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More on Mayfair's (and FunFair's) 2011 Release Schedule
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Time to follow-up on this Feb. 15, 2011 post in which I laid out the release schedule for Mayfair Games and its new FunFair brand for much of 2011. I've now received the 2011 Mayfair Games catalog, which includes descriptions for all of the games listed in that post, so I've created game entries for the following titles:
From Mayfair, due out in the second half of 2011:
• First Bull Run: A Test of Fire
• Five Points: The Politics of New York
• Giza: The Great Pyramid
• Rivals for Catan Expansion Deck
• Steam Map Expansion #1
• Urbania (working title)
And from FunFair:
• Badger! Badger!
• Double Double Dominoes
• Got'Em!
• Rocket Jockey
• Ugh!
• Whitewater
For now most of these game pages contain only a publisher's description of the game, which skews toward the thematic and hyperbolic while avoiding any description of the actual mechanisms of game play. (That's not what catalogs are for, so no surprise there.)
That said, me adding these game pages to BGG doesn't represent a change in policy toward what constitutes an acceptable game submission. Part of my job as BGG News editor is to get games into the database more quickly so that users can ask questions, report on prototype play sessions, add details to the listing, and so on – while also tracking these games in the future in order to update their descriptions once more information is available. When a BGG user submits a game for addition to the BGG database, both theme and the mechanisms of play need to be included as in many cases the game description will not be updated to include more details. I'm updating game descriptions as I can when I run across skimpy write-ups – mostly on 2011 releases – but there's a limit to how much I can do, which is why in general we'll aim for more comprehensive descriptions. Thanks!
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New Game Round-up: More Race for the Galaxy, More Summoners & More
Lots of info about new games in this round-up, some items referencing material already talked about on BGG and some not:
• Designer Tom Lehmann gives an overview of Race for the Galaxy: Alien Artifacts, the next story arc in his RftG universe. More comments from Lehmann about the expansion's setting and other details in this BGG thread.
• Colby Dauch of Plaid Hat Games has posted info on BGG about Summoner Wars: Master Set, which contains six new factions, and two new reinforcement packs, all of which is due out June 2011.
• Claude Leroy's Gyges is being released in a new edition from French publisher Gigamic, matching the style of Quoridor, Quarto and the other abstract classics in that game line. Due date is June/July 2011.
• Two Age of Steam expansions from Eagle Games/FRED Distribution should be available in U.S. stores before the end of February. The first, Age of Steam: Mexico & China, pairs half of one Steam Brothers expansion with half of another, with the maps being hard-mounted instead of sealed in plastic. The second, Age of Steam: Time Traveler, is a new expansion from Charlie Bink and Sean Brown in which players travel from one "era" (i.e., game board) to another through portals on the edges of each board.
Brown notes that the Mexico & China expansion is slightly too big for the AoS box, akin to what happened with the 2010 release of AoS: Germany & France, but both maps fit in the Time Traveler box, a box added to present gamers with a solution for this problem. What's more, the next Age of Steam expansion from Eagle – AoS: Moon/Berlin Wall, pairing two of Alban Viard's previous creations and due out Q3 2011 – will be packaged in a similar box.
• Fantasy Flight Games has posted rules for Tide of Iron: Fury of the Bear (PDF), BattleLore: Code of Chivalry (PDF) and Anima: Twilight of the Gods (PDF).
• Alderac Entertainment Group has posted rules for Nightfall (PDF).
• French publisher Gigamic is releasing Die Sieben Siegel, aka Wizard Extreme, under the title Les 7 Sceaux.
• White Goblin Games has announced a March 12, 2011 release date for Get Nuts (Man, I cannot wait for Gone Cardboard to be functional once again...)
• Dutch publisher 999 Games has picked up 1655: Habemus Papam, which debuted at Spiel 2010 from DDD Verlag. The Dutch edition is due out Q2 2011.
• Designer Andrea Meyer posted the following on a Facebook update in Feb. 2011: "In Essen 2011 and Nürnberg 2012 two of my games will be published with bigger companies. Wait to be surprised!"
• Frederic Moyersoen teases a new card game for 2-4 players due out April 2011.
• Toy Vault has released final images of Richard Berg's Godzilla: Kaiju World Wars, due out in Q2 2011. Here's a shot of all the bits and pieces, including buildings ready to be taken down by the big guy himself:
• Old news, but better to publish than delete from my files, I think. Repos Production has released "The Cursed Children", a scenario for Ghost Stories: White Moon, on its website in English, French and German. In this scenario, the children of the villagers are most at risk of being killed by the forces of Wu-Feng; if one does fall, instead of being placed in the cemetery, the token occupies a ghost space on a monk's board. The only way to bring peace to the child's troubled soul – not to mention free up the space so that Wu-Feng doesn't overrun you – is to visit the cemetery tile. Visit one of the three pages to download the game board and rules for this scenario.
• In the category of "designer/publisher most likely to receive a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer", I present Ferris Bueller's Day Off Board Game.
• Finally, games recently added to the BGG database that might merit a look or two include Québec (which has been kicking around from publisher to publisher for years and is now at Le Scorpion Masqué), Pamplona (Ghenos Games), Conquest of Nerath (Wizards of the Coast), Guards! Guards! (Z-Man Games), Princes of the Dragon Throne (Clever Mojo Games) and Atlantis Rising (Z-Man Games), with designer Galen Ciscell writing a designer diary on the game page.
Age of Steam
Godzilla: Kaiju World Wars
Thomas Lehmann
Fréderic Moyersoen
Links: Another Take on NY Toy Fair, Giant Carc Cake & More
Lots of posts from hither, thither and yon – mostly yon:
• Herb Levy's Gamers Alliance has a NY Toy Fair 2011 report that covers all the games that I've written about in my Toy Fair reports – with 100% less sassmouth – and many more games beside.
• Ystari Games is overhauling the graphics for Caylus: the cover, the game board and the tiles.
• Justin Gary's Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer will be released as an iOS app in May 2011, as noted on the Ascension website.
• Fantasy Flight Games is holding a deck-building contest for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game.
• As noted on ICv2, Games Workshop has acquired "exclusive worldwide rights to produce tabletop games based on" The Hobbit, which builds on the publisher's six-year agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. (HT: vandemonium)
• German publisher Hans im Glück has posted a short video of its experience during the Nürnberg 2011 Toy Fair, complete with a soundtrack straight out of Ocean's 11 and a shot of an enormous Carcassonne 10th anniversary cake. If only all trade fairs could be so hip...
• If you're looking for more video explanations of board games, 5 Minutos por Jeugo has a fun approach, with lots of music and graphic effects in their creations – all of which are available in Spanish and some of which are available in English and French. Not an approach for everyone, but for me more interesting than "Hi there! This is a game..." presentations.
• Designer David Whitcher has passed along an update on the Protospiel Card Game Design contest, details of which can be found on Whitcher's PyroMyth Games website.
The first round of judging is complete with the following ten advancing to the semi-finals:
Al-Kimia
Card Farm
Dinner with Sir Edward Lindsey
Mow Money
Venesia
Wacky Stacks
These entries will be judged for Enjoyment (0-10 pts), Easy of play (0-5 pts) & Originality (0-5 pts). The four top scoring games will go to Protospiel 2011 (July 8, 9 and 10 Ann Arbor, Michigan) for final judging.
Thanks again to our sponsors: Alliance Game Distributors, Delano Services, and ElfinWerks.
• Finally, passes to Gen Con 2011 were part of a prize package on long-running daytime game show The Price Is Right. Details of this odd and misplaced promotion on LivingDice.com.
A Game of Thrones: The Card Game
Ascension: Deckbuilding Game
Filosofia Unveils 2011 Release Schedule
Canadian publisher Filosofia – which publishes games in French and licenses editions in English, German and other languages – has released a publishing schedule for 2011. The titles are a mix of new and new-to-French. Here's the breakdown, with info on the new titles when possible:
• Le Secret de Monte Cristo – coming in German from eggertspiele and in English from Z-Man Games.
• Spring Fever, from Friedemann Friese – here's a summary of the game play as described on TricTrac: The game consists of a deck of cards with flowers (valued at 3) and snails (valued -1 to -10). The first player draws four cards, keeps what he claims is the lowest valued card, then passes the cards to the left. This player draws a card, keeps the lowest (wink wink) card, then passes the rest. If a player believes his neighbor cheated, he calls him out; if correct, the liar gets all the snails in the card going around, while losing his best card to the accuser. Most points wins. (3-6 players, 8+, 20 minutes)
• Carcassonne: Comte, roi et brigand (extension #6)
• Carcassonne: Édition 10e anniversaire
• Fortunes de Mer (aka, Merchants & Marauders)
• Onirim
• Les Princes de Catane (aka, The Rivals for Catan)
• Dominion: Abondance (aka, Cornucopia)
• Mégawatts: Extension Russie/Japon (aka, the new Power Grid expansion)
• Bratva – described as follows in the Filosofia catalog: "Take control of neighborhoods in Moscow in fights without mercy or without a care for where your shots fall. Secret agents, car bombs, internal crises – lying is your best weapon." (3-6 players, 8+, 30 minutes)
• Goa
• El Grande: La Totale – a French version of Rio Grande's "Decennial Edition" that contains all the expansions to date.
Games without dates
• Equilibrion – described as follows in the catalog: "In this game full of poetry, you must find the best balance possible in the different quarters of an imaginary city – but beware of the impending chaos that could turn everything upside-down." (1-2 players, 12+, 90 minutes)
• Les Piliers de la Terre: Le Jeu de Cartes
• Panthéon – the new Bernd Brunnhofer design from Hans im Glück (2-5 players, 12+, 90 minutes)
Filosofia Éditions
NY Toy Fair 2011: More Views from Afar
So I'm still not at NY Toy Fair this year, but my in-box continues to overflow with material from publishers who are at the show, so I thought I'd post another round-up column of what we're all missing by me not freezing my heinie off on the streets of Manhattan.
• Winning Moves has a new version of Pass the Pigs that packs more pig in the box than ever before: Pass the Pigs: Pig Party Edition includes four pairs of pigs, along with target cards that players try to match in order to score points. Soon we'll all have pig-loaded shotguns that blast tiny plastic projectiles across the table, with you trying to arrange the pigs artfully in an opponent's chest. Looking forward to it.
• Winning Moves is also releasing a new version of Big Boggle with a new "double letter" cube that is supposed to allow for longer words and therefore higher scores. And WM has a new version of The Game of LIFE, which is subtitled It's A Dog's Life Edition. Everything is dog-themed, and you can customize a game token by uploading a picture of your dog. What career choices are open to dogs in this game? I'm almost curious enough to look at the box and find out. Almost.
• Zobmondo!! Entertainment will demo Party Gras, a game likely built around a name. Players start with equal numbers of beads around their necks and two challenge cards. Find someone – or coerce someone into – doing or matching what's written on your card (ask me to lower my voice, or spot someone texting), and you get to take 1-2 of their beads. I'd lay money on "Lift up your shirt" not being among the challenges.
• Dutch publisher Identity Games is showing the Living Board Game, a combination game board/electronic gadget with a sleeve for an iPad and hook-ups that allow the iPad to monitor game play and interact with what's happening on the board.
As an example of how the device works, Identity transmogrified its WildLife DVD board game into an iPad app that interfaces with the game board. LaptopMag.com has a video from Toy Fair demoing the system and a bizarre comment on why the system might be appealing: It "achieves that nice blend between gaming on the iPad and gaming with friends or family. Games will be for 2-4 players, and everyone will have to gather around the iPad instead of going off into isolation." Wha? Can't I just game with friends or family not in isolation anyway? (HT: Erwin Broens)
• Hasbro featured one of the loudest and most annoying games of this or any Toy Fair with Battleship Live:
The demo is almost a parody of a marketing pitch, with the presenter coming across more like someone interviewing for a job for which she's not really qualified but which she needs in order not to lose her Subaru Impreza due to missed payments.
• Monopoly is also being "enlivened" through the use of an all-seeing tower that tells you what to do, and The New York Times covered Monopoly Live in an article on Feb. 15, 2011. An excerpt:
Hasbro is aiming at luring 8- to 12-year-olds back to these board games. Its executives say this age group, accustomed to video games, wants a fast-paced game that requires using their hands. To move forward on the new Monopoly board, players cover their game piece with their hands, and the tower announces how many spaces the player can move. Players also hold their hands over decals to buy or sell properties, insert "bank cards" into slots to check their accounts, and send a plastic car moving around a track to win money or other advantages (only when the tower instructs them to, of course).
Hey, Hasbro executives, have you heard of Jungle Speed? Fast Food? Le Passe-Trappe? Lots of fast-paced games out there that fit the bill without inviting Big Brother to the table. (HT: Dale Yu)
• Another title coming from Hasbro – but pulled from Toy Fair demoes according to a note from a PR rep – is Battleship Galaxies.
• Discovery Bay Games has – well, let me copy the marketing text so you can read it for yourself:
Discovery Bay Games has secured worldwide rights for the digital version of Saturday Night Live – The Game through an ongoing partnership with Broadway Video Enterprises. This will allow Discovery Bay Games to create multi-activity tablet games, which will be launched in conjunction with a new tablet game accessory in fall 2011.
Text like this is unfortunately what Toy Fair is all about, at least in New York. The game is nothing more than product, one of "SIX MAJOR LICENSING DEALS" Discovery Bay Games is highlighting at the show, licensing deals meant to translate into widgets that move into customers' hands like magic, without regard to artistry – or even novelty – in terms of what the game does. Another example:
Discovery Bay Games has partnered with Highlights for Children to bring this beloved brand to life in a new way. The Highlights' product line will include three physical games and three digital tablet games, which will work in conjunction with new or existing tablet game accessories.
"So you retailers all remember Highlights, right? Goofus and Gallant? The terrible jokes? Mom sure remembers it, which makes this game the perfect gift to suggest when she comes in looking for something for little Sue's birthday party. The magazine's cross-promotion hits in Q3 and Q4 with bonus codes for use in blah blah blah."
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Links: Steve Jackson's Annual Report, Mark Rosewater on Choice & More
A sampling of game news floating through the aether, starting with the Munchkin behemoth...
• According to Steve Jackson's 2011 Report to Stakeholders, Steve Jackson Games grossed $3.5 million in 2010, with sales of the Munchkin line accounting for more than 75% of that total and sales of two dice games introduced in 2010 – Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice – accounting for 8.4% of sales. Thus, SJG's number one priority for 2011 should come as no surprise: "[K]eep the core Munchkin sets, and Munchkin Quest, in print."
• Mark Rosewater, who is a Wizards of the Coast employee and head designer of Magic: The Gathering, writes a weekly column on Wizards.com called "Making Magic" that focuses on design issues related to M:TG. Often Rosewater's columns are relevant to the topic of game design period, no matter what game or genre might be under discussion. In a February 2011 column about combat mechanisms, for example, he segued from combat mechanisms to the topic of player choice in game design, a section that deserves quoting in full:
The trick I always use when I consider adding choices is to question if the choice is doing good things for your game:
* Does it create decisions that are fun to solve? Players tend to enjoy a choice between two good things more than a choice between two bad ones. Picking out your flavor of ice cream is fun. Choosing how someone gets to punch you is not. We do make some "damned if you do, damned if you don't" griefer cards, but we are careful to keep them from being too easy to play.
* Do the players have all the information to make the choice? A common design mistake is to give the players a choice but not provide the information they need to be able to make the choice. This makes the players feel helpless and tends to frustrate them.
* Does the choice matter? Another common design mistake is to give the players two choices that don't have any real impact. Players are smart and will figure out when a choice is only an illusion. Remember, gamers are intelligent (that's partly why they've chosen to game as a hobby), fooling them is a bad game design strategy because they will ultimately see through it.
* Do the choices lead somewhere? Remember that the act of making a choice is not what is fun for players. What is fun is accomplishing something directly as a result of your decisions. Having the decision mean something is what's fun, not the act of making the decision. Players enjoy looking back and being happy that they were able to make the right decision. The moment of the decision-making is not where the happiness lies.
You'll see a common thread through all the above issues. The choice has to serve the game and the desires of the player. Choosing merely for the sake of choosing isn't enjoyable and will lead to bad game play. Your job as a game designer is to use choices as a limited resource that are put strategically where the game most needs them.
• Have you participated in a Settlers of Catan tournament and been a semi-finalist in the U.S., Mexico or Canada for any North American qualifier (top 4) or World qualifier (top 16) since 2006? Then you have a chance to compete in the Catan Tournament of Masters Invitational that Mayfair Games is sponsoring at Gen Con 2011. Application details on the Mayfair website.
• Designer Frederic Moyersoen reports that worldwide sales of Saboteur have reached 350,000, with the top-selling countries being France (90k), Germany (83k) and the Netherlands (38k). Interesting numbers...
• In what should come as a surprise to no one, more and more game publishers around the world are making their way to Facebook. Surprised Stare Games (UK), Cranio Creations (Italy), and many more have shown up since the start of 2011. If you want to see what's coming from a smaller publisher, following the company on Facebook is ideal as they often talk about prototypes, playtesting, artwork and so on.
• Ludology is a new podcast from Ryan Sturm and Geoff Engelstein. The first episode, released Feb. 7, 2011, explored the topic "What Is a Game?" and episode #2, scheduled for Feb. 21, will explore the question "Why Do People Play Games?"
• Designer Bruno Faidutti and GMT's Rodger MacGowan will be the Guests of Honor at Orccon, which takes place Feb. 18-21, 2011 in Los Angeles. Late notice to be sure, but you can still make it!
Sitting in Trafffic, Solving Puzzles
Trafffic, from designer Annick Lobet, is the first title to be published in both English and French from Quebec publisher Le Scorpion Masqué.
The game is played simultaneously, with 2-4 players trying to create particular traffic patterns on the game board in order to score. To start the game, nine cars – three each of red, blue and yellow – are placed randomly on the board's 16 intersections.
Each player is then dealt a equal number of target cards showing three adjacent cars in some pattern. Whenever you spot one of your target patterns on the game board, interrupt play – "Beep! Beep!" – and show the card. If you're correct, you remove the card from your hand; if you goofed, the player who spotted the goof gives you one of her cards and laughs at you. (Laughing optional.)
You can move a car on the board by grabbing the green light token and placing it in front of yourself. You can either move one car one space to a vacant spot or switch the location of two cars. Once someone else takes the green light (and moves), you can again take the green light.
The first player to empty his hand of cards wins the game. For those who have played before or who have a knack for such games, Trafffic includes expert level target cards that show three cars (one in each color) along with an empty intersection. Prior to starting the game, expert players can swap any number of basic targets for these tough-to-achieve numbers to level the playing field or to allow them to strut even more proudly when they crush the competition once again...
Trafffic
Mayfair Games Unveils 2011 Line-up for Mayfair & Funfair
U.S. publisher Mayfair Games has unveiled not one, but two game release schedules for 2011 – one for the Mayfair Games brand proper, and another for its new FunFair brand, which includes games aimed at the broader toy and game market.
First up is the Mayfair Games schedule:
Shipping now with a Feb. 17, 2011 street date:
Due out Q2 2011:
• Catan Dice Game: Standard Edition
• The Struggle for Catan
Later in 2011:
• Nippon Rails
• Urbania Redux (working title)
Note that titles from partner publishers like Academy Games, Treefrog Games and others are not included in this schedule.
And now the FunFair titles scheduled for release in 2011:
• Badger Badger! – Move wily badgers move through the forest looking for tasty treats in this game of skill and memory.
• Double Double Dominoes – A dominoes game where all the chips are down and playing the right tile at the right time can be the difference between victory and defeat.
• Got 'Em – The game of wall building and pawn capturing that offers two modes of play: Brainy Got 'Em and Bright Got 'Em.
• Rocket Jockey – A game of fast rockets and valuable cargo that will have players flying through the solar system.
• UGH! – A quick card game of surviving the ice age by gathering sets of necessary items that every cave boy and cave girl will love.
• White Water – A wild, white water river-rafting race that requires precision paddling and opportunistic team work.
The press release announcing this schedule included this overview of the FunFair brand: "FunFair games are designed for family play, have easily understood rules that get you playing in under five minutes, have great visual appeal on the shelves, and usually have a MSRP price of $30 or less." More details on all of these games once they're available.
Rivals for Catan
Nürnberg 2011: Reports from Around the Web
The 2011 Nürnberg Toy Fair ended last week and the games shown at the convention will hit stores over the next ten months – which might give you enough time to make it through all these Nürnberg summaries to see what will be available.
To start with, let's hear once again from Rob Harris, who earlier reported on HiG's Pantheon and the Queen Games line-up for BGG News. Rob returned to the Hans im Glück booth for a look at Marcel-André Casasola Merkle's San Salvador:
San Salvador is only on the HiG stand as a cardboard mock-up for the graphics. See photo.
It was very quickly explained to me as placing your pieces in certain areas where they might collect resources such as wood, etc. Then during the second round through card play, the location of resources is more clearly defined. Sorry there is not more info. The name was "Land In Sicht" on the box.
• German game site Die Pöppelkiste has its usual massive Nürnberg report, with each publisher having its own page.
• Pics from German retailer Milan-Spiele.
• BGG News contributor Andrea Ligabue notes that Italian gaming site Gioconomicon.net has published a huge image gallery covering seventy games so far, each with its own folder.
• The German branch of TricTrac has covered Nürnberg 2011 in three posts: post 1, with a cover shot of Die GulliPiraten from Andreas Pelikan and Heidelberger and a layout of Michael Palm and Lukas Zach's Artefakt (Winning Moves), post 2, which highlights the puzzle-y Miss Lupun from Winning Moves; and post 3, which includes a look at Queen Games' Mammut-Jäger and Paris Connection, a revised version of David V. H. Peters' SNCF, first published by Winsome Games in 2010.
• Spiele-Akademie.de has a long post with lots of pics from the fair, including a look at Amber Road from Mindtwister.
• Das-Spielen.de has a Nürnberg report that hits most of the titles covered elsewhere, but it does have the first mention I've seen of Casa Grande, a Günter Burkhardt title coming from Ravensburger for Spiel 2011.
• Ludoversum has a short Nürnberg write-up followed by approximately one million photos.
• Spieletest.at has a combination of video, photos and descriptions, all categorized by publisher and linked to on this Nürnberg 2011 summary page.
• Spielkult has a Nürnberg summary page listing each company and its games, with more info on separate pages, including tests of a few new games, such as Reiner Knizia's BITS from Ravensburger.
• French site Jeux sur un Plateau has ten different posts on Nürnberg, including an English-language video on alea's König Artus und die Tafelrunde.
Phew! I'm sure I've missed a number of reports, but this should give you plenty to occupy those slow work hours. Lots for me to research as well to bring you more designer diaries and game previews in the months ahead...
Edit, Feb. 17: Here's one Nürnberg report that I had in an open tab, yet still forgot to include. (Too many tabs!) German site H@ll 9000 has dozens of photos of upcoming games, separated by publisher.
Design a Ticket to Ride Map for a Chance to Win $10,000
Look through the files on Ticket to Ride's game page here on BGG, and you'll find lots of fan-created maps for this Spiel des Jahres winner. Springfield, France, Mexico, South America, Africa, outer space – these locations and many others have been transformed into a spaghetti pile of twisty colored tracks.
Now TtR publisher Days of Wonder is challenging those fans – and anyone else interested in working on the railroad – to create a new map for Ticket to Ride, with the best design taking home a cash prize of $10,000! What's more, that design will become part of the Ticket to Ride Map Collection – a set of new TtR maps from designer Alan R. Moon that will debut at Spiel 2011 this coming October.
Here are the contest details from Days of Wonder:
Map designers must submit an official entry form describing their map, postmarked no later than April 15th. Submissions will be reviewed and the most compelling designs selected for further play-testing. Days of Wonder will make the final Grand Prize selection and contact the winning map designer by June 30th; the winning map will be unveiled at the Essen Spiel Fair in October of 2011. Official rules and entry form for the $10,000 Ticket to Ride Map Design Contest are available on the Days of Wonder website.
Best of luck to all who enter – even though you don't have a chance against my Ticket to Ride: Being John Malkovich entry!
Alan R. Moon
Brad Cummings
Dustin Schwartz
Steph Hodge
Andrea Ligabue
Chris Kovac
Hilko Drude
Jeff Wolfe
Mary Prasad
Phoebe Wild


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2021 Tour de France live stream: How to watch Stage 19 of the race online
By Kelly Woo
A guide on watching the 2021 Tour de France on TV and how to stream the cycling event online
Tour de France start time, schedule
The 2021 Tour de France coverage is almost over, concluding with Stage 21 on Sunday, July 18. It began on Saturday, June 26.
Race coverage begins at around at 6 a.m. ET on Peacock and NBCSN. Full schedule of stages below.
The excitement is almost over, as the 2021 Tour de France live streams finish this Sunday, with Stage 21. That said, everything feels final for the overall winner seems obvious. Yesterday, Stage 18 saw Tadej Pogacar win and keep the yellow jersey, solidifying the fact that he's likely winning the whole thing.
Today, on the 207km route to Libourne, most eyes will be on a pair chasing at the points. Michael Matthews (from Australia, representing Team BikeExchange), is on the tail of Mark Cavendish (of Great Britain and Team Deceuninck-Quick Step).
Going into today, Cavendish had a 38-point advantage, and with 20 points on the line, Matthews could get closer to that green jersey. That said, Cavendish is one stage win away from breaking Eddy Merck's record, so we doubt he'll be giving anyone a chance.
The three-week race is now live, with 184 riders in 23 teams, pedaling through 21 stages, including three summit finishes and two individual time trials. The strongest all-around rider will emerge victorious at the end.
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The 2021 Tour de France is following its usual summer schedule, after last year's edition was delayed to the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. That means it's been only nine months since Tadej Pogacar won his first Tour de France.
Favorites in this year's race include Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) and Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers).
Here's everything you need to watch the 2021 Tour de France live stream.
How to watch 2021 Tour de France live stream with a VPN
If you're worried about how to watch the 2021 Tour de France live stream when you're away from home and can't access your usual streaming services, fear not. A virtual private network, or VPN, makes it so that you can appear to be surfing the web from your home town, so you can access the same streaming services you've already paid for.
Unsure which is the best VPN for you? We've tested a bunch of services and our favorite right now is ExpressVPN (opens in new tab), which offers superb speeds and excellent customer service. But you've got other VPN options as well.
We think speed, security and simplicity make ExpressVPN (opens in new tab) second to none. During our tests, we saw fast connection times, and we're impressed by the service's ability to access more than 3,000 services spread out across 160 locations in 94 countries.
Tour de France live streams in the US
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In the U.S., the 2021 Tour de France live stream is available daily on Peacock Premium. Stages generally begin around 6 or 7 a.m. ET.
Live coverage will also air on NBCSN, which requires a cable subscription. If you've cut the cord, you can get NBCSN via live TV streaming services (depending on your region), including Fubo TV, Sling TV, Hulu With Live TV, and AT&T TV Now. Of these options, we recommend Fubo and Sling.
If you love sports, you'll want to check out Fubo.TV (opens in new tab). It's got a 7-day free trial, so you don't need to pay up front. The Starter Plan ($64.99) features dozens of channels including NBCSN, ESPN, Fox Sports and more.
Sling TV (opens in new tab) is one of the best values among cable alternatives. The Sling Blue package comes with 30-plus channels in the lineup, including NBCSN.
Peacock (opens in new tab) is one of the newest streaming services but houses a great library, including the entirety of The Office. It's also home to a ton of sports, including the upcoming Olympics, Premier League matches and WWE wrestling.
Tour de France live streams in the UK
Cycling enthusiasts have several options for watching the 2021 Tour de France live stream.
ITV4 will have free, daily live coverage on TV from around 10:45 a.m. to 4:30pm local time. The ITV Hub (opens in new tab) will also feature live streams of the 2021 Tour de France.
Eurosport and GCN are also streaming the the race. A subscription to Eurosport Player (opens in new tab) costs £6.99 per month and £39.99 per year. The GCN Race Pass (opens in new tab) is available in the UK and Australia and costs £39.99 for a year.
Tour de France live streams in Canada
Canadians can get all the Tour de France action exclusively on FloBikes (opens in new tab). A subscription to the service costs $30 per month or $150 for the year, and you also get access to other big races.
Tour de France live streams in Australia
Cycling fans Down Under can access the 2021 Tour de France live stream through SBS On Demand. (opens in new tab)
2021 Tour de France stages schedule
Here's the schedule and route for the 21 stages of the 2021 Tour de France.
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Stage Date Course Distance Type
1 June 26 Brest to Landerneau 198 km (123 mi) Hilly
2 June 27 Perros-Guirec to Mûr-de-Bretagne (Guerlédan) 183.5 km (114.0 mi) Medium mountain
3 June 28 Lorient to Pontivy 183 km (114 mi) Flat
4 June 29 Redon to Fougères 150.5 km (93.5 mi) Flat
5 June 30 Changé to Laval 27.2 km (16.9 mi) Individual time trial
6 July 1 Tours to Châteauroux 161 km (100 mi) Flat
7 July 2 Vierzon to Le Creusot 249.5 km (155.0 mi Medium mountain
8 July 3 Oyonnax to Le Grand-Bornand 151 km (94 mi) Mountain
9 July 4, 5 Cluses to Tignes / Tignes 145 km (90 mi) Mountain /rest
10 July 6 Albertville to Valence 191 km (119 mi) Flat
11 July 7 Sorgues to Malaucène 199 km (124 mi) Mountain
12 July 8 Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Nîmes 159.5 km (99.1 mi) Flat
13 July 9 Nîmes to Carcassonne 220 km (140 mi) Flat
14 July 10 Carcassonne to Quillan 184 km (114 mi) Medium mountain
15 July 11, 12 Céret to Andorra la Vella (Andorra) / Andorra la Vella (Andorra) 191.5 km (119.0 mi) Mountain / rest
16 July 13 El Pas de la Casa (Andorra) to Saint-Gaudens 169 km (105 mi) Medium mountain
17 July 14 Muret to Saint-Lary-Soulan (Col de Portet) 178.5 km (110.9 mi) Mountain
18 July 15 Pau to Luz Ardiden 130 km (81 mi) Mountain
19 July 16 Mourenx to Libourne 207 km (129 mi) Flat
20 July 17 Libourne to Saint-Émilion 30.8 km (19.1 mi) Individual time trial
21 July 18 Chatou to Paris (Champs-Élysées) 108.5 km (67.4 mi) Flat
Kelly Woo
Kelly is a senior writer covering streaming media for Tom's Guide, so basically, she watches TV for a living. Previously, she was a freelance entertainment writer for Yahoo, Vulture, TV Guide and other outlets. When she's not watching TV and movies for work, she's watching them for fun, seeing live music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.


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Gemstones aren't just a pretty sight to look at; they possess great healing properties that can greatly enhance your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Based on Ayurvedic teachings and other Eastern traditions, there exist 7 energy centers along the spine of the human body called Chakras that communicate and work together. They have their own unique colors as well. These chakra colors help to balance the mind, body and soul completely.
Beginning from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, these chakra energy can sometimes get unbalanced which can lead to unwanted emotional, physical and emotional issues in the body. So, how to ensure that they are aligned and the energy pathways stay activated? - By making use of chakra gemstones for healing and rebalancing the energies. If you don't know about the best gemstone for each chakra yet and how to use chakra stones, continue to read our blog for more details.
Benefits of Heart Chakra healing -Brings love & passion and also, the feeling of oneness.
How to use Astrology Gemstones for chakra healing?
Choose your chakra gemstone for healing or you can make use of all the 7 chakra gemstones. Then lie down and place it over or around the chakra. Empty your mind and relax to focus on activating your stones. This will re-balance the energy of your chakras and align them. When it feels right, you can end the healing.
You can also hold the gemstone in your hand and wear it as jewelry. Do remember to clean your chakra gemstones before and after every healing.


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Benabena is a stretch of valley that extends to the east of Goroka town in the west and borders with the Upper Ramu area of the Madang Province to the north, the Ungaii District to its south and the Henganofi District to its east. The name "Bena Bena' derived from a small hamlet or village just a few kilometres away from the once small rural station of Sigerehi in the Upper Bena area in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
The Bena Bena Valley had once known for a centre for weaving. The town was known also as Bena Bena.

History
An airfield was constructed near the village by Dan Leahy and Jim Taylor in December 1932. A Lutheran mission station commenced operations at the village in 1934.

References
Benabena information

Populated places in Eastern Highlands Province

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The ATI All-in-Wonder and the X10 remotes can be configured either as a kernel module or using LIRC. If you use the kernel module it will appear as an additional mouse and keyboard and will *not* work with LIRC.
Make sure your /usr/src/linux symlink points to your kernel source folder, and run make menuconfig in there.
The next time you start X you should be able to control the pointer using the big directional pad and the buttons should all be mapped to keyboard inputs.


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As a little boy, I was fascinated by space. I devoured books about stars, planets, and our universe, and relished my next field trip to the planetarium. In 2006, when the news broke that Pluto was no longer considered a planet I was dumbfounded. As we went from nine planets to eight, I felt like part of my brain had to be rewired. I've since come to understand that this type of paradigm shift happens periodically throughout our lives and we have to be ready to adapt.
Around the turn of the century, there was an important paradigm shift in medicine: the adoption of the germ theory of disease. Looking back, the dominant understanding of how diseases were caused and spread before germ theory sounds far-fetched. The medical community believed that diseases spread through contact with the local "miasma"—a noxious form of bad air that could be identified by its horrible smell—and not from individual-to-individual contact.
Once John Snow traced an 1854 cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated water pump, and Louis Pasteur conducted his groundbreaking experiments linking disease to germs in the early 1860s, the miasma theory of disease was retired. Importantly, this shift in thinking took centuries because the predominant theory was so pervasive.
As a graduate student, my professor, Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, introduced me to a new hypothesis gaining ground with the public health community; he explained that social factors like income inequality, institutional racism, educational attainment, housing, social support systems, and food insecurity were more influential on an individual's health than the quality and availability of their health care. As our understanding around these social determinants of health increased, Dr. Bezruchka argued, the resulting cultural shift that would occur in the medical and public health field would be as monumental as our global adoption of the germ theory of disease.
When I was first introduced to the concept, the literature exploring social determinants of health was robust, but influential publications were yet to be released, such as the 2008 PBS documentary series, Unnatural Causes, the 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative, Commission to Build a Healthier America, and the 2011 World Health Organization report, The Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health. In much the same way as John Snow and Louis Pasteur's work catalyzed the cultural shift from the miasma theory of disease to the germ theory of disease, these publications, and many more, have begun to shift the way health care is delivered and health resources are allocated.
Promising new initiatives, like Health Leads and the Colorado Opportunity Project, are creating structures for addressing social determinants of health in clinical and community settings. And shifts in foundation funding priorities, both nationally and locally, are incentivizing health care and community-based organizations to focus on more than access to health care and coverage. CCMU is committed to joining this important work and excited to be part of two innovative approaches tackling social determinants of health—The Colorado Trust's Health Equity Advocacy strategy and Together Colorado's BUILD Health Challenge project.
Through this new work, I'm optimistic that we'll begin to see improved population health outcomes and reduced health disparities. I may still miss our ninth planet, but I'm ready and eager for this new theory of population health to drive our health systems change efforts!


There are many breeds of dogs, but these dogs can pretty mush sum up your personality! Some animals have very clever minds, while others, well, are quite so smart. Some are big and some are small What kind are you?
What kind of animal are you? Are you common like a beagle, or small and loud like a chihuahua? Find out by taking this quiz!!! Maybe even a Pit bull that needs anger management!!! What are you?
I have no time for reading!!
Who is your celebrity hero?
Quiz topic: What kind of dog am I?


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Akelarre è il primo album in studio della cantante spagnola Lola Índigo pubblicato dalla casa discografica Universal Music il 17 maggio 2019. L'album in poco tempo ottiene un enorme successo, ottenendo un disco d'oro, debuttando in vetta alla classifica degli album in Spagna.
I brani "El Humo", "Fuerte" e "Game Over" sono stati rilasciati ('El Humo' e 'Fuerte' prima del disco) come singoli promozionali.

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Dr Cor Vink, Curator Natural History, talks about how poppies came to be a symbol of remembrance.
Poppies are a symbol of remembrance of Commonwealth military personnel.
The link between poppies and World War One was first made when a poem by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, was published in Punch on 8 December 1915. It included the opening line, "In Flanders fields the poppies blow". This referred to the common poppy, Papaver rhoeas, which is found throughout Europe where it grows well in disturbed ground such as farmland and the battlefields of the Western Front.
The American Legion was the first to adopt the poppy as its national symbol of remembrance in September 1920.
A year later, the RSA ordered more than 350,000 silk poppies from France for the first Poppy Day appeal, which was to occur close to Armistice Day (11 November) 1921. Unfortunately, the poppies arrived in New Zealand too late, so they were sold on Anzac Day in 1922 and were a great success.
In 2014, between July and November, 888,246 hand-made, ceramic red poppies were placed in the moat of the Tower of London as an art installation called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.
Each ceramic poppy represented a British or Colonial serviceman killed in World War One.
The installation was conceived by Paul Cummins and poppies were added progressively by volunteers. The ceramic poppies were sold to raise funds for six service charities.


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Great Plains Management, L.L.C. is a management company, which was founded in 1997 for the purpose of providing set-up, and on-going management services for network-formed sow operations. It has since expanded into management of privately owned sow operations, and wean-finish management as well. The company was formed and is owned by three equal partners, Jan Hueber, Jon Hueber, and Bill Pfaff. Great Plains Management currently has direct and indirect management responsibilities for over 40,000 sows.
Jan Hueber
Phone: 815-761-7414 • Email: jdhueber@aol.com
Jan is general manager and co-owner of Great Plains Management, LLC. He is also a partner in 2 swine operations that feed hogs in Northern IL. He is a graduate of Kishwaukee College and he and his brother Jon have been involved in the commercial pork production business since 1978. Jan is also co-owner of a family owned commercial feed business started in 1982 called Hueber, LLC. Jan has extensive experience in swine production management, sales, employee management, and business management. He has developed a network of contacts in all phases of the pork chain that has allowed him to continue to grow his business and earned him a reputation as a leader in the pork industry.
Bill Pfaff
Phone: 815-739-5074 • Email: billpfaff@iglide.net
Bill is a co-owner of Great Plains Management, LLC and oversees the wean-to-finish management operations. He has worked in the livestock nutrition business since 1990 after managing swine and poultry research and teaching farms for both Colorado State University and University of Kentucky. He earned his B.S. degree in Animal Science from the University of Illinois and his M.S. degree in Animal Science with a nutrition/management specialization from Colorado State University. He was also employed as Research Associate and poultry research farm manager in the Animal Science Department at the University of Kentucky. Bill worked as a regional Swine Specialist for Continental Grain Co. and then as a national accounts manager for Hubbard Feeds, Inc. He then worked as a nursery-finisher general manager for a midwestern swine operation overseeing 200,000+ HD of pigs finished per year before joining Jan and Jon in forming Great Plains Management, LLC.
Jay Flora
In July of 2014, Great Plains Management expanded its wealth of swine management experience in its western area with the addition of Jay Flora. Jay has successfully worked in almost every area of the swine industry for over 25 years. His list of experience includes hog procurement and risk management for Monfort Pork, recruiting and training staff, establishing budgets, managing inventories, and managing relationships between farrowing operation and contract growers for Land O'Lakes, overseeing all production costs and management of all aspects of 350,000 market hogs/yr for Swine Graphics Enterprises and also over 175,000 market animals/yr for Crown Prairie, LLC where he was also involved in recruiting new growers, developing instructional videos for training employees, and coordinating and scheduling all market loads. Jay also worked as a marketing coordinator for Prestage Farms where he oversaw logistics for annual marketings of over 500,000 hogs and worked with major packers negotiating long-term pricing for marketings. He most recently spent the past 6 years as a production specialist for a major swine genetic company, troubleshooting and resolving production issues for the company's largest customer's sow farms in 10 states. He also oversaw the company's internal production of 3500 nucleus animals, developed nucleus biosecurity protocols, oversaw embryo transfer projects, and trained numerous employees in genetic testing farms as well as training producers on the use of production and financial record analysis. Jay resides in Marshalltown, IA.
Jon Hueber
Jon along with his brother Jan has been in the livestock feed and grain business since 1982. He is a graduate of Kishwaukee Valley Junior College. He has contractually owned and fed pigs for over 15 years and is a partner in several swine enterprises totaling over 10,000 sows. Jon is currently president of Hueber, LLC, a family owned and operated commercial feed business. Jon has extensive experience in employee management, sales, and business management having started and operated numerous businesses in the livestock and feed industry. His years of active participation in these sectors have given him numerous contacts in all phases of the feed and livestock industry.
Donna Jungels
In March of 2015, Donna joined the Great Plains Management team as Data Control Manager and will be managing the PigKnows records for our farms. She has extensive experience with swine record keeping as well as managing accounts payable and receivables, pig flow movements, and sales to packers. She developed these skills by working the past 11 years working for a large pork enterprise in northern Illinois. Her expertise is well-suited for managing PigKnows data in that she also spent considerable time working hands-on inside of sow units so she understands the intricacies of collecting and recording data within a sow farm. Her persistent attention to detail and accuracy in records will enable our farm managers and service staff to make decisions and track performance with confidence.
Harold Lee
Harold Lee joined the Great Plains Management team in August of 2015 and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the growing swine management team. His expertise is rooted in over 20 years of experience in the swine industry; from working as a hog buyer for IBP to more recently managing a 2500 sow breed-to-wean operation in northwest Iowa for the past 9 years. He feels that having worked both ends of the production chain has allowed him to witness first-hand, the challenges that producers and the industry face on a daily basis. Harold is also the author of the noted "The Diary of a PED Outbreak", published in National Hog Farmer magazine in March of 2014. His expertise and work ethic were recognized in 2014 when he was awarded the Master Pork Producer of Iowa. Harold shares his time and talent with others and he received the 2012 Education Award from the Iowa Pork Producers Association for his efforts to bring the swine industry to the elementary schools in the LeMars, IA Community School District and he is very active in other community activities such as Little League, youth football, and Boy Scouts. He relaxes by spending time at his home in LeMars, IA with his wife Tammy, and their three children, Morgan, Ethan, and Aaron. Harold is excited to be part of the Great Plains Management team and looks forward to sharing his knowledge and years of experience with our customers and their employees, as well as continuing to learn and grow as a viable asset to the swine industry for many years.


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On January 7, 1972, the Atlanta Daily World featured an advertisement for Soul Solider. The film, directed by John Cardos and starring Olympic champion Rafer Johnson, is a Western about the Buffalo Soldiers in the years after the Civil War. The film was panned by reviewers in the black press. In the New York Amsterdam News, James P. Murray wrote Soul Solider "qualifies as a cinematic disaster in every way imaginable and, at the same time, manages to come across as a major insult to all Black people and any Indians who happen to be in town." Earl Calloway reviewed the film for the Chicago Defender and wrote that "the much advertised adventure drama...does not even scratch the surface of the heroism of those brave black soldiers."
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Tressa Graves Productions would like to introduce a few of their authors.
Michael B. Ancrile, is an Actor and Comedian, who can flow seamlessly between comedy and the dramatic. He has appeared in several feature films including, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Real Steel, Whip It, Street Boss, Super Sucker and many more. He has also played key, diverse roles in many award winning short films, including, Train Station and The Greatest Gift 2.0. Michael has also appeared in several National Television programs, including HBO's Hung, ABC's Detroit 1-8-7, The Discovery Channel: You Spoof Discovery, TNT Network: Moviefest and Fox Sports – The Best Damn Sports Show Period. Michael has also appeared in many local and national commercials, including Diet Coke, Detroit Pistons, Alro and Firekeppers Casino. Michael has developed many original comedy characters over the years, which he has used in his stand-up comedy act and on local and national radio shows, including the Jim Rome Show. He has also appeared as these characters in local and national commercials and TV shows including Creep Theater, where he met and developed an excellent working and creative relationship with, Phillip Assenmacher. The two of them have gone on to many diverse projects together, including many celebrity and civilian Interviews, including Dawn Wells, Ernest Thomas, John Dugan, John Provost, Erin Gray, Karen McDougal and many, many more. Michael is proud and very excited to working with, Tressa Graves Productions, and is very much looking forward to bringing his own style of entertainment and flair to the tradition of excellence and creativity established by Tressa Graves and the staff at TGP.


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Gaia TedoneMarialaura Ghidini + Rebekah ModrakMark DeryPadma ChirumamillaRenee CarmichaelRob Walker
Guarantees and Ghosts: Breakdown in Eeveryday Life
Padma Chirumamilla is a doctoral candidate at the School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds an MA in South and Southeast Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. Her current research interests lie in the histories of postcolonial mass media infrastructures in South Asia, theories of everyday life and temporality, material culture, forms of apprenticeship, and science and technology studies. She has worked as a research assistant for associate professor Aswin Punathambekar on an SSRC-funded project studying mediated activism in India, China, and the Middle East/North Africa. She has presented her work at conferences, including those of the International Communication Association, the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and the American Anthropological Association.
Are we apps, or are we bodies filled with apparitions? Operating applications, stuck inside an Apple prison, Chicken hack, and download updates that lack religion. Or are we more… –Lupe Fiasco, "Mural" (from Tetsuo & Youth)
Technology—tools, apps, devices, wires—has a way of sneaking up on us, winding in and through the rhythms of our everyday practices. The power cuts out, the microwave beeps its inscrutable errors insistently, and the ferocious fragility we do our best to tamp down into manageable, mundane moments breaks free, forcing itself to the forefront of our consciousness. Things break. They break unexpectedly. And then what? Are we newly afraid? Exposed to latent fear? To possibility?
The sociologist Susan Leigh Star suggests that we stop thinking about computers as "information highways" and instead envision them as "symbolic sewers." [1] The imagery here is deliberately evocative: we move into a realm that envisions technology not as the promised road that takes us out of ourselves and our earthbound reality, but as the sewer–the thing we dare not look at lest we be forced to confront the muddy truth of our everyday life. The truth being that our very sense of sleepy normalcy is a messy thing, in need of upkeep, of constant care that goes unacknowledged. It is hard to be, and remain, boring and consistent. Ordinariness is a quality that needs to be fought for, a quality that needs to be created and maintained, against the ravages of time, of weather, against the unwavering tide of breakdown.
The familiar modes of exchange are all over #exstrange: delivery in a reasonable time for the right price, PayPal, credit cards accepted, we ship free to the contiguous United States (additional charges for Hawaii and Alaska). Guarantees of all sorts, from fraud protection to payment processing, color the possible ways one can interact with art and imagination both. Certainty—the Sisyphean pushback against fragility and breakdown—is on clear, consistent display throughout eBay's frame, the frame that envelopes and unites all these diverse and divergent pieces. Buying from eBay will not hurt. Indeed, you, dear buyer, will be safely ensconced within all the protections eBay (and PayPal, and their underlying system of secure servers and trust certificates) can offer you.
And yet, pushing through these familiar frames, there are other modes of being, other kinds of ordinariness: walking, missing socks, paper shreds, shadows, old (once-and-no-longer valued) currency notes. Two kinds of ordinariness intertwine in the exhibition, as in life: the exchange, and the experience. PayPal meets devalued currency; shadows meet delivery guarantee dates. What can we make of this, of the strangeness that results from this twining?
Thinking about the work of repair and the "broken world" it intervenes in, the scholar Steve Jackson has written that "broken world thinking draws our attention around the sociality of objects forward, into the ongoing forms of labor, power, and interest—neither dead nor congealed—that underpin the ongoing survival of things as objects in the world ." [2] This tense and tenuous connection—this ongoing push-and-pull between the sociality that underpins everyday moments of life and the frozen transactionality that characterizes an encounter on the eBay interface—lies at the center of the #exstrange artworks.
When I spent time in a television repair shop in South India, this tension between exchange and experience wound its way through workaday life: blasting music from a customer's particularly expensive speaker system after keeping it in the shop for an extra day, enjoying videos on televisions too expensive for any of us, turning the volume up for music videos and clips of fast motorbikes. With the customers, the façade of regulated transaction: the tags, the careful notation of model and serial numbers, the follow-up calls, the logging of problems on a "job sheet" in English (in duplicate), all for the maintenance of a stern face of knowledge. Explanations were brief analogies: none of the repairmen ever seemed to think the customers would understand, or care for, the technical details of repair too much.
With each other, as fellow workers who saw enjoyment in fixing up the television and watching the thing work—evidence of labor tangibly rewarded—there were films, there was a spliced cable trying to feed programming into three sets for the price of one. There was music, there was camaraderie, and this was how knowledge about work, about the sets themselves, was transmitted (through YouTube videos, not necessarily in English or Telugu, playing on the big screen of a customer's expensively smart TV).
The few trappings of official work-order that decorated the workshop—the whiteboard with mysterious initials and numbers (that never was explained to me, in eight months), the clock (which was mostly ignored for the mobile phone)—mattered far less to the constitution of the working day than tasting each other's lunches, or gossiping about the bosses, or escaping the confines of the workshop to trawl the bazaar for parts. (Until and unless visitors from regional HQ were due in shop, and then the rules took on a more severe form—the floors swept of months-old dust, the cannibalized circuit boards of old sets stashed away from sight and mind, the cut-up plastic cups of water to test microwaves thrown out with their moldy inhabitants. Everyone in name-tags and uniform, for a moment, grumbling under duress.)
Looking at South Asian mobile phone repair shops, the anthropologist Assa Doron noted the symbolic value of the receipt (and its more abstracted cousin, the contract): "With the receipt in hand, customers feel endorsed and relieved, guaranteed of Nokia's international value and confirmed in their own participation in what Herzfeld called 'the global economy of value.' " [3] And yet it is precisely this constancy, this confirmation and reliability that the #exstrange works pull into question, and cast into doubt. The frame of PayPal and the eBay guarantee, plastered all over the exhibits, should—if they perform as intended—give us clarity and a sense of protection, as relatively anonymous buyers trawling the seas of the Internet's offerings. And yet here these very guarantees are rendered unfamiliar, ripped from their anodyne non-presence and placed into glaring contrast with the quietly ordinary experiences on display.
Consider John Freyer's Seven Left Socks, now residing in Ohio. [4] Sock loss (to washing machines and gym lockers, to vigorous pets, to imaginative children) is probably that most mundane of Monday morning problems, colored with a humorous irony all its own. Placed within the frame of the eBay auction, with its need for a named price and its admission that "seller does not accept returns," are the (comical, horrifying) algorithmically generated items of interest that encompass the actual experience laid out in the "seller's description"—an experience of quiet memory, a story of the haunting that suffuses the rhythms of mundane life.
This contrast forces us to confront the question, the question that Doron politely asks of South Asia, but that is perhaps a more fundamental inquiry for those of us living in the world of transactional exchange: Why are the contract and the guarantee the planks that undergird our sense of normalcy, of ordinariness and boredom?
There are other ways to be and to exchange, after all: Doron's contrast is the street-selling mobile phone repairmen, who work in a mode guaranteed not by contract, but by dialogue and sociality. You, as a customer desirous of making a transaction, talk with a (very human) repairman, constructing a sense of certainty in the repair and the repairman as you speak, back and forth, about prices and parts. It is a fundamentally social and not-entirely objective guarantee, unlike the printed-down, always-same and endlessly-reproducible promise of the contract. Maintenance, in this mode of transaction, is a promise between parties who can contend with the musky reality of each other's presence. You talk, and are convinced (or not). You agree to a price (or walk away). The terms are fluid, moving.
The Internet, with all its posthuman promise, cannot quite bring itself to replicate the fundamentally and intimately contestable nature of this sort of transaction. And so our sense of what constitutes the ordinary sense of our lives is upturned, defamiliarized. The contract, the guarantee, is rendered alien to the altogether familiar experiences (of loss, of Sunday morning walks [5] , of old video game systems and diaries once beloved [6]) placed within its confines. How to come to terms with this? With our desire for clarity, with the diffuse flexibility of our everyday experiences in the world?
This is not to say that there is no place in the world for the clarity which enforcement and guarantee can provide: as Michael Idov notes in New York magazine, Russian "life after trust" was marked "less by fear than by cynicism: the all-pervasive idea that no institution is to be trusted, because no institution is bigger than the avarice of the person in charge." [7] But it's that amorphous principle itself– trust –and the varying ways in which it embeds itself within our everyday experience that is worth paying attention to.
As Idov notes, it's an act of conjuration, an act of magicking up faith in street-side vendor or a printed contract that renders a guarantee a believable entity and transforms it into an underpinning of our everyday life. And is that not in and of itself an enduringly strange thing? In #exstrange, we confront the ghost and the guarantee both: the fragile experiences woven together to form our everyday lives, the loudly-proclaimed certitudes that we hope underpin them, and the constant work of belief (in printed word, in vendors encountered, in friends and in strangers) necessary to bind the two together.
[1] Star, Susan L. "The Ethnography of Infrastructure." American Behavioral Scientist 43 (1999), 377-391.
[2] Jackson, Steven J. "Rethinking Repair." In Media technologies: Essays on communication, materiality, and
society, eds. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski and Kirsten A. Foot (2014): 221-240. Cambridge: MIT Press.
[3] Doron, Assa. "Consumption, Technology and Adaptation: Care and Repair Economies of Mobile Phones in North India." Pacific Affairs 85, no. 3 (2012): 563-85. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23266774.
[4] https://exstrange.com/auctions/seven-left-socks-darkmissing-mates-unique-edition-mismatched/
[5] https://exstrange.com/auctions/sunday-morning-walka-monthly-excursion/
[6] https://exstrange.com/auctions/childhood-memories/
[7] Idov, Michael. "Russia: Life after Trust." New York (January 22, 2017). http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/lessons-from-putins-russia-forliving-in-trumps-america.html. Accessed April 17, 2017.
This text was written for the book #exstrange: A Curatorial Intervention on eBay (2017) published Maize Books, an imprint of Michigan Publishing, pp.104-107


Things are getting really weird with the Justice League. In case you have not encountered his videos before, YouTuber Aldo Jones takes footage from popular superhero movies and puts his own very unusual spin on them. This is his version of the recent Justice League movie trailer.
It is just as crazy as all of his other videos. Let's see, you have Eddie Murphy as Cyborg, Yoda, Santa Claus, both Ghostbusters teams and a ton of other assorted weirdness. As usual, it's a fun video that you'll have to watch a few times to catch all of the little details. I think it could have been even weirder IMO, but it's still pretty funny as is.


Taking into perspective that last season was Huddersfield Town's first ever in the Premier League, the Terriers enjoyed an impressive campaign all round. David Wagner's men put up strong performances against big sides. The Terriers beat Manchester United 2-1 at their home, making it a memorable evening for David Wagner and his men.
The club ultimately finished in 16th place, retaining their spot for next season's Premier League campaign. Wagner should now be aiming to bolster his squad ahead of the new season.
The club have already completed a number of deals this summer, including the signing of Terence Kongolo from Monaco after the defender enjoyed a successful loan spell with the club. The 24-year-old is Huddersfield's record signing but the fee has not been disclosed.
Huddersfield are also reportedly close to completing a deal for Leicester City striker Ahmed Musa in the coming days. The 25-year-old striker made a total of 10 appearances in the league last season, scoring 6 goals. The Leicester striker, who joined the Foxes for £16.6m, also scored 2 goals for Nigeria in this summer's World Cup as the Super Eagles narrowly missed out on a place in the round of 16.
Here we take a look at the best XI David Wagner could field come the start of the new season.
The Danish goalkeeper enjoyed an impressive campaign with the Terriers last time out. He played all 38 games for Huddersfield Town, keeping 10 clean sheets in the process. Lossl also racked up a total of 103 saves in the league, including two saves from the penalty spot. He is expected to retain his spot despite the arrival of Ben Hamer from Leicester City.
The Swiss international has joined the club on a permanent basis after enjoying a successful loan spell with the club. He is expected to slot straight into the right-back role.
The former Monaco defender is another player who had an impressive loan stint with the Terriers. He has since gone on to become the club's record signing and will surely be one of the starting centre-backs.
Schindler was a mainstay in the Huddersfield team last time out. He played 37 games for the Terriers all season and was a commander at the back. He will surely retain his spot as the new season looms.
The German international put in a number of impressive performances as he was rotated with Malone for the left-back spot. But Lowe seems to have the edge over Malone and should possibly be the starting pick for Wagner.
The 20-year-old youngster was signed from Eredivisie side FC Groningen following his impressive displays in the Netherlands. He should be slotted straight into the starting line-up.
The Australian was superb for the Terriers in the middle of the park. He made a total of 34 appearances last season, scoring 4 goals and providing 3 assists. He should be Wagner's man in central midfield.
The former Norwich City midfielder joined the Terriers this year and enjoyed a successful second half with the club in which he scored 1 goal and provided 1 assist in 12 appearances. He has shown true potential and Wagner should certainly pick him.
Sobhi left the Potters after the club were relegated to the Championship but had a decent campaign which saw the winger score 2 goals in 12 appearances for the club. He will be a huge threat for the Terriers down the left-hand side.
The striker is reportedly on the verge of making the move to Huddersfield in search of first-team football. He should take up the striker's role.
The attacking midfielder generally plays through the middle but is also capable of playing on the wings. He can take up the right-wing and provide the right kind of supply to the attack.


Not sure where I have been of late... My usual landing sites have not been visited - more than 10 days have passed since I wrote something more than a scribble. Instead I have been wandering the infinite reaches of space and time, in a restless, semi- dreamworld of my own. Mostly I have been observing my daily life through a series of windows - seeing myself going about my business, while clearly lacking the spark of creativity that fuels the better parts of my life. I have been asleep. Truly, I have been zombie-fied... and it isn't good.
I lost my trust you see. I forgot who I am. I let the nonsense get hold of me, and I gave myself up without a whimper.
It's easy to comply when you take your eye off the ball. Before you know it, you've been sucked in to the boring, dull and repetitive world we think is real... We give ourselves up to the mindless machine, and we forget that we are part of an endless creative process, that is never dull and never boring - because it is always new and always now.
Circles and spirals our life is. Around we go, again and again - and it always seems to be the same - but it never is. We can choose to work hard and keep ourselves stuck - refuse to change when change is offered - suffer because life will simply bring us similar experiences, getting heavier and heavier until we stand them no more - or we can stay with our eyes on the ball and move when the time comes. If we stay focused and trusting we will find ourselves in the right place at the right time.
Trust is where it's at.
We might say... Nothing is at it should be! Where's my new, wonderful life? Where's my stuff?
And it always stays away, because we do not trust that it will come.
Life is changing all the time - it never stops flowing - it cannot stop flowing. For us to stay where we are, we have to swim against the tide. We have to let go... and Trust.


Thank you Derek Najera, branch manager, and the entire staff of the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library for your work on behalf of the annual Troncoso Reading Prizes. On February 20th, we held the ceremony to present the winners with certificates of achievement and gift cards from Barnes and Noble. I also gave each student a signed copy of one of my books.
This year we held the event at the Pavo Real Recreation Center next door, because the branch library is undergoing renovations, including tripling the size of their parking space, new carpeting, new circulation desk, and even a new paint job for the exterior. These changes are so exciting, and the renovated Troncoso Branch Library will reopen in May of 2019.
The 2018 winners of the Troncoso Reading Prizes are: Leo Rivera and Brianna Moreno (1st place), Marisol Ramirez and Judy Aguirre (2nd place), and Adrian Vizcarra (not in photo) and Daniel Owen (3rd place).
What impressed me about this year's winners was how friendly and outgoing and engaging all the students were. I talked about how important reading was for me, as a kid from Ysleta, and how essential public libraries were to improve my concentration, to apply the good family values I learned from my parents about working hard and pushing myself to get better. The El Paso Public Library was where I learned to satisfy that intellectual hunger for ideas and stories, and I could see that hunger and focus in all of these students. Each of them reminded me of who I was many years ago. I love this community, and I will keep returning to Ysleta to award these prizes every year and to talk to these families about how they can educate themselves and their children to gain a voice, to reach their goals, and to return and help others.
Every year, we award prizes for students who read the most books between September 15-November 15. (This was our regular schedule before the library renovation, and we will probably go back to it in 2019.) The prizes are awarded only to students within the geographical area covered by the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library.
First Place receives a $125.00 gift card.
Second Place receives a $100.00 gift card.
Third Place receives a $75.00 gift card.
All prizes are gift cards from Barnes and Noble Booksellers. A total of six prizes are awarded.
Librarians at the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library register readers during the eligible period of the prizes. The library staff administers the prizes and makes final decisions on all the prizewinners.
If you have any questions or to register for the 2019 prizes, please contact the library staff at the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 9321 Alameda Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79907. Telephone: 915-858-0905.
I will be reading with Sonja Curry Johnson and Viktoria Peitchev at Pen Parentis in New York City: Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7 PM, The Hideout at Killarney Rose (80 Beaver Street).
What does it mean to be displaced? How do the children of displaced persons feel about their national identity?
In continued celebration of their Tenth Anniversary of Literary Salons in Lower Manhattan, Pen Parentis presents three authors, who will read on the theme of displacement. Q&A will follow, centering around work-life balance. All authors presented at Pen Parentis are also parents - the series aims to shatter the stereotype of what parents write by presenting the creative diversity of high quality work by professional writers who have kids.
Thank you Maria Manigbas, branch manager, and the staff of the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library for administering the annual Troncoso Reading Prizes. Yesterday we presented the winners with certificates of achievement and gift cards from Barnes and Noble. The winners also received two signed copies of my books.
Below are photos with the winners, library staff, parents, and teachers who attended the event. I am so excited to do it again next year and to keep encouraging students in our community to read. We also discussed college preparation, strategies for applying, different colleges to consider, and how to prepare students to be thinking and getting ready for higher education. I loved all the questions the audience had, and I hope we can continue these conversations in the future with more community events.
Every year, we award prizes for students who read the most books between September 15-November 15. The prizes are awarded only to students within the geographical area covered by the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library.
All prizes are gift cards from Barnes and Noble Booksellers. A total of six prizes are awarded in the two categories every year.
Runners-up and students who read at least ten books also receive certificates of participation. Individual schools also receive certificates of appreciation. This year: LeBarron Elementary School, Lancaster Elementary School, Ysleta Middle School, Del Valle High School, Valle Verde Early College High School, and El Paso Academy East.
If you have any questions or to register next year, please contact the library staff at the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 9321 Alameda Avenue, El Paso, Texas, 79907. Telephone: 915-858-0905.


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Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb was born on December 18, 1886 in Narrows, Georgia. Ty was the first of the three children to Amanda Chitwood Cobb and William Herschel Cobb. Ty's first years in baseball were played with the Royston Rompers, the semi-pro Royston Reds and the Augusta Tourists of the Sally League. Ty was cut from the Tourists only two days into the season. After being cut from the Tourists he went to try out for the Anniston Steelers of the semi-pro team Tennessee-Alabama.
In August of 1905 Ty was traded to the Detroit Tigers for five hundred dollars. Along with being traded in August Ty's mother shot and killed his father. Ty's mother was charged with murder then later released on a ten thousand dollar recognizance bond. Three weeks after his mother killed his father Cobb started in center field for the Detroit Tigers. On August 30, 1905, in Ty Cobb's first major league at-bat he doubled off of the New York Highlanders Jack Chesbro. In the 1905 season Ty managed to bat only .240 in a total of forty-one games. But with the promising start he had shown the Tigers gave him a one thousand five hundred dollar contract for the 1906 season.
During the 1906 season Ty became the full-time center fielder for the Tigers while batting .316 in ninety eight games. Four times in his career, the first in 1907 he reached first, stole second, stole third, then stole home in the same inning. In the 1907 season he finished with a league high .350 batting average, 212 hits, 49 stolen bases and 119 Runs batted in (RBI). Ty was no stranger to controversy. At Spring Training in 1907, Cobb fought a black groundskeeper over the condition the Tigers field was in. In off season between the 1907 and 1908 seasons Ty was offered a coaching job at Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, but Cobb refused the offer and remained with the Tigers for the 1908 season.
In the 1908 season the Tigers defeated the Chicago White Sox for the American League pennant. Cobb again won the batting title with a .324 batting average. Also in 1908 Cobb married Charlotte Marion Lombard, the daughter of Augustan Roswell Lombard. Again in 1909 the Detroit Tigers won the American League pennant. During the series Cobb stole home in the second game, which started a three run rally, but that was the only high point of that series for Ty. Ty didn't help his team out to much during the World Series. He batted only .231 as the Tigers lost in seven games. Even though he didn't play very good in the post-season, Cobb still won the Triple Crown by hitting .377 with 107 RBI's and nine home runs.
In 1915 Cobb set the single-season record for stolen bases with ninety six. The following year Cobb's streak of five consecutive batting titles ended as he finished second with.371 average and Tris Speaker's stole the title with a .386 average. In 1917 Ty Cobb stared in the motion picture Somewhere in Georgia. Ty played himself, a small town bank clerk with baseball talent. But the movie wasn't that popular. One Broadway critic said the movie was "absolutely the worst flicker I ever saw, pure hokum."
By 1920 Babe Ruth had established himself as a power hitter, something that Cobb never really was considered. When Cobb's Tigers and Babe's Yankees meet in the first match up of the season the fans were ready. Babe had a great series with two home runs and a triple while Cobb had one single. Cobb didn't like Ruth's playing style so he decided to start swinging for the fences like Babe does. Cobb went a perfect 6 for 6 with two singles, a double and three home runs. Ty had five home runs in the two games tied a record set by Cap Anson in 1884.
1921 was a start of something new for Ty. For the 1921 season he was going to be playing on the field and he would be the coaching. While coaching the Tigers Cobb never won a Pennant, the closest he came was finishing third. Cobb blamed his bad luck while managing on the team's owner Frank Navin. Again in 1925 Cobb was in the race for the batting title, but his teammate beat him out of it with a .393 average while Ty finished with a .389 average.
Finally after a 22-year career with the tigers, Cobb decided to call it quits. He officially announced his retirement in November of 1926. In Ty's last days he spent the time with comedian Joe E. Brown talking about the decisions that Cobb had made in his life. Ty checked into Emory Hospital for his last time in June, 1961. Ty Cobb died a month later, on July 17, 1961.
"Ty Cobb." 2009. Wikipedia. 5 Mar. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Cobb>
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JayeBaby 13 Mar 2009 16:06
Those pants make their hips look really big:) I think your supposed to have 3 bibliographies though!
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Brennan Huff 13 Mar 2009 16:08
good but again how much copy and paste went into this?
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Sheebs 13 Mar 2009 16:16
Wow! Those pants are HOTT!! You should definitely get a pair!!!! lol Your paper was very nice! Very well written!!!
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Casey Q 13 Mar 2009 16:16
Very well written, might need more on sources though? *poetry club snaps*
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Kristyn93 13 Mar 2009 16:18
I think you have a pair of those pants! lol I could see why you chose this subject!! You did really good!
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Nighthawke 15 Mar 2009 16:43
This page was awsome, very well written. But I think it needs some more pictures shoming Cobb playing in a game. Two thumbs way up!
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This page is good! Sounds like you researched very well:) You did way more than I thought you were going too so thats a good thing!
Kelsi Ubbenga 16 Mar 2009 16:21
This is a good page and there is a lot of information and it tells a lot about him and his life. Just a suggestion, this definitely isn't necessary, but I like pictures, so you should add some more, they make everything more interesting and fun!!! =)
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DHedman 21 Mar 2009 18:37
Why did you pick Ty Cobb over some of the other subjects? Do you think baseball has changed a lot since the days of Ty Cobb? I would like to see more of your voice in this piece. Add some of your own reflection to this information.
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Jim Kalmbach 21 Mar 2009 18:41
I have heard that Ty Cobb was the meanest man in baseball. Do you agree?
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