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The recipes below are from Gourmet Meals in Crappy Little Kitchens by Chef Jennifer Schaertl. (You can read my review of this VERY delightful cookbook by clicking the link.)
Holy Moly Chicken Pasole
Makes 2.5 Quarts
A gourmet version of tortilla soup, this rustic version is actually thickened with finely diced pieces of corn tortilla that break down as the stew simmers. It's also a great way to utilize leftover chicken, which makes it a standard on my rotation of Soupe du Jour in my restaurant. There's always leftover chicken laying around!
1 rotisserie chicken, shredded off the bone
8 c chicken stock
1 onion, diced
6 cloves garlic
1 green bell, diced
1 rib of celery, diced
2 T chili powder
1 T ground cumin
1/2 c tomato puree
1 large tomato, diced
1 T oregano
5 corn tortilla finely minced
1/2 tsp red pepper
Sea salt and black pepper to taste
1/2 c cilantro, chopped
- In a large stock pot over a medium-high heat, bring the shredded chicken, stock, onion, garlic, bell pepper, and celery to a gentle simmer. Once simmering, add all of the other ingredients except for salt, pepper, and cilantro.
- Once the tortilla has begun to break down and thicken the stew (about 30 minutes), season to your tastes with salt and pepper. Garnish with the chopped cilantro.
Nobody Better Lay a Finger on My Corn Fritter
Makes 15-20 fritters
Beautiful little side dishes, but I usually put them in bread baskets along with the rolls at my restaurants. The corn is sweet and juicy inside this fluffy pan fried biscuit. The kids will eat with butter and the adults will dip it in the soup, but everyone will be all over this moist and flavorful fritter.
3-1/2 c all purpose flour
1 T baking powder
1 T sea salt
5 eggs
2/3 c whole milk
3-3/4 c yellow corn kernels, canned or defrosted, but well drained
2 T butter, melted plus more for frying
- Preheat your oven to 500 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in large bowl. Add the eggs, milk, corn and melted butter and fold until completely moistened. Don't worry, it's supposed to be lumpy!
- Place a large sauté pan over a medium heat. Add just enough melted butter to cover the bottom of the pan, and drop corn batter by tablespoon full into the hot butter. Fry until brown on both sides, and transfer to a baking sheet to bake at 500 degrees for 5 minutes once all the fritters have been fried. Cool slightly before serving.
Make no Mistake Coffee Cake
Makes approximately 18 pieces
Whether for brunch, dessert, or coffee table edible décor for company, this is a fool proof classic. It mixes together easily, looks beautiful, and tastes a buttery and divine. I've served it as a complimentary table gift at brunch serves, but my good friend and wonderful pastry chef friend, Tsuki, makes it for her family all the time.
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter, unsalted, room temperature
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
1 T Baking powder
1 cup milk, room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
1 T Cinnamon
4 T Butter
4 T all purpose flour
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9 x 13-inch disposable pan with pan spray.
- Make certain that the butter is a soft, room temperature to make sure it creams easily. Using a whisk cream the butter, sugar, and salt together until they become light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time.
- Sift the remaining dry ingredients into a clean bowl or plate using a fine wire strainer. Fold in half of the dry ingredients to the cake batter and then half of the milk and vanilla. Repeat with the last of the dry and wet. Combine the filling ingredients in a separate container.
- In prepped pan layer add 1/2 cake batter, sprinkle 1/2 filling, and then the other 1/2 of the cake batter. Carefully spread the batter evenly with a spoon or spatula, trying to keep the filling in place. Sprinkle remaining filling over the top.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes and serve.
Rhubarb Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend
Makes approximately 18 pieces
Use the same bowl for the crust and the filling with this recipe, rather than making multiple dishes for washing. This is also a crazy adaptable recipe. Substitute berries or any other fruit that is in season for the rhubarb, or even 1/2 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice and 3 tablespoons of lemon zest to make a traditional lemon bar. Feel free to dust them with powdered sugar using a fine mesh strainer, but I don't feel the distraction is needed.
2 c flour
3/4 c sugar
1 c butter at room temperature
5 eggs
1-1/2 c sugar
1/2 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
4 c rhubarb, medium dice
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, work the flour, sugar and soft butter together until a soft dough ball forms. Press this dough evenly into the bottom of a 9×11 baking dish and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
- Work quickly because this filling works best if poured over the crust while it's hot from the oven. Simply whisk together the filling ingredients in the same bowl that you made the crust.
- Pour over the piping hot crust and put back in the oven for 45 minutes or until golden brown and set. When cool, cut into desired shapes, but I prefer diamond shapes. They stack just as well as squares, but look far more striking to the eye.
For more recipes like these, order Gourmet Meals in Crappy Little Kitchens by Chef Jennifer Schaertl today. This is one of the funnest cookbooks you'll ever use. Again and again and again…


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Mostly shot in Dublin, Ireland, Eigil Bryld's cinematography captures the picturesque Georgian architecture. With clever angular lighting techniques and color schemes he generates a mood and atmosphere that accentuate the clashing social classes.
Published Aug 3, 2007
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Engaging and intimate is this early portrayal of Jane Austen, one of the most beloved writers of literary history.
Though Austen's correspondence and Jon Spence's biography provide a few known facts, Becoming Jane is a fictional account of Austen's significant romance presumed to have inspired her six novels. The feature's main characters parallel those present in Austen's works but more closely resembling her Pride and Prejudice.
Following Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada , Anne Hathaway is extraordinary in inhabiting a more mature role as Jane Austen, bringing beauty, exuberance, and wit to the character.
At 20 in 1795, Austen was already displaying a remarkable writing talent, but was also an independent minded woman ahead of her time.
Jane is projected as "a woman who was flesh and blood and not simply someone who had an icy wit and tea running through her veins". Her characterization is that of a modern woman "who truly had a sense of her own worth and seemed to know the value of love, even in those times" states Hathaway.
Having a small role and demanding more screen presence are Jane's caring parents, the terrific Julie Walters as Mrs. Austen, as well as James Cromwell as Rev. Austen, who share their concerns about their daughters not marrying well.
Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox), the nephew of the fictional wealthy aristocrat Lady Gresham (Maggie Smith), was the Austen's favored prospective marriage match for Jane. However, it was the charismatic Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), financially compromised but intellectually her equal, who stirred Jane's heart.
Hathaway and McAvoy sparkle in their screen romance by exhibiting beautiful chemistry. Nonetheless Jane and Tom's relationship encounter obstacles. At the time, women were not generally self supporting, and even more unheard of were women writers. Jane was determined not to have society dictate her life and gender restrictions, while Tom, as the eldest son, was immersed with family obligations.
Mostly shot in Dublin, Ireland, Eigil Bryld's cinematography captures the picturesque Georgian architecture. With clever angular lighting techniques and color schemes he generates a mood and atmosphere that accentuate the clashing social classes.
For Lady Gresham's upscale secluded environment, Bryld used cyan, or green-blue, "to create a sense of slight claustrophobia, almost like being in a fish tank" explains Bryld, while using more gentle colors for the Austen's to project warmth and energy.
The Oscar®-nominated and Emmy winning production designer, Eve Stewart, and period costumes by Emmy nominated designer Eimear Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh add to the beauty and romance.
Magnificently mounted with a realistic feel, this feature touches on relevant concerns of the time, such as women's societal role, marriage and career, and the pursuit of happiness, issues that are just as contemporary today.
Rating: PG
Opens August 3, 2007
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I love a good cooking class.
If I had the funds and the time I'd be at a different cooking class every night. They are just so much fun! Food, wine, and cheftastic skills that you didn't have when you got there. It's a win all the way around!
Last week BOU invited me to join them at one of my favorite places in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Kitchen. (Remember when I came here for a cooking class with Buick?) We were there to celebrate the launch of BOU's new Gravy Cube line! It was the worst of nights too, it was COLD and raining sideways. I went back and forth on whether or not I should attend, but I am so happy I did!
What is BOU?
Our convenient bouillon cubes can be used to enhance the natural flavor of any dish, or can be simply added to hot water for a savory, on-the-go broth. Available in three flavors: Beef, Chicken, and Vegetable, it only makes sense that the quality of a broth matches the quality we look for in fresh ingredients.
I use bouillon cubes in my very famous Easy Crockpot Pepper Steak Recipe, but I am also painfully aware of the salt content so it's so nice to have an alternative that has 30% less sodium!
We all grabbed a glass of wine, washed our hands throughly and got to work. The first thing we worked on was a French Apple cake. I am no stranger to baking, so this was my favorite part. We all took one task, I chopped the apples, while another person whisked and another blended. It would be so nice if I had these people to help me cook 24/7. It makes things go SO quickly.
Next we worked on the wild rice–I was a little concerned about this wild rice situation as I am a strictly white rice or Jamaican Rice and Peas kind of girl. However, I've been converted. It was so simple and delicious–It could be it's own independent dish.
Then we started on the chicken which was super easy. I was called to do the stirring on the mushroom gravy which highlighted the yummy BOU mushroom gravy cubes. I happily worked on the mushroom gravy and felt right at home in this beautiful dream kitchen. Can I have a kitchen like this for my birthday? Please?
There were also some amazing roasted brussel sprouts that we didn't make but I happily ate.
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Welcome to upset central. Week 3 featured the Redskins downing the Packers, the Bills walloping the Vikings, the Titans grinding out a tough win over the Jaguars, and a Patriot dismantling at the hands of the Lions. On top of that, the Bears almost joined those ranks but just barely squeezed out a win against the Cardinals, and the Browns won for the first time in almost 2 calendar years. All in all, I think we've sufficiently proved the "Any given Sunday" mantra.
Unfortunately, these outcomes messed with several expected stat lines. A lot of you probably felt like this:
We're no exception, as you'll see as we walk through last week's projections:
Week 3 Starts: Tyler Boyd, Houston D/ST, Jimmy Garoppolo, Will Dissly, Ryan Fitzpatrick
Boyd and Fitzpatrick both had excellent games, with Boyd topping 130 yards and Fitz becoming the first QB in NFL history to throw for 400 yards in 3 consecutive games. Garoppolo wasn't transcendent, but 250 yards and 2 touchdowns is nothing to sneeze at. He also added 23 yards on the ground and a 2-point conversion. That's definitely 3 hits there. The Houston defense did manage a decent day in terms of pressure (as predicted) as they tallied 4 sacks, but unfortunately were not able to turn that pressure into turnovers. Not the worst day imaginable, but not what you'd hope for what should have been a plus matchup. Dissly was just a straight up miss.
Week 3 Fades: Saquon Barkley, Travis Kelce, Dalvin Cook, David Johnson
I think it's safe to say that Barkley showed us up with 117 total yards, 5 catches, and a touchdown. Kelce too with his 8 catches for 114 yards. Johnson's only saving grace was his touchdown as he posted a total of 61 yards on 16 touches otherwise, although even then it wasn't a great game for him. The Cook pick was disqualified after it was announced that he would not play.
So overall, it looks like our Starts are on the right track but we've got some work to do on our fades. We'll try to right that ship this week.
Tyler Boyd
Let the good times roll. After consecutive 6-catch outings totaling 223 yards and 2 touchdowns, Boyd gets yet another positive matchup. The Falcons are decent against outside receivers, but have not been so great against the slot. Having half their secondary on IR isn't helping them. With A. J. Green's health a little questionable, Boyd stands to see even more targets this week. Start him with confidence.
Jimmy Graham
Graham has been a bit up-and-down this year, but this week figures to be a good one for him. As much as I've been banging the drum that the Bills defense is underrated, they do have a glaring weakness against tight ends. Kyle Rudolph just had nice 5/48/1 day against them, the Ravens tight ends combined for 9/103/0 in week 1, and even the TE-deficient Chargers got a respectable 3/55 line out of career journeyman Virgil Green. Given that the Bills have been a bit more stingy against outside receivers, Graham should receive a bit more of Aaron Rodgers's attention than usual.
David Johnson
It's sad that one of the consensus top 4 fantasy picks has fallen far enough that he may not be an automatic start for some people, but here we are. That happens when you're constantly playing from behind with a subpar offensive coordinator. There may be some surprising respite this week though. The Seahawks' defense did pretty well stopping Chicago's running game in week 2, but otherwise got torched by Denver and Dallas in weeks 1 and 3. It's not like Dallas has great scheming either under OC Scott Linehan, as any Cowboy fan will tell you. DJ is also Arizona's favorite weapon in the red zone, scoring 66% of their touchdowns this season (sounds more impressive than saying "2 out of 3"). Johnson is set up for sneaky success this week even if the Cardinals find themselves behind once again.
Carlos Hyde
Hyde has been a pretty solid fantasy contributor this season, even if it's largely been on the back of a presumably unsustainable touchdown rate. A day may come when the touchdowns fail, but it is not this day (yes, that is the way Arigorn actually phrases his battle speech at the Black Gate, but I digress). This week Cleveland takes on the Raiders, who made a good showing against the Dolphins running backs but have sputtered otherwise. More importantly, Cleveland will likely try to ease Baker Mayfield into the full-time starting role and establishing the run game early will go a long way toward setting that up. Hyde should continue to churn out fantasy production this week.
Austin Ekeler
Now that the 49ers have lost Jimmy Garoppolo for the season, it seems likely that they return to their punching bag form from the last few years. This should mean a very positive game script for the Chargers, which should lead to heavy doses of backup running back Austin Ekeler. Ekeler has been insanely efficient so far this year, putting up 295 yards on a mere 31 touches. Against San Francisco's mediocre defense, Ekeler should have enough touches to once again feast.
Todd Gurley
Gurley certainly has had a good start to the year. He has yet to face a negative game script with the Rams offense, and the one time he ran into a team that could slow him down in yardage he racked up 3 touchdowns. I'm not saying he won't be startable this week, but don't expect another 20+ point bonanza. The Vikings are 7th in the league in yards per carry allowed at 3.6 and for the most part have done a respectable job of preventing RB catches. Gurley has a decent chance of scoring an errant touchdown as the centerpiece of the Rams offense, but don't necessarily count on it.
Kenny Golladay & Marvin Jones
Despite Detroit's slow start, Golladay and Jones have both been reliable fantasy starts. This week, however, I'd be a little leery. Dallas has surprisingly been tough on outside receivers this year; the best line any wide receiver has put on them is Tyler Lockett's 4/77/1, and that includes squaring off against Odell Beckham, Jr. The Lions' outside duo will likely see fewer targets that normal, so don't expect yards and touchdowns for all this week like the first 3 weeks.


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One in four people are being diagnosed with 'auto immune' diseases or 'mystery illnesses. There are now over 100 of these lifestyle diseases.
Depression, inflammation (pain), allergies are on the rise. Stress is affecting almost everyone. 'Disease management' is a thriving business worldwide. Something is not working. In fact, we are getting sicker. We have bought into a lies – if an organ isn't functioning properly just remove it, and, there is a chemical medication solution for every symptom.
We all aspire to more Joy, Love, Happiness and Abundance. We can all do with some support and guidance in this journey.
Its my opinion that wellness practitioners and healers from medical and alternative fields, who feel called to serve others, should collaborate more. No one person has all the answers.
There is a rise of Holistic Wellness businesses across the globe, where a single space incorporates a variety of offerings to support clients in achieving mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellness and balance.
Holistic Wellness, Integrative wellness, encompasses the food and beverages we eat and drink, how we move our body, how we keep our mind healthy, healthy thoughts, healthy spirit, healthy energy. Our wellness is influenced internally by our thoughts, metabolic processes and toxicity and externally by the air we breathe to the substances, stressors and people we are exposed to.
Why Gateway to Wellness?
A collaboration, launched in Knysna, a town along the famous Garden Route in South Africa, which aspires to offer clients worldwide some of the smartest and all round balanced assistance, support and solutions to their wellness, in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Knysna, in fact the entire Garden Route, has the most amazing healing energy. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world. And its best kept secret – it houses many talented, connected light workers and healers!'
Gateway to Wellness is a portal, a repository, showcasing all the amazing beings and their wellness offerings within Knysna and the greater Garden Route. We aim to provide many collaborations which will serve to help others heal, reconnect and find Bliss.


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Bounced up to 14 using my tempo rogue, getting over 80% wins with it right now. Huh. Guess the meta is tilted towards anti-miracle. Anyone noticing any meta shifts? Or are the teens still kinda weird now?
Release date announced for Naxx. It's the 22nd.
I'm kinda sorta looking forward to this, but kinda sorta not really, given that the Anubar Ambusher isn't really that great for Rogue. I might make it fit into my Tempo Rogue, but we'll see. I'm not too keen on having to put in silences and such given the deathrattle explosion, but that's neither here nor there. Dancing Swords seem to kinda fit into my Mill Rogue, but given that it can be opponent triggered, I'm not sure if that's super good either.
More interesting I guess is the ability to have a real "PvE" experience, but that wasn't really top on my list anyway - I'm more of a PvP kind of guy. I'd be more excited if they implemented replays or some sort of Arena/tournament mix, or maybe a arena/constructed hybrid.
I'm currently hovering around rank 10 with a 50% winrate right now, so I've kinda hit a wall too. How's everyone doing?
I had a total Hearthstone meltdown the other day trying to do double 60-gold Druid quests. I lost like four ranks going like 5 - 25 over the quest. Druid is one of the classes that I had the most experience with. I have no idea how things went so badly. I confess I was a little loaded and after the first few losses I was just an unthinking ball of frustration, so none of that helped any. The next day I win-streak-bonus'd most of it back using that "tempo warrior" deck, which is a pretty fun deck.
Lately I've only been playing enough to finish the daily quest. Hit Rank 6 today -- not much looking forward to the grind after 5 -- don't know if I'll try for Legend or not.
Watched some of Trump's stream this week. He was playing Miracle Rogue. He hit one of those horrible losing streaks, going from better than Legend 100 down to 425 over the course of two days -- which seemed to be the lowest Legend rank at the time because he also lost the next game and didn't go down any further.
I haven't thought very deeply about it but it appears to me that my losing streaks tend to happen when I just plain get a string of terrible starting hands. I think the game may have too much luck / not enough skill. Particularly with an aggro deck, it is all but impossible to come back when you can't play on the first couple of turns.
It will be interesting to see how things get shaken up when the new cards start hitting the tables but I suspect that may increase the luck factor even more.
I still have no usable Legendary cards and play only a cheap Zoo deck.
Hit 10 wins on arena woot! On a shaman deck too, which surprised me - shaman is one of my least played, and the deck didn't have anything special in it, not even a lightning storm.
Naxx today! (tomorrow morning for 'murrikins)
I said I wouldn't be excited, but I kinda am right now. Sadly, maintenance probably won't be done until after I'm asleep, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow.
Gotta fit those silences in though...
Well, Naxx is here .. and it looks like at least Spider Wing (in normal mode) is easy enough. I beat the first boss with a lvl 8 mage, pretty much no fancy cards. If boss hero power is summoning a 3/1 you can just trade hero power activations all day long.
Yeah, first level was easy -- played my standard Zoo deck. Typical of such things, the game froze up during second battle. Time to reboot and try again.
Blizzard first day release, so it was super slow; I took down number one with a shaman control-ish deck (in retrospect, mage would have been a better choice, fortunately Lightning Storm came along at the perfect time) and then narrowly beat number two with a paladin rush deck that got my cards in hand to a minimum in a hurry. Don't think I would have won either vs. a human (in particular, number two took herself down to 6 hit points with a weapon attack. Versus a rush deck. That hadn't played Leroy yet. And was holding a card.)
But it was so painfully slow that I'm going to give them some time to work out whatever it is.
I beat the first boss with my Pirate Rogue, the second with a Zooish starting hand in my Ramp Warlock deck, and the third with my Beastmaster Hunter deck. I finished the Druid challenge just as the server screwed up, so I don't know whether that counted or not.
I still haven't played Naxx yet! Waiting for lunch later, trying to to get spoiled in the meantime.
don't call her Maxxy! she's a nice addition to my gimmick priest, which i used to unlock all 4 cards. heroic looks impossible with the cards i have.
Totally Mexxy.
I've only tried the Heroic Anubar mission, and 2 mana 4/4 is as insane as it sounds. Talk about a crazy clock! AND he/she/it has 45 health. I'm thinking of slowing the clock via single target removal (basically, load up with Sap, Evis, Assassinate) and try to get a fatty to stick - maybe Venture Co, the spider doesn't seem to run BGH or anything.
Off to check out how the Hearthpwn folks managed it.
i'm avoiding spoilers but yeah, i've also noticed that it does not have any single target removable above 4hp. after tweaking my deck and getting rid of the power word cards, it's very doable. just need to distract it so it doesn't coin 4/4 on the first turn.
Ok, I'm going to treat this as a puzzle game and not look up puzzle solutions. Tonight!
Spoilers on Heroic below. Don't read if you want to try and figure it out.
So I cleared the normal battles and the class challenges without much issue. As many have said before, the first isn't terribly hard - I was able to do it with my normal Shaman Control Deck that I use in Rank. The second one is all about rush. I used a F2P Warlock rush deck and didn't have an issue. The third against Maxlkjdhfgkhdf whatever I think I used my normal Shaman Control Deck also. Took me 2 tries but I finally got her down.
The class challenges I actually found to be very easy. I don't know if it is just coincidence or not but I seemed to always have the cards I needed in hand to counter whatever play the AI made. Not sure if the game has a set draw pattern where as long as you counter each AI move correctly you're fine but it seemed like a no brainer.
As per the warning, I thought Heroic was going to be ridiculous. Don't get me wrong - it's definitely hard but not as hard as I thought. The first one I used the same Control deck as above. I actually got lucky and pulled a lightning storm while I had 2 +SP minions on the board and cleared everything. Plus the silence from Earthshock helped immensely with all the death rattles.
The second one was definitely MUCH harder. 1 mana for the AIs hero power is crazy. I used the same Warlock deck as on regular but it took me three or four tries to get the AI down. It really comes down to your starting hand. If you can get 3 1 drops you're set - otherwise the AI will punish you with it's hero power relentlessly. And it also ALWAYS seems to hit the minions first to kill them then hits my hero. I know it's most likely random but it seemed like that how they did me every match.
The Maxxyodhflkjghds is definitely worthy of the heroic label though. Hero power costs ZERO mana. It puts TWO of your minions from the board back into your hand. After playing the first round with my Shaman deck I thought I would try a Shaman deck with all the spells plus some battlecry minions (Fire Ele, etc.). No good. Got stomped big time. Then I tried a mage spell heavy deck with a couple charge creatures. Again no luck. Then I realized something - and this is the key to beating it - the AI uses the hero power as their first move EVERY SINGLE TURN. It never prioritizes killing a minion before bouncing it back. The other key is that the first 3 or 4 turns, the only minions that are played are those 1/2 spiders than summon 2 1/1 spiders on death. I haven't beaten it yet but my last try before bed I got the AI down to 6 HP and would've won but I couldn't draw the one damn card that would've sealed the win for me. Anyway, here is my strategy:
-Use Warrior. The hero power will let you "heal" yourself when you have no other way to spend 2 mana. (this will make sense shortly).
-You MUST include 2 Voodoo Priests and 2 of the 3 Mana Healers (can't remember the name off the top of my head). These are the key to winning.
-You'll need 2 Whirlwinds and you need to pray you get them and a Voodoo Priest in your starting hand.
-Put in a bunch of charges. I used the 1 mana boar for early game, 2 mana murloc for early game, 3 mana wolfrider (in case I get screwed on draw) 4 mana Warrior Charge minion, and you can probably throw in a Argent Commander or even Leeroy if you got him (I don't) but you probably won't need them because of their mana cost.
-It's all about throwing out a healer and a charge minion (only one of each) each turn and ONLY going for face.
-Once the AI has 4 spiders out you need to whirwind twice to kill them and get them to spawn their spiders (if you don't have both whirlwinds by the time they get 4 spiders out you're not completely screwed yet. Once they put out 4 spiders the next 2 minions are the 1/4 gargoyles which are fine. You need to keep the max damage per turn to the minimum). If you can double whirlwind them they'll spawn their spiders which will fill up the AIs side. He would be able to play any other minions so you've effectively limited him to 1 damage per minion for the rest of the match. DO NOT KILL ANY OF THEM. Otherwise they'll start putting out taunt minions and it's game over.
-You want to try and always put one minion out to heal, one for face. The trick is to maximize your healing and damage using more expensive minions as your available mana goes up. Turn 1 boar. On the AIs turn the boar gets bounced back. Turn 2 boar and voodoo. You'll heal your face damage and do another point of damage and they'll get bounced back to you again. Turn 3 you can do murloc and voodoo (if you've drawn the murloc) otherwise boar voodoo again. As the match goes on you'll need to balance face damage and healing. I got screwed because I didn't draw the 3 mana healer until the game was about finished so I wasn't able to heal through enough of the damage. If you start running low on health then you might want to drop 2 healers instead of a healer and a charge and then go back to heal charge once you've gotten your hp total back up.
-Never play more than 2 minions unless you can get lethal. Only two random minions get bounced back. If you play a third and it leaves your healer on the board and the other two are bounced back it's pretty much game over. Plus, the 1/1 spiders will now try and kill the minion left on the board and with 1 health, the spider will die and be replaced with something either higher damage or something with taunt.
-On the turns where you have 2 mana extra after playing your charge and heal minion, use the hero power. It's an extra 2 health heal for the most part.
-I would also add 2 of the warrior card that gives 5 armor and draw a card. Again, the extra heal will help a ton to last long enough to whittle the AI down.
-The Warrior Charge Minion is excellent at this strategy. 4 mana for 4 damage is the most efficient of the charge minions available. If you can get one in your hand by turn 5 (4 mana charge and 1 mana healer) you're in good shape.
Admittedly this strategy relies a lot on getting the cards you need in your starting hand. Since there is no penalty for conceding, if you don't get the right start hand you're better off just ending it and starting up another match. There are probably "better" strategies than this but the good this about this is that it uses cards that I would bet anyone trying heroic already has. No legendaries needed. In fact, the cards I used were all commons so even if you needed to craft them they're cheap as hell. The key is to make sure that you get the AI's side jammed up with nothing but 1 damage minions. Even a 2dmg minion on the board will increase the damage output enough where you probably won't last long enough to win. Depending on your card draw, as the match gets to the end you may need to sacrifice your lower cost charge minions to avoid lethal from the other side but keep in mind that after the AI plays 2 gargoyles, they start playing 3/5 minions that deathrattles a 1/2 taught minion. If those get put out it's game over pretty much.
Hope this helps some people that were having trouble - especially people that may be light on the legendary card and whatnot. Any questions let me know and I'll try and help (I am in no way an expert at the game and don't claim to be either - just happen to find something that seems to work).
i killed all the bosses and i didn't get a cardback! oh, you have to kill all bosses in every wing? =\
i still find Anub to be the hardest, it's touch and go trying to survive the 4/4s every turn. Faerlina is the easiest - i used Zoolock to counter the hero power and did it in one try. i reached the same conclusion as you on Mexxy's hero power. it's kinda hard to miss it when she uses the power first even though i have no minions on board. i went for Fatigue instead when i realised the 1 attack minions occupies the whole board every game, filling my deck with spells i can burn so i don't lose my Farseers to a full hand. i didn't use charge. with 2 Farseers and the hero power, it's an inevitable win.
Hm, the warrior strategy sounds better than the one I went with, which was hunter with enter the hounds and explosive trap - trap blows up their board and gets them to 7 1/1 guys, then you go for hounds plus wolf and swing at the face; I did hit on using a healing dude to buy me some time.
It occurs to me that Wild Pyromancer would make the double-whirlwind trick more consistent.
I was also considering the same strategy but with a paladin and then use the 2 mana heal for 6ish spell. That would give you an extra 2 rounds of attacking for the most part (7 damage per turn, 6 heal, net of 1 damage to your hero). In this case you would def need the pyro due to the lack of low cost aoe for Pally (waiting until 4 mana for consecrate would be an issue possibly).
I didn't bother with killing the spiders or anything, I just Aldor Peacekeepered everyone that she played. Follow de rules! Also added the heal cards, if I had to do it again I'd put in more spell cards - I was burning cards near the end, if I'd burned Leeroy or my Guardians of kings I would be rather screwed.
It was still kinda touch and go, I was positive on healing since I managed to draw my Guardian of kings and a voodoo doctor (6+2=8 heal, 7 damage per turn) but it was a real slog. In the end I finished it with LEeeeerrrrooy.
I've since managed to win it more conventionally (taking control of the board then beating down) with a Priest deck with Mad Bombers, Mind Control Techs, Soulpriests (with circle of healing), owls, 2 shadow word: death and a big game hunter to deal with the giants, and so on.
Then I played arena and ended up going 2/3 because I faced better-than-constructed decks. Four flamestrikes?! Really!!!!
Thankfully I started another round with druid and got myself a pretty mean deck (3 druids of the claw, 4 swipes - yup, 4, 3 ogres and a bunch of decent cheapies). If I don't do well with this I'm gonna be pissed.
Pretty sure there's no number of swipes that is too many. A 30 swipe deck probably couldn't lose.
Edit: Would lose to a 30 fireball deck, but the 30 fireball deck probably couldn't win versus most normal decks.
Last edited by Tom Scud; 07-24-2014 at 09:21 PM.
hah, got a golden Eaglehorn Bow in my deck. that's 700 dust for free.
Wait, there's reports that the Eaglehorn is dusted for normal discounted value, not like UTH where you dusted for full cost. Are you sure it was 700 dust?
yeah, i got 800 dust for it.
Anybody doing anything in Rank play? I've been trying out some decks with the Egg and Spider cards -- gone from Rank 4 down to the very bottom of 8 -- can't get any traction -- and the eggs are starting to get Silenced a lot.
Looks like there is going to be a lot of turmoil in the ranks for the next month or so. Seems like a lot of hoopla with the single player scenarios for a couple of hours play ... seems to me they might as well have saved a lot programming cost and just released the new cards.
I just logged in, seems like they've just announced full refund for Eaglehorn (wasn't there when I logged on last night). Sweet! I dusted mine, never play Hunter on constructed anyway.
Just spent a while in ranked, my tempo rogue is utter shite against the Zoo army. Made some replacements, still hovering around 10. Of course, now I'm hosed against control, but eh. 2 Fan of knives, wow. Working though.
Anubar Ambusher seems good for my deck so far, I haven't had the downside come into play yet (except for that time when I got greedy and thought I would have lethal next turn, he somehow managed to pop the spider and my Venture Co got sapped. =/).
Still, when flanked by a Azure Drake and a Si7, there's just no downside for me.
So how did yall do this season? I ended up at rank 7 after a long win streak over the last 2 days. I'm thinking maybe this is the season I really grind for legendary and not waste time playing arena.
I'm going to play my tempo Rogue, but Zoo really got buffed by Naxx though. I had a T3 4/4 Nerubian and a 7/9 void terror (T2 Nerubian Egg, T3 coin, Power Overwheming, Void Terror) , there was just no losing that game.
I was at Rank 12 with my Pirate Rogue deck and still consistently winning when the servers ticked over. Now I'm back at Rank 20 and it's Zoo city again.
Yeah, Zoo seems to be the meta right now. I've completely tilted my deck to anti-zoo, but am completely screwed if I meet a handlock or control warrior. All the zoos make up for it though!
The new 1/3 taunt/whirlwind deathrattle seems like it should be pretty good vs. zoo.
I wanted to check this game out, but when I start it up, I am taken to a screen consisting of a pair of doors and a glowing logo, my (movable) mouse cursor--and nothing else. And it just sits there indefinitely until I alt-tab out and end the process.
Any idea what could be going on here?
Windows 8, everything updated etc.
Um, click?
Yeah, actually. Have you tried clicking on the doors/logo? The first time the game starts up you click on them, they open up, run you through a cinematic(I think) and then go into a tutorial.
ETA : There's a major game event going on these days, so it may be possible that your client is responding very slowly because Blizzard servers are clogged up.
Last edited by bldysabba; 08-01-2014 at 08:18 AM.
I didn't play for a few days – was one of those who couldn't get past the authorization page for the Naxx update and didn't want to play without the new cards.
Finally got in yesterday and decided to switch and play Hunter. I was totally lost with no idea how to play nor how to mulligan. It was a learning experience. Started at Rank 17, went down deep into 19, then came back up to finish right where I started at 17 after almost five hours.
Switched back to Zoo tonight and ran up to Rank 12 in less than three hours. I am more convinced than ever that plain, cheap Zoo is the strongest deck for ladder climbing; it's not that it is easy to play, it is popular because it is the best deck for the purpose.
I've pretty much decided the skill/luck balance is off in this game. It's going to take quite a while for it to be fully figured out, but there does seem to be too much luck. Much of the skill comes in choosing a deck and there are plenty of strong deck-makers posting their choices on the web, so anybody with the gumption to look up a good deck can play the same set of cards the top-ranked players are using.
There is some skill in playing the cards, and there are some subtleties, but most plays are pretty easy to get the hang of. The difference between a noob and a good player is not really very large and the difference between a good player and a very strong player is actually pretty small. It takes a long time and a lot of games for those few guys who are consistently at the top to grind their way there.
I still find the game interesting and will likely continue to play until the entire Naxx thing is done, then will probably be done with it. It's fun, but it is very time-consuming to try to stay up to date, so I'll remain a somewhat casual student of the game until I see its finished state.
It was fun. I enjoyed the campaign, the tweaking of decks, and I'm working through the harder levels.
Then I went back, redid a few of my decks, and tried the ranked games again.
Same old shit. Skill will matter in about 2 out of 5 games, luck in 1, and the other two are decided by the big money cards in the deck, no matter how you play. Still, incredibly frustrating. Until the matching mechanism improves, I'll be putting this game away for awhile again.
Well... I don't know what to tell you. To a certain extent, it's probably your deck - there are many decks which don't rely on legendaries to win. I laddered up to rank 5 with my no legendary Rogue deck, but it does rely on your knowing what works.
On the other hand, some part of it is probably due to your skill as well. Soooo... I dunno what to tell you. Glad you had fun with Naxx, I guess?
I recently had some free time and worked my way through Naxx. When I had only ~700 gold and one wing of Naxx left, I figured I'd go earn some gold playing arena. Instead, over the course of the next 10 or so arenas in which I never once crossed 7 wins, and often went under 3, in the process losing all my gold, I learnt one of the following things. The problem is, I'm not sure which one
a) I've become much worse at playing arena
b) Everyone else has become much better
c) Don't play arena at super off peak hours (Like very late at night. Only the hardcore types are around, and that makes the field tougher. This is something I've always suspected)
d) Naxx has somehow changed the arena valuations of many cards and I haven't cottoned on yet, while everyone else has
Anyone have opinions they'd care to share?
Last edited by bldysabba; 09-01-2014 at 04:04 AM.
Absolutely arena (and the game in general) is much harder at super off peak hours. I only play at late night (like midnight) and super early morning US time (just before 7am), and for sure it's harder before 7am than at midnight. Sunday mornings in particular are brutal - I managed to get matched up against a legend rank from rank 6 once. I can only imagine that it's easier at peak casual times.
Everyone is kinda better now though, true casuals have kinda moved on by now, and everyone has at least heard of the arena value lists etc. It's harder to coast by on the strength of your draft these days, I find, you have to have some sort of synergy to do well.
Naxx has also changed the meta somewhat, too - some of the new cards are absolutely game changers, like the Undertaker, Death's bite, Dark Cultist and less obviously, Zombie chow and Haunted Creeper. In general, minions tend to stick to the board a lot more, even more than arena used to, and so things like Argus and Cult Master tend to get even more value. AOE is kind of weaker too, given things like Haunted Creeper being auto-picks, more or less.
Still, I think most of what you're seeing is people just getting better at arena.
=^^= [Mew?]
I also suspect that now that Naxx is over and there are no new events on the horizon, there are fewer casual players playing right now, which means the average arena player is better.
I'm not claiming to be a force to reckoned with who could dominate if I just had a great deck. I'm just a casual player who enjoys the gameplay and slowly building a deck. But it's no fun when I have to sit through 3 beatings by bad players with Ragnaros and Faceless Manipulators to enjoy one game where strategy and skill actually matter. I'm looking for a game that is fun to play, and the games against other players isn't that.
And that's the difference in a nutshell. When I play against the developers, they actually make an effort to make the contest fair; with decks being relatively even in strength. But when I play some idiot with nothing in their hand less than a white, it's completely unbalanced and no fun.
I don't mean to take away from your enjoyment of the game; you're clearly invested in it. But for a casual player like myself, the program that matches you with another online player is broken and results in too many games that are unfair. Which wouldn't bug me so much if I were at level 13 or above, but when I'm at level 20, it's frustrating as hell.
Coincidentally, I just got into this game last night, leveled my starting Mage to 12 or so, and generally had a good time. I've never played a CCG in my life.
But Hamlet's experience cautions me; I will never be more than a casual player. Can I likely continue to have fun playing just single-player, perhaps with an occasional Arena? Hamlet, is your primary complaint about Ranked play, and other PvP modes (casual, arena) are OK?
You'll see the same thing in ranked and unranked play. It's just something everyone goes through when they start playing. If you can't accept that you'll get blown out every so often by legendary-rarity cards, you're going to be frustrated. If you can handle that and play through your quests, you'll have a good time getting more cards and seeing your prospects improve.
Last edited by Palooka; 09-08-2014 at 02:24 PM.
The game can be fun but it can also be very frustrating even to those who have all the cards. The top-ranked streamers / pros talk about the huge amount of luck involved in the game. Long losing streaks happen to everybody; the good news is that up until Rank 5 the bonus for winning streaks makes it possible to rank up even while winning less than 50% of your games.
It will take a very long time (hundreds of hours) to get the complete set of cards by grinding in free to play mode. Some people get lucky and get a playable legendary or two quickly but most will not. The solution to not having the big cards is right in front of you all the time you can pay.
The game is designed to get the maximum money very quickly out of those who are inclined to pay. You can't just buy the cards you want, you have to buy packs and hope to get the cards you want. While it is possible to get lucky, more common is people spending $200 to $600 to get the cards they want. Even with a complete set of cards, there are still long losing streaks. Frustration is built into the game.
It is still possible to climb the ranks with F2P cards, gradually building your card collection and hoping to get that legendary card you want. Look for streamers like Trump, Reynad, and Kolento (among others) for guidance on building a playable F2P deck.
I have enjoyed the game in F2P mode. The first couple of months I played a lot, now I pretty much just play enough for the daily quests and play an Arena when I have enough gold. I did finally get a playable legendary (Leeroy Jenkins), but it really hasn't made much of a difference in my win rate.
A skilled, experienced player with a reasonably composed basic deck will beat an unskilled player with a fistful of rare and legendary cards over 50% of the time. In other words, becoming a better player will make a bigger difference in your win rate than spending $600 for all the cards.
I'm not knocking people saying they are bad players. I'm saying Don't spend $600 thinking it will make you win more. Only spend the money if you really enjoy the game and are ranking up satisfactorily with a basic deck and you want to play against the very high level Legend rank players.
Personally, I don't expect the game to have a very long life. The frustration new players feel when they get pounded by big cards will drive many away. Blizzard doesn't care about those players; they want the ones who will buy the packs hoping to eliminate the frustration. The game is designed to extract the maximum amount of money as quickly as possible from those who are willing to pay.
When those players find out they still aren't winning, they too will leave the game. There will be a small hardcore group remaining, but there is no income stream for Blizzard from long-term players. Once it becomes too expensive to recruit new players who will buy large numbers of packs, the servers will shut down.
Still, it's a playable game, and a lot fun until it isn't fun any more.
Last edited by Turble; 09-08-2014 at 04:24 PM.
I dunno about that, Magic's monetisation scheme is far, far worse than Hearthstone's, and it's doing fine. All TCG monetisation schemes are like that, really.
I pretty much agree with the rest of your post, though. Cards are options - there's not a single card in the game that you "need" to win, or will win you games just by being in the deck.
Has Blizzard released any data about number of players or how it's changed over time? Would be interesting to see.
In other news, I finally built myself an almost complete miracle rogue deck(No van cleef), and I must say, it's really fun to play(even though I don't play ranked all that much). You almost always have some options and the deck is competitive no matter what you're going up against.
Now if only I can stop shadowstepping Leeroy, before I attack with him...
The game started working for me a few days ago for some reason. (Previously, it would just hang at the opening screen.)
Pretty fun! I'm terrible!
Quick newbie question: Do you just get one quest a day, or is there a way to get more than one in a single day? (I assume if you go two days without completing one, they stack up. But I'm just wondering if there's a way to accumulate more than one.)
Probably not because the current rate has me constantly just on the brink of springing for a couple of bucks here and there and I imagine that's exactly where they want me But anyway I thought I'd ask.
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Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, will hold presidential elections on February 16, 2019. Although there are about 35 presidential candidates, the race for Aso Rock — the seat of Nigeria's presidency — will be between two major contenders and candidates from the so-called "third force," a group of hopefuls who are relatively new to Nigerian politics.
The two major Nigerian parties, All Progressive Congress and Peoples Democratic Party, will, of course, be fielding their candidates:
Muhammadu Buhari
The incumbent candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Buhari won the 2011 presidential election after defeating former president Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari's ascendance to power was based on his integrity and perceived ability to curb corruption and the Boko Haram militancy. However, under his watch, Nigeria has witnessed continued insecurity with pastoral conflicts between herders and farmers as herders from the north move further south in search of arable lands. Also, human rights have taken a nose drive in his administration, with impunity and corruption at the highest levels of government.
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A few other presidential hopefuls to watch are:
Obiageli [Oby] Ezekwesili
Ezekwesili, the only major female candidate in this year's race, served as the minister of solid minerals and later education during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 to 2007. She was also former vice president of the Africa division of the World Bank from May 2007 to May 2012. Ezekwesili has been at the forefront of the call to rescue about 200 school girls who were abducted by the Boko Haram militant Islamic group in 2014. She is a co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) Movement. She is also the presidential flag-bearer of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria.
Kingsley Moghalu
Moghalu is a professor of international business and public policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA. Moghalu had previously worked in the United Nations from 1992 to 2008. He was deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009 to 2014, where "he led extensive reforms in the Nigerian banking system after the global financial crisis."
He is the candidate of the Young Progressive Party.
Omoyole Sowore
Sowore is the founder and publisher of SaharaReporters (SR), an investigative online newspaper. SR has been described as Africa's Wikileaks.
This human rights activist is running under the banner of African Action Congress.
The race is on for Nigeria's future
Buhari and Abubakar are the major contenders in this race. Both men have been constants in the political arena in Nigeria. On the other hand, Ezekwesili, Moghalu, Sowore, the "third force", are a group making their first entry into the partisan political space.
Buhari will be running on the "gains" of his administration over the past three years and must contend with the fac that Nigeria was recently ranked as the poverty capital of the world. The Punch newspaper described Buhari's "parochial appointments" as "unprecedented" and has left the country deeply divided. His fight against corruption appears selective and punitive. The recent move to try the Chief Justice of the Federation — so close to the presidential election — was described by the Nigerian Bar Association as "a pattern of consistent assault on the heads of the two independent arms of government" by the Buhari administration.
Abubakar, on the other hand, is riding on the "gains" of "multiple lucrative business interests". However, he has an uphill task considering the power of incumbency of his major opponent.
Whoever wins the 2019 elections will face enormous challenges like the strengthening the economy, internal security, restructuring power and power devolution, and ethnoreligious politics.


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Natick was swept by Western Mass. powerhouse Westfield (25-21, 25-21 and 25-13) on Thursday night at Worcester State University as the Bombers won their third straight state title.
WORCESTER — The last time the Natick boys volleyball team dropped the first two sets in a match, it came back and won the next three against Winchester in the state semifinal.
Unfortunately, lightning didn't strike twice for the Redhawks, as they were swept by Western Mass. powerhouse Westfield in Thursday night's state final at Worcester State University (25-21, 25-21 and 25-13) For the Bombers, it is their third straight state title.
Westfield (22-3) did not lose a single set throughout its postseason run.
"They (Westfield) deserved the state championship," Natick coach Peter Suxho said. "They were the better team and played better than us."
The free-swinging Bombers were an absolute force to be reckoned with as they recorded a total of 43 kills in the match, keeping the Redhawks (17-5) on their toes and out of sync all night.
"They had three or four kids who could put the ball down wherever they wanted," Natick senior outside hitter Connor Reardon said. "They just had so many kids that could put it down. In the last game against Winchester they had one really good player and we just adjusted to it and locked him down, but when it's coming in from opposite, coming from the middle and coming from the outside there is only just so much you can do to get there."
One of those outside hitters for the Bombers was junior James Pavlyuk, who recorded a game-high 18 kills on the night.
"They have a great player in No. 5 (Pavlyuk)," Suxho said. "He's a great player."
Westfield's balanced offensive attack saw nine kills from senior Ethan Flaherty, and five kills each from Eric Yurtuk and Ryan Rix. Riley Coughlin added four kills of his own and R.J. Piper had two kills to round out the Bombers attack. Defensively, Pavlyuk also added five blocks.
"I think it was a little bit of the power of their hits and their quick offense that really messed us up," Redhawk senior Brett Olen said. "We couldn't really handle it on the defensive end and they just kept killing the ball.
"The outside really killed us and the two middles did well."
The Redhawks struggled mightily with their serve-receive and passing, which limited their ability to generate offense, especially in the third set.
"They were the better serving team," Suxho said. "We weren't receiving well and if you aren't receiving well you get punished."
Natick committed five receiving errors in the match and a total of 18 ball-handling errors.
Overall Suxho believes that comes down to a lack of experience.
"We've played well up until now," Suxho said. "But our team, we don't have experience playing for a state championship."
Westfield on the other hand was playing in their third straight state final.
That is a testament, however, to the continued improvement that the Natick volleyball team has made over the last three years.
In Olen's freshman year, the Redhawks made the playoffs at 9-9 as a No. 14 seed in the Central bracket. Natick then won the next three sectional titles – falling in the state semifinals in 2017 and 2018 – before reaching the state finals this season.
"It's great to end it (my career) in a state final match," Olen said. "I didn't get the result that I would have wanted but, yeah its great."
Even though the season did not end the way that they would have liked, there is still plenty about which the Redhawks can – and should – be proud.
"What we did up until now for us is great," Suxho said. "We got sectionals, we played for the state final. It's a big achievement for the program.
"I call that our team championship. We are still champions in my book."
Ethan Winter is a senior multimedia sports journalist at the MetroWest Daily News. He can be reached at 508-626-3987 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @EWints.


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Dual-tasking during recall of negative memories or during visual perception of images: Effects on vividness and emotionality
Background and objectives: Several treatments are effective in reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. We tested the effectiveness of an experimental intervention that consists of elements from two of these: virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. The latter is characterized by a dual-task approach: the patient holds a traumatic memory in mind while simultaneously making voluntary eye movements, resulting in reduced vividness and emotionality of the traumatic memory. If the experimental intervention is effective, it could provide a useful approach for highly avoidant individuals. Methods: Participants recalled negative memories induced by a VR paradigm. The experimental group viewed VR screenshots that represented these negative memories while carrying out a dual-task. One control group recalled negative memories while carrying out the same dual-task (a standard dual-task condition) and another merely viewed the VR screenshots. Pre-to-post changes in self-rated memory vividness/emotionality were measured. Results: The results indicate that viewing a screenshot only was outperformed by both dual-task interventions in terms of reductions in vividness/emotionality. Furthermore, the dual-task interventions had a comparable impact on vividness, but the screenshot variant led to greater decreases in emotionality. Limitations: Changes in memory vividness/emotionality were only assessed shortly after the interventions and no measures of avoidance behavior were included in the study. Conclusions: Looking at an image in VR that represents a memory while carrying out a dual-task may be at least as effective as recalling the memory during the dual-task. Interestingly, visually supporting a negative memory does not seem to prevent memory degrading by dual-tasking.
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|Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry: a journal of experimental psychopathology
Cuperus, A.A. (Anne A.), Laken, M. (Maarten), van Schie, K, Engelhard, I.M, & van den Hout, M. (2019). Dual-tasking during recall of negative memories or during visual perception of images: Effects on vividness and emotionality. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry: a journal of experimental psychopathology, 62, 112–116. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2018.10.003


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18 Zechariah asked the angel, "How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.
19 The angel said to him, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. -Luke 1:18,19
Dear Henri,
So God shows up.
Zechariah is just supposed to believe it? Suddenly his elderly wife is pregnant? After years and years of praying, mourning, private and communal grief and shame, this guy who's supposed to be offering a sacrifice is just supposed to drop everything -- drop all tradition and the proper order of things (in the Holy of Holies no less!) -- and welcome the Light that's being handed him?
I don't think so.
Sometimes we give Zechariah a bad rap. He doesn't believe immediately so he deserves what's coming to him. Ahh, Henri... how we love to be harsh and unforgiving towards oursleves! For all we know, Zechariah, while believing that the angelic being before him is real, could have been scared stupid that if he stepped one toe out of line in his high priestly duties, he could have been zapped.
When people tell me that God makes no place for doubt, I tend to hide away. Hide from those people, hide from God. You had your own dark night of the soul -- doubts so great you feared for your own life. I, too, become plagued by doubts, even of my beloved Jesus' existence and presence. Especially after this morning, when the world seemed to explode into a million tiny pieces that could very well see the ruin of some close friends, I must ask:
Where are you, God? Why this? Why now? Why them? Why us?
"Maybe we do not talk enough about how taxing it can be to sustain belief even while actively engaged in the rituals of our faith. What happens to hope after season and season of unanswered prayer? Like Zechariah, we too desire to believe that our prayers make a difference and that God hears us and will eventually respond in some way or another. But desiring belief is not always enough to secure belief when hope is wearing thin." (Okoro, p.31)
So hope has arrived, but we discover hope to be simply unbelievable. Beautiful? Mystifying? Terrifying? Yes. Believable? No.
Not after the long dark night of the soul. Not after the desert. Not after seasons of an absent God.
Like a person in chronic pain who starts receiving a first deep tissue massage from a trusted massage therapist, we almost don't feel the pressure as practiced hands knead our muscles. And when we do, it's excrutiating. It takes some rounds of massaging in this new hope, this new truth into our worlds for the life if it to be pleasurable, desirable, believable.
And when our worlds are suddenly thrown in crisis, our muscles cramp up again. We shut down and exist only to survive. Okoro goes on to explain that we can become comfortable with our doubts, often a little too much. I'd suggest that while times of comfort grow from our doubts, our world is a painful place and unexpected and painful things happen.
Sometimes we can begin to doubt within a second -- a nano-season, but a season nonetheless.
Henri, when we see hope right in front of our faces, no matter our doubts, may we begin to allow it to enter. It may not seem like hope does anything at first; it may even be painful. But to endure the dissolving of our doubts will bring about new Life and new Light.
I can't see the Light just yet. I'm still gaping at Gabriel.
Can this be possible?
Until tomorrow, Henri,


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Construction activities in Ballarat25/01/2019
The Victorian Government is getting on with delivering major projects for Ballarat, creating jobs and contributing to the economic growth of the city.
As a result of the significant infrastructure being constructed over the coming months there will be some changes to traffic conditions in parts of the Ballarat CBD. Victorian government agencies have been working together to minimise disruption and construction impacts on the community at this time.
Ballarat GovHub
The Ballarat GovHub is a key Victorian Government initiative, valued at more than $100 million, that will accommodate up to 1,000 government employees including 600 roles relocated from Melbourne. Construction of the GovHub will commence on January 9 and is expected to be completed by 2020.
Construction activities have been carefully planned to minimise noise and other disruptions.
What to expect from January 9 during the early phase of construction:
- Installation of timber hoarding around the entire site to ensure worker and public safety
- Armstrong Street North will be closed between Mair Street and Market Street to allow for the movement of heavy vehicles in and out of the site
- Demolition of the lower hall, as identified in the approved planning permit, prior to the construction of a new community space
- Relocation of the council-owned skate park to another site managed by the City of Ballarat
- Closure of the car park
- Excavation works starting in February 2019 for up to five months
- All works on site are subject to strict controls in accordance with construction regulations
- Construction will take place between 7am and 5pm Monday to Friday and between 7am and 3.30pm on Saturday, with no noisy works occurring before 9am on Saturday
Ballarat Station Precinct Redevelopment
Stage one of the station redevelopment, the 405-space multi-level commuter car park will be opening to the public on Sunday 24 February.
The opening of the car park will result in changes to how commuters access the precinct, with new entry and exit points for drivers and pedestrians.
The new car park, which will replace existing informal car parking arrangements, will include more spaces in a modern facility, with lighting and CCTV for increased safety.
The new car park will be accessible to eastbound and westbound traffic on Nolan Street from 24 February. Drivers will need to enter the new internal road from Nolan Street to access parking. The Lydiard Street North entrance will no longer be used until the completion of the precinct redevelopment in late 2020.
Customer service staff and traffic management will be in place to guide commuters to the new multi-deck carpark via the new internal road off Nolan Street when the carpark opens on February 24. Traffic lights will be installed as part of the bus interchange development and will be in operation once that project is complete, and buses start using the new facility.
The gravel area near the Goods Shed will be fenced off and no longer accessible to the public. Fences will be installed around the site and signs will redirect drivers to the new car park.
Pedestrians entering the station from Soldiers Hill can enter the precinct along the path adjacent to the new internal road. The footpath leads to a covered walkway and the overpass to the rail platforms.
After the new car park has been opened, Stage Two of Ballarat Station Precinct Redevelopment will begin. Fencing will be erected around the construction zone to make way for the refurbishment of the Goods Shed and the construction of the hotel.
Work will also commence on the new bus interchange.
Ballarat Station Precinct Redevelopment Brochure, February 2019 (PDF 1017.5 KB)
Mair Street Upgrade
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Construction of Stage One will commence on January 7 with the upgrade of the Humffray Street intersection. We will be upgrading the traffic lights, increasing capacity for turning vehicles and improving the road surface and kerbing. These works will be followed by improvements to the Doveton Street intersection to support the GovHub development and a full upgrade to two lanes in each direction between Davies Street and Humffray Street. Stage One is expected to be complete by mid-2019.
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An additional 1,000 car parks will be delivered in Ballarat through the Government's new $30 million Regional Car Parks Fund, bringing the total number of Victorian Government funded parking spaces to 3,000.
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SEOUL (AFP) - A North Korean gulag survivor whose torture and daring escape was detailed in a best-selling book admitted he lied about details in his story, and said on Sunday he may end his campaign against human rights abuses.
Mr Shin Dong Hyuk, believed to be the only person born in a North Korean prison camp ever to have escaped, apologised on his Facebook page on Sunday, saying he had "forever wanted to conceal and hide part of my past".
Mr Shin recently changed some of the details in his story, Mr Blaine Harden, the book's author, said on his website. "On Friday Jan 16, I learned that Shin... had told friends an account of his life that differed substantially from my book," he said. "I contacted Shin, pressing him to detail the changes and explain why he had misled me."
Mr Shin told Mr Harden that some of the ordeals had been "too painful" for him to revisit and he had "altered some details" that he had thought would not matter, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Mr Shin said he was "very sorry" in his Facebook posting.
"I... forever wanted to conceal and hide part of my past. We tell ourselves that it's okay to not reveal every little detail, and that it might not matter if certain parts aren't clarified," he said.
"To those who have supported me, trusted me and believed in me all this time, I am so very grateful and at the same time so very sorry to each and every single one of you," he said.
Mr Shin did not elaborate in the post on which part of his past had been fabricated.
Mr Shin was born and spent the first 23 years of his life in a prison camp where, he recounted in the harrowing Escape from Camp 14, he was tortured and subjected to forced labour before escaping in 2005.
Ever since, Mr Shin, now 32, has campaigned prominently to highlight rights abuses in the isolated North, testifying before a United Nations commission last year.
In Mr Harden's book, Mr Shin says he was brutally burned and tortured when aged 13, after a failed attempt to escape the camp.
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Mr Shin also said in the book he saw his mother and brother executed after he betrayed them, telling the authorities in Camp 14 of their plan to escape in hopes of getting food as reward.
But, said the Washington Post, the executions actually took place when he and his family were in a different camp.
Mr Lee Young Hwan, a Seoul-based rights expert, described the changes as "minor innaccuracies" and said many refugees who suffered abuse show "selective memory" due to mental trauma or an instinct for self-preservation that takes root during their years of ordeal."The trauma sometimes lead them to say only things that can work in their favour, or have jumbled memories about the most painful experiences," said Mr Lee, an adviser to the Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights."There may be minor inaccuracies in Shin's story, but his whole life and the nightmare he went through should still stand as evidence of history," he said.
On Facebook, Mr Shin said he "may not be able to continue" his years-long campaign against the North's regime, but urged his supporters to fight on.
"The world still needs to know of the horrendous and unspeakable horrors that are taking place," he said.
"These will be my final words and this will likely be my final post," he added, concluding with: "Thank You."
Mr Shin has been one of the most well-known campaigners against rights abuses committed in the North, where the Kim family rules its impoverished populace with an iron fist and pervasive personality cult.
The North has sought to discredit Mr Shin as a fabulist and criminal, and aired last October a TV interview with his father, who called Mr Shin a "liar" and denied the family was even in a labour camp.
Mr Shin argued that his father must have been coerced into denouncing him, saying he felt "suicidal" with guilt over the punishment his remaining family may have faced after his escape.


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