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In all honesty, it has taken me a year or two, dozens of drafts and plenty of requests to write a blog post like this. I think the reason I have been hesitant is because the topic is so subjective, and I just haven’t found the right words to get across the point I am trying to make. Everyone in motorsport, male or female, will inevitably have different experiences in how they got into their current job and the challenges they faced. This is just my version of events and my opinion, that must be made clear before I start.
Growing up watching motor racing, I was always aware it was a male-dominated sport. All the drivers were male, as were team principals and very large percentage of engineers and mechanics within the teams. The only media-facing female presence came in the shape of pit-lane reporters and TV presenters, but that was just all I knew from an early age. It never put me off the sport, probably because I didn’t know better at six or seven-years-old, but oddly I never questioned if I could be a part of motorsport; I just assumed that with hard work and determination I would be there too.
As I grew older my dreams and aspirations changed, the idea of working in motorsport drifted in favour of becoming a teacher. However, boredom over the summer holidays five years ago resulted in me creating a blog about motorsport, my biggest hobby, with the rest being history. The fact I was a 17-year-old female writing about motorsport on an online platform didn’t even cross my mind when I started writing, I did it because I had passion for the sport and opinions which many of you agreed with.
Soon my social following began to increase, with it being common for readers to leave comments or their opinions on my work. Of course, amongst many pleasant and supportive messages there would be the odd negative tweet but I would take their thoughts and views on board to make the next piece of work I published better. In some cases, their negativity would ignite a tangent and resulted in an idea for a future blog post.
However, one comment I have never received, that I can recall, is being told my opinion or my work is wrong just because I am a woman. Never. This isn’t me saying that it doesn’t happen, because it does and I have seen it first-hand from female friends and colleagues. I think I must just be super lucky to have a very supportive collection of readers and followers who read my content because they enjoy it. Yes, my gender may be the niche that caused them to find me and my work, but I am hoping they stuck around for the quality of my work and not the fact I am female: that is the goal anyway.
I am often asked how I find it being a woman in motorsport, but the honest truth is I don’t even think about it when I am on the job. When I am walking up and down a pitlane, interviewing a driver in a media pen or sat in a media centre transcribing, my mind is on a million different things. At the end of the day, I am there because I have the knowledge, the passion and determination to be in that field of work. As many professional drivers will tell you, once the racing helmet goes on and you are in a car on a race track, it doesn’t matter if you are male or female, as long as you are fast. The same goes for me. As long I am asking the right questions and generating quality content, my gender is an irrelevant factor.
Of course, I will always jump at the chance to be part of initiatives such as Dare to be Different because inspiring and supporting the next generation of women in motorsport is hugely important. Nobody should feel restricted to follow their dreams and aspirations because of something that is out of their control, whether that be gender, age, race, religion or social class.
Truthfully, I feel that since venturing into the world of motorsport media only a few years ago, there has been a growing number of females beginning to emerge in media roles. Maybe it is just because I am making myself more aware of it, or maybe it is because of initiatives such as D2BD or the FIA’s Women in Motorsport Commission. Either way, it is great to see. In Formula E, the championship I currently dedicate most of my time to, I would go as far as to say that there are more female journalists and contributors to online media sites than there are in most motorsports. I am not sure if it is because the championship is only in its fourth season and advertises itself as being a part of the “future” but either way around 20-25% of people in the media centre on race day in Berlin were female.
To me, it does seem strange that a blog post about “being a woman in motorsport” has been so requested: there isn’t really much to say. Yes, I am aware that occasionally I get that “look” from men that maybe work in the garages or I pass in the paddock, but I never pay them much attention. Yes, I often find guys ‘mansplaining’ topics to me, but once I show them I know as much, or sometimes more, than them they will stop or walk off embarrassed.
I suppose the point I am trying to make is that although to many I ‘dare to be different’ with my career ambitions as a woman, for me my gender is an irrelevant factor into how I do my job, as well as how much I love it and will always have a burning passion to do well within motorsport journalism.


Question: "Who will be co-starring in Doom Patrol?"

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Diane Guerrero will take on the co-starring role as Crazy Jane.
A familiar face from Orange Is the New Black is headed to DC's forthcoming digital service.
Diane Guerrero has joined the live-action cast of the SVOD service's Doom Patrol series. Guerrero, who has played Maritza Ramos in multiple seasons of the Netflix dramedy, will co-star in the Greg Berlanti-produced drama opposite April Bowlby.
Doom Patrol is described as a reimagining of one of DC's most beloved group of outcast superheroes: Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman (Bowlby) and Crazy Jane (Guerrero), who are led by modern-day mad scientist Dr. Niles Caulder (The Chief). The drama picks up after the events of Titans, which is also in the works at DC Universe and produced by Berlanti.
Doom Patrol, based on the iconic comic book characters, will be written by Jeremy Carver (Supernatural), who will executive produce the 13-episode series alongside Berlanti — the prolific exec producer behind The CW's Arrow-verse — and Geoff Johns.
Guerrero's Crazy Jane is described as an unlikely hero who is suffering from the world's most severe case of multiple personality disorder. Each one of her distinct 64 personas manifests a different super power, making Jane the Doom Patrol's most powerful — and unstable — member.
Guerrero joins Doom Patrol after her role in CBS' Superior Donuts and The CW's Jane the Virgin. She has played Maritza in multiple seasons of Orange Is the New Black.
Guerrero, repped by Abrams Artists Agency and Jackoway Tyerman, also penned a memoir, In the Country We Love, that details her experience with the immigration system. Her middle-grade follow-up, My Family Divided, published this month.


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Welcome to WoodlandsHits.com! The Woodlands own Hometown Hits Station playing the greatest hits of all time, with news, sports, and weather from OUR Community. It’s our mission at WoodlandsHits.com to provide a community driven station, while working with The Woodlands’ and surrounding area’s locally owned and operated businesses, charities and non-profits to help increase visibility and growth.
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The tougher standards demanded by the new style of GCSEs being awarded for the first time this year have put pupils under a great deal of additional pressure, according to school leaders.
Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England will receive their results this week, with grades from 9 to 1 replacing the familiar A* to G.
Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the “bar has deliberately been set at a higher level” as a result of changes initiated by the former education secretary Michael Gove.
“The new exams are harder, contain more content, and involve sitting more papers,” Barton said. “We are worried about the impact on the mental health and wellbeing of young people caused by these reforms and it is our view that such a substantial set of changes as this should have been introduced in a more managed and considered manner.
Hailed as the most significant change in the examination system since O-levels were replaced 30 years ago, the “more demanding, more fulfilling and more stretching” exams were introduced to help the UK better compete internationally, Gove said in 2013.
The fruits of that effort will be seen on Thursday when the results of 20 of the new GCSEs are published, including those in biology, history and Spanish.
Gove’s changes stripped out assessed work that had accounted for a substantial proportion of marks towards the final grades. In chemistry and biology, for example, non-exam assessments accounted for a quarter of a candidate’s marks, but in the new GCSEs everything depends on the final exams.
Assessment remains in some subjects, such as dance and foreign languages, but even then the proportion of non-exam marks awarded has been cut substantially, from 60% to 25% in the case of German and French.
Ofqual, which regulates public examinations in England, has pledged to maintain continuity in the proportion of grades awarded. Cath Jadhav, the director of standards at Ofqual, said exam boards would use statistics to counteract any dip in results caused by teachers being less familiar with the content and pupils having less support material.
“Across all subjects, grade boundaries will be set this summer to ensure that students this summer are treated fairly and are not disadvantaged by being the first to sit new GCSEs,” Jadhav wrote in a blogpost explaining the way grades would be set.
According to Ofqual, the new grade 7 will start at the same standard as the former A grade, meaning 9, 8 and 7 grades replace the old A* and A. The 9 is equivalent to the top half of A* awards, while an 8 encompasses the bottom portion of A* and the top part of an A, making comparisons with the old grades difficult.
“Grade 9 is not the same as the old A* grade. It’s a new grade designed to recognise the very best performance. So in every subject there will be fewer grade 9s awarded than A*s in the old GCSEs,” Jadhav said.
Last year maths, English language and English literature were the first subjects to be examined under the new system. About 2,000 pupils gained 9s in all three subjects. As few as 200 pupils have been forecast to achieve a full set of 9s in eight or more subjects this year.
Because a number of courses, including economics and design and technology, will not offer the reformed exams until next summer, parents will be confronted with children holding a mixture of numbered and lettered grades.
The previous C grade will be fixed to the same boundaries as the new grade 4, but both a 4 and a 5 will be regarded as a pass grade in the same way as a C, with the Department for Education describing a 5 as a “strong pass”.
The new combined science GCSE will be awarded as a double grade, to reflect the greater amount of content being taught. As a result, candidates will be awarded double grades ranging from 9-9, 9-8 and so on, down to the lowest 1-1 grade.
The changes do not affect Wales and Northern Ireland, which are retaining the old GCSE grades. Scottish students sit exams under a separate system.


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Chlorostrymon maesites, known generally as amethyst hairstreak, is a species of hairstreak in the butterfly family Lycaenidae. Other common names include the maesites hairstreak and verde azul hairstreak.


Question: What is Leyla Kuh?

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Leyla Kuh (, also Romanized as 'Leylā Kūh; also known as Leyleh Kooh, Leyleh Kūh, Leylī Kūh, Līlehkūh, and Līlkūh) is a village in Divshal Rural District, in the Central District of Langarud County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,692, in 477 families.


Question: Describe the Lel River in Perm Krai, Russia. Respond in 59 words.

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Lel () is a river in Perm Krai, Russia, a right tributary of the Chyornaya River, which in turn is a tributary of the Veslyana River. The river is long.
The source of the river is located near the border with Komi Republic, south of the settlement of Peles, above sea level. The river mouth is above sea level.


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John Howard Vaught (May 6, 1909 – February 3, 2006) was an American college football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) from 1947 to 1970 and again in 1973.


Question: What can you tell me about predicting weather patterns?

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If you can predict the path of the jet stream, the upper atmosphere's undulating river of wind, then you can predict weather – not just for a week or two, but for an entire season. A new Stanford study moves toward that level of foresight by revealing a physical link between the speed and location of the jet stream and the strength of the polar vortex, a swirl of air that usually hovers over the Arctic.
"The jet stream sets everything," said Aditi Sheshadri, lead author and assistant professor of Earth System Science in the School of Earth, Energy, & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth). "Storms ride along it. They interact with it. If the jet stream shifts, the place where the storms are strongest will also shift."
The research, published in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, identifies two distinct modes in how air flows within the jet stream and the layers of atmosphere that sandwich it.
In one mode, changes in wind speed and direction start close to the equator in the troposphere, the wet, stormy layer of atmosphere below the jet stream and closest to Earth's surface. Shifts of wind in this mode quickly propagate up through the jet stream and into the polar vortex in the dry, upper layer of atmosphere known as the stratosphere.
In the other mode, the strength of the stratosphere's polar vortex influences the path and strength of the jet stream – and how it interacts with storms in the troposphere. In this mode, the polar vortex sends a signal all the way down to the surface like a pulse. A weaker vortex produces a weak jet stream that slips toward the equator; a stronger vortex intensifies the jet stream while drawing it poleward.
"These deep vertical structures haven't been shown before," Sheshadri said. "It's something fundamental about the system itself." Her analysis could help explain the surface weather impacts of an event that occurred in early 2018, when the vortex weakened so much that it ripped in two – a phenomenon that scientists know can blast up to two months of extreme weather into western Europe. Until now, understanding of these interactions has been based on observations and statistical modeling rather than knowledge of their physical foundation.
These modes could be key to predicting the long-term effects of certain environmental changes on Earth's surface. While air is thought to flow relatively independently within the troposphere and stratosphere in normal winters, depleted ozone, high levels of greenhouse gases, ocean warming, reduced snow cover, and other disturbances can rattle this independence, affecting both the vortex and jet stream in complex ways. Greenhouse gas emissions, for example, can strengthen the vortex while simultaneously boosting waves that propagate up from the troposphere and weaken the vortex as they break.
"We don't know which of these two effects of increasing greenhouse gases will win out," Sheshadri said.
To help find answers, Sheshadri's team set out to understand the climate as a system that responds in a predictable way to known forces, despite internal dynamics that are a mix of random and systematic fluctuations. They took a mathematical theorem used for nearly a century to predict seemingly random behavior in quantum mechanical systems and applied it to data representing Earth's atmosphere in wintertime.
"We have 35 years of wind data," Sheshadri said. "Can we say something just from those observations about how the winds will change if, for instance, you increase carbon dioxide? That's what got this whole thing started."
Current climate models excel at showing temperature changes throughout the atmosphere's layers over time and with varying levels of substances like ozone or carbon dioxide. "We're pretty certain about how the temperature structure of the atmosphere is going to change," Sheshadri said. "However, if you look at changes in things like wind or rain or snow – anything that's a dynamical quantity – we really have very little idea of what's going on."
And yet, these are some of the most vivid metrics for a changing climate. "No one feels the global mean temperature," Sheshadri said. "How many times over the next 10 years are we going to have to deal with floods or cold snaps in a particular region? That's the sort of question this might help answer."
By revealing the physical processes that underpin some of these dynamic variables, the method developed in this study could also help weed out flaws in climate models.
"The way that we currently do this is that you take a model and you run it forward," checking the model's predictions against observed data, Sheshadri explained. But many models built upon the same historic data produce different predictions for the future, in part because they make different assumptions about how the troposphere and stratosphere interact and how the jet stream fluctuates. Until now there has not been a way to check those assumptions against the atmosphere's actual variability.
"We need to be sure the models are right, and for the right reasons," Sheshadri said. The new work provides a way to resolve that uncertainty – and to anticipate storms months into the future.


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People love a good campaign based around pirates. Paizo has made not one but two Adventure Paths - Skulls and Shackles and Serpent’s Skull - as well as at least one module with pirates as the theme. Chris Jackson has contributed their splat book on ships as well as written three book series about the crew of the Stargazer. Seafaring seems to be pretty popular in Pathfinder, and with the new 7th Sea book which came out last year I think it's pretty popular across game platforms.
Pirates, however, aren't the only people sailing the seas of the world. There are plenty of other types of ships to ply the waters that your players might enjoy playing, or to feature as enemies. Using Golarion as an example Andoran, Cheliax, Qadira, and Taldor all have massive navies. Games set around being a crewman on any one of these seagoing vessels could be quite interesting. It is a slightly more structured lifestyle than being on a pirate ship but you're far less likely to get a knife in the back for your share of plunder.
If you'd like a mix of pirates and legitimate naval fleets maybe it’s time to live the life of a privateer. Letters of Marque given to buccaneers allowed them to prey on ships of enemy countries. Taldor relies on these legal pirates to patrol the river that runs between the empire and Qadira. Even Andoran uses privateers to attack the slaver ships of Okeno, and occasionally vessels from Cheliax. Even though Cheliax is considered an evil nation they are all about order and they despise both pirates and privateers.
In the northern waters you have the Ulfen raiders. Not as active as they once were, still some clans of the Ulfen from both the Land of the Linnorm Kings and the Ironbound Archipelago continue the tradition of raiding coastal villages and towns. Different from pirates who usually attack other ships, these raiders are also usually a family or clan, which has a different dynamic than the 'every man for himself' rule of a pirate ship.
Slavers are feared across the inner sea region. The yellow-sailed ships of the slavers of the Katapeshi island of Okeno strike terror even into the hearts of hardened pirates. Using these foul folk as a foil to your sea bound players could lead to many interesting games. Be careful though, slavery is a tough subject for some so choose your use of slavers judiciously.
No matter what kind of seafaring game you end up playing, a lot of folk who end up on boats for a living grew up around them. We need to consider where characters learned to sail in the first place. Fisherfolk, merchant vessels, and transport ships are all perfect places for sea bound characters to have gotten their start. Children of people who make a living off the sea often find a way out onto the waters themselves.
One need not have ever been on a boat to know a lot about them. There is a lot of support that goes into the seafaring. Harbors and docks are filled with shipwrights, sailmakers, and cordonniers. If your parents were dockworkers, harbormasters, or even a barkeep in a dockside tavern there is a good chance you'll have some knowledge of seafaring.
On Golarion you also have deities that deal with waters and seafaring; Gozreh in her female aspect of goddess of the sea, Besmara the goddess of pirates, Hei Feng the Tian god of the seas. Other than these major and minor deities there are a few Demon Lords, Infernal Dukes, and Empyreal Lords that deal with aspects of life at sea or on the coasts. Deciding which deity a character pays homage to gives a good idea of how they feel about the sea.
So, there’s more to just sailing the seas than being a pirate. Whether you’re playing in or running a game based on a ship there’s a lot to consider, and not just what you do on the boat. How did you learn to sail? What do you do on land? What job do you have onboard? Which deity do you pray to to keep you safe?
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 Respond in 9 sentences. What did Apple remove from the iPhone 7 that caused such a stir?

When Phil Schiller used the term ‘courage’ to describe Apple’s decision to remove the 3.5mm headphone socket from the iPhone 7, his choice of that particular word was probably not accidental.
We’re trying to make great products for people, and we have at least the courage of our convictions to say we don’t think this is part of what makes a great product, we’re going to leave it out. Some people are going to not like that, they’re going to call us names […] but we’re going to take the heat [and] instead focus our energy on these technologies which we think are in their ascendancy and we think are going to be the right technologies for customers. And you know what? They’re paying us to make those choices […] If we succeed, they’ll buy them, and if we don’t, they won’t, and it’ll all work itself out.
He could honestly have been talking about the headphone socket there, and the same points would apply, word for word. You can watch the video below.
That wasn’t the only oblique reference to the past in the presentation. As one of our readers noticed (thanks, Steven), the wallpaper bubble colors match those of the iMac G3 – which itself attracted criticism for dropping another long-established standard, the floppy disk drive.


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Remember Mirai, that botnet that took down swaths of the internet for millions of users one recent Friday afternoon? We were so innocent then! A variant returned this week, taking out over 900,000 routers belonging customers of German ISP Deutsche Telekom. Get used to this.
Elsewhere, Jill Stein's recount parade continued, with filings in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Stein has cited potential hacking or interference as a motivation for quest, despite an absence of evidence. Speaking of evidence, lawyers for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht say they've found indications that one of the law enforcement officials in the case may have tampered with evdience. The revelation, even if it proves true, is unlikely to affect Ulbricht's appeal.
In other law enforcement news, a team that spanned 30 countries took down Avalanche, a gigantic malware infrastructure system, after a four-year investigation. Avalanche's fall is a big deal; it involved 800,000 domains, and had impacted victims in 180 countries. Lastly, we took a look at "perfect forward secrecy," a method of encryption that keeps all of your messages safe, be they past, present, or future.
A variant on the Mirai botnet, designed specifically to target routers with known vulnerabilities, knocked the equivalent of the entire city of Cologne offline this week. The botnet affected customers throughout Germany, specifically customers of ISP Deutsche Telekom. The good news is that all it took to get back online was to unplug the router and plug it back in, then download a firmware update that would secure the device. The bad news? This version of Mirai can compromise a device within 10 minutes or less of connecting to the internet.
The propsect of Trump in the White House—with the full powers of the NSA at his command—appears to have made some people nervous. Or lots of people, really. To wit, end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has seen downloads pop 400 percent since the election, according to a recent Buzzfeed interview with Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems, which created the app.
Despite a concerted effort to stop it, proposed updates to Rule 41 went through this week. With these changes in effect, the FBI can now use malware to hack into computers belonging to ancillary parties, or even to victims, when investigating cybercrime. To put it in even more stark perspective, a single warrant could empower the feds to hack a million computers or more. The move saw strong opposition from security experts and lawmakers including Senator Rob Wyden (D-OR) and others, but they were unsuccessful in their bid.


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Forget the talk about Asian markets; Kinder Morgan will enrich US companies.
In 2017, 1,767,672 tonnes of crude petroleum were shipped from Vancouver, with 1,767,592 bound for the U.S. - or 99.99 percent. The remaining 80 tonnes were exported to China with an approximate market value of less than $40,000. If Asian markets will bring higher prices, why aren't companies shipping crude to them now? It seems Asia is unlikely to bring billions in prosperity to Albertans anytime soon.
Little wonder some interests are so keen on seeing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. According to a recent market research paper bluntly titled Pacific Northwest Refineries: Cheap Crude and a Captive Market "Both Shell and BP were in a strong position to benefit from bargain-priced heavy Canadian crude that the other refiners cannot process in significant quantities due to lack of investment in coking units… If the Trans Mountain pipeline is expanded in 2019 it will provide considerable opportunity to upgrade or expand Puget Sound refineries."
Currently, less than 40 per cent of Alberta's bitumen is upgraded or refined. Shipping raw bitumen through a pipeline also requires expensive and toxic diluent, which occupies about 30 per cent of pipeline volume and creates dangerous complications in the event of a spill.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's government has recently suggested it might buy the Trans Mountain pipeline outright to further scale up raw bitumen exports. This is starkly at odds with an announcement earlier this year that the government planned to provide $1 billion in grants and loans to build new upgraders in the province. Or Notley's campaign promise in 2016 to create more refinery jobs in the province "instead of exporting them to Texas."
Meanwhile U.S. corporations have invested $185 billion in refinery infrastructure while Alberta attracted only $4 billion. The province just saw the first new refinery opened since 1984 in spite of a chorus of local naysayers who derided the project for years.
B.C. has only two remaining refineries, one of which is located in Burnaby just beside the Kinder Morgan terminal. Unionized workers at this plant strongly oppose the Trans Mountain expansion on the grounds it will divert badly needed feedstock to U.S. competitors. The Burnaby refinery has a capacity of only 55,000 barrels per day compared to the combined capacity of 630,000 barrels just across the border. Three other former refineries in Burrard Inlet have closed, apparently due to Trans Mountain's impact on B.C. refining margins. The union has argued in the past that Kinder Morgan's approach favours U.S. refineries.
The enduring myth of Asian markets still seems a useful talking point, judging by how often Canadians hear it in the media. Yet when not badgering the public, the Alberta oil industry is quite candid about sending unprocessed Alberta crude and bitumen to California instead of China. Perhaps that is why so much Canadian effort went into undermining California's low carbon fuel standards.
Instead of putting our coast at risk shipping profits to the U.S., why aren't we expanding local refining capacity? Why are Alberta and Ottawa hell bent on pushing through a pipeline possibly costing billions in public money to export unprocessed Canadian resources?
Consider that non-consensual crack spread next time you bend over to fill up for $1.50 per litre.


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Luckily for them, and those of us who enjoy the occasional after-work blunt or who use marijuana to treat otherwise unmanageable chronic illnesses, there’s an entire industry devoted to beating the dreaded piss test. With enough advanced notice, there might be several ways you could go—quitting outright, subbing your dirty pee with a straight edge friend's. But if your boss springs the news on you with only hours to spare, you’ve got pretty much one viable option: the detox drink.
Our test was simple. We ordered a 10-pack of THC pee tests from Amazon for $7.99, and recruited a regular recreational weed smoker—a 28-year-old woman we’ll call “Jolene”—to test out these drinks over the course of a week without altering her normal weed habits. She’d try out one drink every two days, and take a control test before starting each one to make sure she was still testing positive before drinking them. Then she’d follow the directions on each bottle and see whether she could piss herself clean.
Jolene’s pre-drink drug test came out very positive for THC. Photo via the author.
In the photo above you'll see Jolene's first pre-drink test. It is very positive. The C on the test stands for Control The line next to it appears whether the test is negative or positive. The T stands for Test. If a line appears in T, the test is negative. If no line appears, the test is positive. As you can see above, Jolene was not able to produce a T line because she is high af.
The drug tests we purchased are pretty standard pee tests. Basically you wee into a cup, take the cap off the drug test, then submerge the little rectangular piece at the end for about 10 seconds. Results take about five minutes. The test we bought for the purposes of this experiment are used specifically to detect THC and nothing else.
First up we had Jolene try out a 17 ounce bottle of Rescue Detox. According to Karen, the very sweet Applied Sciences customer service lady we reached at the “LIVE SUPPORT” number listed at the bottom of the bottle, Jolene had to avoid eating for five hours before she did the cleanse. Luckily, it was Sunday, so Jolene had just woken up from a four and a half hour nap after spending the morning smoking and eating an entire large portion of Popeye’s mac and cheese, as one does.
The drink itself was a bright, neon yellow that looked slightly radioactive. Jolene said it tasted like synthetic blueberries and had a distinct aftertaste. She chugged it down over the course of 10 minutes, then refilled the bottle twice, choking down gulp after gulp of weird-tasting water until her stomach was bursting with 1.5 liters of liquid.
Final grade: B. If you follow the instructions, you might pass your test, but the extreme colour of your pee might raise some alarm bells in a clinical setting. Plus, the amount of water you need to drink is a little excessive.
Two days and a positive drug test later, we circled back to try out the 20 ounce bottle of Detoxify Xxtraclean. We’d seen mixed reviews of this one online, and Jolene’s partner had tried it before without success, so neither of us had high hopes.
This drink was “tropical flavoured” and a bright, syrupy red. Jolene drank the bottle down (“it tastes like Five Hour Energy mixed with fake blood.”), then refilled it—just once this time—and drank that 15 minutes after her initial chug.
According to Ben, the monotone host of Detoxify’s ‘Back2School’ YouTube series, which teaches viewers how to best utilize their products, after three to four initial pees, you should test clean for up to five hours. Jolene followed his instructions and peed (“a totally normal yellow colour!”) three times, and took the test.
Final grade: B+. You don’t have to drink as much water and your pee isn’t a suspicious colour, but it left Jo with a stomach ache that lasted a full day. Probably worth it?
The 8-oz bottle of Stinger proved much easier to get down. Jolene said it tasted like a flat, thick grape soda. This isn’t exactly a glowing review, but it was apparently the best of the bunch flavourwise. After quickly drinking the bottle, Jo had to fill it up with water four more times and chug that for a total of 40 ounces of liquid, then pee the standard three to four times before taking the test.
Again, this obviously wasn't a scientific test, and someone with different smoking habits or who is bigger, smaller or more or less active than Jolene could achieve different results. These drinks work by diluting your urine to the point where THC won’t show up, then replacing the vitamins, minerals and colour that are also lost in the dilution process so it doesn’t raise any red flags. While drinking something like this should be relatively undetectable, it’s likely not a foolproof way to pass a drug test. But it's better than nothing! It's up to consumers whether or not losing the money you spend on them is a better option than potentially losing a job.


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FIZZLED SIZZLE A star that vanished in galaxy NGC 6946 (pictured) might be the first confirmed case of a failed attempt at a supernova.
A star that mysteriously disappeared might be the first confirmed case of a failed supernova, a star that tried to explode but couldn’t finish the job. A newborn black hole appears to have been left behind to snack on the star’s remains.


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Weapons and money collected during a gang roundup in June 2015 in Boston.
The opioid addiction crisis is the latest headache for New England officials trying to stop interstate gun trafficking.
Vermont has an opioid epidemic and relatively lax gun laws. Across the southern border, Massachusetts has a glut of cheap heroin and strict gun regulations.
A kind of black market efficiency has resulted from this supply and demand matchup: Dealers from Massachusetts are driving north to Vermont with loads of heroin to exchange for guns, which they then bring home to sell in Boston, officials say.
“Heroin is coming up here and guns are going back there,” Miro Weinberger, the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, tells The Trace.
The flow of guns on a stretch of Interstate 91 running from western Massachusetts north to Vermont has become such a well-known trafficking route that officials have dubbed it “the iron pipeline.” Police routinely find drugs, or guns, or both during traffic stops.
In February, police in Northampton, Massachusetts discovered $20,000 worth of heroin and two stolen guns during an early morning stop. A month later, a few miles up I-91, police found 230 baggies of heroin in a car headed to New Hampshire.
The opioid crisis is the latest challenge for law enforcement officials struggling to get a handle on gun trafficking. Enterprising dealers are exploiting a sharp price disparity between Boston, where a small bag of heroin can be had for as little as $4, and places like Burlington, where the street markup can be 10 times as high, police say.
The intersection of the gun and drug trade is fueling violence, officials say. Weinberger says that a rare fatal shooting in his city in 2015 was the result of a drug deal gone awry.
Other drugs are often in the mix. In 2014, a Massachusetts man murdered a woman with a 9mm Glock that he bought in Brattleboro, Vermont, in exchange for crack cocaine, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Frustrated with the failure of Congress to enact a universal background check requirement, and alarmed by the spiking opioid epidemic, elected officials and police chiefs across New England began holding a series of regional gun violence summits organized by Boston mayor Marty Walsh in 2014. “We need a coordinated approach,” Walsh says.
Northeastern officials were also heavily represented at a gathering of state and local officials, who visited Washington last week to discuss what they’re doing without help from the federal government.
“Because Congress can’t get the job done, a lot of the work is going to have to done on the local and state level,” Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy said in a press conference outside the White House.
The guns-for-drugs trade in New England is just one facet of the East Coast’s gun trafficking problem. Even if Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont were to immediately tighten restrictions on private gun sales, guns would still flow north from Georgia, Florida and other states with lenient laws.
States like California, where the state Assembly just passed several new gun regulations, may be large enough to influence regional practices. But smaller states, and even large municipalities such as New York City, complain that they’re like islands, and have little power to address the illegal weapons washing ashore.
Just 16 percent of the guns were found in possession of the person who first bought them. Guns trafficked from states like Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida made up almost a quarter of guns seized in Boston. Roughly a fifth came from New Hampshire and Maine.
Officials say they are brainstorming solutions to the problem of the free flow of guns across borders. The regional summits have included 80 cities from around New England over the past two years. Boston, Hartford, and a few other cities also plan to work with a nonprofit, Arms with Ethics, in a pilot program in which they will develop standardized gun-violence action plans they hope can be copied more widely.
But specific steps to minimize gun trafficking have yet to emerge.


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And yes, I know Aristotle isn't a British cowboy. He is an American cowboy who picked up some British slang when he was on holiday there.
Snakes and Ladders (often known as Chutes and Ladders in the United States) was originally developed in India around the 2nd century BC. It was an educational game, used to teach the virtues of the Jainist and Hindu faiths. As in the comic, the ladders represented the virtues that would help you attain nirvana, and the snakes represented vices that would set you back. The game was played with dice, and the player was also supposed to reflect on how they didn't have control over how the pieces moved, which symbolized destiny. In Jainist philosophy, the most notable thing is complete non-violence. Killing any living thing is forbidden, and considered to impede the way to nirvana. Self-control and asceticism are also important parts of the religion, and it shares many common themes with Buddhism.
For Aristotle, the goal of life was to become an ideal person, and similar in some ways to India philosophies, the "good life" and the virtuous life coincided. However, for Aristotle, virtues were mostly understood to be a mean between two extremely, both of which strayed from what it meant to be an excellent human being. For example, "courage" is certainly a virtue, but it isn't just being able to face your fear - it is also being able to know when to fear. A man who had no fear at all would also fail to be an excellent human being, because they would take unnecessary risks. So courage isn't simply a positive virtue where the more you have the better, if you have too much you are "foolhardy", which is also bad. Coming to a balance between extremes allows a person to act justly, wisely, and effectively.
For Dostoyevsky, the idea that a single certain path could take humanity to happiness was a contradiction. In Notes From The Underground he attacks the ideas of people like Aristotle, as well as contemporary utilitarian thinkers, who believed that we could come to a final conclusion about what would render mankind happy; and if we did, then everyone would naturally enough follow that path towards their own happiness. Dostoyevsky says that there is one virtue that is above all others: the freedom to do as you please. He claims that even if we were to somehow figure out the exact way to make everyone as happy as possible, humanity would revolt against it just to exert their own freedom. In this sense, it is impossible for humans to be totally happy. This doesn't, however, mean that Dostoyevsky was some kind of moral relativist, believing that any life was just as good as any other. He certainly believed that we could make bad decisions about the kind of life to lead, and favored a certain kind of religious life above others. He just thought that a single, final solution was contradictory, because no one would do it if it was set in stone, with no room for freedom.
If you are interested more in the history of the game Snakes and Ladders, Extra Credits did a great video on how different cultures adopted the game, but changed the virtues and vices to suit their own ideals.


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U Turn () is a 2019 Sri Lankan Sinhala mystery thriller film directed by acclaimed cinematographer Channa Deshapriya in his directorial debut. The movie is produced by Maharaja Entertainments as a Sirasa Movie. The movie features the stars Hemal Ranasinghe Thumindu Dodantenna, Bimal Jayakody, Gamya Wijayadasa with the debut actress Chanu Dissanayake in the lead roles. The music of the film is composed by Chinthaka Jayakody with Bharadwaj composing music for the song. The official trailer was released on 28 October 2019.
The movie is a remake of the 2016 Kannada (India) film "U Turn" - thereby becoming the first Sinhala remake of a Kannada movie.


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Les Églises-d'Argenteuil is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.


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Many Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are taking bold, important steps to fight dark money. We must arm ourselves against outside influence.
Just last month, we learned a dark money group spearheaded a $100,000 ad campaign against Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., accusing him of representing the interests of terrorists over his Kentucky constituents. The ad was in response to his opposition to Gina Haspel as the nominee to head the CIA — during a cycle when Paul is not even up for re-election.
We know next to nothing about the group, but according to reporters it is tied directly to other organizations that are part of a “scheme to launder dark money” into congressional and presidential contests. It is notable that the group attacked the junior senator from the same state as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who remains firm in his resistance to providing transparency in the political system.
The concept of dark money is still a relatively new phenomenon as far as elections go. The spending of millions of dollars by anonymous outside groups has really only become an issue since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision and has come to infect and contaminate every facet of politics in America, from state races, to congressional contests and even President Trump’s inaugural committee.
A wealth of facts underscores that McCain is right on both counts: So-called dark money organizations continue to spend tens of millions of dollars attacking legislators from both parties as members of Congress continue to sit on their hands, incapable of finding a bipartisan solution. Opaque organizations fueled by shady donors are wickedly attacking members of Congress and they are doing nothing. Meanwhile, the last major campaign finance overhaul in this country, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, is more than 15 years old.
Moreover, looking into our crystal ball, we will take the senator’s comments one step further and point out that, according to intelligence reports, in 2018 we are likely to continue to face something even more diabolical: Foreign disinformation campaigns from anonymously funded governments, inflicting attacks on American national security. Congress has refused to hold a hearing on potential legislative solutions, like the bipartisan, bicameral Honest Ads Act. Our 20th century laws are greatly overmatched by the 21st century reality of zombie armies, bot farms, cyber weapons and foreign governments.
Whether it is emanating from one or two donors inside the U.S. or one or two foreign countries, these immoral and personal political attacks, and nefarious cyber intrusions, are breeding distrust among Americans about our political system. These covert political maneuvers do not reflect our Founders’ promise about America and the system of government we have worked to improve over time. As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in a 2010 case: "For my part, I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court, campaigns (are) ... hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. This does not resemble the Home of the Brave."
Congress must do its constitutional duty and protect our country. Many Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are taking bold, important steps. More than a dozen members on both sides of the aisle joined the bipartisan Congressional Reformers Caucus, who seek to address the influence of money in politics and dysfunction on Capitol Hill. Additionally, legislation to overhaul the Federal Election Commission has growing bipartisan support. The Honest Ads Act is gaining momentum too.
Yet the longer we allow deep-pocketed donors to tilt the electoral playing field, and take little action against hostile foreign powers attacking our political discourse, the more tribal division you will see in our United States.


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Lady and her Cook (1660) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Hermitage Museum.


Question: Tell me about US F-22 Raptor Stealth Aircraft in Afghanistan.

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A KC-10 Extender from the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, refuels an F-22 Raptor from the 95th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron in support of a new offensive campaign in Afghanistan Nov. 19, 2017. Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and United States Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) launched a series of ongoing attacks to hit the Taliban where they are most vulnerable: their revenue streams. Together, Afghan and U.S. forces conducted combined operations to strike drug labs and command-and-control nodes in northern Helmand province. These types of strikes represent the highest level of trust and cooperation between ANDSF and USFOR-A.
U.S. F-22 Raptor Stealth Aircraft Carried Out First Raid In Afghanistan.
“Over the past 24 hours, U.S. and Afghan forces conducted combined operations to strike seven Taliban drug labs and one command-and-control node in northern Helmand province. Three of those strikes were in Kajaki district, four in Musa Qalah district and one in Sangin district,” says an official NATO press release.
The U.S. Air Force Raptor stealth multi-role jet had its baptism of fire flying Swing Role missions in support of the air war on ISIS on Sept. 23, 2014. Tasked for air-to-ground missions, the F-22 can carry two 1,000-lb GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munitions, along with AIM-120s AMRAAMs (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles) radar-guided missiles and AIM-9 Sidewinder IR-guided missiles.
Since software increment 3.1 embedded back in 2012, the F-22 can also drop 8 GBU-39 small diameter bombs, 250-lb multipurpose, insensitive, penetrating, blast-fragmentation warhead for stationary targets, equipped with deployable wings for extended standoff range. These bombs are particularly useful to improve accuracy and reduce collateral damage.
Along with the ability to carry PGMs (Precision Guided Munitions), in the last few years the aircraft were also given a radar upgrade that enhanced the F-22 capabilities in the realm of air interdiction and the so-called “kinetic situational awareness”: as we have often explained in previous articles, the role that the Raptor plays in Operation Inherent Resolve is to use advanced onboard sensors, such as the AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radar, to gather valuable details about the enemy targets, then share the “picture” with attack planes as the F-15E Strike Eagles.
Interestingly, in an interview given at the end of 2013, General Hawk Carlisle said 5th generation aircraft would provide forward target identification for strike missiles launched from a surface warship or submerged submarine, in the future. The PACAF commander described the ability of the F-22s, described as “electronic warfare enabled sensor-rich aircraft,” to provide forward targeting through their sensors for submarine based T-LAMS (cruise missiles).
The F-22s were supported by KC-10 Extender from the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, also based at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, during their first action in Afghanistan in the night of Nov. 20.


Question: Respond in 37 sentences. Describe the new features in Atom 1.23 and the new updates in Atom 1.24

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Atom 1.23 is now available on the stable channel and includes a new feature for packages to register URI handlers, the ability to register hidden commands, as well as editor performance improvements.
Atom packages can now register a URI handler function that will be invoked any time the user visits a URI that starts with atom://package-name/. This feature is documented in our flight manual, so if you’re a package author, give it a try and let us know what you think.
This example also demonstrates the fairly new ability to pass an object instead of a function as the command listener. Using this expanded system allows you to also specify a custom displayName and description for commands. Check out the API docs for CommandRegistry.add for details.
The GitHub package no longer locks the index, making it easier to use the CLI or other Git tools with Atom open in the background. You should no longer see errors about index.lock when running a rebase or other operations in other tools.
Atom has always provided a rich set of APIs that allow packages to respond to any type of change in the application. For example, Atom packages can track every text change that occurs in a particular text buffer using the TextBuffer.onDidChange method. Unfortunately, APIs like this one have made it easy for third-party Atom packages to accidentally introduce slowness in cases where many changes happen rapidly, such as when typing with multiple cursors.
In Atom 1.23 Beta, we’ve addressed this performance problem by changing the behavior of several of these APIs so that callbacks are never called more than once in a text buffer transaction. The transaction is a construct that Atom uses to group changes so that they can be undone and redone as a single operation. As always, in making this change, we have taken steps to ensure that existing packages will not be negatively affected. Code using the existing event APIs should continue to work. We have also notified the maintainers of every package using these APIs that their behavior will subtly change in this release.
You can check out all the other improvements shipping with this version in the release notes.
Continuing our quest to make it just as easy to code together as it is to code alone, Teletype 0.3.0 lets developers simultaneously collaborate on multiple files. Hosts can add new files to their workspace to share those files with guests. Guests can edit shared files independently of the file that the host is currently editing. We’re excited to get these enhancements in your hands, and we’re already working on the next round of improvements.
Visit teletype.atom.io to start coding together in Atom today.
Atom 1.24 hits beta today with a raft of improvements to keep you warm this holiday season.
ContextMenus are now asynchronous, keeping the editor responsive while they’re visible.
Atom now automatically scrolls to keep your cursor visible after folding or unfolding a large block of code.
Several fixes to add caching and render less often yield a perceptibly faster command palette.
Someone on the wrong side of the tabs vs. spaces debate wrote the initial Toggle Line Comment implementation, as it always inserted spaces. It will now honor your settings.
New “Select to Next / Previous Bookmark” commands are now available.
You can now display recent notifications in a dock. Search for notifications in the command palette or map a keybinding to notifications:toggle-log to check it out.
TextEditor elements now support a readonly attribute. We expect this to be useful for IDE package developers who want to display code that isn’t present on the local drive.
HTML handling within the PHP grammar has been cleanly separated such that it’s now possible to reuse strictly the PHP grammar in packages.
A number of fixes to package deactivation land in this release. Join us and resolve to improve your package hygiene in 2018!
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Question: What does the "parking crater" mean in L.A.? Respond in 21 sentences.

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The red circle is all the parking in L.A. County, smooshed together. It takes up more space than Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, downtown, and most of Glendale—combined.
The graphic, crafted from the paper’s data courtesy of the blog Better Institutions, gives us a supersized vision of what has been dubbed a “parking crater” by the very vocal urban planning blogosphere. Normally, it’s a dismissive term for a particularly unsightly and wasteful expanse of asphalt. Streetsblog USA runs an annual competition to locate the worst offenders, with Camden, New Jersey’s hideous, half-empty waterfront parking scrum taking 2015’s ignoble first-place trophy.
But the L.A. graphic turns the parking crater into a broader metaphor for the tradeoffs that a car-centric city like Los Angeles has made to accommodate cars. Without all that parking, the map seems to scream at us, look how much more city L.A. could have!
Because, at least on the face of it, parking spaces are both economic and social duds. You can’t live, do business, or grow anything on a parking space. They make it harder to move between nearby buildings, cutting into the so-called “agglomeration” that is one of the biggest economic benefits of urbanization. Relatively few even generate significant parking fees—the authors of the L.A. study found that in 2010, 98% of car trips there started or ended with free parking.
Of course, parking has one obvious advantage: You can park there. And having more of it does make driving a whole lot easier. But studies (including a new one out this week) have shown that’s not actually great—increasing parking also increases traffic congestion by making driving more attractive than alternatives like mass transit.
UCLA’s Donald Shoup has shown that free or cheap parking doesn’t just increase commuter congestion, but snarls downtowns by encouraging drivers to circle incessantly in search of a free spot. And all that extra driving also increases pollution.
As the researchers point out, many city codes are continuing to feed this vicious cycle by requiring set amounts of parking for new developments. That has led to developers and community activists from Miami to DC pushing cities to do away with those requirements.
And it’s working. Dozens of cities, including Los Angeles, have made at least some reduction in parking requirements. That will make them better prepared to take advantage of the coming wave of transportation advances, from the lower parking needs of driverless cars to the popularity of tiny electric vehicles to, at least in some cities, the millennial-driven rise of public transit.


Question: Provide an example of someone winning the lottery multiple times.

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A Winnipeg man has won a $2-million lottery prize — five months after he won $1.5 million.
Melhig Melhig, a double winner with a double name, says he's amazed and happy by his good fortune. His first win came in April with a scratch ticket bought at a Winnipeg convenience store.
The 28-year old African immigrant then moved his wife and children out of their small apartment and into a new home.
Melhig continued to play the lottery and bought another scratch ticket from a Giant Tiger store in Winnipeg in August.
He says he now plans to buy a business, such as a gas station or car wash, and go back to school.
"I want to improve my English and communication. And I want to learn something useful, like carpentry," he said in a press release.
Western Canada Lottery Corporation said Melhig isn't the first person to win a second million-dollar lottery prize in Manitoba.
A woman who bought a ticket at her grandson's hockey tournament in Winnipeg won $1 million in 2005, then claimed the same prize two years later after buying another ticket, again, at her grandson's hockey tournament.


Question: Write a review of the movie Black '47.

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This week see the release of the first major movie set during the Great Famine. Starring James Frecheville, Stephen Rae, Jim Broadbent & Hugo Weaving Black ’47 is one of the most eagerly awaited Irish films of 2018.
Last Wednesday I got a sneak preview of the movie and in this podcast I review Black ’47.


Question: Describe what it is like to visit the flagship Funko store in Everett, Washington.

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Pop culture toymaker Funko opened its brand new headquarters and flagship store to the public Saturday. Thousands of fans of the vinyl “Pop!” figures flocked to downtown Everett, Wash., for a chance to be among the first to experience the new space and get their hands on some exclusive limited-edition Funko Pop! figures.
Funko has been located in Everett since 1998, but explosive growth in the popularity of its Pop! line of toys led to the company outgrowing its former south Everett location.
The new headquarters at 2802 Wetmore Ave is on Everett’s Historical Register of Places, and previously housed a Bon Marchè department store and more recently Trinity Lutheran College.
The new space includes a public meeting room where some of Funko’s 80 staff artists will donate their time on the weekends to mentor and teach kids in the Everett area about art, drawing, sculpting, sketching, and overall toy design. “We want to give back to the community and prep the next generation of toy designers,” Robben said.
Tickets to today’s grand opening were all given out on Friday, but after today you can visit the store during normal business hours. The store is laid out almost like a miniature amusement park, with themed areas for Star Wars, Disney, Harry Potter, DC Comics, Anime, a build-your-own Pop! factory, and “Wetmore Forest,” a completely original series of characters designed by Funko to celebrate their new headquarters’ location on Wetmore Avenue.
Despite not being located in the more popular Seattle-Bellevue corridor, Funko hasn’t had any real trouble keeping up a rapid pace of growth in recent years.
The employee space in the upper floors of the building has slides between floors, and in the basement there’s a bowling alley. Enjoy this photo gallery of the sights at the flagship store, and be sure come up to Everett next week to check it out for yourself.


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The Indija is a river in Kėdainiai district municipality, Kaunas County, central Lithuania. It flows for and has a drainage basin area of .