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Sep142023 by adminNo Comments
Drill rapper and filmmakers taking ‘grim reality’ of county lines drugs to parliament

Drill rapper and filmmakers taking ‘grim reality’ of county lines drugs to parliament

Entertainment
It takes just minutes for the scenes to turn grim: a dirty trap house, a drug user injecting scabbed feet, a tiny baby crawling amid the filth.This is Trapping, a new British film starring MOBO-winning drill rapper Abra Cadabra and produced by filmmakers and grime pioneers Femi Oyeniran and Nicky "Slimting" Walker. Later this evening, they take the story to parliament for a discussion about the bleak reality of the UK's county lines problem, where vulnerable adults and children as young as six, according to the Children's Society, are recruited to move and supply drugs.While the portrayal of drug dealing often shown on screen has long drawn criticism for glamourising the lifestyle, the same cannot be said for Trapping. Rather than focusing on the "girls, the money, the cars", as writer and...
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Feb172021 by adminNo Comments
Study: New approach to 3D printing of human tissue closer to reality

Study: New approach to 3D printing of human tissue closer to reality

Health
Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A new approach to 3D bioprinting has overcome the shortcomings associated with earlier versions of the technology, bringing the creation of human tissue and organs one step closer to reality, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh said Tuesday. The approach, called Freefrom Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels, corrects problems caused by gravity in the bioinks used to "print" human tissue, according to the researchers in an article published by the journal APL Bioengineering. Advertisement Although 3D bioprinting has been studied for years as a "fabrication technique for [human] tissue engineering and regenerative medicine," its use has been limited "by the challenge of printing soft ... materials in air," co-author Daniel J. Shiwarski told UPI. H...
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Feb32021 by adminNo Comments

GameStop’s stupefying stock rise doesn’t hide its reality

Technology
NEW YORK -- Behind GameStop's stock surge is the grim reality of its prospects: The video game retailer is floundering even as the industry around it is booming.GameStop has been swept up in a battle between big-moneyed hedge funds betting against it and small investors trying to prop it up. That has caused GameStop's share price to soar despite the shaky financials underneath.Flailing companies like AMC Entertainment and American Airlines have likewise enjoyed a stock surge, but GameStop has been the primary battleground between the Davids and the Goliaths. Shares rocketed 1,600% in the last three weeks, closing at $ 325 per share on Friday and giving GameStop a market cap of nearly $ 17 billion. Shares have since been cratering. On Tuesday, they fell 60% to close at $ 90.Many investor...
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Oct312020 by adminNo Comments
Hezbollah faces a new reality in Lebanon and the region

Hezbollah faces a new reality in Lebanon and the region

World
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Challenged by a dramatic economic deterioration and an uprising that has shaken the ruling class amid a trend toward normalizing Israeli-Arab relations, Hezbollah is facing a new reality as the most powerful party in Lebanon. The Iran-backed militant group, founded after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, has over the years created "a state within a state" with a growing arsenal, social services networks and businesses generating income to fund its activities. It grew in power when it engaged in the Syria war alongside President Bashar al-Assad in 2012 and got involved in military activities in Iraq and Yemen. Advertisement The 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the subsequent withdrawal of the Syrian troops months later,...
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