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COVID-19 Revealed Longstanding Problems in Our Social Safety Net. It’s Time to Address Them.

The unfortunate truth about crises is that they tend to reveal longstanding problems that we chose to ignore—because we could, or at least thought we could.




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Considering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Era of COVID-19

The guest for this episode of On the Evidence is Ralanda Nelson, the new associate director for diversity at Mathematica.




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Rajan Nanda: The man who fast-tracked Escorts' tractor business

It is interesting that Nanda tried his hands over multiple businesses but in his lifetime realised the need to focus on the core, which is, tractor beside construction and railway equipment




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Children's virtual play worlds: culture, learning, and participation / edited by Anne Burke & Jackie Marsh

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Gameworlds: virtual media and children's everyday play / Seth Giddings

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Translation and localisation in video games: making entertainment software global / Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino

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Atari to Zelda: Japan's videogames in global contexts / Mia Consalvo

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Playback: a genealogy of 1980s British videogames / Alex Wade

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The monopolists: obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game / Mary Pilon

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The advanced game developer's toolkit: create amazing Web-based games with JavaScript and HTML5 / Rex van der Spuy

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The formation of gaming culture: UK gaming magazines, 1981-1995 / Graeme Kirkpatrick

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Pro Java 9 games development: leveraging the JavaFX APIs / Wallace Jackson

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Resolving the gamer's dilemma: examining the moral and psychological differences between virtual murder and virtual paedophilia / Garry Young

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The player's power to change the game: ludic mutation / Anne-Marie Schleiner

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Designing immersive video games using 3DUI technologies: improving the gamer's user experience / Arun K. Kulshreshth, Joseph J. LaViola Jr

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Let's Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game: With TypeScript, Socket. IO, and Phaser.

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Games and rules: game mechanics for the 'magic circle'.

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Videogame sciences and arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27-29, 2019, Proceedings / Nelson Zagalo, Ana Isabel Veloso, Liliana Costa, Óscar Mealha (eds.)

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Real games: what's legitimate and what's not in contemporary videogames / Mia Consalvo and Christopher A. Paul

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Playing dystopia: nightmarish worlds in video games and the player's aesthetic response / Gerald Farca

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Two big trends - local grocer, ecommerce: HUL's Sanjiv Mehta

"There are two big trends emerging. One is the relevance of the humble grocer and people have realised that they are so close to you… proximity, and (that’s) such a big benefit. The second would be on ecommerce. With people becoming more averse to stepping out, they would like to place the order from home and receive it at home. "




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Didn't anticipate India to shut down like this, says Colgate-Palmolive CEO

Over the past few weeks, chief executives of Unilever, Mondelez, Hershey's Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Kimberly Clark have said India’s Covid-19 lockdown protocols had led to severe supply chain disruptions and labour shortages, hurting business in the key market.




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Spice oleoresin industry survives covid-19 scare

Indian spice oleoresins, widely used for natural colours and flavours in the food products, currently dominate the world market with over Rs 2,000 crore export. A few companies based in Kerala account for a major share of the world spice oleoresin market.




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Vizag gas leak: Situation 'normal' says AP govt

The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday said the situation was "normal" in RR Venkatapuram village, where a styrene vapour leak from the LG Polymers plant claimed 12 lives and left over 300 people hospitalized with various ailments.




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'Delhi-Mum road project offers investment chances'

The upcoming Rs 1 lakh cr Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project offers huge investment opportunities for investors, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said, urging players to invest in proposed townships & wayside amenities. The minister also exhorted industry players to look into the possibilities of setting up clusters of leather, plastic and other products along the highway.




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Fake: Amit Shah doesn't have ‘bone cancer’

A tweet attributed to Home Minister Amit Shah’s verified Twitter handle, in which he says that he has bone cancer is being circulated across social media platforms. In the tweet, Shah can be seen imploring Muslims to pray for his good health during Ramzan.




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'New drug combo shows promise against Covid'

A two-week course of an antiviral therapy, started within 7 days of experiencing Covid-19 symptoms, may improve clinical recovery of patients and reduce their hospital stay duration, according to the first randomised trial of this triple drug combination. The treatment combination, according to the scientists, also appeared safe and well tolerated by patients.




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Live: Covid testing capacity scaled up to 95,000 per day, says Centre

India’s Covid-19 count is nearing 60,000 mark with 59,662 cases after new cases topped 3,000 for the third consecutive day. The overall death toll too was just short of 2,000 at 1,981. Overall, 3,294 fresh cases were reported from states in past 24-hour. Stay here for all live updates




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09/23:39 EST Marine Wind Warning Summary for Queensland




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Top 10 Bible Studies from James for Fall 2019

This fall’s top ten list cover a variety of bible studies on James. Each curriculum gives you resources to lead a group study, but is also perfect as your own personal study.




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Top 10 Bible Studies on Revelation for Fall 2019

This fall’s top ten list cover a variety of bible studies on Revelation. Each curriculum gives you resources to lead a group study, but is also perfect as your own personal study.




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Top 10 Bible Studies on Prayer for Fall 2019

Our most popular studies on prayer for fall of 2019.




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Top 3 Bible Studies on Gray Areas of Faith for Fall 2019

This fall’s top three list cover bible studies on gray areas of faith. Each curriculum gives you resources to lead a group study, but is also perfect as your own personal study.




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Top 10 Bible Studies for Fall 2019

Our most popular studies for fall of 2019.




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Kohli, Dhawan's tons go in vain




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Kohli's fan faces 10-yrs in jail




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Sania's dream run continues




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'The Great Khali' vows revenge




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The 7 Biggest Social Media Sites in 2019

All social media networks are not created equally.

While Instagram might be a powerhouse for one brand, it will do nothing for another – and while one business might have tons of engagement on Facebook, another business will gain more traction on LinkedIn.

With that in mind, how do you choose where to invest your time (and potentially ad spend)?

The best move is to have at least a presence on each of the major platforms, and from there, strategically choose which ones to double down on.

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9 Types of Content to Stop Posting on Social Media

Here is the thing: when you post bad content to your social media channels, you run the risk of overshadowing all the hard work you have put into building your presence, and establishing connection with your online audience.

And because we do not want to let you do that, in this post, we're going to outline nine content types which could be wrecking your social media - and losing you followers.

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10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know in 2019

Social media usage continues to grow, as social platforms reach into new regions and become an even bigger part of day-to-day life. However you may feel about social media, and the way it both unifies and divides in varying measure, the fact of the matter is that it is not going away - in fact, is becoming more embedded into more societal elements, making it an essential connective tool.

So how significant is social media in 2019?

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Glassdoor Finds That Twitter Is the Top-Paying Social Network in 2019

Twitter topped its social network competition on job and recruiting site Glassdoor’s list of the 25 highest paying companies in 2019, coming in at No. 3 overall with a median base salary of $162,852.

Other social networks to crack the top 25 were LinkedIn (No. 7, $157,402) and Facebook (No. 8, $152,962).

The list was dominated by tech firms, many of which are based in Silicon Valley.

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The Most Captivating Brand Campaigns We Saw on Social Media in 2019

For the past decade, brands have been capitalizing on the pervasiveness of social media in consumers’ daily lives and shopping habits. And this past year was no different.

Social media analytics company Unmetric found that brands that promoted messaging with edge, savvy, conviction—and occasionally dogs—won the marketing game.

Of that messaging, video—particularly those with memorable storylines, guest appearances or creative approaches to addressing social issues—reined as the overall best-performing format for branded and original content, a consistent trend in their numbers since at least 2015.

The Most Captivating Brand Campaigns We Saw on Social Media in 2019




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Forget Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter: TikTok Is The Breakout COVID-19 Social Media Platform

Social media has been one of only a handful of sectors that is benefiting from the stay-at-home environment. Social distancing has forced social interactions online for the time being, but investors looking to capitalize on the surge in social media usage be surprised at the big winner.

On Friday, DataTrek Research co-founder Nicholas Colas said the biggest social media winner from the COVID-19 era is not Facebook, Inc.
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Instead, teen-oriented video platform TikTok has seen the biggest surge in Google search volume over the last 90 days. TikTok is owned by the private Chinese company ByteDance.

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Colas said Facebook and Twitter saw only a small bounce in worldwide Google search volume since global lockdowns went into effect. In the chart below, searches for Snapchat have demonstrated a similar trend, while searches for TikTok have steadily risen over the last 90 days.




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43 Covid-19 cases on Saturday, active count below 1000 in Andhra Pradesh




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Four new cases of Covid-19 reported in Uttarakhand today




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'Confusion' within central government in fight against Covid-19: Congress




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'Inhuman' comments about Amit Shah's health 'extremely condemnable': JP Nadda




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Shah slams Bengal govt for 'not allowing' migrant trains; Centre lying, says TMC

The return of migrant workers to West Bengal has become another flashpoint between the Centre and the TMC-led state government with home minister Amit Shah alleging that the state government is not allowing special trains. However, the TMC government accused the Centre of "lying" and said they have planned eight trains to ferry migrants.




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Testing capacity for Covid-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day: Harsh Vardhan

The testing capacity for Covid-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister reviewed the status of Covid-19 in the northeastern states along with the measures taken for its containment.