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IFFI 53 Indian Panorama Film Major pays heartfelt tribute to NSG Special Action Group Commando and 26/11 Terror Attack Martyr
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By Online News of India Published on Nov 27, 2022
Panaji, Goa : A day no Indian can ever forget. A day India was rattled by the terrorist attacks which shook its commercial capital Mumbai. A fateful day, when Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Chief of Anti-Terrorism Squad Hemant Karkare, Senior Police Inspector Vijay Salaskar and many other security personnel laid down their lives to the nation in the battle to protect our fellow citizens.
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As we observe the 14th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, a Hindi film about martyr Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan took Indian and international delegates attending the 53rd IFFI to the heartrending agony of the nation and the valour displayed by our brethren on duty, in their urge to save their fellow brethren.
The Indian Panorama film Major by Telugu Director Sashi Kiran Tikka was screened at the International Film Festival of India today, paying a heart-touching tribute to the nation's brave sons.
Interacting with media and delegates at the IFFI Table Talks organised by PIB, the Director said that the movie intends to tell the story of Sandeep, the great human being behind the soldier he is.
"For the film, we did extensive research. The research primarily was from Major Sandeep's parents. We met Sandeep's colleagues in National Security Guard and Seventh Bihar Regiment. We also went to the school where Sandeep learned and sat on his bench.
The more I started exploring Sandeep as a person, the better connect I was able to make with the person."The acid test for the director and his team was the most difficult screening ever for them – the screening of the film before none other than the Late Major's parents in Bangalore.
"It was an emotional moment. Sandeep's parents were the first audience for the film, it is their reactions that really mattered to us. They were really touched by the film." Adivi Sesh, the screenwriter of the film, also played the role of Sandeep in the movie.
Why was he chosen for the role? Addressing the IFFI Table Talks session, Adivi Sesh revealed that his facial and physical resemblance with Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan is one of the reasons Sandeep's parents gave permission to take such a movie.
"There is no better way to pay tribute to this great man's life. The Malayalam-dubbed version has been done as a tribute to Sandeep's family, rather than for commercial reasons."Responding to queries, Adivi Sesh elaborated that the film is not on 26/11 incident per se, but on Major Sandeep's story, bringing out different facets of his life.
"We focused on Major Sandeep's journey, for the simple reason that we wanted to say the true story of National Security Guards saving lives of fellow citizens, after the NSG commandos reached the hotel. So many films have captured the side of the terrorists trying to rationalize; they discuss what they feel."
The director expressed his disagreement with films like Hotel Mumbai which 'portrays NSG as people who came at the end of the attack'.Adivi Sesh further explained that the goal was not to make the viewers feel sad about Major Sandeep, but to live and experience the tapestry of emotions he must have felt during the last moments of his life, when he defended the country against the terrorists. And thus inscribed himself irrevocably in the bosom of the nation.
Film Synopsis
Major is a film inspired by the life of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who lost his life battling terrorists during the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai in 2008. He served in the elite Special Action Group of the National Security Guard (NSG) and saved the lives of several citizens who were being held hostage during the attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
The film plays out the dreaded terror attack and how he heroically saved lives, unfortunately losing his own in the process.
About Director & Producer
Sashi Kiran Tikka is an Indian film director, predominantly of the Telugu film industry. His directorial debut was the thriller Goodachari (2018).Sony Pictures International Productions is the local-language production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group that releases over 30 films annually across 13 global territories around the world.
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Home Agro News Top Employers Institute recognises Olam International for excellence in HR
Top Employers Institute recognises Olam International for excellence in HR
Company's operations in Cote d'Ívoire, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and the Netherlands also separately recognised
Olam International (Olam), the global food and agri-business, has been recognised by the Top Employers Institute for the first time in 2021 for its excellence in HR practices for the Africa region.
The Company's operations in Cote d'Ívoire, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, as well as the Netherlands, have also separately been awarded for their HR best practices.
The auditing survey from the Top Employers Institute highlighted Olam as excelling in each of the assessment categories, which included people strategy, organisation and change, career, digital HR, work environment, employer branding, talent acquisition and onboarding, performance management, learning, wellbeing, rewards and recognition, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability.
Jaideep Biswas, Regional Head of Human Resources, Africa, Olam International Limited, said,
"People are critical to our business growth and success, and we are delighted to be recognised for our focus on attracting and developing talent across our operations in Africa.
A key priority has been ensuring that we keep our people engaged by ensuring the work they do is enriching and inspiring. The recognition by the Top Employers Institute demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach to caring for our employees' wellbeing and overall career aspirations."
Over the past three decades, Olam has grown to become one of the largest employers in Africa with a strong emphasis on best-in-class talent practices to engage a strong and diverse talent pool to support its business operations.
These certifications demonstrate Olam's ongoing commitment to identify, attract, develop and retain skilled talent at scale using innovative approaches tailored to each country's specific needs.
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This year, the awards were presented at a virtual ceremony and brought together HR leaders and their peers to connect, inspire, and celebrate a better world of work. 221 organisations spanning 32 African countries have been named Top Employers 2021 in Africa for their outstanding HR strategies and people practices.
Top Employers Institute is the global authority on recognising excellence in people practices. To be eligible, the company must have at least 250 local or 2,500 employees globally as well as advanced HR practices. A certification programme that enables organisations to assess and improve the workplace environment.
David Plink, CEO of Top Employers Institute, remarked,
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Q: removing element from a composite / array (composite pattern) I'm studying patterns and playing around with an example at the moment, however I can't seem to get removeUnit method to work as expected. Here's the code:
 <?php
abstract class Unit
{
    abstract function strength();
    public function getComposite()
    {
        return false;
    }
}

/*
 * composite / group class
 */
abstract class Composite extends Unit
{
    private $_units = array();

    // check if class is a composite or not
    public function getComposite()
    {
        return true;
    }

    public function getUnits()
    {
        return $this->_units;
    }

    // add a unit to the group
    public function addUnit(Unit $unit)
    {
        if( in_array($unit, $this->_units, true) ) {
            Throw new exception("Sorry, the following unit is already in the army");
        } else {
            array_push($this->_units, $unit);
        }
    }

    //remove a unit from the group
    public function removeUnit(Unit $unit)
    {
        if( ! in_array($unit, $this->_units, true) ) {
            Throw new Exception("Hm, it looks like this unit is not a part of this army.");
        } else {
            $key = array_search($unit, $this->_units);
            array_splice($this->_units, $key);
        }
    }
}

class Army extends Composite
{
    public function strength()
    {
        $units = $this->getUnits();
        $armyStrength = 0;
        foreach( $units as $unit ) {
            $armyStrength += $unit->strength();
        }
        return $armyStrength;
    }
}

class Riffle extends Unit
{
    public function strength()
    {
        return 5;
    }
}

class Rocket extends Unit
{
    public function strength()
    {
        return 15;
    }
}

$riffle1 = new Riffle();
$riffle2 = new Riffle();
$riffle3 = new Riffle();

$rocket1 = new Rocket();
$rocket2 = new Rocket();
$rocket3 = new Rocket();

$squad = new Army();

$squad->addUnit($riffle1);
$squad->addUnit($riffle2);
$squad->addUnit($rocket1);
$squad->removeUnit($riffle2);
echo $squad->strength();

The problem is here:
//remove a unit from the group
public function removeUnit(Unit $unit)
{
    if( ! in_array($unit, $this->_units, true) ) {
        Throw new Exception("Hm, it looks like this unit is not a part of this army.");
    } else {
        $key = array_search($unit, $this->_units);
        array_splice($this->_units, $key);
    }
}

if I remove recket1 the everything works fine, but if I try to remove riffle1 or 2 then my strength returns 0. What's the problem here? and is there a better way to remove an element from an array?

A: Your array_splice call is wrong, because omitting the $length argument removes everything from that point up to the end of the array. It should be:
array_splice($this->_units, $key, 1);

That said, I 'm not sure why you bother to preserve numeric indexes in the first place -- using unset($this->_units[$key]) would also do the trick without any obvious side effects.
Finally, there's no point in doing in_array and array_search independently. You could rewrite the code like this:
$key = array_search($unit, $this->_units);
if ($key === false) {
    // exception
}

array_splice($this->_units, $key, 1);

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Melodic Minor Strings 4-6
Lesson 20 picks up the last three strings of the Melodic Minor scale. Ian will demonstrate the notes available, then play over the vamp to provide inspiration.
Taught by Ian Argys in Evolving the E seriesLength: 6:07Difficulty: 3.0 of 5
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I have been rereading Death of a Red Heroine and found the first 150 pages slow. At that point the story kicks in as Inspector Chen Cao's relationship with the journalist starts to go into high gear and the high-ranking cadre who takes nude photographs becomes the main suspect in the murder. The author according to a recent interview has drawn from his own childhood experiences, passion for poetry and interests such as chess are drawn upon to flesh out Inspector Chen Cao.
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A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1)
Author: Alyssa Cole
Publisher: Avon
American release date: February 27, 2018
Format/Genre/Length: Paperback/Contemporary Romance/384 pages
Overall Personal Rating: ★★★★★
Reviewer: Julie Lynn Hayes
Naledi has received scam emails before, but this one takes the cake! Someone claiming to be his assistant thinks it's funny to tell Naledi she is the betrothed of an African prince and to please send her personal information in order to verify her identity. As if! Orphaned at a young age, Naledi (Ledi to her friends) has had to become a strong and independent woman. Life is hard enough, what with her post-graduate studies in epidemiology, and staying afloat by waiting tables at the university, without someone trying to sell her false dreams! Add to that a supervisor who keeps throwing off all of his grunt work onto her, instead of anyone else or even himself, and a best friend who at her best is unreliable and at her worst can be a drunken critical mess.
Thabiso is the prince of the African nation of Thesolo. It's bad enough that people in his country are suffering from a mysterious illness that he is helpless to do anything about, but there is a major corporation seeking to make inroads into his nation, and Thabiso isn't sure what they want will be in Thesolo's best interests. But people of high rank are clamoring for him to sign off on this deal, and he feels pressured to do so. If that's not enough, he's had his assistant, Likotsi, search for his long-lost betrothed, a girl he knew in their childhood when they became engaged, but whose parents whisked her away so that she disappeared from his life. The good news is that Likotsi has found her, living under another name in New York City. The bad news is she is not responding to Likotski's emails. What is a prince to do but go to New York himself to bring her back?
Thabiso shows up at Ledi's place of work, intending to let her know who he is and that she needs to come back with him, but when she unexpectedly mistakes him for the new server, he sees an opportunity for her to get to know him for himself, not as a prince. So he doesn't correct her, answers to the name Jamal, and takes the other man's place. Who knew working in a restaurant could be so difficult, or that a royal prince could be so inept?
He can only stay so long in the States before he must return to Thesolo and deal with things there, including his parents, who are clamoring for him to get married and are unaware of his hunt for his betrothed. He's determined more than ever, now that he has found her again, that Ledi shall be his bride. But will he have enough time to win her heart, so that she loves him for who he is? Somewhere along the line, as Likotsi reminds him, he has to tell her the truth about himself, or all will be for naught.
Ledi finds Jamal to be very sexy, if somewhat inadequate to his job. But she patiently shows him what to do, and she finds herself growing more and more attracted to him. She tells herself she has no time for men like him, her life is already complicated enough. But the more she sees him, the more he worms his way into her heart. No good will come of this, she knows, as she waits for the other shoe to drop… and drop it does, blowing her mind and threatening to destroy her world. Not to mention, most importantly, he has lied to her. She'd rather stay safe and alone in her sterile academic world than risk her heart… wouldn't she?
A Princess in Theory is the first book in Alyssa Cole's Reluctant Royals series. It was recommended to me by my daughter, and I fell in love with it right away. Ledi hasn't had an easy life, but she takes what comes and doesn't complain. She is a very strong, very likeable heroine. I rooted for her from the beginning.
On the other hand, Thabiso is a handsome and sexy but somewhat sheltered, entitled prince, who doesn't really understand a lot about what the real world is like until he meets Ledi. His original idea is to get her to go back to Thesolo with him, to do her duty and finish what was begun so many years before. But he quickly discovers that won't be as easy as he expected, since he is lying about who he is. Every day he falls for her more and more, and we watch him grow as a person and as a man as he tries to figure out how to handle the situation he finds himself in. You can't help but hope he succeeds, and that these two will receive the fairy tale ending all princes and princesses deserve.
I love Alyssa Cole's writing, she draws memorable characters and situations, and this story is both romantic and sensual. I know there are at least two more books in this series and I look forward to reading them. If you enjoy a good romance with an ending to die for, give this book a try. You won't be sorry you did.
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THE ARCTIC DEATH (1927) AND ON A FAR WORLD (1928)
THE ARCTIC DEATH (1927) – Written by Wilford Allen, On A Far World, covered below, was a prequel to this same tale. The Arctic Death is set in the 1930s, which was "the near future" when the story was first published.
A mysterious epidemic called the Arctic Death is spreading southward from the North Pole, leaving countless frozen bodies in its wake. Professor Charles Breinbar, the greatest scientific mind of the decade, uses high-tech "Q-Rays" to determine that the victims did not just die of cold but were snuffed out by malign disembodied entities of some sort.
Breinbar devises special insulation which allows him and his assistant to enter the region currently being affected by the spreading wave of fatalities. Investigating the area our heroes witness people dropping dead in the streets after being affected by energy emanating from floating balls of light.
Investigating further, Breinbar determines that the floating balls of light are not true individual entities but can instead join with their source as one big colony creature. He and his assistant trace the path of death to the far north starting point of the Arctic Death epidemic.
Once there the duo encounter an immaterial alien being who is the source of the collective consciousness of the floating lights. This alien telepathically tells our heroes that it has come from a distant universe from where it has hungrily studied the Earth with its ample supply of life forms to feed upon.
Breinbar appeals to the creature's nobler instincts, trying to talk it into sparing our planet, but the being refuses. Gambling, the scientist presents himself to be absorbed into the alien and once inside the thing's consciousness he pits his own mind against it.
Charles Breinbar emerges triumphant in the cerebral duel and the world is saved.
The Arctic Death is a fun little tale which put me in mind of the Jon Pertwee/ Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes. +++
ON A FAR WORLD (1928) – The same author presented this prequel the following year. Professor Breinbar the Great came to believe in extraterrestrial life-forms years earlier because he discovered a way of tapping into intergalactic telepathic communications between races from planets light-years apart.
The first time he used this technique it gave him a virtual ringside seat to a genocidal war between worlds. On a distant planet called Dekka a Dekkan physicist named Corring learned that aliens from Drubba – another planet in their solar system – planned to attack.
Thousands of Dekkan years earlier the Drubbans had visited Dekka and were at last following through by launching a planned invasion. With one of Dekka's moons serving as a base for the Drubbans the invasion began.
The Drubbans consist of two races – brobdingnagian giants who move slowly but are nigh-indestructible, and dwarves who use their great speed to their advantage. Both races used disintegrator rays and similar high-tech weapons against the Dekkans as the war raged.
The Dekkans wiped out the dwarves but the giants proved almost impossible to destroy. Those Drubbans "drubbed" the Dekkan military forces and were hunting down the survivors to kill them all and take possession of the planet.
Corring and some associates tapped into the same type of intergalactic telepathy system that Breinbar has now gained access to. Alien intelligences taught the Dekkans how to create a plague to kill the Drubban invaders but it took forty Dekkan years.
By then the pitifully few Dekkans left alive faced the daunting task of trying to repopulate their world and rebuild their civilization. Back on Earth, Breinbar sensed that the alien informing him about these events was itself in imminent danger of some sort.
The story ended on that unsatisfying note. I speculate that an editor may have forced a change and that Wilford Allen originally may have intended a cliffhanger ending implying that we Earthlings were next on the slate for destruction by any surviving Drubbans out there.
We'll never know I guess. +++
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As a psychic parent, I found myself at a cross-roads. One of my daughters had just gotten her driver's license and a new car. She wanted to go to the beach early that first Saturday morning of her license so she could practice driving (on the 5 north in San Diego) by herself. I thought this was reasonable. However, the night before I did not want her to go. At. All. In fact, I had blurted out, "If you go, you will be in an accident and the accident will not be your fault." I was stunned that came out! I swear that was not me talking. She was upset and so was I and I told her to talk to her dad and if he said it was ok, she could go. I really could not tell if I was being an over protective parent or this was some sort of premonition. Dad said she could go. So I did the next best thing. The morning she left, I requested that her car be packed full of angels and that she have all sorts of Divine protection/intervention to help keep her safe.
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People who were in the area at the time of the crash heard a lot of loud noise outside. At least one person who went outside to see what had happened saw that multiple parked vehicles had been hit, including their car. Fortunately, no injuries were reported from this chain-reaction crash, although there is a significant amount of property damage.
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Hundreds of elementary, middle and high school students and many at colleges and universities across Massachusetts are taking part in classroom and after-school activities this week to observe Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 5-11, a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the importance of computer science education.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a fact sheet on Monday in support of "computer science for all" and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker issued a proclamation urging citizens to participate in events and observances.
At UMass Amherst, the College of Information and Computer Sciences' Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), with the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) Education Foundation, are partnering once again this year to provide teachers with materials and ideas for activities, says Renee Fall, CAITE project manager.
"Events include anything from participating in the national online tutorials through 'Hour of Code,' to designing a Web page, teaching a computer to sing and programming a robot, along with 'unplugged' activities that don't require a computer. They can be quite creative," Fall says. "Some schools are devoting class time and some are offering after-school activities."
The week recognizes computer pioneer and 1944 graduate of Smith College's Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School Grace Hopper's birthday on Dec. 9, 1906, and encourages educators nationwide to plan activities for students to elevate computer science education at all levels.
Fall says that although computer science is often thought of as a college-level or high school subject, most schools that requested kits are elementary and middle schools. "In the past few years, educators have recognized that young children can learn foundations of programming through visual and blocks-based tools. Kids love it and they are doing more than playing video games," she adds.
CAITE's work for CS Ed Week, now in its seventh year, promotes and supports teachers with kits that include a poster and buttons, among other items. Massachusetts has been among the states with the highest participation in CS Ed Week for several years, Fall says, with this year no exception as more than 800 events are planned throughout the commonwealth.
Students from UMass Amherst's College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) will work with students during the week. At Liberty Elementary in Springfield, Rick Freedman, a fifth-year computer science Ph.D. student, is now in his third year assisting instructional technology teacher Melissa Zeitz during the week of activities she has organized. On Thursday, Dec. 8, they and UMass Amherst volunteers will take part in coding-related activities and talk about the world of computer science in Zeitz's class.
On Friday, Dec. 9, as part of a week of activities, teachers at Amherst Regional Public Schools plan an Hour of Code in two classes, one at the high school taught by Nathaniel Woodruff, the other at the middle school taught by Jennifer Wellborn. At the Amherst school events, UMass Amherst Distinguished Professor in CICS, Jim Kurose, assistant director of computer and information science and engineering at the National Science Foundation, will be a guest of honor.
Kurose says, "It's critical that all students in our country have access to rigorous and engaging computer science education opportunities. CS Ed Week spotlights the amazing CS education activities going on nationwide and the increasing opportunities for access in local communities around the country. It's great to be able to visit and experience firsthand the exciting local classes and programs here in the Valley. It's a tremendous honor to spend time with students to see the impact of these efforts."
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Q: How to split code into components... big classes? small classes? This is very basic stuff, but here goes. I find that I am never able to agree with myself whether the way I split large classes into smaller ones make things more maintainable or less maintainable. I am familiar with design patterns, though not in detail, and also with the concepts of object oriented design. All the fancy rules and guidelines aside, I am looking to pick your brains with regards to what I am missing with a very simple, sample scenario. Essentially along the lines of: "...this design will make it more difficult to", etc... All the things I don't anticipate because of lack of experience essentially.
Say you need to write a basic "file reader / file writer" style class to process a certain type of file. Let's call the file a YadaKungFoo file. The contents of YadaKungFoo files is essentially similar to INI Files, but with subtle differences.
There are sections and values:
[Sections]
Kung,Foo
Panda, Kongo

[AnotherSection]
Yada,Yada,Yada
Subtle,Difference,Here,Yes

[Dependencies]
PreProcess,SomeStuffToPreDo
PreProcess,MoreStuff
PostProcess,AfterEight
PostProcess,TheEndIsNear
PostProcess,TheEnd

OK, so this can yield 3 basic classes:
public class YadaKungFooFile
public class YadaKungFooFileSection
public class YadaKungFooFileSectionValue

The two latter classes are essentially only data structures with a ToString() override to spit out a string list of values stored using a couple of Generic lists. This is sufficient to implement the YadaKungFooFile save functionality.
So over time the YadaYadaFile starts growing. Several overloads to save in different formats, including XML etc, and the file starts pushing towards 800 lines or so. Now the real question: We want to add a feature to validate the contents of a YadaKungFoo file. The first thing that comes to mind is obviously to add:
var yada = new YadaKungFooFile("C:\Path");
var res = yada .Validate()

And we're done (we can even call that method from the constructor). Trouble is the validation is quite complicated, and makes the class very large, so we decide to create a new class like this:
var yada = new YadaKungFooFile("C:\Path");
var validator = new YadaKungFooFileValidator(yada);
var result = validator.Validate();

Now this sample is obviously terribly simple, trivial and insignificant. Either of the two ways above probably won't make too much difference, but what I don't like is:

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*The YadaKungFooFileValidator class and the YadaKungFooFile class seem to be very strongly coupled by this design. It seems a change in one class, would likely trigger changes in the other.

*I am aware that phrases such as "Validator", "Controller", "Manager" etc... indicates a class that is concerned with the state of other objects as opposed to its "own business", and hence violates separation of concern principles and message sending.

All in all I guess I feel that I don't have the experience to understand all the aspects of why a design is bad, in what situations it doesn't really matter and what concern carries more weight: smaller classes or more cohesive classes. They seem to be contradictive requirements, but perhaps I am wrong. Maybe the validator class should be a composite object?
Essentially I am asking for comments on likely benefits / problems that could result from the above design. What could be done differently? (base FileValidator class, FileValidator Interface, etc.. u name it). Think of the YadaKungFooFile functionality as ever growing over time.

A: YadaKungFooFile should not know how to read itself from the disk. It should only know how to traverse itself, disclose its children etc. It should also provide ways to add / remove children etc.
There should be IYadaKungFooReader interface that YadaKungFooFile would take in his Load method that it will use to load itself from disk. Plus several implementations like AbstractKungFooReader, PlainTextYadaKungFooReader, XMLYadaKungFooWriter that know how to read and corresponding formats.
Same for writing.
Finally, there should be YadaKungFooValidatingReader that will take an IYadaKungFooReader  reader in, use it for reading and validate the input as it reads. Then you would pass the validating reader to the YadaKungFooFile.Load whenever you want it to validate as it reads from disk.
Alternatively, you could make the reader active, instead of passive class. Then, instead of passing it to YadaKungFooFile, you would use it as a factory that would create your YadaKungFooFile using latter normal access methods. In this case your reader should also implement YadaKungFooFile interface so that you can chain normal reader -> validating reader -> YadaKungFooFile. Makes sense?

A: I'll address this

The YadaKungFooFileValidator class and
  the YadaKungFooFile class seem to be
  very strongly coupled by this design.
  It seems a change in one class, would
  likely trigger changes in the other.

Yes, so in light of that, figure out how to make that as seamless as possible. In the best case, design the YadaKungFooFile class in such a way that the validator can pick up on that on it's own.
First, the syntax itself should be pretty easy. I wouldn't expect the syntax validation to change so you're probably safe to just hard code that.
As far as the acceptable properties, you could expose Enumerators from the File class that the Validator will check against. If a parsed value isn't in any of the enumerators for a given section, throw an exception.
So on and so forth...

A: Bob Martin wrote a series of articles on class design, which he refers to as the SOLID principles:
http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod
The principles are:

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*The Single Responsibility Principle:  A class should have one, and only one, reason to change.

*The Open-Closed Principle: You should be able to extend a classes behavior, without modifying it.

*The Liskov Substitution Principle: Derived classes must be substitutable for their base classes.

*The Interface Segregation Principle: Make fine grained interfaces that are client specific.

*The Dependency Inversion Principle: Depend on abstractions, not on concretions.
So in light of those, let's look at some of the statements:

So over time the YadaYadaFile starts growing. Several overloads to save in different formats, including XML etc, and the file starts pushing towards 800 lines or so

This is a first Big Red Flag:  YadaYadaFile starts out with two responsibilities: 1) maintaining a section/key/value data structure, and 2) knowing how to read and write an INI-like file.  So there's the first problem.  Adding more file formats compounds the issue:  YadaYadaFile changes when 1) the data structure changes, or 2) a file format changes, or 3) a new file format is added.
Similarly, having a single validator for all three of those responsibilities puts too much responsibility on that single class.
A large class is a "code smell":  it's not bad in and of itself, but it very often results from something that really is bad--in this case, a class that tries to be too many things.

A: I don't think the size of a class is a concern. The concern is more cohesion and coupling. You want to design objects that are loosely coupled and cohesive. That is, they should be concerned with one well defined thing. So if the thing happens to be very complicated then the class will grow.
You can use various design patterns to help manage the complexity. One thing you can do for instance is to create a Validator interface and have the YadaKunfuFile class depend on the interface rather than the Validator. This way you can change the Validator class without changes to the YadaKungfuFile class as long as the interface does not change.

A: My personal way of handling things in this case would be to have a class YadaKungFooFile which would be made up of a list of YadaKungFooFileSections, which would be a list of YadaKungFooFileValues.
In the case of the validator, you would have each class call the validate method of the class below it, with the lowest class in the hierarchy implement the actual meat of the validation method.

A: If the validation does not depend on the whole file but instead only works on individual section values, you can decompose the validation of the YadaKungFooFile class by specifying a set of validators operating on section values.
If the validation does depend on the whole file the validation is naturally coupled to the file class and you should consider putting it in one class.

A: Class size is not as much of an issue as method size. Classes are a means of organization and while there are good and bad ways to organize your code, it is not tied directly to class size.
Method size is different since a method is doing the actual work. Methods should have very specific jobs which will inevitably limit their size.
I find that the best way to determine method size is through the writing of unit tests. If you are writing unit tests with sufficient code coverage then it becomes apparent when a method is too big.
Unit test methods need to be simple or else you will end up needing tests to test your unit tests to know they are working properly. If your unit test methods are becoming complicated, it is likely due to the fact that a method is trying to do too much and should be broken into smaller methods with clear responsibilities.


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