I was fascinated by the game of chess before I learned how to play. Then, one day, I taught myself the rules. Well, mostly. I got them mostly right. But I eventually learned all the rules. And I’ve continued to love the game this whole time.
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Jerusalem Post | September 3, 2020 | Gabee Friedman
The Jewish Chronicle outed Nimesh Thaker, a longtime BBC World News journalist, as the man behind the now-private “Not that bothered” Twitter account.
Thaker’s account tweeted that Israel is “racist” and a “white supremacist state.”
Eh . . . what’s up, doxx?
On to the last week and a sneak peek at our next league. I hope it is more popular than this group. You people are sooooo picky.
Last week’s results.
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Standings
| Contestants | Record | Total Points |
|---|---|---|
| Shakira | 6 – 0 – 0 | 796 |
| Gwen Stefani | 5 – 1 – 0 | 633 |
| Christina Aguilera | 4 – 2 – 0 | 581 |
| Ariana Grande | 4 – 2 – 0 | 510 |
| Amy Winehouse | 2 – 4 – 0 | 277 |
| Lady Gaga | 1 – 5 – 0 | 312 |
| Nicki Minaj | 1 – 5 – 0 | 241 |
| Beyonce | 1 – 5 – 0 | 156 |
Final week’s matches.
Group E starting September 14th.
Yale University via Phys.org / Sept 4, 2020
As the flu season approaches, a strained public health system may have a surprising ally—the common cold virus.
Rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of common colds, can prevent the flu virus from infecting airways by jumpstarting the body’s antiviral defenses, Yale researchers report Sept. 4 in the journal The Lancet Microbe.
The findings help answer a mystery surrounding the 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic: an expected surge in swine flu cases never materialized in Europe during the fall, a period when the common cold becomes widespread.
A Yale team led by Dr. Ellen Foxman studied three years of clinical data from more than 13,000 patients seen at Yale New Haven Hospital with symptoms of respiratory infection. The researchers found that even during months when both viruses were active, if the common cold virus was present, the flu virus was not.
“When we looked at the data, it became clear that very few people had both viruses at the same time,” said Foxman, assistant professor of laboratory medicine and immunobiology and senior author of the study.
