Non-IT News Thread
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Kobe Bryant: Basketball's genius, who had his controversies, was solving life after sport
For most sporting superstars, the first act - chewing up opponents, training obsessively, playing harder, winning, always winning - is the easy part.
It's instinct and it's obvious. It's the natural part of being a natural. It's the second act that brings the doubts and the breakdowns. The loss of the old physical certainties, the end of the dominance. Someone born with an ability to see patterns and plays before others is suddenly unable to answer the biggest question of all: what happens next? The tragedy of Kobe Bryant's early death, and that of his daughter Gianna, is primarily a family one. Sport's shock and grief is second to that of wife, daughters, parents, friends. -
Right after LeBron passed Kobe for third place. I took this screenshot of the all time NBA scoring leaders a day before the accident happened.
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BBC News - Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51275007Look at his fine compared to his allowance.
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India cleared to bring cheetahs back to forests
India's top court has said cheetahs can be reintroduced in the country, 70 years after they were wiped out.
Responding to a plea by the government, the Supreme Court said African cheetahs could be introduced to the wild in a "carefully chosen location". Cheetahs are an endangered species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites). Only 7,100 cheetahs are left in the wild, almost all of them in Africa. The Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed parts of India, is now only found in Iran, where there are thought to be about 50 left. India's Supreme Court said the animal would have to be introduced on an experimental basis to find out if it could adapt to Indian conditions. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51275007Look at his fine compared to his allowance.
Wow, nearly double...
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51275007Look at his fine compared to his allowance.
Wow, nearly double...
Yeah, and how far does that go back? Ten years?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51275007Look at his fine compared to his allowance.
Wow, nearly double...
Yeah, and how far does that go back? Ten years?
No - only for the order of giving a blood sample, which I thought they said was one year ago.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51275007Look at his fine compared to his allowance.
Wow, nearly double...
Yeah, and how far does that go back? Ten years?
No - only for the order of giving a blood sample, which I thought they said was one year ago.
Ah, too bad. But still a lot of money.
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BBC News - Caribbean earthquake of 7.7 prompts office evacuations in Miami
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Coronavirus: Britons on Wuhan flights to be quarantined
Hundreds of British citizens being flown back to the UK from Wuhan on Thursday will be put in quarantine for two weeks.
It comes as British Airways suspends all direct flights to and from mainland China because of the coronavirus outbreak. Australia, Japan, the US and EU nations are also repatriating citizens. The virus has caused more than 130 deaths, spreading across China and to at least 16 other countries. The UK government plans to fly 200 British citizens out from Wuhan, the centre of the new coronavirus outbreak, on Thursday. BBC health editor Hugh Pym said that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has instructed officials to put them in quarantine for two weeks - possibly at a UK military facility. -
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Coronavirus: Death toll rises as virus spreads to every Chinese region
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 170, and a confirmed case in Tibet means it has reached every region in mainland China.
Chinese health authorities said there were 7,711 confirmed cases in the country as of 29 January. Infections have also spread to at least 15 other countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) will meet on Thursday to again consider whether the virus constitutes a global health emergency. "In the last few days the progress of the virus, especially in some countries, especially human-to-human transmission, worries us," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. He named Germany, Vietnam and Japan, where there have been cases of people catching the virus from others who have been to China. "Although the numbers outside China are still relatively small, they hold the potential for a much larger outbreak," the WHO chief said. More people have now been infected in China than during the Sars outbreak in the early 2000s, but the death toll remains far lower. Sars, also a coronavirus, caused acute respiratory illness. -
Coronavirus Wuhan diary: Living alone in a city gone quiet
Guo Jing lives in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the heart of the outbreak of a new virus which has got the world worried.
Wuhan has been under lockdown since 23 January, to try to contain the infection. Transport is shut down, most shops and businesses closed, and people are being advised to stay at home. Jing is a 29-year-old social worker and rights activist who lives on her own. For the past week, she has kept a diary, which she shares here with the BBC. I didn't know what to do when I woke up and learned about the lockdown. I don't know what it means, how long it will last and what kind of preparations I should make. There are a lot of infuriating comments [on social media]: that many patients cannot be hospitalised after diagnosis [because of a lack of places], that patients with fever are not properly treated. Many more people are wearing masks. Friends have told me to stock up on supplies. Rice and noodles have almost sold out. -
Coronavirus: Worldwide cases overtake 2003 Sars outbreak
The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has overtaken that of the Sars epidemic, which spread to more than two dozen countries in 2003.
There were around 8,100 cases of Sars - severe acute respiratory syndrome - reported during the eight-month outbreak. But nearly 10,000 cases of the new virus have been confirmed, most in China, since it emerged in December. More than 100 cases have been reported outside China, in 22 countries. The number of deaths so far stands at 213 - all in China. In total, 774 people were killed by Sars. On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency over the new outbreak. -
UK has left the EU
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
UK has left the EU
What does that mean now?
I didn't even notice.
