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I started this business under my own name, Vincent G. Barlow, in 1981 although I have been dealing since the late 1960's. My stock is composed mainly of illustrated books but I have decided to concentrate on graphic art and books illustrated with original prints on this website.
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text: “He took the nature of a servant without stain of sin, enlarging our humanity without diminishing his divinity. He emptied himself; though invisible he made himself visible, though Creator and Lord of all things he chose to be one of us mortal men. Yet this was the condescension of compassion, not the loss of omnipotence. So he who in the nature of God had created man, became in the nature of a servant, man himself. “He was born in a new condition, for, invisible in his own nature, he became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, he chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, he began to exist at a moment in time. Lord of the universe, he hid his infinite glory and took the nature of a servant. Incapable of suffering as God, he did not refuse to be a man, capable of suffering. Immortal, he chose to be subject to the laws of death.” (Pope Leo the Great) As we reflect on the mystery of the Incarnation—God becoming Man—we witness the marvelous plan of God out of love for us. Jesus becomes less without being less as God. The key to this mystery, which is received in faith, is the gratuitous love of God for us. Our only response can be love and thanksgiving in return.


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This is my first mechanical keyboard. It has Cherry Reds. The software it comes with is pretty powerful on its own, and there is an SDK that you can toy around with if you're looking to be a poweruser of your keyboard's LEDs. I downloaded it but haven't had the time to mess around with it.
The main issue is that sometimes the keyboard doesn't work when the computer boots up from an off state (not sleep mode). For me it's not enough for me to want to return it as I can easily access the on-screen keyboard to log in to get the keyboard to become recognized, but I do think I'll look elsewhere as it's a problem that I could just not be having.
A smaller issue is that only 'basic' types of LED functionality work from the hardware alone. Gradient types require the application to be open, and can lead to your keyboard looking kind of funny for instance when booting your computer up.
Best keyboard on the market sub $200 in my opinion. Only difference between it and the K95 platinum were this one has A LOT more macro keys and a slim rgb bar on the keyboard itself which I didn't care about, and usb & audio pass-throughs. The macros more than make up for it. If you're streaming, the extra macros basically double as a stream deck and there is no need to buy it separately.

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text: In 1989, she was a Christian homemaker and college professor with a Doctorate in Linguistics in northern India. Like all Indians she saw poverty in the streets everyday of her life. One fateful day, God decided to use her to change hearts of children in a slum of 25,000 people across from her apartment. After teaching more than 100 children from her home, Ananthi received permission to establish a school within the “toilet complex” of the Alakananda slum in 1991. By 1998, she was teaching more than 600 children of all ages within the slum community with the help of 18 volunteer teachers. With a passion for these children, Ananthi manages a staff of over 150 in New Delhi, India. The children and families of the communities call her “Mummy-ji” which in Hindi means “honored mother”.

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text: You are the pilot who collect space food! Beware of hazardous foods! Collect food before time runs out!

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Poetry. Like a coconut-scented suntan lotion that only the applicant can smell, Hajara Quinn's COOLTH is an effortless tide pool. Blending the incantational voice of Mary Ruefle with the allegorical magic of Lucie Brock-Broido, Quinn impeccably collapses distances: between the present and the past, the mundane and the ethereal, the self and the other. But her voice is as sure of itself as it is unsure of the world. COOLTH is a debut collection that suspiciously grabs the rope swing and dives into the lake of un-unbelonging. The perfect summer read for the emotionally demure.
Hajara Quinn lives in Portland, OR. She is an assistant editor for Octopus Books, Program Director at the IPRC, and the author of the chapbook UNNAYSAYER (Flying Object, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Volta, and Sixth Finch, and she is a recipient of a 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowship. COOLTH is her first full length book.


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The World Tourism Organization (WTO) and Globalia announced on Tuesday the first and largest worldwide competition for tourism startups.
The tourism sector took a giant step into the future. The WTO in partnership with Globalia, the leading tourism group in Spain and Latin America, announced the launch of the 1st WTO Tourism Startup Competition. It is the world’s first and largest initiative devoted to identifying new companies that will lead the transformation of the tourism sector. In order to find the best projects, the call for competitors will be launched in 164 countries.
The objective of the program is to select the best solutions and the most disruptive projects. The search will focus on finding pioneering proposals for implementation of emerging and disruptive technologies, as well as on startups based on new business models, such as the circular economy. In this regard, one of the pillars of this competition is to give visibility to projects that are committed to enhancing sustainability in tourism.
The startup search process is as ambitious as it is complex: identifying the best projects in all corners of the planet. For this, WTO and Globalia have enlisted the innovation consultancy firm Barrabés.biz, which boasts more than 20 years’ experience in the creation, connection and activation of entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems.
To broaden the scope of the competition and to facilitate the registration of interested startups, the program will be implemented through the digital platform YouNoodle, a leading Silicon Valley company in the startup evaluation space at the global level.
“Innovation and tourism investment are not ends in themselves; they are means to develop better tourism products, to improve the governance of tourism and to make the most of the proven sustainability of tourism, by creating jobs and generating opportunities," said WTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili.

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text: I met a public servant who offered to help me track my mother’s pension benefit. He requested for a fee for photocopy. I gave him 4,000. I think I just paid a bribe.

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A system of wings and frameworks occupy the entire lot. The project launches a system of wings and the creation of a green theatre, a small enchanted garden within which the entire building is immersed. The wings are the main back-up for the creation of a recreational-creative setting, where the children can develop a sense of belonging experimenting new spaces which stimulate their cognitive skills. The wings become a shield system against the buildings nearby, creating an intimate setting both inside and outside, overcoming the feeling of oppression caused by its particular location.
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Condemns the violence and persecution in Chechnya. Calls on: Chechen officials to cease the abduction, detention, and torture of individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation and hold accountable those involved in perpetrating such abuses; the government of the Russian Federation to protect the human rights of all its citizens, condemn the violence and persecution, investigate such crimes in Chechnya, and hold accountable those involved in perpetrating such abuses; and the U.S. government to continue to condemn the violence and persecution in Chechnya, demand the release of individuals wrongfully detained, and identify those individuals whose involvement in this violence qualifies for the imposition of sanctions under the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 or the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. Affirms that the rights to freedom of assembly, association, and expression and freedom from extrajudicial detention and violence are universal human rights and that countries that fail to respect these rights jeopardize the security and prosperity of all their citizens.
My only objection is a fear that this will be a toothless gesture, but a gesture is better than nothing. This is a gross violation of human rights and cannot go ignored.
Please condemn the violence in Chechnya and ensure that this never happens here.
This doesn't do much except make US policy the state department has to follow. Quit worrying about Russian collusion and start worrying about what they are actually doing. They are showing their human rights policies only apply to a select few.
We are kinder than this. We are more just than this. We cannot continue to be silent on this issue. America acts as an example for the whole world at large. We intervened during the Holocaust for almost exactly the very reason we should intervene in Chechnya today. It is crucial. The time is running low and indeed people are dying. Congress needs to speak because this administration won't. And this is 2017. We are not going back in the closet. And nobody can silence us or delete our very existence. Nobody has that right. To the members of Congress: we are calling on you to show us, your constituents, that you will do what you know Trump won't. Please. Please.
We cannot let this persecution continue! As defenders as justice and equality, we must condemn the actions against LGBT people. We can't allow them to get away with this!
Look I have never been in favor of gay marriage. But it one thing to be against Believe and another to treat them like animal. Gay people are still people and deserve to be treated like so.
The US has been silent on this for to long. It's time to act.


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David had his hands in his jean pockets as he walked, he really didn't see anything in the market that had caught his eye. At least not yet anyway. He than walked by a shop and suddenly stopped, his eyes widened, the entire world seemed to just stop and melt away. He had stopped in his tracks and just stared at the beautiful blond girl that seemed to be shopping. He felt a gravitational pull towards her, he felt like his insides were on fire, all he wanted to do was be with her. Make her smile. Make her laugh. Please her in anyway. ' Oh god, now I know what the guys meant when they said it felt like your soulmate was keeping your feet on the ground. Not Gravity' He thought.
David watched her from afar at first, when she moved, he moved. He walked up to the next shop and stood a few feet away from her, watching her, making sure no one would try to hurt her. He may've looked stupid just staring at her, well, more like he looked like a complete creep. But he didn't care, even though he didn't know her name or what she was like, he just wanted to be around her all the time.
Tabi had been on her own for a year now and she still was unsure what to do with herself. She had been a werewolf for only a couple of years at the time and was still trying to understand what it meant for her. She was still having trouble adjusting to being on her own, even though she had been able to manage. When she moved to Romania she was hoping she could leave the nightmares behind her, but she never could quite get rid of them. She just made it one day at a time in the hopes that maybe she would find the one place she belonged.
It was her day off from the apothecary and she thought a trip through the local market place. She had gone from store to store buy a few things and wander around. Suddenly while she was in the shop she got this strange feeling or pull she had never felt before. When she looked up trying to figure it out she found a pair of eyes looking directly at her. She froze for a moment just staring back at him and she felt a blush creep up her face then released the look and went back to shopping. She moved from one shop to another wondering why she kept having this feeling that she needed to talk to him.
These were stupid feelings she was having and she did not understand because Gegor never taught her anything about mating, love, or soul mates so these were things she did not know anything about. So she would not know that was what these feelings were all about. Love was for fools Gegor always told her. So she brushed it off a little once again moving to the next shop in the market. She actually found herself looking around for the man she just saw. This was crazy, why did she have the need to find this guy. Looking around she found him again looking at her, but she tried not to make it look like she was looking at him.
David shook his head and saw the beautiful girl looking back at him. He blinked in disbelief, he looked around and made sure she wasn't staring at anyone else, when he saw no one he smiled a bit. He saw a blush creep up her cheeks and he thought it made her look much cuter than she already was, he watched her look away and felt like he had been punched in the gut. Did he do something wrong? He wasn't sure, so he began to follow her to the other shop, and the other shop, than the next one.
He would stand a few feet away from her as she shopped, he would buy a couple of small things at the store so he didn't seem like he was just standing there, he tried to make it look like a coincide that they happened to go to the same store. David than wondered why she tried to look like she wasn't watching him when she clearly was, it made him smirk a bit. This was turning into a fun game.
David than made sure she would loose sight of him at the next shop, he went down an alley way. He stood there until he saw her looking at him, he chuckled softly too himself, he watched her look for him and it was very amusing. When her back was turned he walked up silently behind her, but she turned around and dropped all the things she was carrying. He smiled and helped her pick all the things up. " Were you looking for me?" He asked with a small smirk on his lips.


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There were 414,963,871 shares of common stock outstanding on October 24, 2005 (and 31,821,705 exchangeable shares).
The following interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements of Newmont Mining Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, Newmont or the Company) are unaudited. In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of these interim statements have been included. The results reported in these interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be reported for the entire year. These interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with Newmonts Consolidated Financial Statements included in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, filed March 15, 2005.
References to A$ refer to Australian currency, CDN$ to Canadian currency, IDR to Indonesian currency and $ to United States currency.
The Company has reclassified the balance sheet amounts and the income statement results for the Golden Grove copper-zinc operation from the historical presentation to assets and liabilities of operations held for sale on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and to discontinued operations in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for all periods presented. The Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows have been reclassified for assets held for sale and discontinued operations for all periods presented.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company reclassified auction rate securities having a stated or contractual maturity date for the underlying security in excess of 90 days from cash equivalents to Net cash used in investing activities in the Statements of Condensed Consolidated Cash Flows. The reflection of purchases and sales of these securities decreased Net cash used in investing activities and reduced Cash and cash equivalents by $443. Cash and cash equivalents decreased by $183 and $626 at the beginning and end of the nine month period ended September 30, 2004, respectively.
At some of the Companys mining operations, deferred stripping costs are charged to Costs applicable to sales as gold or copper is produced and sold using the units of production method based on estimated recoverable quantities of proven and probable gold or copper reserves, using a stripping ratio calculated as the ratio of total tons to be moved to total proven and probable ore reserves, which results in the recognition of the costs of waste removal activities over the life of the mine as gold or copper is produced. The application of the deferred stripping accounting method generally results in an asset (deferred stripping costs), although a liability (advanced stripping costs) will arise if the actual stripping ratio incurred to date is less than the expected stripping ratio over the life of the mine. The Advanced stripping costs primarily pertain to the Batu Hijau operation.
In March 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ratified Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue No. 04-06, Accounting for Stripping Costs Incurred during Production in the Mining Industry. EITF Issue No. 04-06 addresses the accounting for stripping costs incurred during the production phase of a mine and refers to these costs as variable production costs that should be included as a component of inventory to be recognized in costs applicable to sales in the same period as the revenue from the sale of inventory. As a result, capitalization of post-production stripping costs is appropriate only to the extent product inventory exists at the end of a reporting period. The guidance in EITF Issue No. 04-06 is effective for the first reporting period in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005, with early adoption permitted. The guidance requires application through recognition of a cumulative effect adjustment to opening retained earnings in the period of adoption, with no charge to current earnings for prior periods. The most significant expected impacts of adoption are the elimination of the deferred and advanced stripping costs on Newmonts balance sheet and the recognition of future post-production stripping costs as a component of inventory to be recognized in costs applicable to sales in the same period as the revenue from the sale of inventory, or in the case of inventory on hand at the end of a period, from impairment charges where the carrying value of inventory on hand exceeds the net realizable value. The Company will adopt this new accounting rule as of January 1, 2006. A cumulative effect of an accounting change reduction to opening retained earnings of between $60 and $100 (net of tax) is currently anticipated. Adoption of the new guidance will have no impact on the Companys cash position.
In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123R, Share-Based Payment, which revised SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation and superseded Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees and its related implementation guidance. SFAS No. 123R requires measurement and recording in the financial statements of the costs of employee services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments based on the grant-date fair value of the award, recognized over the period during which an employee is required to provide services in exchange for such award. Newmont will adopt the provisions of SFAS No. 123R on January 1, 2006, using the modified prospective method. Accordingly, compensation expense will be recognized for all newly granted awards and awards modified, repurchased, or cancelled after January 1, 2006. Compensation cost for the unvested portion of awards that are outstanding, as of January 1, 2006, will be recognized ratably over the remaining vesting period. The compensation cost for the unvested portion of awards will be based on the fair value at date of grant as utilized in the SFAS No. 123 pro forma disclosure below. The actual effect on net income and earnings per share in future periods will vary depending upon the number and fair value of options granted in future years compared to prior years.
The Company recognized $4 and $4 of non-cash compensation expense during the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, and $12 and $11 during the nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, related to deferred and restricted stock awards granted.
Scheduled minimum long-term debt repayments as of September 30, 2005 are $98 for the remainder of 2005, $169 in 2006, $165 in 2007, $234 in 2008, $116 in 2009 and $1,225 thereafter.
During March 2005, Newmont issued uncollateralized notes with a principal amount of $600 due April 2035 bearing an interest rate of 5 7/8%. Interest on the notes is paid semi-annually in April and October.
During June 2005, 161,111 ounces were physically delivered in connection with the Prepaid forward sales obligation. The effect was a non-cash reduction in debt of $48.
Effective July 28, 2005, the Company renegotiated the terms of its uncollateralized $1,250 revolving facility extending the maturity date one year to July 2010.
At September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, $405 and $399, respectively, were accrued for reclamation obligations relating to mineral properties in accordance with SFAS No. 143, Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations. In addition, the Company is involved in several matters concerning environmental obligations associated with former, primarily historic, mining activities. Generally, these matters concern developing and implementing remediation plans at the various sites involved. At September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, $69 and $75, respectively, were accrued for such obligations. These amounts are also included in Reclamation and remediation liabilities.
The current portions of Reclamation and remediation liabilities of $59 and $53 at September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively, are included in Other current liabilities and deferred revenue.
Newmont generally avoids gold hedging. Newmonts philosophy is to provide shareholders with leverage to gold prices by selling its production at market prices. Newmont has, on a limited basis, entered into derivative contracts to protect the selling price for certain anticipated gold production and to manage risks associated with sales contracts, commodities, interest rates and foreign currency. Newmont is not required to place collateral with respect to commodity instruments and there are no margin calls associated with such contracts.
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, losses of $1 and $1, respectively, were included in Other income (expense), net for the ineffective portion of derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges. For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, gains of $2 and $1, respectively, were included in Other income (expense), net for the ineffective portion of derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges. The amount anticipated to be reclassified from Accumulated other comprehensive income to income for derivative instruments during the next 12 months is a loss of approximately $24. The maximum period over which hedged forecasted transactions are expected to occur is 6.5 years.
(1) The fair value does not include amounts payable ($22) on derivative contracts that have been closed out in September 2005 with the net settlement due in October 2005.
(2) The fair value does not include amounts payable ($7) on derivative contracts that had been closed out in December 2004 with the net settlement due and paid in January 2005.
In 2001, Newmont entered into contracts to hedge the interest rate risk exposure on a portion of its $275 8 5/8% notes and its $200 8 3/8% debentures. For the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, these transactions resulted in a reduction in interest expense of $1 and $2, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, these transactions resulted in a reduction in interest expense of $3 and $4, respectively. The fair value of the interest rate swaps was $4 at September 30, 2005 and $9 at December 31, 2004.
Options to purchase 1.6 million and 1.7 million shares of common stock at average exercise prices of $53.34 and $53.73 were outstanding as of September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, but were not included in the computation of diluted weighted average number of common shares because the option price was greater than the average market price of the common shares.
On March 31, 2005, the Minera El Bermejal S. de R.L. de C.V. joint venture, 44% owned by Newmont and 56% owned by Industrias Penoles S.A. de C.V., completed the sale of its interest in the Mezcala Gold Deposit for cash proceeds of $70 (Newmonts share $31). The Company recorded a pre-tax gain of $31.
During June 2005, Newmont announced the pending sale of its Golden Grove copper-zinc operation in Western Australia to Oxiana Limited (Oxiana) for proceeds including cash of A$190 and 81.5 million Oxiana shares. The sale was completed on July 26, 2005.
Newmont accounted for the imminent disposition in accordance with SFAS No. 144 Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets. At June 30, 2005, the carrying value of Golden Grove was reduced to its estimated fair value based upon the pending sale. A pre-tax impairment loss of $39 was recognized for the six months ended June 30, 2005. Upon the sale, a $6 million pre-tax gain (due to increase in Oxiana share price at July 26, 2005) was recognized in the three-months ended September 30, 2005.
The Company has reclassified the balance sheet amounts and the income statement results from the historical presentation to assets and liabilities of operations held for sale on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and to gain (loss) from discontinued operations in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for all periods presented. The Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows have been reclassified for assets held for sale and discontinued operations for all periods presented.
On March 1, 2005, Newmont sold the Ovacik mine, located in western Turkey, to a subsidiary of Koza Davetiye, a listed Turkish conglomerate. Consideration for the mine included $20 paid at closing and various contingent payments that could total up to an additional $24.5 if all conditions precedent are met. Contingent payments received and any associated gains will be recognized as and when received.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2004, Newmont recorded a pre-tax $16 Write-down of long-lived assets related to the Ovacik mine.
Upon consolidation of Batu Hijau, effective January 1, 2004, in accordance with FASB Interpretation No. 46R, certain adjustments were recorded to the opening balance sheet of Batu Hijau to conform to Newmonts accounting policies. These adjustments were recorded to change from units-of-production depreciation of processing plant and mining facilities to straight-line depreciation of such facilities and to change from allocating costs to stockpile inventories based on mining costs per ton to allocating costs based on recoverable pounds of copper equivalent contained in the various categories of stockpiles. The impact of these adjustments were charges of $15 and $32, respectively, which have been recorded in Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle in the 2004 Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income, net of income tax expense and minority interest.
Newmont USA, a 100 percent owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation, has fully and unconditionally guaranteed the 5 7/8% notes and the revolving credit facilities of Newmont Mining Corporation. The following condensed consolidating financial information is provided for Newmont USA, as guarantor, and for Newmont Mining Corporation, as issuer, as an alternative to providing separate financial statements for the guarantor. The accounts of Newmont Mining Corporation and Newmont USA are presented using the equity method of accounting for investments in subsidiaries.

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When it comes to rehabilitating the plumbing pipes of your Chicago commercial or multi-unit residential building without damaging your drywall, expensive finishes or ceilings, epoxy pipe lining is a viable, affordable solution that can fix pinhole leaks and cracks and prevent further pipe corrosion. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation on the Internet about epoxy pipe coating.
MYTH: The lining process can damage your plumbing pipes.
FACT: Not all pipes are good candidates for the pipe lining process.
Before your plumbing pipes are lined, a plumbing pipe assessment should be performed. These assessments involve using a small digital camera on a flexible tubing that is connected to a small monitor and a recording device. The camera is threaded through your plumbing pipes, and the images are transmitted to the monitor. This allows the pipe lining technician to view your plumbing pipes in real time to determine the levels of corrosion, find any cracks or missing sections of pipe and make an informed decision about whether or not your pipes would benefit from epoxy pipe lining. A professional pipe lining technician should never recommend pipe lining for pipes with extremely thin walls or with severe corrosion. Instead, the technician should recommend a combination approach that involves lining some pipes and completely replacing the pipes that cannot be lined.
MYTH: It is impossible to tell how well the epoxy pipe liner adhered to the host pipe.
FACT: A post-installation camera inspection can tell you how well the pipe liner adhered to the pipe.
After your pipes are lined with an epoxy pipe liner and the appropriate amount of cure time has elapsed, a second camera inspection should be performed. This camera inspection is designed to locate any abnormalities or errors in the pipe liner before the pipes are restored to service. If any abnormalities are found, they should be immediately repaired at no cost to the client.
MYTH: Leaks in failed epoxy pipe liners cannot be fixed.
FACT: If an epoxy pipe liner fails due to improper installation, in many cases, it can be repaired.
Pipe liners can absolutely be fixed if they fail, bulge or wrinkle. When a pipe liner experiences a failure, the first task that should be performed is a camera inspection. This allows the pipe lining technician to locate the problem and determine if it is an epoxy pipe lining failure or another problem with the pipe. Since the camera inspection is recorded, that recording can be shown to the client, and the problems and solutions can be explained in detail. If the problem with the pipe is the pipe liner, the affected section of liner is ground out. A small area of liner can be fixed with an epoxy pipe liner patch. A larger section can be fixed by inserting another epoxy pipe liner in the affected area.
MYTH: When pipes are lined, certain components of the plumbing pipe system are forgotten.
FACT: Proper communication and pre-installation inspections need to be performed before any plumbing pipes are lined.
Proper communication and a thorough camera inspection must happen before any epoxy pipe lining solutions are installed. The camera inspection is essential for determining the condition of the pipes and if they can be lined. Communication is absolutely essential in order to determine the scope and expectations of the job. One example of this type of detailed communication occurred at US Cellular Field.
Our pipe lining technicians, here at NuFlow, were asked if we could line P-traps. P-traps are not usually lined with epoxy liners due to the curve of the traps, but instead of telling the client that we could not line their P-traps, we started developing a custom solution that involved cutting out excess pipe liner until it fit the size p-traps at the stadium. Once installed and cured, the liner was sanded smooth and finished with an epoxy coating. The result was beautifully lined P-traps that were completely restored.
To learn more about how epoxy pipe lining solutions can help you restore your plumbing pipes, call us at 815-790-9000.


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The 10 Coolest Coffee Shops in Florida!
What goes into the very best coffee shops? Certainly, making their own hand-roasted beans is a factor. Equally certain is their friendly servers. A comfortable atmosphere with chairs that are meant just for relaxing also helps. Perhaps also some creature comforts like newspapers, magazines and books to read. A couple of tasty morsels to eat is also a plus. With some or most of that, we can relax.
There is a long list of Florida coffee shops that will provide you with all of these necessary features. From Margate to Miami, stop into one of these 10 coffee shops in the Sunshine State to start your day.
If you don’t believe us, Complex Magazine wrote, “If you want a college coffee spot that is cool above all else, this may be the one.” They praised it for making coffee into an art form and for serving dishes like blue velvet cupcakes. Also, it’s easy-going environment. Anthony Rue only opened this place after a year of research. He looked at what are sometimes known as the “Holy Trinity” of coffee houses: coffee, tea and chocolate. Rue is known as a coffee fanatic, steeped in the subject that he often discusses with customers. It’s no surprise that his staff is equally passionate. They spend weeks in training before serving and are encouraged to compete in contests. What’s coffee without entertainment? Boring. No way of that happening because there are regular readings from local creative writing students (Rue studied literature in college).
If you get a café con leche you will not sleep until the year 2020 or so. But joking aside, they take their coffee seriously here. The place is located in a no-frills building. Inside, there are only a few tables, to create an intimate atmosphere. It dates back to 1921 when Spanish immigrant Carlos Menendez founded the Naviera Coffee Mills after the shipping line that brought him to America. He worked days in a cigar factory, and roasted coffee at night, bringing them door to door by bicycle. Today, the coffee house near the Columbia Restaurant supplies coffee to many businesses. You can smell it from far away. It’s well-known for all-around excellence.
This place turns up in various votes for best coffee houses in North Florida and even in polls that take in larger areas. They roast their own beans, of course. All the typical ways of preparing coffee are routine, but they are big supporters of single drip coffee served as it should be to purists: black. That’s the proper way to appreciate the intricacy of the roasting beans. The menu also offers delicious fresh pastries. Live music provides entertainment, and it’s a popular gathering place. Beer and wine are also served.
If you drink coffee at many places such as Fresh Market in the Fort Lauderdale area, you might be sipping on their Cuban blend. Kana roasts its coffee on site Cuban style and distributes to various vendors but you can get it here. They even instruct customers on how to make the best cup at Kaña University. In common with others, it uses top quality beans. But Kaña points out that it roasts and blends its product differently, a method known as “estilo” that traces back to Havana roots. The result is strong and deeply dark in color, but without any burnt or bitter aftertaste. The site specializes in Latin American coffees, best described as “bold.” They also serve sandwiches and pastries.
No, you don’t have to attend a university to get a great cup of coffee. Since you already know what felicitous means, you can expect some of the same qualities of Volta. An enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff for menu and drinks serve at an older building near University of South Florida. Local art on the walls adds to the pleasures. A specialty is frappes but many recommend the chocolate chai latte.
Organizers say they wanted a college-town coffeehouse. And that is what it has become. A blogger says it is “eclectic” and “funky.” Fridays and Saturdays are entertainment nights with open mics and up to a dozen or so local comedians. The website warns, “Like Smurfs, they can be a little blue.” The coffee bar has free Wi-Fi, and breakfast and lunch foods are hand-prepared. With excellent fresh soups, veggie and vegan choices among wraps and paninis, Anzac cookies and a drive-through option, this place is a can’t miss.
Everyone says they roast their own beans but not many places also farm them. Talk about quality control. Here, they serve beans grown from the long-standing family farm in Colombia, roasted in-house. Most of us can relate to what they say on the site, “Just like you, we need a great cup of coffee to start our day, pass the time or for that afternoon boost.” Eternity sources their single origin coffees from all over the world, including the nutrient-rich Colombian versions. The coffee company maintains control through the entire process. They also sell home brewing equipment. The result, “Make our specialty coffees fresh in your own kitchen even if you don’t live in Miami,” the site says.
Self-styled “leader of the underground caffeinated culture.” There are frequent painting shows and photographic exhibitions as well as poetry readings and other live events. Their motto, “We proudly serve intelligentsia coffee.” Well-informed staffers are always ready to add to customer education with the differences between French press and plain drip coffee. The shop here uses a fancy and expensive Japanese machine to produce coffee. Iced versions are a specialty. House made syrups and whipped cream are worth bragging about. Organic teas are offered to non-coffee drinkers and the pastries are easily recommended.
This is a place known for its LGBT-friendly atmosphere. Friendly to all members of the community, in fact. It has become a popular gathering place for everyone since opening in 1996. Also, a favorite of night-owl coffee lovers. Sacred is known for its support of artists and musicians performing original works. “We strive to maintain a very chill and cool atmosphere that welcomes everyone,” says its website. There are always DIY classes as well as community group meetings. As for refreshments, natural ingredients prevail. Most coffees and tea are organic. Almond milk is offered as an alternative to cow’s products.

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We rounded up the five least healthy Halloween candies you might find in your kids' basket this year.
The worst offenders were chosen based on calories, fat, and sugar content.
We also came up with five, slightly healthier (and comparable) candy swaps you can make leading up to Halloween.
Twix is the worst candy overall, but Kit Kat makes a slightly better option.
We usually think of Thanksgiving as one of the most indulgent holidays, but thanks to the giant bags full of sugary sweets kids lug home after a night out trick-or-treating, Halloween isn't that much better.
We rounded up the five least healthy Halloween candies, and five comparable alternatives you can substitute them with to cut down on some of the sugar and fat content. The nutritional information for each candy listed below is for the fun-sized serving (which is usually one package for loose candy, or two bars for candy bars).
Of course, you're trying to choose between one sugary sweet versus another, so nothing will exactly be healthy. But when your kid is facing a mountain full of candy after a hard night's work of going door to door, every little bit helps.
Almond Joys are the candy your mom loves, but even when a chocolate bar is stuffed with good-for-you fruit and nuts, it's still high up in calories.
Get your almond fix with fewer calories.
In case the Almond Joy's calorie count does not appeal to you, a slightly better option for almond-lovers is the classic Hershey chocolate bar filled with almonds.
Raisins are healthy because they're made of fruit, right? Wrong.
If you want chocolate-y, peanut butter taste, but don't want to indulge in a Reese's cup, Butterfingers are a surprisingly smart swap to make. This chocolate bar is a lot less dense than Reese's, but still nutty.


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Patrick was joined by expert Jennifer Adams, Director of Enterprise Solutions Marketing at Plantronics.
Plantronics have developed devices to suit the requirements of users for many years and now some of their products have been developed to enhance specific platforms such as Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business.
Jennifer explains that Plantronics have been conducting research into work styles for a long time and tells Patrick how the research has now developed into looking at the seven personas. The results can show how effective the implementation of a solution like Microsoft Teams can be.
Plantronics aim to help organisations improve adoption by better understanding how personalities can impact a user’s experience. Jennifer explains that their research has broken down the personas within an organisation to seven different groups of which all staff fall into at least a proportion of.
It is not as simple as breaking down personalities within different job roles as the use of technology can vary dramatically even within a single department.
Jennifer explains that software developed by Plantronics, Plantronics Manager Pro, can be used for a variety of functions including monitoring work styles. This can enable organisation to recognise adoption issues and rectify those. She runs through some of the personas and provides examples about how their potential adoption can be improved.
The remaining personas also include and office collaborator, a remote worker and a flexible worker and Jennifer runs through these and explains the differences and nuances to each.
Presenter and Tech Journalist Patrick Watson and expert guest Jennifer Adams.


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All parts for these kegs are compatible with Cornelius styles kegs. Keg is made from 1mm thick No.304 stainless steel.
100% brand new and NO.304 Stainless steel.
We are factory, all the keg is produced with lots.It has a little scratch when worker processed them or during shipping.
We have four kinds size: 6L, 10L(2.5 gallon), 19L(5 gallon),24.5L. different size.
Notice:100% brand new and No.304 stainless steel.
We r factory,all the keg is produced with lots.Maybe it has a little scratch when worker processed them or during shipping.
Keg Height is about 24"=61cm without Disconnects.
Outlet Connections fit a 1/4"G air line.
- 0 to 100 PSI low pressure gauge.
- 0 to 3500 PSI high pressure gauge.
Use these for Corny ball lock kegs.
This Ball lock disconnects for soda kegs (corny kegs) is completely new--not refurbished. It fits all ball-lock that require the standard disconnects.
It has a white and a black color disconnects.
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There seems to be a problem with a newer version of the Disto X310.
Upper device: Old version with large Laser module.
Lower device: New version with small Laser module.
I will search for a solution for the new device as soon as possible.


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Vivia Lewis joined Astyra as a Recruiting Assistant earlier this year. Ms. Lewis’ role at Astyra is to source and screen for qualified candidates, edit resumes, schedule interviews and communicate with contractors regarding their assignment.
Taylor Choyce was born a California native; she made her way to the east coast in 2013 to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Business Management. Taylor has recently joined our team at Astyra as a Recruiting Assistant.
Tianna Mosby is Astyra’s Operations Admin & Executive Assistant. She is the first face you will see when you walk into our office and acts as the operator when you call. Tianna has her Bachelors of Science degree in Mass Communications.


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At Texas Christian University, you'll find more than 100 areas of study. Professors who are among the finest minds in their fields. A vibrant, active campus life where Horned Frogs cheer on comrades in Big 12 Athletics. At first glance, it almost feels like your search is over. But in reality, your journey has just begun.
During the group information session led by one of our admission counselors (offered weekdays at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.), you will learn about academic programs, student life, the admission process, scholarships and financial aid, and have an opportunity to meet your admission counselor.
A campus tour immediately follows the information session. This visit should last about 3 hours.
Oh, and we promise to feed you well.
The 2019 date for Transfer Day is Monday, April 15.
We’re seeking students who aspire to think and act as ethical leaders and responsible citizens in the global community. So when you submit your application, we won’t see it as just a collection of grades, a class ranking, and test scores. Instead, our case-by-case acceptance process allows us to view you as a whole person with the potential to enrich our campus community and go on to change the world.


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Simplify the expression by using order of operations.
Find the slope of the line through the pair of points.
Find all values that make the expression undefined.
Write the rational expression in lowest terms .
Multiply . Write the answer in lowest terms.
Divide. Write the answer in lowest terms .
Find the square root .
Use the product rule to simplify the radical.
Find the product and simplify.
Simplify and add or subtract wherever possible.
represent nonnegative real numbers .
Write the quotient in lowest terms.

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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For many of us, our attention is constantly being pulled toward the digital world. Whether it’s monitoring our personal or business social media sites, checking news sites for the latest industry information or being glued to our emails, individuals are finding it increasingly important to stay connected.
Are we starting to feel obligated to check in? Do you start to sweat if your phone, tablet or laptop isn’t right by your side?
According to a 2011 Ispos Media study, affluent Millennials were spending more than 40 hours online during the week, a number that has likely grown higher in the past two years. Because of the constant access we have to all forms of media, it’s getting harder and harder to check out for the weekend, let alone a couple hours in the evening.
With the constant exposure to information, are we beginning to burn out? The answer isn’t exactly clear yet, but the next big thing could involve taking a break or limiting online activity.
Individuals are starting to make a concerted effort to disconnect during the day and for even longer periods of time on weekends and holidays. A recent post by Ilana Rabinowitz of Social Media Explorer highlighted the countertrend of taking a break from technology. Rabinowitz referenced a recent issue of Fast Company that focused on one of social media’s most active users and his decision to unplug for 25 days.
While this likely won’t become the norm, we have to ask ourselves, “What does that mean for marketers?” It isn’t breaking news that consumers are hit with a large amount of news and information every day. That’s where the challenge comes.
As marketers, we rely heavily on online behavior to help identify and develop the newest trends. So how do we combat the audience logging off?
Simply, we must make that message worth our audience’s time. Due to the volume of information out there, the immediacy and relevance of our message are crucial in captivating our audience before they check out. While people might start taking notice of how much time they spend on their computers, phones and tablets, it’s not going to change the role of social media and digital marketing. For marketers, it reinforces the importance of concise, relevant messages for our consumers because they may only receive messages intermittently as they disengage and reengage on their personal schedules.
So now we ask: Would you disconnect for a week? Take our poll below!


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Jim Fleming asked great questions as we were interviewed at public radio studios in midtown last week. The program is “To the Best of our Knowledge,” out of Wisconsin Public Radio, and we’re told it will go out on the PRI network to stations around the country.
Earlier, we’d talked with John Hockenberry for WNYC’s national program “The Takeaway,” and we were on with our colleague Scott Foundas on KCRW’s program “To the Point.” But this latest piece for Fleming is our favorite.
The interview was part of a multi-part show called “What We Believe,” and it featured a great talk with Hugh Urban, the Ohio State professor who has done such good work on the history of Scientology, and an interview with Marc Headley on his time working at the Int Base and being audited by Tom Cruise (and talking with ashtrays!).
And as long as we’re giving out links, we’ll point out that Maureen Orth’s Vanity Fair article is now online in its entirety.

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So lately I’ve been doing quite a bit of Java related stuff. I’ve learned a lot. Mostly about how much better C# is, to be honest. But this isn’t about that.
Most Java work get’s packaged into a Jar file. a Java .jar file is really just a .zip file with a .jar extension- so points to Sun Microsystems for coming up with a package format that isn’t something completely new. I found myself having a bit of an annoying time of it, however- from what I can tell there is no “package this stuff into a jar” option in Eclipse. Since the zip format is so widely workable, I decided to create a quick script to package all the appropriate files into a .jar. This saves me selecting everything in the appropriate .bin folder,unselecting the hidden history folder created by my text editor and anything else I don’t want included, etc.
Python is quite a powerful language. I particularly like the use of tuples directly in the language; the os.walk() function is a “generator”; each iteration the root variable is set to the root of the search, dirs is filled with all the directories in the current iterating folder, and files is filled with the files. I change the dirs value here and filter out those that start with “.” (which could be, say, a git repo) as well as filtering out those starting with an underscore. The cool thing is that since I specified topdown=True in the call to os.Walk, I can remove directories and os.walk will not go into those directories, so I don’t need additional checks to make sure we aren’t in one of the excluded folders. Then the function calls itself for each directory, and finally it adds all the files in the currently walked folder to the zipfile. It performs similar checks to avoid adding undesired files; it doesn’t add files that start with a period, underscore, or are the same name as the scriptfile itself (which could cause issues, arguably, but with Java I’m unlikely to have a file called “prepare.py” anywhere in the tree that I want to be included). Then it breaks. Works quite well; the zip is created with only the files I want and everybody is happy. I was considering adding extra functionality to it, but decided that it’s possible to over-think it; I just want something simple, and I don’t need- for example- special handling of .gitignore folders to actually exclude files that are specified from the package. Not yet, anyway.
Naturally this script can really be run anywhere; just paste it in a folder and run it, and you’ve got a zip with everything in that folder compressed. could be useful for compressing source trees. I thought I’d share it here because I found it useful.

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Thank you for your continued support to ITServe Alliance. ITServe is conducting meetings each month to bring informative sessions to its members. We have a renowned speaker this month bringing us great information. Current monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, December 9, 2015.
This meeting will be a held in the spirit of the holiday season. We have some surprises in store for you!
8:45 - Onwards - Holiday Networking Fun!
Please be sure to RSVP!! Thank you!!


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A game by Q-Games for PS3, originally released in 2011.
Q-Games introduced the PixelJunk label in 2007 with the release of PixelJunk Racers on PSN. Since then, they have released several other PixelJunk games, each focusing on a different gameplay concept (these games are detailed in the 2D CRED section below). At the end of 2009, they released their 4th game in the PixelJunk series, a game called PixelJunk Shooter. 2011 marks the release of the very first sequel in the PixelJunk series, namely PixelJunk Shooter 2.
The original PixelJunk Shooter features a ship that is working its way down into the depths of a planet to rescue trapped miners and scientists. The environment is filled with lava and water, and the game has a robust fluid dynamics engine that allows these liquids to flow, splash, and react to your ship and its projectiles. These substances are the keys to successful progression. You’ll need to use water to cool the lava (and your ship), and avoid being too hasty and accidentally unleashing a lava flow that might impede your progress or kill the unsuspecting miners. Later in the game, you are introduced to flammable gas, and you’ll enter cold areas where the water is frozen and you’ll need to use the lava to cut through it. There are 3 boss fights as well, closing out each of the game’s chapters.
PixelJunk Shooter 2 builds upon this basic foundation, but adds in a few new elements for the player to contend with. At the conclusion of the first game, the player awakened a giant creature, and was subsequently devoured whole. The opening areas of the sequel place the player’s ship inside that creature’s body, and one of the things that you'll have to deal with is the purple acid that spews forth from the creature's innards.
Acid works similarly to lava in that it heats up your ship. As in the first game, you have a heat indicator, and if the heat level gets too high, your ship will spin out of control and eventually crash. With the heat of the lava, you could simply move away from the heat source to lower its effect on your ship, or you could submerge yourself in water to immediately lower your ship’s temperature. Acid, however, will cling to your ship, steadily raising its temperature even after you move away from it. So, it is imperative that you immerse yourself in water to wash it off.
It’s not simply a matter of avoiding the corrosive substance altogether; rather, there are sections where you will have no choice but to drive your ship though it and then seek respite on the other side. And, unlike water, where you can fire your weapon straight through, acid will dissolve your bullets.
You’ll also have to contend with bubbles and sand. When dealing with clusters of foaming bubbles, you will lose most of your control over your ship. To get through the environment, you’ll need to grapple onto nodes, swing yourself around, and fling yourself off in the direction you wish to travel (somewhat similar to the grappling gameplay in PixelJunk Eden).
With sand, you can dig your way through with the “Hungry Suit”, navigating up, down, left, and right only (no diagonals), digging your way through the sand and attempting to avoid being crushed by huge rocks in some very Dig Dug-inspired gameplay.
Even more interesting than this is the sequel’s use of a light and dark mechanic, which is the basis for some of the game’s more complex puzzles. Certain areas are completely dark, and you can’t just pilot blindly through, because if you remain in the darkness for too long, a swarm of shadow creatures will attack your ship and kill you instantly. Also, you can’t grapple onto people in the dark, so your rescue attempts will be futile unless you shed some light on the area first.
You’ll need to find ways to get light down into these areas so that you may proceed, sometimes by simply flipping switches, and other times by manipulating the environment. There’s even a luminous ball that can be grappled and towed into the darkness, providing light to your immediate surroundings, but you need to be careful, because banging it against a wall will cause it to lose some of its luminescence. If it takes enough damage, it will go out altogether, leaving your fate to the shadow creatures unless you can make a mad dash into the light.
There is also a sticky fungus that lines the walls of some of the caverns, and this fungus seems to have a life of its own. At first, it just seems to be there to impede your progress, since running into it with your ship will cause you to get stuck. But when combined with water, the fungus will grow and generate floating globs that interfere with your movement.
Lava and water both make their return as well, and act in the same way they did in the original game. When the two combine, the lava is turned into a solid, and you can shoot your way through it. Getting too close to the lava will cause your ship to heat up, and getting too hot will send your ship out of control. If you’re not fortunate enough to veer into a pool of water (or have a friend grapple you to safety in 2P co-op), you can count on crashing hard.
As before, control is dual analogue, with the left stick controlling the player’s movement, and the right stick controlling the aim. The left trigger fires your grappling hook and the right trigger fires your weapon. You'll be rescuing hapless “citizens” on your travels, or at least attempting to do so before they are killed by environmental factors (possibly caused by your own unwise meddling).
And there’s also a heck of a lot more shooting going on in the sequel than there was in the first game. For players who may have been a bit disappointed that a game with the word “shooter” in the title didn’t focus more on actual shooting, Q-Games has remedied that by providing a lot more enemies and a lot more projectile dodging, creating a more challenging experience than the first game offered. And the player's firing rate has increased as well, making for a more action-oriented experience than the first game.
Various creatures will pop out and fire at you; some will fire streams of bullets, and others will launch heat-seeking missiles. Since you’re traveling through the inside of a huge creature for part of the game, you will also encounter areas where shooting the walls will cause jets of purple acid to spew forth, making missed shots somewhat dangerous as well. And of course, just like the first game, you’ll get to contend with some old-school boss battles featuring patterns and exploitation of weak points.
PixelJunk Shooter 2 adds competitive online play with numerous weapons and powerups, in addition to the cooperative same-screen play from the original game (no online co-op). There’s also a new score attack mode where players can record their runs and upload them onto the leaderboards as ghosts.
We spent some time with industry veteran Dylan Cuthbert, who discusses originality in game design, the keys to making a game fun, and what sets the PixelJunk series apart from other games on the market. He also explains what led him to drop out of school and pursue game development as a career.
Q-Games is based in Kyoto, Japan, and was established by Dylan Cuthbert and Kenkichi Shimooka. Cuthbert is known for his work on the original SNES Starfox, and its unreleased sequel during his time at Argonaut Software, as well as the Japan-exclusive GBA title, X. Later, he joined Sony where he worked on the original Ape Escape, along with Shimooka, before founding Q-Games.
Q-Games partners with both Sony Computer Entertainment and Nintendo to create mostly downloadable titles, although they did create some boxed titles for Nintendo early in their lifespan. They have also worked on a number of technical demos, music visualizers, and the like, toying with the abilities of various hardware. Much of Cuthbert's previous experience was as a technology developer.
In regards to the PixelJunk series specifically, Q-Games was involved with Sony Japan doing tech work for the PS3 when the Playstation Network was first created. Cuthbert was interested in creating games for the service, but he didn’t want the titles to get lost in a potential sea of downloadables that would eventually be available on the service. And so, he came up with the idea of creating a “series” of games that shared a common name (i.e., PixelJunk), so that fans would be aware that the games were of the same pedigree, even if they weren’t technically related.
And so, the PixelJunk brand was created, which also meant that the team could call the games anything that they wanted, since they alone could toss the word “PixelJunk” onto the front of any of their releases, thus avoiding issues where a game might have to be released under different names in multiple territories (as some of their other titles have). The term originated from a username that Cuthbert once used in their Japanese gaming blog.
Q-Games got its start in 2006 with the release of one of Nintendo’s 7 bit Generations titles on the GameBoy Advance. This series of games offered simple stylized visuals (or almost no visuals, in the case of Soundvoyager) and basic game mechanics, in something akin to an art house gaming experience. Sadly, these games were only released in Japan, although the English menus, easy-to-understand gameplay, and lack of a region lock led a number of U.S. gamers to import them.
Q-Games is responsible for bit Generations: Digidrive, which can be roughly described as a visually attractive traffic-directing puzzle game. Gameplay takes place over an intersection where various icons (representing cars) enter the screen, and the player must use the D-pad to direct the icons into the proper slots in one of 4 directions, stacking them to build up a multiplier. Stacks of 5 like icons give the player additional “fuel”, allowing him to continue, until he eventually makes too many mistakes and runs out of fuel, ending the game.
The game did eventually make its way to the U.S. via DSiWare, with Nintendo’s update to the series, called Art Style. The gameplay in Art Style: Digidrive is the same, but the game was given a visual facelift when it arrived on the new hardware.
Around the same time as Digidrive’s GBA release, Q-Games also released Star Fox Command on the DS, for which Cuthbert was able to use his previous experience with the series, and his technology-oriented background, to bring the game to life on the DS.
The game is, of course, presented in 3D, and it’s meant to not only show off some of the capabilities of the system, but also to return the series to its roots. Namely, it was meant to continue the legacy left by the original Star Fox and Star Fox 64, focusing on flight combat, rather than the on-foot explorative shenanigans introduced in Rare’s GameCube outing.
The whole game is flight-based this time around, and the levels consist of free-roaming arenas, rather than on-rails shooting segments. Players traverse 3D environments, seeking out and blasting enemies, destroying specific targets, and collecting stars.
Ship movement is controlled by use of the touch screen, allowing for precision aiming, as well as basic flight controls. Double-tapping certain areas of the screen allow players to give the ship a quick boost of speed, or put on the space-brakes. Scribbling back and forth causes the ship to perform a barrel roll.
As is usual with this sort of game, some of the controls work very well (like aiming), while others are under-responsive (boosting and braking) or over-responsive (barrel rolls).
A year later, Q-Games introduced the PixelJunk series to PSN, starting with PixelJunk Racers, a top-down slot car racing game, reminiscent of Super Sprint.
The player controls only the accelerator and brakes, and can steer only left or right (relative to the direction the car is facing). Due to the arcade-style nature of the game, it’s very easy to pick up and play, but doesn’t offer as much depth as some of Q-Games later entries under the PixelJunk label. Players may work their way through multiple tracks in single player and multiplayer tournament modes.
Rather than outright racing, the game features a number of minigame-style modes. These comes in the form of 32 challenges, such as a mode where you inflate your car like a balloon and launch it quickly around the track as it deflates, challenges where you must pass cars to build up a combo and achieve high speeds, and others where you must try hard to avoid hitting other vehicles.
Next up is PixelJunk Monsters, which moves in a near-opposite direction in terms of gameplay, offering a strategy-minded tower defense game rather than arcade-style racing. PixelJunk Monsters was one of the early games in the tower defense genre behemoth that has since spread its seed through every possible gaming avenue. As per genre conventions, you build towers to protect your tribe of goodnicks from an invading army, which in this case consists of monsters of various sorts. Each time a monster manages to make it past your defenses, it will eat one of the poor creatures within.
You build towers in trees, collect coins from fallen monsters, and build more towers. You can spend your resources to research more powerful armaments (such as cannons, and even lasers) so that you can construct stronger towers that can deal out more damage to your monstrous foes. Towers will fire upon any monsters that are in range, and eventually you’ll face off against huge boss-class monsters that will slowly march toward your fortress, and which can do continuous damage to your critters if they manage to penetrate your defenses.
PixelJunk Monsters appeared in several iterations, with an expansion pack called PixelJunk Monsters Encore, and a PSP-specific version called PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe, which offered quite a bit of new content. The PSP game was originally released as a downloadable title, but also had a UMD release later in its life. The game was later released on Vita with updated visuals, touch controls, and co-op gameplay as PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD.
PixelJunk Eden was the third game in the PixelJunk series, and once again it is very different from the previous games that carried the PixelJunk label. Eden is a very free-flow game, lacking the rigid structure or progression seen in other games, playing out somewhat along the lines of thatgamecompany’s flOw.
The game sees the player tending to a number of starkly-designed gardens. Players explore the area looking for glowing Spectra, which help you to grow new things in your private Eden. You’ll collect seeds and pollinate them, eventually bursting them apart to grow into a new part of the level.
The player controls a little guy called a Grimp, which the player can send jumping around the environment, using the left analogue stick to set a trajectory, and then flinging him off into open space. The Grimp will automatically latch onto anything it touches. You can also tether yourself onto objects and swing around them to grab collectibles and fit into tight spaces that might not be accessible by a direct jump.
The simple controls and bold environmental designs give the game a fairly relaxed feel. There are a handful of enemies that will interfere with your progress, but they can’t actually kill you (there is no health gauge). However, since the levels have a time limit, they might frustrate your attempts by knocking you off course or making you miss a time-extending gem, thereby potentially bringing your play session to an early end.
Gardens become more complex as the game goes on, requiring more precise control on the part of the player to navigate the environments, and building upon the lessons that the player has learned along the way. Also, each of the environments is connected to one another, opening from one to the next via portals. So, while you are navigating through specific levels, you’re not exiting out to a menu system, selecting a new level, and then moving on. You are instead slowly building your way toward the end of the game, growing your Eden so that it allows you to access the next portal and continue.
As mentioned, PixelJunk Shooter has the player controlling a ship that must traverse various underground environments and rescue miners and scientists. At the outset, the player will need to learn how water and lava interact with one another, and with the ship. If the player stays too close to the lava for too long, or touches it, his ship will heat up. The player must move away from the heat source to cool down slowly, or submerge the ship in water to cool off immediately.
Also, when water and lava come into contact with one another, they form a solid, and the player’s ship has the ability to shoot through it. Of course, the player also has to be careful about exactly when and where he unleashes a flow of lava, since it’s quite possible to accidentally fry one of the miners that you’re there to rescue.
Later in the game, you’ll encounter a flammable gas that can be ignited and which creates a chain reaction of explosions throughout the entire cloud. And you’ll also encounter ice, which you can melt using lava, or by reflecting lasers into it. And you'll eventually encounter a mysterious black fluid that appears to be attracted to your ship... at least until you pick up an anti-magnetic powerup that repels it.
While you’re certainly free to get blast-happy and charge through the environments, there are a number of hidden gems to collect, as well as some hard-to-reach areas and hidden passages. The game has a story as well, which will only be fully revealed if you make an effort to rescue all of the miners (even the hard-to-reach ones). And there are 3 pattern-based bosses to contend with along the way.
Concurrent with the development of the PixelJunk series, Q-Games continued to develop for the DS, offering a number of titles for Nintendo’s DSiWare service. The first of these DSiWare titles was Art Style: Digidrive, a port of their GBA Bit Generations title (outlined above). Following soon thereafter was a Breakout-style game called Trajectile (released in Japan as Reflect Missile).
In this game, the player uses the touch screen to direct missiles to destroy the blocks in each level. However, the number of missiles given to the player is limited, so there is some strategy in regards to completing each level without depleting the supply. There are several types of missiles, including ones that bounce around the environment, ones that drill straight through multiple blocks, and exploding missiles that take out all blocks within a given range.
Next up on the Q-Games’ DSiWare menu was a tower defense game known as Starship Defense (a.k.a. Starship Defender in Japan, and Starship Patrol in Europe). This time around, rather than fending off monsters in a forest, you’re defending a starship from an invading armada. The game’s levels are actually different areas of the starship, providing different layouts. The game is designed to look like it is being played out by sketches on graph paper.
Destroyed enemies leave behind energy balls that float down toward the bottom of the screen. Grabbing them with your stylus adds them to your inventory, and the energy can be used to develop new weapons. You’ll go from attacking rows of individual ships to taking on huge boss ships at the end of each level.
And finally (at least in terms of the games that preceded PixelJunk Shooter 2), there is X-Scape. The game is known as X-Returns in Japan, as it was a sequel to an Argonaut-developed Japan-only GBA game called X (which Dylan Cuthbert worked on). Just as in the original, X-Scape is a first-person tank shooter. However, the power of the DS allowed Q-Games to create a much more fast and fluid game.
The game uses a simple yet striking visual design to allow for fast and engaging gameplay, without overtaxing the 3D capabilities of the DS, and still fitting within the small storage space allowed for DSiWare games. Each world has a different basic color, which permeates the design of the levels.
The top screen shows the action, and the controls are done via the touch screen, with firing relegated to the D-pad or buttons. Pressing the stylus toward the top of the touch screen will send you dashing forward quickly across open alien-infested environments and through tight WipeOut-esque corridors as you hunt for crystals that will allow you to travel to the next world.
This is an action-adventure title, so rather than just moving in a straight line and killing everything, you’ll need to do some exploration, locate computer terminals, uncover the game’s back story, and even return to previously-visited planets.

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Search Google for “Meeting Mistakes” and you’ll pull over 7,000 results. That’s a lot of meeting mistakes! But after about ten articles you’ll start to see the same mistakes listed again and again. And none of them include some of the biggest meeting problems companies have.
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“I didn’t want to come to the meeting, but I’m glad I did.” Over the years, I have heard that confession many times.
Compliant resisters are very hard to spot in your business. On the surface, they present a positive response, tacitly agreeing with the vision, the plan and the requirements. They are very careful about not communicating anything that might jeopardize their position in the company. Their seat isn’t their passion – it’s just the means to a paycheck.

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HOWARD LAKE, MN - Howard Lake’s Good Neighbor Days is set for Thursday through Sunday, June 25-28.
“It’s the best-kept little secret in the county,” is what Marilyn Ringold of Howard Lake Drug has heard time and again over the years.
Good Neighbor Days officially begin Thursday with both traditional activities as well as a new one.
• 2 p.m.  Queen’s Tea at the Howard Lake Good Samaritan Society.
• 6:30 p.m.  Sail into Good Neighbor Days kickoff banquet at the Howard Lake Christian Church. Meal served at 7 p.m. Cost is $7 with button, $8 without button. Dinner provided by Sunni’s Grille in Howard Lake, sponsored by the Howard Lake Business Association.
• 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.  Pontoon rides at Lion’s Park for seniors and families who have little access to lake activities, free-will offering appreciated. Conditions apply such as signing a “hold harmless” agreement, and any child under 18 must be accompanied by a parent. Tickets are required and must be picked up prior to the event from the Howard Lake Drug Store.
Note: this is updated and different than previously advertised.
Friday is full of treats, ball games, and entertainment.
• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Ice cream shakes, Security State Bank foyer (former coffee shop), sponsored by Security State Bank/Wright County Dairy Association.
• 4 to 8 p.m. Root beer floats for $1.50 sponsored by Howard Lake Good Samaritan Center (fundraiser) matching funds applied for through Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Wright County Chapter.
• 6 p.m. Pee Wee Reese Baseball Tournament, Yager Field.
• 6 p.m. to midnight  Beer garden by the fire station.
• 6 to 8 p.m.  KRWC Road Show: music, games, and prizes.
• 6 p.m.  Orphans Baseball Tournament at Memorial Park.
• 7 p.m.  Kiddie parade. Line up at 6:30 p.m. on 8th Street, west side of HLWW Middle School. Sponsored by Embarq.
• 8 p.m. to midnight  Band under the tent “RIZE”.
• 10 p.m.  Fireworks at Memorial Park. If rained out the fireworks will move to Saturday night at 10 p.m. Courtesy of Security State Bank and City of Howard Lake.
Saturday begins early and ends late as the day is packed with activities.
• 6 a.m.  Pancake breakfast at Lions Park ($5.00) before Fishing Contest. Also, hot dogs and beverages during the fish weigh-in (noon  time approximate). Sponsored by Howard Lake Lions.
• 8 a.m. to noon  27th annual Fishing Contest at Lions Park (register at 7 a.m. at the park).
• 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  Craft, flea and country market day. East side employee parking lot of Security State Bank.
• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.  Book sale, sloppy joe’s, and strawberry shortcake at the Community Room above the Howard Lake Library. Last 30 minutes fill a bag for a $1. Sponsored by the Friends of the Howard Lake Library.
• 10 a.m.  19th Annual One Block Run. Starts south of city hall. Airplane toss to follow the walk/run.
• 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  HLWW National Honor Society car wash at Munson Lakes Nutrition. Donations accepted.
• 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.  Root beer floats for $1.50 sponsored by Howard Lake Good Samaritan Society (fundraiser). Matching funds applied for through Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Wright County Chapter.
• 10:30 a.m. (after the One Block Run)  Airplane toss.
• 11 a.m.  Remote helicopter/airplane show  Dan Judd.
• 11 a.m.  Bouncer at the fire station, K & K Fun Time.
• Noon  Beer garden by the fire station.
• Noon  Hot dogs and beer at fishing contest weigh-in at Lion’s Park, Howard Lake Lions.
• 1 to 4 p.m.  Dunk tank by the fire station.
• 1 p.m.  Bingo sponsored by HLWW After Prom under the tent.
• 1 p.m.  Local food drive sponsored by area churches, event to be determined. “Weigh-in” will be announced at the fire station for the month-long effort.
• 2 p.m.  Turtle races at the fire station. Howard Lake American Legion Post 145.
• 3 to 4 p.m.  Tug of war and refreshments at the Country Store. Sponsored by the Country Store.
• 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.  Pork chop dinner by the Howard Lake Fire Department at the fire station.
• 5 to 7 p.m.  French Lake Wrestling Association by the fire station.
• 6 p.m.  Orphans Baseball Tournament, third-place game at Memorial Field.
• 8 p.m. to midnight  Music by “Deep Fried Tweeters,” under the tent at the fire station.
• 10 p.m.  Fireworks (if rained out on Friday) at Memorial Park, courtesy of Security State Bank and City of Howard Lake.
Sunday offers more community fun and wraps the celebration up by crowning new royalty and drawing raffle winners.
• 8 a.m.  5K Run/Walk, northeast side of Howard Lake to Memorial Park. Proceeds go to Howard Lake Watershed Alliance. Matching funds by Thrivent.
• 10:30 a.m.  Community church service, under the tent near the fire station.
• Noon  PeeWee Reese Baseball Tournament, Yager Field.
• Noon  Beer garden at the fire station.
• 1 to 4 p.m.  Dunk tank. fire station.
• 1 to 4 p.m.  Car show at middle school parking lot (north side).
• 2 p.m.  Grande Day Parade. Line up 1 p.m. at Wright County Fairgrounds. Minnesota Twins Mascot TC Bear (sponsored by the Howard Lake Business Association and KRWC radio) will be among the participants.
• 3 p.m.  Entertainment under the tent at the fire station.
• 5:30 p.m. (NEW TIME)  Royalty Coronation at the HLWW High School (County Road 6) in the Laker Theater.
• 5:30 p.m.  Raffle drawing for cash prizes sponsored by Howard Lake Good Neighbor Day Committee during the coronation. Beautification winners of hanging basket contest sponsored by the Howard Lake Business Association.
• Evening  Howard Lake Fire Department raffle drawings at the fire station, includes an Arctic Cat 650 4 x 4 four wheeler.
*Times, locations and events may change without notice.