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Gibsons helps fight climate change

As part of their sustainability mission, family-owned jigsaw puzzle and board game company Gibsons have announced that they have joined forces with One Tribe. the climate action platform that helps businesses and consumers to make a positive environmental impact. For every complete order placed at www.gibsonsgames.co.uk, Gibsons will make a donation to One Tribe who in turn will save 100sqm of the rainforest, protecting five trees. You can view the Gibsons Impact Page, which tracks the difference they are making through the number of acres saved, trees protected and tonnes of CO2 stored, thanks to the purchases their customers make. One Tribe works by connecting websites with rainforest protection charities through their platform, such as Rainforest Trust UK. The rainforest charities fund on-the-ground projects to...

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Energize Your Team for Better Productivity With These 5 Activities

Your team’s productivity can make or break your business. Companies with worn-out employees encounter a myriad of obstacles. They have high absenteeism rates, high employee churn, less production, or low-quality output. However, with a highly energetic and productive team, you can put in more work into your marketing and sales initiatives, fulfill more orders, and have a positive work culture, which lowers employee churn. Productivity Activities for Your Business Invest in energizing your team, so they are more productive. 1. Run games or contests You’d be surprised how organizing games and contests can do wonders to reduce your team’s stress levels. Games are a great breather for employees, especially when they’re reaching the point of getting burned out. You can...

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Devil House

There are plenty of towns everywhere, I guess, whose reputations beyond their borders, if they have any at all, reside in single instances of popular misrepresentation or outright caricature. I try to be sensitive to this dynamic—The Music Man is all that millions of people will ever know about Iowa. Each instance of this effect further distorts our overall field of view, our sense of who we really are. Still, I couldn’t help but feel some weirdly mystical twinge in the moment when I pulled in off the freeway, knowing that the town just over there on the other side of the windshield would be my home for the next year or two: a place that would be a totally...

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Why the Joseph Smith Papers published a photographic record of this significant church document

Joseph Smith Papers volume co-editor Robin Jensen examines a leaf of the original Book of Mormon manuscript. The Church Historians’s Press has published “Revelations and Translations, Vol. 5,” which features color photographs of the original Book of Mormon manscript. | Leslie Nilsson Joseph Smith reported seeing the golden plates in a stone box for the first time in 1823. Eighteen years later in October 1841, after translating the language on the plates and publishing the Book of Mormon, Smith sealed the original Book of Mormon manuscript in another stone box — the cornerstone of the Nauvoo House in Illinois. To be fair, he was trying to preserve the manuscript, said Robin Jensen, a volume co-editor and historian with the Joseph...

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Clementoni Puzzle Gardens of Fuji, 1000 Piece

Vendor: Clementoni Type: Puzzles Price: 22.99 Clementoni High Quality Collection is a stylish range of jigsaw puzzles with striking images and quality printing, designed for those with an eye for details. Clementoni use recycled cardboard to create precision interlocking and robust quality pieces.  Completed Puzzle Size: 69 x 50cm (27.16 x 19.7 inches).  9+ years.

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