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The Difference Between Streets, Boulevards, Avenues, and Other Roads In this video from the Vox YouTube channel, Phil Edwards gives the lowdown on what all those words means when it comes to transportation. Of course, these are more guidelines than hard-and-fast rules, and not every city in the world follows these naming conventions exactly. Also, they tend not to be as strict with these in suburbs and newer areas: sometimes a street is called a “lane” simply because an urban planner or developer might think it sounds nice. Not only that, but what starts out as a “street” could
later be developed to the point of taking on the characteristics of
an “avenue.” But even though these guidelines aren’t written in stone,
it does provide some helpful context about our roads.
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Gold as money gaining popularity, what's in your wallet? Gold is found at surface in flakes and nuggets, making it easily mineable. Historians agree the Egyptians were the first to make gold jewelry using the lost-wax method, around 3,600 BC. The funeral mask of King Tutankhamen is one of the most stunning examples of Egyptian goldsmithing. The Egyptians also learned how to alloy gold with other metals, to vary hardness and color. While gold was rare and valuable,
it was also ideal for pressing into coins. Because gold coins were portable,
private and permanent, they fit the early definition of a currency.
Gold could be used as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a
store of value.
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Drone footage captures sunken Spanish village rising from dry reservoir With the reservoir at 15% of its capacity, details of a life frozen in 1992, when the Aceredo village in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region was flooded to create the Alto Lindoso reservoir, are being revealed once more. Walking on the muddy ground cracked by the drought in some spots, visitors found partially collapsed roofs, bricks and wooden debris that once made up doors or beams, and even a drinking fountain with water still streaming from a rusty pipe. Crates with empty beer bottles were stacked by what
used to be a cafe, and a semi-destroyed old car was rusting away by
a stone wall.
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Five Incredible Ways Birds Change Their Bodies for Spring and Fall Migration These are incredible abilities, but they come with
tradeoffs. The energy required to fly hundreds or thousands of miles
in a short span leaves birds with little room for error during migration,
and vulnerable to natural and human-caused threats. In North America
alone, an estimated 2.6 billion birds disappear between fall and spring
migration every year. Researchers pin many of these losses on migration,
when birds must survive storms and cold snaps, navigate skyscrapers
and other buildings, avoid predators, and successfully forage for food
or else fail to complete their journeys.
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How Beer and Drugs Empowered an Ancient Andean Empire During feasts, Wari elites added vilca, a powerful hallucinogen, to chicha, a beer-like beverage made from fruit. Together, the concoction made for a potent party drug, which the researchers say helped those in power bond with their guests and consolidate relationships. And because vilca could only be produced by the elites, these psychedelic feasts served to boost their social and political importance. Such are the findings of a new study published today in Antiquity. The vibrant pre-Columbian Wari state ruled over the
Peruvian Andes from around 600 CE to 1000 CE, prior to the emergence
of the Inca Empire. Evidence of the vilca-chicha mixture was found at
the Quilcapampa site in Peru—a short-lived Wari outpost built during
the 9th century CE.
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How the 1993 Movie “Demolition Man” Perfectly Predicted (and Ridiculed) Today’s Society So when I recently came across the 1993 movie Demolition Man, I could not resist. Is there anything more 90s than Wesley Snipes fighting Sylvester Stallone while wearing denim overalls? But watching this movie in 2022 ended up being a bizarre, mind-bending experience. First, the movie takes place
in 2032, which is only ten years from now. In other words, we are currently
much closer to the “future” of the movie than to the year it was actually
made. Second, the “future” depicted in the movie pinpoints, with near-prophetic
accuracy, everything wrong in society right now. And it is ridiculing
it – as if it is laughing at us from the past.
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Modern mullets: The high-low hairstyle is once again having a moment “I don’t want to cut it,” says Oakville-area kindergartner Xane Coultrip, who sports a lusciously wavy mullet that flows halfway down his back, “because my friends won’t know who I am.” The mullet (also as the Kentucky Waterfall, the Missouri
Compromise, the Camaro Crash Helmet, the Ape Drape, the Canadian Passport
— we can go on, and we will) is back.
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Sniff it out: Marijuana legalization spurs K9 retirements, retraining It has also had to retire some working K9s, even after those dogs have been trained off searching for weed. “What we can’t have is K9s indicating on vehicles, lockers, whatever it is they’re sniffing, on a product that’s legal to be in possession of,” said Gallatin County Sheriff Dan Springer. “That’s why we don’t have K9s that hit on nicotine
or alcohol.” K9s alerting to the scent of a drug gives law enforcement
probable cause to request a search warrant on a vehicle or property.
When considering whether to grant a search warrant, a judge can use
the K9’s alert to grant the search warrant.
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Smokefree 2025: How will the Government's new plan for a smokefree generation work? On Thursday, Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall announced a radical and world-leading plan to ban tobacco sales to a generation, as well as lower the nicotine level in all tobacco products and drastically reduce number of places that can sell them, through the new Smokefree 2025 action plan. It is a major shift from policy that had, until now,
sought to influence people’s individual behaviours to lessen tobacco
demand. Instead, it seeks to regulate what is available and reduce the
likelihood of a young person taking up smoking altogether.
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Captain Santa signs off for Qantas after 40 Christmas flights Saturday will mark the last time Captain Santa commands a Qantas flight before he parks his wings for good but it will not be the last time the red suit gets an outing. “I will still be playing Santa for kids in hospital and at orphanages,” he said. “I get such a kick out of it, just seeing their faces and the thrill they get. ” It all began in 1971, when Captain Anderson was in
the Royal Australian Navy and learning to fly. Given the job of organising
Santa for Christmas celebrations, he was forced to step in himself when
the able seaman he had lined up for the task got himself “rotten drunk”.
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Canada digs deep into strategic reserves to cover maple syrup shortage The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, sometimes referred to as the “Opec of maple syrup”, has released about 22m kilograms of syrup from its strategic reserve to cover a shortfall driven by a short and warm spring in 2021. At the same time that production fell, pandemic-fuelled
demand for the sticky substance jumped 36% from 2020 to 2021, according
to federation figures.
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Magic while it lasted: Official wizard of New Zealand loses contract after 23-year spell The wizard, Ian Brackenbury Channell (88), had been contracted to Christchurch city council for the past two decades to promote the city through “acts of wizardry and other wizard-like services”, at a cost of $16,000 (€9,728) a year. He has been paid a total of $368,000. The wizard, who was born in England, began performing
acts of wizardry and entertainment in public spaces shortly after arriving
in New Zealand in 1976. When the council originally tried to stop him,
the public protested.
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6 Tribes Sue Wisconsin to Try to Stop November Wolf Hunt The Chippewa tribes say treaties give them rights to half of the wolf quota in territory they ceded to the United States in the mid-1800s. But rather than hunt wolves, the tribes want to protect them. The tribal lawsuit comes three weeks after a coalition
of wildlife advocacy groups sued to stop Wisconsin’s wolf hunt this
fall and void a state law mandating annual hunts, arguing that the statutes
don’t give wildlife managers any leeway to consider population estimates.
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The everyday foods that could become luxuries But that hasn't always been the case – lobster has worked its way up from humble beginnings to become a gourmet delicacy. In the 18th Century, lobster was considered a highly undesirable food that wealthy families steered clear of. The crustacean was so abundant along the east coast of the US that it was used as fertiliser and served in prisons. Kentucky politician John Rowan quipped: "Lobster shells about a house are looked upon as signs of poverty and degradation." It was the development of railways in the US, which
transformed lobster into a luxury. Train operators decided to serve
lobster to their wealthy passengers, who were unaware of the seafood's
poor reputation. They quickly got a taste for lobster and brought it
back to the cities, where it appeared on the menus of expensive restaurants.
By the end of the 19th Century, lobster had cemented its status as a
luxury food.
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Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good? So the suggestion that my conscientiously topped-up supply of "premium mixed wild bird seed" is anything other than a positive boost for local wildlife has come as something of an unwelcome surprise. But evidence has been building recently that supplementary
feeding could disrupt a delicate ecological balance beyond our windowsills
and gardens. And now a provocative research paper co-authored by a conservation
biologist from Manchester Metropolitan University has posed the question
of whether it might, in fact, do more harm than good.
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Hell On Earth: Nazino — The Soviet Union’s Cannibal Island This tiny scrap of earth bore no name and for most of history, its only visitors were the local Ostyak people, who came to the island to collect tree bark. It would be from their local village Nazino, which is sometimes rendered as Nazinsky, that the island would get its name. In the Summer of 1933, it would be witness to some
of the most disturbing scenes yet seen in the Soviet Union. Stalin’s
reforms of the USSR would set in motion a series of events that would
culminate in what would locally come to be known by the Ostyak people
as Cannibal Island.
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The struggle to save a South African language with 45 click sounds Then came the Khoekhoen from the north-east to wrest some of the San’s hunting grounds for their cattle. The 17th-century Dutch incomers called the hunter-gatherers “Boesmans” (“Bushmen”) after their habitat, while the Khoekhoen were “Hottentots”. The word Hottentot may mimic the click sound of the Khoekhoen’s speech. Africa is the only continent where clicks act as a kind of consonant in basic word-building sounds. Many of southern Africa’s original click-rich languages
have died out. For the complexity and repertoire of its clicks, the
N|uu language of a long-scattered subgroup of the San is among humanity’s
most startling creations. It has but two known surviving fluent speakers,
both in their 80s. The bar after the N indicates a particular click
of the tongue against the teeth. N|uu is one of just three languages
known to feature a kiss-click made with both lips.
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Why ‘Fearless Gardening’ advocates pushing the limits with ‘cramscaping’ In addition to vibrant text and glorious photos that are highly instructional where garden design ideas are concerned, it offers the friendly message that gardeners can do no wrong. Entitled “Fearless Gardening” (Timber Press, 2021),
author Loree Bohl is not fazed by the sight of dead plants in her garden.
She quotes J. C. Raulston, a highly acclaimed horticulturist who founded
an arboretum in North Carolina that bears his name. “If you are not
killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.”
Bohl embellishes Raulston’s statement as follows: “Experimentation
is at the core of building a garden. It’s only through trial, error,
and dead plants that you discover what works… How can we expect to get
it right the first time, every time? … If the first time you tried baking
chocolate chip cookies, they had all ended up flat and burnt, would
you have given up and never baked them again? What a shame that would
be!”
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She created a geocaching trail that links together 14 Eagle Scout service projects “If you aren’t actively seeking out Eagle projects, they are easy to overlook because they fit in so well in the environment,” says Eagle Scout Sarina Horner, a member of Troop 729 of Winston-Salem, N.C. “It’s also hard to know about the service-oriented projects because you can’t physically see them.” Wanting to bring more attention to this hard work,
Sarina created an Eagle Scout geocaching trail that links together 14
projects throughout the community of Winston-Salem, N.C., part of the
Old Hickory Council.
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Beautiful Italian town sells ready-to-occupy homes at bargain prices Biccari, deep in the southeastern region of Puglia, is also selling off dilapidated homes priced at €1, but unlike other destinations, it also has bargain deals on ready-to-occupy places. Prices of empty turnkey dwellings start as low as €7,500
($9,000). Most are in the range of €10,000-€13,000. The sale is part
of Mayor Gianfilippo Mignogna's mission to save his ailing hometown
from the grave after years of people leaving to pursue jobs in Italy's
cities or abroad, mainly to the United States. The slow exodus has taken
a toll on a population that peaked at 5,000 in the 1950s.
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When the Enslaved Went South They acquired forged travel passes. They disguised themselves as white men, fashioning wigs from horsehair and pitch. They stole horses, firearms, skiffs, dirk knives, fur hats, and, in one instance, twelve gold watches and a diamond breast pin. And then they disappeared. Why did runaways head toward Mexico? For enslaved people
in Texas or Louisiana, the northern states were hundreds of miles away.
Even if they did manage to cross the Mason-Dixon line, they were not
legally free. In fact, the fugitive-slave clause of the U.S. Constitution
and the laws meant to enforce it sought to return runaways to their
owners. Mexico, by contrast, granted enslaved people legal protections
that they did not enjoy in the northern United States. Mexico’s Congress
abolished slavery in 1837.
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Man Becomes Rich When Meteorite From Heaven Crashes Through His Roof It wasn’t a typical day, but that’s exactly what happened
to a 33-year-old Indonesian coffin maker named Josua Hutagalung. “I
was working on a coffin near the street in front of my house when I
heard a booming sound that made my house shake. It was as if a tree
had fallen on us,” the father of three told the Sun. “[The meteorite]
was too hot to pick up so my wife dug it out with a hoe and we took
it inside.”
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The origins of Black Santa Claus Young people admire Santa Claus and see him as the ultimate example of giving back to those who deserve it — those who made the “nice list.” When people picture Santa Claus in their minds, however, there are often subconscious notions of what Santa looks like, including his skin color. In 2016, retired U.S. Army Captain Larry Jefferson
set foot into the Mall of America, the largest shopping mall in the
U.S., located in Bloomington, Minnesota. Jefferson wore a red suit and
a Santa hat and sat down in his throne, taking pictures with hundreds
of children every day. Jefferson was the first black man in the mall’s
history to do this.
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John Lennon at 80: One Man Against the Deep State ‘Monster’ (1969) John Lennon, born 80 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon. He was also a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist,
and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the Deep State will
go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.
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40 Basic Rights Women Did Not Have Until The 1970s
Lies the Pioneer Woman made you believe about cooking Not only does she cook up a storm, but she is also the author of a pile of books, the host of her own wildly successful cooking show, a homeschooling mother of four, and even has her own line of kitchen tools, cookware, and home goods. She basically does everything, all while looking totes adorbs in affluent nouveau-hippie tunics and dangly earrings and bearing what must be the extreme hardships of being married to an actual real-life hunky cowboy. Sucks to be her, right? But as much as we all love her, and as much as a lot
of us (make that all of us) would love to be her, not everything she
does is perfect. As a matter of fact, here are a few of the lies the
Pioneer Woman has made us believe about cooking.
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State removes infamous ‘Into the Wild’ bus after years of hiker rescues and deaths The bus had sat at its location, about 25 miles west of the Parks Highway on the Stampede Trail, for 60 years. It was the site of the 1992 death of 24-year-old Virginian Christopher McCandless, which was depicted in the 1996 best-selling book “Into the Wild” that was later adapted into a feature film. Since then, the bus has drawn
visitors — some of them following in McCandless’ footsteps — with varying
levels of preparedness for enduring wilderness conditions and crossing
the swift Teklanika River. Some local officials have long called for
its removal.
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The tiny ‘country’ between England and Scotland All around, fields dipped gently to flatten out along the shore of the channel, which snakes its way westwards to the Solway Firth. The lowland coastline, flanked by rolling hills, expands until the firth meets the Irish Sea, creating a natural break in the land between Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland and Cumbria in northern England. Standing firm against a determined
breeze, I was surveying the scene from what marks the south-western
end of the border between Scotland and England. Peacefully admiring
nature at work, it was hard to believe that this seemingly tranquil,
rural landscape was once at the edge of one of Britain's most lawless,
and for a time, bloodiest, regions: the area known as the Debatable
Lands.
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The Day a Native American Tribe Drove the KKK Out of Town “They wanted you to see them. They wanted you to be
afraid of them,” Lillie McKoy, who grew up watching the KKK drive by
and later became the mayor of Maxton, a small town in Robeson County,
told The Fayetteville Observer in 2008.
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You can now move to Barbados for a year and work remotely Obtaining visas and work permits can make the process harder, particularly if your employer is in your home country. However, Barbados is temporarily doing away with such sanctions. The Caribbean country is opening up to tourists for long stays in an attempt to boost the economy. Bajan Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced a 12-month
Barbados Welcome Stamp in a speech addressed at the reopening of bars
in Christ Church.
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Forrest Fenn’s $1 million treasure hidden in Rocky Mountains found Fenn, 89, told the Santa Fe New Mexican that a treasure hunter located the chest a few days ago. “The guy who found it does not want his name mentioned.
He’s from back East,” Fenn said, adding that it was confirmed from a
photograph the man sent him. Fenn did not reveal exactly where it had
been hidden.
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How One Man Turned His Backyard Garden Into a Full-Fledged Community Farmers Market "I was delighted by how many people were willing to
meet strangers on a Sunday morning," Jamiah says. And they ended up
exchanging thoughts as well as crops: Kristin Kloc figured she'd offload
some oranges and be on her way. "But then we started talking about growing
food and the importance of social equality," she recalls.
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Land O’Lakes to Remove Indian Woman from Packaging After 92 Years “As a farmer-owned co-op, we strongly feel the need to better connect the men and women who grow our food with those who consume it,” Ford said. “Our farmer-to-fork structure gives us a unique ability to bridge this divide.” A spokesperson for the company told the Post Bulletin
the branding shift is to focus on the farmers who make the company’s
butter and other products. The package design that is slated to replace
the Native American woman features “Farmer Owned” in large text over
the background of a blue lake and pine trees.
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Coronavirus Gets Town's Goat While the Humans Are Away Once upon a time, a virus took over the world and forced everyone inside for a long while. The city of Llandudno in the British land of Wales was no exception to the rule, and not a soul wandered its streets for weeks ... leaving the town barren and in relative silence. The local mountain goat gang caught wind of the abandonment, and decided to try their hand at taking over the joint ... slowly but surely flocking and having their run of the place, without a human in sight to stop them. The more goats that joined the herd, the more they
were left to do their own bidding, and eventually ... the entire town
was inundated with horns and lots of baaahhs.
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British Archaeologists Discover Huge Stash of Victorian-Era Beer Last month, while digging on the site of the former Tetley’s Brewery, in the Northern English city of Leeds, archaeologists from the West Yorkshire Archaeological Services (WYAS) discovered a neatly-stacked stash of over 600 bottles — many of which were still full, The Drinks Business reports. While the archaeologists initially thought the bottles contained ginger beer, a lab analysis has since shown that the liquid inside contained 3 percent ABV, equivalent to a typical (but mild) English Session Ale. The beers, which date from “perhaps the 1880s,” according
to WYAS senior project manager David Williams, are collected from a
number of historical breweries in the region, including J. E. Richardson
of Leeds.
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How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months. There were no roads, no heating systems, no grocery stores. Winter temperatures could easily dip below minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Briggs persuaded an Inuit family to "adopt" her and "try to keep her alive," as the anthropologist wrote in 1970. At the time, many Inuit families
lived similar to the way their ancestors had for thousands of years.
They built igloos in the winter and tents in the summer. "And we ate
only what the animals provided, such as fish, seal and caribou," says
Myna Ishulutak, a film producer and language teacher who lived a similar
lifestyle as a young girl.
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Fugitive Libraries Inevitably, someone will make the accurate observation
that public libraries are among the last free, inclusive, “truly democratic”
spaces in American cities and towns. In the fullest version of this
reverie, libraries are imagined as civic spaces for ethical recalibration
and political reconciliation, where we can talk out differences of opinion
and steel our defenses against lies and manipulation. It’s not a completely
unreasonable idea. Then someone else - often a
person of color - will share the equally accurate observation that libraries
are not universally welcoming spaces.
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20 Things Everybody Gets Wrong About the Middle Ages These years saw the rise and fall of kingdoms, the
gradual spread of Christianity throughout Europe, as well as the early
splintering of the Roman Catholic Church preceding the Reformation in
the 1500s, and is characterized by the existence of feudal societies
and polities. Despite understanding much about our ancestors and their
society, there are also aspects, both significant and minor, which have
become conflated, manipulated, or misunderstood to the detriment of
historical truth.
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Police apprehend penguins who keep sneaking into sushi restaurant Their cover was blown after a shop worker heard them making a cooing, humming sound. It is understood that the penguins were hiding near the grills beneath the sushi shop, where it was warm. Constable John Zhu responded, “after sensing something fishy,” Wellington police confirmed on their Facebook page. The penguins were described as “little and blue”. “This was not the first report police received about
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Was The Lion King Copied from the Japanese Cartoon Kimba the White Lion? However, with the recent release of the computer-animated version of the cartoon, a hidden 25-year-old controversy surfaced. In Japan, there’s an animated film with a storyline that is practically identical to the more popular Disney version. Kimba the White Lion is a Japanese animated film hailed as one of the country’s classics. It was released in the 1960s
and became a beloved icon in Japan and has become a huge part of their
popular culture. It’s creator, Osamu Tezuka, is also behind the iconic
character and series Astro Boy.
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‘Santa Claus’ arrested after leading reindeer in protest at P&G headquarters “They let company executives know they were No. 1 on Santa’s Naughty List for destroying endangered forests like the Boreal Forest in Canada – home of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – to make Charmin toilet paper,” stated the environmental advocacy group Stand.earth, which organized the protest. Santa, also known as David Freeman, 68, of Siler City,
N.C., was arrested by the Cincinnati Police Department for trespassing
about an hour after he arrived at the downtown headquarters of the maker
of consumer goods such as Charmin (NYSE: PG), a spokeswoman for Stand.earth
said.
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The Forgotten Giant Arrows that Guide you Across America Certainly a peculiar site to come across in the middle of nowhere, 50 foot, possibly 70 foot long, with weeds crawling through its concrete cracks, abandoned long ago by whoever put it there. This arrow may point your way out of the desert but
it’s also pointing to the past. Long before the
days of radio (and those convenient little smartphone applications),
the US Postal service began a cross-country air mail service using army
war surplus planes from World War I, many piloted by former army flyers.
To get the planes and everybody’s mail safely across the country by
air, the postman was going to need a little help.
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KFC Is Testing Vegan 'Fried Chicken' Using Lookalike Meat KFC announced earlier today via press release that it will be testing fried chicken-like nuggets using a Beyond Meat product. The limited test will roll out tomorrow at an Atlanta KFC. The "Beyond Fried Chicken" will be available as both plant-based nuggets and "boneless wings," with items ranging in price from $1.99 to $12. Though Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have been duking
it out over who can best emulate the bloody richness of a beef burger,
neither has gotten a plant-based chicken alternative into the nationwide
fast-food market until now. Per CNBC's report, KFC will be the first
chain to use a Beyond chicken product—especially notable given that
Beyond pulled its chicken-like strips from shelves earlier this year
for not meeting the company's standards.
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Irish island of Arranmore is looking for new residents from the United States Its population has dropped to just 469 people and the island has recently written open letters to the people of the United States and Australia, urging them to relocate there. They’re being offered the chance to swap the hustle and bustle of big cities for the calm and beauty of Arranmore. The island has recently undergone huge technological
advancement and has become the recipient of Ireland’s very first offshore
digital hub.
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Lamenting what we'll never know about Phyllis J. Stalnaker Harris She died 58 years ago, in January 1961, at the age of just 35. That probably would have been the end of it. An anonymous woman originally from the Midwest who died young after living a non-notable life in California, away from the spotlight. But Phyllis was "revived." With the help of the internet. Decades after she or anyone else could advocate for her. She didn't quite suffer the ignominy of becoming a full-blown meme. But her existence was nonetheless reduced to a punchline. The image of Phyllis at the top of this post is a cropped-in
version of her police booking shot from decades ago. It was featured
on a wall at the San Diego Police Museum earlier this decade, and it
appears to have been first noted on Twitter in November 2013.
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New Study Suggests Leonardo da Vinci Had A.D.H.D. Looking at the scant details of his life and his penchant
to procrastinate and abandon artworks, two neuroscientists have presented
a possible reason for Leonardo’s behavior in the journal Brain. They
suggest that the artist may have had Attention Deficit and Hyperactive
Disorder (A.D.H.D.).
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Here's what living in a tiny house is really like, according to people who traded their homes for minimalism Tiny houses have their perks — they're both environmentally and budget friendly. But living in such tight quarters can create unique, unexpected problems, like difficult zoning laws, easier wear and tear, taking care of compost toilets, and quick messes, to name a few. Tiny houses may have their appeal, but they're not
the right fit for everyone. There are a few things to consider before
plunging into such a small space.
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Missing goat found 25 miles away catching tram to Manchester She was discovered at a tram station, waiting behind the yellow line with other commuters. It’s not clear how she came to be there, or if we’ve underestimated goats this whole time. Fellow passengers were mostly just ignoring the goat and using their phones. Owner Julie Swindell, 49, said
Belle went missing from her farm in Greenfield, Saddleworth, on Monday.
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Proof an Irish colony in South Carolina predates Christopher Columbus “Researchers feel certain that there was a colony of Irish folk living in what is now South Carolina when Christopher Columbus 'thought' he had discovered the New World,” wrote Richard Thornton for The Examiner. In 1520, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, a historian, and a professor was appointed by Charles V, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, to be chronicler for the new Council of the Indies. Though Martyr died in 1526, his report, founded on
several weeks of interviews, was published posthumously in a book named
"De Orbe Novo" (About the New World).
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What is it about Ina Garten? “I have one in East Hampton, actually, that’s been going on 35 years — just sits on the counter,” she says. “I started this one for New York.” Garten, 70, is precisely the sort of person to maintain
a batch of vanilla extract for half her lifetime, careful to replace
each bean she uses. But she is also the sort who assures those watching
her Food Network series “Barefoot Contessa” that, should they not share
her commitment to homemade ingredients, “store-bought is fine” — a mantra
that has birthed a thousand memes.
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How This Supercolony of 1.5 Million Penguins Stayed Hidden for Nearly 3,000 Years It turns out that these elusive seabirds had lived on the islands undetected for at least 2,800 years, according to new, unpublished research presented Dec. 11 at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C. It all started when a group of researchers spent 10
months doing what they thought was a pan-Antarctic survey of Adélie
penguins by looking through every single cloud-free satellite image
that they had of the southern continent. "We thought that we knew where
all the [Adélie] penguin colonies were," said Heather Lynch, an ecologist
at the Stony Brook University, during the news conference
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10 Actors Who Regretted Being In Star Trek (And 10 Who Adored It) For some, performing along side the cast of Star Trek was a life-changing positive experience that made them a part of one of the most passionate fan communities in the world and led to great opportunities further down the line in their career. However, for others, Star Trek was a bad experience that led to them being boxed in or typecast. Furthermore, there are many parts on Star Trek that
were just straight-up uncomfortable to play. In a show filled with aliens
and all manner of strange events that was shot mostly before the time
of special effects, Star Trek actors had to do some crazy things to
fill their roles.
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A 14th-century castle, but a very modern lord Born in 1975, he grew up at Powderham, the son of Hugh Courtenay, the 18th Earl of Devon and his wife, Diana. After Eton, Cambridge and the Bar, Charlie went to Los Angeles on a rugby tour. He found a reason to stay when he met the actress Allison
Joy “AJ” Langer, of Baywatch and My So-called Life fame, in a bar in
Las Vegas. It was love at first sight. The couple
were married in 2004, and settled down to life in California with their
two children, Lady Joscelyn, 11, and Jack, Lord Courtenay, nine.
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Santa deniar arrested after giving children the ultimate Christmas spoiler In the latest attack on Christmas, a breakfast with Santa event at a church in Cleburne, Texas was disrupted by 3 protesters angry that parents were teaching their children about “fake” Santa. Holding up anti-Santa placards and shouting less-than-festive slogans, the protesters confronted people arriving, admonishing parents for encouraging belief in Santa and yelling to their children that he doesn’t exist. 31-year-old Aaron Urbanski of Joshua ended up on the
law’s naughty list after refusing the church’s demands to leave the
premises. When police arrived, Urbanski was arrested
for trespassing .
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Italian mountaineers criticise day-trippers for tackling Alpine peaks in shorts and trainers There have been a spate of incidents in which bewildered climbers have come across tourists wearing jeans and sweatshirts trudging through the snow at altitudes of up to 13,000ft. Alpine guides are warning that many people have no idea of the challenges they face in the Alps and the Dolomites and are risking their lives. Seven people have died on the Italian side of the Matterhorn
so far this summer, with experts saying that at least four of those
were caused by poor preparation and inadequate equipment. where the
similarities end.
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What's the Best Time of Day to Drink Coffee? The U.S. Army Found the Answer Researchers from the United States Army developed an algorithm that makes personal recommendations for timing your caffeine consumption, so you can drink the least amount of coffee to achieve the maximum level of alertness. They published their study in the May issue of the Journal of Sleep Research. The study found that the algorithm helped people improve
their alertness by up to 64 percent — without consuming any more caffeine
than normal. On the flip side, it found that with the right dosing schedule,
people could reduce their caffeine consumption by up to 65 percent and
still achieve peak alertness.
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12 Things Mentally Strong People Do That Nobody Else Does I’m not just talking about doing a crossword puzzle to combat dementia -- I’m talking about becoming mentally strong. When you do, you’ll be better equipped to regulate your thoughts, manage your emotions and boost your productivity. Here are 12 things mentally strong people do.
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Amish man starts "Uber" ride service with his horse and buggy Timothy Hochstedler calls it Amish Uber. He is adding some horsepower to ride sharing. The newest taxi service in Colon has four wheels, four legs and good gas mileage. Inside his horse and buggy, people share a ride and Hochstedler gets to share some stories. Everyone's happy. "Uber is a cool thing, every single year something
new comes in and Uber is hot right now, so we have the Amish Uber. We
can deliver people to their front door steps," Hochstedler said.
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Print-your-own gun debate ignores how the US government long provided and regulated firearms Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed and the creator of the first working plastic gun in 2013, argues it’s about every American’s right to bear arms. “I believe that I am championing the Second Amendment in the 21st century,” he told “CBS This Morning.” On the other side are the federal judge who is temporarily
blocking the release of the blueprints, the eight state attorneys general
who sued Wilson’s company from putting the designs online and gun control
advocates across the country who want the government to do more to regulate
firearms.
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The secret to that black ice cream you’ve seen everywhere Black ice cream is not a new phenomenon, having made a similar surge in popularity last summer. It’s generally an ice cream made with activated charcoal. While some may recognize that ingredient for its detox
abilities used in hospitals and emergency rooms, it’s not exactly the
health food that some places market it to be. Others might be familiar
with charcoal’s popularity in beauty products like face masks and toothpastes..
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Peeing in trash cans, constant surveillance, and asthma attacks on the job: Amazon workers tell us their warehouse horror stories "I never witnessed anyone in the act but have witnessed
the aftermath," the US staffer told Business Insider. "In three instances
I had noticed an awful smell, pinpointed the location — trash bins that
are scattered throughout the multitiered mezzanine — and reported it.
From what I heard afterward, camera evidence got these associates fired."
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Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom We don’t know much about them, but thanks to the archaeologist
hacking through the mire ahead of me, we know they were out here, subsisting
in hidden communities, and using almost nothing from the outside world
until the 19th century. The Dismal Swamp covered great tracts of southeast
Virginia and northeast North Carolina, and its vegetation was far too
thick for horses or canoes. In the early 1600s, Native Americans fleeing
the colonial frontier took refuge here, and they were soon joined by
fugitive slaves, and probably some whites escaping indentured servitude
or hiding from the law. From about 1680 to the Civil War, it appears
that the swamp communities were dominated by Africans and African-Americans.
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During Prohibition, Vintners Sold “Wine Bricks” Rather Than Wine The entire winemaking industry,
was, of course, threatened by Prohibition. But Teeter writes that rather
than risk tearing down their vineyards and face permanent ruin if the
law was eventually overturned, vintners decided to team up with bootleggers.
Rather than making the wine on the premeses, they created “wine bricks”
out of concentrated grape juice for home brewers (and bootleggers) to
dissolve and use in the privacy of their own homes.
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Australian birds have weaponized fire because what we really need now is something else to make us afraid Eussen, a veteran firefighter in the Northern Territory, set off after the new flames. He found them, put them out, then looked up into the sky. What he saw sounds now like something out of a fairy
tale or dark myth. A whistling kite, wings spread, held a burning twig
in its talons. It flew about 20 metres ahead of Eussen and dropped the
ember into the brittle grass.
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Israeli Scientists Decode One of Last Encrypted Dead Sea Scrolls Members of the Qumran sect, who referred to themselves as the Yahad (‘Together’) community, were a fanatical group that lived a hermitic life in the Judean Desert. They wrote numerous scrolls, including a small number written in cryptic script. The newly-deciphered Qumran scroll (dubbed 4Q324d) —
reconstructed from 60 tiny fragments, some smaller than one cm2 — contains
information about the most important dates in the sect’s 364-day calendar.
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Shark 'EATS' fisherman then spits out camera in HORROR GoPro clip But suddenly, the fisherman found himself surrounded by ravenous bull sharks instead. The sharks can grow up 11ft long and are blamed for the majority of near-shore shark attacks on humans. In the scary footage – filmed on Raymond’s GoPro at
the Swains Reef National Park off Queensland, Australia – one of the
massive bull sharks launches an attack. The shark swims towards the
camera, before opening its jaws and attempting to swallow it whole.
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Bitcoin: Seven questions you were too embarrassed to ask In recent months, the currency's astonishing gains—it was worth less than $1 in early 2011—and subsequent decline has caused a lot of people to wonder if they should be paying attention to the technology. While almost everyone has heard of bitcoin at this point, many people are fuzzy on the details: what is a bitcoin, exactly? How do I buy some? What would I use it for? We're here to help. Read on for a beginner's guide
to bitcoin. We'll explain what bitcoin is, how it works, and what ordinary
people should know about the technology.
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Cops bust Santa Claus after finding crack pipe next to costume A 66-year-old man who volunteers as Santa in New Jersey was caught with a crack pipe and other drug paraphernalia in his vehicle during a traffic stop, according to authorities. South Hackensack police officers also found empty bags of crack and heroin, along with a hypodermic needle, during a search of Charles Smith's vehicle on Monday. The crack pipe was found next to a Santa Claus costume. The "Bad Santa" does volunteer work for Toys for Tots.
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Sky Penis, the Gift That Keeps on Giving Celebrate Fall 2017's most viral military scandal with the EA-18G Growler Sky 'Art' Christmas Ornament, available for $8 from Planeform. Precisely laser cut using an Epilog CNC Laser, the ornament is roughly 4" across.
10 Secrets Traffic Cops Aren’t Telling You About Avoiding a Speeding Ticket That said, as a general matter you can probably drive
a few miles per hour above the speed limit without attracting the attention
of police officers, according to every police officer we spoke to—including
retired Police Captain Michael Palardy (Millburn, NJ). If the only thing
you’re doing wrong is driving a few miles per hour over the speed limit,
says Harold Hilliard, retired Plano, Texas police officer, you’ll probably
be fine.
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Mysterious Skeletons Bearing Horrific Injuries Show Early Ritual Violence in the Andes According to an article published in the journal Plos One, archaeologists examined the remains of 104 individuals from a site called Pacopampa, a place home to “impressively large, ceremonial architecture,” that may have played host to “a complex society founded on ritual activity.” Seven of the people showed signs of trauma; and while
those buried at Pacopampa were from both elite and commoner classes,
all those with evidence of trauma were probably from lower castes.
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10 Crazy Facts About Living At The South Pole But that is exactly what a handful of humans do each and every summer (when it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere) at the Geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the coldest and driest place on the globe, and our southern pole is one of the most isolated places. Those who live at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
for the winter are assured a season full of adventure, isolation, and
a one of a kind experience that has been afforded to only a handful
of people. Living at the South Pole, while difficult, presents some
of the world’s most interesting domicile oddities.
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To Open or Not to Open The 1,650-Year-Old Speyer Wine Bottle Even though the oldest evidence of wine production was found in Armenia around 4100 BC, it would be safe to say that Western tradition of producing and drinking wine most likely started in the territory of Classical Greece, when people drank it during breakfast. A person who didn't drink wine in ancient Greece was considered a barbarian and the Greeks worshiped Dionysus as the God of wine and partying. It’s no secret that the older a bottle of wine is, the better its contents will taste. In this case, however, the Speyer Bottle is so old that many experts doubt if its wine is drinkable. Widely considered as the oldest known liquid wine recovered from any archaeological site, the bottle has been dated between 325 and 350 AD. Although it was analyzed by a chemist during the First
World War, the bottle was never opened. A splash of olive oil and a
seal of hot wax has kept the white wine liquid down in the 1,650 years
since it was made. The wine bottle has been on display at the Pfalz
Historical Museum for more than a century and though it is a curious
artifact no research team dares to open it.
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What Happens to Wolves When They're Raised Like Dogs? New research published today in Royal Society Open
Science shows that wolf puppies, when raised by humans, display signs
of both attachment and affection towards their owners, and that these
feelings last into adulthood. The study also shows that extensively
socialized wolves are relatively comfortable around human strangers,
though they sometimes exhibit a bit of fear. These findings hint at
behaviors that may have led their four-legged ancestors to seek out
and find comfort among humans, leading to the emergence of those super-cuddly,
face-licking furballs known as dogs.
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Fidelity to allow clients to see digital currencies on website A Fidelity spokesman said the new initiative may be launched in the second or third quarter this year. The company is testing the Coinbase
holdings integration with its employees, Johnson said. "I love this
stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future
holds," Johnson said at a blockchain conference called Consensus in
New York City. Blockchain, a shared online ledger of transactions which
first emerged as bitcoin's underlying technology, has been attracting
growing investments by established financial institutions which hope
it can help them save money and time. Ethereum, a type of blockchain
technology which can be used to build more complex applications, has
also garnered interest from mainstream corporations.
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Holy guacamole, that’s got to hurt! Surgeons say growing numbers of amateur chefs are reporting to accident and emergency departments with what they are calling “avocado hand”; serious stab and slash injuries that are the result of failed attempts to penetrate the fruit’s hard outer casing with a sharp knife before encountering a resistant inner stone. The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and
Aesthetic Surgeons is calling for safety labels on the fruit to staunch
the flow of injured patients to hospitals. Many cases involve serious
nerve and tendon injuries, requiring intricate surgery — and even then
some patients never recover the full use of the hand.
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How Not to Be Offended In order to truly be a master of this art, one must be able to see that every statement, action and reaction of another human being is the sum result of their total life experience to date. In other words, the majority of people in our world
say and do what they do from their own set of fears, conclusions, defenses
and attempts to survive. Most of it, even when
aimed directly at us, has nothing to do with us. Usually, it has more
to do with all the other times, and in particular the first few times,
that this person experienced a similar situation, usually when they
were young.
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These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned. A group of reporters and editors from the student newspaper, the Booster Redux at Pittsburg High School in southeastern Kansas, had gathered to talk about Amy Robertson, who was hired as the high school’s head principal on March 6. The student journalists had begun researching Robertson, and quickly found some discrepancies in her education credentials. For one, when they researched Corllins University,
the private university where Robertson said she got her master’s and
doctorate degrees years ago, the website didn’t work. They found no
evidence that it was an accredited university.
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World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of sea people In fact, the epic conflict may have been a final act in what one archaeologist has dubbed “world war zero” – an event he claims brought the eastern Mediterranean world to its knees 3200 years ago. And the catalyst? The Luwians – a mysterious and arguably powerful civilisation overlooked by archaeologists. So says Eberhard Zangger, head of the non-profit foundation, Luwian Studies, in Zurich, Switzerland. The story goes like this. By the second millennium
BC, civilisation had taken hold in the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptian
New Kingdom coexisted with the Hittites of central Anatolia and the
Mycenaeans of Greece. Then in little more than a generation, all of
them had collapsed. Was the culprit climate change? Earthquakes? Social
unrest? Experts can’t agree.
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Halve Maan Brewery Beer Pipeline Running underneath the city streets, the tube transports 1,000 gallons of beer per hour—the equivalent of 12,000 bottles—from one of the country’s oldest still-operational breweries, Halve Maan (“half moon”), to its bottling plant two miles away. Brouwerij De Halve Maan opened in Bruges in 1856. A century and a half later, in 2016, a crowdsourcing
campaign was launched to raise funds for the beer pipeline. The 500+
donors received a priceless thank you gift: free beer for life. Today,
visitors can glimpse a section of the pipeline through a transparent
manhole cover cut into the cobblestone street.
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Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic? Anakin's turn to the dark side begins in Episode II with the death of his mother, but it's really the events of Episode III that are instrumental in changing him. And if you think about it, the trigger for his metamorphosis is extremely weird. Anakin Skywalker allies himself with Palpatine in hopes that he can use the dark side of the Force to save Padme Amidala from death in childbirth. Shortly after Padme announces to him that she's pregnant,
Anakin has a dream that she dies while giving birth. The dream feels
similar the same one he had about his mother before she died. "It's
just a dream, honey," Padme tells him the next morning. "Yeah, okay,"
he replies, but the man never regains his chill.
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The Mating Song Of The Last Kauai 'O'o Bird On Earth Is Haunting While it's a far-fetched idea, that was the thought going through the heads of researchers in 1987 as they recorded the last male Kauai 'O'o bird singing on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The small bird had been pushed to extinction by the introduction of non-native species. By 1987, there was only one left — a single male. In
the video below, you can hear the last mating song of the Kauai 'O'o
bird as he calls out to a mate that would never answer.
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14 Amazing Psychology Facts You Should Keep to Yourself! A new study held at the University of Groningen has shown that music has a dramatic effect on perception. The study focused especially on the ability of people to “see” happy faces and sad faces when different music tracks were listened to. Listening to particularly happy or sad music can even change the way we perceive the world. Happiness has become an increasingly popular field
focused on the scientific study of emotional well-being. Research has
suggested that people often sacrifice things that make them happy such
as vacations or going out to certain events, in order to afford possessions
(such as property).
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'Bad Santa' arrested in Jacksonville for allegedly selling drugs Isaac Geiger, 41, was arrested Monday for possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell, possession of marijuana with intent to sell and resisting an officer without violence, according to JSO Inmate Information Search. JSO was called to the 800 block of Golfair Boulevard after getting numerous recent complaints of drug activity. Police saw Geiger standing at the driver’s door of
a U-Haul rental truck in the parking lot of the business. Geiger was
wearing a red and white Santa Claus outfit with hat and white beard.
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Hark the Hipster Nativity Set! No matter. They do in a Hipster Nativity Set that puts the momentous occasion in today’s terms. “What if Jesus was born in 2016?,” a teaser video for the set asks. Which explains Joseph’s denim shirt and man bun, Mary’s coffee to go, gluten-free chow for adorable livestock and a planet-friendly solar panel on the humble stable’s roof. The Messiah’s in the details. And in this tableau, Three Wisemen,
each 7 inches tall, arrive on segways with Amazon Prime gift boxes slung
under their beefy arms.
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Riding through the wild heart of Alaska and Canada Progressive’s Director of Distribution for Special Lines Chuck Mozingo just happens to be one of these adventurous people. And the 4,400-mile journey he embarked on with his 14-year-old son from Anchorage, Alaska, to Cleveland proved to be as rewarding as it was challenging. Chuck’s adventure began with a simple phone call from a friend in Anchorage who’d recently completed a motorcycle trip to the states bordering Canada. “I mentioned how I’d love to buy a motorcycle just to drive it home to Cleveland. And the more we talked, the better it sounded. So my friend said he’d keep his eye out for any bikes for sale. “ It seemed like that was that.”
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Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can Do in a Rigged Political System Every four years when the big election comes around, millions of people put their passion for creating a better world into an increasingly corrupt and absurd political contest. What if that energy was instead invested in something worthwhile, something that directly and immediately improved life, community, and the world at large? The simple act of growing our own food directly challenges
the control matrix in many authentic ways, which is why some of the
most forward-thinking and strongest-willed people are picking up shovels
and defiantly starting gardens. It has become much more of a meaningful
political statement than supporting political parties and candidates.
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Coming soon: Sweden’s smelly fermented fish The preparatory work for the 2016 surströmming season is now underway, with the fish currently being plucked out of the Baltic Sea before they are stored away for months to stew in their own bacteria, ripening for fermented food lovers everywhere. Its rotten egg-like smell has been mistaken for a gas leak. One 25-year-old tin required protective gear to open. And Americans tasting the foodstuff for the first time likened it it to “sewage”, a “baby diaper” or a “dead body”. Yet many Swedes continue to eat surströmming, a centuries-old
tradition that stems from the time when Swedish workers were paid for
their labour in herring. The fermentation process, smelly as it is,
allowed the labourers to store their fish for longer.
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Otherworldly Photos From Inside One of the World's Largest River Caves For photographer Ryan Deboodt, Tham Khoun Xe's inaccessibility offered a tantalizing challenge. Deboodt has spent a good portion of the last five years underground documenting caves, which are among the world’s least-documented geological formations. Some speleologists estimate that at least half of the world's caves have never been visited by humans. At first, Deboodt didn't plan on devoting his career
to photographing caves: He just wanted to explore them. The Bejing-based
photographer first began documenting his otherworldly subjects in 2011,
when his wife’s job took the couple to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Their
move coincided with a deluge of caving discoveries in the region—most
notably the exploration of Hang Son Ðoòng, the world’s largest cave
passage. After coming face to face with some of these spectacular formations,
Deboodt felt compelled to share these hidden landscapes with the world.
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Why smart people are better off with fewer friends That's the implication of fascinating new research published last month in the British Journal of Psychology. Evolutionary psychologists Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Norman Li of Singapore Management University dig in to the question of what makes a life well-lived. While traditionally the domain of priests, philosophers and novelists, in recent years survey researchers, economists, biologists and scientists have been tackling that question. Kanazawa and Li theorize that the hunter-gatherer lifestyles
of our ancient ancestors form the foundation for what make us happy
now. "Situations and circumstances that would have increased our ancestors’
life satisfaction in the ancestral environment may still increase our
life satisfaction today," they write.
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The Very Strange History of the Easter Bunny Leviticus 11:6 states that the hare is an unclean animal: “The hare, for even though it chews the cud, it does not have divided hoofs; it is unclean for you"”, but in Christian art, it is regularly associated with rebirth and resurrection. In fact, the symbol of a circle of three hares joined
by their ears has been found in a number of churches in Devon. Like
much of our cultural “bunny” symbolism, the meaning of this image remains
mysterious – and The Three Hares Project has been set up to research
and document occurrences of the ancient symbol, examples of which have
been found as far away as China.
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Why we get naked at Mardi Gras: simple economics, says LSU prof "It's a deeply conservative ritual that reflects free market economics," Shrum said. Ok, let's back up for a moment. At first, the way you got beads was from a float. Fake royalty threw beads to plebeians below. "You don't have to be a very insightful sociologist
to say, I wonder what people dressed like nobles and people on the streets
represent," Shrum said. "That represents an upper class and a lower
class."
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Did Vikings love to wear BLING? Iron Age settlement reveals feared warriors had a soft spot for delicate glass and amber beads Archaeologists have discovered delicate blue glass and amber beads at the site of a former Viking settlement in the middle of Norway's Ørland peninsula. The Iron Age site reveals how the Vikings who lived there appear to have traded their wealth for trinkets and pieces of fine jewellery. The 1,500-year-old village was unearthed as experts
investigated the site ahead of plans to extend a military airbase on
the site. The airbase is being designed to accommodate a fleet of 52
new F-35 jet fighters. Covering an area of more
than 22 acres (9 hectares), the site contains a treasure trove of Viking
artefacts, according to the archaeologists.
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Zombie nativity creates stir in Sycamore Township ”I wanted a zombie scene actually, a manger scene,” Dixon said. “All I had to work with since I work at 13 Room Haunted House is zombies. It’s a different take. I hand made everything, but Joseph and baby Jesus, so it’s kind of artsy.” Dixon’s homespun creation stands about 8 feet tall
with a roof, hay, and lights, all atop wooden skids. Reaction to the
display, located on Vorhees Road no less, has drawn some ire, and some
shrugs.
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The Stunning Evolution of Millennials: They've Become the Ben Franklin Generation That's on top of $35 million that venture firms plowed into the company earlier this year. Every sweeping cliché about Millennials - that they are addicted to the itch and twitch of immediate gratification, that they are not interested in participating in the casino stock market - is being sent to the generalization graveyard. Not just because of the success of Wealthfront - who has crossed $1 billion in assets under management - but also the growth of Betterment, LoanVest and others who have a hungering eye on the $7 trillion in liquid assets that Millennials will have in their generational clutches within the next five years. What's particularly revelatory about the success of
Wealthfront - they reached one billion in two-and half years, while
it took Chuck Schwab six years to get there - is its canny use of technology
and whizzy algorithms, the deities of the Millennial, in the service
of a rather boring, long-term, Ben Frankliny investment conservatism.
This is more often associated with people who need hip replacements
than hipsterst.
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Automatically organic: Bringing customers not to future, but to farms via self-serve stores A precursor to the era of fast food, automat eateries served hundreds of thousands of customers a day throughout the mid-20th century, allowing on-the-go diners to pick hot dishes from coin-operated metal lockers. Today, entrepreneurs in France and Scotland are appropriating the concept that once symbolized modernity to help customers get back to the land. Their automats offer not burgers and fries, but fresh and local produce and other ingredients. Joseph Petit employs no staff at his two Paris stores. Both called Au Bout du Champ — "at the end of the field" — the small spaces are stacked with metal cubbies containing just-picked strawberries, hours-old eggs, and neat bunches of carrots or spring onions, depending on the season. Customers simply choose the box that contains the food they want to buy, then pay at a console which then opens the appropriate door. It's a system, Petit said, that brings fresh food to
urban areas where few other options exist, while also supporting local,
small-scale agriculture.
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Back to the Future Day: the movie’s 2015 predictions and the hoax, explained More importantly, Back to the Future II speculated on what 2015 was going to look like, and there is nothing fandom loves more than picking apart the object of its affection for sport. Most movies set in the future jump far enough ahead
to be completely removed from modern society, or at least don't peg
a specific date to the action at hand (see: The Martian, Her). But Back
to the Future Part II had to be close enough to 1985 that Marty (Michael
J. Fox) could collide with his future self. The first film leapt 30
years into the past, so it only made sense to leap 30 years into the
future in the second.
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Amazon is Great Place to Work (As Long as You Have No Personal Life, Never Get Sick) Amazon does not hide the fact that its workplace culture
isn’t for everybody. In fact, it says it outright in one of its recruitment
videos. “You either fit here or you don’t,” says Nimisha Saboo, a senior
technical program manager, in one of the videos posted on YouTube. Amazon’s
top recruiter says so as much to the Times: “When you’re shooting for
the moon, the nature of the work is really challenging. For some people
it doesn’t work.”
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Murder, Transsexuals, And The Price Is Right: The Story Of The Dale Car Hoax The Dale story starts in the Deep Malaise Era of the mid 1970s. Gas was starting to get really expensive, and all over America people were looking at their massive, thirsty V8s and starting to wonder if lumbering around town in a Delta 88 was really worth being forced to put a kidney on the market to pay for the gas. People were getting desperate for a new, cheaper, more radical automotive option, and the Dale seemed to fit that need perfectly. The Dale does look pretty much exactly like what you'd
think a mid-70s "revolutionary" car would look like: a Corbin Sparrow,
basically. It was a three-wheeler, because of course it was, but at
least the wheels were in the preferred "tail dragger" configuration
with two up front.
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There are hundreds of 'micronations' you've never heard of If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of this large assembly until now it’s because the countries represented aren't technically real. It’s a meeting of “micronations” — countries that exist almost entirely online, or are comprised of one person — called MicroCon 2015. There are approximately 400 of them out there, according to some reports. So what do micronations actually
look like? Depends on the theoretical nation. The Principality of Sealand,
the most famous example of a micronation, located on a sea fort off
the shores of the United Kingdom, invites one to become a Lord, Lady,
or Baroness on its official website.
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7 countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free) The country's universities have been tuition-free since the beginning of October, when Lower Saxony became the last state to scrap the fees. Tuition rates were always low in Germany, but now the German government fully funds the education of its citizens -- and even of foreigners. Explaining the change, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, a senator in the northern city of Hamburg, said tuition fees "discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany." What might interest potential
university students in the United States is that Germany offers some
programs in English -- and it's not the only country. Let's take a look
at the surprising -- and very cheap -- alternatives to pricey American
college degrees.
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Lost Lake drains: Mount Hood phenomenon, lake drains down lava tube each spring This Mount Hood lake does something amazing each spring and while Old Faithful makes a spurting deposit of water, Lost Lake makes a swirling withdrawal of its water. Each spring this lake in Oregon swiftly drains down a lava hole which is about six-feet in circumference, but unlike Old Faithful, scientists aren’t sure where the water goes! Jude McHugh, a spokesperson for the Willamette National Forest, explains that the hole the water drains into is called a lava tube. According to Laboratory Equipment.com,
this six foot round hole is on the north side of the lake. It has been
there ever since anyone can remember, reports the local news. The lava
tube is "caused by still-wet lava flowing downward into the earth, leaving
an opening in the ground as it hardens."
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Exploding Head Syndrome: The Weird Sleep Phenomenon That’s Way More Common Than You Thought Exploding head syndrome generally happens when a person is falling asleep, and scientists believe it’s the result of a kink in the brain’s mechanisms as it’s turning off. You can think of the brain shutting down like a computer would: Motor, auditory, and visual neurons begin to flick off in stages. However, the “exploding head” phenomenon occurs when,
instead of shutting down gradually and slowly, the auditory neurons
crash all at once — and with a bang. “That’s why you get these crazy-loud
noises that you can’t explain, and they’re not actual noises in your
environment,” says researcher Brian Sharpless, an assistant professor
at Washington State University and the director of the university’s
psychology clinic, in a press release.
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Why many restaurants don’t actually want you to order dessert Dessert can be delicious. And it can be profitable, too. But generally speaking, when diners extend their meal with slices of chocolate cake, cups of ice cream, and servings of crème brûlée, it can come at restaurants' expense. "It's hard to make money on desserts in the restaurant
business today," said Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George
Mason University who has written extensively about the economics of
eating out. "I don't think many [restaurants] benefit when people order
them anymore." There are many problems with dessert, but it all starts
with one pretty simple truth: The restaurant industry is a place of
razor thin margins, and dessert tends to offer one of the thinnest.
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Ghost Town Mysteries: The 30-year slumber of Kitsault, B.C. The ghost town built for it isn’t. Last month, Avanti Mining received federal and provincial clearance to begin work reopening the molybdenum mine, 140 kilometres north of Prince Rupert. Avanti CEO Gordon Bogden says that workshops are scheduled in Terrace, New Aiyansh, and other communities as they prepare to begin construction next year. They plan to employ up to 700 people during the two years of construction and 300 permanent workers when the mine opens in 2017. At its height, the mine could produce 45,500 metric
tonnes of ore per day. “It’s moving in the right direction,” says Bogden,
who says they’ve signed agreements with the First Nations groups in
the area.
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What French Kids Eat For School Lunch (It Puts Americans To Shame!) I was standing inside my children’s public elementary school cafeteria, or “cantine” as the French call it, in our local town near Annecy, France. As part of my research into why French kids aren’t fat, the local city council gave me a tour of the public school’s cantine and kitchen and let me ask any question that came to mind. There are many theories as to why the French, and French
children in particular, do not suffer from weight problems, obesity,
diabetes, and hypertension like their American counterparts. Eating
moderate quantities of fresh and freshly prepared food at set times
of the day is definitely one of the most convincing reasons why they
stay lean. Daily exercise, in the form of three recess periods (two
15-minute and one 60-minute recess every day) and walking or biking
to and from school, is another.
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8 Ways Facebook Is a Cult Just Like Scientology Think of the cult similarities between Facebook and Scientology: Both have a strong, authoritative leader (Zuckerberg/L. Ron Hubbard) who came to power via questionable means (See The Social Network/The Master for reference). And both Facebook and Scientology have Tom Cruise as a member—coincidence, or something more? Like all cults, Facebook and Scientology have diabolical
means of controlling their members. Facebook updated its Terms of Use
this past month, in an attempt to clarify its privacy policies. But
the pages of information and infographics just serve as a reminder that
the social media company basically owns us, and has access to all our
most personal information.
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Georgia gun range to feature firearms photo shoot with Santa A Georgia gun range is getting fired up for Christmas while offering photos with a gun-toting Santa Claus. Gun lovers of all ages will be able to sit with a heat-packing St. Nick or hold their own firearm supplied by the Sandy Springs Gun Club and Range as part of a charity event Saturday. "Any time we have an opportunity to do something fun with our patrons and give back to the community ... any time we can combine the two, we get really excited," the range's co-owner Robyn Marzullo told the Daily News. The variety of firearms supplied by the range, located just north of Atlanta, are all inspected, unloaded and deactivated for safety precautions. Personal firearms brought from home won't be allowed in the picture, stressed Marzullo, who operates the range with her sister. Among the options for weapons are an AK-47, AR-15 or
FN-SCAR-17.
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How Your Education Failed You You are conditioned for over a decade to have behaviors within a certain range, and you learn preselected information using ubiquitous techniques. This is all done to make you a productive wage slave in our capitalist economy. Unfortunately, if you do not deviate from this path and change your mindset at some point, then you will end up as a wage slave. And this is exactly what they want. You were psychologically and physically conditioned
with this system, but this conditioning can be overcome. View the system
objectively for what it is.
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7 U.S. National Parks You Didn't Know You Needed To See These lesser-known National Parks are less popular than their famed counterparts, but they're just as beautiful. Whether you want to explore ocean, mountains, caverns or forest, these parks offer an adventure for everyone. Lake Clark National Park sits 100 miles southwest of Anchorage and is a nature-enthusiast's heaven. Visitors can explore the park's three mountain ranges, two active volcanos, and many lakes and streams on foot, raft or kayak. In the winter, stargazers can catch a breathtaking view of the Northern Lights. Undersea explorers should flock to Biscayne National
Park, where 95 percent of the park's 172,000 acres are covered by water.
Visitors can snorkel, scuba dive, go canoeing or kayaking, camp on Boca
Chita Key, and view some seriously cool wildlife, like manatees and
crocodiles. One of the park's coolest features is the Maritime Heritage
Trail, a ranger-guided snorkel tour that visits sunken shipwrecks.
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How to Invent a Person Online I know that because I created him. As an artist, I’ve long been interested in identity
and the ways it is represented. My first serious body of work, Springfield,
used the concept of a Midwestern nowhere to explore representations
of middle-American sprawl. A few years later, I became interested in
the hundreds of different entities that track and analyze our behavior
online—piecing together where we’re from, who we’re friends with, how
much money we make, what we like and dislike. Social networks and data
brokers use algorithms and probabilities to reconstruct our identities,
and then try to influence the way we think and feel and make decisions.
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The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from The definitive expletive of the 18th century was bloody,
which is still in frequent use in Britain today, and is so common Down
Under that it is known as “the great Australian adjective.” Bloody was
not quite an obscenity and not quite an oath, but it was definitely
a bad word that shocked and offended the ears of polite society. It
is often supposed to be a corruption of the old oaths by our lady or
God’s blood (minced form: ’sblood), but this is another urban legend
that turns out to be false. Either it derives instead from the adjective
bloody as in “covered in blood” or, as the OED proposes, it referred
to the habits of aristocratic rabble-rousers at the end of the 17th
century, who styled themselves “bloods.” “Bloody drunk,” then, would
mean “as drunk as a blood.”
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Why do so many nations want a piece of Antarctica? Then there is a flash in the shallows by my feet - an arrow of white and black. What on earth fish is that? My slow brain ponders, as before my eyes a gentoo penguin slips out of the water, steadies itself on a rock, eyes me cheekily, squawks and patters off into the snow. Antarctica is the hardest place I know to write about. Whenever you try to pin down the experience of being there, words dissolve under your fingers. There are no points of reference. In the most literal sense, Antarctica is inhuman. Other deserts, from Arabia to Arizona, are peopled:
humans live in or around them, find sustenance in them, shape them with
their imagination and their ingenuity. No people shape Antarctica.
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Hershey Sues Edible Marijuana Company The trademark infringement lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver this week against TinctureBelle LLC and TinctureBelle Marijuanka LLC. It alleges TinctureBelle's Ganja Joy, Hasheath, Hashees and Dabby Patty mimic Hershey's Almond Joy, Heath, Reese's peanut butter cups and York peppermint patty candies, respectively. TinctureBelle did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The Denver Business Journal first reported about the
lawsuit filed Tuesday. The company's website says its products, which
include lotions and balms, are "diabetic safe and delicious" and helpful
with a variety of issues, including pain, headaches and insomnia.
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Meet The Real Amazon Drones That is, until he starts tallying up all his out-of-pocket costs. Ballard works for an Amazon contractor called LaserShip. He's technically an "independent contractor," not an employee, meaning all of the costs stemming from the deliveries fall on him rather than on LaserShip or Amazon. Ballard had to purchase the cargo van he drives for work. He doesn't get reimbursed for the wear and tear he puts on it; for the gasoline he pours into it on a near-daily basis; for the auto insurance he needs to carry; or for the parking tickets he inevitably racks up downtown. He doesn't even get reimbursed for the LaserShip uniform he's obliged to purchase and wear. At the end of the day, much of that $225 has vanished. "It's like they want us to be employees, but they don't want to pay for it," said Ballard, 45. Anyone who shops regularly online, particularly with
Amazon, has to marvel at how quickly and cheaply packages arrive on
the doorstep these days. Many of the millions of Amazon Prime members
-- including this reporter -- may have noticed, however, that not all
packages are ferried by workers wearing the familiar UPS, FedEx or U.S.
Postal Service uniforms. Instead, they’re sometimes handled by smaller
companies like LaserShip, with drivers working on contract and out of
their own vehicles.
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No War, No Money, No Problems. The Island At The End Of The Earth, Where Life Is Good Nine days of constant movement. Nine days in a boat, unable to stand. Nine days with the fear of being hit by a tropical storm, thousands of miles from rescue. The Pacific Ocean is big. Far bigger than one would imagine. This is the journey to the island at the end of the earth.. Part of the Cook Islands, Palmerston is one of a handful
of islands connected by a coral reef which surrounds the calm waters
of a central lagoon. But within this entire area the reef sits too high
in the water for sea planes to land – and outside it the ocean is simply
too rough. It is also too far from anywhere for a normal helicopter
to fly to. The sea is the only access.
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