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Nature called– and I when I gotta go I gotta go.
Geeeez… I mean Colorado has so many natural destinations that it would have been cruel punishment to visit the state without going to any of nature's wonders.
Just south of Denver, Red Rocks Park is full of… duh… red rocks. And not just sumo-sized boulders either. Imagine Arizona's Grand Canyon as a big velvet cake. God sliced it up but on his way to the picnic table, he dropped chunks of that canyon cake upon Colorado.
Unfortunately, our minimal time only allowed visits to the "man-made" areas of the park. We bypassed the dozens of trails leading up hills and around mountains, past cliffs to see… a stadium! In the park! Due to the natural acoustics of the hills and canyons, some wise, old people decided to carve and build a stadium into the mountainside. A walk through the nearby museum revealed an impressive lineup over the past decades from the Beatles to Mariah Carey. (I wonder if an avalanche was ever caused during an insanely loud concert?)
Next we drove (yes, our lazy butts) to nearby Dinosaur Ridge. A short walk– along a road that rose with the hill– we played with the piles of broken slates– led us to a station. Darkened by scientists of old to improve the visibility, large footprints dotted that hillside. At different points in time, several dinosaurs had decided to climb that hill, and now their footprints were forever frozen in time.
Red Rocks Park and Ampitheatre is a beautiful, large chunk of art. Everywhere you look there is a pile of red rocks, short and squat bushes, or a congregation of tall trees. The scenery is breathtaking… if your eyes can get away from the occasional blue port-a-potty. Most of the areas we visited in the park also drew scores of other visitors– so don't expect to easily "get away from it all." The geographic location is crazy– one second we were driving past hotels and McDonalds… the next second we were surrounded by pieces of God's cake mess. Nature called and I went.
Click on my pictures to see a few decent pics of the park
Parking and admission free
Park open year round– visitor center open at varying times.


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Heat wave to hit 90s this weekend
A heat wave is coming.
Temperatures "well above normal" will grip the region this weekend, reaching the mid-90s on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
Saturday will be plenty warm with a high of 86 degrees, but Sunday could hit 93 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
That would make it the hottest on that date.
The June 25 record was set in 2006 at 88, records show.
"It's not all that unusual to get a heat wave in June," Danny Mercer, a Weather Service meteorologist, told The Seattle Times.
A special weather statement says it will hottest on the coast Saturday and hottest inland on Sunday.
Officials are warning people planning to cool off in rivers, lakes and streams that the water will be frigid even if it's warm outside.
Hot spells sometimes bring a spike in drownings.
Forecasters said it will remain warm through at least the beginning of next week.
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Description: Hotel SofiaThis Modern Hotel is Fitted With All the Amenities Guests Need For a Pleasant Stay, Including 2 Restaurants, a Coffee Shop, a Bar/Night Club Where Guests Can Have a Drink and Catch Up With Friends or Colleagues, and a Terrace With a Small Swimming Pool, Where Lunch and Dinner May Be Served. Further Facilities Include a Lobby With 24-Hour Reception and Check-Out Service, a Hotel Safe, a Currency Exchange Facility, a Cloakroom, Lift Access, a Newspaper Stand and Parking For Those Arriving by Car. For an Additional Fee, Guests Can Make Use of the Hotel'S Internet Access and Room and Laundry Services. The Property Comprises a Total of 102 Guest Rooms and is Fully Air-Conditioned.
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Cataract Mission Application Deadline
If you do not have insurance (including Medicare and Medicaid) and live in Central Virginia, you could qualify for free cataract surgery. Virginia Eye Institute proudly announces its 19th annual Cataract Mission. Participants will receive free cataract surgery and follow-up care. For an application, call (804) 287-4905 or email email@example.com. Deadline for applications is February 1, 2012; Screening day is February 18, 2012; and Surgery day is February 25, 2012.


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A Dutch-based food wholesale and logistics company uses CostPerform to get an operational grip on product group profitability. With over 10,000 products that need to be delivered quickly and efficiently, logistical performance is under constant scrutiny.
Botswanas postal service uses CostPerform to keep track of individual post office performance. All individual post offices are modeled using CostPerform.
The high-volume logistics center of a US-based postal services company uses CostPerform to calculate and monitor its Service Level Agreement rates to other divisions and departments.
Laboratory and chemistry
Many Dutch-based laboratories use CostPerform to set their commercial rates.
An international chemical company uses CostPerform for the total planning and control cycle for their international services center (ICT, Finance and HR).
Teriak, a Tunis based pharmaceutical company, does a multidimensional analysis of the profitability (by product, by customer, by country, etc.), Teriak's managers were able to identify the most and least profitable segments and to analyze in detail the cost structure. Particularly, fixed and variable costs analysis allowed the management to make some important decisions:
- Change of the export prices policy
- Change the focus of the sales force team to the most profitable products
- Stop producing non-strategic items generating losses
Agrimed, producer of high quality olive oil in Tunesia, implements a predictive model allowing Agrimed to develop an aggressive prices policy.
- Australian Post
- Botswana Post
- Lithuanian Post
- Geld Service Nederland, The Netherlands
- Hellenic Post Courier, Greece
- InBev logistics, Belgium
- Post NL, The Netherlands
- PostMail, Switserland
- The Bookstore, UK
- SMTT, Tunisia
- Vroegop Ruhe &Co, The Netherlands
- TOS Worldline, Europe
- Mediq, Europe
- DSM Shared Service Center, Netherlands
- Rabo Vastgoed IT services
- Endemol Entertainment Group, Netherlands
- Wolters Kluwer, Netherlands
- US Postal services, call center
- PGGM, Netherlands
- Dubai World Port
- Aldipress, Netherlands
- Dutch Consumer Organization
- 3 Dutch Waterlabs
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3 Daily Hacks To Maximise Your Day
Does it sometimes feel like you're trying to juggle elephants to be able to fit all you need to get done into your day?
I'm sure we can all relate to wanting or needing to do certain tasks but either falling to the easy option or getting distracted (usually by social media feeds)!
Being productive. Which can also be described as being efficient, having good work rate, capacity or output. Opposite of this is idleness and being unproductive.
As busy PT's and gym owners we can relate to the daily struggle of 'fitting it all in' so we've put our heads together and collated a few key 'hacks' you can implement straight away to make sure your next one is a success.
Chances are you're woken by your phone alarm so it's easy to get distracted by texts, emails and social media right from the get go. However, if your alarm clock is a small child or two, then you've a whole host of other morning distractions going on before you even begin getting yourself sorted for the day, meaning the first 'hack' is all about the night before.
Hack #1 - Get ahead of the game
If you start prepping your day 8 to 12 hours in advance you can save a tonne of time and stress the following morning. Just having 1 or 2 of your meals prepped and/or made ready before you go to bed can mean more time to sleep/feed the kids/commute/eat better breakfasts or whatever takes up the most time first thing.
We don't have to preach about the importance of good nutrition to make your day (and body) function better but improved energy, focus and enjoyment rank highly here.
This then moves on to as far as setting your clothes out before bed and getting your bag ready for work.
Minimising distractions prior to sleep is key to a restful nights shut eye, so cut all screens and lights at least 30 mins before falling asleep to put you in a calmer state.
Bonus tip: about a hour before bed, make a list of 3 wins you had that day and also what you were grateful for as well as setting out your 3 big to-do's for the next day so you're focussed on what you need to get done once the day starts.
Hack #2 - The Morning Maximiser
Regardless of whether you're a 'morning person' or not you can't argue that getting stuff cracked early helps to create an easier day where there seems like there's less to get done.
Review your 3 big to-do's from last night and allocate 'power hours' where you will be able to focus on completing said task without distraction.
If you have the time in the morning to exercise then putting the body through a challenging but enjoyable training session will wake you up, send 'feel good' endorphins around the body and get the mind fired up to begin working.
Breakfast can be an individual choice, skipped or eaten or potentially delayed until later that morning, if you can't face food first thing. If you've prepped a breakfast the night before to take into work or eat mid morning this single task can allow you more time in the morning to either exercise or even sleep in a little later. Who doesn't love a few more minutes in bed!?!
Bonus tip: doing short 4 minute (1 round) to 20 minute (5 rounds) high intensity workouts can get simple effective exercise into a busy day. HiiT (high intensity interval training) sessions can be as simple as picking bodyweight exercises and working for 20 seconds then resting for 10 seconds and repeating 8 times to complete 1 round.
Hack #3 - Carpe Diem
Time to seize the day. You've maximised your morning, now it's time to make this a good day.
Remember your Power Hours you set earlier? Once these come around turn off all distractions, grab a strong coffee (black, no milk or sugar) and get some focus ready for the task in hand.
Work hard through this hour and if possible shut yourself away, inform co-workers not to bug you or put up a do not disturb sign on your door and get 'in the zone'. Make sure you stick to the time schedule set and work hard to complete the task.
The last point is very important. We can easily make the task fill the time, so for example you've 3 hours spare before the kids need to be picked up from school but a whole load of washing to get through and also get dinner prepped. It can be easy to have these tasks take the whole 3 hours but if you're strict with your time and set a power hour then you can effectively free up 2 hours for 'you time' doing the things you want to do and not the things you have to do.
One final bonus tip: try not to say yes to too many things. It can be easy to inundate yourself with tasks by saying you'll do this and that or be here and there, when really you're stretching you capacity too far.
This will only lead to becoming disheartened you're not getting things done and lack of focus when thinking of all the other things that are still outstanding.
For us it helps to set 90 day goals (things that are big goals and important to reach but given enough time to achieve). We then break these down into monthly goals. Once you have a month goal you can chunk this further into weekly goals, followed by daily tasks that will take you towards reaching that weekly -> monthly -> 90 day goal.
Just reading this I bet there are multiple things you can think of that need changing in your daily schedule and overwhelm can mean nothing changes.
So start small, pick one 'hack' from above and try it for a week or two. If the changes you make stick and start to become habits then try to implement another, and so on.
Health and fitness is also hugely relatable to productivity. Being pro active in eating right and training hard takes time. If you're someone whose time poor then it is exercise and nutrition that seem to suffer first.
If you need help with setting your 90 day goals when it comes to your fitness and nutrition then fire us a reply either via email or our Facebook™ page with the subject '90 day game plan' and we can discuss how to help you further.


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Born in Italy in 1935, Bruno was the youngest of seven siblings. When Bruno was just one year old, his father began travelling to America to work in construction, as there were far more career opportunities in that industry there. He would regularly return to Italy or send back money in order to feed his family. However, in 1939 when the second world war broke out, all borders were closed, and thus travelling back to Italy, or at least sending money to his family, became impossible. Bruno's father was left stranded in the US, whilst his mother had to care for their seven children alone with no income.
After the Nazis invaded and occupied their village four years into the war, the Sammartino family were forced to live in secrecy on the Valla Rocca mountain from 43-45. Once a week, Bruno's mother would make the 24 hour long journey down the mountain back to the village. As the soldiers that now lived in their former home slept, Bruno's mother would break into the family's basement, and take as many supplies as possible that they had built-up over the years. She would then make the return 24 hour journey all the way back up, hoping that her children had survived the full two days without her. On one of these life-saving missions, Bruno's mother was captured by the Nazis, and barely made it out alive – the entire family was even once lined-up in front of a German firing squad, before being rescued only seconds from death.
During the war, Bruno had to watch four of his siblings die, whilst simultaneously battling a serious bout of scarlet fever himself. Bruno was not the strapping, giant of a child you would envision him to be – he was the smallest in his family, weak, malnourished, and seriously underweight. When the war was over and they were allowed to return to his home, Bruno was examined by doctors, and given just days to live. Somehow, Bruno made a miraculous recovery, and managed to survive for another 73 years.
All of these events happened before Bruno's tenth birthday.
It would be another five years before the Sammartino's would be able to move to America to reunite with their father, as in the 1940s, anybody who wanted to emigrate would have to pass a physical exam, and young Bruno was too sick and thin to pass. In 1950, Bruno finally touched American soil, and reunited with his dad for the first time in over a decade.
Being as small as he was, Bruno was subjected to bullying in his new American schools, so after a suggestion from one of his class mates at Hebrew school, the future champion began cutting grass in order to pay for a gym membership. What happened next was truly incredible – at 14, he weighed a mere 84 pounds, by the time he left high school, he was 220 pounds.
Out of school, Bruno took after his father and began a career in construction, yet continued to work out. Whilst attending a carnival with some of his construction colleagues, Bruno was challenged to wrestle with a giant orangutan, with a $50 prize fund for anybody that could last five minutes with the behemoth. Whilst most never made it to the full five, Bruno managed fifteen minutes.
In the late 50s, Bruno was so dedicated to the weight room, he was setting world records in deadlifting, judging Mister Universe Competitions, becoming friends with Arnold Schwarzenegger, receiving an offer to play football for the Pittsburgh Stealers, and most importantly of all, meeting with Vince McMahon Sr., who at the time owned Capitol Wrestling Corporation, to discuss being a professional wrestler. Although Bruno had never considered the sport before, Vince was so keen on signing this weightlifting star that his deal was more lucrative than what was being offered by an NFL team, and thus, Sammartino started training.
And so began his legendary career, which spanned several decades, and included the longest reign of any world champion in WWE history. As a favourite in New York, Bruno sold out Madison Square Garden 187 times, a record that nobody has come close to breaking. He picked up his first title in 1963, beating the difficult to work with Buddy Rogers to do so. In fact, Vince and Bruno were so worried Buddy wouldn't lay down for Bruno, they lied to Rogers about the finish, and when the match began, Bruno used his superior strength to intimidate his opponent, and shoot his way to victory in 45 seconds.
Bruno was the most popular wrestler in the country throughout the 1960s, and in 1971, was still as popular as ever, yet his body was burnt out from the gruelling championship schedule. After 2803 days at the top, Sammartino was granted a break from the ring, so on January 18th 1971, the most shocking moment in wrestling history occurred. Ivan Koloff became the first man to beat Sammartino for the belt, defeat the people's hero in a matter of minutes.
Nearly 22,000 fans that night went completely silent. Koloff's hand was raised, and he immediately left the ring without collecting his newly won championship – this was done so a riot would not ensue, and could allow a longer period of time for the audience to realise what had just happened. Bruno never lost. Bruno was the champion, that's just how things were, that's what people expected, so to see this happen was genuinely shocking. Fans just sat in their seat aghast. Those that were present compared the atmosphere to that of a funeral. Imagine Brock breaking The Undertaker's streak, but even more shocking.
At the end of 73, Bruno returned and obviously won his championship back once again. He would continue to sell out venues across the region, putting on 60-85 minute broadways regularly, and earning some serious money in the process.
Sadly, on April 18th, we lost one of the biggest legends in wrestling history. Bruno Sammartino's story, from poverty and the brink of death, to one of the biggest stars in America, is not only one of the most interesting tales in wrestling, but in modern history. He may no longer be with us, but hopefully, with a story befitting of an epic Hollywood blockbuster, Bruno's life will be transformed into the major film or incredible documentary it deserves to be.
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"Bognor Regis is a small seaside town. We are approximately 70 miles south west of London on the South Coast meaning we get some of the best sunshine in the country! Recently we have seen the introduction of a new Sainsburys supermarket, improvements to roadways , new housing and a regeneration of the town centre itself. We have many nationalities in the town, mainly eastern Europeans many of whom have settled here because of the friendly community. I have lived in Bognor Regis all of my life and would not move from the area. We have the seaside on our doorsteps and the South Downs are a half hour drive away. Chichester is the nearest main city, however the shops in Bognor are improving all the time with talk of a new M&S coming soon. With regard to leisure facilities there are numerous gyms and restaurants in the town. It does depend on your lifestyle and what you are looking for but I would certainly recommend it - perhaps try a weekend break and see what you think!"
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In Fire Emblem Heroes, there is a new Special Quest, Three Heroes Questions, and a new event happening in the mobile game. Of course, you can earn up to 6 orbs if summoners clear the quests using specific heroes. As for the new event, it is brand-new and requires players to work together.
For the Three Heroes Quests, players will have to clear quests to earn a 3-star version of Tiki, Odin, and Clarine. Of course, if players complete the questions using these three heroes, then they can earn up to 6 orbs. The Three Heroes Quests is currently available and will run until October 22 until 1:59 am Central Time.
For the new event, called Heroic Feats, it requires all of the Fire Emblem Heroes players to work together over a span of several days. Essentially, players will have to reach a certain goal within the time limit to obtain the reward. For the first Heroic Feats, summoners will have to send units with the Fury skill to battle for a total of 10 million times to receive a 4-star Hinata as a reward.
As for how Heroic Feats work, as long as the summoner sends a unit with a Fury skill equipped into battle (except for Tap Battle), the unit will count towards the goal. Lastly, if two or more Heroes are sent into battle with the Fury skill equipped, the Heroes will also be counted. For example, if the player were to send in a team with all four units equipped with the Fury skill, all four Heroes will be counted towards the goal. The Heroic Feats event is now running until October 12 at 1:59 am Central Time.


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The Meadow Lark model is an open 2-story loft style townhome located in Hawthorn Meadows. This 3 bedroom, 2 bath custom built townhome features laundry and Master on the main. Each home has a patio to enjoy the wooded views. There is a professionally managed HOA that takes care of snow removal, garbage and lawn care. All of this located in a peaceful golf course community in NE Rochester.


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Treatment of trypsin with phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) followed by a strong base leads to the conversion of Serine 195 to dehydroalanine at the active site (1). Alpha and beta forms of anhydrotrypsin are separated by immobilized soybean trypsin inhibitor. The activity of anhydrotrypsin is greatly reduced compared to native trypsin as quantified by chromogenic substrate (2). Anhydrotrypsin provided by our company is the single chain beta-form prepared from Type XIII bovine trypsin.
1. Ako, H. et al. (1972) Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 47:1402-1407.
2. Olson, S.T. et al. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270:30007-30017.
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Hundreds of thousands of people were amazed to find out that Microsoft released the Windows 8 developer preview completely free to everyone who wanted a copy.
People who weren't Microsoft developers wouldn't have to use shadier methods such as BitTorrent sites to get their hands on the next version of Windows.
But why did Microsoft do it? Steven Vaughan-Nichols from ZDNet stated that there were two main reasons for this, the first being overall buzz. The more people who hear about this new version of Windows, the more people download and try it out.
The second reason relates to Linux:
"The other reason is that Microsoft may be slow, but they're not stupid," Vaughan-Nichols says, "They've noticed over the years that Linux developers gets enormous amount of valuable feedback from users with every release. While, Microsoft won't be open-sourcing Windows anytime this decade; they can certainly see the advantage of having potentially millions of early testers giving them feedback."
Those are both great reasons, but Brian Proffitt from ITWorld has another theory. He thinks that since Windows 8 shares the Metro user interface with Windows Phone 7, this free release is a "tactic designed to expose Metro to more developers in the hopes of generating more interest in the Windows Phone platform, not just Windows 8."
He also says that since it will get Metro out to more people, when anyone who has used Windows 8 uses a Windows Phone, they will know how to use the interface immediately.
"I think the bigger target here is the mobile sector," Proffitt says, "It's a very simple equation: generate buzz and feedback for Windows 8, sure, but more importantly get more people noticing the Metro interface.
Especially developers. If enough coders' interest is piqued by Metro, Microsoft could get one of the two things it desperately for Windows Phone 7: apps. Without an application ecosystem like iOS and Android, there will be little consumer interest in getting an Windows Phone device."
Proffitt does have his doubts about how well this tactic will work, "It's not a sure thing–early adopters and technophiles are also pretty savvy about technology shortcomings and potential flaws in software. If Windows 8 fails to impress, it will reflect negatively on Windows Phone 7.
This is why, I suspect, Microsoft is not emphasizing the Metro connection between the two platforms. If Windows 8 gets panned, there's a chance (however small) to salvage Windows Phone's reputation."
I think that if this was really what Microsoft was doing, this would be one of the greatest marketing tactics out there. Introduce a current smartphone's user interface to an operating system that holds 90% of the worldwide desktop share.
Once people start using the new interface, they will get used to it and will be more inclined to use it when they see it on a Windows Phone. The reason this hasn't worked with previous versions of Windows and Windows Mobile is because none of those operating systems were touch optimized. Windows 8 with Metro is.
Do you think giving away Windows 8 developer preview was a smart marketing tactic for Windows Phone 7?
I'm interested to hear what you have to say…


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Smart City Solutions
Smart City has a growing demand to improve security and sustainability of urban spaces while reducing costs and resource consumption. Civic resources are under pressure and crime is harder than ever to police authorities.
The task to collect and integrate vast amount of raw data and make analytics for actions is a posing challenge as well as opportunities to IT system integrators.nder pressure and crime is harder than ever to police authorities.
The biggest breakthrough point of developing smart city technology is the networking application–Internet of Things (IoT). The ultimate aim of IoT is to create more comfortable and convenient living for human beings by using advanced technologies.
Master in IIOT World
With over 20 years of industrial IoT market experience, WoMaster Group is deemed as one of the leading IoT providers in Industrial world. The company is joint ventured by global listed Industrial companies including QNAP Group for AIoT solutions, HMS Industrial Networks Group for Industrial Automation and AnyBus technology, and HolyStone Group for Industrial Electronics Components and Touch IC, for a clear vision to provide professional and innovative solutions and services for the booming IIOT market.
Based on the core belief that the real success derived only from long term trust, WoMaster is devoted to design and manufacture high quality industrial products for critical applications such as railway, power and utility, intelligent transportation and smart city surveillance. From networking devices to all-in-one communication station, WoMaster adds value by the hardened design, public and private cloud platform, high levels of cyber security protection, and customer oriented solutions.
Smart City Solutions
Smart city surveillance/IoT solution requires to be installed in outdoor environment, such as street light, traffic light, or wall/roof in the field.
In Surveillance, the system needs to connect and power PoE cameras, with fiber or LTE as uplink path.
The audio interface is needed for microphone and speaker to integrate with field site people, collect local voice and also broadcast the alarm warning.
Various sensors also need to be supported for environment measuring, such as PM2.5, humidity, temperature, wind, speed etc.
A panic button is required for any emergency events, and sending an alarm to inform the administrator.
Different power sources must be supported such as street light, solar panel and batteries.
The integration and installation is a hug task, therefore an easy and safe batch configuration is a must. Management and cyber security level are as critical as the application.
Public cloud must be supported such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Most public projects are more interested in proprietary IoT platform which ThingsMaster addresses the need with security and availability.
Smart City Box
A fully integrated embedded communication solution for Smart Cities:
4 high power PoE with management to connect to cameras
Giga WAN port for network, USB for configuration and SD slot for storage
Fiber uplink with ERPS Ring support to provide network resilience
LTE and WiFi support as hot spot
local RS232 interface and LoRa support for IoT devices
Audio interface fr connecting Speaker and Microphone
Making smart city box portable.
Optional Basic Solar Kit
54V Battery charge control board for solar power input
Typical 48V/2.5AH battery for power shortage
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Micha and Jayne Jazz run St Cuthbert's Oratory in North Baddesley, Southampton, Hampshire. It is our home of prayer. Here we explore and practice the life of faith rooted in everyday life. We bring the contemplative and the charismatic together.
The purpose for the Oratory.
St Cuthbert's Oratory invites and supports individuals and groups to make sense of faith in contemporary life. We explore God encounter and building a focused rhythm for life.
This is done within a welcome, hospitable and creative space where personal growth, well being and wholeness are explored.
Framed within the Christian tradition, we offer the Oratory as a safe space to discover the person we seek to become; physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. Then to build a process for personal implementation.
Micha and Jayne encourage visitors to examine everything they sense and have experienced in life, all that they understand as well as all that lies beyond human reason. Each of them has experienced disappointment through uninvited and unwelcome life experience. They both have found God's way to recover and reconfigure their lives following a rogue wave. They invite you to journey with them to find God's presence in and way for your life.
Oratory life.
Built around conversation, reflection, empathy, and self discovery, St Cuthbert's offers an oasis of refreshment on life's pilgrimage. Personal development never ends for we can always expect to 'become' more of who we have become to date.
The Oratory has it's own established daily rhythm and individuals can participate when visiting for a Quiet Day.
Micha and Jayne offer Spiritual Direction/Accompaniment, retreats, spiritual coaching and seminars in training for living on purpose.
St. Cuthbert's is a house of learning drawing wisdom and offering encouragement from the writings and reflections of the church from its dawn to the present day.
Micha broadcasts 'Be Still & Know', a five minute meditation on Premier Radio each weekday. This is also available in print and electronic form at no charge.
What is an Oratory?
An Oratory provides a stable home committed to prayer and to service. Whilst not bound by a formal rule, individuals commit to praying regularly and eating meals together. Oratory members spend the day involved in vocational work and ministry and also work to encourage the Church.
Each Oratory is autonomous, but shares common practices and preserves a common spiritual heritage.


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Psychometric Testing
What are Psychometrics?
Introduction to Psychometrics
Leadership roles place considerable demands on those who occupy them, and the way they respond to those demands reflects the personality and background of the individual. We use psychometric questionnaires to provide insights into the style and likely effectiveness of a leader's behavioural responses and the underlying individual characteristics which shape them.
Two particular features of leadership roles mean that individual characteristics have a greater impact on behaviour than in most other roles.
- First, leadership roles tend to be complex, ambiguous and demanding. These features mean that much energy is needed to attend to the challenges themselves, and this reduces the resources available for self-regulation (managing our own behaviour and monitoring our impact on others), making the influence of personality on behaviour more likely.
- Secondly, leadership roles typically involve greater autonomy and discretion than other roles; they offer greater scope for the individual to choose what to focus on and how to approach issues, and that provides more opportunity for personality to operate.
As a consequence, it is important that leaders have a grounded understanding of their own personality and preferences, in order to become better informed about the impact of these characteristics on their current behaviour and their potential for future development.
Developing an Understanding
Providing a Perspective on the Individual
We use a range of different questionnaires to develop that understanding; each provides a perspective on the individual which complements the others. We choose and recommend the questionnaires which best suit your needs and budget. Psychometrics we typically use include:
- Neuroticism: How much pressure do you feel and how emotionally resilient are you?
- Extraversion: How much energy to you put into your interactions with other people?
- Openness: How open are you to new experiences of various kinds?
- Agreeableness: How easy are you for others to get on with?
- Conscientiousness: How purposeful, organised and determined are you?
These characteristics have been shown to have a considerable impact on the ability of leaders to acquire and sustain the different elements of the behavioural repertoire required for effective leadership. As such, they have important implications for future development potential.
The HDS assesses an individual's reactions and potential over-reactions under such circumstances. Developed on the basis of research into how and why leaders 'derail', it offers insights into how a leader's behaviour may change in ways which are likely to undermine their effectiveness.
The questionnaire measures 11 characteristics which under normal circumstances may well be strengths, but which under pressure may become exaggerated to the point of becoming weaknesses. The results highlight areas of risk for the individual, particularly in their ability to sustain positive relationships with others, and suggest strategies for reducing their occurrence and impact.
This questionnaire provides a measure of an individual's motives, values and preferences. These features have important consequences for leadership in two main ways.
First, they reflect the underlying values, goals and needs which define what is important to a person. They allow us to understand what an individual wants from their experience at work and in life: what drives and motivates them.
Secondly, they provide an indication of the kinds of organisational culture an individual is likely to seek to create, and within which they are likely to thrive or struggle.
The questionnaire measures 10 motivational themes through questions which reflect 5 aspects of the individual in which their values and preferences are likely to be expressed. These are their lifestyle (how they want to live); their beliefs (their ideals and life goals – their 'shoulds'); their work preferences; their aversions (those things they seek to avoid); and their preferred associations (the kinds of people they like to spend time with).
The MBTI instrument provides a simple and flexible framework that can be applied to all areas of human interaction and personal development. It can be helpful as a simple and easy to grasp profile used to help teams to understand each other and work together more effectively.
The MBTI profile reveals how we see and interact with the world, providing insight into our preferences and those of others.
MBTI identifies personality type, made up of four basic preferences:
- Favourite world: Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or on your own inner world? This is called Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I).
- Information: Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take in or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? This is called Sensing (S) or Intuition (N).
- Decisions: When making decisions, do you prefer to first look at logic and consistency or first look at the people and special circumstances? This is called Thinking (T) or Feeling (F).
- Structure: In dealing with the outside world, do you prefer to get things decided or do you prefer to stay open to new information and options? This is called Judging (J) or Perceiving (P).
Dimensions is a personality questionnaire that assesses key behaviours at work. It uses a simpler framework to the NEO (which also means less granular feedback however) so can be useful for development or selection at lower management levels.
The Dimensions questionnaire measures personality across three broad domains:
- People and Relationships – concerned with an individual's style in handling relationships at work.
- Tasks and Projects – examines an individual's thinking style and how they prefer to manage tasks.
- Drives and Emotions – looks at how an individual deals with their energies and emotions.
Matrigma is a classic cognitive ability test built on a modern online platform. Matrigma measures cognitive ability, which concerns a person's ability to solve problems, plan ahead and draw logical conclusions.
Research shows that a candidate's level of cognitive ability helps to predict job performance, job satisfaction, voluntary turnover, and training performance as well as counter-productive work behaviours. In more complex jobs such as managerial or specialist roles, cognitive ability has an even higher impact.
The graduate and managerial assessment (GMA) contains three reasoning tests – abstract, verbal and numerical. These tests have been specially created to assess candidates and existing employees with higher-level ability and senior management potential.
The GMA group of tests assess the key skills of:
- Verbal reasoning – Measures critical thinking and the ability to assess the importance and logic of verbally presented reports in an objective manner.
- Numerical reasoning – Measures the ability to reason with numbers and to understand information presented in numerical form.
- Abstract reasoning – Measures the ability to think strategically and the capacity to perceive new and changing patterns.
Each test can be used in isolation or can be completed as a group.
The GMA is used for assessment and selection at a variety of levels including senior managerial and directors, professionals, middle managers, junior managers, and graduates.


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We're overdue some fun with fictional stereotypes. What would happen to the characters we all know and love if literary genres collided? What if a tortured Romantic Hero were to dwell in tension-filled ennui with the moribund overthinker that is the Literary Fiction Protagonist?
Another Fine Mashup: Why The Heroes of Romantic and Literary Fiction Shouldn't Live Together


text: I'd like to be a bit more elaborate about what I'll be doing on the Academy of American Poets tumblr feed this Monday. I'm going to take advantage of that time to put the local Portland poetry scene on the national map for a day. I am going to film myself reading one short poem of a different Portland-based poet on the hour, every hour, from 6am (PST) until midnight, and then post it to the Academy's Tumblr right then, throughout the day. I'm going to bike around the whole day and read all over town, in front of different Portlandy places, and take the Tumblr reader through my day through Portland. I'd love it if you'd follow along. See where I go, and listen to some poems all day. Ok? Alright. I'll see you dark and early. April 07, 2012


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4 Once the Customer has completed an order they have seven days in which to cancel their booking, during which time no cost will be incurred by the Customer. The customer agrees to waive its rights to cancel in circumstances where it completes an order less than eight weeks prior to the Booked Event. Thereafter the Customer will incur the cancellation costs (if any) as set out in clause 7 of these Terms and Conditions. Any cancellation must be confirmed in writing to TT at the above address.
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Stop and think about this for a moment: How wild are things going to get -- in terms of tabloid news coverage -- if the New York Mets call up Tim Tebow?
This is not a pipe dream, even though there are elements of PR and marketing that cannot be denied. You see, Tebow has been making real progress at the plate in recent weeks, while marching through the minor leagues. And the Mets are horrible. Why not give Tebow a shot and see that happens (including ticket sales)?
But Tebow in New York City? With that media circus in mind, check out the oh-so-cheeky overture to this celebrity news story at AOL (and lots of other publications as well). What is the religion-news issue hidden in the lede?
Good things come to those who wait!
Tim Tebow, who's long expressed his wish to find the right girl for him, has struck up a romance with Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, who was crowned 2017's Miss Universe.
"She is a really special girl and I am very lucky and blessed for her coming into my life," Tebow told ESPN in a new interview. "I am usually very private with these things but I am very thankful."
Nel-Peters, 23, hails from South Africa, while 30-year-old Tebow is Florida-born and raised.
Wink, wink. Hold that thought.
Later on in this short story, there is this bite of background information, which does absolutely noting to explain the image in the lede. Concerning Tebow's history in sports and media:
His Christian faith became entwined with his public persona: After he'd graduated, the the NCAA enacted the so-called "Tebow rule," which prohibits players from writing messages on the face paint they wear under their eyes. Tebow had etched biblical verses on his.
But about that lede?
"Those who wait?" As in, "True Love Waits." As in true love waits for marriage to have sex.
So what is the question that the AOL report (and others) pushes into the reader's face, without actually addressing the issue at the heart of the click-bait urge?
Believe it or not, Tebow still doesn't mind answering the question: Is he still waiting?
As a media professional, he is frequently near microphones, so it isn't hard to find information to include in a quick story of this kind. For example, care of Sporting News in 2017, there is this:
It seems that for as long as Tim Tebow has been in the national spotlight, there has been a weird fascination with his sex life, or lack thereof.
It all started back in 2009.
Tebow was a Heisman Trophy- and national championship-winning quarterback at the University of Florida and a bona fide heartthrob. A devout Christian, Tebow lived out his faith, boldly proclaiming it in both victory and defeat as well as spending his off time on mission trips to the Philippines. A sportswriter decided to take his line of questioning between the sheets and ask Tebow at SEC Media Days prior to the start of his senior season if he was saving himself for marriage. Tebow laughed briefly, then answered succinctly, "Yes, I am."
Then, and now, journalists seem more nervous about this question than Tebow.
Why go with the wink-wink AOL lede, complete with exclamation mark? Why not write a story about the issue itself, if the Mets PR office will allow Tebow to do interviews in which he is allowed to talk about his faith?
Some readers want to praise Tebow. Others want to laugh at him. But lots of people are interested in his life and what he has to say. Same as it ever was.
Why write a lede about an issue that the story then never mentions?


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Most holiday music channels begin broadcasting in November, but classic Christmas music can be heard all year long on Holiday Traditions.
On Country Christmas, hear country music giants such as Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, and Lady Antebellum belt out Christmas songs in their own unique styles.
The best Christmas songs by contemporary artists such as Mariah Carey, Michael Bublé, Rod Stewart, Josh Groban, Madonna, and Bruce Springsteen will be played on Holly.
Navidad comes to life as artists including Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, José Feliciano, Aventura, Marco Antonio Solís and Christina Aguilera, sing Latin Christmas songs.
Listen to Holiday Traditions to hear crooners such as Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, and Nat "King" Cole belt out classic holiday recordings from the '40s through the '60s.
Holiday Soul broadcasts Christmas tunes from beloved Motown and R&B artists such as Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls, James Brown and The Supremes.
Come to Radio Hanukkah for a collection of contemporary and traditional Hanukkah-themed music, as well as songs for children, daily reflections, and prayers.
Holiday Pops hits a high note with broadcasts of musical greats such as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Luciano Pavarotti, the New York Philharmonic, King's College Choir, Boston Pops and Thomas Hampson.
Auld Lang Songs ! Stay tuned after the holidays as we rock 2018 out with a month of musical countdowns and ring 2019 in with loads of live performances.
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I bought Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod based on an online recommendation and am glad that I did, since I enjoyed it a lot.
In addition to some really funny cartoons that had me and my family rolling, he has wise and down-to-earth guidance on figuring out how to be creative and successful—on your own terms—in today's crazy world.
As Hugh explains, we were all born creative and then lose the knack. When we get an itch to create something, that's that primal urge making itself heard. The more original your idea and the more different from what's "accepted," the more resistance you should expect.
I could really relate to how Hugh went about things. He kept his day job (copywriting) and worked on his craft on the side. He explains how this allowed him to walk away from any offers that would have compromised his art or forced him to cross the line he had set for himself.
He also explains why he's not worried about copycatters: he's already put in the hours to master his craft (cartoons on the back of business cards), so anyone else would just be starting and therefore always behind. The authors of Rework (the other book I read this past weekend and blogged about earlier) don't worry about imitators since they believe that what makes a product stand out is the part of you that you pour into it. Anyone who imitates the end-result will be missing out on this vital aspect and the lessons you've learned on the way there.
Some other wise tidbits Hugh shares are—
- relish your obscurity (when you can more easily do things your way),
- not to make your hobby/passion into a job (at which point you may no longer enjoy it),
- speak in your own voice (not jargons and "professional" speak),
- and to remain frugal (so you never have to sell-out your art).
Above all, he explains how ideas don't need to be big, but they should be your own to be worth doing. So expect it to be lonely, to take hours and be hard work, but do it so that you have created something of your own.
What was your last creative itch? How do you plan on reacting to the next one?
Karina is VP of Operations and HR at 24/7 Teach.
Originally posted on Business Common Sense blog.
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Who would have thought in 1989 when Bob was selling t-shirts out of the back of his car that 28 years later Cherry Republic would be the leading cherry retailer in Michigan? Today we have six beautiful stores sprinkled throughout the state, and each location has its own personality. We invite you to visit them all!
Glen Arbor
Cherry Republic
6026 South Lake St
Glen Arbor, MI 49636
(231) 226-3014
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Charlevoix, MI 49720
(231) 226-3006
Cherry Republic
925 S Main St.
Frankenmuth, MI 48734
(231) 226-3039
Cherry Republic
29 W 8th St
Holland, MI 49423
(231) 226-3013


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Day 73: mile 998.3 to mile 1016.9 to Kennedy Meadows North Resort
6.27.18. 18.6 miles.
Thankfully since we made so many miles yesterday, we got going at our normal time today: 6:00 am. Not so lucky for us, the mosquitos were already awake and ready for the bloodbath at that time too. I had on my wind pants and head net first thing to avoid them. Which is why I look so dang cute in my 1,000 mile picture! Yep, we passed 1,000 miles today, which was super awesome. I got Vanessa Carlton's song stuck in my head for the rest of the morning.
We had a little bit of downhill in the forest before we got to our last water source for 10 miles and needed to fill up. Then we had a pretty big climb up to the top of a ridge, which we stayed on for a decent amount of time. The views were incredible! Definitely a nice change from the lack of views the last few days. It was phenomenal.
We had lunch at the top of the ridge, not too long of a break because we wanted to make it to Sonora Pass at a decent time, and we still had some climbing to do.
What we didn't really realize was how much snow we were going to have to walk through! It really slowed things down though, especially with not having my microspikes anymore. I greatly dislike the ridge snow traverses. I'm just super careful with my steps and so slow because of it. Obviously I'm happier that way because it's safe, but it just adds a lot of time and it's mentally exhausting.
We finally reached a pretty dry part and just got to walk for the first time in what felt like forever bc the trail was also so nice and not super rocky/ rooty. I also had some service during the walk so I was able to get a few texts out to the fam. Hopefully I'll have more service coming up as I get closer to Tahoe!
We got to the top of the climb, and right as we started descending, there were many snow patches, which would be a theme of the descent. They honestly weren't too bad, but there was so much mud and loose scree that it made walking around the snow to get to the tracks kind of sketchy. I fell down twice today, one of which was kind of scary bc I fell down snow going downhill and lost a trekking pole (was able to recover!) and basically had to crawl back up snow/ scree to the trail. I got a little cut up from that one.
Finally I reached the bottom and Butters was waiting for me at the sign. There were posters for trail magic at the picnic area so we went over there but there wasn't anything happening. We walked down to the highway to try to get a hitch and the guy who was doing the trail magic was leaving and offered one of us a ride since he only had room for one! I took it so Hot Mess & Butters could stay together. I had a lovely ride with him. Turns out he lives in Palo Alto and he does trail maintenance with the PCTA for this section (Dorothy Pass to Carson Pass) and he was just a really nice guy to talk to! He said he had 99 hikers come through in 2 days, which is why he packed up early: he ran out of food!
He dropped me off right at the Kennedy Meadows resort and I was able to check in and get a bunk room. Hot Mess & Butters arrived shortly after me, and I convinced them to stay the night as well, as they were unsure if they were going to. Without much time for relaxing, I got right in to chores: resupply shopping in the store, re-organizing stuff, getting a shower, and waiting to get laundry done. When I finally got my laundry in the wash, I got dinner in the restaurant, and then was able to get my clothes in a dryer. We socialized with the younger workers who were also trying to do laundry and one of the cowboys bought me a soft serve, which was very sweet of him. After all of that, it was time to get to bed! Verizon had cell service so I was able to get a little bit by hooking up to Hot Mess's hot spot and check Instagram and try to get a blog post scheduled. The service was really slow so I ended up falling asleep while doing these things. At 11 pm! So late for hiker standards.


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By 76.IAP-Blackbird
Dear Pilots,
Summer is drawing to a close once again and our offices in Moscow and Las Vegas are finally transitioning to cooler weather. The Fall season brings warm sweaters and more indoor time with the family and more time playing your favorite combat flight-simulation – IL-2 Sturmovik!! The team is very busy preparing the next update due later this month which will be a big one, but not quite the final one before Battle of Bodenplatte and Flying Circus are considered ready for release. We also continue our work on Tank Crew which has some new features and improvements coming as well.
In light of our crammed schedule we simply leave you with some new images of our P-38J-25 and P-51D-15 and a shot of our A.I. B-25 from Battle of Bodenplatte!
By 76.IAP-Blackbird
Hello Dear Friends!
As you know, to work well one needs to have a good rest. While the summer season continues, and our colleagues go on vacation, I will tell you how important it is for a military pilot to be able to save and properly spend his strength during combat.
Probably you have already realized that in today's diary I want to talk about our new pilot physiology modeling, which we are preparing for the release in the next update. Our Beta testers will receive this model for tests today.
About Pilot Physiology
The focus of the new physiology model is, above all, on a more realistic imitation of a person's tolerance to high G-load. Although this is not the only change in the pilot physiology, you will most likely notice it first, so let's talk about it in more detail.
As you know, we all are different, and each of us has different stamina, physical strength, and ability to resist negative environmental factors. Therefore, the ability of a particular pilot to withstand high G-load is, of course, purely individual, and depends on a good number of factors: age, state of health, fitness, whether a pilot slept well the night before, how much he ate and how long ago, and even what his emotional state is. Of course, we cannot collect all this information about you, and take all these factors into account in such detail; such a model would be excessively complex, although it would probably allow the player's best immersion into virtual reality. Nevertheless, we found that the most reasonable approach would be to choose a certain averaged model of an average pilot physiology. By "average pilot" we mean a trained pilot in good physical condition, who often performs aerobatics. A large number of different medical studies with the collected statistics of experiments with pilots and volunteers come to our aid. Based on them it is possible to establish a "middle way" of the typical human tolerance to high G-load.
The first thing that all researchers pay attention to is the fact that the amount of G, both positive (when a pilot is "pressed" into his seat) and negative (when a pilot is "pulled away" from his seat and "hangs on the belts") depends primarily on the duration of the G-load and on the rate the G-load was applied. For example, at a positive +6G the "average" pilot loses consciousness within the first 5-8 seconds, but the same pilot quite successfully sustains +5G for about 40 seconds, if the rate of G-load application was less than 1G/sec. However, if you create the same +5G in just 1-2 seconds, then loss of consciousness will occur in 5-7 seconds. In aviation medicine, this phenomenon is explained by the "hemodynamics" of the cardiovascular system. The body needs some time to mobilize and begin to effectively counteract overload. This is illustrated in the chart from the article written by Anne M. Stoll, "Human tolerance to positive G as determined by the physiological end points" published in The Journal of aviation medicine in 1956:
In our new model of human physiology, all these factors are now taken into account. If a high G-load is applied within 1-2 seconds, the negative consequences (visual and hearing disorders) do not appear immediately, but rather with a 2-3 seconds delay, then a quick "crisis" follows, and then, after a few seconds, the body mobilizes and its ability to tolerate G-loads becomes better. This "crisis" can be avoided, or at least reduced, if you pilot more smoothly and create G-load gradually and slowly.
Here is another graph that shows how long an average pilot is able to withstand positive and negative G until he loses his consciousness. The blue line is a summary of data we collected as a result of our various medical studies analysis. Red dots are the results our new model shows:
As you can see, pilots tolerate the positive g-loads much better than the negative ones.
In addition, now we also take the pilot's fatigue factor into account, based on the data mentioned above. This means that every pilot's maneuver performed with a large g-load is no longer in vain, and the more actively a pilot maneuvers, the worse he and his crew will suffer further g-loads. If the pilot is already pretty worn out by maneuvering combat, be aware that a new opponent who entered the battle will have a significant advantage, and maybe you should get out of the dogfight and catch your breath. This may take you a few minutes.
Another important part of this work is the reconfiguration of the visual effects of visual impairment. We brought it into a full compliance with the sequence described in the scientific literature. First, under the influence of positive g-load, a pilot begins to lose color perception (a so-called "grayout"). Then his peripheral vision field (or a "tunnel vision") narrows, until it becomes completely dark in the eyes (a so-called "blackout"). The visual impairment is also accompanied by hearing loss. On a negative g-load, the effect of "tunnel vision" and loss of color perception do not happen, because, unlike a positive overload, there is no oxygen starvation of the optic nerve. But on the other hand, the pilot feels a rush of blood to his head, which is expressed in the appearance of a noticeable red tint of vision (a so-called "redout"), and the sharpness of vision also deteriorates.
I have mentioned a "loss of consciousness" several times already. Yes, now we are simulating this state, too. A pilot can lose consciousness at large positive or negative g-loads if the threshold of their physiological tolerance is exceeded (taking into account the duration of g-loads, the pace of their creation and accumulated fatigue). A harbinger of the loss of consciousness at the positive g-load is a blackout, although even having completely lost his eyesight, the pilot is still able to control his aircraft for some time. At the negative g-load loss of consciousness occurs more unexpectedly, and the only way to determine it in time is by a sharp deterioration in visual acuity. Studies have established that, depending on a number of factors, a usual period of a G-lock can be as long as 10 to 15 seconds, and during this time the aircraft will remain uncontrollable. Keep in mind that each subsequent loss of consciousness will cost you even greater loss of time and energy. WWII fighter pilots were very human, not Superman and they did experience pretty high G-loads even in piston planes.
Another feature of this model is an anti-g suit a pilot has. On average, according to various studies, the anti-g suit increases the physiological tolerance threshold to positive g-load by 1.5 - 2G, so pilots with the anti-g suits will certainly get a significant advantage in dogfight. The anti-g suit does not affect tolerance to a negative g-load.
In conclusion, I would like to mention that we also limited the pilot's ability to bail out at the airspeed of more than 400 km/h, or under the influence of positive g-load of more than +3G (which is the physiological limit in terms of the ability of a person to get out of the seat). These numbers refer to a healthy pilot; in case of injury getting out of the cockpit will be even more difficult for a crew.
The effect of hypoxia model on g-load tolerance model has also been refined and will take air pressure into account more correctly.
Preparing for the release of a new physiology model, we understand that for some players it incomprehensible and not obvious at first. Therefore, we left you the opportunity to choose a simplified physiology model in the realism settings, which will work quite similar to the current model, and will not take into account the pilot's fatigue, the hemodynamics of his cardiovascular system, or limit the pilot's endurance according to the duration of g-loads or the pace of their creation. Also, in a simplified model your crew will not be able to lose consciousness. At the same time, this simple model will use the new reconfigured effects of visual and hearing disorders, and the magnitude of the g-load at which these disorders occur will be brought into line with the updated data from the new model.
We really hope that the new model of the pilot's physiology will make the gameplay more interesting, and significantly change the tactics of dogfight. So, the players will now have to take care of the physical condition of the pilot and be more careful about active maneuvering, and this will take us one step closer to the reality of air combat.
Andrey "Petrovich" Solomykin – Lead Engineer
News from Jason
Bodenplatte Coming Along Nicely!
We continue to work on the BOBP map and its large list of airfields and urban areas which is something rather new for us. This map has been a challenge like never before and we have it functioning in Beta, but it has a little way to go still. However, our last three Allied planes are coming along nicely. Check out this beautiful formation of vintage American air power and a bonus shot of the Tempest in flight. The Tempest continues to be tweaked and improved after the first round of Beta testing and the P-38 is also in Beta with small tweaking necessary. The P-51D will also be coming to Beta soon. All three aircraft are quite complex. The different design philosophies of each nation have really become evident as we make more and more planes.
We must remind everyone that these planes are still a Work-In-Progress so some of these details in these images may change.
Saddle Up Cowboy!
Our P-51D-15 "Pony" is nearing the Beta stage as we finish the cockpit and external model. Here are the first pics of the P-51D cockpit. Our model team has done another awesome job!
Personal Images in Cockpits
Another popular request has been the ability to place a personal picture in the cockpit of your plane. We have now added this capability.
New View Distance for Airplanes
Yes, by popular request, we have increased the visibility of distant airplanes. This has been a difficult technical challenge, but we think Sturmovik pilots will appreciate this new reality. Can you spot the far-off planes? We're still tweaking the feature, but it's in testing.
Next Collector Planes in Pre-Production
And last but not least, we have begun preliminary work on a couple cool Collector Planes. We aren't announcing them quite yet, but they will available for pre-order later this year and then in your hangar next year. Sorry, no hints quite yet!
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By 76.IAP-Blackbird
Dear Friends,
After the recent release of the update 3.102 many of you wondered "why there are no new Bodenplatte planes"? There is nothing strange about it: the remaining three player-controllable fighters and AI-controlled bomber are the most complex and difficult to produce objects in the entire history of our team. But the more difficult is the task the more interesting is the result. At the moment we plan to make all these four planes available to you in the next huge update at the end of September that will also bring the important new features we're working on at the moment. Here's the rundown on their current statuses:
P-51D-15: cockpit texturing and flight model is in development. P-38J-25: cockpit texturing is nearly finished, the flight model is finished, it will go to beta testing soon. Tempest Mk.V ser.2: 3D model is finished, the flight model is nearly finished, it will go to beta testing soon as well. B-25D (Mitchell II): 3D model is finished, we're working on the last bits of texturing and turret animations, the flight model is in development. The work on the Rhineland map for Bodenplatte is also progressing well and we'll show you some of it in one of the coming DDs. We're working on the new Career timeframe 'Battle of Rhineland' in parallel. Now let's list the features that are at the final stage of development at the moment:
Switch to the newer F-MOD API version which we hope will fix the disappearing sounds issue right away or in the near future. An advanced model of pilot physiology that includes complex fatigue modeling that takes into account G-overload fatigue, overload frequency, alternation of positive and negative overloads, wounds, having a G-suit, lack of oxygen and oxygen supply system. The model will also simulate a loss of consciousness and ability to control an aircraft after experiencing too sharp or too severe overloads. The algorithms it is using are based on the research of various institutes. The introduction of this model is likely to change the flow of air combat, especially in multiplayer. However, those who find it too difficult and unfamiliar will be able to switch it off as realism option (it will also be a server setting). Air Marshal mode that is being developed especially for multiplayer will also enter the testing stage soon. When this happens, we'll dedicate a special DD to it. Improved AI maneuvering in a dogfight. Our new programmer is working on this (the recent formation keeping improvements are his work), but remember there is still a long way to go in this area. Improved visibility distance of planes and ships. The main difficulty in the development of this feature was making the dynamic objects show at great distances without a steady stream of data reporting their position and orientation. Another important thing is to model the lighting of the airplane even at long range - we discarded the idea of having just black dots at these distances, where the visibility of an object is determined by the position of the sun, brightness and hue of the sky, haze, etc. All this is impossible to model having only a black dot. The distant planes flying at high altitudes will have contrails and ships will have visible wakes. It is also important to have more or less equal terms for owners of different monitors. Having completed all these tasks, we'll increase the maximum visibility distance for planes and ships from 10 to 100 km and the resulting visibility distance will realistically correspond to the lighting and weather conditions. As you can see, the Bodenplatte project is at the final stage and nearing release. Numerous changes and additions to be seen in the final version are more or less close to being finished. Therefore, the update 3.102 included the content that was ready and a minimal amount of changes - at the final stage nothing should divert the team from the main target. We don't want our words to sound empty or unfounded, so today we can show you the in-game exterior shots of the P-38J-25 Collector Plane (that is included in Bodenplatte Premium, only version you can get at the moment), the cockpit of the British Tempest Mk.V ser.2 and the new German pilot in Summer 1944 uniform:
You can discuss the news in this thread


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In a moment, the band room at Nicholas Senn High School in Edgewater won't be silent. In a few minutes, the students with instruments in their hands will play crisply, each first in his or her own element, before they then blend seamlessly into one complete whole. But first they need to hear Brian Frazee, […]
In a moment, the band room at Nicholas Senn High School in Edgewater won't be silent. In a few minutes, the students with instruments in their hands will play crisply, each first in his or her own element, before they then blend seamlessly into one complete whole. But first they need to hear Brian Frazee, […]
Senn High School Band Succeeds In Earning Division 1 RatingJune 4, 2015
In a moment, the band room at Nicholas Senn High School in Edgewater won't be silent. In a few minutes, the students with instruments in their hands will play crisply, each first in his or her own element, before they then blend seamlessly into one complete whole.
But first they need to hear Brian Frazee, the school's assistant director of band and orchestra and assistant coordinator of the Senn Arts Magnet Program, say that they need to take it slow. "Don't push it," he tells the students, calmly, in a room filled with chairs, music stands and at least one private practice area. "We've got to keep it steady. It's naturally going to build momentum and drive and intensity."
And then, it does. These students, over half of whom are on their first or second year of playing an entirely new instrument, have effectively used that exact same approach to become a band, to become an orchestra. This year, in fact, these same students parlayed that work ethic and continuous individual effort into an overall Superior or Division 1 rating, the second highest such rating overall, at the Chicago Public Schools High School Band & Orchestra Festival on April 25.
How did they do it?
Just ask Jauhara Sanders, 17. The junior spends a total of two hours and 20 minutes getting to and from her home in Bronzeville to Senn High School every school day. That's part of the reason why her mother wanted her to learn the clarinet, and not the violin or the alto or tenor saxophone, when Sanders first decided to come to the music program at Senn. "The alto saxophone was already taken, and my mom thought that the tenor sax was too huge," Sanders said.
So she chose to play the clarinet at Senn Arts, and she doesn't have any regrets. First of all, she knows she can always learn a new instrument, that playing the clarinet will only help her be better prepared to learn something else. Second of all, she could have gone to a high school that's closer to her home. "But I knew that Senn Arts could give me a lot of things that regular neighborhood schools couldn't," Sanders said. "I chose this school for a reason, because it's worth what I've learned."
Luis Garfias plays the trombone. He's a 17-year-old junior who isn't new to bands or trombones. But he's happy to be a part of the relatively new Senn Arts band and orchestra, which just started last year, when he was a sophomore.
"The first thing I noticed about this band was that it was brand new," the Rogers Park resident said. "I was interested and I wanted to be challenged. I wanted to meet new people. It started out really well. Everyone was really determined, and that's what kept me going."
Garfias had been in another band with other youth, so he wasn't new to the experience of performing in front of other people. Yet he said he was still nervous, as were most, if not all, of the 26 students in the school's band and orchestra program when they performed at Curie High School for the CPS festival.
"The band has a high capability, that's for sure," he added, specifically referring to the students who were new to their instruments. "That's what also impressed me about them. People were able to catch up with their instruments so quickly."
While Garfias, Sanders and the other 24 members of the band and orchestra are relatively new to Senn Arts High School, Senn has a rich band history that dates back to the early 20th century, said Jason Duran, the school's lead music teacher and band/orchestra director.
"However, it was discontinued for a while, and we restarted it last year," he added. Senn Arts program is in its fourth year, and the music program is in its third year. The band started last year. It's looking to expand even more next year, too, Duran said.
"I would estimate over half the students are either on their first or second year of playing their instrument," Frazee said. "Five of our freshmen just started playing a traditional band or orchestra instrument this year but came to us with prior knowledge of reading and playing music through piano or guitar. There was a slight learning curve, but I believe that their natural talent and ability, as well as their dedication, made that curve less steep. Most of them play their instruments like they have been playing them for years, not nine months."
"The growth has been amazing," Duran added. "I just attribute it all to the hard work of the students. We also have partnerships here with outside organizations like the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras and the 42nd Parallel Orchestra."
What was it like to perform at the festival?
"It was fun seeing it through the eyes of the students who have never had this experience," Frazee said. "I liked that we had a lot of discussions about traditions in music programs, and that this was a tradition that we wanted to establish within the band and orchestra program at Senn. Seeing the pride and joy on their faces when they found out they had received a Division 1 Superior rating was priceless."
Duran said he and Frazee encourage the students to focus on performing at their highest levels, rather than dwelling too heavily on ratings. This is because focusing on good musicianship inherently addresses the rating system.
Frazee added that, for the students, being a part of an ensemble like band or orchestra really creates a sense of community and belonging for these students.
"These are exceptionally bright, creative students, and we are providing them with an opportunity to grow and develop their musical ability and foster a sense of pride in the school and the music program," he said.
"One thing that I have learned watching these kids grow and develop as musicians is that, with support and just a few resources, high school kids can accomplish just about anything," Duran added.
Additionally, Duran and Frazee will be teaching a four-week beginning band and string orchestra camp for rising 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in the community. The camp runs from July 6-31 and meets daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Frazee said this is a great opportunity for students to begin learning a band or orchestra instrument and to learn more about the music program at Senn. Students can register on the Senn website at www.sennhs.org
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