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Blog: Mexico's beer market under the spotlight
James Wilmore | 3 January 2014
How are things shaping up in the beer battleground of Mexico? CNN took a closer look at one of the world's biggest beer markets by volume, where Anheuser-Busch InBev, through Grupo Modelo, and Heineken, through its 2010 acquisition FEMSA Cerveza, are dominant.
In the video report, above, Heineken's Americas president Stefan Orlowski, who stepped into the role last July, notes that 1m consumers are entering legal drinking age every year, while he welcomes the fledgling craft brewing scene.
Last year, an anti-trust ruling meant the opening up of the market to craft brewers, after a complaint from SABMiller. However, the UK-headquartered brewer was not happy with the outcome.
Sectors: Beer & cider, Legislation
Companies: Grupo Modelo, Heineken, Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller
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The disparity in talent within the realm of high school sports can be huge sometimes, and that leads to lopsided scores and accusations of one team running up the score on another. For coaches it's a difficult situation – allowing your team to win by 80 points seems largely unnecessary, but demanding that your team stops trying is embarrassing in its own right.
That's what makes this girls high school basketball game particularly outrageous, besides the whole shutout thing. Though the Hall High School girls basketball team in Little Rock, Arkansas, manhandled Fair High School 88-0 earlier this week, they really did make an effort to stop. After four minutes, the team led 28-0, at which point the starters were pulled. Throughout the game, there were no full-court presses applied and no pressure defense. Just one team trouncing another as everyone cringed in embarrassment.
They should really have a mercy rule in place for situations like these. By the end of the first half, the score was 58-0. Was a second half really necessary at that point? And how did LR Fair High School not even manage a single mercy layup? A free throw? A lucky hurl of the basketball? You'd think the Hall players would, at the very least, afford them at least one legitimate opportunity for points. Even so, you pretty much have to make a conscious effort not to score to be shut out in basketball. Even Joakim Noah hits the occasional jumper.
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Brazilians in Europe: Luiz Gustavo takes part in Wolfsburg's rout
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France : PSG pegged back by Monaco
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Viewer's Choice going off the air
Once a cutting-edge TV service, pay-per-view channel loses ground to Netflix, Vu!, Sportsnet PPV.
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Viewer's Choice Canada, the pay-per-view movie and live event service once considered a cutting-edge industry pioneer, will close on Sept. 30.
Bell Media spokeswoman Amy Doary said in an email that the service's co-owners, Bell Media and Rogers Communications, decided to close the channel because they each have their own pay-per-view services "and thus feel there is no need to keep the service operating as a standalone entity."
She said one position will be affected by the closing.
BCE Inc., which owns Bell, became the majority owner of Viewer's Choice last year when it acquired assets from Astral. The rest of the channel is owned by Rogers Communications.
Launched in 1991, Viewer's Choice began as an Eastern Canadian operation, later expanding to across the country under a change in its broadcast licence.
There was a time when Viewer's Choice was a dominant force in Canadian television, with many people skipping the video store to watch a movie or tune in to a WWE or ultimate fighting event. Viewer's Choice was the exclusive Canadian provider of many major sporting events.
Other programming included pornography and concert series.
But as large media corporations began buying up television assets and popular on-demand services like Netflix launched, it was inevitable that Viewer's Choice would eventually fall, said Gregory Taylor, principal investigator of Canadian spectrum policy research at Ryerson's Ted Rogers School of Management.
"The field is a little more crowded now, and the technology has changed, and the ownership has changed, so it's a mix of all of those elements," said Taylor, author of Shut Off: the Canadian Digital Television Transition.
"It was the go-to channel for a lot of the live sporting events. It was really significant for the time, and it was profitable."
Taylor said it's also important to note that Bell and Rogers were not providing a similar product in the early '90s, when Viewer's Choice was introduced, and therefore there was little competition for the channel. That allowed it to thrive.
Bell launched its own pay-per-view service, Vu!, in 1999, while Rogers has operated Sportsnet PPV, which shows out-of-market sporting events, since 1996. In Quebec, cable provider Videotron operates French-language pay-per-view channels under the name Canal Indigo.
James Nadler, a professor at Ryerson's RTA School of Media, said the closure is also a case of consumers no longer being "as willing to wait for specific start times when they are paying extra for a show," except in the case of certain live events like concerts and sporting events.
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Alpine Rescue Team spokesman Steve Wilson says the search for 51-year-old Damian McManus and 18-year-old Evan McManus was called off Wednesday evening. They were last heard from April 2 when one of the men told a friend they were going to scale a peak.
The men from St. Louis Park, Minn., were hiking near Mount Evans about 35 miles southwest of Denver.
Searchers aren't sure if they were equipped for wintry conditions.
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Anaheim, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Ryan Getzlaf broke a scoreless deadlock with just eight seconds remaining in overtime, giving the Anaheim Ducks a 1-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning that put an end to the team's five-game losing streak.
Jonas Hiller, pressed into action when expected starter Viktor Fasth suffered a lower-body injury during warmups, came up with 31 saves for Anaheim in a game that saw tremendous goaltending on both sides.
Counterpart Ben Bishop made 41 saves to nearly single-handedly keep the Lightning in it, but couldn't cleanly handle Getzlaf's attempt that barely crossed the goal line with time winding down.
"I had two cracks at it. Got it over his shoulder and, I don't know, I blacked out," Getzlaf said.
The struggling Lightning, which routed the Ducks in Tampa by a 5-1 count just eight days ago, wrapped up a tough four-game western trip with an 0-3-1 record.
"What goes around comes around. At some point that bounce will go our way, it just didn't tonight," said Lightning coach Jon Cooper.
Bishop was superb right up until the very end, when a crossup with teammate Sami Salo led to his only blemish as well as the lone goal between both sides on the night.
Getzlaf came barreling down the left side with a head of steam and while using Salo as a screen, sent a wrister that Bishop was able to block. Salo then tried to flick the rebound away but put in back on goal, and Bishop wasn't able to secure it with his glove and the puck landed just over the line before the Tampa netminder knocked it away with his stick.
Bishop was extremely sharp early on, stoning Getzlaf on a shorthanded breakaway try less than two minutes into the contest and turning aside 16 Anaheim shots during a busy opening period. He made 13 more saves in the second.
Hiller was equally as good, however, helping the Ducks successfully kill off five Tampa Bay power plays over the course of the evening en route to his second shutout of the season.
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Meet the New Guy: St. John's Guard Jamal Branch
Jamal Branch decided way back in January that he was going to be leaving Texas A&M for the bright lights of New York City. Ok, well Jamaica, Queens isn't exactly Time Square, but there are certainly lots of lights and buildings. I digress, but before you categorize Branch as just another player to get lost in the shuffle of Steve Lavin transfer projects, get to know why this kid's game is as big as the city he's coming to play in.
Born and bred in Kansas City, Missouri, Branch played his high school ball in Arlington Texas, and was a top-50 player in the 2011 recruiting class. After leading his Grace Prep Academy squad to a state title as a senior in 2011, Branch was labeled the best defensive player in his class by Scout.com, as well as a finalist for the state's Mr. Basketball award. The 6'3 point guard took his well-rounded game to College Station, picking A&M over more heralded programs like Texas, Kansas, and UCLA.
After averaging 4.2 points, 2.5 assists, and 2.2 rebounds per game in 18.6 minutes off the bench – including a 7 point, 5 rebound effort against St. John's at Madison Square Garden during the Coaches vs. Cancer tournament – Branch decided he was going to transfer just a month into his freshman season. Branch committed to A&M because he wanted to stay close to home, and he wanted to play for Mark Turgeon, but when Turgeon took the Maryland head coaching gig before last season, the writing was on the wall for Branch to branch-out and bring his big-time game elsewhere.
Having played against D'Angelo Harrison during his summers in Texas – to the extent that he told SNY.tv "(D'Angelo's) like my little brother and we always wanted to play with each other. Me and him click well and are looking forward to doing big things," - Branch has some familiarity coming to Queens, and told the New York Post back in January that he's looking forward to playing in a big city.
Branch joins Harrison, Sir'Dominic Pointer, and Amir Garrett as Top 100 recruits from the class of 2011, and should make for a great backcourt mate for sophomore shooting guard Phil Greene. Branch is also one of 11 sophomores/freshmen currently on the St. John's roster, and won't be eligible to play or travel with the team until December due to NCAA transfer rules.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Senators killed House-backed education bills that sought delays in the disciplinary effects of a new teacher evaluation system and the use of ACT scores in calculating high school performance grades.
The Senate Education Committee rejected both bills Thursday.
Critics, including Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration, said they were concerned the measures could hinder educational progress.
Supporters of the proposals said delay would allow for additional training on the teacher evaluation system called COMPASS and give schools time to enhance curriculums to meet the ACT requirement.
Senators voted 4-3 against the teacher evaluation bill. The other measure was stalled in committee when no one on the panel made a motion to approve it.
Under COMPASS, public school teachers are evaluated based on student learning and observations by principals or their designee using the state's rubric. If rated ineffective for two consecutive years, the teacher could be terminated.
Rep. Gene Reynolds, D-Minden, sought to postpone using those evaluations as grounds for dismissal until the 2014-15 school year.
Reynolds said the delay would allow for additional training and understanding of the evaluation tool that some see as too subjective, with results depending on the person conducting the evaluation. For example in Caddo Parish, some national board certified teachers were rated as ineffective, he said.
"There may be some false readings," he said.
State Superintendent of Education John White, who had previously said he didn't oppose the delay, told senators that his department is offering additional COMPASS training this summer.
He didn't oppose the measure Thursday, but he told senators he was concerned about how passage of the bill would be taken after hearing several supporters talk about the shortcomings of COMPASS. He said the bill covered a narrow portion of the evaluation program, but that comments by supporters of the proposal turned the measure into a "referendum on Compass."
"I would be remiss if did not say that I have concerns about the tone and substance of what I heard in the proponents' testimony. (It) does not equal what this bill actually does," White said. "I worry that it would create an opportunity to say that 'Well, we're putting the brakes on this.'"
Unhappy with the outcome of the Senate vote, Reynolds tacked his proposal into another House bill that likely will end up before the Senate Education Committee for reconsideration of the issue.
Meanwhile, a measure by Rep. Kenny Havard, R-Jackson, sought to keep the same accountability formula and accountability policies applied in the 2011-12 school year until the House and Senate education committees approve the changes sought by education officials.
The new accountability formula, which would include ACT test scores at the high school, will be applied to school and district performance scores that will be released later this year.
Supporters of Havard's bill said postponing the new standards would give systems time to implement curriculum changes. They said many students have not taken college preparatory classes and the change will negatively impact school performance scores.
"I'm not opposed to ACT test scores, and I'm not opposed to higher standards," Havard said. "I'm just asking that we slow down and get it right."
Opponents said the measure would hamper progress the state has made in student achievement and increased standards.
On other education proposals, the Senate committee approved a measure that would allow parents to petition the state-run Recovery School District to return a school back to local control if that school has earned a "D'' or "F'' for five consecutive years.
Under the bill by Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, schools could be returned to local school system control if parents of a majority of the students sign a petition making the request. The Senate committee added an amendment that requires that students must have been attending the school for at least two years in order for their parents to sign the petition.
The Recovery School District is run by the state Department of Education to manage chronically low-performing schools. It currently operates 80 schools around the state, including 68 in New Orleans and eight in Baton Rouge.
OCT 30 If you're a Louisiana native of (ahem) a certain age, you might have fond (or fuzzy, as the case may be) memories of a Zebra concert and singing "Who's Behind the Door" until your ears rang. This post on NOLA Defender profiles the leader of that band, Randy Jackson.
OCT 30 The National Journal offers this analysis of Bobby Jindal's willingness to stump in any Senate campaign that's not in Louisiana. Why is that? The Journal asks some GOPers and finds that the answer is one we already know: he's so unpopular here, because he's been so busy running for President, that his support might be "toxic."
OCT 30 If you're not obsessed with the Texas governor's race - what's wrong with you? Here's another installment, from our own IND contributor Lamar White Jr., who explains why Wendy's "infamous" wheelchair ad was a shock to the national media - but not to anyone familiar with Greg Abbott's record.
OCT 30 Blogger Tom Aswell is still all over the OGB mess - and all by himself, apparently. In this post, he's revealing orders from the Jindal administration to destroy records from the state employee health insurance plan. Those orders (he's heard) have angered the Secretary of State and caused an administration lawyer to quit her job. Wow!
OCT 30 Blogger Crazy Crawfish is taking aim at state Superintendent John White again, this time for comments White made recently, claiming that there is no real opposition to Common Core in Louisiana. Crawfish is documenting proof to the contrary here, and lays down the gauntlet to "mainstream news media." (Don't hold your breath on that one, buddy.)
OCT 30 Gambit covers Advocate publisher John Georges' recent visit to Loyola in this post. Georges touches on how things are going in this new gig, what he thinks about the Pic's decision to move printing to Alabama, and how he feels about his political campaigns.
OCT 30 A NOLA lady has alleged she was drugged and raped at a Bywater club that had a clothing-optional policy until recently, and she's now become the victim of a smear campaign, columnist Jarvis DeBerry writes in this post. She chose to reveal her story and her name, and she's being punished for that now, he says.
OCT 30 BESE member Lottie Beebe pens this letter to the editor of the Advocate about the state Department of Education. The DOE isn't exempt from the state public records law, and because of recent lawsuits she tried to require regular reports about how many requests had been made to the department and how many remained unanswered. She wasn't successful.
OCT 29 Manny Schewitz blogs on Forward Progressives about recent Facebook posts from David Vitter, including one that purports to take you to a petition to stop Ebola (say what?) but actually signs you up for his newsletter or campaign email list or some such nonsense. Dave must think we're dummies, Manny says -- and Dave's probably right.
OCT 29 Usually, the copy on Red Shtick is satire. But in this post "from the publisher," we get a pretty astute political analysis of Edwin Edwards' charisma and old-school populist swagger. Edwards isn't concealing billionaire backers, or trying to make his opponent out to be "Satan," the post says. He's just running. Huh; imagine that.
OCT 29 Salon's Elias Isquith writes this fairly hilarious commentary on a National Review post about Bobby Jindal's attempts to "beef up" in preparation for a presidential run. But it's not just funny; Isquith seems to have Bobby's number, commenting on how the Gov "and his team are hopelessly ensconced in the Tea Party bubble."


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Will The Tasting Room reopen?
In 1993, Carson Praefke opened The Tasting Room– formerly The Landing – and it was the first local bar to specialize in micro-brews and imports. It was also a popular venue for live music.
In 2007, Praefke opted not to renew his liquor license after a couple of years of not opening the bar and keeping "closed for the season" on his marquee.
In the past few years, the East Side corner has really come alive again with the construction of condos and Bel Air Cantina (Redroom has been an anchor business on that corner for years). But the Tasting Room, 1100 E. Kane St., remains silent, even though it seems like the ideal spot for another bar or eatery.
Out of curiosity, I contacted Praefke, who also works as a beer vendor at Miller Park during baseball season, and asked him what his plans are for this building.
"I still own the building and I think about reopening all the time, but it is still a hard question to answer," he says.
"Lately I've been concentrating on fixing up the apartment upstairs so that it can be rented and I've been staying there quite a bit while I work on it. I don't want to go back to working at the bar full-time, like I used to. If I could find a partner that would be interested in doing something similar that might work. If I don't come up with a good idea soon then I will probably lease it out."
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Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. President Kirby Fowler said Thursday that he believes "downtown's ascendancy is back on track" after the recession.
"Before the recession hit, I felt that we were three years away from reaching a positive tipping point in downtown," Fowler said. In an interview, Fowler said he thinks downtown is still three years away from reaching that "positive tipping point," and that 2012 will go down as the year when the recovery began.
At Downtown Partnership's annual State of Downtown report presentation on Thursday, Fowler outlined several developments likely to move forward in 2013 that he said support his prediction.
Those indicators include the $152 million west side housing, retail and parking project known as the superblock "returning to private hands" from city ownership; the demolition of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre to make way for a 400-apartment and retail project on the site; job growth continuing after downtown added 10,400 jobs last year; and new residential units being added downtown in converted office space.
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A six-year push to widen a four-mile stretch of road in east Orange County finally got the green light, with work set to start as early as Feb. 16.
The $30.2 million project will involve widening the two-lane Alafaya Trail in the Avalon Park area to four lanes.
"Traffic congestion has been a significant issue in this area," said Sara Brady, a board member for the East Orange County Chamber of Commerce and CEO of Sara Brady Public Relations Inc.
Orange County commissioners awarded the project on Jan. 15 to Kissimmee-based road builder Jr. Davis Construction Co. Inc. Funds for the road project — slated to be completed in August 2013 — will come from county impact fees.
The project became even more essential after the 2008 completion of the first phase of the four-laned Innovation Way roadway that connected east Orange County to Osceola County, said Damian Czapka, senior engineer with Orange County. That provided drivers a great access point to major roads such as State Road 528 and State Road 408, but led to frustrating traffic jams on the 3.8-mile stretch of Alafaya Trail connecting them.
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No doubt this road widening will help local businesses, said Eric Marks, senior vice president and COO for Avalon Park Group, a real estate development firm based in Avalon Park. "This is an incredible step forward for that corridor as there's been an unbelievable amount of growth in east Orange County. The widening of Alafaya Trail is key for those residents and businesses."
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I thought it was a good move. Doug Martin, Tampa Bay's rookie running back, packaged with hobbled Saints tight end Jimmy Graham and Stephen Jackson's animated corpse. In return, I'd be getting LeSean McCoy, a bona fide #1 running back, Vernon Davis, a tight end threat who wasn't hobbled, and Titus Young, who's… whatever, I'd be getting LeSean McCoy.
Lo and behold, in the two weeks since my masterfully crafted maneuver, Doug Martin has decided to become Barry Sanders (and Vernon Davis apparently decided to sleep with Greg Roman's wife).
Here are Martin's stat lines from weeks 8 and 9, when he was no longer a member of The Van Buren Boys.
Week 8 vs. the Vikings: 135 yards rushing, 4.7 yards per carry, 79 yards receiving, 2 touchdowns.
Week 9 vs the Raiders: 251 yards rushing, 10.0 yards per carry (!), 21 yards receiving, 4 touchdowns.
Seriously, Doug Martin? Seriously? That's 32 fantasy points in Week 8, 51 in Week 9. I'm assuming that next weekend, against San Diego, you're going to score 73 fantasy points and deliver a baby.
Hate you, Doug Martin.
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I think he should be locked away the rest of his life =_=
he may be a young thug, but he is still a minor. At 14 there is still hope for reclamation and re-education. While in one's gut one feels a need for retributive punishment, there is still hope if he's helped.
I don't like the idear of treating a a 14 year old (and did I hear somewhere that it was a special needs school?) as an adult, no matter what they did. If a you teanager comits murder, treat them as a murderer, cirtainly, but treat them as a YOUNG TENAGE murderer.
I'm glad this isn't being brushed over or treated as less serious because it's a gayhate crime, but I'm still uneasy with it.
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As one of the BBC's landmark nature programmes, Frozen Planet has transported millions of viewers to the icy Arctic and Antarctic with its spectacular cinematography.
So perhaps it is not surprising that impressed viewers are trying to get their own slice of icy adventure by booking trips to get up close and personal with penguins, seals and whales.
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Icy inspiration: The series Frozen Planet has boosted searches for remote holidays
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Attenborough effect: The popular presenter has sparked a new love of the world's little-explored polar regions
'One of the interesting conundrums of mass market cruising is the perception that it's for tourists, who are interested only in the superficial appeals of ports of call, rather than for travelers. But when you talk about expedition cruising, it's the complete opposite,' Ms Spencer Brown told TravelMail.
'In many cases, expedition cruises are the absolute best ways to travel to remote locales and in some cases the only way you can get to them -- such as the Galapagos and the Antarctic.
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Pupil, 14, reduced to tears after Zumba teacher 'made her dance erotically on school stage to Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines'
- Bella Hobbs was allegedly asked to dance erotically during a Zumba class
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A teenager broke down in tears after a dance instructor asked her to perform 'erotically' on stage to the controversial song Blurred Lines, her parents have claimed.
Bella Hobbs, 14, was allegedly asked to push her cleavage out, pull her skirt up to her crotch and gyrate her hips during the lesson at The Castle School in Thornbury, near Bristol.
When Bella refused, the Year 10 pupil was forced to argue with her Zumba instructor - who was an external teacher from outside the school - in front of friends, her parents say.
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Bella Hobbs, 14, a pupil at the Castle School in Thornbury, near Bristol (pictured above), was allegedly reduced to tears after her Zumba dance instructor asked her to perfom erotically to the controversial song Blurred Lines
She also had to apparently say 'no' four times before the instructor allowed her to sit out of the dance.
Now Bella's 'horrified' parents, Catherine Hobbs and
Neil Castleton, from Thornbury, are demanding an apology from the school.
They say the song - which has been criticised for glorifying rape and sexual violence - should never have been played in front of the children.
The chart-topping single, written by Robin Thicke, was even banned by some student unions over its controversial lyrics after it was released last summer.
Ms Hobbs, 44, a former teacher who now works as a therapist, said: 'I am not a prude, I am a liberal person and I haven't got a problem with sexuality, but for a child to feel worried that what they are doing is dirty and rude, that is wrong.'
Ms Hobbs claims her daughter came home from school in a state of distress. Bella told her parents she felt 'dirty' about being asked to perform the moves because they were 'too sexy'.
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She said: 'Bella said that she was unhappy about the way that she was asked to dance, she said it was dirty.
'When she showed me the dance that she was expected to do, I would have been horrified.
'She said she was told to dance by pushing her cleavage out and wiggling her chest, pulling her skirt up to her crotch and gyrating her hips.'
Ms Hobbs also said it must have been hard for her daughter to stand her ground so many times.
Melanie Warnes, executive headmaster at the school, pictured above, said Bella's mother and father were the only parents to complain. She said the two PE teachers overseeing the lesson did not notice the song being played
She claims the two teachers observing the Zumba class subliminally endorsed the sexualisation of children by not stopping the dance.
Ms Hobbs said she is now concerned about the impact the alleged incident will have on the other children.
She said Bella did not understand the song and she had to spend two hours explaining to her daughter why the graphic lyrics were wrong.
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The two experienced female PE teachers, who were overseeing the lesson, did not notice the song being played, she said.
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'The teachers were not aware that any inappropriate dance moves had been made.'
She added that Bella, as an experienced dancer, had been asked to demonstrate but refused and there was 'no issue made'.
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PanARMENIAN.Net - On December 17, the U.S. embassy in Armenia started to implement new visa application and appointment procedures, with the changes to facilitate the process of applying for a U.S. non-immigrant visa.
Under the new procedures, visa applicants will receive the following services: the application fee may be paid by any of the following: (1) telephone by calling the local number at +374 60 270 113 (if dialing outside of Armenia) or 0 60 270 113 (if dialing within Armenia), U.S. number at +1-703-439-2353 or via Skype - usvisaarmenia, (2) online at www.usvisa-info.com, or (3) in person at any branch of the Ardshininvestbank. Applicants must pay by using cash or credit card.
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Hello everyone,
in this post, you can find 9.4 model changes. Most are quite subtle. The patchnotes tell us that visuals of some models were fixed (you know, SU-100 and others). Well… not exactly. From what I could gather, what WG basically did is they fucked up the texture resolution in 9.3 and introduced some HD models with lowres textures. In 9.4, this is getting fixed.
You can see it really nice on the SU-100 example, watch the mudguards (rightclick-view image for higher pic resolution – the pictures are big, so be careful):