 went well yesterday! Sending well wishes and positive vibes your way for a speedy recovery for both you and your hubby. Take care! And thanks for checking in on my blog. I appreciate it!
Oh Tammy, you have no idea! I have been through the ringer and back. Just when I thought that I was going to get better even sooner, hubby went and tore the tendons in his knee and now he's no longer there to take care of me. I now have to get up and help him as well making my recovery time even longer. Thanks for the positive vibes. They are so appreciated and for stopping by as well.
Oh my goodness have you been through the ringer! I am so very sorry. I so hope you get to feeling better and running after your cutie girl very soon. Take care!
Thank you very much Jennifer. I am feeling a little better right now but still not out of the woods as yet. Thanks for stopping by and your kind words of encouragement.
I haven't been around much lately so I missed all the updates. I hope you're taking it easy and I wish you a speedy recovery. All the best to you and Madison. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery for hubby as well. Lots of love coming from us here in NY.
It's ok Tiffany. Life gets in the way but we are doing ok. Hubby is a lot more pain than I am but he's on the mend as well. Hope you're having a great weekend!While developing this intensive study of transmutation, Darwin became involved in more work. Still rewriting his Journal, he took on editing and publishing the expert reports on his collections, and with Henslow’s help obtained a Treasury grant of £1,000 to sponsor this multi-volume Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. He agreed to unrealistic dates for this and for a book on South American Geology supporting Lyell’s ideas. Darwin finished writing his Journal around 20 June 1837 just as Queen Victoria came to the throne.
Darwin’s health suffered from the pressure. On 20 September he had “an uncomfortable palpitation of the heart”, so his doctors urged him to reduce his work schedule and live in the country for a few weeks. After visiting Shrewsbury he joined his Wedgwood relatives at Maer Hall, Staffordshire. His charming, intelligent, and cultured cousin Emma Wedgwood, nine months older than Darwin, was nursing his invalid aunt. His uncle Jos pointed out an area of ground where cinders had disappeared under loam and suggested that this might have been the work of earthworms, inspiring “a new and important theory” on their role in soil formation which Darwin presented at the Geological Society on 1 November.
William Whewell asked Darwin to take on the duties of Secretary of the Geological Society. After initially declining the work, he accepted the post in March 1838. Darwin made remarkable progress on transmutation, taking every opportunity to question expert naturalists and, unconventionally, people with practical experience such as farmers and pigeon fanciers. Over time his research drew on information from his relatives and children, the family butler, neighbours, colonists and former shipmates. Seeing an orang-utan in the zoo on 28 March 1838 noted its child-like behaviour.
By June he was suffering with stomach problems, headaches and heart symptoms. For the rest of his life, he suffered of stomach pains, vomiting, severe boils, palpitations, trembling and other symptoms, particularly during times of stress such as attending meetings or making social visits. The cause of Darwin’s illness remained unknown, and attempts at treatment had little success.
Malthus asserted that unless human population is kept in check, it increases in a geometrical progression and soon exceeds food supply. Darwin saw that this also applied to de Candolle’s “warring of the species” of plants and the struggle for existence among wildlife, explaining how numbers of a species kept roughly stable. As species always breed beyond available resources, favourable variations would make organisms better at surviving and passing the variations on to their offspring, while unfavourable variations would be lost. This would result in the formation of new species. By mid December he saw a similarity between farmers picking the best breeding stock and a Malthusian Nature selecting from chance variants so that “every part of newly acquired structure is fully practical and perfected.
On 11 November, he returned to Maer and proposed to Emma. She accepted, and then in exchanges of loving letters she showed how she valued his openness in sharing their differences, also expressing her strong Unitarian beliefs. While he was house-hunting in London, bouts of illness continued and Emma wrote urging him to get some rest. He found what they called “Macaw Cottage” in Gower Street, and then moved his “museum” in over Christmas. On 24 January 1839 Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
This article has the objective of encouraging players to get to know Cube Pauper, which is an affordable Draft.
Hello friends! Today we'll talk about a format which may please players who enjoy Pauper and Limited, especially those who like Draft, and which may catch the eye even of those who don't play either of them, because it is a very fun and diverse format. Cube Draft is a limited format in which, generally, the best cards in Magic see play. Boosters are created from a pool of cards and the participants take turns choosing the cards, like a normal Draft. However, Cube allows for more freedom, as players may build their own Cube and, considering that, we can build a Cube using just common cards. And, of course, we can use Pauper Staples and also add cards which don't usually see competitive play. While building we have to be careful not to create an unbalanced Cube. The interesting thing is to add cards with synergy with one another and which may find answers within their own Cube. As it may be complicated to build a list from scratch, below you will find lists separated by color, artifacts, multicolored and lands, and these are updated lists, to make it easier for you. It's important to notice that when new cards are released, some may be replaced on these lists. *WHITE* [deck](55800) *BLUE* [deck](55801) *BLACK* [deck](55803) *RED* [deck](55804) *GREEN* [deck](55805) *COLORED* [deck](55806) *UNCOLORED* [deck](55807) *ARTIFACTS* [deck](55808) *LANDS* [deck](55809) [center]{Playing with the cube} You build the shuffled Cube previously and then separate 15 cards semi-randomly, trying to include at least one nonbasic land in each booster. Then, each participant receives 3 boosters (you don't need to seal them - just give them the 15 card pile), which represents 45 cards for each player. From there, it works like a normal Draft. Players take turn in choosing cards, passing their boosters and receiving new ones from the other players. A part of drafting is the strategy of trying not only to pick good cards for your deck, but also to think about which cards your opponents are choosing and how you may thwart their plans, like choosing a card which the next player would probably pick. When you are finished with these picks, you will have 45 available cards to build your deck. [center]{Building the decks} Many players already have their own deckbuilding techniques for limited play. However, if you need some tips to get started, here are they: 1. Look for removals, of any cost, because they will be essential when dealing with the opponent's threats. 2. Seek cards which offer card advantage, as drawing may make a difference during the endgame. 3. Try to build a deck on a mana curve. At least for the first turns, try to find creatures that cost 1 and 2 (at least 8 creatures on this combination). If that isn't possible, add another type of permanent on this curve, but one that is still useful to your game plan. 4. Have at least 2 bombs. Bombs are cards which may win the game quickly, or assist you in ending it. Generally, these are 4/4 or 5/5 creatures. 5. Use 16 or 17 lands in your deck. As it will contain 40 cards, you will have 23 or 24 slots left to develop your strategy. 6. The minimum limit of cards in a Limited Deck is 40. Try not to go over this limit, as more cards may make it harder for the right cards to be draw. 7. Choose two colors, if possible. You will hardly build a monocolored deck, so two colors may be the most viable option. You may even add a third color to use one or two valuable cards in your deck, but if you exaggerate, you may end up not being able to access the right mana colors when you need them. 8. Know the cards of the Cube. It may assist you to think about what you will be playing against and also assist you to plan your objectives during your draft picks. An important detail: All cards you have selected during the draft process and that weren't used in your main deck may be used as sideboard. [center]{Calculating mana/lands} There is a way to calculate the amount of lands of each color the player will need to use in his/her deck efficiently. For that, some steps need to be follow. Below each step, we'll give an example of a fictional deck we'll be building, with the intention