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I am in agreement with Governor Roy Cooper's sentiments. The Trump Administration and Congress' measly funding for federal disaster for Hurricane Matthew were extremely disappointing. It's less than 1 percent of what the state requested.
Governor Cooper requested more than $900 million in federal relief which is quite a conservative request in comparison to the damage done by Hurricane Matthew. Only $6.1 million in federal money was approved. This isn't even enough to bring affected areas back to "prior fund damage" levels.
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▪ Agriculture: $92.6 million to cover losses the U.S. Department of Agriculture didn't cover, such as livestock, equipment and feed.
▪ Small business: $39 million to help close to 700 small businesses.
The above areas had the most impact in my District.
I call upon my Senate leaders to come up with additional funding, either through an immediate supplemental spending bill or in the next appropriations process to provide the much needed investment in recovery.
Being that North Carolina was underfunded at the federal level, it is unacceptable and shameful that the Senate budget fails North Carolinians affected by the storm. Hurricane Matthew was a catastrophic event that is best responded to outside of our biennium budget process. The appropriations should have never been included with the limitations of a $22.9 billion spending cap. We can do better than this. We are better than this. This budget does not reflect it!


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The very meanings of race, of gender, of sexuality, of labor and reproduction, of power, justice, and even of survival itself might not change after the apocalypse; then again, they might. Dr. Stacy Missari (Quinnipiac University) and Dr. Mary Burke (University of Vermont) will join Dr. Barbara Gurr (UConn) for a salon that focuses on what popular culture teaches us about post-apocalyptic politics and the human imagination. They will consider the ways in which post-apocalyptic narratives organize and possibly limit our abilities to imagine a different world, but also potentially create ruptures in hegemonic notions of "progress", "civility", relationship, and social change, particularly around concerns of race, gender and sexuality.
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YOU see, I'm trying to explain, Propaganda's approach to pop is a Brechtian combination of epic theatre and alienation effects. In the grand tradition of ABC and Billy Mackenzie, it'satoncegrandiloquentand demure, drunk at its own scale and potency and yet at heart detached, self referential and…
Betsi Miller: "I think you'll find there's a great deal of humour in our music, I mean, we can't help it. Look at the size of our noses! We can't be for real! How do you think I got the audition?"
Hmmm. Betsi Miller, the German-based American expatriate who's replaced Claudia Bruecken and Susanne Freytag as frontwoman of Propaganda, has her own theory about the common factor that has seen the group through good days and bad since their inception in 1983. Their noses. And she's probably right. Claudia, you'll remember, had a hooter that wasn't to be sneezed at, and, lest seismic devices go haywire, not to be sneezed. Betsi herself has an impressive nasal protuberance that stands out almost falsely on her otherwise conventionally glamorous countenance. Michael Mertens and ex-Simple Minders Bryan MacGhee (drums) and Derek Forbes bear out the theory impressively. Like a fine wine, Propaganda have plenty of nose.
They're back after four years of litigation and personnel shifts. Outare Claudia Bruecken, who left three years ago to join ACT. All but out are Susanne Freytag, whose duties on the new album are limited to a couple of cameo vocals, and founder member Ralf Dorper, now more of a "lyrical collaborator". Both are taking up conventional careers, Susanne as a goldsmith, Ralf as a banker.
This third manifestation of Propaganda are at last to release a new single, "Heaven Give Me Words", and an album, "1-2-3-4", their first since 1985's "A Secret Wish". And it's a barbed beauty, as spectacularly overwrought as before, but less overtly Germanic, American Betsi Miller's lush, funky voiceallowing them a more versatile, more recognisably pop sound.
On first hearing, "Heaven Give Me Words" or "Wildlife", are striking for the unproblematic freshness of Betsi's voice, a ray of sunshine caressing a deceptively accessible middleweight dance track. Then, with repeated listenings, it's the subtlety, the shadows, the refinements, the details, the pop references that emerge from the backdrop.
Propaganda Mark III are astonishingly versatile. I'm reminded successively of Heart, Yello, Chaka Khan, All About Eve, fleetingly, The Blue Nile, eerily. All of this comes in twists and turns, yet Propaganda are not too baroque. Propaganda are bright, as in sunny, clever. Ultimately, I'm reminded of the first breath of spring (or was it the last sigh of summer?) that was "The Lexicon Of Love". How about you?
Propaganda signed to Virgin after finally disentangling themselves from their contract with ZTT in 1987. Michael Mertens, what's your version of events?
"Well, it depends on which version you want to hear, the shortened version or…"
The biased, bitter version.
"Oh, I would have given you the biased, bitter version two years ago, but it's such a long time ago now, I'd rather look forward to what I'm doing now. It took me a year to get over it. I was talking to lawyers all the time instead of writing, it's the last thing you want to do. The whole business nearly split up the band. Basically, we didn't understand that we had entered into a contractual agreement because everything had been very informal, very verbal to that point. And, we realised that the implications of the contract were that we would have been selling thousands and thousands of records and not seeing a penny. When you think that, after we sold more than half a million records, Jill Sinclair offered me £5,000 a year for living expenses and I said, 'Well, I'm sorry, that's not good enough'.
"To be fair, there were two sides to the dispute. I didn't have any problem with Trevor Horn getting more money than I was. I still give him credit for making 'Dr Mabuse' (Propaganda's debut 1984 single, produced by Trevor Horn) the great record that it was. But, I saw him last week and he still sees us as the bad guys for leaving the label, even now."
Quite apart from financial difficulties, you must have felt overshadowed by the ostentatious, designer machinations of ZTT The Label, of "merely" being the group, a mere product in their game.
"Yes, there were three mega-egos. Paul Morley said it was all down to the genius of his promotional ideas, Jill Sinclair said it was all down to her fantastic marketing and Trevor Horn said it was all down to his amazing production work. But it was a great time and it could have been a great label, like Tamla Motown…"
WHILE Propaganda were undergoing divorce proceedings with ZTT, Derek Forbes was in the process of diving off the side of Simple Minds, with or without a discreet push from Herr Kerr. At that point, their self-sanctifying bombast was already swelling to uncomfortable proportions.
Derek: "I liked some of the stuff on 'Once Upon A Time', but after that it started getting much too muso. The people they were drafting in couldn't play the stuff I was writing because they were too competent. And when it got to that stadium level, you never met anyone backstage —
I pass on to Forbes and MacGhee uncomfirmed reports of a Simple Minds split and they indulge in a qleeful flurry of obscure handshakes across the table, a sort of neo-Masonic equivalent of delirious cheers.
"Thing is," says Derek, "if Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill are still together it isn't really a split. Basically, it's been The Jim Kerr band for the last few years."
Their addition to Propaganda's line up lends the sound a prestigous buoyancy, a turbo sheen that pumps up rather than pomps up their volume. Propaganda begin again where Simple Minds fell off after "New Gold Dream".Continue »
LIKE "Mabuse" previously, Propaganda's pop has a Wagnerian effrontery about it, plunging off in a variety of directions, running ring cycles around the paltry sequence of chord changes that usually consitutes the three-minute single. Some of this may be a result from Michael Mertens' classical background. He used to be a percussionist in the Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra.
"Trouble was, I never got to do much. There isn't much percussion in classical music before the 20th century. If I'd been playing strings I might have stayed on because I would have felt more fulfilled, but having to wait for the one cymbal stroke in a Bruckner concerto, getting up after two and a half hours —
Like Yello, Propaganda are dreamers in glorious technicolor.
Mertens: "A lot of time it's just pictures, or cinematic images, the haunting trombone section at the beginning of a James Bond film, the red sports car in Italy in 1964. There's a great deal of simple escapism in our work… certain things just drift off into a musical reverie and I love it."
Propaganda's inheritence from ZTT is a deliciously formalist approach to pop, a scrupulously fulsome sense of artifice and attention to surfaces, a subtle sense of "play" strangely lacking in these supposedly pop times. Even when they do a ballad, and they do a couple of belters that would make Heart eat theirs out, it's like they've constructed a facsimile of a perfect ballad, rather than been driven to pour out their souls. Which is fine. As anyone around closing time knows, there is no worse public nuisance than a compulsive balladeer. The distance they preserve from the game they are in, which makes them so good at it, is inferred in the name they have chosen to stick by, in spite of the drastic team changes through the years.
Mertens: "It was Ralf's idea. I think that pop music from day one has always been seriously into propaganda, establishing a certain image, not by lying but leaving out certain truths."
It's all too perfect. But is it too perfect to sell?
"There's only one way to find out, of course," says Mertens, gazing enigmatically and teutonically into the middle distance.
"By releasing it."
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A manager can use the "Review notes" functionality in Athri to add notes about his/her direct report . These notes can be a useful tool for the manager to add notes/comments about an employee whenever it is necessary. These notes can be referred during the performance evaluation.
The notes are strictly "private" and only the author of the notes can view them. Notes can be added, changed or deleted at any time.
Refer below for the steps to add, change or delete a note.
- Sign-in to Athri as Manager.
- Click "Team" link from the top menu.
- Manager's direct reports list appears.
- Click the name of the direct report for whom the notes to be added/changed/deleted.
- Direct report summary panel appears.
- Click "Add Note" link under the "Notes" heading.
- Enter the notes.
- Click "Save changes" to add the note.
- To change a note, click the 'View notes" link in the direct report summary panel under notes heading.
- List of notes for the specific employee appears.
- Identify the note which requires a change.
- Click the "Change" link below the notes.
- Make the required changes and click "Save changes".
- To delete a note click the 'View notes" link in the direct report summary panel under notes heading.
- Identify the note which requires to be deleted.
- Click the 'Trash can" icon next to the note.
- The note will be deleted from the system.
- I have added a note for one of my direct report. He is now reporting to a different manager. Can the new manager view the notes which I entered earlier?
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Monday, April 15, 2019
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Greed, Need and Money, Walter Williams EssayIn the article entitled, Greed, Need and Money, Walter Williams presents his take on the economics and logic of keeping CEOs highly paid. He essentially argues that these huge golden parachutes and corporate salaries are justified by re discharge that these companies get in return. Just because a CEO gets a high salary does non mean that he does not deserve it or do anything to help the company recover that value. By comparing this to a simple egress and demand feign, Walter Williams is able to show that the reason the salaries are so high is because the demand is high as well and supply is pretty scarce. One manner by which the mention of the word esurience can be applied to the economic lessons that have been discussed is to juxtapose this to the coat of greed as an economic theory. Greed can be said to be the primal mind for self-preservation of people. In an attempt to protect ones self, man seeks only to pursue his individua l interests without contend for the well- be of others. In relation to economics, this following of individual interests is greed or the pursuit of economic self-interests, other known as individual wealth accumulation.Greed as a driving force is not an inherently new concept as it was originally part of the Invisible Hand theory introduced by rapture Smith. The staple fiber precept of the invisible hand is that in a free market a person who chooses to be greedy and pursue his own interests in invariably also furthering the good of the entire community. A perfect example is in a situation where a person seeks to maximize his own(prenominal) profits in total disregard of other factors.By applying the Invisible Hand theory of Adam Smith, it can be shown that when the total revenue of society is calculated this becomes identical to the summation of the individual revenues of either member of that society. In nightspot to arrive at a better understanding of how greed, which is a describe concept under the Invisible Hand Theory, both drives and regulates capitalist markets, it is essential to have a apprize password of the basic supply and demand model. This is because production is driven by the willingness of the seller to supply and the basic goal of every seller is to increase profits (greed).This can be understood from two approaches, however, the first being profit maximization through an increase in the volume of units sold (assuming ceteris paribus) and the second being profit maximization through a decrease in the cost of the factors of production which in turn increases the profit margins per unit sold. The basic supply-demand model becomes critical in this understanding because under the market model sales will only willingly occur at the equilibrium point. The price level of a good essentially is determined by the point at which quantity supplied equals quantity demanded.The law of supply and demand predicts that the price level will move t oward the point that equalizes quantities supplied and demanded. Greed is crucial in this wizard because it is the basic assumption or behavior under this model. Without greed, there would be no drive for the individuals in society to pursue their own self-interests. The absence of this driving mechanism would mean that there will be no individual revenues and thus leading to the failure of the community revenue to equalize with its summation.This basically way that societys scarce resources become more efficiently allocated through the regulatory nature of greed in capitalist markets. While the Invisible Hand theory has already been rejected as an congenial economic model by the works of John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, the more complex markets of today have shown that the pursuit of self-interests, while natural of human behavior, must be regulated by external systems in order to ensure a more equitable and efficient allocation of resources.This means that greed is not inevitably good in todays current economic situation. As used in this discussion and in the article, this greed may not only be the effect of supply and demand only if the pursuits of an individuals self-interests for the improvement of the economic system.
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Audi today announced it will provide Alexa voice control for e-tron SUV. Audi's first all-electric vehicle made its debut Monday and will become available to customers in the U.S. in Q2 2019.
Alexa in e-tron vehicles will function similarly to Alexa in an Echo smart speaker in that it can play music, control smart home devices, and launch Alexa skills.
Audi intends to bring Alexa to additional vehicles in the future, a company spokesperson said in a statement.
The arrival of Alexa in Audi vehicles follows the introduction of Alexa in a number of other cars, including select vehicles from Ford and Toyota. Last month, in its effort to compete with the likes of Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, Amazon's Auto team introduced the Auto SDK to make it easier for more carmakers to bring Alexa to more in-car infotainment systems.
Amazon for e-tron is the latest in-car AI assistant to be announced. Mercedes-Benz introduced an assistant powered by the SoundHound Houndify platform last week, and BMW launched an assistant earlier this month that can respond when you say you're tired.
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Photogrammetria VIII, 1951 -1952, No. 4. Special Congress Number. (Amsterdam: N. V. Wed J. Ahrend & Zoon), [1952]. Pp. 284. Illustrated with various charts and tables, one folding map. 8vo, light green printed card covers. A quarterly review with articles written by a number of authors on the subject of photogrammetry, which is the process of making maps or scale drawings from photographs, aerial photographs in particular. Spine and edges browned, previous owner's name inked to front cover, else vg. 40.00
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This is a hefty, significant program -- more book than booklet! But the event was so enormous it's worthy of the paper used to print it. Saengerfest was a national song festival which consisted of five concerts held over three days to accommodate the HUGE crowds. Twenty-six trains were charted just to bring in the thousands of PARTICIPANTS. The Cleveland schools also contributed singers. The event was also a commemoration of the centenary of the death of Beethoven. The program measures 7-3/4" x 10-1/4" and is very tightly bound with complete spine strip. Onlt fault is light some soiling to cover front and back. It has been cleaned by me, but it proved impervious. Pages are pristine. The text is in both GERMAN AND ENGLISH and is illustrated with photographs. Pages are not numbered but the program measures almost a half inch thick.
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From an article in Times of India:
"After completing all formalities needed to avail a loan, Goyal entered into an agreement with a home finance company and the bank. A loan of Rs 37 lakh, which was to be paid in 180 instalments in a period of 15 years, was sanctioned and he started paying the instalments from March 2005 onwards on a regular basis. However, a letter took him by surprise in August 2008. The letter allegedly stated that the repayment schedule through EMIs was being revised to increase the repayment time from 180 to 502 months. He immediately approached the bank's local branch and requested cancellation of the payment rescheduling but to no avail. "
Read the full article here:
This means that first ICICI bank agreed to give a loan for 15 years (180 / 12). Then using some obscure terms and conditions (who reads those anyway?), they hiked the tenure to 42 years (502 / 12).
42 years means your children (and maybe your grandchildren) will still be paying EMIs!!!
It is not humanely possible to read terms of conditions for each financial product, and clearly it is the banks fiduciary duty to adhere to the spirit of the agreement. I think any bank which shows such tendencies to violate fiduciary duty will exploit its customers.
Another issue is that of charging higher interest rates to existing home loan customers, and lower interest rates to attract new customers, but that merits a blog post of its own!
Can we share our experiences of taking home loans with different banks.?I have two home loans, one from HDFC and one from LIC housing finance, and the experience has been good so far (for the past 2 years).
Thanks to Ravi Karandeekar for blogging about the article.
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Ackruti City's Q4 results worst amongst listed realty companies
Mumbai-based real estate developer Ackruti City's fourth quarter results were the worst amongst the pack of listed realty companies. Due to negative sales, its net profit for the quarter ended March '09 took a big hit. Despite a slight improvement in the sentiment for the sector, Ackruti could not register any sales. In fact, it had to write off close to Rs 105 crore worth of FSI sold in the previous year. The company reported a 300% drop in net sales in its fourth quarter and its net profit turned red. It fell to a negative Rs 123 crore from Rs 22 crore earned in the December '08 quarter.
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Sunday, July 05, 2009
Sea link hits Worli property prices
This is commonsense for everyone to see. If a calm area is invaded by 5000 cars an hour, think about the impact. Tough luck for the residents and lovers on Worli seaface. Maybe it is time to commercialize this area too.
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According to real-estate experts, increasing traffic and the consequent noise and air pollution are bound to have a negative impact on property prices along the promenade.
"Individuals who may have wanted to shift to Worli Sea Face will be put off," said Anuj Puri, managing director, Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj, a real-estate consultancy firm. "There are many issues like pollution, easy access to buildings, and security of children due to the increase in vehicular traffic."
Residents are already complaining that noise levels and air pollution have gone up. Moreover, the exit of the sea link has created a bottleneck, ruining the peace of the locality. The press of the National School for the Blind is on this road which, interestingly, is designated a silence zone.
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I tend to believe (or maybe want to believe) that something greater than me delivers little messages to me all the time. Messages of warning, encouragement, anything really. It's magical thinking and it makes me happy. For the past week or so, I've felt my subconscious battling with something. I still have no idea what's … Continue reading it's a dark cocoon
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Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. --Emo Philips I've had a string of days like the one beautifully described by Emo Philips, an old favorite. It's not necessarily anything external going on. The leather straps are internal obstacles that I haven't managed to work past yet. Things like old thought … Continue reading some mornings
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What do you do when you want to write a short story but coddle your characters so much that even the antagonist/villain becomes a milquetoast and nothing ever happens in the story world? I think I understand a story's building blocks. I've read dozens of books on the subject. But applying that knowledge has been … Continue reading i'm a stranger to my inner writing sadist


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I just wanted you to know how grateful we are at Island Elderly Housing (IEH) for the pre- and post-coverage of our art show by the IEH artists and craftsmen. It was a great article that brought lots of people from the community — and then having the coverage during the show was very special to the residents. Lynn Christoffers was wonderful.
It means so much to our residents, both exhibitors and attendees, to see the community interest and have the recognition in the paper.
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Chippewa Customs
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ISBN10: 0873511425 ISBN13: 9780873511421 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr Published: Jun 1 1979 Weight: 0.90lbs. Height: 9.25" Width: 6.00" Depth: 0.75" Language: English
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Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.
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I was walking my dogs, using our normal route (or at least, our normal route when Buster isn't on bed rest). A car pulled over next to me — I recognized it because it's literally papered with taped-down flyers about how only Catholics are going to heaven and a lot of shit about abortion, so I know exactly where the person lives — and the woman inside said angrily, "I see you guys doing it every single morning, and I'm sick of it."
Baffled, I said, "What?" And she said, "STOP IT. Or I'm going to call the police." And then she drove away.
I have no fucking idea what she was talking about. I don't let the dogs go into people's yards, only the grassy strips between the sidewalk and the street, and I always pick up after them. I generally walk by this woman's house twice a day, but we're almost always on the other side of the street (Buster has very firm opinions about which side of the street we should be on for different parts of the walk). We've never had any kind of encounter or interaction.
I don't know whether I should I go knock on her door at some point without the dogs and ask WTF she was talking about, or just leave well enough alone, but either way, I'm kind of freaked.


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MEMBER JUNGLE PRODUCT RELEASE: January 2019
It's a New Year and we have a new Product Release. If you need any more guidance, you can refer to the help website Member Jungle Help Website
The January Member Jungle Product Release will benefit administrators when using their website and app by introducing some great new features with membership and events.
In order to access any new app features, please remember you need to reinstall or update your Member Jungle mobile app on Google Play or Apple Store.
This release includes information on:
If membership has expired, members can still access their Member Jungle app, however, access is very limited. When opening the app, the member will be shown a notification telling them that their membership has expired.
When they click into their club on the app, they will have limited access with many prompts showing the renew button.
When they click on the renew button, they will be taken to the renew membership page on the website.
Reset Password:
In the case of a member needing to reset their password, the process is now very simple, with no temporary tokens required. When the member clicks on 'reset password', they will be asked for their username and email address.
An email will be sent containing a password reset link that once clicked, will take the member through to set a new password.
Importing Members:
Membership import will now be available to site administrators. Administrators will be able to import new members by uploading from a CSV file.
In the Security module, administrators can now search existing accounts to add them as a member. This account information is stored when someone purchases something from the store, attends an event or if they abandon a membership application at the payment stage.
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Administrators can manually add someone to attend a particular event. They can purchase tickets and/or register for them. They can also process their credit card or cash payment on their behalf.
In the back end of your website, there is now a new option for administrators, where they can choose to share registration details with members. If shared, members can view the list of registered members. They will not have access to click on individual members.
There is also the option to write and send an email when a member registers to a particular event.
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Members can register to events, purchase tickets (this takes them through to the website) and update registrations all via the mobile app.
Members can also decline, de-register and edit their registrations.
As an administrator, you've been able to view your member's logins via Security - Login Report. Now, you can also see when they have logged in and out of the app (view second last column).
That's all of our new updates. Don't forget that in order to access these new changes, you must reinstall your mobile app.
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Welcome to Trailmakers
Trailmakers is part creative vehicle-building sandbox, and part exploration-racing game. Building a car, airplane, helicopter or walking robot is as easy as playing with blocks. Take your machines on exciting rally races, dangerous exploration missions, race them against your friends, or build the craziest contraptions you can imagine in our huge sandbox.
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Flashbulb is a small startup studio with big ambitions.
We are individually experts in our fields and we are battle proven as a team. Most of us have worked together for years at the now-closed Microsoft Studio 'Press Play', and others come from top studios such as Rare, IO and CCP.
Its our vision to ignite the creative spark in everyone.
We create games that you play with – not just play. Games that give players unrestricted tools and environments to create their versions of fun.
Trailmakers is a game about building complex machines out of simple blocks.
With Trailmakers we want to bring out the inventor in everybody and let them have an awesome time in a unique world of playfulness.
We want to make the construction-game genre social.
Working at Flashbulb Games
Flashbulb Games is a startup - but a reasonable and grown-up one. In a startup we too are trailmakers, we conquer new grounds, we are ultra agile and there are literally no barriers between idea and action.
Being a reasonable startup means that we all have families and even though we need to work hard to change the world with Trailmakers, we must do so keeping a sensible work/life balance.
Being a grown-up startup means we offer delicate lunch, pension, private health care insurance and fair pay for everyone who works here.
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We are from LA made a terrific video for Pharrell's Happy that is pure branding genius. (also the links in projects's bibliography are working!) Continue reading
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Cinematic For The People is in Fort Wayne, Indiana this weekend for Ikasucon. "Adam Smithee" and pals will be doing up their jibes at midnight tonight. Will it be the same experiment as a few months ago when they took on Space Transformers at Penguicon? Maybe: "If all goes well at Penguicon, we'll also be […]
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Penguicon vs. Space Transformers.
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Merkel and Hollande call for extraordinary EU summit on July 7
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in a telephone conversation late Sunday called for an extraordinary summit of the eurozone leaders to be held on Tuesday, July 7, according to the German Government spokesman, Reuters reported.
The move comes following the results of a referendum in Greece with the majority of the citizen having rejected the EU bailout program, according to Reuters.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on Monday, July 6, German Chancellor Angela Merkel planned a visit to Paris to discuss the results of the Greek referendum with French President Francois Hollande.
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Kenny Ruiz was born in Alicante, but trained as an artist in Granada and Barcelona. His professional trajectory spans 20 years. Starting with fanzines, on to European albums and manga magazines, with publishing companies such as Tezuka Productions, Dupuis, Delcourt, Norma Editorial, Dolmen or Glénat, Ruiz has shown a great versatility. He's touched all kinds of genres, from science fiction to erotica, although his main interest has been the fantastic genre.
For his age, he's part of one of the first generations of manga readers, and his style has always shown a strong influence from the Japanese comic. We can also find in it traces of the French BD, videogames and the time he spent drawing animation storyboards. He has won the People's Choice Award in the Salón del Manga de Barcelona 2011 for his work "Dos Espadas", and has also won twice the People's Choice Award in the Salón del Cómic de Barcelona, on 2005 and 2008, for the works "Barcelona" and "El cazador de rayos" respectively.
His two most recent works are "Telémaco", a reinterpretation of Homer's "Oddisey" for a younger audience, originally published in France by Dupuis; and "Boku no Songoku", a reinterpretation "The legend of Son Goku", Osamu Tezuka's manga, published in Japan by the magazine TezuComi.
Illustrator, colorist and fangirl extraordinaire, she loves manga and anime with a passion, so he started to draw, following the path opened by her brothers and inspired by Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball. She studied in the Escuela de Arte de Oviedo, where she earned a degree in Illustration. She's published two comics as an author with Ediciones Glénat (now EDT): Underdog and Herem.
As a colorist, she's contributed her art to No Lands Comics, Corvus Belli, Norma Editorial and Editions Dupuis, where she's currently working in the series Magic 7 and Télémaque together with Kid Toussant and Kenny Ruiz.
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When I think of certain folks on twitter I think of Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter. So full of himself and what was going on and everything he had accomplished and extremely boastful. Name dropping was common, talking about things he had done and seen, folks he knew, books he wrote. This is what I'm seeing a hugely popular theme among the Christian world on twitter.
I know some folks will be offended by this, but I'm pretty sure I'm right with my assumptions. What more is this than boasting? We are called to "Boast Only in Christ."
Will we twitter in heaven? Will God care how many blog posts you did, how many betas you were in, how many early releases of albums you listen to, who you knew. I think he will care about one thing, if you knew his son.
While the Christian is busy twitter trimming there lists, retweeting every @reply to themselves, there are lost, broken people on twitter, blogging, ustreaming, stickam, mogulus, youtube, etc. What are you doing for them when you stop following them. How are you fulfilling the purpose of the body of Christ to secluding it to yourself and your small group of people.
I think if Paul were here today this would be a letter he would write to the church. I think there would be a lot of discouragement and sadness in how the church is functioning online.
This is all I have about this tonight but help me continue to digest on it. God has a mission and he will complete with or without you. So are you helping to complete his mission online?


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According to SHH and AICN there was a test screening of Constantine over the weekend and some good buzz is coming in.
"Judging this movie as a stand-alone film, it's a thoroughly entertaining, dark, supernatural action-thriller. Keanu reeves rebounds from the MATRIX sequels with a film/character that isn't nearly as bad-ass or ground-breaking as the first installment of Wachowski brothers' trilogy, but certainly delivers some goods. And Francis Lawrence's directorial debut signals the dawn of film-maker's career whom I think is going to fast become an A-lister." -AICN
"The story was absolutely fabulous, it was great." -SHH
"The movie is a trip. And when asked on the questionnaire what scenes I liked the least, I couldn't think of one. There are only two cinematic views of Hell that I've seen that I've ever liked. The one from "What Dreams May Come" and this one. If that's what Hell will be like, thanks but no thanks Satan, I think that party is for someone else. I'll take Heaven. The paranormal and religious themes were heavy and several of them had the audience jumping like I haven't seen since I saw the re-release of "The Exorcist" in theatres a year or so ago. I wouldn't recommend going into the show expecting to see something along the lines of realism such as "The Exorcist", just see it for the thrill of jumping out of your seat a lot. See it for the humor - most every scene involving John Constantine and a demon in the movie is great, filled with sarcasm like I love - , see it for a good ride, a little suspense - a lot of fun, and a Lucifer, played by Peter Stormare (Lev the Russi an Cosmonaut from Armageddon) that is awesome." -AICN
There are some slight spoilers in the AICN reports, and there are a few more details that *shock* dissappoint the Hellblazer fans, but the sneak peekers judged the movie on its own merits and seemed to like it quite a bit, so...you know, yay!
All in all though, this news sounds pretty promising and I'm all popcorn and pom-poms enthusiastic about these first reactions. Especially the good things about Keanu's performance.constantine | from inside the mind of krix at June 28, 2004 12:04 PM .
bwaaahahaaha...krix, sometimes I get up in the morning, just to read your headlines...well done.
I enjoyed reading the reports, but ya know? I still hate Harry. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much.Posted by: Nudel on June 28, 2004 03:40 PM
Yay for Constantine!
I'm sooo looking forward to seeing this movie, I hope because of some positive previews it would help move up the schedule or it can be shown in Summer 2005 (not looking forward to this). Okay, this already happened to Speed, where are the bad previews when you need it. ;)Posted by: jeanna on June 28, 2004 03:47 PM
I am already lovin' this film...I hope they move up the schedule.Posted by: shelz on June 28, 2004 04:18 PM
i have no doubt that constantine is not exorcist... and that there is imparted to the film by mr reeves message, purpose and reason as we journey with him through that underworld depiction, that may, for the moment, remain undeciphered...
he has an angel on his shoulder... no doubt...i wonder if the angel was with him during that shoot?????? YES!!!! i'm very anxious to see this one...
No fair! I want to go and work w/ those people just for that sneak peak now... lolPosted by: cornflakes on June 28, 2004 06:19 PM
*thinking thinking*... was j u s t talking about this... why some parts and films are right for some actors and not for others...the themes in this movie will prove to be intense... i think people n e e d to be aware that these levels of reality are out there...it's basic bible 101, isn't it? (jesus confronts and defeats the adversary - the ultimate depiction of spiritual light vs spiritual dark) at the risk of sounding uninformed since i only know a small part of the story... only read a couple/three of the comics...i totally support keanu in this choice of project... let there be light! let there be a holy shotgun... i can't wait to see the film!!!!
maybe there are some gifted psychics or intuitives out there who have had 'the constantine experience'...??????
yay...yay...yay!!!Posted by: wanda on June 28, 2004 06:54 PM
I am looking forward to seeing this film as well even though from a Hellblazer POV it is seriously flawed. I think Keanu Reeves will do John Constantine justice or at least as much justice as the script allows -- however, I don't think this film will be about spiritual light vs spiritual dark -- at least I hope it won't be! John Constantine is about ambiguity -- he messes about with both sides -- It sounds as if the script at least aludes to that concept and its all to the good if it does -- it seems to me that is the kind of character that KR does well --Posted by: jude on June 28, 2004 08:00 PM
What's WB's policy here?
A preview now of a movie due out in Feb. 2005?
Anyway, glad they seem to like it...
though, like Nudel, you could call me a sceptic.
I want to experience JC on my own before passing judgment.
jude... v e r y interesting comments... you are probably right... the film will be about john constantine (hence the title of the reeves starrer) and again, as i said, i know not as much as i will know about it... sometimes i like to read up prior to viewing films and sometimes i like to learn from that moment - meaning when i actually see the film first time without too many preconcieved ideas...(the film is the film - the book is the book it's a zen thing...)
... having said that...i don't think it gets any spiritually darker that a stroll through h*** in anybody's day...(something also done by jesus, according to some texts)
to me...if constantine's been there, done that and doesn't want to go back...perhaps he's a wee bit less than ambiguous about it... holy shotgun and all... bullits of crosses??
(sometimes when i type i'm work out thoughts in my head!!)
if he is a character symbolic of ambiguity, he is touching a chord in today's somewhat ambiguous (lacking clarity of meaning) humanity...one that is more than ever faced with a search for the light of truth, clarity and meaning (certianly, there are many issues to be clarified for humanity en mass today)...
ambiguous humanity( i think lot's of people will see and hear this film!) calls for/must have a need for clarity/answers/direction, even if it's which way NOT to go!!!!! - from above article - "If that's what Hell will be like, thanks but no thanks Satan, I think that party is for someone else. I'll take Heaven." (ooohhhh...I'll take Heaven, too... thanks!!!)...constantine turns up the contrast on joe public's tv set... can ya hear me now??!!!!!
and this story/movie is about a conflict with ummm.... Satan...right???? so...
(NOT thumping, but have to refer back to the bible again...) our basic 2000 year old concept of satan and demons does derive from the bible...(correct me if i'm wrong)
Matthew 4:24
News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demonpossessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.
numerous other references, Etc...
on the other hand... "thoroughly entertaining, dark, supernatural action-thrillers"... pretty safe to say, are Hollywood bread and butter... and, pretty safe to say, that prodction values are high, acting/star appeal is high/ entertainment value is high, and, just based on the above wee-view preview comments (chuckle) story value is high...
Posted by: wanda on June 28, 2004 10:22 PM
"he messes about with both sides"....well...i think i'd want to be on the constantine side of the holy shotgun anyday! as for KR, reeves' ambiguity...he is an actor and actor portrays... is he that portrayal? just off the top of my head, really, he obviously knows his business and his profession and he's at the top of it. top dog if you will...perhaps he's wise beyond his years, his being the one and all...and considering the sheer weight of the subject matter, the visuals, the intensity of mood conveyed... i'm hard pressed to think of anyone BUT reeves for that part... he is e s s e n t i a l...smokey cabernet voice, soulful penetrating eyes... bod for action... cutting a strong silhouette of man (and let's not forget Rachel)...i could go on.... but this is a G rated site!!!
I'm looking forward to this movie. It is gonna be HUGE! Wanda, you are so right, it's HIGH on the success-o-meter. *yay!*
And I'm wondering ... how does a person go about getting on a special screening?!! Sign me up!Posted by: sta-cie on June 28, 2004 11:56 PM
They're just testing the water...
I hope they test it over here too. I wouldn't mind a sneek peek.Posted by: Keanuette on June 29, 2004 04:00 AM
I thought it was interesting that these enthusiastic reviews didn't sound like a PG-13 film (of course it's not rated yet)...and nobody mentioned Shia LaBoeuf..hmmm..Posted by: Nudel on June 29, 2004 04:11 AM
*takes Holy Shotgun out and shoots at the motives of movie critics"
...you can't shoot at something that doesn't exist. But I do believe the critics serve their purposes, it's just not the same reasons they stay around.
Good points Nudel -- maybe Shia hit the cutting room floor along with the PG13 rating -- sound like wishful thinking? sigh.....Posted by: jude on June 29, 2004 08:08 AM
The Pet Shop Boys...for some reason I keep hearing the Pet Shop Boys...Posted by: Tabitha on June 29, 2004 08:46 AM
cornflakes? cornflakes? where? lolPosted by: cornflakes on June 29, 2004 04:45 PM
hehe i didn't notice the title had the word cornflakes in it till today, i'm not very observative, am I?Posted by: cornflakes on June 29, 2004 04:46 PM


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GUEST COLUMN: What is agriculture?
As a young agriculturalist, I am faced daily with common misconceptions of what agriculture is. I even find myself getting lost in the mix up at times.
Agriculture by all means is not the common dictionary definition, nor is it just farmers as most of my peers think; it is not just what I interpret it as either, it is all of these things and so much more.
When people hear the word agriculture everyone thinks of farmers, crops, and livestock. In some ways this is because of the dictionary definition, "the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products: farming."
Agriculture is bound to be misconceived with this definition; that has set the tone for the general public's opinion. In fact agriculture is the nation's largest employer, with more than 23 million jobs, with 1 in 5 jobs in private industry being agriculturally related. That's 17 percent of the civilian workforce involved with some aspect of American agriculture. A more appropriate definition is this, "Agriculture is the science, art and business of using plants, animals and natural resources to produce food, fiber and other useful products." While this is very similar to the dictionary definition it doesn't make one think of a farmer as much.
Many students in Middletown High School have a skewed view of the members of the Vo-Ag program. Being a chapter officer for two years and a very proud an active member for four years it is my job to represent our chapter well and to educate my peers and the public about what we do.
I have endured the name calling and the questionable looks of my peers since I started high school. Farmer, Hick, Redneck, Hillbilly, are all names most Ag kids face, as well as the comments like "Ew, they smell like an animal," or "they are just dumb farmers."
The ignorance of my peers about what agriculture is affects me as well as all the other students in the agricultural program every day. They do not respect us; to them we all clean up animal feces and pick corn or drive tractors. While these are in fact some of the things we do, it is not all we do. What many of them don't know is, agriculture can be anything from creating an alternative fuel source to milking a cow, or creating wildlife habitats, or being a golf course manager.
For the Ag students who work with livestock, tractors and corn, being called a farmer is accurate we do not deny that. At the same time we also know that that is not all there is to agriculture.
To me agriculture is part of my life, it is part of everyone's life they just don't know it. "We feed the world" is a quote every Ag kid will say proudly, but we also provide roads, cars, fuel, household products, toiletries, pets, medicine, and amusement for the world. Ninety-nine percent of agricultural careers are related to biotechnology, communications, education, and agribusiness. I am the 1 percent who pursues a career in agricultural production. I raise livestock, but I also represent millions of fellow agriculturalist who struggle to educate the public about all there is to agriculture, and against the misconceptions of agriculture.
Agriculture is a livelihood, one filled with some hardships and several rewards. It takes on many different definitions because it is too huge to be held down by a single definition. Agriculture is the nation's No. 1 industry, 20 percent of all careers are in the field of agriculture.
The dictionary gives it a basic universal meaning, and to the ever day average Joe it's misconceived as all farmers. For someone who eats sleeps and lives agriculture it's all of these and something else entirely. None of these things are right but none are wrong. They all make agriculture what it is today.
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So, Spotify's Daily Mix playlists are fairly spot-on. Lately, they've been creating two mixes for me based on video game music (apparently I listen to enough to warrant the need for two mixes). Due to listening to the likes of Big Bad Bosses, Spotify eventually threw "Hero of Our Time" at me by NateWantsToBattle, or Nathan Sharp, one of the members of Big Bad Bosses.
I fell in love with the energetic beat and the, "Go, hero, you can do it!" message of the song. The song itself is part of an album of original songs that Nate published dedicated to the Legend of Zelda series. He also has albums of Pokemon songs, as well as covers of hit songs and albums of his original work.
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Half a million girls have already pledged to save our planet from plastic pollution under Girlguiding's #PlasticPromise campaign — and so can you. By becoming a "Planet Protector", you can support over 400,000 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, and Rangers who are making one of five promises to create a better future for all of us.
Girlguiding is tackling plastic pollution by focusing on five promises that we can all get behind: Carrying a reusable water bottle to reduce the 7.7. billion plastic water bottles used every year in the UK. Choosing an alternative to plastic cutlery can also make a huge difference in the amount of single-use plastic that ends up in our landfills and our oceans. We use 1.2 billion metres of clingfilm every year, Girlguiding suggests that we "resist the wrap and promise to use a box instead". For all the coffee lovers, it might surprise you that we throw away around 5000 coffee cups per minute, so let's bring a reusable cup next time (and get a bit extra coffee, and a tiny discount in most cafés). Finally, take advantage of platforms online and on the streets. Create and fuel conversations to demand big brands to make visible steps towards reducing their plastic waste and protecting our planet.
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SVI Alumna Bridgitte Alomes featured in Vancouver Sun articleBy Heidi Hartman on December 14, 2012 - 12:25pm
Social Venture Institute alumna Bridgitte Alomes, CEO of Play at Natural Pod, was recently featured in Vancouver Sun story about her journey toward becoming a social change entrepreneur. Read on for the article:
More women leaving corporate trenches to set up their own companies
Many abandon thriving careers because corporate culture doesn't meet their needs, studies show
By Yvonne Zacharias, Vancouver Sun
December 13, 2012
When Bridgitte Alomes moved to Vancouver from Australia about 12 years ago, she began a thriving career developing marketing strategy software for various global corporations.
At one point, she was the youngest director and the only female on a corporate team. "That was interesting," she said with a laugh.
"Being a decision-maker in a male-dominated industry was definitely difficult." However, she said, it provided her with an incredible amount of learning and strengthened her as a human being, preparing her to join the growing ranks of female entrepreneurs who are leaving the corporate trenches to strike out on their own.
In 2006, she veered off in a brand new direction, co-founding Natural Pod, which designs natural play spaces, furniture and toys suitable for child-care centres, preschools, kindergartens, community centres and children's hospices. READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>


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My recollections from one winter morning during the blizzard of 1979... so long ago..
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Thank you Catherine for faving this poem. And yes, the duality is intentional. I always like to explore the dichotomy or duality of the human experience.
First, there was the violent snowstorm all through the night that dumped a foot of snow on the ground. Then the peace and serenity of the storm's aftermath, and the purity (and innocence) of freshly fallen snow, that's covers all the blight and ugliness. Then finally the snow trails and footprints we make that mar the beauty of the freshly fallen snow, a metaphor for the human assault on the environment.
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Good grief love this ... The metaphor .. Your beginning lovingly pulls you thru great imagery ... Like I was actually there and your happy and then all of a sudden that strong and intense finish ..." Forlorned at the sight our sadness expressed.. The snows pure no more .. Innocence betrayed". Man that got me .. Wether it's a metaphor or not ... It seemed I was a child when reading it as if kids were walking thru this snow and then those last few lines ... It was so strong ... Innocence lost .. It had a Child hood over feel to it .. Wether that was your intent it spoke to
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The Guardians are back with writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw at the helm. Guardians of the Galaxy #1 takes place after the events of Infinity Wars, which saw the breakup of the cosmic team following betrayals, universe bending hijinks and very notably, the death of well-known Marvel villain Thanos. Also, Wolverine was there for some reason.
This comic book is set after Infinity Wars and focuses on the aftermath of Thanos' death. It turns out that the villain had a contingency plan in case he was ever killed, which sends the cosmic heroes into a state of panic and concern. Everything that occurs as a result of Thanos' post-humous machinations brings a new team of Guardians together to stop the mad titan.
Readers don't need to have any familiarity with Infinity Wars prior to reading Guardians of the Galaxy #1, even though it deals with that story's aftermath. All readers have to know is that Thanos died and that the Guardians split up. Cates coveys that information through the story rather than a blatant exposition dump. This makes Guardians of the Galaxy #1 a good entry point for readers who are new to the franchise or Marvel Comics in general.
Cates establishes a tone and narrative that really grabs the reader's attention. There's a sense of desperation in the script because of Thanos' contingency plan. As a result, some of the characters reveal the lengths they would go to in an effort to stop Thanos which creates tension among them. This is because Cates writes Thanos as an intimidating presence, whose evil and ability to instill fear transcends death itself. The villain's reputation for destruction sets the mood for this story and provides an atmosphere of lingering terror felt by all those present. Cates also makes the conflict time-sensitive, which adds a sense of urgency to the story.
The plot moves very quickly, allowing Cates to cover a lot of ground narratively, laying down the foundations for the larger story. The drawback to this is that the writer doesn't spend too much time on character development. Most of the central characters play a small role in this first issue, though Cosmic Ghost Rider does get one moment to stand out amongst the crowd. That being said, there is a page where the writer and artist Geoff Shaw succinctly and effectively establish Peter Quill's emotional state after Infinity Wars. It's very well done and a good sign for what's to come in Guardians of the Galaxy, now that Cates has finished setting the stage for his latest cosmic epic.
Geoff Shaw's linework and character expressions are excellent. This series brings him back to the territory he covered in his Thanos work with Cates, though the story's scope allows him to draw a numerous Marvel characters and explore the more colorful sides of the larger Marvel Universe. He does a great job with both the explosive actions sequences and the smaller character moments, such as the page mentioned earlier that focuses on Peter Quill.
There is one splash page where the figures in the foreground look great, but the background figures are drawn without faces. The figures are drawn large enough that this is bothersome and lowers the quality of an otherwise beautiful page.
Marte Garcia is the colorist on Guardians of the Galaxy #1 and his colouring work is good, but it doesn't suit Shaw's inks. A more subdued color scheme would better compliment Shaw's black and white art. Garcia and Shaw are great individually, but their work doesn't mesh well.
The story is perfectly paced and Cates sets up the basic foundations of his story early on. While this does lead to an absence of character work in Guardians of the Galaxy #1, Cates does establish what Peter Quill's character arc will be going forward. The art is top notch for the most part. It's a good read that will satisfy any Guardians of the Galaxy fan and serve as a great entry point to the Marvel Universe.