Medical Marvels & More
The following three items are from nypost.com, each edited by yours truly: Modern medicine never ceases to amaze. Dogs in Japan are being trained to recognize the scent of stomach cancer in urine samples, while in Croatia canines can already sense seizures. Scientists hope to eventually mimic dogs’ sense of smell via “e-noses,” which doctors hope to use to diagnose disease… And, in a similar vein, a headline states: “‘Robocats’ are helping the elderly combat loneliness.” Added bonus: “No feeding, no cat litter, no allergic reactions, no shedding — and only the batteries die, not the robot pets.”… A new blood test under development can help detect 20 kinds of cancer. Only 0.6% of healthy blood samples came back with incorrect indications.
In 1968 a couple purchased a two-family house in the Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn for $40,000. Several episodes of TV’s Rescue Me were filmed there. It is now on the market for $1.99 million. And here it is:
NFL: Game Two of the NY Giants Daniel Jones era went well, although there was a drop-off in his play. Their next opponent, the Vikings, will provide a much tougher test than the woeful Redskins… For the second straight game the Chiefs run defense was putrid… The Patriots are alone on the highest plain. All the other contenders are a least a notch below. The Cowboys and especially the Rams are suddenly suspect… Is the Jags’ Leonard Fournette finally mature enough to bring his enormous talent to each game?… Does it matter who the starting QB for the Bears is? They are defense first.
It sure looks like the left is engaged in a coup d’etat. They are acting as if they have no shot to win a general election versus President Trump, so he must be taken down another way. The latest gambit is the Ukraine kerfuffle. The President’s chief counsel, Jay Sekulow, just told Sean Hannity that in the late ‘90’s treaties were signed with Ukraine, Australia and other countries that allow the exchange of security info, which seems to put the kibosh on the new charges, although I doubt the Dems and the mainstream media will cease their badgering. If this fails, they will simply find or conjure something else. They are already hoping for violent storms and recession, but haven’t figured out how to cause them.
The lack of parking at my usual nook again sent me to my alternate site at Bay Parkway, and it proved fortuitous thanks to Bad News Billy, who bought a couple of Yankees trinkets, a Monopoly game with a Bronx Bombers theme, and ten books in Russian for the medical staff that treated him while he was in the hospital after a recent accident. He left his coffee pot on a burner. It set off all his smoke alarms. That’s the kind of thing my mom did when she first started to lose it. As always, thank you, my friend, and also to the kind folks who purchased books in Russian; and to the young mom who let her little guy pick out two kids’ books; and to the woman who chose Tapas: 100 Everyday Recipes.
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