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Meanwhile, Freeform’s “Good Trouble,” Pop’s “Schitt’s Creek,” and SyFy’s “Deadly Class” all grew from their initial 0.1 L+SD ratings to matching 0.3s (+200%), tying for the week’s biggest percentage gain in the demo.
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Here are the top cable shows in the Live +7 rankings for March 4-10, 2019. Rankings include original programs only, not repeats.
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Note: 32 shows tied for 25th place with 100% gains.
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Stepping up to the next-generation Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles to play Battlefield 4 could be lonely, if your friends don't upgrade as well.
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"No one gets left behind," goes the Battlefield 4 trailer. But if you're one of those making the move to play Battlefield 4 on the PlayStation 4 when it comes out this week or the Xbox One next week, your friends aren't coming with you. Not unless they buy new consoles as well.
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Battlefield has an upgrade offer with several merchants, so that you can trade in your PS3 or Xbox 360 Battlefield 4 discs and get, for a low price, versions of Battlefield 4 to play on the PS4 or Xbox One.
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PS3 to PS4 migration works the same way as it does for Xbox 360 to Xbox One.
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Why does this matter? For some, it might not. If you enjoy multiplayer gaming with whatever random people you encounter during a match, you're fine. But if you have friends you routinely play with, they also have to upgrade. People who stay on the Xbox 360 or the PS3 can't play against those on the Xbox One or the PS4. And people who have migrated to the Xbox One or the PS4 can't go back to using the older consoles, even if they keep those consoles and the game discs, in order to stay connected with their friends.
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Postscript: Ryan Schubert of our GameSpot sister site tells me that Battlefield customer service has told him that if you migrate, your stats on the old platform are "frozen," though you can still play through your acccount there. In other words, you can play with your friends who haven't upgraded, but none of your achievements will log to your profile.
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I can't speak about other multiplayer games that are out there, but the issue is likely the same. If you move to a next-generation console, chances are you won't be able to play against existing friends unless they also migrate. And the idea of keeping both consoles in order to play against the "left behinds" might not work.
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So, think carefully. If you've invested in that shiny, new console (as I have, for the Xbox One), playing Battlefield 4 on it or another multiplayer game may come with an extra price -- the price of losing some of your friends, if they don't take the plunge as well.
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The exhibition at Colombia’s National Museum in Bogota, “Leo Matiz, a look at the infinite”, gives an insight into the remarkable life and work of a great figure in the history of Colombian photography.
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Matiz, born in the same town as legendary Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was an actor, editor and a painter, but it was his photography that earned him a reputation as one of Latin America’s most original and innovative artists.
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Matiz was one of the first photographers of his time to travel outside of his home country, turning his lens on a variety of subjects ranging from intimate shots of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s wedding day to the 1948 ‘Bogotazo’ riots in the Colombian capital.
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In 1978 a street altercation left Matiz with limited vison in his left (camera) eye, forcing him drastically to change the focus of his photographical work. Matiz reinvented his style, developing a particular emphasis on light which earned him the moniker of ‘guardian of the shadows’.
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The exhibition contains 128 black and white photographs along with over a dozen unedited examples of his work and will be separated into five different thematic studies named Water, Earth, City, Entertainment and Post Modern.
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Throughout his career, Matiz photographed many people of global significance, including María Félix, Luis Buñuel, Marc Chagall, Louis Armstrong, Álvaro Mutis, Pablo Neruda, Walt Disney, Enrique Santos Montejo “Calibán” y Lucho Bermúdez.
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The exhibition is open to the public until May 19. Click here to see a few examples of Matiz’s work.
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Jerry was born in Whittier, California on July 28, 1933. He attended Whittier High School and graduated from Whittier College in 1955 with a degree in Education. Later he received a Master’s Degree from Chapman College. He was a teacher and administrator in Southern California and later a businessman in Arizona and at Lake Tahoe, now retired.
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He and his wife moved to Carnelian Bay in 1995. He was always active in the communities where he lived, being a Past-President of a Kiwanis Club and a Past President of the Tahoe City Rotary Club. He was a member of the Village Church in Incline Village, Nevada.
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In addition to his wife Cecilia (Muffy) he was survived by his children Nancy Gamble, Bradley Betker, Bryan Betker and Amy Blackburn and grand-children Chelsea and Christie Betker.
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Jerry passed away on November 27th in Tucson, Arizona. A Celebration of Life will be held in the Spring at Lake Tahoe.
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The SeaWolves' cooperative venture might be a glimpse of more Vermont schools combining to keep their high school football programs alive.
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It was a red zone play they ran maybe a handful of times in practice this summer.
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Chance O'Connor lined up in the slot and took off for a wheel route, slipping past two Essex defenders on his way to the end zone.
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As O'Connor shook free, quarterback Duncan Macdonald pump-faked to bait the defense and then flung a pass inside the left pylon for only his receiver to go up and grab, a toe-tapping 11-yard scoring strike on fourth down.
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And there it was, history made. The first touchdown of the SeaWolves cooperative football team was a connection between a Burlington player, Macdonald, and one from South Burlington, O'Connor.
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"That’s awesome, but I didn’t really think about it that way, because I don’t feel that way at all," SeaWolves coach Joe McDonald said. "There is no division whatsoever. They really are one team."
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That TD hook-up was symbolic, but more of a footnote in the 21-0 debut win for the combined program of Burlington and South Burlington, a co-op that administrators said had to happen in order to save football at both high schools.
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"It’s kind of cheesy, but we are playing to keep football alive in our towns. It’s dying out," Burlington senior Manny Dodson said. "We are playing to keep football going and keep kids able to play. If this works out, it will be something people would want to be a part of. If this fails, then I don’t know."
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The joint venture between Burlington and South Burlington is not the first football co-op the Vermont Principals' Association, the state's governing body of athletics, has approved over the years.
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Mount Abraham and Vergennes are closing in on a decade as a combined program, and U-32 and Harwood have a long-standing agreement. BFA-Fairfax and Lamoille are in the early years of their co-op and Mount St. Joseph and Poultney just split off after a two-year run.
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But the BHS-SB co-op is the first among Division I football schools in Vermont.
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Citing low participation numbers and an anticipated downward trend for the future, the schools decided to become proactive and find a potential solution for both communities. In February, the VPA approved the co-op for the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
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Including five Winooski players, the SeaWolves have 57 players in the program, according to South Burlington athletic director Mike Jabour — 35 from South Burlington; 17 from Burlington. Of that count, the team carries close to 25 on varsity.
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"Three schools combining here and 2,000 kids to pick from, and we still barely get over 50," SeaWolves associate head coach Brennan Carney said. "It’s not a facilities issue. It’s not a uniforms issue. It’s not an equipment issue. It’s not a coaching experience issue."
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It is a number of issues.
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A wide range of factors — not unlike what many schools in Vermont face with their football programs, detailed in earlier Free Press stories for this series — have contributed to the current climate at BHS and South Burlington.
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"It’s not a good thing, but it’s a not a negative that we are here together, it’s a positive because we get to have a football season," Carney said.
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McDonald, in his 27th season as head coach, said he was on board with the merger from the get-go.
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"I knew something had to happen. Honestly, Burlington couldn’t have survived this year, they didn’t have the numbers to do it," McDonald said. "We would have been at the bare minimum and it would have been hard for us to have a program. We would’ve had to have younger, JV players playing (varsity) and they wouldn’t have been ready. It’s just not fair to them — it’s dangerous."
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The co-op of two of the state's biggest schools didn't quite sit well with longtime Colchester coach Tom Perry, a former assistant under McDonald.
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"I can’t imagine the first thought in their heads was, 'Let's combine our two programs so we can have a team.' It was a last resort of, 'I’m going to play a Division I school with 22 kids or less?'" said Perry, battling his own low numbers. "But as the person who says I think they should have suffered through another year, I know why they didn’t. I get it."
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Essex coach Drew Gordon, a South Burlington resident, fears the co-op might lead to a new era of Vermont high school football — blurred town lines and all.
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"I completely understand the reasoning behind them needing the merger, or feeling they needed to merge," Gordon said. "My perspective is, it’s the beginning of the end of what we have known as Vermont football.
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"I could see several pairs of schools merging in the next few years, and it could rattle the shape of Vermont football. Maybe instead of four or three divisions, you have two divisions and you compete almost like on a county-wide level."
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McDonald and South Burlington principal Patrick Burke agree more programs could join forces in the coming years.
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"I think it’s the wave of the future. Where and how it will happen? I couldn’t predict that," McDonald said. "But you have to do it regionally; teams can't be too far away."
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Burke said: "I think that’s exactly where it’s headed. I see more co-ops happening and I think it’s fine."
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Perry, a leader in the movement to help solve the state's football numbers problem, doesn't want it to reach that point.
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"I don’t want to be the Colchester YellowLakers," said Perry, speaking of a hypothetical Colchester-Milton co-op. "I don’t want to combine with somebody else just to keep playing football. I will, but I don’t want to."
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South Burlington junior Michael Bergeron, a three-year varsity player, had his doubts when the co-op was announced.
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"It’s gone much better than I’ve expected," Bergeron said. "I thought there might have been some tension at first, but when we had our summer workouts, we bonded and stuff and we hang out with each other. It’s been a fun experience."
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Macdonald, the quarterback from Burlington, wasn't worried about how players from nearby schools would mesh. He's just glad he hasn't missed out on the Friday night atmosphere like the one at Munson Field in the opener.
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"The student sections were combined, it was a crazy game and there were so many people there," Macdonald said. "Looking back on it, if we hadn’t combined, the team probably wouldn’t have happened.
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"I’m pretty happy we did, because it does let me get a senior year."
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Coaxing Carney, the former BHS coach who stepped down over the winter, to join the coaching staff was vital to the transition for Burlington players.
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"It was not fair for the BHS kids, the small number that we had, to come into a new season with two new coaches, one that represents them who they don’t know and a new coach that now represents the entire co-op," Carney said. "This is who we are now. It’s not really you’re a SB kid or you’re a BHS kid. It’s more like you’re one team now."
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Burke said the co-op appears to have sparked newfound interest within his school.
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"I didn’t see that coming, I didn’t see the kind of energy that there is around our student-athletes," Burke said.
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Attending a high school basketball tournament game at Patrick Gym this winter, Dodson heard from a group of fans poking fun of the BHS-SB co-op.
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"If we do well, people are going to say it’s because we combined with SB," Dodson said. "I just want to win some games. It is a lose-lose, but if we win I really won’t listen to the naysayers. If we win, it’s because we play well."
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Macdonald said the team's leaders wouldn't let outside influences hurt the team's mindset or goals.
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"I think we will be able to work though that and take that head on," Macdonald said.
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If the SeaWolves do turn into a playoff-caliber side, Carney said any push back would draw away from the original intent of the co-op.
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"They’re going to be critics and that’s fine. But they are not in the moment, they are not dealing with what we are dealing with," Carney said. "If our success is a problem? It’s more like good for us for making this work."
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Sunday, Sept. 2: Fewer players, smaller school enrollment create concern about the sport’s future in Vermont.
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Wednesday, Sept. 5: Padded flag football or tackle football?
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Today: How Burlington and South Burlington are navigating the new cooperative.
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Here's how you can invest in biotech without too much fear.
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When it comes to biotech stocks, many investors are like the lion in The Wizard of Oz -- they're afraid.
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Part of the reason for this fear is a perception that biotech stocks are all highly volatile and super-risky. These concerns are true for a lot of small biotech stocks. However, there are methods that allow investing in biotechs that help lower (although not eliminate) risks.
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What do the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (NYSEMKT:XBI), Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), and MannKind (NASDAQ:56400P706) have in common? They all can provide examples of ways that the goal of investing in biotech stocks without fear and trembling can be achieved.
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Find out from the following slideshow how these investment alternatives reveal four ways to make money on biotech stocks. You'll see how investing in biotech doesn't have to be too scary after all.
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Although names such as Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Shinsuke Nakamura, Samoa Joe, and Bobby Roode have been major blows to the NXT roster, the company is spending time building up stars, as well as acquiring former Impact Wrestling and Ring of Honor stars. Currently, the top babyface of NXT has been Aleister Black, while the company is making the Undisputed Era faction of Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O’Reilly the top villains. At the recent NXT TakeOver: Philly event, Aleister Black was able to defeat Adam Cole and Fish & O’Reilly retained their NXT Tag Team Championships against the Authors of Pain.
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Another match on the show was Kassius Ohno competing against The Velveteen Dream. Just as the show at NXT TakeOver: War Games, Velveteen Dream won the crowd over by his illustrious mannerisms and impressive in-ring work. In fact, the crowd in Houston started to even boo the heavily fan-favored Black, who seemed impenetrable when it comes to getting jeers. In Philadelphia, Ohno, who is also a heavy crowd favorite, was booed when he rebounded from the near 30-second knockout that Dream promised before the show began.
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From a backstage perpective, many are quite impressed with the work of Dream over the past few months. In fact, according to PWInsider, he is the “hand-picked” protege of WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels, who is now doing work at the Performance Center.
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Edge would also speak highly of Dream on his podcast. He stated that he has not seen much of Dream, but he is incredible for someone who has only been wrestling pro for three years (at the time). He compared his character to Rick Rude and Prince, and affirmed that he has a bright future ahead of him. Overall, the evolution of The Velveteen Dream is a goldmine that people are very interested to see where he goes from here.
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Since its inception in 2010, CNBC Travel Business Leader Award (TBLA) has recognized business leaders who have demonstrated leadership excellence within the travel and tourism industry – driving growth, success and profitability.
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Qualities including innovation, management skills, and the ability to formulate strategies and capitalize on key trends are the key judging criteria.
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CNBC Travel Business Leader Award (TBLA) logo draws its inspiration from the ancient Asian symbol of respect and greeting exchanged between a host and a traveller – the act of hands pressed together with a slight bow. Known as the ‘Namaste’ in India, ‘Wai’ in Thailand or ‘Gassho’ in Japan, this gesture is synonymous with Asian warmth and hospitality. The logo also combines the folded hands gesture with the ‘handshake’, another universally accepted symbol of greeting, and the sign of a favorable business relationship.
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Brought together in a simplified, more linear and fluid form, the TBLA logo signifies the essence of this award, which celebrates outstanding business leadership in the Asian travel and tourism industry – an industry that bases its foundation on hospitality, sustainability, innovation and ultimately, the relationship between the host and the traveller.
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Click here to download the 2015 TBLA Brochure.
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An exclusive CNBC Conversation segment with Mr. George Tanasijevich, President and CEO, Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd. With concerns growing over the health of China’s economy, the conversation will discuss the impact on the region’s tourism industry, and find out how Marina Bay Sands is betting on tradeshows and attractions to boost its bottomline.
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Watch Robert Downey Jr Get in Shape for "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
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We still don't know whether Robert Downey Jr will return for "Iron Man 4," but the actor signed up to reprise the role of Tony Stark in the next two "Avengers" installments."
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"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is currently filming and today we have a 30-second video showing Downey going through his training routine to stay in shape for the sequel. Check out the video below.
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"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is once again directed by Joss Whedon and is set to hit theaters on May 1st, 2015.
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Why is he dressed like a homeless person? And what the hell were some of those machines? Like the one shooting out giant balls or something.
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I've always done outdoor fitness, so I zero familiarity with all these crazy modern gym contraptions.
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I pick things up and put them down!
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Narkle: it filmed on an iPhone in portrait mode because those proportions best match the upright human form, and without watching the video, I assume he is upright for some of his workout. If not, then yes, landscape would have been more proper.
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The real problem is why don't players play video in portrait mode natively sans the black bars?
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No, but I hear the felines have very muscular sphincters.
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Simply buy two ordinary $100 smart phones and some tape. $1000 saved.
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If it breaks, just buy a new one. What's $2000 these days?
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What is so good about this son of Koizumi that makes him suitable to be PM? Is it something genetic? In that case I suppose you think the other, unackowledged, son of Koizumi would be just as good as PM?
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When I go to buffet restaurants by myself, all the Japanese women seated near me shoulder their purses when they go to the buffet. When I go to buffet restaurants with Japanese people, they leave their purses at their tables. Why? Because there are foreigners that take advantage of Japan's culture of trust and will steal when given the opportunity. So, I don't mind at all when purses are shouldered around me. I sympathize with those women. Also, I put my wallet in my front pocket, not the back, because there are foreigners in Japan.
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If the US wants to impose its laws on me then I demand it gives me the right to vote, otherwise it can get stuffed.
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I don't mind at all if a racist won't sit next to me on the train. He can stand and mutter to himself whilst I enjoy the extra space.
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