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Google has ventured out staff individuals to the US after an official request from President Donald Trump confining section for nationals of seven Muslim-greater part nations.

Syrian outcasts are prohibited from section until further notice.

Visas for nationals of six nations, including Iran and Iraq, won't be issued for the following three months.

Google has informed the BBC it is concerned regarding the request and any measures which could square incredible ability from the US.

The BBC's business journalist Joe Lynam says President Trump's request implies that a large number of subjects from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya may not be permitted to load up flights destined for the US - regardless of the possibility that they hold a purported "green card" (lasting occupants' allow).

Mr Trump said the measure would "keep radical Islamic fear mongers out of the US".

In any case, rights bunches say there is no connection between Syrian outcasts in the US and psychological warfare.

There are as of now reports of explorers from the nations focused on being dismissed as they attempt to load up flights to the US.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said this seemed to incorporate "green card holders and other visa holders".

It exhorted nationals from the influenced nations however living in the US not to travel abroad.

A few Republicans have invited Mr Trump's declaration, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, who said it was "a great opportunity to re-assess and fortify the visa confirming procedure".

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The new strategy is additionally influencing visits from relatives.

An Iraqi columnist living in the US, Mohammed al-Rawi, posted on Facebook, saying his dad had been moved in the opposite direction of a Los Angeles-bound flight in Qatar.

Jamal Abdi from the National Iranian American Council told the investigative news-casting association Pro Publica: "We are immersed with calls and inquiries of how this will influence individuals."

The Council on American Islamic Relations says it will record a claim against the official request.

Media captionThe US city of Lancaster has taken in many displaced people - however that could all end

Silicon Valley, where many utilized in the innovation business are of non-US source, is likewise stressed.

Facebook author Mark Zuckerberg posted an extensive note, saying he was "worried" about the president's official requests, and taking note of that he, in the same way as other Americans, is the relative of settlers.

Four-month suspension

Under Mr Trump's boundless official request, all displaced person affirmations have been suspended for four months.

The  of the request was discharged a few hours after it was agreed upon. Different measures include:

A prohibition on evacuees from Syria until "critical changes" are made

A 90-day suspension on anybody touching base from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, with the exception of certain visa classifications, for example, ambassadors

Need for future displaced person applications from those abused for their religion - however just if the individual is a piece of a minority religion in their nation of origin

A top of 50,000 displaced people in 2017 - not as much as half of as far as possible under Mr Trump's ancestor, Barack Obama

The request additionally said all movement projects ought to incorporate inquiries to "assess the candidate's probability of turning into an emphatically contributing individual from society."

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Syrian displaced people confront an uncertain restriction from the US

In a TV talk with communicate prior on Friday, the president said Christians would be given need among Syrians who apply for displaced person status later on.

Different measures incorporate a wide audit of the data required from all nations to support a visa; a survey of visa plans between countries to guarantee they are "really equal" for US subjects; and the quick suspension of the Visa Interview Waiver Program.

Be that as it may, the record says special cases to most limitations could be presented on a defense by-case premise.

Amid the decision crusade, Mr Trump proposed an "aggregate and finish shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our nation's delegates can make sense of what is going on".

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The official request has been met with feedback from rights associations, Democrats and striking figures.

Equitable Senator Kamala Harris noticed that the request had been marked on Holocaust Memorial Day. "No doubt about it - this is a Muslim boycott," she composed.

"Amid the Holocaust, we neglected to give outcasts like Anne A chance to straight to the point into our nation. We can't give history a chance to rehash itself," she said.

Malala Yousafzai, the high school Nobel Peace Laureate who was shot by the Taliban taking after her backing for ladies' training in Pakistan, composed that she was "crushed".

"America is walking out on a pleased history of inviting evacuees and migrants - the general population who fabricated your nation, prepared to buckle down in return for a reasonable possibility at another life," she included.

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The head of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) censured the utilization of the words "extraordinary confirming", saying it was a "doublespeak for victimizing Muslims".

"Distinguishing particular nations with Muslim greater parts and cutting out special cases for minority religions goes against the protected rule that bans the legislature from either supporting or oppressing specific religions," Anthony Romero said in an announcement.

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Virtual reality 'could help treat vertigo'

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Virtual reality could be utilized to analyze and treat visual vertigo, as indicated by a group of Cardiff University therapists.

Individuals with the condition experience the ill effects of wooziness and queasiness and frequently refer to places with tedious visual examples, for example, stores, as the trigger.

A group of clinicians is attempting to create virtual situations to help with analysis and restoration.

The researchers trust the approach has "genuine potential".

Dr Georgina Powell, of the School of Psychology, stated: "We don't know especially about what causes visual vertigo right now.

"There additionally are relatively few successful recovery treatments accessible, so the point of our venture is to attempt and comprehend those two things."

She said vertigo can be greatly crippling, including: "It can imply that a patient can't go out in light of the fact that they feel so wiped out and queasy each time they stroll around in their visual surroundings.

"They can't work, they can't work."

Media captionThe Cardiff University group clarifies how virtual reality could help with "crippling" visual vertigo.

The group said a standout amongst the most striking perceptions they had made about sufferers was the variety between what starts their indications.

"Every one of the patients are altogether different and a few situations may trigger side effects for a few patients while different situations may trigger indications for others," Dr Powell said.

"So by utilizing virtual reality (VR) we can have endless adaptability over the diverse sorts of situations that we can show to patients and we can discover what their individual triggers may be and afterward tailor particular recovery treatments."

'We have a basin prepared'

Visual vertigo is regularly alluded to as "grocery store disorder" since expansive shops, with their messed racks and dreary paths, can go about as an impetus to assaults.

"Different situations incorporate strolling by the side of a stream, where you have movement one side of you yet not on the other," Dr Powell said.

"For the most part they can just deal with such a large amount of the virtual reality pictures at one time - we have a basin prepared," She included.

"In any case, we give them heaps of breaks and loads of water and screen how they are feeling."

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What is vertigo?

Vertigo is a side effect instead of a condition

Sufferers can persist dazedness, a feeling of self-movement, lost adjust and sickness

On the off chance that you have extreme vertigo, your side effects might be consistent and keep going for a few days or significantly more

The term vertigo is frequently mistakenly used to portray a dread of statures, which is really acrophobia

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New mercury threat to oceans from climate change

There have been worries over the levels of mercury in fish for a long time

Rising temperatures could help mercury levels in fish by up to seven circumstances the ebb and flow rates, say Swedish scientists.

They've found another path in which warming builds levels of the poison in ocean animals.

In examinations, they found that additional precipitation drives up the measure of natural material streaming into the oceans.

This adjusts the natural pecking order, including another layer of complex creatures which supports the groupings of mercury up the line.

The review has been distributed in the diary, Science Advances.

Poisonous shape

Mercury is one of the world's most lethal metals, and as per the World Health Organization, is one of the main ten dangers to general wellbeing. The substance at abnormal states has been connected to harm to the sensory system, loss of motion and mental impedan

Mercury is utilized as a part of many parts of the world particularly in gold mining

The most well-known type of presentation to mercury is by eating fish containing methylmercury, a natural type of the compound which shapes when microscopic organisms respond with mercury in water, soil or plants.

Levels of mercury on the planet's biological communities have expanded by in the vicinity of 200 and 500%, since the modern transformation say specialists, driven up by the utilization of fossil fills, for example, coal.

Lately there are have been concentrated endeavors to constrain the measure of mercury entering the earth, with a global bargain, called the Minamata Convention, marked by 136 nations set up since 2013.

Analyst Erik Bjorn infuses mercury into residue tests

In any case, this new review recommends that environmental switch could drive up levels of methylmercury in a way not beforehand perceived.

In a huge lab, Swedish specialists reproduced the conditions found in the Bothnian ocean estuary. They found that as temperatures increment, there is an expanded keep running off of natural matter into the world's seas and lakes. This supports the development of microscopic organisms to the detriment of phytoplankton.

"At the point when microbes get to be distinctly copious in the water there is additionally a development of another kind of predators that eat microorganisms," lead creator Dr Erik Bjorn from Umea University in Sweden revealed to BBC News.

"You fundamentally get one additional progression in the evolved way of life and methylmercury is advanced by about a calculate of ten each such stride in the sustenance web."

Under the hottest atmosphere situation recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there would be an expansion in natural matter keep running off of 15-20% before this present century's over. This thus would see levels of methylmercury in zooplankton, the base connection in the evolved way of life, develop by in the vicinity of two and seven cre

Dregs centers were recuperated from Swedish seaside waters for use in the mercury tests

Diverse parts of the world will endure distinctive effects say the analysts, with lakes and beach front waters in the northern half of the globe being the well on the way to have critical increments in methylmercury levels in fish, while the Mediterranean, the focal US and Southern Africa will probably observe decreases.

Scientists trust that the Minamata bargain will be fruitful and nations lessen the measure of mercury that is being created. Generally this disclosure of a formerly obscure source could have impacts for human wellbeing.

"In the event that we decrease mercury discharges, then we have to know how quick will environments recuperate," said Dr Bjorn.

"In the event that we don't do anything and mercury doesn't lessening, and we include this top then the suggestions would be extreme."

Different specialists in the field say that the new review highlights essential issues that have already been minimal known.

"This work tentatively demonstrates that environmental change will have a noteworthy impact of methylmercury spending plans in waterfront waters and its fixations in fish," said Milena Horvat from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia.

"This work will likewise importantly affect future situation recreations on the nearness of mercury in fish because of worldwide mercury decreases from discharge sources (principally mechanical)."

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Sir John Hurt: Bafta-winning actor dies aged 77

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Veteran actor Sir John Hurt has died aged 77, his agent has said.

The Bafta-winning star, known for his roles in Alien and The Elephant Man, continued working despite being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015.

He recently starred as Father Richard McSorley in Jackie, the biopic of President John F. Kennedy's wife.

US director Mel Brooks described Sir John as "cinematic immortality", as tributes poured in for the star.

He was given the all-clear in October 2015 but last year pulled out of play The Entertainer due to ill-health.

Sir John decided not to perform as Billy Rice in Sir Kenneth Branagh's production on the advice of his doctors.

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Hurt in the role of Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man

Brooks paid tribute to Sir John, who had starred in his comedy Spaceballs, saying on Twitter: "No one could have played The Elephant Man more memorably."

He added: "He carried that film into cinematic immortality. He will be sorely missed."

Stephen Fry praised Sir John for being "great on the stage, small screen and big".

Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood said: "It was such an honor to have watched you work, sir."

British actor Alfred Molina said Sir John was "a gloriously talented actor, one of the best, of this or any era."

Obituary: 'The mulberry of my mind'

John Hurt was one of Britain's best-known and most versatile actors.

He was born on 22 January, 1940 in Chesterfield in Derbyshire. Over six decades, he appeared in more than 120 films as well as numerous stage and television roles.

He went to St Martin's School of Art in London before gaining a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1960.

The death of his character in the film Alien has often been voted as one of cinema's most memorable moments.

The film critic and historian Geoff Andrew once asked Hurt how he managed to regularly turn in such memorable performances.

"The only way I can describe it is that I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine," he said.

"How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe."

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Sir John was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.

After his diagnosis the same year, he told the Radio Times: "I can't say I worry about mortality, but it's impossible to get to my age and not have a little contemplation of it.

"We're all just passing time, and occupy our chair very briefly."

He has performed as the deformed Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man as well as wand-maker Mr Ollivander in the Harry Potter films.

In 2013 he appeared in Doctor Who as the War Doctor, a hitherto unseen incarnation of the character.

He has been married to Anwen Rees Meyers, a former actress and classical pianist, for 12 years.

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Hurt with his wife Anwen Rees Meyers at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2009

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Theresa May 'to discuss trade' with President Erdogan on Turkey visit

Theresa May is set to examine a post-Brexit exchange manage Turkey amid end of the week talks in the nation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

The head administrator lands in Ankara at an opportune time Saturday from the US, where she met President Trump. 

Another exchanging association with Turkey taking after the UK's exit from the European Union would frame a portion of dialogs, Number 10 said. 

The PM is likewise anticipated that would talk about security, Mrs May's representative said. 

The representative included: "They will talk about another exchange relationship [and] a vital security organization." 

It comes as Brexit Secretary David Davis anticipated a "round of worldwide exchange arrangements" would be "completely arranged" inside 12 to 24 months, coming into constrain when the UK leaves the EU. 

The administration arrangements to start the formal two-year Brexit prepare by activating  50 before the finish of March. 

Human rights concerns 

Mrs May's first prime pastoral visit to Turkey comes as President Erdogan is bracing down on adversaries taking after the fizzled military overthrow in July 2016. 

Asked whether Mrs May would raise human rights worries since the upset, the representative said Britain had "communicated our solid support for Turkey's popular government and organizations taking after the overthrow." 

In further distress, 39 individuals were slaughtered in an assault on a New Year's Eve party in a dance club in Istanbul. 

Supposed Islamic State said it was behind the assault and the aggressor gathering was connected to no less than two different assaults in Turkey a year ago.

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A little uncover conveyed after the output affirmed the discoveries

Ground-infiltrating outputs of a recreation center have uncovered three close entire Roman structures under Chichester.

Archeologists, who were left staggered by the level of safeguarding, have said the main reason they survived was on the grounds that Priory Park was never based on.

Two houses and a third building were found. Moving pictures from a sweep demonstrate the states of two structures develop.

It is thought the houses, which would have been worth millions today, were claimed by individuals of significance.

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Nearby geophysics pro David Staveley, who had embarked to distinguish all the city's Roman streets, was offered consent to filter the parks since some may have made due there.

Media captionScans uncovered a townhouse and another building

Taking after his outputs, a little uncover was conveyed in Priory Park.

It is thought the houses were initially on a road yet the street did not survive.

James Kenny, a classicist at Chichester District Council, said the outputs demonstrated a townhouse with rooms and a detached working in the corner.

"It's hard to state what it may have been, yet the dividers survived. It may have been a piece of a bathhouse, or a basement, or a winter lounge area with under-floor warming," he said.

Mr Kenny conceded there was "nothing extraordinary" about a Roman house in a Roman town.

Be that as it may, he stated: "What's uncommon is in a Roman town like Chichester, the majority of the paleontology has been hindered by a wide range of house building."

Added to that, the city had no sewers until the 1880s and individuals needed to dive gaps in the ground, he said.

"A dreadful part of antiquarianism was lost."

Notwithstanding, Priory Park, initially home to a religious community, had not been created, and the structures covered 0.5m beneath the surface demonstrated a "noteworthy level of protection", Mr Kenny said.

Assist investigation will occur this year and there may likewise be a bigger examination later on.

Checks likewise uncovered another Roman road under the recreation center, yet this won't be revealed.

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In pictures: Photographing Australia's tallest trees

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One of the world's tallest trees, eucalyptus regnans dot the state's Styx Valley, 90km (55 miles) northwest of Hobart.
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The species, which is the tallest flowering plant, is also known as mountain ash or swamp gum.
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The photographers hope to draw attention to some of the world's largest and most unusual trees.
Photo of the world's tallest trees, the eucalyptus regnans.Image copyrightSTEVEN PEARCE

"It's purely about awareness," photographer Steven Pearce told the BBC.
Photo of the world's tallest trees, the eucalyptus regnansImage copyrightSTEVEN PEARCE

The team suspended a camera between branches to photograph the eucalypts, which can grow to almost 100m (328ft).
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Mr Pearce said he became interested in trees through his wife, ecologist Dr Jen Sanger, who studies plants that grow on other plants.
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The trees in the valley have Lord of the Rings-themed nicknames, including Fangorn and Gandalf's Staff.
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The Tree Project team spent 67 days on the project, which is now on display at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
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"For our next project, we're planning shoot a tropical rainforest tree 94m high in a place called Danum Valley in Borneo," Mr Pearce said.

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The corpse flower takes ten years to build up enough energy to bloom, but mysteriously, dozens of them bloomed within weeks of each other in 2016

The corpse flower takes ten years to build up enough energy to bloom, but mysteriously, dozens of them bloomed within weeks of each other in 2016

Friday 29 July 2016 was a sultry night in New York City, adjusting an abusively sticky month. However occupants of the five wards overflowed to a sweltering nursery in the Bronx in their thousands. They were resolved to see a rotten noticing blossom in the throes of its brief however astounding regenerative show.

Amorphophallus titanum – which interprets as "goliath deformed penis" – holds the record for the world's biggest unbranched inflorescence (blossoming structure). Barely any of these plants exist in development, and their blossoms are uncommon and unusual, happening transiently once every five to 10 years.

These are group ordering accreditations without a doubt. Be that as it may, likely the majority of the general population dashing to the New York Botanical Garden that Friday went to encounter the notorious stink: the sharp possess a scent reminiscent of decaying substance, discharged amid the pinnacle of the 24-36-hour sprout. This effective pong gives the plant its well known name: "carcass blossom".

Swarms assembled to see the carcass blossom in July 2016 (Credit: Wanda Lotus/Alamy)

Swarms assembled to see the carcass blossom in July 2016 (Credit: Wanda Lotus/Alamy)

When the show finished, 25,000 guests had joyously subjected themselves to the beast stench while posturing for trinket selfies. Another million onlookers tuned into watch the livestream. The New York Botanical Garden, whose last A. titanum blossom happened in 1939, pronounced the example "a plant gem 10 years really taking shape".

However, then, two or after three days, cadaver blossoms sprouted in Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Three days from that point forward, a plant in Colorado went along with them, followed one after another by blossoms in Missouri, Hawaii, Washington state, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Before the year 2000, less than 50 blossoms had been recorded in over an era of development.

Exactly what is going on?

Detail of an Amorphophallus titanum bloom (Credit: Neil Lucas/naturepl.com)

Detail of an Amorphophallus titanum bloom (Credit: Neil Lucas/naturepl.com)

Amorphophallus titanum, found in 1878 by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari, is local to Sumatra, Indonesia.

Its inflorescence comprises of a beefy yellow-green focal spike called the spadix that stands more than 2m tall, enrobed by an unsettled leaf-like cape called the spathe. Settled at the base of the spadix, a few hundred little female blooms develop in a ring beneath a band of a huge number of their small male partners. Amid the blossom, the spathe spreads out to uncover a ruby, smooth internal surface and the foul scent fills the air.

The science of the sprout raises its temperature to more than 36C

What does it possess a scent reminiscent of precisely? Concoction examinations of the aroma have distinguished mixes including isovaleric corrosive (cheddar, sweat), dimethyl disulphide (garlic), dimethyl trisulphide (deteriorating meat), indole (defecation) and trimethylamine (decaying fish). The foul aroma shows up in the late night, strengthens into the night and continuously decreases as morning breaks.

The striking red inside and smell are both features of a sly hallucination intended to tempt pollinators. As per Amorphophallus master Wilbert Hetterscheid of the Von Gimborn Arboretum in Doorn, the Netherlands, the essential competitors are little nighttime flesh creepy crawlies scanning for newly dead meat to lay their eggs in.

On top of raising a stink, the science of the blossom raises its temperature to more than 36C – human body temperature – propagating the hallucination of decaying fragile living creature and scattering the unstable mixes through the thick tropical timberland.

This likewise represents the plant's colossal extents. Since A. titanum is not a self-pollinator, it can just replicate if creepy crawlies and different bugs carry dust between sprouting people. The spadix and spathe act together as a sort of olfactory loudhailer, tricking pollinators from great distances abroad.

As you may envision, delivering such a titanic blossom comes at an enormous vitality cost to the plant.

A titan arum plant without its bloom (Credit: Michael Hutchinson/naturepl.com)

A titan arum plant without its bloom (Credit: Michael Hutchinson/naturepl.com)

Vitality is given by its corm – a swollen, bland capacity root weighing up to 100kg. Amid non-blossoming years, the corm sends up a solitary gigantic expanded leaf which, at 3-4m tall, looks more like a little tree. It takes quite a long while of persevering photosynthesising for the plant to accumulate enough vitality to sprout, and still, at the end of the day it can just keep up the blossom for a brief 24-36 hours before the entire thing breakdown.

The sprout really happens in two phases over sequential evenings. On the main, dust conveying flesh insects plunge to the base of the inflorescence and store dust on the responsive female blossoms. The wealth of nourishment, alongside a dangerous covering emitted by the spathe, "keep them in the pot for some time," as indicated by Hetterscheid.

We are finding that it goes up against normal 10 years to achieve blossoming stage

The male period of the blossom happens around 24 hours after the fact, and now the guile disintegrates.

The aroma blurs, the spathe oils go away, and the deceived creepy crawlies exit. As they do, they brush past the now dust shedding male blossoms, in a perfect world taking off towards the aroma of a female-stage sprout happening adjacent.

The curtness of the sprout is unquestionably a convincing explanation behind why some strategy for synchronized blooming could be of advantage to the species.

"When you have a bloom that lone keeps going two or three days, it's such a slender window of chance," says Marc Hachadourian, nursery chief at the New York Botanical Garden. "Some sort of trigger for the plants to sprout in the wild would guarantee you have more than one individual blossoming."

With respect to what precisely set off the spate of blossoms in 2016 – there were no less than 32, for the most part in the US additionally in India, Australia, Denmark, Belgium and the UK – one hypothesis is that the plants could all be achieving development in the meantime.

A titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) blossom (Credit: Michael Hutchinson/naturepl.com)

A titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) blossom (Credit: Michael Hutchinson/naturepl.com)

As per Emily Colletti, an Amorphophallus master at the Missouri Botanical Garden, a number of the people in development today are second-era relatives of seeds conveyed generally in 1993 and 1995, making them cousins. "We are finding that it goes up against normal 10 years to achieve blooming stage," she says. This timescale would clarify the checked uptick in sprout numbers since 2013.

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Hideo Kojima says games and films will merge together

Kojima talking at the E3 gaming gathering

Amazing amusement fashioner Hideo Kojima says diversions, books and movies will "converge into one sort of excitement".

Depicted as the Spielberg of gaming, he was addressing Radio 1 Newsbeat amid a selective voyage through his new studio in Tokyo.

"We need to be there when that time comes, to help demonstrate individuals another sort of experience.

"We're as of now get ready for that future, however first we're concentrating on our next amusement."

Video inscription Touring Tokyo with Metal Gear maker Hideo Kojima

The man behind the famous Metal Gear arrangement is looking to the future following two or three years commanded by a questionable separation from his previous bosses Konami.

He doesn't really expound however tells Newsbeat: "I labored for a long time at my past organization.

"I had a ton of encounters there and I'm extremely energetic about all that I picked up from that experience."

He set up his new studio, Kojima Productions, in the wake of leaving Konami in December 2015.

The sci-fi motivated lobby into the Kojima Productions Studio

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"I have more flexibility now on the grounds that a ultimate conclusion comes down to me.

"This organization is not recorded on the stock trade so we don't have to stress over satisfying financial specialists.

"We can simply focus on making great amusements."

However, recreations are quite recently the start for the man credited for making the stealth type in 1987.

Hideo Kojima with one of the stars of his next title Death Stranding, Mads Mikkelsen

Picture inscription Hideo Kojima with Mads Mikkelsen, one of the stars of his next title Death Stranding

That title, Metal Gear, went ahead to motivate beat offering gaming establishments like Assassin's Creed, Uncharted and Hitman.

"In life individuals are extremely caught up with doing heaps of things," he clarifies through an interpreter.


"The time you need to pick what media or amusement you experience is waning.

"An ever increasing number of individuals are taking a gander at sorts of media that join components together."

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Australian Open 2017: Venus & Serena Williams to meet in ninth Grand Slam final

Serena Williams

Serena Williams will recapture the main positioning in the event that she wins the last

Australian Open 2017

Setting: Melbourne Park, Melbourne Dates: 16-29 Jan

Scope: Live analysis on BBC Radio 5 live games additional; live content on chose coordinates on the BBC Sport site; TV highlights on BBC Two and on the web.

Venus and Serena Williams will meet in a Grand Slam last for the ninth time after the American sisters got through their semi-finals in Melbourne.

Thirteenth seed Venus, 36, beat kindred American Coco Vandeweghe 6-7 (3-7) 6-2 6-3 to contact her first significant last since 2009.

World number two Serena, 35, saw off unseeded Croat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-2 6-1 in the second semi-last.

Serena is endeavoring to win an Open-time record 23rd Grand Slam singles title.

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It would likewise be a seventh Australian Open triumph for the more youthful Williams sister, while Venus wants to win an eighth real title, first in Melbourne and first since Wimbledon in 2008.

"It is incredible to watch Serena play tennis - the way she hits the ball and the contender she is," Venus Williams said after the main semi-last.

"It would be a fantasy to see her on the inverse side of the net on Saturday."

Talking after her win, Serena stated: "I am truly pleased with Venus - she is an aggregate motivation. I am truly cheerful for her and to be in the last together is a fantasy for us.

"She is my hardest rival, nobody has ever beaten me as much as Venus.

"I feel regardless of what that we have both won after the sum total of what we have been through. I know a Williams will win this competition."

Venus snatches 'minute in the sun'

Venus Williams

Williams won the remainder of her seven Grand Slam titles in 2008 at Wimbledon

Vandeweghe, 25, had played magnificently in observing off world number one Angelique Kerber and French Open champion Garbine Muguruza to achieve the last four, however she couldn't keep up that level in the semi-last.

The world number 35 deservedly took the main set on a tie-break yet it was the experience of Williams that in the end won.

Williams changed over four of five break focuses, however more significantly lessened Vandeweghe to only one from 13 as the more youthful American was decreased to tossing her racquet in disappointment as the odds snuck past.

Two twofold blames gave Williams a conclusive twofold break in the second set and the seven-time Grand Slam champion broke again toward the begin of the third.

Vandeweghe remained sufficiently nearby to keep the weight on, sparing three match focuses before at long last breaking with a mistake on the fourth, inciting an upbeat spin of festivity from Williams.

"Everybody has their minute in the sun. Possibly mine has gone on somewhat longer than other individuals, however I have nothing else to do," clowned Williams.

Serena 'motivated by Lucic-Baroni'

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and Serena Williams

Lucic-Baroni and Williams had met twice some time recently, yet not since 1998

Lucic-Baroni was playing her first Grand Slam semi-last for a long time, however it just endured 50 minutes as Serena Williams ruled in her 34th significant semi-last.

It was their third meeting yet their first since 1998, when the combine were youngsters.

The account of Lucic-Baroni's rebound from a progression of individual issues that saw her profession everything except completed had caught the consideration, and she finished the competition by bringing a selfie with the group on out of Rod Laver Arena.

"Mirjana is a motivation and merits all the credit today," said Williams. "To get so far after the sum total of what she has been through rouses me and I needed to give her everything the congrats.

"It is awesome to see her around here. I was pulling for her through the entire competition."

Williams will return on Saturday to attempt to impact the world forever at the end of the day by outperforming Steffi Graf and winning a 23rd noteworthy singles title.

When she softened Lucic-Baroni's serve up the third diversion there was just going to be one victor, keeps running of five straight recreations and six straight amusements bringing her every set.

"The serve was somewhat better today. I need it to be somewhat better. I knew it should have been great in light of the fact that Mirjana is an extraordinary returner," included Williams.

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Kraft Heinz to give all of their salaried employees the day after the Super Bowl off instead of buying multi-million-dollar game ad

The Chicago-based organization is giving the majority of their salaried representatives February 6, the day after the Super Bowl, off

They trust the move will rustle up more attention than an advertisement amid the diversion, which supposedly cost $5million per 30 seconds a year ago

They have likewise begun a Change.org appeal to transform the Monday after the Super Bowl into a national occasion

In the event that the appeal to comes to more than 100,000 marks, the organization will send the request of to Congress for thought

They declared the arrangement on Wednesday in an online video

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Cats may be as intelligent as dogs, say scientists

The idea that dogs are more intelligent than cats has been called into question.
Japanese scientists say cats are as good as dogs at certain memory tests, suggesting they may be just as smart.
A study - involving 49 domestic cats - shows felines can recall memories of pleasant experiences, such as eating a favourite snack.
Dogs show this type of recollection - a unique memory of a specific event known as episodic memory.
Humans often consciously try to reconstruct past events that have taken place in their lives, such as what they ate for breakfast, their first day in a new job or a family wedding.
These memories are linked with an individual take on events, so they are unique to that person.
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Saho Takagi, a psychologist at Kyoto University, said cats, as well as dogs, used memories of a single past experience, which may imply they have episodic memory similar to that of humans.
"Episodic memory is viewed as being related to introspective function of the mind; our study may imply a type of consciousness in cats," she told

Do cats enjoy remembering past experiences?
"An interesting speculation is that they may enjoy actively recalling memories of their experience like humans."
The Japanese team tested 49 domestic cats on their ability to remember which bowl they had already eaten out of and which remained untouched, after a 15-minute interval.
They found the cats could recall "what" and "where" information about the food bowls, suggesting they had episodic memory.
The researchers suggest cats may remember for much longer periods than the short time tested.
And they say cats can match dogs on various mental tests, including responding to human gestures, facial expressions and emotions.
Saho Takagi said the research may have practical applications.
"Understanding cats more deeply helps to establish better cat-human relationships," she said.
"Cats may be as intelligent as dogs, as opposed to the common view of people that dogs are much smarter."
Prof Laurie Santos, of Yale University, said the experiment nicely shows that cats are remembering information about where they searched before and also which locations used to have food.
"It opens the door to new studies examining how long cats' memories can be and whether they also remember richer episodes in their own life as humans do," she added.
Experiments have shown dogs also appear to have memories linked to specific times and places.
The same team of Japanese scientists previously found that in similar tests, dogs had memories of food bowls from which they had eaten.
And last year, a team from Hungary found that dogs were able to recall their owner's actions, even when they were not specifically instructed to do so.

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The dental nurse who became an alligator catcher

ve up her vocation as a dental attendant to concentrate on creatures with significantly more teeth - gators. When she began preparing as a croc catcher she was the main lady in her class, yet - as she portrays here - that made her significantly more resolved to show she could bounce on a creature ordinarily her size, and tape its jaws firmly close.

When I first got my permit I was just doing this as an interest, I'd go to fill in as a dental collaborator and catch my crocodiles as an afterthought.

In any case, I got notable for taking the gators alive, and I'm presently doing this as my all day work.

I've been a genuine creature beau all my life. I censure it on my mother. When we were little she was the one that would stop the auto, pull over, and help turtles and ducks cross the street. We took in all the strays - felines, pooches, whatever required a home.

I'd never even touched a croc and for a brief instant I thought, 'I can't do this'

Where I live in the south piece of Texas we have a great deal of crocs and there are these enormous end-all strategy groups that have synthetic lakes and these lakes have gators in them.

The mortgage holders are afraid to the point that will eat their children and that will eat their mutts, yet in the previous 100 years we've just had one individual executed by a crocodile, so it's all equitable superstition.

These gators have been around since the dinosaurs. They're incredible for the biological system, they hold all the sea-going life under control. They're very timid creatures and they would prefer not to hurt anyone.

Be that as it may, individuals think about these folks as creatures. They have this vision in their mind, and when I saw this I thought, "What would I be able to do to help change individuals' attitude?"

Christy Kroboth with a croc caught at River Pointe Golf Club, Houston

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After reports that golfers were being mean to this goliath croc, Kroboth was brought into securely expel it from a Texan fairway

You can't simply go out and get a gator since crocs are secured by the state here in Texas. You need to have a unique permit and an allow.

I enlisted to be a croc seeker with Texas Parks and Wildlife and we needed to experience an entire instructional class.

I was the main young lady in the class and furthermore the most youthful. We needed to experience the principles, laws and controls, and after that the mentor let us know: "alright, you've all passed the printed material, now how about we go do this hands-on."

I'd never even touched a gator and for a brief moment I thought, "I can't do this." I called my mother and I stated, "Mother, I can't do this!" And, obviously, mother resembles, "Get back home right now, don't do it!"

In any case, something let me know: "I need to do this - for the crocodiles, as well as to demonstrate to these huge nation young men that I can."

I headed out to the lake, got the gator, taped him up and wound up finishing the test. It was one of the most joyful snapshots of my life and that adrenaline surge kept going the entire day.

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Trump's 'control-alt-delete' on climate change policy

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In the midst of worries over his state of mind to environmental change, the new President has marked requests to push forward with two noteworthy oil pipelines

Are the late moves made by the Trump group on the issues of atmosphere and vitality the opening shots in a war on learning?

Then again would they say they are just what you'd anticipate from another organization of an alternate political shade?

How about we look at what we know.

Soon after Donald Trump was introduced as the 45th president, a scope of data on the White House site identified with environmental change was moved to an Obama online document.

The main references to rising temperatures on the new Trump White House site are a guarantee to take out "unsafe and superfluous approaches, for example, the Climate Action Plan". This was President Obama's expansive based technique to cut carbon outflows.

The brief White House archive now contains a further sign of the green needs of the new organization. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ought to concentrate on its "basic mission of securing our air and water".

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The Twitter record of Badlands National Park has seen various tweets identifying with environmental change erased

While the organization makes sense of how to accomplish that re-center, staff at the EPA have been advised to stop all give making, and to be close-lipped regarding it. This implies no outside official statements will be issued and no online networking posts will be allowed. It is hazy when these confinements will be lifted.

Reports from news offices show that the move back won't stop there, with atmosphere data pages facilitated by the EPA anticipated that would be closed down.

"My figure is the  pages will be brought down, yet the connections and data will be accessible," the conspicuous atmosphere cynic and consultant to the Trump move group, Myron Ebell, told Reuters.

"On the off chance that the site goes dull, years of work we have done on environmental change will vanish," said a mysterious EPA staff part, as indicated by reports.

The Trump group has additionally found a way to push forward with two disputable oil pipelines.

So are every one of these moves proof of a vindictive outlook, resolved to smash this snowflake environmental change babble?

Certainly, as indicated by Alden Meyer, a veteran atmosphere campaigner with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

"President Trump and his group are seeking after what I call a 'control-alt-erase' technique: control the researchers in the elected organizations, change science-based approaches to fit their slender ideological motivation, and erase logical data from government sites," told BBC News.

"This is a no matter how you look at it methodology that we are seeing at various government offices on a scope of issues, however atmosphere denialism is obviously the purpose of the lance."

Not as per White House representative Sean Spicer.

"I don't believe it's any unexpected that when there's an organization turnover, that will survey the strategy," he said.

However the vanishing of tweets of essential environmental change data from the Badlands National Park Twitter account has raised genuine worries that the Trump group is not simply trying to move back control, but rather is additionally taking an ideological remain against what they may see as "warmist" publicit

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Dissenters have kept up a long haul nearness to slow down advance on the Dakota Access Pipeline

In 2009, President Obama instituted decides that government offices ought to have logical trustworthiness strategies, that ensured the privileges of free discourse of representatives, taking after on from the choking of a few specialists and the changing of reports under the Bush organization.

While the present strides being taken by the Trump group may end up being less prohibitive than dreaded, on this side of the lake there's a lot of concern.

Researchers see the prospective visit of UK head administrator Theresa May to Washington as a chance to press the President to get control over his approach.

"We are starting to see our feelings of dread acknowledged not as much as seven days after President Trump has taken office," said Bob Ward, from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

"I trust that the Prime Minister will challenge President Trump about this oversight and political obstruction during the time spent picking up and sharing information about environmental change amid their meeting on Friday."

Atmosphere researchers in the US are likewise energizing to battle back.

A walk on Washington by researchers is being proposed, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts have been made in view of the possibility that "an American government that disregards science to seek after ideological motivation imperils the world".

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Mexico: We won't pay for Trump fringe divider

Mexico: We won't pay for Trump fringe divider

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Media captionPresident Enrique Pena Nieto rejects Donald Trump's call for Mexico to pay for a fringe divider

Mexico won't pay for Donald Trump's outskirt divider, the nation's leader has said in a message to the country.

Enrique Pena Nieto said he "regretted" the arrangements for the hindrance, including that "Mexico doesn't trust in dividers".

In any case, he made no say of wiping out or putting off an outing to Washington on 31 January to meet the new US president.

Mr Trump has marked an official request for an "obstructed physical hindrance" and has demanded Mexico would repay the US for it.

Mr Pena Nieto stated: "I've said over and over; Mexico won't pay for any divider.

"It comes as our nation is chatting on new standards on participation, exchange, venture, security and relocation in the North American locale.

"As president I accept the total accountability to shield the interests of Mexico and Mexicans.

"In light of a last report by the functionaries in Washington DC and guidance from the assembly of business, governors, et cetera, I will choose the privilege next strides to take.

"Mexico offers its fellowship to the American individuals and its eagerness to achieve agrees with their administration. Understandings that will be agreeable to both Mexico and the US."

Billions of dollars

Mr Trump said in a TV meet with ABC News that Mexico would "completely, 100%" repay the US for his divider.

Be that as it may, Congress would need to endorse financing for the structure, which is evaluated to cost billions of dollars.

Building a 2,000-mile hindrance along the Mexican outskirt was one of Mr Trump's key promises in the presidential race crusade.

He talked about an "emergency" on the southern US fringe as he marked the mandates amid a function at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday.

The requests additionally called for procuring 10,000 migration authorities to help support fringe watch endeavors.

"A country without outskirts is not a country," he said. "Starting today the United States gains back power of its outskirts."

Media caption'US to start building divider quickly'

The official requests are among a whirlwind expected on national and outskirt security this week.

Mr Trump is next anticipated that would declare migration limitations from seven nations with Muslim-lion's share populaces in the Middle East and Africa. This could influence exile programs.

These nations are accepted to be Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.

Media captionMayors take remain against Trump

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Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'

Donald Trump has said a "big day" is planned on national security, including an announcement to build a wall on the border between the US and Mexico.
The new Republican president is expected to sign several executive orders on immigration and border security this week.
They are likely to include the "extreme vetting" of people coming from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa.
This would restrict refugee access.
Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
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Meanwhile, the Dow Jones traded above 20,000 for the first time, as traders bet that Mr Trump's policies will boost the economy.
Building a 2,000-mile wall along the Mexican border was one of his key proposals during the presidential election campaign.
During his election campaign, Mr Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall, which he said would cost about $8bn (£6.4bn).

Media captionThe US-Mexican family split by the border
He has since said the US would recoup the costs from its neighbour at a later date.
But Mexico's president and senior officials have said that they will not pay for the wall, despite Mr Trump's campaign pledge.
There will also be measures that force so-called sanctuary cities in the US to co-operate with the authorities on deporting illegal immigrants.
"Sanctuary cities" are places that don't arrest or detain immigrants living in the country illegally.
Meanwhile, a draft White House order raises the possibility that overseas "black site" CIA-run prisons could be reopened.
The document asks senior national security officials whether the president should "reinitiate a program of interrogation of high-value alien terrorists to be operated outside the United States".
The order, obtained by the Associated Press, says US laws should be obeyed at all times and explicitly rejects "torture".
Later this week, Mr Trump is expected to announce immigration restrictions from seven African and Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.
He is also likely to halt access to the country for some refugees - until the vetting process can be made more rigorous.
Map showing where most immigrants are detained entering the US from Mexico - highest being Rio Grande Valley and Tucson, Arizona - January 2017
Trita Parsi, from the National Iranian American Council, said: "He called for a Muslim ban and is now taking the first steps to implement one. This will not stand. The American people are better than this."
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But one of Mr Trump's advisers on the transition team at the Department of Homeland Security, James Carafano, said the new measures should not be seen as anti-Muslim.
"If they're based on security concerns, of course they have nothing to do with a person's actual religion, it's based on that they're conflict zones or that there are security concerns coming out of that country," said Mr Carafano, who is from the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
Voter fraud probe
Meanwhile, Mr Trump has promised a "major investigation into voter fraud", after making claims about millions of illegal ballots.
The new president said the inquiry would include "those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal".
Mr Trump also said the probe would focus on "those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time)".
He has claimed that up to five million illegal votes were cast for Hillary Clinton but has offered no evidence.
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Portions of a barrier have already been built on the US-Mexico border
The US president has also taken to Twitter to express his concern about the level of violence in Chicago.
He threatened to "send in the Feds" - federal authorities - if the city did not "fix the horrible carnage" taking place.
Local media has said that more than 40 people have been murdered and 228 shot so far in 2017.
The Chicago Police Department said it was "more than willing to work" with federal agencies to "boost federal prosecution rates for gun crimes" in the city.
Meanwhile, the Dutch government has said it will set up an international fund to counter the effects of Mr Trump's ban on US funding for abortions in developing countries.
The Dutch development minister, Lilianne Ploumen, said withdrawing funding would not result in fewer abortions, but would increase dangerous abortion practices and cause more maternal deaths.

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Mary Yerkes – An example of what you can accomplish with the basic WordPress blog site you get when you join the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE). Clean, simple, and gets the job done with some clips and a really inviting photo that makes her seem happy, professional, and accessible. If you don’t want to learn a lot about WordPress and which host would be best for you, this NAIWE site offer is a turnkey solution. Plus, you get a whole writer support organization thrown into the deal. Yolander Prinzel — I likes this site’s all-in-one home page approach (which you’ll notice I sort of adapted for my own site). Note how some of the client mentions are live links to clips, and how she plays up her expertise as a financial writer in her “about me” box. Love the testimonial right at the top, too. Only thing missing here is a nice shot of her for the home page. Oscar Halpert – This is one of my favorite writer photos — check out how friendly, approachable and yet business like Oscar is looking here. Also take in his great, concise landing page copy. Shows he knows how to sum it up, one of the big skills pro writers have over amateurs. Most writer sites have too much blather instead of showing they can pack a powerful punch in few words. Kristi Hines – The popular Kikolani blogger’s own writer site is a top-ranked one for the search term “freelance writer.” Hines put it all on one page, and it’s clearly working for her. If you have more than one skill, check out how Kristi presents herself smoothly as a writer, blogger, and photographer. Sally Bacchetta – A fairly busy-looking site, but packed with clips, and a top-ranker for “freelance writer.” A basic head shot is enough to make her seem friendly and relatable. Emily Suess — The Suess’s Pieces blogger takes a risk with the rotating header, as some people won’t be able to see Flash elements, but she makes it work with a great photo that really shows her personality. A top-ranked site for “freelance writer.” For copywriters, she shows you how to lure prospects by crushing the copy on your own site, with her great headline, “Say it with me.” Pat Howard – Dig his young attitude in the photos, which also plays into one of his specialties: TV writing. Nice testimonial page. Great example of how to show your personality on your site without oversharing or seeming unprofessional. A simple, effective site. David LaMartina – This writer recently joined the Den and got his site done by Sean Platt’s new WordPress design/hosting/support company, OutstandingSETUP. I’d been hearing about this company but hadn’t had a chance to check out their work, and now that I have, all I can say is WOW. Real nice for $17 a month, eh? If you’ve been considering shelling out hundreds to a designer to custom-make your site, you might want to think about this as an alternative. I find many designers are in love with flashy things and don’t know a lot about conversion, where OutstandingSetup’s team understands what your site needs to have, and leaves out the distractions. This is a visually pleasant, clean, simple site that gets the job done on a budget. Ed Gandia – The Wealthy Freelancer co-author recently told me he hasn’t updated his writer site in years. You can see why he doesn’t have to, as it’s got everything you need. Especial awesome here: His free-for-subscribers product that’s focused on his prospects, The Software Marketer’s Lead Generation Report. Can you say “Way to build a prospect list?” Also his landing page headline immediately shows he gets his software-company audience: “Results-Driven Copy and Strategy That Resonate with Today’s Overmarketed (and Hard-to-Impress) Technology Buyer.” Carol Tice – OK, obviously, I’m biased here. But I did work hard redoing my site, and I do get a lot of nice gigs through it. I’m particularly pleased with my resume page, which is now a tab called Where I’ve Been.

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