Records of World War II Prisoners of War.Record Group 389: Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General Most surveys contain information on the respondent's age, education, marital status, home town, religious affiliation, pre-military occupation, rank, branch of service, time in the service, and job assignment. This series contains information on soldiers' attitudes toward job assignments, medical care, food quality, leisure time activities, opportunities to advance in the Army, women in the military, and race relations, among other subjects. American Soldier in World War II Surveys, 1942-1945.Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense This series consists of correspondence, reports, and case files pertaining to the property of individuals, families, and businesses impacted by involuntary evacuation and relocation because of their foreign national status or Japanese ancestry. This series documents the management and disposal of properties and goods as identified by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) as directed by Executive Orders 91.
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Under expert direction by Max Webster, a team of creative juggernauts - Tim Hatley (scenic and costume design), Andrzej Goulding (video design and animation), Tim Lutkin (lighting design), Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell (puppet design), Carolyn Downing (sound design) - liven the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. As his memories play out before us, the back walls of the hospital unfold into the vibrant streets of Pondicherry, where we learn Pi and his family operated a zoo. The Noah’s Ark of it all boggles the inflexible minds of Chen and Okamoto, who are set on recording facts about the wreck, not listening to Pi’s “unbelievable” recounts. Especially when, according to Pi, that time was spent on a lifeboat with an anxious orangutan, a crippled zebra, an insatiable hyena and a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all of which were cargo on the same now-sunken ship. But 227 days abandoned at sea (as we find out Pi has endured) laughs in the face of 17 years on land. “I’ve had a terrible trip,” Abeysekera delivers with an arid sarcasm that seems unlikely for a teenage boy. The two want to know what led to the sinking of the ship Tsimtsum on its journey from India to Canada a crash which killed everyone on board except for Pi, including his family. Okamoto (Daisuke Tsuji) and Canadian Embassy worker Lulu Chen (Kirstin Louie). “Life of Pi” begins with our boyish hero (Hiran Abeysekera) in a Mexican hospital room circa 1978, hiding from Japanese Ministry of Transport investigator Mr. Neither is Chakrabarti in a brilliantly-staged dramedy that constantly blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Pi is not afraid to hold seemingly opposite logics and faiths in the same hand. And Pi wants that voice to answer his questions about human suffering before he has even experienced his extreme bout of it. During a moment of crisis he cries out “Vishnu preserve us, Allah protect us, Christ save us.” At only 17, Pi - born Piscine Molitor Patel - knows that God’s name matters less than his voice. Case in point, Pi is Hindu, but also goes to church and mosque on the weekends. In that book, adapted for stage by Lolita Chakrabarti, central character Pi is just as boundless as the algebraic figure he’s named after. And figuratively, because Yann Martel’s bestselling book “Life of Pi” continues to capture the hearts of readers across the globe. Literally, because the mathematical constant “pi” is a limitless irrational number. We'll work hard to keep these as minimal as possible, and we'd like to thank you in advance for your patience and understanding while we try to build you a better Trainz experience. During this time, some things might go wrong, services might drop for a few moments and you might experience brief interruptions. But starting Monday the 20th October, you'll begin to see the roll over from Planet Auran to MyTrainz. Some of these updates will be down the track, not everything will be happening at once. Others will be brand new functions to help you get the most out of Trainz, such as new ways to share and show off content, regular competitions, and promoting talented content creators. Some of these will be behind the scenes, like changes to the DLS to improve download speeds or dependency checks. From this core, we'll be adding on further functionality as services are rolled out across the Trainz brand. At its very core, MyTrainz will handle the same roles as Planet Auran did - you won't need to create a new account. Built specifically for the Trainz community, it will allow us to provide users with more services and greater tools to enrich the Trainz experience. MyTrainz will be our new account system going forward. To this end, we'd like to introduce you to 'MyTrainz'. Originally it encompassed all of Auran's products from the online store, to the D20 systems, as well as Trainz, but we're now at a point where its technical limitations are slowing growth. Planet Auran has been great, but it wasn't designed solely for Trainz. To bring you a richer user experience and provide more up to date services and tools, we need to first build a strong and solid foundation. From forum posts to uploaded content, First Class Ticket status to serial key registration, Planet Auran has a place in handling many things.īut as Trainz grows, so does the demands on the technology we use. From the forums to the DLS and more, Planet Auran handles your user credentials and makes sure you're recognised and properly attributed. Hundreds of thousands of items available for free on the. A visit to Auran Games (updated in 2008)Ģ years after the first visit, Auran has closed down most of their office space - this is what remains.For a long time, Planet Auran has been the center of the Trainz experience, loosely tying together and connecting different services that exist under the Trainz brand. Explore, Drive and Create with the ultimate train simulator experience for PC, Mac and Mobile.Only two small teams are kept to support Trainz Railwayz and Fury. The company lays off most of its employees. Trainz Classics: Railroad Simulation - Third Edition Trainz Simulator 2009: World Builder Edition In the TEMPLATES section you will also find links to my Photoshop files. All of my content is (or will be once completed, if it is still a WIP) hosted at the Auran Download Station (aka the DLS). Co-founder Greg Lane had already left Auran in 2005 and became the CTO at MyVirtualHome. This is my simple website to provide info and links to my content that I have created for the Trainz railroad simulator. They also create games based on new franchises. around 2009 and now continues development of the Trainz series. Then Early Access arrives in January (including releases on the Steam and Mac App Store) and the 'TRS22 Official Release' version will arrive in all stores March 2022. Well, technically speaking, TRS22 pre-orders and beta access begins today. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. Auran still remains as a brand / division of n3vrf41l, which changed its name N3V Games Pty Ltd. Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022 is here The Trainz journey continues. Trainz Store Advanced Search Blogs á M Ngh Tâm Linh Vit If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. Eventually Auran became a subsidiary of n3vrf41l and the company disappeared. On 17th December 2007 Auran Games went into voluntary administration and a majority of the staff was laid off, except for a small group to continue work on the Trainz series. As a separate company, N3vrf41l licensed Auran's titles. N3vrf41l would take over publishing activities so Auran could focus entirely on game development. In 2005 Auran directors Graham Edelsten and Tony Hilliam founded the publishing company n3vrf41l Publishing and it was first announced in May 2006. After focusing almost entirely on those games from 2001-2007, the studio branched out with Battlestar Galactica and Fury, both released in 2007.Īuran also published a number of games for the Australian market, including Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich, Shadowgrounds and Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday. Auran released its first game Dark Reign: The Future of War in 1997.Īuran was best known for developing the Trainz railroad simulator series, which uses their self-developed middleware game engine Auran Jet. It was founded in 1995 by Greg Lane and Graham Edelsten. Auran was a game development and publishing company based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Two brothers Faiz and Raahat fall in love with Haya, who reciprocates Raahat. Soon, Aahil falls for Sanam and marries her due to Tanveer, who wants to get the property. Sanam runs a restaurant and crosses her path with business tycoon Aahil Raza Ibrahim, Tanveer's stepson. Season 2 20 years later ĭilshad, Haya and Sanam live in Punjab. Dilshad escapes with Haya (Najma's daughter) and Sanam, but loses Seher in the fire. Tanveer traces Asad and Zoya out and brutally stabs and kills them, setting fire to their house. Haider moves to Dubai with the pregnant Humaira. Zoya and Asad marry and eventually become parents to twin daughters, Sanam and Seher. Haider enters to take revenge for his parents' death but falls in love with and marries Humaira, after knowing he is Zoya's lost brother. Razia and Gafoor's daughter Humaira loves Ayaan but is shattered as he leaves with Shireen. Shireen's brother Gafoor Siddiqui turns out to be Zoya's biological father, who presumed her dead after his second wife, Razia, killed his first wife (Zoya's mother) in a fire, though Zoya had escaped that time. Asad's father Rashid now lives with his much wealthy second wife Shireen, though their son Ayaan has a loving relationship with Asad. Zoya and Asad gradually fall in love, but his childhood friend Tanveer Baig creates obstacles for them. Zoya Farooqui, a fun-loving girl brought up in the USA enters Bhopal in search of her real father and stays with her foster sister's aunt Dilshad, who has a daughter Najma and a silent, traditional, orthodox and short tempered son Asad Ahmed Khan. The show ended in January 2016 after Armaan and Mahira's remarriage. It focused on the love story of Mahira, who was the result of Sanam's last prayer (again portrayed by Jyoti), and her two husbands - Azaad Iqbal Khan ( Rajbeer Singh), who is revealed to be a vampire and is the "fake" Sanam's son, and his long-lost brother, Armaan Iqbal Khan, who receives his heart in a transplant. The fourth season of the show, launched in August 2015 and incorporating supernatural elements, was set 25 years after Sanam's suicide. The third season of the show portrayed Aahil and Sanam's incomplete love story after she loses her memory, is transported to Pakistan, and an imposter takes her place. Shehzad Shaikh joined the cast as Rehaan Imraan Qureshi, Seher's love interest. Karanvir Bohra portrayed Sanam's husband Aahil Raza Ibrahim. In May 2014, the second season introduced Asad and Zoya's twin daughters, Sanam and Seher (both played by Jyoti), and revolved around their lives 20 years after the death of their parents. The show was also focused on the lives of Humaira Siddiqui Sheikh, played by Ketki Kadam, Ayaan Ahmed Khan, played by Rishabh Sinha / Vikrant Massey and Haider Sheikh played by Mohit Sehgal. The first season of the show focused on the love story of Asad Ahmed Khan and Zoya Farooqui, played by Karan Singh Grover, who was later replaced by Raqesh Bapat, and Surbhi Jyoti. After it went off air it was replaced by Meri Saasu Maa. The series focused on the Muslim community and initially aimed to dispel stereotypes regarding Islam, and had been credited for pioneering Muslim oriented programming in Indian television. I accept) is an Indian soap opera that was produced by 4 Lions Films and broadcast on Zee TV. To self publish a children’s picture book, we’ll be using Amazon KDP. I wanted that traditional kids book size I remember from my childhood. Quick note for context before we begin: My book size for paperback was 8.5×8.5 inches and so I designed my illustrations to be square. If you are just a writer and you get your artwork done for you, this guide will still be useful. If you have a cool idea, you can publish your picture book for no cost (if you do the artwork and formatting yourself.) However, this guide assumes you’re the artist wanting to get your work out there. No longer do you need to be signed for a big publisher. The great thing about self-publishing a children’s book on Amazon is that anyone can do it. I thought it was a real shame that I couldn’t find all the information about how to self publish a children’s picture book in one place and so I thought I’d put this guide together to (hopefully) make the process easier for others. Annoyingly, I had to sift through a mountain of articles and YouTube videos to get all the pieces of information I needed before I finally tied them all together so I could begin. However, after finally catching Covid and with nothing else to do, I knuckled down and got to work over Christmas 2021. For example, I didn’t understand what programs to use or what ‘trim’ and ‘bleed’ meant. I’d always wanted to create my own children’s book with illustrations in it but if I’m honest, the process always seemed too complicated. Review the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines section 3.6 and section 4.3.This year I finally figured out how to self publish a children’s picture book on Amazon. Please refer to section #2.5 Adding Text of KKBC user guide that will help you with creating pop-ups over text: ĭiscussion Thread from Amazon April 2016: Hopefully this helps, and if anyone with more experience or insights can add to what I learned the hard way, please chime in! I’ll modify the posting to reflect any input. If i had chosen to use a landscape (horizontal) layout, this is what I would have used: I left my text area blank and inserted text with the KKBP tool.ĮXAMPLES: NOTE that the border is NOT part of my image, it’s only here to outline the actual image area for clarity.That said, I made all my images as follows: The ‘preview’ isn’t really entirely accurate. Originally I didn’t understand that my image needed to be the size of the screen – I guess I assumed that the KKBP software would create the page sizes correctly, and somehow ‘insert’ my image where it needed to be.Įven after I figured out the right image size, I found that the KKBP software ‘previewed’ my book with vertical and horizontal scroll bars, indicating (I thought) that my image was somehow too large for the screen.Įventually, I realized that the KKBP software is suboptimal, and while it displays those scroll bars, the actual finished book works just fine. If you intend to insert text via the KKBP tool, you’ll still make your image the full size as per aspect ratio above, with a blank space for the text. TEXT: If your image contains your text in it as part of the image, add pop-up over text for optimum user experience (this is a feature of the Kindle Kid’s Book Publisher.) If you submit a larger file, it will take much longer to convert and may fail completely, so it’s better to stay below these limits. IMAGE FILE SIZE: The largest single image file KDP can accept is 5MB. RESOLUTION: Use a resolution of 300 dpi or 300 ppi for all images. Some pixel-specific resolutions which fall under this 8:5 ratio are, 3840*2400, 1280*8*1200. If an image has an aspect ratio is 5:8 that’s 5 horizontal units to 8 vertical units – Portrait orientation. Then, below that, you’ll find what I did based on that to make it work.įinally, there’s a few links listed for more info.ĪSPECT RATIO: Use an aspect ratio of 8:5 or 5:8 for the images to fit Kindle devices.Īspect ratio is the ratio of the width first to the height of an image.įor example, an image with an aspect ratio of 8:5 has 8 horizontal units to 5 vertical units – Landscape orientation. I did a lot of digging around, and it’s not at all well documented.īelow are the specs as per Amazon… mostly from discussion threads among users, rather than from Amazon themselves since their documentation sucks. Specifically, understanding exactly how big the images needed to be to display properly on devices, and allow for text to be added. Making my first picture book for Kindle was fun and frustrating. If you find it useful and want to pay me back, please consider getting yourself a copy of Angelico Goes To The Store – and please leave an honest review! This post is probably only of interest to other authors making picture books for Kindle with the KKBP (Kindle Kids Book Publisher.) |