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Today's Affirmation: As I think in my heart so am I.
This statement may not take you where you think today. What are you thinking about today? What is it that you say to yourself? Do you think more about things of God or yourself? Proverbs 23:7 is the source of today's affirmation. KJV says… " For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." This can take many different paths.
In context, Proverbs was warning us not to eat the food of a stingy person and to not crave what he had. Although the miser is offering you his food, his heart is not really with you because he is only thinking of the cost. This verse is warning us about the thoughts and intentions of others. What he is really thinking is who he really is…
Since James Allen published his book back in 1902 many have taken his book, "As a man thinketh" and created an entire personal development industry. I went down that path and found it to be true. I am all for thinking positive and being the best you can be.
BUT, this is a dangerous and slippery slope; for me at least. I do not regret my experiences at all with personal achievement but the fact that I thought about ME all the time in my heart did get create who I was. I was all about ME. I find it interesting that this verse is only THREE verses after these same Proverbs warn against chasing wealth. "Do not wear yourself out to get rich: have the wisdom to show restraint." Somehow man takes a verse, out of context and creates a self serving excuse to be all that "I" can be and most of the time puts this in the framework of money.
I still believe in the principles of personal development and being all we can be. I also experience through recovery that many hurting people think very poorly about themselves and these thoughts are part of what lead to addictions. But I pray today that I think about God's plan and what He wants me to be. As I think on Him today, I pray that I become more like Him. For us Jesus followers, we hope to be more like the Christ, right? If I think about Him in my heart I will become more like Him. Become Him, never, but to desire the things of His heart yes.
THIS IS NOT A DOWNER! The first reaction from those chasing the dream is great now I can't follow my dreams because of guilt and God does not want me to be wealthy…I am NOT saying that at all. I am just saying, in my experience, I have found that thinking on Him more and me less has shown me dreams much grander, much more fulfilling and life changing. Think on and ask the God of Heaven to fill you with the thoughts of your heart. Remember Jesus came so we may live to the full…
- Is what you say to yourself healthy?
- Are there any negative things you say to yourself?
- Can God guard our hearts as to what we think about?
- What do you think about most of the time? Have you ever thought about that?
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Note: for the purposes of this article, all Japanese names are presented in the Western fashion, with the given name followed by the family name.
There's a Kurt Vonnegut story called "Who Am I This Time?" about a quiet and formless small-town man named Harry Nash who comes to life only during productions at the local theater, in which he becomes entirely consumed by whatever character he's playing. A tabula rosa defined only by his current role, Nash is a complete mystery beyond his otherworldly talent. This story springs to mind almost every time I watch one of Takashi Shimura's rapturously immersive performances - he's perhaps the most accomplished actor in film history to have a mere stub for a Wikipedia page.
When people think of actors closely associated with the films of Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune is rather understandably the first person to come to mind. Mifune's raw, ribald, and irrepressible energy brought some of cinema's most gloriously scripted characters to ferocious life, and the 16 films he made with Kurosawa famously amount to one of filmdom's most mutually beneficial partnerships. Mifune was Kurosawa's roaring muse, and their fiery relationship is the stuff of legend (Stuart Galbraith IV's The Emperor and the Wolf is an invaluable tome on the subject - Mifune is the "Wolf"). But it's often ignored that of those 16 films Takashi Shimura was in all but one (1957's The Lower Depths) - if Mifune was the muscle, brawn, and guts of those films, Takashi Shimura was their heart.
Little is known about Shimura's life beyond his acting career, but it's not as if the information is prohibitively inaccessible or somehow lost to the sands of time. There may just not be all that much to know. He signed an epic contract with Toho Studios in 1943, obligating him to appear in whatever films they asked him to, and they asked him to more than 6 times a year (on average) for the remaining 39 years of his life. He was born in 1905, he died in 1982, and in between he acted. If Shimura was ever married or had children, a cursory Google search suggests that the Internet has yet to notice or care. But Shimura was always defined by dissolving his identity into his work, and it's quite appropriate that his most iconic role epitomizes the extent to which he abandoned his identity in favor the roles selected for him.
Kambei - Shimura's stoic warrior-sage in Seven Samurai - is introduced in a scene in which the ronin is tasked with freeing a village child from the clutches of a holed-up thief. There's no monetary incentive for Kambei's heroic action, he does it because he's unable to do anything else. In order to be allowed entry to the hut in which the thief has stolen the child, Kambei convinces the villain that he's not a samurai but instead a Buddhist monk. To make the illusion more convincing, Kambei lops off his topknot and forfeits his sword, thus parting with the two signifiers that most readily identify him as a samurai. One succinct and immaculately suspenseful sequence later, and the child is freed, the thief dead. Kambei - much like Shimura himself - has gamely dissolved his identity into a performance in order to remain true to himself.
Shimura began his career acting in pretty much whatever samurai films would have him, but he seemed fated to be in the right place at the right time from the start. The first two movies in which he appeared were directed by the brilliant and under-appreciated Mansaku Itami, and the third by Kenji Mizoguchi. Kenji Mizoguchi. Shimura couldn't have known it at the time, but that's like God asking you to play a small part in Genesis (the analogy works better if you think of it in polytheistic terms). That was 1936. In 1943, a first-time director by the name of Akira Kurosawa forcibly selected Shimura to play a supporting role in his debut film, Sanshiro Sugata.
From that point on (with only 2 or 3 significant exceptions) Shimura was little more than the expressive and unexceptional face of Kurosawa's humanistic fables - the moral center of films Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince described as being about the "individual choice as a function of social crisis." Shimura was Kurosawa's "individual," a mirror whose generic qualities could reflect the global audience Kurosawa's films allowed Japanese cinema to reach. In fact, I'd argue that Kurosawa's quasi-unfounded reputation as a more "Western" filmmaker than his contemporaries is somewhat predicated upon the universal accessibility of Shimura's performances. His affectations were often as obviously Japanese as those of his peers, but his face of stone - clearly readable to a child and yet imbued with the self-actualized pathos of cinema itself - was eminently capable of tapping into whatever commonalities you might share with the character.
The nameless Woodcutter Shimura played in Rashomon is tasked with pulling the audience down the rabbit hole, guiding them into the thick and inescapable forest as Kazuo Miyagawa's camera boldly shoots into the sun. Shimura's steps are plain and assured, his refreshingly bumbling gait reinforcing the argument that no actor has ever been so adept at naturalizing a directorial approach intrusive enough as to border on the Brechtian. Kurosawa distracts the viewer with Shimura's disarming ordinariness, and so when the Woodcutter encounters a hat abandoned on a stump and begins to appear somewhat lost, the audience - any audience - suddenly feels as if they're practically upside down. And so there we are, our fates inextricably sealed to an unreliable, axe-wielding narrator in 16th century Japan. And we're every bit as with him as Kurosawa needs us to be so that it's downright devious when he later wrests our allegiance away. With Shimura as our tour-guide into this remarkable existentialist nightmare, it's no wonder that Rashomon - winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival - was the film to formally introduce the world to Japanese cinema.
But let's backtrack a moment. Shimura's first unforgettable role was naturally in Kurosawa's first unforgettable film (and the director's first collaboration with Mifune), 1948's Drunken Angel. Shimura - who was intended to carry the film - plays an alcoholic doctor who presides over a poisoned post-war slum. Mifune is his doomed and caustic patient, a TB-stricken gangster who forms an uneasy alliance of sorts with the tormented physician. In his autobiography, Kurosawa himself suggests that he was powerless to prevent the charismatic and irascible Mifune from overshadowing Shimura, writing that "The drunken-doctor performance Shimura gave was a superb 90 percent, but because his adversary, Mifune, turned in 120 percent, I had to feel a little sorry for him." Kurosawa had no reason to pity Shimura, who in Drunken Angel gave life to one of cinema's most irresistibly durable characters, but this dynamic - with Shimura humbly and perfectly keeping things in motion - would persist. It would guarantee that Shimura's quietly invaluable contributions to movie history would be subsumed into the films themselves.
Shimura would go on to appear in a string of Kurosawa's masterpieces (Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, etc...), as well as other landmark films such as Chushingura, Samurai Assassin, and a little movie called Godzilla. But as to his finest performance there can be no contention. This is an opinion like evolution is a theory. You can disagree, but you do so at your own peril (and Roger Ebert will clog twitter feeds across the land as he mocks your insolence).
In 1952, Kurosawa had death on the brain. So he made a movie called "To Live," or Ikiru, and Shimura was finally given the chance to carry a film on his own, a film that would feed off of his unformed slab of a face and its echoing cavities. Ikiru is the unassuming, Faustian tale of an unthinking and unloved bureaucrat named Watanabe, who we are uniquely privileged to learn in the film's first frame is dying from terminal stomach cancer. Watanabe is a cog in a meaningless machine, and after learning of his impending demise he's confronted with his own pitiable insignificance - he doesn't even have the moxie required to feel bad for himself. And then... well, and then in a way more wistful, delicate, and profound than any film before or since (Ikiru is to hyperbole as Billy Bob Thornton is to Halle Berry in Monster's Ball - it makes it feel gooooood), Kurosawa and Shimura unpack and distills the human condition. Recreationally. Depending on when you ask me, Ikiru might be my favorite film, but Shimura's work as Watanabe is always my favorite performance.
Without spoiling the film, I'll paraphrase Donald Richie and say only that Watanabe discovers himself through doing. Actually, I'll just phrase Richie, who writes in the imaginatively titled The Films of Akira Kurosawa, "Watanabe behaved as though he believed that it is action alone that matters: that a man is not his thoughts, nor his wishes, nor his intentions, but is simply what he does." It's a perfectly fitting sentiment for the actor who embodied Watanabe, just as he leant life to so many other classic characters. In fact, if his filmography is any indication, there were few days in Shimura's adult life when he was not actively "doing." Takashi Shimura was a man whose thoughts, wishes, and intentions were all sublimated into what he did - into whomever he was becoming.
Watanabe (VAGUE SPOILER) paved the way for a local park, and so Shimura in turn paved the way for Watanabe. Perhaps there was then developed an unspoken kinship between the actor and character, a mutual understanding that Watanabe was simply the most expressive vessel through which Shimura could do what was most meaningful to him. As Harry Nash co-opted Stanley Kowalski, so did Shimura compulsively submerge himself in his roles. It's no surprise then that his "retirement" was a farce, as it would last a mere 2 years before Kurosawa coerced him to accept a role in Kagemusha - a role that would be cut entirely from the film upon its initial release. But Shimura, who died 2 years later, spent his twilight doing what he did.
I don't mean to suggest that Shimura was nothing more than his work, and that he retired into a crypt on the Toho lot between his call times or something like that. I imagine that his life was littered with the trivialities of any life. He was endowed with a gift of transcendental qualities, but his performances - like the films in which they appeared - derived their power from their irreducible humanism. Shimura may have been too indistinct or understated to earn enduring global fame, but those familiar with his performances will recognize them in anyone.
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San Diego dance pair debut 'Spit of Wax'
Married choreographers blend classic, urban forms at somebodies dance theater
Married choreographers Gina Bolles Sorensen and Kyle Sorensen describe their latest collaboration, "A Spit of Wax," as a dance work about endings, beginnings and burning the candle at both ends.
That's an apt metaphor for the busy and ever-evolving lives of the couple, who codirect somebodies dance theater. The 5-year-old modern dance company will present "A Spit of Wax" this week as part of the Live Arts Fest in Point Loma, and again later this month at SDSU.
Since moving the company to San Diego from Kyle's native Oregon, they've quickly made their mark on San Diego's dance scene. They won the 2012 San Diego Young Choreographers Prize, and this year Gina is a finalist for a National Artist Teacher Fellowship.
"A Spit of Wax" is a 45-minute piece for five dancers that they began developing last summer and presented as a work in progress at Space 4 Art in December. Since then, the piece has evolved dramatically, with just 10 percent to 15 percent of its original choreography intact. Set to an original score of avant-garde electronic/acoustic music by Sam Goodman, it explores movement through echoed motions and cycles. Kyle and Gina perform in the piece with dancers Desiree Cuizon, Anne Gehman and Maria Juan.
Kyle said the title refers to a candle's final gasp.
"When a candle burns down, there's just this last tiny spit of wax before it dies," he said. "This dance takes place in the moments preceding a life-changing event, a final chapter, a death. It's about the human response to change, resilience and transition."
Gina said wax is also a reference to the old-fashioned recording of music on wax cylinders, where a memory can be frozen and replayed over and over again.
"It's about cycles and memory, endings and survival, and our urge to come together as groups and be immortal," Gina said. "Death is a cycle, but it's not all heavy. There's a spectrum of experience that ranges from profound to silly. Through the course of a full evening, we want to take the audience on a journey."
Meeting of minds, bodies
Born and raised in the Bonita area, Gina left San Diego at 18 to study mass communications at UCLA. To pursue her MFA in dance, she headed to the University of Oregon, where she met Kyle, a fellow grad student. Their mutual attraction was both romantic and artistic. By the end of 2008, they formed their dance partnership, somebodies dance theater.
The lowercase name, Gina said, was "something democratic and open. It could be anybody's dance company."
Kyle said the name was also inspired by a discussion about their very different techniques. "She was doing a lot of work in the Horton technique that was hard on my body. Gina said 'it's better on some bodies than other bodies,' and the name just sort of stuck."
The adage that opposites attract was true for the couple, who come from different backgrounds.
"I have more ballet, classical and modern dance training. Kyle comes from hip-hop and jazz," Gina said. "We both have quite a background in tap, so rhythm plays a large part in the way we're attracted to moving. There's an interesting fusion of my classical forms of dance and the physically athletic, urban way of moving that Kyle brings to the table."
After graduating, Gina moved back to San Diego in 2008. Kyle followed a year later and they married.
Although Gina grew up in the local dance community, she said much had changed in the 10 years she was away in college. The recession was hard on local dance companies, many troupes were homeless and new players had emerged.


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Fun Factory, sometimes called Fun Project on the title screens of their games, is about as obscure as Japanese games companies get. There are almost no mentions in English for them online, while searching in Japanese doesn't bring up much more. Only a few obscure Japanese blogs, briefly mentioning one or two of their games (like Drainer on the MSX). In fact, the only thing they seem to be well known for is their War of the Dead games, aka Shiryou Sensen. Even then, Fun Factory is sometimes ignored in favour of Victor Musical Industries, the publisher for WotD.
Fun Factory is sadly part of a large number of obscure little companies which did some interesting videogame things pre-millennium, but then either went bankrupt, changed names, or moved out of games and into an entirely unrelated field. The kind of company which found some small success with a niche title that maybe developed some kind of cult following, but was then forgotten. The WotD 'series' comprises only two games: the first was released on three different platforms, all of them radically different. The sequel was released only on MSX2 and PC-88, but each was nearly identical. None of them left Japan, only the sequel was fan-translated (without any publicity at all), and generally only a few hardcore English-speaking retro fans talk about them.
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Kevin Gifford's blog provides the best information in English regarding the start of WotD. As he explains, a lot of people revere Capcom's Sweet Home on the Famicom as one of the earliest survival horror games, especially since it was the inspiration for Resident Evil. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Sweet Home was released on 15 December 1989, and as Gifford points out, the original WotD came out on the MSX in 1987, at least two years earlier. Its ports to PC-88 and PC Engine meanwhile came out in January and March 1989, again putting them before Sweet Home.
Gifford goes on to quote a 2008 issue of GameSide (a Japanese magazine dedicated to obscure classic games), which interviewed the creative mind behind WotD, explaining both the game's origin and story.
Katsuya Iwamoto, producer and designer on the game, told GameSide that the project, like so many of the time, got its start from Dragon Quest. "I got a job as a game designer and they told me to come up with something, so I wrote the basic idea in two or three sheets of notebook paper," he said. "There weren't any horror games back then, really, so I wanted to make one. Dragon Quest taught me how I could tell a story through video games, so I wanted Shiryou Sensen to move along like that, too.' The game he came up with, especially in its PC Engine incarnation, certainly betrays Iwamoto's inspiration; it plays much like a modern-day Dragon Quest but with Zelda II-like battles, because Iwamoto thought turn-based fighting with guns and grenade launchers would be weird.
Set in the small town of Chaney's Hill, the game stars Lila, a member of the US Army's team of paranormal investigators: S-SWAT (Supernatural and Special Weapon Attack Team). She's sent to the area after all communications are cut off and an entire company of Marines disappears without a trace. The plot (involving a portal to another world and the family that's secretly protected it for generations) is a little bit Escape from New York and a little bit Stephen King's The Mist, both of which Iwamoto claims as inspirations.
As stated by Gifford, the game is indeed a lot like Zelda II, with its overworld map and side-on battles. Except there are no dungeons as such, only a few interior locations such as a school and hospital to explore. The basic premise is that protagonist Lila has to wander the town, rounding up surviving townsfolk and marines, and leading them back to a church (where the priest is named Carpenter, after horror film director John Carpenter). What this equates to is a series of fetch quests, since each survivor has to be saved in a specific order which can't be deviated from, and only one can be led back to the church at a time.
All three versions of the first game start off extremely linear, until you find the raft, whereupon the rivers and lake can be explored and the entire town is available to you, giving the game an almost sandbox feel to it. This is deceptive though. The first game's biggest fault is that progress, despite the impression of non-linearity, is shackled to a very archaic, specifically ordered lock-and-key quest. Even if you stumble across a key character and talk to them, unless the immediately preceding flag has been triggered, they will be absolutely useless and you will be forced to visit them again later to trigger the next flag. Mildly annoying if you can read Japanese, since you're forced to repeatedly talk to everyone multiple times for clues, it renders the game almost impossible if you can't read Japanese. Failure to pick up on names mentioned results in random traipsing around the map, hoping you stumble across the right flag-triggering person to chat with.
In spite of this steep barrier to entry, the 'launch trilogy' of WotD games are worth struggling with, at least for a time, and to alleviate language woes we've provided a loosely translated walkthrough for the PC Engine version, which should suffice at least until someone does a fan-translation.
Most characters are named after someone connected to horror films, and generally are also connected to each other in some way, either as Vietnam war veterans from the same platoon, or as secret lovers. As you rescue more survivors snippets are revealed through conversation. All portraits were redrawn between ports: on the left is the MSX shot, the middle the PC-88, and right side the PC Engine portrait.
Or possibly Laila, Lyra or Raila depending on how you interpret the Katakana. Born June 5th 1966, she's the youngest member of S-SWAT (the game is set in the late 1980s). It turns out she was actually born in Chany's Hill, and is gifted with psychic powers (represented by the green bar in-game). These allow her to temporarily increase her weapon's power, and as her psychic gauge goes up so does her defence.
Named after horror film director John Carpenter. A priest from the church which survived the initial monster attack. He tends to the wounded survivors and often gives advice on where next to proceed.
Almost definitely named after Stephen King's book Carrie, which saw a film release in 1976. First survivor along with Carpenter. Studying folklore at University, Whitman is her teacher. Becomes friends with Lila and turns up in the WotD sequel.
Exclusive to the MSX version, found in the library which appears as a ruin in the PC-88 and PC Engine versions.
Maybe named after Walt Whitman. Exclusive to the PC-88 and PC Engine versions, replacing Harvard. Teacher of Carrie, he's found in the underground ruins on the small island in the middle of the lake.
The mayor of Chany's Hill is named Wells. Could be named after author HG Wells, who wrote some horror stories. Uncooperative and troublesome, he's the first survivor you rescue. Found in the town hall.
The closest we could think of, relating to horror and the name Janet, is Janet Weiss in the Rocky Horror Picture Show (there's also a character called Weiss in the game's sequel). Here she's a teacher at the local primary school, found in a classroom alongside Franklin. Slightly traumatised by witnessing the deaths of children in the recent incident.
Several obscure connections to horror - likely erroneous. Hiding in the school's top floor after being separated from her teacher Janet (in the MSX version she's inside a box). Can't be rescued until you've first saved Wells. After meeting her you need to find her teacher and then return.
Both actress Pamela Franklin (Legend of Hell House) and actor John Franklin (Children of the Corn) were known for starring in horror films. This foul-mouthed sergeant is a survivor of the initial troop deployment, found in the school.
Master sergeant of the first troop deployment, and Franklin's commanding officer. In the MSX version he teaches Lila various techniques. Loves a good smoke.
Named after horror film director George Romero. S-SWAT captain and a great team leader, he can be found in the island ruins where he was attacked by monsters and wounded.
Named after 'body horror' film director David Cronenburg. Senior to Lila, she's the assistant commander for S-SWAT. Has extremely strong psychic powers. Is found injured under the cemetery.
Probably named after film director James Cameron, a lot of whose early films were partially horror. Second-lieutenant in S-SWAT, once rescued he gives you the shotgun.
Probably named after horror director Wes Craven. Mysterious character with the surname Browning who keeps popping up in random places.
Tough talking Vietnam veteran who runs the local drugstore. Deep down is a nice guy. He doesn't leave the store until late into the game, after which he gives you the flamethrower.
Dr. Bus
Later in the game he's found in the hospital's underground morgue, performing autopsies on corpses to try to ascertain the cause of recent events. He gives you the key to the locked room on the second floor.
Nurse working for Dr. Bus, found in the hospital's locked room looking after Patrick. In the MSX version she performs a blood transfusion from Lila to Patrick, which results in an event that explains his nightmares.
Possibly named after 1978 horror film of the same name. Found in the same locked room as nurse Sandra. Suffers from terrible nightmares. The blood donation event in the MSX version was removed from later ports, leaving the nightmares unexplained.
Travelling with her boyfriend Stephen in the mountains, they became separated when the monsters attacked. Hides out in the log cabin on the eastern side of the map. Stubbornly refuses to be rescued, instead choosing to wait for Stephen.
Possibly named after horror writer Stephen King. In the MSX version he's killed before he can be rescued. In later ports he's discovered in Peter's store, searching for food. When brought back to the church he gives you special light.
A native American, she's the oldest person in Chany's Hill. Normally lives in the mountain log cabin on the eastern side of the map, she has a lot of knowledge regarding ancient legends, and sheds light on recent events.
Without the subsequent remake on PC-88 and then updated port to PC Engine, it's fair to say that War of the Dead would never have seen a sequel. Put succinctly, this initial MSX2 release fails on pretty much every level, and is so bugged you can't actually play it without cheating. Even so, it did have some interesting ideas, not all of which carried over to later releases.
As mentioned by its creator Katsuya Iwamoto, the game copies Dragon Quest albeit with a horror setting. Movement is slow and tile-based, while actions such as talk, search and take need to be selected from a menu which is in English. Battles are random like in the DQ series, except real-time instead of turn based. You're confined to a single screen with one or more enemies, whose health all contributes to a kind of collective health bar at the bottom, and have to either shoot your way out, dispatch them with a knife, or escape. You can run from most battles, but only if you reach the rightmost side of the screen, which means getting past and most likely touching an instant-death enemy.
And here is its first failing. Whereas most RPGs initiate a random battle after a set amount of steps have been made, or in some cases they roll a random number each time you make a step, here it rolls a random number every real-world second the game is running, meaning it's quite possible to have two fights in a row, within one second of each other, without ever even touching the controller.
The opening sees Lila standing outside the game's church, inside of which is the only safe place without battles. Interestingly the game introduces a constantly shifting 24-hour day and night cycle, along with a counter for the number of days you've survived. Although it doesn't appear to have any affect on the game's mechanics, this is still an extremely cool idea, and there are about half-a-dozen discernable periods of light and dark depending on the time. Dawn starts off gloomy, the early morning is pleasant, midday is especially bright and midnight is pitch black. At any point you can also choose to sleep (between 1-9 hours) from the menu, which speeds up time and recharges health. Although you can sleep anywhere and no enemies will attack, sleeping the full 9 hours only refills a tiny amount of health.
Heading out from the church you have only the ability to punch, attack with a knife or shoot a basic gun which starts with 99 bullets. Ammunition is scarce and found only in a few remote crates. Until you find a better weapon it's possible to use psychic energy to temporarily enhance the power of your current weapon, but even then the improvement is negligible. Unlike Dragon Quest, and the later PC Engine instalment, there is also no levelling system. This means the fights serve absolutely no purpose other than to slow you down and drain what little life you have.
This is the game's second big failing. You are constantly underpowered and it doesn't check what state you're in regarding health and weapons when starting a random battle. Quite often it'll throw several high-level enemies at you, which cannot even be damaged with your current weapon, and are so large you can't get past to escape. Even when you do encounter a low level fight, such as zombies, a large group can easily consume nearly your entire clip of 99 bullets before falling. The knife is more powerful, and fells a lot of enemies in one hit, but this requires getting close to an enemy which can instantly kill you.
While it is obscenely difficult, the MSX2 release has a somewhat smaller world than the later remakes. For a start you find the inflatable raft in a box in the school's attic, which is much closer to the church than in later games, while the traversable water area is considerably smaller. Some buildings such as the boat house are missing entirely, and the cemetery is much easier to reach. In fact the map bears little resemblance to later versions. Having said that, the game still goes out of its way to make this small world frustrating to explore. There are fires all over the place which block your path, turning everything into a tricky maze.
The MSX2 version also has a few exclusive things, such as the survivor named Harvard and several additional dead NPCs whose corpses you can find, along with a handful of extra enemies and a unique end boss. It also contains items not found in later games, such as the sleeping bag which increases healing when resting, and night-vision goggles which improves your attack during dark.
The screens shown here were only taken thanks to BlueMSX's handy cheat menu which allows infinite health, since otherwise the game is impossible. Quite how it came to market without anyone picking up on this is baffling - and such descriptions of the difficulty aren't exaggerations. Unless the use of emulators has somehow affected the game's internal mechanics (perhaps a copy protection mechanism), the original release of War of the Dead is, quite genuinely, unplayable. Even though you can save and load anywhere, at any time, this doesn't make it any less difficult - if anything, it's only likely to get you saved into an impossible position.
More than one source online has claimed that music was only introduced in the PC Engine port, but in fact both the MSX2 and PC-88 games had some fairly decent and atmospheric music. The MSX2 version's overworld and menu tunes are actually more sombre than the PC Engine version.
Playing it today
Although things like the day/night cycles and ability to sleep are cool, there really isn't a need to play this. It's unrelentingly terrible, and you're better off looking at the screens. If you absolutely must, the ROM is easily available (there's a DSK image floating around, but this appears to be corrupt). BlueMSX is essential, since it allows for cheats and quick saving. Certain other MSX emulators refuse to load the game due to an SRAM ERROR, which isn't easily corrected. There are no detailed guides or videos online.
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text: Guide to buying Fair Trade chocolate Understand what the term fair trade means and learn how you can help developing countries by buying Fair Trade chocolate. By Kathryn Dorrell Photography by Kathryn Dorrell 2011-09-17 00:00:00 The cocoa farmers in the fair-trade co-op in Ghana receive a US$150 social premium for each metric tone of cocoa they sell. This has financed projects that have benefited the community, one example being a well. Before the well was built, Mary Mabel said people in her community had to walk three miles just to get water.The fair-trade premium has also allowed the community to purchase a mill that is being used to process oil from palm nuts – another source of much-needed income."The premium that we have already received from Cadbury has made a real difference to our lives," said P.K. Tekper, the vice-president of Kuapa Kokoo co-op, from which Cadbury Canada is sourcing its Fair Trade cocoa. "Our plans for the future are to build 14 community projects and invest in the health care of our farmers."How easy is it to buy Fair Trade chocolate?Ask the stores you frequent if they sell Fair Trade chocolate. The Fair Trade chocolate market is growing in Canada and experts expect that it will take on the same life of Fair Trade coffee, which is now widely available and no longer considered just a high-end product. Cadbury Canada is playing a huge role in expanding the Fair Trade chocolate market with its announcement that all products sold in Canada from its Dairy Milk line will have the Official Fair Trade Certified logo of summer 2010, doubling the amount of Fair Trade certified chocolate sold in Canada. It will also improve the lives and communities of over 40,000 cocoa farmers and 6,000 sugar farmers, says Rob Clarke, executive director of TransFair Canada. "It makes Fair Trade chocolate much more accessible to consumers because you can purchase Dairy Milk bars in vending machines and stores across the country, and at the same price as another candy bar," said Zelmer. "It also puts a challenge out to other companies."Organic chocolate maker, Green & Black's, which is owned by Cadbury, is also going fair trade, giving consumers even more options to buy Fair Trade chocolate products. You can also play a part in expanding the fair-trade movement. "Contact companies, send a message to them that you want their products to be fair trade," said Zelmer. "These sorts of things can have a huge impact."Are you coo coo for cocoa? Here's a collection of Canadian Living's most popular chocolate recipes for you to try. Don't forget to use Fair Trade chocolate!Page 2 of 2 1 2


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Posted By Jim On 08/25/2010 @ 12:16 pm In Career | 26 Comments
It's been a while since I've written about career, I think we fired off both barrels during Career Week 2009 [3] last year. However, with the economy recovering and a new jobs bill [4], I wanted to discuss something that falls under the category of "obvious but clearly not obvious enough."
You should treat the people that you work with, regardless of where they are in the "hierarchy," with dignity and respect.
I used to work at a defense contractor that had a bit of an old fashioned corporate mentality. Besides the idea that promotion was mostly by tenure [5] (not always, but frequently), there was a prevailing attitude that the singular goal was completion of the mission and it didn't matter how many heads you needed to knock to get that done. While I can appreciate the approach, when used sparingly during crunch time, too many people took that approach all the time. Your ability to demand, yell, and beat up other people was seen was an asset. All too often I heard "I don't care if people like me, they just need to listen to me and do what I say."
That might have worked for Don Draper on Mad Men, but it doesn't work today. It may have worked when employees stayed at a company their entire career, but it has stopped being as effective today because of career mobility. In fact, it can have a negative impact on your career. Let me recount a story, told me by my friend Belle (not her real name):
Belle manages a small group in her company and from time to time she needs to make hiring decisions. The other day, she's flipping through a stack of resumes when she finds a few qualified candidates that she wants to bring in. One of them, we'll call her Tremaine, used to work with Belle's friend, Ariel. Belle calls Ariel to ask about Tremaine, her qualifications, her personality, etc. Turns out that Tremaine, while a capable manager, was difficult to work with and quick to look down on people. Tremaine never got a phone call.
(Fans of Disney will probably recognize Belle and Ariel as famous Disney heroines, Tremaine was the wicked stepmother in Cinderella [6] so bonus points if you knew that)
Tremaine's head-knocking attitude, while effective at the time, didn't win her any friends and it certainly didn't win her a phone call for a position she had all the skills on paper. In that particular role, people skills are crucial in motivating people to do good work. Tremaine's approach was not going to work in that environment.
It's just one data point but I think it illustrates a broader idea – that it doesn't make sense to treat people poorly.
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I'm having a go at writing something longer and in a slightly different style to usual. So, in the spirit of getting this blog up-and-running again for the New Year, I thought I'd share some of it here…
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Five days after the fox was first sighted on the island, I awoke to a dreadful clamour coming from downstairs. I heard the voices of the children crying loudly, and that of the master – his usually restrained tones raised in anger.
Throwing on my day dress and tugging my shawl about my shoulders, I hurried down and was surprised to find the family, as well as a number of the villagers, crowded in the kitchen. In front of the hearth, slumped in the wooden ease chair near the hearth, was Mabel Cowden, her hair filthy, and her pale face covered with a sheen of sweat.
Her dry lips moved against one another, shivering and humming but making no sense as the master paced back and forth and Anna, who stood closest to Mabel, tried to coax her into taking a few swallows of water.
"I saw it."
For a moment, none of us realised it was Mabel who had spoken. We looked around, each of us staring at another. My eyes met with those of the master, whose dark brow was furrowed with tiredness and frustration.
"I saw it," Mabel whispered again, lifting a pale, crab-like hand towards Anna, who took it in her own ruddy palms and chafed it gently for warmth. "It came to me in the night; it brought me such terrible dreams."
From the corner of my eye, I saw Margaret usher the children quietly and firmly from the room. Mabel's papery eyelids fluttered closed against her cheek and, for a moment, I thought she had fainted. But, after a moment, she opened her eyes once more and continued with a story that trickled into the room like foetid water.
She had been asleep, she said, tucked up in the small room at the back of her son's cottage, when a strange noise woke her. She couldn't explain why, but it frightened her, this sound, summoning up nebulous, half-buried memories. It wasn't anything she could put her finger on; all she knew was that it unlocked parts of her memory that would have been better off staying tucked away.
Seized with fear, she lay in her bed, trying to decide whether to stay there or to get up and investigate. Finally, overcome with fear for the safety of her son and his wife, she crept out from her bed and across the floor of the main room.
Lit by the dying embers of the fire, she saw the shapes of her son and his wife in their bed against the wall, sleeping soundly and apparently undisturbed by the sound that had wakened her.
Outside the door of the cottage, with only blankets and a nightgown to cover her, Mabel had stood in the buffeting wind and listened again for the sounds. Minutes passed but they did not recur; only the thunder of the sea and wind could be heard.
But just as she was on the verge of going back to bed, and attributing the strange noises to old age and an over-active imagination, she heard the sound again – a faint wailing sound that trembled and rose over the wind, as though an infant were being shaken, its cries distorted. The sound was coming from the coastal path.
By this point in her story, Mabel's face had become reddened – whether from the strain of remembering or her proximity to the hearth. But when Anna stepped forward, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder to move her back, Mabel tore herself away and huddled over in what I realised must be the same blankets from the previous night. Clutching her hands tightly around her, she continued with her tale.
She had walked away from the door of the cottage, she said, feeling as though she were in a dream. And as she neared the path, from the long grass at the top of the coastal path there emerged a shape – that of a slender fox, which curled back on itself to look at her, its eyes flashing with a reddish glow.
Like an eel, it slipped soundlessly down over the edge of the cliff toward the beach. And without knowing why, she followed it. The cold air and the rough stones underfoot hadn't bothered her, she said, and she soon found herself picking her way down the cliff in a way she hadn't dared for many a year.
At first, when she reached the sand, she couldn't see a thing. The moon had shifted behind the clouds and she stood there in the dark, the sea growling and hissing on the sand far to her left. But as the moon emerged once more, and the beach was lit up, she saw that the fox was there, not five feet in front of her, its red eyes staring at her with something akin to malice.
Extending one dark, slender paw, it dipped its head and made to creep towards her. Weak with a sudden and inexplicable terror, she had turned to run only to feel a tearing pain on the back of her calf, then again on her thighs and buttocks. Wheezing out only the barest of screams in the frozen air, she had lost her balance and fallen headlong on to the sand as the snapping, tearing pains continued and, finally, she had lost consciousness.
When she awoke, it was to the feel of soft rain on her face. Opening her eyes, she found herself looking up at the vast, dove grey skies of early morning, her body rigid and half-buried in the sand as though she had burrowed down into it. At first, she thought she must have wandered in her sleep, though she had no history of sleepwalks. But as she struggled to lift herself from the damp cradle in which she lay, she had felt terrible burning stings all over her skin.
Lifting the blanket, which was twisted around her, she had looked down at herself to see where such terrible pains could be coming from. And there, all over her arms, legs, and God help her, her body, beneath the wet sand that clung to her skin, were the wide and unmistakable bite marks of a man.


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Unsure how to wash down your Burger King turkey burger? Or McDonald's egg-white McMuffin? Coca-Cola's capitalizing on your desire to eat healthier with a line of zero-calorie, carbonated, fruit-flavored waters, which debut on April 1. Splenda-sweetened Fruitwater doesn't contain any actual fruit juice, but that's okay, because the drink is "enhanced with nutrients." Yuck. Coca-Cola's marketing the beverage as a healthier alternative to Vitaminwater, which is made with the natural sweetener stevia and packs 125 calories into a sixteen-ounce bottle. In 2010, a nutrition advocacy group sued Coca-Cola for its "deceptive" health claims that Vitaminwater can reduce the risk of disease, but billing these new products as virtuous and healthy is just as misleading. Neither Fruitwater nor low-cal McMuffins nor 530-calorie frozen turkey burgers sound appetizing — or all that good for you. These giant companies are on the defense, and their attempts to cater to health-conscious diners are misguided. Sure, if you're eating fast food, these options offer fewer calories, but that doesn't equate to good health. It's real, unprocessed, and affordable food that Americans need. [Freep, Earlier, AP]


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Tip 1 - Scope of use
It is common for a supplier to restrict the customer's use of software. Most customers of standard software would expect not to get exclusive use. The supplier should also specify the duration of the licence, whether the licence is in relation to a particular site or a particular number of users. Also, while the supplier might agree that the customer can use for the purposes of their business, the supplier should ensure the customer cannot re-sell or offer "bureau" services for their clients without negotiating with the supplier first. To verify use, the supplier should add an audit right.
Tip 2 – Escrow
If the supplier is developing bespoke software, escrow is commonplace and the supplier will probably have to make regular deposits during the development cycle. Escrow for standard software is not always appropriate and yet customers will often ask for it. Even experienced software developers will take a while to get to grips with code they have just received from escrow. To minimise the impact on the supplier, either set up multi-licensee escrow if many customers are likely to request it. Or, if only a few ask for it, perhaps they will get sufficient comfort from the supplier promising in the licence to enter into an escrow arrangement at the future request of the customer. It's still escrow, but just not now.
Tip 3 - Don't over promise
It is inevitable that a supplier will have make some promises – that is, make representations or grant warranties – for the software but suppliers should make sure they don't over-promise in the sales process. After a long battle a UK court recently ruled that an EDS representative had fraudulently misrepresented to Sky how long the project would take, potentially exposing EDS to a large compensation claim. A supplier will generally promise that it has the rights to grant the licence. If the licence is for the supplier's standard software, the supplier should not state in the licence that the customer is relying upon the supplier to select the software to achieve the customer's objectives. Whether or not the supplier discussed the objectives, the customer could reject the software if it does not solve them. Instead, a supplier should warrant that the software will perform "materially" or "substantially" in accordance with the specification and put the onus on the customer to check it does what it needs. Then restrict this warranty to a specified period. It is rare to promise more than 90 days.
Tip 4 - Excluding risk
As with any business relationship, the supplier will want to reduce or exclude its risk. On the whole, these reductions or exclusions must be reasonable otherwise they might not be enforceable – the English courts look at a number of factors in making up their minds. For example, is the supplier licensing the software on its standard terms which it refuses to amend? Has the supplier capped its liability to a particular amount which is much lower than the likely losses the customer will suffer if the software fails to perform? Does the supplier's insurance cover exceed its liability cap? Is the supplier doing the data backup or providing disaster recovery and yet trying to exclude liability for loss of data? Often, suppliers will accept higher risk if the customer will pay more.
Tip 5 - Supplier's sanctions
If the customer breaches the software terms, consider what sanctions the supplier can impose. It's all very well having escalation procedures and mediation but being able to take decisive action is often what matters. For example, if the customer fails to pay for maintenance can the supplier stop providing the maintenance releases? If the customer fails to pay the annual licence fee, can the supplier cut them off?
Tip 6 - Data security and protection
Suppliers must comply with EU data protection legislation. This means they must ensure that they hold and process a customer's data fairly and lawfully and that they hold the data securely. Suppliers should address these issues in the licence with the customer. Their responsibilities don't stop there though. They must also ensure that they put in place appropriate measures with their data "storer" – perhaps a data centre provider – to ensure they comply with the legislation too. This is particularly relevant for suppliers who store data outside the EU, for example as part of a cloud service.
Tip 7 - Back-to-back terms
If a supplier is reselling a third party service, such as hosting or storage in the cloud, the supplier's provider will be aiming to reduce its liability where possible. The supplier should not only seek to obtain the best protection it can from its providers, but also ensure that it does not promise greater protection to its customers. This "back-to-backing" allows a supplier in the middle to pass obligations and liabilities up or down the chain rather than being stuck with it and being attacked from both sides.
Tip 8 - Service levels and credits
Service credits are losing their appeal. Most customers figure that their supplier will simply increase charges to offset the cost of service credits. From a supplier's point of view, avoiding service credits makes for a great business case. Having said that, most customers will want to specify key performance indicators and a robust service level agreement. If it is for a cloud-based service, this is often the only reassurance that a customer will have. Where the supplier is able to offer failovers/backups and a quick response to rectify the service this might be sufficient for a customer without resorting to cumbersome service credit – or liability – claims.
Tip 9 - Intellectual property rights indemnity
A customer will legitimately expect a supplier to indemnify it in respect of breaches of third party intellectual property rights. This is one of the key battle lines between proprietary and open source sellers with proprietary software houses claiming that customers get better protection than by using open source, which could have been modified by anyone in the community leaving the door wide open to infringing code. Suppliers can also sell proprietary and open source together. If a supplier is willing to give an indemnity it should consider restricting it to its key trading territories (excluding, for example, US intellectual property rights if it is not trading in the US) and liability for open source. Also, think about capping the indemnity even if this is a higher cap than the supplier's general cap on liability. After all, an indemnity is only usually any good if the supplier has the appropriate insurance.
Tip 10 – Recompense for complete failure of service
As mentioned in tip 8, even if a supplier avoids service credits, it is unlikely to avoid all liability for a complete failure of service. When working out how much liability it can exclude (see tip 4) the supplier will need to bear in mind that a customer will not want to carry all the risk in the contract. Equally, the supplier will not be willing to provide a full compensation for all a customer's losses. A supplier should ensure that it does not grant a customer an indemnity to compensate for losses, especially as indemnities are often carved out of the general liability cap.
For further information, please contact Frank Jennings, Partner in our Technology Group on email@example.com.
This article previously appeared in the Federation Against Software Theft's newsletter "FastForward" in two parts in May and June.


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If all is together at 1km to go, Pettachi takes it.
Bennati is also a contender. Cavendish simply doesn't have the endurance yet to win after this type of distance.
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LONDON: Italian defence group Finmeccanica's subsidiary AugustaWestland on Saturday denied that India had cancelled a $750 million order for a dozen helicopters and said authorities had asked for "clarifications" within a week's time.
On Friday, the Defence ministry said it was seeking to cancel the order.
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