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We all love surprise birthdays as it brings with it the joy of eating cakes and gifting or receiving birthday gifts! Planning a birthday surprise or a get-together for your loved one can be an exciting affair. It could be for your boyfriend/girlfriend, parents, colleagues, or your spouse. No matter how much you know them, planning a surprise birthday can be a little tricky. To make it easier, we have some easy and cool birthday surprise ideas to bring happiness on this wonderful occasion.
Surprise Birthday Ideas
Plan a Birthday Surprise for your Girlfriend
All you need is creativity to make it right and surprise her. If you have access to her house, you can plan to decorate the room when she is away. Get her favorite drink and food items, and set the room with scented candles. A touch of rose petals adds to the romance. Figure out a playlist of her choice and keep the music list ready. Place her gift on the center of the bed. When she comes home, she'll be elated to see the effort you've put in.
If the love of your life loves a little bit of luxury, plan a fancy dinner for two at a rooftop restaurant. You can even prepare one at home if you have space. There's nothing more appealing for a lady in love when her man plans an outing to perfection. Ensure her favorite items are on the menu. As you sip wine and marvel at the landscape from the rooftop, she will feel special with the beautiful ambiance and the thoughtfulness you've shown in making her birthday a success!
Tip: Fun house party ideas for teenagers
Surprise your Boyfriend with these Birthday ideas for him
Is your man an outdoorsy person? Once you have a fair idea about his plans around his birthday, plan a surprise outing at a ranch or a camp. There are many outdoor activity places where a couple can have a great time discovering nature and having fun in the process. Seeing the setting sun from atop a hill in the comfort of a mini-tent will surely appeal to the man who has a love to explore new places. Make sure you do the booking in advance and carry the birthday gift.
Making something on your own holds immense value rather than a store bought gift. Cook your way into his heart with a surprise meal. Does he love baked items? Is he the kind to opt for barbecue? Understand his likes and dislikes and ensure you plan an extravagant dinner for him. Food made with love can never be compared to something randomly ordered from a menu. Also, make sure you send him these cute texts which will melt his heart for you.
Fun Birthday Surprise Ideas for your Wife
So, it is your wife's birthday, and you want to make it special? If store bought things are not her choice, make her a beautiful scrapbook to maintain a record of memories. Begin from the day you first met, the proposal, wedding, and every little thing that means a lot to you as a couple. Collect the photographs and add snippets of information to make a lovely scrapbook that will touch her emotional side. There are numerous stores online where you can source some help to create an album of your choice.
Has the marriage made her too busy that she does not have enough time on hands? Plan a luxurious stay at a spa. Make sure she gets some 'me' time away from the daily chores. Let this be her day to relax and indulge in some spa treatments. Whisk her away to her favorite diner once she is done. Many spas and resorts also offer a couples package. Look for such offers.
Does she like mocktails? Don't forget too woo her with a massage at home and offer her these easy homemade mocktails to show that extra affection. You ought to this more often ;)
Cool Birthday Ideas for the Husband
Want to surprise your husband but don't know where to start? Juggling a marriage with the stress of a job means less time for friends. Contact his closest friends and plan a surprise birthday party at home. Decorate the house with photos that depict memories over the years. Ask each friend to say something special about your husband and make a movie clip. Once he is home, he'll be surprised and happy to meet and greet his friends while watching a video clip that will hold much value as a birthday gift.
Plan to leave tiny gifts all over the house on his birthday. You'll have to wake up in advance and work a little around the house. Leave a romantic message on the mirror. A tiny gift by the dashboard, near the bed, at this office desk, or even in the kitchen will surprise him and bring a smile on his face. The gifts need not be expensive. What matters is the attention that goes into making his birthday very special.
Simple Birthday Surprise Ideas for Friends and Colleagues
Are you looking to plan a surprise for your colleague who is also a good friend? With the help of the team, you can plan a surprise event at the end of the day, either at work or a restaurant. All you need to do is coordinate to manage the budget. Brainstorm with team members to get done with more ideas. Get a giant birthday card and circulate it among the team to collect their birthday messages. Pin it up near his/her desk. Have a fun time over drinks and good food. Don't forget to click selfies of this happy occasion.
Does your friend love to shop? Alternatively, is he/she a sports enthusiast? Plan a surprise outing at the local mall and let your friend splurge a little. This way, you would be getting your friend a gift of his/her choice. Besides, what can be more fun than two best friends hanging out together at the mall and having so much fun? Else, check the local events calendar for sports news. If there is a favorite game he/she would love to watch, make sure you do an advance booking. Don't forget the cake once you finish the game!
Surprise Birthday Party Ideas for your Mom and Dad, Elders
Parents are special, and nothing can ever change this beautiful relationship. No matter the number of tantrums or mistakes committed by children, parents can love their kids unconditionally. Surprise your Mom with a lovely letter or a blog (if she is tech-savvy) and write down things straight from the heart. Your Mom will be pleased and will be touched to know that despite all the differences in the growing up years, her children still love her as before.
Dads will be glad when you select a customized message for a t-shirt of his favorite color. You can discover multiple websites that will print a message or a photo of your choice on t-shirts or mugs. It could be a picture of a family outing or his favorite one-liner. Get in touch with his college friends and plan a party at home. There's nothing more special than meeting old friends on a birthday.
You can even book a vacation for your parents to allow them to relax and enjoy their personal space. After all, they've been working so hard so a proper recess gifted by their children will be so special to both.
We hope you have loved these surprise birthday ideas! Have you got something special to add? Do write below!


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If you don't recognize the quote its from President Eisenhower back when he was..... Ummmmm...... Hmmmmmm.... President.
Seeing as we are PLANNING to move to Haiti, (After a quote like that I just couldn't put: Seeing as we have a PLAN to move to Haiti) we thought it might be kind of important for Isaac to have a way into other countries. So he applied for and recently recently received his very own PASSPORT!!! He still needs to sign it though so anyone have any ideas on how to do that? Will they accept drool smeared around as his custom signature? Probably not.... But it doesn't hurt to try!
Kate has been working feverishly to organize all of Isaac's clothes, all our books, and miscellaneous items around the house in preparation for the move. Be sure to check out the page she set up for some of the things that can't come with us and lay claim to them! (
https://www.facebook.com/groups/313822375425037/) We'll be adding some more items to that in the coming days so be sure to check in to see what's there!
We want to remain as accessible as possible to everyone for anything that you would need so don't be afraid to get a hold of us! You can do that through our email firstname.lastname@example.com (Kate and I have this email forwarded to both our private accounts so we see everything that is sent to it), by leaving a comment below (Also sends us an email to let us know), or just talking to us if you happen to run into us! (We are generally at FWC every Sunday and I am there most Wednesday nights as well)
Thank you for all that you do! We really appreciate you guys and I hope you guys are getting as excited as we are for the transition! If you don't know from talking to us, we are planning on flying out of Denver around December 4th. We haven't purchased the tickets quite yet, but we are PLANNING on doing so in the next week! Once we know our itinerary, we'll be sure to let you know! Thanks again everyone!
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Finally! A working solution that tackles the long overdue feature that BigCommerce stores lack from the original templates. The jQuery Category Menu has been requested several times and many have attempted to get this done without luck.
Today, this problem is being solved once and for all.
The following steps will guide you through the process of downloading the necessary files, uploading them to your BigCommerce server, and implementing this feature that can certainly boost your conversion rates by allowing your visitor to drill down to deep categories by simply hovering on top of Main categories and displaying the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, level of subcategories.
Setting this up will require some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, being able to connect to the server where your BigCommerce store is hosted, and feeling comfortable working on the source code accessible from your BigCommerce Control Panel.
1.- Download Superfish V1.4.8.zip to your computer. (jQuery menu plugin by Joel Birch, thanks Joel!) http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#download
2.- Extract the contents of the zip file to your local hard drive.
3.- Connect to your BigCommerce server and create a new folder on the server via FTP. For illustration purposes I have created a new folder under the "Content" folder and called it "Menus". (content / menus) See image below.
4.- Upload all the files to your new "Menus" folder via FTP. Keep the same structure.
5.- Edit Panel / HTMLHEAD
Login to your BigCommerce account and go to Store Design / Browse Template Files
Add following lines before  tag and save:
<!– SuperFish –>
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Frater Damaso in José Rizal's novel "Noli Me Tangere"
Appearance, manners and spiritual principles
"Hear what
the holy decrees say! When an Indian meets a curate in the street he
should bow his head and offer his neck for his master to step upon.
If the curate and the Indian are both on horseback, then the Indian
should stop and has take off his
hat or Salakót reverently; and finally, if the Indian is on
horseback and the curate on foot, the Indian should alight and not
mount again until the curate has told him to go on, or is far away.
This is what the holy decrees and say he who does not obey
will be excommunicated "(XXXI).
"O ye great sinners,
captives of the Moros of the soul that infest the sea of eternal
life in the powerful craft of the flesh and the world, ye who are
with the fetters of load
lust and avarice, and who toil in the galleys of the
infernal Satan, look ye here with reverent repentance upon him who
saved souls from the
captivity of the devil, upon the intrepid Gideon,
upon the valiant David, upon the triumphant Roland of Christianity,
upon the celestial Civil Guard, more powerful than all the civil
guards together, now existing or to exist" (XXXI).
The laying of foundation stone was followed by a fiesta. Straightway the not invited monk begins to make nasty remarks about the bad architecture of the school and too high payments for the workers. At first Ibarra remains calm. However, when Damaso drops a hint about the imprisonment of his father Ibarra flips out and exclaims: "Priest of a God of peace, with your mouth full of sanctity and religion, and your heart full of evil, you can not know what a father is, or you might have thought of your own! "(XXXIV). Ibarra rushes to the Franciscan, and probably would have stabbed him with a knife, if his fiancée Maria Clara had not stopped him. Curiously enough Ibarra is not arrested by the police, because he enjoys the protection of the Governor General, who quarrels with the monastic orders.
Censorship commissions are appointed. The come to the conclusion: The book is heretical, impious, scandalous and undermines the state system. It is banned. Anyone who sells, buys or reads the book runs at least the risk of excommunication. The book is now circulating at exorbitant prices in the underground.
(1) Quotes from: The Social Cancer, Translated by Charles Derbyshire, in: http://books.google.de/books?id=KagzvgCGMfAC&printsec=frontcover&client=firefox-a OnePage # v = & q = & f = false. The roman numerals are referring to the chapters of the novel.
(2) Fr Jose Rodriguez Religious Order of Saint Agustin, Beware, in: http://elibro.tripod.com/beware.htm
(4) Numbers are taken from: A. L. Esmerelda, A New Look at Philippine History and the Friars, in: http://collectanea.net76.net/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=13
(5) Karl Freiherr von Hügel , The Pacific Sea and the Spanish possessions in the East Indian archipelago, Vienna - Book review: W. Bethge, http://home.arcor.de/be/bethge/huegel.htm(6) Ambeth Ocampo, The Spanish friar, beyond the propaganda, in: http://www.inq7.net/opi/2002/mar/01/opi_arocampo-1.htm


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- Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.
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[The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus. --Max M["u]ller. [1913 Webster] ||
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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chthonic — [thän′ik] adj. 1. CHTHONIAN 2. dark, primitive, and mysterious * * * chthon·ic (thŏnʹĭk) also chtho·ni·an (thōʹnē ən) adj. Greek Mythology Of or relating to the … Universalium
chthonic — 1882, with suffix IC (Cf. ic), from Gk. khthonios of the earth, in the earth, from khthon the earth, solid surface of the earth (mostly poetic) from PIE root *dhghem (Cf. Gk. khamai on the ground, first element in CHAMELEON (Cf. chameleon); also… … Etymology dictionary
chthonic — [thän′ik] adj. 1. CHTHONIAN 2. dark, primitive, and mysterious … English World dictionary
Chthonic — This article is about the Greek deities. For the band, see Chthonic (band). For other uses, see Chthon (disambiguation). Greek deities series Primordial deities Titans and Olympian deities Aquatic deities Personified concepts Other deities Chth … Wikipedia
chthonic — adjective /ˈkθɒnɪk,ˈθɑ.nɪk/ Dwelling within or under the earth. The young pantheon had remanded their elders to the role of smouldering, chthonic gods; to inhabiting dark, deep places, hidden from mortal eyes and influence. See Also: chthonian,… … Wiktionary
chthonic — also chthonian adjective Etymology: Greek chthon , chthōn earth more at humble Date: 1882 of or relating to the underworld ; infernal < chthonic deities > … New Collegiate Dictionary
chthonic — [ (k)θɒnɪk] (also chthonian (k)θəʊnɪən) adjective relating to or inhabiting the underworld. Origin C19: from Gk khthōn earth + ic … English new terms dictionary
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Pros And Cons Of Tattoos
These days' tattoos are more common than ever. Tattoos have gained quite a bit in popularity over the years, giving people a chance to stand out and broadcast who they really are. Men and women alike have tattoos, some covering their entire body. The choice is entirely up to you though, as you can get a tattoo in virtually any size you want. Even though there are many good things about tattoos, there are bad things as […]Read more


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JOHANNESBURG — Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi on Thursday called on representatives of South Africa's property sector as well as members of the public to work with the government to expose corruption.
It is in all our interests to stamp out this culture of corruption, a practice which has brought this country to the brink of disaster, the Minister said at the launch of his department's Expedited Lease Renewal Process here Thursday.
Acknowledging that poor governance and controls have led to much of the chaos in the leasing environment, Nxesi said: If you have information that officials are not acting ethically, please let me know. If you want to remain anonymous, we also have a phone line for whistle blowers.
We are now operating against the backdrop of a new political environment. I am not going so far as to say that the new dawn has arrived, but there is certainly renewed hope and confidence amongst our people."
He emphasised that the government was committed to rooting out corruption, professionalising the organs of government to strengthen service delivery, generating investment and creating jobs and driving real socio-economic transformation in the interests of all people.
Stressing the need to engage with the big landlords when it comes to leasing properties in the big cities, Nxesi said: We are also putting in place a procurement regime, which is transparent, to deal with corruption.
Our economic circumstances as a country, as well as pressure from National Treasury, dictate that we fight corruption and State capture, which was a massive drain on public funds. At the same time, we have to improve the way we do business to contain costs and generate income.
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Since joining the EU Ireland's economy has grown and been completely modernised.
In 1967 milk was still being delivered in churns by donkey cart to local cottages, where children were sent out with a pail. The pail of milk would sit in the corner and the children would dip cups into it and drink the still warm from the cow, unpasteurised milk.
All the working donkeys are now gone, along with the leprechauns, though the price of a jenny (a female breeding donkey) has increased recently, so maybe they will be making a comeback, until the government slaps a tax on donkey harnesses, or imports thousands from Eastern Europe.
From 1995 the irish-economy exploded, so much that the next 13 years, until 2008 are referred to as the years of the Celtic Tiger. The Tiger is dead and waiting to be buried. The irish-economy has been grossly mismanaged by a succession of politicians.
Politicians usually have some basic grasp of economics, even a paper qualification or two in this esoteric area. The Irish people would love to know where their leaders obtained their economics qualifications. Wherever it was is keeping very quiet, lest their own reputation should suffer by association with such a bunch of incompetents.
These politicians did not grasp the first law of economics, 'What goes up goes down'. They thought that the irish-economy was going to fly in the face of all economic theory and keep going up for ever.
Irish politicians have even shorter memories than other politicians. It was only in the 1980s that there was no work to be had in Ireland and Irish people had to go to England to find jobs. A whole generation of workers left Ireland and brought their families up in a foreign country because the irish-economy was in such a mess.
Yet in 2007, after 12 years of growth the Finance Minister, the man in charge of the irish-economy still seemed to behave as though the economy's growth would carry on forever.
On 15th September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bank filed for bankruptcy and started the financial reassessment in all banks that led to the financial collapses throughout the world. The irish-economy's growth ended on that day
The US banking sector was in a mess because of poor mortgage lending practices. The irish-economy's growth was founded in property. Banks were found to have misled the Financial Regulator, who has since stepped down and taken early retirement because of the bank scandals that came to light.
One bank, Anglo Irish Bank, had lent money to its directors to invest in property speculation, then the market crashed the directors were unable to pay back the loans, one is currently filing for bankruptcy. The same bank had scores of other 'irregularities', substitute frauds if you wish, that had been covered up by the bank.
The irish-economy is now totally wiped out, because of the stupidity of politicians and senior bankers. Irish banks funded the expansion of the economy by funding investment in property: Property speculation to the rest of the population.
Even in 2008 the Irish government's 'management' of the economy included tax relief on the purchase of investment property. Everything the politicians did was designed to fuel the boom in the irish-economy that was solely based on property.
Over the years of the Celtic Tiger property prices nearly tripled. The irish-economy grew, but it did not triple over this time scale. The growth in house prices happened because wage inflation was very high, especially in the state sector.
The irish-economy also benefited from the immigration of hundreds of thousands of people from Eastern Europe during the Celtic Tiger. All of these people looking for property to rent fuelled the growth in the prices of investment property, as everyone and their dog were looking for houses to rent to immigrant workers.
The government encouraged this mass migration to bring wage costs in the irish-economy down. Unfortunately the irish-economy did not benefit very much from these immigrants because most of them were living in shared rooms, spending the minimum possible in the irish-economy and sending most of their wages back to Eastern Europe. Most of these migrants have now left Ireland and returned whence they came.
Even in today's irish-economy people working directly or indirectly for the state in Ireland have a wonderful deal. They get a job for life AND a pay rate that is above that of the private sector AND guaranteed pay rises and increments every year AND an inflation linked low cost final salary pension scheme. This all happened during the good times, but of course these people have kept all their fabulous conditions, even now when the bad times have come around.
It is partly because of the growth in the wages of state employees that the irish-economy is in such a mess. There are fewer people, paying less tax so the wages in the state sector should go down as they would in a private company with a falling order book. There is currently a wage freeze in the state sector, and that almost caused a National Strike, even though they still receive annual non-performance related increments each year.
There are no jobs in the private sector as companies fail due to the fall in consumer spending that has followed mass unemployment. There are no jobs in the public sector either, because of a recruitment freeze.
The only vacancies in the irish-economy are temporary ones or voluntary ones where you work in order to gain 'experience'. What experience does someone who has been working for 30 years need? This system of voluntary jobs means that vacancies can be filled with volunteers rather than paid employees, another crazy system that is unique to the irish-economy.
Between 2002 and 2006 there was net immigration to Ireland for the first time ever. Net emigration is back again, with many young Irish families moving to Australia and Canada, just as in the bad old days.


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Romantic Homes feature
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A silhouette stands tall on the stage behind a street lamp prop. He lights a cigarette and begins to soliloquy to the audience about women and his banter with his friend about them. The mysterious figure is Chairil Anwar: Indonesia's prolific poet from the 1940s who is widely known for his individualist and existentialist poems that changed the face of Indonesian literature, and his banter was with HB Jassin, another literary figure of the time, which serves as the opening monologue for Perempuan Perempuan Chairil (Chairil's Women).
On November 11 and 12, the Titimangsa Foundation together with the Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation staged Perempuan Perempuan Chairil (Chairil's Women), a special play that was inspired by Hasan Aspahani's book, Chairil. Held at Teater Jakarta in Taman Ismail Marzuki, the biographical play revolves around the life of the late poet and his relationships with four women: Ida Nasution, Sri Ajati, Sumirat and Hapsah Wiriaredja, each responsible for Chairil's popular poems, which also serve as a bridge to a deeper understanding about the late poet's life, troubles, and thoughts.
Divided into four acts, Perempuan Perempuan Chairil started off with Chairil (Reza Rahadian) visiting Ida Nasution (Marsha Timothy) in her study where the two boasted about their intellectualism and creative works. Chairil, who was known as a womaniser, tried to flirt with Ida, but felt dejected when she refused his advances. Although Chairil adored Ida's modern mindset and ambitions, the two seemed like they couldn't meet eye to eye.
And so, we moved on to the second act and met Sri Ajati (Chelsea Islan), who was also known for her beauty and intellect. A student at the time as well as an actress and radio announcer, Sri was keen on Chairil, who used to drop by her grandmother's house during lunchtime. Chairil, with his charm and wit, tried to pursue Ida with many tricks such as promising to introduce her to Usmar Ismail (fun fact: Sri Ayati had joined Usmar Ismail's theatre group at the time). However, Sri revealed to Chairil that she was engaged and about to marry a young doctor, giving young Chairil his second heartbreak.
Next, we met Chairil and Sumirat (Tara Basro), an equally beautiful and talented woman who fall head-over-heels for Chairil. The two shared a passionate yet short-lived romance because of Chairil's refusal to make Sumirat his wife.
The last act showed Chairil settling down with Hapsah, an average woman who brought Chairil's ego back down to earth. Living a simple life, the relationship was full of conflicts as Hapsah demands Chairil to provide, while he can't justify her bureaucratic point of view. The two eventually separated after two years, but they had a baby girl named Evawani.
Directed by Agus Noor, the two-hour play succeeded in drawing the audience into the complicated life of Chairil Anwar by exploring his relationships with the four women. Each character was well-written and had enough time to share their stories and personal dilemmas. After albeit a slow start, Perempuan Perempuan Chairil managed to show a different side of the late poet's character. Known for his womanising persona, the play cleverly dived into the topic but handled it well by also showing the vulnerable sides of Chairil that are often overlooked: his heartbreaks, his loneliness and being a misunderstood individual who tried to leave his mark on this world.
The well-written characters provoked the audience's emotions thanks to the spectacular performances of the cast. Playing the lead character, actor Reza Rahadian returned on stage again this year with a sterling performance as the complicated Chairil Anwar. Reza's voice, mannerism and anger will easily affect an audience, showing a different side of Chairil.
Meanwhile, the actresses gave an equally strong performance. Marsha Timothy stood out as the bright and strong-willed Ida Nasution, while Tara Basro shone brightly as Sumirat, evoking despair and the emotional frustrations of a woman. Sita Nursanti also excelled as Hapsah: her monologue that told us how she tried to understand Chairil, and failed, will touch anyone's heart.
"Through his poetry, Chairil Anwar's work serves as a reflective mirror of our history; on what it means to have one's freedom, which will then impact the nation's independence. This is also why I always wanted to produce a play based on Chairil's life. Although he died young, but Chairil's work will always be remembered as if he never left us. His passion will always live forever in all of us," said Happy Salma, producer of Perempuan Perempuan Chairil and Founder of the Titimangsa Foundation.


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1/27/2014 1 Comment
Those Crazy Missionaries
This past week has been a crazy one around here! We just said good bye to a 30 person team from Lancaster County, PA.
We had a whirlwind of an adventure!
Sunday was a very important day! A village that YWAM has been working with for a very long time was going to be putting on the finishing touches to their very own church and dedicating the building to raising up the people of Balalay for God's service. The village had been one of the most steeped in voodoo in the 5th section. Extreme poverty was the reality and the village was shrinking year after year. Now, some half the population has professed Christ and even the village witch doctor has stopped practicing voodoo. (Please keep him in your prayers. He has stopped practicing voodoo, but he has said that he will not accept Christ until God reveals himself to him.) The village is steadily growing now and some of their mud huts have been replaced with concrete homes. The dedication was fantastic with the whole village in attendance and pastors from the surrounding villages coming to pray that God would bless the church and show their support.
Monday was spent with a majority of the team packing some 300 containers of food to take to 3 villages in St. Marc's 5th Section. The poorest section within the city.
Tuesday involved the team distributing clothes and household goods to the village of Balagay. (There wasn't a typo, Balalay and Balagay are two different villages. The names sound so close that we have had some confusion in the past about it) There were some construction workers within the group so we put their skills to good use! We started their morning off by chopping down a 50ish foot palm tree that had died in the middle of town and finished up by installing the doors and windows in a building we own in the 5th section.
The team went to Poirre to distribute the remaining containers of food to massive success on Thursday. Poirre is also a village within the 5th Section that is normally known for gangs. Without fail, whenever a problem occurs for us in the 5th Section it's always in Poirre. The team did great and the people were more receptive than we could have imagined. In all, 40 people gave their lives to Christ in Poirre that day and there was even an offer of land to build a church in the village!
I was sad to have missed the Thursday distribution in Poirre, but there was other work to be done that day! We had an outreach team from California in a mountain town called Saut D'eau. Saut D'eau is about 2 hours east of St. Marc where we are living. The team had been up there for almost a week and it was time to take them to another little village for almost a week before they return to St. Marc on Wednesday. I said Saut D'eau was 2 hours east, but that day it turned into a lot longer of a trip. A town along the road to Saut D'eau was unhappy about the government not paving the road through town so they barricaded the road in a couple of areas that prevented anyone from driving through. (Try getting away with that in the States!) After a few minutes of figuring, the pastor that was traveling with me and myself decided to cross the barricades by foot and continue our journey via tap tap to collect the team. (Tap taps are a mode of public transportation that involves packing as many people as possible in the back of a small pickup and when you are approaching your destination you "tap tap" the side of the truck and they stop to let you out.) We managed to pick up the team in the tap tap and drive the 9-man team all the way back to the barricades. This is where things got a little interesting. There was about 2 miles of no man's land between the barricades that we needed to cross before we could get to the truck. The team were all such troopers! They carried all their luggage, their tents, and themselves across the 2 mile dirt road to get to the truck! At the end of the day, what was supposed to be a 4 hour round trip pick up ended up being a 9 hour adventure across Haiti! (It reminded me of the time that it took us hours and hours to get back from Winterfest that taught me to pray a few years back!)
Whew! A lot of things happened this past week and we are very blessed to have been a part of them. We plan to take full advantage of the couple days off that we have before two more teams arrive on our campus on Wednesday. Hopefully I didn't talk your ear off just now!
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Conference and Team!
The Christmas/New Year holiday break has officially ended and so has the somewhat slow pace of the base. We just wrapped up a three day staff conference here in St. Marc on Wednesday. It was an amazing time to connect with the various people that comprise YWAM Haiti. Each morning started with breakfast and worship and then some teaching from Rod Smith out of Indiana. We would break for lunch and come right back into it in the afternoon until about 3. At 3 we were whisked away to the National Leadership Team (NLT) meeting, because of the vision that Kate and I have for starting and operating a YWAM base in Haiti in the future.
As good as Rod Smith was in teaching, it was the NLT meetings that really caught Kate and I's attention. We were able to meet with everyone that is currently directing (or proposing to direct) a YWAM location. We got to hear everyone's vision and even share our own amongst this group of movers and shakers. The greatest part about it was the discussions and teachings from YWAM Haiti's founder and current National Director Terry Snow. We dove into everything from finances to identifying the needs in the community and how our ministries can meet those needs. Those meetings have given Kate and I a lot of confidence as we begin to plan for our own future ministry and a great community of leaders to engage with.
That's not all we had going on this week.
As I write this, we have foreign students arriving for this year's first Discipleship Training School (DTS), an outreach team from Mendocino, CA, and Haitian students arriving for the Foundations of Christian Character (FCC) school. Kate and I will not be directly involved with the DTS or FCC at this time, but we will be with the students at various times throughout our day.
The outreach team from CA will be with us for the next two months and have already plugged right in since they arrived on Friday. They were working around the base yesterday and will be at the city's prison today. I am looking forward to get to know the team (there are 9 people on the team, 4 guys and 5 ladies) as we minister together around the city and surrounding villages.
We'll be sure to let you know how things are progressing with the team and I do apologize for not having the tour of the base video ready for you. I'm not sure when that might become a reality, but we will certainly try to make it happen.
P.S. Enjoy these photos of Isaac and his first adventure in swimming! (He didn't like it at first but he kinda warmed up to the idea after a little while.)
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Calm Before the Storm
We have had so much grace these past few weeks. From the manageable weather to the relatively lax schedule, but come Monday, everything hits full force. While we are still in the calm, I figure I would bring you all up to date on what we are diving into!
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I've found that I'm working more and more with my private coaching clients on three things:
- Writing a book manuscript
- Creating authentic, compelling website copy
- Figuring out how to link content, blogging, website copy, and social media all together
That was really the impetus behind the entire Essentials Series: Content Planning, Writing, and Marketing... to help with #2 and #3.
I have to admit that the first class, Essentials of Content Planning, and next week's class, Essentials of Content Repurposing and Marketing, are my favorites (or should I say that I just love them differently?).
Probably because they seem to be the perfect, logical, AND creative bookends to all we do in our content-driven businesses.
First, we have to create the content, and then we want to make sure we don't just file away the content we've created, never to be seen again.
Even I find that I have so much content I've created in the last twelve years that, honestly, I've forgotten all that I've done.
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Nelson Mandela's Grandkids Hit The Selling Trail Next Week For New Reality Series
Nelson Mandela Grandkids Get Reality Show & Say "We're Not The African Kardashians"
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that the three Nelson Mandela granddaughters who will star in their own reality show slated for next year will be making the pitch rounds at the U.S. networks beginning Monday. Rick Leed, the former president of Wind Dancer Production Group (Home Improvement) and who created and executive produced the E! reality series Dr. 90210 for six seasons, is the American producing partner on the series. It's being distributed internationally and carries the title Being Mandela. The three central characters are Dorothy Adjoa Amuah, 27; her first cousin, Swati Diamini, 32; and Swati's older sister, 34-year-old Zaziwe Diamini-Manaway (or "Z" for short). All three are granddaughters of Nelson, now 93, who will not participate in the show, nor will any of the womens' parents. However, Mandela's grandson Kweku Mandela is another of the producing partners. Leed said this week that the show — scheduled to start shooting in December and debut early next year — is drawing significant interest from "all of the top-tier cable players" including TLC, USA, A&E, Lifetime, Oxygen, E!, TNT, TBS and Bravo. "We'll be in L.A. taking a very intense round of meetings with broadcasters next week," he says. "It's a very competitive situation and a very hot show." He added that the show already has sold throughout Africa but not yet anywhere in Europe. (more…)


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After nearly 70 years, Wonder Woman has gotten a much-needed makeover. Last week's edition of her comic book shucked her red-white-and-blue swimsuit, one that never required X-ray vision to eyeball her buxom body, replacing it with a darker, sleeker and much more practical outfit for those chilly nights of crimefighting. I'll admit, I spent a considerable amount of my youth gawking at Lynda Carter's Weapons of Mass Dimensions on the campy TV series, time I probably should have invested in something more appropriate, like my neighbor's Playboy collection. Women deserve better heroines, something cable executives figured out a few years ago.
The success of TNT's "The Closer" and USA's "In Plain Sight" proves that you don't have to put your protagonists undercover at female prisons, cheerleading camps or strip clubs to make them compelling and, yes, sexy. I wouldn't trade the sight of Kyra Sedgwick or Mary McCormack intimidating a suspect for a Skinemax film festival. Some shows have embraced the new era -- and some haven't, as evidenced by TNT's "Rizzoli & Isles" and USA's "Covert Affairs," both debuting this week.
"Rizzoli & Isles," the more mature of the two, stars "Law & Order" veteran Angie Harmon as ambitious detective Jane Rizzoli, who barely flinches when her brother accidentally breaks her nose during a pickup basketball game and is even more cool-headed when she enters a grisly crime scene.
Her first opponent, a slippery serial killer who probably sipped Chianti with Hannibal Lecter, is a doozy, and in their final confrontation, you half expect her male partner to jump out of the bushes and save the day. But Rizzoli has to rescue herself, which she somehow manages to do without whispering sweet nothings into the bad guy's ear. The pilot doesn't give the other title character -- Maura Isles -- much to do, but since she plays a coroner, I expect actress Sasha Alexander to go all Quincy on us in ensuing episodes.
It doesn't surprise me that the series is overseen by a woman, Janet Tamaro, and is based on a series of books by Tess Gerritsen.
It also is no shocker that "Covert Affairs" appears to be supervised strictly by men, including Doug Liman, who previously punished us with "The O.C." Piper Perabo, best remembered for slow dancing on top of the bar in "Coyote Ugly," stars as Annie Walker, a CIA trainee who is plucked out of school for a high-profile assignment. Is it because she's one of the training center's best students? That she can speak seven languages? That she can drive like Danica Patrick? No, it's mostly because she's shapely enough to pass as a call girl.
And when she confronts the enemy in the climactic scene, does she pull it off all by her lonesome? Well, let's just say that a dreamboat from her past manages to make a convenient reappearance.
"Covert" isn't a bad series. The action scenes, directed by former "Animal House" troublemaker Tim Matheson, are crackerjack and Perabo has great chemistry with her colleague, Christopher Gorham ("Ugly Betty"), who plays an agent blinded in the line of duty. And, yes, Perabo is a knockout in a bikini, a fact the producers remind us of about three times in the first hour. But why not give a talented young actress a chance to shine without leaning so heavily on her sultriness?
"Rizzoli" is proof it can be done -- at least until the episode where Harmon goes undercover at a porn shop.
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Acclaimed Czech Animator Bretislav Pojar Dies at 89
The great Czech animator and puppeteer Břetislav Pojar died on Friday at the age of 89. In a career stretching back to the late 1940s, Pojar wrote and directed many stop-motion and puppet-animated shorts and TV series.
Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello (1949) based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka. Pojar served as a puppeteer under his mentor Trnka. In the mid-1960s, Pojar emigrated to Canada, where he began a long collaboration with the National Film Board.
He made his directorial debut with the1951 film Hansel and Gretel (aka Gingerbread House). In 1960, his short The Lion and the Song won the top prize at the first Annecy Festival. Throughout his years, his poignant and allegorical shorts received many honors in festivals around the world. Some of these celebrated titles include A Drop Too Much (1954), To See or Not to See (1969), Balablok (1972), Bum (1979) and E (1981).
In 1990 he was appointed professor and became the first head of the animation department at The Film and TV School of Performing Arts in Prague, where he was active until his death. In recent years, Pojar moved back to the Czech Republic in order to co-direct the 2006 anthology feature film Fimfárum 2 (based on the stories of Jan Werich), which was released in 2006.
Three years ago, Pojar was honored by the Czech Ministry of Culture, which awarded him a special prize for his contribution to cinema.
"I just shoot puppets or create cartoons," he said during this acceptance speech. "That's why I made a lot of these shorts, because they did not need verbal explanation."
You can watch some of his shorts here: www.nfb.ca/film/balablok_english/


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Our Changing Times…We live in exciting and challenging times and much is happening that invites our concern, our action and our hope. We invite you to engage with us and with one another to keep abreast of all that is happening within our LCCLSA membership arena and networks. Please submit any news items you wish to share to the LCCLSA office. We will be happy to post them on our website.
Embracing our Heritage!
Number 13: September 2020Greetings from LCCL Secretariat,The LCCL EXECUTIVE had a MEETING on 26-27 AUGUST 2020 by ZOOMDuring the meeting Executive Members shared their vision for the Executive Committee and
Number 12: July 2020 2020 LCCL AGM: 09 - 11 MARCH 2020 EMSENI, JOHANNESBURG Theme: I was a stranger and you welcomed me. The AGM was very well attended and
WOMEN'S DAY 09 AUGUST 2020Every year, in August, our country marks Women's Month to pay tribute to more than 20 000 womenwho marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August
It is almost impossible (in even a long-ish article such as this) to cover in depth the work of religious orders and congregations of Catholic women and men in South
Number 11: November 2019 LCCL Executive Meeting 09-10 October 2019 During the meeting Executive members reported on their engagement with their portfolios. It was decided that it is necessary
The Amazon Synod and the extractive industry — lessons for the Church in Africa by Stan Muyebe OP The Final Document of the Amazon Synod provides, among other things, a
LCCL Portfolios and Portfolio Holders 2019-2020 Having taken into account the suggestions made at the 2019 AGM, the Executive, during their meeting 22-23 May 2019, decided on the following
Celebration at the Nunciature in Pretoria of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the day when the Nuncio offers hospitality to other Diplomats, Church and Government invited guests in
Sr Monica Madyembwa HC and Sr Melanie O'Connor HF from South Africa at a Counter Human Trafficking Conference in Lilongwe, Malawi in May 2018
REPORT on Leadership Workshop 11-15 May 2018: Organised and Subsidised by LCCL From 11 to 14 May 2018, 8 congregational leaders and their teams gathered at Lumko Institute in Germiston
Very Important new Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Francis
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26th August 2014 Sr Brigid Rose Tiernan with Mrs Florence Fenn ran the first workshop of this nature we have had. It was well attended and much appreciated.
LCCL SA Newsletter October 2017
My first encounter and introduction to priest and artist Wilfried Joye, happened in 2008. Sisters Ann Wigley OP and Brigid Rose Tiernan SND had paid him a visit. Biddy (as
We, Sisters for Justice (Johannesburg) organised a walk on the Melville Koppies on Heritage Day. We decided that Heritage Day was an appropriate time to consider what it is we
We Were all at the Edge... The Concert... Executive Board Members... Good evening everyone. Firstly, my sincere thanks to your LCCL executive for giving me the privilege of sharing
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Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo Are Battling Over Their Baby Daughter's First Word
Almost six months after welcoming daughter Dusty Rose into their lives, first-time parents Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo are settling into parenthood, which for the couple means engaging in a little competitive over baby's first milestones.
The Maroon 5 frontman appeared on Tuesday's Tonight Show, where he opened up about how he's loving every moment of being a new dad and about a hilarious ongoing battle in the lovebirds' home.
"It's so fun," the Voice coach gushed as host Jimmy Fallon shared a photo of the family celebrating Levine's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. "They do new stuff all the time and it's constantly entertaining. It's the best thing in the world."
That being said, the "Cold" singer revealed that he and his model wife are using a no-holds-barred approach when it comes to vying for a certain milestone: little Dusty Rose's very first word.
"I've been working 'Dada' hard. You work on it really hard and you do slip it into every single thing you say," the 37-year-old joked. "If she's being cute, you're like, 'Oh my god, Look at how cute you are! Dada!'"
As for the Victoria's Secret Angel, he admitted, "My wife is working 'Mama,' so it's a battle to the finish. We've gotten some 'Dada-esque' sounds, but nothing concrete. But I'm working super hard at it."
Hear the musician gush about his daughter in the clip above, and click here to watch him talk about his relationship with fellow Voice coach Blake Shelton.


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In 2008, I had to go to Iraq for business. I stayed there for three weeks and felt safe most of the time, but there was one incident that left me a bit shaken.
On this particular day, I had just returned to Bagdad from Al Asad. When we arrived at Baghdad International Airport (formerly Saddam International Airport), security guards escorted us to a bus that was waiting to take us to headquarters. A couple of guys from our party decided to ride in the "hard car" that was supposed to escort us back to base. For some unknown reason, the escort left without us. A security guard told us to board the bus and instructed the driver start driving. The driver drove a few yards past the security check point then stopped abruptly.
"I will not leave until I have an escort," he said. The security guard tried to assure him that everything would be okay, but the driver refused to move until an escort showed up. Keep in mind that we were in the "red zone" while this debate was occurring. Several cars and trucks passed by and I watched each vehicle for any erratic behavior. The guard finally radioed in for an escort and a black Hummer showed up a few minutes later. The passenger side of the vehicle was covered with bullet holes – not a very comforting sight.
With the escort secured, we proceeded down the road. A few miles ahead, I saw a truck veer on to our side of the one way street. Oncoming traffic swerved to avoid being run over by this maniac. The truck continued to barrel towards us, but the bus driver seemed unfazed. I, on the other hand, was clenching my seat. We turned down a side road and the driver wedged his truck between the bus and our escort. My heart raced as I wondered what he was up to. I turned towards the guard and shouted, "Aren't you going to do something?" He told me to calm down because there was no danger. Our escort slowed down and the truck weaved into the next lane towards oncoming traffic again.
"What's going on here?" I demanded. "Why isn't anybody doing anything?"
"Relax," the driver said. "That's just the way people drove in Iraq."
"Suicide bombers also drive that way," I said. "How can you tell the difference?"
"We just know," said the guard.
Maybe I was overreacting, but it was a harrowing experience – one that I will never forget.
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An overview of Operation Deadstick – the securing of two vital road bridges crossing waterways north of Caen on D-Day. The episode also includes an introduction to the British airborne forces involved in the Normandy and a breakdown of their equipment and tactics, as well as reference to the German units present. Towards the end, there's also a description of some miniatures that might be useful for recreating the fight for Pegasus Bridge on the gaming table with games like Bolt Action or Chain of Command.
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Since His Holiness Pope John Paul II first introduced the Prize of the Pontifical Academies in 1997, only five scholars worldwide have received the honor. Of those, only two have come from North America — and both are alumni of Thomas Aquinas College.
At a January 27, 2010, conference of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Pontifical Theological Academy, His Eminence Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B., Secretary of the Vatican Secretariat of State, presented this prestigious award to Dr. John R. Mortensen, a graduate of the Thomas Aquinas College Class of 1997.
The following day, the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI granted an audience to the Pontifical Academies in the Sala Clementina, which Dr. Mortensen and his family were invited to attend. After the Holy Father delivered an address about St. Thomas, he greeted the Mortensens and blessed their four children.
Significant Contribution to Religious Studies
According to the Vatican, "the Prize of the Pontifical Academies is awarded periodically to a person — a young artist or academic — or an institution whose research, work, or activity contributes significantly to the development of religious studies, Christian humanism, and its artistic expressions." In Dr. Mortensen's case, he received the honor "in recognition of his outstanding work" on his doctoral dissertation, Understanding St. Thomas on Analogy.
Dr. Mortensen describes his work as beginning with "taking a very small part of the question of analogy in Aquinas: Does Aquinas treat analogy as a thing of logic or a thing of metaphysics? Is Thomas talking about the analogy of being or the analogy of names?" The research, he adds, consisted of "going through all of the texts where St. Thomas uses the word 'analogy' and analyzing them to show that most of the time he uses the word to speak about the analogy of names." From there, the dissertation examines "how we think about God using analogy; how God can be somehow first in the mind as well as first in reality. "
An associate professor of theology and philosophy at Wyoming Catholic College, Dr. Mortensen was previously an assistant professor at the International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria. For five years, he taught philosophy and theology at the ITI, during which time he also served as director of finance and then as vice president of administration. He earned his doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
As a Pontifical Academies Prize winner, Dr. Mortensen joins a select group that includes fellow Thomas Aquinas College graduate Dr. Pia de Solenni ('93). In 2001, Dr. de Solenni was the first-ever recipient of the honor for her study of various feminist theories in light of St. Thomas' anthropology and theology.
Signs of the New Springtime
Upon receiving the award, Dr. Mortensen gave a brief speech in which he extolled the resurgence of Thomistic scholarship, evident at Thomas Aquinas College as well as at the various new colleges following its lead, including Wyoming Catholic. "At the end of the 20th century, John Paul II promised a new springtime would visit the Church," Dr. Mortensen said. "The effects of this springtime are increasingly visible in the United States, in many new schools that aim to teach faithful Catholic theology and philosophy. It is a mark of the new springtime that students and researchers are drawn to return to the original writings of St. Thomas Aquinas in order to lay a solid foundation for their work."
"My time here has really refined the way I think, read, and understand. It has allowed me to think about things more critically and logically."
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Larkspur, California


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RICHMOND — Virginia volunteers are needed to grow underwater grasses in their homes, schools, or businesses as part of CBF's Grasses for the Masses restoration program.
These grasses are submerged plants vital to the health of local rivers and the Chesapeake Bay, but have been seriously depleted over the years by pollution and cloudy water.
"This is the perfect chance to play a part in bringing back key habitat for local wildlife," said CBF Virginia Grassroots Coordinator Blair Blanchette. "Volunteers will be part of the whole restoration process, starting with seeds and ending months later with planting grasses in established grass beds in the James and Potomac rivers."
Participants will need to attend one of several upcoming workshops that will be held in the Richmond, Northern Virginia, Fredericksburg, and Hampton Roads areas. There they will receive a self-contained indoor growing kit, seeds, and instructions.
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Developer: Overworks
Publisher: Sega
Data: November 13, 2000
Format: .nrg
Selfboot: Yes
Nothing ripped / 99- min CD required
The age of exploration has dawned and you are about to embark on a magical journey, a voyage of discovery across the vast Skies of Arcadia in search of treasures untold, and where there is treasure, there will be Air Pirates! With over six vast lands to navigate, magnificent ships to fly and customize, a host of weapons and magical spells to be discovered and unique Internet functions to aid your quest, Skies of Arcadia is the most immense gaming experience ever created.
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Title....: Skies of Arcadia
Supplier.: Hykan - Date.....: 20/11/2005
Selfboot.: Hykan - Genre....: RPG
Platform.: SEGA DC - Files....: 17/17/18/18x20MB
Origin...: USA/NTSC - Filename.: hyk-SOA1A/1B/2A/2B.partxx.rar
Type.....: .nrg 99min - Ripped...: See note
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Skies of Arcadia is one of the best RPG for the Dreamcast. So far, only Echelon
has released a complete rip of the PAL version of the game. However, the PAL
game does not support VGA mode and Echelon's release pauses every now and then
while data is being accessed from the CDRs (Imagine pauses before and after
every random battle -the ridiculously high occurrence of the battles itself is
annoying enough :( ) Other releases are either nuked or restrict you from
visiting previous places and disk 2 was never released.
To enjoy the game in its original VGA glory (and in English), I ripped the US
version of the game and splitted the 2 GDs into 4x99min CDRs (there is nothing
that can be downsampled). As pointed out by Echelon, splitting the game is not
easy and not efficient. You can't visit certain places with a certain CDR !
If you dont have a VGA cable and don't mind the loading/decompressing pauses,
the Echelon release is probably still the best release out there.
The nature of the game that you can travel around anywhere (especially later in
the game) and visit any place at any time, makes it really difficult to
determine the split points. I TRIED to remove only scenes that will never be
seen again and then mazes that you have visited (you dont want to run through
the mazes again or do you?) so that you may travel around "MORE" freely (See
notes on disks).You can still visit/land on those places, Shopping and recruit
your crew. However many scenes contain bits of other scenes and maybe reused
elsewhere and its impossible to test the game in every possible route, I just
use a walkthrough for testing with occassional revisiting places. I can only
pray that I didn't miss anything:
Disk 1A:
No Internet access (can access from Disk 1B)
Play upto Esparanze
Save before going into the Dark Rift and switch to Disk 1B.
Disk 1B
Totally free while the game itself allows, even Internet access.
(in fact, you may begin playing as far back as Grand Fortress)
Disk 2A
Totally free while the game itself allows,
Save before going to the Great Silver Shrine.
Disk 2B
DO NOT enter the following mazes(Landing is OK):
Temple of Pyrynn (Red Giga)
Moon Stone Mtn (Green Giga)
Rixis (Green Giga)
Daccat Island
Mount Kazai (Blue Giga)
Glacia (Purple Giga)
If you really want to re-visit these places, save in open ocean and switch
back to Disk 2A (no, you can't save on disk 2 and switch back to disk 1,
finish the maze, then save and switch....)
Rip notes (technical)
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*The following notes are a bit technical and is useless to 99% of the users.
*The info is intended for technical users who know what they are doing and if
*they found anything wrong with my procedures, they can correct me or perhaps
*release a ppf.
Most of the text that appeared in the game can be found in the me*.sct files and
these files also show what other files they are linked. I tried to build a map
of how these files are linked (yep, there are hundreds of *.sct !) which helped
me to determine what may go and what should be kept in a certain CDR.
There are dead ends in the map which means they are called from or return to
free Ocean travel (controlled propably by 1st_read.bin or other files.)
To make thing simpler, only those that were removed from a particular CD are
listed as follow:
Disk 1
Total size 961M in 3491 files
Linked 522 files containing 338 duplicates. (44.0M to 16.2M saving 27.8M)
Internet related files 13M
The main CG files are found in \field\A*.MLD. There are a total of 579M in
757 files and these are the main targets for splitting.
Disk 1A
All Internet related files
A019 Yafutoma
A020 Tenkou (Yafutoma)
A121 Mount Kazai (Yafutoma)
A122 Dark Rift
A232 King's place - Yafutoma (Yafutoma)
A237 Ilchymis (above clounds - after Yafutoma)
A238 Ryu-kan's isle (beyond Dark Rift)
A239 Hamachou (above clounds - Dark Rift)
A247 Ship battles in Yafutoma
A513 Ship battle: red bird (above clounds)
A523 Ship battle: gaint squid (beyond Dark Rift)
A524 Ship battle: Anguila (Dark Rift)
A525 Ship battle: Tenkou ship (Yafutoma)
A527 Ship battle: giantlooper (beyond Rifts)
A530 Ship battle: Vigoro (Yafutoma)
A531 Ship battle: blue giga (Yafutoma)
Disk 1B
this disk is easy, compare those visited places in Disk 1A with Disk 2 and
remove those that are not present in Disk 2(past, unwanted scenes):
A002 Pirate Island
A004 Sailor's Island
A005 Valua
A008 Maramba
A010 Horteka
A013 Nasrad
A103 Shrine Island
A107 Valua Upper City
A109 Temple of Pyrynn
A111 Moon Stone Mtn
A112 Rixis
A204 Red Giga battles
A215 Green Giga battles
A220 Red Giga battles
A241 Green Giga battles
Disk 2
Total 947M in 3200 files
Linked 563 files containing 363 duplicates (51.3M to 19.6M saving 31.7M)
Disk 2A
A028 Great Silver Shrine
A130 Hydra
A131 Soltis
A249 Awaken Zelo
A544 Ship battle: Galcian's Elite vessel
A545 Ship battle: Hydra
A547 Ship battle: Zelo
A580 Ship battle: Soltis guard
A583 Ship battle: Soltis guard
Disk 2B
A109C-E Temple of Pyrynn maze (A109G is the new entrance)
A111B-C Moon Stone Mtn maze
A112B-C Rixis maze
A115B-C Daccat Island maze
A121B-D Mount Kazai maze
A123B-D Glacia maze
A125B-C Maw of Tartas final room/ground level before seal broken.
A126BJ,CJ,DJ Scenes in Dangral Island
A127AJ,BJ Sonar,Battles in Vortex
A244AI meet Yeligar
A246AI Scene after defeated Yeligar
A535 Ship battle: Yeligar
A540 Ship battle: DeLoco deep sea
A541 Ship battle: DeLoco deep sea
A573 Ship battle: Blackbeard II
Like all of my previous releases, the images were created with a variation of
Echelon's method and hex edited directly into Nero format without burning to CDR
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Echelon for ripping a version without VGA support
Ryucpl for inspiring me on the possiblility of splitting the game.
I tested Ryucpl's version and confirmed that the US VGA version is
actually worthwhile to buy.
Darkfalz for his "Multiple File LBA Copier" that helped me to relink/remove
duplicate files
Gosseyn , Rayearth , blibbero , NU-NRG & all contributing members of Sega Palace


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It is part of the legend of Lyndon B. Johnson that on this day in 1965, the U.S. president reportedly grabbed Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson by the lapels and shouted: "Don't you come into my living room and piss on my rug."
Pearson, who eight years earlier had won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to resolve the Suez Crisis, was on another push for peace. He had been invited to Camp David after proposing a "Pause for Peace," a limited halt to U.S. air strikes against North Vietnam. Pearson told Johnson the ploy had worked for LBJ's predecessor, John F. Kennedy, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK had cooled that war of words long enough for U.S.S.R. leader Nikita Khrushchev to find a graceful exit after getting caught shipping Soviet missiles to the island nation.
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Paul McCartney has spoken out about universities offering Beatles studies.
Answering fan questions on his website, Sir Paul has revealed that he's not convinced by the idea of young people studying pop music. "For me it's ridiculous, and yet very flattering. Ridiculous because we never studied anything, we just loved our popular music...And it wasn't a case of 'studying' it. I think for us, we'd have felt it would have ruined it to study it. We wanted to make our own minds up just by listening to it.
"So our study was listening. But to be told - as I was years ago now - that The Beatles were in my kid's history books? That was like 'What?! Unbelievable, man!' Can you imagine when we were at school, finding yourself in a history book?!"
McCartney went on to say how academia doesn't necersarily breed great musicians. "It's very flattering. At the same time, I don't think that by studying popular music you can become a great popular musician; it may be that you use it to teach other people about the history, that's all valuable. But to think that you can go to a college and come out like Bob Dylan? Someone like Bob Dylan, you can't make."
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Q: For more than 20 years, I had the job I always dreamed about. I knew since junior high I wanted to work in what was then called "the record business." After graduating from college, I landed a job at a PR firm, and over the years grew to a senior VP position earning well over six figures with a nice, steady bonus. After the president of the company was unceremoniously booted from the firm he had founded, a new guy came in and within a short period fired people he felt had loyalty to the old regime. So after more than 20 years, I was out. For the next 15 or so years, I stayed involved in music but could never land a position like I had previously.
Last year, I got separated and moved across the country. Although I had money coming in from my pension and early Social Security payments, I was depressed I couldn't fit back into what the business had morphed into. Finally, after encouragement from my kids, I decided to apply for a job at a retail chain I respected. Although the pay scale was at the opposite side of what I was making, I thought it would be good for me to be doing something and I figured I could be an asset. Now, six months later, I just got promoted and received a small bonus for being associate of the quarter.
When I walked out of the store after being told the news, I was so happy I wanted to post about it, but I am a bit hesitant that people who knew me in my prior life, working with big-name musical artists, will think less of me now. Even people I work with now don't know about my history. I'm comfortable with my transition, I just don't know how others will be. How would you suggest I come to terms with this? — K.L., Houston
A: I spend far more time than I care to admit thinking about what field I can enter after my luck getting jobs in the constantly shrinking industry in which I am employed finally dries up. Fantasizing about a world in which Facebook and private equity do not control my future occasionally feels freeing, but more often it sends me into a spiral of despair because of my lack of marketable skills.
Which is all to say that I envy you greatly, K.L. Forced out of a job you loved by shifting winds and capricious bosses, you made a new life for yourself, one in which you are thriving at work and being rewarded for it. We should all be so lucky.
And yet, as you describe those class anxieties, I relate to them so viscerally I practically shiver. I try to think about my hypothetical second career based on what I'd enjoy doing, not on what would be equally prestigious, but sometimes the idea of hypothetical people gossiping about how far I've hypothetically "fallen" creeps into my head, and it's worse than any nightmare I've ever had. Money and status have a funny way of bringing out all our other neuroses, too.
The good news is that you have an opportunity to make a real difference. There's no way to make anything feel less fraught without talking openly about it, so if you announce on Facebook that you're loving your retail job and you're proud to have been promoted, I promise you it will stick in someone's mind the next time they're in a similar situation. Sure, some fake friends and old rivals will most likely make a joke or two behind your back, but I'd wager that an order of magnitude more people will be genuinely happy that you're doing so well and relieved that you're showing them a version of life they've been irrationally afraid of. I know I am.
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Q: My co-worker and I have an informal snack corner in our shared cubicle. We actually enjoy it when people stop by throughout the day and shoot the breeze and eat some salty and sweet items that we provide. But there are some co-workers who either don't contribute or bring a single box of cookies per month and act as if they deserve a medal. It isn't the money but the principle — my cubicle mate and I hate cheap people. How should we handle this? — Paul, Los Angeles
A: This is a very nice thing to do! I wonder if people just think you're even nicer? You don't owe them an unlimited supply of treats, of course, but have you ever been specific about the terms? I will confess to occasionally dropping in on a co-worker pal who always has a good stash of candy, and I have never brought her some in return. You have shown me the error of my ways; now you have to do the same for your colleagues. Put up a sign that says "contributions appreciated," and watch the treats flow in. Meanwhile, I'm going to the bodega to restock for my co-worker.
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