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☆ Rep. Boebert is locked in an unexpectedly close race. Some constituents say they're tired of a 'mini Trump.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Deon J. Hampton | Deon J. Hampton Is A National Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

As of Friday morning, Frisch trailed Boebert by 1,122 votes in the U.S. House race. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report had rated the district as solidly Republican ahead of Tuesday’s election. Trump won the district twice, capturing 53.1% of the vote in 2016 and 52.9% four years later. Boebert has since become a volatile figure within her district, opening the door for Frisch to get close to winning the seat, political experts said. Still, Boebert has a strong core of supporters and was leading Friday as the final votes were being tallied.

☆ 'Dangerous Liaisons' review: A Starz series version ratchets up the sexual politics while dragging out the story
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —For an 18th-century French novel, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” certainly got around, inspiring a play, the movies “Dangerous Liaisons” and “Valmont” in 1988 and ’89, respectively, and the twisted teen variant “Cruel Intentions.” Now comes a Starz series prequel, “Dangerous Liaisons,” which ratchets up the sex while dragging out (and out and out) the story. That cast includes “Phantom Thread’s” Lesley Manville and “Game of Thrones” alumni Carice Van Houten, Michael McElhatton and Tom Wlaschiha. Handsomely mounted, it’s nevertheless easy to dismiss “Dangerous Liaisons” (especially for those who lack a prior investment in the property) as being a somewhat edgier version of “Bridgerton” or less-comedic spin on “The Great,” both shows that scratch similar itches. In a vote of confidence, the network has already renewed “Dangerous Liaisons” for a second season in advance of its premiere, so those hoping for the finality that a limited series might have provided, be forewarned. “Dangerous Liaisons” premieres November 6 at 8 p.m.

☆ New 'Dangerous Liaisons' TV series 'a prelude, origin story', makers say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Hanna Rantala | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The new TV series sees the passionate love affair of protagonists Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont turn sour in pre-revolutionary Paris. "It is a prelude to what we see later with the book and the Malkovich version," Australian actor Nicholas Denton, who plays Valmont, told Reuters. The details made Warner wonder who the marquise, who goes by Camille and is played by Australian Alice Englert in the series, was before. "As key as discovering the way into Camille was the way into Valmont, that meant that you can understand his behaviour. The 8-episode first season of "Dangerous Liaisons" premieres on LIONSGATE+ on Sunday.

☆ Man, 34, charged with murder in Michigan hotel shooting that left worker dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

DEARBORN, Mich. — A man accused of killing a suburban Detroit hotel employee and barricading himself in a room for hours was charged Sunday with murder and other crimes. He is accused of fatally shooting a 55-year-old employee on the third floor of a Hampton Inn in Dearborn, Michigan. Williams-Lewis, who was told to leave the hotel, fatally shot an employee who rode an elevator to the third floor to check his co-workers, said Cpl. The hotel and surrounding businesses were evacuated for hours Thursday while police, with help from a lawyer, persuaded Williams-Lewis to peacefully give up. “I just kept saying the same thing over and over, talking to him about his family, telling him he wouldn’t get hurt if he surrendered,” Silver told The Detroit News.

For their study, Wilson and her colleagues first set out to train a variety of 20 pet dogs to point with their noses at samples from a person who was stressed. The dogs' accuracy at detecting the stress samples — from 90 percent to 96.88 percent — was even better than the researchers anticipated. Scientists discovered how a dog's sense of smell and the sense of vision are closely linked in its brain. She compared it to dogs who can smell cancer by picking out breath samples in a line-up. It’s hard to tell whether the dogs equate what they smell with actual feelings of stress, Houpt said.

☆ STUDIU: Varianta britanică de coronavirus nu provoacă forme mai grave de COVID-19
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-13 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Autorii primului studiu, publicat în The Lancet Infectious Diseases, au analizat datele a 341 de pacienţi cu COVID-19 spitalizaţi la Londra între 9 noiembrie şi 20 decembrie, odată cu apariţia variantei 501Y.V1, în prezent dominantă în mare parte din Europa.58% dintre ei au fost infectaţi cu această variantă, cunoscută sub numele de B.1.1.7, şi 42% cu alte tulpini.36% dintre pacienţii din primul grup s-au îmbolnăvit grav sau au murit, comparativ cu 38% din al doilea grup, sugerând că B.1.1.7 nu este asociată cu o severitate mai mare a bolii.Cu toate acestea, cercetătorii au arătat că probele provenite de la pacienţii infectaţi cu varianta britanică conţineau în medie o cantitate mai mare de virus, indicând o transmisibilitate mai ridicată.Al doilea studiu, publicat în The Lancet Public Health, a analizat datele a circa 37.000 de utilizatori ai unei aplicaţii mobile concepute în Marea Britanie pentru a raporta simptomele de COVID-19, care au fost diagnosticaţi pozitiv în perioada 28 septembrie - 27 decembrie.Plecând de la numărul de persoane care au raportat simptome săptămânal într-o anumită zonă, studiul a concluzionat că varianta "britanică" a avut o rată de reproducere de 1,35 ori mai mare, adică fiecare pacient contaminat a infectat în medie cu 35% mai multe persoane decât în cazul tulpinilor anterioare de coronavirus.Cu toate acestea, varianta B.1.1.7 nu a provocat simptome mai grave sau o probabilitate mai mare de a avea simptome pe termen lung ("Covid long").Într-un comentariu la primul studiu, trei cercetători de la Centrul Naţional pentru Boli Infecţioase (NCID) din Singapore subliniază că descoperirile acestuia contrastează cu trei studii anterioare, care asociază varianta "britanică" cu o probabilitate mai mare de deces şi forme severe de COVID-19.Potrivit acestora, studiul publicat în The Lancet are avantajul de a fi utilizat secvenţierea completă a virusului în analizele sale, însă concluzia sa "liniştitoare" trebuie "confirmată de studii mai ample". "Acest studiu se concentrează pe rezultatele clinice ale unui grup de persoane deja spitalizate cu COVID-19", observă epidemiologul Nicholas Davies, citat de Science Media Centre din Marea Britanie. "Nu contrazice elementele deja adunate de studii anterioare", care tind să arate că "infecţia cu B.1.1.7 este asociată la nivel global cu un risc mai mare de mortalitate, spitalizare şi internare de urgenţă în rândul tuturor persoanelor testate pozitiv pentru SARS-CoV-2", a adăugat el.

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☆ Evan Gershkovich and My Time in a Moscow Prison
▼ + stars: | 1986-10-01 | by ( Nicholas Daniloff | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nicholas Daniloff with his family and President Ronald Reagan after his release from Russia in Washington, Oct. 1, 1986. I was Moscow bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report, on Aug. 30, 1986, when the KGB arrested me and falsely accused me of being a spy. I know what Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and his family are going through. A white van I had noticed earlier pulled up beside me. A heavyset man threw me forward, pulled my hands behind my back and snapped handcuffs on my wrists.

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