Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
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handwritten on slide, “Starved Rock" date stamped on slide September 1965
Mainstream politicians should remember that in the battle to defeat Jordan Bardella or Marine Le Pen, unity is strength
Less than a year before the most important French presidential election in the history of the Fifth Republic, the phoney war is almost over. On 7 July, a court will decide whether to uphold Marine Le Pen’s appeal against a fraud conviction and a five-year ban from public office. Should she lose, her party’s 30‑year‑old president, Jordan Bardella, will be confirmed as Rassemblement National’s candidate and the frontrunner in the race.
Voters will need to wait considerably longer, however, for clarity over who will oppose the far right. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the veteran leader of the radical-left party La France Insoumise (LFI), has already announced a fourth tilt at the presidency. But as Emmanuel Macron approaches the end of a second term blighted by unforced errors, multiple egos are jostling on the centre-left and the centre-right, amid a frantic weighing of the odds.
Continue reading...A drug for pancreatic cancer shows immense promise, but we shouldn’t forget research in the field is a story of small victories
It is unlikely that we will ever declare a final victory over cancer. Governments have often promised it: from Nixon’s 1971 “war on cancer” to the 2016 Obama‑Biden plan to fight and cure it “once and for all” and Sajid Javid’s 2022 “war on cancer” initiative in the UK. But framing it this way can obscure how real progress is made: not in stunning routs, but in stalling and turning back the advance of this terrible condition – often in simply giving people more time to live.
Several such breakthroughs, and a bigger one that could transform the treatment of multiple kinds of cancer over the next decade, emerged at last week’s American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. As the Guardian revealed, there is a new jab effective against head and neck cancers in some patients, and a new immunotherapy that could spare bladder cancer patients invasive and life-changing surgery. Most significantly, there is a new drug called daraxonrasib, which doubled survival time for pancreatic cancer patients in a recent clinical trial.
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guineapig33 has added a photo to the pool:
Camera: Minolta X-700 with MD 35-70mm f/3.5 lens
Film: Handsonfilm Midnight 1600
Developed & Scanned by @handsonfilm
Although the Japanese and Chinese languages are two distinct languages, they do still have some interesting similarities. One will note that both languages will make use of Chinese characters in their writing systems, although how it is actually used differs, of course.
For speakers of both languages, this can sometimes make it easier to make a rough guess of what it might mean, such as the character for meat, Niku (肉), shown in the photo here. One would likely infer that this would be a restaurant serving meat.
Minor auto adjustments in Adobe Lightroom were made only when necessary in order to preserve the original film roll colours.
BADHOEVEDORP (ANP) - Golfer Eugenio Chacarra heeft het KLM Open in Badhoevedorp op zijn naam geschreven. De 26-jarige Spanjaard eindigde met één slag voorsprong op de Fin Oliver Lindell. Golfer Lars van der Vight werd de beste Nederlander op de 38e plaats.
Chacarra deelde na drie ronden nog de leiding met de Zweed Sebastian Söderberg op -10. De Spanjaard eindigde zondag op -11 na een birdie op de laatste hole. Hij sloeg daarmee een late aanval van Lindell (-10) af. Söderberg werd gedeeld derde op -8. Het is voor Chacarra de tweede zege op de DP World Tour, oftewel de Europese Tour.
Van der Vight tekende op de laatste dag voor een score van 76 slagen (5 boven het baangemiddelde) en eindigde op een totaal van +1. Hij wist op de slotdag geen enkele birdie te maken. Toch hield hij Joost Luiten en de amateur Nevill Ruiter, de enige andere Nederlanders die de 'cut' haalden, ruimschoots achter zich.
Luiten, die zaterdag na een slechte ronde voor commotie zorgde door te zeggen dat hij overwoog om zijn caddie te vervangen, ging een dag later rond in 74 slagen (+3). Hij eindigde met een totaal van +6 op de zestigste plaats. Ruiter, de enige amateur in het weekend, leverde een kaart in van 78 slagen (+7). Hij besloot het toernooi als 66e.