was increased to a range of $257 million to $289.9 million.
   

• The Board has ordered MPI to provide several reports pertaining to Project Nova to allow it to monitor the project’s expenses.

 

[Rich]

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/heata_offers_free_hot_water/

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Heata has developed a novel way to use the waste heat generated by servers: mounting them on domestic hot water tanks to cut energy bills for homeowners.

The company, whose services now include cloud compute, 3D rendering and ways to help landlords improve the efficiency of their housing stock, has hooked up with cloud provider Civo to offer the compute resources for running some workloads.

Heata started as a project within energy company British Gas to help customers living in fuel poverty, something many can sympathize with at the moment. It has now been spun out with investment from British Gas, Innovate UK, and also Civo, a cloud-native service provider that focuses exclusively on workloads running with Kubernetes.

The initial concept developed by the company involved using heat generated by Bitcoin mining rigs, according to Heata Co-founder and CTO Chris Jordan.

 

[bigg jay]

Not sure if this belongs in this thread, the tech thread or the movie thread... 😂

https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-tech-worker-charged-for-theft-inspired-by-the-movie-office-space?fbclid=IwAR33oQrGMqiusLJiHsBy0hm2659xbTK_dX_bdw8Bs_7LypfleS2k-ceB_4M

[blue_gold_84]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-population-decline-1.6716193

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China has announced its first population decline in decades as what has been the world's most populous nation ages and its birthrate plunges.

The National Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday that the country had 850,000 fewer people at the end of 2022 than the previous year. The tally includes only the population of mainland China, excluding Hong Kong and Macao as well as foreign residents.

That left a total of 1.41 billion, with 9.56 million births against 10.41 million deaths, the bureau said at a briefing on Tuesday. 

Men also continued to outnumber women by 722.06 million to 689.69 million, the bureau said, a result of the now-abandoned one-child policy and a traditional preference for male offspring to carry on the family name.

China has long been the world's most populous nation, but is expected to soon be overtaken by India.

 

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-population-decline-1.6716193

 

I wonder if the fall in population is due more to the tens of thousands who have died from the pandemic and the long-term effects thereof. When people are endlessly sick, they don't want to make babies.

[Fatty Liver]

3 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-population-decline-1.6716193

 

I don't understand how their population didn't decline under the one child policy, I guess they just didn't stick with it long enough because mathematically it should work.

Edited January 17, 2023 by Fatty Liver