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Thousands take exams outside in bid to weather coronavirus pandemic

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More than 100,000 students in Uzbekistan sat university entrance exams under open skies, as the coronavirus pandemic clouds the beginning of the academic year with uncertainty.

Beirut records 220% increase in COVID-19 cases after explosion | New Europe

“Since the day of the explosion one month ago we’ve seen over a 220% increase in the number of COVID cases in Lebanon, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down,” said Matias Meier, the Country Director for the International Rescue Committee in Lebanon.

He added that almost daily, 500-600 new cases are being recorded, while the big number of clusters makes it more difficult to contain the spread of the virus.

 

Source: Beirut records 220% increase in COVID-19 cases after explosion | New Europe

Open Thread | We Knew What They Were Doing This Spring — 3CHICSPOLITICO

When this was happening in the Spring, so many of us said that this is what was happening. So, there is no surprise for it to be validated. But, only increases my loathing of them. From Vanity Fair: How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” This spring, a team working under […]

Open Thread | We Knew What They Were Doing This Spring — 3CHICSPOLITICO

Again!

So sad… humans can and should do better…

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An old man
Lying in front of me;
One foot in the grave
As we could see.
Crying and begging
To save his life,
There they were‐
His son and wife!

A delicate situation
But couldn’t be unheeded.
To fulfill my duty,
I proceeded.
We tried and tried,
As much as we could!
A living body in an instant
Lying like a block of wood.

Suddenly, people started
Throwing stones at me;
Made me believe
How cruel humans can be!
These young hands and feet
Were getting tired;
The character inside me
Almost died!

I rued the day
I chose to be a doctor!
All of a sudden
I remembered my daughter:
Waiting for me
To breastfeed her;
But all I saw was
Haze and blur!

The byname of a murderer
Began to rain!
Head was bleeding,
And heart in so much pain.
All the hard…

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NASA’s impressive new AI can predict when a hurricane intensifies

They discovered three strong signals that a hurricane will become more severe: abundant rainfall inside the storm‘s inner core; the amount of ice water in the clouds within the tropical cyclone; and the temperature of the air flowing away from the eye of the hurricane. Untitled-design-2020-09-03T103620.842-79
Meteorologists have gotten pretty damn good at forecasting a hurricane’s track. But they still struggle to calculate when it will intensify, as it’s seriously hard to understand what’s happening inside a tropical cyclone. A new machine learning model developed by NASA could dramatically improve their calculations, and give people in a hurricane’s path more time to prepare. Scientists at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California developed the system after searching through years of satellite data. They discovered three strong signals that a hurricane will become more severe: abundant rainfall inside the storm‘s inner core; the amount of ice water in…

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NASA’s impressive new AI can predict when a hurricane intensifies

They (JPL) discovered three strong signals that a hurricane will become more severe: abundant rainfall inside the storm‘s inner core; the amount of ice water in the clouds within the tropical cyclone; and the temperature of the air flowing away from the eye of the hurricane.Source: NASA’s impressive new AI can predict when a hurricane intensifies

Richmond VA Violence Caused By White Supremacists Posing As BLM | Crooks and Liars

We’ve had evidence for some time that right-wing extremists have been lurking at anti-police protests around the nation, amplifying the violence by engaging in vandalism, assaults, and attacks on police—often while pretending to be there to support Black Lives Matter and antifascists leading the protests.

This weekend in Richmond, Virginia, police arrested several such saboteurs during a Black Lives Matter protest, according to city Mayor Levar Stoney. “White supremacists” were carrying pro-BLM signs and breaking windows at downtown businesses, Stoney said, but were stopped when BLM protesters pointed them out to police.

Source: Richmond VA Violence Caused By White Supremacists Posing As BLM | Crooks and Liars

Her soul.

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Her soul was buried in the deepest of her oceans,

Awake, more than once, there’s a light she could see.

Up the surface she goes bearing her breathless soul,

But the waves were so strong twice the currents down below.

She was left with no choice but to choose with the two,

The storm up above or the calmness of the deep.

Two endings she supposed, “Which one should I choose?”

Her soul cannot breathe, “My heart, it felt cold.”

-C.L.

Poetry Entry #4

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