Song to the Auspicious Skyscraper

" Hong Kong[e] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.  

With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities[f] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. "

91.6% Chinese

2.7% Filipino

1.9% Indonesian

0.8% White

0.6% Indian

0.4% Nepalese

2% other 

Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing 

 the First Opium War." 

Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II.  

The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. 

 Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems." 

Home to the seventh-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, 

 Hong Kong has the largest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals. 

 Although the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, severe income inequality exists among the population. "  

Hoong-keang" ("red torrent"), reflecting the colour of soil over which a waterfall on the island flowed. 

Earliest known human traces in what is now Hong Kong are dated by some to 35,000 and 39,000 years ago during the Paleolithic period. The claim is based on an archaeological investigation in Wong Tei Tung, Sai Kung in 2003.  

European demand for Chinese commodities like tea, silk, and porcelain was high, Chinese interest in European manufactured goods was insignificant, 

 so that Chinese goods could only be bought with precious metals.  

To reduce the trade imbalance,  

the British sold large amounts of Indian opium to China.  

Faced with a drug crisis, Qing officials pursued ever more aggressive actions to halt the opium trade." 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_the_Republic_of_China

In June 2020, the Legislative Council passed the National Anthem Ordinance, which 

 criminalised  

 "insults to the national anthem of China"

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Qǐlái!！ 不愿Búyuàn做zuò奴隶núlì的de人们rénmen!！

把Bǎ我们wǒmen的de血肉xuèròu,， 筑成zhùchéng我们wǒmen新的xīnde长城chángchéng!！

中华Zhōnghuá民族Mínzú到dào了liao最zuì危险的wēixiǎnde时候shíhòu,，

每个Měige人rén被迫着bèipòzhe发出fāchū最后的zuìhòude吼声hǒushēng.。

起来Qǐlái!！ 起来Qǐlái!！ 起来Qǐlái!！

我们Wǒmen万众一心wànzhòngyīxīn,，

冒着Màozhe敌人dírén的de炮火pàohuǒ,， 前进qiánjìn!！

冒着Màozhe敌人dírén的de炮火pàohuǒ,， 前进qiánjìn!！

前进Qiánjìn!！ 前进Qiánjìn!！ 进Jìn!！ 

The "March of the Volunteers",[b] originally titled the "March of the Anti-Manchukuo Counter-Japan Volunteers",[c] has been the official national anthem of the People's Republic of China since 1978. 

 Unlike previous Chinese state anthems, it was written entirely in vernacular Chinese, rather than in Classical Chinese. 

Literal :

The Three Principles of the People

The foundation of our party.

Using this, we establish the Republic;

Using this, we advance into a state of total peace.

Oh, you, righteous men,

Of the people, be their vanguards.

Without resting, day or night,

Follow the Principles.

Swear to be diligent; swear to be courageous.

Obliged to be trustworthy; obliged to be loyal.

With one heart and one virtue,

We carry through until the very end. 

Official

San Min Chu-i

Our aim shall be:

To found a free land,

World peace, be our stand.

Lead on, comrades,

Vanguards ye are.

Hold fast your aim,

By sun and star.

Be earnest and brave,

Your country to save,

One heart, one soul,

One mind, one goal. 

 

Our aim shall be: hegemony.

To found a free land, dissolve your wealth like opium in tea 

World peace, be our needle and pipe.

Lead on, comrades, driving tanks over Tibet, crushing Uighurs heart and mind.

Vanguards ye are for Oligarchy and Totalitarian Despotism.

Hold fast your aim, piss. Piss away the Earth.

By sun and star you'll kill poetry.

Be earnest and brave, get a condo.

Your country to save, eat face. Do everything to feed the Party of hate and greed.

One heart, one soul, one fascist goal.

One mind, one goal, one empty Law collecting a bucket of pus and eyelashes dropping from the possibilities of repression and tools of sarcasm. 

It replaced the "Song to the Auspicious Cloud" 

O you wave in the wind 

Giant metal shark 

Your teeth never fall raining on passerby 

Two hundred thousand laborers spent all their tiny lives 

Dragging a sandwich up the crane 

The fingers fell but were replaced 

Earthquake gave up 

Tsunami sleeps in your majestic toilet 

Your spine of finance is eternal 

It plunges thru the soul of earth 

It's golden girders all male

And as infallible as your proboscis in winter 

I quiver at the glory far away 

I skyscraper built to withstand revolution 

Made to sing past oceans ultimate slosh off glacier and icy continent 

The turbo charged jet thrusters

Under your bayonet lobby 

Will flung you past the dead universe 

When money devours man 

You have the best view 

You have the best martini 

You have internet brain and sexy windows 

This new song take it third lunch with uncle Mao 

Go big and hire Justin Bieber to clean the gutters 

O skyscraper telescope find me in your eyeball forever milking the USA 

Jesus glut (1987)

  I seen jesus yesterday in an

unemployment line in rural oklahoma. says i,

"hey o golden one, how swings yer staff

of life?" he replied "not so well.

the job applications all ask

for my parent's address. they tell me i'm

overqualified. things do not go well

in this time of oil-glut oklahoma."

*

god almighty gets out of bed

at 3 a.m. to use the toilet,

he groans and sighs

as beer belly merges with his bladder,

without his glasses on

he trips over beirut and rips his toe off

as he faints from self-pity

his head squashes nicaraguan nuns

just before contras can get them

as he regains consciousness,

some eternity later, takes an aspirin,

& changes his pee-sodden

bikini atoll briefs only to snooze

until the power lunch

set with satan at the lodge

*

jesus hit .999 his first season

as a royals rookie, he played the outfield and first

thru third bases

all was going great until he was indicted

in the largest cocaine scandal in

major league history. he

sat in the dugout and cried that he was 

a victim so they made him wear

a dunce hat in the corner& write

"i'm high enuff already" six billion

times in front of the pearly gates

*

god caught jesus smoking a pipe

&ditching school so he made him

whitewash the cliffs of dover

jesus got bored so he conned

millions of falwellians into spreading

his holy rouge

"if only ya give me one a yer women

and a case of yer likker"

*

jesus went out drinking one night

with his frat buddies he said

"betcha i can piss on that cigarette stub across

the street" and they took him

up on it

he flopped out his vienna sausage and prayed

to dad for a loaner miracle and his

dick became ten cubits long

he cleaned off the sidewalk

and flooded the world, his buddies got on

the ark with him and he passed out the poop scoops

to each and every disciple

*

god took his only son fishing

in a dinky dingy on a lake in lousiana

they put that boat in the water

&fish leapt into the hull

till it was full

then the dynamic duo loaded 'em

into the limo and were driven home

to have servants prepare them

over dinner they cursed 

good-naturedly about

"the one that was atheist"\

&fed the bones

to their cats

*

jesus checked the "direct relative of god"

box on his w-2 form which entitled 

him to the ideological dibs on the souls of the 

next 10 million fetuses born.

the irs called him in for an audit and when they

asked for proper id he pulled out

a stone tablet chiseled in

hebrew with the year zero inscribed

so off to leavenworth to work off a multiple

year sentence for the impersonation of a deity

jesus was ok with the judgement.

"shit, a couple of years ago

they  would have nailed my ass to a cross..."

didn't take long for the old man to

cut him loose though. he put

a lightning bolt in an angel food cake.

*

jesus was a latchkey kid,

nevertheless he was well loved. at bedtime

god would rock jesus to sleep

& tell him nitenite stories.

jesus was never tired. he'd

wait for god to go 

back to watching monday nite 

football or creating new third world miseries,

then he'd get out his gi joe doll

and take off his camo gear and

tie him down with dental

floss and let his play dinosaurs eat his

naked arms

1987 K.U.

LAWRENCE, Ks

  

Catholic Joe

" By making it sound as though the state and doctors – 

 whom Biden kept referring to using male pronouns – 

 should get to decide whether a woman can have an abortion, 

 Biden abandoned his party’s vigorous and effective attempts to frame abortion as a matter of freedom and rights." 

"I'm not big on abortion.-----joe biden "

 "the number of Supreme Court Justices is left to Congress — at times there have been as few as six, while the current number (nine, with one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices) has only been in place since 1869." 

'The legislation would have to pass both houses of Congress and be signed by the president," he said.  

Biden has so far indicated that he opposes an expansion of the court."  

Biden says he supports changing Senate filibuster rules to protect abortion rights. All 50 Democratic U.S. senators would need to back a filibuster change, and it's not clear whether they do.  

Manchin.

Joe Manchin. 

Fixed with a snap of fingers

 This'll be good bleed the poorest of the poor open internment camps make girls have babies that the rich can buy for a few months of diversion as long as there's football and basketball and baseball with athletes earning ten fifty one hundred million per year they'll need concessions shit suds in microplastic buns they'll need to park their lincoln navigator close by the stadium they'll need sitters for the children at home in the guarded suburbs 45 minutes away it's a small drive to flee the city and it's unionized teachers its uppity baristas and landscapers "with ideas" don't drive out of the suburbs however into the actual country the kids have guns the adults are kids the poor are rich with guns the animals aren't killed before eating the eggs are locked down the horses are working horses the dogs have dogs the cats just drop in once a month for kibble the kibble has guns the keys to the pecking order are on a big fake gold chain on grandpas neck that he sleeps with with a gun under his pillow the poor they're out to rip us off jesus would've taught those poor some manners how to pray your way into the grace of shelter how to make clothing appear from thin air how sports and sporting worship are the only path thru the trials of which cereal to buy the ones with marshmallows or the ones with marshmallow crosses and vanilla hexes  

 

 

"The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title  

Transformation,  

was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. 

 The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, 

 is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. " 

"Miriam is a beautiful painter with an unknown past. Throughout the novel, she is compared to many other women including Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Judith, and Cleopatra. Miriam is pursued by a mysterious, threatening man who is her “evil genius” through life. Hilda is an innocent copyist. She is compared to the Virgin Mary and the white dove. Her simple, unbendable moral principles can make her severe in spite of her tender heart. Miriam and Hilda are often contrasted. 

Kenyon is a sculptor who represents rationalist humanism. He cherishes a romantic affection towards Hilda. Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, is often compared to Adam and is in love with Miriam. Donatello amazingly resembles the marble Faun of Praxiteles, and the novel plays with the characters’ belief that the Count may be a descendant of the antique Faun. Hawthorne, however, withholds a definite statement even in the novel’s concluding chapters and postscript." 

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"Sophia wrote to her sister Elizabeth Peabody that her husband's reaction was typical:  

"As usual, he thinks the book good for nothing..."  

  Alas, it's good for wine 

The smell of ancient pages

From trees pulped not long 

After civil war blood 

Had nourished their roots 

Trace notes are detected 

Upon opening the bottle 

1893 a seasonable vintage 

To one discerning 

Friendship inscribed by some February past 

When life began as grape 

To slowly become 1993, 

2023 wine. 

Art not available for Sophoriphic Conquest

    Last 3 months of bloggod page views 

24, 000 views from Hong Kong and China.

600 views from the USA. 

You want free shit?

You want free art? 

You want a free AI bot. 

Go get a free government and come back a few years after that's done, then you can loafe and browse the free art and ideas. 

 

Fascist Amazon buys Oregon Ethics

 "Local officials attracted the company, along with at least several hundred jobs, with 

 $245 million in property tax breaks since 2018. 

 Amazon’s Oregon data centers are full of computers cumulatively worth billions of dollars;  

the tax breaks largely exempt the machines from property taxes"  

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/06/former-oregon-officials-will-pay-2000-each-to-settle-ethics-complaint-over-amazon-deals.html

"Three former public officials in Morrow County  

will each pay $2,000 

 to settle a state ethics complaint over their dealings with Amazon."

"Investigators for the Oregon Government Ethics Commission say the officials sometimes failed to acknowledge 

 they might benefit  

personally when they voted to award 

 huge tax breaks 

 to Amazon data centers in the region 

 and to sell land to the company 

 for more data centers." 

You all 

Make me sick.

Iodine Sorghum Anadarko Gas Field

 "As the heaviest essential mineral nutrient, iodine is required for the synthesis of thyroid hormones. 

 Iodine deficiency affects about two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities. 

"The dominant producers of iodine today are Chile and Japan. 

 Due to its high atomic number and ease of attachment to organic compounds, it has also found favour as a non-toxic radiocontrast material. 

 Because of the specificity of its uptake by the human body, radioactive isotopes of iodine can also be used to treat thyroid cancer. 

 Iodine is also used as a catalyst in the industrial production of acetic acid and some polymers. " 

"In 1873, the French medical researcher Casimir Davaine (1812–1882) discovered the antiseptic action of iodine. 

 Antonio Grossich (1849–1926), an Istrian-born surgeon, was among the first to use sterilisation of the operative field. 

 In 1908, he introduced tincture of iodine as a way to rapidly sterilise the human skin in the surgical field"  

"Iodine is the least abundant  

of the stable halogens, comprising only 0.46 parts per million of Earth's crustal rocks (compare: fluorine: 544 ppm, chlorine: 126 ppm, bromine: 2.5 ppm) making it 

 the 60th most abundant element." 

"The caliche was the main source of iodine in the 19th century and continues to be important today, replacing kelp (which is no longer an economically viable source), but in the late 20th century brines emerged as a comparable source.  

The Japanese Minami Kantō gas field east of Tokyo and 

 the American Anadarko Basin 

gas field in 

northwest Oklahoma  

are the two largest such sources" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine 

"The Anadarko Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin centered in the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and extending into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. 

 The basin covers an area of 50,000 square miles (130,000 km2). 

 By the end of the 20th Century, the Anadarko Basin was producing  

the largest amount of natural gas in the United States.  

Notable oil and gas fields within the basin include the Hugoton-Panhandle Gas Field, West Edmond Field, Union City Field and the Elk City Field. 

The basin is also the only commercial source of iodine in the United States and a major producer of helium. 

The basin holds one of the most prolific natural gas reserves in North America, with ultimate gas production in excess of 100 trillion cubic feet (2,800 km3) of gas. 

 In 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the Anadarko Basin held 27.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 410 million barrels of natural gas liquids (NGL). 

 An IHS Markit's report estimated more than 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the basin.  

 It is also the 5th largest Natural Gas formation area in the United States. 

The brine in the Pennsylvanian Morrow Formation in the Anadarko Basin contains about 300 parts per million iodine, and is the only current commercial source of that element in the United States.  

Three companies extract iodine from brine produced as a byproduct of natural gas production from depths of 5,000 feet (1,500 m) to 13,000 feet (4,000 m). 

 Iodine production in 2005 was 1,570 tonnes. 

The Woodward Iodine company plant is 3.7 miles (6.0 km) west of Woodward, Oklahoma 

 and uses a 6,600 feet (2,000 m) deep well north of the city, 

(Boiling Springs State Park, named for its artesian springs that seem to boil, has been established east of the city.) 

Boiling Springs, near present-day Woodward, was a favorite campsite of the Plains Indians. A battle between the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes took place nearby in 1838. The Kiowa and Comanche tribes also battled the United States Army in 1868 in this area, when the US redeployed troops after the Civil War against Native Americans in the West.

In the late 19th century, these tribes fought numerous battles against the United States soldiers and settlers through a wide area around the springs.  

After the war, United States Army made various expeditions against the Plains tribes in the Cherokee Outlet. Lieutenant Colonels Alfred Sully and George Armstrong Custer, and General Philip Sheridan, stationed nearby at Fort Supply, led these expeditions"

 while the IOCHEM plant 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Vici, Oklahoma extracts the brine from a 9,800 feet (3,000 m) deep well. 

 North American Brine Resources operates a plant near Dover, Oklahoma." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko_Basin

  ______ 

"Molasses is rich in vitamins and minerals, including vitamin B6, iron, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. 

 There are different types of molasses, including first molasses (highest sugar content), second molasses (slightly bitter), and blackstrap molasses (the darkest and most robust in flavor). Molasses was historically popular in the Americas before the 20th century as a sweetener.  

The uses of molasses in food production may include:

Principal ingredient in the distillation of rum

Production of dark rye bread

Production of gingerbread (particularly in the Americas)

Production of barbecue sauces

Some brown sugar is made by combining molasses with white sugar

In some beer styles of stouts and porters

Stabilization of emulsifiers in home-made vinaigrette 

Industrial :

As a minor component of mortar for brickwork 

Mixed with gelatin glue and glycerine in casting composition ink rollers on early printing presses 

Horticultural:

As a soil additive to promote microbial activity, resulting in increased production of succinic acid, malic acid, butyric acid and mannitol. 

 Production of these common plant defensive chemicals by microbes is believed to aid in suppressing plant disease.  

(Sorghum actively suppresses weeds by producing sorgoleone, an alkylresorcinol. )

Sorghum is the world's fifth-most important cereal crop after rice, wheat, maize, and barley. 

 Sorghum is typically an annual, but some cultivars are perennial. It grows in clumps that may reach over 4 metres (13 ft) high.   

The grain is small, 2 to 4 millimetres (0.079 to 0.157 in) in diameter. Sweet sorghums are cultivars primarily grown for forage, syrup production, and ethanol; they are taller than those grown for grain.

Sorghum bread 

 from graves in Predynastic Egypt, some 5,100 years ago, is displayed in the Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy.  

The name sorghum derives from Italian sorgo, which in turn most likely comes from 12th century Medieval Latin surgum or suricum. This in turn may be from Latin syricum, meaning "[grass] of Syria". 

Melanie's Bread  

Harvesting sorghum in Oklahoma, USA, with a combine harvester 

In Northeastern Italy in the early modern period, sticks of sorghum were used by Benandanti visionaries of the Friuli district to fight off witches who were thought to threaten crops and people. 

By 1961 the Lindsay area harvested more broomcorn 

 than any other region in the world

and the county slogan became "We sweep the world"   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garvin_County,_Oklahoma

According to Early Modern records, benandanti were believed to have been born with a caul on their head, which gave them the ability to take part in nocturnal visionary traditions that occurred on specific Thursdays during the year. 

 During these visions, it was believed that their spirits rode upon various animals into the sky and off to places in the countryside. Here they would take part in various games and other activities with other benandanti, and battle malevolent witches who threatened both their crops and their communities using sticks of sorghum. 

 When not taking part in these visionary journeys, benandanti were also believed to have magical powers that could be used for healing.  

The benandanti reported leaving their bodies in the shape of mice, cats, rabbits, or butterflies. The men mostly reported flying into the clouds battling against witches to secure fertility for their community; the women more often reported attending great feasts.

Across Europe, popular culture viewed magical abilities as either innate or learned; in Friulian folk custom, the benandanti were seen as having innate powers marked out at birth. 

 Specifically, it was a widely held belief that those who in later life became benandanti were born with a caul, or amniotic sac, wrapped around their heads. 

In the folklore of Friuli at the time, cauls were imbued with magical properties, being associated with the ability to protect soldiers from harm, to cause an enemy to withdraw, and to help lawyers win their legal cases. 

From surviving records, it is apparent that members of the benandanti first learned about its traditions during infancy, usually from their mothers.[6] For this reason, historian Norman Cohn asserted that the benandanti tradition highlights how "not only the waking thoughts but the trance experiences of individuals can be deeply conditioned by the generally accepted beliefs of the society in which they live" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benandanti

One hell of a spiral

  

( OK let's break it down: fully fully forever vertical integration and disintegration. ) 

"The food ingredients business Nutrinova produces the high intensity sweetener Sunett (acesulfame K)

the preservatives Nutrinova,  

potassium sorbate, 

and sorbic acid, 

 and other food ingredients. 

 Major end-use markets include beverages, confections, baked goods, and dairy products.  

In 2021, Celanese ranked 7th on FoodTalks' Global Top 20 Food Preservative Companies list. 

Celanese is one of the world's largest producers of cellulose acetate. Acetate products are primarily used in

 cigarette filters, 

 as well as in the production of fashion apparel and linings. 

 Celanese also manufactures Clarifoil cellulose acetate film that is wood pulp based and certified biodegradable and compostable in home and industrial composting conditions. 

Industrial specialties, using the feedstock from acetyl intermediates, manufactures polymer and emulsions such as polyvinyl acetate emulsions, and specialty chemicals as ethylene vinyl acetate. 

 Major end-use markets include polyvinyl alcohol producers, 

 paper, 

 mortar and gypsum,  

textiles,  

paints,  

coatings, and adhesives manufacturers.

 

Advanced engineered materials offers plastic polymers to customers in the 

 automotive, electronics, telecommunications, and medical industries. 

 Major products include engineered plastics for fuel system components (provided by Ticona, the engineering polymer business of Celanese), 

 conveyor belts, electronics, safety systems, emissions filtration, and fluid handling." 

Celanese has a process to make ethanol from natural gas. 

Celanese spun off its pharmaceutical business as Celgene in 1986. 

Celgene Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer and immunology drugs.  

Its major product is Revlimid (lenalidomide), which is used in the treatment of multiple myeloma, and also in certain anemias. 

 The company is incorporated in Delaware, headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, and a subsidiary of Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). 

Celgene was originally a unit of Celanese. In 1986, Celanese completed the corporate spin-off of Celgene following the merger of Celanese with American Hoechst. 

In December 2002, Celgene acquired Anthrogenesis, a privately held New Jersey-based biotherapeutics company and cord blood banking business, 

 which is developing technology for the recovery of stem cells from placental tissues 

 following the completion of full-term successful pregnancies.  

Anthrogenesis was rebranded as Celgene Cellular Therapeutics" 

Citing a market capitalization of 

 US$67 billion,  

and stock appreciation of 107%, 

 Celgene was Forbes Magazine's number 2 ranked drug company of 2013.  

In 2014, Celgene and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals joined a cancer stem cell therapeutic development agreement with demcizumab and five other biologics from OncoMed's pipeline.[16][17] That same year, Sutro Biopharma entered into an agreement with Celgene Corporation to discover and develop multispecific antibodies and antibody drug conjugates (ADCs).[18] This followed the December 2012 collaboration between the two companies and focused on the field of immuno-oncology.

In April 2015, Celgene announced a collaboration with AstraZeneca, worth $450 million, to study their Phase III immuno-oncology drug candidate MEDI4736.

That same month, Celgene announced it would acquire Quanticel for up to $485 million in order to enhance its cancer drug pipeline. Celgene had invested in Quanticel in April 2011.

In June 2015, Celgene announced it had licensed Lyceras RORgamma agonist portfolio for up to $105 million to develop its Phase I lead compound LYC-30937 for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. The licensing opportunity gave Celgene the option to acquire Lycera.

In July 2015, the company announced it would acquire Receptos for $7.2 billion in a move to strengthen the company's inflammation and immunology areas.

In May 2016, the company announced it would launch partnership with Agios Pharmaceuticals, developing metabolic immuno-oncology therapies.

In October 2016, the company acquired EngMab AG for $600 million.

In January 2017, the company announced it would acquire Delinia for $775 million, increasing the company's autoimmune disease therapy offerings.

In January 2018, Celgene announced it would acquire Impact Biomedicines for $7 billion, adding fedratinib, a kinase inhibitor with potential to treat myelofibrosis

Also in January 2018, the company announced it would acquire Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion."

 Celgene (Spun off from Celanese in 1986, acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2019)

Signal Pharmaceuticals, Inc (Acq 2000)

Anthrogenesis (Acq 2002)

Pharmion Corporation (Acq 2008)

Gloucester Pharmaceuticals (Acq 2009)

Abraxis BioScience Inc (Acq 2010)

Avila Therapeutics, Inc (Acq 2012)

Quanticel (Acq 2015)

Receptos (Acq 2015)

EngMab AG (Acq 2016)

Delinia (Acq 2017)

Impact Biomedicines (Acq 2018)

Juno Therapeutics (Acq 2018)

AbVitro (Acq 2016)

RedoxTherapies (Acq 2016) 

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In 1916, the Hoechst AG was one of the co-founders of IG Farben, an advocacy group of Germany's chemicals industry to gain industrial power during and after World War I. In 1925, IG Farben turned from an advocacy group into the well-known conglomerate. 

Various Hoechst facilities were bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II.  

Its managers in charge were prosecuted along with other IG Farben managers — 

 during the Nuremberg trials — 

 in the IG Farben trial 

 for their role in 

 the exploitation of enslaved laborers

 and for 

 testing drugs 

on concentration camp prisoners." 

___ 

"The Allied oil campaign of World War II[4]: 11  pitted the RAF and the USAAF against facilities 

 supplying Nazi Germany 

 with petroleum, oil, and lubrication (POL) products. 

 It formed part of the immense Allied strategic bombing effort during the war. 

 The targets in Germany and in Axis-controlled Europe included 

 refineries, synthetic-fuel factories, storage depots and other POL-infrastructure." 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoechst_AG 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celgene 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celanese 

1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.

1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company.

1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Corporation and was kept as a wholly owned subsidiary.

1984: The Retail business of Champlin was purchased by American Petrofina, after Champlin closed the refinery.

around 1986, Union Pacific Corporation and Champlin Petroleum Company sold the Corpus Christi Refinery. The Champlin trade name was part of the deal.  

Champlin's name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company (UPRC).

During late 1990s, Union Pacific Corporation spun off the Union Pacific Resources Company.

2000: Anadarko Petroleum acquired Union Pacific Resources 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Champlin_House 

(Donnie Darko)

Grade

  

 

Out of shape getting out of fifty three 

Not top of hill where rain seeps into pasture

That's where raz fills his cabin cistern

And fattens the sheep near the ancient log section round 

Riddled with old saw blades 

From skillsaws like shelf mushrooms of teethed carbide teeth gone dull 

A few years back looking at him now 

Maintenance a city gym not a lot splitting an abstinence not a barefoot walk up the creek 

Dew moisture gathers by the trillion

Runs down the grass blade 

Waters it's host and worm by gravity not pitching camp 

Rather finding low point 

It goes there around a buried boulder

Or plough head or GMC fender or travois hitch knob 

Gradation, water studies on the run 

Below frogs under ferns under huckle bushes under fir under reprieve 

Temporarily, the watershed havens 

In late spring it's gone 

In summer the beaver ponds give up their canteen to the passing heat 

Unlike the swale where I am from 

Which originates along the mountain to feed lesser mountains 

To supply great hills to lend farmland and elk and horse before  

Bloodgood Creek becomes the little klickitat becomes a tangent 

Even in summer making way under 

Every condition of basalt 

Round rock shafts of slabs pebble sand dust 

To the Klickitat not far from Columbia not far from Pacific 

It's not a bad shape to be in, or of, or with 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To paint draw first

 I tire of violin the fiddle 

Tires of me, I change my tune to a somber key, 

I mix it up like a  salad capri 

Fanned out drizzled in oil a basil sprig hat 

 I think we just ate that 

 In Some other form

It's not irish it's celtic it's not traditional it's under copyright  

It's pizza no gluten 

Mozz tom mozz tom olio e sal 

no disputing it looks healthy 

Folk and roll the green room swag 

No room in the woods for the 

Dissonant stag 

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The local agenda it syncs national 

It could never happen here 

Wanna bet 

As long as you shrug at nike running the city and the college  and the college city and paying no taxes and funding the worst GOP coast to coast 

Gump gonna Gump right past the sweatshops with $12 ice cream cones 

Get in line to melt

Ballcap party of five 

Just visiting little beirut B4 we're razed like gaza to reinvent stump town as 

A christian consumer camp for borderline oligarch athletics fans 

It used to be a great place to live or visit instead of a virtual idea in search of a public toilet   

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I got the no hate button 

A slash thru hate emblem it's not very cheery I can see why you'd be leery 

Handsome old white cis male

What's my problem status quo 

Don't it fetch for me as I drag my bow 

Happy kinda 4 string sounds 

I make it look easy look again I fake the grin 

Since 4 yer parents born 

I was twinkle twinkle on a stage 

My mom and dad made thirty thousand a year their house 12 grand  

 3 acre spread

Doing scales at university 

Do re mi fa la 

Pops taught little Okies how to paint first draw 

Ma taught Blake Frost and Chaucer Blake Frost Wordsworth 

Half the class got naps those that kept awake were top of  class.

" Farmers in Denmark will have to pay for planet-heating pollutants that their cattle expel as gas, after the government agreed to set the world’s first emissions tax on agriculture. 

Agriculture is responsible for about one-third of planet-heating pollution – about half of which comes from animals  

– but lawmakers have so far been reluctant to rein in its emissions. 

 Angry farmers have brought traffic to a standstill in European capitals several times this year, in sometimes violent protests that forced EU leaders to water down rules designed to clean up the sector." 

Denmark is one of Europe’s biggest producers of pork and a significant producer of beef and milk.

"Ruminant animals such as cattle and sheep release vast amounts of methane when digesting food.  

The gas, which is also released when extracting and processing fossil fuels, heats the planet about 80 times more than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, but does not last as long in the atmosphere." 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/26/flatulent-livestock-to-incur-green-levy-in-denmark-from-2035

I saw a chapel (William Blake)

  

 I saw a chapel all of gold

That none did dare to enter in 

And many weeping stood without 

Weeping mourning worshipping

I saw a serpent rise between

The white pillars of the door 

And he forcd & forcd & forcd 

Down the golden hinges tore 

And along the pavement sweet 

Set with pearls and rubies bright 

All his slimy length he drew

Till upon the altar white

Vomiting his poison out

On the bread & on the wine

So I turnd into a sty

And laid me down among the swine 

Circa 1799

Blake

The playroom

  

Every room was a playroom

Even in the gallery the girls would walk their doll strollers or make nests for stuffed animals on the couches 

Open 7 days a week for 3 years straight 

 

 

Today it wilts

  

"During the boom, several Creek Indian land allotment owners became millionaires; Oklahoma became the world's largest oil producer for years;

 and the area benefited from the generation of more wealth than the California Gold Rush and Nevada Silver Rush combined,  

as well as the increased investment capital and industrial infrastructure the boom brought with it. 

The Glenn Pool Oil Reserve held an estimated 1 billion bbls of oil in place, with ultimate recoverable reserves of 400+ million bbls.

The field grew from 80 acres to 8,000 acres during the first year. By 1907, natural flowing oil production ranged from 18,000,000 barrels (2,900,000 m3) to 20,000,000 barrels (3,200,000 m3) per year 

Total field production by 1907 exceeded 43,520,000 barrels (6,919,000 m3), making Oklahoma that year the leading producer of oil 

 not only in the US, but any country in the world. 

 The area experienced a huge economic boom. Prices for basic goods and services, however, soared in the area 

As of 2019, the field has produced more than 340,000,000 barrels (54,000,000 m3) of oil."  

(He was an assistant city attorney in Okla. City. He was with Shell Oil in Tulsa '35-'45. ) 

'Cushing is a major trading hub for crude oil and a price settlement point for West Texas Intermediate on the New York Mercantile Exchange and is known as the "Pipeline Crossroads of the World." 

 

During the 1970s and 1980s refining operations continued in Cushing until the last two refineries, Kerr-McGee and Hudson, closed. Rail service ended in 1982. 

 As the oil fields started to run dry, starting in the 1940s, production and refining became less important.

The town retained a great asset in the Shell pipeline terminal, with 39 storage tanks and pipelines that could move as much as 1.5 million barrels a day.  

The maze of pipelines and tanks that had been built led to the NYMEX choosing 

 Cushing as the official delivery point

 for its light sweet crude futures contract in 1983." 

Crude oil tank farms around Cushing have over 90 million barrels of storage capacity. 

(While Cushing has maximum storage of about 90 million barrels across 15 terminals, working storage is closer to 76 million barrels, about 

 13% of total U.S. oil storage capacity.) 

Pipelines with connections at Cushing include:[9]

Basin Oil Pipeline, operated by Plains All American Pipeline, flows from Wichita Falls, Texas connecting various fields in Texas.

Centurion Pipeline, flows from Permian Basin fields in west Texas and southeast New Mexico.

Hawthorn Pipeline, operated by Hawthorn Oil Transportation, a 17-mile pipeline from Stroud, Oklahoma where a rail unloading facility receives oil from Stanley, North Dakota for EOG Resources.[10][11][12]

Glass Mountain Pipeline, operated by Rose Rock Midstream (Energy Transfer LP), flows from fields in west and north-central Oklahoma.

Great Salt Plains Pipeline, operated by JP Energy, flows from fields around Cherokee, Oklahoma, formerly owned by Parnon Gathering.[13][14]

Keystone Pipeline, operated by TransCanada, flows from Hardisty, Alberta (Canada) to an intermediary hub in Cushing to Port Arthur, Texas. It has a maximum capacity of 590,000 barrels per day (94,000 m3/d). Another Keystone termination is located at the oil tank farm near Patoka, Illinois.[15][16]

Mississippian Lime Pipeline, operated by Plains All American Pipeline, flows from fields in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas.

PAA Medford Pipeline, operated by Plains All American Pipeline, from fields around Medford, Oklahoma.

Pony Express Pipeline, operated by Tallgrass Energy Partners, flows from fields around Guernsey, Wyoming. It connects to the Ponca City Refinery. It has a capacity of 230,000 barrels per day (37,000 m3/d) and capable of increasing to 400,000 barrels per day (64,000 m3/d).

Seaway Pipeline, a dual pipeline operated by Enbridge and Enterprise Products, flows out to Freeport, Texas. It has a maximum capacity of 850,000 barrels per day (135,000 m3/d).

SemCrude Pipeline System, operated by Rose Rock Midstream (Energy Transfer LP), flows from fields in Kansas and northern Oklahoma.

Spearhead Pipelines, operated by Enbridge, is a pipeline that flows from the Enbridge Mainline System near Flanagan, Illinois. It has a maximum capacity of 125,000 barrels per day (19,900 m3/d).[17] A second pipeline, Flanagan South, parallels the Spearhead. A third Enbridge pipeline connects to the Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois.[18]

White Cliffs Pipeline, operated by Rose Rock Midstream, flows from fields around Platteville, Colorado. 

In October 2014 two moderate-sized earthquakes (Mw 4.0 and 4.3) struck south of Cushing, below one of the largest crude oil storage facility and gas pipeline transportation hubs in the world. The system also includes operational sections of the Keystone pipeline.[32]

On 6 November 2016, around 7:44 pm, a 5.0 MW earthquake rattled north-central Oklahoma. The quake was centered one mile west of Cushing.[6] It was the sixth 5.0 magnitude or higher to strike the state since 1882. Three of those larger quakes occurred in 2016, and the strongest ever recorded in Oklahoma was a 5.8 magnitude that hit Pawnee (25 miles from Cushing) in September 

The number of 3.0 magnitude quakes rose from 2 in 2008 to 889 in 2015, according to USGS statistics. In 2016, there have been 572 (up to November). 

 "The oil companies have said for a long time that these are natural earthquakes, that they would have occurred anyway," Choy said, "but when you look at the statistics, that argument does not fly" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_industry_in_Cushing,_Oklahoma 

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"Three years ago, Native Americans in Oklahoma rejoiced when the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern half of Oklahoma is on tribal land, and that the state could not bring criminal prosecutions for crimes on Indian land without the consent of the Indian tribes. 

 But on Wednesday, the court narrowed that decision, prompting an angry dissent from Justice Neil Gorsuch, the author of the 2019 decision, and an ardent proponent of Indian rights. 

In the aftermath of the court's 2019 decision, the state was no longer empowered to prosecute those accused of committing crimes on Indian territory.  

Only the tribal courts, or the federal government, could do that, and the tribal courts were generally not authorized to prosecute non-Indians. 

 According to the federal government, effect of that decision was a 400% increase in federal prosecutions from 2020 to 2021, with many people either not held accountable or receiving lighter sentences in plea deals. 

Chuck Hoskin, Jr., the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, said that unlike previous governors, Stitt has been unwilling to work cooperatively with the tribes. 

Justice Gorsuch, who usually is part of the court's most conservative bloc, instead voted with the court's three liberals.  

In a scathing dissent, he recounted the famous decision, written by chief Justice John Marshall in 1832, which barred the state of Georgia from throwing some 100,000 Cherokee Indians off their land.  

The decision was for naught, though, because both Georgia and President Andrew Jackson flouted it, leading to the Indian Trail of Tears en route to newly designated Indian reservations west of the Mississippi River." 

As Gorsuch recounted the history, that 1832 decision, though defied at the time, came to be recognized as one of the Supreme Court's "finer hours," and for 200 years stood for the proposition that Native American tribes retain their sovereignty unless and until Congress ordains otherwise. 

 "Where this court stood firm then," Gorsuch said, 

 "today it wilts." 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108717407/supreme-court-narrows-native-americans-oklahoma 

"The Sunrise Dance is a celebration of puberty endowing girls with blessings from God and their community. It is one of the few Apache rituals that has survived the Indigenous genocide that resulted in the death of as many as 15 million Native Americans over the last 500 years.

The dance is sacred both because of its origin and the spiritual impact it has on a girl’s life." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/24/apache-students-school-reservation

The life and times of archy and mehitable

  

 

 

 

 

Remember when you wanted a car 

In kindergarten?  An actual car.

"Archy and Mehitabel (styled as archy and mehitabel) are fictional characters created in 1916 by Don Marquis, a columnist for The Evening Sun newspaper in New York City. 

 Archy, a cockroach, and Mehitabel, an alley cat, appeared in hundreds of humorous verses and short stories in Marquis's daily column, "The Sun Dial". 

 Their exploits were first collected in the 1927 book archy and mehitabel, which remains in print today, and in two later volumes, archys life of mehitabel (1933) and archy does his part (1935). 

 Many editions are recognized by their distinctive illustrations by George Herriman, the creator of Krazy Kat." 

"American singer-songwriter Jolie Holland included a song titled "Mehitabel's Blues" on her 2006 album Springtime Can Kill You." 

"On August 23, 1943, the United States Navy christened a Liberty ship, the USS Don Marquis (IX-215), in his honor. " 

"USS Don Marquis (IX-215), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for that writer, poet, and artist. Her keel was laid down by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Los Angeles, California, as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull under Maritime Commission contract number 1874.  She was launched on 23 August 1943. She was acquired and placed in service by the Navy on 31 May 1945. She was employed as 

 dry floating storage 

 in the Pacific until returned to the War Shipping Administration on 28 November 1945. Don Marquis was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 June 1946. 

 Displacement

4,023 long tons (4,088 t) light

14,250 long tons (14,479 t) full

Length

441 ft 7 in (134.59 m)" 

Body Snatchers Other Items

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_(1978_film)

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 American science-fiction horror film[1] directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring  

Donald Sutherland, 

 Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy. 

 Released on December 22, 1978, it is based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. The novel was previously adapted into the 1956 film of the same name.  

The plot involves a San Francisco health inspector and his colleague who over the course of a few days discover that humans are being replaced by alien duplicates; 

 each is a perfect biological clone of the person replaced, but 

 devoid of empathy and humanity." 

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RIP Donald Sutherland.  

I saw this when it came out in 1978. Man was it scary.

"It's not a caper it's a rat turd!" 

Donald the health inspector in a NY kitchen. 

The obvious parallel with modern times is the Cell Phone. People stare at their gadget everywhere. Probably in church, I wouldn't know. At the park, with their children. Walking their dog. 

Sitting like I'm doing now. Shopping. Self entertaining. We can hide from news or embrace whatever distraction we please. Saudi golf galas. Arguing to no end over over everything. Distraction DUI of the celebrity. Record breaking heat and massive flooding, yawn, not in the mood. 

It's not a communist conspiracy, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It is fascism however. It's happened, it's happening, it turns as the world turns, a guiding light. 

Fascism, private ownership of government, corporate rule, misogyny, class warfare, anti intellectualism, glorification of violence, sponsoring genocide, racism, consumer worship. 

Fascism.  

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"Britain’s richest family sentenced to jail for exploiting staff in Swiss mansion 

Household staff were paid a salary of between 220 and 400 Swiss francs (£195-£350) a month, far below what they could otherwise expect to earn in Switzerland. 

With interests in oil and gas, banking and healthcare, the Hinduja Group is present in 38 countries and 

 employs about 200,000 people." 

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Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian to jeep during raid 

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Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

Group allegedly demanding Afghan participation in Doha meeting this month be limited to men and that 

 women’s rights be excluded from the agenda  

Since taking power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have restricted women’s access to education, employment and public spaces.  

In March, it was reported that they would reintroduce the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery.

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"Ginsburg was Jewish, as are Breyer and Kagan.  

Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, and Kavanaugh are Catholic. 

 Justice Gorsuch is Episcopalian, but is a “fallen away” Catholic.'

"For its first 180 years, justices were almost always white male Protestants of Anglo or Northwestern European descent" 

"Liu found that among federal appellate judges, 45.1 percent were Protestant, 28.2 percent were Catholic, 19 percent were Jewish, and 5.1 percent were Mormon." 

"He was bragging amongst executives about how great the guy was and he was a real gentleman and so neat and clean and then he looked at a couple of our executives who happen to be Jewish, and he said,  

‘Watch out for this guy, he sort of remembers the ovens,’ 

 and then smiled,” said Res, who left her role in 1998 after she claimed Trump mistreated her and other employees.

The comment left the group dumbfounded according to Res.

“Everybody was shocked,” she said. “I cannot believe he said that..

 He was making a joke about the Nazi ovens and eating people.” 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-made-nazi-ovens-joke-around-jewish-execs-ex-trump-org-vp 

 Google omits 2 of 9 SCOTUS Justices . "More Items" takes the place of simply listing Justices. One is a black woman. 

One is white woman." 

Other ITEMS. 

Not a perfect spot

                               

 Count leaf shakes 

 and breeze rivers as merge disperses 

Tally dally it's not solstice anymore 

Each to their own means ends 

Continually, the stillness 

As conditions abruptly collapse 

Even coffee fail 

Myriad bugs distract, the tiniest legs 

Make skin itch or bite eating our dessicated hides 

I tire of philosophical debates with self 

And end that miniscule giant 

It won my attention 

Its glory, annihilation    

Catching up on sleep deprived 

Sunlight finds way twixt branches 

It's not a perfect spot I've assumed 

If there's some shame red on cheek 

Or elbow where day gained down upon my siesta 

Grant me breeze to cool that unfortunate spot 

And shoo all critter picnic on my rest 

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They found some old wine 

In vases with cremated remains 

The soul not thirsty but quenched 

Teams of scientists their cheerleader media assemble 

When in Rome stir the pot and gulp 

Our bouquet earthy 

It dances on the tongue in 300 languages

Each a facsimile that artificial writing coughed up 

Notes of death or alchemy appertif

A models hand display the urn

A scientist model

The baby mammoth some conniseur 

Finicky over resurrected vintage 

When in lab, splice as the genome invites

It comes from a time less digital 

Say our electron crowbars and chanters 

What's a little bone in ones punch

But a new party umbrella 

To display with the olive sword 

And swizzle wand on the dashboard with old lottery tickets  

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Into the big Asian grocery to buy citrus 

The security person follows me around as I shop my 18 dollars 

At the counter she's two feet away as they process my food card 

It's not that difficult excuse me I move her away stepping forward to complete transaction

She's profiled me my 200 dollar shoes are bare my jeans clean 

My face clean shaved 

She's ugly but will I mention her to the Manager 

Just this poem 

I drink a pbr waiting for the bus 

The naked bike ride passes I wave and smile put down my phone 

I see a bike come join us 

They're beautiful in every sense 

They wave back, things can change quickly if your fig leaf  

Shakes as the breeze lets it 

 

 

 

Great Aunt Betty

 Surreal with her Great Aunt Betty.

My uncle Martin Secker on left 

Cousin Harry on right 

Fairfax Marin County California 1996