Month: July 2020

Bill And Ted Face The Music Has Surprising Cameo By Beloved Character – GameSpot
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Bill And Ted Face The Music Has Surprising Cameo By Beloved Character – GameSpot

You'll get to see Bill and Ted Face the Music yourself in September when the movie is released in theaters and on digital. However, at the movie's Comic-Con@Home panel, moderator Kevin Smith shared a truly exciting tease about something that happens in the movie. While discussing viewing the film for the first time, Smith let slip that George Carlin, who played Rufus in the first two movies, does appear in Face the Music. That is kind of a surprise, given that the comedian passed away in 2008. Rufus is in the final cut, though. As for how that's possible, chances are this has been done using archived and possibly unused footage from the first two films. It most likely won't be a major role in the film, though knowing Face the Music is going to p...
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Twitter walkout planned after British rapper Wileys anti-Semitic tweets – NBC News
26Jul By No Comments
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Twitter walkout planned after British rapper Wileys anti-Semitic tweets – NBC News

LONDON — Celebrities, politicians and other high profile Brits have pledged to join a 48-hour "walkout" from Twitter to protest what they say is an inadequate response to anti-Semitic tweets from a rapper. Wiley — who is considered a key figure in London’s grime music scene — is facing a police investigation after a string of anti-Semitic comments appeared on his social media accounts last week. The 41-year-old rapper, whose real name is Richard Cowie, has nearly half a million followers on his Twitter account, which is currently suspended. Some of his statements have been deleted by the social media giant for violating its "hateful conduct policy." But others remain, drawing criticism from other users of the platform. As a result, singer Jessie Ware, Doctor Who star Tracy-Ann Oberman a...
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Farewell, Peter Green: The Timeless Blues Perfection of Fleetwood Mac’s Original Guitar Hero – Rolling Stone
26Jul By No Comments
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Farewell, Peter Green: The Timeless Blues Perfection of Fleetwood Mac’s Original Guitar Hero – Rolling Stone

If there’s one song that sums up the stoic guitar genius of Peter Green, it’s “Jumping at Shadows,” recorded live in February 1970, at the Boston Tea Party. Green was on top of the world; a 23-year-old rock star leading the London band he founded, Fleetwood Mac. They were the toast of Britain, riding their Number One hit “Albatross.” But “Jumping at Shadows” is a doomy blues ballad, his voice full of wistful dread, his guitar full of delicate pain. “I’m going downhill and I blame myself,” he sings. So much sadness in his fingers; so much tender fury. Peter Green’s serene, unhysterical sense of calm just makes the song scarier. He never lets his voice or guitar rise above a whisper, but you can hear the hellhounds on his trail. “Jumping at Shadows” tells the whole Peter Green stor...
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5 Late-Stage COVID-19 Vaccines: Which Is Likely to Be the Biggest Winner? – Motley Fool
26Jul By No Comments
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5 Late-Stage COVID-19 Vaccines: Which Is Likely to Be the Biggest Winner? – Motley Fool

Pat Benatar's 1980 hit song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" could have a very different meaning today. People around the world anxiously anticipate a new kind of "best shot" -- a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. There are currently 166 novel coronavirus vaccine candidates in development, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Twenty-four of those candidates are being evaluated in clinical trials in humans. Most of those are in early-stage clinical studies. However, five COVID-19 vaccine candidates are either currently in late-stage clinical testing or are scheduled to begin a phase 3 study in the next few days. Sinopharm Group is developing two of the five late-stage candidates, one with Wuhan Institute ofBiological Products and another with Beijing Institute of Biological Pro...
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What if more of us have fought off COVID-19 than we think? – INFORUM
26Jul By No Comments
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What if more of us have fought off COVID-19 than we think? – INFORUM

So-called serology research looks for antibodies in the blood that fight the illness, and how many of us have them. Other research looks at how long these antibodies last. The latest results from these studies are said to show us two kinds of bad news -- that immunity after exposure to the illness is not such a sure thing, and that the number of us who have been exposed and fought off COVID-19 are fewer than hoped. This pushes our goal of herd immunity farther into the distance, potentially even calling it into question altogether. But in measuring antibodies for COVID-19, might we have overlooked other blood markers that help fight off the sickness? Is it possible we are under-estimating both how long immunity lasts, and how close t...
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Maine CDC reports 24 new cases of coronavirus, no new deaths – WMTW Portland
26Jul By No Comments
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Maine CDC reports 24 new cases of coronavirus, no new deaths – WMTW Portland

Maine CDC reports 24 new cases of coronavirus, no new deaths Updated: 10:18 AM EDT Jul 26, 2020 The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 24 new cases of coronavirus and no new deaths on Sunday.The total number of deaths in Maine remains at 119.The 24 new cases puts the total number of cases in the state to 3,814.A total of 3,284 Mainers have recovered from the virus, which is an increase of 3 over the past 24 hours.Taking away recoveries and deaths, active cases in Maine have risen slightly to 411.The Maine CDC reported Saturday, they've opened an outbreak investigation associated with Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, based o...
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