The foyer is the first space your guests see when you welcome them into your home. Set the tone for the rest of your interior design by following the tips below to make a statement the moment they step into your door.
Utilize your vertical space with an eye-catching light fixture. A chandelier or pendant light is the perfect accent focal point to make an impression and brighten your space.
If the size of your foyer lends the room, transform it into a functional and welcoming conversational space with a comfortable seating arrangement. Add decorative pillows or throws with a lot of texture for a warm, inviting feel.
Line one wall with a narrow chest or table to stand as the perfect vignette for decor and to provide additional storage. Insert your own style by adding frames, vases, candles, mirrors and other decorative accent pieces to finish of the space. Layering with different sizes, materials, and colors in your choice accessories is key to creating a chic, yet not "over-done" look.
Foyer hallways are the ideal place to display a collection of things you love, from gallery artwork to personal family photos. Be creative with your selection of an assortment of various size and color frames and wall decor. Take advantage of both sides of the wall to balance and add interest to your design.
Incorporate color and texture into the entryway by laying down a patterned rug for added depth and contrast to complete your entryway.
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Where can you vote on Tuesday May 20th, which is Election Day for the Special Election for Lowndes County Commission District 5, for the Lowndes County Board of Education, and for the elections for judges? Remember, they're not in November: Tuesday May 20th is the election for these races, unless there's a runoff. Plus Tuesday is Primary Election Day for the Georgia statehouse, statewide offices, and U.S. Congress. You can find your polling place in My Voter Page by the Georgia Secretary of State. Or you can zoom and pan on the VALOR GIS Election Boundary Map. Turnout matters: elections are often won by a handful of votes. After you find your polling place, please call your friends and neighbors and help them find theirs. For a longer list to call, contact Gretchen.
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Southern Italy braced for rare Mediterranean hurricane
Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
October 27, 2021, 10:20 a.m. ·3 min read
Photograph: Sanne Derks/Getty Images
Southern Italy was braced on Wednesday for the arrival of what forecasters have described as a Medicane – a rare Mediterranean hurricane bringing winds of more than 100kmh and producing 5-metre waves.
Fierce storms have battered Sicily for days, leaving roads submerged in the eastern part of the island and claiming the lives of at least two people. Video footage shows flood waters engulfing the city of Palermo, turning streets into rivers and squares into lakes.
Italy's department for civil protection issued its most severe weather warning for Sicily and Calabria on Tuesday, as Italian authorities confirmed the death of a 53-year-old man who drowned in Gravina, a town north of Catania. The death comes after the body of a 67-year-old man was found on Monday in Scordia. Rescuers are still searching for his 54-year-old wife.
On Tuesday, Catania's mayor, Salvo Pogliese, called the weather events "unprecedented" and ordered the closure of all businesses.
"I urge the entire population to not leave home except for emergency reasons, because roads are overrun by water," he said on Facebook.
Forecasters have said the Medicane is the latest evidence demonstrating how the climate emergency is irremediably tropicalising the Mediterranean.
Related: Met office warns of life-threatening flooding in parts of UK
"Sicily is tropicalising and the upcoming Medicane is perhaps the first of this entity, but it certainly won't be the last," said Christian Mulder, a professor of ecology and climate emergency at the University of Catania. "We are used to thinking that this type of hurricane and cyclone begins in the oceans and not in a closed basin like the Mediterranean. But this is not the case.
"This Medicane is forming due to the torrid climate of north Africa and the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The Aegean Sea has a temperature of 3C higher than the average, while the Ionian Sea has a temperature of almost 2C higher than the average. The result is a pressure cooker."
According to forecasters, the Medicane could reach Sicily on Thursday or Friday and could finally leave the area between Saturday and Sunday.
"We are facing something exceptional," said Giulio Betti, a meteorologist and climatologist at Italy's national research council.
"What is affecting Sicily and Calabria is a hybrid atmospheric event. It has the typical characteristics of a subtropical cyclone, but at times it holds the characteristics of a tropical-like cyclone.
"The unique aspect is its duration and its stationing – that is, this atmospheric event is hard to dissolve. … on the one hand it continues to be fed by the cool western currents; on the other hand it is unable to move eastward, due to the Balkans' anticyclone."
The signs of change are becoming more frequent in Sicily, where in August a monitoring station in the south-eastern city of Syracuse recorded a temperature of 48.8C, the highest ever set in Europe. Data collected by the Balkans and Caucasus observatory put the average temperature rise on the island over the past 50 years at almost 2C, rising to 3.4C in Messina on the north-east coast.
In September two people were killed and nine injured after a tornado tore through the Italian island of Pantelleria. The whirlwind ripped off roofs and flipped over at least six cars, with residents describing the scene as "apocalyptic".
Scientists say the climate emergency could sweep traditional agricultural crops from the Mediterranean, leaving growers to search for tropical alternatives. In the past three years the production of avocados, mangos and papaya has doubled in Sicily, while in Palermo's botanical garden researchers have registered for the first time the blooming of welwitschia, a native of the southern African Namib desert.
Early in October, the coffee company Morettino produced for the first time its own coffee in Sicily, in a development that could turn the Italian island into the northernmost coffee plantation in the world.
Springdale retirement home owner pleads for help as COVID-19 spreads among staff, residents
The owner of a retirement home in central Newfoundland says the COVID-19 situation inside his facility is dire — and he believes it's time for the regional health authority to call in outside help. Shane Penney, who owns Springdale Retirement Living together with his wife, told CBC News that 19 out of 90 residents and 17 out of 35 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, and more test results are pending. "It's very, very serious; very busy at our facility," Penney said on Tuesday. Penne
CHARLOTTETOWN — It was during the holiday break that something awful started happening to the crows that frequent Victoria Park in downtown Charlottetown. Since then, local residents have found more than 200 dead or desperately ill birds. Scientists at the nearby Atlantic Veterinary College haven't been able to figure out what is going on. "It was pretty gruesome," Maryrose Carson, who lives two blocks from the waterfront park, said Tuesday as she recalled finding dozens of dead birds on Jan. 1.

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  C*-algebras, Calkin algebra, Compact and Fredholm operators, Index spectral theorem,  the Weyl-von Neumann-Berg Theorem and the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem.

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Brown, L. G., Douglas, R. G., Fillmore, P.A., Unitary Equivalence Modulo the Compact Operators and Extensions of C*- Algebras,.  Proceedings of  a Conference on Operators Theory (Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, N. S., 1973), pp 58-128.  Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 345, Springer, Berlin, 1973.

Davidson, K. R.,  C*-algebras by Example,  Fields Institute Monographs,  6,  American Mathematical Society,  1996.

Douglas, R. G.,   Banach Algebra Techniques in Operator Theory, Springer Verlag, 1998.

Douglas, R. G.,  C*- algebra  Extensions and
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We need to urgently invest in public health
Only a robust public health system, and not healthcare alone, can lead to disease prevention and control
March 17, 2021 12:15 am | Updated 12:15 am IST
T. Jacob John,M.S. Seshadri
The worst pandemic in a hundred years has demonstrated the importance of healthcare and public health in times of a health crisis. The efforts of healthcare personnel, from ASHA workers with only basic training, to highly specialised intensive care physicians, have saved countless lives and made India proud.
That healthcare is science-based was convincingly demonstrated. Lab diagnosis, clinical assessments, triage and management ranging from home quarantine to intensive care, clinical trials discriminating between useful and useless therapeutic modalities all gave society a glimpse of how modern medicine works. We learned that outcomes of well-designed clinical trials with their statistically significant differences between treatment modalities are sacrosanct for evidence — not unreliable personal anecdotes.
Healthcare personnel worked tirelessly, with single-minded devotion to duty, putting the best interests of others who were in need over their own personal priorities. This made a mark in public perception. Now we realise why good grounding in theory, long years in basics and specialisation, and apprenticing to gain experience in ethical, evidence-based medical practice are essential for the making of caring medical and nursing professionals. Both the science base and the discipline belong to the allopathic system of medicine. This was brought to India just over a century ago and successfully adopted by us as our own.
Healthcare and public health
While the health-care capability in India ranks among the world's best, it is a different story when it comes to public health. We need to distinguish between the two. Healthcare refers to the transaction between one caregiver and one sick person at a time – hence the client is the sick person and therapy is the mainstay. For public health, the client is the community at large and the goal is disease prevention and control. Disease control is the deliberate, intervention-based and quantified reduction of disease burden. It has to be data-driven. Data are required on baseline disease burden and real-time monitoring to track the control trajectory of all the highly prevalent infectious diseases. Reliable data must be collected from all sources including every healthcare provider, for monitoring disease burden by diagnosis and outcomes; for this exercise, the total population is the denominator.
Data collection for HIV control is sample-based, under the unique Indian design of sentinel surveillance, established in 1986 and still continuing. It shows only the time trend of declining infection prevalence. Counting of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) and laboratory tests for polioviruses (including molecular methods distinguishing wild from vaccine viruses) were crucial for polio elimination in India. The commonality between HIV/AIDS and polio programmes is the availability of denominator-based data. The denominator for polio elimination is the national total under-five population. So, we knew the total disease burden. And when it reached zero, we knew polio was eliminated.
Our health management does not have a way of prospectively collecting data on all diseases and deaths by diagnosis. That is precisely the task of public health. In its absence, we have only the numerator data on various diseases, including COVID-19, but not the denominator — in short we do not have a comprehensive and quantified profile of any disease in the entire population, including those under vertical programmes — tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, AIDS.
For COVID-19, computerised medical records informed us about how many were tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection — and among them, how many were positive, hospitalised, survived or died. All statistics are available in the public domain. Everyone knows that the numbers cover only a fraction of the total, but what proportion of the total, will remain unknown forever.
Social vaccination
To get an insight into the totality of infections in the whole population, we rely on the shape of the COVID-19 epidemic curve that peaked in September and steadily declined to the present — with less than 20,000 daily new infections since January 7 until recently. That informs the proportion already infected — most probably 50%-60%, for 700 million to 800 million people. But the detected numbers are over 11 million. Where does the truth lie: nearer to 11 million or to 700 million? We will not know without a public health surveillance system. The sero-surveys on random samples, an attempt to derive the totality of infections, reported widely disparate figures and failed to give us a reasonably reliable picture.
For COVID-19, there are non-pharmacological preventive interventions — face masks, hand hygiene, physical distancing — and pharmacological prevention by vaccination. Where we fell short is timely and comprehensive public education with authoritative and authentic information communicated effectively to the public for self-motivated behaviour modification. In other words, a 'social vaccine'. Social vaccination is another function of public health.
In the absence of public health infrastructure, India's AIDS Task Force designed and successfully applied 'social vaccine' during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and this was continued by the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO). Sadly, there was no crosstalk between the COVID-19 programme and NACO; hence principles of social vaccine, so effectively deployed in AIDS prevention, were not adopted for COVID-19 prevention. Now, during the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, authentic health education regarding vaccination is conspicuously lacking, leading to considerable vaccine hesitancy among even healthcare staff. Post-vaccination surveillance, vital for assessing vaccine efficacy and safety, is not being conducted, again a lacuna in public health. We sorely miss public health.
COVID-19 has strong social determinants of infection transmission — overcrowding, lack of cough/sneeze etiquette, and urban-rural divide in health awareness and education. These factors are common for influenza and TB too. Typhoid, cholera, leptospirosis, scrub typhus, malaria, rabies, etc. have environmental determinants. In countries where public health is given equal status with healthcare, public health addresses both social and environmental determinants and controls these diseases. Public health personnel have jurisdiction over people in their homes and workplaces, food and water distribution chains, and over ecosystems — ranging from densities of arthropod vectors, rodent and canine populations, to flight ranges of fruit-eating bats.
Our government errs when it thinks that healthcare for people's felt need alone will suffice, without mitigating disease determinants through public health. India's style of mounting ad hoc responses only when there is a pandemic is no longer tenable. Currently our healthcare institutions are cluttered with too many infectious diseases that are amenable to control if only we had public health. Imagine how much wealth is going down the drain for want of public health. Investment in public health will result in health, wealth and prosperity.
T. Jacob John is retired professor of clinical virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore and M.S. Seshadri is retired professor of medicine (endocrinology), CMC, and Medical Director of Thirumalai Medical Mission Hospital, Ranipet
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WATCH: Hardcore Trump Supporter Charlie Kirk Reveals Lt. Michael Byrd As Shooter Of Ashli Babbitt
(Patriot Insider) – On Sunday morning, Charlie Kirk, who is the founder of Turning Point USA, dropped a huge truth bomb on the Sunday Morning Futures program that will no doubt make Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and all of her fellow minions in the Democratic Party very, very upset.
According to Gateway Pundit, Kirk is actually the first personality to name-drop Lt. Mike Byrd as the person responsible for the murder of US veteran Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riots on January 6th.
The folks over at the Gateway Pundit were actually the first folks to report the identity of Byrd as the shooter in this horrific incident after Capitol Police have refused to reveal the name of the individual responsible for months.
"We're still in the allegedly phase but according to Real Clear Politics and Real Clear Investigations it looks that, we're pretty certain to believe that it's a man by the name of Lieutenant Byrd, Michael Byrd, and there's more information that is going to come out around this in the coming weeks," Kirk said about Babbitt's killer.
Paul Sperry over at Real Clear Investigations also revealed Lt. Michael Byrd as the killer in the incident back on July 7th.
Charlie Kirk just revealed lieutenant Michael Byrd, Chuck Schumer's private security, is the officer who murdered Ashli Babbitt.#JusticeforAshliBabbitt ???????????? pic.twitter.com/hQURZixNNu
— Trump1W8&C (@amking0321) July 11, 2021
In a report that was completed a week ago, GP helped put the pieces together concerning the identity of Babbitt's shooter by confirming that Lt. Byrd was indeed the officer who left his gun in a Capitol building restroom back in 2019.
William Hall sent the publication a video on Gab that also helps provide a lot of evidence that Byrd is indeed the individual who shot Babbitt.
As it turns out Capitol Hill Sergeant At Arms Timothy Blodgett accidentally confirmed the identity of the shooter during testimony he gave.
"We're in close contact. The situation where you discussed where officer Byrd was at the door when Miss Babbitt was shot. It was our sergeant at arms employee who rendered the aid to her," Blodgett said.
If you check out these photographs (here, here, here, and here), you'll clearly see that Byrd is a dangerous individual who is totally incompetent and should not be allowed to carry a firearm as a police officer. In other words, he needs to be removed from active duty as soon as possible.
Byrd violates four critically important rules of safety when handling a firearm.
You always treat every gun as loaded until you've thoroughly inspected it and ensured there is no round in the chamber. The gun should always be pointed in a safe direction. You never point the weapon at anything unless you plan on shooting and killing or destroying the target.
Another important rule for gun safety is to keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. And finally, always know your target and what is beyond or behind that target.
This man ignores all of these rules. Add that in with the fact he left his weapon unattended in a bathroom and the incompetence becomes rather clear.
Byrd needs to face justice for what he did to Babbitt.
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lmfao July 18, 2021 At 8:08 pm
THANK YOU FOR KILLING A REPREHENSIBLE REPUBLICAN WHO LICKS donny t's ASSHOLE AND EATS ALL HIS SHIT. THAT CUNT IS GONE AND THAT'S A GOOD THING.
Ready123 July 18, 2021 At 8:45 pm
Your a sick sick person
Anthony Harkin July 19, 2021 At 1:13 am
"Every idle word men shall speak they shall give account of on the day of judgement." Jesus
Mary July 18, 2021 At 8:21 pm
WOW HATE MUCH.
SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE COMMUNIST. I HOPE KARMA COMES INVITE YOU IN YOUR ASS
Mark July 18, 2021 At 8:31 pm
And I'm guessing he will never be prosecuted.
Dean soest July 18, 2021 At 9:14 pm
How dare you say such a thing. She was a good person, she served our country in the
Air Force as I did and she did nothing to deserve being killed. she had no weapon and all
she did was to follow her friends to bring some attention to the injustice that took place
by the Dem's in our voting system. You piece of s//t you need to apologize for your remarks and attitude towards the family
jvo July 18, 2021 At 10:21 pm
Spoken like a true lowlife liberal POS…keep it coming LMFAO. You're just showing true Americans what the mindset of unhinged liberal loons, like yourself, is truly like.
Patricia A Cain July 18, 2021 At 10:31 pm
@lmfao…… You are a sad, pathetic piece of whale shit!!… Too bad that you breath the same air as humans do!! One can only hope that you lose the ability to do so real soon!!!!
the sooner the better for mankind's sake!!!!!
Desmond Sande July 19, 2021 At 7:22 am
You're sick, very sick
RuthD July 19, 2021 At 7:25 am
Why was the vicious crude nasty comment by lmfao even allowed to be published? What a filthy mind that person must have. Not all Republicans are reprehensible and this veteran woman did nothing to deserve being shot. Shame on you, lmfao.
jvo July 19, 2021 At 11:54 am
Biased assholes!


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We Played All of Netflix's New Games and They Don't Totally Suck
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Earlier this year, Netflix announced that it would add mobile games to its service, for some reason. Now, the streaming titan's first ten games are here, so we checked each of them out. While they're entertaining enough, you aren't missing much if you don't play them.
The games are available on both iOS and Android. There are no ads, no in-app purchases, and it doesn't cost anything extra to access or play them. Every profile on your account can enjoy the games, and you can use multiple devices to play them. They're each available in multiple languages, though they default to English, and are not available on kid profiles—only on adult profiles. And best yet, some of the games are available offline, so you can enjoy playing them on an airplane or while camping.
How to Play Netflix's Games
Shooting Hoops
Dominoes Café
Bowling Ballers
Asphalt Xtreme
Teeter (Up)
Stranger Things 3: The Game
Stranger Things: 1984
Card Blast
Wonderputt Forever
Knittens
Netflix keeps the games neatly tucked away in a dedicated tab within its app. Each game has a dedicated page complete with its own trailer, in-game screenshots, and game details (like maturity ratings, languages, controller support info, Internet requirements, and more). And, of course, Netflix also offers up a few related movie and TV show recommendations from the service that you might like. Everything is tied up in a neat little bow.
It's worth noting that you'll need to download each game individually from your mobile app store. And in order to play each game, you'll need to login with your Netflix account, and a specific account if you have more than one.
Without further ado, let's take a look at each of Netflix's new games:
I guess Netflix thinks putting a basketball through a hoop is too easy and boring. But while that's still our goal here in Shooting Hoops, this ball has a blaster gun taped to it. The blaster is the ball's only source of propulsion, and it moves in the opposite direction of wherever you tap.
That's more or less the plot of this simple game, though the hoop moves around each level, and you have a limited amount of time to make the shot. It's a bit lame in concept and execution, but still a teeny bit of fun. I give it a 4/10.
Nothing to hate about a digital game of dominoes, right? Right. That's essentially all that this game offers, but you've got three classic game modes and three difficulty levels to play around with. You can even opt to play one-on-one or two-on-two.
Dominoes Cafe also allows you to customize the table background and tile design options to suit your tastes; plus, there are multiple soundtracks to enjoy. I found the game to be a little underwhelming, though, and never a real challenge at any point. In some modes, dominoes with no match are greyed out, and when you tap on one that does have a match, the game shows you exactly where to place it. I'd recommend just playing dominoes in real life instead—2/10.
This game is the love child of Temple Run and Candy Crush. It's not hard to play—like at all—but somehow, it's still fun enough to play level after level. All you do is move the bowling ball slightly to the left or right of the lane as you pick up coins and bowling pins while dodging deceptive sweets like ice cream cones, cupcakes, chocolate bars, donuts, and jawbreakers.
The pathway moves quickly, so do your best to reach checkpoints, so you don't have to play the entire level again. Eventually, as you gain coins and other items, you'll set new records and unlock customization options for your ball. Simple, colorful, and sweetly addicting—6/10.
As everyone knows, racing games are the best type of video game. So, naturally, Asphalt Xtreme knocks it out of the park with its racing adventures. This game ended up being my favorite of the bunch and is definitely the best option in what is presumably the beginning of Netflix's gaming era (we'll see how well this ages, though).
Given that this game is a reboot of Gameloft's Asphalt Xtreme, which shuttered a few months ago, it's no surprise that it looks far better than Netflix's other offerings. This game looks terrific, is actually complex, and plays smooth as butter. And as is the case with most other racing games, you'll have the opportunity to upgrade your vehicle and collect loot and trophies along the way. Heck, you even have the option to steer your car either with on-screen controls or via your device's accelerometer. There's a lot to do here, and it's fun for all ages. It gets a 9/10 from me.
Teeter (Up)'s extremely simple design is simultaneously the thing that makes this game so easy and so challenging. The components? A single plank of wood, a ball, and a hole. The rules? Raise the plank high enough to get the ball in the hole. Easy enough, right? Hell no.
This game somehow demands finesse, a decent amount of skill, and A LOT of patience. If you were going to start filming a rage-quit series on YouTube, I'd say start with this game because it'll shoot your blood pressure through the roof. But still, it's pretty dang fun and earns a 7/10.
If you're a fan of Netflix's Stranger Things series, you'll like this game and the other Stranger Things game below. This particular game is a companion to the third season of (you guessed it) Stranger Things and features a stellar retro pixel-y look backed by a great soundtrack.
After selecting your difficulty level, you'll start with two characters and progress through the fantastic text-based game. You'll play through a combination of familiar events and brand new unseen quests, secrets, and character interactions. And remember, teamwork makes the dream work (and nets the game an 8/10).
I LOVE the 8-bit video game soundtrack and pixel-y design here. There are two difficulty settings to choose from for this top-down action-adventure game, a la The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and similar titles. In it, you'll join Hopper and the kids as they complete missions around Hawkins and (gasp!) the Upside Down.
The game gives you on-screen menus and pop-up dialogue boxes to work with, and you'll tap items on your screen for the characters to move towards and interact with. As you progress, you'll have a variety of puzzles to solve and clues to collect. Watch out for bad guys and monsters, though! This game is a ton of fun even if you didn't watch the show, thanks to its retro feel, and easily snags an 8/10 from me.
Love all the different hands you can play in Poker but don't actually like playing Poker? This is the game for you. Each round, you'll be tasked to create a particular hand from the iconic game, like a full house, a straight flush, or two pairs.
Things aren't quite as simple as they seem, however. In order to build each hand, you'll have to choose your cards from a short conveyer belt that's pushing the available cards toward a saw blade that'll destroy them forever, so you'll have to think fast. While Card Blast isn't gonna win any Game of the Year awards, it's plenty entertaining for when you need to kill some time—5/10.
Everyone likes mini-golf, and Wonderputt Forever offers up tons of creative levels that are fun to explore. My biggest gripe—and it's a doozy—is that you can't always see where the ball needs to go, nor is it always intuitive where it might even possibly be able to go.
It was also frustrating when you'd make a really good shot, but still, the ball would fall off course for no good reason or be snatched off the course by a gorilla. Odd choices were made here, I know. There are better and less frustrating mini-golf games out there—I'm sure of it. 1/10.
Look, I like cats as much as the next guy, and this cat-themed game of Bejeweled is pretty rad. If you've played any tile-matching game, you've played this one; however, this version does let you choose a cat, which is pretty hard to argue with.
Work your way through increasingly-difficult levels by swapping skeins of yarn with your little cat paw. As you progress, you'll be given goals to reach each level, like collecting a certain number of blue yarn balls or making two big combos. And again, Knittens is a simple and relaxing tile-matching game that players of any age can enjoy-5/10.
Venturing into gaming might seem like a weird move for Netflix. But, if you look around, you'll see that it really isn't. The five biggest tech companies in the world—Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft—have all entered the realm of gaming. So, Netflix jumping aboard the bandwagon is no coincidence, and the decently wide variety of games it's offering here out of the gate is pretty telling, too.
Netflix is obviously trying to garner the attention of younger users here and become one of those apps everyone hangs out on (a la social media, chat apps, or TikTok). In addition to adding games to its streaming service, it also added a "Fast Laughs" tab in its app earlier this year. That feature is similar to TikTok and YouTube shorts and gives users a feed of short clips from Netflix's TV shows and movies.
All in all, Netflix adding games is a solid plan to attract people who probably don't have their own subscription to the service yet or a good enough reason to sign up for it. It'll be interesting to see how Netflix evolves its gaming offerings and if it can eventually pick up support for bigger games and more noteworthy studios.
Want to check out Netflix's games? You can download each title through the links above; remember that you'll need an active Netflix subscription to play, though. Download Netflix's app to get started:
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Court: KKK can continue fight to 'adopt' a Georgia highway
Updated: 2:25 PM EDT Jul 8, 2016
Georgia's highest court has ruled that the Ku Klux Klan's lawsuit over its bid to 'adopt' a highway can continue. In a unanimous decision announced Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Georgia dismissed the state's appeal of a lower court ruling. Court officials say the Georgia Department of Transportation failed to follow the correct procedures in filing its appeal. In a summary of the ruling, the court called its decision a "partial victory" for the KKK, saying it means the group's lawsuit against Georgia may proceed to trial. The north Georgia KKK group sued the state after it denied the group's application to participate in Georgia's "Adopt-A-Highway" program, which enlists volunteer groups to clean up roadside litter. The north Georgia KKK group's application for the Adopt-A-Highway program was denied in 2012. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation sued on the group's behalf, saying its right to free speech was violated. In November, a judge ruled in the organization's favor. The state appealed.
Georgia's highest court has ruled that the Ku Klux Klan's lawsuit over its bid to 'adopt' a highway can continue.
In a unanimous decision announced Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Georgia dismissed the state's appeal of a lower court ruling. Court officials say the Georgia Department of Transportation failed to follow the correct procedures in filing its appeal.
In a summary of the ruling, the court called its decision a "partial victory" for the KKK, saying it means the group's lawsuit against Georgia may proceed to trial. The north Georgia KKK group sued the state after it denied the group's application to participate in Georgia's "Adopt-A-Highway" program, which enlists volunteer groups to clean up roadside litter.
The north Georgia KKK group's application for the Adopt-A-Highway program was denied in 2012. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation sued on the group's behalf, saying its right to free speech was violated.
In November, a judge ruled in the organization's favor. The state appealed.