Firefighters found “heavy fire” in a kitchen area in front of the second floor, and there was “nothing slowing that fire from moving,” Philadelphia Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said.
Thirteen people were killed; two others were taken to hospitals; and eight people got out by themselves, Murphy said.
“It was terrible,” Murphy said. “This is probably one of the worst fires I ever been to.”
Twenty-six people lived in the three-story building — eight on the first floor, and 18 on the second and third floors, fire officials said.
The housing authority was not aware 26 people were living in the building, said Dinesh Indala, the agency’s senior executive vice president of operations. The agency is checking how many were allowed to live there, he said.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/us/philadelphia-fairmount-fire/index.html
A judge dismissed a lawsuit against the rock band Nirvana over their iconic 1991 “Nevermind” album cover, which depicts a baby swimming naked in a pool.
Spencer Elden, who was photographed in a Pasadena, California, swimming pool at the age of 4 months and is now 30, filed the lawsuit in August, alleging child pornography. The photo was digitally imposed to include a dollar bill on a fishhook to make it look like Elden was trying to grab it.
Emergence in Southern France of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of probably Cameroonian origin harbouring both substitutions N501Y and E484K in the spike protein
The official social media departments of the Netflix show Umbrella Academy are driving everyone insane!
For days they have been dropping clues and hints about an upcoming season three. They even released these images of apparent brand new recruits to the series ..
Despite pleas and cries from fans, the show is get to reveal a trailer date or when it will drop on Netflix. Anticipation clearly is building, with the help of the social media
accounts
Not just with this program but also Stranger Things and other shows, Netflix may have a banner 2022
In random late night searching through sleepless hours, we came across an interesting video on YouTube.
In this CNN footage from December 31, 1999, we see then President Bill Clinton giving the final address to the nation of the 20th century before the dawning of a new millennium at midnight.
What’s poignant about this video is the hope that’s included with his speech, the true joy of what profound changes would lie ahead during the 21st century is apparent..
What an amazing time it was to be alive, and what a hopeful time it was to watch the clock strike midnight that day.
Of course there were some preppers who were hunkered down in bunkers with canned soup and dried noodles, I wonder now 22 years later if they have reinvigorated and spruced up their bunkers with new carpeting in the face of the coronavirus pandemic?
But just listening to the presidents words followed seconds later by 2 million revelers in Times Square welcoming the 21st century and fireworks going off in our nations capital is both nostalgic and depressing at the same time.
So far the 21st-century hasn’t been entirely awful, there are some amazing achievements and advancements of civilization. But there was also the dreadful election of the year 2000. Division. 9/11. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Financial corruption. A burst of new bigotry and racism. And the new hundred year pandemic.. and quite frankly at times what appears to be the fast motion death of freedom not only across the planet but in the home of freedom of self, United States..
Maybe it’s not all bad, are we just being a Debbie downer again?
But that video, that old video. It reminds us of a time that really existed, I have nostalgia for that exact moment. I remember where I was, I just got home from work at a restaurant in time to watch the midnight hour on TV..
And now as we begin a new 2022, it’s time to take back the reins from this cycle of insanity that we have been on. Make this new year ours, and just let’s make it better.
This story is amazing, more on the science level..
An unsung arm of the immune system appears to protect against severe disease with the omicron variant even when antibodies wane, helping to explain why a record wave of infections
South Arica is NOT really vaccinated. but where they were vaccinated, it was 100% Johnson and Johnson. And their hospitalizations were low low low.
ALSO good news from the J&J fan.. remember how the vaccine did NOT increase antibodies? But DID increase T cells?
They are coming to the rescue..
The article focuses on T cell memory generated by vaccines. But what about infections?
This little tidbit at the end o the article gives us some hope that not only vaccines will protect against Omicron but also previous infections: People infected with another coronavirus that was responsible for the SARS outbreak in 2003, for example, were found to still have a T-cell response to the disease 17 years later..
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.
Developing…
Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts.
