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The possibilites for a disabled person to enjoy Malta

By maltaobserver.blogspot.com
Published On :: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:05:00 +0000

Disabled people shall not visit Malta if they intend to see the islands and not just stay in their hotels. There is almost nothing done in Malta to help disabled people. The pavements mostly lack ramps and are far too high. The new buses are a little bit better than the old classical ones but not enough improvements have been made. When entering or leaving a bus, persons in wheelchairs cannot manage themselves but have to rely on helpful fellow passengers due to the fact that the bus is too high up from the street. That could be helped if the buses stop close to the pavements, but very often they stop one or two meters from the very high pavement.
The old classical type of bus no longer in use
There are very few shops with ramps, a fact that makes it almost impossible to visit shops if you are sitting in a wheelchair.
The pavements are, with very few exceptions, in a condition that makes it impossible to go by a wheelchair. The main exceptions in the Gzira, Sliema and S:t Julian’s area beeing, of course, The Strand and Tower Road as well as George Borg Oliver Road. In Marsaskala, Marsaxlokk and other towns by the sea with many tourists, there are also roads that are suitable for disabled people. BUT, how to get there?


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Mr. Gonzi's victory; was the contest necessary?

By maltaobserver.blogspot.com
Published On :: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:25:00 +0000

PM in Marsascala during his tour for support
In todays The Times one can read that PM Lawrence Gonzi gained 96,5 per cent of the vote in the PN leadership contest. It gives The Observer a flashback from the sixties when Leonid Brezhnev gained 105 per cent of the vote in former Soviet Union. That is what can be called a good and fair election! To avoid any misunderstanding; of course yesterday's election can not be regarded otherwise than fair. But was it necessary? Even if Mr. Gonzi felt that he needed to have his leadership confirmed, the outcome of the vote is still not a true and fair view on the situation in The Nationalist Party since Mr. Gonzi was the only candidate. Say for instance that Mr. Debono had challenged Mr. Gonzi regarding the leadership (he has challenged him about almost everything else). Of course Mr. Gonzi would not have gained 96,5 per cent of the vote. That is as certain as it is that Mr. Debone would have lost such a debacle. Mr. Debono has previously tried very hard to commit political suicide and if he had challenged Mr. Gonzi regarding the leadership he would surely have succeeded. One can wonder if all this really was necessary. Mr. Gonzi is the undisputed leader of the Nationalist Party no matter what Mr. Debono tries to do. Even if there are a number of opponents to Mr. Gonzi in the party they are not as stupid as to challenge Mr. Gonzo in this political situation. They would, in that case, have gone down together with Mr. Debono.


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A Maltese priest’s distorted view of the judiciary's role in society

By maltaobserver.blogspot.com
Published On :: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:19:00 +0000

In yesterdays The Times a Maltese priest, Mgr. Anton Gaucia, complains once more that a High Court in London a few weeks ago gave a sentence ruling that “the Catholic Church can be held liable for the wrongdoings of its priests”. Mgr. Gaucia have earlier, January 8 in Sunday Times, made the same complaint. Now Mgr. Gaucia also complains over the fact that a Mr. Justice in London has ruled that “the saying of prayers as part of the formal meeting of a council is not lawful”, adding that “there is no statutory power permitting the practice to continue”.
First things first; of course the Church shall be liable for what its employees/priests do in Alphain their capacity as priests. The children in these cases were in the care of a Catholic institution. I wonder what Mgr. Gaucia would say about if a municipal employee at a daycare sexually molest a child that the child’s parents left in its care. Of course, the municipality would be responsible for its negligence and for its failure to protect a child. The same goes of course for the Church. Mgr. Gaucia may of course, probably not being a father himself in the more down to earth sense, not understand what damage the Church and its priests done to these children. The people The Observer talked to in this matter in Malta all agree with The Observer and I think it would be wise of the Church to listen to the people in this.
Second; it might soon be time for priests like Mgr. Gauci and his colleagues to realize what century they live in. The time when Catholics ruled southern Europe is gone forever. There are Muslims, Hindus, Jews and many other people of different beliefs that have and are going to have positions in the society among which, of course, also positions in a council. Does Mgr. Gauci really mean that these people must attend Catholic or Protestant prayers? Or shall they leave when such prayer is to be said? Another possibility would of course be to have, say ten, different rooms where people of different beliefs could pray in accordance with such belief before the council meeting. Mgr Gauci, please grow up and realize what reality you live in.


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Disgusting picture in todays The Times

By maltaobserver.blogspot.com
Published On :: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:18:00 +0000

In todays The Times you can read about an unlicensed bouncer who has been acquitted of causing the death of an immigrant outside a Paceville club. Fair enough, although it very much looks like a racist crime. A court shall have very Översätt från: svenska
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high requirements of proof. But, it is disgusting when The Times publishes a picture of the bouncer, his girlfriend and his two lawyers in a manner that gives the impression of a hero. The Times should show respect for the victim and his family and not embrace the man who is a killer no matter he was acquitted, especially as everybody knows how the bouncers in Paceville treat people. Maybe this was not a racist crime, but the publishing of the picture is racism even if The Times tries to hide it, One can wonder if this picture would have been published if the victim had been a white Maltese male or female and not a black man from Africa. Shame on The Times!


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Again, the Maltese judicial system is proven to have collapsed and now it also seems ridiculous

By maltaobserver.blogspot.com
Published On :: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:00:00 +0000



Today one can read in The Times of a man being sentenced to one month in prison and fined 233€ for illegal gambling. The fantastic and almost unbelievable fact is that the crime was committed in 2001 and the man pleaded guilty in 2002. The man had to wait ten years to be punished for a crime he had admitted almost immediately! To make this even more surprising (well, maybe not so surprising; this is probably typically for the judicial system in Malta) the judge found that the prosecution had failed to prove the allegations against the man, but, since he had admitted the crime the judge had to find him guilty. The Observer sincerely hopes that the latter is not true. In most other countries, with a more sophisticated and functioning judicial system than Malta, an admission is not enough to prove that a person has committed a crime.  When famous murders occur, quite many people come to the police and plead guilty. This is a well-known fact among Alphacriminologists. Probably and hopefully The Times has not published full details about why the judge had to find the man guilty.


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Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want BCCI to allow Indian players to participate in foreign T20 leagues - Times of India

By news.google.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:49:32 GMT

  1. Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want BCCI to allow Indian players to participate in foreign T20 leagues  Times of India
  2. "Such A rHAIR Picture": CSK Troll Shikhar Dhawan For His Throwback Photo With Suresh Raina  NDTV Tamil
  3. Wish BCCI plans with ICC: Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan want Indian players to participate in foreign T20...  Hindustan Times
  4. Indian selectors made me an oldie at 30, didn't communicate with me: Irfan Pathan  CricTracker
  5. MSK Prasad didn't speak to me at all: Suresh Raina responds to former chief selector's claims  CricTracker
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Strategic oil storage to be full by mid-May: Dharmendra Pradhan - Livemint

By news.google.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:24:07 GMT

  1. Strategic oil storage to be full by mid-May: Dharmendra Pradhan  Livemint
  2. India's fuel demand nearly halves in April amid national lockdown  Hindustan Times
  3. Dharmendra Pradhan hints at new gas policy, says low oil prices no answer  Zee News
  4. India has ample crude oil reserves: Pradhan  The Tribune India
  5. India's Fuel Consumption Falls 46% To Lowest Since 2007  NDTV Profit
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Trump admin working to temporarily ban work-based visas: Report - Top Live News

By news.google.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:21:04 GMT

  1. Trump admin working to temporarily ban work-based visas: Report  Top Live News
  2. US lawmakers want H-1B visas and foreign students internship suspended to protect American jobs  Times of India
  3. US likely to temporarily ban work-based visas like H-1B due to rise in unemployment  Zee News
  4. US Mulls Temporary Ban on Work Visas Amid Unemployment: Reports  The Quint
  5. 5 US lawmakers ask Trump to suspend new H-1B visas  The Tribune India
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Covid-19 Delhi latest figures- 224 new cases take capital’s total to 8,630, India tally at 59,662 - Hindustan Times

By news.google.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:05:48 GMT

  1. Covid-19 Delhi latest figures- 224 new cases take capital’s total to 8,630, India tally at 59,662  Hindustan Times
  2. Confusion over Delhi's Covid-19 toll as govt data, figures from hospitals don't match  Times of India
  3. 3 More Private Hospitals To Treat COVID-19 Patients In Delhi  NDTV
  4. Delhi Covid-19 tally tops 6,000 with 338 new cases in last 24 hours  Livemint
  5. 100 rooms in Delhi's five-star hotels now hospitals  Times of India
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History of Lisp

By lambda-the-ultimate.org
Published On :: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:43:23 +0000

History of Lisp (The history of LISP according to McCarthy's memory in 1978, presented at the ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference.)

This is such a fun paper which I couldn't find on LtU. It's about the very early history of programming (1950s and '60s), back when things we take for granted today didn't exist yet.

On taking apart complex data structures with functions like CAR and CDR:

It was immediately apparent that arbitrary subexpressions of symbolic expressions could be obtained by composing the functions that extract immediate subexpressions, and this seemed reason enough to go to an algebraic language.

On creating new data, i.e. CONS:

At some point a cons(a,d,p,t) was defined, but it was regarded as a subroutine and not as a function with a value. ... Gelernter and Gerberich noticed that cons should be a function, not just a subroutine, and that its value should be the location of the word that had been taken from the free storage list. This permitted new expressions to be constructed out of subsubexpressions by composing occurrences of cons

On inventing IF:

This led to the invention of the true conditional expression which evaluates only one of N1 and N2 according to whether M is true or false and to a desire for a programming language that would allow its use.

On how supreme laziness led to the invention of garbage collection:

Once we decided on garbage collection, its actual implementation could be postponed, because only toy examples were being done.

You might have heard this before:

S.R. Russell noticed that eval could serve as an interpreter for LISP, promptly hand coded it, and we now had a programming language with an interpreter.

And the rest is history...


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Selective Functors

By lambda-the-ultimate.org
Published On :: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:12:26 +0000

From Andrey Mokhov's twitter feed:

Is there any intermediate abstraction between applicative functors and monads? And if yes, what is it? In a new paper with @geo2A, @simonmar and @dimenix we explore "selective functors", which are essentially applicative functors with branching: https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/andrey.mokhov/selective-functors.pdf

We've implemented selective functors in Haskell: https://github.com/snowleopard/selective, OCaml: https://github.com/snowleopard/selective-ocaml, and even Coq: https://github.com/tuura/selective-theory-coq (the Coq repository contains some proofs of correctness that our selective instances are lawful). And there is also a PureScript fork!


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Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory

By lambda-the-ultimate.org
Published On :: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:53:25 +0000

Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory

2018 by Brendan Fong and David I. Spivak

Category theory is becoming a central hub for all of pure mathematics. It is unmatched in its ability to organize and layer abstractions, to find commonalities between structures of all sorts, and to facilitate communication between different mathematical communities. But it has also been branching out into science, informatics, and industry. We believe that it has the potential to be a major cohesive force in the world, building rigorous bridges between disparate worlds, both theoretical and practical. The motto at MIT is mens et manus, Latin for mind and hand. We believe that category theory—and pure math in general—has stayed in the realm of mind for too long; it is ripe to be brought to hand.
A very approachable but useful introduction to category theory. It avoids the Scylla and Charybdis of becoming incomprehensible after page 2 (as many academic texts do), and barely scratching the surface (as many popular texts do).


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Histogram: You have to know the past to understand the present by Tomas Petricek

By lambda-the-ultimate.org
Published On :: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:26:13 +0000

Histogram: You have to know the past to understand the present by Tomas Petricek, University of Kent

Programs are created through a variety of interactions. A programmer might write some code, run it interactively to check whether it works, use copy and paste, apply a refactoring or choose an item from an auto-complete list. Programming research often forgets about these and represents programs as the resulting text. Consequently, thinking about such interactions is often out of scope. This essay shifts focus from programs to a more interesting question of programming.

We represent programs as lists of interactions such as triggering an auto-complete and choosing an option, declaring a value, introducing a variable or evaluating a piece of code. We explore a number of consequences of this way of thinking about programs. First, if we create functions by writing concrete code using a sample input and applying a refactoring, we do not lose the sample input and can use it later for debugging. Second, if we treat executing code interactively as an interaction and store the results, we can later use this information to give more precise suggestions in auto-complete. Third, by moving away from a textual representation, we can display the same program as text, but also in a view inspired by spreadsheets. Fourth, we can let programmers create programs by directly interacting with live previews as those interactions can be recorded and as a part of program history.

We discuss the key ideas through examples in a simple programming environment for data exploration. Our focus in this essay is more on principles than on providing fine tuned user experience. We keep our environment more explicit, especially when this reveals what is happening behind the scenes. We aim to show that seeing programs as lists of interactions is a powerful change of perspective that can help us build better programming systems with novel features that make programming easier and more accessible. The data exploration environment in this interactive essay may not yet be that, but it gives a glimpse of the future.


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Applications of Blockchain to Programming Language Theory

By lambda-the-ultimate.org
Published On :: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:38:12 +0000

Let's talk about Blockchain. Goal is to use this forum topic to highlight its usefulness to programming language theory and practice. If you're familiar with existing research efforts, please share them here. In addition, feel free to generate ideas for how Blockchain could improve languages and developer productivity.

As one tasty example: Blockchain helps to formalize thinking about mutual knowledge and common knowledge, and potentially think about sharing intergalactic computing power through vast distributed computing fabrics. If we can design contracts in such a way that maximizes the usage of mutual knowledge while minimizing common knowledge to situations where you have to "prove your collateral", third-party transactions could eliminate a lot of back office burden. But, there might be benefits in other areas of computer science from such research, as well.

Some language researchers, like Mark S. Miller, have always dreamed of Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts.

Some may also be aware that verification of smart contracts is an important research area, because of the notorious theft of purse via logic bug in an Ethereum smart contract.


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I’m Coming Back To Lindsay Lohan

By imeanwhat.com
Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:21:09 +0000

I’m Coming Back To Lindsay Lohan

Welcome back, Lindsay Lohan. And what better time than when we are all trapped in our homes desperate for something/anything to talk about. Linsday just dripped her first single, "Back To Me", since the year of the flood.

I Mean…What?!?


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Kans op 2e golf, maar contactopsporing moet 2e lockdown vermijden: bekijk de beste fragmenten uit "Het coronadebat" - VRT NWS

By news.google.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:43:00 GMT

  1. Kans op 2e golf, maar contactopsporing moet 2e lockdown vermijden: bekijk de beste fragmenten uit "Het coronadebat"  VRT NWS
  2. Het Corona Debat met Marc Van Ranst, Erika Vlieghe, Maggie De Block (Open Vld), Bart De Wever (N-VA) en anderen  De Morgen
  3. 'We moeten tijd winnen tot vaccin er is'  De Standaard
  4. Het grote coronadebat: “We moeten tijd winnen tot vaccin er is”  Het Belang van Limburg
  5. Hele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws


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Minister van Toerisme Demir wil toeristen in Vlaanderen spreiden - De Standaard

By news.google.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 12:23:00 GMT

  1. Minister van Toerisme Demir wil toeristen in Vlaanderen spreiden  De Standaard
  2. Minister van Toerisme Demir wil met druktebarometer toeristen in Vlaanderen spreiden  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Minister Zuhal Demir licht toerismeplan voor de zomer toe: “Ik wil dat de mensen Vlaanderen herontdekken”  Het Nieuwsblad
  4. Ziekenhuizen kust ongerust over komst toeristen  Focus en WTV
  5. Minister van Toerisme Demir werkt aan plan om toeristen in Vlaanderen te spreiden  De Morgen
  6. Hele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws


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The Iron Dragon's Daughter #-Book Sale TODAY ONLY!

By floggingbabel.blogspot.com
Published On :: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:12:00 +0000

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Just a reminder that people in Canada and the US can buy an e-book of The Iron Dragon's Mother, the first book of my stand-alone fantasy trilogy for only $1.99 today. Tomorrow will be too late:

Here's the boilerplate:




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The Postutopian Adventures of Michael Swanwick

By floggingbabel.blogspot.com
Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 19:38:00 +0000

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Look what came in the mail! My contributor's copies of The Postmodern Adventures of Darger and Surplus. Which I can now honestly tell you are beautiful books. Marianne--owner, reditor, and sole entrepreneur of Dragonstairs Press, remember--especially admired the texture of the endpapers.

This is the first Darger and Surplus collection of short, and it collects everything except the two novels. But I should caution you that it is a slim book--five previously published stories, four related short-shorts, and "There Was an Old Woman..." a story written expressly for this collection.  Bloated this volume is not.

Subterranean Press has created, as I said, one lovely volume. It costs $40, because it's a high-quality collector's item, published in a limited edition of one thousand. But for a high quality collector's item, published in a limited edition of one thousand, that's pretty cheap.

Here's the table of contents:

Introduction:
  • Mother Goose’s Errant Sons
Stories:
  • The Dog Said Bow-Wow
  • The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport
  • Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play
  • Tawny Petticoats
  • There Was An Old Woman
  • Appendix:

  • Introduction to Appendix: A Little Smoke and a Mirror or Three
  • Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Postutopian Future

If you're interested, you can buy a copy of the book here.

Or you can buy an e-book version for $5 here.

Oe you can simply go the the Subterranean website and poke around here.  Mine isn't the only book there you want. Far from it.


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Our addiction to driving is costing lives, and more

By torontoist.com
Published On :: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:56:24 +0000

The solution is not to scold drivers but to make structural solutions.

  I must confess: I was tempted to write a column along the lines of “Yes, it’s a war on the car, and it’s a just war!” But we don’t need a war on the car. What we need is an intervention. We need a serious conversation about our collective, structural addiction to this substance, […]

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Civic Tech: Hackers! To Your Stations!

By torontoist.com
Published On :: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:00:49 +0000

For those who care about data, the City’s new Open Data Master Plan is about to change everything.

One Saturday afternoon earlier this month, more than 100 people gathered at the Toronto Public Library for an annual gathering called CodeAcross, the city’s annual open data and civic tech event. This year, the theme was the Future of Work. One of the challenges centred on the City of Toronto’s freshly approved Open Data Master […]

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Toronto’s Long-Term Financial Plan: The Bill is Due

By torontoist.com
Published On :: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:12:54 +0000

As his parting gift to Toronto Council, City Manager Peter Wallace spells out the effect of years of promised new services and infrastructure unmatched by revenue to build and operate our dream city.

Toronto Council is good at making promises, voting for better services, new transit lines, a revitalized expressway, but too many of these promises depend on money the city does not have. At budget time, city staff work their magic and trim spending to fit the available dollars. Programs are stretched to make do with less […]

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Has Toronto Become a City of Instagram Photo Ops?

By torontoist.com
Published On :: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:28:32 +0000

Food, art, even public space now seems to revolve around aesthetic value as judged by the social network.

Whether it’s a small new restaurant or a major art gallery exhibition, it seems Toronto’s cultural institutions must cater to the “like” seeking set. The price of success today is a sacrifice made at the altar of Instagram. Of course, to some, it’s not viewed as a sacrifice at all, especially when it boosts business […]

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Our One Chance to Fix Yonge Street

By torontoist.com
Published On :: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:22:59 +0000

The re-imagining of the city’s main artery must look to the future, not the past.

It’s clear that Toronto is changing; it’s not so clear that our political leaders have noticed. The debate about the revitalization of Yonge St. in North York Centre, where the cityscape is now dominated by residential towers, highlights the problem. ‘RE-imagining Yonge’, a city initiative covering the area between Sheppard and Finch Avenues, goes to […]

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Civic Tech: We tried to get a copy of the Sidewalk Toronto agreement

By torontoist.com
Published On :: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:18:03 +0000

Why all the secrecy?

If you follow the news in Toronto or if you’re interested in technology, you’ve probably heard of Sidewalk Toronto by now. It’s a joint project of Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, and Waterfront Toronto. This is the tech giant’s first foray into urban development and infrastructure, with Toronto hosting the pilot project. In […]

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Torontoist has been acquired by Daily Hive

By torontoist.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:48:33 +0000

In 2008, a few friends in Vancouver recognized that a voice was missing from reporting in our country. National news was increasingly international in nature. Provincial was disappearing. And, local seemed out of touch with its audience. So, they started writing the kind of content they wanted to read. Hyperlocal stories aimed at helping people […]

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Jeff Hardy takes on Cesaro to highlight WWE Money In The Bank Kickoff Show

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:03:11 +0000

WWE Money In The Bank Kickoff begins at 6 pm ET/3 pm PT on Sunday, May 10.


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Top 10 Friday Night SmackDown moments: WWE Top 10, May 8, 2020

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:16:00 +0000

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Wisconsin asks Alvarez, Chryst, Gard to take pay cut

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:29:52 +0000

Wisconsin officials believe a plan of reducing compensation to highest-earning employees should help save the athletic department about $2.8 million.


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Becky Lynch racks up most total days as Raw Women’s Champion in history

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:36:27 +0000

Becky Lynch has become the Superstar with the most total days as Raw Women’s Champion, surpassing Alexa Bliss.


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Harlem figure skating gala pivots from ice to internet

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:46:33 +0000

Unable to stage its big fundraiser because of the pandemic, Figure Skating in Harlem is going from the ice to the internet


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A reminder: How to stimulate the appetite of a medical leech

By www.improbable.com
Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 13:44:42 +0000

The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize for biology was awarded to Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik of the University of Bergen, Norway, for their tasty and tasteful report, “Effect of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches.” Recently, Bradley Allff, writing in Atlas Obscura, looked at the role medical leeches sometimes play in medicine in the USA. […]


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