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Farmer's markets talk about successes, hardships in 2017
By Matthew Daigle
PARIS — Many of the farmers' markets in Oxford County are discovering new and unique ways to make sure they remain successful in the long term, and continue to attract customers and vendors.
Some market directors said the trend, overall, is one of growth. Others are acclimating to adversity and grinding away to build up their customer base again.
Bill Winslow said that the Harrison Farmers' Market had a "really good season this year," continuing an upward trend over the last several years of more customers and vendors.
"Each season has gotten successfully better, probably because the economy has slowly been improving," said Winslow, who heads up the farmers' market in Harrison.
He also credited a move from the parking lot of the town's library and Town Office to a "new green space on the edge of Route 117."
"There's a lot more traffic on that stretch of road," he added. "Location is very important in having a successful market."
Winslow said that the market in Harrison began "close to 10 years ago," and that he became involved in it a "couple of years after that."
"It's really grown since it first started," Winslow said. "When we first started, there were only four vendors every week. Now, there are 11 or 12 who set up."
BrennaMae Thomas-Googins, the assistant market manager for the Bridgton Farmers' Market, said that the market in Bridgton has seen "slow but steady growth" over the 20 years it has operated.
"Things here were really, really great in 2017," Thomas-Googins said. "We've noticed that we have a slower growth in vendors, but our existing vendors stick around and are doing more and more every year."
In 2017, Thomas-Googins said that Bridgton market averaged about 10 vendors and 14 booths, and on July 4, one of the busier times of the market season, they had up to 16 vendors and 24 booths.
One thing that Thomas-Googins said she and the other vendors attempt to do to keep the Bridgton market successful each year is "growing a sense of community within the market, and having that radiate to our customers."
"One of the things we did quite a few years ago was offer a system where low-income folks who are using SNAP and EBT can use them at the market," Thomas-Googins said. "It fell out of use after awhile, but a couple of years ago, we were able to get a grant from the Maine Federation of Farmers' Markets to offer credit, debit and EBT."
She said that the vendors are trying to "create a fun environment that people want to come back to, one that's not just going to attract folks from away who are up here for the season."
"We have some amazing locals who support the vendors year-round, even during our winter market," she said.
Thomas-Googins recommended that other farmers' markets looking to start or grow "look at other town's near you" to "ensure that you're not cannibalizing other markets."
"The more markets there are, the less impact your market will make, so you need to really take a look at what's in the community and what the need is in the area," Thomas-Googins said.
She added that it helps having a dialogue with the town government.
"If you don't have a great relationship with the town you're in, it's going to be a lot tougher," she said.
Dottie Bell said that in 2012, when the Waterford Farmers' Market first launched, there were only two farm vendors.
"Now, in 2017, we have 10 weekly vendors with the occasional guest," she said. "Local musicians join in on the event when they can."
She said that all of the vendors saw an increase in sales in 2017, and that during the summer months, the population of the town "nearly doubles," and many of the seasonal residents use the market as a place to purchase their produce.
She added that the success of the market in recent years is likely due to the variety of vendors.
"The market offers meats, eggs, dairy products, breads, baked goods, vegetables, soaps and lavender products," Bell explained. "This is a very complete market."
Bell said that in the future, she wants to see the market make contact with local campgrounds before the market season begins and advertise on the Web.
She also wants to continue seeing new vendors offer something new that "isn't being offered yet."
Steve Abbott, the Bethel Farmers' Market manager, said that while he didn't start doing the farmers' market until 2010, he knows it has been around since at least 1986.
"I recently had a customer who came to the market and told me she was one of the founding members of the market" Abbott said. "I'm from Sumner, and when I came back to Maine from college, I wanted to start farming. I started with maple syrup, and shortly after that, I started doing the market in Bethel."
He said that in 2010, the market was "very small," but had "a good community" with "room to grow."
It's that same community support that has helped the market in Bethel grow over the last seven years, Abbott said.
"The year-round Bethel residents generally want to support the market and see it succeed," Abbott said. "We also have people with summer homes here who are more conscious of buying local foods. I think that one-two punch has helped the Bethel market stay successful."
He said that it's also important for each market to have "a couple of core vendors that can provide a wide variety of produce" and that "people can rely on to be there every week."
However, Abbott said that the trouble most markets face – including Bethel – is attracting new vendors.
"In Bethel, sometimes it's hard to find enough vendors," Abbott said. "It's taken awhile to build up our numbers to where they are. Right now, we're running with about seven vendors a week, and sometimes smaller than that."
He added that sometimes, the success of a market rests in the eyes of the vendor.
"I mean, as long as the vendors feel like they're doing good and selling enough product, that's what's important," Abbott said.
In the coming years, Abbott said that he would like to increase the number of vendors coming to the Bethel Farmers' Market and continue holding a winter market inside the lobby of the Gem Theater through December, something that the market began doing in 2016.
Several years ago, the Norway Farmers' Market at Old Squire's Green was a tale of two markets: the Norway Farmers' Market would set up at Longley Square on the corner of Main and Deering streets, while the Old Squire's Farm Market set up at 493 Main St., two-tenths of a mile up the road.
However, in 2016, the two markets merged into one, leading to a year of transition for the Norway Farmers' Market at Old Squire's Green.
Pat Martin, market liaison for Old Squire's Farm Market, said that it was "a year of changes" for the new market.
"One thing that happened was the market vendors voted not to keep the marketplace open over the winter," Martin said. "They felt that with the added overhead, it wasn't worth keeping it open for the winter."
She said that the 2016 winter marketplace was "very good," but that "overall, most people come into farmers' markets for the vegetables, and in Maine, it's just not really possible to keep that going through the winter."
She said that while the 2017 market for Norway was "one of transition," the plan is to come back to 493 Main St. in 2018 and try to grow.
"We're going to play it by ear and see how it goes," Martin said. "We're still working on our nonprofit status. It seems like something is always in transition at this point."
TRANSITION — For the 2017 season, Old Squire's Farm Market and the Norway Farmers' Market combined forces and relocated the single market to Old Squire's on Main Street. The hope is for the market to grow in 2018.


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Good morning, lovely friends! If your heart gets all doughy at the sight of glazed, frosted and/or hole-y treats, then I have a new blog for you: Glazed With Sprinkles by the lovely, fellow-Brooklynite Allison McEntee. Allison and I used to work together at Food Network—her obsession was serious even then (check out her Halloween costume), so I'm thrilled to see she's taking her doughnut-dilerium to a whole new level on Tumblr. Congrats, Ally Mac! Follow along for daily updates, including products, recipes, bakery recommendations, etc.
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In the Middle Ages the Alpine valleys if Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, the "Forest Cantons" were populated by large numbers of free peasants who, far away from secular or ecclesiastical overlords, developed into relatively independent communities, electing their own leaders. Fiercely loyal to each other, they became wealthy through forest management and stockbreeding. In 1291 these cantons signed the Federal Charter, regarded as the founding document of the Swiss Confederation, in which they pledged to support each other and join together to resist threats and violence and laid down procedures for resolving disputes amongst signatories. Their alliance consolidated their position against the Habsburg rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and their position was reinforced by the famous victory of the Swiss infantry against the Habsburg cavalry at Morgarten in 1315. The Swiss founding cantons renewed their Everlasting League, a mutual defence agreement that effectively asserted the freedom of the cantons from feudal obligations. As the Swiss Confederation grew it united both rural and urban communities, and its status was consolidated by the growing wealth of the Swiss towns, with their far-flung commercial networks. As the towns became wealthier they acquired land and territory of their own, exercising feudal rights over their tenants. Gradually the towns joined the Confederation, seeking help and support against foreign and internal threats, such as revolutions by the guilds against the pro-Habsburg nobility. Lucerne joined in 1332, Zurich in 1351, Bern in 1353. The military force of the Confederation thwarted Habsburg advances, defeating the Swabian League and weakening the power of local pro-Habsburg nobility. The Confederation was acquiring a reputation for invincibility.
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Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession (review)
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Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession
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Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession. By Christi A. Merrill. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. 304 pp. Cloth $70.00.
Christi A. Merrill's Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession is a welcome contribution to subaltern studies, South Asian literary vernacular studies, postcolonial and other theory and cultural studies, comparative literature studies, and translation studies. Merrill's general focus is on high literary as well as popular cultural forms drawn from oral and written South Asian literatures of the north, including Rajasthani, Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit. Many of these works deploy riddling narratives. Most have ancient origins and continue to be in wide circulation, crossing time periods, languages, ethnicities, classes, and castes with each retelling and gaining new life as they do so.
Tracing multiple versions of the works as they are told and retold over time, Merrill rethinks two key concepts: translation, and the riddle. She distances her approach from that in which translation is signaled by the Western term "trans-latus," which "can be read as a carrying across" and which consequently projects the object of translation as finite and fixed, a form of "goods being transported" (42). She turns instead toward the [End Page 488] Sanskrit-derived concept of translation as "anuvad" or "a telling in turn" (43); here the object of translation is neither pregiven nor static but emerges in the act of telling-in-turn (43). While translation seems conceptually consistent over the book, the second formative term, "riddle," appears more elastic. In the first two chapters, which focus extensively on millennia-old storytelling and folklore, the riddle is a favored and precise form, and one that gives rise to irrepressible punning, playfulness, and gaming. These modes in turn are often used to probe philosophical complexities. The later chapters shift to works of more recent origin, in which the riddle as concept does less work for the text and the reading and appears on occasion even as a synonym for "conundrum" or "question."
The first two chapters focus on multiply retold tales with origins in ancient storytelling. Drawing extensively on her long-standing immersion in fieldwork in Rajasthan, Merrill addresses versions of Chouboli by the Dalit writer Salvaram, the Rajasthani contemporary writer and activist Vijay Dan Detha, the "professional storyteller" Abdul Rhaman, and herself. The next chapter turns to translations of the eleventh-century Vetalapanchavimshati (The Twenty-Five Tales of the Undead ) a Sanskrit storytelling cycle yielding up marvels of playful and ludic framing including the unforgettable riddling tale, "The Transposed Head" (which was adapted by Thomas Mann and then returned to India via Girish Karnad's take on Mann).
The next two chapters address works of more recent origin by the eminent writers in the Urdu/Hindi tradition, Sadat Hassan Manto and Premchand, each associated to varying degree with the All India Progressive Writer's Movement of the first half of the twentieth century. In her analysis of "Toba Tek Singh," Manto's widely discussed partition tale, Merrill offers a new perspective by addressing Manto's own foregrounding of the act of polyglot riddling. In the subsequent chapter, Merrill addresses Premchand's "Boot aur Roti" (a ghost story derived from Leo Tolstoy), Premchand's translation of the manifesto of the Progressive Writer's Movement, and his representation of Dalits. The next chapter retains this focus on the ghost tale, as Merrill returns to Detha, now reading him in conjunction with another oral storyteller, Bhola Ram. In the final chapter, her conclusion, Merrill refers to another Detha story of ancient origins that has seen multiple retellings over time, including one by Kabir. Here Merrill also attends to questions of transgendering and same-sex desire, issues that she consistently highlights as a powerful subtextual current in many of the ancient-origin works.
The book's strengths are many. Merrill offers brilliant and intriguing interpretations of social and literary privilege across the study, especially in her reading of tales in which the listener/riddle solver becomes the riddle poser [End Page 489] and teller in turn, with the various riddle...


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A sea of purple shirts that read "We remember their love, when they can no longer remember" were proudly displayed on the backs of Fort Bend County volunteers for the annual Walk To End Alzheimer's, held Saturday at the University of Houston – Sugar Land.
More than 1,000 participants raised over $136,000. Funds raised are for critical care and support services for Alzheimer's patients.
Carrying flowers of blue, yellow, purple and orange from the Alzheimer's Association Promise Garden, the purple shirted crowd walked to represent their promise to remember, honor, care and fight for those living with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers. Each flower color held a different meaning: blue flowers meant someone has Alzheimer's; yellow for those who are supporting or caring for someone with Alzheimer's; purple, signaling the loss of someone to Alzheimer's; and orange, for support of the cause and the Alzheimer's Association.
Alzheimer's Association Event Chairman Roy Cordes Jr., who now cares for his wife Helen, who is in the late stages of the disease, said the turnout and the weather couldn't be better.
"It's so fantastic that so many people are involved and care about the Alzheimer's Association and want to support it and what they do," he said.
For more information, visit alz.org/walk.


Women are often perplexed in their efforts to figure out what men really need to be happy and contented. At the end of the day, Eve's daughters simply shake their heads, shrug their shoulders, and tell themselves that men will always be a complex mystery.
This shouldn't always be the case, however. Since the root of all misunderstandings between the opposite sexes is probably the fact that each party has their own misconceptions about each other, then it's time to set the facts straight. Once and for all, let us examine what men really expect from women.
Men expect women to communicate their thoughts and feelings directly and honestly. Men don't like it when women make them second-guess their actions. They expect their partner to express herself truthfully, and to verbalize her thoughts and feelings to help him understand her better. They don't like playing emotional charades. If his lady has certain needs and wants that he must fulfill, a man wants to know it straight from her. However, men prefer a gentle, kind and loving way of communication. It will never do to be demanding, whining, and critical of him.
Men expect women to be strong, independent, and self-sufficient. Men are attracted to confident women. Although a loving relationship is defined by sharing your life with your partner, it is still healthy to maintain a separate identity and not lose your own self. A woman should maintain her own interests, activities, and set of friends. The last thing that she should be is a clingy partner, who cannot function on her own if separated from her man. However, there should still be a balance to this, because men also want to feel needed. Being too independent may make a man fear that his partner is no longer truly committed to him.
Men expect women to be faithful and devoted. Another common misconception is that men are more likely to commit infidelity in a relationship, so it often the women who are heard as saying that they wished their man would be more faithful and devoted. In reality, no man would want to be cheated and betrayed by his girl as well. When a man is in a relationship, he expects his partner to be committed and willing to make the relationship work out.
Men expect women to know how to treat them right. Treating them right means knowing how to make them feel good. Men have a need to be praised, appreciated, and supported in their opinions. Stroking his ego once in a while would do him good, as long as it's done sincerely and not in a patronizing way.
No matter how they resent being baffled by the riddle that is men, towards the end, women still try their best to understand and live in harmony with them. After all, the situation is fairly mutual. Women also have their own set of behaviors that puzzle men to no end.


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import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import lombok.AccessLevel;
import lombok.Data;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.Synchronized;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

/**
 * A simple IdentServer (also know as "The Identification Protocol"). An ident
 * server provides a means to determine the identity of a user of a particular
 * TCP connection.
 *

 * Most IRC servers attempt to contact the ident server on connecting hosts in
 * order to determine the user's identity. A few IRC servers will not allow you
 * to connect unless this information is provided.
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 * So when a PircBotX is run on a machine that does not run an ident server, it
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 * server and sending out apparently correct responses.
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 * @since PircBot 0.9c
 * @author Leon Blakey
 */
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public class IdentServer implements Closeable, Runnable {
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	@Getter(AccessLevel.PROTECTED)
	protected static IdentServer server;
	protected static final Object INSTANCE_CREATE_LOCK = new Object();
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	protected final Charset encoding;
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	protected final List<IdentEntry> identEntries = new ArrayList<IdentEntry>();
	protected Thread runningThread;
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	@Synchronized("INSTANCE_CREATE_LOCK")
	public static void startServer(Charset encoding, InetAddress localAddress) {
		startServer(encoding, localAddress, DEFAULT_PORT);
	}

	@Synchronized("INSTANCE_CREATE_LOCK")
	protected static void startServer(Charset encoding, InetAddress localAddress, int port) {
		if (server != null)
			throw new RuntimeException("Already created an IdentServer instance");
		server = new IdentServer(encoding, localAddress, port);
		server.start();
	}

	/**
	 * Stop the server and clear pending ident responses.
	 *
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	@Synchronized("INSTANCE_CREATE_LOCK")
	public static void stopServer() throws IOException {
		if (server == null)
			throw new RuntimeException("Never created an IdentServer");
		server.doClose();
		server = null;
	}

	/**
	 * Create an ident server on port 113 with the specified encoding
	 *
	 * @param encoding Encoding to use for sockets
	 */
	protected IdentServer(Charset encoding, InetAddress localAddress, int port) {
		try {
			this.encoding = encoding;
			this.localAddress = localAddress;
			this.serverSocket = new ServerSocket(port, 50, localAddress);
			this.port = port;
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new RuntimeException("Could not create server socket for IdentServer on " + localAddress.toString() + ", port " + port, e);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Start the ident server in a new thread.
	 */
	public void start() {
		runningThread = new Thread(this);
		runningThread.setName("IdentServer");
		runningThread.start();
	}

	/**
	 * Waits for a client to connect to the ident server before making an
	 * appropriate response.
	 */
	public void run() {
		log.info("IdentServer running on port " + serverSocket.getLocalPort());
		while (!serverSocket.isClosed()) {
			Socket socket = null;
			try {
				socket = serverSocket.accept();
				BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream(), encoding));
				OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), encoding);
				InetSocketAddress remoteAddress = (InetSocketAddress) socket.getRemoteSocketAddress();

				//Read first line and process
				String line = reader.readLine();
				String response = handleNextConnection(remoteAddress, line);
				if (response != null) {
					writer.write(response);
					writer.flush();
				}
			} catch (Exception e) {
				if (serverSocket.isClosed()) {
					log.debug("Server socket closed, exiting connection loop");
					return;
				} else
					//This is not from the server socket closing
					throw new RuntimeException("Exception encountered when opening user socket", e);
			} finally {
				//Close user socket
				try {
					if (socket != null)
						socket.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					throw new RuntimeException("Exception encountered when closing user socket", e);
				}
			}
		}

		//Done with connection loop, can safely close the socket now
		if (!serverSocket.isClosed())
			try {
				close();
			} catch (IOException e) {
				log.error("Cannot close IdentServer socket", e);
			}
	}

	/**
	 * Wait for and process the next connection.
	 *
	 * @throws IOException If any error occurred during reading or writing
	 */
	public String handleNextConnection(InetSocketAddress remoteAddress, String line) throws IOException {
		//Get and validate Ident from server
		if (StringUtils.isBlank(line)) {
			log.error("Ignoring connection from " + remoteAddress + ", received blank line");
			return null;
		}
		String[] parsedLine = StringUtils.split(line, ", ");
		if (parsedLine.length != 2) {
			log.error("Ignoring connection from " + remoteAddress + ", recieved unknown line: " + line);
			return null;
		}
		int localPort = Utils.tryParseInt(parsedLine[0], -1);
		int remotePort = Utils.tryParseInt(parsedLine[1], -1);
		if (localPort == -1 || remotePort == -1) {
			log.error("Ignoring connection from " + remoteAddress + ", recieved unparsable line: " + line);
			return null;
		}

		//Grab the IdentEntry for this ident
		log.debug("Received ident request from " + remoteAddress + ": " + line);
		IdentEntry identEntry = null;
		synchronized (identEntries) {
			for (IdentEntry curIdentEntry : identEntries)
				if (curIdentEntry.getRemoteAddress().equals(remoteAddress.getAddress())
						&& curIdentEntry.getRemotePort() == remotePort
						&& curIdentEntry.getLocalPort() == localPort) {
					identEntry = curIdentEntry;
					break;
				}
		}
		if (identEntry == null) {
			String response = localPort + ", " + remotePort + " : ERROR : NO-USER";
			log.error("Unknown ident " + line + " from " + remoteAddress + ", responding with: " + response);
			return response;
		}

		//Respond to correct ident entry with login
		String response = line + " : USERID : UNIX : " + identEntry.getLogin();
		log.debug("Responded to ident request from " + remoteAddress + " with: " + response);
		return response;
	}

	protected void addIdentEntry(InetAddress remoteAddress, int remotePort, int localPort, String login) {
		synchronized (identEntries) {
			log.debug("Added ident entry for address " + remoteAddress + " on port " + remotePort + " for local port " + localPort + " for " + login);
			identEntries.add(new IdentEntry(remoteAddress, remotePort, localPort, login));
		}
	}

	protected void removeIdentEntry(InetAddress remoteAddress, int remotePort, int localPort, String login) {
		synchronized (identEntries) {
			log.debug("Removed ident entry for address " + remoteAddress + " on port " + remotePort + " for local port " + localPort + " for " + login);
			for (Iterator<IdentEntry> itr = identEntries.iterator(); itr.hasNext();) {
				IdentEntry curEntry = itr.next();
				if (curEntry.getRemoteAddress().equals(remoteAddress) && curEntry.getRemotePort() == remotePort
						&& curEntry.getLocalPort() == localPort && curEntry.getLogin().equals(login))
					itr.remove();
			}
		}
	}

	protected int getPort() {
		Preconditions.checkState(!serverSocket.isClosed(), "Server socket is not open");
		return serverSocket.getLocalPort();
	}

	/**
	 * Calls {@link #stopServer() }
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public void close() throws IOException {
		stopServer();
	}

	/**
	 * Close the server socket and clear pending ident responses.
	 *
	 * @throws IOException If an error occured during closing
	 */
	protected void doClose() throws IOException {
		serverSocket.close();
		identEntries.clear();
		log.info("Closed ident server on port " + port + "/" + serverSocket.getLocalPort());
	}

	@Data
	protected static class IdentEntry {
		protected final InetAddress remoteAddress;
		protected final int remotePort;
		protected final int localPort;
		protected final String login;
	}
}


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PSLS • DLC & Patches • PS4 News, Trophies, Reviews, and More
Metal Gear Solid V Update 1.16 Out Now, Adds PS4 Pro Support
Tyler Treese Tuesday, October 31, 2017
As announced yesterday, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain now features PS4 Pro support. As such, Metal Gear Solid V update 1.16 is now available for players to download. It's a tiny download, at just 180MB, but it now features "enhanced performance" for PlayStation 4 Pro owners.
Here's the full Metal Gear Solid V update 1.16 patch notes (although they're rather short, so don't get too excited about reading a bunch of specifics):
Adds support for Playstation 4 Pro with enhanced performance.
This patch makes an already great game even better. Check out our Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain review to find out what makes it so special. Here's how reviewer Paulmichael Contreras summarized the open-world stealth title:
Incredibly, unbelievably, what we have here is a nearly perfect finale to the Metal Gear franchise. I truly believe that The Phantom Pain is where Kojima always envisioned he would take the franchise. This is personalized, open-world infiltration at its finest. You have so many options at your disposal with which to complete your missions, it truly is mind-boggling. Whether you sneak in, secure your objective, and sneak out without alerting a single enemy combatant, or run in guns blazing with air support at your back, how you plan and execute your attack is key, and it's amazingly rewarding to see a well-thought out assault come to fruition. On that same token, recovering from a mistake such as not accounting for an enemy or circumstance that the game throws at you can be its own form of exhilaration as you race to find a secure spot from which to reset. If this is truly the last game in the series with Kojima's name on it, then there is no better way to exit the stage gracefully.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is currently free for PlayStation Plus members.
Tags: Konami, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain


Source: "Development of Modern Society" Commonweal, Volume 6, Number 239, 9 August, p. 253; the fourth of five parts.
Now, you will probably agree with me in thinking that this was a much better state of things for the worker than his condition under what have been called the "free peoples of antiquity," but whose freedom was confined to the rich and powerful. One other thing I note in this contrast, that whereas in the ancient world, the intelligence, the high mental qualities, which have made the ancient days so famous, came from the idle classes, who were in good sooth an aristocracy of intellect as well as of position, in the Middle Ages, the intelligence lay with the great craftsmen class,—and that again, I think, was a decided advantage, both for them and for us; since it has given us, amongst other treasures not so famous, but scarcely less glorious, the poems of Shakespeare.
At the end of the fourteenth century, there were no journeymen in the guilds; every worker in them was certain to become a master if he only did his duty fairly; and the master was not the master in our sense of the word, he was the man who had learned his craft thoroughly, and could teach the apprentices their business, and all sorts of restrictions were laid on him to prevent him becoming a capitalist, i.e., forcing men as good as himself to pay him for his privilege of providing them with work. But in the early days of the fifteenth century the journeyman began to appear; there were men in the workshops who were known as "servants," and, who though necessarily affiliated to the guild, and working under its regulations, would never become crafts-masters. They were few and unimportant enough, but they grew in numbers, till, e.g., about 1480 the non-guildsmen of the merchant-tailors in London attempted to form a guild under the old craft guild, just as those latter had formed their guilds under the trades guilds. In this attempt they failed, showing thereby how the times were changing, and how employment for profit was raising its hideous head. This falling of the crafts guilds from their old simplicity of equality, was doubtless a token rather than a cause of the change. Capitalism was advancing from other directions. The productivity of labour was increasing, though slowly; more wealth was being produced, and men's greedy desires grew with it. The landed nobility began to see how they might recover their losses in war, and become as rich in relation to other people as they had been when the latter were so poor; and they were no longer contented, as they once were obliged to be, to live on the rents of their land, whether those rents were the enforced service of serfs, or the money rent of tenants, both limited by the custom of the manor. The Peasants Rebellion in England had foiled them in their attempt to rack-rent their tenants, growing prosperous, by forcing them to pay serfs' services on villeinage tenures as well as tenant's rent. But no matter; in spite of the high wages and comfort of the craftsmen and yeomen, they were the powerful people, since they were the makers and interpreters of the laws, and since the meetings round the Shire Oak and the folkmotes of the freemen of the Hundred, and other such direct local assemblies, had been swallowed up in the representative assembly, the central parliament, the King's taxing machine. So they set to work to steal, not a purse here, or a bale of goods there, or the tolls of a market in another place; but the very life and soul of the community, the land of the country, which was of the more importance, as in those days no direct rent could be got out of anything save the land. They got the yeomen and tenants off the land by one means or another; legal quibbling, direct cheating, down-right violence; and so got hold of the lands and used their produce, not for the livelihood of themselves and their retainers, but for profit. The land of England, such of it as was used for cultivation, had been mostly tillage where tillage was profitable; it was the business of the land thieves to turn this tillage into pasture for the sake of the sheep, i.e., the wool for exportation. This game not only drove the yeoman and tenant off the land, but the labourer also, since, as More says "Many sheep and one shepherd now take the place of many families." As a result, not only was a pauper population created, but the towns were flooded by crowds of the new free labourers, whom the guilds, grown corrupt, were ready to receive as journeymen. The huckstering landlord and the capitalist farmer drove the workman into the hands of the new manufacturing capitalist, and a middle-class of employers of labour was created, the chief business of whose fathers was to resist the rich, and the business of whose sons was to oppress the poor.


In May of this year, the voices of 100 people could be heard as hospital staff, nursing students, and community members sang in unison "we thank you Lord". Gathered together in an open field in Egbe, Nigeria, voices were raised in praise during an impromptu ground breaking ceremony marking the anticipated School of Nursing Revitalization.
Since that day, work has begun on the site that will house 3 new dormitories, an administrative building with study hall, dining hall, kitchen and laundry, matron's housing and a sports field. Under the direction of our national construction foreman and an engineer firm from Abuja, the red earth was staked to show the locations of the various buildings, and cement poured to prepare the foundations for the dormitories.
What will the Nursing School Revitalization Project encompass?
This past year we have witnessed the results of your generosity and prayers which have impacted hundreds of lives in the Egbe Community through excellent medical care in a loving, Christian environment. Thank you!
To train Christian Nurses who are highly dedicated, respected, disciplined, and enabled to serve in ECWA Hospital Egbe and different parts of Nigeria in mission, government and private medical establishments.
Thank you for your ongoing support of the ECWA Hospital Egbe medical complex.
We thank God for visiting us again in Egbe with this kind of development. We thank all the revitalization team. We assure you of our prayers.


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Q: WebSphere MQ .NET - How to test locally? Any ideas how (if I) can I test WebSphere MQ locally using the IBM.XMS library without installing a MQ server (i.e. with just the MQ Client) whether it's via a simulator, mocks or local message queue?

A: Two options. You can use a WebSphere MQ queue manager to test applications written using IBM.XMS or any other MQ client.  You can download a trial copy from developerWorks here.  The trial version is fully enabled and good for 90 days.
IBM.XMS can also be used for messaging with Default Messaging Provider of WebSphere Application Server.  You can download a WAS trial here.

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Mapusa also spelt at Mapuca, Mhapsa or Mapsa is a town in North Goa, India. It is situated 13 km north of the capital Panaji. The town is the headquarters of Bardez Taluka. It is located on the main highway NH-17, linking Mumbai to Kochi. Under Portuguese rule, the town\'s name was spelt Mapuçá.


You're already an expert in your field. Otherwise, you wouldn't have gone through the trouble of starting your own business. Yet unless that field exists in a perfect, unchanging vacuum that's not subject to new innovations or market changes, there's always going to be something that you'll need to learn.
That's why professional development is so important to your continued success. Getting to the top of your game is only half the battle – the other half is staying up there for good. Here's what you need to think about when it comes to choosing the best professional development solutions for you.
This one's a no-brainer, but we'd be remiss if we didn't include it here. You've got a responsibility to keep up with the developments of your industry in order to remain relevant. Standards and practices evolve over time thanks to new technologies or even just changing cultural landscapes, and it's important to adapt to these changes in order to continue to provide the best level of service that you can.
Attempting to use older, outdated methods isn't just ineffective, it's likely to mark you as behind the times. A good example of this is how the online marketing world has gone through so many changes. Digital marketing has gone from primitive search engine optimization efforts like keyword stuffing to much more advanced techniques like social media and influencer marketing. If you tried to run a modern marketing campaign using old, out-of-date methods, you'd never get anywhere, so it's important to educate yourself on new techniques to stay current.
Now for something a bit more unconventional when it comes to professional development: diversify your interests beyond those that are directly related to your line of work. Such counterintuitive advice may resonate with the old saying about being a jack of all trades, but in this context it's important to remember the rest of the saying: being a "jack of all trades" might mean that you're a master of none, but that's still better than being just a master of one.
No matter what line of work you're in, you'll benefit from a broader experience. Tapping into the curiosity of the human spirit and expanding your horizons into topics that are tangential at best might not seem like much of a professional benefit, but the truth is that broadening and diversifying your interests can pay off by giving you the opportunity to learn transferable skills that can support and enrich your efforts to make your own business more successful.
Any small business owner knows the hustle of maintaining positive client relationships. Ultimately this all comes down to being able to communicate clearly and with understanding, and that means that you'll have to hone those communication skills, both spoken and written, no matter what line of work you're in if you want to continue to build those all-important relationships.
Building on your current communication skills – or at least maintaining them at their existing level – doesn't need to be an exhaustive endeavor; you don't have to go and join your local ToastMasters chapter if you don't want to. Honing interpersonal communication is often more about developing active listening skills when talking face-to-face or on the phone and reading comprehension when communicating over email or other digital mediums.
Last but not least, there's the most traditional and labor-intensive route when it comes to professional development: hitting the books. Whether it's for a certification in a specific new set of technical skills or a degree in an entire field of study, going back to school and picking up a formal education is never a bad idea.
This is, of course, the one method that's likely to take the longest and require the most commitment on your part. They're also going to require you to invest the most in terms of financial resources. However, the potential benefits of picking up a new cert or two – or a shiny new sheepskin – are rather dramatic. Furthermore, you can think of it as an investment in the most important part of your small business: you.
When it comes to professional development, there's really no wrong way to go about it. As long as you devote yourself fully to learning something new and interesting – and you're just as devoted to finding a transferable skill or developing a perspective that provides new life to your small business – almost any activity can be considered professional development.
Even the simplest and most seemingly frivolous activities can teach important lessons – just because you don't learn it in an office environment doesn't mean it's not useful! Learning that you need to let the glue dry completely on your model airplane before painting it is an important lesson in patience, much in the same way that running from a bear you encounter on your nature hike a lesson in when to take decisive action.
Whatever route you take – picking up a new certification, taking time out to catch up with your industry's latest developments, honing your interpersonal skills, or just taking the time to work on yourself – the person who comes out the other end is likely going to be a more effective small business owner than before. That's the lesson to be learned here, and one that will serve you well in the future.


Contrast thresholds for 75% correct depth identification in narrow-band filtered random dot stereograms were determined for different center spatial frequencies and binocular disparities. Rigorous control over vergence was maintained during testing, and a forced-choice procedure was used. The resulting contrast sensitivity function for stereopsis revealed sensitivity over a greater range of disparities at low than at high spatial frequencies. Sensitivity peaked for large disparities at low spatial frequencies and for small disparities at high spatial frequencies. When disparities were converted to effective binocular phase differences, the variation of contrast sensitivity with phase followed a consistent pattern across spatial frequencies, with peak sensitivity occurring mainly for binocular phases of between 90° and 180°. These results have implications for the extent of spatial integration at the input to the disparity sensing mechanism. A model postulating a spread of positional disparities independent of the spatial frequency selectivity of disparity-sensitive units cannot account for the results. But the size–disparity correlation strongly evident in our data is predicted by certain models of stereopsis, such as phase disparity encoding. An ideal observer analysis is developed that demonstrates that our results were not forced by the nature of the stimulus employed; rather, the quantum efficiency for stereopsis at contrast threshold follows the size–disparity correlation.