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This picture is awesome. His grandfather passed away last month. Larry Crouser is the one who introduced Ryan to shot put. His grandpa had lost his hearing, so Ryan used a whiteboard to write messages to him.

Kind of surprised Harrison WL is getting so few votes.

Keep an eye on Cathedral’s Cole Hocker in Saturday’s 1500m final. 7:40am. At 20, the kid is not only holding his own with the big dogs but quite possibly has the most lethal finishing kick in the world.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/tokyo-summer-olympics/katie-nageotte-ohio-wins-gold-in-pole-vault-3rd-us-woman-in-history-tokyo-olympics/2581435/ Ohio's Katie Nageotte Wins Gold in Pole Vault, 3rd US Woman in History to Do So

Shot put Silver medalist Joe Kovacs is also a Penn State alum. https://www.si.com/college/pennstate/olympic-sports/joe-kovacs-wins-olympic-silver-in-the-shot-put

Mid Eastern Conference has a jamboree on August 13th at Eastern Hancock. EH, Monroe Central, Shenandoah, and Wes-Del.

Memorial vs Castle at 6:00 pm next Friday

https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/we-must-hear-from-this-man-devine/ On the 17th floor of a non-descript Manhattan office building, opposite Hudson Yards, part of the deadliest coverup in human history was hatched last year, alleges a devastating congressional report into the origins of Covid-19 There, on the corner of 34th street and 10th Avenue, is the headquarters of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit devoted to “Wildlife Conservation”, whose big-noting, British-born founder, Peter Daszak, somehow wound up at the center of a pandemic that has killed millions of people around the world. The House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican minority report, released this week, found “strong evidence that suggests Daszak is the public face of a CCP [Chinese Communist Party] disinformation campaign designed to suppress public discussion about a potential lab leak. “Daszak attempted to hide his close association with [China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology] while he referred to anyone in the scientific community who said a lab leak should be investigated as promoting a ‘conspiracy theory’.” What an irony, considering this is the very same Daszak whose word was treated as gospel by Facebook when it censored any mention that the virus leaked from the Chinese lab he part funded that was conducting Frankenstein “gain of function” research on bat viruses. Talk about a conflict of interest. Daszak, 55, has studiously avoided answering questions asked by Congress about what happened in Wuhan. While EcoHealth didn’t do research, the government agencies which funded it — the NIH, the Department of Defense, USAID — relied on Daszak to procure disease samples in foreign countries, said a former colleague of Daszak. “The process of collecting disease samples requires having all the necessary contacts in the foreign country, the politics aligned in that country, and the money,” according to the ex-colleague. In other words, the money was for access to Chinese viruses, Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID director, and leaders of the NIH, always had final approval authority on grants and contracts. Daszak was working hand in glove with Fauci, our top expert directing the nation’s response to the pandemic. Together, they wilfully misled us about the origin of the virus. They were willing to run the Chinese line and defend the Wuhan Institute this past year, even after the State Department confirmed that military research was being conducted there. Daszak’s orchestration of the shameful Lancet letter in February 2020, “debunking” the lab leak hypothesis as a “conspiracy theory” is highlighted in the congressional report. It quotes from emails which “show Daszak’s effort to organize a large group of scientists to sign onto a statement that he personally drafted,” taking care that EcoHealth alliance was not linked to the letter. “We’ll… put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration,” he wrote in one of the emails The Lancet declared at the time that the authors had “no competing interest,” despite the fact Daszak organized the letter on behalf of the Chinese researchers “who he funded and with whom he collaborated”, said the congressional report. It is a scandal which the once prestigious medical journal has never properly acknowledged. It just quietly, four months later, added an update suggesting Daszak might have ”competing interests” Daszak and his Chinese collaborators engaged in “bullying other scientists who questioned whether the virus could have leaked from a lab; misleading the world about how a virus can be modified without leaving a trace; and, in many, instances directly lying about the nature of the research they were conducting, as well as the low-level safety protocols they were using for that research,” said the congressional report. He appeared to spend much of last year isolating in the affluent arcadia of Rockland County in his million-dollar two-storey gabled white clapboard, nestled between a country club and the forests of the Ramapo Mountains. But someone disturbed his peace last August, when the FBI reportedly paid him a call after he reported receiving an envelope in the mail containing white powder. The following day Daszak got physical with a News 12 cameraman filming outside his house. The footage which aired that night showed a strenuous tussle for the camera and an angry Daszak can be heard saying “Go away”. Ever since, Daszak has successfully evaded scrutiny. At last, the finger of blame is pointing directly at him, from Congress. But this was a GOP-only report. Democrats refused to use their majority powers to issue subpoenas and compel Daszak to give evidence. There’s no excuse for that. The origin of the pandemic should be a bipartisan issue. If we don’t know what happened in Wuhan in 2019, how can we avoid a repeat performance? Naw - it's just a conspiracy theory.....

US Men's basketball team comes back from being 15 down in the first half to beat Australia by 19 to advance to the Gold Medal game. KD was a big part of the 48-14 run.

Well, you're only as old as you feel. I get a feeling you feel a whole lot younger than your age! Attended a regional championship game @ the Reitz Bowl in 2005 (Avon 42 Evans. Reitz 35). It is indeed the best and most historic venue in the state. And even had Reitz won that game, I would still feel the same way.

Wow. Awesome show. Every throw Crouser made exceeded the old Olympic record. All 6.

I was trying to find a SAC 2021 thread or something to post this in, but figured what the heck and just make a tew topic/thread for it. Carroll QB Jeff Becker announced last night via Twitter that he was committing to the South Dakota State Jackrabbits. Congrats to him! He can certainly sling the ball around.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/03/delta-plus-coronavirus-variant-explained/ South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that it had recorded at least two cases of the new coronavirus delta-plus variant, which some experts believe to be more transmissible than the original delta variant that was first detected in India and has since thwarted plans for returning to life before the pandemic. But what do we know about “delta plus,” yet another new variant causing alarm among governments and health officials? First identified in Europe in March, the variant is also known as B. 1.617.2.1 or AY.1. It has been detected in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and India. Last month, experts in India labeled the variant one of concern and warned that it appeared to be more transmissible than most. Citing studies, the country’s health ministry said that the variant has the ability to bind more easily to lung cells and could be resistant to therapies used to treat the infection.Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh announced Friday that up to 70 cases of the delta-plus variant were detected in genome sequencing as of July 23, Hindustan Times reported. How India has weathered the devastation of the delta variant and how it has named the delta-plus variant as one of concern should place public health leaders on notice, said James E.K. Hildreth, president and chief executive of Meharry Medical College. “We’ve got to be more willing to consider observations made in other countries dealing with [the coronavirus],” he said, noting that the relative of the highly contagious delta variant is concerning. “Again, we saw what happen with delta in India and how quickly it spread … Why would we think the delta-plus variant would be different?” The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium has since said that the delta-plus variant is unlikely to be more transmissible than the delta variant and trends have yet to emerge, according to Hindustan Times. The variant was listed as one of concern by the international health agency, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will continue to evaluate its independent classification. However, Melita Vujnovic, World Health Organization representative to Russia, said last month that face coverings and vaccinations will be needed to fight the latest variant. Last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Europe was still “on thin ice” and expressed caution that authorities across the continent should remain “cautiously optimistic.” “We must remain watchful, new variants in particular, notably the delta variant, mean we must be cautious,” she said during her last government statement. In the United Kingdom, where more than 72 percent of adults have been fully vaccinated, the delta variant has accounted for nearly all new infections, even though coronavirus cases overall are on the decline. At least 39 confirmed cases of the delta-plus variant have been found in the country, along with six probable ones, according to a July briefing from Public Health England. The virus has not appeared to have gained intense traction on British soil, said Colin Angus, a public health policy modeler and analyst in England. The “plus” of the variant’s name refers to its K417N spike protein mutation, which was also found in some substrains of the alpha variant — the dominant strain in the country before the delta variant — but the substrains never got a foothold, he explained. “To date, there is no clear evidence that it conveys enough of a benefit to the virus to allow it to dominate the original delta variant,” he said. “So although it is clearly here, there is no obvious sign that it has gained a foothold over existing variants of the virus.” Angus also noted that delta-plus cases have primarily been in younger people but that preliminary data has shown that antibodies from vaccinated people are still effective against the variant. “This was in a very small sample,” he said of the data. “We need more evidence to get a clear picture about any possible advantage against vaccines that delta plus may have, but the fact that we haven’t seen it clearly outcompete delta despite having been found in several countries with high vaccination rates, suggests that any advantage can only be very small.” Richard Novak, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of Illinois Health, said it is too soon to say how the delta-plus variant could evade vaccines or whether it is more infectious than the original. He noted that the variant is alarming, as it is related to the more contagious delta variant and coming at a time when breakthrough cases are popping up among the vaccinated. “This is just a process of natural selection and selecting viruses that are more contagious. All viruses want to do is reproduce themselves. The ones that do become the dominant virus,” he said. “We’re going to see other variants. It’s on a continuum. The variants are likely to get more efficient as time goes on.” The variant and the others that the CDC is monitoring greatly underscore the need for ramped-up vaccination efforts, Hildreth said, pointing out the large swaths of the population who are still unvaccinated and minority communities with underlying health conditions that make them more susceptible to variants. “The virus is not going to wait around for us to get our act together,” he said. “We’re in danger of something that’s going to set us back.” Is anyone else NOT surprised? The "Delta Plus" variant......That's gonna be worse than the Delta, that's already worse than the original.....(but it's really not).....

Obviously not... LOL.

Do you guys still think IB stands for indy bound? Lol

California's New Animal Welfare Law Could Mean The End Of Bacon https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1023708278/bacon-california-animal-law Yet another reason to stay the hell away from California.