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The Game Forever Home is a game about dog shelters. You work at a dog shelter. You train dogs and find new homes for them. This is a game dog lovers will enjoy. It is a light to mid weight family strategy game. This is the main game board. The four cards on top are four different locations you can send the dogs to - the city, the suburbs, the …

We’ve noted an increase in smaller page sizes and fewer pages recently, as publishers respond to increased production costs. But that doesn’t mean a magazine can’t make the most of print. The 40th episode of our podcast features two publishers that have done exactly that with their magazines: Danielle Pender from Riposte Editions and Kai von Rabenau at mono.kultur. The Riposte publication is an entirely new proposition, with a new …

If you are inspired by the Great River Race to have a go in a Dragon Boat, there is an opportunity by attending the Wave Walkers Dragon Boat Team Open Day at the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre, Westferry Rd E14 3QS on Sunday 6th October 11am – 2pm. Wave Walkers is the first and only Dragon Boat team in London set up to support people affected by cancer, be …

Osprey with fresh catch. (click to enlarge)Olympus E-M1 Mark III; 300mm f/4 lens; 1/2000th sec. @ f/4.5; ISO 400I'm sure almost everyone reading this post has owned more than one camera and more than one lens. A simple question for you. Is there any photography gear you have owned and then sold that you wish you hadn't? Why?I can only think of one piece of kit that I sold that …

WATCH: “This experience helped me see how Black women like me die needlessly… This is government and political interference in private health care decisions…”Kaitlyn Joshua testified powerfully about how Republican abortion bans almost killed her. #ForcedBirthNation pic.twitter.com/bbD8XL8rTo— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) September 24, 2024 Before 2022, the typical media representation of abortion generally involved a woman, more often than not single, who unexpectedly found herself pregnant. The issue was often …

A new musical about the proposed, controversial disposal of oil company Shell’s Brent Spar oil storage facility in 1995 has inspired Glasgow theatre company Sleeping Warrior’s latest musical. The demise of the giant, rusting, yellow monolith rising 135 meters above the North Sea sparked a global media storm, prompting both public and political protest that included the boycotting of Shell petrol stations, physical assaults, and an arson attack against Shell …

This is the 57th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Justin Duke and his blog, jmduke.com I'm particularly happy to have Justin as a guest on P&B because in addition to be a person with a blog—something I clearly appreciate—he's the founder of Buttondown, a service I used since 2019 and the one used …

a faint trail that leads into the woods in austin, texas. it runs down the middle of a clearing in a residential area. across the bottom of the picture sit a bunch of large rocks creating a border. hey! who put those rocks there? Social service organizations, like nonprofits and foundations, love resiliency! In their world, resiliency means a person’s ability to bounce back after a crisis. A person might …

Janet Johnson (1858 - 1955) pioneer welfare worker.Lived at 39 Redcross Way. She became the first woman Guardian of the Poor in Southwark in1888, devoting her life to the condition of poor workhouse internees, She became manager of the Central London School for Orphans and Destitute Children at Hanwell, initiating humanitarian reforms with new ideas on education, clothing and diet.Historic Southwark

PC After about a year in early access, Ravenswatch (not a game about choosing a new fabric with raven print, I’m sad to say) is properly out, and it’s a tremendous mix of Hades and Torchlight. Yes, we’re once again back in the parallel universe where a game that has everything people want isn’t getting the attention it deserves. Honestly, this feels like it could be a forgotten Supergiant game, …

Introduction # Welcome to the first post of our development diary for the Bonfire native app. In this series, we'll journey together through the entire process of designing and publishing Bonfire on the Apple App Store using LiveView Native (LVN), an experimental framework that enables developers to build native applications using Elixir. We're focusing on iOS first because the current LVN release targets the Apple ecosystem (iOS and macOS, but …

“The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution.” For many young radicals in the 1960s, these words from Fidel Castro’s Second Declaration of Havana were instructions to be taken seriously. Richard Gott’s despatch from Bolivia, published in The Guardian on 19 August 1967 and reproduced in full below, exemplifies how this internationalist revolutionary commitment translated into political action that would shape a generation of left-wing thinkers. When Gott …

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All of these stunning elevation maps of the world’s continents (except Australia and Antarctica) are the brain child of cstats1 who you can follow on X/Twitter here and Instagram here. And if you’d like to support them you buy something from their Amazon shop here. The first map above is an elevation map of Europe. Here are the highest and lowest points in Europe: Highest Point In Europe: Mount Elbrus, …