Having got all that off my chest, I'll resume normal service without swearing. After all, I'm not just live on Channel 4, I'm also all over the Internet. Not?
It's a nice day here, not sunny, but with fantastic cloudscapes. Check the webcam, and you can enjoy it live. Up here in Northern Scotland, we're going to have the best of the weather. Down south can expect rain and gales. A warning is also in order for the west coast of the USA, where stormforce winds of 50 mph can be expected in the next 48 hours. A very deep depression in the Bering Sea is swinging a secondary low north towards southeastern Alaska, and this will carry hurricane force winds in the open ocean. The field of wind will extend from British Columbia down to California, so beware.
A collision between a freight train and a car in Ayshire, southwest Scotland, has claimed no casualties but resulted in disruption in railtravel. The car left the road and ended up on the railway tracks. A full land and air search was mounted, at 2.40 am, for the occupants. They were unscathed, but the driver was charged with road traffic offenses.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first anti AIDS drug, zidovudine, better known as AZT. Although the compound does not cure AIDS, it, and a couple of dozen of other entities, have helped slow the progression of the disease, leading to an improvement in quality of life and an extended life expectancy for AIDS sufferers. It's a pity that the Wellcome foundation isn't prepared to drop its price for users in Africa. Read the story of the scientist who discovered it here.
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Stopped by to say have a good day!!
ReplyDeleteThat's so true about the Welcome Foundation re; the Anti Aids drugs.
ReplyDeleteHow can any human being ignore the needs of others by withholding treatment because they can't get their asking price.
It's like the De Beers Diamonds and the Russians with theirs. They keep them artificially high by buying any that come onto the market so that they can still cream the money out of our pockets.
I hope St Peter has a special expensive 'get out of hell' pill for them when they reach the pearly gates.. they must have to earn it by going around apologising to every African who has died early through their greed before they can swallow it.
I think I have my 'nowty hea' on today too Guido.
I'm blamiing it on the weather. Too many fast changing isobars. Lol!
Jeanie
Coming from a railroad family, I learned at an early age, that a car cannot out run a train and that trains cannot stop on a dime. They are to be respected and watched out for. Linda in WA
ReplyDeleteMy husband is a freight train engineer. After being on the job for 36 yrs it still amazes how many people don't respect the thousands of tons barrelling down the tracks at speeds of up to 70mph. He has had hit two vehicles. Luckily he wasn't going fast when he hit a teenager who escaped with only a broken leg. Scarily, the 2nd vehicle he hit was an 18 wheeler truck carrying a load of one of the same chemicals that was used to blow up the Murrow Bldg in Oklahoma City. It could have been deadly. People need to pay attention and know and respect what a train can do. Sorry about the little rant. It just gets to me.
ReplyDeleteTake care. Barb