Concerns have been raised that the US government is limiting scientific collaboration between US and Cuban scientists – to the detriment of US citizens.
The Open University has now agreed to admit students from Cuba after criticism from educational unions and others – reversing its view that it could not go against the USA.
On 13 November the government dramatically drew back from EU military integration schemes. It now refuses to absorb Britain's armed forces into a Euro army and in doing has shown it respects our decision.
Those wanting to undermine the EU referendum result try to blame Russian interference. The facts don't support that.
The government is giving up to £15 million over three years to support the establishment of a new, private, tech university to be based at a campus in Hereford city centre.
A case going through the High Court illustrates the way regeneration schemes are often merely a curtain raiser for the demolition of council-owned housing.
A new CPBML pamphlet calls for the campaigning bodies left dormant after the referendum to be reactivated. The people must assert control over Brexit.
The head of the International Council of Nurses is calling on developed countries not to rely on overseas staff but rather train and develop their own staff.
The government is recruiting 8,000 officials to deliver on Brexit, deal or no deal, with new posts in Whitehall departments and border check points.
Data journalists on the Sunday Times have exposed how housebuilders are making a mint out of Right to Buy.
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Data from the Office for National Statistics published in October show the number of Romanians and Bulgarians resident in Britain soared by 79 per cent in the previous two years.
London has the severest poverty in Britain, a new study shows.
Official data show 72,000 children were in care in England at the end of March, up 3 per cent on the previous year.
Carillion, a British company running construction and facilities management services across the globe, posted a £1.5 billion loss in the first half of 2017. This has been followed by a retreat from outsourced and private contracting across the Middle East, North America and Britain.
A survey shows the decline in religious belief in Britain. Yet religious groups have a disproportionate influence over our education system and government.
Who should run the bins in Brum?
Bin workers in Birmingham have been in dispute about job losses for over three months. The strike restarted in August after the council went back on a settlement. Action is suspended for now, but the dispute is not over yet. The people of Birmingham should defend their high quality collection service.
In-Comm Training has joined forces with Hyfore to develop an Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre next door to its current site in Aldridge in the West Midlands.
EU-backed Ukrainian armed forces fire on the civilian population of the Donbass on a daily basis. None of this gets reported in the British media.
The vote to leave the EU induced a frenzy of pessimistic forecasts about the future for production in Britain. Such negativity seems to be confounded by what's happening on the ground, as shown by recent news from Yorkshire.
Wakefield City Academies Trust announced in early September that is pulling out of the 21 schools it runs. And in Bradford, a pathfinder acedemy is in special measures within three years of being rated outstanding.
On 11 September Parliament voted for the EU Withdrawal Bill, which will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK. That's another important milestone, but the British people need to keep politicians' feet to the Brexit fire.
The RMT union continues to challenge the TUC's favourable and unrealistic view of the EU. The TUC believes that the single market is good for British workers and that the UK can remain in it after Brexit. Neither is true.
In the wake of Hurricane Irma President Raul Castro called on Cubans on Monday to unite in swiftly rebuilding the country. At the same time Cuba is providing neighbouring islands with medical aid.
Post-Brexit, food and drink firms are targeting international customers, with expected growth in sales and employment according to a recent report.
New Royal Navy warships will be built around Britain, using a lower cost design us part of the national shipbuilding strategy announced by the Ministry of Defence.


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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is
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2005. Recommendations from the panel will be brought to the full
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Northeastern United States as requested by the Habitat Committee. If
time allows they will review Habitat Area of Particular Concern (HAPC)
proposals and prepare advice for the committee and develop Dedicated
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The blooming democracy of India. Scholars discuss why this British import flourishes
By Keith Henderson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
October 17, 1985 | Hanover, N.H.
The side of India that's often unknown to Americans is ``the modern, living face of India,'' as opposed to the romanticized Gunga Din-Taj Mahal image. And an important feature of that living face is the ``democratic image,'' the country's building of free political institutions over the past 38 years. Those observations come from Niranjan Desai, cultural attach'e at the Indian Embassy in Washington. He was among the participants at a conference this summer at Dartmouth College that brought together some of the top India scholars in the United States, two former US ambassadors to India, and some Indian diplomats to discuss the future of US-India relations.
As conference organizer Howard Erdman of Dartmouth's department of government pointed out, the event gave India specialists like himself a chance to emerge from their ``relative obscurity.'' It also gave lay people -- in this instance an enthusiastic delegation from Dartmouth's summer alumni program -- a chance to gain some insight into a country that has bobbed in and out of headlines (and movie theaters) regularly over the past year.
Since much of today's news about India is of assassination and ethnic strife, Mr. Desai's observation about Americans' slight understanding of how and why democracy functions in India is to the point. Is that sprawling democracy -- the world's largest -- teetering on the edge, or is there reason to believe it will persist?
``In a degree, democracy in India is a Western import,'' notes Robert Goheen, a former US ambassador to India and past president of Princeton University. But as a system, he adds, it is admirably suited to ``ventilating'' all the differences of the Indian people. Dr. Goheen, who was born in India to missionary parents, concludes that ``Indian democracy functions extraordinarily well,'' given the enormous size and diversity of the country.
While India's major governmental structures -- the parliamentary system and the system of justice -- are a legacy of British colonial rule, grass-roots democracy goes back many centuries, according to other Dartmouth participants.
``In India, there has been a very long tradition of elected officials'' at the local level, says P. S. Sahai, commerce attach'e at the Indian Embassy in Washington. For generations, he explained, village councils and leaders have been popularly chosen.
What this means, according to Mr. Sahai, is that while Indian villagers -- the rural population that makes up nearly 80 percent of the country's 700 million inhabitants -- may be ``uneducated in letters, they can still have a very shrewd political mind.''
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, a political scientist from the University of Chicago, holds that the pattern of Indian elections in recent years indicates a strong streak of independence among voters there. For example, note the ``punishing'' of Mrs. Gandhi and her son Sanjay in the 1977 election, the ``national unity'' vote for Rajiv Gandhi last December, and the parliamentary election of last March, when many regions swung away from Gandhi and the Congress Party. ``One is very impressed with the fact t hat they make real decisions with these elections,'' says Dr. Rudolph.
While widespread literacy is often considered crucial to democracy, rural folk in India, vast numbers of whom are illiterate, ``don't feel any obstacle to their [political] participation,'' Rudolph observes. ``They're very literate in terms of the needs of their economic or social group,'' in her opinion.
Rudolph and her husband, Lloyd, a fellow University of Chicago political scientist, regularly travel to India to study its political processes. ``We've seen village leaders hassle politicians -- bring to their attention unfulfilled promises,'' she recalls (See feature on the Rudolphs beginning on Page 29).
But there are dark sides to the Indian democratic experiment, too. Indira Gandhi's 1975 declaration of ``emergency'' suspended political rights and sanctioned the jailing of many of her opponents. It was a time when the use of force overwhelmed the peaceful political processes urged by the patriarchs of an independent India, particularly Mohandas Gandhi and Mrs. Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru.
At that time, say the Rudolphs, some of their colleagues were quick to proclaim that ``the real India has finally reemerged.''
But in fact, say the University of Chicago scholars, the common people rejected Mrs. Gandhi's claim to ``benign authoritarianism.'' Indians had been used to having a means of voicing grievances, and ``there was a popular sense that channels had been closed that they'd become accustomed to using,'' says Lloyd Rudolph.
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Flying Circus - Core Rulebook
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Flying Circus is an in-depth, highly detailed Powered by the Apocalypse-derived roleplaying game of aviation fantasy, set in a world of machines and magic inspired by the works of Hayao Miyazaki.
In the aftermath of a massive industrial war, the world is slowly pulling itself back together, but danger still lurks in the skies of Himmilgard. The only thing standing between the world and chaos are the brave pilots of the Flying Circuses, indepedent mercenary companies known for the bright and unique liveries of their salvaged aircraft. No mission is too bold, no monster too big, no foe too dangerous... if you can afford it.
Flying Circus uses a unique system for air combat, eschewing top-down maps and treating Altitude and Air Speed as currency to be spent in daring and realistic dogfights. Climb to gain the advantage, dive to regain speed, pull your plane into dizzying turns to get on their tail. But you also face realistic limitations, as your engine burns out, your wings crack and break, and you lose consciousness in a high-G turn.
In addition to the powerful air combat engine, Flying Circus has robust systems for battles and daring escapes on foot, for pilots to blow off steam in between missions, and for the financial and social aspects of running the company. Pilots always live on the edge: between excess and stress, between riches and ruin, between victory in the skies and impact with the ground.
Flying Circus features ten unique playbooks, with both strong hooks to get started immediately and considerable framework for customization and progression over the course of a long campaign. The playbooks also come packed with 48 unique aircraft, both historical and fantastical, to populate your games, as well as a variety of threats, mission prompts, advanced rules, and GM advice.
This game touches on mature themes regarding violence, sexuality, and drug use. There is a degree of illustrated nudity.
If you purchase a PDF now, you will get a discount on the print version when it becomes avaliable.
FLYING CIRCUS SYSTEM
Himmilgard: Core Book - Playbooks & Planes - Horror of the Heights - Whispers from the Deep
Kevin S December 09, 2020 8:38 pm UTC
Anyway to download a high res version of the world map?
DIOGO A October 13, 2020 2:11 pm UTC
Hi, still waiting for the POD.
Michael F October 07, 2020 10:13 pm UTC
Does this come with the playbooks (the alternate settings mentioned on the kickstarter page), or is this just the core WWI setting?
Erika C October 08, 2020 5:30 pm UTC
This is the core Fantasy WW1 setting with the two extra playbooks (Witch and Worker). Historical, Storm Divers, and so forth will be their own books.
Sean L August 20, 2020 1:02 pm UTC
I have to ask (because I don't think it was answered below), what is the advantage of having two guns? Does it double the hits you cause at a given range?
Erika C August 21, 2020 3:16 am UTC
It doubles your hits, and thus your damage, yes!
Dmitry G July 31, 2020 5:35 am UTC
Wow! An update! (Looking inside)
Oh! An awesome update in fact! I like the Aircraft book very much. As well as improved Corebook.
Thank you for your efforts, dear author!
DIOGO A July 07, 2020 1:58 pm UTC
Any news on the POD option ?
Erika C July 07, 2020 5:08 pm UTC
Hopefully by mid-August!
Dmitry G June 09, 2020 8:46 am UTC
A great game you've created! Thank you!
So much stuff to enjoy inside the book!
But I would really appreciate if you add a sample combat for a page or two. Just for better understanding.
Erika C June 09, 2020 10:49 am UTC
I'm going to be writing an example routine, but I will not be putting it in the core book itself because it will have to run long and I'm going to do some formatting tricks.
I do not learn well from examples so I am not good at writing them myself.
Dmitry G June 09, 2020 12:42 pm UTC
Great news! Thank you!
Garrick A June 05, 2020 4:19 pm UTC
How does a round of combat go? Is it round robin, initiative based or something else. I think a combat example of say 3 players would be really helpful.
Erika C June 06, 2020 5:34 am UTC
There's no set turn order. Players can act in any order based on GM prompting and the narrative.
Gilfredo R June 02, 2020 12:50 pm UTC
So I'm feeling phenomenally dumb here, but...how Hits and Damage is calculated and how they interact in combat is a bit confusing to me. The stats on the sample card with the 2x LMGs on page 49 don't seem to match up to what the book is saying. It says to multiply Hits by Damage, but that doesn't seem to be the case on the card--indeed, at all ranges the number of hits is *less* than the damage.
Also, is anything multiplied in a Weapon System? Do you double hits or damage if you have two machine guns firing at once? If not, what's the advantage to having more than one gun?
Lastly, do number of Hits affect Damage assigned to a target, or is it just for determining Crits?
So the way it works is that you multiply the weapon's Damage by the number of Hits it does at each range band.
So a machine gun does 4/3/2/1 hits, and 8/6/4/2 damage.
Gilfredo R June 03, 2020 1:40 am UTC
Thank you very much for your reply!
Denis Z May 18, 2020 2:14 pm UTC
Since there's going to be a design manual for this, that, from what I've seen, would let you play the system for later era aircraft, how much "later" are we talking, if I may ask? My friends and I have been looking for a good system to play something akin to a pen and paper version of Ace Combat, and after hearing of the design manual coming up for Flying Circus, it's gone on my watchlist! So... would modern era be doable?
Erika C May 18, 2020 4:08 pm UTC
Sooo... it's complicated.
The design system currently more or less does pistons airplanes out to 1950, and can also do pulsejets if you want to intercept V-1s. We're currently in the early stages of exploring how to build turbojet engines into the system and building supersonic rules with the hopes of doing jets from the 1970s for some Top Gun action, but we 100% expect the assumptions of this system to have broken down by then and for the results to be more movie logic than realistic. Don't expect accurate radar profile modelling or BVR combat.
Beyond that, though, the game's financial rules, abilities, routines, and foes are tuned for WW1 aircraft, and break down as you move away from it. As planes get faster and weapons more powerful, systems change, and while the base system has been designed to handle many of those changes organically, the specific implementation in core Flying Circus will not support it.
The next major Flying Circus release will be the standalone Flying...See more Circus Historical, which will be able to cover some early jet combat, so you'll be able to see how it works then.
I see!
Well, I wish you best of luck either way! Maybe I'll still be able to slap something together out of FCH.
Calum M May 24, 2020 4:20 pm UTC
I think the biggest issue you're going to run into for Ace Combat in the Flying Circus engine is not precisely mechanics, you can paper over the cracks there once the 70s-80s rules are out, but the lethality differential. Flying Circus broadly expects you to take on similar numbers of similar types of aircraft to your own, maybe at a marginal numerical disadvantage since you're a bit heroic. Ace Combat expects you to cut through dozens of enemy aircraft with capability similar to or greater than your own in the pursuit of your objectives and most of the time that isn't even difficult, just time consuming. Bear this in mind for your hack, although the core Theatre of the Mind dogfighting is really good at Ace Combat stuff for the same reason: You don't know where more than one or two opponents are at the same time and mostly you don't care, so there's no reason to waste the GM's time trying to track them. They exist purely in the abstract unless they're shooting at you or you're shooting at them.
Desmond H May 13, 2020 5:40 pm UTC
Hi, i'm really enjoying reading through this book so far. Today I noticed some stats that confused me a little though and was hoping I could get some clarification on how there supposed too work. Both of these stats can be found under The Witch playbook under there personal move, As the Crow Flies. Thrust and Authority. I looked through the rest of the book but can't seem too find much about how there supposed too be used. Thanks in advance!
They are unfortunate artifacts of revision, and will be purged in the upcoming version.
(At one time, Thrust was the name given to Boost, while Authority was a substat of Handling that eventually got eliminated.)
Oh that makes since, thanks for the quick reply.
Michael S P May 13, 2020 1:30 pm UTC
Any plans on making a quickstart to sample the game?
That'll be really hard for this game because all the systems are very intricately connected together. You can't really take much of a vertical slice to introduce people with, because it'd cause the game to break down for missing some vital component.
James D May 30, 2020 8:05 pm UTC
I'd assume that system-wise, if you're familiar with the Apocalypse World engine, you're good to go. I'd think that the only hump is digging the setting. And by the sounds of it, if you're into Porco Rosso, Castle in the Sky et al, you're already on board.
Morgan G May 10, 2020 12:08 am UTC
Loving this game so far! The book mentions a free aircraft design document being available - but google has failed me. Is there a link to it?
CHI HO P May 10, 2020 12:39 am UTC
The document will be released with the 1.1 version, mentioned in the author's twitter
James D May 09, 2020 3:07 am UTC
You mention a discount on the print purchase with the pdf... How much?
Erika C May 09, 2020 8:35 am UTC
25$ worth, of course! Or as close as I can manage with the print costs.
May 06, 2020 3:39 pm UTC
Haven't had the time to work my way through all the pages yet, but yeah, my mind is already revved up to GM-mode. One peak at the planes in the playbooks had my head spinning with ideas for a session. i'm looking forward to writing a full review once we got a session together. The move mechanics might seem a bit intimidating at first glance, but then, you only have four core stats for your character and most of the rest will be handled by your chosen plane. I really love how much detail and realism was put into the flight mechanics and I also appreciate how much thought was put into the discussion of themes and (pseudo) historical context.
However, I noticed a few misspellings here and there - which is now wonder, considering this beast weighs 300 pages. Erika, if you should happen to read this, feel free to reach out to me in case you need help revising. I'd be happy to help.
Erika C May 06, 2020 10:08 pm UTC
Here, you can use this document!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mb3F4Sn3vqqKvvs7Xle8OHn7Neom5U7lkBy3UGSZjX8/edit
May 06, 2020 10:53 pm UTC
Perfect! I'll have to read the whole thing top to bottom anyways, so I'll just update away.
Iv R.
This game is big and crunchy and if you are into big and crunchy games it will be amazing and more than you expect. The author has constantly updated the text polishing specific details and rebalancing, which is amazing. And you get so much content. Fr [...]
Whit C.
This game is simply amazing! It pushes so many specific buttons of mine in the right way. Story-forward, imaginative, inclusive, with super detailed flight simulation rules. Who doesn't want to be a magical fishperson flying a biplane against drag [...]
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