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|| Napoleon's Triumph
|| Design Diary
|| Reinforcing Victory
I will be easing into the main design diary topic, which is the object of the game and the manner in which reinforcements are being handled, by an extremely odd route: I intend to begin by discussing cossacks.
There were cossacks at Austerlitz, as indeed there were at pretty much any battle in the period in which the Russian army was present. What did the cossacks do at the battle? Pretty much nothing, which is pretty much what was expected of them and pretty much what they did at every battle in the period. In the game, however, the Allied player could find plenty of things for the cossacks to do:
I was spending a fair amount of time worrying about these various ahistorical uses of cossacks and devising a series of special cossack rules in order to keep them in their proper historical role of doing not much of anything. A smarter man might have thought of this a lot sooner, but after a while it occured even to me that I was adding quite a bit of complexity to the game for rules that only affected the game's weakest units and which were collectively intended to make the game work as if the cossacks weren't even there, and that a much more efficient way to accomplish this and to nicely simulate the cossacks' role in the battle would be remove their units from the game. And so, with that flash of insight, the cossacks are gone, and with them goes a small increment of production cost and about two-thirds of a column of rules.
I am confident that there are many designers who would not have made that decision, but for me it was really not a hard decision to make once it finally occured to me. Although Napoleon's Triumph will be complex as games in general go, it will not be complex as wargames go, and it especially will not be complex as far as big wargames go. The idea here is that the way to keep the game simple (as wargames go at any rate) without the result being simplistic is to stay focused on what is really important to simulate, and abstract away the rest as much as possible. While this approach can't give everything a good treatment, it can give the important things a good treatment without cluttering up the game with elements of marginal value.
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This leads to my next item. Readers of previous entries will recall the long discussion of dummies, hidden forces, and hidden units. If you look to the left, you'll see a worksheet I made up for players to indicate which hidden units would be assigned to which leaders. The worksheet also included my first cut at actually laying out how French reinforcements would show up (more on that later). Anyway, the idea was that before the game, the sheet would be cut in half (assuming you didn't have one left over from the previous game – each sheet is good for 8 games) and each player would get his half, and then jot his information down. The reason the sheet is in black and white is because the sheets are a consumable: I expected players to need to make photocopies or download and print out copies on black-and-white printers, and so the sheet was designed to not have any awkward dependencies on color (or even quality grayscale).
So anyway, I laid out the sheet, printed a copy and then went to the game and try out my newly-drafted set-up sequence, and you know what? I didn't like it at all. And so, I considered my options. Did the game really need hidden units? The cost did seem to be high. Players would have to fill out forms, figure out where to keep the paper where they could see it and their opponents could not, have to deal with the hassle of either looking up the strengths of their own corps or else memorizing them, and there had to be rules to cover how hidden units worked. This feature would significantly slow play and complicate learning and setting up the game, and in the end it just didn't seem worth the trouble: so now hidden units are gone. The decisions to remove hidden units and cossacks (see, they are connected after all) were arrived at almost simultaneously and for almost exactly the same reason: the game's complexity budget was simply being very poorly spent on these peripheral problems. The game needed to focus on what mattered; cossacks and hidden units were really just chrome and they just had to go.
With hidden units gone, the hidden information sheets had only only one item of hidden information left: the reinforcement option. Basically, the way it worked was that both players would write down a letter from A to D. The Allied player would then reveal what he wrote to the French player, who would look up the result on the French Reinforcement Schedule. If the result was "Discovered", then the French player would reveal the result to the Allied player. Otherwise, if the result was "Hidden", he kept it secret.
This brings us (finally) to the main topic of this diary: how the reinforcement rules has helped to solve the closely linked problems of the burden of attack and the design of the game's victory conditions. Readers of previous diary entries will be familiar with these problems, but in a nutshell the difficulty is that in a game on Austerlitz it is ambiguous which side should have the burden of attack. The French had the stronger army, but feigned weakness and lured the Allies into attacking them. If the victory conditions place the burden of attack on the Allies, they have a difficult time winning, but if the burden of attack is placed on the French, the result doesn't feel much like Austerlitz.
Historically, the French had two late-arriving corps (commanded by Bernadotte and Davout), both of which the French concealed from the Allies. The Allied misapprehension of French strength was tied to these two corps, but the Allied player has no such misapprehension: he knows all about them. This problem is an instance of a class of historical simulation problems: uncertainty vs. hindsight. There are three basic approaches to this class of problem:
If for no other reason than that they are accustomed to it, players have an almost infinite tolerance for the problems inherent in the first approach (ignoring it), and a complete appreciation for its advantages. As a result, it is the default approach in the design of historical games; the other two approaches tend only to become attractive when the first approach clearly doesn't work well. The second approach is in general the second-best choice, provided that it can be done without creating rules that over-constrain the player or introduce too much complexity in the game. In general, with regard to the second approach, it is much better to constrain ends than means if possible: in Bonaparte at Marengo, the distance the Austrians must travel requires them to advance rapidly in order to get there (the ends are constrained), but the Austrians remain free as to how they advance: there are no special rules that force Austrian units to move or attack (the means are unconstrained). The third approach, because it introduces ahistorical elements into a game, is not very popular in "heavy" simulations, but it has proven very popular in a whole class of lighter historical games; the randomness introduced may not always be historical, but it can definitely add spice to a game and the consequent ability to simulate historical uncertainty can create a dimension of historical realism that more "realistic" simulations that restrict themselves to the first two approaches cannot.
With regard to French reinforcements at Austerlitz, the problem could not be ignored. I had not been able to come up with any solutions based on coercion, and so I decided to try randomization, and include the possibility in the game that either or both corps might not show up. If, in fact, probabilities favored one or both corps not arriving, then an Allied attack becomes rational, and the burden of attack could be shifted to the Allies. Obviously, however, a random event of that size could hugely affect the balance of the game, and so I decided to adjust the victory conditions in response to the arrival of the corps: the more favorable the reinforcement arrival for either side, the harder their victory conditions. Assuming all went well, the players wouldn't have any reason to prefer one reinforcement schedule over another on any basis other than personal preference as to what style of play (offensive vs. defensive) they preferred.
There was a lot to like about this approach. It created a range of different kinds of games, since the French army would vary in strength from game to game, and the situation would vary accordingly. I later got the idea to incorporate an option where the Allies could discover the French reinforcements (which certainly could have happened historically – Napoleon was deeply worried about exactly that possibility) and then they would go on the defensive. Adding the Allied discovery option created another variation to the game, essentially a new scenario. In spite of these advantages, there were three things that bothered me:
The solution to the first problem was to change the mechanism so that the French player made a blind draw of a colored token. He would then conceal the token from the Allied player while looking up the result in the table on the right (which was printed on the mapboard). If the result was Allied discovery, he would then reveal the result to the Allied player. Otherwise, he kept it secret until the end of the game (of course, the Allied player would have long since guessed based on what reinforcements the French player brought on, so showing it at the end was really just a verification mechanism).
The second problem didn't seem to admit to a solution other than dumping the whole idea, which I was more than reluctant to do, since it was the only idea I had that would work at all. I might not have been entirely happy about it, but there are always problems you would like to solve that in the end you don't, so I was resigned to the fact that this was probably one of them. On the bright side, Friedrich was very well liked even by hard-core grognards, in spite of its extensive use of mechanisms of this kind. It was possible that I was worrying more about it than I should.
Ironically, it was the third problem which worried me the most, and which seemed the hardest to solve, whose solution not only proved easy, but gave me a way to solve the second problem as well. The solution was to tie the victory conditions not just to the schedule, but to what the French player actually did: if the French player chose not to bring on his reinforcements, then he would only have to satisfy the same conditions as if he didn't have them. Thus, if the Allied player went on the defensive, betting that the French player had drawn purple and so would have to attack him, the French player could in response not bring his reinforcements on, and thus only have to satisfy the conditions attached to green. This change made any Allied attempt to guess the secret reinforcement schedule futile: the Allied player would have to attack or he would lose: he needed to either take the green reinforcement objectives or force the French to bring on their reinforcements to prevent it.
It may not be instantly obvious how the solution to the third problem addresses the second, but in fact it does. If you will recall the three approaches to solving the hindsight problem, the second option was coercion: forcing a player to act as if he doesn't have knowledge that in fact he does. In the game, even if the Allied player knew that all the French reinforcements were available, as they were historically, he would still have to attack in order to force the French player to bring them on, and only once they were on, could he go on the defensive.
My first thought when I realized this was that I could junk the entire system of having multiple French reinforcement schedules: I didn't need it to make the game work. For now, however, I've decided to keep a modified version of it. If they want to, the players can choose one of the schedules to play (both of them knowing in advance which it was), or they could do a blind draw, including whichever possibilities they wanted, so if they wanted to draw but only put the purple, yellow, and green tokens in the mix, they could do so. There wasn't any reason from a design point of view to mandate any particular combination of choices; it could be left entirely up to the players.
And so, we have, in a way, returned to cossacks, which were dropped from the game because the rules to include them couldn't be justified in the game's complexity budget. The rules for variable French reinforcements, on the other hand, have to pass the same test, but it seems to me (at least for now) that they do. Each reinforcement schedule produces a different game, which has the potential to greatly enrich the replay value of the game, especially when you consider that each schedule can be applied to all of the four scenarios. Thus, each combination, in a way, constitutes a scenario in itself, for a total of sixteen different variations. Of particular importance is that four of those variations are within the scenario that has the shortest playing time, increasing that short scenario's replay value.
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It would be nice to wrap up this diary entry at this point, having completed a circular compositional structure, but unfortunately there is still one point remaining to be covered: just what are the victory conditions anyway? To answer that question, I've added an update showing the current mapboad, which you can see to the right. Unfortunately, you will need to click on the image to open it in its own window to see it, since it isn't legible at the small size it is shown in this window. From here I'll just assume that you have done so and make references to the map as I need to.
On the map, objectives are indicated with stars. There are four different colors: red, black, blue and green. Readers familiar with Bonaparte at Marengo will of course be familiar with stars denoting objectives, although there is a graphical variation here: instead of using filled stars, they are outlined. This reduces their visibility. In Bonaparte at Marengo, the objectives are all along the edge of the map, but in Napoleon's Triumph, they are closer to the middle, and I thought that they were visually too strong when filled in, and so I opted to just use outlines, which quieted them. Anyway, the red and black objectives are on the heights occupied by the Allied army at the start of the battle. The blue and green objectives are located well behind the French lines. Although either side can win a decisive victory by demoralizing the enemy army, a marginal victory can be won by conditions that vary with the reinforcement schedule as follows:
Game balance will only become clear through playtesting, but it isn't difficult to make minor adjustements by manipulating the number and location of the different objective stars. There is a complication, however, in that I'd like to keep the objectives the same across all four scenarios, which will complicate the process and may prove ultimately impossible. Still, that is my first preference and I will be working to hold to it if I can.


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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
In Which She Attempts to Channel her Inner Martha Stewart and Winds Up with Jerry Lewis
Which sets the stage recently for a planned meal of herbed pork loin chops, roasted new potatoes, steamed sugar snap peas and a wilted spinach salad with organic balsamic dressing.
And therein lay my trouble.
Now, mom has allergies to msg and sulfites, so finding a balsamic dressing without them is not an easy task and I was not up to the chore of making one from scratch. (I know. Major demerit on the Martha scale.) But I found one - Annie's Organic - and decided I was good to go.
This was a brand-new bottle, plucked by the store shelf by Yours Truly. Unopened... with a plastic sheath sealing the top of the bottle. This is key.
I think this also what's known as foreshadowing but what the hey. We're going with it.
Anyway, I peeled away the plastic seal and flipped the bottle over to blend the contents as the balsamic vinegar had settled to the bottom. Flip down and flip back up and....
You know, somebody at Annie's Organics bottling plant gets a big fat FAIL in my book. I do not expect to have to check whether the cap of an UNOPENED bottle to see if it is firmly screwed into place. And so it was that as I flipped the bottle upright, the cap flew off and three-quarters of the contents erupted out of the bottle in a balsamic geyser of epic proportions.
The velocity caused the deluge of dressing to kind of spread itself out in midair and it seemed to hang there like something out of The Matrix long enough for me to realize that things were about to get very messy and there was not one dang thing I could do to prevent it.
Time returned to its normal speed as cold vinaigrette splattered onto my head, all across both sides of the kitchen, the stove, down my shirt... there was balsamic vinaigrette in my BRA.
The sound of the splatter drew my daughter and parents out to the kitchen to behold my fragrant disaster. To her credit, my daughter started helping me clean up the mess with just a bare hint of a smirk.
Cooking with Gerbil... kind of like vaudeville dinner theatre.
11 comments:
- Betsey Booms said...
Oh no! I hate that split second during a kitchen disaster when you realize what is happening but you can do nothing before the splash.
- July 8, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- Catwoman said...
You should sue. Like that lady that almost lost an eye because of the ornament on a Victoria's Secret thong.
- July 8, 2008 at 2:15 PM
- giants fan said...
wow--- martha would be proud! :)
- July 8, 2008 at 4:32 PM
- a Tonggu Momma said...
You sound like ME in the kitchen!!!
And I have a sulfite allergy, too. Tell your mom I understand! Annie's Organic is a favorite of ours (but not the packaging) for many things, including the balsamic...
- July 8, 2008 at 4:40 PM
- Lone Grey Squirrel said...
Haha. I sympathise as I am not unfamiliar with culinary disasters myself. However, cheer up as they say; "Laughter is the best medicine."
- July 8, 2008 at 8:39 PM
- Suzie said...
Well Im sure it gave you lots to talk about at meal time.
- July 9, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- That Chick Over There said...
Oh geesh. This does not surprise me, knowing you the way I do.
- July 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Heather J. said...
ahhhhh, the smell.
I happen to like Vaudeville, that probably why I like you!
- July 13, 2008 at 2:05 PM
- Guinevere Meadow said...
Oh, you poor thing!! I have similar incidents in my kitchen frequently.
It's the thought that counts!!
- July 16, 2008 at 4:41 PM
- my4kids said...
Funny but oh something I would do! Seriously though that lid should have been on tight so you shouldn't have had to worry. I'll bet you check all lids from now on right?
- July 18, 2008 at 4:55 AM
- Reluctant Housewife said...
Wow. How frustrating. Bad things shouldn't happen to people who are doing good things.
At least it wasn't cold.
- July 30, 2008 at 1:15 PM

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In the present, fluctuating state of affairs in Moscow's leading musical institutions, Ermler would no doubt have been welcomed back to the Russian capital; his first, one-year contract in South Korea was due to end next month. He will be remembered in Russia chiefly for a host of distinguished opera and ballet performances at the Bolshoi - with a prolific discography to match - and, in Britain, for returning the music of the Tchaikovsky ballets to centre-stage at Covent Garden.
Born in what was then Leningrad, he was the son of two loyal and distinguished names in the Soviet film industry. His mother, Vera Bakun, was a set designer, and his father, Friedrich Ermler, who had joined the Communist party in 1919 and fought in the Red army on the northern front, began his directing career in the heady, experimental era of the 1920s. In the year of his son's birth, he was working on Counterplan, with a fine score by Shostakovich.
Mark Ermler took piano lessons from the age of five, and three years later was enrolled at a school linked to the Leningrad Conservatoire. By the time he entered the conservatoire itself, as an 18-year-old, he had already begun to conduct, and he later claimed to have gleaned the most important quality for his profession - independence of spirit - from his teachers, Boris Khaikin and Alexander Rabinovitch.
Even more significantly, this was the early heyday of the great Evgeny Mravinsky at the Leningrad Philharmonic; as Ermler told me in 1994: "From going to all Mravinsky's rehearsals and performances, I learnt to rehearse things properly; he was a wonderful educator for the orchestra." His own virtues included a near-photographic memory and a rock-solid technique.
Ermler conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic for the first time in 1952, while still a student, and, a year later, made his operatic debut with the conservatory's opera studio, in what now seems like an unlikely candidate, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
He first conducted at the Bolshoi in 1957, in performances of Cavalleria Rusticana, and his initial season as an official house conductor included Tchaikovsky's Evgeny Onegin, one of the many major Russian operas he subsequently recorded, and Fidelio, with Galina Vishnevskaya as Leonora.
His outstanding reputation as a ballet conductor began with new Bolshoi productions of Stravinsky's The Firebird and Petrushka, at a time when the émigré composer was only just being welcomed back into Soviet cultural life. In 1960, Ermler won his battle to give the world premiere of Prokofiev's last opera, The Story Of A Real Man; this simple, but occasionally quirky, tale of an airman who loses both legs in the second world war had become a victim of the fallout from the show- trials of 1948, and Ermler claimed that Prokofiev still had a "difficult" reputation at the Bolshoi in the decade following his death.
Ermler believed that the company's assocation with the major Prokofiev operas paved the way for supremely com-plicated works like Rodion Shchedrin's Dead Souls. His own involvement with con temporary music was relatively limited, but, in an interesting homage to his father's work in the cinema, he did collaborate with Alfred Schnittke on many film scores.
With improved relations between the Soviet Union and the west, Ermler not only toured with the Bolshoi company, but took on many engagements in the world's leading opera houses. In 1985, he was appointed principal guest conductor of London's Royal Ballet. Having learnt to adapt to the needs of the dancers both at the Bolshoi and then at Covent Garden, he recorded all three Tchai-kovsky ballets with the Royal Opera House Orchestra.
Freed from what he noted as the lack of synchronisation between Petipa's choreography and Tchaikovsky's original tempos, he was able to luxuriate in the symphonic developments of the scores.
Adding to this a consciously Russian tone from the winds, stronger brass playing and the orchestra's understanding of Tchaikovsky's dramaturgy, Ermler's recordings of the ballets are certainly the most opulent ever recorded; his Sleeping Beauty remains at the top of a long list. In 1993, he recorded a very different, but equally striking, interpretation of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
These are the performances that will keep Ermler's name before the public - familiar chunks are still played on the hold-system of the Royal Opera's box-office phone line.
Ermler's reputation in symphonic music is less widely known outside Russia. He took up a post with the Moscow Philharmonic in 1996, but returned to the Bolshoi as music director in 1998 for another two years. His performances, both live and on disc, have been uneven; but he continued to excel in the weightier specimens of his native repertoire, and, in 2000, was still giving a magisterial intepretation of the first great Russian opera, Glinka's A Life For The Tsar, at the Bolshoi.
He is survived by his wife Dina, and daughter Masha.
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McLay, who was born and raised in Niagara on the Lake, filed his nominations papers on Monday, May 14.
He works as a dining services manager in the seniors housing industry.
McLay says he is running for Chatham-Kent council "in order to be part of the leadership that will drive to make
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He currently sits on the board of governors for Shiners Hospitals for Children in Erie, Pennsylvania, is on the board of Directors for MOCHA Shriners in London and is currently the president of the Kent Kennel Club.
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Colorado left tackle Jeromy Irwin was ejected from Saturday's game at Washington State in the second quarter for a targeting penalty.
The Buffs went for the first on fourth-and-10 from the Washington State 28-yard line, and under heavy pressure, quarterback Steven Montez scrambled to find an open receiver, but threw an incomplete pass. During the play, Irwin blindsided Cougars defensive tackle Derek Moore to draw the flag.
"That was a stupid play by him," head coach Mike MacIntyre said.
Because the penalty occurred in the first half, Irwin will not have to sit out any of the next game.
This is the third targeting penalty against the Buffs this season. Safety Afolabi Laguda and defensive tackle Chris Mulumba were both ejected from the Sept. 16 game against Northern Colorado for targeting.
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In addition to losing Irwin in the first half, the Buffs lost center Jonathan Huckins and cornerback Isaiah Oliver to injuries in the game.
Oliver appeared to suffer a leg injury on Washington State's first touchdown, early in the second quarter and never returned. After the game, CU said Oliver would be evaluated on Sunday in Boulder.
Huckins suffered a concussion. Combined with Irwin's ejection, that forced the Buffs to shuffle their line.
Josh Kaiser and Isaac Miller both played at left tackle, and Miller and Aaron Haigler both played at right tackle. After Huckins went down, Tim Lynott Jr. moved from right guard to center, and Brett Tonz played at right guard.
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Nose tackle Javier Edwards returned Saturday after missing last week's game at Oregon State with an ankle injury. On his first play of the night, he forced a fumble that CU's Evan Worthington recovered.
"Definitely, it always feels good to be back," Edwards said. "I felt great."
CU has lost 28 consecutive road games against ranked teams, with the last victory coming on Sept. 21, 2002, at UCLA. … Despite a bad night, Montez has thrown 108 consecutive passes without an interception – the sixth-longest streak in CU history. … CU nearly went the whole game without a turnover, until Juwann Winfree had a fumble with 3:11 to play in the fourth quarter. The Buffs came in with a school-record three consecutive turnover-free games. The Winfree fumble snapped a streak of 16 consecutive quarters without a turnover for CU. … After recording one sack in the first four Pac-12 games, the Buffs had two on Saturday, one by McCartney and another shared by Leo Jackson III and Chris Mulumba. Devin Ross, who had no catches in the previous two games, led CU with four catches for 27 yards. … The Buffs went 1-for-17 on third down conversions. The only conversion came on the meaningless final play of the first half.
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If the game isn't done that's fine and well but at least give those of us who paid for it some kind of update letting us know what's going on. This is the first otome game I've ever paid for so I was really looking forward to it but I'm starting to think this was a scam. I know you guys have a life to deal with but when it comes to business and people who have paid you, You should make time to let them know what's going on. :(
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It's probably not a scam, since these people have worked on other visual novels that have been finished and also this game has a demo. But the lack of an update since like september 2016 really makes me think the game is cancelled. If that's the case, we need refunds.
Someone needs to try and get a refund. If they can't get through to the creators, then hopefully we can go to someone on itch.io
Hopefully... I know its only a few bucks but I paid and expected a game. If there's no game, we should get a refund.
Based on their history of the devs with their previous games. I can be confident to say it's not a scam. Although it seems they have put this game in the back burner for a long time due to real life stuff.
That being said. There has been no update whatsoever, for months, not even a post saying "I'm sorry, we are very much behind but are still working on it". Which itself really disappoints me, I understand that they cannot sacrifice their entire time for creating a game if they have other obligations but there is no reason not to at-least inform the people who have pre-ordered this game what the status is. Just anything to let us know what's going on. I don't think it's asking much....


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Texas Tech Red Raiders will battle the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman tomorrow with a lot of the line. Texas Tech wants to win out as they know if they do they most likely will be playing in the National Championship game against someone. Now the Oklahoma Sooners know that they must win the game if they want a chance to play for a National Championship. It maybe a long shot, but they do not want to lose at home and kill their chances.
This will be a high scoring game as both teams should put a lot of points on the board. I personally like the Sooners in this game. I just do not think that Texas Tech will be able to win this game on the road. It is tough to win in Norman and I just do not see them beating the Sooners there.
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Hi, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right YouTube channel! Whether you are trying to obtain your ideal life, become a highly successful leader, pick up a new skill, develop a new hobby, or improve in some other way, it is very important to have a personal development plan.
Quick Recap
This is the fourth and final video in the Personal Development Plan Series. Before we get too far into this video, let's do a quick recap. At this point, you've watched videos 1-3, determined why you need a personal development plan, developed your personal development plan strategy, and determined how to implement your personal development plan.
Now, you are implementing your plan by following these six steps.
- Review/Create Your Goals
- Prioritize
- Set Deadlines
- Take Action
- Get a Mentor
- Monitor Your Progress and Reflect
I hope you are making great progress on your plan and everything is working nicely for you! I also hope you are having success and reaching your goals! So what now?
5 Steps To Continuously Move Your Plan Forward
In this video, we are going to discuss five steps you can take, to continuously move your plan forward.
1. Make Your Personal Development Plan a Priority
Often corporations and large organizations spend a significant amount of time and money on their strategic plan to move the organization forward. The plan is often developed over weeks of meetings, retreats, and mid to senior level management focusing their own time to create the perfect strategy.
Once the strategic plan is completed, it is often a modern-day masterpiece that details exactly how the organization will move forward! But what often happens after that is quite discouraging to say the least. The strategic plan is created and then left on the desk, shelf, or some other location and never looked at again until the next powwow to create the next strategic plan. What a sad waste of time, energy, and effort!
This is not just an anomaly with strategic plans. It happens to goals and many other plans that we create. Let's not have this happen to our personal development plan.
Make the Plan a Priority
Instead, let's make the personal development plan a priority. Schedule the plan into your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly routines so it is part of your life.
I created my plan some time back and I do a big review at the start of each year. During this review, I look very closely at each point and make sure it is still relevant for the upcoming year. I also add in items that weren't on it but are appropriate for the upcoming year. From there I set goals and check points I review daily and weekly. The key is that I schedule those goals and check points into my week. I also do a monthly progress check to make sure I am on schedule and each point is still relevant.
I have found that if I don't schedule time on my calendar to complete these reviews, they often get overlooked and don't happen. Therefore, it is extremely important to schedule them on your calendar.
2. Select an Accountability Partner
Point number two is to select an accountability partner. Have you ever gone to the gym with a friend on a regular basis? If you have, you have probably learned the power of positive peer pressure. Having someone else go with you each time you go to the gym, helps you to stay motivated to continue going even when you would rather do something else. When you don't have a gym partner, it is much harder to keep the habit going because there's no one there to push you.
Similarly, it is important to have an accountability partner with your personal development plan. Find someone that will regularly check in with you and hold you accountable for completing your goals. Find someone that will push you in the way you need to be pushed.
Find the Right Accountability Partner
For example, you will likely want someone that can empathize with you on your setbacks, but has a similar temperament to push you in a way that is effective for you when you are starting to feel lazy.
Schedule time on a regular basis when you can go over your progress with your accountability partner. Let them know what successes and failures you have experienced. Then get their feedback and support.
With your accountability partner, do your best to ensure that it is not only for your benefit. Find someone that is on a similar path so you can help them on their journey as well. Have them report to you on what they are doing and how it is going for them. As they report to you, you will gain valuable insight from their experience making it a win-win for both of you.
3. Refresh/Update Your Plan to Meet YOUR Needs
Once you've worked on your plan for a little while, take time at your weekly or monthly check-ins to review your plan to ensure it's meeting your needs. Look at the big picture to ensure your daily activities will lead you to complete your goals as you want them completed. If you find that daily activities are getting off track, make adjustments to get them back on track.
There has been a common theme through this personal development plan series; keep the plan relevant to you, your current life circumstances, and where you want to go. By refreshing and updating your plan to meet your needs, your plan will stay relevant and exciting.
4. Refine and Refocus
If you find in step three that your plan is getting off course, or if upon further review you realize you are losing your focus, step four is to refine and refocus.
I'd like to share an analogy that goes along with this. Have you ever walked outside at night when there was no moon and it was complete darkness with nothing more than a flashlight? If you have, you've experienced what it's like to walk in almost complete darkness. Your flashlight shines just far enough ahead of you that you can see a few steps ahead of where you are going, but the rest is darkness. With each step, you can see a little farther ahead you where you once were.
Often it is like this with a personal development plan. As you make progress you can see a little farther in front of where you once were. When you are walking in the dark, you don't know what is beyond your flashlight. It could be a turn, an obstacle, or something else in your path. When that happens on your personal development plan journey, refine and refocus so you continue to make progress.
5. Keep At It!
The fifth and final step is to keep at it! When I think about the people I look up to, they weren't always the smartest, most talented, or gifted. But, they were the hardest workers! They worked harder than anyone around and their hard work made up for any lack of skill, giftedness, or any of their other weaknesses.
Your personal development plan won't be easy, but it will be worth it, so keep at it. When the going gets tough, keep at it! Remember that the resistance will come so prepare for it and well, keep at it. There will definitely be time where you will want to give up and throw in the towel or when relaxation will seem better than the hard work required for your personal development plan. Don't give up because you will regret it. Instead, keep at it.
Now to wrap things up, I am really excited for you because you have chosen to work on your personal development plan. As long as you continue following the methods outlined in this personal development plan series, you will never regret the hard work you put into yourself and your well-being.
Please share your successes, challenges, and learning experiences as you go down this learning journey on your personal development plan. I am sincerely interested in hearing your feedback. You can send me your feedback by emailing me at email@example.com. In the subject line use the phrase "Personal Development Plan".
Thanks for watching this video and the video series. If you enjoyed them and would like to watch more great videos just like them, please subscribe to the Leadership Done Right YouTube Channel and check out LeadershipDoneRight.com. Also, please like the video and share it with others! Well, until next time, go and be the best leader you can be!


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Disclosure: My admission to the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center was complimentary during my press trip to Virginia Beach. All opinions are my own.
On my recent trip to Virginia Beach, our first stop was to the Virginia Aquarium. I've been to quite a few aquariums before, so I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. But after our short tour, I'm convinced this is the best aquarium I've been to.
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center
The Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center is located in Virginia Beach, a mile from the waterfront resort area. In the summer, trolley service is available (a fee applies), and the aquarium also has a parking lot if you'd prefer to drive.
The aquarium includes the Bay & Ocean pavilion, the Marsh pavilion, and the nature trail. During our trip, we only had about an hour to tour the aquarium, so we only got to see the Bay and Ocean pavilion, and unfortunately not the Marsh pavilion. But, even just the Bay and Ocean pavilion had more robust displays than any other aquarium I've visited. There were lots of different animals to be spotted, and the displays were uncrowded, and easy to check out.
My favorite exhibit was the outdoor upland river area, where I spotted the turtles as well as some quail. I also loved the Komodo Dragons – my son would absolutely love these. We also checked out the shark tank, learned about sea turtle rescue, touched sharks and rays, and viewed the jellyfish. I also loved seeing the seals in the front of the building.
Admission to the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center includes some animal encounters, Q & A sessions, and exhibits. The aquarium also offers several different boat trips in season, including a Dolphin Discoveries boat trip. An additional fee for these trips applies. There's also the National Geographic 3D Theater, which was recently renovated. The theater shows all types of movies including documentaries.
If you are feeling adventurous, you'll also find the Adventure Park at Virginia Aquarium. The Adventure Park is appropriate for age 5 and older, and includes 170 tree platforms and 13 aerial trails. There's also "The Labyrinth" which is a play area that's more appropriate for younger kids.
I know that when I return to the Virginia Beach area, I'll definitely bring my kids here – they'll just love it.
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center
717 General Booth Blvd.
Virginia Beach, VA. 23451
See more information on their website.
Disclosure: I received complimentary admission to the aquarium.


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Tamanu Oil Skin Benefits
Tamanu Oil Tamanu oil originates tropical areas and goes by many names according to where it is. Tamanu orginates from Tahiti but it is called Kamani in Hawaii, Dilo in Fiji and Ballnut in Australia. The oil is green in … Continue reading
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Shea Butter Skin Benefits
Known as African karite butter, it is derived from the pits of the fruit of the African Butter Tree which grows in Africa. Used for centuries for foot and body care, Shea Butter is able to moisturize and nourish the … Continue reading
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Warwickshire County Council Contract Win
Universal Care Services are pleased to announce we have recently renewed our contract with Warwickshire County Council to provide domiciliary care services.
Reita Lebrock company director stipulated 'this is a major contract win for us as we had to compete against hundreds of local and national companies to retain our current contract. This award is testament to the hard work and dedication our staff put in on a daily basis to delivering a good quality service. This award secures the jobs of hundreds of staff based at our Coleshill and Nuneaton Branches for the foreseeable future. I would like to thank all staff in Warwickshire for their continued support and dedication to our business.'
As well as retaining our current business as part of this contract win we have managed to secure new business across North Warwickshire and as such have 25 new vacancies for full time community care assistants.
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The Dermatology department at Canadian Medical Center offers world class, family centered healthcare to everyone, with its highly qualified, fellowship-trained Doctors read more
CMC Dental staffs have the skills and techniques to render the dental services in professional manners as per HAAD, DHA and MOH rules and regulations. read more
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Denise Young founded DMY Consulting Ltd. in 2017 and changed the name to Tigers Eye Advisory Group Ltd. in 2018. She wanted to offer a one-stop type of consulting business to make it easier for organizations. Her passion is people and has a strong belief that the best way organizations can meet goals is through focusing on employees, not on processes. Processes need to be in place to succeed but it is the employees who will either make it successful or unsuccessful so why not ensure employees have the best training to ensure success!
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At Tigers Eye Advisory Group, we care about achieving your organizations goals through using your biggest asset, your employees. We value relationship building therefore we will do whatever we can to support you and your team. Our preferred clients are leaders who prioritize wanting to achieve an engaged workforce and hold their management team accountable to help achieve this. If this is you... TEAG will support you in developing and supporting your leaders and employees.
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If you need your business to prosper, try using Internet promotion to reach more people. In this article, you will learn some helpful tips on how to successfully market things over the World Wide Web. After reading this, you will have a good idea on how to be a great Internet marketer.
To help an eCommerce site's PageRank skyrocket, come up with a limited time offer. An excellent deal is, in some ways, like buying your PageRank, as it will lead to many deal and general consumer news sites linking to you. The concept is similar to businesses selling an item at a loss, expecting to profit from the move in the future.
Your internet promotion strategy doesn't have to be limited to the internet itself. Reaching out to bloggers and creating partnerships with mutual benefits is a great way to increase your presence. This will help them feel connected with you, and they will continue to promote your services.
Webmasters sometimes ignore the significance of simplicity when it comes to websites. Glitzy multimedia tools, such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash may lure website owners, and professional web designers frequently offer these tools. They need to also be aware that some visitors cannot use that technology. A website does not need to have a bunch of crazy features, as long as it is efficient and user-friendly.
Consider reading about psychological studies that have been done on web page design and web marketing. These psychological responses can greatly influence the way that site visitors connect with your brand. This includes every detail of your site, from colors to layout. Acting on this information can help you maximize your potential profits.
Always have fresh, current content available on your site. If a customer visits your page and it's not updated, they may think your company is failing and that it's not worth contacting you. If your site is frequently updated and user-friendly, your readers will enjoy visiting it.
Make sure that you maximize the quality of third-party security with transactions. There are various trusted services/ VeriSign is one of the programs that helps to keep financial information private. They may cost a bit of money, but are absolutely necessary if you want to conduct online business.
Even if your company cannot afford to hire a high-priced marketing consultant, the internet offers a number of free resources that are useful for evaluating your marketing approach. Instead of spending a lot of money look into free options for advertising your business like business communities, blogs and various networking opportunities.
Your website should look and perform in a professional manner. Testing your links, images, ads and checkout process for errors can avoid upsetting visitors. If there are problems with the site and the people cannot to where they want to go in a quick manner, there is a good chance you will lose that customer.
Good Internet promotion increases your companies visibility. When conventional advertising just won't give your product the exposure it needs, Web marketing saves the day. Use the tips learned here to plan a strategy that will reach your targeted audience.
It's been proven that it doesn't matter what kind of marketing tactic you deploy to increase your business, personal leadership plays a key role in your success. New York Times best-selling author Orrin Woodward published a book titled "RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE" which goes over this topic superbly well. It's a must-read. Mr.Woodward also cofounded the LIFE Leadership company.


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The Call for Innovations for the SDGs 2018 is initiated by the UN in collaboration with the Global Innovation Exchange, and will take place from February 26 to April 4 2018
The Call seeks concrete scientific and technological innovations to achieve the five SDGs that are the focus of the third multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) in 2018, namely:
All innovations that are working to achieve these SDGs are welcome, and will be reviewed carefully. We also welcome innovations based on traditional knowledge or helping to ensure that no one is left behind.
Following the Call for Innovations, a group of eminent experts will select key examples of innovative solutions. Subject to availability of funding, representatives of the selected innovations will be invited to participate in the STI Forum 2018, and exhibit their innovations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 5 and 6 June 2018.
Innovations submitted to the Call will be publicly featured in GIE's searchable database of over 5,000 innovations, used by press, donors, funders and investors, and can access a comprehensive list of all available innovation funding opportunities across development (cumulative USD 250+ million).
Show us your creativity, entrepreneurship and drive to promote sustainable development by submitting your innovation.
Create or login to an account on the Global Innovation Exchange.
Add or spruce up the relevant innovation profile.
To officially submit your innovation for consideration, add a milestone for "Recognition" for "STI Forum 2018" as the Program and "Applicant" as the Title.
If your innovation already exists on GIE, you only need to complete the last step. You can continue to edit your innovation profile until April 4, 2018. Please visit the FAQ for additional information about submitting your innovation profile.
What are the SDGs?
The 193 countries of the United Nations adopted a new set of goals that are designed to achieve sustainable development for everyone globally by the year 2030. "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are designed to shape the global efforts for development until 2030.
This year the focus of the STI Forum will be on the following five SDGs:
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
The SDGs are designed to be transformative, and change the way in which we develop our world. Innovation and technology are key to implementing the SDGs, and essential to the ambition of achieving the SDGs by 2030.
What is the STI Forum?
A Technology Facilitation Mechanism was agreed by the Member States as part of the 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (outcome of the Financing for Development Conference, 2015). As a central part of this agreement, the United Nations will host an annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum).
The STI Forum 2018 will take place at UN Headquarters, New York, and will address the five SDGs chosen to also be the focus of the subsequent High-Level Political Forum, at which the UN member States will annually meet to review their progress in implementing the SDGs.
The Member States established the STI Forum to "provide a venue for facilitating interaction, matchmaking and the establishment of networks between relevant stakeholders and multi-stakeholder partnerships in order to identify and examine technology needs and gaps, including with regard to scientific cooperation, innovation and capacity-building, and also in order to help facilitate development, transfer and dissemination of relevant technologies for the sustainable development goals."
Background: Call for Innovations from STI Forums 2016 and 2017
Selected Innovations for the STI Forum in 2017
Missing Maps: crowdsourcing digital map creation
Babajob: Informal Sector Jobs Marketplace
Virtual Farmers Market
Virtual Water Prospecting Program to locate naturally desalinated self-recharging & self-replenishing Water Sources
Farmer Query System
Mobilized Construction
Paper Airplanes
JokkoSante, pharmacy community
CodePhil: Digital Literacy in Rural Philippines for Sustainable Livelihoods & Community Resilience
Selected Innovations for the STI Forum 2016
Adaptive Learning Program
Agriworks Mobile Irrigation System
Clean Fuel from Agricultural Waste and Energy-Saving Cookstoves
Dispensers for Safe Water
JANMA Clean Birth Kit
LAWIN Forest and Biodiversity Protection System
Lumkani Fire Detection
Naya Jeevan
Reducing Milk Spoilage Through Solar Powered Milk Chilling in Rural India
Social Register of Mauritius
Surehatch Incubators
Women Originated Media Entrepreneurship Network (WOMEN)


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We are proud that two of our moisture tester products made the Top 5 list from a team of US-based product reviewers at top5reviewed.com, The Top 5 team primarily test and evaluate commercial, medical, engineering, industrial and other scientific products. We are excited to learn our MT-16 came in the number one spot while our MT-PRO+ followed just behind in ratings based from 1-5!
The Agratronix MT-16 Moisture Tester came in at the highest rating of 4.8/5 and The MT-Pro+ Moisture Tester followed with the second highest rating of 4.3/5!
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Rondat, Patrick - On The Edge
Year of Release: 1999
Label: Limb Music Products
Catalog Number: LMP 9904-010 CD
Format: CD
Total Time: 00:00:00
On The Edge is guitarist Patrick Rondat's new album and the follow-up to the successful Amphibia. Rondat is perhaps most known for his work with Jean M. Jarre but On The Edge is in fact his fourth solo album. There are not many guitar-instrumental albums released today that are really interesting and innovative, but Rondat is one of those guitar-heroes that still produces instrumental rock that's both interesting and creative. On this new album, Rondat has teamed up with world renowned and loved jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani (R.I.P), unique violinist Didier Lockwood, as well as Tommy Aldridge [drummer] of various bands such as Whitesnake and Gary Moore.
This is high quality instrumental rock with elements of prog rock/metal/ambient and jazz/fusion. What excites me the most is the fact that Rondat doesn't try to be the fastest guitarist in the world and show off from start to end. Rondat instead focuses on technique, feeling, emotion, song-structure and melody. While this CD shows a wide spectrum of musical influences and elements, Rondat's ability to blend power and melody into his songs is unique. The songs are technical and complex, but never lose its sense of melody. The great clear production, the song-structures and arrangements are very professional.
Fans of instrumental rock and guitar-heroes as well as the ordinary prog metal fan will love this CD.
[This review originally appeared November 2002 at the ProgPower Online review site -ed.]
Destinies / Cloudy Mountains / Why Do You Do Things Like That? / Into The Wild / Duality Intro / Duality Pt I / Duality Pt Ii / Duality Pt Iii / Burn Out (acoustic Version) / If Ever I Come Back / On The Edge / Across The Bridge / Our Paths Crossed
European version: Duality Intro / Duality Part I / Duality Part II / Duality Part III / Destinies / Into The Wild / If I Ever Come Back / On The Edge / Burn Out (acoustic version) / Why Do You Do Things Like That? / Cloudy Mountain / Across The Bridge Our Paths Crossed
Patrick Rondat - guitars
Michel Petrucciani - piano
Didier Lockwood - violin
Phil Woindrich - keyboards
Patrice Guers - bass
Tommy Aldridge - drums
Time - The Element (1985)
Just For Fun (1989)
Rape Of The Earth (1991/93)
Amphibia (1996/98)
Amphibia Tour Album (1996)
On The Edge (1999)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Origin FR
Added: February 19th 2005
Reviewer: Bjørnar Bevolden
Artist website: www.rondat.com
Hits: 975
Language: english
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By Robert Balajadia
The Southern Dolphins have proven within the first two weeks of the girls soccer season that a three-peat is on their mind. Their 2013 MVP, Paige Surber, has joined them as a coach on the sidelines and they still have a great cast who have been part of their back-to-back titles, including junior April Talledo and Zoe Surber, Paige's younger sister.
Though losing a player like Paige is a tough deal, the Dolphins inherited a player who has been ready for this moment since she was four-years-old.
Insert freshman sensation Colleen Naden.
Naden has scored a goal in almost every game she has played this season. Two goals in her season opener against the Harvest Eagles, two goals against the Academy Cougars including a clutch score to win by one, and goal with just five minutes of action against the JFK Islanders after sitting out the entire first half after nursing an injury.
Who is this freshman and where did she come from?
You can trace her involvement with soccer nearly 10 years ago after joining the Southern Cobras soccer club at four years of age.
"I joined because my older brother was joining and I was always interested in playing," says Naden upon first discovering the sport.
"I'd like to thank the Southern Heat as well as the Guam National Team. They've groomed her since she was young and they helped her acquire the skills. Organizations like the Southern Heat and Southern Cobras that build these players and I'm glad they are sending us high caliber players. Back in 2004-05 we had to build these teams so there is no surprise now why we're doing so good," said head coach Joe Cruz.
Fast forward to 2014 where Naden is a star in her own right having played on both the U14 and U16 national soccer teams, Orange Crushers soccer club, and in various leagues wherever soccer is involved. She's no stranger to the soccer community on island and she's rapidly making a name for herself on the defending champion Dolphins.
"There are few things that continue to drive me further in the sport. I simply love the game and can't imagine my life without it. I also play because I know it would make it easier for me to get a college scholarship," says Naden.
Instant Star-ter
Coming in as a freshman, it's easy to believe the Dolphin veterans would resent Naden for having a prominent role on the team in just her first year. Not this team and this is not a normal freshman.
"The seniors are very welcoming. I always tell the team it's never about one player. With Colleen coming in, she has a really big impact and they all click. Even though [Naden] is shining it doesn't affect the chemistry. It's not hurting our team and instead it's enhancing the skill level," said Paige Surber.
"[Naden] is no stranger to competition and it's in her nature. She came off a strong rugby team as freshman and they relied on her," added Cruz.
Naden developed chemistry while playing rugby as many of the soccer players now consist of players from rugby.
"My role on the team is to restore the intensity that may have been lost from losing players from last years team, pass my knowledge to newer players, and most importantly to help keep the title of 'Southern Top Team'," added Naden.
Thanks Coach
Though Surber and Naden have never shared time on the field as a Dolphin, Surber still impacts Naden's game from the sideline as Surber was once in Naden's shoes. The pressure of carrying a championship caliber team in your first year can be daunting, but Surber is helping Naden figure it all out.
"A lot of people compare her to me. [Naden] is amazing, I've watched her play before in middle school and I thought to myself, 'this girl is going to go far.' As a freshman she is proving herself and she is a really big asset to the team. She has a lot of pressure on her and she feels it, but she knows that staying humble is going to get her through," said Paige.
"Paige helps me visualize several things on the field. She helped me realize high school is different than the Robby Webber league and coed games. She tries to pass down as much knowledge as she has collected over the years she has played. She is a great motivator to me," says Naden.
Soccer = Everything
With the season approaching it's midway point the main focus for Naden is to stay healthy. Her brand of physical play has appeared to put off some of the other players around the league, though her experience from playing soccer in places around the world force her to adapt in being soccer is a physical sport.
Naden has previously mentioned that she's out to bring home more championship hardware for the soccer team and it's hard not to be impressed with her poise mixed with a killer instinct. If more soccer players of Naden's skill level start to come in strong as freshman then high school soccer may just be the most competitive sport in all four quarters.
Naden was asked to describe what soccer means to her and she responded with:
"Soccer is everything to me. My endless hours of blood, sweat, and tears, late training sessions, sacrifices, and etc. I believe I can say Soccer is my life, passion, and a part of me. I can't imagine my life without it, soccer has gotten me so far in life. It's always been there for me. It's a stress reliever. It's like my guidance through life and motivation. It's also helped me to meet people all over the Island and even the world. It's helped me build unbreakable friendships with people on Island and several countries. Words can't express what soccer is to me."


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Advice on Best Practice EIA for Indonesian Tin Mining
Aidenvironment has been leading as a technical secretary work on tin mining in Indonesia. The resulting report provides recommendations on best practice EIA for tin mining, both off shore and – with a focus on rehabilitation activities – onshore. It deals with environmental issues such as the use of eco-dredging techniques, but also social issues such as the need for clear contractual arrangements between companies and smallholder miners. Recommendations aim both at what companies can do and where government could take the lead, such as carrying out an SEA for sector wide solution strategies. The report was requested by the Tin Working Group of the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) and will be input into the development of a roadmap for responsible tin mining in Indonesia. Recommendations are based on a desk review of five Indonesian EIAs for existing tin mining and smelting projects. The IDH Tin Working Group is a public – private group consisting of IDH, members of the Electronic Industry Citizenship coalition, Friends of the Earth, the International Tin Industry Association (ITRI) and additional corporate members from the electronics and tinplate industries such as Apple, Asus, Philips, Samsung, Sony, HP, Microsoft and Tata Steel.
For more information, please contact Jan Joost Kessler.
Click here to download the report.


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What We do:
At Mountain Creek Architecture we have the qualifications, professional training, vision and experience to manage the entire architectural design and construction process. We will help you set a viable and realistic budget, guide you through the town planning process, obtain competitive quotes for the work, manage consultants like surveyors and engineers, monitor the budget and administer the construction contract. We will inspect the work right through the construction period to ensure you get the quality and level of finishes you require. Definition of an architect: A minimum of five years of university training separates architects from other, less qualified building designers. More than a designer, an architect works with clients on an intensive exploration of their requirements, managing the entire design & build process. After the university qualification, two years of recorded work experience are required, followed by a registration exam to qualify as an architect.
1. Schematic Design
We sit down with you, the client, listen to what you want, produce a written brief, and develop a concept design. We discuss this with you, getting your feedback to inform the design. At this stage the scope of work is clarified, and probable costs are discussed. We then finalise the schematic design. A builder or quantity surveyor may be consulted at this stage, to discuss ball-park figures and efficient building methods.
2. Design Development
In this stage we go through detailed design issues with you, including detailed layouts, power and lighting, services, materials, finishes. Liaising with consultants, eg structural engineer, to incorporate structural and services requirements, further refinement of cost estimates. If soil testing is required, this is arranged during the design stage. If Town Planning is required, it is applied for at this stage. We present a detailed design to you, including plans, elevations, sections, perspective, colours, finishes and fittings suggestions.
3. Contract Documentation
The main body of work is the documentation. This includes all detailed design work necessary to apply for Building permit, for builders to accurately price from, including dimensioning, scheduling doors, windows, fittings, building details, internal elevations. We co-ordinate with other consultants to produce documents that match the architectural documents, written specification for all elements of the building, including pre-tender information. A final set of drawings and specification is presented at the completion of this stage. We handle the tendering of the project to builders and apply for the Building Permit.
3. Contract Administration
During the building process, Mountain Creek Architecure administers the contract. This includes holding regular site meetings with the builder and client, ensuring the project is being built to the tendered documents. Any design issues or unforeseen problems are dealt with as they arise. We correspond regularly with you, reporting on the progress, and agree any changes that are required. We assess the Builder's progress claims, checking that the work claimed has been satisfactorily completed. We issue instructions to the builder as needed, for any changes in the work, and variations are followed through, with the builder and proprietor. We issue the Practical Completion certificate when the building is complete, and a period of Defects Liability occurs, after construction completion, to ensure any problems arising are rectified.