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I Was So Much Older Then; I'm Younger Than That Now: This past March, students from the Berklee School of Music in Boston came to view the inner workings of the Nashville music machine. Seeing this town through their fresh eyes, I was reminded how resilient and attractive Nashville still is, in spite of the significant changes the business has experienced in the last 18 months.
This was Berklee's 13th annual pilgrimage to Nashville, a trip underwritten in part by Warner/Reprise Records and BMI, which, along with ASCAP and SESAC, provided the venues for the events that took place during the course of nearly a week. The first 40 students who signed up for the voyage were given seats on a bus rented by Warner; the rest-and the total number of Berklee students roaming Music Row that week was about 100-had to find their own ways down.
March 18 started with a tour of Warner/Reprise's offices on Music Row, followed by a panel representing most of the piston types in the Nashville music machine, including producer Kyle Lehning, guitarist Larry Carlton, publisher David Conrad and Grand Ole Opry director Pete Fisher. That was followed by a producers panel in which Lehning was joined by Josh Leo, Chuck Ainlay, Matt Rollings and Kyle's son Jason, who had just released his own non-country record.
The following four days were filled with a combination of panels made up of songwriters, musicians, publishers and engineers, and studio tours of several facilities, including Ocean Way (where I'm told that chief engineer Sal Greco charmed many students into considering careers as techs), Starstruck Studios, Emerald Studios (which probably needs a bus just to get everyone to its four locations these days), Soundstage, Sound Kitchen (proving that studio life does not begin and end on the Row), and County Q.
I ran into this enthusiastic group at Soundstage, where Ainlay was giving them surround mixing demonstrations on the SSL Axiom-MT he put into Backstage, the joint venture studio he opened there last year.
Ainlay's laid-back but candid style with the students was probably similar to what they encountered in other facilities and panels. He took pains to answer every technical question, but was also forthcoming with the fact that the demand for surround work was still nascent, at best, in Nashville and elsewhere. He also explained that all new avenues in audio come with another round of mundane issues. "The major record labels seem to be quietly stockpiling surround mixes, but even they're not sure what they're going to do with them," he told the group. "But what is happening is that people are beginning to expect that [engineers will] start providing them with the surround and stereo mixes for the same amount of money."
That observation drew a muted chuckle from the students who had crowded into Backstage's control room.
There was less of a response when Ainlay made an oblique allusion to the fact that another studio that was nestled within the Soundstage complex was actually owned by competing facility Emerald Recording. That comment underscored the changes that the Nashville studio community has been going through in the past two years, and served as the launch pad for some post-demo discussions with the students about how they perceived Nashville.
They were, for the most part, oblivious to the business upheaval in the city's entertainment sector. Instead, they focused on Nashville's well-deserved reputation for friendliness and the single-mindedness that gave rise to its "Music City" moniker.
But Michelle Kiely, a student from Norton, Mass., also knew that the tour presented the city's business in its very best light, and their own careers would probably require more involved maneuvers. "The panels gave us a lot of success stories, about how people had made it, but they skipped a lot of the steps in between," she added.
"The panelists painted a rosy picture," said student Mike Peters of Arlington, Mass. But that realization dampened neither his amazement at the sheer number of recording studios in Nashville, nor the fact that they are so close to each other. "You get to meet a lot of people-engineers, producers, musicians-just walking down the street to lunch. I've been to L.A., but I can't imagine another city where you have this much interaction between everyone in the business."
And in light of the acquisitions and mergers of the past two years, Greg Price, a student from Rochester, Minn., didn't know how right he got it when he observed, "It seems like everyone has a connection to everyone else."
That comment also reflected the enormous strength that Nashville maintains at its core: Members of all the interacting disciplines of the Nashville music business interface constantly. It's no less common to find the songwriter at the session than the artist, the engineer, the producer or the musicians. In fact, several students expressed an amazement that there were so many musicians at sessions, a reflection of the fact that most records are being made in a human resources vacuum, with parts overlaid anonymously on other parts.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the visit was watching the notion of alternative career paths unfold before the eyes of people who, like most budding engineers and producers, have been blinded by the science of gear. "Josh [Leo] told us that the musicians play better when there's a bunch of them playing together in the same room," said Peters. "The same seems to apply to songwriters. This trip has made me want to get into the songwriting thing as part of my career. And Nashville seems like the best place in the world for that."
Trust me, it is.
Milestones: It's with regret that we report the passing of one of Nashville's first resident recording engineers, Aaron Shelton, who died in April at the age of 89. Shelton was one of the triumvirate of former WSM radio engineers-the others were George Reynolds and Carl Jenkins-who created the Castle, the first dedicated recording facility in Nashville, in 1946.
Four years ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Shelton, who engineered many sessions for Hank Williams, while researching my book Nashville's Unwritten Rules. He recalled tales of the Castle, which was located in the now-demolished Tulane Hotel in downtown Nashville. Shelton told me that the former dining hall was divided into three sections: a recording room, a control room and a small area for the Scully acetate lathes which cut the music directly to lacquer disks. The Castle's homemade console was advanced for its day, with eight inputs for microphones-twice as many as most desks of the time. Shelton would divide the inputs up according to the configuration of the artist and bandmembers. If the sessions got too big, the Castle's engineers would book out the Ryman Auditorium three blocks away and rent time on telephone company lines to bring the signals back into the studio for mixing.
The Castle's sessions were mostly at night. With country music still a nascent commercial enterprise, many of the musicians and artists had day jobs. The studio charged $90 for the three-hour sessions, and the cost included engineers, acetates and tape.
Shelton had some fun before the studio closed in 1954. Folk singer Burl Ives would start his recording dates with a pre-session dinner and drinks at the 216 Dinner Club downstairs, then pick up a bottle of Jack Daniels for the session. "Sometimes he made it through the session, sometimes he didn't," recalled Shelton. "He'd get high and start dancing around the studio and knocking over music stands and microphones, and we'd be picking them up behind him."
Another session was interrupted once when a hotel guest forgot to turn off his bathtub faucet in a room above the studio and the Castle's grand piano was turned into a freestanding pool.
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In homage to our boy's abroad who have been fighting on two fronts (Europe and South America) this week in continental battle, here are the best three goals from Paraguayan players.
3. Rolando Bogado (Real Garcilaso) vs. Santa Fe, Copa Libertadores, Wednesday 13th February
Move over Cristiano Ronaldo, if you thought the Real Madrid man's header was a good one later that evening we had this spectacular piece of work from ex-Luqueño defender Rolando Bogado. Moving away from the ball at the corner and drifting behind the penalty spot he still managed to connect with the floated corner and power it into the top corner, like CR7 and important equaliser for his team at home.
2. Oscar Cardozo (Benfica) vs. Bayer Leverkusen, Europa League, Thursday 14th February
A vital away goal for the Portuguese giants as they hit Leverkusen on the break from a corner, as Tacuara received the pass he may have been tempted to shoot but instead feinted past the defender and showed even more composure with a delicate chipped finish.
3. Edgar Benítez (Toluca) vs. Boca Juniors, Copa Libertadores, Wednesday 13th February
How many teams go to La Bombonera and beat Boca…while managed by Bianchi?! Toluca join that exclusive list thanks to this wonderful winner from Edgar Benítez. Timed his run well to receive a beautiful pass from Sinha and with the covering defender closing him down he opted to shoot first time rather than take a touch…by shoot I mean execute a delightful chip/scoop over Boca's goalkeeper who had strayed too far from his line.
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Eating raw doesn't have to be an "all or nothing" experience. Even if you don't consider yourself a fully raw eater, incorporating some raw foods into your eating plan can give your health a boost without you having to sacrifice the cooked meals you enjoy. One raw food everyone should include in their diet is raw nuts. Of course, there are many types of nuts with specific health benefits, but all are sources of healthy fats and protein that you need in your diet.
So, why should you eat your nuts raw instead of roasted? Here are two ways raw nuts offer you a healthy advantage over their cooked counterparts:
1. Roasting Nuts Destroys Some of their Nutrients
This likely doesn't surprise you if you know about how high temperatures degrade or even destroy nutrients in vegetables and fruits, and antioxidants are especially susceptible to destruction when they are subjected to high temperatures or even moderate heat.
What healthy nutrients in nuts are you getting less of by eating them roasted? Almonds are considered by many to be one of the healthiest types of nuts to eat, with walnuts following very closely behind, so we'll look at the nutrients in those two nut varieties.
Almonds are packed with magnesium, vitamin E, and copper, to name just a few of the healthy nutrients in them. Eating just an ounce of almonds every day has been linked to reducing you risk of colon cancer, lowering your "bad" cholesterol levels, and keeping your heart healthy.
Walnuts contain hefty amounts of iron, vitamin B-6, and magnesium. They are also packed with fiber and many antioxidants that don't exist in other foods. Walnuts are most known for protecting your brain health, but they also help ward off heart disease and help reduce your risk of developing many types of cancer. Most of the antioxidants are contained in the walnut skin, which is removed from them before toasting them. Find raw walnuts that contain the skin for the highest nutritional punch.
2. Raw Nuts Contain Fewer Calories Than Roasted Nuts
If keeping healthy nut nutrients intact is not enough of a reason for you to begin eating your nuts raw, then the fact that raw nuts contain fewer calories than roasted ones may. This benefit is especially powerful if you often have a difficult time keeping your weight in-check.
In fact, many foods contain fewer calories when eaten raw, and this is a fairly recent discovery. Have you ever wondered why many raw foodists are thin, even though they may eat thousands of calories every day? Your first instinct, if you don't eat a raw food diet, is to assume they are just very, very active or miscalculate their caloric intakes.
The truth is that modern ways of measuring calories rely on foods being heated to high temperatures until they burn, so the calorie contents of raw foods cannot be judged by the labels or even online calorie-tracking software.
Yes, this fact means that you have permission to eat more delicious nuts when they are raw than you can if they are roasted!


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These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite.
I like President Trump. I really do. He has the ability to do wonderful things for our country – including border security, restricting legal immigration, disposing illegal aliens, retarding and receding (to the degree that he can) the globalization that is fleecing our national industry and slashing wasteful government programs. In addition, presidents have a non-tangible way of setting the cultural tempo. This all works in our favor.
That being said, I was disappointed to see President Trump tour the Lincoln Memorial and later have a "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) concert on the grounds of the "Memorial" on the eve of his ascension. I'm not really going to hold it against him, but it does reinforce the myth that Lincoln is a martyred saint of the Republic – a republic now in name only thanks to his tyrannical and despotic destruction of our country.
In fact, I would wager that today Lincoln is more revered by the political and uneducated classes than practically all of our Founding Fathers. Although, that's not surprising for the uneducated class – our public (and to a degree private) schools practically ignore the Founders (due to "muh slavery") and elevate Lincoln to the pantheons of virtue and justice. That he wrecked the Republic, jailed dissidents, ignored the judicial branch, invaded neutral states, imposed martial law, suppressed the press, waged "total war" on women and children, conscripted alien recruits (recently arrived Europeans) as cannon fodder against the native stock and brought Gotterdammerung to the South means practically nothing today.
All that matters to the gatekeepers of public opinion and "good think" is the freeing of the slaves, as if that's some sort of praiseworthy achievement. A midnight stroll through Newport News, New Orleans, Memphis, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Birmingham makes clear the folly in emancipation and the extinction of the practical and safe Jim Crow laws.
Furthermore, when the "Great Incarcerator" is invoked by the punditry, Lügenpresse and your run-of-the-mill political hacks and historians it is with a veneration only comparable to that other false idol of American politics – Martin Luther King, Jr. That King was a communist and whoremonger also mean very little to those with short attention spans and even shorter curiosities. In addition, both men, Lincoln and King, would have been mortal enemies to the great majority of the Founders. It's a sad state that these two counterfeit deities are held in higher esteem than Washington, Jefferson and Madison.
Lincoln's long list of faults and failures is exhausting, but always worth repeating – considering his ongoing beatification.
Below is a short, but concise, account of his tyrannical, wholly unconstitutional and violent delights during his (thankfully and righteously shortened) term as warlord of the United States.
- Failed to call Congress into session after the South fired upon Fort Sumter, in direct violation of the Constitution.
- Called up an army of 75,000 men, bypassing the Congressional authority in direct violation of the Constitution.
- Unilaterally suspended the writ of habeas corpus, a function of Congress, violating the Constitution. This gave him the power, as he saw it, to arrest civilians without charge and imprison them indefinitely without trial—which he did.
- Ignored a Supreme Court order to restore the right of habeas corpus, thus violating the Constitution again and ignoring the Separation of Powers which the Founders put in place exactly for the purpose of preventing one man's using tyrannical powers in the executive.
- When the Chief Justice forwarded a copy of the Supreme Court's decision to Lincoln, he wrote out an order for the arrest of the Chief Justice and gave it to a U.S. Marshall for expedition, in violation of the Constitution.
- Unilaterally ordered a naval blockade of southern ports, an act of war, and a responsibility of Congress, in violation of the Constitution.
- Commandeered and closed over 300 newspapers in the North, because of editorials against his war policy and his illegal military invasion of the South. This clearly violated the First Amendment freedom of speech and press clauses.
- Sent in Army forces to destroy the printing presses and other machinery at those newspapers, in violation of the Constitution.
- Arrested the publishers, editors and owners of those newspapers, and imprisoned them without charge and without trial for the remainder of the war, all in direct violation of both the Constitution and the Supreme Court order aforementioned.
- Arrested and imprisoned, without charge or trial, another 15,000-20,000 U.S. citizens who dared to speak out against the war, his policies, or were suspected of anti-war feelings. (Relative to the population at the time, this would be equivalent to President G.W. Bush arresting and imprisoning roughly 150,000-200,000 Americans without trial for "disagreeing" with the Iraq war; can you imagine?)
- Sent the Army to arrest the entire legislature of Maryland to keep them from meeting legally, because they were debating a bill of secession; they were all imprisoned without charge or trial, in direct violation of the Constitution.
- Unilaterally created the state of West Virginia in direct violation of the Constitution.
- Sent 350,000 Northern men to their deaths to kill 350,000 Southern men in order to force the free and sovereign states of the South to remain in the Union they, the people, legally voted to peacefully withdraw from, all in order to continue the South's revenue flow into the North.
– Michael Hutcheson
"Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged" shouted John Wilkes Booth after slaying Lincoln at Ford's Theater.
If only it had happened sooner.
A scourge to communists, scallywags, hipsters and feminists, Silas Reynolds calls anywhere south of the Potomac his home. He has a penchant for muscle cars, firearms and 80's action movies.


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Maks Chmerkovskiy asks; Peta Murgatroyd says yes
She said yes! Maks Chmerkovskiy proposed to his fellow Dancing With the Stars costar Peta Murgatroyd onstage Saturday during the final evening performance of Sway at Miami's Olympia Theatre. The Miami run of the show benefited Alfalit, which provides literacy, education, health and jobs and skills training for those in need in 23 countries. In video provided by Sway's power publicist, Tara Solomon of Tara Ink, you can see the romantic moment as well as the cheering by cast and audience afterward.
The congratulations also came pouring in on social media' e.g.: DWTS ballroom dancer Sharna Burgess posted a pic of the couple kissing right afterward, captioning it: "So this just happened!!!! Ahhhhh I'm so excited for my loves!!@maksimc and @petamurgatroyd it's about bloody time!!!!"
Just off a successful win against the Cleveland Cavaliers Saturday, the Heat's Chris Bosh and wife Adrienne were spotted at Yeelen Gallery's Fade to Black, a celebration of contemporary black art. The Boshes accepted a generous $25,000 donation to Bosh's charity, Team Tomorrow Inc., from spirits mogul Bob Drinon, president and CEO of Premier Beverage. Team Tomorrow is dedicated to supporting community-based organizations that promote the uplifting of children, families and the community.
At Rockwell Saturday for the 1 Oak x Up & Down pop up, LeBron James — not necessarily resting — was seen checking out a DJ set by Wiz Khalifa.
DJ Khaled celebrated his 40th birthday Sunday at LIV where famous folk like Diddy, Adrien Brody, Wiz Khalifa, Fabolous, Donovan Carter and John Wall came to wish him well. Diddy took to the stage to sing Happy Birthday to his pal, followed by a performance of "All About the Benjamins, which was followed by additional performances by Fat Joe and French Montana.
At A-Trak's Hard 2 Leave bash Sunday at everybody's favorite 24/7 NSFW spot E11even, Swizz Beatz got behind the decks and made a surprise performance.
Also at E11even Friday: Hit machine DJ Mustard was spinning for a crowd that included Solange and Miguel, who walked in together in the wee hours of the morning and partied at a VIP table. No word on whether Solange's hubby Alan Ferguson or Miguel's model girlfriend Nazanin Mandi was there.


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Let me briefly put you on the right track. This entire papsak diatribe against our noble Afrikaner people who have suffered for so long under foreign (Uitlander) domination is based on the simplistic, biased views of one Dan O'Meara who also happened to be a communist! So I suppose if you wanted to write about the history or the psychology of Americans, you would find a member of the American Communist Party. Or if you wanted to know anything about a thousand years of French history you would consult a card-carrying member of the PCF, now fortunately moribund.
The Broederbond as a secret society did not come about in a vacuum. Opposite it were the Freemasons, as well as a colonial imperialist society called The Sons of England. Despite his surname, which has been changed from Rossouw to Rousseau in a feeble attempt to look French and not Afrikaans, our Frère Jacques (if you know the children's song) pontificating here, is but a closet "son of England"!
Afrikaner nationalism (note the absence of capitals) was a cultural nationalism modelled upon European nationalisms: discovery and veneration of the vernacular tongue, its standardisation, the promotion of an own literature, history, art, architecture, philosophy and so on. This is all common cause, as they say in the law courts.
Of course, there is a view – call it imperialism, globalism or what you will – that every form of ethnic or national identity is "wrong". To a Son of England like Jacques Rousseau, who is desperate to be English (see the chapter in my ebook Raiders of the lost Empire, on "The importance of being English"), there is a blind spot in that his own longing and desire for a pristine English identity is in fact very much similar to the Afrikaner's own love for his language, culture, cuisine, lifestyle, history, literature, folk dances, monuments, music (patriotic, classical, popular) and so on.
If you condemn Afrikaner nationalism, as is the wont of the irrational British imperialist or "Son of England" who has blighted South Africa for so long, you are also condemning Milton and England itself, as well as all European cultures (German, Dutch, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish, etc.). In a sense you are also going against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which promises all peoples self-determination, including cultural self-determination.
Either we should return to the Middle Ages and rule by the Pope or autocratic "royals" – the House of Windsor? – appointed by the Pope, or we should accept the post-World War I order more or less defined by Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points. I suspect that there is a new form of imperialism in the offing: a global, multicultural police state ruled from Washington and London, which might abolish the nation state altogether. It will impose English on us like the British Empire (and the ANC government) have been doing for most of the last 200 years and incarcerate anyone who says the word "nigga" (currently uttered by 500 000 people per day on Twitter).
There is also a strong left-wing argument in favour of Empire, made by Hardt and Negri, and on which I commented about a decade ago in Afrikaans in an article entitled, "Is the global Empire desirable?". (You can still read it here: Is die globale Ryk wenslik?) This left-wing support for imperialism stems from the proletarian internationalism of Marx and Engels and the First International. Of course, Lenin had nice things to say about the Boers and identified the Anglo-Boer war as indeed a struggle against imperialism, which continues to this day!
The Soviet position on nationalities had a lot in common with apartheid, but the South African Communist Party rejected it in favour of a kind of left-wing British imperialism for South Africa: "One nation, one beer" (again see my Raiders of the lost Empire). Both the Russian Federation and the old Soviet Union were multinational states like South Africa, so the Russians at least had some understanding of our problems, unlike the South African communists and liberals who imagine South Africa to be a "Little United Kingdom".
We were conquered twice: the first time by Britain with its scorched-earth policy, concentration camps and so on, and the second time by means of propaganda, calumny, boycotts, sanctions, urban terrorism and the betrayal of our own so-called leaders. But so was Germany, and yet there is still a Bundesrepublik, united against the wishes of many world leaders, including François Mitterand.
Former French president Mitterand, who was actually part of the pro-German "Vichy government" during the Occupation, but turned Socialist, said: "Le nationalisme, c'est la guerre", which is very similar to what Monsieur Rousseau is arguing when he says:
In other words, there is no reason to assume that there is a logical inevitability of liberalism leading to distrust, anger or violence, particularly of the physical rather than verbal sort. By contrast, nationalism – and particularly racial nationalism – is rooted in and reinforces conflict. This is because it sets up a necessary opposition between them, and us, however those groups are defined.
However, the post-war EU has shown how various nationalities may live side by side and cooperate economically, culturally and politically. Even Russia became a partner in this "Europe of nations". Only when imperially-minded American "liberals" recently started taking over the EU foreign policy did conflict break out, in Ukraine and elsewhere.
In South Africa, it is ironic that liberalism or the watered-down "market communism" of the South African Communist Party can only exist as long as there is black racial nationalism. So when Rousseau is arguing against white nationalism, in the same breath he is affirming "African" or black nationalism which is meant to mobilise blacks against whites as voting cattle, and so keep the various liberal parasites in their positions of power throughout the "black" system. This is simply the former British-colonial system of "indirect rule" in another guise.
Kempton Park was our Versailles, and by now everyone knows it. As I said to Eyewitness News the other day: "For most of our history we have been powerless and marginalised, so we are used to it." The Dutch East India Company exploited us and forced us to sell our produce to its ships at below-market prices. After the French Revolution, the first Patriot movement started in the 1790s and our burghers distributed underground pamphlets calling for freedom and the vote during the night, for fear of being caught by the colonial Dutch authorities.
Then came British rule during the 19th century, or our "Century of Wrong" as Jan Smuts called it in his famous book. Where Frère Jacques is completely wrong, is that apartheid flowed from Afrikaner nationalism. In fact, as I pointed out in an article in Rapport a year or three ago (republished here), Smuts and the anglophile Sappe or liberals actually invented apartheid! The Afrikaners simply took over that policy and refined it. Smuts wanted apartheid or tribal self-rule for the whole of Africa, as he argued during his 1928 Oxford lecture.
As I also state in Raiders of the lost Empire, there are only about one million "real Englishmen" in South Africa. Despite their institutional power and control of the economy, the media, the universities, etc., we are seeing another example of colonial overreach, based on the hubris of Anglo-Saxon superiority. Milner, Rhodes and others considered themselves to be the "chosen race" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact, in those days the word "race" in South Africa was employed to refer to the "Boer" and "British races".
Helen Zille may be the leader of the "official opposition" but a minority of a minority will not continue to control South Africa, even if it pretends to be fanatically politically correct. Its only rhetorical weapon has not changed in 200 years, ever since the British missionaries started falsely accusing indigenous whites of "atrocities" against natives in the 1820s: it is moral hysteria, slander, lies, cries of "racism", vilification, ad nauseam.
Given the chaos in the South African parliament, we may be seeing the beginning of the end of two brief decades of PC colonial oppression in South Africa and after that it will be: back to the drawing board! And this time we won't have fools like FW de Klerk and Roelf Meyer at the negotiating table.
The sooner it happens, the better.


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New Zealand
I didn't know what to expect from New Zealand, only that Steve and I had a lot of adventures planned. It was going to be a couple of weeks of trying every new activity we could get our hands on (ice climbing, zorbing, bungee jumping, caving) along with using our own two feet to get around the hills. After a few days I took to calling it our "Adventure-Moon"—it was a belated honeymoon trip. We started out in Queenstown in the Southern Island, mesmerized by the color of the water and mountains. The South Island is most know for the daredevil activities. Steve bungee jumped, I said no way to that, but paragliding felt right. Actually, I felt like a bird, it was a dream. From there, we hopped our way up the coast with Steve scaring the holy bejesus out of me on the roads. New Zealandars drive on the left side and with that goes a whole frame of reference. Hands constantly crashing into the window searching for the turn signal— it can get awkward! On the South Island we also visited the Fiords, ate venison, saw the Fox Glacier and eventually took the train from Greymouth to Christchurch through Arthur's Pass. I tell ya, traveling by train is the way to travel! Arriving in Christchurch it's pretty heartbreaking to see the damage from the 2011 earthquake, but the locals have done an incredible job refurbishing buildings and street art projects liven things up. On the last leg of our trip we flew up to the North Island. We trekked the Tongarrio Crossing– that might have been my highlight of the trip. It was a 19.6 kilometer (I'll leave conversion to miles up to you) hike through craters, around volanic lakes and my favorite, up the Devil's Staircase. We were a sweaty mess at the end but oh so worth it. We made a two-day pit stop in Rotorua to learn more about the Maori culture and take in the volcanic activity. Those steaming pics are showing the (stinky) steam from the underground geothermal movement. We ended our trip by visiting some relatives in Hamilton, seeing Hobbiton (YES! That is land of Frodo!) and watched people jump from the tallest building in Auckland, the Sky Tower. Being an adventure freak is the New Zealand way!


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This strange story is being covered by Israeli papers such as Yediot Aharonot and Maariv. But it is ignored by most U.S. media.
(RICHMOND, R.I.) - Palestinians and Israelis have been preparing for weeks to greet international visitors to Bethlehem. Several hundred were expected from Europe and the United States.
But Israeli authorities do not want outsiders to see life in the occupied territories. So they ordered airlines flying in from other countries not to allow passengers destined for Bethlehem to board. And those airlines complied.
Some visitors who did get in were required to sign statements that they would not meet with pro-Palestinian organizations.
As Stan Heller notes, Israel has decided there are new crimes: 1) being pro-Palestinian, i.e. believing that Palestinian have human rights and 2) staging "provocations", i.e. peaceful actions which expose government repression.
This strange story is being covered by Israeli papers such as Yediot Aharonot and Maariv. But it is ignored by most U.S. media. An exception is the following from yesterday's NY Times.
Rod Driver studied engineering and mathematics at the University of Minnesota, receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1960. He worked at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque for six years before taking a teaching position at the University of Rhode Island for 30 years. Rod says he became a 'peacenik' in 1951 (thanks to a few weeks on Pariss Island). He became particularly active in opposition to U.S. wars in Indochina and U.S. involvement in overthrowing governments and supporting dictators in Latin America and Iran. As the Vietnam war was winding down Rod began paying attention to the abuse of Palestinians - enabled with U.S. weapons and dollars, which has never stopped. Rod is the founder and president of the non-profit Justice First Foundation.
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nurturing myself with essential oils
I've had insomnia as long as I can remember, but it isn't always accompanied by anxiety. Right now, it is. Winter is hard for me. I'm finding ways to nurture myself through this season.
I also realized: I have the right tools to help calm myself down, I just need to use them.
(Middle of the night epiphanies always seem obvious in the light of day.)
So I went downstairs to my essential oil cabinet (yes, I have been collecting essential oils for over twenty years now, so I have collected enough to fill an entire medicine cabinet) and made myself a quick calming blend.
I put one drop of a few different essential oils, neat, on my hand, and then smeared them on my chest and pillowcase.
And it helped! I didn't wake up twenty million times last night and I felt much more refreshed, this morning, thank goodness.
Anxiety is hard. Mine is pretty mild, but it still sucks. I don't want it to spiral out of control, so catching it now, and nurturing myself before that happens is an important practice of my winter self care.
This afternoon, I decided to mix up a blend for myself, duplicating (sort of) what worked last night.
I create my essential oil blends by feel, so this morning I used ylang ylang instead of lavender and I added orange and patchouli.
I filed my 10 ml roller ball bottle about a quarter way with apricot oil (a carrier oil - you could also use sweet almond, jojoba, fractionated coconut or even olive oil), then added essential oils til the blend seemed right. Then I topped it with more apricot oil. I'd estimate the bottle is more than half apricot oil, but I didn't really measure it.
I added about twenty drops each of balsam fir and cypress, about sixteen drops of juniper berry, between ten and twelve drops of orange oil, and about six drops each of rose, ylang ylang and patchouli.
(This is a more floral version of my forest bathing spray blend.)
Right now, I'm waiting for the excess essential oil (from the sides of the bottle where I spilled) to evaporate from my hands and wrists and then I'll evaluate whether I want to add anything else to the blend.
Because that's how I roll (essential oils) pun deliciously intended.


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Getting an advance reservation at Latitude on a Sunday lunch for a party of four was effortless. I did inform the Food and Beverage Manager that this would be for a friend's birthday and I requested for a semi private area. I also asked if we could stay after 2:30 pm (lunch buffet is between 12:00 noon and 2:30pm). Got a quick response from the manager confirming my request and that we could stay longer. Cool!
A week ago, HB and I finally went in for a lunch date with our two good friends, NdL and NM (whom we haven't seen in over a year). It was a good time catching up again with them.
NM and the birthday celebrant NdL
Latitude ambiance is quiet and upscale casual. It can seat around 150 guests in a cozy and contemporary furnishing. We came on a slow day (I think) as there were only a few tables taken. But I like that kind of atmosphere, not crowded or loud.
By the way, we spotted Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda with his family dined at the restaurant. It appears someone was also celebrating a birthday.
As for the food, they have Asian and international cuisine served in an informal and relaxed ambiance. They had a decent spread but offer quite a FEW CHOICES. For those who are on a diet just like me (not because I like it but the doctor said so) most of the food offerings do not fit into this category. Admittedly, I wasn't too impressed with their dishes. However, this impression has probably been undermined due to my condition.
HB has a good appetite. Here are some samples of his schizo-pack rat style. :)
The watermelon juice which cost around Php 250+, tasted like it had lost its flavor. Plus it wasn't even cold. In all honesty, we were not so pleased at all.
Here's my half untouched watermelon juice. :(
I didn't sample everything so I saved room for desserts. Everyone likes the delicious chocolate symphony.
pandan creme brulee
We were surprised when the entire staff and the three-piece acoustic band started serenading us with a rousing "Happy Birthday" song.
And the best part, they gave us a FREE BIRTHDAY CHOCOLATE CAKE! Thank you! ♥♥♥
As soon as they left, the three of us started giggling and passing the poor little birthday cake around, trying to take a few snaps. We did it on the spur of the moment. HB wasn't paying so much attention to our little merriment but we managed (by force, hehehe) to have a photo of him holding the birthday cake as well. We must have looked absolutely ridiculous. :D Ah, it's fun to be crazy every once in a while. :)
here we are! ♥♥♥
Despite of everything, I thought the overall experience was still great. The nice ambiance, pleasant service (like dirty plates were promptly removed without us having to ask), the birthday freebie and serenading made up for any minor shortcomings.
Not to mention, I like also the lobby restroom of Traders Hotel. It's not a super elegant restroom but I like the fully enclosed cubicle having floor to ceiling walls and a door extending to the floor for complete privacy. ♥♥♥
Latitude is located on the lobby level of Traders Hotel Manila. It is conveniently located along Roxas Boulevard, adjacent to the city's premier institution for culture and the arts, the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Traders hotel
The buffet promo cost around Php 760.00 per head. Drinks are not yet included, but coffee is on the house. For inquiries, you can call them at (632)5237011 local 2402 or mobile (0916)591-0001.
And on a completely different birthday related note - here's our birthday gift to NdL.
What's inside? Well, it's an expander wristwatch we bought from Asos, the largest online-only fashion and beauty store located in London.
Oh, and I also got a late birthday gift from the birthday celebrant - a body cream and Marcs & Spencer waterlily cream bath from the Middle East. Thanks to my bestie NdL and also for the treat. :) ♥


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There are a few key members of the WeBS team who spend at least part of their working day beavering away behind the scenes. Here is a little bit about us (more serious information is available by clicking on our names). If you manage to identify us in the field, then please come up and say hello.
If you need to contact us please use webs [at] bto.org or for a specific person, use the format of email@example.com (eg firstname.lastname@example.com)
As WeBS National Organiser, Teresa is responsible for overall project management of WeBS and delivery of scheme development, reports and other outputs. She works closely with the WeBS Partner organisations, and endeavours to develop strategic partnerships for the benefit of waterbird monitoring in the wider flyway.
Teresa joined the WeBS team in November 2015. She first worked with WeBS data back in 2005-09, as a statistics research student looking at WeBS wildfowl data analysis. From 2008 to 2015 she worked in Local Environmental Records Centres in Kent and Cumbria, managing habitat and sites datasets and species records of all taxa, increasing effective biodiversity data use and encouraging more people to get in to wildlife recording and monitoring. Teresa is a self-styled "data naturalist" and is a fan of maps, graphs, insects - and birds, of course. She sits on the Council of the National Forum for Biological Recording.
For requesting WeBS data and all things low tide, Neil is the person to speak to.
After several years walking round East Anglian fields as a BTO fieldworker, Neil took over as the Low Tide Counts Organiser. Prior to this Neil worked contracts for the RSPB watching enigmatic Bitterns and Stone Curlews before moving to the Nunnery. Originally from Manchester, despite living in possibly the best birding county in England, Neil still longs for the hills and his old local patch Piethorne Valley…
For any information about WeBS Online, getting in contact with your WeBS Local Organiser, site allocation or to make any comments, Heidi is the person to contact in the first instance.
Heidi has been with the BTO since 1998. In 2000 she moved into the Wetland and Coastal Unit as the team secretary. When the running of the WeBS scheme moved to the BTO in 2004, she was involved right from the start providing secretarial support to the WeBS team. In 2009 Heidi took on the role of WeBS Counter Network Organiser and became more involved with WeBS Online processes. Other than having a bird table Heidi admits to not being much of a birder, more of a wildlife enthusiast.
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Pig farmers target Supervalu over level of non-quality assured pigmeat on shelves
Pig farmers say that over half the pigmeat in some Supervalu stores is not Bord Bia quality assured as pig farmers face losses of €3,000 a week.
Pig farmers say they are losing €8-10/pig that leaves their farms, and have warned that many pig farmers will go to the wall over the coming months, with some farmers currently losing €3,000 a week.
Today a group of farmers met in Supervalu, Charleville, Cork to inspect the origin of the pigmeat on the supermarket's shelves.
It comes after the IFA pig farmers met last Friday in Supervalu Castletroy, Limerick, and said that over 50pc of the pigmeat on the supermarket's shelves was no quality-assured Irish pigmeat.
Then on Tuesday, the pig farmers met in Kilbarry, Waterford, just a few miles from one of the country's largest pig processing plants. IFA Pig Committee Chairman Tom Hogan said in both cases there was a substantial amount of non-quality assured pigmeat on the shelves.
"In both cases there was a substantial amount of non quality assured meat and we are looking at two brands in particular," he said.
He said that the Meadow Fields brand, which Supervalu stocks, was one and that "in most cases In most cases you will find a few packs of the meat will have the quality assurance mark, but most doesn't.
"It clearly says it on the label that it's Dutch."
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In a statement, Musgrave said that 100pc of our SuperValu range of rashers are sourced in Ireland, with the Bord Bia Quality Assured logo due to appear on all Daily Basics new packaging from next week onwards.
It did not comment on the labellling of the Meadow Fields pigmeat.
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Only meat from a Bord Bia approved plant can carry the Bord Bia Quality Assurance label, but according to Tom Hogan when some of the packets has the Quality Assurance label and others don't, it causes confusion for the consumer.
The farmers estimated that more than half of the pigmeat on Supervalu Castletroy shelves was not quality assured and in Waterford it was a also substantial amount.
"Waterford is only a few miles from a major bacon factory," said Tom and Musgrave, which owns Supervalu, gave us a commitment that its Daily Basis brand would only used Irish pigmeat, but we found packets that were marked as Dutch.
Hogan said the IFA is putting together a plan to meet with the banks about cashflow, which he warned will be an issue in the coming months.
However, he also warned that some pig farms will not survive the coming months. "Definitely there will be casualties. Last year was a pretty good year, but it was filling holes of the previous year."
Pig farmers are currently losing between €8 and €10 per finished pig leaving the gate, according to Cork pig farmer Tom Sherman.
He said that the price has dropped dramatically in the last 12 months and meal prices have rocketed in price up on average €70/t.
"We're losing on both sides, whats coming in the gate and whats leaving, if this keeps going we're gone.
"We're not getting paid for what we need to keep in production.
"The cost of production is €1.50/kg and we're getting about €1.38/kg, thats between 10-12c a loss kilo of meat going out the gate, multiply that by 85 kilos per pig. In a 500 sow unit, thats a loss of €2-3000 a week or €140,000 a year."
"The Irish supermarkets are investing so much money and time in making foreign meat look like Irish produce."
"This tells me the Irish consumer is willing to support Irish."
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TES links 23 September 2011
TES 23 September 2011
Links to resources, events, reviews and forum posts featured in TES this week
For your ease of use, all the links to items featured in the Resources section of the magazine are now accessible from this web page. Either use the links below to access subject areas or scroll down the page.
- Black History resources (page 43)
- Maths (page 44)
- English (page 45)
- Science (page 47)
- Humanities (page 48)
- ICT/ Arts (page 49)
- Modern Foreign Languages (page 50)
Top Black History Resources
for each Key Stage
KS1 - Mandela's mission This highly rated Powerpoint story of Nelson Mandela comes as part of a lesson on famous people.
KS2 - History unchained This role play on the abolition of the slave trade is an engaging and informative exercise for young pupils.
KS3 - Back to black Start off Black History Month by finding out what your pupils know, using this fun quiz
KS4 - The rights stuff A powerful PowerPoint presentation of black American civil rights history in the 20th Century
KS5 - Who said that? Inspiring Black History Quotes which can form the starting point for insightful enquiry and debate
A cross to bear by Craig Barton
Craig Barton is Maths adviser to TES, Maths AST and creator of www.mrbartonmaths.com (TES Name:mrbartonmaths)
Twitter: @mrbartonmaths
Related resources
Check out murkle's Randomised test yourself questions for algebra and see how your pupils tackle self-testing, available on TES Resources.
Resource of the week
Maths Exhibition
Primary English
Once upon a time...
Resources to try Big Write
See what the TES Community have to say:
- Check out this chat about whether or not Big Write will increase the marking overhead
- Early years practitioners debate whether or not Big Write is suitable for nursery
- Check out the TES forums where teachers are discussing their favourite GCSE prose texts
Resource of the week
Secondary Science
Be difficult
Controversial science resources & forum links
- Big Screen Science: Stem Cell controversy - This Teacher's TV resource investigates the moral and ethical dilemmas of stem cell therapy
Resource of the week
See what the TES Community have to say:
Check out the TES forums for discussions on using conspiracy theories and creationism in science lessons and teachers share some of their favourite common pupil misconceptions in science
- Using conspiracy theories and creationism in science lessons
- Teachers share some of their favourite common pupil misconceptions in science
- Welcome Trust Big Picture website and resources by tomorrow. Allison Gardener.
Music – Creative Budgeting
See what the TES Community have to say:
How to creatively and effectively resource cash-strapped music departments
- Music teachers share some of their favourite classroom display ideas
- Borrowing or hiring orchestral sets – what do you do in your school?
- Teachers compare how they manage their music budget and how they save money
D & T Partner Focus / Jan Harper
Jan Harper is a recently retired Design & Technology teacher and the latest content partner with TES Resources.
Top resources from Jan Harper
Mark Clarkson review – Ideas to Inspire
Previous TES links
Featured links from previous editions
Discover the neighbours
Check out theTES Resources local study collection
See what the TES Community have to say:
Resource of the week
English Heritage Partner Focus
- Visit the English Heritage profile on TES to find out more about the resources and how you can use them with your pupils.
Modern Foreign Languages
Why dead classics should live?
A Classical education? Yes please! by Rebecca Cann. Head of Classics at Bradfield College, a co-education boarding school for 13-18-year-olds. She is now Head of Classics at the West London Free School.
See what the TES Community have to say:
Teacher's debate: Does it make sense to do a Classics MA – will there be any jobs teaching the classics?
There is also advice on the best way to refresh your rusty Latin skills.
- Does it make sense to do a Classics MA – will there be any jobs teaching the classics?
- Advice on the best way to refresh your rusty Latin skills
- Cine-minis is available from http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk
Resource of the week
- Dictionary Reference Skills for KS3 This collection has been produced by MFL adviser Rachel Hawkes from material shared by members of the TES community.


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Bulldog75 - GATEKEEPERS ON HOLD: BAROMETER DROPS TO 97.2% FOR RATEPOST BY TUES
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[Bulldog75] GATEKEEPERS ON HOLD: BAROMETER DROPS TO 97.2% FOR RATEPOST BY TUES. AUG 9 with a 2.8%X Factor. Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. 10AM CST. Morning Everyone. The Greed Factor seems to be among those who want to stretch their wings and say "I'm King for the Day and its gonna be my way or the highway. You are my courtyard and I have the gold and I'm making the rules." Folks the rules keep changing and the Goal Posts keep moving. If you are in sports, it makes you want to scream at the referees; and if you are in business, it makes your hair fall out. We have an obvious temp hold here because the 'good ol boys' at the gate want a "Rip & Tip" before opening the GATES. Well, lets go to church today, celebrate life, love our family and friends knowing your IQD is coming in the $8 USD range, hopefully sooner, rather than later. The Power Elite are dealing with this hold thang for 'Their Preferred Timing' which is soon. You are Blessed and You know that. The timing is truly HIS, and you are in the NOW and in the PRESENCE of Financial Wealth. Always choose LOVE for there is no fear here. Amen. Your GIFT comes.
[jonjobe7] Bulldog75 is the holdup due to the 1% additional or the timing in your opinion?
11:14 AM [Bulldog75] amigomiwest cowboyjoe Wizards13 : Morning to you. We are blessed to be here. You are chosen. I must go but will see you later in the day. We are happy and blessed. See you soon.!!! jonjobe7 : Its both: Greed factor and temp hold on the timing. Markets have to open on Monday so they can make another "Haul $"; then they should release it.
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The year 1985 was the one of the worst years on record in aviation safety circles. The year kicked off January 1st with the loss of an Eastern Airlines plane with 29 passengers and crew aboard. Then, three weeks later, a Lockheed Electra chartered from Galaxy Airlines crashed near Reno, NV, killing 70 of the 71 aboard. In May of that year, two Soviet aircraft, a airliner and a military transport, collided in flight and killed 94 people. And in June, a terrorist bomb destroyed an Air India 747 off of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
In fact, on August 12th of 1985, the worst single-airplane accident in aviation history occurred when a Japan Air Lines 747 suffered an explosive decompression while climbing through 23,000 feet. The failure of the rear pressure bulkhead caused a portion of the vertical stabilizer to be blown away, rupturing all four main hydraulic fluid lines. Controlling the aircraft solely by engine thrust, the crew was attempting to return to Tokyo when the aircraft clipped one mountain ridge, flew across a valley, and impacted a second mountain approximately 400 feet from the summit. Of the 524 aboard, 520 perished in the crash.
Lastly, on December 12th, a chartered Arrow Air DC-8 crashed just after takeoff off from Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, killing 256 people, 248 of which were soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division. One would hope for a quiet holiday season in the aviation industry. However, on the 23rd of December, only two days before Christmas, tragedy struck again.... ...Click HERE to read more @ Check six.com


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I recently made my first iOs game called "Tantrum of Cthulhu". It was a great tool to learn about some of the key components of Game Design. I watched several videos on Game Design on YouTube, and from one particular talk by Daniel Cook, I found out about a book called Game Feel. So I read it and learned that Game Feel is the moment to moment experience of a game that the player has. I also learned that the game designer can make decisions that effect this.
The six pieces of the game feel system that are malleable for the game designer are:
- Input—The physical construction of the device through which player intent is expressed to the system and how this changes game feel.
- Response—How the system processes, modulates and responds to player input in real time.
- Context—The effect of simulated space on game feel. How collision code and level design give meaning to real-time control.
- Polish—Effects that artificially enhance impression of a unique physical reality in the game.
- Metaphor—How the game's representation and treatment change player expectations about the behaviour, movement and interactions of game objects.
- Rules—How arbitrary relationships between abstracted variables in the game change player perception of game objects, define challenges and modify sensations of control.
This leads to the Principals of Game Feel:
- Predictable results—When players take action, they get the response they expect.
- Instantaneous response—The player feels the response to their input is immediate.
- Easy but deep—The game takes minutes to learn but a lifetime to master.
- Novelty—Though the result of an input is predictable, there is enough subtlety and expressiveness to keep the controls feeling fresh and interesting through hours and hours of play.
- Appealing response—The sensation of control is aesthetically appealing and compelling, separate from context.
- Organic motion—Controlling the avatar creates appealing arcs of motion.
- Harmony—Each element of a game's feel supports a single, cohesive perception of a unique physical reality for the player
So, although the game I was implementing was the very simplest game that I could conceive, there was plenty of scope to analyse it through this filter and perhaps improve it.
Analysis for Tantrum of Cthulhu
Touch screen. The whole screen is a big button.
I briefly considered using the new pressure sensitive feature of the touch screen on an iPhone, but didn't do anything with it.
I also contemplated the ability to tilt the screen, which would have been cool, but taken too long.
Accelerate to max speed on press. Could experiment with different easing curves.
Sustain a max speed.
Decelerate on release.
Camera shake on impact
Wake behind boat
Waves need to move a little
Ideally, Cthulhu should move a little to give a sense of size and tantrum
Music? Silly sea shanty was eventually used.
I'd like to put some actual animated play dough if possible. (Didn't get around to it)
Should get some other random things in the water for fun. (Didn't get around to it)
Need a rewarding sinking animation for the boat getting hit. (The final particle effect wasn't great, but better than nothing)
Boat should stretch and squash depending on speed.
Perhaps projectiles can shrink and expand simulating a projectile parabola path
Context / Spacial Simulation
Ocean and waves give sense of movement, size, space as camera moves around and size of ship gives scale. (I ended up using a static background with superimposed particle effect, which looked good enough)
Cthulhu, tantrum, ship sailing around. Absurdity of Cthulhu throwing a tantrum is celebrated by throwing weird stuff. The childish aspect was also helped by the silly pirate noises made by my daughter.
Tantrum and play dough are a nice fit.
Play dough is a good way to embrace the graphic design budget ($0) limitations I have. Also, it adds to the absurdity. And the kids could help!
You can only go forwards.
Shields give extra life.
Mermaid freezes the projectiles temporarily.
Projectiles get more difficult to avoid the longer you go on.
Score is the distance that you travel before your inevitable death.
Experiment with some kind of holding speed boost? (Didn't do this)
Real / Iconic / Abstract
This is definitely an absurd cartoony, stop motion iconic style. Not real. Not abstract.
Predictable results
Nice simple control. Only one direction.
Instantaneous response
Make sure the start of the motion is snappy.
Easy but deep
Very easy controls
Simple idea
Tricky to get a long way.
I ended up adding depth to the original concept by introducing shields that you can pickup by travelling at top speed for a specific amount of time. This was incorporated into the metaphor of the game by placing the shield to pickup a defined distance in front of the player and having it disappear so that top speed is required for the prescribed time to pick it up.
I made a system for different types of projectile aiming so that I could graduate the levels with different skills required, introduced in a sensible order.
I introduced a "Freeze Ray" mechanic so that if the player stops for a certain time, the projectiles stop for a short time. This was introduced into the metaphor of the game by having a mermaid swim towards the boat while stopped. When the mermaid reaches you, a blob hits Cthulhu and freezes him.
Need to put lots of expressiveness. However, I really want to make sure there is no going back in concept. Different aiming of the projectiles provides some interest. (This wasn't done fantastically, but it wasn't terrible either)
Appealing response
Must make sure that moving the boat is fun even without the projectiles to dodge.
Perhaps a bunch of polish that depends on the movement and position.
Organic motion
Smooth motion.
Absurdity and silliness and childish play are unifying principals.
This kind of analysis really helped focus some of the design aspects of the game and improved it a lot, I think. I'll be doing this for any future games I make. It has help get this game from a a concept made in a fun activity with my son a few years ago, to this much improved version.
It's not the best game in the world, but I learnt a bunch of stuff, which is the main reason I did it.


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Makalali Private Game LodgeMakalali Private Game Reserve, South Africa
Makalali Private Game Lodge is nestled on 14 000 hectares of conservancy, Makalali Private Game Reserve. Four exclusive camps, each consisting of six spacious suites adjacent to a stilted Sala set amongst Jackalberry trees, are equipped with all the Modern Conveniences. Amenities on offer at each camp include a uniquely designed swimming pool, boma, air-conditioning, and an enclosed dining and lounge area.
Considered one of the Leading Pioneers In Ecotourism in South Africa, Makalali Private Game Reserve represents a conservation mission to expand South Africa's green frontier by re-establishing the ancient wildlife migration routes that linked the famous Kruger Park in the east to the lush Drakensberg Mountains in the west. In the process lion, cheetah, leopard, elephant, and rhino have all been reintroduced to the wild, making Makalali Home to over one Thousand Wild Animals including four of Africa's "Big Five".
Makalali Private Game Lodge at a Glance
Makalali Private Game Lodge Accommodation
Makalali, meaning "Place of Rest" in Shangaan, has four separate 12 bed camps, situated on the banks of the Makhutswi River.
Luxury accommodation is offered and each air-conditioned suite has a King Size bed, an en-suite bathroom, an outside shower, a private deck, a fireplace and a raised timber "sala" which doubles as a lounge or dayroom, or as a viewing platform. The rooms are decorated in African Design Styles with sculptured ceramic taps and basins.
All rooms are fitted with mosquito nets, and guests are supplied with insect repellent, but please note that Makalali is a Malaria Area and malaria tablets are recommended all year round.
Makalali Private Game Lodge Facilities
Each camp has its own swimming pool, boma, and enclosed dining and lounge area. Additional Facilities and Services at Makalali include:
Children's Policy
Families with children are welcome at Makalali. Kiddies' walks and daytime Game Drives can be set up in order for the children to also experience the magic of Makalali. Children are welcomed with a special Makalali colour-in book and games on arrival in Camp. Special meals are also arranged for the little ones, including dishes such as Burger and Pizzas.
220v A.C. current is available 24 hours a day. Voltage converters can be supplied on request.
All laundry is washed by hand and dried naturally, except during bad weather, when the tumble drier is used. This service is complimentary. A dry cleaning service is not available.
Room Service
Guests usually enjoy dining together in the communal dining area, however private drinks and meals can be arranged on request.
Security guards accompany guests to and from their rooms at night. Safes are available in every room and it is recommended that valuables be placed in safes at all times
Makalali is the ideal safari destination, with activities including game drives in open land Rovers accompanied by professional game rangers and trackers, photographic excursions, bird-watching safaris, stargazing, day trip to the Kruger national Park and tribal dancing, are all available on a daily basis.
In addition to this, Makalali offers a range of unique specialized activities including:
Panoramic Escarpment Tours
Your journey start with a rapid climb onto and through the rugged yet picturesque plateau of the Drakensburg mountains and then descending down into the Lowveld plains. Pleaces of interest along your way, include the Blyde River canyon (gigantic gorge more than 20 km long, cut out of the escarpment) and Bourke's Luck Potholes (deep cylindrical cavities formed by swirling action of flood waters). Pilgrims Rest (exact replica of a 19th Century mining town and Graskop (a forestry village perked on a spur of the escarpment). Rates include a lunch at Pilgrims Rest and all entrance fees.
Informative Game Walks
Educational Walks (giving you insight into some of the local superstitions and uses of a wide variety of plants), birding walks (because we are a lot more quiet when we walk, calls can easily be heard and identified, especially in and around the lovely Makutswi river), or for fitness enthusiast, more strenuous walks, are all available daily for no extra charge.


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There are many ways to cast on. I believe that the wonderful EZ listed forty some odd ways to cast on. Yes. Forty and each one has it's benefits. There is double cast on, cable cast on, knit on, purl on, tubular cast on, provisional cast on, invisible cast on, picot cast on… the list goes on.


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On October 22, was the Birthday of the first professional World Champion from former USSR. Also, their Birthdays could celebrate two Olympic Champions.
Yuri Arbachakov was born 1966 in Ust'-Kizes, Russia. In 1989, Yuri reaches his amateur highlights, becoming European and World Champion at flyweight (51 Kilo) in Gothenburg and Moscow, beating former World Champion, Maurizio Reyes of Cuba. In 1990, as one of the first from the Soviet-block, Arbachakov turns pro in Japan, where in his only 13-th fight he becames the WBC champion of the world, in Tokyo knocking out in 8-th, The Thai Muangchai Kittikasem. Arbachakov becomes the first ever former-USSR republic's professional World Champion and also is treated as the national hero in Japan, because he looks Asian, are married with Japanese girl and fluently speaks Japanese. Yuri defended his title for nine times, before lost it to Chatchai Sasakul of Thailand on points, in November 1997. After the defeat Arbachakov has retired. Today, Yuri Arbachakov is returned to Russia and celebrates his 48-th Birthday!
Jean Despeaux was born 1915 in Paris. Despeaux became the Olympic Champion at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936, at middleweight, in the finals beating Henry Tiller of Norway. In professionals Despeaux became French champion. Jean Despeaux pasted away in 1989 at the age of 73, on this year's October 22 he would celebrate his 99-th Birthday!
Anton Josipovic was born 1961 in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Hercegovina, former Yugoslavia. Josipovic has the Croatian descent. He became the Olympic Champion in Los Angeles 1984, at light-heavy (81 Kilo). The favorite of light-heavyweight division was Evander Holyfield, but he was disqualified in semies, so Josipovic became the champion without a final bout. At the pros, Josipovic doesn't reach a high results. Today he lives in Croatia and celebrates his 53-rd Birthday!


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UK: ISD Solutions, has expanded its offering of modular walk in cold and freezer rooms for the hospitality and fast food sector.
The new MISA modular cold storage range now covers 14 popular sizes with storage volumes from 3.1m³ to 16.7m³ and operating temperature from -20 to +5 degrees. Available 'off-the-peg' from ISD Direct, the These provide an off-the-shelf easy to clean solutions ideally suited for hotels, restaurants and fast food outlets, as well as pubs and catering companies.
In addition, an innovative 'FASTFIT' system using a patented cam lock fastener ensures quick and simple assembly to minimise installation costs and the finished surface with rounded and internal coved corners enables easy cleaning for good food hygiene. Importantly the lockable MISA cold rooms are Food Standard's Agency HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) compliant and include a range of additional features such as illuminated internal safety release, and integrated mono-block plant.
The use of 100mm thick high-density isothermal polyurethane panels provides superior insulation properties, typically making a MISA cold store significantly more efficient than other commercially available cold rooms or freezers. This in turn ensures lower running costs an increasingly important factor for small businesses facing rising energy bills.
All modular Cold Storage Solutions are supplied with:
Extra Options include:
Andrew Hudspith, director ISD Solutions explains: "The demand for modular cold storage solutions is growing as small businesses realise the value of 'walk-in' solutions, with a single access door. These offer not only efficient safe storage of perishable goods, but reduced energy consumption – now the second largest cost factor for the hospitality sector. Our customers range from hotels and restaurants, including high street brands Burger King and Yo Sushi, to caterers, recreational facilities and cinemas, schools and colleges, independent retailers, even artisan food producers, florists and care homes."
ISD Solutions also provides bespoke design, manufacture and installation services
About ISD Solutions: ISD Solutions is a UK leading contractor in the design, installation and maintenance of composite panel-based structures from cold stores, food processing facilities & distribution centres to clean rooms & data centres. Pioneers of thermally efficient, low cost, single envelope construction, ISD is growing market share in the hospitality industry for its modular cold stores.


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For me there is something freeing and liberating about sketching and drawing directly with a pen. I really don't know how to explain it but something in my head says "well just have a go and see what happens".
A group of friends have been working on this and other drawing challenges. So we have been drawing daily, directly with pen, and trying to be loose and quick. This is to try and steer away from labouring over every line and just going with the flow. Sometimes it works, other times not, but it is always fun. I think doing quick sketches helps you "see" things more clearly, especially when done in pen.
These are some of my quick sketches done over the last week. As I said, some worked, some could have been better but it was all fun and helps build my skills overall.
One thing I have been noticing lately is that I have also been doing more work from imagination. This has always been very hard for me in the past. Now I am feeling more confident with my skills I am able to try things for myself and express myself more freely with my own ideas and try to tell a story. It feels great! These are just a couple of examples of things I tried...