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Bulk Basics
Led by Colleen Wagner
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 6-7:30pm
Free, but pre-registration is required.
Buying in the bulk aisle seem like a hassle? What are the benefits? This class will go over the basics of how much money you can save by buying in bulk and how you can get just the amount you need of the very freshest ingredients. Basics classes offer participants a hands-on opportunity to learn the basics of specific food and cooking skills. These classes are designed to be accessible and fun for anyone.
notes: Since these classes are in high demand please only sign-up if you are able to attend the class.
type of class: lecture with interactive components!
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Wednesday, Apr 22nd 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm


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Category Archives: Fitness Ball
Stability Ball Exercises, Yoga Balls & Balance Balls
Swiss Balls are great for your Abs- Undertaking crunches on the ground imply that you can only function out your Abs over a certain range. Regular use of the fitness ball will aid in making your muscles stabilized and will also enhance the muscles' strength and endurance. I discovered this low-cost workout ball which is excellent for trying it out, if you don't want to invest $40-$50 in a ball which you could never ever in fact use. Prior to you engage in exercise ball routines, nonetheless, you should seek the advice of with your gym trainer on physical exercise ball routines that are ideal suited for your body kind and fitness ambitions. Simply because the ball is flexible, it provides when you sit on it, creating it far more comfortable than a chair.
We will offer you with some workout routines from crunches to squats for novices as properly as for intermediates or advanced. Practically nothing makes a excellent picnic or barbeque like a classic game of bocce ball, so come ready with the Bocce Ball Game Set. As such, if you are to choose your fitness gear, make certain you decide on the balance ball. Even before my back injury, I could rarely sit in a chair for lengthy periods without having discomfort and soreness. Rest your upper back on a stability ball and cross your left leg more than your correct knee (a).
But even a strong ball can be punctured by something sharp like a staple or nail. Just set your self up in a open location, and do your exercise to your favored half-hour tv show. Advance customers and intermediate customers can use the physical exercise ball for every portion of their body. Maintaining your back straight and abs engaged, bend down bring the ball to the outdoors of the left foot. But as soon as they master those ab workout routines, I teach them abdominal exercises on the ball. I happily sit on my ball, now and then bouncing or rolling around on it, or even rolling it beneath my back to do some nice back stretches and other exercises for short breaks.
Aiming the body's rectus abdominus, obliques and the hip flexors, abdominal exercise ball roll-ups give really a exercise knowledge, strengthening an exerciser's common abdomen location. The popularity and effectiveness of the ball for exercising quickly influenced its use in neuro-developmental therapy and inside the application of functional kinetics.
On a difficult floor (as opposed to carpet) it rotates from getting on and off adequate to get every component of the ball dirty, so wearing excellent clothing isn't a very good idea if you have it on a difficult floor. Hello, I have a desk job (Human Resource Manager) and do sit on a balance ball chair at work. With the stability ball you can also use it to execute a assortment of stretches and yoga movements.
How To Select An Exercise Ball For Your Height
In a fitness situation, women are not only massive followers of danceable cardio workouts and high-low influence aerobics, They are also fanatics of utilizing a fitness ball for strength and resistance training. Prior to its use, a worksite assessment ought to be undertaken to ensure that the work can be safely performed although seated on the fitness ball. Apart from the spinal risks already talked about there are general overall health and security dangers to take into account the prospective for injury, if the user have been to become so unbalanced as to fall off the ball is enormous, and I can only envision the awkward concerns that might be asked soon after such an event. To attain the correct density: much less air is not as challenging whilst much more air tends to make it harder to balance on. Decide on a ball that accommodates your height.
Be careful not to bounce or play on the ball too considerably injuries from falling off the ball will significantly reduce the ball's advantage. Best for the quadriceps, you need to enable the ball to roll up the wall, and adopt a sitting position as low as feasible to the ground for maximum impact. Perhaps it really is just us, but it is rather difficult as a trainer to sit on a stability ball without taking a break or two for the duration of the day to stretch out and relieve some tension. LEG PRESS – As you sit on the ball, move your feet forward until leaning position on the ball.
This ball chair has a backrest that is a beaded propylene foam cover along with a vinyl cover. Sitting on a ball as an alternative of a chair is a excellent way to keep your spine wholesome. In such a case the use of the ball need to be prescribed in a documented and supervised remedy system that is integrated into a return to operate strategy. Attempt to sit on a ball for at least component of your operate day, if you have a desk job. When picking a Swiss ball it is essential to pick the size appropriate to your height as nicely as the intended use.
Stabilizing is much more difficult when your belly is in fact on best of the ball as you roll up. Think of flattening your decrease back onto the ball as you initiate the roll up (Figure 2). Personally, I find it really difficult to think that you could in fact study for your math exam while sitting on this ball. The exercises you can do with one of these stability balls is virtually endless. This exercise ball chair features rolling lockable caster wheels for easy mobility.
The base can be raised in 5 increments for adjusting the height while the Custom Fit's is adjusted in 4 increments. When deciding on the appropriate physical exercise ball for you, verify that your hips and legs are at 90 degrees when you're sitting upright on the ball. BALL CIRCLES – Sit atop the fitness ball with your hands touching it, or placed behind your head – a lot a lot more hard to do. Start by gradually rolling your hips sideways to the appropriate in circular manner.
Add The Stability Ball To Your Weight Loss Routine
Most fitness ball workout routines are created to attain your challenging-to-target muscle tissues, such as those on the decrease back or your upper and lower abdominals, which ordinary aerobic exercising may well fail to address. GoFit Professional Sability Ball : A nubbly blue surface will maintain this basic ball from getting slippery for the duration of a sweaty exercise $20. You will not know for certain that the ball will match your desk and chair till you attempt it out in your property or workplace. With your feet flat on the floor, rest your waist and back on your fitness ball. You can also lie down on the ball, this time with your navel on the fitness ball's apex.
Lie face up on the floor, holding a stability ball overhead with both hands, your legs with each other and extended straight on the floor. The large rubber balls have also been utilised for rehabilitative exercise and fitness purposes, and not just for sufferers with muscular dystrophy. Perform this by kneeling behind the Swiss exercise ball and placing your forearms on it. Then, you have to begin inhaling and drawing your umbilicus inside and then roll forward undertaking synchronized motion at the joints of your hip and shoulders. I have downloaded distinct exercises from the web in order to get the max out of it.
There are a number of positive aspects linked with sitting or standing against a wall with the ball in amongst. For some workout routines, the yoga ball will make the exercise less difficult by giving you more help. Your arms should be slightly hugging the back of the ball or you can pull them behind your head. By integrating the ball into your routine, you are then forced to hold your spine straight so as to maintain your balance and preserve strict type. Add a comforting and a functional touch to your operating location with the Isokinetics Fitness Ball Chair.
Whether you are attempting to drop weight, tone up, or just hunting for a various workplace chair, the Body Sport® Fitness Ball is the solution you have been hunting for. Break the players up into groups of two and then have them throw the ball back and forth amongst themselves. In the free of charge DVD integrated with the item, you uncover some quick and effective office exercise recommendations. A removable, high quality exercising ball is great for performing workouts swiftly. The presence of the ball at your back is already a way of initiating a reaction from your nervous program.
And, whilst utilizing a stability ball can alleviate a lot of the strain you could expertise when sitting in an workplace chair, a lot of experts still argue regardless of whether it has the benefits people seek. You may discover your ball a lot much more comfy, and less difficult to get on and off, than a hard chair or soft sofa.
How To Inflate Your Exercise Ball
When inflating an physical exercise ball the most essential item to have is a ball pump. The ball chair consists of a free 20.47" exercising ball and basic starter pump for practicality. It has been utilised in the Fitness business and has developed a reputation for excellence. Getting up from your chair a couple of times per day, stretching and walking around the workplace will also do far more to boost your posture and reduce discomfort than sitting on a ball. Mine also came with the incorrect measuring tape, which you happen to be supposed to wrap about the ball although inflating so you know when it's totally inflated. The massage peanut contours to the body's form although the massage ball gives pinpoint relief.
The ball can turn a humdrum exercise into one thing new so you get to re-engage your brain whilst working your physique from new angles. Though an exercise ball itself will take much less room than a bench press you are going to nevertheless need roughly the same floor real estate once you being employing it. Later on you may possibly even be able to use free weights whilst you are balancing on the ball.
A Swiss physician studied its use in a clinical setting by incorporating the ball in rehabilitation therapy. But the truth is, sitting on a stability ball isn't going to bring miracles or entirely alleviate any pain you are experiencing. Regions like abdominal muscle tissues and the reduce back muscles are the major target. Our registered Trade Mark, Fitball (the original Swiss Ball) is known for its high quality and longevity.
A stability ball is a large ball normally 55 to 65 centimeters in diameter that you use to perform all sorts of workout routines on. The stability ball offers you the possibilities to not only perform your normal exercising routines that you can on a bench, but use your stabilizer muscles that just do not get worked on a flat bench. Of course, if you are not as worried about your abs and simply want to get a fantastic total physique exercise in, you can also discover workouts that work other components of the body even though using an physical exercise ball. Be confident to look for a good pregnancy fitness routine to guide you through safe postures and exercises.
Chad Garvey, a physical therapist, manual therapist, and patient advocate, also said there's not significantly evidence for these fitness balls minimizing decrease back pain and just advised me not to fall, as that is the principal concern that is been reported with this sort of chair. The fitness ball (also identified as a 'Swiss', 'exercise' or 'physio' ball) is an inflatable ball designed for use in training and exercise programs, with a variety of exercises targeting distinct components of the physique.
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Both sports and conditioning pros and physical therapists know that stability balls are incredibly useful for a wide selection of physical fitness and rehabilitation tasks. Finally, as is accurate for any sort of intense physical activity you must consult with your medical medical doctor beforehand, especially if you are new to ball workout routines or if you haven't utilised them in a although. Yes, that's appropriate, you can use the Pilates workout ball to do nearly any workout that support with your mid section and back.
The ball for exercising was developed by a plastics manufacturer referred to as Aquilino Cosani, in 1963. Besides becoming much cheaper than acquiring a new desk or a far more high-priced chair, the exercise ball chair promised to enable me to function in some abdominal workout all through the day and possibly enhance my years-of-operating-slumped-at-a-desk posture.
The exercise's second step comes with the exerciser reaching out, letting his/her hands touch the ground, rolling the ball towards his/her thighs. The Adjustable Back Exercising Ball Chair from Isokinetics is a perfect option to add much better functionality to your workplace. The legs are equipped with casters out of which two are lockable that make this ball chair mobile.
The thought of sitting on the ball versus a standard chair is that this modify can boost core strength, considering that the abdominal muscle tissues need to be continuously engaged to avoid falling off. Using the ball in this way, will not only strengthen the main muscle groups of your upper physique as per the standard physical exercise, it will also train a range of stabilizers that are not educated in the normal workout. The first time you sit on an physical exercise ball at your desk, your back will almost certainly shoot up so straight you'll feel like a marionette.
B. Maintaining your butt on the ball, press by way of the correct heel as you straighten the right leg and roll the ball to the left. If you are hunting for a yoga chair with out a lot of variations from the seat you are currently employing, you need to appear into the Cando. As we stated earlier in the post, the stability ball can relieve some strain you might expertise in your back. Frequently use the balance ball in your workouts and the routine exercises prescribed to you. Utilizing a birthing ball can also assist you adopt different upright positions , which can assist you to labour effectively.


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It is a rare occasion for most families to have money left over after the bills are paid. For most of us, the opposite is usually the case -- there are plenty of bills left after the paycheck is gone. Having money left over is a rather desirable state since it presumes a freedom from financial worry that less than one in three households enjoy.
This unusual state of having excess cash -- or ``mad money`` -- is like almost everything else is -- carefully defined and measured by the Bureau of the Census. Mad money, in the bureau`s terms, is called ``discretionary income.`` You are said to have discretionary income if your household`s after- tax income is 30 percent or more above the average after-tax (or spendable) income for your age group.
Only 31.5 percent of American households have discretionary income. If, for example, the average after-tax annual income for my age group is $20,000 and mine is $26,100, then I have $100 a year of discretionary income. That works out to about 30 cents worth of mad money a day, which sounds about right.
Needless to say, households with the highest incomes have the most discretionary income. Only 7 percent of households with incomes under $25,000 have any discretionary income at all, but 100 percent of houholds earning $75,000 or more have some.
We would expect affluent households to have more discretionary income and we also would expect that older people would have more of it than younger people, and that`s generally true -- but only up to about age 40. After that age, the percentage of households with discretionary income is pretty constant, with a slight peaking around age 55 when 41 percent of households have some. The average household discretionary income also is quite similar for all households with residents over 40 years old, varying between $10,500 and $12,800.


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A magical new novelPosted: June 20, 2017 Filed under: To Know Arcanely | Tags: cryptids, dragons, faeries, Fantasy, magical science, mythology, To Know Arcanely, writing Leave a comment
It's been two years since I published my last book — and a rough two years, where my mental health and employment status have both been patchy. But hey, I'm feeling okay again and think it's time for me to write another novel.
Choosing which novel to write hasn't been easy. Another short story collection? Another Story of Aligare? More in the Tinder Stricken universe? I don't have enough sales numbers to decisively point at one of those. It's hard to say which readers my stories are reaching. But when I tell friends and acquaintances about the ideas I'm kicking around, I've gotten a warm response to one story concept in particular — Wyndren's story.
The working title is To Know Arcanely. It's set on modern-day Earth where Bigfoot, Nessie and all manner of legendary creatures are real: they're lost souls who accidentally came to Earth from their own magical dimension. Main character Wyndren is a faerie/dragon hybrid who crossed the dimensions while still in her egg, and she was found and raised by human scientists who study cryptids (more properly called Arcanians).
This upbringing leaves Wyndren stuck between worlds. She's fond of humans but definitely not one of them. She assists with cryptobiological research, and studies the many fascinating types of human language, and runs a popular aesthetic blog, and through it all she longs to know where she comes from and what her Arcanian parent races are like. Visceral "seeking" needs like this are often what brings Arcanians to Earth in the first place — but how can Wyndren know why she's here, when she came before she even hatched?
Accompanied by her best friend Holly — a dryad bonded to a potted bonsai tree — Wyndren begins travelling through cities and towns. If she meets new people and learns enough about Arcanian kind, maybe she'll track down her own purpose.
And this is a first for me: To Know Arcanely might be a trilogy of novels. Wyndren has multiple societies to explore and she could easily find more than she bargains for! I'm focusing on one satisfying book for the moment, but I have ideas for Books 2 and 3. We'll see.
Thoughts? Share in the comments!
Transcription work: my new challengePosted: February 12, 2017 Filed under: Media | Tags: my thoughts, perceiving things, writing 2 Comments
I haven't had a day job for a while. Food service isn't known for providing a stable life for its workers, and I've had an exceptionally bad run of jobs throwing me under the bus after 2 or 3 months. What's a writer to do?
Well, I stumbled into a freelance gig as an online transcriptionist, so there's that.
The work is pretty simple: listen to an audio file and type down all of its discernable English speech (using clean formatting, punctuation and speaker tags). I turn in my work and, if it meets the QA checker's standards, I get about 50 cents per minute of audio.
The listening part is … weirdly entertaining? Even when the audio file is a subject I'm not really interested in, like legal texts. Listening in on these random speakers reminds me of sitting in a coffee shop, eavesdropping on strangers — which isn't creepy as long as you're doing it for writerly purposes, right? Right …?
People's speech patterns are a tricky thing to capture in fiction. What sounds like "real conversation" in a book isn't actually realistic at all, because real conversation often proceeds faster than our brains can manage. Listen to any casual conversation and you'll hear a lot of "um", "well", stumbling on words, starting over, and other indicators that we're trying to wrangle our thoughts into coherent order.
Transcription pays close attention to that. I was told in the style guide to remove false starts and other word-sounds that aren't contributing any meaning. No problem! That's editing! I've done several novels' worth of that! Economy of words means that every phrase has its place.
My biggest struggle right now is speed. The QA checkers are giving me high scores on accuracy, so now, I just need to complete more than one file per hour and maybe I'll be able to earn minimum wage.
But hey, whether or not this transcription work is a practical way to pay the bills, it's definitely a workout for my writer muscles.
What's up with Heidi, May 2016 editionPosted: May 18, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: and now a word from our Heidi, book launch, stories of aligare, writing Leave a comment
Boy, it sure has been a while since I posted! I've been quietly working at a lot of things.
But, yeah. You'll see some new work from me in the coming months — work such as:
- Reason (A Story of Aligare) will appear in the ROAR 7 anthology. The ROAR series is an ongoing production of FurPlanet, and this year's theme is "legend" — a perfect fit for the Aligare races and their storytelling traditions. ROAR 7 will release this July.
- Repast (A Story of Aligare) will appear in Gods With Fur. Another Furplanet production, this anthology is helmed by long-time furry historian Fred Patten, and it explores animal/anthropomorphic gods in their many forms. Another solid fit for the Aligare series and its non-human peoples!
- I'll be attending What The Fur? 2016 in Montreal, Quebec this coming weekend. I'll be selling paperbacks of all my books, plus some one-of-a-kind paper maché sculptures. I also contributed a furry spy story to the conbook.
- This June, I'll also be selling my books at Graphic-con,which is Sudbury, Ontario's new SFF convention. The con was a huge success its first year, with attendance outstripping the venue's size and causing long wait times to get in. I'm looking forward to being a part of it this year, in its much roomier location.
That's all I've got for now. Photos and release dates will be forthcoming!
Tinder Stricken concept art and more paper machéPosted: January 5, 2015 Filed under: Media, Tselaya info | Tags: Fantasy, sci-fi/fantasy genre, tinder stricken, worldbuilding, writing 1 Comment
Work continues on Tinder Stricken. What I originally thought would be a quick blitz through a mountain world has become an odyssey of learning and stretching myself as a writer. So I've been painting lately, trying to cement some mental images. You might have already seen these if you follow me on Twitter!
This is a house on Tselaya Mountain, made of clay, stone and bamboo (one of few plant products cheap enough for lesser castes to build with). This concept painting was mostly to help me remember the coloured flags. Inspired by Tibetan and Nepalese prayer flags, the five colours of flags are used to show a household's rank, occupation(s), marital status, and much more.
I don't think I've mentioned this significant character much —mostly because her personal traits only gelled recently, and also because I can't decide on a name for her. She's Kaewa right now and we'll see if that sticks! Kaewa is from a Maori-inspired coastal society. On Tselaya Mountain, she works as a diplomat, using plant-based magic to translate languages, understand people, and mediate disputes. She also speaks with animals — which is a taboo subject among Tselayans. She's pictured with her closest phoenix friend, who is her clever partner in less-than-legal human matters.
And with a new novel comes a new table display! I'm building up a base for a nearly-life-size Tselayan phoenix made of paper maché. Like my other paper maché display pieces, this will be built up into the right shape and then finished with acrylic paint and feathers. Nothing says "cool, non-human character" like a dramatically fanned pair of wings, am I right?
So if I'm quiet in the next few months, it's because I'm working my creative butt off! Tinder Stricken will hit metaphorical shelves in late May, 2015.
- Designing the phoenixes of Tselaya Mountain
- Flying characters in fantasy and sci-fi
- The mythical sirens, and how I reworked them for the DISTORTED anthology
All Things Blended: a short storyPosted: April 15, 2014 Filed under: Legends | Tags: Fantasy, flash fiction, writing 4 Comments
I wrote a story based on the prompt word blue.
All Things Blended
by Heidi C. Vlach
The apprentice lost track of how many months passed, as she travelled under the shifting sky on her two dusty feet. Gradually, she gathered all the components.
In the secret depths of mountains she found lapis lazuli, a vivid-hued thing like a jungle bird. On the salt-sprayed coast she found a sea snail, plain and viscous but its chroma was hidden inside. In markets and bazaars, she bargained for treasures: azure crystals; a velvet pouch of cobalt powder; a lovely turquoise gem polished to a pearlescent shine; desiccated leaves of indigo. When her coin ran out, she walked herself through green-flourishing places, for woad, and cornflower, and periwinkle.
She had all that the earth could give her. With feet sore and blistered, and her face weathered like wood, the apprentice returned to the workshop. The dust-cloaked space was hers now, its original master long since departed. There was no alchemist here — not yet, not until this apprentice claimed her true colour.
Over and over, she read the spellbook, with her knuckles brightly sore from gripping the pestle. The instructions were distinct for each shade and each preparation; she left fingerprints, cobalt smudges glaring against the yellowed pages.
She crafted a nerve-wracking array of fine pigments, all heaped onto tin plates. The apprentice waited some hours, tried to summon her soothing choice of colour in her heart, and finally she could stand it no longer and she spilled of her powders all onto a hammered gold platter beneath the sky. Carefully, with a knife's edge, she arranged the powders into a ring. All her tints fanned together now, blending.
She bent close over the pigments, her dun robes a shield against the breeze. She read the spellbook with purpose now, running its words through her mind's voice like sand through her fingers.
Combine with the hue of the sky, the claiming spell said.
Her heartbeat welled up underneath her. She had hoped the journeying would grant her wisdom, hoped that she would be a lightning rod to revelation but she was no master just yet.
Patience was key. A cool presence like her chosen colour. She closed her eyes and sat there breathing, aware of her mundane body's outer husk. The apprentice was a fleshy thing rent in common earth's colours but she was blue inside, she knew she was. She returned to the passage at the end of the spell, the one lodged in her mind like an eloquent fishhook:
When blended, the ingredients will produce the very colour of a productive life: equal parts calmness, confidence and clarity. Know the colour blue and you shall be as the sky, the sea, the ice never melting.
Really, she thought, a clear and oceanic life was all an alchemist could want. Breeze fingered the apprentice's robes and she was calm regardless. She had her ingredients gathered; she could persevere a little longer.
Combine with the hue of the sky, the book said.
She turned her face upward, poised over her azure and turquoise and ultramarine. The apprentice spent a little more of her time as the daylight waned and waxed, as the winds turned and the sky showed her more of herself.
She would know the right shade when she saw it.
Furnal Equinox 2014, and my new writing directionPosted: March 11, 2014 Filed under: Philosophy, Uncategorized | Tags: and now a word from our Heidi, anthropomorphics, heidi's life, publishing business, writing 2 Comments
This past weekend, I attended Furnal Equinox 2014 in Toronto, Ontario. It was my first time at this particular anthopomorphic convention. I had some technical difficulties over the weekend, and my Render reading had less than a handful of attendees (possibly because of its timeslot: 1 PM on Friday, when many of the con-goers had yet to arrive).
But the convention's atmosphere was great. I chatted up artists and costumers. I participated in a goofy scavenger hunt. I lounged in the hotel's lobby, reading an ebook and giggling when fursuiters leaned over me to peer at my phone's screen. Overall, I'd call it an enjoyable weekend!
I also did a lot of thinking while sitting at my dealer's table, waiting for people to happen by. My biggest life decisions are made while I'm away from home, it seems. So, here goes.
I've been giving the Stories of Aligare series the best treatment I'm capable of right now, but its very essence is also its greatest handicap: these are small, odd stories. They're not thrill-a-minute page-turners. They're not the kind of book people gobble down in one night and then rave about to all their friends. I firmly believe that quiet stories deserve to exist, and deserve to be read. The tiny little legion of Aligare fans is so meaningful to me — but I think I need to increase my reach as a writer and publisher, or else I'm not doing justice to this goal of mine.
I've got other unusual, human-free stories in mind. Some of them I'm holding back because I don't think I'm ready to execute them well. (I felt kinship in the way Pixar's WALL-E took years of development and tinkering with the emotional tones. ) But as a writer, I like working with a variety of literary tones and approaches. And Serpents of Sky has gotten a better reception so far than any of the Aligare books. I'm clearly able to write higher-concept stories.
So my next full-length novel won't be a Story of Aligare. The next story (or stories) I publish will be something with broader appeal. I'll still twist and subvert fantasy clichés wherever I find them. But I'll see if I can tell a more crowd-pleasing story, before asking that crowd to give my weirder works a chance.
Stay tuned! I'll tell you folks what my next book will be as soon as I'm sure myself.
NaNoWriMo and the importance of reckless first draftsPosted: November 5, 2013 Filed under: Philosophy | Tags: heck yeah motivation, NaNoWriMo, sci-fi/fantasy genre, writing 11 Comments
For years now, November has been an exciting time for me. Because November is National Novel Writing Month — NaNoWriMo for short — and I like to participate. Or at least hang out with the local participants.
In past years, I've used NaNoWriMo to quickly hash out a story set in the Aligare world. Ravel was originally a 50 000-word mystery-drama story completed in one month. I didn't like that draft much. The mystery part was pretty clumsy. I dreaded fleshing it out into a more typical 80 000-word novel — but the core relationship between Aster and Llarez was kind of charming. So I hacked away all the plot points I didn't like and ended up with the 14 000-word romantic friendship story that Ravel is today. Who knows how long I would have struggled with that story if NaNoWriMo hadn't pushed me to pour words out now and edit later?
That's the real strength of NaNoWriMo: it encourages you to finish. Just finish. It's okay if the novel you're writing is the biggest steaming pile of awfulness ever composed: we can fix it later. New and/or young writers often find NaNoWriMo encouraging for that reason — plus the community spirit of many people writing messy drafts together. Sometimes those messy drafts have potential, viewed later in the cold light of December. Even if one's NaNo draft is nowhere near publishable, it can be tons of fun.
Because one of the staples of NaNoWriMo is accepting truly random writing prompts. Your story has gotten stuck? Well, what would happen if the heroes' car broke down? Or someone found a lost pet monkey? Or a secondary character revealed that he's actually an alien? Or if the entire plot so far has been a delusion forced on your hero by an evil psychic wizard? Anything can happen, and sometimes you stumble across cool ideas. The Night Circus — a book that spent seven weeks in the New York Times Best Seller list — came about when Erin Morgenstern got bored with her NaNo novel and had her characters randomly go to the circus.
But in more recent years, I haven't been using NaNoWriMo for my Stories of Aligare: I've been turning to NaNoWriMo as a refresher. To run away from the Aligare world on a mad, commitment-free tangent. This year I'm writing a murder mystery with a fairy forensic investigator. Last year, in October 2012, I was sick of struggling with Render (A story of Aligare) and I found it very helpful to write some random other thing for a month. I came back to Render with fresh eyes in December. My previously frustrating story now looked wonderfully structured — although I couldn't throw in spontaneous ninja battles like during NaNoWriMo. (Well, I could throw spontaneous ninja battles into the Stories of Aligare, strictly speaking. But you know what they say about great power and great responsibility.)
I always sympathize with authors locked into big publishing contracts for five, six, seven books in the same series. Don't know about anyone else, but I go stir-crazy when I dwell on the same ideas for too long. And that's why a scheduled month of reckless nonsense is something I wholeheartedly embrace.
Related articles:
◦ Flashback post: why I built a peaceful fantasy world (heidicvlach.com)
◦ Trying to write colourfully (heidicvlach.com)
◦ Headcanon means joining in (heidicvlach.com)
My interview with Eye on AshenclawPosted: October 16, 2013 Filed under: Media, Uncategorized | Tags: and now a word from our Heidi, heidi's life, my thoughts, stories of aligare, writing Leave a comment
Whew, well. Thanksgiving weekend was much busier than I anticipated. I'm usually too optimistic about how my holidays will go and whether I'll be able to write some kind of coherent blog content.
But I did answer some interview questions! I'm hosted today by Gary Vanucci, author of the Realm of Ashenclaw series. We met on Twitter — as fantasy authors often do.
Click here to read the interview. I touch on topics like how I got started writing, my favourite Aligare character, and whether I prefer chocolate or vanilla.
Trying to write colourfullyPosted: July 16, 2013 Filed under: Philosophy | Tags: Fantasy, heck yeah motivation, heidi's life, magic, writing Leave a comment
When I was writing my first terrible manuscript — set in the beginnings of the Aligare world — I showed it to people. Because I was proud of my work and I wanted praise, of course. But also because I had heard critique was a good thing to get.
One scene in particular was set near the Great Barrier, the dome of casting essence that shields the land from the deadly Cold. The characters had seen plenty of casting but never like this, never an amalgamation of all casting elements. This Barrier was clearly a work of the gods. It was a semi-transparent wall that seemed evenly golden from a distance, but up close it shone with flecks of every colour.
It was just one detail of the world I was trying to paint. But it was far from the first time my characters had used or seen magic. They brought it glowing forth from their hands and shining out of gemstones on plenty of occasions. And one of the people reading this Great Barrier scene — an acquaintance who just liked my fanfiction and was curious about my original work — made a comment that struck me. She said this fantasy world sounded like a beautiful place, with all the colourful magic.
That's definitely part of what I like about fantasy. It's easier to make colour just spring out of nowhere when you've got whimsical powers and environments to work with. But the "beautiful place" comment resounded with me so much because it was about a specific fixture of my invented world. Not some random pretty castle or waterfall, but a vital part of the proto-Aligare world and its mechanics. It sounded beautiful. Like human readers might enjoy visiting this place and imagining the sights.
I'm sure every writer has a mental gallery of feedback made on their work. And it's easy for negative comments to fill up that gallery. If we hear ninety-nine comments of, "It's kind of interesting," and one comment of, "It's terrible; never write again", there's no question which one will stick in the human mind more firmly. I'm just grateful that one of my early gallery comments was so simply positive. Maybe that casual acquaintance was just fishing for something nice to say, or maybe she really thought my world would be a great place to visit; I can't know that. But I saw a lot of meaning in what she said. Colourful can literally refer to visible spectrums of light, or it can refer to the variety and interest in the world around us. I've always tried to be colourful in my writing. I don't want to blend into everything "normal".
And while I developed the Aligare world and got lots of discouraging comments, it was nice to have that positive comment to fall back on. Every time someone said, "No adult will ever read this", I was able to think in response, "Hmm, well, someone already has. And they thought it was colourful." I guess you could say it's the compliment I've based my goals on.
Related articles
- Flashback post: How I used light and dark magic in the Aligare world (heidicvlach.com)
- The structure of Aligare homes (heidicvlach.com)
- Chimera creatures in mythology: why are they so familiar? (heidicvlach.com)


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Beverly and I lived on the third floor of Stribling Hall at the 'T' end of the hall. My room was next to the john; Beverly's room was around the corner at the short end of the 'T.'
During the fall, Beverly and I kept our windows open so we could holler across the space outside between our rooms to see if the other was ready to go to Hardy Hall, the bookstore, class, or come over to study or visit. Being able to communicate across the way saved us a million steps down the hall and around the corner. All was fine until it became too cold to keep our windows open. The chilly weather left us wondering what to do.
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The end of the semester was coming. We could not simply cut the string, pack up, and forget everything. The spoons had taken on a life of their own. Beverly was graduating so we knew that would be the end of the spoons. There had to be a celebration—a ceremony.
After Sunday dinner just before Beverly's graduation, we invited friends to attend the Ceremony to Remove the Spoons. The room was packed and many others spilled over into the hall.
My suitemate Marty Wilkerson began the program with a welcome to guests. She gave her review of life with the spoons—of course, they interrupted her study; of course, they interrupted her sleep. She continued, "But those spoons never upset me because whenever I hear the sound of clanging spoons, I know it is the sound of friendship."
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The year is now 2011. Forty-seven years have passed, but we are still Spoon Friends. Over the years every card and letter we have written has a crudely drawn sketch of two spoons with a line drawn between them. On that line we write "The string lies in our hearts."


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Happy Friday, Misfiteers!
We have a special guest at our lunch table today--Literary Agent Christa Heschke of McIntosh & Otis! She took some time out of her busy schedule to answer some questions for us. I'm a bit biased, but Christa's the best ;o)
We have a special guest at our lunch table today--Literary Agent Christa Heschke of McIntosh & Otis! She took some time out of her busy schedule to answer some questions for us. I'm a bit biased, but Christa's the best ;o)
A little about her...
Christa graduated from Binghamton University with a major in English and a minor in Anthropology. She started in publishing as an intern at both Writers House and Sterling Lord Literistic, where she fell in love with the agency side of publishing. Christa has been at McIntosh and Otis, Inc. since 2009 where she is looking for picture books, middle grade and young adult projects and is currently building her list. You can find her on twitter @ChristaHeschke or visit her blog: http://christaheschke.blogspot.com. Here's the link to her extensive list of what she's interested in acquiring.
Here we go!
If you were to make a soundtrack of your life with books, what ones would you choose?
I'll start early. Before I even could read, I would look at any book and make up the story using the pictures and what I could remember from it being read to me. When I was a little older one of my first favorite books was The Teeny Tiny Woman…it was an early reader and my parents tell me that I would read it out loud over and over and quite dramatically…so it's one of the book that made me a book worm :) After I saw The Nightmare Before Christmas I bought the book and really enjoyed it…so I suppose that one got me into the dark and strange. The Fear Street series cemented my love for horror and The Hobbit started my love affair with fantasy.
Who is your book boyfriend?
Who is your book bestie?
I'm going back to The Sky is Everywhere again…Lennie is a lot like I was in high school. Katniss would be a pretty cool friend too…you know she'd have your back!
You like Game of Thrones AND The Vampire Diaries (you have great taste) what is it about those shows that appeal to you?
Are you able to read a book without the "agent hat" on or does it creep in?
I can turn it off when reading non-work stuff for the most part. I'm looking for entertainment value and something to keep me turning pages. Of course, I look for that when reading for work, but I'd also be reading much more critically. What's working? What's not? If something doesn't make sense when reading outside of work I'll go back into agent mode and start thinking, how could they fix this? Could this have been done in another way?
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I've had it a few times! I'm generally not going to offer representation unless I have some sort of positive reaction to the query such as "Wow what a cool idea" or "What an interesting twist!" An engaging query leads me to read the pages quicker and if the writing is just as great it's an awesome feeling-- I have to work with this author!
Since we're the YA Misfits, we want to know what moniker you had in high school, or which one you would have been had you been able to choose.
I didn't really have a moniker in high school. My graduating class got along pretty well for the most part. There were only 80 something of us and while we weren't all best friends I tended to get along with most everyone. My high school had its cliques but they certainly weren't like the cliques in Mean Girls. I kind of see myself as a band geek, in the best of ways, looking back at high school. I was in band and jazz so it definitely was a big part of my identity, but I really wasn't defined by any given group. I was also pretty quiet and shy…so I don't know. I'm having a hard time giving myself a moniker. Let's just call me The Band Geek :)
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The papers published on this site are about Owen Barfield's life and work or informed by a Barfieldian perspective. Most of them were presented in the Owen Barfield sessions of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Beginning in 1998, an Owen Barfield session has been a regular feature of RMMLA's annual convention. The Owen Barfield Society is an affiliate organization of RMMLA.
In "On Directing Owen Barfield's Orpheus" James Loren describes his experience of directing Owen Barfield's Orpheus, in the spring of 2015 in North Hollywood, California. This was the second production of the play and its North American premiere. The author presented this paper during the meeting of the Owen Barfield Society at the 2015 RMMLA convention in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"Can Life Be Golden--Gendered Duality in the Evolution of Consciousness" analyzes Owen Barfield's last published fiction, Eager Spring, in conjunction with the history from ancient times of the poarity of gender. Jefferey Taylor presented this paper during the Owen Barfield Session in the 2014 RMMLA convention in Boise, Idaho.
"Participation Lost: Theatricality and Allegory on the Cusp of Modern Consciousness" is a penetrating, closely reasoned study of key aspects of the evolution of modern consciousness. Jefferey Taylor presented this paper during the Owen Barfield Session in the 2013 RMMLA convention.Julie Nichols presented "Godbodied": A Comparison of Barfieldian and Mormon Texts Regarding the Shared Nature and Role of Divine and Human Matter in the Evolution of Consciousness in the 2012 Owen Barfield Session. The research embodied in this paper introduces an entirely new perspective on Owen Barfield's work.
Julie Nichols presented "Barfield, Boyd, and Bringhurst: Consciousness, Cognitive Science, and Creative Nonfiction" in the Owen Barfield session of the 2010 RMMLA, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In this paper Professor Nichols extends and deepens the groundbreaking new approach to Owen Barfield's writings that she introduced in her presentation in the Owen Barfield session of the 2009 RMMLA.
Danny Smitherman's"Tolkien, Barfield, and the Language of Original Participation: The Vagaries of Confusion and Savagery" was given in the Owen Barfield session of the 2010 RMMLA, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The paper thought-provokingly contrasts Tolkien's and Barfield's depictions of primeval human consciousness.
Julie Nichols opens a new scholarly perspective on Owen Barfield's work in"Perhaps the Historian of Her Own Consciousness". She presented this paper in the Owen Barfield session of the 2009 RMMLA, in Snowbird, Utah.
"A Second Earth: Owen Barfield's Concept of Equity" formed the basis of Christopher Houghton Budd's presentation in the conference on Owen Barfield and the Redemption of the Western Mind, held at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland on March 27-29, 2009. In this essay Dr. Budd discusses the relevance of Owen Barfield's ideas to key economic questions of our time.
Jane Hipolito's paper on "The Alchemy of Imagination and Love in Owen Barfield's The Rose on the Ash-Heap" was given in the Owen Barfield session of the 2008 RMMLA convention in Reno, NV. The paper centers on two key themes of Barfield's 1929 mythopoeia The Rose on the Ash-Heap -- the transformative power of imagination in modern times, and the mysterious relationship of imagination to love.
David Joplin presented"The Moral Quality of Wordsworth's Nature" in the Romanticism session of the 2007 RMMLA convention in Calgary, Canada. Professor Joplin's paper, which describes the moral dimension in Wordsworth's view of nature, is informed by a distinctly Barfieldian perspective.
Jeffrey Hipolito presented " Can Ideas Have Histories?" in the Owen Barfield session of the 2007 RMMLA convention in Calgary, Canada. In this paper Professor Hipolito provides the first formal description of the relationship between Owen Barfield's view of history and evolution of consciousness, and the work of the important twentieth-century historian R. G. Collingwood. In addition, "Can Ideas Have Histories?" investigates the general twentieth-century impulse called history of ideas, as developed most notably by A. O. Lovejoy.


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Hear: Hear God's Word. Romans 10:17. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Matthew 7: 24-27.
Believe: Believe in Jesus as God's Son and your Savior. John 20:31. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. Hebrews 11:6; Mark 16:15-16 (Not by faith only: James 2:24, John 12:42).
Repent: Repent of your sins that have separated you from God. Acts 17:30. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. Acts 2:38; Luke 13:3.
Confess: Confess Jesus as the Son of God and the Lord of your life. Romans 10:9-10 (v 9). That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (v 10) For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Mathew 10:32-33; Acts 8:36-37.
Be Baptized: Be Baptized for the remission of your sin, at which time Jesus will add you to His church. Acts 2:38,41,47. (v 38) Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (v 41) Then those who gladly received His word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. (v 47) praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. 1.Peter 3:21; Mark 16:15-16.
Remain Faithful and Grow In Christ: 2 Peter 1:5-11 (v 5) But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, (v 6) to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, (v 7) to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. (v 8) For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (v 9) For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. (v 10) Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; (v 11) for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Revelation 2:10.


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Burlington, Vermont
More information: History / Photos / Bibliography / Cruises / Postcards
Location: Burlington Harbor, Lake Champlain
Coordinates: 44 28 50 N 73 13 47 W (north light) 44 28 12 N 73 13 32 W (south light)
Private aids to navigation. The lighthouses are not accessible to the public, but they can be seen distantly from shore and closer views are available from sightseeing cruises on the Spirit of Ethan Allen III.
Station established: 1857
Present towers built: 2003
Construction material: wood
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Characteristic: White flash every 2.5 seconds; range 7 nautical miles
Foghorn: One two-second blast every 15 seconds
South tower: Focal plane height 12 feet
Characteristic: White flash every 4 seconds; range 7 nautical miles
Previous lighthouse: Colchester Reef Light
Next lighthouse: Juniper Island Light


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The trademark licensing program promotes and protects the Colorado Mesa University brand and ensures the public can properly identify and associate CMU's name and logos with officially licensed products and/or communications bearing the university's marks.
All campus departments, clubs and organizations producing products using the name or marks of Colorado Mesa University must use a vendor that is a licensee of Colorado Mesa University.
Protected university content, representing intellectual property and registered federal trademarks owned by Colorado Mesa University, includes: names, logos, marks, nicknames, letter(s), word(s), seal, stories, websites, photography, videos, images and symbols. Any combination of these that can be associated with the University qualifies as a trademark and is vigorously protected by CMU.
Permission for Use of Content
Any use of the university's content for commercial purposes or by any person or organization is prohibited without the express permission of the university. This applies to use in all forms of communications.
All individuals, third parties, entities and organizations wishing to use or reproduce university content must contact Marketing and Communications. Once approval has been given, users are forbidden to alter, distort or deface any element of the university content.
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CMU has contracted with Learfield Licensing Partners as its primary licensing agent. Learfield assists CMU with:
- Facilitating the license application process
- Executing the licensing agreements
- Marketing the Colorado Mesa University brand to potential manufacturers
- Monitoring the marketplace for unlicensed use of trademarks
- Collecting royalty payments
- Conducting compliance review audits of licensed manufacturers
All licensees are required to remit royalty reports and payments on a quarterly basis to Learfield Licensing, who collects these payments on behalf of CMU. Licensees should consult with Learfield Licensing Partners (765) 404-1770 prior to the start of design projects to ensure the concept of each project adheres to the Seattle University's standards.
For more information on becoming a Seattle University Licensee or on the services Learfield Licensing Partners provides, including a copy of the application and license agreement, visit Learfield Licensing.
How Can I Obtain a License?
Organizations outside the university who wish to obtain a license to produce merchandise must submit a license application. This application informs the university of how its marks will be used, what type of product the applicant makes, how the university is going to be represented, etc. Applications can be obtained by contacting:
Jared Harding, Brand Management Director
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Licensed Vendor List (search for Colorado Mesa University)
What Products Can Be Licensed?
Students, alumni and fans generate many great ideas for new University products. Products will be considered and must be approved by the University's Licensing Director. No products will be licensed without the approval of the Licensing Director. This ensures all products associated with the University are of high quality and good taste and, ensures the non-approval of potentially hazardous items.
Who Needs A License?
Anyone wishing to use the marks, logos and symbols of the university must obtain a license.
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Maisie Williams Shares Video of Her 'Ridiculous' Hotel Suite
Maisie Willaims, Naomie Harris and Tom Daley arrive at the press night for Cirque de Soleil: Amaluna on Tuesday (January 19) at Royal Albert Hall in London.
The 18-year-old Game of Thrones star got very excited as she explored her "ridiculous" hotel suite the next day.
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Maisie posted a video of herself running from room to room and taking in her luxurious surroundings. She wrote in the caption, "This hotel suite is ridiculous. Forever grateful for this crazy life I have, somehow, found myself in."
Also pictured: Violonist Linzi Stoppard arrivies the Cirque press night.
FYI: Naomie is wearing a Dior dress. Linzi is wearing a Roberto Cavalli dress, Charlotte Olympia shoes and a DVF clutch.
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William F. Dall'Acqua, Ph.D. is VP, Research and Development at MedImmune, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dr. Dall'Acqua has been studying protein structure, function and engineering for over twenty years and has co-authored over sixty papers and one book chapter in the field. He has also been named inventor on more than eighty patent applications and on eighteen issued patents. He has B.S. and Masters Degrees in Biochemistry from University of Paris, and a Ph.D. in Immunology from University of Paris in conjunction with University of Maryland. He also spent two and a half years as a post-doctoral fellow at Genentech in the Molecular Oncology Department before joining MedImmune. At MedImmune, Dr. Dall'Acqua supervises a group of over thirty scientists in the Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, working on discovery of new therapeutic antibody drugs and establishing novel technology platforms
There are two parts to the Festival of Biologics: the five world-class international conferences covering Antibodies, Immunotherapy, BioSimilars, Clinical Trials, and High Potency APIs; and an exhibition featuring the most exciting technology and solutions for pharma and biotech. There is a registration fee to attend the conferences. To visit the exhibition is free.
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Thangam Debbonaire, the candidate for Bristol West, which includes the city centre, is campaigning hard to get our air clean and safe to breathe. Join her in this campaign – it shouldn't be too much to ask that our children can breathe easy.
What's the problem?
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We are calling for:
The Mayor to put pressure on central government for more support to re-fit our polluting buses with low emission engines
Bristol Green Capital 2015 to focus their attention on cleaning up our air – a real result for Bristolians – pushing for funding for re-fitting buses, supporting the alternatives, giving people real choice.
Bus companies, car clubs, cycling organisations, urban planners and health researchers to work together to end this dangerous pollution by 2020.
Everyone who has a car to cut out one journey in ten and use an alternative – walk, bus, cycle. It will help us all to breathe easier and keep us fitter.
We, the undersigned, support Labour's campaign for clean air in Bristol. We object to the Government's failure to protect Bristol residents from unsafe levels of pollution that are damaging children's lungs. We call on the Mayor to make the City of Bristol a Low Emissions Zone in 2015 if Labour wins the general election and establishes a national clean air framework. We join Eastville residents in the call for a debate in full Council as soon as possible to agree city action to make our air safe to breathe.


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Camel Up Supercup – For a Few Camels More
I need to open this missive on Camel Up Supercup with a disclaimer: Camel Up is probably the best game that I have come to dislike playing.
It's not the usual "it's not a game for real gamers" nonsense you'd read on lesser blogs. It's not the components, which are clean, lovely and quite, quite charming. It's not even the game itself, which I think is clever and generally quite fun. It's the fact that every time it hits the table, I've had to force the energy into the game myself for the first half of play. The last 3 rounds of Camel Up (Supercup included) are brilliant fun, with all the players invested in every dice roll, but each game begins slowly with blank faces and little to no betting IN A BETTING GAME!
So I was intrigued with the new Camel Up Supercup expansion. Could a new box of toys extend fun into the first half of the game? Will the balance between "meh" and "yeah" tip into the positive? Well, we've got a few tools to play with here.
Modular Mobility
Module 1 – Extended board. Extra D2* each leg for the losing camel
Module 1.5 – Spend a pyramid tile to put a non-winning camel's D2 back in the pyramid
Module 2 – Photographer tile gives you points for guessing where a stack of camels will land
Module 3 – Bet on the specific position a camel will finish in the leg
- No-one takes a positional betting tile until nearly all the camels have moved, meaning skill-less victory points
- Gathering in the leg betting tiles in order and paying out the winnings becomes more complicated when players have chits covering half their card
Module 4 – Get the winnings from another players leg betting tile but share one of yours with them
You probably already own Camel Up if you're contemplating this purchase so you know what you're getting. The artwork is bright, quirky yet pleasing to even the most curmudgeonly reviewer. The dice are wooden cuboids of pleasing diameter. Cardstock is solid and the cards themselves, sharp enough to be Don Draper's next suit. Cleverly, the expanded board can be folded and laid out in a number of ways depending on which modules you're using so the designers get plus 1 point for ingenuity.
Anything else?
You get some extra cash along with cards to make this up to a 10 player game, but I really can't bring myself to even consider how slow that would feel.
Yes, slow. Apart from Camel Up needing a solid shot of player adrenaline during the first couple of legs (and the first round of each leg after that), this game suffers from analysis paralysis more than many heavier games. In the early rounds there are so many potential outcomes that you can't predict anything until a few dice are out. Then, once the first few camels move Camel Up can grind to a halt as everyone works through the "what if the next dice is…" scenarios.
The player I've seen enjoy this the most openly declared "it's all random, I'm just betting on whatever I fancy". He loves the game. Doesn't win, but thoroughly enjoys his failures.
And I think that's what has ended up bugging me about Camel Up. It starts off boring because no-one has a dog (camel) in the race. Then it becomes really analytical before finally becoming an amazing, nail-biting experience at leg and game end. I'm just not conditioned for this emotional roller-coaster. I swing between bored, engaged, thrilled and then bored again.
I guess that makes this game suitable for everyone as no matter what kind of gamer you are, you'll enjoy a bit of the game.
Finally, if you really, really want to enjoy Camel Up with or without Supercup, I highly recommend becoming the banker and trying to haggle when the leg betting tiles are being exchanged for coins. Ideally whilst channeling Omid Djalili from the Mummy. Or anything else he's done. Omid is great.
Scores on the Doors
Ah dammit, it's an 9/10. You already own Camel Up which you know by now is my "It's Complicated" game and this box only enhances it and is great value for the extra mileage you'll get. If you don't yet own Camel Up then Games Quest is doing a bundle here so don't get the base game without this expansion.
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July 1-17
Dave started working a lot during the month of July, so Roberta did a lot of exploring on her own via her bicycle and the Denver RTD Light Rail, which had just added service from Golden to downtown Denver in April. There was also time for concerts at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison – just a few miles up the road from our campground!
(Be sure to click on each photo to see the caption!)
July 21
Being Renaissance Faire/Festival lovers we couldn't miss the Colorado version when it came to town.
July 28
The undeniable highlight of the month was Roberta's mother's 90th birthday!! The actual date was July 16, 2013, but to accommodate the schedules of all family members we celebrated on the weekend of July 28th. Actually, we started celebrating on the 27th and continued through the 30th!! The celebration started on Friday when Seena Winston, Doris's friend of more than 60 years, and her daughter, Sharon, surprised her by showing up in Boulder, unexpectedly. On Saturday, Doris's oldest daughter, Wendy Filler, and her husband, Michael, and daughter, Michelle, who had all just flown in from Washington state, took her out to dinner at a local restaurant. Unbeknownst to Doris, several other people were waiting at the restaurant – her son, Doug, and his wife, Laura, and daughter, Sophie, Roberta and Dave, and Roberta's two sons, Kevin and Mike Wong who had each flown in from Austin, Texas and Melbourne, Australia (where Kevin had been working the previous week and stopped on his way home to SF, CA). Needless to say, Doris was quite overwhelmed by all the surprises!
Sunday we all went to brunch, and then relaxed at Doug and Laura's home in Boulder that afternoon. Yet another surprise was to come – The son and family of a lifelong work buddy of Robert Duncan, Doris's late husband, just happened to be in town that day and dropped by to say hello. On Tuesday morning, before heading out to the airport to return to their respective homes, Kevin and Mike, with mom Roberta, cooked breakfast for "PauPau" at her apartment. "PauPau" is the Chinese name for maternal grandmother – and is the name that Kevin and Mike have known her by ever since learning it from their dad as children.
The matriarch of the Duncan family, Doris, with her 4 grandchildren – (left to right) Michelle Filler, 21, Kevin Wong, 28, Doris, Mike Wong, 25, and Sophia Duncan, 18
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July 30
We ended the month back at Red Rocks Amphitheater attending another concert. This one was a tribute to the Grateful Dead. Another beautiful evening of the Colorado summer!!


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What better place to BE INSPIRED TO COOK than in the South of France, where food is closely linked to land and sea, where markets follow the rhythm of the seasons and where the sun-drenched produce simply bursts with flavour and colour!
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Classes are given ON DEMAND and BY RESERVATION. We need a minimum of 4 participants to run a course and numbers are limited to 8 people.
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The Costs, Performance, Efficiency and Accountability of Australian Private Prisons
Jane Andrew; Max Baker
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