Come, Follow Me simplifies from 4 manuals to 1

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1145 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

In 2024, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will engage in a year of studying the Book of Mormon for the second time since the launch of the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum. The 2024 manuals will be different from that first experience, in 2020, as the Church moves away from separate manuals for the home, Sunday School, Primary and youth classes. Instead of having four manuals for those groups, one unified manual has been published and distributed to individuals and families around the world. [Read More]

COVID vaccine program for uninsured could be late to pharmacies

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1275 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new program to get the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured Americans will likely not be ready in pharmacies by the time the new vaccines hit the market as early as this September, leaving millions of high-risk Americans in the lurch.  The change comes during a post-pandemic transition. The government has paid for Americans’ COVID-19 vaccines with every previous generation of COVID-19 vaccines, but with this next iteration of shots, the cost will switch to the commercial market. [Read More]

HasanAbi Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1024 words  |  Tobi Tarwater

What Is HasanAbi's Net Worth? HasanAbi is an American Twitch streamer, podcaster, and left-wing political commentator who has a net worth of $8 million. HasanAbi formerly worked as a producer for "The Young Turks," a "HuffPost" columnist, and a broadcast journalist. He has 2.5 million Twitch followers and 1.28 million YouTube subscribers, and his YouTube videos have been viewed more than 424 million times. HasanAbi's YouTube channel earned Creator Awards for hitting 100,000 subscribers in 2020 and one million subscribers in 2022. [Read More]

Map, Reduce and Filter in Swift

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2355 words  |  Patria Henriques

Back to blog By Aasif Khan | Last Updated on January 14th, 2024 8:28 am | 4-min read In Swift you use map(), reduce() and filter() to loop over collections like arrays and dictionaries, without using a for-loop. The map, reduce and filter functions come from the realm of functional programming (FP). They’re called higher-order functions, because they take functions as input. You’re applying a function to an array, for example, to transform its data. [Read More]

Putin's Plan to Fix Russia's Egg Crisis Backfires

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  741 words  |  Tobi Tarwater

Russia's egg shortage is being exacerbated by bird flu-riddled imports from Turkey, one of the country's biggest trading partners and a NATO member, according to a recent report citing a Russian government official. More than one-fifth of the eggs imported from Turkey were found to be infected with the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza, as well as other dangerous ailments including salmonella and botulism, Russian authorities warned. The egg crisis has been spiraling out of control over the past few weeks, as the combination of high inflation and sanctions imposed by the West in response to President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine fueled an unprecedented jump in prices and localized shortages. [Read More]

Robert Downey Jr. isnt coming back as Tony Stark, Marvel Studios president says

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  481 words  |  Patria Henriques

Robert Downey Jr. won't return as Tony Stark, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige says amid rumors of the original "Avengers" team reassembling. In a new Vanity Fair cover story that dives deep into Robert Downey Jr.'s journey from Hollywood bad boy, to box office superhero, to what many believe will be his third Oscar nomination, for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss in "Oppenheimer," Feige said that Downey Jr.'s exit in " [Read More]

Saudi Arabian soccer club offers record $1.1 billion for Kylian Mbappe

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  454 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Saudi Arabia is aiming for its next big move in the sports world. On Monday, the country's soccer club Al-Hilal offered a world-record-sized package to French soccer star Kylian Mbappe. In total, the team is willing to spend $1.1 billion to sign the 24-year-old for one year this summer. That includes a $776 million salary and a $332 million transfer fee to his current team, French club Paris Saint-Germain. PSG confirmed the offer and gave Al-Hilal permission to open negotiations directly with Mbappe, according to The Associated Press. [Read More]

Star Citizen is currently free-to-play, but not for long

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  331 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Star Citizen, the in-development space simulator from Cloud Imperium Games, has launched its first free-to-play “Free Fly” event of 2024, giving players the chance to try the game out without spending a penny.  The latest Free Fly event kicked off yesterday (February 8) and is planned to run until February 15. Free-to-play players can try out five different ships, including the Prospector (a mining vessel) and the Origin 400i touring ship. [Read More]

Starfield: The Almagest Jackpot Backend Combination

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  459 words  |  Patria Henriques

Wondering what the combination is for the Jackpot Backend on The Almagest in Starfield? Here's what you need to know. First Published September 5, 2023, 20:27 In a game as vast as Starfield, there are plenty of puzzle to solve, locations to explore, and adventures to be had. If you're hoping to scour every inch of what Bethesda's latest RPG has to offer, you're going to need to put in the work. [Read More]

Top 10 Weirdest GBA Games Ever Released FandomSpot

 Posted on August 17, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1208 words  |  Tobi Tarwater

Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance wasn’t designed to shake up handheld gaming in the same way that the DS or Switch were. The Big N just wanted to offer the ultimate Game Boy – now with a bigger screen, full-color graphics, and a 32-bit microprocessor. While this opened the door for classic franchises like Pokémon and Metroid to launch their most advanced and polished games yet, other developers chose to think outside the box. [Read More]