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Despite a combined GDP of under US$800 billion and a population of barely 400 million, the 6.1 million km2 of West Africa is an important area for gold exploration and mining.
West Africa is a complicated mix of interlocking political unions. The region, according to the United Nations definition, comprises the 15 countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo), plus Mauritania (which withdrew from ECOWAS in 1999) and the offshore territories of Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha. The mainland area to the north, the Maghreb (Morocco and Western Sahara), is considered part of North Africa.
Formed in 2000, the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) is a group of six countries within ECOWAS that plan to introduce a common currency called the Eco; Gambia, Ghana, Guinea (the only Francophone member), Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Eight of the ECOWAS members are in the Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (West African Economic and Monetary Union). UEMOA was established to promote economic integration among countries that share the CFA franc as a common currency, which is tied to the euro. These are the French-speaking nations of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo, plus the Portuguese-speaking Guinea-Bissau.
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According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, the global gold-exploration budget was an estimated US$4.9 billion in 2018. At the recent INDABA conference, the new boss of Barrick, Mark Bristow, described Africa, and West Africa in particular, as "elephant country".
West Africa has been the world's third most important region for gold exploration over the past 10 years, with a total of some US$5 billion being spent. This expenditure has paid off, and West Africa has been the leading region for gold discoveries over the past 10 years, with some 79 Moz identified. Over half of the region's highly prospective Birmian greenstone belt lies in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, but Ghana and Mali have benefitted more from gold-mine development because of their more favourable geopolitical factors.
The region's exploration targets have changed recently, with Burkina Faso being West Africa's leading target in the search for gold last year. The country ranking ninth in terms of annual gold-exploration expenditure budgets, with US$149 million according to S&P Global. Ghana was in 12th place with US$102 million, Côte d'Ivoire ranked 13th globally with US$97 million and Mali ranked 14th with an annual gold-exploration budget of US$91 million last year.
In a research report in December 2018, S&P Global reported that global gold production last year was set to have increased from 106.7 Moz in 2017 to 107.6 Moz, up 0.8%. S&P Global expects the mined supply of gold to reach 113.2 Moz this year.
West Africa is the fourth largest gold-producing region in world, and Ghana is West Africa's top-ranked nation — being the 10th-largest producer with 3.38 Moz in 2017 (S&P Global estimates a 7% decline to 3.1 Moz in 2018). The country had seven mines producing over 200,000 oz in 2017; Gold Fields Ltd's Tarkwa (566,400 oz) and Asanko (205,000 oz), Newmont Mining Corp.'s Akem (473,000 oz) and Ahafo (349,000 oz), Kinross Gold Corp.'s Chirano (246,000 oz), AngloGold Ashanti Ltd's Iduapriem (228,000 oz) and Perseus Mining Ltd's Edikan (208,200 oz).
Mali is in 16th place globally with 1.62 Moz in 2017; coming largely from Barrick's Loulo (730,400 oz in 2017) and Resolute Mining Ltd's Syama (200,500 oz) gold mines. The country is expected to have produced 2.0 Moz in 2018.
Burkina Faso ranks 19th globally, with 1.56 Moz in 2017 (and an estimated 1.8 Moz last year). This output was mainly IAMGold Corp.'s Essakane (432,000 oz in 2017), SEMAFO Inc.'s Mana (206,400 oz) and Nord Gold's Bissa (195,700 oz) gold mines.
Côte d'Ivoire is also an important regional producer, with 716,000 oz of gold in 2017; mainly from Barrick Gold Corp.'s Tongon (288,700 oz) and Endeavour Mining Corp.'s Agbaou (177,200 oz) gold mines.
It is clear then that mining is important to the region. For example, Ghana's Minister of Mines, Hon Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, told delegates at the recent INDABA conference that mining accounted for 6% of Ghana's GDP, 16% of the government's revenue and 40% of the country's exports.
However, Ghana's President, Nana Akufo-Addo, who also spoke at the conference, said the history of mining in Africa was "not always a happy one". He pointed out the irony that "the continent with the richest resources has amongst the world's poorest people". President Akufo-Addo said that the distribution of mining's wealth must change. The mining industry seems receptive to the new mood across the continent, and Mr Asomah-Cheremeh affirmed that the "government of Ghana is ready for collaboration". He seemed to speak for the region as a whole.


Everything you could want comes together in this the Ritchey Swiss Cross Disc Frameset. It's steel, it's a sleek black and it has disc brakes - perfect second bike and perfect cross racer.
The frame that started it all now with a modern twist. Ritchey triple-butted Logic tubing tuned to cross & gravel racing demands.
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Screening methods for waterlogging tolerance in Urochloa grasses
Waterlogging is a stress experienced by the roots and reflected upon the shoot. As such, screening procedures that includes root traits that are known to confer adaptation to waterlogging may greatly improve selection for waterlogging tolerance in Urochloa grasses.
Screening procedures should be performed under adequate nutrient levels to avoid confusion of low growth rates and waterlogging tolerance.
Conatiner size have an effect upon waterlogging tolerance. A long cylinder system is recommended to screen rooting depth (an proxy for root aeration efficiency in Urochloa grasses) under waterlogged soil conditions.
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At least 43 Taliban members were killed in an Afghan airstrike in southern Helmand province on Wednesday, Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement.
The airstrike took place during the night in Marja district of the province, according to the statement. Quoted from (Tolo news).
“Key Taliban members are also among the dead,” the MoI said adding that a number of weapons belonging to them were also destroyed.
However, the statement did not provide more details.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the airstrike.


Saving the Bay
For the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, improving water quality in the Woonasquatucket watershed is an ongoing priority. For the Connors family of Johnston, it’s a nice way to spend a Saturday.
Joseph and Natasha Connors and their son David are volunteers with Save the Bay, and recently went out to mark storm drain catch basins. The tags used to mark drains serve as a reminder to residents that the chemicals or debris they dump in or around basins will find their way to the Woonasquatucket River.
“It’s a chronic problem across Narragansett Bay communities,” said Topher Hamblett, director of advocacy for Save the Bay. “When storm drains are filled up by trash, yard waste or debris, they back up into the street and cause flooding.”
It’s a project that has been conducted sporadically since an initial grant award to Save the Bay in 2000.
“We’ve really kept it going, 12 years later,” said volunteer and internship manager Stephany Hessler. “When we have funding, we do the project.”
Since the floods of 2010, Hamblett says there is more awareness of local flooding, and homeowners are more concerned about how to keep drainage functioning properly.
“There are more frequent, high-intensity storms,” he said.
That isn’t what got the Connors involved, however. Joseph and Natasha started volunteering with Save the Bay about one year ago, signing up for beach cleanups in their area. Soon, it became a regular thing. They now volunteer at one or two events each month, and bring along David, who is just in the second grade.
“We usually do it together. We take the little one when we can and he has a good time,” Joseph said.
On their day volunteering with the project, the Connors tagged roughly 30 drains. They continue to sign up for other projects, including a beach cleanup in East Providence over last weekend.
“We try to teach him to take care of the beach,” Natasha said.
In order to mark a drain, volunteers must clear the area of brush and dirt. They then put adhesive glue on the tag and push it into the drain. These tags last about five years, and between April and October of this year, Save the Bay volunteers tagged 300 drains. In 2011, 1,400 drains were tagged.
Volunteers are trained at Save the Bay, and go out either independently or with volunteer leaders that oversee the projects. Drain tagging generally takes place only in the spring, summer and early fall, as it must be 50 degrees or warmer and have been dry for at least three consecutive days.
Save the Bay works with municipalities and their departments of public works to identify the catch basins that drain into the Woonasquatucket. Cities and towns are eager to get on board with the project, as it goes toward compliance regulations for stormwater management. Johnston is one of many communities that have participated in the drain marker program, and Hessler is confident that the efforts of volunteers like the Connors goes a long way in educating Rhode Islanders.
“It makes them think twice, ‘If I put this down here, this will go into our waterways,’” Hessler said. “I would say every area is in need of this project.”
The Connors have seen that firsthand. While marking drains in Johnston, neighbors and strangers approached them to find out what they were doing.
“We got a lot of that. They were curious what we were doing and who sent us,” Natasha said. “It makes them more aware of what they put outside their house.”
Hessler is happy to hear it. She says putting volunteers on the streets helps promote awareness of environmental issues, sparking dinner table conversations about what individuals and families can do to protect the state’s natural resources.
“This is a great family project and it’s a great project for students. It does start that awareness of volunteering and outreach at an early age,” she said.
Save the Bay Director of Communications Rose Amoros said that education and outreach are two priorities of the agency. Each year, Save the Bay reaches thousands of students.
“Last year alone, we had about 16,000 students who were engaged in the program,” she said.
Students and families like the Connors will continue to work with Save the Bay into the winter months. Volunteer opportunities are available year-round, ranging from seal monitoring to cleanups and habitat restoration. Last year, Save the Bay had a volunteer force of nearly 2,000 people, as young as 6 years old and as old as 95.
“There is something for everyone,” Hessler said.
For more information on Save the Bay, visit www.savebay.org or call 272-3540. To look into volunteer opportunities, contact Hessler at ext. 130 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.


Justin Bieber made a highlight reel of his Shawn Marion-esque jumpers
Justin Bieber likes to post videos of himself playing a multitude of different sports on his Instagram account. Bieber's notably a pretty good hockey player ("my dangles were unreal"), but he's also shared his own personal highlights from golf courses, bowling alleys, ski slopes and skate parks.
Bieber posted a video from the Brooklyn Nets' practice facility Wednesday, showing off his very unorthodox jump shot.
If that shot looks familiar, it should. Bieber's form is identical to four-time All Star Shawn Marion, who owns one of the weidest jumpers in NBA history.
Bieber says he's working on improving from the floor.


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Day Of Surgery:
- Remember not to eat or drink anything in the morning unless you have special instructions from the pre-operative nurse.
- Wear comfortable clothing that you can change in and out of easily and that will not bind the site of your surgery.
- Do not wear contact lenses and please leave your jewelry and other valuables at home.
- Please arrive at the surgery center one (1) hour and 15 minutes prior to your scheduled surgery time to begin your surgical experience.
- Upon arrival, please approach the receptionist. She will get you started on reviewing all of our surgical forms.
- Persons under 18 years of age must have a parent or legal guardian with them to sign the forms.
- The surgery center staff will ask you for your companions name and contact information. If your companion is NOT present or able to be contacted, your procedure may be delayed or cancelled.
- Anesthesia personnel will meet with you to discuss your anesthesia. They will explain exactly what will happen before, during, and after your surgery. They will answer any questions you have prior to proceeding to the operating suite.

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A man has been indicted for allegedly driving his pickup truck on the frozen Toms River in March, killing his dog when the truck sank and setting off a frantic search for the vehicle's occupants.
The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office said 28-year-old Andrew Mayer, of Toms River, was charged with animal cruelty and criminal mischief in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
According to prosecutors, Mayer tried to drive his truck on the icy river on March 1, but the vehicle cracked through the surface, plunging into the water.
The incident spurred an intense search for the truck's occupants, with crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, New Jersey State Police, and local police departments and fire companies working for hours to try to find Mayer and a passenger.
Mayer didn't notify officials that they had gotten to shore safely. That led to "a substantial interruption in public emergency services," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Rescue crews recovered the body of Rolo, Mayer's pet boxer mix, trapped in the submerged truck. Prosecutors contend that he "knowingly or recklessly failed to provide necessary care for and protection of" the dog.


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Carinthian organic direct marketing business is based on hay drying
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|Drying system:||HSR 30 Vario dehumidifier
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We farm full-time an organic pasture milk operation with 18 dairy cows in the Rosental valley in Carinthia. We have committed ourselves to breeding Jersey cattle and farm 24 hectares of grassland. By drying our hay we guarantee silage-free feed all year round and this lets us produce best quality dairy products. In 2011 we started direct marketing of organic pasture milk and in our milk-mobile we deliver the bottles of milk and other products right to our customers' front door.
We regularly deliver our pasture milk products, which win prizes ever year, to some 200 private customers and selected hotels and restaurants.
As well as raw milk, we produce curd cheese, natural and fruit yoghurt and butter and sell our products in a subscription system.
"We believe that our farm's survival strategy lies not in growth, but in innovation and direct contact with the customers. Our pasture milk and the hay drying, on which it relies, create the ideal conditions for us."
At this time when milk prices are (too) low it is very important to rethink milk production. We see great potential for development and cost-savings especially in forage performance and in the constant improvement of the quality of forage (e.g. reseeding with amelioration seed, composting manure, protecting the grass by laying radial swathes, condensation drying).
In order to guarantee good forage quality, we decided to install a hay drying system from HSR Heutrocknung SR. This system is a cost-effective addition to the farm and the efficiency of the hay drying make it possible to bring the hay in rapidly to be dried. The fast, but gently drying allows us to target feed qualities, which are indispensable to guarantee the high level of quality of our products. This way of preserving forage by hay-making is one of the most traditional methods and is the cornerstone for the healthy nutrition of our animals.
Together with our parents and parents-in-law as well as our Aunt Bali, we farm our organic pasture milk farm in Fellersdorf/Bilnjovs in the commune of Ludmannsdorf/Bilčovs in South Carinthia. The key factor for the success of our farm is the family solidarity and team spirit. We all stand together behind our farm and the products we produce.
More information on www.kumr.at.
We visited the Kumer organic pasture milk farm, in order to obtain a few impressions.

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San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
The High Kings tour date
Previously named Best Folk Act at Ireland’s Music Awards, The High Kings will headline Hooley in the Heather festival on June 14, 2013. Formed in Dublin in 2008, the renowned Irish ballad group, consisting of Darren Holden, Brian Dunphy, Finbarr Clancy, and Martin Furey, has toured Ireland, Great Britain, parts of Europe and the United States.
Over the past five years, The High Kings’ popularity has rocketed, driven by their distinctive vocal harmonies and individual abilities as musicians. They’ve been described as "the most exciting Irish ballad group to emerge since The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem".
All four members of The High Kings come from accomplished musical pedigrees. Martin Furey is the son of famous Irish artist Finbar Furey, Finbarr Clancy, son of Bobby Clancy has previously toured with The Clancy Brothers, and both Darren Holden and Brian Dunphy starred in ‘Riverdance - The Show’ on Broadway.


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Wow!! What a great collection! I am really impressed! All of the pieces symbolize perfectly how is Africa and show the essence of the country, culture and life. But for me, the perfect piece and the one that will always remind you that you have a piece of Africa with you is the Kinshasa ring [...]
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Unfortunately for my husband, I wasn’t born with a sweet tooth—I was born with what I like to call a salty-fatty tooth (mmm, chips...) But I do like to make him sweet treats every once in a while. We’re trying to save money this year, so I decided that in lieu of a gift for Valentine’s Day, I’d give him what he really wants.
And what my man really wants is really simple (whew). He wants chocolate. He’s not too picky about the kind of chocolate, though he prefers it dark, and he’ll eat it plain, with fruit or with nuts. So when he’s out skiing with his buddies the Saturday before Valentine’s Day, I’m going to make him a box of chocolates. Here are the recipes I’m going to put in it.
Peanut Butter & Pretzel Truffles
These peanut butter-pretzel truffles satisfy your craving for something sweet and salty.
A sprinkling of crystallized ginger and dried cranberries makes these easy, chocolate-dipped gingersnaps festive.
Chocolate Nut Bark
Use your favorite combination of nuts to make this quick and easy chocolate nut bark.
Crunchy wheat cereal, pretzels and almonds coated in bittersweet chocolate makes an addictive sweet-salty snack.
Chocolate-Covered Brownie Bites
Dip bite-size pieces of brownie into melted chocolate for an easy treat to satisfy your chocolate craving.
How do you tell your loved ones you love them on Valentine's Day? Tell us what you think below.


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That old familiar standby of Community signing off has again arrived, perhaps a bit more under the radar than in previous years, but nonetheless completing the first half of its #SixSeasonsandaMovie pledge. Meta as ever, “Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television” said a heartfelt goodbye to Season 6 as it envisioned a potential Season 7, but would fans (or Dan Harmon) even want it?
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What if there was a place, a secret place where nothing was impossible? How would you introduce people to that place? For Tomorrowland director Brad Bird, the answer to that question was a show-stopping, six-minute unbroken take that follows its heroine as she explores this magical wonderland for the first time. She watches men in jetpacks zoom overhead, rides a floating monorail, and nearly accepts an invitation to board a rocket ship headed for outer space — until her invite runs out of juice and she’s returned home.
Tonight at 11:35PM, for the very last time, a new episode of The Late Show with David Letterman airs on CBS. Even though I stopped regularly watching Letterman years ago, I, like a lot of folks of my generation, are approaching the occasion with a heavy, nostalgic heart. David Letterman was a late-night institution for over 30 years; my entire life as a conscious human being. I cannot remember a time before David Letterman. In a changing world, he was a constant, as certain as death and taxes.
The best science fiction stories are smugglers. Underneath the high concept that drives the action lurks an ulterior motive, a message that is being quietly transported into your mind. Genre filmmakers have long used the impossible to comment on the mundane, jumping into the distant future to comment on the here and now. Politics and science fiction go hand-in-hand – H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds slyly revealed the harsh terrors of colonialism and Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still pointed an angry finger at mankind’s war-like nature. Both of those stories were indebted to the times in which they were made, drawing on the ugliness of the world around them to bring weight to the fantastical. It’s easy to settle in for what you think is a movie about aliens, only to find yourself watching something else entirely. Truly great sci-fi gives you what you need, not what you want, even when it tastes bitter in your mouth.
The CW's Arrow closed out Season 3 this past week with the surprisingly final "My Name is Oliver Queen," but for many a creeping sense of indirection has permeated the emerald archer's arc this year. Now, we attempt to pinpoint where Arrow went astray, including a character absence that may surprise you, and what hope we might find for Season 4.
The Simpsons isn’t just a television show — it’s a cultural institution. It’s hard to imagine the pop culture landscape without Fox’s venerable animated sitcom, which has stuck around for nearly 30 years despite losing its satiric fangs about 14 years ago.
ScreenCrush editor, comic-book lover, and undiagnosed masochist Matt Singer is systematically watching every single (American) comic-book movie ever made in the order in which they were released. This week in The Complete History of Comic-Book Movies: This looks like a(nother) job for Superman.
Avengers: Age of Ultron is the eleventh film in Marvel Studios’ ongoing quest to dominate your disposable income for the rest of your moviegoing life, the biggest, loudest and most expensive chapter yet in what is quickly becoming a triumph of Hollywood marketing and corporate one-upmanship. But it is also, somehow, totally, the work of writer/director Joss Whedon, whose clear voice, honed over decades spent working in film and television, rings through all of the noise. While The Avengers was directed by Whedon, his messier, crazier sequel is truly, at its heart, a Joss Whedon Film.
ScreenCrush editor, comic-book lover, and undiagnosed masochist Matt Singer is systematically watching every single (American) comic-book movie ever made in the order in which they were released. This week in The Complete History of Comic-Book Movies: Superman returns (but not Superman Returns).
After selecting the best sci-fi movies of the last 25 years and the best comedies of the last 25 years, the only logical way to wrap up our #CountdownToUltron and Avengers 2 here on ScreenCrush was to choose the best superhero movies of the last 25 years as well. Initially, this was just supposed to be a brief essay. But on an innocent field trip to the world’s most advanced genetics lab, this blog post was bitten by a radioactive list and transformed into the gargantuan piece you see before you. On that day, we all learned a valuable lesson: That with great power must come great listicles.

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Every tasting room offers it’s own experience. But a visit to Patz & Hall in Sonoma is really a completely unique experience. Our interview with Anne Moses and Donald Patz, two of the four partners included that experience. In fact this is their brand new tasting room after relocating from the southern end of Napa Valley to within just a few blocks from the square in Sonoma. We originally interviewed Heather Patz for Podcast #33 back in May of 2011.
Three down and one Winemaker to go….
This is part one.
Learn more by visiting www.patzhall.com


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The G-10 rundown
USD – the USD is in the process of turning lower – first against the most liquid DM’s and likely only later vs. riskier G10 and maybe even much later versus EM’s once we get toward the bottom of this crisis.
EUR – the euro has turned the corner versus the US dollar as the US will mount ever escalating efforts from here to bring the liquidity needed to get ahead of the crisis. The difficulty will be in gauging the risk of throwback magnitude in EURUSD on existential risks for the EU on its coronavirus crisis response. 1.1200 is the first major line in the sand there.
JPY – JPY crosses are clearly the high beta currency pairs to risk appetite – we still like USDJPY lower, but recognize the risk of a stop-out on spot positions – traders not wanting to take the risk in the volatile spot market might consider long put spread positions (caps the upside potential, but raises the breakeven level)
GBP – sterling has done well over the . It is nigh impossible to quantify the coronavirus risks for the UK and sterling relative to other mainland countries, but the UK government is certainly ready to move more quickly with mitigating fiscal measures, which could keep sterling a relative safe harbor here – more above in the GBPUSD chart caption.
CHF – if EURCHF was maintaining above 1.0600 due to SNB intervention, it appears the latter is failing – and look at the crazy comeback in CHFJPY – suggests that JPY will outperform if this proves a false dawn for risky assets.
AUD – investors Down Under bracing for a recession and QE on the way, keeping a lid on AUD rallies – still concerned that AUD can’t turn the corner until we have turned the corner on the global outlook.
CAD – USDCAD is having a look at the highest reaches of the range since 2017 as 1.3800 approaches – above there we only have. Up to oil markets and further general deleveraging panic for we realize potential toward 1.4000+
NZD – surprised to see AUDNZD still so heavy overnight despite Xi in Wuhan and a comeback in the copper price – not sure liquidity reliable enough for the pair to be sending reliable technical signals at the moment.
SEK – EURSEK ripped all the way to 10.80+ on yesterday’s market meltdown (and perhaps aggravated by the margin by a Riksbank deputy governor announcing he is infected with the coronavirus). Yesterday showed that SEK remains vulnerable to these deleveraging events.
NOK – a solid comeback for NOK overnight on the oil bounce – but that bounce needs to extend far more profoundly to engineer a EURNOK reversal – which technically requires a move back below 10.25.
Upcoming Economic Calendar Highlights (all times GMT)
- 0900 – Norway Feb. Region Survey
- 2200 – Australia RBA’s Debelle to Speak
- US Democratic Primary elections – Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Washington

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In September of 2017 ELLE.com teamed up with YouTube to produce content and host a "Fashion for All" panel discussion on diversity in the fashion industry. Moderated by ELLE.com fashion features director Nikki Ogunnaike, the panel included Christian Siriano, Keke Palmer, models Precious Lee, Candice Huffine, and Andreja Pejić, and Planned Parenthood Director of Constituency Communications Alencia Johnson. Though fashion week is over, the conversation still continues. I touched base with Lee almost two months later to see how the rest of her fashion week panned out and learn more about the strides the fashion and beauty industry needs to take towards true inclusivity. Here's what she had to say.
The rest of fashion week was super busy. I was working throughout as well, so if I wasn’t at a fitting or doing a casting, I was shooting. It was really cool doing the Christian [Siriano] show, doing the Addition Elle Ashley Graham show. I’ve known Ashley for a while and I’ve been able to witness her growth as a designer as well as a model and I really loved the consistency of the sexy, chicness of her collection. I actually forgot that I was going to be modeling in a thong until I got there. And I was like, “Oh yeah, I forgot about that!” as I was about to walk out. It felt so freeing and really liberating to be doing it as a size 14/16; walking down a New York Fashion Week runway in a thong was just amazing.
There aren't many designers who have jumped on board with including plus-size models on the runway so to be part of a brand that is basically like a community felt like home. Every girl in the show was plus-size, so it was really exciting to be able to highlight our community. We can still be inclusive with Fashion Week, but still need our own thing going as well. Even though we’re trying to break all of these barriers in including breaking into mainstream fashion, I think it’s important to maintain the community that we have. The stronger we are the better and more progressive we can be when we actually integrate with other communities in the fashion world. While I expected to see more plus girls on the runway for other designers, I was very excited to see that there was more racial diversity on the runways this season than there ever has been.
I find myself discussing diversity and inclusivity in fashion a lot, but I think I’m getting a lot of questions that should be directed towards people in the industry who can actually change what we see in fashion and media. It’s important to know our voice and what we want—and I think I’ve made it clear that I feel we’re capable of being at the forefront of the industry, being on trend, and being able to inspire people in the fashion world—but I also think it’s important for people to realize that there’s so much that is involved in making one picture, one campaign, one runway show. It’s not just the model and the designer that’s involved. You have the casting director, you have the producer, you have all of these other people in the background behind the scenes that should be asked those questions. There has to be an effort on different parts in the industry to make a visible, tangible change.
You asked what we can do during the in-between times of fashion weeks. A personal goal of mine is to do more editorial work. New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week is a platform for new and experienced models to get more exposure and then you have editorials which are another opportunity for models to get exposure. and As a plus-sized model, I would like to see more editorial opportunity to show that I can turn out a picture the way like any another model. It's important to start integrating within media and publications and offering more editorial work for different sized women.
What I want now is less talk and more work done. We’ve talked about this in big stories, small stories, print and video—it’s time to see some of this stuff actually happen. Now’s the time, more than ever, where we can all get involved artistically and creatively and I would love to work with some of the brands that I love that you never really see plus-sized women in. When I post photos on social media I get messages from people saying that I inspire them. We have such a voice and it’s important to include all women and make women feel that they don't have to be afraid of certain brands or stores. Now’s the time for people to step up and be inspired and remember that art, fashion, and music has always been reflective of the times and now is the time that women are embracing their bodies, embracing the skin that they’re in, and showing that we can all be different but we can all be beautiful.
People forget that what we’re doing in fashion may effect a million women. If we thought about a little bit more things would be a little different. Fantasy is super important in fashion and I don’t think that should be taken away, but I think important to reflect many parts of audiences. If you don’t, we feel detached. It’s important to show a realistic depiction of what is going on in fashion when we’re creating, designing, taking pictures, writing, et cetera. I just think it calls for a those involved to be little more mindful and make a conscious effort.
Come on, what’s the big deal? I remember viewing fashion as being really fun and artistically exciting when I was a kid. It wasn’t something that was so serious. Why does it have to be so stationary? What’s more different and exciting and rare to see right now than a black girl that’s a size 14 on the cover of a magazine? When have we seen that?
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by George Stein
I visited a family friend while in Palestine on my current visit. She is part of a group called ‘ayalim,’ which aims to encourage students studying in Ben Gurion University in the Negev to consider permanent settlement in the area, to increase the population of Jews in the desert.
Ayalim considers itself ‘a new kind of pioneer. A new brand of activism. A new model for Israel.’ It believes that “bringing students to settle in the Negev and the Galilee is a national undertaking of supreme importance.” In order to provide incentives for this, the association grants “scholarships and subsidized housing to encourage students to settle in such areas.” However, this is not a new kind of pioneer, a new brand of activism or a new model for Israel. It claims that ‘today, we are closer than ever to Ben Gurion’s vision.” On the 5th of October 1937, in a letter to his son, Ben Gurion wrote that the “Negev land is reserved for Jewish citizens, whenever and wherever they want….We must expel Arabs and take their places…and if we have to use force, then we have force at our disposal”. Dr Awad Abu Freh, from the Bedouin village Al-Araqib told me that in 1948/1949 Jewish militia groups came into his village and killed twenty-one people, trying to scare them into leaving their land.
I stayed in one of the student villages in which Dani worked for two nights. I noticed that it is under rapid construction, with new buildings springing up everywhere, including a new Jewish National Fund (JNF) community centre. I also noticed a few nice parks, where sprinklers sprayed water onto green grass, pulsating to a silent beat. The next day, I visited Dr Awad Abu Freh, from the Bedouin village al-Araqib, where he told me about Israeli policies of discrimination towards his community, restrictions of water and a plan to displace these people from their homes. I wrote Dani a letter, not knowing how else to express my thoughts.
Letter to Dani:
Thanks again for having me in your home; it was so lovely to see you. I just wanted to email you about a few things we started to discuss. I would really love to get your feedback on some things. I came to Tel Aviv last year, wanting to travel in Israel without going on a program with a rigid structure and rules (like March of the Living and Academy), but also because I had started to learn about the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict and wanted to see what it was like for myself. My perspective was: the situation is really complicated and there is violence on both sides, but peace requires both sides to agree on coming together; for both Palestinians and Israelis to work together to stop the violence.
A friend of mine told me she had been to the Jordan Valley, which is in the West Bank and technically occupied territory, according to international law. But it is in Area C, which means that it is under full Israeli control. Going to the Jordan Valley changed everything for me. I stayed for about a month, visited many Palestinian villages and spoke to local families. The policies of the Israeli government in this area shocked me. These villages have been here for generations, well before the establishment of the state of Israel. Palestinians have farmed their land, picking dates and grapes and vegetables and would sell them at the market. There is plenty of water in this area and springs in many Palestinian villages, but this water is restricted to Palestinians. Wells are enclosed in barbed wire fences and are only available to Jewish settlements, like Tomer, Ro’I and Maskiyot. Israel has drilled deep wells which service Israeli settlements only. Because Israel forbids Palestinians to drill to a certain depth, they dry out the wells. Less than 10,000 settlers in the Jordan Valley use “one-quarter the total amount of water consumed by the entire Palestinian population of the West Bank, some 2.5 million people.” Palestinian farmers have to travel huge distances to buy water from Jewish settlements or from the Israeli water company Mekorot. Settlers are given unlimited water and 75% discount on electricity, while many Palestinians have no electricity in these areas.
In addition to this, most Palestinian villages are under demolition order and are considered illegal by Israel, even though these communities have been here for generations. Most housing for these communities consists of metal poles with an aluminum or canvas sheet serving as the roof. In the harsh climate of the Jordan Valley, these structures offer no protection from the heat or cold (at night in winter). If these communities try to build more suitable homes (or schools or health centres), they will be demolished. Routinely, the army comes (usually in the morning) and demolishes homes and animal pens. Local Palestinians do not want to leave their land, and have nowhere to go, so sometimes these poor families will rebuild their homes over and over again, and live in constant fear of them being demolished (there is more information at jordanvalleysolidarity.org- this is the group I am with).
The reason I bring this up, is because similar things are happening in the Negev with the Bedouin communities. This is under the rationale of ‘making the dessert bloom.’ After I saw you, I went to visit the Bedouin village of Al Araqib. I thought I’d share with you some information that I learnt from speaking with villagers from there, as well as Israeli volunteers who have been working with this community for years. Al Araqib is located just off route 40 along the highway from Beersheva. According to Israel authorities, the village is unrecognized and illegal, as it was declared state property in 1954. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, there were about 65,000 to 90,000 Bedouin living in the Negev. Ninety percent of them were expelled from their homes. Ben Gurion claimed the Negev was empty, and suitable for immediate Jewish settlement. The next demolition was in 2010, by the Israel Land Authority to prepare the land for a JNF forest. Since 2010, the village has been demolished forty two times. In September 2011, the government released the Prawer report, which proposed the transfer of 70,000 Bedouin from unrecognised villages into seven recognised villages in the area, without any consultation with the communities involved.
I wrote something about my visit with a man I made contact with, Dr Awad Abu Freih and thought I’d send some to you:
I met with Dr Awad Abu Freih from Al-Araqib, a chemistry professor. He told me that there are big projects to develop the Negev. “For us,” he says “development of the Negev means destroying our homes. There’s the JNF and they fight us and are against us like we are enemies. They want to push us into cities, but we want to stay in our villages.” He tells me that life in the villages is very hard. Farmers must buy water from a nearby Jewish village and must pay two shekel for one cubic meter of water. Then, they must pay a lot of money to transport the water back to their villages. In the past, Bedouin people have been restricted to water access from some villages, but this was met with fierce resistance, with villagers threatening to break the water pipes if they were not given access to the water. So the only reason they have access to water is due to placing huge amounts of pressure on the government. “All the time they give water to the kibbutz and moshav but not the Bedouin who lives near them.”
Now, Dr Awad is in the process of bringing his claim of ownership over the land, to court. He has spent 100,000 dollars on legal fees alone. JNF is supposed to cease its activities until a decision by the court is made, but they have persisted in making the land into a forest. “The judge says if you win, we will give you the land like it was before. But How? They are liars. No one can make the land like before.”
Aziz is the leader of the committee of Al-Araqib. We sit and drink coffee in a tent-like structure in Al-Araqib and he tells me his story. He was born in 1974 in Al-Araqib and has continued his life here. He has six children. His story is briefly interrupted early on, by someone telling us that a nearby village is being demolished. I ask if they will come here. “We cannot know when they will destroy. All of our houses are unrecognised by the law. They can come anytime and destroy.”
Aziz tells me the first demolition was in 1948. His grandfather and father were amongst those who rebuilt the village, and now today he is doing the same. The villagers made everything green. They made oil from olive trees, produced wheat from the land and used sheep for cheese. “Before the second demolition [in 2010] we had 4,500 olive trees. We had 65 new houses, modern houses, fig trees, grape trees, orange trees in every garden. It was nice looking green and we eat this fruit. There were 573 people man woman children living here, but I am so sorry to say it our government decided to kill our life. They did not kill us but they kill our life.” From 2010 until now, Israeli Forces alongside the JNF have destroyed the village 42 times. This equates to 2 times a month. After demolishing the village, the government fines the people two million shekels to pay for the costs of demolition. So after forty-two demolitions, the people are expected to pay huge amounts of money. Paying for the bulldozers and soldiers who displace people of their homes.
At the same time as destroying these homes, the government is allowing new settlements to be built in the area. The JNF plants forests become state land and then these forests are cut down to make room for Jewish settlements.
Message from Al-Araqib to the world from the Sheihk of the village:
“I ask you and your groups to tell people what’s happening in the Negev.” People think that the JNF is making the Negev green, but they are destroying the Negev. Every Jewish person has the option of continuing life where they want. But Arabs are forced to live in villages. “We ask people to open their eyes.”
Before I go, Aziz tells me: Samud in Arabic means ‘stay on your land.’ We want everyone to know the word ‘samud,’ to stay on your land against the government, against the JNF.
Dani, this is relevant to you because the government is coordinating this displacement of Bedouins from the Negev at the same time as it is subsidizing and funding students to go to places like the one in which you work, in order to decrease the Bedouin presence while simultaneously increasing the Jewish presence in this area. If you get a chance, you should visit Al-Araqib. There are so many groups working there, like Negev Committee for Coexistence, Rabbis for Human Rights, etc. Even if you don’t believe what I am writing, I invite you: come to the Jordan Valley, come see this village. The world is becoming more aware of what is going on in Israel- government policies which use Judaism to enforce policies which cause all those who are not Jewish to suffer. For me, Judaism is too important to allow this to happen. The Palestinians do not see Jews as the enemy. They see those who deprive them of water, of work, of freedom of movement, of schools as the enemy. People are living under an unequal, military occupation which is causing them to suffer hugely. I only realised this when I saw it with my own eyes.
http://rhr.org.il/eng/index.php/tag/al-araqib/- Rabbis for Human Rights
by George Stein


by Chris MaGee
We're just a few months away from 2010, the centenary of the birth of one of Japan's master filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa. Quite a few special events and released are already in the works to commemorate the occasion including the production of Kurosawa's last script, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and a rumored 25 film DVD box set from the folks at the Criterion Collection. Now word comes of a a very impressive panel discussion being held at the very same festival at which Kurosawa's 1950 film "Rashomon" made history by "introducing the world to Japanese film".
On September 6th The 66th Annual Venice Film Festival will be holding a roundtable discussion moderated by film historian Peter Cowie and titled "Akira Kurosawa: a Century of Cinema". Kurosawa experts and colleagues script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, author and film historian Donald Richie, French critic Michel Ciment, Time Magazine film critic Richard Corliss, and Italian film scholar Aldo Tassone will discuss the influence that politics, literature and filmmaking contemporaries like Ozu and Mizoguchi had on Kurosawa's work as well as the influence that that work had on cinema and the arts around the globe.
As I said, it's only fitting that this summation of Kurosawa's filmography is taking place at the Venice Film Festival seeing that it was in 1951 that the fest's jury honoured "Rashomon" the Golden Lion, the first time a Japanese film won this highly coveted award, and a feat that wouldn't be repeated until 1997 when Takeshi Kitano was honoured in the same way for his film "Hana-bi (Fireworks)". So if you're lucky enough to be in Venice this year make sure to check out "Akira Kurosawa: a Century of Cinema" at the Sala Pasinetti (Palazzo del Cinema) on September 6th at 3:00PM.
Thanks to Cathy Munroe Hotes for pointing out this event.


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Hong Kong: Stocks flat at open on Wednesday
[HONG KONG] Hong Kong stocks were flat shortly after opening on Wednesday as investors took a breather after the previous day's sell off.
The Hang Seng Index added 0.08 per cent, or 21.55 points, to 28,567.12.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index was lower, dipping 10.26 points to 2,776.63, while the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, lost 0.42 per cent, or 6.71 points, to 1,587.53.


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Wolverhampton, UK based rising indie-rapper VANES (he/him/sensitiveboi), a.k.a being vanes, drops upbeat new single can’t feel your love.
While electric guitar and drums batter the mix to create an energetic backdrop, VANES’ punchy and, at times, school-boy (ish) sounding rap melodies continue the challenge to socially expected stereotypes of British hip-hop today.
In particular, pre-bridge lyrics “will I ever learn my lesson? Stick to gyal like I was resin, want their love but cannot get it”, show insight into the artist’s self-understanding. Reflecting on this, the indie rap newcomer says:
“Not gonna lie, learning this the hard way kinda sucks, I’ve a tendency to grasp at things, instead of just letting them naturally emerge for themselves.”
can’t feel your love is the second track on VANES self-released debut EP ‘pixie dust’, following later this year. Mastered by LA-based mixing engineer Clinton ‘HeadAche’ Walker III (MaSiWei, Tiana Major9), sonically speaking, it’s a guitar heavy hip-hop vibe that “playfully explores narratives of so-called co-dependency”.
With a creative imagination that includes making up his own pronouns, we’re super curious to see what Sailor Moon loving sensitiveboi delivers next!
Follow VANES online and stream can’t feel your love below.


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A partially mummified baby, apparently born in the 1950s and found by a woman cleaning out her dead parents' storage unit, died of an "undetermined" cause, a coroner said.
The unidentified boy was found in January, wrapped in a Jan. 9, 1957, edition of the New York Daily News and stuffed inside a small suitcase that was inside a larger suitcase.
The elderly couple rented the storage unit in 1996. The man died several years ago, and the woman died last year, police said.
"We don't know what the cause and the manner of death is with the child," Palm Beach County Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Bell said Monday. "We have no way of knowing whether the child was stillborn or born alive."
The child was determined to be between a newborn and 2 months old and had no sign of injuries, Bell said, reports AP.
Authorities are awaiting results of DNA tests to determine whether the baby was related to the woman who discovered him.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, as well as the military of the two countries, will never let a military confrontation spark, but...
An attack is under way against the truth-seeking social media practising data democracy. What is unacceptable is that the liars accuse the truthseekers of lying
On April 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed that Russia could supply air defense systems to Syria

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Objective: This study evaluated the dose-related efficacy and safety of pregabalin in patients with idiopathic restless legs syndrome (RLS).
Methods: This six-arm, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-response study randomized patients (N=137) with moderate-to-severe idiopathic RLS in an equal ratio to placebo or pregabalin 50, 100, 150, 300, or 450 mg/day. The dose-response was characterized using an exponential decay model, which estimates the maximal effect (E(max)) for the primary endpoint, the change in the International Restless Legs Study Group Rating Scale (IRLS) total score from baseline to week 6 of treatment. Secondary outcomes included Clinical Global Impressions-Improvement Scale (CGI-I) responders, sleep assessments, and safety.
Results: The separation of treatment effect between placebo and pregabalin began to emerge starting at week 1 which continued and increased through week 6 for all dose groups. The IRLS total score for pregabalin was dose dependent and well characterized for change from baseline at week 6. The model estimated 50% (ED(50)) and 90% (ED(90)) of the maximal effect in reducing RLS symptoms that occurred at pregabalin doses of 37.3 and 123.9 mg/day, respectively. A higher proportion of CGI-I responders was observed at the two highest doses of pregabalin (300 and 450 mg/day) versus placebo. Dizziness and somnolence were the most common adverse events and appeared to be dose-related.
Conclusions: In this 6-week phase 2b study, pregabalin reduced RLS symptoms in patients with moderate-to-severe idiopathic RLS. The symptom reduction at week 6 was dose-dependent with 123.9 mg/day providing 90% efficacy. Pregabalin was safe and well tolerated across the entire dosing range.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00676403.
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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It’s been years since the digital marketing industry started touting “outreach” as the future of link building. The concept of actually communicating with a human being to build links has historically been overlooked.
Over the last year or two that viewpoint has slowly changed as Google’s algorithm has caught up and eliminated the easy-to-execute tactics that put outreach on the back burner.
Today the concept of outreach seems like a broken record. Every industry expert now touts outreach as the preferred form of link building.


When the news came in that the Coen brothers’ classic 1996 crime caper Fargo was being made into a TV series, well, there was good reason to be sceptical. It was a pleasant surprise, then, to find that series creator Noah Hawley pulled it off, utilising the black comic tone, setting and philosophy of the original film to tell its own unique story.
Fargo has gone from strength to strength since its slow-burn first season aired back in 2014. While those initial episodes were set in Minnesota circa 2006, the second season expanded on the mythology by chronicling the events that led up to the “massacre at Sioux Falls” back in 1979. Season three will bring us closer to the present, once again following an all new set of characters, this time in 2010.
This chapter centres on dual protagonists Emmit and Ray Stussy – both played by Ewan McGregor. Emmit is the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, a handsome self-made real estate mogul. His brother Ray, on the other hand, is a down-on-his-luck balding parole officer who blames Emmit for his misfortunes. This sibling rivalry leads to petty theft, the consequences of which spiral out of control.
Lining up alongside McGregor is an impressive supporting cast which includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Stuhlbarg and Scoot McNairy. There’s also room for David Thewlis, who manages to be unbelievably creepy just in the short glimpse we see of him in this trailer. The way he savours the line “pitchfork peasants with murder in their eyes” is enough to make us want to check in for more Midwestern mayhem.
Fargo returns for its third season on 19 April.
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By Dan Einav
The Man Who Wasn’t There is a film without levity, hope or redemption – and it’s one of the directors’ very best.
Do not f*ck with Frances McDormand is the takeaway from this first look at Michael McDonagh’s latest.


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In this class we will:
Explore the Monster Clay material, its capabilities and limitations.
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Market-based healthcare has led to tragedy in many Vermont communities: Vermonters stand up against scaremongering by healthcare profiteers
Montpelier, VT -- Statehouse -- Vermonters supporting the grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign are standing up against scaremongering from healthcare industry groups and are protesting the market-based system that has taken many lives. Hundreds of Vermonters participated in a March 14 statewide public hearing on Vermont’s new universal healthcare bill, H.202. The vast majority of the participants at the 15 Vermont Interactive Television sites throughout the state were members of the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign calling for a universal, publicly financed healthcare system.
“Through our grassroots campaign, thousands of Vermonters have spoken out for a universal healthcare system that starts enrolling Vermonters as soon as possible. This bill - H.202 - is a roadmap to tackling the human rights emergency caused by our market-based healthcare system. Together we can strengthen the bill by embedding human rights principles in every provision. This will help us to get as quickly as possible to the system we all want - a system that truly works for every Vermonter by making healthcare a public good,” said Vermont Workers’ Center president Peg Franzen.
The Campaign is pushing for improvements to the bill which was presented by the Shumlin Administration in February. In order to satisfy human rights standards (see the Detailed Human Rights Standards for Healthcare Systems, www.workerscenter.org/assessment), the Campaign’s written testimony on H.202 (http://www.workerscenter.org/node/752) calls for establishing a new universal healthcare system as soon as possible, rather than focusing on creating a federally-mandated health insurance exchange.
The Campaign and its grassroots supporters are protesting the well-funded pressure brought to the legislative debate by industry groups that seek to leave insurance companies in the drivers’ seat. When Wendell Potter, the former CIGNA executive turned industry whistleblower, came to Vermont in February, he predicted that Vermonters should expect a vigorous response from vested interests in the healthcare industry. He said that it was part of the industry’s playbook to finance the creation of a new group to create the appearance of grassroots opposition to universal healthcare. He said that such a group would likely be called “Vermonters for Healthcare Freedom” or “Vermonters For Freedom in Healthcare”.
“People in this country make a lot money off our health care needs, so we expected opposition from the healthcare profiteers. But the fact is that market-based healthcare leads to tragedy in our communities, where people do not get the care they need and die of curable conditions,” said Peg Franzen, president of the Vermont Workers’ Center, who launched the Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign in 2008. “We can no longer tolerate or afford market forces that treat healthcare as a commodity. We need to have all of our healthcare dollars going to the healthcare services our communities need to stay healthy.”
“We knew the attack of the healthcare profiteers would be coming,” said James Haslam, Vermont Workers’ Center director and lead organizer of the Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign. “The health insurance industry sees us as a threat of creating a universal system that works that will help lead to people doing the same in other states and ultimately a national universal healthcare system.
Wendell Potter was in Vermont on February 25-26 promoting his new book “DEADLY SPIN: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans” (see: http://wendellpotter.com/deadlyspin/).
The “Detailed Human Rights Standards for Healthcare Systems” are available at www.workerscenter.org/assessment
For more background on the campaign, please contact James Haslam or Peg Franzen, or go to www.workerscenter.org/healthcare.

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A thunderstorm with high winds passed through Fayetteville Saturday afternoon causing sporadic damage across the area.
Trees and limbs were reported down in neighborhoods along Garland Avenue
One area hit hard was the Arkansas Music Pavilion at the Washington County Fairgrounds. The tent structure above the stage was blown to the ground and several portable bathroom units were scattered across the lawn area.
AMP general manager Brian Crowne said officials were still assessing the damage Sunday morning, but didn’t expect the damage to have any effect on any upcoming events.
The inaugural Taste of Country Festival, set for Friday, Aug. 17, is the next scheduled concert at the venue. Miranda Lambert, The Pistol Annies, Randy Houser and several other acts are set to perform during the event.
Other upcoming concerts include Pat Benetar on Aug. 19 and The Avett Brothers on Oct. 16.


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By; JABIRU A. HASSAN, Kano
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has called on the federal government to bring more policies that can boost security in Nigeria and ensure that citizens are protected across the country.
This was announced by the national president of the association, Architect Kabir Ibrahim in a statement signed and issued to newsmen, where he disclosed that the recent ambush and killing of innocent farmers at Borno State is unfortunate.
The statement further emphasized that insecurity has retarded food production in many states and locations, where farmers abandoned their farmlands to other destinations due to the activities of insurgents, calling for urgent action.
Furthermore, AFAN advised the federal government to boost security in order to ensure that there are no obstacles in the issue of food production for economic growth, and commended the Nigerian security agencies on their untiring efforts towards the protection of lives and property of the citizens despite all challenges.


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NEWS HEADLINES THAT MATTER TO THE HIP-HOP COMMUNITY…
Yeezy will unveil the short that he wrote, produced and directed at the Le Palm Beach Casino in Cannes, France. [PerezHilton]
David Banner’s Mission of Empowerment Documentary
The Mississippi MC met TNT executive Gina Barboza one time three months ago. What spawned from the meeting was David Banner’s Mission of Empowerment video, which is near 15 minutes of sharing Banner’s life, many accomplishments, viewpoints, music and 2M1 Movement. “It is amazing!” Banner told XXLMag.com about the Mission of Empowerment video, which hit the net on Wednesday (May 23). “To be able to have this 2M1 Movement and this documentary at the same time is great. I didn’t think [Barboza] did what she did for me. She did it for my movement.” It’s great timing, as Banner’s Sex, Drugs & Video Games free album dropped on Tuesday (May 22). The project features the likes of Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg and Chris Brown. [TheRealBannerTV1]
DJ Drama Appears on The Breakfast Club
Drama continues his run through New York City by appearing on NYC’s Power 105.1, The Breakfast Club, dial, on which he ran through a number of hot-button topics. [TheBreakfastClub]
One just never knows what Lil B is going to do next. The oddball of an MC recently announced the release of his classical album, Choices And Flowers.

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Abstract 9634: Luteolin Inhibits the Wall Expansion of Aortic Anuerysm in Mice Model
Background: Luteolin is a food-derived flavonoid and its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiallergic functions are reported. Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is well-known disease that needs surgical repair before rupture of aortic wall. But little is known about the nonsurgical treatment for AAA.
Method: Female ApoE-/- mice at age 9 weeks were fed with chow containing 0.5% luteolin for 3 weeks and then were infused with angiotensin II (Ang II; 1.0 μ g/kg/min) for 4 weeks by an osmotic mini-pump. Control ApoE-/- mice and Ang II infused ApoE-/- mice with normal chow were also prepared for comparison. Their body weight, blood pressure and ultrasonographic diameter of abdominal aorta were measured every week until sacrifice at age 16 weeks.
Result: The body weight was similar in three groups (control 22.8±1.0 g, Ang ll with normal food group [Ang II +Luteolin-] 23.0±1.5 g, Ang II with luteolin food group [Ang II +Luteolin+] 23.4±1.7 g). Systolic blood pressure at sacrifice was extremely high in Ang II infused mice, but no difference between Ang II +Luteolin- and Ang II +Luteolin+ (control 94±4 mmHg, Ang II +Luteolin- 159±39 mmHg, Ang II +Luteolin+ 168±48 mmHg). The diameter of abdominal aorta at first was similar in three groups, and gradually increased with Ang II infusion. The max diameter at sacrifice was significantly smaller in Ang II +Luteolin+ than in Ang II +Luteolin- (1.1±0.2 mm vs. 1.9±0.5 mm, P<0.01). Histopathologic studies showed less frequent disruption of elastic media in Ang II +Luteolin+ than in Ang II +Luteolin-.
Conclusion: Luteolin inhibits the wall expansion of aorta in Ang ll-infused ApoE-/- mice model.
- © 2011 by American Heart Association, Inc.


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When Susan announced to her aunt that she was engaged to Beau Eversley, the most sought-after bachelor in London, she should have been the happiest girl in England. The trouble was the Beau knew nothing of the betrothal. Susan had made up the whole affair. And to make matters worse, she would soon be found out.
There was nothing to do but confess her outrageous falsehood to the handsome Beau. But once she did, he agreed to play along with the charade. It seemed the perfect solution, until Susan suddenly found herself trapped in a lie, and engaged in name only to the man she truly loved.
REVIEW: The Honorable Hugh Eversley, age 27, is also known as Beau. A handsome, wealthy, and very fashionable man, he has a younger sister, Georgiana, Georgy, who has just left her young ladies’ Seminary. Georgy’s school friend, Susan Fyfield, has always enjoyed hearing stories from Georgy about Beau Eversley. After leaving school, Susan returns to live with her aunt and older cousin, Cynthia. As her aunt is a widow, money is somewhat scarce so Susan finds herself living on the edge of the nicer world where Georgy lives. Cynthia has just become betrothed. Susan is told that she is an heiress but knows nothing more about it. She never knew her parents and was brought to her aunt’s as a young child. She is convinced that she was born a bastard which makes her feel ashamed.
Susan is to attend Georgy’s coming out ball and is eager to see Beau again. As Susan is a shy person and has not had invitations to dance, Beau gallantly steps in and asks her to dance. In addition, he escorts her in for supper. Never having had anything alcoholic to drink, Susan becomes tipsy after quaffing a glass of champagne and Beau discreetly gets her aunt who takes her home. But Susan tells her aunt that she is engaged to Beau! The next morning, Susan searches out Beau and confesses her error. He agrees to go along with her but the story now continues to grow and makes for a lot of problems which also makes for a lot of fun.
Follow Susan and Beau as they search for the mystery of Susan’s past. The characters are perfectly woven into the story making for a terrific Regency romance novel which was first written in the 1960s.
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- The South African government for the first time has allocated tuna longline and swordfish longline commercial fishing rights to local fishermen. Historically, South Africa's valuable longline tuna and swordfish stocks have been exploited by foreign coastal states.
The South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism today announced that it had allocated 12 tuna longline and 14 swordfish longline commercial fishing rights for a period of 10 years. The allocation of these commercial fishing rights "marks a watershed in the history of this fishery," the Department noted.
So far, South Africa's tuna and swordfish stocks were sold to fishing vessels of foreign states. When these agreements expired in January 2003, the Department was already exploring the possibility of a South African large pelagic fishery through an experimental large pelagic fishery.
It was then decided to establish such a local fishery. By the end of 2003, a draft policy on the allocation of commercial fishing rights was published for comment. By March 2004, a re-worked policy and invitation to apply for commercial large pelagic fishing rights was published. Prospective applicants were given until 17 September 2004 to lodge their applications.
The allocation has met an important objective of the policy - being "the South Africanisation of the fishery," Carol Moses of the Department today said. The allocation of tuna and swordfish fishing rights also has a strong social profile.
Of the 12 tuna directed rights allocated, 92 percent are to entities owned by so-called "historically disadvantaged persons", which in terms of the policy, includes women. Of the 14 swordfish directed rights allocated, 78.6 percent are to the same type of entities. All the rights allocated were allocated to South African owned entities.
The Department has issued notification letters to each applicant informing it whether its application has been successful or not. The letters include reasons for the decision and the assessment of the decision. In addition, a document describing the Process for the Allocation and General Reasons for the Decisions in the Large Pelagic Fishery has been published.
South Africa, Morocco and Namibia are among the few countries in Africa successfully "nationalising" their fish stocks after previously mainly selling quotas to vessels from Europe and East Asia. Prior to allocating fishing rights to own nationals, these governments have invested in establishing a national fisheries management and in fishing vessels and new technology.
afrol News - It is called "financial inclusion", and it is a key government policy in Rwanda. The goal is that, by 2020, 90 percent of the population is to have and actively use bank accounts. And in only four years, financial inclusion has doubled in Rwanda.
afrol News - The UN's humanitarian agencies now warn about a devastating famine in Sudan and especially in South Sudan, where the situation is said to be "imploding". Relief officials are appealing to donors to urgently fund life-saving activities in the two countries.
afrol News - Fear is spreading all over West Africa after the health ministry in Guinea confirmed the first Ebola outbreak in this part of Africa. According to official numbers, at least 86 are infected and 59 are dead as a result of this very contagious disease.
afrol News - It is already a crime being homosexual in Ethiopia, but parliament is now making sure the anti-gay laws will be applied in practical life. No pardoning of gays will be allowed in future, but activist fear this only is a signal of further repression being prepared.
afrol News / Africa Renewal - Ethiopia's ambitious plan to build a US$ 4.2 billion dam in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, 40 km from its border with Sudan, is expected to provide 6,000 megawatts of electricity, enough for its population plus some excess it can sell to neighbouring countries.


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(ELKHART) – Two southwestern Michigan residents face charges in northern Indiana in the death of a 10-year-old girl who died after ingesting methamphetamine.
Prosecutors say the girl and her 9-year-old sibling were taken to an Elkhart home last June by their father, 34-year-old Brandon Hobbs, and his 30-year-old girlfriend, Erica Reschke. The girl died at the home. Toxicology tests revealed high levels of the drug in her body.
Hobbs and Reschke are from Cassopolis, north of the Michigan-Indiana state line. They are charged with neglect of a dependent. Reschke is also charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death. Their trial is scheduled to start May 6 in Goshen, Indiana.
The Associated Press was unable to reach Reschke’s attorney Thursday for comment. Court documents did not list a lawyer for Hobbs.


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Preview: Taarna: The Last Taarakian #4
Taarna: The Last Taarakian #4
Writer: STEPHANIE PHILLIPS
Artist: PATRICK ZIRCHER
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Cover artist: CHRISTIAN WARD, LUIS ROYO
Taarna’s battles against the servant of Kako, the embodiment of multoversal chaos, are pushing the breaking point as she fights to protect her new ally, the mysterious girl named Shaan. This is the story of the millenia-old battle between godlike beings, with all sentiend life caught in their path. The second act of Taarna’s new adventures continues from writer Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn) and artist Christian Rosado, with covers by Christian Ward (Invisible Kingdom).
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This judgment follows proceedings that the Urgenda Foundation brought in 2013 against the State, claiming that the State was not taking sufficient measures to protect its citizens from the adverse effects of climate change. Dutch law permits foundations or associations to bring actions of general interests of this type.
As part of its international commitments, the European Union has set a greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 20 percent by 2020 (40 percent by 2030) compared to 1990 levels. To achieve this target, the European Union adopted two specific instruments:
The Emissions Trading System ("ETS")—the EU "cap-and-trade" system—covering greenhouse gas emissions from a wide range of large-scale industrial facilities and the aviation sector; and
The Effort Sharing Decision, setting individual greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for Member States in non-ETS sectors (e.g., agriculture, waste) from 2013 to 2020.
The Court of Appeal found that there is a real threat of dangerous climate change, resulting in the serious risk that the current generation of citizens will be confronted with loss of life and/or a disruption of family life.
Although the Netherlands was on track to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the EU program, Urgenda introduced proceedings in 2013 to seek more ambitious targets. It requested that the District Court find that the State was acting unlawfully by not taking appropriate measures to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands by 40 percent by 2020 or at least 25 percent compared to 1990 levels. It referred to the level deemed necessary by climate scientists for developed countries to prevent hazardous climate change.
Urgenda based its claims on the principle of proper social conduct under Dutch law as well as the duty of care enshrined in Articles 2 and 8 ECHR, which provide for the right to life and the right to respect for private and family life.
In an initial judgment of June 24, 2015, the District Court agreed with Urgenda that the State's conduct violated proper social conduct. With regard to Articles 2 and 8 ECHR, the District Court held that Urgenda itself could not be considered a direct or indirect victim of a violation of these provisions, within the meaning of Article 34 ECHR.
The State appealed the District Court's ruling, pursuant to which Urgenda filed a cross-appeal relating to the District Court's finding on Articles 2 and 8 ECHR.
The Court of Appeal upheld Urgenda's cross-appeal. It found that Article 2 ECHR imposes a positive obligation on a state to protect the lives of its citizens and that Article 8 ECHR mandates the state to protect the right to a home and private life. When there is a real and imminent threat, it held, the state must take precautionary measures to protect these rights.
Applying these requirements, the Court of Appeal found that there is a real threat of dangerous climate change, resulting in the serious risk that the current generation of citizens will be confronted with loss of life and/or a disruption of family life. Based on its review of the State's reduction plan, the Court of Appeal deemed the margin of uncertainty unacceptable.
In a letter of October 9, 2018, the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Climate informed the Dutch Parliament that the Dutch government was considering an appeal to the Dutch Supreme Court. The Minister referred to a question of principle of judicial interference in governmental policies. The Minister further indicated that according to the latest estimates, the 25 percent reduction target was within reach and that the Dutch government remained fully committed to the policy goals set out in the Energy Agreement for Sustainable Growth, a nonbinding document that aims at reducing energy consumption and increasing the share of sustainable energy in the Netherlands.
The Urgenda case may give rise to similar claims in other EU Member States or at the EU level; in fact, a case is already pending before the European General Court. Applicants representing 10 families from EU and non-EU Member States, as well as an association of young Sami people, have brought an action against the European Parliament and the Council before the EU General Court ("EGC") (Case T-330/18) to urge EU institutions to adopt more stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
The applicants filed an application to the EGC to seek the annulment of the emission targets set out in three legislative acts that are part of the 2030 climate and energy framework. In addition to annulment, the applicants seek injunctive relief from the EGC to require the EU institutions to enact a more ambitious greenhouse gas emission target of a reduction by 2030 of at least 50–60 percent from 1990 levels.
Follow the link to read an English translation of the Court of Appeal's judgment. For further information on the EU-wide litigation, please see The Climate Report, Summer 2018.


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Rise in coal production in China in 2017, after three years of decline.
China, the world largest producer of coal and lignite (45%), relaxed production restrictions in 2017 and raised its domestic production after three years of decline, contributing to half of the global increase in coal production.
Relaxed coal import restrictions in China stimulated global coal production, especially in Indonesia and the United States, whereas bad weather and industrial problems reduced Australian production.
Coal production also grew in India, in line with the government’s willingness to lower its import dependency, and in Russia.
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The 600 MW first turbine of the 3,600 MW Rogun (also spelled Roghun) hydropower dam on the Vakhsh River in southern Tajikistan has started operations. The US$3.9bn project is being built gradually by the Italian company Salini Impregilo and the remaining turbines will come online between 2019 and 2026. Once built, it will enable Tajikistan to end domestic power shortages and to export electricity to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Iraqi government has resumed oil exports from the Kirkuk oil fields one year after the city was seized by federal forces from the autonomous Kurdish administration over dispute about oil payments, revenues and pipeline fees. An agreement has been reached with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to export 50,000 bbl/d to 100,000 bbl/d through a pipeline running through the Kurdish territory to Turkey. The revenue from the renewed exports will be collected by the federal government of Iraq.
US-based project company Cheniere Energy has started to produce LNG at the first 4.5 Mt/year train of its US$15bn Corpus Christi liquefaction and export terminal project in Texas (United States) and the facility is on its way to ship its first-ever cargo. The 170,000 m3 floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Golar Tundra has arrived at the facility and will depart with the first shipment shortly.
Emirati state-run oil and gas company Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has unveiled plans to invest AED5.1bn (US$1.4bn) to upgrade the operations of the Bu Hasa onshore oil field (United Arab Emirates) from 550,000 bbl/d up to 650,000 bbl/d by the end of 2020 as per its 2030 smart growth strategy.


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meeting of Snitterfield WI in 2017 attracted an excellent attendance
and numerous proposals for future activities were discussed.
These ranged from skittles to walking groups to cake-baking;
the collection of tombola prizes for Village Fête; and
knitted goods for Alzheimer sufferers (utilising the ideas and
talents of members).
Our speaker this month was Louise Bennett, a member of Social
Workers Without Borders. She entitled her talk Experiencing
the Refugee Crisis from the Outside, though she is very much
inside the camp when she visits the Calais Jungle.
As part of a team regularly taking help to Calais she is particularly
concerned with the welfare of children. Before winter set in
(officially November 1)) the French authorities demolished a
huge part of the camp, leaving large numbers of unaccompanied
children, some of whom went to sleep on the streets of the town,
watched over by volunteers.
Calais Refugee Aid produces food for two kitchens and Snitterfield
has been generous in collecting food and clothing for the warehouse,
as well as food parcels for the camp in Dunkirk. This camp has
showers, a communal kitchen and a school but is dangerous at
night because it is controlled by gangs, making it difficult
for aid agencies to be able to work.
Children coming to the UK need foster families. At present,
processing centres vary greatly and those in France are feared.
We can help by donating dry or tinned foods and warm clothes
to the Community Café at Snitterfield Village Hall on
the first Sunday of the month, when our excellent speaker, Louise,
will be happy to accept them.

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text: Anirudha Bhattacharjee is the co-author, along with Balaji Vittal, of R.D. Burman: The Man, The Music which won the President’s Swarn Kamal Award for the Best book on Cinema at the National Film Awards for 2011. Bhattacharjee has also authored a book of lists on Amitabh Bachchan. His recently released Gaata Rahe Mera Dil – 50 Classic Hindi films Songs, co-authored with Balaji Vittal, was awarded the Excellence in Writing on Cinema at the 17th Mumbai Film Festival in November 2015. A die-hard fan of Hitchcock, Ray, Kishore Kumar, the Burmans and football, he is a well-known name on the Indian quizzing circuit, and is considered the leading expert on pre-1985 Hindi and Bengali music and cinema. Bhattacharjee is currently working on multiple books and is employed with IBM as a Project Manager.


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In today’s article we are going to share with you all of our Idle Wool Tycoon tips and cheats to help you make all the right upgrades in the game and unlock all the new sheep!
This is quite a satisfying game to play – if you like idle games, that is. Here you can see the progress you make for every little upgrade you choose, because everything goes pretty much hand in hand. Also, if you don’t mind the occasional ads which can give you some free upgrades and increased money gains, then you will have quite a satisfying adventure playing this game!
So, without further ado, let’s dive right into the Idle Wool Tycoon tips and tricks right here below!
Start by unlocking the knife!
This is one of the most important features in the game, because you will be able to shift to automatic shearing instead of doing it by hand. You will see a huge improvement because the money will start rolling in without you having to do anything pretty much – only tap on the upgrades!
Once you have unlocked the Knife, you can move on to more advanced shearing tools – the Blue Knife, Purple Scissors and so on.
The maximum level for the tools is 30 and that increases their speed to 10.30. This is very important because the higher the speed, the faster the tools will automatically collect the wool.
You want this to be your main upgrade because if you are not too keen on staying in game day and night to tap and slash, then this is the way to go. Always unlock all the possible tools because the more you have, the more sheep they will cover and you will level up super fast.
Make all the right upgrades first
There are three main upgrades in the game, if you don’t count the tools. There is a way that you can better level them up, and I am going to tell you exactly how to do that.
– Growth Speed: this upgrade decreases the time needed for sheep to be ready for shearing again.
– Wool Value: this upgrade increases the amount of gold you get for selling wool from one sheep.
– Sheep Upgrade: this third upgrade requires you to be a certain level (increases by every upgrade you acquire) and when you start upgrading this, you get increased Wool Profits and New Tools.
Now there are the tools as well, which are extremely important because they work automatically and they will help you collect all the money needed for making upgrades.
This is how you should do the upgrades:
Tools -> Wool Value -> Growth Speed -> Sheep Upgrade (because it is the hardest to achieve since it has level requirement).
– Firstly, just like I previously mentioned, focus on buying the Knife. After you bought the Knife, upgrade it a little to make it move faster.
In my opinion it’s best if you unlock the first 3 tools before starting to add points to Wool Value and Growth Speed, because when you have 3 tools you will level up super fast, so there is no need for them just yet.
– Secondly, once you notice that your leveling isn’t going as fast as you want, you can start adding points to Wool Value first.
– After adding some levels to Wool Value, you can start adding to Growth Speed as well.
– Keep unlocking the tools and level them up as you go, because they cap at level 30. You should always aim to save some money and unlock the best ones available, and when you can’t afford them anymore, just max out the previous ones.
– Once you reach level 50, you can unlock Black Sheep. Make sure you do this because it will give you a 2x Wool Profits and New Tools. Do this at level 75 as well, to triple your Wool Profits – and so on.
Play with ads – or don’t
There are some people who enjoy some free upgrades and increased profits in exchange for watching an ad, and there are people who don’t. If you find advertisements annoying, but you enjoy this game, you can do two things:
– Pay to remove ads
– Close your internet connection
I personally don’t really mind the ads, but if you do you can switch off your Data Traffic or Wi-Fi connection and enjoy the game without interruptions.
If however you don’t mind the ads, here’s what you can do to get benefits for watching them:
– You can watch an ad to get 5x the money reward when leveling up. If I had to choose, this would be my most suggested tip because 5x the amount is a pretty big deal! You can also claim this without watching an ad.
– You can watch an ad to get a 3 minute boost in Wool Growth! This can be useful, but I prefer to just claim the 1 minute boost without watching an ad.
– You can watch an ad to upgrade Growth Speed or Wool Value levels for free. This might seem like mandatory sometimes, because it will just not allow you to do otherwise. What you can do if this happens, is tap to upgrade (by watching an ad) and as soon as the ad starts, tap to go back into the game and skip watching.
By doing this you can continue making upgrades by paying normally.
Play the in game event!
If you’ve been around the mobile gaming world for the past few years, then you’ve probably heard of Fruit Ninja – and if you haven’t, then you missed out!
In Idle Wool Tycoon you can play some in game event which is similar to the Fruit Ninja style – you have to shear the sheep which pop up on your screen within the time limit, while avoiding the bombs and trying to get the time bonuses.
After completing this, you will be rewarded with gold which you can use to make even more upgrades!
These would be all of our Idle Wool Tycoon tips and tricks to help you unlock all the sheep and level up fast! Do you have any questions or want to share some more tips with us? Leave a comment down below!

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