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Before deciding to teach TEFL in China, I had already taken a few tourist trips to the country's main attractions. I'd wandered the scarlet passageways of Beijing's Forbidden City, puffed and panted my way up the Great Wall, and held my selfie stick aloft to capture Shanghai's numerous skyscrapers stacked together like pipes on a church organ.
I couldn't wait to go back. After completing my undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies I thought my learning was over. With a desire to return to China and the UK job market creaking under the strain of millions of shiny, new graduates, I decided to take a TEFL course and find a teaching job. The experience that followed would transform my life, providing me with opportunities, challenges and experiences that I could never have imagined.
After a weekend in Manchester learning the tips and tricks of TEFL amongst a great class of people, I finished my online tests and applied for a teaching job in China on the TEFL Org website. I was jittery with excitement, and probably a sprinkle of naivety – "I wonder where I'm going – Beijing or Shanghai?"
"Actually, we have some other cities you might want to consider," said the recruiter, who had responded to my application within a few days. I had been really pleased that the company had gotten in touch with me so soon, and although I knew the process might not go exactly as I had imagined, this was a slightly curvier curveball than I'd expected.
The teaching company interviewed me and evaluated one of my 'practise' lessons over Skype before sending me a selection of three cities to choose from – I'd never been to any of them. How could I possibly choose where to teach for next twelve months?
After some reflection, I snapped out of it – teaching abroad is about expanding your horizons. China is a big place, not just confined to huge cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. With my studies under my figurative belt, now wasn't the time to shy away from the unknown.
What ensued was some form of Goldilocks and the Three Cities – I ruled out one destination as "too hot," the other as "too cold." That left me with Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province in Eastern China. I did a little bit of internet Miss Marple-ing and looked up the history and sights of the city, but eventually, the sense of excitement to start teaching in a country I loved took precedence. In October 2015, I flew out to start a position at a training school, teaching extra-curricular lessons to students aged 3 to 18.
After what felt like a week of plane travel, I landed in Hefei at pitch black-o'clock. My new colleagues gave me a warm welcome, took me to eat dinner and settled me into my new apartment. As soon as the sun rose, my jetlagged self had been wide awake for seven hours already and I decided to head out.
In Beijing, I'd been used to wide open highways, tall office blocks and being sandwiched into the subway. In Hefei, my leafy neighbourhood was instead home to small cafes and diners, friendly local residents and floor-level fruit markets.
My working day often started after lunch. I planned lessons with the help of my colleagues and taught kindergarten classes in the evening. If there's anything that can cheer you up after a long, serious, frown-y adult day, it's making children giggle as you play musical chairs wearing cat paws and a multi-coloured hat. The school provided props, curriculum guidelines and flashcards to teach a variety of vocabulary, grammar and phonics. Each classroom was also equipped with interactive whiteboards to use music and video in class. Throughout the year, the school also held team-building activities as well as the opportunity to accompany the students on field trips.
As I was working in a training school, my classes' age ranges varied dramatically. However, this was what was truly motivating about the job. I could go from pretending to be a T-Rex to discussing the effects of global warming within the space of an hour. I loved listening to my students – hearing everything about their newest toy to their latest exam results really made me feel like I was somebody they could count on. When I was new to the city, we swapped a lot of cultural tips, including where the best place to eat was in Hefei and the all important question – is everyone in England like Benedict Cumberbatch?
It's a real misconception to think that teaching abroad will be "easy" or "effortless." Try improvising a lesson, teaching to a class of children with no experience of English, or finding the perfect way to teach a grammar rule without half the students planting their foreheads on the desk in boredom. Just a few months of teaching can build upon your TEFL training and provide you with vital workplace skills such as organisation, creativity and public speaking.
As for Hefei itself, living somewhere outside of the usual tourist routes really opened my eyes to what I had previously been missing out on in China's vast first-tier cities.
"Milk tea, extra tapioca?" a café employee asked one day.
"Yes! How did you remember?"
"How could I not remember?" she shrugged and smiled.
Within a few months I had made a group of friends that I still keep in touch with today. With Anhui province being relatively rural, Hefei is a unique in its rapid development while rolling hills and farms remain just a short drive away. Within my year's teaching, I played tennis (badly) in the street with my neighbours, visited friends in their mountainous home villages, and even filled the role of a bridesmaid at my friend's wedding. I wasn't the only one changing – in this short space of time, Hefei built a new subway, opened several new shopping malls and even established a new theme park.
Teaching in a place that is in a transformative phase from smaller market town to fully-fledged economic hotspot was an experience I would never have encountered without stepping out of my international comfort zone and embarking on an adventure. Teaching in Hefei has totally overhauled my vision of China, re-paved the path of my academic interest and most importantly, taught me that while not everything goes to plan, it sure goes somewhere, and it might be better than you think. So the next time you look for a teaching job, why not try somewhere a little different?
Cat completed our combined 120-hour TEFL course.
You can read more of Cat's blog posts over on Putong Press.


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With Canby Court, we have streamlined the design and build process. Four outstanding floor plans are being built in this community, but each plan has plenty of options for adding a lower level, a second floor, extending your great room, and more! Picking your interior design has been simplified too! We have three basic design packages that you'll love; The Farmhouse Collection, The Traditional Collection, and The Modern Collection!
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This beautiful neighborhood is located next to Eversole Run, the crown jewel of Jerome Village, where some homes exceed $2 million dollars! A YMCA and an elementary school are planned for around the corner, and a community center and restaurant in the heart of Jerome Village offer places to stay fit and relax with family and friends! And don't forget about the miles and miles of walking and cycling paths that connect all 14 neighborhoods in Jerome Village!


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Learn key concepts and strategies in grammar and style to help enhance your writing and confidently respond to the demand of high levels of literacy in the 21st century.
With the rise of social media and the Internet, many people are writing more today for different mediums than ever before. We'll present materials that cover grammatical principles, word usage, writing style, sentence and paragraph structure, and punctuation. We'll introduce you to some marvelous resources that we have annotated for your guidance. We'll show you video clips of interviews conducted with distinguished grammarians, challenge you with quizzes and writing activities that will give you strategies to help you to build skills that will enhance the quality of your writing, and invite you to participate in discussions and assess the work of your peers.
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Things to see and do
The Royal Oak
Following the execution of King Charles I in 1649, his eldest son made a brave though misguided attempt to regain the throne. In 1651 his hopes were crushed at Worcester in the final conflict of the Civil War. Young Charles was forced to flee for his life. Initially the future King Charles II set out to cross the River Severn into Wales, but found his way blocked by Cromwell's patrols. He sought refuge instead at Boscobel, hiding first in a tree, which is now known as The Royal Oak.
The oak you see today is a descendant of the tree where Charles hid, and beside it, is a replacement grown from an acorn of the oak, which was planted by the Prince of Wales in 2001, on the 350th anniversary of Charles's visit.
The Hunting Lodge
Built in about 1632, Boscobel House, originally a timber-framed farmhouse, was converted into a hunting lodge by John Giffard of Whiteladies. The Giffard family were Roman Catholics, at a time when the religion suffered persecution, and tradition holds that the true purpose of Boscobel was to serve as a secret place for the shelter of Catholics in times of need.
Find out more about the history of the lodge, and the conservation work which is currently being undertaken here, by joining our guided tours which run each day at 11am and 2pm. Tours are included within the admission price, but booking in advance is advisable as places are limited.
A King's Hiding Place
Moving from his hiding place in The Royal Oak, the future King Charles II spent the night hiding in a priest-hole in the lodge at Boscobel; the next day he travelled on in disguise via other safe houses before escaping to France.
You can see the priest-hole where Charles spent the night of 6 September 1651 in the attic of the lodge, there is also a second priest-hole built into a chimney stack off the Squire's Room, which was originally the escape route down to the garden.
Victorian Farmyard
Boscobel's farmyard is a well-preserved example of a 19th-century small 'planned farm'. Quiet and peaceful today, it would have once been a busy, working farm.
See the range of Victorian farm machinery, discover the smithy, stables, cowhouse and dairy – and say hello to the chickens which freely roam the yard.
White Ladies Priory
Enjoy spectacular views over the fields on the two-mile round walk to the ruins of White Ladies Priory, the late 12th-century church where Charles II hid before moving to Boscobel House.
The Knot Garden
Boscobel's garden is typical of the type which would have been at the house in the 17th-century, with rectangular parterre beds, native honeysuckle and old species of lavender, box and santolina.
Don't miss the small mound, on top of which was a "pretty arbour" where Charles is said to have spent a few hours reading in 1651.
Family Fun & Games
Get hands-on with history in the family room, try on armour, dress as a Roundhead or Cavalier and get creative at the art table. In the warmer months, enjoy family fun with Victorian games in the garden.
The 1940s Tearoom
Visit the tearoom situated in the stables, serving breakfast including full English, pancakes and smoothies and lunches including soup, sandwiches, salads and hot meals, puddings, cakes and scones. Created in a vintage 1940s theme, a break here is the perfect way to relax and enjoy a nostalgic look to back to England's finest hour.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 8.30am - 5pm. Pets welcome. As an independant caterer, opening times may differ to those of Boscobel House. Visit the 1940s Tearoom Facebook page for further information.


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It's said that there are around 1,200 sake breweries in Japan and no matter where you go in Japan you will certainly find sake breweries. Each region's sake has its own distinct flavors, i ...Further Details...
Hiroshima Travel Guide
The Hiroshima area refers to the central region of Hiroshima Prefecture; it includes Hiroshima City, Kure City, Higashihiroshima City, and Miyoshi City among others.
Hiroshima City is well known as the first city to be destroyed by a nuclear bomb. The city has numerous sites dedicated to the memory of this event, including the symbolic "Atomic Bomb Dome", the "Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park" which was built with hope for everlasting peace, and the "Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum" which exhibits numerous materials related to the atomic bomb. Every year on August 6th, the anniversary of the atomic bomb dropping, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony is held to commemorate and mourn the memory of those who died. You can get to the Atomic Bomb Dome from Hiroshima Station in about 20 minutes via streetcar or bus.
The must-have food items in Hiroshima City are okonomiyaki, oyster cuisine, and sake. To the east of Hiroshima City is Higashihiroshima City which is home to the region of Saijo, famous throughout Japan for sake production. At the "Sakagura-dori" you can stroll through an elegant townscape where many old cellars are gathered. In the southeastern part of Hiroshima is Kure City, a city which formerly served as a naval base. As such, Kure is home to the "Yamato Museum", a museum which holds numerous items related to Japan's navy, such as a 1/10 replica of the battleship Yamato.
The airport nearest Hiroshima City is Hiroshima Airport; it has flights connecting to Tokyo, Sapporo, Sendai, and Okinawa. From the airport you can take a limousine bus to get to JR Hiroshima Station, so even if you lack a car you can move about the Hiroshima area. The Shinkansen also runs to Hiroshima Station; it's about a 4-hour ride from Tokyo Station.
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The Annotated Luther series
I did not find individual introductions to these Luther writings to be universally helpful. I really appreciated the illustrations throughout and the end indicies, particularly the Index of Names. That index alone is an improvement missing from some volumes of Luther's Works.
For an LCMS Lutheran, I find this annotated edition of the Large Catechism to be problematic. Why? Simply put, the annotator could have confessed salvation in Christ alone while annotating what I know as "paragraph 66" and clearly avoid universalism (Note 190; cf: https://www.cph.org/p-670-one-true-god-understanding-the-large-catechism-ii-66.aspx). The strength or weakness of these volumes is dependent on the confession and contribution of each individual volume and writing editor. Note 7 on catechetical preaching on Ember Days was helpful and insightful, as was note 32 on the Divine Office. Notes 11 and 12 on Luther and Zwingli's interaction on the Lord's Supper could be clearer. (My numbering is based on the kindle review copy version.)
This is a unique volume with seventeen essays by German, Swedish, Finnish, Australian, and American contributors. Among the Americans, most are LCMS. One, Paulson, is ELCA.
Originally published in 1992, this is a masterful work of historical theology. Author Kiecker ably demonstrates the need for reform in the Church, attempts at reform, focuses on Luther's time and opportunity, what the Lord accomplished through Dr. Luther, other reformers and their approaches, and challenges since Luther.
Honestly, I haven't resonated with all publicity related to this title. I understand where "Throw out all those notions..." was going, but my members read that and were more suspicious about this book.
Critical reviews (by Lutheran pastors and church musicians) of books and other resources for Christian worship, preaching, and church music from a perspective rooted in Holy Scripture, the Lutheran Confessions and good common sense. LHP Quarterly Book Review asks, "Is it worth the money to buy, the time to read, the shelf space to store, and the effort to teach?"


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Gluten-free, healthy matcha coconut bliss balls to delight your mind and body.
The outstanding pairing of matcha green tea powder and coconut has come together again in this recipe for colorful, nutrient-packed paleo coconut bliss matcha balls!
These are also very simple and convenient to make, with just five ingredients and a total creation time of around ten minutes. They make an incredible "grab-and-go" breakfast or snack, and not only are they satisfyingly yummy, they are crazy good for you as well!
The matcha green tea flavor is present, but not overpowering. Matcha powder's real magic, however, is its beyond-belief health benefits. Like many superfoods, matcha powder has been linked to the prevention of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, bad cholesterol, and even certain types of cancer. It assists in weight loss by burning calories, it rids your body of chemical toxins, and it provides you with a huge energy and immunity boost.
Matcha tea powder is also good for your digestion, skin, teeth, and gums. It helps with constipation, and will make your skin glow.
For your mind, matcha will relax and calm you without making you drowsy. In fact, you'll feel refreshed and alert, with improved focus, concentration, and memory.
So give these coconut bliss matcha balls a whirl, and treat your mind and body!
Paleo Coconut Bliss Matcha Balls RecipePublished: 2016-12-03
- Ingredients
- 1 cup dates
- 1 cup raw almonds
- 1/4 cup desiccated coconut (for rolling; optional)
- 1 heaping tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 teaspoons Epic Matcha™ green tea powder
- 1 heaping tablespoon coconut butter
- 2 teaspoons matcha green tea powder (for rolling; optional)
- Directions
- Soak the dates in hot water for at least fifteen minutes.
- If making the coconut/matcha mixture to roll bliss balls in, add the 1/4 cup coconut and 2 teaspoons of Matcha powder to your food processor, and turn on until you have a fine green powder. Remove and set aside.
- Drain the dates, and add them with the rest of the ingredients to your food processor.
- Process for 45–60 seconds at a time, scraping down the sides in between.
- Add a little extra coconut oil if necessary.
- Roll the mixture into balls, coating them in the coconut/matcha powder as you go.
- Store in the refrigerator.
- Enjoy!
Yield 12 coconut bliss matcha balls
Matcha can be added to nearly any recipe to give you a huge boost of antioxidants. To learn how to make more amazingly tasty treats and drinks using matcha powder, download our recipe book, or visit our Epic Matcha blog!


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I normally dont like to repost other articles on my blog but I found this interesting for many of my mac readers.
Designboom has a showcase of some interesting 20-30 year old designs that never saw fruition. Some of them look rather interesting considering the technology at the time.
Here is a tablet from 1982.
Link: http://www.designboom.com/technology/hartmut-esslingers-early-apple-computer-and-tablet-designs/


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I've realized that the fact that I'm still getting questions to the effect of "How does this attack differ from Robert Graham's 'Sidejacking' attack?" means I did not do a very good job of classifying what sorts of vulnerabilities a Man In The Middle attacker can exploit over the web, especially with respect to what CookieMonster does that other tools do not (or at least do not automate). This post is an attempt to clarify the situation, and describe the two main classes of cookie stealing Man In The Middle vulnerabilities that popular websites are vulnerable to, depending on their security properties.
This post describes the core logic of CookieMonster in more precise
terms than the previous overview post. The hope is to drive home
exactly how the tool functions, and to underscore that source code
counts as speech in this capacity (and in general). In addition, the
README that illustrates how the tool is used, and a README describing a "Quick Start" Live CD method for Mac
and Windows users who do not have Linux installs are now available. Finally, an example configuration file for the tool is now
posted as well. These should hopefully give a clearer picture of how the tool works and how it can be used.
I've noticed that many sites seem to want to only support SSL
partially, so that they don't have to invest in expensive SSL
accelerators. While I can't necessarily say this fits in with my
grand design to move the entire web over to SSL for good, if it has to
be done, it might as well be done securely. This post attempts to
describe the general pattern for how to do it.
When I explain the completeness and the automated nature of my HTTPS cookie hijacking tool, the first reaction of many of my friends was to remark "Are you sure it is a good idea to release this?"
About a week before my talk, Google announced that they are "making
security easier" by providing people with the option of using
only https for gmail. I think this "fix" is still broken for
several reasons.
This past weekend I gave a talk at DEFCON 16 describing a very common vulnerability with many SSL-secured websites (slides are here). It actually all started last year when I began development on The Torbutton Firefox Extension and agreed to speak at Black Hat USA 2007 and DEFCON 15 on my findings with respect to Tor Security. In that talk, I announced that many sites used over Tor were not setting the 'Encrypted Sessions Only' bit on cookies they set over https. This is the case with GMail, addons.mozilla.org, most Drupal sites, Facebook, Amazon's purchase history, Yahoo mail, Hotmail/MSN, many many online merchants, and a few of my friends' banks.
Cookiemonster is a proof of concept python-based cookie hijacking utility that is able to capture cookies of improperly secured HTTPS sites via the local network. In its default mode of operation, Cookiemonster tracks the HTTPS sites visited by a each local client IP and then automatically injects HTML elements for each HTTPS domain into subsequent regular HTTP requests to a particular client. This causes any insecure HTTPS cookies from the automatically collected target domains to be transmitted unencrypted for capture by Cookiemonster, which then writes them into Firefox 2.0 or 3.0 compatible cookie files.


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A common problem I've seen with drip email campaigns is that they aren't updated after a successful transaction. For example, if a family with kids in junior high buys a house in Tampa for $400k, they're probably not going to be looking for the same type of home the next time they're on the market since, presumably, their kids will be moving out.
So, perhaps they'd like to stay in the same price range, but downgrade the number of bedrooms while getting closer to the ocean? That's just one example of a scenario that an agent could ponder when helping craft an appropriate saved search criteria.
To do this, an agent with RE/MAX Metro could select an appropriate geography on the map, such as South Beaches, then filter for an appropriate price, such as 350-450k. Additional homes in that area immediately disappear. One could further refine the search criteria as needed.
Then, click to save the search for a drip email campaign:
The key here is to set an appropriate frequency rate. Remember, this person just bought a home, so probably doesn't want to hear from you 365 days per year. But, a weekly or monthly email showing them what's out there is often well received.
Another similar tactic for this is to help people set up a drip email campaign for homes near their new home. This can be an effective way to remind the home buyer how prices are changing in their neighborhood over time. People love knowing what their neighbors' homes are listing for, so automate that service for them by setting up a drip email campaign of saved search properties to meet their needs.


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on the way home from basketball this morning chase was crying.
like we were all covering our ears because nothing was going to calm him down.
and he was crying SOOO SOOOO SOOOO loud.
we still had to run by the pharmacy,
and my nerves were getting their fair share of frazzle.
brennan yelled at chase.
chase yelled that brennan "skEEEmed" at him and then screamed and cried even louder.
and max was yelling something over the top of both of them
that i couldn't hear from the back bench of the van.
so basically, things were going awesome.
i was just wanting to be out of the car and home, and i was really wishing that i would have brought chase's binky in my bag to give to him.
finally there was a break in the screaming at the stop light in front of alta view hospital,
and i heard the brilliant idea of little miss max come
like a little whisper of genius to my ears in the front: sing to chase.
the rest of the way home the kids and i sang christmas songs to chase.
after the second round of santa claus is coming to town, praise the heavens above, because chase wasn't crying anymore.
i put on my christmas mix over the car stereo,
and from behind my seat i could hear the little 6 AND A HALF year old singing voice of brennan, singing every word to frosty the snowman, up on the rooftop, and rudolph the red nosed reindeer.
it was so soft and innocent. so sweet so so so so so sweet.
and all of sudden i realized this was it!
the amazing christmas years.
of little kids, and babies, and believers filling my home.
and then in the background, i heard little max's voice filling in a line of two,
and in my rear view window i could see every one of my kids looking out of the window,
singing about santa claus and reindeer and dreaming of christmas morning and visions of candy canes in their brains.
and they didn't know i was looking at them.
and it was magic.
i went a little under the speed limit the rest of the way home,
slowed down at the yellow lights so we had to wait at the red.
and soaked in this year of little singing voices to christmas songs.
i will never forget this day,
and the drive home that we all sang to chase to stop crying on the way home from basketball,
that day i didn't bring the binky.
and how magical it was.
even though there wasn't any snow.
{and actually, it was raining.}


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text: « previous next » Print Pages: 1 2 3 ... 13 Author Topic: ACC News (Read 36598 times) Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 9574 Karma: 143 AC Admin ACC News « on: August 01, 2018, 07:55:08 AM » A new thread for ACC...Not strictly ACC related (great start to the thread, I know), but here are some interesting comments from KS's Aristotelis at the Spa 24H event where ACC was set up for real drivers and sim racers to try (from https://www.facebook.com/aristotelis.vasilakos/posts/10156639993558069?notif_id=1533033161405304¬if_t=mention)QuoteThe Spa24Hours event was particularly important because it allowed to watch real drivers and alien simracers really going for it, especially alien simracers as they also had some big prizes at stake. Here are some of my thoughts.So what did we learned? Some pretty important things.1) First of all everybody was driving in the same way. If you could put the real drivers and aliens side by side and watch their movements carefully, you wouldn't notice any actual differences. Same movements, same lines, same attack style, same braking points... the lot. At the end of the lap there would be 1 sec more or less difference but it would be down to the aliens having more practice and being able to gain half a tenth at every turn. Being a 7km long circuit that was the difference. We could even watch the in turn speeds be like 1km differences lol. Tiny tiny stuff.2) pro drivers in real life have nowadays extremely low practice time. Most of them would get 5 to 15 laps between practice and qualifying. When the race engineer see in the telemetry that they are "on target" then the call them in the radio and..." good job, pit now and let the car to the amateur gentleman driver". So their job is to be able to push the car close to the limit with that amount of tiny practice. It was impressive to see them do the same in our rigs. 4 laps and they would be instantly on their real time laps. 10 laps and they would start to go down towards alien laptimes.3) Alien simracers also did the same initial laptimes as real drivers. We had nobody coming in, sitting down and posting 18s. Everybody would do 1st lap in the 20s, some in the very high 19s. then practice made perfect. They are fast to adapt, but not really "magical". Their strength is that when we stop at low 18s, they would continue to improve down to 17s. No "unrealistic" techniques were seen.4). When real drivers decide to "practice" they will do 100% valid laps. Eau Rouge taken always in the same way, never putting a wheel outside.When Simracers decide to push, they have 50% valid laps through eau rouge. I'm sure they can do also 100% but that's pressure for you and pushing to get to the 17s to win the competition. Also explains the difference with reality.5) Our hotlap competition was set at 25°C ambient 35° asphalt which we thought realistic for Spa... During the practice and qualifying sessions, thanks to global warming, we had 35°C ambient and "catering services cooking eggs on the asphalt"°C in real life. Also I saw fish flying in the air, it was that humid. Significantly enough, when we got some rain, the temperature would stay almost identical. Race had a bit more normal temperatures. That could be another indicator on the slight difference of laptimes between aliens/real life. Still VERY small gap considering the long track and all the other factors.6) Modern alien simracers adapt. FAST! They are proper pilots in terms of technique. They don't use "tricks" so to say. At the end of the competition, with no more pressure we gave them a surprise with a "hotlap race for a sparco gloves prize" competition on condition totally invented by me and Kevin Stuck just on the fly. It wasn't easy. Wet track, light rain, sun going down, slicks. We let them decide their own TC and ABS levels but with no practice or testing before. They handle it like pros. A single spin was all the drama that happened, then all valid laps and great car control and attention, even though you could see they were struggling on the conditions. Watch the video to get an idea.7) Real drivers are hunting animals. I don't mean this in a small way. I mean it in a BIG way. When a simracers misses a corner, especially on a chicane, then he will sacrifice it and try to take the second corner properly to retain the car rythm and improve the line.When a real driver misses a corner he will ATTACK anyway whatever he has infront of him. He will not even blink before going full attack on the next corner on whatever situation he is in. The mentality is "someone is behind me and he will probably try to take advantage of my error, I MUST NOT LET HIM PASS!" Even though they are in a hotlap mode, their mentality is always this. ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!I know, but still impressive to watch them. Setup was in the safe side. The cars are a bit of a short blanket so you can't always make them perfectly balanced and neutral. Especially the Lamborghini has lot's of rear biased weight so it suffers some power understeer on its DNA. Still you can work it out with setup, but then you can get brake and turn in oversteer and nervous behaviour on high speed and kerbs. As you know we need to showcase the new game to thousands of people so the main setup was quite "safe" to avoid seeing people constantly spinning at every braking point.Obviously drivers hate it at first, but interestingly enough, after they could arrive on their times they would say that "yes there is understeer, but you can work around it". That was positive. Some of them even went so far to say that "in the end I could modify a bit my line and it wasn't an issue at all for doing what I wanted to get my laptime". I couldn't change the setup in place as the UI is still WIP. All I could change for them was TC, ABS and some brake bias, but not while on the hotlap competition.Still, a trend feedback from all real drivers was that the car was perfect at slow and mid speed corners but lot's of push understeer at high speed flat out turns, while in reality they get a more nervous car at high speed. Part of it is in the setup as I said, but there's also something I'm working on the aero as we speak. We should be good by early access.9) Everybody from the real drivers as well as the simracers that tried it, where highly impressed by the rain physics. Reactions where in the range from "oh wow that's amazing" up to "what have you guys done!?". Stefano Casillo should be very proud for the core physics code, I'm so lucky to be able to work with him on it. We still need some fine tuning on the whole system, but I'm confident we will deliver.10) Believe me when I tell you, the hardware got some through extreme abuse from Wednesday to Sunday. Non stop. Rseat rigs and Fanatec wheels and pedals are an amazing combination. Everybody was extremely satisfied. I think we had a single screw to tight a bit, during the whole event, or something like that. Ak Informatica PCs and monitors, rock solid and stable. Logged "You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time" Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 9574 Karma: 143 AC Admin Re: ACC News « Reply #1 on: August 02, 2018, 10:06:17 PM » More information from Aristotelis about what sounds like extremely complex changes to the physics in ACC:QuoteThe tyre model has been heavily reworked. 3 dimensional flex of footprint and sidewalls with specific rates for each axis that are also influenced by the pressure and temperature. Temperatures now have even more layers and even get affected by brakes heating. Pressure heat and wear do not only change a simple grip variation but also the actual behaviour of the tyre, affecting values of slipangle, slipratio, and the grip curve as a whole. You're not only feeling a different grip but a different response too. Tyre also has a different response depending on the different surfaces it touches.The weather simulation is not a simple lower grip, but an actual water film layer with different depth. The tyres have algorithms that simulate the drainage of the water from the tyre, in order to keep the contact patch in..."contact" with the surface. If it succeeds, you get good grip, if not, the tyre "raises" over the water film and you get aquaplaning. That is what it makes wet driving so unpredictable. You don't have to deal just with a lower grip and that's it. You might think you got grip, push a bit more and instantly get a different behaviour on the same turn a lap before.Many more big and smaller details got implemented and this obviously makes the fine tuning of the whole system, extremely delicate, considering that the rules predict just one compound for all cars/tracks combinations.On top of that we have a brand new aero model coordinated by Stefano Casillo and created by Fernando Barbarossa our new physics developer. Much more complex, doesn't take into account different wings as single entities anymore, but a single aerodynamic object that gets affected by flow, and becomes very sensitive in pitch and yaw situations. 1-2mm ride height difference can be felt by good drivers and makes the setup a very complicated matter.Because of that, we had to improve our suspension model. It now includes variable rate bumpstops that I can set with extreme precision to keep the car from pitching too much. Also new dampers with proper graph curves and not just 4 values. The bumpstops are quite complex so we're trying to figure out a way to make the setup screens better designed for the users.We also have brand new TC and ABS algorithms, again more complicated than the original AC ones which by the way were an industry first at the time. Now we control slip and slide differently and even how much the engine cuts instead of on/off situations. Those maps alone can change quite a lot the behaviour of the car.On top of that, add all the different dynamic grip and weather simulation and you can imagine that the possible combinations and situations where something can go wrong are quite a bit. We are also working in a condition that everything can change from a week to the other because of new features added and this means we might need to re do the physics of the cars.Even BoP is different for each car and each track, and this is getting updated by SRO as we move from one track to the other...So, I don't know where the 1.5 months per car comes from, as we keep working on all cars at the same time, so I can't really give an accurate estimation of how much time we spent on each car, surely Marco has this under control. But I can tell you that it has become extremely complex... Logged "You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time" GzeroD RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 1199 Karma: 55 ∞+1|ℵ₀ Seanus Re: ACC News « Reply #2 on: August 02, 2018, 10:28:04 PM » I don't understand the bit about 'bumpstops'. Does it mean something else in Italian? Logged Tell someone who doesn't regard you as an argument for compulsory sterilisation. Guybrush Threepwood Hero Member Posts: 2126 Karma: 69 Re: ACC News « Reply #3 on: August 03, 2018, 04:41:32 AM » Quote from: GzeroD on August 02, 2018, 10:28:04 PMI don't understand the bit about 'bumpstops'. Does it mean something else in Italian?They are as they sound. Think of them as an extra set of firm mini springs right at the end of travel of the regular springs to stop a car bottoming out. This way you could have softer springs or lower ride height without bottoming out and spinning off across the curbs.I'm pretty sure AC has these in the more complex cars setup wise.I think the variable rate part refers to how stiff they are based on compression rate of the spring. Same of the absorbers. « Last Edit: August 03, 2018, 04:46:10 AM by Guybrush Threepwood » Logged Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 9574 Karma: 143 AC Admin Re: ACC News « Reply #4 on: August 03, 2018, 07:35:53 AM » That's right - some AC cars have bumpstops, but I understand it's a fairly simplistic implementation. From memory, you can set a bumpstop thickness in some cars' set ups. Logged "You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time" GzeroD RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 1199 Karma: 55 ∞+1|ℵ₀ Seanus Re: ACC News « Reply #5 on: August 03, 2018, 10:04:15 AM » Quote from: GzeroD on August 02, 2018, 10:28:04 PMI don't understand the bit about 'bumpstops'. Does it mean something else in Italian?Sorry I was too brief. And sorry guys it's one of those pseudo philosophical 'don't understand's I understand what a bump stop is, what I mean is why on earth do race cars get anywhere near their bumpstops. Surely you design sufficient rising rate into the system so as you approach the end of travel you also approach infinite stiffness. Or at least stiff enough to prevent ever reaching end of travel. FFS why doesn't every car have active suspension? Logged Tell someone who doesn't regard you as an argument for compulsory sterilisation. Bacchulum RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 2871 Karma: 83 Re: ACC News « Reply #6 on: August 03, 2018, 10:29:29 AM » Cost.Rising rate springs are far more expensive than a standard spring + bump stop.As far as designing sufficient rising rate into the system, these are cars designed for rich people not racing, then converted. Logged Bacchulum's Setups Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 9574 Karma: 143 AC Admin Re: ACC News « Reply #7 on: August 21, 2018, 08:11:45 AM » https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=467103350433405&id=378582002534902&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.assettocorsa.net%2Fforum%2Findex.php&_rdrCheck out the night time reflections and drying line at 28:40. Logged "You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time" Guybrush Threepwood Hero Member Posts: 2126 Karma: 69 Re: ACC News « Reply #8 on: August 21, 2018, 08:44:40 PM » Quote from: Wally on August 21, 2018, 08:11:45 AMhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=467103350433405&id=378582002534902&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.assettocorsa.net%2Fforum%2Findex.php&_rdrCheck out the night time reflections and drying line at 28:40.Looks good. Although there didn't seem to be much of a difference in grip between the dry line and the wet line - but only so much you can tell from that kind of footage. Logged Gratulin Hero Member Posts: 2159 Karma: 44 Re: ACC News « Reply #9 on: August 22, 2018, 08:07:32 AM » Here's the ACC graphics card https://www.pcauthority.com.au/feature/nvidias-new-geforce-rtx-2080-everything-you-need-to-know-500621?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=PC+%26+Tech+Authority+ Logged Joe Hero Member Posts: 2043 Karma: 34 Re: ACC News « Reply #10 on: August 22, 2018, 08:33:54 AM » Quote from: Gratulin on August 22, 2018, 08:07:32 AMHere's the ACC graphics card https://www.pcauthority.com.au/feature/nvidias-new-geforce-rtx-2080-everything-you-need-to-know-500621?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=PC+%26+Tech+Authority+Waiting on benchmarks but does look promising. Rumors are a fair bit more powerful than the 1080TI and at 1200 bucks. Logged Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 9574 Karma: 143 AC Admin Re: ACC News « Reply #11 on: August 22, 2018, 09:10:44 AM » That's too expensive for me. I'll wait to see how ACC performs on a 1080. But triple screens with eye candy might need more grunt. We'll have to wait and see. Logged "You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time" buellersdayoff RestrictedRacing Full Member Posts: 675 Karma: 26 Re: ACC News « Reply #12 on: August 22, 2018, 03:23:11 PM » 2080ti $1900 in Australia, ridiculous. No way... Logged buellersdayoff RestrictedRacing Full Member Posts: 675 Karma: 26 Re: ACC News « Reply #13 on: August 23, 2018, 06:36:42 AM » https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/assetto-corsa-competizione-rtx-ray-tracing/Looks like you need an rtx card for this sim*joking Logged buellersdayoff RestrictedRacing Full Member Posts: 675 Karma: 26 Re: ACC News « Reply #14 on: August 23, 2018, 07:25:02 AM » with a 1080Ti currently, I'm not interested in these new ones, too expensive for not a huge bump in performance. Logged Print Pages: 1 2 3 ... 13 « previous next » Xtreme Gaming Network / Simulation Racing Leagues / Assetto Corsa Competizione / ACC News


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