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Is UB test optional for 2022?
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University at Buffalo admissions is somewhat selective with an acceptance rate of 61%. Students that get into University at Buffalo have an average SAT score between 1160-1340 or an average ACT score of 24-29. The regular admissions application deadline for University at Buffalo is February 1.
Freshman Admission Criteria
Four years of English (with a substantial writing component)
Four years of social studies.
Three years of college-preparatory science.
Three years of a second language.
At least three years of college-preparatory mathematics.
Is a 2.7 GPA good? This GPA means that you've earned an average grade of a B- across all of your classes. Since a 2.7 GPA is lower than the national average of 3.0 for high school students, it will limit your options for college. … You have a low chance of getting into with a 2.7 GPA.
The most popular majors at University at Buffalo–SUNY include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Social Sciences; Engineering; Psychology; and Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Party scene is okay. Not too many parties around UB North. You may find some at the Villas on Rensch. Most parties happen around South campus.
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Fredonia State College and Niagara University finished in the second tier in that category. Buffalo State College was included in the fourth tier. … 1 this year in the national university list. UB is included in the schools grouped between No.
Will UB be test optional for the fall 2022 semester? Yes, the official SUNY decision to suspend SAT and ACT requirements for all SUNY schools, applies to the spring 2021, fall 2021, spring 2022, fall 2022 and spring 2023 semesters.
New York University Admissions & Applying Information. New York University admissions is most selective with an acceptance rate of 16%. Half the applicants admitted to NYU have an SAT score between 1350 and 1530 or an ACT score of 30 and 34.


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The transport industry in the United Kingdom generated over 202.8 billion British pounds in turnover in 2019. Of this, over 72 billion British pounds was generated through warehousing and support activities, making this the most profitable transport sector.
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Fashion brands slash orders in Bangladesh with coronavirus
Factory workers in Bangladesh could go hungry as global fashion brands have cancelled or delayed orders worth $138 million due to coronavirus, manufacturers said on Thursday.
More than 100 Bangladeshi factories have already lost orders, manufacturers said, as retail sales plummeted globally and giants like Zara owner Inditex and H&M temporarily closed stores in Europe - the current epicentre of the flu-like virus.
"We are totally dependent on our export proceeds," said Rubana Huq, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, which has more than 4,000 members, describing coronavirus as the "curse of the century".
"(Our) plea to the brands has been to continue taking our orders until June. And to support us in any form so that the workers don't go hungry ... how will their lives and livelihood be sustained if there are cancellations?"
Bangladesh, the world's second largest garment supplier after China, is heavily-reliant on top fashion brands. The industry employs more than 4 million people, mostly women, and accounts for more than 80% of its exports.
The world's wealthiest nations ramped up spending and poured unprecedented aid into the traumatised global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned, prompting widespread emergency lockdowns.
H&M said it had been hit by a drop in global demand but it was in close and transparent dialogue with its suppliers.
"Our long-term commitment to suppliers will remain intact," a spokesman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in emailed comments.
"In this extreme situation we need to respond fast, together with our business partners, and take decisions that can be difficult in the short-term, but necessary in the long-term ... (and) find solutions that are suitable for all parties."
Labour activists said no workers had been fired as a result of coronavirus but they were afraid of losing their jobs.
"These workers live hand-to-mouth and they are panicked because they have heard that orders are being cancelled," Kalpona Akter, founder of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity.
Akter said workers were also scared of catching coronavirus, with Bangladesh reporting 17 cases and one death by Thursday.
The International Labour Organization said in emailed comments that protective equipment, flexible working and better hygiene procedures were needed in Bangladesh's garment factories to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Huq said factories were exercising utmost caution and practising good hygiene.
The government said this month that it would assess the economic damage caused by coronavirus before deciding on support packages for business.
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Senate Republicans Refuse To Let States Control Price-Shopping For Prescription Drugs
By: Christopher Jacobs
Care to take a guess how many Republican senators are willing to take a stand over federalism? Would you believe just two?
On Monday night, when the Senate considered legislation sponsored by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) about "gag clauses" in pharmaceutical contracts, only Utah's Mike Lee and Kentucky's Rand Paul voted no. Lee and Paul do not believe the federal government has any business providing for blanket regulation of the health-care sector.
That so many Republicans who claim to support federalism turned a blind eye toward this important principle in this instance says much about why they have thus far failed to reverse the federal government's power grab in Obamacare.
Gag Clauses, Explained
I have experienced the distorted ways the drug pricing system currently operates. When looking to refill a prescription for one of my antihistamines, my insurance benefit quoted me a charge of $170 for a 90- to 100-day supply. But when I went online to GoodRX.com, I found online coupons that could provide me the same product, in the same quantities, for a mere $70-80, depending on the pharmacy I chose.
I found even greater discounts by purchasing in bulk. I ended up buying a nearly one year's supply of my maintenance medication for $210—little more than the price for a 90-100 day supply originally quoted to me by my insurer. Had I used my insurance card, and refilled the prescription repeatedly, I would have paid approximately $300 more over the course of a year. Because my Obamacare insurance is junk, I have little chance of reaching my deductible this year, short of getting hit by a bus, so it made perfect sense for me to pay with cash instead.
In theory, anyone can go to GoodRX.com (with which I have no relationship except as a satisfied consumer), or other similar websites, to find the cash price of prescription drugs and compare them to the prices quoted by their insurers. But in practice, few try to shop around for prescription drugs.
"Gag clauses," inserted by pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs), prohibit pharmacies from telling people that they might benefit from paying in cash rather than using their insurance card. While the trade association for PBMs opposes such provisions, and claims that "gag clauses" do not widely exist, a 2016 survey of community pharmacists found that many encountered them regularly.
Why Federalism Matters
In general, conservatives would support efforts to increase transparency within the health-care marketplace, and prohibiting "gag clauses" would do just that. However, some conservatives would also note that the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1947 devolves the business of regulating insurance, including health insurance, to the states, and that the states could take the lead on whether or not to eliminate "gag clauses" in insurance contracts. Indeed, a majority of states—26 in total—have already done so, including no fewer than 15 state laws passed just this year.
Lee's office reached out to me several weeks ago for technical assistance in drafting an amendment designed to limit the scope of federal legislation on "gag clauses" to those types of insurance where the federal government already has a regulatory nexus. Lee ultimately offered such an amendment, which prohibited "gag clauses" only for self-insured employer plans—regulated by the federal government under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Unfortunately, only 11 senators—all Republicans—voted for this amendment, which would have prevented yet another intrusion by the federal government on states' affairs. Of those 11, only Lee and Paul voted against final passage of the bill, due to the federalism concerns.
More Federalism Violations Ahead?
To follow up on Monday's bad developments, Tuesday saw the release of another proposal that would further entrench the federal government in the health-care system. Specifically, a group of lawmakers released a discussion draft of legislation that would federally regulate the issue of "surprise medical bills," which occur when a patient ends up at an out-of-network hospital in an emergency situation, or gets treated by an out-of-network physician at an in-network hospital.
One of the prime sponsors of the discussion draft? None other than Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the author of legislation introduced last year that he claimed would "give states significant latitude over how [health care] dollars are used to best take care of the unique…needs of the patients in each state."
The contradiction between Cassidy's rhetoric then and his actions now raise obvious questions: How can states get "significant latitude over" their health care systems if Washington-based politicians like Cassidy are constantly butting in with new requirements, like the "surprise medical bill" regulation? Or, to put it another way, why does Cassidy think states are smart enough to manage nearly $1.2 trillion in Obamacare funding, but too stupid to figure out how to solve problems like drug price "gag clauses" and "surprise bills?"
Politics Versus Principle
The widely inconsistent behavior of people like Cassidy raises the possibility that, to some, federalism represents less of a political principle to follow than a political toy to manipulate. When Washington lawmakers want to punt a difficult decision—like how to "repeal" Obamacare while "replacing" it with an alternative that covers just as many people—they can hide behind federalism to defer action to the states.
Conversely, when an issue attracts a popular outcry—like drug prices or "surprise bills"—federal politicians can abandon talk of federalism, and swoop in to tell states how to run their health insurance markets. After all, as Ronald Reagan said, they're from the government and they're here to help.
Reagan had another axiom that applies in this case: That there is no limit to what a person can do if that person does not mind who gets the credit. Lawmakers in literally dozens of states have acted on "gag clauses," but that matters little to Collins, who wants the federal government to swoop in and take the credit—and erode state autonomy in the process.
It may seem novel to most of official Washington, but if lawmakers claim to believe in federalism, they should stick to that belief, even when it proves inconvenient.
Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group, and author of the book, "The Case Against Single Payer." He is on Twitter: @chrisjacobsHC. Previously he was a senior health policy analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a senior policy analyst in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies, and a senior policy analyst with the Joint Economic Committee's Senate Republican staff. During the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, Jacobs was a policy adviser for the House Republican Conference under then-Chairman Mike Pence. In the first two years of the law's implementation, he was a health policy analyst for the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Jacobs got his start on Capitol Hill as an intern for then-Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and history from American University, where he is a part-time teacher of health policy. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.
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The Green Room, Winter 1986
By Staige D. Blackford
As the New Year opens, polls, politicians, and pundits are gathering statistics, mapping strategy, and laying groundwork for the elections of 1986—congressional, gubernatorial, and local. Moreover, they are also keeping an eye out to the horizon, pondering the presidential campaign of 1988. Amid all the vagaries and uncertainties, two certainties can be predicted: Ronald Reagan will not run again, and the Jewish vote will be—despite all the Republican efforts—liberal and Democratic. Will be, that is, if the past is any precedent. For, as Stephen J. Whitfield shows in his essay on "The Jewish Vote," this affluent, educated American minority has never strayed from the Democratic fold in recent presidential elections. For example, even in the Nixon landslide of 1972, Democrat George McGovern won, in Mr. Whitfield's words, "less than a third of the gentile vote and two-thirds of the Jewish vote." In 1976, Jimmy Carter, a rural Southerner, took 72 percent of the largely urban and Northern Jewish vote. And even in the Reagan runaway of 1984, when the Republicans spent four times as much as did the Democrats to attract the Jewish vote, Democrat Walter Mondale took 60 percent of it, a percentage surpassed only among blacks and the unemployed. Thus, Mr. Whitfield concludes: "So long as the Democratic Party continues to present itself as the party of compassion, so long as its version of the rainbow coalition can articulate its respect for diversity," so long will the party hold the loyalty "of at least one group of voters who define their interests as their ideals." Stephen Whitfield is a professor of American studies at Brandeis University and author of Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought, published by Archon Books in 1984. The same year, through the same publisher, the prolific Mr. Whitfield brought out a second book, A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight MacDonald. In 1983—84 he was Fulbright Visiting Professor of American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Among American presidents, few have been as vigorous or as varied in their interests as Theodore Roosevelt. Explorer and environmentalist, Roughrider in the Spanish-American War and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in settling the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the "Bull Moose" of American politics was as much a private scholar as he was a public servant. And the principal focus of his scholarship was history. Or, as John Milton Cooper, Jr. phrases it, the first Roosevelt spent a lifetime "on Clio's active service." A professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Cooper is one of the nation's leading authorities on Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, an interest reflected in his highly acclaimed book, The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, published by Harvard in 1984, with the paper edition appearing last fall. He is also the author of The Vanity of Power: American Isolationism and the First World War, 1914—1917, as well as a biography of Walter Hines Page, American Ambassador to London in World War I.
Gail Wronsky lives in Salt Lake City, where she is completing her Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Utah. Her play, Wanda's Home for Wayward Tammies, was presented last year in a premiere by the Salt Lake City Repertory Company, and she has been a Fellow in Playwrighting at the Sundance Institute.
Alice Fulton is a Junior Fellow with the University of Michigan Society of Fellows. Her second collection of poems, Palladium, was selected by Mark Strand for the 1985 National Poetry Series and will be published this year by Illinois.
A previous VQR contributor, Klm Stafford has also published poems in numerous other periodicals. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of California, Davis.
Conrad Hilberry teaches at Kalamazoo College. He was the 1984 winner of the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry.
Daniel Mark Epstein was a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He now resides in Baltimore, and his recent books of poetry include The Book of Fortune and Young Men's Gold.
A winner of the Academy of American Poets prize, Janie Fink received this award while a graduate student at Columbia University's School of the Arts. She has poems in New Voices, a recent anthology published by the Academy, and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and with the Edward Albee Foundation.
Karen Whitehill received her B. A. degree at Middlebury College and her M.A. from the University of Virginia. She is appearing in VQR for the first time. She has previously published poems in Shenandoah and other publications.
A previous VQR contributor, Colette Inez is a resident of New York, where this year she is a Guggenheim Fellow.
James Gordon Bennett is a member of the English Department at Louisiana State University. He has previously published stories in the Southern Review and other journals.
Harry S. Ashmore is a veteran journalist who received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing while editorial page editor of the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, where he opposed the closing of Central High School by then Gov. Orville Faubus. His other awards include the Sidney Hillman Award and the Freedom House Award. Among his many books are Epitaph for Dixie, The Other Side of Jordan, and The Man in the Middle. A member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the Republic for more than three decades, Mr. Ashmore is now writing a biography of its founder, Robert Hutchens.
A native of Cambridge, Mass. , where she now lives and where her first child, a girl, was born last year, Anne Whitney Pierce began her writing career in a two-room cabin in the woods of Vermont. There she taught French and English to 8th-graders after graduating from Tufts University in 1979. "No Spring Chicken" is her second published story, her first, "Limes," having appeared in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine last year. She is currently working on a short story collection.
A frequent contributor, George Core has been the editor of The Sewanee Review (an earlier editor: Allen Tate) for more than a decade. He recently co-edited with Thomas David Young a selection of the writings of John Crowe Ransom published by Louisiana.
A member of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, John J. Clayton is the author of Bodies of the Rich, a collection of stories published in the Illinois American Short Story Series. This spring he will be editing the fiction for an issue of the Agni Review, where his wife, Sharon Dunn, is the editor. An earlier VQR story, "Part-time Father," appeared in the Summer 1982 issue.
As his essay on "Family Pieces" notes, Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. is a native of South Carolina. He has devoted his career to the study and teaching of literature, particularly the literature of Shakespeare and Milton. A member of the English Department at the University of Virginia, Mr. Cauthen served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at that institution for 16 years (1962—1978). Since then he has been a professor of English.
Ronald Weber is a Gannett Fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University this year, where he is writing a book on the relationship between journalism and nonfiction in American writing. He is on leave from the University of Notre Dame, where he is a member of the Department of American Studies. Mr. Weber is the author of Seeing Earth: Literary Responses to Space Exploration and The Literature of Fact: Literary Nonfiction in American Writing.
Steven G. Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and his reviews have appeared in such journals as Commonweal, The New Republic, The Georgia Review, and The Nation. He is the author of The Self-Begetting Novel. His next book, Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text, will be published in June by Archon Books.
A noted scholar of 18th-century English literature, Maximillian E. Novak is a professor of English at UCLA. He was the chief editor of the 13th volume of The California Edition of the Works of John Dryden and is the author of Realism, Myth and History in the Fiction of Daniel Defoe.
Martin Lebowitz is a free-lance writer residing in Phoenix, Arizona, with a particular interest in 20th-century literature, drama, and art.
Miriam Tane recently completed a novel while on a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a resident of Newton, Mass.
THOMAS SWISS is a member of the English faculty at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing in 1984—85.
Andre Kuczewski is a member of the Administration and Policy Studies faculty at McGill University in Montreal and a scholar of foreign affairs.
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I love this game, but it still has some weird glitches. For some reason I can't see my monsters when fighting or breeding. It makes it very difficult to breed for certain monsters and complete quests. Basically makes them a guessing game. And when I go to get the magic dust, part of the images for the varying amounts of dust I can collect is cut off. If possible, please fix this. Thank you.
hi! i love this game so much! i started playing this about 2 years ago and it was my favorite game. it has a great storyline and the game takes a long time to complete which i love. but i noticed that the last update for this game was 6 months ago. i do understand that not as many people play this game anymore because it's an older game but i think it deserves a new update. hope you see this! thanks!
This is my favorite game ever!!! I feel like it will serve you a purpose in life if you are younger and you play this game because you have to be able to know how much money things are and how to manage how much you are spending! I also like it because sometimes games like this do not make the characters very appropriate for younger kids and all of the characters are very good for younger kids. I LOVE this game SO much!
I absolutely love this game... but it has quite a bit of bugs and glitches that need to be fixed. When I'm summoning a creature at the Enchanted Tree, the list of my creatures are there but their images aren't showing up. I have no idea what two creatures I'm putting together. The same thing happens when I'm battling a minion. The list with my creatures are there, but I can't see it. It shows up empty but if I tap a space, a creature is selected. I just can't see which one. And if I tap on the description of the buildings and decorations, the words are cut off. PLEASE FIX THIS. Other than the bugs and glitches, I am totally in love with this game.
Every time I click to play it pulls up the game then all I get is a black screen. I have to uninstall it and reinstall it to play each time.
I used to play this 3-4 yrs ago and it ran better! Now I can't see to pick a creature to banish a minion with so you can't do that, half the descriptions are missing when you click on an item (only shows left side of bubble other is blank) i would love to see these bugs fixed so I can play the game again.
I just got the game and when i first played it it was fun, then later went I to play the game and it wont let me and it just goes to a black screen so I deleted it.
I started playing this game back a few years ago, and it was roughly a month ago when the blank screen started, and so I played a different game because I thought it was just a minor bug that was going to be fixed soon... Well, I was wrong. This game is now awful because of this issue.
I like this game. It has fun fantasy characters, nice scenery and game play is easy. My only complaint is when asked to summon creatures or to banish creatures They wont display on the page, it's blank. It's hard to select characters when you can't see them. I've just been randomly tapping the blank pages in hopes of selecting a good character and go with what was selected; I didn't worry about it as it's just a game. But, now, I'm being asked to select certain particular characters and I can't because they won't display. If this issue isn't fixed I'll quickly lose interest in the game and delete it. I rated this game three stars, had it worked properly I'd have given it five stars.
After updating the app with the update released in October 2017 I can't open the app. All I see is a black screen and nothing else. I tried reporting it on Tiny Co's website, but they don't seem to have that game as an option to send a support ticket. I am using an iPod 5th generation, running iOS 10.
I've had this app for a while now but it seems that now I am unable to use the enchanted tree nor am I able to banish minions. It does not show my creatures on the list. Please fix this.
I really love the game it's just that I get no push notifications can u fix this. I don't know when my stuff is ready in game.
I love the app, but after the new update the app opens with a black screen. My iPod has the 9.3.5 update, so it's should be able to work. I really enjoy using the app, so if you could fix this it would be great.
This game is super fun! But with the ios11 update I was unable to open the app for a few weeks, until the tiny update recently. However, now all of my quests have disappeared except three. Now I have a mountain creature waiting in my hatchery with the habitat still locked for some reason...I have tried force restarting the app and restarting my device neither works. I couldn't find a way to contact for this type of customer service.
Your app support does not support this game! You throw out an update that screws up the game and there isn't anyway to tell you but here. Real classy. Done with you games for good.
It keeps force closing, I can't even play it!
I remember I used to love this game years ago, but it kept glitching so I deleted it. I tried to reinstall it, but it won't work since I just updated. I saw last this game was upgraded was 3 years ago, so the chance is slim I will be able to play this game again unless I install it on an iPad. And I don't think I will, considering my experience.
I sit and play for hours at a time!
This game is addicting! As with any game I wish you earned gems faster but I can be so absorbed in this game for hours at a time! I hope they update it soon!
TINYCO IS NOT A COMPANY TO BUY FOR. THEY HAVE OTHER GAMES THAT THEY HAVE ABANDONED, AND THEN STILL ALLOW IN APP PURCHASES THAT TAKE YOUR MONEY AND THEN WONT EVEN LET YOU IN THE GAME! They are CHEAP scum.
This game has been great and easy to play. My only issues is when you can't create a single creature "whyrm" to finish a challenge and more be on. Now on level 37 and still nothing the do but update mountain and polar creatures. It's not gonna be worth playing much longer.
Fix please. Unless it's my phone.
The game keeps having a push notifications pop up and after I touch the "Great" button it closes me out of the game. :/ I don't know if it's cause of my apple phone or is it with inside the game ?
I really enjoy the game a lot, I just wish that there were 2 Magic Dust wells so I could have 1 well do the long 6 hour development of the dust & the 2nd well could shorter times. I hope sometime in the future you will give this some consideration. Thanks for such a good fun game.
I really love this game but it keeps crashing!!
I like the five minutes I was able to play of the game. ..
Your game has a glitch. It goes into a cycle where it asks you to enable push notifications. When you click on cancel or great it exits the game so you can't play. I finally gave up and deleted it.
I'm not sure exactly where the people are in the story to find Wendy who is lost. I'm grateful to all who defeated the Queen to open the Arctic region. Breeding now the Pumpkin with a Bull. The Pumpkin can not for some reason breed with a Pheonix.
NOTE: this is the child of the account.It was a good game but then they kept asking me to enable notifications, even if I did!Now I'm going to play castle story instead.
Don't miss out message comes up. No matter what I choose, cancel or great, app always shuts down. Tried to reinstall several times to no avail.
I do not allow anything app to send me push notifications. This app does not let me play unless I agree to push notifications so I won't be playing. Bummer because I read good reviews .
Used to play the game two years ago and recently downloaded it to play again. It won't even load. It crashes every single time.
It's been years since an update. Have you abandoned the game??
Hi can the creators of the game make an update that can let us change the names of the creatures we have?
It might be a cool game, but I'm not sure. Because every time I try to get on, it kicks me off. This needs to be fixed before I play it again.
Love it but I don't know how to breed a fire person with a water person.....Could you add a update that shows the person playing what monster your going to get???Still I love this game.
Keeps force closing. Can you help fix?
Can't get passed the notification part!!!!!!!
I wish I could even review this, but when the first glitch is not even letting u play the game. Then there is a serious problem, I actually wish there was a -100 right now because that is the rating this game deserves right now. When they fix the problem, I will fix my review but until then this game is a waste of time and energy.
I've tried hitting cancel quickly like developer says to try. It doesn't work. Neither does hitting great. They know about the issue but haven't bothered fixing it. With no support, you can't play, so why spend 💵💰💲💲on this? It was a pretty good game before the issue came up. I would have given it 4 stars instead of the 1. If it's still letting you play, try reversing which monster you pick 1st for summoning. It matters which slot,one or 2, you use to get a different breeding outcome. If anyone learns of a crash fix for the iPad, let us know. I can't clear the cache on here. Thanks!
I loved the game but after a full year I discovered they no longer support the app if you have issues nor did they finish the app. There is no way to save the princess. Bummer. Don't know what happened to job ethics. As a gamer this is severely disappointing. I was going to buy stuff to get the impossible to create monsters glad i didn't.
I loved this game, but its not worth wasting money on, or even bothering to play. the creators simply stop updating it completely. They haven't added anything new in the past year, and there was barely anything to do in the first place. It's clear that they just don't even care about us, even if we spend money on their game.
This game is awesome but I want you to add these: Make Dot and Ocean Wedge expansions cost less dust. Make creature healing times less. Make it easier to level up creatures. Make rare breeding (Ex: Fire Nymph and Kapre) easier to breed. That's all I want and I rated 5 stars.
The game is very addicted and excellent, but I think need a update how see the other kingdom of friend and can exchange egg with friend... Need a update this is my opinion.
I see an older review from over a year ago stating gems are given often and easily - yeah, not anymore! They give you one when you level up, just one! And maybe once in a blue moon a quest gives a gem, but rarely. It's clearly a ploy to make you buy them. If they gave out gems more generously, and if there were more than just three islands, it would get a better rating. But who wants to sink $$$ into a game that just abruptly stops?! They need to continuously update it, add more islands, and not be so stingy with gems if they want people to spend money in their game.
I love this game sm!!!
Love this game! It's the only game I have and I play it non stop.
When I open the app there is a notification saying to turn on notifications for this app. Now I press okay and it takes me to my home screen. I turn on notifications and try again but it's still there. I press cancel and it takes me back to my home screen. I even tap outside of the notification and it still doesn't work please fix this I love this game.
This is my favorite game. But it's limited on how many foods and how many coins you can have. I think you can only have like 75,000 coins and like 1,000 foods. I love all the new creatures you can get.
I love this game soooo much and have had a lot of fun with it, I do wish that you could get more courage keeps at a lower level. but I can deal with that. BUT there is a glitch where "don't miss out try push notifications, -cancel -great," and every time I click either one it shuts down the app and I can't get it to go away. Sometimes it goes away on its own.
The game keeps shutting down with and error message about Invalid Wallet Data. Please fix. I love this game.
It is a great but it takes forever to play the game!
I guess no more updates!?
If TinyCo doesn't care about this game, why should you?
I could tinker around with a game like this, spending people money now and then but it JUST STOPS at, like, level 35. No more islands. No more quests. No warning. It's really obnoxious. I will NEVER invest in another TinyCo game.
I do truly love this game but all of a sudden it asks me for push notifications, and I truly wouldn't Mind. So I click great! And the app crashes, I click no and it crashes. If you can fix this five stars because it's a really good game but I can't use it and I may have to give up on it if this doesn't get fixed 😢 help?
I keep getting this pop-up notification asking if I want to enable notifications, and no matter what option I tap, "great" or "no thanks", the app automatically closes! My device is up to date on Apple software updates, and the app itself is also updated, so why is this happening?!?!?
It's would be a really fun app but the cost of feeding building and clearing are waaay too expensive for long term play, and they make you explore for more "dust" which you have to pay for them wait to get it in small doses, and "bribe" or cast out the bad guys for way too many apples or By the time you get your characters to adult you've spent all your gemstone food , then you have to spend gems to heal them after the fight !!! Argh!
I used to really like this game, but I haven't had a new creature in over a year! If you want one, you have to pay big $$ for it. Gathering coins is a joke, because there's nothing you can do with them. After awhile, you run out of space to buy, there are no more creatures to battle, & you just wait day after day, hoping something new will appear. I'm here to tell you, you will be waiting forever with this game! Take my advice, if you want a fun rpg game, play Paradise Cove, or Castleville - just not this one! It's a lesson in frustration.
WAS a great game but there is no support or updates anymore! Don't waste your time.
Abandoned Game. Very Sad. . .
I so love this game!!! The only things I would change is how much time it takes to save food, I mean my gosh, it takes forever to level up creatures so I can't fight certain monsters and the game just takes so long you think you'll never gain a level. Please make food more accessible (I don't want to pay real money). Oh and summoning new creatures also takes forever, you try over and over and don't get the one you want. I've tried so many times to get the Imp creature that I lost count and gave up :( please fix these problems. It also takes forever to build your money, i want to get rid of bushes and add temples but have to save up so much just to get rid of one thing, either way I love this game and still want to play but I won't play if there aren't any new updates soon.
I have really enjoyed this game!!! I love that gems are given out so easily and so often that I have not wished to buy any. I love the different characters and trying to breed them...it's a lot of fun. BUT for all that this has been my favorite game for the last month I habe just been working on getting the characters I don't have yet because I guess you all have stopped up dating the game or coming up with new quests.....so how long until you finally add something because as much as I enjoy trying to breed all the different characters I would enjoy moving forward in the game....if not then I think you should let us know so we can go find a new game to play....I would rather you started adding new quests and maybe added another island...but one way or the other I think you should let everyone know what is going on!!!!!!!
Any issues I have with this game have vanished save for the fact that at level 30, there's nothing to do now. I've finished up everything but hatching the last few creatures. Thanks to an update, I've cleared the last five spots and I was happy for that. But now I've got not much to do. Previous version: I go in to play on my iPod touch and keep having the same issues. My game DOES NOT SAVE. I'll do something such as collect money or food usually and suddenly I'll receive a "no server" message that means that I've just lost everything I've done. Except that sometimes it doesn't give that message and I suddenly find that habitats haven't been built or food wasn't made. I'm getting extremely frustrated as it happens during ALL times of the day and night.
I love this game - but there's basically nothing to do after level 30. I'm on level 34 now, it takes infinitely long to reach the next level, my islands are cleared and decorated, and I've only got a few more creatures to breed, most of which are available only at certain times of the year. 2+ years of playing and I can't get the worker centaur - frustrating!!!! There was one new quest lately about breeding different variations of a new creature, but frankly I just want to save Wendy, defeat the game, and stop playing at this point. It takes too long to get food, while my gold and dust stores are always so full I haven't been able to empty my magic well in over a year. I wish the levels after 30 were as fantastic as the first ones were - it's like the developers have given up!
Thanks for updating, but why didn't you developers add the feature to rename creatures?
Now the player has got to log in to continue playing. I'm already logged in👍😃 since the previous update. As with many other updates, we still can't rename creatures as with other virtual pet games get a rename feature 😡👎 Honestly, I love my creatures, but TinyCo is putting more harder creatures and also expensive booster packs with exclusive creatures. Also, I really hate it when limited creatures are almost impossible to summon (ex. I went for the American mermaid on July and I might get only sphinx when trying for the available firework fairy) 😡👎 I only sent lots of sylph in my kingdom and the ice and electric are considered to be hard to evolve. The leshy egg is still an hourglass, so I didn't receive it, as some players received an hourglass on other devices. I also don't want TinyCo to add the minions fight first feature again in the future. In addition, Jotunn voice has got a leshy voice. I won't ever spend a money (peso, pound, or dollar) to TinyCo. In addition, I got a bad feeling again that the minions may hit or may not hit first.
I like playing this game, but I do have some complaints: 1. We should have the option to sell eggs we don't want before having to hatch them in the nursery. It's really frustrating to have summoned a creature you don't need, only to have to wait hours and hours for it to hatch (taking up a valuable nursery slot) before you can sell it. Which leads me to the second problem... 2. It seems to be almost impossible to summon some of the creatures, which means we can't complete quests and kind of takes the fun out of the game. 3. It's crazy expensive to clear debris on the second and third islands. Given that we also have to spend coins to heal creatures and buy upgrades to structures, it's going to take forever to get the islands cleared. 4. It takes waaaaay too long to level up. You can play for over a month and still be on the same level. I've been waiting to upgrade my castle for so long, and it keeps you from completing quests when you need the additional coin storage in order to save enough to buy/upgrade something for a quest.
Love the game.... But things are too expensive!!!
This was by far my favorite game on my phone for a while, but lately I've been growing more & more disenchanted. There haven't been any story updates for months, so I'm just sort of faffing around with breeding new creatures, but that's a bit boring. More seriously, though, there's a bug that prompts me to receive notifications that pops up when I open the game; but no matter what I choose, it crashes the game instantly. This obviously makes the game unplayable, and it's been happening with frustrating frequency.
Was cool to play at first but now boring. Have nothing to do for five levels and the. What's after that?? Compared to similar games, this one is lacking? Need to rename beasties, have more than one breeding location and turn down the dial on xp requirements. I have no idea what the numbers are but I know I could play several times a day and not get a level up in two weeks once past 30. Having cash only animals is jank as well. Not paying 50$ just so I can say I have em all. Fighting is juvenile and the sound effects Gawd awful. Bottom line is play till you don't have fun anymore and don't invest too much time or money.
Have really enjoyed the game, play daily. On level 35, when is next quest besides summoning a few creatures that are impossible? Waited months to get to 35 and clear fog by Queen's castle, then nothing, very disappointing. New island coming? New quests? Need more detail on what's coming with next level and how many xp u have/need to level up. Been buying xtra large farms but still takes too long to raise enough food to level up creatures. Pls make some tweaks to keep it interesting. Getting boring.
I'm on level 37 and there's really not much to do. I'd love to see constant quests to finish, even if they didn't get me too far. More creatures but some seem impossible to get no matter how much I try to summon them (unrealistic and frustrating). I still don't have a hippocamp (or whatever the creature's called) and that's one I could have had since I started the game (annoying). I have loved this game and find it fun and cute, but even I'm running out of patience on what's coming next.
At first the game was very fun. Collecting creatures and clearing fog took patience, and when you got going, it was addicting. Now, however, there's nothing to do. I've cleared all fog and all that's left is leveling up creatures and trying to breed a few impossible ones. After MONTHS of not playing, I logged back in and NOTHING HAS CHANGED. No new challenges and the Facebook page basically caters to anything childish. It appears the developers have stopped working on expanding the game altogether which is a massive let-down after all the time put in just for everything to stop.
I have a lot of fun playing this game. I like that the bad guys respawn so I can keep banishing them over & over & get more magic dust off of them. There are a lot of quests to complete. I always have a quest to breed something, clear debris, buy something or banish certain bad guys with a certain creature. I'm level 28 & I still don't have all the creatures! Breeding could be a little easier.
The game has been crashing every time I try to banish someone. My creature ends up in hospital and I have to heal them however the banished creature is still around. It also seems to never be able to connect to the server. so you think everything is ok, then 12 hours later, you go into the app and its like you haven't actioned anything, whats the point of playing? Not too happy. It also takes too long to level up and you have no idea how many points you need for each level.
The game is great! My only complaints is the growing bar doesn't tell us how long it takes or how much time things are left on it. Also it costs to much to build things given how much you actually get. It takes days to get to 50,000 coins and then it will cost more than that to build one thing. There needs to be more balance in the cost to gain ratio.
Tiny Castle is very fun and possibly the best game from TinyCo. I used to have this on my iPod but after taking the third island I got rid of the game. I uploaded it a few months later and it crashes as soon as I open the app, or it just will not load. Luckily, my phone lets me play it. Anyway, you should get this game.
After a while of not playing it it doesn't want to open anymore ;-; I already uninstalled and installed back and turned off and on and even tried to delete other apps to free up space but nothing. I have a first gen ipad but the game had worked fine up until now. I don't know if there have been any changes in the app in the past few months but can it be fixed?
But...once you reach level 30 or higher and you've cleared everything out..all there's left to do is collect the rest of the creatures...there should be a new island, new buildings, or new variations of the other creatures like what they've done with the Sylph. Other than that the game is fantastic!!
I love this game! Its very addicting & really fun. I wish there were more features to this app, like renaming creatures, more islands, & the ability to breed any two creatures instead of limiting the options for matches. If this app gets any of these features added through the next update, I will give it 5 stars for sure!
This game has the potential to be really great. However, maybe I'll enjoy it in about five years when I actually level up. It is also absolutely impossible to get some of these creatures. I have tried constantly,almost embarrassingly, to breed this Pumpkin guy. Nothing. And I seriously refuse to spend the silly amount of money to buy those gems. Way too expensive. There are so many issues with this game that hinder playing....makes it boring.
Loved this game but this is the second time that I have had issues with being able to get into the game. When I open the game it will give me a pop up asking me to enable notifications (even though I already have allowed notifications for the game). If I click no, the game crashes. If I click yes, the game crashes. I have restarted my phone and everything. Over a day since I have even been able to play the game because of this. Very sad.
It keeps saying 'could not connect to server' i retry and it's the same, when i tried on my sisters phone it said the same thing. My internet is working fine... Idk why is it doing that. I used to play all the time .


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Solar+storage project underway at New Mexico State University
"The major benefit is that we'll be able to receive power during the noon-to-early-evening window, usually when the energy demand is at its peak," said an NMSU official.
February 16, 2021 Joe Bebon
Construction kicked off in mid-December and will continue through 2021.
Image: NMSU photo by Josh Bachman
Construction has begun on a large solar+storage project at New Mexico State University's (NMSU) Arrowhead Park.
Called Aggie Power, the project is expected to generate enough clean energy to power about one-third of the university's 900-acre Las Cruces campus by this fall. The project includes 3 MW of solar panels on single-axis trackers and a 1 MW Tesla battery energy storage system.
Aggie Power is the result of a new partnership between NMSU and utility El Paso Electric (EPE), under which EPE will own, operate, and maintain the project. The utility received state regulatory approval of a special rate contract application in August 2020, allowing the project partners to move forward. Construction kicked off in mid-December with the arrival of the solar panels and battery packs.
EPE CEO Kelly A. Tomblin said the utility is "always looking for creative partnerships with our customers to provide options for more sustainable solutions that will benefit the region and our environment."
According to NMSU Director of Utilities and Plant Operations Pat Chavez, the university has several smaller solar projects throughout the Las Cruces campus, but Aggie Power will be the largest source of green energy once finished. He said it will be one of three energy sources powering the main campus and give NMSU more flexibility in managing its utility rates and receiving energy.
"The major benefit is that we'll be able to receive power during the noon-to-early-evening window, usually when the energy demand is at its peak," explained Chavez. "If we can receive solar power at that optimal time, it means Aggie Power will allow NMSU to lower the need for energy during the time in which energy costs are at their highest and rely on less power from conventional natural gas-powered energy."
In addition to providing NMSU with a source of renewable energy, Aggie Power also will serve as a living laboratory for faculty and students majoring in electrical engineering.


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Teen's research hopes to 'spark change' in B.C.'s education system
Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver Sun 09.22.2013
Anjali Vyas is working with the B.C. Ministry of Education in the hopes of changing the way teachers are trained in B.C.Jenelle Schneider / Vancouver Sun
Anjali Vyas is 19 years old and already on to big things: She spent six months last year in Finland under contract with the B.C. Ministry of Education to complete a research project about how teachers are trained, and now she is sharing that information with education leaders across the province.
Soon after Vyas graduated from Stelly's Secondary in Saanichton, she was deejaying at a friend's wedding when she met Rick Davis, superintendent of achievement with B.C.'s Ministry of Education. The two talked about Vyas's passion for education and her idea to go to Finland to study its education system.
"We instantly hit it off and he was so interested in my project," Vyas said, adding that her perspective as a student was considered valuable.
The pair focused her project on teacher training, comparing the University of Helsinki's teacher education program with that of the University of Victoria.
The result is a report analyzing several aspects of the teacher training system, including practicums, the structure, content and length of teacher education programs and the admissions process, with a view to incorporating positive aspects of the Finnish system into B.C.'s teacher training programs.
Finland has become somewhat renowned for its education system and success on the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment), a standardized test created by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Vyas said she became obsessed with learning about the Finnish education system after she saw her friends struggle in school and realized that they were perfectly capable students whose intelligence never translated into academic success. She says she's not proud of it, but she used to do people's homework for money and also sold cheat sheets for tests, as well as legitimately tutoring many other students.
She eventually decided to help students by writing a 50-page study guide for the Social Studies 11 provincial exam, which synthesized all of the necessary information into easily digestible chunks. She sold hundreds of the booklets for $20 a pop, donating the proceeds to orphans in Laos.
"I just wanted to see people perform better, and I believed they could," Vyas said.
"That little venture was a game changer for me. From there, I really wanted to gain a deeper understanding of quality teaching and quality learning and what makes education sink into your head."
When she discovered Finland — including Pasi Sahlberg's book, Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? — she was fascinated with the idea that schools don't focus on competition, they don't assess students with percentages or letter grades and students only write one standardized exam.
Further, she admired the high respect paid to teachers in Finland, as well as the country's low rates of depression and suicide, she said.
"I became obsessed with it ... it just made sense," Vyas said. "If we really say what education is about, it's about helping students become good citizens."
She decided to take a year off after graduation to pursue the topic of educational reform, including a trip to Finland, which resulted in the contract with the education ministry. She emailed Sahlberg and was thrilled when he responded and told her to get in touch when she arrived.
Some of the interesting things she noticed about the future teachers in training in Finland were that they had fewer lectures, virtually no homework and were not given percentage-based grades. She says the professors are aware of student weaknesses and work hard to address those weaknesses through extra focus and resources, a philosophy reflected throughout the Finnish education system.
In June, Ontario made significant changes to its teacher education program, cutting in half the number of admissions to Ontario's teacher colleges as of September 2015, while doubling the length of the program to two years from one. Those changes were designed to reduce the number of teachers graduating, because many of the newly certified teachers cannot find jobs.
While changes of this magnitude are not expected in B.C., the Ministry of Education says it wants to make sure teachers are prepared to teach in an environment of more personalized learning, as required under the new B.C. Education Plan. Vyas offered the ministry a unique perspective to initiate the conversation as a young person who had just graduated from a B.C. high school.
She says the changes she would like to see to the education of B.C. teachers would be small, but significant, that would not cost a lot of money.
"It's not a huge overhaul; it's coming at education with a new perspective, with a new unified philosophy," Vyas said, although she could not publicize details of her report.
"When I finally met with Pasi Sahlberg, he stressed that if you want to make good changes, you have to look at the core values — what you as a society believe education should be.
"That should be immune from shotgun government decisions and it should be something that the people, the teachers and the government all believe in."
She says the ministry of education was really happy with her research.
"They thought it was something they can use to help spark change," Vyas said, adding that she doesn't support copying the Finnish system; she believes in taking some of the best aspects of that system and incorporating them here.
She now has a second contract with the ministry to continue that work and to make the general public and the nine deans of education in B.C. aware of what she has learned.
"My hope is that my contract will result in a new teacher education program," Vyas said. "That is my personal goal."
Meanwhile, Vyas has embarked on a four-year bachelor of international economics at the University of British Columbia, which she hopes to follow up with a law degree. She doesn't plan to become a teacher, but she hopes to use both degrees to make educational change.
"To me, I think it's a perfect combination," Vyas said. "I think I can play an important role in helping to spark change and be that catalyst, since I'm young, and I love what I do. I want to make positive educational change."
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"A word in earnest is as good as a speech."
— Charles Dickens , Bleak House
My interest in writing for film and TV is largely concerned with the teaching of it. I completed a screenwriting MA some fifteen years ago and that, coupled with the teacher training I received from undertaking a PGCE, left me constantly on the lookout for new ways to break down the craft of dramatic storytelling and help students write better scripts. To date, I've taught both children and adults in various schools and universities, most recently at the Northern Film School in Leeds. However, I'm currently taking a break from teaching to complete a PhD. Helping people of all ages hone their screenwriting skills will always remain one of my favourite occupations and I plan to return to it in a couple of years' time.
I do write scripts myself, though I tend to work with a co-writer, Keith Dando. It's lots of fun. And writing should be fun – at least some of the time. Keith and I came together as writing partners by accident. We were good friends for many years and then one day, we fell for the same idea. I can't remember whose idea it was – maybe his, maybe mine – but we both wanted to write it up as a feature film equally badly, so we decided to do it together. Since then our writing partnership has been going very well and we've already placed highly in a number of well-known screenwriting contests:
Page Awards Semi-Finalist 2015 (The Ghost Hunter)
Final Draft Finalist 2012 (Mirror-Me)
Zoetrope Quarterfinalist 2012 (Mirror Me)
Screenwriting Goldmine Semi-Finalist 2012 (Mirror-Me)
Screamfest Semi-Finalist 2010 (The Circling)
Story Pros Quarterfinalist 2010 (The Circling)
Leone Annabella Betts and Keith Dando
Although we're busy people with other jobs, Keith and I have no doubt that we'll continue to write together when possible. We like creating collaboratively too much to ever want to stop. Currently, we are redrafting a feature-length script… though it is slow going at present.
To return to the subject of screenwriting pedagogy, for anyone seeking my academic opinion as to how the best writers go about creating their screenplays, I favour intuitive writing, at least in the first instance. That is to say that I believe the best work comes from a type of writing which is akin to method acting – feeling as your characters feel and being "in" the story as you write it. However, once that is achieved, there are very few writers who don't need to pay attention to dramatic structure. Some of it will be there naturally, some of it won't – and that's where drafting comes into its own.


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All of their pet adoptions include micro-chipping, spay/neuter clinic, and a free vet visit. People of all ages can volunteer; pick up an application at the front desk. Donations are appreciated. The Pet Center is in need of cat/dog food, puppy chow, large dog crates, leashes, collars, fluffy beds, and Kuranda beds.
The Pet Center website is www.pittsylvaniapetcenter.org.
Upcoming events are A Pinch of Pet Hair: Drool-worthy Recipes for People and Pets, Aug. 11- Nov. : submit a favorite recipe and a picture of your pet to make a cookbook. There is also a Best Friend Bash Sat., Nov. 11, 5 PM to 10 PM at Banister Bend Farm, 2628 Johnson Mill Road, Gretna, hosted by Betty and Ben Davenport. Enjoy an exciting evening with Cajun style food, live music, a pet parade, silent and live auctions to support the Pittsylvania Pet Center. Purchase tickets at the Pet Center.
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The Philippines has selected the perfect representative for Miss Tourism World 2017 - Marian Angelu Perez Alcantara. Marian hails from Melbourne and represented the Filipino overseas community of Melbourne in Miss Tourism Philippines 2017.
Marian is now all set to rock the international stage with her charm and beauty when she competes for Miss Tourism World 2017 in Malaysia and starts off as a favourite to win the title of Miss Tourism World 2017 for her country.
In an interview with Angelopedia, the beautiful Marian shared her thoughts, experiences, and aspirations in the world of pageantry. Below is the transcript of her interview...
Q. Congratulations on winning Miss Tourism Philippines 2017, how does it feel?
Thank you so much. I feel extremely honoured to be representing my country on the international stage. I still have my moments where I can't believe that I'm the new Miss Tourism Philippines. After the coronation night is where the real work starts and I am willing to do my very best to best represent my country on January 27.
Q. What was your inspiration behind stepping into the glamorous world of beauty pageants?
I never thought I'd ever join a beauty pageant. I was asked to join and at first, I hesitated because I felt I wasn't adequate enough. However, with my mother's encouragement, my passion for travelling, and deep desire to help others, I decided to take the leap and challenge myself.
Q. How confident and prepared are you for the Miss Tourism World 2017?
As of now, although I've got the basic skills required, I want to improve myself further by preparing physically, mentally and spiritually. I know that the international competition will be a challenge and will be even more competitive, so I'm determined to do all I can to make my country proud.
Q. What is your biggest strength which you think can make you win the Miss Tourism World 2017?
I think my biggest strength would have to be my youth. As part of the "millennial" generation, I've got a lot of creative and fresh ideas that I can bring to the organisation. Also, being born in the Philippines and raised in Australia has given me exposure to vast cultures and nationalities. Because of this, I'm able to communicate better to my peers and have gained a sense of understanding and a deeper respect for others.
Q. Would you like to share some uniquely saccharine moments of your childhood with us?
When I think of saccharine moments, I think of my parents. Growing up and even till this day, they've always been very sweet and affectionate. As I child, my instinctual response was to cringe. But now, I admire their love and told myself that I wouldn't want to settle for anything less than that in the future; because their love and support is what built the foundation of who I am today.
Q. One thing about your country that you would like to share with the entire world?
My country, the Philippines consists of diverse cultures, beautiful Islands and delicious food. But I believe the true beauty of my country is in the people. Filipinos have a way of welcoming others with so much warmth and love. I think that's the reason so many people come back is that we can give you an experience that's not only unique but unforgettable. I'm inviting everyone around the world to experience first-hand the beauty of the Philippines.
Q. What according to you define femininity? Who is the most treasured female figure in your life?
To m, femininity is defined by a woman's ability to embrace the gifts associated with our gender. As women, we are naturally more in tune with our emotions and this allows us to be more compassionate. We can use this to connect with others in a deeper way. My mother is my most treasured female figure in my life, simply because she has supported me in everything I have set my mind to do. She has shown me unconditional love and guidance.
Q. If not a beauty queen, what would you have aspired to be?
I was actually deciding between two career options, but I knew I wanted my future job to require travelling. One was being a flight attendant and the other was joining the air force.
Q. If there were no rules in your life for a day, what all would you do?
If there were no rules, I would eat everything and sleep at the same time. As simple as It is, when you have a busy life, you begin to appreciate little satisfactions like that even more.
Q. Precious or Priceless? What would you choose and why?
I would choose priceless. Because every material item, even if it's of great value is not where true happiness lays. Rather, true happiness is found in the simple "priceless" events we experience daily. It's in the sun shining in the morning, the smile from a stranger and the random acts of kindness.
Q. If you had to change one thing in your past, what would it be and why?
As cliche as it is, I wouldn't change anything. I've been blessed and lucky to be living the life that I have, but I've faced a lot of struggles, negativity and hurt. As I grew older and wiser, I've come to realise that these events were blessings in disguise because they've moulded me and pushed me to become who I am today.
Q. What suggestions would you like to give to aspiring beauty queens?
Be unapologetic about who you are. In a world full of beautiful ladies and the constant pressure to be "perfect", don't change who you are. Instead, stand proud, tall and accept everything about yourself, including all your flaws. Don't let your insecurities hinder your ability to bloom and shine not only on stage but in this lifetime.
Thank you to my Angelopedia fans for the support! I am truly appreciative of all the love and recognition that I am getting. I hope you will continue to follow me in my journey to Miss Tourism World 2017 and I will do everything I can to make you all proud.
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Q: what does this formula stand for? $|x|+|y|=1$ seems to be some shape in $\mathbb{R}^3$, but I have no way of discovering which shape this might be...

A: I would suggest first drawing it in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ using the variables $(x,y)$. Since there is no constraint on a third variable z, you essentially extend the entire shape into the third dimension.
For example, the equation $x^2 + y^2 = 1$ defines a circle in $\mathbb{R}^2$, and extends to an infinite cylinder in $\mathbb{R}^3$.

A: You can try Wolfram Alpha or other graphing technology to plot it for a clue.
Because $|x|= \pm x$ and likewise for $y$, this is a combination of four equations. Try splitting it into four possibilities. All four equations are line segments, so the graph of this is going to be $4$ line segments, one for each quadrant. I wouldn't assume it's a $3d$ shape because there is no $z$, unless context suggests otherwise.
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Behaviour Trees (BTs) are an A.I. architecture that provide game characters with the ability to select behaviours and carry them out, through a tree-like architecture that defines simple but powerful logic operations. It can be used across a wide range of game genres from first-person shooters to real-time strategies and developing intelligent characters capable of making smart decisions. The codebase is deceptively simple and yet logical, reusable and extremely powerful. The library is written in C# and implemented in Unity 2020, however will easily port to other applications.
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Produtos de Portugal ou produtos portugueses são produtos de origem Portuguesa. Estes produtos tem associados a cultura e valor da rica história de Portugal. Os produtos de Portugal  transmitem a hospitalidade do povo português, a cultura de séculos de história e glória, a qualidade dos produtos produzidos pelo empenho e amor do povo português e a saudade de um país romântico, vibrante e bonito.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20160422093231/http://www.produtosdeportugal.pt/ e https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223456/http://www.produtosportugueses.pt/

Referências

[1] Sítio do governo português
[2] Produtos de Portugal
[3] Associação Empresarial de Portugal
[4] Notícia do Diário de Notícias sobre o incentivo de sua Excelência o Presidente da República Cavaco Silva (2012)

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Police brutality protesters in New York City and across the United States took to the streets on Tuesday as part of a national day of protesting organized by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network.
Several hundred protesters gathered in Union Square Tuesday afternoon, chanting as they marched south toward the Brooklyn Bridge.
Protests against excessive police force have spread throughout the country since August, when an unarmed black 18-year-old named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Since then, the deaths of several other black men killed by police also made national headlines, prompting multiple demonstrations across the U.S.
Police in New York City generally try to block protesters from walking through traffic on any bridge, but the demonstrators outwitted them this time around. Several dozen ran into halted traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, marching away from Manhattan. They were greeted by plenty of cheerful honking, though at least 10 of them wound up in handcuffs.
Police on the Brooklyn side rushed at protesters as they neared. Some of the demonstrators climbed up to a footpath above, where more demonstrators were marching, in order to escape arrest.
The most recent police-involved killing to galvanize national attention occurred in South Carolina on April 4, though few outside the area noticed until a video of the shooting was made public several days later. That video shows a white police officer named Michael Slager, who has been charged with murder, fatally shooting a black North Charleston resident named Walter Scott several times in the back.


Assertiveness is often considered to be one of the required traits for a successful personal and professional life. So, just how do you go about being more assertive?
Following are a dozen simple communication techniques that you can practice … starting today.
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