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Current Outlook for Oil and Gas Megaprojects: A Discussion
Even with oil and gas prices at historical lows, top quality resources continue to be developed to meet the global demand of approximately 91 million B/D of oil and 332 Bcf/D of natural gas. TWA Forum Section Editors Craig Frenette, Samuel Ighalo, Winston Kosasi, and Rodrigo Terrazas interviewed experts from a diverse set of project types and discussed the development of the projects in the current economic context. Logan Popko, manager of asset development at Cenovus Energy speaks on the Christina Lake oil sands project; Ron Dusterhoft, technology fellow for production enhancement at Halliburton, talks about unconventional shale assets; Pete Hagen, general manager, commercial, at Chevron Australia, shares his insight on the Gorgon and Wheatstone liquefied natural gas projects; and Daniel Picard, special adviser to the director of the Libra Project, Petrobras (on secondment from Total), focuses on the offshore pre-salt megaproject, Libra, in Brazil.
Why does this resource need to be developed?
Logan Popko (LP): Despite the recent surge in oil supply from US tight oil plays and international production, high-quality, large volume resources continue to be scarce across the world and I believe that development of the Canadian oil sands will be critical to meeting the world's increasing energy demand. The technology we apply at the Christina Lake oil sands project is called steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). It involves drilling horizontal wells to target a resource that is too deep to mine and then injecting steam into it to mobilize oil that can be as hard as a hockey puck at initial reservoir conditions.
However, not all oil sands projects are created equal, and I believe that it will be the highest quality and most innovative projects that have the best chance of moving forward in future years. Fortunately, Christina Lake is well-suited to continue to be an industry leader as we have a fantastic reservoir (more than 40 m thick in some areas) and have continuously embraced and encouraged innovation to improve our economic and environmental performance. Through continued success in reducing our overall cost structures and our environmental impact, I hope that we can continue to develop this asset to help meet the energy demands of the world while ensuring responsible development for the benefit of all Canadians.
Ron Dusterhoft (RD): The reserves in place for many of the source rock reservoirs often referred to as shale are immense, and recent developments in technology have demonstrated their capability to produce huge amounts of both oil and gas. In the business environment witnessed during the past several years, oil and gas prices enabled operators to develop solutions that have proven to be very effective in exploiting these reservoirs. Even with current commodity prices, many unconventional shale plays continue to demonstrate positive economics, due to their scale and productivity.
Pete Hagen (PH): Chevron's Australian liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, Gorgon and Wheatstone, are well-positioned to meet the growing demand for clean-burning energy in the Asia Pacific region as well as to drive economic growth and improved living standards. This is underpinned by the size and quality of the gas resource as well as Western Australia's long history of reliable supply from the North West Shelf Joint Venture. Proved reserves have been recognized both for the Gorgon and Wheatstone projects with an estimated economic life of more than 40 and 30 years, respectively. The Greater Gorgon Area contains 37 Tcf of natural gas, while the Wheatstone and Iago gas fields hold 9 Tcf of discovered resource.
Chevron expects to be one of the top ten LNG suppliers in the world by 2020, with a large portion of this supply attributed to the Gorgon, Wheatstone, and North West Shelf projects. Chevron-led natural gas projects in Australia have created almost 17,000 jobs and committed more than USD 45 billion in goods and services to local businesses.
What is the current outlook for the development of this resource?
LP: Christina Lake currently has a production capacity of 160,000 B/D of oil, and we anticipate adding an incremental 50,000 B/D of oil in 2016 as the Phase F facility comes on line. Given the significant headwinds the industry is facing, Cenovus continues to evaluate future expansion phases. The exact timing of renewed investment in deferred expansion projects will be dependent on continued cost-cutting success, federal fiscal and regulatory certainty, as well as sustained balance-sheet strength and financial resilience.
RD: Despite the current commodity prices in the oil and gas industry, it is generally believed that the development of unconventional shale assets will continue in North America at some level for the foreseeable future, mostly from existing plays where the necessary infrastructure has largely been developed. The potential in shale has been clearly demonstrated with the production success seen in North America. As conventional hydrocarbon fields deplete, it is logical that more operators will be forced to look at shale and other unconventional resources as an alternative to sustain production in the future.
In North American onshore operations, low-permeability oil and gas plays have been the norm for some time, and with continual advances in both hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, many have managed to be competitive in the current market. However, there is a lower price limit where these plays will begin to become uneconomic, and this will play a huge role in the amount and extent of activity in these regions in the future. In new international markets, the development of shale assets will probably be much slower than was seen in North America, based upon commodity prices, availability of infrastructure, and projected capital costs.
PH: The outlook is very positive for both the Gorgon and Wheatstone projects, and they are progressing on schedule. Gorgon nameplate capacity is 15.6 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of LNG and Wheatstone is 8.9 Mtpa. The total production capacity for the Gorgon project is expected to be approximately 2.6 Bcf/D of natural gas, and at the Wheatstone and Iago fields and nearby third-party fields it is expected to be approximately 1.6 Bcf/D.
At Gorgon, we shipped our first cargo of LNG from train 1 in March and are in the process of ramping it up. All modules for trains 2 and 3 have been delivered to the site and construction is progressing. Lessons learned from train 1 are being applied, and key milestones are being achieved on-schedule with startups expected at approximately 6-month intervals after train 1. At Wheatstone, hookup and commissioning of the offshore platform is progressing. Eight of nine wells are drilled and completed. At the plant site, the operations center and LNG loading jetty are complete and hydrotesting of the first LNG tank has been successfully completed. First LNG cargo is expected to be in mid-2017.
What is the timeline to develop this resource, from concept to production?
LP: An SAGD project, such as Christina Lake, typically takes about 5 years to move from a concept stage to production, but it can vary depending on the location and scope of the project.
Cenovus's approach to developing its oil sands assets is somewhat different than the traditional megaproject concept. Because of the size and nature of the resource base at Christina Lake, we determined that a large, scalable project with periodic repeatable expansion phases was the optimal way to capture value from the asset, leverage economies of scale, and apply the required technology to commercially develop the resource.
RD: When there is existing infrastructure, these projects can be executed extremely fast, often within 1 year or less. Where there is not a lot of local infrastructure, then detailed capital planning and project development is required, which can take several years.
PH: Large-scale LNG projects typically take a decade or more from concept through front-end engineering and design to final investment decision and construction.
Daniel Picard (DP) on Petrobras' Libra project: An offshore megaproject follows the same steps as other projects of a smaller scale. In general, it takes a long time. In some cases the development timeline may take up to 10 years from first discovery to first production of a resource.
After a discovery, the field has to be appraised to determine the extent of the resource, and if there is enough resource in place to support an economic development. After this, there is an important phase of conceptual studies to determine how to best develop the field, which could last a year or more. Subsequent to this, pilots are often undertaken of the selected concept, to assist in obtaining a better idea of the cost of the project, and how to best plan the development. At the same time, various other environmental, geological, and engineering studies must be completed, all of which can take several years.
Then, if the project appears to be accretive, the operator will request quotes from the market for the key items of the project, such as drilling, surface and subsea facilities, pipelines, and so on. When the project is shown to be economic and creating value for the operating company, the sanction of the project may be obtained, and the project itself enters into its development phase, which typically lasts between 30–50 months, depending on the complexity of the project, before it commences production.
What are some of the major external factors that influence the development of this resource?
LP: I am a strong believer in the benefits that development of the oil sands brings to Canadians and our potential to help meet the world's growing energy demand. I am proud of working on solving the technical challenges such as reducing or potentially eliminating greenhouse gas emissions associated with our oil. Many of the challenges the industry currently faces, such as low commodity prices, lack of market access, and uncertainty about the fiscal and regulatory environment, are beyond our control. That is why we are focused on the things we can control such as reducing our costs, maintaining our financial strength, and focusing on technology and innovation to continually improve our economic and environmental competitiveness.
RD: On an absolute dollar basis, when compared to other megaprojects such as offshore and deepwater developments, the cost structure for shale wells is very attractive. Well costs in an established area will typically be less than USD 10 million, although these costs are heavily influenced by the choice of stimulation (fracturing) as well as the drilling length and depth. Plant and facility costs are also relatively inexpensive and scalable in this environment. Individual well production declines, however, are typically steep, so to sustain field-level production rates over the long term, a significant and continued drilling program is required. As a result, shale projects will typically include plans for the drilling and completion of many wellbores to achieve and sustain the desired field-level production rate.
There are several potential bottlenecks that can be encountered with the development of an unconventional resource. In international locations, it has been found that market access and regulatory requirements can be extensive and may slow down these developments when compared to similar developments in North America. Production infrastructure can also become a bottleneck when existing pipelines and facilities become overwhelmed. Service companies and operational infrastructure play a huge role. In areas where more established services are available, it is much easier to scale the business than it is to start from scratch. For new projects, these factors are all very important to evaluate in detail.
Another attractive feature about shale developments is that the reservoir is typically significantly areally extensive. Although individual well results can vary, on aggregate, field-level production can be relatively well-understood and predicted, which allows for production targets to be achieved. It is very likely that in the current economic environment more technology will be applied to further drive down the risk and improve the productivity of these assets.
PH: A best practice on large-scale LNG projects is to work closely with your key stakeholders to keep them informed of project progress through construction and first gas production. We have the benefit of the highest quality customers and joint venture participants on both the Gorgon and Wheatstone projects, and we value the long-term relationships that have been cemented throughout the development process.
DP: The key driver of a megaproject (or any project) is essentially to maximize the net present value and internal rate of return of the project. These factors are both economic drivers; however, many other objectives are also expected to be met. These may include constructing and operating the project in a safe manner; demonstrating environmental stewardship; and successfully working with local governments, regulators, and communities.
The most important driver of project economics is the oil price, which is particularly evident at times when the oil price is low. In today's price environment, with WTI oil in the USD 30-40/bbl range, the breakeven costs of all projects must be reduced as much as possible. This is a complex but necessary task for an offshore megaproject, and it is most easily achieved during the conceptual and pre-project stages—keeping design requirements to a minimum. After the project requirements have been optimized to be as economic as possible, it is then up to the market to compete to further drive down the capital costs of the project. One risk to the market competing and adjusting to lower prices is that highly skilled and experienced staff can be lost, and it can take the industry many years to recover this expertise.
For a deep offshore megaproject, capital costs are extremely important due to the magnitude of such expenditures. As an example, a project may cost upward of USD 10 billion in capital costs, allocated roughly as USD 4 billion to drilling, USD 3 billion to surface facilities, and another USD 3 billion to subsea facilities and pipelines. All of these items are subject to an international call for tenders to receive the best cost estimates possible.
Other important factors are of course the fiscal and regulatory regimes of the country involved in the development. These factors can be significant enough to encourage or discourage development in one jurisdiction over another.
Is a manufacturing approach used? Is it successful?
LP: Yes, a manufacturing approach has helped us achieve success on the Christina Lake project. This approach for Cenovus meant that we use a templated central facility design to build our expansion phases, which has allowed us to achieve industry-leading capital efficiencies.
To build on this success, we have recently applied a manufacturing approach to the sustaining portion (wells, pads, and associated gathering and processing infrastructure) of our business. For example, we have created a new well facility design (zero-based module design) that we expect will significantly reduce the footprint and cost of new well pads and allow us to use a repeatable design for new pads at all of our assets.
Lastly, we are currently undergoing a transition of our organizational structure to a functional model. This will allow us to better leverage our manufacturing expertise and implement its benefits across the corporate value chain.
RD: Several operators in a variety of shale plays have attempted to incorporate a manufacturing style of drilling and completions during their operations. It is being observed that this may not be the ideal solution for all cases as there is a significant amount of reservoir heterogeneity that can negatively or positively impact well performance. The most successful operators of unconventional shale resources have achieved a good balance between a manufacturing approach to drilling as well as utilizing applied technology to create an effective solution for a specific area. It must be noted that what is successful in one area will not always work in other locations, meaning that an understanding of the reservoir is required to achieve success.
What lessons have been learned from the experiences in developing this resource?
LP: As a young professional working on the Christina Lake Project, I have been amazed at the amount of change and technical progression we have achieved over the past 5–10 years. We have found ways to improve everything we do, from our reservoir exploitation strategies to our surface facility designs; we even have drilling rigs that can now be transported by helicopter. All of these advancements have materially improved the economics of our projects and many have reduced our environmental impact.
Despite all the progress I have seen in my career so far, I think the most exciting thing is the progress we are going to make in the future. There are many revolutionary technologies currently being worked on that could materially change the way we develop our oil sands resources. One such technology is the solvent-aided process (SAP), which involves injecting a small amount of light hydrocarbon with the steam to help extract oil from the reservoir. The SAP is expected to be up to 30% more energy efficient than SAGD, and to yield material economic and environmental benefits.
It is the development of these game-changing technologies that gets me excited to come to work every day with the hopes of one day implementing them at our operations. Harbir Chhina, Cenovus' executive vice president for oil sands development, has a great quote that sums up my opinion of SAGD projects, both in the past and now: "SAGD development is like a baseball game and we are only in the second inning. The best is still to come."
RD: In short, continuous improvement is a must to be successful in the long term. There are far too many lessons learned to list in full detail, but key things that have been noted are as follows:
- Reservoir understanding is critical, and having a good data and information acquisition plan is a requirement. The use of forward-modeling tools to improve completion designs has proven to be very successful.
- Well placement, both regionally and stratigraphically, is critical to achieving the best results.
- Shale reservoirs are very different than conventional reservoirs. When dealing with transitioning reservoirs, pressure/volume/temperature data are highly variable and dependent upon local geology.
- Long-term production understanding in these reservoirs is still largely unknown. As these fields age, one should expect that there will be more lessons to learn.
Ron Dusterhoft is a Halliburton technology fellow for production enhancement with 32 years of industry experience. His areas of expertise include hydraulic fracturing, FracPac completions, sand control screens, sand consolidation, sand control downhole tool systems, completion design, and reservoir simulation for shale. Dusterhoft is currently focused on drilling and completion optimization and stimulation design for unconventional shale assets. This involves the use of full asset workflows and more effective data management to maximize collaboration and knowledge-sharing between geosciences and drilling and completions engineering. Dusterhoft has been actively involved in the full-scale deployment of these workflows and solutions in large US-based field developments.
Logan Popko is manager of asset development for Christina Lake at Cenovus Energy. Popko started his career with Shell as a co-operative student in 2005, and later obtained a degree in oil and gas engineering from the University of Calgary. Since graduating, he has worked for Cenovus (and its predecessor Encana). During his time in the oil sands division, Popko has worked in a variety of roles and projects, including production, operations, reservoir, and capital projects.
Pete Hagen is general manager–commercial, at Chevron Australia. He is responsible for the Chevron Australia Commercial Function, located in Perth, Western Australia. His role encompasses upstream business development and commercial strategy formulation and implementation, commercial support for asset development and major capital projects, operations commercial support and joint venture interface, and liquefied natural gas and domestic gas lifting coordination. He has more than 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Previously, he was Chevron Australia's strategic planning manager and Greater Gorgon commercial manager. From 2008 to 2014, he was general manager, gas commercialization, for the Europe, Eurasia, and Middle East region for Chevron, based in London. Hagen graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in economics.
Daniel Picard is special adviser to the director of the Libra Project, Petrobras, on secondment from Total. Picard joined the oil and gas industry in 1978. He has spent most of his career with Total in the upstream exploration and production (E&P) branch of the company. Previously, he worked as the E&P director of Total Norway, Total Qatar, and the Dalia Project, a major deepwater project offshore Angola. Later, as vice president for development, he had decisive implications in all Total E&P projects, particularly in the deep offshore West Africa megaprojects such as Pazflor, Kaombo, Clov, Moho North, and Egina, and was involved in Russian arctic offshore projects such as Shtokman. Picard graduated from École des Mines in France, and holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, and a degree from INSEAD.
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This blog will give you a few guidelines on colours and fabrics for blinds, curtains and bedding in Summer Colours that will help you to capture the essence of the English style.
Basically there are three types of summer decors.
We along with other higher vertebrates and the odd rather strange additional creatures such as tortoises and octopus, see the full spectrum of colour which is why it is so important to make full use of this when considering your colour choices for your home and if you are going floral, then don't be shy about it.
Florals in bright colours are of course the most obvious for a summer style decor, but just because it has flowers on it, that does not make it necessarily the right choice. Large random floral prints are fine, but complex diagonals particularly in several different colours are too busy on the eye particularly for the main living or bedroom areas of the house where a nice calm and relaxed feeling is required.
Stripes in co-ordinating colours make a perfect partner and will unite the colours without overwhelming the room. A great way to introduce a small amount of stripe is by making it a feature of the window treatment.
Our natural response when deciding on a scheme is to think that the larger the space the larger the pattern and vice versa, but often using a large pattern in a small area will give a feeling of grandeur, but will need a calming influence, roman or roller blinds particularly in a bedroom providing the perfect solution, especially as many of these blinds are available as blackout blinds.
Green and Blue
Green is a colour that creates an atmosphere of restful calm and apparently we see many more tones of green than any other colour, perhaps evolving from when we were forest dwellers and blue of course is the colour of the sea and hopefully the summers sky. Greens and blues together make a stunning combination beautifully depicted in nature by the colour combinations in a peacocks tail. They both will bring about a different visual effect as generally blues recede and greens are drawn towards you.
My choice would be to go for blue as the dominant colour for this very reason as it will give a feeling of space and of course turquoise makes a great compromise or partner for both colours.
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Shades of greens used in the home will help to try to neutralise areas such as busy family living rooms. Green is known to relax people which is where the term "The Green Room" comes from in the theatre, the room where performers wait before they go onto the stage and need their nerves steadied perhaps. I bet a lot of these rooms are no longer green, but an interesting fact.
Bright green even if only for the window treatments will look particularly attractive in urban homes by helping to keep the relaxing connection with nature.
When we dream of holidays, for most of us, it's the yellow sun and sand and the blue of the sea and sky. Escaping the greys of the town and indeed often our skys will have a profound effect on our wellbeing. A country walk will be nearly as uplifting as a new brightly coloured blind, both subconsciously introducing a feeling of peace, but the blind will have a more lasting effect as it will hopefully grace your home for a long time.
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Attempted design – update #4
Okay so yeah, it's been a good long while, hasn't it? At least I did sit down and play my last iteration of the game with real humans!! Wonderful ladies from the board game community here in Toronto. It was a heartwarming experience, and I got amazing feedback. Which I wrote down and sort of forgot about, then did a bit more at some point and now I'm sitting here tonight looking through scraps of notes, print outs of new things, and trying to sort myself out over the written stuff in notebooks versus the typed stuff I have saved online. Good work, self.
I think the two biggest things to come out of the playtest were: scrap the 'timer track' and just use the depletion of the food cubes used for bidding to pace the game – and have a game end condition based on # of public goals completed. That, and to have upcoming polyominoes available before you can bid on them, to plan ahead a bit – rather than fishing around in the bag to grab the polyominoes, I've made some cards with the shapes on them, and they'll get flipped to determine which come out for bidding (Castles of Mad King Ludwig style). Otherwise I just needed to come up with more goals, which – by the looks of a Google Doc I just found haha – I have mostly!
I think streamlining the setup and turns has come a long way, I think just after looking at it so much. And I guess I took a step back and looked at the procedure of the game as a whole, because I've thought to add some round bonuses throughout, for people to rearrange their bowers slightly. This is how it's going to roll:
- Deal out 3 public "optical illusion" goals, set the rest aside
- Deal 3 mates to each player – they keep 2, discard one.
- Distribute one set of food to each player (valued 1 through 5)
- Set up tiles for auction this round and upcoming – number of tiles is # of players +1.
- If you have one food token left, refresh your supply to full.
- Players simultaneously bid a value of food
- Winner of bid selects their tile, and the rest of the players select theirs by bid amount (ties resolved by player order); bids are spent. Tiles do not have to be placed adjacent to existing pieces.
- Check public goals for successes, and score. If someone has completed 3 public goals, the game ends.
- Start player passes
I suppose it's time to get my goal cards and mate cards all together and put this in front of people, again. Honestly, my next biggest stumbling blocks are: do I hate this and think it's not fun, and how can I overcome my impostor syndrome! We'll see what happens. In the meantime, here I am trying to keep myself accountable. And also mildly panicked about taking part in a board game design panel later this week!
Attempted design – update #3!
Oh boy, it's been a while! About 6 months. Things have percolated a bit in my brain, but I have only just finally tried to get some of it out onto paper. I needed just few things as a basic structure to tangibly poke stuff around on a table. So these are really basic ideas, which will very much need tinkering and fine tuning, but so far I think it's a reasonable start. Whether or not after the start it keeps going or gets scrapped, who knows!
To start with, I have decided on some random public goals, as well as the "mate" cards which will be private – players will get 3 of those and choose two (scoring their choice at the end of the game, this is my attempt to offer a little flexibility). I have a Patchwork-esque time track right now, in which players will move to gain certain values of food (representing the bird's time spent finding better food). Those food tokens will be used in an auction phase bidding on objects to place in your "bower".
This is the "time track" – with the available objects for the auction round. I also have a few spots along the time track that are similar to the single tile patches in Patchwork – I think in this I'd like them to be bonuses for the last player to pass them over as a bit of a balance for not taking so many food tokens.
There's my attempts at the public goals and mate cards. These are all really off the top of my head so they need a lot of work. But it's just to get an idea of what I'd have players aiming for. A little set collection, a little puzzley stuff.
And here's the "object" tiles! The idea is to have 3 types of objects which would be worth different values, but I haven't exactly worked that into any of the cards yet (other than generically mentioning type). I'd like them to represent different things like, the garbagey blue things like plastic caps etc, and then the shinier nice things like glass etc. I know I had an idea earlier about birds being able to use one of their own feathers in their bower, but right now I'm not sure what function that could have. Still thinking!
I guess it's time to show this to people? aaaahhhhhhh!
Attempted Design – Update #2
- What would be the basic turn structure?
My basic idea would be for players to spend (x) time (on the track) foraging for food (sort of the currency of the game) until each player passes. Then, spending food values, players can bid on a selection of treasure (nest) tiles – once a player wins a bid to pick a tile, they pay and the auction round goes to the other players (or once one player is left they pay minimum bid of one food for the tile left).
- What, if any, ways could a player interact or affect another player?
Bidding highest to get the first take of a tile, mostly. And making it to a public bonus goal first.
- Why are the objectives secret if you're fighting over the same mate?
Each player would have a unique mate hidden in their hand – possibly more, if it would work out like tickets in Ticket to Ride where you could possibly take more mates and score some of their points later in the game? But yeah, there'd be a chance to have different mates each time you play, anyhow.
- How can you use the secret objectives to create tension?
This is a tough one. Tension in the auction, and the race to succeed at the public goals? (i.e. who makes X shape first, who hits 7×7 filled nest spots first, for example?)
- What information is hidden?
The goals you're aiming at for your mates to successfully lure them.
- How does that hidden information inform game play?
Definitely directs what tiles you're bidding for, and also the patterns/size of the nest you're decorating.
- Can you move tiles/remove tiles after being played?
Perhaps if I allowed during-game scoring of mates? But that doesn't seem quite as thematic (that also leads to the thought of does having multiple mates to score mean it isn't as thematic? But the male birds have many females come by to inspect their nests before one chooses, so…) So I'm guessing most likely no, once they're played they stay.
- Are/is the tile pool/s singular or player specific?
The tile pool (nest treasures) would be shared – drawn from a bag (perhaps each auction round would have player number +2 tiles as a range to bid on?).
- Where, if any, would you incorporate randomness?
The bag draw for the nest treasure tiles for sure, and I suppose the allocation of the hidden mates (even if they're drafted to start the game, and especially if more come out during the game). I know a game like Patchwork has everything visible to start the game, but I think that might be a bit much for this? Maybe to mitigate the randomness of the bag draw, the tiles would be visible during the food collection phase.
- Where would you say the interesting decisions are?
This is the tough part as I don't have the game quite fully realized. I want the public and hidden goals to be challenging, but not so random they're not obtainable. I want players to take their goals and use those as their guide on how to bid, when to let other players win certain phases and the like in order to most efficiently gather together what you need.
- What type of experience would you like this game to invoke?
A feeling of making the best puzzle, collecting sets to maximize points and having fun making something pretty!
Following on from this, I need to make a firm decision on the structure of the game, most importantly:
- Will players draft mate cards?
- Will there be opportunities to partially score mate cards throughout the game? (Or in drawing new ones, perhaps take 3, keep 1 for instance)
- How the timing track/food collection will affect the phases/progress/length of the game, and if that makes a difference for player turn order
- How many treasure tiles, what their shapes and types will be, as well as point values if that's necessary (for public goals perhaps?)
- Draft up some shared goals for shapes, sizes, and set collections for treasure types
I'm sure more will come up, but I believe this little brainstorm and following up on those particular points will help direct me further into this game and the process.
No fooling – just links. April 1 digital dozen!
I'm not interested in sending you all out to stuff that is just a big joke, so here's some for real cool stuff to check out.
Let's ease into it with this balloon cat. How delightful and static-y.
Now, I know this might seem really pranky, but it's for real and amazing. Look at the skill.
I've just signed up for a bike sharing program here, so I will have to really remember my helmet wherever I go. Gotta say things would be easier with this awesome design. Fold down helmet! Please.
I'm a huge fan of dogs. I'm a huge fan of rescue dogs. So I'm always a huge fan of tactics to help find rescue dogs forever homes, like this wonderful photobooth initiative. Such sweeties.
I know this was released very close to April Fool's, but Google's Pacman layover of maps is a super fun thing! I love it when Google make the fun things, whenever it is.
Morbid but beautiful, 'Memento Mori' is a book that documents sacred sites around the world where human skeletons are displayed. The ways that cultures do this the world over is fascinating.
Have you seen those 'Shot on iPhone 6' advertisements around? They're lining the walls of my subway station right now. So I'm kinda in love with this parody of it, "Also Shot On iPhone 6".
A quick snippet about how sriracha hot sauce is made! I like the sort of hypnotic factory footage. Mmm, bottles of hot.
Not sure how the drone fared with fireworks attached to it, but the results are gorgeous.
The concept and execution of these movie director portraits is incredible! I'd for real hang this David Lynch one.
I know I don't have the patience for art. I know because I look at incredible stuff like this and figure I'd have a hissy fit 10 minutes in. But look how pretty and detailed! I'm thankful there's patient artistic people out there. Make sure to click through for the time lapses.
I need one of these for my desk at work. Or at least I need to figure out how I can make one.
Links for everyone! Digital Dozen time.
Digital dozen – 12 ways to distract yourself with shiny internet things this hump day.
I think if I were to get married, this would be 100% the wedding ring I want. Yep. Adulting!! (via)
Though I'm not a fan of their coffee (it's my last resort when there's nothing else coffee..) I do love this Tumblr of Starbucks sleeves sketched on to transform them into awesome portraits.
This design is fantastic!! My keyring's pretty slim these days but if I had more, I'd be into this.
These tiny creations are so delicate and wonderful. I don't think I could ever have the patience for them.
I'm constantly amazed at how creative people can be when given a restricted set of materials to use to create something. Design Within Reach have a 'champagne chair' contest each year, and these are this year's winners. Super!
Air safety is no joke.. but these are pretty funny, c'mon.
Pixar artists turns R-rated movies into kid's book illustrations. GOLDEN.
While we're in the Disney realm.. here's some lovely Baymax cosplaying as other Disney characters. The best.
Rain-activated sidewalk art! Of course someone in Seattle made this.
New wave rock stars as Marvel heroes was built for my brain.
This artist is carving a wooden spoon a day, and sharing on Instagram. They're so wildly diverse and interesting!
Old to new – discarded books carved into art.
The Return of the Digital Dozen!
- Tomorrow is Star Wars day. Enjoy these wonderful geometric and abstract Star Wars portraits!
- And while we're at it, who wants to send me this hoodie? Han and Chewie in one! Yesss.
- Finding inspiration in negative space makes for good art. See?
- Seals love belly rubs – you've always guessed it, right? RIGHT? Well, now you can see it in action. (From 0:35 on)
- A pen that 3D prints as you write with it in thin air? No way. This is the future. Check it out!
- Remember that kid playing Space Invaders on the side of a building? Now someone's done it with Tetris!
- I'm pretty sure these would cripple me, but I do love the look of them!
- This is a genius re-imagining of the houses from the Game of Thrones series as modern brands. All of them are wonderful, but this is the most golden of all:
- How would you like to kick back to a smooth jazz cover of the Game of Thrones theme? Yep.
- Someone went through a lot of painstaking photoshopping to create these images of classic album covers superimposed over real life locations. That is some very specific stuff. One of my personal favourites is..
- Giant machinery playing jenga – no, you didn't think you needed to see it. But it is thoroughly enjoyable.
- I'm looking for work right now, and I'm beginning to think I need to something creative to sell my Administrative Superstar package just like this amazing Lego Resume! It stands out from the crowd, no lie.
TILTy time.
Every so often I get overwhelmed with the amount of stuff that accumulates when you're settled. I try and purge every so often, especially when moving.. but there's still bunches of things. Kitchen gadgets, food supplies, boxes, clothing, books.. stuff one keeps because you think you'll be needing it at some point. It would be so nice to minimize. Adam & I saw the documentary 'Tiny' at Hot Docs a while back, and were fascinated & inspired by the idea of living in tiny houses. How simply you could have everything you really need. Then today I saw a couple of articles about tiny houses (linked by a friend, and randomly in my RSS reader) and it renewed my interest in the idea. I'm not sure when this would be practical in my life, especially living in downtown Toronto. I think it would be amazing to try sometime. It's so inspiring to see what people can do with compact spaces.
While I'm not a fan of everything Felicia Day does, I admire her business savvy and her willingness to speak out when she has something strong to say. She's recently written about the shit she's gotten since cutting her hair, and how ridiculous it all is in the context of her being an entertainer/gamer who is female. I love that she can be forthright about this, even though she'll likely cop flak about it. (And of course she's lucky enough in a position of privilege as a white woman that she can make a stand a lot easier, but there's still the shitty responses from dudebros no matter what.)
Speaking of amazing women, I love that Janet Mock has called out Piers Morgan for the bullshit way he approached his interview with her recently. She makes such amazing, common sense points – yet Morgan got so up in arms about being called out about it. Please, if someone is an activist in their community and calls your sensationalist and offensive bullshit (especially when it's as personal as this issue!) – listen to them and apologize when you realize you've fucked up!
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Telltale Games said currently it is holding a strike presence diversion 7 Days to Die to a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One video diversion consoles in June.
The PC diversion was done by Dallas-based indie developer The Fun Pimps, and it will now be partial of Telltale's fast of third-party constructed video diversion titles on consoles. San Rafael, Calif.-based Telltale skeleton to tell a diversion as both a digital and sell product.
Set in a brutally revengeful post-apocalyptic universe overshoot by a undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world presence diversion that is a multiple of first-person shooter, survival-horror, tower-defense, and role-playing games. It features combat, looting, mining, exploration, and more. It has generated hundreds of thousands of hours of village calm on YouTube and other streaming video platforms.
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Anyone who preorders a diversion on consoles will get exclusive entrance to 5 impression skins from Telltale's strike The Walking Dead series, including Michonne and Lee Everett.
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Gwinnett Center gets new $18 million name
By: Arielle Kass
Published: Friday, August 14, 2015
The Gwinnett Center, an entertainment complex near Duluth, will now be known as the Infinite Energy Center after the Florida company bought the naming rights.
Infinite Energy will pay $18 million over 20 years for the naming rights.
Lisa Anders, the executive director of Explore Gwinnett, said the board voted Friday morning in a conference call. There was no notice made of the meeting.
Earlier this year, the board outlined a master plan for the area that would add a long-discussed entertainment district to the 90-acre complex. The county commission and the Gwinnett Convention and Visitors Bureau also approved construction of a large "headquarters" hotel there in April, a Marriott with 290-300 rooms. Other nearby hotels are in the works.
The complex has a 13,000-seat arena where the Gwinnett Gladiators hockey team and Georgia Swarm lacrosse team play that will be called the Infinite Energy Arena. It also has a 50,000-square-foot exhibit hall, which will be known as the Infinite Energy Forum, and a 708-seat theater, called the Infinite Energy Theater.
The eventual plans for the complex include adding seats to the arena, doubling the size of the convention center, building a black-box theater, creating an outdoor lawn and walking trails and adding more access points to help ease traffic.
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When I look back on some of my old posts from the joinery shop, I see that we used hand tools to make everything. Now that's history because Andreu, Michael, Rod, Zac and I spent the last week under the watchful eye of Ian, building tables for our routers.
My dictionary gives the follow definition of the verb to 'rout':
cut a groove, or any pattern not extending to the edges, in (a wooden or metal surface)
but this only scratches the surface (sorry) of the capabilities of the router and router table combo; my planes are now gathering dust on the shelf.
The router table went together very quickly, and the router itself was an essential part of its construction. Many grooves not extending to the edges were cut, and even some that did reach the edge (also known as 'rebates'). When it came to putting the surface on our table tops, there was a bonus: Ian brought out some sheets of walnut Formica that were ordered specially (or was that 'found in the back of the cupboard'?).
When we'd built the tables, Ian showed us some of its capabilities; which are quite extensive. You can spend a fortune on router cutters and jigs to cut letter boxes, kitchen work surfaces dovetail joints, skirting boards, tongue and groove, the list goes on; in fact Axminster have a whole section just on routing (none of their router tables have walnut tops though). While there's not much that can be done to avoid the cost of cutters, Ian encouraged us to think about making our own jigs as attachments to the table. He showed us a whole range of jigs that he has made over a lifetime in joinery and hinted at some he has made that no one else has thought of yet; but we didn't get to see them.
My first job after the router table workshop was to shape some more timbers for Naiad. Normally I'd reach for my plane for this job, but I thought I'd see if I could do it on the router table. A fair amount of trial and error was involved, and some of my test pieces got a bit chewed up, but once I'd got it set up, I was churning out shaped timbers at quite a lick (and I still have all my fingers). It got me thinking about my first idea for a jig which would make the setting up quicker; but it's still on the drawing board; I expect Ian already has one.


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Foundry Hall presents South Haven's longest-running, all-ages Open Mic night. Hosted by Paul Hogan, Open Mic is the 3rd Thursday of every month in the lower level ("The River Bottom") of the Black River Tavern! Performer sign-up begins at 6 pm, so come on down early and enjoy some BRT food then stay for the open mic featuring South Haven and surrounding area's best amateur musician's in the spotlight. Bring your own talent and share it!
All proceeds benefit Foundry Hall's mission to build community through music and performing arts in South Haven. As always, you can expect a friendly and appreciative audience who love to applaud, our finest regional talents, your inimitable and gracious host, Paul Hogan, and a huge pile of Mary Hogan's amazing chocolate chip cookies!
There's a great stage, plenty of seating, all of your favorite South Haven-area musicians and performers, a full meal menu, and even a selection of beverages for adults and kiddos.


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Hi, welcome to Sherwood Dungeon Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Image:Sherwood Dancing.jpg page.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- KyleH (Talk) 13:57, 10 April 2009
Natonstan, thanks for all you have done so far for this wiki, we need people like you. But you can not nominate yourself for the member of the month, thats just bad form. I too did a lot in the past month. All I'm doing is eliminating your name as user of the month, and putting a public warning there for you. You can remove the warning anytime you want after reading this, but don't name yourself this months member again. (How about I put you in next month if you continue with your number and quality of articles?) Buy the way , I'm not this wiki's judge, I'm just doing this in it's best interests.Ladon 01:45, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and I see that you are very good using wiki's, so I really hope I'm not pushing you away. Stay with us, please! A decent member such as yourself could help us immensely. Thanks again, Ladon 02:05, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, you are doing so much for this wiki, and I'm hoping you don't mind that I nominated, and later put you down as member of the month. Ladon 21:30, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
The ramp was added about a month ago, just after the stone path was made. Congrats on making the 100th page!Ladon 22:01, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Try checking out Sherwood Dungeon Facebook, thats where I get my info from.Ladon 22:14, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I'm really hoping to meet the goal. Just wanted to remind you that we should try to use the proper spelling of words in this wiki. Technically, enemys should be enemies, and don't forget that the phrase "Amethyst Crawler's are..." is incorrect, it should be "Amethyst Crawlers are..." there is no 's. I know I'm being picky, but we need quantity and quality, especially because when we get to 200 I've been thinking of starting to advertise this wiki more, on sites Sherwood users use. Keep up the good work, Ladon 02:57, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to this wiki, Natonstan! Thanks for all the work you've done for this website, you've probably done a much better job than me (mostly everyone did a better job than me; I'm the one who started it, but I'm ashamed to say I haven't done much to help it grow). I'm not one who's very good at congratulating, so I guess I'll just say thanks and keep up the good work!
- Liwolf1, founder of Sherwood Wiki.
Adminship Edit
Hello Natonstan, a lot has changed here since you last edited a couple years ago. I do not have the time for Sherwood Dungeon anymore and I have been looking for someone to look after this wiki. It looks like you know this wiki well, and if you do not mind I would like to make you the admin of this wiki, for I have other wikis to work on. Thank you. TVLwriter 19:44, July 4, 2011 (UTC)
I suppose you've been away from this wiki for some time. While you've been gone, we (mostly Rodrigo and I) made some decisions related to the way we should create articles and manage them. Everything is recorded in the talk section of the Main page. Also if you'd like I thought about some rules about NPCBoxes. Reply if you want to discuss.
Dracula ;..; Chat 12:00, January 29, 2014 (UTC)
are you doing admin in the game or just wiki page if you want to help i want to try :)
i have a problem with sherwood, i made an account but i cant login. it keeps loading for 1 second and then it stops.. what should i do?


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Because we love lots of little gifts that come boxed, wrapped with a bow, and ready to give, here are four to consider for holiday presents. No subscriptions required!
For the first time, the local boutique chain known for budget-friendly, on-trend women's fashion is offering holiday gift boxes filled with items handpicked by owners Michele Henry and Wesley Uthus, including face masks, scarves, earrings, mugs, and journals. Boxes come in three sizes, priced at $28, $48, and $72, and even the smallest feels ample. Plus, 10 percent of proceeds will benefit women and children in shelters through the Minneapolis-based service agency Tubman. Boxes are available for purchase at all nine Primp stores and online. Order by Dec. 20 for delivery by Christmas. primpyourself.com
(RELATED: Holiday Headquarters 2017)
Minny & Paul
Others come and go, but Laura Waldman's year-old company has become the gift box of choice, especially for selective millennials. All of her modern boxes are themed and packed with products from Minnesota companies. New for holidays: the Cheer box ($55), featuring Illume winter incense, True Hue matches, Annie B's peppermint bark, Singularity Handmade rosemary peppermint lip balm and a Minnesota wood magnet by WAAM Industries, which also makes the birch wood keepsake box the items come in. Order online, or at an event this month, including Island of Misfit Makers on Dec. 2, open studio night at Northrup King on Dec. 7, or at the Hewing Hotel on Dec. 17. minnyandpaul.com
Encouraged by requests for corporate gift boxes, this husband and wife run Eden Prairie gift store just introduced grab and go gift boxes in store. Six themes include a pampering box with a candle and candy and a wine lovers box. Each comes neatly packed in a box designed to fit right into a postal box for easy shipping. Prices from $35-$80. 582 Prairie Center Dr. #223, Eden Prairie, 952-944-2443, homadegifts.com
Beauty Lounge
Good hair is the gift that keeps giving. Beauty Lounge just introduced six boxes for different hair types, from straight to coiled, and each box contains washing, styling and maintenance products as well as beauty butter made by salon owner Melissa Taylor (motto: "all hair is good hair.") The right products, used together, can make a major difference in hair maintenance and appearance, Taylor says. Boxes range from $77-$127. 224 Quincy St. N.E. #130, Mpls., 612-227-9363, mplsbeautylounge.com
Want More Boxes?
For subscription boxes that keep delivering after the holidays, consider these locally produced options:
HuesBox: A beauty box tailored to all skin tones and featuring products from minority owned businesses. (Read all about this mother-daughter business in Burnsville.) huesbox.com
Bookshop in a Box: From beloved St. Paul bookseller Red Balloon, a monthly box that includes books and related goodies. Choose baby, picture book, 8-12, or young adult. One, six and 12 month options available. 891 Grand Ave., St. Paul, 651-224-8320, redballoonbookshop.com
Cooper & Kid: A box aimed at dads and kids with hands-on projects. New theme every three months. cooperandkid.com
Hammer Made Shirt of the Month: Keep your man's wardrobe fresh without the hassle. Just answer a few styling/fit questions, and he'll receive a new shirt by mail the first week of the month for six or 12 months. hammermade.com


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Wednesday, April 25, 1979
Publishers Weekly reviews Richard Grayson's WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK
The April 23, 1979 issue of Publishers Weekly has a review of Richard Grayson's With Hitler in New York:
Richard Grayson. Taplinger, $7.95
Grayson pokes fun at American life -- politicians, business, television and fads -- in these sharp, witty stories populated by such figures as Farrah Fawcett-Majors, "Chief Justice Burger, Teen Idol," and Sarah Lawrence of Arabia. Abe Lincoln, who isn't the least bit interested in slavery, sprawls on a couch in total apathy as Stephen Douglas makes love to Mary Todd upstairs. The degeneration of love in an alienated society is sketched in "Classified Personal," a collection of ads signed by Sappho, The Impotent Kid, Take Me I'm Yours, and other lonely hearts in search of potential mates. "In the Lehman Collection," a boy jogs 11 miles a day through the Main Gallery, a family takes a tour in their Winnebago, and a man is stabbed, unnoticed. The staccato style, laced with puns and wisecracks, is apt for these amusing if somewhat contrived satires. [June 15]
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Friday, April 6, 1979
Taplinger Publishing Company's Spring 1979 Catalog features Richard Grayson's "With Hitler in New York"
Thirty astonishing stories by an exciting new writer –
Hitler and Mike get stoned and go for eggcreams in Brighton Beach. Buddy's grandfather secretly knows that Farrah Fawcett-Majors has a foreign accent. A famous weight-lifter realizes that he's got to live inside the body he's built for himself. A teenage fan magazine tells 'How to Make Chief Justice Burger Love You.' A woman dutifully lies under the bed while her son has sex with Sarah Lawrence of Arabia. Cambodian insurgents auction off centaurs, gorgons, satyrs and griffins. A short story on a low-cholesterol diet gets arrested for solicitation. . . Welcome to the world of Richard Grayson, a gifted young writer whose short fiction, published in dozens of literary magazines, has been startling lucky readers for years. With Hitler in New York is a collection of Grayson's finest, freshest, funniest work – thirty original visions of the way we live now.
160 pp. 5¼x8 $7.95 8406-X May Fiction
- Taplinger Publishing Company Spring 1979 Catalogue, page 14
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Renovating Your Home for a More Modern Look
Living in a restful-seeming, well-decorated space can increase productivity when at work, and relaxation during leisure. The way you keep your stuff and maintain your home actually says a lot about you. Adding some tasteful touches to the necessities can surely amp up your place and give it a more inviting vibe.
Instead of paying hefty amounts to professional designers to dramatically modernize your home, you yourself can achieve a modernized interior through a few simple steps. A bunch of tweaks here and there can go a long way in renovating your home.
Lighten and Brighten
Removing unnecessarily bright lighting in rooms that are used for relaxation and leisure is just as important as adding brightness to study room and kitchen. Moreover, modern lighting with LEDs is as cost-effective and energy-saving as it looks great.
Also add fancier lights to dining rooms, colorful hues in bedrooms and fairy lights over plants to make your home look lively and modern.
Another thing to consider here is the color of your walls. Color up a single wall in a darker, bolder color for a modern, vibrant effect. Alternately, paint all other walls in light, bright hues of any pastel color that goes with your furniture.
Organize and Declutter
While you're modifying different aspects of your home as part of redecorating, there is one important question you need to ask yourself – is your stuff organized right?
Cluttered spaces with an excess of items in full view can be headache-inducing instead of inviting. Throw away unnecessary items, store away stuff you don't need on regular basis, and arrange other items neatly where they belong. Even designer homes lose their beauty when the things inside them are not well-organized.
Alternately, if you think you have an extra shelf or a bulky piece of furniture that is just using up space instead of serving any special purpose, you better get rid of it – modern homes are spacious! To add an illusion of space, you can place a large mirror on a wall, which is a classic designer's trick when dealing with small rooms.
Display Decorative Himalayan Salt Lamps
This option is great if you want an exquisite-looking decorative item on display in your home. Genuine Himalayan Salt Lamps are made of pure Himalayan Salt crystals that are hand-mined from ancient sea salt deposits in Khewra Salt Mines, Pakistan. This salt is known for its potential of having a plethora of benefits for health and wellness. Himalayan Salt Lamps are basically either carved blocks of the salt fitted with an electric bulb, or any container with a bulb and Himalayan Salt crystals.
These salt lamps are said to release negative ions which are also called 'vitamins of the air' due to their healing properties. These negative ions are said to purify the air by removing dust and dander and combat harmful positive ions (electronic smog) in the atmosphere. They may also provide relief in conditions like asthma, allergies, respiratory disorders, headaches, anxiety, SAD, and insomnia etc.
The warm orange-pink hues of Himalayan Salt Lamps certainly make them unique decorative items with an added bonus of health benefits. These can look great in any room – on the bedside table in your bedroom, as a mantelpiece display in your living room, or as a welcoming ornament near the entrance.
Free space is indeed essential for a modern-looking interior, but there's even a limit to minimalism! You need to accessorize with some elements of surprise to give your rooms a perfectly finished look.
Do it by adding accessories that won't take up more floor space – for example, add printed cushions over a plain couch, or plain bright cushions over a patterned one. Place the center table over a brightly colored furry rug, or arrange small indoor potted plants under a transparent glass table. Showcase a few picture frames of yourself or some landscapes, hang art on walls, or be even more creative by unconventional wall hangings such as a display of plates with corresponding patterns.
Add attractive centerpieces to tables, like trays, decorative bowls with potpourri, flower vases, or decorative baskets.
Enrich with Texture
Modernize your home's interior by incorporating different textures in your items of use. Using upholstery made of a variety of textured fabrics such as silk, mohair, leather, and cotton can be pleasing to the eyes. Add a macrame wall hanging or some printed georgette curtains around a window. Another way to add texture is on the walls, in the form of an embossed paint job, or airbrushed paint style.
Now you know, interior decorating and renovation are not as complicated as it seems. You only need to have a good sense of style to avoid any disastrous results of clashing patterns or ugly paint shades! Otherwise, you're good to go.
Jeffrey Lewis (My Bio)
Hey there, friends! I'm Jeffrey. I'm a blogger at ittefaqco.com. Thank you for joining me, as I share different aspects of my life. I'm so thrilled you stopped by! I love to create a beautiful, thriving life around me and helping others to do the same. I love writing about nature, health, beauty, Himalayan salt and home décor related topics.


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Anglo-Saxon Britain
In the Footsteps of Ivarr the Boneless
by Mick Baker, drawn from the Channel 4 series and a feature by Geoffrey van Leeuwen
Most of the information that exists about Ivarr inn beinlausi - Ivarr the Boneless - comes from the Scandinavian saga tradition. In particular it comes from Ragnar's saga - the tale that recounts the exploits of his father, the Danish king Ragnarr Lothbrok ('Leather or Hairy Breeches'), a famous Viking hero who led the sack of Paris in AD 845.
These sagas tend to mix historical fact with legend and folklore, but the existence of Ivarr, Ragnarr's eldest son, as an historical figure is in no doubt. His exploits are recorded in contemporary historical documents, and it is possible to trace his movements with relative certainty.


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Month: April 2013
Devil's Lake
Devil's Lake has accepted my nonfiction piece "Cover that Boy with a Yellow Jacket." I'll post a link when the piece goes live. In the meantime check them out here.
Crack the Spine
My short story "The Cold" has been accepted by Crack the Spine. Check them out here!


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Did you know you could make homemade body wash with as little as three ingredients? They're all-natural ingredients too!
Not only is homemade body wash easy to make, you can choose your favorite essential oils to add!
For this homemade body wash, I chose lavender and peppermint essential oils, but you can modify this recipe to use your favorite essential oils and blends. (More on that below.)
What You'll Need to Make Homemade Body Wash:
- 1 1/2 cup Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap
- 4 tsp Organic Vegetable Glycerin
- Lavender essential oil (I use and love Rocky Mountain Oils or Eden's Garden (found on Amazon)
- Peppermint essential oil ( Amazon | Rocky Mountain Oils)
- 16oz empty plastic container to hold the body wash. I used an old shampoo bottle, but you can purchase your own empty bottles over here.
Start by pouring 1 and 1/2 cups of Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap into your empty 16 oz. bottle. I filled my 3/4 measuring cup and poured twice, that way I only dirtied one measuring cup.
You won't quite reach the top of the bottle – which is what you want. You need just a bit of room left in the bottle for the remaining ingredients.
Next, add 4 teaspoons of organic vegetable glycerin. The glycerin is what will make this homemade body wash sudsy! Castile soap is a gentle cleanser, but the glycerin will give you the lather you will be looking for in a smooth body wash.
That being said, if you prefer, you can leave the glycerin out. Your body wash will still work beautifully and smell amazing, but it won't produce suds.
Now you will add the essential oils of your choosing. As I mentioned earlier, I chose lavender and peppermint. Lavender is soothing for your skin and is calming. I also chose peppermint because of its cooling effect on the skin.
Here are a few more essential oil combinations I recommend for homemade body wash:
- rose may help support your emotions and invigorate your body
- geranium may help support mood, especially in times of grief
- Ylang Ylang may calm your mood and support your nervous system.
- Melissa may soothe your mood and promote healthy energy and thoughts.
- Hyssop may aid in relaxing the nervous system and may combat fatigue while promoting clarity of the mind
- Jasmine may soothe a stressed mind and body, lifting the spirit, and clearing the mind of inferior thoughts.
- Cucumber Seed can comfort irritated skin and improve the shine of hair.
I added about 30 drops total of essential oils to my homemade body wash.
*Note – if you want a citrus blend of body wash, I recommend you getting a glass bottle to store your body wash in as the citrus oils may corrode plastic containers.
Now that you have your three ingredients in your bottle, give your body wash a good shake to get the glycerin and castile to mix well together.
Next time you jump in the shower, be sure to have your body wash pouf, as this body wash will suds up amazingly well and will be soothing on your skin!
After using this homemade body wash, I have no desire to ever use any commercial body wash product again. Just smelling the bottle of my old body wash was overbearing and harsh to me. Plus, as I gradually swap to more natural and often homemade bath, beauty, and home products, I always prefer them to the chemicals.
This body wash is not the only homemade DIY bath product you will find in my shower! I also have these that you should make and try too!
Natural Homemade Foaming Face Wash
Homemade Coconut Shaving Cream
Homemade Peppermint Sugar Scrub


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These loose-fitting shorts come in a range of colours and are made from 100% nylon. They are practical for on the beach or in the pool and also suitable for running or other sports training.
If you don't like tight-fitting briefs and long boardshorts that restrict your movements, this is a great choice for you!
NOTE: See the bottom of each image for correct colour.
For help with finding the right size, check out the Speedo size chart
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Dusty Melodics and Hooks
Label: Sample Magic
Dusty Melodics & Hooks offers 101 granular and gritty reworked musical loops - lo-fi melodics, smoky piano licks, resampled riffs, and dusty hooks key-labeled throughout and served with MIDI variants as standard. As a bonus, we have included 101 melodic one-shots curated into multiple formats (Ableton, Logic, and Reason) for endless inspiration, control and creative freedom.
Dusty Melodics & Hooks - Rack Info
Please note: This pack contains melodic content only. The drum sounds heard in the demo are taken from Crate Diggers, Sunset Sessions, Sunrise Sessions, Chillmatic, Expansion Pack: Chillmatic, Sleazy Beats & Jazztronica 2. The above instruments require Ableton Live 9.7.7 or newer. These racks are compatible with Ableton Live Standard and Suite editions and forward-compatible with Ableton 10. The Instrument Racks and are found in the one-shot folders.
What's Inside
Loops > A treasure trove of dusty melodics, jazzy hooks, lo-fi loops from brass to guitars and piano to strings. All loops are key and tempo labeled for endless mix and match capabilities
Just Melodic Loops. 101 x 24-bit Wav files // 101 x Apple Loops // 101 x Rex2 files // 101 x MIDI files.
Melodic One-Shots > Gritty analogue synth shots, dusty instrumentation, resampled lo-fi licks and crunchy chords. 101 one-shot samples ready for drag 'n' drop into your arrange window or fire up your favourite sampler. One Shot Samples loaded with custom Ableton racks for extra control and creative freedom.
**Please note: Ableton Live 9.7.5 or later is required to run the racks.
Just Melodic One-Shots. 101 x 24-bit Wav files // 2 x Ableton adg racks.