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sentence: following posts in Lima, New York and Paris, at the end of the 60s he finally got his breakthrough: when his cartoons were published in "Paris Match" and then in the "Stern" as well, and other leading magazines around the world.

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sentence: even in China, Mordillo found many fans.

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sentence: the artist always let himself be inspired by cities.

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sentence: large, rounded Mordillo figures cavort around in his drawings with the leaning tower of Pisa, Big Ben in London and the Red Square in Moscow.

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sentence: in the early morning, he sits at his drawing desk, still today according to his own statements, and works almost ten hours a day.

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sentence: on calendars, puzzles, books for young and old, t-shirts, soft toys and clocks, his whimsical figures are still disseminated widely around the world.

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sentence: in addition, he has been working for six years on an animated film and a TV series with his figures.

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sentence: the main character in the film "Crazy Island" is a giraffe - Mordillo's favourite animal in his drawings - who has a millipede as his nemesis.

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sentence: his figures are speaking for the first time in the 3D film, which should hit cinema screens in 2019.


"I don't know exactly what they are going to say; it is odd for me," says Mordillo.


sentence: the screenplay was not written by him.

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therefore he is focussing rather on the TV series, which, like his original drawings, is being produced without words.


sentence: Provence lavender under threat from climate change

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sentence: it has become a symbol of Provence in southern France, but there is a warning that it's under threat from climate change.

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sentence: lavender is in decline because of drought-like conditions and disease-carrying insects, causing a major headache for scientists and farmers attempting to find solutions.

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sentence: Eric Chaisse, an expert at the Provence-based agricultural research institute CRIEPPAM, said: "lavender in Provence is effectively endangered, because in recent years the plant has been subjected to the effects of climate change that brought a lot less rain in the spring and mostly in the autumn.

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sentence: this affects the lifespan of lavender.


sentence: there's also a small cicada, a micro-bacteria transmitting leaf hopper, and in very dry weather there are lots of them. "

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and a lot is at stake.


sentence: as well as attracting holidaymakers, lavender oil is highly sought after for perfume and cosmetics.

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sentence: Eric Chaisse said: "instead of having very long plant ears with a number of large flowers, we have smaller ones, underdeveloped and either missing or weakened.

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sentence: so we have fewer parts with essential oil. "

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sentence: solutions being looked at include better water distribution and slowing down evaporation from the soil, but also spraying the plants with a protective mix of clay and water and developing varieties more resistant to dry conditions.

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the small town of Geisa in the Thuringian Rhön Mountains is today celebrating its 1200-year anniversary.


the highlight of the festivities will be this Saturday and Sunday, with a Medieval festival.


sentence: on these days, you should be able to experience grocers, guilds, merchants, vagrants or a Landsknecht camp in the town centre.

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sentence: a journalist's murder underscores growing threat in Mexico

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sentence: the staff of the weekly newspaper Riodoce normally meets on Wednesdays to review their plans for coverage of the most recent mayhem wrought in Sinaloa state by organized crime, corrupt officials and ceaseless drug wars.

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sentence: but on this day, in the shadow of their own tragedy, they've come together to talk about security.

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sentence: two senior journalists discuss what feels safer: to take their children with them to the office, which was the target of a grenade attack in 2009, or to leave them at home.

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sentence: security experts have written three words on a blackboard at the front of the room: adversaries, neutrals, allies.

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sentence: they ask the reporters to suggest names for each column - no proof is needed, perceptions and gut feelings are enough.

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sentence: there are drug-traffickers, politicians, businesspeople, journalists suspected of being on the payroll of the government or the cartels, a catalog of villains who make the job of covering Mexico's chaos perilous.

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sentence: there is no respite from the violence, and as bodies pile up across the country, more and more of them are journalists: at least 25 since President Enrique Pena Nieto took office in December 2012, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists; 589 under federal protection after attacks and threats; and so far this year, at least seven dead in seven states.

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among the latest is their editor and inspiration, Riodoce co-founder Javier Valdez Cardenas.


sentence: "the greatest error is to live in Mexico and to be a journalist," Valdez wrote in one of his many books on narco-violence.

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sentence: his absence is felt deeply, although his presence is everywhere - a large photo of Valdez displaying his middle finger, with the word "Justice," hangs on the facade of the Riodoce building; two reporters on their 30s, Aaron Ibarra and Miriam Ramirez, wear T-shirts that display his smiling, bespectacled face or his trademark Panama hat.

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sentence: the workshop takes place less than two months after his death; the reporters discuss their shared trauma, their nightmares, insomnia, paranoia.

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sentence: although a special federal prosecutor's office was established in 2010 to handle the journalists' cases, it has only prosecuted two, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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sentence: as with most of the thousands of murders tied to drug trafficking and organized crime each year, the killers of journalists are rarely brought to justice.

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sentence: at Riodoce, they persist in covering the violence of Sinaloa, though they are heartbroken, though the terrain is more treacherous now.

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sentence: without information on the killers, without justice, the meeting to discuss security, says Ibarra, is of little use.

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sentence: "it's very foolish to waste my time in this workshop," he says.

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"as long as we don't know why, you distrust everyone."


sentence: on the morning of May 15, Valdez left the Riodoce office in the state capital of Culiacan.

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sentence: he managed to drive just a couple blocks before his red Toyota Corolla was stopped by two men; he was forced out of his car and shot 12 times, presumably for the name of the paper - which translates as Twelfth River.

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sentence: the gunman drove away in his car and crashed it nearby.


sentence: Valdez was 50 years old.

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sentence: he left a wife and two adult children.

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sentence: rumors tend to fly freely in Culiacan.

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sentence: but on the subject of Valdez, there's practically nothing but silence.

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sentence: since Guzman's arrest last year and extradition to the United States in January, Sinaloa has been one of the country's bloodiest battlegrounds as rival factions fight to fill the vacuum.

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sentence: never mind that someone or several people are shot dead in the street every day in Sinaloa, or that the cemetery is filled with ornate, two-story mausoleums for drug kings, larger than many homes for the living.

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sentence: forget for a minute that a state of "calm" is when just one cartel is in control of the coastal state with its valuable ports and drug-trafficking routes to the United States.

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sentence: despite that, and the fact that Valdez was intimately aware of the perils of his work, Ismail Bojorquez, 60, a co-founder and director of Riodoce, is wracked with guilt for failing to protect his friend.

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he believes two errors contributed to the killing.


sentence: first there was the publication in February of an interview with Damaso Lopez, a leader of one of the rival cartel factions at war with Guzman's sons.

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the piece may have angered the sons; suspected gang members bought up every copy of the edition as soon as they were delivered to newsstands.


sentence: the second mistake was not forcing Valdez to leave the country for his own safety after the seizure of another newspaper that carried the same story.

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sentence: Valdez was a legend in Mexico and abroad, and his killing is seen as a milestone in Mexican violence against journalists.

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sentence: he'd survived for so long, his friends and colleagues assumed he'd always be there.

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he was a veteran reporter for noroeste in 2003 when he joined five colleagues in creating Riodoce, selling $50 shares.


in Sinaloa, "it was impossible to do journalism without touching the narco issue," said Bojorquez.


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sentence: reporters loved being able to publish hard-hitting investigations without fear of censorship, and readers were fascinated by a publication where they could read stories nobody else dared to cover.

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sentence: eight years after Riodoce was founded, it won the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot award for coverage in Latin America.

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sentence: that same year, Valdez won the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists for his courage in pursuing the Mexican drug story wherever it led.

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he freely acknowledged that he was frightened.


"I want to carry on living," he said at the time of the CPJ award.


drug trafficking in Sinaloa "is a way of life," he said last October, in an interview with Rompeviento TV.


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I don't want to be asked, 'What were you doing in the face of so much death... why didn't you say what was going on?' "


sentence: the Riodoce staff misses Valdez, the jokester who swore like a longshoreman, the friend generous with hugs and advice, a teacher who knew how to survive.

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he would always wear his hat.


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sentence: now, they ask: was his love of routine his downfall?

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sentence: his death also has forced them to question their own assumptions about how best to do their jobs and stay alive.

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sentence: "they don't like it if you mess with their women, their children, their clean businesses, their clandestine airstrips" used to move drugs.

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sentence: "those things were off-limits," said Bojorquez.

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sentence: the result is, even in the best of times, a high-level of self-censorship and self-preservation.

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trusting one's instincts.


if it smells wrong, stay away.


sentence: the trouble, said Riodoce editor Andres Villarreal, is that "smell is a sense that can be fooled... and then the thing with Javier happened."

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sentence: the old rules, he and others say, no longer apply in Sinaloa - just as they don't in Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Guerrero and other states that are home to a toxic mix of lucrative smuggling routes, weak institutions and corrupt government officials.

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the landscape constantly shifts.


sentence: in the room where Riodoce staff met for security training, suddenly no cellphones were allowed; days before, it was revealed that spyware sold exclusively to governments had been used to monitor journalists and activists in Mexico.

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sentence: they were assigned by the state government to guard Riodoce's offices, housed in a four-story building in a middle-class neighborhood of Culiacan.

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sentence: half-jokingly, some of the reporters wondered whether these officers are among the 50 percent of cops whom the governor himself has said are not trustworthy.

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sentence: it has been months since the reporters have gone into the mountainous countryside, where the drug gangs are in de facto control.

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sentence: for this week's edition Riodoce was looking at three main stories.

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there was the killing of former boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez's brother in Sinaloa.


sentence: they also had an expose on government spending concentrated in the governor's hometown.


sentence: and there was a group kidnapping in one of Culiacan's most expensive restaurants, a block from the prosecutor's office.

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sentence: there was no official word on who was abducted or how it happened, so caution set in when it came time to write what everyone in the city knows: that the restaurant is a favorite of both drug traffickers and authorities.

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sentence: a reporter learned from public records that the restaurant was registered under the name of a politician belonging to the ruling Institutional Revolution Party, or PRI, which dominated all levels of politics for nearly all of the last century.

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sentence: recently several PRI governors have been accused of corruption in high-profile cases.

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sentence: Villarreal asked the reporter to write about prior incidents in that locale, including one in which a son of "El chapo" Guzman escaped a military raid.

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sentence: just months before, readers would have looked to Valdez's column for the best-sourced information about the kidnapping.

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"before, we would have already known what happened," said Villarreal, 46, nicknamed "El flaco" for his slender build.


sentence: "now all channels of communication with our sources have been broken."

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sentence: Valdez's office has been repurposed as a storage room for signs and stickers protesting journalist killings, as staff have become something they never expected to be: activists on behalf of the press.

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sentence: reporter Miriam Ramirez grabbed a few of the signs and headed out the next morning for a demonstration at the local prosecutor's office over yet another journalist.

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sentence: Salvador Adame disappeared in the western state of Michoacan three days after Valdez was killed.

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sentence: a burned body has been discovered and officials say it is his, based on DNA tests.

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sentence: nationwide, journalists have become more vocal, scrawling "SOS Press" on sidewalks and buildings in organized protests.

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sentence: on this day, the director Bojorquez is away in Washington, trying to rally international support for justice in the Valdez case.

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sentence: at a meeting with the governor of Sinaloa the day after Valdez was killed, Ramirez accused authorities of spying on journalists and having them killed for telling the truth.

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she has since asked to be reassigned from covering the government, concerned that her anger has hurt her objectivity.


sentence: Valdez had repeatedly said that journalists in Mexico are "surrounded" by organized crime, complicit government officials and an indifferent society.

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sentence: in his last book, "Narco-journalism," he wrote that reporters are being killed not just by drug gangs but on the order of politicians and security forces in cahoots with organized crime.

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sentence: the media watchdog group articulo 19 attributed more than half of attacks on journalists last year to police and public officials.

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"in Mexico you die because they want to shut you up," Ramirez said.


sentence: clearly, the murders have a chilling effect.

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sentence: no one forgets the death six years ago of blogger Maria Elizabeth Macias in the northern border state of Tamaulipas.

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sentence: her body was found along with a note purportedly signed by the Zetas cartel: "here I am because of my reports."

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sentence: a computer keyboard and headphones lay next to her severed head.

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sentence: some outlets have opted to close, such as the newspaper El Norte, in the northern border state of Chihuahua, after the killing of correspondent Miroslava Breach in March.

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others keep going, as El Manana of Nuevo Laredo did following the killing of its director in 2004.


in 2010, Diario de Ciudad Juarez addressed the drug cartels publicly with a front-page editorial titled, "What do you want from us?"


sentence: some journalists have fled their home states or even the country.

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it's a wrenching decision.


sentence: it's hard to find work in exile, and they still scan the streets, looking for danger.

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sentence: and sometimes, they are hunted down, as apparently was photographer Ruben Espinosa, who was murdered in 2015 along with four women in a Mexico City apartment three months after fleeing Veracruz.

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sentence: for those who stay behind and continue the work, it's a daily dance of high-risk decisions.

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sentence: Ibarra - who once wanted to be a poet - admits that covering the drug trade scares him.

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"Mexico is going to hell, and that's why I became a reporter," he said.


sentence: at midnight on a recent Friday, with the latest issue already put to bed, Riodoce editors sat on the sidewalk outside the office, drinking beer, when all at once, their phones began to buzz.

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a series of shootouts involving gang rivals and security forces near the beach resort city of Mazatlan had left 19 confirmed dead.


sentence: the war continued to escalate, as was promised by a series of cartel messages discovered in the area.

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sentence: from the curb, via cellphone, they put the news up on Riodoce's website.

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sentence: the front page would have to be changed the next day.

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sirens wailed nearby - another shootout in the area.


Bojorquez glanced over at the police officers standing guard to see if they were alert.


if they were at all afraid, they didn't show it.


sentence: beneath the massive portrait of their newspaper's fallen founder, his middle finger displayed for all of Sinaloa to see, the staff of Riodoce was following in his footsteps.

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sentence: "how can you even think of closing," Bojorquez said, "when the same day Javier was killed the intern asked me to send her out to report on the street?"

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sentence: dinosaur used camouflage to evade its enemies

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sentence: at first glance, it looks like a statue albeit a terrifying one.

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sentence: now researchers have revealed the first findings from the incredible rhino-sized creature found by a Canadian miner were so well preserved experts have described it as' the Mona Lisa of dinosaurs'.

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sentence: it was so well preserved, they were even able to determine the colour of its scaly skin was a reddish brown - and say it had something of a 'troubled past'.

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sentence: the report in the journal Current Biology described it as' the best-preserved armored dinosaur ever found, and one of the best dinosaur specimens in the world. '

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sentence: the fossil is a newfound species of nodosaur, which lived midway through the Cretaceous period, between 110 million and 112 million years ago.

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sentence: it's incredible well preserved state has stunned researchers, who describe it as' truly remarkable'


sentence: the armoured plant-eater is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found, according to reports in National Geographic.

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it was found by Shawn Funk, when he was digging at the Suncor Millenium Mine near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada, on March 21, 2011.


he hit something which seemed out of place from the surrounding rock, and decided to take a closer look.


the fossil he uncovered was sent to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.


sentence: they spent the next six years working on uncovering the beast within the 2,500-pound (1,100 kg) lump of earth.

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sentence: after all that hard work, the finished result is now ready to be unveiled.

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sentence: 'If you just squint your eyes a bit, you could almost believe it was sleeping, 'said lead author Caleb Brown, a scientist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum where the creature is on display.

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sentence: 'it will go down in science history as one of the most beautiful and best preserved dinosaur specimens - the Mona Lisa of dinosaurs. '

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sentence: by studying its skin, researchers found that this plant-eater, though covered in armor and resembling a walking tank, likely faced a significant threat from meat-eating dinosaurs.

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sentence: the heavily armoured dinosaur used red and white camouflage to hide from predators, and employed a shielding technique known as counter-shading, which is also used by many modern-day animals.

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sentence: this would have allowed it to better blend into its surroundings and evade its enemies, experts say, suggesting it was preyed on by larger dinosaurs.

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sentence: the 110-million-year-old creature, part of the nodosaur family, first hit headlines in May and is now on view at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

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sentence: researchers have now studied and named the beast Borealopelta markmitchelli after museum technician Mark Mitchell, one of a team who spent more than 7,000 hours painstakingly uncovering it.

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sentence: the amazing preservation of the specimen made it possible for Dr Mitchell and an international team of scientists to document the pattern and shape of scales and armour across its body.

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they discovered countershading, a common method of defence in the animal kingdom, which means the top of the creature was darker than its underside.


sentence: although countershading is common, the findings come as surprise because Borealopelta's size far exceeds that of countershaded animals alive today.

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sentence: it suggests the dinosaur was hunted by enough pressure meat-eating dinosaurs that evolution favoured concealment over confrontation as a means of survival.

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sentence: but most contemporary animals that have countershading -- think deer, zebras or armadillos -- are much smaller and more vulnerable as prey, signaling that this nodosaur faced a real struggle to survive.

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sentence: 'Strong predation on a massive, heavily-armored dinosaur illustrates just how dangerous the dinosaur predators of the Cretaceous must have been, 'said Brown.

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sentence: chemical analysis of organic compounds in its scales also reveal that the dinosaur's skin would have been reddish brown.

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sentence: scientists are continuing to study the animal for clues about its life, including its preserved gut contents to find out what it ate for its last meal.

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sentence: they believe that when the dinosaur died, it fell into a river and was swept out to sea, where it sank on its back to the ocean floor.

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sentence: at that time, Alberta was as warm as south Florida is today, and rivers and oceans likely spread far further inland than they do now.

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sentence: 'This nodosaur is truly remarkable in that it is completely covered in preserved scaly skin, yet is also preserved in three dimensions, retaining the original shape of the animal, 'said Brown.

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sentence: 'the result is that the animal looks almost the same today as it did back in the Early Cretaceous.

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sentence: you don't need to use much imagination to reconstruct it; if you just squint your eyes a bit, you could almost believe it was sleeping. '

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the Cretaceous was a time when giant theropods, meat-eating dinosaurs that stood on two legs, roamed the Earth.


sentence: although the king of them all, Tyrannosaurus rex, lived millions of years after Borealopelta, the armoured dinosaur may have been hunted by some of its formidable ancestors.

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they include Acrocanthosaurus, a 38ft (11.5m) long monster weighing six tonnes.


sentence: the scientists, whose latest findings appear in the journal Current Biology, believe Borealopelta was washed out to sea after it died and mummified in mud.

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the creature was found by Shawn Funk, when he was digging at the Millenium Mine near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada, on March 21, 2011.


sentence: according to the museum, it is the best preserved armoured dinosaur in the world, including skin and armour, and is complete from the snout to hips.

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sentence: the creatures were around 18 feet (five metres) long on average, and weighted up to 3,000 pounds (1,300 kg).

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it featured two 20-inch-long spikes which protruded from its shoulders.


sentence: the researchers believe that the this armored plant-eater lumbered through what is now western Canada, until a flooded river swept it into open sea.

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sentence: but the dinosaur's undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail.


sentence: the fossilised remains of this particular specimen are so well preserved that remnants of skin still cover bumpy armour plates along the dinosaur's skull.


sentence: as Michael Greshko wrote for National Geographic, such level of preservation 'is a rare as winning the lottery.

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the more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes.


sentence: fossilized remnants of skin still cover the bumpy armor plates dotting the animal's skull.

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sentence: its right forefoot lies by its side, its five digits splayed upward.

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I can count the scales on its sole. '


in the storm: pile-up on the A8: four injured


sentence: serious accident on Thursday evening on the A8: just shy of 30 vehicles were caught up in a mass collision.

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there are numerous people injured, kilometre-long queues - and rubberneckers.


sentence: on the motorway between Stuttgart and Munich (A8), around 20 people were injured late on Thursday afternoon in a mass collision.

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sentence: according to initial police information, just shy of 30 vehicles, among which were probably also lorries, had crashed into each other during a storm at around 5pm between the Adelzhausen and Odelzhausen junctions (in the rural district of Aichach-Friedberg).

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sentence: no information is initially available about the precise number of injured people.

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there are mild to moderate injuries, said a police spokesperson.


there was a big squad of rescue vehicles at the scene of the accident.


the A8 was completely closed in the direction of Munich.


sentence: a roughly 10-km long tailback formed in the direction travelling towards Munich.

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sentence: as an AZ journalist reports, there were massive disruptions in the opposite lane as well - due to numerous rubberneckers.

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sentence: the fire brigade noted down the registration numbers of the drivers, who are now expecting severe penalties.

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sentence: shortly after 6.45pm, there was then a second accident on the A8, this time between Augsburg and Dasing.


a collision between a car transporter and a passenger car had occurred.


a rescue helicopter was underway to the scene of the accident.


sentence: Deutsche Bahn: company trials "comfort check-in"

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sentence: it is a moment that practically everyone has experienced at one time or another: without expecting it, you're sitting in the train asleep.

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or one is buried deep in one's work and has just had a genius idea.


and then: bang.


sentence: the conductor comes and rudely awakens you, or tears the passenger from the midst of his workflow.

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ticket inspection.


but the days of being interrupted will soon be over.


Deutsche Bahn is currently trialling conductorless ticket inspection.


one simply uses one's mobile to confirm that one has taken one's seat, thereby validating the ticket.


trial operations are currently running on two lines.


"if the service is well-received, we'll extend it.


sentence: it will then probably be available at the beginning of next year on many additional long-distance lines across Germany, "said a spokesperson for the railway.

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sentence: the railway is calling this conductorless ticket validation "Comfort Check-in."


in order to use it, however, a few conditions must be met: you need a smartphone or a tablet.


sentence: and you have to have booked an online ticket - which most passengers do already anyway.

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in addition, you have to have bought it over the Railway's app, the DB Navigator, which is the most convenient way to book a ticket in any case.


and lastly, you need a seat reservation.


sentence: for "Comfort Check-in" works like this: you get on board the train and call up your ticket in "My Tickets."


the trial customers will then see a button for electronic validation.


sentence: the train attendants receive a notification on their mobile device saying that passenger X is onboard the train and has occupied booked seat Y.

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sentence: if the train attendant comes to seat Y during ticket inspection, he knows that there is a passenger there with an already validated online ticket.

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so you can carry on sleeping, working, doing nothing.


sentence: the "Check-in" has two advantages: one for customers, and one for the railway - which, in turn, should benefit passengers.

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"anyone who wants to travel in a relaxed fashion, without having his / her ticket inspected by our on-train staff, simply checks in him / herself in the DB Navigator.


sentence: this allows passengers to personalise their journey time in the train, "says Michael Peterson, Director of Marketing at DB Fernverkehr.


sentence: a second plus: "and our employees will have more time than they currently do to see to the needs of individual customers."

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sentence: anyone who travels by train a lot knows that, alongside delays and missing your train, ticket inspection is one of the biggest annoyances.

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for often you yourself, or, in any case, one of your fellow passengers, doesn't have all the documentation on them that one needs to validate an online ticket.


sentence: either the credit card is missing, or the ID card, or some other document that one needs to show.

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sentence: the result is endless discussions between the train attendant and passenger, which leads to a bad atmosphere in the compartment or wider area and delays in one's own ticket getting checked, and ultimately it takes away the conductor's time to see to other matters.

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sentence: only a small number of trial customers can use the new service as of yet.

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sentence: and only on the connections ICE 915, between Dortmund and Stuttgart, and ICE 912, between Stuttgart and Essen.

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other train numbers on the same line have not yet been enabled.


sentence: how one activist came to learn the answer to the question: 'whose Streets?'

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on Aug. 9, 2014, Brittany Ferrell was shaken to her core.


sentence: just a day after arriving in New York City on a trip, the St. Louis native sat on the bed of an Airbnb she was renting, scrolling through Facebook on her phone.

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she stumbled upon a post from someone from high school.


sentence: "the police just killed an 18 year old kid and he's still laying in the street," it read.

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confused, noticing no one else on her feed had posted the information, she closed Facebook and opened Twitter.


sentence: a user with the handle @ TheePharoah was being constantly retweeted onto her timeline.

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sentence: the St. Louis-area rapper was live-tweeting the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

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sentence: he posted a picture of Brown's lifeless body stretched out in the street, where it would stay for four hours.

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"this is wild," Ferrell thought to herself.


sentence: but death was nothing new for her and her community.


sentence: she put down her phone only to return later that evening to tweets about people gathering on Canfield Drive.

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sentence: there were photos of police tape and people yelling, and of a guy claiming to be Brown's father holding a sign that read, "Ferguson police just killed my unarmed son!"

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sentence: she watched a live feed where a police officer stood in front of a group of protesters with a barking dog.

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sentence: in another video, a different cop, she said, cocked his rifle and screamed, "I'll kill all you... animals."

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"'this is not usual,'" Ferrell recalled saying.


sentence: "'this isn't the type of murder that we've become used to and can call typical.'

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sentence: in that moment I felt chills.

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I was angry and crying. "


she booked a return flight and went home the next day.


sentence: after landing at 11 p.m., she picked up her 6-year-old daughter from her dad's house and decided the two of them would head to Ferguson the next morning.

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sentence: what happened, to Ferrell and to Ferguson in the following almost three years is the subject of a new documentary, "Whose Streets?," in theaters Aug. 11.

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sentence: it's a tale of survival and protest, love and loss, strength and resilience from the vantage point of the people who live in the community and packed the streets demanding answers.

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sentence: as Ferrell drove to Ferguson with her daughter, who was wearing a floral dress and matching crown, the two revisited a conversation they'd had countless times before that morning "about the black experience and black condition."

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"you remember how I taught you about when black people had to fight for what they believed in?" she recalled saying.


sentence: "we're going to Ferguson right now because the police killed an 18-year-old boy and it wasn't right.

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I couldn't not take her, "Ferrell said later.


sentence: "this happening today is a culmination of... that has happened in the past.

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she needs to know it and see it and be raised in it.


sentence: she needs to be well developed in the area of not just activism and organizing but knowing the different layers of the black experience and the black condition and what we must do to get free, to free ourselves.

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sentence: even if I'm fortunate enough to provide her an experience where she doesn't personally experience blatant racism, she is no different than the next black woman-child.

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I feel like I would be doing her a disservice to shield her from that. "


the first stop when they arrived in Ferguson was on South Florissant Road, a site across from the police department that became a campground of sorts as the activists awaited word of Officer Darren Wilson's eventual non-indictment.


sentence: there Ferrell and her daughter linked up with a local business owner who was making sack lunches.

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they prepared bags and helped pass them out to protesters.


sentence: slowly, a new type of activism began to take shape for Ferrell.

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sentence: "my activism completely transformed after Aug. 9," she said, noting that while an undergrad at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she was president of the Minority Student Nurses Assn. and focused on food justice and health disparities in black communities.

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sentence: "I had no experience in organizing.


it all just came. "


sentence: weeks later, Ferrell met Sabaah Folayan, one of the film's co-directors, during an evening demonstration.

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Folayan said she and her director of photography Lucas Alvarado-Farrar "just wanted to document" what was happening.


sentence: a question came to Ferrell's mind: "do you want to document or are you trying to find a story that you can exploit?"

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sentence: that skepticism was informed by countless instances of people - often white - coming into a community to profit off its pain and resilience.

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sentence: as Folayan explained in a recent interview, "We had heard that people who are born and raised in Ferguson were not having their voices centered, and we wanted to do it differently."

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sentence: Folayan had already linked up with co-director Damon Davis, an area artist known for his activism around death row inmates.

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sentence: his involvement endeared Ferrell to the project, along with six other locals the "Whose Streets?" team followed in the years after Brown's shooting.

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sentence: "this documentary is not somebody speaking for us or speaking to us, it's us speaking," Davis said.

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sentence: "that was the main thing for me, how these people will be represented, because that's how I will be represented."

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sentence: while the goal wasn't to focus on Ferrell's experience - in an effort to show that the movement is "not about a messiah leader but a community coming together," Folayan said - she proved to be the most open of the film's participants.

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sentence: as a result, "Whose Streets?" documents surprisingly personal aspects of Ferrell's life, like falling in love and marrying her wife.

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sentence: "I felt like I was naked," said Ferrell, laughing about the first time she saw the finished product.

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"but I understood that with doing this work and humanizing black folks, there has to be a level of vulnerability."


sentence: moreover, Ferrell's story reiterates and re-centers the role of black queer women in the broader Black Lives Matter movement.

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sentence: two of the movement's three founders - who coined # BlackLivesMatter on social media in the aftermath of the 2012 killing of black teen Trayvon Martin - identify as queer.

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sentence: "black queer women in leadership has sustained the movement overall," said Ferrell, "and that's because we're constantly at battle on multiple fronts.


sentence: black queer women have to bear the brunt of it all. "


sentence: Folayan agreed noting that "the movement is really upheld by black women and a lot of queer black women."


sentence: she insists, however, that "this is not some affirmative action type of thing" where Ferrell was chosen as the film's heart because of her identities.

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sentence: "she was the person who was galvanizing this energy," she said.

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sentence: "it's not a coincidence though she was on the front lines, because living life at those intersections as a black queer woman, you have so much on the line.

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sentence: you can feel her energy through the screen. "

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sentence: meanwhile, back in Ferguson, the news cameras are long gone but fraught racial ties between the community and police persist.

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sentence: Ferrell is on probation for 2 ½ more years for blocking a highway during a demonstration.

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sentence: she describes the socio-political atmosphere of the area she calls home simply: "a mess."

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sentence: still, she clings to a chant she's committed to memory since taking to Ferguson's streets a full three years ago.

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sentence: "it is our duty to fight for our freedom.

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sentence: it is our duty to win.


we must love and support each other.


we have nothing to lose but our chains. "


from "dream" to "megalomania": TV readers discuss the Bit Galerie


the Bit Galerie is moving people although it is still far from being built.


sentence: but the idea of a shopping centre at the south end of the pedestrian zone has been splitting the population into those for and against since its first presentation in 2009.

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there is barely anyone left indifferent to the matter.


sentence: the topic is also being discussed on our Facebook page, "Volksfreund Bitburg."

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sentence: whereas some say of the Bit Galerie, "That would be a dream" (Anja Becker) or, "That would be really fantastic" (Nicole Schausten), from the other side we hear, "No-one needs that" (Siggi Betzen) or, put quite bluntly: "megalomania!" (Lars Scholz).

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sentence: whilst those in favour count on the gallery drawing more customers into the town, which would benefit the other businesses as well, opponents fear that the pedestrian zone will then be haemorrhaged.

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sentence: in addition: the gallery is being planned for exactly the plot where the covered farmers' market is, where 13 direct sellers offer their products.

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sentence: when construction begins, that will be the end of that.

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the Galerie creators want to integrate a covered market into the new building - and, indeed, towards Beda Platz, with the possibility of sitting outside.


sentence: Simone Zimmer: "we have been shopping almost weekly in the covered market for years now.


sentence: principally our eggs, but also, always with great pleasure, the delicious cakes of our rural women.

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we have also discovered the butcher's for ourselves.


sentence: we hope that also while the Galerie is being built, but above all after, there will be the chance to maintain this offering.

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sentence: that's what they have in other cities too.

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the small covered market in Frankfurt, in particular, is interesting. "


sentence: Gerd Densing: "whether direct sellers settle in a covered market in the gallery depends on the level of the rent.

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sentence: but that is not exactly likely to be low for the new project. "

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Eva Kilic: "why a shopping palace in Bitburg?


sentence: whether clothing, shoes, drug stores or supermarkets: I find it unnecessary.

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sentence: there are plenty of those in our city already.

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sentence: one sees, though, how many shop premises stand empty here - some for months and years.

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however, since there is not even a regular weekly market here, it is all the more important that we at least get to keep the covered market.


for after all, the goods on offer there are fresh, are largely offered directly by the producer, and are good value to boot.


sentence: as you see, shop premises in shopping centres are only rented by big companies, because the rents there are often not tenable for retail traders.

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shame - there are hardly any specialist shops left any more and those that are still around will then probably also disappear. "


Wolf Fandel: "a shopping centre with a covered market doesn't match up for me.


and the Galerie doesn't suit Bitburg.


in particular: where should the covered market go while construction is ongoing?


the old Edeka would be the solution - even in the long term, if the Bit Galerie does actually arrive eventually.


sentence: or is the spectre of the Bit Galerie managing even ahead of time to drive all businesses out of Bitburg? "

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George Marquet: "it simply will not work.


and a shopping centre that stands empty - no-one needs that either.


sentence: in my opinion, it would be better to support a proper farmers' market, instead of this Galerie.

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but there is no space left for a covered market thanks to the crazily large number - as I see it - of pointless construction projects in Bitburg


if the covered market is destroyed, then another piece of culture will disappear. "


a Becoming resemblance: artist creates portraits using Chelsea Manning's DNA


sentence: in the center of the room at New York's Fridman Gallery are multiple faces - white, black and brown, each bearing an almost imperceptible resemblance to one another - suspended on wires from the ceiling.

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the 30 portraits were created by the artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg from cheek swabs and hair clippings sent to her by Chelsea Manning.


sentence: manning sent the clippings from the Fort Leavenworth prison, where the former intelligence analyst was serving a 35-year sentence after famously leaking classified diplomatic cables through the website WikiLeaks.

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sentence: the new exhibition, which opened on 2 August, is titled A Becoming resemblance.

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sentence: it's the product of two years of correspondence between Dewey-Hagborg, whose discipline combines her expertise in technology, computer science and art, and Manning, a trans woman and pioneering dissident whose sentence was commuted by Barack Obama when he had just three days left in office.

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sentence: by algorithmically analyzing DNA extracted from Manning and using it to create 30 portraits of what someone with that genomic data might look like, Dewey-Hagborg has created a trenchant, if somewhat cerebral, commentary on not only the malleability of DNA data - the many ways it can be interpreted, and the inherent determinism of those interpretations - but also identity.

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sentence: manning, who was born Bradley Edward but has spoken openly about identifying as a woman as early as adolescence, was convicted in 2013 on 20 charges, including six Espionage Act violations, computer fraud and theft.

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sentence: from prison, her image was repressed, so much so that there was just one photo - a granular, black-and-white SELFIE in which Manning, visibly uneasy, sits in a driver's seat wearing a platinum blonde wig - with which she became associated.

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sentence: in 2015, Dewey-Hagborg was coming off the massive success of her 2012 project, Stranger Visions.

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sentence: in it, the artist produced portraits of strangers from forensic artifacts like cigarette butts and chewing gum, extracting DNA from the detritus to conjure an image of what these folks might look like.

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that was when she received an email from Paper Magazine.


sentence: "they were conducting an interview with Chelsea Manning while she was in prison and they wanted some kind of portrait to accompany that article," Dewey-Hagborg explained at a press preview of the new exhibition.

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sentence: and she couldn't be visited and she couldn't be photographed at that time, so they reached out to Chelsea and asked if she'd be interested in having a DNA portrait made.


sentence: the artist and her incarcerated muse became unlikely pen pals, exchanging several letters over the course of two years.

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sentence: they even created a comic book, suppressed Images, illustrated by Shoili Kanungo, that envisioned a future where the president would commute Chelsea's sentence and she'd be able to see the exhibition in person.

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sentence: that Obama would indeed call for Manning's release just days after the book went public was a welcome sort of serendipity after seven brutal years at a military prison in Kansas.

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sentence: there's also something profound and powerful about the exhibition opening now, as Donald Trump wages war on government leakers and transgender troops while finding new, tweetable ways to further inflame the stark divisions he's been called on to mend.

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sentence: when asked about the peculiar timing of it all, Dewey-Hagborg said that "things happen for a reason."

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sentence: in an artist statement written on the gallery's wall, Manning's super-sized signature below it (the "i" in her last name dotted with a heart), called for an end to the "automatic factionalism that gender, race, sexuality, and culture have been the basis of."

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sentence: on the opposite wall is her mitochondrial DNA sequence - a centipede of Cs and Gs and As, written in pencil.

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sentence: by including the 200 letters (or nucleotides, per the artist's sophisticated scientific lexicon), Dewey-Hagborg hoped to illustrate how astoundingly similar, at least in biological makeup, we all are.

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sentence: "what I'm hoping that people will take away from this is that our genome doesn't care about who we are, and how open genetic data is to interpretation, how subjective it is," said Dewey-Hagborg, whose 2007 video work, Spurious Memories, is also on display.

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"DNA data can tell so many different stories, so this is 30 of those stories."


sentence: the final piece in the exhibition, which is contained in a single room, is one page from the aforementioned graphic novella.

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sentence: it shows Manning, emerging, King Kong-esque, from the United States Disiplinary Barracks with a speakerphone in hand.

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sentence: "when they chill your speech, then they've won," it reads.

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"so never shut up."


sentence: "it came directly from a letter that she wrote to me," the artist, who hails from Philadelphia, said.

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sentence: "I get goosebumps still talking about it."

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sentence: manning hasn't seen the exhibition in-person yet - as was so presciently imagined in the comic book - but when she does, she'll be greeted in the center of the room by the masks, her own genomic simulacra congregated like hordes of protesters.

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sentence: that was purposeful, too, as is everything in the exhibition, down to the height (5 "2, Manning's stature) at which her genetic haplogroups were written in pencil.


sentence: "in the past, I've had them on the wall but I wanted them to feel like a crowd," Dewey-Hagborg said of the portraits.

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sentence: "I wanted it to feel like a mass movement that was forming with Chelsea, like the movement that was behind freeing her as well."

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northwestern Professor and Oxford University Employee Wanted for Homicide


sentence: a nationwide manhunt is underway for a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee who are wanted as suspects after a man was found fatally stabbed inside a luxury Chicago apartment, police said.

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sentence: on Monday, first-degree murder warrants without bail were issued for Wyndham Lathem, 42, and Andrew Warren, 56, for their alleged involvement in the death of Trenton H. James Cornell-Duranleau, Cook County court records show.

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sentence: the documents say Cornell-Duranleau, 26, died after being stabbed multiple times.

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a community alert released by the Chicago Police Department says the body was discovered on July 27.


sentence: officers received a call and arrived at the Grand Plaza Apartments and found the victim with several lacerations on his body.

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sentence: Cornell-Duranleau was pronounced dead on the scene and detectives are investigating the stabbing as a homicide while police actively search for the two suspects, officials said.

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sentence: Lathem has been an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University since 2007.

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Alan K. Cubbage, the vice president for university relations, said in an emailed statement that Lathem is now on administrative leave and has been banned from entering Northwestern University campuses.


"this is now a criminal matter under investigation by the appropriate authorities, and Northwestern University is cooperating in that investigation," Cubbage said.


Warren is a senior treasury assistant at Oxford University.


sentence: a spokesperson for the university and Somerville College said in an emailed statement that, "We have been in contact with the police in the UK and are ready to help the US investigating authorities in any way they need."

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the statement added that Warren's colleagues were shocked and want him to turn himself in.


chief Communications Officer of the Chicago Police Department Anthony Guglielmi said he strongly encourages the suspects to surrender to authorities.


sentence: "police have an idea of their whereabouts but our efforts to locate that are intensifying," Guglielmi said.


Guglielmi said local, regional and national authorities are helping find the suspects.


sentence: Guglielmi said police received a call from the Grand Plaza building manager who had just received a cryptic tip that said something had occurred in apartment 1008.

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sentence: police described the scene as very gruesome.


sentence: Guglielmi said it is unclear if the incident also occurred on July 27.

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sentence: Lathem and Warren were confirmed to be at the building by security cameras, he said.


"we believe Professor Latham and the victim had a relationship," Guglielmi said.


sentence: the management team at Grand Plaza released a statement to residents saying, "Police are currently working on the timeline and background of the victim and are exploring a variety of motives, including a possible domestic incident."

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sentence: "we'll complete WADA roadmap in near future" - Russian Deputy PM Mutko

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has said it will not take long to implement the remaining World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) criteria for the reinstatement of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RusADA).


sentence: "a certain stage of fulfilling the road map criteria has been carried out, RusADA obtained the right to plan and test in cooperation with UKAD (UK Anti-Doping).

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the WADA roadmap was updated in this regard, "Mutko stated on Thursday.


sentence: the PM was commenting on the second part of WADA's Roadmap to Code Compliance, which describes the criteria for the reinstatement of RusADA and which recently published on the organization's website.

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according to Mutko, it does not contain anything that could cause concern for Russia.


"everything has been announced, everything will be implemented.


sentence: and the results will be presented to the International Olympic Committee [IOC] and WADA in the near future, "he added.

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sentence: one of the criteria mentioned in the list, however, states that Russian anti-doping authorities must publically accept the reported outcomes of the WADA-sanctioned investigation by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren on alleged state-sponsored doping in Russian sport.

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referring to the matter, Mutko said: "we are conducting the investigation, as our anti-doping system admitted a failure.


all measures have been implemented.


sentence: but there were no state programs, and we will not admit something that didn't exist. "

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sentence: Mutko's words echoed those of Vitaly Smirnov, the head of Russia's Independent Public Anti-Doping Commission.

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sentence: talking to Russian outlet RSport earlier in the day, Smirnov admitted past problems in Russian anti-doping bodies, but added: "we have said on numerous occasions, that the report contains controversial positions and regulations.

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sentence: no one plans to accept this report unconditionally, "Smirnov added.


sentence: RusADA was suspended from carrying out doping controls within Russia by WADA in November 2015 in the wake of the doping scandal.

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sentence: it was, however, permitted to plan and coordinate testing under the supervision of international experts and UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) this June.

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sentence: following a visit to the organization's headquarters in Moscow in July, WADA Director General Olivier Niggli stated that RusADA is "moving in the right direction" to be reinstated.

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sentence: Aldi is selling no more eggs for the time being

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this was announced by the corporate group.


it is a purely precautionary measure, and beyond that, no adverse effects on health can be assumed, said the announcement.


sentence: with immediate effect, only eggs that have been proven to test negatively for fipronil-containing anti-lice agent may be delivered to Aldi.

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sentence: with the move, Aldi wanted to create clarity and transparency for its customers.

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sentence: the start-ups that will help your company avoid becoming the next Uber

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Amy Errett wanted to gauge employee happiness at her e-commerce start-up, but surveys weren't working.


responses were often vague, unhelpful or, worse, deceitful.


sentence: and even if she promised anonymity, some workers didn't trust the process.

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sentence: "it just never had consistency and objectivity," said Errett, who runs the 75-person San Francisco e-commerce hair care company Madison Reed.

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sentence: so she called in outsiders for help.

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sentence: a new breed of human resources start-ups is cropping up to help companies figure out how their employees feel.

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sentence: by building and licensing software that has the specific purpose of measuring employee engagement, they allow companies to do snap polls, target specific teams and demographic groups, offer employees anonymity and complaint hotlines, and in some cases allow whistle-blowers to bypass C-suite executives and go straight to the board of directors.

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sentence: "you've now got tools such as strava and Fitbit for tracking your health, but where's the Fitbit for your company?" said Jim Barnett, co-founder and chief executive of Redwood City start-up glint, whose software analytics tools are used by companies to measure employee engagement.

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sentence: Errett said she gained more insight into what her employees were thinking and feeling in three years using glint.

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sentence: in addition to the snap surveys and polls of specific teams, it offers a heat map of the company showing at a glance which units have the most complaints and which managers have low approval scores - allowing her to drill down on why.

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sentence: companies are coming to realize they must stay on top of their workplace culture, lest they become the next Uber, which has been enmeshed in scandal since a former employee published a blog post describing an environment of harassment where those who spoke out were punished.

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for start-ups such as glint, this desire for oversight is a lucrative business opportunity.


sentence: the global governance, regulation and compliance industry could be worth more than $118.7 billion by 2020, according to finance tech insights website Let's Talk Payments.

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sentence: Denver, Colo., start-up Convercent, which helps companies prevent and detect bad behavior, saw an uptick in interest and activity earlier this year amid Uber's fall into disrepute.

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Convercent has nearly 600 clients, including Airbnb, Microsoft, and Tesla.


sentence: Uber recently signed up as a client.

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sentence: like glint, Convercent lets companies send customized "pulse" surveys, gather confidential responses in real time, and view heat maps of its problem areas.

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it also offers an anonymous texting hotline that lets employees report bad behavior.


sentence: and if the chief executive is implicated, complaints go straight to the board of directors.


sentence: "the court of public opinion has usurped regulators," said Patrick Quinlan, the founder and chief executive of Convercent.

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sentence: if a company is found to treat its employees poorly or behave unethically, even if regulators don't step in, it can face costly consequences from consumer boycotts, employee attrition and lawsuits, Quinlan said.

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sentence: Ruby Tuesday, the restaurant chain with more than 25,000 employees across 500 locations, has used Convercent for more than a year to ensure employees are aware of policies and procedures and offer an easy way to reach its corporate headquarters.

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sentence: previously, if an employee wanted to report a problem, he or she had to find a phone number or email for corporate headquarters, lodge a formal complaint, and hope it was taken seriously.

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sentence: it was often an intimidating and uncomfortable experience, said James Vitrano, Ruby Tuesday's general counsel, who said there was no good way of tracking employee complaints.

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sentence: now that the company is using Convercent, though, problems that were previously hidden from executives who sat in offices cities or states away - such as discrimination, harassment or unfair wage practices - can be more quickly identified and addressed.

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sentence: "I can get closer to that holistic, 360-degree view into the employment experience," said Vitrano, who oversees Ruby Tuesday's risk management group.

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sentence: "and we're protecting our shareholders from employment litigation."

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sentence: companies started taking ethics, values and employee engagement more seriously in 2002 after accounting firm Arthur Andersen collapsed because of ethical violations from the Enron scandal, Quinlan said.

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sentence: but it wasn't until "social media came into its own" that companies realized they couldn't stop their dirty laundry from going viral online.


sentence: "prior to using technology to monitor ethics, people used hope as a strategy," he said.

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sentence: both glint and Convercent offer their software as a service, charging companies recurring fees to use their products.

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sentence: it's a business model and opportunity that has the approval of venture capital investors, who have propped up both start-ups.

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sentence: Convercent raised $10 million in funding in February from firms such as Sapphire Ventures and Tola Capital, bringing its total capital raised to $47 million.

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sentence: glint secured $10 million in November from Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $60 million.


sentence: these investments hardly come as a surprise, given the interconnected nature of companies, culture and venture capital.


sentence: there's a growing body of research showing today's employees expect more from their workplaces than before.

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sentence: in competitive markets such as Silicon Valley, high salaries and interesting projects are merely table stakes.

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sentence: employees want to feel that they're accepted and valued and that they're giving their time to a company with a positive mission.

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sentence: "when people are happy to be at a company, feel their voices are heard, and that the work they are doing is rewarding, they are more committed to making that company successful," said Nina McQueen, vice president of global benefits and employee experience at LinkedIn, which uses both Convercent and glint.

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sentence: investors achieve returns when their portfolio companies do well; companies do well when employees are committed and engaged.

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if third-party analytics tools promise to increase employee commitment and engagement, it's no wonder they're finding backing.


sentence: having data on employee engagement is important, according to workplace culture experts.

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sentence: but the data are useless unless a company's custodians take action.


sentence: in fact, if a company asks employees for their feedback, it can set an expectation that change is on the way.

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sentence: and if change doesn't come fast enough, or at all, it can breed disappointment and make employees disengaged.

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sentence: "if you're going to ask for 4,000 suggestions, you need to be prepared to have 4,000 conversations," said Russell Raath, president of consulting at business management firm Kotter International, who has seen companies make the mistake of relying too much on data collection.

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"because if you don't follow through, employees will wonder, 'Did you really hear me?


do you care?


and if you don't care, why should I care? '"


sentence: Madison Reed, which now does monthly employee surveys, has been able to take action the same day a problem is reported on glint, according to Errett.

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sentence: and, after gathering feedback from employees frustrated by the speed of decision-making and the quality of communication, she was able to reorganize several teams within the company and add communication training to address the issues.

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sentence: over at Ruby Tuesday, the company is getting new insight on its employees, and it's hoping that in the long run, this will convert to better retention of workers in an industry known for high turnover.

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sentence: "if you're not committed to creating a culture of transparency, you're going to lose people," Vitrano said.

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sentence: "and if you lose people, you're going to lose customers.

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sentence: and when you lose customers, you're going to lose companies. "

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sentence: the NCAA's elimination of two-a-day practices makes for a long day for the Bruins


sentence: it's pushing 11 p.m. as a throng of UCLA football players linger to chat on one side of the team's new on-campus practice fields.

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sentence: some have peeled off their jersey tops, revealing backs slick with sweat from the toil of the first day of training camp.

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sentence: for a good chunk of the team, these idle minutes constitute a midday break.

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sentence: players enrolled in summer classes will head back to their dorms after the three-hour practice to study for final exams before returning to the WASSERMAN Football Center for meetings at 6: 30 the following morning.

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sentence: "this is a grind for these guys the next three days," Bruins coach Jim Mora said not long before Monday turned into Tuesday.

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sentence: the NCAA's elimination of two-a-day practices, designed to lighten the load on players, has actually lengthened their days - at least until finals end Friday.

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sentence: that's why UCLA's first three practices were scheduled to begin at 7: 15 p.m. to accommodate players' already crammed schedules.

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sentence: the trade-off from no two-a-days is more one-a-days, the Bruins pushing up the start of camp nearly a week from last season and holding practices during summer school for the first time during Mora's six seasons in Westwood.

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sentence: they are scheduled to hold 18 practices through Aug. 20 before beginning formal game preparations for their opener against Texas A & M on Sept.


sentence: mora said he supported the NCAA's rule change even if it did add another item to players' busy itineraries.


sentence: "we're putting this enormous load on them for three or four days and it's very challenging," Mora said.


"and they've just pushed through it; they grind, they're great kids.


sentence: I think once we get to Saturday and we'll have more time, it will really be great. "

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sentence: UCLA will close its practices once camp is finished, no easy task given the clear sight lines of its fields from an adjacent parking lot and the adjoining Luskin Center, an upscale hotel that has already been pelted with footballs that cleared a protective net behind a goalpost.

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sentence: Bruins players are scheduled to occupy the hotel beginning this weekend, but Mora acknowledged that there could be an issue once those rooms are vacant during the season.

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sentence: "we will have security," Mora said.

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sentence: "that is a real concern and it's not far-fetched to think that people can rent a room and sit up there and videotape a practice.

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if you have videotape of a practice, it's a pretty good deal.


but we'll have security there and we'll have security up in Parking Lot 8.


we'll do the best we can with what we got.


I'm not going to worry too much about it.


sentence: we have a plan in place. "

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sentence: Facebook to step up fact-checking in fight against fake news

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Facebook is to send more potential hoax articles to third-party fact checkers and show their findings below the original post, the world's largest online social network said on Thursday as it tries to fight so-called fake news.


sentence: the company said in a statement on its website it will start using updated machine learning to detect possible hoaxes and send them to fact checkers, potentially showing fact-checking results under the original article.

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Facebook has been criticized as being one of the main distribution points for so-called fake news, which many think influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential election.


sentence: the issue has also become a big political topic in Europe, with French voters deluged with false stories ahead of the presidential election in May and Germany backing a plan to fine social media networks if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly, ahead of elections there in September.

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sentence: on Thursday Facebook said in a separate statement in German that a test of the new fact-checking feature was being launched in the United States, France, the Netherlands and Germany.


sentence: "in addition to seeing which stories are disputed by third-party fact checkers, people want more context to make informed decisions about what they read and share," said Sara Su, Facebook news feed product manager, in a blog.

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sentence: she added that Facebook would keep testing its "related article" feature and work on other changes to its news feed to cut down on false news.

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sentence: building a graphic novel: a Castle in England's story

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sentence: in its recent past, the diminutive Scotney Castle has featured in a Squeeze music video and been a bolthole for Margaret Thatcher during the 1970s and 1980s.

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sentence: but Scotney has witnessed 700 years of tumultuous history from its cosy seat in Bewl River valley in Kent, now inspiration for a graphic novel written by Jamie Rhodes, a mop-haired Yorkshireman with a penchant for historical documents.

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sentence: "I find it so beautiful to look at the handwriting of someone who has been dead for 300 years," he says wistfully.


sentence: "what a personal connection, to hold that letter in my hand."

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sentence: spanning the middle ages to the Edwardian era, A Castle in England documents the families that lived in Scotney, with each story illustrated by a different, upcoming UK artist - Isaac Lenkiewicz, Briony May Smith, William Exley, Becky Palmer and Isabel Greenberg.

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sentence: it is not Rhodes's first book based on an archive: he also wrote 2014's Dead Men's Teeth and Other Stories, a collection inspired by documents in the British Library - a project he found unexpectedly emotional.

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sentence: "I welled up at just the thumbprint on the side of a letter, written by a double agent in the 1700s who was working for the Jacobites," he says.


"that's his thumbprint!


sentence: and letters always smell like smoke because, back then, you lit a fire for light.

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sentence: to someone 300 years in the future, the smell makes it feel like they're there, too.

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sentence: AH, I love archives! "

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sentence: for someone so smitten with old papers, getting support from the National Trust and Arts Council England and living in a castle for almost four months ("I overstayed my welcome a little bit, to be honest") seems too good to be true.

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sentence: Rhodes spent his days exploring the Victorian "new" castle, going through the archives and studying the manor's many treasures and curios, such as the mounted hyena heads on the walls and bottles that had spent centuries in the moat.

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