Joseph P. Hillenburg

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Transplant dad, #AvGeek, and IT professional at @WiTronix. Strategy Advisor at @transplantfamilies.com & pediatric transplantation advocate. Opinions are my own.

"At the start of last year, Bekker and her colleagues were ready to put that strategy to the test. The clinical trial for their new mRNA-based HIV vaccine was just on the verge of enrolling its first participants. But the project depended on the same backing that had sustained HIV vaccine research for decades: US government funding. Washington had long supplied roughly 90 percent of the world’s investment in the field. Then President Donald Trump returned to office."
WHY IS THIS TICKET IN "DEFERRED" / "PENDING CUSTOMER INFORMATION" STATUS? I TAKE ISSUE WITH THAT CHARACTERIZATION AS THE ISSUE IS IMPROPER PROVISIONING BY [REDACTED].
“How to Buy the Best Strawberries? The absolute best way to guarantee you get sweeter strawberries is to move to California, not too far from the coast, where the growing conditions for strawberries are among the best on the planet. If you already happen to live somewhere strawberries grow year-round, you can go to a local farm and buy fresh strawberries there.” (Source: SeriousEats)
Count Hülsen-Haeseler appeared in pink ballet skirts with a rose wreath and began to dance to the music.” General Count Hülsen-Haeseler, a friend of the Kaiser’s since boyhood, and Chief of the Military Cabinet, had performed in this manner before. “It is an unusual experience to see a Chief of the Military Cabinet capering about in the costume of a lady of the ballet,” said a new member of the Kaiser’s suite. Exhausted by his pirouettes, the Count stopped, bowed—and then sagged to the floor. The Castle was in pandemonium: a doctor worked over the stricken dancer; Princess von Fürstenberg sat in a chair and wept; the Kaiser paced frantically up and down. After an hour and a half, the Count was pronounced dead of heart failure. Rigor mortis had set in and only with great difficulty was the General’s body stripped of its tutu and dressed in proper military uniform.
Kedgeree (credit: Jamie Orlando Smith/National Geographic)
WHY THIS REQUEST WAS NOT APPROVED From the Medical Director: We were told that you had a n organ transplant (Heart). Your doctor asked for a test ([REDACTED] Heart) that looks for genetic material from the donated organ (donor-derived cell-free DNA). A test is needed when there is enough proof from research to show that the results will impact patient care and health outcomes. At this time, there is not enough proof that this test will impact your care o r health outcomes. This test does not have clinical utility. As a result, this test is not medically necessary. We used Carelon Medical Benefits Management Clinical Guideline titled Genetic Testing for Inherited Conditions to make this decision. You may view this guideline at www.carelon.com/mbm-guidelines-genetictesting.`
It had already occurred to psychologists that children are innate scientists, probing, puttering, experimenting with the possible and impossible in a confused local universe. Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. Every child is observer, analyst, and taxonomist, building a mental life through a sequence of intellectual revolutions, constructing theories and promptly shedding them when they no longer fit. The unfamiliar and the strange—these are the domain of all children and scientists.
In the days after the attack on the Liberty, the Israeli military captured the Golan Heights and threatened to extend its advance toward the Syrian capital of Damascus. But the Russians were not about to let Syria be humiliated in the same way as its Egyptian ally. At eight forty-eight a.m. on Saturday, June 10, the Washington-Moscow Hot Line teletype machine in the White House Situation Room printed out a message from Soviet premier Aleksey Kosygin for President Johnson, one of the most ominous ever transmitted via this communications link. It read, in part, “A very crucial moment has now arrived which forces us, if military actions are not stopped in the next few hours, to adopt an independent decision. We are ready to do this. However, these actions may bring us into a clash, which will lead to a grave catastrophe . . . We propose to warn Israel that, if this is not fulfilled, necessary actions will be taken, including military.” In other words, if the Israeli military’s advance on Damascus was not stopped immediately, the Soviets would intervene militarily. Kosygin’s threat set off alarm bells all over Washington. CIA director Richard Helms, who was in the Cabinet Room at the White House when Kosygin’s message was delivered, recalled, “The atmosphere was tense. The conversation was conducted in the lowest voices I have ever heard.” The entire U.S. intelligence community was immediately placed on alert, with NSA’s director of operations, Oliver Kirby, declaring a SIGINT Readiness Bravo Crayon alert for all Soviet communications targets.