4 Billion US$ Startup

In less than one year, these two boys, Din Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev (pic), founded a business called Decart, which attracted investments from Nvidia and Amazon, now worth 4 billion US dollars. A year of war, bombardment, fear. 

Magic!

Internet swamp

 A post on X claims there are 100,000 articles on Hantavirus, suggesting it is a Moderna campaign to frighten the world. The reason given is that Moderna has many vaccines in store that need to be sold.

The internet has turned into a psychological battleground; it is difficult to make sense of it. Anyway, for me, the whole thing is irrelevant. 

The Coming Plague

 The Spanish passenger of the Antarctic voyage suspected of contact with the Hantavirus was put off on an isolated islet in the Canaries.  After the Regina Coeli Sunday morning prayer, Pope Leo XIV thanked the people of the Canary Islands for allowing the arrival of the MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak. 

The British passenger was landed on Tristan da Cunha. 

Tristan da Cunha — the world's most remote inhabited island.

It sits in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly halfway between South Africa and South America. It's a British Overseas Territory with only about 200 residents, no airstrip, and normally accessible only by a six-day boat journey.

A British Army specialist team of 8 people — six paratroopers and two military clinicians — parachuted from an RAF A400M aircraft onto the island after a suspected Hantavirus case was confirmed in a British national who had been a passenger on a cruise ship hit by an outbreak.

The logistics were extraordinary: The A400M flew 6,788 km from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, refuelling mid-flight from a RAF Voyager tanker aircraft, before reaching the island. Haaretz

Pandemic on the making

 Hantavirus causes respiratory disease. The cruise ship cluster is grabbing attention because of the person-to-person transmission via the Andes strain, and because passengers from many countries disembarked before the outbreak was detected.   The colalarga rat transmitted the mutated Hantavirus to a passenger of the cruise ship, killing several other passengers. Now they are trying to localize those who came into contact with an infected persons. One woman who flew in the same plane has been identified, and she is dead. They are trying to stop the epidemic before it endangers the whole world. 

My Alma Mater

From the La Plata El Dia, Argentina:

"Our faculty has an enormous pending debt with the educational system, since more than 70% of the students who enter do not go to the second year," Marín warned in one of the strongest passages of his message; "the graduation rate is lower compared to that observed 10 years ago." In that sense, he compared that before it reached 67% while today it is around 18%"

I don't believe that in 2016, 67% graduated, because in my time, graduating classes were no more than 10% of the entrants. I don't know exactly how many graduated in my class because I was the first to finish and left La Plata the day I passed the last exam. 

The Ebal Mountain

 

Har Ebal, the Samaritan Jews' sacred mountain. Taken in 2012.

In the Book of Joshua, after the Battle of Ai, Joshua built an altar of unhewn stones there, the Israelites then made peace offerings on it, the Law of Moses was written onto the stones, and the Israelites split into two groups and pronounced blessings and curses as instructed there.

In February 2021 a portion of the site was destroyed by the Palestinian Authority and the stones were ground up and used to pave the road.

President Trump Negotiating

 
US President Donald Trump told Fox News that Iran would be "blown off the face of the earth' if it attacks the US naval vessels escorting merchant vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.