Monster Hunter Rise’s Frost Islands does a good job hiding its Relic Records. Here’s how players can find all ten of them. Monster Hunter Rise doesn’t just add new mechanics to master, it added a new way of sharing lore. Relic Records are well-hidden swords found throughout the locales of the […]
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Northam announces winners of 2021 RISE Coastal Community Resilience Challenge
Published Monday, May. 24, 2021, 6:42 pm Join AFP’s 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: [email protected] Advertising inquiries: [email protected] (© josephsjacobs – stock.adobe.com) Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday that six small businesses […]
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France’s limited lockdown beset by glitches as cases rise
PARIS (AP) — Residents of Paris and several other regions of France spent their first weekend under a limited monthlong lockdown. While the French government insisted the rules would be less strict than in the past, the measures have been criticized as messy. A travel authorization certificate posted online was […]
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PrettyLittleThing, Shein, ASOS, and the Rise of Ultra-fast Fashion
This article was published online on February 6, 2021. Last February, on a sunny afternoon in West Hollywood, two girls with precise eye makeup paused on Melrose Avenue and peered in the windows of a building whose interior was painted a bright, happy pink. Two pink, winged unicorns flanked racks […]
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Is The Pandemic Fueling A Rise In Suicide Attempts Among Kids? : Shots
An abrupt spike in suicide deaths among students in the Clark County School District has officials in the Las Vegas district wondering if pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic might have been part of what fueled the increase. Joe Buglewicz for NPR hide caption toggle caption Joe Buglewicz for […]
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The Rise of Sierra Online Wasn’t Exactly a Fairytale
My father was a computer programmer for a large pharmaceutical corporation for a good portion of his career. This was rather cool, as he brought home many computer curiosities and oddities for us to “test” over the years. In the late spring of 1984, he brought us a novelty named […]
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Homes listings with Zoom rooms on the rise, Zillow says
“Zoom rooms” are one of the top home trends of 2021, Zillow says. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Matt Rourke AP For some, the coronavirus pandemic has changed what it means to go to work. Working from home became the new norm as stay home orders sprouted across the nation in […]
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Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic
Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA They can check you in and deliver orange juice to your hotel room, answer your questions about a missing package, whip up sushi and pack up thousands of subscription boxes. And, perhaps most importantly, they are completely immune to Covid-19. While people have had a hard time […]
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the rise of platonic co-parenting
When Jenica Anderson and Stephan DuVal clicked on one another’s online profile on Modamily.com – tagline “A new way to family” – neither was looking for romance. They were both in their late 30s, and their short bios indicated that they shared similar views on health and education, had solid […]
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Sarah Cooper’s Rapid Rise From Trump TikToker to Netflix Star
As a product designer at Google, Sarah Cooper was used to being pulled into business meetings because, she says, they “needed another woman” in the room. There, she saw male coworkers lavished with praise for contributions as inane as drawing a Venn diagram on a whiteboard. She started taking notes. […]
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What the rise of digital handouts on Venmo and Cash App says about our fraying social safety net
A college student pleading for grocery money. A driver in need of an unexpected car repair. A worker out of a job because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A single mom who needs to pay the internet bill to support her kids’ distance learning. In all of these cases, people turned […]
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L.A. Times Wins OJA Feature Award for ‘Rise of the Dancefluencer’
The Los Angeles Times has won an OJA award for its “Rise of the Dancefluencers” project, which was recognized for 2020 Feature in the Large Newsroom category. This award “honors excellence in online journalism presented in a single package or story that shows significant depth, insight and new understanding of […]
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Online ballet class brings rise to project | Entertainment
When Tiler Peck started giving Instagram ballet classes from her mom’s kitchen in California this spring – a way of staying in shape and keeping in touch with dance fans – she initially thought maybe 20 people would tune in. She was startled to discover that thousands of people were […]
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The Rise of BCI Enables Advances in Neuroscience
Conor Russomanno hadn’t stopped wondering about the effects of the multiple concussions he’d suffered playing football and rugby at Columbia University. In 2011, less than a year after his last severe hit, he had passed a neurologist’s standardized test of cognition, but he still wasn’t himself, at least not all […]
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the disturbing story behind the rise of Pepe the Frog
He’s green. He’s cute. He feels good, man. And he’s an internationally recognized icon of hatred and bigotry. He’s Pepe the Frog, and he’s the subject of a new documentary tracking his unlikely journey from humble comic-book beginnings to a controversy involving death threats, lawsuits and scores upon scores of […]
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Colleges are increasingly going online for fall 2020 semester as COVID-19 cases rise
Call it coronavirus déjà vu. After planning ways to reopen campuses this fall, colleges are increasingly changing their minds, dramatically increasing online offerings or canceling in-person classes outright. This sudden shift will be familiar to students whose spring plans were interrupted by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Now, COVID-19 […]