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…
President Biden's Justice Department warned states on Wednesday that they could face legal action in rolling back COVID-era voting procedures. "The department's enforcement policy does not consider a jurisdiction’s re-adoption of prior voting laws or procedures to be presumptively lawful; instead, the department will review a jurisdiction’s changes in voting laws or procedures for compliance with…
Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance ripped into The New York Times’ Katie Benner on Wednesday after the reporter suggested in a tweet that Trump supporters should be considered "enemies of the state" following the first day of testimony at the Jan. 6 select committee. "This is disgusting," said Vance. "Are me and my family domestic terrorists?…
Nice catch, granny!Svetlana Sanarova, 64, was walking home from a supermarket in the Russian city of Novokuznetsk on July 21 when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a toddler clinging to a second-floor window.The grandmother dropped her bags and rushed to the window with her arms held out.And she arrived just in…
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., is endorsing Rep. Adam Kinzinger's, R-Ill., primary challenger as Kinzinger takes heat from his fellow Republicans for participating in the House commission on the January 6 Capitol Riots.Cawthorn, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, made the endorsement on Wednesday, throwing his support behind Kinzinger’s primary opponent, Catalina Lauf.Lauf…
Don’t be fooled by the rocks that she’s got: They’re designed by Ben Affleck.The actor and director, 48, helped create a special jewelry piece for Jennifer Lopez’s 52nd birthday, ensuring that a steamy smooch wasn’t all he gave her for her big day.JENNIFER LOPEZ DEBUTS ‘BEN’ NECKLACE AFTER BIRTHDAY WEEKEND WITH AFFLECKHe worked with Foundrae to create a custom charm…
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…
The expert committee advising the Health Ministry was scheduled to meet on Wednesday night to decide on whether to recommend that the Israeli elderly be given a third coronavirus vaccine.The experts were expected to green-light the move despite the fact that the booster has not yet received the authorization of the US Food and Drug…
While many farmers understand that food prices are too high, they say the aims of these reforms are misplaced as they should be targeting the suppliers of the products. By AVI GRANT JULY 28, 2021 19:24 Israeli farmers are seen protesting against Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Knesset and Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 19,…
A new partnership between AID Genomics and Sonol gas stations will enable citizens to drive into the gas station and for NIS 99 get a COVID-19 PCR test. Results to be delivered within 24 hours. Coronavirus PCR tests being performed at Sonol gas stations. (photo credit: Courtesy) Israelis who are traveling abroad, need a negative…
Israel has been one of the world leaders in vaccination efforts, a success that should show the way forward for many countries being assured that vaccines may help them return to “normal” during the pandemic. This is particularly true in the US, where the CDC has warned of a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and experts…
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…
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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…
President Biden's Justice Department warned states on Wednesday that they could face legal action in rolling back COVID-era voting procedures. "The department's enforcement policy does not consider a jurisdiction’s re-adoption of prior voting laws or procedures to be presumptively lawful; instead, the department will review a jurisdiction’s changes in voting laws or procedures for compliance with…
Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance ripped into The New York Times’ Katie Benner on Wednesday after the reporter suggested in a tweet that Trump supporters should be considered "enemies of the state" following the first day of testimony at the Jan. 6 select committee. "This is disgusting," said Vance. "Are me and my family domestic terrorists?…
Nice catch, granny!Svetlana Sanarova, 64, was walking home from a supermarket in the Russian city of Novokuznetsk on July 21 when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a toddler clinging to a second-floor window.The grandmother dropped her bags and rushed to the window with her arms held out.And she arrived just in…
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., is endorsing Rep. Adam Kinzinger's, R-Ill., primary challenger as Kinzinger takes heat from his fellow Republicans for participating in the House commission on the January 6 Capitol Riots.Cawthorn, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, made the endorsement on Wednesday, throwing his support behind Kinzinger’s primary opponent, Catalina Lauf.Lauf…
Don’t be fooled by the rocks that she’s got: They’re designed by Ben Affleck.The actor and director, 48, helped create a special jewelry piece for Jennifer Lopez’s 52nd birthday, ensuring that a steamy smooch wasn’t all he gave her for her big day.JENNIFER LOPEZ DEBUTS ‘BEN’ NECKLACE AFTER BIRTHDAY WEEKEND WITH AFFLECKHe worked with Foundrae to create a custom charm…
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…
The expert committee advising the Health Ministry was scheduled to meet on Wednesday night to decide on whether to recommend that the Israeli elderly be given a third coronavirus vaccine.The experts were expected to green-light the move despite the fact that the booster has not yet received the authorization of the US Food and Drug…
While many farmers understand that food prices are too high, they say the aims of these reforms are misplaced as they should be targeting the suppliers of the products. By AVI GRANT JULY 28, 2021 19:24 Israeli farmers are seen protesting against Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Knesset and Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 19,…
A new partnership between AID Genomics and Sonol gas stations will enable citizens to drive into the gas station and for NIS 99 get a COVID-19 PCR test. Results to be delivered within 24 hours. Coronavirus PCR tests being performed at Sonol gas stations. (photo credit: Courtesy) Israelis who are traveling abroad, need a negative…
Israel has been one of the world leaders in vaccination efforts, a success that should show the way forward for many countries being assured that vaccines may help them return to “normal” during the pandemic. This is particularly true in the US, where the CDC has warned of a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and experts…
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…
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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…
An article you must read!
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…
For rugby sevens veterans like Perry Baker, competing in the Olympics can involve a fine balance between gamesmanship and showmanship.Gamesmanship because his U.S. team is full of talented, athletic players, has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the world sevens series and entered the Tokyo Games as a contender for an Olympic medal.…
The Houston Astros have landed one of the top relievers in baseball, acquiring right-hander Kendall Graveman from the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday in an odd intra-division trade while the teams were preparing to play each other.Graveman and Rafael Montero are going to the AL West-leading Astros with infielder Abraham Toro and reliever Joe Smith going…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Future) Some Alienware gaming PCs are so powerful that six states won't let you buy them due to their excessive power consumption.Dell has announced that it is no longer shipping some of its popular gaming PCs after California and five other states introduced restrictions on the amount of energy a…
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Future) HMD Global, which now licenses the Nokia brand, has announced a new partnership with ExpressVPN which will see the company's VPN service preinstalled on millions of Nokia smartphones.As our smartphones now contain more personal information than ever before, it has become increasingly important to ensure these devices are…
Home News Software (Image credit: Shutterstock) Building a business on Pinterest is about to get even easier for creators as the image sharing platform and social network is giving them the ability to make their Idea Pins shoppable, earn commissions through affiliate links and partner with brands on sponsored content.First introduced last year, Idea Pins…
