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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on retail
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a sharp economic toll on the retail industry worldwide as many retailers and shopping centers were forced to shut down for months due to mandated stay-at-home orders. As a result of these closures, online retailers received a major boost in sales as customers looked for alternative ways to shop and the effects of the retail apocalypse were exacerbated. A number of notable retailers filed for bankruptcy including Ascena Retail Group, Debenhams, Arcadia Group, Brooks Brothers, GNC, J. C. Penney, Lord & Taylor and Neiman Marcus.

Major retailers that closed since the pandemic began include Century 21, Lord & Taylor, and Fry's Electronics.

Fry's Electronics
Fry's Electronics was an American big-box store chain. It was headquartered in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley. Fry's retailed software, consumer electronics, household appliances, cosmetics, tools, toys, accessories, magazines, technical books, snack foods, electronic components, and computer hardware, in addition to offering in-store computer repair and custom computer building services.

Fry's began with one store in Sunnyvale, California, and expanded to 34 stores in nine states at its peak in 2019.

On February 24, 2021, Fry's announced the immediate and permanent closure of all of its stores. A statement posted on its website cited "changes in the retail industry and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic".
RealVideo
RealVideo, also spelled as Real Video, is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks — the specific format changes with the version. It was first released in 1997 and as of 2024 was at version 15. RealVideo is supported on many platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and several mobile phones.

RealVideo is usually paired with RealAudio and packaged in a RealMedia (.rm) container. RealMedia is suitable for use as a streaming media format, that one is viewed while it is being sent over the network. Streaming video can be used to watch live television since it does not require downloading the entire video in advance.

Helix (multimedia project)
Helix DNA was a project to produce computer software that can play audio and video media in various formats and aid in creating such media. It was intended as a largely free and open-source digital media framework compatible with numerous operating systems and processors (including mobile phones) and it was started by RealNetworks, which contributed much of the code. The Helix Community was an open collaborative effort to develop and extend the Helix DNA platform. The Helix Project has been discontinued.

Helix DNA Client is a software package for multi-platform, multi-format media playback. Helix Player is a media player compatible with Linux, Solaris, Symbian, and FreeBSD and uses the Helix DNA Client. 
The Helix DNA Producer application aids in producing media files, and Helix DNA Server can stream media files over a network.
Red Eye (British TV series)
Red Eye is a British thriller television series, created by Peter A Dowling and starring Jing Lusi, Richard Armitage, Jemma Moore and Lesley Sharp. It premiered on ITV1 and ITVX on 21 April 2024.

A second series, Red Eye: Crimson Icarus, was announced in September 2024, with Lusi, Moore, Sharp and Armitage returning, and Martin Compston joining the cast. It premiered on ITV1 and ITVX on 1 January 2026.

Jing Lusi
Jing Lusi (born Lu Sijing; simplified Chinese: 陆思敬; traditional Chinese: 陸思敬) is a British actress. She is best known for her roles in Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016), the film Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and the 2020 TV series Gangs of London. She has presented for the BBC documentaries My Chinese New Year (2015) and Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth (2016). Since 2024, she has starred in the ITV thriller series Red Eye. In 2026 a second series, Red Eye, Crimson Icharus was released.
Icelandic fiddle
The Icelandic fiddle (Icelandic: fiðla [ˈfɪðla]) is a traditional Icelandic instrument that can be described as a box with two brass strings which is played with a bow. The strings stretch across one end of the box to the other where they are tuned by two tuning pegs.

In English, the Icelandic fiddle may be referred to as a fiddle or violin. It was known to be used in the medieval ages when the King of Sweden kept both fiddle and harp players in his court. The fiddle has also been seen in the medieval  cathedral of Nidaros in Norway, where statues of people playing the fiddle are displayed.

Langspil
The langspil (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlauŋkˌspɪːl̥]; meaning long-play) is a traditional Icelandic drone zither. It has a single melody string and usually 2 drone strings.

The langspil can be played by plucking the strings by hand, with a bow or by hammering. Langspils exist in two basic versions, straight and curved and are generally around the length of 80 cm (31 in), and can be as long as 104 cm (41 in) or as short as 73 cm (29 in). Many different types of wood have traditionally been used, including pine, fir, beechwood, birch, oak and walnut, since they were generally constructed from driftwood.
Romantic (film)
Romantic is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language romantic film directed by Anil Paduri. It is written by Puri Jagannadh who co-produced the film with Charmme Kaur under Puri Connects. The film stars Akash Puri, debutante Ketika Sharma and Ramya Krishna. The film was released theatrically on 29 October 2021.

Akash Puri
Akash Puri is an Indian actor who works in Telugu films. He started his career in 2008 as a child actor in the films Chirutha, Bujjigadu, Ek Niranjan, The Lotus Pond, Businessman, Dhoni and Gabbar Singh.

Puri debuted as a lead and adult with the 2015 film Andhra Pori. His notable films include Mehbooba and Romantic.
Joseph Francois (economist)
Joseph Francois is a professor of international economics at the University of Bern, where he has taught since 2013.
 Since 2015, he is also the managing director of the World Trade Institute. He is co-director of the European Trade Study Group, which he co-founded in 1999. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an at-large board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP).

World Trade Institute
The World Trade Institute (WTI) is an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Bern focused on research, education, and policy support in the areas of global economic governance, international economic law, and international economic sustainability.
Farhat Ishtiaq
Farhat Ishtiaq (Sindhi: فرحت اشتياق) (born June 23, 1980) is a Pakistani writer, author and screenwriter. She is best known for her romantic novels Humsafar, Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu, Diyar-e-Dil, Dil se Nikle Hain Jo Lafz and Woh Jo Qarz Rakhty Thay Jaan Per. Her work mostly focuses on Pakistani society.

Dayar-e-Dil (novella)
Dayar-e-Dil (Urdu: دیار دل ; English: The Valley of Heart) is a novella by Pakistani fiction writer Farhat Ishtiaq, published in 2010.

Dayar-e-Dil was first published in Shuaa Digest, a monthly Urdu-language magazine, as a story in its complete novel section, followed by Mere Humdum Mere Dost. In 2010, both stories was compiled in a book of the same name of a former story (English: My life partner, My friend) by Ilm-o-Irfan Publications.
Quest Crew
Quest Crew is an American hip-hop dance crew from Los Angeles, California who were declared winners of the third season of America's Best Dance Crew. They made their first few appearances individually on shows like So You Think You Can Dance and at events such as Kollaboration 8 and World of Dance. They helped with the choreography for well-known duo LMFAO and have previously toured with them as well.

On August 29, 2015, Quest Crew was declared all-star champions of Season 8 of America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC) receiving $100,000 and the ABDC trophy again. This is the crew's second time being declared champion of MTV's hit show.

In 2016, the group won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography at the 68th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Beat Freaks
Beat Freaks is an all-female breaking dance crew from Los Angeles, California. Each of its ten members have achieved individual success dancing before taking part of the group, which was created in 2003. The Beat Freaks were featured on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew (Season 3) and finished the show as runners-up.
Boom bap
Boom bap is a subgenre of hip-hop and music production style that was prominent in East Coast hip-hop  during the golden age of hip-hop from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

The term "boom bap" is an onomatopoeia that represents the sounds used for the bass (kick) drum and snare drum, respectively. The style is usually recognized by a main drum loop that uses a hard-hitting, acoustic bass drum sample on the downbeats, a snappy acoustic snare drum sample on the upbeats, and an "in your face" audio mix emphasizing the drum loop, and the kick-snare combination in particular.

Key producers include DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Buckwild and Diamond D. Prominent hip hop artists who incorporated "boom bap" in their music include Gang Starr, KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, MF DOOM, Mobb Deep, Craig Mack, R.A. the Rugged Man, Big L, Boot Camp Clik, Griselda, Jay-Z, Common, Yasiin Bey, Nas, and The Notorious B.I.G.

East Coast hip-hop
East Coast hip-hop is a regional subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s. Hip-hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the Bronx borough of New York City.

In contrast to other styles, East Coast hip-hop music prioritizes complex lyrics for attentive listening rather than beats for dancing. The term "East Coast hip-hop" more specifically denotes hip-hop originating from the Northeastern United States. Southeastern states such as Georgia or Florida instead produce Southern hip-hop rather than East Coast hip-hop, although the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland produce East Coast hip-hop.
Kigogo
Kigogo (Kata ya Kigogo, in Swahili)  is an administrative ward in Kinondoni District of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. Mburahati and Mabibo of Ubungo MC border the ward on the north and west, respectively. The ward is bordered to the east by the Mzimuni and Mchikichini of Ilala MC. The ward is bordered to the south by the wards of Ilala, Buguruni, and Tabata of Ilala MC. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a population of 57,613.

Mzimuni
Mzimuni (Kata ya Mzimuni, in Swahili) is an administrative ward in Kinondoni District of the Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. The ward's northern boundaries are formed by the wards of Ndugumbi and Magomeni. Upanga West and Jangwani wards of Ilala MC surround the ward on the east, and Kigogo ward borders it on the south. The Makurumla and Mburahati wards of Ubungo MC are to the west. The ward is home to the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial House.  In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 26,905 people in the ward, from 21,486 in 2012.
Ryan Bounds
Ryan Wesley Bounds (born June 28, 1973) is an American attorney previously serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon.

Bounds had been a nominee for a position as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, but his controversial nomination narrowly lost bipartisan support for confirmation in the Senate when it was revealed that, as an undergraduate, Bounds wrote columns criticizing outrage over vandalism of a gay pride statue. In July 2018, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that President Donald Trump would withdraw the nomination.

Diarmuid O'Scannlain
Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain (/ˈdɪərmɪd oʊˈskænlən/ DEER-mid oh-SKAN-lən; born in 1937) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers are located in Portland, Oregon.
Karstula
Karstula is a municipality of Finland founded in 1867. It is located in the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 3,541 (30 June 2025) and covers an area of 963.19 square kilometres (371.89 sq mi) of which 76.22 km2 (29.43 sq mi) is water.  The population density is 3.99 inhabitants per square kilometre (10.3/sq mi).

Neighbouring municipalities are Kannonkoski, Kivijärvi, Kyyjärvi, Saarijärvi and Soini. There are all together 159 lakes in Karstula, the biggest lakes being Pääjärvi, Enonjärvi and Vahanka.

The subject of the coat of arms refers to Karstula's position as the "gateway to Ostrobothnia", as the inland routes to Ostrobothnia have passed through Karstula in ancient times and still do today. The coat of arms was designed by Ahti Hammar, and the Karstula municipal council approved it at its meeting on 9 March 1953. The Ministry of the Interior confirmed the coat of arms for use on 16 July of the same year.

Pääjärvi (Karstula)
Pääjärvi is a medium-sized lake of Finland. It belongs to the Kymijoki main catchment area. It is located in Karstula in the region of Keski-Suomi. All named islands inside are Kirkkosaari, Vuohisaari, Unikonsaari, Niittysaari, Karjasaari, Hermanninsaari, Sikosaari, Korpisaari, Kivikonsaari, Parkinluoto, Kertosaari, Ellunsaari, Tuomaansaari, Taikinasaari, Nuttura and Männikkösaari.

The north part of the lake belongs to the Natura 2000 environment protection program (number FI0900141).
Cat Person (film)
Cat Person is a 2023 psychological thriller film directed by Susanna Fogel from a screenplay by Michelle Ashford, based on the 2017 short story of the same name by Kristen Roupenian. The film stars Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Fred Melamed, and Isabella Rossellini.

Cat Person premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2023. The film was released in the United States on October 6, 2023, by Rialto Pictures.

Michelle Ashford
Michelle Ashford (born 1960) is an American screenwriter and film producer.  She is best known for her Emmy-nominated writing for the 2010 Miniseries The Pacific.
 In 2013, Ashford's TV series Masters of Sex debuted in the US on Showtime.
Ivanovo, Ruse Province
Ivanovo (Bulgarian: Иваново, pronounced [iˈvanovo]) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Rousse Province. It is the administrative centre of Ivanovo Municipality, which lies in the central part of Rousse Province.

Ivanovo is located 20 kilometres south of the provincial capital of Rousse, in the eastern Danubian Plain. The village is famous for the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site medieval group of monolithic Eastern Orthodox churches, chapels and cave monasteries hewn out of solid rock in the vicinity of Ivanovo. The monastical complex was active from the early 13th to the 17th century.

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo (Bulgarian: Ивановски скални църкви, Ivanovski skalni tsarkvi) are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, located near the village of Ivanovo, 20 kilometers (12 mi) south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom, 32 meters (105 ft) above the river. The complex is noted for its beautiful and well-preserved medieval frescoes. The churches are inside Rusenski Lom Nature Park.
Reiji Miyajima
Reiji Miyajima (Japanese: 宮島 礼吏, Hepburn: Miyajima Reiji; born December 15, 1985) is a Japanese manga artist. He is known for his series AKB49: Ren'ai Kinshi Jōrei, Rent-A-Girlfriend and The Shiunji Family Children.

The Shiunji Family Children
The Shiunji Family Children (Japanese: 紫雲寺家の子供たち, Hepburn: Shiunji-ke no Kodomo-tachi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Reiji Miyajima. It has been serialized in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Young Animal since February 2022. Set in Tokyo's Seijō neighborhood, located in Setagaya Ward, the series follows a young boy who has never had a girlfriend. He lives with five sisters and a younger brother until his father reveals that he and his siblings are not biologically related.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Doga Kobo aired from April to June 2025.
HMS Bamborough Castle
HMS Bamborough Castle (K412)  was one of 44 Castle-class corvettes built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Completed in mid-1944 she sank the U-boat U-387 on 9 December. Aside from a brief period assigned to the Fishery Protection Squadron in 1946, the rest of her career was spent as part of the fleet reserve until she was scrapped in May 1959.

German submarine U-387
The German submarine U-387 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She carried out ten patrols. She sank no ships. She was a member of eleven wolfpacks. She was sunk by HMS Bamborough Castle in the Barents Sea on 9 December 1944.
Zacky Muñoz
Zacky Muñoz (born 2012) is an American author and activist known for his food allergy awareness and advocacy.‍ He is the FARE Ambassador and the author of The Zacky Bill‍‍ and Muñoz SAFE Act, which became California state law in 2022 and 2023, respectively.‍‍‍

The Zacky Bill
The Zacky Bill (AB 2640) is a California law requiring that food allergy information be made available to students. The law was written and championed by a 10-year-old Pasadena boy, Zacky Muñoz and his family, was signed into California law by Governor Newsom on September 29, 2022. It was filed with Secretary of State that same day.
The law requires that the California Department of Education enacts a Resource Guide, made available on their website, for all students, especially those with food allergies and their parents/caregivers.
Melissa Hoffer
Melissa A. Hoffer is an American environmental lawyer currently serving as the Climate Chief of Massachusetts, the first to hold a seat of this kind in the country. Hoffer previously worked in the Attorney General of Massachusetts' office, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), and WilmerHale. She was a "day one" appointee to President Joe Biden's cabinet as Principal Deputy General Counsel and Acting General Counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency. As a lawyer, she headed cases including Boumediene v. Bush (related to the Algerian Six) and Commonwealth v. Exxon Mobil Corp. She believes in a "whole-of-government approach" to climate change and that environmental issues should not be isolated to a single government department.

WilmerHale
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, also known as WilmerHale, is an American multinational law firm with offices in the United States and Europe. Co-headquartered in Washington, D.C., and Boston, it was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the D.C.-based firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering. It employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Matula
Matula ([maˈtula]) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) which was directed by Tan Tjoei Hock and produced by The Teng Chun of Java Industrial Film. The black-and-white film, now likely lost, follows a young man who tries to give a woman's soul to a shaman as payment for being made handsome.

Tan Tjoei Hock
Tan Tjoei Hock (15 April 1908 – 1984) was an Indonesian journalist and filmmaker. Born in Batavia, he was discovered by The Teng Chun in the late 1930s. Tan became one of the most productive film directors of the Dutch East Indies between 1940 and 1941, directing nine films – primarily action.
Brent Patterson
Brent Hathaway Patterson (born April 9, 1963, in Hayward, California United States.) is an American former "Old School" bicycle motocross (BMX) racer.

Brent Patterson is the elder of what was the most potent sibling combinations that bicycle motocross has ever seen. With Brian, the Brothers Patterson are the only brothers to both hold the National No.1 Pro title in any major BMX sanctioning body; Brent in 1980 and Brian in 1982 and 1983 in the American Bicycle Association.

Clint Miller
Clint Miller 1 (born April 29, 1962, in Pomona, California, U.S.) is a former American "Old School" professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1976 to 1984.
A popular nickname given to him was "Miller Time", particular after a win. "Miller Time" was a play on his name that happened to invoke a popular 1970's advertising campaign slogan by the makers of Miller Beer, the Miller Brewing Company to indicate to the consumer that after a hard task at work or play that it was "Miller Time", a "..time to relax.."
Al-Rashid Mosque
The Al-Rashid Mosque (French: Mosquée Al-Rashid) was the first mosque built in Canada. It was constructed in 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta, and relocated to its current site in Fort Edmonton Park, in 1992. The mosque serves the Sunni Muslim community.

Fort Edmonton Park
Fort Edmonton Park (sometimes referred to as "Fort Edmonton") is an attraction in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Named for the first enduring European post in the area of modern-day Edmonton, the park is the largest living history museum in Canada by area. It includes both original and rebuilt historical structures representing the history of Edmonton (including that of Indigenous Peoples), and is staffed during the summer by costumed historical interpreters.
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu (Romanian pronunciation: [kəˈliŋ konstanˈtin anˈton poˈpesku təriˈtʃe̯anu]; born 14 January 1952) is a Romanian politician who served as prime minister of Romania from 2004 to 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the vice-president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), two positions he assumed in 2004.

He previously served as the President of the Senate, the second position in the Romanian state, from 2014 until his resignation in 2019, having previously resigned from his own party, the PNL, and then becoming an independent senator. In July 2014, he established the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) which later merged with the Conservative Party (PC) in order to form the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE).

Dinu Patriciu
Dan Costache (Dinu) Patriciu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdinu paˈtrit͡ʃu]; 3 August 1950 – 19 August 2014) was a Romanian billionaire businessman and politician. At the time of his death, Patriciu was the richest man in Romania. His wealth was based on the Rompetrol company (the second largest oil company in Romania), which he took over from the Romanian state and later sold to Kazakhstan's state-owned KazMunayGas.

Patriciu's business activity was marred by legal troubles, being charged with defrauding the state, money laundering and illegally manipulating markets, but he successfully withstood the investigations into allegedly corrupt privatization deals.

A supporter of right-libertarian politics, Patriciu was a long-time member of the National Liberal Party (PNL). During the 2009 Romanian presidential election, Patriciu released a video in which President Băsescu appeared to hit a boy; Traian Băsescu sued for libel and won.
Afghan leopard gecko
The Afghan leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius afghanicus) is one of the five subspecies of the common leopard gecko, a small lizard belonging to the family Eublepharidae. This subspecies was first discovered by entomologist Carl Julius Bernhard Börner in 1976. It is much smaller than other leopard gecko subspecies.

Leopard gecko
The leopard gecko or common leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) is a ground-dwelling gecko native to the rocky dry grassland and desert regions of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. The leopard gecko is a popular pet, and due to extensive captive breeding it is sometimes referred to as the first domesticated species of lizard.