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Final Fantasy V by Chris Kohler is a fantastic book, a great mix of gaming history and culture. I actually read it in one sitting because I was so enthralled.
I was especially intrigued as FFV is the one game in the series (aside from XIV) that I haven't played. So I felt like I was getting a historical introduction to a game I'd only heard about in passing. I was actually taken aback by how important FFV was to the series, as Kohler states, "In Japan, Final Fantasy V was a colossal hit, and is fondly remembered there today as one of the greatest games of the Super Famicom era." On top of that, he suggests, "it might even be the best game in the whole series."
Like many gamers, Final Fantasy games were special events for me. I not only remember every Final Fantasy I played, but where I was and the sense of anticipation that came with the arrival of each iteration (my memories of childhood and writing are interlinked with each Final Fantasy). So when I started reading FFV, I felt like I'd entered a Garland time loop back to my past, only one that existed on an alternate history. I wanted to know everything about the game.
Fortunately, Kohler delivers.
FFV is worth reading just to learn more about the development behind the actual game. It's like an excavation into the 16-bit era in Japan, digging up bit-sized gaming hieroglyphics that reveal how it all came together. This includes a very deep and insightful interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi, from his origins (I got a big kick learning he read sci-fi books from Hayakawa which is also my Japanese publisher!), to joining Square and engaging in a friendly rivalry with Enix to up the ante. Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy were in an arms race, not of destruction, but creativity, meant to give players better, more immersive experiences. That in part led to one of the core gameplay decisions for the game, fusing together FFIII and FFIV to try to get the edge on the latest Dragon Quest.
"Final Fantasy V was going to one-up itself yet again. Not only would players again have the ability to reconfigure their parties' classes at any time (like FFIII), they'd also be able to carry over abilities from classes that they had played for a while, thus creating mix-and-match characters with any combination of different abilities."
Just as integral to the story of FFV's creation is Kohler's relationship to the series. In many ways, FFV is a meticulously researched and thoughtfully written love letter to the game that sparks off a quest worthy of Final Fantasy. Not for crystals, but FFV, the forbidden crystal, locked a continent away. It is enjoyable because it is so honest, entertaining, and respectful in that quest. We follow Kohler from Tufts University to Japan in a study-abroad program and the funny connotations of "otaku" back in 2000. We also learn about his decision to write a FAQ for the game. As Kohler states, his vision was, "If Square wasn't going to release Final Fantasy V here, we were going to make it as accessible as possible to the English-speaking world," though there were many difficulties, like the fact that he "didn't know the first thing about the language," or that "Japanese language was not a standard feature of American word processors or web browsers in 1995." Recruiting a party to undertake the quest, he ventures out in a story that has its share of triumphs and disappointments. The conclusion to his FAQ journey, though, is heartbreaking
This reflects some of the more meaningful and somber themes of FFV. As Kohler states, "Final Fantasy V is about parents and children, a meditation on passing the mantle of responsibility to the younger generation."
The mantle of the book is very comprehensive and everything gets covered here, from questions about why FFV seems to have a smaller map in comparison to previous games, to pivotal story points and why narrative choices were made in the way they were, to even the translation (or mistranslation) of specific names. I loved when Kohler delves into one of the three pillars of Final Fantasy, Uematsu's music, and how there are Irish influences in the FFV OST to differentiate it from the other FFs. What surprised me was the fact that after the gorgeous soundtrack from Actraiser's (published by rival Enix), Uematsu felt compelled to push his compositions even further (coming after FFIV which has some of my favorite music, that's really saying something).
Just as FFV had many classes, Kohler wears different caps, jumping from a detailed look at the game itself, to a broader view of the cultural zeitgeist and the evolving relationship between society and gaming/anime. Like the FFV class system, the layers build on top of each other, intricately weaving the caps of journalist, fan, creator, and gamer. Pop culture references and explanations abound to give each element perspective, and every page is full of fascinating new facts and trivia.
"The interplay between the linear narrative, the puzzles, and the nonlinear exploration is what leaves us with the impression that a Final Fantasy game had a memorable story," Kohler quotes Sakaguchi as saying, which could be said of the book.
Kohler's greatest achievement is that he gives us a gift, engendering a desire in his readers to immerse themselves thoroughly and completely in the world of Final Fantasy V. Now please excuse me while I go and play it.
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I just finished a day and a half long orientation at the University of Toledo's College of Law. So many speakers and information! I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't extremely nervous to go, but as always I made it so much more stressful in my mind. I found two people that actually went to my undergraduate school who I didn't know all that well, but we became friends. The school did a great job of breaking us up into different groups every now and again to meet new people. I even met a judge and a practicing lawyer in the Toledo area.
I made quite a few friends today and met some people I was going to have classes with, so I am not quite as nervous for Monday to roll around. I have homework and I need to complete for Monday; however, I should probably buy the books first. I would have to say the most intimidating part of the day was walking into the school alone, not knowing anyone. This quickly vanished when I realized most people weren't from around the area and needed to make friends too. The second most intimidating part of the day was hearing the head of financial aid speak. She made me extremely overwhelmed by the instructions she was giving and the numbers she was spewing. I think scaring us when we already know we are going into major debt is not very helpful!

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In my religious tradition, we didn't do saints. We did do Christmas pageants—big time. I remember in various pageants being an angel, a wise man, a shepherd—all of the usual male roles. My most triumphant pageant appearance, though, was the year I got to be Joseph. Wearing a white dish towel on my head secured with a bathrobe belt, I gazed with a holy aspect at the plastic headed Jesus in the make-shift manger while the narrator read the Christmas story. Actually, I was gazing at Mary, played by Bonnie, whom I was planning to marry in 15-20 years. It was my usual pattern when I was in single digits of age. If I thought a girl was cute, I'd think "you're cute—I wonder what our children will look like." Of course I always thought these things—I never said them.
Today is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. Until I became familiar as an adult with what Catholics do, I didn't know that Joseph had his own day. I wonder if he minds competing with St. Patrick, who is feted with corned beef, soda bread, parades, and green beer just two days earlier. Joseph didn't get a lot of play (other than hanging around and looking holy in the Christmas pageant) when I was growing up. He was a necessary part of the story, doing carpenter things, banging on the doors of inns with "No Vacancy" signs, having important dreams (maybe the best dreamer in the Bible other than his namesake in Genesis)—more than a bit player, but no more than supporting cast. I've come to admire him more than just about anyone else in the Bible, though. I know he was the earthly father of Jesus and all, but what impresses me was that he was Jesus' stepfather.
I'm not a step-parent, but I've observed one from close range for close to thirty years. On the day before Thanksgiving in 1987, my sons (ages eight and five) and I met Jeanne, a red haired, green eyed ball of energy (she's been called a "force of nature") at my parents' house. My parents had known her for a number of years. I was recently divorced, nature took its course, and Jeanne and I were together just a few short weeks afterwards. But with me Jeanne got a "three-fer." She did it willingly—I even remember her telling me that she always thought she'd end up marrying someone who already had kids. But there's no more difficult role for any human being to step into, no more thankless task. That's why I love Joseph, because he makes me think about the person I love the most.
I wonder how Joseph processed being handed an impossible job, with no blueprint or instruction manual. All he wanted to do was marry the person he loved. God said, "Okay, but here are a few other things you get to do too." I wonder if Joseph and Mary, overwhelmed with the task before them, threw themselves so wholeheartedly into the process of making this stepfamily work that they neglected for long periods of time to pay attention to their own relationship with each other. Did Joseph ever wonder when it would be "his time," when he would be valued for who he was rather than for what he could do for Jesus, or Mary, or God? I wonder if Joseph ever saw "you're not my real dad" in Jesus' eyes or actions. Did Joseph ever resent Jesus' biological connection with Mary, something that nothing Joseph ever did or said could possibly balance out? I wonder if Jesus ever told Joseph, at least when he had grown up, that he appreciated Joseph and that he apologized for the times he'd been a jerk.
In Santa Fe, there is a little church called the Loretto Chapel, which contains a "miraculous staircase," built by a stranger with a donkey and a toolbox who showed up in answer to the prayers of the Sisters of Loretto. The newly built chapel needed a staircase to the choir loft; those who knew about such things said it would have to be a ladder, since a regular stairway would be too invasive of the chapel space. The stranger built an architectural marvel, a spiral staircase containing two 360 degree turns with no visible means of support and held together with wooden pegs rather than nails. The stranger disappeared without being paid after completing the staircase; not surprisingly, legend has it that the donkey-riding stranger was none other than St. Joseph, patron saint of carpenters.
Carpenters need a patron saint—I suppose everyone in every walk of life does. I'm sure Joseph was a fabulous carpenter, maybe even capable of building a miraculous staircase. But various websites tell me that Thomas More is the patron saint of step-parents, which makes no sense. For step-parenting is a far more impossible task than the construction of any number of miraculous staircases. Joseph took it on and pulled off a real miracle—being a parent to and, along with Mary, raising a child who was not his. And just like the Sisters of Loretto, I needed a miraculous answer to an impossible situation—how was I going to raise these kids by myself? Jeanne in my parents' living room the night before Thanksgiving was as unexpected as a stranger on a donkey with the tools and ability to build a miraculous staircase. I made out better than the Sisters of Loretto, though, because the miracle stranger didn't leave. I can no more repay her than the Sisters could have paid Joseph—how do you repay someone who changed three lives?


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What do tunnel discriminations, threadles, and pushes to the backside all have in common?
They all involve landing side approaches.
What are landing side approaches, and why do you need to teach your dog about them?
A landing side approach occurs when your dog must approach an obstacle from the landing side of the obstacle rather than the takeoff side, as is the usual on course. This means your dog actually has to pass the takeoff side of the obstacle to get to the landing side of the obstacle. This can be a real problem on an agility course if you can't be in a position to change your dog's natural path to put him on a path to the correct side of the obstacle. The idea of passing by an obstacle that they will then take is a difficult concept for may dogs, particularly those whose experience tells them that obstacles on their path should be taken in a forward and logical manner!
In addition to requiring more mental effort on the part of your dog, landing side approaches often require a more complex mechanical and physical effort as well.
All About Landing Side Approaches is a self-study course that will help you and your dog master the challenge of approaching tunnels and jumps from the landing side, rather than from the usual takeoff side. At the end of the course you will have trained two verbal cues for a tunnel and three verbal cues for a jump so that you can tell your dog what you need him to do even when you're not in a position to help him.
You'll never look at tunnel discriminations, threadles, or backsides the same way again!


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David G. Hays, a pioneer of computational linguistics, describes an experiment he performed in 1956 at the RAND Corporation:
The experiment strips conversation down to its barest essentials by depriving the subject of all language except for two pushbuttons and two lights, and by suggesting to him that he is attempting to reach an accord with a mere machine. We brought two students into our building through different doors and led them separately to adjoining rooms. We told each that he was working with a machine, and showed him lights and pushbuttons. Over and over again, at a signal, he would press one or the other of two buttons, and then one of two lights would come on. If the light that appeared corresponded to the button he pressed, he was right; otherwise, wrong. The students faced identical displays, but their feedback was reversed: if student A pressed the red button, then a moment later student B would see the red light go on, and if student B pressed the red button, then student A would see the red light. On any trial, therefore, if the two students pressed matching buttons they would both be correct, and if they chose opposite buttons they would both be wrong.
We used a few pairs of RAND mathematicians; but they would quickly settle on one color, say red, and choose it every time. Always correct, they soon grew bored. The students began with difficulty, but after enough experience they would generally hit on something. Some, like the mathematicians, chose one color and stuck with it. Some chose simple alternations (red-green-red-green). Some chose double alternations (red-red-green-green). Some adopted more complex patterns (four red, four green, four red, four green, sixteen mixed and mostly incorrect, then repeat). The students, although they were sometimes wrong, were rarely bored. They were busy figuring out the complex patterns of the machine.
(The quotation is from "Language and Interpersonal Relationships," Daedalus, Vol. 102, No. 3, Summer 1973, pp. 203–216.)
I too have met a few mathematicians who might be described as always correct but soon bored. In this case, however, I don't think the mathematicians are to blame. The game they were asked to play seems like the dullest possible use of this experimental apparatus, which actually has rich possibilities.
Wouldn't it have been more fun to put the players at crossed purposes? Let one try to match the color of the button to the color of the light, while the other player strives to create a mismatch. This game, more commonly played by matching pennies, has no strategy that allows both competitors to be boringly correct. In 1956—the same year as the RAND experiments—D. W. Hagelbarger of Bell Labs wrote a computer program to play the penny-matching game. In 9,795 games against human opponents (some of them probably mathematicians) the program scored 5,218 wins and 4,577 losses, well above chance level.
The RAND experiment, with its deliberate confusion of human and computational agents, also summons up thoughts of the Turing test. Turing's paper on the "imitation game" was published in 1950, but Hays does not allude to it. And, after all, in his experiment the computer was a mere fiction, introduced to distract the participants from the true nature of the proceedings. But I'm curious about the outcome of a Turing test conducted over this minimalist channel of communication. If you were sitting at that console, with nothing but two buttons and two light bulbs to express yourself, how would you persuade an interrogator that you are a person rather than a machine? What conversational strategy could you adopt that a computer program could not master just as well, at least over a limited number of exchanges?
If the conversation goes on long enough, of course, the thinness of the channel hardly matters. With two buttons to choose between, you can communicate one bit of information in each exchange, and in principle that stream of bits can encode any message. Nevertheless, getting the conversation started seems like an intriguing problem. Without prompting or prearrangement, how would the two parties—human or otherwise—bootstrap a language? Would they reinvent Morse code, or some ad hoc equivalent? Maybe they'd start like this:
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5 Items, Zero Spin
1) My letter to Jonah Goldberg is as yet unanswered. Should that change, I hope the response reflects his genuinely held convictions, rather than his efforts to "do his part" in the spin wars.
2) Johann Hari's Slate piece on Ayn Rand is just the latest example of a journalist who writes about the extraordinarily popular author but it utterly unable to understand her appeal. Perhaps someone should figure out precisely why so many Americans regard her as someone with valuable insights. I'll happily submit to an interview on that subject. Meanwhile see here for a smart Ayn Rand critique. (Via Rod Dreher)
3) This is easily the best piece on Michael Bloomberg's re-election.
4) "If there were no War on Drugs, I sincerely believe that within a single generation, there would be no perceptible "crisis in black America," and this book shows much of why that's true. The War on Drugs turns whole neighborhoods against the cops—with no discernible benefit after more than 30 years." — John McWhorter, recommending the book Snitch.
5) Aztec warriors, enamored by the iridescence of humming birds, sometimes contrived to outfit themselves in ankle length hummingbird feather coats, so that striding into the slanting sunlight of late afternoon they'd shimmer like otherworldly apparitions. How depressing that the most likely contemporary application of this knowledge involves pay per view "wrestling."


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Housing finance company Reliance Home Finance Ltd on Monday announced the appointment of Ravindra Sudhalkar as its CEO, the company said.
In a statement, Reliance Home Finance said Sudhalkar was earlier with Kotak Mahindra Bank as Senior Executive Vice President and Head-Secured Assets, managing and growing a book size of over Rs 30,000 crore.
Reliance Home Finance is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Capital Ltd and has assets under management (including securitised portfolio) of Rs 8,259 crore as of June 30, 2016.
Also Read: Reliance ties up with Dassault after Rafale fighter jet deal
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"I am happy to announce the appointment of Mr. Ravindra Sudhalkar as the CEO of our fast-growing Housing Finance business with immediate effect. Focus on Housing Finance forms an important part of Reliance Capital's growth strategy and we will continue to aggressively expand this portfolio under the leadership of Mr. Sudhalkar," said Sam Ghosh, Executive Director and Group CEO, Reliance Capital was quoted as saying in the statement.


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Loong Air
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I had a whole other blog written this morning.
and I've deleted it.
Personal accountability won't let me post it.
My sense of fairness, my desire to do the right thing, won't let me send it out into the world.
In Bruce Weinstein's excellent book, Ethical Intelligence, he lists the 5 principles of EI as:
- Do no harm
- Make things better
- Respect others
- Be fair
- Be loving
As I move through my day, as I continue to work with the amazing people I work with who are committed to ending homelessness and to supporting people in their journey home, I begin with the realization that to do no harm means to allow space for all points of view, for all behaviours, without judging, condemning, criticizing and complaining.
I have let anger, confusion, disappointment, sadness discourage me.
The situation isn't important — what's important is — how will I respond? How will I behave?
We all have situations that create angst and cause concern.
My friend Ian at Leading Essentially, posted a catchy phrase from one of the coaches at a course he's taking. She says, ""I would be happy if you would just change."
I would be happy if the individual in question would just change their behaviour so that it doesn't cause so much angst amongst people I admire who are working hard to end homelessness and are not doing what they do to create worse, they are doing it to create better.
But… the other person changing isn't my issue.
What am I willing to do to change my perspective, to be fair, to be loving — all those are my responsibilities and concerns.
I cannot change another — and I can't force them to see it my way either.
All I can do is create space for someone to be where they are, as they are, and in the process, accept that we are all where we are at, exactly as we are — and we're all doing our best, where ever we're at.
Sure, I may think they can do better — just ask me!
I may believe they're 'doing it wrong'.
But in fact, my thoughts about what they are doing are not the issue causing me angst.
My thoughts around how I am responding are.
Which is why I deleted my original post.
That post wasn't about doing no harm.
It wasn't about creating better or respecting others — I was respecting the people I work with, but not really all that respectful of the individual in question.
And it definitely wasn't fair or loving.
So… I deleted it and am learning from it.
In essence, because of the dynamics of the situation, I am in a position of power.
To wield my power as a bludgeon, or a knife, is to do harm.
To exercise my voice as a tool to override theirs does not create better — it simply silences someone who is struggling, like all of us, to make sense of something in their world that is causing them pain, anxiety and fear.
to learn from my actions is my responsibility. To grow from my mistakes holds me accountable.
I wrote a blog this morning that did not create better in the world.
In writing it, I found my way clear to where I could see what I truly needed to do was to be more compassionate, caring, kind and fair.
In deleting it, I let courage draw me out of anger so that I could drive away my confusion and find myself once again, in Love.
May your day be filled with moments of grace that fill you up with limitless opportunities to be compassionate, caring, kind and fair. May you surrender all fear and fall in Love.


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Pallet Plus enables you to manage any rented equipment from suppliers such as Chep or Loscam and seamlessly integrates with these suppliers.
Keep track of all transfers, exchanges (including any short changes that may occur), issues and de-hires on your account with suppliers, and most importantly deal with any errors as they occur, and not after they are invoiced to you.
With Pallet Plus you can manage any owned equipment you like. With complete IOU management you can settle exchange or IOU balances with your customers/trading partners or arrange collections for pallets owed to you.
Pallet Plus will keep track of all Exchange and IOU balances and provides a full audit of balances that help when charging IOU customers for owned equipment.


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Where has all the BP oil gone?
The question, 'where has all the oil gone?' has been answered in the media in recent days by scientists providing much speculation about how the oil may go away but little hard data about what is actually happening in the Gulf. We cannot let the future of the Gulf rest on speculation.
The danger of this conjecture is that people are already beginning to tune out and assume that everything is fine, even within the spill response.
So, where is the oil?
The BP oil can be found on the shores of St. Mary Parish. Just yesterday, July 30, 2010, stretches of shoreline along St. Mary Parish were found that were significantly oiled. This area was believed to be safe from the spill and was not given any attention by Unified Command. Even the St. Mary Parish President thought that they would not receive oil. (1)


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Any major purchase requires research, careful analysis, consideration and thought. Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw and Livingston County home buying isn't any different. Determining the right location, number of bedrooms or bathrooms needed, and outdoor space may come more quickly to mind. However, there are many other factors to think about in your home search. At The Bruce Webb Team, we consider it our privilege to share with you the ins and outs of buying real estate. From your initial search to the moment you get the keys to your new home, we will be there, guiding you through the process. We'll even help you find the best mortgage rates, as not every broker will offer the same programs and rates.
As a potential home buyer, you may have a list of "everything" you want or need for your new home. As your agents, we will work with you to help you realize that list and find you the best Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw and Livingston County home to suit you. If you are competing for a home and need to write a backup offer or have contingencies, we can help you with that as well.
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Give us a call to see how we can help you find the home of your dreams!
7 Reasons to Own a Home
1. Tax benefits.
The U.S. Tax Code lets you deduct the interest you pay on your mortgage, your property taxes, and some of the costs involved in buying a home.
2. Appreciation.
Historically, real estate has had a long-term, stable growth in value. In fact, median single-family existing-home sale prices have increased on average 5.2 percent each year from 1972 through 2014, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. The recent housing crisis has caused some to question the long-term value of real estate, but even in the most recent 10 years, which included quite a few very bad years for housing, values are still up 7.0 percent on a cumulative basis. In addition, the number of U.S. households is expected to rise 10 to15 percent over the next decade, creating continued high demand for housing.
3. Equity.
Money paid for rent is money that you'll never see again, but mortgage payments let you build equity ownership interest in your home.
4. Savings.
Building equity in your home is a ready-made savings plan. And when you sell, you can generally take up to $250,000 ($500,000 for a married couple) as gain without owing any federal income tax.
5. Predictability.
Unlike rent, your fixed-rate mortgage payments don't rise over the years so your housing costs may actually decline as you own the home longer. However, keep in mind that property taxes and insurance costs will likely increase.
6. Freedom.
The home is yours. You can decorate any way you want and choose the types of upgrades and new amenities that appeal to your lifestyle.
7. Stability.
Remaining in one neighborhood for several years allows you and your family time to build long-lasting relationships within the community. It also offers children the benefit of educational and social continuity.
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Fire victim's family express gratitude
The family of Dace Zarina, the Longford student who died tragically in a fire in Leuven on January 31 have expressed their gratitude to all who send messages of sympathy, expressed their feelings online and signed the book of condolence at Camlin Filling Station in Longford where Dace's mother works.
Dace's family will be at home at 87 College Park, Longford town from 2pm to 6pm this Saturday, February 15, for anyone who wishes to pay their respects in person.
"We would also like to thank the staff and students of Mean Scoil Mhuire, and the priests and congregation of St. Mel's Cathedral for their thoughts and prayers.
"And to any others who offered prayers and silences," the family said in a statement this week.
"Our beautiful Dace was brought to her hometown of Limbazi, Latvia for a service held on Friday, February 7."
Local people who wish to pay their respects can attend the family home this Saturday at 87 College Park from 2pm to 6pm.


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Who doesn't love puppies? They are certainly delightful to photograph. Here are a few of my favorite things…
A litter of basset hound puppies. They all sat like little stars waiting for their portrait.
A charming black lab mix puppy.
Beagle puppies. Beagles are wonderful models with their sweet expressions.
Another black puppy. I love the sticking out ear.
Another adorable litter of puppies. These have the cutest faces.
And a little puppy that was so tiny she had to be bottle fed.
If you've got a new puppy and want to remember these precious moments forever, have some pet portraits taken before it's too late.


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What this couple did instead of an elaborate wedding will make you jealous
With the cost of weddings continuously rising, some couples feel overwhelmed with their ever-growing budget and stressful planning.
SEE ALSO: Watch people react to being called beautiful in this inspiring video
What if you just put the wedding on hold, and did something more meaningful to yourself and your partner?
Well, this is exactly what Charlie Smith and her fiancé did. After a lifetime of hustle and bustle in "regular life," the Australian couple decided to take a risk for true "wanderlust."
As reported by the Daily Mail, 29-year-old Charlie and her fiancé (who is referred to only as Captain) sold their home, bought a boat, left their jobs, and set sail. So far, their 38 foot boat has taken them around the west of the Mediterranean, to France, Spain, Italy, Elba, Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands.
Before setting sail, Charlie worked as a TV weather presenter and model, while "Captain" was an architectural designer and house flipper. Charlie explains to the Daily Mail that they aren't throwing the idea of a wedding away, just putting it on hold, as they spent their wedding budget on their adventure.
The couple has been living out their dream since May and say they are in no rush to get anywhere — as they are simply enjoying their life together.
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This weekend, Nova Natural is here for a Spring giveaway!
Nova Natural is a small, family-run business based in the beautiful state of Vermont. Our goal is to be your trusted source for children's toys and crafts that allow imaginations to run wild, engage curious minds, and foster appreciation for nature. We carefully handpick every item that goes into our catalog, and it's important to us that we try our very best to offer you fair trade products made with renewable resources. We hope you find beauty and wonder in our toys!
We Vermonters begin to see signs of spring as the daylight stretches out and the clouds push back a bit. We celebrate the sounds of dripping eaves, the sight of sap buckets hanging on maple trees and the scamper of bunnies stirring in the earlier light of dawn. We bring branches of pussy willow indoors to have them bloom or plant the first seeds for our gardens or even set aside some soil for a batch of wheat grass for a favored spring visitor.
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Shelton man charged for spray-painting roadway
A Shelton man was arrested Thursday after he claimed he wanted to make a road safer to cross.
Kevin Brian Reilly, 48, of Howe Avenue, was charged with second-degree breach of peace, second-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree criminal mischief on March 7. He was released on a written promise to appear in court.
According to reports, officers were dispatched to Howe Avenue and Kneen Street, because of yelling allegedly happening in the street. Officers found a man allegedly spray-painting the road, who then ran off.
Later, officers found Reilly, who was identified because of an alleged paint stain on his finger.
Police said Reilly claimed to be painting a sidewalk because he was almost hit by a vehicle that evening.


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Adapted from Tracy Lett's Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, August: Osage County is about family, secrets and the disorder that ties them altogether. My review after the jump.
Former poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard) can no longer cope with the demands of his drug addicted and cancer-riddled wife, Violet (Meryl Streep), so (much to the disgust of Violet) he hires a live-in maid, Johnna (Misty Upham) to help him out. Not long after hiring Johnna, Beverly disappears. When news of Beverly reaches the extended family, they descend on the homestead, travelling from across the country to help Violet.
Violet and Beverly's three daughters couldn't be any more different from each other. There is the bad-tempered daughter Barbara (Julia Roberts), the shy one, Ivy (Julianne Nicholson), and the "spiritual" one, Karen (Juliette Lewis). As well as the three daughters, the extended family includes: Barbara's husband (Ewan McGregor) who she is considering leaving; their surly teen daughter, Jean (Abigail Breslin), who'd rather be anywhere else; Karen's latest toyboy, Steve (Dermot Mulroney); Violet's unpleasant sister, Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale); her husband Charles (Chris Cooper); and their simple-minded son, "Little Charles" (Benedict Cumberbatch).
With the family together for the first time in many years, the proverbial shit hits the fan. Violet's drug-addiction is out of control and as a result her mood is erratic and her lips are loose. The dust is unsettled from several secrets and the family members turn on each other. All families have secrets and issues, but this family appears to be inherently broken.
August: Osage County is a phenomenal display of acting talent, with impressive performances given from the largely fantastic ensemble cast. Meryl Streep has been talked about as a potential Oscar nominee, and after viewing this film it's easy to see why. The three-time Academy Award winner is a powerhouse here – equal parts terrifying and heartbreaking. Every time Violet speaks you're genuinely concerned about who she's going to hurt next, but at the same time you feel incredibly sad. Here is a woman who has hit bottom; she's in immense pain and feels alone in the world. Through Streep's performance you feel all the aforementioned emotions.
Chris Cooper was another stand out in a film filled with great performances. As the much maligned husband of Mattie Fae, he is very much the keep-the-peace sort of man, letting things wash over rather than picking fights; well, that's until there is something worth fighting for. Cooper gives the character a real down-to-earth earnestness, and a heart bigger than almost anyone else there. The only real disappointment in the cast was Julia Roberts, who took the stern, curtness to extreme levels, rarely showing any emotion other than annoyance. Sure, her character was fed-up, but it felt like it was laid on just a little too thickly to be genuine.
Tracy Letts has adapted his own play for the screen here, and while having not see the play I can't compare the film to its source material, I can say that this is a very dialogue-driven film. The plot and sparse story development feel like a secondary concern to the monologues and conversations between characters. The film lacks strong direction, wandering from one dialogue-heavy scene to the next, never really getting too far. This is where August: Osage County falls apart. I can handle the yelling and the absurd revelations and craziness, if there is a point to it all, however, other than showing that addiction ruins lives and the level to which families can be screwed up, I'm not completely sure there was one; well at least not one that was entirely worth the 2 hour runtime.
For a long time the film feels like it is simply about how much these characters can hurt each other, each revelation or secret, trumping the one before it. I can image this would work wonderfully on the stage, but it feels as if director John Wells has missed an opportunity to make this story more inherently like a film, and less like a play. Perhaps we (the audience) needed to be given a little bit longer to get to know the characters before the knives came out, so that we felt a little more emotion towards them when they did.
August: Osage County will make you feel a whole lot better about your own family. It's highly unlikely you or anyone you know is part of a family in as much turmoil as this one.
By Sam McCosh
The Facts
Director: John Wells
Writer(s): Tracy Letts
Starring: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Chris Cooper
Runtime: 121 minutes
Release date(s): USA: December 25 2013; Australia: January 1 2014


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All you need to know about living in Alton
PUBLISHED: 14:59 18 June 2014 | UPDATED: 14:59 18 June 2014
Emma Caulton
Bypassed by roads and modern life, Emma Caulton finds that Alton is a treasure waiting to be discovered
When it comes to house hunting, Alton, and the villages around this old-fashioned market town, is often below people's radar. That's all to the good in my view. It's good to know there are still such quiet corners of Hampshire.
Traffic bypasses it, taking the M3 to the north and the A31 or A3 to the south, leaving this landscape of rolling farmland and woodland, criss-crossed by bridleways, footpaths and byways, relatively unspoiled. Pheasants are surprised by my car as I drive down narrow country lanes. And I am surprised by the lovely long distance views across to the North Downs. It feels rural; yet you can live in one of these barn conversions or old farmhouses and commute to London in not much over an hour.
Villages include Beech, which is private: its heavily wooded slopes hiding big modern homes. There's Bentworth which is a delight with two pubs, a village green, a village school rated Good by Ofsted, and a gold-painted post box in recognition of local Olympian Peter Charles for equestrian success. While picture postcard pretty Chawton (also with a village school rated Good) has perhaps been saved from over-development by its enduring connection with Jane Austen.
Alton itself is described as 'Jane Austen's Town'. She did shop here and there are still some elegant Georgian properties on the high street. But to me Alton feels like a town in flux: part old-fashioned market town, part up and coming commuter belt. There is a bit of stylish small scale development. Period properties encompass rows of colour-washed cottages here and wonky timber-framed houses there, with facilities such as a coolly contemporary library among them.
Waitrose and M&S Simply Food are indicators of local prosperity...otherwise the high street is a curious hotch-potch of promising independents and a few national names. Brock's Farm Shop is an established stalwart while Mog's Deli with its sackcloth and exposed brick vibe (and unexpected foodstuffs like smoked eel) is a relative newcomer. Eateries include one-off Monty's and brands such as Prezzo and Pizza Express in the old square. Throw into the mix a wool shop, secondhand book store, arts and crafts shop, and vintage interiors, and what you end up with is a useful shopping centre with lots to interest, but not enough to compete with nearby Basingstoke and Farnham.
What it lacks in shops it makes up for in schooling. Many of the primaries are rated 'Good', including Butts Primary, Anstey Junior, St Lawrence and Andrews Endowed. Amery Hill secondary and Treloar School (a specialist school for physically disabled children) are also 'Good', while Eggar's School and Alton College are both 'Outstanding'.
It's pleasantly leafy, too. Every approach runs past greens and parks such as Butts Green, boarded by the Watercress Line (the heritage line that runs between Alton and Alresford), and the expanses of Anstey Park.
Even though Jane Austen shopped here, controversial singer-songwriter Alison Goldfrapp was born here, and politician Yvette Cooper was educated here, Alton still succeeds in keeping quiet about its charms. Long may it last.
Agent talk - Nick Warren, Warren, Powell-Richards
"Alton is truly the centre of the south, but it's also a quiet centre. It is strategically well-placed between the A3 and M3 corridors. People who live here can commute to the airports at Heathrow and Gatwick, up to Reading and the Thames Valley, down to cities on the South Coast, across to Guildford, or to London on the train.
It attracts people from far and wide, and there's a strong local market. There's something for everyone from studio apartments to million pound country houses.
The pricier villages are to the north and north-east, such as Bentworth, the Froyles and Bentley. But there are lovely villages which get good prices, like Selborne, Chawton and Beech. Holybourne, which is merging into Alton, is popular, too, and you can walk from the village to the station. There's a fast service early in the morning of 67 minutes up to London. Parking at Alton station is easier than stations further up the line and as Alton is at the end of the line, you can always get a seat in the morning.
I was born in Alton and have worked in the town for the last 16 years, but I'm still discovering new things. It has a lot of history. I remember a criticism Country Life aimed at us that we hadn't got the cappuccino effect; well, we have now.
There's a developing programme of events and Alton is described as a walker-friendly town. Alton borders the South Downs National Park, which has good walking, biking and riding country, and it is also at the start of the Hangers Way."


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HÀ NỘI – FLC Thanh Hóa received good news on the injury front ahead of their match with Quảng Nam in the V.League this weekend.
Thanh Hóa are second in the table with nine points and with a game in hand over the other teams at the top.
The team have been training in Đà Nẵng, a city close to Quảng Nam, for several days to prepare for the hot weather of the central region.
Midfielders Nguyễn Van Bakel and Đào Văn Phong have both recovered from the injuries they suffered in last week's National Cup game.
Coach Hoàng Thanh Tùng also has strikers Pape Omar Faye and Ivan Firer available for selection, who have scored seven goals between them in the league this season.
The team have huge incentive to win away fixtures, with a bonus of VNĐ600 million (US$27,000) for each win away from home.
QNK Quảng Nam on the other hand are second from bottom in the table, but have been difficult to play against at home.
"Our biggest problem is scoring. My players created a lot of chances but failed to score while foreign strikers Ogbuke Felix Onyedike and Suleiman Abdullabi have not adapted to the league yet," said coach Hoàng Văn Phúc, adding that they needed a little more time.
Phúc said a win over Huế FC in the first round of the National Cup last week was a good warm up for his players after a three-week from league matches.
"Thanh Hóa are a powerful team who have won three out of four matches. We have studied them very well and have plans to deal with them," said Phúc.
The other high-profile match this weekend is between Becamex Bình Dương and Hà Nội T&T.
Bình Dương are in good form after their shock win over Jeonbuk Huyndai Motors in the Asian Champions League on April 6.
Bình Dương will be without three-time Golden Ball winner Lê Công Vinh against the capital side due to injury.
Midfielders Dương Thanh Hào and Nguyễn Văn Biển have missed games due to injury, forcing Hà Nội T&T to play without their best line-up.
National team midfielder Đỗ Duy Mạnh is also absent with a hand injury as is Nguyễn Văn Quyết who has been banned for five matches for pushing referee Hoàng Phạm Công Khanh in the fourth match of the national premier league.
Coach Chu Đình Nghiêm will also make his debut this weekend after replacing the inexperienced Phạm Minh Đức last month. Hà Nội T&T are second from bottom of the table with only one point.
The last time the two sides met in the final of the National Super Cup, Bình Dương won 2-0.
Elsewhere, table toppers Hải Phòng play Hoàng Anh Gia Lai; Quảng Ninh Coal visit SHB Đà Nẵng; Sông Lam Nghệ An host Sài Gòn FC; Sanna Khánh Hòa entertain Long An; and Cần Thơ meet Đồng Tháp. -- VNS


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For colleges and universities, informational marketing is a huge key to the success of their program. This is especially important for community colleges who often need to inform local businesses and potential students of the specific programming focus of their college, and differentiate it from the multitude of other regional schools they may be considering. For Edmonds Community College, deep in the midst of a complete rebrand, this meant updating their aging catalog of programming brochures to better reflect their new brand standards and programming.
For several months, we partnered with the EdCC marketing team and leadership to do just that. We audited their original catalog of brochures. Worked with them to refine the content for the new brochures. And presented them with a solution that solved both their need for a design refresh and, more importantly, their need for a set of brochures that clearly conveyed the programming benefits Edmonds provided their community.


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Posted by Andreas from dtm2-t9-1.mcbone.net (188.8.131.52) on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 at 4:50AM :
The U.S. Government Lied To You.
by MICHAEL RIVERO
It cannot be denied any more, the government [Bush-Cheney Junta] lied
to you to start a war of conquest. There were no weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. George W. Bush, [Donald H. Rumsfeld] and Colin
L. Powell, etc., knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq. Powell knew he was lying to the United Nations. Tony Blair has
been outed for ordering re-writes of the Dossier to help Bush with
the lie. All those who questioned the lie were right to do so.
Chretien was right. Schroeder was right. Chirac was right. Blix was
right. Michael Douglas was right. Michael Moore was right. Tim
Robbins was right. Susan Sarandon was right. Sean Penn was right. Bob
Graham was right. Cynthia McKinney was right. Jeff Rense was right.
Daniel Hopsicker was right. Justin Raymondo was right. I was right
and the millions of activists that marched in the streets around the
world were right. There was valid reason to doubt.
Those who believed the lie and promoted it, they were all wrong to
the point of complicity. Blair was wrong. Rush Limbaugh was wrong.
Jim Robinson was wrong. O'Reilly (who recently stated that anyone who
did not agree with him was an idiot) was wrong (and an idiot). Clear
Channel was wrong. ABC was wrong. NBC was wrong. CBS was wrong. Fox
News was wrong. CNN was wrong. The dozen pro-war activists who made
certain they stood between the press cameras and the anti-war
activists were wrong. The local news-bitch who marched right past an
anti-war demonstration to report on one of Clear Channel's staged pro-
war events was wrong. And all of those who reviled, smeared and
attacked those who have proven hindsight to be right, were wrong.
If you believed the lie about the weapons of mass destruction, then
congratulations, you have been made a total fool before the eyes of
the rest of the world. Forget "Polock" jokes, the new fashion rage
will be "dumb American" jokes. Like the dumb Americans who actually
did tape up their houses with sheet plastic and duct tape and nearly
suffocated to death. Or the dumb Americans who actually believed Iraq
still had a credible military after a decade of crippling sanctions.
Those who were wrong will never admit it, of course. They will scream
that those who saw through the lie are just being un-American or
unpatriotic. But it is not an act of patriotism to believe the
government when it lies to you, it is the act of a fool and a coward,
because the government does not have a legal or moral right to lie to
the people. Check out the U.S. Constitution. Nowhere in there is the
government explicitly granted the authority to lie to the people who
pay the costs for all that the government does, good or bad. When a
government lies to the people, it acts unconstitutionally and
illegally and is no longer the lawful government. It therefore cannot
be an act of patriotism to believe the government when it lies. It is
the act of a traitor to support the lies of an unlawful government.
The lie about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction changes the rules.
The government has lost the benefit of the doubt (for most of us with
functioning brains, this actually happened a long time ago). The
government can no longer present claims and then act as if it is
assumed true. The government cannot place the burden of proof on
those who claim that the government lies, because the government now
is the proven liar. From this point on, it is the duty of real
Americans to place the burden of proof back on the government. PROVE
that Iraq (or Iran or Syria or whoever else is on Israel's target
list) has weapons of mass destruction before spending our money and
our children's lives on a war.
The lie about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction should change how we
view history. The official story of anything can no longer assumed to
be true, given that the government is a proven liar. Did Vince Foster
really commit suicide? PROVE IT. Were Arab-Muslims behind the attacks
of 9-11? PROVE IT. Was the 16th Amendment properly ratified? PROVE
IT. Are our elections fair? PROVE IT. All those questions and more
must be re-examined, because the word of the U.S. Government is now
totally worthless, falling in value faster than the dollar.
Because only a real idiot would assume that this one lie was the only
time the government has lied to the people. With this lie exposed,
the safe assumption is that the government has been lying all along,
about everything.
The real question now is what to do about the lie. I am sure that any
parent will tell you that if you catch your child lying and do not
punish them, they will simply lie and lie again. The same holds true
for the government. The government lies because they know they can
get away with it. And this will not change until the people of this
nation make the cost of a lie outweigh its advantages. And that means
that real Americans, by which I mean thinking citizens and not those
useful idiots standing on street corners waving flags paid for by
Clear Channel, need to decide to adopt a zero tolerance policy toward
lies in government. And that means kicking out any and all government
people caught in a lie. No excuses, no appeal, no bargaining, just
throw them out of our government buildings and into the streets in
the most humiliating manner possible. One strike and you're out.
Period. Look at the taxes you pay and remember that the government is
your employee, and that YOU have the right to fire that employee at
any time. Lying should be a firing offence. The very first step in
getting our nation back is to make government terrified of telling a
lie. Now is your chance. The government has been caught lying to you
to start a war. People you know died for that lie. Do you have the
courage to do something about it?
-- Andreas
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Less than a mile from Historic Rockford, close to the banks of the Yadkin River, lies one of the newest vineyards in the bustling Yadkin Valley wine region of North Carolina.
With 45 acres of grapes and 30 acres of pasture, Malcolm and Heidi Hutton purchased their dream farm in 2002 and began their ambitious task of carving out a countryside vineyard and winery. Their story and vision is both unique and inspirational.What people are saying about Hutton Vineyards :
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Access Careers:
Access Institute in Kew Gardens, Queens NY, is a professional and successful Training and Staffing Corporation that provides adult learners and international students in the New York metropolitan area with career enhancement courses in the areas of Allied Health, Media, IT, Movie Production, Solar Technology and Business Applications.
Medical Career Training / Allied Health Certification Programs:
Access Careers would like to give you the opportunity to improve your status, qualify for gainful employment, and receive all the benefits which goes along with being an Allied Health Worker. We provide flexible weekday morning, evening and weekend classes.
CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant / Aide - A CNA provides nursing care and services for people of all ages, and works under the supervision of licensed health care professionals. In this course, you will learn about growth and development throughout the life span, vital signs, personal care and aseptic techniques. You will learn how to observe physical, mental and emotional conditions and report any changes to the nursing or medical staff.
Patient Care Tech - Working closely with doctors and other medical professionals, a Patient Care Technician administers therapeutic programs and monitors the condition of patients. You will use your technical knowledge to provide direct patient care including phlebotomy (blood work) and EKG's. This course prepares individuals as entry level Nursing Technicians. Students must have passed the Nursing Assistant Exam and be certified.
Phlebotomy - In this course, you will learn the basic principles of blood drawing, identification of color coded tubes, practicing blood draw on artificial arm, universal precut (Precautions), and common sites of venipuncture and skin puncture. In addition, you will be taught isolation techniques and how to handle the specimens for accurate results.
EKG Technician - The aim of this course is to teach you the techniques and operation of accurate EKG recording. It will prepare you to take the national certification exam for electrocardiograph technicians. You will learn the basic principles of electropysiology of the heart and how to recognize electrocardiograph waveforms. The course also covers medical terminology and medical law.
Pharmacy Technician - The Pharmacy Technician training program teaches the skills needed to gain employment as a Pharmacy Tech in either the hospital or retail setting. The objective of the Pharmacy Technician Program is to provide graduates with the skills and knowledge that will enable them to qualify for entry-level positions in pharmacies as well as prepare for national certification.
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CompTIA A+ Essentials tests for technical understanding of computer technology, networking and security, as well as the communication skills and professionalism now required of all entry-level IT professionals. It measures the necessary competencies of an entry-level IT professional with a recommended 500 hours of hands-on experience in the lab or the field.
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Security Guard - Our certified security guard training program leads to optimum qualification and enables our graduates to obtain the best security jobs available in the industry. As part of this training program, each student receives one on one interviewing skills and techniques as well as resume preparation and writing. Following successful completion of the program, we actively place our graduates into the security field. We are certified by NYS, NYC & Nassau County Workforce Investment Boards and are preferred vendors on the ELP/PPR list. We are also approved vendors for VESID & DOOR.
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In Episode 157 of the Content Marketing Podcast, we look at the one thing we all must focus on in 2016 — quality — and why this is the year to raise the quality level of our own content marketing. To learn more about content marketing, download our free audio 5 Things You Must Know About Content Marketing at contentmarketingaudio.com.
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A very warm welcome to Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School. We are a popular one form-entry school with an additional 'bulge' class in our current Year 3. Situated on a lovely site with ample grounds including a Multi Use Games Area, allotments, Peace Garden and children's play area. Our Parish Church, The Mother of God and Guardian Angels, is situated next door to our grounds, close to our delightful orchard.
The life of the school is centred upon the mission statement:
Guided by the teachings of the Church we pray, work, celebrate, and care for each other and other people using the gifts we have been given by God the Father, Son and Spirit.
As a Catholic school we pride ourselves on the positive ethos we create; each child is recognised and respected and his/her contribution is valued and rewarded. To support our school aims we have a strong spiritual life celebrated in prayer, liturgy and through the weekly celebration of Mass.
Our children are extremely well behaved and with the support of the close partnership between home and school, make good or better progress.
We hope you enjoy exploring our website which includes all the essential information about our school as well as the Our Faith area giving an insight into children's 'Spiritual Journey.' Our Twitter page is regularly updated showing exciting events and activities that have taken place. Our school offers challenging, creative and enriching experiences; our children love learning!
We look forward to welcoming you and your children to our school family.
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Shambo Update: Should Temple bull receive special treatment?
Shambo, the six-year old Friesian resident at Skanda Vale Temple in Carmarthenshire, is awaiting his fate today. The animal has tested positive for bovine TB and under the guidelines of government vets and the National Farmers Union is recommended for culling.
After much protest, Shambo was allowed to live. This verdict was overturned and the Welsh Assembly vets were sent to the temple this morning to take Shambo to slaughter. In a twist of fate, they forgot their warrants and the protest prayers got louder. The Guardian is following the development of the story here.
What I find most interesting is this petition. The writers have raised a valid point in whether an animal of religious interest should receive special treatment. It's difficult to see why Shambo should be spared the slaughter that other infected cows have received, given that all cows are supposedly sacred to Hindus.
Temple well-wishers have also offered to pay for medical TB treatment, which is an option the owners of other cows culled didn't have. I'd like to know why the Assembly are reluctant to try this option, given that Shambo is kept in isolation and isn't going to be used for meat/milk production like the vast majority of cows killed were? Shambo's purpose is similar to that of a family pet - to be cared for and treated with love and affection. I'm of the belief it's unfair to treat him under the same DEFRA guidelines as livestock and dairy cows as he wasn't reared for these purposes.
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In the recently held, 4th Competition on Human Mistake Proofing (POKA - YOKE), organised by CII Institute of Quality and TPM Club India, BFW was awarded the first place in the Alarm category.
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The Temptation of Adam
by Dave Connis
Adam Hawthorne is fine.
Yeah, his mother left, his older sister went with her, and his dad would rather read Nicholas Sparks novels than talk to him. And yeah, he spends his nights watching self-curated porn video playlists.
But Adam is fine.
When a family friend discovers Adam's porn addiction, he's forced to join an addiction support group: the self-proclaimed Knights of Vice. He goes because he has to, but the honesty of the Knights starts to slip past his defenses. Combine that with his sister's out-of-the-blue return and the attention of a girl he meets in an AA meeting, and all the work Adam has put into being fine begins to unravel.
Now Adam has to face the causes and effects of his addiction, before he loses his new friends, his prodigal sister, and his almost semi-sort-of girlfriend.
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In relation to the book, Dave Connis has also released an ALBUM titled Looking for Eden →
"Looking For Eden is an album written in correlation to the young adult book, THE TEMPTATION OF ADAM (TOA) by Dave Connis. The album is a compilation of songs written by the very fictitious Colin Cratcher, the mentor of the main character, Adam Hawthorne, in the book." - Dave Connis
You guys, I am currently reading The Temptation of Adam (as I put this post together) and it is amazing. Colin Cratcher is definitely a memorable character, so I am loving the idea of this album!
Here are some lyric samples for you:
But when I see a small hallelujah to fill the emptiness of space
I think "cynic" is a name you can leave out in the rain (Track 1 - Drowning in Eden)
I'm not looking to kill. I'm not looking to bruise
That's just what happens when I move I'm not looking to hurt.
I'm just looking for love In mirrors, wrong places, with a wasteland heart (Track 4 - Beast of Nashville)
I want to love you with abandon. Like I love myself
So take my mirror, darling, and scatter it like rain
My reflection is earthly and I want it to change (Track 6 - Love You With Abandon)
There's redemption in our wastes.
A ceremony of dust and grace
A mess of lov
A perfect mess of love (Track 8 - Mess of Love)
She came and loved me when she could've changed me
And I married her for that A ceremony of dust and glory.
We moved and never looked back (Track 12 - Dust to Cradle)
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Amanda Lindhout's "A House in the Sky" details torture and abuse the freelance journalist endured while she was held captive for 15 months, along with an Australian photographer.
The book, co-authored by Sara Corbett, a contributing writer with the New York Times Magazine, has been on several bestseller lists since it was released last fall.
Annapurna Pictures says in a news release there was a competitive pursuit for the book's movie rights.
The company has produced award-winning films such as "American Hustle," "Her" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
Mara was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 for her performance in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
The release says the book is to be developed as a starring vehicle for Mara, who will also serve as a producer of the movie.
"Rooney Mara is someone whose talent and adventurous spirit I admire deeply," Lindhout, 33, says in the release.
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In the book, Lindhout recounts her childhood in Red Deer and the time she spent working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary before she became a travel junkie turned journalist.
She and Nigel Brennan, an ex-boyfriend, were on their way to do a story about a camp for displaced people outside Mogadishu in August 2008 when they were taken by a group of armed men hoping to exchange their release for ransom money.
They were not released until November 2009.
The book reveals how the families of the kidnapped pair eventually gave up on the Canadian and Australian governments and co-ordinated their release through a private hostage negotiator. About $600,000 went to the kidnappers and the same amount paid the negotiator's fees.
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The goal of the CGS project is to demonstrate that it is possible to develop software verification tools that can analyze NASA programs using static analysis techniques to find a certain class of errors called runtime errors. First, we used a state-of-the-art commercial tool (PolySpace C-Verifier) and showed that it can successfully find errors in real NASA software (such as the flight software systems for Mars Path-Finder, Deep Space One, and Mars Exploration Rover). Second, we used the results of this first experience to design a research prototype (CGS) that addresses the shortcomings (in terms of precision and scalability ) of the current commercial products.
The CGS tool analyzes C programs to find runtime errors. In brief, CGS analyzes every instruction in the source code of a C program to "check" if the operations performed in the instruction can create a problem at runtime (i.e., when the program will be executed). Specifically, CGS "checks" each instruction in a program to determine if the following problems can occur:
CGS does its verification using static analysis techniques (i.e., techniques that do not require executing the code) based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation. Therefore, the analysis is performed at compile time (as opposed to runtime), and it does not require writing input cases. CGS analysis is conservative in the sense that it performs all checks necessary to find all errors. In most cases, CGS can certify that a check is correct (no error on any path leading to the check), or incorrect (there is an error on some paths leading to the check), or irrelevant because the check corresponds to dead code (the code that cannot be executed). In some cases, CGS cannot certify the correctness of the check, in which case it issues a warning.
CGS can analyze any C program, but its analysis algorithms have been tuned to be very precise (i.e, less than 10 percent of the checks are warnings) on programs following the "Mars Path-Finder" (MPF) legacy. No precision guarantee is given for other types of C programs. For the moment, CGS runs only on top of the Linux operating system. For performance reasons, the analysis performed by CGS can be distributed over several processors (all running Linux). The results are centralized within an SQL database.
The overall goal of the CGS project is to show NASA developers that software reliability can be significantly increased by using verification tool based on static program analysis. We therefore need to demonstrate that it is possible to develop precise, and scalable, software verification tools that can analyze NASA programs using static analysis techniques to find a certain class of errors called runtime errors.
In general, developers recognize the usefulness of static analysis, but do not use it in practice because either commercial static analyzers do not scale or they generate too many warnings (which still need to be checked using traditional methods such as code inspection or testing). Our goal is to design and build a research prototype that scales to real NASA software systems (in the hundreds of thousands of lines of code), and deliver precise results (less than 10 percent of the checks are warnings).
C Global Surveyor can be used in different parts of NASA. Our primary customer is the Jet Propulsion Lab, and in particular, its Mars program. Thus, CGS has been applied to the flight software of the Mars Path-Finder mission (135K lines of code), and of the Deep Space One mission (280K lines of code); CGS will be applied shortly to the flight software of the Mars Exploration Rover mission (650K lines of code). We will also look at other JPL-based missions.
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The CGS extension that will deal with C++ programs will be developed so that it can be used during the development of the Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). Currently, MSL plans on using the Mission Data System (MDS) software platform which is implemented in C++. This tool will require significant advances in the analysis of pointers in the context of dynamic data structures.
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Steam eggs in a vegetable steamer 16 minutes; cool slightly, and peel. Slice eggs in half lengthwise, and remove yolks; mash yolks.
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Sauté panko in butter for 2 minutes. Stir mayonnaise, sour cream, green onions, parsley, tarragon, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, salt, and pepper into yolks. Divide among whites; top with panko.