More than 3000000000 people around the world regularly play games on a p. C. Console or in my case on a smartphone games are an everyday part of life for about 40 percent of the people worldwide so its not surprising that marketing strategist count on the wide reach like with the popular real time simulation game animal crossing your horizons earlier this year it was sold out even democratic president ial candidate joe biden whos nearly 80 years old is using the game to reach new voters over 22000000 people play on the ball crossing the horizon. Now you can also use Campaign Posters the team behind joe bidens campaign has added to the game all of which can be put. Campaign team are trying to reach specific target audiences. And animal crossing is an effective way to reach a relatively young mostly female target audience. Its difficult to assess the advocacy of animal crossing or other online games and campaigning but in this case they definitely managed to grab the medias attention has
This fire on a Sonoma County hillside moved quickly before crews got it under control. But now there is increasing concern over the potential for more of the same. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. That fire was at yours lane road in santa rosa. The heat wave is expected to bring severe fire conditions. All that has firefighters in the north bay closely watching the weather. More from abc 7 News Reporter cornell barnard. Cal fire aircraft pounced on this fastmoving grass fire thursday afternoon off ursiline road in santa rosa, the same spot where the tubbs fire burned homes in 2014. Poor people, all these new houses that they built over here, sad. Weve got a great team out here though. Cal fire. Reporter it burned close to Rosalind College prep school. It was too much for superintendent amy jones kerr. Were in full distance learning, my staff is back here. To have this happening right now, its heartbreaking. Trying to hold it together right
Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has back publishing paid and exposed a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate as decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure coming sub optimal. This year, of National Reckoning on racism, we can take a look at the boo
A free press do you need. To go this is who are you concerns for not concern to him sebastian consumers kelly take you to the heart of the matter and youll see it just to get closer to civil. Conflict. Waste piling up. Disposable protective equipment Plastic Packaging. Initially that been a hope that the slowdown in the World Economy would be good for the planet traffic almost stopped completely. Cruise ships were stranded in port and industrial pollution. But the pandemic has had negative consequences for the environment to the world was already drowning and there is a sea of plastic. But a pandemic has made the situation worse. Things mask and stay in the environment for up to 450 years it takes that long before they turn into invisible micro plastic so this issue is quite serious. As the human toll of the coronavirus mounts and the World Economy struggles to adjust to the new normal the wider impact on the environment is only now starting to become apparent. The Global Medical emerg
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