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Q: Remove accents without using iconv What is the best way to remove accents eg.
ÈâuÑ" becomes "Eaun"
Without using iconv

A: I wrote this in php. I hope it helps someone. It avoids me having to use iconv.
//
// This function takes a string with international accented characters and anglicizes it.
// For example, "Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson" becomes "Hafthor Julius Bjornsson"
//

function anglicize($string) {
$accented =    array("À","Á","Â","Ã","Ä","Å","Æ", "Ç","È","É","Ê","Ë","Ì","Í","Î","Ï","Ð","Ñ","Ò","Ó","Ô","Õ","Ö","Ø","Ù","Ú","Û","Ü","Þ", "ß", "à","á","â","ã","ä","å","æ", "ç","è","é","ê","ë","ì","í","î","ï","ð","ñ","ò","ó","ô","õ","ö","ø","ù","ú","û","ü","þ", "Ā","ā","Ă","ă","Ą","ą","Ć","ć","Ĉ","ĉ","Ċ","ċ","Č","č","Ď","ď","Đ","đ","Ē","ē","Ĕ","ĕ","Ė","ė","Ę","ę","Ě","ě","Ĝ","ĝ","Ğ","ğ","Ġ","ġ","Ģ","ģ","Ĥ","ĥ","Ħ","ħ","Ĩ","ĩ","Ī","ī","Ĭ","ĭ","Į","į","İ","ı","IJ", "ij", "Ĵ","ĵ","Ķ","ķ","Ĺ","ĺ","Ļ","ļ","Ľ","ľ","Ŀ","ŀ","Ł","ł","Ń","ń","Ņ","ņ","Ň","ň","'n","Ō","ō","Ŏ","ŏ","Ő","ő","Œ", "œ", "Ŕ","ŕ","Ŗ","ŗ","Ř","ř","Ś","ś","Ŝ","ŝ","Ş","ş","Š","š","Ţ","ţ","Ť","ť","Ŧ","ŧ","Ũ","ũ","Ū","ū","Ŭ","ŭ","Ů","ů","Ű","ű","Ų","ų","ſ","ƒ","DŽ", "Dž", "dž", "LJ", "Lj", "lj", "NJ", "Nj", "nj", "DZ", "Dz", "dz", "Ș","ș","Ț","ț","Ḁ","ḁ","Ḃ","ḃ","Ḅ","ḅ","Ḇ","ḇ","Ḉ","ḉ","Ḋ","ḋ","Ḍ","ḍ","Ḏ","ḏ","Ḑ","ḑ","Ḓ","ḓ","Ḕ","ḕ","Ḗ","ḗ","Ḙ","ḙ","Ḛ","ḛ","Ḝ","ḝ","Ḟ","ḟ","Ḡ","ḡ","Ḣ","ḣ","Ḥ","ḥ","Ḧ","ḧ","Ḩ","ḩ","Ḫ","ḫ","Ḭ","ḭ","Ḯ","ḯ","Ḱ","ḱ","Ḳ","ḳ","Ḵ","ḵ","Ḷ","ḷ","Ḹ","ḹ","Ḻ","ḻ","Ḽ","ḽ","Ḿ","ḿ","Ṁ","ṁ","Ṃ","ṃ","Ṅ","ṅ","Ṇ","ṇ","Ṉ","ṉ","Ṋ","ṋ","Ṍ","ṍ","Ṏ","ṏ","Ṑ","ṑ","Ṓ","ṓ","Ṕ","ṕ","Ṗ","ṗ","Ṙ","ṙ","Ṛ","ṛ","Ṝ","ṝ","Ṟ","ṟ","Ṡ","ṡ","Ṣ","ṣ","Ṥ","ṥ","Ṧ","ṧ","Ṩ","ṩ","Ṫ","ṫ","Ṭ","ṭ","Ṯ","ṯ","Ṱ","ṱ","Ṳ","ṳ","Ṵ","ṵ","Ṷ","ṷ","Ṹ","ṹ","Ṻ","ṻ","Ṽ","ṽ","Ṿ","ṿ","Ẁ","ẁ","Ẃ","ẃ","Ẅ","ẅ","Ẇ","ẇ","Ẉ","ẉ","Ẋ","ẋ","Ẍ","ẍ","Ẏ","ẏ","Ẑ","ẑ","Ẓ","ẓ","Ẕ","ẕ","ẖ","ẗ","ẘ","ẙ","ẚ","ẞ","Ạ","ạ","Ả","ả","Ấ","ấ","Ầ","ầ","Ẩ","ẩ","Ẫ","ẫ","Ậ","ậ","Ắ","ắ","Ằ","ằ","Ẳ","ẳ","Ẵ","ẵ","Ặ","ặ","Ẹ","ẹ","Ẻ","ẻ","Ẽ","ẽ","Ế","ế","Ề","ề","Ể","ể","Ễ","ễ","Ệ","ệ","Ỉ","ỉ","Ị","ị","Ọ","ọ","Ỏ","ỏ","Ố","ố","Ồ","ồ","Ổ","ổ","Ỗ","ỗ","Ộ","ộ","Ớ","ớ","Ờ","ờ","Ở","ở","Ỡ","ỡ","Ợ","ợ","Ụ","ụ","Ủ","ủ","Ứ","ứ","Ừ","ừ","Ử","ử","Ữ","ữ","Ự","ự","Ỳ","ỳ","Ỵ","ỵ","Ỷ","ỷ","Ỹ","ỹ");
$nonaccented = array("A","A","A","A","A","A","AE","C","E","E","E","E","I","I","I","I","D","N","O","O","O","O","O","O","U","U","U","U","Th","ss","a","a","a","a","a","a","ae","c","e","e","e","e","i","i","i","i","d","n","o","o","o","o","o","o","u","u","u","u","th","A","a","A","a","A","a","C","c","C","c","C","c","C","c","D","d","D","d","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","G","g","G","g","G","g","G","g","H","h","H","h","I","i","I","i","I","i","I","i","I","i","IJ","ij","J","j","K","k","L","l","L","l","L","l","L","l","L","l","N","n","N","n","N","n","n","O","o","O","o","O","o","OE","oe","R","r","R","r","R","r","S","s","S","s","S","s","S","s","T","t","T","t","T","t","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","s","f","DZ","Dz","dz","LJ","Lj","lj","NJ","Nj","nj","DZ","Dz","dz","S","s","T","t","A","a","B","b","B","b","B","b","C","c","D","d","D","d","D","d","D","d","D","d","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","F","f","G","g","H","h","H","h","H","h","H","h","H","h","I","i","I","i","K","k","K","k","K","k","L","l","L","l","L","l","L","l","M","m","M","m","M","m","N","n","N","n","N","n","N","n","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","P","p","P","p","R","r","R","r","R","r","R","r","S","s","S","s","S","s","S","s","S","s","T","t","T","t","T","t","T","t","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","V","v","V","v","W","w","W","w","W","w","W","w","W","w","X","x","X","x","Y","y","Z","z","Z","z","Z","z","h","t","w","y","a","B","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","A","a","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","E","e","I","i","I","i","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","O","o","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","U","u","Y","y","Y","y","Y","y","Y","y");
return str_replace($accented,$nonaccented,$string);
}

A: A lot more simply:
$text = "ÈâuÑ foo bar 88.";
var_dump(preg_replace('/\p{M}/u', '',
    Normalizer::normalize($text, Normalizer::FORM_D)));

gives:
string(16) "EauN foo bar 88."

The idea is to decompose the characters into the form where they're actually two Unicode code units, with an individual one for the accents. Then, you remove those accents.
\p{M} means "a character intended to be combined with another character (e.g. accents, umlauts, enclosing boxes, etc.)".
Note that this is not a definitive solution. It may be enough for the input text you have, but many characters, like ø do not decompose, so this method will fail.

A: Complete working code. I know this is long, but it's a sure-shot way used by Wordpress.
<?php

function seems_utf8($str)
{
    $length = strlen($str);
    for ($i=0; $i < $length; $i++) {
        $c = ord($str[$i]);
        if ($c < 0x80) $n = 0; # 0bbbbbbb
        elseif (($c & 0xE0) == 0xC0) $n=1; # 110bbbbb
        elseif (($c & 0xF0) == 0xE0) $n=2; # 1110bbbb
        elseif (($c & 0xF8) == 0xF0) $n=3; # 11110bbb
        elseif (($c & 0xFC) == 0xF8) $n=4; # 111110bb
        elseif (($c & 0xFE) == 0xFC) $n=5; # 1111110b
        else return false; # Does not match any model
        for ($j=0; $j<$n; $j++) { # n bytes matching 10bbbbbb follow ?
            if ((++$i == $length) || ((ord($str[$i]) & 0xC0) != 0x80))
                return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

/**
 * Converts all accent characters to ASCII characters.
 *
 * If there are no accent characters, then the string given is just returned.
 *
 * @param string $string Text that might have accent characters
 * @return string Filtered string with replaced "nice" characters.
 */
function remove_accents($string) {
    if ( !preg_match('/[\x80-\xff]/', $string) )
        return $string;

    if (seems_utf8($string)) {
        $chars = array(
        // Decompositions for Latin-1 Supplement
        chr(195).chr(128) => 'A', chr(195).chr(129) => 'A',
        chr(195).chr(130) => 'A', chr(195).chr(131) => 'A',
        chr(195).chr(132) => 'A', chr(195).chr(133) => 'A',
        chr(195).chr(135) => 'C', chr(195).chr(136) => 'E',
        chr(195).chr(137) => 'E', chr(195).chr(138) => 'E',
        chr(195).chr(139) => 'E', chr(195).chr(140) => 'I',
        chr(195).chr(141) => 'I', chr(195).chr(142) => 'I',
        chr(195).chr(143) => 'I', chr(195).chr(145) => 'N',
        chr(195).chr(146) => 'O', chr(195).chr(147) => 'O',
        chr(195).chr(148) => 'O', chr(195).chr(149) => 'O',
        chr(195).chr(150) => 'O', chr(195).chr(153) => 'U',
        chr(195).chr(154) => 'U', chr(195).chr(155) => 'U',
        chr(195).chr(156) => 'U', chr(195).chr(157) => 'Y',
        chr(195).chr(159) => 's', chr(195).chr(160) => 'a',
        chr(195).chr(161) => 'a', chr(195).chr(162) => 'a',
        chr(195).chr(163) => 'a', chr(195).chr(164) => 'a',
        chr(195).chr(165) => 'a', chr(195).chr(167) => 'c',
        chr(195).chr(168) => 'e', chr(195).chr(169) => 'e',
        chr(195).chr(170) => 'e', chr(195).chr(171) => 'e',
        chr(195).chr(172) => 'i', chr(195).chr(173) => 'i',
        chr(195).chr(174) => 'i', chr(195).chr(175) => 'i',
        chr(195).chr(177) => 'n', chr(195).chr(178) => 'o',
        chr(195).chr(179) => 'o', chr(195).chr(180) => 'o',
        chr(195).chr(181) => 'o', chr(195).chr(182) => 'o',
        chr(195).chr(182) => 'o', chr(195).chr(185) => 'u',
        chr(195).chr(186) => 'u', chr(195).chr(187) => 'u',
        chr(195).chr(188) => 'u', chr(195).chr(189) => 'y',
        chr(195).chr(191) => 'y',
        // Decompositions for Latin Extended-A
        chr(196).chr(128) => 'A', chr(196).chr(129) => 'a',
        chr(196).chr(130) => 'A', chr(196).chr(131) => 'a',
        chr(196).chr(132) => 'A', chr(196).chr(133) => 'a',
        chr(196).chr(134) => 'C', chr(196).chr(135) => 'c',
        chr(196).chr(136) => 'C', chr(196).chr(137) => 'c',
        chr(196).chr(138) => 'C', chr(196).chr(139) => 'c',
        chr(196).chr(140) => 'C', chr(196).chr(141) => 'c',
        chr(196).chr(142) => 'D', chr(196).chr(143) => 'd',
        chr(196).chr(144) => 'D', chr(196).chr(145) => 'd',
        chr(196).chr(146) => 'E', chr(196).chr(147) => 'e',
        chr(196).chr(148) => 'E', chr(196).chr(149) => 'e',
        chr(196).chr(150) => 'E', chr(196).chr(151) => 'e',
        chr(196).chr(152) => 'E', chr(196).chr(153) => 'e',
        chr(196).chr(154) => 'E', chr(196).chr(155) => 'e',
        chr(196).chr(156) => 'G', chr(196).chr(157) => 'g',
        chr(196).chr(158) => 'G', chr(196).chr(159) => 'g',
        chr(196).chr(160) => 'G', chr(196).chr(161) => 'g',
        chr(196).chr(162) => 'G', chr(196).chr(163) => 'g',
        chr(196).chr(164) => 'H', chr(196).chr(165) => 'h',
        chr(196).chr(166) => 'H', chr(196).chr(167) => 'h',
        chr(196).chr(168) => 'I', chr(196).chr(169) => 'i',
        chr(196).chr(170) => 'I', chr(196).chr(171) => 'i',
        chr(196).chr(172) => 'I', chr(196).chr(173) => 'i',
        chr(196).chr(174) => 'I', chr(196).chr(175) => 'i',
        chr(196).chr(176) => 'I', chr(196).chr(177) => 'i',
        chr(196).chr(178) => 'IJ',chr(196).chr(179) => 'ij',
        chr(196).chr(180) => 'J', chr(196).chr(181) => 'j',
        chr(196).chr(182) => 'K', chr(196).chr(183) => 'k',
        chr(196).chr(184) => 'k', chr(196).chr(185) => 'L',
        chr(196).chr(186) => 'l', chr(196).chr(187) => 'L',
        chr(196).chr(188) => 'l', chr(196).chr(189) => 'L',
        chr(196).chr(190) => 'l', chr(196).chr(191) => 'L',
        chr(197).chr(128) => 'l', chr(197).chr(129) => 'L',
        chr(197).chr(130) => 'l', chr(197).chr(131) => 'N',
        chr(197).chr(132) => 'n', chr(197).chr(133) => 'N',
        chr(197).chr(134) => 'n', chr(197).chr(135) => 'N',
        chr(197).chr(136) => 'n', chr(197).chr(137) => 'N',
        chr(197).chr(138) => 'n', chr(197).chr(139) => 'N',
        chr(197).chr(140) => 'O', chr(197).chr(141) => 'o',
        chr(197).chr(142) => 'O', chr(197).chr(143) => 'o',
        chr(197).chr(144) => 'O', chr(197).chr(145) => 'o',
        chr(197).chr(146) => 'OE',chr(197).chr(147) => 'oe',
        chr(197).chr(148) => 'R',chr(197).chr(149) => 'r',
        chr(197).chr(150) => 'R',chr(197).chr(151) => 'r',
        chr(197).chr(152) => 'R',chr(197).chr(153) => 'r',
        chr(197).chr(154) => 'S',chr(197).chr(155) => 's',
        chr(197).chr(156) => 'S',chr(197).chr(157) => 's',
        chr(197).chr(158) => 'S',chr(197).chr(159) => 's',
        chr(197).chr(160) => 'S', chr(197).chr(161) => 's',
        chr(197).chr(162) => 'T', chr(197).chr(163) => 't',
        chr(197).chr(164) => 'T', chr(197).chr(165) => 't',
        chr(197).chr(166) => 'T', chr(197).chr(167) => 't',
        chr(197).chr(168) => 'U', chr(197).chr(169) => 'u',
        chr(197).chr(170) => 'U', chr(197).chr(171) => 'u',
        chr(197).chr(172) => 'U', chr(197).chr(173) => 'u',
        chr(197).chr(174) => 'U', chr(197).chr(175) => 'u',
        chr(197).chr(176) => 'U', chr(197).chr(177) => 'u',
        chr(197).chr(178) => 'U', chr(197).chr(179) => 'u',
        chr(197).chr(180) => 'W', chr(197).chr(181) => 'w',
        chr(197).chr(182) => 'Y', chr(197).chr(183) => 'y',
        chr(197).chr(184) => 'Y', chr(197).chr(185) => 'Z',
        chr(197).chr(186) => 'z', chr(197).chr(187) => 'Z',
        chr(197).chr(188) => 'z', chr(197).chr(189) => 'Z',
        chr(197).chr(190) => 'z', chr(197).chr(191) => 's',
        // Euro Sign
        chr(226).chr(130).chr(172) => 'E',
        // GBP (Pound) Sign
        chr(194).chr(163) => '');

        $string = strtr($string, $chars);
    } else {
        // Assume ISO-8859-1 if not UTF-8
        $chars['in'] = chr(128).chr(131).chr(138).chr(142).chr(154).chr(158)
            .chr(159).chr(162).chr(165).chr(181).chr(192).chr(193).chr(194)
            .chr(195).chr(196).chr(197).chr(199).chr(200).chr(201).chr(202)
            .chr(203).chr(204).chr(205).chr(206).chr(207).chr(209).chr(210)
            .chr(211).chr(212).chr(213).chr(214).chr(216).chr(217).chr(218)
            .chr(219).chr(220).chr(221).chr(224).chr(225).chr(226).chr(227)
            .chr(228).chr(229).chr(231).chr(232).chr(233).chr(234).chr(235)
            .chr(236).chr(237).chr(238).chr(239).chr(241).chr(242).chr(243)
            .chr(244).chr(245).chr(246).chr(248).chr(249).chr(250).chr(251)
            .chr(252).chr(253).chr(255);

        $chars['out'] = "EfSZszYcYuAAAAAACEEEEIIIINOOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiinoooooouuuuyy";

        $string = strtr($string, $chars['in'], $chars['out']);
        $double_chars['in'] = array(chr(140), chr(156), chr(198), chr(208), chr(222), chr(223), chr(230), chr(240), chr(254));
        $double_chars['out'] = array('OE', 'oe', 'AE', 'DH', 'TH', 'ss', 'ae', 'dh', 'th');
        $string = str_replace($double_chars['in'], $double_chars['out'], $string);
    }

    return $string;
}

$str = "ÈâuÑ";
echo remove_accents($str); // Output: EauN
?>

A: Or try this function (with str_replace and exhaustive accents table): http://idilix.net/php-strip-accents.php


text:
Family, Historic Preservation, Monday Musings, The Times We Live In
Confessions of a Southerner (Like a Southern Drawl, This May Take a While)
written by DJB
You may know that I'm from the South. It takes about two seconds for my Tennessee accent to let the cat out of the bag.
Coming out of that great American "family" holiday of Thanksgiving,* I've been thinking recently about "where I'm from" and its impact on my life and work. Place and storytelling are so central to life in the South that it is not surprising that many of the early and influential historic preservationists came from the region, beginning with South Carolina's Ann Pamela Cunningham who led the campaign to save Mount Vernon.
I have always lived below the Mason-Dixon line; have worked to preserve many of the region's buildings, towns, and landscapes; and have long been fascinated by Southern storytelling. To state it clearly, I love the South. But the region comes with a troubled history, including slavery and racism, that continues to inflict damage on our civic life today. I'm asked on a regular basis about the appropriate response to saving places and communities that were first taken from Native Americans and then often built on the back of enslaved African-Americans at unfathomable cost to those men, women, and children; not to mention the enormous moral cost to our nation. The monuments to the false narrative of the Lost Cause that exist all across the country are also highly problematic to those insistent on understanding and honoring the more richly layered American story. Retired General Stan McChrystal just addressed that particular challenge in a pre-Thanksgiving Washington Post op-ed that called for the nation to move beyond icons like Robert E. Lee and move toward our full potential. Next year is often recognized as the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans at Jamestown. But as Dr. Michael Guasco has written, focusing on this date and place creates another false narrative:
". . . the most poisonous consequence of raising the curtain with 1619 is that it casually normalizes white Christian Europeans as historical constants and makes African actors little more than dependent variables in the effort to understand what it means to be American. Elevating 1619 has the unintended consequence of cementing in our minds that those very same Europeans who lived quite precipitously and very much on death's doorstep on the wisp of America were, in fact, already home. But, of course, they were not. Europeans were the outsiders. Selective memory has conditioned us to employ terms like settlers and colonists when we would be better served by thinking of the English as invaders or occupiers. In 1619, Virginia was still Tsenacommacah, Europeans were the non-native species, and the English were the illegal aliens. Uncertainty was still very much the order of the day. . . .
We shouldn't ignore that something worth remembering happened in 1619. There are certainly stories worth telling and lives worth remembering, but history is also an exercise in crafting narratives that give voice to the past in order to engage with the present. The year 1619 might seem long ago for people more attuned to the politics of life in the 21st century. But if we can do a better job of situating the foundational story of black history and the history of slavery in North America in its proper context, then perhaps we can articulate an American history that doesn't essentialize notions of 'us' and 'them' (in the broadest possible and various understandings of those words). That would be a pretty good first step, and it would make it much easier to sink our teeth into the rich and varied issues that continue to roil the world today."
These are tough issues for all Americans, and as a Southerner I find them especially challenging. It is important to get the narrative right, or as right as we can in this day and age. Narrative—or storytelling if you wish—sits beside place in my mind as the other key component to preservation. Storytelling is also another constant in the South. A recent New York Times article entitled "What is a Southern Writer, Anyway?" speaks to how many of those who tell stories about the South today are also at work to shape a better narrative. The author, Margaret Renkl, asks "What if being a Southern writer has nothing to do with rural tropes or lyrical prose or a lush landscape or humid heat so thick it's hard to breathe? What if being a Southern writer is foremost a matter of growing up in a deeply troubled place and yet finding it somehow impossible to leave? Of seeing clearly the failings of home and nevertheless refusing to flee?"
Renkl, who edits a website on Tennessee literature (yes, there is such a thing!), notes that she may be wrong. "For one thing, Southerners don't hold the copyright on a close connection to home, and there are many exceptions to the rule anyway. Historically, African-American writers tended to leave the South as fast as they could, and for obvious reasons." I don't think Renkl gets it completely right, but I think she's on to something about why people—in the South and elsewhere—care about the past and tackle hard issues in order to shape the narrative in a way that is relevant today and into the future. Her take of these writers loving a damaged and damaging place is similar to Dr. Mindy Fullilove's observation that "emotions flow through place."
The editors of The Bitter Southerner note that there is a shame that comes with recognizing that too many Southerners are still "kicking and screaming to keep the old South old." That is balanced in knowing that "many others, through the simple dignity of their work, are changing things." It is that work that is so important. I would argue that it isn't the refusing to flee part that is critical to Renkl's definition, but it is, instead, the unwillingness to paper over the troubles of your homeland. I've spoken all across the country about the fact that my beloved grandmother—she of the way with words that still rings in my ears—was a lifelong member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and subscribed to a false story about history. When I'm working to tell the full American story, I feel it is one way I'm making a small contribution to begin to undo the wrongs her "Lost Cause" narrative brought to so many.
I can do my part in the work to change the narrative about places in the South and, in the process, keep the past engaged with the present as we look to the future. I see that work in changing narratives to ensure that the history of contrabands is central to the story at Fort Monroe. In saving the sacred places at Shockoe Bottom. In recognizing the extraordinary Pauli Murray, who grew up in the most ordinary of houses in Raleigh, and keeping both her story and home alive and relevant in the 21st century. In honoring those marchers who gathered in Memphis' Clayborn Temple with their "I Am A Man" placards. In raising up the story of Bunk Johnson from the gardens of Shadows-on-the-Teche. There are so many extraordinary places with rich, layered stories to tell, and I'm humbled that I get to work with my colleagues in this endeavor.
Portrait of Pauli Murray, on a wall in downtown Durham, NC
Pauli Murray House before restoration (2015) and after exterior work (2016) (Photo credit: Pauli Murray Project)
As I stand and look around our office, I see many whose connection to their place is very different from mine. But it doesn't matter if you come from upstate New York, New England, Los Angeles, or are a child of an immigrant to the U.S.: there is still work to do, in your time and place, in "giving voice to the past in order to engage with the present." I believe with Michael Guasco that only when we do that can we "sink our teeth into the rich and varied issues that continue to roil the world today."
Have a good week.
*Of course, the narrative around Thanksgiving in America is also deeply flawed…something General McChrystal notes in his op-ed. But coming out of this weekend you probably knew that.
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by DJB
I am David J. Brown (hence the DJB) and I originally created this personal blog more than ten years ago as a way to capture photos and memories from a family vacation. After the trip was over I simply continued writing. Over the years the blog has changed to have a more definite focus aligned with my interest in places that matter, reading well, roots music, and more. My professional background is as a national nonprofit leader with a four-decade record of growing and strengthening organizations at local, state, and national levels. This work has been driven by my passion for connecting people in thriving, sustainable, and vibrant communities.
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text:
Instruction on the Festival of the Ascension of Our Lord
Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year
At the Introit the Church sings the words which were spoken by the angels to the apostles and disciples, after the Ascension of our Lord:
INTROIT Ye men of Galilee, why wonder you, looking up to heaven? allel.: He shall so come as you have seen him going up into heaven. Allel., allel., allel. (Acts I. 11.), Oh, clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God with the voice of joy. (Ps. XLVI. 2.) Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
COLLECT Grant, we beseech Thee, O Almighty God, that we who believe Thy only‑begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have this day ascended into the heavens, may ourselves also in, mind dwell amid heavenly things. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.
LESSON (Acts I. 1-11.) The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach , until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles ,whom he had chosen, he was taken up: to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God. And eating together with them, he commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth: for John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence. They, therefore, who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? But he said to diem: It is not for you to know the times or moments which the Father hath put in his own power; but you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold, two men stood by them in white garments, who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand yon looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven.
EXPLANATION This gospel of St. Luke addressed to Theophilus, a Christian of note in Antioch, contains an account of the life, sufferings, and death of Jesus up to the time of His ascension into heaven. The Evangelist continues his account in the Acts of the apostles, in which he describes in simple words that which Jesus did during the forty days following His Resurrection, and the manner in which He ascended into heaven in the presence of His apostles. Rejoice that Christ today has entered into the glory gained by His sufferings and death, and pray: I rejoice, O King of heaven and earth, in the glory Thou bast this day attained in heaven. Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: sing ye to God, who mounteth above the heaven of heavens to the east. Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence and his power is in the clouds. God is wonderful in his saints, the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people, blessed be God. (Ps.LXVII. 33‑36.)
GOSPEL (Mark. XVI. 14-20.) At that time, Jesus appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again. (And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned: And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents: and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick; and they shall recover.) And the Lord Jesus after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God. But they going forth preached everywhere, the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.
The part of this gospel which is within the marks of parenthesis, is the gospel for the feast of St: Francis Xavier.
Why did Christ say to His apostles: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to all creatures?
To show that no one is to assume the office of preaching, but must look for his mission from the lawful pastors of the Church. And when Christ sends His apostles into the whole worlds to all nations without exception, He shows His willingness to save all men. If the designs of God are not fulfilled, the blame is not to be attributed to God, but to man, who either does not accept the doctrine of the gospel, or accepting, does not live in accordance with it, or else renders himself by his obduracy in vice, unworthy of the gospel.
Is faith without good works sufficient for salvation?
No, faith that is not active in love, not fruitful in good works, and therefore not meritorious, (Gal. V. 6.) is not sufficient for salvation. "Such faith," says St. Anselm, "is not the faith of a Christian, but the faith of the devil." Only he who truly believes in Christ and His doctrine, and lives in accordance with it, will be saved.
Is ours then the true faith since all the faithful do not work miracles; as Christ has predicted?
St. Gregory very beautifully replies to this question: "Because the Redeemer said that true faith would be accompanied by miracles, you must not think that you have not the faith, because these signs do not follow; these miracles had to be wrought in the beginning of the Church, because faith in her had to be increased by these visible signs of divine power." And even now when such signs are necessary for the propagation of the faith, and victory over unbelief, God gives His faithful power to work them.
Are miracles wrought now in the Catholic Church?
Yes, for there have been at all times saints in the Church, who, as seen from their lives, have wrought miracles, on account of their faith, which even the heretics cannot deny; for instance St. Francis Xavier, who in the sight of the heathens, raised several dead persons to life. In a spiritual manner all pious Catholics still work such miracles; for, as St. Chrysostom says, "they expel devils when they banish sin, which is worse than the devil; they speak new tongues when they converse no longer on vain and sinful things, but on those which are spiritual and heavenly." "They take up serpents," says St. Gregory, "when by zealous exhortations they lift others from the shame of vice, without being themselves poisoned; they drink deadly things without being hurt by them, when they hear improper conversation without being corrupted or led to evil; they lay their hands upon the sick and heal them, when they teach the ignorant, strengthen by their good example those who are wavering in virtue, keep the sinner from evil, and similar things." Strive to do this upon all occasions, O Christian, for God willingly gives you His grace and you will thus be of more use to yourself and others, and honor God more than by working the greatest miracles.
Where and how did Christ ascend into heaven?
From Mount Olivet where His sufferings began, by which we learn, that where our crosses and afflictions begin which we endure with patience and resignation, there begins our reward. Christ ascended into heaven by His own power, because He is God, and now in His glorified humanity He sits at the right hand of His Father, as our continual Mediator.
In whose presence did Christ ascend into heaven?
In the presence of His apostles, and many of His disciples, whom He had previously blessed, (Luke XXIV. 51.) and who, as St. Leo says, derived consoling joy from His ascension. Rejoice, also, O Christian foul, for Christ has today opened heaven for you, and you may enter it, if you believe in Christ, and live in accordance with that faith. St. Augustine says: "Let us ascend in spirit with Christ, that when His day comes, we may follow with our body.
Yet you must know, beloved brethren, that not pride, nor avarice, nor impurity, nor any other vice ascends with Christ; for with the teacher of humility pride ascends not, nor with the author of goodness, malice, nor with the Son of the Virgin, impurity. Let us then ascend with Him by trampling upon our vices and evil inclinations, thus building a ladder by which we can ascend; for we make a ladder of our sins to heaven when we tread them down in combating them:"
ASPIRATION O King of glory! O powerful Lord! who hast this day ascended victoriously, above all heaven, leave us not as poor orphans; but send us, from the Father, the Spirit of truth whom Thou hast promised. Alleluia.
Why is the paschal candle extinguished after the gospel on this day?
To signify that Christ, of whom the candle is a figure, has gone from His disciples.
INSTRUCTION ON MIRACLES
And these signs shall follow them that believe.(Mark XVI. 17.)
A miracle, as defined by St. Thomas of Aquin, is anything beyond the ordinary, fixed state of things that is done through God. Thus when the sun stands still in his course, when thousands are fed with five loaves and two small fishes, when by a word or simple touch the dead are raised to life, the blind see, and the deaf hear, these are things contrary to nature, and are miracles which can only be performed by God or those persons to whom God has given the power.
That God can work miracles, cannot be denied. God has made the laws of nature, and at any time it pleases Him, He can suddenly suspend them, and that God has at times done so, we have more solid and undeniable proofs, than we have for the most renowned and best authenticated facts of history, far more witnesses testify to miracles, the whole world has believed them, and been converted by them; more than eleven millions of martyrs have died to confirm and maintain their truth; no one gives up his life for lies and deceptions; the Jews and pagans have admitted them, but ascribed them to witchcraft and the power of demons rather than to God; by this they proved and acknowledged the truth of miracles, because in order to deny them, they were driven to false and absurd explanation of them.
Can men work miracles?
No; only God works miracles through man to whom He gives the power. The history of the Christian Church in all ages bears testimony, that men have wrought miracles in the name of Jesus, as, for example, the apostles and the saints.
Can miracles be worked by the relics of saints, pictures, &e.?
The Church, in the Council of Trent, solemnly declares, that we are never to believe that there is in any picture or relic any hidden power by which a miracle can, be worked, and that we are not to honor or ask any such thing of them. Therefore no miracle can ever be worked by them, but God can perform miracles through them, and He has done so, as the holy Scriptures and the history of the Church of Christ both prove. But when through certain pictures (usually called miraculous pictures) miracles do take place, that no deception may occur, the Church commands that such a picture shall not be exposed for the veneration of the faithful, until the truth of the miracles performed is by a rigorous examination established beyond doubt; she then causes such pictures to be respectfully preserved as monuments of the goodness and omnipotence of God.
Why are there not so many miracles in our ties as there were in the first days of the Church?
Because the Church is no longer in need of such extraordinary testimony to the truth of her teachings. Thus St. Augustine writes: "He who in the face of the conversion of the world to Christianity demands miracles, and strives to doubt those which have been wrought in favor of this most wonderful change, is himself an astonishing miracle of irrationality and stupidity;" and St. Chrysostom says: "The question is sometimes asked: How happens it there are not so many miracles now‑a‑days? The answer is, because the knowledge of Christ is propagated all over the earth, and the Church is like a tree which, having once taken deep root and grown to a certain height, no longer needs to be carefully watered and supported."
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PriceCheck: Not All Health Care Transparency Tools Are Alike
By Julio Ochoa • Aug 31, 2016
WLRN
Transparency is the new buzzword in health care with consumer demand fueling changes to state laws and giving birth to websites that publish prices for medical procedures.
WUSF partnered with WLRN in Miami to launch their own database called PriceCheck. But we're not the only game in town.
A Google search for the term "medical prices" turns up several tools you can use to look up healthcare costs.
If you have insurance, you may have seen a similar tool on your provider's website. Florida lawmakers even passed a price transparency law this year that will create a database of prices for medical procedures.
But how do you know what the price comparison tools are really telling you?
Let's sort some of it out.
On one side are for-profit sites that contract with health care providers. The sites list cash prices of common procedures that consumers can pay for up-front.
MDSave is one of the more popular sites, serving 140 markets around the country. CEO Paul Ketchel says the company negotiates with doctors, hospitals and other providers so consumers get just one price.
"That's really what makes the product innovative because the consumer sees that real, full healthcare price for really the first time," Ketchel said.
The company makes its money by charging doctors and hospitals a fee. It also gets a cut of what every consumer pays.
Though Ketchel says most people who use MDSave have insurance, some health care providers contract with the company so uninsured patients can pay their bills.
Viki Magurean is Chief Financial Officer at 7 Rivers Regional Medical Center in Crystal River. She says the bundled cash prices are sometimes cheaper than those paid by people with insurance.
"Every insurance negotiates pricing on behalf on their covered members and MDSave is like an insurance who has negotiated pricing based on the uninsured," Magurean said.
Not all health care price databases are in it to make a buck.
There are sites like ours. PriceCheck provides a space for consumers to enter prices they pay for procedures at specific facilities. You can also search prices that others have paid. We report on the data to spark conversations about the real cost of health care.
And while PriceCheck relies on consumers for information, other sites use records. The not-for-profit FAIR Health group has compiled more than 20 billion records of medical and dental services from insurance companies, health plans and health care systems.
FAIR Health was launched in 2009. It doesn't provide details about specific doctors or hospitals, but you can get a good estimate about what people in your area are paying for a procedure.
"Our data have in effect helped steer people through the rocks as they try to navigate these class five rapids of reform," said FAIR Health president Robin Gelburd.
She says consumers, insurance companies and health care providers all use FairHealth. Florida policymakers building the state's database also have talked to her group.
She says anyone involved in price transparency owes it to consumers to make sure the information they provide is helpful.
Suzanne Delbanco is executive director of the healthcare watchdog group Catalyst For Payment Reform.
She knows consumers are thinking first about the price tag. But that may not be the best strategy.
"You want to take the quality into consideration too," Delbanco said.
She says the best health care comparison tools offer a way to measure quality as well as price.
"Pair it with quality information so that I'm not being misled by the price alone, which really at the end of the day is not a good proxy for the overall value of the care I'm going to get," Delbanco said.
Five years ago, she says, consumer advocates dreamed of having more price transparency tools. Now, the information is there, now we just have to sort it out.
To see the costs of medical procedures in your area and enter the prices you pay, visit HealthNewsFlorida.org and click on PriceCheck.
Julio Ochoa reports for WUSF in Tampa. WUSF is part of Health News Florida, which receives support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
FAIR Health
PriceCheck: Florida Earns 'F' On Transparency Report Card
By Daylina Miller • Aug 15, 2016
Catalyst For Payment Reform
Florida and 42 other states fail to give the public easy access to health care pricing, according to a new report.
The Negotiator: He Lowers Medical Bills -- And You Can Too
By Sammy Mack • Jul 7, 2016
Medical debt is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in the United States. Having health insurance is no guarantee against being swamped by bills after an emergency or a big procedure.
But one Palm Beach County man has found there's room to negotiate.
PriceCheck: Costs Of Having A Baby Vary Greatly, Report Says
By Daylina Miller • Jul 5, 2016
Lisa Rosario/Albuminarium
Having a baby is expensive, even with insurance. A new report says the average cost varies greatly across Florida and nationally.
The report by Castlight, a company that looks at millions of patient claims a year, ranked by price the 30 most populated U.S. cities, including Tampa, Orlando and Miami.


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I suspected they would try a few more times, since the prepaid cell that I use for work calls can be reached by more than one way. When I'm dialed into the on call system, the HOT Phone number will ring this cell. Otherwise, they can call my desk phone which rings this cell thanks to EC500. Or they can call this cell directly, since its listed as my work cell. Also when they call my home number, it will ring this cell. And, that's because I have my Broadvoice service set to simul-ring my GoogleVoice number (so that when its working, GoogleVoice will take the message instead of Broadvoice...I set Broadvoice to the maximum 6 rings) and they are listed as a contact that will ring to this cell.
Evidently, they still have one of my older cell numbers as my contact, so their 4 attempts to call me only resulted in 3 attempts to this prepaid cell. On the 3rd, I was starting to move again, but didn't quite answer it soon enough....which is bad since it was an attempt that goes directly to the prepaid cell, where I was able to get T-Mobile to disable voicemail on it, so that it will ring forever when called directly. This is the way our work cells were original set, that way when calls come to our desk and the EC500 extends to our cells...work voicemail will still take messages when we aren't available. And, when calls come into the on call system, all dialed in phones will just ring until somebody answers, and avoid the problem of messages getting left on the wrong person's voicemail.... Though from time to time, the carrier would re-enable voicemail causing problems, though usually in that the caller is greeted that they've reached an unconfigured voicemail box. Though seemed there was a case where people could still leave messages, but retrieval was a problem though there's probably some common default pin in this case.
In the end they left me a voicemail at work, where I got an SMS notification that a voicemail had been left. But, they also left me a voicemail on my 'home' Google Voice, so I got an SMS transcription. Though I chose not to call back, because I was afraid of what I might accidentally say in my current state.
I think I need to reduce the number of phones I have.... every so often I do think about ditching my smartphone, but then I'll see a new smartphone that I think will fix the problems I'm having. And, I still have a year left on my current contract.
Then 3am, rolled around...where is was a struggle to get up to take my next dose of Xyrem....not sure how many minutes or 10's of minutes might have passed before I finally did. And, then I slept until about 6:45am, where I decided that I would wait until the 7:00 am alarm to get up, but instead got up at 6:56am when the service provider called to say the issue had been resolved (about 3 hours ago.) So, I headed of to send an email of the status update to hopefully avoid getting called, etc.


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Halo Original Soundtrack är ett soundtrack till datorspelet Halo: Combat Evolved. Det komponerades och producerades av Martin O'Donnell och Michael Salvatori för Bungie och utgavs den 11 juni 2002. Merparten av musiken från Halo: Combat Evolved finns med på CD:n, men några låtar har remixats av O'Donnell i medleyform för "mer njutbar" lyssning. Det första stycket O'Donnell skrev, känt som "Halo", blev grunden till Halos "signatursound" som har kunnat höras i de andra spelen i huvudtrilogin.

Soundtracket innehåller en brett spektrum av musikstilar, däribland körsång, stråkorkester och slagverk. Vid utgivningen mottogs soundtracket väl av kritiker. Några berömde det vida spektrumet av musikstilar och de flesta höll med om att spelet inte behövde spelas för att njuta av soundtracket. En specialutgåva av soundtracket släpptes den 28 oktober 2003 och innehöll en DVD med en trailer, demofilm och musik till Halo 2.

Bakgrund
Som audio director för Bungie fick Martin O'Donnell uppgiften att skriva musiken till Halo: Combat Evolved. Han hade komponerat tidigare Bungie-projekt, så som Myth: The Fallen Lords, samtidigt som han jobbade på sitt företag TotalAudio tillsammans med Michael Salvatori. O'Donnell var nervös i förhållande till projektet och sade att han närmade sig det, "med rädsla och bävan". O'Donnell uppgav att hans främsta influenser var musik han tyckte om-"lite Samuel Barber möter Giorgio Moroder". Bungie's Director of cinematics, Joseph Staten, sa till O'Donnell att "musiken borde ge en känsla av betydelse och vikt, och förnimmelsen av det forntida till det visuella i Halo".

O'Donnell's första musikstycke, "Halo", som skulle komma att bli "signaturmelodin till Halo", skrevs och spelades in på tre dagar. O'Donnell övertygade Alex Seropian att låta honom producera ett stycke originalmusik till spelets Macworld Conference & Expo demonstration 1999. Han fick inspiration till temat från "Yesterday" av The Beatles. O'Donnell rekryterade Salvatori och tre andra kollegor han hade spelat in jinglar med-Robert Bowker, Jeffrey Morrow och Rob Trow-för att producera de "mässande munkarna" som inleder stycket. Ursprungligen hade han tänkt att Qawwali-accenterna skulle sjungas av en av de yrkesverksamma, men efter att ha sjungit ett exempel av vad han ville, föreslog de andra användandet av O'Donnell's eget återgivande istället. Musiktemat hade premiär på 1999 års Macworld Conference & Expo.

De andra styckena skrevs, spelades in och producerades under 2001. Musiken skrevs med olika typer av utrustning som inkluderade "keyboards, synthar och samplers liksom digital inspelningsutrustning kontrollerad av datorer". Liveorkestrering från medlemmar av Chicago Symphony och Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra lades till där det fanns behov. Soundtracket innehåller ett brett spektrum av ljud, O'Donnell beskrev det som "Gregoriansk sång, stråkorkester, slagverk och lite av en 'Qawwali voice'". I nära samarbete med nivådesigners delade O'Donnell upp musiken "i bitar". Baserat på dessa "bitar", "[kunde] Halos ljudmotor spela [musiken] tillbaka dynamiskt baserat på spelarens handlingar". I samband med soundtrackets utgivning ordnade O'Donnell om musiken som finns i spelet för att göra lyssnandet av soundtracket "mer njutbart".

Bungie hade tidigare släppt soundtrack till sina spel efter förfrågningar av fans, men Microsoft var tveksamma att satsa på att producera ett soundtrack till Halo; vid den tidpunkten fick de flesta datorspel inte ett kommersiellt soundtracksläpp. Utgivaren mjuknade slutligen efter påtryckning från O'Donnell och musikern Nile Rodgers.

Mottagande
Soundtracket mottogs generellt positivt av kritiker. IGN hyllade soundtracket för dess breda användning av instrument och kommenterade, "Där annan datorspelsmusik tenderar att missa sitt mål när elektroniska och organiska element kombineras, verkar O'Donnell och Salvatori ha funnit en ganska stabil balans mellan de två olika sounden." De tillade, sammantaget, att soundtracket är "en av de bättre datorspelsorienterade musikaliska upplevelserna där ute" och att spela spelet krävs inte för att finna njutning i musiken. Michael Johnson på Monsters At Play kallade soundtracket "66 minuter av orkestral godhet" och nämnde det vida spannet av musik som innefattas som en stark del. Nuketown gav soundtracket 9 av 10. Halo Original Soundtrack kom att sälja i över 40 000 exemplar.

Låtlista
All musik skrevs och komponerades av Martin O'Donnell och Michael Salvatori.

Medverkande
All information är hämtad från CD:n.

Martin O'Donnell (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, ASCAP) – låtskrivare, kompositör, musiker och sångare
Michael Salvatori (ASCAP) - låtskrivare, kompositör, musiker och sångare
Harry Hmura - musiker
Arnie Roth - musiker
Peter Labella - musiker
Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky - musiker
Elliott Golub - musiker

Niasanne Howell - musiker
Marylou Johnston - musiker
Kevin Case - musiker
Barbara Haffner - musiker
Larry Glazier - musiker
Judy Stone - musiker
Robert Bowker - sångare
Jeffrey Morrow - sångare
Rob Trow - sångare

Se även
 Halo 2 Original Soundtrack

Referenser

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Engelska originalcitat

Soundtrackalbum 2002

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Dragon Quest 11: A Game Lacking Innovation in the Best of Ways. Game Review
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written by Robert Drake
Dragon Quest 11 is a JRPG developed by Square Enix for Playstation 4. While it is the 11th entry in this 30 odd year old franchise it is also known for its variety of spin off games including their Dragon Quest Warrior games and Monster/Joker games. The latest main line game was a beloved hit in Japan and has finally made its way to the rest of the world after a long localization process. While initial reviews seem extremely positive, it is important to note that outside of a few quality of life changes, the game feels extremely similar to previous entries and even its story in nothing particularly original yet it translates over so beautifully. Why does this game get away with it yet others suffer from their lack of new ideas?
Innovation is considered one of the most important parts of any game that is moving forward within its own genre. New mechanics or reimagining of old ones allow for games to feel distinctly different despite being similar to another. For instance, games such as Call of Duty and Overwatch both belong to the genre of First-Person Shooters but the way they play are quite different from how the base mechanics work, the realism attributed to the games themes, and even character design. Overwatch took much of what was already established in the genre and then mixed in element from MOBA games to create a Class based shooter system similar to that of Team Fortress 2. It then changed how mobile characters could be, what kind of abilities they had comparative to TF2 to make its own distinct sort of experience. By creating an experience that is distinctly its own, Overwatch was able to solidify its self apart from competitors even though the basic mechanic of shooting and doing it from a first person perspective is hardly original.
Call of Duty, a yearly franchise, is bemoaned by many gamers due ot the fact that each game distinctly the same. While it can be argued that in recent years the franchise has been doing well to change up the titles and how they feel by playing with genre elements and mobility, many gamers found themselves exhausted with the series due to how slow the innovation seemed to be coming considering how often new games were being released. In other words, innovation is considered important for games that span such a long history. Sadly this makes it even more difficult to understand why Dragon Quest still gets away with this considering the series long history. Well let's look into it.
Unlike Call of Duty that tried to hide how similar its games are with fresh coats of paint or setting changes, Dragon Quest almost boasts the fact that it is archaic in many of its features such as necessary inventory management between party members that could be streamlined with just making it one large inventory bag like most games, its turn-based battle system which has been a staple for the series since its inception, or even its tired story tropes of the Chosen Hero at birth whom shall save the world as told by an ancient prophecy from a Dark Lord. Dragon Quest takes these archaic or even over used pieces to create an experience that takes you back to times of old where you remember years ago sitting in front of your CRTV playing older titles such as the legendary Dragon Quest VIII. This is seriously helped by the case that the last console release for a Dragon Quest game was in fact Dragon Quest VIII in 2004 and Dragon Quest IX being a DS release in 2009. Dragon Quest X instead was an MMO. In essence, the space allotted between these releases allows for these parts of the game to feel fresh when by all means they are tired and mostly done away with by most companies.
Dragon Quest takes these old and archaic elements and polishes them in such a way that only true master of the craft can. The creators of this series shows that their practice with such elements and game play loops by making each part of this game far more polished and beautiful than many other AAA titles in recent memory. This makes the experience one of the smoothest and enjoyable in recent memory which helps cover up so of its less than original story or even its rather standard combat design with so much heart and polish you cannot help but get sucked right into its world.
In many ways the game is an HD release of all the best parts of their previous games creating a "greatest hits" experience for old players to bask in and allowing for new players to experience the best pieces of one of gaming's most legendary series to date. From the music, the characters, the mechanics, the humor, the art from legendary artist Akira Toriyama, it's all there and it's all undeniably Dragon Quest in its most pure form. Trust me when I say that after it being gone for so long, everyone should experience it.
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could not find logfile /test/James-2018-11-16_-16.15.41.111-appserver0.log
15215125111115 This number is always generated randomly but I don't know how to get nagios to identify it. Is there a way to add a variable for this or something? I tried adding an asterisk "*" but that didn't work.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.

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If the new logfile is created at the same time every day, schedule it to run right after that. If not, have it run every (minute, 5 minutes, whatever), checking for a new log file.
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West Loop loft office building sells for $13 million
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Marcus & Millichap announced the $13.1 million sale of a four-story, 30,620-square-foot loft office building located at 1027-1031 W. Madison St. in Chicago's West Loop. At $436 per square foot, it is one of the highest prices paid on a per-square-foot basis for a multi-tenant loft office building in the neighborhood. The fully leased building is located one block south of McDonald's new global headquarters, which opened in June.
Stephen Lieberman, director in Marcus & Millichap's Chicago Downtown office, represented the seller, a private partnership including principals of Schafer Condon Carter (SCC), an independent creative and technology agency. SCC, which occupies the upper three floors, will remain a tenant of the building under a sale-leaseback agreement. Lieberman also procured the buyer, a New York-based, private, family-owned operating company.
"This sale speaks to the tremendous outlook for the West Loop," said Lieberman. "Passive cash-flowing assets that are well located and poised to sustain stable, long-term growth should continue to perform very well with a national buyer audience. We worked with ownership to time the market in a way that allowed them to realize a significant return on their original purchase basis of $1.6 million in 2010."
Built in 1872, the historic property is an official Chicago landmark and comes with a Class L designation. In 2011, the property underwent a $4 million gut renovation that restored its historic façade and fully modernized its interiors. SCC leases floors two through four, while the first floor is occupied by CrossTown Fitness and Madison Bar + Kitchen under long-term lease agreements.
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Cleveland Browns LB Sione Takitaki out for the season with a torn ACL
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The Browns are dealing with yet another major injury to a linebacker.
Sione Takitaki suffered a torn ACL during the fourth quarter of Sunday's 27-14 win at the Houston Texans. Coach Kevin Stefanski announced during a Zoom call with the media that the fourth-year middle linebacker will be out for the remainder of the season.
Takitaki sustained the injury with just under six minutes remaining in the game while on the field with the punt coverage team. The play resulted in a fumble recovery by the Browns' Tony Fields II.
"Tak is one of my favorites," Stefanski said Monday. "Plays very, very physically. Loves this game. Plays hard. A great teammate. Like you mentioned, he was playing more for us than he had in the past. His role had expanded because he earned it. Was playing 'out of position,' so to speak. We moved him to (middle) linebacker, and he was doing a really nice job. Disappointed for him, but excited for what that is going to mean for some other guys stepping up. Also, I know what Sione is going to do with this rehab. Like he always does, he is going to attack it and be ready to go next year."
Cleveland Browns injuries at linebacker are stacking up
With season-ending injuries previously to Anthony Walker Jr. (torn quad tendon) and Jacob Phillips (torn pectoral), Takitaki had moved to the middle linebacker position over the last month. He entered Sunday's game with 60 combined tackles and one sack.
"Yeah, disappointing every time we hear one of our teammates that we've gone through much energy, much effort, many hours, many minutes we're with go down," linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah said Monday. "Sione is a high-energy guy. No matter what occurs, no matter what happens, I'm sure you continue to see around the facility, continue to see him around our linebacker room, energetic on the sidelines if they allow him to be involved, continuously helping us out with our calls and fits and everything. It's disappointing, but we have to play the cards that are dealt to us."
Stefanski indicated there's multiple options which could fill the void. The Browns acquired Deion Jones in a trade with the Atlanta Falcons back on Oct. 9, but his role in recent weeks had been limited almost exclusively to passing downs.
Jones, who was a Pro Bowl middle linebacker with the Falcons, and Jordan Kunaszyk were two players currently on the roster who could fill the that position. Fields, who played middle linebacker in college at West Virginia, could be another option depending on the personnel groupings.
"We will work through all of those things," Stefanski said. "We have guys who have played (middle) linebacker for us right now so we have guys certainly who can do it. Andrew obviously always works through those things with his staff. We believe in the guys that we have, and they have to step up. Big shoes to fill, and that is part of the game."
David Bell 'day-to-day,' Anthony Schwartz in concussion protocol
Also on the injury front, Stefanski announced that receiver David Bell's thumb injury is a "day-to-day" issue that they'll monitor. Bell sustained the injury on the Browns' third offensive play when he went down to try and catch a low pass from Deshaun Watson.
Receiver Anthony Schwartz left Sunday's game to be evaluated for a concussion. Stefanski said Schwartz is in the concussion protocol.
Safety Ronnie Harrison Jr., according to Stefanski, was evaluated for a concussion during Sunday's game. However, he cleared the evaluation.
NFL announces home game against Baltimore Ravens will be Saturday, December 17
The NFL announced the Browns' Week 15 home game against AFC North rival Baltimore will be played on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 4:30 p.m. It will be televised on NFL Network, as well as Channel 5 in the Cleveland market.
The game's exact date and time was unknown until Monday. It was one of five game the league held back as an option to play either Saturday or Sunday.
The game will be part of a NFL Network tripleheader, marking the third nationally-televised game for the Browns this season. The Indianapolis Colts open the tripleheader at the Minnesota Vikings at 1 p.m. and the Miami Dolphins playing at the Buffalo Bills at 8:15 p.m.
The New York Giants' game at the Washington Commanders has been flexed to Sunday night that week at 8:20 p.m. Also flexed on Sunday were: Atlanta at New Orleans and Detroit at New York Jets to 1 p.m., and New England at Las Vegas to 4:05 p.m.
The Browns' Week 18 game at Pittsburgh is currently also being held as a possible Saturday game as well. The exact date for that won't come for a couple of weeks.
Browns defense stringing strong performances together
The last two games have shown the capabilities of the Browns defense when it's playing well. They had their fingerprints all over the Nov. 27 win over Tampa Bay, before essentially winning the game in many regards in Houston.
Those two games come on the heels of arguably two of the defense's worst performances in losses to Miami and Buffalo. The Browns allowed 39 points and 491 total yards to the Dolphins, then 31 points and 357 yards to the Bills, leading to the loudest criticism of the season toward that side of the ball.
However, the progress over the last two game has certainly calmed some of the waters down around the defense. The Browns gave up 17 points and 325 yards in the overtime win over the Buccaneers, then allowed 14 points, 283 yards and created four takeaways − two of which they scored on − against the Texans.
"You guys can see what progress we are starting to make – stopping the run a little bit more, having a high intent to be able to take away the ball and just wanting to communicate more, wanting to be around the guys more and wanting to be together more and wanting to stop the offense and to have that pride, have that Cleveland on your chest and really represent it," Owusu-Koramoah said. "We are getting into the flow. I wouldn't say that we are there yet. I wouldn't even say that we are close yet. I think we are just getting started, and as time goes, you will see things start to continue to progress."
Contact Chris at ceasterling@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Just found out that there is another immersive art centre in Europe, this time in Amsterdam. Culturespaces has created the 'Fabrique des Lumières' which opened in April in the former gas plant of Westergasfabriek.
As we know from the Carrieres des Lumieres at Les Baux, it's a successful formula. For instance since opening in Paris in 2018, the Atelier des Lumières has attracted more than three million visitors to experience digitised works of art created by artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, and Salvador Dalí.
The Westergasfabriek was built in 1885 by the Imperial Continental Gas Association, before being converted in 1993 into a cultural space. Located in Westerpark, ten minutes from the historic city centre, the Fabrique des Lumières has a surface area of 2,800m² and their shows will be designed to complement the unique architecture of the site with its seventeen-metre-high walls.
The current show is Klimt (30 mins) + Hundertwasser (15 mins), until 5 Feb 2023.
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On the way to Certaldo for coffee, my man and I started talking about the fragile planet, I said that I hoped it would survive for at least a few more generations. Then he said, "It's just as likely that the world will end as we know it, after being invaded by aliens from outer space." He said, matter of factly. "In fact, I think they're already here and living in Chelsea!" My man knows a lot of things, so I asked how he knew this. "Well, you know, all those Hooray Henrys!" I smiled, he could be right, who am I to argue.
A school bag loaded with back problems.
Anyway, here we are into the second week of September and its back to school for all the children after a very long summer break and I want to tell you about something that has always concerned me. Now we Brits had great spacious school desks full of books, pens, pencils geometry sets and so on. Here in Italy the children carry the whole lot around on their backs, weighing as much as 11kg in some cases! Yes, you heard me right. In addition, the parents have to fork out over 200 euros at the start of each year to buy all the new books, including the heavy study ones, for the kids to carry around. Now I am not complaining, but stating a fact and at last this dreadful arrangement is getting some attention from the press, well at least here in Tuscany. Is it like this in other European countries? I'd be interested to know.
Ristorante Borgo Antico, the Terrazza.
On a brighter note, I promised to let you have some pictures of restaurant Borgo Antico in Tavernelle. Last Sunday we had lunch outside in their lovely terrazza in glorious weather. This of course is how Sundays in Tuscany should be spent, or with a big Italian family in the open air, the Mamas and Nonnas having done the cooking of course, not me. Anyway, back at Borgo Antico, Katia presented us with their signature Crostini, vegetarian version. This is basically toasted bread with delicious mixed toppings with an emphasis on Mozzarella.
Vegetarian Crostini, my gluten free version!
The Vendemmia. This article says that 2,680 litres of Chianti wine was produced in Tuscany in 2015. This year the production will be higher! La Nazione.
OK, what next? Oh yes, as you probably know, the Vendemmia (grape harvest) is in full swing. Thank heavens for our new home as we no longer have tractors and trailers thundering past our kitchen window. It is a very noisy time of year and tourists coming to stay in the Agritorismo centres are in for a shock if they think they are going to enjoy a quite relaxing holiday in the Chianti Hills. But many come to actually participate in the harvest or at least to watch the crushing of the grapes and no, they are not crushed under foot anymore, it's all mechanical but interesting nonetheless.
Back in the world of politics, one character who I haven't talked about before is Beppe Grillo. No, he's not a Bistecca (steak) chef, he is the leader of the largest opposition party, Cinque Stella. Looking like a scruffy aging rock singer, he has a huge following and could well be our next leader. He's been strutting his stuff on stage with support staff like Alessandro di Battista (Deputato della XVII Legislatura della Republica Italiana con Cinque Stella) Did you get that? If not do read it again or don't worry about it. To be honest I've only brought this to your attention because Alessandro is a bit of a hunk!
Before I forget, if he had still been alive Freddie Mercury would have been seventy a couple of days ago. What is the relevance of this you may ask? None at all, I answer, I just thought you might like to remember him too.
So, oh yes, it will soon be olive picking time and I hear tell that the dreaded Olive flies are back. If the harvest is ruined, the prices of Extra Virgin Olive Oil will soar again, but let's be positive, I'm sure our locals will get it sorted.
Phew, well that's enough for today, I'm going to twist my man's arm and say that I don't feel like cooking today and can we go back to Borgo Antico… But O Dio, they are fully booked, so we are off to C'era una Volta instead.
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