The Trustees of the Consortium Multi Academy Trust are the Charity Trustees (within the terms of Section 177(1) of the Charities Act 2011), and are responsible for the general control and management of the administration of the Trust in accordance with the provisions set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association. The Board of Trustees is the accountable body for the performance of all the schools within Consortium Multi-Academy Trust.
The Members of a Multi Academy Trust are in a position of oversight. Their objective is to appoint Trustees who will ensure that the Trust's vision and ethos are upheld throughout all activities and developments.
From a legal perspective, Members are signatories to the Memorandum of Association and for agreeing the Trust's Articles of Association.
A fifth Member was appointed in 2018.
Following a 6 year period of marketing management positions in Further Education Colleges in Norfolk, Dawn set up Mercatus Marketing in 2000 to provide business development, research and impact evaluation, and event management in the wider education environment and SME businesses within East Anglia. During this time Dawn chaired the Ipswich and Suffolk Small Business Association; held the positions of Education and PR Officer for the Suffolk Branch of the Institute of Directors; been a Judge, Organiser and Compare for the East of England Business Woman of the Year Awards; and the Conference Organiser for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (East of England).
Dawn was a driving force in the research and modelling of the MAT structure and worked closely with Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne to ensure that there was a clear, viable and sustainable model tabled. Her interest in pursuing the concept of responsible delegation within the MAT model comes from her determination that small schools play a vital part of community life and as such, should retain control over their futures. Since 2013, Dawn has combined her business and consultancy experiences with her governance knowledge and has been deployed by Suffolk County Council to support governing bodies. In this capacity, she has sat on Interim Executive Boards, been appointed as Chair of Governors, Associate Governor, Additional Governor and Governor Advisor, as well as providing mentoring support for new Chairs of Governors. Dawn is regularly requested to sit on Hearing and Appeals panels as an independent experienced governor. In a wider context, she sits on Admissions Appeal panels and carries out Independent Investigations commissioned by schools and local authorities.
Further experience and knowledge has been gained through her governance clerking and tutoring roles in Norfolk and Suffolk and Dawn has written course materials to support governor training. This is further extended as she is regularly commissioned to carry out External Reviews of Governance in schools of concern, or as a direct result of OFSTED Inspections.
Dawn has completed the Eastern Leadership College course 'Leadership Development Programme' and has completed the Level 3 Award in Education and Training and First Aid Instructor Qualifications, allowing her to develop and deliver her own core package of education and training provision. Outside of school governance, and her business consultancy work, Dawn is married to her husband Chris, has two children still in education, and is an active member of the Scout Association.
Following 22 years' service as a UK Armed Forces Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineer, Damian has been the Senior Project and Contracts Manager for United Technologies (Otis UK division), for the past 25 years. In this role, Damian is responsible for profit & loss in over 11 counties throughout the East & South of the UK, including ground operations, financial control, debt recovery and personnel for there Elevator New Equipment department, with a budget of £5m.
Damian has a wealth of knowledge and understanding of construction business sector operations at a multi-million pound level. Damian was previously a school governor at Mendham Primary School and latterly at the newly formed Waveney Valley Partnership Federation for around 7 years. During this time he had many roles including Chair of the Finance Committee, Chair of the Quality of Teaching, and Staff Committee.
Damian and his wife live in Mendham with there two children, Aimee and Ted. Damian is actively involved in the local community and is Treasurer for a local children`s Charity. Damian is a family man, and enjoys living close to there wider family relations who have lived in the Waveney Valley for 400 years; he enjoys the Broads National Park for sailing and wild life, as well as cycling around Norfolk & Suffolk and the local engineering club.
Darren has worked in the property & finance industries for over 25 years, with specialist experience in property development and management, giving him a good understanding of all aspects of property building and development.
More recently, Darren has worked as a consultant for a local Housing Charity, tasked with rebranding the organisation and developing a strategic plan for growth, and delivering barrier free housing solutions for the regions homeless.
Through this work, the charity was recognised nationally by the Big Issue and the developed model adopted throughout the county. Working to build strategic partnerships with several Local Authorities throughout East Anglia has provided Darren with a good understanding of LA working practices and protocols.
Through his own consultancy and ongoing work, Darren appreciates the key importance of understanding the clients needs and meeting expectations through delivered results and communication; something which he feels many organisations fail to address effectively. Darren has a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and through launching a number of successful ventures over the years, has the ability to create effective marketing and market research, to ensure ongoing viability of whatever project he is involved with.
Darren has previously been a school governor with specialist responsibilities at Glebeland Community Primary School and held this position for a number of years. Darren's knowledge has provided the school with assistance in a number of areas, not limited to buildings advice and marketing, which introduced of a pre and post school breakfast and homework club, resulting in a dramatic increase in school pupil numbers.
Darren lives in Kessingland with his wife Clare and there 9-year-old daughter Matilda. Darren has a keen interest in music, both live and recorded, as well as a passion for modern classic cars of which he owns two.
John qualified in Chemistry whilst working, initially in electronic component manufacturing, and then in electricity generation where he was for the remainder of his career, eventually retiring as the head of Chemistry, and Environmental Coordinator at Sizewell A Power Station. He is still an active Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, having received an Award for Service to the Society, and serves on the East Anglia Section Committee where he organises an annual science competition for schools in Norfolk and Suffolk.
John has been a school governor for a number of years, including Chair of Governors for the Kingfisher Federation Schools (Southwold and Barnby & North Cove Primary Schools), and was therefore actively involved with the conversion of the schools by their joining the Consortium Multi Academy Trust.
John believes in the value of community primary schools and in the aim to raise the aspirations of pupils, especially in rural areas, and wants to see the quality of education enhanced through an innovative and broad curriculum. He appreciates how valuable his own education has been and wants pupils to be given the chance to feel the same in the future. John is keen to see pupils engaged by the sciences as part of their primary curriculum.
Born in Norfolk, John has lived in Wrentham for the past 30 years with wife, Vivienne, and now enjoys grandchildren, as well as photography, which he has practised since school days.
Following a 6 year period of marketing management positions in Further Education Colleges, in Norfolk, Dawn set up Mercatus Marketing in 2000 to provide business development, research and impact evaluation, and event management in the wider education environment and SME businesses within East Anglia.
During this time Dawn chaired the Ipswich and Suffolk Small Business Association; held the positions of Education and PR Officer for the Suffolk Branch of the Institute of Directors; been a Judge, Organiser and Compare for the East of England Business Woman of the Year Awards; and the Conference Organiser for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (East of England).
Dawn was a driving force in the research and modelling of the MAT structure and worked closely with Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne to ensure that there was a clear, viable and sustainable model tabled. Her interest in pursuing the concept of responsible delegation within the MAT model comes from her determination that small schools play a vital part of community life and as such, should retain control over there futures. Since 2013, Dawn has combined her business and consultancy experiences with her governance knowledge and has been deployed by Suffolk County Council to support governing bodies. In this capacity, she has sat on Interim Executive Boards, been appointed as Chair of Governors, Associate Governor, Additional Governor and Governor Advisor, as well as providing mentoring support for new Chairs of Governors. Dawn is regularly requested to sit on Hearing and Appeals panels as an independent experienced governor. In a wider context, she sits on Admissions Appeal panels and carries out Independent Investigations commissioned by schools and local authorities.
Andrew has been an educationalist since 1999 and established the Trust whilst Executive Headteacher of the Waveney Valley Partnership, for Suffolk County Council. Previous appointments include Deputy Headteacher at Greenacre Primary School and Deputy Headteacher at Bignold Middle School, both maintained under Norfolk County Council. Andrew gained the National Professional Qualification in Headship in 2010.
Andrew has achieved a strong track record of school improvement, supporting both Greenacre Primary School and leading St Edmund's Primary School at Hoxne both out of Special Measures' to 'Good' schools. Delivering quality outcomes for pupils is Andrew's passion and as a former Local Authority Challenge Partner, had been deployed to several schools to support the existing school leadership.
School to School support and partnership working is fundamental to Andrew's ethos, having previously headed a group of six rural primary schools in Suffolk, as Family of Schools, where best practice, resources and headteacher support was shared; monitoring, mentoring and moderating forming the backbone of our collaborative work.
Prior to teaching, Andrew worked for a bio-medical research organisation as a Staff Cytogeneticist, trained in environmental sciences and gained a BSc(Hons) in Environmental Biology. During this period Andrew also served with the Territorial Army & Volunteer Reserve as a Commissioned Officer and has a background in local government, sitting on Norwich City Council for 12 years as an elected Member and served four years as the Cabinet Member for Public and Support Services.
On the 1st November 2017, Andrew was appointed by the Regional Schools' Commissioner to sit on the Headteachers Panel for the East of England and North East London area.
Andrew is a passionate believer in community involvement and engagement and has also worked as a Primary Head Teacher on the UK Advisory Group for Youth Social Action Education. This work has overlapped with his main outside interests as a volunteer within the Scout Association as Group Scout Leader/Trustee, District Training Advisor and District Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Advisor within the Southern Norfolk Scout District, heading up a Scout Group of around 150 members in the local area.
Margaret has had a career as a senior health professional for 40 years and, before her retirement in 2009 was Lead Consultant Virologist for Norfolk, providing services to the Norfolk Primary Care Trust and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Foundation Trust; as well as an honorary consultant for the Norwich Mental Health Care Trust.
Margaret was also responsible for liaising with public health professionals (now Public Health England), local veterinary and environmental health professionals over management of outbreaks of infectious diseases.
Margaret achieved a PhD from the UEA, Fellowship of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists as necessary qualifications for her role. During her career, health provision underwent major changes and Margaret received excellent training in management of organisational change, employment law, project management and leadership skills from a 6-month course set up by the Public Health Laboratory Service and University of York.
During her career Margaret has been an active trades' unionist, acting as staff representative on local and national consultative committees to promote fairness and justice in employment, which has enhanced her negotiating and influencing skills. Margaret was also a founder member of a national Clinical Scientists' Network, which fought for proper recognition of that staff grade. Having gained the IOSHH qualification, Health and safety issues have always featured highly on Margaret's agenda and she has sat on committees in various roles for the past 30+years.
As well as having an active career in research resulting in over 60 peer-reviewed publications, Margaret has lectured nationally and internationally on her areas of specialist expertise. She was also a Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences at UEA for more than 20 years and than became a Recognised Teacher for 10 years when the new medical school opened at UEA, for which she had to have Associateship of ILT.
Margaret has always had a particular interest in promoting H&S and education throughout her career. For many years acting as a national assessor for state registration of clinical scientists and also as an assessor for Clinical Pathology Accreditation, currently assessing medical laboratories for United Kingdom Accreditation Service (Similar to OFSTED).
Margaret has been a school governor for more than 20 years, originally as a community governor, with particular interests in health and safety and staff wellbeing. She is driven to ensure that the children are involved within the communities of our local villages and, to that end, engaging them in community heritage projects initiated by the Hoxne Heritage Group, of which she was a founder member.
Having lived in Hoxne with her husband for many years, previously being a city dweller, Margaret has come to realise the importance of a village community in our very rushed lives and believes that village life should be protected, and that our rural schools are the lifeblood of tomorrow's communities and should be retained and celebrated as much as possible.
Martin joined what is now B.T., with a Combined Honours degree in Biology and Chemistry in 1979, initially performing research on compound semiconductor materials. Having gained a PhD in Physical Chemistry from London University, while working for the company, moved within B.T. to roles covering research across the entire software development lifecycle, and than joined a small team designing the core infrastructure of B.T.'s global data network.
Throughout his career, Martin has always been learning and updating his knowledge and skills, and believes that developing a love of learning and a willingness to try new experiences is extremely important for children growing up in today's fast-changing world.
Martin has been a union representative for Prospect, the union for professionals, since 1990, again seeing this as an opportunity to develop skills and expertise across a broad range of subjects, including negotiation and data analysis. He is now one of the most senior lay reps in B.T., chairing Prospect's B.T. Committee and taking part in negotiations at B.T. Group level on the whole range of employment issues including pay (and equal pay), pensions, grading structures, TUPE, performance management and employee engagement. Martin is also an appointed member of Prospect's National Science, Engineering and Sustainability Advisory Committee.
Martin has been a school governor at Mendham Primary School, now the Waveney Valley Partnership which included periods as Vice-Chair and Chair of Governors. He has served on committees dealing with curriculum and finance, ensuring that there was a supportive and challenging dialogue with the school leadership. Martin also took on delegated responsibility for Science within the Partnership Governing Body, and believes strongly that education is vital to the future success of our children and indeed the UK, being particularly so in Early Years and Primary education. During his time as a governor, Mendham Primary School formed the Waveney Valley Partnership with St Edmund's Primary School in Hoxne, Martin believed that the move to a Multi-Academy Trust would be an opportunity to further strengthen all of the schools in the MAT, in the interest of all the children at all of the MAT schools.
Martin is married to Liz. They have two sons who both attended Mendham Primary School and who are now married and have families of there own. Martin is an active Christian, serving as a Deacon at his local Baptist Church in Fressingfield, as well as being the Deputy Chair of B.T.'s Christian Network, since it was established 10 years ago.
More recently, Darren has worked as a consultant for a local Housing Charity, tasked with rebranding the organisation and developing a strategic plan for growth and delivering barrier free housing solutions for the regions homeless.
Through this work the charity was recognised nationally by the Big Issue and the developed model adopted throughout the county. Working to build strategic partnerships with several Local Authorities throughout East Anglia has provided Darren with a good understanding of LA working practices and protocols.
Through his own consultancy and ongoing work, Darren appreciates the key importance of understanding the clients needs and meeting expectations through delivered results and communication; something which he feels many organisations fail to address effectively. Darren has a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and through launching a number of successful ventures over the years, has the ability to create effective marketing and market research to ensure ongoing viability of whatever project he is involved with.
Alan has worked in education for over 38 years, teaching children in a variety of schools in Birmingham, Worcestershire, Germany, Norfolk and Suffolk, and adults at GCSE mathematics evening classes in Germany. Currently, he works as Interim Executive Principal at Dell and Elm Tree Primary School in Lowestoft.
Before taking the Interim Executive Principal role at Lowestoft's Dell and Elm Tree primary schools, Alan was Head Teacher at Glebeland Primary School, near Beccles, a position held since Easter 2002.
Glebeland developed from an extremely vulnerable institution, having gone through a period of immense turmoil, to one which is considered to be very successful and popular, with increasing numbers of children on roll.
As a small local primary school at the heart of the community, it's successes included the awarding of the Artsmark, Healthy Schools and International awards. Alan has strong links with schools in Africa and several European countries, exposing Glebeland's pupils to cultural understanding of, and joint working with, there peers in other places.
He also jointly held the title of 'Cluster Lead' for the thirteen schools in Norfolk's London Cluster, facilitating joint working between, and offering support to, colleagues in these establishments. In addition, Alan is one of Norfolk's System Leaders - schools working together for the mutual benefit of pupils and staff members, is one of his passions.
Alan is currently leading an international research project about schools' learning environments, initially involving nine Norfolk school leaders, with a focus on the Flanders area of Belgium, the Trondheim region in Norway and Norfolk. As part of this, twelve Belgian headteachers visited Consortium's Glebeland Primary in September 2017.
Alan's interests include travelling, both to places within the United Kingdom and beyond. He is treasurer and membership secretary of ESTA (East Suffolk Travellers' Association), the local public transport lobby and promotion organisation, a one time member of the TUCC (Transport Users Consultative Committee) for Western England and, until recently Haddiscoe's station adopter under the Greater Anglia station adoption scheme. Alan is also a trustee and the treasurer of a local charity, which supports the education of children at a school in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is treasurer of the local Raveningham Community Magazine.
Raised in a village post office and stores, at the heart of the community, Alan is passionate about the place of local schools and other facilities within such communities and carries this vision through his passion for education, particularly in schools such as those in the Consortium Multi Academy Trust.
He lives in South Norfolk, near Beccles, with his wife and three sons, one of whom is at university and the others (twins) in there A level year at a local high school.
Born in Norwich and educated at Wymondham College, Steve left school mid A Level to start his own business as the franchise owner for the 'King Cube' modular shop fitting system. Building the business over 10 years to include exhibition stand design and construction, signage, as well as TV sets for Anglia Television, Steve eventually launched the first Norwich Motor Show, House & Home Exhibition and Wedding Show.
At the age of twenty eight, Steve decided to follow his passion for accountancy and returned to Norwich City College to take an A Level in Accountancy before completing a one year Accountancy Foundation Course and securing a Chartered Accountancy Training contract with Larking Gowen in Norwich.
Qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1996, Steve became an Accounting Senior with portfolio specialising in small business development, launching the Larking Gowen small business development team, delivering business advice to small SME companies in Norfolk and establishing one of Norfolk's first Business Breakfast Clubs out of their Dereham Office.
In 2004, he left Larking Gowen to work for AVIVA on the UK's first Telematics Insurance project, developing the proposition and launching to market over four years, from a standing start. The role progressed from being part of the original project team to Financial Director for the inaugural telematics business unit.
For the last four years Steve has been the Financial Director for AVIVA's UK Direct Business Unit. Initially responsible for supporting the UK Direct Marketing function, the role has progressed to that of Financial Director to the Commercial Director. With responsibility for over £600m in turnover and end to end performance, the role has recently expanded to also include AVIVA's 'Quote Me Happy' £450m a year, Price Comparison website distribution Business Unit. As a result, Steve is now Financial Director with responsibility to deliver annual turnover of over £1bn and £150m of annual profitability within Aviva PLC.
Outside work Steve has been actively involved in The Scout Association for nineteen years, holding a number of volunteer roles from Cub Scout Leader through District and County adult and Finance roles. This includes directorate positions for the 2006 & 2010 International Jamborees, controlling the full £750,000 budget, and in 2014 running and delivering Norjams first Culture Zone for over 5,500 young people. Steve currently holds the volunteer role of District Commissioner for Southern Norfolk, supporting the provision of Scouting for over 1,000 young people by 180 volunteer adults.
Married for thirty years to Karen, they have two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan; Steve is a proud father who, as well as enjoying supporting his children's achievements, enjoys his own hobbies of golf and watching, as a season ticket holder, Norwich City Football Club.
Toby has 12 years experience as a School Governor. Initially a co-opted Community governor, he has been a Chair, Vice Chair and Interim Executive Board Member. Toby also acts as a Governance Advisor and Consultant on behalf of Suffolk County Council, and has worked alongside many governing bodies in both maintained and faith schools.
He has wide experience in all aspects of school governance including Headteacher performance management, recruitment and strategic development. Toby has lead and contributed to boards that have been judged to be 'Outstanding', and also assisted those that aspire to be, despite there current challenges. Toby has a particular interest in school recovery following educational and organisational difficulty or failure, and has highly developed skills in transformational and strategic leadership. As a qualified Action Learning facilitator, he is able to build highly effective teams that share purpose and motivation. An experienced and effective presenter, he has co-developed numerous innovative strategies for governor development and recruitment.
Toby strongly believes in the fundamental moral and social purpose of education, and it's vital contribution to community and societal development. As a determined, dynamic and restless thinker, Toby always seeks the less obvious solution and is known to be fiercely independent.
With an unconventional and diverse background in the creative industries, he has been a tutor and mentor in the post-compulsory education sector, a coach to many professionals and a passionate advocate of creativity in schools. Toby is also a jazz pianist, sculptor and furniture maker and has a degree in Composition and Harmony.
He is an active fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Ian is an education consultant, specialising in areas such as school improvement, progress data analysis, curriculum and timetabling. He works with schools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland helping them to identify trends, strengths and areas for development in their teaching and learning provision. Ian writes and advises on timetable construction for a number of local secondary schools and recently Ian introduced and developed the use of an online safety self-evaluation tool in 12 Suffolk primary schools.
In 2019/2020, Ian will be coordinating a research project, run by The University of Suffolk, related to student progress and social mobility. This project will consider the impact of specific school interventions on the academic progress and increased life chances of students, and will report back to the University and project funding bodies accordingly.
Previous to this role, Ian spent 15 years as a teacher and senior leader in a large, highly successful Suffolk school, having responsibility for post 16 education throughout this period. During this time Ian was a co-opted member of the school governing body. Trained as a PE specialist, Ian taught across a wide range of subjects and key stages during his 30 year teaching career. Most recently he taught A Level General Studies, with the aim of broadening the understanding and interests of students in his classes, beyond that of their specialist chosen subjects.
In a previous life, and between teaching jobs, Ian was a Personnel and Training Manager for an insurance company. Outside of work, Ian is an infrequent quiz setter and quiz master for local charity groups. He is also a VP of Hadleigh Cricket Club, having spent many seasons there as a player.
Yvonne is currently an independent consultant with over 40 years' experience within the Education sector. She has previously worked as a substantive Headteacher (5 schools) and Advisory Headteacher (5 schools) within Essex and Kent.
Yvonne has extensive experience in supporting rapid school improvement, particularly in vulnerable schools / schools facing challenging circumstances, through her headteacher role and multi-faceted roles as School Achievement Adviser, School Improvement Adviser, School Improvement Partner, Standards & Excellence Officer and Headteacher Performance Management External Adviser across 5 local authorities and 6 MATs.
In her spare time Yvonne has been both a Local Authority associate governor and a Local Authority governor of primary schools, which included chairing a Standards Committee and a Princes Trust mentor.


Conservation plays a very important role at Wild TV Africa. We have decided to promote, and give financial support to 10 conservation projects in need of assistance. A certain percentage of our sponsorship income will be allocated to selected projects. These projects need to be of real importance on ground level, and we decided to ONLY look at smaller animals like for argument the "Oewerkoenyn". Having said that we will also look at Flora and insects.
So if you have a project close to your heart, please complete the form and we will make contact with you to discuss the possibility of your project being chosen as one of the 10 per annum to receive our support.
After Negotiation with Game Stores, we have agreed to discontinue the Wild TV Africa Decoders and clients can now buy the OVHD Decoder from Game stores Country wide. Wild TV Africa can be viewed on channel 153.


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Q: Matplotlib error: variadic keyword parameters cannot have default values I'm trying to plot the resulting learning curves from a neural network and came across this error:

ValueError: variadic keyword parameters cannot have default values

The it seems to be coming from matplotlib as this is what I added when I got the error:
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

pd.DataFrame(history.history).plot(figsize=(8,3))
plt.grid(True)
plt.gca().set_ylim(0, 1)
plt.show()

I'm still learning python so if you need more information let me know.
If anyone can point me in the right direction please do!

A: Just to confirm the first couple lines of the error message says something along the lines of:
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)

<ipython-input-7-a84c0541e888> in <module>

----> 1 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

If so matplotlib is part of the issue (not the DataFrame object). Currently troubleshooting a similar issue, I'll update once I have figured out the solution.
Have you tried reinstalling the library or updating?

A: Try:
    pip install matplotlib --user

Then import matplotlib again, it should work.

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Layered deposits in the northern mid-latitudes. The objective of this observation is to examine layered features in an irregularly shaped depression and a nearby crater. Some researchers have suggested that the shape of mounds in large craters may be due to the wind. With this image, wind directions may be studied to see if they caused the irregular shape.
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UK supermarkets Marks & Spencer and Aldi are embroiled in a legal battle for the second time this year over a bottle of gin with a built-in light.
M&S is seeking a High Court injunction against Aldi selling its blackberry and clementine gin liqueur, which it says infringes on the design of its Light Up gin.
Both bottles contain an LED which illuminates golden flakes suspended in the drink, the BBC reports. The Aldi product is £6 cheaper.
M&S previously sued Aldi over a caterpillar cake which it alleged was too similar to its own caterpillar cake.
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We are a PROUD Sponsor of a 2018 Habitat for Humanity Home in Cobb County!
Dale Bercher, President of Bercher Homes and Accent Realty Group, has a 30-year career in the new home building industry. Dale's father and grandfather both worked in the construction and real estate industry, leading to his early attraction to the new home building industry. His foray into the construction industry began in high school while working for home builders in various capacities; cementing his passion for the industry and his decision to pursue a professional career as a home builder. Dale attended Louisiana State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Management. While attending LSU, he owned and operated a successful remodeling company providing the means to attend college.
Upon graduating in 1988, Dale started working at a Fortune 500 Company, which was one of the country's largest home builders. During his 13 year career with this company he held the positions of Warranty Supervisor, Builder, Construction Manager and eventually Division President. In 2001, Dale left to accept the position of Chief Operating Officer with a large private Atlanta home building company, where he enjoyed eight years of managing the company. In 2010, Dale amicably departed from the company to start Bercher Homes. He is a graduate of Leadership Cobb Class of 2018 and currently sits on the Board of Directors for Northwest Metro Atlanta Habitat for Humanity. Dale lives in west Cobb with his wife of 30 plus years, Becky. They have three children.
After graduating from Louisiana State University, Becky moved to Atlanta to begin her career in sales. Shortly after her husband opened Bercher Homes, Becky earned her Real Estate license and began selling his homes. "With the passion and attention to detail that goes into every Bercher Home, it is a pleasure to represent them and present them to our potential buyers". Becky's REALTORS license is held with Accent Realty Group, which is Bercher Homes' in-house Brokerage. She is a Red Book Contract Specialist, New Home Selling Expert, and a member of the Cobb Association of REALTORS. Becky, Dale, and their 3 children call Cobb County their home.
Chris Brokowsky has over 20 years of experience in construction management, customer service, and quality control within both residential and commercial construction. Joining Bercher Homes in 2016, Chris brings to us his expertise in managing job sites, scheduling subcontractors, and maintaining quality vendor and customer relationships. He is dedicated to meeting closing dates and building great homes. Chris was born and raised in Cartersville GA, where he and his wife Beth have chosen to raise their family.
Gary has a Bachelor of Science degree in Building Construction Management from Michigan State University. He has worked his way up the ranks with numerous homebuilding companies before joining Bercher Homes in 2016. He is self-motivated, a good communicator, reliable, and quality driven. He has had over 25 years of experience in many aspects of construction before joining Bercher Homes. Gary holds numerous professional certifications, such as International Code Council Residential Building and Plumbing Inspector Certification, Level 1A Erosion Control Certification, GA soil and Water Conservation Commission, First Aid & Safety Certification. He has chosen Atlanta to be his home.
Brad is a highly motivated, customer-service oriented, construction manager professional, with over 20 years of experience in Project Management. Before joining Bercher Homes in 2012, Brad was a successful Project Manager with a regional home building company. He managed several subdivisions in NE Atlanta: focusing on Cobb, Paulding, Forsyth, and North Fulton Counties. He built and closed hundreds of homes ranging in prices from $450,000 to over $750,000. Brad holds numerous professional certificates, such as AHBA ICC 2000, one and two family code certified, NPDES 1A certified, and GA Residential Builders License. Brad and his wife Laura, have chosen Cobb County to raise their family.
Brock Fredette, Chief Financial Officer of Bercher Homes and Accent Realty Group, brings our company a diverse skill set. After graduating in Finance from the University of Alabama in 1992, and earning an MBA from the University of Alabama-Birmingham in 1995, for fifteen years, Brock cut his teeth in corporate and real estate banking. During this time, Brock successfully progressed through credit risk management and lending roles at a top-10 US Bank, and finally as Chief Credit Officer of the largest correspondent bank in the United States.
Brock also earned a Masters in Accounting and is a licensed CPA in the state of Georgia. Brock also practiced public accounting within KPMG's audit practice. During his tenure at KPMG, Brock was exposed to highly complex technical accounting matters and developed an affinity for the relationship development between client and accountant.
In 2014, Brock and Dale decided the time was right to join forces and position Bercher Homes to distinguish itself as the desired homebuilder in Cobb County. Brock lives in west Cobb with his wife, Kelly, and their two children.
Jennifer Gehan, our Sales Manager and Broker, is a Georgia native and graduate from Kennesaw State University with a BS in Accounting. Jennifer is hands-on and involved in every Bercher Homes project working side by side with our customers, builders and sales team. She has over 20 years of sales, marketing and project management experience. Jennifer assists our customers in navigating through the new construction process to help make it a smooth and enjoyable experience. And with a constant eye on today's trends, she manages the product portfolio, design options and market-driven features for Bercher Homes.
Gary Lytton comes to Bercher Homes after many years of outstanding performance in the construction industry. After graduating from the University of Florida, he has held high-level positions with several well-respected national home building companies. He is well versed in Purchasing, Estimating, Takeoffs, Budgeting, Bidding, and Forecasts. Gary is a Certified Green Professional who is IRC and OSHA Certified, as well as a licensed general contractor in the state of Florida and South Carolina. Gary is also a licensed real estate broker in Florida. Over the years he has earned numerous accolades and achievement awards. Gary and his wife, Carolyn, live in the Canton area.
Lisa joined Bercher Homes in May 2013. Prior to joining our team, she worked for 7 years as an Administrative Assistant for numerous real estate agents at a nationally recognized real estate company. Lisa manages our office at Bercher Homes and helps with our brokerage company, Accent Realty Group. Lisa's attention to detail and customer service skills make her an asset to our Bercher Homes family. Lisa was born and raised in the Atlanta area in which she now resides with her husband, Sam, and their 2 children.


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The onset of winter could cost Putin victory in Ukraine
Terence Abbott 2 months ago 4 min read
Ukraine's capital, Kiev, was hit by another long power outage this week.
"General Winter" enters the battlefield in Ukraine – perhaps he will finally decide on victory and defeat in this tricky battle. Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin, 70, hopes to bring victims to their knees with his notorious rocket attacks on civilian power plants and heating systems: cold apartments and dark streets are already making Ukrainians reconsider. . However, the main man responsible for one of the most costly wrong decisions in modern Russian history is wrong here as well.
But one after the other.
Historically, it was often the attacking party that stumbled at the start of winter. During his Russian campaign in December 1812, the French general Napoleon lost an entire army in snow-covered areas. Adolf Hitler's 6th Army was literally decimated in the harsh winter outside Stalingrad of 1942/1943.
The ill-armed squads that Putin has sent to raid his neighbor to the west are unlikely to fare well. Unlike defenders, Russian soldiers do not have NATO sleeping bags with which they can survive bitterly cold nights in Donbass (often minus 30 degrees).
Fighting continues in Kherson: Ukrainians fire mortars at Russian targets(01:32)
300,000 refugees at the start of winter
Putin didn't care about his frozen front-line fighters until his missiles cut off entire cities from the electrical grid and millions of Ukrainians lost not only electricity, cell phone communication and light, but also drinking water and heating. Anyone who has experienced a Ukrainian winter knows how relentlessly snow falls across the flat country between November and February. In February 2021, just before the outbreak of war, I suddenly found myself alone at a military training ground south of Kiev because my translator Olena, wearing a winter coat and gloves, could not stand the cold.
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Putin is counting on the waning morale of a trembling citizenry in Ukraine. At first sight with success. The Defense Ministry in Kiev posted funny videos of soldiers enjoying the snow on social media and joked that people would launch at least 3,000 Russian rocket attacks on Kyiv, but the quality of life there would rise. Russia sinks: Just before the onset of winter the situation becomes serious.
Kirill Dolymbaev (45), a former tax collector in Mariupol and now head of one of the largest Ukrainian aid organizations, said in an interview with SonntagsBlick: "Ukraine is facing a humanitarian disaster this winter. More than 300,000 people may be forced to leave the country."
This is director Kisilelma: Could this be the new Russian scare?(00:23)
Deaths despite hot war settlements
Eva Samolenko-Neiderer (40), from Wadenswil, who ran a children's home in the Donbass town of Sloviansk until the Russian offensive, and who today provides humanitarian aid in the war zone through her association Segel der Hoffnung, told SonntagsBlick: "against the heavy fighting in the winter." But especially many older people wake up one morning and say to themselves: I don't like it anymore, I'm not going to get up now to get a new tree. Many of these people will not be found until next spring – dead."
Many are beginning to understand the gravity of the situation. "Many cities in a war zone are unlivable in the winter months," says Samolenko-Niederer. For example, in the city of Slozansk, only selected houses are heated, with many evacuees living together in a kind of war flat share. "However, like the 2014/2015 war, people will freeze. There will not be enough resources to save everyone."
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Party members will wake up
Stronger than tragic individual fates, Putin's rocket terror is a wake-up effect away from the real frontline in pre-winter cities. Especially in Kyiv, Lviv and Dnipro cities where life is normal in the summer and autumn – including techno parties, shopping festivals and full gourmet restaurants – the constant power and heat failures make people suddenly feel again: Oh, there it is. War at my doorstep!
As winter sets in, Putin's troops won't have to fear only Ukrainian tank fleets rolling toward fragile Russian positions in the now-frozen mud fields of the Donbass. After all, they can expect a new wave of unity in the country, which will give more support to the Ukrainian soldiers who are loved.
"General Winter" is likely to take the side of the vanquished again in this battle.
Around Kherson: Ukrainian artillery shoots down Russian tanks(00:26)
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File this under, "Things that could never happen in America." That man is Vladimir Franz, a Czech composer who is tattooed from head — and face — to toe, and he's third in the polls in the Czech Republic's presidential election, which is going on Friday and Saturday. This is the first time Czechs will directly elect a president — a mainly ceremonial position because the prime minister largely runs the country. Since the breakup of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic has had two presidents, Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus, and both were elected by Parliament. But both of those elections were plagued by charges of corruption, so the legislature handed over the vote to the general public. Klaus, the incumbent, called the direct elections "a fatal mistake" because someone like Franz might succeed him.
In a recent profile with British Channel 4 news, Franz waxed philosophically about his colourful appearance: "Tattoos are an expression of free will, which do not interfere with the freedom of others," he said. To have his own aesthetic view of the world is the right of every free individual. "To me, it is also an expression of the permanent decision to stand up for my choices, good and bad. My tattoo is the result of a long-term sophisticated conception, not a sudden movement of the mind. To rate a human being only according to appearance – no matter if it was given by nature or voluntarily by himself – is a sign of superficiality and arrogance at the same time." Czech presidents represent the Czech Republic abroad and appoint central bankers and judges. Former Prime ministers Milos Zeman and Jan Fischer are the favourites in this campaign, according to polls. If no candidate wins the majority, as is likely, the two top performers will face a runoff later this month. "I don't know if I'll make the second round, but the most important thing is that the nation is waking up," Franz said after casting his ballot in Prague on Friday.
The Czech Republic's governing coalition wants to continue in its current form but has not yet resolved a dispute over a threat from the junior ruling LIDEM party to quit, coalition officials said on Tuesday. Persistent infighting among the three parties in Prime Minister Petr Necas's administration has cut its support to just 98 of parliament's 200 seats. It has managed to push through crucial votes with the help of a handful of independent lawmakers but the potential departure of LIDEM could cause it to collapse only halfway through its four-year term.
LIDEM Chief Karolina Peake said last month ministers from its small, centrist party would resign on January 10 after Necas sacked her as defence minister only days after her appointment. But she signalled earlier this month that the party, whose popularity is close to zero in opinion polls, may back off its threat to quit, and coalition party officials said on Tuesday they wanted LIDEM to stay in the government. "We have agreed on behalf of the coalition parties that we want to continue in the present coalition project," Martin Kuba, vice-chairman of Necas's Civic Democrats, told a news conference following a meeting of coalition officials.
LIDEM vice Chairwoman Dagmar Navratilova said the threat of resignation remained open but negotiations were continuing. She added the party's decision should be clear later on Tuesday. Necas and his ruling partners started their term in 2010 with a strong majority, raising hopes of sweeping economic reforms. But its parliamentary numbers have shrunk after a series of coalition rifts, a situation exacerbated by a recession that has eroded the ruling parties' popularity. The government has raised taxes and cut welfare spending to slash a budget deficit that swelled in 2009 when the global economic crisis hit the Czechs' export-dependent economy.
In the mountains of Bohemia, near the Polish border, lies a small hospital – the only one of its kind in Europe: The Biological Defence Centre in Těchonín is designed to treat the poor unfortunates who contract the world's most dangerous viruses or fall victim to a biological terrorist attack. There once was a young Czech solder – let's call him Jiří – who spent a year in the Congo on a tour of duty. In the town where he was serving, there was an outbreak of Ebola. The likelihood that he would contract this almost invariably deadly disease, which causes a person to bleed to death from inside, was very high. So when he got a nosebleed one day he was certainly scared. However, he knew that he must not endanger his family or anyone else. When he returned to the Czech Republic, the army's medical unit immediately sent him into quarantine at the Biological Defence Centre in Těchonín.
This is a hospital from where really sick patients almost never return. It's a military hospital, hidden away in the Orlické Mountains. It is the only facility of its kind in Europe. And it's the only hospital in the Czech Republic whose priority is less treating patients as much as protecting the population who live beyond the barbed wire. As the number of BIOHAZARD! Warning signs reveal, it's a hospital for isolating patients with highly contagious diseases and also serves as a kind of back-up hospital in the event of terrorist attacks using biological weapons such as anthrax or SARS.
There is something else exceptional about it: it has almost no patients. Jiří was its only patient, not counting soldiers returning from foreign missions who always have to spend 24 hours in quarantine here. Every year there are around 1,000 of them. Why do almost all the civilians returning from areas where dengue fever is raging or Ebola not head here? Because no one in the Czech Republic has looked into this kind of protection for civilian employees. Neither does our own army know what to do with this exceptional hospital. Jiří was lucky. Despite fears he had contracted Ebola, a two-week quarantine showed that there was no infection and he was allowed to go home. Jiří is one of the few people who know what it's like inside a state-of-the-art facility. Almost everything here is made of stainless steel, and patients are examined by doctors wearing suits with their own air supply. Doors open with soft clicks, as all the rooms are at less than atmospheric pressure. Even though patients are close by, behind triple-glazed glass, it takes a few minutes for any of the doctors to reach them. There is no doors directly connecting doctor with patient. That's intentional.
Even if the patient is choking, the staff must first change into the spacesuits and pass through the security zone. It takes about three minutes to reach a patient. Ward rounds are done here using microphones inside the spacesuits – what the doctor says is entered into a computer by his colleague standing on the other side of the triple-glazed windows. Almost all the devices are disposable, including the expensive monitors. To disinfect them after contact with a patient that really did have Ebola would be unrealistic. Anyone who arrives here as a patient lives in a kind of aquarium with its own air and water and a closed waste-handling system. Unlike other hospitals, this one is unlikely to operate on patients, even if it does have an operating hall. Provisions for autopsies, though, have certainly been made. The post-mortem room with its laboratory is right next to the patients' ward. The spread of deadly infectious diseases is often swift and it's important to identify the type of contagion as soon as possible in order to protect others.
The hospital has its own petrol station, heliport, a mobile hospital for infectious diseases with its own laboratory, and sewage treatment including a fishpond into which the cleaned water is drained and where fish sensitive to contamination are monitored to ensure the water truly is safe. One of the hospital's rooms is full of mice. Here, in collaboration with a team formed under the late Professor Antonín Holý, research is carried out on some viruses, such as the E. coli virus that sparked a diarrhoea epidemic across Europe last summer that left dozens of people dead. Research is a tradition here, after all: it was in Těchonín that a unique bank of viruses was kept until 1992, and was later destroyed by order of the Minister of Defence. Today microbiologists have to buy these expensive microbes, such as the diarrhoeal E. coli, from abroad. The Centre for Biological Control has three tasks: the first is isolation and quarantine, for just such cases like Jiří. The second is research, and the third is educational.
The hospital functions as a training site where doctors and lab workers carry out tests under biological hazard conditions. They learn what to watch out for and how, for example, to transport patients in body isolation units without endangering themselves or their surroundings. "We work with the civilian system. Doctors from infectious disease clinics, emergency medicine specialists, and even medical students come here," says Petr Navrátil, the Czech Army's chief public health officer. And of course, soldiers themselves train here in what to do in the event of a biological threat to the population. It's called disaster medicine. The danger of bioterrorism remains: biological weapons are cheap to develop, and they are effective. However, the future of the Centre for Biological Protection in Těchonín is unclear, and everything points to its closure. "The decision has not been made, but in view of the cuts to the Defence Ministry budget, how to keep it running is a very difficult question," says Defence Ministry spokesman Jan Pejšek. At a time when the Army is looking intently at every crown spent, to make sure there is enough for uniforms and petrol, it is hard to justify pouring money into the Centre.
In short, we have a unique facility, which cost an awful lot of money, but which can essentially only be used when some nightmarish infectious disease breaks out. Closing it would mean that we have thrown away 2bn crowns (€80m). If we keep it, it will cost a minimum of 100m crowns (4m) a year just to keep the hospital running. Preserving the whole facility is impossible; which ultimately means it is doomed, as aging equipment will not be replaced – and certainly not in the middle of an emergency, just when we need it. What about selling it? There's no buyer. The army has approached the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health and the Interior, and has highlighted the importance of Těchonín for the security system of the state to the State Office for Nuclear Safety and the Academy of Sciences and all the other institutions – but none want to contribute to the cost of running it. The search has also spread beyond the Czech Republic's borders. "Negotiations have been held with the World Health Organisation, the EU Council, the European Commission, the European External Action Service, and bilateral talks have been held with several countries within NATO (e.g. the UK) and even outside it (Serbia). No agreement has been reached, though," shrugs the spokesman.
The story of tattooed Czeck composer Vladimir Franz could have fit quite well under today's category of the bizarre. It is indeed philosophically bizarre that while the human body is continually changing and is a whole new body with new cells every seven years, the tattoos remain unchanged. Which should astonish us more? And what exactly is the message of this medium? Perhaps that one's choices are always irrevocable and deterministic despite the claim to free will? That one expresses both free will and determinism via tattoos? But is that not a violation of the Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction: a thing cannot be and not be at the same time? Or is it a quantum mechanics principle?
Pirandello used to explain his drama philosophy by pointing out that after a while, after wearing one's mask for a long time, one becomes one's mask understood as the way one presents oneself to the world. I suppose one becomes one's tattoos. The problem is that sometimes, because of some internal metamorphosis, even after "a long term sophisticated conception," one may wish to change one's appearance to make it more authentic, less of a mask and more consonant with one's revised conception of oneself. Or have we given up on the Socratic quest for self-knowledge? Indeed Michelangelo would have been branded as superficial and arrogant too had he decided to paint the Sistine Chapel on his own body. On seeing Vladimir Franz walking about with his tattoos he would have probably quipped: ancora imparo [I am still learning] but I doubt he would have decided to paint his own body.


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Q: OS X El Capitan suddenly can't open DMG files I am trying to open a DMG file to install an OS X app. I get the error The following disk images couldn't be opened. Invalid Argument. I have tried to open other DMGs that I successfully managed to mount earlier and they are failing too. So the issue is not with the current DMG only. I restarted and that did not make a difference. I ran First Aid in DiskUtility and it reported that my drive was corrupt and needed repairing. I therefore restarted my mac with cmd + r pressed, selected Disk Utility and ran the repair. The repair failed after running for about 5 minutes. I would like to keep the contents of the drive if a solution exists that allows. What should I do now?
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I did a time machine backup and let the iMac go get its drive formatted etc. I then attained a macbook air, and did a Restore From Time Machine onto it such that I have back where I left of on the iMac. I then tried to open a new DMG, and the same error came up. I ran First Aid on the mac air drive and it reported it to fine (Ran Successfully).
This is therefore not a drive issue right (first aid on the mac air succeeded)? What could it be, and how can I fix it.

A: I had the same problem, and managed to open .dmg files by going into Disk Utility>File>Open Disk Image. Once opened in Disk Utility, Double Click (Right Click) the icon and click show in Finder. Then I could install what I wanted! Hop it works for you!

A: If the Time Machine backup you used to restore the Mac was created after you started noticing problems, maybe whatever drive corruption there was messed up some files that were backed up, leaving you with a good drive but still bad system files. If you have an older Time Machine backup from when the Mac was functioning properly, that might be better to use.
Seeing as you can still basically use the Mac, I would recommend reinstalling the iMac from a fresh install, and then manually moving over your apps and files or using Migration Assistant to transfer files and settings from the MacBook Air to the iMac.


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Moving the ISS?
G'th replied to bigdad84's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I don't believe the ISS is designed for that. Now, if they really, really wanted to (or had to for whatever reason), then I'm sure they could do some kind of emergency reconstruction and then put it back together in lunar orbit. Either way though, moving the ISS into a different orbit (very much less an orbit around a different object) would require taking it apart. Either to be constructed into something that could actually deal with teh forces at hand, or to be delivered piece by piece to the Moon to be reconstructed there. The latter is the most realistic option.
I am stuck in a rut.
G'th replied to Whackjob's topic in KSP Discussion
Question is, is your "colony" an actual settlement, or just a pile of rovers and crew tanks?
What you should do is legitimately colonize the other planets. Don't just make simple bases. Make actual cities with infrastructure and all that jazz. Get Kerbal Attachment System and you can make roads with fuel lines. Land large habitats and other utilities and connect them via fuel roads. There's no limit to what you can do except your computer refusing to render the thing. But the fun is in seeing how far you can go Good example is the game Moon Tycoon. If you've ever played it (and if you can both find and get it to work, play it. Its one of the better Tycoon games out there, as its basically a less involved version of Sim City, but in space) then you'll see all kind of things you can build on a Moon that are all mostly possibly with the parts you can find in mods, especially when it comes to things like utilities (Get a life support mod and make huge resource plants. Great fields of solar arrays) and industry (Kethane and Interstellar), as well as simple habitats and what not. While you likely won't have all the glamorous super futuristic buildings of Moon Tycoon, you can still pull off the lower tech stuff. This is what I've been doing for my first AAR. Legitimately colonizing the Mun. While I don't want to show my screenies just yet, I've thus far been able to create a fairly large colony (25 kerbal capacity with the capability of 6 months life support without resupply. I'm maintaining a skeleton crew until I have my orbital refinery set up and work out a reusable transport system*) in one of the larger craters on the Equator. Its been fun and it keeps you focused. Unlike the rest of the game where you either need science and a limitation in parts or pure fascination (which can wear off if you play the game a lot) to keep you going, doing something like this gives you a solid goal and schedule to work with. * My idea is a four stop system between Munar surface, my orbital command station (which was constructed out of an old Kerbin space station that was moved to Munar orbit and retrofitted), my Kerbin gateway station (which I use as a pit stop for interplanetary flights) and then Kerbin's surface. I'd use a basic lander for Munar-Orbit transport, a shuttle for inter-station travel (larger payloads and pre-fabricated colony components would use their own transportation tailored to their requirements) and then a reusable (technically) drop pod system for returning to Kerbin's surface.
Precision landing
G'th posted a topic in KSP Discussion
So lets say hypothetically, I have a command pod I want to land a specific point back on Kerbin. And I want to use a ~30km periapsis to produce a safe reentry. Now, the question is, at what point in my orbit do I lower my periapsis (Let's presume the orbit is more or less equatorial for simplicities sake) so that when I reenter the atmosphere I will land within a particular zone I designate beforehand? I would imagine the answer requires some math or something, but that is beyond my ability. My general "throwing things and seeing what sticks" method has thus far proven ineffective as I have been unable to pinpoint where to do my burn so that my eventual landing is where I want it. My first thought was to create a glider out of my command pod, but this did not prove wise. (though in the name of safety I of course still kept chutes so Jeb did not die in that experiment)
If the Apollo computers were less powerful than my phone...
G'th replied to Tex's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I seem to remember a certain Apollo mission that had just this problem. But yes, what you say is true. However, if you had to I'm sure you could jury rig something to get them working together. The real problem is whether you're doing it here on Earth or in an emergency situation on-board.
Alternatives for atomic interplanetary travel?
G'th replied to AletzN1's topic in KSP Discussion
Why not Zoidberg?
Are escape towers needed?
G'th replied to jpkerman's topic in KSP Discussion
I use them for hardcore type career saves. That way I can save my Kerbals as I put rockets together. After a while though, they do become pointless as you learn how to build a rocket that won't fall apart on the launch pad, very much less up in the air. Frankly I'm surprised there isn't a mod that introduces the possibility of random equipment failure. Granted, that kind of functionality might not even be present in the game code, but even so. It'd be a nice feature and it'd certainly make escape towers have a real point even after you have solid rocket designs going.
What do you think about new science model
G'th replied to Pawelk198604's topic in KSP Discussion
They should really re do it according to the actual experiments. The Goo and Materials experiments make sense when it comes to them losing science if you transmit the data, because the data isn't all there is to those experiments. But temperature or pressure readings? The only reason you should be losing science on those is because of signal degradation (which is silly for numerous reasons). Makes no sense that you'd learn more about temperature or pressure readings by looking at the actual equipment itself.
Building with off-centered Command Pod
G'th replied to ODaily's question in Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
I believe you should be able to just plop a docking port right on top of the stayputnik. It'd work better if you have one of the flat probe cores though. Also, you don't need to have the Command Pod as the first part you place. You can select the docking port you want and start with that. The reason you can't move your Stayputnik other than where you put it is becuase thats the root part, ie the first part you selected. Start with your docking port and build down.
Quick question- where to memorialize Jeb?
G'th replied to caba111's topic in KSP Discussion
Give him the Spock treatment.
What was the most unnecessarily complicated thing you have done?
G'th replied to InterCity's topic in KSP Discussion
What on earth is the purpose of such a contraption?!?!
Should we bring back the dinosaurs?
Bringing them back on the scale that Jurrassic Park displays would be dumb. However, bringing certain species back (with a limited and strictly controlled population) wouldn't be, because it would give us direct insight into how these animals behaved, with a degree of accuracy that we don't have just looking at fossils. Hell, just seeing what these creatures actually did look like would be invaluable. For instance, if a T-Rex did actually roar, what does it actually sound like? Its things like that that makes this idea worthwhile.
Nuclear Testing 1945-1998
G'th posted a topic in Science & Spaceflight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8CZAKSsNA If you're not familiar with the history of nuclear testing, you will likely have to pick up your jaw at the sheer amount of nuclear tests done in 53 years time. Incidentally, my first post after finally registering. Hurray!