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In New Zealand, more and more small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are moving to subscription models. This change means they need good recurring billing software.
This kind of software makes it easier to handle regular payments and can help businesses grow and plan better. Keep reading to find out how you can easily set up recurring billing and manage subscription payments with this helpful guide.
Advantages of Recurring Billing for New Zealand Businesses
Recurring billing software is becoming a key tool for New Zealand businesses, especially those offering subscription-based services.
By automating the billing process, it ensures a consistent and reliable cash flow, a crucial aspect for any business’s financial health. This steady income stream allows businesses to forecast their earnings more accurately, aiding in better financial planning and budgeting.
One of the main advantages of using recurring billing software is the significant reduction in manual billing tasks. This not only saves valuable time but also minimizes the risk of human errors, which can occur in manual processes. By automating these tasks, businesses can allocate their resources and staff to more critical areas, improving productivity.
Moreover, customers increasingly prefer the convenience that comes with automated payments. Subscriptions that automatically renew eliminate the need for customers to repeatedly enter their payment details, making the process hassle-free.
This ease of payment can lead to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, as they appreciate the streamlined and straightforward service. In a competitive market, providing such conveniences can be a decisive factor in retaining customers over the long term.
Furthermore, recurring billing software often comes with additional features like customizable billing cycles, allowing businesses to offer various subscription options to meet different customer needs. This flexibility can attract a wider customer base and cater to varied preferences.
HitPay’s Recurring Billing Solution
HitPay's Recurring Billing tool is perfect for New Zealand businesses, making subscription management a breeze. It offers an easy setup process and versatile subscription plans with various billing cycles like weekly, monthly, and yearly.
For New Zealand SMEs, HitPay supports an array of payment methods including credit cards, JCB, and UnionPay, providing both businesses and customers with flexible payment options.
HitPay vs Competitors: Why HitPay Stands Out in New Zealand
HitPay's Recurring Billing stands out for a few important reasons. First, it's priced well, so it's good for all kinds of businesses, big or small. Second, it's easy to use. You can handle all your subscriptions from one simple place. Lastly, with HitPay, you don't need to know complicated coding to run your subscriptions, making things smooth and easy for businesses and their customers.
Setting Up Recurring Billing with HitPay: A Simple Guide
Getting started with HitPay's recurring billing is easy. First, just sign in to your HitPay Dashboard and go to the 'Recurring Plans' area.
There, you click 'Create New' and fill in the details for your subscription plan. This includes things like customer info, what your plan is called, how often it renews, the price, and when it starts. This makes it easy for you to set up plans that fit what your business needs.
HitPay also has a handy feature where you can make and save templates for your subscription plans. Using these templates means you can set up new plans faster and keep everything consistent.
Before your plan starts, you'll want to make sure your customers have added their payment details. You can help them out by sending invoices and links to the plan through email.
It's also important to handle any issues like declined card payments or if someone wants to cancel their plan. If a payment doesn't go through, quickly getting in touch with the customer and helping them fix their payment details is key.
This helps you keep a good relationship with your customers and keeps your income steady.
Implementing Subscription Plans with HitPay in New Zealand
HitPay offers a great feature called Recurring Payment Links that makes it easier for businesses to handle subscriptions and automatic payments. It's a simple tool that lets you set up payment plans and billing cycles in a way that suits your business.
It's easy to get started with Recurring Payment Links, whether you have a fancy website or not. If you don't have a complex website, HitPay lets you create a link for all your subscription plans, which you can then share with your customers. If you already have a website where you show your plans, HitPay can help you create separate payment links for each plan right on your site.
Take Wildflower Studio, for example. They use HitPay's Recurring Payment Links on their website to manage their subscriptions smoothly. This helps them keep their billing organized and makes their customers happy.
Recurring Billing APIs for Advanced Subscription Management
For businesses looking for more detailed subscription management, using Recurring Billing APIs can be a great solution. Integrating these APIs involves a few key steps.
First, you create your subscription plan and set up the recurring billing system. Then, you show your customers the checkout page where they can confirm their subscription. After this, the system handles the payment to finish the transaction.
An important part of this process is using webhooks. Webhooks are helpful because they let businesses get updates right away, like when there's a new charge or a problem with a payment.
This means businesses can act fast to sort things out. Having this kind of quick response is good for making sure the billing process runs smoothly for both the business and its customers.
Using HitPay's Recurring Billing Service
Recurring billing brings many advantages to businesses with subscription models. It helps with better cash flow, lessens the work of managing payments, and makes things better for customers.
HitPay's Recurring Billing solution is made to make subscription payments easy and is very user-friendly, perfect for businesses in New Zealand.
We suggest you check out HitPay's Recurring Billing to improve how you manage subscriptions. It offers good prices and integrates easily with your systems, making everything smoother for your business.
Have questions about HitPay?
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Obama Signs Executive Order to Allow Detention of Americans With ‘Respiratory Illnesses’
The president can kiss my fat f**king arse.
Of course, this is meant for Americans who really don’t have a respiratory illness, the government will claim as such and it is good night to those Americans the president does not like.
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“And mistrust fascist big pharma public-private partnerships”
“As Jon Rappoport told Alex Jones on Thursday, the death rate from Ebola is nearly infinitesimal when compared to seasonal flu, which kills between three and five million people every year. Like previous “pandemic” diseases like Swine Flu and West Nile, Ebola is being exploited and exaggerated as part of a psychological operation by government.”
The numbers just don’t add.
Ebola 2: here come the “global pandemic” promoters
“What’s (intentionally) missing in all this an understanding of the immune system. Generally speaking, a germ doesn’t stand a chance of causing serious illness when the immune system is strong.”
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Admedia, the washroom poster contractor, is targeting women with a
campaign for Colpermin, an irritable bowel treatment manufactured by
The campaign has been planned by Zenith Media and bought by Meridian,
Zenith’s outdoor arm.
The drive involves A3 Eyesite posters, situated above hand dryers and on
the back of cubicle doors at service stations toilets across the UK.
The sites target 35- to 64-year-old women and aim to capture their
attention for 90 to 105 seconds.
Admedia claims as many as 19.74 million female impacts can be achieved
over a four-week period.
The creative displays the key words and symptoms associated with
irritable bowel syndrome in an attempt to remove the social stigma
associated with the illness.
The posters also carry the address www.colpermin.co. uk to encourage
sufferers to visit the brand’s website, where they will find help and
advice about the condition.
The campaign has been planned to appear in July and August, when
millions of women are travelling on family holidays and are likely to
stop at service stations.
Ashley Martin, head of sales at Admedia, said: ’By working closely with
Pharmacia, senior planner Julian Smith and outdoor planner Tim Sapsford
at Zenith, we were able to identify the brand’s needs and to fulfil the


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is with great pleasure and honor that Prime Minister, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani,
on the deliberations of Ministry of National Food Security with partner
organizations including Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), has inaugurated
the ‘National Zero Hunger Action Program’, at ‘National Conference on Food
Security in Pakistan’ held on 16-21, March 2012. Prime Minister, while chairing
the concluding session also announced the establishment of ‘National Council
for Food Security’ in Pakistan.
The strategic national workshop, which lasted for one week, was organized by Ministry
of National Food Security and Research and supported by Sustainable Development
Policy Institute (SDPI), UN World Food Programme (WFP, UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO, and OXFAM International. SDPI, which earlier also advocated
for creation of food security ministry, facilitated the workshop’s organization
which was aimed to produce a set of guidelines and frameworks for National Zero
Hunger Action Program along with the operational strategy of the newly created
Ministry of National Food Security and Research.
The main focus of the workshop was to trace the pathways to achieve food and nutritional
security for a growing population while addressing the food security challenges
in the country. Within the realm of the workshop, topics extending to nutrition,
access to food, water, provincial food and agricultural setups, women empowerment,
livelihoods, mobilization of local resources, and reaching the food poor,
particularly the malnourished segments of our society were covered.
Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister said, he is delighted over unveiling of
National Zero Hunger Program and assured that this programme would not duplicate
what the provincial departments are doing, rather it will facilitate and support
the efforts of federating units in fulfilling the vital goal of food secure Pakistan.
He expressed gratitude to WFP, UNICEF, UNDP, USDA, USAID, SDPI, Oxfam and FAO
who brought experts particularly from Indonesia
and Rome to share
their best practices.
Inspired by Brazilian and Indonesian Zero Hunger Programs, Pakistan’s ‘National
Zero Hunger Program’ is a five year plan that would reach to a total of 61
million food insecure people across the country with a total cost of 16 billion
US dollars. The program, in its first year, will reach to 12 million people
which are 20 percent of total affected population with a cost of US 1.04
Ministry of Food Security has also signed a letter of intent with WFP, under
which some 500,000 metric tones of wheat, donated by government of Pakistan will
be converted by WFP into nutritious food commodities that will be used to
combat hunger among the most vulnerable sections of society particularly malnourished
children, pregnant women and primary school children. These supplies will include
mineral and vitamin fortified wheat flour, high energy biscuits and fortified
pastes for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition among infants, and all
of these products will be produced in Pakistan.


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ERA Coalition was on MSNBC's Morning Joe!
February 08, 2024
By Jenny Horn
American Artist Appreciation Month is celebrated across the U.S. throughout August. From Andy Warhol to Georgia O’Keeffe, America has been home to many extraordinary artists throughout history. American Artist Appreciation Month was started with the simple aim to celebrate artists and the incredible work that they do, as art is not just something beautiful to look at – it also reflects the human condition, emotions, and ambitions. Art portrays what we are trying to convey when words fail, but often female artists have to work twice as hard to showcase their work and pave their own way in a still largely male-dominant field. Celebrate American Artist Appreciation month today by discovering new female American artists in this week’s female artist highlight, and stay tuned for a new feature each week through August, showcasing just a small portion of America’s phenomenal female artists today and throughout history.
This week’s feature includes Mickalene Thomas, Carmen Lomas Garza, and Barbara Kruger!
Mickalene Thomas lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and makes paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations that draw on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, and power. Blurring the distinction between object and subject, concrete and abstract, real and imaginary, Thomas constructs complex portraits, landscapes, and interiors in order to examine how identity, gender, and sense-of-self are informed by the ways women (and “feminine” spaces) are represented in art and popular culture. Thomas has been awarded multiple prizes and grants, including the USA Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow (2015), Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2013), Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award (2012), and the Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts (2010).
Learn more about Mickalene Thomas on her website!
Carmen Lomas Garza
Carmen Lomas Garza was born in Kingsville, Texas, in 1948. Inspired by her parent’s activism with the American G.I. Forum, Garza joined the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is a recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited her work in galleries and museums across the United States, and has had several major one-person exhibitions in the United States including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in New York City in 1995, the Smith College Museum in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1992, and The Mexican Museum in San Francisco in 1987.
Garza’s artwork was the subject of an interactive exhibition for children organized by the Austin Children’s Museum in 2003 in Austin, Texas. The exhibition traveled for 5 years to children’s museums in the United States. In 2019 the John E. Conner Museum at Texas A&M University in Kingsville, Texas acquired this exhibition “In My Family” and installed it permanently in the museum.
Learn more about Carmen Lomas Garza on her website!
Barbara Kruger was born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey. Kruger briefly attended Syracuse University, then Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she studied with artists and photographers Marvin Israel and Diane Arbus. Kruger worked in graphic design for Condé Nast Publications at Mademoiselle magazine, and was promoted to head designer within a year, at the age of twenty-two. Kruger has described her time in graphic design as “the biggest influence on my work…[it] became, with a few adjustments, my ‘work’ as an artist.” In the early 1970s, Kruger started showing artwork in galleries in New York. At the time, she was mainly working in weaving and painting. However, she felt that her artwork lacked meaning, and in 1976, she quit creating art entirely for a year.
She took a series of teaching positions, including at University of California, Berkeley. When she began making art again in 1977, she had moved away from her earlier style into photo and text collages. In 1979, Kruger developed her signature style using large-scale black-and-white images overlaid with text. She repurposed found images, juxtaposing them with short, pithy phrases printed in Futura Bold or Helvetica Extra Bold typeface in black, white, or red text bars. In addition to creating text and photographic works, Kruger has produced video and audio works, written criticism, taught classes, curated exhibitions, designed products, such as T-shirts and mugs, and developed public projects, such as billboards, bus wraps, and architectural interventions.
Learn more about Barbara Kruger's life and art on the David Zwirner exhibit website!

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Himali Singh Soin
Grant Period: One year and six months
Himali Singh Soin finished her MA in English Literature from The Bread Loaf School Of English, USA in 2018 and MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has a BA in Theatre and English from Middlebury College, USA and practices visual arts, performance and writing since 2013. Her recent works have been shown at Khoj in New Delhi, Kadist in San Francisco, the Dhaka Art Summit, Abrons Art Centre in NYC, Whitechapel Art Night in London, OCA in Norway, Fabrika in Moscow, A Tale of a Tub in Rotterdam, Bucharest Art Week, and Meet Factory in Prague, among others. Her recent publications include a manifesto for the 2017 Serpentine Marathon book and regular columns for the Artforum magazine. She has contributed to Frieze, VICE, National Geographic Traveler, CNN Travel, ArtSlant, The Flaneur, The Outdoor Journal, Conde Nast Traveler, Caravan, Vogue and many others.
Himali often uses metaphors from astronomy and natural sciences to create fictional cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, alienation, distance and intimacy in her work. She attempts to think through ecological loss, loss of home, and the radical shelters love and care has to offer. According to Himali, her work “critiques capitalist influences on ecology, digital influences on love and colonial influences on map-making”. Himali’s current project under this grant titled, We Are Opposite Like That, is an attempt to write a series of fictional mythologies from the perspective of Ice - a non-human entity that has witnessed epochal shifts. She will write a collection of prose poetry based on her experiences during the time she spent in the Arctic and Antarctic circles.
Himali’s father was one of the first Indian explorers to the North Pole, so her journey began from a deeply personal connection. Encompassing issues of the Global South, and the politics of ecology and language, the project will present Ice as an agent of resistance against European colonialism and techno-capitalist aspirations towards large-scale extraction of natural resources from the poles. The colonial powers arrived quite late at the Polar Regions and no pre-existing myths and legends are known from the areas. The fictional mythologies will draw heavily from contemporary conspiracy theories, UFO sightings, diagrams of aurora borealis and poems where ice is an agent of decolonisation and resistance. They will also highlight its vulnerability to the imminent climate catastrophe.
The series will be published as a book and will be presented along with a performance based on the theme. The book will have chapters on the peculiar history of Indians in the Arctic, South Asian Futurism, recent UFO and alien sightings on both poles through Google Earth satellite imagery and early conceptions of tropicality in the tundra. The project aims to challenge conventions by literally going to the edges of the planet as they melt, and questions the idea of the frontier itself. In rethinking the boundaries of mythology and sci-fi the book attempts to push the boundaries of literature as well. In its evocative performance form, it tries to bring the literary and the performative together, while establishing connections between geo-politics, ecology, language, colonialism, corporate greed and the fight against it.
The outcome of the project will be a book comprising text and images and a series of performances. Copy of the manuscript, publication excerpts and audio-video documentation of the performances will be deposited as deliverables. Information and material from performance/tour schedule will be continuously updated on a website. IFA will support a part of the expenses of the project. She will raise the rest of the funds from other sources. The timeline seems realistic and plausible given the scope of the project.

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Microsoft has created its own digital personal assistant named Cortana that’s capable of holding its own against rivals like Siri. It may have started on Windows Phone smartphones but Cortana has since been expanded to the broader Microsoft ecosystem so now it’s a staple on the company’s desktop OS as well. It remains available on smartphones as well and given the partnership that Microsoft has with Xiaomi, it also comes bundled with the latter’s Mi Mix smartphone.
Xiaomi got everyone talking about it when it unveiled the Mi Mix last month even though the focus was initially on the Mi Note 2. The Mi Mix is a unique device, one that sets Xiaomi apart from the competition, so it’s certainly milking every opportunity that the new handset sends its way.
To be clear, the 6.4 inch Mi Mix is still an Android-powered device with Xiaomi’s MIUI skin. However, it does borrow some features from Microsoft. Xiaomi recently acquired a handful of patents from Microsoft and a part of this deal was that some of the latter’s apps would be installed on Xiaomi handsets.
It’s this deal that bundles Cortana with the Mi Mix. The handset also comes with other Microsoft apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. This makes the Xiaomi Mi Mix the very first non-Windows smartphone to come with Cortana straight out of the box.


Earlier this year, The Beacon Mag ran an issue on the impact of Eating Disorders in the Orthodox community, and several of the authors even accused our Orthodox culture of contributing to the spread of these diseases. But while there are undoubtedly many possibly triggering elements within our religious culture, it is important to remind ourselves that Eating Disorders are primarily a symptom of, not our religion, but our broader Western culture.
We bring this up in light of the recently resurrected statements made by Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, where he claims that his brand targets only the supposedly “cool” and “thin.” Under his leadership, Abercrombie and Fitch has pursued a philosophy that continues to deleteriously influence the attitude we take towards our bodies; he even refuses to produce XL and XXL sized clothing.
If you haven’t already, we’d recommend taking a look at where a man protests Jeffries’ offensive policies by giving away A and F clothing to the homeless (it’s already hit over 7 million views). It’s doubtful that this man will noticeably change our society, but either way, it’s nice to see that someone is at least recognizing the issue and taking action.


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Could maternal diet be predisposing children to obesity?
A US study has found that diet composition around the time of pregnancy may influence whether offspring become obese.
The study, conducted at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) using animal models, found that giving females a typical American, or western, diet appeared to set the next generation up for lifelong obesity issues.
“Your diet itself matters, not just whether you are gaining excess weight or developing gestational diabetes,” said TSRI Associate Professor Eric Zorrilla, who led the study in collaboration with Tim R Nagy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Barry E Levin of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center of East Orange, New Jersey, and Rutgers University.
It’s not just about weight
The researchers studied two lines of rats, one selectively bred to be obesity-resistant to a high-fat diet and one bred to be unusually vulnerable. Rats from each group were fed either a diet with the same overall fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate and protein levels as a typical western diet, or a lower fat, higher grain control diet.
The scientists found that female rats given a western diet in the weeks leading up to pregnancy, during pregnancy and during nursing had offspring more prone to obesity at birth, during early adolescence and — many months later — through adulthood. This occurred even if the mothers themselves did not overeat and maintained a healthy weight, body fat and insulin status.
Zorrilla said the results were surprising because, whereas previous studies had shown that overweight mothers were more likely to have overweight offspring, the new findings suggest that diet alone can make a difference independent of weight gain.
The western diet seemed to set in motion a metabolic ‘program’ that lasted throughout the rat’s life. Although these rats slimmed down during puberty and early adulthood, they still showed a lower basal metabolic rate (less energy expended while at rest) and higher food intake during that time, which led to a return of obesity in mid-adulthood.
“What we found interesting was that you sometimes see the same thing in humans, when a kid goes through a growth spurt,” said study first author Jen Frihauf.
The researchers also noted that fewer females on the western diet were able to reproduce, and those that did reproduce had fewer offspring. “This wasn’t the focus of the study, but it supports the idea that a western diet promotes infertility in mothers vulnerable to diet-induced obesity,” said Zorrilla.
The researchers also identified elevated levels of several molecules, such as insulin and hormones called leptin and adiponectin, starting at birth in both the western diet and genetically vulnerable offspring. This hormone profile may serve as an early biomarker for detecting obesity risk.
The study — Maternal Western Diet Increases Adiposity Even in Male Offspring of Obesity-Resistant Rat Dams: Early Endocrine Risk Markers — was published in the American Journal of Physiology.
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Police Officer Slams EMT Against Hospital Wall in Rochester
What started out as a normal routine day for a Rochester EMT, took a wrong turn to the left after a run-in with a Rochester Police officer went wrong.
That officer is now in hot water with officials in Rochester after the incident.
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According to reporting done by News 10 WHEC-TV in Rochester, a still unidentified investigator with the Rochester Police Department has his vehicle parked in the ambulance bay at Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital when an ambulance pulled in with an emergency patient who needed medical attention.
When one of the EMTs got out of the ambulance, the door to the ambulance hit the Investigator's car. That's when things took a turn for the worse.
Instead of letting the EMT attend to the patient, it's alleged that the Investigator insisted on getting the EMTs identification. After the EMT refused and continue to tend to the patient, the investigator then entered the hospital and proceeded to slam the EMT against a counter inside the hospital. The EMT was then pushed against a wall, handcuffed, and taken away.
It appears that the EMT was not officially arrested. She was released without any charges and since the incident, the officer has been placed on desk duty while the Rochester Police Department looks into this situation.
I have high expectations for all members of the Rochester Police Department. Obviously, this incident is deeply concerning to me. As a result of this interaction at Strong Hospital, I have directed our Professional Standards Section to initiate an internal investigation. The member involved has been re-assigned to administrative duties, pending the results of this investigation. As Chief, I demand the members of the Rochester Police Department perform their duties in a professional manner. And as such, we must hold ourselves to a high standard of accountability.
-David Smith, Chief of Police Rochester Police Department
The City of Rochester Police Accountability Board is also looking into this incident that occurred on Monday, July 11, 2022.
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Salwan Momika, 37, an Iraqi national living in Sweden for the last two years, burned pages of the Holy Quran outside a Stockholm mosque on Wednesday 27th June, after placing apiece of bacon, considered impure by Muslims, and stomping on it.
Apparently he had posted a video online earlier, declaring his intention to burn the Holy Quran on the day of Eid-al Adha festival, and had even asked for donations and support from his family and friends in the video.
Further justifying his act he said that he had received permission from the Stockholm Police to burn a copy of the Holy Quran and as reported by Al Arabiya, he intended to burn another copy of the Holy Quran within 10 days.
After being granted a permit to protest by Swedish police, Salwan stomped on the Islamic holy book and set several pages alight in front of the capital’s largest mosque.
Obviously, the act sparked anger across and beyond the Middle East. On its part the United States condemned the incident but added that issuing the permit for the demonstration supported freedom of expression but it was not an endorsement of the action, thus tacitly supporting the Swedish authorities.
Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stated that the incident was offensive and objectionable, but not illegal. The NATO chief, however, pushed for a deal on Sweden’s NATO membership despite the event, adding another dimension to the incident.
Turkey condemned Swedish authorities’ decision to approve the Quran-burning demonstration, a move that may risk Sweden’s bid to join NATO before the bloc’s key summit in July. Turkey’s foreign minister has termed the protest a “heinous act.”
Meanwhile, in its defence the Swedish Police said though it had granted Salwan a permit in line with free-speech protections, but now it has opened an investigation over “agitation against an ethnic group,” noting that he had performed the burning so close to the mosque.
The police authorisation for the protest came two weeks after a Swedish appeals court rejected the police’s decision to deny permits for two demonstrations in Stockholm, which were to include Quran burnings.
Police had at the time cited security concerns, following a burning of the Muslim holy book outside Turkey’s embassy in January which led to weeks of protests, calls for a boycott of Swedish goods and further stalled Sweden’s NATO membership bid – which is being blocked by Ankara.
The appeals court however in mid-June ruled that police were wrong to ban such demonstrations, saying the security concerns cited by the police were not sufficient to ban the events.
Apparently Sweden rarely condemns protests and public opinion. And, reportedly, a court there gave permission for Salwan’s demonstration on Wednesday. Though the police claim that it refused to authorise the Quran burnings in Stockholm.
On his part, Salwan says his idea was to highlight the importance of freedom of speech as he was quoted in reports as saying, “This is democracy. It is in danger if they tell us we can’t do this.”
However, a more important question here emerges whether this act can be construed as an act of Hate Crime or not?
In absence of any universally agreed definition of Hate Crime and Hate Speech, there are opinions on both side of the spectrum debating whether or not this act qualifies as a Hate Crime or not.
Salwan, speaking to Swedish newspaper Expressen, denied that his actions constituted a “hate crime” or “agitation towards any group.”
“The police have the right to investigate whether the burning is a hate crime. They could be right and they can be wrong,” he told the newspaper, adding that it would be up to a court to decide in the end.
Thus, the whole episode leads us to the basic question whether the act was Hate Crime or not.
In absence of any universally accepted definition of Hate Crime, and the manner in which crimes against the Muslim community in Europe and elsewhere are not dubbed Hate Crime, there is an urgent need to give a universally accepted definition of a Hate Crime.
Just like condemning Xenophobia in any form or shape, the western world needs to act unitedly against acts or words against the Islamic community.
Otherwise the chasm between the western and the eastern world may increase further, and the so-called Islamic countries will continue to express only a muted response to such incidents, keeping their financial interests and ties with west, in mind.
At its level the UN had proclaimed 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, building on the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech launched on 18 June 2019.
But as articulated by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, at the launch on 18 June, “But we are far from powerless in the face of hate speech. We can and must raise awareness about its dangers, and work to prevent and end it in all its forms.”
We, by which, I mean the western nations first and other nations too, must act swiftly to put in place a universally accepted definition of Hate Crimes, encompassing all forms of Hate Speech and other acts inimical to the Muslim community, additionally also deciding what are the limits to Freedom of Expression, otherwise incidents like the Sweden one will continue to happen, agonising a vast global populace.
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For those of you who are new around here, every Friday we bring you 25 of the week’s best links, articles, images, and videos from all over the web in a list we refer to as “Link25″. This week, you’ll find everything from a compilation of some of the most epic fail moments to the beneficial effects of red wine and chocolates. So get ready because this is Link25 (191) – The Red Wine and Chocolate Edition.
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Zac Efron fell over while doing a ’Baywatch’ beach run. The Internet was merciless.
On Tuesday, Zac Efron posted a photo collage featuring him and his Baywatch movie costars doing that show’s iconic beach run. Apparently, the dirty blonde-haired dreamboat wasn’t that bro enough to conquer the show’s most famous sequence. In the first photo, Efron looked like he totally nailed the beach run. In the second, the actor immediately (Click on the title to read the full article).
Weekend comes around and I'm like...
This guy tried to mess with this woman...he'll never do that again.

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Which state in India has highest number of ports? Maharashtra with 53 ports has highest number of ports in India. Maharashtra is followed by Gujarat (40) and Andhra Pradesh (12).
Which port is biggest in India?
Known as Nhava Sheva, JNPT is the largest container port in India and one of the most important harbours on the Western coast of the subcontinent.
Which is the second largest port in India?
As the second biggest port in India, Chennai Port (also known as the Madras port) handles over 100 million metric tons of cargo per year.
Which states in India have 3 major ports?
The state of Tamil Nadu, with three major ports, stands on top of the list of states with the maximum number of major ports in India. The three major ports in this state are Kamarajar Port, V. O. Chidambaranar Port Trust, and Chennai Port.
Which state has the most ports?
List by 2013 figures
|Rank (by total trade)||Port name||State|
|1||Port of South Louisiana||Louisiana|
|2||Port of Houston||Texas|
|3||Port of New York and New Jersey Port Newark||New Jersey New York|
|4||Port of Beaumont||Texas|
Which is the newest port in India?
India’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has granted approval in principle for a new major port at Vadhavan near Dahanu in Maharashtra on India’s west coast. Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), also in Maharashtra, will be the lead partner in the project by providing at least 50 percent f the funding.
Which is the oldest artificial port in India?
Kolkata Port is the oldest artificial port in India.
Which is India’s deepest port?
Gangavaram Port, located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, is India’s deepest port.
Which is the biggest port?
Top 50 World Container Ports
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Which is the natural port in India?
Mumbai is the largest natural port in India.
Which state has more than two ports?
Answer. It is the state of Maharashtra that has two major ports. It is the JNPT or the Jawaharlal Nehru Port which is the biggest container port in the country and the Mumbai port.
How many sea ports are in India?
According to the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, around 95 per cent of India’s trading by volume and 70 per cent by value is done through maritime transport. It is serviced by 13 major ports (12 Government-owned and one private) and 187 notified minor and intermediate ports.
How many Bandars are there in India?
There are currently 13 major seaports in India, out of which 12 are operated under the government of India while one is run by a corporation (Ennore Port). These sea ports are crucial to sustaining and improving India’s developing economy. These ports in India are essential for handling a majority of India’s trade.
What is the busiest port in America?
Port of Los Angeles
The port is the busiest in the United States in terms of container volume and the most cargo transported in the Western Hemisphere.
Does China own any US ports?
Bartholomew cited data revealing that at least two-thirds of the world’s top 50 container ports are owned by the Chinese or supported by Chinese investments, up from roughly 20% a decade ago. Those investments include terminals at major U.S. container ports in Los Angeles and Seattle.
What is the oldest port in the United States?
Gloucester is America’s oldest seaport.


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WASHINGTON,Mar 23: A North Korean national extradited to the US from Malaysia appeared in court on Monday to face money laundering charges.
Mun Chol-myong, 55, is the first North Korean national ever to be extradited to the US, the Department of Justice said.
Mun was not extradited by North Korea but brought to the US from another “foreign country”, where he had been detained since May 2019, the department said in a statement.
The Justice Department did not identify the country involved but North Korea severed diplomatic ties with Malaysia and closed its embassy on Sunday to protest Mun’s extradition.
Pyongyang called it an “unpardonable crime” carried out under “blind obedience” to American pressure.
The Justice Department said Mun is accused of laundering money through the US financial system between April 2013 and November 2018 to provide luxury items to North Korea.
“The indictment alleges that Mun defrauded banks and laundered money in an effort to evade counter-proliferation sanctions imposed on North Korea by the US and the UN,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said.
“We will continue to use the long reach of our laws to protect the American people from sanctions evasion and other national security threats.”
Alan Kohler, an FBI agent, said “one of the FBI’s biggest counterintelligence challenges is bringing overseas defendants to justice, especially in the case of North Korea.
“Thanks to the FBI’s partnership with foreign authorities, we’re proud to bring Mun Chol-myong to the US to face justice, and we hope he will be the first of many,” Kohler said.
The Justice Department said Mun made an initial appearance on Monday in federal court in Washington to faces six counts of money laundering in transactions valued at over US$1.5 million.
The indictment alleges that Mun was affiliated with North Korea’s primary intelligence organisation, the Reconnaissance General Bureau.
Malaysia had been one of Pyongyang’s few allies, but ties were already strained following the 2017 assassination of leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother at the Kuala Lumpur airport.
After Pyongyang cut ties, Malaysia gave North Korean diplomats 48 hours to leave the country.
On Sunday, the North Korean flag and a plaque were taken down from the country’s embassy — a large house in an upmarket area of Kuala Lumpur — and the gates were chained up.
Malaysia denounced Pyongyang’s move and announced it would close its mission in North Korea, whose operations had already been suspended since the murder of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother.


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by Amy Jo Cousins
Series: Full Hearts #1
Also in this series: HeartOn
Publisher: Amy Jo Cousins
Publication Date: April 21, 2017
I received an advance review copy of this book from Publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.My rating:
Some mistakes are worth making.
Benji never meant to catfish a hot, college football player in Minnesota when he met a fellow anime fan online. But when @joshfortytwo announces he’s coming to Miami for a spontaneous visit, Benji is pretty sure the left tackle (whatever that is) expects to meet a cute girl in a bikini, not an aging twink hoping to finally get his life together when he finishes massage therapy school.
Josh doesn't let himself wonder about questions like:
• why don't you want to ask @princessglitter if she's a girl?• why don't you tell your friends that you can't hang on Sunday nights because you've got a date to watch anime with your new BFF?• why do you call it a date?
He just knows he needs to escape from the stress of having been injured just before the bowl game, and @princessglitter has somehow become his best friend.
But when Josh's secrets and Benji's sex appeal smash together for forty-eight scorching hours, they're going to feel the heat from Miami to Minnesota.
Oh my gosh, this was just lovely! It’s so sweet and low-angst, and laugh-out-loud funny.
Josh is a 25-year-old college football player who had a real shot at going pro – until an ACL injury sidelined him. The only thing that takes his mind off his future is talking with his online best friend, @princessglitter. They met in the comments section of an anime video, and now live tweet an episode together every Sunday. While they’ve joked about Josh visiting @princessglitter in Miami, they’ve never talked on anything except twitter. After a particularly bad night right before Christmas, Josh makes a 3am decision to buy a last-minute ticket from Minnesota to Miami. It’s not until he walks into a McDonald’s in Miami and comes face to face with Benji – aka @princessglitter – that he’s hit with a landslide of embarrassment and… excitement?
“’Holy shit.’ Benji stared blindly at the chipping paint on his studio apartment door. ‘I accidentally catfished a football player.’”
Josh is your average college football player – 6′ 6″ and 285 pounds, driven to do well at both his college courses and football. Benji is a much scrawnier man in his thirties, who likes Hello Kitty T-shirts and sparkly sandals, and who, after struggling for direction in his twenties, is within reach of completing his massage therapy training. Besides their love for Ruby Rose, the online anime they watch, they’re complete opposites, and I had some serious reservations about how their relationship would work out before they met in person. But, after – they’re both smart, sweet, and romantic, and they complement each other perfectly.
“’I’m awake,’ Josh muttered. ‘And I’m definitely still gay. And still here because I like you.’”
While this could’ve strayed to “gay for you” or insta-love tropes, it’s much deeper than that. Josh has known that he’s gay for quite a while, but it’s not until he meets Benji – and gets caught staring at his butt within the first five minutes – that he finally admits it to himself. Their online friendship – and flirting – makes the whirlwind romance believable. I also liked that we got to see how each guy fits into the other’s life. After Josh meets all of Benji’s Miami gay club scene friends, Benji eventually visits Minnesota and meets Josh’s football friends (and plays paintball with them, one of my favorite scenes).
“Because as much as he’d flung himself head first off the Cliffs of Crushing Out on Your Online Bestie into the Sea of Long Distance Love, and as much as he believed Josh had taken the plunge with him, Benji was a grown up. A thirty-two-year-old veteran of relationships that hadn’t survived different tastes in music and favorite brunch spots, much less an eighteen hundred mile cross-country gap.”
Do I wish there was more? Yes, of course. I would’ve liked to see more scenes building their relationship while they were long distance, but I understand this is a novella. As for other cons, I’m not up on all the anime lingo, so some of the OTP and shipping and everything was confusing for me, though I think Ms. Cousins did a good job trying to explain it without going overboard. Also, I think the resolution of their relationship, while sweet, was unsatisfying because I couldn’t quite believe they’d make it for sure as a couple after only spending a few weeks together in the same place. I also wish Josh’s casual outing of himself would have been explored more, though I’m glad we got to see it from Benji’s point of view.
Overall, this is a sweet and enjoyable read. If you’re looking for a Netflix-and-chill kind of relationship, then you’ll love this!


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Step into the Ethereal Realm: LSDREAM Merchandise Collection
The world of music and fashion has collided once again with the release of the highly anticipated LSDREAM merchandise collection. Fans of electronic music artist, LSDREAM (real name Sami Diament), will be thrilled to know that they can now step into his ethereal realm through this unique and mesmerizing clothing line.
LSDREAM is known for his mind-bending soundscapes and psychedelic performances that transport audiences to otherworldly dimensions. And now, with the introduction of his official merchandise collection, fans can not only experience his music but also express their love for his artistry through fashion.
The collection features a range of apparel including t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, and more. Each item is carefully designed with intricate graphics that capture the essence of LSDREAM Merch’s music. From trippy visuals to bold typography and cryptic symbols, every piece exudes a mystical vibe that represents the artist’s signature style.
But it’s not just about looking cool – there is a deeper meaning behind each design. As an advocate for self-exploration and self-discovery through altered states of consciousness, LSDREAM’s merchandise reflects this philosophy by urging individuals to tap into their inner spirit and explore their subconscious mind.
One standout piece from the collection is the “Ethereal Realm” t-shirt. The front features a striking graphic design depicting a shattered skull with colorful floral elements emerging from within – representing breaking free from societal norms and embracing one’s true self. On the back is an inspiring quote by LSDREAM that reads “Step into your ethereal realm.
This message serves as an invitation for fans to fully immerse themselves in LSDREAM’s unique world; a world where anything is possible if you have the courage to take that leap.
Another notable item is the “LSDreamers” hoodie which pays homage to Diament’s dedicated fan base who call themselves “Dreamers”. This piece incorporates subtle nods to LSDREAM’s music with its psychedelic visuals and a quote from his hit song “Awakening” – “We dream, we create, we aspire.
But the collection isn’t just limited to clothing. Fans can also get their hands on some trippy accessories such as tote bags and phone cases featuring the same intricate designs found on the apparel.
LSDREAM’s merchandise collection is not just your typical band merch – it is a representation of a movement that encourages individuals to break free from societal constraints and embrace their true selves. Through his music and now through fashion, LSDREAM continues to inspire individuals to explore their consciousness and unlock their full potential.
For fans of LSDREAM or anyone looking for unique and thought-provoking fashion, the official merchandise collection offers an exciting opportunity to step into LSDREAM’s ethereal realm. It’s more than just merch – it’s a way of life. So what are you waiting for? Dive into the world of LSDREAM today.


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FBI Looking into Islamic Web Site for
FBI is trying to determine whether an Islamic Web site that tracked users of an online chat room played a role in the killings
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005 Posted: 2:52:57PM EST
weeks after a Coptic Christian family of four was slain in
site in question, barsomyat.com, is no longer online. However, according to the
Associated Press, before it was shut down by its Minnesota hosting company, the
site reportedly featured photos of Hossam Armanious and his wife, Amal Garas—who, along with their daughters, Sylvia, 15, and
Monica, 8, were found bound and gagged on Jan. 14, their throats and heads stabbed
repeatedly. According to a report published Monday by the
AP reported that Armanious was an active participant in the PalTalk.com instant messaging service, in which he discussed religion with Christians and Muslims. Friends and family members have said the discussions frequently grew heated, and that Armanious received death threats because of his postings under the user name "I Love Jesus."
do know there is a site that monitors people on PalTalk,
but that shouldn't come as a shock," said John Conway, a spokesman for the
its report on Monday, the
After the discovery of the website, Dr. Monir A. Dawoud, Acting President of the American Coptic Association, said, “The discovery of a web site where Christians had their identities revealed, and were targeted for voicing their religious beliefs makes us, as Christians, feel for our safety, and contributes to the speculation that this was a hate crime.”
urged officials investigating the
“Adding the FBI Hate Crimes Unit to the investigation would make us feel that nothing was being overlooked,” said Dawoud.
However, DeFazio did say last week that the grisly slayings of the family of four appeared not to have to stemmed from a simple robbery—which authorities had stressed as being a possible motive.
"Certainly, based on the viciousness of the attacks, we think there's more than taking the money that was in the apartment," DeFazio had said.
In his statement yesterday, Dawoud stated that "We have faith in the American system of justice, but the initial conflicting reports and the lack of progress have caused fear to overtake our community."
"Children are afraid to sleep alone. People are installing double locks on their doors, bars on their windows and sophisticated alarm systems." the ACA head reported.
According to the ACA, five law enforcement agencies have been investigating this case—The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, The Jersey City Police, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Immigration and Naturalization Service, and The Federal Office of Immigration and Customs. The lead on the case is the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Listening to all the discussions resulting drom the Hannity – Cohen relationship disclosure. What is a journalist, and what responsibility do they have? An outcome of Watergate is that too many people expect every person reporting any tyoe of news to be Woodward & Berstein. 295 more words
Tags » Reporters
This was on Twitter this morning and this was such a common sense response to the never-ending stupidity of reporters questions.
I for one am not in favor of war of any kind but do realize a strong military is essential to a countries security. 130 more words
Recently, I gave myself another try with what is probably the most effective PR service for business owners and Freelancers, Help A Reporter Out . I originally signed up with HARO about five years ago, but quickly discontinued when I felt overwhelmed by the thrice-daily emails that arrived Monday – Friday to inform subscribers of 20 or so potential opportunities to be interviewed. 850 more words
It has been a while since I have written about old-time radio’s portrayal of the relationship between newspaper reporters and police officers.
This 1944 Green Hornet episode goes beyond the series’ usual scenes of camaraderie between the cops and former policeman Mike Axford — who was part reporter and part bodyguard for Daily Sentinel publisher Britt Reid without being sharp enough to figure out that read was also the Green Hornet. 194 more words


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|Conference||American Football Conference|
|League||National Football League|
|No. of teams||Buffalo Bills New York Jets|
|Most recent champion(s)||New England Patriots (14th title)|
|Most titles||Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots (14 titles)|
The American Football Conference – Eastern Division or AFC East is a division of the National Football League's American Football Conference. There are currently four teams that reside in the division: Buffalo Bills of Orchard Park, Miami Dolphins of Miami, New England Patriots of Foxborough, and New York Jets of Florham Park.
Since the division's enfranchisement in 1960, with the creation of the American Football League, the division has represented in 18 Super Bowls and won 7 of them, with the most recent during the 2004 National Football League season by the New England Patriots. The most recent appearance in the Super Bowl by an AFC East team was the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI.
Entering 2012 the Patriots have the most wins in the division's history, with a record of 414-365-9, with a playoff record of 23-16 (3-4 in Super Bowls). The Dolphins are second at 400-300-4 (having played 84 fewer games than their division rivals) with a playoff record of 20-20 (2-3 in Super Bowls). The Bills are at 364-416-8 with a playoff record of 14-15 but winless having gone to four consecutive Super Bowls. The Jets presently hold a record of 359-421-8, with a playoff record of 12-13 including victory in Super Bowl III. The Patriots and Dolphins have won 14 division titles apiece; the Bills have won ten division titles, and the Jets have won four.
AFL Eastern Division
The American Football League Eastern Division was formed during the inaugural season of the American Football League in 1960, as a counterpart to the AFL Western Division. The divisional alignment consisted of the Buffalo Bills, Boston Patriots, New York Titans and Houston Oilers. The Miami Dolphins entered the AFL in 1966 as part of its Eastern division.
The division was absorbed nearly intact with the AFL–NFL Merger in 1970, but Houston was moved to the AFC Central (formerly the NFL Century Division, now the AFC North) and replaced by the closer Baltimore Colts (from the NFL Coastal Division, which became the NFC West). Despite relocating to Indianapolis, Indiana in 1984, the Colts continued to play in the AFC East until NFL expansion from 31 to 32 teams with the addition of the Houston Texans and 2002 re-alignment when they were moved to the AFC South (the successor franchise to the Oilers, the Tennessee Titans, is also in the AFC South).
Although Miami is farther south than the home cities of the other three teams, all of which are in the Northeast, all four AFC East teams have historical rivalries among them, dating from their years in the AFL during the 1960s.
None of the AFC East teams currently plays within the central city of their metropolitan area:
- The Bills play 7 games in Orchard Park, New York and 1 in Toronto, Ontario (they played in the city of Buffalo from 1960–72).
- The Jets play in East Rutherford, New Jersey (they played in the New York City borough of Manhattan from 1960–63, and in the borough of Queens from 1964–83)
- The Dolphins play in Miami Gardens, Florida, a suburb of Miami (they played in the city Miami from 1966–86)
- The Patriots play in Foxborough, approximately halfway between their original home city of Boston (in which the team played from 1960 to 1970) and Providence, Rhode Island.
All of the teams are or were coached by a first or second generation member of the Bill Parcells Coaching Tree: the Patriots have Bill Belichick; the Dolphins had Tony Sparano; the Jets had Eric Mangini (who served as an assistant with both Belichick and Parcells); and the Bills had Dick Jauron (fired on November 17, 2009), who served as an assistant with former Parcells assistant Tom Coughlin. The Jets are now coached by Rex Ryan and the Bills are now coached by Chan Gailey. Parcells himself coached the Patriots (1993–6) and the Jets (1997–9) and was Vice President of Football Operations for the Dolphins until summer, 2010.
Along with the AFC (formerly AFL) West, the AFC East is the oldest NFL division in terms of creation date (1960).
Place cursor over year for division champ or Super Bowl team.
|AFL Eastern Division||NFL AFC East Division|
|Boston Patriots||New England Patriots [A]|
|Houston Oilers [B]|
|N Y Titans||New York Jets [C]|
|Miami Dolphins [D]|
|Baltimore Colts [E]||Indianapolis Colts [F]|
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|New England Patriots|
|New York Jets|
|Team not in division Division Won AFL Championship Division Won Super Bowl Division Won AFC Championship|
- A Boston Patriots relocate team to Foxborough, Massachusetts subsequently renamed New England Patriots (1971 season)
- B Houston Oilers move to newly created AFC Central division (1970 season) and later are renamed the Tennessee Oilers (1997 season), then Tennessee Titans (1999 season). Moved to AFC South in 2002.
- C New York Titans renamed to New York Jets (1963 season)
- D Miami Dolphins enfranchised (1966 season)
- E Baltimore Colts merge from NFL's Western Division to AFC East (1970 Season)
- F Baltmore Colts relocate team to Indianapolis, Indiana subsequently renamed Indianapolis Colts (1984 Season). They moved to the AFC South in 2002
- ! – The Patriots and Bills each finished with identical 7–6–1 records in the regular season. The Patriots would win the ensuing playoff game for the right to represent the East in the AFL Championship Game.
- + – A players' strike in 1982 reduced the regular season to nine games. Thus, the league used a special 16-team playoff tournament just for this year. Division standings were ignored, Miami had the best record of the division teams.
Wild Card qualifiers
- Since 1969
- 1969 – Houston Oilers
- 1970 – Miami Dolphins
- 1971 – Baltimore Colts
- 1974 – Buffalo Bills
- 1976 – New England Patriots
- 1978 – Miami Dolphins
- 1981 – Buffalo Bills, New York Jets
- 1982 – strike year* New England Patriots & N Y Jets
- 1985 – New England Patriots, New York Jets
- 1986 – New York Jets
- 1990 – Miami Dolphins
- 1991 – New York Jets
- 1992 – Buffalo Bills
- 1994 – New England Patriots
- 1995 – Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins
- 1996 – Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts
- 1997 – Miami Dolphins
- 1998 – Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots
- 1999 – Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins
- 2000 – Indianapolis Colts
- 2001 – Miami Dolphins, New York Jets
- 2004 – New York Jets
- 2006 – New York Jets
- 2009 – New York Jets
- 2010 – New York Jets
* – A players' strike in 1982 reduced the regular season to nine games. Thus, the league used a special 16-team playoff tournament just for this year. Division standings were ignored.
|2012||AFC South||NFC West|
|2013||AFC North||NFC South|
|2014||AFC West||NFC North|
|2015||AFC South||NFC East|
|2016||AFC North||NFC West|
|2017||AFC West||NFC South|
|2018||AFC South||NFC North|
|2019||AFC North||NFC East|
|2020||AFC West||NFC West|
|2021||AFC South||NFC South|
|2022||AFC North||NFC North|
|2023||AFC West||NFC East|
|2024||AFC South||NFC West|
|2025||AFC North||NFC South|
- Bills-Dolphins rivalry
- Dolphins-Jets rivalry
- Jets-Patriots rivalry
- Colts-Patriots rivalry
Total playoff berths while in the AFL/AFC East
(AFC East records 1960-2011 seasons)
Reflects Colts & Oilers results only while in the East Division.
In the sortable table below, teams can be ordered by name, number of division wins, playoff berths, or titles.
|New York Jets||4||14||1||0||1|
1 Realigned from NFL West in 1970 merger. Known as the Baltimore Colts before 1984. Realigned into the AFC South beginning with the 2002 NFL season.
2 Realigned into the AFC Central in 1970 merger, and into the AFC South in 2002. Known as Tennessee Oilers from 1997–98, and Tennessee Titans since 1999.
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As tensions rise War In Niger this article explores the factors contributing to the escalating conflict and its potential consequences. The raising struggle inside the nation’s boundaries has prompted mounting fears of a looming war. In this article, we dig into the elements adding to this emergency, the gatherings in question, and the expected outcomes.
Niger, a landlocked West African nation, is currently grappling with a precarious situation that has raised concerns both regionally and globally. The escalating conflict within the country’s borders has led to mounting fears of an impending war. In this article, we delve into the factors contributing to this crisis, the parties involved, and the potential consequences.
Understanding the Crisis War In Niger
The crisis in Niger is rooted in a complex web of ethnic, political, economic, and security issues. Some of the key factors include:
Ethnic and Tribal Tensions
Niger is home to various ethnic groups, and competition for resources and political power has fueled tensions among these communities. The clash between different ethnic and tribal groups has often resulted in violence and conflict.
Niger faces significant economic challenges, including poverty, unemployment, and a lack of access to basic services. People have option to earn money only game like Satta Matka and some others. These economic hardships have contributed to social unrest and discontent among the population.
The country has experienced a series of political upheavals, including coups and contested elections. Political instability has hindered the government’s ability to address the nation’s pressing issues effectively.
Terrorism and Insurgency
War IN Niger shares borders with countries like Mali and Nigeria, which are grappling with terrorism and insurgency issues. The spillover effect has led to security concerns within Niger’s own borders.
War In Niger Parties Involved
Several parties play a role in the Niger crisis:
The Nigerian government, led by President Mohamed Bazoum, is striving to maintain stability and address the challenges the nation faces.
Various rebel groups, often associated with ethnic or tribal interests, are involved in armed conflicts against the government. These groups seek greater autonomy or control over specific regions.
The crisis in Niger has attracted the attention of regional and international actors, including the United Nations and neighboring countries, who are attempting to mediate and find solutions to the conflict.
Potential Consequences War In Niger
The escalation of conflict in Niger carries significant consequences, both for the nation and the wider region:
An outbreak of war would likely lead to a humanitarian catastrophe, with countless civilians displaced and in need of assistance.
Destabilization of the Region
Given Niger’s strategic location and its porous borders with other conflict-ridden nations, the crisis has the potential to destabilize the entire West African region.
Continued instability would further damage Niger’s already fragile economy, potentially affecting neighboring economies as well.
The situation in Niger is undoubtedly precarious, with the risk of war looming large. International diplomacy and efforts to mediate between the government and rebel groups remain ongoing, offering a glimmer of hope for a peaceful resolution. The world watches with bated breath, hoping that a devastating conflict can be averted, and that Niger can find a path towards stability and prosperity.


Baylor continues reign atop AP poll
South Carolina jumps back into rankings, checks in at No. 25
Baylor stays the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press poll.
The Lady Bears received all the first-place votes on Monday for the 13th consecutive week after routing Texas and Kansas. Baylor will try to finish the regular season as the lone unbeaten team when it wraps up regular season play with games at Texas A&M on Monday night and at home against Iowa State on Saturday.
Stanford, Notre Dame, Connecticut and Duke followed the Lady Bears to compile the top five.
Maryland, Miami, Delaware, Penn State and Kentucky round out the first 10.
Ohio State took the biggest drop -- falling six spots down to 14th after losing to Penn State and Nebraska last week. South Carolina re-enters the rankings at No. 25 while DePaul falls out after checking in at No. 21 previously.
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Followers Return for Russian Grand Prix However F1 Nonetheless A Lengthy Means From Regular
McLaren’s Lando Norris describing the presence of followers at Components One races as “half a step again to the best way it ought to be”.
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Organisers, who’ve talked of attracting a 30,000 robust crowd for Sunday’s race in Sochi, have declared the tickets offered out.
They stated some 5,000 had attended on Thursday, when there was no observe motion on the Olympic Park circuit and the standard pit lane stroll was performed just about with followers watching on huge screens.
“I’ve missed the followers a lot by way of the 12 months. I can’t inform you how nice it’s to see folks,” six instances world champion Lewis Hamilton informed reporters after securing pole place for Mercedes.
“I hope everybody has their masks on and staying protected,” added the Briton.
Norris stated it was nonetheless a good distance from the previous regular.
“We don’t have any of the meet and greets, we’re not up shut with the followers like we had been final 12 months and signing autographs and footage on the best way in by way of the gates,” he stated.
“It’s nonetheless fairly totally different. However I suppose simply searching of your pit field and seeing the followers on the grandstand and listening to the cheering and the claps when Lewis was simply on pole, it simply feels extra regular and extra like again to the way it ought to be.
“It’s like half a step again to the best way it ought to be.”
The primary race to permit followers to attend in restricted numbers was the Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello in Italy two weeks in the past.
The Ferrari-owned observe allowed 2,880 paying followers to attend every day.
The season’s first eight races had been held behind closed doorways.

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SONOMA COUNTY (KRON)—A pedestrian has life-threatening injuries after he was struck by a car near Rohnert Park Wednesday morning.
The incident happened around 12:25 a.m. when William Baumgartner, 24, of Vallejo was hit by a Honda Civic driven by Jessie Jimenez, 31, the California Highway Patrol said.
Baumgartner was crossing Wilfred Avenue when the Honda was driving down the road.
Jimenez did not see Baumgartner, according to CHP.
Baumgartner has life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
CHP officials say Jimenez did not seem to be impaired, but are investigating whether Baumgartner was impaired.


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Happy Holidays is a Thomas and Friends video that was released in 2000. A rare 2006 DVD exists but it excludes the songs.
It's a peep peep and a chuff chuff for all the Thomas the Tank Engine fans out there with 6 more adventures with Thomas and his friends plus 3 special holiday songs for you to learn!
- Sir Topham Hatt's Holiday
- Make Someone Happy
- Stepney Gets Lost
- Thomas, Percy and Old Slowcoach
- Oliver's Find
- Busy Going Backwards
- The Australian VHS release also includes a trailer for Thomas and the Magic Railroad at the beginning.


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Tahir Zaman Song in his Beautiful Voice
Tahir Zaman is a fruit vendor in Lahore from last 5-6 years. His videos gone popular recently on social media. He really sings well. No one can imagine that how much Pakistan got talent. But where it's going. His interview taken by a lot of people. And he is getting popularity day by day. See what will happened next. Watch and list his songs in his beautiful voice.


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Marrakech is one of those magical places you read about in novels full of Arabian mystery and that sense of poetic chaos in the city is that exact same experience as you’re assaulted by lots of colours, sounds and haggling shop keepers. But it’s wonderful. Shopping? You’re spoilt for choice, it’s overwhelming! The medina is wonderful for knick knacks and you’re never be done combing the souk for treasures.
Here are my top 3 stops for artisan local designer goods, already curated and some of them exported to be sold in fancy boutiques.
1. Four Seasons Marrakech : Without sounding biased, but their store is a carefully and wonderfully curated boutique carrying the best of Marrakech designers and artists – from fashion to jewellery and leather goods. They also run pop-up events. The same designer labels and goods, you’ll find in various stores at the Medina. Absolutely perfect for gift shopping.
2. Les Petit Boutiques at the Medina. Whole floor of tiny shops devoted to creative artisan pieces from paintings to bags and accessories. Some of the same labels are carried in Four Seasons’ boutique, and if you’re a browser, you might enjoy going from tiny shop to tiny shop more. The layout is a little like Beijing Sanlitun’s Nali Patio.
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(a 150 m de Dar El Bacha) Right downstairs from Terrasse des épices
3. Kaowa is a cafe connected to concept store 33 rue Majorelle and Chabi Chic by Jardin Majorelle connected to an equally cool café. This is your equivalent of Kapok in Hong Kong or a Colette Paris, filled with crazy cool local designer crafts from posters (a whole series of Morroccan “Keep Calm” posters), utensils to bottled spices and high fashion.
Those amazing lamps above are in a secret furniture store that you have to cut through lanes like diagon alley. It’s super magical and I don’t have the address unfortunately and hope I stumble back inside there again next time.
There are currently most budget flights that go to Marrakech from Europe, so if you’re planning to shop, make sure you board with an empty hand carry – leave room for shopping. Unlike us, we didn’t make plans and we’re certainly going back for a lamp or two!artisan, boutiques, creative, design, four seasons hotel, leather, marrakech, morocco, shop, shopping


Cuomo wants Tax credits, the Assembly majority wants rent control and now the Sales tax extensions are being held hostage… and presumably the Senate majority on behalf of “Up-Staters” want the SAFE Act repealed. Sounds like a deal for the three men room.
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Sales tax extensions held hostage in rent control fight
Add extensions of sales taxes in 44 counties to the list of peripheral issues that aren’t being addressed, or put another way, being held hostage, to the Assembly-Senate standoff over the renewal of rent regulations.
While the Republican-controlled Senate has passed sales tax extensions for most suburban and upstate counties, the Democratic-dominated Assembly hasn’t moved on them, since they are tied up in the rent fight.
The Senate last week extended rent control for eight, then six years, with some additional conditions such as proof-of-income verification for those in rent controlled units.
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Marvel’s ‘Star Wars’ Comic Delves Into Period Between ‘A New Hope’ & ‘The Empire Strikes Back’
If you’re hungry for new Star Wars stories to hold you over until Rogue One and Episode VIII, you should look into the new comics that are being produced by Marvel. The storylines are interesting and the artwork is often striking. Some of them focus on a single character like Darth Vader, Lando and Chewbacca while others focus on a time period such as Marvel’s Star Wars which plunges into the period of time between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
Here is one of my favorite moments from Marvel’s Star Wars. After striking down his arch nemesis Obi-Wan Kenobi aboard the Death Star and narrowly avoiding being destroyed along with it, it is no surprise that Vader would begin searching for answers. What never occurred to me is that Vader may have followed the clues all the way back to his home planet. Then it makes sense that he would have ended up on the planet’s most notorious gangster’s doorstep, right?
Here’s what a part of that meeting looked like according to Star Wars Vol. 2 #4. It turns surprisingly poignant at the end. (The page scans are from ComicNewbies.com)
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The Hallmark Channel’s newest movie, “A Tale of Two Christmases,” premieres on Saturday, November 26, at 6 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Central. The movie stars Kat Barrell, Evan Roderick, and Chandler Massey. Read on to learn all about where the movie was filmed and the cast involved.
‘A Tale of Two Christmases’ Was Filmed in Canada
“A Tale of Two Christmases” was called “Flight Before Christmas” during filming. It was filmed in the Vancouver region of Canada, where many Hallmark movies are filmed.
The Twitter account SleepyKittyPaw shared that the movie wrapped filming in British Columbia, Canada, on September 1.
The account clarified that the movie was later renamed “A Tale of Two Christmases.”
Here’s another set photo.
A fan account of Kat Barrell reposted one of her reels about doing dialogue fixes in the movie.
The same account also posted this one, where Kat wrote: “But first, Coffee!”
Executive producer Kirsten Hansen said that this was one of the best experiences filming so far, to which Kat replied “Yes!!!🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌❤❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥 such an amazing team!”
Barrell shared a video when she was working on ADR for the movie.
Here’s another beautiful photo shared by Jason Borque on September 11.
Keith Dallas wrote: “Filming these Christmas movies gives you the Christmas feels early.”
Meet the Cast
Hallmark’s synopsis reads:
Emma (Barrell) is an aspiring architect living in Chicago, who plans to return home to Vermont to spend the holidays with her family. Thanks to some Christmas magic, she gets to experience two different Christmases. In one, Emma misses her flight home and stays behind in the Windy City where she celebrates with new crush, Max (Roderick), and his friends. In the other, Emma makes the trip home, and enjoys the holiday traditions of her family…and also reconnects with Drew (Massey), a longtime friend who may have feelings for her. Emma’s double holiday ultimately helps her learn a surprising lesson about will truly make her happy in life as well as in love”
Kat Barrell, who plays Emma, has been on a number of different TV shows, but the role of Officer Nicole Haught in the SyFy drama “Wynonna Earp” is what has brought her the most recognition, her bio shared. As a result of her role, fans have been using the social media hashtag #wayhaught. The character that made Barrell the most well-known to Hallmark viewers was Joy Harper on “Good Witch.” She also recently had a starring role in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries production “A Godwink Christmas: Miracle of Love.”
She posted a picture on Instagram on Halloween and wrote: “Grandma made the duck costume so we made the farm! As you can see, everyone is thrilled 😂 🎶 Ee i ee i ohhhhhhh!!! 🎶 🎃 👻 Hope you and yours had a spooktacular Halloween!!!!”
Chandler Massey (Drew) was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, according to his bio. Lewis Massey, a former Secretary of State of Georgia, and Amy Massey are his parents. Massey moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to attend UCLA. He’s known for his role as Will Horton on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives.” He made his debut on the Hallmark Channel in 2021 with the movie “Next Stop, Christmas,” and he was most recently seen in “Heart of the Matter” for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Among his other credits are the horror film “Hide in the Light” and the comedy “Bad Judge.”
Last June he posted this funny picture on Instagram, saying, “The secret to a great relationship is each partner carrying half the weight.”
Evan Roderick (Max) is also a singer-songwriter, according to his bio. Roderick started out playing hockey and quit after three seasons playing at a high level in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). After that he pursued acting as a career. Roderick’s credits include “Project MC2,” which airs on Netflix; “When We Rise,” which airs on ABC; and “Arrow,” which airs on The CW.
Last summer he released an album and promoted it on Instagram, saying “Upside Down is now streaming everywhere! Thanks for all your support 🤙🏻.”
Also starring in the movie are:
- Beverley Breuer (Deena Peterson)
- Marissa Leong (Holly Matthews)
- Keith MacKechnie (John Peterson)
- Sunita Prasad (Sharice)
- Vincent Dangerfield (Will)
- Brittany Hunt (Sarah)
- Shaughnessy Redden (Bob Heaton)
- Lynn Whyte (Shirley Roberts)
- Christian Lagasse (Gate Agent)
- Michael P Northey (Gordon)
- Barbara Wallace (Aunt Martha)
- Keith Dallas (Cab Driver)
- Craig Meester (Santa)
- Eduard Witzke (Tree Lot Worker)
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By Hardin Towell
How do you plan your horses’ show schedules through the winter? I want to get my horse fit for Winter Equestrian Festival without tiring him out in the December shows.
You have to look at what your goal is for the year with the horse, and backtrack from there. If it’s a young horse, it’s a little bit different because you’re developing it, so you probably wouldn’t do a ton in Florida because it’s the same rings. If it’s a 6-year-old, you’re going to stick to the Young Horse classes and you’re not going to go jump a 1.35m or 1.40m class. You just need to look to see how they’re coming along. If they’re jumping great the first two weeks of the season and go clean in every class, I wouldn’t do much more. Maybe you wait until one of the last weeks of the 6-Year-Old Finals if that’s one of your goals.
As a trainer, I talk to the junior or amateur riders and see what their goal is for WEF. If it’s a hunter, maybe it’s the hunter derby at the end or WCHR week. If it’s jumpers, it might be the U25 Final. Once we set that goal, we backtrack and see what’s going to point towards that goal. With the U25 series, if you aren’t ready by the beginning of WEF then you aren’t going to be ready since those classes only get bigger as the season progresses. So we usually decide if those riders are going to do the whole series or just parts of it.
If it’s a Grand Prix horse, you have to pick different goals based on what the rest of the year looks like. It really depends on the horse and what the person’s goal is for that year. When it comes to our junior and amateur clients, the U25 Final is typically their goal. You have to backtrack from there, thinking about how you can have your horse and your rider most set up to perform best for that big goal class.If it’s a Grand Prix horse, you have to pick different goals based on what the rest of the year looks like. It really depends on the horse and what the person’s goal is for that year. When it comes to our junior and amateur clients, the U25 Final is typically their goal. You have to backtrack from there, thinking about how you can have your horse and your rider most set up to perform best for that big goal class.
What’s the best way to transition my horse from cooler weather to warmer weather in Florida?
All of my horses have been to Florida before, so they take the transition quite well. It’s difficult when they come from Europe sometimes because they’ve never really had that type of heat and humidity. The main thing is keeping the fungus and bacteria off of those horses that aren’t used to the Florida climate. Ones that have been to Florida have a stronger immune system and they can handle that, but when horses come from Europe they typically get fungus since nothing really dies in Florida. Most of the horses handle it fine.
How do you keep your horse(s) from getting bored of the same routine during such a long period of time?
The past few years, we’ve had big farms with big grass fields. The show does get boring, but having big grass fields or being able to take the horses on trail rides and give them plenty of turnout, keeps their minds occupied. By April they’re definitely ready to get out of there and go somewhere new, but a lot of turnout and trail rides help with that.
We also like to keep the exercises at home interesting for them. This exercise is one we use across the globe at Oakland and at every level: We like to jump a series of four or five verticals in a row with one stride in between and a rail in the middle. We also put up guide rails so the horses are forced to rock themselves back and stay straight throughout the whole exercise. We think that’s one of the best exercises to do at home, whether it’s a rest period or you’re gearing up for a show. The biggest thing is shape for horses, and by doing this exercise, they can’t twist and really have to rock back on their hind end.
Is there anything special that you do as a rider or trainer to prepare?
Mentally, I think it’s important to understand that WEF and the winter season is not the end-all. A lot of people put a lot of pressure on the winter season to always get great results, but you really have to use it as a training device. It’s a stepping stone to your goals for the rest of the year. Of course it’s nice to get some good results because it’s a long season, but sometimes those wins can be from just training and developing young horses or getting to know a new horse. There’s more than one way to look at the winter circuit.
Hardin Towell comes from a very prominent equestrian family, with his parents operating Finally Farm in Camden, South Carolina, and his sister, Liza Boyd, dominating the hunter ring. Having great success as a junior hunter and equitation rider, he soon became a professional and continued this success in the jumper ring. Some of his career highlights include qualifying for the FEI World Cup™ Finals in Las Vegas in 2015 and in Gothenburg, Sweden, the following year, when he also won the CSI5* in the Shanghai leg of the Longines Global Champions Tour. Hardin has continued to have international success, and is currently based in Wellington, Florida, where he’s focusing on teaching students.

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Last month, during the protests in Baltimore over police violence, an infant suddenly stopped breathing and was pronounced deceased. The protests and riots that happened in Baltimore were a tragedy, and to add the death of an infant makes the situation even worse. Baltimore Police did respond quickly, but unfortunately, despite the lifesaving attempts by one officer, the child still passed away.
A statement from the police department read, “During the protest this afternoon, Major Richard Gibson was on patrol in the area. He was approached by a group of citizens who informed him that a baby was not breathing inside a restaurant on Greenmount Avenue.” The officer was identified as Major Richard Gibson. Major Gibson was alerted to the emergency situation and was led to a nearby restaurant where the mother had taken the child to feed. Paramedics were notified and Major Gibson performed CPR on the child until the rescue team arrived. The infant was just one month old at the time of the incident. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she passed away.
“Police work is often filled with days of highs and lows. Today was one of them that illustrates how your day can change, quickly. In a city where we, sadly, see so much violence, none of us in public safety are immune to the loss of innocent children. …Differences aside- EVERYONE springs in to action, together, at moments notice of a child in a crisis.” These were the words of TJ Smith, the public information officer for the department. The cause of the child’s death is unknown as the coroner’s report has yet to be released.
“Let’s pray for the family of the infant who passed, but let’s also pray for our 1st responders and bystanders who witnessed the incident,” Smith posted in a Tweet. This case reminds us that despite th–e onslaught of bad publicity that police have created for themselves, their primary function is to preserve life. This often gets lost in the debate. It is unfortunate that it takes incidents like this to remind us that police aren’t always the bad guy.
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President and CEO to Present State of the Business
Milwaukee, Wis., December 15, 2016 – ARI Network Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIS) announced today that its Annual Shareholder Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 5, 2017, at the Company’s corporate headquarters at 10850 West Park Place, Suite 1200, Milwaukee, Wis. at 9:00 a.m. CST.
Formal business to be conducted at the meeting includes the election of two directors to serve on ARI’s Board, approval of an amendment to ARI’s 2010 Equity Incentive Plan, an advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation and the ratification of Wipfli LLP as ARI’s independent auditors for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2017. After the formal meeting, Roy W. Olivier, President and CEO, will give the annual “State of the Business” presentation on the Company’s operations.
Shareholders who are unable to attend the meeting in person may email questions to be discussed during the question and answer session to email@example.com or contact Theresa DeNicola at 414.973.4334. Questions must be submitted no later than 3:00 pm CST on Wednesday, January 4, 2017.
Shareholders or interested parties can listen via a live Internet webcast, available at the company’s Investor Relations website at investor.arinet.com. To join the audio conference only, call 415.655.0052 and enter the Access Code 405-244-549.
A replay of ARI’s Shareholder Meeting and a copy of the slide presentation will be available on ARI’s investor website at investor.arinet.com after 7:00 p.m. CST on Thursday, January 5, 2017.
ARI Network Services, Inc. (ARI) (NASDAQ: ARIS) offers an award-winning suite of SaaS, software tools, and marketing services to help dealers, equipment manufacturers and distributors in selected vertical markets Sell More Stuff!™ – online and in-store. Our innovative products are powered by a proprietary data repository of enriched original equipment and aftermarket electronic content spanning more than 17 million active part and accessory SKUs and 750, 000 equipment models. Business is complicated, but we believe our customers’ technology tools don’t have to be. We remove the complexity of selling and servicing new and used vehicle inventory, parts, garments and accessories (PG&A) for customers in the automotive tire and wheel aftermarket, powersports, outdoor power equipment, marine, home medical equipment, recreational vehicles and appliance industries. More than 23, 500 equipment dealers, 195 distributors and 3, 360 brands worldwide leverage our web and eCatalog platforms to Sell More Stuff!™ For more information on ARI, visit investor.arinet.com.
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