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Dark Souls The Card Game
Dark Souls: The Card Game is a cooperative deck evolution card game for 1-4 players. Players must explore the Encounters around them, defeating a myriad of enemies to gain Souls and Treasure.
They must use these to evolve and adapt their deck to better fight their enemies. When the players are ready, they must challenge the powerful bosses that lie within.
The players must walk a narrow path, however, since their decks allow them to attack their enemies, but also represent their health. Decks are only refreshed when the players rest at the bonfire, so players must defeat their enemies while husbanding their strength for the greater challenges ahead.
Thinking quickly and adapting to the enemy's attacks is key for survival. A misstep can be fatal, but the rewards of success are great. Adapt your deck, evolve your strategy, and prepare to die.
Escape Tales: The Awakening
Escape Tales: The Awakening is a card game based on the escape room concept, but you're not limited by time when it comes to finishing this adventure as the game is focused on the story and your exploration of it, while engaging the puzzles within and making choices that will immerse you deeply. As for the story, here's the set-up:
Players take on the role of Sam, whose daughter has been in a coma for over two months and whose doctors still cannot explain how this happened or what caused it. According to them, everything is fine with the girl; she's healthy and shouldn't be in this condition. Sam is desperate and looks for answers everywhere he can, which leads to a weird meeting with Mark.
Mark's son was once in a similar situation, and his father was able to help wake the boy up. He has given Sam a scary-looking book and said that inside this book he will find a ritual called "The Awakening". But Mark warned Sam that he needs to prepare himself mentally since this ritual will transfer him into another dimension, where he should be able to find his daughter and understand what is the cause of this state. If Sam's lucky enough, then he will be able to wake her up as well. Sam has held onto the book for more than a week. Finally, he's ready to go into the basement and perform a ritual. Are you ready, too?
Content warning: suicide
Shards of Infinity: Relics...
When the Infinity Engine was destroyed, reality warping shards rained down from the sky, wiping out civilization and forever altering the world. From the ashes, rose the descendants of mankind. You are a leader among these peoples, a mighty warrior, forever bound to a powerful shard.
It's time to make a choice: Is it your fate to lead your people to victory or will you become the relic of some forgotten future? Choose wisely.
Shards of Infinity: Relics of the Future is the first expansion to the popular deck-building game, Shards of Infinity. This expansion includes powerful cards known as relics that can only be leveraged by each of the leaders of the four factions when the player reaches 10 Mastery points.; when this happens, the player gains one of their two relics, with the other one being forgotten in time. The set also includes cards that can be used by any player, but when matched with the player's designated faction leader, the card receives an additional effect!
In addition, this set includes three new ways to play the game. A three player mode known as "Bloodbath": any damage dealt goes to both opponents rather than just one. In 2v2 Team Attack mode, players pair up to take on an opponent's team. A full solitaire mode, known as "Nemesis", pits solo players against the game.
Wingspan Revised Edition...
The Swift-Start Promo Pack includes first-round walkthrough guides and specific new bird cards to use with them. For those who already own Wingspan, the swift-start guides are still helpful for teaching new players, and the 10 new cards can be shuffled into the bird deck.
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
Featured Components:
170 unique bird cards (57x87mm)
26 bonus cards (57x87mm)
16 Automa cards (57x87mm)
103 food tokens
75 egg miniatures
5 custom wooden dice
5 player mats
1 birdfeeder dice tower
2-piece Game Trayz custom tray
1 goal mat
8 goal tiles
1 first-player token
40 action cubes (8 per player)
4 clear plastic resource containers
1 scorepad (50 sheets; 1 sheet used for all players each game)
3 rulebooks (core, Automa, and Appendix)
Arkham Horror: Dead of Night
Kate Winthrop pulled the collar of her long coat tight against her neck to ward o the creeping chill of a damp autumn night. With a squeal of tires, a long black car raced by, pursued closely by a police wagon. Kate pressed herself up against the iron railing of the bridge over the Miskatonic to keep clear of the chaos.
She'd read in the papers about the recent upsurge in violent crime and felt the increasing tension all around the city. As the nights grew longer, she noticed a deeper darkness lurking in the shadows around Arkham, and the instruments in her research lab at the university were responding to some influence that she couldn't observe.
Something was coming.
Step into a world of horror with Dead of Night, a new expansion for Arkham Horror Third Edition!
In Dead of Night, investigators explore the facets of Arkham best left unseen in the light of day. Organized crime builds a strong foothold in the city, secret cults labor for a dark master, an alien moon hangs overhead, and unknowable horrors stalk the night. is expansion includes two all-new scenarios, new encounters for every location in Arkham, new monsters and anomalies, and four new investigators to face these fresh horrors, armed with new spells, items and allies.
Human Punishment: Social...
Human Punishment is a combination of social deduction, social experiment and party game for 4-16 players. Each player takes on the role of a Human, a Machine or an Outlaw in a distant future. Players must investigate others to figure out who is on their side, grab one of the four different weapons and eliminate the enemies. Stay focused.... maybe there are hidden enemies on your Team! Find your team, trust no one!
The brand new Traitor mechanism will evolve the table into a social experiment.
- Popular Mechanics "ONE OF THE BEST NEW BOARD GAMES!"
- One of BGG's most anticipated party games of 2018
- Vivid_Board_Games badge of "AWESOME GAME ART"
- Austrian Boardgamer 'Hot Die Award'
- Brettspielblog 'bronze seal'
Settlers from four major powers of the world have discovered new lands, with new resources and opportunities. Romans, Barbarians, Egyptians and Japanese all at once move there to expand the boundaries of their empires. They build new buildings to strengthen their economy, they found mines and fields to gather resources, and they build barracks and training grounds to train soldiers. Soon after they discover that this land is far too small for everybody, then the war begins...
Imperial Settlers is a card game that lets players lead one of the four factions and build empires by placing buildings, then sending workers to those buildings to acquire new resources and abilities. The game is played over five rounds during which players take various actions in order to explore new lands, build buildings, trade resources, conquer enemies, and thus score victory points.
The core mechanism of Imperial Settlers is based on concepts from the author's card game 51st State.
50 Clues: The Pendulum of...
Maria is locked up in a psychiatric ward and must escape finding her son before it's too late. The Pendulum of the Dead is the first episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.
50 Clues is an immersive puzzle game that offers the experience of an escape room, but in a format that can be played at home. You combine objects, solve puzzles and decipher codes to complete the story. A smartphone or tablet keeps track of the solutions and provides multistep hints if the need arises.
Cards Against Humanity -...
A party game for horrible people."
Play begins with a judge, known as the "Card Czar", choosing a black question or fill-in-the-blank card from the top of the deck and showing it to all players. Each player holds a hand of ten white answer cards at the beginning of each round, and passes a card (sometimes two) to the Card Czar, face-down, representing their answer to the question on the card. The card czar determines which answer card(s) are funniest in the context of the question or fill-in-the-blank card. The player who submitted the chosen card(s) is given the question card to represent an "Awesome Point", and then the player to the left of the new Card Czar becomes the new Czar for the next round. Play continues until the players agree to stop, at which point the player with the most Awesome Points is the winner.
This, so far, sounds like the popular and fairly inoffensive Apples to Apples. While the games are similar, the sense of humor required is very different. The game encourages players to poke fun at practically every awkward or taboo subject including race, religion, gender, poverty, torture, alcoholism, drugs, sex (oh yes), abortion, child abuse, celebrities, and those everyday little annoyances like "Expecting a burp and vomiting on the floor".
In addition, there are a few extra rules. First, some question cards are "Pick 2" or cards, which require each participant to submit two cards in sequence to complete their answer. Second, a gambling component also exists. If a question is played which a player believes they have two possible winning answers for, they may bet an Awesome Point to play a single second answer. If the player who gambled wins, they retain the wagered point, but if they lose, the player who contributed the winning answer takes both points.
Cat Lady: Box of Treats
New challenges await you and your fellow cat lovers in Cat Lady: Box of Treats.
You need your base game to play, but now you get to manage new items, boxes, and cat treats! Plus there's even more cats to feed with the addition of new stray cats and gray cats! Box of Treats also expands the game to be played with up to six players, so now you'll have to outmaneuver more players to be crowned as the best cat lady in town. Compete for goals, try new strategies, and, as always, keep your cats fed!
Codenames (Finnish)
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES.
In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin.
Codenames: Win or lose, it's fun to figure out the clues.
Clank! Adventuring Party
Expand your game to include 6 players, with 6 new asymmetrical starting decks with thieving identities!
The thieves' guild is recruiting! Clank! Adventuring Party expands your merry band to include up to six players in your dungeon run! Want a new thieving identity? Shuffle up as one of six unique characters, each with their own starting deck and special abilities!
Lead trusty companions as the Dwarf Agnet
Build wonderous collections as the Elf D'allan
Smash hordes of enemies as the Orc Garignar
Sling arcane spells as the mage Lenara
Amass primate power as the MonkeyBot Prime
Or stir up a paw full of trouble as the devious cat Whiskers
But beware: the ravenous hydra Hexavultus won't give up his treasures easily...
Adventure Games: The...
Explore places, combine items, and experience stories in Adventure Games, a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles, players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together, players explore common areas, talk to people, look for clues, and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make, the course of history changes and there is no going back!
Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series, titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said, many different paths can be experienced during play, with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters, each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed, so the games can be played multiple times.
In The Volcanic Island, you slip into the roles of four students on a volcanic island who face mysterious events. Like a thriller, you need to solve puzzles, make decisions, track traces, and analyze and use objects. You will experience a story together. Gameplay is variable and different in each group.
Admin note: The first edition of the German edition of The Volcanic Island contains an error for which KOSMOS has released a PDF correction that you'll find in the files.
There are six companies that will change the world as we know it! You can be part of their success and be a investor. Try to become rich by making the right decisions!
Only the one biggest investor can get money out of each company. You must try to read the next steps of your rivals and use your capital and your three hidden cards to win against them and become the biggest shareholder!
You have to be lucky in this game but you must also think about your moves and analyze your rivals! You can play this card game with only a few players but also with many!
Wingspan Oceania Expansion
Wingspan: Oceania Expansion focuses on birds in Australia and New Zealand. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features birds illustrated by Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez.
Resistance Avalon (Nordic)
The Resistance: Avalon pits the forces of Good and Evil in a battle to control the future of civilization. Arthur represents the future of Britain, a promise of prosperity and honor, yet hidden among his brave warriors are Mordred's unscrupulous minions. These forces of evil are few in number but have knowledge of each other and remain hidden from all but one of Arthur's servants. Merlin alone knows the agents of evil, but he must speak of this only in riddles. If his true identity is discovered, all will be lost.
The Resistance: Avalon is a standalone game, and while The Resistance is not required to play, the games are compatible and can be combined.
Imperium: Legends
Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons.
In your hands lies the destiny of one of history's great civilizations. Under constant threat of attack, you must conquer new lands, oversee dramatic scientific and cultural advances, and lead your people into the era of empire. Expand too rapidly, and unrest will bring your civilization to its knees; build up too slowly, however, and you might find yourself a mere footnote of history. As one of eight radically asymmetric civilizations, you will compete to become the most dominant empire the world has ever seen.
Imperium: Legends is a standalone game that contains the Arthurian, Atlantian, Egyptian, Mauryan, Minoan, Olmec, Qin, and Utopian civilizations and an individual solo opponent behaving as each nation. It is also fully compatible with Imperium: Classics for players wanting to expand their pool of civilizations even further.
Unlock!: Mythic Adventures
Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock, players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team, searching for clues, combining objects, and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues, offering hints, and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app, they will escape and win the game! Unlock!: Mythic Adventures contains three scenarios revolving around these themes (not the official name of the scenarios): Around the World in Eighty Days Greek Mythology A Noside story sequel
It's a Wonderful World:...
This new deck of cards complement the existing cards of It's a Wonderful World. From now on, each turn, you will play a mixture of classic Development cards and Ascension cards. Ascension cards introduce new ways to play, most notably through pair scoring and corruption.
This new deck also allows you to play with up to 7 players.
Unlock! Escape Adventures...
Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc.
Unlock! Escape Adventures includes three separate scenarios for you to explore:
In The Formula, you enter a secret laboratory to recover a mysterious serum that has been developed by a scientist. Will you solve all the riddles and get out in less than an hour?
In Squeek & Sausage, you need to thwart the plans of the despicable Professor Noside!
In The Island of Doctor Goorse, you must visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps!
Dark Souls: Forgotten Paths...
The myriad paths of this sprawling world are legion, each one branching out into a thousand others. Many of these paths are peaceful, untouched by the wars that rage around them. This journey, however, will take you to far darker places.
These are the paths, shattered and crumbling, which have fallen from memory and sight of the Flame. These are the paths, dismal and cursed, where traps and ruin lie around every corner. These are the paths, chilling and treacherous, which are paced only by the monstrous tread of things best left forgotten.
These are the paths you must walk.
Forgotten Paths is an expansion for Dark Souls: The Card Game. This expansion features exciting new encounters, powerful new enemies, and all-new rules for terrain and traps to ensure that every battle is a fresh challenge. Four distinctive, unique bosses and a brand-new exploration board provide thrilling adventure for even the most experienced players of the core game.
To aid you in conquering these trials, this expansion also includes brand-new, powerful weapons and equipment as well as providing two completely new characters to play, the Pyromancer and the Thief, both of which bring their own play style to enhance your Dark Souls experience.
A copy of Dark Souls: The Card Game is required to play with this expansio
For Sale (Nordic)
https://www.iello.fr/co.uk/news/for-sale-is-back-in-our-mini-games-collection
Re-discover one of the greatest bidding games! For Sale is an accessible and yet stragegic game, a major piece that rightfully belongs to the mini games collection: GREAT games in small boxes (Schotten Totten, Time Bomb…).
In 'For Sale', you are real estate agents. Your goal: buy houses for the least amount of money, then sell them and make huge profits! It'll be up to you to guess the value of the properties to get the biggest cheques!
The game can be divided in two separate phases:
Let's buy!
During the buying/bidding phase, as many houses as there are players are placed on the table. You have to overbid one after the other for the houses that are for sale in front of you. Each time a player passes, they get the smallest card of the lot and get half of their money back. The last player gets the biggest card, sure… but also loses all their money!
Once this is over, new houses are revealed until the deck is empty.
Now let's sell!
You then have to sell the houses you obtained in order to earn a large added value.
This time, cheques are revealed (as many as the number of players) in the middle of the table.
Port Royal: Big Box
Port Royal: Big Box contains the Port Royal, the first expansion Just One More Contract..., the second expansion The Adventure Begins..., the Gambler promo card, and the standalone game Port Royal: Unterwegs!.
This edition of the game features new graphics and art.
Feed the Kraken
https://funtails.de/en/feed-the-kraken/
Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction game, with three asymmetric factions.
All players may be sitting in the same boat, but they want to navigate in different directions! The loyal sailors must bring the ship safely to mainland, whereas the pirates crave to secretly maneuver the ship into the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile a crazy cultist is busy convincing parts of the crew to help him summon their dark lord —the Kraken— from the depth of the sea to save them all.
At the start of your journey, you will receive a secret affiliation marker. You will either be a loyal sailor, a sneaky pirate, or a fanatic cult leader. Only the outnumbered pirates know each other, everybody else will have to try to find their teammates (or convert them to their cult) as they sail along. Rum-induced visions, cabin searches, inquisitions, and mermaids will help you find out more about the true loyalties of the other "sailors".
Who knows how to navigate?
The goal of the game is to navigate the ship towards your final destination, which would be easy if only players weren't divided into three different factions. Each secret faction wants to reach a different area of the board. Every turn the ship will sail in one of the three possible directions —but which one will it be?
The current captain and their chosen lieutenant will study ancient sea maps and pass their often conflicting orders onto the chosen navigator, who has to make the final decision. Meanwhile the rest of the crew is busy drinking rum, gambling and telling each other tales of ancient sea monsters.
Whom shall we trust?
After each navigation, the lieutenant and navigator go off duty, and the captain has to find somebody sober enough to take their spot instead. Everyone can discuss, how well that last navigation went, who is to blame for the current course, and who should be in charge in the future instead.
Convince your enemies that it is in their best interest to make you the next lieutenant, or navigator! You can even draw your guns and become the new captain in open mutiny! But for how long will you be able to keep the trust of your crew? The next mutiny might already be waiting for you if your decisions don't please your fellow sailors.
Feed the Kraken is a sophisticated social deduction game designed around a beautiful vintage sailor setting.
It supports 5-11 players. A match is usually dealt within 45 minutes up to 1:30 hours.
Canopy is a game in which two players compete to grow the most bountiful rainforest. The jungle ecosystem is full of symbiosis and mutualism, and players must grow tall trees and lush jungle plants to attract the most diverse wildlife. By carefully selecting what grows in your forest, you can create the ideal balance of flora and fauna and develop a thriving rainforest.
In the game, players take turns selecting new cards for their forest from three growth piles. Each time you look at a pile, you may select it and add those cards to your rainforest tableau, or return the pile face down, adding one additional card to it. As the piles grow, you must search for the plants and animals that will benefit your forest the most — but choose carefully as the jungle also contains dangers in the form or fire, disease, and drought.
Mint Works
Mint Works is a light and straightforward worker placement game. Its compact size makes it easy to put in your pocket and take it anywhere. Its simple rules make it easy to introduce new players to the genre of worker placement.
During the game each player will have a limited amount of Mint Tokens, which represent their workers. Players will use these mint tokens to earn more tokens, take first player or buy and build plans. Plans are how players earn points. Some plans will give only points, others will give extra powers to the owner.
Once any player has at least 7 points earned (or if there are not enough plans to refill the stock) the end of the game is triggered. The game will then be over at the end of the current round.
Whoever has the most points provided by plans they have built wins!
Arkwright The Card Game
In the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution starts. The first factories were founded by businessmen like Richard Arkwright, who ran the first factory for spinning wool with machines like the "Spinning Jenny" and the water frame.
In "Arkwright: The Card Game", you run a business and will employ workers in your different factories to produce and sell goods. The more workers, the more goods that can be sold — but be prepared for crises and some stiff competition.
The game is played over three decades (1770/1780/1790), split up into four rounds per decade. On your turn, you play new cards from your hand to open factories and upgrade existing ones, select improvements, improve factory quality, build machines, and employ new workers. You can also pay money to improve your shareholdings, and take out loans if you require more money for production costs. After the actions phase, you can improve your abilities by advancing your development markers on your player board, or take one of the available development cards.
Then, the production phase starts, where every player who owns a factory of the current good produces those goods. The market fluctuates with the general demand, so the demand may be lower than the value of your current good, lowering your profit. Workers must be paid, and machines need regular maintenance, so you can possibly lose money instead of turning a profit. Selling enough of one good improves your share value, and there are bonuses for having the highest appeal. Lastly, if you can't sell your goods to the home market, you can ship them overseas or store them for future rounds.
After the final round of the last decade, the game ends. Players then sell all goods left in their storehouses, reduce the number of shares they hold by the number of loans they took, and reduce their share value based on their personal shipping track. Each player then multiplies the number of their shares by their share value to determine their end score. The player with the highest end score wins the game.
Aeon's End: Legacy of...
Aeon's End: Legacy of Gravehold is the second legacy game in the Aeon's End line of games. Legacy of Gravehold has a deeper, more immersive narrative with branching paths. After each game, players will receive experience. They will spend that experience on enhancement stickers, those along with player cards will allow the players to become more powerful. However, the nemeses that players will face grow stronger and stronger with each battle.
Legacy of Gravehold has more than twice as many mages as all previous base sets, and more than twice as many nemeses as well.
Imperium: Classics
Imperium: Classics is a standalone game that contains the Carthaginian, Celt, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, Roman, Scythian, and Viking civilizations and an individual solo opponent behaving as each nation. It is also fully compatible with Imperium: Legends for players wanting to expand their pool of civilizations even further.
Bargain Quest
Bargain Quest is a game of adventure and capitalism for 2-6 players. Players will take the role of shopkeepers in an adventuring town plagued by monsters. Players must draft items and then secretly choose which items to place in their windows to attract wealthy heroes to their shops.
Once all heroes have been equipped, they battle against monstrous threats, earning money and adding prestige to whichever item shop they most recently visited. Throughout the game players will encounter new heroes and monsters while upgrading their shops and hiring employees. Once the third monster is defeated the player who has earned the most gold and prestige is the winner.
So, You've Been Eaten...
So, you've been eaten.
Don't worry, this is simply an occupational hazard. In fact, it is fairly common among Deep Space Miners (5th class), and some say that it is almost unavoidable. And, well, it is. Especially since the crystals that you seek happen to be inside giant space beasts. To mine them, you need to, well, be eaten.
But, no reason to panic. We are here to help you deal with the physical and mental challenges of being eaten. This handy simulation/survival guide is standard issue for all recruits and will eventually lead to a productive, if not potentially brief, career in space mining.
Should you achieve your objective and mine enough crystals to meet your quota, it is then cost-effective for the company to activate your jet pack and extricate you from the proverbial belly of the beast. While the beast's immune response was not enough to prevent its demise, its contribution to human progress and corporate profitability are most definitely appreciated.
In the eventuality that the bacteria present in the beast overwhelm you and you are digested, do not worry. Your non-organic parts will ultimately provide much utility to future space miners. In fact, you may encounter some such pieces of equipment in your expedition, remains of attempts by evidently less-than-qualified recruits.
Finally, it could transpire that you do not collect the necessary crystals by the time you reach the end of the beast's digestive tract. In this case — the so-called "ending #2" — you will then exit the beast from the other end than the one you entered: alive, yet forever changed. In this case, and after a thorough decontamination and quarantine period, we will have to evaluate your performance versus that of the beast's efforts to consume you.
In So, You've Been Eaten., the Miner and the Beast face off against one another. The Miner earns points by collecting crystals, and the Beast earns points by developing immune responses and by its bacteria attacking the Miner.
The Miner wins instantly by collecting all eight different crystals, and the Beast wins instantly by digesting the Miner after the attack of four bacteria of the same type. Of course, there's always the possibility that the Miner will simply pass through the Beast's system, in which case the player with the most points wins!
So, You've Been Eaten. can be played as:
A game for 2 players, with a Miner player against a Beast player.
A game for 1 player, with the Miner player against a sleeping Beast.
A game for 1 player, with the Beast player against a robot Miner.
A game for 0 players, with a sleeping Beast against a robot Miner.
It's a wonderful Kingdom
https://www.laboitedejeu.fr/en/its-a-wonderful-kingdom/
It's a Wonderful Kingdom is a standalone solo or 2-player game in a Low-Fantasy universe.
Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor "It's a Wonderful World", this new game offers more interaction, a bluff mechanism and new challenges.
The game is played using modules, each different and offering mechanical twists. Each game, players will choose one of the different modules to compete against each other.
The game is divided into 4 rounds. Each round having 3 phases.
1/ Split & Trap
Players take turns placing their cards on two piles at the center of the table.
One player picks 2 cards from his hand and place it either on the same pile, or split it among the two piles. The other player chooses a pile. This step is repeated alternatively until the players have placed all the cards from their hands.
Furthermore, each player has 2 Trap tokens which can be used to place face down cards.
2/ Planification
Each player chooses, for the cards he has collected, which ones to build and which ones to recycle in order to accelerate the development.
3/ Sequential Production
Each player produces the resources of his Kingdom in a sequential way. The resources being produced in a certain order, it is necessary to anticipate the sequences to optimize the production and development.
At the end of the 4th round, the player with the most victory points wins the game.
Alderquest
High councils of Aleron have initiated a four-seasons tournament with an urgent summons to the many houses of the realm. Guilds local to the Great Tree Aiyana have convened at her watershed to take part in the first contest, as autumn slowly expires.
Rival guilds of animal heroes and minions will square off in a competition that blends area control, tile placement, hidden information, bluffing, and traditional match-3. The team that gathers the most acorns before the start of winter is the contest's victor.
50 Clues: White Sleep
Maria is on the run with her son while also preparing for the big showdown. But will she make it? White Sleep is the second episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.
50 Clues: The Fate of Leopold
Maria has gathered enough strength to confront Leopold, but first, she must track him down. The Fate of Leopold is the third episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.
Challengers! is an interactive deck-management game for 1-8 players that plays in about 45 minutes independent of player count. With the tournament gameplay style, you meet another opponent every round.
In the Deck Phase, you choose new members and add them to your deck, which might consist of a wizard, alien, cat, gangster and kraken. 75 distinct characters with more than 40 exciting effects create a unique experience every game. Choose from six different sets and discover new strategies and synergies every game.
In the Match Phase, stay in flag possession to win the trophy of that round. Try to get the most fans and trophies over the course of seven rounds to be able to qualify for the final. If you can best your opponent in the final, you win Challengers!
(If you think that all sounds a lot like a board game adaption of a digital Autobattler, we are proud to tell you that this is the first of its kind!)

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I've been holding back on buying a Sagiri figure because the others just weren't cute enough, in my opinion, but I had to jump on this one when I saw it! So cute! And I love the colors!


I hope this newsletter finds you well. I got back from NUSA last week just in time to sit in on the Saturday combined meeting of the 3 Plan Review Committees where your dedicated Neighborhood Council leaders struggled long and hard to successfully come up with a new stakeholder definition. Check out Commissioner Doug Epperhart's article below for the details.
I was really inspired by the committee members' pluck in tackling challenging issues not only during Saturday's 4 hour meeting, but for the past 4 months as well - all for the sake of bettering the Neighborhood Council system. We all owe these volunteers a lot of gratitude for stepping up and to the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners for leading the charge, too.
I'm happy to report that the new Neighborhood Council Funding Program ordinance was approved on Wednesday by City Council. Many thanks to Councilmember Parks and to the City Attorney's Office in making this one of the fastest ordinances to be enacted. The ordinance is expected to go into effect by early July so we will be racing on our side to get everything into place for the launch. It has been all hands on deck for our staff to close down the old funding system and create a new one simultaneously, so I have to appreciate their great efforts, particularly our Funding Program Director, Armando Ruiz, and Neighborhood Empowerment Advocate Betty Wong Oyama, who have been keeping everything on course.
Don't forget about the biggest block party in LA on June 7th where we will celebrate Mayor Villaraigosa and welcome Mayor Elect Eric Garcetti.
If I don't see you at the LANCC tomorrow, have a relaxing weekend!
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The World's Biggest Family Tree Reveals Surprising Things About Humanity
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Ellainie Calangian
Scientists created the world's most significant family tree mapping the lives of almost 13 million people that spans 11 generations. It is considered a massive scientifically validated family tree based on publicly available data, according to the researchers.
The discovery described in the journal Science reveals something about the past of the humanity that includes their marriage and death. Yaniv Erlich, a data scientist and computational biologist at the New York Genome Center and his colleagues, led the research, according to National Geographic.
In the research, the team gathered 86 million publicly available profiles from the ancestry site Geni.com. They assessed them for any strange details including people who were both the parent and a child of another individual.
The researchers saw some small family trees and ended up with 5.3 million trees, the largest of which was the 13-million-people set, of whom 85 percent were from the North America and Europe, who lived between 1650 and 2000, according to Science Alert.
The researchers examined data looking for details from patterns of longevity and intermarriage to migration and genetic relationships. They discovered that genetics might play a smaller role in longevity as some scientists previously thought.
They also found that advances in transport technology harmonized with longer migrations. This referred to people born before 1800 looked for partners within an eight kilometers radius than the average of 19 kilometers by 1850 and a 100-kilometer radius by 1950.
The massive family tree spans 11 generations and could provide answers to questions about long life https://t.co/exl0U7fxuB
— National Geographic (@NatGeo) March 1, 2018
The data also reveals that from 1650 to the start of the 19th century, the average married couple was fourth cousins. Joanna Kaplanis, one of the researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, said that although people started to be born further away from their families during the early 19th century, they were still marrying cousins for 50 years. On the other hand, she also said that it seems the eventual decrease in inbreeding was more to do with cultural influences and just became less socially acceptable, as noted by the New Scientist.
The massive family tree also reveals something about longevity, which refers to genes that could help people live longer. In the previous studies, they indicated that lifespan is at least somewhat heritable. However, this new study found that genetics contributes to only 16 percent of what is necessary to see old age.
Currently, this vast family tree is publically available. Erlich is encouraging other researchers to take advantage of the resource to unlock some genealogical and scientific questions.


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Q: ¿Como podría calcular año de nacimiento a partir de la respuesta? edad=input("¿Que edad tienes?")

year = '2020'

a = year - edad

if edad.isdigit():
    print("Buena edad")

else: edad=int(input("Error en la edad ¿Que edad tienes?"))

print("Este es tu año de nacimiento:", a)

A: Tu codigo está casi perfecto, solo necesita un detalle.
El ingreso de edad es un 'string', por lo que restar cadenas de 'string' no es nada lógico.
Lo que debes restar, son numeros, int, float, etc... en este caso int.
Lo que puedes hacer es lo sgte entonces.
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
def func():
  year = '2020'

  while True:
    try:
      edad = int(raw_input("¿Que edad tienes?"))
      break
    except ValueError:
      print("No es un numero")
      continue

  print("Numero Valido")
  a = int(year) - int(edad)
  print("Este es tu anio de nacimiento:", a)

func()

A: Debe realizar varios ajustes en su codigo:

*

*Poner la variable year de una vez como valor entero year = 2020

*Poner el calculo de a dentro del if validando que lo que ha ingresado el usuario es un dígito/numero, pero usando mejor type() de python porque si le ingresan un entero le va a dar error ya que una variable entera no tiene isdigit()

*Mejor hacer una función ya que en la parte del else el sistema terminaría la ejecución sin realizar él calculo, entonces allí (else) debemos llamar de nuevo a la misma función para que todo comience de nuevo.

*El siguiente ejemplo es compatible con python 2 y python 3

Quedaría así:
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
def pregunta():
    edad = input("¿Que edad tienes?\n")

    year = 2020
    if (type(edad) is str and edad.isnumeric()) or type(edad) is int:
        a = year - edad if type(edad) is int else int(edad, 10)
        print("Este es tu año de nacimiento:", a)

    else:
        print("\n>>> La edad ingresada es incorrecta.\n\n")
        pregunta()

pregunta()

A: Lo primero es que input siempre devuelve una cadena, por lo que hay que usar int para convertir lo leido a un entero.
Lo que haremos será pedir la edad y validar que sea numérica usando isnumeric. En tal caso, salimos del while. Si no, volvemos a pedir la edad.
while True:
    edad=input("¿Que edad tienes?")
    if edad.isnumeric():
        break
edad = int(edad)

Como vas a operar con años, inicializa la variable con un entero, no con una cadena:
year = 2020

En resumen, el código queda así:
while True:
    edad=input("¿Que edad tienes?")
    if edad.isnumeric():
        break
edad = int(edad)

year = 2020
a = year - edad
print("Este es tu año de nacimiento:", a)

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Isla Fisher and daughter Olive have been on the go in NYC! With stroller in tow, you can see the Noobia mini diaper bag hanging on the side of Olive's stroller. The Baby Kaed mini diaper bag was gifted to Isla and Olive in our It's Fun to be One Celebrity Girl Bag.
The Noobia mini diaper bag includes a wipes case & changing mat, snap out zippered pocket and four interior pockets. It's great for quick trips to the park, mall and grocery store. Its currently available in three neutral earth tones colors: pewter (as carried by Isla Fisher), rust (carried by Naomi Lowde-Priestley) and navy (retails for $78).
For more pics of Isla and Olive, visit INF Daily, People.com, UsMagazine.com and Celebrity Baby Scoop.


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What's happening with WCAG 2.0?
Following a conversation with Judy Brewer from the W3C back in February, Jared Smith had the chance to interview her and submit some probing questions about what's happening with WCAG 2.0. Thanks Judy...and nice one Jared! See the interview with Judy Brewer on WCAG 2.0 in our WaSP Asks the ...
By Patrick Lauke | May 5th, 2007
What's that object, again?
A while ago, we asked the W3C: how do we go about including multimedia objects in Web documents in a backwards-compatible way? In the first of a two-part issue, the W3C gave us a little history lesson about the birth of multimedia inclusion in HTML documents. Now, in this long-awaited ...
By Steph Troeth | May 24th, 2005
What's that object?
The object element has long been a subject of mystery and frustration. How do we use it? How well is it supported? As part of the WaSP asks the W3C project, we consult the W3C about the correct way to include multimedia elements such as sound, animation and video into our ...
By Steph Troeth | July 1st, 2004
What is CC/PP and Why Should I Care?
CC/PP is not a new idea - it's been in development at the W3C for some time now. Yet, many web designers and developers are unaware of what it is, much less how it integrates with XML, XHTML and XSLT in an effort to improve device independence. The W3C ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | February 16th, 2004
Benefits of XHTML Modularization
Just what is this magic word beginning with 'M' that spans six syllables? What does it mean, and what implications does it have for us? In this issue of "WaSP asks the W3C", we learn some of the benefits of XHTML Modularization.
By Steph Troeth | December 17th, 2003
HTML or XHTML?
Why is it that the question you think is stupid is usually the one that everyone else is dying to ask? So which one is better: HTML or XHTML? Seems simple in the midst of this flurry of acronyms such as XAML and XUL. The W3C wants to help you ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | October 28th, 2003
Serving up the Right MIME Type
Q: Which MIME type should XHTML be served with? A: The short answer is application/xhtml+xml, of course. But this MIME type isn't recognized by a number of user agents, Internet Explorer included. So, what to do? In our long-awaited return to the WaSP Asks the W3C series, we ask ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | September 4th, 2003
WaSP Asks the W3C
In an effort to assist developers and designers in understanding detailed issues when working with web standards, WaSP and the W3C kick off a new project today. The project, "WaSP Asks the W3C" involves WaSP Steering Committee members culling questions from supporters and asking members of the W3C's Quality Assurance ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | December 9th, 2002
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Our Work Here is Done
By Aaron Gustafson | March 1st, 2013
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality.
When The Web Standards Project (WaSP) formed in 1998, the web was the battleground in an ever-escalating war between two browser makers—Netscape and Microsoft—who were each taking turns "advancing" HTML to the point of collapse. You see, in an effort to one-up each other, the two browsers introduced new elements and new ways of manipulating web documents; this escalated to the point where their respective 4.0 versions were largely incompatible.
Realizing that this fragmentation would inevitably drive up the cost of building websites and ran the risk of denying users access to content and services they needed, Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded WaSP and rallied an amazing group of web designers and developers to help them push back. The WaSP's primary goal was getting browser makers to support the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
In 2001, with the browser wars largely over, WaSP began to shift its focus. While some members continued to work with browser vendors on improving their standards support, others began working closely with software makers like Macromedia to improve the quality of code being authored in tools such as Dreamweaver. And others began the hard slog of educating web designers and developers about the importance of using web standards, culminating in the creation of WaSP InterAct, a web curriculum framework which is now overseen by the W3C.
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality. While there is still work to be done, the sting of the WaSP is no longer necessary. And so it is time for us to close down The Web Standards Project.
Many (if not all) of us are continuing to work in the world of web standards, but our work is now largely outside the umbrella of WaSP. If you are interested in continuing to work on web standards-related projects along with us, we humbly suggest you follow these projects:
A List Apart – The magazine "for people who make websites" is run by WaSP founder Jeffrey Zeldman and is a consistent source of forward-thinking articles and tutorials.
HTML5 Doctor – A solid resource and discussion forum on all things HTML5, brought to you by Bruce Lawson and his team.
W3C Community Groups – If you have a passion for a specific web technology, you can help make it better by participating in one (or more) community groups. In particular, you might be interested in one of these: Core Mobile Web Platform, Responsive Images, Web Education, and Web Media Text Tracks.
WebPlatform.org – A fantastic web standards resource, providing up-to-date documentation, Q&As, tutorials & more. Chris Mills, Doug Schepers, and a number of other standards advocates are involved in this project.
Web Standards Sherpa – An educational resource founded by WaSP which continues to operate under the leadership of Chris Casciano, Virginia DeBolt, Aaron Gustafson, and Emily Lewis.
Web Standards + Small Business – An outreach project started by WaSP that educates small businesses about why they should care about web standards. This project is overseen by Aaron Gustafson.
The job's not over, but instead of being the work of a small activist group, it's a job for tens of thousands of developers who care about ensuring that the web remains a free, open, interoperable, and accessible competitor to native apps and closed eco-systems. It's your job now, and we look forward to working with you, and wish you much success.
Nota bene: In the near future, we will be making a permanent, static archive of webstandards.org and some of our other resources like WaSP Interact to preserve them as a resource and to provide a record of our 15-year mission to improve the web.
Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth contributed to this post.
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Deloitte Delivers Tech Solutions for Rapidly Changing Business World with New Facility in Greater Phoenix Area
PHOENIX, AZ (June 8, 2018) — As a leader in driving impact that matters, Deloitte today announced it will be opening a 102,000 square foot U.S. Delivery Center in Gilbert, Arizona, to develop and implement emerging technology solutions for a range of private and public sector clients. The center is expected to generate 2,500 jobs for the region.
The U.S. Delivery Center is designed to deliver scalable technology-based solutions efficiently and effectively to meet clients' evolving business needs. The center will provide capabilities for cloud, Salesforce, robotic and cognitive automation, blockchain, SAP, Workday and more.
"Businesses today need to anticipate and respond more quickly to the rapid pace of change in today's market due in large part to tech disruption," said Janet Foutty, chairman and CEO, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Our newest Delivery Center located in the Phoenix metro area demonstrates our commitment to providing our clients with the capabilities to navigate and leverage emerging technology to drive business results."
Deloitte will seek a range of information technology driven professionals with diverse backgrounds and skillsets, including knowledge of Salesforce, SAP, Workday, software development and analytics, underscoring the ever-increasing importance of bringing different perspectives and ideas to provide tech-savvy solutions to clients. The state-of-the-art center will serve state government clients in the west region and commercial clients in industries including health care and financial services.
"Our strategic decision to locate our new delivery center in the metro-Phoenix area expands upon our nearly 60 year investment in, and commitment to, Arizona," said Jonas McCormick, Arizona managing principal, Deloitte LLP. "The new center will further enhance our leadership position in the region by leveraging a deep talent pool of 2,500 highly-skilled workers to serve our clients across industry sectors."
The new center located in Gilbert will become a notable part of Phoenix's growing innovation ecosystem, access to top talent, and unique culture. It will also add to a growing business community, broadening market access for the thriving region.
"As Arizona continues to attract new technology jobs, we're looking forward to adding Deloitte's U.S. Delivery Center to that list. Deloitte's growth here in the state is welcome news and we're thankful for their continued investment in Arizona," said Arizona Governor Doug Ducey.
The U.S. Delivery Center in Gilbert will first open at a temporary location this summer, with a permanent location to follow this winter at Rivulon.
For more information about Deloitte U.S. Delivery Center careers visit: http://experience.deloitte.com/USDCWest
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including more than 85 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 6,000 private and middle market companies. Our people work across more than 20 industry sectors to make an impact that matters — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthy society. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them.
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Christopher Nolan Discusses INCEPTION, 3D, But Not BATMAN 3, at the Hero Complex Film Festival
by Germain Lussier June 12, 2010
Day two of the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival in Hollywood put director Christopher Nolan on display. The director's 2002 film Insomnia and 2008 masterpiece The Dark Knight both screened and the man himself showed up for an extended Q&A between movies.
The one downside to the evening was that the words "Batman 3" were not uttered once. It was almost as if the host, LA Times writer Geoff Boucher, wasn't allowed to say them. Other than that, though, Nolan proved he is a highly intelligent and articulate filmmaker who has really grown from his second film to his latest. We learned some news about Inception (it's about one week from being totally done), Nolan's thoughts on 3D (he prefers post conversion) and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Click here to read about Friday night at the festival with Leonard Nimoy, check back Sunday for the final day with Ridley Scott an hit the jump for a full rundown of the evening's session, including the way Nolan almost got tricked into talking about Batman 3.
After Insomnia's credits, they immediately rolled the latest trailer for Inception before Nolan came out.
– The first question was about the casting of Robin Williams in Insomnia and Nolan called his performance "flawless." Said the film benefited from the fact that One Hour Photo, which features a similar performance, was released after it.
– They then discussed the issue of similar timing, like Nolan encountered with The Illusionist vs. his film The Prestige. He said it happened almost all the time, even with Memento. When he was pitching that, a similar script – The Lookout – was floating around. It finally got made years later with Joseph Gordon Levitt.
– Nolan came directly to the event from the nearby Warner Brother's lot where he was on a dub stage working on the final reels of Inception for early screenings. Said the film is one week from being totally done.
– Editing is Nolan's favorite part of production and finds actual production to be a bit paint by numbers. However, he says that all aspects of directing are great at the beginning but by the end you just want them to be over.
– He prefers to use practical effects in most cases before resorting to digital effects and told a story about choosing between the two on Batman Begins. He said that effects are better when artists can match something real.
– Inception was an idea he has been working on for ten years and actually pitched it to Warner Brothers right after Insomnia. He then told us the basic jist, nothing more. They liked it and told him to write it. He figured it would take him a few months but it took 10 years. He thinks it worked out for the best though because the film is easier to watch than read on a page so his work in between gave the studio confidence in his ability to pull it off.
– Heist movies, like Inception, tend to be superficial so the time he took with the movie also helped him flesh out the characters. Leonardo DiCaprio helped with this too when he cam aboard.
– His favorite scene in The Dark Knight is the interrogation because it was so technical with the lights and it brought together many of the main players in the cast. They shot it second week so that Heath Ledger could have a good, meaty scene to use for the rest of the shoot. He also said that they couldn't have done that scene with the suit used in Batman Begins because it wouldn't look good under that light and that it's the first scene where we finally get to see a Batman driven by rage.
– That location was also used in Batman Begins and Inception. In fact, many of the sets for all three of those movie are all still standing in a warehouse in London.
– He wasn't aware of the fact that six of his top eight actors in Inception were Oscar nominees but he chats about them being great.
– Boucher then mentioned that it was probably "too early to talk about things" but asked why Nolan, whose characters are usually so haunted, would want to be involved in Superman, who is not. He said he's strictly on it as a producer and he retold the story of David Goyer pitching him this great idea. He wouldn't say what the idea was but said he knew he had to help get it done.
– Batman Begins was directly inspired by the Richard Donner Superman and Nolan pitched it as such. He called the Burton film "mad" and said that Donner's structure and ensemble casting helped influence Begins. He believes that cast is the reason many of the superhero movies now have huge actors in all the small parts.
– Nolan is a huge Blade Runner fan, has seen it hundreds of times and knows every detail. He talked about how it spoke to him and influenced his story telling.
– He then talked about Alan Parker films, such as Pink Floyd's The Wall, being an inspiration too, especially in their non-linear storytelling. He screened the film to his cast and crew before Inception. They were left speechless.
– Jokingly said that Michael Caine claims to be his lucky charm and that's the only reason he put him in Inception. He then went on to praise him.
– Christian Bale was brought up next and Nolan talked about how he went about the screen tests for Begins and that Bale was first. After that, they shot footage with every actor in Hollywood including Cillian Murphy. Bale was the stand out, but Murphy's performance won him the role of Scarecrow.
– Here's where Boucher worked in an "air quotes" Batman 3 question. He asked Nolan if he was amused when reading about his own casting on the Internet. Nolan got a look on his face and said that he doesn't really look at the Internet and doesn't even have an email or cell phone. He learned early on in the Begins process that it wasn't a good idea to look at what the fans say. He did joke about the Cher rumor though and said the studio has called him and alluded to the fact they read those things.
– The audience questions began after that. Ed Brubaker, the comic book writer asked about Nolan's writing process. He first admitted the screenplays you read that are published are like the 15th draft and are way more polished than any one person should get credit for. Then, he added that he doesn't outline, just prefers to start from page one and write linearly and uses a lot of diagrams ala A Beautiful Mind.
– Said he wrote Joker origin stories just by spewing like 3 or 4 pages of stuff out there and then cutting back.
– He was totally surprised at the success of The Dark Knight and said that its success was due to a number or reasons including Heath Ledger. Another was that people were nervous about Batman Begins because of the previous film in the franchise and the idea of a reboot was foreign at the time. By the time Dark Knight came out, people trusted it more.
– Nolan is not a fan of 3D. He feels the image is too dark and it hasn't really gotten to the right place technologically yet for him to consider. They did post production tests for Inception, which he liked, but they didn't have enough time to convert the whole film to his high standards.
– He added that shooting in 3D is way too much of a compromise of the image, and gave a bunch of very technical examples. The most interesting thing, though was Nolan said if he was to do a film in 3D, he believes the way to do it best is in post production.
– Story comes first when he's writing and the characters evolve second, mostly through the action.
– The final question was some guy screaming out something about how he remade Nolan's short film Doodlebug and didn't really make any sense. It was a weak ending to a fun Q&A. Thankfully, we had The Dark Knight to cleanse our palates.
Check back tomorrow for the final day with Ridley Scott.
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Cherill Linnett and woman activists
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Cheril Linett is a female artist from Chile, with a background in performance art and stage performance, who primarily focuses her artwork on feminist issues in Chile, especially ones involving violence, murder, hate crime and different kinds of oppression and assault, but also creates artwork reflecting issues in other parts of Latin America. Linett collaborates with and invites other women, who act as her canvases, to work with her to create a cohesive piece addressing and critiquing feminist issues while working with photographers and videographers to document her performances. Not only do her use of setting and the human form create a unique artistic statement, but the use of striking colors, highly symbolic props, and the graphic portrayal of the human body help create a highly compelling argument, working to enact change within her community. Videos and photographs of Linett's work are displayed in the Centro de Artes de Vanguardia la Neomudéjar en Madrid, a contemporary gallery space in an abandoned warehouse in Madrid, featuring the works of various art activists from around the world. One piece in this gallery space, entitled "Memorial, stood out in particular. This performance piece took place in 2020 and refers to and protests the abductions, murders and violence towards women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as well as the lack of response and action taken by the Mexican government. Linett's art piece is inspired by the pink cross memorials in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a major city right next to the US/ Mexican border, representing the women killed in the "femicide" within the last couple years, and acting as a visible resistance to the government as well as a constant reminder of the mass violence taking place on the land. Since 1993, hundreds of women from Ciaudad Juarez, have been murdered, raped, and tortured and many remain missing. Many of these women were young, lower class and factory workers. The government has turned a blind eye to this women-targeted violence and have failed to carry out investigations and punishment for the perpetrators of the murders. In Ciudad Juarez, women and workers lack basic rights and labor protection, are extremely underpaid, and lack resources such as access to clean drinking water. The pollution, drought and corpses have all taken place and become a part of this landscape.
Cheril Linett's "Memorial" performance piece involves a group of women, dressed in teal transparent gowns, revealing their breasts, and holding up bright teal colored crosses with names of victims. The women all have their faces covered with teal cloth. The women walk along the river, lay down, and emerge whilst holding the cross, almost as if they are emerging from the graves. The women walk along the site of the drought, threatening to "flood the city" with their bodies in resistance to the government's negligence of the female homicides as well as the unbearable conditions faced by workers and residents of this city. It is important to note that the "femicide" has not only affected cis-women, but has also killed trans-gender women and transvestites. The women endure extreme heat and expose themselves to harsh conditions in order to highlight the unfair conditions endured by the people living in these conditions and show they are willing to sacrifice their own safety and comfort for the women who were stripped of this liberty. This performance uses human form, color, and setting to critique and resist the unjust, apathetic Mexican government.
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Q: login loop problem after installing nvidia graphics driver i have tried adding nouveau blacklisting problem and I also tried it in ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, 14.04 but nothing worked for me.
but whenever I install the nvidia driver and restart, it gets into login loop.

A: Try pressing Crtl + Alt + F2, then login and run:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia.*

Then re-boot.

A: You need to confirm if the drivers install are the correct one for you video card.
first solution:
sudo apt purge nvidia*
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-xxx <--- go to the website and see what card you are using.
Second solution
sudo chown $USER:$USER $HOME


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Joanne Owen
5 stars across 11 books
Joanne Owen was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and read Social and Political Sciences with Archaeology and Anthropology at St John's College, Cambridge. Now living in North London, Joanne has published two previous Young Adult novels. Steeped in the atmosphere of nineteenth century Prague, PUPPET MASTER blends the magic of marionette theatre with Czech folklore and legends. Described by The Guardian as 'timeless', PUPPET MASTER was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Branford Boase award and has been translated into several languages.
Her second novel, THE ALCHEMIST AND THE ANGELS is a fantastical, historical epic set in sixteenth century Prague, among the plague-ridden ghettos and decadent court of mad Emperor Rudolf. It wasdescribed by School Librarian as 'An imaginative tour de force'. Follow Joanne on Facebook at www.facebook.com/JoanneOwenBooks or on Twitter: @JoanneOwen
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Movie Review: Wonder Woman 1984
After numerous, pandemic-related delays, Wonder Woman returns.
Director: Patty Jenkins
Writers: Petty Jenkins, Geoff Johns, Dave Callaham.
Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
Chris Pine as Steve Trevor
Kristen Wiig as Barbara Minerva / The Cheetah
Pedro Pascal as Maxwell Lord
Robin Wright as Antiope
Connie Nielsen as Hippolyta
Lilly Aspell as Young Diana
Amr Waked as Emir Said Bin Abydos
Natasha Rothwell as Carol
Ravi Patel as Babajide
Oliver Cotton as Simon Stagg
Lucian Perez as BaronAlistair
Gabriella Wilde as Raquel
Kelvin Yu as Jake
Stuart Milligan as the President of the United States
David Al-Fahmi as Mr. Khalaji
Kevin Wallace as Televangelist
Wai Wong as Lai Zhong
Doutzen Kroes as Venelia
Hari James as Trigona
Hayley Warnes as Aella
Many statuesque women as Amazons
Lynda Carter as Asteria
The discovery of a device created by the gods results in the return of Steve Trevor, superpowers for an associate of Diana's, and the godlike ascendancy of corrupt businessman Maxwell Lord.
The opening flashback establishes Wonder Woman's history and the film's themes through a spectacular action sequence, catches up with the 1980s Wonder Woman, acting in implausible secrecy to maintain continuity with Dawn of Justice, and gives us some fine superheroic battles. If you're looking for those kinds of scenes, look no further.
Diana's relationship and conflict with the Cheetah have greater impact than the amplified, trumped-up apocalyptic shenanigans that form the main plot (and, we must assume, resulted in the offscreen deaths of numerous people).
Low Point
I know we're watching a film about an Amazonian superhero with a magic lasso fighting a villain who can alter the fabric of realty, but I would still like to know how a pilot from the early twentieth century can somehow fly a contemporary aircraft, drive a car like a Tokyo Drifter, and operate heavy military equipment.
Actually, I found Trevor to be the second-biggest problem in the film. Although he serves an important thematic purpose, he clutters a film that would have been improved by focusing on Dian's relationships with the other characters. Characters I care about fighting for low stakes beats characters I don't really care about saving the world. More than anything Wonder Woman 1984 requires more humanity.
The Scores:
Originality: 2/6 Apart from being an adaptation, this film uses more than its fair share of established tropes. It also echoes specifics movies, including, most deliberately, noted 80s action movies.
Wonder Woman 1984 incorporates a number of elements of the amazing Amazon's comic-book history. It cheats us, however, of one particular notorious moment involving the film's main villain, Max Lord. Instead of Wonder Woman killing him in front of multiple witnesses (which might have explained her silence between the end of this film and her next chronological appearance), we see a rather more family-friendly conclusion.
Effects: 6/6
Production: 6/6 The film features a recreated 1980s and numerous spectacular visuals. Atomic Blonde gave us a better, cooler look at the 80s, but one which wouldn't have worked with Wonder Woman.
Acting: 5/6 The acting is good, but not great. Gadot demonstrates a range that suits the iconic superhero, but she's not asked to do much more than that.
Story: 3/6 The story begins like a comic from the 1980s and then gets lost in its own excesses—in a film about the dangers of excess. I'll let you decide if that's appropriate or ironic.
Emotional Response: 4/6 The script shortchanges personal elements that should be developed to better-ground the fantasy and action.
Overall: 4/6 In the end, I found this film entertaining. It's less impressive than Wonder Woman or Shazam!, but better than Aquaman (which, arguably, it most resembles tonally) and a lot better than the recent DCCU Superman/Batman outings.
I've given +1 for the mid-credit sequence.
In total, Wonder Woman 1984 receives 30/42
Lingering Thoughts
So about a certain American president.
The man in the White House during the 1980s defined the era as much as electric drums, greed, hucksterism, the Cold War, and leg warmers. The film gives us a generic president who bears some superficial resemblance to Reagan. Those with a quick eye will notice the jelly beans in the oval office (1:46:13-14). However, this man is decidedly not Reagan, nor do they play him that way. I understand that they don't want to alienate anyone but, honestly, with a few changes to the dialogue and a different handling of that scene, they could have presented Reagan in a way that would have satisfied all but his most extreme supporters and detractors. An ersatz Margaret Thatcher appeared, somewhat comically, at the conclusion of For Your Eyes Only (1981), and I don't recall anyone, including Mrs. Thatcher, being put off by the appearance.
The gods only know what the history books look like in the DCCU.
Oh, wait. You thought this postscript was going to address another occupant of the White House?
Honestly, that would be misleading. This incarnation of Maxwell Lord borrows from a number of figures who influenced the 80s, from Norman Vincent Peale1 to Donald Trump. A few nods aside, he's a cinematic take on an established comic-book character, through which the film channels the cultural obsession with excess.
1. While Peale published his defining work, The Power of Positive Thinking, in 1952, he has influenced generations of business-people and evangelists, for better or worse, and many political figures, from Nixon to Clinton. Peale pervaded aspects of American culture in the 1980s.
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`Lex Pendragon says:
"…gets lost in its own excesses"
Yup, this sums it up. Enjoyable, but I also watch Soul, and Soul was the better movie.
The mid-credits scene, other than showing you a glimpse of a character/actress we like, didn't feel like it deserved anything other than a nod to that actress. At least when the do that all over Supergirl, the cameo-cast actually is story related.
Not that I didn't like it, I agree with the stated positioning in the DCEU, though I am not sure Shazam! rates that high. I'd rewatch this before I rewatched The Inhumans.
Jethro says:
I'm 100% with you on Steve being able to fly a friggin _jet_, but driving a heavy truck would be pretty much the same. He didn't really do much other than, well, drive fast and crash into things. And, well, stop.
I thought the movie was OK, but my bar isn't super high. All it really has to pass is the I'm Not Really Thinking Too Hard bar. I'm seeing a lot of — in my opinion — undeserved hate for this movie.
There is one thing I'd like to give the movie credit for. When Kristen Wiig walked on I thought they were going to do the "Oh god they're going to do the whole Nerdy Girl Transforms Into Beauty Queen thing when she takes off her glasses and shakes her hair out."
But they didn't. Yeah, her wardrobe changed (gradually) but her transformation was almost entirely attitude, conveyed through acting, which Kristen Wiig did phenomenally well.
Oh and the mid-credit sequence made me squee like a little girl.
This is very, very true. She deserves a lot of credit.


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Bethesda Previews Upcoming Fallout 76 Project Paradise Event
Matt Morgans 8 months ago
In their most recent Inside the Vault blog post, Bethesda has revealed an upcoming Fallout 76 event; Project Paradise. This event, which wasn't originally included in the Wild Appalachia content release schedule, may be the first piece of new content post-Wild Appalachia. Alternatively, it may be the final new content release before the launch of the second content schedule; Nuclear Winter. Set to launch on the 21st of May, the event will release alongside Patch 9.5.
What is the Upcoming Fallout 76 Event 'Project Paradise'?
"Beneath the Arktos Pharma building lies one of the company's most closely-guarded secrets:" explains Bethesda; "a sprawling subterranean research facility made up of three cavernous labs. Each of these labs feature their own biomes, which created opportunities to perform experiments on a wide variety of flora and fauna. Safely hidden deep underground, this fully automated facility remained safe when the bombs dropped on October 23, 2077. Research continued despite the destruction on the surface, and even now the bots who reside within the depths work tirelessly to carry out the company's directives."
When it launches on the 21st of May, players will be able to start Project Paradise at the Arktos Pharma building. This site can be found in the Forest region. From the building's lobby, simply use the elevator on the right-hand side to head down into the new area. An event marker will also appear on the in-game map to show you the location. The event will give players the opportunity to perform "product testing" with the fauna of the Biome Labs.
According to Bethesda, this is not an event for new players. Enemies will be level 50 and higher, and players will need to head through all three of the Biome Labs. As such, working with teammates is a good idea. Those who can complete the event will gain new loot rewards and, of course, XP. It's currently unclear whether Project Paradise will be available only for a limited time, like the Fasnacht Parade seasonal event, or repeatable like a standard Fallout 76 event. No doubt that will become clear when it launches on the 21st.
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Confident Tiger: Clare Martin
Confident Tiger is a breath of fresh air for the bra industry, sourcing inclusive sizes and eco-friendly materials to make a product that's fit for the modern woman.
Name of founder: Clare Martin
Age of the founder: 36
Location: Essex
Date launched: July 2021
Number of employees: 1
What does your business do?
We design and produce size-inclusive, sustainable lingerie. Designed to make beautiful lingerie accessible to all shapes and sizes – from 6 to 26 – Confident Tiger's bespoke, eco-friendly range spans over 140 sizes (the widest range available) with bras from 28C to 44L. Made from recycled, end-of-roll Italian lace and beautifully soft bamboo silk, the Confident Tiger made-to-order balcony bra is set to become a wardrobe staple. This stunning and comfortable bra is available in sizes 28C-44L as an underwired and unpadded bra. Non-underwired and padded alternatives will be offered when the stretch goal is reached on Kickstarter. The plus size bra (D+ cup) features wider straps, a sling for extra support and an extra hook and eye, but looks identical to the core size in every other way.
Where did the idea for your business come from?
When my bra broke during the lockdown, trying to find one that was flattering for my body and offered the support I needed was an absolute nightmare. Wanting a brand with ethical, sustainable practices too made it pretty much impossible – even after hours of research. So, I decided to create my own. I felt so disappointed that my choice was limited because many high street brands don't cater for all sizes while sustainable options aren't always as flattering. I believe you shouldn't have to have a frumpy or uncomfortable bra just because you have a bigger bust so the Confident Tiger range doesn't penalise you for having bigger or smaller waists or breasts.
How did you know there was a market for it?
I ran a survey and listened to conversations around me. I joined a few groups for bigger busted women and realised bras are rarely true to size!
What were you doing before launching your business?
Running a digital marketing agency (Blue Cactus Digital). Blue Cactus began life as Blue Cactus Digital in 2017. The company launched as a general, small business digital marketing agency targeted at small businesses in Essex. They've now evolved to provide specialist digital marketing for startups and brands that want to scale.
Have you always dreamed of starting a business?
Yes, although this is my second!
How did you finance your business?
Self-funding, a Virgin Startup Loan and (hopefully) our Kickstarter campaign which launches on 1 October 2021.
What are the main challenges you have faced? And how did you overcome them?
Minimum order quantities have been the biggest issue – I couldn't afford to get 50 bras in every size (140+ sizes) made, so had to go down the seamstress route. Lots of factories said the idea of made to order lingerie wouldn't work, especially as I've had no experience, but it seems to be working and I've built up a lot of traction. Aso, people saying it wouldn't work and people wouldn't buy. That was a big challenge from a mindset point of view
What has your experience been of starting a business during a pandemic?
I don't know anything else really, so it's been OK. I don't really feel I've been affected by it. My other business was badly affected and I had to totally re-invent it, but this one has been a lot smoother, because I was aware of the situation beforehand. A lot of factories have closed down, but I probably still wouldn't have been able to go down that route.
Describe your first breakthrough.
Finding a designer who believed in the idea. So many other said it wouldn't work, but I'm determined. The designer I found has also coached me through building the lingerie business, which is amazing. I contacted tens of factories and they all said I wouldn't be able to do it with my MOQs. So, I went down the made-to-order route instead.
How has Brexit impacted your business? Do you think it will in the future?
It hasn't yet, but I suspect it will do in future with extra shipping charges and more import fees!
What advice would you give to other aspiring business owners?
Stop procrastinating and just do it! The more you think about something or how much it won't work, the less likely you are to do it. Take a risk, otherwise you'll always regret it. And also, get a business plan written if you can't do it yourself and nail your marketing strategy before you start – it makes it so much easier.
What is one resolution you have for your business this year?
Ensure it succeeds. This time last year, it wasn't even an idea. I've managed to build a complete business is an unknown territory in less than nine months.
How do you see your business developing in the next three years?
We have big plans to launch a few new designs every year, but we want to build slowly. In the next year, we'd like an in-house seamstress and we want to start experimenting with different recycled and sustainable materials. We want to make a big difference.
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PM Christie set to dissolve Parliament and officially announce the date for the General Elections on next week Tuesday!
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Prime Minister Perry Christie set to announce the date for elections.
Nassau, Bahamas – Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie has announced his intention to Dissolve the Parliament of the Bahamas and cause a writ of election to be issued on Tuesday April 11th, 2017.
In a brief statement issued tonight the Prime Minister wrote:
"For general information, especially for the benefit of all those persons who would like to vote in the forthcoming General Election but have not yet registered to do so, it is my intention to cause the present Parliament to be dissolved on Tuesday, the 11th April, and to cause writs of election to be issued the same day.
"This will mean that only those persons who would have registered to vote on or before Monday, April 10th would be able to vote in the forthcoming General Election.
"I would therefore encourage all my fellow Bahamians to play their part in our democracy by registering to vote if they have not already done so, and to do so without further delay."
The Senate is expected to meet tomorrow and this would mean that the end of the legislative agenda of the government is complete.
Mr. Christie said just a few days ago that the elections will be a short one as he urged Bahamians to register to vote.
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