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What are the Benefits of Playing Online Games?
Virtual gaming is a form of entertainment that prevents boredom. However, it can also help people to develop their creativity, improve critical thinking and nurture relationships. Some benefits of virtual gaming include;
Improving memory and concentration
Many online games are immersive and players require very sharp problem-solving skills. Moreover, the games require the players to recall a lot of information in order to emerge winners. When you play these games on a regular basis, you sharpen and strengthen your memory, brain speed and concentration.
Improves multitasking skills
Some games require you to find certain objects in the environment while fighting off opponents in order to win. Players need to pay attention to everything that is happening and react quickly. These games will sharpen the multitasking skills of all players who regularly play it.
Building skills for future career use
Complex games assist players to be analytical, strategic and to analyse the rewards and risks before acting. These skills that are being sharpened through playing virtual games can be used in real-world jobs that require strategic thinking and analytical skills.
Helps players to understand different cultures
People who play games with different people all over the world get the opportunity to learn about the different cultural practices and ways of life, especially during chats and interactions.
It promotes socialization
When people play multiplayer games with loved ones, they interact with each other. Thus, these games help in socialization and in nurturing social skills through sharing moments. Special needs children can also make new friends and interact with others through playing online games.
You can win some cash
Some virtual games enable players to compete for real cash prizes and huge jackpots. People can participate in such games and win from the most trusted and reputable virtual casinos. You need to know the best gaming websites to invest your money in by looking at a professional casino sites review.
It builds teamwork skills
Some multiplayer games require people to find ways of winning as part of a group or take on leadership roles. The collaboration and teamwork enable people to work as part of a team in real life scenarios too.
It increases compassion
Some online games enable people to manage emotions. They encourage and reward positive behaviour such as compassion and empathy. Some also encourage people to talk about their fears and express themselves safely.
It enhances critical thinking
Some schools have embraced game-based learning that helps students to better understand and think about complex topics.
Virtual games have so many benefits for the players such as helping them to develop and sharpen their critical thinking, teamwork, socialization, memorization and concentration skills. They also help to relieve stress by preventing the players from thinking about their problems. They are a great and enjoyable form of entertainment. Moreover, you can win cash.
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Portraits are notoriously difficult to get right, but when done properly they can be extremely striking. We've put together the top 10 simple tips that we think will help you take better portraits. Just use the sliders to see the difference these little changes make.
1. Use a shallow depth of field to emphasise your subject.
If you can select a large Aperture (small f stop number) use this to make your subject stand out from a distracting background. If you can't manually set your aperture, try getting your subject as far as possible from your background.
Always make sure you focus on your subjects eyes, especially the one nearest the camera if the subject's face is angled. It is the most important part of a portrait and establishes a connection with your subject. Be especially carefully if using a small aperture here.
Unless you want to include items for context, choose an un-cluttered background to avoid it distracting a viewer from your subject. Especially avoid objects interfering with the outline of your subject. This will give a nice, clean image and your subject will stand out.
Bright, direct sunlight gives harsh shadows and too much contrast, washing out delicate skin tones. It also makes a subject squint. Place your subject in the shade instead, or hold something (a sheet, a piece of card, etc) up nearby to shade them where they are.
Unless you specifically want a tight crop, avoid chopping parts of your subject off – you can always do this afterwards. Try to get the eyes along a line around one – third of the height from the top of the image. This gives a balanced feel to the shot.
If your portrait shows a horizon in the background, try to keep it level, unless you really want to suggest a slope. This gives a more natural feel to your shot. If in doubt, leave plenty of space so you can rotate the image a little afterwards.
Unless they are a professional model, your subject may initially feel uncomfortable in front of the camera. Talk to them, look at them directly sometimes – not just through the camera. Play with positions and gestures – even if only to make them laugh!
Using wide-angle lens can distort your subject's face – especially when close up. Try to use a lens with a focal length of at least 50mm – more if possible. Stand a reasonable distance away, whilst still filling the frame with your subject's face, shoulders etc.
Shooting from below your subject tends to be less flattering, making chins and necks look bigger than usual. Shooting from above often reduces this – it can emphasise eyes and is generally more flattering.
We hope you find these tips useful. Next time you want to order a canvas print or photo book, make sure you apply these tips for a better end product.


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So why is that doctors pay little attention to multifidus issues found on MRI? There really is no surgical solution for treating the multifidus muscle, so most surgeons, in particular, focus on structures they can surgically treat: bones, nerves, discs, and so on. With interventional orthopedics, however, the focus is on nonsurgical solutions for musculoskeletal structures, and this includes the multifidus muscle. So an interventional orthopedic physician will pay attention to and examine this critical muscle and all of the structures it supports.
The study consisted of both sedentary and active mice with varying degrees of disc degeneration. The multifidus muscles were examined to assess inflammation. In the sedentary group, the disc degeneration was found to disrupt inflammatory-marker gene expression, causing multifidus muscle inflammation. In the active group, inflammation was either significantly reduced or prevented all together.
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Exercise is associated with cartilage benefits in arthritis.
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Wage divergence, business cylce co-movement and the currency union effect
Gächter, Martin
Gruber, Alexander
Riedl, Aleksandra
Martin Gächter
The European debt crisis reminded us that some member countries of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) experienced unsustainable pre-crisis booms accompanied by an increase in wages far beyond what would have been justified by long-lasting trends in labor productivity. Within a currency union, such diverging trends in wages and competitiveness cannot be mitigated by simply adjusting nominal exchange rates. Against this background, it is astonishing that the impact of labor cost dynamics on business cycle co-movement – the most widely used meta-criterion for an optimum currency area – has not been analyzed so far. In our empirical analysis, we reveal a highly significant and policy-relevant finding: While wage developments do not affect business cycle convergence outside a currency union, wage growth differentials across countries significantly reduce business cycle co-movement within a common currency area. The economic significance of the effect is surprisingly large and even exceeds the impact of bilateral trade relations.
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Handle: RePEc:usg:econwp:2016:05
File URL: http://ux-tauri.unisg.ch/RePEc/usg/econwp/EWP-1605.pdf
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Until a couple months ago, I had no reason to worry about my [almost] four-year-old son accessing content I'd rather he not see on the internet…until he was gifted an iPad. Not only did his LeapPad Ultra (which didn't allow him to surf the web) get pushed to the side, but a true screen addiction began.
After having D answer a couple of my phone calls on his iPad (super stressful because they were about our mortgage application), and several tantrums over screen time, I instituted the use of an egg timer. Based on behavior, my son was allotted 15-30 minute increments on his iPad, and when the bell rang, he was to turn it over. Then I was introduced to OurPact.
In under 5 minutes, I was able to upload the OurPact app, register an account, install the app on D's iPad and begin scheduling, or granting, screen time for D and his tablet. If you really want to drive your kiddo nuts, select the block feature from your device — all of my kiddo's apps disappeared from his iPad (I was able to restore them before the waterworks began).
The best part of OurPact is that you, as a parent, are able to manage your children's devices from any internet-enabled device. Away from home and the sitter texts you to let you know your kiddo is misbehaving? With the touch of a button you're able to take away their internet privileges! Ah, the control. Seriously, my egg timer is a great example of how little I rely on technology (I still use a paper planner and handwrite checks to pay bills), but OurPact really is a great way to manage your children's screen time. Maybe I'll explain why D's iPad "stops working" when he gets older, but right now, the whole, "I don't know why it's doing that, I think you need to give it a rest" bit works.
Want to make sure that your children only use their phones for emergency calls during school hours, or have no distractions in the evening during homework time or bedtime? You're able to block out times when apps (including social media) or internet access is disabled from your children's devices. While I don't have a teenager, I can definitely see how this can come in handy for enforcing internet rules of usage and safety.
Those of you with older children will appreciate the OurPact Family Contract, easily downloaded and printed from the website. Since open communication is one of the best ways to keep your child safe online, print out the contract and have a discussion with your pre-teen or teen before signing. Questions can be addressed in the conversation, so there are no grey areas in the future.
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Thank you for the article. It is really scary to realize what terrible things our kids can find while searching the Internet. Sometimes I think that it would be better not to give my son iPad. But it would not save the situation, right? Our family chose Kidslox (www.kidslox.com).It is a great app to filter the content. I know that my son will not find the dangerous thins while searching the Internet. Also, he does not spend hours while playing games, I restricted the time to two hours a day.


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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Router, ActivatedRoute } from '@angular/router';

import { Dish } from '../../models';
import { DishesService } from '../../services/dishes.service';

@Component({
    selector: 'dishes-list',
    template: require('./dishes-list.component.html'),
    styles: [ require('./dishes-list.component.scss') ]
})
export class DishesListComponent {
    dishes: Array<Dish> = [];

    constructor(private dishesService: DishesService, private route: ActivatedRoute, private router: Router) { }

    ngOnInit() {
        this.dishesService.categories.subscribe(() => {
            const name = this.route.params.map(p => p['name'])
            name.subscribe((value:string) => {
                        this.dishes = this.dishesService.getDishesByCategory(value);
            })
        });
    }

    displayDetails(id: string) {
        this.router.navigateByUrl(`/dish/${id}`);
    }
}


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The Angelina and Neches River Railroad  (Angelina & Neches River Railroad) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Lufkin, Texas.

ANR operates an  line from Dunagan, Texas, to an interchange with Union Pacific Railroad at Lufkin. With all owned tracks combined, the company owns and operates 28 miles of track plus 3.5 miles through trackage rights with Union Pacific. ANR traffic includes lumber, foundry products, paper, plywood, chemicals, limestone, scrap iron, steel, and clay.

ANR's predecessor was founded in the 1800s by Angelina County Lumber Company as a logging route, and at its peak operated over  of railroad.
It also operates short portions of lines formerly belonging to the East Texas Railroad and the Texas Southeastern Railroad as well as the original Cotton Belt line from Lufkin to the middle of Clawson, Texas.

References

External links

Link to Union Pacific Website with ANR Details
Angelina & Neches River Railroad

Texas railroads
Railway companies established in 1900
American companies established in 1900
1900 establishments in Texas

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Progressing beyond the conventional classroom chalk talk, the education ecosystem has evolved by leaps and bounds in terms of learning standards and interaction between teachers and students. The influx of digital technology has heralded a multitude of opportunities to enable collaboration within the education community, fostering trust and building relationships through communication. While academic excellence, to a great extent, hinges on effective communication among students, teachers, and even parents, there is a dearth of simple and efficient education collaboration platforms in the educational ecosystem that can promote deeper learning. Bridging this market gap, TeacherPlanBook. com offers a state-of-the-art platform with best-in-class cloud-based tools and functionalities to facilitate collaboration between teachers, students, administrators, and even parents to develop high-level thinking lesson plans and enrich the learning process. "TeacherPlanBook (TPB) offers the tools that change the dynamic between teachers and administrators, inspiring team formation wherein everyone is involved and strives to bring out the best in students," asserts Marc Leibowitz, CEO and Co-Founder of TeacherPlanBook.com.
Governed by a mission to transform the way education is delivered in the US and around the world, TPB enables students to forge their path of success by helping them synthesize original thoughts to drive innovation and invention. "TBP does what the teachers have been long waiting for—an opportunity to collaborate and advance beyond the old-school teaching methods, orchestrating better lesson plans to help students learn deeper and better," explains Jay Condrill, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, TeacherPlanBook.com. TPB also assists in planning lessons tailored to the requirements of children with special needs to ensure that every child is brought into the fold and no child is left behind. Over and above, to encourage the involvement of parents in every step of their child's progress, TPB provides tools to keep them informed through timely communications.
Apart from assisting teachers in developing successful lesson plans, linking them to additional resources, conforming to core curriculum mandates, the TPB platform comprises the learning analytics feature that allows for thorough assessment of class performances. Leveraging the learning analytics, administrators and district superintendents can gain access to the activities of each classroom or school in real time, without having to meet the teachers personally. "We can compare schools against schools, teachers against teachers, classrooms against classrooms and determine their timely progress to change and improve the outcomes before the standardized test comes about," states Condrill.
Conventional processes of evaluation of teachers, wherein teacher performances were assessed two or five times a year based on seniority, have become a thing of the past. With Teacher Plan Book, teachers can collaborate with administrators or principals on a regular basis to discuss lesson plans and revise them as and when required. Additionally, TPB provides teachers with the benefit of saving and archiving lesson plan books at the end of the year that can be carried forward to the next year. Being a teacher-centric software, TPB enables teachers to self-analyze their performances whereby they can compare their lesson plans with previous year's and devise better lesson plans to promote higher-level thinking among students.
Venturing ahead, TeacherPlanBook.com is endeavoring to add value to the teaching landscape by supplementing their platform with added features. Enhancing their analytics feature, TPB aims to monitor IEP goals and help administrators analyze if lesson plans are tailored for IEP standards. "We are looking to build a multi-language platform where TPB can be effectively used in different languages besides English and also to deliver messages in multiple languages," says Max Altolaguirre, Vice President, Cloud Solutions, TeacherPlanBook.com.


When the current board took up office in January 2014 our first job was to sign off the revised strategic plan and refresh the Chapter's goals. Our vision continues to be that ICF Ireland is recognised as a leading voice of coaching in Ireland.
In service of humanity flourishing. We are committed to advancing the science and practice of coaching. We work with the ICF definition of coaching which is: To partner with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires then to maximise their personal and professional potential.
In 2014 this vision is supported by the GIVE Proposal.
This new focus reflects our evolving priorities and relationship with ICF Global and our members.
This year, for the first time, an ICF Coaching Awards Gala is being organised. In addition we are increasingly involved at an international level with ICF colleagues. This will help amplify our voice and speaks clearly to our vision.
In addition to working according to ethical guidelines, the board is committed to developing and growing the profile of the ICF Ireland. We are passionate about the profession of coaching. In our role as coaches in service of humanity flourishing, we are seeking ways to support local communities in Ireland. To this end, we are developing an outreach initiative supporting peace and reconciliation work which will show the power of coaching for change.
Please take some time to reflect on this vision and contact us with any feedback and suggestions. Our primary aim is to serve you, our membership, and the strengthen the profession that we are all part of.


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The Random Babblings of A Fenngineer
My Micro Games: Umami Chef and Yamamichi
Very recently, I have become enamored with the idea of self publishing/DIY. I've always enjoyed making things and two years ago, when I decided to print one of my now wife's stories she wrote, I got flung down this self publishing rabbit hole. I used a site called lulu.com to create her book into a paperback. Holding a physical copy of a digital document, bound together just like the other books in the bookstore gave me a weird sense of accomplishment. I didn't write the story, yet I learned that in today's digital era it can be super easy to something that could never had been done before.
Shortly after this, my creative switch was hit and the idea of self publishing a game became a reality. For years, I worked on putting together small micro games that I could publish and print through the Game Crafter website. This culminated into a small game we put out this year called Mars to Jupiter. But it wasn't till recently that I decided I wanted to try and tackle publishing an RPG.
A few months ago, I started learning about zine culture. I remember hearing about them from the Anime FLCL, in which they're described almost like a guerrilla medium. So I started tossing around the idea of publishing a micro zine basically for myself. In it I would talk about my thoughts on gaming along with other articles from my friends and family. I also told myself that I could probably print a small game or system in it. I ran a test run creating a small 8 page booklet zine which featured the Lasers and Feelings game in it and I thought it was great (of course it was, I made it right?). But shortly after, I realized that I had never really created an RPG, and that finding a small enough system that I could print would be nearly impossible after a while.
So I decided to give a shot a creating a micro RPG. My wife and I both submitted entries into the 200 word RPG contest. Neither of these games were elegant or inventive. Shortly after that though, at my Saturday game night, we joked about combat chefs, and I mentioned something about creating that game. After that night, it only took a day or so before I had created a micro game called Umami Chef. And now a week ago, I decided to try my hand at creating another system called Yamamichi, this one tackling the obstacle of trying to feel like a Studio Ghibli movie. While Yamamichi is still being worked on, Umami Chef was done and I pretty much left it on Facebook to stay. But it wasn't till today at lunch that I was reflecting on what I was looking for when building the game.
While the game can thank Lasers and Feelings for being its legged fish to my frog, I had a few core tenants that I wanted to follow and huge pitfalls I wanted to avoid when creating this 1 page document. I wanted there to be some form of normality to the dice. I chose rolling and totaling regular six-sided dice over a roll for successes model, making the game more predictable. A target number system is used with the predictability of normal rolls to create fair challenges to the players. I wanted to prune the advantage and success with style ideas from Fate and FFG's Star Wars RPG and morphed that into the rolling doubles rule, which can happen on a success of failure. I wanted to avoid adding static skill/stat numbers, so I came up with the exploding stat. I really liked the idea of a stat that lowered the number that the dice explode on. Exploding dice are fun, and allow for the stand up and cheer moments, but the stat should also reflect that you can't always pass every challenge. I felt like it was important to feel better at something than other people, and that teamwork will be required to complete the story.
Being a small micro system, Umami Chef really doesn't need any form of advancement. Reflecting on it, I could have used that space to help develop the theme of the game, as it will most likely see play as just a one shot. More examples might also have been helpful, but I really wanted to keep it down to a single page. I plan on reskinning Umami Chef into a game about reporters and press called Scoop, and I think I will make these changes for it. For Yamamichi, I am expanding into a single page, double sided. I am also cribbing some of the ideas I liked from Umami Chef into Yamamichi including the dice normality, target number system and traits adding dice. But for Yamamichi, I am ditching exploding dice and stats for a roll/keep system.
Creating these two games has been a lot of fun. I'm hoping to eventually create a small 8-12 page booklet game, but I'm not sure on what and how I can make the mechanics interesting enough to do so. But for now I'll keep creating the small games until I get a good hang of what I'm doing. I have a list of things that make me like an RPG, and I'm going to try and reflect on those before moving forward. I also don't want to steal concepts and mechanics from other systems that I adore like The One Ring or FFG's Star Wars. I think that will be the hard part...
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Alex is a Mechanical Engineer working for a MEPT Engineering Consulting firm in the Cleveland area after graduating from Cleveland State University in 2013 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. In his free time he enjoys playing and designing tabletop war, board, and role-playing games.
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Computer Weekly - HMRC begins deleting unlawful voice biometric
An extract from another interesting article from Warwick Ashford, Security Editor at Computer Weekly.
HM Revenue and Customs is to forge ahead with Voice ID.
This is despite beginning to delete the largest state-held voice biometric database gathered without consent after UK privacy and data protection watchdog issues order.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has welcomed the prompt response by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to begin deleting voice data collected unlawfully from five million UK taxpayers, but HMRC plans to continue using the system despite the controversy.
The ICO ordered the data to be deleted after conducting an investigation into HMRC's Voice ID service in response to a complaint from civil liberties and privacy campaigning non-profit organisation Big Brother Watch, which accused HMRC of building a biometic ID database by the back door.
The investigation focused on the use of voice authentication for customer verification on some of HMRC's helplines since January 2017. The system was introduced to help speed up security checks for taxpayers using HMRC's helpline by registering voice prints to confirm identity.
The ICO found HMRC had breached the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing to give customers sufficient information about how their biometric data would be processed and failing to give them the chance to give or withhold consent.
The ICO issued a preliminary enforcement notice to HMRC on 4 April 2019, stating the information commissioner's initial decision to compel the department to delete all biometric data held under the Voice ID system for which it does not have explicit consent.
The ICO will issue its final enforcement notice this week, giving HMRC 28 days from the date of the notice to complete the deletion of all relevant records.
"We welcome HMRC's prompt action to begin deleting personal data that it obtained unlawfully," said Steve Wood, deputy commissioner at the ICO.
"Our investigation exposed a significant breach of data protection law. HMRC appears to have given little or no consideration to it with regard to its Voice ID service.
"Innovative digital services help make our lives easier, but it must not be at the expense of people's fundamental right to privacy.
"Organisations must be transparent and fair and, when necessary, obtain consent from people about how their information will be used. When that doesn't happen, the ICO will take action to protect the public."
The ICO's investigation was carried out under the GDPR, which came into full force on 25 May 2018. Under the GDPR, biometric data is considered special category information and is subject to stricter conditions.
Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo described the ICO's decision as a "massive success for Big Brother Watch, restoring data rights for millions of ordinary people around the country".
She added: "To our knowledge, this is the biggest ever deletion of biometric IDs from a state-held database. It sets a vital precedent for biometrics collection and the database state, showing that campaigners and the ICO have real teeth and no government department is above the law."
Computer Weekly - HMRC begins deleting unlawful voice biometric.


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Q: In SQL, exporting the table as text with formats and rules I am a novice in SQL world; I've been searching the site for couple of hours and could not find an answer.
I'm using SQL Server Management Studio to arrange a table of my customers with columns:
name, address1, address2, address3, city, state, zipcode,
item_purchased, quantity_purchased, etc...

However what I've been trying to do is to format this table as texts in such a way:
John Smith
123 Sql Street
Los Angeles, CA 90001
item_purchased - quantity_purchased
Would it be possible to achieve this in SQL? If not, would be very interested to know a way around in Java or Python input/output method.

A: Brad,
Try this:
SELECT name + CHAR(13)
+ CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([address1],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([address1],''))) + CHAR(13) ELSE '' END
+ CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([address2],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([address2],''))) + CHAR(13) ELSE '' END
+ CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([address3],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([address3],''))) + CHAR(13) ELSE '' END
+ CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([city],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([city],''))) + CHAR(13) ELSE '' END
+ CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([state],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([state],''))) + CHAR(13) ELSE '' END
+ CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([zipcode],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([zipcode],''))) + CHAR(13) ELSE '' END
+ CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([item_purchased],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([item_purchased],''))) ELSE '' END
+ ' - ' + CASE WHEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([quantity_purchased],''))) <> '' THEN LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL([quantity_purchased],''))) + CHAR(13) ELSE '' END
FROM Customers

You can either assign the output to a variable for a single row or into another table for printing.

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Atlas Games: Through the Aegis off to Press; Table of Contents Available!
Through the Aegis off to Press; Table of Contents Available!
Through the Aegis, a sourcebook of developed covenants for your Ars Magica Fifth Edition saga, is off to press. To celebrate, as we always like to do, we've posted the Table of Contents for you to get a sneak peek into the wonders within this 160 page oversized volume.


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Thursday 29 August
On Curacao
International points of sale
Package including stay
Attainability and parking
Pictures 2010-2014
New acts for CNSJ19: Black Eyed Peas, Earth Wind & Fire and Nicky Jam
It is with great joy and also a little pride that the organisation of the Curaçao North Sea Jazz Festival announces new acts for the upcoming edition. Black Eyed Peas and Earth, Wind & Fire have been added to the lineup on Friday 30 August, and Nicky Jam to Saturday's program. Unfortunately, Ozuna had to cancel his performance.
Black Eyed Peas' big breakthrough came with the smash hit Where Is The Love? from the 2003 album Elephunk, which was their third. The next two albums, 2005's Monkey Business and 2009's The E.N.D., were even more successful and the band became a worldwide phenomenon with hit singles such as Shut Up, Don't Phunk With My Heart, My Humps, Boom Boom Pow, and I Gotta Feeling, among many others. Last year saw the release of a new album, Masters Of The Sun Vol. 1.
After eight years Earth, Wind & Fire are coming back to the island! Their unforgettable seventies hits - Fantasy, September, Boogie Wonderland, After The Love Has Gone, and many more - are ingrained in everyone's memory. The band from Chicago has been partying on stages all over the world for almost fifty years with their amazing formula of at least ten band members, a blazing horn section, expertly layered vocals, and an effortless mix of styles in which pop, soul, disco, and funk blend together.
Nicky Jam is a reggaeton artist born in Boston who moved to Puerto Rico at age ten. After a music executive noticed his talent he was given a recording contract and released his first album, ...Distinto A Los Demás, at age 14. Having released five studio albums between then and 2007, his sixth, 2017's Fénix, brought him more chart success than ever before. The album contains hit singles such as El Perdón (with Enrique Iglesias), Hasta El Amanecer, and El Amante. Nicky Jam has several Billboard Latin Music Awards, Latin American Music Awards, and Latin Grammy Awards to his name and also holds the record for most appearances on various artist albums.