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Better than sprinklers

It’s officially summer, and as temperatures rise, millions of people will be wishing they could afford the ultimate hot-weather luxury: a swimming pool.

But whether you live in a city apartment or a suburban 3-bedroom, a private pool is probably not in the cards. Most homeowners spend between $30,000 and $50,000 when they install an in-ground pool.

Luckily, there are other ways to keep cool that go beyond simple water balloons and sprinklers. From stock tank pools—yes, the ones used by cows—to backyard streams, we’ve got four options that are less expensive than traditional in-ground pools that will still look great in your yard. Behold, the best pool hacks of the summer.

Stock Tank Pool

Average cost: $600

Sometimes derisively referred to as “hillbilly hot tubs,” stock tank pools use galvanized-metal water troughs to create backyard pools at a fraction of the cost. Although these troughs are normally used by livestock, it’s pretty easy to use them to create a place for humans to splash.

Tractor Supply Co. recommends creating a level base with compacted sand, buying a small pump-and-filter system, sealing the tub (use marine-grade sealant or plumber’s putty), and filling it up. You can build a small deck around the stock tank, use pavers to make a patio, or leave it above ground.

You still might need to add a small amount of chlorine to prevent algae growth—and remember to empty it before winter—but this is about as easy as it gets.

Backyard Stream

Average cost: $1,200

Even if you can’t submerge yourself completely, a little running water always makes a space feel cooler. It also provides some killer ambiance—a peaceful rippling brook is perfect to read by and larger waterfalls can effectively drown out street noise.

Opt for a waterfall-stream design instead of a pond to keep things cleaner. You don’t need much of a grade for a successful stream; the key is to use an underground sump at the lower end to catch the water before pumping it back up to the top of the stream.

Layers of gravel and stone will filter the water to keep it clean, and you’ll only need to add more water when hot days cause evaporation faster than rain water can refill the stream. Kits are available but this can also be a DIY project; just follow handy instructions like these.

Splash Pad

Average cost: From $2,000 to $20,000 depending on size and whether or not you build it yourself

Caregivers everywhere know the benefits of urban splash pads: They keep kids cool, don’t pose a drowning risk, and don’t require constant adult supervision. City splash pads—and its cousins, the immersive fountain, water playground, and “wet plaza”—have essentially become the new public pool, a free, accessible space that brings people together.

It’s also something you can do at home. Companies like My Splash Pad sell complete do-it-yourself splash pad kids for residential installs, or professional contractors can easily integrate splash pad designs into almost any space.

Even backyards as small as 100-200 square feet can benefit from a built-in splash pad. Just be sure to use no-slip surfaces and allow it to be winterized if you live in a cold climate—like you do for sprinklers.

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Shipping Container Pool

Average cost: $25,000

If you have a higher budget, consider a shipping container pool like the Modpool. The Modpool boasts a quick set up and the ability to increase water temperature by 86 degrees in a single hour. The hot tub and pool area can be separated in the winter, so the Modpool gets you both types

Each shipping container pool ships ready to use with all the pool equipment built in and a high-tech Ultraviolet system keeps the water clean. And like every good gadget, the Modpool’s heater, jets, and lights can all be controlled from your phone with an app.

Where Modpool really differs from competing pools is its side window. The window makes the pool feel much less claustrophobic and can be a nice design feature when built into a raised patio.

And while the Modpool is more expensive than the other suggestions on this list, it’s also relocatable, so you can enjoy a swimming pool wherever you move. Head over here for more.

The startup claims its product offers higher energy production and lower cost

While Tesla’s gearing up to ship its first batch of solar-panels-that-look-just-like-normal-roofs, other companies are venturing into the fray. One such startup, the Palo Alto, CA-based Forward Labs, is now accepting pre-orders for its building-integrated solar panel design—which looks like a normal metal roof.

Unlike Tesla’s tiled design, or the awkwardly camouflaged panels of other competitors, Forward Labs’ product appears to be a single surface composed of layers of solar cells and tempered glass. In fact, it’s the company’s “optical chromatic cloaking” layer between the glass and photovoltaic panels that allows it to create a roof in any color without significantly reducing the amount of energy produced by its solar cells.

Forward Labs claim that its roof is capable of producing nearly double the energy of other roofing products, while costing as much as 33 percent less than Tesla’s design. According to its website, the Forward Labs solar roof gets you 19 watts per square foot of energy density, at about $3.25 per watt and installed in two to three days.

“We use more affordable materials than our competitors and employ standard manufacturing processes,” said CEO Zach Taylor.

“The roof's installation process is simple and quick—we can install our system in half the time that other companies can. The benefit to homeowners is a return on their investment that cuts the usual solar payback time in half."

Forward Labs is currently only serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

Via: Treehugger

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Any smartphone can be turned into a heads-up navigation display with the HUDWAY Glass, a simple device that sits on a car’s dashboard and reflects the phone’s screen onto a see-through surface. Drivers can use the HUDWAY Glass to read their current speed, turn-by-turn directions, and other information.

Push your car into the future with HUDWAY Glass, the brilliant solution that allows using any head-up display (HUD) app on any mobile device in your car to see the road ahead completely clearly. The very first of its kind, HUDWAY Glass produces a 20% larger image from your phone letting you see navigation, your speedometer, or any other HUD app with a more crystal, clearer picture that will prevent your gaze from wandering while driving.

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This article was originally published on Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Architecture for Autism Could Be a Breakthrough for Kids With ASD."

Good architects have always designed with tactile sensations in mind, from the rich wood grain on a bannister, to the thick, shaggy carpet at a daycare center. It’s an effective way to engage all the senses, connecting the eye, hand, and mind in ways that create richer environments.

But one architecture professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is working on a tactile architecture-for-autism environment that does much more than offer visitors a pleasing and diverse haptic experience: It’s a form of therapy for kids like 7-year-old daughter Ara, who has autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Social Sensory Architectures, an ongoing research project led by Sean Ahlquist, creates therapeutic structures for children with ASD. One prototype, the sensoryPLAYSCAPE, is a tent-like pavilion made of tensile fabric stretched over rods to create an immersive environment. Responding to touch, sounds are triggered, and 2D imagery is projected onto the fabric’s surface, as if on a screen. This visually demonstrates the connection between motor skills and auditory and visual feedback, helping children with autism adjust the amounts of force appropriate to apply at a given movement—a common issue among those on the autism spectrum.

As a PhD researcher at The Institute for Computational Design (a hub at the University of Stuttgart for research in lightweight architectural materials, where Frei Otto founded the Institute for Lightweight Structures), Ahlquist focused on pre-stressed tensile structures. When he came to Michigan in 2012, he continued his research using a CNC knitting machine, which gave him the ability to create his own textiles. The more he researched different kinds of light, tactile materials, the more he noticed something odd about how people interact with them once they’re fitted together into a structure.

A piece of fabric is a thing to be touched; a fabric structure is to be experienced from a distance. “The structures we were developing had a really intimate quality to them, but in terms of the architecture, the second you build it into a quote-unquote ‘architectural system,’ the materiality quickly becomes a passive backdrop,” he says. “It becomes a thing that goes around you, as opposed to the thing that you actually engage.”

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Ahlquist wondered if he could bridge this sensory gap. Could he make an immersive space that encourages direct tactile interaction? His daughter’s autism muted her senses, making her crave “really strong tactile feedback,” he says, but her motor-control skills were underdeveloped. Social Sensory Architectures connect these motors skills to visual and auditory feedback in an all-encompassing, whirling web of parabolas and spirals. If she’s not intuitively aware of how hard she’s pressing on something, the visual and auditory cues clue her in.

Social Sensory Architectures (which won the Speculative and Prototyping Category in in SXSW’s Place by Design competition) relies on architecture’s unique ability to work on multiple senses at once—and as such, it’s required a diverse project team to bind all these elements together. Ahlquist worked with computer scientists on the software, as well as experts in music, autism therapy, psychiatry, and kinesiology. Soon they’ll begin a series of pilot studies, starting with samples of four to five kids.

The team’s working hypothesis: “If we can improve motor skills, there is a correlation to creating opportunities for social interaction,” Ahlquist says. For kids on the autistic spectrum, observing and appropriately responding to social cues is often a challenge. He hopes his work can help kids with ASD better network their own senses and, subsequently, improve social relationships with each other.

For example, some of the visual responses that the structures can produce can only happen when two kids synchronize their interactions with the textile surfaces. And the child-size tunnels and cones in the pavilion beg for helpful dads like Ahlquist to pick up kids and let them slide through. These interactive moments form “circles of communication”—a term learned through collaboration with the PLAY Project—which are especially critical when kids are otherwise nonverbal, like Ara.

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The fabric in Social Sensory Architectures is given shape by flexible glass fiber–reinforced polymer rods. A Microsoft Kinect sensor detects when the surface of the fabric is stretched in gradients, from a hard to a soft touch, and feeds this information through software developed by Ahlquist and his team. The Kinect is housed in a hardware tower (with a computer, speakers, and a projector) a few feet from the pavilion.

It works a bit like a “textile iPad interface,” Ahlquist says. One software program for the pavilion surrounds children with a swarm of fish—each with their own signature wind-chime theme—that scatters with a light touch, but is attracted to stronger, continuous pressure. Another program, developed for the 2D screen, lets kids paint in colors that range from light to dark depending on the force exerted. (A delicate swipe makes a yellow mark; a hearty punch generates red).

The 2D screen is currently installed at Ara’s autism therapy center, where she works on fine-tuning motor skills through sequential tasks, like stacking blocks. When kids with autism lose patience for tasks like these, they recharge in sensory rooms that—like Ahlquist’s project—feature lots of kinesthetic and sensory impressions.

Ahlquist wants his project to break down the barrier between task-like therapeutic activities and fun sensory room play. “If both of those two things are needed, wouldn’t it be better if we could actually merge both of them together and minimize the task-oriented nature of developing whatever skill they’re trying to develop?” he says.

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In today’s world, immersing oneself in multisensory media screens isn’t usually seen as a recipe for developing skills. Psychologists often warn that the digital interfaces bombarding children’s ears and eyes are overstimulating—keeping them from sleeping at night and shredding their attention spans. But for Ahlquist, the connection to movement and motor skills differentiates these multisensory screen-based environments.

The visual and auditory stimuli that might mindlessly hypnotize on a smartphone screen works on a much more holistic level in sensory architecture. “We’re teaching to the whole body,” Ahlquist says, “instead of teaching to the head. The experience becomes dynamic and engaging, rather than repetitive and engrossing.”

Architecture is one of the few design mediums that requires full physical interaction. Creating responsive, sensory environments like these—physical spaces that support increased mind-body connection, help develop skills, and expand social interaction—could be a powerful tool in the treatment of autism.

Being two-faced is generally considered to be a bad thing. Unless you’re Yana the cat that is. Because as you can see, this adorable chimeric feline has the most beautiful unique markings. She looks like her parents ran out of ink while they were coloring her in!

More info: Instagram (h/t: boredpanda)

The cat was posted in a classified advert in a Belarussian website called Nasha Niva back in July 2016. She was looking for a new owner, and it didn’t take her long to find one! She now lives with Elizabeth, an architect and design student from Orsha, Belarus, who studies at the National Technical University in Minsk.

Written as a novel by L. Frank Baum in 1900, the Wizard of Oz became an acclaimed Technicolor film in 1939. The success of that film led to the exploration of prequels and sequels desperately seeking the fame and recognition that the orignal musical film garnered. Perhaps the boldest iteration was the recreation of the Land of Oz as a theme park in North Carolina’s Beech Mountains. Photographer Johnny Joo visited the site and photographed the ruins, full of wild roots and thick fog. His eerie portaits capture a magical place that has gradually become the perfect setting for your worst nightmares.

More info: Johnny Joo (h/t: thecreatorsproject)

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Originally believed to be a "rare childhood syndrome," celiac disease - an immune reaction to eating gluten - is now known to be a common genetic disorder affecting people all over the world, including more than 2 million people in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The symptoms of celiac disease are varied, depending on the person's age and the degree of damage to the small intestine. Some people with celiac disease, in fact, may have no symptoms but can still develop complications of the disease over time. Meanwhile, Circle of Moms member Taryn A. says for her mother, the disease manifests itself in diarrhea, while her sister gets intensely constipated, and her cousin gets rashes all over her body. "You'd think that since they're mother and daughter their symptoms would be alike, but in actuality they're exactly opposite."

The risk in going untreated is that the longer a person goes undiagnosed, the greater the chance of developing long-term complications like malnutrition, liver diseases, and cancers, NIH says. To help you figure out whether your child should be tested for celiac disease, here we've summarized the condition's four common signs.

1. Genetic Indicators Exist

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease. Consequently, people with celiac disease - or their relatives - tend to have other diseases in which the immune system attacks the body's healthy cells and tissues. For instance, the connection between celiac disease and type 1 diabetes, autoimmune thyroid disease, autoimmune liver disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Addison's disease or Sjögren's syndrome may be genetic, according to the NIH.

Mom Kathy recommends that if you suspect your child might have the disease, you should look into getting genetic testing for yourself and the father, especially because "celiac seems to take no classic look with anyone," and "because celiac is highly genetic and highly familial." She says: "If you guys carry the gene, then there is a huge clue about your baby. If you don't, then there is no possible way she could have this disease."

2. Slower Growth and Development

When people who have celiac disease eat foods or use products containing gluten, their immune system triggers a reaction in their small intestine. Over time, this creates inflammation that damages the small intestine's lining and causes malabsorption of nutrients, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Eventually, no matter how much food a person eats, they become malnourished. And when this happens to children, it can affect their growth and development. Mom Tonya says that in addition to suffering from diarrhea and fevers, one of her son's symptoms was "failure to thrive (he is very small for his age)."

3. Tummy Aches

In addition to having an inflamed small intestine, or perhaps as a result of it, people with the disease often suffer from tummy aches. Claire says her 7-year-old daughter has had tummy problems since she was one, while Lisa C. says her three children had stomach pains and also frequently threw up.

With younger children, it might be difficult to determine when their tummy hurts and whether they have celiac disease, Christine says. Kids may be "too young to tell you if she feels the slightest bit of discomfort as a result" of eating gluten. But parents can "pick up on even little things, like being more gassy than usual, or the mood swings that occur" because of the stomach discomfort, she says.

4. Toilet Issues

There also can be toilet troubles, several Circle of Moms members whose children have celiac disease advise. Laurie's daughter "had persistent diarrhea her whole life and GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease), but once she stuck to a gluten-free diet "her diarrhea has disappeared and she seems happier and less gassy."

Jennifer L.'s son had similar issues. She says he "never had a normal BM until he was gluten-free." She adds: "My son at almost 3 now sleeps through the night most of the time, but if he gets some gluten he is up in the night with cramps."

Remember, it's really hard to diagnose celiac disease just from the symptoms, which is why if you suspect your child might have the disease, you need to talk to your pediatrician about having a blood test to measure the level of autoantibodies, Taryn A. says. If that comes back positive, an endoscopy can confirm the diagnosis, and your pediatrician then can prescribe dietary changes, Circle of Moms members conclude.

Joy Santlofer.  Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York.  WW Norton, 2016 (publication date: November 1)

I wrote the Foreword to this book:

When Jonathan Santlofer asked me to write a few words of introduction to Food City, written by his late wife, Joy, I felt sad but honored.  Joy, my friend and colleague at New York University, died unexpectedly in 2013, leaving this book—her life’s work—to be completed posthumously by  grieving family and friends.

Food City is a tribute to the memory of a wonderful person, but it is also a very good book, standing easily on its own as a welcome contribution to food history and to the field of food studies.  In her work at NYU, first as a master’s student and later on our faculty, Joy discovered evidence of New York City’s food manufacturing past and began writing about this largely unexplored topic.  She published her discoveries as short pieces that formed the basis of this book and also of her work as editor of the journal of the Culinary Historians of New York.

For those of us who use food to explore the most pressing social, environmental, and political issues through the lens of food—how we at NYU define food studies—Food City is exemplary.  In recounting the stories of the rise and fall of New York City’s bakeries, breweries, dairies, and meat-packing plants, and of its makers and sellers of flour, sugar, pasta, ice cream, chewing gum, and soda water, Joy Santlofer necessarily wrote about slavery, immigration, unions, child labor, wars, ethnic and racial discrimination and segregation, and the migration of populations to the suburbs and their eventual return.  How odd, she said, to think that factories spewing filth once occupied the sites of today’s luxury apartments.

Food City’s theme is the historical arc from artisanal food manufacture to the emergence and eventual disappearance of industrial manufacture to today’s newly artisanal production of beer, chocolate, and coffee.

Joy put her scholarly curiosity to good use.  She had a knack for finding just the right detail to bring history to life.  I had no idea that New York City housed 2,000 bakeries by 1900, or that one of them employed 700 horses to deliver bread door to door, nor did I know that through the 1930s, $14 a week was the standard wage for factory workers, a synagogue on Rivington Street was located over a still, and cattle had to be driven across the entire length of 44th Street to be slaughtered.  Such tidbits are so vivid that you even get a sense of what the City must have smelled like until well into the last century.

For several years, Joy had the office next to mine, and I was able to check with her often on the book’s progress.  I couldn’t wait for it to appear and at last we have it.  It’s heartbreaking that she did not live to see its publication, but Joy Santlofer leaves Food City as a generous gift to us all.    

–Marion Nestle, May 2016

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The start of every college semester always brings with it the fun game of "guess which of your friends are going abroad!" If you're the one holding down the fort on campus, the jealousy of watching fellow students' gorgeous travel pics roll in can definitely provoke some wanderlust, while if you're the one going abroad, your deep excitement is probably tinged with pangs of FOMO and nervousness about what to expect.

The truth is, there are a ton of reasons going abroad is a great idea, but a lot of the best reasons won't be printed on the front of a brochure or offered up by an advisor. I spent three semesters abroad while I was an undergrad (two Summers, plus the Fall of my junior year) and I ended up loving my experiences overseas for very different reasons than I thought I would going into them. Having been through the good, the bad, and the downright breathtaking, here are the real reasons I would recommend any college student take the leap and go abroad:

1. Studying abroad is one of the hardest things you can do in college, and that's exactly why you should do it.

By the time you reach the point in your college career when you would be considering going abroad, you're usually pretty comfortable with your campus home. Gone are the nervous weeks of freshman year when you were first learning to balance your workload and your social life, and most likely you have a routine and a support system built for yourself.

When you go abroad, you have to start building that again from scratch, but with the safety blanket of knowing your college home will be waiting for you when you get back. The first few weeks will probably be lonelier and more stressful than anyone's prepared you for, but you'll also learn what things you need in your life to be happy and how to manifest them even in a new country and culture. And once you have that ability - one you'll need your whole life, by the way - no one can take it away from you.

2. Studying abroad is also the easiest way you will ever get to experience life overseas.

Logistically speaking, studying abroad is like the express-lane version of emigrating. Never again will you have the ability to pick up and move overseas with so little to worry about and so few belongings to transport. Acquiring a student visa is usually relatively easy, and many programs offer help with housing and even meal plans. Plus, at the end of it, all you'll need to worry about is fitting all your souvenirs into two suitcases . . . and not, you know, shipping furniture back across the ocean.

3. You'll probably have more downtime than you know what to do with, and this will force you to become a true explorer.

One of the weirdest things I had to get used to when I went abroad was the general lack of extracurriculars. I think Americans in particular devote a lot of time in college to being part of clubs and organizations, but at other universities around the world, clubs aren't always included in student life fees, and as a temporary student who will likely want to travel, you probably won't be inclined to tie yourself down to as many club commitments as you would back home.

This leaves a lot of freedom in your day-to-day schedule, and if you're anything like me, you'll find yourself whiling away whole afternoons just wandering through city streets and taking in every detail of this new and wonderful place you're in. I definitely got to see a side of local life that I would never have experienced were I just there for a week or two, and it trained me to be more present in my daily life even after I returned.

4. It will help you recognize more clearly who you are and where you are in life.

Human beings are like mirrors: we see different versions of ourselves reflected back at us by every person we interact with. When you go abroad, you invariably come in contact with hundreds of new people who will broaden your mind and your understanding of the world, but they will also give you new insight into yourself. Sometimes, people made me feel worldly; sometimes, they made me feel naive. Sometimes I felt privileged, other times I felt disadvantaged. I learned that I had way more in common with most people than I had differences, and that every culture has a unique understanding of ideas like "success" and "happiness." It made me reassess some of my most deeply held beliefs, priorities, and hang-ups, and I came out the other side a much more understanding, grounded, and self-aware person.

5. Sometimes you need to get away in order to fall back in love with the place you left.

They say distance creates desire, and study abroad can provide the judgment-free break from college that many of us need. When I left to go abroad, I was mentally and emotionally burnt out from final exams, social commitments, and the general ennui that can come when the novelty of college life wears off. I was excited for a change and some adventure, but what I didn't know was how badly I needed to miss the school I had left behind.

Leaving for a few months and taking classes at a new university definitely gave me a fresh perspective on my home university, and I learned to appreciate aspects of my education that I had never given much thought to before. I came back for the second half of my junior year with fresh eyes and renewed interest in both my academics and the community, and I managed to avoid the trap of taking any of these once-in-a-lifetime experiences for granted.

Head over to our Snapchat today to see our top underated study abroad destinations that you need to check out!

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Although it's sometimes said as a joke, every kid's favorite school subject is, for obvious reasons, lunch. However, for most parents, their most hated school-year duty is packing up those lunches every day. To make sure that kids get to experience their favorite subject with (healthy) gusto and to ensure that you don't feel like a robot every morning trying to figure out what the heck to pack them, you've got to check out these bento lunchboxes. With compartments for different food groups - and some that are designed to keep food either hot or cold - it'll be hard not to pack your kiddo a well-portioned, healthy lunch that won't come back half-eaten!

Scroll through for 17 awesome compartment lunchboxes.

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Norway’s Public Roads Administration have begun conducting feasibility studies on the installation of what would be the world’s first floating underwater tunnel system. Norway is famous for its fjords, whose incredible depths make traditional bridge building a costly headache. Instead, the most common way to traverse them is through the use of ferries, a system that is both slow and subject to harsh weather conditions. As a result, engineers began looking for a new solution.

via Norwegian Public Roads Administration

The “submerged floating bridges” would avoid these issues by being hung from floating pontoons on the surface and stabilized with trusses, and then sunk 100 feet into the water, a depth large enough to allow for passing naval ships overhead. With minimal above water presence, the tunnels would preserve the landscape’s natural beauty.

Each bridge system would consist of two tunnels for traffic in either direction, like many of the 1,150 traditional traffic tunnels already found in Norway. Officials claim the experience of being inside the tunnel would be no different than in those standard tunnels.

The project has been estimated to cost upwards of $25 billion dollars, with a potential completion in 2035. Studies on how environmental factors would affect the system have just begun, and will determine whether or not the project will receive funding.

Find out more about how the tunnels would work here.

News via Wired, H/T Inhabitat. Images via The Norwegian Public Roads Administration.

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Craving a powerful read to stir your blood? We've got you covered. The 10 books ahead are a mix of self-help and inspiring fiction to uplift, alter perspectives, or just make you think. Plus, they're authored by fabulous women. Check 'em out, pick a few, and curl up in your own corner of the world.

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One day we took a boat from Venice to Burano. When we were almost there, we had the terrible and awesome idea to launch the quadcopter from the top of the boat! How fun! I knew Burano was pretty, but I didn't think it would look this cool from above. I was surprised how “circular” the edge of the island was. Next time I go, I'd like to spend a few days here to explore, I think!

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Well, this is an awful of news.

It’s been announced that Disney Infinity is being shut down. It was announced a few weeks ago that we wouldn’t be getting a new sequel this year, but now it’s been announced that the entire operation is shuttered. The toys-to-life game will get two more sets, surrounding Alice Through the Looking Glass and Finding Dory, but that will be it.

Avalanche Software are also being shut down with 300 jobs being lost.

It’s been announced that Disney are looking to move away from console development too, but will still licence out their properties to other developers.

This is a genuine shame. I really liked Disney Infinity and it just started to catch its stride. It’s a lot of jobs lost too. We are wishing everyone affected a speedy recruitment.

Disney Infinity Has Been Cancelled

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‘West Metro lake house.’ Windsor Companies, Minneapolis/St. Paul landscape architects, MN. Jon Huelskamp, Landmark Photo Design.