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PROSTITUTION, DRUG ADDICTION, troubled marriage; tea parties: welcome to Issue Fourteen. It has the usual assortment of uplifting content that we love over here at Slush Pile Magazine.
In fiction this issue Jerry Whitus takes us into the death rattle of a failing marriage, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy has written a lovely rumination on unrequited love and power outages, and M. Elias Keller does a fantastic job of humanizing a prostitute as his neurotic protagonist falls for one, against his better judgment. Wally Rudolph, meanwhile, has contributed a drug-riddled escape narrative through Colorado; it’s still dark, but it kind of reads like an action movie. In non-fiction, Slush Pile alum Tove Danovich takes us on a trip through Norway and nostalgia while exploring the way that emotional memory colors our experience of physical locations.
And speaking of small doses of melancholia, our featured artist delivers them in intricate mixed media compositions on Japanese paper. Thanks to the efforts of Sara Petras, our Art section mastermind, David Curcio has contributed his work, which, in the words of the artist, “call to you from across the room and drag you over, closer, closer.” I suppose you can only get so close to your computer screen, but don’t let that stop you from giving each of them a good look. Not only am I so enamored of them, but David has also contributed a beautiful, honest, and articulate interview, which can be found in the Art section.
I am also really excited about our poetry this issue. Remember Matthew Hotham, our former Slush Pile poetry editor who used to procure us all of that fantastic poetry in the early days of Slush Pile? In Issue Eight I reported that he had been “eaten alive by North Carolina.” That did, in fact, happen. But he has come back to us from the great beyond! Not to work, because he has a way fancier gig now as the Editor-in-Chief of The Carolina Quarterly, but with two beautiful poems about heartache.
Then, because I didn’t want to leave you heavy-hearted and reaching for the whisky, I threw in a few nods to the not-dark side: Douglas Burgess has contributed an extended piece about tea-taking neighbor-ladies whose feud runs amok and Jeffrey Gross riffs on Wallace Stevens about hipsters. So I guess you’ll find that funny, or not, depending on your tolerance for irony and/or if you’ve ever lived in Williamsburg. (Brooklyn, NY, not Virginia) (although, who’s to say they don’t have a bunch of twenty-two year olds running around with obnoxious handlebar mustaches there, too?).
Then I went and did something completely unexpected, so you’ll have to let me know what you think. If you recall, once upon a time at Slush Pile Magazine we wrangled David Thorpe into writing some music reviews for us — I wonder if you realize that I am always speaking in “the royal we,” here? Anyway, this issue I really got to missing a music feature. And of course, I listen to music as ferociously as ever. So I just decided, on the spur of the moment, to include a column of youtube videos featuring some of the songs that I have had on repeat, lately. I called it NOW HEAR THIS, which I thought sounded both kind of humorously pompous and reminiscent of The Princess Bride. I thought maybe it would be of interest to some of you folks who exert less time and energy maniacally finding new (or discovering old) awesome music.
Let me know what you think about it. I can do it every issue, if you like it. Actually, I might just start doing it every issue because I — I mean, we — like it.


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Helly Hansen ist ein norwegischer Hersteller von Arbeits- und Outdoorkleidung, und der wohl bekannteste Hersteller für Seglerbekleidung.
We work hard so you can play hard. We provide high quality, protective technical gear for work survival and sport. We work and play in the harshest environments on the planet to learn what’s needed to create the best performance gear possible. We work closely with people who work and/or play outdoors more days than they are indoors to continuously optimize the technology and design of our products.

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Enlightening: Reverend Nyalle Paris, of First Church, with a book of poetry by German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
A SERIES of short theology and religion courses by the University of Otago has attracted good patronage in Invercargill.
Reverend Nyalle Paris, of First Presbyterian Church, said the ‘‘taster courses’’ which began in May were proving popular.
The next course, tomorrow and Saturday, discussing German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died in a German concentration camp in 1945, already had 20 people registered so far, he said.
It will be taught by Dr Chris Holmes, senior lecturer in Systematic Theology at the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Otago, and an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Dunedin.
‘‘The course will look at Bonhoeffer’s life and why he chose to return to Nazi Germany at his own peril. Although he was a leading German Lutheran pastor and theologian who had come from a noble family, he was also part of the resistance against Adolf Hitler and was involved in a plot to remove him from power. The plot backfired, and Bonhoeffer was arrested and put into a concentration camp,’’ Mr Paris said.
Í Faith & Thinking Seminar: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, First Church central hall, Tay St, tomorrow, 7pm-9pm, and Saturday, August 6, 9am-12.30pm. Cost $20. Pay on the night, but early registrations essential. Phone First Church office, 03 218 2560.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's Yonhap news agency says that Samsung Electronics has temporarily halted production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.
Citing an unnamed official at a Samsung supplier on Monday, Yonhap reported that the tech giant took the unprecedented measure for consumer safety. The move comes after reports that Samsung's replacement devices had caught fire.
The Note 7 recall and Samsung's handling of incidents have left the company facing its biggest crisis in years.
Samsung seemed to have the trouble under control but consumers started to report that the new Note 7, which replaced the recalled hazardous Note 7, also began to catch fire. Last week, authorities had to evacuate a Southwest Airlines flight when a replacement phone began emitting smoke.
Samsung Electronics did not respond to a request seeking confirmation.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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There was such joy when this world was seeded and given life by the now legendary Life Ark!
But as things go and time passed, the people exploited all resources, polluted the water, land and air and have finally managed to kill the living spirit of the planet.
Your very sad task is to solve puzzles and figure out how to build an inter-stellar craft that will take your people to a new home.
Good luck, experiment, and hopefully you will find the right sequence that will save the civilization.

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The program begins with a "You Picked a Fine Time to Lead Us, Barack" parody song before Brent Bozell makes opening remarks.
The audience picks the Quote of the Year.
Cal Thomas accepts the "William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence."
Neal Boortz, Ann Coulter, Andrew Klavan, Erick Erickson, Congressman Steve King and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and a performance by The Outlaws band highlighted the MRC's “2011 Gala featuring the DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporting” presented on Saturday night, May 7, before an audience of more than 800 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
DisHonors Awards winners were selected by a distinguished panel of 14 leading media observers, including Monica Crowley, Sean Hannity, Larry Kudlow, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Kathryn Jean Lopez and Walter E. Williams.
Bozell served as Master of Ceremonies. Neal Boortz, a nationally-syndicated talk radio host, presented the first two awards; followed by novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan who set up the “funny clips” and announced the third DisHonors awards, before best-selling author and columnist Ann Coulter handled the fourth and fifth award categories.
In place of the journalist who won each award, a conservative accepted it in jest. Those standing in for the winners: Erick Erickson of Editor RedState.com, Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler, founders of the Tea Party Patriots, Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips, Congressman Steve King, Republican of Iowa, and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli – who earned a standing ovation for his successful legal effort to block implementation of ObamaCare.
The evening began with an invocation by Bishop Harry Jackson and the Pledge of Allegiance led by Colonel Robert Rust, USA Retired.
Andrew Klavan presents Brent Baker's funny video clips.
C-SPAN’s video of the “DisHonors Awards Ceremony” as aired nationally on May 28.
For additional Gala videos and much more, check out the MRC's newest project, MRC TV!

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Summary: On the 17th day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman criticized Rep. Bachmann for focusing almost exclusively on energy issues in her campaign, while ignoring important national security concerns and illegal immigration issues. … Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will not end the “Long War” against violent extremism and that the fight against al-Qaeda and other terrorists should be the nation’s top military priority over coming decades, according to a new National Defense Strategy he approved in June 2008. … The U.S. has wasted more than half a billion dollars in Iraq repairs, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction Stuart Bowen reports in his quarterly report. … A report by the Center for Immigration Studies says the number of illegal immigrants fell about 11% between August 2007 and May 2008, from 12.5 million to 11.2 million.
Summary: On the 16th day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman attended the St. Cloud area joint town hall meeting with the mayors of St. Cloud, St. Augusta, St. Joseph, Sartell, Sauk Rapids, and Waite Park to learn about the concerns of area civic leaders; and attended the Little Rock Lake TMDL Public Meeting to learn about water quality issues on Little Rock Lake and efforts to mitigate phosphorus, the water quality limiting nutrient responsible for the toxic blue-green algae blooms in the lake.
On the 15th day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman reported on an op-ed dealing with high energy prices that he had written for the St. Cloud Times the previous day; met with Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner and Emergency Manager Marvin Klug; announced the release of a new web video in which he discusses his core campaign issues; and challenged unendorsed Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson’s justification for the Iraq war.
Summary: On the 14th day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman said that voters should see the Iraq war not only as a national security issue, but as a pocketbook issue, in that the war and occupation contributed to driving up the price of oil by weakening the U.S. dollar. In that context, he also pointed to a Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction report detailing billions of dollars lost on construction projects in Iraq.
Summary: On the 13th day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Sunday, July 27, 2008, Aubrey Immelman posted a public service announcement to help raise funds for memorials in honor of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and took a break from campaigning on the day of rest.
Summary: On the 11th day of his 2008 campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman reported back on the response of Mr. Mario A. Hernández of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights in reply to his inquiry whether the August 9, 2008, “Know Your Rights” forum in Cold Spring, Minn., was intended specifically for legal immigrants and whether public funds would be used to benefit undocumented aliens.
On the 10th day of his 2008 campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman met with residents on Little Rock Lake, near Rice in Benton County, to learn about the lake’s persistent water quality problems.
Summary: On the ninth day of his 2008 campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman issued his position statement on national security.
Summary: On the eighth day of his 2008 campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman reported being inundated with questionnaires from special interest groups. He also commented on the dim prospects for the Republican Party in the upcoming election and the bleak outlook for the foreseeable future.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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I am interested in the "The Broussard" home.
This brand new 3/2 Single-Wide offers a great open floor plan perfect for entertaining and a split floorplan. Come make this House your Home.
I'd like to schedule a viewing to see "The Broussard"

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Meetings are one of the most effective ways that people share and exchange information, get feedback, plan, collaborate and make important decisions for their organizations. This document presents practical ideas to improve the quality and effectiveness of meetings. Meet regularly. Under stress of deadlines, regular meetings are often cancelled. Do the opposite! Bring people together, even for 15 minutes, to get them talking and problem solving together. It can be surprising how a quick meeting can help alleviate stress and re-energize the group.
Think of what overall outcome you want from the meeting and what activities need to occur to reach that outcome. The agenda should be organized so that these activities are conducted during the meeting.
Next to each major topic, include the type of action needed, the type of output expected (decision, vote, action assigned to someone) and time estimates for addressing each topic.
Don’t overly design meetings; be open to adapting the meeting agenda if members are making progress in the planning process.
Think about how you frame an event so people come in with that mindset. It may pay to have a short discussion around the title to develop a common mindset among attendees.
Facilitating meetings: Facilitation is about process rather than content. Having an assigned facilitator during your meeting can help the group keep to its task while paying attention to the needs of each group member. If the same participants meet regularly, consider rotating roles so that everyone gets a chance to acquire and develop their meeting facilitation skills.
Opening. Frame the meeting by reviewing the agenda and clarifying roles.
Establishing ground rules. Establish a common agreement on how you will work together.
Time management. Keep track of time to ensure all agenda items are covered and tasks are assigned.
Evaluation of the meeting. Take 4-5 minutes to get feedback to improve meeting process. Follow up on these ideas for the next meeting.
Closing. Clarify and review actions and commitment of participants.
Keep things visible. Simply writing the agenda on a flip chart or white board keeps things public. Agenda handouts waste paper and often mean participants are looking down rather than looking and listening to one another.
Make things clear by clarifying points, paraphrasing, synthesizing and confirming.
Capture decisions made or next steps on the flip chart or white board. Everyone making their own notes can lead to confusion later if people heard different things.
Be clear on what you are asking for: Clarification? A decision? An idea? Information sharing? Information seeking?
Create space for all voices to be heard.
Assign a note taker for the meeting if you want to capture notes from the meeting in addition to what is taken down on the white board or flip chart.
Note: meetings don’t suit every personality type. It is easy for people with strong personalities to drown out others during a meeting. Some people need time to reflect on what they’ve heard – or absorb information better by reading the minutes of a meeting – and may have more to say after a meeting. Remember, not everyone has the same way of learning or interacting with others. Try to take these varying needs and styles into account.
Evaluating meetings. This can be a crucial and quick step to dramatically improve your meetings. Conduct a 5 minute check by asking what worked and what can be done differently next time (verbal or written). Don’t debate the answers.
Note: When conducting an evaluation, be mindful to integrate the suggestions, decision and/or feedback into future meetings. People will stop providing feedback in meetings if they don’t see that their feedback is being considered or used.
The Art of Facilitations: How to Create Group Synergy (Paperback) by Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey, and Bill Taylor (1995): An extensive training toolkit for facilitators.
Running Board Meetings: How to Get the Most from Them, by Patrick Dunne (2007): Running and contributing to board meetings requires a lot of thought. This book provides a practical step-by-step on every issue pertaining to board meetings and is organized in a ‘Before’ ‘During’ and ‘After’ structure.


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You might resemble several other individuals and also not expect having an immediate oral scenario that needs locating an immediate dental professional in Sipsey. Similar to any kind of unforeseen scenario, nonetheless, you have to be prepared to act promptly to secure your health. You could have formerly assumed, “Surely no immediate dental practitioner near me in Sipsey, AL is open late and also could see me immediately.” Nevertheless, when you call our toll-free oral reference hotline, you could locate that a variety of dental practitioners in Sipsey are open very early as well as open throughout the night and also weekend break hrs for such emergency circumstances. You could obtain the alleviation you require immediately therapy that can avoid infection or long-term damages in your mouth. 24-HOUR Dental could link you with an operator anytime, that could assist you discover exactly what dental practitioners in Alabama could do same day root canal or tooth removal to you immediately.
For lots of people, a common Saturday entails awakening late, purchasing, going to the theater, and also hanging out with pals as well as liked ones. When you get up Saturday early morning to an alarming oral issue like an extreme tooth pain or a damaged tooth that is exuding blood as well as infection, your weekend break might be anything yet relaxing if you do not enter into see a dental expert open Saturday in Sipsey, AL immediately. Nonetheless, you could not also recognize of any kind of dental practitioners that are open at an early stage the weekend breaks, not to mention open Saturday for such immediate issues. Your problems could promptly be laid to rest when you connect to the complimentary 24 hr oral recommendation solution that is currently readily available to Alabama locals like you. You could obtain punctual immediate relief that will certainly reduce your discomfort as well as allow you take pleasure in the remainder of your day off without your oral health and wellness being endangered.
For many individuals, a common Sunday include hanging out with family members supper, as well as relaxing after a lengthy job week. Nevertheless, when you are encountering immediate oral scenarios like a contaminated damaged tooth or knowledge teeth that have actually fractured your gum tissues, you could be not able to kick back till you are seen by a dental practitioner in Sipsey. Nonetheless, you possibly informed on your own a loads times that “No Sunday dental professionals near me in Sipsey, AL could treat me on the exact same day that I call them.” This declaration remains in truth incorrect, as you will certainly uncover when you call this complimentary 24 hr Alabama oral reference line. When you call this 24/7 line in Sipsey, whether it be throughout the job week or on the weekend break, you will certainly discover that there are Sipsey dental practitioners open on Sunday that give a complete variety of oral solutions you have to obtain you with the weekend break. You no more need to experience hurting with a tooth pain that will certainly not disappear by itself. You could call as well as get in touch with our network of Alabama ADA accepted dental practitioners today as well as be matched with a Sunday oral workplace in Sipsey, AL that could offer the urgent solutions you require right now.
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How you can Find a Dentist Open This Friday in Sipsey?
It is practical to think that dental professionals in Sipsey, AL also eagerly anticipate their weekend breaks. After a lengthy week of doing exams and also examinations, dental professionals might prepare to kick back at residence with their households. While it holds true that lots of oral suppliers prepare to invest the weekend break far from the workplace, others are simply obtaining gotten ready to assist a choose team of clients that are not available throughout the normal job week. When you intend to be counted as one of these clients, you could use this reference program to locate Sipsey dental experts open on Friday.
If you have no insurance policy today to make use of, you might still be seen on Friday by a dental practitioner in Sipsey throughout the after hrs. Some dental practitioners discover it much more preferred to with without insurance individuals to maintain these hrs open to ensure that individuals could be comfortable when they inquire about cash money price cuts. Actually, if you prepare to compose a check, make use of cash money, or utilize your bank card to pay, your oral company could be open to affordable discount rates if you could cover the costs at the time of your consultation. Otherwise, you can see exactly what layaway plan are open, particularly if you intend to utilize an oral funding business to decrease or cover a few of your expenditures.
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In 2016, life expectancy at birth for Amur Region was 68.3 years. Life expectancy at birth of Amur Region increased from 63.6 years in 1997 to 68.3 years in 2016 growing at an average annual rate of 0.38 %.
What is Amur Region life expectancy at birth?


text: Part of the Justina Blankeney Collection. Cotton and wool blend. 22"x22" cover with down insert. Made in India.


text: Hypothetically a white t-shirt should be one of the easiest things to shop for—it’s simple and a staple, after all. But finding a nice, high-quality white tee that can be just as good for an important meeting and dinner out and a casual day at the park is actually much harder than it seems. Not only is it super important to find the right fit, but you need a shirt that isn’t going to pill the second time you throw it in the wash. It took us a while to narrow our favorites down, but we’ve put together a list of our top tried-and-true favorites. Below, the seven white t-shirts we know we can count on to keep us looking great throughout the summer.


text: Tourism destination benchmarking and the assessment of tourism management performances are a crucial and challenging task in the direction of evaluating tourism sustainability and reshaping tourism activities. However, assessing tourism management efficiency per se may not provide enough information concerning long-term performances, which is what sustainability is about. Natural resources management should therefore be included in the analysis to provide a more exhaustive picture of long-run sustainable efficiency and tourism performances. Indeed, while the environmental endowment of a site is a key feature in tourism destination comparison, what really matters is its effective management. Therefore, in this paper we assess and compare tourism destinations, not only in terms of tourism services supply, but also in terms of the performance of environmental management. The proposed efficiency assessment procedure is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is a methodology for evaluating the relative efficiency when facing multiple input and output. Although the methodology is extremely versatile, for the sake of exemplification, in this paper it is applied to the valuation of sustainable tourism management of the twenty Italian regions.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Jas is knowledgeable , enthusiastic and at the same time pragmatic . She has extensive travel experience in several fields and is able to pre-empt the demands of her travel partners with her creativity .
David Kevan – Partner at Chic Locations .
I have had the pleasure of working with Jas both in my last job and now again in my new role at dnata. She is extremely professional and always delivers what is required on time and with a smile! She provides us with accurate correspondence and is both willing to assist in the development of our business as well as taking an active interest in it. It’s important for me to have someone who doesn’t just do the job but goes above and beyond to ensure that everything is correct and in place and Jas does exactly that..
There are three words how to describe best the style and pleasure working with Anand Collection … Energetic, Efficient & Connected. Ms Jas Anand has excellent understanding of the hotel & resort business in Asia and was an integral part to position Layana Resort & Spa in the UK as one of the top luxury Wellness & Fitness Resorts in the South of Thailand. Nothing is too much trouble for Jas and her team and I cannot speak highly enough about our solid year to year growth, every since we have started our long lasting cooperation.
I am pleased to write this letter of recommendation for Jas Anand. Ms Anand has been representing The Sailing Club Leisure Group’s Hotels (Mia Resort Nha Trang, Mia Resort Mui Ne and Sanctuary Resort Ho Tram) in the UK and Irish markets.
Ms Anand is a hard-working individual who knows how to get the job done quickly and effectively. She works well as a part of a team and communicates directly with our Sales Staff in Vietnam. I have attended several tradeshows with Ms Anand and her network of industry professionals, travel agents and key operators are endless. She is highly respected by colleagues and management. During the past 5 years that we have been working together Ms Anand has arranged 5 familiarization trips, each with a company of over 10 handpicked operators per trip, that now all feature, sell and actively promote our hotels.
Ms Anand has a generous spirit and is a loyal, positive individual. She is also the “go-to” person in our office; people continually turn to her for advise on rates, assistance in sales calls, general enquiries, etc. Her strong work ethic has ensured that we’ve reached our Occupancy targets for 3 years in a row and she is constantly sourcing and introducing new markets to our portfolio.
From the time that Ms Anand started to represent SCLG’s portfolio, I was impressed with her drive, determination, and tenaciousness. She was hired to introduce our hotels to new markets, and I am pleased to say that Ms Anand met or exceeded her sales expectations. Jas Anand is a very talented sales representative and I have no hesitation in recommending her highly.
It is a pleasure working with Jas Anand and the hotels featured within the Anand Collection. Jas has a very professional approach to business and her vast experience within the Industry are a great asset to our commercial relationship.
I have worked with Jas Anand and the Anand Collection for many years. Jas is the epitome of enthusiasm, passion and determination to promote and deliver the very best results for her clients. For Jas yes it is absolutely personal and that’s what sets her apart!
It is with great pleasure that I recommend Jas Anand. I have known her for over 8 years.
Jas has always displayed a high degree of responsibility, and ambition in what she is doing. She is definitely a leader rather than a follower. In addition to her achievements she has proven to be a dear friend and trustee. She has proven her leadership ability by organizing fantastic Familiarization trips to her many accounts.
She is also a most dependable person I have ever known with very good judgment and mature outlook of life.
Jas would be an asset to any organization, and I am happy to give her my wholehearted endorsement.
As a key partner for Anand Collection, Selling Long Haul magazine has been there from the start. Whether it be supplying editorial, pictures, competitions or advertising strategies, Jas performs each task in a friendly and professional manner. The knowledge and experience Anand Collection has makes our working relationship easy and very pleasurable.
I have worked with Anand Collection for the past 9 years. Jas is always friendly and attentive. With her years of travel experience Jas offers a wealth of knowledge and exquisite attention to detail.
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Amy has been a Physical Therapy Professional since 2009. She is a graduate of Bellarmine University, where she earned her Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT). Prior to Bellarmine, Amy received her Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from Murray State University. She is a manually certified physical therapist (MTC) that gives every patient the hands-on care that they need.
Amy has a true passion for helping people get back to their prior level of function; whether it be taking care of their kids, recovering from a sports injury, standing from a chair with more ease, or just learning how to have confidence in themselves when performing exercises. Her compassion and love for the patients makes her an amazing physical therapist.
Lance graduated from Jefferson Community and Technical College, where he earned his Physical Therapist Assistant degree. He is licensed by the Kentucky State Board of Physical Therapy. Lance is currently enrolled in the Orthopaedics Specialist Certification course for physical therapy assistants. Lance enjoys all aspects of patient care involving orthopaedic conditions found pediatrics, geriatrics, and everything in between.
Away from the clinic, Lance enjoys staying active including biking, whether riding the trails or on the road, enjoying time with his wife and dogs, and participating in recreational sports such as basketball, sand volleyball, and kickball.
Stacy graduated from Indiana University in 2005 with Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and International Studies, and worked for various facets of Indiana government for 7 years before deciding to make a career change. In 2015, she graduated from Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg, Indiana with her Physical Therapist Assistant degree.
Stacy enjoys the challenges of working in an outpatient orthopaedic environment and a diverse patient base. She has plans to develop her skills further by enrolling in an Orthopaedic Specialist Certification program.
When she’s not in the clinic, Stacy is active in youth soccer in Southern Indiana and can often be found attending Louisville City FC games. She also enjoys hiking, snorkeling, and traveling with her 2 children, one of whom attends the University of Louisville. When she’s at home, Stacy relaxes by spending time with her 3 cat boys; Blue, Gary, and Mickey.


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FREEZING RUSSIA OUT of the WORLD ECONOMY, LITERALLY. 5 million Russians are now homeless as in 2014, Russia is in a major DEPRESSION. 1 MILLION OF THE HOMELESS are CHILDREN. America is selling gas so cheap that PUTIN cannot sell RUSSIA'S OIL. They are going broke.
5 million Russians are homeless, 1 million are children. AMERICA (with Saudi help) created NO RECEIPTS FOR RUSKI OIL ANYWHERE, i.e. an Economic 'Crashki' via a PRICE War! WE FROZE A MILLION HOMELESS CHILDREN TO DEATH. THEY STARVED and their pets were out there in the blizzard with them!
mere $50 to $60 a barrel rather than the earlier price of around $100.
LOBSTER VILLAGE will be empty of tourists, hotel rooms half price!
OR drive south to the tropic WHITE BEACHES with COCO PALMS.
SO that AMERICA CAN KILL MORE RUSSIANS BABIES!
trading. The result is a market panic that is gaining momentum daily.
50% of Russian state revenue comes from its export sales of oil and gas.
Central Asia or forfeit its top-spot as the world’s only superpower.
This is why US policymakers have embarked on such a risky venture.
Bank for valuable raw materials, manufactured products and hard labour.
dismal prospect of either selling assets at firesale prices or facing default.
collapse the weaker institutions and tip the system back into crisis.
liquidity is drying up fast which is accelerating the rate of decline.
the glorious New World Order? It certainly looks that way.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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1) Shorten the work week. Start with a four-day work week. That means we can get 20% more people into the job market. With around 20% people currently out of work, or working part-time, that solves our jobless problem in one stroke. If that’s too big a wrench, cut down daily work hours at firms instead of firing people. That’s what they do in Germany, where they don’t have our job loss (they do everything better in Europe, but don’t get me started).
The past half-century of foreign intervention proves to be a queer mix of amplifying harm and entrenching anti-American attitudes the world over.
Strangely, foreigners prefer private investment from the U.S. rather than rockets and regime change.


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On Friday, September 11, 2009, Venture Bank, Lacey, WA was closed by the Washington Department of Financial Institutions, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver. No advance notice is given to the public when a financial institution is closed.
The FDIC has issued a press release (PR-170-2009) about the institution's closure. If you represent a media outlet and would like information about the closure, please contact LaJuan Williams-Young at 1-202-898-3876.
All deposit accounts, excluding certain brokered deposits, have been transferred to First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Raleigh, NC ("assuming institution") and will be available immediately. The former Venture Bank locations will reopen as branches of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company during normal business hours.
Your transferred deposits will be separately insured from any accounts you may already have at First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company for six months after the failure of Venture Bank. Checks that were drawn on Venture Bank that did not clear before the institution closed will be honored as long as there are sufficient funds in the account. If you have questions about your account(s) transferred to the assuming bank, you may speak to an FDIC representative regarding deposit insurance by calling (888) 206-4662.
As of Saturday, September 12, 2009, you may continue to use the drive-up services. On Monday, September 14, 2009, you may continue to use all other services to which you previously has access, such as safe deposit boxes, wire services, etc.
All interest accrued through Friday, September 11, 2009, will be paid at your same rate. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company will be reviewing rates. You will be notified of any changes.
If you had a loan with Venture Bank, you should continue to make your payments as usual. The terms of your loan will not change, because they are contractually agreed to in your promissory note. Checks should be made payable as usual and sent to the same address until further notice. If you have further questions regarding an existing loan, please contact your loan officer.
If you or your company provided a service or product, leased space, furniture, or equipment to Venture Bank after Friday, September 11, 2009 and have not been paid you do not have a claim against Venture Bank. Please follow your normal billing procedures by providing an invoice as instructed.
Please note: There are time limits for filing a claim, your claim must be filed on or before 12/16/2009.


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Play presents elements of the body and the spirit as believed in by the ancient Egyptians. It investigates the way these elements come into play when a noble is buried in a tomb and revived by its spirit to discover that the afterlife or paradise they had been expecting is nowhere to be found.
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The 2016 BMW M2 Coup is Mmm Mmm Good!! They say good things come in small packages and the M2 Coupe is no exception. This is one sweet little package. Powered by a 3.0-liter M TwinPower Turbo inline 6-cylinder engine putting out 365 horsepower this car is quick but not overpowered. The M2 comes equipped standard with a 6-speed manual gearbox which launches this street racer from 0-60 in a scant 4.3 seconds – 4.1 seconds with the optional 7-speed M double-clutch transmission with Drivelogic, but this car is meant to be manually shifted. BMW has perfectly matched the performance of its M-tuned engine with Michelin’s super sticky Pilot Super Sport tires (265/35 rear and 245/35 front) that are wrapped around BMW’s double spoke black forged light alloy 19 inch wheels. Hard as I tried, I couldn’t spin these tires which gripped at every turn and off every jack rabbit start.
This car is truly a delight to drive and a relative bargain at a base price of $51,700. The exterior of my M2 was bathed in a brilliant Long Beach Blue Metallic paint (add $550) — a truly amazing color. I received more comments on this paint color then almost any other car I have had in years, other then maybe the Sublime Green of the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT or the Sandstorm Yellow of the 2016 Beetle Dune. The interior was covered in black Daktoa leather with matching blue stitching and carbon fiber trim. My M2 came with the Executive Package (heated steering wheel, rear view camera, park distance control (rear), auto high beams, and active driving assistant) which added an additional $1,200. For this car you don’t need to spend the money. After a $995 destination charge the total was $54,495. You can add Apple CarPlay compatibility for $300. The only other option available is the 7-speed M Double-clutch transmission with integrated Launch Control which will take $2,900 out of your pocket, will reduce (in my humble opinion) the sheer exhilaration of racing through BMW’s awesome 6-speed manual gear box, and all that you get in return is an extra .2 seconds on your 0-60 time (assuming your tires are fresh and the pavement is dry).
It is definitely a small two-door coupe and has a fairly modest waistline at a mere 3,505 pounds, but unlike some of its 2-door sports car competitors, it has an actual working backseat. If you are like me, a car guy with a wife and teenage kids, it’s a lot easier to convince the wife that it makes practical sense to buy a manually shifted 365 horsepower $55,000 coupe when the kids will actually fit in the backseat. And they do. I took the family out to dinner in the M2 and we all fit with a minimal amount of complaining (mostly from my wife as a result of the cornering and acceleration) – a lot less then when we all tried to fit in the 2016 Audi TTS coupe. If you are not like me, and don’t have teenage kids (or a wife, for that matter), then you won’t care about the backseat. But its there if you ever need it.
My one major criticism of the M2 is that the automatic rev matching is linked to the electronic stability control and you can’t turn off one without turning off the other. So what is automatic rev matching? In case you didn’t know or you haven’t been in a car that has this (which wouldn’t be surprising due to the dearth of manually shifted cars these days), automatic rev matching is basically the car’s computer trying to teach you how to drive a stick smoothly. The computer will automatically adjust the throttle or engine speed for smoother operation for both upshifts and downshifts. What I would say to BMW is if you don’t know how to drive a manually shifted car the right way you aren’t buying an M2. What I don’t like about it is it doesn’t let you drive the car the way you want to – it forces you to drive it the way it wants you to. And the only way you can turn it off is to also turn off electronic stability control. Which is usually a good thing to leave on, especially if you tend to drive like I do, and more particularly if you tend to drive the way I do when I’m driving a BMW M2 coupe. So, BWM, if you are going to insist on putting automatic rev matching in your manually shifted cars for people who buy manually shifted cars but don’t know how to manually shift, please let us turn this feature off, and only this feature, so that we can drive the car the way it was intended to be driven.
Don’t get bogged down with the rev matching. In fact, pretend I didn’t say anything. This is one of the most fun cars I’ve driven and is obtainable for most people at a $50,000 price tag. And with a not-too-unreasonable backseat, you can sell it to the family as a family car. It is on my must buy list without a doubt.

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The Seebach waterworks joint board uses a wireless solution, which is suitable for industrial applications, in order to communicate between various substations.
With the aim of obtaining drinking water, parts of the remote control network are now established on the basis of the new Radioline wireless system from Phoenix Contact.
The Seebach district administration authority supplies drinking water from the Osthofen, Bechtheim-West, and Mölsheim water treatment plants via an extensive supply network of approximately 500 km. From the primary pumping station in Osthofen, the water is supplied to Bechtheim-West, Gundheim, and Dalsheim via storage tanks, 21 water tanks, and the corresponding pumping stations.
As part of the ongoing automation of the waterworks, electrical connections have been established to all the water storage tanks and pumping stations in the service area. As well as wired connections, wireless solutions that use wireless systems from Phoenix Contact are also implemented.
Now, even more pumping stations and elevated tanks need to be connected to the remote control network. These stations are located in central Weinbergen at a distance of several kilometers from one another. This would make it costly and practically impossible to lay cables.
Based on their positive experience with the wireless solution from Phoenix Contact, those responsible at the Seebach district administration authority opted for the Radioline system, which is based on Trusted Wireless 2.0 technology.
The easy installation and modular design of the wireless stations fulfilled all of the requirements pertaining to the application, particularly as the wireless system can transmit both I/O signals and serial data and can be flexibly extended.
The pumping station in Bechtheim-West and the elevated tanks in Hessloch and Dittelsheim are located in the middle of vineyards. Here, distances of up to 2.5 kilometers need to be covered wirelessly between the individual plants and a defective cable connection needs to be replaced. Furthermore, a pressure reducing station located around 1.5 kilometers from Hessloch needed to be connected to the Hessloch plant.
“The configuration of the wireless modules and the respective analog and digital input and output modules was extremely easy”, reports Herman-Josef Hofmeister, impressed by the fact that the Radioline system does not require any additional software in order to transmit I/O signals. The wireless connection is established and the I/O extension modules are assigned by adjusting the thumb wheel on the front of the devices.
A 4.5 kilometer wireless connection also needed to be established between Monsheim and Dalsheim in order for two new elevated tanks to be integrated into the network.
Parabolic antennas, which amplify the wireless signal and channel it in a specific direction, enable this considerable distance to be covered. Serial data is sent via the wireless path in order to connect the controllers to one another. The plant in Dalsheim connects the elevated tanks to the control center in Osthofen.
Based on its several years of experience with Trusted Wireless technology, the Seebach district administration authority will continue to use wireless systems from Phoenix Contact in future.

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Finished the 2018 Buller Gorge Half Marathon Run in 3:06:40 in F2034 class!
She came 106th in class and 609th overall! Watch her cross the finish line.

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So I have to use used words.
And smiled while I bled.
So I have to use the old language.
And there is more to say.
So I have to use the ancient signs.
I’ll be here when I’m gone.
I've been meaning to write this post for ages, ever since just after Easter, in fact, but real life just keeps intruding and dragging my mind and hands away from what I really want to be doing. At least the heavy lifting's over (we've just moved and did it all ourselves with the help of some friends, he says in explanation).
Those of you reading this who are writers can probably empathise with what I'm going to say. Writers are a shy bunch, often afraid of being criticised publicly, often convinced that what they write is awful, too easily persuaded that someone else could do a much better job with much better words, and much better plots, too. And we hate the sound of our own voices.
So this is my story, severely shortened. As a kid, wanted to be a journalist and writer, and my father duly indulged me by buying me an Olivetti portable typewriter (remember those, kids?) for my seventh birthday, a machine I dragged round Europe with me till I was in my late twenties. When at home, I used Dad's heavy-duty Adler. Then, almost thirty, I got an IBM electric typewriter, one of those with the golfball typehead. I wrote over 500 poems on that one. And then my first PC with five and a quarter inch floppy disks, MS-DOS and WordStar.
On my second novel by now (and courting), I still refused to show anyone I didn't know any of my words. And so it goes on, until 6 years ago, when I wrote 76,000 words in 23 days as part of nanowrimo while living in Norway, a book (Bee Bones) which ended up as Number One on authonomy in October 2008, two years after we'd moved back to England. Slowly, I began to believe that maybe I could actually write, and write well, so started sending out queries to agents, without much luck (although I still think the book's almost perfect women's fiction, and it will get a publisher one of these days). I should mention that none of my books are on there anymore.
In the meantime, I'd been lucky enough to go to the Antarctic with work, a trip which (along with the encouragement of new writer friends on fb and authonomy) spurred me on to write a book about the mystery of Robert Falcon Scott's last ten days alive. Dead Men took 8 months to write (108k words), and then some more months to edit. And I did get an agent, a very good one, the first one I approached, who helped me edit Dead Men down to 88k words. I still cannot believe how lucky that was. And then the waiting began, because publishers aren't exactly throwing money at writers.
For some odd reason, the lovely people at Radio Stradbroke had given me my own shows by now, which seemed to be quite popular around the world (Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, the US, even England), and, on Good Friday this year, I decided I'd read live from Dead Men as part of my show (podcast to be up later this month - late, I know, but real life ... - refer to openening paragraph). This is where SJ comes in, the wonderful SJ Heckscher-Marquis, one of the best friend I made on authonomy. SJ listens to me regularly (again, I don't know why), and donates money to the charities Radio Stradbroke raises money for. On Good Friday, she decides to call Mel Hagopian, and asks her to listen to me reading. Well, Mel does, and an hour after I finish my broadcast, there's an email in my inbox asking for an interview to be turned into a blogpost. Me, gobsmacked and flattered.
One week's emails later, and Mel has completed a blogpost that still makes me come out in goosebumps - because it makes me sound like a writer, makes me look at myself from the outside and reckon this bloke knows what he's talking about, what he's writing about, and he writes good words, all in the right order, with proper commas in the right place, and all that. She posted the article on 10th May. On 12th May, I got an email from my agent telling me that Duckworth had picked up the book, and would be publishing it in 2012.
I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in serendipitous circumstance, series of fortuitous events, brought about by decisions we make of our own free will, and I believe in the power of friends' prayers and faith. So, thank you, SJ and Mel, for believing in me.
Mel and SJ are co-writers on My Ink Project. It's more than a blog, it's a way of life. Go check it out at myinkproject.com.

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We provide novel evidence that human melanoma cell lines (M10, M14, SK-MEL28, SK-MEL93, 243MEL, 1074MEL, OCM-1, and COLO38) expressed, at mRNA and protein levels, either Ca2+-independent phospholipase A(2) (iPLA(2)) or cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2)) and its phosphorylated form. Normal human melanocytes contained the lowest levels of both PLA(2)S. Cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 (COX-1 and COX-2) were also expressed in cultured tumor cells as measured by Western blots. The most pronounced overexpression of iPLA(2) and COX-1 was found in two melanoma-derived cells, M14 and COL038. Normal human melanocytes and the M10 melanoma cell line displayed no COX-2 expression. Using subcellular fractionation. Western blot and confocal microcopy analyses, in paradigmatic SK-MEL28 and SK-MEL93 cells we showed that iPLA2, COX-1 and even were equally located in the cytosol, membrane structures and perinuclear region while COX-2 was preferentially associated with the cytosol. Specific inhibitors of these three enzymes significantly reduced the p basal proliferation rate either in melanocytes or in melanoma cell lines. These results, coupled with the inhibition of the cell proliferation by electroporation of melanoma cells with cPLA(2) or COX-2 antibodies, demonstrate that a possible correlation between PLA(2)-COX expression and tumor cell proliferation in the melanocytic system does exist. In addition, the high expression level of both PLA(2)s and COXs suggests that eicosanoids modulate cell proliferation and tumor invasiveness. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Citazione: Expression of Ca2+-independent and Ca2+-dependent phospholipases A(2) and cyclooxygenases in human melanocytes and malignant melanoma cell lines / Scuderi MR; Anfuso CD; Lupo G; Motta C; Romeo L; Guerra L; Cappellani A; Ragusa N; Cantarella G; Alberghina M. - In: BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS. - ISSN 1388-1981. - 1781:10(2008), pp. 635-642.


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The effective solution for gardens, plots of land and campsites. A sound frequency which rodents find unpleasant together with vibrations drives moles, voles and shrews as soon as ants away permanently but gently without any use of chemicals. The solar module installed in the upper section charges the integral rechargeable battery pack and ensures safe operation during the day and at night.


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Graciela Iturbide was invited to participate in the registry of the opening and was able to capture Frida’s domestic spaces with a fine eye. Surprisingly, she began to discover another Frida and to interpret her objects —prosthetics, corsets, medicines, stuffed animals, posters of Stalin—, capturing fleeting and unrepeatable moments. She decided to organized an exhibition of the material she gathered, which was held in the Mexico City airport.
In the manner of a visual poetics, the photographer creates still lifes from what she found. These twenty-eight images evoke Frida’s interior world and her dominating personality. We see her private intimacy laid bare without limits or conventionalism. We see close up objects as intimate and unknown as the earrings Picasso gave Frida as a gift, and the notebooks, writings, and books —with feathers or dried flowers placed to mark a significant page— which allow us a glimpse of another version of the artist.
The project from which this book emerges - conceived by Natalia Gil and later exhibited at the Old College of San Ildefonso and in Monterrey, Brazil, Chile and Spain - shows the imaginary dialogue between the work of three photographers: the Hindu Raghu Rai, the Mexican Graciela Iturbide and the Brazilian Sebastião Salgado. The splendid photographs of these three masters show the similarities and particularities of two peoples that seem geographically and culturally distant, with their human conglomerates, their urban landscapes and their daily life.
The leading line of the exhibition that gives rise to this book is the meeting of three personal ways in which art can approach photography. The three artists who join this project -Gabriel Orozco, Richard Wentworth and Fischli & Weiss- find in this technique a means to portray their street findings within the urban landscape, its surroundings and its objects.
One hundred years after the birth of the Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, this book contains a selection of one hundred of his most emblematic images chosen by himself and accompanied by the pen of his own friends: Texts by Edward Weston, Langston Hughes, Luis Cardoza and Aragón, André Breton, Diego Rivera, Xavier Villaurrutia, Juan García Ponce and Francisco Toledo, among others.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo is an indispensable figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, a friend of artists and intellectuals in a century of contrasts. Here are the images who speak, images of the everyday that leave wonder in the open.
Fondo para Niños de México is a non-governmental organization that promotes the development of children living in poverty. This publication, illustrated with photographs taken by children from deprived areas of Mexico, offers the point of view of the youngest to show the needs and life of a vulnerable sector of the country.
Texts by Antonio Tabucchi, Susan Sontag, Nadine Gordimer, Jean-Claude Carrière, Álvaro Mutis, among others.
Eighty-one renowned writers participate in this project with an unpublished text about some of the photographs of Fundación Televisa's collections. The result is a very heterogeneous book, with images ranging from one of the first photographic shots, to others that became twentieth-century icons and contemporary works. In the same way, the texts go from story to essay, and even poetry, from some that give a story to the image, to others whose critical view affects the very act of capturing the moment, the decisive moment.
This book presents 31 photographs of the artist, taken in places as diverse as Florida and Louisiana, United States; England; India, and the desert of Sonora and Oaxaca, in Mexico.
The research that gives rise to this publication arises from the need to make available to the public a sample of the photographic production of our country and a recount of its protagonists.
Today, more than 160 years after the birth of photography, this book evokes that history with the images of more than 610 authors, from pioneers to contemporaries. This work originates in the Archive of the Image Center, which houses nearly eight hundred creative and research projects.
The Casasola archive is composed of almost five hundred thousand photographs, which offer a wide horizon of images and visual proposals and that account for the interest, unprecedented in its time, for collecting photographs, a novelty that is one of the contributions by Agustín Víctor Casasola to the patrimony of Mexico. This volume gives an account of the conformation of this historical collection, and presents a wide sample of the photographs belonging to its archive.
Disciple of Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa, Héctor García is considered one of the most important Mexican photographers. His work has been recognized with the National Prize for Science and Arts in 2002, and he has received the National Journalism Prize three times. Francisco Montellano says of him: "Witness and protagonist throughout his life of countless big and small events, the Héctor García archive is full of themes and derivations of the history of Mexico in the last 60 years". This edition features 150 photographs, and includes an introduction by the curator of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and an anthology of critical texts on the work of the artist.
Gabriel Figueroa has been the most important film photographer that Mexico has given, and his work was considered by the muralists themselves as a "moving" representative of this artistic movement.
This vast project, coordinated by Figueroa's son, Gabriel Figueroa Flores, includes both personal and professional graphic material, from his first photographs -of which the original negatives are conserved- to portraits of actors, artists and writers of the era, like Marilyn Monroe or Juan Rulfo, as well as a selection of digitally restored frames.
History of Luis Buñuel's film, premiered in 1950 in Mexico City and named part of the documentary archive Memory of the World of UNESCO, and on which essays, critiques and reflections by authors as well known as Julio Cortázar have been written, Octavio Paz and Claude Mauriac, to name a few. This social document about Mexico presents for the first time the complete script of the film illustrated with photograms, the history of how the film was made and who participated in it (such as Gabriel Figueroa, Max Aub and Rodolfo Halffter), the count of the other end that was not seen and the impact that this film had in its time.
Since the 1980s, graffiti has emerged in Mexico City from the United States after passing through Tijuana and Guadalajara as one of the most constant but little-explored manifestations of culture. This practice is carried out by an extensive community, initially underground, which soon becomes an urban phenomenon of enormous dimensions.
In this publication, the author analyzes the origins of graffiti as well as the complex socio-cultural relationships that surround it. The research, carried out through a meticulous fieldwork, shows the work done by graffiti artists and their crews in just over thirty years, traces a line from the origins of graffiti to our days and interviews 21 protagonists to bring the reader to the world of graffiti. A glossary of terms used by graffiti artists is included.
Profusely illustrated with a wide selection of graffiti (styles, signatures, messages and pieces), this publication has counted on the support of HUMO, one of its maximum exponents, as an advisor.


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Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "Kilkeary" ranked #149,328 in frequency out of 151,671 surnames for which statistics were released from the 2000 Census. 101 people, or approximately 1 in every 2,670,912 individuals in the US had this surname in 2000.
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Plans for the Hall of Fame Village have begun to shift, and are expected to continue changing. While the eight major components of the plan remain intact, new ideas for the estimated 75-acre complex were introduced publicly this week.
Plans for the Hall of Fame Village have begun to shift, and are expected to continue changing.
• There could be a second hotel built to accommodate teams in town to use the youth fields.
• Legends Landing, the retirement community planned for former NFL players, likely will be moved.
• Residential development might be included.
“When we share renderings, we are very clear to point out those are renderings,” said Pete Fierle, vice president of communications for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame Village design team had a full day of meetings scheduled Thursday, but no final decisions about the location or inclusion of elements at the Village were anticipated, those involved said.
Details of the $476 million, eight-part Hall of Fame Village expansion on the Pro Football Hall of Fame campus first were announced in The Repository in May.
Construction of the new Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium — the first phase of the Village — started this month, and representatives of the Pro Football Hall of Fame continue to attempt to acquire property in the area.
The original plan presented for the Village included the stadium, upgrades to the museum, a four-star hotel and conference center, an NFL-themed attraction area, youth fields, an assisted living facility, a center for excellence, and retail and restaurant space, with a targeted completion date of 2018.
Pro Football Hall of Fame executives at the time cautioned the plan would fluctuate.
At Wednesday’s Plain Local Schools Board of Education meeting, executives from Industrial Realty Group — the master developer for the project — talked about some new ideas for the complex.
There could be a residential component added to serve as a buffer between the Village and adjacent neighborhoods. Offices for Pro Football Hall of Fame officials might be moved out of the museum and into a new structure, and other high-profile clients — including the NFL and USA Football — might potentially be interested in opening offices there, too. Memorabilia not on display in the museum might decorate restaurants and the hotel.
There likely will be nine youth fields, and a second hotel, possibly with a more moderate room rate, could be built. Legends Landing, which initially was plotted on the far end of the campus near the interstate, will be moving, but it’s not clear where.
Tracy Green, president of IRG Realty Advisors, said Thursday he didn’t have more information about potential changes and that the design team wouldn’t make final decisions Thursday.
Also on Wednesday, developers asked Plain Local Schools board members to consider approving a tax-increment financing agreement to help fund the project. Under a TIF, developers would pay property taxes as normal on the existing value of the property, but a chunk of the new taxes they’d pay when the property value rises as Hall of Fame Village is built would be diverted for future improvements.
At the meeting, project leaders said they already have approached the Canton City Schools, city of Canton officials and Plain Township trustees about a TIF agreement.
Plain Township Trustee Scott Haws on Thursday said a TIF was mentioned during individual meetings trustees had about development at the Village, but they haven’t received information about a suggested abatement percentage or length of the agreement.
Canton Deputy Mayor Fonda Williams could not be reached immediately for comment.
Representatives for both Plain Local Schools and Canton City Schools said Thursday the terms of the proposed TIF agreement haven’t been shared with their districts yet.
Other financing options for the project include designating the acreage a tourism development district in order to recoup additional sales taxes from leased property or sales; pitching the concept to foreign investors; and using the developer’s capital.
Staff writer Kelli Young contributed to this report.


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Six ships laden with petrol, kerosene and aviation fuel have arrived at the Lagos ports and waiting to berth, the Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA) said on Wednesday in Lagos.
The NPA made this known in its daily ‘Shipping Position’ made available to newsmen in Lagos.
It said three of the ships arrived with petrol, while two ships brought in aviation fuel and the remaining one was laden with kerosene.
The NPA also said 27 ships were expected at the Lagos ports from March 30 to April 18.
A breakdown of the expected ships showed that 13 ships would arrive with containers, while six others are to bring in general cargoes.
Food products including bulk sugar, buckwheat, bulk salt and crude palm oil are expected in six ships, while the remaining three ships will sail in with petrol and diesel, the NPA said.

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We arrived at the dock at 4:30 with the temp just above freezing and winds were pretty breezy. We knew were were in for a rough morning… While all of this is true, don’t you hate how every fishing report starts this way.
We joined the fleet on Stellwagen just after Sunrise and Capt. Chuck quickly realized that we needed to move off on our own. After a few minutes of searching around the order was given to drop the jigs to the bottom. Fish immediately began striking both the jig and the teaser and many keeper doubles came over the rail. At about 11 AM, The crew from DC had caught their limit and the Skip A Dory steamed home. Back at the dock, Stanley and friends loaded ~ 200 pounds of delicious cod fillets into their trucks for the long trip home. Another great day of fishing with Boston Sportfishing!
Boston Sportfishing is the premier charter fishing company in the Boston, Massachusetts area. We specialize in inshore fishing Boston Harbor for trophy striped bass, as well as deep sea fishing for “monster cod” and the ultimate gamefish, bluefin tuna! Captain Chuck DiStefano, Captain Skip DiStefano and Captain Tim Egenrieder are all professional full-time fishermen with decades of experience, and also members of the Daiwa pro staff. With three great boats we have the flexibility to customize trips to fit your needs.
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One of the delights of living in a diverse community is the variety of produce that's available. Summer is prime green bean season, and the asian long bean (yard long beans) is variety that I love. You can certainly substitute it for regular green beans in the recipes you love. I'm cooking them with a little mustard seed and finishing with mustard oil for a nice, light summer version with a little zing. This is so easy and fast your kitchen have doesn't have time to heat up. This recipe is husband approved; it's been requested and prepared for the last several weeks when I can get my hands on the beans!
From a nutrition standpoint, Asian long beans are a rich source of vitamins A,C, calcium and fiber. The mustard adds some anti-inflammatory properties as well. The extra virgin olive oil is a healthy mono-unsaturated fat.
You can find black mustard seed and mustard oil at most Asian markets or online.
Add the beans, salt and sugar. Toss to mix and cover the beans for 2-3 minutes until tender.
Drizzle the mustard oil over, toss and enjoy.
Hurricane Harvey may have devastated Houston, but it did not destroy us. Even if you didn’t directly experience the flooding and loss, we are still all touched by it through our friends, families and communities. For almost a year people have been displaced from their homes and the routines of daily living where we find sanctuary. Kitchens are slowly being redesigned and remodeled. Instant Pots, induction cook tops and microwaves are playing a role feeding us. We’re getting back to some basics in the kitchen. I’m back to the basics of bread.
Our Harvey preparations were a last minute affair, so no bread was to be found on grocery shelves. No matter, we had flour, yeast, salt and time. The baking began. I must give credit to my husband for bringing home a bag of Bob's Redmill Artisan Bread Flour when he couldn't locate bread. He made a loaf of pan de mie. I found an easier recipe right on the back of the bag. I’m partial to this very easy, no-knead bread. The crust is not too hard, but has body and the crumb is soft and tender. Great for sandwiches, toast or dipping into soups. I hope you’ll try this. It takes a little planning, but it’s so worth it.
A word on bread and gluten. Unless you have Celiac Disease (I have plenty of patients who do) or have a true wheat allergy (which is rare), you do not need to be gluten free. Our bodies have evolved over tens of thousands of years to digest and process wheat. Wheat is a main source of many B vitamins which are essential for good health, with thiamin and riboflavin being essential for memory and brain function. That said, I do not support the consumption of grocery store and commercial breads which have large amounts of gluten added for longer shelf life and that strangely soft texture; they do indeed cause bloating, digestion, rashes and a whole host of other problems. This is the reason why eating store bought bread in the United States makes you feel sick but you are able to eat bread in Europe without any problems. In most places in Europe the bread is made daily the old fashioned way. Bread should have good flour, preferably unbleached, water, yeast and salt if you like (Tuscan bread is made without salt and is delicious). The gluten that is developed in the dough undergoes a conformational change when baked making it more difficult for the human gut to absorb. Evolution has already done this for us. We just messed things up by adding gluten to everything and turning it from food, which should be fresh, into a commodity to sit on shelves for convenience. So, EAT REAL BREAD. I'm sure there are bakers where you live who are following this noble tradition which has fed the world for ages. Or try the recipe below and become a fresh bread baker yourself.
1. In a large bowl combine dry ingredients. Add water and mix completely to form a shaggy dough. Cover with plastic wrap and set at room temperature or proof setting in oven for 10 hours.
2. Preheat oven with uncovered Dutch oven inside to 450 degrees for 30 minutes.
3. While the oven is preheating, place dough on floured surface and form into a round and allow to rest for 30 minutes covered with plastic wrap.
4. Carefully place dough into hot Dutch oven, cover with lid and bake 20 minutes.
5. Remove Dutch oven lid and continue to bake another 12-18 minutes until crust is a golden brown.
6. Remove loaf from oven and cool.
The summer heat has been relentless and many of the gentler, more tender crops have dried up. We've also had a drenching rain that caused flooding over the July 4th holiday. In Houston, there's been some PTSD as last year's Hurricane Harvey left us damaged and bruised. The wounds have not yet healed and many people still have not been able to rebuild their lives. It's a tough time for farmers, so it's even more important to support them. Whatever is available at their stands will be what I will cook with. As I live close to the Gulf of Mexico, I'm fortunate to have Lil Emma's Seafood bringing fresh shrimp that were swimming just a few hours earlier right to my farmers' market. With a few potatoes, green beans and a little help from the pantry, a quick, easy and nutritious dish came together.
Using mustard seeds and mustard oil give the shrimp a lovely warm flavor without too much sharpness. Along with the turmeric, mustard is an anti-inflammatory agent in Ayurvedic teachings. I like the flavor of green chilies, but feel free to leave them out or use ground cayenne.
Shrimp are high in cholesterol, but are an excellent source of protein, magnesium and some calcium. Potatoes are rich in Vitamins C, B6, magnesium, iron and fiber. Green beans are rich in Vitamins A, C, B6, folic acid, and the minerals calcium, iron and copper. The fresher the vegetables, the more nutrition they contain as many vitamins, especially Vitamin C, degrade rapidly with storage.
Today, I made basmati rice and Indian style lentils/daal with zucchini and tomatoes (in plentiful supply right now) to go along with the shrimp. As always, the vegetable component of the meal is the largest, with the meat, in this case shrimp, playing a special guest starring role, in small quantities. You can also serve this with bread, or just a fork.
If you don't have fresh shrimp on hand, frozen will be fine. Thaw them slowly in a few changes of cool water.
Heat mustard seeds and chilies (if using) in oil until the seeds start to pop.
Add potatoes, chilies and spices. Sauté over medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
Add 1/4 cup water, cover and cook for 5 minutes until the potatoes are just tender, but not soft.
Add the green beans, sautéed for 1-2 minutes and food covered for about another 2 minutes. They should remain undercooked as they will cook further with the shrimp.
Add the shrimp, and sautéed until cooked through. The time will depend on the size of your shrimp.
Drizzle the mustard oil over and toss.


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From relaxing after an adventurous day of skiing or hiking in the Rockies to unwinding with friends and family after a long work week, a personal, in-home hot tub is key to any Colorado lifestyle. Not only does a hot tub afford you the perfect excuse for entertaining, but it also has the ability to boost your overall well being through rest and relaxation.
If you’re like many potential hot-tub owners, however, you’re likely just as concerned about the maintenance and upkeep of a home spa as you are about the benefits it has to offer. Fortunately, by having a general idea of how long hot tubs typically last and knowing which steps you can take to prolong the lifespan of your hot tub, you can have peace of mind when making your investment.
How Long Do Hot Tubs Last?As with many things, the longevity of a hot tub depends largely on which types of materials are used and how well the tub is taken care of. While low-grade designs that experience neglect may only stand to last five years, mid- to high-grade hot tubs that are well cared for and regular maintenance can last 20 or more years.
Keeping up with regular at-home maintenance involving chemicals etc.
Because your hot tub is a great investment for your Colorado home, consider shopping for designs made with quality materials and be sure to follow all cleaning, maintenance, and best-care instructions. To find the best hot tub for the wants and needs of your Colorado lifestyle, contact Rocky Mountain Hot Tub Company, today.


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Linguarama has extensive experience in the provision of in-company, corporate language training. Client companies can have their staff trained in small groups to raise the level of their language ability to a target standard. Language training courses can be arranged for any number of staff and tailored to the strategic requirements of the client company. Corporate group training programmes can be held on a company's premises (in-company language courses) or at the local Linguarama centre.
Corporate language training can support a company's training strategy in various ways. For example, it can develop the Business Language skills of a group of people working together on a particular project, or all the staff in a department where linguistic competence is required in a variety of Business Languages.
- people with a current or possible future need to use English or other languages in their work.
- people committed to learning and able to make time available regularly to attend all the training.
- people whose language levels and needs enable them to be matched together in compatible groups.
Corporate language training needs careful planning. A language audit is carried out by Linguarama staff (based on the Linguarama competence levels chart). This can help the client company to decide the training needs and targets for their staff. A Linguarama training consultant will then advise on suitable group sizes, and on how to arrange groups with the same language level and the same learning objectives such as writing skills, speaking in business meetings or on the telephone. Group sizes can be up to six or eight. The length of each course will depend on the training objectives of the client.
It is important with group training programmes to review progress regularly. Progress reports are provided at regular intervals, normally after each complete block of lessons.


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While crags weren’t the go-to playground in Paul’s childhood state of Michigan, he did spend his childhood exploring the great outdoors and learning to put as much time into protecting the environment as you do playing in it. In high school, his father and he began to venture into the mountains of Montana, Wyoming, and Washington, and he became hooked on the alpine environment. Since then, he has climbed all over the States and even met his wife, Allison, on a climbing trip to Yosemite. He is excited to strengthen the climbing community here in the Los Padres region and get us all to protect the places we climb.
Will grew up in a rural East Coast town nestled between the Adirondacks and the Catskills (1.5 hours from the Gunks!) but didn't start climbing until college. From there, the passion for climbing has taken him all across the country and beyond a few times. In an effort to close the gap between passion and profession, he has pursued a career path in the outdoor industry where he currently works as an engineer for Patagonia.
Allison Hendricks grew up in rural Ohio and found climbing when she moved to New York City after college. She spent much of her free time at the Midtown climbing gym and the Gunks until she left the big city for the West Coast. Quickly making friends who showed her around the glorious rocks in and near Southern California, she soon met her now husband, Paul, on a trip to Tuolumne. Crack climbing is her jam (pun intended). She enjoys long moderate routes in the Sierras, peanut butter cups, and is stoked on meeting new people and protecting the places we play in.
Juli grew up in the flatlands of the Midwest, just outside the city of Chicago. After pursuing a career in modern dance in the Windy City, Juli was ready to make a change and move somewhere with some elevation. In early 2015, Juli traded skyscrapers for the Sierra Nevada and headed to Ventura for an HR position with Patagonia. Her first outdoor climbing trip came shortly afterward, with Paul, Allison and Will as her guides. The trip turned out to be an epic (aka...they got lost), but she was hooked on the sport nonetheless. Juli looks forward to helping the local community get involved in both exploring and protecting the Lost Padres climbing areas.


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Enjoy American cuisine at Bistreaux, a restaurant which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Full breakfasts are available daily from 7 AM to 11 AM for a fee.
Know Before You Go The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Fees The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out. Breakfast fee: between USD 10.00 and USD 20.00 for adults, USD 8.00 and USD 15.00 for children (approximately) Valet parking fee: USD 40.00 per day (in/out privileges) Late check-out fee: USD 50.00 (subject to availability) Rollaway bed fee: USD 10.00 per stay The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
The Maison Dupuy Hotel has a 24-hour fitness room, mirrored, with a treadmill, exercise bikes, and resistance machines, as well as a swimming pool. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.

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Coming up with innovative lunch box ideas all the time can be a bit tricky, because if you are not really into cooking that much, you will eventually run out of ideas. That is why we have prepared this list of easy yet healthy and delicious recipes which are considered as favorite recipes among young adults.
The first recipe includes chicken enchiladas. This is a cheesy and creamy recipe which is perfect for young people who love chicken in all kinds of sauces! All you need to do is cook the cheese, buy or make a burrito and place the melted cheddar cheese in a hot tortilla. It Is an easy yet delicious lunch box recipe.
The second one on our list is a tortellini soup with spinach and tomato. Soups are in general very healthy for the digestive system and for the immunity, especially during the winter season. It is a very fast meal which you will need about 25-30 minutes to finish. All you need to do is buy an already-made soup and put it in boiled water, ot take some tomatoes and tortellini and chop them and start boiling the tortellini, and on the other side, boil spinach leaves without and leftover water inside of the bowl.
Chicken with basil and tomatoes is another easy yet delicious recipe. You can use cherry tomatoes for that extra fresh tasted, but regular tomatoes are also fine for this recipe. Cook the chicken, chop the tomatoes and chop the freshly picked basil. You can place the tomatoes and the basil on top of the chicken (cook the chicken as you prefer to eat it) and there you have it- in just about 30 minutes you have a delicious lunch box meal that will make you full the entire day through.
Another extremely delicious and specific lunch box recipe that might be specific for some young adults, but extremely delicious for others is salmon in honey and lime sauce. This is probably my favorite recipe on this list. It is not hard to make, but it is definitely hard to resist. The Lime sauce should be made with brown butter (always pick the healthiest one) and the salmon can be smoked salmon if you are too lazy to cook yourself a real slice of salmon. You need to take the honey and simply place it on top of the salmon and add a little bit of the lime sauce. The lime sauce should be freshly squeezed, and the butter should be included in the end. If you are into cooked salmon and not smoked salmon, then all you need to do is take some gluten-free flour and start cooking your salmon for about three to five minutes per each side.
This delicious meal is going to take only about 15 minutes from your time which is a very positive outcome, regarding that it is quick to do, very healthy (fish is full with omega-6!) and on top of it all – it is way too delicious and hard to resist!


text: Welcome back everyone. We survived winter storm Liam. We are back to our regularly scheduled programming. Thanks again to Sunshine Princess and Ricky up the Road. Eric and Kevin talk about their hate for Valentine’s Day, a couple of dates they went on and Barack Obama’s portrait. Happy Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday to you and your love ones.


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Identity theft is rampant these days. Anyone with a computer and enough gall can accomplish it, regardless of their intellectual prowess, and so bank accounts are being ruptured – and drained – with alarming regularity, but it is preventable with such services as LifeLock or Identity Guard.
The next time someone asks you for your phone number, full name, or financial information, stop and ask yourself why do they need to know this? Then, stop and ask the person inquiring – why do you need to know this?
Identity thieves ask for important information, knowing that more often than not they will get a thoughtless, automatic response. So be vigilant about who you hand that information out to, and you might save yourself a lot of trouble.
One method of identity theft is to take mail directly out of a mailbox. Don’t make it easy for them. Always drop your mail off at the post office instead of leaving it in your mailbox, and when you go on vacation, make sure you have your mail held instead of letting it pile up for thieves to take.
Don’t leave bills lying around where anyone can see them, and keep your personal information, such as credit cards, stored away safely.
Best of All, Watch the Internet, Because the Internet Watches You!
It’s hard to stop a criminal once they set their mind to committing a crime. But you can make yourself less likely to be a victim, and safeguard your financial well-being, credit history, and identity by being vigilant with the ultimate identity protection. As a result, you end up making sure you’re the only one spending your money.
Your Credit Card Is an Open Book. So Close It!


text: Reciprocal interaction between excitatory and inhibitory neurons within and between layers of the cerebral cortex is a major element of brain function. Ensemble extracellular recording techniques using mircroelectrode arrays have permitted recording spiking activity of many neurons simultaneously to characterize network function . Identifying the type of neurons in these recordings is not straightforward due to the variability in extracellular spike shapes, and the irregularities often observed in their interspike interval characteristics. In this study, we used optogenetic tools to genetically target fast spiking interneurons in the primary visual cortex of mice . We modulated their spiking activity by illuminating the region with very short pulses (<1 ms) of light (~470 nm wavelength)in mice primary visual cortex. Using Dynamic Bayesian Network analysis , we assessed the effective connectivity between the recorded neurons in the presence and absence of light stimuli under distinct cortical states observed under light anesthesia. DBNs could identify the effective connectivity between putative excitatory pyramidal cells and inhibitory interneurons. These findings suggest a novel and unprecedented way to identify cortical neuronal circuits and characterize the dynamics of their computations in vivo.


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The Instagram Egg that recently cracked a world record is the best thing to ever sweep the Internet. With now over 52 million likes on Instagram, a picture of an egg posted by @world_record_egg surpassed the last record holder, Kylie Jenner, who had 18 million likes on her post. It has since become a meme and one of the biggest internet sensations of 2019.
I remember checking my phone one day and had received several texts from friends urging me to “like” the egg. I scrambled to find out what they were talking about, and as I opened the Instagram app several images of brown eggs infiltrated my feed. When I came across the original post I cracked up. I feel amusement and irony that nothing more than a stock image of a single brown egg could dethrone King Kylie.
Is the egg being held by a celebrity? Is it part of a popular YouTube channel pulling a stunt? Is it decorated with some sort of bling or message? Nope. It’s just an egg.
I think it’s amazing how quickly the trend of liking it spread. Within a matter of just 10 days, 35 million accounts had liked the post. What a time to be alive.
Originally, I supported the cause. The egg had all the markings of some sort of counter-culture campaign. If a celebrity who’s famous just for being famous and rich can get millions of likes, why can’t a silly little picture of an egg do the same?
It was like a populist revolution of social media. We were crowning an everyday egg as the ruler instead of someone with big money and fame. Most people liking the picture, including me, saw driving up the egg’s numbers as a way to show up Instagram celebrities around the world. The fact that the egg carried no meaning or intention of self-promotion was appealing.
The owner of the account was soon revealed to be Chris Godfrey, a 29-year-old in advertising. However, what came next was a major let down. Over the next few days, Godfrey posted more pictures of the egg, gradually breaking. Its final form turned out to be sponsored by Hulu… yet another thing that turned out to be a partnership for a meaningless ad.
It was so disappointing that the one light-hearted and meaningless thing that went viral turned out to have contact with yet another corporation. It just goes to show how easily we can be manipulated by social media; any social media content could be manufactured by any company.
Beyond opening up our eyes to how anonymous the average person feels on social media networks, the Egg also conveyed a valuable message, linking talkingegg.info to people who feel the need to talk to someone.
I love the idea of putting all the instant viral fame and internet popularity towards a good cause. While this social media rags-to-riches tale appeared to carry good intentions after the “mental health vision,” I still think it’s just a stunt for good PR.
Despite the disappointing product relation, Omelettin’ this slide. For now, I’m staying on the sunny side up and listening to what the overly popular egg has to say.


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Trailmakers by Flashbulb Games may be a work in progress, but already has more than meets the eye, with the design intricacies of a big budget racing sim hidden beneath the surface of an cartoon arcade caper/exploration puzzler. Now this isn’t the fully formed game, as its only just gone into the Xbox Preview program, so when you play you need to remember its still a work in progress. The premise is to design vehicles to get round a track or tackle the terrain, but building them from components lego style, only using the components you have unlocked.
There are four different areas to the game, Race Island, Danger Zone, Sandbox Island and Trailmakers Rally. The latter two areas of the game seem to be the most developed at the moment, and consequently I was drawn to spending more time in them. The environment of Sandbox Island is exactly what it says, as you can roam wherever you like exploring wherever your vehicles will take you. Scattered around are various challenges, all there without explanation as yet, such as ramps to scale, giant balls to push and flaming hoops to jump through. You have to figure out what the puzzle is in the first instance, then attempt to complete it to unlock a new component and level up your driver. Now obviously one car wont be enough to conquer the puzzles, so that’s where the design comes in.
The build of your vehicle, what parts you use and where you place them will have a big effect on performance. Put in more engines for extra power, but at the expense of increasing body weight, make a car longer for stability but lose out on manoeuvrability, all decisions you need to make when trying to build the right vehicle for the challenge. Until you get a feel for things like down-force and aerodynamics it’s a lot of trial and error, the amount of times I fitted wheel axles the wrong way round making steering impossible was a bit embarrassing!
On the Trailmakers Rally map, the emphasis is all on racing. You’re put on the start line of a track, and have to build a vehicle that will come in the top three against ghost cars, thus unlocking the next track. Match your design to the requirements of the track, with the difficult part only being able to use parts you have unlocked.
When you build a vehicle, its done in mid air above your driver. You pick a part from the menu at the bottom of the screen, then its attached to your driver by a line of electricity, letting you use your thumb-sticks to put it in the right position. Because you’re doing this in 3D it can get very tricky to place them correctly and you’ll find yourself constantly moving the camera angle to get the placement right. Green markers will appear when two parts are in position to connect correctly, and you even get an indication of how each piece will effect the aerodynamics as you add them.
The physics engine in the game is already working very well, and you notice every little change in the vehicle making a difference on how it performs in different terrains and on varying gradients. The graphics are fairly basic and cartoony, but its what you should expect of a game still in preview, as the developers flesh out the gameplay, and the look is often the last thing that is fine tuned ready for a full release. In the meantime, there is already a strong community building around Trailmakers on its different formats, mainly thanks to the creative freedom available to design your own unique vehicles, then save and share them online with fellow players. Here its not just about the practicalities of the vehicle, but can pimp it up with lots of cosmetic pieces to build your ultimate ride. You never know with a Preview game how long it will stay in the scheme, but if this seems your kind of thing, get in early while the price is low and have some fun. I’ll certainly be dropping into the game at regular intervals to see how its progressing, and I’m looking forward to the finished product.
Many Thanks to Flashbulb Games for the review copy.

industry_corpus2: Gaming