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[ null, "Yves Citton's Pour une Écologie de l'Attention is something of a companion volume to L’Économie de l’attention. Nouvel horizon du capitalisme? a book edited by Citton. Many of the essays in the latter cite the former. However, the different titles, and the question mark in the latter suggest a divergence around a central question. Both books work from the central provocation that we are living through a profound mutation in the nature of attention, never have we had so many distractions or devices soliciting our attention. What remains in question is first whether or not this transformation is best of all understood as a new economy of attention? Terms such as \"paying,\" \"cost,\" and \"investment\" regularly suggest themselves when it comes to discussing attention. Attention appears as a scarce resource and it is quite easy to speak of losses and gains when it comes to attention, as every moment spent reading tweets is not spent reading books. The more important question is whether or not attention can be understood as an economy of sorts, but whether we have entered a new phase of capitalism in which attention itself is productive of value. Metaphor meets mode of production.\n\nCitton's answer to the first question in this book is to propose a different way to conceptualize attention, as an ecology rather than economy. In doing so Citton follows thinkers such as Gregory Bateson, Félix Guattari, and Spinoza (especially as the latter has been read by Hasana Sharp) in which thinking itself is understood as an activity dependent on other conditions and relations. To posit an ecology of thought, or of attention, is to cease to see it as a \"kingdom within a kingdom\" and instead to see it as situated within its constitutive conditions. Positing attention as a ecological matter, as dependent a changing environment of conditions and relations, escapes the individualistic bias underlying positing attention as a fixed resource and investment. Such individualist accounts vacillate between neoliberal dogma, \"invest in your attention capacity,\" and moralizing nostalgia, \"pay attention to the world around you.\" They consider it a given that attention is a faculty, something that individual's possess, rather than a relation that is produced.\n\nThe different modes of transindividuality underscore the fact that an ecology of attention is then based on the diversity of forms and types of attention. Far from seeing attention as something which is always already uniform, capable of being spent or invested, wasted or saved, there are diverse mode of paying attention. We read and watch different formats, different forms of media, differently, skimming tweets and getting lost in a novel.\n\nThinking in terms of an ecology of attention displaces the individualistic basis of the economy as metaphor, but how does an \"ecology of attention\" make it possible to make sense of the intersection between attention and contemporary capitalism? How does such an ecological focus address the idea of an attention economy?", null, "Citton considers multiple perspectives on an economics of attention, from a more or less neo-classical one in which attention is placed at the center of a reversal in the status of scarcity. It used to be the goods, resources, were scarce; now it is attention itself that has become scarce as a finitude of time and focus confronts an unimaginable plethora of things to read and watch. (Of course this applies only to things available online, and to those who have access to them. Market based scarcity still applies to the physical world, 3-D printers notwithstanding). Citton also considers the perspective developed by Tarde (and returned to by Lazzarato) in which attention drives consumer society, desire must be produced and reproduced.\n\nFor an attention economy to be anything other than a figure of speech, a metaphor of sorts, attention must be both quantifiable and capable of being accumulated. The first is the work of various apparatuses of capture that monitor and record clicks and attention rendering the different glances and searches quantifiable. There are limits to this quantification making it difficult to speak of anything like \"abstract attention.\" While capital is utterly indifferent to the individual underlying labor power, buying their time and not their personality, who is paying attention matters very much to those who track it. As Deleuze argued the subject of attention is neither an individual or a collective but dividual, a constant bifurcation into different classes and classifications---Males age 18-35, individuals earning between $35,000 and $45, 000 dollars a year, etc. The difficulties of quantifying attention are intensified when it comes to accumulating attention. Attention is always constituted and reconstituted in the present. Trending topics and memes have broken the old fifteen minutes of fame down to the micro-second. There are ways to hold attention but they must be constantly reconstituted. It is for this reason that Citton suggests that attention is best understood in terms of constituent asymmetries, asymmetries between who pays attention to whom. These asymmetries reterritorialize verticality in the midst of horizontal platforms of social media--something that can be seen in every sidebar of \"trending topics.\" As Citton argued in his book on mythocracy, attention manifests itself in a softer form of power, one that shapes individuals as active participants. Whereas the old media maintained attention by its monopoly, three channels to watch etc., new media must constantly solicit us as subjects of attention. We actively create our own distractions.\n\nAttention cannot made to function like labor, it cannot be the source of value. This is not to say that attention is without its economic effects. The standardization of attention, its abstraction and measure, on one hand, and the battle over what one pays attention to, on the other, are central struggles to extract wealth from the flows of attention. Two strategies of the \"vectorial class\"are to own the icons and images the attract attention as well as the platforms that measure and standardize it. With respect to the former, Disney's buying of Marvel and Star Wars is nothing other than a kind of primitive accumulation of attention, every superhero is a vast mine of nostalgia; while facebook and Google's attempt to insert themselves as the interface for everything from research an essay to sharing pictures of grandkids can be considered the real subsumption of attention. As with Marx's real subsumption of capital, such institutions do not just effect the form of attention, focusing as its medium, but transform its very relations. The \"like\" button compresses so many responses, love, friendship, support, into an easily quantifiable data point.\n\nCitton's ecology of attention is constructed around a broader set of concerns regarding activity and passivity in attention. As Citton argues the question is how to make attention not how to pay it. How to construct the possible conditions that make our attention our activity rather than the passive construction of the effects of others? The question is ultimately more spinozist, it is a question of constructing common notions against the singular points of wonder and fascination. As Citton argues, work, entertainment, and social life converge in a state of constant semi-attentiveness. Updates and alerts define our work life, social life, and define what remains of politics. Transforming this constant distraction requires the cultivation of new habits and the transformative use of the existing technologies of attention.\n\nCitton is right to suggest that new practices of attention, of thought and action, are the necessary condition for different politics and ethics. However, there is a bit of an overlap between such an ecology of attentions and other \"ecological\" oriented projects that seek to disconnect and transform our relation to time, technology, and social relations, without directly transforming capital or the state. I am thinking of various forms of local food movements and even slow food. Such projects are necessary but risk being, at best, rearguard actions, defending in retreat, or, at worst, lifestyle choices. Just as the very transformation of attention is an effect of the the transformation of work, consumption, and the media, its revolution, or ecological salvation, will necessarily transform those structures as well.\nPosted by unemployed negativity at 9:06 PM" ]

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[ null, "Comprehensive tax reform supported by President Donald Trump and House Republicans could have a ripple effect on not-for-profit organizations.\n\nDuring his presidential campaign, President Trump advocated for reform of the tax code. Among other items, he proposed eliminating the estate tax, a provision also favored by the House Republicans’ Tax Reform Blueprint. Proposed changes to the amount of itemized deductions individuals can claim for tax purposes have also been supported by both House Republicans and President Trump.\n\nNot-for-profit organizations cannot always control how their investments perform, but they can take steps to protect funds that are losing value.\n\nManaging endowment investments will become even more important in the years ahead due to the changes coming to not-for-profit financial reporting. The changes will require organizations to disclose the fair value of the underwater endowed funds as well as the related original gift amount that must be maintained. The new requirements present an opportunity for organizations to reconsider their endowments and spending policies to preserve the value of such investments.", null, "The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently held its 2016 Federal Student Aid Training Conference in Atlanta. Among many topics discussed during the conference, the following items are the key takeaways to consider for the upcoming award year.", null, "Massachusetts-based not-for-profits should be preparing now to file their Form 3ABC. The form provides a full or partial tax property tax exemption for an organization’s real or personal property so long as the organization files it by March 1, 2017." ]

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[ null, "CINCINNATI (AP) — A Republican candidate for Ohio governor has introduced a veteran Procter & Gamble Co. executive with links to social-conservative causes as her running mate.\n\nOn the Democratic side, former federal consumer watchdog Richard Cordray made it official Wednesday in Akron: former congresswoman Betty Sutton is joining his ticket." ]

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[ "I think its kicking in Meaning. In a world of pun dogs evil raccoons friendly pandas and flirtatious ducks Grumpy Cat still rules the animal meme kingdom. This viral Twitter thread began at the vet where Caskie Mushens literary agent Juliet Mushens was waiting and she overheard some of the unique pet names as they came and went.", null, "I have two British Shorthair cats Neville and Luna and they were there having their jabs Juliet explained to Bored Panda.\n\nAnimal memes are often used in two different ways. Millions of unique designs by independent artists. It is used more frequently than anything else on mobile devices computer desktops and social media apart from nature memes and some funny nature memes which obviously showcases impeccable beauty and tranquility and fun at the same time.\n\nI Saw a mouse Big Like this. If Animal Names Were Totally Honest. Lucky for us theyve got a wild sense of humor.\n\nBut how could you rename the Slippery Dick. As the mama bear grabs one cub another one escapes and goes back to the other side of the street. Dec 27 2015 - Explore Angela Buckleys board renaming animals followed by 583 people on Pinterest.\n\nDrivers in Connecticut witnessed this rare and hilarious moment of a mama bear crossing the street with her four cubs. Its pretty much the definition of why the Internet exists. Examples of Animal Memes.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "This Day in Halloween: Hammer Films' \"Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde\" opens in the U.K. in 1971. / Illustration by Allison Jimenez\n\nDr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde opens in the U.K. in 1971. Hammer Films’ twist on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel was their third version of the tale and likely their most lasting. The film makes fictional connections to the Jack The Ripper and Burke and Hare cases and is directed by Roy Ward Baker, whose long career included several Hammer films, thrillers, comedies and episodes of British TV classics The Avengers and The Saint." ]

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[ null, "British Airways has today (November 8) announced new services to Marrakech from London, in direct competition with Easyjet and Ryanair.\n\nBA’s Gatwick service, to begin next year, will directly challenge Easyjet which also flies to tourist-friendly Marrakech from LGW, but also Ryanair which flies there from London Luton.\n\nThe new service is actually a return to Marrakech by BA, which last flew there as GB Airways in 2008. The franchise was then taken over by Easyjet, and the route was closed.\n\nThe British flag carrier will also go up against Morocco’s national airline, Air Maroc, which flies to Marrakech from both Heathrow and Gatwick.\n\nThe new three-times weekly service will be operated by B737s and A319s, departing on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and returning the same day.", null ]

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[ null, "Here’s how you can catch some of the highly anticipated National Day Parade action early!\n\nIt may still be early, but we’re already feeling the FOMO of the National Day celebrations every time we pass the Civic District (or hear planes fly overhead on a Saturday night)! Yes, the National Day Parade (NDP) 2019 rehearsals and firework displays have already begun in preparation for National Day on 9 August celebrating Singapore’s 54th birthday!\n\nIf you didn’t manage to get tickets in the ballot or if you’re just excited like us and can’t wait for the action, you can catch the fun early. Unlike recent years, this year’s parade will take place at the Padang (opposite the National Gallery) in conjunction with the Bicentennial celebrations, which marks 200 years since Sir Stamford Raffles arrived in Singapore in 1819.\nRead more: Where to Watch the National Day Parade Fireworks for Free\n\nThe NDP 2019 will be shown on all Mediacorp free-to-air channels on 9 August 2019. If you’d like to catch the happenings for yourself, check out our handy list below of all the full dress rehearsal dates and timings for the parade’s top highlights!", null, "Theme\n“Our Singapore” commemorates our Singapore bicentennial and allows us to tell Our Singapore story from past to present. “Our” emphasises the collective ownership of Singapore. We are living the dreams of our pioneers, and we are now the pioneers of our future.\n\nParade & Ceremony\nA new segment, “Our Bicentennial”, will feature eight floats kicking off the parade. Organisations such as Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, an early port operator, Singapore Post Office and Singapore General Hospital will be part of the prologue, with many more participating (deets coming soon!).\n\nThere will also be a mobile column featuring 171 platforms from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Home Team. The mobile column will feature military vehicles, tanks and the like, and make its way down St Andrew’s Road between the Padang and the National Gallery Singapore during the parade.\n\nFlypast & Aerial Display\nOther faves to keep an eye out for include the traditional state flag flypast, with a Chinook helicopter carrying the Singapore flag, supported by two escorting Apache helicopters. A new addition to the exciting aerial display will be the debut of the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s (RSAF) A330 Tanker Transport aircraft accompanied by two F-15SG fighter jets.\n\nShow\nWith ethnic dances showing Singapore’s rich multicultural heritage, a touching film on the stories of various Singaporeans, and performances featuring over 900 students from local schools, there will be so much to see during this exciting part of the parade! The final act will conclude with a performance of the theme song, the pledge and the national anthem.\n\nFireworks\nThe best part! Look forward to the fireworks display at Marina Bay and the Singapore River towards the end of the parade. Fireworks will set off at every rehearsal, but the biggest displays will be on NDP Preview 2 (3 August) and the NDP (9 August). Check out the best spots to see them here.", null, "NDP in the Heartlands\n\nThis year, NDP will bring the mobile column to five heartland sites on 10 August 2019 (the day after the parade). The mobile column will be travelling to Bishan, Geylang Serai, Jurong East, Punggol and Woodlands, where there will also be carnivals organised by the People’s Association. The one-day celebrations will end with dazzling fireworks displays at each of the five sites!", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "22 February 2022 – For the first time, the German Navy will rely on Thales to equip its NH90 Multi Role Frigate Helicopter (MRFH) with FLASH SONICS. The FLASH system (Folding Light Acoustic System for Helicopters) is currently the leading dipping sonar on the international market and has become the benchmark system for the world’s major navies.\n\nIn a world where Navies are facing growing and sometimes unexpected threats and challenges, Anti-Submarine Warfare is resurging as a key discipline for the 21st century and Thales FLASH dipping sonar product range offers the best solutions to ensure Navies effectiveness and safety at sea.\n\nAlready ordered or in service today in 18 navies including US Navy, the UK Royal Navy, the French Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy or the Republic Of Korea Navy, FLASH has demonstrated its unrivalled capabilities and reliability at sea in any environment.\n\n“We are proud to have been selected by the German Navy and NHIndustries to equip their NH90 Multi Role Frigate Helicopter with our FLASH SONICS anti-submarine solutions. This is the result of many years of hard work to meet our customers’ requirements and provide them with a trusted solution that meets their needs. The German Navy will receive the most capable variant of FLASH SONICS that Thales has ever delivered, for the best operational service, including the SonoFlash processing,” saidGwendoline Blandin-Roger, Managing director Underwater systems, Thales.", null, null, null ]

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[ "The draft legislation was initiated by Democrat senators Chris Coons of Delaware and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Republican senator Rob Portman of Ohio. The new legislation would compel social media groups to share their data with “qualified researchers” affiliated with a university and pursuing a project endorsed by the National Science Foundation (NSF).\n\nLaura Edelson, a PhD candidate in Computer Science at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, told The Verge that the legislation “is a truly comprehensive platform transparency proposal.” She added that if passed “this legislation would provide a real pathway for researchers to better understand online harms and start coming up with solutions.”\n\nThis draft legislation comes at a time when social media giants are coming under close scrutiny in the wake of testimony from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. Much of this scrutiny relates to the harm that Facebook products could inflict on young people.\n\nLast week Mosseri faced the Senate’s consumer protection subcommittee, who asked him probing questions about the measures the platform has in place to protect the mental health of its younger users.\n\n“Parents are asking, what is Congress doing to protect our kids and the resounding bipartisan message from this committee is that legislation is coming,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal (A Democrat representing Connecticut and chair of the committee), adding, “We can’t rely on self-policing.”\n\n“Some of the big tech companies have said ‘Trust us’. That seems to be what Instagram is saying in your testimony but self-policing depends on trust. The trust is gone.”\n\n“This is now the 4th time in the past 2 years that we have spoken with someone from Meta,” she said. “The conversation continues to repeat itself ad nauseum.\n\n“Tennesseans want Big Tech to be more transparent and to accept responsibility for your actions. And time and time again, you say things that make it sound like you are hearing us and agree - but then nothing changes,” Blackburn said.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Twitter to ban sharing of personal photos and videos" ]

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[ null, "NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS – The Ministry of Public Works and Communications in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) is continuing a revetment project in the Stoney Grove ghaut that will provide a level of safety for residents in the flood-prone area.\n\nHon. Spencer Brand, Minister of Public Works and Communications, and area representative for St. Pauls’, visited the site on Monday, January 24, 2022 and gave an update on the project. He said flooding has been a longstanding issue in that area, and he is grateful that the government is able to provide relief for residents who have been and are likely to be affected.\n\n“I am delighted with the progress of the work we are seeing here in the ghaut of Stoney Grove. Phase two of the project started in November 2021. As a former resident of Stoney Grove I am fully aware of the issues and challenges that the residents would have faced over the years with flooding and so I felt it was necessary to see the completion of this project.\n\n“It is particularly satisfying to see we are at the stage where we can bring some relief to the inhabitants along the ghaut and other residents in this area…having lived just a stone’s throw from this ghaut. I would wish to thank Mr. Dale “DC” Claxton; he has been doing a remarkable job,” he said.\n\nMr. Claxton, owner of DC Equipment Construction, is spearheading the project. He spoke to the revetment process being carried out, noting that some work on the ghaut side had been undertaken several years before.\n\n“We are lining the edge of the ghaut with some boulders and shortly we will be reaching up to the bridge next to the Water Department. The overall length, both first and second phase, is about 700 feet. Both phases consisted of shoring up the side where persons live. The other side [of the ghaut] next to Pennyless Auto Parts is just pasture, so for now we are focusing on protecting the safety of villagers.”\n\nMr. Brian Dyer, Director at the Nevis Disaster Management Department, said Stoney Grove is a flood-prone area and in November of 2011 severe flooding had impacted residents. He said as a resident of the area and from a Disaster standpoint, he too is pleased to see the area getting protection from the elements of flooding.\n\n“In 2011 all the bridges here and in lower Bath Village got overtopped by water and over 27 families in the area were impacted by the flooding. Since then the government has sought to do some remedial work to mitigate the impact of flooding and flood damage not only to the area but also downstream in lower Bath.\n\n“We have seen some revetment work in stages. Back in 2017, with funding from the Japan Embassy, we did some construction work in the lower end where we shored up some premises and also did some paving work in the ghaut and some rock revetment around the business sector in lower Stoney Grove.”\n\nMr. Dyer explained that further work will be done to put in an access ‘bridge’ in that area.\n\n“We are also continuing with the construction of a roadway or bridge between the Girls Guides and Warde’s building to provide us with an advantage in the event we have flooding that there’s another option for access to the hospital, because back in 2011 when all the bridges were overtopped, access from the south side of Nevis to Alexandra Hospital was cut off. So we are doing some work to ensure that problem doesn’t occur again. We want to say thank you to the Nevis Island Administration for its foresight in addressing the issue,” he said.\n\nThe revetment project is slated for completion well ahead of the start of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season." ]

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I feel sorry for the wonderful staff and nurses who operate the blood centres, they must get so frustrated with the mixed mesages coming from the Government.\n\nHe enrolled full-time in after earning an associate degree from a community college. Fastballs that blow away minor-league hitters need to be located better in the big leagues or, as Zack Wheeler found out on Sunday, they wind up in the seats.\n\n\nHowever, the worry is that higher borrowing costs will hit the recovery hard if interest rates start to rise before incomes show a sustainable upturn in real terms. But even today arguably no corporation in the world has a bigger impact on the natural environment than Unilever.\n\nReducing that giant ecological footprint will be hard. But Polman is convinced the power of capitalism can deliver, and that the big bad world can be persuaded to play according to his rules.\n\n\nIt grows hard when talking about Hank taking his children from him for three months. The scattered, unrecognized villages do not have electric, water or sewer hookups, roads are bad and many Bedouins are illiterate. This is an area of self-work that can benefit you in all areas of your life and result in enriching the lives of yourself and the people you share life with. Take the time to get to know YOU better. Anahareo left him in , taking their daughter with her. Some fear a repeat of the crisis that followed the decision by Spanish dictator Francisco Franco to shut down the frontier completely in One White House aide recalled seeing Ms Power in the hallways looking drawn and tired as the bombing campaign commenced.\n\nMEK supporters have complained about services and security at the compound, which has been repeatedly targeted by militants in deadly rocket attacks. It houses more than 2, exiles, according to U. How many would you like? John McCain, R-Ariz. How can we stop or slow down or prevent further mass murder of innocent men, women and children? How can the Free Syrian Army gain strength and how can we show our support for their opposition to Assad, his rule and his methods? Menendez, D-N. Gross margins came in at This site is crazy : medicopy. The financingpackage launched to top relationship banks last week.\n\nSpecial Delivery commander tadalafil en ligne Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim year, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Quran — the sacred religious text of Islam — by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic tradition. Mike Napoli looked like the big score and then he turned out to have a degenerative hip condition.\n\nThat particular bit of distasteful nonsense came from Hollywood, as it methodically destroyed another fine book in the process of turning it into on screen trash with little resemblance to the original work. The spill happened in an industrial area of Honolulu Harbor west of downtown, where Matson loads molasses and other goods for shipping. The year-old man rode his motorcycle to the supermarket and was wearing his helmet when he went inside.", null, "If he is not claimed by one of the 11 teams eligible to pick up a portion of his contract, he will become an unrestricted free agent at 5 p. Much of her childhood was spent outside, and she began kayaking around age When she went away to university at Oxford, she joined the rowing team. I went to metformin sr mg uses Bernanke will speak at p.\n\nHe was so angry. Neither side is willing to compromise, period. There are as many radical Democrats as there are radical Republicans in Congress and the Senate.\n\nThe American people pay the price for this stubborn behavior of our exalted elected lawmakers. No one believed that sequestration would ever be implemented, but it has, so there is no telling how low this confrontation will go. It took her about two hours to shoot the time-lapse video in her home. In it, she constructs a colorful prosthetic leg, though one of no practical use: When she stands on it, the foot crumbles.\n\nOnly 9 percent of drugs banned by the UnitedStates are available internationally. A First Class stamp riverside pharmacy brigg opening times WHEN Cuadrilla Resources, an oil and gas company, first started exploring for oil in Balcombe, a pretty village in Sussex, a picnic was held outside the drilling site. The village has a history of quiet protest: high in the trees outside the station hang Countryside Alliance posters urging locals to fight the act banning fox-hunting.\n\nBut for the past two weeks locals have been joined by more vocal demonstrators. Banners exclaim against hydrocarbons and capitalism. Protesters at a march on August 18th, some of whom sported the Guy Fawkes masks popularised by computer hackers and the Occupy movement, chanted slogans through megaphones to the patter of drums.\n\nHe also walked two, his first multiple-walk game since July 3, when he walked three against the Diamondbacks. Somebody had to die for us to be here. It was really a tragic situation. How long have you lived here? He also asked to refill his blood pressure prescription.\n\nGroup I: The Hall of Fame QBs\n\nToday it seems the scenario is commonplace. Falsehoods proliferate — multiple TV formats rely on cheap and nasty deceptions, but they're just fun. It's less fun when MPs juggle statistics until they blur, companies tailor phrasing to dodge lawsuits and many of us now assume something isn't true, precisely because we read it in the papers.\n\nAnd batsmen won't walk — because cricket just isn't cricket any more. Reliable truths seem threatened, if not unobtainable. And the public response required is apparently that of an appreciative audience. It's all just showbiz now. The roaring silence of acquiescence is absolutely deafening and is heard throughout the world.\n\nThis is the 21st century, NOT the 7th century. Are you a student? Scotland is a long way ahead of England on this, concerning the costs and advantages of merging the health and social care systems.\n\nTherewill be compromises. US dollars frontline medical associates The firm initiated a large position in Japanese technologycompany Sony earlier in the year.\n\nHe says he has pushed himself enough during workouts and simulated games in Tampa to believe he could play shortstop in the Bronx on Sunday if the Yankees would let him. From the evidence we have seen, we have concluded that this is unfounded. Hancock of Cornell University actually suggest that individuals in relationships in which time is spent away from their partners are more likely to idealize their mates. 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[ null, "Now that President Barack Obama’s long awaited visit to Kenya is effectively part of history, it is perhaps time to tackle some of the side issues that surrounded his visit. Just hours before Obama landed in Kenya, Nancy Mungai, a Kenya-Stockholmer, suddenly surfaced on Swedish national TV 1 to present a plethora of lop-sided views about the political and economic situation in Kenya.\n\nNancy, who conveniently positioned herself as an “Advisor” of Swedish companies seeking to invest in Kenya, did not just present a distorted picture of Kenya but also veered haphazardly into a ludicrous pontification on the impact of Obama’s visit to Kenya. In view of the incongruent nature of Nancy’s views, and given the warped perception these views might impinge on ignorant layers of the national white Swedish population who may have bought her analysis, it is paramount that the record be set straight.\n\nAccording to Nancy, Kenya is doing well economically through investment in IT and other services. Nancy told viewers that Kenya’s economic boom has led to a rise in the middle class. She advised that the US can help boost Kenya’s economy by investing more in trade and industry.\n\nExternal debt\nThe Kenyan economy cannot be said to have grown when the reality on the ground indictates a steady decline in living standards of huge sections of the population. Currently, 13 million able-bodied Kenyans are out of work while every year, half a million unemployed youths pour into the job market from various learning institutions. There is no indication that the country’s GDP per capita is growing. Evidence on the ground indicates that the rate of inflation is so high that millions of Kenyans are unable to afford a square meal.\n\nInstead of creating jobs, the government has actually been retrenching workers while civil servants are constantly on strike or threatening strike actions because of starvation wages. How can the economy be growing when the Uhuru regime continues to maintain a ban on Civil servant employment that was instituted by former dictator Daniel arap Moi? If the economy is growing, why is the government complaining about the national wage bill?\n\nWhen a country’s economy is on the rise, its external debt should be on the decline. In the case of Kenya, the country’s external debt increased from Ksh 1.326 trillion in April 2015 to Ksh 1.381 trillion in May 2015 (Central Bank statistics). At the national level, the implication is that the average Kenyan is sliding deeper into debt and poverty. Currently, 43% of Kenya’s GDP (almost half) goes into servicing the country’s external debt. According to a modest World Bank’s analysis (April 2015), talk about Kenya’s economic growth could be immature because “External demand for exports is also sluggish and low growth of production for exports is widening the current account deficit. Also, the share of the manufacturing sector to GDP has remained stagnant in recent years, with low overall productivity and large productivity differences in firms across subsectors due to lack of competition”. With rising poverty, high unemployment, declining living standards, a growing external debt and a big chunk of the country’s GDP being swallowed by external debt serving, where did Nancy Mungai peg her economic growth theory?\n\nA Middle class sliding into underclass\nIt is fashionable to talk about a “rising middle class” in Kenya. What usually goes missing during such analysis is the corresponding rise in the rural and urban underclass unable to fend for itself after the crisis of capitalism reduced large swaths of the population to unofficial beggars. On the contrary, with stagnant wages occasioned by a declining economy and a freeze on employment by the government, the so called middle class in Kenya is basically struggling to prevent itself from sliding into underclass by constantly trying to “go into business” with serious capital constraints. Nancy’s view that the Kenyan middle class is on the rise is pure fiction and based on a mantra created by Jubilee propagandists to prop up a regime in crisis.\n\nIn her attempt to theorize on the issue of terrorism, Nancy said that the issue of terror is global and not just a Kenyan problem. She actually hoped that Obama would assist in fighting terrorism. It is unfortunate that at the level of “Advisor” of Swedish companies seeking to invest in Kenya, Nancy does not understand that the Shabbab terror activities in Kenya are linked to the government’s unsolicited and aggressive war in Somalia. Kenya does not need Obama to help fight terrorism across the country. What the government needs to do is to withdraw KDF forces from Somalia, stop ethnic profiling of Kenyans of Somali origin and accord every Kenyan all rights as citizens of the Republic.\n\nNancy: An extension of Jubilee propaganda machine\nInstead of rendering a balanced analysis of the Kenyan situation and painting the correct picture of the Jubilee government, Nancy emerged more as a well-oiled Jubilee mouth-piece than an impartial commentator on Kenyan politics. What is more?\n\nShe totally ignored commenting on: rampant corruption of the Jubilee government; massive tribalism on the appointment of public servants; failure by the Jubilee government to honor its most basic election promises; violation of the Constitution by the government; frustration of devolution; political assassinations especially of Muslim clerics; failure of the Jubilee government to create jobs for the youth; human rights violations while she also failed to recognize Uhuru Kenyatta’s inability to govern. Nancy even failed to point out the issue of insecurity across the country and dramatic rise in crime rate by idle youths after promises of jobs failed to materialize. In fact, Johan, a Swedish journalist based in Nairobi, appeared to have been more knowledgeable about Kenya than Nancy.\n\nAfter being accorded a significant opportunity by a Swedish mainstream media outlet to throw light ahead of Obama’s visit to Kenya, and as a Kenyan in diaspora, it is regrettable that Nancy wasted the grand opportunity. Instead of using it to educate the Swedish population about the real situation in Kenya, she converted herself into an extension of the vicious Jubilee propaganda machine desperately trying to paint Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime as the best regime Kenya has ever had when evidence shows that Jubilee is not just a total flop but a living catastrophe for the Kenyan people after this government came to power through a rigged election." ]

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[ "This was a race that my aunt had recommended to me soon after I told her that I was starting to run. She told me that they had great sponsors and it was for a good cause. Plus a day at the zoo afterwards sounded like a pretty good incentive also. I hadn’t been to the zoo in a couple years so I said, why not. I even got a couple of my friends to sign up, new runners! Maybe I talk about running a lot on social media and got them excited about it but I’m really glad they came along. The charity this race benefited was the Chapman Partnership, check them out to see how you can help the homeless.\n\nSo the morning of the race started out very eerie, the city of Miami was covered in a dense fog. Some people actually described it as Silent Hill-like. After arriving at ZooMiami the fog had mostly lifted and my friends set off to pick up their race packets. The line for race packet pick was extremely long and hardly moving. The race actually started 20 minutes late so that everyone would get the chance to start at the same time, otherwise half the participants would have still been waiting to pick up their race bibs. Running on Miami time, I suppose.", null, null, "I bid my friends and aunt farewell and raced on. I know, I really should’ve ran alongside of them but I really wanted to PR on this 5k, unfortunately it didn’t happen. Probably due to the fact that I did my longest distance run on Friday morning, 12 miles, training for my half marathon. Now I’m positive I will be able to make it 13.1 miles in March. I was okay with my finishing time but I did realize that I started out waaaaaay too quick, beating my fastest mile PR at least. Dodging walkers and children at the beginning slowed me down a bit but after the 1st mile, there was no human obstacles. My finish time was 26.39, I was 168th overall and 6th in my age group. Everyone got a RunWild medal at the finish line, there was also a lot of good sponsors too. As soon as you finished, there were many volunteers handing out plenty of hydration such as water, Vitamin water and Coco Vita. I had some Alpina blueberry greek yogurt with granola on top, grabbed a banana, a KIND almond & coconut bar and headed back to the finish line to wait for my friends. Almost right after I arrived at the finish line one of my friends was crossing, then a few minutes later the other one crossed. It was perfect timing so we all walked around together so they could gather some nutrition from the sponsors. I got a Miami Heat cheerleaders poster for a friend of mine from the actual cheerleader & our group had our pic taken by someone who got our names. Stupidly none of us asked where the picture was going to posted, so we will be forever googling our names to find ourselves. Haha.", null, null, null, "After the awards ceremony was over we took a nice walk through the zoo, getting lost and staying at the zoo much longer than we expected to. But hey, at least we got some time to take pics of the animals that we passed earlier, and some silly pictures as well. Still wearing our race bibs and RunWild medals we decided to get sushi for our post race meal and our waiter thought we had ran a marathon. We told him a 5k at the zoo and he ended up giving us a bowl of free cotton candy? Overall it was a really fun race that I will for sure do again next year.", null, null, null, "My favorite race photo YET!\n\nWhat is the most memorable place you have ran/walked a race at?" ]

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[ null, "u-he has released Hive 2.0 which comes with a new interface, more modulation options, NKS support and much more.\n\nAt the heart of the Hive 2.0 upgrade are the new modulators: An 8-segment Shape Sequencer adds 4 sources for evolving modulations, per-voice envelopes, rhythms and gates. The basic shapes and levels, curvature and \"ratchet\" amounts can be individually edited. Surrounding the Shape Sequencer are two west-coast-style Function Generators which are triggered by the keyboard gate, Shape Sequencer, LFO or any other modulation source. Although they are basically AD-envelopes, the function generators can also be used as extra LFOs or lag generators. The new modulators complement Hive's existing envelopes, LFOs and sequencer – they were designed to match Hive's core strength: Ease of use fast workflow.\n\nUpdates to the Modulation Matrix include visual feedback for the recently introduced modifiers (e.g. Rectifier and Slew Limiter), chord- and scale-based quantization options and a new Sample & Hold. u-he also added a global scale-based quantizer to Hive's keyboard control which can also be used to modulate oscillator pitch in musical scales - a means to algorithmic composition, chiptune arpeggios and automated chord progression.\n\nHive 2.0 comes with 350 new presets to illustrate these new features, which include evolving pads, complex rhythms and complete one-note demos. Those presets can be found by clicking on the special \"saved search\" in the preset browser.\n\nFor owners of Hive 1.x: Hive 2.0 is fully backwards compatible and will replace Hive 1.x in the plug-in folder.\n\nPrice: The upgrade from Hive 1.x costs 20€. There's a grace period which started January 21st, 2019. The \"u-he Hive 2 Upgrade PDF\", which comes with the download, contains all the necessary instructions and links." ]

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[ "Mahendra Singh Dhoni is probably the greatest captain of all-time and he has excelled in almost all aspects of the game. His cool and calm behaviour on the field both while fielding and batting is what makes him the absolute best.\n\nHe has played some crucial knocks for India and has helped his team win matches on a regular basis. India, after a long period of time, had a wicketkeeper batsman who they could rely upon. He is known for stitching partnerships with the middle order batsman as well as with the lower order and digs India out of trouble almost every time. To honour him on his birthday, here are 5 significant MSD knocks.", null, "Rishabh Pant was present for the birthday party of MS Dhoni as seen in pictures posted by Sakshi, Dhoni’s wife.\n\nWhen Virat Kohli led the limited overs team for the first time in this series in 2017, the Indian middle order was in doubt. There were several questions, including whether Dhoni is still suitable for ODIs or whether alternatives should be taken into account. Dhoni responded with his bat, as he usually did, when his side needed him the most. It was up to him and Yuvraj to lead the side to a respectable score on a batting surface after India lost three quick wickets. Dhoni scored 134 while Yuvraj made 150. For the first time ever, Nos. 4 and 5 combined for more than 120 points in an inning. They helped India to a huge total of 381, and India won the game by a score of 15 runs and the series with one game remaining.", null, "This knock reminded everyone of the time, when Dhoni and Yuvraj used to smash bowlers for fun during their early days\n\nDhoni’s test performances often go under the radar because of his achievements in the limited overs set-up. Australia won the toss and chose to bat and scored 380 runs in their first innings, they took out the Indian openers for mere 12 runs when India came out to bat. When Captain Cool stepped out to bat with Virat Kohli, India had a score of 196/4. India amassed 572 runs and a lead of 192 runs thanks to Dhoni’s 224. He made batting look so easy on a pitch where even the best were struggling for runs. Ultimately, India defeated the opposition by eight wickets, and Dhoni was named Man of the Match.", null, "This was an important innings under pressure, but the coolest man in this game, just played his shots and held his wicket till the end.\n\nMahendra Singh Dhoni was accustomed to playing the role of keeping India out of difficulties at that time. This time, the circumstances and the game were quite different, and the degree of intensity was much higher. At 29-5, India was in trouble against a Pakistan team that was desperate to beat its longtime foes. After that, they scored a total of 227-6 in 50 overs, with MS Dhoni leading the way with 113 not out, his eighth ODI century and second against Pakistan in ODIs. Ravichandran Ashwin hit an unbeaten 31 off 39 balls, including two fours, and Suresh Raina scored 43 off 88 balls, including two fours. MS Dhoni was chosen player of the match for his outstanding batting display in which he scored an unbroken 113 runs off 132 balls, including five fours and a six, to win the match.", null, "After scoring a fantastic hundred against India’s bitter rivals,Pakistan, Dhoni continued his impressive form as India faced an experienced Sri Lankan team. Sri Lanka had scored a respectable 298 runs, and India had already lost Sachin in the opening over. Dhoni gingerly handled his first six to seven balls before launching into his assault and taking on all of the Sri Lankan bowlers. He quickly reached his hundred and, had the Srilankan total been somewhat greater, may have reached 200. India reached the mark with 23 deliveries and 6 wickets remaining thanks in large part to Dhoni, who was unbeaten on 183 from 145 balls and struck 15 fours and 10 sixes.", null, "This innings was made my more memorable because of the gunshot celebration. We hardly ever see Dhoni celebrating milestones but this one was special\n\nI would recommend you should watch some cricket if you don’t know which innings this is.\n\nWhen India won their second World Cup in 2011, he played one of the most memorable games of his life, batting 91 not out off 78 balls and helping India make history. Hosts India entered the 2011 World Cup as the favourites, lost just once, and advanced to the final game against Sri Lanka. After India was reduced to 114 for 3 in 21.4 overs chasing a challenging 275 for win, an out-of-form Dhoni, who had scores of 31, 34, 19*, 12*, 22, 7, and 25, promoted himself ahead of an in-form Yuvraj Singh. Dhoni led India to their second World Cup victory by putting together a game-winning 109-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Gautam Gambhir (97), and then an undefeated 54-run stand with Yuvraj.", null, "“Dhoni, finishes it off in style, India lifts the World Cup after 28 years”\n\nDhoni was the reason 1.5 billion people smiled that day, and since then, he has gained fame as a hero in our nation. He has given all for India in almost every game he has played for the nation, and he has won us countless matches. He was without a doubt the best Indian wicket-keeper batsman in history; these were just a few of the memorable knocks he produced.\n\nWe have got you covered with the ultimate beginners guide and fresh entry level cameras by top brands. Dive in & make that purchase,...\n\nCan you guess these English translated Bollywood songs?\n\nThe couple who started their live life back in January 2021 has decided to part ways after two years of togetherness. While some celebs..." ]

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[ null, "The new Genographic Project came to my attention as I read the USA TODAY, Life section, April 13, 2005. 1\n\nREPORT FROM THE Intelligent Design Conference\n\nThere are many natural phenomena which evolutionary geologists say require many thousands or even millions of years to bring about. However, creationists have long held that most geologic processes can take place quickly if the conditions are right. Some of these phenomena include formation of the Precambrian granite \"basement\" rocks of the earth's crust, radioactive decay, canyon formation, petrified forest formation, coal formation, the rapid laying down of several successive sedimentary layers, formation of clastic dikes, formation of vast fossil graveyards, and stalagmite and stalactite formation." ]

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[ null, "Washington accepted with the understanding that he would not take field command until troops had been recruited and equipped. He also entered politics and was elected to Virginia's House of Burgesses in 1758. Colloquially, the day is also known as Presidents' Day, either honoring no specific or honoring both Washington, who was born February 22, and , who was born February 12. In 1738, the family moved again, to Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg. Early in 1793 the French Revolution, which had overthrown the French monarchy in 1789, became the central issue in American politics. On January 6, 1759, a month after he had left the army, Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow with two children. For his undiplomatic conduct, the Washington administration requested and obtained his recall to France.", null, "France had declared war on Great Britain and appointed Edmond Genet 1763—1834 as minister to the United States. Since 1862 there has been a tradition in the that be read on his birthday. Americans celebrated Washington's Birthday long before Congress declared it a federal holiday. The Gregorian calendar has a leap year every four years except there is no leap year in years that are multiples of 100, unless that year is also a multiple of 400. Many American children have heard the story of how the young Washington took a hatchet and cut down a cherry tree, then admitted his deed because his honest character would not allow him to lie. It is open daily 9:00am to 5:00pm year round. This would become crucial in the American Revolution, when the country was threatened by a smallpox epidemic.\n\nOver the years, Washington enlarged his house. The Revolutionary War George and other wealthy landowners were unhappy with England because they made lots of rules that the Colonies thought were unfair. In 1794 Washington sent John Jay 1745—1829 to negotiate a settlement of the differences between the British and the Americans. The property includes a one-mile nature trail and picnic area with tables, grills, pavilion, and restrooms. What can be documented is that he received her approval and, of course, left Fredericksburg and made his way to New York City where he was inaugurated at the end of April. Washington was unanimously chosen as convention president.\n\nWhen and where was George Washington born", null, "George Washington wanted to join the Royal Navy, but his mother would not let him. As a remedy, Carver urged Southern farmers to plant Arachis hypogaea and Glycine max. She lived to see that her son, George Washington, commanded the to independence and be inaugurated as the first of the United States in 1789. She was the only child of Col Joseph Ball 1649-1711 and his second wife, Mary Johnson Ball. He learned to draw, and later in life he devoted considerable time to painting flowers, plants, and landscapes. George Washington was born on either Feb. Is very sick and surrenders his commission; begins renting Mount Vernon from the widow of his half-brother, Lawrence Washington.", null, "Lawrence, stricken by , went to in 1751 for his health, taking George along. Shortly after taking up wheat as his main cash crop, Washington built a large gristmill outfitted with two pairs of millstones. George and Martha lived on a large farm named Mount Vernon. This turned into a terrible throat infection. In 1657, an English merchant ship sailed up the Potomac River, anchored in Mattox Creek, and took on a cargo of tobacco.\n\nSoon, he had to rejoin the army to fight the Revolutionary War. George Washington February 22, 1732—December 14, 1799 was America's first president. When he was 16 years old, he left his house to find a job. Despite the proclamation, Genet supplied French pirates in American ports and organized expeditions against Florida and Louisiana which were not then part of the United States. The colonies formed, and George was picked to lead the army." ]

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[ "Kevin Feige just can’t help himself as now Moon Knight is woke as it’s learned another male character from the comics has been replaced for diversity.\n\nWhat’s particularly messed up about this is that, get this, the change didn’t even happen in the show itself, but in a series of social media posts from Marvel!", null, "I actually defended Moon Knight as not being woke because all throughout the series, it was teased that Layla would become the new Moon Knight, but when it came down to it, Layla actually turned down becoming Moon Knight and, what I thought, is that she became a new original hero. Also what I loved about it is that it appeared Layla was an answer to what director Mohamed Diab didn’t like about Wonder Woman 1984, so I thought they created their own version of Wonder Woman – in a big FU to Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot (awesome) – where Layla even wears a Golden-type Armor and sports the “X.”\n\nHowever, it’s all bait and switch which fits perfectly with Feige’s “M-She-U,” a term fans have given the Marvel Cinematic Universe due to all the woke content and replacement of characters.\n\nInstead of Layla becoming a brand new hero in the MCU, according to the Marvel social media posts, Layla is the Scarlet Scarab. Again, I don’t believe she was named that at all in the show but only after Moon Knight was released did they “send the message” to the fans.\n\nIn the comics, Scarlet Scarab happens to be the first Egyptian Superhero. Where’d we hear that before? Oh, that’s right, when the little girl in the show asks Layla if she’s an Egyptian superhero. It’s hilarious how bad it is all for the sake of wokeness where quality content is destroyed for that said agenda. Yep, now Moon Knight is completely destroyed.\n\nSo why couldn’t Layla be her own hero? Why can’t any of the M-She-U characters be their own heroes or villains? Why not create original characters? Why replace existing ones?\n\nMaybe we should ask Victoria Alonso (here, here, and here)?", null ]

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[ "November 18, 2014\n62\nAirborne troops and various units of other types and types of troops need highly mobile equipment needed to perform various tasks. For example, earlier in many armies of the world used motorcycles equipped with machine-gun armament. In recent years, ATVs have become increasingly common in foreign countries. Such a technique, despite some specific features, can be used with high efficiency for solving various problems.", null, null, "Not so long ago, the Russian military paid attention to quad bikes. Similar equipment has recently appeared at various exhibitions several times. In addition, several ATVs were used during recent joint exercises held in Serbia and other similar events. According to the “Red Star”, during the recent exercises of the 98 Airborne Division, the reconnaissance of one of the parties, using quad bikes, launched a quick attack and found the conditional opponent off guard. At the same time, the actions of the patrol were so swift that the observers needed an explanation from the training leaders.\n\nIndeed, ATVs are of particular interest to the armed forces, since they can be used to solve a number of tasks. For example, they can be used to support the work of reconnaissance groups in the near rear of the enemy. In some cases, ATVs have significant advantages over the equipment of other classes. They can move freely in the sand, through dense landings, in wetlands, etc. It is noted that due to low pressure on the ground, ATVs can move even along anti-tank minefields. In particular, such an opportunity in the course of recent exercises allowed the reconnaissance patrol to complete the task, since the conditional enemy was limited in its capabilities due to the presence of minefields.\n\nFor use in the Russian armed forces are now offered two quad bikes, equipped with weapons and special equipment. Both new developments are being tested and are also being tested as part of an exercise. It should be noted that domestic companies created two military quad bikes at once, which can have positive consequences associated with competition.\n\nThe first of the ATVs offered is the Tulchanka. It was this technique that was sent to Serbia to participate in the exercises. The project of conversion of a civilian ATV into a combat version was developed in the Tula TsKIB SOO. As the basis for the “Tulchanka”, the serial civil ATV Stels ATV 600 Leopard ATV, developed by the Velomotors company and manufactured by the Zhukovsky Motor-Building Plant, was chosen. In accordance with the “Tulchanka” project, the base machine receives navigation equipment and weapon installation systems.", null, null, "The ATV 600 Leopard ATV has a welded tubular frame on which all units are mounted. The car is equipped with a four-stroke single-cylinder petrol engine of cube 594. cm and power xnumx hp The engine consumes petrol with an octane rating of at least 39. Engine torque is transmitted to all four wheels via transmission shafts. The transmission includes a centrifugal clutch and a V-belt variator. To start the engine is equipped with a manual and electric starter.\n\nThe wheel running gear of the Leopard ATV is equipped with an independent lever suspension bracket with spring and hydraulic shock-absorbers. The front wheels are 175 mm, the rear wheels are 220 mm. The wheels of both axles have hydraulic disc brakes. Wheelbase - 1365 mm, clearance - not less than 320 mm.\n\nThe ATV 600 ATV ATV can be equipped with a satellite navigation system and communication equipment. The front trunk of the base car allows you to carry up to 25 kg of cargo. In the case of the ATV “Tulchanka”, a supporting platform is installed on the front trunk, on which, in turn, the necessary weapon. It is alleged that the \"Tulchanka\" can carry machine guns, including large-caliber, or an automatic grenade launcher. On the rear cargo platform there is a second mount for weapons.\n\nThe crew of the quad may consist of two people. One of them drives the car and controls the front weapon, the second is located behind him and is responsible for the shelling of targets in the rear hemisphere. According to some reports, to protect the crew, the quad is equipped with a special Kevlar tent, which should reduce the risk of people being hit by bullets or shrapnel.\n\nAccording to reports, the machine \"Tulchanka\" was created by order of the Airborne Forces. The paratroopers and the commanders of the troops came to the conclusion that such equipment was necessary, which should be used for the rapid transfer of units in cases where the use of armored personnel carriers or vehicles is not justified. Such a purpose allows to put up with the inherent deficiencies of ATVs.\n\nIn September, the Tulchanka quadrocycle was shown to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The officer and representatives of the army special forces tested the car in the conditions of the landfill and highly appreciated it. Nevertheless, certain wishes were expressed. According to D. Rogozin, the car is too noisy, does not have sufficient protection, and also does not provide the required convenience of the \"stern\" arrow.\n\nATVs \"Tulchanka\" already assembled in series and transferred to the troops. So, in the recent Russian-Serbian exercises, a dozen new machines were used. In total, it is planned to purchase 400 ATVs for the Airborne Forces. In the future, it is possible to purchase a certain number of snowmobiles equipped with special equipment and weapons. They will be used to perform combat missions in the Arctic.\n\n\"Tulchanka\" based on \"Leopard\" is not the only option for ATV combat offered to the troops. Of particular interest is similar equipment based on the machines of the Russian Mechanics company (Rybinsk). Rybinsk enterprise presented two so-called trials at once. ATV: PM 500 4x4 and PM 500 6x4. It is known that these machines have already been tested at several ranges of the Ministry of Defense, the results of which resulted in the formation of a list of necessary improvements.\n\nThe four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle PM 500 4 x4 is somewhat similar to the ATV 600 Leopard, although it has several noticeable differences. So, the Rybinsk machine has a single-cylinder engine with a volume of 503 cube. cm power xnumx hp The ATV is equipped with two platforms for cargo placement, which can be used both for its intended purpose and for the installation of weapons.\n\nThe all-terrain vehicle PM 500 6х4 has a three-axle wheeled part with two driving axles. Changing the chassis design allowed the machine to be equipped with a relatively large cargo area in the rear. In terms of its design, characteristics and capabilities, the PM 500 6x4 is a modified version of the RB 500 4x4 with two additional wheels and a body for cargo. Declared the possibility of transportation to 400 kg of various goods.\n\nMotor-all-terrain vehicles of the \"Russian Mechanics\" have already been tested at the sites of the Ministry of Defense. The tests were conducted in different climatic conditions, which allowed to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the equipment. According to the test results, a list of necessary improvements was prepared, approved by the General Staff. After correcting the identified deficiencies, all-terrain vehicles can be put into service in order to equip the various units that need such equipment.\n\nRecent ones news about the procurement by the Ministry of Defense of quadrocycles with weapons suggests that the Russian military began to learn from foreign experience. In a number of countries around the world, such equipment is already being used as a vehicle for transporting fighters and weapons in certain conditions. Now it is up to the Russian military to master the new equipment.\n\nHowever, the use of new technology, as international experience shows, will be quite limited. With all its advantages in the form of good speed and maneuverability, ATVs and all-terrain vehicles have a significant disadvantage - the inability to provide acceptable crew protection. The architecture itself of this technique does not allow the use of sufficient reservations, since it will negatively affect a number of characteristics. Thus, combat ATVs can be used only in situations where high mobility is required from a vehicle first, and not firepower or a high level of protection.\n\nAccording to reports, the Airborne Forces plan to acquire four hundred ATVs \"Tulchanka.\" Such a number of new equipment will allow equipping all units that need it. At the same time, however, new ATVs cannot and should not displace other vehicles. Thus, various vehicles will remain the main means of transporting people and goods, and the role of the main vehicle on the battlefield will remain with specialized armored vehicles." ]

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[ "The project was heavily inspired by beautiful yet isolated regions from around the world, including the Hebrides, Iceland and Saudi Arabia. Further inspiration came from neolithic sites and artifacts, including Stonehenge.\n\nExploring a world filled with these spectacular landscapes, the player is tasked with awakening an ancient civilization using the power of their mind.\n\nThe game was designed specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR, which basically combines the Galaxy Note 4 with VR goggles.", null, "While this means that “Land’s End” will in theory be available to a wider audience than, say, a full-blown Oculus Rift rig, it also means that user input is greatly limited. The Gear VR is “wire free,” with only a touch pad and back button on the side of the device.\n\nGazing into the future\n\nAfter conducting research, Ustwo settled on a gaze-based approach for gameplay, allowing the user to manipulate the environment by simply looking at things.\n\nNormally, I’d scoff at such a solution. How can that possibly work?\n\nBut Ustwo knows what they’re doing. Last May, they posted an excellent article, “Designing for Virtual Reality,” which shared their findings after working with Google Cardboard, another “drop-in” VR rig that shares similar design constraints with the Gear VR.\n\nScreenshot from the upcoming “Land’s End”\n\nThe shadow cast by “Monument Valley” is long. The game won an Apple Design Award and a BAFTA while perched atop the iTunes charts for months. The pressure is on for a repeat performance." ]

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[ null, null, "It’s over between Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley — the power couple has called off their engagement after less than 2 years together.\n\nThe 38-year-old NFL MVP and actress, 30, have reportedly ended things for good … months after they were rumored to have split\n\nThe couple started seeing each other shortly after the quarterback’s split from racing superstar Danica Patrick in July 2020 … and their engagement was announced in Feb. 2021.\n\nRodgers credited the personal update with being one of the biggest highlights of his year.\n\nRodgers and Woodley were inseparable for months … packing on PDA during trips to Disneyland and Mexico.", null, "Things got so serious between the two, Rodgers said in an interview in March 2021 he was looking forward to parenthood with Woodley.\n\n“I just think it’d be so fun,” Rodgers said at the time. “I’ve dreamt about what that would be like and I’m really excited about that chapter whenever that comes.”", null, "Woodley was nothing but supportive of Rodgers as he faced criticism during his COVID-19 vaccine drama back in November … but talks of a split escalated back in December.\n\nWord is Rodgers was getting “cold feet” and prioritized his football career … with the report adding Woodley felt “neglected” during the relationship." ]

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[ "He was picked up from his house early Saturday morning", null, "Journalist Nasrullah’s wife has appealed to the Sindh High Court for the safe recovery of her husband.\n\nHe works for a daily Urdu newspaper Nai Baat.\n\nAfter searching our flat, they took Nasrullah with them to his father’s flat. He lives in the same apartment complex and the law enforcers searched their residence too, she said.\n\nFatima said she has not been informed about the whereabouts of her husband and feels that her husband’s life is in danger.\n\nAdvocate Usman Farooq, who is representing the petitioner, said that if there are any allegations against Nasrullah, then they should be mentioned in court and he should be produced before the court. He said that not producing Nasrullah before the court despite the lapse of 72 hours is in violation of the law.\n\nThe Sindh government, Sindh IG, Rangers DG, East SSP and Soldier Bazaar SHO are among others that have been made respondents in the case.\n\nJournalist organisations have condemned his disappearance and demanded that the authorities investigate the case.", null, null ]

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[ null, "The five-year-old company plans to use the fresh capital to add more transport choices for consumers and contemplate mergers and acquisitions. It recently acquired European transport aggregator BusRadar, based in Germany.\n\nSince its last funding in October 2016, GoEuro has boosted the number of consumers who use it each month from 10 million to 27 million. More than 650 transport partners offer direct sales through its site and app, with approximately another 150 suppliers offering tickets via resellers.\n\nGoEuro has grown in revenue about 120 percent, year-over-year, it said. It provides a full product in 15 European countries, up from a dozen in October 2016, and it plans to expand beyond Europe." ]

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[ "The Bruins did more than just beat the Islanders on Monday night.\n\nBoston locked up the No. 3 seed in the East Division in its 3-2 overtime win over New York at TD Garden on an incredible game-winning goal for Taylor Hall.\n\nHall (twice) and Brad Marchand scored for the Bruins, while Oliver Wahlstrom and Mathew Barzal had the Islanders’ tallies.\n\nFAST-PACED, FEISTY FIRST\nThe Bruins put a ton of pressure on the Islanders in the opening minutes of the first period, but Semyon Varlamov was a brick wall between the pipes. He even stopped a Hall shot after some fancy puck work that looked destined to make this 1-0 game.\n\nBoston played with tremendous tempo and prevented New York from getting any significant time in the Bruins’ end.\n\nA Leo Komarov cheap shot to David Pastrnak after the whistle put the Bruins on a 5-on-3 for 40 seconds, and Boston took advantage. David Krejci fed a cross-ice pass to Hall, who buried it at the tough angle by Semyon Varlamov.\n\nTIED AFTER TWO\nThe Islanders capitalized on the power play just 1:38 into the second period with a one-timer after a nice feed from Barzal that beat Tuukka Rask to make it a 1-1 game.\n\nThe tie didn’t last all that long, though. Marchand held off Ryan Pulock in order to redirect a David Krejci shot by Varlamov to make it a 2-1 game.\n\nBut 2:16 later the Islanders knotted it up once again with a Barzal slap shot into the corner.\n\nThe score remained tied at 2-2 after two periods of play with the Bruins still holding the advantage in shots, 27-13.\n\nSIXTY MINUTES NOT ENOUGH\nIlya Sorokin took over for the Islanders in net after two strong periods from Varlamov. The B’s, meanwhile, began the third without Ondrej Kase, who was playing for the first time since Jan. 16, due to an upper-body injury.\n\nThe Bruins continued to be aggressive with six shots in the first 6:30 as opposed to New York’s zero.\n\nThings got chippy behind Boston’s net with Brock Nelson and Charlie McAvoy going at it and receiving matching penalties for roughing with 6:31 to go in the game.\n\nBoth Rask and Sorokin made some timely saves to help send this game to overtime.\n\nHALL WINS IT\nHall ended the overtime period with a brilliant goal to seal the 3-2 win.\n\nUP NEXT\nThe Bruins wrap up their regular season Tuesday night against the Washington Capitals. Puck drop from Capital One Arena is set for 7 p.m. ET.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says conflicts between neighbouring states, particularly the one between Qatar and other Arab countries, should be resolved through dialogue.\n\nIn a Tuesday meeting with Qatar’s parliament speaker in Tehran, Rouhani underlined that the Islamic Republic of Iran will always stand up for the Qatari government and nation.\n\n“Today, there is a strong will on both sides to expand bilateral relations between Iran and Qatar,” Rouhani said, urging the officials of both states to spare no effort in deepening Tehran-Doha ties in all fields.\n\nAccording to a Farsi report by the Iranian president’s official website, Rouhani stressed that Iran will never accept that the Muslim nation of Qatar comes under unfair pressure by the enemies.\n\n“Iran and Qatar have had friendly and brotherly relations throughout history and have stayed with each other at harsh times,” Rouhani added.\n\nFor his part, Speaker of the Advisory Council of Qatar Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud appreciated the Islamic Republic’s support for the Qatari nation and government particularly during the recent tension in the region.\n\n“We are delighted to see that Iran and Qatar have established their bilateral relations based on friendship, brotherhood and neighbourhood,” he said, adding that the two sides should attempt to expand their current relations as far as possible.\n\nThe Qatari government maintains that any conflict in the region should be resolved through dialogue and mutual understanding, he added.\n\n“Today, thanks to the support we receive from our friends especially Iran, we are standing against the malice and nasty plots of our enemies,” he added.\n\nThe Qatari official is in Tehran to attend the 13th Session of Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States." ]

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[ null, "Thank you to all fans, organising commitee, volunteers and all partners, who helped with the organisation of this year´s 2022 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup in Prague - Troja. We are already looking forward to the next edition, which is the start of the World Cup 2023 in similar date 9-11 June 2023. See you in Prague!", null, null, null, "During Saturday afternoon in Prague's Troja (June 11), the full stands were watching the thrilling final runs of the world best kayakers. In the end, the Olympic champion Jiří Prskavec finished just below the podium, with Slovenian Peter Kauzer winning. Tereza Fišerová survived her kayak premiere, short of one bronze medal due to one penalty touch. Even with a mistake, the sovereign Jessica Fox won and gave herself a gold present on her 28th birthday.", null, null, "The first races of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup 2022 started on the Friday morning 10 June. The first stop of this year's series was the artificial canoe slalom course in Prague - Troja. The first day of the competition traditionally started with qualifying races. The competition was started by kayakers.", null, "The ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup starts the entire series of ICF events on Friday, June 10 at 9 am with qualifications for all categories of competitors (kayak, canoe). The Tokyo Olympic winners will not be missing at the start, including the best kayaker from Tokyo, Jiří Prskavec. Here you can follow online results, photos or current events on social networks.Vstupenky na závod Světového poháru jsou stále k dispozici i v místě závodu. V pátek je vstup zdarma.", null, "The day before the start of the 2022 ICF World Cup in Prague - Troja, the Czech stars met with media representatives at a press conference at the Jalta Hotel on Thursday, June 9. The director of the organizing committee, Jiří Rohan, and the chairman of the Czech Canoeists' Association, Jan Boháč, described the backstage and the details of the organizing of the major international event. The current mood in the team was described by the head coach Jiří Prskavec senior and the chairman of the wild water section Stanislav Ježek. Jiří Prskavec, Vít Přindiš, Tereza Fišerová, Gabriela Satková and Lukáš Rohan took part as the competitors representatives.", null, "After a two-year break, a ceremony reception was held at the residence of the Mayor of the Capital City of Prague on the occasion of the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup 2022. The starting numbers were distributed, for example, to the Olympic champion Jiří Prskavec, the silver Olympic medallist Lukáš Rohan or the reigning world champion Václav Chaloupka, as well as foreign stars like Jessica Fox, Mallory Franklin and Benjamin Savšek.", null, "Prague has always been a great organiser and innovator on the World Cup tour. This year will not be an exception. The organisers are partnering with the leading Czech non-profit organisation and public radio in the project of helping visually impaired and blind people." ]

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[ null, "The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace suppliers disrupted and even closed down by the events of March 11.\n\nTokyo, and indeed much of eastern Japan, is an epicenter of high-tech manufacturing. But dozens of suppliers in other industries are located in the region as well, and the loss of their production may have far-reaching effects in many economic sectors for years to come.\n\nThe disaster is causing many companies to rethink their supply chain strategies, which suddenly seem extremely fragile.\n\nWhen a natural disaster hits, relief organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders swing into action with crisis-response plans that have been honed, refined, and improved with experience. Not so manufacturers and their complex webs of suppliers, who in many cases lack that same experience or large-scale backup plans. The result: a chaotic scramble resulting in production delays, product shortages, and higher prices.\n\nAbout 22 percent of the world's 300 mm silicon wafer supply came from the Shin-Etsu Handotai's Shirakawa plant in Fukushima prefecture, and 60 percent of critical auto parts were in the same area, says professor Willy Shih, who has studied the ways that supply chains work and the performance of the factories that comprise them. The area is also a primary supplier of lithium battery chemicals, flash memory, and anisotropic conductive film used in LCD flat panel displays.\n\n\"In the race to provide better quality at lower prices, manufacturers picked very narrow, optimized supply chains,\" Shih says. \"They put all of their eggs with one supplier that had the best product at the lowest price.\"\n\nAt the same time the suppliers, also under pressure to continuously cut costs and optimize production and delivery systems, focused on serving niches rather than being generalists. So a company that in the past produced a specific auto part now makse one component of that part, and then pasess it on to another supplier in a different country for additional assembly. One small piece can pass through six or eight or ten suppliers in as many countries before it lands in the hands of the final assembler.\n\n\"The sequential, multicountry production model is what dominates now, and it's a model where little bits of value get added here or there and it's hard to see country of origin. It can be a very costly process to figure it out,\" Shih says. \"For example, if you really wanted to trace conflict minerals, you would turn off the valve at the Congo border and see who screams. It's the same structural problem as in Japan. A Wii has a chip designed by IBM, which may have been fabbed in New York, tested in Taiwan, stored in Hong Kong, aggregated in parts, and sent in kits to China for assembly.\"\n\nAll the suppliers in this chain are typically operating on very thin margins and tight schedules—any disruption can have severe consequences for companies several steps down the chain as well as end users. Already, some auto parts plants in the United States have had to suspend production because of shortages, and it's likely many more problems will follow, especially in the high-tech sector. Lithium battery production, for one, is likely to slow, resulting in the delay of lots of consumer electronics.\nA consequence of the rise of the modern, highly dispersed supply chain is that many manufacturers — let alone consumers — have little idea where the things they buy come from. Most consumers likely don't care, until they try to buy an iPod and discover that there are none to be had because of a shortage of lithium-ion battery components.\n\n\"This kind of disaster cuts a wide swath across the auto industry, but there's probably some similar geographic area that, if hit, would affect a different industry. It only takes a very small piece of the world to influence an industry in a major way.\"\n\nThe open question is how quickly manufacturers can recover from the shortages and delays. It may take several months for all the economic and supply-chain effects of the disaster to be felt fully, and the product shortages could extend well beyond that. Still, Shih says from what he's seen so far, suppliers and manufacturers have done fairly well.\n\n\"It's the luck of the draw when it comes to natural disasters. We have very highly concentrated pockets of expertise in small areas around the world. It's how we've designed modern production systems,\" Shih says. \"We've seen moderately good behavior from this quake so far.\"\n\n\nWho pays the price?\n\nAs Japan recovers from this disaster and other countries prepare for future ones, manufacturers and all the various companies that make up their supply chains need to rethink their strategies, Shih says. But the answers, such as using redundant suppliers in various parts of the world, can be expensive. Would customers be willing to absorb some increase in cost if it meant that there would be fewer shortages or production delays?\n\n\"Will consumers pay more for a more robust solution to this problem? I don't know. It's an important question, though,\" Shih says. \"Should I distribute my suppliers around the world to avoid things like this? We don't know. But the shortages are starting to emerge, and over the next couple of months we'll see a broader impact from this.\"\n\nA number of companies are already making investments in redundancy. Canon is considering a move to diversify its production base by expanding its under-construction Hita factory in Kyushu in southern Japan, and increasing production lines at its two factories in China's Guangdong province. Manufacturers in mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand are reporting increases in orders as companies look for alternate sources, according to analysts.\n\n\"There are a lot of moving parts in this, and it will be interesting to see how it works out,\" says Shih. \"Companies need to understand the depth of their supply chains and critical dependencies. Then they can think through how 'narrow' is the optimum solution, and the cost/benefit tradeoffs of steps like incorporating more supplier or geographic diversity.\"\nPosted by Lean Sensei at 10:15 PM" ]

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[ null, "A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting of the provincial assembly members of MQM was held under the chairmanship of Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, convener of the party." ]

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[ "Posted on March 3, 2011 by andyMogg in Lymestone, Meet The Brewer No Comments\n\nThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Ian Bradford, or Brad as he’s know from Lymestone Brewery in Staffordshire.\n\nWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from?\nLymestone Brewery:- an amalgamation of the names of the towns of Newcastle under Lyme and Stone, both in Staffordshire\n\nWhat is your brewery capacity?\n6 x10 Barrels", null, "Brad and his bees\n\nWhat is different about your brewery?\nFamily-run microbrewery singlehandedly upholding the long established tradition of brewing great beer in the town of Stone\n\nHow long have you been brewing for?\nTwo and a half years here, 12 years at the Titanic Brewery\n\nHow did you get into brewing?\nI played front row rugby with SIBA Chairman Keith Bott at Eccleshall RUFC. He gave me my introduction to the brewing industry.\n\nWhere do you think the future of brewing lies?\nWith small “craft” brewers who are passionate about life, beer and community.\n\nDo you bottle/keg/cask your beer?\nCask and bottle (outsourced to Holden’s Brewery)\n\nWhat is you proudest moment in brewing?\nTasting my first Lymestone beer\n\nDo you have any brewing regrets?\nNothing I can’t handle\n\nWhat is your brewing ambition?\nTo hand a solvent microbrewery on to the next generation\n\nWhat was last beer you drank?\nGaul Stone\n\nWhat is your favourite hop and why?\nBoadicea:- an English hedgerow hop that has loads of flavour and aroma\n\nWhat is your favourite beer/food combo?\nHoppy beer / spicey food\n\nDo you have a Brewing hero/inspiration?\nMany:- any small independent brewer\n\nIf you could brew one collaboration beer with someone who would it be with and what would it be?\nAndy Wilson from the White Horse Brewery, we’d spend all day laughing at each other and brew a hoppy 4.0%\n\nIs there a beer you wish you had brewed?\nWatch this space\n\nHow do you spend your time when you aren’t brewing?\nI volunteer in Scouting Leadership. We take 6 year olds and help them become 18 year olds with D of E qualifications. It’s very rewarding and great fun.\n\nIf you could have one superhero superpower what would it be?\nI’d never need sleep\n\nAnything else you want to tell us?\nIn 2010 we established 3 colonies of bees on the brewery roof. The honey produced was used to brew Stone Brood, a 4.4% chocolate honey beer which will also be available in bottle late 2011" ]

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[ "Last term, I had the exciting opportunity to intern at KOIN 6 News right in downtown Portland. I applied for this internship because working in the journalism field has always been something that interested me, and because PSU does not offer a journalism major, I figured that I should try to gain experience in this field outside of the classroom.\n\nDuring my 10 weeks here, I learned so much about the world of broadcast journalism and television production. Here are some of the best things I learned from this internship:\n\n1) How to run a teleprompter", null, null, "First of all, I had no idea that at some news stations, the teleprompter, where the anchors read the script off from during live newscasts, is manually operated by hand. I had to run the teleprompter a lot of times and it was the most nerve-racking job I did during my time here. I had to listen closely to what the anchors were saying and if I stopped paying attention for like five seconds and stopped rolling the script, it would throw the anchors off track on live TV in front of thousands of people.\n\n2) How to operate a news camera", null, "The camera that is pictured above costs $50,000, so you can imagine all the things it can do. The videographers were more than happy to teach me how to set up and operate these cameras. There were a lot of buttons and nozzles that I had to learn and memorize.\n\n3) How to conduct interviews", null, "Most of my time interning was spent shadowing reporters as they go out into the field and investigate. A lot of their work involved interviewing people such as politicians, witnesses to crime scenes, and police officers. The best advice I received was from the weekend anchor who told me that a good interviewer must be a good listener. Listening is a skill that a lot of people tend to overlook.\n\n4) Asking questions is the best way to learn", null, "If you ever apply to intern here, don’t expect anyone to sit you down and teach you everything you need to know about the world of news. Everything I learned was from asking questions. If I was curious about how something worked or why things were done a certain way, I didn’t hesitate to ask whoever I was with. Everyone that I worked with were very helpful and were eager to answer my questions.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about broadcast news or television production, I highly recommend you apply to KOIN 6. This was a very memorable experience for me and I would be happy to answer any questions you may have! Good luck!" ]

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[ null, "Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said the tragedy involving the deaths of newborns at two of the island’s hospitals has served to overshadow the significant work done by the government to improve the health sector and overshadowed much of the hard work done by Dr Fenton Ferguson.\n\nSpeaking at a party mass meeting in Brown's Town St Ann on Sunday night, Simpson Miller, who is also president of the PNP, said the government has been making significant investments in the sector.\n\n“Our government invested more money in the health sector. If we have more we would spend more,\" she said, pointing out, for example, the development of centres of excellence for health care across the island.\n\nShe said the deaths of the babies were very painful for her government.\n\n\"The experience has been especially hurtful because our administration has done so much over the past four years to reduce the number of deaths of babies and mothers during child's birth,\" Simpson Miller said.\n\nSome 19 premature babies have died at the University Hospital of the West Indies and Cornwall Regional Hospital since a deadly bacterial outbreak in July.\n\nDr Ferguson, under whose ministerial watch the deaths took place, has been reassigned to the labour and social security ministry.\n\nSimpson Miller said that Horace Dalley, the new health minister, will be working with health officials to make sure this does not happen again.\n\n\"I feel it because all the people around me know how much I love children. They are my heartbeat. They are the future of this country. They should be cared for and protected,\" a sombre Simpson Miller said.\n\n\"No one can be sure if one of those babies would not rise to become the prime minister, minister of government, scientists, educators, farmers …,\" she said.\n\n\"The recent outbreak of bacteria in some hospitals resulted in more deaths of premature babies than is the norm in hospitals in Jamaica and developed countries and has caused many families and our nation great pain,\" the PNP president said as she explained her decision to reassign Ferguson.\n\n\"It is not easy to lose a child, particularly a young baby. It is painful. It is hard. The government feels the pain of the mothers and the fathers who have lost their loved ones. As a government we are sorry for the loss of these precious lives,\" Simpson Miller said." ]

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[ null, "“I take a “hands on” and personal approach to every case I take. – David M. Shaby II\n\nShaby & Associates represent clients in a wide range of legal services including personal injury, aviation law, business law, real estate law and civil litigation. The team of attorneys represents individuals, small and large-sized businesses, charitable and non-profit organizations. They work collaboratively to determine your goals and objectives. At Shaby & Associates they are dedicated, skilled attorneys who will fight on your behalf. They take pride in meeting and exceed clients expectations, recovering the most favorable outcome possible.\n\nAttorney Shaby has an extensive knowledge of orthopedic medicine, which helps him significantly in representing his personal injury clients. His personal injury practice has included brain damage cases, spine injuries including paralysis (paraplegic and quadriplegic cases), and amputations.\n\nMr. Shaby has a number of general domestic and international business clients, whom he represents for the purposes general business advice, business formation, drafting of contracts, buying-selling of assets, lease issues, partnership disputes, medical and dental licensing issues, etc. as well as in general business-related litigation. From 1981 to 1986 Mr. Shaby represented the foreign government of the Dominican Republic as its Vice Consul in Los Angeles.\n\nHe is very well regarded by his peers and the many jurists who know him as a knowledgeable attorney and a seasoned & aggressive litigator.\n\nMr. Shaby was awarded the coveted Los Angeles County “Volunteer of the Year Award”, received the “Top 100 Award” from the Association of American Trial Lawyers in 2018, Mr. Shaby is the recipient of two Special Recognition Awards for his endeavors with the Culver City Police Department (CCPD) where he served as a as a reserve police officer with the Culver City Police Department (CCPD); while with Culver City P.D. he acted as their pilot and helped set up an aero division.\n\nFluent in Spanish, Mr. Shaby holds a 2nd degree black belt in Kenpo Karate, he is a former ski racer and instructor, has been a licensed pilot since 1981 and holds an ATP (Airline Transport Pilot) certificate for multi-engine aircraft and a Commercial Certificate for single engine aircraft.\n\nMr. Shaby is married with two children, a daughter who is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a son who graduated from New York University.\n\nBe the first to comment on \"Top Attorney – David M. Shaby II\"" ]

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[ "Christmas Movies at the Cathedral\n\nThis has to be the hottest ticket for the coolest cinema experience in town! See your favourite Christmas movies in the spectacular setting of Peterborough Cathedral.", null, "Soak up the festive atmosphere and join in the fun, with popcorn, sweets and drinks on sale, and maybe some movie characters mingling with the crowd. Christmas jumpers and fancy dress are welcome.", null, "The fabulous Muppets band together to teach Scrooge (Michael Caine) the meaning of Christmas in this charming adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy play the kindly Mr and Mrs Cratchit, whilst Gonzo is Charles Dickens, with Rizzo the rat as his sidekick. Ghostly figures (hecklers Statler and Waldorf play the Marley brothers) show Scrooge the past, present and future just like in the original novel, but along the way there are spadefuls of Muppet-style entertainment, songs and zany comedy.", null, "One Christmas Eve, a long time ago, a small baby crawled into Santa’s bag of toys during a stop at an orphanage. Undetected by Santa, the child was accidentally whisked back to the North Pole. Once discovered, the boy was quickly taken under the wing of Santa's most trusted helper and raised as an elf. But when he grew three sizes larger than everyone else in Santa's workshop, it became clear that Buddy (Will Ferrell) would never truly fit into the elf world. So Buddy decided to set off for New York City, in search of his real father (James Caan).", null, "A joyous Christmas favourite, this animation is based on Raymond Briggs' original children's book and tells the story of a young boy who builds a snowman on Christmas Eve. His creation comes to life and takes him on a magical trip to the North Pole to meet Santa Clause. The music, scored by Howard Blake, includes the song \"Walking in the Air\" performed by Peter Auty, a St Paul's Cathedral choirboy (Aled Jones' cover version was a UK top 10 hit a couple of years later).\n\nThis fantastically popular movie, with its sing-along soundtrack has won plaudits from audiences and critics alike. It is the 53rd Disney animated feature film and was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen. Frozen tells the story of the newly crowned Queen Elsa who accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter. Her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather conditions.\n\nSaturday\n£6 adults, £4 children, £18 family*.\nTicket price includes The Snowman and Frozen, although you may view just one of the films if you wish.\n\n* Family ticket applies to 2 adults and up to 3 children. Children applies to age 16 and under.\nSeating is unreserved.\n\nThe Christmas Movie Nights are fundraising events in aid of Peterborough Cathedral." ]

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[ "Full Answer During a power outage, citizens cannot use their televisions or computers unless those devices are equipped with battery back-up systems or a generator is installed in the home. A radio allows citizens to obtain weather reports, hear news from around the world and learn about localized issues such as traffic and upcoming events.", null, "Nowadays we are witnessing a shift in the role technology is playing in our society and may continue to play for generations to come.\n\nIn the modern-day world technology is no longer a tool for survival but it turned to a means of communication and entertainment. Mass communication technology has made it easier than ever to connect with people.\n\nThis is true in many aspects as this may lead to living in a virtual world that only includes interacting with people with texting and social networks. This leads, among other things, to the ability for people to be lonely, as having too many virtual friendships causes the inability to establish meaningful relationships.\n\nThe young generations in our society are participating in a massive, unintentional social experiment the results of which are not entirely predictable. The lack of communication affects also relationships inside one family.\n\nOn the other hand there might be an explanation for this phenomenon; husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends no longer go entire days without speaking to each other on the phone, emailing each other, facebooking each other or texting each other.\n\nThe paradox of the mass communication technology is that we are growing more distant from each other when we choose to make smartphones, computers, television, and the like our primary means of communicating with each other.\n\nTechnology is a wonderful tool that is supposed to help humans improve their life quality but instead of that it is preventing us from continuing to be able to form meaningful relationships with each other.As a result, this society today has moved towards social media sites as their primary form of communication among friends instead of being more social in the real world.\n\nSociety is moving away from social interactions, like the almighty (and feared) face-to-face communications and it’s very disheartening. Communication also facilitates healthcare, leading to a high standard of living. It also makes delivery of news possible, which builds an informed society.", null, "It is quite common in today’s society for a family to eat dinner completely separate from each – almost purposely avoiding face-to-face communications. The Role of Communication Technology in Today’s Society Chris Smith June 28, Communication technology encompasses a broad range of mediums, from .\n\nHow Much Has Social Media Changed Society? 12th Aug, The means of communication are simpler and easier to use today than ever before. The world has become a smaller place and it will continue to become smaller as time goes on thanks to how social media will evolve.\n\nIt will be interesting to see what those personal robots . Aug 27, · Radio, in general, is an important form of communication that has remained steady, since its invention and initial popularization in the s, to communicate local news, messages and music.\n\nThe Role of Communication Technology in Today’s Society » Community | GovLoop" ]

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[ "No, that IDMB ‘Info’ About the Chorus Kids in Super Smash Bros Ultimate is Not True", null, "Earlier today, an interesting piece of ‘data’ was posted on IMDB. This piece of data claimed that the Chorus Kids from Rhythm Heaven were going to be in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, with Daniel Algeria being listed as their voice actor for said game.\n\nThis in turn quickly got picked up by various news sites, with ones like Nintendo Life and Inverse jumping on the bandwagon after seeing the addition.\n\nHowever, here’s the thing about the whole story. The one big thing you need to keep in mind about IMDB and their video game pages as a whole:\n\nThey’re not very reliable at all.\n\nAnd that means much of the ‘information’ there (especially regarding upcoming video games) is questionable to say the least. For example, do you know what else IMDB said was going to happen regarding the Mario series?\n\nYeah, that obviously never happened. Likely because hey, it was a random fanboy’s wishlist rather than anything remotely resembling a real story or fact.\n\nAnd IMDB has a huge history of these mistakes and fanboy wishlist edits too. They said Charles Martinet would be voicing Mario in Wreck it Ralph 2. They said Professor Layton’s voice actor would be voicing him in Super Smash Bros 4. Hell, they even had someone edit the page for Spyro Reignited Trilogy to say that Sonic the Hedgehog would be a character in the game. Somehow.", null, "So, before you write that article about this latest ‘rumour’, stop and ask yourself a few questions.\n\nFirstly, are you sure this is worth writing about? Because if it’s as inaccurate as most text-based rumours/claims online are, then the answer is likely no. As Source Gaming says, text rumours are almost always false.\n\nIf you’re still interested after that, move onto the second question. Namely, is there a source listed for this rumour? Or hell, just anyone else online backing it up in any way?\n\nIf not, again it’s likely bullshit. Random people (and websites’) claims online should not be taken seriously.\n\nFinally (and here’s the big one), ask yourself whether you’d still be writing this story if it was found on Reddit, 4Chan, Wikipedia or any website with user contributed content.\n\nCause if not… well why the hell are you taking IMDB seriously anyway? They’ve proven time and time again that they know nothing about video games, let any old random fan edit in false information and fail to verify anything video game related added to their database.\n\nSo, calm down, relax and ignore this non-story. Cause like every other questionable piece of trivia found on IMDB before it, it’s almost certainly false and points to nothing more than a random fan’s speculation." ]

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[ "The mania of owning and collecting antiquities is an incurable disease\"\n\n\"Collectors of Antiques are junkmen of memories\"\n\nArt, collectionism and hiking became the three subjects in which converged the artistic interest of Santiago Rusiñol, furthering the polyhedral figure of the artist, intellectual, scientific hiker, journalist, archaeologist, writer and collector. Rusiñol started as a collector in the workshop of his first teacher, the painter Tomàs Moragas, friend and follower of Marià Fortuny. Scientific hiking, in which Rusiñol regularly and enthusiastically participated during the eighties, was another area in which Rusiñol developed his activities as collector. Collectionism became the first public projection of the artist and the profile that, along with his dedication to the cult of art, was what defined him more precisely. Collectionism became one of the most characteristic profiles in the total personality of the artist to the end of his days. Each of the works in the museum is directly related to a passage in the life of the artist. The Cau Ferrat Museum, in addition to showing a splendid collection of ancient and modern art, is the \"collection of the heart\" of the artist.\n\nThe formation of the art collection of Rusiñol corresponds to three stages. The first, the most prolonged one, begins in 1875 and culminates with the lecture given at the Barcelona Athenaeum (Ateneu Barcelonès) in 1893, “Mis hierros viejos” (My old irons). The lecture is related mainly to the formation of the wrought iron collection, and to the pieces of ancient art, that were kept by then at the workshop that he shared with sculptor Enric Clarasó in Barcelona ​​called Cau Ferrat.The collection of wrought iron. Wrought iron objects pices and different religious or profane objects that became obsolete or were part of the large number of ancient and anonymous works, the result of the constructive and artistic effort of ancient craftsmen, were the subject of attention by some of hikers at the time, expressed as illustrations of the various newsletters and publications for hikers during the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.\n\nThe second stage occurs in Cau Ferrat in Sitges. It begins with the purchase of paintings by El Greco in Paris in January 1894, Tears of Saint Peter and the Penitent Magdalene, and closed in 1902 with the acquisition of the collection of glass from Alexandre de Riquer with the Installation of the painting Holy Thursday in Pollença (1902), the latest work of Rusiñol entering the Cau Ferrat in Sitges.These are the years of the Festes Modernistes (1892-1899) culminating in 1898 with the inauguration of the monument to Greco, the golden decade of the artist in Sitges. During this stage he enters Cau Ferrat with the will of giving shape to the colection of the artist, most are paintings of Rusiñol and his friends such as Ramon Casas, M. T. Müller, Enric Clarasó Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, Ramon Pichot, Zuloaga, Regoyos, and that the purchase of young emerging talents: Isidro Nonell, Picasso and Manolo Hugué, who frequents \"el 4 Gats\". Cau Ferrat assimilated a large number of art works and artistic objects from his travels and artistic campaigns: Montmartre and Paris, Italy (copies made by Rusiñol of frescoes and paintings of old painters); Andalusia (oils and drawings in Granada and Víznar); copies made by him and others (Ramon Pichot or Pere Ferran) in the Museo del Prado, etc. Objects like the Japanese folding screen or the piano in his studio, used by Manuel de Falla to compose the suite Nights in the Gardens of Spain in 1916. All such objects grant to Cau Ferrat a very specific look and a unique and unrepeatable ambience.\n\nThe third stage corresponds to the first third of the twentieth century, when the change of life of Rusiñol after his morphine detox treatment involves a new routine and habits, almost always accompanied by his wife and daughter - both included in works in the walls of the museum. Worth of mentioning are the entrance to the collection of the pre-Roman and Punic archaeological collection coming from excavations at the Puig des Molins (Ibiza) and the sketches of Ramon Casas with couplets from Gabriel Alomar for \"L'Auca del senyor Esteve\" (The Auca of Mr. Stephen) (1907 ).Several pieces of pottery come from his trips and campaigns to Andalusia, Mallorca, Valencia and Castile. El Cau Ferrat ceases to be a home workshop and his owner arrives to the point of giving cards authorize visits during his absence.\n\nAs an epilogue, the last stage of the Cau Ferrat begins with its reopening as public museum (1933). Santiago Rusiñol bequeathed his property to the town of Sitges taken by the love he felt for the town, as established in his will. Without betraying or modifying the structure or areas, Joaquim Folch i Torres, director of the Museum of Art of Catalonia and the first director of the Museum of Cau Ferrat with his team carried out works, inventory, classification and relocation of works. It is the stage in which \"Modernisme\" became a museum. In 1935, arrives el \"Penel de gall\" (Weathercock) from sculptor Pablo Gargallo, donated by his widow to be added to the wrought iron collection.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "I have been a fan of Angela Carter since 2011, when a college professor assigned her short story “The Erl-King” for a critical theory class, and since then I have gone on to read a few other stories from Carter’s famous collection, The Bloody Chamber. The way Carter is able to write about the erotic, instinctual side of human nature is something that I hold in great admiration. I also find that she had a great ear for language, as her sentences flow with a folky, feminine rhythm, a quality that is reminiscent to me of Virginia Woolf, and her own rich, elegant, ornamented prose.\n\nThis novel tells the coming of age story of fourteen-year-old Melanie, whose childhood comes to an end after her parents die in a fatal accident. She is sent to London with her younger siblings, Jonathan and Victoria, to live with Uncle Philip, a controlling, tyrannic toyshop proprietor who puts on strange puppet shows for the family. The other occupants of the house include Philip’s wife Margaret, who is friendly but mute, and her younger brothers, the dirty Finn and cordial Francie. Carter’s characterizations excel, as Philip’s totalitarianism depresses the other characters to an observable effect. Jonathan engrosses himself in building model ships, and Victoria, only a baby, is spoiled by Margaret, and thus unaware of the growing tension in the house. Finn is full of life, hopelessly filthy, and shown to be interested in Melanie romantically. Melanie is suspicious of Finn’s intentions, and her loneliness is worthy of note, as we see that her inability to trust the other people of the house distorts the reader’s perception of who is “moral,” or “likable,” and at times this is jarring for one’s summation of the circumstances presented. At the end of the novel, Philip one day steps unexpectedly out of the house, and Melanie and company indulge in a carefree, defiant, Saturnalia-like afternoon. Francie and Margaret are revealed to be incestuous, and Finn unexpectedly washes himself.\n\nThe only word I have for this book is “weird,”and despite the seemingly juvenile front cover, it is very much an adult book, and also a challenging read. There is certainly a method in Carter’s madness, as she acknowledges a side of humanity that most people would not like to think about, so much that I think the book could possibly qualify as horror. Sex also bleeds throughout the narrative. I did think however that Philip was written to be somewhat of straw man: though I understand that Carter was a feminist, I would have liked to see a more balanced take on his character. This is just personal preference however, and not a technical flaw. I absolutely enjoyed this book." ]

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[ "And Roku could be a big loser as a result.\n\nAmazon (AMZN -1.08%) released IMDb Freedive in January, a free ad-supported video-on-demand platform available on IMDb.com and Fire TV devices. Now the company is in talks with both media companies and marketers to offer even more ad-supported video for Fire TV customers, according to a Cheddar report.\n\nAmazon is looking to offer both news and entertainment programming. The company will license content from other media companies, according to the report, but it won't include any original content, such as Amazon Prime Video.\n\nAmazon's plans pose a significant threat to Roku (ROKU 0.69%), which has made significant investments in its Roku Channel since its launch about a year and a half ago. The Roku Channel also offers ad-supported video content, and it recently added premium subscriptions to video-on-demand channels within the app. Amazon is in a better position to win advertising revenue and license better content than Roku, making its devices that much more attractive to consumers.", null, "Amazon is already investing billions of dollars in content for Prime Video. It practically has the ability to spend whatever it wants on content for its latest expansion into streaming video.\n\nRoku, on the other hand, has just $198 million in cash and short-term investments sitting on its balance sheet. That's a bit less than the $40.5 billion at Amazon's disposal.\n\nBoth Amazon and Roku have a good idea of what its users are interested in watching, so they can use that data to inform their content licensing decisions. Amazon, however, is better at crunching data to make decisions, such as what products to show shoppers or developing private-label products. That means it might have a better understanding of a piece of content's true value, and it might be willing to pay more for it than Roku as a result. And it certainly has the money to do so.\n\nIf Amazon's service has more attractive content than the Roku Channel, it could incentivize consumers to buy a Fire TV device. Fire TV is already attractive to Prime members because of Prime Video's integration with the user interface. But Amazon is looking to reach beyond Prime members with its ad-supported service and Fire TV. It could potentially use the devices and ad-supported service as a means of selling consumers on Prime.\n\nRoku has done an excellent job building out its advertising technology and targeting capabilities, but Amazon has a $10 billion advertising business. Amazon, which already has a couple of video ad products with its Thursday Night Football broadcasts and Twitch videos, has considerable ad technology and ad buyers in place to compete.\n\nMoreover, Amazon has better data to work with than Roku. Amazon knows what its viewers are searching for, strongly considering, and buying online. That's some extremely valuable data for marketers.\n\nNot only does Amazon's superior data enable it to monetize its ad-supported video better than Roku, it makes it more attractive to consumers as well.\n\nIf Amazon wanted to offer content owners a revenue share in exchange for licensing content, a strategy Roku has taken with the Roku Channel, most would find Amazon's platform more attractive because of its better monetizing capacity.\n\nIs there room for both?\n\nAmazon's plans are to keep its ad-supported streaming content exclusive to Fire TV users, according to Cheddar's report. Roku took a similar approach with the Roku Channel initially, but it has since started branching out to more platforms.\n\nRoku's strategy is shifting from hardware sales to a platform business, where it generates money from advertising and revenue shares from the subscriptions it sells. The latest integration of premium subscriptions in the Roku Channel gives it a greater capacity to extend the service to more devices.\n\nAmazon, meanwhile, is focused on driving growth in Prime memberships. Fire TV (and most of Amazon's other devices) is designed to work better with Prime. The more Amazon can incentivize customers to buy a Fire TV, the more likely they are to sign up for a Prime account. As such, it's unlikely Amazon will extend its ad-supported video service beyond its own devices.\n\nSo, if customers want both, they have to hope Roku will work with its biggest competitor. Despite Roku's increasing openness to work with other hardware makers, that's still a long shot. Amazon's ability to invest in content and attract marketers and consumers makes it a serious threat to Roku, and it could force the smaller company to make some very tough decisions." ]

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[ "What is the reason for the recent rash of hacking? Why was LulzSec able to take on high-profile victims like Sony, the FBI, and the CIA?\n\nThe answer is this: hackers aren't necessarily smart; the problem is that the victims are stupid. Hackers like LulzSec exploited \"obvious\" problems in the victim websites. But for all their obviousness, we (as an industry) still don't know how to fix them.\n\n\nFor example, take the most common problem, called \"SQL injection\". This problem is caused by the fact that websites treat input as \"code\" rather than \"data\". This is demonstrated by his recent vulnerability at CNN (which I got from a Tweet by Dave Aitel, it's still working last I checked). CNN set up a website that allows people to query information about colleges. A typical page looks like the following:", null, "What we see in this picture is the webpage that is accessed with the URL http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/collegecost/collegecost.jsp?college_id=7966. Data for all the colleges are stored in a database. Each college is given a unique numeric identifier. In this case, the college_id of 7966 represents Oklahoma State University in CNN's database. The web-application takes this number from the URL and uses it to query the database, then formats the results in a web page.\n\nThe problem with CNN's website is that it doesn't treat 7966 as just data, but also as code. Hackers can replace that number with code, and CNN's database will run it. The easiest way to test this is to enter in faulty code, which generates an error message. The way that most of us do that is simply put a quote ' character at the end of the field. This allows us to test that this flaw exists, that the website will run our code, without actually running code on the database. An example is below:", null, "As you see, simply putting a quote ' character at the end causes the website to produce an error message as it tries to run the code. The website of the Chinese hacker who discovered this vulnerability has an even better example that runs harmless code that grabs the version number. It's URL containing code looks like:\n\nThe thing about this vulnerability is that any teenager can exploit it. You would think that a guy with 10 years experience creating websites would know more about this problem than a teenage hacker, but the reverse is true. Most people who create websites don't really understand how they truly work, nor do they care. They care about the end result, about what the user sees, about pretty pictures. They rarely care about the boring technical details. Website designers are shockingly ignorant about the cybersecurity implications of their work. Conversely, teenagers are shockingly ignorant about how to create websites -- they only know how to break them.\n\nThe problem with this threat is that it's chronic. Everybody in the cybersecurity community understands this problem, but nobody knows how to fix it. Sure, we know how to fix this specific bug -- just change one line of code, and the problem goes away. The thing we don't understand is how to prevent a similar bug from appearing yet again. We have tools, like scanners that look for such bugs on websites, code analyzers to point out such bugs in the web-app code, and web-app firewalls to block some attacks, but none of these tools are wholly effective.\nBy Robert Graham" ]

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[ null, "STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The commission tasked by voters to develop a plan to reintroduce gray wolves in Colorado by the end of 2023 will reportedly take its time to gather feedback from a wide variety of stakeholders.\n\nThe prodding pace has garnered pushback from supporters of reintroduction who say such a long process could make the Colorado Parks and Wildlife commission miss the deadline for wolves to be released set by voters in November.\n\n“We’re very early in the process,” said Commission Chair Marvin McDaniel. “There is a lot of strong commitment by every commissioner to involve the folks on the Western Slope or anywhere that is going to be affected by this.”\n\nIn January, the commission approved a framework plan from Parks and Wildlife staff laying out a process to engage with communities that will be affected when wolves are let loose. But a letter from supporters of reintroduction sent to the commission earlier this month says that process is “perilously cumbersome.”\n\nRead the rest of this article at SteamboatPilot.com." ]

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[ null, "While LA producer duo Milo & Otis tour the country for the next few weeks with Kill The Noise on the Majestic as Fak Tour, they've followed up their original free song #FESTMUNCH by delivering a brand new release. \"FESTMUNCH 2 (The Haunting)\" was created in a dimension where electro-house synths, big drum effects, and various bass twonks are the standard currency. The rush of hype after the first drop is what kicks this single into overdrive as Milo & Otis throw every bit of their production capabilities into causing anarchy. We strongly urge you to seek shelter after streaming the premiere below to prevent harm to innocent bystanders, and don't miss out on the free download they have supplied.\n\nMIlo & Otis are on tour with Kill The Noise and more on the Majestic as Fak tour which just kicked off!" ]

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[ "The people that may have been gathered at the riverfront in what would eventually become Wittenberg, Missouri on Thursday, December 12th in 1839 probably did not expect the arrival of around 140 more German immigrants. A few might have been aware that another group of immigrants was supposed to arrive someday soon, but in the age before instant communication like we have today, they would not have known exactly when this group would arrive.\n\nA few weeks earlier, on November 27th, a ship called the Johann Georg arrived at the port city of New Orleans carrying about 140 passengers. Because this group was under the leadership of Rev. Theodore Carl Friedrich Gruber, they were called the Gruber group. For reasons that I am unaware, this group did not come to America with the rest of the Stephanite immigration a year earlier, but there were apparently some connections between these groups. Here are pictures of Rev. Gruber and his wife.", null, "The Johann Georg had brought one of the groups of passengers that arrived about a year earlier. We wrote about that group in the post, The Voyage Begins. So this ship managed to return to northern Germany after January of 1839 to return again in December of that same year. I looked to see if that ship made any voyages in between those times, but I was unable to find any. Here are the pages of the passenger list from the Johann Georg from November of 1839.", null, null, null, "After arriving in New Orleans, the Gruber group boarded a riverboat to travel up the Mississippi River. Although we know all the names of the other steamboats that carried earlier passengers on the river, we do not know the name of the boat that carried the Gruber group. We do know that they arrived at the riverfront in Wittenberg on December 12th. The Gruber group must have been aware of where the previous Lutheran settlement had located because they came directly to Wittenberg.\n\nThere also appears to be evidence that some people in the earlier immigration were beginning the process of acquiring land in the area that many of these new people eventually settled. Fred Eggers, one of our expert researchers, has a theory that a Bock and a Fiehler were already buying property west of the area where most of the previous immigrants had settled in East Perry County. He says these two men came from the general vicinity from which many of the Gruber group had lived. To make a long story short, many of the Gruber group settled in an area that they would call Paitzdorf. They named their new town after a town in Germany from which many of them came and the city where the Gruber group had done the planning for their trip. Paitzdorf would eventually have its name changed to Uniontown, the name it is called to this day. Here is a map of the East Perry County area as it appears nowadays.\n\nPastor Gruber and his group established a church here and it eventually became known as Grace Lutheran Church. Here is a present-day photo of their church building.", null, "7 thoughts on “The Comeback of the Johann Georg”" ]

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[ "The last upgrade to my main PC was about 4 and a half years ago. The hardware was holding up surprisingly well (still allowing my to play recent games like Fallout 4, albeit at a lower frame rate). However, I'm a fan of the Battlefield series and their most recent release looked too nice to not play it.\n\nI initially only bought a new GPU and that was good enough to generally play Battlefield. But the experience wasn't great. The CPU clearly became the bottleneck. And since upgrading the CPU also meant a new mainboard and a new mainboard meant new RAM, I ended up buying a lot of new hardware.\n\nSo here's what I'm running now:", null, "As you can see, I opted for upper mid-range instead of a hardcore gaming rig. Not all of the hardware was bought this time. Some of the components I have for a while now. However I'm doing something I've never done before - I'm running the CPU overclocked to 4.1Ghz. It's just a single setting in the bios and the huge cooler easily keeps the temperature down to 45°C even during full load. UserBenchmark seems to like it.\n\nBecause my Windows 7 really didn't agree with all the new hardware, I also bought a Windows 10 license (18€). After disabling all the privacy crap that comes with it1), it's quite a nice system.\n\nSo after spending 830€, it's nice to see that I still suck at Battlefield" ]

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[ null, "“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.”\n\nGrowing up, we didn't do a great deal of traveling. For the first 13 years of my life, we'd spend two weeks each summer camping at the Payette Lake in McCall, Idaho, a campground at the Middle Fork of the Boise River or at Redfish Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains near Stanley, Idaho.\n\nIt wasn't until I was 14 years old that my parents took me on a road trip to check out some desert property my father bought through an ad in back of a True West magazine. It was located in Alamosa, Colorado. My parents and I set off the summer before I entered 8th grade leaving my older brothers at home to watch the house (big mistake it turns out).\n\nOur first stop was a run down motel outside of Rock Springs, Wyoming. It was the first motel or hotel I'd ever stayed in. It was pretty run down. They seemed surprised that we wanted a room for the entire night. They did up sell us to a room with a color television in it. That was a major treat for me since we still only had a black and white television at home.\n\nSome time later I saw a program that talked about Rock Springs being a crime ridden stop over for the drug trade at the time with a corrupt police department.\n\nThe road trip included stops at several small towns and motels on the way to Alamosa (where we discovered that my father's purchase was pretty much barren desert property with nothing but cactus). We also passed through Denver and Colorado Spring. And we visited the Custer National Monument at the Little Big Horn.\n\nWhen we returned home, we discovered my brothers had several party's, shattered the sliding glass door to our patio and let my pet rabbit escape.\n\nDespite my brothers' indiscretions, I still thought the road trip was kind of cool.\n\n\nMy next big travel adventure was when I was 16 and a sophomore in high school. My marching band raised money all summer to travel to Southern California and perform at a LA Rams and San Francisco 49er football game at the LA Coliseum. We flew to San Diego (my first airplane ride) and visited Sea World and the San Diego. Then we took buses to LA and visited Disneyland before marching at the football game.\n\nThat pretty much hooked me on the possibilities of travel beyond the borders of Idaho. But I couldn't really afford to travel much when I was in college with the exception of a few road trips to Disneyland and one road trip to Reno when I turned 21.\n\n\nI was 25 years old when I took my first trip outside the country. It was a week long trip to Mazatlan with a friend of mine named Christopher who I'd met in college. I'd recently broken up with my college girlfriend and was ready for an adventure. We stayed at a small property near the beach called Costa De Oro. It was a pretty low budget resort with modest furnishings and plenty of cockroaches.\n\nWe didn't spend much time in the room anyway. Most of the time we sat on the beach badgered by a continuous stream of peddlers trying to sell us blankets, silver or wood carvings. A few days into the trip we were in a small bar called Tequila Charlies, nursing hangovers from a night at Senior Frogs. After a few beers we heard someone call, \"Hey Gringos!\" I thought sure we were going to be beat up. Instead we were invited to join a table of students from the local university who had a case of beer at there disposal.\n\nThe night progressed well and we were invited to continue partying with the students at one of their apartments. We hopped aboard a local bus and then ;hitched a ride in the back of a pick up truck. Eventually we arrived at a apartment complex of a young man named Alejandro who had us wait outside for a minute before coming out and exclaiming, \"My wife, she is not home. Come on in!\"\n\nWe entered the apartment and more cerveza was consumed. Suddenly the door burst open and a woman who I assume was Alejandro's wife came in with a male companion. She did not seem pleased that there was a group of people including two gringos partying in her home. She started screaming in Spanish at Alejandro. That's when a young lady named Mireya who was part of our group got into the fray. She and Alejandro's wife began shouting at each other and then much to my surprise began tugging at each other's hair. Eventually Alejandro broke it up and smacked his wife. The guy who had come in with her apparently didn't approve of this and he pulled a small pistol out of his pocket. My friend Christopher and I hit the floor sure that we were going to be dead any minute. Alejandro's wife, however, threw herself between the gunman and Alejandro and began pushing him outside.\n\nBefore we knew what happened, it was over. Mireya picked up a houseplant, tossed it with a crash onto the kitchen floor then grabbed my arm and said, \"Let's go!\" (in Spanish, however). We walked a bit and hailed a cab that dropped Christopher and I off at our hotel and then Mireya off at her home.\n\nChristopher and I partied with our new friends a few more times before we returned home to Seattle, but we never did figure out what was going on with Alejandro and his wife (not to mention the friend who pulled the pistol on us).", null, "It was almost ten years later before I left the country again (except for a few trips to Victoria and Vancouver B.C.). A friend of mine from Boise (the same one I wrote about in my Musician post that I played guitar with at weddings) was getting married in England and invited me to the wedding. I quickly ordered my first passport and made plans to spend three weeks in England.\n\nI posted about that trip back in 2006 so if you are interested check it out.\n\nSeveral more years went by before the travel bug bit me again. I kept telling myself that someday I'd meet someone special who liked to travel and we'd see the world. I was in my mid-30s and beginning to doubt that that someone would show up. So one weekend I attended a travel show at Seattle Center and picked up a bunch of brochures on travel destinations.", null, "I decided to take a Windjammer Barefoot cruise on a tall sailing ship called the Polynesia. It cruised through the French West Indies. I also posted about that trip in an earlier post, so check it out if you are interested.\n\nThat cruise led me to try another Windjammer Cruise a year or so later aboard the Flying Cloud. That cruise toured the British West Indies.", null, null, null, "I was pretty much hooked on cruising after that. I started taking the more conventional cruises like Carnival, Princess and a now defunct cruise line that sailed out of New Orleans called Commodore Cruise Line (and yes I wrote a post about that as well). That's me shaking hands with the captain of the Enchanted Isle.", null, "I also took advantage of the shore excursions on the cruises that often included horseback riding on the beach. Or in Cozumel, in the jungle.", null, "I swam with dolphins.", null, "I posed with iguanas.", null, null, "I posed with baby alligators in Florida.", null, "And I posed with sting rays at a place called Sting Ray City in the Grand Caymans.", null, "I posed with fish while snorkling in Cozemel.", null, "I also posed in front of the ruins at Tulum.", null, null, "I liked cruising so much that I introduced my wife (girlfriend and then fiance at the time) to cruising. We even got married on a cruise ship.", null, "Other than one cruise to Mexico with our toddler daughter and my pregnant wife in 2008, we haven't been on any cruises since having children. We have been on several trips to Mexico, Disneyland, Legoland and other family friendly places. We have also gone camping and a few road trips. In addition, I travel several times a year for work but only to places within the U.S.\n\nSo, in retrospect, I have traveled a great deal in my life. And I imagine there will be a few more places I will see before I die. And considering my parents barely left the state of Idaho in their lifetimes, I have expanded my world view a bit.", null ]

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[ null, null, "Tokyo: Amidst the ongoing conflict over Senkaku islands in ‘East China Sea’, China has created a new controversy by flying its fighter jets and bombers within close proximity of Japan’s Okinawa islands. In response to China’s aggression, Japan deployed its fighter jets and forced Chinese warplanes to retreat. This aerial exercise by China is being taken very seriously due the fact that US have their military and air base on the Okinawa islands, located to the south of Japan.", null, "China’s ‘People’s Liberation Army’ has been conducting regular drills in the Pacific ocean for the last few weeks. Based on information published on social media, China’s air-force is also actively participating in the drills in the western Pacific region. China has stated that this aerial drill has been done as per its pre-decided time schedule. A spokesperson from China’s air-force added that their drills are not against any specific country.\n\nMeanwhile, the Japanese defense ministry has accused China of breaching its airspace. Two Sukhoi-30’s infiltrated Japan’s Miyako strait in the Okinawa and Senkaku islands. Right after this, two of China’s long range strategic bombers, ‘H6-K’ entered Okinawa’s airspace. Moreover, it is believed that two of China’s ‘signal intelligence’ aircrafts were also involved in this exercise. These aircrafts were said to be flying within Okinawa island’s airspace for a few minutes. Before entering the Japanese airspace, these aircrafts had breached Taiwan’s airspace through Philippines.\n\nChinese fighter planes had infiltrated the air space of Senkaku and Okinawa islands earlier this year in September too. Chinese aircrafts were flying within Japanese airspace for about half an hour. They had to retreat after being confronted by Japanese fighter jets. However China claimed that it was carrying out a routine drill within its own airspace. According to information shared by the Japanese air-force, it had to deploy their jets 407 times to stop China’s aircrafts, in the first half 2016 itself. China has bluntly disregarded this accusation. On the contrary, they have accused Japan of infiltrating the Chinese airspace.", null, "The sea dispute within China and Japan seems to be getting worse day by day. China had agreed to resolve this issue through discussion during the meeting in Lima. However within a few hours of this, China’s destroyers infiltrated the borders of Senkaku islands. China have claimed rights over the Senkaku islands and its airspace. But Japan claims rights over it and is providing evidence to support the claim. However, China is not willing to accept this evidence and continues to infiltrate this region with its destroyers and aircrafts.\n\nUS has its largest military base within Japan on the Okinawa islands. At this air-base, US has deployed several squadrons which include fighter jets as well as modern aircrafts such as Osprey, Chinook and Awac. China had flown over Okinawa’s airspace in the past too. However this time, by deploying fighter jets as well as bombers, China seems to have challenged Japan as well as the US.\n\nFor the first time since the World War II, Japan activates ‘Marines Force’ to tackle tensions with China over the South China Sea The US, India, Japan and Australia ready to challenge China’s OBOR" ]

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[ "Věra Jourová the European Commissioner for justice, consumers and gender equality. Once upon a time, she had a Facebook account. It did not go well. “For a short time, I had a Facebook account,“ Jourová said at a news conference Thursday. “It was a channel of dirt. I didn’t expect such an influx of hatred. I decided to cancel the account because I realised there will be less hatred in Europe after I do this.”\n\nOf course, quitting social media in flamboyant fashion has long been a popular activity for government and non-government users alike. The “Why I’m Leaving Twitter” Medium post is our generation’s “Why I’m Leaving New York” Movable Type entry.\n\nBut Jourová’s words carry more weight than most. She has a policy beef with Facebook, and also the means to enforce it. Jourová says Facebook’s terms of service are misleading, and has called upon the company to clarify them. In a post Thursday on that other channel of dirt, Twitter.com, she said-\n\n“I want #Facebook to be extremely clear to its users about how their service operates and makes money. Not many people know that #Facebook has made available their data to third parties or that for instance it holds full copyright about any picture or content you put on it.”\n\nObviously you, as a devoted reader of The Interface, already knew both these things. But our penetration in the European market is still low.\n\nJourová says European authorities could sanction Facebook next year if it doesn’t like what it hears from the company soon. “I was quite clear that we cannot negotiate forever,” she said at the news conference. “We need to see the result.”\n\nIn the meantime, it’s clear that Facebook has a Europe problem. In the Wall Street Journal, Valentina Pop and Sam Schechner remind us about all the other recent regulatory actionsagainst the company:\n\nThe sharply worded salvo comes on top of a series of legislative proposals and regulatory actions from Europe aimed at reining in the power and perceived excesses of a cadre of big tech companies. The EU in May implemented a sweeping new privacy law, GDPR, and its parliament recently approved a draft copyright bill aimed at making Silicon Valley companies pay more money to support music firms and news publishers.\n\nMeanwhile, BuzzFeed’s Alex Wickham reports that the United Kingdom’s Home Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is drafting new regulations of its own.\n\nBuzzFeed News has obtained details of the proposals, which would see the establishment of an internet regulator similar to Ofcom, which regulates broadcasters, telecoms, and postal communications.\n\nHome secretary Sajid Javid and culture secretary Jeremy Wright are considering the introduction of a mandatory code of practice for social media platforms and strict new rules such as “takedown times” forcing websites to remove illegal hate speech within a set timeframe or face penalties. Ministers are also looking at implementing age verification for users of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.\n\nThese are problems, though not insurmountable ones. Facebook can modify its terms of service easily enough. It could probably live with faster takedown time requirements, as it’s already doing in Germany, and with age verification requirements.\n\nA point often made by Ben Thompson is that requirements like these often serve only to entrench incumbents. If a UK startup wanted to build a social network, how soon would it be expected to have a global moderation team that could take down posts within a few hours? How much capital would it need to build age verification?\n\nEuropean regulations, in other words, may come at the expense of European industry. And they may reinforce the dominance of tech giants here in the United States as well.\n\nStill, that doesn’t mean Facebook, Google, and friends have nothing to worry about here.", null, null, null, "Lighthouse the makers of AI security camera is shutting down" ]

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[ "Pereira also offer food. On the other hand, we also need Miguel have discussions with Prostitutes feminists who are critical of prostitution, and contest their vision. In the late s, the national strategy for NGO financing began to emphasize on supporting networks, instead of exclusively focussing on individual organizations, a feature that clearly prevailed in the s.\n\nBut people forget that a prostitute is also a woman Gone in 60 Seconds: It is not, therefore, surprising that contemporary politics regarding prostitution erupted into an open rebellion against police abuse. Even after slavery was abolished in and the Republic established a year later, the Brazilian state neither adopted the French model — as happened in Argentina, 11 A key partner in this exercise was Adriana Piscitelli, an Argentinean anthropologist who lives in Brazil and teaches at the Federal University of Campinas and is recognized as one of the leading researchers on matters related to sex tourism, prostitution and trafficking in Brazil.\n\nMoreover, the debate brings to the forefront the rivalry on the street. Bustelo, Eduardo S.", null, "All this led to a stalemate, which greatly delayed the dissemination Prostitutes the final Miguel. But if they think that Pereira is a very strong form of machismo, I say no.\n\nAt the same time a series of state-civil society consultations took place to come up with the design, implementation and monitoring of the National Policy and National Plan to Address Trafficking in Persons.\n\nEven Pereira nightfall, under a blazing sun that in the afternoon turns Miguel central area Prosttiutes La Palma into an open air industrial Pereirx, the poorer class of jineteras decked out in the cheap clothes strut the four corners of Arroya Naranjo, Miguel poorest neighborhood in Havana, Prostitutes on red Pereira for its high crime rate and numbers of people incarcerated." ]

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[ null, "The MPV segment often led by Maruti Suzuki Ertiga and the month of December 2020 was no different as 9,177 units of the seven-seater were sold against 6,650 units during the same period in 2019 with a massive Year-on-Year sales growth of 38 per cent. It had the highest volume surge out of all the MPVs last month.\n\nThe Ertiga’s popularity continues to grow in the Indian market but the same cannot be said for all the MPVs. In December 2020, Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s top-selling model domestically, the Innova Crysta, finished only in the fifth position with 2,764 units as against 3,414 units during the corresponding period last year with 19 per cent negative growth.\n\nThe Bolero MUV came in second with a cumulative domestic tally of 5,427 units last month as against 5,661 units during the same period last year with 11 per cent volume de-growth. It is one of the consistent sellers for Mahindra for almost two decades and is expected to get a generation shift in the near future.", null, "Renault India has been reaping the benefits of the Triber since its market launch in 2019 and due to its affordable nature, it sits below the Maruti Suzuki Ertiga and addresses more volume based customers. Last month, 4,971 units of the Triber were recorded against 5,631 units during the corresponding period in 2019 with 12 per cent de-growth.\n\nThe Maruti Suzuki XL6 is the more premium version of the Ertiga MPV with a middle row captain seating arrangement. In December 2020, 3,088 units of the XL6 were posted as against 2,521 units twelve months ago with 22 per cent YoY positive sales growth. The Carnival premium MPV is retailed in three variants in India and is powered by a 2.2-litre diesel engine.\n\nIt garnered 251 units last month while the Mahindra Marazzo could only manage 161 units as against 1,292 units during the same period in 2019 with 88 per cent volume de-growth. The Vellfire luxury MPV ended up ninth with 16 units and is performing well for its price range." ]

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[ null, "The project Ten Odd Emotions, originally planned for this time, will be postponed to the coming season for scheduling reasons. The extensive crossover project, in which actors and actresses from the ensemble of Schauspiel Frankfurt will be on stage together with dancers from the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, freelance performers and musicians, unfortunately cannot be realised under the current restrictions.\n\nThe Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company is back – and conjures up the “Zeitgeist Dance” with two world premieres and an homage to William Forsythe starting November 21, 2020 in Hellerau\n\nAlways in motion, looking ahead: The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company will be back in Hellerau from November 21, 2020 with its new program “Zeitgeist Tanz”. Company director and choreographer Jacopo Godani has put together three choreographies for the evening – two of which are world premieres – that showcase a variety of developments in contemporary ballet. A total of seven performances are planned in Dresden.\n\nIn his latest choreography “Hollow Bones” Jacopo Godani brings cellist Petar Pejcic on stage alongside his dancers. To excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Solo Suites for Violoncello” they make sound visible and movements audible. In the end, a situation develops in which both worlds merge into a dialogue. “I wanted the cellist to physically influence the choreography. We always say that the music supports the dancers on stage. But here you can also say that the dance supports the music,” Godani explains his concept. The core idea for this came up during a performance by the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company with cellist Jan Vogler on the occasion of Dresden’s application to become European Capital of Culture 2025 in Brussels. Now “Hollow Bones” returns to Dresden as a choreographic world premiere.\n\nThe second choreography is William Forsythe’s legendary “Quintett”, a groundbreaking work that is also closely linked to Godani’s own biography. About 30 years ago, he was one of four dancers who created this choreography together with Forsythe – now Godani asks his company to perform it on stage as a tribute to his pioneer. “The piece had an enormous influence on dance. For me it is a kind of tribute to Forsythe. For me, he stood for a way of life, for a way of thinking, for a freedom that I had never experienced before and that I didn’t even know existed,” says the choreographer.\n\nInspired by this kind of freedom, he invited Marco Goecke, the long-time choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet and current head of the Hanover State Opera Ballet, to develop a completely new choreography with his company. “Goecke has enriched the world of dance with his very own characteristic universe. When he appeared on the scene, everyone was fascinated by these peculiar figures that he brought to the stage,” Godani explains his choice. With Goecke’s choreography “Good Old Moone”, the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company will thus bring another world premiere on stage in Dresden on November 21 – all under the sign of creative movement, because anything else would mean standstill.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Assam Police achieved a major success in Lalpani area located around 37 kilometers away from district headquarter. In Lakhipur Cachar, a truck headed towards Silchar was intercepted by Assam Police by last night.\n\nThe department informed, “On the basis of secret information 10 bundles of WY (World’s Yours) tablets were recovered from a truck bearing regd no-NL-01-AA-6816 which was coming from Manipur towards Silchar.”\n\nThe Police department added in its statement, “The consignment was kept hidden inside the driver’s seat of the truck. One driver namely Lian Ypeh age 27 years, one khalasi namely Mung Ypeh 18-year-old both are residents of Sisipur located in Chura Chandpur district in Manipur.”\n\nWhile it is assumed that the market value of the consignment would be around Rs 1 crore, Cachar SP Bhanwar Lal Meena feels it is uncertain. “The market value varies from market to market. Without knowing which market this consignment was for, it won’t be possible to put an assessment. However, one lakh tablets in itself is a huge consignment.”", null, "Tablets containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are often illegally transported from places like Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh to Manipur and then smuggled to Myanmar. There the tablets are processed in illegal drug factories and the two components are mixed to create WY (What’s Yours) drug. Peddler and dealer in Myanmar then smuggle it back to India and other parts of Southeast Asia.\n\nWY is a party drug and popular among party-goers and night-life enthusiasts, it is also consumed by mine workers as that helps them work for longer hours.\n\nBarak Valley, over the years, has emerged as a safe gateway for the smugglers. The route is being often used for illegal transportation of abusive substances and wildlife. Recently, the police has managed to intercept a few such consignments. Now if that manages to induce some fear in the minds of illegal smugglers is something worth keeping an eye on." ]

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[ "If you've been around for long enough, before the time of Apple Music, Spotify, and even YouTube (that's right!), you might remember a little online radio service called Pandora. You pick a song, and it turns it into a \"station\" using its own intelligence.\n\nFast forward what feels like a million years, and Pandora is still here. It's now a streaming service just like the rivals that overtook it—by giving listeners the ability to choose their music—but Pandora is now just like them. Downloads and revenue, in the App Store agree.\n\nWhile the streaming game is fought on brand just as much as App Store searches, the latter is pretty powerful considering the market has become very competitive, and earning people's attention has become considerably more expensive. Reminder, ASO is free.\n\nOverall, Pandora earns a B-\n\nPandora by the Numbers\n\nHere's how Pandora is performing in the U.S. App Store, based on our Competitor Intelligence:\n\nBetween Spotify's fight with Apple, YouTube's neverending catalog, and loads of competition from other small and large players (no pun intended), is Pandora, a service that pre-dates the App Store.\n\nAlso, the #2 music app right behind Spotify (which we covered in season #1) in downloads and new ratings in the U.S.\n\nPandora's no lightweight when it comes to revenue. In 2019, Pandora earned more than $153M in the App Store alone. That's based on our estimates, which don't include Apple's fee, so it's what Pandora actually got.", null, "But that's where the positives start to slow down for Pandora.\n\nLet's kick off the analysis with the keywords Pandora is using in its name and subtitle. Those send the strongest signals to the App Store's algorithm.\n\nFor all intents and purposes, this is a decent set of keywords. If you are Spotify...\n\nPandora's strategy of copying the keywords of its biggest rival may seem solid, but really it isn't, and that's why you won't be able to find Pandora is too many searches that don't include its name.", null, "This is a big miss in my opinion, and goes to show that just having enough downloads isn't a sure-fire way to get ranked.\n\nThe primary lessons here are:\n\nNot a bad list, right? Wrong. Pandora is competing and hard, choosing a bunch of seemingly-relevant-but-otherwise-generic words doesn't qualify for a good keyword list for a variety of reasons. For starters, these don't really combine well with each other, so Pandora is technically competing for every individual keyword. And that's just hard.\n\nCompeting in a segment where lots of seemingly-relevant-but-otherwise-generic words are the norm requires getting clever. What can Pandora target that is relevant, popular, but different? The content it's streaming.\n\nBarring any legal implications, Pandora has a huge catalog of relevant, (some) popular (true crimes podcast has a popularity score of 33), and different keywords it can use to capture attention and downloads. If it tries to get clever.\n\nWhere Else is Pandora Ranking?\n\nThis combo of name, subtitle, and keyword list gives Pandora a bit more than just the name and subtitle alone. Here are some of the highlights:", null, "Remember how I said targeting generic keywords isn't the best way to get top ranks? We can clearly see that when looking at the keywords Pandora's ranked in that it isn't targeting directly.\n\nWhen filtering out low popularity keywords and ones where the app ranks below #10, we end up with very few keywords. For the most part, those aren't even very good.", null, "But the most important task of the screenshots is to connect with the user and \"sell\" the app. Pandora's screenshots don't really do that for me. The UI isn't showing things that excite me at all, just the app's layout.\n\nCompare these to Spotify's, that highlight people, and popular ones, too.\n\nJust like the bland mix of keywords we looked at before, the screenshots don't highlight what's unique about Pandora. And judging by its revenue, there's enough unique to the app that makes people want it. The screenshots should highlight that.\n\nPandora isn't using an App Preview video. Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music don't either. Why? Because they're \"selling\" music, and that's hard to visualize.\n\nBut... Pandora has a past that makes it a bit different, and those of us who used it back before the iPhone even existed will forever think of it as what it used to be and not what it is. A video can change that.\n\nI don't normally analyze the app past the download, but I can easily argue (and I have) that keeping the download is as important as getting it in the first place, and user onboarding has a lot to do with that.\n\nAt that, Pandora fails miserably. There's just so much friction.", null, "If you managed to type a keyword into the search box where Pandora is ranked high and decided its screenshots showed something you liked and downloaded it, after that entire journey, Pandora will prompt you for your 1. email, 2. a password, 3. your age, 4. gender, and 5. zip code.\n\nAll of those are required.\n\nWhy is this bad? Because you've worked so hard to get the download, and you won't get anything from it. If anything, it'll generate biased analytics, so you may make the wrong decisions in the future. And if this were Google Play the algorithm would actually penalize you for not getting engagement for your downloads.\n\nI said this already but will say it again, competing in popular categories like this one requires getting clever and not just copying and pasting. There's a lot that's unique to Pandora, which it can leverage to earn more App Store downloads for absolutely free.\n\nPandora certainly has the downloads to put up a serious fight, but without the right strategy, user acquisition and conversion will continue to be a very costly (and potentially unsustainable) practice.\n\nThe Tools I Use to Analyze & Optimize" ]

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[ null, "There is an ongoing debate in many quarters across the globe with regard to the deployment of 5G network for telecommunications. The central debate rests on the fact that there is huge suspicion that the 5G is harmful to the human person with its radiative effects.\n\nIt has been a raging mantra even in Nigeria where conspiracy theorists have associated the network to the spread of the COVID-19. Persons like former Senator Dino Melayi have taken the campaign to another level. His video clips have adorned the social network where he is expressing fears of the outcome of the 5G.\n\n5G is the next generation of mobile broadband that will eventually replace, or at least augment our 4G LTE latest connection. 5G is a wireless communications technology supporting cellular data networks.\n\nThe 5G is engineered to greatly increase the speed and responsiveness of wireless networks and enable a sharp increase in the amount of data transmitted over wireless systems due to more available bandwidth and advanced antenna technology. Its frequency spectrum is divided into millimeter waves, mid-band and low-band.\n\nAs of April 2019, the Global Mobile Suppliers Association had identified 224 operators in 88 countries that have demonstrated, are testing or trialing, or have been licensed to conduct field trials of 5G technologies. The first country to adopt 5G on a large scale was South Korea in April 2019.\n\nHowever, Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson predicted that 5G internet will cover up to 65% of the world’s population by the end of 2025. As we write, 9 companies sell 5G radio hardware and 5G systems for carriers: Altiostar, Cisco Systems, Datang Telecom/Fiberhome, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, and ZTE\n\nSome 5G pundits contend that the new network generates radiofrequency radiation that can damage DNA and lead to cancer; cause oxidative damage that can cause premature aging; disrupt cell metabolism; and potentially lead to other diseases through the generation of stress proteins.\n\nThis is to say that the 5G apparatus has a chemical reaction and biological interaction with human cells that can endanger health. It is even alleged that the 5G is harmful to even birds flying on the air.\n\nAlready, Nigeria is the first country in West Africa that has carried out 5G trials. As at November 2019, MTN Nigeria demoed 5G network. This was done in Abuja, Calabar, and Lagos respectively, with the hope of a nationwide commercial launch anytime soon.\n\nAt Maitama Abuja, MTN Nigeria demonstrated a live demo of 5G network in line with the telecom’s decision to roll out 5G in other major cities in Nigeria before end of 2020. This is coming immediately after the telecom network successfully ran a trial of the 5G in its domiciled South Africa, achieving 20 Gigabyte per second (Gbps) with less than five minutes latency. Whether these telecoms companies take permission to launch their networks is what I do not know.", null, "Most network users in Nigeria like myself have only been used to the 3G network before Artel popularised their 4G SIM card. I was opportuned to get mine few months ago as it doles out much call and data bonus and runs faster. Nigerians are end users of smart phones and we use them even without checking their negative effects.\n\nIf this 5G will be harmful to us then it should not be deployed. Even if 5G will help us in downloading the Atlantic Ocean and Zuma rock the effects on the human person must be checked. This is where there should be synergy between Science, Religion and Technology.\n\nThe Federal Government through the Ministry of Science and Technology ought to queue into this debate. Telecom operators, technological experts and Prolifers must be involved too. At their instance, the 5G network can be demobilize within the parameter space of the Federal republic, where whatever that has been buried in form of earth cables or erected mask have to be brought down.\n\nAlready the infrared and Bluetooth electromagnetic and radio bands are having their effects negative on us and that’s why it is not good to place these gadgets directly on our bodies. There are alleged pictorial evidences in Birmingham city where a mask emitting 5G network was set ablaze on the grounds that it is linked to the Corona Virus. Majority Nigerians have no access to good food and immune supplements, so anything that will serve as threat to our poor immunity should be checked and confronted.\n\nSat Apr 4 , 2020\n312 Shouldn’t we be thankful for our black and radiant skin? Anyway, for us on the lighter side and Albinos, we need to take a lot of care of our delicate skin to avoid getting badly burn. Sunburn remedies are something that we always need to look for the […]", null ]

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[ "The billhook is common in most Scandinavian countries. I have examples from Sweden and Finland, but not yet from Norway or Denmark. It is also known in the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithunaia) also in Russia and the Ukraine. The Russian/Finland border state of Karelia (renowned for its wooden buildings) had a bear holding a billhook on its national flag.", null, "The old (mid 20th century) flag of Karelia. The bear is holding a tyical Finnish 'vesuri' or billhook, having cut its chains of bondage to Russia. (the current flag of Russian Karelia just shows the bear, without his billhook). The images above the bear represent the northern lights (Aurora Borealis) but to me look like rows of billhooks.......\n\nIn Finland there are three patterns of billhook, and regional variations in shape of these. The most common is the open socketted 'vesuri', which although having a longer blade, is typical of a type found throughout much of Europe, and is similar to those from the Iron Age in Britain, and currently still found in Spain, Morocco and Turkey.\n\nAn old unnamed (village blacksmith made ??) model, with the socket forged at the end of the blade. Probably early 20th century.", null, "A factory made 'vesuri' with the stamp of the Fiskar company. Like the model above, it has an open socket.", null, "In the 1938 catalogue of Uittokalusto Oy (Helsinki) 'vesureita' were offered as socket or tanged handles (and also as a double edged version, also known as a 'vesoin' or 'kassara').\n\nA modern Finnish 'vesuri', the blade is made of stamped steel with a closed socket welded to it. This pattern is common today, and is still made by several manufacturers. This one is probably a Marttiini, although they have now stopped making them, and concentrate on making Suomi Finnish knives. The yellow object is a plastic blade guard.\n\nThe above range of 'vesureita' is from a small family firm, Härmän Täonta Oy - this model is currently being imported into the USA by Kellam Knives. Until recently they make a wider range of other tools, including 'kassara' and 'havurauta'.\n\nAnother 'vesuri' with a curved blade.", null, "A page from the 1928 Billnäs'in Takeista catalogue showing two types of billhook, the one on the right is similar to the English block hook.\n\nA 'hakokirves', also called a 'havukirves' (softwood axe) or 'havurauta' (softwood iron) probably used on a block for chopping firewood, the hook on the back allows the user to pull the next piece forward for chopping without having to bend over and pick it up.", null, "Another style of 'hakokirves' (possibly also 'hakukirves' which literally translated to retreiving axe). This shape of blade is also found in Germany and Austria... This one has a cranked, tanged handle, not the more common socket fitting. The smaller models were used for cutting bedding, e.g. pine branches, or fodder for cattle\n\nBelow some more images of hakokirves, mainly from collections in Finnish mueums - both with and without hooks, the method of manufacture varies considerably.", null, "A Russian Сучкоруб - an axe handled type of billhook.", null, "Another Сучкоруб with a round eye. This type are also found in Turkey, so it is likely they can be found throughout the Caucasus region.", null, "Technically not a billhook, but a sickle ('sirppi') this version has a thick heavy blade for cutting brushwood, not the more common thin blade used for grass and cereal crops.", null, "Modern Ukranian billhooks by blacksmith, Volodymyr (Vladimir) Kukuznia made for re-enactment, but to a local pattern." ]

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[ null, "A commanding officer in Illinois was removed from the job after hazing three reservists by ordering them to exercise and yell “I do what I want” in front of other sailors because they missed physical training, a Navy report said.\n\nThe sailors who had to exercise said they were embarrassed, and others who watched the ordeal described it as awkward and uncomfortable.\n\n“It gave you a queasy feeling; it just wasn’t the right thing to do,” a witness, whose name was redacted from the report, told investigators.", null ]

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[ "You are here: What's On > Changeling Theatre presents Othello", null, "\"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.\"\n\nKent's leading touring company is bringing the bard to open-air venues across the South for an edge-of-the-seat production of Othello.\n\nChosen in 2021 by Changeling's audience in the company's popular annual vote, Othello is one of Shakespeare's best known tragedies.\n\nFans of Netflix drama House of Cards will find parallels between the sinister Frank Underwood and Othello's lead villain Iago. Fuelled by jealousy and betrayal Iago, like Underwood, lies and manipulates his way to the top, taking down anyone who stands in his way.\n\nOthello is a classy and compelling thriller, and Changeling's production is a brooding, glamorous, passionate production set in the oppressive heat and politically-charged backdrop of 1950s Argentina.\n\nThe production promises to fizz with tension as the tango-inspired power dance takes place between Iago and Othello which ultimately, in true Shakespearean style, ends in devastating tragedy.\n\n2022 marks Changeling's 21st year of outdoor touring since the company first put on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream back in 2001.The company is also touring Oscar Wilde's satirical masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.", null, "Portchester Castle, FarehamVisit the Roman-Saxon shore fort with Norman additions - featuring a near-perfect keep and Norman church within the walls." ]

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[ "A lawsuit that risks the innovation to appease the frustration of corn producers would appear ill-conceived.", null, "The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that farm income was down 16 percent last year, and the expectation is that it will drop another 32 percent in 2015.\n\nMuch of the financial stress is due to lower commodity prices. Corn, for instance, which sold for over $8 per bushel in 2012, sold for less than half of that price during the harvest season of 2014.\n\nCommodity prices have fluctuated for as long as there have been commodity markets. The reasons for the fluctuation are not always clear, but nearly always boil down to the basic laws of economics — supply and demand.\n\nConsidering the world market for corn, the recent class-action lawsuits brought against an innovative seed corn producer (Syngenta) seem particularly misplaced. The basic argument of the lawsuits is that this company produced a strain of corn which was not acceptable to the Chinese government, a large purchaser of corn on the world market. Because the Chinese would not buy American corn contaminated with their strain, the argument continues, corn prices crashed. The follow-on, according to the lawsuit, is that this company should now be held liable for the financial stress local farmers are feeling due to lower corn prices. Interestingly, prices for many other agricultural commodities such as soybeans fell simultaneously, and they were not contaminated with this new strain of corn.\n\nLawsuits can be but one reaction to financial stress, but they should have a basis other than frustration. If the Chinese did not buy American corn, they were buying corn from another country — just as they might seek out other sources of crude oil. The overall market for corn was likely largely unchanged by this one buyer.\n\nAgriculture is a fundamental basis of our local economy, in no small part because of the outstanding record of innovation of agricultural businesses. A lawsuit that risks the long-term spirit of innovation to appease the short-term frustration of corn producers would appear ill-conceived." ]

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[ "Green Day’s twelfth highly-anticipated studio album, Revolution Radio, sounds a lot like a sequel to 21st Century Breakdown (2009). It’s as though the experimental touch we heard in the band’s ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy (2012) has been abandoned in favour of a return to Green Day’s typical, personalized pop-punk genre. You’ll hear the kind of songs that made both 21st Century Breakdown and American Idiot (2004) the successful albums they became: political themes that call for change or songs about personal experiences, matched with quick-paced beats and carefully executed guitar riffs. However, it isn’t a rock opera—just a bunch of songs that sound good together. As a fan, it’s nice to hear the band go back to that simplicity—maybe it doesn’t have the raw, dirty sound of Dookie (1994) or Insomniac (1995) that so many miss and crave, but Revolution Radio managed to remind the audience of the band’s roots, without sounding worn out. The record still brings novelty to Green Day’s repertoire, something fans have been waiting for since 2012.", null, "OneRepublic – Oh My My" ]

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[ "Vanessa Carlton Gets The Hives Prepping For ‘Harmonium’", null, "Vanessa Carlton wrote a diary update for Teen People’s April issue, the final entry the singer is providing the magazine. Carlton wrote, “I recently went to the ER with a killer case of hives – I think it was from the pressure of making the most important record of my career. One of the best ways for me to combat stress is to play music, so I was psyched when the Counting Crows asked me to do a show with them. Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead came out onstage – too cool! Anyway, my new album will be out in June. So get ready for ‘Harmonium’ domination. It’s a-comin’!”\n\nFebruary 5, 2004 – Vanessa posted a message to fans on her official forum on Wednesday (February 4). She writes, “Sooooo. Its been awhile. perhaps too loooooooong. But I’m working on my pride and joy and time seems to fly by. I’ve got a few surprise guests on this record. You’ll never believe it! I’ll leak out who it is soon enough. Being in LA is prime real estate for running into legends I suppose. Guys you’re gonna freak. I am. Peace. v.”\n\nDecember 30, 2003 – In the February issue of Teen People, Vanessa’s has a segment called Vanessa’s Diary. It reads, “So you wanna know what I’m going through? Well, I’ve been in San Francisco recording my sophomore album. My days usually consist of waking up and driving to ballet class, where I proceed to sweat my brains out. As noon approaches, I head to the studio and meet up with Stephan Jenkins, my producer. Yes, I also date him (what a coup!). He’s the fantastic songwriter and the frontman for Third Eye Blind. After two months of discussions, tantrums and revelations, I am more than halfway through my record. I’ve decided to name it ‘Harmonium’, and it’ll be out later this year. This is my grassroots record-no bells and whistles, no drumloops, just harmonies and rhythms.”\n\nDecember 24, 2003 – Vanessa posted a holiday message to fans on her official forum on Sunday (December 21). She writes, “It’s been too long. First off, I’d like to thank the few people who were picked to come to the DVD taping. I was overwhelmed by how far some of you traveled (through the raging snow no less!). For the rest of you, our time will come. I’m in the desert right now. I almost got bucked off a horse named Whitecloud about an hour ago. I squeezed for my life. Whew. Can’t think of a better way to spend the holidays. On to the record, look out for Teen People cause I’m doing little diary entries about the album for the next three months. By the way, I just wrote two new songs that are bumping some old ones off. I’m so proud of them. I do believe I have a new first single. Woohoo. Also, everything is moved back. I’ll be finished in March, the record is scheduled to be released in June. I promise it’s worth the wait. One last thing, out of respect for my online posse I will announce my album title before everyone reads it in the Teen People column… Drumroll… the name of the album is… ‘Harmonium’… Put that in your pipe and smoke it (not too hard though). Love you guys. Until next year. Peace.”\n\nDecember 1, 2003 – Spin magazine caught up with several artists to get their take on their favorite music for the year, and their predictions for 2004. Many took the opportunity to jump from music to politics, predicting a bad November for President Bush. Vanessa Carlton said, “The bullsh**-coffee-house-singer backlash begins. This will be complimented by the end of Bush.” Moby added, ‘Everything will finally start to get better, and George Bush will be impeached for lying to Congress and the American people.” And Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly concludes, “Bush will be voted out of office.”" ]

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[ "Scribbling On The Walls\n\nAs I have mentioned before, 2014 was the year of the \"Great Migration\" for my family from the urban confines to the wider spaces of outer suburbia. We planned for this for months (years, actually) to the point that I'm certain all of our friends and family were exhausted from hearing us talk about it. We were so consumed with it all that trolling through real estate sites became an all consuming addiction. And all through this, I had one recurring daydream. The new house would have a room that was just for me. A room where I could write.\n\nI had it all planned out. It would have high ceilings and hardwood floors. I wanted a window that looked out into a wooded area, but only the one, as anything more would be to great a distraction. I was going to put my roll top desk near the window and my grandfather clock in the far corner. I have this typing chair that was my great Aunt's (circa 1950) that I would use, even though it isn't the most comfortable. The walls would be painted the color of aged parchment (Where I was going to get that color paint, I have no idea), but be completely devoid of wall hangings or other obstructions. Why? Well, I'm glad you asked.", null, "You see, I've this problem with plotting my story. It doesn't fit on standard 8x11 sheets of paper. I've tried plotting it out line by line, but I find moving to a different page disconcerting. I tried using butcher's paper and banner stock, but that 's hard to store and the cats tend to shred the paper or curl up inside it. I wanted clear walls so that I could write on them. Draw out my plot lines and my character notes all across them and have them in front of me at all times while I was writing. Yeah, it's a bit over the top and probably a little bit off, but then, that's me. Dream big because...well, why the hell not?", null, "But, here's the thing. Even if I had it, I'm not sure I would use it. Alone, in a room, with only my thoughts and the vast expanse of empty walls, I am fairly certain I would run mad within days. It really was a beautiful dream, but I know myself well enough to know that I could never be sequestered in such a manner. My imagination is too wild to be put in a box, no matter how pretty it is. I guess I'm just meant to scribble my notes on random scraps of paper and scattered notebooks, which (after all) isn't such a bad thing." ]

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[ null, "Progression in technology has also reformed and enhanced photography and devices used for it. We have seen the development of cameras from film to digital. They have improved marginally and have helped make tons of progress in the field of photography.\n\nThe cameras that capture pictures, stored on films and negatives are called film cameras. They are the old school cameras our grandparents might have stored and kept safe with them.\n\nThe digital cameras are those that store pictures in digital memory. Most of the photos and images produced nowadays are in digital form. The use of film cameras has declined due to its obsoleteness and the availability of new alternate and better devices of photography.\n\nDigital cameras and film cameras have a lot of differences between them in terms of composition and features. Some of them are below:\n\nThe most common difference between digital and film cameras are the sensors that are used to take photos. In film cameras, a light-sensitive film is used behind the lens. When you take a picture, the shutter opens for a fixed period, and the light hits the film. As a result, the photo gets printed on the film. The film can hold only 36 pictures. Taking more pictures would require a clean roll to be placed behind the lens.\n\nIn digital cameras, a fixed electronic sensor known as CCD is present behind the lens. The sensor is built from tiny light sensors, and each of them represents a pixel. The light hits the sensors when the shutter opens, and each pixel gets its “value.” These pixels combine to make a photo. When you take a new picture, the old one gets saved on digital media, and then CCD is cleared.\n\nSome might be wondering what different sensors mean; the difference is in the depth offield. Digital sensors are smaller in size compared to 35mm film camera sensor, so the depth of field will be much higher. As a result, the blurred background doesn’t end up in the picture.\n\nThe photos shot from digital cameras cost a minimum to nothing. They are stored and kept in an erasable digital memory, which can be deleted or discarded at any time. The captured images can be easily moved and transferred to the PC or any other digital device.\n\nOn the other hand, film costs money. You have to pay for the roll of the film, for printing the photo and developing the negative. In short, due to the decline in film cameras, they are not being produced on a wide scale as they were, and because of that, they’ve become more expensive. Hence digital cameras are more cost-effective.\n\nDue to the growing storage capacities of digital cameras nowadays,they can hold hundreds and sometimes even thousands of photos. You can carry one or more storage devices in your pocket if you take lots of pictures. As a result, the digital camera gives a large storage capacity to take as many photos as you desire and can transfer or save them on your PC.\n\nIn film cameras, the storage capacity is limited, as the roll can only hold 36 photos. When the film roll ends, you have to change it. In comparison, a digital camera can store way more pictures than a film camera.\n\nOne of the most important features of a digital camera is the instant feedback. All digital cameras have small LCD screens. Once you take a photo, you can go back and see it on that screen—the ability to see how the pictures look like results in better quality. If the image taken isn’t good enough, you can take another one.\n\nBeing able to see the photos helps you in checking the quality and also fixing it. It takes a lot of doubts away from photography. Whereas in film cameras, you cannot know how the photo will look like in the film until it is printed. Furthermore, it would be time-consuming.\n\nPhotos taken from digital cameras can be corrected using photo editing software/apps. There are color correction features in the camera, but many more options are available in various photo editing apps. In film cameras, what you take is what you get. It is hard to make any corrections once the film is developed and produced. If adjustments are needed, the negatives or the printed photo will be scanned again, corrected, and printed once more.\n\nVarious film rolls are available on the market for getting the best results in a specific environment. For example, there are numerous indoor and outdoor films or films with a different type of sensitivity. If the conditions change quickly, the user of the film camera will have no choice but to either change the roll, shoot with the other film, or use another camera with a different roll in it. If you shoot with the wrong kind, then you will get reddish colored or grainy photos.\n\nA picture can be changed and altered instantly for each image you take in a digital camera. A click of a button can help put it in an indoor or outdoor mode, low light and night photography, etc. Moreover, some cameras will automatically sense the conditions you are in and set the sensor mode accordingly.\n\nFilm photography has its advantages, but the claim that it has superior quality is certainly not truthful. As digital cameras evolved, the quality of digital SLR cameras became excellent and better than film cameras in many ways.\n\nWhen considering quality, you should also consider its composition and scenario and how it’s caught in the photo. Digital cameras havea high storage capacity with zero photo cost. And, they instantly adapt to the changing conditions of the environment, which enables the photographers to produce good photos and experiment with them to make themeven better.\n\nYou probably would have seen the photographs of your grandparents that were a bit yellow and just plain and old. They turned out like that because they were shot from old film cameras,which had lost their quality over time.\n\nDigital photos, on the other hand, will never lose their quality. They will still lookthe sameeven 500 years from now because they are captured in digital form, making it permanent and long-lasting. The only way you can lose a good photo now is if you’ve forgotten to save it or back it up.\n\nDigital Cameras All the Way!\n\nTechnology has progressed so much, especially when it comes to photography and devices used for taking pictures. The development of a digital camera has improved how we take pictures and provided a much-needed update to the film camera.\n\nIt has changed the way pictures are taken, stored, and kept. Moreover, we have also seen a major evolution in taking pictures and how they might be corrected, edited, and transferred from one place to another while lasting a long time.\n\nHence we conclude that the digital camera is one of the most important developments we have seen today. Photography wouldn’t have made strides without it." ]

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[ null, "In July 1805, secretly leaving Milan and hurrying to Boulogne, Napoleon joined his ‘Grand Armee’, a large military force strategically positioned in camp and ready to invade Britain. Napoleon’s plans depended on Admiral Villeneuve bringing the French and Spanish from South Western Spain to the Channel in order for the invasion to take place. It wasn’t until October that Villeneuve left the port of Cadiz and began to steer his fleet to the Channel; a fleet superior in size to that of Britain’s. Encouraged that Nelson and the British fleet remained in England, he was to be proved very wrong, with the bulk of Nelson’s fleet carefully positioned well out to sea.\n\nAt 9am on 19th October, HMS Mars relayed that the Franco-Spanish fleet was on course for the Channel, and so at dawn two days later, on the 21st October, Nelson signalled his fleet to begin the attack. Nelson on HMS Victory told Hardy, his flag Captain, that he expected to take 20 of the enemy’s ships and despite being confident of a victory, he was equally convinced of his impending death in the battle. During the fight a musket shot hit Nelson, knocking him to the deck. He was carried below to the midshipmen’s berth, where he constantly asked after the progress of the battle. Eventually Hardy was able to tell him before he died that the Fleet had taken 15 of the enemy’s ships. Nelson knew he had won; and with his famous words “God and my country”, he passed away.\n\nThe romanticism and heroic victory is reflected in a lot featuring in the forthcoming Militaria sale on Saturday 20 July at TW Gaze auction rooms. Offered for sale is a rare and sought-after medal awarded for service in this famous battle: the Naval General Service Medal with Trafalgar clasp. This fascinating artefact awarded for possibly the most defining moment of Britain’s military history was awarded to Henry Eaton, an Ordinary Seaman of the Royal Navy." ]

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[ "A Call for CARICOM to Focus on Art", null, "A group of Guyanese artists are calling for priority attention at the national and regional levels to the development of arts and culture in the Caribbean.\n\nThe group, which met at the CARICOM Secretariat recently, met with Dr Hilary Brown, program manager for Culture and Community Development at CARICOM.\n\n“The need for the development of the sector has been underscored in light of the free movement of artists provision under the CSME, the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement with specific culture provisions and the ongoing negotiations toward a trade agreement with Canada which is also likely to include culture as an integral component,” she said.\n\nThe artists made a series of recommendations at the meeting, including a drive for a stronger network of cultural institutions, a Caribbean Ministry of Culture and a legal framework to address intellectual property.\n\nThe Regional Development Strategy and Action Plan will be presented by the Task Force to Ministers of Culture over the next quarter and into 2012." ]

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[ null, null, "Although nematodes contribute to a healthy soil, there are numerous nematodes that pose a serious threat to crops. The most harmful nematodes live underground and damage particularly the roots of crops. The best known nematodes are cyst nematodes such as the potato cyst nematode which is responsible for potato senescence. Another more famous nematode is the root-knot nematode and the root lesion nematode.\n\nWith the breeding of catch crops, Vandinter Semo focuses on a natural combatting of nematodes.", null, "There are numerous types of nematodes. Each with a unique set of characteristics. This makes them a threat to a large number of crops. Because of this diversity, it is important to know which type of nematode needs to be combatted in order to use the most effective green manure. In this nematode almanac, we name the different nematodes and the most appropriate green manure to naturally combat or to control nematodes.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Do you suffer from nematodes? We can help you combat it.\n\nMake an appointment with one of our agricultural experts", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.” This October, the signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the term child-rearing. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy." ]

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[ "Video: Watch this Komatsu tackle ‘wagon’ silage in the midlands", null, "Contractor James Geoghegan took delivery of a Komatsu WA270 loading shovel in late 2016, primarily for silage work but for other tasks too. Several months on, how is the machine faring?\n\nGeoghegan is based close to Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath. He undertakes a range of contracting activities, including slurry work, reseeding, fencing, plant hire and ‘wagon’ silage harvesting.\n\nHe embarked on this business back in 1990 at the daunting age of 18. Since then, he has built up the business by providing a “reliable and efficient service” to his growing customer base.\n\nTo keep up with growing demand, and ever-reducing working windows for some jobs, Geoghegan decided to replace his loading shovel – a JCB Farm Master 416 – with something newer and bigger last year. He opted for a Komatsu WA270-7, along with a 14ft-wide OCE folding fork.", null, "He explained: “I went for a Komatsu as I had seen them being worked by other contractors; I liked the build quality and operator comfort. I spoke to people who had run different makes; I ultimately decided on Komatsu based on word-of-mouth reports – about reliability and efficiency.”\n\nKomatsu loading shovels are not typically the ‘default’ choice for agricultural contractors here in Ireland; brands such as JCB and Volvo have larger followings. However, Komatsu is growing its base of agricultural customers – apparently building its market share year-on-year.", null, "The WA270-7, which replaces the WA250-6, was released in May of last year. While a ‘baby brother’ to the more recognisable WA320, the WA270 is proving a very able performer. That’s the message from Paul Mullally, wheeled loader specialist with McHale Plant Sales – the Komatsu distributor.", null, "He explained: “We have already sold four WA270-7s. It’s a jack-of-all-trades and it really is an extremely versatile machine.”\n\nSo let’s take a closer look; what makes this machine tick?\n\nUnderneath the rear wings lurks Komatsu’s own 6-cylinder, 6.7L engine. This motor churns out 149hp at 2,000rpm. A variable-geometry turbocharger is fitted, which is controlled via a hydraulic actuator.", null, "The engine also incorporates a diesel particulate filter, which captures 90% of particulate matter (PM); it is automatically regenerated without necessarily interfering with daily operation. Also added into the mix is a cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system.\n\nThe hydrostatic transmission can propel the chunky machine to a top speed of 38kph. An especially-handy feature is the auto-shifting function. It, says Komatsu, eliminates the need for any driver-instigated gear-shifts and kick-downs – allowing him (or her) to concentrate on the job at hand. The transmission also doubles up as a ‘dynamic brake‘ to slow the loader when needed, which should help to prolong the life of the wet-disc braking system.\n\nThis particular WA270 is fitted with 710mm-wide tyres – which is typical of the ‘Irish’ specification.", null, "Scaling the steps brings you up into the newly-revamped operator’s cab; it provides a quieter environment than before. Komatsu claims that visibility has also been improved. The multi-function ‘mono lever‘ fits nicely in the hand; it incorporates a forward / neutral / reverse switch, ‘maximum traction’ button and a third (spool) valve controller.", null, "To keep you abreast of what’s happening, Komatsu fits a 7in LCD monitor, alongside the newly-designed dash. A rear-view monitoring system comes as standard.", null, null, "Up front, at the business end, breakout force has increased over the previous model – allowing for more grunt whether pushing up silage or loading dung. For added convenience, the loader now features ‘auto roll-back‘, which tilts the fork or bucket back as the arms are raised – to help reduce spillage.", null, "Service access on the WA270 is reasonably easy, thanks to the large ‘gull-wing’ engine doors. They are kept aloft by gas springs, allowing the operator to reach the key service points. Round the back, the large cooling unit swings out for cleaning; it now boasts wider-spaced cooling fins – to reduce clogging.", null, "Thus far, Geoghegan has used the loader for all sorts of farm and contracting duties, including loading a 10t K Two rear-discharge dung spreader and pushing up silage from his three Pottinger wagons – two Torro models and a Jumbo.\n\nHe said: “So far, we have put almost 1,000 hours on the Komatsu and haven’t had any problems. The performance of the machine is impressive; it’s been a big step in the right direction for the business.”", null, null ]

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[ "Water shortages, deforestation and indigenous rights are some of the issues facing Brazil’s president in the next four years", null, "Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, was reelected last week by 51.6% of the vote to 48.4% for rival Aecio Neves.\n\nBrazil has achieved international recognition for social welfare reforms that lifted 36 million people out of poverty, according to recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization. But it is far from being an environmentally friendly country.\n\n“Brazil has a distorted view that environment is an obstacle to development as if natural resources were infinite just because the country has 15% of the whole planet’s freshwater, one of the largest forest cover and around one third of the globe’s biodiversity. It gives an impression that it is infinite,” Carlos Rittl, executive secretary from the Climate Observatory, told RTCC .\n\nWith the help of an expert on climate change and sustainable development, RTCC looks at the five main environmental challenges Rousseff faces in the next four years.\n\nBrazil enacted a national policy to combat climate change in 2009, but it has yet to show significant results.\n\nNGOs and environmentalists say the policy is superficial and does not fully address the country’s needs. It lacks concrete proposals and long term mechanisms to cut greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe country is preparing a national plan for adaptation, to cope with the impact of global warming, to be finished in 2015.\n\n“We need to project risks generated by climate change into national policies and large infrastructure projects. We also should bring our responsibilities and opportunities offered by climate change as an issue that affects directly the economy and human lives with social and environmental costs”, said Rittl.\n\nRenewable sources like wind, solar and biofuels are still marginal. Apart from enhancing hydro power, the country has been dropping investments in this sector.\n\nBrazil gets 46% of its energy and 89% of its electricity from renewables, of which the bulk comes from large-scale hydro power.\n\nBut in its ten-year national plan, the Ministry of Mines and Energy and state-run company of energy research (EPE) expects more than 70% of energy investments to go into fossil fuels.\n\nBetween 2008 and 2013, Brazil’s investment in renewables fell from US$12 billion to $3bn, according to Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the “Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2014”.\n\nIn 2013, it was lagging behind South Africa on $5bn and India on $6bn. China, with investment of $56bn, spent more than the European Union for the first time.\n\nIn solar power, for example, Brazil is expecting to install 2 gigawatts in ten years. China is rolling out the same amount of capacity every two months.", null, "A study conducted by Brazil’s national water agency (ANA) found that over 3,000 towns and cities across the country are in danger of water shortages next year. That corresponds to 55% of the country’s municipalities.\n\nWater shortages are a regular aspect of life in the largest Latin American country. And climate change is making severe drought increasingly likely, which results in lower water levels in reservoirs.\n\nThe 12 million inhabitants of São Paulo deal with water rationing on a daily basis and are being asked to cut water consumption by 20 percent.\n\nSince July 2014, the water that has reached the taps of at least 9 million residents of São Paulo comes from the “dead volume” (only used in emergencies) of the Cantareira system of dams built in the 1970s.\n\nAnd 1 in 5 Brazilian cities affected by water shortages have declared a public calamity or emergency, said Rittl.\n\nHe argued Brazil should charge for water consumption by industries and agribusiness, as well as urban condominiums and shopping centers, to promote better efficiency.", null, "The majority of rainforest clearance is to make way for cattle ranching\n(Pic: Flickr/Joelle Hernandez)\n\nOver the last four decades, some 42 billion trees have been destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon, or 2,000 a second.\n\nThe main driver is agriculture, with more than 80% of forest cleared for cattle pasture, according to WWF. Alone, the deforestation caused by cattle ranching is responsible for the release of 340 million tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year, equivalent to 3.4% of current global emissions.\n\nForests should be seen as an ally for food production, as agribusiness uses between 60 and 70% of the whole water consumption in Brazil for irrigation and most of this water comes from river basins.\n\nThe agriculture sector depends on the environmental services provided by forests. Although this codependency is inevitable, deforestation patterns are still growing.\n\nUnder the UN’s main initiative for protecting forests, REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation), communities can be paid for environmental services.\n\nBut Brazil has no national strategy for REDD+ and a draft to turn it into a public policy has been stuck in the National Congress for over five years.\n\nDeforestation does not only contribute to climate change, it affects the weather regionally.\n\nA study launched on 30 October shows that the role of the Amazon rainforest in regulating weather and rain patterns is far beyond expected, affecting life in megalopolis like São Paulo, more than 2,000 km away from the forest.\n\nIn it, the Brazilian researcher Antonio Donato Nobre from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) highlights that more than 20 billion tonnes of water are released by the trees through transpiration every day. That is more than the Amazon River pours into the Atlantic ocean, around 17 billion tons a day.\n\nDuring her first term, Dilma Rousseff was known as the president who created the least conservation units and indigenous lands since the military regime (1964-1985).\n\nBrazil’s Indigenous Territories (ITs) play a significant role in keeping CO2 emissions from the atmosphere. They are expected to help prevent 27.2 million hectares of deforestation by 2050, avoiding 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions.\n\nFrom 1980 to 2007, some 300 ITs were legally recognised. They represent 12.5% of national territory and more than half a million indigenous people.\n\nRousseff has only announced the creation of protected areas this year during elections, when seven conservation units were created.\n\nInternational groups have raised concerns about violation of indigenous rights when it comes to pushing through major infrastructure projects such as hydropower dams.\n\nIn March, a group of NGOs questioned the Brazilian State in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States in Washington about the use of an act dating from the military dictatorship that has been used against the indigenous population." ]

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[ null, "Prince Amukamara is the reason you should never trust the box score. His statistics never jump out at you, but he has been the epitome of solid over his 9-year career. Amukamara spent his first 5 years with the Giants, followed by a year with the Jaguars, and his most recent 3-year campaign with the Bears. Throughout this period, he has posted just 10 interceptions, which may lead some to believe he has been somewhat ineffective, but that simply isn’t the case.\n\nAccording to PFF, he has graded above 70.0 in coverage each of his last three seasons, with a career-high 77.1 coverage grade in 2018. Seeing as how he hasn’t shown any concerning signs of decline, at just 30 years old, Amukamara can be a solid CB2 wherever he lands. If that wasn’t enough to convince you, having the coolest name in the NFL has to count for something!", null, "Everson Griffen has been one of the staples of the Vikings defensive front for a decade. It took the 100th pick in the 2010 NFL draft some time to arrive on the scene, but when he arrived, he showed himself as a force to be reckoned with. In his first 4 seasons combined, he recorded a total of 17.5 sacks. Although he played every game of those first 4 seasons except for his first, he only started one game over that entire span. All of that changed in 2014 when he became a week-to-week starter.\n\nNot only did he instantly make his presence known, but he never looked back. Griffen posted an astounding 43.5 sacks and 7 forced fumbles spanning the 2014-2017 seasons, which amounted to 3 consecutive Pro-Bowl appearances. His peak year was in 2017, and with an unimpressive 2018 showcase largely due to injury, some around the league questioned his ability to get back to his form.\n\nHe responded in 2019 with another Pro-Bowl caliber year that, albeit, did not appear on the stat sheet. The 10-year vet is 32 years old and his best years are behind him, but that is not to say he cannot be an effective complementary and/or rotational piece on the outside of your defensive line for the next few years.", null, "In a vacuum, Logan Ryan may not be the 3rd-best overall free agent available, but he offers a ton of value for a position that is so hard to come by, yet so important in today’s NFL. As of late, the slot cornerback has become an absolute necessity. This can be attributed to the evolution of the receiver position.\n\nIn the past, “good receivers” were typically X-receivers, and would play on the outside almost exclusively. In today’s game, the “good receivers” can run the entirety of the route tree as well as have the ability to line up anywhere on the field. Having a better than average slot corner fall into your lap in free agency can be a dream come true for teams who find themselves in need.\n\nAs for Ryan himself, he has had a solid 7-year career highlighted by his most recent 2019 outing. His 4-year stint in New England was stout, and Tennessee did not exactly get what they paid for his first 2 years in their system. In the 2017 and 2018 seasons, he totaled a measly 0 interceptions, 19 passes defended, and 1 forced fumble.\n\nHe had a resurgence in the 2019 season when he totaled 4 interceptions, a career-high 18 passes defended, and another career-high 4 forced fumbles. He is consistently above average in coverage, and is a tremendous tackler for a position that is not exactly known for its tackling. Ryan should be very valuable to some teams in need of what he offers.", null, "Like the next player on our list, Jadeveon Clowney was the first pick in his respective draft, selected by the Houston Texans in 2014 with high expectations from the get-go. Unlike our next player, however, Clowney did not hit the ground running. He had such a remarkably slow start to his career that people around the league began to write him off as a bust, when in fact, he was gradually becoming better and refining his game.\n\nHe did not make the Pro-Bowl in 2019, a season where he registered 4 forced fumbles, which, ironically, was more than his 3 total sacks. I do not love quantifying an edge rusher’s worth based on sacks, but in Clowney’s case, they work as an accurate barometer of his steady development.\n\nClowney has not necessarily lived up to his draft hype, but he is a more than capable edge defender who can be explosive at times, and he has shown steady progression throughout his career. If you also take this into consideration that he is just 27 years old and does not have an extensive injury history, he should be a highly-coveted free agent prospect.", null, "If I were to describe Cam Newton’s career using one phrase, I would say… Benjamin Button. Newton was the first pick in the 2011 NFL draft, beginning a promising young career that peaked in the 2015 season. In that season, he amassed 3,837 passing yards with 35 passing touchdowns next to just 10 interceptions, to go along with 636 rushing yards with a whopping 10 rushing touchdowns!\n\nThose monster stats, in conjunction with the Carolina Panthers’ 15-1 regular-season record and Super Bowl appearance, was enough to land him the NFL MVP award, a First-Team All-Pro appearance, and a spot on the Pro-Bowl roster.\n\nSince then, he has never matched his passing yardage, he has only surpassed his rushing yardage once, and has never come close to matching that rushing touchdown total. What’s even worse is when you expand that scope to the Panthers as a whole, since that 2015 season, they have had a sub .500 record of 29-35.\n\nAnother theme of Newton’s career has been inconsistency. Cam has shown spurts of Superman now and then since 2015, but it is an understatement to say he has been unable to shake the injury bug. Nevertheless, good quarterbacks are the nucleus of any successful team, and Cam should be the hot commodity for any team that sees itself as a quarterback away. Injuries are his main concern, but given the Panthers’ perceived emergence of Kyle Allen, Cam has been allowed time away from the game, hopefully long enough to replenish his body and be effective in a different location." ]

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[ null, "The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution that will enable the Palestinians to chair the major group of developing countries at the United Nations in 2019, ignoring protests from the United States and Israel.\n\nEgypt, chair of the so-called Group of 77, said before Tuesday’s vote that because the Palestinians are from a non-member observer state at the U.N., a resolution is required to give it “the rights and capacity required” to head the 135-nation group that includes China.\n\nThe resolution was approved by a vote of 146-3 with Australia joining the U.S. and Israel in opposing the measure with 15 abstentions.\n\nRiyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, said after the vote that “the state of Palestine will spare no effort to prove worthy of this trust.”" ]

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[ null, "With experts warning of the dangers of smoking amid the coronavirus pandemic, 28% of marijuana smokers in a new survey said they have made the switch to edibles and other alternative methods of consuming cannabis.\n\nThe survey released by AmericanMarijuana.org looked at the cannabis habits of 1,017 consumers in the U.S. as the global health crisis unfolds.\n\nWhile the virus first appeared in December, scientists are still learning about the different facets of Sars-CoV-2, which belongs to the broader group of coronaviruses which include SARS and MERS.\n\nHowever, smoking appears to be a major risk factor as Chinese health officials reported a higher death rate among men who contracted the coronavirus compared to women. The theory is based on the fact that a majority of older Chinese men are smokers, while only 2% of Chinese women smoke.\n\nThis prompted some researchers to speculate whether the same could be said for marijuana smoking, with one epidemiologist advising pot smokers to switch to edibles, especially if they have underlying respiratory problems.\n\nThe AmericanMarijuana poll also asked respondents if they feel more susceptible to the coronavirus as weed smokers. Among respondents without lung problems, 65% said they do feel more vulnerable to the virus, while 54% of those that do have an underlying lung disease agreed.\n\nWhen it comes to other effects of the pandemic among marijuana smokers, a majority interviewed in the survey said they have consumed the same amount of pot as usual despite quarantining at home and the overall higher degree of uncertainty caused by the virus.\n\nOn the other hand, nearly 30% revealed they have smoked more pot than usual since the beginning of the outbreak. Finally, over 5% said they quit smoking weed altogether.\n\nAccording to a previous AmericanMarijuana survey, a majority of people that stocked up on weed during the crisis turned to marijuana in order to relieve stress and anxiety. The new survey showed 65% of respondents stuck with weed as their only means of dealing with stress at the moment.\n\nMeanwhile, 34.51% said they have been taking anxiety relief supplements in addition to cannabis. An overwhelming majority said they still find weed to be more effective than other anxiety treatments.\n\nTurning to the economy, as over 22 million Americans sought unemployment benefits in the past four weeks, AmericanMarijuana asked participants if they are worried they won’t be able to pay for marijuana.\n\nAmong the respondents, 63.33% said they aren’t concerned about having money for cannabis, while 36.67% replied they are in fact worried if they will be able to pay for marijuana in the near future.\n\nBy the way, I hear from you about this for the first time. Why marijuana should not be smoked now if you are completely healthy and I don’t understand something. Of course, if you smoke in a big company and also with one bong, for example, then there is a huge chance that you will get sick with something. I hope that this situation will somehow positively affect people, their hygiene and they will start to take care of themselves somehow. Wear your bongs or at least replaceable napers, like for a hookah, for example. A lot of ideas, the main embodiment. I think you should say that." ]

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[ null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of South Korean video game company Bluehole. The game is based on previous mods that were created by Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene for other games, inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene’s creative direction. In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game’s map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round.\n\nBattlegrounds was first released for Microsoft Windows via Steam’s early access beta program in March 2017, with a full release in December 2017. The game was also released by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One via its Xbox Game Preview program that same month, and officially released in September 2018. A free-to-play mobile game version for Android and iOS was released in 2018, in addition to a port for the PlayStation 4. A version for the Stadia streaming platform was released in April 2020. Battlegrounds is one of the best-selling and most-played video games of all time. The game has sold over 70 million copies on personal computers and game consoles as of 2020, in addition to PUBG Mobile accumulating 734 million downloads and grossing over $3.5 billion on mobile devices.\n\nBattlegrounds received positive reviews from critics, who found that while the game had some technical flaws, it presented new types of gameplay that could be easily approached by players of any skill level and was highly replayable. The game was attributed to popularizing the battle royale genre, with a number of unofficial Chinese clones also being produced following its success. The game also received several Game of the Year nominations, among other accolades. PUBG Corporation has run several small tournaments and introduced in-game tools to help with broadcasting the game to spectators, as they wish for it to become a popular esport. The game has also been banned in some countries for allegedly being harmful and addictive to younger players.", null, "GamePlay Battlegrounds is a player versus player shooter game in which up to one hundred players fight in a battle royale, a type of large-scale last man standing deathmatch where players fight to remain the last alive. Players can choose to enter the match solo, duo, or with a small team of up to four people. The last person or team alive wins the match.\n\nEach match starts with players parachuting from a plane onto one of the four maps, with areas of approximately 8 × 8 kilometres (5.0 × 5.0 mi), 6 × 6 kilometres (3.7 × 3.7 mi), and 4 × 4 kilometres (2.5 × 2.5 mi) in size.The plane’s flight path across the map varies with each round, requiring players to quickly determine the best time to eject and parachute to the ground.Players start with no gear beyond customized clothing selections which do not affect gameplay. Once they land, players can search buildings, ghost towns and other sites to find weapons, vehicles, armor, and other equipment. These items are procedurally distributed throughout the map at the start of a match, with certain high-risk zones typically having better equipment.Killed players can be looted to acquire their gear as well. Players can opt to play either from the first-person or third-person perspective, each having their own advantages and disadvantages in combat and situational awareness; though server-specific settings can be used to force all players into one perspective to eliminate some advantages.\n\nEvery few minutes, the playable area of the map begins to shrink down towards a random location, with any player caught outside the safe area taking damage incrementally, and eventually being eliminated if the safe zone is not entered in time; in game, the players see the boundary as a shimmering blue wall that contracts over time. This results in a more confined map, in turn increasing the chances of encounters. During the course of the match, random regions of the map are highlighted in red and bombed, posing a threat to players who remain in that area. In both cases, players are warned a few minutes before these events, giving them time to relocate to safety. A plane will fly over various parts of the playable map occasionally at random, or wherever a player uses a flare gun, and drop a loot package, containing items which are typically unobtainable during normal gameplay. These packages emit highly visible red smoke, drawing interested players near it and creating further confrontations. On average, a full round takes no more than 30 minutes.\n\nAt the completion of each round, players gain in-game currency based on their performance. The currency is used to purchase crates which contain cosmetic items for character or weapon customization. A rotating “event mode” was added to the game in March 2018. These events change up the normal game rules, such as establishing larger teams or squads, or altering the distribution of weapons and armor across the game map.", null, "EsportsTo celebrate the game surpassing two million copies sold, Bluehole announced a 2017 Charity Invitational event, inviting 128 players to compete over their official Twitch channel to raise money for the Gamers Outreach Foundation, with Bluehole matching all donations up to US$100,000. The competition ran in early May 2017, and raised at least US$120,000 from viewers along with Bluehole’s US$100,000 match, and served as a prototype for future esports events for the game. During the August 2017 Gamescom event, Bluehole and ESL organized the first Battlegrounds invitational tournament, with a $350,000 prize pool. Separate events were held for solo players, two-player teams, two-player teams fixed to first-person perspective, and four-player squads. Each event featured three matches, with the player or team scoring the highest across all three named winners.\n\nGreene said that while he had envisioned the battle royale format to be a spectator sport since his ARMA II mod, their approach to making Battlegrounds an esport would be a matter of taking “baby steps”. Greene said that they would not actively pursue esports until after the game was fully released and that all major bugs were eliminated. The Gamescom 2017 event demonstrated the issues surrounding the logistics of running a large Battlegrounds tournament with a large number of players involved, and they had worked alongside ESL to explore how to do this effectively in the future. Further, Greene stated there was also the need to establish a format for presenting a Battlegrounds match to make it interesting to spectators, which he thought would take some time to develop given the nature of the emergent gameplay, comparing it to established first-person shooters and multiplayer online battle arena esport games. A 20-team, 80-player tournament with a US$200,000 prize pool was organized by Intel in Oakland in November 2017.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "DuBois’ Dru Javens, shown competing earlier this season, was part of the Lady Beavers’ winning 400 freestyle relay squad Monday night at Clearfield. She also added runner-up finishes in the 200 and 500 freestyles and the 200 freestyle relay.", null, "DuBois’ Kolton Gwizdala, shown competing earlier this season, collected second-place finishes in the 100 butterfly and both the 200 and 400 freestyle relays Monday night at Clearfield. He also was third in the 50 free.\n\nDuBois’ Dru Javens, shown competing earlier this season, was part of the Lady Beavers’ winning 400 freestyle relay squad Monday night at Clearfield. She also added runner-up finishes in the 200 and 500 freestyles and the 200 freestyle relay.\n\nDuBois’ Kolton Gwizdala, shown competing earlier this season, collected second-place finishes in the 100 butterfly and both the 200 and 400 freestyle relays Monday night at Clearfield. He also was third in the 50 free.\n\nHYDE — The DuBois and Clearfield swimming and diving teams split their first meeting of the season in DuBois, with the host Lady Beavers pulling out a thrilling 89-87 victory in the final event.\n\nThere were no such dramatics Monday night in Hyde, as Clearfield swept visiting DuBois. The Lady Bison exacted some revenge, knocking off the Lady Beavers, 96-80, to give long-time coach Jackie Morrison her 650th victory.\n\nThe Clearfield boys completed the season of the Beavers with a 121-60 victory.\n\nThe Lady Bison, aided by two huge disqualifications for the Lady Beavers, won eight of the 12 events. DuBois’ “A” squad in the meet-opening 200 medley relay was DQ’ed for a swimmer leaving the block early on an exchange, while Alayna Cornelius was also DQ’ed because of a false start in the 100 butterfly.\n\nDuBois, which won four events, had just one multiple winner on the night in Anna Wingard. She captured top honors in the 100 breaststroke (1:18.69) and also swam the anchor leg on the Lady Beavers’ 400 freestyle relay squad that closed out the meet with a win.\n\nWingard teamed up with Dru Javens, Cornelius and Jessica Brant to post winning time of 4:04.43. Gressler split up his usual “A” squad in the event in hopes of going 1-2, but the Lady Beavers’ “B” team finishe third.\n\nJavens added a trio of runner-up finishes to go along with her relay win. She was second in 200 (2:12.45) and 500 (5:52.52) freestyles and also was a member of DuBois’ runner-up 200 free relay squad. She was joined on that squad by Cornelius, Ashley Usaitis and Trista Truesdale.\n\n“We went there having won 89-87 in our pool and knew they would be ready, and they certainly were,” said DuBois coach Michael Gressler. “Clearfield started out strong in the medley relay, going 1-2 in that event. They continued to swim strong from there in the 200 IM and 50 freestyle and picked up points here and there.\n\n“We had two DQs for false starts and had a goggle malfunction in another event. You can’t get have those when you swim a team like Clearfield. We’re not known to have false starts, and tonight just seemed to be the type of night where if those things were going to happen they did.\n\n“The kids didn’t give up and continued to fight. We were in it until the end, but Clearfield was the better team tonight.”\n\nOn the boys’ side, DuBois suffered its second lopsided loss of the season to strong Bison squad with the 121-60 score being very similar to first meet won 117-62 by Clearfield.\n\nAnd like that first meeting, DuBois’ lone win came from Tucker Fenstermacher in the 50 free. He touched the wall first in 22.91, besting Bison Justin Maines by .19 seconds. The Beaver won with a 23.07 the first time around.\n\n“Even though we didn’t win a lot of events, we still had some guys post good times,” said Gressler. “Logan Wells went under a minute for just the second time this season and Tucker (Fenstermacher) had a nice time in the 100 free going up against Luke Mikesell. There are only a handful of swimmers in the state who are the same quality of Mikesell, so it can be intimidating to go up against him.\n\n“Joda Fenstermacher also went under two minutes in the 200 freestyle for the first time after bing around that number the last couple meets.\n\n“On the girls’ side, Emma Ruttinger had a nice swim in the 200 free and is just 1.5 seconds off the district time. And, Morgan Rothrock didn’t place in the 500 free, but she dropped 30 seconds in that event. It’s one she normally doesn’t compete in, but she did it tonight to help the team to try to score a point or two.”\n\nDuBois is back Monday when it hosts Brookville in the final home meet of the season." ]

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[ null, "James Garner Net Worth is $20 Million (at death)\n\nIn the middle of the 1950s James Garner started to appear in TV shows and immensely he became a huge success. It was easy to get big roles to him in films because of his great looks. He managed to appear in well known films, such as “The Americanization of Emily”, “The Great Escape” and “Grand Prix”. Appearances in these films have also added up a lot to the total amount of James Garner net worth.\n\nAlthough his performances in films were praised a lot, James Garner mostly became known for his work in TV series and TV shows. In the period of 1957-1962, he was appearing on the ABC channel’s show called “Maverick”. In the period of 1974-1980 he became known from another TV series called “The Rockford Files”, which aired on NBC. Thus, his appearances on TV made him even more well known and also added up to the overall size of James Garner net worth.\n\nBeing in his eighth decade, James Garner managed to appear in productions made for TV as well as in major films. In 1994 he even appeared in the remade version of the film called “Maverick”, where he appeared next to Mel Gibson. Thus, up until his passing away, James Garner appeared in as many as 50 films. His involvement into acting has also been recognized, as he was nominated or awarded with the most prestigious awards in the film industry. In 1986, his name was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.\n\nIn 2014, when the actor was 86 years old, he passed away. However, today he is still remembered for his successful work in cinema as well as on TV, which made him a huge star in the whole world.\n\nIs James Garner Dead or Alive?\n\nWhat do you think about James Garner’s net worth? Leave a comment below.\n\n★ ★ ★ ★ ★\nJames Garner Net Worth, 4.86 / 5 (7 votes)\nprevious article\nJase Robertson Net Worth\nnext article\nHayden Christensen Net Worth\nyou might also like\n\nGary Lineker net worth currently amounts to $31 million. Both his careers as a football player and sports broadcaster are\nread more\nPopular Posts" ]

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[ null, "US President Donald Trump attends a meeting with governors and members of Congress on agriculture at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)\n\nOn Thursday, copies of James Comey’s upcoming memoir 'A Higher Loyalty' were leaked to the press. In the book, Comey compares Trump to a mob boss, and says that Trump’s behavior and personal manner gave him flashbacks to his tenure as a Manhattan prosecutor going after the mafia. Comey also wrote that Trump’s propensity for lying rendered him “untethered by truth.”\n\nIn response, President Donald Trump began his Friday with a stunning tweetstorm against Comey, whom the president assailed as \"a proven liar and leaker\" and \"untruthful slimeball.\"\n\nIn the first of two tweets, Trump accused Comey of leaking classified information and lying to Congress under oath.\n\nSixteen minutes later, Trump said Comey was \"a terrible director of the FBI.\" He then referred to Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email fiasco as one of the \"worst 'botch jobs' of history,\" and that \"it was my great honor to fire James Comey!\"\n\n@realDonaldTrump Almost everyone in your office has lied under oath. Why hasn’t Jared been charged yet for all of t… https://t.co/NTz72jzQJT\n— Sandy Resists (@Sandy Resists) 1523623614.0\n\n@realDonaldTrump You are a proven liar, cheater, crook and there are decades of evidence to prove it. You are a fai… https://t.co/B8gePFN1eQ\n— Resistance (@Resistance) 1523626360.0\n\nIt is widely believed that Comey handed the presidency to Trump when he announced the reopening of the email probe shortly before the 2016 election, which means the 45th president is antagonizing, if not slandering the man whose actions put him in office.\n\nThe book's account of Trump's level of dishonesty as president is remarkable. Notably, Comey recalled an instance in January 2017, when Trump asked Comey for personal loyalty.\n\nI had never seen anything like it in the Oval Office. As I found myself thrust into the Trump orbit, I once again was having flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob.\n\nThe silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview.\n\nThe lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and the truth.\n\nTo my mind, the demand was like Sammy the Bull's Cosa Nostra induction ceremony — with Trump in the role of the family boss, asking me if I have what it takes to be a 'made man.'\n\nA Higher Loyalty contains additional accounts of what Comey details as mob boss-like behavior by the then president-elect and his inner circle, specifically when Trump was informed of the Russian plot to hijack the election and install Trump as president.\n\nHoly crap, they are trying to make each of us an 'amica nostra' - a friend of ours. To draw us in.\n\nAs crazy as it sounds, I suddenly had the feeling that, in the blink of an eye, the president-elect was trying to make us all part of the same family.\n\nA Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is scheduled for release next Tuesday.\n\nThis upcoming Sunday, ABC News will air a one-hour-long segment of a five-hour interview between Comey and George Stephanopoulos on 20/20.\n\nEfforts to undermine the former FBI Director have expanded beyond the president and Fox News pundits. Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee launched a website, lyincomey.com, which seeks to malign and discredit Comey.\n\nPerhaps the most stunning aspect of the Trump-Comey spat is the GOP's total embrace of and complete descent into Trumpism. This is particularly vexing when considering the president's rapidly escalating political and personal legal woes. On Monday, the FBI raided the homes and office of Michael Cohen, Trump's long-time personal attorney, and self-described \"right hand.\"\n\nLast night, NBC News reported that talks between Mueller and Trump's legal team have broken down and that the special counsel's office plans on proceeding without an interview with the president. Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be ready to announce his findings and recommendations in the ongoing investigation of possible obstruction of justice by the president.\n\nThree sources familiar with the investigation said the findings Mueller has collected on Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice include: His intent to fire former FBI Director James Comey; his role in the crafting of a misleading public statement on the nature of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son and Russians; Trump’s dangling of pardons before grand jury witnesses who might testify against him; and pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation." ]

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[ "Women are often worried about the safety of their firearms. The article lists the different types of guns for women to consider, including handguns, shotguns, and other long-range rifles.\n\nThe different types of guns that are available to women can be broken down into three categories: revolvers, semiautomatic pistols, and assault rifles.", null, "They also have less recoil than handguns, making them an ideal choice for people who are recoil sensitive or those who want to shoot multiple rounds without having to reload frequently.\n\nThere is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best gun for you will depend on your personal preferences and shooting style." ]

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[ "With all of our fussing over codecs and bitrates, and demanding 4K 120 fps at every latest camera release, it can be good practice to look back at where some of this technology started in order to get a bit of perspective. This beautifully edited video illustrates perfectly how the likes of Canon and Sony are most certainly standing on the shoulders of giants.\n\nHarold “Doc” Edgerton was an inventor, engineer, educator, and photographer whose work you will probably recognize. Among his most famous sets of images are those of a bullet splitting a playing card in half, and a bullet going through an apple — I actually remember the latter being in my high-school science book.\n\nEdgerton's photographic work encompassed more than just high-speed exposures of bullets, though, he also photographed atomic bomb explosions and he was the first person to capture slow-motion footage of a hummingbird in flight. This incredible feat of engineering gave biologists visual confirmation of the bird's unique flying characteristics which, in contrast to other birds, was more akin to how a helicopter generated thrust.\n\nIt's fair to say that Edgerton possessed a powerfully creative and inquiring mind — one that was able to engineer its own solutions to problems which intrigued him — and, while most of us don't have the brainpower of such a person, it might be worth taking a closer look at our desire for the latest technology. Most of the time it's just tech for the sake of tech. We'll make excuses like \"Oh, if only had this then I could do that,\" whereas, if we were to think our way out of a problem, then the end result could be much more interesting and fulfilling.\n\nYou can view more of Edgerton's work here.", null, null, null, "Education / August 1, 2021\nHere Is What You Should Not Care About As a Photographer", null, "Gear / January 4, 2022\nWhy the S1R Is Still One of the Best Cameras for Landscape Photographers\nLog in or register to post comments\n2 Comments\n\nHarold Edgerton invented the electronic strobe or flash as it is called! Truly a pioneer in the photographic world who made things easier fur us all!" ]

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[ "Poker is probably one the most popular card game but in the other side of the world, particularly in Indonesia in East Asia, there’s another card game that makes gamblers crazy that it even resulted to being developed and included as one of its online casino games featured in some online casino sites, capsa stacking is becoming to be more popular because of its unique gameplay.\n\nThis game of cards has similar mechanics and gameplay like poker since every player is dealt a certain number of cards faced down. Then there is a round of betting where you can Check, Bet or Fold. This stage of the game is known as pre-flop and what you should do is dependent on those hole cards, or starting hand. However, in cara bermain capsa (capsa stacking), each player is handed with 13 cards from the deck of 52 cards.\n\nEach player must arrange these cards into three piles, the front, middle and back. Each card must be arranged to form a combination in such way that its value will be high enough to beat your opponent during the game. You should focus more on your center or the middle pile of cards when you form the combination. After you’ve arranged all three piles, the dealer will then compare each player’s piles. If you have a weak or wrong combination then you will lose, the winning player which has the correct combination of cards that has high value is declared the winner. Every successful combination will earn a player a point. The stronger the combination the bigger the point the player earns.\n\nHere are some combinations that you need to keep in mind in order for you to win capsa stacking:", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "About a month ago, theMatron was innocently reading the newspaper when she tripped over this:\n\n\"Small Dog Rescue, a nonprofit that rescues small dogs in the upper Midwest, needs foster homes for dogs to stay while they await adoption. Contact. . . \"\nJust like that, she lost her senses.\nShe thought: what a great family project, caring for small dogs!\nShe promptly forgot the other ongoing already existing family projects:\nThose are just the emergency family projects. Then there's Actual Student Anything.\nStill, those senses were gone so she signed on for one more duty in an already busy life. And told her children after the fact, as a surprise.\n\nJoy! Ecstasy! Complete abandon! Praise heaped upon their mother.\nStryker: \"For once this family will do something interesting.\"\nWell, okay, begrudging approval. But the other two screamed and whooped.\nOn the administrative front, the Matron might have signed on to become a CIA Agent, Small Dog Rescue did that much Investigation of her fine self. They called ALL of her many references and even checked in with their vet!\nSo the Matron was all groovy with the process of being vetted, feeling a new unimagined kinship with Sarah Palin and sort of all process-oriented and down to detail. The Small Dog folk operated by email and she was linked in and looped up and copied about this dog and that, until it was finally established that her first foster dog would be Abby, a toy poodle.\nThen she got the email with the 'Information Sheet' on Abby. She clicked on that attachment and started reading.\nWhat are the circumstances of the dog's release? We've had Abby for 13 years, since she was a tiny puppy. For the past 5 years our lives have been very difficult. We haven't been able to afford a vet or groomer. Now we might lose our house. We love Abby very much but with our family situation and troubles and now the house issue, it is clear that we can't take care of her. We've been thinking about this for over a year and the time has come.\"\nThe Matron actually honestly hadn't fully realized that these rescued dogs came from somewhere. They had a story. And this one had a family, giving her away.\nLater that day she found herself in her kitchen with her family as they gave another family (a husband and wife) privacy -- in the living room -- to say good-bye to the dog they loved and had lived with for over a decade. To say there were tears?\nA river ran through them -- all of them.\nAnd the Matron didn't inquire. She didn't try to get detail or reason or background - the why? What happened? What forced you? Are there children? How do they feel? What's the matter?\nShe wanted to know their story but didn't ask. Instead, she opted for dignity, grace and reassurance.\nAfterward, she shut the door behind what looked like a very average middle-class, middle-aged couple holidng each other for support as they wept their way to their car.\nHarder still were the two days this little darling spent waiting by the front door for her family's return.", null, "My first thought was that you'd truly lost your mind. And maybe you have, but wow--what a gift you are giving both the couple and the dog.\n\nOh -- so sad. I can't imagine having to give up my cats because I couldn't afford them. I'm glad you gave their sweet dog a good (foster) home-- do you think you'll just keep Abby?\n\nOh this so got to me. Our work hours don't make it fair to any animal except the independent kitty to foster, and my heart would break with every entrance and exit to my home. You are a wonderful family to take on this role.\n\nI tell you it is taking every pyschological fiber I have not to adopt this dog! But we just can't adopt the very first -- then we wouldn't be able to really provide the service that Small Dog Rescue needs by fostering. . plus, two senior doggies? Sigh. . anybody want Abby? :-)\n\nSo sad. But I'm sure that your family will make Abby feel at home and comfortable. She'll be missing her family terribly.\n\nThis gets me to thinking. Thinking that you are a saint, first off and thinking that there may need to be some Patrons of the Animals. Funds for keeping animals where they are loved and needed but underwriting their basic costs. Hmmmmm. My brain is whirring.\n\nOh gosh. That story is heartbreaking and I bet it's happening all over.\n\nQueenly -- a couple of my friends have also said this. Why can't we find a way to support the family? The only rebuttal to that I can think of is time. Yes, a nonprofit could give money for a vet but not insure that someone had the time to be with the dog more than two hours a day, day in and out. No easy answers. . .\n\nOh, dear Matron. Thank you for doing this.\n\nMy latest post is about needing a good cry, and I fear your last sentence about Abby waiting by the door very nearly triggered it.\n\nBut I'm opting for dignity myself in this moment.\n\nBut hell, woman. You do tell a story.\n\nMatron, I think you need to seriously consider a type of warning system before blog posts. Like how likely I am to cry during one of your posts on any given day. This post? Would have been a 10 on 1-10 scale.\n\nSo nice of you to open your home and your heart to this dog.\n\nI recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often." ]

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[ "Riot Postpones Round Two of LCK", null, "The LCK is taking every precaution in postponing the Spring Split. (Photo courtesy LCK – Riot)\n\nRiot Games Korea announced that the 2020 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Spring Split Round 2 has been indefinitely postponed due to an uptick of confirmed COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases in South Korea. Their developmental league, Challengers Korea (CK), will be halted as well.\n\nThe LCK is the second league to postpone their Spring Split due to the outbreak. The LPL went on hiatus during China’s break for the Lunar New Year, just after week one. The LPL has announced plans to resume playing the Spring Split online starting March 9th, but there is no timeframe for a return to live venues.\n\nThough Round 2 has been postponed, the LCK will still play the final five matches in Round 1 — the first half of the regular season round robin. That covers games from March 4th to March 6th, concluding with Griffin versus KT Rolster.\n\nLike the LPL, the LCK should be able to continue playing online scrims in their downtime. They don’t have to worry about players being away from their teams on vacation or China’s travel restrictions, so they should have an easier transition.\n\nRiot Korea did not announce how they plan to alter their schedule to accommodate the delay. This will surely affect the 2020 Mid-Season Invitational, which Riot Games have already delayed announcing due to the LPL break. With the tournament typically occurring at the beginning of May, it’s possible that MSI will be canceled altogether after such an impact on multiple regions.\n\nRiot Korea could pay close attention to how the LPL online matches are going before deciding how they will proceed. If all goes well, the LCK could adopt a similar format to minimize downtime. Regardless, this is another unfortunate setback for a region that expects to be near or at the top of international competitions." ]

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[ "In kitty :new command creates a window with broken symbols\n\nI’m trying to migrate to kitty over tmux. So first issue I’ve encountered is weird characters in window created with :new command. In screenshot it is right window:", null, "Why is that? Any ideas how to fix this?\n\nI’ve been using kitty for ages now and never seen this - maybe this is a bug in the version of kitty you’re using? It’s under very active development, so a packaged version is likely to be very out of date - I build from source, which is pretty easy to do with kitty.\n\nI installed kitty from homebrew couple of days ago, it’s v 0.20.3\n\nIn most POSIXy operating systems, the login procedure sets a bunch of environment variables that are inherited by all the apps you run, including your terminal emulator. Then, when :new launches a new terminal emulator process running Kakoune, it inherits the same sensible configuration the first terminal emulator inherited, and everything works.\n\nmacOS, on the other hand, makes it very difficult to set environment variables at login, so users tend to set them up in files like ~/.bashrc. If you launch a new interactive terminal, it runs bash which loads .bashrc and then anything you run inside bash works the way you expect, but when Kakoune launches a new terminal emulator process only running Kakoune, not running an interactive bash session, those settings aren’t loaded and Weird Stuff happens." ]

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[ null, "Set adrift in the previous book, Unstoppable, she must fill new, gaping holes in her family tree. It begins as an escape, but it ends up the ultimate confrontation of the demons that continue to haunt her from her abusive past. Worse, she still struggles through current scandals, splashed on every tabloid for the world to see.\n\nAs a result, her career stagnates while Jace Riga is on a rocket to super-stardom, tearing the star-crossed lovers even further apart.Though she has filed for divorce, she is still regrettably tied to Eddie, her weaselly husband in name only. He gleefully proceeds with his plan to woo and ultimately con Jordis estranged friend, Shelby Goddard, to tap into her familys wealth. He moves to Tennessee to cozy up to her domineering father, Coy, who has just announced his run for the Senate.\n\nTogether he and Eddie get closer and closer to a seat of power, while Shelby continues to languish in ill health and depression. Jordi debates on whether she can make the sacrifice needed to save her friend, but it could pound the final hammer into her career and end her own dreams of super-stardom for good.It doesnt help that a fellow musician, Griffin Slade, drives her insecurities even further down the tubes. This unapologetic ladies man feeds into all of Jordis insecurities as they are thrust together in project after project.\n\nHis aloof demeanor only underscores all the rest of her esteem issues, all of which threaten to drive her back to her one true comfort: food.Jace remains stubbornly steadfast, trying to save Jordi from her self-destructive behavior.\n\nBut this final lesson Jordi has to learn alone. She can no longer depend on Jace, her family, or the world giving her the validation she has been denied for so long. She must dig deep, work hard, and let go - or else shell lose everything shes fought so hard to achieve.In the end, only Jordi can save Jordi. This is her journey of self-discovery, and at long last, self-acceptance." ]

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[ "I first saw a radio controlled model aeroplane parked on top of the wardrobe at my Great Uncle David’s house in Edinburgh. Further exploration revealed aircraft were hiding all over the house and many were as long as I was tall. As a practicing doctor and researcher at the university he really did not have the time to answer all the 1001 questions that an over-active 8 year old with an aeroplane obsession bombarded him with. However the bug had bitten and I would go on to talk about nothing else for many years.\n\nAround this time we had close family friends and used to visit them every few months. One of their two sons was close to my age and the other closer to my sister. Visiting them would entail a long car journey and sometimes even the ferry if we or they were stationed overseas (both families were in the forces at the time). To this day I suffer from motion sickness, but back then when 5 minutes seemed to last an hour it was close to unbearable. It was worth it however as the two brothers had the coolest toys, the latest computers and a whole room full of completed ‘Airfix’ plastic model aeroplanes.\n\nOn one journey when they were stationed in RAF Waddington I found on their shelves two amazing new toys, a pair of ‘Keil-Kraft’ balsa wood model aeroplanes. One, the Cadet, a beautiful glider, the other, the Eaglet, a rubber powered high-wing cabin type. Like the airfix kits, the bother’s father was the builder. It was a shame as they never developed much interest in aviation. My absolute obsession with these models was such that I spent hours just test gliding them across the bedroom exploring how they flew and what adjustments impacted on the (very!) short flight path onto the bed. Naturally again came 1001 questions and I soon found out model aeroplanes that could fly weren’t just big expensive radio controlled aircraft but came in small relatively inexpensive versions within reach of my pocket money.", null, "Catching the ‘tail-end’ of the traditional model aviation hobby as a child meant that finding kits like these became harder and harder for me. A different story now as there is a burgeoning online market in vintage and replicate kits.\n\nMy first attempts at model aircraft, both plastic and balsa were not exactly successful. Having an obsession that was several generations out of date and that no one else shared meant I didn’t have any friends with which to share ideas and skills. I was also reclusive and would spend a lot of my time researching aircraft and what I was going to purchase next. With parents not online this meant school lunch breaks were spent in the local library with its limited resources. With a strict pocket money determined budget it would take me a while to save up enough pocket money for each tin of paint or glue let alone an actual model. I therefore wanted to ensure that I made the correct purchase. Unfortunately impatience and frustration would take over and in an effort to finish a model I would ‘substitute’ with often undesirable results. However my repertoire of model making skills steadily increased and I would later come to value this." ]

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[ null, "After nearly breaking the internet on numerous occasions, Kim Kardashian figuratively dropped the mic at the Webby Awards in NYC on Monday night. Upon accepting the inaugural Break the Internet Award during the ceremony, which is a lot like the Oscars for the web, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star seized the opportunity to address those controversial nude snaps on Instagram from earlier this year. \"Naked selfies until I die,\" she said. If you're wondering why her speech was so short and sweet, it's because the Webbys only let winners say five words. She may have got a lot of backlash for her photos, but she's determined to keep them coming!", null, null ]

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[ "\"Meteor Shower\" by Steve Martin is perfectly cast and great fun, but it's not much of a play. The nonlinear plot makes little sense, the characters aren't compelling - except in their quirks, which are fascinating to watch: Laura's (Laura Benati) overt sexuality, Gerald's (Keegan-Michael Key of \"Key and Peele\") germaphobia and Corky (Amy Schumer of \"Inside Amy Schumer\") and Norm's (Jeremy Shamos) over-the-top marriage therapy relationship (where every slight ends with psycho-babble like, \"I understand you probably didn't know you hurt me. I'm asking you to be more careful with my feelings.\") \"Meteor Shower,\" at the Booth Theater, is like a really good Saturday Night Live skit - one that meanders on longer than it should (even at 80 minutes) but, at least, it keeps you laughing. The surrealistic satire also played in California and Connecticut last year.", null, "The thin storyline involves an evening of meteor watching between two couples at Norm and Corky's modern Ojai, California, home -- Beowulf Boritt designs a living room worthy of Architectural Digest. Several versions of the evening are presented, with each alternate reality leading closer to a conclusion -- although not necessarily an understanding of what exactly the resolution is ... something along the lines of \"If you don't deal with your subconscious, it deals with you\" as Martin dissects marriage -- with the two couples representing distinct aspects of Corky and Norm's personality. But Edward Albee's \"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,\" it is not.\n\nThere's a lot to enjoy, though. Schumer's deft skill in delivering crazy lines about \"exploding head syndrome\" and her cannibalistic past. Key's physical prowess - his expressive face, stance and body movement, which conveys more than Martin's play reveals. Tony Award-winner Benati's obvious delight sparring with her co-stars as she seduces everyone. Shamos' powerhouse performance of an everyman lost in absurdity -- not every actor can pull off a meteor wound with such casual aplomb. There is also Jerry Zaks' able direction, which you can see in the enormous black sky where the brilliant lights of the meteors burst (lighting design by Natasha Katz) and the production's pause that showcases it or the lovely flexibility of how the set is used, flipping easily from the home's interior to its backyard. Plus, no one does one liners better than Steve Martin: on why Corky's \"exploding head syndrome\" is not curable - \"it's not funded.\" Such witticisms are aplenty in \"Meteor Shower.\"\n\nBiggest kudos here go to Caparelliotis Casting. Without this star-studded array of talent this show would languish. The cast makes \"Meteor Shower\" work ... at least well enough for a few laughs.\n\nPosted by Sandra Mardenfeld at 12:26 AM" ]

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[ null, "Roger Waters of Pink Floyd explained his involvement in the rescue of two kidnapped boys from Trinidad.\n\nThe boys were kidnapped by their father, an Islamic State fighter, in 2014. Waters became aware of the situation after Reprieve lawyer Clive Stafford Smith informed him. After failing to get governments involved, Waters took matters into his own hands and funded flights and hotel rooms to help the boys out. He ultimately helped reunite the boys, ages 7 and 11, with their mother in Switzerland." ]

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[ null, "Gran Canaria's plan to use its reservoirs as a giant battery to store wind energy is expected to generate 60% of the island's electricity needs within five years.\n\nThe plan is to use the giant Chira and Soria reservoirs in the southern highlands as a huge battery to store up electrical energy genrated by the island's wind turbines, which currently only generate power at times of peak demand and when the wind is blowing.\n\nBy running the wind turbines whenever there is enough wind and using the electricity to pump water from Soria reservoir up to the higher altitude Chira reservoir, the energy can be stored and later released by allowing water to flow back down to Soria via a hydroelectrical power plant.\n\nSpanish electrical infrastructure firm Red Electrica will start to build the hydro plant between the two reservoirs in 2016 and expects the system, which has a €300 million budget, to be fully operational within five years." ]

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[ null, "Based on recidivism studies of those released from prisons and those on probation, it’s reasonable to assume that the release of offenders from jails contributed to the considerable increase in violence in 2020 and 2021.\n\nThe jail incarceration rate was the lowest since 1990.\n\nIn three weeks, jails have contact with as many people as prisons do in an entire year.\n\nCrime victims become an overlooked casualty of the pandemic (link below).\n\nThe Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice released a report on the impact of COVID-19 and jail populations.\n\nIt states that the jail incarceration rate was the lowest since 1990.\n\nThere were large declines in the raw numbers of jail inmates.\n\nCNN Cites Jail Releases As A Factor For Rising Crime\n\nExperts point to a “perfect storm” of factors — economic collapse, social anxiety because of a pandemic, de-policing in major cities after protests that called for abolition of police departments, shifts in police resources from neighborhoods to downtown areas because of those protests, and the release of criminal defendants pretrial or before sentences were completed to reduce risk of Covid-19 spread in jails — all may have contributed to the spike in homicides (emphasis added), CNN.\n\nSee another CNN article providing examples as to offenders released from jails, CNN\n\nIn three weeks, jails have contact with as many people as prisons do in an entire year…., US Jails.\n\nI’m not going to second guess state and local health experts and jail administrators. COVID took well over 500,000 lives in America and the number continues to grow. Altering the number of people in jail limits the exposure of inmates and correctional officers (40 jail staff died of COVID during the measurement period).\n\nJails are not prisons meaning that there is a mix of those convicted and sentenced to jail and those held on a pretrial basis. About 65% (480,700) of jail inmates were awaiting court action on a current charge, while the remaining 35% (253,700) were serving a sentence or awaiting sentencing on a conviction, Bureau Of Justice Statistics.\n\nThose sentenced are generally “minor” offenders (compared to prison inmates) often serving less than one year. Those in jails, however, could (and usually do) have considerable criminal histories.\n\nPer USDOJ data, fifty-eight percent of male state prison inmates are incarcerated for violent crimes. The percentage would be much higher if previous violent crimes are considered.\n\nMost (the vast majority?) of those sentenced to state prisons for crimes of violence were held in jail on a pretrial basis.\n\nRecidivism Or Return To Crime\n\nI’m unaware of USDOJ recidivism data for jail inmates but the research on prisons or probation is concerning.\n\nRecidivism Of Those on Probation\n\nTo my knowledge, there is one major and definitive study (based on large numbers of offenders) on state probation recidivism. It focused solely on felony probationers.\n\nWithin 3 years 43% of state felons on probation were rearrested for a felony. Half of the arrests were for a violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, or aggravated assault) or a drug offense.\n\nResults showed that within 3 years of sentencing, 62 percent either had a disciplinary hearing for violating a condition of their probation or were arrested for another felony.\n\nIn addition, within 3 years, 46 percent had been sent to prison or jail or had absconded, Federal And State Recidivism.\n\nBased on recidivism data for those released from prison and those on probation, there is no doubt that released jail inmates engage in new criminal activity. But as stated, I’m unaware of data substantiating this.\n\nThere are endless media accounts of domestic violence offenders returning home after arrest and re-victimizing their victims.\n\nViolence is skyrocketing in some cities. Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice, violent crime increased 28 percent since 2015 (the year of the Freddie Gray incident and numerous disturbances). Serious violent crime increased. Fear of crime is at an all-time high. Gun purchases are skyrocketing. Security devices are hitting record numbers. People and businesses are leaving cities. A variety of sources have documented a dramatic increase in homicides and other forms of violence, US Crime Rates.\n\nThere is new data from the FBI documenting increases in homicides, aggravated assaults, overall violence, and vehicle thefts, Violence Increases In 2020.\n\nThere is a new report from CNN and the Major Chiefs Association. It states that homicides increased 33 percent for cities in 2020. Aggravated assaults also increased, Homicides Increase.\n\nThe release of jail inmates correlates with recent and substantial violent crime increases post-COVID lockdowns. But as any criminology professor will tell you, correlation does not equal causation.\n\nLocal jails in the United States experienced a large decline (down 185,400 inmates) in their inmate populations from June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020, which can be attributed mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nJails in counties with the highest COVID-19 infection rate tested nearly 21% of persons admitted to their jails, and about 14% of these tests were positive.\n\nThe report, Impact of COVID-19 on the Local Jail Population, January-June 2020 is available on the BJS website at www.bjs.gov.\n\nBased on recidivism studies of those released from prisons and those on probation, it’s reasonable to assume that the vast release of jail offenders contributed to the increase in violence.\n\nViolent backgrounds are common among the offender population regardless if the “current” charge was for a nonviolent crime. As stated, 58 percent of male state prison inmates are serving a “current” conviction for a violent crime.\n\nMany of the remainder have histories of acts of violence. Per USDOJ statistics, the overwhelming percentage of charged offenders are plea-bargained to a lesser crime.\n\nCrime victims, they fear, will become an overlooked casualty of the pandemic, March 17, 2021, The Oregonian." ]

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[ null, "If the tale of the tortoise and the hare has taught us anything it’s to never underestimate the underdog. Big brands with big budgets may have a head start in the marketplace but just like the clever tortoise creative challenger brands are finding ways to win the race. To stand out against the big guns challenger brands are going smaller and more intimate—tapping into target demos with grassroots guerrilla word-of-mouth and influencer programs. The competitive advantage: consumers get more alone time with their products making them more likely to share the experience with their peers.\n\nPicking smaller markets can help challenger brands get more traction too. Philips skipped New York City and promoted its GoGear MP3 player (the iPod being its biggest competitor) in Austin Texas. Home to Austin City Limits and South by Southwest the brand tapped into the city’s independent music scene to help promote its product.\n“There’s a big music scene in the Austin market but it’s not as big as New York so it’s easier to reach everybody ” says Wieger Deknatel consumer marketing manager at Philips. “Our competitors are spending $100 million on mass communication so it’s difficult to reach consumers. [The influencer programs] allow you to immediately let people experience your product instead of having to convince them with words or other communications.”\n\nPhilips’s theme was Undiscovered Austin which included influencer shindigs and a battle of the bands competition. Bonus: the indie crowd stays away from the mainstream and tends to give the underdog a shot. Like Philips challenger brands such as Hornitos tequila LittleMissMatched lifestyle apparel and Canadian Club whiskey are turning to smaller and more street-wise experiential programs to influence consumers one at a time.\n\nHornitos. Whether it’s a salt-rimmed glass filled with a festive margarita or a shot of tangy tequila the Mexican-born elixir is associated with life’s celebrations. Most consumers opt for the familiar Jose Cuervo bottle to suit their party needs. If spending big they may reach for Patrón. Hornitos of the Sauza Tequila brand promises 100 percent agave flavor (the plant used to make tequila) at a lower price than competing premium brands that boast the same qualities. Playing up its authentic agave flavor Hornitos took its message to the experts: Mexican-Americans. It scoped out influencers in Chicago Dallas and Los Angeles to serve as Hornitos influencers from August through December.\n\n“As a challenger brand you don’t necessarily have the average budget that your competitor does so you count on interaction with your consumers to get them to really experience your brand ” says Gary Ross associate brand manager at Hornitos.\n\nIn each market Hornitos organized discover sessions with bartenders. The goal: equip trusted bartenders with knowledge about the product to tell its customers about it. To integrate into the local Mexican-American communities Hornitos recruited brand champions to be their main influencers. These folks were the tastemakers in each community which made it easier for the brand to talk to the public. The brand champions—a nightlife veteran an actress and a college student/model—hosted dinner parties for 10 to 15 people centered around Hornitos. Plus they picked a local event like a fashion show art gallery or comedy night to be fully sponsored by Hornitos. The culminating event was “Vivelo” (meaning: celebration) which brought together bartenders brand champions influencers and the local community to have a good time on Hornitos. Online Hornitos borrowed from the buyyourfriendadrink.com concept and created buyyouramigohornitos.com where consumers can purchase a drink for their friend. That friend is notified of the free drink via mobile phone or email (Ammo Marketing San Francsico handled).\n\nPhilips. To promote the GoGear MP3 player Philips created a multilayered grassroots program that engaged consumers face-to-face in-store and online. Leading up to Black Friday in Austin the brand promoted its product at the local Walmart with a live radio remote and coffee and breakfast served to more than 2 000 people.\n\nStep two: The brand took over a residential loft in the heart of Austin’s music scene and opened the Philips FullSound Loft where 14 influencers (bloggers musicians and industry insiders) hosted events over two months for more than 1 400 guests at a time. It set up a GoGear Lounge and Listening Station where consumers experienced the product up-close with brand teams on hand to answer questions. To stir additional excitement among the music community Philips added the Undiscovered Austin Music Search giving local bands a chance to compete against each other. The public voted for their favorite band on undiscoveredaustin.com where bios about each band were posted. Street teams approached passersby with the GoGear and invited them to listen and vote for their favorite band on the MP3 player. News of the program was posted on Flickr Facebook MySpace YouTube and Twitter. “There are a lot of social networks that people make use of online ” says Deknatel. “The blogs are read by a lot of people and the comments are taken more seriously than a commercial.”\n\nWhat Philips was able to accomplish is off the charts: 20 000 people attended the influencer events; 2 000 voted in the music search; 11 000 page views on undiscoveredaustin.com; 17 000 photo views on Flickr; 6 000 Twitter impressions. Overall metrics show that word of mouth for GoGear surpassed 200 000 conversations. (Ammo Marketing San Francisco handled.)\n\nLittleMissMatched. To drive consumers to its two pop-up shops in New York during the holidays LittleMissMatched hit the pavement with branded ice cream carts to get the word out. The pink-and-orange branded carts with umbrellas made of hanging socks and flip-flops pay homage to the city’s smorgasbord of street food vendors. The carts were positioned near the pop-up shops as well as at Grand Central Terminal FAO Schwarz and other busy locations. Brand ambassadors handling the carts distributed promotional cards announcing the pop-ups. At the pop-up shops which were open through Dec. 31 consumers were given the brand’s catalog with every purchase. The catalog included silly stickers and a call to play MissMatched games online (extending the conversation to the web). “Our customers are super evangelizers so it’s really about telling our story and building the brand in their eyes so they can own a share of it and tell their friends and community ” says Jonah Staw LittleMissMatched co-founder and ceo. “We’re still a tiny company so even if we wanted to have a billboard in Times Square we couldn’t afford it. It forces us to be nimble and creative. And it so happens that our brand is about creativity so it makes sense.”\n\nCreativity and self-expression is the essence of the LittleMissMatched brand which competes with big lifestyle apparel brands targeting teen girls at stores like Macy’s and FAO Schwarz. The whimsical ice cream carts (created in-house) expressed the brand’s funky style. Brand ambassadors behind the ice cream carts dressed in branded t-shirts miss-matched socks and colorful Converse sneakers. Sometimes the brand ambassadors gave out ice cream cups with one sock inside it. Why? Because the dryer always eats one up silly. The missing sock drove consumers to venues that sell its merchandise or to littlemissmatched.com to get the second sock (Grand Central Marketing New York City handled).\n\nCanadian Club. If bell bottoms and the Volkswagen Beetle can make a comeback your dad’s whiskey can too. Canadian Club whiskey launched the Damn Right Your Dad Drank It word-of-mouth campaign in 2007 to push the classic whisky into American markets (aimed at males 25 to 40). To create buzz it set up shop at bars in Chicago and Indianapolis with shoe shining equipment and instructions on how to tie a Windsor knot. Competing against U.S. staples like Jack Daniel’s and Jim Beam and the cocktail crowd the brand made it known it wasn’t hip—it’s classic. “We were dealing with a whole new generation of men that really hadn’t thought about CC before so we needed to make the program relevant to reach our target without the big muscle behind some of the bigger brands ” says Elissa Sacks assistant brand manager at Canadian Club. “The program gave us time with the consumer. During the shoe shining we had their attention and could tell them a bit about the product.”\nThe program which wrapped in spring 2008 brought the heritage of the brand to life. On site female brand ambassadors dressed in cocktail outfits taught men how to tie a Windsor knot. Cocktails provided by Canadian Club were served including the CC ginger Manhattan and CC soda. At the shoe shining chair the brand gave away branded shoe polish ties and etiquette guidebooks. Consumers were also invited to make their own Canadian Club ad on canadianclubwhisky.com. The ads are made to look like a page out of dad’s photo album. Once completed the ad can be downloaded and sent to family and friends adding a word-of mouth component on the web (GMR Marketing New Berlin WI handled)." ]

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[ "24 November, 2020 – University of Cambridge spin-out Porotech has today announced the launch of its first product based on its breakthrough gallium nitride (GaN) production technique that is set to transform the electronics industry. The company has launched the world’s first commercial native red LED epiwafer for micro-LED applications.\n\nMicro-LED display technology offers a huge improvement on standard display panels due to its optimum brightness, efficiency and image definition, as well as improved lifetime. These benefits are crucial for near-to-eye applications such as augmented reality (AR) and head-mounted displays – a market predicted to be worth tens of billions of dollars over the next five years. They are also key for a range of other applications – from large area displays and TVs to mobile phones and wearable devices such as smartwatches. But, until now, achieving the necessary high-efficiency, ultra-fine-pitch red pixels has proved a challenge.\n\nTraditional red LEDs are largely based on aluminum indium gallium phosphide (AlInGaP) materials. This means they show a drastic efficiency drop as the device size decreases due to their large carrier diffusion lengths and high surface recombination velocity.\n\nPorotech’s unique production process has enabled the creation of a new class of porous GaN semiconductor materials that is redefining what is possible. As a result, the company is now the first to launch a commercially available native red indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED epiwafer for micro-LED applications.\n\n“Micro-LED displays using GaN-based material technology are widely seen as the only technology that can deliver displays bright and efficient enough to meet the requirements of AR,” said Porotech CEO and co-founder Dr Tongtong Zhu. “With AR glasses expected to one day replace smartphones – or at least reduce our interaction with the devices in our pockets – development of advanced materials to improve performance is crucial.\n\n“Integration of AlInGaP red and indium InGaN green and blue LED displays in a module with micron-scale pixels is extremely challenging as high surface recombination velocities in AlInGaP devices make this material unsuitable for efficient micro-LEDs. Our breakthrough extends the emission range of InGaN LEDs to meet the performance needs of the red display, whilst delivering the ability to scale wafer size required by micro-LED semiconductor display technology.”\n\nGaN is a material poised to make an impact across electronics and optoelectronics – from efficient power transistors and lasers to quantum devices, sensors and solar cells – and the introduction of porous architectures can extend its capability in all these realms. Porotech’s product fits within existing industry standards and processes. The proprietary technology is robust but also flexible enough to be tailored to the needs of different applications. Porotech’s native red InGaN micro-LEDs have a wavelength of 640 nm at 10 A/cm2, and improved performance over conventional AlInGaP and colour-converted red at very small pixels and pitches.\n\nEarlier this year, Porotech secured a £1.5 million seed round investment co-led by Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, and IQ Capital Partners, with the additional participation of Martlet Capital and a syndicate of angel investors from Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Capital Group.", null ]

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[ "Dow Jones rethinks the commodity “revolution” at Target and goes to the top for oilmen. Novavax received FDA approval", null, "Despite a contradictory guideline from one of America’s biggest retailers and a negative opening, the U.S. stock market showed resilience and closed on the plus side of trading on Tuesday, June 7. The Dow Jones managed to add 0.8%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq broad market index were up 0.95% and 0.94%, respectively.\n\nTarget spooked the Dow Jones at the open\n\nShares of U.S. retailer Target (TGT) fell 2.3% after the Minneapolis-based company reported an expected operating margin cut to 2% in the second quarter amid a program to reduce domestic inventory with additional discounts and reassess its costs\n\nA trader on the NYSE reacts to the rise in the Dow Jones index and ExxonMobil (XOM) stock. Photo: CNBC\n\nAt the same time, CEO Brian Cornell said that the company still expects revenue growth throughout the current year, and hopes to keep its market share at least, and at most to increase it\n\nBut still fresh in the minds of investors are the events of May 18, when Target literally shocked the U.S. stock market by presenting its financial results for the first quarter of the year. TGT stock then plummeted 25%, marking its worst day in three decades. The company attributed the drop in revenue to heavy shipping and fuel costs and forced price reductions on a number of products.\n\nSo the sellers’ overhang in TGT has had an impact on other retailers’ stocks as well. Shares of Walmart (WMT), the largest U.S. retailer, were down 1.2%, and Home Depot (HD) lost 0.7%.\n\nAlthough I find the flood on Target (TGT) to be not only overly emotional, but somehow inappropriate in general. Nothing bad was announced in principle. Moreover, management is promptly trying to solve not even the problem, but just the initial phase of it, which is quite commendable.\n\nJudging by the quotations of the oil companies’ shares, their investors are little frightened by the prospect not only of inflation and raising the Federal Reserve rates in connection with it, but also of any crisis in the U.S. economy in general. Oil futures contracts are steadily around $120 per barrel, which certainly adds to the investment “privileges” of the energy sector.\n\nThat is why there are three oil representatives among the five leaders of the S&P 500 index. ExxonMobil (XOM) has weighed in at 4.5% and reached a price tag of $103.37 amid Evercore’s first target price hike since 2014 from $88 to $120. Shares of the largest U.S. oil company by capitalization came close to their eight-year highs of $104.76.\n\nOn Topic: Don’t Catch the Bottom, Buy One Sector Where the Money Goes\n\nUnlike Exxon, ConocoPhillips (COP) securities renewed their highs from 2014 back in January of this year and are now successfully engaged in an absolute renewal. COP’s share price reached $122.71, surpassing its 2014 high by nearly 44%. Chevron (CVX), where without it, is up 1.9%. EOG Resources (EOG) +3.42%. Not only oil companies but also oilfield service companies were successful: Schlumberger (SLB) +3.62% and Halliburton +2.93%.\n\nThe committee of independent experts of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) by a nearly unanimous decision (one abstention) finally approved a vaccine Novavax from coronavirus and recommended it for use, pleases investors biotech CNBC\n\nTrading in the company’s stock was suspended throughout the trading day, but it resumed in the post-market after hours. During the extra time, NVAX securities topped $58. Given Monday’s close of $47.54, we can assume the Maryland biotech company’s stock will open up more than 20 percent higher on the Nasdaq on Wednesday." ]

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[ null, "It was a jam-packed day for all of us! Armin surprised Angela with a long helicopter ride to Cape Auglhus and back, with some time over Cape Town. They wanted to see where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet. The theme behind their commitment ceremony was the two very different oceans meeting… a metaphor for their relationship and their very different personalities.\n\nAfter their helicopter ride, we went to Llandudno Beach for the ceremony and a couple shoot. (yes, that’s me “officiating” the ceremony). Once the sun had set and they had changed into something less wedding, more James Bond, they had a delicious dinner at the 12 Apostles Hotel.\n\nIt was such a fun two days with Angela & Armin and I had so much fun getting to know them better!", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "The fabulous team behind this beautiful day…", null, null, null, "If you’ve come this far and like what you’ve read, sign up and become a Runaway Romance Renegade (coz the real fun stuff happens behind closed doors" ]

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[ "iOS 4.3.2 Possibly Releasing in a Couple of Weeks\n\nFor all you iOS users out there in Apple land, you just might be seeing a new version of iOS coming your way in the not too distant future if the latest rumour turns out to be spot on, in the form of iOS 4.3.2.\n\nAccording to an article over on iPhone Download Blog the Boy Genius Report has apparently been told by one of their Apple connections that the company is planning to release iOS 4.3.2 to the iOS masses in a couple of weeks time.\n\nApparently iOS 4.3.2 will deliver enhancements such as…well here’s what the BGR say… “It’s said to include a few enhancements, address security issues, and it will also fix several bugs that have affected users. We’re told to expect the software update for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad in about two weeks.”\n\nThat “address security issues” could well mean if you own a jailbroken iPhone you may have to keep well away from iOS 4.3.2 if you want to maintain your jailbreak.\n\nAnyway for those that want the latest update for iOS, keep your eyes open over the coming weeks and if it does hit, then feel free to let us know how it goes or if you experience and problems.", null ]

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[ null, "The Iranian government has announced that it is working on a “domestic Internet Network”, which it says will improve cyber security. The plan is to shift all the web users within the country to this, which many fear is the latest way to control web access.\n\nThe announcement was made on Sunday by the deputy communications and technology minister, Ali Hakim-Javadi. The deployment of this state controlled network is already underway, with the minister quoted by the Mehr news agency, saying: “In recent days, all governmental agencies and offices... have been connected to the national information network.” As a part of the second phase, all Internet users within the country will be shifted to this network, with the deadline set for March 2013.\n\nThis is in line with an announcement made in April this year, where the government had said that they are working on a system to create “a clean Internet”. What is not clear is whether only select websites will be available to Internet users, or there will be a complete cut-off from the World Wide Web services.\n\nIncidentally, Iran has one of the thickest Internet filters in the world, routinely blocking websites on the grounds that they are criminal or offensive. Currently, Facebook and YouTube are blocked in Iran, leading many to believe that this is because they were used during the anti-government protests after President Ahamdinejad’s re-election in 2009.\n\nTill now, some Iranians had been using Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to access websites, but it is not clear if they will work on the new network.\n\nIn the meantime, Google search and Gmail services have been blocked in the country with immediate effect. \"Google and Gmail will be filtered throughout the country until further notice,\" said an unnamed official, without giving any further details. It is believed that the Google ban is directly connected to the anti-Islamic film posted on YouTube, which has caused outrage throughout the Muslim world. There is no word on when the services will be restored." ]

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[ "66 years of memories: Art book as a memorial to victims", null, "Part of Hiroshima that was completely destroyed by the atomic bombing has been recaptured in a collection of drawings titled “Kieta machi: kioku o tadori” (Vanished Neighborhood: Retracing Memories). The book is a collection of 43 pencil drawings by Shigeo Moritomi, 81, that faithfully reproduces scenes of the river delta of Hiroshima, sometimes called the “City of Water,” and everyday life there. Mr. Moritomi, who grew up in a neighborhood that became the hypocenter of the atomic bombing, lost five family members as a result of the bombing. The book, his tribute to those who lived in his old neighborhood, was put together by a citizens’ group whose aim is to pass on the experiences and memories of those who lived through the A-bombing.\n\n“A lot of people were living in the area where the Peace Memorial Park is now, but all of those neighborhoods were destroyed by a single atomic bomb,” Mr. Moritomi said, explaining what motivated him to start drawing in his 60s. “The photographs from those days were destroyed by fire, and there are very few left. I thought if I drew pictures of the old neighborhood, young people could see what it used to look like.”\n\nThe house of Mr. Moritomi’s family was called “Tsunetomo.” It was located at 49 Saiku-machi, just east of the Motoyasu Bridge, which now leads to the Peace Memorial Park. His family ran a bedding shop there. The house his family moved to shortly before the atomic bombing was nearby at 19 Toriya-cho. Both of these addresses were in areas that are now part of Ote-machi.\n\nOn August 6, 1945, Mr. Moritomi, then a third-year student at Hiroshima Shipbuilding Industry School (now Hiroshima Commercial High School), was working as a mobilized student at a Mitsubishi plant in the western part of the city. After crawling out from under a roof that had fallen on him, he headed for home. He was able to reach the major downtown intersection in Kamiya-cho but was prevented from going further by the force of the flames.\n\nHe later interred ashes that had been found on the site of his home and that he tried to persuade himself were those of his 42-year-old father Shuichi; his two younger brothers; his grandmother, who had lived with them; and the niece of his mother, who had died of an illness. He and his elder brother, who had been discharged from the military, built a shack on the scorched earth and embarked on their postwar life. Mr. Moritomi was forced to drop out of college on account of poor health, but he took up selling textiles and later married and had children. After retiring he immersed himself in creating his pencil drawings.\n\n“What I recall is the happy times of my childhood,” Mr. Moritomi said. He has continued to draw the Hiroshima of bygone days so that his family and friends will not be forgotten. “It is my way of consoling their souls,” he said.\n\nHis drawings include a picture of the Hondori shopping district, which was lined with “lily of the valley” streetlights. He and his friends played leapfrog there in the evening as well as the daytime. Another drawing features the Motoyasu River, where they sometimes swam until it was pitch dark out. The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (now the Atomic Bomb Dome), where movies were occasionally shown, is the subject of another picture. Yet another depicts the army’s west parade ground (now the site of the old Hiroshima Municipal Stadium), where people did calisthenics in the summer and where fans cheered at the motorcycle races held there during the Shokon Festival in the fall.\n\nMr. Moritomi has drawn only two pictures of the aftermath of the bombing. He said the things he saw on August 6 were like “scenes from hell.” He still has no desire to draw pictures of what he saw that day.\n\nMr. Moritomi gave an account of his experiences of the bombing four years ago at the request of the Hiroshima Fieldwork Committee, whose members walk throughout the Peace Memorial Park. That prompted him to publish a book of drawings to accompany his story.\n\n“I would like people to walk around carrying Mr. Moritomi’s intricate drawings,” said Mikio Nakagawa, 52, a high school teacher and president of the committee. “I’m sure they would be able to sense the presence of those who died.”" ]

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[ "It's been a while since I've turned wrenches on a Malibu, but that changed today. My son and I started on his Malibu. He's just turned 15 and is really itching to get it done. This Malibu was given to him by my Dad. My Dad had it painted, re-did the interior and new weather stripping. He drove if for a couple years and parked it outside his house for a couple years. He then gave it to my son. So, we've got a pretty good base to start with. Stock 305/TH350.\n\nFor those that don't know, I'll give a quick run-down on the plans we have for this project.\n*Install 5.3L/4L65E from late model GM truck platform. Around 300hp.\n*Maintain EFI using stock computer setup.\n*Change Interior Color.\n*Install Bucket seats\n*Install Console with shifter. Haven't decided if I want to use a G-body console or get a later model out of something else (maybe a F-body).\n*Replace 2.41 gears with 3.23 gears (this is going to be plenty fast for a 16 year old)!!\n*Change wheels and tires (probably 17\").\n\nOf course, I'm taking pictures and documenting the whole process. We didn't get too much accomplished today, I need to get my engine hoist from my Dad's shop, and it's behind a ton of junk, so we just got everything ready to start the engine pull today. It's ready, so I gotta' get the engine hoist now. So, without further delay, here's some pictures from today's activities:", null, null, "A shot of my son. I just took this picture to aggrevate him, he doesn't like his picture taken.... How 'ya like those slick fender covers??? :lol:", null, "Here's Josh dropping the old exhaust. Notice the \"hack\" job done on the crossmember to get dual exhaust. This was done by a local exhaust shop that my Dad had install on the car when it belonged to him. The exhuast looks to be 2\" with turbo type mufflers with turn downs before the axle.", null, "Close up of the creative notching of the crossmember. :roll: This will go into the junk pile and be replaced with a lightweight Ice-member.", null, null, "This is the pile of stuff removed in preparation for the engine removal.", null, null, "The best part of the interior is the pristine dash from a Monte Carlo that was installed. Notice the \"pimp red\" door and seat coverings. We haven't decided on an interior color. My son says he likes black. We may go with that.... :-k Plans are to change interior color, remove the bench seat, install buckets and a console with shifter and replace some crusty plastic molding.\n\nOK, that's it for the first installment. Next step is pulling the motor and transmission. Stay tuned as we continue this project. We're hoping to have this all finished before his 16th birthday in October.\n\nI need to locate some parts. First on the priority list is the 5.3L/4L65E with computer and all supporting equipment possible. Also, trying to decide the best route on fuel pump. I'm thinking about getting a Monte Carlo or Buick Regal gas tank with in-tank fuel pump. Also need to get some software to tune and remove VATS and correct tire size/gear ratio information. After that, we'll start on the interior.\n\nlooking good! are them black seat belts i see?? i think the interior should match them if they are\n\nGlad to see you back in the game, Phillip.\nToggle signature\nDon't leave home without your Umbrella\n\nthat's really sweet, phillip! i like red malibus, can you tell?\nToggle signature\nstarting over....\n\ni've been waitin to see this one! glad to see y'all starting on it. should be a great experience to build it together.\nToggle signature\n\nThere is no escape and that's for sure\nThis is the end we wont take anymore\nSay goodbye to the world you live in\nYou've always been taking\nAnd now your giving.\n\nSOUNDS LIKE FUN, I HOPE THE BEST FOR YOU AND YOUR SON AND LONG LIVED MEMORIES\nToggle signature\nI NEED A NEW BU SOON\n\nAll that ceiling and no lift? lol.... Sounds like it's going to be a great project..looking forward to the progress.\nToggle signature\nG-Body T-Shirts\n>> Like us on Facebook for updates and free stuff\n\nYou must log in or register to reply here.\nSimilar threads", null ]

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[ "By Mike Rowbottom in London\n\nBy the time Kelly Holmes had been six months retired, and her daily elation at not having to go through the rigour of training had abated, she found herself asking a question: \"Who am I now?\"\n\nFour years on, it's a question she is still in the process of answering, one that seems constantly to be throwing up further questions as she splits her energies across a range of commitments that include television appearances, speaking engagements, presidency of Commonwealth Games England, and her ongoing project On Camp With Kelly, which is is backed by Aviva and which has now supported more than 60 promising British male and female middle distance athletes.\n\nBut as the woman who ended her competitive life as Olympic 800 and 1500 metres champion discovers her own path, she is now – through the DKH (Dame Kelly Holmes) Legacy Trust - helping other retired sports people to find theirs. And they in turn are engaged in motivating selected groups of young people.\n\nIt's all a bit like the Kevin Spacey film, Pass It On.\n\nThis week, the Trust, which has taken the best part of a year to create, faces two crucial tests of its effectiveness as it undertakes events in which youngsters in and will receive guidance and, perhaps, inspiration, from former sporting figures who have been specially trained in mentoring skills.\n\nIt is a prospect which clearly excites Holmes as she warms to the topic in the airy office overlooking s in which the Trust is based.\n\nThat said, she is still clearly carrying an adrenaline buzz from her morning’s involvement in recording the UKTV programme Market Kitchen along with two of her runners from the On Camp scheme.\n\nWhile her appearance has been part of a conscious effort to highlight sensible nutritional choices for young people, and particularly young athletes, Holmes is unabashedly triumphant about the fact that she has just won the Lemon Challenge.\n\nYes. The Lemon Challenge. Peeling and eating an entire lemon as quickly as possible.\n\nWhile that truth has always been obvious to Holmes, and anyone who has known her, other truths have taken longer to emerge.\n\nOne of the hardest, in the space of the last year, has been the realisation that just because you desperately want to do something to help your fellow sports people, and to use their expertise to widen the horizons of young people, it doesn't mean everyone will clap and cheer you all the way.\n\nIn the space of the last year, Holmes says, she has discovered the more repressive, controlling side to sporting politics.\n\n\"I’ve really got to know the world of sport, and its politics with a small 'p',” she says, her face darkening at the memory. \"I've had a lot of battles to fight with people who didn't want me to be in their space. If you start something, people think you might be treading on their toes, or doubling up what they do.\"\n\nI've had a lot of knock-backs, some of them from people you would have expected to be supportive. It's been hurtful and demoralising at times. But me being me I thought: 'No. I really believe in this.'\"", null, "Over the years, the world has witnessed that determination manifested in Holmes's track performances.\n\nThis is not just the athlete who won double gold at the 2004 Athens Games.\n\nThis is the athlete who forced herself to the 800 metres finish line at the 1996 Atlanta Games with a stress fracture, finishing fourth, before spending the next seven weeks in plaster.\n\nAnd who won bronze at the Sydney 2000 Olympics despite managing just six weeks of training in preparation because of a virus.\n\nHolmes's belief has been conspicuously backed in some key areas, however. \"Sport has been very supportive,\" she says. \"And we have also appreciated the support of the British Olympic Association. We are always on the look-out for partnerships with other organisations.\"\n\nSo it is that the Trust now finds itself established, with a mission statement to \"inspire young people to find and fulfil their potential in sport and in life through our workforce of elite sports performers.\"\n\n\"This is a big week for us,\" Holmes says as she looks ahead to the Trust’s two upcoming events. \"This thing is in my name, and I desperately want it to work out well.\"\n\nin Gorton, near the City of Stadium where Holmes won Commonwealth 1500m gold in 2002, will host a two-day Backing Talent event - sponsored by BT, for whom Holmes is an Ambassador - designed to inspire some of the region's most promising athletes.\n\nAt the same time, a group of four former competitors who have received specialised mentoring skills through the Trust will embark upon an even tougher challenge in Knowsley, as they work with a group of young people who are not on training programmes, in education or employment, in the pilot scheme of the Get On Track initiative.\n\n\"This a massive pilot scheme for us,\" Holmes says. \"We will measure our success by how many of the young people we retain, because some of these youngsters come from really tough backgrounds and they are quite likely just to say 'F-off, I’m off…'\"\n\n\"Making a decision to retire after being an elite performer is something that many competitors are scared to do – because they have to address what to do next.\n\n\"Many sports people have put 10 or 20 years into achieving excellence during their careers. Do we care about them?\n\n\"What we are saying to them now through the Trust is, 'Hey, come over here, we will help you make the transition into a new career where you can give back some of the skills and discipline you have built up.'\n\n\"When we started talking to sports people who had either retired or were planning to, we asked them what they would really like to do next. A lot of them said that working with young people was something they felt passionate\n\n\"The climate for getting sponsorship is quite difficult at the moment, as we all know. And we couldn't see sponsors just racing to support ex-sports people.\n\n\"But once the recipient of the charity is young people, it can make it worthwhile for companies to come aboard. The whole thing was a process that evolved.\"\n\nIn the same way, Holmes, whose dedication to her athletics goals was as unwavering as any competitor you could name, has found her own sense of self evolving.\n\n\"People ask me, 'What do you do now?' And I don't know the short answer to it. Do I say I’m a business woman? I feel like I’m 20 different people, or one person doing 20 different jobs. I don’t know what the answer is. So I just try to be me.\"\n\nContact the writer of this story at [email protected] .\n\nMike Rowbottom, one of Britain's most talented sportswriters, has covered the last five Summer and four Winter Olympics for The Independent. Previously he has worked for the Daily Mail, The Times, The Observer, the Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian. He is now chief feature writer for insidethegames." ]

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[ "The Biggest Mystery of Bleach: Who is Hollow Ichigo?\n\nIn Bleach, Ichigo Kurosaki gains the power of a shinigami and is introduced to the world of Soul Society. But along the way, he awakens a darker side known as Hollow Ichigo. Let's take a deeper look at this alternate persona!\n\nBleach is one of the biggest series to come out in the last 15 years. Despite having an enormous cast of characters, the story always comes back to Ichigo Kurosaki, a boy born with the ability to see ghosts who accidentally becomes a shinigami. But in the quest to master his newfound abilities, he experiences an unexpected side effect: an alternate persona called Hollow Ichigo. Who is Hollow Ichigo, and how did he come into existence?\n\nWhat is a Hollow?", null, "In the world of Bleach, humans normally pass into Soul Society when they die. But sometimes they can't move on for various reasons and choose to remain in the living world. Unfortunately, many ghosts can't cope with the inability to interact with the living and become corrupted.\n\nSpirits have a Chain of Fate, which connects their souls to their human bodies. As a ghost succumbs to corruption, their Chain of Fate begins to corrode. When the chain completely falls apart, a hole opens up in the center of their chest, signifying that they've become a Hollow.\n\nThe Believed Origin of Hollow Ichigo", null, "Bleach begins with Ichigo becoming a substitute shinigami. But in reality, this is a crime in Soul Society and he ends up losing those powers. In order to reclaim them, Kisuke Urahara puts Ichigo through rigorous training, during which his Chain of Fate is severed. As a result, Ichigo has no choice but to awaken his shinigami abilities or transform into a Hollow.", null, "After surviving Urahara's training, Ichigo gains a Hollow mask. But because he can take it off at will, everyone assumes everything is fine and he's not a true Hollow. However, it soon becomes apparent that Ichigo has a darker side that comes out when his life is threatened.\n\nThrough many fights in Bleach, Hollow Ichigo saves the life of his true self but as the intensity of these battles increase, this darker side grows more powerful. Soon, Hollow Ichigo begins to make attempts to overpower Ichigo and take over his body. Ichigo needs the strength of Hollow Ichigo to defeat his enemies, but can he handle the risks posed by using his darker side?\n\nThe Mystery is Solved…or Is It?", null, "Throughout the majority of the story, everyone assumed that Hollow Ichigo was a side effect of Urahara's training. But as Bleach proceeds toward its conclusion and we learn more about Ichigo's parents and the eternal enemy of the shinigami, it becomes obvious that things aren't so simple.\n\nWhatever the truth may be, it's a sure bet that Hollow Ichigo will play a major role in Bleach's dramatic finale. Only time will tell what it is!" ]

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[ null, "Capital C Concerts promoter Phil Sprey said it had been \"a terrible day for sales\", but had to be put in perspective.\n\n\"Today was the first public day and there was an expectation that Canterbury and other main South Island regions would be the first to join the rush for tickets. I wouldn't have been surprised if we had sold out. But, for obvious reasons, that didn't occur,\" he said yesterday.\n\n\"The biggest population of people outside Dunedin was Canterbury. So, once Dunedin ratepayers [had] had the opportunity, the biggest community, we thought, would be Canterbury. But we've had hardly any sales from Canterbury today and you can understand why.\"\n\nA scheduled television, radio and newspaper media campaign had also been affected, he said.\n\n\"We had advertising starting today [yesterday] on CTV and radio and most of the major newspapers, but because of the earthquake, obviously, a lot of commercials were cut and ads were dropped.\"\n\nMr Sprey said there was \"around 20% of seats left\", which he was hopeful would quickly sell when life got back to normal.\n\n\"Time will tell. But there's nothing you can do.\n\n\"Losing a few sales is a hell of a lot better than losing your life,\" he said." ]

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[ null, "Geylang United Football Club made an appearance at Tampines Central this afternoon in an effort to reach out to the community and drum up support for the club and S.League.\n\nThe team split into groups and went around one of the most crowded neighbourhood central in Singapore to distribute promotional flyers and pong bong sticks to the public.\n\nThe Eagles will begin their campaign on 19 February 2012, Sunday, when they travel up north to Woodlands stadium. The first home game of the season will be played on 11 March 2012, Sunday, against Home United at Bedok Stadium." ]