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![]() Among these brave investigators is the explorer, Ursula Downs ( The Forgotten Age, 2). The Forgotten Age draws five new investigators into the maddening realm of Arkham Horror: The Card Game as they search for answers among strange ruins from a bygone era. The discovery itself will be enough to earn you renown amongst the academic community, and a mysterious sense of doom seems to linger in the air… but what awaits you within the temple walls? Will you ever be able to forgive yourself if you don’t venture inside? Maybe just a quick look wouldn’t hurt… Ursula Downs, The Explorer Should you survive long enough to reach the ruins, you may encounter The Doom of Eztli. On her second attempt, Ursula discovers a connecting location! She puts it into play and immediately moves there. Therefore, her exploration is successful, Path of Thorns is put into play, and Ursula immediately moves there. This time, she draws Path of Thorns ( The Forgotten Age, 69), which is connected to the Expedition Camp. As her second action, Ursula decides to explore again. A single setback is not enough to stop the determined investigators of Arkham Horror: The Card Game. However, a failed exploration does not necessarily indicate the end of the investigator’s turn. A treachery card ends her exploration attempt. In the diagram above, Ursula reveals a location that does not connect to her current location. As this is a treachery card, she must resolve the card’s effects and her exploration ends unsuccessfully with Circuitous Trail reshuffled into the exploration deck. This card is therefore placed beside the exploration deck and Ursula draws again, revealing Low on Supplies ( The Forgotten Age, 82). ![]() Ursula Downs, currently at the Expedition Camp ( The Forgotten Age, 50), spends her first action to explore and draws Circuitous Trail ( The Forgotten Age, 73), which is not connected to the Expedition Camp. If a location of the type you seek is drawn, it is put into play and you move to that location to successfully tour the area.įor example, Agenda 1a instructs an investigator that their exploration is currently searching for a connecting location. Each Explore ability indicates a particular type of location that you are seeking to draw and, as a driven investigator, you must continue to draw from the exploration deck until you either discover the location you seek or a treachery brings your exploration to a halt. These abilities instruct you to draw the top card of the new, separate “exploration deck” which is filled with single-sided locations and treachery cards. In keeping with the new feel of your investigations, The Forgotten Age introduces the new Explore ability that you can initiate with an “activate” action, as seen on Agenda 1a. There is no telling what you may encounter beneath the thick jungle canopy, but you have come too far to turn back now. Today, you depart from your camp in order to find the ruins Alejandro seeks. ![]() The first of the scenarios included in The Forgotten Age, The Untamed Wilds, throws you into the middle of your scientific expedition where your team of investigators has ventured far into the rainforests of southern Mexico in search of a forgotten Aztec city-state. Here, you and your team will venture deep into dark rainforests and forbidden caverns in two new scenarios, which form the beginning of a new campaign for your investigation team as you step back into The Forgotten Age. In The Forgotten Age, one to four players embark on a scientific expedition to the rainforests of southern Mexico with five new investigators, as well as an incredible eighty-seven scenario cards and sixty-four player cards (two copies each of thirty-two distinct cards). When renowned historian Alejandro Vela discovers one of these secrets, the ruins of an ancient and forgotten Aztec city, it sets into motion a plot that could unravel the very fabric of time.įantasy Flight Games is proud to announce the upcoming release of The Forgotten Age, a new deluxe expansion for Arkham Horror: The Card Game-now available for pre-order at your local retailer or on our website here! We think we know the history of the Earth, but there are secrets that lie beyond our reckoning and truths that could undo our entire understanding of the universe. “Once more I ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneath the sand…” The Forgotten Ages Legacy Deluxe Expansion: The Forgotten Ages Legacy Deluxe Expansion Beschrijving Arkham Horror LCG: The Forgotten Age Complete Campaign Bundle:ĭeze bundel omvat de deluxe uitbreiding “The Forgotten Age”, evenals de zes daarop volgende Mythos packs voor Arkham Horror: The Card Game aan een voordelige prijs. They could have done that, but then they should not have called the game Battlefield. Many design decisions in BF2042 were made in such a wrong way that this is not the same game many/most players wanted. But then this is NOT the same game anymore. You CAN of course also change the formula and try to find a different (local) minimum, maybe even one nobody ever found. In campaign mode, the player selects a heroe and his goal is to defeat the Shadowlord and his four. Sure, you have to innovate and improve the game, maybe try different settings (read: colors of my black graph), but don't change the formula. There are two sides, Good and Evil, each with unique units. The first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay grouped the careers into four classes: Warrior. Bad Company 2 adds nuker elements to the Medic class by giving them a light machine gun as their primary weapon. Medic (support), and Recon (ranger/rogue) classes. But they still started moving away from that minimum with BF1/BF5. See Character Class System for a discussion of classes in general, and Fighter. Dice knew that with BF3/BF4 there were pretty darn close to a minimum in terms of game design. Raid: Raid a settlement over the course of a turn. Aborted when the unit gets attacked Melee Attack: Attack with all skirmish and melee weapons. ![]() Resting: Recovers morale, heals all wounds and removes all negative status effects from the unit at the start of their next turn. Hero: +50 Invulnerable Damage Reduction Heroes are just hard to kill. And once you found a local minimum, stop going places you know the function value is much bigger. Falirson is a Hero unit in Fantasy General II. ![]() Sure, you can be in the WRONG local minimum and the process is not simply 2 dimensional as sketched but there are many parameters that you can and have to tweak. The problem is, once you reached a (local) minimum, the process is done. ![]() Fantasy General is a turn-based game situated in a high fantasy world. It allows gaming against other human players by email. It was the second in the Five Star General series. Its structure was taken from the computer wargame Panzer General with some modifications to the base system. Several ways of finding those minima exists, but what you do is usually looking where you are, deciding in which direction and how far away the minimum is and then going along that way and checking again. Fantasy General is a hex-based fantasy game published by Strategic Simulations in 1996. More often than not, this cannot by done analytically, but only numerically. I hope you are a little 'mathematically inclined' and know of the concept of searching for extrema, most often minima. Some are more 'realistic', some might be hero shooters (not in my pretty little picture), some more casual fast paced, some are the BR games (also not present) and then there are the team shooters like the past BF titles. There are different sub-categories of FPS game in the FPS game franchise landscape. this seems so hard for you to grasp, maybe and image will help? Therefore I used my next-to-perfect Krita skills and drew you one: The lizard newts are in position at the beachhead. ![]() I hope you will find these homemade rules interesting for you campaigns. (A Cleric/Magic User does (d6+d4):2=5,but while there is not a d5 round down to d4)īy the way,reading the rules I didn't get how the hit points for the combined classes work after 9 level,do they get the better bonus to hit points between the two classes? In this next chapter of the Keldonia campaign, you fight as the Empire facing a new type of enemy, born from the Shadowlord’s realm and spreading like. (A Fighter/Cleric does (d8+d6):2=7,but while there is not a d7 round down to d6) If not,sum the faces of the hit dices of both class and divide the result by 2,if the result is an odd number round down. If both the classes have the same hit dice just keep it. Roll both hit dice for each class,sum the result and divide it for 2 Customise and upgrade your army, with over 10 unit classes and four races to recruit from Uncover hidden items and heroes to upgrade your. I've got two ways for that,you choose which is the best way for you Fantasy General is the third installment in Strategic Simulations’ Five Star General Series, and invites you to leave the trenches of World War II and enter a world of heroes, swords, magic and beasts. (So a Dwarf can become a Fighter/Cleric but not a Magic-User/Fighter) (Quoted from Basic Fantasy RPG rules version 1.07)Ĭharacters can combine max 2 classes,and only classes their race is allowed to choose. 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![]() Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta is executive produced by Tara Long, Mark Herwick and Ben Megargel for eOne along with Shad Moss and Datari Turner. Antonia Mattia is co-executive producer. Executive producers for WE tv are Lauren P. Marriage Boot Camp: Family Edition is executive produced by Adam Freeman, Adam Reed, Erin Richards and Leslie Greif. “With more stories to tell and more fascinating personalities to follow, the time was right to expand each of these series through compelling spinoffs that focus on the complicated and wholly relatable dynamic of families.” “Both Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars and Growing Up Hip Hop are standout series in their own right and have become important franchises for WE tv, helping to solidify the network as a destination for viewers on Thursdays and Fridays who seek out great stories and big personalities,” said Marc Juris, president of WE tv, in a statement. The series, co-produced by Entertainment One (eOne) and Datari Turner Productions, chronicles the artists as they fight for their chance in the spotlight. But like any family, Atlanta’s next generation of hip hop stars do not always get along. The rich history of the Atlanta hip hop scene has a close community among the artists that resembles a family. ![]() Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta, premiering later this year, chronicles the perks and perils of being born into hip hop royalty in the city that the New York Times once called “hip hop’s center of gravity.” ![]() The show premieres on April 28 at 9 PM ET/PT. Venus Nicolino, whether to save their relationships or cut family ties. They’ll undergo counselling and decide, with the help of therapists Dr. Produced by Thinkfactory Media, Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition will feature a cast of famous and famously dysfunctional families dealing with well-publicized rifts. WE tv is expanding two of the network’s most successful franchises - Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars and Growing Up Hip Hop - into new spin-off series. Special Tips: For best results, add the chunks of bread in smaller batches. Toss those pieces into the food processor and pulse until you achieve the desired consistency.Break up the toasted pieces of bread with your hands into smaller chunks.You can also pop the slices of bread in the toaster for a faster method. Dry the bread out in the oven or use stale bread.This is the easy method that I used to make fresh bread crumbs. It worked out really well for the purpose of this recipe and no complaints from my taste testers! Personally, I used Ezekial bread to make my breadcrumbs (which you can usually find in the natural section of the grocery store in the freezer) since it tends to be lower in sodium and higher in fibre with less processed ingredients. You can also choose which bread you use, whereas with store-bought, you’re stuck with what you get. Plus, by making your own breadcrumbs, it’s also a great way to use up that bread that’s gone stale or those end pieces that no one ever wants to eat. Keep scrolling to the bottom of the page for the full broccoli tots recipe! How to make homemade breadcrumbsĪs mentioned above, you can use store-bought breadcrumbs, but I find that the homemade breadcrumbs add a nice fluffy and crunchy texture to the outside of these tots, unlike the store-bought variety. Bake in oven for 20 minutes, carefully flipping tots half way through.Place each broccoli tot on the parchment paper-lined baking sheet.Coat each tot lightly in the egg mixture and then roll in the remaining breadcrumbs. Using your hands, form the mixture into the shape of long tots about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide.Mix in the chopped chives and shredded cheddar cheese, garlic powder, salt, and 1/2 a cup of breadcrumbs until combined.You can also do this step in the food processor. Mash until mostly smooth, leaving a few chunks here and there. Add the steamed broccoli and potato to a large bowl.Cover and steam for about 10-15 minutes or until the vegetables are soft enough to mash. Place a steamer basket in the saucepan and fill with diced potato and broccoli. In a medium saucepan, bring about an inch of water to a boil.Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. How to make baked broccoli tots – step by step instructions You can also sub in gluten-free bread crumbs or almond flour if preferred. Use homemade or store-bought whole-wheat bread crumbs. Bread Crumbs: Are incorporated into the broccoli potato mixture to help absorb some extra moisture and are also used as a breading on the outside.You can skip the egg and breadcrumb coating if you want to keep the recipe egg-free. Egg: Is used to coat the broccoli tots to help the breadcrumbs stick. ![]() You can also use finely chopped green onion or skip them altogether.
With Kyko acting as TECx’s “agent and attorney-in-fact,” the Texas foundation sued West Nottingham. ![]() North American Capital did not respond to requests for comment. But TECx alleged that school officials “collaborated” to have North American Capital or its CEO buy the school instead, according to the suit. TECx said in the suit it arranged for a company, North American Capital Markets, to assist in financing its purchase of West Nottingham. TECx accused then-school officials of providing “false, incomplete, and misleading” information on the school’s finances, budget and enrollment. But instead, trouble ensued, the suit said. In December 2020, West Nottingham entered an agreement to sell the school to TECx, according to the suit. TECx President Alex Greystoke, who has founded and directed other private schools, said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun that he then visited the campus. TECx said in the suit it was approached in 2019 by a consulting firm about whether it would be interested in buying West Nottingham. Kyko financed a suit filed in January 2022 by TECx Global Education, an Austin, Texas-based foundation, against West Nottingham and two former officials, saying they breached an $8 million contract for TECx to purchase the school. In 2016, after sprawling litigation against a onetime customer that it accused of fraud and racketeering, Kyko was awarded damages of more than $134 million. Kulkarni, 72, is the CEO of Kyko Global, which is based in Toronto and the Bahamas, and provides a range of financing services, including for litigation. How an international businessman came to control a school in a rustic corner of Maryland is a tale full of plot twists and shifting alliances. Kathy Lockhart, a nurse and instructor who graduated in 1974, has criticisms and questions as she stands near the old school at the sprawling 85-acre campus of West Nottingham Academy - founded in 1744 in the community of Colora, near Port Deposit and Conowingo in Cecil County - which faces an uncertain future as it seeks bankruptcy protection.įriday J(Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun) “Embassies were shut down, so they weren’t doing the interviews required for an F-1 visa,” McGovern said. The number of K-12 students on F-1 visas, which are required to study in the U.S., dropped almost 42% between 20 amid pandemic closures and restrictions, association data show. He hopes some of those students might attend West Nottingham.īoarding schools with high percentages of international students - West Nottingham’s is about 30% - have had to deal with foreign enrollment declining in recent years, falling even more “precipitously” during the pandemic, said Myra McGovern, a vice president with the National Association of Independent Schools. Without his investment, Kulkarni said the school could have gone the way of Oldfields, the 156-year-old all-girls school in Baltimore County that announced in April that it would close.Īnd in fact, he met Friday with a group from Oldfields, where alumni are scrambling to raise funds to try to keep it open. Its endowment, according to its most recent return, for the fiscal year that ended June 2021, had shrunk to about $664,000, from $4.3 million just several years earlier. West Nottingham’s expenses have outstripped its revenues in all but one of 10 recent years, according to the IRS Form 990 returns that are currently available. But the school filed Wednesday in Baltimore’s federal court to reorganize its finances under Chapter 11 - to prevent the money from instead going to creditors, Kulkarni said. Kulkarni said he planned to invest $2 million in the school to keep it open through the next academic year. “Kiran is going to inject capital when the school was a dry sponge,” said Choudhry, a New York-based entrepreneur who graduated from West Nottingham in 1998. The previous board president, Rehan Choudhry, defended the decision as necessary, saying the school’s revenues and donations had been declining for years, creating an unsustainable situation worsened by the coronavirus pandemic and recession. “You don’t get to just give away the school,” said Sayin, who lives in Daytona Beach, Florida. ![]() With few details and almost no public documentation of the transfer, some alumni said it felt as if the school was just handed over for nothing. The transaction was characterized not as a sale but a transfer of the school’s management and operating expenses. The previous board of trustees resigned, and Kulkarni, his brother and an associate took their seats. ![]() Those questions mentioned above happen frequently mostly because time is abstract to children, but making a countdown calendar helps with this. I also have another fun way for your kids to countdown to Christmas just keep reading to figure out what FREE gift I have in store below. All opinions are my own.I know I am not the only parent who keeps hearing… “When is Christmas?” “Is today Christmas?” “How many more days until Christmas?” Remember kids are visual learners and it helps them to see what we are trying to explain to them, a countdown paper chain calendar is the perfect way to help explain time to children. This post has been sponsored by Beacon Adhesives. Now you’re all set to countdown to Christmas! Step 9) Glue small trees along the sides of your now small house and then assemble all of the remaining pieces together! Hold them in place until you feel they have formed a strong bond. Step 8) Add 527 along the top edges of your triangles and attach your roof pieces to them very carefully. Repeat these steps with the other triangle so that it is on the backside of your calendar. Hold it in place until you feel it has formed a strong grip. When gluing this piece, hold the triangle where you want it to be and add plenty of glue along the back line (this will all be covered by the roof). I left a little bit of space in front of my piece so that it wasn’t smack dab in the front. Step 7) Take your triangle with the wreath and glue it on top of the block calendar base like pictured above. Then, I painted it pink to match the rest of the piece. At this point I realized I wanted to have a little bit more support on top of my calendar so I cut a piece of balsa wood that was the same size as the block calendar and glued it on top. Step 6) Use your 527 to glue your block calendar base pieces together like the image above. Step 5) Using your 527, glue a small wreath onto the middle of one of the triangles you painted pink. I chose to paint the remaining blocks red but you can write something like days till Christmas if you’d like. Then, add number stickers to your blocks following this pattern:īlock 1: Top should have a 0 and bottom should have a 5 - all around the sides there should be a 1, 2, 3, and 4.īlock 2: Top should have a 0 and bottom should have an 8 - all around the sides there should be a 1, 2, 6, and 7. Step 4) Paint the block calendar base pink and the squares white like the image above. After you paint your pieces and they are dry, place them under a stack of books or something similar so that they flatten out again completely. Note: You will notice your pieces will start to curl because the wood is so thin. For the pieces that are white, I sprinkled on some fake snow and glitter while the paint was still wet so that it stuck. Step 3) Paint your pieces so that they match the image above - you only have to paint one side of each piece. Using your craft knife, carefully cut these pieces out using the same method mentioned in step 1. My pieces were about 4.5” tall and 2” wide. Then, sketch two rectangles which will be the roof pieces of your calendar and measure them so that they are the same width as your calendar but extend past the edges a bit. Step 2) On your balsa wood, sketch two triangles that are as long as the base of your block calendar - the tip of the triangle should be at the middle point like in the image above. Note: When cutting thin pieces of balsa wood, I found that using the tip of the craft knife to create incisions along the cutting line works best. Use your craft knife very carefully to cut this piece out. My piece was about 8 1/4” tall and 2” wide. Step 1) Measure and trace the balsa wood so that it is the same width as your block calendar but extends 2 inches from each side like the image above. (I just can’t seem to give this one up.) This project does take a little time but the final product is just so worth it if you ask me. I love how this countdown turned out and I’m even considering making more of these as gifts for friends and family, too. I partnered with Beacon Adhesives on this project and used their 527 glue which works great on wood crafts among others. This year I really wanted to make a DIY Christmas Countdown and I knew that if I wanted to actually use it this year too, I’d have to get started early. I can’t believe the holiday season is already among us! Time sure does fly, doesn’t it? ![]() ![]() MGMA previously urged CMS to continue to exercise enforcement discretion past Jan. This is in addition to the convening provider’s other GFE responsibilities. If enforced, practices acting as “conveners” would be responsible for requesting and compiling estimates from each co-provider or co-facility expected to provide a service in connection with the convening provider or facility’s service. Therefore, CMS will NOT begin enforcing these requirements on Jan. Join in #MGMAAdvocacy today by sending a letter to your members of Congress to pass legislation to stop the full 4.5% payment reduction from taking effect.ĬMS FURTHER DELAYS CONVENING/CO-PROVIDER REQUIREMENTS FOR GOOD FAITH ESTIMATESįollowing months of #MGMAAdvocacy, CMS announced that they are extending enforcement discretion, pending future rulemaking, for the convening/co-provider good faith estimate (GFE) requirements. ![]() MGMA is continuing to advocate against this harmful reduction and for permanent payment reforms. As the Medicare physician fee schedule is the only Medicare payment system without an annual inflationary update, the pending 4.5% reduction will only exacerbate current financial concerns. The letter illustrates the severity of this pending cut and the negative impact it will have on practices, especially in light of current inflationary pressures. On Monday, MGMA and over 100 other healthcare stakeholder organizations sent a letter to congressional leadership urging action to avert the entire 4.5% reduction to Medicare payment rates scheduled to take effect Jan. |
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