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Meghna Gulzar I Go Through Cycles Of Attachment And Detachment While Making A Film
Meghna Gulzar: I go through cycles of attachment and detachment while making a film
Day five of the 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) started with a session titled 'Nuances and Process of Filmmaking'.
Written By Abhivyakti Seshanand | Updated: November 24, 2019 20:05 IST
The session featured Meghna Gulzar, Pooja Ladha Surti, Juhi Chaturvedi, Modhura Palit, and Sumedha Verma Ojha. The panelists also spoke about their journey in a film, the attachment, and detachment they feel in a project or with a character.
Meghna said, "I actually go through cycles of attachment and detachment with my world and the characters. That's also because I am a part of the writing process as well. During that time and the making of the film, the attachment is at its peak. Because that's when everything you have actually imagined and put down on paper with your co-writers comes to life. It's an extremely fulfilling process. Once you have your footage and you are at the editing table, that's when you need to detach. Because then you need to look at your footage very objectively. With time, it's become easier. I am not emotional about my footage at all. Because then, I am only assessing. That's when the process of detachment happens. Then again, when the film had put together and you start other post processes like sound and music, that's when a sense of emotional attachment seeps in again. So, I go through cycles. The final bidaai is when the film goes from me to the audience — when it releases — that's I say my final goodbye to it. After that, I am attached to the experience and memories of the film."

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If you're sick of seeing everyone smiling on their fun adventures posted to Instagram and Facebook, look no further.
Redditor YoSoyCookieMonster and his girlfriend decided to mimic the guy who had to go on vacation alone and let it show in his photos to take a few miserable selfies of their own. They made sad faces while hiking cliffs, while at football games and even freaking Disneyland.
They were just playing, of course, but they're lifeless expressions in supposedly fun places is super entertaining.
"A while ago I saw a post similar to this with that guy traveling everywhere having a 'great time,' " he wrote. "Me and my girlfriend had been doing something similar (not as cool but whatever) and I thought y'all might enjoy this as well!"
The couple has been reached out to for comment.


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June 16, 2013 by Elizabeth Milo
Some New York Times Articles For You
I'm in what feels like a total free fall, so here are some interesting NY Times articles to keep you entertained while I'm unable to write: The Claim: Fibromyalgia Is Affected by Weather, How Accurate Are Fitness Trackers?, Don't Take Your Vitamins, Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses. The latter has many quotes that we will all find familiar:
"After leaving the Army in 1992, he said his health continued to deteriorate, to the point where he could not hold jobs. Doctors gave him diagnoses of migraines, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome. They gave him medications that did not seem to help and offered treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, he said. 'I was told I had these problems because I was depressed. And yes, I was depressed,' Mr. Brown said. 'But that's part of having so many things wrong. That's not what caused it.'"
Really? The Claim: Fibromyalgia Is Affected by Weather
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
No one really knows precisely what causes the debilitating fatigue and muscle pain of fibromyalgia. But some people who have the disorder say they know what can make it worse: changes in the weather.
Cold, damp days and drops in barometric pressure are widely associated with flare-ups in symptoms of the condition, which affects mostly women. In one study by the National Fibromyalgia Association, people with the condition ranked weather changes as one of the leading aggravating influences on pain and stiffness.
Unlike the reported connection between arthritis and changes in temperature and pressure – which has mostly been debunked – the belief that fibromyalgia symptoms fluctuate with the weather has not been the subject of thorough research. The few studies that have investigated ithave mostly found little evidence of a link.
In the latest report, published this month in the journal Arthritis Care & Research, Dutch researchers followed 333 middle-aged women who had fibromyalgia, looking for relationships between environmental conditions and their levels of pain and fatigue. Over the course of a month, the researchers monitored humidity levels, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, temperature and sunshine duration, using data from a meteorological institute.
In some cases, they did find that weather variables had "significant but small" effects on pain and fatigue. But for the most part, they concluded, there was "more evidence against than in support of a uniform influence of weather on daily pain and fatigue."
Most studies have not found much evidence of a link between fibromyalgia symptoms and weather patterns.
How Accurate Are Fitness Trackers?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Nate Meckes recognized that he needed to study the accuracy of activity monitors after wearing one. A shipment of the devices, known technically as accelerometers and designed to measure a person's movement and energy expenditure, had arrived at Arizona State University, where Dr. Meckes was a researcher. To ensure they were operational, he slipped one over his hip and wore it throughout the day, including to an interminable meeting where he stood up and paced. "I'm not good at sitting still," he says.
Checking his monitor afterward, though, he was flabbergasted. "It had recorded that I was not moving at all," says Dr. Meckes, now an assistant professor at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif. The experience inspired him to set up an experiment examining how reliable such devices are.
Until recently, accelerometers, which use electronics to determine bodily movement and intensity, had been confined to research laboratories. But now, at-home users can choose from a variety of devices, sold under such brand names as Fitbit and Nike+ FuelBand. Some are worn on the hip; others on the arm or wrist. All sense movement and feed data into the device's electronic brain, where proprietary equations determine how much energy someone is expending, meaning, in practical terms, how many calories they burn.
But by and large, users have had to take such measurements on faith. Unbiased, comparative studies of the devices haven't been available.
Which makes Dr. Meckes's experiment useful and timely, particularly since his results, presented last month in Indianapolis at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, join those of a number of other new studies in raising concerns about just how well today's activity monitors do their job.
For his experiment, Dr. Meckes gathered 16 adult volunteers and fitted each with three different monitors, two worn on the hip and one around the arm. The volunteers also donned portable masks that measure oxygen consumption, the gold standard in determining energy output.
The volunteers then threw themselves into a variety of activities in the university's physiology lab, including walking on a treadmill, cleaning a simulated kitchen, standing up, typing at a computer and playing a board game.
All three of the devices accurately measured energy expenditure when the volunteers walked briskly, Dr. Meckes and his colleagues found; their estimates closely matched those of the oxygen-consumption monitor.
But the devices were far less reliable in tracking the energy costs of light-intensity activities like standing or cleaning, often misinterpreting them as physical immobility. Only the calorie cost of typing was overestimated, and only by the armband monitor, which considered the arm movements involved to be far more dynamic than they actually are.
These miscalculations echo those of the findings from several other new studies. One, also reported at the sports medicine meeting, involved 74 adults, young and old, who wore an armband accelerometer and a portable oxygen-consumption gauge while walking, jogging, riding a stationary bicycle, windmilling an arm ergometer, and completing so-called activities of daily living, like lifting boxes and sweeping.
Again, the accelerometer measured the more strenuous bodily movements, like jogging, fairly accurately. But it significantly underestimated subtler activities, like sweeping, and was "terrible" at measuring bicycle pedaling, which involves no arm movement, says Glenn Gaesser, the director of the Healthy Lifestyles Research Center at Arizona State University in Phoenix, who oversaw the study.
So, too, a study published last month in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that several hip-mounted accelerometers underestimated the energy involved in standing up, bicycling and walking or jogging uphill, says Ray Browning, an assistant professor of exercise science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, who led the study.
The question, of course, is whether it matters if the devices are inaccurate, especially if they underestimate daily energy expenditure, and perhaps fiendishly spur some at-home users to move more, thinking that they've expended less energy than they actually have.
The studies' researchers think the inaccuracies do matter. "There's a growing consensus" among exercise scientists, Dr. Meckes says, "that people should spend less time in sedentary activities, like sitting," and instead stand up, stroll or sweep more. But if people get the idea from their activity monitors that such activities don't really count, in terms of movement and calorie expenditure, "it may be harder to get that message across," he says.
The good news is that accelerometers are improving, Dr. Browning says. The algorithms underlying the devices' measurements — which are developed by engineers using data from people wearing the devices — are constantly being refined. And researchers, including Dr. Browning, are exploring better monitor placement.
At Colorado State, for instance, he and his colleagues have created a prototype shoe-based accelerometer, which embeds the electronics in an insole. In his recent study, this device better captured changes in posture and foot pressure than hip-level accelerometers.
Still, the lesson at the moment for anyone who owns an accelerometer is that the device's measurements are likely to be imperfect — which, says Dr. Gaesser, does not mean you should stash yours in a drawer. "They may not be accurate" for counting calories, he says. "But for many people, they're inspirational, and if using one gets someone to move more, then as far as I'm concerned, it's serving a good purpose."
Don't Take Your Vitamins
By PAUL A. OFFIT
PHILADELPHIA — LAST month, Katy Perry shared her secret to good health with her 37 million followers on Twitter. "I'm all about that supplement & vitamin LYFE!" the pop star wrote, posting a snapshot of herself holding up three large bags of pills. There is one disturbing fact about vitamins, however, that Katy didn't mention.
Derived from "vita," meaning life in Latin, vitamins are necessary to convert food into energy. When people don't get enough vitamins, they suffer diseases like scurvy and rickets. The question isn't whether people need vitamins. They do. The questions are how much do they need, and do they get enough in foods?
Nutrition experts argue that people need only the recommended daily allowance — the amount of vitamins found in a routine diet. Vitamin manufacturers argue that a regular diet doesn't contain enough vitamins, and that more is better. Most people assume that, at the very least, excess vitamins can't do any harm. It turns out, however, that scientists have known for years that large quantities of supplemental vitamins can be quite harmful indeed.
In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1994, 29,000 Finnish men, all smokers, had been given daily vitamin E, beta carotene, both or a placebo. The study found that those who had taken beta carotene for five to eight years were more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease.
Two years later the same journal published another study on vitamin supplements. In it, 18,000 people who were at an increased risk of lung cancer because of asbestos exposure or smoking received a combination of vitamin A and beta carotene, or a placebo. Investigators stopped the study when they found that the risk of death from lung cancer for those who took the vitamins was 46 percent higher.
Then, in 2004, a review of 14 randomized trials for the Cochrane Database found that the supplemental vitamins A, C, E and beta carotene, and a mineral, selenium, taken to prevent intestinal cancers, actually increased mortality.
Another review, published in 2005 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that in 19 trials of nearly 136,000 people, supplemental vitamin E increased mortality. Also that year, a study of people with vascular disease or diabetes found that vitamin E increased the risk of heart failure. And in 2011, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association tied vitamin E supplements to an increased risk of prostate cancer.
Finally, last year, a Cochrane review found that "beta carotene and vitamin E seem to increase mortality, and so may higher doses of vitamin A."
What explains this connection between supplemental vitamins and increased rates of cancer and mortality? The key word is antioxidants.
Antioxidation vs. oxidation has been billed as a contest between good and evil. It takes place in cellular organelles called mitochondria, where the body converts food to energy — a process that requires oxygen (oxidation). One consequence of oxidation is the generation of atomic scavengers called free radicals (evil). Free radicals can damage DNA, cell membranes and the lining of arteries; not surprisingly, they've been linked to aging, cancer and heart disease.
To neutralize free radicals, the body makes antioxidants (good). Antioxidants can also be found in fruits and vegetables, specifically in selenium, beta carotene and vitamins A, C and E. Some studies have shown that people who eat more fruits and vegetables have a lower incidence of cancer and heart disease and live longer. The logic is obvious. If fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants, and people who eat fruits and vegetables are healthier, then people who take supplemental antioxidants should also be healthier. It hasn't worked out that way.
The likely explanation is that free radicals aren't as evil as advertised. (In fact, people need them to kill bacteria and eliminate new cancer cells.) And when people take large doses of antioxidants in the form of supplemental vitamins, the balance between free radical production and destruction might tip too much in one direction, causing an unnatural state where the immune system is less able to kill harmful invaders. Researchers call this the antioxidant paradox.
Because studies of large doses of supplemental antioxidants haven't clearly supported their use, respected organizations responsible for the public's health do not recommend them for otherwise healthy people.
So why don't we know about this? Why haven't Food and Drug Administration officials made sure we are aware of the dangers? The answer is, they can't.
In December 1972, concerned that people were consuming larger and larger quantities of vitamins, the F.D.A. announced a plan to regulate vitamin supplements containing more than 150 percent of the recommended daily allowance. Vitamin makers would now have to prove that these "megavitamins" were safe before selling them. Not surprisingly, the vitamin industry saw this as a threat, and set out to destroy the bill. In the end, it did far more than that.
Industry executives recruited William Proxmire, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, to introduce a bill preventing the F.D.A. from regulating megavitamins. On Aug. 14, 1974, the hearing began.
Speaking in support of F.D.A. regulation was Marsha Cohen, a lawyer with the Consumers Union. Setting eight cantaloupes in front of her, she said, "You would need to eat eight cantaloupes — a good source of vitamin C — to take in barely 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C. But just these two little pills, easy to swallow, contain the same amount." She warned that if the legislation passed, "one tablet would contain as much vitamin C as all of these cantaloupes, or even twice, thrice or 20 times that amount. And there would be no protective satiety level." Ms. Cohen was pointing out the industry's Achilles' heel: ingesting large quantities of vitamins is unnatural, the opposite of what manufacturers were promoting.
A little more than a month later, Mr. Proxmire's bill passed by a vote of 81 to 10. In 1976, it became law. Decades later, Peter Barton Hutt, chief counsel to the F.D.A., wrote that "it was the most humiliating defeat" in the agency's history.
As a result, consumers don't know that taking megavitamins could increase their risk of cancer and heart disease and shorten their lives; they don't know that they have been suffering too much of a good thing for too long.
Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses
By JAMES DAO
In the two decades since the 1991 Persian Gulf war, medical researchers have struggled to explain a mysterious amalgam of problems in thousands of gulf war veterans, including joint pain, physical malaise and gastrointestinal disorders. In some medical circles, the symptoms were thought to be psychological, the result of combat stress.
But recent research is bolstering the view that the symptoms, known collectively as gulf war illness, are fundamentally biological in nature. In the latest example, researchers at Georgetown University say they have found neurological damage in gulf war veterans reporting symptoms of the disease.
Using magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of gulf war veterans before and after exercise, the researchers discovered evidence of damage in parts of their brains associated with heart rate and pain. Such damage was not evident in the control group, which included nonveterans and healthy veterans.
Such neurological damage, the researchers theorize, caused the veterans to be more sensitive to pain, to feel easily fatigued and to experience loss of short-term "working memory," all symptoms associated with gulf war illness.
Their study, published by the online medical journal PLoS One on Friday, does not try to explain the causes of the damage. It also found different patterns of damage in two groups of veterans, indicating that the disease — if it is indeed a single ailment — takes different paths in different people.
But the authors said the findings, along with other recent research, may offer clues in developing treatments and diagnostic tests for the illness, which currently is diagnosed through self-reported symptoms and has no definitive treatment.
Two other studies released by Georgetown this year have also pointed to neurological damage in the brains of veterans reporting symptoms of gulf war illness, including one that showed abnormalities in the nerve cells linking parts of the brain involved in processing feelings of pain and fatigue.
The research makes clear that "gulf war illness is real," said Rakib U. Rayhan, the principal author of the new study. "There is objective evidence that something is wrong in the brains of these veterans."
Other experts offered more tempered views, noting that most of the subjects in the Georgetown study were self-selected and that their number was relatively small: 28 veterans with symptoms and 10 participants without symptoms.
Dr. Drew A. Helmer, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs'War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center in New Jersey, called the Georgetown studies "very preliminary" but also "a very important step forward."
But Dr. John Bailar, an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago who led a group that studied gulf war illness in 1996, said the new study did not provide enough data to determine whether the veterans' symptoms were linked to their deployments to Kuwait, or something entirely different.
"I am not questioning whether a substantial proportion of veterans of Desert Storm have symptoms related to their service," Dr. Bailar said in an e-mail. "I am questioning whether those symptoms have any cause other than the stress of war itself."
Studies by the Department of Veterans Affairs have estimated that as many as 250,000 of the nearly 700,000 service members who served in the Middle East in 1990 and 1991 have reported symptoms of gulf war illness, which is also known as chronic multisymptom illness.
Gulf war illness has been the source of much frustration and dispute practically since veterans first reported symptoms in the 1990s. Many veterans say that their complaints were initially dismissed as psychological. Many also believe that their problems are the result of exposure to nerve agents, pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals, but that the government has been slow, or unwilling, to pinpoint causes.
Even some government researchers have made that case. At a Congressional hearing in March, Dr. Steven S. Coughlin, an epidemiologist who once worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs, asserted that the department had systematically played down the neurological basis of gulf war illness. At the same hearing, a member of an advisory panel to the department said the agency still seemed guided by the view that symptoms of gulf war illness were stress-induced.
"This is a throwback to early speculation from the 1990s that there was no problem, or that veterans just had random, disconnected symptoms," testified Dr. Lea Steele, a Baylor University epidemiologist who was a member of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses.
USA Today reported on Friday that Eric K. Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs, had taken steps to replace members of the advisory committee and reduce its independence. Advocates for gulf war veterans say the changes are meant to rein in a committee that has consistently been more aggressive than the department in saying that gulf war illness is a physical condition related to exposure to toxins.
In a statement, the department defended its research into gulf war illness. "V.A. is clear in its commitment to treating these health issues and does not endorse the notion some have put forward that these physical health symptoms experienced by gulf war veterans arise as a result of PTSD or other mental health issues from military service," the statement said, referring to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Still, many veterans, like Ronald Brown, who was part of the Georgetown study, say their problems after returning from Kuwait in 1991 were not taken seriously.
An infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division, he was at a base in southern Iraq when engineers destroyed the nearby Kamisiya ammunition depot containing nerve gas. The Pentagon has said that as many as 100,000 American troops could have been exposed to the toxic gas in that demolition.
Mr. Brown, 45, says that before the invasion, he was in top physical condition, regularly scoring high on Army physical fitness tests. But after Kamisiya was destroyed, he began experiencing headaches, nausea and shortness of breath. When he returned to the United States, he says he failed a fitness test badly. "I plain and simple couldn't get enough air," he said.
After leaving the Army in 1992, he said his health continued to deteriorate, to the point where he could not hold jobs. Doctors gave him diagnoses of migraines, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome. They gave him medications that did not seem to help and offered treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, he said.
"I was told I had these problems because I was depressed. And yes, I was depressed," Mr. Brown said. "But that's part of having so many things wrong. That's not what caused it."
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Dead Pixels: Actraiser
(where Michael deconstructs discontinued franchises, and puts forth ideas concerning hypothetical sequels. note: I am aware that ActRaiser 2 already exists, but it is poopy and I don't consider it a true sequel.) Overview
I remember taking a look at ActRaiser while browsing through a Blockbuster back in the mid-90s and not really having any clue exactly what time of game it was. My 10 year old powers of deduction weren't particularly strong to begin with, and I certainly had no idea what the game's box art meant when it described a state-of-the-art "simulation mode". My hesitation and uncertainty with the game had to be pushed aside though; my mother was getting impatient with my indecisiveness, and my top two rental choices (EarthBound and Chrono Trigger) were nowhere to be found. Hurriedly, I grabbed the game cartridge and my mum kindly rented it for the 3-day weekend special. Upon our return home my brothers and I gathered around the old Super Nintendo, popped the cartridge in and began to play. Getting started was easy enough: We took turns navigating our sword-wielding statue through the first side-scrolling level, climbing trees, and slashing at little goblins before penultimately taking down an evil horseman. The assumption throughout this part of the adventure was that the "simulation" that the game's box art had mentioned was simply simulated violence. But then (very much unexpected for us) the game flipped to a top down view, and we found ourselves controlling a town-building angel. Naturally, this was a bit of a shock for us! It was very uncommon for a game to shift genres so drastically back in the early 90s, so our little pre-teen brains were ill-equipped to deal with it. We wasted a lot of time flying around, shooting arrows, and generally NOT completing the main society building objective. We eventually managed to get a good grasp on the game's mechanics, but I don't think any of us truly appreciated the uniqueness and depth of the game until we were much older. ActRaiser offered a unprecedented mix of action and simulation elements, and even created a fair bit of synergy between the two. Not to say the game didn't have its faults… but it certainly brought a lot of neat ideas to the table.
What To Keep
Hybrid Gameplay More specifically: the mixing of the simulation and action genres. ActRaiser 2 discarded the simulation elements of the game – and although it offers a pretty solid game experience – it lacks the variety and quirkiness that made the original so endearing. Hybrid gameplay is hardly the novel concept it once was. Most modern games pick and choose from any number of genres, and it is getting rarer and rarer for games to be truly singular in their design. Fallout 3 is one of the most obvious examples of this blurring, combining RPG, shooter, strategy and action elements into one cohesive package.
Although the mixing of 2d platformer and simulation is a bit of an odd combination (maybe even a unique one), it certainly would fit into the multi-genre trend that seems to permeate the gaming industry. Gameplay Synergy Building on the previous point, ActRaiser did an excellent job of creating synergy between the game modes. The better you do in the world building parts of the game, the more powerful your avatar is in the action portions. Defeating bosses in the side-scrolling portions opens up new areas for your to explore in the simulation portions. This creates a feeling that you are progressing in both modes simultaneously, regardless of which one you are actually playing at the time. The linking between game modes is even done well from a narrative perspective. In both game modes you control an avatar of The Master – an animated statue during the action portions and an angel in the simulation sections. Whether you are cutting a swath through waves of demons or directing the building of roads, the core game-play directive remains the same: an extension of your being carries out your bidding on the surface world.
What To Drop
Destructive Progression One of my few major gripes with ActRaiser is a mechanic that many players don't even realize exists. In many circumstances throughout the game it becomes advantageous to destroy your own city so that it may be built up stronger than it was before. This always bugged me for two major reasons:
From a narrative perspective, you turn from a "friendly, helpful god" to a "vengeful, killing god" to facilitate your town's growth. It never felt right to massacre the townspeople you've spent the entire game protecting, and for them to accept it without question.
This destruction was counter-intuitive for the player, which led to many players never discovering it in the first place. Who would have thought that in order to progress you needed to destroy the cities you spent so much time building?
Super Low Difficulty I'm not going to get in too much depth about this, but ActRaiser is a pretty easy game. Any major challenges the player is likely to encounter are usually cause by impatience or a failure to grasp certain elements of gameplay (a somewhat common problem during the simulation sections). This problem could be remedied by adding additional challenges to the sim portions of the game, or increasing the depth and complexity of the platforming levels.
What To Fix
Religious Theming For those of you who are not in the know, the original text of ActRaiser referred to the protagonist as God and the big evil guy as Satan. The names were changed to "The Master" and "Tanzra" in an attempt to cover up the game's obvious Christian monotheistic themes. This was ultimately a fruitless attempt, as key game mechanics such as temples, angels and miracles revealed the game's religious subtext quite clearly.
I don't have any personal objections against playing a Christian themed game, but I do feel that it hurts the game's marketability and appeal. Many publishers would be very wary about distributing a game containing obvious Christian undertones, so a different approach would have to be considered.
In this particular situation, it may be wise to simply move away from the established religion of Christianity and create a completely new pantheon for the sequel. Fleshing out new religions and gods would detach the game from real world church affiliations, and grant the opportunity for the designers to further develop the game's setting and lore. Other games have undertaken this sort of task before with great success (the Breath of Fire series comes to mind), and I have no doubt it could be done well for an ActRaiser sequel. Magic The magic system in ActRaiser is a bit too simple, consisting of only four spells that are activated from a fairly limited supply of magic power. Although the spells have some neat effects – including a protective aura and a screen clearing wave of light – the lack of variety really makes the spell system feel stagnant and tacked on. This issue is exacerbated the relatively simplistic combat system, which I will get into more detail later on.
The addition of a few new spells would greatly increase variety of gameplay, giving the player more strategies and options in combat. Decreasing the overall power of the spells would also be useful, as they tend to absolutely brutalize most of the bosses found in the game. I think a good point of comparison would be another SNES classic, Soul Blazer. Soul Blazer shows how a melee focused character can utilize a reasonably sized spell repertoire in a way that supports his combat style. Miracles Much like the magic system, ActRaiser's miracles are a great concept with limited variety and versatility. You really only get to use five abilities throughout the game, and although some of them are pretty neat (lightning, earthquakes), their usefulness is very limited. It would be a great idea to give God, for lack of a better phrase, some more godlike powers. Let him raise mountains, shatter forests, flood the coasts and churn the land according to his whim! A whole new level of depth could be added to the simulation sections of the game by creating mechanics for "creative landscaping", allowing players to shape the world as they see fit. Combat Mechanics Although a pretty solid platformer when it came out, ActRaiser has not aged particularly well. Combat is astoundingly simplistic by current standards, with a woefully straightforward "run, slash and jump" mentality that permeates every level.
Instilling some basic combat maneuvers would make the side-scrolling portions of the game much more dynamic. Tumbling and blocking are the first things that come to mind, but the sky is really the limit as far as enhancements go. We could take a lesson from the newer Castlevania games and incorporate a bevy of new weapons and skills, or look further back to classics such as TMNT IV: Turtles in Time where special moves are incorporated through the use of simple button combinations. A few more combat options would go a long way to increasing the game's overall enjoyment level.
If you haven't played ActRaiser before, I really do recommend giving it a try. It is not a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination, but it certainly introduces a lot of interesting concepts (especially for a SNES game). Although the chances of a sequel being developed are slim to none, the game does seem like it would transition well onto modern hardware. Imagine playing a true Actraiser sequel on the Wii! Players could utilize the Wiimote as a mouse during the simulation portions, then flip it sideways for a more traditional controller during action portions. It seems like a natural fit to me! Do any of you folks out on the interweb have thoughts about this game? If so, let me know how fair you think my assessment is and tell me about any changes you would make to the game yourself!
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Mohammed Ali Singh says:
Too bad they never called Diablo for the Playstation a christian game because it is. The main character is like Jesus, does a ressurrection on his or or friend and defeats Beelzebub.
By Michael December 14, 2011
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I'm a fan of Tweaktown and Kingston and I'm eager to lose.
I'm a fan (of both now), and posted.
I have become a Fan of TweakTown forums and Kingston on Facebook.
I'm a fan of both and posted on facebook page..
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Prince Max is on a mission. The royal family are down to their very last penny, so the king and queen have sent him away to the valley of the giants - with only a grumpy old donkey for company. According to legend, the giants are rich beyond all imagining:... read more
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The royal family are down to their very last penny, so the king and queen have sent him away to the valley of the giants - with only a grumpy old donkey for company. According to legend, the giants are rich beyond all imagining: they live in gold palaces, drink from gold goblets and brush their teeth with gold toothpaste. But are the legends true and, even if they are, will the giants be willing to share their treasure? With the help of his donkey companion and Caromel, the talking cat, Max is about to find out.
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When I was planning a staycation, I read the following: "In Santa Maria Valley, we have a style all our own. We take our time on the vine, on the hill, on the grill. We swirl 'til we spill." Yes! Absolutely, yes! Santa Maria Valley is exactly what the doctor ordered.
Santa Maria Valley is located in the middle of California's Central Coast, about 160 miles north of Los Angeles and 65 miles north of Santa Barbara. Santa Maria is rich in history and agriculture. It's soulful and breathtaking.
Santa Maria has 34 tasting rooms, 6 unique American Viticultural Areas, 13 beaches and plenty of local breweries. The best part is you can get to all indulgences and attractions within a 30- minute picturesque drive.
I decided to take an Amtrak train to Santa Maria Valley. I boarded the Pacific Surfliner in LAX to Guadalupe Station and then took a 25-minute Uber to the Radisson Hotel Santa Maria. What a beautiful little trip up the coast!
The Radisson Santa Maria is adjacent to the Santa Maria Airport and is a great place for travelers of all kinds, whether you're traveling for leisure or for business. The hotel rooms are clean, comfy and large and include free WIFI, a flat screen tv, a beautiful area to work and lounge and an in-room coffee maker and fridge. My room had a spacious balcony overlooking the pool. The pool and hot tub are heated to perfection and the cleanest I've seen in a very long time. They offer free breakfast in the lobby (coffee, cereal, juice) and you can purchase the breakfast buffet or brunch. The brunch buffet was carefully stocked with a wide variety of hot dishes, fresh fruit, juices and DIY waffles and toast.
The best part about the Radisson Santa Maria is the staff. They are the definition of hospitality – they could not do enough for us on our stay and were so very happy to make any arrangements that we needed I didn't eat at Vintner's Bar & Grill but, I took a look around. It looks like an upscale place that foodies would love. The ambiance and view is amazing.
Thanks to SantaMariaValley.com, I had a great itinerary to follow. Here are some of the fantastic experiences I had on my staycation.
Beer lovers, swing by Naughty Oak Brewing Company in Orcutt. The beer is cold and the staff are friendly – they're excited to guide you through their beer menu to find the perfect brew. I enjoyed a flight of Central Coast craft beers selected by the staff, then sat outside on their cozy wraparound porch enjoying the energy of the locals. What a friendly bunch! I fell in love with a sour beer from the flight while snacking on delicious crispy pretzels. You can have food delivered from Postmates or other delivery service to pair with your beer and there's a fantastic ice cream shop nearby if you're in the mood for something sweet.
While enjoying my beer at Naughty Oak, the BBQ in the Stix food truck rolled up. This was my very first experience with Santa Maria Valley style BBQ and it is a moment I'll never forget. Santa Maria is known for its unique style of BBQ. Steaks are cooked over local red oak or live oak with a dry rub only that consists of salt, pepper and garlic powder. I'm drooling just thinking about it! This was, by far the BEST Tri-Tip I had the entire trip (and in my entire life - sorry DAD!). They have a menu of about 7 mouth-watering sandwiches served with fresh mixed greens. I tried the Grill Master Surf and Turf Sandwich loaded with tender, succulent Santa Maria Style Tri-Tip and plump, perfectly grilled shrimp. It was pure perfection.
Not far down the road from Naughty Oak is Far Western Tavern. I fell in love with Contemporary California Ranch Cuisine at Far Western Tavern. We ordered 1958 Classic Duroc Pork Chop, Oak Grilled Tri-Tip with Pinquinto Beans, Clam Chowder, Mac n Cheese Chili Relleno, a Zucchini Caprese and a classic relish tray. Pair with local wines and you have an incredible Santa Maria Valley feast. Service was A+ and dessert was off the charts good! Pro Tip: Taco Tuesday!
Stepping into Shaw's Steakhouse & Tavern was like stepping into the past. It's a classic chophouse that serves steak and seafood like no other. The portions are generous, the Santa Maria style steaks are perfectly grilled and the service is outstanding. Our waitress walked us through the entire menu and recommended the Rib-Eye, Filet Mignon and Scampi. We were NOT disappointed. We only wish we had room for dessert.
Moxie's Café is the perfect place to enjoy lunch on a Sunday afternoon. We sat out on the patio and enjoyed the cool breeze and a tasty lunch of rotisserie tri-tip sandwich with a glass of local wine. They have live music, a great coffee bar and plenty of vegetarian options.
On the weekend, the Santa Maria Valley Wine Trolley is an inexpensive and fun way to explore the wineries of Santa Maria Valley. The trolley route begins at the Radisson Hotel Santa Maria, makes two stops in Old Orcutt and then continues into the wine country, returning o the Radisson Hotel Santa Maria. You pay one price and then step on and step off at your convenience as it completes the loop. I experienced two fabulous wine tasting rooms, both with a style all their own. Santa Maria Valley is known for its Chardonnay and Syrah and we enjoyed both at both wineries.
Cottonwood Canyon Winery is located on the Foxen Wine Trail. Cottonwood Winery is known for its Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah. We sampled a beautifully aerated flight on their patio overlooking their beautiful vineyard. The chardonnay was stellar, the light bites are excellently curated and the staff treats you like family. We learned so much about the wine region and each winemaker. I did not want to leave – this is the kind of place you'll want to carve out an entire afternoon to experience. I would love to return to explore their wine caves.
Costa De Oro is a casual Tuscan-style tasting room where both locals and residents enjoy spending their weekends exploring local wines. The tasting room is lively with regular live entertainment. The Costa De Oro Estate pinot noir is heaven! I met owner and winemaker Gary Burk, whose family has been farming in the Santa Maria Valley since the 70s, and his son who set us up with a flight of amazing wines and light bites. We sat on the patio across from a beautiful vineyard soaking up all of that Santa Maria goodness.
I discovered Waller Park across the street from the Radisson Hotel Santa Maria Valley. This park is so beautiful and peaceful with plenty of trails and ponds. It's 153 acres of beautiful picnic areas, places to play frisbee golf, bike riding trails and bird watching. You can reserve large picnic areas for a fee.
Pro Tip: Visit Orcutt for First Fridays in Orcutt. Also take a self-guided Nature Walk at Oso Flaco Lake in Nipomo, CA.
If you're looking for a scenic, relaxing staycation where you can drink fantastic wines, enjoy the ocean and indulge in some of the most amazing food on the central coast, look no further than Santa Maria Valley. Want to see more? Take a look at my Instagram stories featuring Santa Maria Valley.
*Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by SantaMariaValley.com. All opinions are my own honest opinions.


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Annals.
by American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Published 1890 in Philadelphia .
Social sciences -- Periodicals,
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Registered users can save articles, searches, and manage email alerts. All registration fields are required. that search may be made in the book of the annals of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the annals and know that this city is a rebellious city, which has done damage to kings and provinces, and that they have raised sedition within the same of old time, for .
The Annals/The Histories book. Read 15 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline /5. Jun 01, · Buy a cheap copy of Annals of the Former World book by John McPhee. In New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of Free shipping over $Cited by:
Annals of Applied Biology is an international journal sponsored by the Association of Applied Biologists. The journal publishes original research papers on all aspects of applied research on crop production, crop protection and the cropping ecosystem. The Annals Questions and Answers. The Question and Answer section for The Annals is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.. Ask Your Own Question.
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The Annals By Tacitus Written A.C.E. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Annals. book. The Annals has been divided into the following sections: Book I [k] Book II [k] Book III [k] Book IV [k] Book V [22k] Book VI [k] Book XI [69k] Book XII [k] Book XIII [k] Book XIV [k].
Examples of these two books can be found extensively throughout both Kings and Chronicles. For example in I Kings (Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel) and in the same chapter but verse 29 (Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah).
Just what are these Annals. Jul 04, · The Annals (Tacitus)/Book From Wikisource Book The Annals by Tacitus Book Annals definition, a record of events, especially a yearly record, usually in chronological order.
See more. May 27, · The Annals of the World [James Ussher] on hamaikastudio.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Your ancient history questions can be answered with unmatched precision.
Annals. book Ussher's Annals of the World offers you a comprehensive chronological examination of history from the beginning of time to 70 A.D. His meticulous research of over /5().
Annals (Latin: annāles, from annus, "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.
Scope. The nature of the distinction between annals and history is a subject that has. The Annals By Tacitus Written A.C.E. Book XIV: A.D. In the year of the consulship of Caius Vipstanus and Caius Fonteius, Nero deferred no more a long meditated crime.
Length of power had matured his daring, and his passion for Poppaea daily grew more ardent. Sep 27, · One of the most important historical records from classical antiquity, "The Annals of Imperial Rome" chronicles the history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius beginning in 14 A.D.
to the reign of Nero ending in 66 A.D. Written by Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator during the second century A.D.,/5(56). Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Ed. ("Agamemnon", "Hom. ", "denarius") BOOK 1 BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV BOOK V BOOK VI Book XI BOOK XII BOOK XIII BOOK XIV BOOK XV BOOK XVI chapter: chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3.
Annals of Internal Medicine, the premier internal medicine journal, publishes research, reviews, guidelines, and commentary relevant to clinical practice. May 08, · The Annals of Tacitus: Books I to VI Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.
EMBED. EMBED (for hamaikastudio.com hosted blogs and hamaikastudio.com item tags) Want more. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help. favorite. share. flag Pages: Tacitus: Annals Book 15 [40] At last, after five days, an end was put to the conflagration at the foot of the Esquiline hill, by the destruction of all buildings on a vast space, so that the violence of the fire was met by clear ground and an open sky.
But before people had laid aside their fears, the flames returned, with no less fury this. Jan 03, · Annals of Science. Impact Factor. Search in: Advanced search. Submit an article. New content alerts RSS. Subscribe. Citation search. book review. Greening the alliance: the diplomacy of NATO's science and environmental initiatives.
by S. Turchetti, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press,pp., 19 plts, $ The Annals of the Kings of Israel are mentioned 17 times in Kings. They are apparently diaries/records of some sort that documented what were felt to be important events of each King's reign.
Similar records were kept for the Kings of Judah and are mentioned 15 times in Kings. Some believe they weren't official documents but were. Apr 01, · To the editor: I find Stanley Goldfarb's review of my book Illustrated Manual of Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders (Ann Intern Med) both inaccurate and full of value judgements.
For example, he states the book proposes that "pathologic diaphoresis somehow leads to water excess.". ROME at the beginning was ruled by kings. Freedom and the consulship were established by Lucius Brutus.
Dictatorships were held for a temporary crisis. The power of the decemvirs did not last beyond two years, nor was the consular jurisdiction of the military tribunes of long duration.
Here is the big picture: the Annals of Tacitus covers the years 14–68 CE. These dates are not arbitrary. Augustus, a colossal figure in Roman history, died in 14 CE, and this is when Tiberius.
Tacitus: Annals Book 4 [50] One of their chiefs, Dinis, an old man who well knew by long experience both the strength and clemency of Rome, maintained that they must lay down their arms, this being the only remedy for their wretched plight, and he was the first to give himself up with his wife and children to the conqueror.
He was followed. CORNELIUS TACITUS. ANNALS BOOK I. A.D. 14, Born about A.D. 56 or 57, Tacitus was a member of the Senate, served Domitian in several capacities and was to serve Nerva and Trajan as well; he held the consulship in 97 and governed Asia some years later, probably / For the portions that survive, his works are the most detailed.
Then, emphasising his words with his loud voice and frequent gestures, he related the history of the Mormons from Biblical times: how that, in Israel, a Mormon prophet of the tribe of Joseph published the annals of the new religion, and bequeathed them to his son Mormon; how, many centuries later, a translation of this precious book, which was written in Egyptian, was made by Joseph Smith.
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library.Feb 20, · The Annals by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14–The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year He wrote at least 16 books, but books and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing.
Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books presumably covered the reigns of Caligula and Claudius.
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Graeter's Ice Cream Teams Up With Perfect Day to Introduce Perfect Indulgence
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Graeter's Ice Cream, America's oldest family-owned craft ice cream maker, has teamed up with food technology company Perfect Day to launch Perfect Indulgence. The technology allows Graeter's to make a product that is virtually indistinguishable from traditional ice cream by using animal-free protein from microflora rather than cows, which makes for a kinder, greener and more sustainable future, according to the company. The debut comes in six of Graeter's traditional flavors: Black Cherry Chocolate Chip, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip and Oregon Strawberry.
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Detectives are appealing for witnesses following an incident of arson in the Inver area of Larne during the early hours of this morning (Monday).
It was reported around 2am a Mitsubishi car parked outside a property in the area had been set on fire. Significant damage was caused to the vehicle as a result of the incident.
Detective Sergeant Crothers is appealing for any witnesses to this incident or anyone with any information they believe may assist the investigation to contact detectives in Larne on 101 quoting reference 148 04/06/18.
Alternatively, information can also be provided to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 which is 100% anonymous and give people the power to speak up and stop crime.


I am grateful so many families have entrusted their children to the Christian educators and instructional program of Christian Academy School System! The instructional program here is intended to honor how God created children. "God created man in His own image" (Genesis 1:27) and then gave man the mandate to "fill the earth and subdue it" (Genesis 1:28). Therefore the nature of learners, as image bearers of the Creator, provides the framework for curriculum and teaching methods. Learning activities are focused on the reasoning, creative, purposeful, and relational nature of students by targeting critical thinking, problem solving, exploration, creativity, and collaboration. From Kindergarten through 12th Grade the subject matter progresses in a manner that equips students with skills and knowledge to become good stewards of God's earth, and respected citizens.
The mission of the educational program is to equip students to be self-directed learners who develop a heart for God and grow as Jesus did in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and men. Proper nurturing of the heart and mind leads to this desired outcome of learning. Educators in the Christian Academy School System are sensitive to how the maturation processes of the mind, social development, and spiritual growth all play a part in the development of learning. As a result the content of science, social studies, math, English, foreign language, technology, physical education, and fine arts are presented from the biblical perspective in a manner that is age appropriate, yet challenging. Learning goals for biblical knowledge, worldview, and spiritual growth are intentionally included in the curriculum, chapel programs, and mission opportunities.
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Kanye West says he's distancing himself from politics.
Is the strangest political marriage in America finally over?
The Rapper Kanye West, who hugged Donald Trump in the Oval Office earlier this month, declared on Tuesday that he had been
"used to spread messages I don't believe in" and would now be "distancing" himself from politics.
The statement is likely to hit the US president, who has made West a black supporter.
West's basic falling out appears to be not with Trump but Candace Owens, a rising star of the right who was lavished with praise by the president at a gathering of young black conservatives at the White House last week.
On Twitter on Tuesday, West said he supports prison reform, common-sense gun laws and compassion for people seeking asylum, then denied that he had designed a logo for a branding exercise known as "Blexit".
Journalist Alex Wagner tweeted in response to West's announcement:
"Apparently Kanye did not understand that "sitting in the Oval Office with the president of the United States and railing against liberals" would be seen as explicitly, uhm, political. But please (for real) go back to creative pursuits".
which urges African Americans to leave the Democratic party. The concept, originated by Owens, claimed that West had designed the group's merchandise.
"I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn't want their name on it so she used mine," West wrote. "I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it."
Evidently stung by the experience, he then followed up:
"My eyes are now wide open and now realize I've been used to spread messages I don't believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!"
According to media reports, Owens had claimed that West designed the logo and colours of Blexit. On Monday, as controversy grew, she released a statement playing down his role, insisting:
"BLEXIT is a project that is mine entirely. I am blessed that Ye [West] introduced me to a designer who despite having totally different beliefs than me, helped me craft some beautiful letters that I used on the BLEXIT caps."
She added: "#BLEXIT is about the beautiful stories of so many black people who have awakened themselves to the possibilities of our future, as Americans. The press is trying to use Kanye's name to create drama and further divisiveness which is WRONG."
Owens, who grew up in a Democratic household, is now a fierce critic of the party. In one Twitter post, she says:
"There is no group in America that has been more lied to, more abused, or more taken advantage of by the Democrats than black people."
During his bizarre visit to the White House recently, West commented:
"You know, people expect that if you're black you have to be Democrat. I've had conversations that basically said that welfare is the reason why a lot of black people end up being Democrat."
In a rambling monologue that silenced even Trump, the rapper, sporting a "Make America Great Again" cap, told him:
"It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman. You made a Superman. That's my favorite superhero. And you made a Superman cape."
West has faced widespread criticism for such comments and for his endorsement of a president who critics accuse of emboldening a movement of white nationalism through his words and deeds. The star has made baffling comments about abolishing the 13th Amendment and slavery being a choice.
Journalist Alex Wagner tweeted in response to West's announcement: "Apparently Kanye did not understand that
"sitting in the Oval Office with the president of the United States and railing against liberals" would be seen as explicitly, uhm, political. But please (for real) go back to creative pursuits".
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Q: What Java/Scala or .NET web frameworks support modify source code and instantly run workflow e.i. without long rebiuld/redeploy procedures? As far as I can see the key advantage of dynamic languages like Ruby or Python over Java/Scala/C# etc is "hot" applying of your changes to source code to the running application. What are the frameworks for JVM or .NET that support the same workflow - apply changes to configuration and source code on the fly? Can they also watch changes to custom configurations and notify application?
Note: Frameworks for dynamic languages on JVM/.NET like Grails or Compojure are out of scope here.
EDIT: I mean not only modification of a method body, but adding/deleting methods, fields and classes. What is average time between finishing of editing and observing changes in your browser?
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A: Great question!   In the java world:
In all java frameworks, the JVM hotswap functionality allows your debugger to make some changes in place, however you are somewhat limited - e.g.: you cannot change class hierarchies, add methods, etc.
There is a commercial product, JRebel, which advertises itself as allowing you to make almost any code change dynamically - I have never been able to get it to work properly myself, but you may be have better luck.
Outside that, I know GWT's dev mode allows arbitrary changes without needing to recompile, I don't think GWT would be a viable competitor to directly writing javascript if it didn't have that feature.  However, keep in mind that GWT isn't a traditional web framework, it all runs on the client side.
Finally, there is the Play framework, on the server side, which will also automatically reload java classes with arbitrary chages, when you refresh your browser.

A: I have used Lift with JRebel without problem. You just have to configure it correctly, start the web server in one terminal, and keep another terminal with maven scala::cc. That will recompile everything automatically (everything necessary if you use the configuration here), and JRebel will instantly make the changes available on the web server.

A: Apache's Tomcat server for Java servlets has a configuration option to "watch" resources. If a watched servlet or web application is changed (i.e., new code is uploaded to the server), Tomcat automagically reloads it.
From my experience, this feature is somewhat broken when mixed with other advanced features (e.g., user-dirs), but otherwise works as advertised.

A: You don't need a framework for that. When you run a Java application from eclipse, and modify the source, eclipse will attempt to patch the new code into the running VM. This even works if the methods being replaced are currently executing (method execution will start over at the beginning of the method in such a case). Certain changes can not be hot-deployed, for instance deleting a public method, or changing subtype relationships.
Of course, if your application caches stuff (for instance, setting read during startup), those cache will not be recomputed, though you could probably invoke the parsing method manually in the debugger.

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November 9, 2016	by Sean Howard
Snapshot from Hell: A Day in the Life of the Great War
As we approach Remembrance Day, at the midpoint of the centenary of the First World War, it is instructive to consider a day in the life of that terrible time: Saturday, November 11, 1916.
Canadian troops returning from the trenches. November, 1916. Battle of the Somme. (Photo via the Library and Archives of Canada.)
An online chronology documents the weather on the Western Front—"Rain, trace. 55°-32°, misty day with low cloud, also frosty"—and the main military action—"The British bombard the Germans on the Ancre. German aircraft bombed at night and caused casualties." Ancre lies in the Somme region of France, and November 11 saw the last Canadian fighting in the infamous battle launched with unprecedented ferocity and bloodshed—20,000 Allied dead and missing, 40,000 wounded—on July 1 that year.
The main Canadian 'achievement,' secured at the cost of 24,000 casualties, was the capture and defence of what was once the village of Courcelete. Fighters from the Nova Scotia Regiment were in the thick of the action, portrayed by the Canadian government and press as a major victory. But in his damning memoir Merry Hell, Captain Robert N. Clements details the terrible "price paid for half a broken-down small French town and a few acres of muddy clay." "Call it glory if you like," Clements continues, but "some of those who were there and managed to survive had other words for it and for those higher up who had sent them and their wonderful young friends into that deadly trap."
A few days before the offensive was officially called off (November 18), British officer Max Plowman wrote in his front-line journal that "we seem to be here under the constraint of some malevolent idiot. …What base, pathetic slaves we are to endure such idiocy! No doubt it's good to fight when indignation and hatred boil up as they did in 1914. But these passions have long since spent themselves. Why are we fighting still?" By battle's end over half a million men on each side were dead. The British lost an average 893 men per day. And gained seven miles.
The same tragedy played out in the other main 'theaters' of war. On the Eastern Front, two Empires, the Russian and Austro-Hungarian, were busy tearing themselves apart; or, as it was doubtless reported in St. Petersburg, on November 11 the loyal sons of the Tsarist Fatherland, nobly aided by their Romanian brothers, finally succeeded in capturing the small town of Topalu on the east bank of the Danube. And in the Middle East that day, the British indulged in that new mode of murder, the air raid, against Ottoman (Turkish) forces in in Beersheba in Palestine and Maghdaba in the Sinai Desert.
Canadian heavy howitzer on the Somme, November 1916. (Photo via the Library and Archives of Canada.)
The new, rabidly anti-Turkish British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, was already dreaming of British control of the Holy Land, including the town his forces bombed that day. At the Versailles Conference in 1919, as David Fromkin writes in A Peace to End All Peace, Lloyd George who, "kept demanding that Britain should rule Palestine from (in the Biblical phrase) Dan to Beersheba, did not know where Dan was. He searched for it in a nineteenth-century Biblical Atlas, but it was not until nearly a year after the Armistice that General Allenby [the commander of British forces in Jerusalem] was able to report to him that Dan had been located and, as it was not where the Prime Minister wanted it to be, Britain asked for a boundary further north."
Throughout 1916, in fact, the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia) were painstakingly, often cantankerously plotting the post-war carve up of the region, a secret gleefully revealed by the Bolsheviks soon after they seized power. And at Versailles and subsequent conferences, London and Paris would eventually get—and soon struggle to hold—much of what they wanted, redrawing borders to create the new, radically and persistently unstable states of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq (the 'well-rooted land'). In the summer of 1917, the soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon would publicly voice his fear "that this War, upon which I entered as a War of defence, has now become a War of aggression and conquest…deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it." Germany, he correctly guessed, was to be shelled, spent and starved into submission, and the Ottoman Empire utterly crushed, to satisfy the Allies' insatiable colonial appetite.
A strong case can be made that long before the War started plans were being laid, by all the major belligerents, for just such an imperial struggle. This was certainly the widespread view in the United States, which on November 7, 1916, re-elected Democratic President Woodrow Wilson in large measure due to his commitment to maintain American neutrality. Wilson's main campaign slogan, in fact, was "He Kept Us Out of the War." Just five months later, goaded by the desperate German ploy of unrestricted submarine warfare, he took the fateful step of intervening on the Allied side in the vain hope of building a world "safe for democracy." And while Germany's mad U-boat gamble clearly violated international law, it was taken in the context of an equally illegal Allied blockade responsible for the deaths of at least a million German, Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and other civilians. Nor would the blockade by lifted on November 11, 1918, but rather maintained in full force until June 28, 1919, the date Germany finally capitulated at Versailles to a Treaty turning Wilson's dream into a nightmare.
German prisoners carrying stretchers. Battle of the Somme, November 1916. (Photo via the Library and Archives of Canada.)
"I saw a film today, oh boy!" John Lennon sang in A Day in the Life: "The English Army had just won the war. A crowd of people turned away, but I just had to look…" Every Canadian Remembrance Day, we see the same, moving, black-and-white picture of the Glorious Fallen of Flanders Field, the heroes who died for freedom, etc. But if you look closely—zooming in, say, on an arbitrarily-selected 24 hours—a shocking possibility arises: that the version of the War we've been trained to revere isn't real. And that we, the people, are still being duped.
Sean Howard is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University and member of Peace Quest Cape Breton. He can be reached here.
Tags: Battle of the Somme, David LLoyd George, Triple Entente, Woodrow Wilson, WWI


French President Jacques Chirac has had bad days before, but probably not this bad. French voters today handed the "oui" camp on the European Constitution a stinging rebuke as 75-80% of France's eligible voters turned out to reject the document and reject Chirac's leadership on this most pivotal of European issues. Chirac has said that he will not resign, but the fate of the daring and brilliant classical liberal reformer and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is all but sealed. Raffarin has been trying since taking office to reform France's huge and inefficient public welfare system and implement market reforms and into the socialist economy. Apparently a large enough of the French population sees the scraps they receive from the state as reason enough to reject the reforms that would likely have lowered France's crippling unemployment and gotten the perpetually stalled economy back on track. For the US, the rejection is a mixed blessing. Less competition from Europe can be both a help and a hindrance to American producers and consumers. Chirac will also likely name current Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin as the new PM. Villepin was the foreign minister who worked vigorously to scuttle any UN resolution condoning the Iraq war. As for the fate of the EU, it's hard to say. On balance, this was a defeat for economic reform in France and the dream of a united Europe across the continent. The winners are Jean-Marie Le Pen, the protectionist right-wing nut who argued against ratification on nationalist grounds and the communist, bureaucrats and trade unions who worried that economic reform and liberalization would lead to an erosion of their relative power. Read more on the French "non" vote here.


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Karen Goodman: The Perfect Time and Place
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Last fall, Karen Goodman and her husband Richard became empty nesters. And in this new life space, Karen has found a way to give voice to her Jewish values. Although she and Richard are both from Amberley Village, they didn't solidly connect until they found each other as young adults living in Boston. Marriage and three children later, a confluence of events led them back to Cincinnati, and Wise Temple, where Karen teaches about nature and does yoga with the kids in the Open Room on Sundays.
Karen grew up in a traditional Jewish home. She first went to Israel for her older brother's bar mitzvah when she was five. "I was so young, but I remember it felt like a truly incredible place. This passion for Israel is a big part of my Jewish values." She spent a year in Israel on a kibbutz in the Negev and in Jerusalem before gap years were a thing. "It was transformative in terms of my love for Israel and solidified Judaism as my cultural, spiritual tradition."
Her mother was socially progressive – a feminist and environmentalist, committed to social action. Karen recalls, "She was very proud to be a woman, and showed me and my sister that it's possible to be independent, to hold strong, deep values as a female, and still be a good mom too."
Karen strives to parent by example, just like her mom and dad did. She believes that now is the time in her life to support the young change-makers who envision a better world. She is compelled to use her voice not only for herself and her own children, but for all those who don't have the resources, the finances, or who are fearful to speak up for themselves.
"Truthfully, I feel most comfortable doing social action with my fellow Jews, which is how I ended up working with Civic Engagement. At this time in my life and with how I'm feeling about the world around us, it was a natural fit for me and it came at the perfect time," Karen explains.
Regarding gun violence Karen says, "I just cannot look at news clips of killings – all of them: mass shootings, suicides, murders – and just say 'Oh well, that's how it is.' I truly believe gun violence is a public health crisis and should be treated as a public health crisis. There's nothing political about it. It's really hard to stomach the idea that nothing can be done."
She has equally strong feelings about reproductive rights and criminal justice reform. She hopes to contribute to the groundswell by helping and encouraging friends to channel the passions they have for societal issues into small doable actions that could lead to bigger ones. "We all have to show up. We should be able to leave our kids in a better place and to teach them how to 'move the needle' because we're not going to be able to do it forever. The more people we get involved, the better!"
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This sample application was developed as a possible inclusion activity in the SK299 Human Biology app currently being developed. Primarily to allow students to see the circulatory system in interesting way. The model was obtained initially to investigate it being used for life sized augmentation that the student could interact with via a VR headset.
This sample application was developed to inspire the Arts faculty with the possibilities of students being able to interact with a 3D model of an artefact, in this instance an Amphora. The application demonstrates how the model can be rotated and tapped in certain locations to display text feedback. Although this sample simply displays a text message when a given area of the model is tapped is conveys the ability to allow further scrutiny of the object in question. So the sample shows how the user can query areas of the artwork on the model.
This technique could just as well work on other artefacts, paintings etc. Instead of the basic text displayed for demonstration purposes it could just as easily display detailed text, video or links to further content relating to the artefact in question.


The Halifax Nova Scotia Temple is one of a series of detailed pencil drawings and paintings created by the artist Chad S. Hawkins. In 1989, at the age of seventeen, Chad started this unique temple series, becoming the original LDS artist to involve hidden spiritual images in his artwork.
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Virtually all entity changes whatsoever require a new world. Some don't, and some only do when certain conditions are met. It would be impossible to document every case here.
Adding/removing entire objects requires a new world. NOTICE: Changing an object's identifier does both of these.
All changes to tags except those in entity objects do not require a new world. NOTICE: Some, such as biomes, are highly relevant during worldgen and may not entirely have the desired effect.
Make sure you make your changes in the copy of the raws included in the region's /data/save folder instead of the /raw/objects folder, which is only used during new-world-generation.
If you plan on making a new world, obviously, change the base raws.
Play it safe and generate a new world if you're unsure.
identifier -- In this instance, it refers to the second half of the object tag, which absolutely must be unique to that object, no matter what.
Objects are indexed in the region files by their ID; nothing more, nothing less. To add, remove, or rename them, one would have to change this index, which, while possible in uncompressed saves, is probably not a good idea.
Tags, with probable exception to entities as usual, are to my knowledge contained only in the raws as of 0.31. Many are used in worldgen, but still not stored, so the effect of a change may be considerably less than the effect of the same modification with a new world, perhaps even to the extent of having no effect at all. Beware.
Also, I might not be paying the most attention at a given moment. Use this thread to discuss, and if you certifiably prove I need to add something up here, just toss me a PM and I'll wake up and get right on it.
This is good reference. Thanks for putting this in clear view.
Don't forget that moving an entire entry from one text document to another will require regen, as the game takes the deleting/adding thing on a text document by text document basis, not on an entire raw basis.
Also, adding/removing/renaming the text files themselves apparently requires deletion of /data/objects.
That was kind of cobbled together from secondhand sources, so I can't elaborate much. i2amroy could explain in more detail, but people have noticed oddities when they shuffled the raws around, and deleting data/objects seems to fix it. It's probably another issue with the indexing of various raw entries.
In my experience, adding new .txt files doesn't require a deletion of data/objects, only removing or renaming them.
For the renaming of text files, the game creates a cache of each text file based on name. This means that if you change the name of or delete an entire old text file, the game will not erase that cache of the old text file. This in turn means that any entries in that text file will remain in any further world generations, and the only way to solve the problem is to delete that text file's cache in data/objects. For example, if I have a file that is named bob.txt in the raws, than in data/objects there will be a file named bob. The file in data/objects is a cache that contains all data in bob.txt stored so the game can use it. Any changes I make to bob.txt are stored in the bob file which is rewritten every time you start dwarf fortress. However, if I completely remove or rename the bob.txt file, than the bob file is not overwritten, meaning that it retains all of the information of the bob.txt file. So if I had a creature in the bob.txt file, and I delete the bob.txt file, that creature will remain in the world until I deleted the bob file from data/objects. Heck, you could even go right now and delete every text document in the raws file and as long as the data/objects file was untouched your game should still run fine. This only applies to complete removal or renaming of text files, though, if you then create another file that has the same name as one of the old files, then it will overwrite that cache and cause bugs.
Actually, moving an entry to another .txt does not require regeneration as long as you cut the entry instead of copying; I've done it before multiple times, even between releases of the LEGO mod. I haven't had any problems playing with older forts.
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Adding a new Body entry doesn't require a worldgen.
I believe I added that after that post.
Oh, sorry about that. I think I must have misread it.
Messing with reactions requires a regen, doesn't it?
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The sale of 51% of the capital of Lomsko Pivo Jsc ( ) is currently being negotiated, the company announced. It is expected that the brewery will have a new majority owner by mid-2008.
900,000 shares of the capital will be offered at a closed mixed auction on December 6. The minimum bid per lot has been set at 3.50 leva, 1 lot being 1 share. There will be no maximum limit price. Both limit and market orders will be accepted.
The investment intermediary appointed for the procedures is Benchmark Finance Jsc. The shares offered at the auction represent 20% of the company's capital. In case of a successful auction the company's free-float will reach 45%.
Lomsko Pivo is planning to establish a company in Romania at the beginning of 2008 as a result of the growing demand for its products on the local market. The brewery plans to export more than 30% of its production to Romania and EU countries, which means production volume will have to be increased.
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