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Most of the world’s açaí comes from the Amazon rainforest. People risk their lives to harvest the fruit, climbing palm trees that can grow taller than 50 feet. And while açaí has become one of the trendiest superfoods in recent decades, small farmers aren’t seeing a lot of the profits. The açaí industry has also taken heat over reports of child labor. We went to Brazil to find out how the world’s açaí gets from the Amazon to smoothie shops around the world.

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Challenge #03308-I020: Repaid in Full

Though he never knew how many lived there, he'd saved well over 500 lives. Saving that small village by discovering a cure for a plague had become his deepest desire. He'd saved them not because Wraithvine had required him to save lives as penance for his crimes, but because looking into the eyes of the sick children, he swore to every god that would listen he'd rather die than see these people suffer, Wraithvine's requirement bedamned! Cold irony, the cure didn't work for him. His last request was to hopefully live long enough to see Wraithvine one last time, despite the chest-caving cough and weakness that wracked his body due to illness, to tell him he was sorry he couldn't fulfill his promise to the man to adventure out and find 300 souls. But hoped, at least, saving this one village would show he at least tried.

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One hundred lives saved already, before Kal found Sunnybarrow. A virulent disease was sweeping the little township and the people were desperate. Kal wasn't thinking of his geas from Wraithvine. He was thinking of at least a hundred children who reminded him of Lissi.

A person could save one with a Wish, but they were either expensive or hard to acquire. What Sunnybarrow needed was more than that for certain.

Having wandered with Wraithvine for a space of time, Kal had picked up more than a modicum of alchemy, potioneering, and medicine. He had also acquired some rituals that may or may not be any help.

What comes to your mind when you think of fast fashion? Is it the low prices? How frequent new clothing pieces come out? Well, I am here to tell you about the true cost of fast fashion. Fast fashion is the production of inexpensive clothing at an alarming rate to put out garments in time for the latest trend. The keyword here is “fast”, many retailers today only believe in getting the product out as soon as possible rather than having the garments made ethically. Big retailers that most people shop at today take part in this form of production, such as H&M, Forever 21, ASOS, etc. Stores alike take part in the same form of production to find ways to revamp their inventory.

There are equal amounts of Pros and Cons up for debate about fast fashion. The majority of society today takes part in fast fashion without even acknowledging anything of it. Pro’s about fast fashion is that clothes are made at a very low cost, making the sale price a lot cheaper. Due to the low cost of production, the clothing items are more accessible to anyone wishing to buy them. As well as finding a duplicate of something high end for a much cheaper cost as well without spending hundreds of dollars on a new clothing piece from a top designer. Cons about this process of manufacturing is the working conditions. It was proven that many of these people work in a sweatshop for hours on end with unsanitary conditions. Along with these conditions is that workers only get paid little to nothing for all their hard work on putting together a garment. You may be wondering where these sweatshops are located. These conditions are mostly seen in developing countries. Brands target these countries to manufacture their goods because they live in poverty and pay workers almost little to nothing. In the year 2013, a factory in Bangladesh called Rana Plaza, which was being used to produce clothing, collapsed which took hundreds of lives and left thousands of workers injured.

I was originally going to highlight Unbreakable (2000) today, but given the ending of the trilogy is getting released on Friday, I postponed. The Prestige (2006) will always be a film marked as one of my favorites as it’s a suspense film I can handle and I love when there is a bit of thinking and question as opposed to pure terror (see Cape Fear—the most frightening moments of the film being when literally NOTHING happens but it’s 5 straight, pure minutes of agony).

I like this film because it taps into a lot, struggling for success, secrets, devotion, mystery and it’s related suspense. While we mostly follow Angier and root for him to succeed for his redemption against Borden, we also delve a bit more into Borden and want to root for him sometimes as well. It shows and tests the very complex journey of our aspirations and what may happen when things get out of hand. The fake and true deaths of Angier and Borden show both the worst that comes in us destroying ourselves and how when we lose track of ourselves we can lead others to destroy us.

Giyime gelince, sorunun pratik kısmını ele alacak olursak, giysi temin etmede genellikle gerçek bir fayda sağlamaktan çok, insanların düşüncelerine ve moda aşkına göre yönlendiriliriz. Giysi alacak kişi, giyimin amacının birincisi yaşamsal ısıyı korumak, ikincisi, bu toplumda, çıplaklığı örtmek olduğunu hatırlasın ve gardrobuna ekleme yapmadan önce yeni giysinin gerekli ve önemli işin ne kadarını gerçekleştirebileceğini düşünsün. (…) Bostan korkuluğunu kendi yerinize giydirin, siz yanında kılıksızsanız, herkes onu selamlayacaktır. - Henry David Thoreau 

Colombia exports millions of cut flowers every year, and most of them end up in the US. But working in the flower business is not always rosy. Colombian flower-farm workers endure long hours, debilitating injuries, and workplace harassment to keep up with seasonal foreign demand. So does an ethical bouquet of flowers exist? We went to Colombia to find out.

Editor's Note: A previous version of this video showed two people who asked to be made anonymous for fear of retaliation from employers and insurers. The video has been modified to redact their names and faces.

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Oyster reefs used to line America's coastlines. Today, they've nearly vanished, thanks to overharvesting, increasingly powerful storms, and oil spills. But conservationists are trying to bring back America's wild oysters, not just for eating, but for the benefits they bring to receding coastlines. We went to Louisiana to find out what it takes to farm oysters today and learn about the efforts to replenish these little bivalves.

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