![]() ![]() Somaliland declares independence, but is not recognized by any UN state. Union of Trust Territory of Somalia (former Italian Somaliland) and State of Somaliland (formerly British Somaliland) Mozambique holds its first multiparty election since the Civil Warįederal Government of Somalia established. Mauritania withdraws from Tiris al-Gharbiyya (part of Western Sahara) The Malagasy Republic was created as autonomous state within French Communityįrance recognizes Madagascar's independence Independence from UN Trusteeship (British and French administration after Italian governance ends in 1947) Independence from American Colonization Society Union of British Togoland with Gold CoastĪutonomous republic within French CommunityĪrea that is now Lesotho placed under British rule The eastern borders of Libya and British Egypt are changed to their present boundaries.īadme ruled to be Eritrean by the Eritrea–Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC after the Eritrean–Ethiopian War). The UK ends its protectorate, granting independence to Egypt Merger of part of British Cameroons with CameroonĮgyptian revolution of 1952, Egyptian monarchy overthrown in a military coup, republic declared Sedudu ruled to belong to Botswana rather than Namibia by the International Court of Justice. Most recent significant territorial modificationĪlgeria gains sovereignty over the entire Algerian territory upon independence from France.īorders of French Protectorate of Dahomey set at conclusion of Second Franco-Dahomean War For a more detailed description of a country's formation and history, please see the main article for that country. The following list contains the formation dates of countries with a short description of those events. Such dates reflect not the formation of a state (an independent political entity), but of a nation (an ethnic or cultural grouping), terms that are often conflated in the context of nation states. Many countries have some remote (or fantastically remote) symbolic foundation date as part of their national mythology, sometimes artificially inflating a country's "age" for reasons of nationalism, sometimes merely gesturing at a long and gradual process of the formalizing national identity. Independence dates for widely recognized states earlier than 1919 should be treated with caution, since prior to the founding of the League of Nations, there was no international body to recognize nationhood, and independence had no meaning beyond mutual recognition of de facto sovereigns (the role of the League of Nations was effectively taken over by the United Nations after the Second World War). Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great Britain in 1707), while France is a Republic founded in 1792 (though the term France generally refers to the current French Fifth Republic government, formed in 1958).Īn unambiguous measure is the date of national constitutions but as constitutions are an almost entirely modern concept, all formation dates by that criterion are modern or early modern (the oldest extant constitution being that of San Marino, dating to 1600). įor proposed states or various indigenous nations which consider themselves still under occupation, see list of active autonomist and secessionist movements. This does not include extinct states, but does include several states with limited recognition. This list includes the 195 states which are currently full member states or observer states of the United Nations. ( July 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īelow is a list of sovereign states with the dates of their formation (date of their independence or of their constitution), sorted by continent. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ![]() Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This article possibly contains original research. ![]()
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![]() The Night Circus is a tale of two magicians, their lifelong rivalry and a mysterious circus. ![]() If you decide to purchase a book after clicking the link, I will receive a small percentage of the sale. Some of the below links are affiliate links. With that in mind, here are a few of the best second person point of view examples and excerpts to help illustrate the concept. Very few stories really require it – so writers simply choose other points of view.Ħ examples and excerpts of second person point of viewīecause second person point of view in fiction writing is so rare, it can be hard to imagine what it looks like in practice. So a writer has to convince the reader that the second person point of view is necessary to the narrative. They may feel uncomfortable or alienated from events when being told by a narrator that they have acted or spoken in ways that feel far removed from their own real life experience.īecause readers don’t tend to like second person point of view narratives, it’s much harder to convince an agent or publisher that your story has commercial potential.Ī reader will inevitably question this form of storytelling. And – honestly – writers don’t tend to consider it as one of the narrative formats available to them. It’s rare to come across fiction written in the second person. It’s not something writers or readers are used to. But there are a few good reasons why writers tend to avoid it. We’ve covered the reasons to give second person point of view a go. Why is second person point of view generally avoided? ![]() To avoid putting too much pressure on either party, short stories written in the second person provide a good introduction to this mode of storytelling. And an original and intriguing format for a reader. ![]() Second person POV is an exciting challenge for a writer. Or perhaps self-talk is central to your narrator's identity. Perhaps the narrator wants to distance themselves from their own narrative because the topic is difficult to think or talk about. This POV can also be used to reinforce the key themes and ideas of the story. The reader is placed at the very centre of the story, which makes for an intense and immersive reader experience. In a second person narrative, the writer casts the reader as the main character. So let’s take a closer look at why a writer might choose to use a second person point of view for their story – and why they might avoid it.Īdvantages of using second person point of view The narrator is addressing another character However, some writers have used the format to great effect (as we’ll see in a few second person point of view examples a little later on).īut – first things first - who is the you in a second person point of view story? There are actually a few different possibilities: In fact, this POV is probably the least utilised of the lot.įirst person, third person limited and third person omniscient points of view are much more familiar to readers – and writers too. We also come across it in poetry and in song lyrics. It’s a point of view that we associate with self-help books and advertising slogans. Second person point of view is written in the second person, using the pronoun you. Here I take a look at why that’s the case and share some excellent examples of second person point of view from fiction writers who chose to go against the grain. ![]() They put you – the reader – at the very centre of the action.īut second person isn’t a POV we come across very often in fiction. Those stories are the perfect example of second person point of view fiction writing. Did you ever read those pick-your-path books as a child – the ones where you got to choose how the plot progressed? ![]() ![]() ![]() I logged on everyday until one day, 2 weeks later, I was listed as "Confirmed." It finally felt real and I remember yelling and dancing around the house!Ī week later, I got the actual check. ![]() I was given a link to a website, and sure enough my name was listed as "Pending". I ate my now cold meal and left the restaurant that night still not knowing how legit any of this was. My hands were shaking as I tore open the envelope and opened the letter.$100k! Darn! 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I turned around and 3 official-looking McDonald's employees were there. As I was waiting in line to order, someone tapped me on my shoulder. I was there with my family, and I was the first one out of the vehicle and into the store. In 2001, I won $100,000 from McDonald's during their Instant Winner sweepstakes. Follow us on Twitter or Like us on Facebook!įacebook Twitter Instagram Calendar Please check out our Rules and FAQs.Email us at Step-by-step guide to doing an AMA.See more on our comment removals policy here.Attempting to bypass this rule by adding a ? to a non question will result in a permanent ban.All initial responses to posters must contain a properly punctuated question.Requests should be posted in /r/IAmARequests.See here for tips concerning proof and examples.If it must remain confidential, you can submit proof on our website so we can verify you and your claims. Proof should be included in the text of the post when you start your AMA.Explanation and examples of this rule can be found here.Something uncommon that plays a central role in your life, or. ![]() Consider supporting our PatreonĪMAs are scheduled in Eastern Time (GMT -0400). Each additional ticket you obtain will improve your odds.Submit an AMA Request an AMA Please check out our Rules and FAQs Click here to schedule an AMA on our calendar. You may accumulate many tickets between now and May 5, 2020. The odds listed below are for individual tickets. Anecdotal reports on social media indicate that most people who’ve won anything were awarded prizes of $3 or less in value, or a $5 discount that required a $50 or more purchase. We’ve done one data set for “Collect and Win” game board play for game piece collectors, and another set of odds for the “rare game pieces” where you win the whole prize instantly with one lucky ticket. The odds of winning all the other prizes in the Safeway Monopoly game are listed online and we’ve also compiled them below. But one of our commenters won the $1,500 TV in 2017 as you can see in the Comments below! Only two people have ever won the $1 million, one in 2017 (Dorchester, MA) and another in 2018 (Idaho Falls, ID). Your odds of winning the million dollar prize in this game are 1 in 552 million for each ticket. ODDS OF WINNING ANYTHING AT ALBERTSON’S/SAFEWAY MONOPOLY And this is why your chances of winning anything at this Monopoly game are so low. There are 2,200 grocery stores nationwide handing out hundreds of millions of Monopoly game pieces. Furthermore, it is not “Safeway Monopoly” - it’s technically called Shop, Play, Win and the cards were also being handed out all across the country at Albertsons, Vons, Jewel-Osco and a shit-ton of regional grocery chains you’ve never heard of. The Safeway Monopoly promotion goes from March 3 to May 4, 2021, and you can still claim winnings until May 27, 2021. So we put the Broke-Ass I-Team on the case to determine whether the Safeway Monopoly game ever produces any winning tickets, and what the odds are of even winning anything. But does anyone ever win so much as a 99-cent box of macaroni & cheese playing Safeway Monopoly? I’ve seen a lot of card-collecting and not much winning in the years that this highly complicated grocery store game of chance has been annually rebooted. These Safeway Monopoly cards are the Glengarry leads. 1292 Shares Share on Facebook Share on Twitter ![]() ![]() ![]() Live Online training is synchronous training where participants and the instructor attend remotely. Check with each provider for the latest status on a school’s in-person reopening plans. Please note that due to COVID-19 some providers are temporarily offering online training only. 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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second is with any Kindle e-Reader that uses e-paper technology. Amazon employs their own billing system on these devices, so Google is not involved at all. How will readers be able to buy and read Kindle ebooks going forward? There are basically two ways to do it. Since Google runs their own billing system and owns Android, they will pay zero commissions and everything they make will be pure profit. They have never been the most used bookstore, but this will all changed. Once all of Googles competition have exited their platform, Google Play Books will be the only game in town. They also zeroed out the ability for Barnes and Noble to sell digital content and now Kindle. Google is in a similar situation, they have forced out Audible, the largest audiobook retailer in the world. This audiobook and digital bookstore sell content in the app, and since they own the platform, their commission rates are zero. When Apple basically forced all the major bookstores off their iOS platform, it drove adoption for Apple Books. However, there might be a method to the madness. They have basically made it financially unviable for digital bookstores to exist on their platforms. I think their sheer ruthlessness to what Apple and now Google have done. This is just another barrier, that makes buying ebooks more difficult. In order to read books on your Kindle app for Android, you would need to login to your Amazon account using your computer or mobile internet browser, find a book you want to purchase, buy it and then open the Kindle app and sync it. The Kindle App has basically been transformed to a pure reading app and not as a gateway to make purchases. It is now impossible to buy ebooks using the Kindle app, on any mobile operating system. If Amazon paid Google the 30% of each ebook sold, they would take a loss on every single title, this is why they disabled in-app purchases.īuying ebooks in the Kindle app is a serious blow to readers. This means, the profit for each title sold, is rather small, Amazon sells millions of ebooks a month, so they make lots of money through sheer scale. ![]() The purpose of agency pricing is to level the playing field so nobody has a pricing advantage. Publishers only implemented this system in 2015, when Amazon basically set their own prices, took a loss on every title sold, in order to spur Kindle adoption. Major publishers such as Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon and Shuster, Penguin Random House set the prices of an ebook and all retailers have to sell it at that specific price, this is known as agency pricing. Why can’t Amazon just continue to sell books on Android and just pay Google the 30% commission on each title sold? This is because anyone who operates a bookstore and stocks it with digital content from major publishers are acting as an agent for the publisher. Google said it would remove apps that didn’t comply with its billing system rules. This all changed, when Google announced in 2021 that they would start mandating that all apps had to use their billing system by June 1st, 2022. They did this because Google did not actively enforce that everyone uses their own billing system, and this worked really good for around ten years. Amazon then doubled down on their official app for Android. To get around this issue, Amazon developed their K indle Cloud Reader, which was designed to work with Safari and allowed people to buy and read books right in the browser. Since Apple users are more affluent and buy the most content, this was a serious blow. Amazon is the latest company to suspend digital transactions on Android, in recent weeks Audible and Barnes and Noble ceased selling audiobooks and ebooks in their apps.Īmazon pulled the ability to buy digital books in their iOS app back in 2011, when Apple implemented a similar policy, where they forced companies to use their own billing system. Considering Amazon is the largest ebook seller in the world, the paid commission to Google would be staggering. This has happened because Google has now mandated that all apps use their own billing system and will take a 30% cut out of each transaction. When trying to buy digital books, a new screen is displayed, letting customers know that in order to remain compliment with Google policy changes, buying ebooks is no longer supported. Amazon has disabled the ability to buy ebooks in the Kindle app for Android. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unity 5 is a long-awaited step towards that future." With Unity 5, the engine improved its lighting and audio. The Verge said of 2015's Unity 5 release: "Unity started with the goal of making game development universally accessible. Unity provided support for Facebook's gaming platforms, and Unity developers could more quickly export and publish games to Facebook. ![]() In 2016, Facebook developed a new PC gaming platform with Unity. This featured tools that allowed tracking advertising campaigns and deep linking, where users were directly linked from social media posts to specific portions within games, and easy in-game-image sharing. įacebook integrated a software development kit for games using the Unity game engine in 2013. This version added DirectX 11 and Adobe Flash support, new animation tools called Mecanim, and access to the Linux preview. ![]() In November 2012, Unity Technologies delivered Unity 4.0. ![]() Unity wants to be the engine for multi-platform games, period." A May 2012 survey by Game Developer magazine indicated Unity as its top game engine for mobile platforms. More than 1.3 million developers are using its tools to create gee-whiz graphics in their iOS, Android, console, PC, and web-based games. In 2012 VentureBeat wrote, "Few companies have contributed as much to the flowing of independently produced games as Unity Technologies. In addition to Android support, Unity 3 featured integration of Illuminate Labs' Beast Lightmap tool, deferred rendering, a built-in tree editor, native font rendering, automatic UV mapping, and audio filters, among other things. Unity 3.0 launched in September 2010 with features expanding the engine's graphics features for desktop computers and video game consoles. For several years, the engine was uncontested on the iPhone and it became well-known with iOS game developers. When Apple launched its App Store in 2008, Unity quickly added support for the iPhone. It included a Networking Layer for developers to create multiplayer games based on the User Datagram Protocol, offering Network Address Translation, State Synchronization, and Remote Procedure Calls. The release also added features whereby developers could collaborate more easily. The release included an optimized terrain engine for detailed 3D environments, real-time dynamic shadows, directional lights and spotlights, video playback, and other features. Unity 2.0 launched in 2007 with approximately 50 new features. Unity was initially released for Mac OS X, later adding support for Microsoft Windows and Web browsers. The next year, Unity was named runner-up in the Best Use of Mac OS X Graphics category in Apple Inc.'s Apple Design Awards. The Unity game engine launched in 2005, aiming to "democratize" game development by making it accessible to more developers. The engine has been adopted by industries outside video gaming, such as film, automotive, architecture, engineering, construction, and the United States Armed Forces. The engine can be used to create three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) games, as well as interactive simulations and other experiences. It is particularly popular for iOS and Android mobile game development, is considered easy to use for beginner developers, and is popular for indie game development. The engine has since been gradually extended to support a variety of desktop, mobile, console and virtual reality platforms. Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X game engine. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the exceptions of orders Orthoptera and Diptera, there is close alignment between species diversity and consumption, suggesting that humans tend to eat those insects that are most available. The table below ranks insect order by number and percentage of confirmed species consumed and presents each insect orders' percentage of known insect species diversity. Human consumption of 2096 different insect species has been documented (2111 if spiders are included). Edible insects Frequently consumed insect species As commercial interest in insects as food grows, countries are introducing new regulatory frameworks to oversee their production, processing, marketing, and consumption. Like other foods, there can be risks associated with consuming insects, such as allergic reactions. Insects offer a wide variety of flavors and are commonly consumed whole or pulverized for use in dishes and processed food products such as burger patties, pasta, or snacks. Many insects are highly nutritious, though nutritional content depends on species and other factors such as diet and age. Globally, more than 2,000 insects species are considered edible, though far fewer are discussed for industrialized mass production and regionally authorized for use in food. Over 2 billion people are estimated to eat insects on a daily basis. Insects as food or edible insects are insect species used for human consumption. Whole, steamed silkworm pupae as street food in South Korea ( beondegi) ![]() ![]() ![]() A druid that grew up in that environment has likely seen all of the common beasts listed on that table-even if they can’t transform into all of them yet, since they’re still only 2nd level. The tables in those book describe which beasts are commonly found in each biome within the many worlds of D&D. ![]() Xanathar’s Guide to Everythingincludes a valuable guide on how to help druids who have just gained the Wild Shape feature determine what beasts they’ve seen before. Use D&D Beyond's free character builder to make character creation easier! Click below to get started:Ī druid can only transform into a beast using their Wild Shape feature, and even then can only take the form of a beast they’ve seen before. Knowing a few forms from each category is vital to a being a versatile druid-though only Circle of the Moon druids need combat forms. Exploration wild shapes are unfit for combat, but have abilities that allow them to move swiftly, making them excellent for travel, or are incredibly small or silent, making them useful in situations where stealth is paramount. Combat wild shapes are best utilized by Circle of the Moon druids, and can be used to engage foes in melee combat. This guide breaks down your Wild Shape options into two categories: combat and exploration. How does Wild Shape work, and how can you get the most bang for your buck when transforming into beasts? Because of this, you want your uses of Wild Shape to really count. This tightrope act only grows more pronounced if you’re playing a Circle of the Moon druid, since you’ll often be using your Wild Shape in combat, rather than offensive spells-especially in tier 1 and tier 2 (levels 1 through 10). If you play a druid, then you probably know the tug-of-war between using spells and using your Wild Shape. Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures ![]() ![]() The best thing about it is that it really can help you feel better and improve your lifestyle. Insight Timer is an excellent meditation app, with an elegant interface and a huge number of features. Whether youre looking to unwind, need help falling. You can view how much time you've been meditating each day, and set realistic goals to improve your wellbeing. 1 If youre new to meditation: Headspace App Store Headspace is one of the most well-known meditation apps out there, for good reason. As stated on the website for Insight Timer, the app combines different well-being elements into one app. You can even set the goals you want to accomplish. The Insight Timer Meditation App includes a broad range of meditation options that can appeal to anyone no matter your age, gender or life stage. 5 wellbeing apps in 1 Insight Timer is the only app you need to build healthy habits and create a wellbeing routine that works for you. There are many ways to cultivate mindfulness and relaxation. There are thousands of discussion groups about Buddhism, sleep patterns, Rumi poems, etc.Īnother interesting thing about Insight Timer is that it lets you keep track of your activities with the app. DecemMeditation App Review: Insight Timer Not only does meditation bring more peace and calm to our frenetic lives, but a consistent meditation practice may alleviate depression and anxiety and even prevent heart disease. 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If you already know something about meditation, the app can help you practice at any time and place. Insight Timer is a meditation app that helps you. ![]() |