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My experience with Education Innovation Fellowship began with readings directly from or steeped in the language of the private sector, most notably The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. I am naturally suspicious of conflating of business and education; I fundamentally believe that a school cannot be run like a business. But as I read about hybrids and—be still, my Silicon Valley-watching heart—disruptive innovations, I quickly identified my students' place in this world.
Allow me to contextualize the Island of Misfit Toys that is my school (LAYC Career Academy). We are a public charter school for 16- to 24-year-old disconnected youth. The term "disconnected youth" can be generally defined as youth who are neither attending school nor pursuing a career (the summary preceding this report paints an accurate picture). Roughly 70% of our students are seeking a GED, a test that has undergone significant, anxiety-inducing changes since 2014 to align with Common Core. The other 30% of students have attained a high school credential, but they are not on a specific career trajectory. Sure, they might work nights at Target or in the back of a restaurant, but they want more for their long-term future. We offer students GED preparation, access to free college credits at local universities, and career training as medical assistants and A+ computer technicians. We are in our third year of operations and are constantly iterating on our model. Not a six-week interval has gone by where we haven't tried something new.
We take all comers. All of them. Our students fit every negative label that can be applied to minority youth in this country—teen mother, ex-con, illegal, dropout; the list goes on. In every negative label, we choose to see strength, and positive youth development is a core tenet of our mission. What we refuse to do is pretend that by simply attending school (our school, a former school, any school), a student can read at a level equivalent to his or her age. We refuse to lie to students about where they are academically and where they need to get in order to (for example) never pay for remedial college classes that will fail to earn them a single college credit. A high school credential means far less at my school than a reading score on the NWEA MAP that reflects a non-normed, criteria-based, 12th grade proficiency level.
So who are my students to the world of business? Nonconsumers! The attraction of blended and personalized learning immediately crystallized for me when I read the definition of this term. As a GED math instructor, my students were quite literally nonconsumers of their education—many, it appears, from a very young age. If a student has found his or her way to our doors, they are thirsty for a disruption to a non-consuming past. Whatever went on with their education before did not work, and as a result, they either abandoned or were abandoned by traditional education systems (which, certainly in D.C., includes charter schools). But as varied as the reasons for that abandonment may be, blended and personalized learning sheds light on a possible way forward for all of our students.
As I have experimented with variations of station and flex rotations, one thing has become readily apparent: Giving control, choice, and trust back to my students pays dividends. I have seen marked increases in their stamina, focus, and productivity, not to mention their independence, self-advocacy, and overall positivity towards school. And while my students will never file silently from station to station while a one-minute song plays over my computer's speakers (and, quite frankly, I don't care), they will help and redirect each other, push themselves forward, track their progress, and write ambitious weekly goals. And they will loudly celebrate victories and express frustration. Fine. Good. Passion about school is exactly what I want. As I watched the riots in Baltimore unfold last week, I saw people struggling to find power and control over their own lives. At the same time, I am watching in my classroom what empowerment can do for someone who has previously felt none.
The edtech tools available for the "misfit toys" that populate my school are starkly undeveloped, so we're on the prowl for the best solutions for older students with wide ranging skills. (Yes, I'm dropping hints to any edtech developers out there looking for a relatively underserved part of the market.) Since we are unapologetically mastery-based (grades don't exist at our school) and driven by the needs of whomever walks in the door on a given day (which is always a surprise), truly adaptive, multimodal software is our top priority. It appears that we will probably not find the perfect edtech fit—after all, how could one size fit all misfits? But the steps we are taking to personalize the learning process are leading to a fundamental shift in the mindset of our students. And it is empowering for everyone involved.
Claire Finn, 2015 Education Innovation Fellow
LAYC Career Academy


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Ghost Note, Lacks Scares and Visual Development
Ghost Note Film Details
Director: Troy Hart
Writer: Troy Hart
Release Date: August 2017
Release Format: VOD and DVD
MPAA Rating: N/A
Genre: Thriller
Running Time: 105 min
When rebellious teenager Mallory is left behind at her grandmother's house while her parents go to Hawaii, she gets reacquainted with Rodney, the boy next door. She also discovers a dark family secret, hidden away in the attic. In the early 1970's, a series of unsolved murders were rumored to have been committed by an evil blues musician named Eugene Burns who had sold his soul to the devil. Mallory's long dead grandfather, a preacher, captured Eugene and performed an exorcism, but he was unable to expel the demon. Instead, he locked Eugene away to prevent him from hurting anyone else. Nearly 50 years later, Mallory accidentally sets Eugene free, and he begins to kill again. Now she must figure out a way to stop him before it's too late.
For his first feature, Troy Hart wrote and directed Ghost Note, an indie horror ghost story with a slasher ingredient. The set up is simple and original but the film disappoints.
Ghost Note has a pleasant pace and rhythm and delivers on the atmosphere and carnage. It felt deranging, in particular during the second and final act. I have to compliment the director for providing us a creepy antagonist for the final showdown and for the use of some unexpected special effects to induce the mood like the fog scenes. I got transported to an 80's slasher for a moment and it felt good. The strongest performance of the film is the one from the grandmother played by Allyn Carrell. It grew throughout the viewing and it seemed genuine. A full of love and powerful performance. Impressive.
Even though the visuals were great, Ghost Note isn't scary. There were technical problems throughout the film, for instance, the editing and camera movements. Unfortunately, they hurt the viewing experience, it got worse near the end when we were lost during a chase scene with Mallory. This scene felt like there were shots missing…
The other performances weren't top notch as well but especially Mallory's. During the first act the character was too much stereotyped and overacted – the usual character you see in a horror film. She failed to carry the film on her shoulders during the toughest moments near the end. I didn't feel she had what it takes to be the final girl for a slasher. It was unpleasant and decreased for me the fundamental flow of the film. But on a positive note (no pun intended), the killer is fascinating.
In Conclusion:
Ghost Note felt flat and I had a difficult time watching it. There were a few major scenes and the atmosphere was on point most of the time but it wasn't sufficient to keep the spectator interested. The technical problems caused an unusual flavor in my mouth. I perceived that there was awareness for cult slashers, a refreshing idea behind it and I can congratulate Troy for his arduous work with it and for their amazing website, but in honesty, I hope he pushes up his actors next time.
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Wanted to do a quick reminder that tomorrow starts the A to Z April Blogging Challenge. For 26 days I'll be posting a chapter a day of a story called: UNRAVELING. Hope all will read it and enjoy it. Most importantly I hope it allows you to keep your imagination wide open.
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In 2016, Sarah became the international face of a Ghanaian news network, GHOneTV and as an Investigative Journalist and TV Presenter, she explored various parts of the country presenting news and documentaries ranging from post election stories, undocumented rural villages, UNESCO Biosphere reserves, life and living conditions in the most dangerous slums, adventure and social impact stories that were designed to make a difference in the lives of the people she interviewed.
Her adventures took her all over from the sacred lake under threat from climate change in the Ashanti region to becoming the first to fly for the Kwahu Paragliding Festival for adventurers in Ghana. During her time in Ghana, she researched various environmental projects and tried to find a solution to the ever problematic air pollution, which led to her TEDx talk that year.


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Former Black Cats striker signs deal
Burnley Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of former Sunderland striker Ryan Noble on a one-year deal.
The former England U19 striker is a free agent after being released from the Stadium of Light in the summer.
Noble, 22, is a product of the Sunderland youth Academy and the 6ft striker made five Premier League appearances for the Black Cats in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons.
He previously ended the 2009/10 season on loan at Watford, where Clarets boss Sean Dyche was assistant manager.
Noble later had two loan spells at Derby County; the first, in October 2010, being ended prematurely by injury before he joined the Rams again in January 2012 and made two appearances, including one as a substitute in the 0-0 draw at Burnley.
The following March, Noble joined Hartlepool and scored two goals in nine appearances before joining the League One side again in October 2012 and featuring in 10 games for the Pools, scoring once in a 2-1 defeat at Bury.
Burnley manager Sean Dyche said: "Ryan is a young goalscorer who was searching for a chance at Sunderland and didn't quite get it.
"But we hope to give him as chance here to further his development into possibly a first team player.
"We had Ryan at Watford, but he was too young then. He's now a little older and wiser now and we want him to be hungry to perform and impress and improve himself here.
"He will get the platform and that is the challenge."
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Our team visited the transgender compound December 11 at Laxmi Nagar Delhi, with the objective of giving them the same kind of rights and self-respect each one of us enjoys. During the conversation, we felt their pangs of suffering from their families also. We appeal to the government, society, and our education system for their support and upliftment for all to lead a normal life. Education is the basic colour which leads people to be financially and socially independent.
We are thankful to them for sharing their feelings with us.
The Kathak Dharohar team


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North Dakota is among the few states without a law allowing you to name someone to carry out your funeral plans, but the state does permit you to leave legally binding instructions about the kind of arrangements you want.
You can also aside funds to be sure your funeral expenses are covered, including costs of burial or cremation.
In North Dakota, the right and responsibility for making funeral arrangements goes first to a surviving spouse and then to your next of kin. (North Dakota Century Code § 23-06-03(1).)
While North Dakota doesn't give you the option of naming your own final arrangements representative, the state does allow you to make a legally binding document stating the kind of body disposition you want -- for example, whether you want to be buried or cremated. You can include your instructions in any number of documents, including a:
If the person with the legal responsibility to carry out your funeral arrangements (or the personal representative of your estate) knows about your instructions, they are almost always required by law to honor them. (North Dakota Century Code § 23-06-03(4).)
See below for help writing out your wishes.
Should you name a representative even if North Dakota law doesn't explicitly permit it? If you know who you want to oversee your funeral arrangements and you're worried that person won't be at the top of North Dakota's list, it's wise to go ahead and name your choice in writing. While funeral service providers may not be legally required to take direction from the person you name, your written wishes should carry great weight, especially if you combine your appointment with clear wishes about what you want, as North Dakota law allows.
One good way to name your final arrangements representative is to use a North Dakota durable power of attorney for health care or health care directive. You can explicitly state in your document that you want your health care agent to carry out your wishes for body disposition and funeral services after your death. This saves the trouble of making separate documents for final arrangements and health care decisions.
For more information about making a durable power of attorney for health care or health care directive in North Dakota, see North Dakota Living Wills and Health Care Directives.
To make a North Dakota health care document that appoints your health care agent to carry out your final plans, you can use Nolo's Quicken WillMaker Plus software.
If you're in the military. You may name the person who will carry out your final wishes in the Record of Emergency Data provided by the Department of Defense.
The most recent statistics from the National Funeral Directors Association put the average cost of a funeral at more than $7,000. This figure doesn't include many common expenses such as cemetery costs, markers, flowers, or obituaries. For many people, after a house and a car, funeral goods and services are the most expensive thing they'll ever buy. It's smart to make a plan to pay for these costs.
You have two basic options for covering your funeral expenses, including the costs of burial or cremation. You can:
If you don't do either of these things, your survivors must cover the costs of your funeral arrangements.
Paying in advance. If you want to pay for your funeral arrangements ahead of time, make sure you're dealing with a reputable funeral establishment and clearly document any plans you make, so your survivors can easily carry them out. Though the law requires providers of funeral goods and services to carefully manage your funds (see North Dakota Century Code, Chapter 43-10.1, Pre-Need Funeral Services), abuses do happen. What's more, if a funeral establishment goes out of business, your careful planning may be lost.
For more information, see The Prepaid Funeral and Its Perils.
Setting aside funds. The safest and easiest way to cover the costs of your final arrangements is to estimate costs and tuck away the funds in an easily accessible, interest-earning bank account. You can designate a beneficiary who can claim the funds immediately after your death. Make sure the beneficiary understands what the money is for, however, and that you trust him or her completely, because the beneficiary is under no legal obligation to use the funds for your final arrangements.
For more information about setting up an account to cover the costs of your final arrangements, see Payable-on-Death (POD) Accounts: The Basics.
Letting your survivors know what kind of funeral arrangements you envision -- including your wishes for ceremonies and whether you want to be buried or cremated -- will save them the difficulty of making these decisions during an emotional and stressful time.
Because North Dakota doesn't specifically permit you to designate the person who will carry out your wishes, it's even more important that you clearly document what you want. Your survivors will be legally required to honor your wishes, as long as they do not impose an "economic or emotional hardship." (North Dakota Century Code § 23-06-03(4).)
Nolo offers several tools to help you decide on and document your desires for final arrangements. Each one walks you step-by-step through the process, so you won't miss any important issues.
While there are many ways to write down your wishes for final arrangements and make them clear, here's a firm piece of advice to follow: Don't put them in your will. Your will may not be read until weeks after your death -- far too late to help your survivors. It's better to prepare a separate document.
Store your final arrangements paperwork in a safe place and be sure your loved ones know where to look when the time comes. It may be helpful to make copies and tell them where to find the originals when they're needed. If you do so, be sure to keep a list of everyone with copies, in case you need to get them back and change them later.
To learn more about making your final arrangements, see Getting Your Affairs in Order on Nolo.com.
For details on the rules that control disposing of remains in North Dakota, see Burial and Cremation Laws in North Dakota.


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The 13 Inventions Moms Really Need
- Author Elizabeth Laing Thompson
- In Lists of 13 Lizzy Laughs
- Date May 27, 2015
1. Clear ketchup.
2. Shots that tickle.
3. Sugar-free, vitamin-filled, cavity-fighting lollipops that coat kids' teeth in the perfect level of fluoride.
4. Emergency toilet paper and diaper air-drop delivery. Your nine-year-old used up the last square of toilet paper just before bedtime? No problem. No need to resort to tissues or—heaven forbid—paper towels. Call the air drop hotline, and an emergency super-soft eight-pack will land in your front yard within five minutes. Your husband forgot to mention that he used the last diaper while you were out, and every diaper bag has already been cleaned out? No problem. Call the airdrop hotline. (For a small additional fee, milk, bread, children's ibuprofen, humidifiers, and poster board for your fifth grader's last-minute school project can also be air-dropped.)
5. A drive-thru kid-wash. Hold child out the car window—or better yet, buckle them into a small bucket seat that attaches to the side of your minivan, like a motorcycle sidecar—and then kids go for a fun ride! While Mom and Dad put the van in neutral and relax inside, rocking out to non-kid music and munching on hors d'oeuvres, the happy child gets sprayed by colorful soap bubbles, tickled and cleaned by a fun scrub brush, and gently blown dry. For an extra fee, their teeth can get brushed and flossed, too. When you pull the child back inside the van, they are ready for bed: clothed in fresh pajamas, hair combed, teeth shining. The minute you get home, you can toss a clean, happy child in the bed.
6. An instant food lukewarmifier. What's a food lukewarmifier? It immediately heats or cools any food to that perfect but elusive lukewarm temperature that picky kids demand. No need to cook your child's food, then put it in the freezer for a never-fast-enough cool-down, only to find that you've over-cooled it, and now you have to microwave it all over again for exactly nine point two seconds. All while your starving toddler shrieks and stabs your table with their baby fork.
7. Pacifiers that gradually wean the child automatically: Like, maybe the pacifier begins to release a gross-tasting flavor (probably kale) when the child reaches 18 months of age. After a few hours or days of this flavor, the toddler decides, "Hey, I don't like my pacifier anymore. All done. Habit broken. Now Mommy doesn't have to get a second job to fund my braces."
8. Emergency mute buttons for children. For those humiliating parenting moments when your child points at a stranger and shouts something horrifying like, "Look, Mommy! That man has a baby in his tummy!" These buttons would come with remote controls that reach to the back of the car, across the dinner table, even across the playground or shopping mall.
9. Family-size invisibility shields (complete with sound barriers). Press a button, up goes the shield, and voilà—instant privacy. Your kid starts throwing an epic tantrum in public, and you can't properly deal with them while all the bystanders are glaring at you and judging your parenting? Shields up! Your potty-trainer yanks down their Pull-Up and tries to use a potted plant in the mall for a toilet? Shields up! Your child goes digging for gold in their nose in the middle of a restaurant? Shields up! Your toddler walks up behind you, goes for a hug, but accidentally hikes your skirt up for the whole world to see? Shields up!
10. Cough medicine for babies that is safe and homeopathic and actually works. Because BABIES COUGH ALL THE TIME, ALL NIGHT LONG, WHENEVER THEY GET THE SLIGHTEST SNIFFLE, AND NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE SAY, HONEY AND VICKS BABY RUB DON'T HELP AT ALL. (Okay. Rant over.)
11. Mad-Eye Moody Eyeballs for moms—you know, from Harry Potter. These magical eyeballs can roll 360 degrees, see through the back of your head, and even spy on people through walls. (Ideally, you would be able to assign a different Mad-Eye Moody Eyeball to each of your children, to help you keep track of multiple kids at once on crowded playgrounds.)
12. Go-Go-Gadget Arms. You remember, from the classic 80s cartoon "Inspector Gadget" (recently revived on Netflix). These arms can extend like 50 feet in any direction, even around corners, to rescue people and grasp unreachable things. These arms can morph into drills, screwdrivers, crock pots, dental equipment—whatever shape you might need. A pair of Go-Go-Gadget Arms would especially come in handy while driving with children in the backseat: Toddler drops pacifier on minivan floor and begins to shriek? Go-Go-Gadget Arms to the rescue! Three-year-old gags on a piece of apple and may need the Heimlich maneuver while you're doing 65 on the Interstate? Go-Go-Gadget Arms to the rescue! Six-year-old can't put straw in juice box and has a meltdown? Go-Go-Gadget Arms to the rescue! Brother keeps pinching sister and making her cry in the back seat? Go-Go-Gadget Arms to the rescue!
13. Emotionally intelligent holograms of Mommy that can attend any function with your children, for those times when you need to be at two field days, one swim meet, one parent-teacher conference, and a piano lesson all at the same time. A basic hologram would not do. The hologram must be empathetic: able to comfort the child who has lost the sack race; cheer enthusiastically for the child who has won third place in the 50 backstroke; nod and "hmm" at everything the teacher says; and commiserate with (while also gently disciplining) the child who forgot to practice piano this week.
Okay, your turn: What inventions do you really need to help you survive motherhood?
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Elizabeth works from home as a writer, editor, diaper changer, baby snuggler, laundry slayer, not-so-gourmet chef, kid chauffeur, floor mopper, dog groomer, and tantrum tamer. She is always tired, but it's mostly the good kind.
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What a great list! All of these things are necessary and able to be used for each age group. I especially like the instant privacy shield – Shields UP!
Hysterically funny and extremely true
You had me at "clear ketchup". 😉
Love this! And I agree with Andrea… instant privacy shield is a must have. My add-on to your list, since you asked, is an instantly available Mary Poppins who arrives at your door the moment your mind thinks "babysitter."
What a hoot! Love the list. Sugar-free, vitamin-filled lollipops? Ha!
The emergency mute button is a total must. I'd also love to see someone invent emergency noise canceling headphones and a blindfold. Think of all the inappropriate movies we could then watch as a family. Like, when I'm actually awake!
I can think of several inventions I need, but my first choice would be ANYTHING (toy, movie, dancing clown, whatever) that would jam my kids' Mom-Is-Going-Potty-Dars. They can be happily absorbed in something awesome, but the second I try to go pee for 30 seconds, they either scream like their hair is on fire or they magically appear: "Whatcha doing? Can I see?" How do they always know??!!
Okay the mad-eye moody eyeballs for moms…LOVE IT!! Epic list!
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Harry Potter Moment of the Week
Harry Potter Moment of the Week is a meme hosted over at Uncorked Thoughts. The idea is to share a favorite moment, magical item, character, spell, quote, object from the books, films or J.K.Rowling herself! Upcoming topics & how to join here.
Favorite Marauder
Gah! This is painful to even think about since three out of the four Marauders are among my favorite characters in the entire series...so singling out just one seems impossible. Even though James was a bit of a prat in his younger years, he turned out to be an incredibly brave and selfless man. Plus he's the father of the Chosen One ♥ Then there's Remus Lupin, who I love even more because his sheer existence tugs at my heartstrings in all the right ways. I adored him as a DADA professor and mourned his departure just as much as Harry did. - PLUS me & Lupin share a birthday (March 10th) - how cool is that?! Despite how incredibly amazing those two are, I pick:
Sirius Black
Young Sirius was so freaking cool, I can't help but think I would have had a major crush on him...and then older Sirius was a perfect mix of brooding, loving, tragic, protective and jaded. Gah! He's so awesome! Sirius grew up in an awful family with horrible beliefs and yet he still managed to fight for good side. And don't even get me started on how many times he put his own life on the line to help his loved ones (because of the feels, oh em gee I could drown in those feels)! Sure he had his darker moments - mainly brought on by Snape - but I don't care cause I just love him so damn much.
Sirius Black III (1959 - 18 June, 1996), also known as Padfoot and Snuffles in his Animagus form, was a pure-blood wizard, son of Orion and Walburga Black and elder brother of Regulus by a little over a year. Although he was the heir of the House of Black, Sirius disagreed with his family's belief in blood purity and defied tradition when he was sorted into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which he attended from 1971 to 1978. As Sirius' relationship with his relatives deteriorated, he gained great friendship in James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. The four friends, also known as the Marauders, joined the Order of the Phoenix to fight against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War. Sirius also became the godfather of Harry Potter, son of James and Lily Potter. When Pettigrew betrayed the Potters to Voldemort, Sirius sought to exact revenge on Pettigrew. However, Pettigrew was able to frame Sirius for his betrayal of the Potters, the murder of twelve Muggles, and the staged murder of Pettigrew before Sirius could accomplish this.
Sirius was sent to Azkaban for twelve years, eventually becoming the only known person to escape the prison unassisted by transforming into his Animagus form of a massive black dog confused with a "Grim." Sirius exposed Pettigrew's treachery to his old friend Remus and his godson. After Lord Voldemort returned in 1995, Sirius rejoined the Order. He was killed by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and subsequently cleared of all charges by the Ministry of Magic.
He briefly appeared again through the Resurrection Stone for Harry, along with James, Lily and Remus in 1998. -Harry Potter Wikia


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When I moved to a 20 acre property fifty minutes south of Darwin I was expecting many things but I was not prepared for the fires. In the dry season fires tear through huge sections of land, hungry red and eager orange, leaving blackened trees, cycads and pandanus. The dancing shape of the pandanus, black against the fire, struck me on a drive home one evening and I created this design.
A few weeks later a bright green forest floor was sprouting, giving rise to a second interpretation.
This print is best reproduced at a large scale.
pandanus fire
pandanus – first rain


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The following texts, videos and photographs aim to give you a sense of the Live Art UK Associates Gathering 2013 at mac Birmingham.
October 4 2013 saw the second Annual Associates Gathering, an opportunity
to network and share information about activities, issues and models of best practice
regarding experiential and experimental practices with presenters and producers from
across the UK, and with key representatives from Higher Education, Arts Council
England and other funders. The first Associates Gathering took place at BAC, London in 2012 and looked at the idea of Live Art in 'unfamiliar places' by reflecting on the extraordinarily diverse range of contexts in which Live Art is now thriving in the UK.
Curated and produced by Fierce Festival in collaboration with Live Art UK, this second day-long Gathering brought together over 150 Associates representing some of the most significant organizations from across the UK who engage with aspects of Live Art within their wider work.
The title for the day was "Live Art in 2113", and the programme consisted of 5 strands:
1 – presentations from invited artists, thinkers and activists, offering visions of the future from their subject areas, including Jayne Bradley & Cathy Wade on food production; Steve Shaw on civic activism; Mariana Viada on cyborgs; Antonio Roberts on internet culture; Dr Cath Lambert on sociology; Heather Cassils on the body; and Tamar Kasriel on the future.
2 – themed breakout discussions moderated by representatives of Live Art UK members and guest contributors considered the relation of Live Art to alternative economies, the city and networks, the body, emergent technologies and education.
3 – three specially commissioned short films by Tania El Khoury, Mamoru Iriguchi and Deborah Pearson exploring the representation of the future(s), Live Art in 2113, the shape of the world to come and how we might have greater agency in the creation of that future.
Actions Against an Apocalyptic Future by Tania El Khoury from Fierce Festival on Vimeo.
4 – an opportunity to see the exhibition Fun With Cancer Patients conceived and facilitated by Brian Lobel.
5 – a final reflection session in which highlights from conversations across the day were gathered and shared with the full group, and two new Live Art UK supported publications were launched, I See A Fake Moon Rising on Live Art in the public realm and Forest Fringe's festival in a book, Paper Stages.
Please download a PDF with full details of the Gathering and contributors' biographies here.
Live Art UK is a national network of 24 venues, festivals and facilitators who collectively
represent a range of practices and are concerned with all aspects of the development of
the Live Art sector across the UK. The network works together to create new models and
partnerships for the promotion of Live Art; explores new ways to increase the national
and international visibility of Live Art; initiates strategies for a more sustainable future
for Live Art practitioners and promoters; and aims to provide a representative voice for
the Live Art Sector in the UK.


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The tank protector is welded to the protective runners of the tank and bolted to the longitudinal members at the side. Threaded bush with an M 8 thread (commercially available) must be inserted in the longitudinal members for this purpose.
See Drawing 10 for dimensions
I - Protection plate (5 mm
perforated plate)
2 - Tank runner, Part No.
251 201 655
3 - Threaded bush - M 8
4 - Bolt M 8 x 25
5 - Shim
Note: The tank should he empty when the protector is installed.
- Cut protection plate to size as shown in drawing and bend at the points indicated until it rests on the tank protective runners and longitudinal members of the vehicle.
- Provisionally attach plate to runners using sheet metal screws.
- Mark holes for lateral mounting bolts (arrows) on both sides.
- Remove runners and protection plate (retain tank with additional runner in installation position).
- Outside the vehicle weld runners and protection plate together at several points.
- Drill 11.5 mm dia. holes in the longitudinal member at the points marked.
- Slightly countersink holes,
- Tighten M 8 threaded bush. If no suitable tool is available proceed as follows: screw a nut onto a M 8 x 40 hexagon bolt with continuous thread and add a short sleeve.
- Screw on threaded bush -B- and insert bolt in hole in vehicle. Press the sleeve -A- against the threaded bush via the M 8 nut until the threaded bush in firmly locked. The sleeve and bolt must not turn.
- Install tank protector. If the tank projects beyond the longitudinal member at the side, insert a shim between longitudinal member and plate.


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Zac Efron has shared a pair of new behind-the-scenes image from his upcoming Ted Bundy biopic, revealing The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parson as Larry Simpson, lead prosecutor in Bundy's trial and the man who eventually put the grotesque serial killer behind bars, and Kaya Scodelario as Bundy's mysterious ex-wife Carol Anne Boone. Extravagantly titled with the headline-killer Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, the Bundy biopic stars Efron as the murderer, rapist and necrophile, who has become a bit of a national obsession since his 1976 trial and subsequent execution.
As I mentioned when we got a first peak at Efron's Bundy, I'm not super into this sexy serial killer trope and the idea of a teen heartthrob taking on the role is especially off-putting (check out the adoring comments on the pictures below for a glimpse at why that makes me uncomfortable), but there's a pretty exciting creative team behind this one that piques my interest.
Joe Berlinger, who previously investigated the infamous West Memphis Three trial with the Paradise Lost documentary trilogy is set to direct, with Diary of a Teenage Girl and This Is the End cinematographer Brandon Trost shooting the film. Written by Michael Werwie, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile approaches Bundy's story from the point of view of his longtime live-in girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (Okja's Lily Collins) during the years that he hid his gruesome crimes from her. John Malcovich is also set to star in the film as Judge Edward Cowart, who presided over the serial killer's 1979 trial and ultimately sentenced him to death.
Extremely Wicked is currently in production. Check out the latest images from the set below, followed by a few more images Efron's shared over the last few weeks.
Excited to welcome the amazing @kayascods as Carole Ann #wickedcrew #behindthescenes A post shared by Zac Efron (@zacefron) on
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Frank Sinatra Net Worth
Frank Sinatra net worth: Frank Sinatra was American musical superstar who had a net worth of $200 million. In the late 80s, during a period of decline, Sinatra's accountants calculated his net worth to be $14 million – a surprisingly small number. However, after his death in the late 90s, his family began fighting over a will that was worth somewhere between $200 million and $600 million. Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915. Frank Sinatra is indisputably one of the most successful musicians of the 20th-Century, as well as one of world's best-selling artists of all time. Making his career kick-off as a crooner with bandleaders like Tommy Dorsey and Harry James in the swing era, Sinatra has come to unprecedented success with his live performances across the country by the mid-1940s. Three years after he signed to Columbia Records in 1943, he saw the release of his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra. But suddenly a mix of damaged vocal cords, reputed ties to organized crime, and a torrid romance between the then married Sinatra and actress Ava Gardner stalled Sinatra's career by the 1950s. To anyone's surprise, Sinatra has made the most incredible career resurrections of all-time as he literally reinvented himself with his Oscar-winning performance in the 1953 drama From Here to Eternity. Since then, he has released a string of critically lauded albums with Capitol, such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy. Always eager for new challenges, Sinatra founded his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961, creating some more era-defining albums like Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. He went on to tour internationally with the Rat Pack, as a founding member of the band, and also rubbed shoulders with the likes of John F. Kennedy. Apart from his brief retirement in the early '70s, Sinatra soon got back to the stage to thrill his longtime fans with more sold out concerts and chart-topping albums like 1993's Duets, right up until his 80th birthday. Throughout his six-decade-long career, Frank Sinatra's outstanding work resulted in numerous notable accolades including eleven Grammy Awards, the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Frank Sinatra
|Net Worth:
|$200 Million
|Date of Birth:
|Dec 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998 (82 years old)
|5 ft 7 in (1.715 m)
|Singer, Actor, Film Producer, Conductor, Film director, Television Director
|United States of America
Frank Sinatra Earnings
- The Naked Runner$1,000,000
- The Manchurian Candidate$1,000,000
- The Pride and the Passion$10,000/week
- From Here to Eternity$8,000
- Meet Danny Wilson$25,000
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game$125,000
- The Miracle of the Bells$100,000
- Higher and Higher$25,000
- Reveille with Beverly$1,500
- Las Vegas Nights$15/day
- Major Bowes Amateur Theater of the Air$35


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Building and then maintaining an internet marketing business requires a huge amount of effort, commitment as well as dedication. One cannot become a successful internet marketer overnight. Instead, dedication, hard work and focus are the prerequisites that can contribute in making a businessman successful in the internet marketing business. This will obviously take a couple of years to start earning well through your online business. The very first thing that an internet marketer needs to do is set up the goals that are realistic and achievable. These goals will then further guide the business owner to work hard towards the dream of being a successful and confident internet marketer. One needs to be really persistent as well as focused in order to achieve these set goals.
It is highly imperative to make a plan of true action. You can get to know the perfect plan of action by looking at the experiences and information shared by other successful business owners through forums and blogs. Having a focused and clear goal can help a lot in setting those goals around the plan of action. The goals to be set require to be measurable, timely, specific and above all achievable. Setting the internet marketing goals with such aspects in mind can keep the internet marketer move a step further and will also allow in achieving the ongoing momentum and success.
It is wise to choose the specific or small goals that can be maintained and achieved on a regular basis. Setting huge and unrealistic goals or plans can only add confusion and create chaos. It is even crucial to keep a track of your set goals every single day. This will help the internet marketer to track the progress achieved and thus get motivation to further achieve the bigger goals.
Being firm yet flexible where required is another requirement to achieve the goals set for the internet marketing business. You can always make backup or secondary plans in case the primary or most important goals fail to be achieved. For instance, if you have made a goal of emailing 500 targeted customers the information or latest schemes about your online business on a regular basis, it is good to stick to this plan of action. But in case, if there is an urgent need to focus more on some other marketing tool, you can always make your goal flexible and send out if not 500 mails per day, say about 350 mails. This way, you can focus both on emailing your prospective customers as well as some other marketing technique that can provide great results for your internet marketing business as well. Needless to say, it is good to set the goals that you know you can achieve with your hard work and dedication.
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Ugh, I am so sick of writing about boobs. Haha...sike! Particularly when the boobs come in so many exhilarating shapes and sizes and practically beg to be caressed. OK, so they're made of ink and paper, and technically a set of crayons is meant to do the caressing, but hey, beggars who don't want to drop $500 at a strip club can't be choosers, right?
Color My Boobs!: A Titillating Coloring Book for Adults contains 36 pages of black line drawings curved and contoured to create a truly alluring menagerie of breasts. If you're a rack enthusiast of any kind, these interactive Crayola canvases guarantee to grant you the kind of rack that will both arouse your senses and give you pause long enough to wonder if it's at all F'd up to be able to get an erection from a coloring book. DD Stacks, Billy Armstrong, and Chad Powers III include iconic jugs of the following designations in their work of art (or rather, medium for your works of art):
- Melons & Bazooms
- Buxom
- Torpedos
- Side Boob
- Underboob
- Hot Teacher
- Showgirl
- Cheerleader
- Goddess
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To many people hobbies are simply a break from their everyday life. They can be an opportunity to exercise skills that they can't in their jobs. Or, they may be a chance to learn new skills and develop hitherto unknown or underdeveloped talents.
But for seniors in retirement, they may be much more. They can be a means to occupy the extra time they now have and give them a sense of value and of achievement. They can provide company, stimulation, and satisfaction.
A hobby can give somebody the opportunity to interact with people whom they would not otherwise meet. This can be actual personal contact or remotely via Skype, or Facetime, or even online gaming. For some people their hobby may be the only contact with the outside world. This alone can help in staving off loneliness and even depression.
Subject to time and financial constraints it is even a good idea to have more than one hobby. This way is possible to stimulate different parts of the brain and indeed to have hobbies that require different skills. If you are good with your hands, then creative hobbies would be of interest to you.
And of course, some hobbies can be done alone, and others around or with other people. Some of them even include at least some element of exercise as a bonus. This can be something as simple as walking to your favourite angling spot on the lake, and then casting for and playing fish. Or it can involve walking in the countryside in the pursuit of subjects for painting or photography. Some peoples hobby/interest involves far more exercise than this and can involve things like rock climbing.
I suppose I have three hobbies—Angling, Gaming, and Writing. Although interestingly some people seeing Angling as a sport (and indeed it has its own world championships).
By gaming I mean computer and console gaming, which although generally aimed at younger people still gives me mental stimulation.
But to call my third hobby just a hobby is misleading and insulting to other people who do it. Obviously, I'm talking about writing. When I started, it I did indeed think of as a hobby.
But it has turned out to be so much more. Indeed, my debut novel Not Too Old for Love has been accepted for publication as an eBook and should be available in about six months' time. This has been a rewarding and satisfying pursuit in terms of what I've been able to achieve, given that I am in my early 70s and haven't been to school for over fifty-seven years.
It is definitely something I recommend as a way of exercising your brain and staving off dementia.
What hobbies/interests do you do? Especially you seniors/baby boomers?


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Lets say we want to exclude all the *.png files while calculating the file space usage.
[shredder12]$ du -h --exclude=*.pngThe --exclude option takes a wildcard as input.
[shredder12]$ du -sh
[shredder12]$ du -ch *.png
115M total
The -h option is to show the size in a human readable format rather than a huge figure in bytes.
The -c option is used to add an extra line showing the grand total of all the files.
If the files to be excluded don't match any pattern then one can create a list of all the filenames and pass the file containing that list as argument to du's --exclude-from option.
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AC/DC, Aerosmith, Angus Young, Bands, Brian Johnson, Britpop, CDs, Heavy metal, Indie, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, Live music, Malcolm Young, Memoir, Nirvana, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Paul McCartney, Pop music, Records, Rock, The Beatles, The Nineties, Tour
Here's an example of the stuff I write when I really should be working on my novel. This is part one of a series examining the gradual end of a golden generation of post-war pop music. Which, I'm sorry to say, is tied in with your own gradual ending.
It was late summer, 1995. I got up early – a rare event in my student days – and took the bus into town.
The Virgin Megastore on Union Street was where you went for tickets to the big gigs in Glasgow at that time. It's a pub now, I think, or a pound store, or a noodle bar.
I must sound like someone's da, here.
And so I should. I am someone's da.
The previous year, I was part of that motley stream of thousands bubbling beneath Alexander "Greek" Thompson's sooty edifice, pretending not to be excited about tickets going on sale for Nirvana. Kurt Cobain put paid to his dream gig in the SECC's breezy black-curtained expanses just a matter of weeks later. I know some people who actually kept their tickets rather than getting a refund. Memento mori.
Me? I got a refund the day after he died. I was perversely annoyed. The cheek of it, killing himself before I got to see him!
What stuck in my mind was the crowd snaking all the way up the street. There had been a danger the show would be sold out before you got to the head of the queue. A frisson of anxiety over this possibility had undulated down the line.
This fear had been in my mind when I heard AC/DC were touring again. I resolved to get there early. "Early" meaning 9am. I was not going to miss them for any reason. They were my favourite band by a million miles.
I first got into AC/DC in my early teens, when an older brother blew my mind by playing "Thunderstruck" on my tape player. I still loved them well enough aged 18, although I was now branching out into other types of music, away from the safety of my classic rock cave.
In all that time – between the ages of 13 and 18 – there had been no new music from AC/DC barring the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie tie-in single, "Big Gun" ("Big Gun kick the hell outta you!"). There was a live album, and a video of their performance at Donington in 1991, which I had been very excited about (my big present on my 16th birthday, in fact). But this had all come before I started going to gigs. When were they going to come back? Would they come back?
The band had been dormant for half a decade, which is a big chunk of your lifetime when you're a teenager.
The machinery clanked into life at the end of that long, hot summer. They'd just released Ballbreaker, it had been well-received, and sold fairly well. They'd even put Angus Young on the front cover of NME: a classic black and white image from the late-70s, mid-mosh, hair flying, his skinny little body dolloped with sweat. It felt like your "gang" was back together, or more properly, that your big brother had your back.
So I honestly expected to see a stream of people lined up outside the Virgin Megastore, just as there had been for Nirvana.
In fact, no-one was there at all, beyond the usual 9am street traffic.
I felt a creeping dread. This was before the internet, remember, so you had to rely on billboards, flyers, newspaper ads and Teletext's music pages for your information about touring bands. Had I got it wrong?
I hadn't. Up the stairs I went when the Megastore opened at 9am. The girl at the ticket desk said yes, the AC/DC tickets were on sale today. Would I like one? Yes, I would.
It was not so much a golden ticket, as blue and white cardboard embossed with an image of the SECC on the front. It was pre-packaged with the effect of being bleached in sunlight like an old holiday photo – a cherished memory, fading gracefully, leaving only a very pale blue. It cost me £18.50. I've still got it, in a box file somewhere.
My ticket number was something like 00002, ridiculously low. That meant someone, somewhere, was more enthusiastic than me.
It was a strange moment. I was elated to be in the standing section for AC/DC, where I'd always dreamed of being. But at the same time I understood that, in 1995, AC/DC were not the hottest ticket in town. Times had changed. The people who stood in the queue for Nirvana were not necessarily the same people who'd like AC/DC. Whisper it – AC/DC might have been the choice of their dads.
The Nirvana queue young team might have been the same people who had gone to Loch Lomond for the legendary Oasis show in the summer of 1996, along with, it seemed, most of the country's youth.
I was chided by some acquaintances for not having gone to that event, and not having shown the slightest interest in it, before or after. "Where were you while we were getting high?" one chump asked me, with a straight face.
I had no use for Oasis. Loch Lomond now seems like a good event to have gone to, but I wasn't really into the band, so it would have been a bit of a fraud. I'd have been jumping on a bandwagon, trying to squeeze myself into the current trend, and that was something my younger self simply didn't do. I kinda liked some of their stuff, but I couldn't ever love them.
I don't mind them now. I've definitely mellowed. It's only music.
I didn't take to fresh faces and new guys very well, at that point. This wasn't down to snobbery – I simply liked what I liked, and I felt queasy about Next Big Things. Of course, at one point, AC/DC and Aerosmith, my two favourites, were the Next Big Things, but this all came before my time. It was history, but history added up to legitimacy, in my teenage brain. I was gradually getting better when it came to other types of music and trying new things, but wasn't quite open-minded yet.
I had eyed Nirvana warily; I'd liked "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the first time I heard it, its beautiful punky hooks overcoming any cynicism. But then I had also liked "Everything About You" by Ugly Kid Joe in much the same way at roughly the same time.
The tinge of hype tended to put me off as a boy. It wasn't that I thought I was cool or anything, I just didn't want to fall in line. Ridiculous stance. And I did fall in line, of course, but only when it came to well-established acts. Multi-millionaires. Like AC/DC.
I've come to realise that part of this was to do with the idea of legend and legacy, a myth of heroes which Jung or Joseph Campbell or even George Lucas might have understood. The idols glowering at me from my bedroom walls, guitars akimbo, were those of my elder brothers, already pre-established – and for many in my generation, already old hat. The guys who'd broken through in the sixties and seventies, the wrinkly rockers, the stuff of big brother albums, vinyl that you weren't allowed to touch, much less listen to. The cutting edge, they weren't. Bear in mind that a lot of these guys were still in their forties in 1995. I'm 40 this year.
I only saw Oasis the once, too. Late summer of 2000, the Gig on the Green. It felt appropriate to have seen them. For better or worse, they signified my generation as it arrived, blinking, slightly dazed, into full adulthood.
Liam seemed in a bad mood. Before too long, Noel was, too. They ended their show with a montage of John Lennon quotes on the big screen. The words coalesced to form an image of his trademark spectacles. I half expected to see them shattered by a gunshot for the finale. I remembered thinking: "This is crass. When are you going to let this Beatles thing go, and do your own thing?"
Oasis limped on for another eight years – roughly the same amount of time it took the Beatles to journey from Please Please Me to Let It Be – then broke up. It was probably the right thing to do.
But they'll be back. Put your money on it. Give it another couple of years, maybe, but they'll return.
They always come back. Until the day they can't.
On that morning back in 1995, I had my dream ticket, folded up in my wallet for safe-keeping. The date scheduled was June 1st, 1996. I also had a spare morning. The sun was shining. I was 18 years old, full to bursting with energy, my life gravid with possibilities.
So I pottered around in record shops, had a roll and sausage somewhere, and went back home.
I write lots of reviews and essays. Some of the early ones are collected in Paper Cuts.


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|Five of Earth
Gaian Tarot
Book: You are dealing with stress at a severe level, most likely your work, home, or your finances.
It is interesting that I drew this card because I just journeyed structure. I was meditating and I was cocooned in a womblike structure. I felt safe and secure and people were holding space for me while I was in this dwelling. Someone was standing outside watching so I would be protected. I felt totally safe within this space.
I'm not really in a true crisis right now, but maybe my mind created a crisis so I could find this sanctuary. Life is good as I am employed and I'm making progress on my health, but I do need to feel safe and secure and I'm not sure of the best way to do that.
I have the skills to survive any crisis.
January 2, 2018
I know for some people this womblike structure would feel isolated or lonely, but for me it appears snug and secure and it is something I'm realizing I need in my own life. I need to create a safe space for myself and part of that is having a space to curl up and feel secure in. In some ways, my wood room is that space as the kids are pretty good about letting me have that space and not interrupting.


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Hey guys, I'm back with part 2 of The Final Countdown! If you haven't already, be sure to check out Part 1 of this article before you read this one. In today's article, we're going to look at some cards that underwent some changes after they had been previewed. These changes were based on community feedback from the previews, further playtester discussions and additional playtesting that occurred after the cards were initially shown to the community.
Ability Updates
Covenant of Prayer—slight modification of adding "You may" so that this can be used in battle for numbers if that is what the situation calls for. You might also want it active but not necessarily to use that turn if you want to "turn off" the CBP Lost Soul.
Seventh Seal –in order to allow the Seventh Seal to search for The Seven Trumpets, we added "orTrumpets" to the search ability. This also adds a couple other cards that it searches out that could make for some fun strategies.
First Seal/Conquer—several people were unimpressed with First Seal, specifically becomes it seemed inherently weaker as a good Enhancement compared to Fourth Seal. To connect more closely with the idea of a "conquering" entity we changed the discard to a "take" ability, which then allows you to gain control of an opponent's character. Testing of this change proved to be very strong and will give the player a very tough choice in deciding how to use this card.
Fifth Seal/Justice Seekers—Justice Seekers will now only trigger on evil discard abilities and only be able to discard an evil card in a territory. We did not feel it would be very thematic for Justice Seekers to discard neutral cards such as the New Jerusalem Site or a Heavenly Temple Artifact.
Darkness Lost Soul—we added the option of putting the Evil Character that was searched for in hand so that it would not be vulnerable in territory. This gives allows for more strategy as the player can decide to put a strong territory class character down (such as Priest of Zeus) or can keep a versatile character like The Deceiver in hand until the opponent attacks and they can grab whichever Evil Character will be most beneficial.
"Humble" Lost Soul—it was pointed out by a community member that the verse from the Humble LS is a quote from a verse in Proverbs so the Humble LS has become our very first dual-testament Lost Soul. Most of the cards that target a testament specific Lost Soul target N.T. Lost Souls, but that is likely to change in future sets that focus more on the Old Testament.
Sixth Bowl of Wrath—we changed the evil Enhancement ability to allow the player to add any evil human King, not just their own, (similar to how Faith of David works). This fits thematically with the idea that the kings were gathered from all over and also fit better on the card so it was a win-win.
The Nobleman—we decided that only allowing The Nobleman to heal in the upkeep phase was too restrictive so we gave him a "once per round" heal ability in addition to his "each upkeep" search ability. However, because we felt he should not be as strong as Peter, you are required to reveal a good dominant to use the healing ability (similar to Jairus promo).
The False Prophet—perhaps the card we received the most feedback on was The False Prophet. Many people were disappointed in his ability so we decided to add a hand look as well. As mentioned previously, our goal with The False Prophet was to make a version that was good, but would not completely overshadow the UR version from The Early Church set. Personally I feel that both versions will be highly playable in different types of decks as the Early Church version now has several more useful N.T. sites it can search out.
Nicolaitans' Teaching—the targeting area was changed to "a territory" so a player could use this in battle and take the Hero of a player not in battle (instead of being limited to only taking a Hero from his opponent in that battle).
Wild Dogs—Wild Dogs originally started as a take ability, but there was some concern with putting such an ability on a generic character (particularly for T2) so we decided to do a topdeck/underdeck option with some draw potential and chump block potential. The take language had been left on there, but the ability is better categorized as a "reveal" since the player will not be taking control of the selected card.
Merchants of the Earth—in order to limit potential recursion abuse, we changed "exchange a card from hand" to "exchange an evil card from hand." In general for gameplay balance, we prefer recursion exchange abilities to be a "good for good" and "evil for evil" endeavor.
The Haunting Spirits—we decided to change the decrease from once per round to "Each upkeep" as we felt there was a bit too much potential for choose the blocker combos to abuse the ability to decrease during the battle phase.
Blasphemies—in order to avoid issues of whether this could be played in special initiative as a negate (because it had the search ability first), we decided to remove the territory class and move the negate to be the first part of the ability. We also updated the condition for the "cannot be prevented" ability for simplicity.
Imitating Evil—there was some confusion on some scenarios with Imitating Evil so the wording has been adjusted to hopefully make it much clearer how it works.
Last but not least, we made several significant changes to everyone's favorite Frogs.
Because we already had a character in the set with a deck building exception (Locusts from the Pit), we decided that giving The Frog Demons three brigades would be a better way to represent the three frogs. In addition to orange, brown and gray were chosen as a reference to the original brigades of the characters they interact with—The False Prophet and The Beast from the Earth. Although the orange/pale green/crimson combination would have made sense thematically, that combo is getting another character in this set (The False Prophet) in addition to having a character already (The Serpent) and we wanted to add some diversity. We also modified the banding capabilities quite a bit by allowing The Frog Demons to band to any character from Revelation 12-19. He now becomes a character that ties together many of the major Revelation characters, but not all of them. Can you find all the potential targets???
I believe that's it for ability updates that will affect gameplay. Several other cards received minor wording tweaks that should not affect the way they are used, but were updated according to our preferred style of writing special abilities. That being said, it's very possible I missed one or two so if you see a card that changed since it was previewed that I didn't mention in the above list, leave a comment below and I'll reply with the story on that one.
Thank You Community!
I mentioned at the beginning of Part 1 how thankful we are for all the feedback, suggestions and ideas that the community offered during the preview process. To show our appreciation, we kept track of everyone who made suggestions for fixing cards and we are going to draw three names to receive a pack of RoJ once it is released. Be sure to check back on Land of Redemption in the coming days to see if you are a winner! That's all I've got…now excuse me while I go check the Cactus website to see if Rob has the pre-order option posted yet cuz I can't wait!!!
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Weather got better for the race in the afternoon, although it was still a bit windy. Great race to watch.
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In the fall of 2008 I was on my way home from Germany, a bit tired after spending several weeks in the field at the U.S. Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels. I had been there with a large operational research team to study various aspects of the ABCA (America Britain Canada Australia and New Zealand) armies, but despite the great success of our fieldwork, there remained many questions unanswered about how armies change. These were questions beyond tactics and operations and concerning the very nature and characteristics of war itself. They were problems that, frankly, gnawed at me for a time afterwards until I finally decided to do something about it.
In the spring of 2009 I put forward a plan at work to apply for a visiting research fellowship in the Changing Character of War (CCW) Program at the University of Oxford. I figured if there was a place in the western world that probably knew a thing or two about the history of warfare, it was Oxford. I knew gaining entry wasn't going to be easy, but I felt my chances of being selected for the program were good as I had both the academic and the practitioner experience that was demanded. Thankfully news back from the applications officer was good, and a short while later I was en route to spend the next year as a research fellow in a place I had dreamed of going to since I was a kid.
It seems obvious, perhaps, but Oxford is truly a unique and perhaps magical place. Created towards the end of the eleventh century, every aspect of the city and the university has been shaped by nearly nine centuries of conflict. Certainly the university's archival, bibliographical, and artifact holdings on the subject are beyond words. Whether it's in the 8 million volumes housed in just over a hundred libraries, or the millions of artifacts and records held across the university's collections, one is never left wanting for primary resources. I was like a kid in a candy store and admittedly it took me a few days just to figure out where to begin.
The CCW Program is a unique ongoing collaborative research effort under the direction of Dr. Hew Strachan, a noted First World War scholar and fellow of All Souls College, who currently holds the Chichele Professorship of the History of War. His aim was to bring together 6 to 10 prominent research fellows from around the world each year to pursue major study projects, as well as examine war both as history and as a contemporary phenomenon. Several lines of investigation were regularly pursued, and included diverse subjects such as preemption, morality and war, war and democracy, armed forces and the state, detention and torture, law and war, non-state actors, and war and international institutions. My own research was concerned with the armed forces and the state, specifically looking at why and how armies change as a result of the catalysts brought on by war.
Only in Oxford could I truly start investigating such a question from the beginning so to speak. For example, trips to the Ashmolean museum, the oldest university museum in the world, revealed precious Egyptian and Roman military artifacts showing army innovation over several centuries. On another foray to the Christchurch library a few blocks away, I was able to hold in hand and examine an illuminated manuscript gifted to King Edward I (1239-1307) that included the first known western world drawing of a cannon. The book itself was never completely finished, and the last pages containing illustrations of how to conduct a successful siege were inked in but not coloured. Still, one could discern advances in military engineering brought on by the advent of new weapons in these pictures. Later, after citing my declaration (in Latin) and gaining entrance to the Coddrington Library, where during the nineteenth century several cricket games were played inside the library's long hall when the weather turned bad, I was able to examine other original classical works by Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Jomini. But the best refuge for research was the Duke Humphrey's Library in the Bodleian. There are simply no words to describe the beauty of this room and its centuries old collection of tomes.
Always avoiding the daily rains and never without an umbrella, I would then often retreat back to my office at the old Boys School on George Street and write or exchange ideas with my fellows on whatever latest thing we were all working on. Though it had long ago become the History Department Faculty offices, even here I was surrounded by military history – for example, just down the hall from me sat the desk used by Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia) when he was a young student here. And nearly every day I walked past his stoic portrait, always being reminded that unorthodox army majors sometimes get the best assignments.
During term the CCW program ran a series of weekly seminars. The campaigning and generalship seminar, held at All Souls College, consisted of special presentations given by British serving generals, air marshals, and admirals. The CCW title seminar at the Social Sciences Building included international guest speakers across a wide range of academic and professional fields. The military history seminar series in the Wharton Room likewise hosted a number of leading British and American scholars. In addition to these deliberate events, as a research fellow I could attend just about any other seminar going on anywhere across the university. Every week one could attend presentations on postwar Iraq, intelligence history, the Cold War, Eurasian security, conflict in the Middle East, defence economics, energy security, military innovation, strategic studies, and military history. In between all the symposia, some days were spent researching and writing in wonderful settings like the uniquely round tower known as the Radcliffe Camera.
One thing that makes Oxford so marvelous is not just what one takes from it, but also what one might give. Research fellows were expected to present regularly, and among other talks and research groups I was involved with, I had the opportunity to address both the military history seminar series as well as the Oxford University Strategic Studies Group, the latter organization founded by Sir Michael Howard. It was a bit intimidating at first as Oxford routinely sports very tough audiences, but I found myself in my element and on the whole lecturing was immensely rewarding. It is in fact an experience I will remember always.
This short blog barely scratches the surface of experiences I enjoyed over the course of an academic year spent at Oxford. I know I will be forever grateful for having had the opportunity to live and learn there, and for the wonderful new friendships gained while being a fellow among great peers. Though my friends jokingly said one time, "Andrew has gone off to Hogwarts for a bit", and in a way they were right. For one who had dreamt for a long time about learning and lecturing at one of the world's great and ancient universities, I was happy to see the magic come true.


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Sarah Glaser, 14, of Great Falls, is one of 28 students chosen by audition to participate in a four-week opera camp at the Washington National Opera. The program will end with the production of, a new opera, "The Enchantment of Dreams," this weekend.
"I was really excited because it is really fun when you audition for something. It makes you feel good to know that you did a good job out of all the people that auditioned," Sarah said.
In addition to playing a dream weaver in the opera, she has been in community theater and the World Children's Choir. "The choir has performed at the Kennedy Center, for President Clinton, and toured in Canada and Ireland. I really enjoyed it," said Sarah .
A dream weaver is a mysterious person who weaves the dream around a sleeping person. A "noosha" stick is placed under the dreamer's pillow to call up his ancestors or family tree.
According to Suzanne Stephens, public relations director for the Washington National Opera's 10th Annual Opera Camp for Kids, the new work for the opera camp, co-commissioned with the St. Louis Opera Company, was created by composer Cary John Franklin and librettist Michael Patrick Albano, known for the popular children's opera "The Thunder of Horses." "It is not common to see the words 'children' and 'opera' in the same sentence," said Stephens, in an e-mail.
As for Sarah s favorite thing about the opera, "I really like singing a show. Opera is its own thing. Singing the whole show, and the people are really nice. They help you. I like making the crafts, staging classes. My part in the theater is the dream weaver, and we have streamers and brightly colored umbrellas, and it's really fun working with these things," said Sarah
"My parents have really helped me. My dad looks for shows I can be in. My parents drive me and keep my spirits up.
"We did a project for the opera. We put together a family tree that helped you artistically, that inspired you. I don't have immediate family that are musical. Some of my distant relations in the past have done music, like my grandpa and great-grandfather. I have a great-aunt who was an opera singer," said Sarah .
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Sarah's favorite subject in school is civics, and she is thinking about becoming a lawyer if she doesn't become a singer. "At the new school, Madeira, every Wednesday you can intern somewhere, and I am considering the WNO (Washington National Opera) in my junior year. It's a great professional opportunity. Also in school I took drama and photography, which was really fun," she said.
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I bet everyone's wondering who's decorated this tree. It was me. I'll be selling it on ebay later. LOL. I know it's not like the tree that sits in front of the Alamo each year, but I love my little tree.
Christmas for a 5 month old can't be exciting. At times Jason Jr. looked as though he was tired of having red and green colored packages shoved in his face. He might have also been tired of me saying, "Open this one, JJ." But he kept his composure and even helped open a few gifts.
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The next lecture will be given by Liam Howley on the life of Charles Bradlaugh, from his youth in the East End to M.P for Northampton. Bradlaugh was a giant of his age, but has sadly been largely forgotten by history. His many causes such as atheism, republicanism, and birth control gave him many enemies in a strict Victorian age. His biggest battle was to serve as Northampton's M.P – barred for his atheism, but backed by the local people. His statue serves as a reminder of his place in the history of the town. Liam Howley represents the Charles Bradlaugh Society
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Grrrrrrrrr....! Piggybackers!!
The time has come when I need to make it clear to all my friends, fellow bloggers and community members, that if you don't see my name attached to a thread or a blog I've created, it's definitely not endorsed by me!
Lately I've been getting a ton of people "piggybacking" on my forums and blogs. When that happens, I simply delete it and let the person who stuck it there know it does NOT belong there! If you see a new one there, just ignore it. I've been about as polite as I can get, but it's still happening. My personal reputation is on the line on my blogs and forums, and particularly in the ones where I endorse carefully researched products and programs.
So far, none of the people who have blatantly disregarded proper decorum, respect and just plain decent ethics when posting on my sites have been on my list of friends in the first place. They seem to just prowl communities, blogs and bulletin boards looking for a reasonably popular place to flog their junk, rather than introducing themselves first and asking me to actually take a look at their wares.
On some of my other forums, I've actually made it clear that posting a new thread is just dandy and welcome if it fits the context.
Most of my writing is based on my own studies, digging and personal experience, and they are NOT open to anyone (without my express permission.)
I don't think it could be much plainer or simpler than that!
OK - there's my rant for today. It's probably happening to you, too, but hopefully we can find a way to get this practice of "piggybacking" stopped.
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