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Epic Games announced on Sunday that it has reached an agreement to buy the Cary Towne Center and plans to make the mall its headquarters by 2024.
Records filed with Wake County on Dec. 31 indicate that the sale price was $ 95 million. Turnbridge Equities and Denali Partners bought the 87-acre property in February 2019 for $ 31.5 million.
Epic plans to begin developing the new headquarters later this year, according to the company’s release. Meanwhile, Epic will keep its headquarters near the intersection of Crossroads Boulevard and Jones Franklin Road.
In a prepared statement, Jason Davis, CEO of Turnbridge Equities, said, “After years of changing development plans for the center, we are excited that the space will be utilized to its full potential and turned into something the city and community of Cary can be proud of. ”
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Turnbridge applied earlier and was granted a reorganization for mixed use for the property. In October 2020, the company announced plans for a project called “Carolina Yards” on the mall property that would have seen the demolition of the mall.
Carolina Yards is expected to have 1,800 residential units, three hotels, seven six-story office buildings and 360,000 square feet of retail, The News & Observer reported. Both the Belk and Dave & Buster department stores would be renovated.
Previous plans for the mall property included a 380,000-foot IKEA that would have replaced the vacant Sears and Macy stores. N&O reported that IKEA had been a key part of the then owner of CBL Properties to make the shopping center a center for mixed use.
After announcing the project, IKEA moved strategies away from large box sales in the suburbs and towards showrooms in metropolitan areas with a focus on the online store.
In 2015, Topgolf had also proposed opening a facility on the Cary Towne Center area, a plan that was not fulfilled after residents expressed concern about noise and lighting.
Epic was founded in 1991 and built its reputation on games such as “Gears of War” and “Shadow Complex.” In 2017, it released “Fortnite”, a fighting king game that quickly became one of the most popular in the world, attracting hundreds of millions of players.
The success of “Fortnite” and the company’s Unreal Game Engine helped the company raise $ 1.78 billion from investors last year, The News & Observer reported. At the time, Epic was valued at $ 17.3 billion, a figure that N&O reported made it the most valuable risk-driven company in the state.
In August, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said the new funds would be used to develop 3D technology and the company’s digital Epic Games Store.
However, one week after raising the huge sum of money from investors, Epic started a high-profile legal battle with Apple. Epic has claimed in court that Apple is abusing its monopoly power over the distribution of apps to iPhone users. The main complaint is that Apple forces app developers to pay a 30% fee on all payments made within apps. Epic would like to use its own payment systems, which circumvent the fee.
Epic also argues that iPhone users should be able to download apps directly from developers, instead of going through the App Store.
Meanwhile, Fortnite has been fired by the App Store, and iPhone users have not been able to update to the latest version of the game.
Epic has hundreds of employees at its current headquarters. Last year, the company announced plans to build an extension of 450,000 to 550,000 feet that will allow it to add an estimated 1,750 to 2,000 employees.
On Sunday, a spokeswoman confirmed that the planned expansion would not go ahead, with the company instead shifting its focus to the Cary Towne Center site.
“The plan is to stay at our current location on Crossroads Blvd in the meantime, with the goal of moving to our new campus by 2024,” spokeswoman Elka Looks wrote in an email.
On Sunday night, Looks said it was still too early to decide how many Epic employees would be housed at the new headquarters.
Stephen Porterfield of Capital Associates represented Epic in the acquisition of the site.
Due to the recent reorganization, Epic will be able to start developing the Cary Towne Center website this year, according to the release. The company plans to build office buildings and recreation areas on site, but no further details were given.
Epic’s release also said the company plans to partner with the city of Cary to see if the public can use some of the property.
In a statement, Harold Weinbrecht, the city’s mayor, said, “We are extremely proud that Epic has chosen to call Cary home for their new global headquarters, and we greatly appreciate the company’s recognition of Carry’s existing assets as well as the unlimited potential of area for their growing business. ”
Staff author Zachery Eanes contributed to this report.

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How can Paint 3D's brushes set the bar for art apps for realism and beauty, yet be so simple that the first mark a beginner creates is a masterpiece?
Introduced in 1985 with the advent of the earliest GUIs, Paint, everyone's first love with digital art and design, demanded an update that didn't just do it justice but also meant it could again become everyone's introduction to a new digital frontier. This time, Paint is paving the way for a 3D future by rethinking previously complex 3D software and bringing it to everyone. It's 3D for everyone.
As part of the Paint 3D reboot, a crucial factor of this was bringing new brushes to Paint that reflected the updated tech and digital art landscape to bring back a sense of artistic freedom and fun. I was the senior designer on this and found this a rare opportunity to bring my passion and skills as an artist into my day job as a designer. Who knew at age 8, messing about with the Pixel pen on rainy Saturday mornings, that one day I'd redesign the brushes for that same program!
I began a research phase of collecting examples of digital art iPad apps that I knew, loved and also loathed from my experience of using an iPad pro and quickly saw that so many apps copied one another, eventually entirely forgetting what a real world brush looked like, creating distorted impressions.
I felt it was crucial to take everything back to basics and look at what the real deal looked like, how real world brushes performed and how that might be transferred to Paint 3D. I cracked open my art tools and began noting and exploring aesthetics, dynamics and feel in a whole range of media.
I wanted to show how oils could differ so greatly, not just between real world and digital but also between pigments, how volatile and versatile their effects could be, dry vs wet, thick vs thin, opaque vs translucent and how the grain texture of the paper might be picked up through the stroke as it dried off at the ends. I was keen to explore how even something as simple as a brush depositing real media, could transfer into a first bridge between 2D and 3D digitally. A 3D brush.
Not all digital graphite brushes are made equal. Graphite is an example of a brush that can be hugely successful digitally, just requiring a true understanding of paper grain to brush behaviour with pressure to velocity to graphite hardness, and a realisation that a graphite head shape is rarely ever perfectly circular.
Similarly, I was frustrated with the offering of digital caligraphy ink pens. So many apps got the dynamics so wrong, such as high velocity increasing flow, defying the laws of physics! So I went out and bought a caligraphy set and stylus and began exploring how a true stylus might actually behave.
For Paint's fill bucket tool I wanted to design something that not just introduced better controls and accuracy around fill tolerance, but somethign that truly blended 2D and 3D together in a fun and beautiful way, making use of real world physics to let 3D paint drip over 3D objects, truly allowing Paint to stand head and shoulders apart from any other app. Inspiration came from Adobe's iPad app Adobe Sketch where real world physics mean watercolour brushes bleed through and merge together.
I worked closely with our dev team, setting the art direction and checking for quality control, adapting for changes and creating variables to tweak and test paint brush effects. Our collaboration was so efficient we completed well within our target time and went on to create two more brushes beyond spec, felt tip marker and crayon.
The final product was a suite of 10 (12 including the extra brushes) that felt correct and allowed a complete beginner to feel like an artist whether on 2D canvas or painting a 3D object with the simplest mark. You can see the results from my example sketches below.
The brushes are now live and can be tried and tested right on your PC or Surface.

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Book: Forbes, J.M., (1995). Voluntary Food Intake and Diet Selection in Farm Animals, CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
Chapter in a book: Chabala JC, Miller MW. Chemistry of antiprotozoal agents. In: Campbell WC, Rew RS, editors. Chemotherapy of parasitic diseases. New York: Plenum Press; 1986. p. 25-85.
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Journal article on the Internet: Polgreen PM, Diekema DJ, Vandeberg J, et al. Risk factors for groin wound infection after femoral artery catheterization: a case-control study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol [Internet]. 2006 Jan [cited 2007 Jan 5];27(1):34-7. Available from: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.
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Abstract: Harchran, S. (1965).pachymerus chinesis, its biology and extend of damage to grain. Plant Protection Bulletin.16: 23-28 (Abstract).
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By MATTHEW BRODSKY, senior editor/Web editor of Risk & Insurance®
The latest data from a leading disability insurer shows a trend that goes against what's expected when people are diagnosed with cancer. More people are coming back to work after suffering from and getting treatment for breast cancer.
Nearly six in 10 people (59.4 percent) on the short-term disability rolls of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Unum returned to work in 2007. That's nearly twice the percentage from 2001, when 28.8 percent returned to work.
Breast cancer survivors on Unum long-term disability also saw an increase, albeit more modest, during this period, with 53.6 percent returning to work in 2007 versus 47 percent in 2001. The 2007 data are the latest available.
"Higher return-to-work rates are primarily driven by improvements in detection and treatment," said Cheryl Greaney, vice president of Benefit Operations at Unum.
That holds true for other types of cancers, not just breast. But particularly for cancers of the prostate and breast, significant advancements have been made in early detection, said Greaney. Plus, surgeries have become less invasive, chemo therapy less toxic.
"So patients are more apt, more able, to return to their daily routines, and this includes their jobs," Greaney said.
Which is a good thing. As anyone in the workers' comp and disability management business knows, being back at work can be therapeutic in itself, particularly if a worker sees her job as a rewarding part of their normal life routine.
"We see time and again that ill or injured employees see work as part of their healing process," Greaney said.
To that end, employers can facilitate the return-to-work process for cancer survivors through accommodation and transition work schedules, she advised.
Employers should also provide the "strong benefits" that can help employees prevent illness, detect it at early stages, and overcome and heal should they be afflicted. Of course, this is easier said than done for many employers with today's economic downturn and regulatory uncertainty.
In Unum's book of business, cancer as a whole has been the No. 1 reason for long-term disability claims nine years running. Breast cancer is the leading cause of long-term disability cancer claims, responsible for almost one in four cases. For short-term disability, cancer overall makes up 6 percent of the claims volume. One in five of those STD claims is related to cancers of the breast.
Said one source familiar with disability insurance, typically disability insurers handle cancer claims differently from most other causes of disability.
November 2, 2010
Copyright 2010© LRP Publications

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From The Pagosa Springs Sun (Chris Mannara):
[San Juan River Basin] Snow water equivalency (SWE) is 16.4 inches this week. Last week it was 15.5 inches.
SWE median increased from 16 inches to 16.3 inches this week.
This week, SWE data is 110.6 per- cent of median. Last week, it was 96.9 percent of median.
Precipitation data has slightly increased from last week, going from 16.5 inches to 16.6 inches.
The precipitation average has increased 1.5 inches from last week, going from 17.6 inches to 18.9 inches this week.
Precipitation data is 87.8 percent of median this week, a drop from last week when it was 93.8 percent of median.


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Epithelioid malignancy of placental cells is a cancer separate to invasive mole (tumor comprising villous tissue), choriocarcinoma (tumor comprising mostly cytotrophoblast cells) and placenta site trophoblastic tumor (tumor comprising transformed trophoblastic cells). Epithelioid malignancy appears as a hemorrhagic solid and cystic mass. Microscopically it appears to involve mononucleated intermediate trophoblast cells surrounded by extensive necrosis.
Epithelioid malignancy is best diagnosed by histology, by an expert placental pathologist (such as Robert J. Kurman MD of Johns Hopkins Medical Center) or by a specialist at the Brewer, New England or Charing Cross Trophoblast Disease Specialty Center. Epitheliod malignancy of placental cells is an extremely rare disease.
Epitheliod malignancy like PSTT is a very slow growing malignancy and is usually very curable. The best treatment currently is surgery, such as hysterectomy.


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This morning’s forecast looked pretty much perfect. Last night, however, I noticed that the Nova Bion I had been demo’ing had had the sheathing on one of its brake cables come open. This might not prove an issue, as it is the internals that bear the load, but as such a novice pilot I felt the gamble nonsensical and declined to fly. Perhaps if I had many more flights under my belt and were supremely confident in my ability to steer and land with the rear risers then I would have deemed the risk reasonable, but that’s not me today. Instead I went to Superfly first thing this morning to pick up my own brand new Bion that had finally arrived after being marooned in customs for some time owing to someone having lost a decimal place, causing the purported fee to go from $110 to $11000.
Chris went out in front of the store with me where I unpacked the wing and he inflated it to perform some last minute acceptance testing. It did indeed appear to be a paragliding wing and I was grateful for his diligence. Proper wing function, along with pilot skill, combine to make the difference between joy and tragedy.
After packing up and paying up I headed over to FPS where the wind was blowing a bit too intensely for top-hill play but was reasonable for the training hill. I first inflated the wing in the parking lot and felt it out for a bit. The handling is a bit different owing to it being a 37 m^2 setup versus the 41 I had been training on. After this preliminary experimentation I began a trek up the hill with a mix of wing hauling and uphill kiting. I got myself to a point where I could do a baby flight with my feet just barely off the ground to convince myself that in fact it was a wing. It was.
After some lunch and administrivia I came back to FPS ~1530. I hiked fairly far up the training hill at the outset and then did some uphill kiting to arrive at a reasonable-ish launch point. Ideally I would have hiked farther up but I wasn’t doing a great job at keeping my wing airborne for extended periods and kept getting it entangled in brush so decided to go for it. I was just a bit too low to plug into the lift band and slowly but surely sunk out. My landing and deflation were clean. I looked at my watch and found I had ~30 minutes until sunset and so balled up the wing and hiked the switchback up to the shelf for another go.
From the shelf I worked at uphill kiting as long as I could before the setting sun nudged me toward a second and final flight. Something started to click in my brain around inflating with just the center As and leveraging precisely timed uphill steps as a brake analogue to depower the wing before it got too high while also claiming some uphill progress. I still have a lot of work to do to perform this in a nuanced fashion but the gross movements started to make sense in my brain.
Eventually I said to myself “alright, time to fly, clean Vs on the brakes, bring it up”, the wing came up, I stabilized with brakes, I spun around, stepped forward to keep pace with the wing, looked to my left to confirm a clean brake line configuration and… crap, somehow I had wrapped the brake line around the risers. I was already trotting downhill to keep pace with the wing as I flung the left brake toggle around the risers and re-grabbed it in a clean configuration. No sooner had I corrected this problem did the wing loft me off the ground at which point I realized the the right brake toggle was in a similar state. I ensured that my trajectory was squared with the fall line of the hill, released the brake toggle, slapped it so it would spin around the risers, re-grabbed it, and then was on my way. Later I would have time to be annoyed with myself but in the moment it was just rapid fire problem solving that rested on a bedrock of training that offered enough fault tolerance to muddle through the situation. Having spent most of my altitude untangling my brake cables I banked left then right then came in for a landing and then forward kited until I reached my car.
- My training has provided a collection of skills that gives me wide margins to deal with a variety of hairy situations
- I really don’t want to squander those margins unnecessarily because sometimes multiple uncontrollable things will go wrong and in those situations I want all the controllable things to have gone right
- I need to ensure that I’m running my entire safety check more regularly instead of assuming that a recent full check and subsequent partial ones are adequate because some steps are tightly coupled (e.g. carabiner position and clean Vs on brake lines)

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The Weaverville Police Department proudly serves the growing and changing Town of Weaverville. The Weaverville Police Department works diligently to ensure the safety and well-being of Weaverville residents and visitors to our community.
To serve the people of Weaverville and to provide safety and improved quality of life in our community through excellence in policing.
We care about the people and the community we serve.
We are proud of the Department and the services we provide.
We recognize the importance of all Department members and treat each other with fairness, loyalty, and respect.
We obey the law and respect the human dignity of all people.
We are committed to honesty and ethical behavior in all our actions.
We accept individual responsibility and accountability for our actions and decisions.
We are dedicated to protecting the rights of all people.
We believe all people deserve impartial and effective service from the Department.
We are committed to fairness, strength, respect, and compassion in our interactions with the people we serve.
We are committed to excellence in the service we provide.
We are committed to excellence in the community we serve.
We are committed to excellence in our personal performance and professionalism.
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Phone: (828) 645-5700

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According to data from the Discrimination Observatory.
Elderly people. The guide has been produced with the Associació SomSenior.
Interculturality. The organisation is collecting signatures to process a popular legislative initiative in the Spanish parliament.
City Council. City residents aged 18 or over and from the EU or one of the 13 countries with mutual voting agreements will be able to vote in the next municipal elections.
Interculturality. The new resource includes recommendations on how to use language inclusively and bring visibility to the diversity found in Barcelona.
Social Services. Social Services are rolling out a protocol to reduce the emotional impact on children and teenagers who suffer this situation.
Social Services. A pioneering initiative in Barcelona, the card offers resources and services to facilitate and recognise this often-invisible task.
Childhood. The figure is for the amount invested in 2021, accounting for nearly 19% of the municipal budget.
LGBTI. The management agreement with the Platform for LGBTI Organisations has been renewed until 2025, with a budget of 2.3 million euros.
Inclusion. A new website is launched which brings together over fifty municipal services and a large number of facilities to combat unwanted loneliness.

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School-Based Screening: a Population-Based Approach to Inform and Monitor Children's Mental Health Needs
Dowdy, E.; Ritchey, K.; Kamphaus, R.W.
School Mental Health 2(4): 166-176
School-based mental health professionals often conduct assessments and provide interventions on an individual basis to students with significant needs. However, due to increasingly limited resources and continuing high levels of need, a shift in service delivery is warranted. Efforts to move school psychological services from reactive and individual, to preventive and universal are ongoing. To further service delivery change, school-based mental health professionals can engage in systematic periodic mental health screening of all children. This article will (a) discuss screening for risk of emotional and behavior problems from a population-based approach, (b) describe how screening data can identify and monitor the needs of students, schools, and communities, and (c) provide future directions for screening practices. As continued changes to service delivery are imminent, information on how to utilize school-based screening data will be particularly valuable to mental health professionals working with or within schools.

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On the road show
Twin-Turbo C8 Corvette Crushes The Quarter-Mile Record
The standard version of the C8 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is equipped with a 6.2-liter V8 engine producing 495 horsepower and has proved itself to be a phenomenally quick sports car. To be specific, this version previously completed the quarter-mile in under 11 seconds. So, what happens to that figure when you strap two turbos to the V8 along with some other modifications like Mickey Thompson tires? The crazy (but amazing) people from EmeliaHartford YouTube channel had a goal to break the existing record of 9.95 for the quarter-mile at the Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California.
It took a couple of runs and a few different racing fuels before this 1,000-hp Corvette broke the record, crushing the quarter-mile in 9.9 seconds. Emelia Hartford wanted more, though, with the best run of the day: 9.41 seconds at 144.84 mph, easily taking the new record. If you want to get right to the action, scroll ahead to the 10-minute mark. Enjoy.


LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Mike Glennon thinks he has a season. He believes 2017 is his. Which means someone should probably get him Case Keenum’s phone number. Or Sam Bradford’s. Or really any quarterback from a frustrated fraternity of veterans who actually thought they had a season of opportunity behind a top-five quarterback draft pick.
Someone tip Glennon as to how this works. Chad Henne? You out there?
Here’s the reality: There’s almost no chance Mike Glennon entrenches himself as the Chicago Bears’ starting quarterback for the entire 2017 season. But that didn’t stop Glennon from stating that he’s been told as much. And he didn’t say it once, mind you. Not twice. Not three times. No, Glennon stated it seven times Tuesday: that 2017 is his season. He said he was told as much by general manager Ryan Pace and that “everyone” is on the same page with that plan.
Given the recent history of the NFL and highly drafted quarterbacks, that’s an eyebrow-raising statement. Maybe even a deft chess move on Glennon’s part, meant to push back on the idea that he’s just a seat-warmer for presumed franchise cornerstone Mitchell Trubisky.
Asked about his shock about the Trubisky selection at No. 2 overall last month, Glennon’s statement felt pointed and calculated. And most certainly aimed at Pace.
“Just like everyone here, I was surprised,” Glennon said. “That’s the bottom line, but it was made clear to me about 10 minutes after from a call from Ryan – and the next morning again – that the 2017 season is my year. That’s all I can worry about. I’m not worried about the future. I’m not worried about the past. I’m worried about the present. And right now, this is my team. That’s where my focus is.”
If there was any ambiguity remaining about that statement, Glennon reiterated his stance six more times in some variation. Most of them crystal clear:
• “To me, I’ve felt nothing but support. Everyone is on the same page. It’s been clear in the building that this year is my year and everyone is on board with that.”
• “As far as I’m concerned, [reps] won’t be an issue at all. I get the [starting] reps and that’s all I know.”
• “This is my year. The meetings are geared around me.”
A foot in the ground doesn’t get much more firm than that. It’s clear Glennon expects the Bears to be his, and his alone, barring a nosedive on his part. And that might happen. But that’s for a later day. Tuesday was more of a preemptive strike. Maybe with history in mind. After all, Glennon has got to know the odds are stacked against him.
He’s working with a set of receivers who appear to be mediocre at best right now. Former first-rounder Kevin White can’t even get into shoulder pads. His defense has holes. Very little of what surrounds him appears to be the stuff of monumental transformation when it comes to bouncing back from a 3-13 season. All of which suggests mediocrity for 2017. And in the NFL, mediocrity breeds opportunity for high draft picks like Trubisky.
While none of us can know what Pace promised Glennon beyond $16 million in guaranteed money, we do know this: The last time a quarterback held off a top-five draft pick for an entire season, it was Drew Brees keeping Philip Rivers on the bench. The same Brees who will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer and has passed for 66,111 yards and 465 touchdowns. If Glennon can replicate that, well, we can all forget Trubisky’s name right now.
The reality remains Brees pulled that off 13 seasons ago. And a lot about the NFL has changed in that time. Patience is a relic. Coaching staffs are fired quickly. Many general managers get one shot at a top-five quarterback and it becomes their legacy for better or worse. Look no further than the struggles of Blake Bortles, which essentially helped neuter Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Dave Caldwell in the decision-making process.
Taking a quarterback in the top five is either a tipping point or a launching point. And franchises need to figure out that distinction quickly. Which is why in the past 13 years, no top-five quarterback has gone an entire season without starting a game. Even JaMarcus Russell – who entered the NFL third on the depth chart – played in four games and started one. Slugging it out with veterans simply isn’t in the fabric of the NFL when there’s a highly drafted quarterback waiting for his chance.
Glennon has to know this. And if he doesn’t, someone needs to clue him in. Because whatever time he gets is little more than an audition. One that either leaves him on the trade block following 2017 or testing the free-agent market all over again. And if there is any doubt about that, it should have been erased listening to head coach John Fox dance around any realistic commitment to Glennon for even the 2017 season.
Asked if the starting quarterback position would be a competition throughout next season, Fox said, “We use the word competition pretty loosely. I think all of us need to be pushed. I don’t care what our job description is.”
There are holes in donuts that have more substance than that statement.
Asked if the Chicago Bears would like to be committed to their quarterback for the 2017 – and in light of Glennon believing they were – Fox delivered this:
“In a perfect world – which is not very common – I think you’d like to be that at every position. But it’s just not reality.”
That does not sound like everyone being on the same page that 2017 belongs to Mike Glennon. But what about the offense? It is typically shaped around the starting quarterback. Is Chicago’s offense being shaped around Mike Glennon right now?
“Yeah. I mean, we’re just trying to get it shaped to be better than 3-13 for sure,” Fox said. “We still have a lot of work to do and we just kind of take it one day at a time.”
Taking it one day at a time for the rest of 2017. That’s how it starts for veterans who think they have a season of opportunity while the rookies wait. But that’s not how it ends. And no matter what the Bears have Mike Glennon believing, that’s not how it’s going to end for him, either.
When this is all over months from now, the Bears will not have been his team. And they really haven’t been since the No. 2 pick came off the board in April.
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Zombies may be the most popular topic in literature, film and television. It is a number of works dedicated to the undead creature, which probably originates in the folklore of Haiti.
What is most interesting in the history of this fantastic being, what is most important for successful recovery in various artistic works, is how the values of society, especially with regard to love and family, are constantly tested.
What it’s like to become a zombie, provided you get bitten by one (and as long as your heart is intact). Thus, their families are no longer loved, they are not only victims of death, but come back to live to live the living. And the only way to save yourself is to destroy the brains of the undead. The only day of this episode is the award for zombies of the most dramatic creatures of the genres of science fiction and terror.
But this does not mean that works can be undone and succeed only by repeating the past. Especially after classic pages like The Walking Dead have been so successful, new productions need to recreate the clichés of this genre creatively.
Santa Clarita Diet, created by Victor Fresco for a Netflix, brings just that. To the display of morrrowing and immediate voltating at monstrous, the seriously keeps the intelligence and awareness of live-mortem. The relationship is not only about humans fleeing from zombies, but also about the feelings of living creatures, who do not want to follow the point of view of their loved ones. More importantly, this brings a comedy with sitcom style to the genre, something original.
And actuations fall as a glove in this creative concept. Drew Barrymore plays Sheila Hammond, a family man, married to Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Abby’s mother (Liv Hewson). AFTER she became a living dead, Sheila and HIS Family try to deal with the Situation in a comic and chilling way, always with the Help make it very funny Eric Bemmis (Skyler Gisondo), friend of Abby.
In the first season, we witness the moment when Sheila begins to become the dreaded creature. I do not know what to make of the transformation, keeping a fun pleasure that is like creepy scenes with the funny ones. However, in the second season, the reason behind everything begins to make itself present.
Attempts to perform as zombies were recruited as a necessary failure to destroy the necessary suspense in the horror genre, Santa Clarita Diet is not a source of prior art ideas. So, with each step a new lane is discovered, more questions arise and more mysteries appear. The second season starts slow, but after a few episodes it becomes funnier and more fun than the first.

 Eric Bemmis, who becomes increasingly important for the series.
In this sequel, Sheila realizes that they always occur. Joel, on the other hand, wants to leave as his wife has been infected and a live corpse appeared. Despite her already having contained a decomposition of Her Body, Sheila and Joel need to Protect Not Only Her Secret, but also The Whole Family That Now Seems To Be Aim Of An Investigation, And All Thanks To The Strange Behavior Of The Zombie.
(This article original language is portuguese. This translation was made with Google Translate)


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“Striking Vipers, ” the episode that is first of Netflix anthology show’ 5th period, assumes on the field of digital truth porn.
“Black Mirror” Season 5 commences with “Striking Vipers, ” featuring Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as longtime buddies who start an intimate relationship inside of these favorite reality video game that is virtual. Mackie’s character, Danny, is hitched and so questions arise over whether or otherwise not making love in a digital truth room comprises as cheating. “Black Mirror” creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones recently talked towards the regular Beast concerning the episode, when the VR game is a riff on such fighting that is classic as “Tekken, ” “Mortal Kombat, ” and “Street Fighter. ”
“One for the beginning points for the episode was, I experienced been struck before by the nature that is slightly homoerotic of fighting games, ” Brooker said. “I loved ‘Tekken’ and utilized to play ‘Tekken’ consistently into the ’90s—myself and a flatmate utilized to relax and play all of it the time, we’d have actually miniature tournaments, etc. And I also knew 1 day which our next-door neighbors, above us and below us should have thought there is an S&M dungeon running where we had been residing, because constantly the atmosphere had been filled up with sextpanther us screaming, UGH! YES! NO! From day to night and evening. Because we lived in a little flat in London, the individuals who lived”
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