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The Pleasures of Collective Nouns and Murder — a Review

10,000 Birds

To the police men and women that he supervises, he can often seem disengaged, following investigatory paths that the others have abandoned, or see no promise in. A final thought: whether you think collective nouns are fascinating or idiotic , the more fundamental question is, why do they exist at all or, rather, how did they come to be?

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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis. From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff.

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How Marketers Can Use Audience Segmentation to Achieve Rich ROI

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But first, you need to use the data you collected to know where to place the targeted ads. For example: Individuals: Say a consumer starts shopping on your client’s website but then abandons their shopping cart. Audience Segments: Marketers everywhere have begun using AI for content creation , optimization and data collection.

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Cyprus Delights – Part III

10,000 Birds

Subtly plumaged but handsome: a c**k Cretzchmar’s bunting The best places to find Cretzchmar’s Buntings are the foothills of the Troodos, where they like the vineyards and the old, crumbling hill terraces, for much of the agricultural hill land on the island has been abandoned.

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Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 2)

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An abstract of a scientific paper reads as follows (unabridged): “External examination of free range abandoned dead Greater Coucal in a veterinary dispensary, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India revealed presence of a large sized louse in the feathers and was identified as Laemobothrion maximum on the basis of morphology and size of the louse.”

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Achieve Unparalleled Local Reach with Ads and Personalization

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Marketing tactics that are commonly used for data collection are: Customer service data Transaction data Mobile apps Web registration/account creation Loyalty programs Subscriptions But why have your client waste their time putting these plans into action when automation can handle it?

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Definitely NOT beep-beep

10,000 Birds

But their broad collection of rather odd sounds (moans, groans, hoots, screeches, and bill rattles) also do not include anything remotely like a “ beep beep “ Popular media getting bird calls wrong. Once, and only once, did I see one way down in the state of Guanajuato of central Mexico.

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