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Token Druid players get a new option for theirFrozen Throne decks withCrypt Lord, a Druid common minion. This card has a symbiotic relationship with the numerous minions a Token Druid player summons and buffs, protecting them withTaunt while each summoned minion adds health back to Crypt Lord.

This card can replaceTar Creeper in Token Druid decks.It has stronger synergy with the low-mana minions that players put on the boardwith the healing factor, while Tar Creeper's plus-two attack during the enemy turn is self-contained.The downside is that Crypt Lord's return attacks kill fewer minions than Tar Creeper.

The new Druid Legendary Hadronoxhas a late-game synergy with Crypt Lord. Playing Crypt Lord on one turn, then Hadronox the next, can summon back enough minions to give Crypt Lord a significant health boost, especially for Beast Druid players. If other Taunt minions with greater health are on the board, they canconvince opponents to go after them, leaving Crypt Lord to stay on the board and get healing for several turns.

Another synergy exists with Spreading Plague, which summons a one-attack/five-healthScarab with Taunt, and repeats until the player has as many minions as their opponent. If the opponent on turn eight has more minions, the player can drop Crypt Lord then Spreading Plague to create a wall of Taunt minions. The one attack base stat for this wall means they won't kill anything but the weakest minions that hit them, but they will protect a Druid's non-Taunt cards.

Crypt Lord may see use with theLiving Manaspell. On turn 10 or later, this floods the board with 10 two-attack/two-health Mana Treants while protecting them with an at least 16-health Crypt Lord. This is going all in with a flood of minions in a late-game scenario. The risk at any time is that the Taunt prevents the Mana Treants from dying and returning the mana crystals to the player.However it's used, the synergy discouragesthe opponent from using AoE spellsto return those empty mana crystals.

Players are sure to find other synergies, as any card that summons extra minions helps Crypt Lord give Token Druid players more control of the board. The common rarity means that Druids opening packs should earn this card from packs quickly, giving them plenty of reason to experiment whenKnights of the Frozen Throne hitsHearthstone in August.

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Whether you are a music festival organiser or punter there is an inherent risk with such events in the UK in that you are always at the mercy of the weather gods.

And so it was for Leopallooza which was beset by rain which managed to washout the BBC Introducing stage on Friday but hardly hampered the rest of the event.

Festival revellers are hardy souls and a bit of rain and mud wasn't going to spoil their fun at the self-styled "greatest house party in a field".

The joy of Leopallooza is that it really does feel like a party with your mates that everyone has been invited to there is a relaxed and friendly feel to everything.

It also operates on a small scale which means it has kept its unique charm it is probably the best atmosphere I have ever experienced at a festival.

The other great thing about Leo is that it is the perfect place to discover new music I had hardly heard any of the bands and artists on the line-up but it didn't matter, armed with a programme and an open mind I was ready to go on a new music discovery.

So I was introduced to the likes of The Modern Strangers, Flamingods and The Japanese House who all entertained me on Friday evening and will definitely be ones that I will be searching for online.

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Main stage headliners The Cribs are more used to playing on much bigger stages so it was a joy to see them giving them all to the slightly damp masses at Leopallooza and they didn't disappoint with their brash and energetic indie rock.

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I wasn't quite done after that so I took a quick detour to the Mono tent where Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind were playing a blistering set which was an ideal way to end a Friday night.

Saturday morning brought clear skies and the day's entertainment was kicked off by The Rezner on the BBC Introducing stage with their vibrant indie sounds a perfect starter for the day.

The main stage was launched by Dusk At Dawns who managed to get bleary-eyed campers dancing around to their stomping country blues rock. Interesting takes on Jay Z and the Bee Gees made for an entertaining set.

Leopallooza's set-up means you can find a spot in the main arena and watch a continuous stream of music between the main and second stages with nary a turn of the head.

And so we did for Ruarri Joseph and his William The Conqueror band who delighted with a set showcasing their latest record.

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The Tuesday Syndicate were fine but a bit bland while Blue House were just odd. Keston Cobblers Club got us back on track and, being a big fan already, it was a joy to see them in Cornwall.

Throwing in tracks from their back catalogue alongside those from their recent Almost Home record mixed up with dance routines they brought a smile to everyone's faces in the rain.

Maximo Park are always good value as a live act and they proved their worth through the relentless rain with Paul Smith surely one of the best frontmen around.

I accepted defeat on Saturday night the rain was too much and, as much as I love Leopallooza, my bed was calling my weather-beaten body.

Thanks Leo, it was a blast, we'll be back next year.

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There's always one in every Hearthstone set. A card so ridiculous that the community freaks out at first sight and starts theorycrafting decks for it. In past expansions the likes of Emperor Thaurissan and Reno Jackson filled the role of one-card marketing campaign, while Yogg-Saron also ticked many of the same boxes, going on to become perhaps the ultimate meme cardwe just didn't realise how powerful it was at first.

All your decks are belong to us.

Now we likely know what "that card" is going to be for Knights of the Frozen Throne. The expansion is due out next month and Blizzard is currently in card spoiler mode. Last night it revealed a Priest Legendary called Archbishop Benedictus which is absolutely bonkers. The text reads: "Battlecry: Shuffle a copy of your opponent's deck into your deck." That's right, when you play Benedictus your opponent's entire remaining deck gets added to your own in a random order.

Great. The most kleptomaniacal of all Hearthstone's classes can now steal every single card in your deck at once. Given that control Priest decks often look to drag games out interminably long, it means you're almost never going to run out of cards before your opponent doesunless they're playing Jade Druid, in which case you can both "go infinite" with Jade Idol.

The reaction from streamers, pros and the wider community has been a mixture of excitement and bewilderment. Here's what Jason "Amaz" Chan, long considered one of the most prominent Priest players in Hearthstone, had to say last night: "At the airport coming back home, and then open Twitter to find this. Oh. No." And here's the verdict from 2016 European Spring Champion Thijs "Thijs" Molendijk:

Meanwhile, the thread on r/hearthstone dedicated to the card has cruised past 1,800 comments, the second most popular of which reads: "They've gone mad". Over on r/CompetitiveHS, where more sober heads reign, the general sentiment was that the card sounds like incredible fun but is almost certainly bad in terms of high-ranked play. There were some dissenters, though, such as user BlueTigerOrpheus, who admonished the buzz killers:

"I'm utterly flabbergasted by and disappointed with the lack of imagination in this thread, to be frank. Benedictus is a clear value-oriented legendary, meant to be dropped roughly a bit after halfway through the game. It enables Priest to run a heavier draw engine, grab a mix of the opponent's threats AND removal from any deck that's mid-range or slower and perhaps similar to Entomb and Elise gain the ability to forego running a multitude of top-end at all in favor of anti-aggro tech. Benedictus IS the Greed You Need."

I don't think it's ever going to actually be good outside of a metagame full of matchups that are regularly decided by fatigue.Brian Kibler

Bold words, and with an effect this unusual, it's tricky to evaluate the power level accurately. I decided to askBrian Kibler, popular Hearthstone streamer and no stranger to greedy Priest decks, what he thought. "Archbishop Benedictus is one of the weirdest and craziest cards we've ever seen in Hearthstone, but I don't think it's ever going to actually be good outside of a metagame full of matchups that are regularly decided by fatigue," Kibler told me. "That won't stop me from playing with it for some hilarious moments, though."

Implicit in Kibler's evaluation is the unlikelihood of a fatigue-based meta ever developing. Fatigue happens when you run out of cards and begin taking exponentially more damage on each subsequent turn, but Blizzard is on record as saying it prefers a shorter average game length than matches which go to fatigue. Hearthstone's core mechanics have also meant that tempo-based aggressive decks are always strong, and there's no reason to think that won't be the case with Knights of the Frozen Throne.

What plenty of players also fail to realize is that in a card deck more does not necessarily mean better. In fact, given the choice you would usually benefit from running a smaller deck, because the logic is that you would remove whatever your weakest cards are (some will always be worse than others), and therefore draw your best, and most synergistic, cards more reliably. Which also begs the question, what kind of Priest deck wants to dilute its potential draws with all the stuff your opponent is playing. If you're up against a greedy control Mage then pulling his Alexstraza or Ice Block might be sweet, but against a Token Shaman do you ever want to be top decking Flame Elementals?

So no, my gut feeling is that Archbishop Benedictus is not a good card. In terms of winning games, it's probably a spectacularly bad one. But it's also the kind of effect that those of us who love Hearthstone will get a rush from seeing happen, especially on those occasions when it ends up giving the Priest player a hilariously lucky series of stolen cards. Will it make the cut in our best legendaries list? Almost certainly not. But praising Yogg is so 2016. This year the memers will be praying to Benedictus.

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You wouldnt think it by looking at his face or watching his show, where he constantly laughs at mild stuff he thinks is too inappropriate at PG-13, but Jimmy Fallon is close to 43 years old. The host of The Tonight Show has always kept a youthful heart, wearing it on his sleeve especially when it comes to gaming. He has been at the forefront of mainstream acceptance of gaming and has even worked major gaming device reveals into his show.

Instead of playingMario Kart 8 with NASCAR drivers or debuting the PS4 with Ice Cube,Jimmy Fallon has taken to his shows YouTube channel to debut some mobile gaming content; going through hisClash Royale account to show off his decks. In this video, Fallon shows us what makes up his ultimate 2v2 deck, showing more genuine commentary and enthusiasm than he does interviewing guests on his talk show.

His main deck contains a Level 6 Poison, Level 8 Muskateer, Level 8 Giant, Level 5 Witch, Level 10 Minions, Level 11 Zap, Level 5 Prince and Level 5 Baby Dragon. You could almost say the most valuableClash Royale card Jimmy Fallon has is his credit card, as he also demonstrates all the investments hes made in cards he doesnt even use anymore, such as Goblin, Ice Golem and others.

To be fair, even though he has likely thrown a lot more money intoClash Royale than I have, Jimmy Fallon certainly knows how to play the game. He demonstrates it with a 2v2 match with a random against a random team, knowing when to take out towers, knowing what damaging spells to use and how to get the drop on opponents with his late-game Giant.

Its funny to think that Jimmy Fallon might have a better personality as a gaming enthusiast than anything else right now, as he shows the right amount of cynical sarcasm and game awareness to separate himself from the rest of the YouTube gaming pack. At least hell always have a fallback!

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Home Canning Tips From the Food Safety Blog A government blog recently published a number of tips for people interested in home canning this summer's produce. The blog lists vegetables with a low acid pHs that are not acidic enough to prevent the growth of botulinum bacteria. Some vegetables in this category include asparagus, green beans, [...]

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Military Research Homes In On Vision and Hearing LossAccording to the website Armed with Science, a Defense Department science information site, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, recently awarded five research grants to develop a high-resolution neural interface as well as to develop systems supporting sensory restoration. Sounds like Star Trek medicine to me. Brown and Columbia Universities as well as the University of California, Berkeley and two additional research facilities will focus on hearing and vision by linking these body functions with the brain to treat sensory loss. To learn more about this fascinating research project, surf over to http://science.dodlive.mil/2017/07/24/darpa-launches-program-that-could-one-day-treat-vision-hearing-loss/. The Pentagon supports this research as part of the Pentagon defense budget appropriation. Your federal taxes at work.

New Research Finds Rising and Shrinking Income Cities The website Wall St 24/7 recently published a list of 10 cities where personal incomes are shrinking the fastest. While some areas of the country are booming, cities such as Peoria, Ill. and New Bern, N. C. are now experiencing dropping personal incomes. The article mentions a number of causes for the decline. Drops in construction, as well as government payroll cutbacks, caused an average income drop of $1,000 in New Bern, N.C. The report also lists 10 cities where rising incomes are the norm. Merced, Calif., for example, experienced an income growth of 14.3 percent from 2008 to 2013. To learn more about income levels in these 20 cities, click on http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/07/14/10-cities-where-incomes-are-growing-and-shrinking-the-fastest/2/.

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A New Book Tells The Story of The Library Card CatalogA Library of Congress employee recently published a book on the history of the card catalog. According to author Peter Devereaux, the card catalog proved to be one of the most versatile and durable technologies in history. Devereaux relates the story of S. N. Cramer, a Sumerian historian who found a piece of a cuniform tablet about 2 inches by 1 inches that served as a clay library index card. Cramer found the tablet near the ruins of Nippur and dated the tablet to 2000 BCE. For those contemporary students used to looking up references on a library computer, this book provides a picture of how earlier societies organized information. To read the interview, click on http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/07/inquiring-minds-the-unheralded-story-of-the-card-catalog/. And so it goes.

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By Julia Halsey

After a five-year period of restoration, East Hamptons first artists studio is open once again.

The charming cottage called Moran Studio, built by painter Thomas Moran in 1884, is not only a local landmark, but a nationally designated one as well. While it served as workshop for Moran and his wife, Mary Nimmo Moran, the studio was also a family home with a flourishing garden.

The home was occupied by the Moran family until Thomass death in 1926. It was privately owned until 2004, when it was given to Guild Hall, the theater and museum in East Hampton Village. Then in 2008, the Moran Studio was given to the Thomas Moran Trust Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the studio, to undertake the restoration of the building, which began in 2012 and is set to be complete next June.

Five years after beginning the project, plaster is now being put up on the studio walls, something that Moran Trust Fund Executive Director Jill Malusky said people have been dreaming about. The studio will be open to the public for the first time in several years at the Moran Trusts gala on Saturday, August 5, when all proceeds will aid the final stage of restoration.

To be in the final phase is meaningful, Ms. Malusky said. For people who are aware that Thomas had a studioeven when the studio was in private handsthey always had an interest in it because they knew how important Moran was as an artist, and the fact that he lived in East Hampton was very special.

The restoration will bring the home back to how it appeared in the 1800s and debut a 19th century gardeninspired by Mary Nimmo Morancreated by the Garden Club of East Hampton.

The Moran Trust raised the necessary funds through annual benefits and appeals and received help from individuals interested in art who are passionate about the studio.

On their journey, the members of the restoration team found more than they bargained for. Just a couple of weeks ago, they came across a giant piece of well-preserved fabric wallpaper that Moran had put up himself.

Ms. Malusky and the Moran Trust also witnessed first hand how much Moran loved to salvage items throughout his home. For years, there was a wooden panel above the fireplace that was missing, explained Ms. Malusky. As it turned out, Moran had taken that panel and used it as a door. The missing piece was right there all along, she said.

Once the studio is complete, the Moran Trust is planning on working with the National Park Service to display an art exhibition including Morans paintings of Yellowstone Park, which helped push the site toward becoming a national park. The trust is also set on using the building as a museum and educational arts center, which will feature classes, workshops, tours and lectures.

The Thomas Moran Trust Party will be held on Saturday, August 5, from 6 to 8 p.m., and will feature the unveiling of the Mary Nimmo Moran-inspired garden. Tickets start at $150. Free walking tours of the studio will be held on Friday, August 11, Friday, August 18, and Sunday, August 27. For tickets and more information, call 631-324-0100 or visit thomasmorantrust.org.

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A historic home in Ste. Genevieve will be restored over the next year after a local congregation succeeded in raising over $200,000 toward that goal.

The house was originally constructed by French Canadian silversmith Antoine Oneille around 1820, according to Chairman of the Oneille Task Committee for Restoration Becky Millinger.

It is an Anglo-American style home, which is different than some of the historic houses in Ste. Genevieve because it was moving away from the French style to a more American style, Millinger said.

She said Oneille is recognized as one of the top silversmiths of the early 1800s, with many of his pieces remaining today.

He was a silversmith who came down through the French corridor from Quebec to Detroit, then into Vincennes (Indiana) then here in Ste. Genevieve, she said. He died here and his buried in the Ste. Genevieve Memorial Cemetery.

After Oneilles death, the house was lived in by many others down through the years. The house weathered two floods and one fire in 1982, which resulted in the top floor being removed and replaced, giving the home the appearance of a more French Creole style.

The owner of the home sold it to Ste. Genevieve First Presbyterian Church in 2006. Millinger said the church has had plans since that time to renovate the building for church use, and were approached by an organization called the Jeffris Family Foundation about working together to restore the building.

Its an organization in Wisconsion that contacted us in 2013 and said, Can we help you restore that building? said Millinger. I dont know how they found out about us.

The foundation supports restoration projects across the Midwest, often with Capital Campaign Challenge Grants as was offered for the Oneille House.

They paid for half of the structures report, and then invited us to write a grant for the capital campaign, which we started June 30, 2014 Millinger said. It went until June 30 of this year, so we just finished. We were tasked with raising $200,000 to receive $100,000. We accomplished that, and its all been verified by the foundation. Now we are able to proceedright now were in the process of collecting bids from contractors for the restoration of the house.

Millinger said the past three years have seen many fundraising projects and initiatives, with support from local and national organizations.

We began with asking for contributions from people in the Presbyterian congregation, Millinger said. But weve also done fundraisers.

One of the sources of funds for the project is a book written by Millinger, compiling photos of all the known silverwork of Oneille. A local silversmith named Jill Kenik also designed and produced jewelry inspired by Oneilles work, which was sold for the benefit of the project.

We also had a sign a shingle campaign, where people could sign one of the cedar shake shingles that will be installed on the house during the restoration, Millinger said. So their names will be there for however long that lastsmaybe thirty or forty years.

The project has also been supported by contributions from the Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve, the French Heritage Society, as well as other organizational and private contributions.

Millinger hopes the restoration work will begin in September, with the project taking around a year if everything goes smoothly. Two major original portions of the house will remain after the restoration: the exterior chimney and some beaded beam joists.

The work on the buildings exterior will be overseen by the Heritage Commission of Ste. Genevieve. Millinger said the house is unique because it is the only historic structure in Ste. Genevieve constructed by an artist.

When the home is restored it will only be open to the public during certain event days throughout the year, though a gala will be held when the work is first completed.

For more information, or to keep up with the restoration projects progress, visit The Silversmith's House Restoration Project on Facebook.

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PHOENIX Arizonas Verde Valley will soon enjoy a little time in the television limelight as the focus of a historic home restoration show.

The Camp Verde Bugle reported that Boomtown Builders, hosted by Jerome resident Tim McClellan, would film 13 episodes in the area pending the success of Tuesdays pilot episode on the DIY Network.

The show is about resurrecting historic homes in American boomtowns: Towns that quickly boomed in population from a flurry of mining, then busted when the resources went dry, and are now booming once more, he told the newspaper.

The pilot episode was scheduled to air Tuesday at 5p.m. In it, McClellan will help Jeromes chief of police renovate his 1912 home while keeping itshistorical bonesintact.

The pilot was filmed in the spring.

McClellan earned the hosting gig after winning Ellen DeGeneres show, Ellens Design Challenge, in 2015.

However, the judges ruled McClellans winning design was a copy of another piece of furniture. McClellan denied the accusation andDeGeneres later told him she didnt believe he intentionally copied the design.

In addition to his television appearances, McClellan owns Western Heritage Furniture and was the co-founder of Verde Biofuel, a company that specialized in creating mobile biodiesel processors.

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The first ever successful captive holding program for Palauan Megapodes has concluded with a release of the birds to their home, Ngeanges Island. The success of the captive holding program is a major milestone for the restoration of the ecosystem on Ngeanges, and paves the way for future restoration work in Palaus stunning Rock Island Southern Lagoon.

The story began in May 2016 when we collaborated with the Koror State Department of Conservation and initiated the Ngeanges rodent eradication project. To safely carry out operations, we needed to house the islands sensitive native megapodes. To this end a planning committee was formed including Island Conservation, Palau Conservation Society, the Balau National Museum, and the Palau International Coral Reef Center. The group designed and built aviaries on a nearby island with careful consideration to create a habitat these birds would feel comfortable in. The Conservation Officers worked days and nights to capture megapodes from Ngeanges; they used a variety of different methods to safely trap the birds. Once they were transported across the lagoon on boat and placed in their aviaries, the birds were monitored and fed by the Koror State Rangers who worked around the clock to ensure the preservation of the Rock Islands.

During post-implementation monitoring, and on subsequent visits by our partners in Palau, the Department of Conservation and the Belau National Museum observed an apparent increase in the activity of megapodes on Ngeanges. There was no shortage of megapode sightings, and observers noted what they perceived to be more abundant signs of megapodes scratching through leaf litter and nest mound building activity. Although it is still too soon to confirm the long term success of the rat removal, these sightings could very well be due to the lack of competition from the invasive rats that abounded on the island only months before

There was no shortage of megapode sightings, and observers noted what they perceived to be more abundant signs of megapodes scratching through leaf litter and nest mound building activity.

Megapodes are fascinating birds; the subspecies we are working with is endemic to Palau and listed as Endangered. The name is descriptive of the massive size of their feet and legs in comparison to the size of their body. They use their powerful feet to build giant nest mounds on the forest floor by kicking soil and leaf litter into a pile that sometimes exceeds six feet in height!

The females lay and bury their eggs in a hole that they dig into the center of the mound. The egg is then incubated by the heat produced by the microbial decomposition of the leaf litter. When the chicks hatch, they dig their way out of the mound and are on their own to fend for themselves. They must forage for food alone and one day build nest mounds of their own.

Megapodes share their island home with a variety of wildlife; the forest is flush with songbirds, Palau Fruit-doves, terns, fruit bats, Emerald Tree Skinks, and the occasional nesting sea turtle.This project marks a huge success for Island Conservation and our work in Palau in both restoration and capacity-building.

This project marks a huge success for Island Conservation and with our partners in Palau in both restoration and capacity-building.

We are excited to keep the momentum going and we are already making progress towards planning a rat eradication on the main island of Kayangel Atoll in the North of Palau.

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