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Farmers Got Billions From Taxpayers In 2019, And Hardly Anyone Objected

Farmers got more than $22 billion in government payments in 2019 — and most of the money came through a program that Congress never approved. It's the highest level of farm subsidies in 14 years. (Image credit: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2ZEv6BI January 01, 2020 at 12:13AM

Moni Yakim Knows How To Move You

The movement coach has taught at Juilliard for 50 years. Stars of stage and screen credit him with helping them create physically demanding roles by manipulating their bodies. (Image credit: Claudio Papapietro) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2QfAJ68 January 01, 2020 at 12:13AM

RStudio Blogs 2019

[This article was first published on R Views , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers ]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here ) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. If you are lucky enough to have some extra time for discretionary reading during the holiday season, you may find it interesting (and rewarding) to sample some of the nearly two hundred posts written across the various RStudio blogs. R Views R Views, our blog devoted to the R Community and the R Language, published over sixty posts in 2019. Many of these were contributed by guest authors from the R Community who volunteered to share some outstanding work. Among my favorites are the multi-part posts that explored data science modeling issues in some detail. These include Roland Stevenson’s three-part series on Multiple Hypothesis Testing and A/B Testing , the four-part series on Analyzing the HIV pandemic by Andrie de Vries an...

Thousands of people trapped in Australian coastal town by huge wildfires

Thousands of tourists and residents in an Australian seaside town hunkered down in public buildings or waded into water at the seafront on Tuesday as wailing emergency sirens warned of a looming, fierce firefront. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2QxRCYR December 31, 2019 at 05:15AM

Three people feared dead in Australian bushfires: authorities

Three people caught in bushfires in Australia's southeast are feared dead, authorities said on Tuesday, as huge fire fronts cause widespread devastation and forced thousands of holidaymakers to flee to beaches to escape the flames. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2MHKDeC December 31, 2019 at 05:12AM

Asian shares lower as investors book decade-end profits

Asian shares slipped on the last trading day of the decade, echoing falls on Wall Street, as investors locked in gains made since the United States and China reached a preliminary trade deal earlier this month. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2sCu39c December 31, 2019 at 05:10AM

West Virginia Governor Approves Firing All Cadets Who Posed In Nazi-Like Salute Photo

"As I said from the beginning, I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms," Gov. Jim Justice said, "This act needed to result in real consequences." (Image credit: Andrew Harnik/AP) News : NPR https://ift.tt/35gl1wd December 31, 2019 at 05:08AM