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Dreamwars Steampunk Horror Board Game
About this project
Dreamwars is a new board game set in a breathtaking, brand new steampunk horror setting where every choice has a consequence. The game is cooperative and playable by 1 to 8 players, while the setting is characterized by its own sense of style, refined and unique: a rich setting, horrible creatures and an articulate story fabricated to build up a thrilling world where the players can immerse themselves completely. Mysterious and terrifying beings await in the dark recesses of a strange, ever-changing world, while their contorted and inhuman masters plan on the fall of the free peoples. What are you going to do when the last Cantico will be sang, the last sword will be broken and the last bullet will be shot?
- cooperative game for 1 to 8 players featuring 70 playable scenarios,
- enough content for more than 500 hours of play
- new gaming mechanics easy to learn
- modular scenarios that you can suspend between chapters and resume when you want
- 9 branched Ordeals whose endings will reflect what happened during the game
- great gaming variety thanks to our Adventure decks and Events decks
- 8 high-quality miniatures of the playable Heroes
By supporting us in our Kickstarter campaign you will receive the following game box and its content. Please, keep in mind that the design of some of the gaming elements is still work in progress and may be perfected before the game is released.
This pledge does not include shipping. You will be asked to pay for it after the Kickstarter ends, from the Pledge Manager.
The Deluxe Edition will also include several add-ons:
- a limited edition cover of the game box,
- 3 dice sets representing the three Nemesis factions,
- 3 Nemesis Horde bags,
- The Dreamwars Artbook (fully printed, not a pdf),
- 3 Bookmarks for the Ordeals book,
- The Horrors Hunter Expansion Set
- This pledge does not include shipping. You will be asked to pay for it after the Kickstarter ends, from the Pledge Manager.
The wind blowing from the East is getting colder and the days are getting shorter. Darkness reigns over the region much longer now and most people, even if protected by the tall city walls, feel uneasy and restless. Winter is approaching and is bringing a new, terrifying threat to the whole human race.
In this expansion pack you will find a brand new Great Nemesis, Marshal Boreanoi "The Frost Hunter", his unique Ordeal, featuring new frost-related mechanics, new Nemesis creatures, Adventure cards and Events cards consistent with the winter theme. You can either use the expansion's Events cards, the Adventures cards and the Nemesis markers in substitution to the game's base decks, to experience an exciting and thematically coherent story, or you can add them to your core game's decks to enjoy an even more unpredictable and challenging game. So grease up your weapons, prepare your warmest clothes and be ready, as the chills of the winter will be the last of your concerns.
Should you help us to reach our Kickstarter goal, we would be thrilled to offer you even more content for your money. Unless differently specified, every stretch goal in the following list will be added to every Dreamwars box with no additional cost.
Stretch Goal Characters, however, will NOT be included in the future Retail version of the game and will be sold separately.
As part of our Kickstarter campaign, we've thought it would be nice to add a few Social Media Stretch Goals to raise the number of people aware of our game by boosting the number of "Likes"on our Facebook Page ad Twitter Followers.
- Bookmark [Available at 2500 Facebook Page Likes] If our Facebook page reaches 2500 "Likes", every backer who has pledged for any of the editions of Dreamwars will receive for free an extra bookmark for his Ordeals book.
- Crescent Moon Marker [Available at 3000 total Facebook Page Likes and Twitter Followers] If our Facebook page "Likes" plus the number of Twitter followers reaches 3000 total, every backer who has pledged for any of the editions of Dreamwars will receive for free a Crescent Moon Marker*.
- Octopus on a Skull special tokens [Available at 3500 total Facebook Page Likes and Twitter Followers] If our Facebook page "Likes" plus the number of Twitter followers reaches 3500 total, every backer who has pledged for any of the editions of Dreamwars will receive for free a set of full-resin "Octopus on a Skull*" special tokens.
- Watch Marker [Available at 200 "share" of the Facebook Initial Post] If share of our Facebook initial launch post reaches 200, every backer who has pledged for any of the editions of Dreamwars will receive for free a Watch Marker*. * These markers will be made of resin or plastic, depending on the number of backers we will have achieved.
Here you can find the Dreamwars Rulebook. Feel free to read the game's rules and discover the mechanics behind our game. Please keep in mind that, while this book contains the final version of the rules, this is not the final version of the Rulebook itself, which will be revised and accurately re-edited before the game is finally published.
You can download our Rules HERE.
Many have made comparisons with Arkham Horror, we want to point out that there are only a few elements in common between the 2 games. The bad guy giving game abilities to the various nemesis. And that this is a cooperative game. This game is unique because there is no winner loser scenarios. Even if losing a scenario you will just change the path of the game and his story. For each Ordeal there are 8 different endings. And the basic box has 7 Ordeals. This sums up to possibly 500 hrs of gameplay, but the average game will last between 1.5 and 2 hrs. This is based on how many players are involved in the game. This was done so players can complete a mission (there is no winner or looser) and put away the game, giving them the chance to easily continue the game later without any issue.
The following video shows how to set and play a Dreamwars game. The video illustrates all the important features in the game but, once again, everything you see is a prototype that is only indicative of the final quality of the game. Even the miniatures you see are only production master prototypes.
We have sent a preview copy of our game to a few well-known game reviewers and we are currently waiting for their final video comments. Once available we will post them here and in our updates.
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Our current estimates for shipping charges are:
- European Union: €9-15
- United States, Canada and Australia: €9-15
- Rest of World*: €30+
* Rest of World includes New Zealand, non-EU European Countries and everywhere else not stated above.
Please understand the estimate is just that - an estimate - but we'll do our best to make the shipping cost as low as we can.
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Melanie is the perfect Lady: beautiful, gracious, kind, wise. She knows how to behave in every situation and believes firmly that nobility is not a right, but a privilege. What Melanie doesn't say, however, is that her voice is not like all the others. She is a Cantore, a singer of the forbidden art that can shape the world according to the singer's desires. Her father knew it and spent a fortune to find her a Maestro who could secretly teach her. Now, disobeying to her father's will, she travels the land trying to help others in need, despite the fact that, should she be discovered by the Baron's Cityguard using the Canto, she would lose everything, including her own life.
M.A.X (Multipurpose Android MkX). The world was simple. There was the Creator. The Creator was kind. He repaired him. He talked to him. He loved listening to his Creator's voice. When the Creator gave him hands, it was a pleasure for him to take charge of every duty the Creator wanted him to take. When the Creator gave him legs, a whole new world disclosed in front of his eyes. His skin couldn't feel, but his mind did. So many individuals. Some like the Creator, some like him. Some so much different. Strange. Curious. He liked strange and curious. Then the Creator gave him a weapon and sent him to a place where there were more like him. There were men who shouted orders. He was ordered to use his weapon. He did. He didn't like it. Explosions everywhere, man after man running and dying, his battle brothers destroyed on the battlefield. He didn't like it at all. He was the only survivor, so he left. He wondered where he was and suddenly he realized he hadn't seen the Creator in a very long time. He would have loved to listen to his Creator's voice once again.
Conquering the skies has always been Liana's greatest dream. Daughter of the most famous Skypirate that ever lived, the fearsome Diacono Barbarossa, when he was murdered by his second in command, Liana found herself forced to run away from her home, for her own safety. At first she lived as a beggar, then she became a professional thief, then she started trading scraps, old weapons and old automata. She has met people from every country and every race and has visited most of the region, blessed by a voice, the men say, that "makes you do stuff". Now it is time for her to form her own crew, find the money to buy a Skyship and finally claim back what's hers.
Eilor remembers his grandfather. He was a great man, wise, gentle and very knowledgeable. Eilor loved listening to his grandfather's tales of adventure and mystery.Then came that night. The night when everything changed and the rage entered Eilor's heart. He doesn't remember much, but he remembers part of what he saw. The fire, the eyeless monsters slaying his friends, the crystalline monstrosities devouring his family. But most of all he remembers her: she was the most beautiful Evarin Eilor had ever seen, tall, elegant and her voice was like pure, liquid gold. She was the one who had brought the monsters to his home, the one who had killed everyone, the one who had put the burning seed of rage inside his heart. That night, on the ashes of his life, he swore that from then on, he would have done everything in his power to prevent that from happening to anyone else.
The Fall of Gothar was not the end, but the beginning of the Dèvar expansion. Some of the elderly probably won't agree, as their most beautiful and greatest city now looks like a handful of rocks suspended in mid-air, but it is nevertheless true that, since then, the Dèvar culture has known a wide resurgence thanks to their exchanges with the Humans. Aiber is a perfect citizen of this multi-cultural, multi-ethnic world: sophisticated, eloquent, polite and courteous with the ladies. However Aiber is still a Dèvar, the most resilient, tough race on the face of Ylen, capable of living in gigantic floating cities that effortlessly soar through the skies thanks only to the ingenuity of their engineers. So, take my advice: don't make him angry.
The proud race of the Evarin was once the most powerful in the whole Ylen. Their desires resonated so strongly within the Dreamstones that the world itself bended and changed according to their wishes, dreams and whims. However this power soon presented its terrible cost. Since then, the Evarin abandoned the Dreamstones, preferring instead their innate ability to sing their own desires into reality. As a result, their Canto is not as powerful as the one of other races, but it is nevertheless much safer. Because of their art, the Evarin didn't banish the Canto from their culture, like the Humans did, and instead embraced it, shaping it in several disciplines with a specific social purpose. The Wind Weavers are the messengers, the healers and the protectors of the Evarin culture, as their voice can cure a wound, carry a message or crush an enemy.
The Wildkin society is very shy, despite their fierce temperament and appearance. They tend to live in isolated arboreal villages scattered in the deepest forests, usually around the ancient Whispering Stones, obsidian monoliths that they believe can collect the voices of their ancestors. Eogart is different. His predatory instinct is too strong, his desire to cleanse the land from the unnatural monsters that lurk the lush forests is impossible to resist. This is the reason why, in the last few years, he has been leaving his home for longer and longer periods of time, always venturing further away, always looking for another monster to kill and another head to take.
The night had fallen and the building was burning, flames whipped the air outside the once-coloured glass windows. Breathing was difficult, as flakes of ash danced in the air, easily finding their way through the woman's throat.
Over everything else, the cries, the screams of pain and torment of those still inside the pub were so horrible, so loud that most of the people wouldn't dare leave their homes to see what was happening. But there was another reason not to get too close to the place. A woman was standing there, waiting, in front of the pub's door engulfed by flames. In her hand a sawn-off shotgun, aimed directly at the door. In her eyes the cold determination of someone who has seen too much. All of a sudden something erupted through the door, shattering it from the inside. It looked like a man, but it was not: the way it moved, the size of its limbs and the look in his eyes were nothing human.
The woman shot the thing in the chest, making it stumble, then she dodged his following assault with a graceful move, shooting him again in the back of its head. Two rounds, empty barrels, the deadly dance was already over. The woman was disappointed. That was not a good hunt. Too many witnesses, too loud. Next time she should be more careful, discreet. Her preys were smart, they hid, they stayed in the dark, but she knew how to find them and she knew how to kill them.
Kill them all.
She has the body of an angel, the mind of a killer and those incredible blue eyes, eyes that could steal any man's heart, that always burn with a sparkle of madness.
It was a night like many at the Golden Wheel Tavern. The place was crowded, the ale excellent as usual and the loud hubbub provided the sense of company, yet the comforting anonymity, he was looking for. Men had evolved quite a bit in the last few decades and now those of his race were mostly considered friends, but it was still quite possible to meet some thick idiot looking for trouble. He was immersed in his thoughts and his dark ale when he realized there was something strange in the crowd. Everybody was a little too calm, a little too quiet and a little too slow. They were afraid of something. He watched carefully, searching for the anomaly, and there it was. Two men, at a side table, drinking their ale. Their attitude was perfectly normal, but the other customers moved and behaved differently around them. Eitan drank a long sip of his ale, then he stood up. The many vials and ampoules he carried in his belts tingled gently when he started walking towards the two men. "The Lodge, right?" he asked. The two men stared at him with icy eyes "Pardon?", one of them replied. "You belong to the Lodge, am I right?" he insisted. "The Lodge is a myth, stranger. Now go back to your stool. Take it as a kind suggestion!", the man said, his mouth bent in a very unfriendly smile. "Well, maybe we should talk in private, then.", said Eitan while picking one of his vials from his belt and letting it fall to the ground. The vial crashed and a dense, acre smoke filled the air. "FIRE!" screamed someone, and the crowd of customers rushed outside the building. Everyone except the two men. Now they were wearing grotesque masks and holding their weapons. "Before we kill you, how did you know?" one of the men said. "Your boots. They are stained with blood." Eitan replied. "You are good, boy." said the other of the two. "Thank you. But please let's make it quick. There is some ale I want to finish." He has the mind of a genius, the looks of a dream and the unbreakable determination of a warrior.
The beast was on the hunt. The three moons were high in the sky and the cold air was carrying the scent of fresh meat. A human. Female. Young. Alone. In the outskirts of the nearby village. The hunt would have been exciting and her flesh so, so sweet. But then a strange sound came with the wind and the smell of dry bones and old blood came with it. The beast hid in the bushes, disoriented, while the ghost sound came closer and closer. It was the crystalline sound of tiny metal things clinging against other tiny metal things, but there was something about that sound that was absolutely terrifying. In that moment the beast realized that a man was standing behind it. Impossible! The thundering sound of an old pistol and the beast dropped to the ground, dead. The last things it heard were the few words the man pronounced, while placing two coins on the beast's darkening eyes: "Sad creature, I claim your life not out of cruelty, but because of my duty, as it is my responsibility to guide the souls of the dead and protect those of the living." He has the mind of a hunter and the soul of a holy man. He is Markus Wulf, the Undertaker.
"Never underestimate, my dear, the power of the human desire." said Professor Eisenstein while riveting a metal plate in its place. "Even now, at the end of my life, I believe and I want." The door of the old man's laboratory trembled under the blows of the Cityguard, its thick wood cracking at every hit. "I believe in my work and I want to survive my own death. And you, my dear, will help me accomplish all of that.". Complex mechanical eyes were skilfully installed on a bulking metal head, still opened and exposing the artificial brain inside. "Now, for the finishing touch", the Professor opened his jacket, revealing a small, luminescent Dreamstone shard hanging from a silver necklace. The door cracked open and the first soldiers stormed inside the ground floor of the old laboratory. Uncaring of them, the old man kissed the stone, then he carefully inserted it into the Automaton's head. "Well, my dear, this is where we say goodbye", said the Professor, locking the big metal head close. Rapid steps brought the soldiers on the top floor, where they expected to find the man, but when they entered the room, the Professor was already gone, dead on his chair. At his side a strange Automaton, whose head turned to look at the soldiers as they entered the room. "What happened here?" asked the Sergeant. "An old man passed away", answered the Automaton in its mechanical voice. "I see. Well, challenging the Baron's law didn't work out the way he figured, I'd say..." replied the Sergeant. The Automaton stared at the man for few seconds, and then said: "Never underestimate, my dear, the power of the human desire." its eyes glowing of a sinister, blue light. It has the mind of a machine and the desires of a good man, it is W.I.L.L (Wide Intelligence & Logic Mk 50), the Professor.
The city was busy even in the evening lights. People of every kind were crowding the streets, coaches raced down the avenues, while beggars moved through the side alleys. It was the typical charming, dirty and dangerous human city where everyone rushes forward and never stops to look up. So there she stood, crouching on the red tiles of a rooftop, hidden by the smoke of the chimneys around her. From there, her eye could see everything. Her target had just arrived. A beautiful woman escorted by two men left her steam coach and entered a palace on the other side of the road. Time to move. She swiftly left her hiding place and started running, fast and silent. Unseen, she crawled inside the building her target was in. She moved towards the voices downstairs, her mind concentrated on the reason she was there. The clues were clear, the blood trail still fresh and the victims of the inhuman cult demanded to be avenged. One deep breath to calm her heartbeat, then she ran into the room. It was a big, decorated hall and her target was there, gently talking to a hooded man, while her guards looked around, lazily. Her first knife hit the first guard in the throat, while the second penetrated the other one's left eye. She unsheathed her sword, ready to take the woman's life, when suddenly the hooded man hit her. He was too strong for an ordinary man. She fell to the ground, cursing silently. The target looked at her and smiled, amused by the assassin's useless bravado. She smiled in return, then sprinted, crushing through a window, while throwing two more knives at the gigantic gas-chandelier hanging from the ceiling. The gas-filled golden structure crushed to the ground, igniting and mercilessly engulfing the entire hall into flames. She has the heart of a hero, the looks of a temptress and the skills of a killer. She is Aviel Someth, the Assassin.
I was working in my yard, in a cold autumn evening, when I heard a noise on the roof. At first i thought it was some animal, but when I looked up, I saw something else. Something evil, both woman and raven, was gazing at me from above. I don't recall how exactly it looked like, but I do remember those eyes: cold slits of hunger and disdain glancing at me. I stumbled trying to get away, when I bumped into someone behind me… I feared it was another thing like that, but it wasn't. Standing there was a Dèvar woman, clad in some kind of leather uniform. She never, took her eyes away from the creature, not even when she said: "Run". I was frozen in fear, but when she pulled a big gun out of its holster I started running. I heard the beast's screech… an unearthly sound that still haunts my sleep. The thing quickly gushed down the roof, like ink. I heard a gunshot, a second screech, and then I felt this tremendous pain – my leg was gone. I fell to the ground, bleeding, but I managed to flip over and look up: the creature spread its limb-wings and flew off. The Dèvar came to me. "My name is Kadriye Kartal. Sorry human, that beast chose your house as its nest... it's wounded, but if I don't take it down, it will kill many more". She knelt beside me and took one of those fancy crystals out of a pocket… she cracked it within my hand. The pain quickly faded away, but I was already fainting. "How will you…" I muttered. She turned away. "Don't you worry. That thing can fly, but I have wings of my own. Wings made of iron and fury". An iron will fueled by a heart of gold. She is one of the best pilots out there. She is Kadriye Kartal, the Iron Fury.
The sun was burning high in the sky, the air was hot and the engine was making a strange sound. It was puffing, it was whistling, hissing, yes, but there was something wrong. Harold knew it. He could feel it in his left hand, whose scars always reminded him of how dangerous his work ultimately is. The Junkyard of scrap metal and the rolling engine made the temperature almost unbearable, but Harry was busy. He was certain he could find the problem with the steam chamber. His expert hands moved swiftly from tool to tool, taking and putting them back inside his many pockets. Harry loved having everything at hand. It made the world easier. The heat made the Junkyard smell like a metal rotten corpse, but what the wind was carrying was another kind of stench. Harry knew it, again, while his fingers kept working even faster. Birds flew away, when the thing erupted from the forest. An ancient armour, decorated with bones and chains and an iron mask more similar to a grotesque muzzle, covered the body and face of the Jormung Legionary. The beast charged, screaming his battle cry, but Harry didn't move. He knew. He had been knowing it all along. It was just a matter of pressure. The old battle automaton, half buried in the junk, came back to life and started shooting his hand cannon, turning the Jormung into a cloud of blood and entrails. That was the last of the Jormung raiders. Harry smiled. A brilliant man, with indomitable courage and unparalleled skill. This is Harold Garrison, the Machine Doctor.
Risks and challenges
Since this is officially the first project by Royal Art Games, our greatest challenge will be the complex logistics behind the delivery of our product. The shipping of such a voluminous and heavy box all over the world will certainly prove fairly arduous, but we are currently in contact with several experts in the field and we are sure we can find all the solutions necessary to prevent any possible complications. Our priorities are making sure the game design is top notch, the gaming narrative is deep and consistent, and the rules are easy to learn and accessible for everyone.
This means that, until we are completely sure our standards are respected, we may need to do some more revisions before we send the game to the printers. We believe these potential delays are worth the time, if they mean a higher quality and a better gaming experience for everyone.
Finally, with the sole exception of the 3D models and the final trailer, everything you see has been realized by a single team of developers and artists, which testifies the commitment we put in this project. A commitment we hope you will appreciate when you will have our box in your hands.
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sense of inclusion and engagement in a common enterprise can have academic benefits as well as social-emotional ones
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Eagulls's performed one of the better sets at last weekend's Beacons. We caught up With George and Henry-the vocalist and drummer- of Eagulls a few hours before their slot to talk about their new album, the state of British music and why its worth selling your soul, even when the price of entry is only long hair and a reverb-pedal:
Ok, so to begin, your album's been out for three or four months now but been around for a lot longer than that, about what, a year before it came out, in terms of having a finished item?
George: It's been out for how long? It came out in march..
Henry: We wrote it in 2012, so it took quite a while to come out, about two years we were sat on it before it came out.
Do you now have a follow up to it, is there a second in the wings?
Henry: We've literally just started, this week, so we're trying to hopefully record it in December and get it out the same time next year, like March, April, sometime like that.
Your sound is quite angsty, I guess. You've been described [by NME] as a group of 'pissed off twenty somethings', is it all personal or are you political at all?
George: Its more to do with just being pissed off, its more an emphasis on life to be honest. It's not just like; 'oh we're angry…' A lot of people will probably pick up that its 'angsty music', as you say, but there's a lot more to it than that. It runs a lot deeper than that.
For the new material you're doing, do you dip into that same feeling you had when you wrote the first record?
George: Yeah, of course, it will always lie beneath, when you're talking about something like that you mean it, so you'll always mean it. You don't just wake up in the morning and suddenly go, 'oh I've got a new vision on what I did a few years ago', it's always there.
When you're writing new material do you write about what's happening to you at that point, or how you're currently feeling, or do you really go back?
George: It all depends. With us it's always the music that comes first, so if the music is along the lines of a nervous sort of system that's going on, then that's what the lyrics will come out of. I am nervous, so if we wrote upbeat stuff, then there'd more upbeat things, but I'd think a lot deeper about what I'd do with upbeat stuff than just go for a normal, upbeat song that everyone else has done already.
Do you [George] do all the song writing or do you work as a band?
George: I do all the lyrics, yeah. Then as a band we all come together and combine everything, we have a sort of strange structure that comes together.
We saw you live last week at Knee Deep, on stage there's quite a menacing feel, you're pacing about with your eyes closed and swigging from your wine, there's that kind of edge about your actual performance, I mean there's no chatting to the crowd about the weather when you go on stage. Do you have to get into a zone?
George: Nah not really, it just happens, that's part of why I do it. I've never sat down before we go on stage and thought right, I'm going to say this. In fact a lot of people come up to me and say; 'well why don't you say this, or after a song say this, or piss everyone off by saying this, or make them happy by saying this'. But once you're in the zone you just don't remember anything. It's like, let the music speak for itself, you don't have to stand there and be like, 'come forth look at me. Embrace me.' There's no need for that… I do talk sometimes, whether people can understand me, I don't know.
How important is the aesthetic, on stage it's all quite clean-cut, there's no waste or goofing about, is that conscious?
George: I think it actually seems like we come across as stubborn on stage, as stubborn people, but we're not, at all, literally we just turn up to play our music. We've never been a theatrical sort of group. We don't think like; right after this song we're going to say this, say that, like I was saying before. It's just like we turn up, we play our songs, and hopefully people will understand what we're talking about.
If not then they've heard it and they go away thinking; 'I just heard this, maybe I'll think about what just happened instead of just seeing someone doing some sort of choreographed dance moves, that a lot of bands do…' Which I have nothing against, I think that's great…
In terms of bands going around now, who do you like, are you part of a group of bands who play shows together, or who you work with?
George: Not so much now, because we're here there and everywhere, we aren't part of the Leeds scene, if that exists.
Henry: Obviously we have friends who are in bands but Leeds is like, there's no movement there or anything. It's just a lot of bands, no particular genre of bands, everyone just does their own thing, like hard-core or whatever, there's all sorts of bands.
George: Its really good because there's a lot of bands who mean what they're talking about [in Leeds]. There's a lot of bands in England who have probably got dismissed because you have to play London first, which is still true, it's a fact of the music industry in this day that you have to break London before you break anywhere else. A lot of bands that we know, and that we play with, are not arsed about that, they go and play basements. Their music means a lot more than any of those other bands that are 'breaking boundaries', so to speak.
A lot of people talk now about a resurgence in British guitar music, do you actually kind of think that quality of music has gone up, I mean do you feel like you're at the peak of some sort of resurgence?
George: I don't ever see myself as like an ice-breaker, or king of everything.
Henry: I feel like a few, maybe five, six, seven years ago there weren't that many guitar bands, it had shifted a bit more to electronic stuff but its shifted back a bit now. It does like feel like people are listening to bands who play guitars more than they are to electric music, or mixing them both together. I think everybody's just trying to find something new.
George: It does feel, this last year or so, that there has just been like straight up guitar, bass, drum, that kind of thing. For a few years it felt like there was a lot of guitar music for the sake of it, a lot of art for the sake of it, and I think we made a difference because we meant what we talked about and when people understand what you mean it makes all the difference.
There'll probably be about a hundred people in the crowd tonight who've never heard of us, or aren't really that bothered but when we're finished they'll be like 'oh'… And maybe they'll go off and think about music rather than just sort of, I don't know…
Is that important to you?
George: I mean, it's important to wake people up, you two obviously love music, and you're very into music, but there's a lot of people who turn up to festivals and aren't bothered and they're just there for the ride, and if you can just wake them up for just a second then it means something to me.
Do you ever feel like, obviously you really mean what you say and are writing music from a good place, but do you ever feel like it doesn't matter. That even if you had the lowest intentions with your music, the audience you're playing to is the same, that the climate you're in is the same whether or not people take something from it or, are just like, "oh they're a popular band. We should go and see Eagulls". Do you ever worry that maybe you're just the favourite monkey in the court?
George: Oh yeah. Every night, every time I play. For 45 minutes I'm selling my soul to everyone, like, it's like taking a picture of yourself naked and giving it to everyone. Instead of people paying to get into a gig, like paying three pound, you should just say; 'right I want a picture of you all naked to come into my show, I want to see what you have to offer, let me see.' Do you know what I mean?
So do you feel it's important to have the audience on a similar level, I mean you watch some gigs, some bands, where it's like they're giving it everything, and the audience is kind of stood there clapping along, but really appreciating it all the same..
Gorge: Yeah, but it goes into different spectrums when it's like that, we could probably come across as idiots for saying; 'why's the crowd so still'. Not everyone wants to jump around, but I just want people to understand music rather than just being like, I'm here because I'm here. It's more about understanding art as a spectrum and not being so ignorant that you just go like; 'we paid 500 quid to go in the front row, to see this band and stand there.'
Do you think there is a distinctive line between the music you write and the wider culture its written in, do you in any way try and cross that boundary? Do you feel like music's more than just entertainment in a field for a weekend, or on an album for however long its listened to?
George: I mean yeah it is, it's a lot more, there wouldn't be festivals and stuff if not, because music means a lot to people. It's insane how much it means to a lot of people. For the last four or five years music has controlled our lives. I could have gone and got a job or whatever, or done my own thing, but music is what we do. We're here to give music to people. And so is everyone else here.
Is there anything else you want to say before I steal too much of your afternoon?
George: Yeah, Eggs Benedict.
Eggs Benedict…
George: Eggs Benedict.
Henry: What about Eggs Benedict? Oh, I get it now.
Henry: Cheers guys.
We look forward to seeing your transformative efforts later.
George: It should be alright.


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Chapter Seven – The Creation of an English Estate
The new era described as 'modern times' was heralded in England by the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The Lancastrians gained the victory. Henry Tudor became king. Men were indeed entering modern times. A money economy was being developed. An economy and a religion based on the individual were replacing the old order of community and commitment. The whole medieval order, economic, social and religious were being rudely dismantled. The great families of Maltby's history – the de Buslis, di Viponts, Cliffords were no longer of account. New, very different people were gaining the ascendancy.
The old gilds and manors decayed. Within less than a hundred years of Bosworth Field, what had been the Church of the English people and part of the Universal Church, became the Church of England with the King as its Supreme Head! Even to this day clergy of the Church of England have to make an oath of obedience and loyalty to the Crown, as well as to the Bishop! "The claims of self-interest were being asserted. Co-operation gave way before competition. Commercialism replaced custom". (Southgate, Economic History of England). This great change is illustrated well by Maltby's next hundred years history.
The old aristocracy was wedded to its ancient order. But it had become enfeebled. The old grandee kept open house for the community. The new men did not afford the wealth for this. They were mercantilists who had capital to invest in land, woods and sheep instead of in lavish parties for all and sundry. They were businessmen determined by their instincts to exploit their estates, newly acquired from manorial and monastic properties. They were ruthless with their tenants who were often deprived of their new homes. Some joined the growing stream of homeless vagabonds, the 'sturdy beggars', who by the time of Henry VIII, (1509 – 1457), had become a major social problem. Their ranks were increased by the deprived monks and conversi of Roche Abbey and other Monastic Houses.
A vast social, economic and cultural revolution was taking place. Land was changing hands two or three times in as many years. It had been estimated that in the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, one sixth of the lands of England changed hands. The new merchant class was beginning to make its way into the ranks of the aristocracy. During the early Tudor period, the gulf between the wealthy merchant and old fashioned country gentleman was disappearing. The most striking example was Ann Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife.
She was a highly cultured and educated lady and was great-granddaughter of a London merchant. Marriage to one of Maltby's de Buslis, never mind a King, would in earlier times have been inconceivable. During this period the old Saxon and Norman names largely disappeared. In Maltby, Saunderson took the place of de Busli. Very few of our present peerages date back further than the early Tudor period. So it was in Maltby when in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries the Saundersons and then the Lumleys dominated the district. The monasteries had for a thousand years been a powerful force in English life.. Now as Maltbys story shows, they were swiftly reduce to ruins and a memory.
The Country house replaced the Church as the centre of cultural and social life for three centuries and more. Maltby came to be well-represented with such houses – Sandbeck Park, Maltby Manor House, Maltby Hall, Hooton Levitt Hall, and Hellaby Hall. For the new mercantile class living standards were rising. Peace after the Wars of the Roses meant there could be an emphasis on comfort instead of defense. The condition of the lower orders changed little, except perhaps for the worse.
The fate of Maltby Manor, belonging to the Duke of Cumberland, the Manor of Sandbeck and the Monastic lands of Roche make a classic example of the vast revolution from feudal to modern times.
With the peace that came after the defeat of Richard III in 1485 the old order must still have appeared secure. The shepherd Earl of Cumberland came into his own again! He had been a loyal Lancastian. Henry VII restored him to all his lands, Manors, Baronies and Castles. The Earl died in 1523. The King expressed his continued favor to his family. He created the Shepherd Earl's son Duke of Cumberland.
In the new individualistic climate, the trading classes came to power. Speculators itching for rich pickings from the monastic lands were quickly to the fore! After reports to the King on each monastery, the closures began in earnest. Henry appointed a Court of Augmentation to deal with the lands and possessions which were now at the disposal of the Crown. The Court was an instrument designed to increase the wealth of the Crown at the expense of the Church and the people of England. The Court sold off the lands and possessions to entrepreneurs quaintly named 'consolidators'. It was all a sort of 'privatisation'.


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Scott Expedition – with 24hr daylight where are the 'dark sides'?
November 8, 2013
Extreme expeditions are high risk physically and mentally. I am very excited to have been asked to provide psychological support to the Scott Expedition. Ben Saunders and Tarka L'Herpiniere are very aware that their journey across Antarctica to complete Scott's 1,800-mile return journey to the South Pole on foot will be pushing the physical and psychological boundaries of human potential. As part of their psychological preparation they thought it would be a good idea to get an insight into their own and each other's personality, to make most of their strengths and reduce the potentially life-threatening impact of any default 'dark side' behaviours that might come out when the going gets really tough.
To achieve this we used two personality questionnaires:
- The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) is designed to assess the 'bright' side, that is aspects of personality that promote success. This can reveal areas of strengths and some interpersonal tendencies that might cause problems.
- The Hogan Development Survey (HDS) identifies the 'darker' side of personality, revealing what we might experience when people are stressed. These 'darker' sides of our personality can affect an individual's leadership style and behaviour. Under normal circumstances these characteristics can be strengths. However, when stressed, tired, hungry or otherwise distracted these risk factors may become dysfunctional, impeding effectiveness and eroding the quality of relationships and decisions.
In an extreme environment where Ben and Tarka are interdependent for survival having this intra and inter-personal awareness gives them greater ability to manage themselves and each other in the potentially challenging situations they might encounter.
Ben's profile reveals he is friendly, warm and popular, enjoys being in the limelight and exciting others about his projects. He thrives in adventurous, high risk situations, is highly ambitious, self-sufficient, competitive, confident and comfortable in a leadership role. Whilst he enjoys the bigger picture aspects of the expedition, he is reasonably organised and reliable when it comes to managing the day to day tasks critical to their survival. He is able to focus on what needs to be achieved and remain calm and composed under pressure. Ben prefers learning on an as and when needs basis and is curious, creative, analytical and good at developing well thought through solutions before deciding what to do.
However in high stress/pressure situations or when, cold, tired and hungry Ben may become overly confident and manipulative about doing things his way and on occasions may become a little impulsive and impatient. Ben prefers to avoid conflict and so may struggle to address any differences of opinion or other issues as and when they arise.
Ben's profile also suggests he may experience an inner conflict/dilemma between his reserved /self-sufficient dark sides and:
- his colourful, limelight seeking dark side
- his friendly, caring, conflict avoidant 'bright side'
Tarka's profile reveals he also thrives in high risk, adventurous situations, is highly ambitious, self-sufficient, confident and comfortable in a leadership role. However he may sometimes come across as ruthless, dominant and competitive. Like Ben, Tarka enjoys the bigger picture aspects of the expedition, however Tarka has a more unorthodox approach to developing ideas and solutions to expedition challenges. He also has an ability to focus on what needs to be achieved, however may struggle to pay attention to the detailed, more routine tasks that may be key to their survival. In a crisis Tarka is likely to remain reasonably calm and make a realistic assessment of the situation before deciding what to do.
In high stress/pressure situations or when tired, cold and hungry Tarka may not listen to Ben, may be dismissive of Ben's ideas and/or may struggle to persuade Ben why his rather unorthodox solutions/ideas might be best.
The likelihood of their 'dark sides' emerging is reduced and/or moderated due to their ability to remain calm and rational when under pressure and they both thrive in adventurous, high risk situations.
Following their individual and team feedback, given the insights they'd gained, we discussed how they can best manage themselves and each other to maintain psychological fitness throughout this challenging expedition.
Click here for a case study on the Rivers of Ice Expedition
this blog has been written with permission from Ben Saunders and Tarka L'Herpiniere
When the going gets tough – making sure your 'dark side' is on your side!
January 18, 2012
Reading the recent BBC article on how endurance sports are becoming more and more extreme http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16548236?postId=111448477#comment_111448477. Nowadays a marathon or iron-man event is often just the starting point for the real 'ultra' endurance events as participants love discovering just how much further they can push themselves. Equally in the continually challenging economic climate I'm hearing managers and leaders likening their work to endurance events e.g. 'it feels like we are scaling Everest', 'I'm running through treacle 6 days a week'.
And for all the physical fitness that is required, the mind also has to last the distance, as the saying goes 'what the mind believes the body achieves' . This requires both good mental toughness (see my earlier blog http://sarahfenwick.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/mental-toughness-and-resilience-on-ice/) and good self-management (i.e. knowing and managing our own personality).
We will each have our own interpretation of 'endurance' events in our lives and we each have our own personality make up that can help or hinder us in seeing them through – whether that be to take part and complete or be a winner. Typically the stronger (more extreme) aspects of our personality provide us with strengths to draw on especially when things are going well. However some of these personality strengths also have a 'dark' or flip side. And in the moments when things aren't going so well and we are under pressure, feeling stressed, maybe tired, cold and hungry, what were strengths if we overuse or over-rely on them, can become our 'dark sides', potentially leading to dysfunctional behaviours (e.g. confidence turning to arrogance) and a negative impact on our and/or our team's performance or even derailment.
When working with individuals and/or teams in business, sport and extreme sport/expeditions I have found using the Hogan Development Survey questionnaire invaluable in helping people to identify their potential 'dark sides' (Rivers of Ice Expedition Hogan Personality case study). Once you've got to know your own 'dark sides' (some even name them and play with them – especially good in teams!) you can learn how to manage them so that when the going gets tough you learn to keep them as strengths and help you to be one of those who makes it to finish and achieves your goals.


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Resverlogix lays it all on the line in 2010
Early in 2007, Resverlogix CEO Don McCaffrey turned up at a BIO investor forum to talk up some ongoing buyout discussions. As we noted at the time, its lead therapy, RVX-208, was a promising 'good cholesterol' drug that analysts were enthusiastic about, even though the company hadn't reached the clinic yet.
That deal never got done in 2007, 2008 or so far this year. But that doesn't mean that the small Canadian biotech company (RVX) has been sitting still. And McCaffrey is just as bullish about the company's deal-making prospects now that his lead therapy has progressed to the threshold of two crucial mid-stage trials.
"The whole approach even two-and-a-half years ago was to option a deal to a pharma company that would be predicated on pricing the deal on post-ultrasound data in Phase II," says the CEO.
If you take any other sector in biotechnology, he adds, especially areas like oncology, a robust Phase III is needed to obtain the full value of a development program. In the cardiovascular area he's working on--the plumbing side, as he puts it--mid-stage ultrasound data showing plaque removal is the ideal inflection point.
And Resverlogix is moving much closer to that goal post. Early next year Resverlogix will launch two parallel mid-stage trials of its lead therapy. Its future will ride on the outcomes.
"It's going very well," asserts McCaffrey. "A lot of the pharmas we're dealing with are quite interested. What we've been doing in our negotiations is sit down with them and work out net present value of what they feel the technology would be worth assuming successful data." It is, he adds, a "fairly significant" sum of money.
McCaffrey has good reason to stay focused on the big prize. When Resverlogix unveiled positive early-stage data on its main program for RVX-208 in late September, Simos Simeonidis, an analyst at Rodman and Renshaw in New York, bullishly projected that the therapy has the potential to be a multibillion-dollar earner--if it is approved.
Significantly, Phase Ib/IIa trial data demonstrated that RVX-208 increased the level of plasma ApoA-I-'good' cholesterol--which protects the body against atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
For a small biotech company like Resverlogix, that's a potent validation.
"Someone can go forward with an option deal and they can lock it up," says the CEO. Or they can wait. "We plan to finish Phase II and if the data is successful we will have, I'm sure, several offers."
In one upcoming intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) trial, researchers will examine early lipid effects and atheroma plaque characterization of the coronary vessel wall, dosing 40 patients with the therapy while 20 will get a placebo. A second dose ranging trial will recruit 240 patients who will be given one of three or four doses. Sometime before Christmas of 2010, says the CEO, the company will obtain a very clear picture of the drug's potential.
Resverlogix has almost all of its eggs in this one basket. But there's nothing odd about that in the high-risk, high-reward school of drug development.
"We all face that prospect," says McCaffrey. "It's not unique to us."
The developer has 26 full-time workers and about 20 full-time equivalents working in contract organizations.
"We're increasing," notes McCaffrey. "We will be adding starting in March, expanding the inflammation program and hiring on the R&D side."


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BBC News reports today that a permit to hunt and kill an endangered Black Rhino in Namibia has been sold at a US auction for $350,000 (£212,000):
The auction was held amid tight security at a Dallas convention centre, where dozens of protesters had gathered. The winning bidder – who has not been named – will hunt an old, non-breeding male rhino. The organisers say such animals actually pose a threat to younger rhinos, which they sometimes charge and kill. All proceeds will be donated to the Namibian government and will be earmarked for conservation efforts, safari club officials said.


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Newsworthy articles, tips and tricks from Kilzers Kitchen in Knysna.
It is with gratitude and much love that we would like to thank friends, family, staff, suppliers, strangers and every single soul involved in the devastating fires in Knysa who have come to the rescue of our beautiful town.
News Clips
16 November 2006
Article in the Knysna-Plett Herald featuring KILZERS KITCHEN guests delighting in the fabulous gourmet delights prepared by Albin and Jenny Kilzer.
04 June 2006
A Centrespread feature on Jenny and Albin Kilzer.
03 July 2004
KILZERS KITCHEN takes part in the GOOD FOOD FESTIVAL.
May 2009
KILZERS KITCHEN features in TOP BILLING Magazine
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Reporting by Victoria Bryan
Editing by Arno Schuetze and David Goodman
Oct 21 Time is running out for Germany and the United Arab Emirates to reach a deal on code sharing between Air Berlin and Etihad, with the German transport ministry saying on Wednesday that no deal had yet been reached.
Air Berlin's winter schedule, including 65 code share flights with Etihad, is due to begin on Oct. 25.
Code share agreements allow airlines to sell tickets for flights operated by partner carriers and vice versa, allowing both to offer more destinations to their customers.
However, the routes have come under scrutiny by the German government over the past year because the current bilateral agreement between the two countries restricts where Etihad can fly within Germany.
Berlin, Air Berlin's home hub, is not among the four German airports that UAE carriers may fly to. The government is scrutinising 29 code share routes between cities such as Berlin and Stuttgart to Abu Dhabi.
The German government approved the code shares for last winter and this summer but has said that should remain an exception.
It said on Wednesday that efforts to find a solution had been rejected by the UAE but that it remained open to talks.
"The legal position is and will remain clear. The current air traffic agreement between Germany the UAE does not permit all the code shares that have been requested," a transport ministry spokesman said.
An Air Berlin representative was not immediately available to comment.
Originally published on Reuters.com


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STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: Picture Praise, 02/25/13
There are essentially two seasons in Nicaragua (Central America) -- Dry Season and Rainy Season. The rain comes almost as if on cue during the month of May. The last month before the rains come is the hottest month out of the entire year. Everything is begging from within its core for rain. Once the rain starts, it almost seems that overnight the landscape is transformed from dry, dusty and brown to glistening, green and lush!
I believe that there are times when we feel dry, dusty and thirsting for nourishment. Like the rain that comes to quench the dry earth, God provides thirst quenching nourishment through His Word. Thankfully, no matter what day, month or season it is...God's Word is always available to be poured into our thirsty souls.
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photographer: Bethany Bracht, Nicaragua. Bethany is a wife, mother and friend living as disciple of Christ in Managua, Nicaragua where she and her family seek to serve and obey God in whatever ways He asks.


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Dear Real Estate Adviser,
I bought a time share in 2005 and have always paid the maintenance fees on time. Part of the sales pitch was that our time share unit could be resold easily, but I know now that's a lie! Meanwhile, my budget is shrinking; my wife had cancer surgery and my health is getting worse. I just stopped paying the fees last month and now the collection nastiness has started. Should I just let them foreclose?


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Plum and Sour cherry Kulfi : PopsiclesComments : 2 Posted in : Drinks & Desserts, Recipes on by : Ratna Tags: cherry popsicles, fruit dessert, icecream, kulfi, plum popsicles, popsicles, summer treats
My Sour Cherry and Plum trees are laden with fruits. It is so exciting to see the flowers cover every inch of the tree in Spring. The small green stubs come next which then swell up and change to the lovely orange and red colour. The birds wait as much as I do to pluck
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Your Private Retreat Awaits
Lovely sloping acreage located deep within an established neighborhood north of Durham. Tucked away at the end of Country Knoll Rd, this 7+ acre tract is wooded with several good spots for a home. Terrain features many hardwoods and a few large boulders. Enjoy your privacy while being 20 minutes to Downtown Durham, plus access almost a mile of neighborhood roads for walking and feel more a part of a community vs having acreage off a main road.
If you desire to drive by the property, please be respectful of the neighbors. The property is not actually accessed off Ball Rd. To get there, take 501 North, Right on Bahama Rd. Right on Country Knoll Rd. Drive 0.7 miles and you'll see Woods End Rd on your right (gravel rd). Drive (or walk 290 paces) down the gravel drive. Pink flags and orange tape mark corner of property.


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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Garden (09/07/06)
- TITLE: An Autumn Surprise in the Garden of Life
By Cyndie Odya-Weis
Autumn Surprise first entered our family when Grandma's gardener, Fritz, brought a few shoots from Germany. Thanks to a negligent customs officer, Fritz's family and ours enjoyed luscious plants for decades. Fritz pruned and planted. Grandma admired and attended. An automatic sprinkler system added another factor for agricultural success. Grandma walked us through the garden, even when we'd rather run and play. She pointed out prize-winning Irises in Spring, roses and tulips in summer and come October, the Autumn Surprise.
Gratitude was my attitude as I paced the 4' x 20' plot making mental notes for future re-plantings and removals. The warmth of creativity flowed through my veins as plans for next summer's garden spread sunshine through my soul. I flashed a prayer of thanksgiving to God for grandma and Fritz and life; humans and plants, languishing and thriving. Sun shone on my face and I looked away from the brightness toward the ground. There under the lilac bush sprouted something green and purple….mis-laid clippings perhaps?? No, baby Autumn Surprises, well hidden …. just like when their ancestors came through Ellis Island in Fritz's luggage lining. Now, baby roots firmly grasped moist American soil. In this garden version of the maternity ward, robust little ones sprouted and grew strong while feeding from a hidden underground vine for as long as they needed--far from the parent plant. I remembered grandma explaining how they'd bloom wherever they ended up; unless, of course, Fritz found a better spot for each one. More mental notes took hold as I pondered future homes for precious plants.
Jewel's bark yanked me back to reality and we flew toward the door. She needed a drink--and who was I to object? Freshly-brewed coffee awaited me.
In we charged toward water bowl and coffee cup, then on to sunny window sill with stuffed toy (Jewel) and cushy recliner and computer (me).
The E-mails from Jill, my high school friend and from Adrian, my 20 year old daughter studying abroad, were as comforting and stimulating to my mind as the coffee and recliner were for my body.,,aaaaahhhhh, bliss. Other emails encouraged me to buy pills, books, investment services, perfume….arrrrgggghhh, the weeds-of-life junk mail. I reclined and began to read.
Jill's email brought giggles and memories of three silly high school girls--Jill, Debbie and I. Together we had walked through grandma's garden years ago, giggling as usual. Debbie died at age 29, much too soon- like some of those plants I longed to admire in their maturity. Jill and I reconnected decades later after maturing in different gardens; she in Indiana among four sons, I in Wisconsin with twin girls and a boy. Currently, we nurtured one another through emails and notes- like the long hidden vine of Autumn Surprise.
The poignant email from my daughter told of her new mission project- to find adolescents living on the streets and connect them with new families. Nutritious meals and clean water for dry lips and thirsty souls helped transplant those who were mistaken for weeds and errantly uprooted.
My heart burst with pride and gratitude as I savored this glimpse of Adrian's purpose. And I thanked God for the bright sun and brilliant SON he constantly provided through the years to help me to plant seeds, strengthen roots and provide the sometimes hidden vine to nurture Adrian from afar so she could grow wherever she's planted.
On this glorious Fall day, I thank God for lessons learned in the garden of life and especially, for my Autumn Surprise.
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Absolut is pleased to present a new collaboration with the prominent Guru Jimmy – artist James Ostrer's spiritual guide – on two site-specific Art Bars in Hong Kong. Both titled 'Guru Jimmy's Absolut Ashram of Spirituality', the Art Bars will premiere at Art Central and ZUMA Hong Kong in March 2016.
Art Central, Hong Kong's newest contemporary art fair on Hong Kong's Central Harbour front, will host the Art Bar daily from 21-26 March. The ZUMA edition of the Art Bar will be open from 12pm daily on 21-28 March, making ZUMA the perfect place to relax after visiting the fair.
Following his celebrated appearance at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Guru Jimmy has been given carte blanche to fully conceptualise and create his Art Bar, from drinks to décor, and entertainment to ambience. Inspired by his own outlook that the future is not a given, and that all people should have the right to create their own, Guru Jimmy has imagined an Art Bar that gives way to a type of spiritual transcendence that he feels should be available to the masses. Art Central's installation clearly demonstrates this, and consists of a technicolour dream-state complete with beanbag chairs, 'material wealth' rugs, and other spiritual endeavours, making it the ideal location for replenishment, relaxation and reflection.
Guru Jimmy has collaborated with some of Hong Kong's top mixologists from both Maximal Concepts and ZUMA, resulting in seven brightly coloured cocktails that each resemble a colour of the rainbow. The Art Bar at Art Central will serve the blue, violet and yellow coloured cocktails. It's All About Me is a violet hued cocktail comprised of violet blossom liqueur, lemon, and ginger, which reflects imagination and spirituality, whilst the blue concoction, Absolut Clarity, using blended orange, lime, and a homemade citrus cordial, symbolises the qualities of creativity and intelligence. The three vibrant cocktails will be available through April at Limewood.
ZUMA represents the energy of the colour red with, the Happy Inner Selfie, a cocktail infused with pomegranate, cinnamon and yuzu, whilst the balance and harmony of the colour green is characterised in, Liquid Assets, a kiwi and pandan-based cocktail. The four cocktails on offer at ZUMA are sweetened only by the fruits' natural sugars, paying tribute to Ostrer's battle with sugar addiction as represented in his body of work Wotsit All About. ZUMA, recently named one of Asia's Top 50 Bars, also promises to enlighten visitors through the various meanings of colour with an extensive food-pairing menu featuring colourful maki, sushi, and interpretative fruit platters. The bar and lounge will feature a live DJ from 7pm throughout the week and a special Art Session on Saturday, 26 March from 2.30pm.
Guru Jimmy will journey between the two venues, offering visitors a glimpse into his colourful world as well as presenting opportunities for 'happy inner selfies' for those looking to attain the ultimate happiness. To enhance his vibe of chilled tranquillity, Guru Jimmy will also travel between venues with his specially curated playlist of electro, funk and pop music.
The artist's Art Bars are reminiscent of Absolut's newest limited edition bottle design, Absolut Mix, which builds on the six colours of pride in a unique way, allowing the colours to mix together when the bottle is moved while still maintaining their individuality. The new bottle reflects Absolut and Guru Jimmy's shared beliefs in an inclusive world that allows people to connect without labels. Absolut Mix will be available in Hong Kong this summer.
Additionally, Art Central hosts Ostrer's latest body of work, Ego Systems, an amalgamation of celebrity icons who seduce their onlookers through traditional and social media with their promises of success, beauty and glamour. ZUMA concurrently hosts Ostrer's critically acclaimed body of work Wotsit All About, a photo series referencing icons of contemporary sugar worship, the artist's imagined result of a corrupted globalisation and increasingly dangerous methods of food production.
'Guru Jimmy's Absolut Ashram of Spirituality' is the latest in a series of collaborations between Absolut and leading contemporary artists to create Art Bar installations – ambitious sculptural environments which double as fully operational pop-up nightspots. This installation follows critically-acclaimed installations by SANGREE at Material Art Fair in Mexico City (2016); John Kørner at Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark; Yazan Khalili at Art Dubai (2015); and Nadim Abbas at Art Basel (2014) in Hong Kong.
"It is Guru Jimmy's greatest delight to help, support and empower people to mix up the emotions of absolute fun, friendship, music and art," said James Ostrer.
"We are excited to be working with both Guru Jimmy and James Ostrer on 'Guru Jimmy's Absolut Ashram of Spirituality'. The Art Bars will be unique spaces where people can come together and relax, and we look forward to bringing both Art Bars to life in Hong Kong," says Saskia Neuman, Global Art Manager, Absolut.
All of the below cocktails are crafted with Absolut Vodka:
RED: Guru Jimmy's Happy Inner Selfie
Pomegranate, cinnamon, and yuzu
ORANGE: Guru Jimmy's Happy Ending
YELLOW: Guru Jimmy's Inevitable Joy
Pineapple, passion fruit, spice syrup, black pepper, mint
GREEN: Guru Jimmy's Liquid Asset
Kiwi, pandan leaf
BLUE Guru Jimmy's Absolut Clarity
Blended orange & peel liquer, lime, homemade citrus cordial
INDIGO: Guru Jimmy's Absolut Spirituality
Infused flower, blueberry, cardamom
VIOLET: Guru Jimmy's It's All About Me
Violet blossom liqueur, lemon, ginger beer


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Energy Brands LTD. filed Israel Trademark Number 217469 on 17 December 2008.
The mark is shown below.
The mark was filed in class 32 for non-alcoholic beverages including water, flavoured water, fortified water, full water, energy drinks, improved energy drinks and isotonic energy drinks, syrups and concentrates, powders and bases for preparing beverages and fruit drinks.
On examination, the trademark division of the Israel Patent Agency issued an office action on 16 March 2010 arguing that the mark was a representation of the three dimensional container that the product was vended in and was not registerable. The applicant paid two years worth of extension fees to keep the application alive and on 18 March 2102 filed a response to the effect that the mark was changes to a two dimensional representation and submitted evidence that the mark was inherently distinctive and had been registered in some 25 jurisdictions around the world.
On 17 June 2012, the Israel Trademark Department issued an office action and rejected the claim that the mark was two dimensional, and invited the applicant to a hearing before the Commissioner.
On 12 July 2012, the applicant apparently responded without prejudice that the mark was indeed two dimensional, without in any way compromising on arguments pertaining to its three dimensional characteristics.
At a hearing, the applicant argued that three dimensional containers were registerable as trademarks, with a survey of the relevant case law. Nevertheless, the applicant argues that the mark was a two dimensional mark and should be registered as such.
Applicant argued that the bottle had acquired distinctiveness and that the shape and appearance of the bottle, including the wide cap and shape of the bottle, and the vertical and horizontal stripes created a distinctive product.
The bottle was not available in Israel, but applicant argued that there are 3,000,000 trips abroad by Israelis and the product is widely recognized abroad. Israelis surf the net and the product is shown on the net, and popular website Y-Net had listed the product as one that should be imported and distributed in Israel.
Applicant argued that product was registerable as a three dimensional or a two dimensional trademark in Israel and submitted an affidavit from Yoo Sun Park, the IP Consultant of Coca Cola, the mother company of Energy Brands Inc. Park stated that the the product was sold in some 25 countries and is fortified with vitamins. The product is registered in some 40 countries, including the US, Australia and European Union. Over the past five years, worldwide sales exceed a billion dollars. There have been over a million dollars of publicity and the product was an official product at the London 2012 Olympics. No evidence was submitted to substantiate the claims, since Coca Cola does not provide advertising costs.
In his ruling, Commissioner Assa Kling noted that the requirements for registration are identical for two and three dimensional marks, and since the images showed the various elevations of a three dimensional object he would examine it as a three dimensional mark.
As to the registerability of a three dimensional mark, Kling referred to the Absolut vodka decision, as a summary reference for the requirements of registering a three dimensional container as a trademark.
He concurred that such marks are registerable and that there should not be special hard and fast rules. He noted that such three dimensional products included functional design elements of the container and additional elements.
In this case, there is a bottle shape that he did not consider distinctive when compared to other bottles in catalogues provided by the applicant. For example, the ICE WATER seems to be sold in an identical bottle.
Kling quoted a recent UK Decision
"In reality, none of these bottles or jars has inherent distinctive character. In use, they always carry a label bearing the real trademark for the goods. We do not say it is impossible for goods to bear more than one trademark, but the reality is that none of the applicants for these marks use of trust the shape as an indication of origin They can only acquire distinctive character after years of use."
Kling did not consider the addition of the word "vitaminwater" and the grey band around the bottle, one third up from the base as sufficient to make the distinctive the three dimensionality of the mark as a whole. Thus Kling rejected the mark as having inherent distinctiveness.
Since all the publicity and usage was abroad, Kling rejected that it had acquired distinctiveness in Israel.
The rejection was upheld.
Decision by Assa Kling, Israel Patent Office, 29 January 2014
It seems to me that Coca Cola should have provided evidence of sales and advertising to support the affidavit, but perhaps there is room to request that such evidence be considered a trade-secret and not published by the Israel Patent Office.
I think the applicants should be forced to consider their application as relating to a mark of known and declared dimensionality. Simultaneously arguing that the mark is both two dimensional and three dimensional renders the mark unclear and ill defined.
There is an inherent problem in representing three dimensional images on two dimensional paper. That said, the eyes perceive a two dimensional image of three dimensional objects. Visual marks can only really be two dimensional. If, however, top, bottom, front, back and side views are submitted in an application, one can conclude that the applicant is intending to submit the views of a three dimensional object to register a three dimensional mark. This is presumably a rebuttable supposition and I understand that the applicant, represented by Shlomo Cohen Law Offices, was tryign to rebut this assumption.
I don't understand exactly how a mark can be two and three dimensional simultaneously. I am tempted to argue that marks considered identical to prior art or lacking distinctive characteristics actually have distinctive characteristics in fourth and fifth dimensions, but that due to the limitation of the patent office requiring submissions in a two dimensional square, these characteristics are simply difficult to depict. I don't know how the patent office would respond to such a suggestion. As a physicist, I am used to believing five impossible things before breakfast, but most of the patent office staff are merely lawyers, who have their own set of fictions, but these are different from those used by physicists.
I urge readers to obtain and read the geometrical satire Flatlanders by Edwin Abbott 1884.
Categories: Intellectual Property, Israel Trademark, trademarks


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STRASBOURG – 90 km – Easy
VALLEE DE LA BRUCHE – 58 km – Medium
WANGENBOURG – 80 km – Difficult
ROUTE DES VINS – 65 km – Easy
MONT SAINTE-ODILE – 60 km – Difficult
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In 1761 Swanston Cottage was built by was the Town Council of the time, who had augmented Edinburgh's first water supply from Comiston, drawing from the springs at Swanston. Swanston Cottage was leased by Robert Louis Stevenson's parents, Thomas and Margaret (née Balfour) during the summer months, for the period of their only son's late teens to twenties (1867 until 1880). An 18th Century former schoolhouse also sits tucked away in the trees adjacent to Swanston Village and schooled children from as far as Bowbridge, Fordel, Comiston House, Lothianburn and Dreghorn.
The name Swanston is mentioned in the 14th Century in the charters granted during the reign of David II. It formed part of the Temple lands of the Knights of St. John and Swanston Farm was once a monk's grange. In a Charter by James VI, in which all the Templar's possessions in Scotland were listed, a reference to 'terras templaris de Swaistoun possess' is included.
Swanston was first designated a conservation area on 20th February 1975 and remains to this day a safeguarded environment, a conservation area and an area of special historic and architectural character.


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Increase college financial aid by planning now
(MoneyWatch) Now is the time to think about some money moves you can make that can increase the amount of college financial aid your student receives. I'm not saying you can magically get loads of free money for college by using a few financial gimmicks, but you can increase the amount of federal student loans and work study aid your student qualifies for by making a few strategic financial moves.
First, if you have significant savings, schools will expect you to use a portion of that money for college expenses. The more money the government believes you can contribute to your child's college education, the less money it's willing to lend you. So, before you apply for financial aid, consider using some of your savings to pay down debt, make additional mortgage payments, contribute to your 401(k) or an IRA or buy big-ticket items such as a car or computer. This helps because when figuring out aid eligibility, the federal financial aid methodology does not take consumer debt, retirement accounts, the mortgage on your primary home or recent purchases into account.
Make these moves now to increase college financial aid
Students paying more of their college costs
Next, if your student has any money that's been saved in her own name, move it to a 529 plan, or transfer the assets to your name. The government expects students to apply over a third of their own money towards education costs. On the other hand, only 5.6 percent of a parent's savings are required to be used for college expenses. The same goes for assets in a 529 plan account. And here's another hint: If the 529 plan is in a grandparent's name, with your student listed as beneficiary, none of that money is considered when determining financial aid.
Before you fill out the FAFSA form - the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form - file your taxes so you're working with your real income and tax liability numbers. You're allowed to use estimates, but you don't want to risk submitting figures that are too high.
And finally, get that FAFSA form in the mail as soon as possible. Financial aid administrators distribute funds on a first-come, first-served basis. And when the money's gone, you're out of luck until next year.


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We are thrilled to announce we will be releasing the 2019 Husqvarna demo next week but wanted to give you a sneak peak on what the Husky crew is bringing out for you to joy ride….
This year at Babes in the Dirt 5, Husqvarna Motorcycles will bring 20 demo motorcycles for beginner, new, and experienced riders. Beginning with the small displacement bikes, best for those "New to Moto," we have four 2019 TC 85's. From there, the bikes go up in engine size and seat height. Read on for a brief overview bikes that will be available at this event and visit www.husqvarna-motorcycles.com for full model range and technical specifications.
The 2019 FE 250 will comprise much of the demo fleet at Babes in the Dirt 5. FE models are dual-sport motorcycles, which are capable off-road bikes that are plated and ready for the road. The engines are second to none in terms of overall performance and versatility, making the bike accessible to both novice and experienced riders. These models will be lowered by shortening the Rear Shock 50 mm, which lowers the seat height from 37.7 inches to roughly 35 inches. The forks are also lowered 50 mm balancing out the front and rear of the bike.
Featuring seven updated models and an all-new motocross line, Husqvarna Motorcycles 2019 motocross range combines cutting-edge technology with high-end componentry to offer riders of all ages and riding levels one of the most efficient and sophisticated motocross line ups on the market.
The 2019 TC 85 17/14 is our standard size 85 cc, meaning the wheel size is standard with a 17'' front wheel and 14'' rear wheel. This is a great beginner motocross bike with a low seat height of 33.5 inches. A lower seat height gives a new rider the necessary confidence to feel comfortable while riding and stopping.
The 2019 TC 85 19/16 is our big wheel 85 cc, this bike has the same engine as our standard size 85 cc but with larger wheels. A 19'' front wheel and a 16'' rear wheel offer a slightly taller seat height of 34.8 inches.
The 2019 TC 125 is a standard size Motocross bike with a 21'' front wheel and a 19'' rear wheel. This bike is the natural progression for a rider who is outgrowing their 85 cc and wants something bigger but with a minimal jump in power; perfect for those who are still gaining confidence in the dirt.
The 2019 FC 250 is a standard size Motocross bike and raced by Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing team riders Michael Mosiman, Thomas Covington and Jordan Bailey in the 250 class. It features a 21'' front wheel and a 19'' rear wheel. These models will be lowered by shortening the Rear Shock 12 mm, which lowers the seat height from 37.4 inches to roughly 36 inches. The forks are then raised in the triple clamps balancing out the front and rear of the bike.
2019 FC 350 is a standard size Motocross race bike with a 21'' front wheel and a 19'' rear wheel. These bikes will be available for demo at the stock seat height of 37.4 inches.
2019 FC 450 is a standard size Motocross bike, the same bike Husqvarna Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Race Team riders Jason Anderson, Dean Wilson and Zach Osborne ride in the 450 class for Motocross and Supercross. The FC 450 features a 21'' front wheel and a 19'' rear wheel. This bike will be available for demo at the seat stock height of 37.4 inches and should only be ridden by the most experienced riders.


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The past few days, Trycia and I were in Denver to check out a Jack White at Red Rocks. As many of our blog readers know, whenever we travel we always love to check out other dog businesses to see what we can improve on or do things better... We checked out a dog wash in Denver and wow, it was very "functional" over being cute and looking clean. It was nothing more than a few elevated bath tubs with plywood around the tubs. I also noticed that they closed at 6pm on weekdays. We also checked out a few pet boutiques and found some pretty neat products that we want to start carrying. Expect a few new things in the next couple of weeks. After visiting, I am pretty sure that we have built one of the nicest dog washes in the country (and I am not just saying that because we own Bubbly Paws). If there is ever anything we can do to improve, please feel free to reach out and contact me; some of the best things we have done have come from our customers. We also checked out a few doggy daycares in the area, you can read more about our visit on the Pampered Pooch Playground Blog.
As for Denver, I really like the city and how dog friendly it is! It really reminds me of Minneapolis just with more hills and hiking trails!
Have a great weekend!