1. Elon Musk threatens to 'exit California' over virus restrictions  9News
2. Elon Musk says Tesla will move headquarters from California 'immediately' over coronavirus restrictions  ABC News
3. Elon Musk threatens to relocate Tesla  NEWS.com.au
4. Elon Musk threatens to close Fremont plant and sever ties with California  KTVU San Francisco
5. Tesla’s stock could see new peaks thanks to these 3 catalysts  MarketWatch
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1. South Korea takes first cautious steps into a post-Covid world  The Guardian
2. S. Korea warned of COVID-10 second wave  NEWS.com.au
3. South Korea reverses on reopenings amid nightclub outbreak  The Age
4. S.Korea leader says no panic as cases rise  SBS News
5. Coronavirus: How South Korea 'crushed' the curve  BBC News
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1. Coronavirus Australia live updates: Jenny Morrison's reveals "honest" life in lockdown  NEWS.com.au
2. Isolated life at The Lodge brings the Morrisons closer  The Age
3. PM in lockdown with wife, daughters, mum and mum-in-law  Daily Telegraph
4. Jenny Morrison reveals why she used to hate Mother's Day  Daily Mail
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Mother’s Day heartache for son of slain mum  Herald SunView Full coverage on Google News

1. NSW warns ‘complacency biggest threat’ as most states move to ease Covid-19 restrictions  The Guardian
2. NSW coronavirus restrictions to lift from Friday, but will not follow all National Cabinet measures  ABC News
3. Coronavirus Australia: NSW Premier issues firm warning to NSW residents  Jimmys Post
4. NSW to ease lockdown restrictions from Friday  Sydney Morning Herald
5. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says relaxation of restrictions doesn't mean coronavirus is less deadly  ABC News
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1. WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry  ABC News
2. Coronavirus crisis: Weekends in Esperance back on the cards  The West Australian
3. WA's decision to keep its mines open amid coronavirus may have saved Australia's economy | ABC News  ABC News (Australia)
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Coronavirus: China threat to put tariffs on Australian barley ‘concerning’  The AustralianView Full coverage on Google News

1. Jackie Trad resigns as Queensland's Deputy Premier and Treasurer, Steven Miles and Cameron Dick to take on portfolios  ABC News
2. Poster girl’s fall a shock for the left of politics  The Australian
3. Corruption investigation into Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad has potential to unravel Labor Government's five-year reign  ABC News
4. Editorial: Premier, Queensland needs a new treasurer now  Courier Mail
5. Analysis: Latest investigation not a good look for Jackie Trad  Courier Mail
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Guiluli is a Red Mighty, a mutation of humans born from the Corporate World War. After 54 years of existence, Pre-ev (non mutated) humans still don't much like the Red Mighties and as a result, the Red Mighties have created their own Nationland.

Despite all of the world's natural resources being either consumed or poisoned by the war, the Nationland has cleaned up its land, so they have pure water and soil free of contaminants in which to grow food. Yet another reason for those off the Nationland to dislike the Red Mighties.

I like the idea of the evolved/mutated species emerging from a human race destroyed by its own vices and desires. It seems that hominids may be ripe for another evolutionary step, after all we have been homo sapiens for a while now. Maybe this is the next step.

This is an interesting twist on a typical dystopian novel in that I feel there is way more hope of a future that isn't just trying to exist day to day but actually thrive as a civilization. The possibility of cleaning up what we have destroyed. Backbiters is a great read for those that enjoyed the Hunger Games, Divergent, Not a Drop to Drink.

In two weeks last month you purchased over 135 books off the wish list for Ballou as part of our annual book fair. They included everything from novels to biographies to history to a couple of MCAT study guides that were particularly appreciated by this student:

Thank you anonymous for your kind gift to us, we truly appreciate you ????????????????❤️@chasingray @guyslitwire pic.twitter.com/0auZ39B6xS

— Melissa Jackson (@BallouLibrary) November 1, 2017

With millions of people getting ready to shop this weekend, we are hoping to take advantage of your generosity one last time in 2017 and send even more books to Ballou. As you may know, students at the school suffer far too much from poverty and all its accompanying factors. They struggle to stay in school, to stay engaged in their studies and to persevere in the face of the area's violence.  They deserve every chance that we can give them and their librarian, Melissa Jackson, is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to going the extra mile for her students. We want to make it easier for her to do her job and the best way we can do that is to buy the books that those students want and need, (and in some cases positively pine for), to fill her library's shelves.


There are several hundred books on the list at Amazon and for those folks who shopped last month, you will see that several titles have been added in the past few days. They are courtesy the most recent email from Ballou — books the students are excited about and asked if we would add. (And of course we did!) We also moved several books that are on sale to the top of the list as they are excellent bargains right now. We hope that you will take advantage of the low prices and buy one or more of these titles.

If you can't shop off the list, please help spread the word on social media. Here is the direct link: http://tinyurl.com/BookFairBallouHS. Also follow me (@chasingray) and Melissa Jackson (@Balloulibrary) on twitter for updates.

Sara is a journalist who wholeheartedly throws herself into her work as a journalist for a newspaper in Juarez. Mexico however is a country where journalists sometimes do their work under threats to themselves and their families and going to the police is not always a good idea. Sara soon finds that if she wants to pursue this particular story she could be putting the lives of herself, her younger brother Emiiano and their mother in danger.

Emiliano is a soccer star at his high school and in addition to this he is also a member of a school group called Jiparis who do hikes through the desert in order to build character in the young men, some of whom were involved in unsavory activities before joining the group.

One part of the Jipari pledge goes , "I will be honest with myself and others". This is easier said than done especially in a city like Juarez. One of the characters tells Emiliano, "everything is a spiderweb" and the speed with which he is enveloped in said web is astounding. Emiliano tells himself that he wants to help his family and friends out but are those his real reasons? Like any teen he wants to be seen as cool and there is also the small matter of a girl he wants to impress.

The first part of the book is told from each character's viewpoint and the author weaves the tale together in a very credible way showing how circumstances

Make no mistake, Disappeared is not a peaches and cream, hunky dory teen novel. It is a gritty and very realistic novel with a ripped from the headlines quality to it. The city of Juarez and the violence there doesn't dominate the headlines as it did a few years ago, but Stork's novel is a timely reminder that evil still exists and that it takes many people working in tandem to defeat it.

From my recent Locus review of The Disappearances, a WW2 era fantasy that includes a curse, a literary mystery, some grave robbing, and the disappearance of the stars:

Anyone interested in architecture should read this book by Stewart Brand. Brand won a National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, and is a co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering "the art of the long view." How Buildings Learn features a lot of illustrations and insights about building and buildings. I especially enjoy the comparison of two structures on the campus of MIT:

The legendary Building 20 (1943) was an artifact of wartime haste. Designed in an afternoon by MIT grad Don Whiston, it was ready for occupancy by radar researchers six months later... In an undertaking similar in scope to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb, the emergency development of radar employed the nation's best physicists in an intense collaboration that changed the nature of science. Unlike Los Alamos, the MIT radar project was not run by the military, and unlike Los Alamos, no secrets got out. The verdict of scientists afterward was, "The atom bomb only ended the war. Radar won it." ... Author Fred Hapgood wrote in 1993 of Building 20, "The edifice is so ugly that it is impossible not to admire it, if that makes sense; it has ten times the righteous nerdly swagger of any other building on campus... Although Building 20 was built with the intention to tear it down after... World War II, it has remained... providing a special function... Not assigned to any one school, department, or center, it seems to always have had space for the beginning project, the graduate student's experiment, the interdisciplinary research center.

In a later chapter, Brand describes famous architect I.M. Pei's third MIT building, known informally as the Media Lab and formally as the Wiesner Building:

It may have been my familiarity with MIT's homely, accommodating Building 20 just across the street that made the $45 million pretentiousness, ill-functionality, and non-adaptability of the Media Lab building so shocking to me... Nowhere in the whole building is there a place for casual meetings, except for a tiny, overused kitchen. Corridors are narrow and barren. Getting new cabling through the interior concrete walls - a necessity in such a laboratory - requires bringing in jackhammers. You can't even move office walls around, thanks to the overhead fluorescent lights being at a Pei-signature 45-degree angle to everything else.

The Media Lab building, I discovered, is not unusually bad. Its badness is the norm in new buildings overdesigned by architects...

Brand finishes How Buildings Learn with a list of good books, writing, "They are the texts I would reach for if I was going to work on a building..."

As it so happens Justyce's grades have allowed him to gain entry to one of Atlanta's most prestigious private schools where seemingly every teacher has at least three degrees. Most of the students are bright, many come from well to do families such as his best friend Manny whose parents are successful professionals. As you would expect, the campus is not very diverse and some of the students display white privilege (perhaps a bit too predictably by lamenting the fact that minorities have it "easy") Justyce's way of dealing with the many, many changes occurring in his life is to write letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He's studied the Civil Rights leader's speeches in class and is trying to reconcile the words and the values espoused therein with the realities of daily life. As if that isn't complicated enough, there is also the not so small matter of the evolving relationship with his debate partner SJ.

I've read The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely and this novel is just as gripping, timely and relevant. Stone does a great job balancing the heavy stuff with some touchy feely stuff so it isn't too hard to digest. Well worth a read.

Valerie De Booser poseert op zwoele wijze. En haar nieuwe liefde? Die reageert ZO! (foto)  Zita.beHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. Zijn hitlijst was lang, zijn invloed op latere iconen zoals The Beatles en Prince immens: flamboyant rock-'n-rollpionier Little Richard (87) is niet meer  Het Nieuwsblad
2. Rock-n'-rollpionier Little 'Tutti Frutti' Richard (87) overleden  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Rock 'n' roll-pionier Little Richard is overleden, herontdek zijn grootste hits  VRT NWS
4. Little Richard drukte zware stempel op de rock-'n-roll  De Tijd
5. Muzieklegendes over Little Richard: “Als ik zijn muziek beluisterde, kon ik God horen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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1. Deze onlinegames zijn nu veel beter dan bij hun lancering en ideaal in corona-tijden  AD.nl
2. Deze onlinegames werden veel beter met de tijd  Het Laatste Nieuws
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1. Fauci en twee andere leden van coronateam Witte Huis in quarantaine  De Standaard
2. Meer dan 4 miljoen coronabesmettingen in de wereld  De Tijd
3. Live: Reproductiegetal Duitsland stijgt tot 1,1 | Al drie leden coronateam Witte Huis in quarantaine  Volkskrant
4. Drie leden coronateam Witte Huis in quarantaine  RTL Nieuws
5. Aantal coronadoden in de VS stijgt met ruim 1500  Telegraaf.nl
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1. Medium-intensity earthquake strikes Delhi, adjoining areas; 3rd amid Covid-19 lockdown  Hindustan Times
2. Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hits Delhi-NCR  Times of India
3. Earthquake in Delhi: Tremors felt in national capital region  The Financial Express
4. Magnitude 3.4 Earthquake Strikes Delhi, Epicentre Near UP Border  News18
5. Breaking news live : Eathquake tremors felt in Delhi, adjoining areas  Times of India
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The Kansas City Chiefs will look to repeat as Super Bowl champions in 2020, but their regular season schedule won't offer any concessions.

NASCAR will make its return to the track on May 17 at Darlington Raceway – but that doesn't mean fans have been without racing for the past two months.

Mary Pratt, who played for the Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, has died

There are mixed feelings among executives about the idea, ranging from frustration to begrudging acceptance.

Former U.S. Olympic bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic has died

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