Новости за 11.08.2020

Rachel Bucchino

Politics,

President Donald Trump said Tuesday “George Washington would have had a hard time beating me” before the coronavirus pandemic struck the US and hurt the economy.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday “George Washington would have had a hard time beating me” before the coronavirus pandemic struck the US and hurt the economy.

"I don’t know if you’ve seen, the polls have been going up like a rocket ship. George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in... Читать дальше...

'I'm not a socialist. I'm not a communist. I've belonged to one party my entire life and that's the Democratic Party,' California congresswoman says

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WOLVES are stepping it up a notch for the Europa League quarter-final as they take on the competition’s most successful ever side – Sevilla. The Spaniards have won the competition five times and made light work of a much fancied Roma side, winning 2-0 in last week’s last 16 match. Kick-off: 8pm BST TV/ live […]

Sad day

I lost my DJI Mavic Mini Drone while flying it from the hillside at Buckskin Mary campground on the Deschutes River. This happened the evening of Sunday, August 9th. My phone lost signal and the “return to home” feature failed to bring it back to my original launching point which was on top of the cliff just above our camp. After losing signal the drone most likely hovered in location until battery ran out and then likely set down around one of the camps or possibly along the hillside...

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Anthony’s career seemed to be over not long ago. But he has reclaimed the spotlight with the Portland Trail Blazers, and he’s using it for something personal: speaking out about police brutality.

The Dutch health minister says he plans to introduce mandatory home quarantine for people identified by local authorities as having been in close contact with somebody infected with the coronavirus and travelers returning from high-risk countries

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday that he would only support making President Trump's payroll-tax holiday permanent if it was coupled with a larger reform to ensure the long...

Doug Breen, Vice President, Chief Agronomist Occasionally, one comes across a piece of property which was simply destined to be a golf course. Brant Valley Golf Club is one of those pieces of land. It’s a deep river valley (in fact it’s the junction of three different tributaries of the Grand River system) near St. […]

The State government must reduce the tuition fee in Annamalai University’s medical and dental colleges and the Indian Road Transport-run medical colle

Rep. Pramila Jayapal has a message for far-left Americans who are worried that Joseph R. Biden will ignore them if elected president: "He is movable."

Six years ago, Techdirt wrote about a curious issue with Microsoft's Excel. A default date conversion feature was altering the names of genes, because they looked like dates. For example, the tumor suppressor gene DEC1 (Deleted in Esophageal Cancer 1) was being converted to "1-DEC". Hardly a widespread problem, you might think. Not so: research in 2016 found that nearly 20% of 3500 papers taken from leading genomic journals contained gene lists that had been corrupted by Excel's re-interpretation of names as dates. Читать дальше...

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) - Big Ten Conference announces it won't play football this fall, will explore playing in the spring.

West Bengal on Tuesday reported 2,931 new COVID-19 cases taking the total number of cases to 1,01,390. The count of active cases stands at 25,846. As

Lisa Hanawalt’s cartoon illustrates the hazards of giving unsolicited advice to someone who is younger, but more emotionally stable, than you.

Last week hundreds of thousands of young people in Scotland were let down by the politicians elected to manage our education system and an unelected quango with an inherent anti-working-class bias.

Despite a major pop in internet traffic thanks to the pandemic, ISPs, CDNs, and cloud providers all proved up to the traffic challenge.

BLOM Bank, one of the largest lenders in Lebanon, said Tuesday that it would sell its Egypt subsidiary.

John Barnes / Neon Road Trip

• Seattle-based photographer John Barnes spent 2.5 years traveling the US and Canada in an RV searching for vintage neon signs.
• A form of advertisement, neon signage once dominated cityscapes in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. Today, most have been replaced by cheaper plastic signs, and the vintage neon signs are few and far between.
• In total, Barnes visited 38 states and five Canadian provinces, taking 50,000 photos of neon signs along the way. Читать дальше...

Harvard neuroscientists look at how movement influences vision and perception.

Neal McCluskey

You’ve probably heard about “pods” – small, self‐​contained groups of kids that parents assemble for COVID‐​safe, in‐​person education. They have spurred some public schooling groups to speak out, warning that they may exacerbate inequality. What such groups have not tackled is what could make pods broadly affordable: letting education tax dollars follow children rather than staying in public schools.

In Fairfax County, Virginia, the school district posted a message... Читать дальше...

Facebook says pandemic hampered effort to take down suicide, self-injury posts

Rocket League gets cross-platform progression with its latest update, and Epic is detailing what that means for your Rocket Pass, items, and more.