Please continue any discussion on random news items here.

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/no-answers-to-our-pain-n-b-families-upset-after-report-finds-mysterious-brain-illness-doesn-t-exist-1.5793964

https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/alabama-recalls-lets-go-brandon-license-plate-calls-it-objectionable.html

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2022/03/02/statement-from-roman-abramovich

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I would like to address the speculation in media over the past few days in relation to my ownership of Chelsea FC. As I have stated before, I have always taken decisions with the Club’s best interest at heart. In the current situation, I have therefore taken the decision to sell the Club, as I believe this is in the best interest of the Club, the fans, the employees, as well as the Club’s sponsors and partners.

The sale of the Club will not be fast-tracked but will follow due process. I will not be asking for any loans to be repaid. This has never been about business nor money for me, but about pure passion for the game and Club. Moreover, I have instructed my team to set up a charitable foundation where all net proceeds from the sale will be donated. The foundation will be for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine. This includes providing critical funds towards the urgent and immediate needs of victims, as well as supporting the long-term work of recovery.

Please know that this has been an incredibly difficult decision to make, and it pains me to part with the Club in this manner. However, I do believe this is in the best interest of the Club.

I hope that I will be able to visit Stamford Bridge one last time to say goodbye to all of you in person. It has been a privilege of a lifetime to be part of Chelsea FC and I am proud of all our joint achievements. Chelsea Football Club and its supporters will always be in my heart.

Thank you,

Roman

 

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/paralympics/ipc-backtracks-bans-russia-belarus-from-beijing-1.6371077

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Faced with threats of withdrawals and growing animosity in the Athletes Village, organizers of the Winter Paralympics on Thursday reversed course and expelled athletes from Russia and Belarus.

The about-face came less than 24 hours after the International Paralympic Committee announced it would allow Russians and Belarusians to compete when the Games open on Friday, but only as neutral athletes with colours, flags and other national symbols removed because of the invasion of Ukraine.

"The war has now come to these Games and behind the scenes many governments are having an influence on our cherished event," IPC President Andrew Parsons said Thursday after announcing the ban. "We were trying to protect the Games from war."

 

Parsons said the IPC underestimated the negative reaction to letting Russians and Belarusians compete — even as neutral athletes. The Athletes Village, which Parsons hoped would be a place of harmony, he now depicted as a tinderbox.

And it was not only Ukrainians resenting the Russian and Belarusian participation, but across the board.

"We don't have reports of any specific incidents of aggression or anything like that," Parsons said. "But it was a very, very volatile environment in the [Athletes] Village.

 

21 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/paralympics/ipc-backtracks-bans-russia-belarus-from-beijing-1.6371077

 

They should have already been banned due to the statewide doping scandal from 8 years ago. The IOC is absolutely corrupt. Yet I still watch the Olympics. Makes me, as John Oliver would say, a small “h” hypocrite. 

 

Speaking of Ukraine...

Would you like to know more?

Edited March 6, 20223 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Could be worse (remember when Dark Knight Rises was released?)

https://people.com/movies/moviegoer-released-live-bat-in-theater-the-batman-showing-report/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=62262e1f53daeb0001623130&fbclid=IwAR1ywc8pMFn3jBLx7QW6ynclQDxrDr2CC745fC_ZOODOKLsynJBrpaeUvzI

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Edited March 9, 20223 yr by iHeart

National Cancer Institute: This New Drug Turns Cancer’s Secret Addiction Against Itself

While the cells making up the tissues and organs in your body are pretty neighborly, cancer is the person who parks in your parking spot and plants a fence crossing your side of the backyard. Over the last several decades, scientists have discovered ways to exploit and undercut cancer’s selfishness in order to treat those who are suffering. And now they’ve found a new way to punch cancer right in its greedy gut by turning these mutated cells’ addiction to certain elements against them.

In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine on Wednesday, a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found certain cancer cells harbor a mutation in a gene called KRAS, allowing them to hoard large amounts of iron. The UCSF team took advantage of this iron addiction to develop a novel anti-cancer treatment that can specifically hone in and target certain types of cancer—while sidestepping the infamously debilitating and toxic effects of chemotherapy and similar treatments.

“This is a really great, well thought out approach for targeting cancer cells specifically and it’s actually really promising,” Dr. Hossein Ardehali, a cardiologist at Northwestern University who was not involved with the new study but whose lab is researching the relationship between cancer and iron, told The Daily Beast.

https://boingboing.net/2022/03/10/after-trumps-flight-broke-down-the-cheap-grifter-is-now-asking-his-fans-to-buy-him-a-plane.html

6 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://boingboing.net/2022/03/10/after-trumps-flight-broke-down-the-cheap-grifter-is-now-asking-his-fans-to-buy-him-a-plane.html

The grift never ends, and the fools keep anteing up.

https://people.com/crime/actor-jussie-smollett-sentenced-for-staging-hate-crime-lying-to-authorities/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=622a9b007436430001436795&fbclid=IwAR3RA1bkAsGKG_Z1MDUq4Ed5hXJo8_YNT-_-gEBbyPSZqv2Ljv6OIzYIy0w

 

30 months of felony probation and 150 days in jail

sigh.....Paris Hilton served longer than this

https://deadline.com/2022/03/jussie-smollett-free-jail-appeal-judge-hate-crime-1234980729/

Every year gets worse don't it?

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lone-star-tick-linked-heartland-virus-people-found-georgia-rcna20328?

This is pretty messed up.

1 hour ago, blue_gold_84 said:

This is pretty messed up.

Sounds about normal- for Alberta, the Alabama wannabe.

Rare Snake That Grows Over 8 Feet Found in Alabama for Only 2nd Time in 60+ Years http://4.nbcla.com/9G1tzIq

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/crtc-approves-broadcast-component-of-rogers-shaw-deal-with-conditions-1.5833459

Condition being only 99% of Shaw customers must be ****** by this deal.

Edited March 24, 20223 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/crtc-approves-broadcast-component-of-rogers-shaw-deal-with-conditions-1.5833459

Condition being only 99% of Shaw customers must be ****** by this deal.

So much for competition in internet and cable services.

 

Five-Dollarama? Cost-conscious retailer plans to start selling some items for up to $5

A judge says Infowars host Alex Jones will be fined $25,000 to $50,000 per weekday until he appears for a deposition in a lawsuit brought by relatives of some victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. http://apne.ws/TpvuJEM