Last week I reported on McPike Park. I wanted to share a dedicated funding source for campers set up by the Social Justice Center and other McPike Park supporters in addition to the The Friends of the State Street Family link I provided. Donations will help us with car repairs, gas cards and car maintenance for friends sleeping in their cars.

Owens tried growing the bacterium in culture, sending it to other labs for sequencing, looking for it in tissue samples. Almost impossible to grow in the lab, the bacterium finally proliferated in a smear of brain tissue. Under a microscope, the tissue revealed the common shapes of bacteria: spheres and cylinders.

A further 183,600 passengers will have entered the UK from 27 other countries where Brazilian or south African variant cases have been confirmed, including Spain which has imposed border restrictions with Portugal because of its close links with Brazil. The disclosure will fuel demands for the number of countries subject to hotel quarantine to be widened, with Labour and the devolved administrations demanding that all arrivals should be subject to mandatory self isolation managed by the Government. Nick Thomas Symonds, the shadow home secretary, said: “Not only are the measures far too slow to begin 50 days after the South African strain emerged they are also dangerously inadequate.” Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, has signalled that hotel quarantine could be extended beyond the 33 countries that are primarily in south America and southern Africa but also include the United Arab Emirates ( a major airport hub for Africa) as well as Portugal and Cape Verde.

Acho que isso o que o Ciro chama de democrata por convenincia, sabe? O PT nem falou em golpe no primeiro turno, mas no segundo vestiu a camisa da democracia pra tentar vencer o Bolsonaro pelo medo. O Ciro levanta a bandeira da democracia h muito tempo. Eu preferia que ele tivesse falado pelo menos um “Ele No” oficialmente, mas subir no palanque e fazer campanha pro PT a essa altura seria verdadeiramente incoerente..

Last month, Amazon and Microsoft announced a partnership to make their respective virtual assistants, Alexa and Cortana, work together. The two AI based assistants will now be able to work with each other on a variety of devices, the companies said. Amazon is open to the idea of opening Alexa to other competing AI assistants, though it has so far only approached Microsoft, CEO Jeff Bezos said..

There are a number of healthcare related products like the Cooey or the Dario, smart glucometers that connect to a smartphone using the 3.5mm headphone jack to keep a track of your glucose levels with an app. Then there’s the Kinsa Smart Thermometer, which is you guessed it a medical thermometer that connects to your phone using the 3.5mm jack. And you can buy any number of heart rate sensors from AliExpress as well.