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Games We are Playing!
by: Dani Kennedy on January 21, 2022 |
Everyone knows that the best games, are the games that the staff won't stop talking about! Here's a list of the games that we can't stop playing.
The Quacks of Quedlinburg
7.8 rating on BGG
In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are quack doctors, each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture! This bag building, push your luck game has become a store favorite.
Lizard Wizard
90+ mins
In Lizard Wizard, players compete to recruit wizards from seven unique schools of magic, build mystical towers, research powerful spells, summon helpful familiars, and search dark dungeons for gold and items of power. Only one Arch-Mage will rise above the rest and control the land. Will it be you? This game has been making it's rounds through the Meeples gang. It has an aspect of push your luck, set collecting, and resource management that we all really like.
Space Park
Ride a rocket to extraordinary destinations across our galaxy. During your travels you will gather exotic crystals that further our understanding of what's out there. Use these crystals to complete exploration badges and turn them in at the mysterious Outpost 13 to prove yourself as the galaxy's next great space explorer! Space Park is a beautiful game that features resource management, set collecting and an awesome solo mode.
Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise, but just when you've mastered one set, new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups. You will often catch the Meeples gang talking about their match-ups when it comes to Unmatched. We may even break out a quick 2 player game with you if it's slow.
7 Wonders: Architects
In 7 Wonders: Architects, players race to become a leader of the ancient world by completing an architectural wonder that will last through the ages. Players receive an unconstructed wonder at the beginning of the game and must collect resources to build their society, develop military might to navigate conflicts, oversee resource management, research science improvements, and collect civil victory points as they race to leave their mark on world history. What we love about Architects is the simple game play and the awesome organizations! This game is so easy to break out and play for even the newest of board gamers.
Gift Guides: My First Games (Kids Games)
On this next instillation of Gift Guides, we have compiled a list of the perfect games for the young gamers in your life. It's never to early to share the love of board games. We even have games for kids as young as 2 years old!
As of the posting, all of these games are in stock.
Animal Upon Animal
The animals want to show how good they are at making tall pyramids! They must be skillfully careful: Who will position the penguin on top of the crocodile, the sheep on top of the penguin, the serpent on the sheep? The hedgehog wants to stand on top of the pyramid but the height is making him dizzy. In Animal Upon Animal players roll the die and either places one or two animals on to the stack of animals, passes one of his or her animals to another player for them to place, or places an animal on the table, extending the base for other players to build upon. Of course, if any pieces fall off whilst you are building, you get up to two of them back. The first player to have used all of their animals wins.
My Very First Games: Off to Bed
It's time to go to bed — but the rabbit, bear and cat are unable to settle down because their beds, pillows and covers are all muddled up! What's more, the animals each want their favorite stuffed toy. If the children have good powers of memory and a bit of luck in turning over the tiles in My Very First Games: Off to Bed!, they can succeed in getting their animal into bed first.
Rhino Hero
Rhino Hero presents players with an incredibly heroic – and regrettably heavy – rhinoceros who is eager to climb a tall building and leap other tall buildings in a single bound. First, though, you need to construct that building. Players each start the game with five roof cards, and they take turns adding walls and roofs to a single building. On a turn, you first place walls on the highest floor, then you choose a roof card in your hand and place it on the wall. Each roof card bears markings that indicate where the next player must place walls on the card. In addition, some roof cards force a player to perform special actions, such as placing a second roof, changing the direction of play, or moving Super Rhino to a new location on the tower. Keep your hands steady!
Dr. Beaker
In Dr. Beaker, each player has a beaker with six compartments around the edge for molecules, which are represented by plastic balls in three colors; two spaces for molecules are in the center of the beaker, with the beaker having a rotating platform in it. Each player also has a stirring rod, and when someone turns over a challenge card, everyone must race to arrange the molecules in their beaker to match the pattern showing on the card — but they must use only their rod to do so, moving the molecules around the beaker through the openings in the compartments. As soon as a player matches the pattern, they claim the card, then flip over a new one, with everyone continuing to play with whatever arrangement of molecules they currently have.
Go Away Monster!
Reach in the bag to find the puzzle pieces that fit your bedroom game board. Try to distinguish between the different puzzle pieces and decide which one feels like the size and shape of a piece you need. If you pull out a monster, don't be scared… You take charge, and the monsters will take off! Being afraid of monsters is a normal part of growing up. Go Away Monster! encourages kids to conquer that fear by acting it out and taking control. It also lets them experience some of the apprehension and excitement in deciding what is real and what is imaginary.
Gift Guides: Play Together, Win Together
On this week's Gift Guides, we are talking all things co-operative games. We love suggesting co-op games to new gamers and families with younger kids. But co-op games can be great for all ages and gamer types. Here's a list of our favorite co-op games for the gamer in your life who wants everyone to win!
*As of this posting, all of these games are in stock*
In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand. Taking a unique role within the team, players must plan their strategy to mesh with their specialists' strengths in order to conquer the diseases. Make sure to check out all of the versions of Pandemic to find the one that best fits your group.
Space Alert
12 years +
Space Alert is a game where players become crew members of a small spaceship scanning dangerous sectors of the galaxy. The missions last just 10 real-time minutes (hyperspace jump, sector scan, hyperspace jump back) and the only task the players have is to protect their ship. During play, the central computer will announce the presence of various threats on one the supplied 10 minute soundtracks that also acts as a game timer. The threats vary from space battleships and interceptors to different interstellar monsters and abominations, asteroids or even intruders and malfunctions on the spaceship. Players have to agree who will take care of which task and coordinate their actions in real time to defend the ship. Only a well-working team can survive 10 minutes and make the jump back to safety.
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Gloomhaven is a game of Euro-inspired tactical combat in a persistent world of shifting motives. Players will take on the role of a wandering adventurer with their own special set of skills and their own reasons for traveling to this dark corner of the world. Players must work together out of necessity to clear out menacing dungeons and forgotten ruins. In the process, they will enhance their abilities with experience and loot, discover new locations to explore and plunder, and expand an ever-branching story fueled by the decisions they make.
The LOOP is a quirky game in which you battle the evil Dr. Faux. Play a Temporal Agent in four different game modes, full of new challenges and replay value. Gather powerful artifacts, defy the Doctor's duplicates, and sabotage his maniacal machine. Make the most of your cards and master the LOOP to use them multiple times in impressive chains — but the Doctor isn't going to make this easy on you! The evil Dr. Faux has built a terrrrible time machine! With the help of the duplicates of himself that he is creating through the ages, he aims to carry out his Omniscience 2000 project to become master of the universe. But the rifts that he is opening in spacetime will probably destroy quantum space way sooner…
Uk'otoa
In the tactical game Uk'otoa, factions of sailors vie to be the last claimed by the raging sea leviathan Uk'otoa. As the ship slowly falls into the ocean, you have to run, push, and sacrifice others to win! Uk'otoa is a semi co-operative game where you work together with the players on either side of you. But only one person will emerge victorious!
Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle
The forces of evil are threatening to overrun Hogwarts castle in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, a co-op deck-building game, and it's up to four students to ensure the safety of the school by defeating villains and consolidating their defenses. In the game, players take on the role of a Hogwarts student: Harry, Ron, Hermione or Neville, each with their own personal deck of cards that's used to acquire resources.
Gift Guides: Play the Role Well!
by: Dani Kennedy on December 5, 2021 |
Another instalment of Gift Guides is here! And this week we are shopping for that awesome Dungeon Master or RPG Player in your life. From beginners to seasoned players, we can help you get the perfect gift for the holiday season!
As of this posting, all items are currently in stock.
D&D Starter Set
The newly revamped Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set is your gateway to action-packed stories of the imagination. This box contains the essential rules of the game plus everything you need to play heroic characters on perilous adventures in worlds of fantasy. Explore subterranean labyrinths! Plunder hoards of treasure! Battle legendary monsters! Ideal for a group of 4 – 6, the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set includes a 64-page adventure book with everything the Dungeon Master needs to get started, a 32-page rulebook for playing characters level 1 – 5, 5 pre-generated characters, each with a character sheet and supporting reference material, and 6 dice.
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Meet Fizban the Fabulous: doddering archmage, unlikely hero of the War of the Lance, divine avatar of a dragon-god—and your guide to the mysteries of dragonkind in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons. Dragonslayers and dragon scholars alike will appreciate the new dragon-themed options for players eager to harness the power of dragon magic and create unique and memorable draconic characters. Dungeon Masters will discover a rich hoard of new tools and information for designing dragon-themed encounters, adventures, and campaigns. Discover a host of new dragons and other creatures. Learn about the lairs and hoards of each type of dragon, and how hoards focus the magic that suffuses dragons and connects them to the myriad worlds of the Material Plane.
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Once every eight years, the fantastic Witchlight Carnival touches down on your world, bringing joy to one settlement after the next. Its owners, Mister Witch and Mister Light, know how to put on a good show. But there's more to this magical extravaganza than meets the eye! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight takes adventurers from the Witchlight Carnival to Prismeer, a Feywild domain of delight, and is designed for characters of levels 1–8. This book comes with a poster map that shows the carnival on one side and Prismeer on the other.
Zombicide RPG
There's a zombie plague overrunning the world. The recently-dead are roaming around, hunting the living, ready to tear them apart on sight. Some survivors chose to hide away in bunkers or caves, but that's not you. You're going to attack these zombies head on. You're going to commit Zombicide. In Zombicide: Chronicles – The Roleplaying Game, players take on the role of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. They must learn to work together, trust one-another, and form strategies to fight the zombies if they want to stay alive.
Dungeons & Dragons Class Token Sets
These Token Sets are designed to allow you to easily and quickly track your character's status effects. If your character is frightened, paralyzed, or unconscious, your allies will be able to see at a glance that you are in need of help. Because all of these full-color tokens are made of durable perspex, they are wet-erasable, so you can write additional information straight onto them. The combat tile provides a place for you to keep a running total of constantly changing statistics like character health and resources, all without dirtying your character sheet with eraser marks. Each token set includes a class tin, a combat tile, and 20 regular tokens with 1 large inspired token. Some classes have additional tokens dedicated for that class.
Miniatures and Dice
When in doubt, players and DM's can never have to many miniatures or dice!
Gift Guides: All in the Family!
by: Dani Kennedy on November 30, 2021 |
We are back with another curated Gift Guide! This time for that awesome board game family in your life. Do they all love hanging out and playing a low strategy game together? Do they have their own night of the week that they hang out at home and play games? If the answer is yes, this is the list for you!
As of posting, all of these games are currently in stock!
With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be learned in under 15 minutes. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route.
In Catan, players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce wheat, and pastures produce sheep.
Draft dice and use the tools-of-the-trade in Sagrada to carefully construct your stained glass window masterpiece. Each player builds a stained glass window by building up a grid of dice on their player board. Each board has some restrictions on which color or shade (value) of die can be placed there. Dice of the same shade or color may never be placed next to each other. Dice are drafted in player order, with the start player rotating each round, snaking back around after the last player drafts two dice. Scoring is variable per game based on achieving various patterns and varieties of placement…as well as bonus points for dark shades of a particular hidden goal color.
Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.
Dungeon Decorators
Dungeon Decorators is a competitive "light euro" tile-drafting strategy game. Select tiles that give you the right combination of chilling chambers, harrowing hallways and dire decorations, then play goal cards to score points. The player who scores the most points achieves victory by impressing the client and setting them on their path to becoming the next legendary evil!
D&D Dungeon Scrawlers
In Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Scrawlers – Heroes of Undermountain, you and other adventurers are drawn together to delve into Undermountain, an immense underground of dungeons created by the Mad Mage, Halaster Blackcloak. Use your markers to trace your path, defeating monsters, casting spells, connecting artifact fragments, and collecting shiny treasure on the way! The round ends when one player defeats that dungeon's mighty boss, so you have only a few minutes to collect as much loot as possible. The player with the most points after exploring three dungeons wins!
Kabuto Sumo
Kabuto Sumo is a game where you are one of the contending beetles that is battling for supremacy in the ring and your place in the pantheon of legendary wrestlers. The gameplay of Kabuto Sumo resembles the coin-pusher arcade games in which you strategically drop quarters and anxiously anticipate coins cascading off the platform. This game features a similar experience, with you trying to strategically slide pieces onto the board and push the other players out of the ring. It's an exciting combination of dexterity, strategy, and luck.
In Azul, players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
In Camel Up, up to eight players bet on five racing camels, trying to suss out which ones will place first and second in a quick race around a pyramid. The earlier you place your bet, the more you can win — should you guess correctly, of course. Camels don't run neatly, however, sometimes landing on top of another one and being carried toward the finish line. Who's going to run when? That all depends on how the dice come out of the pyramid dice shaker, which releases one die at a time when players pause from their bets long enough to see who's actually moving!


Blackburn captain Charlie Mulgrew has been ruled out of Tuesday's match against Wigan at Ewood Park.
Three Aberdeen players were in action as Alex McLeish secured his first victory as Scotland boss with a 1-0 defeat of Hungary in Budapest.
Scotland skipper Charlie Mulgrew played at the back with Scott McKenna against Costa Rica and immediately recognised his star quality.
Scotland international Charlie Mulgrew has penned a three-year deal at Ewood Park.


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Connecticut State Police will step up traffic patrols and conduct several drunk driving enforcement checkpoints this holiday season.
The increased patrols will begin Dec. 23 and run through Jan. 3 on all state roads and highways.
•Waterbury Road near the intersection of Frost Bridge Road in Thomaston on Dec. 23.
•Route 32 by Route 203 in Windham on Dec. 26.
•On the exit ramp for exit 6 of I-91 in New Haven on Dec. 27.
•On the westbound end of exit 18 onto Highland Avenue of I-84 in Waterbury on Jan. 2.
•Upper Maple Street in the area of North Street in Killingly on Jan. 2.


Our Dental Practice had a water loss from one of the sinks in a bathroom. The owner is a patient of ours so we called him immediately to help out because the towels weren't cutting it. They were very understanding to the fact that we still had to run our business. After a few short days everything was dry, the loud but effective fans were gone, and we continued working like nothing happened!
SERVPRO clearly explained the restoration process before the work began and as it was taking place. I was updated not only by the lead technicians onsite but the office as well as far as where everything stood. I would surely recommend SERVPRO of Flower Mound to my friends and family.
I was impressed by the team that performed services for our business. They were prompt, polite, and helpful throughout the entire time they were here. We know to call SERVPRO of Flower Mound if anything happens again!
Workers wanted to save me as much damage and money as possible. They acted as if it was their own business. The workers also explained everything to my understanding during the process.
You all had a quick response, courteous staff, and always provided updates every day. Thank you for providing excellent service at my place of business.
If I had to rate the service we received it would be a 10+! Everyone was professional, polite, and always on time. The team did a great job saved the brand new floors in our office and made a bad situation seem easy!


Falling out of love can happen to anyone and it can happen in many areas of our lives including relationships, interests, careers, and even out spiritual or creative practices. I have a dear friend who recently attended a week-long seminar in Santa Fe, New Mexico on the topic of Madness and the Artist. She came back "splayed open" to use her exact words. She told me that she felt she'd been away from the deeper side of her creative and spiritual life for too long.
Like my friend who traveled to Santa Fe only to get reacquainted with her truer self, I too am returning to my Buddha Baz nature and have once again taken up the practices of daily meditation, moment-by-moment mindfulness, and exercising compassionate-kindness. It does indeed feel as if I've been a long time gone.
Yesterday I attended a funeral for a friend of a friend. I'd only met Alex a few times, but it didn't stop me from feeling profound sadness about his passing, especially when his two deaf, adult and very accomplished sons (whom my friend had taught to speak more than 20 years ago) shared their tributes to their dad.
The tears flowed incessantly, not because it reminded me of my own dying father, but instead I was consumed with how my own passing would affect my children and the sadness they will feel; it was very clear to me at that moment that I was weeping for them.
Even now, as I write these words, I feel the same level of emotion. At that moment it became clear to me then that my full return to my spiritual practice was essential that there was no time to waste. It became very clear that it was critically important to return to my path because life is far too short not to continually awaken and do what matters most to me.
The fleeting nature of life is as transitory as a rose that buds, blooms, and withers.
The fleeting nature of life is the very reason we need to get serious about awakening. Like the transitory nature of a beautiful rose in full bloom, we too have a fleeting one-time opportunity to bloom before we die. Some of us get a second chance when we realize we've been a long time gone.
If you've been in this space of feeling like you've fallen out of love with your path, you're not alone. If the author of a book on Practical Buddhism can fall out of love with his path and find his way back again, there is hope for you, too.
Forgiving myself for my falling away was essential. When I came to this point where I realized that I needed to return to my practice a few weeks ago, the first action I had to take was to forgive myself for falling away. It's peculiar that we humans beat ourselves up when realizing our inherent failings.
I acknowledged my humanity, attributed it to yet another experience I can learn from and sit in silence for a few minutes. That's all it took to feel myself returning to the path. This morning I meditated and reflected on my long time gone, and, instead of feeling guilt, felt human…just like the Buddha.
Fantastic post! I love the reminder that forgiveness is a critical step to returning to a path you have left.
Thank you for sharing your journey, I look forward to seeing where your path leads you, but most of all, happy to hear you feel like you are returning from a long time gone!


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The Pluralism Project
Mapping St. Louis
Religions in Motion
World Religions Assignment
"…if I went back to college today…I would probably major in comparative religion because that's how integrated [religion] is in everything that we are working on and deciding and thinking about in life today." — John Kerry
The Ricci Pluralism Project hopes to provide the means through which others can learn about and embrace the varying religions and cultures of our diverse world. The Ricci Pluralism Project takes on the belief of Matteo Ricci, SJ (1552-1610) that there is a universality of the human experience and possibility of mutual understanding between cultures —and thus, at core, religions — and puts it into action in our modern, global world.
In support of its mission, the Ricci Pluralism Project includes…
Mapping out the sites of religious diversity in the Greater St. Louis area
Giving students of the World Religions course at Saint Louis University a platform to share their experiences and reflections upon visiting familiar and unfamiliar religious sites
Acknowledging the unique attributes of religious tendencies in the Greater St. Louis area
Promoting active inquiry into the pluralistic landscape of our global community
Acting as a bridge between academic research and student-led organizations rooted in diversity of religion and/or culture
Spreading knowledge, sparking interest, and budding connections of the dimensional diversity amongst all age populations in our city, country, and world
Integrating ancient traditions and practices into the living platforms of modern day by utilizing social media, interactive websites, and other mediums of information and conversation

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Episode 55 : Sewing to Save the Planet with Stitched Up!
The team at Stitched Up! HQ
Disposable fast fashion is a huge cause of pollution and damage to the environment, but one community benefit society in Manchester has been doing its bit to help for the past decade. Stitched Up! which is now based in Stretford Mall in Greater Manchester has been rescuing unwanted fabric and teaching sewing skills in a bid to help people get more out of their clothes and slow down the damage being done to the planet.
Stitched Up! Shop in Stretford
The organisation takes donations of unwanted fabric and sells it on to sewists at a discounted rate as well as offering workshops on everything from basic sewing skills, repurposing garments, make do and mend sessions and dressmaking techniques. Their pop up shop in Stretford also hosts a regular Repair Cafe where experts in other fields come along to help people get more life out of their belongings rather than simply throwing them away.
A Stitched Up! Workshop underway
I went along to Stitched Up! to meet their events co-ordinator Sarah Revington, she told me all about the organisation's roots and its interesting plans for the future.
Pre-loved yarn at Stitched Up!
You can find out more about Stitched Up! through their website and YouTube channel.
**Listen to the Stitched Up! Episode here**
Oakley the Acorn Tree Sprite & Agatha the Fly Agaric Mushroom amigurumi patterns are available in the Making Stitches Shop
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Episode 54 : Amoami : a symbol of crochet resistance with Rafael Alcaide
Amoami bears
A chance experience at an airport back in March left its mark on Rafael Alcaide. On returning home to Madrid, Rafael saw a large group of Ukrainian women and children who had just arrived from fleeing the invasion in their homeland.
Some of the Ukrainian women who have been helped by Amoami
Wanting to do something to help, Rafael turned to his friend Rita, a crochet designer, and together they came up with a design for a small amigurumi bear which has become a symbol of resistance for the refugees. Within weeks, Amoami, a social enterprise was born and they began training the Ukrainian women in how to create the amigurumi bears – some of which had never crocheted before.
Soon other groups opened up across Spain and later in Switzerland too. To date, 40 women have been helped through Amoami. The organisation is able to help the women with the therapy of making the bears, it helps them settle into their new communities and pays them an income. People are able to support the group by buying the bears and so far bears have been sent far and wide, from the USA to Hong Kong as well as across Europe and the UK.
You can find out more about Amoami here, through their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
**LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE**
Making Stitches Podcast is presented, recorded and edited by Lindsay Weston.
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Among the Betrayed (Shadow Children #3) (Hardcover)
By Margaret Peterson Haddix
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This is book number 3 in the Shadow Children series.
#1: Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) (Hardcover): $18.99
#2: Among the Impostors (Shadow Children #2) (Paperback): $7.99
#4: Among the Barons (Shadow Children #4) (Hardcover): $18.99
#5: Among the Brave (Shadow Children #5) (Paperback): $7.99
#6: Among the Enemy (Shadow Children #6) (Paperback): $7.99
#7: Among the Free (Shadow Children #7) (Hardcover): $18.99
"Everything that had happened to Nina was real. She had real handcuffs on her wrists, real scars on her back, real fear flooding her mind.
"'They're going to kill me,' Nina whispered, and it was almost a relief to finally, finally give up hope."
In a society that allows no more than two children per family under penalty of death, third children are forced into hiding, or to live with false identity papers. In Among the Impostors, Nina Idi was arrested for treason for supposedly trying to trick the Population Police into arresting other students she said were illegal third children. Now she faces torture or death -- unless she agrees to betray three other imprisoned third children. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets the prisoners -- who are only ten, nine, and six.
As she did so brilliantly in the Publishers Weekly best-selling Among the Hidden and in Among the Impostors, Margaret Peterson Haddix once again brings readers to a world in which nothing is as it seems -- a world in which an imprisonment leads to an adventure of mind, body, and spirit.
Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of many critically and popularly acclaimed YA and middle grade novels, including the Children of Exile series, The Missing series, the Under Their Skin series, and the Shadow Children series. A graduate of Miami University (of Ohio), she worked for several years as a reporter for The Indianapolis News. She also taught at the Danville (Illinois) Area Community College. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio. Visit her at HaddixBooks.com.
Series: Shadow Children
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Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart
Traditionalist conservatives and classical liberals need Charles Darwin. They need him because a Darwinian science of human nature supports Burkean conservatives and Lockean liberals in their realist view of human imperfectibility, and in their commitment to ordered liberty as rooted in natural desires, cultural traditions, and prudential judgments. Arnhart's email address is larnhart1@niu.edu.
The Chimpanzee Politics of the Miers Nomination
Conservative resistance to President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court shows that conservatives are returning to their traditional principles of limited government and resisting the seductions of presidential democracy. In doing that, they reaffirm a realist view of human nature that is fundamental to what I have called "Darwinian conservatism."
Traditionally, conservatives believe that ordered liberty requires limited government with a balance of powers under the rule of law. Leftists favor a pure democracy founded on popular sovereignty, and so they are suspicious of any system of checks and balances that limits the will of the people. Conservatives reject pure democracy unconstrained by a balance of powers, because they believe that the natural desire for status and distinction will always create political rivalry among leaders and factions motivated by the passions of ambition and avarice. Because of their realist view of human nature as imperfect, conservatives believe that any person with power is inclined to abuse it to achieve dominance over others, and therefore the only way to prevent the abuse of power is to structure things so that power checks power. Because leftists have a utopian view of human nature as perfectible, they believe that power will not be abused in a true democracy where the people are sovereign.
Darwinian science supports the conservative principle of balancing power by sustaining the realist view of human imperfectibility. Comparing the social behavior of human beings with that of other closely related animals suggests that political rivalry and the need to constrain such rivalry through a balance of power is manifest in chimpanzees and other political animals.
Frans de Waal is famous for his studies of "chimpanzee politics." From many years of observing chimp social behavior, he sees a natural drive for dominance expressed in the "alpha male" of every chimp society. But he also sees a natural drive of subordinates to resist the exploitation of the dominant male. He suggests that chimps avoid despotism by a "balance of power" in which the power of some is checked by the power of others. This drive for dominance checked by opposing power is so similar to human politics that Newt Gingrich has often recommended de Waal's book CHIMPANZEE POLITICS as one of the best books for understanding the political life of Washington, D.C.
In the American conservative tradition, the importance of the balance of power was elaborated by John Adams. He insisted that inherent in human nature was the desire of ambitious people to become dominant. And although such a desire could motivate the ambitious few to heroic leadership, he argued that to prevent despotism, there needed to be a system of countervailing powers by which the ambition of some would be checked by the ambition of others. He warned that the inclination of the French revolutionaries (and their sympathizers in the U.S. like Thomas Jefferson) to give all power to a democratic majority would tend to favor the despotic rule of a Caesaristic leader. Napoleon's rise to Emperor of France by majority consent of the citizens confirmed Adams' prediction.
Conservatives have generally been on the side of Adams and balanced government. But in recent decades, they have been seduced by presidential democracy--by the idea that a President elected directly by the people has a popular mandate to use the virtually unlimited powers of executive prerogative--particularly, in national emergencies--for the public good. A clear manifestation of this disposition has been the willingness of conservative constitutionalists to allow the President to wage war without the congressional declaration of war required by the U.S. Constitution.
In recent years, a Congress controlled by the Republican Party has generally bowed to the leadership of George W. Bush, and thus they have failed to assert the traditional conservative principle of balancing powers.
But now with the Miers nomination, many conservatives both inside and outside the U.S. Senate are challenging the claim of the President that he should be able to appoint a long-time friend to the Supreme Court whose primary qualification seems to be adulation of George Bush. This shows a healthy conservative recognition of the dangers that come from concentrated power and ambition and the need to reassert the constitutional scheme of checks and balances.
The British have faced a similar problem as the British Prime Minister has increasingly come to resemble the American president, with unchecked authority derived from popular plebiscites. And unlike the U.S., Great Britain does not have a written constitution to which they can appeal to assert the constitutional checks on the prerogative powers of the Prime Minister.
The fundamental insight of conservative constitutionalism is that because power-seeking is rooted in evolved human nature, the power of one person or group can only be controlled by the power of another. Among chimpanzees as well as human beings, liberty requires a system of limited government based on countervailing powers.
Chapter 5 of DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM is devoted to this Darwinian understanding of limited government.
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Try to imagine the scene here in John 5. There was a history of people getting healed whenever the waters were stirred up. No wonder there was a multitude, hundreds, of those with sickness and infirmity there to "just maybe," if they were lucky, be healed. Picture the setting of hundreds of sick people just hanging out. It states they were sick with disease, blind, lame and withered. What a contagious and depressing place to hang out. And yet, our misery does love company. It doesn't say how large the pool was, only that there were five areas where people could sit, stand or lay down. I imagine the pool was smaller than the five porches, but that's just me. The man in the story "perhaps" was lame but it doesn't say that specifically. It just says that Jesus saw him lying there. Perhaps everyone was lying down. If you've been struggling with some health problem for a long time, all you want to do is lay down. It does signify giving up or giving in to one's situation.
I find the whole reason why so many people were there intriguing. That God would send His messenger to heal this way is quite remarkable. It's as if God wanted to heal people so much, that He went ahead of Jesus and arranged for some healing before Jesus arrived in person. And, to have this one place where so many sick were gathered is amazing. Who (if you were healthy) would want to go near the place? When you think about that, it makes it all the more miraculous and loving that Jesus went there to seek out this man!
Also, when it says "made well" that means made whole, made sound in both mind and body. I think that is particularly striking given this man's situation. The mental and emotional anguish that comes with any illness is often worse than the illness itself. And, if it's gone on for a long time, the damage done to our minds and hearts is real and tangible.
Jesus knew all that when He approached this man. He had been sick for 38 years, so he's older and been suffering a very long time. The damage done to his mind and emotions were as real as I stated before. "Jesus saw him lying there." Oh friend, He sees you today wherever you are and whatever state you find yourself in! Jesus came into this huge gathering of people to find one man. We have no record of Him healing anyone else that day. Maybe He did since wherever He went He "healed all", but the Holy Spirit wants us to know only about this one man.
Have you ever noticed that the people Jesus healed were predominantly suffering a long time? There's no record of Him healing someone with a temporary cold, flu, broken leg, acne or another short-term thing people deal with. I'm sure He healed those, but it's not recorded. He healed those who were born with issues, or like this "certain man" were sick for decades. I think that's incredibly significant. It tells me that God knows how much time has gone by. He has a record of it and knows and deeply cares about a specific and personal length of time. He knows the way out of it too, and I believe it's through His Son Jesus; all healing comes through Him.
Jesus asked the man a thought-provoking question: "Do you wish to get well?" The NLT says, "Would you like to get well?" Now, stop there for a moment…if you had been sick for that long and God asked you this same question, what would you say? We'd like to think we'd shout at the top of our lungs, "YES, YES, I want to be well!" But long term illness does something to our spirits and this man didn't say yes or anything remotely close to a yes. He had no idea who Jesus is and just addressed him as "sir." It's almost as if he didn't really hear the question.
Allow me to bring this into our modern world. Today the man might say something like, "I've tried seeing this doctor or that specialist, but they don't help me and in fact, I feel worse and it was really expensive!" Or, "I don't have the money to see a doctor, woe is me." "I've tried taking every known drug or supplement for my condition, but none of it has made me better. What a waste of my time and money." (But we keep spending the money, don't we?) Now, these may all be very true, just like the man responded with the truth to Jesus. He wasn't lying when he told Jesus all his excuses why he couldn't be healed. The man only saw the natural, which was perfectly normal for him to do. Jesus knew the man didn't know who He was. Jesus didn't rebuke the man for telling him all the reasons why healing was out of reach for him.
I kept thinking about why Jesus would ask this man if he wished to get well. Jesus asked a blind man one time what he wanted, and the blind man told Jesus he wanted his sight. His request was granted immediately. But here, Jesus asked such a curious thing of the man. Why? Perhaps, Jesus wanted the man to wake up from his very long search for healing. Perhaps, Jesus wanted to bring the man to a point where healing was a reality verses healing always being out of reach, no matter the reason. Maybe in answering Jesus, the man allowed himself to realize, "Why am I here anyhow? Why do I bother? It's hopeless." Maybe Jesus wanted to bring the man to that point honestly, without always hoping that "one day" he would be healed, knowing that he could never get in the water by himself or have anyone help him. I mean everyone else around him was sick too, so there really wasn't anyone to help him get in the water. Every man for himself was probably the prevailing thought in that dark place of illness.
Right away the man became whole, sound and healed! I also love what is not there. Jesus didn't stand around waiting for the man to say "Yes, I want to be healed." There was no rebuke for not saying yes. There wasn't anything pertaining to what the man said. Jesus did not say, "Well, if you have all those excuses, I'll just wait to heal you until you get your act together." Nothing like that from our Savior. This was grace in action – unmerited favor and healing. This is the very image of God in Christ to be seen by all; God's character revealed to us in Jesus.
If you've been sick a long time or struggled with anything for decades, know that He knows all the damage it's done to you. He knows you've tried everything under the sun to get well, but with no success. He alone is the healer and He knows how to heal instantly. There weren't any rules for the man to follow – just to get up, get going, live your life now and leave this place of sickness. Sometimes we're so used to our condition, that it's almost fearful to think of not living like you have for a long time. It's similar to those getting out of jail. There's a fear of living free and abundantly again. Jesus knows how you feel and desires to heal you more than you want to be healed yourself. Allow Him to bring you out and set you free!
(There is more to this man's healing too, if you read a few more verses, as it does make the man's healing even more full of grace. That's for another time).


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Review – Paper Girls #1
Brian K. Vaughan has given us Y:The Last Man, Ex Machina, Saga and more recently We Stand On Guard and he's slated to release a mess of new titles in the next few months. Right now though, everyone needs to stop and take notice of his newest effort, Paper Girls. It's a sci-fi mystery set in the suburbs of Cleveland in the late 1980's, told through the eyes of four tween paper delivery girls, and you need to read it. Because it might just be the best damn thing on the racks.
Paper Girls opens with a dream sequence that anyone who has read Vaughan would find familiar. There's what appears to be the Angel of Death, a dead Challenger astronaut, and a warning about eating from the Tree of Knowledge. This turns out to be a normal dream for Erin, a local papergirl, who is rolling out in the wee hours of Nov. 1,1988. It seems like it will be an average morning for her until she runs into a group of 3 other papergirls and the story kicks off.
They punk some older boys, have a run in with what might be aliens, set out to retrieve a stolen walkie-talkie, stumble across a piece of strange technology, and confront a grotesque (maybe) time traveler. It's like reading the summary of a classic 80's movie you somehow missed and are now asking yourself "How?!". It's somehow familiar, almost common, but that's perhaps its greatest strength. Just when you feel like you know what's going on and where the next pages is going, you get a tiny twist that makes you keep reading.
The story is slow, but methodically so, and it builds at a level that definitely pays off by the end. Vaughan nails the dialogue, characters, pacing, tone, and attitude perfectly. John Hughes couldn't do it better. It is rare to see a 80's period piece that doesn't come off cliché or overdone, but you can definitely tell Vaughan grew up here during this time. Nothing is done without purpose or attention. So break out whatever rubric you use to judge writing and prepare to check all the boxes.
Art is provided by Cliff Chiang, who brings his A game to every panel. Heavy lines bring the right amount of style and tone to the page. The story flows with art and the marriage is everything you could ask for. Colorist Matt Wilson doesn't miss a beat either. The colors and hues of the early morning are amazing to look at. The muted pastel palette is by the book, but so expertly executed that it's hard to think of another example that rivals it. The two of them work together to create a style that is truly stunning.
Paper Girls has positioned itself as one of the strongest debuts of the year, and, in the hands of these masters, it's got a lot of potential to rise even higher than its stellar start. It's beautiful to look at and a great read. It will be interesting to see what else Vaughan brings this year, but Paper Girls is definitely going to be a high bar to meet.
Final Grade: A+
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Ziemia Osamotniona – powieść science-fiction amerykańskiego pisarza Daniela Arensona, wydana po raz pierwszy w 2016 roku. Zdobyła dużą popularność na rynku anglojęzycznym. W Polsce została wydana w 2018 roku nakładem Wydawnictwa Niezwykłe.

Jej akcja osadzona jest w przyszłości, w której Ziemię zaatakowały wijce: inteligentna rasa przypominająca wyglądem owady. Główny bohater, osiemnastoletni Marco, trafia do wojska, by walczyć w obronie swojego gatunku.

Powieść jest pierwszym tomem serii Wschód Ziemi.

Świat przedstawiony
Akcja osadzona jest w przyszłości oddalonej o około 200 lat. Pięćdziesiąt lat wcześniej planetę zaatakowały wijce, inteligentna rasa z obcej planety, niemal doprowadzając do wytępienia ludzkości. Tej udało się jednak odeprzeć pierwszy atak. Ziemia jest bezustannie w stanie wojny, przez co wprowadzono obowiązkową służbę wojskową dla każdego, kto kończy osiemnaście lat, niezależnie od płci i miejsca pochodzenia. Służba trwa pięć lat.

Wijce
Wijce, a właściwie Scolopendra titanic, to inteligentna rasa, która zaatakowała Ziemię, pochodząca z Gwiazdozbioru Skorpiona. Wijec był wielki, mniej więcej dwukrotnie większy od dorosłego człowieka. Jego ciało, a właściwie twardy pancerz (mocniejszy od stali) miał czarną barwę. Stworzenia te miały trzydzieści sześć nóg, po dwie na każdy segment ich ciała. Na ich końcach znajdowały się pazury. Wijce posiadały także żuwaczki.

Gatunek ten był gatunkiem myślącym. Korzystając z żuwaczek potrafiły budować organiczne statki kosmiczne oraz klonować ludzi.

Poznajemy je w chwili, w której prowadzą wojnę, wysyłając kokony, z których wychodzą nowe osobniki, atakujące wszystkich wokół. Ponadto same kokony wydzielają opary, które doprowadzają do zmian w budowie ciała, które czasem bywają śmiertelne.

Fabuła
Pięćdziesiąt lat temu wijce zaatakowały Ziemię. Jedenastoletni Marco wraca z matką do domu, gdy nadchodzi kolejny atak. Chłopak przeżywa, ale jego rodzicielka traci życie. Marco zostaje ocalony przez swoją rówieśniczkę, Addy, której rodzice zmarli tego samego dnia.

Gdy Marco kończy osiemnaście lat musi odbyć obowiązkową służbę wojskową. Nie chce tego: jest z natury humanistą, który brzydzi się wojną. Żegna się jednak ze swoją dziewczyną, Kami. Wraz z Addy, którą zaopiekował się jej ojciec i która stała się dla niego niczym siostra, wyrusza do wojska. Tam zostaje przydzielony do oddziału (wspólnie z Addy), rozpoczynając szkolenie. W jego trakcie między nim, a Lailani, młodą rekrutką z tej samej grupy, rodzi się uczucie. Jednocześnie więzy między członkami grupy zacieśniają się. Gdy do ekipy dołącza niepoprawnie zachowująca się Szajba młodzi rekruci próbują nad nią zapanować, jednak kończy się to popełnieniem samobójstwa przez dziewczynę.

Po dziesięciu tygodniach szkolenie dobiera końca, a przyjaciele zostają wspólnie wysłani na misje.

Bohaterowie

 Marco Emery – główny bohater powieści. Osiemnastolatek, którego matka zginęła, gdy miał lat jedenaście. Z zamiłowania bibliotekarz i początkujący autor.
 Kami – ukochana Marco; posiada ścisły umysł. Dostała się do jednej z najlepszych akademii wojskowych.
 Addy Linden– jej rodzice zginęli tego samego dnia, co matka Marco; ojciec chłopaka zaopiekował się nią. Jest dla Marco jak siostra. Ma żywiołowy charakter i jest w tym samym wieku, co przyszywany brat.
Elvis – osiemnastolatek pochodzący ze wsi; jego dziewczyna zginęła w wypadku samochodowym. Poznał Marco i Addy podczas szkolenia.
Lailani – w połowie Amerykanka; jej matka miała trzynaście lat, gdy zaszła z nią w ciążę, pracując jako prostytutka. Lailani wychowała się na ulicy. Dziewczyna poznała Marco i Addy w trakcie szkolenia.
Pinky – niezbyt przyjazny chłopak z oddziału rekrutów Marco.
Snigh – jeden z sierżantów, który opiekował się oddziałem Marco.
Szajba – dziewczyna, która dołączyła do oddziału, w którym przebywał Marco. Przebywała w kilku innych miejscach szkoleń rekrutów, jednak przez swoje zachowanie ze wszystkich była wyrzucana.
Einav Ben-Ari – podporucznik zajmująca się oddziałem Marco.

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Kindle British Mystery Book Club discussion
This topic is about The Cornish Coast Murder
Book Club Selection > August 2014 Value Book Read - The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
message 1: by David (new) - rated it 4 stars
Winner of the August Value Read Vote
"Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature—himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them . . . a mystery." So thinks the Reverend Dodd—vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen and a reader of detective novels—when an actual mystery unexpectedly lands on his doorstep in The Cornish Coast Murder. Julius Tregarthan, a secretive and ill-tempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen, shot through the head—and the local police investigator is baffled by the complete absence of clues. Fortunately for the inspector, the Reverend Dodd is at hand, ready to put his lifetime of vicarious detecting experience to the test."
Discussion Leader: Fanficfan44
I have downloaded my copy ready.
message 3: by Odette (new) - rated it 3 stars
I am looking forward to reading this and now have it on kindle.
message 4: by AngryGreyCat (new) - rated it 4 stars
I downloaded my copy and will start it soon. Looking forward to it
message 5: by Odette (last edited Aug 03, 2014 03:57PM) (new) - rated it 3 stars
I have now started this book and read four chapters so far.
This title attracted me as I travelled to Cornwall last year. I stayed for a few days at a B&B called Bosavern House, which is just outside of St Just near Cape Cornwall. I enjoy reading books that I am familiar with the general area they are set in.
So far the author has transported me back to a different time/era, about 80 years ago. I am enjoying the characters very much in this context and also the mystery. It is interesting to read a book written at that time rather than in the present recreating the past.
It has been a long time since I read an Agatha Christie book, so am unable to compare the two writers.
I love the introduction to the characters especially the Reverand Dodd and the Doctor. I am impressed with what I have read so far and looking forward to reading more.
message 6: by Bill (new)
I planned to skip this one but I read the 1st chap. & I think I'm hooked.
message 7: by David (last edited Aug 04, 2014 10:35AM) (new) - rated it 4 stars
I have started it and must admit the writing style does quite make you read on. Like Odette the old Rev seems an intriguing character and it will be interesting to see how involved he gets with the Inspector on the solving of the mystery.
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Thoroughly enjoying this book so far. Just had the great niece/nephew for a few days and it was lovely to collapse with a few chapters after chaos over.
Haven't read a book written before WWII for decades, and although there are some irritants, mostly so easy to relax and enjoy the escape - mainly because, I suspect, that it was just as escapist then as it is today.
Particularly like the way the writer handles sudden POV shifts without losing the pace of the book.
I nominated this book after seeing the publicity surround the British Library Crime Classics drive to republish classic crime novels that have disappeared from general public sight.
My questions would be: Do you think this is a worthwhile cause, resurrecting relatively obscure crime novels today, or do you feel that there are so many new crime writers and novels that this is redundant? Do you think that John Bude's work is relevant today or is it too dated? Would you read another or any of the other British Library Crime Classics as they are published?
I went to the Deadly Ink crime writers and readers convention this weekend and met Les Blatt who hosts a website and a podcast dedicated to "classic mysteries" and asked his opinion and he said he had reviewed the book. His review is here: http://www.classicmysteries.net/2014/...
I have my own opinion but I will jump over to the spoilers post so I don't ruin anything for anyone.
message 10: by Judith (new)
I would, I love vintage crime and think it has a lot to offer those who enjoy mystery novels.
message 11: by AngryGreyCat (new) - rated it 4 stars
David wrote: "I have started it and must admit the writing style does quite make you read on. Like Odette the old Rev seems an intriguing character and it will be interesting to see how involved he gets with the..."
I totally agree. I was away this weekend and I peeked at the first chapter and didn't want to put it down.
message 12: by Odette (last edited Aug 05, 2014 03:52PM) (new) - rated it 3 stars
Fanficfan44 wrote: "I nominated this book after seeing the publicity surround the British Library Crime Classics drive to republish classic crime novels that have disappeared from general public sight.
My questions w..."
I do think this is a worthwhile cause.
Reading these books may not be to everyones taste due to style of language used, social conventions, technology of the times etc. However, I find it very interesting to read a book written in the era that it is set rather than an author interpreting and recreating the past.
Something that stood out for me, was the description of the Rev Dodds and the Doctor enthusiastically examining the books that arrived in a crate from the library. It highlighted the difference in entertainment in that era with radio being relatively new at that time.
There seems to be less description and feel of setting and place than a novel written more recently. This book has more emphasis on the mystery and characters involved, and perhaps that was what the readers of the time were looking for.
I am enjoying this read, and would read again after while a book of this genre.
Odette wrote: "Fanficfan44 wrote: "I nominated this book after seeing the publicity surround the British Library Crime Classics drive to republish classic crime novels that have disappeared from general public si..."
I loved the scene with the Reverend and the Doctor and the crate of books as well....I think that was the point I knew that I would really be hooked into this book. I think that kind of detail is the difference between reading a book written in the period and a historical book written by a modern author.
In answer to my own questions, I feel that resurrecting this books is definitely a worthwhile cause. I think in them we see techniques and characters that some crime writers still emulate today. It is like when in school you read classics, not only for the classic itself, but in part because then throughout your educational and reading life you will see literary references back to those books.
I don't think that this book felt dated at all, to me being written in the period gives it an authenticity that is not always evident in historical fiction written in modern day.
I will be keeping my eye out for more of these classics, Les Blatt whose speciality is Classic Crime Fiction seemed particularly interested in the Mavis Doriel Hay books, both just released in June. Myself I am interested in the Christmas book, Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Fargeon being released in November.
I have ordered the book from the library and hope it will be as good as it sounds.
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(Forgive me if I'm saying something that should be in the Spoiler thread - this is my first time on the monthly thread.)
A lot of the period detail comes from the shared assumptions. I love the way that the victim's staff are rounded out as characters - but the vicar's dinner in chapter one is delivered by ghosts, it seems. A modern writer would probably have felt impelled to give his housekeeper a personality out of guilt for the servant classes. Clearly it was expected that country vicars have staff. Our vicar is both servantless and a woman, and therefore well out of place!
Another lovely detail which shows how much the world has changed is the role of the village policeman. Our village has around 1000 people and some of them live in the old police station and the bobby's house next door. I don't know which has changed more - the village or the police force. Sorry, the police service.
Enough nattering - back to the book.
message 17: by Bill (new)
Finished & a bit disappointed tho' one should judge by '30s standards but even then it would be a 3 star. More later.
I have ordered it from the library but it is out on loan as yet.
My comment's up in the spoiler section so you can read it when you're finished. Not sure how many stars to give The Cornish Coast Murder. If Dorothy Sayers's The Nine Tailors represents the '30s 5-star standard, 3 stars would be about max for this one.
message 20: by David (new) - rated it 4 stars
I have finished it and gave it 4 stars. Was torn between 3 and 4 but while I felt the culprit became obvious once certain facts were known, I did feel the book read reasonably well and kept a good pace.
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Piteå es una ciudad de Suecia , en la provincia norteña de Norrbotten y la capital del municipio homónimo . La ciudad tiene aproximadamente 24,000 habitantes.

Cultura
Piteå es conocido por su Pitepalt, un plato de comida que consiste en albóndigas de papa con relleno de cerdo picado. El área también es conocida por su dialecto, llamado Pitemål, que sin embargo es principalmente hablado por los ancianos en las aldeas circundantes.

Piteå tiene un auto servicio de comida rápida comúnmente utilizado por los motos de nieve. El restaurante fue un McDonald's desde febrero de 2002 hasta noviembre de 2007.  Varios restaurantes de McDonald's en Norrbotten cerraron en ese momento, ante la competencia de Max Hamburgers.  El restaurante ahora es parte de la cadena de hamburguesas Frasses. El auto servicio ha recibido cobertura internacional, incluido en The Travel Channel en un episodio llamado "Most Unique McDonald's".

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 Official website of Piteå

Municipios de la provincia de Norrbotten
Localidades de la provincia de Norrbotten


In October 2018, the unthinkable happened as hurricane Michael spread devastation and destruction across the AWF Conference and the Florida Panhandle. In these last few months, hope has remained strong, and we have seen the amazing efforts and teamwork of the AWF Conference, churches, and ministries and stand in awe of what God is doing through His people to clean up, reach out, and rebuild. Thanks to these relief efforts, churches are on their way to recovery, but the needs in affected areas are still great.
As many churches, pastors, and individuals begin the long road to recovery, they are confronted by a sea of obstacles and unknowns that go far beyond physical church buildings. Other considerations during this time include high insurance deductibles, uninhabitable homes of pastors and laity, lost jobs, and low or no income.
Many of our AWF Conference churches are facing insurance deductibles of 5% of their property costs, which can total as high as $500,000 before rebuilding can start. Along with paying these high deductibles come a lot of other unknowns. Will there be enough money to pay church bills, mortgages, and other obligations? Will funds be available to pay staff salaries and make sure pastors and their families have a place to live? Will membership decline due to damaged homes and relocation? Will tithes continue to come in?
As Ross Cotter, UM Foundation Board President (2017-2018), stated: "If there is ever a time that we need to help, it is now." Because of our financial partnerships with AWF Conference pastors and churches, this need is very heavy on our hearts. Both the UM Foundation and the AWF Development Fund have joined together in an effort to provide resources for this rebuilding effort from retained earnings and reserved funds by giving matching gifts of $25,000 apiece to the AWF Conference. In addition, churches affected by hurricane Michael have the opportunity to delay payments on existing loans until 2020 and both Boards agreed to cover any interest costs on loans during this time. We hope that this initiative will relieve at least a little of the financial burden during this time.
To our partners and members of the AWF Conference, we challenge you to make a difference in this relief effort whether it be through prayer, a financial donation from endowment fund interest, on the ground support, or meeting financial and supply needs in other ways.
For more information and ways you can help, contact the AWF Conference or visit www.awfumc.org/michaelrecovery.


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GoPro Fusion Review: updated for May 2018
Posted by Jeff Meyer | May 8, 2018 | 2 |
Score 85%Score 85%
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Snap Verdict of the GoPro Fusion
The GoPro Fusion is a beautiful, well-built, easy-to-use action-360 camera hybrid that produces stunning images and video with nice colour and exceptional clarity and detail, as well as impressive audio. But the rendering times are immense. The software is still figuring itself out, and is much slower to process videos than competing 360 cameras and their companion software.
GoPro added OverCapture earlier this year and has made some much-needed performance enhancements via firmware updates, but it still feels a little unfinished. Largely because we're still waiting for the GoPro app for Android to support the Fusion on a wider range of phones than the Pixel and recent Samsung offerings.
But the Fusion does feel very exciting. It's a quality product that's my go-to 360 camera because of its awesome image and video quality, despite the processing times.
Is the Fusion the game-changer we all thought it could be? Not yet. But it has all the potential to, given its solid foundations and pedigree. So place an asterisk next to this score. It's not etched in stone, and we will keep updating this review as the camera evolves.
What is the GoPro Fusion?
The Fusion is GoPro's first 360 camera, which can record spherical video at up to 5.7K resolution and capture 18-megapixel still images.
But it's more than just a 360 camera. Being waterproof and compatible with all of GoPro's many mounts, the Fusion is a go-anywhere 360-degree action camera that wants to be the camera that makes 360 mainstream.
What's more, it offers (or, it will when they are added via firmware in early 2018) novel features like OverCapture and Angel View that aim to let users produce truly unique videos.
GoPro Hero 6 Black vs GoPro Hero 5 Black
Video resolution: 5.2K @ 30fps or 60fps @ 3K (3008 x 1504)
Photo resolution: 18 megapixels
Burst mode for still images up to 30fps
Raw format for still images
ISO (photos): 100 to 800
ISO (videos): 100 to 6400
Shutter speed: up to 30 seconds
5.2K30 and 3K60 Spherical Video
18MP Spherical Photo
The GoPro Fusion inherits a lot of the features that have made the Hero Black cameras so brilliant to use, such as ProTune, QuikStories, Time Lapse, GPS and more.
And in early 2018 GoPro is promising to add via firmware update some of the Fusion's bespoke features like Overcapture, which allows you to record a scene in spherical 360 video, then choose any perspective from within that footage to follow and export as a standard-format HD video.
The OverCapture mode will enable users to make traditional 16:9 videos in 1080p resolution from their 360 videos, with full control of the perspective. This is something we saw introduced with the Insta360 ONE, so we'll be very keen to see GoPro's version of the feature when it's added in 2018.
GoPro rolled out OverCapture in January 2018, but only for iOS devices. A few weeks later GoPro updated its Android app to support the Fusion, but only a handful of Android devices are currently supported.
The big selling point, of course, is that the GoPro Fusion records spherical video in 5.2K (5228×2624) resolution at 30/25p, or spherical video in 3K (3000×1504) resolution at 60/50p.
By recording at 5.2K resolution, GoPro makes its leap into the 360 camera market jumping ahead of a lot of the competition. Only the Garmin VIRB 360 and YI 360 VR offer a higher resolution at 5.7K.
The GoPro Fusion captures still images in 18-megapixel resolution.
How to set up your GoPro Fusion
GoPro Fusion vs Garmin VIRB 360: which 360 camera should you choose?
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The first thing that struck me when taking the Fusion out of its box was its size, and the weight of it. It's not big, as far as cameras go, and when you think of how much tech is crammed into that body it's rather impressive. But it feels really solid in your palm. And there's something reassuring about that.
I knew the Fusion was square-shaped and would be bigger than the GoPro Hero cameras I've used in the past, but let me put it in perspective for you: the Fusion's battery alone is as tall and wide as the Hero5 / Hero6 Black body. You can see the comparison in my unboxing video below.
But rest assured, the same GoPro hallmarks are there. The Fusion's body is solid and coated with the rubberised grip material you find on recent Hero cameras. In fact, if you're familiar with GoPro's Hero cameras, you'll feel right at home with the Fusion. There are a lot of design and menu similarities that the company has carried across, and I really appreciated this.
With other 360 cameras, I've needed to spend some time learning new systems and getting to grips with other apps. But if you've used a GoPro before, the Fusion will just slide into that ecosystem and workflow that you're used to. And even if you're not familiar with GoPro cameras, the controls and software are streamlined and very simple to pick up.
One small niggle… the dual microSD card slots are situated on either side of the battery in the battery's compartment. But there is also a small gap between each slot, and a couple times now I have accidentally forced my memory card down that gap beside the battery. And when my colleague Ali used the Fusion, he did the same.
Garmin VIRB 360 review
Turning on the GoPro Fusion
Like the Hero, you'll find a Mode button on the side of the Fusion. Press this to power it on, and then once it's on you can press it to cycle through the different shooting and setup options. The Mode button will allow you to switch to Video mode, Photo mode, Self-Timer and Settings. We'll have more on how to set these up later in a separate post.
Above the Mode button is a small square button that opens the USB compartment. Like the Hero cameras, you just press this and slide the door to open. The door is firm and secure and, again, a testament to GoPro's build quality.
On the other side of the Fusion is another square button that opens the battery compartment. Press and slide to open. In here you will also find dual microSD card slots.
GoPro recommends a microSD, microSDHC or microSDXC Class 10 or UHS-I/II rating with capacity up to 128GB.
On the front of the GoPro Fusion is the Shutter button, similar to the button on the top of a Hero5 or Hero6 Black.
The GoPro Fusion has dual lenses on the front and back, which are made of glass, unlike the plastic you get on many 360 cameras.
GoPro Hero6 Black vs Yi 4K+: which is the best action camera?
GoPro Hero6 Black vs Garmin Virb Ultra 30: which is the best action camera?
Is the GoPro Fusion waterproof?
Yes, down to 16ft. However…
The GoPro Fusion, like the recent Hero cameras, is waterproof down to 16ft, or 5m. But with a very important caveat: the compartment doors need to be closed.
You can use the GoPro Fusion in or around water with no additional housing, but the side doors must be on the camera. Like the Hero5 and Hero6 Black, you can remove the side door over the USB-C port simply by pulling it off its hinge once opened. This can be handy to do for charging. But it must be re-attached before use around water.
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I must admit, at first, I wasn't sure how to use the GoPro Fusion. I mean, I knew how to use it, what buttons do what, and so forth. But is it a 360 camera or is it an action camera that shoots 360 images as well?
I think it's probably the latter (the clue is in the name). And then it's probably something even beyond that. The Fusion is its own thing. And I believe we'll really see that play out when the OverCapture and Angel View features get their wider release next year and our YouTube feed is flooded with mind-bending footage.
I've been shooting with the Fusion for a while now, and what I can say for certain is that if you've used a Hero Black camera before, you'll feel right at home. The menu system is nearly identical and easy to navigate.
Ricoh Theta V Review
Using the GoPro Fusion
When you press the Mode button the Fusion powers on in about a second, and you're ready to go. Pressing the Mode button again cycles through the different options – Photo mode, Video mode, Time Lapse and Settings – and pressing the Shutter button on the front of the camera opens each function. Within each of these menus, the Mode button now serves as a down arrow and Shutter as the Enter button.
Somewhat frustratingly, GoPro hasn't yet updated its Android app for compatibility with the Fusion, so at the time of writing, I haven't been able to operate the camera remotely. I rang GoPro's support and was told this should be updated within the next few weeks.
The iOS app supports the Fusion, so Apple users have full functionality. But as an Android user this was a little disappointing, though not the end of the world.
On 19 January 2018 GoPro updated its Android app to support the Fusion…however, only a select number of Android devices are currently compatible. I've spoken with a representative of GoPro Europe who assured me that more devices will be supported soon. As of May 2018, however, my Huawei Mate 10 Pro still isn't supported. At the time of writing the GoPro App for Android supports the Fusion on most of Samsung's recent devices and the Google Pixel phones.
GoPro Fusion firmware: how to do a manual update
Thankfully the GoPro Fusion employs the company's famous voice activation, meaning I have been able to shoot remotely with the camera. I took the Fusion to a busy Christmas market in the centre of Bath, England, to see how it could cope with all the background noise. To be honest… it struggled. It picked up my voice commands about 50% of the time.
I then took the Fusion on a hike through a local woods where I mounted it on the selfie stick/tripod that comes in the box and positioned it in a fast-moving stream at the top of a waterfall. Probably not the smartest move, I know, but we've had a lot of rain recently and that waterfall is loud! I wanted to see if it could pick up my voice.
I was squatting about a foot, maybe two, away from the Fusion, so I was prepared to grab it if the current took it over the edge. But I also wanted to see if it could pick up my voice from this close over the sound of rushing water. It couldn't. Maybe 25% of the time the voice activation kicked in. Granted, I gave the Fusion two very tough challenges, but I also had my Hero5 Black with me and it performed very well in picking up my voice.
With little or no background noise, I should point out, the Fusion never misses a beat. But its mics don't seem as sensitive to me as its sibling action cameras. That said, at the time of writing I have a notification for a Fusion firmware update, so perhaps this will have an effect. I plan to re-test.
All of the voice commands remain the same as you've used with your Hero camera. 'GoPro take a photo' activates a single frame capture. 'GoPro stop recording' ends a video. You can hear this in action in my video below.
What are the GoPro Fusion voice commands?
GoPro start recording Starts capturing video
GoPro HiLight Adds a HiLight Tag to video during recording
That was sick Adds a HiLight Tag to video during recording
GoPro stop recording Stops capturing video
GoPro take a photo Captures a single photo
GoPro shoot burst Captures burst photos
GoPro start time lapse Starts capturing time lapse
GoPro stop time lapse Stops capturing time lapse
GoPro turn off Powers off the camera
GoPro Fusion firmware updates
The most recent GoPro Fusion firmware update was on 12 March 2018 which fixed a few usability issues and rolled out some performance enhancements. Among the changes were:
In bright lighting conditions, Photo mode ISO issues have been fixed
Fixed Time Lapse Video chapter issue
Improved file management with SD cards
Improved camera power down stability
Multiple charging issues resolved
Pairing issues fixed with GoPro app
Improved preview for specific modes within GoPro app
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Image & Video Quality
Image quality from the Fusion, I'm pleased to say, is very good, and again, very reminiscent of what you've come to expect from the company's action cameras. Exposures are handled very well across a wide range of condition.
As it happens, I've been testing the Garmin VIRB 360, Ricoh Theta V and GoPro Fusion at the same, arguably the three top consumer 360 cameras on the market, and the GoPro wins hands down. The other two are very good, but the Theta V has its issues with fringing in high-contrast scenes and the Garmin struggles a bit in low light. The Fusion handles it all pretty well.
Images and video from the Fusion have plenty of detail and strong colours. My video below will only display at 4K, not 5.2K, per YouTube's restrictions, but it is very sharp. Notice the detail in the subtle textures of the stone slabs. The Fusion picks up a lot of detail that you might not notice.
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The GoPro Hero5 and Hero6 Black cameras have had some complaints – including from us – about their lack of a regular microphone port, and while the Fusion, too, lacks a mic port GoPro has clearly put a lot of time and effort into its audio capabilities.
The GoPro Fusion captures some of the best spatial audio of any 360 camera I've used. This short clip, I think, really illustrates that. Standing at the top of this waterfall cacophony of the rush of water is all around you. I mounted the Fusion on its tripod and placed it in the stream on the edge of the falls – making use of the Fusion's waterproofing.
As you swipe around this scene you'll notice that the Fusion can pick up those subtle differences that I couldn't myself. When you swipe to the waterfall side of the frame the noise is loud, and as you continue scrolling across to where I'm standing on the other side, the noise dampens.
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Using GoPro Fusion Studio 1.0
Fusion Studio is the new bespoke software GoPro has launched to render your 5.2K spherical videos and images from the Fusion.
You can download the software from gopro.com/apps and it installs in seconds. Then you can access your content in one of two ways. One, connect your camera to your computer with the software open and turn the Fusion on. Then click the 'browse camera' option, and Fusion Studio will pull in largish thumbnails of your images and videos.
Alternatively, if you've copied your files to your desktop or another drive, click the 'select media' button from the home screen and add your files. On the whole, both processes are very intuitive and easy, but there are a few things to get your head around.
If you're browsing your camera for media, make sure you have the latest firmware update installed – particularly if you've purchased one of the early models, like me. There's a crucial firmware update from early November 2017 that simplifies the process of pairing your device.
If you're 'selecting media' to add and render you might try to select a file but find all your images greyed out and inaccessible. This took some figuring out, but it's because the Fusion's dual cameras capture images independently and write them to their assigned – but separate – microSD cards.
The Fusion, by default, separates these files into GoPro_Front and GoPro_Back folders, but what you need to do is make sure all files are in the same folder, and then it works.
Rendering in 5.2K
If you're used to shooting in HD, or you maybe shot the odd 4K video, you will be in for a surprise with the GoPro Fusion.
Think about it this way: if you think of your HD frame as the size of a sheet of paper folded in half, the 4K frame will be the size of a full sheet. It's roughly 4 times the size of your original, but it's still manageable.
At the GoPro's 5.2K your size nearly doubles again. Most computers and memory cards are built for HD resolution, and many consumer computers will struggle, but can get by with 4K footage.
At 5.2K, though, your standard machine and Class 10 memory card can't cope. Remember: you're taking that frame of 5.2K footage and stitching another frame on top of it! I spent four hours on my first day with the Fusion rendering a 50-second video that ended up being 3.4GB.
I was using a 2015 MacBook Air with 8GB of memory, a 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and running El Capitan OS. I've rendered 4K spherical videos from the 360Fly 4K, Ricoh Theta V and a slew of others in a matter of minutes, if not seconds, so I was quite surprised by the jump in power needed to complete the task.
I also tried rendering the videos in Fusion Studio on my colleague Ali's 2.8GHz Quad Core Xeon MacPro with 32GB RAM, ATI Radeon 1GB… and it too struggled. Processing times were slightly faster, but not much. And it's worth noting, too, that Ali is a BBC-trained videographer and regularly processes large video files, so this was a surprise to him as well.
Because I was testing the Ricoh Theta V at the same time as the Fusion, this disparity in processing times was fresh in my mind. I wanted to see how Fusion Studio handled a 4K video by comparison. From the menu in the image above I selected the 4K option with another video, and again it took ages. Hours.
So this is a consideration. On one hand a lot of mass-market supporting technology hasn't really caught up yet with these bigger resolutions, so to process your content from the Fusion quickly you might need to consider beefing up the spec on your computer and splash for some UH3 / V60 / V90 memory cards that can handle the Fusion's bit rate.
But on the other hand, I think the Fusion Studio software perhaps isn't powerful enough given how it struggled to do in an hour and a half what Ricoh's and Garmin's and 360Fly's software does in minutes.
The good news is, this is entirely fixable.
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As an avid fan of 360 cameras I have been following the development of the GoPro Fusion all year, and it's been one of the most exciting and frustrating cameras I've tested.
It's so simple to use and the quality of footage is generally very good, as you've come to expect from GoPro. But it's so difficult and time-consuming to get videos (images are easy, mind) off your cards and into a shareable format.
The other night I rendered a video that is 1 minute and 18 seconds long. I live just outside Bristol, England, and could have hopped in my car and driven to Manchester before it finished processing (for American readers, think Chicago to St. Louis). This is no exaggeration.
Granted, I've been rendering my videos with an average spec Mac from average memory cards. But with that same average Mac and average memory card I was able to render a 4K video from the Ricoh Theta V and 360Fly 4K in minutes, if not seconds.
Of course, 5.2K is much larger than a 4K file, but even the 4K render took an age in the Fusion Studio software.
I upgraded my memory cards, shot a video at the same length and it shaved some of the time off. And I sped it up a slightly with Ali's pro-spec Mac and editing software like Final Cut Pro.
But then it becomes a question of who this camera is aimed at. GoPro pitched the Fusion like it has its Hero Black cameras, as a fun, all-purpose camera that anyone can use.
And the Fusion is indeed simple enough to use and the quality is great. But if you need pro-spec software and equipment to just halve the processing time from four hours down to two for a video that's not even a minute and a half long, this really isn't an enthusiast camera.
Or… is it a next-generation camera, but the enthusiast equipment to support it just hasn't caught up yet? This could equally be the case.
It was a similar situation when the Hero 4 launched: you had an amazing camera that produced 4K footage, but few machines could really handle it at that time. After a month or two most software and OS was updated to cope with the increased bitrate and file handling.
Apple and ASUS are set to announce their new fleet of machines in the next month, so it will be interesting to see they come out with. Maybe GoPro is ahead of the game here, or maybe its Fusion Studio software needs a revamp given its slowness even with 4K files.
I've scored this review, but I really feel like it's a preliminary rating. I was one of the first in the UK to get the GoPro Fusion, and there have been a few firmware updates already. And we know there are more features coming early next year. I expect we'll see some big improvements in the next month or two, and I'll update this review accordingly.
We saw this with the Vuze camera, for instance, which I was the first in the UK to test and at that time it's app and software really let it down. But HumanEyes has since improved those and now the Vuze is on the International Space Station!
I think the GoPro Fusion is still the most exciting camera of the year. But I don't believe it's reached its true potential yet.
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Joel Rudsberg on November 20, 2017 at 1:39 pm
Will the fusion be able to record regular footage (not 360 view) before the software update early 2018? Or, if given that 360 recordings are worthless for me, will I not properly be able to use the fusion until the update? Thanks alot
GoPro Gimbal on November 23, 2017 at 10:44 pm
This is the first time I've heard of this offering from GoPro. Not sure it fits into why I got a gopro action camera for. thanks


PocketBook presents the second generation of its Touch HD model equipped with a smart frontlight technology.
There are two modes of SMARTlight adjustment. The automatic one, which is set by default, works depending on the time of day and considers human biorhythms. It offers an optimal variant of lighting: soft and warm for relaxed reading in the evening or more intensive for the more active hours of the day. In this way, SMARTlight constantly offers the most harmonious lighting conditions providing exceptional reading experience. For those who would like to control the frontlight settings personally and according to their individual preferences, there is also a manual mode.