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It would be nice to see Matteo Guidicelli do the full monty, because – admit it – he's getting hotter these days. There's a certain body glow with that athletic mien. Sometimes he teases with his tri-suits and speedos, and we can just melt in awe.
It's that time of the year when the boys go out to play shirtless. Also Century Tuna holds the Superbods competition to find the best-looking guy in a nice pair of shorts. Matteo and Gerald show us how it's done: eat lots of tuna and workout in the gym. Who did better?
On a Monday, the shirtless likes of Gerald, Matteo and Paulo make their timely appearance for Century Tuna. While I may never understand the relation between tuna and half-naked men, the warm bodies of these actors on display are greatly appreciated. Who looks better now?
When is Matteo going to get an(other) underwear contract? It's been nearly a decade (2008) when he appeared in that Penshoppe ad with other briefs-clad models Einar,Victor, Akihiro, and Dominic. These days, he's putting it out there – abs and arms and everything in between. He's pumped and primed for that undies shot, don't you think so?
Matteo Guidicelli sings sans shirt, and that's a good thing. The 27-year-old multihyphenate (actor, singer, model, triathlete, race car driver, lover) is enjoying a career high in showbusiness these days. We are happy, too, ogling at his body now.
Actor-triathlete Matteo Guidicelli is bringing sexy back, with his Speedo-wearing turn in the pool (and social media photo-op). I am elated because Matteo gets to reveal more skin while doing what he loves best. I can write more exulting in this image, but I'll let his swimsuit (and what's packed in them) speak for themselves.
Matteo Guidicelli is running deliciously wild these hot, hot days. In his latest candid posts on social media, Matteo's getting a solid beating for the abs workout. While I can't seem to wrap my head around the whole physical process, hats (and shirts) off to this handsome dude who puts a lot of hard work into that gorgeous body. Yes, hard.
While I may never understand the real connection between tuna and half-naked men, there is so much to be positively said about the gay creativity of Century Tuna. Who would have thought that a tasteless fish can whip up uh, mouthwatering dishes? E.g. Matteo, Gerald and Paulo.
It's the weekend. Go out and play! Matteo Guidicelli's prepping for some bike action and he's up and about! I'm glad these boys are taking to the sport where they get to wear the body-hugging performance suits.
I'm with you dear sickos: I admire these boys who excel at grueling swim-bike-run in immediate succession over various distances, and I am also interested in what they're wearing. For instance, Marlon Stockinger fills up the suit quite fine.
There is something to be said for the mysteries that come covered in triathlon shorts and suit. Sometimes, a man doesn't have to bare all to prove his sexiness.
Gerald and Matteo, actors and weekend warriors, leave something to the imagination and yet they're making their fine marks. So feast your eyes on these athletic ones. It's rare that we get to see them in their sexy outfits. Not that we haven't seen them shirtless before. This time, however, they are giving us some tight lovin'!1 2 3 Next »


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AMHERST — An hour away from Marion L. Steele High School, the University of Akron is leading the way in a new field of science that will teach the world to innovate by modeling nature.
Closer to home, Amherst students will be able to test-drive the concepts of biomimicry with a new elective course for next school year.
The stand-alone course is among the first of its kind at a traditional public school in the state. It has been a more-than-three-year-long process to bring the class to Amherst, but well worth the effort to bring students a new science course considering how close Amherst is to the University of Akron, which offers doctorate-level biomimicry study, said Mike Molnar, the district's executive director of academic services.
"Because it is a relatively new field in the world of science, I was really interested in it," Molnar said. "The thought of sustainability and this idea that biomimicry is looking at nature's solutions to problems in the same way of solving human problems is very exciting and will allow our students to engage in a new way."
People may not know what biomimicry is at first, but hearing a few examples of its applications is all it takes to illustrate the concept. And beyond lab and classroom study, biomimicry has the potential to be an economic development tool for regions, said Carol Thaler, director of administration and outreach for Great Lakes Biomimicry.
"There will be jobs that come out of finding new ways to innovate," Thaler said.
Biomimicry also has a local home. At the Great Lakes Biomimicry Technology Center in the Desich SMART Center at Lorain County Community College, students are involved in internships through the Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise.
Velcro is the most ubiquitous example of biomimicry, Thaler said, and it rose from a Swiss scientist walking his dog in the 1940s. After returning home from the walk, the dog was covered in burrs. It prompted George de Mestral to look at the burrs under a microscope to better understand the burrs' sticking power.
The small hooks found at the end of the burr needles inspired him to create the billion-dollar industry that is Velcro.
Then, there is the bullet train in Japan, which rattled residents with the sonic booms it produced. A bird-watching engineer solved the problem after observing how the kingfisher bird ascends quickly and almost silently into a pool of water. As a result, the train was re-engineered to mimic the bird's beak and now it goes faster, uses less energy and is quieter.
Amherst and Lorain County, Thaler said, are leading the way in looking at biomimicry as a field of study for students. With funding from the Nord Family Foundation, Great Lakes Biomimicry has worked with teachers in Amherst, Elyria and at Lake Ridge Academy and St. Anthony of Padua School in Lorain.
"We are excited to see the investment of our time and foundation's money being put to good use all over the county; and Amherst is taking this to another level by offering this class to its students," she said.
The reach of biomimicry is so vast and crosses so many disciplines that it's a natural fit for K-12 education, said Christine Hockman, also with Great Lakes Biomimicry.
"It is really attractive to teachers because you are preparing students for 21st-century jobs and just by its own nature, biomimicry is collaborative and focused on project-based learning. … A lot of teachers use this as a gateway to STEAM," she said.
Amherst teacher Angie DeLeon, who attended a Great Lakes Biomimicry workshop two summers ago, will teach the course that has so far attracted more than 50 interested juniors and seniors. She said she is developing a curriculum that is very hands-on and offers a lot of ability for students to be creative.
"I will be teaching them how to look at the world through a different lens," she said. "The question is how nature solves its problems. It's been solving problems big and small for 3.8 million years, and it has been very efficient at it."
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- I had dinner with my brother, sister-in-law, and dad.
- I had asparagus stuffed chicken for the first time. Yummy!
- Watched a BBC show called Top Gear, and learned that a Nissan pickup converted to an amphibious vehicle (correctly of course) can make it from England to France across the English Channel.
- While playing a game of Trivial Pursuit I learned that Ben and Jerry's retired flavors go to the Flavor Graveyard. I love that the cartouche on each gravestone has angel wings on the ice cream cone. My brother pointed that out to me. That still cracks me up. http://www.benjerry.com/fun/halloween/?fg=1
- Chemistry:
- Well, I learned that I need a lower lever class right now, since I've forgotten so much. I don't know a covalent bond from a Sean Connery Bond. ;)
- Switched to Principles of Chemical Science.
- The first video lecture was an introduction of the professors. Both are women, which makes me happy.
- Calculus:
- I learned that I can take 3 pages of notes and still not understand what he was writing on the blackboard. :)
- I'll have to do some background reading on polynomials brush up on Algebra III.
- I was reading the lecture notes for the chemistry class and they mentioned rules and policies regarding 'clicker use'. I had no idea what they were talking about. The first thing that came to mind was those noise making clickers that some dog trainers use. I knew that couldn't be right. So I found out that many colleges are using 'clickers' to encourage interaction in classrooms. Village Voice wrote an article about clickers last year. http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-01-05/news/the-rise-of-clickers-is-starting-to-change-how-college-professors-run-their-classrooms/2/
- Oooo! And, I learned how to turn off the 'Sidebar' and the 'Ticker' on Facebook. Woohoo!
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Not A bad job for my first week of learning new things. :D
Oh! Also, I learned that Google Chrome's built-in spell checker, is kind of lacking. It didn't recognize 'cartouche' or 'covalent' and I double checked them on Dictionary.com.


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St. Patrick's Day is coming so fast. Have you seen the St. Patrick's Day round-up of crafts I shared the other day? Well, here is another craft that can be really fun to do with the kids. Making stamps out of things around the house has always been a fun way to make a mess, I mean have fun, with the kids. What I love about making a 4 leaf clover stamp using a green pepper is that it is easy, we always have peppers around, and it is a fun way to teach kids about crafting while letting them have some St. Patrick's Day crafting fun.
Start by slicing up the pepper. You want to cut it in half through the middle, not the long way. This creates the bumps that will form the leafs of the clover.
To decide if you are going to be making 4 leaf clovers or shamrocks, look at the bottom of your pepper. Are there 3 bumps or 4? If it's a 3 bump pepper go with the shamrocks, if it's a 4 bump pepper let's do some lucky 4 leaf clovers!
Add some green paint on a plate or a piece of cardboard and let the kids dip the edge of the pepper into the paint. Once there is paint on the pepper, press the pepper onto the paper.
Let the kids stamp all over the paper. Depending on how creative the kids want to get, they can create a scene with their stamps. Color them in, add some glitter, the possibilities are endless!
It's definitely something fun and simple to do for St. Patrick's day, and you can even experiment with other fruits and veggies for other holidays and seasons. Just a quick tip, if you're using a plate for the paint, cover the plate in aluminum foil for easy clean up!
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Friday, January 13, 2017
I didn't really think there was a fire in the garage but I was concerned for my coffee roaster which I thought may have overheated so I hurried towards the front of the house, through the laundry room and opened the door leading to the garage. Total darkness which was odd because I had left the light on while the beans were roasting. It was too dark to enter the garage and the smoke was too thick anyway. The foyer's fire alarm prompted me to action. I let the garage door close and hurried through the foyer and out the front door, grabbing the keys to the garage on my way out.
Upon opening the garage door, I could see the smoke got thicker towards the back of the garage but I wasn't going to be in there long so I took a couple of steps towards the back corner where the roasting appliance sat. Flames erupted from the far end of the workbench stopping me dead in my tracks. "Oh crap!" I thought. Running back around the front corner of the garage, I called to my wife who waited expectantly by the front door. "Call 911!" I yelled. I went back into the garage to try and do something about the flames. There was a water hose on the back wall, if I could just... No dice, this was getting serious. "Crap, crap, crap, this can't be happening," I thought, realizing at the same time that my life trajectory just took a significant zag.
I ran back in the house as Michelle and Jon evacuated, pets in tow. "The oven," I thought and ran back into the kitchen to turn it off. Wouldn't want the oven catching fire. I grabbed the car keys exiting the front door. The flames licked at the second floor balcony even as the three of us backed our cars out of the driveway.
I paced back and forth on the sidewalk opposite my house, loud gunshot noises burst periodically from the garage as one by one my bike tires exploded drawing more and more people from their houses. A carbon trispoke track wheel flipped into the air with a loud pop. "Fascinating," I thought. At this point, I didn't care about all my bike stuff going up in smoke. I kept thinking how good it felt to be alive. "Thank you," I said to no one in particular.
I wasn't feeling the cold but a neighbour from across the road took the plaid jacket he wore off his back and gave it to me. He was the first of many. The police arrived and began backing people away from the immediate vicinity. As I wandered down the street away from the fire, people from the neighborhood approached me with offers of help. "Whatever we can do," they said. I thanked them politely but my mind was kind of vacant. The lights were on but nobody was home.
Sitting in my car now, the heater on to keep warm, my phone rang. It was Michelle. We had gotten separated. She was at one of the neighbours up the street. I was interviewed by a policeman and then the supervising fireman and finally the fire investigator before I was able to make my way to the neighbours house to join Michelle.
At the neighbours house, relatives were called and cat food, dog food, and kitty litter magically appeared. A coat was given to Michelle to go over her onesie. The three of us were given shoes to replace our slippers. Coffee and tea provided to warm our insides.
We stayed overnight in Michelle's brother's home, their two kids vacating their rooms to provide places for us to sleep though none of us really got much sleep that first night.
By the next day, Friday, word had gotten out. More clothes magically arrived at Michelle's brothers house. Heavier coats were provided. I was given running gear by one of my thoughtful friends who thought I might want to "clear my head with a run". Before the day was done, I learned that Shanta had started a GoFund campaign.
It was awhile before I paid much attention to it. I had other concerns on my mind. Also, I had only limited access to the internet at that point. My daughter, Alysha, who had driven from Montreal that first night, first mentioned it stating that over $4000 had been raised already. I was surprised. By Sunday, it was up over $8000. "Holy cow," I said at dinner that night. "Who are these people?"
Alysha began reading off names. Shanta kicked it off with a $500 donation followed quickly by $200 then a $500 anonymous donation, $250, $200, $200, $50. These were not small amounts. I was blown away and had difficulty processing what was going on. "Why are all these people giving me money?" I wondered. I still had plenty of other things on my mind and put the matter aside for the time being.
There was/is much to do. Insurance has put us in a pet-friendly hotel suite. We've gone shopping for all manner of essentials: clothes, bathroom stuff, a replacement computer, more pet food and supplies, groceries, and of course workout stuff. I've been able to more or less maintain my run schedule. I was fortunate to have left my training road bike at a friend's house as well as a trainer so I've been able to keep up with the weekly "Usual Suspects" spin class. I've been able even to get out to a track session (though the gearing, or rather lack thereof, on the rental bike was punishing). This has kept me more or less sane as we go through follow up interview with the fire investigator, insurance adjuster, a second insurance adjuster (they brought in the big guns once they learned of the extent of the damage), the insurance forensic analyst. Living out of a hotel suite is, of course, not ideal so much of our time these days is spent scouring the internet for house rentals (going to see one this afternoon) as well as shopping for all new furniture which we will need once we find a suitable rental. Which finally brings me to the main point of my rather lengthy (maybe somewhat run-on) expose. Up until now, I've been pre-occupied and as such have neglected to adequately give thanks to all of you who have so generously provided support of one means or another.
Thank you! To everyone, thank you so much. I can't express how I feel about all the support. I've finally had a chance to go through the list of donors. I don't know what to say. As I told Shanta, "I feel like Jimmy Stewart at the end of It's a Wonderful Life".
"What's that?" Shanta asked.
"You're kidding," I responded. "You've never seen It's a Wonderful Life? She had not. Anyway, that's what I feel like. I always loved that movie. I've seen it several times. I particularly like the end where people pour out of the woodwork in droves to offer their support and bail George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) out of a seemingly insurmountable hardship. I can't believe this has now happened to me. There have been donations from every quarter. People I haven't even seen for ages. Some people I haven't even actually met. Many donations from previous members of the FMCT triathlon club I used to belong to, many donations from members of the Brampton Cycling club, huge support from Kurzawinski club members, donations from people I've known through bike racing, many anonymous donors, donations from long time friends and of course the "Usual Suspects" (you know who you are). I feel very humbled.
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On Friday, March 30th, we call gathered at the Lexington house and church for our annual Spring Retreat. The plan for the weekend involved the New England Aquarium, an IMAX movie, some trekking along the Freedom Trail, lots of fun and fellowship, some educational time about Palm Sunday and the life and way of Jesus, and a four congregation worship service and potluck. As if that weren't enough, we planned to end the potluck Sunday with our 2nd Annual Wooly Willy Fundraiser. As always, we pack the weekend knowing full well that when it's over, we'll look back completely exhausted and saying, "What a great retreat that was! It was so nice to be together again."
In the words of the A-Team leader, "I love it when a plan comes together."
For your viewing pleasure, we have pictures of the New England Aquarium, the movies we watched (Born to be Wild in 3D and Kung Fu Panda), Palm Sunday's Sunday school and Worship, and our 2nd Annual Wooly Willy Fundraiser in which we raised $950.01, thanks to the generosity of the four congregations present. Along with each of these pages, you will find reflections about the retreat from our youth.
Thank you for your continued interest in and support of our youth program.
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Yesterday my mom and I headed out to Fossil Creek Reservior where a Long-tailed Duck has been reported by a local birder friend of ours. Once we got there the reservior was suprisingly open, even though it hadn't gotten above 17 degrees all day. In the end we did not find the arctic traveler but got multiple good birds. Such included 2 Red-breasted Mergansers and a Western Grebe, a new bird, with a scruffy black eye, a giraffe's long neck, and a piercing ruby red eye that when it looked at you you felt like you would turn to stone.
As the morning roled a long we headed out to Timnath Reservoir to see a Barrow's Goleneye and any prairie bird that might be new for my year list. As we drove the road out to the reservoir on the south side a flock of at least 100+ Larks flew in (trying to aviod a Harrier coming down the road) and landed 30 feet out in a harvested corn field. Why not scope them we both agreed, so I hopped out of the car now at 11 degrees and started to scope the larks as snow crystals landed on my rosy-red cheecks. Lark..1,5,9.."9 more larks mom"... Is that a longspur... Yeah hay mommmmmmmm, the bird flew off with all the other larks, thanks harrier. In the flock of 100 or more larks was one (still winter plumage) Laplands Longspur. Most of the reservior was frozen and what little water it had was barren with a few Readheads and COMMON Goldeneye.
That night as I was checking over my year list I realized something, Laplands Longspur was number 100, cool! Today my mom and I might try for #101 and #102 at a local house where a Varied Thrush and also a White-crowned sparrow have been visiting. Hope we get this one.
I am very excited for Spring break, this march. I hope California turns out to be the holy grail we have heard it can be.
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I have 2 cats, Kali is Bommer's mother. We have always owned cats, my mum used to breed and show burmese cats.
Kaleidoscope, Kali for short is 6 years old. We bought her when she was 8 weeks old, I had always wanted a tortie. She thinks she's a dog, she jumps up you on command, fetches sticks, sits on command, jumps the jumps. Also whenever I am training the dogs, she's always there interfering. She's a great cat. Always wanting to play, acts like a kitten and is very mischeiveous.
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So, haah, there are a lot of things in my mind about this arc. I'll try to put my thoughts ordered here, but we'll see. I might repeat myself several times.
First of, this arc was great. So great, in fact, that I'll have to debate for myself at a later point, which VN I like more, Clannad or Tomoyo After.
For my first actual point I might actually steal a discussion point from the podcasts that I think @Karifean mentioned everytime, so please excuse me. So he mentioned in every podcast how in every arc something from the past suddenly shows up and that our protagonists have to deall with it. This time, it's Tomoya's injury that's catching up to him, and man does it screw him over. But not only that, thanks to his repeated retrograde and anterograde amnesia, he is tasked to recall his past every week as well. This was in a way also a very creative way to make callbacks to Clannad. And since Tomoya lost his memory of everything, I can also definitely say that someone who didn't read Clannad should still be able to follow the plot. Sadly, he is not able to actually recall anything, but his love for Tomoyo still persists, and in that one week where they meet Not-Nagisa he is finally able to muster the courage to tell Tomoyo that. And it's beautiful. Honestly, I believe that he has fallen for Tomoyo in most weeks, he just didn't have the courage to tell her.
For my second point I'll talk a bit more about myself and how this arc touched me on a very personal level. You see, Tomoya's situation reminded me of something that happened in my family not to long ago, and I'd like to tell that little story here. So my uncle had a severe problem himself in the last year. Through most likely stress he developed an aneurysm in his brain and he would have died if his wife hadn't realized that something is wrong. And that she realized that, is also a sign how much she loves and knows him. That is because the aneurysm ruptured in the dead of night, and she realized it because his breathing changed slightly while they were in bed. So after that, he was brought into a hospital. The next morning, when he was awake, he thought that he's still in school and could neither recall his wife, nor their three children. Thankfully, for him operation went alright, so now everything's okay there. Still, Tomoya's situation reminded me of that and therefore the whole arc hit a lot harder than it might have otherwise. Even the anniversary that Tomoyo was noting every week is reflected in my uncle's life, because he called the day he left hospital his new birthday.
For my third point, I'd like to go over something else that I realized in the whole novel. And that is, that the title itself is a major theme. Every arc in this game has a bittersweet ending to it, yet life goes on and life is still wonderful. Granted, the first two arcs are more sweet than bitter, with the only bad thing being the conflict's pointlessness (Tomoya arc) and Takafumi coming in at number 31 in the race (Takafumi arc) although this is expanded on with Takafumi saying that he'll probably never reach a truly competitive state (as in, reaching the top of runners) again in the After arc. The other two arcs' bitterness should be obvious, but I'll state it here for completion's sake. Tomo arc is Tomo's mother soon dying, and the After arc is of course Tomoya himself dying. Therefore, i took as a message from this game, that no matter what hardships one faces, life is still a wonderful thing and one should enjoy every happy moment that comes in it.
Now my final point is a lot shorter and also more on the funny side: So Tomoyo basically wrote the whole story as a forum post. That forum really must've been very leniant on character limits, since with so much stuff that happened, a character limit would surely have been met at some point before the end of the post. Then again, I might be underestimating the Japanese language in its ability to convey more content in fewer characters. Maybe some from our Japanese-speaking forum members might be able to tell me if it would be possible to put it all in one post or not.
There's something I'd like to touch upon in regards to this arc and Tomoyo After in general, which is its meta aspect.
At the very end it turns out that the entire story we just read - not just After arc, but everything from Tomoya arc onwards - was written down by Tomoyo. She put it up on a public internet forum in the hopes that it gives people who read it and find themselves moved the strength to keep going and help others keep going as well. To put it bluntly, she literally becomes Key / Jun Maeda in this story. This is only underscored by the lines she directs at the "person on the other side of the screen", which in-universe is a forum reader but is also a message directly from the writer of Tomoyo After to us, the readers in the real world. It quite literally analyzes and plainly comments on the relationship between Key and its fans.
These few lines concisely and precisely describe why I love Key as much as I do. Their stories are not tearjerkers meant to get an emotional reaction with no substance to them. These are novels that carry earnest messages, that the writers poured all their heart into.
This is also a major reason as to why I believe that Maeda had Tomoya die in the end. Because this time around, it's not just about seeing fictional characters reach a happy ending against the odds. It's plainly and obviously a message directly to us, the readers, about accepting the outcome and being happy in life despite shit happening. If the ending had Tomoya revive and live happily ever after, what would the message be to the readers who didn't have things conveniently work out for them? No, it's the other way around. The ending is meant to show that even though Tomoya died, even though things never worked out all that well for our protagonists from the beginning, even though Tomoya's struggles in the first arc were ultimately without practical value, even though Takafumi will never be a pro runner again, even though doing the right thing in Tomo arc literally brought you onto the only path in the game that has Tomoya die, they can still be happy. That despite it all, they still firmly hold on to the belief that the world is beautiful, and life is wonderful. That those times are irreplaceable memories. That's what Tomoyo shows us. That's the narrative the lyrics of "Life is Like a Melody" weave. And that's what makes this story so raw and powerful to me.
This aspect is not relegated to just those few lines in the epilogue either. The entire plot of the After arc feels drenched in this message. Tomoya wakes up with amnesia and for just one week, Tomoyo takes him on a journey to discover the things around him. It's like a reader being brought into a fictional world by a passionate writer, one who tries their hardest to get their earnest feelings across to an oblivious reader in the span of just one novel's length, hoping again and again to get them to reciprocate. Many times they don't see it, sometimes they may dismiss it entirely, at times they do reciprocate but keep quiet about it, but then there are those rare few times where they do voice it. And then, hopefully, they join Kazamatsuri, a place for these people to gather. And for the author, as we can see in Tomoyo, those rare occurrences are worth all that effort. You can read even more deeply into what might have gone into writing the story this way, but this is already getting long as it is, and from here on out it's only getting even more vague and subjective.
There's no other Key visual novel that gives us that clear of an insight into the author's heart and intentions in writing the story, and although I had a deep trust in Maeda's best intentions from the beginning, seeing it affirmed so beautifully is a great feeling to me as a Key enthusiast. It makes Tomoyo After into a very personally moving story to me, in a different way compared to other Key novels. And for that I'll treasure this experience forever, as my #2 favorite Key visual novel and #1 favorite ending to any visual novel ever.
I've mentioned it before somewhere, before all these fancy arc specific threads came up, but I like to believe that Tomoyo gathered enough orbs of light through passing on her message that she reset the timeline back to the start of Clannad. The old school Clannad synths that kick in at the end of Light Colors really gives it that "full circle" vibe. I do still think the story has a very satisfying book-end if you disregard this thought however.
Wow… That post was amazing! I think you perfectly summarized the intentions behind this visual novel. Being a Christian, I do take issue with some of the thematic implications here, but I am just amazed at how spot-on you are to Jun Maeda's message. Major props.
Since Cloud and friends tidied things up nicely in this version, we've of course gotta do some public shaming. In the After arc epilogue, we have this line: (Version 1.1.0)
But when I read it the first time 2 months ago, it looked like this.
Someone clearly done goofed here, so obviously I can't let the internet forget about that just because of a silly patch. It's human to make mistakes, but I think it's also human to poke fun at people who make mistakes.
My post was a little late for the beginning of the After Arc, so I'll finally be able to write my overall thoughts about it. The start of this arc was shocking when Tomoya had developied amnesia. I felt for Tomoyo struggling to as she decides to visit certain places that he might remember as they had both attended the high school during the events in CLANNAD. The scenery was so nostalgic when Tomoyo had first met Tomoya on that second floor classroom 2-B. When she first transferred to the school, she wondered about the time that Tomoya and Sunohara had fun as they were goofing off with their lives being delinquents in the past. As Tomoyo revisited the sakura trees, she told him how her family was saved during that incident which turns out to be the deciding factor by becoming the student council president. With that determination, she would do everything possible for Tomoya as the recovery process slowly begins by getting his memories back.
The scene where Tomoyo and Tomoya met up with the girl named Ogawa almost reminded me of Nagisa from CLANNAD. Ogawa was afraid to walk the uphill path leading up to the sakura trees as she had health problems. The fact that they both wanted to help her out was suprisingly memorable as Ogawa was thankful to them as she was given the courage needed to go back to the school.
There were some scenes that I had a hard time re-reading which some were new in this version that got me teary-eyed at times such as the part where Takafumi, Kanako, and Tomoyo were sitting at the hospital learning of the cruel situation that befell on Tomoya. I was heartbroken when Kanako was outraged saying it was unfair that they have been suffering for so long that she was willing to beat him up which Takafumi told her it wouldn't have done any good. The other scene that made me cried the most was Tomoyo had at one time given up hope and wandered aimlessly at their apartment living day by day as the weeks passed by on an endless loop that seemed forever. It was painfully cruel and emotional at times that it felt impossible to keep going on without him as Tomoya would end up forgetting everything once he loses his memory for every week that goes by. After all those three years, she was very devoted to Tomoya and lovingly supported him throughout all the struggles they both faced was part of their eternal bond of love for each other. The fact that Tomoya proposed to Tomoyo surprised me despite the consequences of the decision whether or not he should go through the operation was sad but she had faith that he would regain those memories again. I was surprised when they met Tomoya's father to tell him that the operation was going to happen depsite their bad relationship, and after they left, Naoyuki was cleaning the house to prepare for the day when Tomoya would come back had left me speechless. I thought that was very special of him to do that and it made me appreciate him a lot more than ever as he probably really did care for him in his heart.
The end scene where Tomoyo types to the viewer (assuming us as the readers) was so emotional that I couldn't stop crying because we all face problems in life. It's that no matter if we are happy, sad, angry, or even cry, that we are never alone in life and we can find that treasure within ourselves and live a wonderful life as we help each other out together to face forward and see what the future holds out for us.
Overall, the message I gained from Tomoyo After is that life can be wonderful and we have to cherish those memories spent with others. True, we'll make mistakes and fail at times but it's when we become strong that we can overcome all odds when finding the very treasure which can withstand everything we hold precious and dear to us. It has truly become one of my most treasured Key VNs that shows that things don't work out the way we want to but we have to make the effort to try our best in life and find the things that make our lives meaningful. That's what I learned from re-reading Tomoyo After as Jun Maeda's wonderful stories continue to inspire me.
I'm actually quite interested in hearing you talk about this in more detail, if you don't mind. What implications do you take issue with?
Perhaps I'm over-analyzing it, but as a Christian, I believe that repenting of one's sins and choosing to devote and have faith in Jesus' message of salvation is what ultimately gives us meaning. Essentially, I'm wrestling with whether the world has value apart from God. However, one could easily look back in the Bible and point out that God loves all people, sinner and saint, and therefore things like friendship, love, and self-sacrifice would still have value because they are still wonderful things. Furthermore, although it has been tainted by sin, the world still has value. We are meant to connect with other people and to live life not only putting deep trust in God but to live it in a way that we put others above ourselves. The latter is handled excellent in Tomoyo After, with both of our leads getting a chance to support the other when they need help.
So… I guess you could say I'm divided? I might see a slight problem in this, but now that I've thought it over, I'm not so sure…
Been a while since I read either TA or the Bible, but I think the message of treasuring life (regardless of the happenings in it) is a message that both share. I'd say the biggest issues on that front come more from Clannad.
In regards to repentance, I think it was there. There's no confession or desire for salvation, but there was an inner reflection. A very human development. Accepting, understand and moving on from highlighted problems with one's self (albeit begrudgingly in some cases) was very core to the cast and primarily Tomoyo's progression. It's nice to frame it in context. She has gone from a girl who fought on the streets, to someone who spreads a message of hope to those who struggled like her. She presents both the problems of a person with a rough upbringing, the promise of someone wanting to grow beyond that, and the act of wanting to help others achieve the same growth. She's still pretty ignorant of some of her own issues, like the whole selfishness thing, but that's just what this couple is… or was. I like to think actions matter more than beliefs, but nevertheless, they grew positively without any ulterior desires. They just wanted to live a good life.
Here we are, finally. I'm now able to talk about whatever I want without caring about spoilers and having to worry about using things from the following arcs in my theories.
So, After Arc is finished, probably one of the best ending arcs in KEY. I'll put it at the same level as After Story and Refrain, though I think that they all are at the same level for different reasons.
Without thinking too much, the only think I could say about the After Arc is that it was deep. It wasn't as emotional as other ending arcs. It was just intense, deep and full of meaning. It made me suffer without really crying.
I hadn't really been spoiled about Tomoyo After's ending, so just as mentioned in the previous podcast, I thought that Tomo's Arc was the last one, though I still kept thinking about Tomoya's accident. Even then, when they returned to Tomoya's house and both Tomoyo and Tomoya started talking casually I was surprised. The writing didn't hint an ending tone, so I thought there was something more to come, and the only thing I could think of was Tomoya's accident. Back from the Tomo Arc I kept wondering why such an important injury had been shrugged off so easily. I was sure there had to be more than that. And KEY delivered. When Tomoya started loosing his motor skills I started thinking that it might end up as in a certain KEY work (I'm not putting spoiler tag context because it would spoil the work itself, so proceed at your own risk) I'm talking about Angel Beats! more specifically, about the life Yui and Hinata would have lived if they were together. I was wrong, however. It was something completely different, Tomoya lost his memory. I should've seen that coming, there was a lot of foreshadowing about this during the whole VN. But when I thought everything was going to eventually be solved, Tomoyo comes up with a series of very worrying lines. For a second, I could see her dumping Tomoya, then I was relieved she didn't, then I was tense again because of what she said: Tomoya kept loosing his memory every week or so.
I loved this specific part of the arc. I couldn't see anything come. All the information was so sudden and provoked a train of totally contrary emotions: sadness when Tomoya awoke without knowing anything, happiness when I saw Tomoyo was there and would never abandon him, frustration seeing that Tomoya wouldn't remember anything, pity seeing what Tomoyo had to endure, tension during the conversation at the hill outside the school, I was concerned about Tomoyo dumping Tomoya, relieve at seeing that she didn't do so, despair seeing the real situation Tomoyo was in, hope knowing about the operation, sadness again when the operation didn't go well…
But in the end (supposing Tomoya died), all I could feel was satisfaction. Not because Tomoya had died, of course, but because everything seemed as if it had ended. Tomoyo was satisfied, so so was I. And this satisfaction is about what many of you were talking about. Many things will happen in life, both happy things and sad things, and despite the bad things making us suffer, we must not forget that the happy things make life worth living. As many of you already said, It's a wonderful life after all. This is why I think satisfaction is the best emotion to express that. Being satisfied means that you accomplished something. Maybe things could've been better, but despite all the bad things, what you accomplished makes it worth enough for you to say I'd repeat this life I had.
And I find it curious, that this is a theme a well known philosopher brought up. I'm talking about Nietzsche. Now, you may be more or less familiar with his theory of the Übermensch and the Eternal return. For those of you who aren't, here's a brief explanation:
People normally live plain lives and don't put any effort into making theirs a perfect life. According to Nietzsche, the Übermensch does that and we should all try to be like this Übermensch. The Eternal Return is a myth in which every certain amount of time, the world would collapse and burn just to start over again (allowing everyone to live again). Normally, people would find this horrible, but the Übermensch finds this idea very positive because he was able to live a wonderful previous life, so he'll be able to do the same on the next Return.
There's a lot than this, but it'll serve for the point I want to make.
Tomoyo became a Übermensch. She lived what she harvested from her actions and the random events that she had no control over, and she is proud of it. She treasures her live and would love to live it again if whe was offered the opportunity, regardless of all the suffering. And this is because all the suffering she went through didn't crush her. Instead, she learned from all her experiences and decided to put them into good use. She never thought about feeling depressed during the rest of her life. You could say that what didn't kill her made her stronger, which by the way, is another quote by Nietzsche.
Another trait of the Übermensch that Tomoyo has is Der Wille zur Macht (The will to do). This is a concept in which humans aren't just creatures who eat, reproduce and adapt to the surroundings. They go further beyond. But I'm not talking about working like a dumbhead in a community like many people do. There's people who survive, then there's people who live. Tomoyo would be one of the people who live, since after the main events of the After Arc, she decides to devote herself into nursing and helping people in despair, not just to earn a living, but because she really wants to do so. She goes one step further and converts all her experience into knowledge, and then shares her knowledge with the whole world, specially with those who are seeking that specific knowledge she acquired.
Now stepping a bit away from all this philosophy, and going back to analysing the characters from a more standard point of view, I wanted to talk about Tomoya. It was really funny to see a 16 year old in the body of an adult man who had a job, a girlfriend and, after a while, a wife. But more than funny, it was interesting to see this evolution of the feelings he had. He awoke feeling that everything was off and weird, that he didn't belong there, even that Tomoyo shouldn't be there, but with time he kept changing his mind about his surroundings. Tomoyo became a friend / akward lover. and he became a foreigner in a town he vaguely remember. But after some more time, Tomoyo trully became someone he loved, and the town turned into the home of a homeless traveller: he didn't know much about what was going on, but ended up feeling that he belonged to that place.
All these changes where subtly done, but kept on piling up until the point they became notorious and relevant. It was, a very well pulled-off character development. Almost as good as the one in After Story, though the circumstances are completely different here.
Going back to Tomoyo, It struck me how she was able to keep going. I loved how they showed her staring into the abyss at times, hesitant to jump. It helped forging Tomoyo into a really believable character. She fought day after day, week after week, memory reset after memory reset. She never faded. I also loved the detail they gave about her acting in different ways with "different Tomoyas" as a way of explaining how she was unstable and staggering due to all the pain she had to withstand. This also shows how she was hesitant about how to deal with the situation, and we could see her cheerful one week, desperate the next one, and then sorry for having been desperate during the past one.
The side characters were almost nonexistant, but their scarce lines were of a golden quality in my opinion. Kanako's anger and frustration was perfectly conveyed into the reader. It showed how she really cared about Tomoya, hence, confirming how she trully is this VN's MVP (just kidding, Tomoyo did way too much in this arc to be ignored). Another side character that deserves mentioning is Sunohara. Even though his cameo was fleeting, it was enough to slingshot a theme brought up mainly in CLANNAD, that is how strong relationships between people are. Sunohara lived in a town, and now works in another one, both far away from Tomoya's house. He was just in Tomoya's hometown during his stay in senior high school. (Spoilers about Sunohara's route in CLANNAD) There, he lost his dream of playing professional football, and with it, his only apparent motivation in life. There's nothing Sunohara would like about the town if it wasn't for Tomoya, his pal, his partner in crime. So when he saw Tomoya in that state, in a state where all his memories with Sunohara and their relationship had disappeared, Sunohara lost a place he could call home. Though fast and almost unnoticeable I loved the depth put into this short bit.
Overall, the Arc felt really deep. It had lots of suffering but didn't try to provoke powerful emotions on the reader. I felt that it tried to rather convey a bigger message. Also, the bitter-sweet ending (depending on how you interpret it, of course), is something I like to see more that strictly happy endings, as they feel more realistic. In this case, I could feel everything was real, unlike (CLANNAD After Story ending spoilers) where the light orbs where properly foreshadowed and I still loved the ending, but deep inside me I still think it was a tiny bit unrealistic.
So 5/5 for this arc. I'll later on do a more in depth comparison about it versus After Story from CLANNAD.
Finally, now that we've finished the entirety of the VN (although Dungeons and Takafumi's engaging storyline still remains) I'd like to give special attention to something that I think all of us agree upon: Tomoyo After's OST is amazing.
Since music is something very important, once again, as Nietzsche said: Without music, life would be a mistake. Even Tomoya says the same when he's repairing an old gramophone in the Tomo Arc. And to give it the OST the credit it deserves, I present you the following analysis.
First of all, if you haven't bought it you should. It's 2.99€ in Europe and I believe it's 4.99$ in the US in Steam. This said, let's get going with the analysis.
For starters, we have the opening, Light Colors, sung by Lia, is a song the lyrics of which uncover the message of having to fight in a collapsing world to recover the beautiful light that faded away. The clear parallel here is having to fight in the middle of despair to achieve the happiness Tomoyo once had besides Tomoya, only that this time she'll have to achieve it herself. There's also some lines in which Tomoyo prays for the one hearing her to believe in her ability to overcome the situation. While this someone hearing looks like Tomoya, it could also be a reference to Tomo and the promise they made at the end of the Tomo Arc. However, let's look at it from a different perspective. What if the singer was Tomoya? Then it would talk about the determination he lost and how even in difficult situations he'll step up and deal with problems head on. Also, there's a line saying something along the lines of "the evening calm is changing to red". Could this be a reference to Tomoya fighting the thugs during the first arc?
Let's not forget about the melody itself. Light Colors has an ongoing solid accompaniment that reminds me of a hectic and turbulent atmosphere. The music never stops, there are no pauses, there's always some powerful beat sounding in the background. All the instruments are playing loudly at all times, but even then, a voice tries to break through all the "noise" and express its intentions. If this song makes me feel something, then that's determination and confidence.
Let's jump straight to the ending theme: Life is like a Melody. The title itself is just on point with the core message of the whole VN, since melodies are supposed to be filled with ups and downs, but when you finish hearing them, you end up liking them. And what you like about them is the way they combine those ups and downs. If a melody had no contrast inside then it would become to plain and not as enjoyable, like life itself, at least according to the VN.
The lyrics speak about how having to move on after the main events of the After Arc is something hard and difficult due to not being accostumed to living alone, but the experience gathered during those years and the time they spent together helps them walk on to an unknown future. It's interesting to see Tomoyo's hesitance here once again, though there's something very different this time.
The difference in this hesitance can be found in the melody and the smooth voice this song is sung in. The smooth voice represents a calmed Tomoyo, while the powerful and crystal clear voice is the image of Tomoyo's determination and resolve once she's past the most painful days, so while she speaks about being hesitant, deep inside her she knows what to do and, in fact, ends up doing as written on the VN.
Now on to the unvoiced tracks. we have 17 of them, 14 if we don't count the D&T ones. The first one I'll talk about is hope, the menu music also used during Takafumi's Ar for the first time and some other times during the VN. This is a very peaceful track. With a simple high pitched melody repeating over and over again during most of it, you might think that it's a bit repetitive, but there are some slight variations to that main melody made at different points, such as cords or thirds and/or fifths being added to the main notes, adding depth to the melody and slightly changing the feeling you get from hearing every repetition of the main loop. The accompaniment represents very well the entirety of the VN, from simple 1/4ths adding some color to the melody, representing the peacefulness of the first two arcs, to chains of 1/16ths representing the ongoing tension going on at the village in Tomo's Arc. There's also the strings playing low notes on the background, adding more and more tension to the piece, until, finally, there's a combination of 1/8ths that repeat for some bars, with just subtle changes, in which I see Tomoya loosing his memories over and over again, and the ups and downs of the dynamics show Tomoyo's different mental states. However, the whole piece ends with an unresolved, peaceful chord without any tonic note, so as to say that the difficulties are now left behind, but life hasn't ended.
Another good track is love song this one inspires tranquillity as well, but not the tranquillity hope expressed, this one has a different feeling to it. It's the tranquillity of a happy day as any other, of things happening without any important consequence erupting from such mundane events. This feeling is also found in other tracks like dear old home and rivulet These make for great general background music when you want to give profundity to the atmosphere and just want to describe different things without nothing important really happening. Morning Glow is also a good choice for this purpose, but since it's a tad more upbeat, it would fit comedy moments too, as well as some funny and happy gags. The same could be said about favorite loop. It's a quite artificial track with an upbeat feeling that makes it great as a BGM for those comedic gags.
An special case is old summer days. This piece of the OST is both peaceful to listen to and has a slightly fast tempo, as well as an upbeat feeling. It's a rearrange from Life is like a Melody, only that it transforms it into a melody that inspires happiness and a certain feeling of determination to go on. This feeling is conveyed by the melody combining several different rhythms, specially at the chorus. However, it also explains how the world overall doesn't change much from these special actions the characters of the VN do. This is hinted by the accompaniment. It has ups and downs in its dynamics, but the main rhythm doesn't change much and can be clearly heard after the chorus ends, symbolising that the world is still there, despite everything.
There's a piece that fills a very particular need: young lust this is a track used for the fighting scenes. There's not a lot to say about it. It needs to add tension to the atmosphere and it delivers it, so a nice track.
Since I'm a piano lover, I have to give a special mention to dear old home -piano- and love song -piano-. I liked the profundity added by the left hand accompaniment to both pieces, making them more downbeat and drama suited, specially with love song, the tempo of which has been reduced and very good rhythmic melody/accompaniment combinations have been added.
There are some very dramatic tones in the OST, as it should be. Clear examples are harmony and harmony with sorrow here, the instruments playing remind me of an ethereal world, something far away. This help giving a feeling of distance and coldness into the atmosphere, which helps further lowering the mood at some points of the VN. Harmony with sorrow is the favourite track for many of you, and while I don't share that feeling, I still recognise it's calmed piano playing over the ethereal track makes it a beautiful track.
Another dramatic piece of the OST is memories. This rearrange of Life is like a Melody uses a combination of instruments that make me imagine a light of hope in between the darkness that despair evokes. Also, due to the moment it plays, when Tomoyo starts crying realising that she has to be strong, this track has become my second favourite after hope. The xylophone-like instrument playing arpeggios makes me think of tears falling down continuously, while the powerful melody that kicks in after a while brings out all the frustration Tomoyo was probably experiencing at the moment.
Finally, there are the Dungeons and Takafumi's tracks. These ones are the typical ones of action videogames and RPGs, so they fit perfectly in there. However, while keeping the elements the used at a very simple level, they managed to create really motivating music. Just having a main repeating melody and different accompaniments kicking in, they delivered a sub-OST of a decent level for the amount of time I would expect them to dedicate to D&T.
So this is it about the music. Speaking about such an abstract thing is, indeed, difficult, but if I have at least accomplished my of giving this OST the mention it deserved, then I'll be more than happy. Feel free to comment on which track you like the most and why, and also go ahead and try to describe it!
Finally, I want to say that I spoke my mind about the arc, but even after rereading my post, I still think that I can't express to the fullest what I experienced in this Arc and my thoughts about it, but if you manage to grasp a even a bit of what I try to explain, it'll be worth. Once again, and excuse me if I'm boring you with it, I'd like to quote Nietzsche one more time: Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Wow… What an amazing analysis! I wish I had your critical reading skills.
I'm still a little unsure how I feel about Tomoya dying. I'm not sure if his death itself inspires him so much as supporting him when he's so desperately needs it is what causes her to grow or mature. From that perspective, part of me feels like there's not much of a point to it. Conversely, her observations about life after the horrible ordeal she's been through don't come quite as strong if Tomoya survives. Maybe I would've preferred a compromise in which he was comatose…?
I can't believe I didn't realize this before. The most unique thing about the After arc in my mind is that it's TOMOYO and not Tomoya that's the protagonist in this final part of the story. For the first three arcs, we've watched Tomoya grow into a person who's more assertive and conscious of events and people around him. He's grown into someone who tries his best to cultivate growth in others, even at a cost to himself. Here, Tomoyo is the focus. She's the hero who has to sacrifice everything to care for the man she loves. To watch her lover be confused and only a shadow of his former self is a draining experience on her, and it even causes her to quit temporarily. But nonetheless, she pulls through and moves on by cherishing the memories she had with Tomoya, knowing that even though those times have passed, they're just as real today as they were when they occurred. In a way, I feel like this is Key's first big story with a female protagonist. If one explained this ordeal without referencing gender, I imagine some would guess Tomoya would be the one trying to stay strong. Heck, Key has done memory loss stories with their heroines before. But this time, Tomoyo is DEFINITIVELY the second protagonist of this story. She grows and finds depths within herself she didn't know about through this ordeal. Even with my uncertainty about the ending, I can appreciate this for being a unique twist and new-ground for Maeda that ends up working out beautifully.
Exactly, Tomoyo is a second protagonist, and this is something really appreciated in VNs, where you are stuck to a single person's way of thinking during the entirety of the work. This is partly why I love Refrain (Refrain writing structure spoilers) , where we see the side characters point of view and, thus, we get to experience them more as protagonists than side characters. It's a refreshing experience that adds up a lot more to the totality of the VN, since we get to see the same issues through the eyes of different personalities with different attitudes towards the same world.
About Tomoya dying or not, I said some time ago that I didn't really think that the message would change, so I'd accept whichever outcome. Even if he survived, both having learned important things would allow interesting fanfics about them being old and speaking to each other about this dark time they once went through.
Though, if Tomoya died, there's also this meaning that 50% chances can end up in failure, and the final message would be a lot stronger and would get through many people, specially those whose life isn't going all that well, just like @Karifean said.
That was a nice analysis, @Mogaoscar. I wish I could also do some heavy critical thinking when it comes to explaining why After Arc is one of my favorites just like After Story and the Refrain routes. The Tomoyo After soundtrack has been one of my favorite OSTs for quite some time even after re-reading the VN. I think I mentioned this on Discord but my favorite tracks are "hope", "old summer days", "Harmony", and "Harmony with Sorrow" just to name a few. Apparently now, I enjoy the OP "Light Colors", and "Life is Like A Melody" a lot more since re-reading the VN.
For the track "hope", the song felt that there was so much meaning to how both Tomoya and Tomoyo's lives would change as they struggle to move forward despite everything they been through together. There was a way for them to do something with the eternal love that Tomoyo had described would last forever, which in the After Arc, she had to endure so much with Tomoya suffering through memory loss that she at times lost her way and faced numerous trials. But then, she had eventually found that hope by continuing to lovingly support Tomoya through and through even after his death. She found the treasure to become a family as she wanted to find out about it and now helps others who have also been afflicted with such pain and suffering.
I really do enjoy reading your posts and I like to be able to think of how things probably might of went if Tomoya had not died. Fanfics would be a good way to express how Tomoya and Tomoyo would have lived during those critical moments of their lives.
That was a great analysis, both the VN itself and the Soundtrack. You also put to words what I kinda suspected when I was first starting the game: That the title theme (hope) has a deeper meaning and probably foreshadows the story in some way. And that wasn't even all, you say? Well, then I'm interested in the continuation of this analysis.
That someone would be me, and well, I really have no excuse for that derp (or know how I got it wrong the first time), but if you are really inclined to poke fun at the mistakes, they'll always be there in release version on Steam :masdum:
This part brings the overall quality of Tomoyo After down so much its disgusting.
It's just fluff that doesn't mean anything.
@Kanon for Tomoyo After Bookclub MVP!
Well, she did better than the one who said "it's OK" in another arc.
Having just finished this, I just now realise that the After Story anime had a big nod to the ending of Tomoyo After.
Edit: My question's been answered, so I felt it best to remove my original post in hopes of reducing the chance of spoiling someone.


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Client-server programming is a discipline as old as computer networks and well-known. Just connect socket to the server and send some bytes back and forth, right?
Au contraire! Building reliable, robust client libraries and applications is actually quite difficult, and exposes a lot of classic distributed and concurrent programming problems. From understanding and manipulating the TCP/IP network stack, to multiplexing connections across worker threads, to handling partial failures, to juggling protocols and encodings, there are many different angles one must cover.
In this talk, we'll discuss how Basho has addressed these problems and others in our client libraries and server-side interfaces for Riak, and how being a good client means being a participant in the distributed system, rather than just a spectator.


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Warhammer 40000 Deathwatch #1
Written By Aaron Dembski Bowden
Art By Tazio Bettin
Color By Kevin Enhart
Written by Black Library superstar Aaron Dembski Bowden! The best of the best and the most dangerous space marines from every chapter are called to the Deathwatch! They alone have the strength of mind and body to wield alien weapons and battle the enemy across the universe, manning the wall to defend humanity from the Xenos that would destroy them. When a tide of savage Orks sweeps across the galaxy, a Deathwatch squad is dispatched to stem the flow… Whatever the cost!
At the very edges of space, unknown forces amass, with Mankind in their sights. There, the Deathwatch hold the line against the Xenos hordes...Read More


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Meet Alain Goulois, president of the jury
The ARGOS Challenge is not only five international teams... It's also a jury of four international experts and four Total employees. Its President is Alain Goulois, Senior Vice President R&D in Total Exploration & Production until 2014. We caught up with him to find out a bit more about the jury's different tasks and about his idea of robotics applied to specific environments like the oil and gas industry. Check out his interview!


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Keller Graduate School of Management Reviews
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Keller is a JOKE. I recently decided to go back to school after a long hiatus to complete my MBA that I had started with them in 2007 and never finished. Lo and behold I find out after one semester back in school that I was actually on academic probation and to be removed from probation I had to get a certain G.P.A. which was IMPOSSIBLE to achieve since the one class they let me take was a pass/fail course.
After explaining my story to the "counselor" I was told to document why I didn't finish the first time, turn in supporting documentation and I'd be fine. Not such a huge thing but the reason I didn't finish the first time was because I was busy at life and small children etc. How the heck do you document life?
So I write the memo, turn it in and get told that it was disapproved because I didn't raise my GPA enough ... we go back to the first part of it was a PASS/FAIL class and they wouldn't let me take anything else. Keller will take your money then dismiss you or expect you to meet impossible standards.
My degree with DeVry, Keller Graduate has been an administrative nightmare. Getting basic questions answered by administration is like jumping through hoops and dealing with ignorant temporary workers.
As well, the curriculum does not match its price tag. The professors in many cases were half witted lazy inefficient check collectors. I can name 6 classes that I have taken where the Professors did nothing but read from a PowerPoint.
Also, follow up of graded assignments was extremely difficult. You expect that if your paying $2280 per class that you would get USC, UCLA, or an ivy league school education. Well that is a fallacy.
I am not sure how other campuses are ran but I would definitely not suggest you attending Pomona, CA Keller Graduate program.
I have taken a number of classes online from Keller and I can say that like any school you only get out of it what you put in. I would recommend Keller for someone like me that needs to take online classes due to the amount of international travel that I do. I also have 20 years of working experience and I am not looking for a job. I really went back to school to get my MBA as more of an insurance policy and to learn more. I think Keller provides the right tools and instructors to learn. I have also enjoyed the classmates in each course, each from different industries and backgrounds.
Ended up quitting. This place was the bane of my existence. Tried transferring after 1 year, and a real university would only take 2-3 of those courses I took. Student services is a joke. I never got a call back from my "student success coach", my first one quit, and the dean was kind of a dink. They will rob you blind at this school. I suggest you stay away.
Stay away from this school. Their admin is pathetic. Their instructors are non-responsive. The only people who respond are the survey folks, and they won't leave you alone.
I have had multiple issues. I've been registered for classes I didn't ask for. I've been billed directly when there was student aid. I've been sent bills when the bill has already been paid. I was in a course where the instru...ctor didn't say anything for 3 weeks (in an 8 week course.)
I've had instructors take 4 weeks to grade homework or respond to questions (again, an 8 week course.) Most recently I was told I would have an e-book for a class, but lo-and-behold, when class started only hard-copies are available. Thus I have to wait for the bookstore to ship the books (I'm an online student). I get to start the class a week behind because these people don't know what they are doing.
I wanted my masters degree in accounting and found the Keller MAFM program was most affordable. I did my due diligence beforehand and made sure I understood the structure of the program before I began. My employer paid part of my tuition and I had loans for the remainder. Overall I had a great experience, I have stayed in touch with others form the program and having the degree is a help in getting promoted where I work. As I said, overall a good experience.
At first, my experience at DeVry was pleasant. The recruiter was honest, and she worked very hard for me, to ensure my issues were resolved quickly. The fact that I had so many issues should have been a red flag for me. They continued throughout my entire program.
I took all of my classes online, which was very good for me, with a busy work and life schedule; however the resources available to online students are not up to University standards. I had many problems with my transferred credits, and I was hassled for payment, even though I was paying on time, and more than the minimum (out of pocket).
The biggest problem occurred when I was placed in a course for which I had not taken the prerequisite course - this resulted in much frustration on my part, not being able to understand the material. Eventually, DeVry dropped me from the course, in the seventh week (courses run 8 weeks), just before the Final exam was due. One good note for DeVry would be that they did apply the money paid for the course, so I didn't have to pay to take it twice, since it was their mistake placing me in the first place.
If you are looking for a school which will support your needs, and cause you little stress, avoid DeVry University.
Keller is the graduate school of DeVry University. I have been enrolled in Keller's Masters in Information Systems Management program for six months now, and couldn't be more pleased with the education I am recieving.
I am a veteran of the US Navy and online learning (My BBA was achieved online), and I can say that Keller not only brings quality professors to the table (65% are terminal degree holders - higher percentage than most online schools), but innovate with the latest methods of online delivery of content.
The class shell can be abit confusing at times, but it devivers chat, online librarys, document exchange systems, even free software from Microsoft! They use the MyScribe system for delivering digital textbooks. What a hassle free environment that is! No more shopping for textbook ISBNs or waiting for delivery. I just enroll in a class, and the digital textbooks are downloaded to my PC! I can also say that I find myself challenged in every class.
I also love the fact that Keller has brick & mortar campuses which allow me to enroll in blended learning classes as well as online only. I use my GI Bill benefit and Keller's student services bills the VA directly, all I have to do is bring home the good grades. My experience with Keller graduate school has been an excellent one and I recommend them.
Totally disappointed. I completed two Masters in Keller, the MBA and the MFAM. Just at the beginning was worth it for the customer service and the teacher but as the time passed its been one of the most terrible experiences.
Customer Service is terrible, actually no service at all. They change a lot the people working with them in the Miami campus, reason why is extremely difficult to be able to provide continuity to a case.
The Dean in Miami is the most irresponsible person in the world, does not respond emails, don't care about anything and just keep voiding all situations.
In order to take my CPA Becker Classes with them was a mission because they did not want to recognize the credits at the beginning and a group of students had to contacted by email almost the president to be able to enter in the program and receive the credits. I also requested a revision in my grades in one class, almost 2 years ago, when I started, and I am still waiting for a response after tons of emails to the Dean.
Finally the college made a mistake and did not include a class that I took on my current loans at the time and after almost a year fighting and trying to find out what happened they admitted the mistake, just release my transcripts to be able to sit for the CPA exam BUT are holding my second Diploma because "I have a balance" that I need to pay.
It's just ridiculous.... I'm transferring to another college just to complete the 6 credits that I am still missing for my CPA exam. It's just a nightmare.
This school was acceptable at first. The instructors will helpful and informative. After my first semester studying for my M.S. Project Mgmt, I recieved and A and a B+. That then calculated my GPA to 1.65! THat is not a 1.65 at all. This pissed me off and they still haven ot fixed it since June 2010. Here it is Ocotber 2010 and they still have not fixed it. They are horrible. I am a military vet and I am upset.


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I know fall was supposed to have fallen awhile ago, but Mother Nature doesn't quite know when to say when because the calendar says October, but weekend forecast says August.
Friday in the Fryer
It's going to be another toasty afternoon across the region as the summer's grip holds on tight to the region.
A cold front attempted to move through the region yesterday but encountered the massive upper ridge sitting off to the southeast and now it's being sent back out way as a warm front.
Of course, this doesn't mean we'll be without rain chances as a few pop-up storms will be possible during the afternoon hours.
Otherwise, the hot and muggies continue with highs topping out in the upper-80s (and we can't rule out a 90 here or there). Mostly sunny skies will reign supreme for those who miss out on today's smattering of scattered storms. Overnight, lows won't drop that much, with temps staying around 70º.
Just a Sultry Saturday
What little forcing for precipitation that we will have exited the region and that leaves us with just the hot and humid weather.
Our only saving grace will be the small chance for an afternoon shower bubbling up in the ample heat of the afternoon, but even those won't last too long and will fade with sunset. Temperatures remain as they've ever been: hot. Highs again near 90º with lows only falling to near 70º.
I feel like I've written that same sentence about 600 times since summer began. Which leads me to…
Yet Another Sweaty Sunday
The upper ridge wins out and with the closest weather system sitting over the great plains…yeah, another hot and muggy day but this time, without even the hope of a cooling shower.
You know the drill by this point. Hot and humid with highs near 90º under unrelenting mostly sunny skies. Nighttime lows won't be much better, falling…again…to a humid 70º. I just hope you haven't put the sunscreen away quite yet.
That just about does it for me! Follow our live weather feed @wxornotbg for the latest forecast and updates. Have a terrific Friday!


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Club makes net loss for year ending May 2015 but remain 'committed to success'.
- Wigan Athletic report net loss of £3.9 million for the year ended 31 May 2015.
- Net loss reported for first time since 2011.
- The club remain compliant with 'Financial Fair Play' rules.
- 'The club remains committed to achieving success' – Latics CEO Jonathan Jackson.
The figures cover the season 2014-15 when Latics were relegated to League One.
Turnover decreased to £28 million compared to £37 million in 2014 as the club received lower Premier League 'parachute payments' and did not benefit from revenue from FA Cup and Europa League competitions as it had done in the previous year.
During the summer transfer window in 2014, the club invested over £10 million in new players with the intention of improving the playing squad and creating another promotion challenge. Unfortunately, this did not materialise and the club were relegated to League One at the end of the season.
Profit from the sale of players was £7.3 million, primarily due to the sale of James McArthur and Callum McManaman.
Total expenses including salary costs and amortisation of player contracts decreased to £38.5 million from £47 million in the previous year. Salary costs were again the most significant expenditure and these reduced to £26 million compared to the previous year cost of £30 million. Significant reductions in player salaries were achieved in January 2015 and since the year end to ensure that future costs remain aligned to turnover.
Net external debt remained at £9.5 million compared to £9.4 million at 31 May 2014 whilst overall net liabilities increased to £13.3 million from £9.4 million in 2014.
Chief Executive Jonathan Jackson commented: "The financial results reflect a defined strategy that was intended to allow the club to assemble a squad of players that could challenge for promotion back to the Premier League. It was hugely disappointing that we were relegated from the Football League Championship and it certainly demonstrated the unpredictability of football and the importance of financial sustainability at all levels. It became apparent as the season progressed that effective player trading was necessary in an attempt to improve results but also to enable the club to absorb potential future turnover reductions.
"Prudent financial management including implementing some difficult and timely decisions have restricted losses during the year to within acceptable and budgeted levels, but has also enabled the club to continue to invest in the playing squad and set a financial target to return to break even this season.
"The parachute payments received from the Premier League provide some protection from the significant reduction in income and continue until 2017. The club remains committed to achieving success and the new squad of players that has been assembled since the year end is now tasked with our primary objective of promotion to the Championship within the financial parameters that we operate.
"The continued financial support of the Whelan family has allowed the club to continue pursuing long-term strategic goals and although the financial results for the year ended 31 May 2015 mirrored the disappointments on the field, the owners remain committed to developing and improving Wigan Athletic to enable the club to return to the highest level of English football."


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Breakfast of Champions
I'm afraid that I just didn't love this book on the whole as much as I wanted to. While there indeed was humorous satire, I found a great deal that was just plain nonsense but some of that nonsense did ring true.
The book touches upon a broad range of subjects and even includes child-like drawings to illustrate some of his points. His obsession in the book with the length and width of a man's genitalia was a bit overdone, to the point that I wanted to throw up my hands and yell "alright already I get it, the average length is 7″, do you feel more adequate now, can we just move on".
One part of the book that I really did enjoy though was a comment made to an artist who was invited to receive an award for the painting he had just sold to the city for some outrageous price, "we don't think much of your painting. I've seen better pictures done by a five-year old." The painting being discussed was a canvas painted green with one yellow stripe down it.
Perhaps after reading Cat's Cradle I just started this book expecting too much from it. I did enjoy it and if you want an easy-to-read, humorous book then this might be perfect for you.


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* We have the GPS tracking system ready
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You are a new oracle DBA and you want to alter the properties on some objects like tables, indexes, procedures, packages, triggers etc. That means you want to perform DDL on these objects. Before you perform any DDL on these objects you should know what will happen to other objects that are dependent on the objects you are modifying.
Below article explains clearly the care that needs to be taken by the new oracle dba when performing DDL on any database objects.
About Dependencies Among Schema Objects
Some types of schema objects can reference other objects as part of their definition. For example, a view is defined by a query that references tables or other views. A
procedure's body can include SQL statements that reference other schema objects. An
object that references another object as part of its definition is called a dependent
object, while the object being referenced is a referenced object.
If you alter the definition of a referenced object, dependent objects may become invalid.
The next time that an invalid object is referenced—for example, used in a query or
invoked by a procedure—the database automatically recompiles it before proceeding
with the current operation. In many cases, this restores the validity of the object.
However, some changes to a referenced object cause invalidations to dependent
objects that cannot be remedied by just recompilation. For example, if you drop a
table, any procedure that queries that table will generate errors upon recompilation. In
this case, code changes are required before that procedure can be made valid again.
Even if all currently invalid objects can be made valid again with just recompilation, it
is obvious that a large number of invalid objects can have a negative impact on
application performance. In addition, if a package were to become invalid and then
run by an application, the automatic recompilation of that package could result in an
error ORA-04068 (existing state of package pkg_name has been
discarded) in one or more sessions. As a DBA, you must therefore be aware of object
dependencies before altering the definitions of schema objects.
Oracle Database automatically tracks dependencies among schema objects and tracks
the current state (VALID or INVALID) of every schema object. You can determine the
state of all objects in a schema with the following query:
select object_name, object_type, status from user_objects;
The following are some generalized rules for the invalidation of schema objects:
■If you change the definition of a schema object, dependent objects are cascade
invalidated. This means that if B depends on A and C depends on B, if you change
the definition of A, then B becomes invalid, which in turn invalidates C.
■If you revoke privileges from a schema object, dependent objects are cascade
■There are a small number of situations where altering the definition of a schema
object does not invalidate dependent objects. For example, if a procedure includes
a query on a view, if you change only the view's WHERE clause, the procedure
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Hey guys ! It's been a great week here in Oslo and i have been enjoying my time here ~
As you know, my bf just bought a cruise to Denmark and its the same cruise we took to Germany last year !
ColorLine~ It's CHEAP!
Will post again regarding how to buy CHEAP CRUISE Ticket in Norway !
Our cruise is a 3 days 2 night cruise (7 hour stop in Copenhagen) and it's a 4 bed cabin which we are still considering to invite other friends to come along but if no one is keen on that we'll just enjoy the room to ourselves ~
One culture thing in Norway is that they are not very fond of going on a cheap cruise to Denmark.
It's kind of like a "Red neck" thing to do ~
Well, in fact if this existed in Malaysia, regardless you're rich or poor ppl still go on it cause WHY NOT?
Just like Air Asia, i got rich friends that go on that flight~
Sometimes, I just cant understand the perception of human towards the value of Life ~
More are looking the value of things that would affect their reputation.
Thanks to the marketers and branding leaders out there ~~~
Okay,stop of the rambling complaints ~
Here's something that i find very interesting of the difference in the currency notes of Danish Kroner, Norwegian Kroner and Malaysian Ringgit !
Surprisingly the Danish Kroner is so Short and cute !
Also the currency rate of Danish Kroner Vs Norwegian Kr is about the same ~
It's just that recently Norwegian Kr isnt doing that well...
Oh well, it's easy for me to convert to Danish Kr from Ringgit since it's about the same as Norwegian Kr !
One thing I wana share is that back 2 years ago I went to Phi Phi island , Thailand and i made friends with this cute Danish chic ! You wouldnt believe how old she was !
And so, we kept in contact in FB then and now Im coming to Copenhagen and such a coincidence she is gonna have a Cosplay walk there !
I'm enthrilled to see her in her and her friends in their cosplay outfit !~
OH Btw, She's 16 years old now !
One more thing that makes me happy is that, since i know some Norwegian, Danish sounds the same as well !So, we can communicate better !! I can even now understand the Danish posts she posts on fb !
Speaking about Denmark, the first thing that came in my mind was Royal Stout and Carlsberg !
For those who dont know, Im a crazy Stout fan ! I LOVE STOUT !
1# Mircobrewery Stout I had in some countries i had been to
2# Guiness stout
3# Royal Stout
And I hope i can get this can of Stout there!!!
As for my research,
And when i type Copenhagen on google, What caught my eyes was this cute BUS !
Hope i get to see this !~
And this funny "ANAL Tours" Alright, its a Canal~
Well, according to the bf, Copenhagen's canal, doesn't look like a canal . More like a Big River... Not worth~
so, i guess I'll wait for Venice's/ Amsterdam's anal then~Oops I meant Canal~~
And next thing was these architechtures~
They didnt really amuze me cause it looks like Bergen, Norway~ just the houses in Bergen were smaller and cuter ~:P
Regardless how, Im extremely looking forward to this short trip and do anticipate pictures from this trip then !!
Hmmmm I wonder how would this trip be ~
Im craving for the German Hotdogs~~ too bad It's only next month we're then only going to Germany ~~
Arhhhhhhhh *dreaming Yummy Hotdogssss ~*
* I gotta remind myself to bring some chili sos for their hotdog !
Thanks for dropping by !!
XOXO FeliciaZoe