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Canterbury Park and American Red Cross have teamed up to encourage blood donations during the month of August. To thank donors who help ensure a strong blood supply this month, those who give at select metro-area Red Cross mobile blood drives through August 31 will receive a free admission ticket to horse racing at Canterbury... Read More >

Lexitonian, Dr. Schivel, Jackie's Warrior win big sprints in weekend horse racing UPI News

Ahead of opening of the Pink Line segment at Trilokpuri on August 6, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Thursday urged passengers to travel during peak hours only when it is absolutely...

Weta Digital breaks down the surreal medieval vibe with retro-looking matte paintings, naked giants, and time-lapse changing of the seasons.

1. Apple to scan iPhones, iPads for images of child sex abuse  Aljazeera.com
2. Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child abuse  KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco
3. Apple to scan US iPhones for images of child sexual abuse  Associated Press
4. Opinion: Four problems with Apple’s reported approach to scanning for child abuse images  9to5Mac
5. Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery  Financial Times
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Stocks finish higher Thursday, with the Dow gaining 270 points

As teams prepare for the NZ Falcons vs NZ All Stars clash on September 25, guaranteed match ups have started to develop between the big boys up forward and the men charged with keeping them quiet. Today, we look at the big forwards likely to make an impact in the inaugural match to be played [] The post Backs versus Forwards a game within a game appeared first on AFL New Zealand .

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's President Kais Saied said on Thursday there was "no turning back" from his decision to freeze parliament and assume executive power, moves his opponents have branded a coup

The fastest, most stylish way to banish the smell of cooking, exercising and working from home for 18 months.

We need the expertise, experience, and financial backing of Big Oil to drive wind energy forward in the U.S., following years of strong investments from oil firms across the country kickstarting the industry.  As activists and international agencies continue to criticize Big Oil for its role in climate change and environmental degradation, it is precisely those firms that have made some of the more significant investments and added some of the greatest value to renewable energy projects across North America. Читать дальше...

As if the Tokyo Olympics weren’t enough of a mess already, now the horses are getting too freaked out to compete properly thanks to a sumo statue’s big, unfortunately-placed and horribly intimidating ass.

Wuxiang Nature School is located at the west-southern corner of the Wuxiang Mountain. This project is just at the entrance of this natural school. This building provides all the services to the people who want to enter the school. Beyond the very fundamental function, the design focus on the more complex design problem such as the landscape, material, construction technology, etc. We designed three small units which have one particular function.

Twitter Spaces is giving more people a voice at the virtual table. The social network said in a tweet Thursday that sessions on the Clubhouse clone feature can now include one host, two co-hosts and 10 speakers. Co-hosts can aid with tasks such as inviting speakers, managing requests, pinning tweets and removing participants. making it...

1. 'COVID is here': Louisiana mom pleads with community as daughter, 20, is put on ventilator  The Advocate
2. Alarmed Louisiana Residents Turn to Vaccines in ‘Darkest Days’ of Pandemic  The New York Times
3. Urgent cares see increase in patients, longer wait times during increase in COVID cases  FOX 2 St. Louis
4. Baton Rouge urgent care centers struggle with staffing  WAFB
5. Louisiana breaks record for COVID hospitalizations for third straight day  NOLA.com
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Apple Music supports spatial audio using the Dolby Atmos technology, which means that you can listen to some of your favorite songs with a cool surround sound-like effect. We’re going to show you how to enable spatial audio in Apple Music so you can make the most of this cool feature.

This week, the US agreed to return more than 17,000 treasures to Iraq. Nada Shabout, a professor of art history, joined The World's host Marco Werman to discuss Iraq's stolen cultural heritage.

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The safest gold of the games.

Bob unveils a new recurring series, in which he gives the context of infamous quotations. In this episode, he covers two allegedly shocking quotes from John Lennon, John Maynard Keynes' "in the long run we're all dead," Trump on Nazis being very fine people, Dan Quayle misspelling potato, Obama's "you didn't build that," and Bohm-Bawerk on Karl Marx.

Smartphones have been getting bigger and bigger over the past decade or so, with phones like the Galaxy S21 Ultra and iPhone 12 Pro Max packing massive displays, and in turn, big footprints. Google’s Pixel lineup has been a reliable place to go for a smaller-size device for a while, but the Pixel 6 is bucking that trend entirely. Good.

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1. Scrap ‘rip-off’ PCR tests for holidaymakers, MPs tell ministers  Telegraph.co.uk
2. Covid UK: Fury at 'expensive and unnecessary' travel testing demands  Daily Mail
3. Brits' joy as Spain holiday quarantine threat is lifted – but there's still confusion over Covid tests  The Sun
4. Ditch expensive PCR tests ‘ripping off’ travellers, Tory MPs tell government  The Independent
5. Unwieldy and exorbitant: the post-travel PCR test has seen its day  Telegraph.co.uk
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