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Debbie was in a bit of a pickle.

A crisp and gurkin sandwiches just weren't selling

until she had the good idea to use Kenver to design her logo, menus and social posts.

They looked good, really, really good.

Turns out Crisp and Girkin's sandwiches are right up everyone's street.

Even if that street now smells of pickles.

Thanks, Canber.

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I have to do it.

Why one of the world's most brilliant AI scientists

left the US for China by Chang Chee,

read by Vincent Lai.

Music for China by Chang Chei read by Vincent Lai you know By the time Song Chunju was six years old, he had encountered death more times than he could count.

Or so it felt.

This was the early 1970s, the waning years of the cultural revolution, and his father ran a village supply store in rural China. There was little to do beyond till the fields and study Maozha Dong at home, and so the shop became a refuge where people could rest, recharge, and share tales.

Zhu grew up in that shop, absorbing a lifetime's worth of tragedies.

A family friend lost in a car crash, a relative from an untreated illness,

stories of suicide or starvation.

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