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This is Chile, Part II - "Poet's Pacific paradise: Pablo Neruda’s homes in Chile", "there's a little bit of traffic"
“Poet's Pacific paradise: Pablo Neruda’s homes in Chile”
“There's a little bit of traffic”
Photo courtesy @ThisisChile.cl (via @guardian) and @ThisisChile.cl (via el_jose_patagonia | IG)
This is Chile, Part I - "the path that everyone wants to discover", "there is art in nature"
“The path that everyone wants to discover”
“There is art in nature”
Photo courtesy @ThisisChile.cl (via heather.photog | IG) and @ThisisChile.cl (via alex_pinilla_photos | IG)
Disney to launch new streaming service called Disney+ and pull content from Netflix in 2019
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Disney's new Netflix rival will be called Disney+ and launch late 2019
Disney's new streaming service, Disney+, will be a home for its past titles and original series, including new content from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
The company will pull its content from Netflix in 2019.
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Photo courtesy CNBC
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has." - Rene Descartes
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
- Rene Descartes
Photos: polar bear cub in Alaska looking up to the sky and "praying for snow"
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A polar bear appeared to be praying for a cold winter after being seen placing his huge paws together and looking up at the sky.
The cub bear was pictured seemingly looking up to the heavens and asking for divine intervention in the animal's current plight.
Temperatures in their Alaskan habitat are higher than usual and as a result the pack have been left stranded on land waiting for the ice to freeze.
Until temperatures drop and more ice freezes after melting during the spring, the polar bears cannot go and find seals.
The male juvenile bear made the plea to a higher power just before he went to sleep, while his while his mother and sister were already napping.
Photographer, Shayne McGuire, captured the beautiful bear in Barter Island, Alaska, on the October 7.
She said: 'It was nap time for the bear, his mum and sister had already curled up, yet, there he sat, contemplating something, that we will never know.
'Then he looked up at the sky, raised his head and paws, and I heard one of my group say 'he is praying for the ice to freeze.'
'It is late in the season and yet, very little snow.
' I have seen global warming affect their habitat, I have been going since 2013 and there has always been snow in late September, early October.
'In 2015, there were snow storms and the snow was deep.
'Since then, I have been in early October to mid October and have had some ice, very little snow.'
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"Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and ..." - William Shakespeare
Let those who are in favour with their stars
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:
Then happy I, that love and am beloved
Where I may not remove nor be removed.
Sonnets Xxv: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars - Poem by William Shakespeare
"News deserts": 1,800 US newspapers have closed since 2004
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1,800 US newspapers have closed since 2004
Half of the 3,143 counties in the United States now have only one newspaper, usually a small weekly, and almost 200 counties in the country have no newspaper at all.
"The people with the least access to local news are often the most vulnerable -- the poorest, least educated and most isolated," the report said.
More than half of all newspapers have changed ownership in the past decade, and the largest 25 chains own a third of all newspapers.
"The consolidation in the industry places decisions about the future of individual papers, as well as the communities where they are located, into the hands of owners with no direct stake in the outcome."
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Photo courtesy AFP Photo / NATALIE BEHRING
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