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INVICTA GAMES, LTD.
Packaging Team — Official Minutes
Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation

MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice President): Okay. Gary’s got a new cover comp. Gary, walk us through your vision.

GARY LARKIN (Design Lead): Right. Here it is. Black void. Two adults. No board. No pegs.

PAM REYNOLDS (Product Development): Where are the children?

LARKIN: Exactly. Also, who cares?

REYNOLDS: You know this game is eight-plus, right?

How should the progressive left respond to the experiment of Kurdish-led revolutionary Rojava in north-east Syria with its commitment to direct democracy, ecological sustainability, women’s rights and multi-ethnic inclusivity? It is a question that is bound to have plagued anyone who has visited Rojava, for whatever length of time, and come away humbled and impressed […]

Working in the hospitality industry this summer was an interesting experience. Like bartenders the world over, I readied myself for the seasonal rush, made jokes about this with my colleagues, and looked forward to the inevitable increase in pay that would come with more hours of work. But the high season never came. A heady […]

“A federal vaccine committee took a major step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of remaking the childhood vaccine schedule, voting to end a decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that can cause severe liver damage.”
— The New York Times

Hi, it’s me, Bobby Kennedy Jr., a man who sounds incredibly unvaccinated. Please, don’t get up. I just took an ice bath in your trash can out back. Not with the garbage, of course. I emptied the garbage back into your pantry—you can and should eat garbage, it helps strengthen your immune system. I found a doctor in Tucson who proved it before he disappeared. Anyway, I just came by to tell you: I hate your kids—I mean, vaccines—and I, um, want them all gone. Yeah, I want vaccines gone.

How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity

- by Aeon Video

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Gen. Ken Wilsbach promotes nuclear “recapitalization” in his first memo to the Air Force — fueling fear of a radical shift away from nukes acting solely as deterrence.

The post New Air Force Chief Boosts Nuclear Buildup, Moving Away From Deterrence, Experts Warn appeared first on The Intercept.

Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity

- by Tommy Blanchard

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‘Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system designed to police women

- by Sherry Chan

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Peekaboo Bosh is the third novella by the prolific author and publisher John King. The book develops many of the themes surrounding animal and human rights and moral philosophy previously explored in his 2018 novel, Slaughterhouse Prayer; it also marks a welcome return to the fray of animal-rights activist Mickey Moo, who first appears in […]

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