"You get the chance at the table to use a slingshot to crack the ice open," Melton explains, pointing to the slingshot device that's placed over the glass.
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Officially listed on Amazon as the "Assolar SS-12 Multi-function Super Power Stainless Hunting Laser Slingshot, Hunting Bow with Adjustable Spring and Quality Rubber Bands," this slingshot has a spring mechanism to amp up the power of your shots, a laser for aiming, and an included attachment to turn the slingshot into an arrow launcher.
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Abeid has used a slingshot against those same Israeli soldiers.
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I guess the human slingshot isn't so bad after all.
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Even David got a slingshot in his struggle against Goliath.
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The Shortlist SLINGSHOT By Cyrée Jarelle Johnson 69 pp. Nightboat.
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If so, she could yet slingshot her way past Sanders.
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So the first theme clue I solved was 14D: SLINGSHOT.
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What if you were a guy in 1967 put into a slingshot, really a cultural slingshot in which you're going to be shot across the next 803 years, and you can have anything you want.
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Baseball David picking up his slingshot to take on Baseball Goliath.
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J.B. responds by hitting Penny in the face with a slingshot.
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Should he pack a slingshot with him or a grappling hook?
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He let Scot slingshot him into the trees to gather coconuts.
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Here we have someone launched into the air with a slingshot.
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The slingshot, which was small but mighty, was, of course, love.
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Ole Lenku, in fact, now has a slingshot of his own.
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He runs The Slingshot Channel, which is exactly what it sounds like.
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It could be a slingshot [higher] if one of those things happens.
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The app was incubated by Science, the maker of Wishbone and Slingshot.
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By now you've probably seen a Polaris Slingshot cruising around your town.
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It's more of a slingshot effect, where Noru will toss Kulap around.
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Your slingshot no longer lives in a fixed location for each level.
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But he's found a new use for his slingshot too: Planting trees.
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And last but not least, the skateboard slingshot: That's Newton's second law!
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They've become much as a slingshot might in the hands of a bully.
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When someone is flexing muscles at your doorstep, wouldn't you prepare a slingshot?
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The resulting crash sends energy out from the reconnection point like a slingshot.
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Good reviews help films gross money, good reviews slingshot films into awards contenders.
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A slingshot fires ice and electricity projectiles that stun and freeze on impact.
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Even before Slingshot, there was Facebook Poke, the company's first ripoff of Snapchat.
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Facebook had blatantly copied Snapchat before with failed products like Poke and Slingshot.
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The result looked like a slingshot but was actually more like a noose.
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He'd been shot, he said, as he aimed his slingshot across the fence.
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There are also firing and archery ranges, a tomahawk throw and slingshot gallery.
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There are four options for driving the Mini: Face Drive, Tilt, Slingshot, and Joystick.
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But it didn't slingshot away—instead, it remained gravitationally tethered to its other half.
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Following a failed acquisition, Facebook tried to build its own Snapchat competitor called Slingshot.
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This guy made the world's largest slingshot because, well, we're not quite sure why.
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In the case of Angry Birds, that means stretching back the bird-catapulting slingshot.
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She wasn't sitting on it so much as she was cocked, like a slingshot.
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Five teenage boys stand in a circle, each pointing a slingshot at the others.
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The sports car built to slingshot Porsche into the electric future has finally arrived.
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An enormous slingshot overlooking a street was erected from materials scavenged from academic buildings.
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Lucas, for instance, has his trusty slingshot for hitting switches that are across big gaps.
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His slingshot was his gumption, which he was able to translate into a compelling narrative.
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Two of the less cool-looking AR apps I saw were Holo and Slingshot Island.
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Slingshot Island is a simple game that's kinda like Angry Birds, but without the birds.
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Slingshot will likely be most useful for people who want to bowl with their Sphero.
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Building a fidget spinner slingshot blasterIn the wrong hands, any object can be potentially dangerous.
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Slingshot and Bolt, two earlier Facebook apps designed to blunt Snapchat's momentum, died quick deaths.
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DEKA partnered with Coca-Cola to distribute the Slingshot water purifier in the developing world.
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Casey admitted to authorities that he shot at vehicles on a highway with a slingshot.
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David beat Goliath with his new slingshot technology and neutralized the advantages of a giant.
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You swoop the radar around and select course headings with an almost slingshot-like motion.
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Slingshot-wielding rabbits exploit Tom MacGregor's allergy to blackberries by launching one into his mouth.
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So Mr. Offer bought a cute English bulldog puppy and a flashy Polaris Slingshot car.
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Facebook's attempts to clone it in standalone apps like Poke and Slingshot never gained traction.
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Slingshot was another disappearing media sharing app meant to take on Snapchat, launched in 2014.
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Mr Sprave runs "The Slingshot Channel", dedicated to rubber-powered weapons, which boasts over 2m subscribers.
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In yet another attempt to take on Snapchat, Facebook launched Slingshot in 2014 after shuttering Poke.
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SurveyMonkey's financial results, however, tell a story counter to the stock's slingshot IPO performance, Cramer said.
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So when it comes to making fun of the show, the slingshot should be pointing elsewhere.
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Instead, he went forth with a slingshot and a few stones, kept undetected in a pouch.
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It flew around the inner solar system and used Earth's gravity to slingshot it toward Jupiter.
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The company's own standalone apps built for teens, like Lifestage and Snapchat clone Slingshot, have failed.
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A Juggalo offers Peyton and Jelly Roll to use his slingshot to launch Faygo water balloons.
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SLINGSHOT, his first collection of poetry, will be published by Nightboat Books in Fall/Winter 2019.
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After one day of wear, I'd return home anxious to unhook and slingshot it off immediately.
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He said officers had confiscated several items, including a small knife, gas masks and a slingshot.
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Previous efforts to capture the Snapchat magic were presented as standalone apps like Poke and Slingshot.
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You've most likely seen, at some point, the gaudy Slingshot from off-road vehicle company Polaris.
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David took down Goliath with a slingshot, despite all the odds being stacked against the little dude.
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Meanwhile, on 3DMark's Slingshot Unlimited graphics test, the S9 scored 6,497, compared to 5,143 for the OP5T.
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In my first Angry Birds post, I examined the trajectory of a bird after leaving the slingshot.
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San Francisco (CNN Business)No one was angry when Facebook named products Moments, Poke, Slingshot or Portal.
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"Everyone's afraid to say heroin," Andrew Kessler, who works on addiction issues at Slingshot Solutions, told me.
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We could smash a vase with our slingshot, then snap a finger and it would be back.
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In short: ICOs are the new funding slingshot by which nascent cryptos are flung into the world.
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If you haven't seen any of Joerg's videos from The SlingShot Channel, you are really missing out.
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You do so with stealth and a slingshot, solving puzzles to avoid Inquisition guards or rat hordes.
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You slingshot irritable avians into weak points of compromised structures in order to take down enemy pigs.
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Scout used a slingshot to keep the boys in line and her curiosity to pose tough questions.
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Right now it feels like we've been pulling a slingshot back in time, and it's incredibly frightening.
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"With his feel and ability to control the slingshot effect, it affords some easy power," Wolf said.
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A demonstrator fires a slingshot Protestors throw tear gas shells back to police in Admiralty, Hong Kong.
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In the end, the redhead prevails, with a unique weapon; a Y-shaped slingshot that fires Z's.
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Pocket Shot Bundle Shoot projectiles three times faster than a regular slingshot with this nifty pocket launcher.
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"Coming off that turn, it's like a slingshot," Woodhall said on Thursday, assessing the Washington Heights facility.
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In both instances — first with Poke, then with Slingshot — Facebook's attempt to create a legitimate Snapchat competitor flopped.
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The Slingshot Channel is neither of those things, but Sprave now finds himself in a political, controversial position.
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Kaspersky Lab could have done work in the background, detecting Slingshot and stopping it from infecting customers' computers.
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The Zip operates through a slingshot mechanism and the supplies are dropped at their destination using a parachute.
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It's not even something that should be attempted by a professional, only a mad scientist of slingshot engineering.
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If Facebook's new camera app is anything like Poke or Slingshot, it's not going to win back anyone.
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The chief said Mulligan was carrying a slingshot, stones and large pieces of glass when he was apprehended.
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Another game, Slingshot Island from developer Sockethead Games, plants a floating landmass in the middle of a room.
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Facebook has a poor track record with standalone apps, though, having shut down Poke, Slingshot, Paper, and Notify.
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At just 25-years-old, Slingshot is considered a top prospect in his native Brazil and justifiably so.
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He has a rocking chair motion, bringing his left arm out from behind his body in a slingshot.
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It is a mere slingshot distance from the Acropolis and a truly privileged spot in which to work.
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Fabrice Amedeo, who was in 11th, has a slingshot given to him by his team manager, Yvon Berrehar.
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A quirk of gravity that lets you use your jetpack to slingshot your way across the planet safely.
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The impact of Kaspersky's Slingshot report wouldn't be known until two weeks after the conference, when anonymous intelligence officials told CyberScoop that by revealing Slingshot, Kaspersky Lab had compromised an ongoing operation led by the Department of Defense's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to hunt down al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists.
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Though Kaspersky Lab researchers say they didn't know who used Slingshot, several outside observers, such as Vesselin Bontchev, an assistant professor at the National Laboratory of Computer Virology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and pseudonymous researcher Odisseus, concluded soon after the talk that it looked like Americans were behind Slingshot.
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Kids might like Angry Birds AR, which lets you slingshot birds at bad guys on your desk, for example.
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Until then, it will make successively tighter orbits, passing Venus seven times to accelerate via the gravitational slingshot maneuver.
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"This has created a huge slingshot for our startup companies seeking significant clients, pilot programs, corporate investment, and acquisition."
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"If someone makes a show of force at your front door, would you not ready your slingshot?" it said.
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Instead, it decided to disclose Slingshot at the company's annual marquee event, putting a very public spotlight on it.
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Snowman has also expanded into publishing with the upcoming platform game Distant from two-person design duo Slingshot & Satchel.
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He was playing with his slingshot, and I was fascinated by this kid playing in a very ancestral way.
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Facebook has famously tried to build Snapchat-like apps before, with Poke and Slingshot, though none have been successful.
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One of the creators leading the unionization charge, Jörg Sprave, has had his popular slingshot videos removed by YouTube.
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Transportation editor Alex Davies learns the Polaris Slingshot—not a car, not a motorcycle—is a terrible commuting partner.
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You're tasked with toppling structures on the island's surface using a gyroscope-powered slingshot mechanic, much like Angry Birds.
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Now, Joerg Sprave, the guy behind the Slingshot Channels has come up with his own version of a press.
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It sits next to a slingshot apparatus where visitors can take slow-motion videos of slime coming at them.
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The novel nods to our current political climate, yet the characters slingshot through history to understand their own narratives.
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On Friday, a spacecraft the size of an SUV will slingshot around Earth's South Pole, altering its trajectory through space.
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So following in the footsteps of Lasso, Lifestage, and Slingshot comes LOL, which might be Facebook's most doomed app yet.
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"We do not know the identity of the attackers behind the Slingshot APT or of its victims," Eugene Kaspersky said.
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So why shouldn't track and field athletes be allowed to use a comically-monstrous slingshot cannon at the javelin event?
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As we approach the bridge, we are rocks in a slingshot, being drawn slowly back, and then we're on it.
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You had to change your elevation, your angle, the depth and distance between you and the slingshot you were using.
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You also have the option to overlay text on media, similar to Snapchat and Facebook previous social app experiment Slingshot.
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In 1967, Jann Wenner loaded himself into a slingshot and fired himself across the next half-century of pop culture.
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Cops stormed Washington's 3-wheeled Slingshot vehicle as they were clearing out a party at a Cincinnati-area water park.
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Coupled with neck-and-neck Iowa polls, Sanders seems poised for a "slingshot strategy," complicating Clinton's vaunted Southern firewall strategy.
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Before then, the Falcon Heavy may earn its keep lifting satellites and carrying tourists on "slingshot" trips around the moon.
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I wanted the "Debut product sold by the Wham-O toy company" to somehow be Frisbee, but it's the SLINGSHOT.
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The company settled on Huntsville, spending $190 million to open an assembly plant in 2016 for Slingshot and Ranger vehicles.
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Black-clad activists, mostly students, set up elaborate roadblocks, built brick walls, and practiced shooting firebombs from a giant slingshot.
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The Angry Birds demo, for example, shows the user bending the phone to increase tension in the slingshot in-game.
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It's a Polaris Slingshot SL, which retails for about $214,000 but Cespedes had outfitted with $40,000 worth of extra work.
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When I met him, he'd come from the rainforest with a slingshot in hand and a grin on his face.
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"Absolutely, it's a positive step forward," said Andrew Kessler, founder of Slingshot Solutions, which specializes in behavioral health policy consulting.
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It makes me wonder how many other stars have massive planets on these slingshot orbits and we usually miss them.
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That only heightens the importance of Congress continuing to pursue new proposals for curbing drug abuse, Slingshot Solutions' Kessler said.
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They're light, compact and can be used as a canteen, fire starter, elastic band, slingshot, fishing bobber or signaling device.
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It was a variation on an age-old tale: sometimes all you need to bring down a giant is a slingshot.
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It depicts a small girl with a slingshot, who looks to have caused an explosion of red flowers in the sky.
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I have no idea if this is the best $85 slingshot on the market, but I do know I want one.
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Beyond Slingshot, there was the mobile-first web forum reimagining called Rooms and an earlier Stories-style collaborative video app Riff.
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"Ding It touts 'amazing' growth but purchases a chunk of traffic through ads," read the headline on the article by Slingshot.
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Last year, Facebook shut down its standalone apps incubator "Creative Labs" and several of its products, including Slingshot, Rooms and Riff.
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They also included a medic and a man in a wheelchair who had been pictured on social media using a slingshot.
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Rosetta needed four gravity assists from Mars and the Earth -- the so-called slingshot effect -- to accelerate and meet its target.
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I just couldn't understand why I was supposed to like feeling as though I was about to be slingshot into oblivion.
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And before that, Facebook tried launching numerous apps like Slingshot, Riff, and Poke to try and peel away Snapchat's user base.
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Participants will be encouraged to bring their aging jack-o'-lanterns for target-shooting on his property, using a giant slingshot.
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A Palestinian man uses a slingshot during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza Strip near Khan Yunis.
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In a second picture, Nassar captures a young woman (unnamed by him, preserving her anonymity) counterbalancing her crutch and a slingshot.
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The Slingshot SL also comes with a back-up camera that projects an image on the screen to help with reversing.
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BepiColombo launched in October 2018 and will slingshot around Earth and Venus this year as part of its journey to Mercury.
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Moitessier, a monklike eccentric, didn't even carry a radio, instead using a slingshot to hurl film canisters containing messages to nearby ships.
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Facebook left its previous standalone video apps like Slingshot and Poke out to dry, eventually shuttering them after providing little cross-promotion.
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On its solar journey, it will reach speeds up to 450,000 miles per hour by using Venus' gravitational pull as a slingshot.
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With his success, Ray spent $120,000 on an interior designer for his $1 million bachelor pad, and bought a $30,000 Polaris slingshot.
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The Zip looks more like a plane, and it's launched with a slingshot, delivering its cargo with a parachute before returning home.
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Kaspersky's 'Slingshot' Report Burned An Isis-focused Intelligence Operation (Cyberscoop) What is a cybersecurity firm's responsibility around not exposing certain hacking operations?
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This one is different than Poke and Slingshot and all the rest in one important way: it was created by a teenager.
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Rovio began flirting with augmented reality on the Magic Leap of all places, releasing First Person Slingshot for the headset last year.
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It was dressed in a loincloth and carried a slingshot — "to scare thieves, pests and bad vibes away," an accompanying leaflet explained.
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What happened: Kaspersky announced a malware campaign called "Slingshot," an advanced, persistent threat, indicating it may have state-backing, earlier this month.
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Current and former U.S. intel officials told CyberScoop that Slingshot is a program that is run through the Pentagon's Special Operations Command.
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It brought to its main app filters from Facebook Camera, designs for Instant Articles from Facebook Paper and drawing tools from Slingshot.
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But as Biden looks to slingshot hard into Super Tuesday, he's receiving almost all the help he can get from fellow lawmakers.
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Fierce, at times chaotic, "Slingshot" is a book some readers will find alarming or baffling — and a book other readers may need.
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This season will determine whether they are Sancho Panza and Don Quixote tilting at windmills or Davids with an increasingly targeted slingshot.
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But despite a series of blindsides, he didn't give up and won three individual immunities, ramping himself up for a slingshot-filled victory.
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SpaceX does have some more limited lunar ambitions, like launching paying customers on a potentially deadly slingshot tour around the Moon by 2018.
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His latest creation, a slingshot that can launch full-size swords, is as ludicrous-sounding as it is awesome to see in action.
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It also previously ran an internal incubator of sorts called Facebook Creative Labs, which birthed now-failed projects like Slingshot, Riff and Rooms.
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It pitched it to journalists and got some coverage, but compared to its report on Equation Group three years earlier, Slingshot barely registered.
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Not a Y-shaped stick with a rubber band on it, but a seriously legit metal slingshot with an arm brace and everything.
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Poke, Slingshot, Bolt, and Flash all flopped as standalone apps, while baking Snapchat's best features deep inside Facebook seemed to have little effect.
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Facebook already tried and failed to win back the youth with standalone apps like Poke, Slingshot, Bolt, Flash and other variations on Snapchat.
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Kate also took part in launching a giant slingshot from the palace's steps and giggled along with William and Harry during the festivities.
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The worry for Lifestage is that Facebook has a poor track record with standalone apps, having shut down Poke, Slingshot, Paper and Notify.
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"We're going to take a first test flight in 2019 and we're going to do a slingshot mission around the Moon," he said.
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Behind her was a giant replica of a slingshot and a masked female figure in school uniform, poised to launch a huge pencil.
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The bike is called the Polaris Slingshot SL and was shown off at this year's Chicago Auto Show, according to a press release.
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"We need to take off the 'single drug' blinders," said Andrew Kessler, founder and principle of Slingshot Solutions, a health policy consulting firm.
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Unless someone else decides to run in the Republican or Democratic primaries, that leaves Mr. O'Rourke alone, slingshot in hand, against Mr. Cruz.
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The Ohio governor, like several other centrist candidates, is depending on a strong performance in New Hampshire to slingshot him into serious contention.
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Another player can join you in the session, too, to hit the ping pong ball or shoot a paintball at you with the slingshot.
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Click here to view original GIFLast week, slingshot mad scientist Joerg Sprave showed the world how to weaponize a Nerf blaster using scalpel blades.
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But put them on the receiving end of slingshot-master Joerg Sprave's new ping-pong ball gatling gun and they won't stand a chance.
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Watching Spicer parry with the White House press corps every day is like watching a guy with a slingshot walk into a gun fight.
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There was one where a human slingshot throws a guy across most of a football field, and he lands in a tank of water.
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Black-clad activists at campuses wielded bows and arrows, set up elaborate roadblocks, built brick walls and practiced shooting firebombs from a giant slingshot.
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Stars and flowers add some familiarity, but sit alongside peach-colored horns and a piece that looks as much like a slingshot as anything.
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More recently it's taken to mimicking Twitter's real-time and trending features, and Snapchat's ephemerality and content capturing with apps like Poke and Slingshot.
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The biggest problems you face are things like deciding between whether to slingshot presents out of the sky or to hit rocks for money.
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"A variety of factors have taken it from being a closely contested state to much more of a slingshot for Trump," Mr. Garin said.
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It stores and releases energy with each stride and is meant to act as a kind of slingshot, or catapult, to propel runners forward.
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The secret to their spring is a stretchy protein in their legs called resilin, and it works like a rubber band in a slingshot.
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What made the original game a hit was its stroke of design genius: Rovio found in the slingshot a perfect idiom for a touch interface.
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And at SAS, Kaspersky Lab researchers gave enough clues that suggested the hackers behind Slingshot could be working for the US government, perhaps the CIA.
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One would think that after Facebook's numerous attempts to take on Snapchat via Poke, Slingshot, Instagram and WhatsApp, the company would have nailed the format.
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But slingshot aficionado Joerg Sprave shows us countless ways those tiny brown pencils can be used to make a trip to IKEA even more excruciating.
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What this does is reveal [dynamics] you can't recreate with a slingshot, because the objects are going so fast that they let off strong shockwaves.
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Facebook has repeatedly failed to capture the hearts of teens with Snapchat clones like Poke and Slingshot, standalone apps like Lifestage, and acquisitions like TBH.
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DEKA has helped develop the portable dialysis machine, the vascular stent, the iBOT a stair-climbing wheelchair, the Slingshot water purifier and the Sterling generator.
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In June, Ahmad started ordering supplies from eBay, the slingshot steelies, the citric acid, the circuit board, according to the federal criminal complaint against him.
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On various dates, the user bought items listed as milling balls and slingshot ammo, which investigators said could be used to increase a bomb's fragmentation.
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Today, news organizations can be entirely bypassed; an image can slingshot around the world on social media without being published by a traditional media outlet.
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First-aid kits, gas masks, bottles of vinegar, protection glasses, cellphones, political pamphlets, markers, a car-fire extinguisher, a slingshot and a Goofy key chain.
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Rovio and Resolution Games announced publicly today that they will be releasing Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot this fall for the Magic Leap One.
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Protesters use a slingshot during clashes with police at a demonstration in the Tsim Sha Tsui area on August 11, 2019 in Hong Kong, China.
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"The main argument is the lack of acidity, that it's very one-note," said Jenny Bonchak, who started Slingshot Coffee Company with her husband, Jonathan.
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When the stock pulls back as it has from those highs last May, you're setting yourself up for a slingshot off of that critical support.
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She told the crowd the story of David and Goliath, about how she's going to be like David and defeat Trump with just a slingshot.
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Vanuatu is a volcanic archipelago of more than 80 islands littered in an extended slingshot shape across an 800-mile arc of the South Pacific.
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Or was a quick downside break simply needed to flush out some complacency and refresh buying interest at lower prices, in a kind of slingshot move?
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We took a deep dive look at Angry Birds: First Person Slingshot a few weeks ago, a title Resolution Games partnered with Rovio to make happen.
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The construct thousands of giant engines to move the planet out of orbit, where it can then slingshot post Jupiter and out of the Solar System.
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But having shown they can play in the big leagues, the expectation now is that their shows will be armed with more than just a slingshot.
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It scores significantly better in 3DMark's slingshot Unlimited test (the Pixel 3a hit 2,581, which is 73 percent higher than the A50's score of 1,682).
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To get that same slingshot effect from Vandenberg on the West Coast, you'd need to fire over the continental US, which … not safe and not allowed.
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In another demo, Erin held out a slingshot and I pulled back on its rubber band, staring right down its line of sight before releasing it.
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Of course, Facebook has copied Snapchat many times before, with apps like Slingshot, Poke, and Riff, all of which were shuttered after failing to catch on.
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A demo of old standby Angry Birds had a variety of haptics; pulling back the slingshot felt and crashing into the wooden crates felt noticeably different.
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"We spent decades trying to get away from the narrative of the war on drugs," said Andrew Kessler, a consultant at the advocacy group Slingshot Solutions.
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NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft took this composite shot from 106,000 miles away, as it slingshot past Earth on its way to meet an asteroid next year.
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In order to limit the travel time to these worlds, scientists need to use the gravitational pull of other planets to slingshot probes into higher speeds.
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It's expected to land April 11 after circling the Earth multiple times before being "slingshot" to the moon, traveling about 4 million miles in the process.
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It eventually gave way to a choppy 3% setback before a slingshot move higher into November, largely tracking reports of trade-deal progress or its lack.
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During one twisty scene, the floor seemingly dissolves underneath Spidey, plunging him down into the abyss, only to slingshot his Gumby body back into the atmosphere.
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Then it sped up as it swung around the sun, which makes sense; it used the sun's gravity to get the slingshot effect, to speed itself up.
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It'll zoom over Australia and Antarctica at about 19,000 miles per hour (30,580 km per hour), grabbing some momentum so that it can slingshot itself toward Bennu.
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Click here to view original GIFJoerg Sprave has finally built an elastic-powered weapon that even the burly slingshot master can barely handle when the trigger's pulled.
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They pushed pixels for some of Facebook's most used features, like 2014's big Messenger redesign, and Flynn built the beautiful but unloved Facebook standalone app Slingshot.
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At launch, the lineup then included several well-known gaming titles, like Frozen Free Fall, Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions, Angry Birds Slingshot Stella, Looney Tunes Dash!
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Driving a Slingshot through the nighttime streets and retreating to his neon-tinged hideaway, Devontée's journey always brings him back to the people who he started with.
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At 2:30, he was crouching behind the barbed-wire barrier, whirling his slingshot like a helicopter rotor, aiming in vain at Israeli soldiers again and again.
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Lasso will have to start from scratch as a standalone app, and Facebook's previous teen-focused standalones like Slingshot and Poke failed spectacularly with the same strategy.
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Twice now it has tried to replicate Snapchat's ephemeral messaging feature without any luck—two separate standalone apps aimed at Snapchat, Poke and Slingshot, were both busts.
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It has an element of the slingshot to it: there's built-in leverage and timing, and then a baseball that's a long way gone, in a hurry.
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"No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the megaton bomb," Theodor Adorno remarked depressingly of this period.
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Physicist Freeman Dyson developed a concept called the Dyson slingshot, which envisions a spacecraft that enters a neutron star system and gets catapulted out at relativistic speed.
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Twice now it has tried to replicate Snapchat's ephemeral messaging feature without any luck — two separate standalone apps aimed at Snapchat, Poke and Slingshot, were both busts.
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In her studio, she stood by "Tilted Channel," a two-armed shape made from powder-coated cast iron, while a reporter guessed what it was: a slingshot?
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After three complementary albums with a consistent sound, "Honey" is a shift — both a glance back at the history of pop and a slingshot into the future.
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Well — to revisit the analogy with which we began — just like the fable, David has a slingshot at his disposal; a simple mechanism that can subdue the giant.
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After the Slingshot became an online sensation Tuesday, Cespedes reportedly plans to get the Lambo shipped down to Florida so he can have yet another commuter on-hand.
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He later joined Facebook, where he worked on News Feed, Facebook's iOS autoplay video feature, and Facebook's Creative Labs, which built experimental apps like Slingshot, Rooms, and Riff.
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The goal of the game is to aim a slingshot by locking onto a bunch of blocks and then pulling your arms back to replicate the flinging action.
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It developed the video sharing app Poke in 12 days, launched Slingshot, which offered solid video editing and has watched its acquisition Instagram build a modern video editor.
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Besides tapping the screen, and other touch gestures, users could play games like Angry Birds by physically bending the phone back to draw back the bird-launching slingshot.
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Later that year Facebook released Slingshot, which required you to send a friend a photo of your own before you could see the photo they had sent you.
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In a quest to gain access to his garden, rabbits pelt him with fruits and vegetables before using a slingshot to send a blackberry flying into his mouth.
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As of last month, you could find bottles of Slingshot Coffee, made by a small-batch company in Raleigh, N.C., at nearly 250 Target stores in the South.
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If a spacecraft were launched in the mid- to late 1970s, it could use the gravity of the first body to slingshot to the second, and so on.
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Slingshot, which runs corporate innovation programs, is a partner of Barayamal, and the accelerator is being held in the Brisbane location of the startup co-working space, Fishburners.
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After signing a massive off-season deal with the New York Mets, the slugger arrived at spring training on Tuesday morning in a little vehicle called the Polaris Slingshot.
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Although SpaceX had initially hinted that the Falcon Heavy may be used to slingshot people around the moon, Musk backtracked on these comments at two press conferences this week.
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You could use mid-sized black holes to gravitationally slingshot crewed spacecrafts to near light speeds, but you'd need infinite energy to accelerate a mass to light speed itself.
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Inside a VR headset, you interact with the series trademark slingshot from a first-person perspective as you physically move around the playing field to line up your shots.
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Slingshot CEO Daniel Surya says the predominance of female users is a function of prevailing cultural norms that often make it difficult for women to start their own businesses.
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For six days, they looked for a way to flee the battered island and struggled to survive, even resorting to using a a slingshot to kill chickens for food.
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That explains why Zuckerberg famously tried to buy Snapchat for $3 billion back in 2012, and has already built and then shuttered multiple Snapchat clones, including Poke and Slingshot.
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Run as fast as you possibly can, and—if the opportunity presents itself—try spraying that clown with battery acid or pelting it in the head with a slingshot.
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Hamilton tried to squeeze Raikkonen to the inside on the bolt uphill out of the start, but the Ferrari nosed ahead into the left turn into the slingshot downhill.
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"This makes money," he said, while he showed me how to cinch a bull's testicles in the Callicrate Bander, which looks like a slingshot crossed with a fishing rod.
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These include games like Angry Birds: First Person Slingshot and Star Wars: Project Porg, as well as video-focused apps from the NBA, CNN, and the Cheddar news network.
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For a week during last season's spring training, Cespedes drove to camp with a new flashy ride each day, including a customized Jeep, a Polaris Slingshot and a Lamborghini.
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These gravity slingshot maneuvers have become an essential tool for scooting around the solar system, a convenience we owe to Mariner 210's trailblazing acrobatics some four decades ago.
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He doubles over and falls, shooting out of the camera's view only to slingshot back into frame, just spastically boogieing for transcendence while the fog machine is still working.
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Launched by the end of 2018, the probe will slingshot around Venus seven times to build up speeds of more than 680,000km/h for 24 passes at the Sun.
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The removal of Oscar's testicle was not the result of a cancer diagnosis but due to a mishap with a giant slingshot while on a camping trip in 2012.
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Instead of choosing attacks from a menu as in other turn-based combat games, you slingshot your birds in classic Angry Birds fashion, sending them careening around tiny combat arenas.
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First, using phones that had been resting at idle, I ran Geekbench 4 and 3DMark Slingshot Unlimited to get a sense of the two phones' baseline CPU and graphics performance.
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Like the "Yancorp Powerful Hunting Slingshot with Arrow Knock, Wrist Support, 4 Sets Rubber Bands, Flash Light," and the wide variety of fishing slingshots that have a built-in reel.
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Israeli news outlets reported that Palestinians had built an ancient war machine — a trebuchet, or slingshot-like catapult — to hurl heavy stones or even burning tires at the Israeli side.
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Per Mets beat writer Anthony DiComo, Cespedes reported to Mets Spring Training in this very flashy Polaris Slingshot, a vehicle that looks like something from the not-too-distant future.
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Making use of Paul's love for physical stunts, the two worked together on videos where, for example, the YouTuber used a slingshot to lob LoveSacs at motocross legend Travis Pastrana.
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Turns out that dude actually set up a not-for-profit organization to send a middle-aged man and woman in a slingshot around the Red Planet, called Inspiration Mars.
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Just as pulling back a slingshot before firing it allows you to shoot a projectile further and faster, the recoil from elastic tissues greatly enhances the tongue's overall firing power.
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You might also remember when the company unsuccessfully tried to compete with Snapchat not once, but twice (Poke and Slingshot, both quietly shuttered) and its largely unused TikTok clone, Lasso.
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Like the mere existence of the Polaris Slingshot, which is not quite a car and not quite a motorcycle, but tells us some important things about the future of transportation.
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Slingshot, Rooms, and Riff were all killed last December when Facebook shut down Creative Labs, while its alternative news reader Paper continues floundering under the heaps of unused mobile apps.
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The first question is easy—a gravity assist (also called a gravity slingshot) is a space maneuver in which a spacecraft gets a speed boost by moving past a planet.
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Whoever won the powerful attorney general seat, vacated by Eric Schneiderman after allegations of sexual harassment surfaced against him, was poised to slingshot into the upper echelon of state politics.
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It's kind of interesting that Apple's main ARKit 2 demo and Magic Leap's first full title are slingshot games, but I guess you find what works and move from there.
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And so Dangerfield, who told audiences that as a child he was so ugly that his mother fed him with a slingshot, became the leading semiotician of postwar American comedy.
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It introduces the character Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez (Natalia Cordova-Buckley), who is able to use super speed in limited bursts (she also goes by Slingshot in the comic books).
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Harris last campaigned here in 2008, for her longtime friend Barack Obama, not long before his strong finish in the Hawkeye State served as his slingshot toward the White House.
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Sure, three-wheeled motorcycles like the Polaris Slingshot, the Vanderhall, and the Can-Am Spyder have their customers, but the market is decidedly niche, and Americans overwhelmingly prefer four wheels.
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Whale joins a long list of experimental apps that have either been launched or bought by Facebook over the years including Moments, Notify, Lifestage, Poke, Slingshot, Tbh, Moves, and Hello.
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It was not meant to circumvent organic voting, which r/the_donald does to slingshot posts into r/all, often in a manner that is antagonistic to the rest of the community.
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Click here to view original GIFJoerg Sprave, the internet's most famous slingshot-loving amateur super villain, has found ways to weaponize everything from foam Nerf darts, to those tiny Ikea pencils.
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Basically, the Slingshot mixes some of the stability of a car with some of the freedom of a motorcycle, which is why some states aren't exactly sure how to classify it.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX recently announced its first paying passengers would be a Japanese billionaire and a handful of artists of his choosing, who will slingshot around the moon, possibly by 2023.
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It's well-documented that Facebook has tried and tried to emulate Snapchat's success with various apps and services geared toward disappearing messages (remember Slingshot?) though none have been nearly as successful.
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How can that be unfair when they argue she is the intellectual equivalent of Goliath to Trump's puny David armed only with a slingshot full of racist slogans and bigoted bluster?
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It launched an overly complicated Snapchat clone called Slingshot, added a selfie camera plus text and drawing overlays to Messenger and launched a dedicated standalone app called Stickered for adorning photos.
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ST. PAUL — A David and Goliath story generally requires a David to root for, but neither side competing for the M.L.S. expansion franchise in Minnesota resembled a boy with a slingshot.
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However, one fight that has flown under the radar features one of Brazil's most treasured prospects in Warlley "Slingshot" Alves, who is taking on UFC plan-ruiner Bryan "Bam Bam" Barberena.
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"If we don't hit the brakes, it will slingshot away forever," said Opher Doron, the space division general manager at Israel Aerospace Industries, which partnered with SpaceIL in building the spacecraft.
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To find out, it could slingshot a simulation into Pulsar Guardian, watch how well each covers the globe, and project how often they'd have to dodge debris or replace their satellites.
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Whatever it took, I had to find my slingshot and I had to find as many stones as I could find because I think I was the underdog most of this game.
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Each player used their iPad as a slingshot to knock over the wooden shapes, and a third-observer could even watch what the other players were doing from a totally different perspective.
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Starting more than five years ago with its Snapchat clones Poke and Slingshot, Facebook has tried its hand at a number of different experiments, usually in the form of a standalone app.
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"The Angry Birds Movie 2", like the first installment in the franchise, is based on a Rovio video game where players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds' eggs.
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The company's other apps, including Facebook Slingshot, Riff, Rooms, Moments, another Snapchat clone called Poke (RIP 2012–2014), and its Instant Articles predecessor Paper (RIP 2014–2016) have not achieved widespread adoption.
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THE CLOSER And finally … Let's hear it for the humble slingshot, an ancient weapon newly resurrected to tackle a decades-old hazard known as "monkey menace" at the Taj Mahal in India.
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" Pondering these historical patterns, Theodor Adorno, a disenchanted Marxist, once quipped that "no universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the atom bomb.
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A 13-year-old Palestinian was shot in the lower leg while using a slingshot in a stand-off with Israeli settlers near the Beit El settlement outside Ramallah, CNN eyewitnesses reported.
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According to health officials in Gaza, among those killed Monday were a 14-year-old boy and a man in a wheelchair, who had been pictured on social media using a slingshot.
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After the Solar Orbiter launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the spacecraft will repeatedly slingshot around Venus and Earth, using the planets' gravity to put it on a path over the sun's poles.
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An app called Toybox places a user in a virtual playroom surrounded by objects that you can pick up and interact with, like ping pong paddles, a laser gun, a slingshot and fireworks.
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There's all kinds of fan service in it — it's actually pretty sweet how they work in the trampolines and the plungers and the slingshot and all the different birds' special traits and whatnot.
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BepiColombo, named after 20th century Italian mathematician and Engineer Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, will slingshot off the Earth's gravitational field one-and-a-half years after launch before picking up speed on its journey.
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It looks as though Lucas might have actually popped the creature with his slingshot, but it was really Elle, using every last ounce of her energy to pin the monster against the wall.
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"They've pitted themselves against newspapers in a David-and-Goliath battle in which newspapers don't have a stone to throw much less a slingshot to put it in," Kennedy said in a statement.
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In his letter, Schulich argued Syncrude had reduced costs in a low oil price environment and shares in Canadian Oil Sands were well positioned to slingshot higher when the price of oil rebounds.
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Even Facebook's less successful projects — Snapchat-like Slingshot and other now-defunct products from its Creative Labs unit — provided lessons in how users interact and what kind of services appeal and don't appeal.
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A couple of years ago, it closed down its internal incubator Creative Labs, along with several of its apps, including photo-sharing app Slingshot, anonymous chat app Rooms, and collaborative video app Riff.
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Once at Alpha Centauri A, the star's gravity can be used to maneuver the probe, similar to the "slingshot" maneuvers used to direct probes like Voyagers 1 and 2 around the solar system.
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Settlement Pods were required to perform maneuvers to match the velocity of their target stars, while the velocity of Mother Ships were not affected by the star (gravitational slingshot effects were not allowed).
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Wardle points out that the Slingshot malware Kaspersky revealed last March, which was later revealed to be a hacking tool used by US special forces to track ISIS targets, used this exact technique.
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Adding all that new real estate as part of your touchscreen also opens up possibilities for the watch as a gaming device, for example a long pull on the slingshot in Angry Birds.
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Recap: Thursday marked a change in the materials used on the ground, as black-clad activists, mostly students, set up elaborate roadblocks, built brick walls and practiced shooting firebombs from a giant slingshot.
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Illinois State Police were able to capture Casey after troopers caught in him the act of using a slingshot to shatter the window of a minivan on Interstate 74 on Friday, police said.
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At Polaris Industries Inc, the snowmobile and ATV maker based outside Minneapolis, disruptions in China have slowed delivery of axles needed to launch a new model of three-wheeled vehicle called the Slingshot.
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At Polaris Industries Inc, the snowmobile and ATV maker based outside Minneapolis, disruptions in China have slowed delivery of axles needed to launch a new model of three-wheeled vehicle called the Slingshot.
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BEIJING — China signaled on Thursday that it had installed weapons on disputed South China Sea islands and would use them like a "slingshot" to repel threats, compounding tensions with the incoming Trump administration.
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That Ms. Minaj used this conflict as a staging ground for something like this reveals the true lesson of this battle: A slingshot can do damage, but not to someone in a tank.
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Chris can climb branches, Matt can use his hover jetpack to make long jumps (and hit things with a laser gun), Joe can move certain objects, and Charlie can slingshot herself across chasms.
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That might save it from the lackluster traction that led to the shut downs of other standalone Facebook apps like newsreader Paper, Snapchat alternative Slingshot, news alert app Notify, and video profile app Lifestage.
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His "David and Goliath" (1680), for instance, feels a bit too caught up in David's outfit, with its dainty smears of blood from his encounter with Goliath and his chic cheetah-skin slingshot caddy.
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The original Angry Birds game, in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds' eggs, was launched in 2009 and it remains the top paid mobile app of all time.
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Some 21974 feet from the finish line, Pearson, having achieved his goal of getting the final "slingshot" of the race, came out of a high bank, whipped past Petty and won by 2400 feet.
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The Note 10+ also posted similar graphics scores to the OnePlus 7 Pro, with the Note 10+ hitting 7,751 on 103D Mark's Slingshot Unlimited graphics test, compared to the OP7 Pro's score of 7,697.
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Sources say Zuckerberg uses these weekly meetings to tell his nearly 16,000 employees details of yet-to-be-released products, like news reader app Paper or Snapchat competitor Slingshot — and M, the AI assistant.
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Protesters have been seen with a slingshot, iron bars and bricks, while riot police fired back pepper spray and tear gas, making it the first time in 10 days since tear gas was fired.
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Only a few years after the probe's historic achievements, NASA built on the experience with the Voyager probes, which used the gravitational slingshot maneuver to slalom all the way through the outer solar system.
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Slingshot ride breaks, sending riders flying It added that safety inspections were conducted daily and the ride was initially built without seat belts but that the park installed it later as an additional safety measure.
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Other ill-fated attempts include: a Snapchat clone called Slingshot, a Snapchat clone called Bolt, a Snapchat clone called Flash, another Snapchat clone called Lifestage, and, the original Facebook-tries-to-copy-Snapchat app: Poke.
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Equally memorable are passages giving Coney Island a romantic gloss: Halley and Ben "flying" on the slingshot ride, or the twinkling lights of a 1905 Luna Park model that Halley's father painstakingly makes for her.
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WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO MAKE IT In May 2015, when Riess and Salinas were in Salt Lake City, Utah, they pulled up to a stop light alongside a driver sitting in a Polaris Slingshot.
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When the Athens-based Slingshot Festival rolled around in 2014, Kirby, who was responsible for booking some of the shows, threw Mothers on the bill at the last minute for their first full band performance.
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The characters may have a fresh look, but for its legions of fans, it has plenty of references to the original game where players use a slingshot to fire angry bird bombs at the pigs.
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"When you hear they're investing $103 billion in this in 2018 and $3 billion in 2019, everyone's ears are going to perk up," said Andrew Kessler, the founder of behavioral health consulting firm Slingshot Solutions.
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"Those [policies about firearms] are very new and causing some uproar in the communities," Jörg Sprave—a YouTuber who makes videos about slingshot weapons and started a movement to unionize YouTubers—told Motherboard in and email.
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At one point, as a lightly wounded man holding a slingshot was carried off, he made an obscene gesture toward the Israeli side, prompting cheers and laughter; another held up two fingers in a victory sign.
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He's a bassy-voiced, middle-aged German man who once was a C-level executive at a consumer electronics company and now makes high-powered slingshot weapons in the woods for an audience of 2.3 million.
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Effectively, it was a competitive slingshot game that demanded players use an iOS device to aim and fire pellets at the enemy team's base, with the goal of knocking off all three pillars for a victory.
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The original Angry Birds game — in which smartphone players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds' eggs — became a phenomenon in 2009, but the franchise faltered in the following years amid tough competition.
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Using your half-spear-half-USB-stick like this even makes the larger cow-like creatures rideable, giving you a mount from which to loose arrows, throw bombs, and twang slingshot projectiles at even bigger robots.
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By the time I'd ripped the container from the crab-bot's back and rendered its claws useless, I finally felt sorry for the creature, and put it out of its misery with a freezing slingshot pellet.
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When the market has been trudging in a tight range, it often needs a sharp setback to generate a bit of fear and then a slingshot higher when the scare is absorbed and placed in perspective.
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Some more fun scenes featured Caleb's slingshot attempt backfiring against him, a stray cat running into a scene with Dyer, and Harbour unable to say "It's your Grandma" to Finn and Millie with a straight face.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)After 10 runs of Slingshot Extreme without the fan, the Red Magic 3 posted a score of 5,051, compared to a score of 33,255 with the phone's fan set on full blast.
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Researchers at security firm Kaspersky on Friday revealed a long-running hacking campaign, which they call "Slingshot," that they believe planted spyware on more than a hundred targets in 11 countries, mostly in Kenya and Yemen.
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Episode Description: With majestic Utah canyons as the backdrop, investors Jeremy Bloom, Dhani Jones, Shawn Johnson East, and Kristi Leskinen test new adventure products – including an all-wheel drive motorcycle and an easy to use slingshot.
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Chandrayaan-2, which means 'moon vehicle' in Sanskrit, took off on July 22 and over a period of 47 days gradually moved from orbit to orbit and was then sent in a slingshot towards the moon.
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Facebook's previous attempts to clone Snapchat like Poke, Slingshot and Bolt all failed, largely because they tried to make an "even-better" version of Snapchat that could go toe-to-toe with it as a standalone app.
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For the last few months, SpaceX has hinted that it wants to use the Falcon Heavy to eventually slingshot two tourists around the Moon in its Dragon spacecraft by as early as the end of this year.
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But while at Facebook, Flynn and Hamlin worked on the massively succesful 2014 redesign of Messenger, and the standalone Snapchat competitor Slingshot that flopped but pioneered creative tools like variable brush sizes that Facebook later integrated elsewhere.
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He famously jumped so high and far on a slingshot that he overshot the turnbuckle pads, slamming his face on the corner post and knocking his two front teeth up into his skull by a couple inches.
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Soderbergh is sometimes accused of treating his characters with a chilly remove, but here, he's up close, loading them into a slingshot and then letting them fly free and bounce off one another with gloriously kooky results.
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For a candidate once considered toast, Biden defied expectations, beat better-funded rivals and made a statement win Tuesday that's expected to slingshot him into the next round of states with electorates that match Biden's voter profile.
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"This planet spends most of its time loitering in the outer part of its star's planetary system in this highly eccentric orbit, then it starts to accelerate in and does a slingshot around its star," Howard said.
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The campaign also said it was launching a program dubbed "The Slingshot" to propel it moving forward, saying it hopes to attract $6900 million in donations in the next six weeks to expand advertising and organizing programs.
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were to use the gravity of the outer planets to slingshot from Jupiter to Saturn, and to Uranus and Neptune, and then beyond the edge of the sun's domain into interstellar space.
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To save humanity, they hatch an ambitious plan to use thousands of mountain-sized rocket engines to move Earth out of its orbit and travel around Jupiter to slingshot the planet toward another star 4.2 light-years away.
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The Mini ships with small rubber pins and cones, so users can set up an obstacle course or bowling alley and use Slingshot mode to pull back with their finger on their smartphone and then fire the Sphero.
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When the company was first taking on Snapchat, Facebook released at least four Snapchat copycat apps — Poke, Slingshot, Lifestage and Flash — before simply taking the Stories feature and adding it to the Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp apps.
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In lieu of a slingshot, the new iOS and Android title takes place in a top-down 3D world where the birds "dash" into objects, ricocheting like pinballs, breaking everything in sight in their quest to save eggs.
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The tune incorporates a sample from White Town's erotic, offbeat 1997 torchbearer of a hit "Your Woman," using it as a slingshot in the intro and then weaving it back again and again as a hypnotic disco march.
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Having recently split up with his girlfriend, fashion mogul Maezawa has launched an online appeal for a female "life partner" to accompany him on SpaceX's maiden tourist voyage — a slingshot trip around the moon tentatively scheduled for 2023.
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Regardless, whether you were a shut-in child or, like me, spent about three hours slinging pebbles at passing cars until you got caught and were never allowed to own a slingshot again, this is a good pin.
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At a news conference later, she spoke in front of a bare two-pronged tree that had been shaped like a giant slingshot, with the trunk covered in a Palestinian flag and with a tyre at its base.
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Brawl Stars takes place from an overhead perspective, and it has a very loose, cartoony feel; if you step inside a bush you'll disappear from view, and you attack by pulling back and firing like you had a slingshot.
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He spoke over breakfast as a vervet monkey loitered nearby, eyeing Muagura&aposs food; staff keep a slingshot handy in case the monkeys get too aggressive, though a sign assures guests that there is no intent to harm them.
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"If SpaceX sends two people to the moon [in 2018], it's likely that there would be a third 'professional' astronaut with them," he told Gizmodo, speaking of SpaceX's recently-announced plan to slingshot two wealthy tourists around Earth's satellite.
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With majestic Utah canyons as the backdrop, investors Jeremy Bloom, Dhani Jones, Shawn Johnson East and Kristi Leskinen test new adventure products – including an all-wheel-drive motorcycle, an easy to use slingshot and a lay-on-top kayak.
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An American named Dave Ulmer hid a stash of items—books, a slingshot, a can of beans—in the woods outside Portland, Oregon, posted the GPS coordinates on an online message board, and dared people to find the stash.
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What's unique is that the tower is now stacked on your coffee table that you can approach from any angle and the Magic Leap controller is your slingshot that you can aim a lot more precisely as a result.
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"People are beginning to believe we can get a big win here, and slingshot into Super Tuesday," said Dick Harpootlian, a South Carolina state lawmaker and Biden bundler who has also contributed money to the pro-Biden super PAC.
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Crossing from Uganda's banana belt into southern Sudan in the 1990s, I would soon see boys igniting the brush to roast any grasshoppers they hadn't caught, club the last rodents fleeing from their burrows and slingshot ground-nesting birds.
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However, when Branson invited former U.S. President Barack Obama to the British Virgin Islands in 2017, the Brit billionaire was spotted using a Slingshot Dwarfcraft foil board as well as a Cabrinha Double Agent, according to sports equipment retailer MACkite.
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As the planet approaches Jupiter to slingshot out of the system and out to Proxima Centauri, a group of characters struggles to restart Earth's failing transport engines and save Earth from being dragged into the gas giant's gravity well and engulfed.
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The huge planet's radiation environment can fry instrumentation on even the most hardened spacecraft, and the pull of the planet's gravity is so strong that it basically acts as a giant slingshot out through the rest of the solar system.
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Click here to view original GIFTo celebrate reaching a million subscribers on YouTube, the internet's favorite slingshot-building madman, Joerg Sprave, has engineered his largest creation to date: a massive elastic-powered weapon that turns bowling balls into flying projectiles.
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Starting with Earth, the moon and a roiling sun, visitors get a gravity slingshot at Mercury and set out past the solar system's most well-known denizens, concluding with a stunning view of the blue haze surrounding Pluto, lit from behind.
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A thousand miles east, in Lansford, North Dakota, the CHS SunPrairie grain co-operative that Mr Moberg chairs is building a railway loop that will allow trains to load the local harvest without stopping and slingshot back to the Pacific coast.
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Curtis Granderson, my favorite left-handed batter, led me to the Mets; I liked him as a Yankee (the team most often watched and discussed in my household); Jacob deGrom, with his slingshot fastball, floppy hair and gorgeous smile, clinched it.
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Both Utah and Boston embody an altruistic style that calmly reacts to the defense's scheme by jabbing them with side-to-side passes, screens on and off the ball, baseline cuts, and direct hand-offs that function like a slingshot.
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She is not merely tall, but a muscular presence inside, while her 3-point shooting is free and easy, a slingshot of a release that's impossible to block, given her stature, and effectiveness — 38.5 percent from deep in her career.
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Watching the earth recede into the distance to become a pale blue dot and then arriving for a close pass across the back side of the moon before being slingshot back at the earth will be an experience far beyond my own.
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The brighter yellow at the base of the circle indicates gases moving particularly quickly, hinting at a something of a slingshot effect taking place as the vortex of gases travel in a clockwise direction, much like water pouring down a plug hole.
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The players from the seven North American CS:GO teams that make up the PEA voted to compete in ESL Pro League Season 5 rather than in the first season of PEA's league, Slingshot reported Wednesday and Cloud9 CEO Jack Etienne confirmed on Twitter.
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The learning curve for figuring out how to swing, release, and slingshot Spidey around the city is super small, so much so that I think the mechanics do a little too much of the heavy lifting required to make Spidey look cool.
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And while Kaspersky's researchers haven't yet determined how the spyware initially infected the majority of those targets, in some cases the malicious code had been installed via small-business-grade routers sold by the Latvian firm MikroTik, which the Slingshot hackers had compromised.
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Featherweight, ultracompact and durable, condoms (nonlubricated, please) can be used as a makeshift canteen to store water, a fire starter or as elastic bands for an improvised slingshot to hunt small game, according to Creek Stewart, a survival instructor and television host.
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Oumuamua approached the sun from above the plane of the solar system, dove below the sun's southern pole and then used the sun's gravitational field to slingshot itself back above the plane of the solar system as it headed off into deep space.
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The letter — obtained by Slingshot on Saturday — lays out six problems that the LCS teams want to solve in League esports, mostly focusing on relegation and compensation: The lack of job security, fair compensation and longer careers for players caused by insufficient compensation and relegation.
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So after running my initial benchmarks, I tested this by taking the Note 0.3583 and a Galaxy S0.3573+ out for spin involving a few rounds of Fortnite, repeated runs of 0.3563DMark's Slingshot Extreme graphics test, and downloading a few torrents, all back to back.
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When Friday rolled around things got weird in the best way possible at a beach event where cast member Brian Sacca indulged in a massage, Baddie Winkle mastered the art of giant beer pong and cast member Asif Ali was taught how to slingshot fruit.
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Rovio saw rapid growth after the 7.23 launch of the original "Angry Birds" game, in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs that steal birds' eggs, as the company cashed in on its popularity by licensing the brand for use on toys and clothing.
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Instead, Rosi follows a 12-year old named Samuele Puccillo as he works on his slingshot aim and grapples with his homework—the quotidian activities of any boy's life—oblivious to the rubber dinghy packed with 250 migrants that has just capsized off the coast.
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On April 22, Cassini will make a final pass by Titan and use the moon's gravity to slingshot itself into a new orbit that passes inside the 1,200-mile (1,930-km) wide gap between the edge of Saturn's atmosphere and its inner-most rings.
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So to test its effectiveness, I performed two stress tests that involved running 3DMark's Slingshot Extreme graphics test 10 times in a row to simulate a demanding gaming session; once with no help from the fans, and once with the fan turned on full blast.
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Should law and order on the streets break down after, say, a massive hurricane or nuclear-reactor meltdown, that condom slingshot might come in handy in New York, where possession of the most fundamental survivalist self-defense staple — the gun — is highly restricted by law.
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The past 19603 years have seen a number of companies make strides towards lift-off, and SpaceX revealed in 2018 that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be its first space tourist -- with a slingshot trip around the Moon booked in for as soon as 2023.
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Four years later, Warren and Sanders, who kicked off his second presidential campaign on Tuesday, begin the Democratic primary not as insurgents or slingshot-yielding giant-slayers but among the early favorites in a historically deep field of contenders vying to unseat President Donald Trump.
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I may be long, but there's no way I could reach from San Jose, CA, to Las Vegas, NV in the time it would take to slingshot Ariana back and forth between two places at once (although, that does sound like a fun music video idea).
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Devon is focusing on recharging his bright and beautiful light, and JP is – well, I have a soft spot in my heart for the JPs of Survivor, the stoic strongmen who have a sure hand with the slingshot and comically banal commentary in the confessional booth.
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The mission, although unrelated to NASA's plan to slingshot astronauts around the Moon in several years' time using the SLS rocket and the Orion capsule, was made possible in part by funding SpaceX has received to develop its human spaceflight technology through NASA's commercial crew program.
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Known for her role as Latina superhero Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which earned her the spinoff web series Slingshot, the Mexican actress is now lending her unique voice to Disney/Pixar's upcoming animated film Coco as the legendary artist Frida Kahlo.
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The channel also included tips on how to shoot a slingshot, how to make a blow torch, and surveyed users on the best way to handle police, with the options prison, gas chamber, live burial, guillotine, and machine-gun execution, according to the New York Times.
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The same year that the Camdens came into being, a closeted lesbian named Rosie O'Donnell got her own talk show, launching goodies into her audience with a slingshot the same way that she disseminated the gay agenda to the American public through cheeky interviews with celebrities.
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To catch up with the asteroid, Project Lyra proposes launching a spacecraft on one of the world's most powerful rockets—either SpaceX's Falcon Heavy or NASA's forthcoming Space Launch System—and using gravity assists from Jupiter and the sun to slingshot the craft toward the asteroid.
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San Francisco (CNN Business)The other day, as I stood on a beach, pulling back the pocket on a slingshot to fling fuming red birds at sneering green pigs, I thought to myself: this is fun, but I'm not sure I need to do it over and over again.
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The day before, at a press briefing, Raiu, the head of GReAT, said that while the company didn't know who was behind Slingshot, it did know the hackers' skills matched those of Equation Group and Regin—a cyberespionage group widely believed to be the UK's spy agency GCHQ.
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Click here to view original GIFAs much as we'd love for slingshot-designer Joerg Sprave to visit the US on a publicity tour, it's creations like this—a Nerf blaster made lethal using razor-sharp scalpel blades—that will probably result in him being barred entry to the country.
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In its three months of existence, the channel has cemented its place in the proud genre of "man with device breaks things," along with the slingshot guy, the hydraulic press guy, the guy who smashes things between magnets, and that kid who keeps setting his lawn on fire.
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Like the hands of Joerg Sprave, who's found a way to weaponize everything from Lego bricks, to Nerf darts, and now even fidget spinners with a custom slingshot blaster that launches them with enough power to make you wish you weren't in his crosshairs before he pulls the trigger.
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There's also a new control called "Slingshot" that lets you pull back on the onscreen control, release it, and send Sphero Mini rocketing toward a target, which the Sphero Mini kit also provides; it ships with a small set of tiny, robber bowling pins and orange traffic cones.
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Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Slingshot Aeropsace, SpaceX and Virgin Orbit have raised billions of dollars to create new vehicles to launch payloads into space, but as the private space industry develops in the U.S. investors are beginning to back enabling technologies boost the next wave of innovation.
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Though Jupiter has had other man-made visitors, all but one of them simply flew past it on their way elsewhere, taking a few photographs to send back home while they gathered energy from the Jovian gravitational field in a so-called slingshot manoeuvre, to speed their journeys up.
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Backed by $1.9 million in funding from strategic and financial investors, including Cedars-Sinai Health System, Techstars, Australia's Shark Tank, Slingshot Ventures and Artesian Capital, the company is looking to expand in the U.S. through a dedicated subsidiary as it concentrates on one of the world's largest healthcare markets.
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The film is anchored by two figures: a boy, Samuele Pucillo, now 14, who clambers around the island with his homemade slingshot; and Dr. Pietro Bartolo, who for years was the only doctor on Lampedusa and had to examine the bodies of every migrant who died at sea.
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At about the same time he was named leader of the imaging team for the Voyager mission, an ambitious project to send a pair of probes to the outer solar system, taking advantage of rare planetary alignment to slingshot the probes from one planet to another, starting with Jupiter.
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Many people "sell drugs to feed their own addiction because they have a disease, and if we cure that disease, or we treat them for that disease, they will stop selling the drug," said Andrew Kessler, the founder of Slingshot Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in behavioral health policy.
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Staked to an early lead and armed with an unorthodox and deceptive slingshot delivery that Philadelphia Manager Gabe Kapler called a "crossfire," De Los Santos (1-0) cruised for most of the night against a scuffling Mets lineup that has managed only eight runs over its last five games.
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"With the proposed cuts to Medicaid in this bill, even if there were $50 billion included for [recovery] services, consumers would still be at risk because of problems that accompany addiction such as hepatitis, HIV, and endocarditis," Andrew Kessler, who focuses on these issues at Slingshot Solutions, told me recently.
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"It seems like we're doing a lot of poking around, seeing what works, we'll evaluate it, which is good, but a lot of the bills don't necessarily get to the urgency that we have," said Andrew Kessler, the founder of Slingshot Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in behavioral health policy.
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In Rwanda, Zipline drones deliver blood packs, medicine, and vaccines as a one-way service; launched from a motorized slingshot, they travel to remote health facilities, drop a cardboard box tethered to a tiny parachute, and return to the launch area, where they are brought down with a wire trap.
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On Sunday it was the scene of some of the most intense fighting since anti-government demonstrations began five months ago, as protesters fought-back police attempts to enter the campus using a variety of improvised weaponry, including crude homemade napalm, bows and arrows and at least one large slingshot.
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Winter Smorgasbord, a half-hour virtual-reality journey, is not, but it offers games: Merry Snowballs, in which a child can hurl those missiles at angry gingerbread men (perhaps they'd prefer not to be eaten), and Santa Sling, in which the player uses a magic slingshot to aim presents down chimneys.
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That said, it seems graphics performance doesn't benefit quite as much from the Note 21000's improved thermal management, because when I ran 213.1DMark Slingshot Extreme Unlimited one more time, both phones posted nearly equivalent marks of 215.0,21802.11 for the Note 216.37, and 213.01,210.35 for the S217.09+, down from 5,021 and 5,033 respectively.
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The YouTubers Union is led by Berlin-based YouTuber Jörg Sprave, whose slingshot-focused channel has more than 2 million subscribers, and recently announced a partnership with IG Metall, the largest trade union in the EU. IG Metall was originally a metalworkers union based in Germany but has expanded to cover other industries.
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"In the past, when there have been public health emergencies it was traditional for the White House to say, 'I am requesting this much money to give Congress a starting point,' and we don't have that starting point," said Andrew Kessler, founder of Slingshot Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in behavioral health policy.
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The curiously long interstellar visitor, the most elongated asteroid ever seen to the fascination of space scientists, is headed out of our solar system at 58,000 miles per hour and it would require that the probe would slingshot past Jupiter and dip close to the sun to pick up speed to catch up to Oumuamua.
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There are also questions about Bridges' jumper, a set shot that takes too long to load up, has a low release point, and features a somewhat inconsistent follow through due to slingshot-y mechanics: Bridges has improved his stroke since high school, and has connected on 40.5 percent of his three-point attempts this season.
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The film is a series of intimate scenes: Rescue workers carrying suffering migrants off a boat for medical care; Dr. Bartolo performing an ultrasound on an African woman pregnant with twins; the local D.J. taking calls for requests of Sicilian songs, including the one that lends the film its name; Samuele lovingly making a slingshot to hit birds.
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He's played laser tag with Neil Patrick Harris on "How I Met Your Mother," he's protected Betty White with a slingshot in a live episode of "Hot in Cleveland," he's taught table tennis to Rachel Bloom in "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," and he's chatted finance with Johnny Depp in a "Funny or Die" spoof of Donald Trump.
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Another enigmatic piece is Philemona Williamson's painting "Prickly Pear" (22002), in which two sexually ambiguous young people (both appear to be female by their hair styles, but the figure on the left is dressed boyishly, with a slingshot slipped inside a trouser fold, while the other wears a white bra on the outside of a summer dress and holds a prickly pear gingerly in her right hand.
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While there we many to choose from, here are five of the best Mashable spotted, as well as insights from the developers on their baby industry and the challenges of building games in VR. Created by Sydney's Blowfish Studios, Siegecraft Commander is a fortress-builder game that's been adapted for VR. Using HTC Vive hand controllers, walls and buildings can be launched with a satisfying slingshot motion.
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US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman arrives ahead of the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem A Palestinian demonstrator with a slingshot at the Israel-Gaza border Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara Netanyahu, Kushner, Trump, Mnuchin, and Friedman attend the opening of the US embassy An elderly Palestinian man falls on the ground after being shot by Israeli troops east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip
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Cruz would ultimately build the strongest effort to stay in the ring as Trump rose, with a strategy of "drafting" behind Trump (as the second-place car does behind the lead car in a NASCAR race) — sharing the same issue set, refusing to attack Trump, even appearing alongside him at an Iran rally in Washington — riding just behind him in the hope he could ultimately slingshot past him.
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"In the immediate future we're focusing on remerging the VR and desktop version to simplify future development, and we've been hard at work on new, realistic physics improvements (for both versions) that will cause stars to be ripped apart as they slingshot around a black hole, or cause a moon to break apart when it gets too close to a planet, because it's inside what's called the Roche limit," Dixon told me.
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The company's past is littered with abandoned products that Facebook has either launched or bought over the years, including things like Moments (a photo-harvesting service designed to collect all your pictures in one place), Notify (for subscribing to notifications), Lifestage (a Snapchat clone), Poke (another Snapchat clone), Slingshot (a third, different Snapchat clone), Tbh (a anonymous social media app), Moves (a fitness tracking app), and Hello (a custom Android dialer), just to name a few.
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Here's a brief look at all the times the company has tried (and failed) to release a camera app: 2012: Facebook Camera — An Instagram-like photo sharing app released just weeks after it announced its Instagram acquisition 2012: Facebook Poke — Its first attempt at a straight-up Snapchat clone, Poke was released in 2012 but failed to gain traction, it was pulled from the App Store in 2014 2014: Slingshot — Another disappearing messaging app that failed to take off despite the fact that it didn't require a Facebook account to use.
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Consider: If Not for Twitter, We'd Only Know What Elon Musk Was Up to After He Built a Giant Slingshot That Shoots Contractors Into SpaceFBI Backdoors Are Like Mullets, That's Where the Party Happens10 Friendly Emails Asking Me to Insert Product Links Into Articles for Money That I'd Eagerly Reply to If I Was in Debt to My Coke GuySafety Win: Apple's New Headquarters Is Teaching People to Look Where They're GoingAll of us here at Gizmodo politely hope you take our ideas into consideration, and feel very warm and fuzzy that Gawker may yet find a loving forever home.
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See, Know Tour dates: January 4 - Athens, GA - Slingshot Festival at Georgia TheatreJanuary 14 - New York, NY - Titus Theater 1 at MoMAApril 163 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East UpstairsApril 29 - Portland, ME - The Space GalleryApril 30 - Portsmouth, NH - 3S ArtspaceMay 6 - Los Angeles, CA - Velaslavasay PanoramaMay 7 - San Francisco, CA - The ChapelMay 10 - Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey Arts CenterMay 11 - Portland, OR - Old ChurchMay 19 - Durham, NC - Moogfest 2016 at First PresbyterianJune 13 - Mayer, AZ - ArcosantiJune -15 - Washington, DC - Sixth & IJune 16 - Philadelphia, PA - Small ChapelJune 23 - Detroit, MI - Museum of Contemporary Art Benjamin Boles is on Twitter.
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