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2020 June Earning Six-Figures … from a Sailboat in Mexico
Earning Six-Figures … from a Sailboat in Mexico: How One AWAI Copywriter Made It Happen
Keith Trimels had always dreamed of living and working on a sailboat. But two obstacles stood in the way.
For one, owning a training and consulting business required too many nights in hotels. And second, he could never find just the right sailboat.
But by following a hunch and continuing to walk through doors, he has found himself a sought-after writer sharing drinks with some of the top names in copywriting — and earning six-figures annually.
All while living on a boat in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico.
How did this engineer spin his writing talent into his dream life? Through a series of bold moves and by answering when opportunity knocked.
Following the Signs — and Arriving at a New Life
Looking back, the signs were there all along …
In college, Keith won an award for a technical report he'd written.
Later, when seeking a transportation engineering job, his ability to express clear ideas in writing was 'light years ahead' of most engineers — earning him the position.
Then came the repeated requests to write proposals for clients in his technical training and consulting business — so much so that proposal writing went from an afterthought to a business driver.
"Almost every proposal I wrote, won!" he says. "We were helping our clients win seven-figure contracts, so I knew I had something."
That was Keith's first clue that his writing talent could actually generate an income. And as he grew weary of traveling for work, a career where he could work from anywhere looked increasingly attractive.
Thus when he heard about AWAI's Accelerated Program for Six-Figure Copywriting, he jumped. At a minimum, building his skills would elevate his training company's proposals. But it could also pave the path to his dream.
"I started going through the program immediately," he says. "I may have been following some of the fundamentals already, but now I understood why they worked. It all made sense."
Keith could have stopped there, just using his newly sharpened skills to grow his existing business. But what he did next ultimately led him right to that sunny spot on the Sea of Cortez.
Bold Move #1 — 'Hustling' an Established Copywriter
After pouring over The Accelerated Program, Keith wanted to step up his game. He decided to reach out to AWAI copywriter Paul Lawrence after following him via his mailing list. He mentioned he'd be in his area, and invited him for coffee.
"I hustled him," Keith says. "I told him, 'I'll write for you for free if you give me feedback. You have nothing to lose.'"
The move proved both beneficial and butt-busting. "It was excruciating," he says. "He and his mentor, [AWAI's] Mark Ford, were beating the hell out of my headlines and leads. It was 'get blasted and then rework, get blasted and rework.' I was in way over my head!"
But in the end, the promo he wrote performed … leading to another project with Paul.
Bold Move #2 — Applying for a Job with Almost-Zero Copywriting Experience
Ready to try his skills with real clients, Keith sent his resume to a contracting outfit that matches writers with companies. In the first interview, the account manager for the contract company called out his lack of experience.
"He said, 'I'm looking at your resume — and it sucks,'" Keith laughs. "'But I saw your website and it's freaking incredible. What you wrote is basically the manifesto for a technology client we work with.'"
The manager and senior copywriter of that client's internal copywriting team checked out Keith's website, and the deal was done. And that's how Keith came to write for one of the largest, best-known technology companies in the world.
While the gig did build his skills, it barely paid the bills. When he informed the tech company client that he would be moving on, they couldn't let him go. Instead, the company reached out to him directly — awarding him an attractive, three-year contract.
While there, he wrote the proposal copy for billion-dollar launches, plus a 20-page dossier explaining the tech company's relationship to the newly arrived CIO of a global bank — with which the company had over $300 million in annual sales.
Bold Move #3 — Learning from Clayton Makepeace and Parris Lampropoulos at the Bar
Keith, who lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming part of the year, chose to drive down to Denver for an AWAI sales letter workshop from one of the masters, Clayton Makepeace.
By day, he learned from Makepeace and other masters such as Parris Lampropoulos. By night, he joined them at the bar to talk about copywriting — and life.
"When you have a conversation and you're sharing knowledge, it's mentoring for free. It's insane," Keith says. "At the end of the day, they're people like us with kids and family too. When you talk about all that, they see you as real. It doesn't mean they'll throw work at you, but that good energy can lead to good opportunities."
And indeed, those conversations did lead to copywriting gigs with top financial publishers, including Clayton's final promo with Weiss Research before he joined Money Map.
That live-event energy has continued each year at AWAI's FastTrack to Copywriting Success Bootcamp and Job Fair, where Keith forged relationships over drinks with fellow copywriters and instructors like Bob Bly.
"There's no substitute for face-to-face conversations. You get to see the other 85% of communication that occurs beyond words and tone," Keith says.
Ready for Any Kind of Project
Back home, Keith continued growing the writing part of his work, whether in his training company or with independent copywriting projects.
He wanted to be ready for any type of project that came his way. So when AWAI's Circle of Success opened up, he didn't hesitate to join.
"To get access to all the training I would need for a new career — for less than the cost of starting just about any other type of business — Circle of Success was an easy decision," Keith says. "Now, I have my library with anything I need to be confident in selling myself and not have to worry about what I'll do if the prospect says yes."
Fulfilling the Rest of His Dream
These days, Keith is a B2B copywriter specializing in lead generation, sales proposals, and edu-marketing content for technology companies, which taps into his engineering background. Somewhere along the way, Keith found his writing superpower: breaking complex concepts into something people can understand.
Keith now brings in six-figures annually from copywriting alone. And he still has the flexibility to run his training and investment companies.
As for the second part of his dream, the boat, well that seemed to fall in his lap. Years earlier, a friend of a friend had showed him the sailboat of his dreams, a custom model with distinct spaces for work and sleep — that wasn't for sale at the time.
Years later, he happened to see that exact boat for sale online, docked in Mexico, and he knew it was meant to be.
Keith's grateful for the chance to work where he wants, doing something he loves.
"The flexibility that copywriting offers is truly priceless," he says. "I have clients from Australia to Germany to India … and they don't even know I'm sitting on a sailboat. If someone would have told me a few years ago that I'd be writing for big-name companies with legendary copywriters in my Rolodex, I would have said, 'You're out of your mind.' But here I am."
Keith's Tips For Copywriters
Believe in the product — Choose projects and products you believe in. Otherwise, it's hard to sway others.
Perfect your craft — In every case, strong writing opened doors for Keith. It was up to him to walk through them.
Network face-to-face — No other moves have catapulted Keith's career more than attending live events such as Bootcamp and Clayton Makepeace's workshop.
Find your uniqueness — Everyone brings a unique combination of skills, passions, and experience to the table. Find yours.
Do you have any questions about getting started as a copywriter? Share with us in the comments below.
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1 Response to "Earning Six-Figures … from a Sailboat in Mexico: How One AWAI Copywriter Made It Happen"
An excellent read. A really good abbreviated synopsis of the man's rise to his goals. I like his boat too.
Rick Barnett – over a year ago


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This book showed me the beauty of digital signal processing, introduced magical world of filter design. Back then I was struggling with modern DSP books, which mostly focusing on facts and definitions (or even worse – Matlab) rather than underlying ideas and concepts.
Hamming's book is of different kind. It starts slowly with several examples from numerical analysis – smoothing, differentiation, integration. All of them are based on polynomial interpolation which gives us very little freedom in building different methods with different properties tailored for particular application. All we can get is approximation order in terms of sampling step . And, well … that is it. Not much really.
Data can be presented as a sum of complex exponents (with different frequencies) and now we can see how filter will alter source data containing particular set of frequencies.
Now we can easily derive with any desired properties for particular data depending on frequency content in it.
Actually we just built framework for smoothing filter design. is Fourier transform of our 'digital' filter, and we moved our task to frequency domain.
Personally I've never saw such gentle and lucid introduction of frequency domain and filter design ideas.
Book is full of such simple explanations of difficult concepts. Must read for anyone interested in the subject. Highly recommended.
Here is another masterpiece of the same author: Hamming. You and Your Research.pdf.
Now I see where you got your start on Digital Filters. Thanks for posting this. I just ordered the book.


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23 January, 2010 • 20:15 0
Another weekend, some time, I will be reading…
I live quite close to a bookstore branch of a famous charity. I don't often drop in, because said charity has a habit of marking up their second hand stock to a point that seems to negate the pleasure and value of taking the time to search through the shelves. I also smart a little every time I visit, because on the one occasion (during my extended winter of unemployment) I went in to volunteer some time, I was subjected to one of the rudest customer service encounters I can recall in this city. I did not persist in my efforts to help them out.
However, today's visit produced two great little finds. A 1985 copy of MATRIX's Making Space – Women and the Man Made Environment and a revised edition of John Summerson's The Classical Language of Architecture. One was worth the £1.99 price tag, the other was not, but one absolute bargain subsidised the other less spectacular purchase. Together, and perhaps more entertainingly, they make a appealing demonstration of the opposite ends of the gendered spectrum of architectural writing. I am nothing, if not balanced…
Filed under: blog, Alternative Practices, architecture, classicism, feminism, reading, weekend reading
28 November, 2009 • 09:30 0
This weekend, I will be reading…
Back by popular demand, not that I have the time for this much reading this weekend…
Filed under: blog, library, reading, weekend reading
11 October, 2009 • 19:50 0
Diagramming part two
Sunday night in with Oddbins finest 3-for-£10 Shiraz and my trusty copy of Adobe Illustrator. This weekend's much delayed task (it should have been last weekend, but I was moonlighting as a roadie) is to tentatively start map my literature review.
You might have been wondering why my once regular 'this weekend, I will be reading' posts have tailed off. There's very simple explanation for that. I'm now a clear six months into my studies, and as everyone has been so wisely reassuring me, three years goes pretty darn quick. So there comes a point when it is necessary to stop the initial rush of literature consumption, and consider the next steps. The truth is, for every five books or articles I read, I will discover at least another ten potentially interesting or relevant references. Part of the life of a phd student is, it seems, being able to say 'no more.'
The first firm draft of the literature review will be required for my process of differentiation, which will happen at around nine months into the phd. It is at this stage (hopefully between now and Christmas) that I go before a panel at Queens and am assessed on the quality and potential of my studies. If things are on course, I may continue. If not… well, I'm not entirely sure what happens.
As part of the next stage of the process, I'm revisiting my bibliography and using RefWorks to help me map it out by subject area. Overlaps are quickly revealed, gaps are highlighted and areas of personal interest become easier to identify.
Filed under: blog, diagramming, learning, library, PhD, PhD life, reading, research, weekend reading
29 August, 2009 • 10:59 0
This weekend, I will be reading:
BLACKMORE, R. & McCONNACHIE, J., eds, 2009, Rough Guide Directions: Paris. London: Rough Guides
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Reading: Architecture – art or profession?
In the quiet rainy afternoon I had set aside to prepare a critique of Mark Crinson and Jules Lubbock's 1994 book Architecture – Art or Profession? we repaired to our favourite Southside Glasgow café for potent coffee and delectable freshly baked scones. My output was low, however, as I foolishly picked up a copy my preferred newspaper the Guardian, and become incensed once more at the nerve of a certain royal who likes to express his opinion about modern architecture rather aggressively. This follows a similar such article relating to another such incident, which subsequently inspired said newspaper to churn out a fairly predictable piece critiquing said royal's pet project, a badly-built haven of kitsch-dom that was designed without consideration for crime reduction or contemporary living requirements. The architectural press has also picked up on the story. This reponse to this flurry of investigative journalism has been trenchant and opinionated, descending into unfounded statements that generally miss the point. For example: "Prince Charles speaks for most people's ideas about buildings, towns and cities, and architects can't stand that." It's true that architects can't stand Charles' opinion, but not because Charles even has the slimmest clue of what "most people" think. In the beautiful, eloquent and razor-sharp words of one Guardian reader, Prince Charles is "a none too bright, semi-unemployed middle-aged man, who by an accident of birth, has been brought up with the impression that his views actually mean something." I, however, am more than willing to chip in my £0.69 per year to pay for the Royal Family, and will also gladly pick up the tab for a couple of republicans, but I feel aggrieved that a Royal thinks he can push a largely accountable planning system around to his taste. Architects generally "can't stand" Charles speaking his mind because architects never get the chance to air their opinions as freely and as widely as he does. And most architects have substantially more qualifications to comment on architecture than 5 O-levels, 2 A-levels and the lowest possible degree classification the University of Cambridge offers short of a fail (that wasn't even in architecture).
Why the tirade? Architecture – Art or Profession? is a detailed, rigorous and appreciably complete history of architectural education in Great Britain. However, it features a laudatory forward from HRH the Prince of Wales, and the authors benefited from a research grant offered by the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture. The nature by which a piece of research is procured and financed should always be considered in relation to its content. [ Please see the comment immediately below this post for an important correction. ] But to clarify, do not confuse the Institute with the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment: the first evolved into the latter. The Institute became the Foundation, after it failed in its original mission: to establish a new school of architecture that would educate architects in a purely classical and traditionalist manner. The Institute would have been Britain's only style-specific school of architecture, and it understandably failed to attract enough students or get exemption from RIBA examinations. That the RIBA should be so opposed to Prince Charles' opinions on modern architecture is no surprise, but that it should continue to carry its royal charter with such pride is somewhat amusing.
So we have – and I must stress this – an excellent piece of historical research here. There is no book that offers such a detailed and well argued narrative about the history of architectural education in Great Britain However, from the point of view of my study, it frequently descends into a problematic and unhelpful tone that leads to a somewhat conspiratorial interpretation of history. I do not expect to find in such a scholarly work the problematic term 'Young Turks' to describe the mid-twentieth-century modernisers of English architectural education.
Crinson & Lubbock divide their history into four chapters, covering the periods 1660-1830, 1834-1938, 1938-1960 and finally from the sixties the early nineties. These timeframes permit an elegant narrative to be constructed, discussing firstly the many routes into architecture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the early-industrial-era professionalisation of architecture, the post-world-war-two modernisation of architectural education and finally the concept of a Kuhn's scientific paradigm to explain why one system can replace another so quickly and completely. The book becomes increasingly and unapologetically conspiratorial as it builds towards the third and fourth chapters.
I worked hard not to colour my reading of the book with my own opinionated preconceptions about HRH Prince Charles and any history associated with his viewpoint, but Architecture – Art or Profession left me with a lingering suspicion that Crinson & Lubbock prefer the notion of a pre-Industrial-Revolution architectural profession which may be entered by any number of different routes. Chapter two is entitled 'The Design of Professionalism and its resistance', and to my mind is perhaps unfairly forgiving of pupillage, the entirely patchwork system of apprenticeship that saw aspiring architects and their families pay established practitioners for office experience and tutoring. The most famously cited criticism of pupillage as a means to acquire an architect's training is by Charles Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), a damning caricature of lazy apprenticeship. While the faults of pupillage are acknowledged, Crinson & Lubbock are eager to emphasise that this portrayal is only an 'extreme example' and that it only served to fuel the 'scientifically-minded radicalism' (p.46) that would contribute to the downfall of informal education through pupillage. Likewise later in the book pupillage is defended once more from 'its myths of neglectful and corrupt practices.' How Crinson & Lubbock can vouch for such an unregulated system is difficult to conceive.
Of most interest to me is the description of the twentieth century. It was during this period that, under increasing pressure from the RIBA and modernising figures within schools of architecture, that architectural education moved away from being located in the profession to within the universities. This is very much a delayed and arguably tardy reaction to the Industrial Revolution, and the changes in the construction industry that threatened architects' previously undisputed leadership of the building team. As larger and larger construction firms began to sub-contract various elements of their work, the building designer became less and less important, especially in an industrialised society in which mass production of standardised elements lessened the need for a unique design solution in every instance. Ulrich Pfammatter discussed this reactive nature of British design and engineering with particular reference to the 1851 Great Exhibition, at which Britain's position at the vanguard of the industrial revolution was suddenly undermined by the discovery of greatly advanced machinery and products from abroad, and which the foundation of an entire generation of regional technical schools. (Pfammatter:2000, pp. 293-296) I agree wholeheartedly with Crinson & Lubbock's assessment of architecture in Britain as being an extremely weak profession. (p.2)
The twentieth-century process of modernisation is described in mildly militaristic terms, with the 'modernisers' forming a 'coterie' that 'hatched' ideas as part of a long 'campaign' to 'infiltrate' the RIBA and it's Board of Education. Crinson & Lubbock admit that they are not content to believe in solely evolutionary changes (p.165) to explain the remarkable shift of the nineteen-fifties and sixties from a system of architectural education that was predominantly influenced by the École des Beaux Arts and historical continuity to one that was favoured a blank-canvas approach to teaching design. Chapter four describes their interpretation of Kuhn's theory of pardigmatic change, which they cite as an explanation for the total manner in which 'modern' architectural education replaced the largely Beaux Arts inspired system that preceded it.
The modest but highly influential 1958 Oxford Conference on architectural education is – wisely – debunked as a clean turning point between chaotic and inconsistent routes into the profession and a modern university-centric system. But again and again I was frustrated by a language that sought to view this key period through a conspiratorial veil, referring repeatedly and disdainfully to the conference organisers as a 'coterie.' Traditionalists did indeed view it as a 'rigged' conference, with only fifty-three invited speakers and a programme that carefully focussed on modernising issues. But why did advocates of Britain's classicist and traditional (École des Beaux Arts derived) architectural education not protest or respond? I read Architecture – Art or Profession? with the sinking feeling that Crinson & Lubbock are reluctant to admit that before the changes recommended by the 1958 conference, and the gradual shift of architecture courses into universities that were monitored by the ever powerful RIBA, that British architectural education was inconsistent, exploitative and generally of poor quality. Pupillage and Beaux Arts teaching died out so cleanly because it was a staid system of learning-by-copying, that allowed no room for reflection on process and practice. There was, I believe, no adequate response to the 1958 conference from traditionalists because they genuinely had no convincing alternative to offer. At both the 1924 International Conference and in the 1946 RIBA Report, the aspiration was voiced for architecture to be taught within the university context, thereby conferring the profession with a status equal or similar to that of law or medicine. A key matter for exploration in my study of architectural education is understanding why this happened, and to an extent whether architecture continues to suit the university setting. Crinson & Lubbock's book is, unfortunately, suspicious of research in the context of architectural education. I would like to believe that the authors were simply dissatisfied with the 'modernisers' concept of research, but the tone of the book unfortunately suggests that they simply regard all research in architectural education as a waste of time. For example:
At this point it is worth broadly signalling the consequences for British architecture of this emphasis on a particular, and apparently innocuous, notion of research. It was not, of course, an idea limited to postgraduate work, but permeated the ideology of modernist architectural education … This necessitated the recruitment of specialists who could teach a range of non-architectural subjects as a grounding for future research. This in turn had the effect of limiting the time spent on design as well as on professional, drawing and building skills in favour of an orientation towards new subject areas in the pure and social sciences. Such a conception of research picked up on the Bauhaus notion that all assumptions should be questioned and research as if no satisfactory solutions had been reached previously. This led to that most airily 'systematic' of 1960s pursuits, systematic design methodology, in which the inductive methods of science were to be applied actually as methods of design. (pp.142-143)
Heaven forbid that students of architecture might be taught the skills to research and question establish ideas for themselves, and that anyone from outside the profession might have something of value to teach these architects. Sadly being able to associate these notions with the understandably mixed results of the Bauhaus' Vorkurs teaching means that Crinson & Lubbock construct an anti-academic view of architectural education, regarding the shift to university-level education as a trick played by the modernisers to exert greater control over the content of what was being taught to architects. This distrust of all things modern does have its comic moments though; on page 134 Crinson & Lubbock are quick to point out the symbolism of the RIBA Journal adopting a sans serif typeface as a key moment in the modernisation of the Institute. But Crinson & Lubbock are frankly sloppy in their criticism of the socialising practices of the 'modern' architectural education:
Both the avant-garde and the founding fathers shared the premise, enshrined in the Vorkurs, that the fledgling architect needed to be thoroughly laundered of his or her lay culture so as to be able to set themselves throughout their future career against the likes and dislikes of ordinary people, because that had been initiated innto a higher and more creative form of wisdom. (p.174)
This attitude seems blind to undeniable socialisation practices of the architectural education that preceded the modernised Vorkurs or academic vision. Any applicant to an architect (through articuled pupillage) or student of a Beaux Arts derived school was submitted him or herself to an equally overwhelming process of formation and socialisation.
At the time of publication, in the early nineteen-nineties, Crinson & Lubbock seemed deeply concerned by the continuing dominance of the 'Official System' (as they name the post 1958 Conference university-based system of architectural education) and bemoan the 'triumph of a professionalised vision of the architect that was both narrowly focused and extraordinarily powerful.' (p.38) Britain's economy was far from health and the government were investigating the possibility of removing the legal protection of the title 'architect.' Into this context, Prince Charles's attempt to found a school of architecture that plugged a 'hole in the market,' with a 'course where those who wished could study what might broadly be termed 'traditional' architecture' (p.6) seems to have been both overly optimistic and simplistic in addressing Crinson & Lubbock's concerns with modern architectural education. And it is somewhat sad to have this book associated with that attempt and that standpoint. The authors' critique of the RIBA's questionable quasi-governmental position as a regulator of practice and entry to the profession is astute and coherent. Likewise their postscript suggestions for the future of architectural education are eminently intelligent. As I continue with my studies, Architecture – Art or Profession will provide an invaluable point of reference for the history of architectural education in Britain. But to do so, I will have to carefully disentangle an excellent history from an often questionable narrative.
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27 June, 2009 • 14:02 0
A variety of older hardbacks from the libraries of Glasgow, and finally a paper copy of the inaugural issue of PEAR (the Paper for Emerging Architectural Research). Spot the architecture/train-spotting distraction…
JOHNSTON, COLIN & HUME, JOHN R, 1979. Glasgow Stations. 1st edn. Newton Abbot: David & Charles
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This weekend, I was not reading at all.
Apologies, but my usual habit of posting details on my weekend reading plans came to nought this week. After a few days down south, we headed directly to the Isle of Arran for camping, eating, drinking and inhaling midges. Normal service has now resumed, although my legs are still itchy as hell…
Filed under: blog, glasgow, home, PhD life, travel, weekend reading
I've uploaded the latest version of my position paper to a dedicated page on the blog (perma-link under 'About the Project' in the adjacent column). Like much on this blog, it is work in progress and is liable to change and evolve. However it does come as close as I have been able to elucidate my motivations, interests and aspirations for this project.
Portions of the actual paper describing methodology, outcomes and effects have been left out for now, but may be included as and when they are firmed up.
Filed under: blog, beginnings, definitions, PhD, PhD life, research, theory, weekend reading, writing
23 May, 2009 • 09:22 0
This weekend, I will be (trying to stay awake while) reading:
At 55.858º North, the sun rose this morning at 04:48 and won't set until 21:40, which means that my largely seasonal insomnia has made an unwelcome return. Until a trip to Ikea for some new curtains can be managed, the only solution is a United Airlines eye mask. By mid-afternoon I'm pretty grumpy, but that hasn't deterred me from a sustained assault on the key texts of Donald Schön, the widely known and highly regarded thinker and researcher on professional practice. Schön identified the design studio of schools of architecture as the apogee of professional learning, a blanket admiration with which I have some issues.
Behind this visit to Schön's texts is a recent paper in the Journal of the Built Environment (JEBE) by Helena Webster entitlted Architectural Education After Schön: Cracks, Blurs, Boundaries and Beyond (pdf link). Although I'd read a handful of chapters by Schön, it was reading this paper that finally crystalised the wider contextual importance of Schön in relation to architectural education. Feeling rather sheepish that I hadn't read them, I skidaddled over the library to do some catching up.
Reading Webster's paper before Schön's The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action (1983), The design studio: An exploration of its traditions and potential (1985) and Educating the reflective practitioner: Toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions (1987) means I'm probably resorting to Webster's critical stance by default rather than approaching the texts neutrally. However, I don't think that's such a bad thing, because when approaching what some might regard as the 'sacred' texts of a theoretical discourse, this kind of approach can be something of a release:
Schön identified a number of key elements in architectural education that together constituted his theories of 'reflective learning' and the 'reflective practitioner'. Central to Schön's understanding of learning to design were two concepts. Firstly, the necessity for students to engage in studio-based projects that simulated the complexities of real life projects. Secondly, the importance of reflection in the design process that was constituted of: reflection-in-action, reflection-on-action and most critically reflection-on-action that allowed students to observe and re-align their thinking with the 'expert' thinking of their tutors. Arguably, Schön's notions of reflective learning have framed most of the discussions about architectural education to date. This paper will argue, somewhat paradoxically, that Schön was a remarkably unreflective thinker.
So I am swilling about in a big sleep deprived pool of self reflectiveness. More thoughts to follow when I've had some time to sleep and ruminate.
Filed under: blog, education, learning, practice, Profession, research, weekend reading
learning architecture is an academic blog of James Benedict Brown, previously a doctoral candidate in architectural pedagogy at the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. James passed his viva in September 2012 and graduated the following December.
James Benedict Brown has worked and studied in England, Northern Ireland, France and Canada. Following the completion of his PhD at QUB, he was appointed Lecturer in Architecture at Norwich University of the Arts. A short bio is here.
About the supervisors
The project is supervised by Prof. Ruth Morrow and Keith McAllister. Prior to his appointment at Qatar University in 2009, Prof. Ashraf Salama also supervised the project.
Click here for the bibliography to date.
Click here for a selection of peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed writing.
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Conferences and seminars of interest to the project.
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NJEA supports S-1036 (Sweeney) which provides that the Attorney General handle the investigation and prosecution of crime involving a person's death by a law enforcement officer, while acting in an officer's official capacity or while in custody. The legislation further requires trial in a venue outside county where the incident occurred.
Currently, the investigation and prosecution of crime involving a person's death by law enforcement is conducted by the county prosecutor's office. The purpose of this legislation is to avoid conflicts of interest by having the Attorney General's office handle such investigations. Fatal shootings involving law enforcement have occurred across the nation and have divided communities and strained relationships with law enforcement.
NJEA supports this legislation as it is designed to provide a more transparent approach to the investigation of deaths involving law enforcement during official duty. Having independent investigations would help to ensure the integrity of the criminal justice system and build trust within communities. Ultimately, NJEA is committed to the human and civil rights of our members, students, their families and the communities in which they live.
We urge you to vote "yes" on S-1036.


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The Light Fantastic
by Catherine Lundoff
The starfields and galaxies hurtle past behind her closed lids at the speed of thought. They move so fast that they paint a trail of shining white and blue and a dozen other colors across all that her mind can see. She spins bewildered in their wake, wondering how she will ever make sense of it.
But make sense of it she must if she is to pilot this ship, this clumsy hunk of metal and glass and plastic, through this streaming maze of mass and energy. The price of failure is too high to imagine. A fireball shoots across her inner vision, blinding her, and her heart stutters in shock.
Her brain runs through a list of the dangers they covered in her training: meteorites, solar flares, black holes, warships bigger than her own small ship. She must glide past them or through them, triumphant, invisible. Surviving to fly and fight another day.
She wonders how she got here, to this point. Except she already knows, knows that she's never wanted anything more than this flight, this ship. That she would sacrifice almost anything or anyone in her life to get here, to stay here.
That she already has.
Her reflexes kick in and she thinks the ship into a quiet part of space, a lull in the outer limits of the system. A hologram of a navigational starmap pops up before her right eye and she studies it, locating where she is and where she needs to be in a timespan so brief it can be measured in blinks.
She can feel the ship around her, the engines pulsing under her fingertips, the electrical currents dancing first on, then under her skin. The ship's computer purrs like a mechacat in her ear and she wants to reach out and take it all into her somehow, so that she is the ship and the ship is her. Forgetting that she already has, at least until she has to disconnect and reenter the frail meat shell that is her human body.
But for now, she has nothing but the power and speed at her command. She sends the ship spiraling through the system, dancing delicately through the greenish-gold rings that encircle the nearest planet. It is a moment of pure joy: this is what she wants to do. Always. If the ship didn't need fuel, she would do this forever.
She forces herself to look at the ship's gauges, to recognize how much longer she can stay this far from her planetary base. Then, joy fading, she bows to the inevitable. They spin past the ringed planet, she and the ship, and she uses the momentum to fling her ship free of the planet's gravity and back toward the pulsing heart of the system.
And pulse it does. There are other ships flying around her now, visible as dark spots against the backdrop of the planets, the sun. Her communicator crackles to abrupt life, reminding her that she's not out here alone. That this is someone else's ship she's piloting and that someone expects her to be doing her job.
"X273, come in. X273, move to the Gamma Quadrant, stat. Acknowledge." The voice is precise, inhuman. The computer takes the starfields for granted, in a way that she never can.
With a grimace, she sends the signal code acknowledging her orders, then whips her ship through evasive maneuvers past the ongoing battle and toward the part of the system has been designated the "Gamma Quadrant." The bright flashes of battle are all around her now and she tries to catch her breath, steady her thoughts.
A shot from a distant weapon comes too close and her ship twists beneath her, trying to avoid the fiery impact that still sears the edge of a wing. She thinks about her weapons firing, pulse cannon and lasers both blasting her enemy and an instant later, feels it happen. The other ship rocks back and forth, avoiding one shot, then another, only to fall prey to a third. It explodes into a million particles that vanish almost instantly and she instinctively tries to dance her ship away to dodge the biggest of them.
In the instant between the destruction of one ship and the attack of the next, she remembers that she is facing other medusa pilots, each one hoping to think faster than she does. She feels a split second of regret: there are so few of them, each a potential lover, friend, compatriot. Then her reflexes take over and she blasts her way through the battle, she and her ship functioning as a single organism.
She loses her body, her conscious thoughts, her fears. She is metal and glass and plastic against the stars and planets and the fire of other ships. Whatever she was before, whatever she will be, is lost in what the ship has become: one unit, one weapon.
The end, when it comes, is sudden, and feels as abrupt as piloting her ship into a port wall. Her ship steadies, evasion no longer required, and her comm bursts back into life. "X273, abort and return to base. Engagement is complete." That cold voice cuts across everything, reflexes, thoughts, desires.
It's enough to force her back into her aching body in her pilot's chair and awareness of the headset that's hooked into the brand new implants wired into her skull. She doesn't want to think about the battle, about why there are no more fireballs. She doesn't want to be back here, at least not until everything hurts less.
Instead, she opts to think about how she has just done what she has done. They call her implants "medusas," after some Old Earth monster. The ones who aren't wired say the wires emerging from the pilots' skulls look like snakes, that those who chose to embrace them are freaks and a thousand other hurtful things besides.
They are wrong. They are right. But they will never know what it is like to pilot a starship with their minds. Faster than thought, almost as fast as light, she dreams of dancing her hunk of metal through the stars again.
Catherine Lundoff is an award-winning writer and editor from Minneapolis. She writes a lot about things like menopausal werewolves (see her novel "Silver Moon" for an example), hardwired starship pilots, steampunk ghosts and pirates. She also works in IT and lives with her fabulous wife and cats.


Ayrton Senna was a true artist on the Formula 1 circuit in the late '80s and early '90s.
We're not auto racing fans, but Senna captured our imagination as he raced his way to three world championships and 41 wins before his shocking death in 1994 in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix.
Senna's rise to world champion, and his defining nine-year battle with rival driver Alain Prost, is the subject of a documentary, Senna, which looks fantastic.
The rivalry – and that word doesn't really explain the relationship between Senna and Prost – intensified during the two -year period that they were teammates with McClaren-Honda. Prost was already a two-time world champion when Senna joined the team and it quickly turned out that the garage and track were not big enough for the two of them.
The competition between the two is what grabbed our attention. Both drivers were at the top of their games and pushed each other to the boundaries of their abilities.
That's what makes true rivalries such a fascinating aspect of sports. They can't be one sided – think Browns-Steelers of the past decade – but rather you have to go into a game or race knowing that either side can win.
Senna and Prost also had contrasting styles. Prost was a French master, known as "The Professor" for his technical, calculating style. Senna was more of an impressionist, reflecting the free-spirit, Samba style of his native Brazil.
And while those labels were accurate, they also were somewhat limiting. Above all, Prost and Senna were champions that brought the best – and worst – out of each other.
There's little doubt that they were both better because they were contemporaries. While each would have still found success without the other, the intensity of the rivalry during the period when their careers overlapped pushed them both to a higher plane.
Our fascination with Formula 1 ended on that May day in 1994 when the sport claimed Senna at the age of 34. Prost had retired after the 1993 season and, with Senna gone, it just wasn't the same.
Now, with the release of Senna, we have the opportunity to relive that exciting time once again.


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Significant constraints on banks' capacity and willingness to absorb potential increases in government financing needs in the event of a shock are intensifying government liquidity risks in Angola (B3 stable), Bahrain (B2 stable), Ghana (B3 stable), Kenya (B2 stable) and Lebanon (Caa1 stable) Moody's Investors Service said in a report.
The report, "Sovereigns -- Africa and Middle East, Domestic banking constraints intensify liquidity risks as global markets tighten", is available on www.moodys.com. Moody's subscribers can access the report using the link at the end of this press release. The research is an update to the markets and does not constitute a rating action.
The report assesses Middle East and African governments' capacity to fund their borrowing needs from domestic banks looking at banks' capacity and willingness to meet government borrowing needs. It also considers relevant changes in the regulatory environment that can influence banks' capacity and willingness. The report is focused on the countries where Moody's rates both the sovereign and banks.
"When governments' access to external markets is constrained and more costly, their capacity to finance borrowing needs from domestic banks is a key driver of their liquidity risk," said Lucie Villa, a Moody's Vice President -- Senior Credit Officer and author of the report. "In Angola, Bahrain, Ghana, Kenya and Lebanon, governments combine at least two of the following constraints: government borrowing needs are large relative to the size of their banking systems, banks' exposures to government debt are already high, deposit inflows are low relative to fiscal deficits."
The capacity of a banking system to absorb governments' borrowing needs is driven by the system's size, the scale of the government's gross borrowing requirement and the size and consistency of banks' own funding that can be invested in government securities.
Banks' willingness to provide finance is influenced by a range of qualitative factors. These can include policy credibility, or the risk-reward trade-off in lending to the private sector versus the government.
In Egypt, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Moody's has identified pockets of vulnerabilities but expects governments to rely on domestic banks to cover their financing needs. Some constraints are apparent either because the banking system is very small or already largely invested in government securities, but these factors are mitigated by limited government financing needs or the system's high deposit growth.
There is scope for increased domestic bank financing of governments' needs in Mauritius and South Africa. Both countries have more developed financial sectors than the other countries covered by this report. Aside from substantial banking systems, non-bank financial institutions including insurance and pension funds provide stable and long-term funding to the government.


Niklas Zennström, the cofounder and former CEO of Skype, has backed water-saving startup Orbital Systems in a £15 million funding round.
Founded in 2012, the company claims to that its showers, which cost up to £5,295, save considerable amounts of water compared to conventional showers. It released a new £2,299 shower on Wednesday called the OAS, which uses 90% less water than a traditional, it claims.
Investors have now backed the company with a total of £25 million.
Orbital System's showers save water by using the same batch of water over and over again. They're used in gyms, army barracks, and luxury hotels around the world. But don't worry, the water is purified by a built in purifier before it gets reused.
"There's little point in wasting 150 litres of water during a single shower when, instead, you can use just five," said Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, founder and CEO of Orbital Systems, in a statement.
Zennström has taken a seat on the board, which also includes former Tesla executive Peter Carlsson. Other investors include Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of Swedish fashion giant H&M.
Zennström told Business Insider in an interview earlier this year that he expects sustainability startups to become the next $10 billion and $100 billion companies of the world.


After a lot of controversy over the full body scanners being trialled at Manchester Airport, the airport has decided to rely on the scanners at all security areas by the end of the month after 95% of people at the airport said that they preferred the scanning to the previous pat down method.
The airport said that scanning instead of patting down has also dramatically reduced passenger queues at security.
"Our passengers and staff tell us that they much prefer the experience of a body scanner because it is significantly quicker as it doesn't involved being frisked nor does it require them to remove their coats, jackets and belts.
What are your views on this move? It would be interesting to see the views of people who have been through the scanners themselves also.


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Kobe Bryant Dropped 16 Pounds in Training for 2012 Olympics
GM Mitch Kupchak Says Lakers Still Want to Add Players
The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics is only a few days away with Team USA looking to win a second consecutive gold medal under head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
With the added motivation of competing against Los Angeles Lakers teammate Pau Gasol and knowing that this is probably the last time he'll compete in the Olympics, five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant made sure he'd be ready for Coach K.
It's no secret that Kobe takes competition on any level as serious as anyone. With that being said, Kobe prepared for a final run at a second gold medal with a rigorous training regiment.
Reportedly, Kobe lost 16 pounds in training for the Olympics according to Jeremiah Tittle of The Guardian:
Beyond experimental therapy, Bryant reveals how else his appearance has changed, losing 16 pounds to prepare his older body for the rigours of the Olympics followed by another run at his sixth NBA title. "With summer basketball leading directly into the season – and I'm expecting to play until next June – I have to take some load off my knees. I've got to shave some of this weight."
As one of the few players that have been able to stand of the test of time since being drafted in the 1996 NBA Draft, Kobe continues to find ways to keep a competitive edge on the basketball court. Even though Kobe is only 33-year-old, 34 in August, the Lakers star has been in the league since the age of 17. With all the miles on his legs due to playing virtually nonstop basketball since entering the NBA more than a decade and a half ago, Kobe needs to keep his body in excellent condition year in and year out.
Suprisingly enough, Kobe is still willing to continue playing for Team USA rather than electing to rest his aging body in order prepare for the upcoming 2012-13 NBA season. With the 2012 Olympics being his last go around with the Team USA, Kobe is going all-in by dropping the weight and giving it everything he has in order to win a second gold medal alongside LeBron James and company.
Admirable to say the least in comparison to much younger players like Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade that have already started to struggle staying healthy during their NBA careers.
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FOREST CITY, Iowa, March 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WGO), a leading outdoor lifestyle product manufacturer, today announced that on March 8, 2019, the Company's Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.11 per share, payable on April 17, 2019, to common stockholders of record at the close of business on April 3, 2019.
The Company also today announced that David W. Miles has been appointed Chair of the Company's Board of Directors, effective June 16, 2019. Mr. Miles, who was elected by the independent directors of the Company's Board, has been a Director since December 2015, and currently serves as Chair of the Board's Finance Committee.
"During his time as a Director and as Chair of the Finance Committee, Dave has consistently demonstrated strategic insight and engaged leadership. The Board has valued these traits, as well as his financial expertise. We are pleased to have him serve in this new role and lead the Board during the exciting years to come for Winnebago Industries," said Michael Happe, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Miles will take over from Robert M. Chiusano, who has served as a Director since October 2008. Mr. Chiusano will remain on the Board as a Director.
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Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport is an international airport located 12 km northwest of Gdańsk, Poland. Connected with a bridge, the airport has two passengers terminals T1 and T2:
Terminal 1: is currently being used for departures (passport control and boarding) to countries which are not part of Schengen Area, mainly to Great Britain, Ireland and holiday destinations e.g. to Egypt.
Terminal 2: is a modern building including 25 check-in desks, a highly modern luggage transport, and sorting facility and a spacious departure area with gates.
Getting into Gdansk
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The bus is the cheapest travel option available at the airport. Bus line 210 of ZTM Gdansk takes 40 minutes to get from Gdansk Airport (Port Lotniczy) to the main railway station of Gdansk (Dworzec Glówny). The bus departs every 30 minutes on weekdays and every one hour on weekends and public holidays. Bus line N3 operates between the airport and Gdansk at night.
Cost: PLN 3.20
Buying tickets: from the ticket machine at the Gdansk Airport bus stop
Location: Terminal 2, outside area, just behind the train station
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3 injured when natural gas pipeline explodes
Flames rise above Bushland, Texas, early Thursday. The roaring sound of the leaking gas could be heard and seen 20 miles away.Michael Schumacher / Amarillo Globe News via AP
Nov. 5, 2009, 6:52 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
A natural gas pipeline exploded in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, shaking homes, melting window blinds and shooting flames hundreds of feet into the air.
Three people were injured in the blast, which occurred at 1 a.m. near Amarillo, and they were taken to an area hospital with burns, said Potter County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Roger Short.
"My home is about 20 miles something away and I could see the flames from my home," Short said. "You could hear the roar of the flames 20 miles away."
Firefighters were able to contain most of the flames by 5:30 a.m. though small grass fires continued to burn, Short said.
Nearby residents were evacuated, and the pipeline's gas was shut off, Short said. One house was destroyed, and several others were damaged in Bushland, about 15 miles west of Amarillo, he said.
"The heat onto the homes, it did a lot of damage. You could see blinds inside the homes that were melted ... it was very hot," Short said.
Bushland Middle School principal, Mark Reasor, said about 60 people who were evacuated took shelter at the school for a few hours before returning home before dawn. Gas service had been cut off to nearby homes and Bushland's schools, officials said.
Messages left with the hospital for conditions of those injured were not immediately returned Thursday. A team of investigators was heading to the pipeline, said Robert Newberry, a spokesman for El Paso Natural Gas.
El Paso Natural Gas is a subsidiary of Houston-based El Paso Corp.


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Richmond is an interesting mixture of the majestic and the bijou; of the ancient and the new. Or newish. It has a fine little museum on the second floor of the old town hall where, as I peruse the model of Richmond Palace, as rebuilt in 1509 by Henry VII, I am suddenly blasted by `Roll Over Beethoven.' There is a temporary exhibition at present of the Rock 'n' Roll Years. It makes it hard to concentrate and as I leave and the voluntary custodian hopes I enjoyed my visit I am torn between honesty and politeness. Honesty wins.
`I wish you had said,' she tells me, `I could have turned it down.' But what was there to say? It would be unreasonable for me to expect everyone to share my taste for silence and it's not that I'm not a bit of an old rocker myself. `Do tell your friends when they visit to ask to have it turned down,' she says. So I'm telling you now.
The model is a good one, though. It shows the palace built by Henry VII to replace the manor of Shene destroyed by fire at Christmas, 1497. And even that was not the original Shene Manor. Before that stood the manor where Edward III died, deserted even by his servants who, led by his mistress Alice Perrers, had snatched the rings off his fingers. Edward's grandson, Richard II and his wife, Anne of Bohemia, used Shene as their favourite summer residence and it is recorded that each day they fed ten thousand guests, which hardly seems possible. But she was an extraordinary woman and much beloved of Richard, which is conveniently forgotten when people talk about his sexuality. He destroyed Shene after she died of the plague here in 1394. In the Undercroft Museum of Westminster Abbey there is a painted wooden funeral effigy of her, showing a very serious, perhaps rather sad looking woman with a long face and a rather endearing double chin.
Before he set out for Harfleur and Agincourt, Henry V founded two religious communities near Sheen. One was a Carthusian monastery on the site of the Old Deer Park, and the other was Sion monastery for the Bridgettine order of monks, nuns and lay brothers. In the centuries following the Dissolution, Shene's priory buildings became dilapidated and in the eighteenth century George III demolished those remaining to use the area as pasturage. The hamlet of West Shene was also demolished and now Shene is remembered only in the names of North and East Sheen and Sheen Common.
But back to Henry VII. Having rebuilt it, the king was so enamoured of his brainchild that he renamed it his `Manoyr of Richmount' or sometimes `Rychemonde' after his earldom of Richmond in Yorkshire. In fact, though, it was now a royal palace. His sons, Princes Arthur and Henry (later Henry VIII), were brought up here, where the court was famed for its culture and the surrounding country (Richmond Park) for hunting. Henry VII preferred this to all other royal residences and when he died here in 1509 it was rumoured that he left hoards of gold hidden all over the palace. Quite possibly - he was a notorious miser. You can still see parts of the palace: the gate still survives in Old Palace Yard as does the wardrobe, now used as private housing.
There are numerous attractive buildings in Richmond. Also on the green of Old Palace Yard with an imposing facade towards the river is Trumpeter's House, built in the early seventeenth century, probably by John Yemans, successor to Christopher Wren as Surveyor of Works. Metternich lived there in 1849 when Disraeli described it to his sister as `the most charming house in the world'. Also admired (though not by me) is Asgill House, in `honey-coloured stone', also facing the river and also on the site of the old palace. It was built in 1758 by Sir Robert Taylor for the banker Sir Charles Asgill.
Architectural purists describe Quinlan Terry's Richmond Riverside complex of offices, shops, restaurants and flats as pastiche whereas Prince Charles reckons it `an expression of harmony and proportion' and I would have to agree with both. That is pure Richmond.


Our Bites of Style word of the day is authority: the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.
Every day there are reasons to quit. And when Kim, the Texas Motor Speedway security guard, said I would NEVER get my car keys back, I considered quitting for a second.
But I'm not a quitter and neither are you.
Every day there are reasons to quit. And every day there are reasons to win.
Now which side will you give authority to?.
You can't be powerful and quit at the same time.
And for those lost car keys, well that's a story for another day..


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Welcome to the Clubs for Cats Weekly Club Spotlight!
Every week I'll be interviewing and chatting with the wonderful officers of different clubs at WPHS. As I get the inside scoop about some of the coolest clubs on campus, I'll be shadowing meetings, going through the elections process, and really getting that close insight of what it means to be a club member here at Winter Park.
To kick off the weekly spotlight I had to look no further than Winter Park's very own Eco Club! Eco Club's got a special place in my heart, as I'm an officer for this organization myself, but I wanted to achieve a different perspective of what it means to be a member and officer! I was fortunate enough to be able to sit down with one of the presidents of the club, Anna Schnitker, and ask her some questions!
S: Anna! It's been so long, I haven't seen you since third period! To start our interview today let's get to the basics, how long has this club been at Winter Park High School?
A: Ha! I know, the days go by so slowly lately, but I'm so excited to be able to sit down with you today! Eco Club started in 2019 and has been around for 3 years!
S: Even I didn't know that one. Now, describe your club in three words;
A: Hmm, three words to describe this club are community, accountability, and awareness. We use those words a lot during meetings too.
S: What is your club's mission?
A: Our club's mission is to work together to improve ecological awareness through efforts within our school and local community.
S: How about some activities/things you do in this club?
A: Some activities we do in Eco Club are thrifting trips, attending farmers markets, beach cleanups, and informational meetings discussing how to be responsible citizens within our environment.
S: What is your favorite part about being in this club?
A: My favorite part about being in this club is that I get to be more proactive in contributing to our planet and making the school a more eco- friendly place! I also love meeting and interacting with peers in the club.
S:What is the officer process like? Do officers in your club have a lot of responsibilities?
A: Yes, our roles are to be active participants in the movement and development of this club. We elect new officers each year to get fresh ideas for the club.
S: What made you want to originally join this club?
A: What made me originally join this club is the community that's involved in making the world a better place one step at a time. It is also a great place to meet new people.
S: How does your club make Winter Park High a better place?
A: Through our environmental efforts to brainstorm activities and contributions to our local community!
S: And to finish us off, is there anything you'd like to say to the student body?
A: YES! Join the eco club NOW!
Sadie Church, Clubs Column Editor
Sadie Church is a junior at Winter Park High School. She enjoys golfing, hanging out with her friends, reading, and taking endless photos of her dogs....
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My love for cinema is probably equal to my love for video games, if not higher. The two have a lot in common and it's often the first entertainment medium brought up in arguments and discussions of various aspects of gaming as a comparison. In particular I have a very fond love for martial arts movies and Hong Kong cinema in general. When I heard that these films were the greatest source of inspiration for Sleeping Dogs my interest in the game grew a thousandfold.
Read on to see why Sleeping Dogs might actually be the biggest surprise of PAX East 2012.
If you're not familiar with Sleeping Dogs here's a little bit of back information (check out our interview with Dan Sochan for more information): the game began as an original IP, then was picked up and re-branded to become a True Crimes sequel with nothing else changed, and eventually returned to being an original IP. While it has the background information of formerly being a True Crimes game I feel it's important to state that it's been an original experience from the beginning and nothing has changed in that regard.
At first Sleeping Dogs certainly looks and feels like any other third-person sandbox game taking place in a city with all the familiar trappings that go along with that. You'd be forgiven for thinking from a glance that it looks similar to something like Grand Theft Auto but in practice it becomes clear that this is an entirely different beast.
Not to put down any other open world game out there but Sleeping Dogs has a wonderful claim in that every aspect of the game feels incredibly solid from the melee fighting, the free-running, the shooting and the driving. Each feels as if it were the focus of the game in its own right and the transition between one to the next is seamless.
The key to navigating the city is a simple single-button parkour/free-running system which is both incredibly intuitive and very fluid looking. The game fully embraces its cinematic roots and the focus here is on looking cool and feeling like an action movie through and through and it succeeds in this in spades. The free-running nature is embraced even more when you take the sweeping layout of a city like Hong Kong into consideration.
Akin to a movie like The Transporter or old Jackie Chan flicks you'll be using everything strewn across the battlefield as a weapon and things can get quite messy in an insanely delightful manner very fast. Whether its something as simple as throwing a guy over a ledge or slamming his head into a plaster wall or something much more sinister involving the equation of "face + table saw" or using the burner of a stove to give them a make-over, you'll quickly fall in love with this part of the system.
There's just something incredibly satisfying about taking a guy and stuffing him into an exposed air vent on the roof of a building.
Getting an environmental kill is as simple as grabbing an enemy with the grapple button and pressing the action button at context sensitive areas, however you have to weaken them first so its not just a "press b to win" type of thing. Even further than that there are a few different enemy types and one in particular is impossible to grapple and will actually try to throw you around. This forces some tactics of crowd control before you can go impaling people on exposed rebar. But at the end of the fight you totally get to impale some dude on exposed rebar.
This all ties into the cinematic experience I keep bringing up to the point that while Sleeping Dogs is a purely single-player undertaking it's a game that can be played with company over and everybody else will have a blast just watching. There's something special about a game that can cause people watching over your shoulder to cry out in excitement at the action going on.
To break up the action you can of course pick up a gun through your adventure and the transition from brawler to third person shooter is incredibly seamless. The shooting feels solid and I imagine if one were able to consistently hold onto a gun you could easily play the entire game with mostly shooting should you feel like it. In an interesting design move you only have a single gun on you at any time, rather than sporting some insane arsenal to constantly fall back on.
During both types of combat I found the AI in the game to be pretty smart. Enemies would take cover if you were shooting at them and wouldn't just pop their head out at random waiting to see if you were going to stop any time soon. They seemed to make a conscious effort to not stand right next to explosive items in the environment and when fighting hand to hand actually fought you in a group rather than the "lets each take a turn getting our asses handed to us" tactic.
You had to constantly be on your toes and while part of this was learning how the game functions with it being my first time playing it I found that things weren't necessarily on the easy side of things and you have to be on your toes at all times.
Similar to the brawling and shooting the driving is just as well done with plenty of action movie touches to keep things interesting. At one point I snagged a motorcycle just to get to a mission faster and found that pressing A had you sit up on the seat a little bit. After a brief explanation I pulled up beside a passing moving truck and a button prompt appeared which had me leap from the motorcycle to the back of the truck, hanging off the edge.
Later in the demo we got to take part in a street race which in true action movie style centered around a girl and some competition over here of some fashion. At the heart it was a simple checkpoint style race to end in first place and with very tight arcade-style driving controls it would have remained such, except this is Sleeping Dogs where it doesn't matter what you're doing, you have to look cool doing it.
To that end the game features a simple mechanic while driving where with the press of a button when another car gets close you can shove into them, pushing them out of the way. Normally this will just slow them down a little bit but with some timing and finesse you can easily send them smashing into a building or down the wrong path, putting them out of the game for much longer.
Sleeping Dogs is all about style. The entire game has a focus on looking cool and doing awesome stuff, while at the same time not sacrificing anything under the hood to get this done. While the demo I played was still an Alpha build I found the game to be feeling incredibly tight across the board already.
Whether you're a fan of Hong Kong cinema or action/martial arts movies, open world games or just telling a great story Sleeping Dogs is something you're going to definitely want to keep an eye on. I can safely say that prior to PAX East I honestly knew next to nothing about this game and within the first five minutes of playing I knew it was something I would be following very closely.
A true cinematic experience, make sure to follow this one closely.


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UK will retaliate against state-sponsored cyber attacks, Chancellor warns
Middle path between cheek-turning and all-out war
By Gavin Clarke 1 Nov 2016 at 14:51
Microsoft Future Decoded Britain will strike back against nations launching cyber attacks on the UK's critical national infrastructure.
Chancellor Philip Hammond promised retaliatory measures against state-sponsored hackers while unveiling an expanded $1.9bn, five-year national cyber security strategy.
Crucially this isn't new money - Hammond's predecessor George Osborne had announced this in November 2015, during the last spending review.
What was new was the pledge Britain would go on the offensive against attackers and not simply turn the other cheek. The alternative, Hammond, warned was armed war.
Also new was a sharper focus, announced by Hammond, around tactics and strategy around cyber security to protect the nation's critical national infrastructure and business.
In October defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon said Britain had used cyber warfare against ISIS as part of the bid to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul.
"We will deter those who seek to steal from us, or harm our interests," Hammond told Microsoft's Future Decoded conference in London on Tuesday. "We will strengthen law enforcement to raise cost and reduce rewards," he said of criminal attackers.
He promised the UK would "continue to invest in cyber defense capabilities - the ability to trace and retaliate in kind is likely to be the best deterrent.
"If we don't have the ability to respond in cyberspace to attack that takes down power networks or air traffic control systems we would be left with the impossible choice of turning the other cheek or resorting to a military response - that's a choice we don't want to face."
"No doubt the precursor to any state-on-state conflict would be a campaign of escalating cyber attack. We will not only defend ourselves in cyberspace but will strike back in kind when attacked."
Moments before Hammond, who chairs the Cabinet's cross-department cyber-security committee, had listed high-profile cyber attacks against other nation's critical infrastructure.
He didn't name those responsible, but many attendees inferred the attacks were sponsored by Russia.
He referenced the April 2015 takedown of French TV network TV5 initially blamed on ISIS but subsequently attributed to a group of hackers with links to the Kremlin. A power blackout in the Ukraine following an attack on power utilities has also been blamed on Russia-based hackers.
Moscow has backed separatists in the former Soviet republic seeking the reunification of the USSR.
Hammond asked that suggestions as to who might be behind those attacks should be written on a postcard and posted to No. 11.
Under the new cyber strategy, Hammond pledged a five-year plan to "work to reduce the impact of cyber attacks and to drive up security standards across public and private sectors."
This would involve ensuring government networks are secure and see UK government "taking a more active cyber defence approach" using tactics such as automatic protection to secure UK users "by default".
He pointed to the recent rollout of software to cut to zero an estimated 50,000 fraudulent emails a day from hackers purporting to be from HMRC offering tax refunds in order to obtain people's bank details.
Hammond promised "increased investment" in the "next generation" of students and experts and talked up the formation of a virtual link-up between universities to secure laptops, tablets and smartphones.
The Chancellor also laid responsibility for greater security at the feet of Britain's chief executives.
Having name-checked TV5 and the Ukraine, he referenced last year's TalkTalk attack - which is almost certainly not the work of a nation state. Altogether five suspects, all based in the UK, have so far been arrested in connection with the 2015 hack.
That breach saw details of 156,959 customers sprung with TalkTalk fined a record £400,000 by the Information Commissioner.
"CEOs and boards must recognise they have responsibility to manage cybersecurity," Hammond said.
"Similarly, technology companies must take responsibility for incorporating the best possible security measures into the technology of their products. Getting this right will be crucial to keeping Britain at the forefront of digital security technology." ®
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