How to get the Marvel: Royalty and Warriors packThe Marvel: Royalty and Warriors Pack is available in the Fortnite item shop for $24.99. This is one of the rare instances where Epic is selling a skin bundle for actual money rather than in-game V-bucks. That means that currently there's no way to individually purchase the Black Panther skin, Captain Marvel, or Taskmaster, or any of their associated cosmetics. … [Read more...] about Fortnite item shop: Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Taskmaster drop in the Marvel: Royalty and Warriors Pack
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Charting a digital trajectory for street vendors in India
"Street vendors feed our cities", say experts from WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment, Globalizing and Organizing), an international network organisation. How true? Street food is not just for tourists, but essential to food security for millions of urban poor across the developing world. In India, it is estimated that nearly 50% of vendors sell cooked food affordable to many, and over 30% of them vend fresh fruits and vegetables catering to over 1/3rd of the demand of urban India.Years of advocacy catalysed the landmark legislation 'The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014'. The law protects the right to livelihood through street vending, sought to establish mechanisms for improved spatial equity for vendors, participatory decision making and regulatory arrangements at city level. Hailed as a progressive legislation, the Act paved the way forward on many challenges faced by street vendors. Street vending is often the first resort for an … [Read more...] about Charting a digital trajectory for street vendors in India
Woman savaged to death in rare shark attack while swimming off popular Caribbean beach
German woman is savaged by a shark while diving in the Red Sea - before instructors pull her away to safety … [Read more...] about Woman savaged to death in rare shark attack while swimming off popular Caribbean beach
Beats Flex review: Not true wireless earbuds, but a good $50 AirPods alternative
While the Beats Flex looks similar to the BeatsX, there are a couple of notable design changes. For starters, the inline microphone and control module has been removed and incorporated into a module lower on the left side of the cord to match the position of the battery and power module on the right side of the cord. As a result, the earphones feel better balanced and you don't have that impulse to pull the microphone closer to your mouth when you're making calls. … [Read more...] about Beats Flex review: Not true wireless earbuds, but a good $50 AirPods alternative
Best Country Music Albums of All Time
#26. 'Ropin' The Wind' by Garth Brooks "Ropin' the Wind" hit record stores in 1991, and was the first country record to rank #1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts since the release of Kenny Rogers' album a decade before. Garth Brooks covered Billy Joel's "Shameless" as part of this record, which came out as its second single. Other singles include "Rodeo," written by Larry Bastian, "What She's Doing Now," "Papa Loved Mama," and "The River." Brooks initially wanted the song "Rodeo" to be sung by a woman, but he cut it himself when he couldn't find a female singer to record it. Rolling Stone described Brooks' music as "exploding country stereotypes." … [Read more...] about Best Country Music Albums of All Time
100 Greatest Movie Songs From 100 Years of Film
The biographical stage musical Funny Girl focused on the life of Fanny Brice, with Barbra Streisand taking on the role of Brice in both the stage and eventual film adaptations. This musical number has a bit of an angry and defiant context within the film, with Brice being the one telling all who'll listen to not "rain on her parade." Streisand has performed the song live on multiple occasions, and it was reintroduced to audiences through the show Glee when it was performed by actress Lea Michele. … [Read more...] about 100 Greatest Movie Songs From 100 Years of Film
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000: News, rumors, and everything we know so far
Ahead of the card’s unveiling a leaked 3DMark Time Spy benchmark posted by HardwareLeaks from the RTX 3080 Ti (now known as the RTX 3090) showed the card had a 30% performance improvement over the RTX 2080 Ti. In a recent tweet, @kkatcorgi suggested a 20% generational performance uplift, though it wasn’t clear which benchmarking method or utility was used to obtain this figure. This could in turn lead to the 3090 gaining 40% better graphics performance than the 2080 Ti, according to Notebookcheck. Nvidia claimed that the RTX 3090 will be able to handle 8K gaming in 60 FPS. … [Read more...] about Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000: News, rumors, and everything we know so far
50 of the Best Posthumous Albums of All Time
'James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4' by James Brown The Godfather of Soul, James Brown died of congestive heart failure in 2006 at the age of 73. In a 2016 review of his posthumous album "James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4," Oliver Wang, writing for NPR, called the live performance "a marvelous time capsule, a window into a time when Brown was everywhere." What makes this album unique is that it is more about spotlighting Brown's favorite players, like vocalists Bobby Byrd and Lyn Collins, than Brown himself, and the album features the singer offering banter and introductions between the songs. … [Read more...] about 50 of the Best Posthumous Albums of All Time
100 Best Rock Albums of All Time, According to Critics
Stars of the Lid didn't expect "And Their Refinement of the Decline" to achieve the same levels of success as their previous album, believing that the iPod would kill sales. However, it ended up outselling "The Tired Sounds of the Stars of the Lid," the band told Rolling Stone. Interestingly, the duo behind the band were often not in the same room together when they recorded the record. … [Read more...] about 100 Best Rock Albums of All Time, According to Critics
How a Scottish postie’s simple sea shanty struck a global chord
The Wellerman, a sea shanty originally from New Zealand, is currently No 5 in the world and no 2 in the US on Spotify’s viral chart, a list that takes into account listens and shares. Even more impressively, on Wednesday the Longest Johns’ version of The Wellerman entered Spotify’s top 200 most-streamed songs in the entire US. … [Read more...] about How a Scottish postie’s simple sea shanty struck a global chord