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Man Shot Multiple Times in Newark’s South Ward
Newark Police have a crime scene established in a neighborhood in Newark’s South Ward as officers and detectives investigate a shooting with a male victim severely injured at this time. According to a preliminary investigation, police responded to reports of shots fired near 534 Clinton Avenue just before 6:15 p.m. Units arrived and taped the …
New research finds advanced shoe technology reduces top race times for elite athletes
For elite runners competing in long-distance races, every second counts. So when Nike introduced “advanced shoe technology” in 2017, questions arose about whether the new design would significantly affect performances in professional sports. A new paper published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living found that the new footwear indeed reduced running times for both …
Brazil’s meat plant workers at risk from ‘inconceivable’ plan to cut break times | Brazil
The health of hundreds of thousands of meat plant workers in Brazil is at risk from an industry-backed plan to reduce breaks given to employees, say workers’ rights groups in the country. In the midst of a pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 350,000 Brazilians, President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, parliament and the …
2021 Masters tee times, pairings: Complete field, groups, schedule for Round 1 at Augusta National
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The first-and second-round tee times are out for the 2021 Masters. As usual, Augusta National spread the wealth around proportionately with these threesomes. There will be intrigue off the first tee on the first of four long, wonderful spring days at the first major championship of 2021. The Masters’ return to April …
Technology really can be stranger than fiction at times
I’ve been reading and rereading novels of the great writer Ursula K Le Guin over the past year, and they have had me thinking about the difficulty of writing about technologies that will (or won’t) be in use in one’s imagined future worlds. Much has been written about the influence of science fiction on eventual …
How hotels are using technology to boost traveller confidence during COVID times
The Guardian Roaring crowds, roti and Rihanna: the view from a Delhi farm protest camp As rhetoric rises on both sides, Indian farmers at the Singhu camp say they are going nowhere Women shout protest slogans at the Singhu camp. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Puffing out his chest, his lime green turban luminescent in the morning …
Silicon Valley’s Safe Space – The New York Times
More than 7,500 people signed a petition urging The Times not to publish his name, including many prominent figures in the tech industry. “Putting his full name in The Times,” the petitioners said, “would meaningfully damage public discourse, by discouraging private citizens from sharing their thoughts in blog form.” On the internet, many in Silicon …
Pictures From Russia Protests – The New York Times
Tens of thousands of people turned out across Russia on Sunday for a second consecutive weekend rally in support of a jailed opposition leader, Aleksei A. Navalny. But where the protesters went, so did the police, meeting them in sometimes brutal clashes. The protests started in Russia’s far east and swept across the vast nation, …
Carpenter Technology sees tough times but brighter future | Berks Regional News
PHILADELPHIA – Cyclical companies, like Carpenter Technology, can go through some rough times when the U.S. economy is bad, like now. The company, which has several manufacturing facilities in Berks County, reported negative results Thursday for the second quarter of fiscal 2021 in most financial measurements, and the stock dropped close to 4% in mid-morning …
Taiwanese man fined $47K for violating home quarantine 7 times
(CNN) — A Taiwanese man has been fined $1 million New Taiwan Dollars ($35,000) for repeatedly breaking his home quarantine. The unnamed man, who lives in Taichung in central Taiwan, was doing a home quarantine in his apartment building after returning from a business trip to mainland China and violated it at least seven times, …
