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Title: Raycast, Bullet Holes, and Random Arrays in Unity 3d
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In this Xenosmash tutorial we will be going over a few different things. First we'll discuss how to create a Raycast that we'll apply to the front of our weapon. Then we'll create bullet hole textures that will be randomly instantiated from an array using random.range in our script. This is useful for creating a random type of bullet texture every time we shoot. This makes it look more realistic as not every bullet hole will look exactly the same every time.
Start off by applying an empty game object to the front of your gun. We will create our raycast off of this empty game object. In this script we'll have the raycast visible in order to see how far it reaches and also to show you how a raycast works. We adjust the length of this raycast to 10 meters and a color of green.
Afterward we'll include an array for our bullet hole textures. The reason we use an array is so that we can have more than one bullet hole texture to be instantiated. Whenever we shoot it will randomly instantiate a bullet hole texture, which looks more realistic. The bullet hole textures will rotate to fit the rotation of the object we "shoot" at.
Hello everyone welcome to another Xenosmash unity tutorial in today's unity tutorial we will be showing you how to create a raycast and how to use the random range to randomly assign a texture to be instantiated from an array. So lets take a look at what we're going to be creating so as you can see here from my gun model I have this raycast being shot out. Now if I left click on this plane you can see that these textures being instantiated. I have a couple of different types of blood textures and I also have a bullet hole texture alright lets go ahead and see how this works. So in my first person controller I have my main camera with my 3d model here. This is a model of a Desert Eagle that I downloaded for free off TurboSquid.com and right in front of the gun I have an empty game object now it's aligned fairly well with the barrel and the raycast will actually be applied to this game object so first lets go ahead and create our texture, and well do that by going up to game object > create other > plane and set the position to 0, 0, 0. Press enter and select it and press "F" to zoom in on it so I have my bullet hole texture here and I'm just going to drag and drop it here as you can tell we have a lot of this texture looks pretty square and we just want the bullet hole to be visible so you want to make sure the shader is set to a transparent shader and select diffuse then all we have left is our bullet hole use a png if you want this type of bullet hole texture so we need to create an empty game object now and you want to make sure the position is also set to 0, 0, 0 these are going to be stacked onto each other so I'm going to rename this empty game object bullet hole parent and I'm going to take the plane and make it a child object of that empty game object. Now select your plane again and you want to make sure the position in the "Y" is set to 0.1 now this will raise it slightly above our empty game object and this will just make it a little bit easier for our textures to be instantiated onto other objects in our scene. So once that's done go ahead and create a prefab of it. Right click > Create > Prefab I'm just going to name it bullet hole 2 since we already have a bullet hole just drag and drop it into there to make a prefab and delete the original so I'm going to scale it down since I forgot to do that before set it to .2 by .2 by .2 alright now lets go ahead and create our script this is our first script we're going to be creating and our first variable called "bulletTex" and it's of type "GameObject" and we have an array attached to it and in the Update Function we have a variable called fwd = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward); all this is doing is casting our ray in the z axis or forward in this case off of our empty game object then we have var hi aycastHit; and this line here is not necessary but it'll help us visually see our raycast. So Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, fwd * 10, Color.green); this determines the length of our ray. So right now it's set to 10 and this last part determines what color our ray is visibly going to look like after we have our if(Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire1") && Physics.Raycast(transform.position, fwd, hit, 10)) this is saying if we hold the left click button and we're also hitting a collider with our raycast then we're going to instantiate our texture so right here it says bulletTex[Random.Range(0,3)] now what this is saying is it will randomly select a game object from our array and instantiate it. So here zero denotes the minimum number and three denotes the maximum number it's going to select between 0 and three and instantiate that number so if whatever texture is selected as number two if this decides to pick number two then that will be the texture that will be instantiated then we have hit.point, basically where we left click or where our raycast hits on our object, then we're going to say Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal) Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal) it's going to apply that same rotation to our texture to that of our object so that it'll match the object that we're hitting So once that's done go ahead and save it. For our destroy script we have function awake and we just have destroy(gameobject, 5); five is just the amount of seconds we have before the game object is destroy. Now you want to make sure that this is either in awake or start if you have this in the update function it'll just keep checking over and over even after its destroyed the game object save both the scripts and minimize I'll go ahead and remove the script from the RaycastEmpty I'm just going to apply the script again so that we can see what it looks like. So we have "bulletTex" now the size you want to make sure that the size is set to the amount of textures that you want. Since we're going to be using three press enter. Now the one thing you need to note is whatever size you pick right there needs to equal this as well both of these need to match. If you have the size set to six and this is set to three, this will only randomize three different types of textures versus the six that you could have so make sure both those match up. Lets select our game objects now select blood one, then select the two bullet holes now lets hit play and there we go. There's our raycast being shot out of our gun. Now if I left click we can see taht different types of textures are being applied as you can tell that one texture is still quite big, but you can see that it's randomly selecting three different types of textures now if you go into the two by three layout. Go ahead and select gizmos on in your game window and go ahead and select your top view in your scene window. hit play and you can see how far out your raycast goes. As you can see it goes out pretty far in the scene window if we move in a little bit closer you can see that right about there is where our raycast reaches this wall so you can see I'm creating these textures on that wall from this far out that is the basics of using a raycast in Unity3d and how to instantiate random textures using the random.range in your script So I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, thanks for watching!


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Stock assessment of short-finned squid, Illex illecebrosus, in the northwest Atlantic during 1992
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Description:The status of the short-finned squid (Illex illecebrosus) stock is assessed for 1982-1992 based on indices of stock size and recruitment computed from research vessel survey data. Total landings from U.S. and Canadian waters have been dominated by the domestic fishery since 1983 and have been increasing, along with effort, since 1988. Concurrently, standardized domestic landings per unit of effort have generally been decreasing. Autumn survey indices of relative abundance during 1991 and 1992 suggest that Illex abundance on the continental shelf was intermediate to periods of high abundance during 1975-1981 and 1987-1990 and to periods of low abundance during 1967-1974 and 1982-1986. Based on the current overfishing definition, the stock was not overfished during 1992 and will not be overfished in 1993 or 1994. The stock is at a medium biomass level, and based on the current maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of 30,000, is underexploited. However, Illex illecebrosus has recently been documented to be an annual species, and therefore a new overfishing definition should be developed which recognizes that only a single cohort supports both the fishery and the spawning stock. Likewise, MSY should be re-evaluated based on this new life history information, since the potential for recruitment overfishing may be substantial. Furthermore, recruitment may vary significantly depending upon environmental favorability and predator-prey relationships. The implementation of a real-time assessment/management system would allow full exploitation of the stock while ensuring that adequate levels of spawning stock escapement are maintained.
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In a series of 11 identical white rooms at Manchester Art Gallery, a space more usually associated with glowing Pre-Raphaelite paintings, curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach gave 11 artists a space – and time – to fill. The result was, in Obrist's words, 'like a sculpture gallery where all the sculptures go home at 6pm'. Audiences travelled around the gallery interacting with performers and pieces that were resolutely 'live' – Tino Sehgal's eerie and affecting living doll Annlee, the bedroom comedy drama of Simon Fujiwara's Playing the Martyr, Santiago Sierra's austere and heartbreaking Veterans of the Wars of Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq Facing the Corner. Ambiguous and affecting, 11 Rooms was a major hit with the international art scene and local audiences alike.
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Story about Go-Go or Striptease dancing in bars
I Can't Imagine Myself Dancing Again
I came to America two years ago as a student on international exchange program. For the first four months I lived and worked in Minnesota, then moved to New Jersey and worked there in a diner for about six months. Then one friend of mine told me about Go-Go dancing or Striptease dance in bars. I was shocked I thought I would never be able to do this. I was thinking about this option for a long time. After a while it seemed to me like the best choice. I will go to New York, will make a lot of money easily . I will have opportunities which I will never have if I stay in NJ working in a diner without any documents, without a car. So I decided to do so.
I left the friendly house where I lived, left my friends, everything. In Brooklyn (where I moved) my "agent" (Russian woman, who has a "dancing agency") put me in a room where I had to sleep on the floor for three days until I found a room for myself (I was lucky I found it very fast). My dancing career started. I was working six nights a week, the funniest thing is that every night we went back to NJ because all the bars were there. So I lived those two months just working and sleeping during the day time. (Thanks God these bars weren't topless. Girls in NJ dance in bikini, otherwise I would have never decided to do this.) Than I moved to a three-bedroom apartment with two Russian girls where I live till now.
I changed the "agencies" couple times and started working with the best one for me. I changed the bars and started to make good money. By that time I worked only 3-4 days a week and this was enough and I was able to save some money also. I sent some money to my family when they had some financial problems. It was great; a little bit of work, and I could do anything I wanted. But I knew this career was not for me. I was scared when I saw girls from our agency who have been dancing for 7-10 years. They had nothing. No family, no future. All they care about is only money to go out and get drunk, or something worse. I was asking myself how they were going to live in 10-15 years. You are not getting younger. And this kind of "job" makes you look older two times faster. I was thinking about myself what to do next. I had no papers, therefore I had no rights. The only option which came to my mind was to get married. I had candidates, but I couldn't imagine myself with any of them. To be short I'll just say that I found somebody to make it for money.
Then I went to a beauty school, nine months I was in school. During that time I was in school five days a week and working two days. It was hard. It was hard to get used to American classmates, to that sometimes just very dumb system, but I did it! I finished my school, I received the papers which allowed me to work. I haven't been dancing for a month. Now I can not imagine myself dancing again. Also I entered the college this fall, and I'm looking for a job in a beauty salon. Maybe it is going to be hard to work for such a small amount of money comparing to "dancing money " but it's worth it. Dancing is a road to nowhere, it's the way where you destroy yourself . The worst thing it changes your attitude to life, to men, to people. Looking back at my first 5-6 months in America, I can say I was very very different. Now I am more "cold blooded", I am not that naive dreamy girl any more. I do not trust men, although I know that it can work against me. I meet a lot of guys but they pass by as fast as they appear. It is my fault, I meet one, I look at him and I find his minuses and he is not interesting anymore. I am lonely (even though I have a lot of attention). I hope it will change some day... But it is another story.
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Pearl Jam is the latest musical group to say it's canceling a North Carolina show because it opposes the state's new LGBT law, House Bill 2, which it calls a "despicable piece of legislation that encourages discrimination against an entire group of American citizens."
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North Carolina's new LGBT law sets a statewide nondiscrimination standard that excludes sexual orientation and gender identity. Lawmakers had said they were responding to Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance, which would have allowed transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender with which they identify.
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Another month has passed and we are now into the Ides of March. I don't know about where you live but the weather has been very unpredictable. What that means for all of us crafters is that when the weather is cold and snowy, we get a bit more time to craft!
If you have had time to create why don't you join in our fun fantastic DT Challenge. To be eligible you need to be on any DT in the world...that's right, if you are a DT on any team, you may enter 3 of your makes this month! The Theme is always "Anything Goes"
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For this months challenge I chose to use Little Oriental Lady.
But the etsy shop is filled with lovely images.
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At lunchtime on October 30, 2015, a plane carrying Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, back to the UK as a free man, to be reunited with his family after nearly 14 years without charge or trial in US custody, landed at Biggin Hill airfield. Soon after, Shaker was whisked away by his UK lawyers to receive medical care and to be reunited with his family, and, I am led to believe, he is doing remarking well considering his long ordeal.
The following statement was issued by his UK lawyers and I'm delighted to post it below. It reveals the eloquence, generosity and concern for others that has been a hallmark of Shaker's words from Guantánamo over the years. All his many supporters should take heart from the fact that he says, "I feel obliged to every individual who fought for justice not just for me but to bring an end to Guantánamo," adding, "Without knowing of their fight I might have given up more than once; I am overwhelmed by what people have done by their actions, their thoughts and their prayers and without their devotion to justice I would not be here in Britain now."
Shaker Aamer's statement, October 30, 2015
"The reason I have been strong is because of the support of people so strongly devoted to the truth. If I was the fire to be lit to tell the truth, it was the people who protected the fire from the wind. Read the rest of this entry »
Great news finally, as Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, has just arrived back in the UK, at Biggin Hill airport. Below is a version of a press release I wrote and sent out this morning on behalf of the We Stand With Shaker campaign.
Responding to the news of Shaker Aamer's arrival back in the UK from Guantánamo, Andy Worthington, the co-director of the We Stand With Shaker campaign, said, "We are delighted to hear about Shaker Aamer's return to the UK, bringing to an end his long and unacceptable ordeal in US custody for nearly 14 years. Eight years ago, under George W. Bush, Shaker was first told that the US no longer wanted to hold him, and in 2009 the Obama administration also approved him for release. To be held for so long, after being approved for release, is unforgivable."
Andy added, "We hope that on his return he is not detained by the UK authorities, and will immediately be allowed to be reunited with his family, and to begin to receive the medical and psychological care that he urgently needs to begin to put his life back together again. We thank all the campaigners who have worked tirelessly for Shaker's release, the MPs from across the political spectrum who have devoted their energies to addressing this terrible injustice, his lawyers, the media who have understood the importance of his case and the principles at stake, and, of course, the concerned citizens around the world who have recognised his plight and acted on it." Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
Last week, for only the fifth time in his Presidency, Barack Obama vetoed a bill sent for his approval by Congress. The bill in question was the draft of next year's National Defense Authorization Act, which provides funding for the military, but which, for several years now, has also been used by Republicans to impose restrictions on the president's ability to release prisoners from Guantánamo — as well as an absolute ban on bringing any prisoner to the US mainland for any reason.
In a Veto Message on October 22, President Obama wrote, "I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 1735, the 'National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016.'" He added that "the bill would, among other things, constrain the ability of the Department of Defense to conduct multi-year defense planning and align military capabilities and force structure with our national defense strategy, impede the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, and prevent the implementation of essential defense reforms."
On Guantánamo, President Obama wrote, in further detail: Read the rest of this entry »
After all the expectation that Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, would be returned to the UK on Sunday, at the end of the 30-day notification period required by Congress (following the announcement on September 25 that he would be freed), it has been a disappointing few days, with only rumours and vague reassurances to indicate that his release is imminent.
Today, for example, the Daily Mail reported that Shaker "is expected to return to the UK within days" — adding that he is "due to leave the infamous camp later this week or early next according to sources in the UK and US."
A source in Whitehall told the Mail, "He will be out within days. We're working on the practical details of how it will happen." Read the rest of this entry »
On Saturday (October 24), campaigners for the release from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, held a vigil on Whitehall, opposite 10 Downing Street, to mark Shaker's 5000th day in Guantánamo, and the last day before his anticipated return from Guantánamo. The vigil was organised by the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, with support from other groups including We Stand With Shaker and the London Guantánamo Campaign.
President Obama announced Shaker's release on September 25, and Congress was then given a 30-day notification period, as required in US law in recent years. During the 30 days, Shaker told his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith of Reprieve, that he had embarked on a hunger strike because of ill-treatment, and that he feared not making it out of Guantánamo alive, and as a result, myself and Joanne MacInnes, the founders and directors of the We Stand With Shaker campaign, set up Fast For Shaker, to encourage supporters to fast for 24 hours, on a day of their choice, in solidarity with Shaker, to encourage him to give up his hunger strike (which he did), and to keep up the pressure on the US and UK governments to make sure his release is not further delayed. We are encouraging people to sign up to fast until Shaker is released, joining the 406 people who have already done so.
After hearing that Shaker's release has been delayed because of a visit to the prison by three Republican Senators over the weekend, we now hear that he may not be released until Friday, because of the presence of journalists for pre-hearings in the proposed trial of those accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Read the rest of this entry »
Today, October 25, was supposed to be the day that Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, was released and flown back to the UK to be reunited with his family, who he has not seen for over 14 years.
Shaker is still held, despite being approved for release eight years ago, under George W. Bush (and again under President Obama in January 2010), although campaigners for his release, his lawyers, and, of course, his family and Shaker himself, are hoping it will take place in the next couple of days.
Sustained campaigns — and significant pressure from MPs — finally led, a month ago, to a promise by President Obama that Shaker would be freed, and today is the end of the 30-day notification period demanded by Congress before any Guantánamo prisoner can be released.
And yet, Shaker is still not home — and, as the Mail on Sunday reported today, "The release of the last Briton held at notorious US detention centre Guantánamo Bay has been delayed. Shaker … saw his hopes of finally being reunited with his family this weekend dashed thanks to a political visit to the base … [T]he visit of three Republican senators, on a 'fact-finding' mission to the base, once again delayed his long-awaited flight to freedom." Read the rest of this entry »
My friends,
It's a big day today — 5000 days since Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, arrived at the prison from Afghanistan, where he had already been held for two or three months in appalling conditions. If all is well, Shaker will not stay much beyond his 5000th day, as today is also the day that the statutory notification period required by Congress before they will allow President Obama to release anyone from Guantánamo expires — and a month ago the president told David Cameron that Shaker would be freed.
5000 days would be a long sentence if Shaker had committed any kind of crime, but in fact he has never been charged or tried by the US, and he was first told eight years ago, under President Bush, that the US no longer wanted to hold him, and was told the same thing almost six years ago, under President Obama, as a result of the recommendations of the high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force that Obama set up shortly after taking office in January 2009.
His imprisonment for all these years is an indictment of the fundamental lawlessness of Guantánamo. Because Shaker is an eloquent, charismatic and irrepressibly outspoken critic of the US's post-9/11 lawlessness and cruelty, he was, first of all, subjected to discussions about whether he could be sent back to the country of his birth, Saudi Arabia, where he would have been silenced, rather than to the UK, where he was granted indefinite leave to remain, and where he has a British wife and four British children. Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
One day, when we're looking back on Guantánamo and apportioning blame to those who contributed most powerfully to its cruelty, and to keeping it open long after the most senior officials in two governments conceded that it should be closed, a spotlight will be shone on the lawyers in the Civil Division of the Justice Department who have worked so assiduously to prevent prisoners from being released.
I have criticized these lawyers occasionally, but I have rarely heard any criticism of them in the mainstream media, and yet, from the moment that the Supreme Court granted the prisoners habeas corpus rights in Rasul v. Bush in June 2004, they have been making life difficult for lawyers representing the prisoners, micro-managing their meetings with their clients and their travel arrangements, and often, it is impossible not to conclude, in an effort to obstruct the lawyers' ability to represent their clients.
In addition, as I noted in an article in August, the Civil Division lawyers "have fought tooth and nail against every single habeas petition submitted by the prisoners, with just one exception — the severely ill Sudanese prisoners Ibrahim Idris, whose petition was granted unopposed in 2013." I added, "Disgracefully, the Justice Department lawyers have repeatedly challenged habeas petitions submitted by prisoners whose release has already been approved by the Guantánamo Review Task Force," the high-level, inter-agency task force set up by President Obama shortly after taking office in January 2009, which issued its final report a year later, recommending 156 men for release, 36 for trials and 48 others for ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial, on the alarming basis that they were "too dangerous to release," but that insufficient evidence existed to put them on trial. Read the rest of this entry »
On Sunday, I was delighted to be interviewed by journalist and activist Anastasia Kyriacou for her show on Shoreditch Radio, 'Anastasia Says.' The show is here, and it lasts for 45 minutes.
Over the course of the show, I was allowed to explain how I became involved in the story of Guantánamo, why it is such a moral, legal and ethical abomination, and why, far too often, the liberal media, by insisting on "objectivity," plays into the hands of the dark forces running our world — because the right-wing media does no such thing (see Fox News, the Sun and much of the Daily Mail's output, for example), and because the injustices of the world demand our involvement not our detached commentary.
Anastasia and I also spoke about my campaigning — from Close Guantánamo, which I established with the US lawyer Tom Wilner in 2012, to We Stand With Shaker, which I established last November with Joanne MacInnes to highlight the case of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, by asking celebrities and MPs to stand with a giant inflatable figure of Shaker, and Fast For Shaker, launched just two weeks ago, in which Joanne and I have been asking celebrities, MPs and concerned citizens around the world to fast for 24 hours in solidarity with Shaker, who is due to be released this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
In an important concession, the US government has publicly admitted that the information it drew on to describe former Guantánamo prisoner Younous Chekkouri (aka Younus Chekhouri) as a threat was profoundly unreliable, and that it ceased to accept it as reliable back in 2011.
Chekkouri was repatriated to his home country of Morocco from Guantánamo on September 16, and, as his lawyers at the London-based legal charity Reprieve described it in a press release, just issued, "His transfer was subject to diplomatic assurances between Morocco and the US, which included agreements that there was no basis to charge him; that Morocco would not prosecute him; and that he would be detained no longer than 72 hours. However, after his arrival in Morocco Mr. Chekkouri was taken to Salé prison near Rabat, where he continues to be held in violation of the assurances."
At a court hearing tomorrow (October 22), the Moroccan investigating magistrate "will determine whether Mr. Chekkouri should be set free," as Reprieve described it, adding, "It is believed that the Moroccan authorities are detaining Mr. Chekkouri on the basis of the same allegations that the US government has now withdrawn against him." Read the rest of this entry »
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At Castle Vets we see many rabbits and rodents with a variety of different dental problems. The teeth of most animals (including humans) stop growing after the initial development period, but rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs and rodents have teeth that grow continuously throughout their lives, which means dental problems will develop if these pets are unable to grind their teeth down through feeding and chewing.
Symptoms of a dental problem
- Decreased appetite, your pet may stop eating completely or only manage very small amounts at a time.
- Drooling
- Pawing at or rubbing their face on things
- Swellings around the jaw area or under the eye
- Weight loss
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- Discharge from the cheek or jaw area
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Jacket Zara/ Trousers Glassons/ Shoes Glassons/ Necklace Mimco/ Glasses Vintage/ Lips Innocent by Topshop.
Today is an outfit I wore to work the other week with my favourite Zara blazer. Although I don't think it has featured on my blog until now it is probably one of the most worn pieces in my wardrobe as it's so versatile with a bit of interest provided by the studs. I also love the chanel-esque boucle fabric that has been left raw at the edges. As the outfit is pretty plain I added some quirkiness with the squiggle print pants and oversized vintage glasses, and some colour with my shoes. Now the shoes I'm not so proud of as they are a Jeffrey Campbell dupe I bought last summer. As a JC fanatic I often feel rather annoyed when the high st copy his designs, but alas I succumbed to the $20 price point and the fact that the Mary Roks don't come in this colour. Although they look extremely similar to the Mary Roks, they are not as high quality as the fabric creased around the ankle on first wear and the edges of the peep toe rub my toes to blister point when worn all day. Having said that, I still like these shoes as they coordinate perfectly with the squiggle print and add a more summery vibe than my authentic black pair would have x


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- "A weapon the size of a Titan. A near-perfect expression of the Omnissiah's grandeur and, of course, His puissance. Armies are thrown to the wind by its glorious song, and mountains themselves skitter aside at its demand. Nothing stands before a sacred Machine Spirit so mighty without its consent."
- —Tech-priest Garrulon Vyme
The Centurio Ordinatus is a section of the Adeptus Mechanicus' Divisio Militaris, the Mechanicus organisation responsible for the development, maintenance and operation of the mighty Ordinatus war machines. Every individual Ordinatus is a unique construction named after the Imperial world on which it was first employed or built.
Each Ordinatus is a unique weapon unto itself, designed for a specific purpose or for a particular battle. This explains why the Ordinatii Tech-priests that operate these massive war machines of the Machine God are configured using special augmetics to aid their intended purpose.
The Centurio Ordinatus is an ancient sub-branch of the Divisio Militaris, able to trace their history back to the Age of Strife before the birth of the Imperium of Man when Mars was an independent human empire ruled by the Tech-priests of the Cult Mechanicum. The Centurio Ordinatus is a highly specialised force, created to deal with siege works or the demands of a specific battle. The immense war engines of the Ordinatus were often created by the individual Forge Worlds to fulfill very particular roles. The Ordinatus classification held the most powerful and arcane mobile weapons platforms in the Mechanicum's arsenal. They were city-burners and fortress breakers without compare, and whether armed with magna-beam lance, matter-cyclone or rad-conflagrator, each was mounted on huge tracked reactor units for mobility and heavily shielded from attack, allowing them to traverse and survive on the most hellish battlefield. Each was a work of deadly artifice and ancient power. Much like the Titans whose firepower they often outstripped, the Ordinatus varied in scale and potency. From the truly colossal, unique and unreplicable relics of the Dark Age of Technology, the Ordinatus Primaris, such as the Mars and Endymion whose power was legendary, even compared to the god machines of the great Legio Titanicus, to the lesser but still gargantuan and deadly Ordinatus Minoris sub-classes. The Minoris were, at the height of the Great Crusade, within the reach of only the most potent Forge Worlds to construct, and only then in the most limited numbers.
During the Horus Heresy when the galaxy was torn apart by strife and civil war, both Loyalist and Traitor forces of the Centurio Ordinatus unleashed all manner of forbidden and experimental weapons upon one another. Such were the gifts that the Renegade Forge World of Xana II offered; no less than three such terrifying weapons of the Ordinatus Ulator pattern, fully battle ready and armed with devastating sonic destructor weapons. These were Titan-killers, slaughterers of armies, each powerful enough to turn the tide of a battle at a stroke, and in potency far beyond any super-heavy tank and dwarfing the firepower of even the mighty Diamatine siege-guns that had fallen into the grasp of the Iron Warriors earlier in the Horus Heresy.
Schism of MarsEdit
During the Horus Heresy, Mars itself, homeworld of the Mechanicum, was riven by civil war. This deadly internecine conflict erupted on Mars between the Loyalist factions of the Mechanicum and the Traitors of the Dark Mechanicum during the opening days of the galaxy-wide conflict and was known as the Schism of Mars. The Traitor Mechanicum armies, commanded by Magos Solomon Abbadon, turned against the Emperor and attempted to overthrow those Mechanicum elements not loyal to the traitorous Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal. From his mountain citadel of Jericho, Abbadon sent forth his rebel forces to attack the forge-factories and installations of those who remained loyal to the Emperor.
Inevitably, the Imperium retaliated and sent an Imperial expeditionary fleet commanded by the Imperial Fists Legion Champion and First Captain Sigismund, 4 companies of Imperial Fists and a large force of Imperial Army soldiers drawn from multiple regiments to secure the forges of Mars and to annihilate Magos Abbadon's traitorous minions and bring Imperial justice to the rebel lord. This proved impossible, though, since the fortress of Jericho was protected by an ancient alien device discovered during the Great Crusade. The Vortex field generator, thought to be an artefact of the enigmatic C'tan, rendered any attack from orbit impossible. Any ship which approached too close was torn apart or displaced into the Warp. Eventually, an Imperial army fought its way to the foothills of the mountains, a few kilometers from Jericho, where it discovered that the Vortex field did not cover the planet's surface.
Castellum Jericho, as the citadel was known, boasted walls half a mile thick, which soared into the clouds. The central bastion was constructed from the hardest metal alloys known to humanity and could withstand any amount of pounding by the Imperium's siegemasters. Another solution was needed, and the Loyalist Mechanicum provided the answer. The Ordinatus Mars utilised unique technology to produce a sound wave which resonated across the battlefield. When this sonic wall hit Castellum Jericho, the walls crumbled to dust as they shook themselves apart. The infamous Tower of Steel bent and crumpled like foil, filling the air with the tortured shriek of twisting metal. Thousands of Tech-Guard troops poured through the breach, and Solomon Abbadon was summarily executed for his treacherous crimes.
Post-Heresy Centurio OrdinatusEdit
Following the end of the Horus Heresy, many of these leviathan war engines were lost or simply forgotten. Some remained hidden, deep underground or in remote locations, while others remained hidden in secret armouries lost to the ages. Often the rediscovery of such potent engines of destruction results in conflict as opposing factions vie for control of these immensely powerful living icons of the Machine God which are revered as sacred by the Mechanicus. Those few examples of Ordinatus weapons that still exist are deployed only sparingly, and many of them date back to the Great Crusade and have been meticulously maintained for millennia.
Centurio Ordinatus TodayEdit
These huge engines of destruction are not attached to any specific Titan Legion or Skitarii army. Instead, they fall under the direct control of a division of the Adeptus Mechanicus known as the Centurio Ordinatus. It is the Centurio Ordinatus that decides if these highly specialised machines are to be made available to Imperial military forces, since many of them are ancient indeed and require a large amount of preparation and maintenance to ready them for war. The Ordinatus are amongst the strangest machines to be constructed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Almost all of them were originally designed and built for a particular battle or campaign, and some of them have never been powered up for conflict since their first and only use.
Other Ordinatus have weapons and capabilities which see more general use, and demand for them is high. Only in the most important Imperial battles or campaigns are the Ordinatus sent to war, and even then only for pre-specified operations. Amongst the enemies of the Imperium, the names of the Ordinatus are spoken with reverent fear, their devastating capabilities displayed on thousands of battlefields since the Emperor's Ascension to the Golden Throne. The Cult Mechanicus reveres the Ordinatus as avatars of the Machine God, creations of such cunning and power they could never be improved upon or made outdated. Thus they have been carefully maintained, and when sent to war they are inscribed with sacred runes, anointed with the most precious oils and unguents, and blessed by the Lord of the Centurio Ordinatus. Their crews are the most highly trained of the Skitarii, warriors who fight with the zealous fanaticism of those who serve a living God.
Technology of the OrdinatiiEdit
The Ordinatii are renowned for their relentless advance towards the enemy, trailing havoc and destruction in their wake. Ordinatii are powered by immense plasma generators, which drive the tracks and energise their weapon systems. These are very volatile, and if the Ordinatus is destroyed they will explode spectacularly in a massive ball of roiling plasma. Ordinatii are protected by a massive energy shield known as a Dispersion Field. Projectiles and energy bolts deflect harmlessly away from this crackling dome of power, leaving the Ordinatus unscathed. Unfortunately, the Dispersion Field requires tremendous amounts of power, and will eventually overload its generators. This means that what starts out as a near impenetrable force field gradually weakens as the battle progresses, letting more and more enemy fire through. The shield also affords the Ordinatus some psychic protection, in much the same way as Void Shields do for Imperial starships. The following weapons are commonly employed by different Ordinatii:
- Hellfire Missile - Hellfire is a common term for a potent acidic/viral compound developed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. It burns through armour and sears flesh, usually leaving the few who survive hideously scarred and crippled. It is a matter of opinion whether or not it is better to die from a Hellfire attack or to survive. Ordinatus Golgotha carries 6 Hellfire Missiles and can only fire 1 or 2 per hour. A Hellfire Missile has multiple warheads, allowing it to completely devastate a wide area. In addition, the extensive scanning equipment aboard Ordinatus Golgotha allows it to fire with unerring accuracy. The Hellfire Missiles can be fired at any point on the battlefield, even at targets that are out of line of sight, with no chance of scattering. Unlike normal indirect barrages, there is no need for friendly troops to spot for the accurate launch of a Hellfire Missile. Enemy units attacked by this horrendous weapon may be panicked by the agonised screams of their comrades, as their flesh burns away and their bones melt.
- Nova Cannons - The Nova Cannon is similar to the Plasma Annihilator of an Imperator-class Titan. However, rather than releasing a burst of raw plasma, the Nova Cannon can focus and control the potent energies with greater precision. This allows the crew to siphon small amounts of plasma into the discharge chamber, producing a rapid burst of fire. Alternatively, the crew can flood the chamber with all the remaining plasma and send out an earth-shattering blast of energy. In addition, the immense energy released by a massive burst produces a beam of plasma which covers a wide area.
- Belicosa Pattern Volcano Cannon - An ancient pattern of weapon whose destructive power is comparable to many shipboard Lance cannons and planetary Defence Lasers, few mobile weapons platforms are capable of mounting the Belicosa simply due to its savage power requirements, as well as the danger of the thermal and radiation overspill of its firing. Only the Ordinatus Minoris and the most powerful Battle Titans, such as the Warlord-class, are ordained to bear such a weapon by the Mechanicum, and before their power, the strongest fortress walls may be reduced to glowing embers and the most resilient armour to molten slag and vapour.
- Sonic Disruptor - A Sonic Disruptor utilises unique technology that produces sound waves which resonate across the battlefield, crumbling buildings, shattering bones, bursting organs and causing electronic equipment to explode as the wall of sonic energy passes over enemy forces. The frequency of sound used by the Sonic Disrupter ravages those who fall victim to it, from a subsonic rumbling that tears buildings apart to a supersonic squall that pierces eardrums and flays skin from flesh. The Sonic Disrupter scales repeatedly up and down these frequencies, causing a blast of sonic energy that rolls forward like a force wave from a massive conventional explosion. Hiding in cover is of little use, since woods and rubble are just blown apart and walls simply amplify the sonic wave if they are not shattered. Even the weighty armour of a Titan or the reinforced buttresses of a stronghold provide little protection against the wrath of Sonic Disruptors, most of which were first deployed by the Ordinatus Mars. Targets protected by energy fields such as Void Shields will lose one shield to the sonic wave before it passes.
- Ulator Class Sonic Disruptor - A terrifying weapon whose origins lie in the shadows of the Age of Strife, these devices, though inferior copies of the unique armament of the great Primus Ordinatus Mars, still operate on an order of magnitude far beyond anything mounted even on the largest super-heavy tank found in the Imperium's common arsenal. Using a plasma reactor akin to those found on Battle Titans to power a directional sonic transduction generator of staggering force, it emits a varying waveform of destructive sound energy able to shatter the most resilient materials. The annihilating wave-pulse traverses the battlefield wreaking havoc in its path, the particular effect of its design meaning that the larger the target struck, the more damaging the wave's impact.
Known OrdinatiiEdit
- Ordinatus Armageddon - Ordinatus Armageddon first shed blood during the massive Chaos invasion of the planet of the same name during the First War for Armageddon. The Krone Banelords, a group of Daemon Engines deployed for the Chaos assault upon Armageddon, were instrumental in the destruction of many cities, but a genius of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Geronimus Undersen, devised an Ordinatus as a defence against the marauding war machines. Undersen mounted a massive starship weapon onto a land bound chassis, giving the Imperial forces an immense war machine powerful enough to destroy even the largest and most heavily armoured foes. This idea was by no means original, and followed the concept behind the famous Squat Titan-killer known as the Cyclops. In the ensuing battle for Tartarus Hive, Ordinatus Armageddon destroyed no less than four Chaos Titans, and two detachments of Daemon Engines. With the heavy firepower of this machine, the Chaos assault waves broke upon the mile-high walls like a tide upon the rocks. Ordinatus Armageddon is feared by all enemies of the Imperium as a war machine capable of destroying all opposition.
- Ordinatus Belecane - The Ordinatus Belacane is an ancient and forbidding device mounted upon a colossal tracked crawler which can project a vast temporal Stasis Field up to a kilometre away. This field can either freeze anything in the path of its beam immobile, making it vulnerable to missile attacks, or age the target by centuries in a second if it is organic. It has not been used in anger for over 500 standard years, and is now regarded as too precious to leave its home planet, the Forge World of Belacane.
- Ordinatus Hervara - The Ordinatus hidden in the caverns of the planet Hervara, located on the Calixis Sector's Spinward Front, is a Sonic Disruptor. Physically, because of its armament, this Ordinatus most closely resembles the architectural style of the renowned Ordinatus Mars. While the whereabouts of that ancient vehicle are uncertain, there are no records of it ever having been in the Calixis Sector. Historical imagery also indicates several critical design variations from the Ordinatus present on Hervara. The origins of the one found buried upon Hervara are unclear. Consequently, its historical record remains unknown. In the event that the Imperial Guard were to recover the vehicle, it is certain that members of the Adeptus Mechanicus would make uncovering its history a priority. Most likely, the Ordinatus was sent to Hervara to be refit after seeing action during long-passed days of the Great Crusade. As there are no known records of activity upon the world from that ancient era, the massive vehicle might even have seen service there. Alternatively, it might be that it was used elsewhere within the Periphery Sub-sector, and transferred to Hervara because of the availability of certain raw materials or technical expertise at the time. Unless some documentation survives within the vehicle's Machine Spirit (Artificial Intelligence), the weapon's true history is almost certainly lost to time.
- Ordinatus Gehenna - The Gehenna is equipped with a massive weapon known as the Apocalypse Cannon. This weapon is capable of destroying mountains and punching a hole through a planet's crust to release a cataclysmic upwelling of magma. The Gehenna was fought over during the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41 by the Forces of Chaos and the Imperium.
- Ordinatus Golgotha - After the infamous Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka was defeated on the Hive World of Armageddon during the Second War for Armageddon, he fled to the stars. His nemesis, Commissar Yarrick, tracked him down to the Squat world of Golgotha. Despite the assistance of Yarrick, the Squats were defeated by Ghazghkull's horde and Yarrick was captured. In an attempt to humiliate his arch-foe, Ghazghkull did not kill Yarrick, but imprisoned him instead. However, the resourceful Yarrick managed to escape and return to Golgotha with a punitive force of Titans and Skitarri. The early battles went badly for the Imperium, as the sheer size of the Ork WAAAAGH! overwhelmed them time and time again. In an attempt to smash the massive Ork mobs, Ordinatus Golgotha was constructed in the recaptured strongholds of the Squats. Golgotha's terrifying Hellfire Missiles devastated the Orks, slaying thousands over the course of a week. The Orks were routed from the Squat homeworld and since then, Ordinatus Golgotha has always been in the forefront of any battle against enemies who have a strong numerical advantage.
- Ordinatus Mars - This Ordinatus was created at the outset of the Horus Heresy during the Mechanicum civil war known as the Schism of Mars by Loyalist Mechanicus forces to overcome the problem of assaulting the Dark Mechanicus forge-city known as the Castellum Jericho. This formidable citadel boasted walls half a mile thick and was protected by a mysterious archeotech device known as a Vortex Field Generator. The central bastion was constructed from the hardest metal alloys known to humanity and could withstand any amount of pounding by the Imperium's formost siegemasters. The Ordinatus Mars utilised the unique technology known as a Sonic Disruptor to produce sound waves which resonated across the battlefield, crumbling the walls of the formidable citadel to dust as they were shook apart.
- Ordinatus Endymion
- Ordinatus Magentus - The Magentus is equipped with a Sonic Destructor Cannon, similar to the Ordinatus Mars, and is capable of annihilating entire city blocks and even mountain slopes. It was part of the Adeptus Mechanicus contingent during the Imperium's battle against Chaos Space Marines of the Word Bearers Legion on the planet of Tanakreg.
- Ordinatii Minoris - Ordinatii Minoris are massive crawler units, each the length of three Leman Russ Tanks. They possess two wide track units, one at the front and one at the rear, and between these is supported the mass of the war machine. Upon their backs are mounted massive artillery pieces originally developed to be borne by the colossal war machines of the Titan Legions.
- Ordinatus Priam - This huge tunneling Ordinatus was assembled during the Siege of Priam, a city overrun by the Traitor Legions during the Horus Heresy. This immense creation was designed to tunnel through the planet's crust and then navigate through the white-hot molten rock of the mantle underneath. This rendered it undetectable to Priam's defences and allowed four companies of elite Imperial Army troops to storm the city's Generatum Vulcanis, breaking the siege. However, Ordinatus Priam was irrevocably damaged during the attack, as parts of its heat shielding gave way.
- Ordinatus Sagittar - The Mechanicum Ordinatus Sagittar is a massively destructive war engine, as rare as it is potent. Similar in design to the Ordinatus Ulator, the Sagittar differs in its primary weapon being a Volcano Cannon of prodigious power. In the time of the Great Crusade the Ordinatus macro engines were rarer than even the Battle Titans of the Legio Titanica, and only a handful of Forge Worlds had the resources or indeed the doctrinal blessing and religious authority to produce or maintain such embodiments of the Omnissiah's divine wrath. Such was the sacredness of these machines above all others, that an entire sub-cult of the Mechanicum was devoted to their worship and propitiation.
- Ordinatus Ulator - A rare and truly arcane weapon system of staggering power, the Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator is of the smaller classes of Ordinatus, but nevertheless is one of the most potent war machines at the Imperium's disposal. In the time of the Great Crusade, Ordinatus macro engines were rarer than even the Battle Titans of the Legio Titanica, and only a handful of Forge Worlds had the resources, or indeed the doctrinal blessing and religious authority, to produce or maintain such embodiments of the Omnissiah's divine wrath. Such was the sacredness of these machines above all others that an entire sub-cult of the Mechanicum was devoted to their worship and propitiation. An Ordinatus Ulator carries a trio of Volkite Culverins as its secondary armaments, but its primary weapon is the Ulator-class Sonic Destructor. A terrifying weapon whose origins lie in the shadows of the Age of Strife, the Sonic Destructor can generate a wave of annihilation that wreaks havoc across a battlefield. Three of these deadly Ordinatus platforms were to be given over to the Warmaster Horus at the behest of the Renegade Forge World of Xana II. These Ordinatus, named Mithrax, Nepothax and Ashurax after Ancient Terran deities, were first to be demonstrated before the Warmaster's chosen emissary at the Forge World's own proving grounds on the moon of Xana-Tisiphone, then afterwards, their ceremonial handover would act as a symbolic sealing of Xana's loyalty to Horus. In the end, however, two of the three were captured by Loyalist forces led by the Blackshield commander Endryd Haar during the Xana Incursion in 009.M31, and one was destroyed during that battle.
- Ordinatus Ullanor - A desperate attempt of the Adeptus Mechanicus to turn the tides of battle to their favor after the desastrous initial landing of Imperial forces on Ullanor to destroy the Beast, the greatest threat to Mankind since the Great Heresy. After the flagship of the Mechanicus had been dragged to the surface of Ullanor by orkish grav-weapons and the Astra Militarum contingents had been severely mauled by surprise attacks, loosing much of their equipment and armour, the martian priest became desperate. Salvaging the remains of the Capitol Imperialis Praetor Fidelis, they mounted a plasma accelerator from their crashed ship onto the remaining treads of the super-heavy and used the generators to power the contraption. Clad in scaffolding the ponderous vehicle would rumble across the surface of Ullanor and engage Gargants in battle until it was ultimately destroyed in the assault on Gorkogrod.
- Ordinatus Urkallac
- Ordinatus Volcanis Ultor - A massive artillery piece manned by Volcanis Ultor's class of Tech-priests, this Ordinatus was used with the intent to destroy the attacking forces of Grey Knights Space Marines before they could manage to breach the Heretics' defence lines. The battle would have been over in moments if the Ordinatus, stationed in the wasteland surrounding the primary Hive City, could home in on the landing enemy forces and send pinpoint salvoes of multiple warheads on top of them. Fortunately, this Ordinatus was destroyed by the wreckage of the Grey Knights Strike Cruiser Rubicon after it was destroyed by the Chaos warships defending the planet from space. The Rubicon crashed into the Heretics' defense lines, and the massive wreckage ripped apart the Ordinatus' immense cannon barrel and its titanic ammunition loader systems.
- Ordinatii Diamat - The Eradicant and Obliteratus were potent siege-guns stolen from the Mechanicum on Diamat by the Ist Legion during the opening days of the Horus Heresy in order to deny them to the Traitor Legions of Warmaster Horus. The gargantuan mobile artillery pieces were subsequently entrusted to Perturabo before the Drop Site Massacre -- given as a gift from one Primarch to another -- the pride-foolish Lion El'Jonson thinking to buy the loyalties of his brother to be chosen as the next Warmaster after Horus was defeated. The Lion had unknowingly handed over the mighty siege-guns to the traitor Iron Warriors Legion, who later go on to make good use of them against the Imperial Palace during the Siege of Terra. The mighty Ordinatii were as long as a Titan was tall, their enormous barrels comprised of a single Macrocannon gaping darkness and death from where its great pulleys and derricks allowed them to rest. The massive machines bristled with automated emplacements -- quad-lasers, flak batteries and mega-bolters silent and ready to roar to the siege gun's defence. Fat, tracked ordnance compartments two stories high stretched for hundreds of meters, trailing the main gun carriages like the segmentations of a death world decamillipede. Fully armoured and protected by void shield generators, their weaponry could level a small fortress with ease from miles away. Each mobile-artillery piece also boasted an MIU interface chamber -- a neural link between weapon and gunner which resulted in unparalleled accuracy, data-streaming, response-calibration and rate of ire -- not unlike that expected of a Titan's gunnery moderati -- to be one with the weapon. Utilising a unique, if somewhat suicidal, strategy devised by the disgraced Warsmith Idriss Krendl, known as Ironfire, the Iron Warriors were able to attack a fortification during a full-scale bombardment rather than following it. With such a redoubtable force, they were able to utilise the eye of the storm as their protection, striking at the strategic heart of an enemy exposed, an enemy in confusion, while all else about them was turned to ash and screams. With their powerful siege-guns, the Iron Warriors possessed the advantages mind-linked artillery could bring. The Techmarine gunners of each Ordinatus was able to monitor the attacking force's position from the signature of their battle plate, and time the impact of their artillery to clear a path before them of walls, structures, emplacements and enemy forces. It was a feat of transhuman timing and calculation -- a daring technique that was utilised with brutal effect against the defending forces of the Imperial Palace during the epic final battle of the Heresy. Following the conclusion of this epic conflict, and the routing of the Traitor Legions, history does not record what became of this pair of Ordinatii.
- Unknown Ordinatus - This Ordinatus was either built or transported to the planet Volcanis Ultor by the Dark Mechanicus. It was intended to destroy the Grey Knights before they could manage to breach the Forces of Chaos' defence lines. However, this Ordinatus was destroyed by the wreckage of the Grey Knights Strike Cruiser known as the Rubicon. After the Rubicon was destroyed by the Chaos starships defending the planet from orbit it was intentionally crashed by its Grey Knights crew into the Ordinatus.
- Black Industries - Guide to the Calixis Sector (PDF), pg. 24
- Dark Heresy: The Lathe Worlds (RPG), pg. 12
- Epic Warhammer 40,000 Armies Book (3rd Edition), pg. 24
- Only War: Final Testamanet (RPG), pp. 13, 16, 20, 31-37, 39, 47, 49, 57, 69-70, 83 , 88, 94, 96-119, 134, 136, 141-143
- The Horus Heresy - Book Six: Retribution by Alan Bligh, pp. 30, 62, 65-69, 71, 74, 80-81, 276-277
- White Dwarf 191 (UK), "Ordinatus: Imperium" by Gav Thorpe, pp. 49-53
- Ironfire (Short Story) by Rob Sanders
- Dark Apostle (Novel) by Anthony Reynolds, pp. 129, 185
- Grey Knights (Novel) by Ben Counter, pp. 67, 76, 87-88
- Helsreach (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
- Iron Hands (Novel) by Jonathan Green
- The Beast must die (Novel) by Gav Thorpe
- Forge World - Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator
- Forge World - Mechanicum Ordinatus Sagittar


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Historic Jamestowne Tour Loop Drive and Yorktown Battlefield Tour Roads
Tour Roads are open to pedestrians, bicycles and motor vehicles. Safety issues prohibit buses, motor homes or vehicles over 5-tons from using them. All state and local traffic regulations apply.


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Philips Avent Isis Iq Uno Breast PumpReviewing: Philips Avent Isis Io Uno Breastpump | Rating:
This is a good pump for someone who is just trying to maintain supply, pump occasionally, or for a working mom who needs to pump. It is a nice product, easy to use, easy to clean, and very efficient. With only about four parts to clean, this is a nursing mom's dream come true. It also has a feature than no other pump does. It electronically memorizes your particluar pumping rhythm in order to extract the maximum amount. It can also be used as a manual pump with the conversion kit that it comes with. Can be used with an electrical outlet or with the enclosed battery pack for on-the-go pumping.
What I didn't like about this product was the massaging cushion inside the shield. Although this particular part is supposed to be one of the better aspects of the product, I didn't see a difference in milk output when I removed it. I noticed that the milk actually can back up underneath the massaging cushion and gets stuck between the cushion and the shield. This can lead to backup and leakage, so I just removed it altogether. I also wish that it would have come with shields of differing sizes, instead of just one.
On the whole, this is a good product, though I wouldn't venture to say it was worth $149.99.


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Friday, 21 March 2014
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Today, we started a fair test to find out if the blue Bunsen burner flame really is hotter than the yellow flame.
Over the weekend, we have to write up our method. Next week, we will finish the fair test, then write up our lab report.
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Office of the Chief Executive Officer, Zila Parishad, Dibrugarh has announced the recruitment of District Project Manager and has invited applications from candidates who are not more than 40 years of age. There is only one vacancy for this recruitment and the candidate on appointment will be posted at the District Headquarter. As stated in the notification published in this regard, the job position will be offered on contractual basis.
The selected candidates will be engaged for a period of 1(one) year only. The contractual agreement will neither be regularized under the Department nor will be attached under any programme of Govt. of Assam.
The selected candidate will be responsible for setting up of the District Project Management Unit (DPMU) under e-Panchayat Mission Mode project of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India implemented by the Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Govt. of Assam.
District Project Manager Recruitment in Dibrugarh
The Chief Executive Officer of Zila Parishad, Dibrugarh has advertised for a single post of District Project Manager and has offered Rs.18,000/- only as the monthly remuneration for the said post. The minimum educational qualification prescribed for the above vacancy is Graduate in IT i.e. BCA/B.Sc. in Computer Science or IT with 60% marks. Candidates must also possess atleast 3 years experience in IT Projects in Govt. Deptt./Agencies, PSU or renowned company.
All the intending eligible candidates must apply in plain paper stating clearly the following details along with 2(two) self attested copies of recent passport size photograph and attested copies of certificates/testimonials relating to educational qualification, experience etc.
- Name of the Applicant (in CAPITAL letters)
- Name of the Post (on top of the envelope)
- Permanent address for communication
- Contact Number: Telephone/Mobile
- Age as on 1st January 2012
- Educational Qualification
- Working Experience
Last Date of Submitting Application
All the candidates must submit their application for recruitment of District Project Manager to the Chief Executive Officer, Zila Parishad, Dibrugarh on or before the last date i.e. 28-06-2013. A written test/interview will be conducted for selection purpose, the exact date of which will be communicated in due course of time.


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Start your adventure in the
Capital of Cool
Start your adventure in the
Capital of Cool
Your German high school adventure will start in Berlin - with a starter weekend on the GLS campus (campus map). You´ll meet other exchange students from all over the world, together you´ll explore BERLIN and learn more about Germany and German schools!
If you don´t go to a high school in Berlin, but e.g. in Bremen oder Bayreuth, we´ll take care of your subsequent transfer to your host family or boarding school.
Questions? Just contact us, we´ll be happy to answer and consult: your contact persons
To get an idea how the weekend in Berlin looks like have a look at this report
The starter weekend is included in the price:
Prices day schools prices boarding schools
|Accommodation on the GLS Campus Berlin or a hostel within walking distance, all meals, sightseeing, workshops, transfer to your final destination in Germany
|Afternoon: arrival at the GLS Campus Berlin, welcome dinner
|Workshop I: High Schools in Germany - how they differ from your school at home
Workshop II: Dos and don´ts in Germany - what you need to know in order to get along well
Afternoon sightseeing in Berlin
Night out in Berlin
|Workshop III: Host families and what to do if you have a culture shock
BBQ on the GLS campus
Transfer to host family or boarding school
Most schools demand German on level A2 as a minimum, some expect B1 or even C1. No problem if you don´t have the required level yet. Just do a preparatory course at the GLS German Language School in Berlin.
Prep courses are taught in 4-week-units, with 20 weekly lessons in mini groups (max. 6 future high school students):
|first Monday of the month
|1 - 5 months*
|20 per week
|1.740 € per month**
* duration depending on your level of German. You can assess you current level of German with this online test.
** incl. accommodation in a host family, single room, full board. Not included: public transport, insurance.


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So much has been written about the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the incredible story behind it. Last year, I read "The Devil's Casino" by Vicky Ward. It portrays how ridiculous an organisational culture can get and can survive this way for so long when misuses of power and money dictate. Other books have been written, including "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers" by Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson. (I have not read this book, but in a beautifully written guest blog by McDonald, who is one of the authors, he tells of how the collapse was preventable, of the incredible talent at Lehman Brothers, of the rotting at the head and more).
I recently read a paper entitled "Lehman Brothers: Accounting Magic – Deleveraging, Manipulation & Moral Hazard" by Professor A.J Kreimer of Temple University. Yet more shocking details were unravelled here. Very creative accounting was used in which assets were sold just before year-end and repurchased just after year-end to give an appearance of a less leveraged balance sheet.
To most of us, all this is incredibly difficult to fathom. It would seem that regulations, boards, audits, all diminish in effectiveness when power and money come into play. I wonder how much more readily avoidable such a saga would be today?


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With my father
I would watch dawn
over green fields.
by Kobayashi Issa
Lately I've been noticing more and more a growing number of dads picking up their kids from daycare and school. They're on the subway, on the bus, in the street giving them an afternoon nap in their strollers, playing with them in the local park. It fills my heart with joy to see all the fathers so involved in their children's lives. It used to be – at least it was when I was growing up – that Mom did that while Dad went to work. But I think this way is better – in fact, it's been proven.
According to a Father Involvement for Healthy Child Outcomes: Partners Supporting Knowledge Development and Transfer (April 10, 2007) by Jessica Ball, M.P.H., Ph.D. and Ken Moselle, Ph.D., there is a lot of research proving the impacts of a father's involvement on children.
Father's involvement results in:
- Enhanced Cognitive functioning and higher IQ
- Better academic achievement
- School connectedness
- Higher educational attainment
- Resiliency
- Lower levels of depression
- Life satisfaction
- Self-acceptance/higher self-esteem
- Less stress
- Attachment
- Supportive social networks
- Positive peer relations
- Empathy
- Conformity to rules, conventions, values ethical standards
- Less delinquent behaviour
The above is a summary of research conducted by Allen and Daly (2002) and Ball and Pedersen (2004). Source: www.fira.ca/cms/documents/123/PH_FI_Report_brief.pdf
So here's to the Dads who're making better people out of our children.
And no one is more deserving of thanks and respect than my husband, father to our beautiful 2.5 year old girl. Thank you, honey, for all you do for me and for our daughter. We need more Dads and husbands like you in this world!


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Blake Weston is a strong, savvy, no BS New Yorker.Her husband, Ralph Marino, is a très James Bond ex-cop and head of security for a large international corporation. When Blake and Ralph, facing sixty, are forced by Ralph's über-neurotic billionaire boss to work together to solve a murder—and save Ralph's job—their partnership doesn't always go so well. When one minor skirmish turns into a battle…well, let Blake tell you what happens next:
I left the apartment—with a slammed door for emphasis—and made my way to Julia's. She'd been spending most of her time in her new fling's downtown loft so I knew her apartment was empty. I let myself in with the key she had given me years before.
I flipped on the TV. Flipped it off. Wandered into the kitchen, opened the fridge, inventoried the lo-cal, no cholesterol, zero trans-fat, gluten-free offerings and realized I wasn't hungry. Considered breaking into Julia's Ketel One but concluded that in my agitated state booze was the last thing I needed.
I went to the bedroom, thought about getting into bed but I was too angry with Ralph to sleep. If I were feeling generous (which I wasn't) I suppose I could blame his NYPD training but being kept out of the loop and being treated on a "need to know" basis was getting old—and getting old was something I already knew too much about.
I was old enough for night sweats and morning stiffness. For Metamucil and Centrum Silver. For colonoscopies and cholesterol counts. For junk mail offering estate planning advice and good deals on burial plots.
I was old enough to remember the Pan Am Building, Bendel's when it was at 10 West 57th Street, cash registers, getting up and crossing the room to change the channel, Princess phones, floppy disks, carbon paper and typewriters.
I could even remember when "latte" was Italian for milk—not American for coffee.
I had survived blizzards and blackouts, subway series and subway strikes, Ronald Perelman and Ronald Reagan. I had reached the stage when I forgot names and phone numbers, book and movie titles, where I'd left my glasses, why I'd entered a room and what I was going to say next.
But I wasn't that old.
I had kept up enough to know I was living in an age of e*trade and eharmony, podcasts and tweets, fuel cells, stem cells, sleeper cells and fat cells. I still had my marbles, my eyesight and my determination. I could conduct a conversation without drooling and get into the bathtub without a LifeAlert.
I also knew enough to ask for input when I needed it so I called Julia.
"Working with Ralph is not going well," I told her.
So, my Boomer buddies, do you remember what Blake remembers? What do you remember that she's left out? And what do you forget? Do tell! :-)
If you relate to this, you'll relate to The Chanel Caper.
New dimensions in the cozy mystery!
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Little did she know that James has a sexual problem and she would be a frustrated married woman because, after six months, her husband has refused to make love to her.
Read her story here:
"My name is Cynthia, a 29-year-old married woman. I got married to James in June of this year after dating for four months.
I met James in my new church after I was transferred to Abuja from my base in Lagos. Before I met James, I was going through a crisis after my fiance of six years dumped me and got married to another woman chosen for him by his family.
In fact, the reason I asked my company to transfer me to our Abuja branch was to get away from the hurt and disgrace that my fiance had put me through. I was terribly distraught and I even contemplated suicide but for my friends and family who stood by me.
I was in Abuja for six months before I met James. Before then, I threw myself into church activities as a way of battling the demons of rejection I had been battling.
I joined the choir and witness group in the church and my zeal was not hidden as the pastor always singled me out for praises and commendation.
James on his part is also a church worker and one of the most sought after bachelors with many ladies always dreaming of having him as a husband, so it was a surprise when he approached me and said he would like to marry me.
At first, I did not take him very serious because then, I saw every man as the same, not after what my fiance had done to me with the love I gave him.
But he persisted and even told the pastor about his intentions. The pastor called us and told us to pray over the relationship.
After four months of the courtship which was without sex or any intimate relations, we got married.
But it has been six months now and my husband has refused to make love to me. Anytime I talk to him about it, he will say sex is not food and as such, not the most important thing to him.
I suspect he has sexual problems because no matter what I do, his manhood refuses to get erect. I have tried to talk him into seeing a doctor but he would have none of that.
I am at a loss on what to do to save my marriage because apart from being starved sexually, I want to have my babies.
The teaser for the day was:
What would you do if your new spouse refuses to have sex with you?
How Nigeria voted:
I will leave him/her immediately - 25%
I will endure with the situation instead of complaining - 15%
I will encourage him to see a doctor - 44%
What would be your vote here?


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From Florida, USA:
I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes two months ago. I am going to be 76 years old next month. My doctor currently has me on 4 mg of Amaryl (a pill for Type 2 diabetes). I got a glucose monitor about a week or two ago. Is 80 too low for me? The doctor wants me at 150 and I am now on a 1200 calorie a day diet. And I exercise and swim everyday.
Congratulations on taking charge of your diabetes care! Your exercise program and meal planning should help a lot with maintaining control of the diabetes. It's hard for me to say what level of blood sugar control to aim for without seeing you and evaluating your lifestyle in detail, partially because the lower the better (in terms of preventing diabetes complications later) yet the lower, the higher the risk of severe hypoglycemia. You and your doctor should set up your personal targets for your diabetes control.
You'll need to talk to a diabetes nurse educator or an endocrinologist, if your doctor doesn't have the time to deal with questions like these for you. Ask your doctor to help, or for a referral to someone who can assist you with fine-tuning your diabetes program.
Original posting 7 Aug 1998
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Instructor Bio's
• Certified Personal Trainer through the American Council on Exercise (ACE)
• Nick also teaches Boot Camp, Strength Camp, HIIT and Circuit Training
• Played football and competed in power lifting, while earning his degree at the University of Massachusetts
• Has been involved in the fitness industry for 10+ years and is always learning the newest and most efficient ways to improve his client's health and fitness
• Specializes in functional programming, body and strength building, weight loss, metabolic conditioning and movement screening assessments
• Has a passion for working with and motivating individuals that are new to the gym and want a fresh start in fitness!
• Eddie lives in Charlestown with his wife and three children
• Has over 35 years of experience coaching several youth sports, including basketball, football, baseball and hockey
• Has additional 15 years of experience working with children with various disabilities
Quote: "My motto and philosophy is always to maintain an open line of communication with a child, and letting them know if they've done something wrong, to talk to them about it. Yelling isn't always the best solution to handling a situation with a child."
• Sam is a lifelong resident of Everett and is committed to helping his community stay healthy
• Sam is no stranger to battling obesity and having been well over 400 lbs. when he was younger, Sam now has worked extremely hard to stay healthy and inspire others to do the same
• He places strong emphasis on building a strong and balance training foundation, all while giving his clients the tools needed to live a "Weight Better Lifestyle"
• He has also been Winner for ABC's Weight Loss Reality TV Show "Fat March" in 2007
• Certifications include: Personal Trainer (since 2008), Certified Wellness Coach (since 2010), Certified Massage Therapist (since 2007) and CPR/AED/First Aid Instructor (since 2012)
• Certifications include: US Soccer Federation "E" License, ICA (International Coaches Assocation) Fitness and Conditioning for Soccer License, NFHS Coaching Unified Sports (Special Olympics) Certification, NSCAA Goalkeeper II Diploma, NSCAA Futsal Level 1 Diploma, Concussion in Sports, Sports Nutrition, Sportsmanship, Heat and Heat Illness Prevention/Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment, NFHS Physical Education and Coaching Certificate, STI (Substitute Teaching Institute) Assessment Training and Bare Bones Children's Yoga Certified
• John has a Bachelor's Degree in Criminology and Philosophy from Suffolk University in 1998, as well as a Master's Degree in Business Managements from Lesley University in 2003
• His experience includes:
- Director of Sidekick Soccer Academy 'Kick with Care' (Special Needs Program) and Footy Fun Fitness (Youth and Toddler Soccer) Programs, Speed and Conditioning Coach
- Soccer Instructor for the City of Everett, Somerville Recreation and YMCA Malden
- Head Coach of the MA Special Olympics Belmont S.P.O.R.T.S Team
- Head Coach Girls' Varsity Team at Prospect Hill Academy
- Religious Education Teacher (7th - 9th grade) at St. Ann's Parish in Somerville, MA
- Child Life Care Volunteer for the Shriner's Children's Hospital in Boston
- Behavioral Health Disaster Responder/Psychological First Aid with the State Department of Health in MA
• AFAA Group Certified
• USA Gymnastics Certifications include: USAG Regional Congress Member, Recreational Gymnastics, Competitive Gymnastics, Safety and Risk Management and Gymnastics Fitness and Athlete Development
• Reebok BOKS Kids Certified
• CPR Certified
• 1st Degree Black Belt, Tae Kwon Do and Brown Belt, Kenpo Karate
• A lifelong resident of Everett, MA
• Has been working with children, teens and adults for over 15 years
• Has coached competitive, recreational and gymnastics fundamentals, as well as introducing children's physical fitness programs, classes and camps for cities, towns and gyms in the area
• Strong background in Gymnastics, Dance, Martial Arts, Athletic Coaching and Development
• Strong passion for sports and fitness
• Keri has been working out for over 20 years, and says it is a huge part of her life
• Has been teaching for over 2 years at the Health and Wellness Center
• Certified in Turbo Kickboxing and Muscle Conditioning
Quote: "I love teaching and helping others! Both Turbo Kickboxing and Muscle Conditioning are a passion of mine. Everett Health and Wellness Center is a fantastic gym - with a variety of different classes, and it is by far the perfect match for me! Hope to see you at my class!"
• Kahlea comes from a strong background in group fitness teaching adult and youth classes
• Her dance background allows her to design classes that are fun and engaging, and truly enjoys helping members stay motivated with balance and flexibility
• She has many new ideas and a variety in all her classes, and plans to expand them for those who take her classes very soon
• Her experience includes: NASM PT Certified Group Instructor, AFAA Zumba and Spin
• Kahlea has been teaching at the Wellness Center for over 1 year and at Crunch in Medford for 1.5 years
Quote: "My love and passion for health awareness is strong in various areas of fitness. Whether it is in a class setting or one-on-one, I am excited to continue to work with the residents of Everett to stay health and enjoy fitness."
• Rosanna has a passion for dance ever since she was a little girl when she was part of Phunk Phenomenon/Lil' Phunk
• Has taught Zumba Club at her high school - Pioneer Charter School of Science
• Licensed since June 2016 in Zumba, and has been teaching since October 2016
• Obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Communications at Suffolk University in May 2017
• Truly loves getting other people motivated and ready to work out in her class
Jacqui Bullens
For more than 15 years, Jacqueline has been working with children, youth and families in a wide array of settings. Jacqueline earned her degree in Early Childhood Education and is certified through the state of Massachusetts as an early childhood Director levels 1 & 2 as well as being lead teacher certified for infants, toddlers and preschool. She also earned her Army Child Development Certificate while working for the Department of Defense in Fort Irwin, CA.
Jacqueline is CPR, First Aid and AED certified and is a former American Health Association Instructor. She loves working with children, and it opened doors into the fitness industry in 2015 where she started as a "Toddler Guru" and taught classes such as parent & me, toddler yoga, gym games, arts & crafts, martial arts, dance and more for ages 3 months - 12 years. She later became the Kids Academy Manager.
Jacqueline has also managed other brand name fitness gyms/wellness centers in areas such as customer service, group fitness, children's programming and general management. Her love of people and yoga called her to become yoga teacher certified, which she earned through Health Yoga Life in Beacon Hill in 2017. She currently teaches Adult Beginners/All Levels, Power Vinyasa, Kids' Yoga and Senior Fitness at several studios and locations in Boston and the North Shore area.
Tanya Mouzakes, STRONG coach and Zumba instructor
- Originally from Long Island, New York
- Currently enrolled at Western New England University earning a PhD. in Behavior Analysis
- After many years of classical dance training and collegiate-level ballroom dance competitions, Tanya found Zumba fitness as a great way to continue to dance and stay active
- Licensed to teach Zumba since 2015 and licensed in STRONG since 2017
- STRONG has become her latest fitness obsession because the program combines challenging, but attainable goals perfectly synced to customized music
- Tanya is passionate about fitness and hopes to share that passion and motivation with others in the community