Colleagues Worry Feinstein Is Now Mentally Unfit to Serve [Click] This is not news, but the San Francisco Chronicle article given as the source for the post is far more detailed and extensive than anything I have read previously.
If you inspect the left-most part of the photo, you'll see two more. If I had taken a photo of the whole tree, you would have seen more than 20 Cedar Waxwings. They were everywhere! But I think eventually they pair up within the flock as well.
Russia’s repayment of foreign currency bonds in rubles could be considered a default if it does not reverse course and pay in dollars, Moody’s, the ratings agency said on Thursday.
President Vladimir V. Putin acknowledged on Thursday that sanctions were already disrupting Russia’s lucrative oil and gas sector, undermining exports and raising costs for the industry.
half a dozen Russian ships in the Black Sea have moved farther away from the Ukrainian coast. . . , lending credence to Ukraine’s claim it hit the ship with a missile.
France is going to move its embassy back to Kyiv. . .
Russian troops have advanced into the center of. . . Mariupol and have seized a metal plant that was one of the remaining strongholds for Ukrainian forces defending the city. Echoes of Stalingrad.
European Union officials are drafting. . . an embargo on Russian oil products.
Bloomberg: Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Rises [Click]“U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose to a three-month high in early April as optimism about job growth and wage expectations more than outweighed decades-high inflation”
Colleagues Worry Feinstein Is Now Mentally Unfit to Serve [Click] This is not news, but the San Francisco Chronicle article given as the source for the post is far more detailed and extensive than anything I have read previously.
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ReplyDeleteIn re the lead photo, I thought cedar waxwings congregated in flocks rather than pairs.
ReplyDeleteIf you inspect the left-most part of the photo, you'll see two more. If I had taken a photo of the whole tree, you would have seen more than 20 Cedar Waxwings. They were everywhere! But I think eventually they pair up within the flock as well.
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ReplyDeleteRussia’s repayment of foreign currency bonds in rubles could be considered a default if it does not reverse course and pay in dollars, Moody’s, the ratings agency said on Thursday.
President Vladimir V. Putin acknowledged on Thursday that sanctions were already disrupting Russia’s lucrative oil and gas sector, undermining exports and raising costs for the industry.
half a dozen Russian ships in the Black Sea have moved farther away from the Ukrainian coast. . . , lending credence to Ukraine’s claim it hit the ship with a missile.
France is going to move its embassy back to Kyiv. . .
Russian troops have advanced into the center of. . . Mariupol and have seized a metal plant that was one of the remaining strongholds for Ukrainian forces defending the city. Echoes of Stalingrad.
European Union officials are drafting. . . an embargo on Russian oil products.
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ReplyDeleteBloomberg: Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Rises [Click]“U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose to a three-month high in early April as optimism about job growth and wage expectations more than outweighed decades-high inflation”
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ReplyDelete'I'm shocked by my church leaders in Moscow' - priest in Ukraine [Click] It must be hard indeed.
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