Treasure hunts are now a main menu item. Probably static content.
Thesaurus Canada child site
Maybe it's the people who have money who make treasure hunts.
Getting a book published is hard. You put all that effort into getting your book conceived, written and perfected, then the publishers will almost certainly reject your book. Then you look at self publishing. You manage to get your mom and
dad to buy your book. How much did you pay to do the self publishing?
Treasure and Hunts
Treasure, ideas and themes for hunts.
Or maybe that should be kept secret.
A geographical theme for a hunt, compass symbol. Air miles for a prize?
How would you design a board game that is about one or more treasure hunts in Canada?
Cards for clues? Is British Columbia too far and unclear? What's the competition up to? Should you co-operate?
Possession
The hockey bench plan!
This maintains the original game, which is good, and also solves the A/B problem, but it comes at the expense of extra rules and an awkward board.
The playing board is the 7 x 5. But there are two extra rows, one at each end, with three cells containing three pawns. Like a hockey bench, pieces can cross over into the playing area. The play does not go from the playing area to the bench, so (the analogy breaks down here) no pieces can go from the playing area to the bench.
Physically there would be a stronger line between the bench and the playing board. I guess the board would have four cells missing rather than darkened.
There are some little extra rules related to one player having the crown at the start. One team, Team A, is chosen by the players to have the crown in the centre at the beginning of the game. So one piece from Team A goes in the centre. This piece is taken from the middle of the bench. We are trying to avoid a gap in the middle of Team A's area, which is bad for Team B who is already starting off on the wrong foot.
Still testing.
YouTube short
Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting into Board Games!
Foster The Meeple. Informative.
No means no. It's not complicated.
We'll get to his yos another time.
Canada will get as many as twelve new submarines.
To get your submarine fix, watch this.
You can watch "Inside Canada's Hunter-Killer Attack Submarine HMCS Corner Brook on Path to High Readiness | Go Bold" to find out what Canadian submarines do, achieve.
Canada does not have Poseidon aircraft - this is a rendering - but will get them right away. These don't get the attention that other military tools get.
Welcome on board a US NAVY P8 'POSEIDON' Patrol Aircraft
Boeing P-8 Poseidon: America's Most Advanced Submarine Hunter
Why Russia and China Fear $220 Million America's P-8 Poseidon Submarine Hunter
Does it have a magnetic anomaly detector? Some fancy physics there. The Earth's magnetic field slightly magnetises the metals on submarines, which alters the magnetic field around them. This is similar to how electric guitars work!
Is that a metal detector by another name?
Where should the focus of Canada's security be? For Poland the focus is Russia. For South Korea it's North Korea. For Australia it's basically China. Southern Europeans are concerned with migrants, the Middle East, plus Russia, while France also cares about Francophone Africa. The evolving United States has been concerned with everywhere, but they have had the resources, bodies, alliances, and will for that.
Canda has three oceans. How many nations have three oceans?
Canadian Army in Afghanistan.
Let's add some final material for Your Trump Era Film, then pull the plug. Again. This first term stuff is being overtaken by the second term.
I think television is a good candidate as a character to focus on. Picture some of these scenes in a film.
The founding myth of Trumpism is a fake
the escalator scene
I used to watch a lot of MSNBC, particularly Rachel Maddow. She did a good job of presenting how the two Americas lived in two different worlds in terms of perception. Television was very much part of that, with Fox News doing something other than journalism.
Mr. Trump, who has mental issues including narcissism, has a habit of making his own reality going back decades. The new government started on a weird note, as Press Secretary Sean Spicer testily insisted that the crowd size at the inauguration was misreported by journalists, even though the photographs shown on television showed smaller crowds. "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period." On the Meet The Press television show, Kellyanne Conway claimed Mr. Spicer was using "alternative facts".
At the time I was impressed by how it was all about information, and the spread and perception of information. The scandal. The Steele dossier. The other scandal. The Robert Mueller investigation. The thing revealed on the Rachel Maddow show. The latest crazy statement or policy. The inside scoop.
There was one dramatic shock or revelation after another - Bam! Bam! Bam! - which made it hard to focus. Rachel Maddow used to have a whole show planned out, only to toss it in the trash because of some news event that happened.
After getting an inheritance from his rich father, Mr. Trump, who had questionable business skills, experienced a series of bankruptcies, famously losing money running a casino. He got a job as a game show host on NBC The Apprentice Opening (there's Omarosa). This was a scripted reality television show. At the same time he got money doing sleazy deals with sleazy Russians. People in America (maybe not New York) got the impression that Mr. Trump was a successful businessman.
Omarosa and, briefly, Anthony Scaramucci wound up on the Big Brother reality television show.
Person, woman, man, camera, tv
meeting with Russian journalists in the White House
Here's something that didn't happen. After his quite bad bout with the covid virus, Mr. Trump planned to emerge from the hospital superman post covid
Good for television, good for Trump, and good for the audience.
Mr. Trump had a thing about "ratings" during his time as president. That was something he valued. He thought like a television producer. People on television joked that he should be given his own show playing president and make him think he is president. "We'll see what happens." Stay tuned for the next episode.
Mr. Trump spent much of his time as president watching television (and posting, eating hamburgers, and phoning). He watched Fox to make himself feel good, and other channels to get the news. He marvelled at how he could post something controversial on Twitter, then see it on the news. He was also a big leaker.
President Trump was superficial. He chose members of his administration based on seeing them on television. William Barr for example. Somebody might have a look from "central casting". John Bolton's mustache was questionable.
The White House was chaotic. Various people in the role of chief of staff could not control access to the president. When members of the administration wanted to get something communicated to the president, they would go on Fox News and communicate to President Trump - through the television!
Joe Scarborough used to regularly complain about Mr. Trump on his Morning Joe show. Mr. Trump watched this show. At one point Mr. Scarborough was going on about some scandalous Trump issue. He stopped, and took off his glasses. He talked to the camera about the issue, directly and explicitly talking to Mr. Trump himself.
Donald Trump did a great job of controlling the attention of the media, going back decades, which was no doubt good for his ego. He had a love/hate relationship with the media. Like any politician he didn't like the criticism and perspectives of the media, but he liked the attention. He also thought he was his best representative.
On January 6 January 6 happened. A mob, egged on by the president and others, attacked the Capitol. This iconic event was just one of a number of schemes to illegally keep Mr. Trump as president.
The mob attack happened live on television. The MSNBC people were frazzled. One could speculate about the reasons why. Joe Scarborough was swearing away. Ali Velshi, with a lot of work and little sleep,
was perilously close to saying something regrettable. He said he was ordered not to call the insurrection an insurrection.
