Lancaster will challenge the fireworks ban imposed on Monday by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health by hosting a public fireworks show on Saturday night. The City Council voted to move the display forward at an emergency meeting Saturday, granting Mayor R. Rex Parris’ request for authority to …
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Players have their pandemic baseball stories. Carlos Carrasco built a pitcher’s mound in his front yard and recruited a neighbor who was a college catcher to handle his pitches. Zach Plesac sometimes threw the ball against a brick wall in an alley in downtown Cleveland to try …
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Every Sunday when the sun sets over her coastal home, Sandi Bogle watches the water before lighting a candle for her nephew, Bjorn Brown. “He was incredible,” she said. “He used to come and spend a lot of time with me and my children; we used to go on vacation …
Read More »Coronavirus: why Singapore turned to portable contact tracking technology
Image copyright Andrew Huang Singapore TraceTogether Tokens are the latest effort to tackle Covid-19 with technology. But they have also reignited a debate over privacy. The portable devices complement the existing contact tracking application on the island, to identify people who could have been infected by those who tested positive …
Read More »Keeping COVID-19 out of summer camps is an almost impossible challenge
As summer camps across the country debated whether and how to operate during the coronavirus pandemic this spring, Kanakuk Kamps, a prominent network of Christian sports camps in Missouri, announced that its five night camps would open to more than 20,000 children from May 30. “Our full-time summer staff of …
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