Nebraska Cornhuskers (1-0) vs Nevada Wolfpack (0-0) Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2020 – 1 p.m. CT Pinnacle Bank Arena TV: BTN Radio: Husker Sports Network Internet: Fox Sports App 1. Keep up the efficiency Nebraska’s offense was as good as most anyone could have hoped in the win over McNeese State on Wednesday, scoring 102 points […]
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Fans will be allowed to return to certain games from next Wednesday With the new three-tier restriction system set to be confirmed across the country, sports fans will eagerly await next Wednesday when venues can reopen their doors and welcome supporters for the first time in nearly nine months. The coronavirus pandemic put the brakes […]
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Polish time trial champion Kamil Gradek Polish national time trial champion Kamil Gradek is the latest CCC Team rider to step down a level after the demise of the Polish WorldTour team, joining the Vini Zabù team to support sprinter Jakub Mareczko. Polish shoe brand CCC massively cut back on its sponsorship due to the […]
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Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. For the holiday, we’re printing readers’ words of gratitude. ImageCredit…Vinnie Neuberg ‘I am thankful to be thankful’ Last week, I invited readers to send us six words describing what made them thankful in 2020. It’s a form of writing — the six-word memoir […]
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New Zealand’s trade surplus grew in October as imports declined faster than exports, data released by Statistics New Zealand showed Thursday. The trade surplus for the year ended October increased to NZ$2.19 billion in October from NZ$1.65 billion in the year ended in September. The monthly trade deficit narrowed to NZ$0.5 billion in October. The […]
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England coach Eddie Jones has recalled fly-half George Ford to the starting XV as his side look to clinch their place in the Autumn Nations Cup final with a win away to Wales on Saturday. Ford missed the recent wins over Italy and Georgia because of a heel injury but came off the bench during […]
Read MoreThis may be the week when most Americans are gobbling turkey at Thanksgiving, but Maine’s lobstermen and women are looking ahead to 2021 and figure they might get on a roll with Joe Biden. Donald Trump positioned himself as a friend of New England’s lobster industry, campaigning hard in Maine, and even had lobsterman Jason […]
Read MoreAlan Ball will probably always be known as the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 1999 hit American Beauty, though he saw his original script curtailed in the edit, and its themes of identity and sexuality made more opaque than he intended. His subsequent work has tended to focus on repression, sexuality and guilt, and so it […]
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New Mahindra FE powertrain Mahindra’s new Formula E powertrain – developed by German manufacturer ZF – is already a “significant improvement” over its predecessor, says team principal Dilbagh Gill. After three consecutive race-winning campaigns, Mahindra failed to finish on the podium during the 2019-20 season and dropped to ninth in the teams’ championship – its […]
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Creating machines that have the general problem-solving capabilities of human brains has been the holy grain of artificial intelligence scientists for decades. And despite tremendous advances in various fields of computer science, artificial general intelligence still eludes researchers. Our current AI methods either require a huge amount of data, or a very large number of hand-coded rules, […]
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It’s a label Zappa openly embraced into the 1980s, staging a career rebrand that saw him asserting his fierce individualism along more conventionally political lines. In 1985, he became a regular feature in talk show junkets, speaking against the efforts of Parents Music Resource Center, the committee Tipper Gore co-founded to devise a movie-style ratings […]
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Strip away the myth-making and genocide erasure, and American Thanksgiving is a simple harvest festival, celebrated in various forms by cultures all over the world and across human history. This year’s harvest—threshed, picked, slaughtered, butchered, packaged, shipped, and finally cooked—takes place under particularly precarious conditions, a warming atmosphere containing a novel, deadly pathogen. As many […]
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The youngest is Elsie Dubray, an entrant in the Intel World Science Fair contest with her research into the nutritional value (specifically the lipid structure) of buffalo meat, in contrast to beef. Dubray, now an undergraduate at Stanford, is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation, and in Gather, she appears outdoors among the […]
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Copper prices notched an 8-year high this week. Marina Lystseva/TASS Copper prices have a message for the world: expect to make a lot of wind farms, wires, electric cars and other staples of the green economy. Prices of the metal pushed above $7,000 per tonne this week, the highest since December 2013. It was a […]
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PITTSBURGH, PA – OCTOBER 18: Head coach Kevin Stefanski of the Cleveland Browns looks on during the … [+] game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field on October 18, 2020 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images) Getty Images Browns Offensive Coordinator Alex Van Pelt showed players a photo of Stretch Armstrong during […]
Read MoreBy Annie Linskey and Sean Sullivan, Salwan Georges The Washington Post President-elect Joe Biden is making clear that he meant his campaign promise to turn down the partisan heat in Washington. WILMINGTON, Del. — Republicans had been gearing up for the first partisan brawl of the new administration — a battle over whether to confirm […]
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Homemade To make your own stock, you first need poultry bones, either cooked or raw or a combination. Some of the bones should have meat on them, but most can be picked clean. I save my roast chicken carcasses in the freezer until stock-making day, and augment them with fresh chicken or turkey wings picked […]
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On Nov. 6, an Ethiopian friend messaged me on WhatsApp: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had ordered airstrikes against the regional government in the country’s northernmost Tigray Province, bordering Eritrea and Sudan. I looked up from my phone screen in a daze. My friend was raging at the return of violence. “Why don’t these men give […]
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There are two lines that will tell you the story of the American economy right now. The first is the one President Donald Trump talks about — a lot: the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It’s an index that measures the stock prices of 30 of America’s largest and most representative companies. It tracks the value […]
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We love stories in America. Especially when we can see ourselves in the heroes. That’s part of why the tale of the humble Pilgrims, rescued from starvation by kindly Natives, has such a cherished place in our folklore. Thanksgiving Day, for all its feasting and pageantry, is a holiday built on the stories that we […]
Read MoreFast fashion retailer Boohoo has appointed Sir Brian Leveson, the retired judge who led the Leveson inquiry into the activities of the media, to oversee the firm’s overhaul of its supply chain following allegations of poor working practices. An investigation by the Guardian and Sunday Times found that factories in Leicester were failing to pay […]
Read MoreWarner Bros Pictures has confirmed James Bond star Mads Mikkelsen will take over the role of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald from Johnny Depp in the third Fantastic Beasts film. Depp stepped down from the role after losing his high-profile libel case against the Sun newspaper over an article that labelled him a “wife beater”. Danish […]
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With the Chicago Bears looking to halt a four-game losing streak and remain in the mix as the playoff chase heats up, it’s time to turn back to Mitch Trubisky at quarterback for Sunday night’s game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Trubisky lost his starting job in Week 3 against the Falcons […]
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A prominent decarbonization researcher believes battery electric trucks will become the norm for low emissions road freight, as alternatives, like fuel cell vehicles, are more expensive to run. In an interview with Clean Energy Wire, Auke Hoekstra, an academic researcher from Eindhoven University of Technology, says that fuel cell vehicles “won’t ever be able to […]
Read MoreMicrosoft has been criticised for enabling “workplace surveillance” after privacy campaigners warned that the company’s “productivity score” feature allows managers to use Windows 365 to track their employees’ activity at an individual level. The tools, first released in 2019, are designed to “provide you visibility into how your organisation works”, according to a Microsoft blogpost, […]
Read MoreBlack Friday is the perfect time of year for sniffing out the best cheap gaming laptop deals. The key is to find something that’s both a bargain, but also can still give you the powerful performance you want, and this Razer Blade Stealth 13 laptop deal fits those criteria perfectly. Razer understands what makes a […]
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Eurozone money supply increased at a faster pace in October and loans to the private sector recorded a steady growth, data released by the European Central Bank showed Thursday. The monetary aggregate M3 expanded 10.5 percent on a yearly basis, slightly faster than the 10.4 percent rise posted in September. At the same time, the […]
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Matches at World Cups from 1966 through to 2018 were examined for the average number of headers – AFP The amount of heading in elite international football has increased since the 1960s, according to new research which further undermines the hope that players from the modern era are at a reduced dementia risk. Scientific research […]
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(Reuters) — Cloud-based software company Salesforce.com is in talks to acquire workplace messaging app Slack as it seeks to expand its offerings to businesses, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Salesforce’s bid comes as Slack struggles to fully capitalize on the switch to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of […]
Read MoreThe Black Friday sale no longer lasts only a day – retailers have already started discounting in the run-up to 27 November. Here’s a roundup of some of the offers: • Tesco is offering a number of deals on toys and video games. Lego sets going for half-price include the Lighthouse Rescue Centre (£27.50 – […]
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1) Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died on Wednesday aged 60. It’s hard to know where to begin, but let’s start with five of his greatest World Cup goals. No 1 on that list, the ‘goal of the century’, inspired some memorable commentary from Barry Davies – “you have to […]
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