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[zentarablog]

The Secret Labs of WWII: Innovations in Warfare

World War II was a conflict fought on battlefields, in the skies, and across the oceans. But it was also a war fought in the shadows, in laboratories hidden away from prying eyes, where brilliant minds raced against time to develop technologies that could turn the tide of the conflict. These “secret labs” were hotbeds of innovation, where scientists, engineers, and researchers worked on projects…

[atombonniebaby]

Question: What do you use when modeling your pictures? I saw some Fallout 4 dadcready pics with Duncan (which is absolutely adorable I love it UGHHH) do what program did you use?

Hi! (Apologies for the lateness, I only just saw this in my inbox!)

Screen Archer Menu(SAM) is the tool I use! 🙌🏼

SAM has a lot of features, but the most notable are: Adding pre-made poses to characters or using the skeleton rig to adjust poses or make your own

Adjusting the placement of characters and items (also allows turning off collision - which I've found extremely helpful when I get stuck in something 😅) - you open the console to select the NPC/item. This also works for placing hats or weapons that I drop from my inventory! No collision means I can place them wherever I want 🙂

Choosing which weather you want adjust the sun placement. Add lights (if you install SOE workshop pack) Jumping to ANY exterior and interior location in the game. - Even London to Boston! 🙌🏼🤣

Editing Character's heights, add facial expressions (either animation flavours from the game or morphs) and you can access Looks Menu from SAM too!

Giving you access to every item from base game and your mods for dressing up your characters and the set. (this can be outfits and weapons, items you'd pick up in the world and even full buildings and NPS!)

As for Duncan, well, I spawned a child NPC and edited him using SAM!

Lastly, I guess storytelling plays a part, I have an idea of a scenario I want to make and then I use the tools available to make it happen, Sometimes it's as easy as dropping some poses on the characters, other times I need to get creative (that Flamingo snap is a great example of that! 🤣)

I've found myself spending upwards of an hour dressing a set and posing the characters! I find the whole process quite relaxing! 😅

[mercurygray]

#5 from the oc ask game for cord- “how do they typically dress? does their wardrobe lean more towards practicality or aesthetics?” and number #13 “what languages do they speak? how fluently?” and #15 “how big or small is their family? who did they live with growing up? do they live with anyone now?” for grace, please? — 💕 @shoshiwrites

How do they typically dress? Does their wardrobe lean towards practicality or aesthetics?

Cord's wardrobe is extremely practical. She was raised by her father and spent lots of time in his workshop after school, so the clothes she's the most comfortable in are collared shirts and slacks, loafers and flight suits. Some skirts, for school, but after her mother died when she was twelve, she sort of gave up hair ribbons since there wasn't anyone around to tie them, and that sort of carried forward into adulthood. As she's gotten older, she's gotten a little more varied with color and some touches of personal style, but it's still very straightforward. It's whatever gets her out of her airplane the fastest or keeps her warm during early mornings at the tower - uniform slacks and flight jackets and oxfords. Growing up around soldiers she knows how to polish shoes and take care of herself, but she's not what we'd call aesthetic. She also doesn't wear a lot of jewelry until someone gives her some she cares about.

What languages do they speak? how fluently?

Grace grew up in Kent (Margate, specifically) but her parents moved where they did to be around other members of their family and people from the same region, so she also grew up speaking Italian in the neighborhood and is still fluent. Her family is all from southern Italy, so she speaks in that dialect.

How big or small is their family? who did they live with growing up? do they live with anyone now?

Grace's immediate family is pretty small - it's just her and her parents, although I feel like there could be a couple of deceased infant siblings in there somewhere. Her extended family, however, is quite large, and she grew up with a large crowd of cousins to run around with so she's more like a middle child than an only one - someone who's good at reading people and trying to figure out what makes people tick. She lived with her parents, but also spent a lot of time with her maternal grandparents, learning how to cook and helping out in the shop. (Her grandparents run a confectionery and ice cream shop, and Grace worked the counter during the summers when the tourist season was busy.) As an adult, Grace managed to get out of Margate by joining the WRENS, where she lived in a barracks with a lot of other women, and then by volunteering for SOE, where she lived in barracks again during training. Now that she's on field work, I think she lives alone - her radio operator obviously can't be seen closely with her, so it's just her in whatever rented room she's in for the time being. I think on some level she likes the solitude that field work sometimes brings - it's a break from all the noisy rooms she's gotten so used to.

[ask-the-becile-boys]

Story. Guess Who

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[ID: 7 digitally sketched panels in greyscale.]

[Panel 1: In the still dark dawn outside of Becile Manor, Locksmith and Agent Ester walk away from the car they left The Jack in. Both of their eyes are glowing, and Agest Ester is talking into a walkie-talkie. She says, "Operative, you are clear to enter the premises." Someone on the other end responds, "Finally."]

[Panel 2: Another car, parked and empty, in the foreground. Behind it, a Becile Industries van has its back open and several large, bipedal robots with single eyes, digitigrade legs, and fins on their heads like elephant ears are getting out. The most visible one is wearing a large backpack. On the ground there are several of the previously seen eye drones skittering along the ground, carrying rectangular packages on their tops. The mystery speak says, "Looks like your drones and RO-bots are deploying themselves."]

[Panel 3: A walking boot. The mystery speaker asks, "Stairs to the workshop are in the right-hand wing, right?" Locksmith responds over the walkie-talkie, "Correct." The mystery speaker says, "Good. This won't take long."]

[Panel 4: The boots descending a staircase into the Becile Manor basement. From below come lyrics from Creedance Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Rising:' "♪ Hope you got your things together ♪, ♪ Hope you are quite prepared to die ♪"]

[Panel 5: A hand wearing a fingerless glove pushes open the door to the workshop where The Skull is laid out and Riker is working. Riker has his back turned to the viewer and is looking at soe blueprints. An old radio on the bench near him continues to play the song, "♪ Looks like we're in for nasty weather ♪, ♪ One eye is taken for an eye ♪"]

[Panel 6: Riker in profile, smoking a cigarette and oblivious to the pair of hands reaching for him from behind. The song continues, "♪ Well, don't go around tonight ♪, ♪ Well, it's bound to take your life ♪"]

[Panel 7: Jaime Huron covers Riker's eyes with his hands, leaning forward toward his ear and saying, "Guess who." The cigarette falls from Riker's mouth, and the song finishes, "♪ There's a bad moon on the rise." End ID]

[hungamaofficial]

Aurangzeb pledges tax, energy and SOE reforms

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[pricetodayonline]

Aurangzeb pledges tax, energy and SOE reforms

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb on Tuesday reaffirmed the government’s resolve to implement structural reforms to achieve long-term economic growth and stability. Speaking at the “National Workshop on Transitioning to Defined Contribution Pension Schemes”, organised by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the minister said that the government…

[hospitalitymanagement]

A Day in the Life of a Bakery and Patisserie Student at Krystal SOE

As soon as the sun rises over Kolkata, life comes rushing back. Krystal School of Excellence students awaken to begin their journey towards mastering baking and patisserie art through its diploma bakery course in Kolkata. Here, they experience rigorous training, creative exploration, and hands-on learning that sets them on their journey toward becoming professional bakers and pastry chefs.

Morning: Setting the Stage for a Culinary Adventure

Krystal School of Excellence students begin each day early, at 7, when they arrive on campus dressed in chef uniforms. A theory class where they explore the science behind baking begins their education with understanding ingredient chemistry reactions while baking and precise measurements as its basis.

Krystal Bakery School's bakery course in Kolkata includes theory sessions to ensure students acquire practical skills and understand fundamental concepts, which will allow them to innovate and troubleshoot in the future. Their passionate instructors—many with years of industry experience—make these classes enjoyable by sharing personal anecdotes and professional tips with students.

Midmorning: Hands-On Learning in the Kitchen

At 9 AM, students head off to well-equipped kitchens where the magic happens—as the aroma of freshly baked bread, cakes, and pastries fills the air as practical sessions begin. Each day presents challenges; mastering sourdough bread-making or developing unique dessert recipes is among them.

Students of Kolkata diploma bakery courses come alive when faced with practical tasks and techniques to practice under their instructors' watchful gaze. Students work with various ingredients and methods, such as kneading dough, tempering chocolate, and decorating cakes, until it becomes second nature. Mistakes become learning opportunities, while every successful creation is celebrated as an affirmation of passion and commitment from their instructors.

Lunch Break: A Time for Reflection and Camaraderie

At noon, students take a much-needed lunch break. Gathered together in the cafeteria for an enjoyable meal together, this break not only offers them time to recharge but also fosters a sense of community among them—they share experiences, talk through challenges they faced in the kitchen, swap tips and techniques, and form supportive networks beyond classroom walls.

Afternoon Sessions: Specialized Workshops and Guest Lectures

Krystal School of Excellence's afternoon sessions frequently include specialized workshops and guest lectures conducted by experts from the culinary world, providing students with insight into current trends and techniques used in baking and patisserie. These sessions form part of its bakery course in Kolkata by offering students different perspectives that inspire creativity beyond what may have previously been imagined.

Workshops may cover advanced pastry techniques, the art of sugar crafting, or gluten-free baking. These interactive sessions allow students to explore niche areas of the field while developing a deeper understanding. Meeting industry leaders provides a great insight into their profession.

Late Afternoon: Business Skills and Entrepreneurship 

Mastering the business side of baking and patisserie is integral for any aspiring professional, which is why Krystal provides late afternoon sessions dedicated to teaching students about the economics of running a bakery, marketing strategies, and customer service excellence—essential lessons that equip students with all of the tools needed not only to excel in the kitchen but also thrive in today's highly competitive business world.

The diploma bakery course in Kolkata ensures students graduate with a comprehensive education. Students learn to manage costs, develop business plans, and build brand identities—skills that prepare them for various career opportunities, such as working at established bakeries, starting their own ventures, or food styling and consulting careers.

Evening: Personal Projects and Self-Reflection

Once classes end for the day, students often linger to complete individual projects. From perfecting difficult recipes to experimenting with different flavours or preparing for exams, Krystal kitchens are bustling with activity as students pursue personal interests while honing skills more thoroughly. This period allows for self-directed learning, so students can pursue their passions and develop further.

Reflection is an essential component of learning. Students keep journals documenting their progress, including what worked well and any areas for improvement. This practice of self-reflection fosters a growth mindset while motivating them toward their goals.

Night: A Well-Deserved Rest

By 7 PM, most Krystal School of Excellence students head home feeling tired but satisfied from a demanding but enriching journey as bakery and patisserie students. Every day brings fresh lessons, challenges, and opportunities for personal development. Our bakery course in Kolkata was created to develop talent while sparking passion and building a solid base from which a career in the culinary arts can flourish.

As Krystal School of Excellence students unwind and prepare for another day, they take the knowledge and skills they have acquired, along with memories of shared laughter, occasional failures, and triumphant victories. At the school, each day brings students closer to reaching their dreams of making an impression in baking and pastry arts.

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[movietonight]

The Life That I Have

Thank you!!! This is my WW2 Poem Code AU in which most of the mash characters find themselves stranded in London during the Blitz. Some of them might be British in this because I'm running out of reasons for people to be stranded there.

Hawkeye - nearly a fully fledges surgeon but had to take a sabbatical for mental health reasons and decided to check out Europe when WW2 breaks out and he gets recruited by the SOE to write poem codes. He specialises in dirty limericks and the such but is very effective and since he can't practice medicine, it is his one way to help people.

BJ - got offered a job at a London hospital and just moved there when WW2 breaks out. Peg and Erin are still in the US, they were supposed to follow him in a couple of months when he has arranged everything and settled into the job and now have to wait out the war. BJ wants to go home but can't afford to abandon his job, both financially and ethically. He becomes friends with the only other stranded Americans he meets, Hawkeye and Margaret (and later Charles) and contributes a few poems too

Charles - found himself in France at the start of WW2 and before he can leave gets shot in the leg (during the Phoney War phase ironically, because the universe hates him too) and ends up in London to recover, where he meets Hawkeye and BJ and gets recruited by the SOE too

Margaret - I was thinking about making her an American nurse in an exchange programme but I am not sure if I am happy with this so I am still workshopping her role but I really want her to be stranded there too

The main thing of this WIP would be having these characters try to survive the horrors of the Blitz and negotiate their wish to go home with their responsibility to help before the US joins the war and also draw attention to the fact that poem codes are really cool. The title is based on a poem code by Leo Marks. There will be air raid shelters and St Paul's Survives and stuff like that. Maybe something about the children's transports and civilian evacuations idk.

[gludgenbell]

Bunch of SOE Doodles

Working on redesigns for a lot of the gods

Especially the four lesser ones

As for the profile images I didnt do great but good enough for me!

Mercedes uh

Was an accident JWQKSMSKX

I was thinking about cars while writing their name

But it's supposed to be Meinwen

Dilynwr design is still in workshop and I do have a lot more doodles for it but shrug

As for Hush!!! Aha! We have a list of the gods to be drawn

Kannan and Hush are actually both the god of Guidance but Hush was very much an assistant

Raifei and Meinwen are "deceased" but,

Well

Technically they're not

They can come back, if Song wants to be Raifei again, and if Emyr and Gwilyn want to become Meinwen once more

The list is Gwenllian's Council

Currently on the Council is:

Unfortunately we do not have The God of Unity like I wanted

Her design is

Difficult to make

[scotianostra]

On January 8th 1697 Thomas Aikenhead was executed in Edinburgh.

This is a crackin, if sad tale, and shows you how religious beliefs can be a blight on our history.

So who was oor Thomas, a villain?, a murderer?, a smuggler?, or some enemy of the state? No Thomas's crime was blasphemy who took the lord's name in vain.......this would be comic if it wasn't for the tragic fact that he was executed, unlike the man in Life of Brian, who uttered the words Jehova, Thomas complained that he wished he was warming himself in hell rather than that chilly night walking past the recently built Tron Kirk on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Well that's the simple story that the tour guides that take you round the Old Town will tell you, there is a bit more to it so I will bore you with a bit more of the detail. Thomas Aikenhead came from a well-to-do family in Edinburgh, his father being listed as a surgeon but more probably an apothecary, a dispenser of herbs and potions. Both his parents were dead by the time he became a student at Edinburgh University at the age of 16 or 17.

His mother had been a daughter of the manse, and you would think that would have made Aikenhead wary of challenging the established religion of the time, namely the all-powerful Church of Scotland, especially while still a student and under the constant gaze of professors, lecturers and, as it turned out, his fellow students.

These were the dying days of a curious period in Scottish history. Aikenhead would have been four when the ‘Wizard of the West Bow’ Major Thomas Weir was executed in 1670. Weir was by day an extreme Calvinist but by night an incestuous Satanist and it takes no great leap of reason to see that an impressionable young boy might well have been affected by the trial and execution of a local celebrity that lived not far from him.

The 1680s was also the ‘killing time’ for the Covenanters when many died because of they worshipped their same god in differing ways!

Thomas was a keen student and an avid reader, he may or may not have known and Edinburgh bookseller, John Frazer, who had been prosecuted after admitting either reading, or being in possession of Charles Blount’s Oracles of Reason a book I know nothing about but gather it relates to Deism, which questioned the existence or more importanyly, non-existence of God or Satan, Frazer had repented ad as it was a first offence was sackclothed and jailed in the old Tolbooth for a number of months.

Anyway, Thomas had a friend, well he thought he had a friend, Murdo Craig, but Murdo, on the sly had been keeping notes on Aitkenhead, and his dalliances with blasphemous ideals, we know that because they formed a large part of the indictment against Aikenhead.

“Nevertheless it is of verity, that you Thomas Aikenhead, shakeing off all fear of God and regaird to his majesties lawes, have now for more than a twelvemoneth by past, and upon severall of the dayes within the said space, and ane or other of the same, made it as it were your endeavour and work in severall compainies to vent your wicked blasphemies against God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, and against the holy Scriptures, and all revealled religione, in soe far as upon ane or other of the dayes forsaid, you said and affirmed, that divinity or the doctrine of theologie was a rapsidie of faigned and ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the morall doctrine of philosophers, and pairtly of poeticall fictions and extravagant chimeras, or words to this effect or purpose, with severall other such reproachfull expressions.”

That was just for starters. Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, the Lord Advocate of the day, had taken a personal interest in the case and he decided to throw the whole lot of Craig’s testimony at Aikenhead who was arrested in November, 1696, and charged under the Blasphemy Act of 1661 which carried the death penalty. He also charged Aikenhead under a more recent act, which made it a criminal offence to ‘deny, impugn or quarrel’ about the existence of God.The prosecution papers go on to record

“You have lykwayes in discourse preferred Mahomet to the blessed Jesus, and you have said that you hoped to see Christianity greatly weakened, and that you are confident that in a short tyme it will be utterly extirpate.”

For Mahomet, read Muhammad, could young Thomas be an Islam convert in 17th century Edinburgh, I very much doubt it, they just needed to make an example of the young student, and he knew by now knew that he was in very great trouble and protested in effect that he was guilty only of the sin of being youthful and had been led astray by the books he had read. He claimed to have repented of his anti-Christian beliefs and was once again a good Presbyterian. In this way he seems to have thrown himself upon the mercy of the court, but there was no mercy.  On Christmas Eve, 1696, a jury found him guilty. Sir James Stewart asked for the death penalty and it was granted and “pronounced for doom,” as Scottish judges were still saying well into the 20th century in capital punishment cases. Aikenhead pleaded for his life to the Privy Council emphasising his youth, his dire circumstances, and the fact that he was reconciled to the Protestant religion. There was some support for the death sentence to be commuted from at least two councillors and two Church of Scotland ministers, but the General Assembly of the Kirk intervened, demanding that Aikenhead suffer 

“vigorous execution to curb the abounding of impiety and profanity in this land”.

In his last letter to friends, written in the Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh as he awaited execution, Aikenhead at last gave a plausible explanation for his conduct – that he had been a disappointed seeker after truth. He wrote: 

“It is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth and to seek for it as for hid treasure. So I proceeded until the more I thought thereon, the further I was from finding the verity I desired.” In truth, in a repressed society the student had just gone too far in rejecting the doctrines of Christianity calling it “feigned and ill-invented nonsense”

Aikenhead went to his death on January 8, 1697, hanged on the scaffold at Shrubhill between Edinburgh and Leith. It is said that before he died he proclaimed that moral laws were the work of governments and men. In his hand as the noose was plced around his neck was the Holy Bible. The execution angered many people for many years afterwards. The great English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote an account of the hanging and called the execution “a crime such has never since polluted the island.”He continued: “The preachers who were the boy’s murderers crowded round him at the gallows, and, while he was struggling in the last agony, insulted Heaven with prayers more blasphemous than any thing that he had ever uttered.”

There was other evidence of church authorities being present as Aikenhead died. He was the last man in Britain to be hanged for blasphemy.

According to Arthur Herman in his book "How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It", the execution of Aikenhead was “the last hurrah of Scotland’s Calvinist ayatollahs” before the dawning of the age of reason in the Enlightenment.

Now we can all rejoice in The Enlightenment but a full 30 years later in the small town of Dornoch in Sutherland, Janet Horne was put on trial for the “crime” of having a daughter whose feet and hands were misshapen and who had herself given birth to a son with disabilities. She was the last woman in Britain to be burned at the stake for being a witch, her death bringing to an end the “burning time” when perhaps 4000 Scottish women were executed for the crime of witchcraft.

I thought I would add a wee bit more about Shrubhill in Leith, as most of us usually only regard Edinburgh's Old Town, The Tolbooth, and Grassmarket as sites where executions took place. I can't find out why Aikenhead was taken to, at what at the time, was a different town for his executions I did however find records  of several taking place at the site, now student accommodation, but the site of Edinburghs tram workshops and powerstation, but beforehand not many know that it was the site of he gibbet known as the Gallow Lee, literally the "field with the gallows",

Bodies were buried at the base of the gallows or their ashes scattered if burnt. The most famous of those that met their end here was perhaps Major Weir, the Wizard of the West Bow.

1570- Two criminals strangled and burned to death.

1570 (4 October)- Rev. John Kelloe minister of Spott, East Lothian (near Dunbar) strangled and burnt for the murder of his wife

1664- Nine witches strangled and burnt

1670- Major Thomas Weir, the self-confessed warlock, strangled and burnt for witchcraft (almost the only self-confessed witch executed).

1678- Five witches strangled and burnt

1680- Part of the body of Covenanter David Hackston was hung in chains after his execution at the mercat cross in Edinburgh for the murder of Archbishop Sharp in 1679.

1681 (10 October)- Covenanters Garnock, Foreman, Russel, Ferrie and Stewart hanged and beheaded. Their headless bodies were buried at the site and their heads placed on the Cowgate Port at the foot of the Pleasance. Friends reburied the bodies in the graveyard of the West Kirk (St. Cuthberts). The heads were retrieved, placed in a box and then buried in garden ground at Lauriston. They lay there until 7 October 1726 when the then owner, Mr Shaw, had them exhumed and reburied near the Martyrs' Monument in Greyfriars Kirkyard.

1697 (8 January)- Thomas Aikenhead, a 19-year-old theology student at Edinburgh University became the last person to be executed under Scotland's blasphemy laws (and the last in Britain to be executed for that crime).

1752 (10 January)- Norman Ross, a footman, hanged for the murder of Lady Baillie, sister of Home, Laird of Wedderburn. The body was left to hang in a gibbet cage "for many a year" and became a local ghoulish tourist attraction.

Post mid 18th Century the Nor’ Loch was drained and the city expanded to the north by the building of the New Town with stone quarried from nearby Craigleith quarry. In such building sand was needed to add to the lime mortar and Gallow Lee proved to be just what was needed. The owner of Gallow Lee charged the builders to cart away the sand, containing the ashes and other remains of thousands of victims. The sandy mound of the Gallow Lee has gone I wonder how many New Town residents are aware that the very fabric of their building is bound together with the remains of  these poor women convicted of being witches, covenanters and criminals?

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Você já ouviu falar sobre o KWON JAYDEN? Ouvi dizer que é uma pessoa… interessante. Ele estuda lá no Departamento de Design, acho que tá no 2º ano do curso de Artes Visuais, vai fazer 22 anos, mas acho que não faz parte de nenhum grupo. Ainda não sabe? Bom, não sei muito mais sobre. Ele realmente tem um rosto pra fama, até se parece com aquele Keeho, do P1Harmony. Ah! Acho que tenho o twitter dele aqui, é @kygjayden. Às vezes, quando falamos assim, eu penso que queria ser uma formiguinha porque morro de curiosidade para saber como foi a entrevista dos outros. Você consegue imaginar?

Como você já deve saber, na Kyonggi University prezamos conhecer bem e manter uma relação próxima com o nosso corpo estudantil, então por que você não me conta um pouco de como você chegou aqui? Começando por seu interesse pelas artes. Você descobriu esse interesse sozinho, tem familiares no ramo, teve alguma influência? Algum professor, colega…

Desde criança, descobri minha paixão pelas artes visuais. Criar, desenhar e expressar minha imaginação através de cores e formas sempre me encantou. Meus pais, foram uma grande influência em minha jornada artística. Eles sempre me incentivaram a explorar minha criatividade e valorizar a expressão artística em todas as suas formas.

Ao longo dos anos, encontrei professores inspiradores que me encorajaram a aprimorar minhas habilidades e me desafiaram a ir além. Através de seu apoio e orientação, desenvolvi minha técnica e descobri novas perspectivas artísticas.

Quando decidi estudar na Coreia do Sul, a KYG se destacou como a instituição perfeita para minha formação em artes visuais. Acho que aqui tem uma comunidade vibrante de artistas talentosos e apaixonados.

Estou grato por todas as experiências que me trouxeram até aqui e animado com as oportunidades que a KYG proporciona.

E como você acabou aqui hoje? É um desejo próprio? Um sonho, talvez. Ou você quer sair correndo por essa porta agora? [risos] Não se preocupe, você não seria o primeiro artista que sonhava em ser advogado, por mais estranho que isso soe.

Na verdade, estar aqui hoje é um misto de desejo próprio e um sonho que carrego desde muito jovem. Ao longo dos anos, fui alimentando minha paixão por artes e percebi que elas eram minha verdadeira vocação.

Enquanto alguns podem ter dúvidas e incertezas em relação à escolha de carreira, eu sempre soube que queria estar imerso no mundo da criação, expressão e imaginação. A arte é o meu refúgio, minha forma de comunicar o indizível e transmitir emoções de maneiras únicas.

Então, não, não tenho vontade de sair correndo por essa porta agora. Na verdade, estou emocionado e grato por ter a oportunidade de estar aqui, neste momento, sendo entrevistado para o processo seletivo da KYG. É um passo importante em direção à realização do meu sonho, e estou determinado a aproveitar cada oportunidade e desafio que surgir no meu caminho.

Acredito que a arte tem o poder de transformar vidas e criar conexões profundas, e é isso que me motiva a seguir em frente. Estou ansioso para explorar meu potencial artístico nesta instituição renomada e contribuir para o legado de criatividade e significado que a KYG representa.

Certo, certo. E você já teve algum treinamento profissional, ou a Kyonggi será sua primeira experiência? Somos um ótimo lugar pra começar, você sabe, vários dos nossos alunos chegam até nós apenas com seus talentos brutos. Você diria que é natural no que faz, ou do tipo que precisa de muito esforço, ou uma mão forte para te guiar? Como você descreveria sua personalidade, no geral?

Bem, até o momento, minha experiência formal em treinamento profissional é limitada. A Kyonggi será a minha primeira imersão em um ambiente acadêmico voltado para as artes visuais. No entanto, durante minha jornada artística, busquei aprimorar minhas habilidades de forma autodidata, explorando diferentes técnicas, estudando artistas renomados e participando de workshops e eventos relacionados às artes.

Considero-me uma pessoa que possui uma inclinação natural para as artes visuais, mas isso não significa que não precise de esforço e dedicação para aprimorar meu trabalho. Acredito que todo artista deve buscar constantemente o crescimento e o aprendizado, nunca se contentando com o status quo. Estou disposto a enfrentar desafios, experimentar novas abordagens e expandir meus horizontes artísticos.

Quanto à minha personalidade, diria que sou uma pessoa observadora e reflexiva. Gosto de explorar diferentes perspectivas e expressar minhas ideias e emoções por meio da arte. Sou determinado e disciplinado em minha prática artística, dedicando tempo e esforço para aperfeiçoar meu trabalho. Além disso, sou aberto a colaborações e aprecio a troca de ideias e inspirações com outros artistas.

Estou ansioso para trazer minha paixão, meu talento e minha sede de conhecimento para a Kyonggi. Sei que esta jornada será desafiadora, mas estou pronto para abraçar as oportunidades que surgirem e crescer como artista aqui na instituição.

Tudo okay então, candidato. Essa fase é mais uma conversa do que um teste em si, só para te conhecer melhor, perceber onde você se encaixa na nossa instituição. Temos espaço para todos, de qualquer forma! Nós vamos nos encontrar novamente, fechado? Te vejo nos palcos!

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Chapter One

A TZzzzzttt of Class

Eskom remains South Africa's sole electricity provider; which, under the Competition Act is unlawful. However, no competitors have ever challenged the status quo. Until now. Before now... ja. They (Eskom) have been kind of running shit, as an SOE but the only time they seemed to have a handle on shit was when then-Vice President H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa was at the helm of the Emergency Board.

So, how Eskom-provided electricity works is as follows:

♧ There is a large nuclear or thermal power plant (or a hydro-electricity dam) in a rural location. This power station is sometimes the source of the electricity consumed in multiple cities and towns, even a whole province.

♧ From this central power creation station, power is transported via thick, copper cable lines all the way to a town's power station, where, many people err to think, power is created. Nope. It's just a series of transistor transistor nodes in the conduit.

♧ Another sub-station can be found in residential areas or 'the suburbs', that is called a sub-station and is usually the size of a one-bedroomed or bachelor pad and fenced off for everyone's safety.

♧ The last 'sub-station' between the power plant and the home or business in which it is made use of, is the street power box; which is usually found on a corner and has no fenced off boundaries and is usually about a metre tall.

From this box, the electricity is sent to the home or business' electricity power box. This, in the circuitry of Eskom-provided electricity, would be a switch or circuit-breaker; as well in function, a cell. However, because these parts of the circuit, up to the power station have no physical switches of the size needed to disconnect or reconnect the quantities of electricity we are talking, corner box tiny, fragile phone switchboards are hardly making a difference to the nearly unlimited power that can be siphoned off the national grid. And is, currently, if you ask me.

Single Phase Power - This is electricity meant for home use. Eskom supplies home consumers with single phase electricity. Small firms (with 5 office  employees in total) and even massive skyscraper-housed firms (with 2300 office employees) would both be using single phase power. If each floor had their own power box, as is usually the case in multiple floors. This means that the surge of power in wattage that can be accessed is limited.

This is easily identified by a plug wire thickness of copper cabling needed to transmit a constant stream of electricity, used to connect different nodes or switches in the one phase power box.

Three Phase Power - This is the kind of electricity consumer you would be, if you had a wood workshop, for example, in which you used multiple power tools as well as the usual office and kitchen equipment. Often, when one wants to open a business; either at home or at a bought or leased premises, one would have to enquire whether the zoning of that erf (street number or floor or sub-erf) is residential one-phase or industrial three phase. The reason for this is if you operate from a 3 phase street (yes. Three phase is applied to whole streets at a time) then you would be paying 6 times as much for electricity, even if you were only operating an office needing only one phase electricity supply.

If you wanted to change the zoning of your street to three phase power, you would have to first put an ad in the local newspaper announcing your intention to make an application to change the zoning as well as send a notice via registered mail to all residents/business operators, in the street you live or operate in. You would have to host a meeting at a venue at which any stakeholders could come and voice their agreement or concerns with your proposed application. Unfortunately, if you have even just one person in disagreement, you will not be permitted to continue the application; which is lodged at your nearest Civic Centre.

The reason for this; perhaps not obvious at the time; is that three phase power costs about 6 times more per unit than residential or one phase electricity; and even if the rest of your street does not need three phase power, they end up paying for it. This is because the power box on your corner, that services the whole street needs to be upgraded to three phase. Probably, for that reason, you have to hand deliver notices of your intention to lodge an application; as well as a notice and details of your meeting, regarding the proposed re-zoning of that street; at every house number in that street.

Once the zoning is three phase, it is difficult to get it re-zoned back to residential; if not impossible; probably due to the infrastructure and street box upgrade because three phase power requires thicker copper cables; all the way to your power box. And all the way back to Eskom or your local Power Plant.

The benefit to installing three phase power is that electricity doesn't trip and heavy machinery and devices can be used; with abandon; and without a weak electrical power source that is not equipped to handle such a high rate of power consumerage.

Quite often, people living in the suburbs, never check the municipal zoning of their street and as a result, end up buying/renting a house that is zoned under a three phase electricity supply or semi-industrial zoning. This can significantly lower your home, the street and the suburb's real estate value. Non-consumers of three phase have been known to be crippled, financially, by the rate charged for the unnecessary cost of an oversupply of Eskom's three phase electricity.

Other types of businesses that make use of three phase power are:

◇ Laundrettes

◇ Specialist medical facilities

◇ Metal Workshops

◇ Small Factories

◇ Food Processing outfits that need freezing and refrigeration

◇ Auto repair shops

◇ Scrapyards

◇ Lodges and spas

◇ Showrooms

Wherever a lot of copper wiring is found in a machine, device or tool, it's a good indication that the devicemakes use of large quantities of electricity. The less copper, the cheaper it is to run; electricity-wise.

Any item, which has a heating element or a cooling fan, is also, more likely than not, consuming a lot of electricity. Any items that vibrate, rotate, oscillate or provide a force of motion (like electric scooters) or hairdryers also consume a substantial amount of power as opposed to manual or semi-manual (for example, with batteries) devices.

Tumble-dryers, heaters, electric blankets, hair irons, ovens and lawnmowers as well as air-conditioners are all high energy consuming appliances that DO trip residential zone power boxes; when used with too many plug points in use, simultaneously. Electric gates, water pumps used for water features, Jacuzzis and swimming pools are also high consumers of electricity.

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I Started MMA Training Today

Body by Thor (Centr) has a lot of different programmes when it comes to fitness. The basic planner does a mix of them, alternating what you’re working on each day. I still can’t do most of the fitness tracks in the programme, so I’ve been having a hard time keeping up with the fitness part.

Today, I decided to start focusing on MMA training. I don’t generally talk about it anymore, due to being too ill most of the time to attend classes, but I’ve studied a bunch of different styles of martial arts (eastern and western), though I’ve mastered none of them.

Originally, I did aikido off and on with a friend of mine who was chill with showing me what she was learning from her paid classes. My family has always been fairly poor, and that really hit hard after I broke into pointe work in ballet (which I had to give up due to costs); it’s only gotten worse since I can’t work like a normal person. Most of my friends who do martial combat have always been extremely cool about teaching me what they were paying to learn.

From there, after an interesting duel at a wedding between myself and a good friend (I’ll post that story later), I started learning what’s probably my most favourite martial form - Shorinjin Ryu. Also called

Saito Ninjitsu

, my friend was learning from one of the like three places in the mainland US that taught the form at the time. It’s really the form that feels the most natural to me, and I was learning fairly quickly - about two weeks into it, I threw a 300 lbs man, and I was maybe 125 sopping wet at that point.

I’ve wanted to go back to SR/SN for years, but there are super limited locations on where to learn the form at, given that it’s literally a family form that’s been handed down for generations. They do online training now, so I may eventually get back into that, but for most of my life, SR/SN was just unavailable after I left Utah.

While in San Diego, I got into two other forms. I attended a weekly class for a bit on Muay Thai, though when I moved away from Imperial Beach, that got less and less viable, thanks I-5 traffic.

The second form I learned while in San Diego was Jeet Kun Do. My original team lead at SOE was into martial arts and decided that the monthly JKD workshops were a great way for us to bond. SOE paid for it, initially, though we all ended up having to pay for it after the first few months. When the lead got moved to head up QA, we all fell out of going to JKD together, but I’d learned a fair bit at that point.

Displaying no telegraphs of my own, learning to read the telegraphs of others, and relying on speed and lack of direction to overcome an opponent became integrated into how I fight. Though I lack the money for a rapier yet, I’ve been mentally developing a JKD based form of rapier combat, using my lightsaber (which is far too heavy and bulky) to toy with the form from time to time. Much to the dismay of most fencers, the JKDR eliminates the traditional stances, opting for a fairly neutral and hard to read combat stance loosely based on some of the JKD positions. Fencing relies heavily on reading telegraphs, and while it doesn’t work to eliminate them, it does work to cause misdirection with them. Eliminating telegraphs and the traditional stances make it harder for another fencer to deal with the fighter (hence traditional fencers screaming, much like they did when a guy in the SCA brought in Chinese based fencing styles).

Since moving away from San Diego, particularly in moving back East to live with Mum after my medical disorders caught up to me, I haven’t done any formal or semi-formal combat training. I haven’t even really been able to keep up on what I know of combat.

The only thing I’ve done since moving here is absorbed (literally) a couple of different lightsaber styles (most notable, Asohka Tano’s style) via Graded Motor Imagery. One of my physical therapists last year discovered that I have a ridiculously high GMI index, to the point where seeing any movement based activity will trigger it; we actually did a two week movement detox, where I couldn’t view or read anything that had more than walking in it, just to see how high my GMI learning was. My pain decreased exponentially, and we figured out that yeah, I learn via GMI, and my body is constantly thinking I’ve worked out when I haven’t because of it. (Though really, bless my brain for letting learning ridiculous things like Tano’s fighting style by watching shite tonnes of Clone Wars/Rebels be possible.)

So, I’ve decided to focus on MMA training as my main track in Centr. While that’s not to say that I won’t keep up with Functional and Foundational Training by the likes of Da Rulk (because let’s be honest, that bear’s a god) and Dr. Eric Goodman - it just means it will be my...centre. (Pls don’t kill me, Thor!)

Given I’ve shown off Miss Hall, I may as well show of Da Rulk and Dr. Goodman.

Da Rulk’s Centr Promo Video:

Doctor Eric Goodman’s FT YT Channel Starter Video:

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TURISIAN.com – Tamasya ke Kota Yogyakarta jangan hanya ke Teras Malioboro saja atau ke situs percandian, Sobat Turisian bisa ajak keluarga tamasya sambil belajar membatik. Tempatnya di Museum Batik Yogyakarta. Kehadiran museum batik ini atas prakarsa sepasang suami istri, yakni Hadi Nugroho dan Dewi Sukaningsih. Mereka mendirikannya dengan tujuan sebagai sarana pelestarian koleksi batik dan alat-alat pendukung proses pembuatan batik. Di Museum Batik Yogyakarta, Sobat Turisian bisa melihat beragam koleksi yang jumlahnya mencapai kurang lebih 1200 buah. Meliputi kain batik, alat, dan perlengkapan membatik seperti wajan, anglo, canting, dan lain sebagainya. Koleksi unggulannya berupa berbagai kain batik dari abad 18 sampai awal abad 19 berbentuk kain panjang dan sarung. Koleksi lainnya berupa batik karya Van Zuylen dan Oey Soe Tjoen, serta batik-batik buatan tahun 1700-an. Batik Van Zuylen di Museum Batik Yogyakarta tersebut, menampilkan corak Eropa dengan mengenalkan warna-warna baru selain merah dan biru yang klasik. Tambah ada gradasi warna yang sempurna dengan garis-garis sederhana dan motif geometris yang rapi. Sehingga memunculkan gaya ragam hias dan komposisi yang menarik. Museum Sulaman Indonesia Menariknya lagi, di sini ada pula Museum Sulaman Indonesia yang merupakan bagian dari museum batik tersebutu. Pendirinya sama, yaitu Dewi Sukaningsih pada tahun 1980. Di sini terdapat beragam koleksi kain sulaman. Baca juga: Yuk Jalan-jalan Seru ke Kampung Wisata Tamansari Jogja! Salah satu yang fenomenal, ada koleksi kain sulam berukuran 400 x 90 cm yang mendapatkan penghargaan dari Museum Rekor Indonesia (MURI) pada tahun 2000 sebagai sulaman terpanjang. Sekaligus membawa nama Museum Batik Yogyakarta sebagai pemrakarsa museum sulaman pertama di Indonesia. Kalau ingin lebih asyik berkunjung ke objek wisata Yogyakarta yang satu ini, Sobat Turisian wajib coba belajar membatik. Asyiknya lagi, hasil pelatihan batik tersebut bisa kalian bawa pulang. Untuk menunjang pelatihan batik tersebut, pada tahun 2015 museum ini menciptakan “Batik Starter Kit”. Tujuannya untuk mengajak generasi millenial membatik dengan cara yang lebih mudah dan ringkas. Lokasi Museum Batik Yogyakarta Destinasi wisata museum ini, berlokasi di Jalan Dr. Sutomo 13A, Bausasran, Kota Yogyakarta, DIY. Museum tersebut buka dari Senin sampai Sabtu, mulai dari pukul 09.00 – 15.00 WIB. Khusus hari Minggu dan hari besar pengunjung untuk reservasi terlebih dahulu. Baca juga: Jalan-jalan ke Embung Langensari di Tengah Kota Yogyakarta Untuk masuk ke Museum Batik Yogyakarta, Sobat Turisian mesti membayar tiket masuk dengan harga yang masih terjangkau. Harganya sekitar Rp30.000,- per orang, kalau ingin belajar membatik harus bayar Tiket Workshop mulai dari Rp55.000,- per orang.*