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AMARJIT CIVIL SERVICE PREPARATION Jason Gooljar: The Working Families Party Man - Fighting in the Class War The people who choose to be alone at Christmas Christmas Day is traditionally seen as an event to be spent around loved ones. But what about those who want to spend it alone, asks Ross Davies. Some would say there is no more poignant festive moment than to hear of a Christmas spent alone. Take last year's story of James Gray, the London-based Irish pensioner who placed an advert in the Irish Post in a bid to find someone to share the holiday with, having spent nine consecutive Christmases on his own. Or the report earlier this year of an unnamed widow, who hired an entire Devon pub so as to host a Christmas lunch for herself and 50 strangers also expecting to spend the day alone. Christmas can be a difficult time for many, especially in the face of ubiquitous reminders that it is the season to be jolly - not to mention the financial pressures that come with it. Last December, the Samaritans are said to have received 244,000 calls from people suffering from depression and stress across Britain and Ireland. Alone at Christmas...

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IASbaba - Free Online IAS Coaching Le Ré.Cit. - Réseau Citadelle Latest news India,World,Business,Cricket,Sports,Bollywood,Education Open Innovation Stereoscopic screens for handheld devices will make the UI look a lot better, and cleaner. Look Better On stereoscopic screens, 3D objects look more real than they do on regular 2D screens. Cleaner Stereoscopy uses the brain’s built in depth sorting functionality to isolate objects from each other. Stereo-what-scopy? The word breaks down into stereo, which means 2, and scope, which means eye. One image for your left eye, and one for your right Blinking like this almost gives a sense of what it looks like on a stereoscopic screen You can create a stereoscopic image by moving the camera sideways slightly between two shots. Taken with two cameras separated by a few centimeters Reflections look better on stereoscopic screens The reflections of this timepiece may look over the top on a regular screen. This is me, shot with a regular camera in Malmö Watch how tangible the metal sphere appears Two post-it-blocks on a window Our brains have evolved to handle really cluttered scenes When?

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