It is still a surprise, for people used to the immaculate technical refinement of Sevres or Wedgwood, to see the lack of finish of Koetsu tea bowls.

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It holds 16, 000 people and is used for state funerals.

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It is full of the plants that the Noongar people have used for thousands of years.

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"It is important for all people, especially children, to see that the medium of graffiti can be used in beautifully creative and legal ways, " he said.

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It owns Android, the most-used mobile operating system for smartphones, and it is also preparing to sell Google Glass, a wearable device for people's faces that it hopes will transform computing.

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"Our lives at this point are speeding up.....it's so nice to just sit with people and go back to the way things used to be where it really is about being together for an hour and talking smack about stupid stuff, " says Mr. Corgan, who also owns a professional wrestling promotion company.

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Sentiment analysis is a commonly used tool for measuring what people are saying about a particular company or brand, but it has issues.

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