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Fortnite Darkfire Bundle (PS4/XB1/Switch) $14.99 & BOGO Fortnite Figures at Best Buy - DotD

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Amazon has the PS4 version for the same price.

 

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    Flirt4Free: Chirs Morgan

    I like to be training in the gym, see a guy’s cock through his shorts take him to the showers and fuck like crazy, sex on the beach, and all sorts of role play. Wanna join in? Chat with Chirs Morgan.

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    FamilyDick: Brotherly Affection – Chapter 2: Virtual Presentation

    Working from home is tough, and when Isaac Parker tries to have a productive meeting with his team, his annoying younger stepbrother, Johnny Ford, refuses to leave him alone. Pretty soon, the businessman puts the virtual meeting on mute and lets the little guy suck his cock while he works! See more at FamilyDick.

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    What’s Weird About Where You’re From?

    Sociologists spend a lot of time thinking about lives in social context: how the relationships and communities we live in shape the way we understand ourselves and move through the world. It can be tricky to start thinking about this, but one easy way to do it is to start collecting social facts. Start by […]




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    Fox's Judge Napolitano Slams ‘Dangerous’ McConnell Plan To Shield Businesses From Coronavirus Lawsuits

    Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on Thursday that a Republican plan to shield businesses from coronavirus-related lawsuits is “dangerous.”

    Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested that he would not support additional relief funds to households and businesses unless the package also includes a measure shielding businesses from liability for coronavirus infections.

    But Napolitano argued that the provision would be anti-conservative and violate states rights.

    “Can the Congress tell state courts that they cannot hear claims of liability when someone goes into a public accommodation and contracts coronavirus?” the Fox News analyst explained. “Congress has been very reticent to do that. Conservatives who believe in states rights have been very reluctant to interfere with the operation of state courts.”

    Napolitano pointed out that the only other instance where Congress has restricted state courts is a law that prohibits gun manufacturers from being sued over gun violence.

    “I think that this liability shield business is very dangerous,” he added. “The decision of whose fault someone was harmed by should be decided by juries and not by politicians.”




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    Maryland and Washington, DC: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here is the COVID-19 situation in Maryland and Washington, DC.




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    Montana: Latest updates on coronavirus

    To date, 311 people have been tested statewide.




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    Delaware: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Delaware has eight cases of COVID-19, most of them connected to the University of Delaware.




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    Nevada: Latest updates on coronavirus

    The first COVID-19 death in Nevada was a man in his 60s with an underlying health condition.




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    Nebraska: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Nebraska, and the latest news on the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Kentucky: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here are the latest updates on coronavirus in Kentucky.




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    Minnesota: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here is the COVID-19 situation in Minnesota.




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    South Dakota: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's an update on the coronavirus case counts in South Dakota and the latest news on the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Oregon: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Oregon and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Rhode Island: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Rhode Island and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Idaho: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Idaho and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Michigan: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here's a look at the latest on the coronavirus in Michigan.




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    California: Latest updates on coronavirus

    California has reported 472 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths as of Monday evening (March 16).




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    Louisiana: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Louisiana and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Alabama: Latest updates on coronavirus

    The case count in Alabama jumped to 36 on Tuesday (March 17).




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    Alaska: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Alaska has three confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Monday (March 16).




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    Massachusetts: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here is the COVID-19 situation in Massachusetts.




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    Georgia: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Georgia has 146 confirmed cases of COVID-19




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    Colorado: Latest updates on coronavirus

    More than 130 people in the state have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and one has died.




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    Utah: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Utah and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Indiana: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Indiana and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Arkansas: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Arkansas has reported 22 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday (March 17).




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    Mississippi: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here is the COVID-19 situation in Mississippi.




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    Ohio: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Ohio and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Coronavirus outbreak: Live updates

    Live Science will keep you up to date on all coronavirus news, including how far it has spread, city and local closings and the science behind the virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.




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    Tennessee: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Tennessee and the latest news on the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    Arizona: Latest updates on coronavirus

    Arizona has reported 20 positive cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday (March 17).




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    New York: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in New York and the latest news about the COVID-19 outbreak.




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    West Virginia: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    West Virginia has its first confirmed case of coronavirus.




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    Tapping For Coronavirus Fears!

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    Oregon Deputy Fire Marshal Receives National Award for Home Fire Sprinkler Advocacy

    NFPA’s  Fire Sprinkler Initiative and the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) are pleased to announce that Chase Browning from the Medford Fire Department, is the recipient of the 2019 Bringing Safety Home Award.   The award recognizes




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    NFPA and HFSC Take Home Fire Sprinkler Week 2020 Virtual; Help Us Fill the Digital World with Life Safety Messages May 17-23

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    Where Things Stand: Breaking Their Own Rules

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    Free webinar to help residents be financially prepared for wildfires

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    Solving for wildfire disasters: a lecture to MIT students

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    Wildfire preparedness throughout the month of May

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    Elon Musk shows off Starship prototype's rocket engine ahead of test fire (photo)

    SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk just tweeted an image looking up at the belly of the latest Starship prototype, the SN4, which is on the test stand ahead of a key engine firing.




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    Official: Taika Waititi to co-write and direct 'Star Wars' film

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    Nickelodeon debuts first footage of iconic green slime in space

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    “Simone de Beauvoir alone would never have gotten me from intellect to action”

    Note from OBOS co-founder Judy Norsigian: After publication of my reflections piece in the June 2019 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), I received this wonderful email from Kay Johnson. Her story reminds us all once again of how ONE life experience (reading a book/having a terrific teacher or mentor/participating in an eye-opening social justice action/etc.) can change the course of our lives and bring us into partnership with others also committed to racial, economic and social justice for all.

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    Dirty Business: Lack of Menstrual Equity in Colombian Prisons

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    coronavirus and COVID-19

    A retired colleague contacted me with this query:
    Has a dialect difference emerged between US novel coronavirus/new coronavirus and UK COVID-19, do you think? Novel coronavirus/new coronavirus is favoured by Reuters, but I don't know whether that counts in the dialect balance.

    I hear plenty of COVID-19 from US sources, so that didn't strike me as quite right, but I had a look (on 29 April) at the News on the Web (NOW) corpus, which (so far this year) had 226 covi* (i.e. words starting with covi-) per million words in US and 49 per million in UK. For coronav* it's 362 US v 92 UK. (I searched that way so that I'd get all variations, including COVID without the -19, without the hyphen, coronaviruses, etc.).

    Now, I don't trust the geographical coding on the NOW corpus very much, because you have things like the Guardian showing up in the US data because it has a US portal that has US-particular content, but also all the UK content—and that doesn't do us much good in sorting out AmE from BrE. I really don't know why the per-million numbers are so much higher in the US sources, since the news in both places is completely taken over by the virus and stories related to it. But anyway, about 38% of the (named) mentions of the disease are COVID in the US and 35% in the UK, so there is no notable difference in preference for COVID. I found it interesting that the two newspaper apps on my phone (Guardian [UK] and New York Times) prefer coronavirus in headlines, even though COVID-19 is shorter.

    But my colleague is right that there is a lot more new/novel coronavirus in US than UK. About 12% of AmE usages are prefaced by an adjective that starts with N, while only about 3% of BrE coronaviruses are. Distribution is fairly even between novel (from medical usage) and new. It's worth noting that since I'm only searching news media,  new/novel is probably far more common in this dataset than it would be in everyday interactions.

    Including the definite article (the coronavirus) seems to be more common in AmE. If I just look for how many coronavirus occurrences are preceded by the, the proportion is 45% for AmE and 37% for BrE.  this search hits examples like the one in the 'middle school' story on the left: the coronavirus lockdown where the the really relates to the lockdown. So, to try to avoid this problem, I searched for (the) coronavirus [VERB] and (the) coronavirus [full stop/period]. In those cases, then AmE news media have the the about 50% of the time, while BrE ones have it less than 30% of the time. That misses the new/novel coronavirus (because of the adjective between the and coronavirus), so the real difference in the before coronavirus is probably more stark.

    The media's style guides are supposed to guide the choices journalists and editors make in phrasing such things, but how strictly they follow their own guides is another matter. I had a look at a couple:

    The Guardian Style Guide (UK) says:
    coronavirus outbreak 2019-20
    The virus is officially called Sars-CoV-2 and this causes the disease Covid-19. However, for ease of communication we are following the same practice as the WHO and using Covid-19 to refer to both the virus and the disease in our general reporting. It can also continue to be referred to as the coronavirus.  [I've added the bold on the latter]

    The Associated Press (US) gives similar advice, though it goes into more particular rules for science stories.
    As of March 2020, referring to simply the coronavirus is acceptable on first reference in stories about COVID-19. While the phrasing incorrectly implies there is only one coronavirus, it is clear in this context. Also acceptable on first reference: the new coronavirus; the new virus; COVID-19.
    In stories, do not refer simply to coronavirus without the article the. Not: She is concerned about coronavirus. Omitting the is acceptable in headlines and in uses such as: He said coronavirus concerns are increasing.
    Passages and stories focusing on the science of the disease require sharper distinctions.
    COVID-19, which stands for coronavirus disease 2019, is caused by a virus named SARS-CoV-2. When referring specifically to the virus, the COVID-19 virus and the virus that causes COVID-19 are acceptable. But, because COVID-19 is the name of the disease, not the virus, it is not accurate to write a new virus called COVID-19. [bold added]
    In comparing the two passages you can see one predictable difference between them. AP writes COVID in all caps, Guardian has Covid with the initial capital only. There is a widespread preference in BrE (and generally not in AmE) to differentiate between initalisms and true acronyms. (There's been a bit in the Guardian about it, here.)

    In an initialism, you pronounce the names of the letters: the WHO stands for World Health Organization and it is pronounced W-H-O and not "who". It's spel{led/t} with all caps (or small caps), no matter where you live. (AmE styles are more likely than BrE styles to insist on (BrE) full stops/(AmE) periods in these: W.H.O.—but styles do vary.)

    Acronyms use the initial letters of words to make a new word, pronounced as a word. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's short name is pronounced "nasa", making it a true acronym. All AmE styles that I know of spell it with caps: NASA. Many BrE styles spell it like any other proper name, with just an initial capital: Nasa.

    This disease name provides a slightly different case because it's doesn't just use initial letters: COronaVIrusDisease. That's probably why I'm seeing some initial-only Covid in AmE, for instance in the Chronicle of Higher Education, where they spell other acronyms (like NASA) in all caps.

    Other variants, like CoViD and covid are out there—but they are in the minority. COVID and Covid rule.While some other UK sources, like the Guardian, follow the initial-cap style (Covid), many UK sources use the all-cap style, including the National Health Service and the UK government.


    And on that note, I hope you and yours are safe.

    P.S. Since I'm talking about newspaper uses, I haven't considered pronunciation—but that discussion is happening in the comments.