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The online metaverse and social networking site IMVU grew by 44 percent during the pandemic; it now attracts 7 million active users a month, most of them female or female-identifying and aged from 18 to 24. If you aren’t one of those millions, here’s a primer: On IMVU, users create personal avatars and dress them in clothes designed by fellow users creators, in site parlance bought with credits paid for with real money. The point of IMVU is to connect virtually with friends and to potentially make new ones, but shopping is no small part of the site’s attraction. IMVU’s virtual store features 50 million items made by over 200,000 creators. Fourteen billion in credits, or $14 million, exchanges hands in over 27 million transactions each month. “I shop therefore I am,” as Barbara Kruger put it in her famous 1990 artwork, takes on new resonance in this digital world.
Piki Goes to College
Before Piki got her name, she was living in an animal shelter. She thought the shelter was jail because she was kept in a kennel. Piki was scared until she met Joan. They immediately liked each other. Joan arrived and gave me my own new collar that had a tag with my name on one side and my address and phone number on the other side. Then she took me to my new forever home. I was happy to get out of jail and go home with Joan.
Soon Joan and Piki met Rick and Heather and learned how dogs should act in public. They taught Piki how to listen to Joan and how to behave when on a leash. Piki was attending school and Joan was learning how to train her to be a Service Dog.
Dunkin JOY Run to help bring some fun to staying active while fostering a community that seeks to help others. The 100-mile challenge takes place June 1 through June 30, and Dunkin fans across the country are invited to participate by running or walking in their neighborhoods, home gyms, or wherever they choose. All funds raised will benefit the Dunkin Joy in Childhood Foundation to bring joy to children battling hunger or illness.
Last year, with most people staying home due to the pandemic and health and hunger relief organizations needing funding more than ever, the
Dunkin Joy Run was a great opportunity for people to be active while supporting a good cause. Participants logged more than 49,000 miles collectively across 36 states raising more than $235,000 for the Dunkin Joy in Childhood Foundation. Nearly 300 participants reached the challenge goal to complete at least 100 miles during the month-long run. Funding helped support health and hunger relief organizations acr
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Santander apologises to customers over weekend down time 7 hours ago Santander has apologised to customers after a widespread outage over the weekend locked UK customers out of their accounts. The problems, which began on Saturday morning and lasted much of the day until about 21:15, ran across the full gamut of services, from telephone, online and mobile banking, to branches, cards, and cash machines.
In a statement on its home page, the bank says: We are very sorry for the inconvenience we know this caused.
Resident Evil Village is off to a great start in the UK.
At physical retail, it was the biggest launch of 2021 so far in terms of revenue, and the second biggest launch in terms of units beaten only by Nintendo s Super Mario 3D World + Bowser s Fury, which was £15 cheaper.
It was the second biggest launch on Xbox Series X|S, after Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and the third biggest on PlayStation 5 after Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin s Creed Valhalla.
But how does it hold up compared to past Resident Evil games?
With the series now celebrating its 25th anniversary, we took a deeper look at how the franchise has reinvented itself time and again and GfK Entertainment s Dorian Bloch shared some insight into Resident Evil s performance in the UK.