Washington is braced for more unrest. A wide perimeter of streets around the White House are locked down in Washington, D.C., as up to 20,000 National Guard troops are in the process of deployment for President-Elect Joseph R Biden Jr.’s Jan. 20 inauguration. Fences were installed around several federal buildings in an effort to curtail further violence, including a 7-foot unscalable fence around the Capitol building. Razor wire will be installed on top of the fencing around the Capitol building, as well. The armed troops are responsible for security around the Capitol building. About 16 groups, mostly Trump supporters and some…
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Baseball is a sport loved and practiced by thousands of people worldwide. In the late 19th century, it got a significant boost in the Caribbean. It is the official sport of the Dominican Republic, first established with the Ozama league. The game attracted so much attention that its fan base grew exponentially, perhaps because it served as an escape from the island’s political and economic crises. National sport Dominican players started to earn international renown at the beginning of the 20th century. Pitcher Baldomero Ureña (Mero) was the first Dominican player to play in the U.S. Major Leagues, with the…
Merengue is one of the fastest, funniest and most cheerful music genre. The genre is one of the most popular for parties and gatherings. Although loved by many Caribbean countries, merengue is originally from the Dominican Republic. Despite having roots from the colonial era, it did not begin to expand until the mid-19 century. Although regarded, at first, as country music, it soon arrived at urban centers, thanks to the accordion’s musical structure and composer Francisco “Nico” Lora, one of the fathers of the genre. “There are various theories why it has the name it has,” said Ricardo Cañas, a…
KOLKATA, India — Shashwat Phumbhra, a 28-year-old stock trader from Kolkata and fan of Elon Musk, had many reasons to pre-book a Tesla in 2016 when the registration started at $1,000. Now, with the announcement that Musk has registered Tesla India in Bengaluru, Phumbhra is optimistic he will get his Tesla sometime this year. Listed on the Registrar of Companies on Jan. 8, Tesla India Motors and Energy Private Ltd. has three directors on board: Vaibhav Taneja, Venkatrangam Sreeram and David Jon Feinstein. Phumbhra wants one of the state-of-the-art electric vehicles, despite the long wait time. The Model 3, selling…
MUMBAI — When her first child was born in June 2018 and was kept in a neonatal intensive care unit, Mumbai resident Manisha Bector remembers how he was fed breast milk from the hospital’s human milk bank. As she nursed her second child born in Aug 2020 at home and had an excess amount of breast milk, she ensured that it will go to a newborn baby in need. Bector has donated nearly 16 liters of breast milk to the Surya Hospital’s human milk bank in Mumbai since September, while continuing to breastfeed her own baby. Her freezer is now…
NEW DELHI — Narsi Reddy Gayam has been running a coaching center for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), among other tests, in Hyderabad for 23 years, serving thousands of students. Gayam, an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and many of his colleagues at the PROMAC coaching center started getting calls in May from unknown people, asking if they would be interested in sitting in for students at the GRE in exchange for money. Eventually, Gayam learned that many of his students and their parents had received similar calls. Before the pandemic, the GRE — the standardized test for…
Cacao is a native species of the Americas. Latin America is responsible for 16 percent of the cacao beans produced in the world. Ecuador plants almost half of them, according to the International Cocoa Organization. There is a dispute regarding its origin. Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs in Mexico and Central America domesticated it 3,600 years ago, but scientists have determined that cacao already grew in the Upper Amazon 5,000 years ago. In pre-Hispanic times, Ancient Mexicans used cocoa beans as currency. They also prepared a drink that could be the ancestor of hot chocolate. When the beverage arrived in the…
Having vaccinated more people against COVID-19 per capita than any other country, Israel is in a unique position to study the effects of the first of two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Clalit, Israel’s largest health maintenance organization (HMO), looked at COVID-19 test results of 200,000 people over age 60 who were vaccinated and 200,000 people who were not. They found that between five and 12 days after receiving their first dose, people were just as likely to test positive as unvaccinated people. However, there was a 33% decrease in positive tests among vaccinated people 14 days after the first…
Perth, Australia — Firefighters had to battle challenging weather conditions last week to bring down the major bushfire under control in the Yeal Nature Reserve in Western Australia. It took several days to finally control the blaze. However, a bushfire advice is still in place for people in the vicinity of Indian Ocean Drive, Yanchep Pine Plantation, Yeal Nature Reserve and the surrounding areas of Muckenburra, Coonabidgee, Bambun and Yeal in Shire of Gingin. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services of Western Australia is constantly updating the bushfire alert. The Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia, had shared a…
Peruvians are proud of their potatoes — their main staple and the third-most important crop in the world. First cultivated around 8000 BC, they are endemic to the highlands of Peru and the Southern Andes. Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are herbaceous plants that propagate vegetatively, which means that new plants can grow from a potato. Each one can produce from 5 to 20 new tubers identical to the mother seed plant. They are one of the crops that produces more food per unit of water, making them 7 times more efficient than cereals. The Peruvian regions surrounding Puno, Ayacucho, Cusco, Junín, and Cajamarca have the country’s most abundant potato production. Peru’s varieties…