![]() ![]() Hobby Drama-worthy events might have ousted someone from the community, shaped perception of the hobby, altered the rules the hobby uses, divided the community, created a new faction, caused significant outrage, etc. ![]() Hobby Drama is an event which happened in a hobby that created meaningful controversy within the community involved. Join the official r/HobbyDrama discord here!įor the purposes of our subreddit, a hobby community is "a group of people who are connected by their active participation in a particular activity during their free time for personal enjoyment".Įxamples of hobbies include: cosplay, model rocketry, fanfiction, blogging, historical reenactment, gaming, fanart, participating in forums, gardening, cooking, playing sports, composing music, making memes, collecting, backpacking, knitting, reading, and many, many more. "The most interesting subreddit about things you're not interested in."Ī place where people can post dramatic and controversial stories, events and situations within their specific circles, usually consisting of events others may not have heard of. ![]()
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![]() This book is set in what is probably one of the coldest settings I've ever read. ![]() ![]() The world-building in this book is fascinating, the characters are incredibly well-drawn and well-developed, and the plot itself is compelling, with both simple and complex elements that kept me hooked. I don't really understand why I don't see this book recommended more often or why it took so long for me to find it, but I am so glad I finally did. By the time I finished, I knew that undoubtedly it was becoming one of my new favorite fantasy books.Ī Cavern of Black Ice and JV Jones are, in my humble opinion, incredibly underrated. I was only maybe one-two hundred pages in-there are over seven hundred-when I realized that this book was more than likely going to end up as a favorite. This book was first published in 1999, so it's very backlist, and Jones is also apparently currently working on the fifth book of this series after many years, so that's a plus for starting the series now. ![]() A Cavern of Black Ice was one (of many) that caught my eye, and since I enjoy catching up on backlist titles I thought I'd give it a go. A few weeks ago I was reading through some recommendations of some dark fantasy novels written by female authors. ![]() ![]() Although tempted to run by the village boy she loves, Sloane knows that her fate is at Avalon, where they train child soldiers for their army to serve as fodder against the shadow rebels fighting against the Scion and Yoruba genocide. Trying to escape her fate in the military would mean death not only for her, but for all the people she cares about. As the next day dawns her 15th birthday, she becomes eligible for the military draft - and when some boys try to flee theirs, she is one of the names chosen to become a child soldier for the Lucis. If anyone knows of her powers, it could mean death for her and her family. She is a Scion, a descendant of the Yoruba people gifted with magic from the Orisha, and currently hunted by the Lucis. She escapes when her magic fends him off for her, and she returns to her village. Sloane is nearly 15 years of age when she is assaulted by a soldier while she searches for her mother's body. ![]() ![]() BLOOD SCION is a riveting and atmospheric YA dark fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Regional gatherings, face to face events, and one kindred hosting another visiting kindred are the best ways to get to know one another and form bonds. But its a poor way to form bonds and actually get to know people as they truly are. So, how and why is this done?Īs in all relationships and connections, the internet is not real. These friendships between kindreds and tribes, establishes a level of Grith.where these kindreds and tribes gather regularly, work together, learn together, and strengthen each other through their collaboration. The next level of building our Folkway, is for kindreds and tribes in a region to gather together, get to know one another, and begin building bonds between them. I refer to kindreds and tribes as the basic building block, because they create the foundation of our Folkway. They have each other's backs, their kids play together, and as committed groups they can accomplish more and withstand more, than solitary heathens. ![]() These Frithful groups of families, gather regularly, work together, learn together, and build collective Luck through their efforts. Forming strong, stable, and committed kindreds and tribes is the first building block of advancing our Folkway forward. ![]() ![]() These new friends have the most common friends with that person but are not his/her friends. Suggesting some, for example 10, new friends to a person using Spark. This algorithm is explained in 1 in detail. At the end, evey node should know its neighbor in the tree. ![]() In this algorithm, nodes talk to each other to find a minimum spanning tree between themeselves. 2 Gallager-Humblet-Spira (GHS) Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm Nodes in a a given topology exchange messages in an asynchronous manner until they come to a consensus on their valuse. ![]() ![]() Bellman-Ford Shortest Path Algorithmĭesired topology is fed into the code with a predefined format, then message passing starts so that finally a specified node, that does not have a central view of the network, knows the shortest path to evey other nodes. ![]() IDs and link delays are passed to the nodes in a circular topology in clockwise order, then they start to exchange required messages until a leader is founded with the help of LCR algorithm explained in Distributed Algorithms by Nancy A. Implementation LCR leader election, Bellman-Ford shortest path, Paxos consensus algorithm, and GHS minimum spanning tree algorithms using socket programming as well as distributed computation of a page rank and a friend suggestion method using Spark. These assignments were part of my undergrad coursework at Sharif UT. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the span of 20 years, Cross has distinguished himself as the premier journalist on the life, death, and legacy of Kurt Cobain, from his essential biography, 2002’s Heavier Than Heaven, to this year’s Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain. ![]() Cross had a front seat for the surreal aftermath of Kurt’s death and the emotion it left in its wake, perhaps best summed up with the Seattle memorial for Kurt that ended with Courtney reading his suicide note aloud to an audience of thousands, leading them in a chant of “Asshole!” Cross was in his office at the Seattle magazine The Rocket, “trying to figure out why Courtney Love kept putting off the interview she had promised us that week.” Later, he found out that Courtney was searching for Kurt, who had disappeared from rehab.Ī phone call from a local radio station was the tip-off that Kurt was dead, and Cross’ magazine had to stop the presses to pull Love off the cover, replacing her with Cobain. When Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 8, 1994, music journalist Charles R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However the story begins back in the 1940’s when the civil rights of the “black” people were non-existent, however, the effects are haunting the lives of people to this day, in both health, environment and financially. The location? Northwest Atlanta, Georgia, about five miles from downtown Atlanta. Jerry Brow is the author of this shocking book which details the terrible disregard for public health and safety throughout decades which the State of Georgia and the City of Atlanta, have sanctioned just to satisfy their greed and to solve a problem quickly and with total disregard for environmental and public health. As the saying goes, they had “Bitten off more than they could chew” when they forced Jerry Brow to accept their compulsory purchase of four investment properties he owned, located near the dumpsite, now known as Baby Gun Club Landfill. ![]() I wonder how many of the people who have worked and are still working for the City of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia have this thought during recent times. Shocking revelations of neglect and disregard of public health and safety in the State of Atlanta. ![]() ![]() He has been given a rickety, ramshackle pathetic excuse of a shack by a wartime friend. Ernt, the father, a former POW back from Vietnam and suffering from what is now known as PTSD, is hell-bent to escape the civilized world. The only child of the Allbright family, 13-year-old daughter Leni, goes with her parents from Seattle to the most remote country of backwoods Alaska in the ‘70s. But in her latest, “The Great Alone,” she takes you miles away to our 49th state, immersing the reader in the grandiosity, splendor, dangers and difficulties of the four seasons of Alaska, giving each one a personality, as they become characters in this saga. ![]() Her best-selling books, including “The Nightingale,” “Firefly Lane” and “Winter Garden,” attest to that. ![]() ![]() When you read a book by Kristin Hannah, you can expect excellent character development and lush descriptions of scenery. ![]() ![]() His mother Sifa is an oracle, someone who can see the future. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in Carve the Mark?Īkos Kereseth lives in a universe with nine-nation planets. Ryzek – Ruler of the Shotet, gift is the ability to trade memories with people, fated to fall to the family B Ori Benesit – Eijeh’s childhood best friend and twin sister to IsaeĬyra Noavek – Sister of the ruler of the Shotet, gift is that current shadows live on her skin, fated to someday cross the divide Sifa – Akos’ mom, the oracle of their planetĮijeh – Akos’ brother, fated to be the next oracleĬisi – Akos’ sister, gift is that she can calm people ![]() If you are wondering what happened in Carve the Mark, then you are in the right place!Īkos Kereseth – Boy in Shotet captivity, gift is that he can disrupt the current, fated to die serving the family Noavek ![]() ![]() If you are looking for a spoiler-free review, check our rapid review of Carve the Mark. Read a full summary of Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth now! This page is full of spoilers so beware. ![]() ![]() Beyond the fortunate women of the privileged classes who participated in think tanks, ran charity organizations, wrote novels and plays, and even occupied a handful of token positions in General Musharraf’s cabinet, were those who suffered the daily horrors of domestic abuse, gang rape and murder at the hands of small-minded men professing their love of Allah and their devotion to the Muslim faith. Pakistan was a hypocritical tangle of class divisions, and nowhere was that more evident than in the role of women. ![]() Their plight was one of subcontinental Islam’s dirty little secrets, and it turned the stomach of the man sitting in the stolen Toyota Corolla outside the tomb of Muhammad Iqbal, poet and ideological godfather of modern Pakistan.Ī devout Muslim, the man was humiliated to see how the promise of Muslim brotherhood had been denied the Punjabis. Smaller and darker-skinned than the rest of Lahore’s populace, the most fortunate among them were doomed to lives of mind-numbing menial labor, while the balance found themselves sucked up into the ranks of street urchins, beggars, and homeless. Filth, squalor, and despair were daily accompaniments to the lives of Pakistan’s lowest of citizens-the poverty-stricken Punjabi Muslims. ![]() ![]() The narrow streets of the old city contained one of the worst slums in the world. ![]() |