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The Ydron Saga Book 1
by Raymond Bolton
Genre: Paranormal Epic Fantasy
How does a world equipped with bows, arrows and catapults, where steam power is just beginning to replace horses and sailing ships, avert a conquest from beyond the stars? Prince Regilius has been engineered to combat the Dalthin, a predatory alien species that enslaves worlds telepathically, and to do so he must unite his people. But when his mother murders his father, the land descends into chaos and his task may prove impossible. Faced with slaying the one who gave him life in order to protect his world, he seeks a better way. Set in a vast and varied land where telepaths and those with unusual mental abilities tip the course of events, Awakening goes to the heart of family, friendship and betrayal.
In this scene, Prince Regilius, or Reg as he's called by his frinds, is fleeing the city of danYdron. At this point in the story, he has become inexplicibly telepathic and clairvoyant and is overwhelmed by the thoughts of its citizenry:
Reg was awash with faces. Their stories came upon him like a flood. Wave followed wave and inundated him to the point of drowning. These were not simply imaginings. They were beyond any concepts he had ever known and many were contrary to his way of thinking. As he fought to retain stable footing in what was rapidly becoming a maelstrom of misery and despair, he grew uncomfortably aware of the vividness and intensely personal feeling each experience brought. These were not other lives. Each seemed to be his own. It was he, Regilius Tonopath, who had been beaten, who drank, who failed and despaired. It was he, the heir to the throne of Ydron, who was the robber, the washerwoman, the child. On one hand, he knew this could not be, and contrarily he recalled each life with the clarity and certitude with which he knew each step and turning of the palace corridors.
Beneath this misery, simmering steadily to the surface, arose ever new and alien thoughts. Immersed as he was in these lives, his perceptions of things familiar were changing. Soldiers, his lifelong protectors, were not to be trusted, but rather, feared. No longer guardians and enforcers of the law, they were the source of brutality and kidnappers of husbands and children. Women hid themselves from the helmet and shield of the throne.
It did not pay to be successful outside the palace walls. Any surpluses or gains were sure to be confiscated. One could never quite pay one's tax. The collector made sure of it. When one had managed to acquire a little more than one's customary lot, a visit from the taxman was inevitable. Since none ever knew how the news got out, each suspected his neighbor. It probably was true spies were everywhere. A word in the right ear would likely put food in an empty belly, so distrust abounded.
Reg's head hurt and he trembled as he drove through the horror. He could not believe any of this could be true in the land his family ruled, but the images were relentless. This flight from danger had become a plunge into reality. He was unprepared for and unable to come to terms with what each moment drove home. Had he been so sheltered he could not see his world as it was?
Somehow—he knew not by what providence—the roadster hurtled on without incident. Even when he tried, he could barely focus on his surroundings. Carts, streets, banners, men, women and children all blurred into a stream, while the dreams or revelations—he could not say which—bombarded him until he was lost in the confusion. He no longer knew where he was, yet the car careened onward.
Eventually he passed through the city's outermost wall. He did not remember the gate or the guards, but the density of outer danYdron thinned into scattered farms and villages and his head began to clear. He breathed deeply, with only dim recollection of his purpose as the cacophony of sights and sounds receded. Like a badly beaten fighter trying to see through senses numbed by countless blows, staggering toward his corner and his seconds for relief, Reg drove westward. Familiarity kept him on his path, though his mind was still dazed, unaware of the road spinning under the wheels and away behind him.
Thought Gazer
Everyone who touches you transforms you, if only a little. But if you enter their minds, think what they have thought, in effect do what they have done, how complete will that transformation be?
If he had been born an ordinary man, his family would be safe--safe as anyone can be in a land torn apart by war. It is his singular gift, however, that causes his wife and children to be imprisoned and held hostage and him to be used as a tool. Caught up in a struggle between opposing warlords and refusing to play the game, Peniff elects to take the moral high road. This is the story of a man, in all other ways ordinary, rising above his fears to do what he must. Can he free his family before his betrayal comes to light? Moreover, what will he become before his journey is over?
At this point in the story, Peniff, the Thought Gazer, has been kidnapped by Harad, the minion of a warlord who is seeking to use Peniff to locate his enemy's sister. Harad has has been driving his party to the breaking point. He controls Peniff by collaring him and leads him around with a leash.
To say Harad was relentless is to understate the rage that drove him. He had pushed his party mercilessly until eventually, one of the horses, driven to exhaustion, fell and refused to rise. When Harad began flogging it, Peniff tore his leash from Kord's grasp, strode up to Harad and grabbed him by the wrist, arresting the whip at the top of its arc. Harad turned to glare.
"You will kill it and still it will not rise." In a soft, but deliberate tone, Peniff went on. "In fact, if you continue to deny the other horses rest or sleep, you will kill them all. Then what? Do you expect us to walk all the way to danHsar?"
Harad's face became a mask of hate, but Peniff persisted.
"Even now, the man and the woman are entering the prison. Do you expect that somehow they will run away and evade us? I promise you, they will not escape any time soon. Look at your men. Even should we stumble on the pair in the next minute, they would be too exhausted to act."
Harad was breathing heavily, but he opened the fist he had formed with his free hand and lowered it.
"We all want the same thing," said Peniff. "Even this poor, dumb creature wishes to rise and avoid your wrath, but it cannot. Look at its eyes. They are filled with terror, but the animal is spent. It can do no more and neither can we."
Harad could not deny the truth. The horse's chest heaved, its mouth frothed and the whites of its eyes showed how deeply it feared the next strike of the lash.
"Very well, Thought Gazer," Harad said as he looked from the horse to his men. "We will rest, even sleep if you like, but not one minute past Jadon's rising. I intend to arrive at the city's gate tomorrow."
"And this poor beast will carry you there, if you but allow it to sleep the night, then feed and water it in the morning."
As the two stood staring, it was hard to say who was in charge: the one with the whip, or the one with the collar around his neck.
"There are some things even you cannot simply will into being," said Peniff.
Harad stared a moment longer, then threw the whip to the ground.
Foretellers
In a world facing two divergent futures—eventual freedom or complete domination—too many unmade decisions cloud the yet-to-be. Those who can see even a tiny portion of the inevitable wield great power.
In this world where young and old, rich or poor, are at the mercy of armed marauders and the armies of the powerful, a warlord's wrath forces a mother and daughter to flee for their lives. Despite being prescient, they cannot foresee all that lies ahead. Quickly separated, their every effort centers around reunion and survival. Without losing sight of these goals, one of them foresees that, if she travels to the conflict's center and lends support to one of the two major powers, she has the ability to influence the final outcome.
Foretellers, the third volume of The Ydron Saga, is the second book of Awakening's prequel trilogy.
At this point in the story, two prescients, Roanna and her daughter, Pandy, are on board a ship with Harad, whom readers will remember from Thought Gazer.
"I won't leave you here," she said. "If we have to leave, we're leaving together. We'll jump ship if we have to."
She turned and took Pandy to the railing across from Harad. She grasped it and stared out over the water. Her head spun through what could happen if both were to go, and all of the outcomes were tragic and black. Panicked and uncertain what to do next, she stood watching the bow wave stream past in an endless ribbon until a tug on her sleeve returned her to the present.
"There isn't much time, Mother. A critical moment is approaching."
A critical moment was a concept Roanna had taught Pandy long ago when she was trying to describe a point in time when an opportunity could either be seized or lost forever. Roanna thought of time as a river and had always pictured herself floating down the stream on a platform. Most of the time, all one could do was move the platform a little to one side of the stream or the other, changing the view a bit as one headed towards an unvarying destination. Every now and then, however, the stream branched and a new platform, heading down the other fork towards a new destination would present itself. Sometimes one would have a great deal of time to consider the consequences of jumping onto the second platform, sometimes almost none at all. But there was always a point in the flow of events when, if a decision were not made and acted upon in that instant, the opportunity would disappear forever. Pandy was saying that one of these instances—a critical moment—was almost upon them.
"There's lots of time between now and daybreak. We can find a way," she said, trying to diminish the urgency in the girl's words. Roanna was about to ask her to clarify what she had seen when Pandy said, "I love you, Mother. Grab the log."
"What … ?" she started to say, but Pandy pushed hard against her middle with both hands, almost knocking the breath from her lungs as she launched Roanna over the railing.
Not all outcomes are foreseeable. Too many unmade decisions cloud the yet-to-be. But as Roanna cleared the railing, floating weightless—before her heels struck wood and upended her— she thought she saw a look of satisfaction in her daughter's eyes and knew Pandy's choice had been correct. Never mind they would not see each other for a long time to come. Pandy would live and so would she. Her feet flipped upwards and sent her spinning and plummeting downwards.
Heroic battles are not always won by the mighty. There are times when even the least likely among us play decisive rolls. Less able physically than anyone he knows, but paranormally unique, Bardik is recruited by a pair of psychics in the hope that, by combining his talent with theirs, they can turn looming defeat into victory.
In this, the concluding chapter to The Ydron Saga, a young man who has lost the use of his legs—someone whom earthly culture labels paraplegic—agrees to lend his telekinetic talents to the effort to bring down a tyrannical warlord.
Bardik is telekinetic: able to move objects with his mind. His powers are still unfolding when he, his father, Hammat, his mother, Ada, and other refugees like the three of them are attacked by one warlord's soldiers.
Hammat's team was backing way from the fight, threatening to move his wagon into Ada's. Her own were rearing up to avoid the collision. Horrified, Bardik watched as her wagon began rolling backward, before pivoting on its transom to swing toward the ditch. Lacking an unimpeded view of their reins, he was trying to decide how he might alter her team's direction when the wagon's right rear wheel travelled off the roadway. As her wagon began tilting, he found himself wishing there were some way he could level it. His thoughts became deeds when, in the next instant, the wagon came upright. The wheel hovered over empty air and Bardik, in wide-eyed surprise, found he could support it. As her team continued to back, the other rear wheel left the roadway and Bardik struggled to keep the wagon level. Sweat beaded on his brow and his body started to shake under the effort. Curling his fingers into his bedding, uncertain how much more exertion he could tolerate, he struggled to prevent the wagon from overturning. He cried out as, all at once, he found himself suspending the entire load with all of its wheels hanging. He did not know what he would do if Hammat's wagon did likewise.
In the next instant, just as Bardik's vision started to tunnel under the strain, Ada's horses began walking forward, drawing the wagon back onto solid ground. The pressure on him lifted and Bardik collapsed, breathing deeply as he stared at the sky from his bedding, marveling at his accomplishment and the ways things were changing. He no longer needed to assess an object's mass or dissect the elements of his intended action before assembling the parts of the problem to put them into action. He no longer performed the act of moving something distant. Now he was the act. He was the object he transported. And at the same time, he was the mover. It came to him he was all of these: act, object, and telekine. Moving those objects had become like moving a limb. Just as one does not analyze the elements of hefting a rock and throwing it, neither did he when he acted moments before. And though what he had done had required a great amount of effort, robbing him of more energy than anything prior, he could already feel himself recovering, as if the exercise had strengthened him.
Raymond Bolton lives near Portland, Oregon with his wife, Toni, and their two cats, Georgie & Sophia.
Regarding his debut novel, Awakening, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Mike Resnick says, "In Awakening, Raymond Bolton presents us with an intricate and interesting problem, characters you care for, aliens who are alien, and a carefully-thought-out future."
Matthew J. Pallamary, author of Land Without Evil and Spirit Matters said, "Raymond Bolton's genre shattering Awakening is a skillfully woven hybrid of science fiction and fantasy that brings cultural conflict to a whole new, thoroughly believable level that goes straight to the heart of what really matters."
International award-winning author of the Daimones Trilogy, Massimo Marino, endorsed Awakening, saying, "Bolton navigates through the plot lines and the mixed genres (Science Fiction but not exactly, Fantasy but not entirely, Paranormal but not completely) with the clear gesture of the conductor of a large orchestra. A new voice and author who is bound to grow a faithful readership."
Finally, Britain's BookViral.com states, "it's a grand debut. An ambitious and well considered SF crossover [that] breathes originality into the genre."
Raymond's goal is to craft gripping stories about the human condition, whether they are set here or another world. He has written award-winning poetry and four novels. Awakening, an epic, was released in January, 2014, and Thought Gazer, an adventure and first volume of a prequel trilogy, was released on January 1, 2015. The third in the series, Foretellers, came out on March 1 , 2016. The trilogy's conclusion, entitled Triad, aired January 1, 2017. Awakening was recently translated into Spanish and was released as El despertar – La saga de Ydron on July 1, 2015. Amazon has already listed El despertar as the Number One New Release in Ciencia Ficción.
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they all sound great, nice covers too; thanks for the chance :)
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(WEST BEND, WI) – County Executive Josh Schoemann has appointed Matt Furno as the new Samaritan Campus Administrator to replace outgoing administrator Taya Walk, who submitted her resignation effective September 30, 2022.
Furno was previously the Campus Administrator from 2013 – 2016 and is currently the Policy Director for Washington County. In his new role at Samaritan, Furno will serve as Campus Administrator and Policy Director.
Prior to his tenure at Washington County, Furno had a lengthy career in executive leadership in long-term care throughout Wisconsin. As the new administrator, he will continue to lead the team through the 'Future of Samaritan' decision.
"Matt Furno has shown his care and commitment to Samaritan staff and patients throughout his time with Washington County since 2013. I appreciate his willingness to step in to lead," said Schoemann. "I extend my thanks to Taya Walk for her service, and we wish her the best in her next role."

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Disney+ unveils teasers for Moon Knight, She-Hulk, Secret Invasion, Ms Marvel
James R | On 12, Nov 2021
Disney+ has unveiled small snippets of new footage for a number of upcoming Marvel titles, giving fans a first look, or a closer glimpse, at its growing slate of TV series.
The video, which has been released on Disney+ to mark the streaming service's second anniversary, includes teasers or title treatments for Hawkeye, Moon Knight, She-Hulk, Secret Invasion and Ms Marvel.
Ms Marvel introduces viewers to Kamala, a 16-year old Pakistani American from Jersey City. An aspiring artist, an avid gamer, and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, she is a huge fan of the Avengers — and one in particular, Captain Marvel. But Kamala has always struggled to find her place in the world — that is until she gets super powers like the heroes she's always looked up to. Iman Vellani stars as Kamala Khan aka Ms Marvel, and the video on Disney+ gives us a first glimpse of her in character.
There's also a look at Samuel L Jackson in Secret Invasion, a series that reunites Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn's Talos after Captain Marvel to investigate a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.
She-Hulk follows Jennifer, a lawyer who specialises in superhuman-oriented legal cases. She-Hulk will welcome a host of Marvel characters to the series, including the Hulk, played by Mark Ruffalo, and the Abomination, played by Tim Roth. The teaser for the new comedy series gives us a first look at Hulk and She-Hulk interacting, with a new logo treatment also unveiled.
A new logo treatment was also released for Marvel Studios' Ironheart. The series stars Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a genius inventor who creates the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.
Perhaps most intriguing is the brief footage of Oscar Isaac looking rather panicked in the upcoming Moon Knight. The series follows a complex vigilante who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. The multiple identities who live inside him find themselves thrust into a deadly war of the gods against the backdrop of modern and ancient Egypt.
The video is available only on Disney+, with full trailers for the above all to be released at a future date.
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Hardly a wisp of wind blows across the deck, the midday sun is warm, activity in the marina is sultry and slow, a mood of disconsolate acceptance hangs in the still air. The benign weather, nice as it is, unfortunately represents another missed weather window. As the calm centre of a high pressure passes over us, its back edge will bring northly winds closing any opportunity to sail north. As predicted the disturbed systems hanging over the tropics have produced bad weather over the islands. The tropical storm spotted last week, has deepened to produce a cyclone. Cyclone Donna is a rare out of season, destructive, category three cyclone and is currently bashing Vanuatu. It's future path appears unpredictable, the risks of leaving New Zealand on Friday were too high, so with the rest of the cruising fleet, we wait.
Everywhere jobs that have languished way down at the bottom of 'to do lists' written years ago, are seeing the light of day, cars are being hired for day trips and many boats have sailed into the bay to pass the time. Yachts that left for Fiji early last week are being nervously watched by tracker, SSB radio and any other means, they report back high winds and rough seas but luckily all lie east of Donna and are OK for now. The obsessive weather map watching has stopped, departure with the arrival of the next high, due at the end of the week looks uncertain and rest on the shoulders of Donna, everybody is settling in to be here a while longer.
Not that that is too awful a prospect, the nights have been chilly but the days sunny and pleasant. Today Rick is taking advantage of the calm to paint the black side vents, a job that has been hanging over us since being put aside as we rushed to leave Southampton. I'm not sure Raya has ever been so polished.
The previous two days however, feeling a little let down by more delays, we deserted our cleaning posts and decided to get out and about. Friday we went for a walk on the local beach, encouraged by the sturdy boardwalks we walked on around the wooded coastline. The boardwalk stopped but it was a pleasant and varied track, over tree covered cliffs, mangroves and across rocky beaches, we were enjoying ourselves and we walked on. An hour and half later after a particularly steep section, we keenly wanted the end of the track, the town of Paihia, lunch and a taxi home, to be just around the next headland. Not a chance. There is something about us and walking, normally so organised and well prepared in life, we seem to set out for strolls that turn into hikes. We only had second hand directions of what lay ahead, we didn't even have a bottle of water, we had on too many layers of clothes for the conditions and my footware was woefully inadequate. Another hour on and we made it across the beach, the last part of the walk, just before the incoming tide cut us off, half an hour later and we would have been forced to retrace our steps – all the way back.
Saturday with still sore feet we hired a car and drove north. The car from Rent-a-Dent was mostly dent free but small and uncomfortable, we abandoned plans for the three hour drive to the very northern tip of New Zealand and the dramatic cliffs at Cape Regina and instead stopped about halfway to check out Doutless Bay and the Karikari Peninsular. Here the scenery is very different to what we've been use to, flat by New Zealand standards, with wide open white sand bays and the start of the huge sand dunes that stretch up the most northern of New Zealand's beaches. Dominating the landscape was Pampas grass, an invasive species introduced from South America, it seemed to be growing everywhere, even amongst the woodland and tree ferns. We drove to Maitai beach at the very end of the peninsular and strolled its large curved shore and then stopped in the seaside town of Manganui to eat fish and chips on the harbour front.
Back on the boat I steal a glance at the weather forecast. If the remanents of Donna do dip south enough to hit New Zealand, we will have, yet again, stormy wet weather, this may disrupt the next high pressure system, produce very rough seas and wipe out yet another weather window, I wonder how long we need to be here to become permanent residents!
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Hope we get to see some lovely pics of the now gleaming and fully working Raya before you mess her up with a trip north!
Not sure a photo would do it justice, but we know those pesky nooks and crannies are dirt free, as you say for today at least!


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Myripristis pralinia, the scarlet soldierfish, is a nocturnal species of soldierfish from the genus Myripristis. It can be found in the Indo-Pacific region, from East Africa to the Marquesas Islands and the Gambier Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands and south to New Caledonia. It can also be found on the Marshall Islands and the Mariana Islands. It can be found in small, loose groups in caves or under ledges in reef flats, lagoons and outer reef slopes. It feeds on plankton.

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From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games
A blog for the nonfiction book by Ed Halter
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Mercenaries Too
Gamasutra interviews Chris Ferriera, lead designer for EA's new co-op title Army of Two. The game is based on the real-world rise of private military contractors:
Chris Ferriera: We based the game around PMCs. What that is, is a "private military contractor." Right now in the world today, there are tons of these guys operating abroad, for different companies. Companies like Blackwater and Dimecorp, what they'll do is take ex-military guys from anywhere -- guys from Chile, Ex-Chechen guys, wherever, anywhere. And they'll take them on to their force and train them. They love to have special forces guys.
And what they'll do, is other companies such as Halliburton, or even the US government will then pay Blackwater money -- in our case the company is called SSC for the game -- they'll pay that company to send those guys to do a mission. It may be something like guarding a consulate, it may be like, "hey, we have an oil pipeline running though Azerbaijan. And we need someone to patrol it, we want SEALs to patrol it, so we're going to get these Navy SEALs."
They'll send them over there. And thanks to US law and legislation, anyone that is a contractor working abroad is immune from prosecution. And that includes a contractor being someone who "I'm building a house," or rebuilding a country, or "I'm a military contractor and I'm in there to do whatever mission they gave me." It can be overthrowing a dictator, it can get into some gruesome stuff. And the thing is, that there's that deniability, so if that person does something, Halliburton is like, "we never paid them, we don't know them." The money trail disappears, they do it through all these smaller companies. So it's never a big company paying SSC to send out [operatives] to do a job, it's someone else through a smaller company and the money disappears.
What we're trying to do as we advance though the story in the game, we start with the characters. We take them from their days in Delta Force, and their days as Navy SEALs, and their start as PMCs and how they get trained. We unveil the corruption behind the military privatization, and we explain the problems that poses to society and to America, and the world, when you have a gigantic organization that does nothing but operate for corporations and for money.
You said when you started, you didn't know much about this. You had to read up on it.
CF: I pretty much knew nothing about this. I was a fan of shooters here and there. I knew a bunch about guns, but I knew nothing about PMCs and really nothing about the military. After reading a bunch of news articles and doing tons of searches -- plus I've been reading a book called Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army . I've been learning more and more information, just about how everything is run.
It's actually kind of crazy to see just how funds change hands, and the fact that right now you watch the news and they say "Army Rangers." And [the Navy] can't get SEALs and they're having these big recruiting drives, and they're upping everyone's salary -- because, say, a guy who was a SEAL was making 1200 bucks a week working for the US government. As soon as he's done with his tour of duty, or say he never got his tour of duty -- he's trained to kill, these guys are trained killers, and they never get their war. So now they're told "we'll pay you 300, 800, 1200 dollars a day or a week to go do mission abroad, and you can bring your own gear, you don't have to report to anyone. It's just you and your boy doing your mission." And they're going to eat it up, and they're going to do it because the money's there.
But when you track it back through the political hierarchy it's like, "who's hurting who?" Sometimes it's harmless; it's guarding a convoy of guys who are bringing food from one area to another. But other times it's protecting business interests that are hurting other countries and stuff like that.
I reviewed a documentary about the same subject not too long ago. There's a trailer for that film, Shadow Company, available here.
Link: Gamasutra - An Uphill Battle: Chris Ferriera On Army Of Two's Gameplay and Philosophy (via WaterCoolerGames)
September 10, 2007 in Games | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Publishing Peacemaker
Gamepolitics blogs that Manifesto will publish Peacemaker, the sim developed at Carnegie-Mellon that "allows the player to try his or her skills of diplomacy and leadership by playing as either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President," in the words of the development team's press release.
Download the demo!
Link: GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » Award-Winning Israeli-Palestinian Sim Brought to Market.
See also: older Peacemaker coverage
April 26, 2007 in Games | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Maoist Game Reviews
Electronic game reviews written for the Maoist Internationalist Movement website. An example: from the review of Shattered Union:
Despite its white nationalist outlook, "Shattered Union" has upset some "war gamers." The Wargamer, an online site for those who enjoy war pornography (www.thewargamer.com), had a few threads in its forums about how hurtful imperialists thought "Shattered Union" was. They didn't like the concept of their KKKountry falling apart and took time out of their cheerleading of U.$. imperialism in Iraq and Afghanistan to make this opinion known. Tough Shit, your kkkountry's days are numbered. The overwhelming majority of the world is going to shatter your union one of these days and there is nothing you and your beer and pretzels crowd can do about it.
And some commentary on a Full Spectrum Warrior billboard:
This billboard for a videogame up at Fort Bragg in North Carolina proves MIM's point that video games are not politically neutral. Brainwashed by militarism, bored people take up countless militarist games and real world killing just for excitement. Even pornography video games are not as popular. If people had more social control of their lives instead of just the illusion of "freedom," they would not be playing so many games like this one. Under capitalism, game-makers produce what is profitable. Under the joint dictatorship of the proletariat of the oppressed nations over imperialism, games glorifying Uncle $am will be history and game-makers will flourish without having to cater to mindless sex and violence.
Old news, perhaps. But that joint dictatorship of the proletariat thing sounds like a great plan.
These MIM guys should check out Soviet Untersagersdorf. Or maybe Poly Play.
Link: MIM bookstore.
Games About Liquids and Terror
Hey there. I'm in the Bay Area this week doing some speaking dates, including this upcoming show at Other Cinema, San Francisco on Saturday Oct 21.
Check out two games from Ian Bogost of Water Cooler Games, Oil God and Airport Security. The first is a game about global petropolitics, the second a spoof of current anti-terror measures at airports.
Link: Water Cooler Games - Persuasive Games releases The Arcade Wire: Oil God.
October 19, 2006 in Games | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Face/On
Talk about identifying with a character...
Link: Put Your Face in Rainbow Six Vegas - Kotaku.
Iranian anti-US Counter Strike mod
Andrew Wearing from the downunderblog Boymeetsgame emailed me about this news item: 27-year old Iranian Ahmadreza Nouri has created a mod of Counter Strike in which players try to blow up a US oil tanker in the Straits of Hormuz. Seems to be inspired by a warning from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in June that the world's oil supplies could be serious compromised should the US go to war with Iran.
In Nouri's game, sinking the oil tanker results in blocking the Straits, through which 40% of the global oil trade passes through.
The game arrives in the wake of Al Qaeda's Night of Bush Capturing, announcements of a proposed anti-US game from the Union of Islamic Student Societies in Iran, and the larger context of recent games from the Muslim world that depict war from a Middle Eastern perspective.
Reuters/NY Times: Iranian video game offers chance to blow up U.S. tanker
Anti-Fada Paratrooper & Israeli war games
The archives of Jewish ideas mag Zeek include this dry spoof: a review of "Anti-Fada Paratrooper," a nationalistic Israeli response to pro-Palestinian games like Under Ash.
An armored personnel carrier rumbles across the cobblestones on your screen, the sound of shattering molotovs glass-clear and crisp in digital stereo. Apache whoop-whoops rise ominously as the choppers sweep down from the tenement line. You grit your teeth, thumb poised above your controller button. Before the missiles scream home, a final glimpse of the desert-red sunset, and two hooded figures scurry into the shadows of an alleyway. The shots find their sweet spot.
This isn't cable news, and the banner rolling across the bottom of your screen indicates your score has reached an all-time high. You completed your mission and earned bonus points for limiting civilian casualties.
Before you move on to your next mission, you pause to watch your screen engulfed in a sea of blue-and-white, the Seal of Solomon billowing and crackling as 'Hinay Matov u'Manayim' plays boisterously in the background. Your ethnic pride swells like a thick plume of smoke.
Welcome to the world of Anti-Fada Paratrooper, the new hyperreal battle-action game released earlier this year for Sony Playstation 2. Never heard of it? No surprise, given that the software sold out one month into its first million-unit production run. The mystery buyer: the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, which just used the game as the centerpiece of its annual Purim campaign mailing. A second release is due in stores by the time summer vacation starts. So unless you know yourself some Jews, you're going to have to wait a little longer...
Apparently some thought this game was real.
In a feature on Peacemaker, Haaretz tells the story of a real Israeli nationalist game called Intifada:
The first computer game to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was called Intifada, and it was developed by an Israeli named Michael Medved in 1989, at the height of the first Palestinian uprising. The idea in this primitive game was to patrol the streets of a Palestinian village (only from right to left or vice versa), and to fire at Palestinian rioters who burst out from the sides of the screen and approached the image of the player. Between one bloody patrol and the next, slogans appeared on the screen such as: "In the course of your mission against the rioters, you operated contrary to your instructions. Your terrible performance was recorded by foreign television crews, and caused the fall of the government."
And some others, which sound more like typical commerical games with Israeli themes:
Two games that are more serious and come from the mainstream of the game industry, are Divided Ground: Middle East Conflict, and (in Hebrew) Blue Star: The Israel Air Force, which was developed in Tel Aviv by the Israeli Pixel company. Divided Ground is a strategy game based on taking turns, in which players act as IDF commanders or generals in Arab armies, who fight the enemy of their choice on historical battle sites such as Latrun in 1948, the Rafah Salient in 1967 or the Chinese Farm in 1973. When the game came out in mid-2001, critics considered it mediocre. In Israel it was almost ignored.
Blue Star, on the other hand, became a local best-seller immediately after it arrived in the stores at the end of 1998. The game - which simulates a military flight - enables armchair pilots to fly generations of air force planes and reenact various historic battles, high above virtual Earth.
(If anyone has any more info on Intifada or Blue Star, or first hand experience with the games, let me know)
See also: Hasan Nasrallah web games (with commentary at Water Cooler Games)
July 28, 2006 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Taste of Viktory
BoingBoing reveals the story of a DIY board-game inventor Peter Morrison and his home-brewed table-top wargame VIKTORY II. Morrison's site chronicles V-II's development from concept to packaged indie product. Very cool! Looks like a beautifully designed game.
Link: Boing Boing: DIY board-game inventor's build-log.
New US Army Videogame
Looks like the Army has another free video game for download: F2C2, a real-time strategy game, produced by contracter SAIC. F2C2 is based on the Army's Future Combat Systems initiative, a planned overarching network spanning the manned and unmanned forces of all of America's military branches.
Bummer, it's PC only. Well, see what they're saying over at the Battlefront forums.
21st CENTURY BATTLE COMMAND
Future Combat Systems (FCS) will transform the U.S. Army's Current Force to a more lethal, agile Future Force to achieve battlespace dominance. The F2C2 video game demonstrates the FCS wireless network-centric operating system that seamlessly links advanced communications and networking systems with soldiers, platforms, weapons, and sensors.
A REAL-TIME TACTICAL STRATEGY GAME
F2C2 is a real-time tactical strategy game that allows you to learn about the Army's FCS program by giving you command of a Mounted Company Team in the year 2015. Through gameplay, F2C2 shows how FCS is designed to give the 21st Century Soldier unprecedented situational awareness and the ability to see first, understand first, act first, and finish decisively.
MANAGE MISSION, TERRAIN, TROOPS, AND TIME
You'll experience an exciting range of real-time missions while equipped with the full spectrum of FCS capabilities. F2C2 shows the sophisticated sensors linked among the 18 different FCS systems, and how the FCS network quickly disperses tactical intelligence enabling soldiers to pre-empt enemy attacks and mount offensive assaults.
YOU ARE A FUTURE FORCE COMPANY COMMANDER
F2C2's battle command interface enhances your planning and decision-making skills by giving you automated planning tools, real-time situational awareness, ISR and fire support planning tools, and more.
Games for War and Peace
NPR's Studio 360 last week on games includes this segment on game training for warfighters, "Iraq and the Xbox" (realaudio link). Reporter Rachel McCarthy covers the development of Full Spectrum Warrior and another project called "Dark Hunt" at the Institute for Creative Technologies, as well as the Institute for Defense Analyses' large-scale urban combat simulation Urban Resolve.
In the New York Times, Clive Thompson's article "Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time" looks at the current interest in serious games, including games like Peacemaker, the UN's Food Force, and a game of nonviolent conflict resolution called A Force More Powerful, with quotes from Ian Bogost, Gonzalo Frasca, Henry Jenkins and others.
Thompson's bit on Peacemaker, a game based on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Video games, serious-games advocates say, also possess a persuasive element that is missing from books or movies: They let the player become a different person (at least for an hour or two), and see the world from a new perspective. When Mr. Burak first showed Peacemaker to Israelis and Palestinians, he found that they were most interested in playing as their own "side." But when he pushed them to switch positions they developed a more nuanced sense of why the other side acted as it did. In Qatar several people told him that "they kind of understood more the pressures the Israeli prime minister has."
Not everyone agrees with Peacemaker's basic assumption: that both Palestinians and Israelis want peace. I discovered I could get to a ceasefire by removing settlements while assassinating Hamas militants, a strategy I doubt Israeli hawks would approve of. Mr. Burak said Israeli players complained about the bulldozing of Arab villages; Palestinians felt the game ought to more clearly reward the use of "subtle" measures. Still, he said, Peacemaker (which was designed before Hamas's electoral victory or the recent Mideast eruption) inspires an unusual kind of debate: an argument about how rule changes can affect society. "That sort of complex thing is precisely what you can do with a game," Mr. Burak said.
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Dwight Joseph Bialowas (* 8. September 1952 in Regina, Saskatchewan) ist ein ehemaliger kanadischer Eishockeyspieler, der im Verlauf seiner aktiven Karriere zwischen 1969 und 1978 unter anderem 164 Spiele für die Atlanta Flames und Minnesota North Stars in der National Hockey League (NHL) auf der Position des Verteidigers bestritten hat.

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Bialowas verbrachte seine Juniorenzeit zwischen 1969 und 1972 bei den Regina Pats aus seiner Geburtsstadt, mit denen er zunächst in der Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) spielte, ehe die Mannschaft im Sommer 1970 in die Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) aufgenommen wurde. Parallel dazu besuchte der Verteidiger die University of Saskatchewan. Im Anschluss an sein drittes und letztes Jahr bei den Pats, in dem er deren Mannschaftskapitän war, wurde Bialowas im NHL Amateur Draft 1972 bereits in der zweiten Runde an 18. Position von den Atlanta Flames aus der National Hockey League (NHL) ausgewählt.

Die Flames holten den Kanadier nach dem Draft in den Profibereich und setzten ihn ab der Saison 1972/73 bei ihrem Farmteam Omaha Knights in der Central Hockey League (CHL) ein. Mit den Knights konnte der Abwehrspieler in seiner Rookiespielzeit den Adams Cup gewinnen. In der Folge verblieb Bialowas zunächst im Kader Omahas, ehe er zum Jahresbeginn 1974 für die Atlanta Flames in der NHL debütierte. Darüber hinaus kam er im weiteren Saisonverlauf auch sporadisch für die Nova Scotia Voyageurs in der American Hockey League (AHL) zu Einsätzen. In der ersten Hälfte des Spieljahres 1974/75 gehörte der Defensivakteur zum Stammkader Atlantas und absolvierte bis Anfang Januar 1975 insgesamt 37 Partien, ehe er gemeinsam mit Dean Talafous zu den Minnesota North Stars transferiert wurde. Die North Stars sicherten sich im Gegenzug die Dienste von Barry Gibbs.

Bei den North Stars beendete Bialowas die Spielzeit, pendelte jedoch ab der folgenden Saison zwischen dem NHL-Aufgebot Minnesotas und dem des AHL-Kooperationspartners New Haven Nighthawks. Nachdem er zur Saison 1977/78 von Minnesotas Management vollends zum CHL-Farmteam Fort Worth Texans abgeschoben worden war, mit denen er am Saisonende seinen zweiten Adams Cup gewann, beendete Bialowas im Alter von 25 Jahren seine aktive Karriere vorzeitig.

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(UPDATED 12:30) President Trump said Monday that a trade "understanding" has been reached with Mexico.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that negotiations with Mexico to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement were successful, though he suggested NAFTA could renamed.
Trump also told media that negotiations with Canada to review the U.S.-Canada trade portion of the deal would begin immediately.
Details of the trade terms were not yet made public.
"This breakthrough demonstrates that the president's common-sense strategy of holding trading partners accountable will produce results," Perdue said in the statement.
Perdue said the agreement addresses agricultural biotechnology to keep up with 21st Century innovations.
"And we mutually pledge to work together with Mexico to reduce trade-distorting policies, increase transparency, and ensure non-discriminatory treatment in grading of agricultural products," Perdue said in the statement.
Earlier reports indicate that the U.S. recently removed its demand for seasonal trade protection for perishable crops, though no U.S. official has confirmed that report.


Pacific Western Transportation connects front-line staff at its 14 subsidiary companies using Sparrow Modern Workplace.
"PWT is a large company with many subsidiaries, and in the past, our employees may not have been completely aware of its reach and involvement in a multitude of communities across Canada," explains Amaira Hansen, Interim Communications Director at PWT.
Suspecting that the traditional communication channels were not effective at keeping everyone well-informed, Amaira's team set out to reimagine its internal communication strategy to better reach ALL employees, regardless of where they were located.
Establishing a Communications Centre of Excellence at PWT was the first step to standardizing internal and external communications across the entire organization. But to be successful, PWT needed the right channel to get the message across to its front-line staff. "We looked for a mobile application that is simple and easy to use for all of our employees," says Amaira. Sparrow's familiar, newsfeed-style communication platform was a great fit.
To increase the overall awareness of the PWT brand amongst staff, the team focused their efforts on integrated communication. "We wanted to maintain consistent branding, so white-labelling the application was a must," says Amaira. "Sparrow was the only platform that gave us this ability," she adds.
Sparrow, renamed as "PWT InTouch", was launched in April 2018. The platform helps keep the entire staff up-to-date on company-wide news, safety and maintenance programs, and career opportunities. Additionally, it allows the communications team to strengthen the sense of community within the PWT group by shining a spotlight at local initiatives and exemplary leadership at the subsidiary companies. "Since using Sparrow, we have seen an increase in overall inter-company awareness and engagement," adds Amaira.
PWT's reimagined communication strategy has garnered the attention of the bus transit industry. Six months after rolling out the application to its frontline staff, PWT was recognized nationally by the Canadian Urban Transit Association for excellence in marketing and communications.
Thanks to built-in analytics, PWT gains insights into how employees engage with the company.
By selecting and subscribing to channels, PWT employees receive the news that matters most to them.
Employees can access Sparrow from anywhere on iOS and Android devices.
Since launching in April of 2018, PWT has added over 1600 active users to their Sparrow platform.
The average active user reads 10 Sparrow articles each month.
A typical PWT article inspires at least 20% of readers to engage with content by using reactions or comments.
Each PWT post is fully read by approximately 60% of viewers.
In a year, PWT has posted 640 articles on Sparrow. Some of the most popular topics include safety information, career opportunities and leadership news.
PWT currently uses four reactions (Like, Curious, Great Idea and Hurray!) to drive engagement with their content and add personality to their app experience.


Have you ever wondered where Apple got the metal for its iPods from, or would you like to buy high quality goods for friends while seeing Japanese handicrafts? Tsubamesanjo Wing in Niigata is the perfect place.
Have you heard of the Tsubamesanjo region? It's in Niigata prefecture, which is known for its delicious rice, Japanese sake, and the breathtaking Mt. Yahiko. Tsubamesanjo is a region that extends over Tsubame city and Sanjo city.
The Tsubamesanjo region is known for its exceptional metalwork. In 2001, Apple started selling the laptop "PowerbookG4". This was the first laptop that used metal for its body. This development required such a high level of technique, that it couldn't have been done without the Tsubamesanjo metalwork techniques.
Didn't the iPod that was released next become such a hot topic because the back looked just like a mirror? This couldn't have been done if the technique from a Tsubamesanjo company didn't exist. It's a technique where you polish the metal similarly to how you would polish a mirror, called kyomen shiage.
Even now they continue to make products that receive high reviews worldwide. Some of these products are carried at the global outdoor brand Snow Peak or as part of the high class western tableware that you see at Nobel Prize dinners.
The metal polishers accept these production requests. They made a special group called the Migakiya syndicate (Polishers' syndicate). They treat each individual employee whether from small factories or large companies as equals.
By the way, even Mr. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, visited Niigata's Central Region including Tsubamesanjo. His Zen teacher, Mr. Hirofumi Otsukawa's hometown temple is in the region. This might be why Apple noticed the Tsubamesanjo region.
Tsubamesanjo Wing is where all the metal products from the Polishers' syndicate who receive reviews worldwide are gathered.
The stores at Tsubamesanjo station and surrounding area make it the perfect place to buy presents at the end of your trip. It's so convenient to go sightseeing and not have to carry souvenirs around with you all day.
We will introduce some of the metal products sold at Tsubamesanjo Wing.
With its moderate heaviness and perfect fit, it's an iPhone case that gives off an expensive feeling. (8640 yen-20,570 yen).
The Tsubamesanjo regions are also known as a producers of kitchen knives.
A high-quality titanium tumbler. The titanium tumbler, polished with the kyomen shiage has a smooth surface and feels familiar on your hand. If you pour beer into it a smooth and creamy foam appears. The foam doesn't go away that easily. If your drink your beer from this, your evening beer is bound to taste a little different.
Inside Tsubamesanjo Wing there is a break room, free Wi-Fi, and a recharging spot; tourists may feel extremely grateful for this area because they don't have to worry about phone reception problems. Don't worry, even people who aren't buying presents can use the break room.
You can reserve and experience various factory tours from the Tsubamesanjo Wing website. How about taking a tour and seeing if you can find the Tsubamesanjo region's secrets?
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SAS New Emotional Video Takes the Prize for the Best Travel Ad of 2018
Rafat Ali, Skift
- Nov 03, 2018 8:30 pm
"Travelers will forget what we say in our ads, they will forget what we do with our promotions, but they will never forget how we make them feel."
— Rafat Ali
Travel advertising has been going through a bit of a down cycle of late, nothing great has caught our eye for the last few years, as everyone gloms on to the sameness of selling "experiences" as their main marketing hook.
But this new ad from SAS, the Scandinavian airline, certainly pushes all the right emotional buttons, without ever showing anything about the airline, a feat in itself. The new ad "The Arrivals" captures the moment of arrivals at airports, in the case the arrival halls at Kastrup International Airport in Copenhagen. The new ad is part of its new campaign "We Are Travelers" on how travel changes people.
"The Arrivals" campaign imagery and film was created by photographer Peter Funch and Danish filmmaker Jeppe Rønde. They spend a week working with both actors and real chance encounters at the arrival hall as they waited for the right second to capture that feeling of arriving, the focus of this ad, with the voiceover describing the various emotions and changes we feel as a result of travel and reunion with loved ones after.
The campaign will run in various channels in Scandinavia, US, UK, Germany, France, China and Japan.
Annelle Nassen, SAS's VP of Marketing said of the newly launched campaign: "We at SAS, together with our travelers, bring a lot back with us from our journeys. We bring home inspiration and courage, perspective and love. Travel changes us, and when it changes us, we change the world. With our new campaign 'The Arrivals' we want to show that travelers return richer."
Skift wrote in its Supertraveler Manifesto in 2016: "We, the travel brands, should strive to understand how the experiences that we provide make travelers feel. It's the human element. Travel is a huge investment in time and money; travelers will forget what we say in our ads, they will forget what we do with our promotions, but they will never forget how we make them feel."
SAS seems to have taken our advice well.
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Nickelodeon's 'Double Dare' finds new life in Facebook Messenger
This version should be a lot less messy.
Mallory Locklear|@mallorylocklear|August 17, 2018 12:00 PM
Nickelodeon's game show Double Dare is now a Facebook game. The classic show originally aired from 1986 to 1993 and recently just made its return to Nickelodeon. Now, fans will be able to play a version of Double Dare themselves through Facebook Messenger, challenging friends and keeping track of who's on top via the game's leaderboard.
To play, head to Facebook Messenger, tap "Games" and type in "Double Dare." From there, you can open the game and start a thread with a friend. The two of you will then answer Double Dare questions, compete in physical challenge mini games that are based on those from the show and the game will send each player notifications when it's their turn. Play is one-on-one but the game can be played within a group chat.
You can play the Double Dare game today anywhere Facebook Messenger is available.
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The changing face of social enterprise — Chelmund's Fish & Chips
It isn't often we get the chance to cover the story of a new community-owned social enterprise literally on the eve of its opening. It is even less often that that new enterprise is a fish and chip shop!
A community owned chip shop? Yes, it seems unlikely. But then when you think about it, it seems an obvious idea — or perhaps an idea that has simply been waiting for its time to arrive.
Well, in Chelmsley Wood, in north Solihull, that time has arrived and Chelmund's Fish & Chips at 856 Chester Road, Chelmund's Cross, B37 7WG — what is thought to be the first community owned chippy in the country — opens for business on Thursday 1st March.
It all started a couple of years ago when a group of local organisations — Chelmsley Wood Baptist Church, Three Trees, St Andrew's, Olive Branch Kitchen and specialist social enterprise consultancy firm Development in Social Enterprise — saw an opportunity to benefit the local economy on every level.
'We saw smart new shop units going up as part of Solihull MBC's regeneration programme,' says Neil Roberts from Chelmsley Wood Baptist Church, one of the partners, 'and we thought, someone's bound to open a chippy there… And then we thought: why not us? We talked with Central England Co-Op who were building the units and they were supportive of the idea and asked us to submit a proposal.'
But even with a site in mind and sympathetic developers who were warm to the idea, it hasn't been a quick or trouble-free process. It has taken two years of planning, negotiating and a good number of sleepless nights. This helps illustrate that as with any new business you really need participants who are prepared to stick with it. Investment in the new enterprise has come from its partners, from North Solihull Partnership, community finance provider ART Business Loans and the social investment fund CAF Venturesome (update 28/12/18: you can read more about CAF Venturesome's investment methods and results in the organisation's very interesting 2018 impact report).
A new social enterprise was formed to manage the business. Alan Crawford, manager at Three Trees says, 'The partners brought together the skills required — community development, business planning and catering — and formed a dream team for a community owned business.'
The new social enterprise emphasises that the chippy is a business, not a charitable project. Dave Lane, director at Development in Social Enterprise says, 'The only difference between us and the next business along is that Chelmund's Fish & Chips is a social enterprise set up to reinvest its profit back into its community. It is a business model, but the profits are locked in to guarantee community benefit.'
There is an emphasis on employing local people and using local supplies wherever possible, as well as the extra benefits to the local economy as money stays in the community rather than going to distant shareholders or centralised national offices.
So what is the plan? 'People aren't camping outside yet,' jokes Mitchell Sherriff, the new manager, 'but I wouldn't be surprised if they did given the number of people saying how long they've been waiting for a chippy in the area!'
After covering overheads, all profits from the chippy will be reinvested back into the community. Mike Harmon, the local Anglican vicar, says, 'The profits belong to the community and we'll use them to support local projects and events. And in the longer term we'll be looking to start other new businesses too so that we can offer even more employment and opportunity in the local community.'
Treat yourself and the family at Chelmund's Fish & Chips, 856 Chester Road, Chelmund's Cross, B37 7WG!
As we have reported elsewhere in this series of stories when we covered the Miracle Laundry, the trend for social enterprises to provide what might be regarded as purely commercial services marks a new direction in the sector and is slightly counter-intuitive. Rather than offering services that are synonymous with their social mission — health or services to support families or young people, for instance — these new 'commercial social enterprises' look for local economic opportunities where the prospects of generating a decent profit for reinvestment are good. Goods and services that local communities need are made available, but using the social enterprise business model commits the enterprises to reinvest for community good.
As someone commented on the chippy's Twitter feed: 'Fish, chips and community action — what's not to like?'
We agree and we wish Chelmund's Fish & Chips every success.
The chippy opens at 4pm on Thursday 1st March. Form an orderly queue.
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Parent fears for child's welfare after classmate took knife into Northamptonshire primary school
Pattishall Church of England Primary School, Towcester. Google Maps
Carly Roberts
Published: 12:47 Friday 24 March 2017
A Northamptonshire dad has aired his concerns about a primary school after a youngster took a knife into school.
The man, who doesn't wish to be named, said Pattishall church of England primary school near Towcester told parents about the incident a week after it happened.
The incident involved a year 3 student and happened last Thursday (March 16), before the school day started.
He said: "Parents have been furious with how it's been dealt with. It's too serious to sweep under the carpet with recent events in Northampton. I'm concerned we only found out a week later."
Lee Woods, headteacher at Pattishall CE Primary School said: "I can confirm that there was an incident before the school day started last Thursday.
"Staff took immediate action and dealt with this incident in line with our behaviour policy.
"Parents and other parties involved have been kept up to date. Pattishall CE Primary School is committed to the safety of all of our pupils."
A spokeswoman for Northamptonshire Police said the child is below the age of criminal responsibility so the incident cannot be treated as a crime.
However, officers are working alongside the school following the incident, which was reported to them by a parent and a staff member.


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Report: Adam Vinatieri wants to keep kicking
Indystar Staff Report
INDIANAPOLIS — Adam Vinatieri isn't ready to call it quits.
The legendary kicker told FOX59's Mike Chappell, "I'd like to play again. But if not, that's part of the deal."
Vinatieri, 47, is coming off a "crappy season," the worst of his professional career. The hall-of-fame bound kicker missed a league-leading 14 kicks, six extra points (22-of-28) and eight field goals (17-of-25) before going on injured reserve Dec. 9 with a left knee injury.
The Colts brought in rookie Chase McLaughlin to replace him, who went on to connect on all 11 of his extra points and 5-of-6 field goals in four games with the Colts. The performance earned him a one-year contract extension.
Following the NFL Draft, the Colts signed rookie free agent Rodrigo Blankenship out of Georgia. Blankenship kicked four seasons for the Bulldogs, connecting on 80 of his 97 field goal attempts (81.8%) and all 200 of his extra points.
According to Vinatieri, Chris Ballard reached out during the draft, but he was turkey-hunting with his son and didn't speak with the Colts' general manager.
"I told my son who was next to me, 'Watch, they're going to draft a kicker,''' the NFL's all-time leader in points scored said. "Chris normally wouldn't call me during the draft. They didn't draft one, but they signed that kicker out of Georgia. He's a pretty good kicker.''
Vinatieri has been rehabbing his knee after surgery, though because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that progress has slowed a bit. He hasn't been able to work with Colts personnel and fit in as much rehab as he would have liked.
"Before all of this, my thought was get back and get healthy and if I can kick well, shoot, I figured I could earn a job," Vinatieri said. "I knew with a six-month, June (timetable), it was going to be tight anyway. If anything, this is going to prolong my recovery.''
If he can fully recover, Vinatieri hopes he has at least one more good year left in his leg. The goal, he said, like always is to win a Super Bowl. He won't kick for any team he doesn't believe has a chance to win it all.
Despite Vinatieri's early season struggles, Reich stuck with his veteran kicker until he became too injured to play.
If a return doesn't come to fruition, however, Vinatieri won't be too disappointed.
"If after 24 years you're not at peace with what you've done in your career, then you're a jackass. What more? I always wanted to be a good father and a good husband. Football is what I do, it doesn't define me.
"Saying that, my definition of Adam Vinatieri the football player is he's had a pretty good run. If it's not in the cards and I'm not coming back — and I'm not saying that — then, yes, I'll be at peace.''
If the NFL's all-time leading scorer doesn't return for a 25th season, he'll still leave a legacy that includes four Super Bowl rings, three first team All-Pro selections, three Pro Bowl nods and some of the most memorable clutch kicks in league history.
Vinatieri has scored a record 2,673 points, ranks second all-time in games played (365) and would become the second-oldest player in NFL history to appear in a game — if he makes an opening day roster. Only the late George Blanda and Morten Andersen have played after turning 47.
Vinatieri added that even if he is done kicking, fans might still get a chance to catch him on TV. He's spoken with multiple stations about a career in broadcasting.


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Events Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Distinguished Affiliated Scholar Professor Tony Platt traces the United States' disturbing history of punishment and social control.
Mon 13 May 19
Professor Tony Platt
Centre for Criminology
Sociology, Department of
Centre for Criminology c4crim@essex.ac.uk
Join the Centre for Criminology and Professor Tony Platt for an insightful open seminar, examining the history of punishment and social control within the American criminal justice system.
Professor Tony Platt will discuss some of the main arguments from his latest book; Beyond these Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States.
Professor Platt is currently a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar from the Center for the Study of Law and Society, at Berkeley, University of California.
Beyond These Walls traces the United States' disturbing history of punishment and social control, revealing how the criminal justice system attempts to enforce and justify inequalities associated with class, race, gender, and sexuality. Prisons and police departments are central to this process, but other institutions from immigration and welfare to educational and public health agencies are equally complicit.
Professor Platt argues that international and national politics shape perceptions of danger and determine the policies of local criminal justice agencies, while private policing and global corporations are deeply and undemocratically involved in the business of homeland security.
This seminar is part of an open seminar series, hosted by Dr Alexandra Cox from the Centre for Criminology. To find out more about the Centre for Criminology, visit our website and follow us on Twitter.


The updated TD4F series or orchard tractors retain the compact dimensions of their predecessors.
New Holland Agriculture has updated the TD4F series orchard tractors to meet stage IIIB emissions regulations.
But they retain the compact dimensions of their predecessors – important in narrow orchards and vineyards where tight canopies limit available space.
Engine power has been increased to 75, 85 and 99hp for the ranges' three models, from a new 4-cylinder, 3.4L F5C intercooled engine from FPT Industrial; this meets stage IIIB emission standards with an after-treatment diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC).
This regeneration-free solution is said to achieve a cleaner environment for grapes and fruit crops, lower maintenance costs, while service intervals remain at 600 hours, keeping operating costs down.
The new model has the same hood height as its predecessor, achieved by mounting the diesel oxidation catalyst unit vertically to minimise the space it takes up under the hood.
The overall length and wheelbase of the new tractor is unchanged from the previous range.
A new front ballast provides up to 270kg front weight capability, allowing the tractor to operate heavy rear implements.
The operator station has a new rear dashboard, new switches and a new instrument cluster, said to improve ease of use and readability.
For the TD4F, a choice of three different transmissions allows users to optimise productivity and versatility.
At the top of the range, a power shuttle transmission offers smooth and modulated shift between forward and reverse, while the 20x12 creep speed transmission is offered in mechanical syncro shuttle configuration, alongside the standard 12x12 version.
The hydraulic system comprises separate power steering and hydraulic pumps or optionally a 64L/min high capacity MegaFlow pump. Mid-mount valves can be specified for high-demand applications.
Lift-O-Matic rear linkage control enables the operator to raise and lower implements to a pre-set position using a single button.


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Seller is an authorized distributor of Boltswitch, Cummins, Dongan, Martek, Motortronics, Sola Hevi-Duty and Weg products.
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Measurements of abdominal circumference and body mass index similarly estimated risk for lower extremity overuse injury, according to research presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.
In a retrospective review of electronic medical records of 79,868 United States Air Force personnel, stratified by body mass index (BMI) and abdominal circumference (AC), researchers analyzed data over 7 years to identify incidence of new lower-extremity overuse injury, including stress fractures, soft tissue injuries, joint injuries and osteoarthritis. Researchers used Cox proportional hazards regression to calculate risk of injury in obese and high-risk AC individuals.
According to study results, calculations showed a significant risk association between elevated BMI and AC related to all injury types. Individuals classified as obese had a greater risk for developing lower extremity injuries vs. patients classified with a normal weight. Researchers found using BMI and AC in a combined approach predicted injury risk better than either measure alone.


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New Orleans sports before the NFL came to town
News with a Twist
by: Mark Deane
NEW ORLEANS -- When New Orleanians talk sports, the Saints dominate the discussion. Even in the offseason.
Will they be able to afford Drew? Will they draft defense in the first round? Will Kamara and Lattimore be even better next season?
The NBA Pelicans are making a run to get in the conversation. But, even with an NBA team in the mix, New Orleans is a still football town.
It wasn't always that way.
"Long before we started putting 'Sportsman's Paradise' on our licenses plates, and that was only in the '50s, we have been a sportsman's paradise," says sports historian Derby Gisclair.
The Saints have only been around for about 50 of New Orleans' 300 years. Before the NFL came to town, sports fans had plenty to cheer for.
"We had four race courses in the 19th century," Gislcair points out. "We were the epicenter of horse racing here. The Fair Grounds is the third oldest race course continually operating in the country behind Saratoga and Belmont."
Metairie Cemetery was once a popular race course, too. In satellite images, you can still see the oval track in the design of the cemetery. In the 1850s, it was the site of one of the great rivalries.
"There was a race between two thoroughbreds, Lexington and Lecomte," says Gisclair. "Those two drew 30,000 people from all over the country to come see that race."
Boxing also found a home in and around New Orleans.
"The very first heavyweight title bout in the United States was held in 1870 in Kenner," says Gislcair. "It was called Kennerville at the time. And, there is a bronze statue out there to commemorate the event."
And, don't let anybody tell you northerners taught southerners how to play baseball during the Civil War. Gislcair says before the war even started, 5 percent of the members of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players were from New Orleans.
"We started playing baseball here in New Orleans in the 1850s at the Delachaise Estate, where we know as Tchoupitoulas Street," he says. "Back then it was Levee Ave. There was a large open field. That's where we had our first baseball games at the Delachaise Grounds as they called it."
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Lake Buena Vista, Fla. - Saints Quarterback Drew Brees is enjoying Walt Disney World Resort with his wife and four children.
He can be seen visiting Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and riding Star Wars Rise of the Resistance.
by Wild Bill Wood, with photographer Justin Abshire / Jan 24, 2020
NEW ORLEANS - They've come with their folk music to New Orleans.
They've come from 48 countries.
by Wild Bill Wood / Jan 24, 2020
NEW ORLEANS - It's so typical in New Orleans.
That's what author, historian, journalist and New Orleans own Walter Isaacson says.
Man killed while walking on LA. 21 in Covington
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