…..She was charged in the murders of Jewish concentration camp prisoners in Gdansk, Poland….the authorities haven’t named her yet….but she was the secretary in the camp….she’s been living in a nursing home near Hamburg, Germany for the past few years….but between 1943 and 1945 she was the personal secretary of the camp commander….who was sentenced to prison in 1957….she always claimed that she never knew people were being gassed in the camp….this is an unusual case….because very few women have ever been tried for concentration camp atrocities…..most have focused on camp guards….not secretaries.

CHICK COREA…..I can’t even count how many times my friends and I saw Return to Forever perform….and to give such a great artist a sendoff….I decided to listen to….Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy….the Live LP….Light as a Feather….Music Magic….No Mystery….Romantic Warrior….Return to Forever…..Where Have I Know You Before….Friends….Now he Sings – Now he Sobs….The Leprechaun….The Mad Hatter and Tones For Joan’s Bones….and to give props to those who performed and created wonderful music with him…..I listened to Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White’s solo projects…..thanks you Chick….R.I.P.

FOR THE FIRST TIME WOMEN HAVE WON THE SUPER BOWL AS COACHES….I kept telling ya….it’s time for the ladies….the Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant defensive line coach….Lori Locust…..and assistant strength and conditioning coach….Maral Javadifar….are a first..…and Sarah Thomas….she was the first woman to referee a Super Bowl……don’t forget the eleven coaches….who came up with a game plan….and happen to be African-American…..and the head coach….Bruce Arians…..is my homeboy….because we both grew up in the same hood in New Jersey…..hey, remember the guy who streaked across the field wearing something sexy and pink?…..word on the street is…..he won a $374,000 Prop Bet for running on the field….now he has some extra bail and court money…..oops, no he doesn’t…..he made a bet that a streaker would hit the field during the Super Bowl….so he jumped out on the field to make sure the bet was covered….the payout people said…. “NOPE!”

HEY COVID….110 Massachusetts communities are considered high risk for COVID-19…the Society of Imaging says that swollen lymph nodes from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine could throw off the results of a mammogram…..President Biden considers a travel restrictions to Florida….doctors warn that COVID will become endemic and people need to learn to live with it…..the new variant found in Bristol, England could infect people who have already been vaccinated…..a doctor had 6-hours to use a vial of COVID-19 vaccine before it expired….so he gave the shots to10 people….and for that he was fired…..Germany is imposing new border checks at the Austrian and Czech Republic borders due to the spread of the new variant in those countries….Germany COVID-19 lockdown will be extended until March 7^th……the authorities also found out that Germany’s anti-lockdown rallies were actually super-spreader events….Canada’s vaccine program has stalled….leaving seniors to be confined to their home for months to come…..the White House is meeting with airline executives as it considers testing domestic travelers for COVID….America’s biggest cities face racial inequities in vaccine distribution.

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER A NEW GIANT FISH SPECIES OFF JAPAN’S COAST….I’m betting all my money on….the contaminated water released into the ocean from the….Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…..the water containing radioactive carbon….radioactive carbon…which has the potential to damage human DNA….could have something to do with it….environmental groups claim that the 1.23 million metric tons of water stored at the plant….scene of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster…..you remember the videos when mother nature slapped Japan?…..anyway,….it contains dangerous levels of the radioactive isotope carbon-14….and a whole bunch of other “hazardous radionuclides….that will have serious long-term consequences for communities and the environment” if the water is released into the Pacific Ocean…..that same area was just tagged with a 7.1 earthquake….and it pains me to inform you that….turtles are being born with deformities due to toxic chemicals in the Great Barrier Reef.

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS INTRODUCED US TO A NEW WORD: ZOONOSIS….Yep….our new 2021 word….this is taken form an article I came across….the recent eruption of COVID-19 near a “wet market” in Wuhan, China….where vendors brought a variety of live wild animals together for purchase, slaughter and consumption….calls our attention to a phenomenon captured by a word increasingly misunderstood by the general public….zoonosis are infectious diseases….caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites….that spread from animals to humans…..they can be transmitted through direct physical contact, via air or water, or through an intermediate host like an insect…..often these zoonosis pathogens do not affect the animals in which they reside….but they can represent an enormous risk to humans who have no natural immunity to them…..globally….zoonosis diseases are responsible for an estimated 1 billion cases of human illness and millions of human deaths every year…..around 60% of the emerging diseases reported globally are considered to be zoonosis, and 75% of new human pathogens detected in the last 30 years originated in animals…..other zoonosis diseases that spill over from wild animal hosts to human populations include….West Nile Virus, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) and, now, COVID-19…..31% of outbreaks of new and emerging diseases are linked to deforestation…..and while we’re still on the subject…..

HEY COVID…. The United Nations chief urges a global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access…..cities have lost over 400,000 jobs during the COVID pandemic…..a British study will infect volunteers with COVID-19 to test the vaccines….more than 680,000 doses were stored untouched in a German vaccination centers….hardly anyone wants the AstraZeneca vaccine…pandemic is fueling a Right-Wing surge in Europe…Slovakia has asked the European Union to send medical workers to help fight the spread of COVID…..Germany is ready to extend border closures to keep out the COVID mutations…..most Canadians blame the federal government for the vaccine delays….the U.S. government expects widespread delays in COVID-19 vaccine shipments due to the severe weather…..high school sweethearts died of COVID hours apart after one last family video call…..a 90-year-old woman walked six miles through the snow to receive her COVID-19 vaccine…..N95 masks are sitting in storage while hospitals are still dealing with shortages….Bill Gates says a third shot may be needed to combat the new coronavirus variants….he’s the last person I would listen to when it comes to vaccine inoculations….90 to 95 COVID tests in a Michigan prison came back positive for the highly contagious U.K. variant…..Japan finally begins COVID vaccinations amid worries over staging the Olympics…..religious-based coronavirus vaccine conspiracies are circulating the internet.