She has both box sets not sure if the LOTR is the extended versions!
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It will say on the box. It's like 40-60 minutes extra per movie. And its the closest they can get to recreate the book in visual format.
Except for that they left out Tom Bombadil. Thats the only flaw I have with the movies.
It doesn't appear to be extended version!
Still worth a watch. Just going to miss out on The Mouth of Sauron and a few bits inbetween.
Absolutely worth a watch. I love them, they’re so well done!
Comedy of errors in Argentine TV Shakespeare mix-up
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57287764
29 May 2021
"One man in his time really does play many parts, it seems, according to an Argentine newsreader who mixed up the author William Shakespeare with the first man to receive a Pfizer jab.
Canal 26 presenter Noelia Novillo announced that "one of the most important writers in the English language - for me the master" had died.
In fact it was his namesake, William "Bill" Shakespeare, 81, who died in a hospital in England earlier this week.
Shakespeare "The Bard" died in 1616.
However, that was news to Novillo who told her audience on Thursday: "We've got news that has stunned all of us given the greatness of this man. We're talking about William Shakespeare and his death. We'll let you know how and why it happened."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57287764
29 May 2021
"One man in his time really does play many parts, it seems, according to an Argentine newsreader who mixed up the author William Shakespeare with the first man to receive a Pfizer jab.
Canal 26 presenter Noelia Novillo announced that "one of the most important writers in the English language - for me the master" had died.
In fact it was his namesake, William "Bill" Shakespeare, 81, who died in a hospital in England earlier this week.
Shakespeare "The Bard" died in 1616.
However, that was news to Novillo who told her audience on Thursday: "We've got news that has stunned all of us given the greatness of this man. We're talking about William Shakespeare and his death. We'll let you know how and why it happened."
What we know so far about Covid-19 immunity -- and what it means for vaccine boosters
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/28/health/covid-19-immunity-booster-shots-wellness/index.html
28 May 2021
"When a person has "immunity," in general, that means they have protection against a disease. Active immunity can be acquired either through vaccination or infection. Your immune system develops antibodies either induced by the vaccination or in response to the infection -- and either immune response can maintain a "memory." …
And even if someone recovered from a previous infection and has a natural immunity, vaccinations can help give their immune memory a boost …
Two new studies this week add to the growing body of evidence that suggests natural immunity to the coronavirus after someone recovers from Covid-19 can be long lasting -- possibly at least a year. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't get vaccinated. It also doesn't mean immunity will last forever.
One study, published in the journal Nature on Monday, found that immune cells in the bone marrow of people who were infected with coronavirus have a "memory" of the infection that can be long-lived.
The other research, published in the journal EClinicalMedicine on Monday, found that Covid-19 antibodies remained detectable some 10 months after infection among people who had recovered.
Bone marrow cells may maintain a memory of Covid-19 for at least 11 months after someone is infected. These cells are an "essential" source of protective antibodies, according to the new study published in Nature.
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis examined blood samples from 77 people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The researchers found an initial decrease in the presence of Covid-19 antibodies after infection, but between four and 11 months the decline slowed …
As many as 9 in 10 people infected with the coronavirus develop natural immunity against the virus that is "sustained with little decay" up to 10 months after their initial infection, suggests the EClinicalMedicine study, conducted by researchers at the national clinical laboratory Labcorp.
The researchers found that about 90% recovered Covid-19 patients tested in the study had detectable antibodies by 21 days following infection -- and antibody rates remained around 90%, given some variability, up to 300 days... "
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/28/health/covid-19-immunity-booster-shots-wellness/index.html
28 May 2021
"When a person has "immunity," in general, that means they have protection against a disease. Active immunity can be acquired either through vaccination or infection. Your immune system develops antibodies either induced by the vaccination or in response to the infection -- and either immune response can maintain a "memory." …
And even if someone recovered from a previous infection and has a natural immunity, vaccinations can help give their immune memory a boost …
Two new studies this week add to the growing body of evidence that suggests natural immunity to the coronavirus after someone recovers from Covid-19 can be long lasting -- possibly at least a year. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't get vaccinated. It also doesn't mean immunity will last forever.
One study, published in the journal Nature on Monday, found that immune cells in the bone marrow of people who were infected with coronavirus have a "memory" of the infection that can be long-lived.
The other research, published in the journal EClinicalMedicine on Monday, found that Covid-19 antibodies remained detectable some 10 months after infection among people who had recovered.
Bone marrow cells may maintain a memory of Covid-19 for at least 11 months after someone is infected. These cells are an "essential" source of protective antibodies, according to the new study published in Nature.
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis examined blood samples from 77 people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The researchers found an initial decrease in the presence of Covid-19 antibodies after infection, but between four and 11 months the decline slowed …
As many as 9 in 10 people infected with the coronavirus develop natural immunity against the virus that is "sustained with little decay" up to 10 months after their initial infection, suggests the EClinicalMedicine study, conducted by researchers at the national clinical laboratory Labcorp.
The researchers found that about 90% recovered Covid-19 patients tested in the study had detectable antibodies by 21 days following infection -- and antibody rates remained around 90%, given some variability, up to 300 days... "
22-year-old becomes America’s first vaccine incentive millionaire
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/wa...ank-call-00fcf1ac-f88e-5627-a1c6-2615e96754c0
29 May 2021
"At first, Abbigail Bugenske thought it was a joke - maybe even a scam. A man had called from a number she didn't recognise and introduced himself as Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio.
"I thought it was a prank call," Bugenske told The Washington Post on Thursday, one day after her phone lit up and her life changed. "To make it even crazier, he said I had won a million dollars, so I definitely thought it was a prank call."
Turns out, he was serious: The caller was indeed DeWine, and Bugenske was one of the first winners of the state's Vax-a-Million lottery, a plan devised to drum up more interest in coronavirus vaccines.
"That was my very first notification that I was about to be a millionaire," said Bugenske, a 22-year-old resident of Silverton, near Cincinnati.
The lottery, one of a slew of vaccine incentive programmes in cities and states across the country, also awarded on Wednesday a full-ride scholarship for an Ohio public university to eighth-grader Joseph Costello. In all, the program will dole out $1 million prizes to five vaccinated adults and scholarships to five vaccinated teenagers..."
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/wa...ank-call-00fcf1ac-f88e-5627-a1c6-2615e96754c0
29 May 2021
"At first, Abbigail Bugenske thought it was a joke - maybe even a scam. A man had called from a number she didn't recognise and introduced himself as Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio.
"I thought it was a prank call," Bugenske told The Washington Post on Thursday, one day after her phone lit up and her life changed. "To make it even crazier, he said I had won a million dollars, so I definitely thought it was a prank call."
Turns out, he was serious: The caller was indeed DeWine, and Bugenske was one of the first winners of the state's Vax-a-Million lottery, a plan devised to drum up more interest in coronavirus vaccines.
"That was my very first notification that I was about to be a millionaire," said Bugenske, a 22-year-old resident of Silverton, near Cincinnati.
The lottery, one of a slew of vaccine incentive programmes in cities and states across the country, also awarded on Wednesday a full-ride scholarship for an Ohio public university to eighth-grader Joseph Costello. In all, the program will dole out $1 million prizes to five vaccinated adults and scholarships to five vaccinated teenagers..."
Primary school pupils to return to class daily from 26 July
https://www.enca.com/news/primary-school-pupils-to-return-to-class-daily-from-26-july
28 May 2021
"Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has gazetted that from 26 July primary school pupils must return to school daily. This includes pupils from special education needs schools.
And that means school attendance will be determined by the direction the pandemic is taking in the district municipality and country..."
https://www.enca.com/news/primary-school-pupils-to-return-to-class-daily-from-26-july
28 May 2021
"Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has gazetted that from 26 July primary school pupils must return to school daily. This includes pupils from special education needs schools.
And that means school attendance will be determined by the direction the pandemic is taking in the district municipality and country..."
Wasn't he "the first man in the UK to receive a vaccine", sometime in December 2020?
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COVID-19 'has NO credible natural ancestor' and WAS created by Chinese scientists who then tried to cover their tracks with 'retro-engineering' to make it seem like it naturally arose from bats, explosive new study claims
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-lab-tried-cover-tracks-new-study-claims.html
29 May 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-lab-tried-cover-tracks-new-study-claims.html
29 May 2021
- An explosive new study claims researchers found 'unique fingerprints' in COVID-19 samples that they say could only have arisen from manipulation in a laboratory
- DailyMail.com exclusively obtained the new 22-page paper authored by British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr. Birger Sørensen set to be published in the Quarterly Review of Biophysics Discovery
- The study showed there's evidence to suggest Chinese scientists created the virus while working on a Gain of Function project in a Wuhan lab
- Gain of Function research, which was temporarily outlawed in the US, involves altering naturally-occurring viruses to make them more infectious in order to study their potential effects on humans
- According to the paper, Chinese scientists took a natural coronavirus 'backbone' found in Chinese cave bats and spliced onto it a new 'spike', turning it into the deadly and highly transmissible COVID-19
- The researchers, who concluded that COVID-19 'has no credible natural ancestor', also believe scientists reverse-engineered versions of the virus to cover up their tracks
- 'We think that there have been retro-engineered viruses created,' Dalgleish told DailyMail.com. 'They've changed the virus, then tried to make out it was in a sequence years ago.'
- The study also points to 'deliberate destruction, concealment or contamination of data' in Chinese labs and notes that 'scientists who wished to share their findings haven't been able to do so or have disappeared'
- Until recently, most experts had staunchly denied the origins of the virus were anything other than a natural infection leaping from animals to humans
- Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci defended US funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying the $600,000 grant was not approved for Gain of Function research
No! That sounds like " the crazy conspiracy theory". Just ask @Adephi , he is an expert and knows everything about "conspiracy theorists" and "covidiots".
Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57296803
30 May 2021
"... Vietnam has uncovered a new Covid-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK," Mr Nguyen [Vietnam's Health Minister] told a government meeting, according to Reuters news agency.
Mr Nguyen said the new hybrid variant was more transmissible than previously known versions, especially in the air. He said it was discovered after running tests on newly-detected patients, online newspaper VnExpress reported.
He added that the genetic code of the virus would be made available soon..."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57296803
30 May 2021
"... Vietnam has uncovered a new Covid-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK," Mr Nguyen [Vietnam's Health Minister] told a government meeting, according to Reuters news agency.
Mr Nguyen said the new hybrid variant was more transmissible than previously known versions, especially in the air. He said it was discovered after running tests on newly-detected patients, online newspaper VnExpress reported.
He added that the genetic code of the virus would be made available soon..."
South Africans will be able to visit the Seychelles next week, after a 5-month ban
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/can-south-africans-travel-to-the-seychelles-2021-5
29 May 2021
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/can-south-africans-travel-to-the-seychelles-2021-5
29 May 2021
- The Seychelles is reopening to South African tourists on 1 June after being off limits for five months.
- Travellers won't have to be vaccinated to access the island nation, but are still "strongly encouraged" to get the jab before arriving.
- Visitors won't need to quarantine either but do need to complete a detailed Health Travel Authorisation (HTA) form before being allowed to fly.
- Air Seychelles will resume direct flights to South Africa on 5 June.
Here we go..
JUST IN | Ramaphosa to address the nation on stricter Covid-19 lockdown measures at 19:00
https://www.news24.com/news24/south...-stricter-covid-19-lockdown-measures-20210530
JUST IN | Ramaphosa to address the nation on stricter Covid-19 lockdown measures at 19:00
https://www.news24.com/news24/south...-stricter-covid-19-lockdown-measures-20210530
I just saw. You called it.
PA HET GEPRAAT...
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the Nation
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the Nation
Nobody can accurately predict. But if one sums up what is going on it doesn't look good.
- severe Covid fatigue
- 3 strains in the country
- a failed vaccination drive (although they are starting to pick up now)
- financially we are unable to go into a harder lockdown
There might be other points as well. But the point is this might just be the perfect Covid storm.
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