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SCITECH FINALS
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The _____________ website hosts free user-generated
classified advertisements for urban communities around theworld and provides discussion forums sorted by varioustopics.co-founded in March 2006 by Internet entrepreneursFabrice Grinda and Alec Oxenford .
In August 2009, _________was named a good competitor toCraigslist in the United States by TechCrunch.In December 2009, _______ Inc. was named a rival to
Craigslist by BusinessWeek.
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OLX
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X actually described five types::
1. The first XY is the snapping sound first heard at the systolic pressure.Clear tapping, repetitive sounds for at least two consecutive beats isconsidered the systolic pressure.
2. The second sounds are the murmurs heard for most of the areabetween the systolic and diastolic pressures.
3. The third sound was described as a loud, crisp tapping sound.4. The fourth sound, at pressures within 10 mmHg above the diastolic
blood pressure, was described as "thumping" and "muting".5. The fifth XY is silence as the cuff pressure drops below the diastolic
blood pressure. The disappearance of sound is considered diastolicblood pressure -- 2 mmHg below the last sound heard.
The second and third XYs have no known clinical significance.
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The five Korotkoff sounds
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The October 1918 issue of Notes and Queries contains a multi-article
entry on the word "___________"
A discussion arose at the Plymouth meeting of the Devonshire Associationin 1916 when it was suggested that this word should be recorded inthe list of local verbal provincialisms. Several members dissented from
its inclusion on the ground that it is in common use throughout thecountry; and a naval officer who was present said that it has for yearsbeen a popular expression in the service for a tool or implement, theexact name of which is unknown or has for the moment beenforgotten. I have also frequently heard it applied by motor-cycle
friends to the collection of fitments to be seen on motor cycles. In fact,to borrow from present-day Army slang, '__________' is applied to'any old thing.'
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Gadget
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In February 1980, Mark Hughes began selling the original
__________ weight loss product from the trunk of his car.Hughes often stated that the genesis of his product andprogram stemmed from the weight loss concerns of hismother Joanne, whose premature death he attributed to aneating disorder and an unhealthy approach to weight loss. Hisgoal was to change the nutritional habits of the world.
It all started with a protein shake to help people manage theirweight. Along with introducing people to a healthier way tolive, Mark wanted to give people the opportunity to earn
extra income., enabling people to become ________Independent Distributors and earn part-time or full-time income.
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"Surendra" can do anything to get "Manisha" to love him. Desperate to
impress her and unable to do so himself, he seeks the help of his maverickscientist professor . The professor comes up with a clone who will do thebit of impressing Manisha, and once the task is accomplished, the realSurendra will take over.
However, things go berserk after the professor gives Surendras clone - anandroid robot - the ability to think and act like humans. He bestows theclone named "US 47" with human discretion and human emotion. Theidea of the clone backfires when US 47 starts using his discretion and fallsin love with Manisha. Using his robotic strength and human intelligence,and of course the help of a lab monkey , US 47 proves to be a formidableenemy to Surendra over Manisha. Now the mad professor, Surendra, histwin brother ________ and Manisha need to get together to solve theproblem
Yaaav Filmdu plotuu?
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Hollywood
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6.The First Hundred Years was the first ongoing TV soap
opera in the United States that began as a daytimeserial, airing on CBS from December 4, 1950 untilJune 27, 1952...something was unveiled which laterrescued decades' worth of soap opera actors,
newscasters and politicians from theembarrassment.(it was used in this Tv show for thefirst time)
What?
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7."X" and "Y" are colloquial terms for deposits of fat around a
person's midsection, especially visible on the sides overtheabdominal external oblique muscle. Xs are visible depositson each side of the abdomen or lower back (that ahypothetical lover might grab to pull the subject into anembrace). A Y appears to encircle the abdomen (thus
resembling an automobile tire)."Z" is a term used for a person whose midsection spills over the
waistline of his or her pants in a manner that resembles thetop of above mentioned shizz spilling over its baking pan.
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X, Y-Love handles and "spare tire Z- "Muffin top"
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... it refers to the recording of an activity by a participant in the
activity typically by way of small wearable or portable personaltechnologies.It has also been described as "inverse surveillance", i.e. from the word
surveillance which is formed from "sur" (French for "from above")and "veiller" (French for "to watch"), by changing "sur" to "______"(French for "from below").
It typically involves community-based recording from first personperspectives, without necessarily involving any specific politicalagenda, whereas inverse-surveillance is a form of X that is typicallydirected at, or used to collect data to analyze or study, surveillanceor its proponents.
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Sousveillance
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9.Article on Mashable.
When X launched a round, self-adjusting thermostat built more like an iPhone than
an appliance, we didnt think wed seen anything like it. Y evidently, disagreed. The diversified technology and manufacturing company announced on Monday it issuing the startup over alleged infringement of seven of its thermostat techpatents.
The patents are, among other things, related to use of natural language, user
interfaces, a thermostats inner design, an electric circuit used to divert powerfrom the users home electrical system to provide power to a thermostat andcontrolling a thermostat with information stored in a remote location. The lawsuitalso names Best Buy, which sells the Thermostat.
From our iconic round thermostat to the first programmable and simple -to-use
touch screen thermostats, Y is known for setting the standard in home comfortand energy efficiency. said Beth Wozniak, the president of YEnvironmental andCombustion Controls, in a statement.
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X- Nest Labs Y- Honeywell
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In December 2011, X apologized to 'Advanced Materials' a peer-reviewed journal,for reproducing text of other scientists in his research paper. His collaborator andthe other senior author of the paper S. B. Krupanidhi claims that the mistake wasmade by an IISc student, These sentences were part of the introduction of thepaper, which was written by our student, that neither of us (namely, the seniorauthors, X and Krupanidhi) paid attention to. He however clarified to the media
that no action would be taken against the student.On March 11, 2012, The Hindu published three more instances of plagiarism by X and
his collaborators.In a subsequent article in The Hindu on the same topic, a young theoretical physicist
from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, Dr. Rahul Siddharthan,pointed out other instances where papers published by X's group containplagiarized text. The article also criticizes X for passing the responsibility to hiscollaborators Krupanidhi and his student,while being the corresponding authorand last author (typically reserved for the senior author "who plans and conceivesthe experiment"). This incident also sparked widespread debate on why a seniorscientist should be a communicating author when that person has little personalinvolvement with the paper.
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X- C. N. R. Rao
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___________is a music video website. It is a joint venture
among Sony Music Entertainment,Universal Music Group, andAbu Dhabi Media with EMI licensing its content to the groupwithout taking an ownership stake.The service was launchedofficially on December 8, 2009.The videos on _____ are
syndicated across the web,with Google and __________sharing the advertising revenue.
____________ offers music videos from three of the "big four"major record labels: Universal Music Group, Sony Music
Entertainment, and EMI.Warner Music Group was initiallyreported to be considering hosting its content on _______,butsubsequently formed a rival alliance with MTV Networks.There are more than 45,000 videos available on __________.
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Vevo
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12.He co-founded SELCO INDIA (in 1995), a social enterprise, to eradicate poverty by
promoting sustainable technologies in rural India. With its headquarters inBangalore , SELCO has 25 branches in Karnataka and Gujarat. Today SELCO INDIAhas installed solar lighting systems in over 120,000 households in the rural areas of these states.
HE has won the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy 2005 and Tech Museum Award2005. Hande has also received the worlds leading green energy award from PrinceCharles in 2005. In 2007 SELCO INDIA won the Outstanding Achievement Award
from Ashden Awards. The award was presented by Al Gore, former Vice Presidentof the United States of America. Hande was named the Social Entrepreneur of theYear 2007 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the Nand &Jeet Khemka Foundation. He was also the featured attendee and speaker at theClinton Global Initiative 2007.
In 2008, Hande was chosen by Business Today as one of the 21 young leaders forIndias 21st century. In mid 2008, India Today named him one of the 50 pioneers of change in India.
He was awarded with Asia's prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011, alsosometimes referred to as Asia's Nobel Prize, for his pragmatic efforts to put solarpower technology in the hands of the poor, through his social enterprise SELCOIndia.
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Harish Hande
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The number gained a degree of popular attention when Martin Gardnerdescribed it in the "Mathematical Games" section of Scientific American inNovember 1977, writing that, "In an unpublished proof, _____ hasrecently established ... a bound so vast that it holds the record for thelargest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof." The 1980Guinness Book of World Records repeated Gardner's claim, adding to the
popular interest in this number.X is unimaginably larger than other well-known large numbers such as a
googol, googolplex, and even larger than Skewes' number and Moser'snumber. Indeed, the observable universe is far too small to contain anordinary digital representation of X, assuming that each digit occupies at
least one Planck volume. Even power towers of the form are useless forthis purpose, although it can be easily described by recursive formulasusing Knuth's up-arrow notation or the equivalent, as was done by ______. The last ten digits of X are ...2464195387.
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It is the spasmodic contraction of diaphragmthat repeats several time per minute . Inhumans the abrupt rush of air into the lungscauses the epiglottis to close, creating thenoise. In medical term it is known asSynchronous Diaphragmatic Flutter(SDF) or
singultus. How do we know it better?
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Hiccup
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The name comes from the Greek word for 'coal',because of the black skin lesions developed byvictims with a cutaneous X infection. Robert Koch, a
German physician and scientist, first identified thebacterium that caused the X disease in 1875 X isan acute disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus Y .Most forms of the disease are lethal, and it affects
both humans and other animals. It is the productionof two powerful exo-toxins and lethal toxin by thebacteria that causes death. Id X.
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Anthrax
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First appearance of zero anywhere
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Answer
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The named galaxies
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X, a new incubator to be based on a ship 12 miles off the California coast, willsee its first round of funding led by big-name investor Y.
The floating seastead will host 1,000 entrepreneurs just a few miles fromSan Francisco. Its main draw is its location in international waters aperfect, if temporary, solution for non-U.S. entrepreneurs looking for away to get closer to Silicon Valley.
The X team includes CEO Max Marty, the son of two Cuban immigrants andformer director at the Seasteading Institute (another Y-funded project);Dario Mutabdzija, also a former Seasteading Institute director; and DanDascalescu, formerly a software developer at Yahoo.
The ship will be a live-work-play barge or yacht within ferrying distance of SanFrancisco or Silicon Valley. Ideally, the team hopes to offer 24-hourcatering, a gym, entertainment areas, modern office spaces, shops andhigh-speed Internet access. Basic accommodations will cost around $1,200per person, per month a significant discount from what one mightexpect to pay to live in or near San Francisco.
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The average valuation of a X-backed company, according to co-founder Paul Graham, is
$22.4 million.The program consists of weekly dinners where guests come to speak to the founders. Thedinners last for the duration of the three month program, but all founders have thelife-long ability to book office hours with the X venture partners.
At the end of the program X holds Demo Day, where top Silicon Valley angel investors andventure capital firms come to watch the companies present. Attending investorsrange from VC firms like Sequoia Capital to celebrity angel investors like AshtonKutcher.
The application process consists of a written application and a 10 minute in-personinterview where X flies the team members to Mountain View at X's expense of up to$600. While it's strongly recommended by the program for companies to have at leasttwo founders, single founders have also been funded in extremely rarecircumstances.
The acceptance rate is between 2.5% and 3.5%.Founder's pic in next slide who became famous in 1988 due to some shizz that he did for
which he was convicted under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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X- Y combinator
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An example of ______________, is the fraudulent practice of stealing moneyrepeatedly in extremely small quantities, usually by taking advantage of rounding to the nearest cent (or other monetary unit) in financialtransactions. It would be done by always rounding down, and putting thefractions of a cent into another account. The idea is to make the changesmall enough that any single transaction will go undetected.
__________ has played a key role in the plots of several films. The earliestmention of this practice was in the UK TV series The Sweeney , a 1976episode called "Tomorrow Man", of a man rounding up percentage pointsand putting the difference in his own account (totaling two milliondollars), using a computer.
In Y , Peter, Michael Bolton, and Samir Nagheenanajar decide to divert thesupposedly "rounded-off" portions of banking interest deposits afterMichael and Samir learn that they will be laid off. However, they end uptaking much more than the fractions of a cent because of a misplaceddecimal point.
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The origins of X lie in Mithapur, a remote town in Gujarat, wherea Y engineer, Darbari Seth, was concerned about theenormous quantities of energy his factory spent ondesalination.He proposed the idea of a research institute totackle the depletion of natural resources and energyscarcity.The Chairman of the conglomerate "Y", liked the ideaand accepted the proposal. X was set up with a modestcorpus of 35 million rupees.On the invitation of the thenPrime Minister Indira Gandhi, X registered in Delhi in 1974 as
the ____________. As the scope of its activities widened overa period of time, it was renamed X in 2003.
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5.Tribute to whom?
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In the 1820s X calculated that an object the size of the Earth, and at its distance from theSun, should be considerably colder than the planet actually is if warmed only by the
effects of incoming solar radiation. He examined various possible sources of theadditional observed heat in articles published in 1824 and 1827.While he ultimatelysuggested that interstellar radiation might be responsible for a large portion of theadditional warmth, X's consideration of the possibility that the Earth's atmospheremight act as an insulator of some kind is widely recognized as the first proposal of whatis now known as the _____________.In his articles X referred to an experiment by de
Saussure, who lined a vase with blackened cork. Into the cork, he inserted several panesof transparent glass, separated by intervals of air. Midday sunlight was allowed to enterat the top of the vase through the glass panes. The temperature became more elevatedin the more interior compartments of this device.X concluded that gases in theatmosphere could form a stable barrier like the glass panes. This conclusion may havecontributed to the later use of the metaphor of the '_________________' to refer tothe processes that determine atmospheric temperatures. X noted that the actualmechanisms that determine the temperatures of the atmosphere included convection,which was not present in de Saussure's experimental device.
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What it eeez?Whats it named after?
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Manhattan henge
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_________ treated patients both individually and in groups. With
individuals he would sit in front of his patient with his knees touching thepatient's knees, pressing the patient's thumbs in his hands, looking fixedlyinto the patient's eyes. X made "passes", moving his hands from patients'shoulders down along their arms. He then pressed his fingers on thepatient's hypochondrium region (the area below the diaphragm),sometimes holding his hands there for hours. Many patients felt peculiarsensations or had convulsions that were regarded as crises and supposedto bring about the cure.
Xism is considered to be a form of vitalism and shares features with othervitalist theories that also emphasize the movement of life "energy"through distinct channels in the body.
_____________was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, whotheorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurredbetween all animated and inanimate objects that he called magntismeanimal and other spiritual forces often grouped together as Xism..
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Mesmer
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Which site did he start?
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Mr skin
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Do not call _________ if there is no serious people emergency. It is not a number forenquiry or information gathering. Do not play around by dialing _______ as a joke.Otherwise a call in real emergency could be blocked and a life will be lost. If youhappen to call ______ by accident then do not hang up until the officer asks you todo so.
Reasons why ____ was chosen1.It is said that the human soul goes through ______ stages on a journey.
2.__________ is a primordial number resonating accross countries, cultures, religionsand is also a prime number to astrologers, astronomers, linguists andmathematicians.
3.Krishna is said to have danced with ______ Gopis the ecstatic Raasa Leela on moon
lit nights in Brindavan.4.______is a technologically acceptable number enabling the processing of calls tooccur faster.
There are various other reasons as well.These found on website of "this particularservice" which is sponsored by an Andhra Conglomerate. What it is?
Gimme Blank and the Service.
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108 (GVK EMRI)
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______________ had a whimsical side and developed a juggling machine,rocket-powered Frisbees, motorized Pogo sticks, a mind-reading machine,a mechanical mouse that could navigate a maze and a device that couldsolve the Rubik's Cube puzzle. At Bell, he was remembered for riding the
halls on a unicycle while juggling three balls.An avid chess player,______________ built a chess-playing computer years
before IBM's Deep Blue came along. While on a trip to Russia in 1965, hechallenged world champion Mikhail Botvinnik to a match. He lost in 42moves, considered an excellent showing.
_________ (who also happens to be a distant relative of edison)and his wifeBetty also used to go on weekends to Las Vegas with M.I.T. mathematicianEd Thorp,and made very successful forays in blackjack .
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Claude Shannon
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In 1901, Englishman hubert cecil boothinvented the very first X. the X worked welland was popular with rich people. it was also
used in places such as westminster abbey,buckingham palace and winsor castle . booth'sX was so large though that it had to be pulled
by a horse and needed six people to operateit. X was for hire only and was never sold
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________ is named for Henry Walter X, a British scientist who studied thisphenomenon in Amazonian butterflies during the mid- and late nineteenthcentury.It refers to two or more species that are similar in appearance, but only one of which is armed with spines, stingers, or toxic chemistry, while its apparent double
lacks these traits. The second species has no defense other than resembling theunpalatable species and is afforded protection from certain predators by itsresemblance to the unpalatable species, which the predator associates with acertain appearance and a bad experience.The close resemblance between certain harmless flies and stinging bees, and thesimilarity between the colored stripes of the nonpoisonous king snake and thoseof the highly venomous coral snake, are closely tied with this phenomenon.
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To be as "_____________" is an English idiomatic phrase derived from the observedantics, said to occur only in a (particular month) breeding season of the animal.The phrase is an allusion that can be used to refer to any other animal or humanwho behaves in the excitable and unpredictable manner of a "_____________"Along-held view is that the animal will behave strangely and excitedly throughout itsbreeding season, which in Europe is in this month. This odd behaviour includesboxing at other animals of same species, jumping vertically for seemingly noreason and generally displaying abnormal behaviour.
An early verbal record of this animal's strange behaviour occurred in about 1500, inthe poem Blowbol's Test where the original poet said:
Thanne ey begyn to swere and to stare, And be as braynles as a _________
(Then they begin to swerve and to stare, And be as brainless as a ____________)
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Google recently putout a doodle in hishonour on 22/02/12.Who the author?
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X rose to internet prominence with his Silicon Valley blog, Y. It covers internet startupsand news. In early September 2011 X was reported to be no longer employed by Ybut associated with a new investment company, AOL Ventures.Within days, it wasbeing reported that he was no longer associated with AOL Ventures.
In May 2010, X was involved in a verbal confrontation with CEO of Yahoo!, Carol Bartz.X started the interview by asking Bartz, "So how the f**k are you?" To which sheresponded, "Is that appropriate?". Later in the interview, Bartz became perturbedwith X's criticism of the Yahoo! business model of conglomeration rather thansingle revenue source producers. Bartz then responded to X saying, "you areinvolved in a very tiny company" and ended the exchange by telling him to "f**koff." Bartz received some support from bloggers for her response, including Guy
Kawasaki who stated, "I respect Carol Bartz even more now."
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The X effect, also known as X-ing, occurs when a popular website links to a smallersite, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing itto slow down or even temporarily close. The name stems from the huge influx of
web traffic that results from the technology news site X linking to websites. Theeffect has been associated with other websites or metablogs such as Fark, DrudgeReport , Reddit, Twitter and Digg, leading to terms such as being Farked orDrudged , or being under the Reddit effect .
Major news sites or corporate websites are typically engineered to serve largenumbers of requests and therefore do not normally exhibit this effect. Websitesthat fall victim may be hosted on home servers, offer large images or movie files orhave inefficiently generated dynamic content (e.g. many database hits for everyweb hit even if all web hits are requesting the same page). These websites oftenbecome unavailable within a few minutes of a story's appearance, even before anycomments have been posted. Occasionally, paying X subscribers (who have accessto stories before non-paying users) have rendered a site unavailable even beforethe story is posted for the general readership.
By 2005, reporters were commenting that the X effect had been diminishing.However,there have been subsequent reports of the effect being seen on Twitter whensome popular twitterers mention a website.
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Breaking bad video