"After nine months the UK has delivered," declared EU Council President Donald Tusk in a portentous tweet on receipt of the letter triggering Brexit from Prime Minister Theresa May.
The tone of his speech in Brussels was full of regret. There was "no reason to pretend that this is a happy day" in Brussels or London, he added. "We already miss you."
Looking on the bright side, he said there was "also something positive" about Brexit as it had made the 27 states remaining in the EU more determined and united than before.
That mood of regret tinged with defiance was echoed by a tweet from European Parliament President Antonio Tajani:
"Today isn't a good day. #Brexit marks a new chapter in our Union's history, but we're ready, we'll move on, hoping UK remains close partner."
He later spoke about the possibility of Britain reversing its decision, saying that all member states would have to support it.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, speaking in Malta, called it a "day of sadness".
meanwhile, said that while Brexit was "sentimentally painful" for Europe it would be "economically painful" for Britain
"It will end with a trade agreement between Great Britain and Europe, we hope that it's the best trade agreement possible," he said during a visit to Indonesia.
A more bitter response came from another leading German politician, Manfred Weber, chair of the centre-right EPP Group in the European Parliament.
Pointing the finger at British politicians who had campaigned for Brexit, he complained that they had had the chance to grow up in a free Europe but now they were erecting walls.
"EU has done everything to keep the British. From now on, only the interests of the remaining 440 million Europeans count for us," he tweeted.
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat expressed concern about the link made between a trade agreement and future security cooperation in Mrs May's letter.
"We are part of the same family," Mr Muscat said in Valletta, "we should be committed to fighting terrorism and beefing up our security irrespective of what happens at the end of the day."
Emmanuel Macron, the centrist French presidential candidate, said he believed Britain and the EU needed to maintain a close relationship, especially in defence.
He was speaking after meeting London Mayor Sadiq Khan and noted that some 200,000 French citizens live in the UK capital.
"Some of them will decide to come back, I will be very happy to host them again," he said in English. "But, obviously, we will work together with the UK and we will work together with London because they live there.''
Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders was clear that Britain would not get a better deal outside the EU than inside the bloc.
In other reaction: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his priority was to minimise uncertainty for investors
Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said clarifying the status and rights of 25,000 Austrians living in the UK was "at the forefront"
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that Britain "would continue to be a European country, a fundamental pillar of peace and security on the Old Continent, and a cultural and economic reference for Europe and Europeans"
The Irish government said protecting the Northern Ireland peace process - including through maintaining an open border - and continuing the Common Travel Area with the UK were among its negotiating priorities
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The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless Of Who's In Power - politics - Duration: 6:18.
The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless Of Who's In Power
No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises.
Commentators seem split into three camps: those who see Trump as a manifestation of
smouldering social/economic ills, those who see Trump and his supporters as the cause
of those ills, and those who see Trump as both manifestation and cause of those ills.
I think this misses the point, which is the overlapping crises unfolding in this decade--
diminishing returns on skyrocketing debts, the demographics of an aging populace, the
erosion of the social contract and the profound disunity of political elites--will continue
expanding and feeding on each other regardless of who is in power.
Historical analysis seems to swing between the "Big Man/Woman" narrative that views individuals
as the drivers of history, and the "Big Forces/it's all economics" narrative that sees individual
leaders as secondary to the broad sweep of forces beyond the control of any individual
or group.
So while the mainstream views President Lincoln as the linchpin of the Civil War--his election
triggered the southern secession--from the "Big Forces/it's all economics" view, Lincoln
was no more than the match that lit a conflict that was made inevitable by forces larger
than the 1860 election.
The tension between these two narratives is valuable, as history cannot be entirely reduced
to individual decisions or broad forces (weather, resource depletion, financial crisis, geopolitical
upheaval, demographics, plague, etc.).
The dynamic interplay between the two shapes history.
Individuals do matter--but they cannot offset structural crises for long.
Which brings us to Trump.
The status quo is falling apart for profoundly structural reasons: promises made when growth
was robust, debt was modest, energy was cheap and abundant and the work force was far more
numerous than those dependent on the central state's "pay as you go" pension and welfare
programs-- these promises made in yesteryear can no longer be kept, regardless of who's
in power.
We cannot get blood out of a turnip, and those who claim we can are only exacerbating the
coming crises with their fantasies and denials.
I've been addressing these slow-moving, inevitable crises for the past 10 years.
Despite the illusion of tepid "growth" and the maintenance of the status quo, beneath
the surface everything is becoming much more fragile and increasingly brittle.
Even Timothy Geithner concedes this in his recent Foreign Affairs article on how to deal
with the next global financial crisis.
The central banks and states have expended all their ammunition-- lowering interest rates,
creating money out of thin air to bolster systemic liquidity, buying bonds and other
assets to prop up shaky markets, and borrowing immense sums to prop up government spending--
and there is little left for the next crisis.
Why I Have to Agree with Tim Geithner on This (March 8, 2017)
And this sober view--that some additional central bank trickery can save the system
in the next financial crisis--assumes things that are unlikely to be true: what if energy
is no longer cheap and abundant?
What if gobal weather isn't conducive to grain surpluses?
What if central banks buying stocks no longer props up the market?
What if debt finally reaches levels that cannot be sustained?
Could Hillary, or some other leader, forestall these deeply structural crises?
The short answer is no.
The only thing a leader can actually do is lower expectations so the erosion of promises
that cannot be kept will be accepted as inevitable, and bolster hope while demanding sacrifices
of all those who have benefited from the status quo.
If we look back on great leaders who dealt with one crisis after another, we find they
didn't actually make the crises disappear; they only managed them on the margins, and
spoke to the need to make sacrifices for a better future.
If we set aside the rose-colored glasses, we find that Franklin Roosevelt didn't actually
"lead the nation out of Depression."
The nation was still deeply entrenched in the Depression in 1940, after 8 years of FDR's
leadership.
It took World War II and federal borrowing and spending on an unimaginable scale to extricate
the U.S. from the grip of bad debt the powers that be refused to write off and the resulting
stagnation.
Which brings us again to Trump.
Since no one can actually resolve these overlapping crises, a focus on the individual leader's
actions is a distraction.
Yes, an individual can manage the margins of crisis more or less effectively.
But overlapping mutually reinforcing crises are not a war, with a victorious and a vanquished
side.
As Peter Turchin and other writers I have quotes and discussed for many years have detailed,
these structural trends play out regardless of policy tweaks or grand pronouncements.
Leaders who manage to ease the decline or temporarily reverse it are considered successes;
those who exacerbate the decline are considered failures.
Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform.
No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises.
No one can reverse the diminishing returns on financialization, debt, centralization,
financial fakery, rentier state-cartel parasitism, or reverse the decline in paid work, the erosion
of well-being and health and rising inequality.
There is no way to actually forestall the reckoning as the forces of demographics, financial
predation, Imperial over-reach, soaring debts, political disunity, technology disruption
and the failings of state-cartel centralization grind up the status quo
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High-stakes drama as teachers, district work to reach deal at Keystone Oaks - Duration: 2:28.
HOUR AGREEMENT.
BEAU?
REPORTER: THAT'S RIGHT.
TEACHERS ARE PACKING THE MAIN
ENTRANCE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL HERE
IN ANTICIPATION OF THAT MIDNIGHT
DEADLINE.
THEIR COUNTERPARTS ARE INSIDE
NEGOTIATING, AND THESE TEACHERS
ARE READY FOR THE LONG HAWM.
THEY'VE GOT BLANKETS AND COFFEE
AND GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, WHATEVER
IT TAKES TO STAY ALERT AND STAY
OUT HERE AS THE NEGOTIATION
CONTINUES.
WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT
NEGOTIATORS WILL STAY THROUGH
THE NIGHT IF THEY NEED TO.
POLICE CALLED TO THE KEYSTONE
OAKS CAMPUS BEFORE THE
CONTENTIOUS NEGOTIATION EVEN
BEGAN.
THREE OFFICERS WALKING SCHOOL
BOARD MEMBER DONALD HOWARD OUT
OF THE AUDITORIUM AREA WHERE
POLICE SAY HE GOT INTO A VERBAL
DISPUTE WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE
SCHOOL'S MUSICAL.
>> I CAN'T SPEAK.
>> DID YOU ACCOST THE MUSICAL
DIRECTOR?
THE MUSICAL DIRECTOR HAS FOUND
HIMSELF AS A BARGAINING CHIP OF
SORTS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS.
HIS MUSICAL FOOT LOOSE PREMIERES
THURSDAY NIGHT, BUT PER THE
UNION HE WOULD NOT BE THERE FOR
HIS OWN SHOW IF THE TEACHERS
STRIKE.
>> WE HAVE PUT IN FOUR AND A
HALF REALLY HARD MONTHS TO MAKE
THIS SHOW AS GREAT AS IT'S GOING
TO BE.
AND TO HAVE TO GO ON WITHOUT
HIM, IT'S HEARTBREAKING.
REPORTER: THE TEACHERS WANTED A
NEW CONTRACT WITH HIGHER
SALARIES AND BETTER BENEFITS
SINCE JANUARY 2016.
KEVIN GALLAGHER SAYS THERE'S
NEVER BEEN A STRIKE IN HIS 20
YEARS HERE.
>> IT'S FRUSTRATING.
WE HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH
OUR STUDENTS, AND IT'S VERY
DIFFICULT.
REPORTER: DIFFICULT FOR EVERYONE
INVOLVED, INCLUDING STUDENTS.
>> IT'S HURTFUL TO BE STUCK IN
THE MIDDLE AND TO HAVE TO
COMPROMISE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN
WORKING SO HARD ON WHEN THIS HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH WITH US
DIRECTLY.
REPORTER: THERE WAS A DRESS
REHEARSAL OF THE MUSICAL TONIGHT
THAT MR. HALLUM DID ATTEND, IN
ADDITION TO MANY TEACHERS.
THE DISTRICT IS ALLOWING EXTRA
CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES LIKE THE
MUSICAL TO CONTINUE TOMORROW FOR
ITS PREMIERE, BUT HE WON'T BE
THERE.
SO THE SHOW WILL GO ON, JUST
WITHOUT HIM.
WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED, IF THEY
REACH A DEAL TO AVERT THIS
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Angel~Chan & Donna~Kun as Anime Gurls - Duration: 1:13.
Hey Angel~Chan here today is Anime Day *Giggles* Its nothing to worry about *Mumbles Maybe* Hope you like it hehe
Angel~chan:This is anime as Angel~Chan as a Kid baby toddler ???
Angel~Chan Can't decide which one so also this one
Angel~chan as a Teen Awww daw So cute
Angel~Chan:Next is Donna~Kun ( FYI Donna~Kun is still on Vacation for Spring break Donna~Kun will be back on Saturday or Sunday Next Monday Back to school)
Angel~Chan:Donna~Kun as a Kid or baby or Toddler ?? Isn't Donna~Kun cute as a anime person kid thing
Angel~Chan:Donna~Kun as a Teen ( In real life Donna~~Kun hair is curly wavy Angel~chan couldn't fine one )
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If you want to see yourself as Anime tell in comments what kinda hair style you want and Angel~Chan will try to have time to do it Bai
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Source: Corey Perry posed as girl to trick boys into sending videos - Duration: 1:45.
TERRI: I HAVE.
A SOURCE CLOSE TO THIS
INVESTIGATION TELLS ME
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THAT COREY
PERRY USED SOCIAL MEDIA TO
STRIKE UP RELATIONSHIPS WITH
YOUNG BOYS AND THEN HE ENTICED
HI BY POSING AS A GIRL.
ACCORDING TO A SOURCE CLOSE TO
THE INVESTIGATION, PERRY USED
SOCIAL MEDIA TO CONTACT BOYS.
THE SOURCE SAYS PERRY POSED AS A
GIRL TO GET THE BOYS TO SEND HIM
VIDEOS OF THEMSELVES.
PERRY KEPT THE VIDEOS ON H
CELL PHONE AND LAPTOP.
THE SOURCE SAYS SINCE PERRY HAS
THOUSANDS OF FACEBOOK FRIENDS,
THEY ARE CONCERNED HE MIGHT HAVE
CONTACTED VICTIMS NOT ONLY FROM
HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL
WHERE HE WORKED, BUT ALSO FROM
AROUND THE COUNTRY.
ACCORDING TO HIS PERSONNEL FILE,
PERRY WORKED AT A NASHVILLE BOYS
AND GIRLS CLUB PRIOR TO COLLEGE.
HE GRADUATED FROM FLORIDA A&M
UNIVERSITY IN 2005, AND GOT
INTERNSHIP AT PALM BEACH COUNTY
SCHOOL DISTRICT.
HE WAS OFFERED A TEACHING JOB AT
DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
ELEMENTARY IN 2005 AND WORKED
THERE UNTIL HE GOT A TEACHING
JOB AT WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL IN
2010.
EVALUATIONS RATED PERRY AS
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN MANY AREAS,
SUCH AS INSTRUCTION.
HIS 2011 EVALUATION READS, MR.
PERRY IS A VERY CREATIVE AND
INNOVATIVE TEACHER THAT
CHALLENGES AND ENRICHES HIS
STUDENTS VERY SUCCESSFULLY
SHORTLY AFTER THE FBI AND WEST
PALM BEACH POLICE CONDUCTED A
SEARCH WARRANT HERE AT HIS
APARTMENT, HE PACKED H BAG,
TOOK OFF AND HAS NOT BEEN SEEN
SINCE.
ONE YOUNG GIRL RIDING ON HIS
FACEBOOK PAGE TODAY, THIS HURTS
BECAUSE YOU ARE LIKE A FATHER TO
A LOT OF US.
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Heart attack serves as wake up call for man to quit smoking - Duration: 1:37.
AS
ABLE TO QUIT.
REPORTER: DAVE HAD NO INCLING
THAT HE COULD HAVE A HEART
PROBLEM UNTIL HE NOTICED VAGUE
CHEST DISCOMFORT.
>> I THOUGT I WAS DEALING WITH
REFLUX DISEASE AND SO IT MASKED
ITSELF AS REFLUX DIEASE BUT IT
WAS ACTUALLY A HEART ATTACK
REPORTER: AT 60 THE ATHELETIC
DAVE HAD NO RISK FACTORS FOR
HEART DISEASE EXCEPT FOR ONE
LETHAL ONE CIGARETTES FOR 30
YEARS.
>> SMOKING WAS MY BIGGEST RISK
FACTOR THAT I HAD TO DEAL WITH
I KNEW IT COULD HEART RPOBLEMS.
LUNG DISEASE AND CANCER
REPORTER: BUT HE KEPT HAVING
QUIT SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE, THE
HEART ATTACK WAKE UP CALL GAVE
HIS A GOOD REASON.
>> THE SECOND TIME I TOOK THE
SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM I HAD
A REASON I WANTED TO SEE MY
GRANDKIDS AND WATCH MY KIPS GROW
UP AND BECOME USEFUL CITIZEN
WITHIN A COUPLE OF MONTHS, I WAS
BREATHING BETTER, I COULD
EXERCISE.
IT WAS VERY NOTICIBLE.
REPORTER: QUITTING QUICKLY
PROVIDED BENEFITS
I'M DOCTOR BARRY RAMO KOAT
ACTION 7 NEWS
SHELLY: DOCTOR RAMO OFFERS A FEW
TIPS TO HELP YOU QUIT THE HABIT,
PREPARE BEFORE YOU GO COLD
TURKEY.
TRY CHANGING TO A BRAND YOU
DON'T LIKE;
LEAN ON YOUR LOVED ONES OR A
BUDDY FOR SUPPORT.
OUR STATE ALSO HAS RESOURCES FOR
YOU.
IF YOU'RE READY TO QUIT CALL
1-800-QUIT NOW.
THEY'LL PROVIDE YOU WITH FREE
ASSISTANCE TO HELP YOU REACH
YOUR GOAL BY PROVIDING A
PERSONAL QUIT PLAN, A COACH, AND
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New Berlin father accused of posing as teen, asking other teens to send nude pictures - Duration: 1:57.
>> THE STATE OF WISCONSIN VERSUS
GREG MILLER.
>> PROSECUTORS SAY 44-YEAR-OLD
CRAIG MILLER IS AN ONLINE
CHAMELEON, AND THE WORST KIND
PREDATOR, VICTIMIZING AT LEAST
MANY MORE.
FOUR TEENAGE GIRLS, POSSIBLY >>
HE CORES TO THEM AND SOMETIMES
INTIMIDATED THEM.
>> MILLER IS ACCUSED OF SWIPING
ONLINE PHOTOS OF A NEW JERSE
BOY TO CREATE HIS FAKE PERSONA,
ANDY HARRINGTON, WHO HE CLAIMED
WAS ORIGINALLY FROM BROOKFIELD
BUT NOW GOING TO COLLEGE OUT
EAST, PRESENTING HIMSELF AS A
CARING BOYFRIEND.
ONE VICTIM SAID THE DEFENDANT
EVEN CLAIMED THAT HE WAS GOING
TO TAKE HER TO THE JUNIOR PROM.
>> THIS CASE INVOLVES AN EXTREME
EXAMPLE OF MULTIPLE LAYERS OF
DECEPTIO.
IT APPEARED TO BE ONLINE
TRAFFICKING.
>> POLICE SAY MILLER TARGETED
GIRLS WHO TALKED ONLINE ABOUT
SELF-HARM AND
WOULD "EXERT CONTROL AND
PSYCHOLOGICAL PRESSURE ON THESE
FRAGILE GIRLS TO GET THEM TO
COMPLY T GO COMPLY - COMPLY."
POLICE SO FAR HAVE IDENTIFIED
VICTIMS FROM WISCONSIN,
KENTUCKY, INDIANA AND COLORADO,
BUT THEY FOUND "CAREFULLY
ORGANIZED FOLDERS FILLED WITH
NUDE PHOTOS OF AT LEAST 13 OTHER
TEENAGERS WHO HAVE NOT YET BEEN
IDENTIFIED
FACING 18 FELONIES, MILLER WILL
REMAIN BEHIND BARS FOR NOW.
>> THE COURT BELIEVES THAT
THEY'LL IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH BASED
UPON THE ALLEGATIONS IN THIS
COMPLAINT.
>> ACCORDING TO THAT COMPLAINT,
MILLER WAS TRIPPED-UP WHEN HE
TOLD A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL HE'D
TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF BECAUSE
SHE WOULDN'T SEND HIM ANY MORE
PICTURES.
PATRICK.
PATRICK: NICK, YOU SAY TRIPPED
UP
SO HOW DID POLICE CATCH UP WITH
HIM?
>> THAT 16-YEAR-OLD ACTUALLY DID
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How Your Gym Outfit Can Destroy Your Confidence & Gym Performance + Physique Update - Duration: 14:02.
For more infomation >> How Your Gym Outfit Can Destroy Your Confidence & Gym Performance + Physique Update - Duration: 14:02. -------------------------------------------
Marco Sturm invites to come to #IIHFWorlds as single-game tickets become available - Duration: 1:16.
Hello dear ice hockey fans!
We, the team, are already immensely looking forward to the 2017 #IIHFWorlds on home ice.
We feed off the enthusiasm of the fans.
That's how it has always been and they always give us the necessary push.
Be part of it! Come support us!
Together we will achieve our goal!
See you then!
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Samsung Electronics launches Galaxy S8 smartphone - Duration: 2:07.
It's being described by some in the tech world as a "shot at redemption."
Samsung Electronics has finally unveiled its Galaxy S8 smartphone... and it's an impressive
device.
Experts agree that the S8 is a make or break phone for the Korean tech giant as Samsung
tries to rebuild its image after the embarrassing withdrawal of its fire-prone Note 7s.
Ro Aram has the details.
Two versions of the Galaxy S8 were launched at a media event in New York on Wednesday.
The S8 and S8 Plus have 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch curved screens, respectively - the largest
yet for Samsung's premium smartphones.
The firm has also ditched the physical home button to maximize display space.
It's replaced with an on-screen icon, similar to that of rival Android phones from LG and
Huawei.
However, with the S8, there's a pressure sensor and vibration module built in behind the icon
to give users some feedback.
It also has a new virtual assistant called Bixby and an iris scanner that lets users
unlock their phones by looking at them.
Another handy feature is a dock that connects the phone to a monitor, keyboard and wireless
mouse, allowing them to act as a kind of Android-powered PC.
As for the camera, the front is getting a boost to eight megapixels, while the rear
stays at twelve.
The S8 lineup is crucial for Samsung in trying to recover its image as a reliable phonemaker
after the Note 7 had to be recalled twice for catching fire due to what Samsung called
"battery problems".
But, the company said it had since put in additional safety measures.
[AP - Story Number 4088625] "We put the Galaxy S8 through our toughest
safety testing process ever, with an eight point battery safety check that goes beyond
the industry standard."
The S8 and S8 Plus will go on sale on April 21st in the U.S. and April 28th for the rest
of the world.
The retail price starts at around 700 U.S. dollars.
Ro Aram, Arirang News.
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Video: High-tech classroom helps English as a second language learners - Duration: 1:39.
PRETTY CREATIVE WAYS TO
HELP EDUCATE THE ENTIRE STUDENT
BODY
THERE IS NOTHING TRADITIONAL
ABOUT THIS MATH CLASSROOM AT
OAKLAND MILLS HIGH SCHOOL IN
COLUMBIA.
FOR STARTERS, IT HAS CAFE STYLE
SEATING WHERE STUDENTS GET TO
SOLVE PROBLEMS ON THEIR DESK
TOPS
IT SEEMS EVIDENT, MOST ARE
ALREADY SOLD ON THE MAKEOVER.
WHAT DID YOU THINK WHEN YOU
WALKED INTO THIS ROOM?
>> OH, I WAS SO HAPPY.
IT LOOKS SO AMAZING, RIGHT?
TIM: THIS IS ALSO A CLASSROOM
WHERE TEACHERS MAKE THE ROUNDS
ASSISTING STUDENTS WHERE NEEDED
AND ON THEIR INDIVIDUAL LEARNING
LEVEL AND LANGUAGE.
>> AND IT ALSO ENHANCES THE
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN STUDENTS
AND IT ALLOWS US TO MORE EASILY
FILL IN ANY GAPS OR IDENTIFY NEW
SKILL SETS THEY NEED TO WORK ON.
TI STUDENTS GET TO WORK IN
TEAMS AND MOVE AROUND STATION TO
/FROM STATION TO STATION USING
THE LEARNING TOOLS ON HAND.
>> IT'S COOL BECAUSE THERE ARE
ALL THE THINGS I LIKE IT HAS A
LOT TECHNOLOGY AND I FEEL LIKE I
CAN DO MORE THINGS.
>> AS FAR AS OUR ENGLISH
LANGUAGE LEARNERS IT'S GREAT FOR
THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE ABLE TO
REALLY GET TO ENGAGE WITH THE
MATERIAL.
TIM: AND THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA
BEHIND CHANGING HOW AND WHERE
STUDENTS LEARN.
>> BEHIND ME YOU GOT THINGS LIKE
POSTERS THAT ARE ALSO TRANSLATED
INTO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES THA
HELP.
TIM: SO FAR, THIS TRANSFORMED
HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM IS THE ONE
OF THE ONLY KIND IN THE COUNTY.
THE HOWARD COUNTY HAS NOT ROLLED
OUT DOING THIS FOR OTHER SCHOOLS
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Samsung Electronics launches Galaxy S8 smartphone - Duration: 2:05.
It's being described by some in the tech world as a "shot at redemption."
Samsung Electronics has finally unveiled its Galaxy S8 smartphone... and it's an impressive
device.
Experts agree that the S8 is a make or break phone for the Korean tech giant as Samsung
tries to rebuild its image after the withdrawal of its fire-prone Note 7s.
Ro Aram shows us the details.
Two versions of the Galaxy S8 were launched at a media event in New York on Wednesday.
The S8 and S8 Plus have 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch curved screens, respectively - the largest
yet for Samsung's premium smartphones.
The firm has also ditched the physical home button to maximize display space.
It's replaced with an on-screen icon, similar to that of rival Android phones from LG and
Huawei.
However, with the S8, there's a pressure sensor and vibration module built in behind the icon
to give users some feedback.
It also has a new virtual assistant called Bixby and an iris scanner that lets users
unlock their phones by looking at them.
Another handy feature is a dock that connects the phone to a monitor, keyboard and wireless
mouse, allowing them to act as a kind of Android-powered PC.
As for the camera, the front is getting a boost to eight megapixels, while the rear
stays at twelve.
The S8 lineup is crucial for Samsung in trying to recover its image as a reliable phonemaker
after the Note 7 had to be recalled twice for catching fire due to what Samsung called
"battery problems".
But, the company said it had since put in additional safety measures.
[AP - Story Number 4088625] "We put the Galaxy S8 through our toughest
safety testing process ever, with an eight point battery safety check that goes beyond
the industry standard."
The S8 and S8 Plus will go on sale on April 21st in the U.S. and April 28th for the rest
of the world.
The retail price starts at around 700 U.S. dollars.
Ro Aram, Arirang News.
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Man accused in knife incident described as mentally unstable - Duration: 1:13.
CONFRONTATION.
ANDY HERSHBERGER HAS MOR
ANDY: KRISTEN, CHRISTOPHER
LANZILLO TOLD A JUDGE THAT HE IS
MENTALLY UNSTABLE AS HE WAS
ARRAIGNED ON SEVERAL CHARGES
THAT INCLUDE CRIMINAL
THREATENING.
HE WAS ARMED WITH A KNIFE WHEN
HE THREATENED HIS BROTHER
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
LANZILLO WAS CHARGED WITH
HITTING HIS OTHER BROTHER WITH A
CHAIR AND FLIPPING OVER A TABLE
WHEN HEADING OUTSIDE.
WHEN POLICE ARRIVED THEY SAW
LANZILLO ON THE ROAD WEARING
SWEAT PANTS AND STILL HOLDING A
KNIFE IN HIS HAND.
>> WE ALSO HAVE AN ISSUE --
BASICALLY DURING THE ARREST
THERE WERE ALLEGATIONS THAT HE
WAS ATENCHEDING TO -- ATTEMPTING
GOAD POLICE OFFICERS TO SHOOT
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Vowel Sound /ɪ/ as in "it"- American English Pronunciation [UPDATED] - Duration: 6:19.
Hello there!
This is the "Sounds American" channel.
In this video we're going to talk about the American vowel sound /ɪ/,
as in the word "it."
You can also hear this sound in words like
"big,"
"gym,"
"English,"
or "image."
Please, note that we'll be using a special phonetic symbol - /ɪ/ - for this sound.
The /ɪ/ is one of the two most frequent vowel sounds in American English,
but it exists in less than 20% of the world languages,
so many people may distort it or replace it
with the /i/ sound, as in the word "be."
Let's find out how to make this sound.
OK.
To pronounce the /ɪ/ sound, you should focus on the correct position of your tongue.
Slightly open your mouth, spread your lips and relax them.
Raise your tongue high in your mouth and push it to the front.
The tip of your tongue can be lowered just behind your bottom front teeth.
Remember,
the /ɪ/ is a relaxed sound,
so your tongue and lips should be relaxed,
and your tongue should be at the front of your mouth.
Now, let's try saying it:
/ɪ/
/ɪ/
/ɪ/
Now, let's practice this sound in some words.
You'll see a word on a screen and hear its pronunciation.
Like this:
You'll have a few seconds to pronounce the word, if you want to.
Let's begin!
Let's pause for a moment and review the key points.
Your tongue should be relaxed,
raised high in your mouth
and pushed to the front.
Let's continue practicing.
You're done!
Congratulations!
By the way,
in most cases the /ɪ/ is written by the letter 'i',
so spelling words with this sound is fairly easy.
And more on the spelling.
the /ɪ/ is represented by the letter 'i'
in 73% of words with this sound.
Less often it's written by the letter 'e',
like in the word "English,"
or by the letter 'a',
like in the word "image,"
and sometimes by the letter 'y',
like in the word "gym."
Thanks for watching!
Hope you find it useful!
Stay tuned on our Sounds American channel!
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Design as a Business Imperative — The Startup Tapes #038 - Duration: 11:18.
- You're a designer by trade, right?
Is that fair to say?
- Yeah, studied design at Stanford.
- Perfect, and I didn't know you,
didn't know any of that.
I was a happy Lever user, customer,
and I fell in love with Lever because I felt
as a person who recruits people, like this people,
the people who made this product understand the flow,
understand what I need to have any point in time,
understand what happens,
and I fell in love with it as opposed to other products
that I have used in the past and pushed for us to buy it
because it was just well mapped.
And so, now, of course, I meet you.
I understand more about your background,
and it feels like oh, of course, design at the center,
but maybe that wasn't the Lever story.
So I wanted to talk to you about that,
like how the product happened
and what kind of impact design had not on just the product,
but on your business, right?
Is it really a competitive advantage
to have a quote unquote a well designed product
even in this B-to-B enterprise software world
that we live in?
- Yeah, no, that's a great question.
So I mean, you know, when we approached rethinking
a stale category, and for the most part,
systems that have powered hiring, recruiting, those are old.
That's an old category.
I really think design is the only lens
that helped us create a new point of view in this space.
We spent a lot of time in our early days,
like six months actually, in the trenches,
working really closely with not just recruiters,
but people like you, hiring managers, executives,
people who had the consequences of hiring not going well.
And it was actually through that
that we, I think, latched onto something big
that was happening in B-to-B software in SAS software,
which was that a lot of these systems of record
that have existed are actually morphing towards,
you know, systems of engagement, that it's not enough
to build a digital filing cabinet anymore.
People expect more from software.
They expect the software that they use from nine to five
at work to be as fluid, as intuitive, as engaging
as software that they're using on their phones at home.
And so, for us, when we thought about it,
there was actually something really powerful
in that shift from system of record to system of engagement.
Recruiting software, it's unique in the sense
that actually, it's one of the few pieces of software
that every single person in a company does touch
or use in some way.
You're submitting your interview feedback.
You're referring a friend.
And so, really from that standpoint,
there's only a few group of users
that are kind of paid to use the system.
Everybody else has to voluntarily want to.
And the more that you could actually help a company
unlock that potential in their employee base,
the more you can get them excited,
the more you can get them helping.
Obviously, that drives business value.
So I think for us, in taking kind of this universe
where we actually had this huge opportunity
of engaging an entire company in hiring.
Obviously, the product had to be intuitive.
It had to be simple.
It also had to actually be delightful.
And I think really when you think about it,
if we can get hiring managers to log into the software
and to do the tasks that they're depended on to do
to actually like it when they're doing it,
to be passionate users of our product,
we've actually opened the door
to an incredible new business opportunity
because applicant tracking may be our category,
but it's also this interesting backdoor
to reaching the extended kind of like tree of management
inside of a company.
- That makes sense, and I can definitely see
how that adds tremendous value for you too
because if you drive this engagement,
I'm sure like churn goes down,
I'm sure like referrals go up, lock-in is improved,
but focusing on the value to the customer,
it's interesting because why isn't that really
at the center of everybody's attention in this day and age?
And it feels so obvious when we talk about it,
but how do you think we got to this idea
of, again, of those system of record,
of just kind of digital storage of information
as opposed to something that makes you feel happier
to do your job better?
I'm detecting a little bit maybe in your answer too
it helps improve not just your process,
but even like the quality of the people you hire
and the satisfaction they have with the entire process.
- Right.
Well, I think the interesting thing about design
is it gives you these short term benefits
like you're saying.
I mean, you see your sales cycles move quickly.
You see trials where the product sells itself
and improves your win rate.
You see churn go down because people are actually adopting
and using the product and they're getting value out of it,
but I think there really is this longterm advantage
to it too, and this gets overlooked in a lot
of B-to-B software categories,
which is that if you can actually maintain that closeness
to your users, to your buyers
and really understand their needs through a design lens,
you're actually gonna probably sniff out new opportunities
that take you into blue ocean directions,
that help you solve problems that nobody's solved before
or in a way that nobody's solved before.
So a lot of people, when they think design,
they're thinking pixels and colors and buttons.
I think it's super powerful for a B-to-B company
to spin up a strong user research practice
to spin up a very strong interaction design practice,
to actually take features that they're testing
and not just test them on buyers,
but test them on end users and to hear what those people
who are actually using the software say, react to.
I think when you actually go down into the weeds
with the actual people on the ground trying to do work,
you actually find the true business ROI.
And I think too many companies stay focused
on the buyer persona.
They don't actually get to the business user.
And so, I think that from that standpoint,
design means a lot of things
at different stages as a company.
In the beginning, it's how you get your great ideas.
It's also how you actually probably get
your strongest strongest advocates,
the customer log you're looking for in early traction.
Then it's gonna pivot you to having a reputation,
a brand, a brand as being an innovator,
a brand as being a great product.
It's gonna get you those referrals from your customers,
but then, I think in the really longterm stage,
it, I think, gives you the ability to think differently
about a category, and when you look
at any kind of massive B-to-B company nowadays,
they had to have a really big view
on what was changing about the world
and about the way people are doing business.
So I think design is a great lens to approach that.
And as a startup founder,
you're pulled in a million directions.
If you can enable a design team
to go out and stay close to your customers,
you're going to have insights that can be really powerful
in the long run.
- And it feels like now startup, they're always looking
for an edge to this route,
just to be very, very cliche about it,
and people are like this old school industry,
and I'm bringing this twist to it,
and there's some almost universal ones,
like, oh, I'm gonna do this, but mobile
or I'm gonna do this, but I'm gonna do the SAS version.
Do you feel like it's almost like there's a universal thing
if you can look at an industry and a tool
and be like, I'm gonna do the well designed version,
that this is something an entrepreneur should think about
in term of how they can have a difference
or they can build a different take
and mount like an assault on a very entrenched industry?
- In terms of launching to market
with like the best in class design,
you know, I don't think that's enough,
but I think launching to the market
with the best in class design team
is an incredibly powerful competitive advantage,
and if you can sort of stay focused
on building up a strong design competency
on your founding team, when you're 10 employees
and continuing to grow that as you scale your business,
I think that that means that you're going to waste
fewer engineering hours, fewer product cycles,
you're gonna actually launch confidently,
like new functionality or new products to market
because, again, you've taken the time
to have a task force inside of your business
that's validating is this actually going to do
what my sales people says it does
once you're actually kind of in the hands of the customer.
- Right.
So where are some of the limits?
You know, you and I have talked before about sales
and the importance of different other components
of company other than design,
so where do you think is that impact
if you had to kind of qualify it?
What does investing in design afford you,
and what will it like not protect you from
in your experience?
- Wow, that's a good question.
You know, how can you actually get to the humans
and to the needs that are underlying anything
that might be a technology solution?
So when I think about like what are the,
what's the potential of design
and whats the limits of design,
it really kind of goes back to how well
can you actually listen and learn,
and can you actually suspend your assumptions
about something, challenge your assumptions about something
and see opportunities that you might have missed otherwise?
And doing that, sometimes you've gotta get
out there in the field.
You've gotta actually spend more time with customers.
As a CEO, that's something I really try to prioritize
is sitting at the desk of a recruiter using our product
to hire and actually trying to understand
what their life is like.
And so, you know, ultimately, I think,
especially if you're in a growth stage or a later stage,
having the capability of challenging your own assumptions
about the world is the only way you stay relevant.
So I think that the greatest opportunity of design
is to keep your innovative edge,
but the greatest challenge, certainly,
is to just keep doing that even as you grow and scale.
- So is there anything else you'd like to share?
Do you feel like at any point, you kind of bet too much
on design or kind of over thought something
that wasn't really a design issue,
or what were some of the failures of maybe approaching
some of your product and your market capture that way?
- Yeah, I think there have definitely been times
when sort of an intention to be really authentic
to our end users and really sure
that we actually brainstormed enough and ideated enough.
I mean, that's always a tension with your ability
to execute quickly and your ability, I think,
to just like get to market faster than the competition.
So I think something that I've done really early on
is make sure that my designers were also given
a perspective of the business goals
and making sure that my product team overall
was really like tightly integrated with sales.
There's a natural tendency for those teams to drift apart
or even become adversarial,
and I think there's like been a lot of common wisdom
about the power of, of course, enabling each side
with those mutual perspectives.
And maybe this is because I'm a designer,
but in my role as CEO, I really view actually my job
to be very design-like.
I mean, I don't probably design my own product anymore,
but I feel like my company and my team is my product
and sort of Lever, the company, is my product,
and my users now are just my employees,
so I have to spend a lot of time need finding.
I have to spend a lot of time identifying
what their needs are,
and really, that's kind of the only way
that I've been able to solve pretty much any problem
is by staying close to the users,
which in this case, are sort of my employees,
and designing solutions that actually meet their needs.
- That makes a lot of sense, yeah.
Thank you so much. - Yeah, absolutely.
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Samsung Electronics launches Galaxy S8 smartphone - Duration: 2:02.
It's being described by some in the tech world as a "shot at redemption."
Samsung Electronics has finally unveiled its Galaxy S8 smartphone... and it's an impressive
device.
Experts agree that the S8 is a make or break phone for the Korean tech giant as Samsung
tries to rebuild its image after having to discontinue the fire-prone Note 7.
Ro Aram has the details.
Two versions of the Galaxy S8 were launched at a media event in New York on Wednesday.
The S8 and S8 Plus have 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch curved screens, respectively - the largest
yet for Samsung's premium smartphones.
The firm has also ditched the physical home button to maximize display space.
It's replaced with an on-screen icon, similar to that of rival Android phones from LG and
Huawei.
However, with the S8, there's a pressure sensor and vibration module built in behind the icon
to give users some feedback.
It also has a new virtual assistant called Bixby and an iris scanner that lets users
unlock their phones by looking at them.
Another handy feature is a dock that connects the phone to a monitor, keyboard and wireless
mouse, allowing them to act as a kind of Android-powered PC.
As for the camera, the front is getting a boost to eight megapixels, while the rear
stays at twelve.
The S8 lineup is crucial for Samsung in trying to recover its image as a reliable phonemaker
after the Note 7 had to be recalled twice for catching fire due to what Samsung called
"battery problems".
But, the company said it had since put in additional safety measures.
[AP - Story Number 4088625] "We put the Galaxy S8 through our toughest
safety testing process ever, with an eight point battery safety check that goes beyond
the industry standard."
The S8 and S8 Plus will go on sale on April 21st in the U.S. and April 28th for the rest
of the world.
The retail price starts at around 700 U.S. dollars.
Ro Aram, Arirang News.
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Yemen: Trump Expands U.S. Military Role in Saudi War as Yemenis Brace for Famine - Duration: 8:21.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to look at Yemen, where the U.S. is also rapidly expanding military
operations.
The U.S. has reportedly launched more than 49 strikes across the country this month—according
to The New York Times, that's more strikes than the U.S. has ever carried out in a single
year in Yemen.
While the U.S. airstrikes have been targeting suspected al-Qaeda operations in Yemen, The
Wall Street Journal is reporting the U.S. is now offering even more logistical and intelligence
support for the Saudi-led war against Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are accused of being linked
to Iran.
More than 10,000 people have been killed since the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign
in Yemen began two years ago this month.
Meanwhile, The New York Times is reporting today that the Trump administration has approved
the resumption of sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia.
President Obama froze some of these weapons sales last year due to concern about civilian
casualties in Saudi Arabia's expanding war in Yemen.
AMY GOODMAN: This all comes as the United Nations is warning Yemen is on the brink of
famine.
This is U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien.
STEPHEN O'BRIEN: Well, it's not just the number of people who are food insecure, which
represents about 14 million out of the 26 million or so Yemenis, which is an enormous
number for any nation to have to bear; it's the fact that we have seen an increase in
severe acute malnourishment, particularly in young children and in lactating mothers.
We have seen a very severe deterioration in the number of patients needing dialysis services,
access to oxygen, and where we need to see more antibiotics being brought in and medical
facilities made available.
These are seriously deteriorating.
AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about the situation in Yemen, we go to London to speak with Iona
Craig, a journalist who was based in Sana'a from 2010 to '15 as the Yemen correspondent
for The Times of London.
She was in Yemen again last month, where she reported on January's Navy SEAL raid that
left 25 civilians and one U.S. Navy SEAL dead.
Iona, welcome back to Democracy Now!
Talk about the situation on the ground in Yemen right now.
IONA CRAIG: Well, as you've already mentioned, the humanitarian situation is certainly getting
worse.
I went to several of the areas, remote areas, where some of the internally displaced people
are finding it increasingly difficult to get access to food and even water.
And then, on the military front, there is a stalemate on a lot of the—on the side
of the ground war, whilst also a new offensive was actually launched on the Red Sea Coast
whilst I was in Yemen in January, that then pushed a lot of the civilian population into
these incredibly remote areas where there are no aid agencies to support them and to
provide shelter and to provide food.
So, across the country, really, it doesn't matter which side of the front line you are,
if you're a civilian.
People are finding it increasingly difficult to both access food and to be able to afford
to pay for food, because many of the government employees have not been paid for more than
six, seven months now, and so that reduces people's capacity to even purchase goods,
even when they are available, in areas where they're not affected by the conflict.
So, really, there's a massive sense of war weariness amongst the civilian population.
People are just really desperate for this war to come to an end, obviously.
But certainly, on the political side, there is no indication that is about to happen.
And, in fact, the warring parties are not even willing to even engage or speak with
the U.N. special envoy who is charged with trying to find a political resolution to the
conflict.
So, both on the military front, things are shifting slightly or have done, but certainly,
on the humanitarian side, things are getting worse, with the prediction now of wheat supplies
soon to run out in perhaps the coming weeks, or certainly in the next two months, that
that is only going to get worse, as well.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Iona, as this humanitarian situation is worsening, the Trump administration
is reportedly planning changes to the U.S. policy in Yemen.
Could you tell us a little about the kinds of changes that are being considered and what
their impact would be if they're put into place?
IONA CRAIG: So, one thing that appears to have already been changed, from what we've
heard, is Yemen now, or parts of Yemen, anyway, being regarded as areas of active hostility.
Now, that's quite a technical term, but essentially what it means is those selected
areas are put on a war footing the same as Iraq and Afghanistan.
So, previously, under the Obama administration, Yemen was considered an area outside of active
hostility, so there were different protocols put in place to ensure the prevention of civilian
casualties.
And it meant that when drone strikes or airstrikes or raids were carried out, that there had
to be a near certainty that there were no civilian casualties.
Obviously, that didn't always work.
I have spent many years covering Yemen, and that included covering incidents of mass civilian
casualties under the Obama administration.
But now, when that changes to put in parts of the country into areas of active hostility,
that near certainty basically gets chucked out of the window, and it means that those
civilian casualties are kind of allowed and only have to be proportional.
So, that's obviously very concerning for the civilian population in Yemen.
We've also seen more military activity, as you've already mentioned, in the form
of airstrikes.
So that's more military activity, less oversight, because of the way the command structure is
now—appears to have been changing, as well, in the sense that the military is going to
be allowed to take more decisions on that level without the kind of micromanaging the
Obama administration was always accused of, as well as moving these—removing these protocols
to—that were supposed to, anyway, protect civilian lives.
In addition to that, now there is talk of the U.S. wanting to become more involved on
the side of the Saudi-led coalition, who have, of course, been carrying out this aerial bombing
campaign against the Houthi-Saleh forces, who are predominantly in northern Yemen, and
have been carrying out this aerial bombing campaign against them, and ground war, since
March 2015.
Now, the U.S. wants to—has been—has put in a request to become more involved, particularly
in an offensive that the Emiratis, the UAE, who are part of the Saudi-led coalition, are
looking to launch on the Red Sea Coast, particularly on the port of Hodeidah, which is a vital
supply line for northern Yemen, which is the most densely populated part of the country,
which relies heavily on that route for the import of food.
Now, the most troubling part of this request to become more involved with the Saudi-led
coalition appears to be because there has been—certainly come out from the White House,
from the White House spokesman—this sense of conflating the Houthi rebels, who I mentioned,
with Iran.
Now, the Houthis have had support from Iran, and that appears to have been increasing,
with specific military assistance and weapons to the Houthis over the last nine months.
But to call them an Iranian proxy or to conflate them with Iran, it now appears that the—that
this almost amounts to the U.S. wanting to start a proxy war with Iran in Yemen.
And, of course, that is incredibly dangerous.
It's incredibly dangerous for the civilian population, who are already facing famine
at the moment, and it's incredibly dangerous because we don't know what the reaction
would be from Iran.
That reaction may not just be in Yemen.
It may be elsewhere in the region, where they're also involved in wars—for example, in Syria.
And that's really an unknown quantity.
The known quantity is that the civilian population in Yemen will certainly suffer as a consequence
of that, if the Americans become more involved in the Saudi-led coalition's efforts in
the country.
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China warns Thaad retailation wouldn't just end as a threat - Duration: 1:26.
The Chinese Ministry of National Defense warned South Korea that the ongoing THAAD retaliation
could get more serious.
This comes on the same day Seoul's parliament urged Beijing to put an end to such moves.
Cho Sung min has the full story.
The Chinese Ministry of National Defense has warned South Korea that its opposition to
THAAD won't end with just words.
That was the response of spokesman Wu Qian at a regular briefing on Thursday when asked
about reports that components of the THAAD system have already arrived in South Korea
and that the system will be complete next month.
Wu said Beijing has expressed its views on the matter to Seoul several times and that
the reasons are clear.
He went on to note that China and Russia's militaries held joint missile defense simulations
last May, and said they would hold joint drills again this year.
But he didn't confirm whether this time they would involve actual troops and equipment.
Beijing sees THAAD as a threat... and has reacted with unofficial sanctions against
Korean businesses and entertainers.
The damage has been limited to the economy so far.
But a few days ago, a retired Chinese admiral took a more hard-line approach and urged his
country to make a surgical strike on the site where the anti-missile system will be deployed.
Seoul maintains that THAAD is purely to defend against North Korean missiles... but that's
not something China is yet willing to accept.
Cho Sung min, arirang news.
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Direct Printing on Foamboard & PP Hollow Board - UV Matt 1440 DPI - Duration: 1:17.
Okay, this is the foamboard. This material is soft.
Normally, people use it for mockup cheque.
Also used as indoor signage..
And next is pp hollow board
This is direct printing ya.. for these board (pp board & foamboard)
Direct Printing on these material. Not stickers ya!!
This PP hollow board is thicker than Foamboard. It is not heavy, easy to carry same as foamboard
This also the same pp hollow board. Direct UV Printing..
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