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Mount Everest has received its first ever drone delivery in a proof-of-concept test conducted in April this year. The incredible achievement was a first of its kind mission to use drones to deliver supplies to mountaineers.The delivery was conducted by the technology company, DJI, in collaboration with Nepalese Airlift, the video production company 8KRAW, and local guides. The drone itself was a FlyCart 30, a long-distance heavy lifter with a maximum carrying capacity of 15 kilograms (33 pounds).This drone is designed to deliver its packages to less conventional locations; as DJI say, it can ascend “beyond traditional logistical limits”.This claim was certainly put to the test on Mount Everest (Mount Qomolangma) where it was expected to carry its load to remarkably high altitudes and in extreme conditions.In this test, the drone had to carry three oxygen bottles and 1.5 kilograms (3.30 pounds) from the Everest Base Camp to Camp 1, and then return with waste.  IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.The Base Camps on Everest, which sits at 5,300 meters (17,389 feet) above sea level, provides those planning to ascend the mountain with a point to rest and to recover from the perils of high altitude. This is because at heights between 5,400 and 5,800 meters (18,000 to 19,000 feet), the human body starts to decay, so prolonged exposure to altitudes above this can quickly become fatal.This is bad hard enough, but those who try to climb from Base Camp to Camp 1, which sits at 6,000 meters (19,685 feet) above sea level, have to contend with the Khumbu Icefall, which is one of the more perilous stages of the ascent. People who experience difficulty on this stretch of the mountain may find themselves in need of supplies and support until they can descend safely or until mountain rescue teams can find them. So being able to deliver supplies via drones is an important step for improving the safety for mountaineers. But it also may help with efforts to clean up the mountain (every climber leaves an average of 8 kg (17.6 pounds) of waste as they ascend and descend).Traditionally, local Sherpa guides are responsible for transporting supplies or recovering waste left on the mountain. However, this is a taxing and dangerous role. It requires them to sometimes cross the icefall 30 times a season, while they carry supplies like oxygen bottles, gas canisters, tents, food and rope."We need to spend 6-8 hours each day walking through this icefall," Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, Imagine Nepal mountain guide, explained in a statement. "Last year I lost three Sherpas. If we're not lucky, if our time is not right, we lose our life there."This journey across the icefall usually takes place at night when the temperatures are lowest and the ice is more stable. But the use of drones can make a huge difference. They can deliver supplies and retrieve waste in 12-minute round trips, regardless of the time of day – they may be a huge support for the incredible work performed by the local Sherpas."From the end of April, our team embarked on a groundbreaking endeavor to help make cleanup efforts on Everest safer and more efficient," Christina Zhang, Senior Corporate Strategy Director at DJI, said."We are thrilled to share that our DJI FlyCart 30 was up to the task. The ability to safely transport equipment, supplies, and waste by drone has the potential to revolutionize Everest mountaineering logistics, facilitate trash cleanup efforts, and improve safety for all involved."Before the FlyCart 30 took its test flight, DIJ engineers weighed up the impacts of the extreme environment surrounding Everest. They had to consider how the drone would behave at high altitudes when faced by temperatures that ranged between -15° to 5°C (5 to 41°F), and windspeeds of up to 15 meters per second.The engineers then subjected the drone to various tests, including uploaded hover, wind resistance, low-temperature performance, and weight capacity while successively heavier payloads.Due to the test’s success, the Nepalese government have contracted a local drone service company to set up a drone delivery operation on the southern slope of Everest.If it goes well, these drones may represent new advances to limit human impact on Everest as well as improved safety for everyone involved in ascending this enormous mountain.

The ASKAP radio telescope in Australia recorded a strange repeating signal that changes its characteristics every 53.8 minutes, moving into three different states. The signal, dubbed ASKAP J1935+2148, is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. It emits bright flashes lasting from 10 to 50 seconds with linear polarization. In other cases, it emits weaker, circularly polarized pulses lasting only 370 milliseconds. Sometimes the signal disappears completely. The study was published in the journal Nature Astronomy. “What’s intriguing is that this object exhibits three different states of radiation, each with properties completely different from the others,” said lead author Dr Manisha Caleb. Astronomers consider two main versions: a neutron star and a white dwarf. But none of these options explain the strange properties of the signal. Neutron stars are known for their radio signals, but they typically spin at speeds of seconds or fractions of a second per rotation. The ASKAP J1935+2148 signal is spinning too slowly, which contradicts our understanding of neutron stars. White dwarfs, although they can rotate slowly, should not emit radio signals with these properties. This isn’t the first time repeated radio signals from space have baffled astronomers. A few years ago, a signal with an 18-minute cycle was discovered, which also contradicted existing theories. The new signal is even more mysterious; it not only has a longer cycle, but also exhibits more complex characteristics. Further observations are needed to unravel the mystery of ASKAP J1935+2148. Studying the signal could lead to a revision of our understanding of the physics of neutron stars and white dwarfs. “It may even prompt us to reconsider our long-standing understanding of neutron stars or white dwarfs. About how they emit radio waves and what their population is in our Milky Way galaxy,” Caleb said. The post Mysterious signal from space repeats every hour appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Last week, a New York City jury, prompted by the legal coordination between Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan -- both partisan actors -- convicted Donald Trump on 34 felony counts having to do with falsification of business records. Or election fraud. Or more tax issues. Or ... something. Nobody really knows, and apparently it was unnecessary for the jury to agree on the crime in order to find Trump guilty of one. No matter. Trump was convicted and may now face jail time. We’ll find out on July 11 -- just a few days before the Republican National Convention. Obviously, this represents opportune timing for the Biden campaign. And yet Donald Trump remains firmly knotted with Biden in the race for the White House. There have been four polls taken since Trump’s conviction. In all of them, Biden and Trump are either tied or within two points either way. But how? The question echoes throughout the media: How can a convicted felon be running even with the incumbent president? The answer is twofold: First, Joe Biden is a truly awful president; second, Biden has no ground to stand on in labeling Trump a threat to law and order. First, Biden’s terrible record. Americans have been slammed by inflation for three years. Our social fabric has continued to decay as Biden openly seeks “equity” -- meaning discriminatory legal regimens designed at rectifying group disparities -- in every area of the federal government. On the foreign front, Biden has hamstrung Ukraine in its defense against Russia, and openly manipulated on behalf of Iran and Hamas in Israel’s war against the terror group that performed Oct. 7. It is difficult to see an area of the world that is markedly better off since Biden took the White House. Second, Biden’s hypocrisy. In the aftermath of the Trump conviction, Trump naturally condemned the justice system that targeted him. Biden then responded by doubling down on his narrative that Trump’s pushback represents a threat to Our Democracy and Our Institutions: On Friday, Biden staggered out to the podium to claim that “the American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed.” He added that it was “dangerous” and “irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.” The problem is this: Biden as Defender of Our Democracy and Our Institutions just doesn’t play. This is the same president who tried to use his Occupational Safety and Health Administration to illegally cram down vaccines on 80 million Americans; who attempted, in defiance of law, to relieve student loan debt -- and then bragged about defying the Supreme Court; whose DOJ even let him off the hook for mishandling of classified material by calling him a dotard. Biden’s party has spent years tut-tutting massive riots, appeasing pro-terrorist student trespassers and calling for an end to parental autonomy. There isn’t an institution in the country Biden hasn’t weakened. To hear Biden rail against Trump for undermining institutions, then, simply won’t play. But Biden doesn’t have much left in the playbook. All of which means that Trump still -- still -- has the upper hand. Ironically, Trump being sent to jail might actually help him, given that most Americans will correctly see the jailing of Biden’s chief political opponent as an act of vicious partisanship unworthy of the most powerful republic in world history. In 2020, Biden ran on the platform of stability and normalcy; he has exploded both. All he’s left with is slogans about Orange Hitler. And that’s unlikely to be enough come November if gas prices are high, groceries cost too much and the world remains aflame.

J. Michael Waller and I became acquainted exactly one week after the events of January 6, 2021. We both published our first observations of that day on January 13. Waller’s account, “Covert Cadre: What I saw leading up to the US Capitol attack,” was published on the Center for Security Policy website. My story, “What I Saw on January 6th in Washington, DC,” was posted to my blog.Readers began to cross-pollinate the two articles, sending Waller and myself messages suggesting we should “check out” each other’s work. We did, and a friendship was born. As such, I’ll dispense with the stylebook requirements and henceforth refer to him as “Mike.” Reform will require the American voter to become better informed of how destructive culturally and constitutionally our intelligence services really are.My first observations about January 6 were based on pure instinct while Mike’s came from four decades of experience in the intelligence community. Still, the similarities in what we individually saw were substantial. From his primary list, he saw: Plainclothes militants;Agents provocateurs;Fake Trump protesters; andDisciplined, uniformed columns of attackers.My “list” was less informed but essentially the same. My first conversation with Mike was one of mutual admiration for our correspondent observations and deductions. I was relieved to have someone of his background and experience offer me validation. While many specific January 6 instances and characters have required reconsideration and changed conclusions — based on the preponderance of now-available video and trial discovery — the bulk of what we published on January 13, 2021, still holds up. For over three years, Mike has become an ongoing and invaluable resource when my investigations intersect with his expertise. Mike began his career with the CIA under the legendary William J. Casey working in Central America with the Nicaraguan Contras to overthrow the Sandinista regime and collecting intelligence on Soviet support for regional Communist insurgencies. From there, it gets interesting, with far too many academic works and achievements to list following the attainment of his Ph.D. in international security affairs from Boston University. From those decades of boots-on-the-ground experience and research from inside and outside the intelligence services comes his latest book, “Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains.” Published in January, I am apologetically late in reviewing “Big Intel.” Mike sent me an advance copy last fall, but that was when I was getting my sea legs with Blaze Media and also when the FBI’s January 6 noose was tightening around my neck because of my coverage of the protests and subsequent riots that day. (Sorry, Mike.) Knowing the subject matter would be right up my alley, I kept putting off reading “Big Intel” until I could give it the rightly deserved attention. Adding insult to procrastination, I failed to realize I could have at the very least fired up the Audible version during one of my many half-cross-country drives between Raleigh, D.C., and Dallas. On one of those long drives, I listened to “The White Pill” by Michael Malice instead of “Big Intel.” After completing “The White Pill,” what would appear on my Audible accounts list of suggested follow-ups? “Big Intel” by my neglected friend, Dr. Waller. I was pleasantly surprised at how magnificently “The White Pill” and “Big Intel” complement one another. I recommend both works as companion pieces. Malice’s book offers a comprehensive look at the rise and fall of the Soviet Empire and how far too many people in the West — including here in the United States — admired and justified the brutal prison planet the Soviets endeavored to establish. By contrast, “Big Intel” focuses on the beginnings of the FBI and CIA and how some leadership positions of our newly formed, 20th-century intelligence agencies sympathetically recruited and borrowed talent and ideals from the totalitarians in Eastern Europe. Therein lies the revelatory and frightening message of “Big Intel.” While both the FBI and CIA were ostensibly established to protect this country from dangers, foreign and domestic, they were varyingly infected by the Frankfurt Schools Marxist academics here in our country. According to “Big Intel,” the CIA was poisoned from the outset. It took longer for the FBI to catch up because of the unwavering anti-communism of its longtime director, J. Edgar Hoover. But get there the FBI did, as Mike details in this thoroughly researched, copiously footnoted, and intriguing page-turner. Mike quotes the late Bishop Fulton Sheen in the book’s epigraph: “It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy.” That is what “Big Intel” unveils in its pages: how the FBI’s and CIA’s Marxist infiltrators have nurtured freedom-killing cancers into late-stage sickness via slow and deliberate infections of leftist ideology, ultimately leading those agencies and their agents to prioritize “diversity and inclusion,” “racial equity,” “critical theory,” “political correctness,” and other noxious ideas over national security and the Constitution. Steeped in extensive histories, “Big Intel” reveals how we got here, including the backgrounds of many of the heroes and villains in the histories of our intelligence services. Mike says Karl Marx’s “goal was not to improve but destroy: family, human relationships, economics, patriotism, loyalty, morals, religion, Western civilization. Destruction of the entire human existence.” The CIA’s precursor agency, the Office of Strategic Services, was commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and founded by “Wild Bill” Donovan. A secret presidential budget funded it, but Hoover considered Donavan a “communist sympathizer.” Before the creation of the OSS, America had no actual counterintelligence capabilities and leaned heavily on the already well-established British MI6. However, the British operative guiding Donavan in establishing OSS was a double agent loyal to Stalin. Mike writes, “Donovan seemed blind to the fact that Communists and foreign assets recruited into the OSS would not have American interests first in mind.” Donavan’s blindness meant the OSS, and later the CIA, was poisoned practically from the beginning. Mike offers a far more favorable review of J. Edgar Hoover than most contemporary pundits and historians. His staunch anti-communism prevented the FBI from early infection with cultural Marxism. I’ll leave no spoilers for the readers of “Big Intel” to discover how Mike handles the accusations of homosexuality and cross-dressing leveled at Hoover in more recent histories. One particularly fascinating story told in “Big Intel” is about Mike’s long-time close relationship with a “senior FBI man, a counterintelligence supervisory agent named Bob,” who was particularly interested in Mike’s work. The last time Mike spoke with Bob was in January 2001, only a couple of weeks before his arrest. “Bob” was none other than Robert Philip Hanssen, whose spying for the Russians the Justice Department called “possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.” Hanssen had for more than two decades provided classified national security information to the Soviets and the Russians in exchange for about $1.5 million in cash, bank notes, and diamonds. Hanssen pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage and died in prison last year. Mike leaves no stone unturned in his romp through the historical devolution of the FBI and CIA’s transition from protectors of our republic to active participants in establishing and enforcing Cultural Marxism within America’s vital public institutions. From FDR and Donavan to Obama and Clapper to BLM and Antifa to the Steele dossier and Crossfire Hurricane to COVID and January 6, he spares no one and nothing in his exhaustive analysis. Unlike so many screeds that might accurately lay out our institutional descent to doomsday, Mike concludes with expert recommendations for restoring and rebuilding American intelligence into the high-minded, heroic agencies we once thought we had. But reforms won’t come easy. It will require the American voter to become better informed and aware of how destructive culturally and constitutionally our intelligence services really are. If every American voter had an attention span beyond a TikTok reel and would read “Big Intel,” my friend Mike might be credited with helping save America from today’s weaponized FBI and CIA.

In his 2023 Hollywood memoir, "Everywhere an Oink Oink," playwright and director David Mamet ponders the actor's craft:The basic skills involved in acting are all prosaic. They are the ability to speak clearly, to enunciate, to move purposefully (and gracefully, if possible), to hold still-but-not-immobile. These can be learned. And must be learned. The result of their acquisition may be a competent actor, one suitable on for set dressing, or a star.What exactly is it that makes the difference between mere actor and star? Mamet is willing to concede that whatever it is, you either have it or you don't.Embodying the flamboyant villain Hannibal Lecter made Anthony Hopkins a star; here, he pulls off an arguably more difficult feat: making calm, quiet authority utterly compelling.So, it is with a certain instinct for survival. Each of us can prepare for disaster, but not all of us have the will to keep going at any cost. In his fascinating book "Deep Survival," Laurence Gonzales considers the accounts of those who have prevailed over truly desperate conditions and finds a few common denominators. One is a capacity to enjoy the struggle to live. "Survival depends on utility, but it also depends on joy, for joy is the organism telling itself that it is all right."The talents for acting and for survival converge in the 1997 movie "The Edge." Directed by Lee Tamahori from a script by Mamet, "The Edge" is a gripping thriller built on that most elemental of conflicts: man vs. nature. Embodying the flamboyant villain Hannibal Lecter made Anthony Hopkins a star; here, he pulls off an arguably more difficult feat: making calm, quiet authority utterly compelling.Billionaire Charles Morse has the kind of wealth that could insulate him from every kind of discomfort the world has to offer, yet it's clear that he retains the humility of a man who often ponders his own inevitable death."Did you know that you can make fire from ice?" Morse says to his bemused companions early in the film. And he's full of such gnomic wisdom, especially after the plane he and two friends are traveling in crashes in the Alaskan wilderness. What follows is a tense battle against the elements, hunger, and a bloodthirsty bear. Other, man-made conflicts come into play as well, eventually. "We're all put to the test ... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?" remarks Morse. "The Edge" is a movie that may have you wondering how you'd fare in similar straits.

Becca Parsons is a wife, mother of two, part-time homemaker, part-time wedding coordinator, and writer. She lives with her husband and daughters in Devon, England. Becca shared this recipe in one of the excellent weekly roundups she posts on her Substack, "A Mother’s Progress." I thought Align readers might enjoy it as much as I did.— Helen RoyPan-fried chicken in a cashew nut sauce Serves 4 comfortably Ingredients: 500g skinless and boneless chicken thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces Marinade for chicken: 1 tbsp garam masala 1 tsp ground cumin 1/2 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp ground turmeric Sauce: 4 tbsp. coconut oil 1 large cinnamon stick or 2 small 1 large white onion, finely chopped 2 tsp garlic, finely chopped 2 tsp ginger, finely chopped1 400g passata or chopped tinned tomatoes 1 tsp paprika1 tsp ground cumin 1/2 tsp turmeric 1 tsp ground cinnamon powder 1 tsp hot red chili powder 1 tsp white sugar 1 tsp salt 100g ground cashew nuts100g frozen peas 1 red or yellow bell pepper/capsicum, cut into 1cm squares 200ml hot water 2 tbsp fresh chopped coriander to garnish Method: Combine your spices for the marinade in a glass bowl. Add the chicken and mix well so the chicken is evenly coated. Set aside at room temperature for an hour or in the fridge overnight. Heat 3 tablespoons of coconut oil in a pan on a medium heat and gently shallow fry the chicken until it is lightly brown; you’re just trying to seal it and give it some colour. Set aside. Add the remaining tablespoon of coconut oil and then add the cinnamon sticks and onion. Cook the onion down on a low heat for 5-10 minutes, until soft, then add the garlic and ginger. Cook for 3 minutes and then add the tomatoes. Stir well, and cook for around 10 minutes on a low heat to cook out the acidity and allow the water from the tomatoes to evaporate. Whilst the tomatoes are cooking, gather the paprika, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon powder, chili powder, sugar, and salt in a cup. Add the cup of spices and the ground cashew nuts. Stir well and keep cooking for about 5 minutes on a low heat to ensure that the spices don’t burn. Return the chicken to the pan and add the frozen peas and chopped pepper/capsicum. Stir in so they are well coated in the sauce. Add 200ml hot water (or your preference to achieve your desired thickness). Cook on a low heat for another 10-15 minutes to ensure the chicken is cooked through. Turn off the heat. Garnish with fresh coriander. Serve with rice or naan bread.

Just as we begin to fully assess the dangers of the COVID mRNA shots, the FDA has approved Moderna’s next mRNA shot for the respiratory syncytial virus without any public hearing. Regulators are also in discussions with the mRNA manufacturer to concoct a shot for the bird flu.How is it that they can so brazenly elevate their next poison jab even as we’re still discovering the extent of the calamity from their first invention? That’s easy: a feckless Republican Party. It should be obvious by now that mRNA should be banned altogether, yet here we are green-lighting an entirely new shot made from this poison.The Centers for Disease Control and the FDA approved GSK and Pfizer’s RSV shots last year, including Pfizer’s shot for pregnant women, despite strong signals for pre-term births and neonatal deaths. At least the CDC and FDA held advisory meetings of their “expert” panels before doing so. But Moderna’s mRNA version of the RSV shot for seniors was quietly approved last week without any public hearing. And guess what? You can trust them that the shot is 83.7% effective with “no risks”! Even if we took the claim of 83.7% efficacy at face value, how sick do seniors even get from a virus that mainly affects infants? Moreover, if we had a public hearing, we’d be able to scrutinize the data from Moderna’s phase-three clinical trial, which seemed to detect 200 adverse events and 10 serious events per mild case of RSV supposedly avoided. Moderna’s numbers show that for each RSV infection prevented, the shot caused 200 side effects, including 10 severe side effects. Among the total participants in the trial, those receiving the vaccine incurred an extra 10,156 side effects, including 455 rated Grade 3 or higher, in return for contracting 46 fewer cases of RSV. The efficacy is likely a mirage. Dr. Dan Stock, a functional medicine expert and family doctor from Indiana, explained to me how the RSV vaccine of the 1960s wound up becoming “negative effective” and made kids sicker, but it didn’t occur until the second season. “The Moderna RSV vaccine will likely have even more trouble avoiding efficacy loss than all the RSV vaccines that have come before it, and its own data show that’s true,” Stock said. “The first indication is simply what happens whenever you make a vaccine for a rapidly changing RNA virus that only causes disease in those with compromised immune systems,” he explained. “The vaccine induces a memorized response, and rapidly a slight mutation develops that learns to evade that response, which having learned to fight one way, responds the old way to new variants.” “Eventually, one variant, usually in year two, learns to benefit from the defective immune system’s learned response, and becomes worse than being exposed to the new variant in an unvaccinated state,” Stock said. That’s called antibody dependent enhancement, Stock explained, and it occurs by multiple mechanisms. “The other two RSV vaccines on the market are already showing dropping efficacy approximately 18 months into their studies,” he said. This is what we saw with the COVID shots, so, naturally, the RSV shots will be at least as bad, given their history. It should be obvious by now that mRNA vaccines should be banned altogether, yet here we are green-lighting an entirely new shot made from this poison. We already have evidence from a Swedish study that the mRNA likely converts into DNA because it was found to integrate into the DNA of liver cells within six hours. How can Republicans not only decline to defund the COVID mRNA shots but completely ignore the FDA’s foray into RSV for seniors who have already been blasted with endless COVID shots? At Monday’s hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on coronavirus with Anthony Fauci, not one Republican raised the issue of the millions of vaccine-related deaths and injuries. Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) even went so far as to thank Fauci for vaccines that “saved millions of lives.” It is widely believed that the shots protect against critical illness, but there is no evidence of this during the period when COVID was still deadly.Every week, new studies appear showing catastrophic damage from the first batch of mRNA shots. A new British Medical Journal study of excess deaths in 47 countries, mainly in Europe and the United States, found that excess deaths spiked in 2021 when the vaccines were released — over and above the excess deaths in 2020, which was the first year of the pandemic without any vaccines. Perhaps Wenstrup should read up on the academic literature from the most prestigious medical institutions in his home state of Ohio. A Cleveland Clinic study found that after monitoring 47,500 of its employees during the first part of 2024, there was a 46% greater risk of the vaccinated contracting COVID than the unvaccinated. Those with three doses were 95% more likely to get infected than people who declined the shot. People with more than three doses were a whopping 151% more likely to get infected. In case you think “the more you inject, the more you infect” dynamic during the pandemic was limited to mild cases, a new Ohio State University study found much higher mortality from COVID among those supposedly vaccinated against it. The study, published in Frontiers in Immunology, tracked mortality outcomes among 23 vaccinated and 89 unvaccinated subjects who presented to OSU with serious cases of COVID. Shockingly (or not), there was a 70% mortality rate among those vaccinated compared with a 37% in the never-vaxxed group. Although the sample size is small, the massive divergence in outcomes gives the results a high level of marginal significance, even when accounting for the health status of those in both groups. It is widely believed that the shots protect against critical illness, but there is no evidence of this during the period when COVID was still deadly.As a possible culprit for the increased mortality risk among the vaccinated, the study’s authors observed an increased surge IgG4 antibodies among the vaccinated cohort. Several studies have found that the vaccines cause an unnatural surge in these tolerated, rather than neutralizing, antibodies, which could be responsible for the Trojan horse effect of allowing the virus deeper access into the body behind the defenses of the immune system.Meantime, a new preprint from Oxford researchers examined 1 million children to compare the rates of myocarditis and pericarditis among those vaccinated as compared to those unvaccinated but recovered from COVID. They found no cases among those unvaccinated, even though the spike protein of the virus itself could harm cardiovascular health. This means that when we see all the data showing excess heart attacks beginning in 2021, it’s likely that almost all of them emanated from the vaccine, not the virus. How many more studies, data points, and government documents do we need to uncover for it to be fashionable among Republicans to fight these mRNA shots? What is so shocking is that the South Carolina legislature, at the behest of Republican Governor Henry McMaster, is convening a special session to take up the health czar bill to consolidate the state’s health bureaucracy without addressing a single odious policy of those agency heads. To this day, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control recommends COVID shots for infants. Where is the urgency to convene special sessions in red states to take these shots off the market? In that sense, who could blame Moderna and the FDA for proceeding to the next mRNA poison shot when the so-called opposition party refuses to recognize the human tragedy of their first experiment?

After a long day of work, you don’t want to perch your bottom on an uncomfortable chair as you sit down for a well-earned gaming session. In an office, employers often provide comfortable and ergonomic chairs to prevent discomfort and injury and it shouldn’t be any different for gamers. The best gaming chairs should be well-suited for home use, and have a lick of paint so they don’t look so corporate. The Acer Predator Rift – the manufacturer's first foray into chairs – strikes the right blend of all these attributes, with good lumbar and head support, a solid build, and the ability to lean right back all for a fairly reasonable price. It sounds odd for a PC-centric brand to move into furniture, but who better to understand the needs of consumers? I used the Acer Predator Rift for several weeks of work and play,  often hopping into a game straight after I clocked out for some truly long seated sessions. I found it perfectly comfortable the whole time, but is it the right option for your space? Continue reading Acer Predator Rift gaming chair review: Cool and comfortable MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming

The crew began filling potholes but left before the job was done.