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Every year during the winter break, thousands of people take part in the annual Christmas Bird Count. December 14 this year marked Audubons 120th year.

The Christmas Bird Count was known as the Christmas Side Hunt, a holiday tradition back in the early 1800s, where riflemen would shoot and kill as many feathered fliers they could find in a particular area and at that time included small game. The group that had the most birds collected would win, what they won is unknown.

After years of conducting this Side Hunt, conservationists, including famed ornithologist Frank M. Chapman began to take notice of the decline in the birding population.

Frank M. Chapman came up with the idea of exchanging their rifles for a pair of binoculars and by that hopes to restore that areas birding population. From that day on, this became the most popular tradition among hundreds of thousands of avid birders.

According to The First Christmas Bird Count document on Audubon.org, the count held on December 25, 1900, twenty-seven participants observed over eighteen thousand individual birds and over eighty species. Ducks, sparrows, woodpeckers, and owls were among those species counted in over ten states, including Ontario.

The Christmas bird count has been the longest-running citizen science program in the U.S. if not in the world. Dr. Marianne Korosy, Director of Bird Conservation, said. Its important not only for Audubon members but people that are interested in birds.

Dr. Marianne Korosy explained another vital factor for this bird count: tracking changes in species diversity. For example, if species X had been observed at the same location for over eighty years and for the next twenty years, not one sighting was recorded, that could be one of the indicators of climate change.

The Christmas bird count not only documents the number of birds of each species but they document the diversity of the species that are present in the same time increment every year, Dr. Marianne Korosy said. The count always runs from December 14 to January 5. We are sampling, in essence, the birds in the same time frame every year in the same 15-mile diameter circle. That gives us a long-running database that we can evaluate trends, the population as well as species diversity.

Linda Vanderveen and Bev Hansen organized two separate bird counts in Hernando County.

On the Brooksville Christmas Bird Count, we got 110 species. The unusual birds were a Clay-colored Sparrow, a Peregrine Falcon, a Broad-winged Hawk, a Baltimore Oriole, and a Says Phoebe. The Brooksville Circles center is Bystre Lake, and the circle is 15 miles across. We have seven teams covering the areas.

The most numerous bird species were Robins, Crows, Ring-necked Ducks, Cowbirds, Coots, and Cattle Egrets. Birds that we dont find anymore are the Burrowing Owls, Great Horned Owls, and several species of ducks. Loss of habitat has taken a toll over the years.

~Linda Vanderveen via email

The most outstanding bird for the Aripeka-Bayport CBC is an adult male Hooded Oriole, a very rare bird that has only been documented in Florida twice before. It was found in Weekiwachee Preserve and is still being seen by countless birders who are traveling from various parts of the state to see it. Thirty-two birders participated in this count. We saw 17 species of ducks and 14 species of shorebirds.

Parenthetically, in the days after the CBC, while some birders were on their way to see the Hooded Oriole, they found another bird rarely seen in Hernando County called an Ash-throated Flycatcher. This is also in Weekiwachee Preserve.

~Bev Hansen via email

Hernando Audubons participation in the Christmas Bird Count can document changes in bird species happening here in Hernando county. Those feathered friends we see out and about during our hikes or walks, biking, driving, or even watching them visit bird feeders in our backyards is just one way of understanding the effects of habitat loss and changes in the climate.

Those interested in learning more about the Christmas Bird Count, please visit: https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count

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The new Ouachita parish school board building in West Monroe, La. is set to be fully functional by the end of January as staff settles in to the new space. (Photo: Nicolas Galindo/The News-Star)

Just before the winter break, the lobby of 1600 N. Seventh St., West Monroe, was stacked high with boxes the kind for moving, not gifts.

The Ouachita Parish Schools administrative offices are moving under a single roof, and the transition is set to be complete by mid-January.The first meeting in the updated building will be a special meeting at noon Jan. 6.

Superintendent Don Coker is proud of the new space. He can point to the purpose almost every closet, nook and cranny will serve.

"The space is great, and I like to see this as not just a central office but a training facility for all of our people," he said.

The formerOuachita Parish Alternative Center and West Monroe Junior High School campus has been renovated into state-of-the-art office space with classrooms and computer labs for staff training dotted through the complex.

Everything was designed to work together and make things easier.

"A lot of thought was put into how this was when you take a school and you gut the entire thing and then you build it back one step at a time trying to figure out how you coordinate all of this stuff. It's huge," Coker said.

The new board room at the remodeled Ouachita Parish School Board building in West Monroe, La.(Photo: Nicolas Galindo/The News-Star)

Once people are buzzed in the front door, a hallway to the left leads to Coker's office and personal conference rooms and the cafeteria.

Going straight, visitors will find the elevators, then the board room. Behind the board room, members have a smaller conference room specifically for executive sessions.

Taking a right from the lobby will lead straight to the most visited offices: retirement, leave, insurance and payroll.

Then the business offices are laid out in ways that keep departments together while sharing work rooms and printers. Every department has its own break room.

The DARE and truancy officers with the Ouachita Parish Sheriffs Office will have their own space with an external exit at the end of a wing. (The facility is secure and requires digital fobs to swipe in each door.)

Upstairs, there are other departments andtraining space, computer labs and additional storage. They've included a media room with a green wall for photos and digital video training for students too.

Media center workers and IT will be in another building in the same complex.

The new Ouachita Parish School Board building in West Monroe, La. will feature tables designed and made by the district's high schools. This table was built at West Ouachita High School.(Photo: Nicolas Galindo/The News-Star)

All the furniture from the old offices has been brought to the new building, and students at parish high schoolsare building tables for conference rooms around the complex.

Coker said they also plan to hang students' art around the buildings.

The best bargain in the whole development, he joked was the sod out front. Landscaping wasn't in the budget, but West Monroe High School had borrowed money from the board to put down a new turf practice field. They moved the grass to the new office.

The only place everything was not accounted for was the mail room. Each school has a letter box, as does each department in the new building.

"We haven't figured out what we're doing with thoseyet," Coker said, grinning andpointing to a bank of cubbies against one wall.

It's a new look, but history hasn't been abandoned. The West Monroe Junior High School wall plaque is hanging near the secondary entrance on the front of thebuilding.

Parts of the building keep vintage elements of the building in sight, like painting original brickwork to blend with new drywall. The look merges both elements.

"I'm thinking that down the road, this is going to be a cost saving measure for the entire district," Coker said.

They'll be maintaining fewer buildings, as a star, and there are built-in energy efficiencies in the redesigned offices, such as overhead lights that adjust based on the amount of daylight in the room.

The rooms are spacious and most of have lots of natural light. (In 30 years of administration, this is the first time Coker has had a window in his office.)

Ouachita Parish School Board Superintendent Don Coker sits at his desk in the new school board building in West Monroe, La. on Dec. 19.(Photo: Nicolas Galindo/The News-Star)

The new facility gives the district multiple spaces for events they'd previously held at churches. Coker said they can accommodate 700 teachers at one time in the entire central office.Being able to speak to 100 employees in one room like this is something they've never been able to do.

There are plans to start serving meals out of the cafeteria to employees who aren't based ata school. The goal is to make it self-sustaining without adding extra cost to the district.

Coker assumed his role in 2015. He said he'd been thinking of this project for several years and timing was everything. OPAS, now call Ouachita Parish Academy for Learning, students had to be moved, and some employees had to be relocated around the district to make room while the buildings were being renovated.

Now they're all coming home.

"What I'm having to do is to take four families and blend them into one, and that's going to be my Iwouldn't say challenge but that's going to be something that we're going to be working toward," Coker said.

He feels humble and proud that he pulled it together.

"I'm tired, but I'm happy."

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In the movie Rounders, Matt Damon plays the role of poker prodigy Mike McDermott. At one point, he says, "If you can't spot the sucker in the first half-hour at the table, then you are the sucker."

I've long been fascinated by people who take on poker players they know are much better than themselves. I've been even more fascinated by why people bet against the house in a casino. Similarly, I'm fascinated by companies that think they can beat giant brands at their own game when it comes to recruiting. I believe if you want to compete effectively for talent, you have to, at a minimum, understand how large firms are stacking the odds of recruiting in their favor.

Recruiting resembles poker in several respects. I recently had a hard-earned lesson in this when I participated in a small Texas Holdem tournament with about 40 players, one of whom was Matt Damon. A friend asked me if I thought Matt would be any good. I said he was probably there just for fun, even if he was excellent in the role of Mike McDermott. A few hours later, Matt not Mike took home first prize, and I had to eat my words while my friend laughed at me.

Much as in poker, hiring predictions are impacted by both chance and skill. The shifting ratios of chance and skill make recruitment decisions quite challenging, especially because we often cant know whether a hiring manager was just lucky when they landed a star performer or if their methods made all the difference.

In both poker and recruiting, a surprising number of people believe they can just wing it. When they lose, they convince themselves they were just unlucky. These individuals fail to recognize that top players rely much more on a good strategy and a disciplined game than pure luck.

Similarly, most executives I've spoken to dismiss the notion that investing in talent analytics can help them significantly improve their results. According to Gartner, only 21% of human resources leaders think their companies effectively use talent data to inform business decisions. This is despite strong business examples of even small investments in HR analytics paying off. Even sports teams see improvement: An analysis by FiveThirtyEight found that baseball teams with at least one analyst supporting their recruiting efforts outperformed their expected winning percentage by more than 40 percentage points in 2009.

My question to business leaders not investing in people analytics is this: In what other parts of your organization would you pass up on hiring one analyst if it could improve the performance of your company? The most common response I receive is, "The main companies that care about talent analytics are tech firms."

Let's take a look at this argument.

From my perspective, business leaders using this argument tend to believe that the talent who wants to work in tech would not want to work for them anyway, and it's only tech firms that are investing in people analytics. As a result, they draw the conclusion that they don't need to worry about other companies gaining a competitive edge over them.

Let me start by saying that I disagree with the notion that tech only recruits from a specific pool of people who would only want to work in tech. Yes, some people are only interested in working in tech. However, tech firms understand that they need superstars to achieve their goals. But LinkedIn, for example, is training food truck workers and teachers to fill in tech talent gaps. To me, it's difficult to argue these people would not be interested in a nontech job.

The second part of the assumption that only tech firms are investing in people data analytics is also incorrect. My own analysis (presented in my upcoming book) from March 2019, looked at 490 companies implementing data analytics; 12 out of 17 companies employing 10 or more talent analytics professionals were not tech firms. I'm not alone to point out that nontech firms are adapting people analytics. For example, JetBlue is using talent analytics to understand attrition patterns.

How can you leverage data analytics?

It's important to remember that using data analytics will require some initial investments in collecting better data and in team members who can truly make use of this data. To overcome these challenges, consider investing in a person to manage the data collection and ensure that the data is clean and reliable. Depending on the size of your organization, a part-time resource might suffice. For example, at my company, we have about 130 employees, and one person dedicates 20% to 30% of their time to this. Also, you can consider hiring a data-scientist, either internally or externally, who can help you look at the right data and to draw actionable conclusions from the data.

My company used analytics internally and looked at data for junior-level hires. We found out that relevant experience with the task they were being hired to do correlated negatively with job performance at this level. This was a highly surprising result, and it showed that hiring managers were overly valuing past experience when trying to hire junior-level candidates. We have since trained our hiring managers to value past experience less for junior roles.

The Bottom Line

If you have a hard time finding the talent you need, I believe you are already competing with companies that have talent analytics departments. And these firms are stacking the odds of hiring better talent in their favor. To paraphrase Matt Damon, if you do not have a repeatable and scalable way of attracting the best talent away from other firms and to your company, then those companies are stealing the best talent away from you.

Think about it this way: Would you want to be the last baseball team to hire a talent analytics person? If not, I suggest you should stop reading this article and start drafting the job description for your first talent analytics hire.

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Below Deck fans and crew shaded a recent charter guest on the show when she refused to share a room with one of the other women in her group.

Cameras followed the group from Charleston, South Carolina as they chose rooms during the first few moments on Valor. But when it came time to put guests Jamie Stone and Lauren Taylor in a room, Stone learned the only room available had one bed. She is seen telling chief stew Kate Chastain she was told shed have her own room and refused to share with Taylor. We all want our own room Jamie, but this is how many rooms we actually have, Chastain says in a confessional.

Chastain then told Stone shed be in the room and that shed make the sky lounge comfortable for Taylor. Taylor looks uncomfortable as she realizes shes going to be sleeping on a couch. Later, Taylor shares with Captain Lee Rosbach that shes been couch surfing. Rosbach moves Taylor into his quarters and rides the couch instead. Rosbach had some choice words about Stone during the episode and in his blog.

Stone took a tremendous amount of heat for her actions on the show. Viewers skewered her for not only refusing to share the room (which also meant sharing a bed) with Taylor, but they also snarked at her comments about the crew forgetting her birthday.

But Stone shared on Twitter that she had only met Taylor (and most of the group) on the vacation and it was an incredibly awkward situation. I think its great that some people can instantly feel comfortable with others in what is meant to be a safe place, such as the place you sleep at night, she posted on Twitter. But I have boundaries, and whereas Im sure Lauren is a great person I met her literally right before we got on the boat and it takes me time to get to know someone and feel comfortable.

To attack my personal sense of safety and comfort feels unfair to me, especially after seeing maybe 10 minutes of me on a reality tv show. I had a good time on the show and Bravo and the producers voluntarily offered me my own room weeks ahead of the charter.

Stone added that she told Taylor she didnt want her to be forced to sleep in the sky lounge either. Most times you dont see the uncut footage I told Lauren after the room tour that I didnt want her to be forced to sleep in his private lounge and she said, let me try it and Ill let you know if its awful. She seemed fine with it, and if she wasnt that was never expressed to me.

She completed her post by sharing shes been cyberbullied and attacked. One person suggested she should have reconsidered her approach at the time. If you wanted your own space you should have taken the sky lounge, I dont know you or why it was important to you, it just looked bad, IMHO.

Stone agreed. In retrospect you are probably right (others have said this but you didnt call names so thank you!) if Im being very honest the camera added a level of discomfort that I wasnt prepared for and thats my own fault. I dont think Im built for realty tv, she replied.

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Below Deck's Rhylee Gerber is over the so-called "boys' club" on deck. As the only female deckhand this season, she says she hasfelt left out and ostracized by her fellow deck team members. Captain Lee Rosbach agrees and has also called out the men in the crew for the way they've been acting all season on Twitter.

Rhylee spoke more about this "boys' club" in an interview with The Daily Dish podcast.

"I agree wholeheartedly that coming into this position, it is very reminiscent of last year,in the fact that it feels like a boys club," she said."I dont have any problem working with males or females. And I dont have a problem with authority. What I have a problem with is people that... to me its not about rank. OK, I understand there is rank. But just because youre above me doesnt mean you can speak down to me. It doesnt mean you can treat me disrespectfully... And so with this boys club feeling, I mean, last year I was left out of deck meetings, I was made to take my breaks separately [from]the boys so they all bonded. They, you know, they had their own thing going on.And I was mocked and laughed at behind my back. Thats not something that you dont pick up on. Im not creating these feelings out of nowhere. Its a boys club because thats how they have made it."

Rhylee's not done calling out these crew members, however;in fact, she wants to add another name to that list.

"With Captain Lee addressing that, I just hope he realizeshes a part of that boys club," she said.

Woah! The deckhand explained, "Hes very much a fan of people over others... that vibe is shared very plainly on board,with favoritism and all that. He makes the comment a lot that Im just a third deckhand. Well, Im also your third deckhand. And just because Im a third deckhand here, dont forget my credentials. I have credentials. And I had more credentials than any of these guys last year. You know, its just a difference of what vessel Im working on."

As for who she thinks Captain Lee favors, Rhylee claimed, "It goes without saying, you know,Kate [Chastain] is definitely a favorite of Captain Lee.I dont say that in a derogatory sense. I know they have a working relationship for several years. That just comes with working together so long. I understand why Lee feels that way about certain people. But just dont make others feel less than or inferior. Thats just something that to me is, is disrespectful. Its inconsiderate."

To be fair, Captain Lee has never said that he doesn't show favoritismto Kate."Kate deserves preferential treatment because she's earned it. It's simple,"Captain Lee said in theBelow Deck Season 7 After Show. "You don't get preferential treatment from me unless you earn it."

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The East Boston Chamber ofCommerce held their 2019 Deck the Windows holiday window decorating contestthe weekend of Dec. 13, 14, and 15. Businesses participated bydecorating their storefront windows with decorations of the season, by callingthe Chamber and having a Chamber Board member take the photos, or by havingtheir decorations photographed by a Chamber Board member, or directly submittingpictures of their decorations.

From the many contestentries, three winners were chosen (first, second, and third place) to be thebest decorated windows by an East Boston business in 2019. Certificateswere awarded to the three winners along with a congratulatory letter from theEast Boston Chamber of Commerce thanking each winner for their decorating andfor demonstrating the spirit of the holidays in our community.

Congratulations to: First Prizewinner La Chiva Restaurant on Bennington St. Second Prize winner ItalianExpress Pizzeria decorations at Ianuzzis square on Bennington St. ThirdPrize winner Jevelis Italian Restaurant on Chelsea St.

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A brand-new grill and a dining deck with lakefront views are being built in San Diegos East County as part of a plan to keep a Santee landmark fresh over the next 20 years.

Over at Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve specifically, Lake 4 near the General Store where many families like to feed the ducks youll find a lot of construction these days and, as a result, the volunteer-staffed Waterfront Grill is closed.

Banners line the construction area showing whats coming: a new bar and grill and dining deck, all set to be completed by the spring of 2021.

Laura Koval, directorof park and recreation for Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve, told NBC 7 theconstruction project broke ground about seven months ago.

When its finished, the dining deck will featureseating for 150 people.

Koval said the plan is for the new bar and grill to beopen seven days a week, offering a great coffee menu selection, unique grillitems, and a few local microbrews.

She said a food vendor for the grill has not yet been chosen, but Santee Lakes is accepting information from vendors that may be interested in eventually running the dining facility. Those bids from vendors are due by Jan. 31.

According to Koval, the overall project will cost $8.8 million. Santee Lakes is owned and operated by Padre Dam Municipal Water District and Koval said the self-sufficient preserve receives no rate payer or tax payer subsidies. All park operations, including this project, are funded by fees collected from visitors of the park and its campground, she told NBC 7.

Koval has been spearheading the planning of this project since 2015 when she formed a team to help carry out the parks Dynamic Vision Plan, or DVP.

The DVP is a vision for the park over the next 20 years, Koval explained. The plan is dynamic so that it may adjust to the needs of customers, the community and park staff over time.

Koval said this is the second project at Santee Lakesto stem from the DVP. The first was a $1.7 million park improvement project onthe west side of Lake 2 and Lake 3, completed in August 2017.

According toKoval, this project will be completed in three phases to keep thepark offices and general store operational throughout construction.

As of Jan. 1, Koval said phase one of the project which involves the complete demolition and replacement of the parksadministration building was 65% completed. The building is expected to becompleted by this April.

Phase 2 the construction of the dining deck overLake 4 is currently 5% completed. She said the main concrete and steelstructure for this phase will be built over the course of this month and nextmonth. In addition to seating for 150, that deck will be able to be configuredto accommodate up to 300 guests for special events.

Meanwhile, phase 3 will involve remodeling the parksGeneral Store and adding the 600-square-foot kitchen. During that phase, theGeneral Store will be temporarily relocated to the adjacent Events Centerbuilding, Koval said. That building will also get a new roof, doors and windowsduring the home stretch of the project.

Koval said this project is critical to the future ofSantee Lakes, which attracts more than 750,000 visitors each year.

As part of the identity of the City of Santee and oneof the most popular tourist attractions in East County, this project willensure Santee Lakes remains a premier destination, she added.

Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve is located at 9310 FanitaParkway in Santee and hosts many of Santees big events throughout the year.

The 190-acre park features seven lakes filled with recycled water and stocked with sport fish year-round.

Santee Lakes also boasts several playgrounds, a splash pad thats open on those hot East County summer days, and a campground that includes campsites and cabin rentals.

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The iconic Vidhana Soudha, Karnataka's secretariat building

Bengaluru, India's tech city, has decked up to host the 107th Indian Science Congress (ISC 2020) for 5 days starting Friday, January 3, 2020.

"About 15,000 delegates, including 2 Nobel Laureates and eminent scientists from across India and abroad are set to attend the Science Congress from January 3-7 in the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), which is hosting the annual event," ISC President K.S. Rangappa told IANS ahead of the meet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the mega summit at a huge makeshift hall in the sprawling Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra (GKVK) campus on the city's northern outskirts.

About 10,000 delegates, including students, academicians, researchers, keynote speakers, experts and policy makers have registered to participate in the congress from across the country and 35 countries worldwide.

"This is the third time Bengaluru is hosting the science congress after 2002 and 1987. Modi inaugurated the 103rd session at Mysuru in the southern state on January 3, 2016," Rangappa, former vice-chancellor of Mysore University, recalled.

As the event is being held by an agriculture university, the focal theme of the congress is "Science and Technology: Rural Development", ostensibly to bridge the gap between urban and rural India and improving the quality of farmers' life through science and technology.

The national jamboree will cover 14 sectors in contemporary science, with concurrent sub-events like Women's Science Congress, Children's Science Congress, Science Communicators; Meet and Farmer's Science Congress.

File photo: Students going through the demonstration of drones for agriculture during the inauguration of Krishi Mela at the GKVK Campus in Bengaluru

"For the first time, the Farmer's Science Congress on January 6 will provide a forum to ryots across the country to interact, share their experiences, success, failures and showcase their innovative techniques/methods developed and followed by them in farming," Rangappa said.

With agrarian crisis gripping the country and the farm sector's contribution to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stagnating, the day-long farmers' session will focus on innovation in integrated agriculture and entrepreneurship for doubling farmers' income.

Climate change, bio-diversity, conservation, ecosystem services and farmers empowerment will be discussed in parallel sessions along with one on agrarian distress, bio-entrepreneurship and policy issues.

Four public lectures and 26 plenary sessions will be held concurrently. In addition, a science exhibition (Pride of India) will showcase the latest developments in science and technology the world over, leading products and services, path-breaking research and developments (R&D) initiatives, schemes and achievements of the public and private sectors.

The public lectures (two each) will be held on January 3-4 at the international convention centre in the campus. The first lecture on "Ultrasharp Fluorescence Microscopy" will be delivered by Nobel Laureate Stefan Walter Hell from Gottingen in Germany, followed by a talk on "Science Across Disciplines and Some Consequences for Industry 4.0" by Subra Suresh, an India-born American scientist. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014.

The third lecture on January 4 will be on "From basic science to an acute problem of modern medicine" by Nobel Laureate Ada E. Yonath, an Israeli scientist from Jerusalem. She was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Indian-born American physicist and molecular biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and American biophysicist and biochemist Thomas Steitz in 2009.

The fourth lecture will be given on "Life style diseases and Recent advances in Cardiac Sciences" by eminent Indian cardiologist C.N. Manjunath, Director of the state-run Jayadeva Hospital in Bengaluru.

"In addition, 74 expert speakers from 24 countries will deliver keynote addresses on different subjects on application of science in technology," added Rangappa.

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We have the big Historic Challenge event coming up next week, so we will be covering some Historic content and decks for the next week or so! For todays deck of the day, we share Magic Pro League member and Mythic Championship VII semi finalist Andrea Menguccis Historic Boros Knights deck he used on his stream a few days ago. You can follow him on Twitch and Twitter.

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The deck leans heavily into mono white, as the only red cards are for Fervent Champion and Inspiring Veteran. Having History of Benalia is a huge boon to any Knight in Historic. The availability of Clifftop Retreat means the mana base can accommodate Benalish Marshal consistently as well, and even if you wanted to put some Embercleave in there. Do note that Tournament Grounds cannot be used to cast The Circle of Loyalty!

Each day we will feature a deck that are either user submitted from the community or really interesting ones we scoured from other sources. If you would like your deck to be showcased here, you can do so via any of the three ways:

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Did Southern Charm just meet Below Deck? During a recent episode, fans thought they recognized one of the charter guests from Southern Charm. Patricia Altschul from Southern Charm has said on more than one occasion that shed love to do a Below Deck crossover. She wanted to take the main cast members on a luxury yacht voyage and has gotten close with Captain Lee Rosbach and chief stew Kate Chastain.

But it wasnt Altschul and company on board Valor. Instead, a few Charleston residents who have appeared on the Southern Charm took a trip on Below Deck. Viewers recognized Madison Simon from the store, Gwynns. Kathryn Dennis worked at the store and Simon has made additional cameo appearances on Southern Charm. In addition to Simon, viewers recognized another charter guest not only from Southern Charm but another Bravo show.

In addition to Simon, viewers may recognize Molly OConnell, not only from Southern Charm but also from Americas Top Model. OConnell appeared in the Southern Charm season 6 season finale and shared a photo with the cast on Instagram. Check out the #season6 #finale of #southerncharm @bravosoutherncharmtonight at 9/8 central on@bravotv! Ill most likely be drunk in the background pretending to play the harp, she wrote.

OConnell also shared a photo along with her harp. Sick harp soloFantastic#stagpartythrown by@pataltschul! she wrote.

When the Below Deck episode aired, OConnell posted a fun video too. This week should be amusing to say the least, she commented. The crew likely takes this group of guests back to the elephant sanctuary too as OConnell shared a few pictures with elephants in Thailand. Its been real, Thailand, she wrote along with one post.

Chef Kevin Dobsons nemesis chef guest, Justine Vastano owns Silver Spoon and has a website that features a slew of mouthwatering images. The private chef is based in Charleston and her Instagram is filled with just as many amazing shots of a few of her dishes.

Their friend Lauren Taylor was the guest who ended up having to bunk in the sky lounge after the primarys cousin Jamie refused to room with her. Rosbach wasnt pleased when he saw that Jamie would not share a room with Taylor. Rosbach had a few choice words for Jamie and tweeted about his statements. Yup, those were my words about Jaime and I stick by them. Taylor ended up getting Rosbachs quarters after he learned she was sleeping on the couch.

Primary charter guests Nicole Orsini and Zak Eagle work together in Charleston. The couple runs NOBA Services using applied behavior analysis to help clients. Orsini founded the practice and Eagle, who is an attorney, is a consultant.

This group of guests had a few food requests on their preference sheet, with one being no cheese. Simon was the guest who didnt want cheese on her pizza and joked about it on Instagram during the episode.

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