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Neuqun City (2015) Volume 5 All Rights Reserved

News from northern Patagonia to the world and viceversa

Hi everybody!!

Its been quite a long time. The beginning of classes has made me go

through the most hectic moment of my life since I got back to Neuqun.

Firstly, let me be playful and honour the child within. Today youll read

some work by Dr Seuss and I strongly suggest you should surf for more

in your free time. Its worth the time!

Secondly, lets be a little bit more serious and Id like to call on you to think about second

chances. Patagonia is a place where lots of people have come to grab one. No matter if its a

working offer, a new start for a new couple, a new life after a hard divorce or simply a new

shot in life. These fresh opportunities allow us to go from total despair to complete bliss in a

few days. This feeling of hope can lead us from the fog of oblivion to the proud recognition of

ourselves when facing our personal response to the challenge of getting on our feet again.

Some people may say that you have to learn to be yourself without relying on others, but lets

face the truth: we are gregarious animals and as such we dont live on isolated islands without

any sort of connection to the rest of the pack around us.

Personally, I must face my own verity and make this statement clear: I need my family and

friends, my loved ones. Without them, despite being a big woman, Im nothing but a wafting

autumn leaf in the wind.

What about you?

Mir

Looking forward to reading your answers at info.thepatagonian@gmail.com

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MICROSTORIES

The Sleeping Beauty and the Prince

Sleeping Beauty closes her eyes but doesn't sleep. She's waiting for the prince. And

when she hears him approaching her she simulates an even deeper sleep. Nobody has

said so, but she knows it. She knows that no prince walks past a woman with eyes wide

open.

Antologa precoz, 1973, page215 -Marco Denevi

Translation: Mirta Castro

Dr Seuss

USA- 1880

In winter, the city is perfect for skiing and snowboard-ing in Chapelco, a few kilometres from the centre. You also can go walking in snowy woods or slide on a

sledge pulled by huskies.

Both fall and spring keep secret charms that burst in a wide range of colours and attract people from all over the country and from abroad, especially those

who love photography.

San Martn de los Andes is also one of the birth places of artisan chocolate. For years it is a tradition that major chocolatiers in the region installed here. You cant miss the chance to go there for at least a weekend!! You wont regret it. LINKS:

Subsecretara de Turismo de Neuqun

(www.neuquentur.gob.ar)

Sitio Oficial San Martn de los Andes

(www.sanmartindelosandes.gov.ar)

San Martn de los Andes

Place to enjoy the whole year

Enjoy skiing in a wonderful landscape

San Martn de los Andes is one of the most beautiful

Andean cities in Argentina. Its architecture with stone

and wood, and its varied cultural offers makes it one of

the most popular places when planning a short

or long holiday.

On the shore of Lake Lcar and within the majestic

Lann National Park, the city is equally attractive in the

four seasons and visitors often want to stay forever.

Many approach it in the heat of summer to enjoy the

many recreational activities that can be done here,

including mountain biking, boating, horseback riding,

trekking, climbing and of course, fly fishing for trout

and salmon.

What should I have on my smartphone? Android has risen to become an ever-growing market in

which every day there are new and interactive apps being

released. It just pushes the developers to create useful an-

droid apps which make work and life more fun and easier.

Of course, there are countless apps in the Play Store, but

not all of them are crowd favourites. So, lets check out the

three most significant Android Apps of 2015 for your

Smartphone.

1- The clean master app

Have you ever felt like you needed an app that can speed

up your phone and free up memory space? Then you need

to check out this app, one of the top android apps of 2015.

Not only does it protect the phone from various vulnerabili-

ties and malicious applications, it also removes the unwan-

ted junk files, boosts the speed of the CPU and can easily

be used to remove apps. You dont have to use it if

you have already installed the CM Security Applock and

Antivirus, as both have the same functionality.

2- ES File Explorer File Manager

One of the current favourites among Android users is the

ES File Explorer app. It assists in the easy accessing and

navigation of the files installed on the Smartphone.

3- News360 Personalized News

This is one of the most useful Android apps for people who

like to keep up-to-date with the news. It aggregates blogs

and stories around those topics that interest you. The Pata-

gonian has not arrived there yet!

Portal de la Patagonia

Neuqun

The 3 Most Popular Passwords of 2014:

1. 123456

2. password

3. 12345

Jujuy 370 - (0299) 449616

thebookshopneuquen@gmail.com

FOOD

Grilled cheese or something else? If you are a local you should have tried the Provoleta a thousand times and Im sure you have your own recipe. But perhaps if youre a foreigner you have never tried it or, if you did, youre still wondering how to explain this delicacy. Because its not only grilled melted cheese, its something else and its really out of this world.

This is how a foreigner thinks about our traditional Provoleta!!!

To use the old adage 'a picture's worth a thousand words' would be trite so race to the closest deli and ask for a one-inch thick slice of

Provolone cheese so you can make Provoleta as soon as possible.

I guess we could say that 'a picture is worth a thousand bites becau-se just looking at this grilled cheese, you start to salivate, you can almost taste the cheese; gooey, melty, savoury with a hint of oregano and crushed red pepper. Imagine how it tastes spread across those little toasted slices of bread, salty, with a hint of garlic and olive oil. Thinking of the crunch of the crust when you bite into it, and how you will keep devouring them until youre stuffed full of cheese and toast, knowing that you really should share, but also knowing that you probably won't! Grab a piece ASAP. (And, by the way, try it with the

wine I strongly recommend.)

WINES

Newen Pinot Noir by Fin Del Mundo

Hails from the remote Patagonian region of Argentina. This is surely the next great region for fruity complex Pinot Noirs. The dry climate, low humidity and minimal rainfall provide natural immunity from diseases. Add to this the pure glacial waters and you get a delicious fruit driven wine with a deli-ciously long finish. Originally considered a risky venture the wines have proven themselves over and over obtaining over 140 medals in the most important wine competitions in the

world. You simply have to try for yourself.

COOL

Tag Heuer Smartwatch

House of

Cards

president

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popular

tan

Obama Source: The Hill

A Reuters-

Ipsos poll

conducted this

month found

out that while

only 46 percent of respondents across the US

had a favorable opinion of President Obama, a

whopping 82 percent gave a positive rating to

President Josiah Bartlet on "The West Wing"

played in the NBC's series by Martin Sheen,

and 89 percent approved of the job President

David Palmer, played by Dennis Haysbert,

made on the "24" in Fox. Another 78 percent

gave their stamp of approval on SyFy

"Battlestar Galactica" President Laura Roslin,

played by Mary McDonnell.

And even Underwood, the resident of the

executive mansion of Netflix's "House of

Cards", played by Kevin Spacey, known for its

devious schemes and murderous tendencies,

got a rate of approval higher than the

president of real life . The 57 percent of

respondents who had seen the show said they

had a favorable opinion of him.

Sixty percent of respondents gave thumbs up

to the presidential character of Tony Goldwyn

in ABC's "Scandal", despite the inclination of

Fitzgerald Grant's for affairs and booze.

THE CAT IN THE HAT The sun did not shine.

it was too wet to play.

so we sat in the house

all that cold, cold, wet day.

I sat there with Sally.

we sat there, we two.

and I said, 'how I wish

we had something to do!'

Too wet to go out

and too cold to play ball.

so we sat in the house.

We did nothing at all.

So all we could do was to

Sit! Sit!

Sit! Sit!

And we did not like it.

Not one little bit.

And then something went BUMP!

How that bump made us jump!

We looked!

Then we saw him step in on the mat!

We looked!

And we saw him!

The cat in the hat!

And he said to us,

'Why do you sit there like that?'

'I know it is wet

and the sun is not sunny.

But we can have

lots of good fun that is funny!'...

Dr Seuss

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Media Books

ailing finances, Haig, together with his boss at the butchery, David Sanderson, came up with an idea that would change

rugby forever.

On April 28, 1883, Melrose Football Club hosted the world's first sevens tournament at its Greenyards ground. Hundreds of spectators turned up to cheer on the home side as they did battle with six teams from neighbouring

Scottish Borders towns.

Fittingly, it was the Melrose team, which included Haig, who went on to win and receive a silver cup donated by

local ladies.

Barring two interruptions for war, the "Ladies Cup" has been presented to the winning team every year since, keeping up a proud tradition and ensuring a place on the

world sporting map.

The announcement by the International Olympic

Committee in October 2009 that rugby sevens, along with

golf, would be included in both the 2016 and 2020 Summer

Olympics has provided the sport with a priceless boost.

Sevens rugby kicks off Few games seem so well suited to the mores of the mo-

dern sports fan as rugby sevens.

With quick-fire matches, end-to-end action and points galore, the speeded-up, pared-down version of rugby union satisfies a 21st-century urge for smaller, faster, flashier

fare.

A newcomer to the sport might reasonably conclude that the game seven-a-side, seven minutes each half was the result of a recent refashioning of the 15-man sport, but it traces its roots back to the late 19th century. English public schoolboy William Webb Ellis is famously credited with inventing the game of rugby itself in 1823, but the abbreviated version was the brainchild of a butcher from

Scotland called Ned Haig. When his local rugby club in the town of Melrose was casting around for ideas to improve its

All Blackss sprint

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