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November Update to Rocket League Bringing Custom Game Modes
November Update to Rocket League Bringing Custom Game Modes
Game changing "Mutators" are on the way.
Developer Psyonix has revealed details on the next major update to Rocket League, which will introduce new ways to play. Players will be able to create custom game modes using a system of presets and settings the developer calls "Mutators." The update will be released for free next month on PlayStation 4 and PC.
Mutators will provide for a variety of different effects on a game, from changing the size, shape, or weight of the ball to the speed and boost effectiveness of cars. More straightforward options will include the ability to adjust the length of a round and maximum score.
Some of these Mutators will be taken from the developer's prior effort Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, such as the "Cubic" and "Time Warp" game modes. New modes will include a low-gravity "Moonball" match and an explosion-heavy "Demolition" mode.
A future update to be released in December will include a Mutator for a game mode based on Hockey.
Fckin sold!
Wait, i already have it.
sold again!!
Can't for the life of me imagine why they'd be called that. It's like that's actually a thing, or something.
Anyway, mutators are exactly what this game needed. Hope Fallout 4 doesn't consume my life next month.
I don't know, i feel as if a large portion of why this more of a success than SARPBC is there decision to be less gimmicky and more serious.

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Brandon Bird's 3rd Place Infernity Tournament Report from the 2014 World's Dragon Duel!
Hey guys, this week I am going to continue on Part 2 on my Worlds tournament.
After testing for many days, it was finally Thursday; it was time to leave for the biggest tournament in Yu-Gi-Oh! My mom and I flew out to Munich, Germany and then onto Bologna, Italy. From there it was an hour and thirty minute car ride from Bologna to Rimini where our hotels were. When we got to Rimini, we stopped by our hotel to drop our luggage off and then we went to take a walk on the beach. We went all the way down the beach to a Ferris wheel, and then we go back towards the hotel to get food. After we get food we went to the hotel and slept after being up for over 24 hours. Friday morning we woke up early, showered and ate, then down to the hotel lobby. From the lobby, we got picked up by a shuttle just for Worlds participants.
The first stop was the card shop. We arrived at the card shop and we swap cards a lot to finish our decks. After the card shop we went to the mall to get food. There was a little misunderstanding and so all we did at the mall was get some food, we didn't actually have time to walk around and enjoy ourselves. After the mall we went to the hotel for a few minutes and then back to the card shop to swap some more.
Around 4:15 we took the World Championship shuttle bus back to the Hotel and we walked to the Holiday Inn to go to the Judge Question and Answer. A few really good question were asked. For example, someone posed the situation that if Infernity Break is chained to the activation of the effect of Number 101: Silent Honor ARK what happens to the card Silent Honor ARK targeted? The head judge ruled that the card Silent Honor ARK would just stay on the field and nothing would happen to it. The question about the Atlantean cards being banished/removed from the grave was asked.The head judge ruled that Atlantean cards would get their effect was if they were banished, but if they were shuffled into the deck they wouldn't, since if they are banished you can still read their effect but if they are in the deck you can't read them so they will not activate.
Another question was asked about Call of the Haunted being chained after being targeted by Mystical Space Typhoon and if Call of the Haunted targeted a monster that gets its effect when it is special summoned would the monster get it's effect? The head judge ruled mandatory effects would get their effect but optional effects would not get their effects. These rulings are only in affect for the 2014 World Championship so if you have any questions about how a ruling would work at an event you attend, make sure to ask the head judge of the event. After the Judge Question and Answer, we headed back to our hotel and freshened up for the Welcome Dinner that Konami provided us with. We walked to the Welcome Dinner, got our goodie bags and made some tokens.
After that me and Clayton Hill got some last minute cards that we originally didn't have in our deck and then we tested. Later on it got too late so we went to our hotel rooms and went to bed. The next morning we did everything we needed to do, got breakfast, went to the hotel lobby then were off to the event. After getting there and looking around the convention center, we re-sleeved our decks and headed to the room where all the dueling was taking place.
Before getting into what I faced I'm going to talk about my deck list.
- 3 Infernity Archfiend
- 2 Infernity Necromancer
- 3 Stygian Street Patrol
- 2 Summoner Monk
- 2 Dark Grepher
- 1 Armageddon Knight
- 1 Archfiend Heiress
- 3 Soul Charge
- 3 Upstart Goblin
- 3 Mystical Space Typhoon
- 2 Instant Fusion
- 2 Forbidden Lance
- 1 Reinforcement of the Army
- 1 Foolish Burial
- 1 Archfiend Palabyrinth
- 1 Infernity Launcher
- 1 Book of Moon
Side Deck:
- 1 Dark Hole
- 1 Mind Control
- 2 Spiritualism
- 2 Zombie World
- 2 Shield Crush
- 2 Darkfall
- 2 Needle Ceiling
- 2 Vanity's Emptiness
- 1 Trap Stun
Extra Deck:
- 1 Fusionist
- 1 Kamionwizard
- 2 Leviair the Sea Dragon
- 1 Number 80: Rhapsody in Berserk
- 1 Gagaga Cowboy
- 1 Abyss Dweller
- 2 Lavalval Chain
- 1 Evilswarm Exciton Knight
- 2 Diamond Dire Wolf
- 1 Number 50: Blackship of Corn
- 1 Number 101: Silent Honor ARK
- 1 Number 66: Master Key Beetle
The only card I would change in my deck would be Darkfall. I never sided this card in, but I realized after I turned in my decklist that I really didn't like it. I would probably replace both of them with Forbidden Chalices if I had the opportunity to do it again.
I felt really confident with my build of Infernity. My build was different from a lot of the other player's builds because I didn't run Dynatherium because I didn't want to run a lot of monsters that are bad by themselves, I would rather just run Forbidden Lance to protect my monsters from being destroyed in general. Some other people played Photon Thrasher in their Infernity build. My thought of this card is if you draw this card with as little as one monster on your side of the field it is useless. As an Infernity player, you cannot always afford to have a monster in your hand.
A lot of people also side decked hand traps like Maxx "C" and Flying "C" in their Infernity decks. My thought on those cards are they are only good going second and that's only if your opponent actually does something. Maxx "C" could make you draw too many monsters that your not able to actually make a play for a few turns and your opponent can just keep going off. Flying "C" can at least stop them for quite awhile but yet again it is only good going second and Needle Ceiling does about the same thing but is good going first and second. Spiritualism is only good going second too but it completely stops your opponent from being able to respond to your plays. Shield Crush is probably on of the best cards in my side deck. Shield Crush kills Geargiarmor, Fire Hand and Ice Hand when you have no field, and most importantly it destroys Flying "C" so Flying "C" can't destroy you. Next card I want to talk about is Vanity's Emptiness going first vs Infernitys and making a huge field with a lot of backrow then when your opponent want's to special summon flipping Vanity's Emptiness wins you the game and maybe even the match.
Round 1:
I faced Bujin. His name was Joaquin Fernando Leites from Argentina.
Game 1: He went first and just set a couple of back row and set a monster. I opened Summoner Monk, Trap Stun, Infernity Break, Solemn Warning, Mystical Space Typhoon, and for turn I drew another Trap Stun. I summoned Summoner Monk, discarded Mystical Space Typhoon to summon Armageddon Knight. I used Armageddon Knight's effect to send Stygian Street Patrol to my graveyard. I overlayed Armageddon Knight and Summoner Monk to XYZ summon Lavalval Chain. Then I activated Lavalval Chain's effect to put Infernity Archfiend on the top of my deck. I then set all my Trap cards and ended my turn. My opponent Normal summoned Bujingi Hare and Flip Summoned Bujingi Quilin. He then attempted to overlay for Bujintei Susanowo but I activated Solemn Warning. A judge at the event had ruled that I was able to activate Trap Stun before I drew my card for turn, so I activated it and continued my Draw Phase. I ended up summoning Infernity Archfiend and winning the game. He drew bad so I just did common Infernity plays and the game was over from there.
Game 2: The first part of the duel just kept going back and forth but during the end of the duel I activated Infernity Launcher and he tries to activate Solemn Warning on it so we call a judge over and the judge rules that he cannot activate Solemn Warning since the activation of Infernity Launcher does not summon a monster. Now knowing that he has Solemn Warning set I just make Diamond Dire Wolf to destroy his set Solemn Warning and then I make Number 101: Silent Honor ARK to take his face-up Bujintei Kagutsuchi and then I attack with my Number 101: Silent Honor ARK for game.
Round 2:
I faced the Infernity Mirror Match. He was the other American duelist for Dragon Duels, Clayton Hill, so we both knew each other's deck lists.
Game 1: He went first and summoned Summoner Monk, discarded a spell to summon Dark Grepher. He activated Dark Grepher's effect to discard Infernity Archfiend and send Stygian Street Patrol to grave. Then he went off and made a huge field. I opened 2 Stygian Street Patrol, Mystical Space Typhoon, Infernity Break, Trap Stun, and Book of Moon. So it was pretty much over. He had too good of a field for me to make a play.
Game 2: I was on the play and I opened Summoner Monk, 2 Trap cards, and 2 Spell cards. I Normal Summoned Summoner Monk and activated his effect ditching a Spell card to Special Summon another Summoner Monk. I activated the second Summoner Monk's effect to summon Armageddon Knight and he scoops since he opened bad and I opened great.
Game 3: He opened really well and so did I, but he went first so he got to set all of his Trap cards and those are what stopped me from being able to make a play, so he won that match.
Round 3:
I faced Geargia. His name was Kaun-Lin Yu from Taiwan.
Game 1: He went first and all he did was set a monster and some back row. I made Lavalval Chain to put Infernity Archfiend on top of my deck. Set all of my cards in hand and a few turns later I won the game.
Game 2: He decided to go first. He opened really good, I opened really bad; it was over from the start.
Game 3: I was on the play and I summoned Lavalval Chain to top deck Infernity Archfiend. I set a lot of backrow like usual and ended my turn. He set Geargiarmor and set 4 Spell and Trap cards and ended his turn. I drew Infernity Archfiend for turn and flipped Trap Stun he chained Wiretap. I Special Summoned Infernity Archfiend and attempted to use Infernity Archfiend's effect. He chained Breakthrough Skill to Infernity Archfiend's effect and I chained Forbidden Lance to Breakthrough Skill targeting Infernity Archfiend with my Forbidden Lance. I went off and he lost quickly.
Round 4:
I faced Bujin. His name was Kim Chan-ho from South Korea.
All that really happened was the match grinded out 'til we were almost in time and he topdecked Soul Charge and won because of it. I was making him run out of resources and he had 2 Bujincarnations in his hand and a Bujin Yamato and I had Infernity Break set so I could destroy one of the monsters he summoned if he had only drew one monster but he drew Soul Charge so there was no way for me to stop him so he won.
That's the end of Day 1 and I come in 6th place after Swiss for Dragon Duels. Clayton Hill comes in 1st after Swiss for Dragon Duels and Oliver Tomajko comes in 2nd after Swiss for the regular event.
After the tournament me, my mom, Clayton Hill, Clayton's dad, Oliver Tomajko, Oliver's Family, Jarel, Julia, and Franklin all went out to eat at this Brazilian Grill. They served us a lot of meat and since it was right next to the beach me, Clayton, Jarel, Oliver, and Oliver's little brother went to go find a ball to play volleyball with. After asking some random Italian people where we could find a ball, they asked why we were in Italy. We told them we were in Italy for the Yu-Gi-Oh! 2014 World Championshp. One of the Italian people asked if the blue dragon (Blue-Eyes White Dragon) was still the best monster. We said yes because he has the most attack he must still be the best! After that Oliver and his little brother came running back saying they found a ball to play with so we used that. After getting it stuck on the roof a couple of times and Oliver and Clayton climbing on the roof to get it, it was time to head back to the hotel. On our way back to the hotel, we went to a gelato place near the hotel to get a cup of gelato. Since we are still really sandy from playing volleyball we go back to the hotel and shower. After we all shower we meet up in the lobby to talk for a little bit and then head to bed to get some sleep for the big event the next morning.
We woke up early and did what we needed to do, ate some breakfast and got on the shuttle bus to go to the convention center. We got to the convention center and I really wanting to buy some of the worlds sleeves, but they are sold out so we just went to the player's area and waited for Top 8 rounds to be up.
Day 2:
We now have to have a judge shuffle after every time you are done searching for the turn.
Top 8:
I faced Geargia. His name was Edison Pan from France.
Game 1: He went first and opened Arsenal and a few backrows. I opened something like 2 Stygian Street Patrols, 1 Archfiend Heiress, 1 Armageddon Knight, and 2 Spells/Traps.
Game 2: This time I went first and opened a very good hand allowing me to make a huge field with a lot of protection while he drew very bad allowing him to do a bunch of nothing.
Game 3: The beginning of the game was really grindy but towards the end of the game I was at 3700 life points and he was at 3100 life points in time on my second to last turn. He had Number 50: Blackship of Corn on the field that he used to destroy my Number 101: Silent Honor ARK the previous turn. I make my own Blackship of Corn to destroy his Blackship of Corn. He draws Geargiarsenal on his last turn. He Normal Summons it and tributes it to Special Summon Geargiarmor. He activates Geargiarmor's effect to set itself and passes his turn. I ask the judge if that was his last turn just to make sure, and the judge says yes. So I just end my turn and the match is over.
Top 4:
I faced Madolche. His name was Ivan Alvarez from The Dominican Republic.
Game 1: I lost the die roll but I drew really well and made a huge field with a lot of destruction traps. He opened Madolche Magileine so he was able to search his deck for Madolche Anjelly and set some backrow but I won the next turn by flipping Trap Stun and attacking him for game.
Game 2: He went first and we both drew bad, but I only drew 2 monsters all game. It was a long game with a bunch of little monsters attacking but he had more monsters to attack me with and he ended up summoning Madolche Tiaramisu and shuffling my Stygian Street Patrol and my Trap Stun into my deck so I had like no cards to work with and wasn't drawing any anytime soon.
Game 3: I was on the play and I opened Infernity Archfiend, Instant Fusion, and 4 other Spell or Trap cards. I Normal summoned Infernity Archfiend and activated Instant Fusion to Special Summon Kamionwizard. I made Lavalval Chain and detached Infernity Archfiend to use it's effect to try and put Infernity Archfiend on the top of my deck but he had Effect Veiler. I set my Spell and Trap cards and ended my turn. He Normal Summoned Madolche Anjelly and tributed it to Special Summon Madolche Hootcake in Attack Position. He used Madolche Hootcake's effect to Special Summon Madolche Messengalto. He used Madolche Messengalto's effect to search out Madolche Chateau. He activated Madolche Chateau shuffling his in grave Madolche Anjelly into his deck and attacked over my Lavalval Chain. The only other monster I drew the entire game was Dark Grepher and that was when I had nothing else useful.
3/4th Place Playoff Match.
I faced Infernity. It was again the other American Duelist for Dragon Duels, Clayton Hill, so I knew his entire deck list. This match was actually streamed as a feature match, which you can watch by clicking this link.
Game 1: I lost the die roll so I have lost every single die roll the entire weekend. He went first and made a huge field with Infernity Barrier, Forbidden Lance, and Bottomless Trap Hole set. I had a Summoner Monk, Armageddon Knight, Mystical Space Typhoon, Another Spell, and 2 other cards in my starting hand. I activated Mystical Space Typhoon hitting Infernity Barrier because I knew where it was due to him searching it. I summoned Summoner Monk and activated his effect discarding the Spell card from my hand. I knew his deck list and knew he didn't play Fiendish Chain or Breakthrough Skill but he played Bottomless Trap Hole. If his back rows were real other than Bottomless Trap Hole he would have activated them. So I decided to summon another Summoner Monk since it was the only monster in my deck that had under 1500 attack so I could safely make Evilswarm Exciton Knight and blow-up his entire field. I overlayed both the Summoner Monks to XYZ summon Evilswarm Exciton Knight. For some reason he did not activate Bottomless Trap Hole on my Evilswarm Exciton Knight but I blew up the entire field and the game was over since he was down to top decking.
Game 2: He went first and drew a lot better than me so he made a good field and I just sat there with a bad hand vs his good filed. At this point the match could go either way so I side out my cards for going second vs Infernity and put in my cards for going first vs Infernity then game 3 begins.
Game 3: I go first and do a couple of things with Reinforcement of the Army and Vanity's Emptiness set. He summons Armageddon Knight to send Stygian Street Patrol to the grave. He then Activates Instant Fusion, pays 1000 life points, and I chain Vanity's Emptiness. He ends his turn so I draw for turn and draw Infernity Launcher. I set Infernity Launcher and activate Reinforcement of the Army to search Armageddon Knight from my deck. Vanity's Emptiness then goes away so now I can explode and attack for game, so that's exactly what I do.
Later on after the tournament me, my mom, Oliver, Oliver's Family, Jarel, Jimmy, and his guardian all went out to eat at this place with huge burgers and ate some really good pizza. Then after eating dinner we went out to the gelato place again and back to the hotel to get some sleep before we had to go home on our long flights.
At the end of the tournament I came in 3rd place. It was great having people come up and asking me to sign their stuff. I had a good time in Italy and I hope I can go back eventually. See you guys next week with another article!


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Client: Highbury College of Further Education
Consultant: Gifford & Partners
Architect: Studio 4
Main contractor: TSL Ltd
Value: £1,530,000
Start date: January 2001
Completion date: November 2001
Designed and built in the 1960s, this 10-storey, stone-clad building at Highbury College of Further Education was in urgent need of a makeover. We were called in to mastermind a complete redesign.
The exterior of the building was reclad and its usage changed, transforming it into five storeys of student accommodation on the uppers floors and five storeys of teaching facilities below. Special features included an additional plant room constructed on the roof, specialist broadcasting and arts facilities and two recording studios. The work was design and build for M&E services.


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Hunter: Steve Blakeman
Ratings to date: 5
Average Rating 4.0
I recommend this outfitter
To say this hunt was amazing is an understatement! Doug & Julie McMann run an incredibly organized outfit, and everything is first class. Doug's hounds are so impressive I cant find the right words for them! The country is spectacular and the amount and quality of game is world class. We treed multiple bears on most days, and anyone who thinks a hound hunt is easy has never done it! This is tough country, but incredibly rewarding. I took a great bear on the last day and would wholeheartedly recommend this hunt to anyone. This is a hunt everyone should do at least once...but I guarantee it wouldn't be your last!
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Hunt Information
Date of Hunt - May 2015
Implement - Compound Bow
Hunt Type - Guided
Personal Guide - Doug
Number in Camp - 2
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Did Weather Affect your Hunt? No - Weather not a factor
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Cool morning and evenings and spectacular days. 40s to 70s same day.
Cool morning and evenings and spectacular days. 40s to 70s same day.


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CSSD Seminar Series
The CSSD hosts a variety of public lectures, panels, and roundtable events throught the course of each academic year, featuring CSSD Fellows and visiting scholars. These events are usually free and open to the public. Information on upcoming events can be found in the Events Calendar.
Beyond GDP: International Experiences, Canada's Options Workshop
A two day workshop on May 23 and 24 2019 at Dalhousie University aimed at advancing academic, public, and policy debate on wellbeing measurement in Canada through bringing together Canadian and international academics, policymakers and government officials, non-governmental organizations, and the public. Conference sponsors included Engage Nova Scotia, The CIC: Halifax Branch, Green Analytics and SCORAI. Edited book volume featuring conference presentations currently underway in collaboration with University of Toronto Press.
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An authors' workshop for an ongoing collaborative project on security policy coordination in North America and European Union, co-hosted by the CSSD and the EU Centre of Excellence. Held at the Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, 26-27 August 2016—please see the workshop agenda, below. A selection of the workshop papers are were published as a special issue of Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
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An authors' workshop for an ongoing project looking at the sources of experts' ideas about Canadian foreign policy, organized by CSSD, and held at Hart House in Toronto, 28-29 September 2016. Financial support from the Canadian International Council, the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, ISA-Canada, the Association for Canadian Studies in the US, and to "the Center for the Study of Canada at SUNY Plattsburgh.
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This workshop series brings together invited representatives from academia, the federal and provincial governments, the Royal Canadian Navy and international navies, and industry, as appropriate for each event. Participants share their research and experience on various aspects of maritime security policy, with particular attention to evolving maritime security challenges, procurement and naval capabilities development, and international and inter-agency cooperation.
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Kittball's Rob Kali joins ZEHN Records to release two euphoric cuts entitled 'Martii' EP.
Kittball's Rob Kali joins ZEHN Records to release two euphoric cuts entitled 'Martii' EP.
Having a wide musical background, Rob Kali is able to create energetic and innovative sounds through his productions and DJ sets. Rob's hard work and creative flair has earned him releases on David Tort & Markem's HoTL Records imprint and Kittball, as well as supporting the likes of Mark Knight, Pete Tong, Erick Morillo and Tube & Berger. His 'Martii' EP sees him join the ZEHN Records label following the likes of Modul Kollektiv, Daniel Rateuke, Suulo vs. Curl, Los Cabra and Deniz Kabu & Wolfson.
'Martii' gets things rolling with a gentle melody, tense synth notes and rhythmic percussion together creating a euphoric atmosphere before 'Claudi' finishes things off by layering delicate percussion, alleviating keys with emotively driven leads and fluid musical elements.
Rob Kali 'Martii' EP drops on ZEHN Records on 15th March 2019.
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Kenya is well known around the world for its savannahs, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands, but probably most of all, it's also home to extraordinary wildlife like lions, elephants and rhinos. One thing that a lot of people don't think when they head to Kenya is the coast of Kenya and the beautiful Indian Ocean and the beaches there.
Having spent quite a bit of time there and travelled over the country, here I share a bit about the coast. Where to go and why.
There are many options in getting to the Kenyan Coast
How to get there?
When it comes to flying; you can get straight into Mombasa, Lamu or Malindi if you're looking for the most direct option.
Many international flights arrive into Mombasa, or you can pick one of the budget airlines that fly to here and other airports on the coast from Nairobi.
Since the completion of the railway track, there is a direct train from Nairobi to Mombasa, which has now been converted to a high-speed train that only takes around 4 hours and only $7.
The trains fill up fast – despite running daily – and tickets must be bought a few days in advance either from the train station in person Or via the Kenya mobile payment method M-Pesa. For a travelling tourist, this can be difficult.
There is the option of a Bus; however, I have never taken this mode of Transport, but it is the cheapest and slowest way. Well, I say it is the most time-consuming if you fancy running it like me it takes about two weeks!!!
The Coast of Kenya is part of Africa's Swahili coastline, with its tropical climate and melting pot of cultures.
With much of Asia just across the Ocean and Kenya's colonial past. European, African and Arabic influences jostle peacefully alongside each other here to create a fantastic mix.
The Swahili coast is malarial so you will need to take Malaria tablets. Also, you should avoid them biting you in the first place.
Capital of the Kenya Coast, Mombasa is a bustling port city.
There's not a huge amount to do here and have to confess I use it to get from the airport to the beaches.
However, it's entirely possible you'll spend a night or two here on your way to other coastal destinations.
Top sites include the UNESCO-listed Fort Jesus and the crumbling old town.
Where I spend most of my time on the coast. I love this place. A very relaxed spot and has a friendly local community and an arty-alternative crowd of expats. They tend to gather around Distant Relatives backpackers.
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Set on the banks of a creek, there are tons to do in Kilifi including visiting local markets and enjoying sunset dhow rides.
Along with other activities such as Sailing and Waterskiing.
However, if you feel like relaxing with a good book and enjoying the sunshine as part of your Kenya itinerary, this is the perfect place to do that too.
If you do, you have to walk around in a Kikoy, and it's a must on the coast!
Has had a bit of a bad rep in recent years due to conflict in Somalia and Al Shabab. Road travel here is considered unsafe; however, things are changing for this beautiful place.
Get a return ticket to Manda Island and from there hop on the short ferry to the island of Lamu itself.
There are no cars on Lamu, only donkeys wandering the ancient streets of this UNESCO World Heritage-Listed town. As mosques sing out their call to prayer and the smell of simmering samosas lie thick in the air.
While there are some attractions to visit in Lamu and beautiful beaches to explore too; this is the sort of destination where the essence of it is the real attraction so take a deep breath, relax and spend your wandering and getting lost in the fascinating streets of this remote community.
Growing .up this was the party place to go over New Year. This is likely to be one of your favourite spots on the Kenya coast.
This resort town is an Indian Ocean paradise, with white sand continually lapped by azures tides and palm trees that perfectly frame the picture.
If you're feeling active; there is skydiving, scuba diving and kitesurfing all on offer here, as well as boat trips and snorkelling trips to enjoy, as well as day trips to the Shimba Hills National Reserve.
Otherwise enjoying a stellar sunset from near the Kongo Mosque is a must, as is hammock swinging.
There's a lot of resorts that line the beach at Diani, but the sand is still very much public property meaning you can easily enjoy it on any budget too!
Visiting Watamu is another excellent beach spot on the Kenya Coast if you enjoy being dazzled by spectacular beaches or visiting ancient ruins, which are tucked away in the jungle nearby.
With a substantial Italian expat population don't forget to indulge in some gelato or a tasty espresso as you soak up the incredible coastal views in Watamu too.
For another Blog on Kenya check out https://www.johnhorsfall.org/2019/08/horseback-safari-kenya/


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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
New Math Bloggers: Need Help?
Like Sue VanHattum, I also wanted to offer help. If it weren't for the encouragement of many in the math twitterblogosphere (such as Julie, Kristen, and Shelli), I wouldn't have gotten very far. So, like Sue, I am going to offer some help for up to 5 new bloggers who need some encouragement. If you have questions and would like some answers from someone who's been there, post in the comments, please. I'll take the first 5. You can then email me at lmhenry9 at gmail and I'll answer them.
Meanwhile, I look forward to hear what you all have to say!
10 comments:
- Nick Gerhard said...
I'll sign up for some mentorship. Can't hert kan it? Just kidding.
- Wed Aug 15, 08:51:00 PM EDT
- Unknown said...
I just started blogging yesterday and have no clue how to do any of this stuff! I NEED help! :)
- Thu Aug 16, 03:27:00 PM EDT
Yeah!! Just what I needed...HELP! :) I am a long time lurker (years and years) who has been afraid to start a blog due to time. I want to make it as easy as possible and would appreciate any advice you can offer!
- Thu Aug 16, 06:49:00 PM EDT
- Lisa said...
@Carey and @algebrainaic - I'll be happy to help you, but I need you to contact me. Best way is to email me your questions to lmhenry9 at gmail dot com. I look forward to hearing from you!
- Thu Aug 16, 09:01:00 PM EDT
- Haydee C. said...
I just need help with uploading files. I'd love to start sharing!
- Fri Aug 17, 01:19:00 AM EDT
- Erika said...
I just started my blog a few weeks ago and would love to hear your best piece of advice. Thanks.
- Sat Aug 18, 12:40:00 AM EDT
- Lisa said...
@Erika - Please email me at lmhenry9 at gmail dot com with your questions. I'll be happy to reply to you there.
@MathyMissC - I DMed you on Twitter with the answer to your question. If you'd like more detail than in 140 character bursts, please email me at lmhenry9 at gmail dot com.
@Carey and Algebrainaic - I'm still waiting for your questions. Email me at lmhenry9 at gmail dot com.
- Sat Aug 18, 12:20:00 PM EDT
- geometry help said...
To be a good math blogger,we should be good in our subject,an extensive knowledge and experience would be required.
- Sat Sep 01, 05:33:00 AM EDT
- Lisa said...
I would disagree with you geometry help. I learn from all sorts of Math Teacher Bloggers, some with a lot of experience, and some with very little.
- Sat Sep 01, 07:35:00 AM EDT
- Lisa said...
Continuing... Daniel Schneider (http://mathymcmatherson.wordpress.com/) had a LOT of great ideas and things to share during his first year of teaching. Sometimes, I end up learning more from the inexperienced teachers than the most experienced. It is not fair to say that experience is required.
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The news for Big Beer seems to keep getting worse. Millennials have been blamed for some time for the sales slumps among low-calorie and premium domestic brews, and now it seems the generation right behind them may bode even more poorly for brewers.
A report issued by financial firm Berenberg Research claims that members of Generation Z prefer spirits and wine to beer, something not seen before. The research was first reported in Business Insider.
"Generation Z marks a turning point, being the first generation to prefer spirits to beer," said the report, released late last month.
Berenberg surveyed more than 6,000 people between the ages of 16 and 22 across the U.S. to determine the generation's approach to drinking. What those below legal drinking age say about beverage alcohol may not be true by the time they begin to legally consume. Like Millennials, the younger generation appears to think the perceived quality of spirits and wine trumps beer, especially those made by large brewers said to lack appeal.
At the same time, Gen Z overall is drinking less alcohol than the generations before it because of health- and hangover-related concerns.
However, that one historically beer-happy group even within Gen Z still prefers beer to other types of alcohol. White men have historically made up most of the American drinking population and drink more alcohol on average than women, as well as more than men who are not white.
That's changing. Berenberg Analysts estimate that Gen Z women drink 24% less than their male counterparts, while Millennial women drank roughly 40% less than Millennial men when they were between the ages 18 and 22. The change seems to be driven by men drinking less, as opposed to women drinking more. In fact, Gen Z is drinking less than the generations before it in general.
Additionally, the U.S. is becoming increasingly diverse. As a result, other racial groups—especially the swiftly growing number of Hispanics—are now crucial for beer companies. Beer companies have historically focused advertising to white men but this strategy must be up for question now, as beer sales slump and women, as well as black and Hispanic men, are now drinking more alcohol compared with earlier generations.
"There will be 27% more 20- to 34-year-old Hispanics in Generation Z than was the case for the Millennials generation," the report states. "Alcohol categories favored by this sub-group will face the greatest demographic tailwind.
Berenberg predicts that, as Gen Zers make up an increasing proportion of Americans who can legally drink, companies that sell products aimed at subgroups that aren't white men have the best chance of growing sales. For example, analysts found that women of all races are more likely to buy flavored spirits, and predict that tequila sales are likely to rise due to Hispanic Americans' more positive attitudes towards the drink.


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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a majority in the upper house elections that took place Sunday. Abe's Liberal Democratic Party now has control over both houses of the Parliament, for the first time in six years. Abe said that the result of the victory will be the endorsement on the economic reforms he already started, to end Japan's stagnation.
The exit polls are presenting Abe's party as a sure winner but the official results are to be scheduled on Monday. Still, the preliminary results show that Abe's coalition will control 130 seats in the 242 seat upper house, the international media reports.
The result of the elections comes as a vote of confidence for Abe, BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says. According to the media, the turnover for Sunday's elections was lower than the last upper house election, in 2010.
"Our economic policy is right. This is what I have said and I expect the support of our people", Abe said. "These policies are contributing to the economy already and further improvement is needed, including wage increases, more consumption, more investments", the Prime Minister added.
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Condition and recruitment of Aristeus antennatus at great depths (to 2,300 m) in the Mediterranean: Relationship with environmental factors
IdentificadoresURI: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/11373
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AssumpteAristeus antennatus
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Depth and seasonal trends in the biological condition and recruitment of the red shrimp (Aristeus antennatus) have been analyzed over the slope to 2,233 m in the western Mediterranean. The best biological condition of A. antennatus (gonadosomatic index [GSI]) for mating and spawning occurred at 800–1,300 m in summer, in areas deeper than the fishing grounds distributed between 500 and 800 m. Females moved shallower to feed on the upper slope during periods of water-mass homogeneity (autumn–winter), increasing their hepatic gland weight (hepatosomatic index [HSI]). Females moved downslope (800–1,100 m) to spawn (high GSI) during periods of water mass stratification (late spring–summer). The HSI of females decreased with depth down the slope in autumn, after the reproductive period. Small juveniles were distributed deeper than 1,000 m, associated with high near-bottom O2 levels, low turbidity and high C:N in sediments, implying favorable trophic conditions. This confirms the importance in ...
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Over The River
From Plank Road Publishingadapted/arr. John Riggio
Ah, the many joys of Thanksgiving! Grandma's house and pumpkin pie, turkey and mashed potatoes, and the pounding of Celtic drums on a cool November morning! The music has a rollicking feel to it, and the fiddle and penny whistle play the melody line, which should help young singers who are learning this song for the first time. (from Music K-8, Vol. 23, No. 2)
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The Occultist 2: Demons
May. 20, 2018USA77 Min.N/A
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Six paranormal ghost hunters are competing to stay in the most haunted house in New York , the winner gets one million dollars. Little do they know they are being set up to be tortured and killed by a ghoulish soul – a bloody nun .
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Soon we celebrate our one-year anniversary as a podcast, so we looked back on the first few episodes and pulled some weird commercials. The sound quality isn't as great as we have now, meaning we've made a lot of progress! That feels good. We threw in some original dance music between commercials. Enjoy!
Episode notes:
- Ep. 1: Baby Bowling
- Ep. 2: Thomas Gotchi
- Ep. 3: "Nothing"
- Ep. 4: Barry Berries
- Ep. 5: The Screaming Room
- Ep. 6: Ray's Fireworks Barn
- Ep. 8: Snow Box
We didn't have a commercial in Ep. 7 because it was a "mini-sode."
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Spotlight on the Stars: Steve Carell
For this week's spotlight piece, I wanted to look at someone from the cast of the upcoming movie Foxcatcher. I had three incredibly talented men to choose from, but I ultimately went with Steve Carell, a talented comedic actor finally getting his time to shine dramatically. The man has been snubbed for Oscar attention before, but this very well could be the year that he finally breaks through and gets an Academy Award nomination. That would cement him not only as the A-list comedy star, but as a truly respected dramatic performer as well. As such, he's a perfect candidate to shine a spotlight on today.
Carell first got his start on the small screen, showing up on television programs like The Dana Carvey Show, Over the Top, Watching Ellie, and of course The Daily Show. The latter was where he really made his initial mark, playing a correspondent. He then began to pop up on the big screen in supporting roles, notably with Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy, Bruce Almighty (stealing scenes in both of those pictures), and the Woody Allen movie Melinda and Melinda, plus Bewitched as well. The groundwork was being put down for the man to really dive in to a starring role and when the opportunity came along, he didn't disappoint.
He became a star with The 40 Year Old Virgin, a film he both co-wrote with Judd Apatow and starred in. Not only was it a critical and commercial hit, it launched Carell's career in a big way. The movie got a small bit of awards buzz, with much of it centered on his acting/writing. It's an absolutely hilarious and surprisingly touching comedy, a modern classic, in fact. That performance got Carell on the A-list, allowing him to attempt to do something different his next time out.
Carell then followed that up with Little Miss Sunshine, which damn near scored him a Best Supporting Actor nomination. For many, that announced him as someone who could really do more than just make you laugh. Often acting without dialogue, he crafted a sad character that you felt for in a big way. It was very strong work and his snub by the Academy is one that many feel is a particularly stinging one.
The other notable films in his filmography so far include the likes of Dan in Real Life, Date Night, Despicable Me, Dinner for Schmucks, Evan Almighty, Get Smart, Hope Springs, Horton Hears a Who!, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and The Way Way Back. There's also the sequels Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and Despicable Me 2, as well as Crazy, Stupid, Love. and the recent release Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. There's animation, comedy, drama, and dramedy, showing off more range than I think a lot of people realized he had in him. It's all prep work for what's to come next though.
This week, he delivers the best performance of his career in the aforementioned Foxcatcher. Playing disturbed millionaire Jon du Pont, Carell shows a powerful and often shocking side of himself that we've never seen before. The work is incredible and 100% worthy of all the acclaim it's been receiving since the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. He's currently being campaigned for Best Actor, though there's a small chance he ends up in the Best Supporting Actor category instead. Either way, he's a major force and deserves heavy consideration regardless of where he's placed. I'll be talking more about the movie itself tomorrow, but it's a big time contender, trust me there.
Overall, Carell is a talented actor who has now shown an ability to wow with his dramatic chops, in addition to the A-list comedic ones we already knew he had. Going forward, he's going to display both of those talents in the upcoming Looney Toons related flick Acme and the awards vehicle Freeheld. Even if he somehow is snubbed for an Oscar citation this year, he won't be out of the game long. Carell is an A-lister who will be feted by the Academy at some point. It's just a question of when, not if.
Stay tuned for another look at an A-lister next week!


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Well, I knew it was coming. It always follows November. So why to I always get a huge shock when I have to flip the calendar? And say to myself – Oh snap! It's December already!? Yup, every year, I go along thinking I have lots of time. I even pat myself on the back when I get holiday parcels mailed early, or some gifts purchased. (that's 2 pats for me, by the way! I've done both those things already!) But seriously; I still have to make my Christmas cards & send them out. I still have gifts to buy and wrap. And of course, there's the daily grind that goes along with all of these 'extra' things to do.
Really, what more can I say? I'm working on it! I do have my list of gifts still to buy. Christmas dinner is at our house this year, so I have decorating and shopping to do for that. And the dreaded 'deep house clean'; do you do that too? I mean not just a regular clean, but a remove everything, clean and then put it all back after purging some of it kind of clean? *ugh* One of these years, I'll do what I always say I want to do – hire house cleaners to do it for me! That's not cheating, right? Anyway – I am working on my Christmas cards right now, so I thought I'd show you the 'work in progress'. How are your holiday cards coming along? (don't tell me you've already mailed them!)
So, mass producing cards isn't my favourite thing to do. In fact, I try to avoid it like the plague. However, when push comes to shove, I just have to do several of the same design, at Christmas. Then I'll do several more of a different design, and so forth. This way, a few people will receive the same design, but not everyone. And my sanity is spared (no comments, please).
I shared a card for last week's Paper Craft Crew challenge, using just a snippet of the Santa peeking from behind the tree. You can see that post HERE, if you missed it. But for my sending cards, I wanted to use more of the images, plus the dies – they're just too cute!! So in the photo above, you can see that I pulled out some pieces of white cardstock, and stamp 3 of each of the images I want to include on the cards. Since I know I'll be die cutting each image, this is a great way to use up my scraps!
Each image is stamped in Nocturne ink, and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Next, I pulled out all of my markers – Zig, Spectrum Noir and Stampin' Up! – and went to town! I chose the colours I liked best, whether the marker is alcohol based or not (most of them are), and since the images are heat embossed, I didn't have to worry about the outline smudging or running. After the colouring is done, I add highlights with my white gel pen.
Next, I die cut each image – gave my arthritic shoulder a work out!
I love the Magnetic platform for my Big Shot; it means that I can die cut a lot of images at once, and the dies don't slip around. The photo above of the die cuts is a bit closer, so you can see more of the details in each of the images.
Well, the next step I'll be working on is putting together the images in a scene, on card bases. I'll share once I'm done, before I put them into their envelopes and send them off! Then, I'll be working on the next couple of designs, and getting those done.
But you know, I'm also working ahead! I already have this Wednesday's Paper Craft Crew challenge card done. Also, this Friday you're going to love our Stamp 'N Scrap Blog Hop! Be sure to come back for that! Of course, there's also completing projects for during the holidays when we'll all be taking some time off; Christmas eve, day, and Boxing Day. Hopefully I'll get enough done ahead of time that I can have some 'down time' for myself, to spend with family and friends.
Thanks for visiting with me today! I hope that you're planning on some 'down time' for yourself as well; even if it's just to visit me here, and see what I've been able to accomplish! *wink* Take care, my friend! See you tomorrow.
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By Suzanne Basra, Content & Internal Communications Manager at Ogilvy UK
This May we'll be hosting healthBOT 2018, the first conference dedicated to AI, messaging and chatbots for Health & Wellness in the UK.
The half-day event will feature a range of hot topics and thought provoking debates from world-class innovators, thinkers, strategists and entrepreneurs.
Ahead of the event, we caught up with Ogilvy's Chief Digital Officer - Health & Wellness, Ritesh Patel, to find out more.
Tell us a bit about why you decided to create healthBOT 2018?
We decided to create healthBOT2018 to showcase how this new emerging technology platform and capability can be applied to the regulated healthcare industry.
Other industries such as publishing, ecommerce, travel and financial services have readily embraced the use of Chat Bots for all manner of things, such as customer service, notifications, content engagement and marketing.
At Ogilvy, we have pioneered the use of chat bots in health and this meeting is to showcase the possibilities.
The event is the first of its kind to bring together AI, messenger tech & human interaction in the health & wellness space. Why is this so important in the present world?
The ability for machines to take on mundane tasks in customer service and customer engagement is now possible with the marriage of AI, Chat, NLP and machine learning.
The technology is cost effective, and combined with the scale of platforms like Facebook, has created an environment to provide assistance (we live an assistance economy) at scale. Our clients and partners should get educated of the benefit of all this.
What opportunities exist for brands & companies to tap into the power of AI & messenger tech in the health & wellness space?
Brands can create all manner of capabilities using these new tools (including voice enabled solutions), from simple customer service on demand to notifications and trackers. In health, we see the use of bots to provide access to on demand service and help, with patient education materials, HCP content and product information. On the wellness side, we see the use of bots to help live with a disease, provide wellness content and notifications for living well.
Are there any trends in the health & wellness industry that we should be watching this year?
The big trends are in wearables, trackers and data.
We are seeing an explosion of connected devices to track and monitor health and wellness at an individual level. The use of AI and Bots will enable the capability for micro moments to be catered for.
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The excitement is palpable in the BROlympic village as we stand less than 36 hours from the 2017 F3 BROlympics opening ceremonies. The event Q's have gone to great lengths to guarantee that this will be a #csaup to remember. In case you've been hiding under a rock, here are the details.
What: 10 individual events developed to test strength, speed, stamina, physical toughness and mental toughness. Participation in each event is optional. A point system will be used to determine an overall champion, with the top three competitors receiving awards.
When: Saturday, April 22nd 2017, 0600 – 0800
Where: Community House Middle School track (9500 Community House Rd, Charlotte, NC 28277)
Who: All men of F3, regardless of region
- 0530-0600: Check-in and warm-up (there is not an extensive group warmup due to time constraints, so arrive early to get sufficiently loose)
- 0600-0610: Instructions, Parade of Nations (F3 Nation), COP, Invocation
- 0610-0630: 1 Mile (2 heats)
- 0640-0700: 100m Prelims (OYO)
- 0715-0720: 100m Final
- 0730-0750: The Phlegethon (2 heats)
- *0610-0750*: Open Stations OYO
- 0750-0755: Official Scorer results tabulation
- 0755-0800: Closing Ceremonies: Awards, Name-o-Rama, BOM
Events (Revised):
- 1 Mile (2 heats)
- 100 Meters
- Preliminary heat is run OYO
- Top 8 competitors compete in Final head-to-head heat
- Max Burpees in 2 Minutes
- Chest to ground / Feet clear ground / Arms overhead
- Football Throw for Distance
- 2 attempts per PAX
- Keg Toss
- 2 attemps per PAX
- Enter throwing circle under control
- Throw keg w/out leaving circle
- Max Kettlebell Snatches in 2 Minutes
- Arm lock extension
- Switch arms as necessary
- Max Sit-ups in 2 Minutes
- Partner holds feet / hands behind head / knees bent
- Elbows touch knees and shoulders touch ground on each rep
- Max 135 lb Bench Press
- No time limit, but once initiated cannot rest the bar on the rack or chest
- Head/shoulders/butt on bench, feet on ground
- At least 1 forefinger in contact w/ "power ring" on bar
- Bar must touch chest / arm lock extension
- Max Tire Flips in 90 Seconds
- *The Phlygethon (medley event with 1 minute plank, 100 meter sprint, 20 burpees, bear crawl to opposite side of track, 40 single-arm kettlebell swings, 400 meter kettlebell carry to finish)
* A "river of boiling blood and fire" in the 7th circle of hell in Dante's Inferno.
In each event, first place receives 100 points, second receives 95, and it continues to fall by 5 points through fifth place, which is worth 80 points. From sixth to 20th place, the drop is 2 points: sixth is worth 78 points, seventh is 76, and so on. Then from 21st place on, the drop is 1 point: 21st gets 49 points, 22nd gets 48, etc. This means that participating in an event guarantees you points, and skipping means leaving points on the table.
During the awards ceremony the top three competitors in each event will be announced, as well as the top "respect" competitor in each event. The three competitors with the most total points will bring home the hardware.
What to Bring:
- Shovel flags
- Any 40-50 lb kettlebells that you have
- Watch/Phone to time yourself and your partner
- Water (we will also have some on site)
- Old workout gear / F3 shirts for the F3 PAX that live at the Charlotte Rescue Mission. These guys MUCH appreciate our donations and truly wear them with PRIDE.
Event Map:
The Phlegethon:
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How about some political theology for a Sunday? It's only slightly deep, but bear with me for a good point.
The hours are fleeting. . . . Plan and work today as if tomorrow depended on it.
In Exodus, God delivers the ten commandments to Moses and the second one commands "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below." Ex. 20:4 (NIV)
While it is easy to think of that commandment as demanding the exclusion of only physical idols, the Westminster Longer Catechism says that, in addition to graven images, the second commandment forbids "making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever." WLC 109.
One thing people tend today when today is not going to well is to imagine their future as much brighter. If we are worried about today's debts, we imagine a future where we have won the lottery. If we are sick, we imagine ourselves healed. We ignore the proverb, "do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth." Prv. 27:1 (NIV). We turn the future into an idol. Jesus said "do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
By now, you are no doubt wondering what this has to do with two percent. To get there, remember The Screwtape Letters. Written by C.S. Lewis, they are a group of letters from the demon Screwtape to a younger demon named Wormwood. Wormwood is trying to lure a man to hell and Screwtape offers advice. The letters give great insight into the condition of man.
In letter 15, Screwtape tells Wormwood, "[T]he Enemy [that is, God] wants men to think of the Future too — just so much as is necessary for now planning the acts of justice and charity which will probably be their duty tomorrow. The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty; though its material is borrowed from the future, the duty, like all duties, is in the Present." TSL, 15.
Screwtape suggests that if man dwells on the future, he will not plan for it, he'll just expect it. When the future does not arrive, he will be angry with God when, in reality, the man should have prepared for the future today.
How does that get us to two percent? It's easy.
The race for the Presidency is going to be close. Virtually every campaign expert will tell you that, when a race is within two percentage points in the polls, a grassroots effort is extremely effective. The polls can be wrong within two percentage points — but there must be active work.
Friends, we may have comforting images of George W. Bush re-elected President of the United States. If this race is close though, we can take no comfort in that image. "The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty." We must begin our grassroots work right now.
If you have not yet begun to volunteer, do so now. If you have not volunteered to work a get out the vote effort, do so now. Worry about today. Are you doing enough today to ensure tomorrow? If you are not, call your local Republican party headquarters and get involved. Don't have a good one? Call the national folks.
The RNC is looking for people to help in swing states. Get involved.
The hours are fleeting. Do not wake up on November 3, 2004, with President-elect Kerry and wonder what happened. Plan and work today as if tomorrow depended on it.


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Like many of you i'm sure, I've been a gamer since I was able to use a computer – though in my case, that's an Atari 800 and then a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k (rubber keyboards for the win!). My first Flight Simulator was the old "Jumbo Jet Simulator" cartridge on the Atari 800, and that was back in the days when I really didn't play it properly and 99 times out 100 i'd just wind throttle right up from the start and take off down the taxi way rather than actually finding the runway… My first Train Simulator is certainly the Southern Belle game produced by Hewson Consultants, followed shortly after by their Evening Star game.
I've always been in IT – starting out in technical support for a major UK ISP and then moving to running all the technical side of a smaller ISP. My core interest however has always been in developing software but i'd decided to specifically avoid doing that for a career as I didn't want to "spoil" my hobby by turning it in to my day job. Turned out that the stress of doing administrative and technical IT work in the ISP was far too high in the small company we were in (lots of unhappy people and unresponsive management, so I was always the one on the receiving end of complaints, not good!) and an opportunity came up to go and do contract software engineering at British Telecom – so I took it. What a mistake i'd been making! I had the best time of my career to date there and spent a long time in my career continuing along that path. After BT I worked at a company producing online security systems and, scarily, it was my code protecting hundreds of thousands of bank accounts in Australia for a couple of months while they trialled the solution 🙂 After that, I went on to develop call center systems with the developer/supplier of most of the UK local government systems. Working with telephony is both hugely fun and a huge challenge because there are some many things outside of your control – but when it all works well, it's pretty awesome.
It was at this point that I was offered the opportunity to join RailSimulator.com as the Head of Third Party Development, so I jumped at the chance and made a huge career change. I'm still there now at the renamed Dovetail Games and now i'm working as the Senior Producer for the next gen Train Simulator.
Note: All my views on this site are my own, this is not a Dovetail Games site and I am not speaking as a Dovetail Games representative. I don't want to hide the fact that I work for Dovetail as that feels disingenuous and people may not be aware of any bias I may have – so I want to be completely clear about that, but at the same time be equally clear that I don't speak for them either!
Flight Simulation
Before Train Sims were really a thing, I was heavily interested in Flight Simulator – starting with Flight Simulator 4. I also remember being able to take the world from one of the Flight Sim games and put it in to the game engine of Combat Flight Simulator and benefit from its much improved lighting and graphics but still use it for civil aviation purposes 🙂
As well as flying quite a lot, I also repainted a variety of different aircraft in a custom livery for Atomic Systems – the company I still run that owns things like UKTrainSim. None of these repaints ever got released, they were done for a friend and I to use on our round-the-world flight. They were also done a long time ago on a very old version of Flight Sim, so don't be too harsh 🙂
I think the Hawk screenshot above is actually one of those taken from the Combat Flight Sim engine using the Flight Sim data, if memory serves correctly.
Train Simulation – Content Creation
Microsoft Train Simulator was released in the UK in something like June or July 2001 and I remember entering one of those silly competitions in a magazine (what colour is the green flying scotsman? – I think that was the question!) – surprisingly, I won! My prize was a copy of MSTS 2 weeks before general release and a new Microsoft Mouse. To my delight, reskinning was about as simple as it was in Flight Sim, so I set about playing around with things. I set up a web site called "Neutronics Repaint Workshop" to house my repaints which initially included such delights as a Virgin Trains Acela HHP-8. However I did get on to slightly more sensible projects when I repainted all the GWR coaches that were included to go behind Pendennis Castle in to a BR Blue Gray livery. I'll show some shots of them below, and apologise in advance, I didn't know what I was doing 🙂
The BR Blue Gray coaches proved extremely popular as one of the first "real" UK items available for people to add to the game, the Acela's were perhaps less so – but I put that down to the lack of a UK electric route personally 🙂
I then advanced to 3D modelling using a product then called 3D Canvas (it's 3D Crafter now), the author was adding support for MSTS exports so I helped where I could by simply playing with it. The end result was a Class 55 Deltic in a variety of liveries, I was supremely pleased with the result at the time but it really wasn't very good at all and only barely resembled the real thing 🙂 However, it was good enough, and at a time when there was very little else out there, that Abacus decided to publish a collection addon called "Abacus Roundhouse" and they wanted my Deltic collection to be included, of course I was over the moon! 🙂 It was unpaid but that's fine – they were sending me a copy of a new 3D modelling tool called Train Sim Modeller and putting me on the beta team to help shape it, so I was all in.
What I didn't expect however was when I walked in to Game after it was released, expecting to buy myself a copy for my collection (they were going to send me a copy later but I wanted to be able to say i'd bought something with my work on it from Game!). They'd sent me some images of the key art for the box and it had a US loco on the front, which I kinda expected given that they were a US company of course. What I actually saw when I walked in to Game, right up there on the shelf in front for everyone to see was my loco staring back at me. I just cannot explain how awesome that felt! It was also used as the art on the disc itself.
So now we move on to Train Sim Modeller, I spent some time learning how to use this and ended up working very closely with the author (who was converting it over from the very popular "Flight Sim Modeller". I ended up building a Class 66 in it – about 8 times in total what with improvements to the product and crashing occasionally losing my work (part of the beta testing challenge!) and I think I built the final version in about 4 hours from start to finish 🙂 I was very happy with the result, given my artistic skills I still look back and say – unlike the Deltic – that it does actually look like the Class 66. I'd experimented with extra detail on the bogies too, when many 3D models of trains were still using flat textured boxes for the bogies. I released it on UKTS (it's still there!) in EWS and Freightliner liveries and it was reskinned by the community in to everything under the sun. Of course both the Deltic and 66 were replaced by significantly better models that other people made later, but these were mine and that was good enough for me 🙂
The Class 66 was actually included in source form on the Train Sim Modeller CD in case people wanted to see how it was built, and I also wrote the vast majority of the printed manual included in the box. I've since spoken with a lot of people at exhibitions and i'm amazed at how many people have built the model of my house, the NE Banana van from my dads model railway and the fictional diesel loco that made up the three fully worked examples I put together for the manual.
I also did a lot of contract work for various developers. I worked on a new US cab to go in the RS-11 locomotive that was in the LTV Erie Mining Company pack (and after that decided firmly I would never make another cab again in my life!), I also wrote all the scenarios for the Severn Valley Railway addon by Blue Arrow (what an amazing team to work with!). I also worked a lot with EuropeanBahn, doing various things such as helping optimise some of the 3D models and adding some MSTSbin compatibility.
Train Simulator – UKTrainSim
Some of you may remember at the start there was another site called Train Sim Files, which was the main site everyone was using for forums and file sharing. It was a great site run by a great guy and it survived for quite a while. It was completely free to access, which was obviously popular with downloaders – however eventually it started running in to problems, it had become too popular for its own good and internet hosts which advertised "free, unlimited bandwidth!" started pointing to "fair use" clauses and shutting the site down. The owner of the site tried valiantly to come up with all kinds of options for limited access during different hours, or running the downloads across multiple ISP's but eventually it became extremely stressful and required a huge amount of manual work to keep it going.
I had always wanted to take "neutronics repaint workshop" and make it in to something bigger with a forum and download library – however I fully appreciated that the community was not big enough to support a second site in competition so I had offered some help to TrainSimFiles and said I wouldn't do anything unless either the community got big enough or they asked me to do something.
I remember I had just returned home from a holiday to Florida when I checked my email and there was a message there from one of the co-admins basically saying that TrainSimFiles was now down permanently and if I wanted to set something up he'd be happy to pass the message on to anyone that asked. What then ensued was two weeks of frenzied coding while I built the file library and the main site – and UKTrainSim was born.
I opted for a paid-subscription model (£3 per month, or if you bought a year – £1.66 per month!) with limited free access. I was using a major host in the US which had access to loads of bandwidth but this was costing tremendous amounts of money (something like $1000 per month I think) – I did this during my time contracting for British Telecom so it was something I could afford reasonably easily (oh how times have changed!) and so the aim was to eventually have it pay its own way at some point, but to have a plan whereby the site would be stable and always there for people. I achieved that and while there were (and still are) people who complained about the subscription model I think having gone through the unfortunate situation with Train Sim Files, people appreciated that if it was something they were contributing money towards, that it made sense and ought to be able to stay around.
UKTrainSim grew to around 3000 paid members at its height before the "bubble" burst on the Train Simulation community and it's been shrinking ever since. I seem to recall that at one point the bandwidth utilisation of the site was something like 20 terabytes per month and when I started enquiring with UK hosts about the possibility of moving it here, they literally wanted 5 figure monthly sums to host that much bandwidth. Ouch. With the shrinking site and costs going down, I was eventually able to move it to the UK however and for several years now it has resided on a server in Cardiff.
Eventually with my transition to RailSimulator.com / Dovetail Games I felt it was not appropriate for me to be there and be the person operating the main "independant" train simulation site, so I asked my father if he'd step in and take over the operation and administration of the site from me, which he agreed to do. In this way, I no longer have editorial control over what the site does, how the moderators act or have any influence in this kind of thing on the site and I think that has worked well.
Train Simulator – Dovetail Games
Since joining Dovetail Games i've helped a lot of people get their content on Steam for sale as DLC and i've even had the opportunity to contribute to some of the first-party projects with my own work such as implementing the signalling and cab signalling system for New York New Haven.
I started to take notice of this new phenomena called Twitch at some point a couple of years ago and eventually decided I would install some software, figure out how it worked and see what would happen. The initial goal was simply to understand Twitch rather than to actually start a channel and make a bigger deal of it. Initially as with any start-up channel it had zero viewers but it soon grew and after the first month it was already starting to get a regular following, so I decided to continue with it. I also encouraged Dovetail to start using it and the preview streams kinda came out of that, the first few of them just being done from my garage the same as my TrainSimLive streams.
That's everything you never wanted to know, but hey, you asked 🙂


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Custom position a dream win for starter
TEEN Gerrard Bannan says his new four-year apprenticeship has been a long-time coming.
Gerrard, 19, has recently started at Custom Fluid Power in Gladstone as a fitter and turner.
"Straight up, (the apprenticeship) was everything that I hoped for," he said.
"It's a long road ahead."
Gerrard will learn skills on the job and shadow tradesmen but he said in the future, he would also like to continue his training at CQUniversity.
Custom's branch manager Grant Aitken said Gerrard had made a great start.
"Gerrard has shown a lot of initiative," he said.
"Custom is very keen on enhancing the skill level in the town and is passionate about supporting local businesses."
Mr Aitken said Gladstone Area Group Apprentices Ltd was instrumental in securing the apprenticeship.
He said it was the first time the business had sought GAGAL's help to employ new staff.
"From the very first contact they've been proactive about helping us get it over the line," Mr Aitken said.
"Since we've put Gerrard on, the help we've received has been second to none."
GAGAL's CEO Leigh Zimmerlie praised Custom for taking the "huge step" to employ an apprentice.
"We're very, very happy with Custom and more than grateful that they've chosen to come through GAGAL," she said.
"We have had 34 years in the business to date and it's very exciting for us to welcome another apprentice onto our books.
"At the moment, (Australia is) going through a huge skills shortage and it's only going to get worse.
"So without companies such as Custom, who have the foresight to put an apprentice on who'll take four years to train, we will get that skills shortage.
"For GAGAL, it's really exciting. Every apprentice we put on, we feel that it's one step forward for Gladstone in the future."


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Aneez Esmail: Almost got expelled from universityBMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5908 (Published 01 October 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5908
Aneez Esmail, 57, is professor of general practice at the University of Manchester. For 20 years he has been throwing an unflattering light on racism in the NHS and universities. He recently wrote a review for the General Medical Council on possible racial bias in the examination for membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners and concluded in The BMJ that subjective bias owing to racial discrimination may be a cause of higher failure rates for candidates from ethnic minorities.1 He rejected an OBE in 2006 because in his view it represented an outdated and hierarchical honours system. He is interested in patient safety, and he served as medical adviser to the Shipman inquiry.
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Roee Rosen makes appearances in varying guises and always provokes renewed speculation. Over the years he has worked on developing a figure, a feminist prototype going by the name of Justine Frank, using various means of expression – painting, literature, film. She appeared in the 1920s in Surrealist circles in Paris and, amongst other things, had an affair with George Bataille and wrote a pornographic novel with the title Sweet Sweat. While in Out (Tse) (2010) Rosen dealt with the political sayings of former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a sadomasochistic setting, in Hilarious (2010) he utilizes humour is such a dysfunctional way that it continually tips over into unease. In his most recent project he has been occupied by the fictitious Russian poet Efim Poplavsky (aka Maxim Komar-Myshkin) who emigrated to Israel where, amongst other things, he founded the Buried Alive Group, an artist association with members from the former Soviet Union.
Further works by Roee Rosen can be seen as part of the group show Ich bin eine andere Welt. Künstlerische Autor_innenschaft zwischen Desubjektivierung und Rekanonisierung (I am another world. Artistic authorship between desubjectification and recanonization) ( curated by Georgia Holz and Claudia Slanar). 22 Nov. 2013–12 Jan. 2014, xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
The Confessions of Roee Rosen (2008) will be shown on 9 Jan. 2014 in Top Kino Vienna. The artist Roee Rosen will be present.
Film Program
Roee Rosen
The Buried Alive Group Videos: Historical Joke #1, 2013, 3 min
Two Women and a Man, 2005, 16 min
The Buried Alive Group Videos: Animation Chant for a Hybrid, 2013, 4 min
Out (Tse), 2010, 35 min
Hilarious, 2010, 21 min
The Buried Alive Group Videos: Historical Joke #2, 2013, 5 min
Compiled by Dietmar Schwärzler.
The programme will be accompanied by a discussion between Roee Rosen and Dietmar Schwärzler.
A mumuk kino and sixpackfilm event in cooperation with xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts and Top Kino.
Roee Rosen lives in Tel Aviv. Exhibitions/Festivals (selection):
Maxim Komar Myshkin: Vladimir's Night, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (2013); Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2012); Roee Rosen/Justine Frank, Extra-City, Antwerpen (2009).
Dietmar Schwärzler lives in Vienna and is a curator, film and media educationalist and on the staff of sixpackfilm.


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US Army General Jack Keane has claimed the sporting event could be used as a disguise for the test launch of one of the dictator's deadly ICBM rockets.
North Korea had seemingly relaxed World War 3 tensions by engaging in diplomatic talks with its neighbours in the South and agreeing to send athletes to the winter games across the border.
But General Keane has urged people to remember the danger the hermit nation and its despot leader continue to pose.
The US Army veteran said: "I think if he does something, it'll likely be another missile test."
Gen Keane added he was "speculating" about "one of the things" Kim Jong-un "could do".
He added: "I think he is getting out of this what he wanted.
"He uses negotiations to promote good will, and it's obviously not going to work, trying to drive a wedge between South Korea, the United States and Japan, which is not going to happen here.
"I don't think he's going to do anything that is going to damage that good will that he currently has as a result of these negotiations."
The goodwill built up through negotiations could however be unravelling, after North Korea abruptly cancelled a cultural event scheduled to be held with South Korea.
The event, part of a series ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, was scheduled for February 4 at Mount Kumgang in North Korea.
It has since been cancelled, with a telegram from North Korea reportedly blaming "biased" and "insulting" media coverage in South Korea.
Seoul has the decision was "regrettable" and urged the North to uphold all the agreements that had been made.