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The shooting victim who died about 1:30 on Wren Street is thought to be pretty young. Rochester Police Chief David Moore said investigators believed he was in his teens or early 20s, but they had not yet been able to identify him.
And one could not die a more lonely death, I don't think, than lying on the cold cement or asphalt of a city street at 1:30 in the morning.
Moore admitted that police had very little to work with in this case because there was nobody in the area around the shooting victim when officers arrived. Wren Street is a quiet little side street between Lexington and Driving Park avenues in a neighborhood with both homes and businesses. Moore referred to the area as a "remote" part of the city on a couple of occasions. There are three streets in a row on the north side of Lexington named after birds — Wren, Canary and Lark.
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While a daily low dose of aspirin is safe for many people, for some people it is not, and some may have a higher risk of stomach irritation than others. For these reasons, everyone should check with his doctor before starting daily aspirin use.
The more aspirin you take, the higher your risk of stomach ulceration or bleeding. That's why it's important to be aware of aspirin as an ingredient in combination medicines, so you can accurately assess your daily intake. Other NSAIDs can also cause gastrointestinal bleeding, so if you take other NSAIDs as well as aspirin, your risk of bleeding increases.
Drinking alcohol also raises the risk of stomach irritation and bleeding, so if you have a history of alcoholism or drink more than three servings of alcohol daily, your health-care provider may advise against daily aspirin use.
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Aspirin is generally not recommended if you have gout.
Aspirin and other NSAIDs are not recommended if you have kidney disease.
Aspirin should not be taken if you have active liver disease.
Aspirin should not be given to children and teenagers who have a fever because of the associated risk of Reye syndrome (a serious disease). (Daily aspirin therapy is not recommended for anyone under 21 in any case.)
Always check with your health-care provider before using any product that contains aspirin if you are taking a blood thinner (also referred to as an anticoagulant or antiplatelet medicine). Anticoagulants include pills such as warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven) and injections such as heparin and low-molecular-weight heparins, which include enoxaparin (Lovenox), tinzaparin (Innohep), and dalteparin (Fragmin). Antiplatelet medicines include NSAIDs as well as clopidogrel (Plavix), ticlopidine (Ticlid), dipyridamole (Persantine), and combined dipyridamole and aspirin (Aggrenox).
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Sat, Apr 26, 2003
American astronaut Edward Lu climbs on board the International
Space Station for a six-month stay, he'll be thinking about the
last American crew to launch into space. He calls it a tribute to
the seven astronauts who died Feb. 1 aboard the shuttle
"We are doing what I think they would have wanted and what their
families would have wanted us to do - continue the process of
flying into space," Lu said.
"This is a very important flight because of the fact that we are
the first ones after STS-107," he said at the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazhikstan Friday. "They accomplished their
mission, but they never completed it. In fact, one of the things
I'm going to do during the launch is I'm going to wear
an STS-107 patch here on my sleeve in their honor, and we'll
be thinking about them during the lift-off and during the
He was speaking one day before lifting off from the in a Soyuz
TMA-2 capsule which will rendesvous with the ISS Monday afternoon.
Lu, 39, and his mission commander, Russian Col. Yuri Malenchenko,
41, will spend six months alone on the ISS after they relieve U.S.
station commander Ken Bowersox, flight engineer Donald Pettit and
Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin. That trio has been in
space an extra month because, in the wake of the Columbia disaster,
all space shuttles have been grounded.
Lu and Malenchenko have teamed up before. They flew to the ISS
in 2000, making it ready for permanent habitation. They even
performed a six-hour long spacewalk together.
It's a good thing they're such close friends. The third
astronaut slated for ISS Mission 7, Russian Alexander Kaleri, was
bumped from the flight to conserve expendables like food and water.
Fewer astronauts on board means fewer resupply flights. As a
result, Mission 7 has been reduced to a maintenance and habitation
mission. Lu and Malenchenko are going up to keep the lights on and
fix whatever breaks.
"But we still have an important mission and we are well
prepared," said Col. Malenchenko.
Referring to the ill-fated crew of Columbia, Dr. Lu said, "We'll
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Who is a Jew?
As the recent passport row shows, that question can be murky, with
elements of belief, values, descent and nationality mixed in.
It also has
dark reminders of a terrible time in history when Jewish blood meant
death; and science, or pseudo-science, claimed to be able to sniff
it out.
Things have
changed. A decade ago, I was passing through Ben Gurion airport
in Tel Aviv carrying a box filled with small tubes. Alerted by the
Syrian stamp in my passport, the security staff gave me a hard time.
After emptying my case, she asked what was in the box. I replied,
irritably: "Arab spit". "What?" she said. "I'm
a geneticist, I explained, I have been sampling Palestinian DNA.
At once, her face brightened – ah, DNA. Had I heard the then
novel stuff on the shared male chromosomes of priestly Jewish families
such as the Cohens? I had, and we parted on amicable terms.
The conversation
gave me pause for thought. Joseph Mengele himself wrote his doctoral
thesis on the relationship between jaw shape and racial identity.
His ideas were pernicious rubbish and even 20 years later the thought
of a genetic test for Jewish descent would have been treated with
horror. Now, one has emerged and is not despised but hailed by many
Jews themselves.
A scan of half
a million variable sites across the genomes of several hundred Europeans
and Americans, each aware from their family history of having had
a recent Jewish or a non-Jewish ancestry, gave an absolute separation
between Jews and others: even a single Jewish grandparent was enough
to provide an unambiguous identity, written in DNA. A carefully
chosen sample of just 300 of those sites does almost as well, and
a test based on that would be cheap.
Judaism is
inherited down the female line – as are mitochondria. Their
DNA shows that today's Jews from the largest group, the eight million
Ashkenazim – most of whom once found their home in central
and eastern Europe, and who now represent the majority of American
Jews – have few grandmothers. Around half descend from just
four women who bear mitochondrial types found almost exclusively
in that population. Two million trace their descent from just one
of those ancient predecessors.
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Spiritual Guidance: So you wanna play a priest, part 3, levels 1-40
With all the preliminary work laid out, this week we'll be finally be getting started on the actual leveling aspect of my multi-part leveling guide. This week we'll be covering abilities, rotations, talent builds, and gear upgrades for the first 40 levels of the priest class. So if you dream of smiting your enemies with divine fire, and giving yourself a small tan in the process, hit the jump!
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Would The 1995 EU Data Privacy Laws Stop The Flow Of Drug Safety Data?
It was in 1995 that the Directive 95/46 EC provided a framework for how all personal data should be treated within all EU member states. The Directive gave all EU member countries a period of three years to formulate and implement national laws complying with its principles. Some states chose to go further, implementing legislation which provided more stringent protection than the stipulation of the Directive originally called for. The relevant point for pharmacovigilance was that there was no exemption for any type of health care records. This means that doctors, hospitals, clinics and other health care providers must comply with national legislation – without exception. It applies to all media – whether the personal data is held on hand written forms, computerised records, captured images such as name X-Rays and scans, etc. The Directive had initially caused concerns that it could impede drug safety work by placing legal obstacles in the way of investigators who needed such clinical data to perform their professional duties.
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Wall Puts Himself Amongst Top-10 NBA Point Guards
John Wall talked on Friday about where he believes he ranks amongst the NBA's top point guards.
"I put myself somewhere in the top-5, top-10," Wall told RealGM.
Wall missed the first part of the current season with a knee injury, returning on Jan. 12. Wall had a PER of 17.8 last season, but it has dropped to 15.9 so far this season.
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What makes a good board member?
By Oregon School Board Association
Many of the qualities that make board members great are acquired over time, through training and experience, so don't discredit your potential worth as a board member, even though you may never have served in such a capacity.
As you consider running for the school board, think about whether these characteristics of effective board members describe you:
- You hold a conviction that public education is important.
- You are committed to public involvement.
- You have the ability to make decisions.
- You believe in the democratic process.
- You're willing to devote time and energy to your new position.
- You can accept the will of the majority.
- You have the courage to stand up for your convictions.
- You have respect for district employees.
- You communicate well with others.
These are some characteristics of ineffective board members:
- They become involved in school, ESD or community college administration.
- They allow personal feelings toward others to affect their judgment.
- They allow personal interests to transcend the best interests of the district.
- They neglect board duties.
- They can't make decisions or take a stand.
- They represent special interests or a particular geographic area rather than the interests of the entire district.
- They adopt an arrogant or paternalistic attitude toward district employees or the public.
Other Sources:
"What makes a great school board member" article http://www.greatschools.org/improvement/volunteering/93-what-makes-a-great-school-board-member.gs
Connecticut's expectations- "Be A School Board Member" http://www.cabe.org/page.cfm?p=64
Brochure http://www.cabe.org/uploaded/School_Board_Service/2007_So_You_Want_to_be_a_Board_Member.pdf
NY State's expectations http://www.nyssba.org/index.php?category=leadership_dev&;ref=RunningforBoard&src=gendocs


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Minister Cannon Urges Canadian Travellers to Take Precautions During Hurricane Season
(No. 211 - July 5, 2010 - 1 p.m. ET) The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today urged Canadian travellers to take additional safety measures during hurricane season, which lasts from early June to late November and affects the North Atlantic and northeastern Pacific regions.
"The safety and well-being of Canadians abroad is of the utmost importance to this government," said Minister Cannon. "I urge Canadians to inform themselves about the risks of travelling to threatened areas during hurricane season."
Hurricanes often cause severe damage to infrastructure, cutting off access to transportation, emergency assistance, medical care, power, telecommunications, and food and water. The Government of Canada's ability to assist travellers may be limited in such circumstances.
International hurricane authorities, including the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, predict a higher-than-normal level of hurricane activity in the Atlantic in 2010.
"Canadians who choose to travel to vulnerable areas during hurricane season should take extra measures to help protect themselves and their families," said Minister Cannon.
The following steps can reduce personal risk for travellers to hurricane-prone areas:
- Checking the Government of Canada's Travel Reports and Warnings and Hurricane Season before leaving for up-to-date, essential information on the destination and further information on hurricanes.
- Registering travel plans online at Registration of Canadians Abroad, so government officials can contact and assist travellers in an emergency.
- Confirming travel arrangements before departure and obtaining travel-health insurance that specifically covers trip cancellation or interruption in the event of a hurricane.
- While abroad, keeping an eye on local news and weather reports and following the advice of local authorities and tour operators.
- Getting the latest weather forecasts for the region and visiting the Canadian Hurricane Centre's Storm Preparedness: Taking Action Against Hurricane Hazards.
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This really is a clever little promo. Last month, after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, CT, President Obama, Mr. Abortion, himself, unwittingly gave probably one of the best pro-life statements by any president in modern history. Let's pray that someday he pays attention to even his own words.
Posted at: January 14th, 2013 - 1:38 pm - Number of Comments » 9
My article published at CatholicLane.com: Today, hundreds of thousands of pro-life people gathered in Washington D.C. for the annual March for Life, commemorating the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that struck down existing state laws protecting unborn children. For those who have been on the March or seen footage of […]
Posted at: January 23rd, 2012 - 6:36 pm - Comments Off
My prayers are with the hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marching in Washington D.C. and throughout the country today. You're marching for nothing less than our future, God bless you all! Related: Lucky to Be Alive
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I've never paid that much attention to Health Plan marketing, until a few days ago when a few surprises from Blue Cross/Blue Shield kind of hit me upside the head.
First, a few mornings ago at the gym (of all places), I caught a TV spot from Blue Cross, urging uninsured folks to sign up for their independent medical coverage — "which will cost you just a few dollars a day — about what you'd spend on a video rental, or a chew toy for your pug," the ad posed. The ad was cute, catchy, and thoroughly professional. Thoroughly commercial. Thoroughly American. Frankly, it kind of blew my mind.
I've spent a good chunk of my adult life living in Europe, where health insurance is provided by the state and considered a basic human need, rather than just another product to be marketed and sold. Opt-in independent plans are naturally far superior to being uninsured. Yet as a person with a chronic disease, the idea that I might end up essentially working for my disease is unsavory, to say the least. And the idea that a Health Plan would cough up the kind of money required for flashy TV ads hinted at a Big Business approach to healthcare that I'd rather not think about at all…
Then today we get a postcard from Blue Shield (our current coverage plan) picturing six happy, healthy-looking adults, arm-in-arm, grinning. The tag-line reads: "Which person in this photo is at risk for pre-diabetes?" The content on the flip-side explains "They may all be — and not even know it," followed by the stats that about 40 percent of Americans ages 40 to 74 have pre-diabetes, and urging readers to contact the company for a free Pre-Diabetes Facts and Risks brochure.
Now think again about that tagline: "… at risk for pre-diabetes?" Do you realize what this means? This is a costly direct-mail campaign for Pre-Pre-Diabetes — the state of affairs before you're even told you have Pre-Diabetes, defined by the way, as fasting glucose of over 100 but under 126 (which sounds like a triumph to a Type 1 like myself, but let's not go there for now). The point here is that Blue Shield, for one, is so concerned about the spread of diabetes that they're out to nip it in the bud before the bud even emerges. Wow. I'd sure like to know how many people react to the postcard and actually request the Pre-Diabetes information packet!
All this proactive recruitment on the part of healthcare is good and bad, I suppose. The profit motives lurking in the background make me a little naseous, to be honest. But if the outcome helps patients — in obtaining vital coverage and avoiding chronic conditions — then maybe the free market does manage to sufficiently regulate itself.
Meanwhile, we're preparing for our annual family sojourn to Europe, and I'll be on the lookout for similar developments over there — although I'm pretty convinced that in a more "socialized" world, spunky TV commercials and glossy postcards for Healthcare Plans would just seem downright CRAZY.


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Area military families are invited to a meet-and-greet pool party, from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 23 at White Pool in Rutland.
The event hosted by the Rutland Regional Team of Operation: Military Kids, a University of Vermont Extension 4-H program will include swimming, games, dinner and a back-to-school-themed raffle.
All military kids who sign up by Aug. 20 will receive a Hero Pack, designed to help them stay connected with their parent during the current reintegration period. The backpacks are filled by nonmilitary youth and community groups with items such as a disposable camera, photo album and a written note of appreciation.
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AUSTIN, Texas – TCU's Monika Sirilova closed play at the UT Women's Longhorn Invitational on Saturday.Sirilova dropped a tough 6-3, 6-4 decision to SMU's Hristina Dishkova in the "white" bracket quarterfinals. The junior from Slovakia went 1-1 on the weekend."It was a good weekend for Monika, all in all," TCU coach Dave Borelli said. "She's still getting used to playing on the hard courts, so she just needs to get in some more matches and she'll be fine."Two other members of TCU's women's tennis team are in action this weekend at an ITF Pro Circuit Event in Amelia Island, Fla., as Olivia Smith and Stefanie Tan open play tomorrow.UT Women's Longhorn Invitational – TCU ResultsWHITE BRACKET – QUARTERFINALSHristina Dishkova (SMU) def. Monika Sirilova (TCU), 6-3, 6-4


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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children CompleteTalk12
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete is an extended cut of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children based on the successful PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII. It was released on Blu-ray, and includes over thirty minutes of new footage. Included along with the Japanese release was the first playable demo for Final Fantasy XIII.
Though much of the music generally remains the same, many tracks have been modified to accommodate the new scenes, as well as to sound more similar to music from Final Fantasy VII. In addition, a new ending song was written, titled "Safe and Sound", which is exclusive to the Japanese version; the English version plays "Calling" instead of "Safe and Sound".
Advent Children Complete follows the original plot and storyline of Advent Children - three young men arrive at the city of Edge and seek Jenova's remains in order to revive Sephiroth. Cloud, having been infected with the fatal disease Geostigma and distancing himself from his friends and family, is pulled back into battle to stop them and eventually faces Sephiroth once again.
Compared to the original film, Advent Children Complete features a full twenty-six minutes of new footage. The various changes include more scenes with the children, including Denzel and the Moogle Girl, more dialogue with Kadaj and Rufus Shinra to better explain certain plot elements, and some restructured fight scenes. For example, Vincent is visible in his cloak when he saves Cloud, the scene with Tseng and Elena at the Northern Cave is expanded, and Tifa takes a more active role in fighting Bahamut SIN and she is rescued by Cloud.
The film also has higher quality graphics due to the different format, allowing blood and dirt to be shown on the characters. The most obvious change in structure is the climax of Cloud's battle with Sephiroth, with Zack supporting Cloud to finish Sephiroth with Omnislash Version 6. Due to new scenes involving Marlene and Denzel, their aged voice actors were replaced and their scenes entirely re-recorded.
Of particular note is the different ending, based on the original twenty-minute short film Advent Children was based on. After the battle with Sephiroth (which also has a different climax), Cloud is attacked by Loz and Yazoo and apparently killed. Around Edge, phones ring and the unheard speaker tells the children to go the Sector 5 Church.
There, as in the original film, Cloud is revived, and the children reveal they were told to go there by Aerith. After the end credits, the cliff where Zack died is shown covered in flowers. Denzel asks Cloud if the cliff is where someone died, but Cloud corrects him and says "it's where a hero began his journey", and the Buster Sword has been restored and placed in the church among the flowers.
At the Tokyo Game Show 2006, Square Enix showed a trailer of a movie titled Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete that is to be released on the blu-ray disc format. New scenes were be added to the movie so it could be called an extended version, however, director Tetsuya Nomura says that "it's not meant to be just an update to the original, but rather a replacement". Nomura has stated the new scenes could add up to as much as thirty minutes of new content. Though originally slated for a 2007 release, the movie was delayed until 2008 and then 2009. The film was released April 16th, 2009, for Japan, and in North America on June 2nd, 2009. Included is a new theme song, "Safe and Sound", a joint-creation of Kyosuke Himuro and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, which was only included on the Japanese version.
The film was released in Japan in three bundles. One included a limited edition 160GB "Cloud Black" PlayStation 3 bundle with the Final Fantasy XIII demo, another was the film with the demo, and the last was the stand-alone film. The film also includes an OVA based on On the Way to a Smile: Case of Denzel, along with never-before-seen trailers for Final Fantasy XV and Final Fantasy Type-0. Nomura also said that Complete may be the last installment of the Compilation for some time, but he and Takeshi Nozue have other ideas and are contemplating another film project.
Differences from Final Fantasy VII: Advent ChildrenEdit
The following is a list of the differences/extensions/additions found in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete:
- A new opening scene with Kadaj discussing with Rufus why humans repeatedly destroy and create.
- In the Northern Crater, the shooting sounds are prolonged.
- Cait Sith's stuffed moogle is now included in the flashback scene of the final confrontation in the Northern Crater.
- An extended introductory tour of Edge in addition to introducing the Moogle Girl and her Geostigma-afflicted younger brother, as well as showing a death due to Geostigma.
- Tifa listens to a radio in the 7th Heaven bar reporting about the Lifestream and Geostigma.
- A book about medicine and some Geostigma related photos now appear on Cloud's desk.
- After the motorcycle battle in the Midgar Wasteland, Kadaj's facial expression at the end is altered.
- A brief scene showing Denzel gazing at the photos of his parents.
- The Healen Lodge has changed names from "Healin" to "Healen".
- The scene and dialogue within the cabin between Cloud and Rufus is altered, giving more insight to Geostigma and Sephiroth being the cause.
- A brief video showing Tseng and Elena being attacked by the materializing Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz in the Northern Crater.
- Reno and Rude talk about their comrades (previously seen in Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-), and atoning for nearly destroying the planet before Kadaj streams through the door in a black mist.
- An additional scene of how Denzel was found by Cloud in Sector 5, (previously from On the Way to a Smile: Case of Denzel).
- An additional scene of Denzel running outside thinking he hears Cloud's motorcycle, but sees Yazoo pass by instead.
- A new scene of Denzel and the Moogle Girl crossing paths for the first time as she carries her now dead brother through the city streets, while suffering discrimination from spectators.
- Extended flashback of Zack's Final Stand (previously seen in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-) with a short voice over of Sephiroth repeating lines from Final Fantasy VII. In addition, Zack is redesigned to match his Crisis Core design.
- Dirt and "damage" is added to the characters during Tifa and Loz's fight in the Sector 5 Church. Tifa's "disappearing glove" is also amended.
- A slightly extended and altered scene between Denzel and the Moogle Girl outside 7th Heaven before she leads him to Yazoo's truck.
- When Cloud passes out next to Tifa, the music track "Anxious Heart" from Final Fantasy VII is played instead of the original "Water" track.
- A new scene of Cloud preparing to bring Denzel to Tifa after finding him in Sector 5.
- A new scene of Denzel and the Moogle Girl being taken away in Yazoo's truck with other Geostigma-afflicted children.
- More explanation about Kadaj's plans when Loz brings the materia and Marlene to the Forgotten Capital, in addition to Marlene attempting to escape.
- A brief new scene with Kadaj speaking to Jenova as the inflicted children drink from the water in the Forgotten Capital.
- Vincent appears within his red cape when rescuing Cloud.
- The dialogue between Reno, Rude, Yazoo, and Loz at the Meteor Monument is slightly altered.
- New scene showing Cloud dropping off Marlene at 7th Heaven and explaining why he left them to live in Aerith's church.
- The scene between Rufus and Kadaj before he summons Bahamut SIN is altered to remove the flashback images and they are seen talking, and Rufus's dialogue is slightly altered.
- Reno and Rude receive "damage" during their fight against Loz and Yazoo.
- A flashback scene of Denzel watching the news about Sector 7's destruction.
- Extended scene of Tifa fighting Shadow Creepers to protect Denzel and an altered intro scene of the AVALANCHE members.
- Altered and extended arrival scene for Cloud, arriving in time to save both Denzel and Tifa, symbolizing the rescues with his previous "failures" of saving Zack and Aerith.
- New scene showing Denzel making his way back to 7th Heaven and confronting a pair of Shadow Creepers along the way.
- Bahamut SIN receives damage during the battle.
- Tseng and Elena are shown arriving on the scene to save Rufus with bandages for their injuries from the Northern Crater.
- An additional scene showing Rufus directing the Turks to help Cloud.
- Reno and Rude assist Cloud by assaulting Loz and Yazoo via a Shinra Military Transport Helicopter. They are then picked up and air dropped to the end of the highway by Tseng and Elena instead of making it there on their own via a helicopter in the original.
- Sephiroth's Masamune is given a new resonating sound effect.
- Extended scene of Sephiroth defeating Cloud's original Omnislash, the very limit break that was used to finish him off at the end of Final Fantasy VII.
- The scene of Cloud's impalement is altered to resemble his original impalement during the Nibelheim Incident.
- Sephiroth reveals his wing and repeatedly stabs and impales Cloud with a variation of his move, Octaslash.
- Zack appears from the Lifestream to give Cloud some encouragement, reminding him he must "protect his SOLDIER honor" and that he is his "living legacy" (previously heard in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-).
- Cloud bleeds near the end of the battle against Sephiroth and defeats him with a new variation of Omnislash Ver. 5.
- Cloud bleeds from the gunshot he receives from Yazoo.
- After Cloud's apparent death, phones ring around Edge and the unheard voice tells everyone to go to the Sector 5 Church, in addition to Marlene meeting the Moogle Girl.
- Flowers are shown growing on Zack's grave, with a short dialogue between Denzel and Cloud.
- The Buster Sword is shown to have been cleaned and moved to the Sector 5 Church.
Related MediaEdit
On the Way to a SmileEdit
Continuing from the original Advent Children several more Novellas for On the Way to a Smile were released for Advent Children Complete. They are Case of Yuffie, Case of Red XIII, Case of Shinra, and Case of the Lifestream. There is also a thirty minute OVA, animating the Case of Denzel.
Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VIIEdit
A look back at the original Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation.
Reminiscence of FFVII CompilationEdit
A look back at the sequels, prequels, and spin-off titles of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.
Turbulence of FFVII CompilationEdit
The fan reactions of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.
Final Fantasy XIII Trial VersionEdit
The first demo of Final Fantasy XIII.
Packaging ArtworkEdit
- Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- is not included with Advent Children Complete.
- During the closing moments of Advent Children Complete, when the Moogle Girl is cured of Geostigma, a small paper bearing a three-by-three grid is visible on the wall behind her (above the young boy's head); within these nine spaces are the box art to many of Square Enix's PlayStation 1 games, including the art for Final Fantasy VII (top row, middle box) and Final Fantasy Tactics (middle row, left box). This can be seen at 1:46:30 for several seconds before she walks away from the wall.
- The Brazilian release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete is not dubbed in Portuguese, but has Portuguese subtitles instead. Also, it's dubbed in Japanese, French and English.


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The staff at the Galápagos National Park has announced that the tortoise Lonesome George has died. George had become an emblem of the Galápagos Islands and a symbol of wildlife conservation worldwide. He was the last known survivor of Pinta Island in Galápagos, and his passing marks the extinction of the subspecies. In the decades we've been sharing the wonder of Galápagos with our guests, thousands of them have seen and photographed George on Santa Cruz Island, learning of his plight. His death is a sad day for our staff, especially those who have worked in Galápagos for years. The important work and tremendous successes of the Galápagos National Park Service in repopulating other islands continues.
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We visited the Galapagos with NG last June. We feel blessed to have seen Lonesome George, and we mourn the lost of his subspecies. Hopefully, organizations such as yours will continue to help the people of our wonderfully rich world understand the need to care for "all creatures great and small."


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Words mean things. I am convinced that one of the significant problems in the operation of the Church of Jesus Christ is a semantics issue. We used a lot of words – especially those who consider themselves to be uniquely brilliant – and often, those words are misunderstood, or worse, not understood at all.
It has come to us (the Church) from all of society. Government, via the "media" is a big contributor. Consider the following –
The "half-truths" about tomorrow's budget cuts:
With looming across-the-board budget cuts set to take effect tomorrow if Congress and the White House fail to reach a deal, there have been a lot of "apocalyptic" warnings coming from Washington. (Yahoo News)
What is a "half-truth?" Where do we arrive as such a word combination? In the Church we often hear things like this said to children – "God lloves you when you are being good." That is not a half-truth, that is a lie. There is no such thing as a half-truth. "The Bible has principles to assist you through life." That is not a half-truth, that is a lie.
The Truth is, there is Truth and there is that which is not Truth. God lloves you whether you are good or not. The Bible does not contain principles to assist you – rather the Bible is the Word of God revealed to make a radical change in you via a new birth and conformity to the image of Christ.
The United States will not fall apart on Friday. You will not even notice that the "sequester" has happened (if it does). The "half-truths" are lies. Plain, simple, bald-face lies.
And, God will llove you no matter what happens or what you do. See John 3:16 for "fact-checking" purposes.


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Synonyms for TOMtɒm
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms and similiar words for the term TOM
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Tom, Uncle Tom(noun)
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
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My life is on another round of "begin again and start overs" . I've found myself with yet again, a road block, my marriage is dissolving. I never realized how much I have come to depend on my husband, not just financially but emotionally. Now I'm discovering my own power. I have little choice I still have a household and two kids to take care of. And recently I've noticed that I'm looking forward to the challenge and being successful at it. Life and relationships are complicated. I'm discovering ways to make the relationship with myself less so. I'm creating an environment that suits the family now occupying it. And the kids are very energetic about helping out.
During all this happening I have let exercise and healthy eating go. Now I ready to bring it back in full force now. Spring is here and I'm ready to "spring clean" every aspect of my life and to enjoy what I learn about who I am now.
My husband and I are in a little competition of sorts. He was able to join a gym and get a discount through work. I have chosen to stay at home and get my workouts there. My kids can be a good motivator. We have decided to have a friendly competition on the amount of exercise we can accumulate during the week. We could have decided who could get in shape the fasted, but that could lead to some hurt feeling and we just want to have some fun with this. So far he is racking up more exercise mileage, but I have more then doubled the amount of exercise I do compared to what I was doing before the competition. He seems more upbeat about working out now. We are definitely on to something here.
Didn't focus much on fitness today. Decided to focus on Christmas with family. What I mean today is that I didn't record what I ate today. I made that decision and I am okay with that. That doesn't mean I didn't watch what I ate just that I wasn't fixated on it. My portions were reasonable and going for seconds didn't happen. I was able to enjoy my family today without added pressure because sometime even being with family is stressful. Tomarrow is a new day, and I'm choosing to get back to work. It's all about making the choice to get fit then doing the work.
Feeling in the dumps today. So much on my plate with the holidays coming up that I feel like doing none of it. How do I get back into the Christmas spirit. My fitness has gone to the wayside because of strep. Ok, I can't exercise like I want, but my eating healthy isn't going to bad considering the season. So what I have to do is figure out exactly what I need to do, figure out how I'm going to do it, then just do it and let it go.
For the past few days I have been dealing with strep, so working out has not been easyto do.
I'm on antibiotics, but my neck feels stiff and I fear if I do to much it could set my back. This week my plan is to have a months worth of meals planned out and to get my house cleaned and finally organized.


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Former defence minister Lindiwe Sisulu must produce proof that tender process to buy a new presidential jet was sound, the Democratic Alliance said this afternoon
"Sisulu should produce documentary evidence that the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, approved the deviation from normal competitive bidding processes," DA MP David Maynier said.
Yesterday Sisulu said she was "absolutely convinced" that the department had followed correct procurement processes regarding the R2bn Boeing 777-200 Long Range business jet.
She said the defence department had taken advice from National Treasury as well as the accountant-general on the potential purchase, which had been making headlines since the weekend.
A spokesman for Sisulu, who is now minister of public service and administration, on Monday said she had called for the deal to be suspended to allow her successor at defence, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, to redefine the department's priorities.
Maynier also took issue with this step, calling it an attempt to distance herself from the matter.
"This sounds too much like a useful pretext to extricate herself from a dubious deal to purchase a new jet for President (Jacob) Zuma," he said.
Die Burger newspaper reported that Sisulu had planned to use a refund the government had secured on the cancelled purchase of eight A400M Airbus military transport planes to buy the new jet.
The daily said Sisulu wrote to Gordhan last month, asking to be exempted from the normal tender rules because buying a new plane for the president was a "matter of national security".
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In1998 the Zoo began using a computerized energy management system to control temperature and humidity in each building and exhibit. During the first year of operation, this system reduced electricity use by 40% in the Education Center alone.
Additional efforts to reduce our consumption of energy include the replacement of all incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. Replacement of aging fluorescent fixtures with newer, more efficient fixtures will save additional energy associated with lighting.
In 2004, the Zoo acquired our first hybrid vehicle-a Toyota Prius. This economical automobile is used for numerous tasks from transportation to off-site meetings, to parking lot patrols by our Ranger Staff. In 2005, we received a Honda Civic Hybrid which is dedicated to Ranger use, and saves considerable fuel over conventional vehicles.
To conserve additional fuel, many Zoo staff members use bicycles for travel in the Park.


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Updated: September 24, 2012 6:25AM
LOS ANGELES — British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has perfected his anti-obesity recipe over the years: Blend a passion for nutrition with reality TV, garnish with a catchy moniker, et voila! — "Food Revolution."
But Oliver's recipe has curdled since he arrived last fall to shoot the second season of his ABC series, debuting April 12. "I've had a tough time here," he conceded wearily. "Nothing that was planned has come off."
The six-episode show was to revolve around one of Oliver's favorite causes — making school lunches healthier — but ran under a rolling pin when the Los Angeles Unified School District objected to the key ingredient: TV cameras.
"We're interested in Jamie Oliver the food activist, not Jamie the reality TV star," said Robert Alaniz, district spokesman. "We've invited him to work with our menu committee, but there's too much drama, too much conflict with a reality show."
Oliver's concept is simple: Obesity kills and cooking meals from scratch using fresh ingredients will save lives. School lunches are a particular passion for Oliver, a father of four. He revamped cafeteria cuisine in Britain and then turned his sights to Huntington, W. Va., for his first U.S.-based TV show after a poll labeled the area America's unhealthiest.
Part of the show focused on a menu makeover in Cabell County Schools. It wasn't easy, said Jedd Flowers, district spokesman.
Oliver's recipes didn't adhere to state standards, food costs were higher, staff had to be rejiggered and equipment bought to stick to the freshly prepared mandate.
"The quality of the food is much better," he said. "But the TV show was quite an ordeal. It was disruptive and used gimmicks."
Oliver decided to set his second U.S. series in Los Angeles, but the nation's second-largest school district said no. A previous sour experience with reality show "School Pride" factored into Supt. Ramon Cortines' decision, as well as reports from Cabell County Schools, district spokesman Alaniz said.
But West Adams Preparatory High School in Central Los Angeles, which is operated under a contract with the school district, allowed Oliver on campus. After two weeks of taping, the district learned of it and booted the show. AP


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I normally avoid email interviews with the writers on this site. It's a much more rigid format that obviously allows for no follow-up questions. But I've decided that when it comes to poets, email interviews are better: even the prose of their answers is beautiful. Their concern for how language sounds knows no bounds.
It is not a stretch to say that it's an honor to feature poet Gregory Orr this week on Writers on Process. Orr is the author of more than ten volumes of poetry and many pieces of essays and criticism. He is currently professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he founded the MFA program at the University of Virginia in 1975. He was the poetry editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 1978 to 2003. His poetry has been translated into at least ten languages.
Orr has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar and a Rockefeller Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence, and he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. City of Salt (1995) was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award for Poetry.
Much of Orr's poetry is informed by transformative—and terrible—experiences when he was younger. When he was 12, Orr accidentally killed his brother in a hunting accident. His mother died soon thereafter unexpectedly, and his father later became addicted to amphetamines. Later, he suffered his own near-death experience: as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement, he was jailed and severely beaten. In an NPR story on his craft, Orr states, "I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive." (credit to The Poetry Foundation for the biographical information above)
Two answers. One is that I fell in love with the experience of writing poems from the very first one, around age 16 in high school. It wasn't a good poem, but it was a poem of "escape." It created another landscape out of language, out of words, and it was a language I was released into. That release of the pressure inside me was thrilling and I wanted to feel it again. I felt that language could create reality in poetry, that creating reality out of language was primal to poetry, and it was a reality that included how it felt inside you. I did try to write prose then also—my prose hero was John Updike, who had only published a few books at that time in 1963, and his god then was "accuracy"—a loving fidelity or alert fidelity to the world as it is.
But after a while I had to give up prose, because in all my short stories my protagonist would get trapped in reality and would end up killing himself. Obviously, a complete attention to "reality" wasn't going to lead me or my characters anywhere. At the age of eighteen, by happenstance, I had a chance to work for a small film company, mostly documentary films—they wanted me to drop out of college and stay on, but even though I enjoyed the work and the camaraderie of film-making, the kind of raucous family aspect, I knew that any creative work I was going to do would be solitary rather than deeply collaborative, as film is.
Talk about your writing process. Do you have a regular routine?
I'm a morning person. Students and people who know me don't call me before noon, because that's when I'm going to be working. I think learning your rhythm, learning when (and where) you write best is one of the huge steps in being or becoming a writer. Once you know when and under what conditions you work best, then you can (and pretty much need to) orient your life around that knowledge. It's one of those "tests" about the role of writing in your life. If you are being fed, spiritually, emotionally, imaginatively by the writing, then you need to make a place/space for it in your life. That said, there are exceptions: I take paper and pen with me in a pouch when I run (a few miles in the evening)—sometimes ideas or parts of poems come to me during a run.
What do you compose on?
I think I'm happiest writing out on paper with a pen. Sometimes I find myself writing five or six pages of ideas about poetry out longhand and then I stop and think, "Damn, why didn't I start this on my laptop—now I have to transcribe everything. And I am frequently too lazy, so the pages pile up.
Depends. If you asked ten years ago, I could say that I revise poems from 50 to 300 times, even the short ones. Now, I'd say something different. The two most recent books, CONCERNING THE BOOK THAT IS THE BODY OF THE BELOVED and HOW BEAUTIFUL THE BELOVED, have involved less individual revisions. I've selected those poems from a larger group of poems—the selecting is likely to replace the revising to some extent right now. The kinds of poems that happen in those two books happened more as givens than labors, but that's complicated also.
Are there any quirky parts of your writing process that help you write?
Is coffee quirky? The good news is that we don't recognize our quirks, we are them (and a few other things).
What do you do when you get writer's block? What advice would you give people who have it?
I think the best advice I can give comes from way back in my life and that is: discipline. If you want to write, you need to remember that no one else necessarily wants you to write (some loved ones may claim they want you to write, but often the truth is you are only complicating their lives with your odd pursuit of writing; writing doesn't even make you a nicer person as far as I know). So, no one needs you to write except yourself. In fact, the world would rather use you for some other purpose, make you a tool of some mundane project that it has in mind (and will pay you to do).
So, if you insist on being a writer, you have to have an enormous amount of self-discipline. You write in the face of the world's huge indifference. So… what I did as a young person (still an undergrad) is made myself write every day. Just like a serious athlete trains every day. The more you write—and read and consider poems—the better you get. The more skilled. I'm not talking about the need to start with a certain gift, but with what can be learned. So, if you have discipline, you can write your way through writer's block. No one says you will write well, but that doesn't matter—keep the process moving, keep the relationship between yourself and language alive. Sometimes, I switch to prose writing; I like to think about the psychological and social/political functions of lyric and to write brief essays about poetry. Try something different, but something that lets you use language. Basically, if you are a writer, you have an exaggerated love of language and you should work to maintain that relationship, even in times of estrangement or self-estrangement.
What would be your perfect writing environment?
There is none. Not for me. But coffee and a quiet morning after a good night's sleep—that's as close to heaven as I'm likely to get.
What are the two or three most valuable practical editing/revising tips you would give writers?
The truth is that every writer is different. What works for one person doesn't for another. As a writer, you always want to be on the lookout for tips that might work for you, but always they are related to your gifts and your ambitions. Few of them transfer easily. One big exception I'd say is that Ezra Pound with his "A Few Do's and Don'ts of an Imagiste" (about 1913) is a big how-to, practical advice giver. Such dictums as "go in fear of abstractions" or "compose in the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the metronome" (i.e. go for rhythm over meter; advent of free verse)—he seemed to like to yammer at young poets and he did it well.
Is exercise a part of your writing process?
Yes, essential. Running has been for over thirty years, but plantar fasciitis the past several years has crimped that seriously and to my dismay. I jog a few miles in the afternoon/evening and limp the next morning. If you've had it you know what I mean. Yoga also, a routine I do alone, but I need both the run and the yoga to stretch out and lose the stress that builds up (either in our American life or in my own psyche).
Does reading other poetry inspire you?
Yes, of course, and when you are young, reading all of it that you can (your job: to know your art in all its manifestations). The older I get, less I'm in touch with what younger poets write (or young poets at least). I go back to my favorites constantly (Whitman, Dickinson, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Chinese lyric, Sappho, Hopkins, lots of others—"you read the dead poets," a friend once said, which is a weird idea, since if I'm reading the poem then the poet is alive). And I read randomly in other places, but prose fiction isn't easy for me to read.
Why is poetry so important--why should more people be reading it?
Poetry is important because it (as personal lyric) has existed in all cultures at all times, from New Kingdom Egypt about 3000 years ago all the way to now and globally, just globally. Therefore, it is "important" in the survival sense—why else would it always exist? (by the way, I don't think there's any important distinction between poetry and popular song in the terms I'm discussing—survival; expressive function, etc.). Who could have survived adolescence without some form of popular music (rock 'n' roll, rap, hip hop, alternative—doesn't matter) and who could live as an adult without songs to reignite our inner lives? Which is what lyric poetry is about for me: keeping the emotional/spiritual/imaginative life alive (add a drop of mental life to that also). I've written a book about this POETRY AS SURVIVAL (University of Georgia Press, 2002), and I'm writing another one.
No one, of course, "should" do more of anything in particular—read poetry, raise their own vegetables. Who needs more tyranny of Should in their lives? If you were lucky enough to discover that poetry (or some poet) had a gift to give you (the gift, say, of an enhanced sense of vitality or of feeling more alive, more deeply or more wonderfully)—if you were to discover that some poem or poet had that gift to give you and you ignored it or spurned it, then, well… too bad for you to be so foolish. But poetry isn't for everyone. I mean, actually, it is, if you include popular song—it's there to deepen your emotional and imaginative (and I'll add "spiritual" for the heck of it) life, but that's not to everyone's needs or wishes. Poetry will always be there. Poetry will ALWAYS be there. Like rock 'n' roll or Keats' "Grecian Urn"—ready to deliver what it has to whoever needs it.


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