Kampala, 4 September 2020:- When the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic, on 11th March 2020, many Ugandans didn’t take it seriously with many saying it was a disease for the affluent, the very high class or for developed countries. As the disease ravaged the entire world, Ugandans…
Thursday marks the last day that two eligible groups of people can register with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) based on previously diagnosed illnesses related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.Families of 9/11 survivors who died before July 29, 2019, due to an illness resulting from their exposure…
More than a day after issuing new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors – recommendations that are likely to affect millions of Americans in the form of private and public mask mandates – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to release the data behind its decision. The lack of clarity on…
For years, Australia's Jessica Fox was among those pushing to get women's canoe slalom accepted as an Olympic sport.With a history-making gold medal within her reach, she was not going to miss her chance.Starting last with an eye on the time she had to beat, Fox shot out of the gate on Thursday and ripped…
Francesco Di Fulvio and Italy won the 2019 world championship in men's water polo, establishing themselves as gold medal contenders for the Olympics. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived.A year after the Games were supposed to occur, Di Fulvio sees a wide-open competition in Tokyo."We are the same team. We do the same play, the same…
JuVaughn Harrison’s nickname couldn’t be any more fitting: Mr. Jumps.His assignment at the Tokyo Games couldn’t be any more rare: Go horizontal (high jump) and then vertical (long jump).Not since the days of Jim Thorpe (circa: 1912) has an American man made the team in those two events at one Olympics. It’s akin to running…
The Norwegian Ambassador to Ghana, H E Gunner Andreas Holm has reiterated his government’s commitment to ensuring that other essential health services continue as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers on. He said this when he paid a courtesy call on WHO Country Representative, Dr Francis Kasolo at his office as part of his end of duty…
Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been hailed as exemplary for its planning, speed and high-level leadership, but dig a little deeper and there are yet more crucial lessons in working with far-flung communities and building up trust in the vaccines. “We have a migratory population that travels routinely from north to south across the country…
Akure, 26 July, 2021 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has supported Ondo State to integrate COVID-19 sample collection into the essential health care services. The intervention has led to an increase in the number of samples tested from an average of 70 to 321 per week, since the integration. The intervention was informed following…
Dar es Salaam, 24 July 2021: The United Republic of Tanzania has received the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines, delivered through COVAX arrangement. The 1,058,400 doses of the vaccines donated by the United States of America arrived today at the Julius Nyerere International Airport. The US Ambassador to Tanzania, Ambassador Donald Wright handed the vaccines…
Tuesday, 20th July 2021 marks yet another significant milestone in the fight against covid-19 epidemic in the Gambia as we witnessed the arrival of One Hundred and Fifty-One Thousand, Two Hundred (151, 200) doses of the Johnson and Jonson (J&J) Vaccine under the COVAX facility. These vaccines were mobilized through the initiative of the Government…
ScienceLooking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today.ByMichael GreshkoPublished July 22, 2021• 11 min readThe solar system’s god of war has a bigger heart than expected: Using humankind’s first seismometer on another planet, researchers have analyzed the interior structure of Mars for…
Photographs byAnand A. VarmaByBrendan BorrellThis story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba. Ornithologist Christopher Clark has a car full of gear to unload: cameras, sound equipment, a sheer cube-shaped cage. Within minutes…
ScienceThe results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation.ByBrian GutierrezPublished July 15, 2021• 9 min readIt was pitch black when Greg Spriggs’ father brought his family to the highest point on Midway Atoll on July 8,…
ByAndrew CurryPhotographs ByRobbie ShonePublished July 5, 2021• 15 min readFor centuries, Germany’s Unicorn Cave has been a lure for people seeking secrets from the past. In the Middle Ages, people literally mined the site for mammoth tusks, cave bear teeth, and the remains of other extinct animals. The unfamiliar skeletons were thought to belong to…
Innovators ProjectThe librarian revived interest in Mali's illustrious past ... then had to save it from jihadists.ByJoshua HammerPublished April 21, 2014• 25 min readIt was early in the summer of 2012, and at the Mamma Haidara Library in Timbuktu, a clandestine operation was under way. Night after night, a team under the direction of the…
Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B, SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. The early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group announced today it has returned to lead SODA’s Series C, which currently totals $56.4 million. Other investors include South Korean sneaker reselling platform KREAM (another…
Just two weeks after reopening its New York and San Francisco offices, social media giant Twitter said Wednesday that it will be closing those offices “immediately.” The decision came “after careful consideration of the CDC’s updated guidelines, and in light of current conditions,” a spokesperson said. “Twitter has made the decision to close our opened…
“I wanted to discuss this now so that you can see the future that we’re working towards and how our major initiative across the company are going to map to that,” Zuckerberg said on the call. “What is the metaverse? It’s a virtual environment where you can be present with people in digital spaces. You…
Digital comics platform INKR’s team INKR is a digital comics platform that crosses cultural and language divides, enabling creators to reach global audiences with its proprietary localization technology. Previously bootstrapped, the company announced today that it has raised $3.1 million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from manga distributor TokyoPop…
A new trend is emerging in the world of startups and, to many, it couldn’t have come too soon. Why are there so few women in senior roles? Women going through menopause are commonly known to drop out of leadership roles, for instance. In the UK, menopause is responsible for about 14 million lost working…
Individuals over the age of 60 who are at risk of developing severe coronavirus will now be eligible for receiving an extra jab of the coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry decided as the Green Pass program came into effect again.The Health Ministry informed the health funds that they could begin administering the doses on Sunday. The…
This week’s Torah portion, Eikev, opens with the phrase “vehaya eikev tishme’oon,” which can be translated as “And when you obey” (Deuteronomy 7:12). One of the joys of translating, interpreting and understanding the Torah is in the richness of its words, containing so many strata of meaning. The word eikev, which also gives our parsha…
The plan states that any citizen above the age of 12 - and eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine - requires a certificate in order to enter events hosting 100 people or more in an indoor space. A woman shows her green passport at the Khan theater in Jerusalem on February 23, 2021. (photo credit: YONATAN…
Hezbollah could spark a regional war unless the United Nations Security Council empowers its peacekeeper mission to fully monitor the terror group's movements so its activity can be constrained, Israel Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday."If not, Hezbollah may drag the entire region into a war that would only bring great destruction…
If Israel does not take the necessary steps to stop the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic could spiral out of control again and put Israel right where it was last September – a step before lockdown, senior health officials told The Jerusalem Post.And some experts are warning that Israel has only a two-week window in…
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Thursday marks the last day that two eligible groups of people can register with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) based on previously diagnosed illnesses related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.Families of 9/11 survivors who died before July 29, 2019, due to an illness resulting from their exposure…
More than a day after issuing new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors – recommendations that are likely to affect millions of Americans in the form of private and public mask mandates – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to release the data behind its decision. The lack of clarity on…
For years, Australia's Jessica Fox was among those pushing to get women's canoe slalom accepted as an Olympic sport.With a history-making gold medal within her reach, she was not going to miss her chance.Starting last with an eye on the time she had to beat, Fox shot out of the gate on Thursday and ripped…
Francesco Di Fulvio and Italy won the 2019 world championship in men's water polo, establishing themselves as gold medal contenders for the Olympics. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived.A year after the Games were supposed to occur, Di Fulvio sees a wide-open competition in Tokyo."We are the same team. We do the same play, the same…
JuVaughn Harrison’s nickname couldn’t be any more fitting: Mr. Jumps.His assignment at the Tokyo Games couldn’t be any more rare: Go horizontal (high jump) and then vertical (long jump).Not since the days of Jim Thorpe (circa: 1912) has an American man made the team in those two events at one Olympics. It’s akin to running…
Thursday marks the last day that two eligible groups of people can register with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) based on previously diagnosed illnesses related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.Families of 9/11 survivors who died before July 29, 2019, due to an illness resulting from their exposure…
More than a day after issuing new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors – recommendations that are likely to affect millions of Americans in the form of private and public mask mandates – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to release the data behind its decision. The lack of clarity on…
For years, Australia's Jessica Fox was among those pushing to get women's canoe slalom accepted as an Olympic sport.With a history-making gold medal within her reach, she was not going to miss her chance.Starting last with an eye on the time she had to beat, Fox shot out of the gate on Thursday and ripped…
Francesco Di Fulvio and Italy won the 2019 world championship in men's water polo, establishing themselves as gold medal contenders for the Olympics. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived.A year after the Games were supposed to occur, Di Fulvio sees a wide-open competition in Tokyo."We are the same team. We do the same play, the same…
JuVaughn Harrison’s nickname couldn’t be any more fitting: Mr. Jumps.His assignment at the Tokyo Games couldn’t be any more rare: Go horizontal (high jump) and then vertical (long jump).Not since the days of Jim Thorpe (circa: 1912) has an American man made the team in those two events at one Olympics. It’s akin to running…
The Norwegian Ambassador to Ghana, H E Gunner Andreas Holm has reiterated his government’s commitment to ensuring that other essential health services continue as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers on. He said this when he paid a courtesy call on WHO Country Representative, Dr Francis Kasolo at his office as part of his end of duty…
Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been hailed as exemplary for its planning, speed and high-level leadership, but dig a little deeper and there are yet more crucial lessons in working with far-flung communities and building up trust in the vaccines. “We have a migratory population that travels routinely from north to south across the country…
Akure, 26 July, 2021 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has supported Ondo State to integrate COVID-19 sample collection into the essential health care services. The intervention has led to an increase in the number of samples tested from an average of 70 to 321 per week, since the integration. The intervention was informed following…
Dar es Salaam, 24 July 2021: The United Republic of Tanzania has received the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines, delivered through COVAX arrangement. The 1,058,400 doses of the vaccines donated by the United States of America arrived today at the Julius Nyerere International Airport. The US Ambassador to Tanzania, Ambassador Donald Wright handed the vaccines…
Tuesday, 20th July 2021 marks yet another significant milestone in the fight against covid-19 epidemic in the Gambia as we witnessed the arrival of One Hundred and Fifty-One Thousand, Two Hundred (151, 200) doses of the Johnson and Jonson (J&J) Vaccine under the COVAX facility. These vaccines were mobilized through the initiative of the Government…
ScienceLooking inside the red planet will help scientists better understand how Mars formed and became the hostile, rusty desert we see today.ByMichael GreshkoPublished July 22, 2021• 11 min readThe solar system’s god of war has a bigger heart than expected: Using humankind’s first seismometer on another planet, researchers have analyzed the interior structure of Mars for…
Photographs byAnand A. VarmaByBrendan BorrellThis story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.In pursuit of the world’s smallest bird, we’ve come to the backyard of a flamingo pink house in Palpite, Cuba. Ornithologist Christopher Clark has a car full of gear to unload: cameras, sound equipment, a sheer cube-shaped cage. Within minutes…
ScienceThe results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation.ByBrian GutierrezPublished July 15, 2021• 9 min readIt was pitch black when Greg Spriggs’ father brought his family to the highest point on Midway Atoll on July 8,…
ByAndrew CurryPhotographs ByRobbie ShonePublished July 5, 2021• 15 min readFor centuries, Germany’s Unicorn Cave has been a lure for people seeking secrets from the past. In the Middle Ages, people literally mined the site for mammoth tusks, cave bear teeth, and the remains of other extinct animals. The unfamiliar skeletons were thought to belong to…
Innovators ProjectThe librarian revived interest in Mali's illustrious past ... then had to save it from jihadists.ByJoshua HammerPublished April 21, 2014• 25 min readIt was early in the summer of 2012, and at the Mamma Haidara Library in Timbuktu, a clandestine operation was under way. Night after night, a team under the direction of the…
Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B, SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. The early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group announced today it has returned to lead SODA’s Series C, which currently totals $56.4 million. Other investors include South Korean sneaker reselling platform KREAM (another…
Just two weeks after reopening its New York and San Francisco offices, social media giant Twitter said Wednesday that it will be closing those offices “immediately.” The decision came “after careful consideration of the CDC’s updated guidelines, and in light of current conditions,” a spokesperson said. “Twitter has made the decision to close our opened…
“I wanted to discuss this now so that you can see the future that we’re working towards and how our major initiative across the company are going to map to that,” Zuckerberg said on the call. “What is the metaverse? It’s a virtual environment where you can be present with people in digital spaces. You…
Digital comics platform INKR’s team INKR is a digital comics platform that crosses cultural and language divides, enabling creators to reach global audiences with its proprietary localization technology. Previously bootstrapped, the company announced today that it has raised $3.1 million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from manga distributor TokyoPop…
A new trend is emerging in the world of startups and, to many, it couldn’t have come too soon. Why are there so few women in senior roles? Women going through menopause are commonly known to drop out of leadership roles, for instance. In the UK, menopause is responsible for about 14 million lost working…
Individuals over the age of 60 who are at risk of developing severe coronavirus will now be eligible for receiving an extra jab of the coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry decided as the Green Pass program came into effect again.The Health Ministry informed the health funds that they could begin administering the doses on Sunday. The…
This week’s Torah portion, Eikev, opens with the phrase “vehaya eikev tishme’oon,” which can be translated as “And when you obey” (Deuteronomy 7:12). One of the joys of translating, interpreting and understanding the Torah is in the richness of its words, containing so many strata of meaning. The word eikev, which also gives our parsha…
The plan states that any citizen above the age of 12 - and eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine - requires a certificate in order to enter events hosting 100 people or more in an indoor space. A woman shows her green passport at the Khan theater in Jerusalem on February 23, 2021. (photo credit: YONATAN…
Hezbollah could spark a regional war unless the United Nations Security Council empowers its peacekeeper mission to fully monitor the terror group's movements so its activity can be constrained, Israel Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday."If not, Hezbollah may drag the entire region into a war that would only bring great destruction…
If Israel does not take the necessary steps to stop the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic could spiral out of control again and put Israel right where it was last September – a step before lockdown, senior health officials told The Jerusalem Post.And some experts are warning that Israel has only a two-week window in…
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https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/
5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms
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Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B, SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. The early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group announced today it has returned to lead SODA’s Series C, which currently totals $56.4 million. Other investors include South Korean sneaker reselling platform KREAM (another…
Just two weeks after reopening its New York and San Francisco offices, social media giant Twitter said Wednesday that it will be closing those offices “immediately.” The decision came “after careful consideration of the CDC’s updated guidelines, and in light of current conditions,” a spokesperson said. “Twitter has made the decision to close our opened…
“I wanted to discuss this now so that you can see the future that we’re working towards and how our major initiative across the company are going to map to that,” Zuckerberg said on the call. “What is the metaverse? It’s a virtual environment where you can be present with people in digital spaces. You…
Digital comics platform INKR’s team INKR is a digital comics platform that crosses cultural and language divides, enabling creators to reach global audiences with its proprietary localization technology. Previously bootstrapped, the company announced today that it has raised $3.1 million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from manga distributor TokyoPop…
A new trend is emerging in the world of startups and, to many, it couldn’t have come too soon. Why are there so few women in senior roles? Women going through menopause are commonly known to drop out of leadership roles, for instance. In the UK, menopause is responsible for about 14 million lost working…
Home News Mobile Phones The OnePlus 9 Pro from earlier in 2021 (Image credit: TechRadar) The OnePlus 9T is likely to be one of the most important smartphones launched in late-2021. That's partly because it's an intriguing device, following on from the excellent OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro, and partly because loads of the…
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Future) Trust and credibility(Image credit: Matt Swider / Instagram)PS5 restock tracker Matt Swider has helped 60,600 people in the US buy a next-gen console in 2021 with his tireless 24/7 tracking, in-stock Twitter alerts and exclusive restock reporting.Target PS5 restock time update: We have confirmed that Target stores in the…
Home News Entertainment (Image credit: Ascannio / Shutterstock.com) While movie theaters may be opening back up around the world, Disney Plus Premier Access is still allowing you to enjoy the latest blockbusters through the House of Mouse's very own streaming service. Launching on the platform back in September 2020, Disney Plus Premier Access is essentially…
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Samsung) The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event is happening soon on August 11, 2021, but the company has given us a teaser trailer to gloss over while we wait. It's worth a look, too, giving us a sneak peek at the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 phone.The trailer races…
Some 21 Israeli companies have been chosen to participate in three soft-landing programs in Taiwan, said i2i, the largest software incubator in Taiwan.The IP² LaunchPad innovation program is in its second year of operations in Israel, and is now launching two further programs for Israeli companies.The IP² Plus program is a continuation program for veteran…
Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been hailed as exemplary for its planning, speed and high-level leadership, but dig a little deeper and there are yet more crucial lessons in working with far-flung communities and building up trust in the vaccines. “We have a migratory population that travels routinely from north to south across the country…
One of the world’s biggest video game companies is reeling after a state discrimination and sexual harassment suit kicked off a firestorm of controversy within the company. California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued Activision Blizzard last week, alleging that the company fostered a “breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women.” Following a…
