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New ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Trailer Asks Whether the Future Can Be Changed
This cannot come out soon enough.
Photo credit: Muhammed Muhelsin/AP
Caption: AP photojournalist Muhammed Muheisen continues to document the daily life of the poor and dispossessed in Pakistan with a compassionate and gentle eye. Here Afghan refugee children play on wooden carts on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Found at The Guardian.
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Volcanoes:
1-Chaiten in Chile
2-Chaiten in Chile
3-Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland
4-Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland
5-Chaiten in Chile
6-Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland
7-Puyehue in Santiago, Chile
8-Kilauea in Hawaii
9-Shinmoedake in Japan
10-Grottu in Balookathropak
Volcanic lightning is at once beautiful and utterly terrifying.
World Water Day 2014 on Instagram
For more photos and videos from World Water Day around the world, browse the #waterday and #worldwaterday hashtags.
Around the world, 1.2 billion people—nearly a fifth of the planet—lack access to clean water. To call attention to the plight, the United Nations designated March 22 as World Water Day. Here are just a few of the many people and organizations on Instagram working to raise awareness about water issues around the globe:
- water.org (@water) - Working with hundreds of communities in Africa, South Asia and Central America to provide access to safe water and sanitation. Collaborating with Benjamin Heath (@benjaminheath), Steph Goralnick (@sgoralnick) and Simone Bramante (@brahmino) to share scenes from Kenya on Instagram.
- Balazs Gardi (@balazsgardi) - Photojournalist who has spent the past decade documenting the effects of the unfolding global water crisis.
- charity: water (@charitywater) - A non-profit organization on a mission to bring clean and safe drinking water to every person on the planet. Currently working with Vik Muniz (@vikmuniz) and Students Rebuild (@studentsrebuild) to bring clean water to over 16,000 people in Tanzania.
- Corey Arnold (@arni_coraldo) - Photographer and fisherman documenting glaciers for Project Pressure (@projectpressure) to create the world’s first interactive glacier archive in order to better understand climate change.
- Hurley H2O (@hurley_h2o) - Hurley’s water initiative striving alongside Waves for Water (@wavesforwater) to provide clean water for everyone.
- WaterAid (@wateraid) - Bringing water, sanitation and hygiene education to where it is needed most for over 30 years.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium (@montereybayaquarium) - California aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the oceans.
Ten questions to ask a friend who just read your novel
Ten questions to ask a friend who just read your novel
Found this article. Found it incredibly helpful. Be sure to go read the full story, but these are the ten questions the author (Lydia Netzer) covers in it:
1. At what point did you feel like “Ah, now the story has really begun!”
2. What were the points where you found yourself skimming?
3. Which setting in the book was clearest to you as you were reading it? Which do you remember the best?
4. Which character would you most like to meet and get to know?
5. What was the most suspenseful moment in the book?
6. If you had to pick one character to get rid of, who would you axe?
7. Was there a situation in the novel that reminded you of something in your own life?
8. Where did you stop reading, the first time you cracked open the manuscript? (Can show you where your first dull part is, and help you fix your pacing.)
9. What was the last book you read, before this? And what did you think of it? (This can put their comments in context in surprising ways, when you find out what their general interests are. It might surprise you.)
10. Finish this sentence: “I kept reading because…”Some of this could be easily adapted into roleplay critiques, though it’s primary use is, of course, novel writing.
Here’s your first look at the cover of William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return by Ian Doescher.
I haven’t finished the first one, but I’ve loved it so far. And yes, I’ve even been reading some of it aloud, when no one’s around. The Empire Striketh Back should arrive soon, and this one’s already been pre-ordered.
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Just as I stepped out of my car to park a train came roaring by at full speed, I instinctually raised my camera to my face and snapped one shot just as it passed. Turns out the conductor was saying hello.
