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My sister's postcards are as good a place to start as any.
When the first few came, my mother stood in the kitchen and read them aloud. She hung them on the fridge with heavy magnets from my dad's insurance agency. There, Annie's postcards from Big Sur and Venice Beach clung to one another beside my school papers and tests, all with big A's circled in red. But the longer my sister stayed gone, the postcards found a new place at the bottom of the garbage, buried beneath uneaten beef stroganoff and wasted fruit gone bad. My mother would scan the mail for them like expired coupons and away they went. She paced in our kitchen, took up baking, and soon all of our clothes smelled of confectionary sugar and homemade chocolate.
My mother didn't know my father had taken to fishing the postcards out of the trash each night. He hid them under my books or beneath my pillow but I always found them in the morning, took them and read them, tracing a pen over my sister's uneven cursive, wishing I could write in the same daydream script. In my closet a poster board lay heavy with a constellation of her adventures down the coastline. I had copied a map from a road atlas and tacked Annie's notes to their spot on the trail, tracing her trip, the big journey southward she had said. Annie was aiming for South America, headed for the penguins, but the way the postcards kept stacking up over Los Angeles, she sure was taking her time getting there.
The night before Annie left, we sat in the bathroom together. On the floor I rubbed my hands over my legs, the small prickles of hair like impractical secrets not meant for keeping. I readied to shave my legs but Annie slapped the razor away and laughed, "You're too young to be doing that."
I disagreed but put my hands in my lap. Annie had taken a lamp from the living room, balanced it just so on the toilet so a soft yellow glow warmed the room while she told me quick, harried stories about California. She talked of poolside mermaids who sunbathed and combed their hair in the wind, girls who sipped on drinks with umbrellas and pineapples, girls who never once felt the chill of the Montana Hi-Line across their cheeks. She poured Morton's salt into the bathwater and pretended the ocean splashed at her cherry-painted toenails. Annie arched her back, eyes faraway but looking nowhere, and held her long hair to the top of her head with only a few soft curls pulling loose. Those that did cascaded down her back and I ran a hand through my own hair, wishing it longer, and reached across the floor for the razor again. Annie turned to me then with her crooked smile and asked me to unclasp her bra so she could go for a swim. The back of my sister's neck had smelled ripe and dirty like a wild animal in spring.
I kissed a lot of boys after she left.
Vice Principal Miss Grapenthin caught me at it once in the school parking lot. She yanked my arm from Eli's neck and pulled me inside by the elbow. Her tight little mouth stayed small as she pulled my hair into a braid, determination threaded her face that hovered just above my shoulder in the mirror. Overnight it seemed I had grown as tall as the adults.
"What book are you reading for English now?" she asked.
Miss Grapenthin dropped the heavy braid down my back only to turn me around so we faced one another.
"We're on the Greeks," I said.
Her eyes softened and even the steep tension through her jaw fell loose. I saw then Miss Grapenthin was my dad's age and probably knew both my parents from high school. The adults never seemed to move from here. They had barbecues with one another in the summer months and looked at us with the expectation as the next ones, those to follow. Kissing on boys was kind of dumb on my part since our families had probably been kissing on each other for decades but I didn't think too hard on that. Eli wasn't all that special anyway but he filled my time with dull thrusts and reaching, groping hands that didn't make much sense when they strayed over my body. Without much of a chest yet, the more we kissed the more I sensed this might become a problem.
Miss Grapenthin took my copy of the The Odyssey off the sink and wiped a smudge from the bottom corner.
"Reading the classics always brings a lot up," she said, "Does that make sense?"
I nodded and sassed, "Would of if you had told me in French."
Miss Grapenthin eyes turned to slits, not angry just focused. She said nothing and I wondered what she had been like when she was my age. I wondered if she kissed boys in parking lots and missed people who left any time they pleased. But then I thought about my mom being my age and that led nowhere except red, teary eyes. I felt her hand on my arm and the heat from her small body branded me there. She told me to breathe and said, "Nothing is going to disappear if you take a minute."
I brushed my hair out of the braid and shook off the little-girl crying. Annie would have laughed at me standing there wailing to the Vice Principal but only Miss Grapenthin saw me crying that day. Between 5th and 6th period I felt Eli saddle up to me in the hallway: his spaghetti arms reaching over me again. I pushed him off and told him to give a girl some space, just like my mother had said to do when boys started getting a little too familiar.
That year each postcard was a step to somewhere else: one from the coast where people ate sea oysters and one from a place in the dessert where fish, dead, washed ashore on account of the salt. One came from Chateau Marmont: a white castle that erupted from the cement and green shrubs, Sunset Boulevard took off like a skating rink down the side of the mountain, and a yellow sun highlighted in the clouds above. Even through a coffee spill that wreaked havoc with her messy words, there in the stains, Annie missed me and wanted me to swim with the girls we had talked about that night in the bathroom. She wanted us to be sisters again.
The poster board was not easy to fold down but I made it as small as I could and shoved the road map in my backpack. My sister had traveled very light the night she had left for the bus depot, her room and closet practically untouched with only a few bathing suits and jeans taken. I did pack a few schoolbooks since, as I saw it, Annie had been at the end of her education and I was still in my first year of high school.
The front porch creaked beneath my weight as if for the first time: a thunder strike in the distance. I didn't want to look around, I didn't want to say goodbye to my mother's tattered wicker furniture or my dad's wilted basil plant. But there in that moment, I heard the trucks barrel down highway, I heard teenagers yelling at houses over and airplanes cut through the clouds, their exhaust streaks stitched the sky like bottom hems on party dresses. I heard the front door click behind my father too as he walked outside. His heavy after-shave settled in the dusk
He asked, "Where's the train Caddie?"
I felt then what I imagined my sister had fought as she took off beyond our familiar, small world when she traveled beyond the state line. The same pressure must have built around the spaces in her lungs and though my sister had been able to burst through this clear sheath we wore, unknown to us, I couldn't bear to push past my father and mother the same way. Not then, with his breath going white in the cold and my mother baking brownies in the kitchen just beyond where we stood.
The end of my nose stung with a sad, saline tinge, tears coming through on their own accord. It hurt too much to think that she had been able to just keep going. My dad handed me a new postcard from Annie and we sat down together, reading her sloppy script about margaritas and how long her hair was getting. My dad rolled his hands together and said, "You'll be out there soon enough."
As little as I believed him then, I had never known my father to be a liar.
Kit Hamlen currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Montana and hopes to return west, or at the very least, write stories that take her there. Contact her here: http://kitchamlen.tumblr.com


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"Logan" is FOX's greatest achievement in comic book movies
The first time I saw Hugh Jackman in full costume as Logan/Wolverine was his picture on the packaging of his action figure, back in 2000 just before the release of X-Men. It was different than the comic books for sure, no mask and no yellow spandex, but the look on his face was clearly that of a crazed animal that you didn't want to mess with in real life. This would be the start of many debates over the years regarding Jackman's portrayal of Wolverine, ranging anywhere from "he's too tall" to "he's not supposed to be the leader of the X-Men."
Seventeen years later we're at a point now where Jackman's take on the character is one of a kind and highly respected by many despite the comic book deviations. He's played Wolverine in a grand total of nine different movies now across the X-Men film franchise and has definitively put his stamp on the character in a way that is unprecedented and nearly impossible to think of following up later.
So it kind of figures that as talented and spectacular as Jackman is as an actor that he would save the best for last with what is reportedly his final film as Wolverine, "Logan." The reviews for this movie have been overwhelmingly positive from the beginning and this one here is going to be no exception......except that I'll keep it pretty spoiler free.
All you really need to know about the plot of Logan going in is that it takes place in the not too distant future of 2029, where Wolverine has definitely aged and is actually trying to make a living while he and Caliban (Stephen Merchant) tend to an old and psychologically volatile Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) whom they are keeping safe in a compound along the border of the United States and Mexico. Everything changes when Logan encounters a woman with a child named Laura, desperately begging for his help to get her to safety, a request that Logan tries his best to ignore until he sees something more than "familiar" about Laura's abilities, which along with the advice of Xavier leads him to help the girl in her quest to escape the evil people trying to capture her.
Right off the bat, one of the best things that this movie could have done was simply be rated R, because that rating gave us the angry, unhinged and at times explosive Wolverine that many of us have always wanted to see on screen. The first time he lets off a litany of swear words in the movie it's just refreshing to see him as pure and as adult as he could possibly be, without a PG-13 rating keeping him quiet.
The noise that Logan makes is of course, not just with his words but also with his damned awesome Adamantium claws that are on full display in this movie in a way we have never seen before. Prior to this movie, I would say the most brutal Wolverine attacks we've seen actually came in the "Weapon X is loose" scene in X-Men: Apocalypse last year, and also the "Berserker" scene at the mansion in X2: X-Men United. "Logan" raises the bar on that one by giving us the most brutal and bloody Wolverine action we have ever seen. Nothing was held back and Logan is nothing short of lethal in this movie. Such a joy to see, finally.
Jackman knows this version of the character so well and it's clear that he couldn't have turned in a performance like this without 17 years of playing him, not only for him to get to know the character well but also for us as an audience to enjoy and understand what Wolverine has gone through over the years. When references to past X-Men movies and characters are made in this movie, we that have followed the franchise from the beginning understand those and fit them perfectly within the context of this movie. We have seen Logan grow and evolve as a character from X-Men on and this is without a doubt his most visceral and emotionally loaded performance ever. If this truly is Hugh Jackman's last time playing Wolverine, he made it count in every way possible with his performance.
As for the rest of the cast, Patrick Stewart is wonderful as he always is with his turn as Professor X, but this is one of his most hilarious and raw performances as well as he takes full advantage of what an R-rating can allow you to do and say on screen. If you're not used to it from him because you either remember him from the previous X-Men movies or as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, it's understandable because we've just never really seen or heard him curse like that and it was awesome.
Full praise for "Logan" though goes directly to young Dafne Keen, who plays Laura the girl that everyone is hunting for because of her "Wolverine-like" abilities. Believe me when I tell you that she might very well have the most impressive performance in this movie for several reasons, not the least of which because she is a brand new character and actress that many of us have never seen before, but also because she has to carry the weight of her story in the movie and what it means for the other characters, the weight of being a lovable child that any of us with a heart would want to save, and maybe most importantly the weight of being a child that when angered turns into a vicious weapon every bit as and maybe even more dangerous than Logan himself. It is an incredible balance that Keen at age 12 is able to handle perfectly throughout the entire movie and "Logan" is served extremely well by her performance.
Boyd Holbrook is appropriately vicious and evil as the movie's villain, playing your standard mercenary leader that takes his job just a little too personally with the aid of an enhanced right hand, and Stephen Merchant is solid as Caliban. The true gem of "Logan" however other than Keen and Jackman's performances is the story itself and how it is crafted. There is a level of depth and symbolism within this movie that manages to separate itself from what might be considered a traditional comic book movie as Logan himself really appears to deal with the demons of his life all at once in a somewhat relentless fashion. There are a good handful of scenes where he is almost constantly in conflict with himself and this battle manifests as anything from a nightmare to an emotional argument to a flat out physical confrontation with lives on the line, all of them focusing a mirror on Logan's own life and the tortured consequences of his own existence.
And that is what truly makes Logan the greatest comic book movie that FOX has ever made, the fact that they were finally able after all of these years to take their most popular comic book character on screen and tell a story that involved numerous characters but was uniquely about Wolverine himself, and do it in a way that's not preachy, watered-down, or bogged down with too much exposition. James Mangold and his crew do not explain everything that is happening in the movie to you because they don't think you will understand it. Instead, they treat you as an adult and give you just enough to connect the dots yourself and understand what is happening on screen at all times and the way it all comes together in the end is pure poetry.
The bottom line is that Logan truly is a masterpiece of comic book movie filmmaking and FOX is to be commended for it on all counts. I can understand why there are people like Mark Hughes of Forbes that truly believe it could be in line for major Oscar contention next year, and that would be huge for FOX considering all of the grief that they have taken for almost two full decades over their treatment of the X-Men franchise as a whole. I've always loved the franchise from the beginning and stuck with it even through the tough times of X-Men the Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but in the last six years the studio really does seem to have turned a corner with the X-Men movies and this is their finest work yet. Well done, FOX......and about time, too.
LOGAN - 5 out of 5 - In theaters since May 3, 2017


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B.F.A. in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD 2003
Scenic Artist Apprenticeship at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia PA 2006
Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond VA
Latex Mask Making Teacher
● Course covers sculpting with WED clay, molding with plaster, casting latex and painting techniques.
Corotted Artistry, Richmond VA
Painting and Fabrication Artist (2015-Present)
Shop Foreman-Bob Gorman Art Director-Matt Maguire
● Sculpting, mold making, and painting projects for custom creature fabrication shop.
● Designing new products for company.
● Sculpting in oil and/or earth clay. Molding making in plaster, fiberglass, and silicone. Casting using latex or resin.
● Paint jobs done with tinted lated and airbrush or spray depending on surface medium.
● Run companies social media outlets (instagram and facebook) and oversee email correspondences with clients, keeping track of orders, payment and shipping.
● Shop maintenance, clean up and storage of materials.
GWAR/Slave Pit Inc., Richmond VA
Fabrication Artist (2014-Present)
Shop Foreman-Bob Gorman Art Director-Matt Maguire
● Painter and fabricator for the performance band GWAR in their scene shop making props and costumes..
● Sculpting in oil and/or earth clay. Molding making in plaster, fiberglass, and silicone. Casting in latex and polyfoam.
● Paint projects involving tinted latex, 1 shot enamel and spray paint. Applied using brush or air compressor.
● Use of sewing awl, and sewing machine.
● Communicating with band members about their costume needs and overseeing fittings.
Current Designs Inc., Philadelphia PA
Production Asstant (2010-2017)
Company Owner Ben Dugan
● Assemblage and testing of fiber optic medical devices used in MRI's.
● Receiving and handling of repair orders. Communicating with customer service about nature of repairs.
● Data entry on company's twiki page. Updating log of all orders and creating instructional web pages of assembly processes for various types of handheld devices. Photographing and uploading images to twiki pages.
● Keeping track of supplies and reordering. Communicating with company's machine shop regarding custom or machined parts stock.
● Labeling and packaging of devices for shipment.
Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia PA
Scenic Artist (2006-2016)
Scenic Charges Kata Kolb and Leslie Curd
● Overhire scenic on numerous productions from the past several seasons.
● Interpreting designer elevations.
● Mixing color, flat painting, faux finishing, wood graining, distressing, lettering, wallpapering, wall prep, foam carving, surface texturing, backdrop layout, graphite transfers.
● Tools used-scale rule, compass, chalk line reel, lining stick, tack lifter, staple gun, pneumatic gun, drill, hudson sprayers, air compressor, pounce wheel, surfoam shaver tool, hand saw, belt sander, palm sander.
● Mediums used-vinyl acrylic scenic paint, Mixol tints, charcoal, crystal gel, polyurethane, Sculpt or Coat moldeling paste, joint compound, jaxsan.
● Back painting hard scenery with flame retardent infused paint.
Quinlan Scenic Studios Inc., Marcus Hook PA
Scenic Artist (2012-13)
Scenic Charge-Jan Supco
●Overhire at scene shop working on projects for clients including the Smithsonian Institute and the Philadelphia Flower Show.
● Painting hard scenery, prepping surfaces, faux treatments, adornment of hard scenery.
● Oversaw faux stone paint project on Big Ben for their client the Philadelphia Flower Show 2013.
Adam Lowenbein, New York NY
Decorative Painter (2006-10)
● Worked as artist assistant in studio on projects including sewing, stencil cutting, and sample making.
● Assisted on mural and floor painting work for design firms Diamond and Baratta and Mark Hampton LLC under Adam Lowenbein.
● Prepping locations for work, taping off and covering or removing furniture and rugs.
● Decorative stencil work and free hand paint projects on floors.
● Measuring and taping out for geometric design based paint projects on floors and murals.
● Clean up of work sites and tools.
Center Stage, Baltimore MD
Scenic Artist (2004-05)
Scenic Charge-Craig Brown
● Overhire scenic artist on productions The Voysey Inheritance, Elmina's Kitchen, The Price, and Lady Windermere's Fan.
● Painting hard scenery, faux treatments and distressing. Large scale charcoal transfers for backdrops.
Parlor of Horrors at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville VA (2017)
Onibaba (Demon Hag) latex mask in horror themed group art show.
The Dawn Chorus at The Convent, Philadelphia PA (2017)
Atenazar latex mask in group art show.
Scarab Tank
Art nouveau Egyptian themed paint job on motocycle tank in 1 shot enamel. (2017)
Occultist, US Bastards
Pen and ink and marker illustrated flyer for bands playing a show at Banditos in Richmond. (2015)
Telegraphic Tree
Hand painted canvas banner for business. (2014)
Band Energy LP Dead Magic
Oil painting and lettering for album art. (2014)
My Mind LP Path Masher
Album art. (2009)
Best Fest Philadelphia
T shirt and pin designs sold at outdoor music festival. (2007)
BAT Beware of the Bat Music Video, directed by Ryan Waste and Jim Stramel
BAT costume fabrication, and first victim (2017)
Texas Beach Bloody Mary Mix commercial produced by The Misery Brothers
Prop/Wardrobe (2015)
● Created Tomatoface mask used in commercial under Corotted Artistry, based on design by Brad Douglas.
Meridian by Kilp Collective
Costume/Wardrobe (2014)
● Fabricated headpiece for empress character in short video submission to Circle of Light Festival in Moscow Russia.
Before The Sun Comes Up by Sharon van Etten, directed by David Kessler
Set Design (2014)
● Fabricated and painted dungeon wall and bone tv prop, set dressed studio recreating a 70's horror host stage and dressing room.
● Prop wrangling.
The Pride directed by Quichen Cao
Art Direction/Make Up (2013)
● Painting and set dressing rooms, gathering props, wardrobe and make up for short film.
● Beijing opera make up on actors.
● Blood effects.
Groundhogs directed by Jamel Northern
Art Direction/Props (2013)
● Created outfits for groundhog puppets.
● Set dressing and prop wrangling.
● In charge of wardrobe.
● Blood special effects.
DEER directed by Alessandro Zangirolami
Set Decorator (2013)
● Created wolf and deer drawings that were used as set dressing/props in short film.
Maquette 1:1000 directed by Doris Lin
Art Direction/Production Design (2013)
● Painting and set dressing rooms.
● Prop wrangling.
● Wardrobe.
Blackout directed by Natasha Ngaiza
Art Direction/Production Design (2012)
● Created silhouette set for back lit shadow play scene.
● Made several paintings which were used as main characters artwork.
● Set dressing.
● Wardrobe.
● Prop wrangling.
Detonator directed by Keir Politz and Damon Maulucci
Asst. Production Design (2012)
● Prop wrangling.
● Set dressed punk venue basement scene, collected and made flyers and fake tape labels.
Love Letter directed by Lindsey Martin
Production Design (2011)
● Painted 2D room set, a replica of virtual bedroom in film.
● Fabricated worm puppets, one plush, one wooden and one made of hair for different fantasy segments of film.
● Set dressing.
● Prop wrangling.


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Farm Share Journal Demonstration with Carol Welsh
Master naturalist and watercolor artist Carol Welsh will visit the farm to demonstrate her nature journalling technique using vegetables and herbs from Homefields. All ages are welcome to join her and make a nature journal page of their own. All supplies will be provided. Drop in between 2:30 and 6:30 or stay the whole four hours!
This experience is open to the public, though a $5 donation would be appreciated. Registration is suggested so we can ensure enough supplies are on hand. Register at firstname.lastname@example.com
If you prefer, please feel free to bring your own paints, charcoal, pencil or other medium, journal or drawing paper. This event will be held rain or shine. In the event of significant rain, subject matter will be brought into the barn for painting and drawing.


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"Now is a time to celebrate what sport can still be."
Sometimes an airport can be the best place to collect random snippets of content that you would not otherwise come across. The above pictured article, while a bit grim, is an excellent reminder that we all have the choice to comport ourselves in a way that upholds "corinthian values" and has a positive impact in a seemingly negatively peppered year in sports.
"Remember that there is still an awful lot to celebrate about sport, [...] there may be many bad guys, but the good guys will surely win out in the end." -Tony Hodson
As you start to warm up to the year ahead, consider what it is that drives you to compete. Consider what values your favorite athletes aspire to display, on and off the field, and consider if you agree with them and want to support them as a citizen of the world, not just as a record breaker or play maker. Consider the impact that such sports heroes are having on our society, on children around the world, or even on your own children. Consider the fact that you have a choice to hold individuals in high regard, but also to hold yourself to high standards when it comes to participating in sport, both competing and spectating alike. "Sport still has the power to do wonderful things."
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Ericsson - Social Media Training
Together with the talented team at House of Radon, we made an internal social media video for the employees at Ericsson. This time, we could go more playful than usual, utilising Ericsson's colour palette to the max.
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Director: Johan Alenius & Adrian Mörner Hansen | Motion Design: Karolin Gu | Design: Andreas Knutsen | Creative Director & Producer: Adrian Mörner Hansen | Music: Carl Åborg | Production Company: House of Radon


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FAQ: How Do You Communicate with People Who Have Died
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If communities could grow into adolescence and adulthood, Westchase would still be a toddler. Westchase wasn't founded until 1991, making it one of Florida's youngest cities. The County Commissioners of Hillsborough County "okay'd" Westchase's founding and gave birth to what is now known as the country's largest deed-restricted community. Westchase earns this title, because it's comprised of a whopping 28 neighborhoods.
Having trouble with Craigslist Westchase? Can't find that special apartment for rent on Apartment Finder or Zillow? Apartment List is here to help!
It's not cheap to live in Westchase. The cost of living is 10.3 percent higher than the national average. Homes are moderately-high priced. This high cost of living is likely a result of the city's location. Westchase is located half-way between Tampa and Clearwater, making it the perfect locale for commuters and thrill-seekers.
Renting is expensive in Westchase, but there are plenty of units available. The average rental cost is rather steep, and a condo often costs more than an apartment rental. But if you've got your heart set on spacious interiors with lots of designer touches, you might find it's worth the extra rent. If you can swing the higher rent and cost of living, Westchase is perfect for renting families and a single person alike, because it caters to both demographics' needs.
While 28 neighborhoods might be found in Westchase, not all are ideal for renters. Read on for the best areas to find rental property, along with their relative rental prices represented by dollar signs (the more signs, the higher the rent).
Abbotsford: Abbotsford is part of the six neighborhoods that comprise The Fords, and is mostly made up of single-family homes so apartments are scarce here, but worth it if you can score one. $$$
Arlington Park: One of the town's most exclusive and private areas, it's not surprising that beautifully-decorated condominiums can be found here. Just realize that the nabe is built around owner-occupied homes. $$$
Berkeley Square: You won't have to go far at all for a caffeine fix, plate of pasta, or to see the latest hit movie. Between the shopping centers practically in your living room to tennis courts to help you burn off all those carbs, Berkeley Square is the height of low-maintenance living. $$$
Enclave: Scour the classified ads for a vacancy in this gated community and if you see one, pounce on it! You'll get all the benefits of living in a home without the pesky lawn care, security and area maintenance. You're monthly dues pay for all of that. $$$$
West Park Village: West Park Village has eight neighborhoods, all of which has property that can be rented privately from the owners. Villas and townhomes make up most of the neighborhoods, so if low maintenance is high on your list, make sure to check these out. $$$
Wycliff: Perfect for active young families, you and the kiddos won't have to travel far on the weekends to visit the community pool, a tennis center and parks. Homebodies, however, may not see the virtues of this nabe. $$$
With not one, but two, town centers, Westchase is a bustling town with lots of shops, restaurants and recreational activities for residents to enjoy. Recreational activities include a Summer Concert Series, while shopping and restaurants are high-end and conveniently located nearby.
An annual pub crawl invites residents, aged 21 and over, to partake in booze samplings in a number of the city's bars. Some of Florida's highest-rated bars are located in Westchase, which is likely why Travel + Leisure rank it "the 26th coolest suburb worth a visit."


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In April Drew and I celebrated our 2nd home owning anniversary! Exciting moment for us and still pinch ourselves that we own our own place. It's our home and little by little we've been making our own changes, freshening things up a bit and putting our own touch to everything all while staying on a budget.
Little changes can be big ones in the end. So when we decided it was time to refreshen up our living room just a little bit, we didn't really go crazy on spending money on everything but just little things we knew we needed and knew would make a big difference.
Everything turned out for us in the end and after a lot of work! I think the most work was researching curtains and drapes, where to buy what to use… so many decisions and choices! We went with these fresh and airy floral drapes from Anthropologie. LOVE THEM! Probably my most favourite purchase I've made in a long time. When you see the before and after photos you will see that theres not really anything much more different. But the after still blows me away with how great it looks. How much more open the space seems to be and brighter to! It's incredible.
Soooo if your in the mood to dress up your living room a little bit here are 5 Simple Ways We Freshened Up Our Living Room. Easy stuff and won't break the bank either….
- Florals // They go hand in hand. Any room can be transformed by flowers. I just can't explain it but it just brings out all the colours and good vibes.
- Paint // Wall colour I find totally makes or breaks a room and the space. We have been going with white for now with a mix of dark navy blue. It makes the room feel more open and way more airy.
- Diffuser // Gahhh I'm obsessed with our Vitruvi Diffuser and oils. I recently had this cute hexagon oil shelf made from Valley Living Design. It was made for this space. Oils and having scents running all day smell so good and feel so relaxing.
- Drapery // Before you notice the drapes that were in the living room before by the previous owner. Well having a lighter colour and a pair that just slightly touches the floor adds more space to a room. We also went with just a touch of see through so we can still have some light shining through.
- Room Decor // Whether it be on the walls or just pieces around the room. Adds character. My favourite as you can tell are cream coloured candles. I find them at different shops and lets face it you can never have tooo many!
We lucked out and found some pieces of furniture from Wayfair, which I'm utterly obsessed with. Beautiful pieces and free shipping to the door is always a bonus in my books!
Where To Find These Home Pieces
Coffee Table End Table Floor Lamp Area Rug Basket | WayFair
White Wall Colour | General Paint
Hexagon Wall Shelf | Valley Living Design
Oils & Diffuser | Vitruvi
Florals | Willow Creek Vineyard
Lavender | Greendale Lavender Co.
KPure Room Spray & Overachiever | K Pure
Blanket & Pillow | 607 Davie & Chiyo
Blanket Ladder | The Button Box
I Fall In Love… Sign | Timber & Grey
Heart Prayer Beads | The Cross Design
Wall Mirror | JYSK
Photography | April Dawn Photography
{Disclosure this post was sponsored post with WayFair & General Paint as part of an collaboration program, however all opinions are my own}


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Community: Old Crow, YK
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Bio: Dredyn lives in Old Crow. He likes to play sports. He likes to drive around town on his snowmobiles. He likes to race. He thinks Polaris makes the best snowmobiles. This is his first film.
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Terrorist Omar Khadr Requests Access to Taliban-Supporting Sister, Internet
TORONTO -- Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr returns to court this week to ask that his bail conditions be eased, including allowing him unfettered contact with his controversial older sister, more freedom to move around Canada, and unrestricted internet access.
In support of his request, Khadr notes the conditions originally imposed two years ago were necessary as a graduated integration plan following his 13 years in American and Canadian custody. No issues have arisen since his release and the various restrictions have been revised several times -- most recently in May last year, he says.
Currently, Khadr, 30, can only have contact with his sister Zaynab if one of his lawyers or bail supervisor is present. The condition is no longer necessary, he says.
"I am now an adult and I think independently," he says in an affidavit. "Even if the members of my family were to wish to influence my religious or other views, they would not be able to control or influence me in any negative manner."
Zaynab Khadr, 37, who recently had a fourth child in Egypt, according to court filings obtained by The Canadian Press, was detained in Turkey a year ago for an expired visa. She and her fourth husband subsequently moved to Malaysia but are now said to be living in Sudan and planning to visit Canada.
"I would like to be able to spend time with her and the rest of our family when she is here," Omar Khadr states. "As far as I am aware, Zaynab is not involved in any criminal activities and is frequently in contact with the Canadian embassy in order to ensure that her paperwork is up to date."
Zaynab Khadr, who was born in Ottawa, was at one point unable to get a Canadian passport after frequently reporting hers lost. She was also subject to an RCMP investigation in 2005 but faced no charges. Her third husband, Canadian Joshua Boyle, is reportedly still a Taliban hostage along with his American wife and children in Afghanistan. In 2008, she went on a hunger strike on Parliament Hill to draw attention to her brother's plight as an American captive in Guantanamo Bay.
Several years ago, she and her mother infuriated many Canadians by expressing pro-al-Qaida views. Omar Khadr told The Canadian Press last month that he saw no point in decrying their views.


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Walker, William Colin "Bill" – It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of William "Bill" Walker on November 14, 2016, passing from this world to the next, at home, wrapped in the arms of his loving family. Bill was the only child of the late James and Emma (Booth) Walker; he was 84.
Bill is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Florence (Mowatt); his sons, Dale (Pearl), Royce (Donna), both of Cole Harbour. Bill had tremendous love for his grandchildren, Craig Walker (Michelle), Terri Kaye, Tanya Walker, Alexander Walker, Kelsey Walker, Emma Walker; as well as his great-grandchildren, Kyla, Ava and Austin Kaye, and Lily and Allie Walker.
Bill and Florence raised their family in Woodlawn, where they had been long-time members of Woodlawn United Church. They had celebrated their 62nd anniversary in March.
Bill enjoyed a 39 year career with Imperial Oil, beginning at a young age on the tankers, and transferring to the Dartmouth Refinery in April 1952. His career progressed in the Utility Plant, where through the years he shared his knowledge and skill with his coworkers, and completed his career in 1987 as "Chief". Following a brief retirement, Bill began a second career as a consultant in the steam industry, working first for Maynard Reece, and then Preston Phipps.
In the early 1970s with the support of the Imperoyal Esso Club, Bill helped organize an annual Christmas party for the residents at the Children's Training Center in Woodside. When the supports for the clients shifted to Dartmouth Adult Services Center (DASC Industries), Bill continued his support, giving more than 40 years of service to people with special needs.
Bill's interests included many outdoor activities, projects in his garage workshop and his greenhouse and garden. He shared these pastimes with his family and lifelong friends resulting in many cherished stories of adventures and "misadventures" over the years. In the process he passed on his love for the outdoors, the ocean and other activities to his family.
Cremation has taken place. Visitation will be Friday from 1-3 and 7-9 p.m., in the Woodlawn United Church Annex. A celebration of Bill's life will be held on Saturday, at 10 a.m., in the church, with Rev. Valerie Kennedy officiating. Family flowers only. Donations in memory of Bill may be made to DASC Industries, 59 Dorey Ave., Dartmouth, NS B2B 0B2 or Woodlawn United Church, 54 Woodlawn Rd., Dartmouth, NS B2W 2S1.
Thank you to the many family and friends who visited or called Bill at home during his illness. Many thanks to the wonderful staff at Westphal PharmaChoice for your help over the years, the staff at Parkland at The Lakes for making "home" special, the wonderful VON nurses who helped Bill and Florence, Dr. B. Izzard and his staff for supporting Bill through his lengthy illness, and the Palliative Care team of Dr. Horton and Patti MacDougall.
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"Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 'I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.' " Isaiah 44:6
In the Revelation He is the Alpha and the Omega, here in Isaiah the First and the Last, history is His.
Now, we live in the in-between times and there are going to be, and are already, a lot of pretenders to the throne. Paul, John, and Peter heard the words of these pretenders in their time and warned us of this time. Daniel foretold it and so did our Lord Jesus. We have reached that time when knowledge and lawlessness are increased all around. Communication of a new thing is so very fast in this age. And it all seems so out of control as we look at the news on any morning. Yet, history is His, and for that to happen, He must never lose control, not for one second.
You have probably been a part of some project where first one thing went wrong, and then another, and finally events spiraled out of the team's control until the end result seemed guaranteed to be complete failure. The recriminations began, management looked down upon you from their superior attitude and demanded a report of what happened (in simple form, with bullet points), but no one on the team could come up with how it all went so far to the wrong. It appears that is what is happening in the world today, and do we not have yet another earthquake in a diverse place?
That is and was prophesied by our Lord, and that is the point. All of this seeming uncontrolled mess is and was predicted and foretold by our Lord thousands of years ago. Nothing happening today has caught our Lord by surprise. There is no heavenly wringing of the holy hands of God this morning. Jesus our Lord is not sitting on the edge of His throne beside God wondering what to do. All is in His almighty control. Hebrews 1:3 gives us the word of what is going on:
The Son radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.All going according to His plan today,


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I love theatre that asks questions of the audience and makes them think. I also love plays that address topics that need addressing. – Angela Astle, Athena Project Executive Producer
Honor Killing is a suspenseful and compelling story of New York Times reporter Allisyn Davis who is investigating the honor killing of a young Pakistani woman at the hands of family. Through a series of cultural collisions, candid interviews, and dangerous encounters she learns the horrifying details of the killing. Cultural bias, technology, and the limits of ethical reporting converge in this tale of two women trapped by their circumstances and culture. Angela Astle talks about the play and her experience as director. Check out the full story or learn more about Honor Killing and buy tickets.


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Reoccurring theme born from reoccurring conditions. Short notice invitation to go on a excursion photographing classic cars on location. Ironically, both invitations thus far, are on subjects I have absolutely no experience in. We use the same equipment despite the subject, so... count me, I am in.
My current quest is to intentionally learn and study light, and it occurred to me that, for the years I have owned a camera, I focused on "learning and understanding my camera". Which is very beneficial. It sure helps to be comfortable and confident with your equipment when placed on the spot. What I didn't realize is, all this time I was adjusting controllable variables on my camera in response to the light conditions. How I would like the given factors to render on my camera sensor.
The point I am trying to make is this, I devoted a lot of time to camera knowledge and, only now that I purposefully pay attention to light alone, I start to see a difference in results. It feels like I have spend years focusing on "grammar" as an example, where I could have started with creative writing a long time ago. The rules do not change, but light does. The faster you set shutter, the less time you give light to travel trough the lens. The wider the aperture during the allocated time, the more light can pass through for that duration (at the trade of for depth of field of course). These variables can be defined scientifically. The true variable each time you rotate that dial, is light. A threshold so many before me have crossed. But why did it take me so long?
No regrets and no looking back. No time wasted. What I learned today is that overcast can be amazing. Depending on what you are photographing, today might have been the first day that I was comfortable to know it is an overcast day. I imagined the light as an affordable, free for all, open studio.
Even I know these are not top of the range car photos. What does excite me personally about these images, is what it represents in terms of light, shadow, reflection, and a jumble of exciting characteristics captured on the camera sensor. The gradient of tones which I most likely would have failed to recreate with all the equipment available to us as photographers (if we have the budget of course).
Each lesson learned builds on the next opportunity that awaits. My lack of skill in painting has forced me on an adventurous alternative journey.
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SRD's background music goes from mono to stereo when Professor Pianist's old friend Sharpie Flats guest stars. But there's trouble brewing in paradise, and the reunion of these two grizzled jazz artists proves less than stellar when Proffy P reveals Sharpie's not just his friend; they're also mortal nemesises! (Wait, is that right? Nemesees? Nemesi? We'll get back to you on that.) Featuring the newest episodes of "Celtica" and "NPC".
Written and Directed by Ansel Burch, Derrick Gaetke, Ben McCauley and Kamron Palmer
Music by Robbie Ellis and Arne Parrott
Special Guest Robbie Ellis as Sharpie Flats
Anna Gaetke as Devin Showtime
Ansel Burch as Burlington Showtime
Arne Parrott as Professor Pianist
Kamron Palmer as Owen Mankowitz
Adam McAleavey as Dick Oranges
Featuring Karolyn Blake, Derrick Gaetke, and Rachel Granda-Gluski
Sound Design by Peter Carparelli
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There is an ongoing five-day sale at S&R (tomorrow is the last day), we were there yesterday and came home with a lot of berries — strawberries, blackberries, cranberries, blueberries… And I just knew there was going to be a lot of baking in this house for the next couple of days. The first project, per the request of my husband, is a strawberry streusel cake. He loves that cake. He adores the crisp streusel topping and the soft moist strawberries and the juices that work their way into the cake.
Well, there's the strawberry streusel cake. If you want to know what it's doing on the bed and what those cards are, read my entry about Talecraft. And since we're into the subject of cakes, I figured this is a good time as any to feature readers' contributions that fall under the "sweet" category.
Emy Medina calls this dish crepes Veneracion. I am tickled pink, really. She says, "This was prepared from 3 recipes from your site. I cooked the Minatamis na Saba in honey & kalamansi, omitted the condensed milk then I prepared the crepe. Someone gave me a crepe maker years ago,still in an unopened box in the garage…I used a non-stick pan. Lastly, I made Speedy's strawberry syrup and poured it on top of the crepe (my syrup was watery, I think I put some H20…not following instructions, hehehe) that's the reason I didn't use condensed milk. Fantastic….My husband said he can eat this any time of the day."
I think they should be called Emy's crepes. By combining three recipes, Emy actually created a totally new one and I think it's awesome. :)
The polvoron photo is from Quennie Balasabas-Martinez who says, "I've been a reader of your blog for… a lot of years now, I can't remember when I first stumbled on your blog but I do remember it was still named radicalcook or something :grin: Anyway, I have cooked dozens of the recipes that you have posted but I have not taken any picture of most of them since it's an everyday 'ulam'. But while browsing I saw my pictures of polvoron that I gave out to friends here last Christmas. They loved it! Even days after when they came over and we still have some left they were still reaching for it. I made 3 flavors, Plain, chocolate and with pinipig(the one with green bits, bought it in an Asian store and it has been flavored with pandan). The proportion of flour to milk and sugar is the same in your recipe, I just added more chocolate on the choco flavored ones."
Right, Quennie. When my food blog first went online, I called it "Culinary Adventures with the Radical Chef." You really are a long time reader. Thank you. :)
From Aissa: "Cheesecake is my favorite dessert ever!!! But ever since i tried your first cheesecake, I felt kuripot to buy commercially made cheesecakes…coz i make my own now! I prepare this on special occassions…birthdays, christmas (gave this out last dec 08!) or on those splurging-for-some-yummy-dessert-after-salary moments!
"I'm just having a problem with the crust, I don't want it crumbly. What i did is I bake it for 10 mins so it'll become a little compact. And instead of baking it for 2 hours I bake mine for 1 hour, because the oven that i use is not the big oven (I don't know how you call it), but the one twice as big as an oven toaster. I'm just afraid to use our big oven! hahaha!!
"But anyway, here's the result of the pinoycook inspired cheesecake… Love the creaminess of this cheesecake. I also love it with fresh mangoes…yummy!"
Aissa, try adding more butter to the graham crackers to make it less crumbly.


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Hire Us
You can hire the River Valley Chorus for a performance.
We can perform approximately thirty minutes of a capella songs selected from our standard repertoire. We are available for performances for after dinner, conferences, as well as private and public function. Booking is subject to availability.
Some of our favourite songs include (but are not limited to):
Well with my Soul
Hello Mary Lou
In My Room
Heart of my Heart
Tin Roof Blues
Peace I Leave With You
Harmony Collage
This little light of mine/Do Lord
MEssages of love / Valentines day
As barbershoppers, Valentines day is one of our favourite holidays! We get to deliver a very special "I Love You" in Fredericton and surrounding area. Those we visit receive a rose, a card, and two love songs sung in perfect barbershop harmony.
To arrange an appearance, discuss booking fees, or to get more information about us and our craft, contact


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The United States Supreme Court has failed to take any legal challenges against a Mississippi "religious freedom" law enabling discrimination against LGBT people.
The Supreme Courts decision to not challenge the legislation leaves individuals affected by the law extremely limited recourses to combat discrimination on the basis of their sexuality.
The law, HB 1523, specifically prohibits the state from taking action against religious organisations that decline employment, housing or services to same-sex couples; families who've adopted a foster child and wish to act in opposition to same-sex marriage; and individuals who offer wedding services and decline to facilitate a same-sex wedding.
In conjunction the bill also allows individuals working in medical services to decline a transgender person's gender reassignment surgery and allow state government employees who facilitate marriages the option to opt out of issuing licenses to same-sex couples.
Masen Davis, who is the CEO of the LGBTI group Freedom for All Americans, said in a statement that the Supreme Court has missed an "opportunity to swiftly strike down the nation's most extreme anti-LGBTQ law."
"The court's inaction today means that LGBTQ Mississippians will continue to face harassment and discrimination," Davis explained.
"HB 1523 fails to honor the tradition of religious freedom in America, instead, it allows people to use religion as a license to discriminate. The LGBTQ community remains in harm's way every single day that this law is in effect, and we are committed to working with our legal partners to strike this draconian measure once and for all."


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This is our little Rowyn. She is growing. I still can't believe it has been 5 months since we were in the hospital waiting for her to come. I remember thinking time was going so slow. Now time has gone too fast to measure. She is teething. Yesterday she chomped down so hard on her finger that she scratched a big cut on her gums. She was bleeding and I couldn't figure out from what. goofy girl. She looks like a Murdock.
This weekend was a crazy cleaning frenzie. My sister Cheryl comes to visit from Utah next weekend so we are cleaning up the guest room.
The Missionaries came by and one of them had a pair of shoes that were falling apart. So Mark got rid of 2 pairs of shoes, hurray. Mark is a shoe monger. So I think it was great that he was able to give them to the Missionary. They will be put to good use. We made the Missionaries carve our pumpkins for us. Elder Hess got the tough task of carving the Gourd that Sydney had picked out. Sydney loved it.
Mark's brother Cecil is in town so we will be out and about playing with him all week. Lots to do.


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Social Sessions
The first mobile game from my game company, Hester Games, on Google Play and the App Store.
A Psycho-therapy themed puzzle game. Be the therapist you always knew you could be and try to make all your patients happy at once by manipulating their feelings and relationships!
One of the challenges of this game was coming up with a way to programmatically tell if a randomly generated level is possible to beat. Many level configurations are impossible. I used a node-traversal algorithm to determine if and how a level could be beaten, and how many steps it would take.
Check out the game's development blog here.
Below are a small subset of early-stage game prototypes I've done in my spare time.
Wallpaper Game
Click to play (Unity webplayer)
This game is somewhere between a side scroller and a first person shooter. You simultaneously control a "3D player" and a "2D player". The 3D player is whose eyes you see the world through, and control with typical FPS controls (while holding right-click). The 2D player is a flat, stick figure that can be moved around on the walls, floor, and ceiling, interacting with the other flat objects, like crates, buttons, etc.
I had this idea in my head for a while before I made the game. I liked the idea that there could be ways that the 3D player could help the 2D player, maybe by moving obstacles, or standing on buttons. Currently, there isn't much interaction, except that you have to keep walking around to see where your 2D player is going, but I intend to add more mechanics that rely on 2D/3D player cooperation.
Challenges and solutions:
My brain has major stretch marks from this game. The initialization of the level was an interesting problem in itself. How does the level know where the 2D player should move to when he's going from a corner tile on one wall, to the corner tile on the floor? A simple translation would put him under the floor. My solution was the make an initialization process in which each tile stored information about the tiles around it, remembering which tile one would go to if one pressed "up" or "down" while on it.
Then there was the challenge of putting objects on those tiles. There is no collision checking in the game, so how do you tell your player not to move onto a tile if something is already there? So I made each tile also remember which object it currently contains. If the player tries to move onto a tile, it first checks if there is already something on it.
An inherent problem with controlling the 2D character was to figure out how to orient the player when he was on a floor or ceiling. Obviously, if he's on a wall, then his head is pointing up, and pressing "up" makes him walk that way. But once he's on the floor, which way should the player be oriented? At first, I just chose an arbitrary orientation for the tiles on the floor and ceiling, and when you stepped from wall to floor, you'd just have to change which button you were pressing to move in a straight line. But when I watched people play this way, they often started walking the wrong way because they wanted to keep pressing "down", even once they'd crossed from wall to floor. But the other option would be to keep the same orientation across corners. But then this would cause a player to become upside-down if he walked from one wall, down, down, down, across the floor, and onto the next wall. The hybrid solution, and current implementation, is that you keep your last orientation from the wall when you move onto a floor or ceiling, but then orient "up" when you get back to any wall. If anyone has any better ideas, I'm open to hearing them. ;)
Pushing crates over corners was a tough problem. Like I said before, tiles have their own orientation, and objects match that orientation. So, if you push "up" toward a crate, and the crate goes onto the ceiling, that's fine. But if you push "up" against a crate that is on the other side of the corner (like, going from wall to ceiling), then the crate and tile might have a different orientation. So you press "up", but sending that "up" command to the crate might send it in the wrong direction. So instead of sending the same direction command to both the crate and the player, instead the player does a "find second neighbor" tile, which returns the location he would be in if he walked two steps forward. Then the crate is set to this location.
Designing levels has been the final challenge. It's hard enough to wrap one's head around solving the puzzles, it's even harder to figure out good puzzles! Drawing them out on graph paper works alright, but often when I translate them into the game the configuration has some unforeseen strange results.
Where to go from here?:
Mostly it needs more levels and more interaction between the two "characters". The whole idea was that the 3D player and the 2D player work together to solve the puzzles, but right now it's mostly just the 2D player moving around. I envision tiles or blocks that are movable only by the 3D player, lasers that can be reflected, and doors that can be opened, all only by the 3D player.
View code on GitHub
Foam Game
Click to play (Unity webplayer)
This is a side-scrolling platformer with all its basic traits, with the twist of being able to "foam". You're basically a shaving cream can that can explode at will and create a big cloud of foam. You can then click anywhere on that foam to re-materialize yourself at that location, sometimes allowing you to squeeze through tight spaces, etc.
The possibilities for level designs have been fun. The "foaming" aspect seems fairly original, but simple, so it makes for some unique puzzle possibilities.
Challenges and solutions:
The "foaming" mechanic was difficult. I first had the idea of being a deflated balloon, and you could inflate yourself at will. But creating that proved difficult. It had to expand outward in an open space, and expand farther through confined space (like a tube). I went with the approach of creating a grid of possible points, checking to make sure those points weren't being blocked by anything, and then creating tiny circles at those points until a certain amount of circles had been created. This gave more the appearance of foam than of a balloon, I ended up liking that better, so I changed the entire game premise.
Another difficult problem is with "foaming" when near a crate. When you foam, the foam looks for obstacles. This is fine for if a crate is sitting still, but if the crate is still in motion (you've pushed it recently or dropped it), then the foam tries to create itself around it, and weird physics-y things happen.
View code on GitHub
Building in Reverse
Click to play (Unity webplayer)
This is a simple concept in which you watch a building fall apart. Then, once it's fallen to pieces, you have to try to choose a piece of the rubble that you think came from a high place in the original structure. The structure then reverses itself and shows you a final score of how well you did.
This game was fun to create because it's always fun to watch physics pull apart a tower of blocks.
Challenges and solutions:
The destruction and subsequent reversal of the blocks turned out to be extremely easy to script. Each step, the transform information of every single block is recorded into an array. When you begin the rewind, you just turn off the blocks' physics objects, and "play" back their recorded transforms (every nth frame to move a little faster).
View code on GitHub
Asteroids Game:
Click to play (Unity webplayer)
Simple Asteroids clone.
Building and Mining Game
A puzzle game in which you have to build the right structures to allow you to mine down into the ground to collect more resources, to in turn build more structures! All the while, also searching for gems, with the ultimate goal of building a tower high enough to place the gem on top of to display for all the world to see!


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How would your relationship with your body change if you looked at it as having a soul of itself?
Let's try this experiment: think of a child or pet you really love and cherish. The innocence of the child or pet helps you feel the purity of your well-wishes towards them. Feel all of the good, joy and wellbeing you wish for them. Hold them in your heart for a moment. (If you're having a hard time choosing someone, you can imagine Daisy on the right. She was my sister's sweet yellow lab.)
Now take a minute to close your eyes and do the experiment so you can feel your heart opening.
Got it? Ok, let those sweet feelings brew and expand in your heart for a bit as you read along.
Now let's talk about your body for a little bit. Think of the fact that your body performs millions of functions every single minute throughout the course of your life. From the moment you were conceived, until the moment you die, there is an endless flow of intelligent activity taking place. This requires NO effort from you.
Your body has inherent wisdom that is separate from your awareness.
Your body beats your heart. It breathes. It carries oxygen to cells. It digests the foods you eat. It heals damaged cells. It sends messages throughout your body that allow you to feel a loved one's skin or recognize their scent when you are near them. I creates a flood of little sensations that you experience as excitement, or joy, or alert and warning, etc., etc.
Your body is a miraculous vehicle.
Your body allows you to listen to music, and be moved by poetry; to kiss and hug a loved one; to distinguish the difference between the tastes of strawberries and vanilla ice cream, and even notice how wonderful they can be together. Your body appreciates jokes and gives you belly laughs… the list is of extraordinary experiences your body can have is literally infinite.
Your body is also perfectly benign and perfectly innocent.
Whether you eat fast-food every day or you eat an all-organic "mediterranean" diet (or whatever you choose), your body will do the best it can with what you give it. It will not judge you or shame you. It will still diligently work to heal your cells as much as it can.
When you start to connect with the wisdom, magic and even innocence of your body, you begin to tap into a deeper reverence for the magnificent experience that having a body actually is!
That awe and reverence will awaken a greater desire to nurture that precious body of yours.
Let's go back to the experiment to wrap things up.
Go back to the feeling for that beloved child or pet you thought of earlier. The one for whom you wish nothing but the best. Notice the sweet innocence and perfection of that being, and allow your love for them to expand in your heart.
Now imagine directing those feelings towards your body. Think of the magic and innocence of your body, and become aware of its own wisdom. Imagine your sweet body receiving that love from you.
Close your eyes and notice how you can be aware of both the love you are directing towards your body and the sensation of your body receiving it.
What do you notice? How are you relating to your body in this moment?
Leave a comment below! I'd love to hear what came up for you.
Remember, every cell in your body responds to your thoughts and emotions!