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A group of parents alarmed by what they see as left-wing indoctrination sweeping through K-12 schools on Tuesday announced a new online clearinghouse of information designed to help families navigate what’s happening in their children’s classrooms. Nicole Neily, president of the group, Parents Defending Education, said parents are hungry for information to fight back against a curriculum that increasingly promotes racial and social justice ideology. “There’s this feeling among some that this is just a New York and California thing, but it’s not; it’s everywhere,” she said. “It’s in private schools, parochial schools and red states.” Schools across the country...

PERTH, Australia, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Elements Ltd (ASX:SOR) is pleased to announce that it has demonstrated the important potential for the self-charging Battery Ink cells to be 'scaled' down in size. Through scaling more batteries can be assembled in the same space leading to increased density and power output. The size of the Battery Ink cells were reduced from 1cm2 in previous work to 25mm2 achieving a four-times reduction in area. The team fabricated a prototype battery pack with twenty scaled-down connected Battery Ink cells which successfully produced a 14 volt output solely by harvesting moisture from...

On Tuesday, Austin and Travis County leaders announced they’ll be extending eviction moratoriums until May 1. It follows a federal move to do so Monday. The rules protect tenants who can’t pay rent due to the pandemic, but the extensions are also forcing many landlords to sell. Kathy Smart, for example, rents out her Travis County home, but her tenant owes her nearly $6,000. “Not having the income and trying to keep up with everything — I’m behind on my car, behind on a lot of my other bills. I had to get loans,” she said.

EL PASO, TX—With Biden's border facilities becoming more crowded by the hour, the U.S. is facing a severe shortage of tin foil, since-- according to ICE, immigrants prefer to sleep wrapped up in it. In response, followers of "Q" have generously agreed to donate extra tin foil hats to address the urgent need. "It's the least I can do," said local QAnon chapter president Dave Smith. "I feel for those poor kids. I just hope they can all escape that border facility before Tom Hanks eats them all." According to "Q" members, the tin foil will protect migrants from the...

Around the world, every minute of every day, three million masks are tossed out. Let that sink in. THREE million masks are tossed out every MINUTE. Every single day, on average, a little over four billion — with a “b” — masks are thrown out.

OYLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health announced Tuesday that it is investigating reports of people who tested positive for COVID-19 more than two weeks after being fully vaccinated. The Department of Health said scientists identified these as “vaccine breakthrough” cases, and that they are expected with any vaccine. Out of one million Washingtonians who are fully vaccinated, epidemiologists report evidence of 102 breakthrough cases since Feb. 1. This is about .01% of vaccinated people in the state. Officials said breakthrough cases have been identified in 18 counties. “It is important to remember that every vaccine on the...

SEOUL — South Korea’s SK Innovation Co Ltd said on Tuesday it is considering all options including pulling its battery business out of the United States if President Joe Biden does not overturn a trade panel’s decision against it by April 11. “The company has been consulting with experts to discuss ways to withdraw our battery business from the United States,” a spokeswoman at SK Innovation said. “We are reviewing options to move our U.S. battery production to Europe or China, which would cost us tens of billions of won,” she added. SK Innovation and LG Chem’s wholly owned battery...

Cellist Ottomar Borwitzky, who spent 37 years as first principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic, has died aged 90. Born in Hamburg in 1930, Borwitzky dropped out of school to become solo cellist of the city’s Radio Symphony Orchestra aged just 17. From there he was appointed first principal cellist of the Hamburg Opera in 1954 and then, in 1956, with the Berlin Philharmonic. Borwitzky joined the orchestra on the same day Herbert von Karajan’s position as its principal conductor was made permanent and retired in 1993, four years into the tenure of Claudio Abbado. Borwitzky was a founding member...

California's Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a new, multi-million-dollar Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, which will be offered statewide with many of the state's largest school districts making it a requirement for graduation. According to National Review, the curriculum is "probably the most radical, polemical, and ideologically loaded educational document ever offered up for public consideration in the free world." POLL: What scares you the most? On the radio program Tuesday, Glenn Beck reacted to the newly approved curriculum, calling it "the craziest, most terrifying story I have ever had to report." Glenn read an excerpt from the National...

Dr. Ryan Cole, a board-certified dermatopathologist (AP & CP) and the CEO/Medical Director of Cole Diagnostics, explained what the United States got very wrong during the Covid crisis.

Congressman Matt Gaetz claimed that, as part of an FBI sting, his father was sup­posed to con­tact this for­mer DOJ employ­ee on Wednes­day to arrange a down­pay­ment of $4.5 mil­lion on the $25 mil­lion extor­tion. The U.S. Attorney’s Offices for North­ern and Cen­tral Flori­da declined to comment.“I don’t think it’s a coin­ci­dence that tonight some­how The New York Times is leak­ing this infor­ma­tion, smear­ing me and ruin­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion that would like­ly result in a one of the for­mer col­leagues of the cur­rent DOJ being brought to jus­tice,” Gaetz said.Gaetz told Fox that the for­mer DOJ employ­ee going after him...

Scientists have made a massless structural battery 10 times better than before. The battery cell performs well in structural and energy tests, with planned further improvements. Structural batteries reduce weight and could revolutionize electric cars and planes. ________________________________________________________ In groundbreaking new research, scientists have made a structural battery 10 times better than in any previous experiment. What’s a structural battery, and why is it such a big deal? The term refers to an energy storage device that can also bear weight as part of a structure—like if the studs in your home were all batteries, or if an electric fence...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blamed the worsening immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border on imperialism, climate change, trade policy, and the prison system. Ocasio-Cortez sounded off on the border crisis Tuesday on Instagram. The New York Democrat did not explicitly blame President Joe Biden for the surge of illegal migrants crossing the U.S. border, though migrants themselves cite the president and his policies as primary factors in their decision to travel to the U.S. “So let’s talk about this because so much of our national conversation, which is not a conversation, about immigration is driven by people who could...

An arrest was made early this morning in a violent, racist attack on a 65-year-old Asian woman Brandon Elliot, 38, of West 40th Street in Manhattan was on lifetime parole for murdering his mother in 2002. He was paroled in 2019 after serving 17 years for second-degree murder.

National Clams on the Half Shell Day on March 31st offers clam lovers a day to celebrate one of the world’s most unique dishes. The best variety of hardshell clams (also called Quahogs) for serving on the half-shell is the topneck, but you will find recipes using littlenecks and cherrystone as well. The topnecks run about two inches across, and the meaty clam is enough for a bite-sized morsel of Atlantic saltwater goodness. Clams on the half shell can be raw, steamed, grilled or even smoked. One popular “on the half shell” recipe originated in Rhode Island. Often served as...

Half of Brits are now likely have antibodies to the CCP virus—from either natural immune response or from vaccination—according to official modeling based on blood samples. The latest infection survey data from the Office for National Statistics estimate that in England over 54 percent of people would have tested positive for antibodies to the Communist Party Virus (CCP) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. For those aged over 65 in England—all of whom have been offered the vaccine—over eight out of ten people had antibodies. For those between the ages of 16 and 65, fewer than 60 percent had...

The Washington Post has awarded President Joe Biden with “Four Pinocchios” for his claim that a Georgia election law will prevent working-class people from voting. The Post awards a “Pinocchio”—whose wooden nose grew longer with each lie—to political figures who make false claims, with four being the highest number for the most blatant of lies. Georgia’s S. B. 202 became law last week, limiting the number of drop boxes that can be used during an election and requiring voters have identification whether they submit ballots in person or by mail. Biden criticized the legislation in a written statement, claiming, “Among...

All that can be said about the infrastructure plan Joe Biden will roll out in Pittsburgh on Wednesday is it at least it is not $4 trillion as many projected. Here is an overview of the “infrastructure” spending the $2.3 trillion bill intends to do. $650 BILLION FOR ROADS, RAIL, TRANSPORT On the surface it is not unreasonable and includes modernizing 20,000 miles of highways and roads, the top 10 “economically significant bridges” and 10,000 other bridges. The plan also includes $25 billion for airports, $17 billion for inland waterways, coastal ports and ferries, and investments in cleaning port air...

NASA's Mars helicopter is slowly unfolding beneath the Perseverance rover By Elizabeth Howell 30 March 2021 NASA's Perseverance rover is slowly getting ready to deploy the first helicopter on Mars even as it takes a look back at the litter it's dropping on the Red Planet.The rover, which was carefully sterilized on Earth to avoid contaminating Mars with microbes, dropped a protective debris shield onto the planet's surface on March 21. The shield is no longer needed as it was designed to protect Ingenuity during the "seven minutes of terror" landing in February.An image from the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic...

Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States last year, after heart disease and cancer, according to provisional data released on Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The death rate from 2019 to 2020 increased by 15.9%, going up from 715.2 to 828.7 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the report. The early data showed that the top 10 leading causes of death in 2020 were: Heart disease Cancer Covid-19 Unintentional injury Stroke Chronic lower respiratory disease Alzheimer's disease Diabetes Influenza and pneumonia Kidney disease