Russian Vaccine
Sputnik V, the name of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, seems to be effective. Vaccinations have been undertaken in the UAE. Read more in The Lancet
Sputnik V, the name of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, seems to be effective. Vaccinations have been undertaken in the UAE. Read more in The Lancet
Based on the more than doubling of new Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, Bahrain announced today that it is postponing the relaxation of restrictions for another month.
Would a Trump victory insure the nomination of a progressive by the Democrats in 2024? With another loss by centrist, Debbie Wasserman-Shulz/Donna Brazile Democrats, perhaps the party would turn towards its Roosevelt roots. Bernie would be too old. AOC too young and perhaps too polarizing. Liz Warren would be 75. Is there a 50-something progressive in the house?
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It was 61° F in New York today; not 31°. The source was an Arab television station.
It’s 38° C in Bahrain; 32° F in NYC.
Unfortunately, you can’t trust the United States government when it comes to extradition. Just ask Austria: Sholam Weiss
USS Nimitz Loses Sailor, Time for an Exorcism A sailor assigned to the USS Nimitz, an American aircraft carrier on patrol in the Arabian Sea, was lost overboard on August 6th. The Nimitz is assigned to the Fifth Fleet, headquartered in Bahrain. The Fifth Fleet certainly has been the victim of bad luck in the past few years. Perhaps a limpieza (a santería excorcism) would help. Or perhaps it is the ghost of Thao Suranari, demanding justice.
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The difference is sales to strangers. Vanity publishing means printing and ordering books. After giving a few copies to friends and family, the undistributed books sit on a pallet in the garage. Indie publishing means getting a book into a distribution channel, like Amazon, where it can be bought by anyone. Sales to strangers is the key difference. In the U.K., at least in the non-fiction and specialty markets, an author is often required to fund publication in part.