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/1 February 2019
The human palate is incredibly subjective and widely variant from person to person — what is a delicacy to one, could full well ruin the appetite of another. However, there is one item that comes close to universal appeal in the inexhaustible list of edibles — chocolates. While most people indulge in the sweet treat, few understand that there is much that goes into its production and a history that predates a century.
Amongst the pioneers of chocolate artisans stand Godiva, which prides itself as a premier maker of exquisite Belgian chocolate since 1926. The confections have long cemented a place in the pinnacle of the chocolate-making industry. Here, we sit down with the chocolatier's head pastry chef Christophe Garaud to learn more about the chocolate-making process.
KAMES NARAYANAN: How do you think the art of making chocolate has changed over time?
CHRISTOPHE GARAUD: I think what the customer wants and, with it, the market [have] changed over time. It also depends on which part of the world you are talking about. The people do not have the same demands. In general, the demand for chocolates has increased in many places. For instance, in Europe and America, it is very popular. In Japan, it is picking up speed and people desire chocolate more than before. Hence, you have so many companies making chocolate and there are so many different kinds available today.
KN: What is the difference between people's preferences in Asia as opposed to in Europe?
CG: I think in Europe, people know more about chocolate than the people in Asia. Chocolate is newer in Asia than it is in Europe. In Europe, we have the traditions of Christmas and Easter that involve chocolates and people are more familiar. You have a lot of choices there and people are always trying to create new recipes for chocolate. In Asia, they are just starting to be educated about chocolate. I have observed that they tend to prefer a blend of flavours rather than just sweetness.
KN: Do you think that the essence of the original chocolate has been lost now that we see so many types of chocolates?
CG: I think it is good to explore and create new flavours. We need to have pure, original chocolate but it is also important to have new flavours. It is great for the market as it allows more people to enjoy chocolates when there is a wider variety.
KN: How do you discern a good chocolate from one that is bad?
CG: Usually, you can see it. The texture, if it is not shiny and very matte and if it is soft and oily, you know it is not good chocolate. Chocolate has to look shiny and when you bite into it, the flavours should melt in your mouth.
KN: What is something that you take into consideration when you make chocolate?
CG: The combination of flavour and the type of cacao that is used to make the chocolate. You have cacao that is imported from [different countries], from Vietnam to South America. Each place has a different flavour. The cacao is like wine, the place and the way it is grown are very important.
KN: What do you think is the future of chocolate-making?
CG: I think because the world is always changing, there are many uncertainties. For instance, the places where the cacao is grown might undergo changes and that would affect the supply. In terms of flavour, people often go through phases. For two years, they might want to pair it with fruits or perhaps, prefer coffee with chocolate. It definitely changes and it is hard to pinpoint for sure.
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My granddaughter has waited patiently for me to crochet a scarf and hat for her to wear this winter. She asked if she could pick out her own color of yarn, which, as you might guess, was not in my enormous yarn stash. She's only 4 years old and her favorite color is pink followed by all of the colors in the movie Frozen. Since it never gets unusually cold here in Central Florida, I used an open stitch pattern so that the fabric would be light and airy instead of thick and dense. To make things simple, I used a J size crochet hook for the scarf, ear warmer, and flower. The scarf set is named for the color of the yarn, Pinkytoes−Hobby Lobby's brand I Love This Yarn!. Any brand of worsted weight yarn will work.
I Love This Yarn!™, 97% Acrylic, 3% Metallic Polyester (shown in Pinkytoes), 5 ounces (142g), skeins of 252 yards (230 m), 1 skein
Begin (beg)
Chain (ch)
Repeat (rep)
Single crochet (sc)
Slip (sl)
Stitch (st)(sts)
Yarn over (yo)
Single crochet: Insert crochet hook into st, yo, draw up a loop, yo, draw thru both loops on hook.
1. Scarf and ear warmer size designed for a small child.
2. The pattern can easily be adapted for larger sizes by increasing the number of chain stitches and rows.
Pinkytoes Scarf and Ear Warmer Tutorial
Ch 21.
ROW 1: Sc in 3rd ch from hook (counts as ch-1 sp and sc), *ch 1, skip next st, sc in next st; rep from * across. Turn.
ROW 2: Ch 2 (counts as first st here and throughout), sc in ch-1 sp, *ch 1, skip next st, sc in ch-1 sp; rep from * across.
Repeat ROW 2 until fabric measures 49 inches. Fasten off; weave in loose ends.
Cut 20 strands of yarn each 12-inches long. On each end of the scarf, sl knot 10 strands of yarn in every other ch-1 sp.
Scarf is 4″ wide x 49″ long without fringe
Ear Warmer
Ch 19.
ROW 1: Sc in 3rd ch from hook (counts as ch-1 sp and sc), *ch 1, skip next st, sc in next st; rep from * across. Turn.
ROW 2: Ch 2 (counts as first st here and throughout), sc in ch-1 sp, *ch 1, skip next st, sc in ch-1 sp; rep from * across.
Repeat ROW 2 until fabric measures 15″. Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Whip st the two ends together. Weave in loose ends. Turn inside out so sewn seam is inside of ear warmer.
Flower is worked in the round.
Ch 2, work 4 sc in 2nd ch from hook. Join with sl st to 1st sc.
Ch 12, sl st to 1st sc. *ch 12, sl st in next sc, ch 12, sl st in same st. Rep from * to form 8 loops. Sl st to 1st st on 1st ch 12. Leave a long tail for sewing; fasten off. Fold ear warmer with the seam in the back center. Sew flower in the upper left corner of the fabric.
15″ circumference x 4″ high (38.1 cm x 10.16 cm)
Machine wash in lukewarm water. Initial water temperature should not exceed 40°C or 104°F. Machine dry on normal heat. Do not iron. No bleach product may be used. Most dry cleaning solvents may be used safely.
Blocking is not needed for this project.
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Re: what's our country coming to?
This thread will probably be locked up, but there will be more to come shortly. Culture shock and invasion are under way daily, look around. "No Trump, No wall, No USA at all" spoken by ANTIFA.....Jetspray2003 Alumaweld, 19'6", Chevy vortec V-6, SD-309 american turbine jet, T-8 Yamaha kicker, waiting for the tackle fairy to show up to fill my boxes
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Re: what's our country coming to?
Have you read the "Equality Act" that just recently passed in the house?
The Equality Act is a bill in the United States Congress, that, if passed, would amend the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, federal funding, credit, and the jury system......
Catch ya later ... hooks
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what's our country coming to?Public Banned From Seeing School Shooting Case Involving Transgender Anti-Trump Culprit
May 17, 2019 6:43 pm
Entire case file sealed by judge
(Infowars) The case of two anti-Trump leftists, one of whom is transgender, who shot up a school in Denver last week has been placed under seal by a judge, banning the public from seeing it.
Devon Erickson, 18, and Alec McKinney, 16, opened fire on two classrooms at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) charter school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, on May 7, killing one student and injuring eight others.
16-year-old Alec McKinney identifies as male but is biologically female, having been born Maya Elizabeth McKinney.
Following the shooting, it emerged that his accomplice Erickson had posted anti-Christian and anti-Trump messages on social media while praising former President Barack Obama.
It is now being reported that details of the case will remain secret to the public after it was sealed by a judge.
Douglas County District Judge Theresa Slade has put the charges along with the entire case file under seal, banning the public from seeing it, reports Reuters.
The student who was shot dead, 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo, bravely rushed towards the two shooters in an attempt to prevent further loss of life. He was remembered as a compassionate, bright young man during a memorial service on Wednesday.
The shooting appeared to disappear from headlines quickly when it turned out that the individuals responsible were anti-Trump leftists and that one of them was transgender.
One wonders if the medias reaction would have been different if it was two Trump supporters who had shot up a school.
Others highlighted the double standard of a smirking boy being villified by the media while an actual school shooter was largely ignored.
be safe
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Gravel roads present their own unique challenges to safe driving and should be approached with caution each and every time the driver encounters one! If a driver is not aware of these challenges and how to address them he/ she will have a formula for trouble.When travelling on gravel roads in rural areas and farm country it is not only the road surface you need to be aware of. You are more likely to encounter broken fences next to the gravel roads as well as wildlife and livestock such as cattle and sheep on the roads.
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Rain plus gravel equals mud. Mud is like gravel, except much more slippery. The mud you have to be most cautious of is the fine layer of mud that can form on the surface of the road during rain. This mud works as a lubricant between the tyres of your car and the hard surface of the road underneath. If the rain is really heavy, it may just turn the road into a soft muddy surface that could easily entrap you.
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Once a marketer has had experience in the field, the natural next step is to move into a related position. For many a position of interest is that of a Sales and Account Manager or one of the many related roles, including: key account manager, account executive, commercial sales representative, sales specialist, technical sales representative, sales consultant, sales coordinator, inside sales representative and territory sales representative. To obtain one of these positions, interested parties must attend an offering such as Centennial College's Marketing - Sales and Account Management program.
The offering also accepts students who have a college diploma or university degree in any discipline as well as applicants with partial post-secondary in an accounting discipline and relevant work experience (transcript and resume review is required). Applicants may also be asked to provide proof of English proficiency.
Because the Sales and Account Management offering is designed for mature students, it skips foundational marketing courses and goes straight to offering a foundation in the intricacies of acquiring and maintaining relationships with major client accounts. Instructors who have experience in sales, negotiation and account management in the business-to-business realm lead students through their 13 courses. As such, these instructors offer their personal insight while teaching topics such as case analysis and marketing metrics, marketing analysis and planning, fundamentals of selling, fundamentals of project management, business ethics and negotiation skills, sales and account management, and more.
Topics within the Sales and Account Management program are delivered in a proactive format so that students have an opportunity to apply what they have learned. Among the teaching tools used are: role-playing, hands-on training using sales force automation software, simulations and case studies. All the application techniques focus on helping students to develop selling, negotiating and presentation skills.
Once they complete the Sales Account Management program, students can secure employment in account management in a wide variety of industries and be upwardly mobile in their careers. Mid-to-large sized business-to-business (B2B) organizations with their own sales force are a popular option for grads. Industries in which Sales and Account Managers are hired include medical and dental technology, hardware and software vendors, pharmaceutical and packaged goods companies.
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BANGKOK, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Thai state-owned distressed asset manager Bangkok Commercial Asset Management (BAM) is reviving plans for an initial public offering (IPO) next year, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
BAM is planning to submit a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand for an IPO by early next year, one of the sources said, asking not to be named because the matter was private.
The company, owned by the Bank of Thailand's Financial Institutions Development Fund, had previously filed for an IPO in 2016.
However, that plan was scrapped because the company had to make its accounts compatible with the SEC's requirements, one of the sources said.
Bloomberg reported earlier on Friday that BAM was planning to raise $700 million in an IPO in 2019.
The size of the listing and shareholding structure are still under evaluation, the source said, adding that timing would depend on market conditions, economics factors and the upcoming elections, expected early next year.
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Mount Mayon, the iconic landmark of Legazpi in the province of Albay, continues to effect the island of Luzon in the Philippines with "sporadic to near continuous lava fountaining, lava flow, and degassing from the summit crater," according to a government report posted today (February 6, 2018).
As a result, the XTERRA Albay event organizers from Sunrise Events alongside XTERRA World Tour officials and the city of Legazpi have agreed to postpone the event from it's scheduled race day of March 4, 2018 to June 17, 2018.
The new date allows time for Mother Nature to take its course and for the local government to address the needs of those who have been affected by the volcanic activities.
"The new schedule will also provide participants the confidence and comfort about traveling to Albay, and participating at the event," said organizers in a postponement notice today.
All registrations will be transferred to the new event date; however, Sunrise Events is also giving participants the option to refund the full registration fee, or transfer registration to XTERRA Danao, which will double as the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship race on April 22, 2018.
With the date change, XTERRA Albay becomes the fourth of four events in the 2018 XTERRA Asia-Pacific Tour. There will be a $15,000 USD prize purse distributed to the top seven elite men and women, and a $10,000 tour bonus to the top five in the standings following XTERRA Albay on June 17.
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This is a guest blog by Gerry Chaney who is a retired Department of the Army manager where he played key roles in reorganization actions for the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Pentagon. In these actions he admits that he was exposed to his own weaknesses, as well as those in other leaders and managers, as they struggled to meet stringent deadlines under immense stress. During these times, Gerry developed his own limited strategies for coping and keeping his effectiveness up. After reading Sink, Float, or Swim, he stated that Tignum training would have been extremely beneficial to him during his work projects but also very important to his family, which he admits were too often neglected.
As I watch the news reports of General McChrystal, I am struck by his story and the subtle reasons that this could have happened. Here is a very intelligent man, a self disciplined man, a man who has risen to the top ranks of the US Military and who by all measures appears to be a high performer. So how does he make such a big slip that not only impacts his career and reputation, but also possibly the security of the troops? We've seen similar types of lapses in Presidents, politicians, and CEOs.
The more I think about these types of situations the more I see a trend. They are almost always during a time of extreme stress and sleep deprivation. General McChrystal is famous for sleeping only four hours, eating only one meal a day, and pushing himself through torturous long runs during the noon middle east heat. This is another trend you often see - the mistake of thinking just being physically fit is the same as being "fit for duty."
When you look at brilliant leaders you see another dangerous combination. Many times these leaders have a strong ego that has been developed through years of success, promotion, and adoration. If you combine this with an environment where you are surrounded by people who don't challenge your thoughts and help you reframe, you can create a potentially dangerous situation.
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the trip includes:
- 6 days / 5 nights of integrated, highly curated programming (from creative immersion + think tank during day, to cultural experiences at night in Istanbul and Ayvalik)
- Boutique hotel accommodations each night in beautiful locations.
- 2 delicious, local meals each day featuring the local cuisine (Breakfast and either lunch/dinner. 1 meal will be on your own, with curated restaurant recommendations)
- Local transport to/from each location, beginning from Istanbul Airport to Ayvalik
- Cost of all activities, including the AIMA International Music Festival
- Excludes: airfare, travel visa, optional Greece add-on trip (final cost still TBD based on total headcount)
Contribution towards InnoCampus program.
Important notes:
- Covers basic trip costs, our basic operational costs as well as fund scholarships for 4 students' projects.
- You will just need to cover your own costs of airfare, one meal/day and any other additional costs and activities you'd like to set up. We have been working with local partners to get a special rate for our group, so it will be below average.
- The additional portion of the trip will be an additional cost that we can provide an estimate cost once we get a sense of headcount (The total number of people will affect the cost of the boat, etc. The more people, the less expensive per person, so invite your tribe!). We would recommend budgeting an additional $1000 - $1500.
Limited to 16 participants.*
*We will invite 4 local entrepreneurs from the InnoCampus project to join us on scholarship to promote integration. There will be also be up to 15 local partners from Turkey who will join us throughout the event, plus the Ritual Studio production team present to ensure your experience is rich.
We believe in the theory of regenerative design. Everything we do is interconnected to the whole system. We see this trip as a step in the direction toward greater peace-building and systems literacy for a new world.
What makes this unique and beneficial to me?
- Curated Community and Relationships (invite-only)
- Cultural Education & Immersion
- Mentorship and Community Service Opportunities
- Invitations to follow up gatherings, workshops and expeditions with Ritual Studio


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Each year, as the Christmas season ramps up and I begin to transition to the holiday music, there's always a line in one of the traditional hymns that moves me to worship.
One year it was the simple verse, "God and sinners reconciled" from "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." The next was the proclamation that, "in His name, all oppression shall cease" from "O Holy Night."
But most recently, a stanza from the less familiar, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" provoked the praise: "Remember, Christ our Savior was born on Christmas day, to save us all from Satan's power when we have gone astray."
Perhaps the significance of this line to me is that it poignantly portrays the often-overlooked meaning of Christmas.
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Most never consider that the purpose of Christmas has anything to do with spiritual warfare. But overcoming Satan is precisely what John declared was the mission of Christ's ministry on earth: "For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8b). Yes, the original Christmas is the inauguration of Jesus' entry into this world to transfer us from the dominion of darkness and into God's marvelous light.
The Plan
Let's begin on the same page about the world into which Jesus was born. It was a world under the influence of Satan. In short, in the beginning, Satan deceived the first couple with a promise of knowledge of good and evil. By succumbing to his scheme, Adam and Eve effectively handed over to the devil the dominion that God had previously given them (Gen. 1:26, 28). From this moment, creation was fallen. For the first time, death reigned, and with it, all of its counterparts: sickness, disease and suffering.
The only solution to restore something from death is to cover it with perfect life. And thus, God eventually instituted a law of atonement in which the sins of His people were cleansed by the lifeblood of a pure, spotless lamb.
Certainly, a fallen creation wasn't God's original will. And animal sacrifice was only meant as a temporary solution to point to what would later come—the redemption plan devised from the beginning. This is what Peter announced. Before the creation, God had a plan in place that His Son, Jesus, would come to earth to be the final, once-for-all sacrificed Lamb of God. (See 1 Pet. 1:19–20.) As the Lamb who was slain, Jesus would destroy the works of the devil: the power of sin and all its effects.
The first Christmas marks the moment when this Word became flesh. And, as we'll now review, everything about the Christmas story points to this purpose.
The Birthplace
One of the most familiar details of the nativity is also one of the most revealing. It's the birthplace of Jesus: Bethlehem. Luke records that because of a census, Joseph and Mary had to return to Bethlehem—the city of Joseph's descendants (Luke 2:4). But it's not happenstance that Jesus was born during this visit. No, scholars report that Bethlehem is the city where lambs purchased for sacrifice in the temple were born and raised. In fact, every firstborn male lamb in Bethlehem was set aside to later be delivered to Jerusalem.
And so was the Lamb of God.
The Setting
Luke's account chronicles that after Mary delivered baby Jesus, she and Joseph had to settle upon resting Him in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothing. Once again, this didn't happen merely out of coincidence. It wasn't only "because there was no room for them in the inn" (Luke 2:7c). But rather, it was ordered by God as a prophetic setting for Jesus' destiny.
A manger is "phatne" in the Greek, which is simply another word for a feeding trough. A manger is the suitable place for a lamb. And fittingly then, it's where the Lamb of God spent His first days.
The People
A region known for raising lambs should also be known for shepherds. And Bethlehem was no exception. Luke concludes his Christmas story by telling about angels who directed nearby shepherds to tend to the newborn Jesus (Luke 2:8-20).
It's only appropriate that shepherds were the first to visit Jesus. After all, it is a shepherd's responsibility to tend to the birth of infant lambs.
Little did they know they were tending to the birth of their final sacrificial lamb. It was Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who came to earth for a mission to take upon the sin of the world and thereby destroy the works of the devil in my life, your life and the lives of all who know Him as Savior.
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Broadcast Gallery Dublin presents Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker
Facing It - Imaging Madness
6.00pm Thursday, 17 November 2011
Exhibition times:
18 November-10 December 2011
Thursday (12.00-20.00 hrs) Friday – Saturday 12.00- 16.00 hrs
Brian Fay
Broadcast Gallery DIT Portland Row
Portland Row
Dublin 1
Facing It - Imaging Madness is part of the Mère Folle Project by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker.
The project constitutes an attempt to offer museum and gallery visitors experiences they don't ordinarily have. In a combination of shock, pleasure, strangeness and beauty, they will make a journey through 'madness', rather than sitting in front of the screen, as in the cinema. It is aimed at people interested in video art, unusual narratives, and uncommon audio-visual sensations ' and mental illness.
This is a project of multiple video installations through which the idea of 'madness' is given a variety of interpretations. It is an experiment in audio-visual story-telling. Distinct from cinema, in the installation the 'second-person', the visitor, is in charge of making the stories through their own itinerary and combination of stories, portraits, and scenes on view. At Broadcast the Space In-Between, Watching the News, Sissi Outside, Landscapes of Madness, Office Hours, Sissi's Treatment will be shown.
Mieke Bal, a cultural theorist and critic, is based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam. Her interests range from biblical and classical antiquity to 17th century and contemporary art and modern literature, feminism and migratory culture, and madness. Her many books include Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art (2010), Loving Yusuf (2008), A Mieke Bal Reader (2006), Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002) and Narratology (3d edition 2009). She is also a video-artist, making experimental documentaries on migration. Occasionally she acts as an independent curator.
Mostly with the collective Cinema Suitcase, Mieke makes films that seek to facilitate the self-narration of their subjects, encountered on the basis of intimacy, rather than constructing their stories for them. This approach enhances the performative quality of filmmaking as a collective process. The films refrain from deploying narrative voice-over and only contain set sound. Stories are not chronological but emerge from associative links, constituting a kind of 'free indirect style.' These include Separations 83 min. (2009); State of Suspension 82 min. (2008); Becoming Vera 53 min. 2008; Un Trabajo Limpio 21 min. (looped) 2007; Colony 30 min. 2007; Access Denied, 31 min. 2005; Mille et un jours, 45 min. 2004. She also made Nothing is Missing, a multiple-screen video installation, 25-35 minutes (5-15 channels) 2006-present.
Her first fiction feature, A Long History of Madness, with Michelle Williams Gamaker, about psychoanalysis and madness in cultural history, is currently being presented internationally. Also with Michelle, she made a video installation Anachronisms, commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (Sp.). www.miekebal.org; www.crazymothermovie.com
- I am interested in how images help articulate and embody thought, in the case at hand, thought about forms of 'otherness' that cut through ethnic, sexual, religious, age- and other groups, namely, 'madness'. I contend that images can perform an equivalent of speech acts; that they can respond ('speak back') to the look cast onto them, and that they can entice viewers to theorize. They are performative. They do something; they act. I call such 'speaking images', which speak back, resist (parts of) my interpretation of them, and make me think, 'theoretical objects.'
- As an inter-disciplinary, international scholar, I have taken this view one step further when, in an inter-ship for which I have not yet a name, I began to supplement my research into contemporary (migratory) culture with filmmaking, as another, more complex, closer, synaesthetic and intimate form of (audio-visual) analysis. At the heart of the film I will present lies the question if it is possible to 'image' madness. Is there an iconography of madness, and if so, how can it avoid stereotyping; and if not, how else can one create a convincing image of madness? And what socio-cultural purpose can such images serve? The lecture is both an autonomous experiment in thought, and an introduction to the film A Long History of Madness. (Bal & Williams Gamaker 2011)
- Mieke Bal


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I know all of you have probably purchased albums. I also know that all of you have played a role in funding at LEAST one [this one!]. My guess however, is that few of you have had the experience of seeing an album being made from the inside in real time. I would love to give you a glimpse into what this process is going to look like from now until we release the record. Keep in mind that there are hundreds if not thousands of methods out there. This is simply the way myself and my production team have chosen to go about things.
-For me, everything starts with life. If I as an artists want to create a living expression of who I am, I have to properly document my way through the hills and valleys of my day to day experiences. Anything else and this whole project becomes nothing but a product. Art in its truest form is not simply something to be sold. It is something to be felt, witnessed and breathed. Stage one of this entire project is reflecting upon hundreds of pages of journal entries in order to capture an overall story. That story is where the dream of an album begins.
-Once we have a story we begin to zoom in for a closer look. Melodies that came out of specific seasons are footprints that we can offer the listener as a means of hope and an encouragement to progress forward or extract beauty within their circumstance. I find that as a deep-feeling introvert many of my melodies come out of the seasons that I feel the most pain or just on the other side of feeling the most pain. I don't understand the science of inspiration... I just know that it intrigues me.
-Once I have a rough direction for a series of songs I usually begin exposing the raw ideas to the production team. Out of every step of this process I must admit that this for me, is the hardest. Imagine spending hours constructing something that is a direct reflection of the deepest part of your heart. You pull it from your soul, you polish it until it moves you and then you unveil it for the first time to a panel of trusted people that give you an extremely real reaction of how they perceive it. Obviously, this goes one of two ways. "Its amazing" or "Sorry its not doing much for me." Both responses are equally vital to the process. Both responses affect me immensely. You learn as a musician to not dwell on the fear of rejection while you are creating. I usually don't think about that until after the song is written because I don't want that very real scenario to effect how/what I am making. Its a practice. Im working on it.
-From this point we enter into what we call Pre Production or "Pre Pro". This is where the butterflies start moving around in your stomach because almost every decision that is approved by all of us is going to end up on the record. Its extremely exciting. This is a very specific stage in the process. We try alternate chord progressions, we write lead lines, we structure the songs, try different arrangements. Basically we pull every little piece of the song apart and make sure its exactly how we want it. We begin dreaming bigger picture and start to piece together what this record is actually going to sound like. This is such an important part of making a record. What we do in the studio is a direct reflection of what happens here. We want to know exactly where we are headed before we hit the road when it comes to tracking. Pre pro is really where we detail our map.
-Tracking is next. In March we fly to North Carolina to start traveling on that map we created through pre production. I wont go too in depth on this process because we will be documenting it as we go and posting it on this site. We are extremely excited for this step.
-Once the record is tracked it is mixed in the studio which means all of the specific pieces are layered on top of each other. From here on out it is a tedious refining process. Mastering is last and this is where the production team listens to every single detail of the record to make sure it is exactly what they want to hear. If a pin drops during a quiet moment on the record, if a certain breath I take while singing throws everything off.. Its all polished and packaged in this stage.
-At the very tail end once we have the songs in our pocket, we begin the process of legally covering all the rights to the songs. We get our design team moving and they get our album artwork finalized. We send our songs to our distributer and they will print our cd's, package and send them out into the world.


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ICHF Hobbycraft Christmas Show
- Title:
- ICHF Hobbycraft Christmas Show
- When:
- Thu, 17. November 2016, 10:00 h - Sat, 19. November 2016, 16:30 h
- Category:
- Guild Events
- Created by:
- Carol Saxton
Region 7 have a stand at the Hobbycraft Show at ExCel this winter.
Exhibition, demonstrations and Have a Go!
Hall N8, Stand ZD55, somewhere in the middle near E&M Glass.
Thu - Sat, 10am to 4:30pm, 5pm Saturday.
ExCel nearest stop is Custom House on DLR.
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These days mega hero Ram Charan and Nandamuri hero NTR are moving very closely. Though they were friends in the past, it is only recently that their friendship became public. One is attending the other's birthday. One is going to the other's marriage anniversary. Thus the two families are coming closer on every occasion. Upasana is also being very close to NTR's wife Lakshmi Pranathi. Both NTR and mega fans are happy over this. NTR and Charan are also becoming part of Rajmouli's multi-starrer. Now Nandamuri and mega fans are celebrating another occasion.
June 14 was the marriage anniversary of mega power star Ram Charan and Kamineni Upasana. The same day second child was born to Junior NTR and Lakshmi Pranathi. Nandamuri fans are celebrating the birth of a son to NTR. NTR already had a son by name Abhay Ram. With mega couple's marriage anniversary and birth of NTR's second son on the same day, the fans of the two heroes are mad happy.
The joyous occasion on a single day in Nandamuri and mega families is remarkable. While mega couple Ram Charan and Upasana were busy in marriage anniversary celebrations, NTR was celebrating the birth of his son by cutting the cake. NTR also went to Rainbow Hospital to see his son and took selfies with doctors. It is like a festival in the families of two star heroes on the same day. It's good to read this.


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Re Release
Walking Back Home Q Magazine December 1999
Multi-platinum Glaswegian Ricky Ross's greatest moments. With new songs thrown in.
His solo career having foundered almost before it began, Ricky Ross returns with Deacon Blue and an album of old ballads with three new songs, three previously unreleased and two hard-to-find tracks. The ballads tag means there's no room for Dignity, Real Gone Kid et al, but Chocolate Girl, When Will You MAke My Telephone Ring and Love & Regret are all included along with new cut Love Hurts (yes, the Boudleaux Bryant one - presumably hoping to repeat the success of I'll Never Fall In Love Again) and two originals, Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain and Plastic Shoes, both of which demonstrate Ross's uncanny knack of knocking out melodies that stick. It doesn't look like much of a career plan any more, but it's nevertheless a welcome return.
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Mobile Monday Amsterdam
Some random notes from Mobile Monday Amsterdam, where I was invited last monday (to give a talk about "what the hell happened to location-based games"). The event was more specifically about mobile gaming/entertainment:
- Jeroen Ellferich interestingly brought this intriguing question: would you differentiate an iphone from an ipodtouch? is a Nintendo DS a mobile game platform? what about eee pc?
- He also reported on the odd fact that the most downloaded games today are the same as 5 years ago: tetris, pacman, who want to be millionaire, monopoly here and now, bejeweled, showing how the field is not very innovative.
- To him, the dark side of the mobile industry have the following characteristics: flattening growth traditional developers and publishers on mobile in troubles, fragmentation and porting hell (450 phone models!), flawed vale chain and low rev shares, lack of innovation in past years
- BUT, he showed that there is some hope: iphone and android trigger mobile content revival, flat-free and connectivity become the norm, there is a business case for location-based games (!?), social networks and games are a "killer combo", touchscreen, tilt, compass are opportunities too
- Kamar Shah, formerly at Nokia, described how users are far from the dream of having a simple mobile entertainment platform (as simple as we had on TV). He showed how people are tired because of fragmentation (operators, services, partners), experience is generally shit, it does not work, people pay twice... and unfortunately bad meme spread faster
- Kamar also mentionned that people want to watch stuff, tv, high def, replicate their experience on the mobile: it's the platform and the content that will drive the revenue, not the hardware.
- His main point was that the consumer experience is based on 5 key elements: how to find, try, buy, manage and share:
- we should make content accessible (over the air, on device, off the portal, on the portal...), consumer choose afterwards and have different habits: "content is king, distribution is king kong"
- people need to be able to try: demo, free-trial (website, on the phone), engage consumers otherwise the top 3 games will still be tetris and pacman!
- you have to enable all payment and billing mechanisms (micropayments...)
- when you buy food, you put it in the fridge, where do you put mobile games? there's a need of storage and manage in an easy place; apple does that really well: they have a marketplace where to go
- sharing content for free: it has to work, if you like sth, you'd like to pass it on, you should be able to send it via email, bluetooth...
- Redefining the consumer experience implies taking care of these 5 issues.
- He concluded that the financial crisis will have important consequences: people loose their job, can't pay the rent, how will they find the money to buy games? what's gonna happen? Kamar said that (1) people will have more time, (2) consumer demand will go down, people will learn what to do with what they have (the complexity of mobile phones), will educate themselves. It's good for our industry, because it's expensive for the industry to educate consumers. They will do it by themselves, (3) we will be able to take our technology right (and it takes time)
Thanks Yuri van Geest and Maarten Lens-FitzGerald for the invitation!


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Shockingly, this not a contest to see which local band has the shittiest name but a record release party for party-folk noise-punk band Schwervon!, a charming duo who make cute fun out of the Big Black blueprint. Cabaret weirdos Ching Chong Song have a surprisingly large amount of singing saw in their tunes. With the Leader, the Purple Organ.
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Renovations are time consuming and suck. The end product is great! The blood, sweat, tears, dust, swearing, money, time, and general pain of renovations sucks. I'm tired. I'm sweaty. And I want to curl up with a book. Or with my computer and write.
Wish me luck. It's going to be several days of renovation "fun". Lucky me.


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25 Brighid / Feb. 16
Columbadi or Dove Day (Friday).
Day of Madria Grace.
For the healing of Trevor.
For the healing of Frank.
For the highest good of Matt
For the highest good of Greg
For the help of Adam.
For the healing of Ava.
For the healing of Amanda.
For the healing of Aaron.
For the healing and protection of Violet.
For the help of K.
For the healing of M.
For the guidance of and highest good of E.
For the guidance of and highest good of J.
For the employment and protection of Kyle and his roommate from eviction.
For the healing of Rose's dog's leg torn up with barbed wire.
For the employment and protection of Kirsty from eviction.
For the employment of R.
For the employment of S.
For the healing of Margaret and for the comfort and strength of Ronnie.
For the finding and recovery of Kay's engagement and wedding rings and for the comfort and strength of John.
O, Most Holy Dea, Mother, Daughter and Great Mother, have mercy upon these, Your souls and may they attain mental, physical and spiritual health. May those who have passed beyond the Veil be assumed, through Your Holy Daughter, unto Perfect Union with You. Through the Pure Stream of Your Grace, may all events unfold for their highest good and according to their True Soul Path.
Let us bless the Holy One,
Blessed is She.
Let us thank the Seven Janae of Power,
Thanks be to the Seven Janae.
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BBC Sussex says it may run a feature on the rights of cyclists after it was strongly criticised on social media this week for attempting to start a debate about who was in the wrong in relation to a video that showed a van driver forcing a rider off the road.
> Van driver filmed forcing cyclist off road; BBC Sussex asks "Who's to blame?"
The driver involved was sacked immediately when the incident, which happened last weekend, was brought to the attention of the managing director of the company he worked for, Vidette UK Ltd.
But in a post to Twitter on Tuesday, BBC Sussex sought to start a debate over the incident. The post was later deleted, but not before it received widespread criticism.
. @BBCSussex seem to have deleted their absurd "who's to blame?" tweet on van driver forcing cyclist off the road. Here it is for posterity pic.twitter.com/KptzUXyCeu
— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) May 9, 2017
A number of people complained directly to the broadcaster, with one road.cc reader receiving the following reply from the BBC Complaints Team.
After that tweet had been deleted, BBC Sussex said it had been trying "to stimulate debate," ut acknowledged that "the wording was ill judged."
CYCLING Thank you for comments about our earlier tweet. We are very interested in the cycling safety debate .... 1/2
— BBC Sussex (@BBCSussex) May 9, 2017
CYCLING .... but in attempt to stimulate debate the wording was ill judged. We are now removing it. 2/2
— BBC Sussex (@BBCSussex) May 9, 2017
As well as the criticism that BBC Sussex attracted on Twitter, a number of people complained directly to the broadcaster, with one road.cc reader receiving the following reply from the BBC Complaints Team.
Many thanks for getting in touch about a recent Tweet from BBC Sussex.
We were naturally concerned to learn of your unhappiness about the Tweet, so we've discussed your feedback personally with the radio station's Editor and other senior editorial personnel across the BBC.
As a local radio station, BBC Sussex is very interested in cycling safety as it is a topic that comes up regularly, so the Breakfast show team posted the Tweet in question in a bid to stimulate debate amongst our audience.
However, having subsequently reviewed the Tweet, the Editor of the radio station felt that the wording was perhaps ill-judged and so deleted the Tweet. At the same, the Editor added a comment to explain to readers why she was doing so, which you may have already seen.
A number of people contacted BBC Sussex directly (both cyclists and drivers) to criticise the van driver, but it was also clear from a number of calls, emails and social media comments that there is still a great deal of confusion surrounding this issue and the legal rights of cyclists.
As a result, the Editor is now looking into the possibility of a feature on the radio station looking at all of this in more detail, so please be assured that your points along with the views of other listeners will be borne in mind.
Many thanks once again for taking the time to get in touch. We do hope our reply here helps to clarify matters and thus allays any concerns you may have had.
The video below shows the incident that led the local radio station to ask who was "to blame" – a question to which the answer is pretty clear.
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.


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The China 'hard landing' talk has definitely gathered steam lately.
Paul Krugman recently hopped aboard this train, noting that credit/real estate/investment-led boom in China was unmistakably similar to the famous US and Japanese real estate busts.
For 2012, obviously a huge question will be whether China itself really becomes a major source of global economic worry, adding to pressures that we're already getting from Europe.
A chart we'll be watching then is this one below, from M&G investments (via FT Alphaville) that shows a decent correlation between 10-year Treasury yields and the Shanghai composite.
Now bear in mind, lots of things are moving in lockstep these days, so it's a little hard to divine meaning from one chart. But if China keeps tanking, and that China worry becomes a source of fresh bids for risk-free US assets, it will certainly be something worth following.
Anyway, we'll be watching it more in 2012.
Oh, and while we're at it, we should post this chart of the Chinese CPI from Oppenheimer.
Cooling inflation is usually seen as a good thing in China, since it gives the government breathing room for more stimulus and so on, but when seen in light of the last time CPI took a dip like this, it's a little scary. Too early to freak out probably tough.


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Hilberg, Eva (2015) Promoting health or securing the market? The right to health and intellectual property between radical contestation and accommodation. Third World Quarterly, 36 (6). pp. 1237-1252. ISSN 0143-6597Full text not available from this repository.
The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) firmly enshrined a legal framework guaranteeing enforceable minimum intellectual property (IP) standards at the international level. But it also resulted in a greater inclusion of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in wider political debates between developing and industrialised countries – for instance on questions of global health and development. This paper argues that the increasing reach and efficacy of the IP regime has given rise to wider challenges to the IP system needing urgent conceptual analysis. The focus here is on IP's increasing confrontation with the right to health, which is analysed not as an encounter of radically opposed legal systems, but as an ambivalent process in which the right to health operates as a challenge to the IP system – and, paradoxically, as an argument for its extension. To account for this ambivalence, the analysis develops a Foucauldian understanding of the right to health's potential challenge, re-evaluating the right to health's role as a part of a process of incremental realisation of governmental priorities, which negotiates tensions between guaranteeing the function of the economy and improving the health of populations. While this incremental process draws attention to the limitations of the right to health's potential to challenge the IP regime, it also highlights this regime's difficulty in accommodating a wider range of active entrepreneurial subjects
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Put down the coconut!
Overwatch, I'm going to let you finish, but Hitman was one of the best games of all time! OK, well maybe not of all time, but as my personal favorite game of 2016 it got my vote for Destructoid's Game of the Year. While we're at it, the E3 reveal trailer is one of the best trailers for a video game I've ever seen and I still watch it from time to time. I'm tempted to say Hitman was a great "return to form" for the series, but it would be more accurate to say it is a wonderful evolution to adapt to the modern video game scene.
Many people felt that Absolution was an awful step in the wrong direction after the masterful Blood Money. While I did enjoy it and think it is not nearly as bad as many people make it out to be, it will definitely be seen as a tumble in the series' ever increasing quality now that we have hindsight. I say "ever increasing," but I'm still not quite sure if 2016's Hitman will be regarded better than Blood Money. Only time will tell. If season two is as good as season one or even better, it will be an easy choice.
Ratings and reviews around the ole digital block are not in the golden nine or ten range, but it appears most beef is not with the gameplay (which does have its flaws) but more often with the episodic release format and the always-online requirement. Nine out of ten times I am against episodic content and release. This is the exception.
While many episodic games make you wait up to several months for the next piece of content while the studio mostly goes radio silent, Hitman released a new level every month except for June and July, which got a summer episode instead. Not only are the levels so large and complex that it makes a month the perfect amount of time to enjoy each release, but IO Interactive also fills the void by providing lots of free content and updates to improve the game. There is seemingly a new elusive target every week or two, and there have been multiple free missions where IO experiments with the formula a bit. Always online is unfortunate. Besides the elusive targets, its only purpose is seemingly a measure against piracy.
Before we can jump into excited talk of season two, we have to look at how the actual game has evolved beyond the politics of DRM and release format. The three things that jumped out at me immediately were its casualization (to use a single umbrella term to refer to various mechanics), change in tone, and evolved use of disguises and restricted areas.
The word "casualization" is a fearsome one, but I could think of no better term to encapsulate the structure of Hitman. I am talking about those things here because accessibility and adapting to modern game design are not inherently bad. Challenges detail every possible kill and action, which when completed raise your "mastery level" of a given location which in turn unlocks weapons and items. Challenges were also in Absolution but instead served to raise your score. Items were unlocked in Absolution and prior games by carrying them out of the mission. While I miss the challenge of doing this and being rewarded for exploring the levels, the new alternative of unlocking them by killing targets in multiple ways is equally satisfying. I do miss having a cool secret spy hideout to show off all my guns, though.
The hitman vision, called "instinct," is a toned-down version of instinct in Absolution where it had a meter and showed NPC paths. Here the paths are no longer shown, but you can still see where everyone is in real-time, including targets but excluding elusive targets. It's just the modern realization of the map from previous games. In Contracts and Blood Money, you had to press start to see a map of the area, and on it you see all NPCs and targets moving in real time. The only difference is that instinct highlights all interactable objects. Showing items you can pick up is fine, but highlighting kill opportunities such as various things dangling from the ceiling feels like something we should have the option to turn off. When I played the levels for the first time, I made clean sweeps in OCD-like fashion, exploring every nook and cranny. In doing so I saw probably over 90% of the possible kills just from instinct vision. You can turn off instinct entirely, but it would be a handicap compared to previous Hitman games, since the map in the pause screen of the new game doesn't show NPCs nor their movements.
Opportunities are the most casual addition to the new entry. They basically walk you through a kill method step by step. While you may need to look at challenges to see what kills you need to further your mastery, opportunities are only necessary if you're sick of retrying and want to figuratively turn on easy mode. Both challenges and opportunities can and should be turned off on your first several playthroughs, as they completely eliminate any sense of discovery and exploration. Now that I actually type that out, maybe IO should make them only unlock once you beat a mission for the first time in the future.
While I don't like the feeling of every possible move in a game being foreseen and intended, the fact that you can turn these off is the end of the argument. The mystique of always finding new things in older games may be gone, as water-cooler discussions are no longer "Oh really? I didn't know you could do that! I did this!" but rather "Oh yeah I saw that in the challenges, it seems cool." However most people don't seem to read through them too much on their first playthroughs. I get a lot of entertainment out of watching various let's plays to see how different people approach the missions and how they react to funny things.
Hitman is silly, but it's never been so on the nose about it. Contracts and Blood Money were for the most part serious stealth games that made you feel like a badass. The amazing work by Jesper Kyd helped deliver that emotion. Silliness was restricted to some goofy costumes, the absurd video game logic of fooling people by putting on different clothes, and some wacky easter eggs like this and this. Absolution probably leaned too far into the serious hole and felt mostly drab and dead.
Perhaps to distance themselves from the previous game, IO has made the latest installment much goofier by not only adding more absurd costumes and weapons, but also lots of hilarious dialogue by NPCs. You'll often hear people talking about the most ridiculous of things, or maybe guards will run by yelling "Someone's doing something they shouldn't!" My favorite line so far was when I was being arrested in Bangkok with a coconut in hand and the cop yelled at me "Put down the coconut!" Unintentionally silly were the lines delivered in Japanese on the Hokkaido level; you can't fool me, I know a fake and bad Japanese accent when I hear it. Anyway, it would have been easy to mess up the tone by making it too stupid, but I feel they found the perfect balance. Until writing this I wasn't aware of any easter eggs in the 2016 game, but after searching for the above videos I discovered they do exist, and they are hilarious! One thing I'm sure we'll get more of in season two that I won't have to ask for is silly costumes.
In season one and its bonus missions we were able to dress up as vampire magicians, plague doctors, ninjas, and even Santa Claus. As much as I'd like to be able to wear the clothes of any NPC, it would be an unrealistic amount of work on the part of IO. That, or they'd simply make less varied NPCs. Two things that I think would be interesting to experiment with in perhaps a bonus mission is wearing targets' clothes and women's apparel. It's already pretty laughable how nearly everyone is fooled by 47 merely donning different clothes, but to up the funny factor it would be fun to dress up as the target and interact with other targets and NPCs. Mechanically it could give you tons of access to various places or even perform special actions.
Agent 47 dressing as a woman and fooling people, including those he is talking to face-to-face would be to jump the shark, but you're lying if you wouldn't laugh at the idea of stone-faced 47 fooling people in just a dress talking in his deep and unaltered voice. Seeing Chuck Greene in stupid costumes acting serious with that grimace of his in Dead Rising 2 cutscenes comes to mind, but Dead Rising 2 is a completely different level of camp perhaps. As I explained before, there is a fine line you must walk, or else you get too stupid, which is why I suggest experimenting in a bonus mission before applying to a major episode.
The ability to wear various disguises to get access to certain areas or events has always been a staple of the franchise. The system changed significantly in Absolution, where the game became more strict about what outfit you wore. It also made disguises more fallible than in the past, making it necessary to hide your face using instinct when near people in similar garb for an effect of realism. The 2016 game has expanded and improved on this. While hiding your face is no longer necessary, there are "enforcers" (the guys with white dots above their heads) who will recognize you are not one of them if seen up close or for too long.
Now you are explicitly told when you are trespassing on your HUD, and areas that require certain outfits or authorization are more often than not guarded by NPCs to mark them. Often they will search you for illegal items. At release, you had to guess what you could keep and what you couldn't at times, but IO later updated the game to let you know if you would get caught and what items are illegal. The way each level plays out has been heavily focused on getting into these restricted areas. I'm looking under a microscope here, but I think they may have focused on this a bit too much in season one.
Several locations felt similar in that they focused on large, multi-storied buildings divided up into different levels of authorization. Marrakesh was outside, but still dominated by gaining access to restricted areas. Colorado and Hokkaido changed it up a bit more. Colorado especially felt less centered on conquering checkpoints to get into areas that targets don't leave, rather focusing the challenge on setting up the kills and being unseen. The targets also had routes that took them through areas of varying authorization. Once you got to the area that targets wouldn't leave in prior levels, there were several easy methods of killing them without being seen. The restricted area mechanic isn't going anywhere and it doesn't have to because it's good, but I hope at least some locations in season two are not so focused on it.
Speaking of Colorado and my love for it, one thing it did well is focus on the targets and ways to eliminate them. Sure, it may not be as large and sprawling as Paris or Sapienza, which are fan favorites, but it is more refined. Much of the Paris and Sapienza labyrinths are unused outside of elusive targets and contracts. While those large levels are wonderfully constructed, they are designed as sandboxes rather than to serve the main missions which you will spend most of your time on. All those streets and apartments in Sapienza are cool, but our targets never venture further than the docks or the church.
Much of the unused space in those levels is full of chandeliers and poison-able consumables. If you're going to focus on sandbox type levels, put in more unique kills. Even hiding bodies could use some more interesting concepts. The bio-hazardous material crates in the Sapienza laboratory were as unique as it got in season one, with most bodies going into everyday dumpsters or closets. How about some laundry chutes, or letting us stick bodies into those already-modeled port-a-potties?
Let's talk about difficulty and play styles. Firearms are almost pointless. You die too easy in this game, straight up. As much as I love playing stealthily and get sort of annoyed when I see people tear through games like Blood Money guns blazing, it's unfortunate that the option to play that way is effectively gone. The fact that you die so easy and can't even use the old mechanic of shooting X number of guys in the head to prevent a death completely nullifies the point of machine guns since you can't hide them, silence them, aim them very well, or get off many kills without being slaughtered.
The silenced handgun is potentially useful, but like the fiber wire has been rendered useless thanks to throw-able objects locking on to heads and the ability to snap necks. You probably had to give up your gun before getting to where a target is located due to the frisking, but you wouldn't have to give up items like coconuts and scissors. Lethal items like scissors will lock-on and instantly kill anyone, otherwise you can use blunt objects or nonlethal a takedown followed by a neck snap. If you managed to get a gun in, you'd risk missing with the poor aiming. The only use is getting in close by scaling the outside of a window and shooting in at a target from far away (assuming you don't have scissors), but it's more work and you have no chance in a firefight.
The fiber wire is 47's most iconic tool, as it allows for a silent and bloodless takedown and immediately transitions you into dragging the body. Since blood as evidence is no longer a thing and snapping necks after a non lethal takedown is quicker than the fiber wire choking animation (again, assuming you don't just throw scissors at their head), there's not much use in using fiber wire. In previous games, leaving murder weapons behind would dock points, so using fiber wire helped in that regard as well, but now you can just leave stuff behind.
Snipers are silenced and are a legitimate way to kill targets annoying jesters, but I always choose against them since they are illegal items and there is no briefcase in which to carry them. Briefcases and metal detectors were apparently supposed to be in the game, but cut at some point. My guess is that metal detectors would be redundant with the security checkpoints where guys frisk you, but I think briefcases need to return. Not only does it help you get in with a weapon, but it would help you get out if leaving weapons behind counted as evidence and thus went against your rating for the mission as it did in the past. That evidence aspect was probably cut alongside the difficulty levels for the sake of making it not too challenging for newcomers.
While it may be too late to do this now, the addition of difficulty levels would allow for more of these intricacies. You may be able to live longer and shoot the place up on lower difficulties, while on higher difficulties you'd need to leave no blood or evidence behind. Commend IO for patching in the Silent Assassin ranking in for five star hitman emblem runs, but it shouldn't have been missing in the first place and I want to see more ranking names based on the way you played. I liked getting different headlines in prior games based on how you completed levels; being called things like "psycho" or "trained marksman." Even more unrealistic than adding difficulty levels or newspaper headlines would be the return of the limited number of saves on higher difficulties. It would encourage better mastery of levels and create more tension, since now you can just save-scum until you do something right on your first try.
Before finishing with fun talk of what locations and targets we want to see in season two, I think the way security cameras function could be improved. As it is now, if you're seen by one in any situation, you get a notice saying "You've been spotted on camera" and thus you must go destroy the video evidence at the designated location within the level to avoid a penalty. Does it not make more sense for it to not matter if you're on camera or not unless you are seen committing a crime? For example, let's say I'm dressed as a chef on the ground of the Sapienza villa. I'm not trespassing, so I shouldn't be punished for being seen. If I was in 47's suit and trespassing, then it should penalize me. Likewise, if dressed as a chef I am seen killing someone on camera, that should be a penalty. Now it gets tricky: what if I, a chef, am witnessed killing a target and everyone knows to look for the killer who is dressed as a chef? Of course, the time following the kill I should be caught if seen on camera, but if you want to think with real-world logic then they should be able to check the tapes from before the kill to see if any chefs were on camera. In this case is it not possible to program the game to give you a warning of some sort that you were seen on camera, but so long as you are not witnessed committing any crime (including lock picking or poisoning something) in that outfit then you are not penalized for being seen on camera and thus not have to destroy the video evidence? It's complex so IO may have thought of it and just said "Fuck it, make them go get the tape no matter what."
Now then, what types of targets would be good? They do have a story going on if you forgot, so they do have to make sense in the context of that plot. However, much like my issue with Suicide Squad I've felt 47 and the agency should be more devoid of morals, instead assassinating whoever their contractor asks. Season one felt like killing a bunch of irredeemable devils. There absolutely does not need to be some heavy-handed message involved in killing some nice dad in front of his kids or something, but killing normal people might be fun too. I'd like more unique targets in general, actually.
Most of the targets in season one were CEOs, businessmen, politicians, and the like. The most interesting one was Jordan Cross in Bangkok, since his profession as a musician created an interesting scenario with exciting kill and costume opportunities. Of all the targets across Contracts and Blood Money, the one I remember the most is Meat King from one of the first levels of Contracts. Meat king was bed-ridden and a huge mass of flesh as his name implies, making for an approach different from most missions. Erich Soders in Hokkaido was similar and I commend them for making a unique target, though it was perhaps the weakest target in the game since all the kills methods besides just shooting him were messing with buttons on the various medical apparatuses.
So here's my one idea for an interesting target: a guy who's into BDSM. That premise alone makes ones mind run wild with the possibilities. Sabotage the BDSM "equipment" or take on the role of his master yourself (if they aren't willing to do the female 47 goofs, make the target homosexual or have the ability to blindfold him). Kill him by drowning, choking, constricting, beating, stabbing, electrocuting, any number of things.
The number of targets could be increased. Another reason I love Colorado so much is because it had the most targets (four). Make use of those big levels and give us more people to shred and pancake. Go crazy and put like eight or ten in. It doesn't necessarily have to be eight to ten different sets of kill methods; make the sheer number a challenge in itself by grouping them together. What if instead of just Jordan Cross, you had a band of five guys who were mostly together in a group? You could still have a giant moose fall on all of them or something. It would just make moosing them or blowing them up with explosives that much more fun. Have targets interact with each other more, too. Maybe even have one be killed by another.
So at last, let's talk level locations. Let's just get one thing out of the way: cut out the non-target stuff. The virus in Sapienza, the tornado shelter in Colorado, and talking to the guy in Flatline from Blood Money are not fun. Hell the entire laboratory section of Sapienza downright sucks, to be honest. I'm a hitman, not a scientist, Jim.
I have three ideas that I think would make for fun levels in season two. First up, a level that would fit in with the theme they have going now: the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. Think of a blend between Murder of Crows from Blood Money and that wrestling level from Absolution. Tons of people partying, wearing festive outfits. You can still have some buildings to go into with typical restrooms, kitchens and whatnot, but focus on the outside and people like in Marrakesh. Have the running of the bulls go on a loop, and a small arena where bullfighting is taking place. One of the targets could be a torero performing in the arena. If you want to go next-level stupid, have 47 put on an unconvincing bull costume and be the bull. Of course this level hinges on whether or not they're willing to design bulls.
Next, how about a trans-Siberian train? Being in Russia hits the "world location" check box like Spain would in the previous level, and the long narrow shape of a train is an immediate change to the level formula. You can have some cars off limits and require special uniforms and copy paste in your typical kitchens and restrooms. But think of throwing people off the train, or under it. Detach train cars, become the conductor and/or sabotage the entire damn thing to crash. Perhaps it goes on a loop and stops at a few small locations with a limited amount of time before taking off again. The challenge of the level would be on killing in plain sight without being seen.
The level that is always on my mind and would be the most fun of these three is an amusement park during Halloween. Well OK, all the costumes and decor associated with Halloween just scream Hitman, but maybe you want to save that for a seasonal bonus mission like the current Holiday Hoarders. Fine. But come on, spend the time and effort to make an amusement park with various rides that you can sabotage. Stop a ferris wheel or ride it to snipe from, cause a roller coaster to fly off tracks killing perhaps the multiple targets riding it, or even aim it to fly off into the ferris wheel that other targets are riding. Sabotage one of those huge slingshot rides to snap and launch a target way into the sky. Even if you don't incorporate Halloween, you can have park mascots. Be a Disney World knockoff with King's Island-type rides.
Theme park rides and live animals may make some of my ideal levels impossible, but a man can dream right? Even if they stick to their formula I have every bit of confidence they'll make fun and exciting levels because Hitman is a great game. It may have seemed at times like I was being very critical, but I simply don't like to mention things without giving the best possible explanation. Any complaints I expressed are ultimately small. If you haven't played Hitman yet, I suggest you start! And if you have, what are you looking forward to in season two? What kind of changes, targets, or levels do you want to see?
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The Kenyan government on Thursday dissolved the national examination board and will arrest its members after they were implicated in widespread cheating on the university entrance exams, officials said. Education Minister Fred Matiang'i said the top members of the Kenya National Examination Council had all been implicated in what he called "unprecedented cheating" in this year's exams. Internal Security Minister Joseph Nkaissery ordered the arrest of nine members of the board. About half a million high school students take the exams annually, and last year the results for 5,101 candidates were canceled for cheating. Investigations by a local media outlet suggested that there were many more cases. Kilemi Mwiria, an education official, said the cheating in schools was a crisis, with teachers helping students to cheat and parents buying examination papers.
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