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Suitable for vegetarians. Smiths Bacon Fries taste delicious as they are made from the finest ingredients. Ideal with all types of drinks, they are best when consumed immediately after opening.
What are Smiths Bacon Fries?
A British pub classic, Smiths Bacon Fries are a much-loved savoury snack boasting an extra crunchy bacon taste. … This mouth-watering cereal snack has an authentic smoky bacon flavour. Made by Smiths, Bacon Fries are still the best bacon snacks around.
Are scampi fries vegetarian?
Smiths Scampi Fries are a cereal snack with a delicious scampi and lemon taste. A very popular savoury snack made with only the finest ingredients. They taste delicious and are suitable for vegetarians.
Are Smiths Scampi Fries gluten free?
May Contain Barley, May Contain Celery, May Contain Cereals Containing Gluten, Contains Milk, May Contain Mustard, Contains Soya, Contains Wheat.
What happened scampi fries?
An issue with the production of Smiths Scampi Fries has led to dwindling supplies and publicans reporting them being almost impossible to stock. And with no date for the salty snack’s production being up and running again, they could disappear altogether in the near future.
Are Frazzles vegan?
Are Frazzles vegan? Frazzles aren’t suitable for vegans, but not because they include bacon or meat-derived flavourings. They actually include two types of dried dairy-based milk ingredients – whey and lactose powder.
Are Smiths bacon chips vegetarian?
The natural flavour listed in these Smith’s chips are vegetarian suitable. Not all natural flavours use animal products.
Are bacon fries crisps?
A classic crunchy crisp Smiths Bacon Fries are one of the most popular crisp packets here at Netcrisps, and rightly so.
Where are scampi fries made?
Scampi Fries are produced by Walkers under the Smiths brand. The firm has a Leicester factory as well as sites in Coventry, Lincoln and Skelmersdale.
Are Doritos gluten-free?
There is only one flavor of Doritos that Frito Lay lists as being gluten-free is DORITOS® Toasted Corn Tortilla Chips. That means that for many flavors of Doritos there is a chance for cross-contamination during the manufacturing process. …
Are Pringles gluten-free?
If you’re a Pringles fan we’re afraid we have some bad news. At the time of this writing, all Pringles contain wheat (usually wheat starch) which definitely make them NOT gluten-free. We’re sorry to burst your bubble but you should avoid Pringles if you need to eat gluten-free.
Are french fries gluten-free?
Potatoes are mostly gluten-free. However, at restaurants, if they are cooked in a fryer with battered fried foods that contain gluten there is a problem. It means the oil is contaminated and nothing prepared in that fryer is considered gluten-free.
Do Smith’s crisps still exist?
Smith’s Potato Crisps Ltd. … Many of the products previously owned by Smith’s became labelled as Walkers, although there are still several Smith’s branded crisps sold by Walkers. Current Smiths brands include Smiths Crisps, Frazzles, Chipsticks, Snaps and Savoury Selection (Bacon Fries and Scampi Fries).
Are Frazzles the same as bacon fries?
Are Bacon fries and Frazzles the same product? They’re both bacon flavoured crunchy snacks of similar shape&appearance and made by the same company. Answer: No, they’re not.
Are Smiths crisps Walkers?
Smith’s Crisps UK is run by Walkers, which in turn is a subsidiary of Pepsico.


text: Sometimes, things happen in life that cause you to throw away everything you were working on and start over. This past week, I did just that. I tossed out my ordinary anecdotal article, and I did my best to write this letter and use my platform in a way that I could be proud of. To the adults of Wilton, Connecticut, and the United States of America: As a senior in high school, I am aware of how much life I have yet to live. I have not purchased my own car, I do not know how much it costs to rent an apartment in New York City, and I could not answer a question about America\u2019s health care system even if I tried. Older generations sometimes pass my peers and me off as not knowing what they talk about, and they\u2019re right. We do not have the same bounty of life experience. However, our generation has had the distinct displeasure of growing up in a world where mass shootings are ever present in our malls, our movie theaters, and our schools. We have known heartbreak; we turn on our television screens and watch body counts increase. We have known fear; we recognize the backpack brands of students just like us, sprinting from their classrooms. We have known broken promises; we hear the words \u201cnever again\u201d spoken to us every time a mass shooting occurs, yet as soon as we heal from one attack, another occurs. Some of us have grown up with a repressed feeling of \u201cwhat if,\u201d with our eyes darting to locate the nearest exit every time we go see a film or fidget in discomfort during school lock-down drills. When the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary occurred over five years ago, I had just turned 13 years old. At the time, I did not know what an automatic weapon was, but I knew that, 30 minutes away, children had died. Young kids, some five and six years old, were now forced to confront the darkness of mass shootings. Suddenly, life experience becomes relative when the survivors of the Newtown shooting had to grieve their friends and family before the young students even reached the third grade. The aftermath of the Florida attack has been rather divisive politically, and disappointingly so. In an effort to be transparent, I fully support stricter gun control legislation and I will proudly participate in the nationwide school walkout on March 14. I look forward to joining the incredible students and survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in their fight. I watched the video of senior Emma Gonzalez speaking passionately and eloquently at a gun control rally in Parkland, Fla. She spoke with the wisdom of someone who knows pain and wears her grief proudly as a sign of her desire to fight for what she believes is right. Her voice, along with her classmates, demands to be heard. Regardless of whether or not people agree with her, she has the courage to speak out and try to catalyze change, something that defies age and defines maturity. Adults are starting to take notice, as hashtags erupt across social media platforms and dinner table conversations are taken over by impassioned teenagers ready to take action. Representative Jim Himes is certainly paying attention, as seen by his attendance at a meeting organized by Isabella Segall that discussed gun control. I was not able to make the meeting, but everyone I spoke to left feeling more validated and heard. The bravery of students like Isabella commands the attention of her peers, and dozens of students showed up to the meeting ready to engage in debate. So, to the adults: please listen to us. Hear our ideas, regardless of how idealistic they might seem. Join us in our conversations, and bring your years of experience to help us reach out to politicians and fight for change. This is a difficult, controversial, and painful conversation to have, but we have run out of time. Let us run to a solution. My generation is ready to mobilize, and we are not afraid to take action. Are you? Sincerely, Lydia HoffmanSenior at Wilton High School Lydia Hoffman is a senior at Wilton High School. She shares this column with five classmates.

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Hyperreal Film Club & Switched On Present:
On February 9, 2019, the Lifted Traces team returned with a gigantic, immersive film experience for one of the most psychedelic animated tales ever made, Fantastic Planet. A supergroup featuring Joey Postiglione, Patrick Edwards and Charlie Russell, performed a once-in-a-lifetime, concrete-shaking, brain-searing original score in accompaniment of the film. The Lifted Traces installation team transformed the 8,000 sq ft warehouse space located at the Austin School of FIlm into a pop-up Fantastic Planet-themed movie theater.
Photos by Illyana Bocanegra

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text: According to immunology's prevailing paradigm, immunity is based on self/nonself discrimination and thus requires a construction of identity. Two orientations vie for dominance: The original conception, conceived in the context of infectious diseases, regards the organism as insular and autonomous, an entity that requires defense of its borders. An alternate view places the organism firmly in its environment in which both benign and onerous encounters occur. On this latter relational account, active tolerance allows for cooperative relationships with other organisms in the larger ecological economy. These contending orientations -one derived from biomedicine and the other from the ecological sciences- have drawn the attention of social scientists and culture critics. On the one hand, feminists have portrayed immune theory as based upon borrowed social notions of identity that reflect male aggressive values and thus distort more balanced accounts of immunity; and, on the other hand, other commentary projects immune theory as a framework in which analysis of Western societies putatively reveals analogous patterns of 'self' and 'other' interactions, where autoimmunity and immunization are understood as expressions of the insular understanding of identity. Here, a meta-interpretation is presented that shows how these critiques place the immune self on a spectrum stretching from its formulation as an autonomous agent, a modernist conception of the independent individual, to a postmodern portrayal in which this conception of selfhood has been deconstructed. Accordingly, immunology is drawn into a wide-ranging debate about agency, where differing interpretations of immunity serves as a template in which competing understandings of human social intercourse is modeled.


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Snopa Ft Stompion – Nimelewa
As one of the very talented upcoming music crooner and Kigoma based artist goes by the name Snopa is here again with a brand new song crowned Nimelewa featuring Stompion.
Related: Iyanii – Furaha
In addition, Nimelewa is new banger you don’t want to miss in your playlist. Snopa update our devices with this hit song. Download, stream and share with other music folks.

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The Sinag Maynila 2018 Festival is a Festival for Independent film that gathers different filmmakers from all around the globe. We are proud to announce that MAHAL, 2017 (short doc of 26min) was awarded as the best documentary of its category. All the members of the jury voted for Mahal, 2017 for its different style: an autoethnographic experimental film, originally produced in the course Visual Anthroplogy.
(Mahal, 2017) is an autoethnographic experimental documentary composed of shot and donated footages about a millennial ilustrado and her life as a scholar from the 'Third World' being confronted with 'First World' experiences. It tackles issues of identity, displacement, the spectre of comparison, 2nd class citizenship, nationality and the privileged position of belonging in the academe, all disguised in the everyday struggles of sustaining a long distance relationship. Seen from the point of view of the one who writes to a lover left behind, (Mahal, 2017) serves as a reference to the daily battles of a scholar who is burdened with the choice of reconciling the need to find solutions to the social problems of her country and the desire to live a reactionary life with the person she loves.
Written and directed by: Janine Santos
Director of Photography: Hussein Butoyi
Editor: Jen Derillo
(all CADES 2017-2018 students)
more info at: https://www.facebook.com/Mahal2O17/


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If one is thinking of purchasing a non-hybrid car which guarantee less fuel intake and more comfort, then one should buy the non hybrid car Toyota Yaris. With 29mpg in the city and 36mpg on highways, the Yaris by Toyota is most often associated with being a quick and cost-effective fuel consumption vehicle.Good fuel efficeint and powerful engine with non-automatic shifting.
Although it is a small car, the Toyota Yaris is also one of the safer cars in its size category. Some of the safety features include: advanced driver and front seat passenger airbag system, anti-lock brake system, electronic brake force distribution system, 3-point passenger seatbelts, additional seatbelt pretensioners with force limiters for the front row seats, seatbelts with automatic locking retractors, system for directly monitoring tire pressure, front and rear energy absorbing crumple areas and steering column, upper trim made with impact-dissipating material, top and lower tether anchors for child restraint, maintenance warning light, low washer fluid warning light, and center high-mount brake light.
The interior of the Toyota Yaris is simultaneously roomy and flexible so that its occupants will be comfortable. On the interior side, the features of Toyota Yaris are black-face optitron speedometer, LCD odometer, twin trip meter and fuel level gauge, warning lights for the airbag, seatbelt, low-fuel level, door-ajar, battery, check engine, oil pressure, and the brake, digital clock, tilt steering wheel, CFC-free air conditioning, interior map light, fabric-trimmed 4-way adjustable front seats, folding rear bench seat, covered rear storage deck box, lift back storage cover, remote fuel-filler door and hood releases, trunk lamp, and12V power outlets.
An aerodynamic multireflector halogen car lamp, sporatic wind shield wipers, color-coded external mirrors, roof antenna, and 14 inch can be found on the outside of the vehicle You’ll find that the wheels are made of steel, with P175/65R14 tires and full covers.

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Zach Britton talks about his struggles before tonight's start
Rookie Zach Britton, who has allowed a combined 17 runs (13 earned) and didn’t made it out of the first inning in either of his last two big-league starts, will take the hill tonight against the Kansas City Royals.
He’s been trying to figure out what went so terribly wrong in Saturday’s bashing by the New York Yankees (nine runs, six earned in 1/3 inning).
“I was looking at my velocity, it’s still the same. My movement on the pitches isn’t the same,” Britton said. “So now I got to concentrate more on throwing to locations instead of just letting my sinker go.”
After that start, several veteran Orioles took Britton aside, including shortstop J.J. Hardy and closer Kevin Gregg.
Britton and Gregg spoke for about two hours Sunday, locked up in an intense conversation in one corner of the Yankee Stadium clubhouse.
“He’s had success as a starter and a reliever in the big leagues. So being able to pick his brain about certain things I need to do,” Britton said about the talk. “All the older guys I’ve talked to they feel like it’s more of a mental approach, a preparation thing for me.”
Britton, 23, hasn’t had much failure in his pro career – certainly not for years. Dealing with it now, after a 6-1 start to his big-league career, has been a real challenge.
“You can only get by on talent for so long in the big leagues, you’ve got guys who have played this game for 10 years. Especially in this division, the teams we are facing, you got to make adjustments. You got to be really prepared,” Britton said. “It’s not just preparing yourself the day before the start, but what are you doing two or three days before that start? I’m starting to develop a routine -- things that I’m going to do and have a reason to do.”
Getting hammered the way he did by the Yankees and Red Sox certainly can crush one’s confidence. But he is hoping he can make it a learning experience.
“I think sometimes it takes outings like the last two that really kind of hit you to say, ‘OK, I really do need a better plan, I need a better routine.’ And not just going out on the mound and expecting good results because you have good stuff.”
He’s been working a lot – and, really, talking a lot – with pitching coach Rick Adair. And he’s hoping tonight against Kansas City can help him turn things around.
“It’s tough because you feel like you are letting your team down. Especially Buck (Showalter) and Rick, they’ve put a lot of faith in me. And you feel like you are letting them down, and that’s tough,” Britton said. “You see now when you are struggling who comes to you and who kind of shies away, and I feel like most of the team has been really supportive. Through all of this, you learn about your teammates and yourself. I think there’s a lot of positives coming out of this, it s just a matter of time before I get over the hump.
“Hopefully it’s (Thursday).”


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Thanks so much to everyone who has read and commented on my Demon's Souls Review. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive — a huge honour, I must say — and the continued support from the community has really motivated me to keep writing passionate and debate-inducing game reviews that will, hopefully, keep you coming back for more. Thanks guys, you're awesome!
Now, as for my plans for my next piece: unfortunately, due to uni assignments and impending deadlines, I won't have any time in the forthcoming week to work on my next review *sob*. Because of this it might be a while before I can realistically post a second review, but that doesn't mean I can't think about what to do next.
That's where you guys come in! I'm happy to take suggestions for the game you'd like me to cover in my next post. I know a few of you have already suggested Dark Souls, which makes sense considering I just reviewed Demon's Souls, but remember that I am a poor university student who cannot afford to buy all the latest games even though I wish I could. So if possible, take a gander at my game collection to have a look at the games that I do own, otherwise limit your suggestions to fairly well-known current-gen games, that aren't brand-spanking new, to maximize the chances of me having actually played them.
Now is a good time to note that I own a PS3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and a PC, but no Xbox 360 — so no Xbox exclusives I'm afraid (sorry 360 gamers!)
Right then, before I sign-off and get back to work, I'll place my own suggestion up here to get the ball rolling. In anticipation of the soon to be released Skyward Sword, I was thinking of doing a review of a game from my personal favourite franchise: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Would anyone be interested in reading a review of this game?
Thanks for reading and 'til next time!
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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India is famous for it's large railway network.. passing through 28 states... each one has it's own story to tell...so much diversified....go for it....it's wonderful....visit god's own country(Kerala)
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start from Pune. see pune cantonment and surrounding area. via mumbai visit and see Maratha Forts and Palaces, old battlegrounds, wildlife of western ghats and forests of Maharashtra. India has many beautiful buildings with Superb architecture, many strong forts and marvelous palaces. See Bibi ka Makbara at Aurangabad and Char MInar and palace at Hyderabad then. Travel towards North and start from Jhansi, see the fort and palace. Go to Sikri and Agra. See TAJ MAHAL, the greatest building in India, wonder of the world. All buildings of Agra, forts and of Sikri, Then visit buildings of Meerut and Delhi. Take a guide with you. and forests,, see wildlife and our culture. see Kasjmir, paradise of earth and beauty there.

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It’s been a while since I’ve come to press with the Five Bands You Should Know, but with good reason. I wanted this piece to be more than just some monthly thing I generated; I wanted it to have real presence, to matter in a music world that largely doesn’t matter anymore. It took a few months for me to find five bands that I was so incredibly amped on that I was forced to share them with you. These are different bands, musically, texturally and not all of them are still around. Regardless, I felt you should know them and, more importantly, their music.
Sounds Like: Drum loop DJs on acid while playing with synths and soundscapes
For Fans Of: Ambient Weirdness
Label: IAMSOUND Records
Discography: EPs: Yes I Smoke Crack, Water LPs: King Of Night
The band has elements of noise, ethereal synth soundscapes and bad rapping. Yep, you read that right, bad rapping. The rapping is hidden beneath voice distortion and general sound manipulation so it comes off more as the ramblings of a crazy man put to drug fueled drum loops. To call Salem atmospheric would be an understatement, yet their not exactly experimental. They straddle a line between complete creative honesty and crafted image.
Those in-between spaces contain some of the most interesting and wonderful music I’ve heard in a long time. It’s like the soundtrack to Tron and Blade Runner as performed by John Carpenter during his Assault On Precinct 12 phase. Yes Salem gets monotonous and yes the band pushes the face of pretention to the breaking point. That being said, they’re still making really interesting music.
Solo Career: 2010
Sounds Like: Psychedelic singer/songwriter with a melancholy acoustic vibe
For Fans Of: Roky Erickson, Bob Mould, Iron & Wine, Devendra Banhart
Label: Tee Pee Records
Discography: LPs: Jason Simon
Hailing from D.C., Jason Simon is best known as the vocalist for psychedelic/stoner band Dead Meadow. In his first solo outing, Simon calls upon that love of psychedelic rock but filters it through a low–fi acoustic sound. This is honest singer/songwriter work at its absolute finest. Simon’s voice resonates with a world-weary melancholy that also calls in hints of Tom Petty and Devendra Banhart. His self-titled debut album exists in the grey area between folk and blues. It’s hard to pump out a unique sound with this genre but Simon does it in spades.
The production on the album is minimal, but without resorting to cliché “indie” ideas on it. Simon feels like he’s right beside you, singing his heart out. I also love how Simon busts out into these guitar parts that move outside what he’s doing without losing the style. It’s clear from this record that the roads of musical expression for Jason Simon to walk are limitless.
THE BUDOS BAND
Sounds Like: Afro-Funk, Latin, Soul, World Beat and African Tribal
For Fans Of: The Lafayette Afro Rock Band, The Bamboos, Booker T & The M.G.’s, Seventies Blaxploitation Soundtracks,
Label: Daptone Records
Discography: EPs: The Budos Band EP, LPs: The Budos Band I, The Budos Band II, The Budos Band III
With members stretching anywhere from ten to thirteen in number, The Budos Band are one of the best instrumental bands in a long time. Combining elements of Afro-Funk, Jazz, Latin Swing, Rock, Soul, and World Music, The Budos Band have created a sound that is nostalgically unique. At the same time you can feel a true seventies vibe to what they do, The Budos Band drop some kind of other influence in there that turns the song on it’s ear. Groovy rhythms mix with off time stuff, soulful horns blow through and funk keyboards hold everything together. What The Budos Band does is so intricate, so tight, that you never miss the vocals.
To use a bad pun, lots of people fake the funk. Not The Budos Band. These guys are as real deal as it gets, even if they do hail from Staten Island, not exactly the funk capitol of the world. There is no real “leader” of The Budos Band because that’s not what the band is about. What’s happening here is some of the best in mixing genres and styles into a world-class party. The Budos Band not only play the funk, they bring it.
Sounds Like: Electronic Drone Ambient
For Fans Of: Worm Is Green, This Mortal Coil, Coil,
Label: Editions Mego
Putting an end to the idea that nothing good comes out of Cleveland, I give you Emeralds. This is a band that focuses on instrumental drone and Electronica. At times artsy and buoyant, sometimes despondent and serious, Emeralds combine an obvious love of minimalism with some great songwriting. What Emeralds does has a structure to it, a quiet beauty that washes over you. It’s like sitting inside a car during a rainstorm, oddly calming while constantly changing shape and strength. Don’t get me wrong, this is synth pop Electronica stuff to the fullest, but Emeralds keeps it interesting with that intangible talent that makes all great bands what they are.
With over forty recordings to their credit, Emeralds is constantly reinventing their sound. The band’s newest work comes across like love themes for Daleks or the background music to an informative DVD explaining time travel and trips through other dimensions. Emeralds use a lot of colors and textures in what they do. I don’t say that to be pretentious (well, maybe a little) but because it’s true. If you shut your eyes you can see Emeralds music, you can also feel the textures going on. What they do is an all around artistic experience. They also opened for Throbbing Gristle, which is fucking cool.
Formed: 1981 (Ended 1988)
Sounds Like: No Wave, Afro Punk, Electro Funk
For Fans Of: Bush Tetras, The Peech Boys, The Lounge Lizards
Discography: LPs: Yo!, Jams, The Sound Of Konk, Konk The Definitive Collection
As part of the post-punk, No Wave and disco funk scene, Konk is a rare gem that too few have heard about. A masterful mix of weird No Wave sensibilities, pure funk and the 80s downtown art scene, Konk always seemed on the precipice of making it big but never got their shot. This is a band who knew how to write living music. Everything they did had breath and life to it, the kind of life that existed in downtown New York during the era when the area actually mattered. Konk made punk funk freak out music that people could listen to, dance to or just become entranced by.
Historically the band is no joke either. Conceived by avant-jazz artist Dana Vicek, Konk also enlisted conga player Angel Quinones who went on to play with Jimmy Buffet and Shannon Dawson who played with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the band Gray (as well as becoming Rasario Dawson’s uncle). Most well known was trumpet player Richard Edson who provided the drums for Sonic Youth’s first album before going into acting. Appearing in Stranger Than Paradise and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Dawson is best known as the sweet and amiable pizza guy in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing.


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The oxidation of TiC powders was non-isothermally carried out by heating up to 900 °C at a rate of 5°C min−1 and at an oxygen pressure of 2–60 kPa, using a simultaneous thermogravimetric analysis-differential thermal analysis-mass spectroscopy (TGA-DTA-MS) apparatus. It was found that oxidation was divided into four stages, I to IV. Stage I, covering the oxidation fraction, α, 0–20%, was probably due to formation of oxycarbide (TiCxO1−x, 0 < x<0.5) with slight heat and CO2 evolution. Oxidation in stages II and III at 20–60% was affected by oxygen pressure; the higher pressure giving rise to very sharp exothermic and CO2 evolution peaks in stage II, which are correlated with the formation of anatase. Oxidation in stage III proceeded gradually with increasing rutile phase. The sample amount also exerted a similar effect on oxidation as the oxygen pressure.
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R&B singer Erykah Badu’s decision to perform for two African heads of state who have faced criticism over their human rights records has sparked a backlash among advocates.
The Grammy Award winner is scheduled to perform during a Gambian music festival that begins in the West African country on Friday.
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, who described gay men as “vermin” during a February speech that commemorated the country’s independence from the U.K., is scheduled to formally open the event on Saturday. The long-time African president during the aforementioned speech also said the acronym LGBT “can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria and tuberculosis; all of which are detrimental to human existence.”
Badu’s trip to Gambia is scheduled to take place less than a month after she sang at a lavish birthday party for Swazi King Msawti, III.
The Swazi Observer reported Badu gave Mswati a $100 bill with a “special stone that she said would uplift His Majesty’s spirits when he was feeling down” during the April 24 event that took place at one of the monarch’s numerous palaces.
“I am so happy to be in the country,” she told Mswati, according to the newspaper. “This is my second time in Swaziland and the last time I was here there were a lot of women dancing in a forest. I love being in Swaziland.”
Pedro Pizano, a former Human Rights Foundation staffer, and Jeffrey Smith of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights noted in a Slate.com op-ed that Swaziland has faced repeated criticism over a host of issues including violent crackdowns against pro-Democracy demonstrators and human rights advocates and the imprisonment of journalists.
A U.N. report notes that up to an estimated 28 percent of people between 15-49 in the landlocked African country between South Africa and Mozambique lived with the virus in 2012. Mswati’s brother in 2010 sparked outrage among Swazi HIV/AIDS advocates when he said pharmaceutical companies and condom manufacturers had “exaggerated” the epidemic’s threat.
“By literally lending their voices to these absurd spectacles, performers like Badu endorse these brutal regimes, providing a veil of legitimacy to otherwise tarnished and compromised leaders,” wrote Pizano and Smith in their op-ed. “These headline events are most often used for domestic propaganda purposes, propping up unabashed human rights abusers like Mswati.”
Badu on Twitter questioned whether Pizano was “gay” as he pressed her to respond to questions about Swaziland’s human rights record — she proceeded to refer to him as “Satan.”
“Devils are easy to spot in any color,” Badu later tweeted to Smith.
She proceeded to describe Smith as “racist” and a “monkey.”
Badu also rebuked others who have urged her not to perform in Gambia.
Poof! “@Fatushow: @mamasarr @fatbellybella @oprah @eonline @UncleRUSH don’t perform for a dictator Erykah, he kills his people”
— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) May 4, 2014
Badu responded to the Washington Blade’s request for comment on Sunday via her Twitter account.
@mklavers81 u too late bro.. Read the feed.
— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) May 4, 2014
“Erykah Badu has the basic human right to speak and to sing wherever she wants, unfortunately that is not a right that ordinary Swazis or Gambians have,” Smith told the Blade on Monday. “Freedom of expression, assembly, association, and freedom of the press are severely restricted in both of these countries.”
Badu is the latest U.S. musician who has faced criticism for performing for world leaders with questionable human rights records.
Mariah Carey reportedly received $1 million to perform at a 2009 New Year’s Day party on the French Caribbean island of St. Barthélemy that one of the sons of then-Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi hosted. She later apologized, but she reportedly received another $1 million last December for a private concert for Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos last December.
Jennifer Lopez last June apologized for singing at Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow’s birthday party. Human Rights Watch has described the former Soviet republic’s government as “among the most repressive in the world.”
Beyoncé — who donated the $1 million she received for performing at a Gaddafi family party in Italy in 2007 to charity — and Jay-Z last year faced criticism from Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and other U.S. lawmakers after they traveled to Cuba.
“It is incredibly irresponsible for public figures like Erykah Badu to in effect pay respect to notorious and horrendous human rights abusers like King Mswati and Yahya Jammeh,” Smith told the Blade. “It’s a slap to the face to their many victims — those starving, those in prison, and the thousands in exile — and it sets a horrible example. Her actions and her defense of those actions are unacceptable.”
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Working girl star Melanie Griffith65, spent the day running errands in Beverly Hills with her daughter, Stella Banderas, 26, on October 20. The blonde beauty opted for comfort as she rocked a white long sleeve shirt, ripped blue jeans and gray Birkenstock sandals. Melanie was also seen wearing a pair of white lace fingerless gloves and brown sunglasses to protect her eyes from the bright Los Angeles sun. The 65-year-old completed her casual look by tying her golden locks into a loose top knot with her bangs styled at the front.
Her 26-year-old daughter, who Mel shares with her ex, Antonio Banderas, 62, looked super stylish for the day with her mom. Stella paired her black jeans with a sleeveless white camisole top and black open toe sandals. The brunette beauty also blended in with Melanie’s hairstyle as she also wore her locks with bangs in front. Notably, Mel’s Spain-born daughter wore brown sunglasses that sat low on the bridge of her nose. Finally, Stella topped off her chic ensemble with a fashionable gold necklace.
Melanie’s day with Stella comes just a week after she attended the premiere of Jamie Lee Curtis’s new movie, Halloween ends, on October 13. The 65-year-old took to Instagram to share a sweet snap of her giving Jamie a big kiss on the cheek. “@jamieleecurtis I love this woman so much! Long loving history we share! Congratulations Jamie!!”, Melanie captioned the post. In the photo, both iconic stars looked chic in trouser suits, Jamie wearing a monochromatic look in white, while Melanie opted for a gray checkered suit.
Just last month, Stella celebrated her 26th birthday on September 24th. Her mother took to Instagram to share a photo of the two and write her lovely daughter a birthday message. “Happy birthday my beautiful baby!! I love you with all my heart and soul. You are magical! Thank you for choosing me to be your Mama!”, Mel captioned the post. And a month before that, the Lolita actress celebrated her own birthday on August 9. She also shared a birthday photo with her cake that day with the caption, “My 65th birthday dinner was absolutely fantastic. I am so blessed to have, and so grateful for, my family and my friends. Laughter, love and friendliness.”
Stella’s mother was married to Antonio for almost 20 years as they got married in 1996 and officially separated in 2015. However, Melanie was previously married to Miami Vice star Don Johnson72, from 1989 to 1996. Together they welcomed one daughter, Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson33, in 1989. Before that, Melanie was married to Sharp actor Steven Bauer65, from 1981 to 1989. Steven and Melanie share one son, Alexander Bauer37.


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✤ Chick Digs Red ✤
Red is exuberant. Some scientists think it’s the first color we "see" in the womb, but the fun doesn’t stop there! Everyone looks wonderful in a red room. Your skin glows. An instant lift! Chinese red, Pompeian red, American-flag red…so many cultures have embraced it, and they can't all be wrong! Alessandra has rarely done a home without a touch of red. It sparks up a room and gives it life. But if you’re wary of color, pick out just one element, like the lampshades or the pillows, to introduce a pop.
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"Most people find red exciting. I think it's calming."
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Shots of red and black add drama to a neutral backdrop. Red is passion and joy, but black is more sobering–it gives a room depth, history, and age, bringing the room back down to earth. The combination of the two colors is very powerful.
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The pavement on East 89th Street between York and East End avenues caved in around 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Initially measuring about 20 feet deep and 8 by 8 feet in diameter, workers later widened it by about 7 feet to perform repairs, City Councilmember Ben Kallos said on Monday.
"They went all the way to the sidewalk because that's how compromised it was," he said.
An investigation into the cause is ongoing and no conclusions have been reached yet, a spokesperson for the Department of Environmental Protection said Monday.
Kallos, though, said investigators told him that the five-foot-wide sewer line had likely been leaking, triggering the collapse.
Within 24 hours of Thursday's collapse, workers had rerouted a sewer line that had been affected by the sinkhole and covered up the site with dirt. Over the weekend, crews expanded the hole to expose more utilities nearby, the DEP spokesperson said.
Monday and Tuesday, the city planned to bring in materials from out of state to continue cleaning out and replacing the damaged sewer line, Kallos said.
Two buildings that lost running water for a few hours had it restored later on Thursday.
Sinkholes often appear after heavy rainfall, like the storms that swept the city in recent weeks, and are not necessarily a sign of infrastructure problems, a city official told the New York Times on Friday.
Still, it triggered fears that the city is unprepared for extreme weather triggered by climate change, having come on the heels of another sinkhole on the Upper West Side and a thunderstorm that flooded subway stations. Kallos told Patch last week that "I don't want to see a Miami building collapse happen in New York City."


2019 Chevy Volt Level 2 Charger - The 2019 Chevrolet Volt will build up during batch that we get, and fo the time being competition will react. But, from leaked information, we all know that US producer is preparing a long list of innovations. Furthermore, these will always make Volt more economical and elegant. Nevertheless, your vehicle isn't going to change its familiar look, so that all fans will easily spot being it arrives.
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Rechargeable batteries around the 2019 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid is going to be definitely a budget-saver. These cars are ideal for everyday commuting or driving in urban areas. With spending minimum energy for fuel, highlights of these vehicles would be the mileage. Batteries support classic fuel drive system. The range of these electric units is going to be around 450 miles for the brand new model. However, 2019 Volt will reach around 53 miles while using the only energy from batteries.
2019 Chevrolet Volt Redesign
The 2019 Chevrolet Volt arrive unchanged comparing to its predecessor. A similar dimensions and parts will suffer only cosmetic changes. Grille and headlights could refresh the looks, but it is nothing radical. Interior will get an update on infotainment system. Also, the passenger truck is going to show up in two trim levels.
Entry LT model is resulting with sound system works with both Android and Apple platforms. Rear vision camera shows recording around the 8-inch LCD screen. The 2019 Volt Premier uses leather to wrap seats and wheel. The four-wheel ABS and ten airbags boosts overall safety on a brand new car.
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That trust modern 2019 Chevrolet Volt LT possesses some form of Manufacturer's Advised Outlet Fee (MSRP) merely timid on the particular $34,100 tag, including the $875 location demand. Please note, it is simply prior to taking away $7,500 during national taxation credits, along with almost any condition or neighborhood credits.
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Hey yall! No Copy Cat Closet post this week – Natalia is busy adjusting to life in France. But Im over at Candypolooza sharing another delicious smoothie recipe. [Yes, I might be addicted to breakfast smoothies.] Stop over to see the simple recipe!
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If it tastes like a milkshake I’m in.
Right?? It does! 😀
yum! Looks delicious, i made one this morning with spinach too:)
Ive been thinking of trying spinach! Does it taste good? 🙂

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A great party craft!
- Pokemon Coloring Book (or any theme you like)
- Glue Stick
- Markers or Crayons
- Construction Paper
Make bands out of contruction paper to fit around each child's head. Try using more than 1 color or cutting interesting edges. Let children cut our their favorite characters from coloring books, color them and glue them to the crowns.


I know very little\almost nothing about the Star Trek universe, but I do know Mr. Spock. He’s a pop culture icon who transcended the television show with his message of peace and reason. William Shatner soon learned that though the captain’s seat was his alone, the spotlight would have to be shared. The man behind the pointy ears and the Vulcan salute was none other than Leonard Nimoy, hand-picked by Gene Roddenbury to portray this cool and calculated character.
The documentary For The Love of Spock was originally a collaboration between Leonard Nimoy and his son Adam but Nimoy Senior got sick and died very quickly, leaving his son to alter their plans somewhat, honouring the character, but also his father. It’s clear Adam Nimoy’s knowledge of the Star Trek universe is encyclopedic; the footage of the original series is a lot of fun, but also well-chosen and well-timed. A part of me badly wants to gush about all the cool things I learned watching this documentary, and I’m barely restraining myself so that you’ll have your own joyful moments of discovery upon seeing it for yourself.
Almost all of the original cast members are interviewed, and most from the new Star Trek movies as well (including J.J. Abrams), and everyone’s got glowing things to say. It’s nice when the man behind such a beloved character is a nice guy himself. In fact, the only person who seemed to have a problem with him was his son, the film’s director. So no, this isn’t a puff piece. It’s an honest look at intriguing and sometimes enigmatic man who put a lot of himself into his character, and gave a lot of himself to his fans.
Watch this documentary to see Jason Alexander to a spot-on Kirk impression, to hear Shatner pronounce who was the better singer, to get George Takai’s take on the Spock-Kirk slash fiction, to find out who came up with the Vulcan salute, to hear how Harry Belafonte inspired the character, to learn where Nimoy’s kids had to watch the show’s premiere, to note who once called it a “treadmill to oblivion”, and to discover who spent hours responding to Nimoy’s fan mail. You don’t have to be a Trekker to enjoy this movie, but by the end of it, you might just be one.
Adam Nimoy says that his father was eternally grateful to have created this character, never jaded by the experience or the fame. Clearly, the apple doesn’t fall far from the Vulcan tree. Though Leonard’s work kept him away from the family and Adam often felt he was competing with fans for his father’s attention, he still describes Star Trek as “hitting the lottery.” Creating this film was an act of mourning for the son, and absolutely an act of love. At the end of the documentary, Adam asks the many interviewees to describe his father in one word. People offer: hope, integrity, love, but the final word comes from Zachary Quinto who plays Spock in the rebooted version, with Nimoy’s blessing. Quinto throws it back to the documentarian and the son, asking “What’s yours?” Adam Nimoy was at the screening of this film at the Fantasia Film Festival, and he was able to answer that question for us in person.
He said “Passion.”


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Federal Register: December 17, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 242)NoticesPage 77222From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
Notices Federal Register
This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Plumas National Forest; California; Stream Fire Restoration Project
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Revised notice of intent.
Responsible Official and Lead Agency
Plumas National Forest Supervisor Jim Pe[ntilde]a is the responsible official.
Dated: December 10, 2002. Robert G. Macwhorter, Deputy Forest Supervisor.
FR Doc. 02-31639 Filed 12-16-02; 8:45 amBILLING CODE 3410-11-M

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MODEL BUILDER Launch Trailer
It’s time to get building and get creative!
Join the latest trend in simulation games with Model Builder and unleash your creativity by cutting out, assembling and painting your models including planes, tanks, figures, mechs and more. Sell your creations for profit to expand your toolkit, or display them to create stunning and epic scenes for the whole world to see.
⭐ Exciting story mode
Go on a fascinating journey in the footsteps of your grandfather Stan and his achievements by unlocking secrets of the past. Take on model building commissions and enter competitions on your journey to become a world-class model builder.
Now it’s time to get creative! Do you stick to the brief, or make the model your own and pimp it up? With plenty of paint to choose from, a choice of airbrush tools as well as fine detail brushes and impressive decals at your disposal, the sky’s the limit!
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Once your model is complete, it’s not the end! You can create stunning and exciting scenes by arranging your model (or models) or showcase them in the photo booth and share them for the world to see.
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IM GONNA MAKE SO MANY MODEL'S ILL TURN PURPLE
This game is FUN. Give it a go.
can u use a pen tablet for this game plz let me know thanks
Anyway to find the ingame ost ?
will there be a gacha system in the future, you have to pull to get rare and high quality kits?
I don't know if I need anymore piles of plastic sitting around lmao
Cool game concept
just buy real models.
Czy jest włoski dubbing?
Dawaj na Steama i zarobisz sporo hajsu, jak Gas Station Simulator np.
Needs VR mode.
This looks like a lot of fun! I hope it will inspire some kids to play with such models in real life too 🙂
Can you mod the game with custom models?
Ray tracing , vr?


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With a stay at Hotel Amira in Bansko, you'll be near ski lifts and 8 minutes by foot from Bansko Ski Resort. Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. A roundtrip airport shuttle is available for a surcharge.
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Check-in time is 2:00 PM and check-out time is 12:00 PM at Hotel Amira.
Yes, Hotel Amira offers free Wi-Fi.
Yes, Hotel Amira offers free parking.
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Jagjit Singh and failure drifted into my life hand in hand, thankfully! I was proud of having never failed a subject, till that wretched German language test got the better of me.
It was a huge deal at the time and I was trying my best to hide it.
On that horrid eighth-standard Monday afternoon, my best friend came running along, looked at me, and teasingly sang the words, Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho, kya gham hai jisko chupa rahe ho? And just like that, the doom of failure dissolved into a sweet melody.
Life wasn’t so bad anymore.
I’d heard this Jagjit Singh number from Arth (1982) playing on the radio before. But that day I borrowed dad’s cassette, popped it into my walkman and soaked up one profound verse after another.
Kaifi Azmi’s lyrics and Jagjit Singh’s soulful voice together rocked my world for the first time. My behaviour was unusual enough for mom to know that something wasn’t right. Just like me she also thought ghazals were more suited to an older, single malt generation.
Somehow, the ghazal maestro had made it much easier for me to tell my parents about flunking the test. And quite contrary to my worst nightmare, it didn’t turn out to be such a big deal after all.
Ah, the good old days of Doordarshan.
That did it. Within a week, I knew every single couplet like the back of my hand. What felt more beautiful was that I actually began to understand what it all meant. Naseeruddin Shah, of course, was epic as Ghalib; but what I couldn’t get over was the depth and texture of Jagjit Singh’s voice.
Soon enough I was the proud owner of the Ghalib TV series’ audio tapes, volumes 1 & 2. Unke Dekhe Se and Har Ek Baat Pe played on loop endlessly, till my deck chewed them up.
As a teenager obsessed with Jagjit Singh, I wanted to find a way to describe what a ghazal really meant. And then I heard him saying in an interview, that the word itself means hiran (deer). He went on to explain that a ghazal is mellow, deep and sad, quite like the tears of a hiran, when it’s been on the run and is exhausted, and knows it’s going to be shot dead. I remember being amazed by how effortlessly he said this. Like he knew that pain, that loss. And yes, he did.
For me, there was nothing ‘cooler’ than a bittersweet ghazal. But when I heard this one by Jagjit saab, I was pleasantly surprised by its upbeat peppiness. Kal Chaudavi Ki Raat Thi always brings a smile to my face. The playful teasing of a lover in this ghazal had me convinced that this indeed, is what love should feel like. Needless to say, it played silently in my head, when I fell in love for the very first time.
Aahista aahista was another exception to the melancholic baggage that a ghazalusually lugs around. In fact, the Lata-Kishore version of this nazm from Deedar-E-Yaar (1982) doesn’t even come close to Jagjit Singh’s graceful rendition.
While Ghulam Ali popularised ghazals across the border, Jagjit Singh’s gayakirevived the art form in India. His genre defining music was never elitist, despite being quite classical. He chose poetry relevant to the masses and also gave Hindi cinema numerous unforgettable songs.
HMV’s compilation of songs from Arth and Saath Saath became the largest selling combination album of all time. He was truly versatile not just in his style of singing but also in terms of his evolution as an artist. His relatively new-age stand alone songs in films like Sarfarosh (1999) starring Aamir Khan, Tanuja Chandra’s Dushman (1998) starring Kajol as well as Joggers’ Park (2003) were huge hits, even though the films didn’t make it big.
And in the ‘music video era’ of the 90s, Jagjit Singh’s albums like Saher and Marasim gave us some more of the good old stuff, in a new bottle of course. Remember this video featuring the young Jimmy Shergil and Simone Singh?
Despite being a big fan, I never somehow managed to see him perform live. I’ll always regret that. What I don’t regret however is growing up as a bit of a misfit, thanks to him. So what if the hip 15-year-olds thought I was depressed because I had Mirza Ghalib playing on loop? Jagjit Singh’s voice had me convinced that music is beyond judgement. I didn’t have to be going through a mid-life crisis to justify my love for ghazals. His music gave me that conviction.
I believe that some of us are touched by divinity. Jagjit Singh will remain timeless, ageless and classic for people around the world. And for me, he is simply unforgettable.
(This tribute to Jagjit Singh was first published on 8 February, 2016. It is being republished on the occasion of the ghazal maestro’s birth anniversary.)
Writer: Megha Mathur for The Quint

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Indiana No. 1 in preseason NCAA men's basketball poll
Cody Zeller #40 of the Indiana Hoosiers dunks the ball in the first half against New Mexico State Aggies in the second round of the 2012 NCAA men's basketball tournament at Rose Garden Arena on March 15, 2012, in Portland, Oregon. / Getty Images
You can't teach height -- or at least that's the old adage about the invaluable place big men hold on the basketball court.
For the Indiana men's basketball team, it also helps that 7-foot, 240-pound sophomore Cody Zeller is athletic, aggressive and smart.
Zeller helped propel the Hoosiers to the top of the year's first USA Today-ESPN preseason poll. Indiana beat out the reigning champions - the Kentucky Wildcats, who start the preseason ranked third - by getting 21 out of 31 possible first-place votes. Indiana finished last season ranked 13th.
Rounding out the top 5 are Louisville in second place, Ohio State in fourth, and Michigan in fifth.
Men's college basketball teams often live and die by their stars, and all indications are that Zeller is in line for a huge year if he stays healthy.
SI.com writes: "Offseason intel on Zeller indicates that he's been extending his offensive game, taking mid- and even long-range jumpers that should stretch defenses and keep him from being double-teamed too often on the low block...it's worth acknowledging how good Zeller was even without the jump-shot option as a freshman.
The USA Today-ESPN preseason top 25, with first-place votes in parentheses:
1. Indiana (21)
2. Louisville (5)
3. Kentucky (5)
4. Ohio State
6. N.C. State
12. North Carolina
14. Michigan State
20. San Diego State
23. Notre Dame
24. (tie)Florida State
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Ballin’ Jacks debut single ‘Success’ has been independently released by the London based indie outfit. Following on from their biggest and most successful shows over the summer, including Latitude Festival, the five piece are gearing up to release their debut album, due for release in summer 2022.
‘Success’ is quintessential British indie to it’s very core. With anthemic, sing along choruses that are hand crafted to be chanted from muddy fields during festival season and upbeat positivity throughout. While the vocals are heavily inspired by indie contemporaries such as Sam Fender, the instrumentation leans on inspiration from yesteryear, more specifically in the production of the track. The 60s style production lifts the single to a higher level, creating interesting wall-of-sound-esque dynamics, making the single much more powerful.
Although the song is intrinsically joyous, upbeat and full of hooks, the subject matter is more concerned with dry, sarcastic wit. This again lends itself to the British indie scene of the early 21st century, as this witty takedown of show business highlights their perceived flaws of the industry.
By using familiar chord progressions and warm production, every aspect of ‘Success’ demands that you smile and dance. While this can come across disingenuous in other examples, Ballin’ Jacks recorded the track in such a way that encapsulates their energy, you can feel how real this is to them.
With this hooky, sing along track cookie cut for the festival season, it will be no surprise to find Ballin’ Jacks on many a line up come the summer and if ‘Success’ is anything to go by, their debut album has the potential to be the sound of the summer.


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HOLOVSN accentuates your brand by creating a FLOATING ILLUSION of 3D VISUALS in mid-air.
It is typical to see items reflected in motionless water. How about interaction and projection over moving water? Think how we can project content through water mist! All brands strive to provide an unforgettable experience to their customers and leave a lasting impression. Our Holomist would interact with customers about your brand just in the right way.
Use of Holovsn in Retail
Are you wondering how you can use it? Not only could it be used outside the store to display your brand's logo or products, but it could also be turned into a grid and used within the store. Holovsn can be used to create engaging visuals at a variety of social events, such as weddings and parties, as well as professional occasions like exhibitions and seminars.
With Holovsn, you may showcase visually appealing content that is floating in the air. Shocking the curious customer in the process. It becomes possible to create a variety of massively eye-catching content by turning it into a grid, such as an entire unicorn soaring through the air.
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Being associated with something uncommon always makes a brand stand out, and Holovsn, allows the brand the opportunity to be recognized for its creativity and draw more attention to its brand, increasing its recognition among spectators.
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Our area residents are known for their willingness to step up and help others, and an event taking place in Weirton is no different.
CHANGE, Inc. and Athena's Closet are teaming up this year with the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program to "Paint the Town Pink," and help raise awareness of breast cancer.
As part of those plans, a breast cancer awareness walk is set for Thursday night, beginning at the CHANGE offices on West Street and moving downtown along Main Street to Cove Commons.
We hope to see a large turnout from our area at this event to help the organizations involved, which work to treat and support cancer patients in many ways.
Area businesses also can show their support by displaying pink ribbons or decorating their buildings in pink. It is a small, but meaningful way many of us can remind others of the impact cancer has on our lives.
All of us have been touched by some form of cancer in our lives, whether we've known someone or had a form of the disease ourselves.
Athena's Closet has been holding an awareness walk for 13 years, raising money to help cover costs for cancer patients their insurance doesn't normally take care of.
CHANGE, Inc., through some of its medical programs, works to offer screenings and other services, especially for the uninsured or underinsured.
All of the organizations involved do an outstanding job of helping others, and we hope our area residents are willing to do what they can to show their support by helping to paint the town pink.

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The Yuletide season has come and Land Rover seems very eager to show off the capabilities of its new Discovery Sport. Land Rover has been fond of pulling some publicity stunts to attract public attention to its products and their capabilities – a great work of marketing, nonetheless.
This time around, Land Rover created a small portable wilderness cabin – with a Christmas theme – that could be assembled and disassembled according to the whims of the customer. Once disassembled, this wilderness cabin could be accommodated perfectly into the cargo room of the Land Rover Discovery Sport.
This portable wilderness cabin, when properly installed, has a total area of 38 square feet (3.5 square meters) – which could be considered as small, but is still bigger than a large bed. This space should be enough to allow its users to relax and enjoy the view of the surroundings through its large windows. Of course, this portable cabin features Christmas decorations and a solar roof panel for charging phones. To power up the lights, users just need to plug them into the Discovery Sport’s 12-volt charger. Just like the ride height of the Discovery Sport, the cabin stands 212 mm off the ground.
Once customers decide it is time to pack up, they could neatly disassemble the cabin support structure, floor, walls and roof into smaller pieces and load them into the cargo room, with all rear seats folded down. The cabin’s decorations, lights, nuts and bolts are stowed into the Discovery Sport’s glove compartment, cupholders and door bins.
This stunt effectively preaches the versatility and cargo-holding capability of the new Discovery Sport. Small items could be accommodated into smaller storage compartments inside the mid-size SUV. Meanwhile, larger items could be safely secured into the trunk of the Discovery Sport, which could hold up to 60 liters of cargo. It also implicitly preaches the versatility of the Discovery Sport, which comes with a powered gesture tailgate that allows customers to open or close the tailgate – to load or unload any cargo – just by placing one’s foot underneath the rear of the vehicle. Likewise, the stunt implicitly preaches the chassis and suspension power of the Discovery Sport; after all, 60 liters of solid material should be a heavy load.
To ensure that the disassembled cabin – which was made from sustainable materials with the help of Danish architects LUMO -- fits into the trunk of the Discovery Sport, Land Rover employed virtual models.
In the middle of 2016, Land Rover released a YouTube video showing off its pulling power -- 317 lb.-ft. of torque – by towing three railway carriages with a combined weight of 108 tons. At 1,400 rpm and 8 mph, the Discovery Sport slowly but surely pulled the train across a bridge without any issue.


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Pink Avalanche releasing a new LP (stream a track)
Chicago's Pink Avalanche are the group led by Chicago sound engineer Che Arthur (who's worked with Russian Circles, Bob Mould, Shellac, Pelican and more, and was also in Atombombpocketknife) with Adam Reach (The Poison Arrows), Kortland Chase (ex-Chatty Cathy), and Pete Croke (Tight Phantomz, Brokeback) rounding out the lineup. Their debut LP, Wraiths, came out in 2013 and now they're set to follow it with The Luminous Heart of Nowhere on November 18 via Past/Futures Records. We've got the debut of "In Empty Spaces," which is the kind of alternative/underground rock the Chicago scene those players hail from is known for, and it's good stuff. Check it out for yourself below.


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Osaka is Japan's second-largest metropolitan area after Tokyo. It has been the economic powerhouse of the Kansai Region for many centuries. Osaka was previously known as Naniwa. Before the Nara Period, whilst the capital was moved with the reign of each new emperor, Naniwa was once Japan's capital town, the first one ever known. In the 16th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi chose Osaka as the place for his castle, and the city may have emerged as Japan's political capital if Tokugawa Ieyasu had now no longer terminated the Toyotomi lineage after Hideyoshi's death and moved his government to remote Edo (Tokyo). Osaka is a large port city and commercial center on the Japanese island of Honshu. It's recognized for its modern architecture, nightlife, and hearty street food. The 16th-century shogunate Osaka Castle, which has undergone several restorations, is its major ancient landmark. It's surrounded by a moat and park with plum, peach, and cherry blossom trees. Sumiyoshi-Taisha is among Japan’s oldest Shinto shrines.
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In a press conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, investigators addressed the latest news concerning the fatal Rust set shooting.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed that “it was a bullet” that struck and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza, not a mishap with a blank round.
Sheriff Mendoza stated that a bullet from a .45 Long Colt was recovered from the shoulder of Souza; that was believed to be the same round that fatally struck Hutchins, but it needs to be forensically confirmed.
That projectile was removed from Souza by doctors, and handed over to investigators for analysis, he explained.
Mendoza also mentioned “approximately 500 rounds of ammunition” were recovered from the New Mexico set, including, “a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what we are suspecting were live rounds.”
Blank rounds contain no lead bullet, but emit a muzzle flash when fired, and can still be harmful without proper precautions.
Dummy rounds are just empty cartridges that are meant to look like functioning bullets.
Live rounds are actual bullets — and have no place on a movie set.
The District Attorney on the case, Mary Carmack Altwies, told journalists that while it’s too early in the investigation to say, charges against Alec Baldwin have not been ruled out.
“If the facts and evidence and law support charges, then I will initiate charges at that time,” she said of anyone involved.
Investigators have already spoken to Baldwin, as well as the movie’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez, as well as the movie’s assistant director Dave Halls, who handed the pistol to Baldwin, after declaring it a “cold” — that is an empty — gun.
Baldwin not only fired the fatal shot, but he was also a producer on the Western.
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As the planet changes to a more digital landscape, traditional currency management methods are becoming outdated. With the increase of electronic currencies like Bitcoin , Ethereum, and others, there’s a requirement for innovative and secure ways to handle these assets. That’s where Bitcoin Bank comes in. Bitcoin Bank is really a innovative platform that provides a safe and convenient way to handle digital currencies. In that blog post, we’ll discover what Bitcoin Bank is, how it performs, and why it’s revolutionizing digital currency management.
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Loy is a Montana native and, for the most part, a locally grown
musician. She started playing the violin in her school’s orchestra
at age ten and joined the Billings Symphony five years later. She
earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Montana State University
and a Master of Music in Violin Performance from Temple University.
Her musical studies also led to a summer at the Aspen Music Festival
and a year at Indiana University. She is associate concertmaster of
the Missoula Symphony and a member of the Black Tie Quartet. She
loves hiking and running and has a new obsession for alpine skiing.
Loy currently runs a private studio from her home in Missoula and
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- West African Recipes
To whet your appetite, here's a classic West African recipe for Jollof Rice:
1 chicken, cut into bite-sized pieces
450g meat cut into bite-sized pieces
2 onions, finely chopped
1 chilli and 1 garlic clove, pounded to a paste
500ml chicken stock
3 ripe tomatoes, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 butternut squash, cubed
1 small tin tomato paste
oil for frying
salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper, to taste
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a large pan and stir-fry the meat, in batches, until browned on all sides. Remove the meat from the pan and set aside. Now add the oions and season with salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper along with the chilli and garic paste. Contniue frying until the oinons become tender and translucent. Remove the mixture from the pan and set aside.
Add the stock and 500ml water to a large casserole dish and bring to a boil. Add-in the meat and onion mixture, cover and simmer. Add the tomatoes to the pan used to cook the onions and fry for a minute before adding the squash and bel pepper. Continue cooking until the vegetables are partly cooked (about 15 minutes) then add them to the casserole dish.
Add the rice and tomato paste to the frying pan and cook over very low heat until the rice grains are completely coated in the tomato then add the rice to the casserole and stir into the meat mixture. Cover the casserole and cook on very low heat until the rice is cooked and the meat is tender (about 40 minutes) add more water as required to prevent the dish from becoming too dry. Serve on a bed of rice, garnished with parsley.
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This is a must-get book for anyone interested in food. Learn about a continent that to this day remains mysterious to many people. The recipes presented here are written by someone who has travelled extensively in Africa and who is a published Author. The book is a properly-produce and published eBook and the collection is immense.
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THE MOST surprising thing about the Slovak elections, are the numbers:
83 parliamentary seats for Smer is something unheard of. Never before has a single party managed to gain a majority and, given the unprecedented nature of the situation, no one can be certain just what Robert Fico will do. Himself included.
The 103,517 preferential votes for Lucia Žitňanská show just how tired SDKÚ voters are of chairman Mikuláš Dzurinda, who got just 27,000 “little circles”, trailing even Ivan Mikloš, who had more than twice as many. But the message comes too late for the former champion of the right – the SDKÚ barely made it into parliament and if it fails to find a credible agenda and a likeable leader, it may well face extinction.
1.58 percent for the 99 Percent party is good news. It shows that money alone can’t buy you seats in parliament. You at least need a popular face. And Igor Matovič has just that. His 16 MPs make him just as strong as the Christian Democrats. Not bad for a man with no tangible agenda other than self-presentation.
The SNS’s 116,420 votes were not enough to get it into parliament. The end of the nationalists is one of the best results of this election season. But one must not forget that they have managed to return before.
Making any predictions about Slovak politics has proven extremely tricky. But given the strong position of Fico in parliament and within his own party, one can be pretty sure about the number of years remaining until the next election night: it should not be less than four.

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Vamika is wearing a pink and white swimsuit with a ponytail.
The Indian cricketer Virat Kohli received a lot of love and admiration from fans after sharing a unique photo with his daughter Vamika Kohli on Tuesday.
In 2017, Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma became husband and wife. They typically keep a low profile and avoid discussing their personal affairs. However, Virat once acknowledged Anushka as his rock of strength when things were tough.
The former Indian cricket team, skipper posted a touching photo of him and his daughter on Twitter and a simple heart emoji as a comment.
Kohli is pictured with his little child relaxing beside a pool. The father and daughter are looking away from the camera, and Kohli protects his daughter by placing an arm behind her.
In contrast to Kohli, who is wearing a white baseball cap to cover his face, Vamika is gorgeous in a pink and white bikini and has her hair up in a cute bun.
Virat Kohli posted a sweet snapshot of his daughter Vamika relaxing by the pool; admirers said, “King with his princess.”
The fact that both Kohli and his wife, Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma, periodically post on social media to show their affection for their two-year-old daughter makes it quite evident that they adore her.
The fact that Vamika‘s parents are so protective of their daughter’s privacy must be considered. Even though both are highly active on social media and frequently post photos of one another, Vamika is rarely featured.
Most images they’ve uploaded don’t feature their daughter’s face.
When Virat posted the wonderful image, his supporters praised the comments section, and several used heart and fire emojis. King with his princess was the “Picture of the Day,” as another fan noted.
In December 2017, family members and close friends attended Virat and Anushka’s wedding in Italy. They later hosted a party for their friends in Mumbai, which was attended by celebrities from Bollywood and the cricket community. Vamika, a daughter, was the couple’s firstborn, and she was born in January 2021. Vamika’s parents have been stringent about avoiding letting their public personalities intrude on her childhood and privacy. They have even asked the media to refrain from taking or disseminating photos of Vamika that feature her face.
On the professional front, Anushka Sharma is preparing for the Netflix sports drama Chakda Xpress, which will mark her return. She last appeared in the dreadful box office failure Zero starring Shah Rukh Khan.
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Virat Kohli shared a family portrait with Anushka and Vamika on Monday, January 9. But all we can see in it is their backs. It should go without saying that the faces are hidden.
“God you have bestowed me with so many blessings that I have nothing left to ask you, only want to thank you,” Virat wrote while sharing the same. “Rabba bakshiyan tu enniyan meherbaniyan.”


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Tauranga’s Urban Task Force (UTF) is celebrating its third anniversary, having more than doubled its membership during a transformational time for the city.
The organisation represents Tauranga property owners, developers and business communities and advocates to support the city’s growth and encourage collaboration.
UTF Chair Scott Adams and his fellow board members have over 230 years of combined property industry knowledge and expertise.
“In late 2020 the idea of a Tauranga-focused property industry group was initially floated, to unite some of the growing factions and work together for a prosperous city built on the backbone of a strong and successful property and development sector,” Adams recalls.
“At the time, Tauranga was in a state of crisis, with non-performing elected councillors replaced by commissioners, a deserted CBD, record property prices despite decades of under investment in local assets and civic amenities, and a severe shortage of zoned and serviced land for new housing.”
In the past 12 months UTF has weighed in on local government planning changes, housing development proposals, natural hazard mapping, SmartGrowth strategies, infrastructure decisions, and Tauranga City Council’s Long-term Plan.
They’ve also held public meetings to hear from local political candidates and hosted guest speakers such as former Minister of Finance Grant Robertson and ASB Chief Economist Nick Tuffley.
“We’ve proven that a collective voice and unified action is the most effective way to drive change,” Adams says. “Our members are passionate about Tauranga and seeing the wider region succeed. We’ve seen some strong steps in the right direction to invest in much-needed infrastructure and community amenities. But there’s still a lot to do.”
Tauranga continues to have a chronic housing and land shortage. Based on current growth projections, the city will be short 80,000 houses and 400ha of industrial space by 2050.
“As an organisation, we are looking forward to working with the newly elected council and mayor later this year to continue the progress being made, and to help tackle the big issues like transport and land supply that continue to hold Tauranga back.”
Adams says access to housing, community facilities and infrastructure such as roading remain a priority. UTF will continue to focus on specific goals of increasing land supply, attracting central Government funding, investment in transport, infrastructure, education and civic amenities for the benefit of the whole community.
“Since our first year, we have more than doubled our membership and all our members are accountable to their counterparts, their colleagues and community. The future of Tauranga will be our members’ legacy.”


Taking the family north of the border for a vacation soon? There are plenty of family friendly attractions in Canada worthy of a stop.
In this article, we’ll highlight three of our favorite spots to save you the trouble of researching them yourself.
Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick
Plan on traveling east to Atlantic Canada on holiday next summer? There is much to see, from the world’s highest tides in the Bay of Fundy to the fishing villages of Newfoundland.
In the midst of all the plans you will be making, though, don’t forget to stop at Magnetic Hill in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Home to an optical illusion that makes it seem like your car is being dragged up a hill by magnetic rock, it is best known for being home to Magic Mountain, Atlantic Canada’s biggest water park.
In addition to this, there are also arcades, a mini-putt course, a children’s railway, and a zoo, so be sure to dedicate a day or two to this part of Atlantic Canada.
The newly opened Casino New Brunswick is also in the area, so if you are visiting family in the area, drop the kids off with the grandparents/relatives and enjoy an evening out that you and your spouse deserve.
Want to indulge in a few games in the pit, but are rusty when it comes to some of them. Click here, and you’ll find just about every game played on the floor, from slots to poker. While practicing, you might just win a bit of extra money in the process – how cool would that be?
Canada’s Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario
If you and your children are looking for an adrenaline fix while you are in the Toronto area, take a day out of your schedule to check out Canada’s Wonderland.
This park is filled with a variety of rides designed to appeal to people of all ages – from bumper cars and flume rides to some of the most aggressive roller coasters in North America, everyone from your little ones to the teens/adults in the group will find something exciting here.
West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Alberta
Canadians don’t let the negative aspects of winter ruin their fun. While some embrace it wholeheartedly by playing hockey or tearing down ski slopes, people in Edmonton, Alberta has chosen to wall off the cold so they can keep enjoying life as if summer had never ended.
If you are visiting the Canadian Rockies but want to enjoy a fun day out of the cold before heading home, then a visit to West Edmonton Mall should be in order.
More than just a place to stock up on all your favorite consumer goods, it contains one of the world’s largest amusement parks, and one of the world’s largest water parks within its walls.
Together with two mini-putt courses, a ton of fun restaurants, a recreation center with a bowling alley, and an on-site hotel, it is the perfect way to end a family holiday in Western Canada.


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Two senior Eskom executives, Matshela Koko and Prish Govender, have been reinstated.
According to a letter from the power utility’s CEO Shaun Maritz, a disciplinary process has cleared Koko and Govender of any wrongdoing.
Koko will resume his position as Eskom head of generation while Govender has been reinstated as head of group capital.
Allegations against Koko related to him awarding contracts to a company linked to his step daughter.
[Watch] In 2017, an inquiry looked into the Eskom’s role in #StateCapture.


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We went on the 26 Glacier Cruise for the day. The weather was sunny, beautiful and calm - one of only 5 days the ship captain could remember for all this summer in Whittier! Yeh for us! We saw beautiful blue calm waters, 26 glaciers, sea otters, whales, sea lions, killer whales and kittiwakes. We sat with Ann (Denmark) and Johneave (Paris, ...
We arrived in Kenai with scattered sunshine and our campsite is on a bluff overlooking the mouth of the Kenai River that flows into Cook Inlet. Kenai is the largest city on the Kenai peninsula. We are staying here a few days.
We arrived at low tide with high tide around 7 pm. If there are Beluga Whales to see, it will be a couple hours before ...
... doesn't have fuel. We had planned to fill up again there. Also, the one hotel said they had a waiting list. I thought that's an odd thing to say so called back and it turns out, because the weather is so iffy and the only way to get there is by plane, they don't have many reservations. People just turn up and at 7:30 they know how many empty rooms they have. If there's anyone ...
... to Captain Cook anywhere. There were a couple of gravel tracks (I'd just driven over gravel to get here) going in different directions so I went down one till I got to another sign warning about low tides & unsafe ground. Just off to the right was an area with bbq tables but no monument - I'd come this distance for nothing it seemed, oh well as least I had a good view of the Cook Inlet even though I couldn't see alot due to the cloud.
On the way back through ...
... So much for salmon fishing. So much for brochures. Lesson: never believe guided fishing brochures; just rent a drift boat yourself and go fishing for moose.
Now we're getting serious rain. The windows on the Beetle are now cleared of gull poop so we drive to Homer Alaska ... the bitter end of the Kenai. Again, unbelievable beauty as the mountains at the end of peninsula poke through the rain clouds. We took photos of the bay, mountains, ...
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How do you spot a Starlink satellite?
As with most stargazing activities, your best chance to see Starlink is about 30 minutes before sunrise or 30 minutes after sunset.
They should appear as a string of pearls moving across the night sky..
How long will Starlink satellites last?
They will boost though that is one the Ion Drives are for 🙂 Elon is already working on his satellite pooper scooper….. The ISS is at around 400 and can stay in space for like 14 months without boosting. Since Starlink satellites are at 540, I’d guesstimate like 2-3 years.
How many satellites does Starlink 6 have?
420The company launched its first Starlink flight in May 2019, with a second flight last November and four more since January of this year. Currently, SpaceX has 360 satellites in orbit. The Starlink 6 mission will boost that number to 420.
How many satellites does Starlink 7 have?
60 Starlink satellites stacked together before deployment on 24 May 2019. Starlink is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by SpaceX providing satellite Internet access.
How many Starlink satellites are there now?
Falcon 9 launch adds 60 Starlink satellites to orbit as constellation beta testing continues. SpaceX has now launched 713 Starlink satellites, including prototypes, though the company is deorbiting some early models.
What time is the Starlink satellites?
10.14pm, Starlink-7 will be visible for four minutes, travelling from west to southeast. 11.21pm, Starlink-6 will be visible for six minutes, travelling from west to southeast. The satellites will appear as ‘trains’ of bright lights and can be spotted in the sky without binoculars or a telescope.


An anonymous reader writes about a Chinese building project designed to cement claims to a disputed region of the South China Sea. Sand, cement, wood, and steel are China's weapons of choice as it asserts its claim over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Brunei have sparred for decades over ownership of the 100 islands and reefs, which measure less than 1,300 acres in total but stretch across an area about the size of Iraq. In recent months, vessels belonging to the People's Republic have been spotted ferrying construction materials to build new islands in the sea. Pasi Abdulpata, a Filipino fishing contractor who in October was plying the waters near Parola Island in the northern Spratlys, says he came across "this huge Chinese ship sucking sand and rocks from one end of the ocean and blasting it to the other using a tube."
Artificial islands could help China anchor its claim to waters that host some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. The South China Sea may hold as much as 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a 2013 report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. China has considered the Spratlys—which it calls Nansha—part of its territory since the 1940s and on occasion has used its military might to enforce its claim. In 1988 a Chinese naval attack at Johnson South Reef, in the northern portion of the archipelago, killed 64 Vietnamese border guards.