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Re-Set: 2025

New Year’s Day is the most important day of the year.
Unlike religious holidays, it is universally celebrated and universally enjoyed.
New Year’s Day requires no special decorations (confetti is nice, but not necessary); has no special set of colors (unlike the red and green of Christmas), is non-denominational and completely international. It wraps the globe like a warm wave of positive energy, moving from culture to culture as the grey line of propagation makes its daily revolution around the planet.
For Americans, the New Year—in this case 2025– starts on one side of the world and in a vastly different time zone (Asia), and then works its’ way around to us, arriving—conveniently for network television—at prime time in America.
Midnight is the demarcation line and seldom has midnight had more importance. Within the space of one minute, one year will go and another one will arrive. One door shuts and another one opens; it’s concrete and finite and everyone on earth knows it.
Unlike much in modern life, it is unequivocal; there is no room for debate or no grey area: 2024 Out. 2025, In. Carry on.
The New Year comes in; the old one goes out and you get a re-set.
Whether or not you are the type that likes to stay up until midnight partying and socializing or prefer to bring in the New Year more privately, the time-space effect is going to be the same: you will say goodbye to 2024 (really, not a terrific year) and hello to 2025 in just a matter of hours and you will join billions on the planet in doing so.
The New Year’s celebration (New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day)is best understood as a two day event, not a single day one, although a bit of partying can easily make them run together and seem like one never-ending holiday. I’ve had those moments myself, although not as much lately as in the past.
New Year’s Eve is the big celebratory party day, starting, depending upon your schedule, at about 4PM and continuing past (or well past) midnight. It is time for partying, eating, dancing, loud music, and new found enthusiasm for kissing people you do not know particularly well as well as kissing people you know extremely well.
“You must remember this, a kiss is a just a kiss, the fundamental things apply as time goes by”, was how Dooley Wilson summed it up in “Casablanca” and you’ll do well to take his advice. 

New Year’s Eve is the last day of the old year. Congratulations: You made it. You have the right to get silly and celebrate. (Safety note: just don’t drive if you drink; crash in place and tell everyone you didn’t want to miss anything when you wake up the next day).
New Year’s Day itself –the daylight portion—is of course, the first day of the New Year and is for recovery, family, football and begging for forgiveness if your enthusiasm for kissing people you do not know particularly well got out of hand, as it often does on such a night. If that turns out to be the case—well, best of luck to you. You may find out the hard way that the old saying that it’s “better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission” does not apply to random groping and hot twerking in a tuxedo. Just hope that no one from the press or a particularly well-circulated internet site was snapping photos in hopes of making one reputation (theirs) while crushing another one (yours).
In addition to post-celebration recovery and football, and a full day of grazing at the New Year’s Day buffet table, New Year’s Day is also famous for New Year’s Resolutions. As a matter of fact, that (and begging for forgiveness) might be the very best option for New Year’s Day.
Although one can make a resolution at any time of the year, New Year’s Day is always the very best time to do so. Making them in June or July seems a bit pointless and lonesome.
You’re expected to re-start and re-set on New Year’s Day. This is the day of forgiveness for habits past(see above). Have at it. You’ll be in good company. Literally millions of resolutions will be made by sundown of New Year’s Day (and no doubt another million broken by dawn of the next day) but it’s a tradition and a form of personal positivism that should be encouraged. New Year’s resolutions speak to your best intentions, so indulge and encourage yourself. If you want to re-set some part of your life, career, health program, or diet,  New Year’s is the very best day to do it. The timing is in your favor.
Take society up on the open book for reconciliation and change it’s given you and understand the dynamics.
New Year’s Eve is the end; New Year’s Day is the beginning.
So do with yourself what you so often have done to your computer. Hit the re-set button. Enjoy shutting down the old days, the old ways, the memories past (both good and bad), flash  your personal RAM and relish the re-start, the new energy, the revised perspective, the bigger dreams. Simultaneously enjoy the freedom of letting go and the exhilaration of unbounded possibilities. Dream a little.
One day is for reflection; the other for projection. One set of stories and days and events are now complete; another set of adventures and trials and days and nights are to come.
More than any other holiday, New Year’s celebrates the possible, the unknown, the future, the passage of time and the new journey.
Once a year, mankind is all on the same page. And while the moment of synchronicity will disappear in just hours, we are all united by the hope (and promise) of a new year, a new start, a new beginning.

New Year’s Day 2025 remains what all New Year’s Days have been through time: one more chance to really, really get it right.
It’s the New Year. Celebrate tonight. Recalibrate tomorrow.
Re-Set.

Music to reset: spoti.fi/479Im2l 

You know the drill…Happy New Year!

This post was originally published on New Year’s, 2014 and has been re-published every year since then. It has been modified to reflect re-posting for 2024. Photo courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. The photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty Images and/or their designate. Text(c) 2014 Donald Pierce, all rights reserved; post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. Have a Happy New Year, don’t overindulge, and drive safely. See you..next year. 

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EVERYBODY GETS THE CHRISTMAS BLUES

     A holiday tradition at the Media Bunker, here’s a link to our latest Christmas Playlist, Everybody Gets The Christmas Blues.

Just click the link.  

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Christmas Time for the Jews

Paying Attention (Special Holiday Edition):
Another in our special series of Saturday Night Live Holiday videos. This one is another classic, “Christmas Time for the Jews”,  a stop-motion video that details all the things that Jews can do while the Christians are home celebrating Christmas. It’s a very funny way of looking at the biggest holiday in the modern western world and it carries a subtle message about diversity and appreciation as well. The animation is classic and so is the soundtrack, which is very heavily Phil Spector influenced. A great piece of once-a-year-insight.
 
 
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The SNL Christmas Classics: Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood

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Another Christmas Classic from SNL, this one from Eddie Murphy with the character (along with Gumby) that made him a star. One of the sharpest of all SNL Sketches. Enjoy.

 

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Why Work? It's Christmas.

Paying Attention:
We all know that things wind down at the end of the year (an investment banking friend once said that if “your deal isn’t signed and scheduled for closing before Thanksgiving, you’re going to have start all over in January, because it’s not getting done before the end of the year”) and in the week before Christmas, they crawl to a stop.
Congrats to Bloomberg.com for seeing the obvious: no one’s working so send everyone home or out to shop or to party.
Great little piece and, guess what, it makes a lot of sense (and what a nice surprise for staff).
Happy Holidays.

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Schweddy Balls

Paying Attention (Special Holiday Edition) 
Number two in great SNL Christmas videos is one of the most famous (perhaps THE most famous) SNL holiday sketches,  the NPR parody featuring Alec Baldwin, Anna Gasteyer and Molly Shannon as hosts and guest on a mid-west Christmas time cooking show. First broadcast in 1998, it was classic the instant it aired, and no doubt played a large part in bringing Alec Baldwin into the SNL comedy team on a regular basis. Loaded with double entendres, it’s absolutely hilarious. Whether or not it’s safe for work, depends totally on where you work.

 
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The SNL Christmas Classics: Sump’n Claus

Kenan Thompson brings it as “Sump’n Claus”, the man who has gifts for those who aren’t on Santa’s “Nice” list . Terrific bit with Cecily Strong and Sacheer Zamata as Santa’s little helpers. The music’s not bad either.
Happy Holidays. Everybody’s getting sump’n.
 
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The Christmas Channel: How Hallmark Owns a Holiday

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Maybe you noticed it on the way to another channel–the Hallmark Channel. Not necessarily a destination on your cable TV or satellite TV lineup, but a fixture, always there and always programming a type of show or made-for-tv movie that is quintessentially American.
At no time during the year is the presence (and perhaps necessity) of the Hallmark Channel more powerful than during the Christmas season, when the channel runs a continuing stream of Christmas-themed shows with similar story lines and outcomes that make for a very safe viewing haven for millions of American TV watchers during the holiday season. It’s an All-American look at the American Christmas Season and no one does it better.
It is, as Ted Turner once famously said, “not as simple as it looks” and the amount of effort and detail that goes into programming the Hallmark Channel is impressive. Bloomberg did a piece on the Hallmark Channel and the rather amazing woman behind it, and it’s certainly deep background worth knowing.  Even more interesting, it’ll all come into sharper focus the next time the TV lands–and stays–on the Hallmark Channel.  Happy Holidays.
 
Editor’s Note: This post is number 812 for this site. 
 

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The (Secret)History of Christmas Music

This holiday season, in addition to new posts, material, and videos, we are revisiting some of the greats of Christmas past. When the Media Bunker staff started sorting the Christmas posts, they discovered tons of holiday themed articles and posts…dat’s alot. So, no need to keep it all tucked away in a digital cloud….might as well bring it out again..it’s a tradition. First up, the rather amazing history of the song “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”…..it’s a lot wilder than you would suspect. Enjoy. And Merry Christmas (and don’t forget…The famous Christmas One More Time playlists )

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. Elmo and Patsy.
The Hunt For New Music: It wouldn’t be a Christmas without a Christmas novelty song. The story behind this one is even more wonderful (And weird) than the song. Recorded by the then- husband-and-wife duo of Elmo ( Shropshire) and Patsy (Trigg), it was released in 1979 in the San Francisco area, their home. Over time, the song was played on more and more stations across the country and by 1984, it became a national hit; in 2000 the song was turned into a TV special. Oddly enough, Patsy does not sing or play an instrument on this song, which could just be the reason the couple divorced after the song hit it big. Elmo, however, has ridden it to a very amusing kind of holiday fame as each yule season he does tons of radio and TV interviews (in 2005, he was on 11 TV shows and did 150 radio interviews). Last year, “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” was sold on 200,000 CDs in retail stores and—get this—downloaded over 100,000 times as a ringtone, which gives the term ringing in the season a totally new and perverse twist. Elmo is Dr. Elmo Shropshire, Veterinarian, which might explain why he knows so much about the homicidal behavior of reindeer.0

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The Christmas Playlist Series: No. XI

The Hunt For New (Christmas) Music:

This is the 11th in a series of Christmas music playlists, featuring old classics along with many new songs that you may not have heard before.
As always, enjoy The Best of the Season, musically.

Just click the link:

https://sptfy.com/72a6

Happy & Merry!

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Christmas One More Time, X

Continuing, in our series of the finest Christmas music, brought you through efforts of the staff at The Media Bunker and the kindness of Spotify.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.  Click the play button the playlist and then you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) or take advantage of one of their specials which provide access to the Premium version which has a few extra features the freebie doesn’t have –wider selection and no commercials. Either way, you should check it out if you like music.  Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and thanks to our friends at Spotify for enabling the embed music link. 

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Christmas One More Time, IX

Another in the tradition of our truly great, very carefully curated Christmas Playlists, brought to you streaming in high def audio via our friends at Spotify.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.  Click the play button the playlist and then you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) or take advantage of one of their specials which provide access to the Premium version which has a few extra features the freebie doesn’t have –wider selection and no commercials. Either way, you should check it out if you like music.  Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and thanks to our friends at Spotify for enabling the embed music link. 

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The Christmas Playlist Series: No. XII

The  Hunt for New (Christmas) Music:

The last in our series of Christmas music playlists for 2016.
There are lots of great songs on these playlists–dig some of it out and give it a listen.
Next up: setting one (or more) of the Playlists on click-to-hear Spotify link.
Happy Holidays

Just click and the Elves at Spotify will take care of the rest…

https://sptfy.com/72ab

Enjoy. And Merry and Happy…..

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Baby, It’s Sweater Weather Outside (Re-setting Christmas Classics for the Modern Era)

Editor’ Note: Originally published in December of 2018, when the PC police went one song too far and came after “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”….and republished this year because traditions are important and it’s also important to realize the false pretense and logic of trying to apply one generation’s cultural perceptions vs. an earlier generation’s ideals….we side with Mel Brooks on the PC movement: not a good idea and very bad for comedy.

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A radio station in Cleveland,Ohio has completely lost both their nerve and the holiday spirit.
WDOK (FM 102.1) has pulled all versions of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from their holiday playlist because of a complaint from a single listener–although the station said, in a namby-pamby press release–that the move was the result of a “decision by our listeners”. The station cited a poll as the basis for the decision but–in a namby-pamby move–didn’t give the results of the poll.
On Facebook, another source said the station’s site noted that “92% of the listeners favored the song” and only “8% were for removing it from the playlist. ” The station’s program director pulled it anyway, showing true namby-pamby spirit.
The usual suspects also chipped in with over-reaction to the song, saying “it’s not something I want to promote” in commenting on the lyrics of a song first published in the 1940s and played during every Christmas season since.  We have seen this problem before, when someone applies standards (not necessarily advanced) of one century to cultural icons and practices of the past.
It’s always a disaster. Different time periods. Different standards.
Wait until they start going after all those early suggestive paintings, like Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Goya’s “The Nude Maja”. Oh boy…….
Here are the lyrics:

“I really can’t stay (Baby it’s cold outside)
I gotta go away (Baby it’s cold outside)
This evening has been (Been hoping that you’d dropped in)
So very nice (I’ll hold your hands they’re just like ice)
My mother will start to worry (Beautiful what’s your hurry?)
My father will be pacing the floor (Listen to the fireplace roar)
So really I’d better scurry (Beautiful please don’t hurry)
Well maybe just a half a drink more (I’ll put some records on while I pour)
The neighbors might think (Baby it’s bad out there)
Say what’s in this drink? (No cabs to be had out there)
I wish I knew how (Your eyes are like starlight now)
To break this spell (I’ll take your hat, your hair looks swell) (Why thank you)
I ought to say no, no, no sir (Mind if move in closer?)
At least I’m gonna say that I tried (What’s the sense of hurtin’ my pride?)
I really can’t stay (Baby don’t hold out)
Baby it’s cold outside
Ah, you’re very pushy you know?
I like to think of it as opportunistic
I simply must go (Baby it’s cold outside)
The answer is no (But baby it’s cold outside)
The welcome has been (How lucky that you dropped in)
So nice and warm (Look out the window at that storm)
My sister will be suspicious (Gosh your lips look delicious!)
My brother will be there at the door (Waves upon a tropical shore)
My maiden aunt’s mind is vicious (Gosh your lips are delicious!)
Well maybe just a cigarette more (Never such a blizzard before) (And I don’t even smoke)
I’ve got to get home (Baby you’ll freeze out there)
Say lend me a coat? (It’s up to your knees out there!)
You’ve really been grand, (I feel when I touch your hand)
But don’t you see? (How can you do this thing to me?)
There’s bound to be talk tomorrow (Think of my life long sorrow!)
At least there will be plenty implied (If you caught pneumonia and died!)
I really can’t stay (Get over that old out)
Baby it’s cold
Baby it’s cold outside
Okay fine, just another drink then
That took a lot of convincing!” 
–Songwriter, Frank Loesser, Lyrics (C) Kobalt Music Publishing Company

The people who thought “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is not proper ought to take a few minutes to listen to some rap lyrics if they’re looking for verbal targets. Good luck with that crusade……those are guys are going to tell the too-easily-offended to beat it–although in much more colorful language.
There will not be a poll.
The solution to this particular type of my-taste-is-better-than-your taste/ my-perception-sees-sexual connotations-where-there-are none situation is dead simple: if you don’t like the song or it’s lyrics, turn it off or change the channel and don’t listen.
Freedom of speech covers the right to play the song and also the right to not have to listen to it. Just because some see evil in every lyric or photo doesn’t mean that others do.
No one needs a press release or a quote from the self-appointed PC police. Just turn the song off on your radio and keep it to yourself.
As for the rest of us?
Baby it’s cold outside.
We’re turning it up.

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The Christmas Channel: How Hallmark Rules the Season

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Continuing with our look back at how we’ve covered the Holiday Season, here’s a post that went live in December 2017–before everyone in the world was watching–and has proven to be absolutely dead on in terms of predicting how the Hallmark Channel has become one of the icons of an American Tradition. We were paying attention then and we pay even more attention today. Here’s the background behind America’s favorite Christmas Channel…

The most watched channel during the holiday season is not ESPN, Netflix, MSNBC or Disney. It’s The Hallmark Channel. Why? It’s the programming: Hallmark values, as expressed in the movies shown on the two (soon to be three) Hallmark Channels closely match the values that most Americans associate with the Holidays: love, sincerity, generosity, kindness, goodwill toward men, and finding/understanding the true meaning of Christmas. In an America which has just completed one of the darkest of sociological/cultural/electoral years, the programming of the Hallmark Channels brings us back to a world that’s kinder, nicer, easier to understand and live in, and which represents core American values that we don’t want to lose. A couple of hour’s worth of Hallmark Channel programming is all that’s required to re-center even the most frazzled of holiday shoppers and party goers. The production values are consistently good, the scripts solid if predictable, the acting professional and believable. More good news–not only does Hallmark get it, the company is making it easier to see its programming, by expanding the number of channels and technologies on which you can see its programming. For a closer look at why so many people like the Hallmark Channel, read this piece from the Christian Science Monitor…
Although lots of my friends and contemporaries (including a surprising number of TV producers and editors) have developed the Hallmark Channel habit this holiday season, The Nightshift and Media Bunker team were early in, highlighting the rise of this very American media outlet, with this post published over a year ago. 
If you’re not (yet) a Hallmark Channel fan, there is no better time to dig into the alternate vision of America that the Hallmark presents than right now, because seeing is believing.
Set the Holiday mood, check out the Christmas One More Time XV playlist at Spotify…just type http://sptfy.com/12dC into your browser and you’ve got music to get you through all your projects.

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Christmas One More Time, VIII

The theme: More for the Holidaze. Here’s more Christmas music, courtesy of our friends at Spotify.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.  Click the play button the playlist and then you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) or take advantage of one of their specials which provide access to the Premium version which has a few extra features the freebie doesn’t have –wider selection and no commercials. Either way, you should check it out if you like music.  Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and thanks to our friends at Spotify for enabling the embed music link. 

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Christmas One More Time, VII

More of the season’s best holiday and Christmas music. Enjoy, through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.  Click the play button the playlist and then you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) or take advantage of one of their specials which provide access to the Premium version which has a few extra features the freebie doesn’t have –wider selection and no commercials. Either way, you should check it out if you like music.  Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and thanks to our friends at Spotify for enabling the embed music link. 

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Christmas One More Time, V

The Hunt for New Music: 
Another Christmas playlist composed of new songs you probably haven’t heard before combined with some old favorites re-done by new artists…pay particular attention to the first song, which is a pretty great remix of a classic holiday song. All in all, a very good list and yes, there is music you can dance to. Enjoy the music and the season.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.  Click the play button the playlist and then you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) or take advantage of one of their specials which provide access to the Premium version which has a few extra features the freebie doesn’t have –wider selection and no commercials. Either way, you should check it out if you like music.  Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and thanks to our friends at Spotify for enabling the embed music link. 

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The Etiquette of Christmas

Paying Attention: It’s Official: the Christmas Season is on. There are ground rules and just in case you didn’t get the memo, here’s a refresher course to the guidelines to what should be (but often isn’t), the most polite, kindest, generous, and thoughtful time of the year. If you follow these guidelines, you’ll have a terrific holiday. And  If you don’t? It won’t be much of a holiday for you (or your friends).

1. Holiday Cards matter. Sending out Holiday Cards is a very small task but has a very big effect. It’s a way to let people that think you have forgotten about them know that you haven’t forgotten about them. Make a List. Pick some cards. Send them out. It’s a good thing. Plus….the Christmas stamps are always very, very cool.
2. Take care of those who take care of you. You know who we’re talking about: the guys who do your lawn.  The service writer who cuts you a break on getting your Porsche fixed. The bartender who always gets you a  drink, even in the middle of a mob-sized crowd.  The dry cleaning lady who has a security clearance. The garbage team that takes all your trash away, even when you pile up too much of the wrong thing.  The neighbor who watches your place when you travel. Look after them because they look after you, and…it’s the right thing to do.
3. Decorate. Put up lights, hang a wreath, decorate a tree. Find some poinsettias and put them out. Make your house or home or ranch or condo reflect the spirit of the season. If you don’t join in– and the rest of the neighborhood is all in–then you run the risk of being judged a grinch for the holidays and perhaps beyond. Decorating at this time of the year is not necessarily religious-centric, it’s season-centric. Do it. You’ll feel better. And so will everyone around you.
4. Spend a little bit of time learning how to wrap a package. Why not? It’s time, right. So learn to do it right. There’s a video on how to wrap a Christmas gift at the top of  this post (and YouTube has a lot more of them). And yes, of course you can spend some money and have them wrap the gift for you at the store but….wrapping presents is an excellent way to get fully into the season. Plus–it’s a skill you really need to master.
5. Party. You have every possible reason to party at this time of the year(end of the year, the Holidays, office gatherings, friends gatherings, family get-togethers, bonus time, whatever), so get out there and do it. And…consider having a party of your own. Invite a few friends or a lot of friends over, serve some good wine, appetizers, and a lot of good music and host until you drop. It’s THAT time of the year. Do it. Just be careful and don’t overdo it. Party. It’s a part of the season. Go all in.
6. Reach out. You have friends from way back when and way back there. Once they were in your life just about everyday and now…maybe not. But they’re still important to you. Reach out and tell them. Re-connect. Re-establish a friendship that is timeless. There is no better time of the year to do it than the Christmas/Holiday season, so reach out. You’ll be very, very glad you did.
7. Charity. Give to others, causes, special organizations, shelters, The Salvation Army, your school. It’s the right thing to do. Do it because you can and do it because you should. And do it with the right attitude: you are in a position to help others who are not so lucky. Share.  At this time of the year, in particular, it means a lot to give.
8. Help. Someone. Some cause. Some place. It can be as small as opening a door for someone with an armful of packages or as big as donating a needed piece of equipment for a playground. But Help. it’s a form of giving that works 24/7/365 and one that everyone needs to practice. Do it. Helping is essential to humanity.
9. Embrace. Get engaged with a group, a movement, a charity. Take up a cause or a challenge, embrace it, support it, go all in, and see where it leads. To create a  better you  and a better set of things that you believe in. Get after it. Now.
10.Moderation works. The Holidays offer plenty of chances to over-indulge. Don’t. Don’t overspend, over-drink, over-flirt, over-act, over-talk, over-reach.  Don’t. No is a very reliable form of quality control. Don’t exit the holidays with a crisis that you created because you got out of control–that defeats the whole idea of the season.

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The Logistics of Christmas Music

Big data is everywhere and it’s involved in more than you think.
Do you believe the selection of Christmas music that you hear on the radio–or even that you buy–is just a random,  traditional playlist composed of old favorites that are mixed and matched?
Not quite.
The number-crunching wizards at fivethirtyeight.com looked a little deeper into the music of the Holidays and what they discovered is simultaneously surprising and not surprising.
First–the Christmas music you hear on the radio? It’s all programmed, and more tightly programmed than ever before. Big data drives the playlist. Theoretically, it’s what you want to hear (by the numbers, not the notes).
It’s well beyond an inspired mix of traditional holiday music and more like an index of the best of the season.
And your personal Christmas playlist? That list is  also not quite as personal as you might think.
The Bottom Line: Every element of our life is subject to increasingly detailed data observation and analysis.
Even the one time of the year–the Holiday season–that is (theoretically) the most traditional and emotion packed.
It’s all about the numbers.

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Christmas One More Time V

The fifth in a series of our carefully curated Christmas Playlists.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of Spotify’s excellent web player. Special note: when you click the link, you will be taken to Spotify’s web player. There, you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; or signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did). Here’s that link Either way, you should check it out if you like holiday music. Image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank Getty Images for sharing. Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering.

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Christmas One More Time, VI

And the beat goes on….the sixth Christmas One More Time (COMT) playlist for the season, brought to you through the magic of our friends at Spotify.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.  Click the play button the playlist and then you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) or take advantage of one of their specials which provide access to the Premium version which has a few extra features the freebie doesn’t have –wider selection and no commercials. Either way, you should check it out if you like music.  Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and thanks to our friends at Spotify for enabling the embed music link. 

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Christmas One More Time IV

Another day, another playlist. This one (again) available on Spotify. Turn it on and turn it up. Happy Holidays.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify.  Click the play button the playlist and then you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) or take advantage of one of their specials which provide access to the Premium version which has a few extra features the freebie doesn’t have –wider selection and no commercials. Either way, you should check it out if you like music.  Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and thanks to our friends at Spotify for enabling the embed music link. 

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The Best of SNL Christmas

One in a series of reposts of the best Christmas bits from Saturday Night Live.

The Holidaze:
Saturday Night Live has been on television for over four decades now. The show is an American cultural icon, and it’s introduced us to actors and writers who have dominated and influenced film, TV, music, and comedy: Seth Meyers, John Belushi, Will Farrell, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Chris Farley, Steven Colbert. The show lives in the moment, and so each weekly show contains bits that can be seen as a snapshot of our current social/ideological/ pulse. Among the very best–and most long lasting–of the bits produced for Saturday Night Live are the Christmas show sketches and short films. Continuing our tradition, each year we showcase the best of SNL’s Christmas material in our “Holidaze” series; this year, we start with a sketch produced for the 15 December 2018 show (with Matt Damon as host), featuring Matt Damon and Cecily Strong. It’s an instant classic, and no doubt it will resonate with just about everyone.

The Fine Print: Video embed via YouTube and courtesy of SNL/Broadway Video. All rights belong to SNL/Broadway Video. This video has not been altered in any way. We thank our friends at SNL and Broadway Video for sharing and YouTube for providing the publishing channel. Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidaze, from your friends at Perception Engineering and the Media Bunker. 

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Christmas One More Time II

The second in our series of hand-selected and carefully curated Christmas Music Playlists. You can listen to the playlist via our friends at Spotify.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify via Spotify’s excellent web player. Special note: when you click the link, you will be taken to Spotify’s web player. There, you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; or signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did) Here’s that link Either way, you should check it out if you like music, Holiday or otherwise. The holidays are a great time to discover a lot of great new music. Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker. 

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Christmas One More Time III

The third in our series of seasonal playlists. You can listen to the playlist via our friends at Spotify, who provided the appropriate links below.

You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of Spotify’s excellent web player. Special note: when you click the link, you will be taken to Spotify’s web player. There, you’ll have a couple of choices: sign in if you currently have a Spotify account; or signup for a free Spotify account (you’ll be glad you did). Here’s that link Either way, you should check it out if you like holiday music. Image courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way. We thank Getty Images for sharing. Enjoy…and Happy Holidays. Special thanks to DJ Tschugge for compiling the list, along with the team at the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering.

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The Poetry of Rock: John Prine

Angel From Montgomery

 

For a couple of years, the idea has been kicked around the Media Bunker that we need to do a series of posts on the Poetry of Rock. We’re the type that really listens to music, all of it—the intros, the solos, the backing vocals, and the words, especially the words. 

There are plenty who love music, but really don’t do the deep dive into the lyrics, where so much of the soul and message of a song live.

We do, because so much of the magic of music is in the lyrics. Everyone knows a song that could be great, but the lyrics hold it back…..for a song to be complete, to be totally great, it’s got to have both a great tune and outstanding musicianship and great lyrics. The bar is high.

Most of us were introduced to poetry in school at some level but eventually moved away/on from it as we got older. When was the last time you actually bought a book of poetry, by anyone?

But poetry’s still here, a bigger part of our lives than you would image if you just recognize that it now comes wrapped in music as the lyrics of the songs we hear all around us. Like all art, beauty is in the eye (or the ear) of the beholder. Some lyrics are great, some are nonsense, and some are unforgettable and legendary. Here in the media bunker, we lean in to the unforgettable and legendary, and so it’s time to resurrect the “Poetry of Rock” series (and we are including all forms of music in the Rock category, just to keep it simple) and so will be bringing out some examples of the great lyrics that accompanies great music (and vice versa) to show our appreciation for the genius level art that can surround us, if we just look a bit, do a drill down. 

This post was brought to the top of the editorial calendar by one event: the death of singer/songwriter John Prine. Prine was a humble man with an uncommon gift—he was one of the very best songwriters of his generation, good enough that he was someone Bob Dylan listened to. That’s good.  You can read about Prine’s life in this obituary from The New York Times. It’s well worth your time, as is this editorial from the Times that focuses (with performances)  on a key selection of John Prine’s best songs

One of Prine’s very best songs–and he had a bunch of them–was the song “Angel from Montgomery”. The lyrics are below:

I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
Child who’s grown old
If dreams were lightning
And thunder were desire
This old house would’ve burned down
A long time ago
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin’
Is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl
Well, I had me a cowboy
He weren’t much to look at
Just a free ramblin’ man
But that was a long time
And no matter how I tried
The years just flowed by
Like a broken down dam
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin’
Is just a hard way to go
There’s flies in the kitchen
I can hear ’em there buzzin’
And I ain’t done nothing
Since I woke up today
How the hell can a person
Go to work in the morning
Then come home in the evening
And have nothing to say?
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing
That I can hold on to
To believe in this livin’
Is just a hard way to go
To believe in this livin’
Is just a hard way to go
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Prine John E
Angel From Montgomery lyrics © Walden Music Inc., Sour Grapes Music Inc., Walden Music, Inc., Sour Grapes Music, Inc.

 

The song is mournful, painful, biographical, real, raw. The lyrics are short, the poetry is brief, but what’s not included in word is implied by its absence. It is, in short, a bit of a miracle. To fully grasp the genius of Prine is to hear his music performed, and one of the very best versions of this song is the one by Bonnie Raitt. But to add to the depth, we managed to find another live performance, by Bonnie with Prine, that you will find quite marvelous.

John Prine gave us a lifetime of great music. No better time than now to stop and appreciate it.  

 

 

 

The Fine Print:   Performance of “Angel from Montgomery” by John Prine and Bonnie Raitt courtesy of YouTube and Austin City Limits. Bonnie Raitt solo version of the song provided via our friends at YouTube. We thank them for sharing. Text and Post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. We thank the researchers and site programmers for digging through the code to get this one up, after a software upgrade challenged everything. Unless otherwise noted, all rights (c)donald pierce and Southchester Group LLC. Got comments? Got you covered. Drop us a note via the comment feedback. Thanks for reading and listening. 

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HOW TO SHOOT FOR NETFLIX

You did it. You wrote the script (documentary or feature), worked with some of your producer friends to break it down and get a rough budget, pitched it to NETFLIX and they Greenlighted your project. You’re a “go”. 

Now comes the hard part: producing the film.

Netflix is a very productive company and they have totally changed the paradigm for movie/tv production in Hollywood. They’ve come a long way from a company that sent out DVDs by mail to clients to being one of the biggest–if not THE BIGGEST–movie studios in the world.

They didn’t get there by chance. Netflix has its’ own set of standards about the shape and format of the film/video that you shoot, and cruising across the net, researching video production, the gang at the Media Bunker came across their official guidelines for cameras to be used for production.

Here’s the link: Netflix Image Capture Cameras and Standards

You’ll notice every camera must be at least 4k in resolution and some are 8K. The output format that’s acceptable is also specified.

The point is that Netflix is very button-ed up on what they expect to receive from producers and production companies who are shooting projects for them. Click through to see the level of detail that Netflix goes to in terms of setting up the camera for their productions.  They don’t take technical risks; instead, like very sharp studio guys, they take the risks on the content. There’s a lesson there.

 

 

 

 

An Arriflex 4F video production camera, one of the cameras approved by Netflix for production shooting of Netflix content/features. Image copyright 2021 Arriflex. All rights reserved. 

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9/11

The only two articles you need to read today about 9/11

This weekend is going to be one of mixed emotions.

It’s another college football weekend. Things are looking up after a very tough summer.

Fall is a time of optimism and we could sure use some now.

But today is also 9/11.

And the 20th anniversary of the terrorist act that forever altered America’s view of itself, its’ safety, and its’ place in the world.

So throughout the weekend there are somber reminders about that singular day and it’s impact on our lives, culture, future.

You can get buried in the media coverage this weekend, but perhaps seeing/reading less, not more, is a better option.

Below, two articles that expand our understanding of what happened on 9/11.

The first is about the famous “Falling Man” photo, and was originally published by Esquire. 

The piece was written by Tom Junod and it’s stunning.

The second article is about the journey of Air Force One, with President George W. Bush onboard, as it navigated the skies of America after the attack on the World Trade Center

This one is from our friends at Politico, and is by Garrett Graff. 

That’s all you need to read on 9/11.

But it’s not all you need to think about.

 

 

 

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The Olympic Sports: Wrestling

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Wrestling

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The Olympic Sports: Weight LIfting

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Weight Lifting

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The Olympic Sports: Water Polo

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Water Polo

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The Olympic Sports: Volleyball

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Volleyball

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The Olympic Sports: Triathlon

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Triathlon

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The Olympic Sports: Trampoline

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Trampoline

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The Olympic Sports: Track Cycling

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Track Cycling

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The Olympic Sports: Tennis

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Tennis

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The Olympic Sports: Tae Kwon Do

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

TaeKwanDo

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The Olympic Sports: Table Tennis

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Table Tennis

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The Olympic Sports: Swimming

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Swimming

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The Olympic Sports: Surfing

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Surfing

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The Olympic Sports: Sport Climbing

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Sport Climbing

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The Olympic Sports: Skateboarding

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Skateboarding

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The Olympic Sports: Shooting

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Shooting

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The Olympic Sports: Sailing

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Sailing

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The Olympic Sports: Rugby

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Rugby

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The Olympic Sports: Rowing

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Rowing

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The Olympic Sports: Road Cycling

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Road Cycling

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The Olympic Sports: Rhythmic Gymnastics

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Rhythmic Gymnastics

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The Olympic Sports: Mountain Bike

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Mountain Bike

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The Olympic Sports: Modern Pentathlon

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Modern Pentathlon

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The Olympic Sports: Marathon Swimming

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Marathon Swimming

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The Olympic Sports: Karate

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Karate

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The Olympic Sports: Judo

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

 Judo

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The Olympic Sports: Hockey

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Hockey (Field Hockey)

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The Olympic Sports: Handball

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Handball

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The Olympic Sports: Golf

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Golf

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The Olympic Sports: Football

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Football

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The Olympic Sports: Fencing

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Fencing

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The Olympic Sports: Equestrian

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Equestrian

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The Olympic Sports: Canoe/Kayak Flatwater

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Canoe/Kayak Flatwater

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The Olympic Sports: Boxing

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Boxing

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The Olympic Sports: Canoe/Kayak Slalom

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Canoe/Kayak Slalom

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The Olympic Sports: Diving

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Diving

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The Olympic Sports: BMX Racing

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

BMX Racing

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The Olympic Sports: Cycling BMX Freestyle

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Cycling BMX Freestyle

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The Olympic Sports: Beach Volleyball

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Beach Volleyball

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The Olympic Sports: Basketball

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Basketball

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The Olympic Sports:Baseball/Softball

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics: 

Baseball/Softball

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The Olympic Sports:Badminton

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics:

Badminton

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The Olympic Sports: Athletics

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Athletics (we’d call it Track & Field

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The Olympic Sports: Artistic Swimming

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Artistic Swimming

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The Olympic Sports:Artistic Gymnastics

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Artistic Gymnastics

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The Olympic Sports: Archery

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

Archery

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Tokyo Olympics Resources and Results

 

 The Tokyo Olympic Games 2021 feature 339 events in 33 different sports in 50 disciplines.

That’s quite a lot to keep track of, so just to keep you informed here’s a direct link to the Official Tokyo Olympics Results Page.

 NEWS, SCHEDULES, AND RESULTS

WHERE TO WATCH THE 2021 OLYMPICS:

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The Olympic Sports: 3×3 Basketball

A short introduction to the games of the Tokyo Olympics. 

3×3 Basketball

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Tokyo Olympics Results

 The games feature 339 events in 33 different sports in 50 disciplines. That’s quite a lot to keep track of, so just to keep you informed here’s a direct link to the Official Tokyo Olympics Results Page.

 NEWS, SCHEDULES, AND RESULTS

NBC COVERAGE OF THE TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES.

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Tokyo Olympics Results 26 July 2021

 The games feature 339 events in 33 different sports in 50 disciplines. That’s quite a lot to keep track of, so just to keep you informed here’s a direct link to the Official Tokyo Olympics Results Page.

 NEWS, SCHEDULES, AND RESULTS

WHERE TO WATCH THE 2021 OLYMPICS:

NBC COVERAGE OF THE TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES.

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Tokyo Olympics Event Schedule

The games are here. The opening ceremonies have opened (congrats to Naomi Osaka for being selected to light the fire. NBC has 7000 hours of coverage planned, and as you might suspect, not all of it will be on a single channel. Finding the events you may want to focus on could be challenging, so the Media Bunker crew has rounded up some scheduling resources for you. First off, a  New York Times overview of events:

The New York Times Event Review

Tokyo Olympics Home Page

Olympic Schedule & Results

Full Olympic Schedule from NBC

Live Scores, Schedule, and Updates from The Guardian 

Olympic Coverage on Peacock Streaming Network

Deadline’s Guide to Watching the Tokyo Olympics

BBC Olympic Schedule, Updates

Tokyo Updates on Olympic Games

Olympics Photos

NPR Photographic Coverage of Olympics

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The Sports of the Tokyo Olympics

The Summer Olympics are just a few hours away and despite COVID-19, economic battles, international screw ups, positive tests, and a lack of spectators, fans, and support staff at the Games, the Games are going on. They start with the obligatory major-league Opening Ceremonies (the director of the opening ceremonies was fired today for an inappropriate joke he made in the 1990s), which will be presented to a mostly-empty stadium, although there will be representation from the various Olympic organizations, participating countries,  and sports groups from around the world. The games will feature 339 events in 33 different sports in 50 disciplines. That’s quite a lot to keep track of, so just to keep you informed on what’s on tap, here’s a list of all 33 of the sports included in this edition of the Olympics.

3×3 Basketball

Archery

Artistic Gymnastics

Artistic Swimming

Athletics (track and field)

Baseball/Softball

Badminton

Basketball

Beach Volleyball

BMX Freestyle

BMX Racing

Boxing

Canoe/Kayak Flat Water

Canoe/Kayak Slalom

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

Football

Golf

Handball

Hockey (Field)

Judo

Karate

Marathon Swimming

Modern Pentathalon

Mountain Bike

Rhythmic Gymnastics 

Road Cycling

Rowing

Rugby

Sailing

Shooting

Skateboarding

Sport Climbing

Shooting

Surfing

Swimming

Table Tennis

Tae Kwon Do

Tennis 

Track Cycling

Trampoline

TriAthlon

Volleyball

Water Polo

Weight Lifting

Wrestling

So…Someting for everyone but, unfortunely, not only will everyone not be there due to COVID, no one will be there. No spectators, not even family. That is a world-class bummer that you wouldn’t wish on a world-class athletic event. This year if you want to see the Olympics, binge on them, via NBC (in the US). 

Here’s what you need to know and where to look, brought to you courtesy of our friends at NBC.

WHERE TO WATCH THE 2021 OLYMPICS:

NBC COVERAGE OF THE TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES.

That’s the pre-game warmups. More to come–Keep it tuned right here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE SPELL IS BROKEN: NEW ORLEANS CANCELS VOODOO FEST 2021. BACK IN 2022…

 

 You’re going to have wait until next year to cast some new spells, learn the latest techniques for turning enemies into newts or pick up those custom voodoo dolls you ordered.

New Orleans has announced that their annual Voodoo Fest will take a time out in 2021 and return in 2022. The gathering, held over the Halloween weekend (what a great time to have it) features music, food, and, of course, more voodoo and spells than you shake a wand at. Here’s the official announcement. 

It’s a great excuse to visit New Orleans, and having the fest in fall fits in perfectly with the weather of the Crescent City, which tends to the muggy in late spring and summer. You never really need an excuse to visit New Orleans, but the Voodoo Fest is a great reason to visit it on schedule: who doesn’t like the things that make New Orleans terrific: food and music. And who wants to miss out on the chance to walk around town dressed in skeleton and witch doctor costumes….not that such behavior is ever frowned upon in America’s most colorful city. 

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DAFT PUNK WALKS OFF INTO THE SUNSET

 

 

It was, of course, going to end sooner or later. The French electro/techno/pop group Daft Punk has decided to break up after 23 years and six Grammy’s and a history of changing one segment of the music world. They were fearless, innovative, more interested in the music than the fame and money (what a nice change), and confident enough to work with the very best musicians of our time. You might want to go deep background on the duo-infamous for wearing helmets to keep their visual personal identities confidential–by reading Joe Coscarelli’s piece on them in the New York Times. 

The duo, notoriously private, perhaps realized that they were at the end of their musical road. All music is on a timeline, and what was ground breaking ten years ago may just seem to be a vision/sound that no longer syncs with the times a decade later. Whatever the reason, the reality is that they had a huge impact on music and music performance, and wrote, produced, and performed songs that were so often the perfect soundtrack for our times. There is no more music in their archives to be released (as far as we know), so they left it all on the field. Would we like to have more from Daft Punk? You bet. But we must also realize that artists create at their  own pace and they also have the right to stop when they feel it’s time. For Daft Punk, it was time. Thanks for the melodies. 

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Powerless

rTexas is frozen. The “energy state”, home to the nation’s largest oil and gas reserves and the center of America’s energy business, is suffering through a massive power outage that spans the entire Lone Star State. It is more than embarrassing–people are dying, businesses cannot open, restaurants cannot serve, gasoline supplies are running low, and water supplies are shut off, frozen, or empty. Across the state, frozen pipes and frozen citizens are the new icons of America’s self-appointed new destination for modern 21st century businesses run by people like Elon Musk (Tesla) and Larry Ellison(Oracle). Apple already has an outpost in Austin as does Facebook. But none of it will work without electricity. A lot of things went wrong in Texas for this event to happen and cause so much damage, but we’ll leave the analysis of that for another time. To see the real impact, the Media Bunker staff gathered up a stream of messages coming out from the Ring/Neighborhood network that show the real situations faced by citizens in just one section of Houston (for those keeping score, that would be the Southwest section of town, close to the “energy corridor” commercial development. Nothing has been edited up (to make things more dramatic) or down (to make things less severe). Screen captures were pulled off an iPhone. It’s a glimpse of the world without power and it’s pretty sobering. 

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The Super Game

This is a repost of an article that originally ran in 2017. It’s still relevant and worthy of your time.

Annals of IP: The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in America. It is the most lucrative, the most widely covered, the most highly coveted event in which to be a sponsor (so popular for advertising that many people watch the game..only for the commercials), with a thirty-second spot going for US$5.0 million (source; Bleacher Report). For that amount an advertiser has the chance to reach 114 million people with their message (no pressure, don’t blow it, just like the game).
But there’s another thing going on at the Super Bowl: it is also the most tightly controlled Trademark of the season.
A funny thing happens every year at Super Bowl time. Advertisers who want to jump on the Super Bowl bandwagon by associating themselves with the event without paying the necessary and required licensing fees are  kicked to the curb, because the NFL takes it Super Bowl rights very seriously.
Understand, first, that there are two elements of IP at play here. One is copyright: the NFL owns the right to the game and rebroadcasts, presentations, etc. It’s OK to see it with friends, fine to watch it in a sports bar (that’s getting the signal legally, of course). Not fine to show it on a big screen and charge admission (that right is reserved to the league).  The NFL understands that the Super Bowl is part sports event and increasingly a major social event and they have evolved and relaxed their copyright rules to enable people to enjoy the game but not abuse the IP rights of the league and its owners.
The other element in the Super Bowl IP package is trademark rights and permissions of the name itself. The name is trademarked and that’s why local (or national or international advertisers) can’t have “Super Bowl” specials or “Super Bowl” promotions–unless they’ve paid for those rights, like the sponsors of the Super Bowl do. That’s why you hear the game referred to as “the big game” or  “the championship” or some other glancing reference. To understand precisely how this all works, here’s a ClickPak of articles on the IP issues surrounding America’s biggest football game.
The Superbowl trademark (Source: commonlawblog.com) 
Is The Superbowl proctected by Copyright or Trademark Law (Source: BroadcastLawBlog.Com)
Superbowl Trademark Rules You Should Know (Source: BeKnownforsomething.com) 
 
The Fine Print: Special thanks to the organizations (and the people inside them) who posted the articles referenced above about the IP of the Super Bowl. And thank you very much for sharing. One other point: if you deal in IP or media, it would be a good idea to put these sites into your bookmarks folder.  Enjoy…the big game. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Revolution Will Be Televised

 

America was shocked by the events of 6 January 2021 when an angry, combative and armed mob stormed the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election as the next President of the United States. The coverage of this unprecedented event has dominated the airwaves, internet news and network television news shows and channels for the last week.

 

The net result of the Capitol attack was 5 people killed, hundreds either under arrest or about to be under arrest, and an impeachment charge against Donald J. Trump for inciting the riot after speaking to the crowd that gathered in front of the White House. Despite the very real threat to those in Congress (and the guards), the so-called “attempted coup” was suppressed, Biden’s election was certified, and now the investigations about precisely what happened, who was involved, and how it came to be, are in process.

What you may not know is that people in the mob that over-ran the Capitol police were filming/taping the event and in many cases live-streaming it to other like-minded and curious followers. Be fully informed on this key aspect of that very dark event by reading this terrific piece from The Columbia Journalism Review . 

You will be surprised (or maybe not)by the sophistication and monetization involved. We live in, perhaps, over-connected times.  Just remember this: if you do something in a public space of any kind, the odds are that someone is recording it.

Fine Print: Photo courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in anyway. We thank them for sharing. Text Copyright (c)2021 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC,  all rights reserved. DonaldPierce.com is produced by the team at the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. Opinions expressed are those of the writers. DonaldPierce.com has a wide bandwidth that allows for the coverage of everything from politics to sports car racing and is designed as an experiment in digital communications. From time-to-time we cover live events as they happen. For daily world news coverage please check out nightshiftnews.com, our sister site, which has links to every major English language newspaper in the world. Thanks for reading. Come back soon (and stay safe). 

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2019: The Year in Lists

 No matter which way you look at it–the good, the bad, or the ugly–2019 was one of the most wildest, least predictable, over/under-hyped, culturally significant/insignificant years on record. The bad guys won more than their share of major events and the good guys somehow managed to stay in the game.  It was a year of outrageous personalities, incredible statements, ethics-bending, line-crossing, tweet-storming weirdness. Here’s hoping we don’t have a repeat of all that worldwide nonsense in 2020, but who knows.

But…and we’ve said this before, in this same space ….you never really know a year until you see it in a series of lists. And so, here again, is one of our favorite posts of all time, updated to fit the mood and the times: The Year In Lists. You shall know us by what we track and recognize–sobering to be sure. And check back frequently, the list is updated continuously. 

 

Biggest Newstories of 2019 (MSN)

Top 10 Global News Stories You Missed in 2019 (Foreign Policy )

Top 100 Videos of the Year (This is Happening/YouTube)

NPR’s Top Political Stories of 2019

Important Deaths of 2019 (UPI)

Notable Deaths of the Year (New York Times) 

Billboard Hot 100 Songs of 2019

Most Expensive Medical Procedures (investopedia)

Fashion Trends of the Year (pop.inquirer.com)

Worst Films of 2019 (Variety)

The Rise of the VSCO Girl

Biggest Sports Controversies of 2019

Lie of the Year (Politifact)

Top Music Videos of 2019 (YouTube)

Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2019

15 Best Investments for 2019 (Bankrate)

Best Box Office: Top Movies of the Year (Vanity Fair)

12 Best New Cars for 2019 (AutoTrader)

30 Best Toys for Boys and Girls (Goodhousekeeping)

Top Instagram Moments of the Year (TopNine) 
Vulture (New York Magazine) Best of the Year (Vulture)

Top 40 Pop Songs of the Year (One for All) 

Best of 2019 (Foreign Affairs) 

Highest Paid Athletes in 2019 

50 Best Podcasts of 2019

Fodor’s Top Places to Travel (Fodor’s) 

Best Website for English Language World Newspapers 2019 (NightshiftNews.com)

Best Video Games of 2019 (Vulture)

Scholarly Articles on Advances in biotech 2019

Top US Companies Granted Patents in 2019 (Forbes)

Top Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Awards in 2019 (Law360)

Most Expensive Wedding Dresses of 2019 (Trendrr)

Best Celebrity Photos of 2019 (Wonderwall)

Top 10 Artworks sold in December 2019 (Artnet)
20 Top Hairstyle Trends for Winter 2019 (Cosmopolitan)

Most Instagram Followers in 2019 (MarieClaire)

Top 5 Professional Bull Riders Rides of 2019 (YouTube)

President Trumps Biggest Falsehoods of 2019 (NBC

 

 

The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text, and “The Year in Lists”  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. Comments are welcomed. Wind down 2019 in a responsible way and have a safe, healthy, and productive 2020. Thanks for reading. 

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Soundtrack for the News- America The Beautiful

RAY CHARLES SINGS AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL  

We’ve really been through it this year–the west on fire; the coast pounded and punished by hurricanes; a pandemic that has killed over 200,000 of our fellow country men; an economic downturn not seen since the great depression and a bruising, contentious, difficult, scathing presidential election. It will all soon be over, and maybe, just maybe, we can lay down the polarizing political issues which have divided us and get back to what made us great and the huge tasks we face. If we need a theme song, I nominate Ray Charles version of “America, the Beautiful”….just brilliant and it gets better every time you hear it. This particular version was performed in a concert Ray did in Washington DC on the 4th of July, 2000. And yes, the fireworks interfere a bit with the sound, but no, the song is not diminished in any way by the celebration. So tee it up, turn it up, and get your head and soul straight. This is the soundtrack we need for America. 

The Fine Print: Video Embed courtesy of YouTube and Chris 1PDX. All copyrights owned by their designated owners. This site makes no claim to copyright ownership. Special thanks to YouTube for making the music available. “Sound Track For the News”  post  produced by Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker team, who spend a lot of time listening and listening and listening some more to the songs and performances.  Text Copyright 2020 donald pierce and SouthchesterGroup, LLC. Stay well, stay safe, and wash your hands. And vote for gosh sakes. Don’t forget to practice safe distancing….it’s not so bad.

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The Nine Truths Of Moving

You Can’t Take It (all) With You

It’s that time .

Time to move. 

American is now more mobile than ever and if you haven’t moved recently, the chances are pretty good that you will soon. 

According to Moving.com, 1 out of 10 people in the U.S. will move in 2020, just like in 2019 and 2018. For those keeping score that’s  10.1% of the US Population, or 32,252,000 people out of our population of 319,310,000 citizens. No wonder you see lots of moving trucks on every interstate and back road in America.

We’re a mobile society and on the move.

After the dust of 2020 (what a year…) and the pandemic hangover are in the past, there’s reason to believe that even more people will be moving in the future. 

Why? 

The pandemic introduced corporations and employees to the joys of working at home and, given the choice between a really great house on a ranch, in the mountains or at the beach or a townhome jammed in close to downtown, most will opt for more space and instant access to the great outdoors. Cell phone service (check the signal strength for any place you’re considering) and fiber optic  internet(check that too) means you leave little behind if you decide to move further out. Companies are encouraging employees to work at home, some are even offering stipends, and mortgage rates have not been lower in ages. It’s a good time to make a move, for any reason: new job, new position with the same company in another part of the country, kids off to college, move closer to the grandkids, or entry into the witness protection program. There are as many different reasons to move as there are people but the one common factor is that moving is a time consuming and labor intensive process so maybe a few tips on how to get it all done will help. 

Context: I am a bit of an expert on the topic. I went to 14 different schools between the 1st and 12th grade, moved multiple times before I was even out of kindergarten. While in college, I never went back to the same house for Christmas that I left for school in September. Out of college, the personal trend continued. My mother, who organized all the moves, got very good at moving and she made sure that those survival skills were passed down to me. We lived a very streamlined life, but looking back on it now, don’t think we missed much.

Facing yet another move—and not just across town, but across states—I thought it might be a good time to revisit and pass on what was learned in all those moves.

Below: The Nine Truths of Moving that will help you survive the uprooting and replanting.

  1. Take a realistic inventory of what to move. Go through your place and see what you really want to take with you and what you might want to leave behind. Start by looking at your home and editing it: what is really necessary and important to your life and what is not. Start with the big stuff: furniture, case goods, armoires, rugs and carpets. Then look at the smaller essentials, like kitchen equipment, tools, outdoor gear. Edit out your electronics: old computers, equipment, sound systems (more on that below). Then media: books, CDs (everyone does streaming now), photos (always a good idea to edit photos as you create them). Then Artwork (almost always requires special handing because It’s easily damaged in transit). And, clothes…work clothes, hangout clothes,  workout clothes. Clothes move easier if they’re not on hangers, by the way. Fold and pack them and pack the hangers separately. A lot more streamlined and easier to deal with.  That collection of old barbells you seldom use….that’s hard to store and expensive to pack and move…give them to the future linebacker down the street. Be very, very critical because you will have to pack and load every single thing (and unpack and unload).  Cut it down to the essentials and the essential you. Not only will you lighten your moving load, you will no doubt find a more defined, unique, you in the process, when the excess is trimmed away. 
  1. Start Early. Moving is a huge chore. There are few, if any shortcuts. In brief you have to go through everything in your home (and office ) and see what goes (literally) and what gets left behind, in the form of donations or trash. You have to go through every cabinet, under every sink, into each closet to see what’s there and what has to be packed or otherwise disposed  of( see below). This is not hard but it is very time consuming.  The sooner you start the better. Also: gather up all your personal and important papers and valuables and keep them together, in one briefcase, special box, or backpack. You need to know where this stuff is at all times for personal and security reasons, so sort it out, pack it up, and secure it. You’ll thank yourself when it comes time to pack up and leave.   
  1. Don’t move it twice. A key mistake lots of people make is to pack up and move stuff with the idea of going through it once they get re-settled. Don’t do it. Why delay the inevitable: it’s expensive. A move is a chance to edit out the stuff that is no longer essential to your life. So…do the edit before you load the truck/van/SUV and don’t move something with the idea of sorting it out when you get there. What goes on the truck is what stays in your life. Everything else gets left behind, literally. Do not MOVE IT TWICE.  
  1. Keep, Donate or Sell/Toss. We’re not going to the existential argument of “does it bring you joy” promoted by Marie Kondo. That implies a lot of philosophy that you don’t have time for if you’re moving. 

You need an action plan and here it is:

Keep—If you love it, it’s necessary for your life, enjoyment of life, sentimental or a part of your life or work. Keep it. This should be about 40% of your stuff.

Donate or sell—An object that does not have value to you, but might have to someone else, can be donated to a good cause, given to a pal,  or sold to someone else who might cherish it. Into this category go all kinds of goods, from tools to clothes to Christmas decorations. Your obligation is to clean the object up, price it to sell  very quickly or match the no-longer-necessary stuff to someone who will really be glad to have it. This will turn out to be  20-30% of stuff. It applies also to clothes (as does the Toss category). 

Toss—The clutter, the seemed-like-a-good-idea at the time Halloween costumes, excess gadgets purchase from infomercials, plastic no-longer-functional anything, unwanted toys, books that do not deserve a place in a serious library (“Fifty Shades of Grey” or “The Art of the Deal”).Toss. Sometimes the local schools will have a book drive and need books to sell. Donate your books. A lot of them. There’s a hospital or retirement home that would love to have them. Make some calls and give.  Books are great and impressive for visitors  but they are heavy, heavy, heavy, so keep only your cherished first editions, coffee table showpieces, and the childhood favorites (“Rabbit Hill”, “The Long Winter”, “Lord Chesterfield’s Letters, Sentence, and Maxims”). 

Dump and toss ruthlessly.  If it’s Incomplete or I’ll-get-around-to-it stuff, toss it.  Remember: the less you have to move, the lower the cost to move. That should be enough of an incentive to really clean house. This should be between 40-30% of your previously prized possessions.

  1. Dump the mismatched sets of anything and obsolete electronics. If you have a set of mis-matched pots and pans, donate them. They’ve served their purpose and you’ve learned to cook. Reward yourself with a nice set of All-Clad from Williams Sonoma. You deserve it, they work great, and you can replace and/or add pieces as necessary. And someone else can use your old cookware and will be glad to get it. Keep the cast iron frying pan…it’s season and has a future. As for older electronics (that Tivo project?). Dump it or give away. It is not coming back. 
  1. Beware of computers (and office equipment): they get obsolete faster than ex-NFL football coaches. Don’t keep them around. The dirty little secret of the computer world is that even if the computer still has a working life, the software often doesn’t, and sites you need for business and personal activities (i.e. banks, brokerages, etc). often won’t take anything but the most recent browsers and operating systems. There are entire sites devoted to what to do with an old laptop (repurpose as a media center; use it to control the security system, etc.) but if you don’t want to deal with all that, just do this: back up the data to a standalone hard drive and then wipe the computer of all data, personal and otherwise, delete all specialized(and often expensive) software that shouldn’t fall into unauthorized hands; give it a good clean up and then donate it to some organization in your community  that is providing computers to kids who need them for internet remote learning classes. Streaming is one of the least digitally stressful actions that a computer can perform and what was a PITA for you will be a godsend for some young student. And you’ll feel very good about it. 
  1. Also—now’s a good time to rethink your media system. It is no longer necessary to have a large collection of CDs to hear the music you love—Spotify and iTunes and Pandora and Amazon music can fill that function. The most modern, and flexible setup today is not a stand alone hi-fi system, with big speakers and 200 watts/channel amplifiers, but something that’s almost as good and takes up a lot less space: a flat screen TV, a fiber optic internet feed, an AppleTV or Roku TV or Firestick, and a sound bar with two or more speakers and a sub-woofer. The sound is astonishingly good (for physiological reasons that we won’t go into here, but just remember that you typically lose a little hearing ability each year,) and takes up little space. By going full-in on modern digital music and video, you upgrade the experience and downgrade the amount of space required. 
  1. One size does not fit all: what vehicles to use for the move. If you have a household full of goods you’ll need a moving truck of some type. If you’re moving across town, you can make multiple trips with a panel truck or mid-size truck and a small moving crew and do it over a couple of days. If you’re moving across country, you’re going to need a moving van, one of the 40ft long variety. The moving pros should handle the big stuff: furniture, fridge (if you’re taking it), appropriately boxed (and cushioned) dinner ware, etc. You, the movee, should take some things yourself in your car, SUV, or, more appropriately van or small moving truck: all of your art, current computers, electronics, papers or anything that’s personally important and/or valuable. If you don’t have a big SUV (I’m partial to the Suburban for these type of missions), rent it. 

The philosophy for this is simple: keep the important(Personal papers), breakable, irreplaceable stuff with you and under your care; move the bigger, not-so-breakable stuff goes via moving company/van. Sometimes, this requires a couple of trips but…so be it. You spend a couple of extra personal days on the road but you’ve assured yourself that the stuff that is important..the stuff that really makes a new place your place…arrives intact and ready . 

  1. You don’t need it. One of the great benefits of moving is the chance to edit and re-set your life. It’s just like re-starting a computer: you get a fresh start on everything from where to go after the game for a beer to finding a new jogging trail. With all that you leave behind (literally and psychologically) you can now  live a life that’s more about the experiences and less about the stuff. You’ll be surprised at how little you need to live a really terrific life and how much smoother everything seems to run when there’s a lot less to keep track of, put away, organize. 

Moving is a major life event. It requires a lot of physical effort, thought, and emotion. When you pack up to move, you glide through the items and times and places and people of your past and make decisions about what continues on with you and what gets left behind.

It’s not easy, can actually be quite stressful in unforeseen ways, but it is, at its most basic, a growth experience. You get a new life. So grab yourself some good attitude, take another shot of courage (tequila works just fine), and hop to it. The sooner you get the move done, the sooner you move into your new life where new adventures, people, experiences and yes, stuff, awaits. And that is certainly a pretty great reward.

 Good luck and remember one thing: when in doubt, toss it out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Transitions: Kenzo Takada (1939-2020)

Transitions: Kenzo Takada (1939-2020)

He had two names, Kenzo Takada, but like a lot of very iconic people who’ve had an impact on the world, he was known only by one: Kenzo. Kenzo was one of the world’s most creative and inventive fashion designers, born in Japan and realized in Paris, a city which he intended to visit only for a short time but was so entranced by it (and it by hime) that he ended up spending the last 56 years of his life there. In the process he became one of the world’s great clothing designers, whose sense of style, line, color and pattern were unduplicated, as was his sharp wit and huge sense of fun.

Kenzo got it. He believed that great fashion should be available to all, not just the very, very wealthy. He was a rarity in the fashion world, not just for his designs but for the quality of his ideas and the joy he put into his work and life. “Fashion is like eating”, he once said, “you shouldn’t have the same menu all the time”. And so he changed, evolved, revolutionized, stirred it up, progressed, experimented, delighted. 

Kenzo was prepping a fashion show for the next season when he was hospitalized in early fall.  He died of Covid-19 on 4 October 2020, the same virus that has taken so many of our very best and brightest far too early. Although at 81 he was in the “kill zone” for the virus (it disproportionately affects older people), he was very active, very sharp, but–because of age–very vulnerable. He will be missed, not just for his work but the new talent he brought to the scene including such contemporaries as Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo.

The New York Times (our go-to for details of lives well lived) published a wonderful obituary on Kenzo,which you should read. To see his work, check out this wonderful link from Lina Naamani on Pinterest. 

To get the full Kezno treatment, click this link to the Fall-Winter 2020 Show. 

The very best way to celebrate someone’s life is to take an element of it that you really admire, and build on it, yourself—whether it’s not taking things too seriously or opening doors for young talented people or something else they did that you admired. In the world we live in now, we’re running a little short of really good stories. Best to start creating some ourselves, in the shadows of the reputations of those who’ve left us too early. 

The Fine Print: Photo of Kenzo courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st Century on file. All copyrights owned by their designated owners. This site makes no claim to copyright ownership. Post  produced by Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker team, who keep up with the events and people of our times.  Copyright 2020 donald pierce and SouthchesterGroup, LLC. Stay well, stay safe, and wash your hands. And practice safe distancing….it’s not so bad.

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SOUNDTRACK FOR THE NEWS :

THE MAN IN THE TIN FOIL HAT

Time once again for some soundtrack for our current situation….no need to tell you, highly intelligent and perceptive reader/viewer that the good ole USA is in a pickle of a situation currently. Between the coronavirus pandemic, the economic slowdown/meltdown, the political advertising and constant media barrage of us vs. them opinions and policy situations, we’re just fatigued with all of it. So…no written editorials. Instead one song that gets right to the core: “The Man In The Tin Foil Hat”, this one by Donald Fagan and Todd Rudgren. Great music, even better lyrics. Perfect for our times (hopefully, the chaos will stop soon with the coming November elections).

The Fine Print: Video Embed courtesy of YouTube and Paul Grey. All copyrights owned by their designated owners. This site makes no claim to copyright ownership. Special thanks to YouTube for making the music available. “Sound Track For the News”  post  produced by Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker team, who spend a lot of time listening and listening and listening some more to the songs and performances.  Copyright 2020 donald pierce and SouthchesterGroup, LLC. Stay well, stay safe, and wash your hands. And practice safe distancing….it’s not so bad.

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The Coronovirus Guide: 20 August 2020

Science

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CVP (also known as Covid-19). We have changed our publishing frequency to allow room for other posts on the site and other non-internet/medical projects.  The Coronavirus Guide will now be published on a weekly basis. Of course, back posts are always available in our archive. Our last post was on 28 June 2020. Articles are listed in the order in which they were published. For facts on the pandemic, stay in touch with our database and refer the site and don’t forget to follow The Nightshift (nightshiftnews.com), the world news daily, which has links to the major English language newspapers of the world. 

Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Do Medicines Surpress Immune System Reponse Raise the Risk for Covid Complications (Johns Hopkins)

Covid 19 Technology Research Pool (WHO)

Global Research on Coronavirus Disease (WHO)

Convalescent Effectives of Plasma Therapy in Severe Covid 19 Cases (PNAS)

Hyperinflammation in Covid 19 (The Lancet)

Psychiatric and Neuropsychiatric Syndomes and Covid 19 (The Lancet)

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker (Regulatory Affairs Professional Society)

Coronavirus Vaccine Options (PHRMA)

Advance Research Articles on Covid-19 as of 28 June 2020 (Oxford Academic)

The (Very) Long Race to a Coronavirus Vaccine (New York Times)

Airborne Transmission and Coronavirus 19 (PNAS)

Coronavirus Testing (World in Data)

Telemedicine in the Time of Pandemic (Jama Network)

World Situation Report: 28 June 2020 (Relief Web)

WHO Covid-19 Dashboard (WHO)

Evaluation of Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Remdesivir In Adult Patients With Severe  COVID-19(BM)

A Systematic Review of Physical Distancing and PPE in The Prevention of Transmission of Covid-19 (The Lancet)

Monitoring Investments in Coronavirus Research(The Lancet)

Study Finds Nearly Everyone Who Recovers From Coronavirus Produces Antibodies(NIH)

Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19(MedRXiV)

Diabetes and COVID-19 (Nature)

Oxford Academic Accepted Manuscript Review of Current CVP Research Papers (Oxford Academic)

Neurological Symptoms of Coronavirus Decoded (The Tribune)

The Problem with Unvetted Information about CVP(Neiman Lab)

American Family Physicians COVID-19 Digest(American Family Physicians) 

European Center For Disease and Control COVID-19 Digest

La Jolla Institute Digest of Current CVP research(LaJolla Institute)

Chinese Research Paper on Covid-19 Vaccine (The Lancet) 

Chinese Vaccine Shows Early Promise (New York Times)

New Vaccines protect against Covid-19 in Non-Human Primates (Medical XPress)

 Protein May Predict Severe Covid-19 (Medical News Today)

Journal of Recent Research on Coronavirus, pandemic( Science Magazine)

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 28 June 2020

 Science 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CVP (also known as Covid-19). We have changed our publishing frequency to allow room for other posts on the site;  The Coronavirus Guide will now be published on a weekly basis. Of course, back posts are always available in our archive. Our last post was on 7 June 2020. Articles are listed in the order in which they were published. For facts on the pandemic, stay in touch with our database and refer the site and don’t forget to follow The Nightshift (nightshiftnews.com), the world news daily, which has links to the major English language newspapers of the world. 

Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker (Regulatory Affairs Professional Society)

Coronavirus Vaccine Options (PHRMA)

Advance Research Articles on Covid-19 as of 28 June 2020 (Oxford Academic)

The (Very) Long Race to a Coronavirus Vaccine (New York Times)

Airborne Transmission and Coronavirus 19 (PNAS)

Coronavirus Testing (World in Data)

Telemedicine in the Time of Pandemic (Jama Network)

World Situation Report: 28 June 2020 (Relief Web)

WHO Covid-19 Dashboard (WHO)

Evaluation of Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Remdesivir In Adult Patients With Severe  COVID-19(BM)

A Systematic Review of Physical Distancing and PPE in The Prevention of Transmission of Covid-19 (The Lancet)

Monitoring Investments in Coronavirus Research(The Lancet)

Study Finds Nearly Everyone Who Recovers From Coronavirus Produces Antibodies(NIH)

Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19(MedRXiV)

Diabetes and COVID-19 (Nature)

Oxford Academic Accepted Manuscript Review of Current CVP Research Papers (Oxford Academic)

Neurological Symptoms of Coronavirus Decoded (The Tribune)

The Problem with Unvetted Information about CVP(Neiman Lab)

American Family Physicians COVID-19 Digest(American Family Physicians) 

European Center For Disease and Control COVID-19 Digest

La Jolla Institute Digest of Current CVP research(LaJolla Institute)

Chinese Research Paper on Covid-19 Vaccine (The Lancet) 

Chinese Vaccine Shows Early Promise (New York Times)

New Vaccines protect against Covid-19 in Non-Human Primates (Medical XPress)

 Protein May Predict Severe Covid-19 (Medical News Today)

Journal of Recent Research on Coronavirus, pandemic( Science Magazine)

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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Soundtrack for the News: How Long Has This Been Going On

Time for some soundtracks for our current situation. Why not start off with a classic, featuring Paul Carrack and Eric Clapton, performing “How Long Has This Been Going On”, in Switzerland. A perfect song for our less than perfect situations around the world. It asks all the right questions, rouses all the right feelings, and while it may not solve anything, it will make you feel a little bit better, a little more optimistic about what comes next.

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The Act You’ve Known For All These Years

The Hunt For New Music:

“It was twenty years ago today, when Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play”….
Sg. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Lennon-McCartney)
Editor’s Note: Actually, it was more than 50 years ago that “Sgt. Pepper’s” was introduced in America. In celebration of that event, there are several posts and interesting links to checkout and enjoy about the most celebrated album of our time. 
There is an exact moment when The Beatles started the transition that would move them from their position as the world’s biggest rock band into the dominant cultural and musical influence that they became after “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released.
That moment was 29 August 1966, when The Beatles played their last live rock concert, in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. The stadium was jammed and security for The Beatles was so tight that they had to be taken to the stage in an armored truck. One of The Beatles–looking out at the crowds and chaos that surrounded them–said simply “we can’t do this anymore”.
And after San Francisco, 1966, they didn’t.
As the band grew in popularity all over the world, the music was getting left behind. The screaming at the concerts was so loud that band members couldn’t hear each other, couldn’t hear their own instruments and, individually, they were getting restless–creatively, intellectually, musically. It was time for a change.
Ten months later that change materialized, in the form of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. It was the first rock concept album, a total break with The Beatles tight and carefully Brian-Epstein- groomed image, a reach in terms of music and technology and instrumentation, a musical composition so complex it could not be performed live and stressed the limits of the then-available recording technology, a very complete break from the past. Those paying attention to the musical evolution of The Beatles knew that their music was changing, becoming more adventurous and complex. It started with “Rubber Soul” and gathered momentum on “Revolver”, an album that provided an early test of some of the concepts and musical ideas (“Eleanor Rigby”, “Tomorrow Never Knows”) that would reach full definition in “Sgt. Pepper”.
To produce “Sgt. Pepper”  took 400 hours of studio time and 129 days–an immense amount of time for that period in popular music, but nothing compared to the amount of time it can take a 21st century band to record an album today. Working for The Beatles was their drive to change, to create, to push the boundaries, along with a team that included their legendary producer George Martin (later and deservedly, Sir George Martin) and recording engineer Geoff Emerick. Working against them was the technology of the day: all analog, a modest four track Studer tape recorder, analog audio tape, the limits of electronic recording technology and techniques of the time.
It mattered not. Through diligence and drive and experimentation–and listening to what each other had to say–The Beatles pushed through, expanded the very limits of what was possible in the studio, turning the studio itself into a musical and creative instrument, not merely a recording device, and produced the album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band”,  that Rolling Stone magazine has called the greatest rock album of all time.
At the core of the album’s concept was a step away from all The Beatles had been before and a step into what they would be going forward. Everything changed, from image and dress to composition complexity and musical density. The Beatles, in essence, created a band that could free them from the success and popularity of their past and give them again control over their musical destiny.
It was a risk. A massive, huge, intellectual, financial, business risk. If it went wrong, if their audience didn’t “get it”, if the album failed commercially, The Beatles could easily have been “over”.
But they did not play it safe, and that is the very greatest thing about “Sgt. Pepper’s”. They were fearless and opened a door into the future for themselves and for other bands by expanding the vocabulary of rock music. They elected to toss out the known for the unknown. Brian Epstein–their manager at the time” Sgt. Pepper’s ” was written, produced, and released–proved again to have perfect pitch for what to do and when to do it. Unlike other managers who  might discourage such an adventurous leap, Epstein–admittedly a little bewildered but totally committed to the group–backed the venture.
On June 2nd, 1967, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in the United States. It was released in the “summer of love” and became the background music for a huge cultural change in the United States and the rest of the world. The album was loved, hated, revered, despised, analyzed, deconstructed, misunderstood, applauded.
But–it worked. “Sgt. Pepper’s” changed music and the possibility of rock; it also became the soundtrack the world needed at a time of volcanic change and international unrest.
There is a cost to change–there is always a cost to change. By August of 1967, Brian Epstein had died, the victim of “incautious self-overdosage” according to the English coroner. Friends of Epstein noted that he was worried if his management contract would be renewed, that he had been contemplating suicide for some time, that he knew his value as someone expert in staging large concerts and drawing huge crowds might be less valuable going forward when all the creative work would be done within the confines of the Abbey Road studio; that the band he had nurtured and grown into a worldwide phenomenon had, finally, and with his own urging, outgrown him.
By 1970,  after the release of  “Let It Be”,  it was over, as The Beatles, rich and famous and influential beyond comprehension,  lacking a centering influence (Epstein),  displayed signs of transitional difficulty from being merely the biggest rock band in the world to the dominant creative influence of an era, as infighting and self-absorbed musical and personal directions and personality conflicts mixed in with confused business activities and management, took it all apart.
What was left was the music, and in particular, this one rather spectacular piece of music, that changed everything.
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The Coronavirus Guide: 31 May 2020

  Science 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CVP (also known as Covid-19). We have changed our publishing frequency to allow room for other posts on the site;  The Coronavirus Guide will now be published on a weekly basis. Of course, back posts are always available in our archive. Our last post was on 24 May 2020. Articles are listed in the order in which they were published. For facts on the pandemic, stay in touch with our database and refer the site and don’t forget to follow The Nightshift (nightshiftnews.com), the world news daily, which has links to the major English language newspapers of the world. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19(MedRXiV)

Diabetes and COVID-19 (Nature)

Oxford Academic Accepted Manuscript Review of Current CVP Research Papers (Oxford Academic)

Neurological Symptoms of Coronavirus Decoded (The Tribune)

The Problem with Unvetted Information about CVP(Neiman Lab)

American Family Physicians COVID-19 Digest(American Family Physicians) 

European Center For Disease and Control COVID-19 Digest

La Jolla Institute Digest of Current CVP research(LaJolla Institute)

Chinese Research Paper on Covid-19 Vaccine (The Lancet) 

Chinese Vaccine Shows Early Promise (New York Times)

New Vaccines protect against Covid-19 in Non-Human Primates (Medical XPress)

 Protein May Predict Severe Covid-19 (Medical News Today)

Journal of Recent Research on Coronavirus, pandemic( Science Magazine)

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 24 May 2020

 Science 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 21 May 2020. Articles listed in the order in which they were published. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Chinese Research Paper on Covid-19 Vaccine (The Lancet) 

Chinese Vaccine Shows Early Promise (New York Times)

New Vaccines protect against Covid-19 in Non-Human Primates (Medical XPress)

 Protein May Predict Severe Covid-19 (Medical News Today)

Journal of Recent Research on Coronavirus, pandemic( Science Magazine)

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 20 May 2020

Science 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 21 May 2020. Articles listed in the order in which they were published. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

New Vaccines protect against Covid-19 in Non-Human Primates (Medical XPress)

 Protein May Predict Severe Covid-19 (Medical News Today)

Journal of Recent Research on Coronavirus, pandemic( Science Magazine)

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 19 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 18 May 2020. Articles listed in the order in which they were published. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

 Protein May Predict Severe Covid-19 (Medical News Today)

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 18 May 2020

Science 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 21 May 2020. Articles listed in the order in which they were published. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Journal of Recent Research on Coronavirus, pandemic( Science Magazine)

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 17 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 16 May 2020. Articles listed in the order in which they were published. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Lancet Medical Journal Blasts US Response to Coronavirus (Lancet)

Immunoregulation with mTor Inhibitors for CV-19 (Journal of Medical Virology)

How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

 Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide:15 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 14 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Promising Vaccine Shields Monkeys from Lung Damage (Nature)

*WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

*Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 14 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 14 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*How Coronavirus Kills(ScienceDaily)

*Coronavirus Effect on Higher Education(InsideHigherEd)

*WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

*Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 13 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 12 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*WHO World Situation Report on Coronavirus (WHO) 

*Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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One Song: Alessia Caro “October”

Alessia Cara performs one of her hit songs, “October” for Jimmy Fallon’s very innovative at-home version of The Tonight Show. A terrific artist and a surprisingly good rendition and recording. Very nice video, too (pay attention and you can see the rhythm section going in).

The Fine Print: Video Embed courtesy of YouTube and the Tonight Show. All copyrights owned by their designated owners. This site makes no claim to copyright ownership. Special thanks to YouTube(and the Tonight Show) for making the music available. “One Song” post  produced by Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker team, who spent a lot of time listening and listening and listening some more to the song and performance. Alessia’s got it going on. Copyright 2020 donald pierce and SouthchesterGroup, LLC. Stay well, stay safe, and wash your hands. And practice safe distancing….it’s not so bad.

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The Cornavirus Guide: 12 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 8 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 11 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 8 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 10 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 9 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Repurposing Drugs for Coronavirus Treatments(MedicalXPress) 

*Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 9 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 8 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Survey of most recent Coronavirus Research (JAMA Network)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 8 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 7 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

* Canadian Study Rules Out Temperature, Latitude as Associated With Spread of Covid-19 (Science Daily)

*The Importance of Blood Thinners in Treating Covid-19 Patients(Science Daily)

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 6 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 5 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Annals of Internal Medicine Content on Coronavirus (Annals of Internal Medicine)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 5 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 4 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Anthony Fauci Interview at Aspen Ideas To Go(Aspen Ideas Podcast)

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 4 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 3 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course).  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Emerging Infectious Diseases (CDC)

*Research Term Frequency for COVID-19(towardsdatascience.com)

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 3 May 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 2 May 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. It is now the lead drug in treatment testing. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course). Today, May 3rd, is WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, which promotes journalism without fear or favor. We’re with them.  

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Clinical Trials Disrupted by Coronavirus Research Programs (Biopharmadive.com)

*Coronavirus Vaccine Race(Nature Magazine)

*The Value of Dry Swabbing (Nature Magazine)

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 27 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 26 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. Please also note that later results on Remdesivir were not so positive. Next. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Coronavirus Updates, Including Clinical Trials Registry(LinksMedicus)

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 26 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 25 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. Please also note that later results on Remdesivir were not so positive. Next. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*University of Pittsburgh Announces Vaccine Progress(UPMC)

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 25 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 24 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. Please also note that later results on Remdesivir were not so positive. Next. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*The Swedish Experiment (BBC)

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 24 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 23 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. Please also note that later results on Remdesivir were not so positive. Next. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Coronavirus Stats (Statista)

*Fitch Compilation of latest Coronavirus Reports and Research (Fitch)

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 23 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 22 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Potential of coronavirus vaccines under development(Journal of Medical Virology)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 22 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 21 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Pick of coronavirus papers (Nature)

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 21 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 20 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Update on Coronavirus Situation in Japan(KyodaNew.net)

*Coronavirus Resources (Medscape)

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 19 April 2020

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This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 18 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. All the more reason to stay in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Coronavirus Research Update (JAMA Network)

*Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 18 April 2020

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 14 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about three weeks. Please note that this site spotlighted the positive results of Remdesivir on Coronavirus patients a week before national media noticed the drug. All the more reason to say in touch with our research databank. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Coronavirus Funding for Researchers(Fogarty International Center) 

*Will Antibody Tests Prove to Be Really Effective in Combating Coronavirus (Nature)

*Remdesivir Proves Effective Against Key Enzyme of Coronavirus (Science Daily)

* Chinese Tighten Control Over Coronavirus Research Paper Publication by Chinese Scientists

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

 Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today

New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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Transitions: Stirling Moss, Race Car Driver (1929-2020)

 

Stirling Moss died in bed.

Unthinkable.

The legendary British racing driver, who ran in over 500 races, racing all types of cars from F1 to sports cars, and was one of the most decorated and honored race car drivers of all time passed away in London on Sunday,  12 April 2020, after a long illness at the age of 90 

No one who knew Moss in his racing years—that would be from 5 to about 80 (he participated in his last racing meet at age 81 at Le Mans in a special event)—would believe such a thing could be true. He had just exposed himself too often, in too many different types of circuits, in too dangerous conditions (he was very, very good in rain and on ice), at too many different times of the day (late night endurance racing), to make it through to a very ripe old age. But, defying the odds (one of his specialties) he  did spend a lot of time in harm’s way, and he walked away from it in one piece. His destiny was not to go out in a ball of fire.

Moss himself endorsed the idea he was going to be one of racing’s casualties in a biography written by the brilliant Ken W. Purdy, called “All But My Life”. The book, which is a very great read and was based on Purdy’s extensive interviews with Moss, details a life of living at the edge of everything he liked, from beautiful girls to race cars to equestrian competitions. We’ll leave it to Purdy and other sources to detail that side of his life.  Moss, however, proved adept at escaping the fate that became so many of his contemporaries. 

A committed prodigy in a race car, Moss entered 529 races and won 212 of them. He was not a specialist, like today’s F1 or sports car drivers are, who only drive one type of car on one type of track in one type of competition. Moss drove everything, from the Monte Carlo Rallye to the 12 Hours of Sebring to the F1 Grand Prix of Germany. He ran F1, sports cars, rally cars, hill climbs, endurance racers. He is one of only three drivers to win a Coupe d’Or  for three consecutive penalty free runs in the Alpine Rally. He was second in the 1952 Monte Carlo Rallye, with driver Desmond Scannell and a magazine editor, John Cooper,  as co-drivers. He was the first non-American to win the 12 Hours of Sebring and won the 1000KM of Nurburging endurance race three times in sports cars. It was said that Moss would drive anything with four wheels and a place to sit and it was said that he had driven 107 different types of cars He drove cars from Aston Martin  (in Aston’s glory years), Vanwall, Ferrari, Maserati, Lotus, Cooper, Porsche; he drove for factory teams and private teams (his partnership with private team owner Rob Walker was particular effective). His attraction to racing was deep and passionate. 

Moss has been described as the greatest driver to “never win an F1 Championship”; from 1955 to 1961, he was runner up to the Championship 4 times and placed third three times. There are writers (Purdy among them) who believe that Moss’ failure to win an F1 Championship was because of his patriotic affinity for racing English cars at a time when the very best F1 cars were produced by Mercedes or Ferrari or Maserati. Enzo Ferrari believe that Moss would have won multiple F1 Championships if he had been “more reasonable and less passionate” and driven F1 cars produced by other manufacturers, not just English ones. Moss believed he could win in anything and actually he was right; He literally gave away the F1 Championship in one year through an act of sportsmanship, on behalf of fellow English driver Mike Hawthorne in 1958. If the near misses of the F1 Championship bothered Moss, he never mentioned it, saying that it was the respect of his fellow drivers that meant the most to him; he spent zero time of his life in the shade of not winning an F1 title.

Moss was exquisitely gifted as a race car driver, with a terrific sense of balance, great eyesight, superb reflexes and instincts honed from starting to drive at age 5. It was said that he was the fittest man to ever race in F1 and that, combined with his extreme versatility, helped to created his legend. Moss was the ultimate natural racer, extremely precise in “setting up” car for a race. Once, he was racing in an F1 off-season series held in Australia and had just set the lap record when, walking past another driver, the driver commented “good run, Stirling, but that new Lotus is a big help”. Realizing that the other driver was not having a good session, Stirling Moss then graciously asked the other driver if he might take a few laps around the course, just to check out the car.

The driver consented.

Moss did a few laps, broke the record he had just set, and then pulled back up to his fellow competitor. Getting out of the car, he casually noted that “nothing’s wrong with the car” and walked off. He was just that good.

Purdy noted that Moss also had exceptional eyesight, often picking out a particularly attractive girl from a crowd during a race and setting up a dinner date for later; he was a gifted equestrian and no doubt would have been a world class competitor had he continued in that sport. His sister, Pat, was also a terrific rider and eventually ended being a world-class rally driver as well (she married world rally champion Erik Carlsson). Moss’ ability to drive any car was unique and because he loved racing so much, he raced a lot. Check out this link to Moss’ driving record on WikiPedia to get an idea of the range of the man’s career.

Moss raced in the era, from the 1940s to the 1960s, also known as the “killer years”,  when the sport was at its most lethal. The line “when sex was safe and racing was dangerous” has been applied without irony to that period. Everything was hazardous then: the cars, the circuits, the helmets, the partying, the safety regulations; an incredible number of drivers died in racing accidents. Twenty-nine F1 drivers died in the sixties alone.  The rule of the sport then was “everyone has one big accident; if it doesn’t kill you, you’ll be fine” but no one wanted to test that rule, which proved to be uneven. Lots didn’t get a second chance. Lots of drivers had multiple crashes with the last one killing them(this holds true in stock car racing as well as F1 and sports cars). 

Moss was not impervious to the hazards of the sport. After all, there are three ways to have a wreck in a race car: you can make a mistake, the other driver(s) can make a mistake, or the car can break. It doesn’t have to be your fault, but you are just as dead if someone else causes the accident or if the car breaks. It can happen and mishaps play no favorites, everyone will get their share. He ran into dirt embankments, had brakes fail and wheels roll off, suffered flat tires. But he raced on, seemingly bulletproof.  Moss   had his first serious wreck in an F1 Grand Prix car  in 1960 and it made him miss three races on the F1 calendar that year, but he recovered and finished his year by winning the U.S. Grand Prix.

 It all came to an end two years later. In 1962, he suffered another racing crash, this one severe enough to put him into a coma for a month; he had eye and head injuries and Moss was partially paralyzed  on the left side of his body. A difficult recovery followed and later that same year, after recuperation from the accident,  he had a private test in a Lotus 19 on a closed track.  After his session, he checked his times, found he was off by a few tenths of a second vs. his previous best and announced his retirement from professional racing. In Moss’s mind, Stirling Moss not-at-his-best—even by a tenth of a second– was not Stirling Moss. It was time to go. He was 33. 

After racing, Stirling Moss was a major sports hero in Great Britain, a world wide sports celebrity,  and always a fixture on the automobile and racing scene. In many ways, the living legend was the patriarch of the sport; his appearance brought out the best aspects of racing: a legend with easy good manners, innate kindness, a sporting outlook on competition and impeccable etiquette. While racing, he was the highest paid driver in the sport, making a million dollars a year in an era when a million dollars was a very, very significant sum. He invested well,  lived a very active (and decorated life) and avoided conflict and scandal; He remained someone to look up to, not just for his racing achievements, but for the way he conducted his life out of racing.

Stirling Moss won so many memorable races, it’s hard to pick one out for special recognition, but the general consensus is that his win in the 1955 Mille Miglia (also known as Rome-Brescia-Rome), a race staged over a 1000 mile course of public roads in Italy. The race over very deadly open roads (ever driven in Italy?) was a timed event: fastest car from start to finish wins. Moss was driving the legendary Mercedes-Benz 300SLR and for a navigator he took motoring journalist Denis Jenkinson, who had mapped the route  and turned the map into a scroll which could be advanced as they drove on. The map was precise enough—and Moss had enough confidence in Jenkinson’s work—that Moss would enter uphill blind corners at over 170 MPH, the car would fly through the air at the crest of the hill, and  then land and move on. Moss and Jenkinson won the event, averaging 99MPH.

Second in the event was another legend, Moss’s friend, Juan Manual Fangio, also in a Mercedes 300SLR; he was Moss’s Mercedes team mate for the race and finished an astounding thirty-two minutes behind Stirling. Racing historian Doug Nye considered Mille Miglia win to be “the most iconic single-day’s drive in motor racing history”. For others, it just confirmed that Moss was simply the most gifted race driver of his era, or perhaps any era, because of his ability to win in so many different types of competition. Fangio, a gracious, fierce competitor, was five times F1 champion and a competitor of Moss’ on the F1 circuit. But in matched cars on that historic day,, he was half-an-hour behind Moss in the Mille Miglia. 

To escape alive from over 500 races is a bit of a miracle, but Moss did it and lived a very full life over the next 65 years.

So now, as the motor racing press writes the appreciations, the racing teams send their regrets, the great drivers acknowledge the passing of a contemporary, the newspapers fine tune their obituaries, you will have ample opportunity to read about the man who is debatably the best race car driver of all time, a true legend in a dangerous and deadly sport,  and who added one more unthinkable thing to his incredible list of achievements in this life.

Stirling Moss died in bed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 12 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 11 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about two weeks. You are strongly advised to read the paper on speed of CV research….enlightening and frightening. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Five Months Later, Here’s What We Know About The Coronavirus (Guardian)

*The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

* Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

* BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

* Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today)

* New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 11 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 10 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about two weeks. You are strongly advised to read the paper on speed of CV research….enlightening and frightening. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*The Speed of Coronavirus Research Could Be A Problem (Naked Capitalism..required reading)

* Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

* BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

* Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today)

* New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 10 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 9 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about two weeks. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

* Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

* BioPharma Latest Update on Coronavirus (Biopharma)

* Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today)

* New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you.  The sunlight is coming. Thanks for reading. 

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The Poetry of Rock: “Angel from Montgomery” by John Prine

 

 

For a couple of years, the idea has been kicked around the Media Bunker that we need to do a series of posts on the Poetry of Rock. We’re the type that really listens to music, all of it—the intros, the solos, the backing vocals, and the words, especially the words. 

There are plenty who love music, but really don’t do the deep dive into the lyrics, where so much of the soul and message of a song live.

We do, because so much of the magic of music is in the lyrics. Everyone knows a song that could be great, but the lyrics hold it back…..for a song to be complete, to be totally great, it’s got to have both a great tune and outstanding musicianship and great lyrics. The bar is high.

Most of us were introduced to poetry in school at some level but eventually moved away/on from it as we got older. When was the last time you actually bought a book of poetry, by anyone?

But poetry’s still here, a bigger part of our lives than you would image if you just recognize that it now comes wrapped in music as the lyrics of the songs we hear all around us. Like all art, beauty is in the eye (or the ear) of the beholder. Some lyrics are great, some are nonsense, and some are unforgettable and legendary. Here in the media bunker, we lean in to the unforgettable and legendary, and so it’s time to resurrect the “Poetry of Rock” series (and we are including all forms of music in the Rock category, just to keep it simple) and so will be bringing out some examples of the great lyrics that accompanies great music (and vice versa) to show our appreciation for the genius level art that can surround us, if we just look a bit, do a drill down. 

This post was brought to the top of the editorial calendar by one event: the death of singer/songwriter John Prine. Prine was a humble man with an uncommon gift—he was one of the very best songwriters of his generation, good enough that he was someone Bob Dylan listened to. That’s good.  You can read about Prine’s life in this obituary from The New York Times. It’s well worth your time, as is this editorial from the Times that focuses (with performances)  on a key selection of John Prine’s best songs

One of Prine’s very best songs–and he had a bunch of them–was the song “Angel from Montgomery”. The lyrics are below:

I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that’s grown old
If dreams were lightning, thunder were desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy
He weren’t much to look at, just free rambling man
But that was a long time and no matter how I try
The years just flow by like a broken down dam
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
There’s flies in the kitchen I can hear

–John Prine

The song is mournful, painful, biographical, real, raw. The lyrics are short, the poetry is brief, but what’s not included in word is implied by its absence. It is, in short, a bit of a miracle. To fully grasp the genius of Prine is to hear his music performed, and one of the very best versions of this song is the one by Bonnie Raitt. But to add to the depth, we managed to find a live performance, by Bonnie with Prine, that you will find quite marvelous.

John Prine gave us a lifetime of great music. No better time than now to stop and appreciate it.  

 

 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 9 April 2020

 

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 8 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. We also added the very complete Coronavirus Dashboard from Axios, which has been running on The Nightshift international news sites (as well as Axios, of course) for about two weeks. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Axios Coronavirus Dashboard (Axios)

*Scripps Researchers Find Vulnerability in Coronavirus (KPBS.org)

* New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavavirus Guide: 8 April 2020

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 6 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

* Death Toll His 83,000 (Medical News Today)

* New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 7 April 2020

 

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 6 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

* New Statistics on Russian Coronavirus Cases (Statista)

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 6 April 2020

 

 

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 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 5 April 2020

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This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis. Our last post was on 1 April 2020. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Novel Coronavirus Information Center(Elsevier)

*Coronavirus Disease Statistics and Research(Our World In Data)

*Science Papers You Should Be Reading About Coronavirus (Fred Hutch)

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 1 April 2020

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This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis.. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*The Prevalence of Underlying Conditions in Coronavirus Cases (Nature)

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 29 March 2020

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This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis.. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Global Research on Coronavirus (WHO)

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 28 March 2020

 

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis.. Most recent articles are marked by an asterisk. 

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Viral Proteins Point to Potential Treatments (Nature)

*Coronavirus Research Highlights (BioMed Central)

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 26 March 2020

 

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis.. New material since the last post is designated by an asterisk (*) beside it.

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Drugs in the Pipeline (Clinical Trials Arena)

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 24 March 2020

 

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a regular basis.. New material since the last post is designated by an asterisk (*) beside it.

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

*Coronavirus remains Stable on Surfaces for Hours (NIH)

Global Megatrial of Four Most Promising Vaccines (AAAS)

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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How to Survive Quarantine

WHAT TO DO WHILE IN SELF-IMPOSED ISOLATION

You didn’t ask for it but you got it anyway.

You didn’t want it, but it showed up, unannounced and nasty.

You had a million things to do and now you can’t do any of them because….you’re in self-imposed isolation or government mandated quarantine.

So…fourteen (or more) days of time to think about it (and hope it’s all better by the time you surface) and how are you going to spend that time.

A few suggestions that will get you through this enforced period of time-out and perhaps, just maybe, change some things for the better in your life. Make the best of it is the right attitude to have; worrying about it or being depressed in the wrong way to think.

And you might as well face it, because it’s not going to be the same world you had last week, last month, last year, ever again. Those were the good ole days.

So be an optimist and make the most of your mid-life time-out. A few suggestions:

Binge Watch (Insert Favorite show Or Movie here)

This one of the easiest. Most everyone has access via cable, satellite, or the new fav—streaming and with that access you can catch up on all the shows and movies you wanted to catch up on and a few you had no idea were so great.

For example: old favs like “Friends”, M*A*S*H (years 1-4 are best because that’s when Larry Gelbart, the show creator and a great writer, was still tightly involved, but they’re all good), “Game of Thrones”, “The Crown”, “America”, “Homecoming”, “Fixer Upper”, “Love it or List it. If it’s a series, there’s a very good chance it’s playing on some channel on your tv or streaming over the internet. Catch up. You’ve got time.

Backup and Organize Your Computer.

No doubt you’re going to be working from home and on your computer/laptop a lot. Now’s the time to protect it and your work, by backing it up. You can use an outside backup service or just get a couple of fresh hard drives, and do it yourself. Prior to backing them up, go through all the files, drop the dupes and non-essentials, and, once organized back the computers up. If you’re on a Mac, use the Time Capsule program and since you’re going to be home for a while, remember to set it up so that things get backed up on a regular basis. This is something you’ve got to do anyway. Do it now. You’ve got time.

Get Into Master Class

The family gave me a subscription to Master Class, the online tutor/mentor lecture series that brings big time and accomplished stars and celebrities to your computer to give you lessons in everything from playing the guitar (Carlos Santana) to building a fashion brand (Dianne Von Furstenberg). The lectures are straightforward and informative, the presenters full of knowledge and insights. Some classes have workbooks. Am currently working my way through the Martin Scorsese lectures on film making and cinema. And balancing that off with Steve Martin on how to be funny. Next up—former Disney CEO Bob Iger on business strategy. There are over 25_courses on Master Class on everything from writing to cooking. Learn from the best. It’s addictive. You’ve got time.

Fix it.

The assumption is that you’re at home. You are isolated, not in lock up, so why not make a list of all the little things you’ve wanted to do around the house, apartment, farm, boat house, and get them done. Install the new outdoor motion activated light. Fix the loose boards on the dock. Tune up the jet skis. Use the chain saw to trim some trees. Clean out the left side of the garage on one day and then the right side on the next. Organize your books, music, software, personal papers. Throw out non-essentials. If you didn’t need them in the old world, you probably won’t need them in the new one. Update your will—we are in a pandemic. Correspond with people you owe some correspondence to. If it needs fixing, fix it. You’ve got time.

Learn Yoga

You do not have to be in a yoga studio to learn yoga. A small spot in front of the TV or computer will do just great. There are a zillion different yoga lessons available via YouTube or you can take out those yoga DVDs you bought with the good intention of using but never even put in the DVD player, so hop to it. The Downward Dog is waiting, along with the locust and the headstand. Put out the matt, turn on the program and some music, and get to it. Get your flexibility back and find a new kind of peace. You can do this. You probably need this. Have at it. You’ve got time.

Read A Lot

There are some great books out there and now you have time to find out precisely how many great books there are that you haven’t read. Work your way through Oprah’s Book Club list or through the Top 10 on the New York Times bestsellers (fiction or non-fiction). Fast reader, or slow, it makes no difference. Just pull books you’ve been “meaning to get to” or order up a new set of literary works (Amazon will deliver) and have at it. You’ll be smarter, enlightened, amazed, and acting like a top American CEO, most of whom read one book a week, in addition to running multi-billion dollar companies. Catch up on your reading. You’ve got time.

Build Something With Your Kids

You’re home (maybe working, maybe not). They’re also home (maybe working, maybe not). This is not just a good time to bond, but a good time for you to teach and for them learn. This is a different type of learning than the homework over the computer. So find a project everyone would enjoy, order it in, and start on it. Maybe it’s a Raspberry Pi computer, or a super-Lego skyscraper, or an overscale LGB garden train. Find it, organize it, understand it and build it with the kids. Use the break in routine for family time and renew/refresh your relationships. It’s a great lesson for everyone. You’ve got time.

Toss

You’re going to need more room while you’re self-isolated. So use this time to clean out the closets, drawers, boxes, cartons, baskets, etc. Make two piles: one to sell and one to toss. And one other pile: things to give away to friends. You do not need Marie Condo to do this….just a ruthless attitude to get rid of clutter and understand that it physically holds you back while you hold onto it…so dump it. Clean it up and get rid of it. Open up your life for the changes that are coming. You’ve got time.

Learn to Code

Living in the computer edge. Can you code? Even a line or two? Do you understand it? Even a line or two? If you’re not in the business of IT, the chances are you don’t write or read code, but now’s a good time to become familiar, and maybe even literate, with coding. How to start? My suggestion is to try Code Academy or Khan Academy 

Both have courses in various types of computer programming, both offer free courses (be a good sport and make a donation) and increase your literacy in the one new universal language–computer programming. You’ve got time.

Learn a New Language

As long as you’re going to be doing homework along with the kids, isn’t it time you perfected your stumble along Spanish, French, German or…with zero irony…Chinese. There are lots of great computer learning courses for languages. At Casa Euphoria we use the DuoLingo programs and podcasts from Apple (their “Coffee Break” courses for Spanish, French, etc. are terrific and so are the “My Daily Phrase” courses ). Good stuff and it’ll get you familiar with not just a new way to learn but the whole podcast universe, which is basically some of the best audio learning/entertainment you have ever heard in your life. Get bilingual via podcasts. You’ve got time.

Get Physical

Just because you’ve been instructed to stick around the house is no reason to fall out of shape. Most gyms and spas are going to be closed, so switch your exercise routine from gym/equipment-based workouts to simpler things like long walks or hikes, interval sprint training, swimming (if you have your own pool), rowing or biking. You can do simple body weight exercises (pushups, squats, etc.); there are plenty of instruction programs on how to do these exercises on the net. Remember—it has to be easily accessible and not something you do with someone else or in a group. And keep the Social Distancing rules in mind. But take your time (there’s no rush ), start a program, and get into better condition. No excuses. You’ve got time.

Give Back

These are difficult and unpredictable times, but if you’re on LinkedIn you have career standing and a network of new, old, and soon-to-be-indispensable friends. Share that good fortune with others not so lucky. As you work your way through the pandemic, do not forget to give and give back to the many charitable causes that will be asking for your assistance. It’s important to help others out. And if you see a charitable need that could use some attention, organize a charitable organization to provide help, guidance, and assistance. Give back to your community. You’ve got time.

Document

The new era we’re in now is going to be with us for a while. Changes are coming—some we’re ready for and some we’re not. And some we’re not expecting at all. History is happening everyday and one day you will look back at this time period in your life and hopefully see that you took a bad thing and turned it into a good one. So…document your trials and achievements, your highs and lows, your ups and downs as you go through the CV era. Get our that zillion dollar digital SLR and really learn to do it; keep a journal; sketch; make some recordings of what’s happening; be the family historian. Someone should do this and it might as well be you. Document your life as we move through this unprecedented period of American life. You’ve got time.

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 22 March 2020

 

 

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a daily basis.. New material since the last post is designated by an asterisk (*) beside it. So let’s get smarter about all of this stuff, starting now with an overview or two.

 Reliable Sources on the Coronavirus Pandemic 

New England Journal of Medicine Articles on COVID-19

Situational Analysis from the CDC

Ars Technica Comprehensive Guide to Coronavirus

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Center (The Lancet)

24,000 Research Papers on Coronavirus Available online via MIT

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/2019-nCoV-identify-assess-flowchart-508.pdf

Testing in U.S. (CDC)

Everything You Need to Know About Testing (Wired) 

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC) (Continuously Updated)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus (Continuously Updated) 

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School) (Continuously Updated)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 21 March 2020

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The Coronavirus Guide: 20 March 20

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The Coronavirus Guide: 19 March 2020

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The Coronavirus Guide: 17 March 2020

 The Fine Print: Photography courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty and/or their designate. Text,  copyright (c) 2020 Donald Pierce and Southchester Group LLC, all rights reserved. Research Produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. who are going to be riding the storm out with you. Hey, you get used to Bunker life if you have the right computers, companions, wine collection, music system, big screens, and high speed fiber optic internet. Hunker down and uwse your time wisely, follow the guidelines and wash your hands. The sunlight is coming. Comments are welcomed, but a certain degree of decorum is expected. Thanks for reading. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 16 March 2020

An  All-Facts Resource on the Coronavirus epidemic/pandemic. Currently, all articles./sources are from peer reviewed/professional/scientific entities. This list of articles, tips, background, and information on staying safe is updated on daily basis. No fake news from the White House or Washington swamp people who don’t know what they’re talking about–and that includes most of the people in the current White House–is included.. 

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The Coronavirus Guide: 15 March 2020

Looks like we’re in for the Coronavirus testing/isolation/quarantine cycle for quite  a while—at least until the end of March. Maybe, and quite possibly, longer.

At this stage it’s the old Donald Rumsfeld quote that comes first to mind: “we don’t know what we don’t know”. That makes it quite difficult to get the full dimensions of what we’re facing, what the composition is of the disease, and the most effective way to fight it off, cure it, or at least fight it to a draw so we can reach, again, some semblance of normalcy and forward movement and financial stability.

To say America is frozen in time and place is an understatement: news shows are overflowing with Coronavirus (“CV”) stories and connected facts and data, some of it from reputable sources (scientists, medical experts, Ph.D.s ) and some from poorly informed, educated, reasoned, government leaders and their lackies. Bet on the scientists if you have to take sides because they know the drill and how to read the numbers and parse the data. This one–CV–was on the horizon years ago and as recently as two years ago, when the current administration started dismantling our disease Early Warning Systems at the NSC and hollowing out the CDC, the scientists warned it was coming and best to get prepared. Obama started the process of prep for a new world of nasty viruses and flu; the current administration has spent a lot of its time dismantling that work and their ineptness and poor reasoning abilities have brought us to this point. Enough.

This is a special post from DonaldPierce.Com (“DPC”)  designed to serve as a workbook/guide/clearing house of current and valid information on CV (also known as Covid-19). We will add new material to the sources, articles, and links listed here on a daily basis…so let’s get smarter about all of this stuff, starting now with an overview or two.

Situation Summary of Covid-19 (CDC)

New York Times Guide to CoronaVirus

Prepping the CoronaVirus Vaccine (Scientific American)

Coronavirus Prep Kit (CDC)

Coronavisus Resource Center (Harvard Medical School)

Coronavirus Symptoms (World Health Organization)

CV Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment (Family Doctor)

History of Coronavirus (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

What Is a Corona Virus?(Science Alert.Com)

Wikipedia Entry on Coronavirus

CV and the Anti-Lessons of History (The Lancet)

The Governments Mixed Messaging on CV (KFF.org) 

 

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TIME OUT

The Coronavirus has hit a uniquely American seam of culture, enthusiasm, family life, athleticism, and sports. This past week, one after another, the iconic games of spring were cancelled or postponed. The initial thunderclap was the decision by the NBA to “postpone” their season. Postpone in this situation is most likely a rolling-ultimate-cancellation of the remainder of the season. Then one after another, big, tradtional, seasonal favorites started to drop. First, regional basketball tournaments, the ones leading to the biggest collegiate sports even of all, March Madness. Then, just days later, March Madness itself. The 12 Hours of Sebring, for the first time in it’s history, was moved to a date in the fall. The Masters, golf’s first major of the year and a tradition like no other, announced it would be postponed to a later date. The Master! If CVcould get The Masters, it could get any event. All NCAA spring sports tournaments were cancelled. The big European bicycle races that lead to the Tour de France were shut down. The Japanese are considering cancelling/moving/postponing the 2020 Summer Olympics. Even the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was turned off, cancelled, ended, in the first week of a three week run. The rodeo is a key event for Houston–it brings everyone in the city together–but it also pays the heavy lifting at NRG stadium and is the reason the stadium was built (do the math-28 straightdays of rental vs. the 8 or 9 days a year the Texans use the stadium). 

Is this time out going to be good for America or is it going to be a wakeup call to the potential, invisible, deadly diseases waiting those who are carefless and reckless with personal hygene. Probably a bit of both, but whatever and however it shakes out,  the sports world will never be the same, in America or anyplace else in the world. After exposing the inadaquacies of those, theoretically, in government who know how to handle these types of things (and have come up mortally short), will we trust out leaders again in times of crisis, when we see them puff out their chests and fail–life and in person–on network television, more worried about their image and approval rating than righting the country and saving lives. Sooner or later it will all get sorted out, but what’s left after the storm is going to be causing issues for years. 

To set the record straight, here’s the most recent list from the New York Times of the major sporting events cancelled because of the CV. 

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The Six Minute Concert: Eric Clapton’s Crossroads GuitarFest, “Living on Tulsa Time”

Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitarfest (2007).

 The Hunt for New Music

There is good new–and revamped–music all around you, but you look for new sources to find it. Today, while the world is all gloomy and smoky because of CV anxiety, why not one song from Eric Clap (and friends) from his Crossroads Guitar festival in 2007. Shot in HD (1080 resolution) and with good sound, it features Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill (seriously great guitarist), Albert Lee, Keb Mo and other guitar all stars. If this one doesn’t make you want to get your Fender out and start practicing, again, then there is, really not hope for your musical ambitions (might as well learn from the best). Turn it on, tune it in, run it through the flat screen and the high fi system and enjoy. 

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How They Do It: Ford vs. Ferrari Driving Scene

One of the best movies of the winter was Ford vs. Ferrari, the story of the racing/corporate battle between the Ford Motor Company’s Henry Ford II and Ferrari’s Enzo Ferrari. In a movie with a lot of great action/driving scenes, one of the most memorable ones did not take place on the racetrack, but on an airport runway, and featured Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby (as Ford’s racing expert/car builder) and actor Tracy Letts who played Henry Ford II. Letts talked about shooting the very dramatic scene with the New York Times and his interview will both refresh your memory of the scene (if you’ve seen the movie) and give a new appreciation to your understanding of the difficulty of shooting a film. Click here to read Letts’ interview. And, to appreciate the chaotic nature of riding in race cars, here’s the scene as it played out on the screen.  And hangon. 

 

 

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Last Call for New Orlean’s Black Bars

 

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 Cruising through this week’s New York Times–one of the world’s great newspapers, no matter your political persuasion–came across a brilliant photo/historical essay written and photographed by L. Kasimu Harris that covered the background, culture, past, and somewhat shaky future of the black bars of New Orleans, i.e. the juke joints and straight-up bars that served the social, musical, and community needs of New Orleans. The piece was brilliant, really,  and you could feel the grit of the bars from the prose and the photos and it was just very, very well done. Now, donaldpierce.com (Everything.All the Time) doesn’t have the circulation of the New York Times but we know a good piece when we see it and when see one we like to share it with like-minded souls and even those souls who aren’t like-minded but maybe, just maybe, we could drag across the tracks so they could look at things a little differently, shuffle to a better beat, get in sync with a few parts of life they might enjoy if….they’d just take the plunge. So here ’tis. Click the link and go back and forward in time simultaneously to a serious element of culture from a city that’s a got a bunch of them. Enjoy.  And thanks to L. Kasimu Harris for bringing this to light.

 

 

 

This post was originally published on 24 February 2020, which places it on the Monday before Fat Tuesday. Photo courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. The photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty Images and/or their designate. We thank the New York Times for the link.  Text(c) 2020 Donald Pierce, all rights reserved; post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. Don’t overindulge during your own personal Mardis Gras, and drive safely. See you..next year. 

 

 

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The Not So Great Debate

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 So, they went at it again, the Democratic Candidates, in another poorly planned presidential debate. It was the usual suspects (Biden, Bernie, Warren, Klobuchar, Mayor Pete) plus Michael Bloomberg, who joined the crew for this debate..his first  one (and it showed).  

Missing–but eligible–was former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer. Steyer and Bloomberg are both billionaires (a good thing, especially when running for office) but Bloomberg is the biggest money of anyone in the 2020 race and that includes Trump, who may (or may not) have as much as Steyer, but who can tell, because Trump intentionally keeps his finances opaque, that way he can tell anyone anything about how much he’s worth and no one can prove otherwise. For those keeping records, he does the same things with his high school and college grades (going so far as to hide his military school records so that no one can dispute him).  Trump was not a direct entry into Wharton; he went in as a junior transfer from Fordham, which is ranked #no 74 in acceptance difficulty; Wharton is ranked #9 or #12 if you want to rank Penn instead of the college of Wharton. Draw your own conclusions about Trump’s native academic skill. But note: there is not a darn thing wrong with transferring to a very prestigious university from an OK university and graduating from it; it’s not where you start out, but where you finish that counts. But please discount all of Trump’s bleating about his top grades at Wharton. There aren’t any: he’s not listed on any Dean’s List or other academic recognition program. Those honors go to the top 15%. Trump didn’t make the cut. Period. He went to Wharton and he graduated, a semi-normal Joe College with a rich real estate dad.  He does not have an advanced degree. Bloomberg went to Johns Hopkins (undergrad) and Harvard (MBA). Steyer went to Yale and Stanford (MBA); Klobuchar to Yale and UChicago (Law); Mayor Pete Went to Harvard(Undergrad) and Oxford (Rhodes Scholar, MA); Elizabeth Warren went to University of Houston and Rutgers (Law); Bernie Sanders to University of Chicago; Joe Biden t0 Delaware and Syracuse (Law). But, we digress…..

The Demo Debate was a basic disaster for Bloomberg and not so good for anyone else. From our perspective, the whole process needs a good review and maybe just needs to be dumped, but it was bad from the beginning. Let’s start with the basics:

Network: NBC

Panelists/Journalists: Lester Holt (NBC), Hallie Jackson(MSNBC), Chuck Todd (NBC/MSNBC), Vanessa Hauc (Telemundo), Jon Ralston (Nevada Independent)

Location: Paris Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada (in advance of the Nevada caucus, which is this weekend)

From a critical and non-biased viewpoint, the Dems just blew themselves up in their own debate. Let’s start with the obvious culprits, because they’re involved in this process and should not be.

1. Who is Tom Perez and Why Does He Think He’s At a Gospel Meeting

Tom Perez is the current head of the Democratic Party. Thus far, he shows all of the administrative sharpness of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who he succeeded. Wasserman Schultz will best be remembered for managing the previous Democratic primary process so that her Amigo Hilary Clinton could finally get the Democratic  Nomination (over Bernie Sanders…hmmm). Everyone saw how that worked out. Perez is on the same track. He started the primary year by green lighting a never-tested vote counting software app to be used in Iowa, the first contest of the year. It was a disaster, and weeks later some still don’t know who won the primary. Perez started the televised Vegas show with a call to organize for the attending democrats but it was not the type of thing that should have been telecast and he is not an inspiring speaker. For his massive failure in overseeing Iowa and his failure to date in creating a unified strategy and pushing the persuasion power of a debate, Perez needs to go. Sorry–this is a brutal game with a country’s future on the line and if I was a Democrat, I wouldn’t feel comfortable following Perez’s leadership. He doesn’t have it.  Please leave. 

2, The Moderators Lacked Gravitas. 

The panelists, there to inquire, inspire, probe, and keep the debate moving did not do a great job of controlling the debate participants. It was an unsupervised 5th grade classroom. No one got the right amount of time (either too much or too little…where are the PA’s keeping track of this stuff) and all too often the contestants were talking on top of one another, shouting, interrupting, and digressing. They needed more control from the moderators, but didn’t get it. This is not Holt’s speciality and it showed; Chuck Todd is polite but soft and not as tough as the late Tim Russert–Chris Mathews, who can be brutal on cross examination would have been a much better choice; Hallie Jackson is good and road- tested tough but there’s only one of her. Jon Ralston was solid but he didn’t insert himself quite enough; the Telemundo rep,  Vanessa Huac,  could have brought some insight into Mexican/American relations, economics, trade policies and general over-all can-we-get-along questions, but instead wasted her time and intellect on asking simplistic questions like “who’s the President of Mexico”…the correct answer is, “which week?”, but that didn’t come out and the scene devolved into a discussion of whether or not that’s actually a good question for a debate like this (no, it is not)…it smacked of “gotcha”, which is not what you want to play with millions of futures on the line. 

3. Get the New Guy

The entire theme of the night was “get Mike”. From the opening shot to the end, the other six debaters piled on Mike Bloomberg, bringing out every conceivable negative event from his past and trying–in ways both odd and sad–to run him down and make him seem less desirable as a potential Democratic candidate for the Presidency. The negativity was so sharp and focused on Bloomberg at some times, I was waiting for the makeup crew to run out on stage and take his makeup off. While I know that they were mad at him for a)spending a lot of money on commercials b)being a billionaire  c) entering the race “late” and d)organizing in all states faster, the pile-on strategy made for very good popular television but very poor political communications. The Democrats are going to need Bloomberg. He’s accomplished, he’s wealthy, he’s well educated. Give him some room..he may very well be the ultimate nominee and even if he’s not, they need him. Why destroy your own team members when you have a very formidable opponent to deal with?

4. Enough of the “got cha” debate points. 

Far too often, the debaters engaged in “got cha” style questioning of one another, i.e. “will you release your medical records?”, “have you made your tax returns public?”, “why isn’t the culinary union backing you?” etc. etc. etc. This may give the questioner some momentary lift (and some temporary audience support) when the recipient of the “got cha” inquiry gets tagged,  but these intensely and snarky lines of questioning don’t have much to do with policy positions or tax strategies or how to defeat Trump. The single objective of each person on the stage should be  to defeat the current occupant of the White House, not ask self-serving questions.  By overdoing the snarky stuff and underplaying the big points, debaters are giving Trump’s campaign all the key oppo they need to defeat Democrats–no research necessary. Just pull a transcript, see who said what, find the video clip, and your oppo file is filled up with the stuff that the candidates say about each other…not about Trump. “Got-cha” is small potatoes guys. Cut it out. Go for big points, with some detail (but not so much it blunts the message). Talk about policy. Benefits to voters. Change. A new vision for America. Economic plans (anyone think to discuss the huge trillion dollar debts being run up now by the current administration, one that loves debt and doesn’t believe in paying it back?). No one even mentioned gun control in the city that suffered the largest gun violence in American history.  Will someone pay attention to the big stuff?  Get real. 

5. Don’t Read Too Much Into Anyone’s Performance…Including Mike Bloomberg’s. 

Afterwards, the inevitable rush to the “spin room” as pundits gathered to say what they thought people saw and heard from the candidates:  “Warren got her game back”; “Biden had his best debate yet”; “Bernie did not get derailed”; “Bloomberg’s terrible..he wasn’t prepared” (Trump is not a great debater either but he won the Presidency). Hold on, folks. Debate comprehension is an imprecise skill and two weeks from last Tuesday night’s debate, few people will even be able to tell you who was on the stage and what they stood for. It’s a very long process and message attrition is a campaign strategy.

We know a few things coming out of the Las Vegas debates: Bernie still has his energy and emotional commitment to his campaign; Elizabeth Warren (and Mayor Pete) can debate with the best of them; Biden is still capable of bringing it (although it’s a little rougher now); Amy Klobuchar has run out of accomplishments to boost her as a candidate and Mike Bloomberg–bloodied but not bowed–is not going anywhere. You don’t create a sixty billion dollar fortune in data/communications by refusing to get up after you’re knocked down. My bet is that Bloomberg is a very quick learner and if he does another debate ( and I would advise against it..the TV ads are doing just fine), he’s going to be killer at it. Give the man credit for accomplishment; he’ll figure it out. 

6. The Entire Debate Format is Terrible

The TV coverage as very good and the debate drew a big audience. Good for the network, bad for the candidates. But the substance of the debate had a pro wrestling attitude lurking over it.  The candidates went far too much into unimportant details and not enough into substantive issues: why one one program is better than another; their visions for America; what kind of damage has been done to the American system of government and can it (or should it) be restored. I don’t care about Bernie’s Medical Records; I care about his health if he  gets elected, but only then. And I don’t care about Mike’s NDA’s. That’s been settled, signed and delivered. No one cared enough about Trump’s NDA’s to keep him out of office–who’s running on last year’s standard? Are the Democrats judging themselves on standards they won’t apply to Trump? Let it go, folks. And it’s not illegal…..Bloomberg asked the one question of the night that stopped everyone on stage in their tracks: “Have you ever started a business?” The implication being “If not, what makes you think you can run something as complex as the USA?”

This morning, Warren tossed another stink bomb into the campaign by bringing up Bloomberg’s NDAs again (“I used to teach contract law”) and saying she had a piece of paper that would get signees out of their agreements. Stop it. That is not the issue here, she should stop the self-promotion. Just a diversion from the other things we’re facing–deficits, Russian meddling (again), Afghanistan, coronavirus, presidential pardons going to presidential cronies, no term limits in Congress, medical care. Liz would rather get a big rush out of a tabloid issue than advance the cause of defeating Trump at the ballot box. He’s got an easy path–just let the Democrats wipe themselves out and say nothing. 

The debate format is killing the candidates’ chances to get their points across. It’s not very dignified and is certainly not very informative. All the talking over one another, abstract deliveries of information, and spur-of-the-moment thoughts muddle all messages. 

 I propose a different, more intelligent approach. Segments that deal with specific issues and the candidates’ reasoned plans to solve them. Start with a very small group of credentialed experts and academics in the different electoral issues that affect all of us: Foreign relations, military, immigration, medical economics, education, labor, security. These experts deliver a very brief, fact based overview of the current situation, i.e. a SWOT analysis, to the candidates. Then, one by one, the candidates discuss their approach to each issue. Viewers would get an understanding of the background on each issue and the candidates approach to solving each one. Not a complete education to be sure, but at least one that is intelligent and designed to convey the programs of the candidates to the voters.

The current American government operational model is chaotic, uninformed, and not working to a higher purpose. It has to change for America to grow to potential in all areas, not just economics.

A good place to start would be by re-thinking the American presidential debate format. We can–and must–do better than a verbal wrestling match that reveals little and succeeds only in embarrassing the participants. 

 

 

 

 

The New Year comes in; the old one goes out and you get a re-set.
Whether or not you are the type that likes to stay up until midnight partying and socializing or prefer to bring in the New Year more privately, the time-space effect is going to be the same: you will say goodbye to 2019(really, not a terrific year) and hello to 2020 in just a matter of hours and you will join billions on the planet in doing so.
The New Year’s celebration (New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day)is best understood as a two day event, not a single day one, although a bit of partying can easily make them run together and seem like one never-ending holiday. I’ve had those moments myself, although not as much lately as in the past.
New Year’s Eve is the big celebratory party day, starting, depending upon your schedule, at about 4PM and continuing past (or well past) midnight. It is time for partying, eating, dancing, loud music, and new found enthusiasm for kissing people you do not know particularly well as well as kissing people you know extremely well.
“You must remember this, a kiss is a just a kiss, the fundamental things apply as time goes by”, was how Dooley Wilson summed it up in “Casablanca” and you’ll do well to take his advice. 

New Year’s Eve is the last day of the old year. Congratulations: You made it. You have the right to get silly and celebrate. (Safety note: just don’t drive if you drink; crash in place and tell everyone you didn’t want to miss anything when you wake up the next day).
New Year’s Day itself –the daylight portion—is of course, the first day of the New Year and is for recovery, family, football and begging for forgiveness if your enthusiasm for kissing people you do not know particularly well got out of hand, as it often does on such a night. If that turns out to be the case—well, best of luck to you. You may find out the hard way that the old saying that it’s “better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission” does not apply to random groping and hot twerking in a tuxedo. Just hope that no one from the press or a particularly well-circulated internet site was snapping photos in hopes of making one reputation (theirs) while crushing another one (yours).
In addition to post-celebration recovery and football, and a full day of grazing at the New Year’s Day buffet table, New Year’s Day is also famous for New Year’s Resolutions. As a matter of fact, that (and begging for forgiveness) might be the very best option for New Year’s Day.
Although one can make a resolution at any time of the year, New Year’s Day is always the very best time to do so. Making them in June or July seems a bit pointless and lonesome.
You’re expected to re-start and re-set on New Year’s Day. This is the day of forgiveness for habits past(see above). Have at it. You’ll be in good company. Literally millions of resolutions will be made by sundown of New Year’s Day (and no doubt another million broken by dawn of the next day) but it’s a tradition and a form of personal positivism that should be encouraged. New Year’s resolutions speak to your best intentions, so indulge and encourage yourself. If you want to re-set some part of your life, career, health program, or diet New Year’s is the very best day to do it. The timing is in your favor.
Take society up on the open book for reconciliation and change it’s given you and understand the dynamics.
New Year’s Eve is the end; New Year’s Day is the beginning.
So do with yourself what you so often have done to your computer. Hit the re-set button. Enjoy shutting down the old days, the old ways, the memories past (both good and bad), flash  your personal RAM and relish the re-start, the new energy, the revised perspective, the bigger dreams. Simultaneously enjoy the freedom of letting go and the exhilaration of unbounded possibilities. Dream a little.
One day is for reflection; the other for projection. One set of stories and days and events are now complete; another set of adventures and trials and days and nights are to come.
More than any other holiday, New Year’s celebrates the possible, the unknown, the future, the passage of time and the new journey.
Once a year, mankind is all on the same page. And while the moment of synchronicity will disappear in just hours, we are all united by the hope (and promise) of a new year, a new start, a new beginning. New Year’s Day 2020 remains what all New Year’s Days have been through time: one more chance to really, really get it right.
It’s the New Year. Celebrate tonight. Recalibrate tomorrow.
Re-Set.
This post was originally published on New Year’s, 2014 and has been re-published every year since then. It has been modified to reflect re-posting for 2020. Photo courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. The photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty Images and/or their designate. Text(c) 2014 Donald Pierce, all rights reserved; post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. Have a Happy New Year, don’t overindulge, and drive safely. See you..next year. 

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The Interview: Martin Scorsese

There are motion picture directors, CGI movie directors, action directors, special effects directors, RomCom directors, and then there is Martin Scorsese, who is a film director in the purest sense of the world–a revealer of character, an embracer of subtle but empowering technology that advances the film but is not the reason for the film, a director of shots, sequencing, lighting, sets, dialogue and most importantly a director in the classical sense of what film can be/do, who understands, honors, and advances the art every time he makes a new film. He is a historian, a groundbreaker, a stylist, a scholar of cinema, an intensely honest professional at the top of his game. He is not just a writer/director/producer of narrative fictional films, but a writer/director/producer of landmark documentary films, and switches between the two genres with the consummate ease of a gifted professional and without drama. Below, there is a link to an interview that was published this past week in The New York Times, but to put Scorsese into perspective, take a look at the list of Scorsese films on his Wikipedia bio link (above). Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Kundun, New York, New York, Goodfellas, Casino, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Last Waltz(the rock documentary considered the best of the genre), Shine a Light , Gangs of New York, The Wolfe of Wall Street, King of Comedy, The Aviator, The Departed, The Last Temptation of Christ and on and on and on. Although known for his blunt portraits of mob life and lifestyles, Scorsese’s range is astonishing. Get a perspective with this link to Esquire magazine’s list of his 25 best films. 

There is a good chance that Scorsese directed three or four or your five favorite films. He’s that good and has that kind of range. But you know that.

What you don’t know, and what is below, is the current state of thinking of one of our very best artistic talents in any medium. So grab a glass of wine or pour a scotch on the rocks, and settle in for a revealing interview with Martin Scorsese, brought to you via the magic of linkage with the Times. 

The Fine Print: Photos of Martin Scorsese provided courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st centure on file. These photos have not been altered in any way and all rights belong to Getty Images and/or their designate. We thank them for sharing. Text and Post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. We thank the researchers and site programmers for working (a little) over the holidays to get this post up for you. Unless otherwise noted, all rights (c)donald pierce and Southchester Group LLC. Got comments? Got you covered. Drop us a note via the comment feedback. Thanks for reading and have a terrific 2020. One more thing: we all have standards to live up to; putting up a Scorsese interview is an indication of the level we want everyone to be at in 2020. Hope to it. 

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Transitions: Junior Johnson(1931-2019)

A legend in word and deed has passed: Robert Glen Johnson, Junior, better known as Junior Johnson, one of the greatest drivers in the history of NASCAR–and one of the men who helped make that form of automobile racing the most popular in the world–died on December 20th of this year.

To honor Junior Johnson, who was not only a formidable race car driver but an even more formidable race car owner, we direct you to two pieces on his life. The first is his obituary as published by the New York Times today:

The second tribute is by the late and legendary writer Tom Wolfe, as published in Esquire Magazine, in March of 1965. Titled “The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!”, Wolfe’s profile is an iconic piece of journalism, introducing “The New Journalism” style of writing (Wolfe was one of the early evangelists) to a vast, national audience at the same time it brought NASCAR, stock car racing, and the New South to the front of the 1960s cultural conversation. It’s a revolutionary piece of writing that is very worthy of your attention.

Together with the facts from the Times and the scene as described by Tom Wolfe, you will get a true and accurate perspective of one of the most influential men in any sport.

Enjoy, and reflect on a life well-lived at very high speed.

The Fine Print: Image courtesy of Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and the 21st century on file. This image has not been altered in any way; we thank them for sharing. Special thanks to our friends at Esquire who made Tom Wolfe’s spectacular profile of Junior Johnson available via link. We than them for sharing. donaldpierce.com is a production of The Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. The team wishes you a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year.

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Beazely Design Awards 2019

We have a long-standing love affair with all forms of design here in the Media Bunker, and in particular with architecture, graphic, and industrial design. So, it was with great joy when we noticed that the overall Winner of the Beazely Design Awards for 2019 was a map that explored the dimensions of Amazon’s rather amazing Alexa device, a machine that combines Artificial Intelligence, speech recognition, the internet, music, and several other capabilities into an easy-to-use device that can fill many of your daily needs, including a few you didn’t know you had.

As media pioneer, America’s Cup winner, and entrepreneur (and Media Bunker/Perception Engineering fav) Ted Turner once said, “it ain’t as easy as it looks”.

So, here it is: a map that explains the anatomy of an AI system.

Give it some time. We can almost certainly guarantee that the next time one of your friends wants to talk about AI or Alexa or any of Amazon’s “Echo ” devices, you will be the most prepared intellectually. Enjoy.

The Fine Print: Link courtesy of DesignMuseum.org, from the 2019 winners of the Beazley Designs of the Year. Photo courtesy of Getty News, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any manner. We thank them for sharing. Post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering, with copyright (c)2019 held by Southchester Group LLC.

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Can Colin Kaepernick Still Play In The NFL

Kap’s back. Or is He. Read FiveThiryEight.com’s reasoned, fact-based analysis of the activist/former QB

Last weekend, ex-NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick participated in a workout that was originally designed to showcase his talents for NFL teams that might need a quarterback, more or less immediately. Kaepernick, or “Kap” as he called by announcers and team mates, was staging the workout in conjunction with the NFL; he has not played in the league in three years and in the past has made a case against the league for “blackballing” him because of his political activism (i.e. he kneeled during the playing of the national anthem at football games to protest police brutality). Pretty heady stuff for a player who once took a team to the Super Bowl. Kap eventually filed a suit against the league for various grievances and it was settled in his favor (he got lots of money) and contends that he now wants to play in the NFL again, but is not being allowed to because of his beliefs and potential activism. His position on playing and the league’s reasons for him not playing are a subject of much debate and will not be taken up here, but it’s important to know that at the time he quit playing for the San Francisco 49’ers he had a contract offer on the table (he didn’t think it was good enough and so decided to see what free agency would bring). Which was nothing, partially because he could be considered “disruptive” to a team’s discipline but more likely because he was 1-10 won/lost in his last season as a starter for the 49’ers and so not exactly a sure thing winner.

There are lots of disputing viewpoints on how Kaepernick’s “tryout” went but the simple fact of the matter is it did not go well, did not take place at the schedule venue, involved a last minute dispute on participation waivers, and lost a lot of the scouts who had traveled to see it because of the location switch. So, on a lot of fronts and all sides–the NFL and Kap and his advisors–share some responsibility for an event that botched (amazing to me that his reps didn’t clear ALL the paperwork before scheduling the “workout”…something anyone involved with sports and events should do as a matter of professional guidance).

But no need to rehash the present with emotional viewpoints, but instead to get a totally unbiased, unemotional take on whether or not the guy can still play. For that, we turn to this video, produced by the gang at FiveThirtyEight.com (you need to follow them) which details how the former pro quarterback would rank with today’s QBs. Click the link above and enjoy an unsentimental look at a player whose time has probably passed.

The Fine Print: Video produced and courtesy of FiveThirtyEight.com via YouTube..this video has not been altered in any way; all rights belong to their respective holders. We thank FiveThirtyEight.com and YouTube for sharing. You should follow them–they have the numbers for the life we lead now and are masters of the art of statistics. Their take on Kap and his potential today is realistic and unemotional and intelligent. Well done. Post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. donaldpierce.com is (c)2019, donald pierce.

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Enough

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Really–enough is enough. Here are some (but certainly not all) people, places, and things that have worn out their media/cultural/societal welcome. You may be familiar with some or all of them, but–even if not–take it from us, we’ve heard and/or seen way too much of them recently and they should bug off.

The current list:

Lavar Ball, Lonzo Ball, LaMelo Ball, LiAngelo Ball and the failed Big Baller Brand 

Rudolph Giuliani

CBS Morning News Staff Shuffles

Boeing 737 Max management team

“Breaking News” lead-ins

$250 basketball shoes

Any Kardashian 

Instagram “Influencers”

College Admissions Scandals

“Stable Genius” self-pronouncements (from those who can’t spell)

NFL Players Behaving Badly

Think how much better your life would be if you never hear of any of these people, places, or things again. Cut them out of your attention span. 

Enough.

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Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Thanksgiving is the favorite holiday for many Americans. While the common assumption is that the favorite holiday is Christmas, that’s not necessarily true. Although most of us love the Christmas season, the holiday itself –Christmas, The Big Day–is full of stress, expensive, all-too-often -demanding (on both diet and finances and travel) , something to be survived vs. enjoyed. The expectations are just too high.

Thanksgiving, however, is a totally different deal. You can enjoy a great meal with friends and family (just remember: no politics at the dining table), listen to the seasonal music and watch the seasonal TV shows, catch a great holiday sporting event, and emerge relatively unscathed from the event (except for a few extra pounds).

And so, in the spirit of brotherhood and fine food and wine, we have decided to promote a little Thanksgiving thought-piece: if you could have your choice of anyone in the world to share that once-a-year Thanksgiving meal with, who would it be. The idea is to gather a group of your own best and brightest and fill out the table. The format is simple: a dining room table with room for 8 guests. That’s a manageable number of guests. That means eight chairs to be filled. No relatives, please..you can see them another time and that’s too easy a choice for this project. Instead, make a wish list of the people you’d like spend a few hours with: entertainers, writers, leaders, businessmen, sportsmen, athletes, commentators, artists, comedians. It’s your table, you make out the list. Have at it and send your Ultimate Thanksgiving Guest List to us at the Media Bunker. (admin@donaldpierce.com).

The top 5 lists get published–judging is based on the thoughts and preferences and, dare we say it, intellectual bias, of the staff in the Media Bunker and at Perception Engineering. But–and this is important–every list will be read and pondered. A few ground rules: everyone you would invite has to be alive at the time the list is prepared, highly charged political figures are to be excluded (we get enough of that in daily life), and the invitees have to actually exist (i.e. you cannot invite a Chewbacca or some other tv/movie character). Your list should contain eight names, spelled correctly, with a note to the side about who they are–college professor, novelist, film director, writer, religious leader. All entrants receive a free, one year subscription to donaldpierce.com (which is, as you’ve noticed, already free but it does sound nifty. The form is below. Hop to it. To get you going, we’ve made up a few guest lists just as inspiration

A Sample Thanksgiving Guest List

Seth Meyers Late night TV Host

Warren Buffett Investor

Jose Altuve Professional Baseball Player

Roger Penske Entrepreneur, race team owner

Gloria Steinem Author, feminist

Reese Witherspoon Actress, Southerner

George Lucas Film maker (Star Wars, Indiana Jones )

Retired Admiral Bill McRaven Former top SEAL Commander, planned Bin Laden raid

Another Thanksgiving Guest List

Thomas Keller One of the top chefs in America

Paul Simon Songwriter, entertainer

Anna Wintour Editor of Vogue Magazine

Daniel Weiss Head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC

Bill Gates Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

Dr. Peter Mansell Immunologist, former head of Louis Pasteur Institute

Phil Mickelson Professional Golfer, 5x Majors Winner

Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur, CEO of Amazon

You get the idea…..the best and the brightest from a wide variety of fields and professions, to provide a once in a lifetime conversation that expands the boundaries of thought for everyone attending Got it? Hop to it. Look forward to seeing your thoughts.

The Fine Print: Send an an email with your eight choices, and the reasons why you selected them, for Thanksgiving dinner attendees to admin@donaldpierce.com . We will read all of them and, if past is prologue, will publish all of them on the site. Obviously rude, derogatory, or poorly mannered communications will be deleted. Image courtesy of Getty Images (www.gettyimages.com) , who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This photo has not been altered in any way. We thank them for sharing; donaldpierce.com is produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. Contents (c) 2019 donaldpierce.

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The Performances: Camila Cabello on SNL

Great music performances, pulled from the archives of SNL, the Grammies, late night TV, and special concerts. Some of these performances are very new and some are very old. They are all very good.

Camila Cabello on Saturday Night Live, 12 October 2019.

The Fine Print: Video provided courtesy of YouTube and Camila Cabello. This video has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to the respective artists and rights holders. We thank them for sharing. Great performances posts are produced by The Media Bunker and Perception Engineering.

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Missing It: What Happened to The Tonight Show Opening

Paying Attention

This post was originally put up in early September (maybe you’ve noticed a trend..as we work through some of the greatest hits from the past). Last night, 8 October 2019, the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon opening returned to its’ classic opening format…the one used since the first telecasts of the show. Why? Who knows. We’re digging for those answers now. 

On 20 March 2019, the opening to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon changed. You’d have to be a creature of habit to notice or a television producer to care about it, but on that date, the iconic opening that had served (we thought) Fallon and the Tonight Show so very well for all of it’s existence was replaced by a non-dynamic opening graphic–just a few seconds of visual really– followed by Steve Higgins WWE inspired introduction of Fallon, who comes out from behind the curtains and goes right to his mark, starting the evening off by thanking the audience (or, alternatively..”You made it, you’re here, the Tonight Show”) and then dropping into his five to seven minute monologue (after thanking the Roots, his very, very good house band).

The original Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon video opening was a short, sharp, piece of art, directed by New York film maker Spike Lee with crisp editing and music by The Roots. It had movement and attitude and it rocked into the show.   It looked like it had SNL title opening ancestry and it did, because the show is produced by Lorne Michaels, who created Saturday Night Live (among other NBC shows).  It set the tone, like the one from Jimmy’s predecessor show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (above)

And, yes, we really wanted to have it embedded in this piece but could not find a copy of it. Perhaps NBC removed it from public visibility or maybe we didn’t look in the all right places but….it was not findable.(thanks to YouTube for the video at the head of this post).

However, we were able to source something that will provide the type of deep drill down we favor here at the Media Bunker: a shot by shot analysis of the opening produced by our friends at Popspots NYC.com …..

You are encouraged to click the link and go through the opening sequence, shot by shot. That’s all it will take to give you an appreciation of what a great little opening the show (once) had and we like it so much.

So why the change and why now? No clues yet, despite more research than I want to talk about. It could be that the change was mandated by a new “showrunner” (the term previously used to denote the executive producer). One of Fallon’s key team, Mike DiCenzo, who has been with Fallon since Jimmy’s first late night show (Late Night With Jimmy Fallon) left; as DiCenzo says, “After 10 years of late night television, it’s time to decompress”. The name DiCenzo may not ring an immediate bell, but you would recognize his repeating character on the show–Bucket Hat Guy, who often engaged in complex back-and-forth word association oneupmanship with host Fallon. Who knew he was the head writer?

At the end of his term with The Tonight Show, DiCenzo was operating as “show runner” so he had extra duties layered on him in addition to the writing he produced for the show (one of his bits was “Slow Jamming the News with President Obama”…a legend). DiCenzo left the show on 22 October 2018.

DiCenzo was replaced by Jim Bell, who is a news and sports producer for NBC and worked previously as President of  NBC’s Olympics Coverage. Bell has experience with the Today Show and was brought in to punch up Fallon’s show, which has been sliding in the ratings. It was just announced that Stephen Colbert’s show (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) had done something the Late Show had not done in 50 years…finish ahead of the Tonight Show in the ratings (specifically the key under 50 demographic that advertisers and networks all want). It was also announced that Katie Hokenmeyer, another top producer for Fallon who worked hand-in-hand with DiCenzo and another staff member that has been with Jimmy since his Late Night show days, has also recently left.

There is some concern with Fallon losing to Colbert in the ratings race for the first time; Fallon is notoriously soft on current politics and Colbert is constantly blistering Trump and his team, nightly, and has built a following because of his scathing takes on the present administration. And..it can only get better for Colbert as the 2020 elections are on the horizon and that only means more interest in politics and political commentary and content that plays right into Colbert’s humor sweet spot.

NBC had obviously thought that the strategy of bringing in an ex-Today Show producer would bring a more current and controversial focus to Fallon’s show (Colbert’s show started to take off when CBS moved their Morning Show producer to Late Night). But so far, the results aren’t too good–the cohesive team that took Fallon from very late night to late night has been broken up by the departures of DiCenzo and Hockenmeyer and from a distance, it seems that Fallon is most comfortable working with the team that helped him build his career. In the new management shuffle, Jimmy is now the “talent”, and subject to executive pressure to change his style to meet a perceived new audience demand. Bell’s first turn at managing the show hasn’t done much for Bell’s reputation–he lost the time slot–and so his position as head of the show may be in jeopardy, especially since rumors are floating around that Bell doesn’t get along with Lorne Michaels, who developed Fallon’s show, Seth Meyer’s Show, SNL, and is the reigning king of comedy at NBC–i.e. Michaels is irreplaceable and Bell is not.

Why so much interest in these two late night shows and their hosts?

Money.

The two most lucrative shows at NBC have long been  the Today Show and the Tonight Show. These shows generate vast amounts of advertising revenue and are comparatively inexpensive to produce vs. series television shows or sitcoms. If you’re the head of a major network, the time slots you want to control are early morning and late night. When those cash cow time slots start to drift away, it’s time for a change.

So is that the reason the opening for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon was changed? Certainly hope not because the change wiped out four years worth of brand/graphic/film equity and replaced it with an opening that–currently–is not worthy of a major network television show. No doubt Jimmy can get back in the ratings game, but he need to get the band back together.again…bringing back the original opening would be a very good start.

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Summer Weekend Concert Series: Dr. John at the Newport Jazz Festival, 2016

A video of Dr. John performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2006. The video is very good throughout but there is a bit of an audio issue in the beginning of the set. Stay with it. Thanks to the  Newport Jazz Festival and Funk and Reggae for sharing.

The Fine Print: Special thanks to our friends at YouTube and the Newport Jazz Festival for sharing this video of Dr. John performing. All rights belong to respective artist. Special thanks to Funk & Regagge on MV for posting it. You are advised to run the sound through your stereo system and the video through your flat screen. You are also advised to turn it up. Summer Weekend Concerts are curated and edited by Perception Engineering and the Media Bunker. Turn Dr. John’s concert on and get to the Big Easy without even leaving town..except in spirit. Enjoy. 

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The (Secret) History of The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Paying Attention:

 
From The Nightshift Archives
 Editor’s Note: The classic Pebble Beach Pro-Am PGA Tour event is this weekend and, as always, we honor this unique event with a re-post of the history of the event and the man who started it: Bing Crosby. This particular post is excerpted from a piece that ran originally on the risicompeizione.com site (which The Nightshift staff also created, developed, wrote and produced for over a decade) during coverage of the team’s Laguna Seca ALMS race; new information has been added but the original time references remain.  It is featured here because of one reason: Bing Crosby. When people talk about Crosby–who developed the format for what is now the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am– sometimes missed in the shuffle is precisely how good and ahead of his time Bing Crosby was in so many different areas, from entertainment to venture capital. Here’s the story on one of the great entertainers of all time and how he created a now-legendary golf tournament. It’s more amazing than any Hollywood film. We have left some of the original racing text in the story simply to provide context. 
Before we dive into the details, minutiae, and results of the Laguna Seca race, this seems like a good point to go back in time to the event that really put the Monterey Peninsula on the map and that was Der Bingle’s Bing Crosby National Pro-Am. Crosby started the tournament—perhaps the first Celebrity-backed big time golf tournament—in 1937 when he hosted it at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Rancho Santa Fe is a very tony development outside San Diego, California. The tournament, which was very relaxed and used as a fund raiser for various charities, continued under Crosby’s direction until 1942, when it was suspended due to the War. The tournament was re-started and re-located to Pebble Beach in 1947. Crosby—like best pal Bob Hope—was an accomplished golfer (he had a two handicap and played in both the U.S. and British Amateur championships) and one of America’s biggest media stars with an impressive career in film, as a singer, and on radio.  Crosby had a powerhouse radio program, produced 300 hit singles, and won an Academy Award for his role in the Christmas classic, “Going My Way” (however, don’t overlook “Holiday Inn”, the movie in which the song “White Christmas” was introduced on film by Bing). Crosby was also famous for teaming up with Hope in the famous/infamous series of “Road” movies, in which the two bumbled their way through adventures and women in various exotic locales ranging from Rio to Hong Kong.
Crosby’s business life is not nearly so well known as his public persona, but he and his companies revolutionized broadcasting, first by developing and using magnetic audio tape to record and pre-record radio shows (he wanted a way to pre-record his shows to free himself from the demands of live broadcasting schedules) and then by funding the development of videotape (he was an early investor in the AMPEX company) to do the same thing for visual images. Crosby also owned a TV station and was a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team until his death. Quite a life.
An avid golfer, Bing died in 1977 on a golf course outside Madrid, but the Crosby tournament at Pebble Beach had, by then, achieved a life of its own and continues today, although the name has been changed to the AT&T Pebble Beach (National) Pro-Am.  When Bing died, Bob Hope—who hosted a similar event, the Bob Hope Tournament in Las Vegas—said that “if friends could be made to order, I would have asked for one like Bing”. Bing Crosby was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame and, along with Bob Hope, given the Bob Jones Award from the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship. The two friends were all-in for golf and golf competitions long before the general population was paying attention.
The tournament that Bing started is played in February, over three of the area’s top courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spy Hill Golf Course, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club. It attracts a great group of both pros and amateurs and, not surprisingly, some of the celebrity amateurs are pretty good: Actor Jim Backus actually made the 36 hole cut in 1964. This past year, Denver Bronco’s QB Peyton Manning made a good showing and most people who follow the tournament know that Bill Murray—a favorite celebrity—will brighten things up if rain dampens the event, which it has on several occasions.
The tournament is technically demanding and not suitable for every pro’s game but there are some golfers for whom it’s the golf equivalent of a “home game”. Mark O’Meara has won 5 times, Phil Mickelson has won 4 as did Slammin’ Sammy Snead. Jack Nicklaus won it three times and so did Johnny Miller. Nicklaus also won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (1972). Gene Littler holds one of the most interesting records for the tournament: he is the only person to win it as an amateur (1954) and as a pro (1975).
Regrettably there is no time for a round at Pebble Beach during the Laguna Seca race weekend, but it would be a very good promotional idea for the race organizers to work with the tournament organizers and see if a few celebrity spots might be available for class winners of the Laguna Seca TUSCC race.—along with one spot reserved for the writer who thought of the idea. What a terrific way to tie together two of the classic events in the peninsula.
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The Christmas Playlist Series: No. VIII (fast)

The Hunt for New (Christmas) Music:

 
This is the second part of Christmas Playlist Series: VIII
The fast first part was the slower music.
This is the fast stuff.
Enjoy.
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19 Songs. 1.2 Hours.

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Olympic Film Festival: Lindsey Vonn Downhill at Vancouver

Press Clippings:  The U.S. is missing Lindsey Vonn, one of our very best women skiers, at the Sochi Olympics. Vonn suffered a pair of back to back knee injuries in training that took her out of the 2014 games, but even though she’s not at Sochi, it’s always good to remember just how great and fierce a competitor Lindsey Vonn can be. Here’s her downhill run at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and it’s a thing of aggression and beauty. Enjoy.

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Olympic Briefing: The Downhill

Nightshift Sports: The Downhill is considered the ultimate event in alpine skiing. The concept is simple: start at the top of the mountain and go down it–often straight downhill but with enough turns to hold your attention–as fast you can.

There is none of the rhythmic direction changes that mark the slalom or the gentler sweeping turns of the Giant Slalom (which, BTW, only look gentle from a distance).

Go down the hill on the course as fast you can, navigating the turns, the bumps, the jumps, and try to stay in form,  aerodynamically correct, and strong all the way to bottom and maybe you won’t wad yourself up in the safety fences, so twisted it takes  experts fifteen to twenty minutes to extract you. In other words, mistakes on the downhill can result in very serious injuries.

The course at the Beijing Winter Olympics is considered very difficult and dangerous for a couple of reasons. First, it is a total unknown. The ski racers  at the Olympics have never seen it before, it’s not on the World Cup circuit and has never been run in serious, world class competition. Second, the snow is all man-made. As you know from previous postings, man made snow is more granular than the natural stuff, and it also has a tendency to be icy, which is not good. Just as wi drying a car, hitting a bad patch of ice at the wrong time can throw a racer off the preferred trajectory and into barriers on the side of the course. The Beijing course is also steep, even steeper than the famed Hahnenkamm downhill in Austria. Take it seriously.  Do not leave the starting gate unless your insurance is paid up and you have done all the dry land training your coach mandated. Paid close attention on the very few practice runs you got on the hill. And your personal racer chaser has tuned your skis to perfection It’s good to have an acute sense of your own mortality while you chase immortality as an Olympic Medalist. 

Otherwise…it’s not going to end up good.

Once you leave the gate, you must be focused and committed and there is no time for doubt or turning back. 

Luckily for us, the small size of modern digital video cameras provides us with viewpoints in sports that were previously never available. Today’s clip will give you a view which will either confirm your decision to stay out of downhill competition or make you get all itchy and sweaty because you’re not in the starting gate. For more background on The Downhill, check out this wiki.  

Either way, click the play button to get a racer’s view of the downhill at Garmitsch, one of the classic downhill courses in skiing. Prepare to be simultaneously amazed and terrified.  Also: Video YouTube/Ski Stars….Thanks for sharing. 

 

 

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The NFL All-Time All-Star Nickname Team

Paying Attention:   With the Superbowl just hours away and the TV packed with lots of great old bits and remembrances of football players great and no-so-great, it seemed like an appropriate time to come up with an All Star team of my own.

Didn’t want to base it on stats or playoff game performances, but decided to select the team on something a little more colorful: a terrific nickname. Position played is not a factor.

Below is our first annual NFL All-Star Nickname Team..special thanks to running buddy and football advisor Russ Kirkland who helped compile this list.

“Broadway Joe” Namath
William “Refrigerator” Perry
“Mean Joe” Green
“Hollywood” Henderson
“Neon” Deion Sanders
Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch
John “Diesel”  Riggins
Jerome “The Bus”  Bettis
“Bullet” Bob Hayes
Ben “Big Ben” Rothlisburger
Lance “Bambi” Alworth
Jack “The Assassin” Tatum
Andre “Bad Moon”  Rison
Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch
Gene “Big Daddy” Lipscombe
“Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid” (  Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick of the Miami Dolphins)
Troy “The Flyin’ Hawaiian” Polamalu
“Dwight Hicks and the Hot Licks” The  1984 San Francisco 49ers Secondary lead by Dwight Hicks
Art “Fatso” Donovan
Dave “Ghost” Casper
Brett “The Gunslinger” Favre
“Hacksaw Jack” Reynolds
Paul Hornung, AKA “The Golden Boy”
Jared “The Round Mound of Touchdown” Lorenzon, also known as the “Pillsbury Throwboy”
“The Hogs”, nickname for the Washington Redskins Offensive line
“Iron Mike” Ditka
Craig “Iron Head” Heywood
“The Law Firm” is BenJarvus Green-Ellis
Jim “Machine Gun”  Kelly
Ted “Mad Stork” Hendricks
Dick “Night Train” Lane
“The Manster” , Randy White
“Marion The Barbarian”  Barber
Calvin “Megatron”  Johnson
Eugene “Mercury” Morris
Reggie White, the “Minister of Defense “
Daryl “Moose” Johnston
“The Mossiah”,   Randy Moss
Aaron “Mr. Rodgers” Rodgers
Christian Okoye, “The Nigerian Nightmare”
Chad “Ocho Cinco” Johnson
“The Playmaker”, Michael Irvin
Floyd “Pork Chop” Womack
“The Purple People Eaters”, nickname for the  1970s Minnesota Vikings Defensive Line (Alan Page, Carl Eller, Gary Larsen, Jim Marshall)
Robert, “RG3”  Griffin III
“Rodger the Dodger”Staubach
Raghib “Rocket” Ismail
“Run DMC” , Dexter McCluster
“The Sheriff” , Peyton Manning
Walter “Sweetness” Payton
Jack “The Throwin’ Samoan” Thompson
Billy “White Shoes” Johnson

Rickie Lee Jones Sets Us Straight

“Old Enough”, by Rickie Lee Jones. Balm in Gilead

 

“Maybe it’s that I took care of you too many times. And you grew weaker for a kindness. And Sometimes kindness from a friend can break ‘em down..”

–from “Old Enough” by Rickie Lee Jones.

 

The last time you probably heard  Rickie Lee Jones was when her hit song, “Chuck E’s In Love” was a big hit, rocking the radio dials in heavy rotation. That was 1979.  It might be time to tune in again. “Old Enough”, a song that reflects the dichotomy of raising children (you can only advise them to do the right thing and hope they won’t do the wrong one) from her 2009 Balm in Gilead CD is a pretty terrific piece of music on every level. From the shock-blunt chord opening, her voice takes you down a hall of melancholy remembrances with first her vocal solo and then a street choir refrain to bring the melody back home. The entire song is framed with aggressive restraint—with backing recorded by musicians who know how to play, when to push it out and when to pull it back. It’s got a beautiful, lyrical bridge and some very tight guitar, bass, organ, and drum work. Is “Old Enough” a hymn to modern life, family and child, distance and closure?  Yes, all that and more and what’s the surprise, coming from Rickie Lee. Her life has been the biopic material. Grew up on the plains of Oklahoma, where imagination was the ticket out of town, despite her AAU swimming talents. Moved to California, through the music scene in Venice, finally into town in Hollywood where friends and fellow musicians made the right introductions and created the right collaborations. Dr. John noticed her. Lowell George, of Little Feat, recorded one of her first songs, “Easy Money” and then a couple of very hot producers, Lenny Woronker (look on just about any Warner Brothers album from that period and Lenny was listed as producer) and Tomy LaPuma, another hot producer, both pursued her. Jones got a five record deal from Warner and then………she met Tom Waits.  It was one of those relationships—too hot to last, too cool to remain true—but the influences stayed long after the relationship faded away. Always eccentric, in both musical tastes and fashion, Jones has never been afraid to pursue new musical paths even if the cost was commercial success. Nominated early in her career for Five Grammies, she has fearless artistic instincts and the confidence to toss what worked last out the door in exchange for what she wants to do next. The Beatles had the same instincts.  Her second CD Pirates is considered one of the Must-Listen-to Top 100 CDs of all time; her artistic presence is real and her vision has longevity, even though some may find some of her music challenging. If you haven’t heard Rickie Lee Jones lately, start with “Old Enough” and then, if that sounds right to you, start working your way through her catalog. It’ll be an enjoyable trip.

 

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AARP Sponsors The Rolling Stones

The World Changes when we’re not paying attention. In 2024, the Rolling Stones, the world’s greatest “rock & roll band”, will make another American tour. The sponsors for this one: the American Association of Retired People (AARP). Didn’t see that one coming. The Stones are a different (and older) band now, dealing with mortality just like the rest of us. Drummer Charlie Watts, one of the key members of the band, died in August of 2021 and now there are just three “original”members of the Stones left: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood. No matter, the music will still be great and in addition to a hall-of-fame greatest hits list, they’ll bring fresh music from their new “Hackney Diamonds” album.

Might be your last chances to see the Stones live, although we all know they’re going to be around forever. But you might get a break if you have an AARP card…so don’t miss it.

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Re-Set: 2025

The Latest Word 
New Year’s Day is the most important day of the year.
Unlike religious holidays, it is universally celebrated and universally enjoyed.
New Year’s Day requires no special decorations (confetti is nice, but not necessary); has no special set of colors (unlike the red and green of Christmas), is non-denominational and completely international. It wraps the globe like a warm wave of positive energy, moving from culture to culture as the grey line of propagation makes its daily revolution around the planet.
For Americans, the New Year—in this case 2024– starts on one side of the world and in a vastly different time zone (Asia), and then works its’ way around to us, arriving—conveniently for network television—at prime time in America.
Midnight is the demarcation line and seldom has midnight had more importance. Within the space of one minute, one year will go and another one will arrive. One door shuts and another one opens; it’s concrete and finite and everyone on earth knows it.
Unlike much in modern life, it is unequivocal; there is no room for debate or no grey area: 2023 Out. 2024, In. Carry on.
The New Year comes in; the old one goes out and you get a re-set.
Whether or not you are the type that likes to stay up until midnight partying and socializing or prefer to bring in the New Year more privately, the time-space effect is going to be the same: you will say goodbye to 2022 (really, not a terrific year) and hello to 2023 in just a matter of hours and you will join billions on the planet in doing so.
The New Year’s celebration (New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day)is best understood as a two day event, not a single day one, although a bit of partying can easily make them run together and seem like one never-ending holiday. I’ve had those moments myself, although not as much lately as in the past.
New Year’s Eve is the big celebratory party day, starting, depending upon your schedule, at about 4PM and continuing past (or well past) midnight. It is time for partying, eating, dancing, loud music, and new found enthusiasm for kissing people you do not know particularly well as well as kissing people you know extremely well.
“You must remember this, a kiss is a just a kiss, the fundamental things apply as time goes by”, was how Dooley Wilson summed it up in “Casablanca” and you’ll do well to take his advice. 

New Year’s Eve is the last day of the old year. Congratulations: You made it. You have the right to get silly and celebrate. (Safety note: just don’t drive if you drink; crash in place and tell everyone you didn’t want to miss anything when you wake up the next day).
New Year’s Day itself –the daylight portion—is of course, the first day of the New Year and is for recovery, family, football and begging for forgiveness if your enthusiasm for kissing people you do not know particularly well got out of hand, as it often does on such a night. If that turns out to be the case—well, best of luck to you. You may find out the hard way that the old saying that it’s “better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission” does not apply to random groping and hot twerking in a tuxedo. Just hope that no one from the press or a particularly well-circulated internet site was snapping photos in hopes of making one reputation (theirs) while crushing another one (yours).
In addition to post-celebration recovery and football, and a full day of grazing at the New Year’s Day buffet table, New Year’s Day is also famous for New Year’s Resolutions. As a matter of fact, that (and begging for forgiveness) might be the very best option for New Year’s Day.
Although one can make a resolution at any time of the year, New Year’s Day is always the very best time to do so. Making them in June or July seems a bit pointless and lonesome.
You’re expected to re-start and re-set on New Year’s Day. This is the day of forgiveness for habits past(see above). Have at it. You’ll be in good company. Literally millions of resolutions will be made by sundown of New Year’s Day (and no doubt another million broken by dawn of the next day) but it’s a tradition and a form of personal positivism that should be encouraged. New Year’s resolutions speak to your best intentions, so indulge and encourage yourself. If you want to re-set some part of your life, career, health program, or diet,  New Year’s is the very best day to do it. The timing is in your favor.
Take society up on the open book for reconciliation and change it’s given you and understand the dynamics.
New Year’s Eve is the end; New Year’s Day is the beginning.
So do with yourself what you so often have done to your computer. Hit the re-set button. Enjoy shutting down the old days, the old ways, the memories past (both good and bad), flash  your personal RAM and relish the re-start, the new energy, the revised perspective, the bigger dreams. Simultaneously enjoy the freedom of letting go and the exhilaration of unbounded possibilities. Dream a little.
One day is for reflection; the other for projection. One set of stories and days and events are now complete; another set of adventures and trials and days and nights are to come.
More than any other holiday, New Year’s celebrates the possible, the unknown, the future, the passage of time and the new journey.
Once a year, mankind is all on the same page. And while the moment of synchronicity will disappear in just hours, we are all united by the hope (and promise) of a new year, a new start, a new beginning.

New Year’s Day 2024 remains what all New Year’s Days have been through time: one more chance to really, really get it right.
It’s the New Year. Celebrate tonight. Recalibrate tomorrow.
Re-Set.

Music to reset: spoti.fi/479Im2l 

You know the drill…Happy New Year!

This post was originally published on New Year’s, 2014 and has been re-published every year since then. It has been modified to reflect re-posting for 2024. Photo courtesy of our friends at GettyImages.com, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. The photo has not been altered in any way. All rights belong to Getty Images and/or their designate. Text(c) 2014 Donald Pierce, all rights reserved; post produced by the Media Bunker and Perception Engineering. Have a Happy New Year, don’t overindulge, and drive safely. See you..next year. 

The Bob Hope Christmas Special: 1969

The Fine Print: Embed courtesy of YouTube. Thanks, guys, for sharing this American classic. 

Paying Attention:
For decades, Bob Hope took his act on the road to entertain American troops around the world during the Christmas holidays.
The result was a series of classic performances that brightened the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans fighting in wars around the world. No one did it better than Bob and no one was better at convincing some of the biggest names in entertainment to make the trip with him.
This particular video is from Hope’s 1967 Christmas Tour.
Every one of these videos is a classic in its’ own way and showing them again is a good way to honor the sacrifice of the man who gave up his Christmas at home to bring the Christmas spirit to American soldiers around the world.
Thank you, Mr. Hope, for the Memories.

 

 

The Fine Print: Special Thanks to YouTube who made this broadcast available and also the Bob Hope Estate and Family for sharing…..what a legacy Bob Hope left.