Saturday, September 05, 2020

5 September - iGoogle Portal - Tab 6 - MSM


  The Hayride



  • As Americans approach Labor Day, with roughly 10.2 percent unemployed, a new survey conducted by WalletHub found that one in three Americans worry about job security. In its nationally...
  • The California State Assembly this week voted to revise the state’s penal code that regulates the registration of sex offenders by passing SB-145. The revision of the bill would...

    • Cooper was ranked the poorest town in Texas in a 24/7 Wall St. analysis examining small, lower-income communities where households earn much less than the nation’s median...

  • A, a Keurig K-Cup coffee maker, discounted Mario games, a Dyson V7 Origin cordless vacuum, Urban Decay All Nighter long-lasting makeup setting spray, and JACHS NY men’s short sleeve...
  • Like many children, I went through a dinosaur phase. The idea that instead of people, these giant lizard monsters roamed the earth both terrified and intrigued me. So when my teacher...

    • Each year, tens of thousands of people descend upon Nevada’s Black Rock Desert the week leading up to Labor Day to take part in Burning Man. Since 1986, like-minded Burners have gathered...

    Pesticide Action Network



  • The phrase “food is political” pops up all the time in the food and farm movement world, and has particular weight right now as we head toward the finish line of this incredibly fraught...
  • A massive derecho rampaged through Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana on August 10 with devastating results. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider...

    • One of the more exciting days on the farm is the one where we get a call just after 6 AM from the local post office telling us our hen chicks have arrived.  After a short drive to pick up these...

  • The president rounds on a journalist who quoted him as saying dead US soldiers were "losers".
  • In Melbourne, the centre of the outbreak, 300 people marched in defiance of tough restrictions.



  • Jessica Krug admitted in a blog post that she was a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.


      memeorandum




  • ABC News: Which states will have Kanye West on the ballot now that access deadlines have passed?  —  West will be on the ballot in at least 11 states.  —  It's becoming clearer...
  • Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark: Cory Gardner and the Toxic Republican Party  —  This is what “Party Over Country” looks like.  —  1. Cory Gardner  —  Very quickly...

    • Caitlin Dickson / Yahoo News: ‘The Gotaway’: Online video produced and posted by the Border Patrol spreads fear of migrants  —  A video produced by U.S. Border Patrol agents...


  • Hardware tinkerer makes odd finds, including an unusual on/off switch A hacker has uncovered a fancy digital pregnancy stick that is just a glorified analogue paper test strip with...
  • Tiny tilt from the probe's seisometer could map Phobos' orbit and help boffins predict when it'll crash into Mars The seismometer and magnetometer on NASA’s Martian InSight probe...

    • Disabled by default at the end of 2020, but it will linger on like a bad smell Microsoft confirmed that it plans to end support for Adobe Flash Player in its three browser variants at the...


  • Will it be "third time lucky" for Samsung as it reveals its latest attempt at a folding smartphone?
  • Researchers take apart a digital pregnancy testing kit and find a standard paper strip inside.

    • Facebook has warned that Apple's privacy plans could render some of its tools useless.


      Further




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  • MSNBC host Joy Reid owes a serious apology to the Muslim community after equating being Muslim with being violent on TV. This kind of casual Islamophobia cannot be allowed to continue...
  • Minks allegedly living in their own feces were forced to drag their injured bodies over mesh wire to find water. Demand whoever is responsible for farming these animals be charged...

    • President Trump has enacted vicious personal sanctions against international prosecutors responsible for rooting out corruption, violence, and crime no matter where they took...


      Unexplained Mysteries




  • SETI has been searching for evidence of alien signals for decades, but what if we're using the wrong technology ? The question of whether we are alone...
  • As work on Elon Musk's prototype 'Starship' continues, the SpaceX CEO has highlighted the dangers of going to Mars. This week, Starship SN6 - a protot...

    • Footage has emerged showing an unidentifiable 'shadow creature' scurrying across the road in the dark. The eerie clip was uploaded by Maine-based non-...



      All Things Considered : NPR





  • Athletic associations in more than 30 states allow high school football to be played during the coronavirus pandemic. Parents, boosters and fans say it's needed. But is playing safe?...
  • NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bob James, better known as godfather of hip-hop and smooth jazz, about an album of his early work. Once Upon a Time was recorded in 1965 but just released...

    • NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Ernie Gates, ombudsman at the Stars and Stripes newspaper, about the military ordering the publication to shut down.



      Ireland: BreakingNews.ie





  • The Minister for Justice also reflected on the death in June this year of Detective Garda Colm Horkan
  • HSE chief executive Paul Reid said more people are being referred for testing by their GPs

    • The figure is the highest number of new infections registered in the country since May



  • Portal origin URL: With DUST-2 Launch, NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program is Back on the RangePortal origin nid: 464182Published: Friday, September 4, 2020 - 10:00Featured...
  • Portal origin URL: NASA's Chandra Opens Treasure Trove of Cosmic DelightsPortal origin nid: 464148Published: Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 15:15Featured (stick to top...

    • Portal origin URL: NASA Funds Eight New Projects Exploring Connections Between the Environment and COVID-19Portal origin nid: 464150Published: Thursday, September 3...



      How to of the Day





  • Chanterelle mushrooms are popular and yummy wild mushrooms. They can be found in the wilds of Eurasia, North and Central America, and Africa. Unfortunately, freshly picked chanterelle...
  • How to Cite a Webinar

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  • Webinars often provide a lot of useful information in a format that's easy to understand. You can even use a webinar as a source for a research paper or article — the question is how...

    • Most of the time when cooking spaghetti, it's tempting to just eyeball a serving size rather than measure out carefully. But sometimes getting exact amounts of servings is important...



  • Upon the death of acclaimed anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber, we feature his 2011 interview on Democracy Now!, two days after the Occupy encampment began. Graeber helped...
  • Today marks the 50th anniversary of the election of socialist President Salvador Allende in Chile, a significant moment in the history of political revolutions. We speak with Chilean...

    • As President Trump openly embraces the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon and promotes "law and order" while refusing to condemn armed followers of his who target antiracist protesters...



  • The Kentucky Derby was delayed because of the pandemic, now demands are being made that Churchill Downs use this moment to make lasting changes and to take a stand against racial injustice...
  • A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed thousands of people...

    • View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are growing and which are leveling off.



  • Many universities are putting the onus on students to prevent the spread of coronavirus – an approach both students and experts say creates mixed messages after inviting students...
  • People with lupus or rheumatoid arthritis aren't at increased risk of hospitalization from COVID-19.

    • New research may have people with asthma breathing a little easier: Doctors found the airway disease doesn't raise the risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19...

    5 September - iGoogle Portal - Tab 4

  • Today the Securities and Exchange Commission announced action to liberalize so-called accredited investor regulation. John Berlau, a longtime proponent of such reform, praised...
  • It’s almost the middle of August, and many parents still have little idea if their kids will be able to go to school in a few weeks. If schools are unable to reopen, it will be one of...
    • The rideshare company Uber is threatening to end its operations in California entirely if the Golden State forces the company to classify all its drivers as employees rather than...
  • Addressing prospective fiscal risks requires adopting an equally forward-looking strategic orientation. The post Announcing the Niskanen Center’s New Fiscal Policy Initiative...
  • The Niskanen Center offers a potential replacement for the ACA. Here are some comparisons of the UCC approach with the sketchier proposals offered by the Democratic and Republican...
    • The fact that this recession is impacting men and women differently from past recessions could also have broader consequences for families and the trajectory of the economic recovery...
  • Trump, Johnson and their kind are a far greater danger to our cherished freedomsI once believed that you should fight the extreme right and extreme left “at the same time and for the...
  • A new study shows what women really look for as ideal parent materialMen who have put on lockdown weight, rejoice – women have a positive opinion about it. Researchers from the University...
    • The star was the first to welcome the abolition of male and female awards at the Berlin film festivalIt is rare that a move being described as “eminently sensible” is newsworthy...

      CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public RSS

  • A memorial is continuing to grow outside an Oshawa home where a father and three children were shot to death early Friday morning by a suspect identified by police as an uninvited relative...
  • Ontario reported 169 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, marking the highest daily case count since the end of July.
    • U.S. President Donald Trump suggested to his supporters on Friday night that if they vote by mail they should also attempt to vote in person as a way to check that their vote is counted...

      Tallbloke's Talkshop

  • This scheme trumpeted: “Since July 2018 all of the electricity we supply to our customers is 100% green*. Whichever tariff you take from us all of the electricity we provide is certified...
  • Shockingly – for some – nature’s ocean carbon cycle is functioning quite well, despite constant attempts by feckless humans to undermine it [/sarc]. Time to revisit those...
    • Habitual climate miserablists should take a look around at the real world now and again. This year’s poor UK wheat harvest, reported by the BBC with a ‘climate change’ tag, looks...

    Zee News :Technology News

  • The Google Pixel 5 recently appeared on AI Benchmark and the listing confirms that it is powered by the SD765G SoC. The presence of the SD765G inside the device reveals that it will...
  • Facebook took down the pages as part of efforts to remove "violent social militias" from its social networks. As of earlier this week, the Patriot Prayer page had nearly 45,000 followers...
    • The Reels Tab is a new tab in the navigation bar which will replace the Explore tab in Instagram.
  • The last time asteroid 2011 ES4 flew by the Earth was visible from ground for four days. 
  • NASA scientists have predicted that the asteroid "2018VP1" with a diameter of 0.002 km (about 6.5 feet) will pass near Earth one day before the 2020 US election, reports the CNN...
    • Rich in gold and other precious metals, the 16 Psyche is situated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and measures some 200 km (130 miles).
  • Thirteen people, including a child, died after they sustained burn injuries.
  • Twelve worshippers including a boy died and dozens of others suffered serious burn injuries after air conditioners of a mosque burst on Friday night in Bangladesh`s central Narayanganj...
    • The Center for Strategic and International Studies said the images it published on its website of North Korea`s Sinpo shipyard showed several vessels within a secure boat basin...
  • Javadekar said the National Education Policy has been formulated after extensive consultations.
  • Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday arrived in Tehran where he will meet his Iranian counterpart and discuss bilateral defence ties, a day after he urged the Persian Gulf countries...
    • "This road is ready except for a 30-kilometre stretch. Now the Army can use this road. The importance of this road is that the Army can save almost 5-6 hours in transit from Manali to Leh,"...

      Channel NewsAsia World News

  • Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she would not take President Donald Trump's word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine...
  • France denied the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier was about to be sidelined by EU leaders in a bid to break the deadlock in trade talks, as reported by British newspaper...
    • A documentary following Greta Thunberg and her journey from Swedish schoolgirl to global climate activist accurately portrays her as a "shy nerd", the teenager said as the film premiered...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

  • A fire-stricken oil tanker was pushed further away from Sri Lanka's coast and into deeper waters on Saturday, rescuers said, after successfully containing the blaze during a 36-hour...
  • ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has long positioned himself as a global internet entrepreneur, largely eschewing Chinese government involvement, but U.S. demands to sell his crown...
    • Hundreds of high school students demonstrated in Bangkok on Saturday to demand reform of an education system they say is outdated in the latest of more than a month of anti-authority...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • DUBAI: Iranian state television aired a video on Saturday in which a champion wrestler facing two death sentences appeared to confess to killing a water company security guard during...
  • Formula One had declared the party over, at least for engine modes, but Mercedes and six-times world champion Lewis Hamilton danced on anyway at Monza on Saturday...
    • Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she would not take President Donald Trump's word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine...

    5 September - iGoogle Portal - MSM News

      SpaceNews.com

  • The White House released a new space policy directive Sept. 4 intended to improve cybersecurity of space systems. SpaceNews
  • China launched an experimental reusable spacecraft Friday following months of low-key preparations at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. SpaceNews
  • Rocket Lab announced Sept. 3 that it has placed its first Photon satellite into orbit, demonstrating the spacecraft’s technologies and the company’s ability to provide end-to-end...
  • New CSIS report looks at three key governance issues: orbital debris mitigation, rendezvous and proximity operations, and insurance requirements SpaceNews...
    • SpaceX on Sept. 3 launched 60 Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket while disclosing early testing results from the constellation for which it has now launched 713 satellites...

    Sydney Morning Herald RSS News Headlines

  • Nans Peters won the eighth stage of the Tour de France, a 141km mountainous trek from Cazeres-sur-Garonne.
  • The former PM could knock some heads together on a matter of great importance to all Australians.
    • The poets offer great insights into the importance of fathers.

  • Amid ongoing tensions with China, the Border Roads Organisation has almost finished work on a third strategic road, also known as the Nimmu-Padam-Darcha road. Souces said, this...
  • The Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday arrested Showik Chakraborty and Samuel Miranda in the drug abuse angle in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. The Esplanade court today sent...




  • In recent days, Dr. Scott Atlas has eclipsed Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as Trump’s most visible, and presumably trusted, coronavirus adviser.


  • National papers missing from some newsagents after protesters blockading Murdoch-owned print sitesThe prime minister, Boris Johnson, has accused Extinction Rebellion of seeking...
  • Cabinet secretary says he wants 80% of staff back at least once a week by end of monthCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage A public sector union has said it...

    • PM is intrigued by Trump’s ‘relationship with the truth’, Kim Darroch writes in new bookKim Darroch, a former British ambassador to the US, has said Boris Johnson is fascinated...


      CNN.com - Top Stories



  • Joe Biden's do-no-harm campaign is taking a sharper edge as his race with President Donald Trump enters the home stretch and the incumbent, now a week removed from the Republican convention's...
  • On Thursday night The Atlantic published a bombshell story that alleged -- citing four anonymous sources -- that President Donald Trump had repeatedly mocked US soldiers killed...

    • Democratic nominee Joe Biden issued an emotional response after the Atlantic reported that President Trump denigrated US service members. President Trump has denied the allegations...

  • The issue has escalated quickly as Joe Biden and his surrogates have sought to undermine a key pillar of President Trump’s reelection message — his projection of toughness and...
  • Senior and former military leaders appeared to struggle Friday with how to respond to a report that President Trump disparaged U.S. service members killed in combat as “losers,”...

    • Voters have said they trust President Trump more than Joe Biden on the economy. But Biden believes he can shine on the issue.

    PCWorld



  • The best cheap laptop deals these days are harder to find, as anyone who can afford a laptop is getting one to work or study from home. We're here to help. Prices have inched up since the...
  • Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G at IFA in Berlin early Thursday morning, partnering with Acer to develop a new, connected PC with long battery life. The Acer Spin 7...

    • Gigabyte's new Aorus 15P is for professionals. Professional gamers, that is.As its name implies, the Aorus 15P features a 15.6-inch screen, as well a 10th-gen, 6-core Core i7-10750H...