August
Jada Pinkett Smith admits she DID have an affair with singer August Alsina
Jada Pinkett Smith has admitted she did have an affair with singer August Alsina while married to Will Smith. The 48-year-old sat down with her husband for an intimate conversation on her Facebook show, Red Table Talk and revealed she developed a friendship with August around four years ago. She said around the same time, the …
Breaking News: State orders schools to reopen in August – News – The Ledger
School districts can submit plans to educate students remotely, but they must prove that students learning from home are receiving the same level of education that students in school buildings receive. Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order Monday requiring all schools to open in the fall and laying out the requirements that …
Coronavirus may have been in China in August; Search for missing teen continues; Calls for justice at George Floyd funeral
The coronavirus might have been spreading in China as early as August last year, according to Harvard Medical School research based on satellite images of hospital travel patterns and search engine data. China has dismissed the report as “ridiculous”. The research used satellite imagery of hospital parking lots in Wuhan, where the disease was first …
Google to Start Kicking Resource-Heavy Ads Off Chrome in August
Photo: Mark Lennihan (AP) Google’s planning to instate a resource cap on all Chrome advertisements after finding that a tiny contingent of resource-heavy ads is responsible for more than a quarter of all ad-related network data and CPU usage. On the user-end, these ads can “drain battery life, saturate already strained networks, and cost money,” …
Tour de France may move to August after Macron extends sport ban into July | Tour de France
Hopes remain that the Tour de France may yet take place in August despite its postponement because of the coronavirus pandemic, with Geraint Thomas insisting “in my head it’s definitely going to happen”. On Monday night the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, in effect ruled out the possibility of the Tour starting as planned when …
Virus forces Luxottica to break Italian August holiday tradition
MILAN (Reuters) – Eyewear maker Luxottica said it would cut to just one week its customary August closure, a move which other firms may seek to replicate to relaunch production after the forced shutdown in the current coronavirus crisis. The decision by the Italian arm of eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica <ESLX.PA> impinges on the sacredness of …
Economy Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected In August
Job creation slowed in August, with only 130,000 jobs added to the U.S. economy compared to expectations of around 160,000. The unemployment level held steady at 3.7 percent. Job gains for June and July were downgraded by a total of about 20,000. According to Yahoo Finance, the jobs report comes at a critical time as …
Earthquake report world-wide for Saturday, 31 August 2019 / VolcanoDiscovery
Get our newsletter! Volcano Calendar 2019: We’re proud to present our 2019 volcano calendar: 13 different and attractive images of volcanoes, volcanic landscapes and phenomena taken during volcano tours over the past few years. Volcano Discoveries: “One of the most eye-catching guides to the world’s volcanoes ever published. VolcanoAdventures: Our professional team of volcanologists and …
August continues record breaking trend
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – With less than five hours left in the month, it is almost certain August 2019 will be the driest August on record in Anchorage.Rain totals for the month (through 4 p.m. August 31) hit .04 inches. The next driest August was in 1969 when the monthly rain total only hit .33 inches. …
ATEC Kudos – August 2019
The ATEC Animation Lab won a Bronze Remi Award at Houston’s International Film Festival, WorldFest Houston, this summer for their short animated film, Drift, in the category of CGI/Mixed Media. The film was directed by 2018 fall graduate Annie Fisher and 2019 spring graduate Rachel Killingsworth and was part of the updated Animation Lab course …
