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Asscension Connection Public Call – The RMS Olympic/Titanic August 16, 2022
Rev. Kat Carroll
The Ascension Connection Invites You to a Public Call
6 pm UTC/GMT, 7 pm London / 8 pm Paris
US 11 am Pacific, 12 pm Central/Canada, 2 pm Eastern
The RMS Olympic
with Guest Speaker and Author, John Hamer
Per Wikipedia, The name Titanic derives from the Titans of Greek mythology. Built in Belfast, Ireland, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the RMS Titanic was the second of the three Olympic-class ocean liners—the first was the RMS Olympic and the third was the HMHS Britannic.
Britannic was originally to be called Gigantic and was to be over 1,000 feet (300 m) long. They were by far the largest vessels of the British shipping company, White Star Line's fleet, which was comprised of 29 steamers and tenders in 1912.
The three ships had their genesis in a discussion in mid-1907 between the White Star Line's chairman, J. Bruce Ismay, and the American financier J. P. Morgan, who controlled the White Star Line's parent corporation, the International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM).
The ties between Morgan and others as they relate to the creation of the Federal Reserve is a topic we hope John will dig into on this talk or during a future call.
John will be sharing the real story behind the sinking of RMS Titanic, one of two almost identical twin sister ships, in 1912.
In his Book, the RMS Olympic, John states:
"The story you are about to read, may both shock you and stretch the limits of your credulity, in equal measure".
"On the night of the 14th / 15th April 1912, a huge steamship, the largest and most luxurious the world had ever seen, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with a catastrophic loss of life. More than 1,500 people either drowned or much more commonly, froze to death in those icy waters, thus giving birth to one of the most dramatic, incredible, and enduring stories in the entire history of humanity".
"But what is the real truth of what happened that fateful night? You may think you know the real story, after all we have had the 'facts' of the matter thrust at us from all directions, ever since we were little more than children. But are you absolutely sure of those facts and could it be at all just possible that the 'facts' with which we are all so familiar, are maybe not so well-founded as we believe? And have the myths and legends that surround this event, served for over a century now merely to hide the truth and therefore to mislead us?"
To find out, join us with John Hamer on this Ascension Connection call!
Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 6pm UTC/GMT, 7pm London, 8pm Paris, 11am US Pacific, 2pm US Eastern but those who wish can show up 15 minutes early for an informal chat before starting.
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I have done the research on this years ago and yes there was a lot of "switching" going on. I wonder if John Hamer knows that a guy called Morgan Robertson wrote a book 14 years prior to the Titanic going down, called Wreck of the Titan. Some people think Robertson was clairvoyant but what it looks like is this is where the cabal got their idea from to sinking the Titanic. The cabal doesn't originate things, they get it from writers, scientists and others at the top of their game. They steal. We all should know that they steal. They steal everything.


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Landline to mobile calls get zero prefix
Business, In Other News
DoT accepts Trai's recommendation; Decision will come into force from January 1
Callers will soon be required to add '0' prefix for making calls from landlines to mobile phones in the country. (Pixabay)
New Delhi: Callers will soon be required to add '0' prefix for making calls from landlines to mobile phones in the country, with the telecom department asking telcos to make necessary arrangements by January 1 to implement the new system.
The department has accepted sectoral regulator Trai's recommendation for having the '0' prefix for such calls, a move that will create sufficient numbering space for telecom services.
The Department of Telecom (DoT) in a circular on `modification of dialling pattern from fixed line numbers to cellular mobile numbers' said in order to ensure adequate numbering resources for fixed line and mobile services, Trai's recommendations dated May 29, 2020 have been accepted by the Department.
"Following may be implemented...Fixed-to-mobile calls shall be dialled with prefix '0'. Suitable announcement may be fed in the fixed line switches to apprise the fixed line subscribers about the requirement of dialling the prefix '0' for all fixed-to-mobile calls," DoT said in a circular dated November 20.
This announcement should be played whenever a subscriber dials a fixed-to-mobile call without prefixing '0', it said.
"All the fixed line subscribers should be provided with `0' dialling facility, that is, STD dialling facility," said the circular posted on DoT's website.
DoT said that time till January 1 is allowed to all the telecom service providers to implement this new system.
"Compliance of the same may be intimated," DoT said.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in May this year had recommended dialling prefix '0' for a call from fixed line number to mobile number.
The regulator had, however, stated that the introduction of a dialling prefix for a particular type of call is not akin to increasing the number of digits in the telephone number.
Trai had then also stated that this change in dialling pattern will generate 2,544 million additional numbering resources for mobile services to cater to the future requirements.
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The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U.S. national security by achieving "Total Information Awareness" (TIA).

It was achieved by creating enormous computer databases to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States, including personal e-mails, social networks, credit card records, phone calls, medical records, and numerous other sources, without any requirement for a search warrant. The information was then analyzed for suspicious activities, connections between individuals, and "threats". The program also included funding for biometric surveillance technologies that could identify and track individuals using surveillance cameras and other methods.

Following public criticism that the technology's development and deployment could lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003. However, several IAO projects continued to be funded under different names, as revealed by Edward Snowden during the course of the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures.

History

The IAO was established after Admiral John Poindexter, former United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and SAIC executive Brian Hicks approached the US Department of Defense with the idea for an information awareness program after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Poindexter and Hicks had previously worked together on intelligence-technology programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA agreed to host the program and appointed Poindexter to run it in 2002.

The IAO began funding research and development of the Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program in February 2003 but renamed the program the Terrorism Information Awareness Program in May that year after an adverse media reaction to the program's implications for public surveillance.  Although TIA was only one of several IAO projects, many critics and news reports conflated TIA with other related research projects of the IAO, with the result that TIA came in popular usage to stand for an entire subset of IAO programs.

The TIA program itself was the "systems-level" program of the IAO that intended to integrate information technologies into a prototype system to provide tools to better detect, classify, and identify potential terrorists with the goal to increase the probability that authorized agencies of the United States could preempt adverse actions.

As a systems-level program of programs, TIA's goal was the creation of a "counter-terrorism information architecture" that integrated technologies from other IAO programs (and elsewhere, as appropriate). The TIA program was researching, developing, and integrating technologies to virtually aggregate data, to follow subject-oriented link analysis, to develop descriptive and predictive models through data mining or human hypothesis, and to apply such models to additional datasets to identify terrorists and terrorist groups.

Among the other IAO programs that were intended to provide TIA with component data aggregation and automated analysis technologies were the Genisys, Genisys Privacy Protection, Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery, and Scalable Social Network Analysis programs.

On August 2, 2002, Dr. Poindexter gave a speech at DARPAtech 2002 entitled "Overview of the Information Awareness Office" in which he described the TIA program.

In addition to the program itself, the involvement of Poindexter as director of the IAO also raised concerns among some, since he had been earlier convicted of lying to Congress and altering and destroying documents pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair, although those convictions were later overturned on the grounds that the testimony used against him was protected.

On January 16, 2003, Senator Russ Feingold introduced legislation to suspend the activity of the IAO and the Total Information Awareness program pending a Congressional review of privacy issues involved.  A similar measure introduced by Senator Ron Wyden would have prohibited the IAO from operating within the United States unless specifically authorized to do so by Congress, and would have shut the IAO down entirely 60 days after passage unless either the Pentagon prepared a report to Congress assessing the impact of IAO activities on individual privacy and civil liberties or the President certified the program's research as vital to national security interests.  In February 2003, Congress passed legislation suspending activities of the IAO pending a Congressional report of the office's activities (Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, No.108–7, Division M, §111(b) [signed Feb.  20, 2003]).

In response to this legislation, DARPA provided Congress on May 20, 2003 with a report on its activities.  In this report, IAO changed the name of the program to the Terrorism Information Awareness Program and emphasized that the program was not designed to compile dossiers on US citizens, but rather to research and develop the tools that would allow authorized agencies to gather information on terrorist networks. Despite the name change and these assurances, the critics continued to see the system as prone to potential misuse or abuse.

As a result, House and Senate negotiators moved to prohibit further funding for the TIA program by adding provisions to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 (signed into law by President Bush on October 1, 2003).  Further, the Joint Explanatory Statement included in the conference committee report specifically directed that the IAO as program manager for TIA be terminated immediately.

Research
IAO research was conducted along five major investigative paths: secure collaboration problem solving; structured discovery; link and group understanding; context aware visualization; and decision making with corporate memory.

Among the IAO projects were:

Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID)

The Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID) project developed automated biometric identification technologies to detect, recognize and identify humans at great distances for "force protection", crime prevention, and "homeland security/defense" purposes.

Its goals included programs to:
 Develop algorithms for locating and acquiring subjects out to 150 meters (500 ft) in range.
 Fuse face and gait recognition into a 24/7 human identification system.
 Develop and demonstrate a human identification system that operates out to 150 meters (500 ft) using visible imagery.
 Develop a low power millimeter wave radar system for wide field of view detection and narrow field of view gait classification.
 Characterize gait performance from video for human identification at a distance.
 Develop a multi-spectral infrared and visible facial recognition system.

Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery
Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery (EELD) developed technologies and tools for automated discovery, extraction and linking of sparse evidence contained in large amounts of classified and unclassified data sources (such as phone call records from the NSA call database, internet histories, or bank records).

EELD was designed to design systems with the ability to extract data from multiple sources (e.g., text messages, social networking sites, financial records, and web pages). It was to develop the ability to detect patterns comprising multiple types of links between data items or people communicating (e.g., financial transactions, communications, travel, etc.).

It is designed to link items relating potential "terrorist" groups and scenarios, and to learn patterns of different groups or scenarios to identify new organizations and emerging threats.

Genisys

Genisys aimed at developing technologies which would enable "ultra-large, all-source information repositories".

Vast amounts of information were going to be collected and analyzed, and the available database technology at the time was insufficient for storing and organizing such enormous quantities of data. So they developed techniques for virtual data aggregation in order to support effective analysis across heterogeneous databases, as well as unstructured public data sources, such as the World Wide Web. "Effective analysis across heterogenous databases" means the ability to take things from databases which are designed to store different types of data—such as a database containing criminal records, a phone call database and a foreign intelligence database. The World Wide Web is considered an "unstructured public data source" because it is publicly accessible and contains many different types of data—such as blogs, emails, records of visits to web sites, etc.—all of which need to be analyzed and stored efficiently.

Another goal was to develop "a large, distributed system architecture for managing the huge volume of raw data input, analysis results, and feedback, that will result in a simpler, more flexible data store that performs well and allows us to retain important data indefinitely."

Genisys had an internal "Privacy Protection Program." It was intended to restrict analysts' access to irrelevant information on private U.S. citizens, enforce privacy laws and policies via software mechanisms, and report misuse of data.

Scalable Social Network Analysis
Scalable Social Network Analysis (SSNA) aimed at developing techniques based on social network analysis for modeling the key characteristics of terrorist groups and discriminating these groups from other types of societal groups.

Sean McGahan, of Northeastern University said the following in his study of SSNA:

Futures Markets Applied to Prediction (FutureMAP)

Futures Markets Applied to Prediction (FutureMAP) was intended to harness collective intelligence by researching prediction market techniques for avoiding surprise and predicting future events. The intent was to explore the feasibility of market-based trading mechanisms  to predict political instability, threats to national security, and other major events in the near future. In laymans terms, FutureMap would be a website that allowed people to bet on when a terrorist attack would occur. The bookmaker would have been the federal government. Several Senators were outraged at the very notion of such a program. Then Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said on the floor of the Senate "I couldn't believe that we would actually commit $8 million to create a Web site that would encourage investors to bet on futures involving terrorist attacks and public assassinations. ... I can't believe that anybody would seriously propose that we trade in death. ... How long would it be before you saw traders investing in a way that would bring about the desired result?" Democratic Senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden said, "The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque." The ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, thought the program was so ridiculous that he thought initial reports of it were the result of a hoax. The program was then dropped.

TIDES

Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization (TIDES) developed advanced language processing technology to enable English speakers to find and interpret critical information in multiple languages without requiring knowledge of those languages.

Outside groups (such as universities, corporations, etc.) were invited to participate in the annual information retrieval, topic detection and tracking, automatic content extraction, and machine translation evaluations run by NIST.

Genoa / Genoa II
Genoa and Genoa II focused on providing advanced decision-support and collaboration tools to rapidly deal with and adjust to dynamic crisis management and allow for inter-agency collaboration in real-time. Another function was to be able to make estimates of possible future scenarios to assist intelligence officials in deciding what to do, in a manner similar to the DARPA's Deep Green program which is designed to assist Army commanders in making battlefield decisions.

Wargaming the Asymmetric Environment (WAE)
Wargaming the Asymmetric Environment (WAE) focused on developing automated technology capable of identifying predictive indicators of terrorist activity or impending attacks by examining individual and group behavior in broad environmental context and examining the motivation of specific terrorists.

Effective Affordable Reusable Speech-to-text (EARS)

Effective Affordable Reusable Speech-to-text (EARS) developed automatic speech-to-text transcription technology whose output is substantially richer and much more accurate than previously possible. The aim of EARS was to focus on everyday human-to-human speech from broadcasts and telephone conversations in multiple languages. It is expected to increase the speed with which speech can be processed by computers by 100 times or more.

The intent is to create a core enabling technology (technology that is used as a component for future technologies) suitable for a wide range of future surveillance applications.

Babylon
Babylon aimed to develop rapid, two-way, natural language speech translation interfaces and platforms. Its goal was to help the warfighter in field environments to complete tasks such as force protection, refugee processing, and medical triage.

Bio-Surveillance
Bio-Surveillance aimed to develop the necessary information technologies and resulting prototype capable of detecting the covert release of a biological pathogen automatically, and significantly earlier than traditional approaches.

Communicator

Communicator was to develop "dialogue interaction" technology that enables warfighters to talk with computers, such that information will be accessible on the battlefield or in command centers without ever having to touch a keyboard.  The Communicator Platform was to be both wireless and mobile, and to be designed to function in a networked environment.

The dialogue interaction software was to interpret the context of the dialogue in order to improve performance, and to be capable of automatically adapting to new topics (because situations quickly change in war) so conversation is natural and efficient. The Communicator program emphasized task knowledge to compensate for natural language effects and noisy environments. Unlike automated translation of natural language speech, which is much more complex due to an essentially unlimited vocabulary and grammar, the Communicator program is directed task specific issues so that there are constrained vocabularies (the system only needs to be able to understand language related to war). Research was also started to focus on foreign language computer interaction for use in supporting coalition operations.

Live exercises were conducted involving small unit logistics operations involving the United States Marines to test the technology in extreme environments.

Components of TIA projects that continue to be developed
Despite the withdrawal of funding for the TIA and the closing of the IAO, the core of the project survived. Legislators included a classified annex to the Defense Appropriations Act that preserved funding for TIA's component technologies, if they were transferred to other government agencies.
TIA projects continued to be funded under classified annexes to Defense and Intelligence appropriation bills. However, the act also stipulated that the technologies be used only for military or foreign intelligence purposes involving foreigners.

TIA's two core projects are now operated by Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) located among the 60-odd buildings of "Crypto City" at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, MD. ARDA itself has been shifted from the NSA to the Disruptive Technology Office (run by the Director of National Intelligence). They are funded by National Foreign Intelligence Program for foreign counterterrorism intelligence purposes.

One technology, codenamed "Basketball", is the Information Awareness Prototype System, the core architecture to integrate all the TIA's information extraction, analysis, and dissemination tools. Work on this project is conducted by SAIC through its former Hicks & Associates consulting arm, and run by former Defense and military officials and which had originally been awarded US$19 million IAO contract to build the prototype system in late 2002.

The other project has been re-designated "Topsail" (formerly Genoa II) and would provide IT tools to help anticipate and preempt terrorist attacks. SAIC has also been contracted to work on Topsail, including a US$3.7 million contract in 2005.

Media coverage and criticism

The first mention of the IAO in the mainstream media came from The New York Times reporter John Markoff on February 13, 2002. Initial reports contained few details about the program. In the following months, as more information emerged about the scope of the TIA project, civil libertarians became concerned over what they saw as the potential for the development of an Orwellian mass surveillance system.

On November 14, 2002, The New York Times published a column by William Safire in which he claimed "[TIA] has been given a $200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans." Safire has been credited with triggering the anti-TIA movement.

See also
 ADVISE, full population data mining & analysis to "monitor social threats"
 Carnivore, FBI US digital interception program
 Combat Zones That See, or CTS, a project to link up all security cameras citywide and "track everything that moves".
 Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
 ECHELON, NSA worldwide digital interception program
 Fusion center
 Government Information Awareness
 Information Processing Technology Office
 Intellipedia, a collection of wikis used by the U.S. intelligence community to "connect the dots" between pieces of intelligence
 MALINTENT—similar program to HumanID
 Mass surveillance
 Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
 Pre-crime concept in criminology
 PRISM (surveillance program)
 Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations
 TALON (database)
 Utah Data Center

References

Further reading
 Copies of the original IAO web pages formerly available at https://web.archive.org/web/20021123234437/http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ (June 12, 2002 – June 3, 2003) can be found at
 John Poindexter, Overview of the Information Awareness Office (Remarks as prepared for delivery by Dr. John Poindexter, Director, Information Awareness Office, at the DARPATech 2002 Conference) (August 2, 2002).

External links
 Information Awareness Office

Media coverage

Academic articles

Critical views

Proponent views

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Also:

DARPA offices
Government databases in the United States
Mass surveillance
2002 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 2002

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Date: June 12, 2017Author: Grant 6 Comments
Legion Wargames has a lot of great looking games currently on their Customer Pre-Order (CPO) system. If you are unfamiliar with Legion, we interviewed Randy Lein earlier this year and he had some really interesting things to say about the business. Legion typically focuses on lesser known battles and conflicts but also do some bigger monster games as well. Currently on the CPO is this great looking game called Nemesis Burma 1944 covering the Japanese attack on Allied troops in the CBI Theater in 1944.
Grant: Kim, first off, tell us a little about yourself. What games do you play when not designing? What are your hobbies?
Kim: Designing steals a lot of my time and has become my hobby and trade. When I take the time and play something I usually try something new from my stack of unplayed games, or I pick some favourite like Combat Commander. Other games that I enjoy are Paths of Glory, Reds, SCS-system, to mention a few examples.
Grant: One of my personal favorites as well. Not many games better than Combat Commander. How did you get into design? What do you love most about it? What is something you dislike?
Kim: More than 12 years ago, I got the opportunity to test Olivier Clementin's game that covered the French Indochina war in the north, using the OCS system. I believed the scale was too cumbersome, so I asked him if it was okay that I used his order of battle to construct something myself. This became Tonkin The First Indochina War 1950-1954 that was released by VaeVictis. I love the creative part of it. That is why I also develop my own games and do the graphics. Usually, it is a bad idea to do both design and development, but luckily, I have pulled it off. One thing I dislike is that the business is so small. There is really no money in it, so everyone involved is working more or less for free.
These counters are DRAFT only for playtesting purposes and are not yet finalized.
Grant: What is most important for a good designer to focus on in creating a game?
Kim: To create challenges for the players. One must never forget that it is a game. A game that is unplayable due to size and system, or unplayable due to being boring, is a failed game. The designer must create a game that is smooth to play, and fun to play until the very end, and offers constant tension and challenges that will keep player's interest and focus high.
Grant: What designers have influenced your designs?
Kim: Many often refer to designers of the past. I think the golden age of wargames is now. Designers that I deeply respect for their ability to create something new are Chad and Kai Jensen, Carl Paradis, Volko Ruhnke, Ted Raicer, Dean Essig and Adam Starkweather.
Grant: I see where your Consimworld user name has the following quote under it: "Kim Kanger, the Quentin Tarantino of wargaming design". What does this mean and what does it say about you?
Kim: I was very flattered when Alan Murphy called me that. I see it as a reference that describes my games as stylish and with high drama.
Grant: What does the following quote you use on the headers of the rules mean and who said it? – "The spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris"
Kim: "Nemesis" was the Greek Goddess of retribution who punished humans that had hubris (…against the Gods).
Grant: What is Nemesis Burma 1944 about?
Kim: It covers the Japanese and Allied campaigns in northern Burma that took place between March and August 1944. You have basically four fronts. To the west where Japanese units attacked into the borderlands of British India. To the north US and Chinese troops under General Stilwell are pressing southwards. To the east into China you have numerous Chinese divisions trying to force out the Japanese division in front of them. In the centre, Japanese units and the British Chindit units are chasing each other.
Grant: Why did you feel you wanted to design a wargame on this topic?
Kim: Well, why not! 🙂 These campaigns offer such drama. The Japanese invested six regular divisions plus auxiliary units that equals two-three divisions. They were facing Allied forces that outnumbered them and still they managed to fight for five months with virtually no supply. In the end, the Japanese divisions were merely shadows of their former strength and even though they fought like maniacs, it became one of Japan's biggest military defeats.
Grant: What is the units force structure? What are the difference between large units and small units?
The colored counters correspond to one of four nationalities involved in the conflict. Notice the size difference in the right most counter which represents a battalion versus the larger counters representing regiments and brigades. These counters are DRAFT only and are not yet finalized.
Kim: The large ones are regiments and brigades. The small ones are battalions.
Grant: Take us through the anatomy of one of your counters. What do the various colors, colored headers, and symbols (including dots and stars) represent?
Kim: Dots and stars and coloured headers are just ways to show which units that belong to the same division. The two main numbers are strength and movement. A movement value that is red represents that it is motorized. The colour behind the units symbols shows you if they are normal units or whether they are support units or light troops. In the upper left corner is either a letter that indicates where on the map it is set up, or a number that indicates which game turn it will arrive. The most important number is the small one between the two main numbers. That is the quality number of the unit.
Grant: What are transporter units? What types are there and how does this relate to the history of the battle? I love the mules!
Kim: There were actually elephants used as well, but I had to draw the line somewhere. 🙂 Transporters are conveyors of supply. You have supply depots on the map with a range number in them. To extend the range, you create a "chain" of one or more transporters, each with a range number as well.
Grant: What are the two types of different Chinese forces and why is this included in the design? Do they operate differently?
Kim: The major difference in the Chinese units are that those under Stilwell were better trained and supplied compared to those that were in China. There are some different limitations with these two forces so one has to be able to differ them.
Grant: I like the different Zones of Controls for various units. How does this work and what does it represent?
Kim: ZoC has one purpose only. It prevents your opponent from doing an operation stretch – to move with a doubled movement value. You may not start or enter an enemy ZoC. Then again, a unit's quality decides what kind of ZoC that unit has. A quality 3 has ZoC all around, regardless of terrain. Quality 2 has ZoC in adjacent hexes that are connected with the unit by road or track. Quality 1 has no ZoC at all. The differences in ZoC based on Quality is reflective of the troops ability to defend.
Grant: What are the Satisfaction and Lament tracks and how do they work? What did you hope to model with this element? How does it affect play?
Kim: If the game had a simple victory point system, then the Allies would win every time since they almost certainly will retake everything that Japan conquered plus some extra territory. I wanted a system where you will be rewarded the earlier you take something and the longer you control it. In short, satisfaction is awarded when you succeed in battle and when you take control of important sites. This will advance your Superior's happiness. Then the Superior will lament over the amount of territory that your opponent controls and the amount of losses that you have suffered. So, the quicker, the easier, the longer, the better you play and control, the better it is. The longer the opponent keeps control of territory, the worse it is. So you have to balance this.
Grant: Please give us a rundown of the map, the area it covers, it's scale as well as the various Off-Map Boxes and their purpose. Why did you decide to include the setup letters?
Kim: The map goes from Dimapur and Imphal in the west, to the Salween River and beyond in the east. From the Stilwell force in the north (approximately 50 miles north of Myitkyina) to a map edge that is around 60 miles north of Mandalay. Each hex is 10 miles, and each game turn is roughly two weeks. The Allies have an Off-Map Box which is a mid-stop for reinforcements. The setup letters on the map are there to facilitate setup. There are corresponding letters on the counters for ease of setup.
Grant: How does the terrain affect the game? Is this true to the history of the battle?
Kim: The terrain is mainly something that slows you down unless you are able to move along the roads and tracks, and paths for some units. Since supply range is measured in movement points, terrain therefore also has an impact on your supply range. Hills and mountains and major rivers will also affect combat.
Grant: How does the Allied Resources Scale work and what does it model in the design?
Kim: I have created a correlation between how many losses and important sites the Allies lose and how many resource points the Allies receive. Each reinforcement demands a resource point to be allowed to be moved from the off-map box to the map. So, the worse it goes for the Allies, the more reinforcements will be released, and vice versa.
Grant: How does the Monsoon affect gameplay?
Kim: There are two monsoons: Light monsoon and heavy monsoon. Both sides start to take attrition losses when the light monsoon starts. Minor rivers also become major rivers, and some Japanese supply depots are able to offer river supply. The amount of air support is decreased. When the heavy monsoon starts, the replacement rate goes down for both players (malaria) and the movement cost for all terrain doubles.
Grant: What is the game turn sequence and how does it work? Why did you decide to use the phase chit pulls and what element of the battle does this replicate?
Kim: Both players each have four phases: Assault (movement and "overrun"); Attack (a short move and attack); Supply Check; Reinforcements (+ replacements). Both players may choose their first chit/phase, which may not be the one that was last in the previous game turn. Then both players alternate drawing chits, Japan first. This way you will never know for sure what your next phase will be, and what your opponent's next phase will be. I believe this depicts war more accurately where both sides (especially in this terrain and weather) were unable to know what and when the opponent did things, and were also unable to know when you yourself could do things and in what order. The exception was the main priority that you tried to emphasize on this "game turn".
Grant: What are the different types of movement? How do units create Bunkers? How do Ambush markers affect movement?
Kim: You have normal movement based on your movement value. You have limited movement, which you will suffer if the unit in question does not have full supply. This means it will pay the full cost of the terrain in each hex (no benefit from roads, tracks or paths). In both cases, a unit can do an operational stretch which, as described earlier, will double your movement value if you don't start or enter an enemy ZoC. A unit can create a Bunker if it does not move during the Assault Phase. The Japanese can place a certain number of Ambush markers adjacent to their units during the Assault Phase. An Ambush will cost a +1 movement point for the Allies to enter (which is much more important than what it sounds like). Allies may not enter an Ambush when doing an operational stretch or retreat into one.
Grant: What is Allied Air Movement? How does Rail Movement work?
Kim: The Allies can move a few units from airfield (including one in the Off-Map Box) to airfield. Both sides can move along their own railway. For the Allies, this includes rail movement from Dimpaur to the Stilwell front. All this takes place during the reinforcement phase.
Grant: Please take us through an example of combat so we can get a feel for how it works.
Kim: I have something that I call flexible combat. I have divided a combat into two: The first is the actual contact with possible combat losses. The second is the possible invasion of the defending hex. Both sides choose a main unit each to supply a quality value. It will give the side that produces the better quality a number of column shifts equal to the difference between the two units. You roll on the combat table. After both sides have removed any step losses, both sides once again choose a unit each. The attacker now decides whether to enforce the retreat with the chosen unit (if an "r" / "R" was received in the combat result). If the attacker does so, the attacker pays with a number of step losses equal to the difference in quality between the two units (but only if the attacker has a lesser quality). Now the defender can either retreat or refuse. If the defender refuses, then a step loss is taken plus the difference in quality (if the defender has a lesser quality). Through this, you can first have attritional combat and then decide if you wish to take the hex. The defender can then decide whether to retreat or to stay. All this as long as you have the will and the necessary steps.
Grant: What does the CRT look like and what are the various types of combat results?
Kim: Step losses, usually for both sides, and often combined with Retreat (r) result. See the previous answer.
Grant: How does Massive Combat work and how is it best used? How do Banzai attacks work?
Kim: Massive combat can be declared when you have at least eight participating steps involved but still no more than 3:1 in odds. A lot of troops and no-one is clearly superior. Then both sides will take an extra step loss. The Japanese can declare a Banzai in both attack and defense. The Japanese will then get a +/-1 DRM in their favour. The downside is that any losses are permanent losses and may not be replaced (and this is an important feature in the game. The Japanese army will run out if tempted to use Banzai too often).
Grant: How does supply differ in this design from other war games? What are the differences from full supply, limited and out of supply and what effects do they have on units?
Kim: Your supply is only checked when your Supply Check chit is drawn. Full supply is when you can trace supply, which gives you full strength in attack and defense. Limited supply is when you can only trace river supply (Japanese only) or if you trace supply through the "wrong channels", which gives you half strength in attack but full in defense. Out of supply is exactly that, which gives you half strength in both attack and defense. Out of supply will also make you suffer attrition step losses. The lower the quality, the quicker the losses come. Units in limited or out of supply may not conduct assault combat, only combat during attack phases.
Grant: What are the Chindits and Galahad units and what makes them special?
Kim: They are never out of supply. They will always be in limited supply (unless in full supply, of course). [Editor's Note: The Chindits, known officially as the Long Range Penetration Groups, were special operations units of the British and Indian armies, which saw action in 1943–1944, during the Burma Campaign. The creation of British Army Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, the Chindits were formed for raiding operations against the Imperial Japanese Army, especially long-range penetration: attacking Japanese troops, facilities and lines of communication, deep behind Japanese lines. Their operations were marked by prolonged marches through extremely difficult terrain, by underfed troops often weakened by diseases such as malaria and dysentery. So, basically these guys were tough as nails! Also, Merrill's Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a United States Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit, which fought in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI). The unit became famous for its deep-penetration missions behind Japanese lines, often engaging Japanese forces superior in number.]
Grant: How does the Reinforcements Phase work? What is different from the Allied to the Japanese process?
Kim: The Japanese will just receive their reinforcements, while the Allies will receive all their reinforcements to the Off-Map Box. From there, the Allied played has to release units depending on how many resource points that are spent.
Grant: How does the Report to your Superior portion of the End of Game Turn Work? Why did you feel you needed to include this in the design?
Kim: That is moment when you try to make your Superior happy based on what you have achieved during the game turn, while the Superior laments on how much the opponent still controls on the map.
Grant: How is victory achieved?
Kim: Either in instant defeat (your Superior hits "9" and the opponent's hits "0"), which is a very rare occurrence, or who has the happiest Superior on game turn 10.
Kim: Well…two things perhaps: The balance between the Satisfaction and Lament element, and all things that comes with the quality value (ZoC, operational stretch, combat, attrition).
Grant: What has changed through the playtest process? Please give specific examples.
Kim: So many changes are done all the time. I have done more than thirty updates of the rules and I expect to do another ten at least before I'm satisfied. The main issue is balance. You can't have a situation where both players see already at mid-session who is the winner. There must be a fine balance that will hold onto the tension until the very end. Then again, this is a system where it is possible to make mistakes like in chess. You make a move that seems harmless and suddenly your opponent gets an opportunity to stab you. You must play well all the time to survive.
Grant: What is the timeline for the release of the game?
Kim: I hope and strive to get this game at everyone's table by the end of September, which means, considering the time it takes to produce a game, that the first components, like the counter sheets, must be handed over for production already in June.
Grant: What has it been like working with Legion Wargames?
Kim: Randy Lein and I have worked together for a long time, even before Legion Wargames was founded, so I know him well. Randy has the magical ability to be a one-man show while giving you the impression that he has a big professional staff. He has succeeded in keeping a very high component quality in everything that Legion releases. So, I trust him completely.
Grant: What other projects are you working on at this time?
Kim: I have another game for preorder at Legion: Heart of Darkness, which is a game of adventure in 19th century Africa. It is in the spirit of the old classic Avalon Hill game: Source of the Nile (but with a different system).
Thanks for your time Kim. I am very excited about this game and love a good game that has different scoring elements, such as the Superior Satisfaction and Lament. I look forward to playing it later this year. If you are interested in the game, you can find it at the following CPO order link on the Legion Wargames website: http://www.legionwargames.com/legion_NEM.html
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Thank you for another great interview! I have gotten my hands on a few of Legion Wargames' games, a few of Kim Kangers' designs (Tonkin, Dien Bien Phu, the Final Gamble, and Ici, c'est la France 1st edition). Every single one of them is a work of art and so much so that it has made me a dedicated Legion Wargames fan. The designs the company puts out are great and the component quality, something for me that can make or break a game, never fails to disappoint.
Luckily I found out about Legion's CPO pre-order program and have half a dozen games on my pre-order list already. Thanks to you that now includes Nemesis Burma 1944. Target for Today is on its way in the mail as we speak. I enjoy the unique campaigns and battles that Legion Wargames and its designers find to craft games around. It keeps things fresh, interesting and I sure do learn a lot when wargaming lesser known historical situations compared to playing the same battles or campaigns over and over in different designs.
I am currently reading "Inferno The World at War 1939-1945" by Max Hastings. The book covers the Pacific War as well as the European theater and places like Bataan, Corregidor and Burma are covered in the section of the book I am reading right now. General Stillwell is also in the book. It is awesome to be able to "play" history once I get my hands on some more great games such as this!
Awesome! I also have a few Legion Wargames on my CPO including Nemesis, Corregidor and Demyansk Shield. I agree that they definitely take great effort to make amazing components and focus on the small things that make such a big difference in wargames. Legion Wargames is a very good secret that more wargamers need to discover! We have upcoming interviews on several of their new designs including Target for Today and Miracle at Dunkerque. Thanks for reading the blog!
Great interview. I got Nemesis on preorder awhile back due to the topic and the designer. Dien Bien Phu is an awesome game, so this is pretty much auto-buy for me.
Thanks for reading. I was impressed by Kim's thoroughness on the game and really love the various choices for mechanics. This one is also on my CPO list.
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Metropolitan Pavel had a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russian Federation in Philippines.
The 21st of October His Eminence Pavel Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi had a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russian Federation in Philippines and with the representatives of the Old Oriental churches.
Metropolitan Pavel celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of St. Matrona of Moscow in Davao city.
The 20th of October 2019
On Week 18 at Pentecost, Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of St. Matrona of Moscow in Davao city.
His Eminence was accompanied by: Priest Sergius Nagorny, Head of the Office of the Khanty-Mansiysk Diocese; clergyman of the church of st. Matrona of Moscow in Davao city, Hieromonk Cornelius (Molev), clergyman of the Khanty-Mansiysk diocese priest Evgeny Chebykin, clergyman of the Khanty-Mansiysk diocese deacon Anthony Dolgushin.
At the end of the service, Metropolitan Pavel addressed the audience:
«Dear fathers, brothers and sisters! Let me from the heart to congratulate you on the holiday of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ!
Today we heard in the apostolic reading: "It is good the brethren to be together." These words confirm that we have one Lord, we are one family, God has no ethnic difference, there is no Hellenic, Jew, Russian or Filipino – we are all His children, and He is our Father. Our task is to treat each other as an image and likeness of God. And in order to become like the image of God, and this is one of the main tasks of the Christian life, it is important not only to do good deeds and be exemplary in life, but it is very important to realize and see with our spiritual eyes our own sins. I am very happy to be with you today, performing the Divine Liturgy, the most important part of the Divine Services, when we were united in Christ, from the one body and blood of Christ. Let us be united in prayer, in deeds and in thoughts, and God grant that the Lord give us strength in carrying our earthly cross. I want to ask for your prayers, I'll have a long journey ahead: first to Manila, then through China again to Russia, and after some time I will come back here again. We know that prayer does not know the distance, I wish everyone the help of God, I thank everyone again for common prayers, God bless everyone!»
чрез Китай снова в Россию, и через какое- то время вновь вернутся сюда, к вам. Мы знаем, что молитва не знает расстояний, всем желаю помощи Божией, благодарю всех еще раз за общие молитвы, храни всех Господь!»
Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel performed an All-Night Vigil in the church of St. bl. Matrona of Moscow in Davao city.
On the eve of Week 18 at Pentecost, Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel performed an All-Night Vigil in the church of St. bl. Matrona of Moscow in Davao city. His Eminence was accompanied by: Priest Sergius Nagorny, Head of the Office of the Khanty-Mansiysk Diocese; clergyman of the church of st. Matrona of Moscow in the Davao city, Hieromonk Cornelius (Molev), clergyman of the Khanty-Mansiysk diocese, Deacon Anthony Dolgushin.
Metropolitan Pavel celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Kinabalan, Mindanao island.
Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the feast day of the church in of St. Apostle Thomas in Kinabalan, Mindanao island.
His Eminence was consecrated: the rector of the church of St. John of Shanghai, Santa Maria Priest Siluan Thompson, Head of the Office of the Khanty-Mansiysk Diocese Priest Sergius Nagorny; clergyman of the church of the Resurrection of Christ, General Santos hieromonk Vincent (Romanyuk), clergyman of the church of St. Matrona of Moscow in Davao city, Hieromonk Cornelius (Molev), clergyman of the church Matrons of Moscow, Priest Joakim Gonzales,, Priest Moses Cahilig, Priest Roman Buniel, clergyman of the Khanty-Mansi diocese, Deacon Anthony Dolgushin. The archpastor also performed the Sacrament of Baptism for the inhabitants of Kinabalan. After visiting the parishe of the Holy Epiphany in Talas, Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel held a meeting of the clergy of the island of Mindanao.
Metropolitan Pavel visited the parishes of southern part of the island of Mindanao.
Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel visited the parishes of the southern group on the island of Mindanao, Republic of the Philippines.
The archpastor served a moleben at the parish of St. Nicholas of Myra in Kaiupo, and at the parish of St. John of Shanghaiin Kiamba, after which he talked with representatives of the community and presented everyone with souvenirs. Also Vladyka Pavel visited the unfinished temple in Maitum.
Metropolitan Pavel visited the parishes of northern and central parts of the island of Mindanao.
The 17th of October 2019 On the second day of the stay of Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi on the island of Mindanao, Republic of the Philippines, was dedicated to visiting the parishes of the northern and central groups. Vladyka visited the parish of St. App Peter and Pavel in Salasang, the parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Arakan and the parish of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Makalangot. In the central group of the parishes, Metropolitan Pavel visited the community of St. John of Shanghai in the village of Santa Maria, and also visited the parish of St. Isidore Rostovsky in Alabel. While visiting parishes, the archpastor performed a prayer service and talked with parishioners. Vladyka Pavel spoke about the significance of the Christian faith in human life, about the structure of the Orthodox community, and spoke about himself and his ministry. In memory of the meeting, parishioners received commemorative gifts from Metropolitan Pavel — icons, beads, scarves.
Metropolitan Pavel met with the mayor of Davao City.
Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel, who was on a working visit to the island of Mindanao, Republic of the Philippines, met with the mayor of Davao City, Mindanao Island, Ms. Sara Duterte-Carpio.
During the conversation, the parties discussed various issues of cooperation in the development of church life in the parishes of the Philippine-Vietnamese diocese located on the island of Mindanao.
The meeting was also attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of the Philippines Igor Anatolyevich Hovaev. Also, the Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel held a working meeting with the City Consul Pilar Braga.
Metropolitan Pavel visited the local parishes of the Northern Group in Philippines.
On the first day of his stay on the island of Mindanao, Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi Pavel visited the local parishes of the Northern Group.
Metropolitan Pavel visited the parish in Meokan of Saint Martyr Isidore, parish in Little Baguio of St. Helena Equal-to-the-Apostles, parish in Malibatuan of St. Righteous Anna. In each community, the archpastor performed a prayer service, talked with the parishioners, and then gave them memorable gifts – prayer ropes, scarves, icons.
The 15th of October 2019 His Eminence Pavel Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi arrived in Mindanao island of Philippines Republic. In the Francisco Bangoy airport of Davao City His Eminence was met by the head of the Diocesan Chancellery of the Khanty-Mansiysk Diocese priest Sergiy Nagornyy and the priest of st.Matrona parish of Davao City hieromonk Kornily (Molev).
On the feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in the church of the Dormition in Singapore, the first meeting of the Synod of the Patriarchal Exarchate of South-East Asia took place.
The Synod was headed by the Patriarchal Exarch of South-East Asia, Metropolitan of Singapore and South-East Asia, Sergiy. He was joined by the Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi, Pavel and the Archbishop of Korea, Theophan. During the meeting, the archpastors discussed a wide range of issues related to the life and activity of the Patriarchal Exarchate of South-East Asia. The meeting was preceded with Divine liturgy, jointly served by the hierarchs of the Exarchate.


Pastor Will Krauss teaches on "moral margin" (specifically in regards to sexual immorality). He teaches timeless truths from the Bible on how believers need margin in their morality. A great message for singles and marrieds!
Are You Needing Some Financial Peace?
We serve the God of all sufficiency! He is able to take care of any need you have. He is a loving God that desires to be connected to your financial future. Pastor Robin teaches a lesson from 1 Timothy on how to have Financial Peace (Margin).
Pastor Robin teaches the importance of establishing and maintaining MARGIN in our life. It is not just good advice, but a Biblical mandate. From the 10 Commandments to the teachings of Jesus, Margin is a life changer.


MANCHESTER UNITED have agreed a deal to keep Cameron Borthwick-Jackson at the club.
The 19-year-old defender has given the green light to a new four-year contract at Old Trafford, according to the Mirror.
The move has been made before the transfer window reopens on July 1.
Borthwick-Jackson's contract had been due to run out on June 30 and he could have then left on the cheap.
The youngster made his United debut against West Brom and has played 13 games for the club.
He was earlier this month voted United's Under-21 player of the year after helping the side win the league.
The teen star recently indicated his desire to stay at Old Trafford.
He said: "It's definitely made me hungry for more and that's what you've got to do, push on.
"I've had the taste, playing 12 games, so I have to keep going. You can't just rest on that, you want to aim to cement a place next season.
"It was a dream come true [to make my debut], even better to do it at home as you're walking out in front of your own fans, in front of 75,000 people.
"It's the Theatre of Dreams; it's unbelievable for me - an amazing feeling."


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Aine O'Donovan Appointed As New Area 5 Trustee
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At the special board meeting on October 4, Aine O'Donovan was provisionally appointed to represent area 5 vacancy on the CUHSD board of trustees. The previous trustee, Kallen Gallagher, resigned this August, leaving a vacancy on the board.
O'Donovan, who is the mother to a Leigh Alumni and a current Leigh Junior, shares a special connection with education as an immigrant from Ireland. She was the first in her family to attend college, where she received a degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Microelectronics. In her interview on October 4, 2022, she expressed how she feels "deeply about students… [and] giving them opportunities to achieve," regardless of their backgrounds.
After moving to the United States, she became involved with the childrens' schools in a variety of ways, ranging from a classroom volunteer to president of the Home and School Club. However, it was "very overwhelming for [her], coming from a completely different education system." She acknowledged that "there are many parents like me… they're not familiar with how our school, how our systems work." She credits these personal experiences to her passion for communication, "not just having a website, not just sending an email… [but] what actually are we saying and how are we saying it so it's accurate and meaningful and it can be understood by everybody."
In response to a question surrounding teacher retention, O'Donovan emphasized two components: salary and work climate. She acknowledged that "It's very difficult when you have a budget… to make [teacher salaries] competitive with our neighbors… [but] we should try, we absolutely should try." She also emphasized the importance of affordable housing, an effort she personally has been involved in. While working as a community representative on the Cambrian Park Plaza redevelopment, "one of the key issues [they] were talking about was affordable housing and making housing available for teachers."
She concluded by emphasizing the collaborative attitude she hopes to bring to the board and district: "I see the board as a team, I see this district as a team… I feel that if we can have more people on our teams, and more people have a voice, then those people feel that they were heard… and when people feel listened too, they feel like they're a part of the system."
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Janet Bannister is a remarkable person. She virtually (pun intended) created online shopping with Kijiji (and took it global) and has held technology leadership roles in some of the most recognized international companies (eBay, Proctor & Gamble, McKinsey & Co.).
Now she invests in new ideas and nurtures innovation as a General Partner in Real Ventures, a venture capital firm.
Janet is passionate about individual potential and the power of entrepreneurship. She has a global perspective on how initiative and inspiration come together to create new opportunities. Excelling in fields and arenas typically dominated by men, Janet understands the challenges of the contemporary world.
Her story and her perspectives inform and motivate.
And now she's coming to the University of Guelph to give The Derry Lecture. You should attend!
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Well, it's organic if you choose to use organic oats & honey! Made this face scrub for my mum's birthday gift. Besides scrubbing away dead skin cells, it helps to soften the skin as well. Got this 'recipe' from here.


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Whether you're moving in search of greener pastures or to be closer to family, moving can be expensive, but there are a few things you can do to help reduce costs on long distance moves.
Create a moving budget Carefully plan out your budget ahead of time or run the risk of overpaying for your move. Make sure to track all of your moving expenses.
Research options Look into the price of airline tickets. Remember if you fly, and you need to move vehicles, it can be expensive to pay a moving company to transport your cars. Get a number of quotes from different moving companies, and consider hidden fees and extra charges. Some start with small up-front fees but then charge high prices for extras. Drive yourself. Look into the gas and accommodation costs of driving your own moving van and towing your car.
Plan move for off-peak time Moving in the beginning or end of the month can be expensive. If possible move in the middle of the month, and even better, the middle of the week. If you're able to hold off your move until the winter months, you may be able to save even more.
Downsize The more you move, the more it will cost. Get rid of anything that isn't essential. When it comes to furniture consider how much it is really worth. An old couch will cost more to move than it's worth. Hold a garage sale to sell some of the belongings that aren't worth packing and moving and put the money toward your moving expenses.
Don't pay for moving supplies The price of boxes and bubble wrap add up quickly if you purchase them from a moving company. Avoid paying for your moving supplies and save. Recycling centres often offer boxes free of charge – check in with your local depot. See online forums or post your own request to look for bubble wrap and packaging material. Other people who have recently moved may be happy to offer these items free of charge on forums that promote recycling.
Look for tax deduction If you're moving for employment you may be able to deduct your moving expenses on your taxes - check with your accountant.
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This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features two wine bottles and a stream of wine pouring into one of two wine glasses with a corkscrew on a wooden table. Internationally collected, award winning artist, Roderick E. Stevens II was handed his first set of oils at the age of seven. His love for painting was promptly born. In high school, he began exploring realism, and simultaneously discovered acrylics which seemed to better accommodate his impatient nature. Early on however, film making grabbed his attention, and cinematography became his career of choice, nudging painting to 'occasional hobby' for many years. In 2004 a cataclysm of turmoil sent him back to the palette for some personal focus and his talents re-emerged. Since then Roderick has travelled the country in art shows and galleries sharing his contemporary, photo-realistic paintings. His work has quickly garnered critical praise and numerous awards.


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Q: how to compare and call function in javascript I'm studying javascript and I'm making a form where it will ask for a start address and a destination address. What I want to do - but cant figure out - is how i can get javascript to compare the two values if my input box and if it exist on the function it will show a message, but if it doesn't exist it will still loop until it finds the value and shows the message or shows an error if it really doesn't have anything.
based on this HTML form:

<form>
<input type="text" placeholder="Start Address" id="start" >

<input type="text" placeholder="Destination Address" id="end">

<input type="button" value="Get Direction"  id="SubmitBtn" onclick="printme()" >

</form>

    function printme(){

       var start = document.getElementById("start").value;
   var end = document.getElementById("end").value;
   var  point1="point1";
       var  point2="point2";
       var  point3"point3";

if (start==point1&&end==point2){
    document.getElementById("infopanel").innerHTML="point1 to point2 just ride a taxi";
    }
else if (start==point1&&end==point3){
    document.getElementById("infopanel").innerHTML="point1 to point3 just ride a bus";
}
    else document.getElementById("infopanel").innerHTML="no route found we will update    you       ";
}

example : if start is equal to point1 and end is equal to point2  show "just ride a cab" else if start is equal point 1 and end is point3 show "just ride a bus" else show "no route found we will update you "

A: function printme() {
    var start = document.getElementById('start').value;
    var end = document.getElementById('end').value;

    if (start !== end) {
        alert("can't go there!");
    } else {
        alert("you must ride a " + start.split(' ')[0]); // appends the first word entered into the input
    }
}


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Preston, MD, Manske, M, Horner, N, Assefa, S, Campino, S, Auburn, S, Zongo, I, Ouedraogo, J, Nosten, F, Anderson, T and Clark, T (2012). VCF Viewer (VARB). [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. http://pathogenseq.lshtm.ac.uk/
Coll, F, Preston, M, Guerra-Assunção, JA, Hill-Cawthorn, G, Harris, D, Perdigão, J, Viveiros, M, Portugal, I, Drobniewski, F, Gagneux, S, Glynn, JR, Pain, A, Parkhill, J, McNerney, R, Martin, N and Clark, T (2014). PolyTB: A web-based resource designed to explore Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) genomic variation at a global scale. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. http://pathogenseq.lshtm.ac.uk/#tuberculosis
Coll, F, Mcnerney, R, Preston, MD, Guerra-assunção, JA, Warry, A, Hill-Cawthorne, G, Mallard, K, Nair, M, Miranda, A, Alves, A, Perdigão, J, Viveiros, M, Portugal, I, Hasan, Z, Hasan, R, Glynn, J, Martin, N, Pain, A and Clark, T (2015). TB Profiler. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Shaw, HA, Preston, MD, Vendrik, KE, Cairns, MD, Browne, HP, Stabler, R, Crobach, MJ, Corver, J, Pituch, H, Ingebretsen, A, Primohammed, M, Faulds-pain, A, Valiente, E, Lawley, TD, Fairweather, NF and Wren, B (2019). "The recent emergence of a highly related virulent Clostridium difficile clade with unique characteristics". [Data Collection]. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2019.09.004


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Pimsleur Conversational Cantonese Chinese - 8 Audio CDs
Learn to speak and understand and Cantonese Chinese
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This Basic program contains 5 hours of audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.
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The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Cantonese structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Cantonese can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.
The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or thousands of words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts.
When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That same learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed.
With Pimsleur you get:
* Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,
* Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,
* The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,
* 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.
Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without textbooks, written exercises, or drills.
Dr. Pimsleur
Dr. Pimsleur was a language educator for over 20 years. He noticed that children have an amazing ability to learn new languages--quickly. That's why there are so many bilingual 5-year olds. Dr. Pimsleur spent his life developing this course to let you, as an adult, learn French as easily as a child would. You might not realize it, but you've already learned one language using the Pimsleur approach. Your first language!
About the Pimsleur Method
The entire Pimsleur approach is what language learning should be: quick, fun, and easy! Many foreign language students have difficulty learning. Their textbooks teach monotonous drills, grammar rules, and random lists of words. But textbooks alone can never bring it all together. Your only real goal in taking any Cantonese Chinese course is to speak Cantonese Chinese naturally with others. Dr. Pimsleur designed each lesson as the foundation for the next. In other words, you'll keep building on what you've previously learned. Best of all, the Pimsleur Cantonese Chinese course does not waste your time by cramming grammar down your throat. You learn to recognize what sounds right through practice. The Pimsleur approach's subtle grammar lessons won't seem like grammar lessons at all.
About Cantonese Chinese
Standard Cantonese is a variant of Cantonese (Yue) Chinese . It is spoken natively in and around the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau in Southern China. Standard Cantonese is the de facto official Chinese spoken language of Hong Kong and Macau, and a lingua franca of Guangdong province and some neighbouring areas. It is also spoken by many overseas Chinese of Guangdong, Hong Kong or Macau origin in Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, United States, Australia, Europe and elsewhere. Historically, Cantonese was the most common form of Chinese spoken by overseas Chinese communities in the Western world, although that situation has changed with the increasing importance of Mandarin in the Chinese-speaking world as well as immigration to the West from other countries as well as other parts of China.
Cantonese is usually referred to as a spoken dialect, and not as a written dialect. Spoken vernacular Cantonese differs from modern written Chinese, which is essentially formal Standard Mandarin in written form. Written Chinese spoken word for word sounds overly formal and distant in Cantonese. As a result, the necessity of having a written script which matched the spoken form increased over time. This resulted in the creation of additional Chinese characters to complement the existing characters. Many of these represent phonological sounds not present in Mandarin. A good source for well documented Cantonese words can be found in drama and opera (daai hei) scripts. Written Cantonese is largely incomprehensible to non-Cantonese speakers because written Cantonese is based on spoken Cantonese which is different from Standard Mandarin in grammar and vocabulary.
"Readings in Cantonese colloquial: being selections from books in the Cantonese vernacular with free and literal translations of the Chinese character and romanized spelling" (1894) by James Dyer Ball has a bibliography of works available in Cantonese characters in the last decade of the nineteenth century. A few libraries have collections of so-called "wooden fish books" written in Cantonese character. Facsimiles and plot precis of a few of these have been published in Wolfram Eberhard's "Cantonese Ballads." See also "Cantonese love-songs, translated with introduction and notes by Cecil Clementi" (1904) or a newer translation of these Yue Ou in "Cantonese love songs : an English translation of Jiu Ji-yung's Cantonese songs of the early 19th century" (1992). Cantonese character versions of the Bible, Pilgrims Progress, and Peep of Day as well as simple catechisms were published by mission presses. The special Cantonese characters used in all these was not standardized and shows wide variation.
With the advent of the computer and standardization of character sets specifically for Cantonese, many printed materials in predominantly Cantonese speaking areas of the world are written to cater to their population with these written Cantonese characters. As a result, mainstream media such as newspapers and magazines have become progressively less conservative and more colloquial in their dissemination of ideas. Generally speaking, some of the older generation of Cantonese speakers regard this trend as a step "backwards" and away from tradition. This tension between the "old" and "new" is a reflection of a transition that is being undergone by the Cantonese speaking population.
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Shoppers Support Pakistan Flood Victims
ROTARY AIDS PAKISTAN FLOOD VICTIMS
Canterbury's three Rotary Clubs have risen to the call of the international community to help the victims of the Pakistan floods. On Saturday 21 August, the Rotary Clubs of Canterbury, Forest of Blean and Canterbury Sunrise, combined forces to organise and run a street collection in the city's High Street.
A Rotarian collecting from members of the public in the High Street
The collection raised more than an £1,500 and this magnificent sum has already been used to purchase three ShelterBoxes to provide immediate shelter and support for up to ten people a piece. These three boxes are in addition to the two already sent from the Rotary Club of Canterbury's international emergency contingency fund.
The President of the Rotary Club of Canterbury, Robert Yonge, said: "The people of Canterbury responded magnificently to this appeal to help the victims of this devastating flooding in Pakistan". Robert continued: "None of us can imagine the trauma of losing our homes and possessions through a natural disaster like this and we are pleased the street collection has enabled us to provide some immediate practical help in the shape of the ShelterBoxes". He added: "As soon as the scale of the disaster became apparent all three Rotary Clubs in the City of Canterbury decided the best way forward was to combine forces and raise as much money as possible. The people of Canterbury didn't let us down".
At the heart of each ShelterBox – which costs £490 – is a ten-person tent designed to withstand extreme temperatures, high winds and heavy rainfall. Also included is a range of survival equipment including thermal blankets and insulated ground sheets. Where malaria is prevalent mosquito nets are supplied, as well as means of water purification. Water supplies often become contaminated after a major disaster, as infrastructure and sanitation systems are destroyed. A stove, cooking utensils and a basic tool-kit is included as well as a pack containing drawing books, crayons and pens for children who have lost most, if not all, their possessions.
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