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Like many of the books I enjoyed growing up, Date with a Career is about a girl starting school in a new place but it is also about her determination to become a fashion designer. Saphronia Adams has spent most of her life in Manhattan with her mother, a successful actress, but now her mother is performing in Australia, so Saphronia has is spending her senior year in New England …

The “Art of Hosting” is a term that has taken on a life of its own in the world of participatory facilitation and leadership. It came into use some 25 years ago to describe the fundamental practice at the heart of participatory facilitation and it has become a bit of a cipher. I’ve had a couple of conversations in the last few weeks that reminded me that it’s probably time …

One of the most common things I have been told throughout my career is that my dog should do [x] behavior- well, because they should! What I was not expecting was the number of clients that apply the same metric to their friends and family, pet-related or not. My husband Chance (yes, Chance like Chance the Rapper or Chance the Snapper to all you Chicagoans) and I just celebrated our …

Made with Dalle. Four years is being extremely optimistic, in my opinion.

Content Warning: This game and article discuss themes of suicide and depression. The last time we saw Wormwood do a joint with Wadjet Eye, we got 2012’s Primordia, a striking point and click about robots at the end of the world. The small team’s art reminded one of the work of H.R Giger, and one would hope their next project would be about humans to take advantage of the body …

A reader asked about an Israeli grape juice called Inbalim ענבלים. I presume this is the brand:He asked why the juice had that name. I don't have an actual answer to that question. It's a label from the Arza Winery, and I don't see any official explanation online for that choice. But I can speculate, and I can certainly give more background to the word עִנְבָּל inbal.The word inbal has …

Reacting to something Mani said the other day: if you shoot color film, and you have a favorite color film, then that film is the best color film, regardless of what somebody else thinks. Some materials just "mesh" well with our own way of seeing and yield their gifts every time we use them. If you can identify a film as "yours," you're one of the lucky ones. MOO*. That's …

How can humanity be so evil and those with the fucking power to do something don’t. I try and avoid things like this because it truly breaks my brain, even more so as a father of two. So fucking evil. The Israeli ethno-state has a lot to answer for. Hopefully soon their time will come to answer for these abhorrent crimes.

Today I decided to paint a portrait again.And of course, it was fun!Portrait painted with Rebelle Pro 7Process below:

On Wednesday morning, Nov. 27, the crescent moon covers the bright star Spica, then dramatically returns it to view.

You like defensive basketball? You like fighting for every possession? You like offensive attacks that look like FB Dive plays? Well this was the game for you. North Texas had a one point lead at the half with just 32% shooting. They finished the game with 38% and won by three. The 26 points off turnovers were the key. Oregon State had 22 turnovers to NT’s 9. The harassing, hustling, …

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Although the world is currently the richest it’s ever been, people and societies seem to be focussed on the wrong things: for example, extracting even more money out of each other and being pessimistic about our future, while forgetting the important things which unfortunately don’t directly create more wealth. Many experiments with handing out a universal basic income have shown it to lead to …

When I was a newly qualified actuary, part of the induction process into life as a professional was to watch a video in which an accountant was in the dock accused of professional negligence squirming as he was cross-examined by a barrister. I’ve been reminded of this over the last couple of years, as a colleague and I have spent the best part of 2 weeks sitting in court rooms …

It's been a while since our last update; generally because there was a bit too much going on and then too much to report. Doh. We're going to take a leaf out of fellow indie manufacturer Electric Flapjack's book and split the catch-up posts across project, rather than temporal, lines. The client projects we had on have continued, so there's been a regular drum-beat of air quality sensor and Bluetooth …

‘Bound by tradition. Controlled by no one.’ The film boasts some stunning landscape shots Starring Basima Hajjar, Ashraf Barhoum, Fatima Al Taei, Yagoub Alfarhan and Haifa Al-Agha. Written and directed by Shahad Ameen. Produced by R. Paul Miller, Stephen Strachan and Rula Nasser. Basima Hajjar plays Hayat The people of a small coastal settlement sacrifice some of their daughters to unseen sea creatures (we only get a brief glimpse of …