#December

As there has been lots of talk and debate over the weather in the coming couple of weeks and possibly longer term as well. As this is the case I
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Somebody's absolutely *gobbling up* dividend stocks.The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, the highest dividend payers in $SPX, are up 12.9% month-to-date, heading for their best month since December 1991. Why? Looks
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This is, of course, absurd. Diplomatic history still exists, it’s just called international history now. War history exists, it’s just more than drums & trumpets now. The president of Harvard
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Mass Covid-19 testing of students returns just 13 positives after 44,000 tests | The ScotsmanBetween November 30 and December 12, 43,925 lateral flow tests were carried out, with 79 returning
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1/ Thread:On request, a quick look at Independent SAGE's A Safe Schools PlanThis is an update on the urgent report on safer schools to take into account the current lockdownhttps://www.independentsage.org/a-safe-schools-policy-for-re-op
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On December 1, 1979, KGB Chief Yuri Andropov gave an extraordinary handwritten letter to Leonid Brezhnev on the situation in Afghanistan and future Soviet policy. It marked the beginning of
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TIMETABLING - A THREAD ON WHY ITS COMPLEXYou have to go back to BR Sectorisation - every line was allocated to a Route Owner [RO] being one of the 3
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1/5 Bird's Eye ChilliIn the spirit of #ZimAgricRisingLast 2019/2020 season was my first attempt at not only Chilli farming, but farming in general. I made my seedling order December 2019
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New Header photo: Beware!Winston Churchill remarks on #counterintelligence threats on a report in his personal intelligence dossier - courtesy of GC&CS/@GCHQ'This is pretty well-informed stuff, and possibly reaches the enemy
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THREAD1/TRUST THE PLANTrump Card The Star XVII XVII = 1717=Q THREAD2/New Moon: December 21, 2020 12/21=1221 THREAD3/1221Issac Kappy THREAD4/Executive Order 1221December 21, 201721=12 THREAD5/January 20, 2021Inauguration DayDays between:12/2
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“I no black”, he muttered through gritted teeth. It was 12:01am on December 21st and a strange sensation had suddenly overcome his body“I..no .. black”.. he began to convulse. He
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COVID-19 Vaccination Thread - LOCAL UPDATE We're delighted to report that the Pfizer COVID vaccine has arrived. The scale and the complexity of this vaccination programme
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7 million tests, 221k cases, and 3,379 deaths. There are a record 119,463 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized. The 7-day average for hospitalizations is
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1 Back in April the University of Washington IHME's covid-19 model was criticised for "…. producing results that have been bouncing up and down like an unpredictable fever":https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/17/influential-cov
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Vaccine companies will not be able to declare covid victory in Western Europe and India. Drop has already happened and India is showing 50-70%+ with antibodies.Nearly all of Eastern Europe
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That permanent feeling in 2020 that the UK government is winging it. That instead of putting the time and effort into, for example, developing a good relationship at all levels
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