Assessments part two

The assessments are coming thick and fast again, and I seem to be passing them with much success as could be expected. As said I have placed the health and safety animation in the web page, it looks great. One less task to carry out on Thursday, leaving me more time to concentrate on other things, like making the web pages better for what they are meant to be. It has given me more time to think about the heading and colours. Hopefully this afternoon I will complete the video so its ready for the audio. That’s after I have taken the relevant photos in the still images class and edited them to the criteria

Soon be trading

Well I’m In the Social Software class investigating new things on Gaia online. It’s basically an online social site where you can earn gold points for selling and trading various objects, yet to buy or trade as I have just purchased the trade card that cost 500 pieces, so I am now making the money by playing games. One of the games is fishing, others games are puzzles and word making, these all earn you gold.

My favourite game at the moment has to be the puzzles as you can earn lots of gold depending on the difficulty of the puzzle, the highest gold score is 300 pieces.

If you visit various areas of towns you can pick up insects, these I believe can be used as bait for fishing, not forgetting they can be sold on.

More Photoshop

All seems to have gone to plan at college so far today, I am currently in the Digital media still images class and working with Photo shop, carrying out a few task. Today I am adjusting the colours of some pictures to make them look more professional. For example I have to change the colour of a building, leaving the building next to it as it was when I started the change. all good fun to be honest.

Hometown and travel to college

The day has started fine so far, the class has created a Wiki for everyone too see. The general topics are our travel to college and hometown, considering my hometown is in the middle of nowhere. Wasn’t much to say, but my memory served me well to help me create a good paragraph?

The fate of some college students

The task was to take a trip round the college and take pictures of interesting things.


The air didn’t smell right, I had a bad feeling in my stomach about this one.



Soon as we stepped out of the class room the camera jumped into life and created a photo of the corridor.






As we walked down the corridor we started to see strange things like this writing on the wall.

What was our fate going to be?

Walking a little further we heard a sound, as we turned me were faced with a lift.

Not sure what to do at this point, we figured we walk a little further towards the stairs, feeling the stairs would be a safer way down.

As we started to walk down the stairs I still had the small feeling in my stomach, as if somebody was following us down the stairs.

Making it down the stairs, we went through the door.

I heard a sound, so I looked left.

Then right!!

The fate of the others lay in these links

Steve Dean Darren Amber

Oliver Cromwell Interview

Welcome to this weeks edition of Hot interview.

Hot interview is provided to you by Hot Magazine and their very own reporter.

So lets get down to business and introduce this weeks guest, Oliver Cromwell .
So sit back, relax and read on to enjoy the one and only interview with Oliver Cromwell.

You are a very well known Englishman who was born in 1599 in Huntingdon , a county town near London. I believe this is a very nice town to live, would you agree?

That is correct, I was born in Huntingdon and later baptized at St Johns church

How is your marriage to Sir Robert Bourchier daughter developing?

I got married just after my 21st birthday to Elizabeth Bourchier in summer 1620, my wife is a year older than me. Elizabeth’s father is a very successful businessman who inherited land from his father.

You are very well educated I believe?

My father wanted me to be very well educated; this is when my education started with Rev Long. Then I got the chance to attend the local grammar school, and then Sidney Sussex College, when my father died I didn’t want to study my degree any more.

What happened to the family home after your fathers death?

When my father died I came back from London to manage the house and estate my father owned in Huntingdon, I farmed the small amount of land. Other than farming, I looked after my widowed mother. Not forgetting my sisters needed looked after to.

What is your political status these days?

As I am a member of parliament I represent my hometown of Huntingdon.

There is word going about you are neglecting your parliamentary duties, is this true?

I saw the article about me neglecting the country in the paper, it’s wrong that people should be allowed to say such things about me.

You had a meeting yesterday with parliament on who should lead the army, what happened. Is there anything the public should know?

I have been promoted to Lieutenant general and informed that I should lead the army due to my leadership qualities.

There is rumour that Charles in planning a Scottish uprising, how do you feel about that?

At my age I don’t worry about such matters.

I should let you get on Mr Cromwell. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions and give good information to the children of Huntingdon school.

Oliver Cromwell

Born April 25th 1599 in Huntingdon, Oliver Cromwell was the son of Robert Cromwell. Robert Cromwell was the younger son of a knight, this meant he had little property and explains why Cromwell lived in poverty. His father was not yet a nobleman of wealth. Cromwell later married Elizabeth Bourchier.

Cromwell was made to make ends meet from the little he was given after his fathers death. He moved to St Ives in 1630 after the collapse of his business, things did pick up when his mothers brother died in 1637. He inherited some income and property.

Oliver Cromwell had the chance to socialise with powerful figures of court, due to his grandfather who lived a stately lifestyle. Cromwell made contact with London merchants and important figures through Sir James Bourchier.

Later Cromwell joined the parliament as the representative for his hometown of Huntingdon, he attended parliament of 1628-1629. He was the poorest MP and was so hyped up because of this status that he hardly made any contribution to the parliament. Mentioning this, Cromwell returned as the MP for Cambridge in 1640. He had a lot to say against royal policies and the Anglican Church. He wanted to increase the power of the parliament and he later called for parliament sessions to be held each year and to be able to decide whom the army generals would be.

The fighting started in 1642 when Cromwell was a minor cavalry commander. With Cromwell’s leadership qualities becoming stronger he became a Lieutenant general.

1645 brought all the parliamentary parties together, they couldn’t agree on who should lead the new army. Cromwell became temporary commander for 40 days, until 1647 brought full appointment of leader to the army. Meanwhile Cromwell was involved in some of the most important battles of the English civil war, this included his horsemen fighting at Marton Moor and Naseby.

Cromwell severely reprimanded other leaders who negotiated settlements with king Charles. In 1647 he was tested when Charles put a Scottish rising forward. He felt betrayed after he had defeated royal allies from Preston and Yorkshire. After Cromwell’s trial it was suggested Charles step aside to make way for one of this sons. Charles refused making Cromwell a very strong-minded speaker.

Charles later died, with people rebelling in favour of a new king. Charles II appeared in Ireland and Scotland, something Cromwell didn’t like. So Cromwell’s first port of call was to defeat Ireland, his reputation changed as Cromwell defeated Scotland. Charles II was defeated 1651 at the battle of Worcester.

With Cromwell growing sick and tired of the arguing and lack of reforming, he tried his luck with religious leaders as he was trying to push forward a blueprint for a Commonwealth. This didn’t go through because the other parties didn’t want to reform and work together.

Exasperation made Cromwell become Lord Protector, with Cromwell’s resistance Charles wasn’t to be made king, as Cromwell’s rule was with rigid social and religious laws.

Cromwell died on September 3 1658

Interview with George Stephenson

Hello I am Michael and I have this opportunity to interview a master mechanical engineer who thought of and built the first permanent steam locomotive public railway.

How did you get to where you are now?

High Pit in Killingworth had a faulty colliery engine, so I offered to fix it. This was the way I became an expert in my field of steam driven machines.

What is you main job?

Maintaining and repairing all the colliery engines.

Now you are an expert, what was the first railway you designed?

I was hired to build a railway line to cover the 8 miles from Sunderland to Hetton Colliery, the finished line used trains to pull carriages on the flat bits and too go up hill, and gravity to go down hill.

What gave you the idea to build the first railway?

I built the news railway because the new locomotives were to heavy for the wooden rails, so I felt there was need for a new design of rail way.

There is a little completion now, how do you feel with the competition?

Inspires me to build more railways like the Liverpool to Manchester railway and Stockton to Darlington.

How did you improve the railways then?

Well I noticed when building a railway a couple of years ago that locomotives run slower on uneven tracks, so I researched this and came up with some idea. This is where I designed them to use stone viaducts, this smoothes the route the locomotives take.

Well I think I have asked enough questions, so I would like to take this moment to thank Goerge for joing me here for my exclusive interview.

(George Stephenson at wikipedia)

Braemar Witch project

Well I don't really want to be here, I feel that somebody is around me. Keep hearing funny sounds. seems to be heaps of light in the distance.

"next"

End of Level Battles

Tomb Raider Legend

Ran Into trouble

The first encounter of trouble comes at the end of Bolivia,
It all breaks loose at the end of the level cutscene. You will find yourself in a very difficult situation. As soon as you regain control of Lara after the cutscene, run over the walkway Jumping the gaps as they appear, trying to avoid being killed by the helicopter. Jump over the final gap and pull yourself up onto the platform, you then have to defeat the mercenaries, It’s simple to do this. Move and dodge their attacks while moving, use cover when needed, I found rolls and summersaults and bursts of bullets to be useful.

Tokyo

Defeating Takamoto

For this one make sure you have plenty of ammunition, best weapon for this is the shotgun and assault rifle. When you have entered the lift and reached the top there will be a cutscene, this is where Lara will battle with Takamoto.
You will find yourself on the bottom floor and Takamoto on the upper walkway at the start, for a better fight you need to be on the same level as him. To get onto the upper walkway, use ladders on the vertical poles, these are behind the statues, when doing all this you need to avoid turret guns. At the top right hand side of the screen is a orange bar, this represents Takamotos health.

Takamoto uses a weapon that sends out low and high level shockwaves; dodge the shockwaves by rolling or jumping. To stay alive you have to dodge the shockwaves while shouting at Takamoto. I found It easier to take cover and shout Takamoto with the shotgun first, when he moves from pillar to pillar I used the assault rifle, keep at It till his orange bar is gone, once this has occurred you will get another cutscreen.

Ghana

Defeating Rutland

You are better starting off with the pistols, Rutland has two kinds of attacks, he throws grenades, and he slashes Lara with a fragment you need. You can dodge the grenades because they have a timer on them, he is better defeated using the combat lock. The problem is when you have shoot Rutland enough, he uses the pillars to heal, simple solution, shoot Rutland enough keeping you distance, wait till Rutland jumps onto the pillar, use the yellow cancel button on your control to reveal the grapple points and shoot them. Next time he goes up onto the pillars to refresh his health, connect the magnetic grapple to the pillar and pull It down. Repeat this for all the remaining pillars. Then finish Rutland off with the assault rifle.

Kazakhstan

The Unknown Entity

The unknown Entity can Inflict large amounts of damage, so watch out. Soon as the cutscene ends run to and enter the magnetic gun in the centre of the room. Locate the creature and press L1 to get hold of it, now aim at one of the bursts of energy cracklings between two small lobes and fire, If you got It right the creature will disappear for a short time. Then you have to jump out and pull one of four levers, situated on the walls, you have to repeat the grab, fire and pull lever process for all four levers.

I found It much quicker and easier to use a method of rolling and somersaulting to pull the levers.

During the cutscene, the fragment was revealed (It’s protected by a energy shield, plus four larger orbs that are lowered from the ceiling)
Remount the magnetic gun and shoot each of the large orbs with R1, the idea is to get them to swing and discharge crackling between the smaller orbs, you need to move all four large orbs into position quickly as they will soon swing back to where they started.

Once you have them in place, the electrical discharge get stronger and the shield to the fragment disappears. This is when you get off the magnetic gun, and use the grapple to retrieve the fragment. You will get a cutscene.


England

Beating the Ugly Snake

Firstly you have to get the creature under one of the metal cages, to do this you simply fire at the tower to sound a bell, the creature will then temporally pay attention to the bell and investigate. When this happens use Lara’s grapple on the lever at the bottom of the tower, you must repeat this on all four towers to defeat this monster.



Bolivia

The Looking Glass

This is the most toughest part of the game, mercenaries appears from all directions, man two turrets, while mercenaries walk around attacking Lara with grenade launchers, pleasant?

Excalibur is the most powerful weapon Lara has, so the first task is to take out the two soldiers manning the turrets, while finding them eliminate other mercenaries, then find and eliminate the mercenaries using the grenade launchers. Remember to be on the guard, as the attacks don’t stop till you get a cutscene, this will take place when you have killed the last mercenary.
Now Lara is faced with another challenge, The Unknown Entity Part two.
This creature will circle the platform and launch projectiles at Lara, these will detonate when they hit the ground, get caught and you will suffer. Always hold L1 thoughtout the battle, this maintains the lock-on for better targeting, attack it with Excalibur. This creature has the capabilities to dodge a lot of Excalibur’s shockwaves, so try to be accurate as well as wary of the creature’s attacks.

When the creature falls to the ground, make a attack using the yellow cancel key on your controller, make it fast and quick attack as It’s not down for long, If you managed to attack the creature the health bar won’t charge fully, move to a safe distance and carry on with you assault, but if you missed, the creature will have full health. You will have to carry out this process of attacking with Excalibur and attacking when it is down until its health gauge is virtually empty, then you can give the killer blow and win the battle.

Were any Laws Broken?

This is a difficult call as you have three powerful figures here, Alisher Usmanov who is billionaire wanting to buy Arsenal FC, not at all happy with comments made, Craig Murray and Tim Ireland. All I can see is Craig Murray and Tim Ireland were expressing a freedom of speech.

This case relates to a case back in 1999 Involving Godfrey v Demon Internet Service. This meant website host companies are regarded as the publisher of such statements and comments. This means they are vulnerable for the bloggers actions, unfortunately this leaves the Internet Service Provider in a position of being sued accordingly. So this explains why Mr Usmanov had the upper hand.

What did Alisher Usmanov do about It?

In seeing the comments made about himself and his affair of wanting to buy Arsenal football club, he contacted Schillings lawyers. Schillings sent legal threats to Fasthosts Internet Ltd, the Internet service provider, who provided the server for Tim Irelands Bloggerhead website, this had a major role in the shut down of websites http://www.bloggerhead.com/ and http://www.craigmurrays.co.uk/

This generated the shut down of MP Boris Johnson’s, Bob Pipers and Clive Summerfield’s blogs. Bearing in mind, Pipers, Johnson and Summerfield’s hadn’t offended Alisher Usmanov they just used Bloggerhead.

So what is the situation here?

Looking into the situation here it has come very clear to me, Mr Alisher Usmanov was less than happy with comments made by Craig Murray, Former British Ambassador of Uzbekistan and Tim Ireland who is an online Marketing Consultant and operator of the once Bloggerhead. Comments had been made about his Interest in Arsenal FC and his past in various blogs.

PUBLICITY

Radio one publicity starts with the likes of the Radio One big weekends, Judge Jules and Jk and Joel in Ibiza.It is clearly seen the best clubs in the world see the best DJ’s, radio one on the road is seen as a non stop magazine. Publicity can also see the big bands visit the studio for interviews.

REPORTERS

We met Rob McKenzie, Head of News and his assistant news editor Natalie Jamieson, the responsibilities fall with Natalie to assign reporters like Andy Brown a story. Andy might go away and make interviews with the general pubic, or make notes to form his story. It is when he has reported back, Natalie and the production team have there daily production meeting to see what stories will make the news bulletin at lunch time.

After the daily meeting when all has been agreed, it is then read out on air by newsreader Georgina Bowman.

PLAYLISTS

The playlist is made up of 3 categories, A, B and C list. The successful artists who made the playlist are put into these three categories, artists who made the A list will have there song played 25-30 times a week, while the B list will have theirs played 10-12 times a week, while artists in the C list will only have theirs played 5 times a week.

Meeting the Staff

Meeting the Staff

While we were there we had the chance to meet some of the producers, DJ’s and other production staff.

Will Kinder who joined Radio One in 1997 started by producing the Zoe Ball show, then finally ended up joining and producing the Chris Moyle’s show. Radio One starts off with The Chris Moyle’s show at 7 am. The Chris Moyle’s show replaced Zoe Ball because of the drop in listeners.

Then we met the music policy producer Sarita Jagpal. We were told how pluggers visit the station each day hoping to win the chance to get their clients music on the play list, Sarita then explained her job as music policy producer, and how she sits down with the plugger and reviews the record for it’s qualities, the policy producer then goes away and meets with the head of music and other producers, after this the head of music makes the final decision on who gets there music played on radio one.

Later Jo Whiley presented the Live Lounge replacing Moyle’s show. During the Live Lounge you generally get artists coming in and singing other artists songs live, In the afternoon Edith Bowman and Colin Murray take over. With their classy personality and great selection of songs, they are a great hit.
Scot Mills appears at 4 pm to host his show, his show is usually pure laughter, with his winding people up on the phone, the flirt divert, great songs again and general chit chat.

Radio One Today

Radio One has now become one of the biggest radio stations worldwide, with 42m listeners; it airs pop music for younger people, thanks to the help of producer controller Andy Parfitt. It covers a wide area to include news, sports and showbiz, as well as programs like Sunday surgery, Radio One big Weekend.

How Radio One started back in 1967

We were given a brief run down of how Radio One started and how listeners had a chance to listen to music from the British Broadcast Corporation, better known as the BBC, who back then had all the broadcasting rights and a monopoly. They were only able to broadcast for the odd hour.

Then a radio station called Radio Caroline came along and changed all this, Radio Caroline started to broadcast music 24 hrs a day from the ship called MV Mi Amigo that was situated outside territorial waters. New radio stations like Britain Radio started to appear and broadcast music 24 seven, this meant there was a new revolution developing. This indicated that the British Broadcast Corporation no longer had the monopoly. Then in 1967 the British government outlawed the radio stations like Britain radio and Radio Caroline as they were thought as pirate stations.

It was now clear that they were going to need a replacement radio station, so this was when Radio One was created. Then came along Tony Blackburn in 1967 to broadcast the first show on radio 1 at 7 am with the song Flowers in the Rain.

A day at Radio One

It is Thursday and we have just returned to college after a visit to the Radio One studio, we first had the privilege of meeting Radio One controller Andy Parfitt. Andy was appointed as controller in 1998. His main role is to promote and develop ideas for the radio station, aimed at the younger generation.