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  • Gears of War 5 (xbox one)

    The fifth instalment in the Gears of War story, all about how the swarm came about

  • Xbox game pricing and GamePass

    Xbox are very keen at the moment to encourage xbox gamers to migrate to its GamePass offerring.
    Which in turn would reinforce the habit of downloading games rather than buying physical media.

    Not sure if I'll ever get on board with it, indeed if I don't I suspect I'll end being pushed off the Xbox platform.

I recently decided to upgrade one of my many half-projects to the latest Angular (18) as the application was falling behind (14 or 15). In the process I discovered the APP_INIITALIZER functionality, which I've started playing with.

Here are some notes on my implementation of APP_INITIALIZER in Angular 18.

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Despite what Austin Powers(TM) may say about it, there is no such thing as the famed 'judo-chop!

At least not in competition. Sorry if that disappoints you :)

Judo is a contact sport derived from the Samurai martial art of Ju-Jitsu.

To win a contest, a competitor must throw his opponent to his back, gain submission from arm-lock or strangle, or pin his opponent to the ground for twenty seconds.

Sounds a bit violent? Not dangerously so!
Serious injuries are not common but you can't expect to train without getting a few bruises

I practice in Sheffield, coaching and a bit of randori at the university club.

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The Leeds university Judo club became an official club in spring 2008 after a student, Sarah Shearn was asking around for a coach - I volunteered to take up the position to get the club going.

There used to be a Judo club at the Leeds university, but that had gone defunct some time previously. 

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I'm very involved in UK Judo. Arguably too much as I give up far too much volunteering (both time & missing events as a competitor) to fulfil numerous roles which takes time away from my own training.
I really should figure out where to cut back.

An occasional thank you would be nice!

This page is a summary of my activity, I also run a Judo blog for the day-to-day stuff.

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