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The popular card game Cards Against Humanity is now hitting the table for family game night with its new Family Edition. Originally planned for reveal on store shelves this coming fall 2020, the company now offers the game for free on its website. This move comes in light of social distancing keeping families at home during the past few weeks, and it’s sure to bring some family-appropriate fun to your household unlike any version of Cards Against Humanity that’s come before.
This new Family Edition is intended for both kids and adults, and suitable for ages eight and up.
Cards Against Humanity is well-known for being a ridiculous card game for adults, but the latest Family Version is suitable for kids too, ages eight and up. Check out the official Cards Against Humanity site now for a free PDF download of the game.
Head to the Cards Against Humanity site now to download and print the free version of Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition. You don’t have to give any information, though there is a field which lets you enter your email address so the company can contact you once the retail version is released. Once that’s finished, you’ll be prompted to download a PDF of the game. There are two, one with small cards and another with large cards, including ‘Low Ink’ options so you can adjust how much paper and ink you’ll be needing for the print out.
It’d be wise to grab some card stock at Walmart or another retailer so your cards will be thick and hold up to all the games your family will be playing. You might also want to grab a pair of scissors if you don’t have some handy at home already. Walmart offers free shipping on orders totaling $35 or more, or you can select free in-store pickup to skip the shipping charge.
The original Cards Against Humanity is available as a free PDF download too. Just be sure you don’t get the original set mixed up with your kid-friendly edition, or you might have some explaining to do. Retail versions of the original Cards Against Humanity as well as various add-on packs are available at Walmart as well.
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With the end of the school year quickly approaching and no foreseeable end to the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook has teamed up with Oprah Winfrey to host a special online graduation ceremony for high schools and college students throughout the United States.
Students who desire to host a personal graduation celebration can do so utilizing Facebook. They’ll be a virtual graduation center, as well as custom-made filters to assist make things a bit more exciting than the usual video call.
This is the third installation in a continuing task in which WIRED’s image editors speak to photographers about their experiences throughout Covid-19 self-isolation. The following interview has actually been modified for clearness.
Ever since Durham provided its shelter-in-place order on March 26, Sunday service in the North Carolina city hasn’t been the same. For photographer Kennedi Carter’s household, along with many others, this meant that Easter was invested in their living-room, with the sofa as the seat and the television as the pulpit.
” Towards the end of sermons, the congregation would normally get so hyped,” states Madison Cater, Kennedi’s sister. “People would start shouting and getting up and running around. That energy just isn’t there anymore.”
Generally, her Easter Sundays are filled with the aromatic mix of cinnamon rolls and the chicken that was being gotten ready for dinner later in the evening. In the past, her mother, Felicia, would twist her hair and decorate completions with barrettes, a hairstyle that needed, at the minimum, a moderate amount of hair grease. Madison would repeatedly rest her head on her mother’s lap during the middle of the service, and later on realize she ‘d left a massive oil stain on her gown and pretend it wasn’t there. “She ‘d feel some sort of method however I constantly believed it was amusing,” she says.
This previous Easter, however, was far more soft. Felicia didn’t do Madison’s hair. The family didn’t purchase new Easter clothing for the at-home celebration. And the egg baskets Felicia normally produced her god-daughters, Jaelle and Jocelyn, didn’t exist. The Carters just gathered in their downstairs living space, gradually trickling in to enjoy Bishop Clarence Laney, Jr. livestream his preaching from the local Monolith of Faith church. Onscreen, he was joined by a handful of choir members, helping ministers and parishioners from the praise group, all distancing from each other.
” I believe that– especially below the Bible Belt– we feel church needs to be under a roofing system and it has to occur in a particular location. However as someone who has not been regularly going, I seem like church is wherever you make it,” Kennedi states.
Despite Covid-19 putting a damper on the holiday, Kennedi preserved her annual tradition of making household pictures. With her dad, mom, sis dressed in all white, Kennedi installed her medium-format cam in front of a mirror in order to include herself in the photograph. In addition to those of her immediate family, Kennedi likewise made pictures of Jaelle and Jocelyn.
” Their mother still desired a portrait of them, however it was a bit different this year,” Kennedi states. The 2 girls stood 6 feet from Kennedi and kept their masks on throughout the session, regardless of them constantly falling from their faces.
When Kennedi reviewed her scanned negatives, she felt the images would be a significant part of her visual record. “If I was to look at these 50 years from now and ask why– why does Easter appear like this?” she says. “There’s the factor.”
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If you feel like there isn’t enough time to do everything you want (and need) to do, one solution—as counterintuitive as it sounds—might be to reduce the number of hours in the day.
Not literally, of course. We can’t stop the flow of time. But with the NewDay time system, we can restructure our days into ten equal chunks—which, surprisingly, has made it much easier for me to accomplish everything I want to get done in a typical day.
Here’s how the NewDay system works:
What I love about the NewDay time system is that it helps you clarify exactly where your time goes. Do you get to take more than a few minutes here and there for yourself, or are you filling up the majority of your 100-minute segments with work? Do you ever devote a full 100-minute segment to family, exercise, relaxation or a luxurious meal? (Remember, if you don’t take time for those kinds of things, you run the risk of burning out.)
To make the way you spend your days even more obvious, NewDay lets you add a visual icon (person at desk, person eating, person exercising) to each 100-minute slot. The icons are disappointingly limited—there aren’t any that represent family, for example—but they’re still decent tools to help you visualize what you typically do with your time.
Once you know how you spend a typical ten-chunk day, you can start to tweak it. Instead of gumming up your workflow with short, unsatisfying breaks, you can tell yourself “I’m going to focus on work for the next 100 minutes, and then I’m going to take a 100-minute break for lunch and this novel I’ve been meaning to read.”
That’s the gamechanger—and why I love NewDay’s little browser time-tracker so much. When you divide your day into 10 chunks and truly focus on a single activity for each of them, you might find that there really is enough time for everything on your list.
Of course, it helps if you have enough control over your daily schedule to follow a 100-minute work session with a 100-minute break. If you’re a parent or caregiver, it also helps if you have the kind of support that lets you spend 100 minutes on work before spending the next 100 minutes on family.
But if you can divide your day into ten chunks and set a distinct intention for each of them, you might be surprised at how much you get done—and how much time you have left over, both in the middle and at the end of the day, for rest and relaxation.
Millions of high school seniors will be finishing up their final classes, submitting the last of their assignments and taking their end-of-school-year exams this month. Their long journey toward graduation is about to conclude, and they probably won’t get to walk across the stage, shake a bunch of hands or toss their hats into the air with all their classmates. But they do still deserve a celebration—and that, they can still have.
In fact, you—their parents—deserve the celebration, too. Getting a child through 13 years of school, starting with that teary first-day-of-kindergarten drop-off, is a team effort. And it’s worth making a big deal out of it even during a pandemic.
Some schools are postponing regular graduation ceremonies until later in the summer, with the hopes that such a thing will be possible. Others are going straight to virtual ceremonies at the end of the school year. Check to see what your district’s plans are and make sure the whole family dresses up and attends, just as you would have under normal circumstances—even if it is simply watching a live stream event from your living room.
Dressing up is key because it adds a layer of formality to the day that will make it feel more special; if they’ve got their cap and gown, they should wear it.
You might not get all the pictures you normally would with their arms around their closest friends, but you should at least get some nice portraits of them in their cap and gown. Take them outside for the best lighting and background—maybe even drive up to the high school to get pictures of them next to the school sign or in front of the building. Snap away as they toss their cap in the air. It’s not the same, but these are pictures you—and they—will want to have of this milestone.
We suggested this for birthday celebrations during the pandemic, and we’ll suggest it again here: “Invite” friends and family to gather (separately in their own vehicles) and drive past your home. They can hold balloons out the car windows, decorate their cars with streamers or just yell and honk a lot as they go by.
You could host a virtual party with family and friends via Zoom or Google Hangouts, but you should also encourage them to hop on a video chat with just their closest friends at some point on graduation day. The social aspect of celebrating this achievement with their friends is going to be something they will really miss, so a few minutes to connect visually and congratulate each other (or to just say, “holy shit, can you believe it’s finally over??”) is important.
Now is the time to decorate so much it’s embarrassing. Get streamers, balloons and lawn signs—all in their school colors—and then deck out the inside and outside of the house.
Decorate their car with graduation signs and window chalk markers for a celebratory drive around town (just be careful not to obstruct their view). While you’re at it, use those same chalk markers to decorate the front windows of your home. Set up a festive graduation backdrop for them to sit in front of during the celebratory video chats.
Once you think you’ve done enough, keep right on going. When it comes to decorating and celebrating, more is more right now.
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Uber has announced a duo of brand-new services as the business chases fresh revenue streams to offset the impact of COVID-19
With billions of individuals all over the world forced into lockdown throughout the coronavirus crisis, tech firms across the spectrum have actually been adjusting to this “brand-new regular.” For platforms that make it possible for remote working, this has indicated accommodating a surge in need. However for Uber, which relies considerably on physical interactions, it has needed to get imaginative. Shelter-at-home policies enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic has annihilated Uber’s core ride-hailing business, leading the company to fast-track the international launch of Uber Consumes for company, accept phone orders for food deliveries, and even expand into grocery deliveries
Now, Uber is wanting to provide practically anything, from pet food and medical materials– and it even wishes to provide goods in between friends and family living at different addresses.
Uber Direct develops on a service that Uber released initially back in 2015 called UberRush, which was developed to allow local companies to get all manner of products to consumers in minutes. Uber eventually shuttered UberRush in 2018, noting that it was applying its lessons found out to its blossoming Uber Eats organisation.
Somewhere Else, Uber has actually registered partners in Portugal, South Africa, and Australia to courier parcels, medication, and family pet products.
But probably the most interesting new service is Uber Connect, which is basically a peer-to-peer delivery service that enables anybody to send anything they wish to anybody else. Inside the main Uber app, riders will now see a choice that enlists the services of a chauffeur to transfer goods.
Above: Uber Connect
This makes perfect sense for Uber, as it instantly opens its vast transport network to millions of individuals who may want to send some extra bathroom tissue or hand-wash over to their grandparents’ house. In truth, however, it might be used for almost anything, including somebody who wishes to switch a guitar for their friend’s exercise bike which lies on the other side of town.
Crucially, this new service promotes social distancing, so anybody who would otherwise have been lured to jump in their car and drive over to somebody’s home to borrow or provide an item can pay an Uber chauffeur to do so rather. And of course, the millions of Uber chauffeurs who have actually been practically out of work for the previous month will now have an extra way to make money.
For now, Uber Link is available in more than two dozen cities in the U.S., Australia, and Mexico, though it’s safe to assume that this will expand into brand-new markets and might even be made permanently offered, if demand for the service is sufficient.
Eight-year-old young boy takes Home Workplace to court for denying family benefits
An eight-year-old British kid is taking the Office to the high court over its policy of denying households like his access to the welfare safety net.
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