宇都宮地方気象台と前橋地方気象台は１５日までに、栃木、群馬両県で１１日に起きた突風は、積乱雲から吹き下ろした冷気が地上付近の暖かい空気とぶつかって生じる「ガストフロント」の可能性が高いと発表した。
両気象台によると、１１日午後２時半ごろに足利市や群馬県桐生市、太田市で発生した突風は、風速約３５メートルと推定。当時は活発な積乱雲が付近を通過中で、現地調査では、住宅の屋根瓦がめくれる被害があった。
１１日午後３時ごろに佐野市で発生した突風は推定風速約３０メートルで、ガストフロントか、積乱雲から強い下降気流が吹き下ろす「ダウンバースト」の可能性が高いとしている。産経新聞
| 全体 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| うち高齢者 | |||||
| 回数 | 接種率 | 回数 | 接種率 | ||
| 合計 | 65,180,178 | ― | 46,672,246 | ― | |
| うち１回以上接種者 | 40,156,708 | 31.6% | 28,134,893 | 79.3% | |
| うち２回接種完了者 | 25,023,470 | 19.7% | 18,537,353 | 52.2% | |
尖閣諸島（沖縄県石垣市）周辺の領海外側にある接続水域で１５日、中国海警局の船４隻が航行しているのを海上保安庁の巡視船が確認した。尖閣周辺で中国当局の船が確認されるのは１５３日連続。平成２４年９月の尖閣国有化以降で最長の連続日数を更新した。産経新聞
史上初の投打同時先発出場で米球界の歴史を塗り替えただけでなく、勝ち星もつかんだ。「二刀流」でファンを魅了した大谷は「野球が好きな人たちがこれだけ集まってくれて、いい雰囲気だった」と充実感を漂わせた。
表面はクールでもハートは燃えていた。見せたのが投球だ。先頭の今季ナ・リーグ最多28本塁打のタティス（パドレス）をスライダーで左飛に打ち取って波に乗り、次打者は速球で二ゴロ。3番のアレナド（カージナルス）はこの日最速の100・2マイル（約161キロ）の速球で追い込み、最後はスプリットで遊ゴロに仕留めた。
全14球中7球の速球は全て96マイル（約154キロ）超。「普段は初回から三振ばかりを狙ったりしないが、今日は全部（三振を）取りにいった」と強打者に力勝負を挑んだ。三振は奪えなかったものの見事3者凡退に抑えた。
一方、打撃は一、三回の2打席とも内野ゴロ。今季両リーグトップ33本塁打の長打力を発揮できなかった。途中交代後、報道陣の取材に応じた際は汗だくで、思わず「疲れた」と本音が漏れた。前半戦は獅子奮迅の働きで球界の顔となり、球宴期間中もイベントなどで引っ張りだこ。日本選手として初出場した前日の本塁打競争で息が上がり、珍しく両膝に手をついたように、タフな27歳もさすがに疲労の色は隠せなかった。
「野球の立ち直りに貢献」
ア・リーグを指揮したレイズのキャッシュ監督は記者会見で「（大谷が）試合のため、ファンのためにしてくれたことに感謝したい。彼の才能は、新型コロナウイルスの流行から野球が立ち直ることに大きく貢献している」と最大限の賛辞を贈り、ねぎらった。
「試合だけではなく、準備の仕方やどんな練習をやっていくかとか、すごく勉強になった」と大谷。スター選手たちと過ごした2日間で、さらなる進化のヒントを得たのだろう。日本選手初の本塁打王と自身初の2桁勝利を目指し、後半戦も突っ走る。【デンバー福永方人】毎日新聞
今回で２度目のノミネートとなる台湾出身の李琴峰（り・ことみ）さん（３１）が、多くの歴史的作家を輩出してきた芥川賞を射止めた。受賞会見で今の気持ちを聞かれると、「一番感謝しないといけないのは、これまで李琴峰作品を読んで応援してくれた読者の皆さん」と謝意を述べた。
日本語以外を母国語とする作家が獲得したのは、平成２０年の楊逸（ヤンイー）さん以来で２人目となる。尊敬する楊逸さんに続く受賞を「本当に光栄に思う」と喜ぶ。
受賞作の「彼岸花の咲く島」では、＜ニホン語＞と＜女語＞、＜ひのもとことば＞という架空の３つの言語が使われる。さまざまな言語に接してきたからこそ表現できる不思議な世界が展開される。
日本語を学び始めたのは中学２年のころ。２５年に日本に留学して就職。その後、小説を書き始め、２９年に群像新人文学賞優秀作となった「独舞」（単行本は「独り舞」に改題）でデビュー。セクシュアル・マイノリティー（性的少数者）をテーマに、小説を書き続けてきた。
生まれつき習得したわけではない日本語で作品を発表し続けている。その理由を「日本に住んでいて、日本語で日々の生活をしている。だから、日本語で書くのはある種、大変だけれど自然なことになっている」と語る。
過去の作品では、多様な性的アイデンティティーを持つ女性が登場したり、ウイグルの問題を取り上げたりしてきた。「作品一作ごとに、日本文学というものを確実的にアップデートしているという自負がある」と話す。
July 14, 2021
July 14, 2021
The Long and Short of It
Dear Patriots,
Sometimes we can share with you short bits of news because that is all you need to know about a story.
Sometimes we need to dig a little deeper.
Today, we are sharing two longer articles that go into a lot of detail. We have pulled some of the "money quotes" but, we urge you to spend some time reading them in full.
Also today, we add a few quick hits.
THE LONG
1- Hopefully, by now, you are aware of former NYTimes reporter Alex Berenson and the deep diving he has been doing for almost two years on all the issues related to Covid-CCP. He has received, as you can imagine, a lot of push back from the left. And yet he continues to share his research.
By the way, Alex has written several short books on his Covid research. He also writes the fictional John Wells spy series. His recent stand alone fiction book, "The Power Couple" is a good twisty, exciting summer beach read.
In this piece from his Substack page, Alex examines many serious questions surrounding the vaccine and the trials the billion dollar drug companies did prior to forcing them on all humans.
He looks into the data from heavily vaccinated countries, Israel, Scotland and England and finds disturbing but unreported news on the efficacy of the vaccines.
As Alex writes: "As public health authorities and the media press vaccinations ever harder on young people - who are at almost no risk from Covid anyway - their unwillingness to face difficult realities will only feed conspiracy theories and resistance"
Read More Here:
Vaccines, reasons for concern, part 3
QUOTE: This meant that when Pfizer and Moderna said in November 2020 their vaccines were about 95% effective at preventing Covid, what they meant was that the vaccines were 95% effective at peak protection FOR A MATTER OF WEEKS.
Neither the companies nor anyone else had any way of knowing how well the vaccines would work in a year, much less in five years - or 20 years. They simply did not have any long-term data. How could they? The vaccines hadn't even existed until months before, and they used technology that had never been approved for any drug or vaccine.
But the political and media pressure to encourage vaccinations was enormous. Public health experts ignored these potential pitfalls. Instead they decided to press vaccinations as quickly as possible on everyone.
QUOTE: I hope it is clear by now that to know for sure just how quickly the vaccines lose their effectiveness will require very careful AND HONEST statistical analysis of complex data.
Instead of offering that, however, American public health authorities are doubling down on their promise of vaccine effectiveness. They trumpet unverified statistics that appear increasingly implausible in the light of the more granular data coming from Israel and especially Britain (which has excellent data from a national health care system and a commitment to publishing weekly reports that cannot be easily manipulated).
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2- We are big fans of the writings and thinking of professor and military historian, Victor Davis Hanson.
This piece is a litany of events that have been foisted upon us in the last four years. It is a long list. It is no wonder we sometimes get discouraged. This historian makes a bold prediction. It is not a good one for the left.
Reading the quotes alone does not do the writing justice.
Read More Here:
Trump Winds and Biden Whirlwinds
QUOTE: The ties that bound all these melodramas over the last four years were threefold: 1) venomous hatred of outlier, controversial, and combative Trump; 2) the sanctimonious, near-religious belief that any means necessary were justified in the noble aim of destroying his presidency—and damn any lasting damage to traditional customs and constitutional norms; and 3) no counterforce would ever dream of doing to the Left what it was doing to destroy Trump.
QUOTE: The Left is well on its way to incurring a pushback in 2022 comparable to 2010, with the potential to make the Tea Party boomerang seem like small stuff. And the difference this time around is that there are no customs, no traditions left in treatment accorded a political opponent in office. No one any longer knows what is fair play and what is out of bounds, but only what the Democrats have left us as the new normal: if you deem a candidate, a president-elect, and a president a radical threat to your agenda, then any means necessary to destroy or to remove him and his enablers are not merely legal but absolutely moral and necessary—and damned be the damage to the nation.
What has been sown into the Trump wind, will likely be reaped in the Biden whirlwind.
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THE SHORT
1- This is happening because YOU are engaged and informed and YOU are fighting back!!
Report: CRT wars are taking toll on lefty administrators
QUOTE: File this report under "good news if true." According to NBC News, opposition to attempts to impose left-wing race-oriented propaganda in America's schools is taking a toll on those who are trying to impose it.
NBC leads its story with the case of Rydell Harrison, the superintendent of the Easton-Redding-Region 9 School Districts in Connecticut. He resigned after coming under fire from parents opposed to CRT.
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2- Rare push back from the right.
Consumer group attacks 'woke' MLB and Ticketmaster in seven-figure ad buy
QUOTE: The conservative consumer group, which launched its Consumers First Initiative in May targeting American Airlines, Nike, and Coca-Cola, now has its sights set on Major League Baseball and Ticketmaster. Its campaign against the two companies features a seven-figure ad buy that will run nationally and in the local markets where both businesses are headquartered.
The first ad attacks MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred over the league's decision to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest of Republican-backed voting legislation. The ad, titled "Losing Record," accuses Manfred of "parroting dishonest, partisan talking points" about the Georgia law.
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3- Know the facts before you vax.
FDA to Add Warning to J&J Vaccine of 'Serious But Rare' Autoimmune Disorder
QUOTE: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will announce a new warning on Johnson & Johnson's COVID vaccine saying the shot is linked to Guillain–Barré syndrome. In April, the agency added a warning about blood clotting disorders to the J&J shot.
According to The New York Times, the chances of developing GBS after receiving the J&J shot is three to five times higher than would be expected in the general population in the U.S.
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4- Many people had Covid-CCP long before anyone knew what it was.
COVID Began Far Earlier Than We Were Told
QUOTE: Europe, French researchers said they found traces of covid-19 in Nov 2019...scientists from National Cancer Institute of Milan and University of Siena found 10% of blood samples from a cancer screening trial contained COVID antibodies... samples included some from Sept 2019.
According to the study, 11.6% of individuals in a lung cancer clinical trial, months before the known COVID outbreak, had already been exposed to the virus. As antibodies take several weeks post infection to develop, it's likely that some individuals had active infections in August 2019, or perhaps much earlier as antibody detection offers a minimum, not maximum, time window post-infection.
Similar findings were described in the U.S. Antibody tests run on American Red Cross blood donations from December 2019 to January 2020 showed just over 1% of blood donations contained COVID-19 antibodies, suggesting that the virus was active in the U.S. in the fall of 2019, perhaps earlier.
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5- We do not usually talk about global warming but it is interesting that when it comes to polluting the earth, the biggest offender is ...China.
Climate change: Just 25 mega-cities emit 52 per cent of the world's urban greenhouse gases
QUOTE: Just over half of the world's urban greenhouse gas emissions come from just 25 mega-cities — 23 of which are located in China — a study has reported.
The cities that emit the most greenhouse gases included Handan, Suzhou, Dalian, Beijing and Tianjin in China — but also Tokyo, Japan, and Moscow, Russia.
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6- Socialism never works. Ask a Cuban. They are in the street waving the American Flag. It must be confusing to the American elite left to know who to support. But, it won't be the people yearning for freedom. Pray for the people of Cuba.
Cuba: The Collapse Of Another Socialist Utopia? Let's Hope So
QUOTE: Like an unwatched pot suddenly violently boiling over, Havana and other cities have erupted in defiant protests by Cubans fed up with living in their perpetually depressed tropical police state. True to form, the Castroite regime has already reflexively cracked down on the protests with brutality.
Cubans weary of being treated like animals without rights took to the streets, shouting "Freedom!" "Down with the dictatorship," and, most pointedly, "Down with communism!" In some cases, protesters carried American flags. This was not an isolated demonstration: According to the Spanish-language data site Inventario, some 63 cities and towns were roiled by demonstrations on Sunday through early Monday.
7- The Biden Regime is gearing up to spy on your text messages.
No One Undermined Coronavirus Vaccine Confidence More than Biden and Harris
QUOTE: Although no one has done more to undermine confidence in the coronavirus vaccine than His Fraudulency Joe Biden and Her Vice Fraudulency Kamala Harris, the flailing White House is now blaming the political right's "fake news" and "false information" for the slowdown in vaccination rates.
To combat that, the administration is turning to fascism, coercion, and spying.
None of that will work. If the government muscles the FDA to approve the vaccine, the vaccine-hesitant will simply say, and not without cause, The government muscled the FDA to approve the vaccine. Other than increasing resentment towards the government and our institutions, the other three items on that list will change nothing.
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Of course, we will break in with urgent news.
Read. Learn. Study. Share. Pray. But not necessarily in that order!
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エンゼルスの大谷翔平投手（２７）が「１番・投手」で出場。一回は投手として三者凡退に抑えた。
大谷は初回、球宴ならではの気遣いを見せる場面もあった。２死無走者で対戦したアレナド（カージナルス）は昨季まで同地を本拠とするロッキーズに主力選手として所属。打席に入る際に古巣ファンはスタンディングオベーションで出迎えた。一段と盛り上がった雰囲気に、大谷もマウンドを外して時間を作る配慮をみせた。
しかし、その後の対戦ではエンジン全開。アレナドに１６０キロ超えの直球を３球投げ、最後はスプリットで遊ゴロに仕留めた。
降板後、大谷はアレナドへの気遣いについて「もちろんそうです」と意図的にマウンドを外したことを明かし、「だいたい予想というか、一番のスター選手でしたし、シーズン中もそうなので。どこに行ってもそういう感じかなと思います」と振り返った。
投打同時出場は１９３３年に始まり、９１回目の開催となるオールスター戦で初の偉業。試合開始前には外野やブルペンで投手としての調整。スタメン発表では５万超のファンから大歓声を浴びた。
その後、ベンチに戻る際には３階席に向かって練習していたボールを投げ込むファンサービス。さらに、外野付近に落ちていたゴミを拾い、ポケットへ。普段と変わらない大谷らしさを発揮、落ち着いた様子だった。デイリースポーツ
