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|Dev: Silicon Studio/Square Enix
|Pub: Nintendo
|Release: February 7, 2014
|Players: 1
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|Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol
With so many jobs, it's natural that certain professions are more useful than others. The Salve Maker profession is absolutely vital in the mid-game, where several boss fights require the item-based attack and healing skills that the profession provides. The ninja profession is also almost mandatory for one important series of side quest boss fights late in the game. Still, there's a lot of room for players to pick class combinations that work well for them, and the game's challenges also push the player to change things up and use new cross-class strategies for different situations.
This wouldn't be a modern JRPG without various side activities and sub-systems to dabble with. Fortunately, they're streamlined well and worked logically into the gameplay. There are no MMORPG-style fetch quests like the ones seen in the game's demo, just the main quest and the "optional" adventures which result in gaining new jobs for the party. The only major side activity is rebuilding Tiz' hometown of Norende, which involves collecting villagers via StreetPasses or by connecting to the Internet once per day for three free villagers. Norende gives players a nice selection of items to purchase, as well as providing special attacks that can be customized and sent out over the Internet.
Collected StreetPasses, SpotPasses, and online friends who play the game can be summoned into battle and can also be linked to characters, giving a player access to abilities they haven't yet earned. None of this is necessary to beat the game, however. Job choice and strategy is usually more important than sheer power in battle, so smart players won't need or want to rely on summoning powerful allies from parts of the world that received the game several months ago.
Bravely Default's story and combat take place against a richly illustrated world with a hand-drawn look. The character and monster models look fantastic on the 3DS, and part of the joy of getting a new job is checking out how its outfit looks on each of the four characters. The world itself boasts gorgeous, highly imaginative cities, although the best of them are seen early in the game. Sadly, the dungeon environments aren't nearly as interesting or imaginative as the world above, but they at least boast the occasional puzzle and are easy to navigate with the maps on the bottom screen.
The music and sound design are also nice, with appropriately evocative musical tracks and battle sound effects that give attacks extra impact. The English voice acting sounds better in the context of the full game than it did in the demo and previews, though some performances are notably better than others. Players can switch to the original Japanese voice track if they find the English to be grating.
All of the game's elements come together in an impressive whole that lasts for a good, long while. It's a meaty experience set in a lovely world with an entertaining battle system and an endearing cast of characters. It's been some time since we saw a worthy successor to the turn-based fantasy JRPG tradition, but we have one here.
In short, Bravely Default is the Japanese RPG that we've been waiting for. As many JRPG companies cram increasingly bizarre gimmicks, half naked underage-looking girls, or overly convoluted plots into their games, Bravely Default reminds us that it's possible to go back to basics without feeling stale. This classic Final Fantasy-style game is beautifully executed, fun to play, and not to be missed by anybody who has ever loved the JRPG genre.
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As the old year turned, new regimes took hold in both the United States and China, acknowledged by most people in the Caribbean and elsewhere as the countries most likely to determine the international frameworks within which our countries will find it necessary to function. There was undoubtedly some relief as President Obama was re-elected in November with a majority that seemed to indicate some degree of confidence in him on the part of the American people.
That relief was, however, not particularly confident in terms of any strong feeling that the United States under Obama's governance, is likely to demonstrate any strong feelings or initiatives towards the Caribbean during his second term. The President had seemed to indicate some promise of increased American interest in the region after his first election when, fortuitously, the Summit of the Americas was held in Trinidad & Tobago in 2009. But the general sense at this point would seem to be that the President's other preoccupations, in the Middle East and with reworking relations with a China increasingly aggressive in its economic activity and diplomacy, have obviously taken precedence over concerns with small countries in this hemisphere.
Part of this lack of concern has been an American sense, first, that the Latin American environment in which we live would appear to be increasingly able to look after itself, particularly in terms of economic growth; and secondly, that in this hemisphere, the major actors, and in particular Brazil, are inclined to attempt to autonomously forge new relations among themselves, as well as going beyond their geographical sphere to reconfigure their relations with other fast-growing developing states – economies now known as the BRICS.
The United States will have seen that the countries of Caricom have, in that emerging geopolitical environment, been pulled into seeking more coherent relations with the Latin states, as indicated in our adherence to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). And the American leadership will have recognized also that contrary to concerns deriving from the Cold War atmosphere, configurations like CELAC are essentially pragmatic, inclined to economic integration with other states and regions on a non-ideological basis, and therefore not likely to pose geopolitical difficulties for the US, even as they incorporate states like Cuba and Venezuela with somewhat different world views from a Brazil or Chile, or even an Argentina.
The present geopolitical climate in the hemisphere would therefore appear to provide pathways, over the next decade or so, for Caricom-Cariforum states to promote relationships with significant countries in the area in at least two directions. The first is to propose, through pragmatic strategies and designs, ways in which the larger countries can assist our own integration and economic development.
And this means taking more positive initiatives towards institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank which, under the influence of countries like Brazil in particular, are developing new approaches to economic integration. For these countries, economic integration means establishing practical connections between the economies of various countries, so as to create the economic scale that can maximize productive participation in the global economy.
It would appear that both Guyana and Suriname are beginning to appreciate the economic growth possibilities inherent in this approach. It is therefore partly for these countries to indicate to the island states what is possible in responding to such initiatives. And it would seem to be the case also, that the Caribbean Development Bank should take a more strategic approach to integration based on this wider economic and geopolitical platform, particularly at a time when the economic status of the CDB, as indicated by the major international financial assessors, seems to be being downgraded.
For the major issue at this time of economic and financial constriction for many Caricom states is first, how to find the resources for adjustment to the global economic reconstruction process, indicated for us particularly in the locking out of many Caricom countries exports from traditional markets. It is noticeable that in recent months, Trinidad & Tobago, through both governmental and private sector initiatives, has been seeking to engage economic possibilities by connecting towards the effective use of the Panama Canal and that country's development priorities. But that is a national initiative that does not suggest a positioning of Trinidad as part of a wider Caricom zone.
In other words, it seems to us that in the face of global economic changes, our countries are still perceiving possibilities for economic growth on new bases from largely an autonomous, or single state, perspective, putting in doubt the relevance of the Caricom as an integrated strategising and policy implementation entity. And the question therefore arises, from the perspective of the larger states in the hemisphere, as to the basis on which these larger hemispheric entities should really conduct their relationships with the countries of this sub-region. Note that in South America, Brazil has been determined to persist with the forging of Mercosur, in spite of periodic political impediments within that sphere.
As our countries look at the world around us in this new decade, it would appear that the inclination of many is to focus not so much on consideration of economic integration possibilities, but rather on seeking economic assistance from larger developing countries for financial assistance to sustain existing economies in a time of increasing indebtedness. This would appear to be the approach that we are taking to countries like China, Venezuela and some of the small energy-rich states in the Middle East. There appear to be no substantial programmes, from a regional integration, and therefore economic-scale-building perspective, that we seem to be able to collectively put to such countries, on the basis of Caricom-CDB collective initiatives. Is this good enough?
We are perhaps, as the second decade of the new millennium has dawned, still not seized of the various cross-country initiatives taking place even in relatively well-endowed spheres of the globe. It is instructive to see the countries of ASEAN persistently seeking to adapt, as a regional grouping, to changing economic and political parameters in that sphere of the world. For there, governments of the relatively smaller countries now appear to be well seized of the significance of China's emergence, the implications of India's economic growth, and the need for the kinds of integration that will permit a long-term survival less dependent on the economic growth of the United States.
Is it time for us, in this second decade, to consider whether the laborious efforts that we have put into negotiating the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union are appropriate to the present? Although in the last quarter of the last century we have spent so much time in negotiating with the EU on that EPA, are we at all confident that the arrangements that we have arrived at, which seem to give little priority to new possibilities of economic integration in any concerted manner, are appropriate to even the next quarter century?
Are our relations with the EU likely to be particularly productive over the next decade, if in the face of the dynamic developments in economic arrangements going on around us all over the world, we, in the second decade of the new millennium remain on 'pause' in configuring our own integration effort? Does this posture give our external interlocutors any real confidence in our objectives for this new decade?


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Posted 01/15/2010 at 10:24 AM
Congrats to Utah rookie guard Sundiata Gaines, who hit a buzzer beater last night to lift the Jazz past LeBron James and the Cavs in Salt Lake City.
With Deron Williams leaving the game with a wrist injury, Gaines was pressed into action. In his fifth career game since being called up from the D-League's Idaho Stampede, Gaines played nearly flawless basketball. The University of Georgia product made all three of his shots from the field and finished with nine points in nine minutes of play.
And he deserved that sort of moment. His career at Georgia was filled with tough luck. While more than a handful of his teammates left the UGA program for a variety of reasons, Gaines stayed the course and always kept a positive attitude.
Louis Williams never made it to Athens. Mike Mercer tore his ACL and then ended up getting kicked off the team. Channing Toney transferred to UAB and other players were dismissed from the program by former coach Dennis Felton.
But Gaines always kept playing hard, although he was at times surrounded by lost freshmen and walk-on players. He was rewarded during his senior year when he led the Dawgs to an improbable run to an SEC Tournament title and an NCAA Tournament berth. Gaines was named the tourney's Most Valuable Player.
And he's the most popular man in Salt Lake City this morning. Good, Sundiata Gaines deserves it.


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Art Place at Ft. Totten obtains PUD approval
On December 14, 2009, the DC Board of Zoning Adjustment granted formal Planned Unit Development (PUD) approval for ART PLACE at Fort Totten, to be developed by our client, the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects is the designer of the large-scale plan for this new mixed-use (residential / retail / cultural) transit-oriented development in NE Washington, near the Ft. Totten Metro Station and adjacent to two major commuter routes through the city. The total development, intended as an investment for the Foundation and to promote its art and community-oriented philanthropy, will contain 2,056,000 sf of new construction on 719,000 sf of existing land the Foundation has owned since the 1950s. The project as a whole will be registered for LEED ND certification, with individual buildings expected to achieve LEED NC recognition. EE&K has been working on various versions of this project since 2007, as the client's vision of the program has changed in response to market factors and local input.
At Art Place, the Cafritz Foundation plans to build 929 residential units (171 affordable units and 358 multi-family units) in 4 new blocks arranged on a new network of streets and public spaces connected to the adjacent neighborhoods, Ft. Totten park / recreation areas, and with the main retail area on both sides of Ingraham Street, leading to the Metro Station. New rental units will consist of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, including 98 set aside for senior tenants. There will be about 300,000 sf of retail space, for both local and national retailers and restaurants, including a 59,000 sf grocery store. Arts-oriented uses on the site include live-work artists' housing, rehearsal studios, set and costume fabrication facilities and administrative offices for the Washington National Opera (75,500 sf) and Shakespeare Theatre Company (75,500 sf). Local and regional community uses include a Senior Center, Day Care Facility, Arts / Meeting space, a Children's Resource Center / Museum, and space for a future branch public library.
The first phase of the project, at the southeast corner of the site (on South Dakota Avenue between Galloway and Ingraham Streets) including 529 residential units and senior housing, multiple retail shops, and the grocery store, is now in the schematic design phase, with construction anticipated in early 2012. (This first building is being designed by Shalom Baranes Associates of DC and MV+A Architects of Maryland.)
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I was very impressed by this demo by the way. The coolest part is the live map of the Nurburgring giving you the right braking points because of the GPS link-up (if anyone is reading this from Porsche or RIM I would love to take it round the Ring by the way!).
Anyway, so I was standing there, the Porsche was sitting there unattended as was the Blackberry handset that was part of the demo. I can tell you that the password for the Blackberry was not "porsche" ;-). I opened up the glove box and had a quick look inside only to be presented with a Cradlepoint WiFi router filling the entirety of the space inside:
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|Default password anyone?
Now I just want to say here that if anyone from RIM is reading this, please do not crank this up as a security incident or go mental at the QNX guys, this is just an amusing story. After all, it's a demo and chances are the default password was not being used, someone had probably changed it.
Security is only as good as its weakest link
However, here is the serious bit - with all the convergence of mobile tech and the emergence of connected homes, cars and cities, it just goes to show that security is often only as good as its weakest link. That may not be the mobile technology itself, just something it's connected to. Oh yes, another security message here - don't leave phones unattended on trade show stands and always lock your glove box!


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Now if you think that this blog is about the hedonistic lifestyle of people who hate the idea of committing to one partner at a time then I have to apologise. I had a different kind of swinger in mind.
At least I got your attention for however brief the moment!
What I'm referring to is the Hindu Vedic ritual of swinging and it does involve one gigantic swing or in Thai, Ching Cha (ชิงช้า).
Yes, in Bangkok, we have one of the world largest swing and might be oldest at that, right here in the old town district. See for yourself.
This swing measured 20 metre high and 10.5 metre wide. It was built in 1784 (พ.ศ. 2327) and it's as old as Bangkok!
Every year in December when Shiva descended from the heaven to visit us, this ritual was performed. It was stopped in 1935, due to high fatality rate! The ritual re-enacted a scene between Shiva and wife, Parvati (formerly Sati in the previous incarnation!). Gosh Hindu Gods do lead such interesting lives! If you want to find out more then read up here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Swing.
Two years ago this swing was restored back to its formal glory and again this weekend, the ritual will be re performed. Here is a clip of how, apology as it is narrated in Thai.
For those who have already spotted that this year ceremony isn't in December, thank you for paying attention zzz…. You're right!
This year, the ritual is slightly different and it's a two in one, post modern take on the old ritual! It's re invoked to bless young teak saplings, all 75 of them so that they can be given away to the each of Thailand province governors as part of the organised ritual for the King's birthday.
So if you have a weekend free, it's worth going to relive Bangkok history. Good photo opportunity too. Might bump into you there then! Let's hope the rain is taking a short break this weekend!


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So my secret contact passed this to me in a brown envelope in an undisclosed location that certainly wasn't a McDonald's on the high street and I certainly did not get ketchup and nugget grease all over it before passing it on to the good people at http://www.teachsecondary.com or anything like that.
Predicted Grades Moderation Meeting
Present: (Eng Dept Teaching Staff) AF, CC, KC and ST (the trainee lad who looks all of 12.)
(Senior Leadership Team) JN
(Admin Staff) BS
Apologies from: No bugger. It's full attendance. The fact that JN's here is merely coincidence says I.
Meeting held in: Boardroom One as a member of the senior leadership team is present and the Eng dept classrooms are a bit of a trek downstairs.
Input of predicted grades for KS4 into new 'Perseverance' admin system tool
KC opened the meeting by stating, in no uncertain terms, that the only tool he was aware of was the one who decided to buy such an unwieldy, bloated and almost psychotically unhelpful piece of software as Perseverance.
JN said that he would certainly look into it (it was him) but for now it was what they had and if the predicted grade boxes weren't filled in it would hinder student progression pathway. I'm also pretty sure that if this doesn't happen soon that the system will become self-aware and try to wipe out humanity.
To aide the team in their use of the system, BS attempted to demonstrate the ease with which a teacher can input their grades. This is primarily the reason why the meeting overran by approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
All members of the English dept to attempt to input their grades by the end of the week (or invent a time machine to stop Perseverance before it destroys the world, whichever is easiest).
Predicted grade moderation, or 'Fight Club' as it's also known.
CC suggested that due to the new specifications, boundary shifts and an alternative grading system, it's very difficult, if not impossible, to accurately predict the grades that students will achieve – and furthermore, attempting to do so may well take time away from activities that could actually help the students, such as planning and feedback. This coupled with the possible demotivating factor that arbitrary grading may result in for the students means that there are real concerns.
To counter this argument, JN stated that the boxes needed to be filled.
At this point ST (bless) piped up and asked if anyone was using a particular formula for grade prediction as he was struggling. AF suggested tossing a coin, CC explained her patented dartboard technique. This left ST with a horrified expression on his face until KC told everyone to stop taking the Michael and that she would go through it with him at a later juncture after he'd calmed down a bit and stopped hyperventilating. This seemed to do the trick until she added that she'd let him have a go on the crystal ball she kept in her office.
There then commenced full and total open warfare as to what the exam board specifications actually mean, with the poring over the minutest detail of semantics, vagaries of meaning, interpretation and detective work not seen since Sherlock Holmes was about. This ultimately led to an agreement that for now, no-one had a scoobie and a line of best fit would be used going on previous examples of marked work. An almost inaudible comment from an unidentified member of the team suggested that this be a perfect juncture for CC to actually do some of the said marking but when challenged, no-one was able to identify the source of the statement. CC then stated that whoever it was, she would be seeing them in the car park. Everyone agreed that it was most likely ST, and that he was in SO MUCH TROUBLE. ST then excused himself to go to the toilet as he was looking a bit peaky.
AF and CC to attend exam board training day to see if they can't figure out what the hell is going on.
(From JN to all) If everyone could stop messing with ST before he has a heart attack, that'd be great.
Get outta here. Don't you even dare.
Meeting ended: with no injuries


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Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer remains Arsenal's number one goalkeeping target despite rumours the Gunners were after other players. A report in yesterday's UK papers suggested that the London club were set to bid for Italian international and Cagliari number one Federico Marchetti and there has also been interest in Ajax and Holland stopper Maarten Stekelenburg.
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Definitions of engross
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v. t. - To amass. 2
v. t. - To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment. 2
v. t. - To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts. 2
v. t. - To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power. 2
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Host a Once Upon a Time Fandom Program
Storybrooke: a quiet, little town in Maine that has something a little unusual about it. (Side Note: Anyone else notice that Maine is chock-full of unusual small towns? That's a blog post for another day). What's so unusual about Storybrooke, you may ask. It sounds delightful and charming… until you realize that its inhabitants aren't exactly as they seem, and if you're not careful, you might become the victim of dark magic, just as they were.
Once Upon a Time has aired on ABC since 2011, and for the past four years, it has kept its fairy tale characters constantly fighting some new evil, with the savior of Storybrooke being Emma Swan, the long-lost daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming who was sent through a portal to our world to escape the Evil Queen's curse that covered all of the Enchanted Forest and brought them to Maine with only the memories of their fictitious lives. Since the series started, we've seen beloved characters change sides or even die, and of course, because ABC is owned by Disney, we've also seen the stories of new fairy tale characters, like Anna and Elsa in last season and Merida in the current season.
With so much drama, action, and intrigue, not to mention the events of the current season, the Teen Advisory Group selected Once Upon a Time as the Random Fandom for October. Random Fandom is a monthly program where the teens pick a fandom and create activities around it, and it has become our most popular teen program. If you want to run your own OUAT program, here's what they did:
It's nice to have something for them to do as they trickle in. One of the teens created Henry's family tree, and as they got settled, the teens tried to figure out which characters would fill in the blank boxes. Once everyone was finished, the answer was revealed.
Try your hand at the figuring out the family tree (though, if you're not caught up, this is your Spoiler Alert). Feel free to use this at your own OUAT event, and send me an email if you need the key!
Heart Crusher
In OUAT, those who possess magic can reach in and steal someone's heart, which looks like a glowing red crystal the size of your fist, in case you were under the misconception that your heart is a muscle that pumps blood. By holding someone's heart, you can control their every action, squeeze it and they feel pain, crush it and they die. Make this into a game by using balloons, red for most characters, black for the ones who have darkness in them, like Regina and Rumpelstiltskin, and gold for Henry, the truest believer. The way we played was in pairs. Each pair put the balloon between them and hugged until the balloon popped, if it ever did. It might make more sense to have smaller balloons and crush them in your hand, but they thought this way was hilarious.
Heads Up
In the last post, I mentioned two ways to do Heads Up, but the teens came up with a third for Once Upon a Time. We have a projector in our program room, so instead of a sticky note to the forehead, the character, with pictures of their Storybrooke and fairy tale personas, was put up on the screen for everyone to see and provide clues to the guesser.
If you're familiar with the game Mafia or Werewolf, you can use it as a basis for any theme you choose. (If you're not familiar with the game, you can find plenty of sites explaining the instructions online). For OUAT, the heroes were pitted against the villains. The villains' goal was to kill off all of the heroes without getting caught. The heroes' goal was to find all of the villains before every hero died. Emma Swan had the special ability during the night to silently accuse someone and peek at their card, and the Blue Fairy could heal someone, including herself, and make them safe for that round.
While the roles were just on index cards, you could certainly go more elaborate. They played this more than once, so there was no time for trivia.
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As we live in the multi-screen world, responsive web design is the buzz word of the decade.
Websites built with responsive design techniques such as media queries, fluid grids, and flexible images are interactive, adaptive and provide a rich user experience.
It is one of the most dominating forums for over a period of time. No matter how important they are, the performance issue with responsive sites stands out prominently. But with adjustments, the web designers are trying their best to come up with measures that can efficiently solve the problem.
Why does responsive design perform slowly?
As the responsive site loads nearly all the HTML elements that are being loaded on a desktop or tablet, their performance is relatively slow. Moreover, the content including the scripts and the images are delivered all at a once in the devices where the website is viewed. This is one of the reasons for slower performance.
However, the problem lies when 86% of the responsive sites deliver a page intended to use on a desktop to mobile devices. And 56% of the mobile users usually move out if the site does not appear in 3 seconds.
So how can you speed up the responsive site and its performance to prevent the visitors click on the "X" in the corner because it performed slowly on their Smartphone or tablets? Well, that is a serious matter to look into and being responsive isn't enough. Here where the web designers have come up with a few effective approaches to boost the speed of responsive websites and enhance the user experience.
Responsive framework:
As interactive design of the mobile has been an integral part over the last few years, therefore, responsive frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap and Foundation have been made to work with to improve the speed of the process. It has been introduced with an aim to provide a grid or foundation for rapid prototyping of different mobile functionality and layouts, allowing designers to invest their effort and time on the details of brand experience.
Restrictive loading:
Restrictive loading is an important technique for every Smartphone and mobile users. They ensure that the users do not download anything that is responsible for slowing up the site. The feature can be used to stop loading aspects such as image maps, social widgets and much more to add. Nevertheless, it is vital to test the site at each stage of its optimization to make it easy to see the difference it has made with the passage of time.
Resize the images as per the screen:
The fastest way to modify the mobile web performance is to make the images fit the screen size. The correct size of the images needs to be displayed to different mobile devices be it tablet or Smartphone. Images take up the largest amount of kilobytes in a web page and they can be compressed and modified with image format like WebP. This format can reduce the size of an image without compromising on the quality. The WebP file format can reduce 40% of the size of an image when compared to the existing formats such as JPEG and PNG.
- Read: The techniques and Guidelines behind Responsive images
- Fixing Responsive image problems with corrective solutions
Limited functionality:
Mobile phones have restricted capabilities as compared to desktop computers. So, to design mobile-friendly wireframes , first the design of the comps in the process is important as it tells you about how the content would look like on a mobile device, how the key features of the desktop site would actually work on a phone. Mobile-first is a designing process that aims to address this by limiting the initial planning only to check what's possible on mobile and then add accordingly.
Reduce the content:
If the website contains a lot of content, it can affect the performance of the site. However, to decrease the amount of scripts, you can shift them to the end of the HTML templates to avoid unnecessary blocking. Although this is a minor change, however, they can display the primary content faster and therefore speed up the website while the other section of the page remains loading.
Serve the right Text:
Text will wrap up automatically when the device is narrow and cause display issue. A jQuery plugin called Fit Text can be used to address the issue as it allow the maximum and minimum size of the text and also auto-updates the font size. This tool is perfect for headlines that gets displayed poorly a mobile device and also allows CSS3 specified font sizes to be ignored. However, Fit Text cannot be used within paragraph text.
Do not allow m-dot redirection:
Google recommends that in order to receive an improved SEO mileage from responsive websites, a single domain should be used. Single URL in all the devices can help the publishers lessen the requirement of redirecting the high cost browser from the mobile site to desktop and vice versa.
Remove unnecessary DOM elements by using ReSS solution that provides the right template to the right device. Also Mobify's free performance suite can be used to filter the DOM at any breakpoint that does not require any changes to be done on the web server.
Limit the HTTP requests:
Although the number of HTTP request is a conventional web performance technique, but with a responsive design with a rich media experience, the network overhead of every single HTTP requests is crucial. For mobile consider using CSS sprites instead of data URIs to minimize the requests of images. Keep the CSS file at the top of the document because modern browsers do not work until the CSS is downloaded.
Usage of mobile devices and tablets are on high as they are becoming the norm of connecting to the internet and surfing. So, if you really want to boost the speed of the responsive site, think speed as a feature in the design and build processes accordingly.
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Two more articles on Beryl. The first one is on drag and drop in Beryl: "What does Beryl add to the drag and drop picture? Well, for a start, if you've got a lot of windows open, it's easier to find the target if you can see all the windows at once. Also, if you want to drop a file/text on an application on another desktop, you can do this much more easily. This is a cool little feature that allows you to drag and drop files between applications on the same desktop, or different desktops." The second one is a performance tweak for Beryl.
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Wow. I am totally impressed with the responses here.
I was not expecting such a vocal community.
I am not flirting with just anyone in the small town. A couple people caught my attention unexpectedly. As far as the future goes I'll be keeping quiet in the smaller town.
It seems like contradiction, but I am happy just being good friends if someone is not interested in poly. However, I'd prefer they be open to it and we be able to not have that limit. I plan to just live my life and do my part as if they are just a person and ignore the stigma or their professed religon. If they turn down my invitation at some point we will have found the limit on their involvement and I will be happy wherever that line gets drawn.
I think that not persuing monos would reduce my pool of possible friends and lovers. I just really thought it'd be a fun topic to discuss.
What is the conversion rate on mono to poly for those of you that have tried to approach of just plain fell for mono people?
Sorry for spelling errors. I sent this from my phone.
Sorry to double post.
I dont use a dating service now. I may in the future but we (me and my fiancee) are kinda ramping up slowly. So for now I was just happy with the non relationship specific benefits of poly: not living a lie, being happy, no guilt, freedom, honesty, communication, and the occasional flirty friend. Then I bumped into an awesome chick that happens to fall under the devoulty mono umbrella.
Are you just looking for a rate of success in finding a mono person to date/be in a relationship with a poly person? I'm not sure if that data exists.
Dramatis personae:
Me: 47/F, Monogamish? Divorced with 2 kids, 2 cats, a tarantula, and a 1930s house with many projects.
Chops: 48/M, Partner of 7 years.
Spinner: 53/M, Friend I went on a couple dates with. Divorced, Mono, "just friends".
Xena: 48/F, Chops' partner of 7 years
Curls: 51/F, Chops' partner of 2 years
Supporting Characters:
Choplet: Chops' son
DanceGirl: My oldest daughter
Pokégirl: My youngest daughter
The "data" may exist on the forum, for someone interested enough to start searching threads and collecting it.
But it is definitely not compiled into a data set and thus not usable or quotable until such time as somone ops to do the dirt work of compiling it.
My bf is mono. But he hasnt "converted. He's simply accepted me for who i am. Dh was hard core mono and anti-open relationships. He's converted but not dating others at this time for his own personal reasons.
"Love As Thou Wilt"
Sorry to be away so long. I am in Florence with Sydney so I haven't been sitting at the computer much.
I've pretty much decided that I am going to just treat people right and let them limit our relationships instead of assuming a limit based on their preconceived lifestyle. I think that a mono partner might be a little wonkey for me though. If my fiancée and other people I love are all happy to share my time and attention and get some fulfillment from other partners then it seems easy to juggle. Someone that expects to just be with me and have all their needs solely met by me, if at all, might find themselves wanting someone that is not also making time for two or three other women on top of work, hobbies, and college. I don't see that as my concern though.
I also have decided that as of right now I agree with the theory that it is ok to keep news about poly quiet until a first date. Most people I know understand that people are not mono on a first date by the very nature of dating. So, that seems like a great way to avoid creeping people out and allows me to explain my lifestyle choice in person.
Honestly, I shy away from dating people that are not 1) Poly or 2) Openly poly friendly. Nothing wrong with that. But often people don't even KNOW what poly is, so perhaps it would be a good idea to look into dating people who are non-monogamous/respond positively if you tell them you're poly/etc? Something that would indicate they would be open to poly. I've gone to the kink community, simply to find others who were non-judgmental, and I found many who loved the idea of having multiple emotional, and not purely sexual, relationships; but didn't know it was even possible.
Once I get settled down I think a more straight forward approach may be an option in some cases. As of right now me and Sydney are still car shopping and I'm looking for a job in my new location. I think that the approach might depend on the meeting circumstances.
Thanks for all your opinions and advice. I really appreciate it.
I m new to poly/open marriage. I seem to enjoy flirting more now than before. Most know that I am married. Some women flirt back as well. All in fun. Some of the women in my circle know I have an open marriage now... It did seem to change the friendships... Not necessarily for the better...being married, i think they saw me as "safe" It just may be my imagination.
So, I enjoy having female friends. I am taking things slow. I am not after a ONS... I want to wait for the right person, the right chemistry, and have that certain connection...One that may be around a while...That may not happen the way I would like...I can enjoy their company even though nothing develops...
What I am discovering is that I don't have enough time for another relationship...especially one who wants to spend alot of time with me...being a family man, mono or poly, I think a woman would have a hard time with that...
First would be honesty. I personally see no honesty conflicts with waiting to disclose something until you meet someone. Your life is your business and no one has a "right" to know things about you. But some people disagree with that, and it can raise potential conflicts. People can feel misled. My personal response to that is "tough poop" but just letting you know what to expect...
Second would be using your time and energy efficiently. I would anticipate that upon learning you're not single, a lot of people would lose interest immediately. Myself, I'd prefer to get that out of the way and save the time and energy of going out for coffee with someone who's not really available to me.
As I am sure any cat owner will be able to tell you,
someone else putting you in a box is entirely different
from getting into a box yourself. bisexualbaker
I would be pretty pissed to get out on a date to discover someone intentionally hid the fact they were in a relationship. I think if it gets to the point you ask someone out, that is the point it should be disclosed, not while out on a date. That right there would be the end of the date for mw, even if I was cool with it. The dishonestly would be a major deal breaker
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The Coral Springs Woman's Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the Cypress Hall Community Center, 1300 Coral Springs Drive.
Club member Holly Rose will demonstrate tips and techniques of floral arranging.
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Craft Guild meeting set Wednesday, open to all
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Donations of paperback and hardcover books are always welcome.
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Town guild celebrates 60 years of ICA
It was a casual remark, made by the late Horace Plunkett, leader of the Co-operative Movement when addressing his members in 1910, that led to a quiet revolt among Irish women and a sudden awareness of their contribution to the fabric of family and community life, and eventually led to the establishment of the Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA).
"We men can see to the better farming and better business, but only women can see to the better living," Plunkett remarked on that fateful day in 1910. Just a few months later the Society of the United Irish Women was born and in 1935 the organisation changed its name to the ICA.
This year, the ICA's Longford Town Guild celebrates its 60th anniversary. Plans are in place to mark the occasion with a special dinner and music at the Rugby Club, however the task of finding the many past members who have moved on over the years has been left firmly in the hands of the current Guild's secretary Kathleen Kelly. While she remains softly spoken and focused, her feisty determination to round up the troops and celebrate all that is good about an organisation that remains dear to her heart, is clearly evident.
"60 years is a long time and is worth celebrating," Ms Kelly told the Leader. "We need to get the word out that we are having this event, but we also know that there are many past members who we will need to find. We plan to have dinner and entertainment, if that is what members would like at Longford Rugby Club on April 12 next."
The Longford Town Guild was first established at the Longford Arms Hotel by Miss O'Connell on a cold January evening in 1954. Needless to say, it went from strength to strength and acted as the catalyst to which other guilds were born throughout the county. The Guild boasted hundreds of women in its ranks and provided a platform on which they could discuss issues that mattered and where they could develop their own creative and home based roles within their own communities.
"Membership has decreased in recent years, and the ICA is engaging in a national recruitment campaign in an effort to encourage younger women to join up," Ms Kelly continued. "That campaign takes place on March 2 and we will have recruitment at a number of locations in Longford town on that day. There is a concept out there that the ICA is about women meeting up doing crafts and drinking tea – but that is a misconception - and we hope that the recruitment campaign will highlight that. ICA is about women having a voice and being heard; it is about support, support in the community and support in family life; it is about sharing and caring; it is about giving. It has played such an important role in the lives of women in Co Longford over the past 60 years, so it would be great to mark the occasion and examine all that is good about ICA in our communities." For more details about the 60th anniversary celebrations, contact Kathleen Kelly on (086) 3194662 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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Council of European National Youth CommitteesDocuments from [1963] to [1996]
The fonds is freely accessible.
Ruth, Meyer
The fonds consists of rather complete series of documents which give an insight into the educational and political activities of the CENYC since its creation in 1963 and allow to reconstruct the organised youth activities which were not only orientated towards existing political structures which mirrored the actual state of events, but were able to look ahead and give new ideas to the political and social establishment.
Of particular interest is the fairly rich material about the contacts with the quickly establishing youth organisations and councils in Eastern part of Europe after 1989.
Since the material was in a disorganised state on its arrival at the archives it has been subject of a complete rearrangement. Thematical and chronological series have been created taking into consideration the organisational structure of the CENYC and the activities that it carried out. Ruth Ingeborg Meyer-Belardini, May 2003.
10 linear metres, 200 files
English, French, German, Spanish
The papers are generally in good condition, some are damaged by mould. Their reproduction is forbidden.
Youth Forum of European Communities (YFEC), European Co-ordination Bureau of International Youth Organisations (BEC), Campagne Européenne de la Jeunesse (part of the code ME) and Jeunesse européenne fédéraliste (JEF).
Kotek, Jo.: Students and the cold war
translated by Ralph Blumenau. St. Anthony's College. Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1996.
The fonds arrived at the Historical Archives following a contract of deposit signed with the European Youth Forum in February 2001.


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Carruthers Friday May 30 11:50 AM
May 30th 2014. Royal Navy Photography Award Winner.
xoxoxoBruce Friday May 30 12:49 PM
Excellent find, Carr, what a beautiful shot that is.
glatt Friday May 30 01:17 PM
Yeah, those pictures are good. I like this one with the still water reflecting it so well.
Carruthers Friday May 30 01:21 PM
xoxoxoBruce Friday May 30 01:37 PM
Good eye glatt. Funny, when I saw the picture I wondered how long the guy had to wait for that mirror calm, and never realized it was a puddle. But that makes me wonder why they don't fix the dock, it's got to be a pain in the butt.
Carruthers Friday May 30 02:09 PM
glatt Friday May 30 02:49 PM
The only reason I noticed it is that I saw the trick used before when someone photographed Mitre Peak in New Zealand. Theirs looked something like this:
Griff Saturday May 31 09:07 AM
Wow, I never heard of that before.
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Summer breeze....
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...♪ ♫makes me feel fine♪ ♫
wolf Monday Jun 2 01:47 AM
Wait ... all this time that word has been JASMINE?
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Ginger-Cantaloupe Fruit Pop
Still hot? Homemade fruit pops are the MacGyver of frozen snacks, made with basic kitchen tools in a rainbow of flavors. You're limited only by your imagination and creativity. Need a mold? Use paper cups. Lack paper cups? Experiment with ice cube trays. Try any combination of blended fruit with a kaleidoscope of ingredients that complement each other. As a bonus, the chef can make smoothies with surplus ingredients.
Ginger-Cantaloupe Fruit Pop
Time estimates
Prep time: 20 minutes
Total time: Allow up to 6 hours for freezing
Serves 6
- 8 ounces fresh cantaloupe, seeded, peeled, and diced
- 8 ounces fresh papaya, seeded, peeled and diced
- 12 ounces almond milk
- 1 ounce ginger root, peeled and sliced
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- Combine all ingredients in blender. Blend until smooth.
- Pour mixture into mold. Before freezing tap sides of mold with fingers to remove air bubbles. Add popsicle sticks.
- Run under warm water for about 15 seconds. Let stand for about 5 minutes. Remove from mold.


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Making a salad is always fun and enjoyable. Not only are salads very easy to put together—it's basically just tossing the ingredients together and drizzling with choice of dressing, and that's it—it also has plenty of room for experimentation. You can explore various ingredients and if you get the combination right, you'll be rewarded with a hearty and healthy salad that makes a nice side dish to your main course.
For this recipe, you're going to make a sweet pea salad with peanuts and bacon bits. The peanuts give the salad a bit of salty taste and lots of crunch while the bacon bits packs in a savory flavors for the ultimate umami experience.


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'Under The Mango tree' is a company that seeks to service both ends of the honey market in rural India. The company brings gourmet honey to rural Indian markets while also equipping and enabling rural farmers to keep bees and produce the honey. Of course, the company also strives to produce value for its shareholders.
The social enterprise is well on track to meeting its goal of producing India's first brand of organic, fair-trade, gourmet honey. Since 2007, Under The Mango Tree has aided 14,000 farmers; by 2015 it hopes to increase that number to 20,000. It also intends to sell 70 metric tonnes of honey per year, thus, increasing shareholder value and meeting its guiding principle of doing well by doing good.
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PG Tips No. 36:
New Graphic Novels
The House That Groaned
by Karrie Fransman
Square Peg
This unsettling ensemble piece about six eccentric tenants, each with their own body image issues, unravels inside a three-storey house in 'Rottin Road', a street name suggestive of decline and decay, like some modern House of Usher. This graphic novel's cover image shows us first the house's brick-built exterior, its windows cut out to invite us to peer like nosey neighbours through them into their yellow-illuminated interiors, fully visible only once we open the cover. Like the skin of a body peeled away to disclose its inner workings, the building's structural skeleton is revealed next, its hidden construction materials, roof joists, plumbing and gas pipes, tangled electrical wires, transform the building into a body in itself.
Karrie Fransman also anatomises the human bodies living within its walls, and their relationships to their own bodies and to those of others around them. Across six chapters, we encounter the tenants in the company of newcomer Barbara as she tries to settle in. Periodically, Fransman cuts from this present-day narrative to flashbacks of formative moments from her sextet's pasts, deepening our understanding and empathy for them. There are surprises along the way, sometimes macabre, sometimes shocking, usually saved for left-hand whole pages to catch us unawares.
Fransman's dual background as a psychology and sociology student and a creative advertiser helps underpin her skills at both characterisation and communication. She has a lively cartooning style in black and shades of blue, with such quirks as large V-shaped noses and doll-like circles on her characters' cheeks, as if they inhabit a dollshouse. She is also adept at lettering design, filling the speech balloons of the Midnight Feast Front maven's tempting phone calls with bold, luscious calligraphy that threatens to burst their seams.
By its melodramatic finales, The House That Groaned acknowledges some scars that miss their chance to heal, but also gives us a kind of happy ending for two tenants walking off into the sunset, and a quietly touching demise of another, who dies bleeding and blending back into the landscape she loved when she was younger and into the ground where her husband lies buried. The House That Groaned is steeped in physical obsessions and psychological damages, and suggests that a powerful enough trauma can re-shape someone's sense of themselves fundamentally, given time and luck, though not always irrevocably. All the better for being more penetrating psychodrama than plain kitchen-sink realism, few British debut graphic novels have been as audacious and unsettling as this.
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
by Mary Talbot & Bryan Talbot
Jonathan Cape
In this graphic memoir of paralleled autobiography and biography, James Joyce and his daughter Lucia, and Joycean scholar James S. Atherton and his daughter Mary, live contrasting yet connected lives decades apart. The title's play on words, a quote from Finnegan's Wake, becomes a delightful visual as well as verbal pun on the cover, since the words are in a typewriter font and the girl's eyes are formed by full stops, like Tintin's. Echoing Mary's father's relentless 'Tap Tap Tap Tap' of his typewriter, the captions throughout are in a smudgy typewriter font.
There is a remoteness to Mary's scholarly, chain-smoking 'feary father', not so rare in the Fifties when mothers were supposed to look after the child-rearing. Mary's Dad seems to find more fulfillment and stimulation by relating to Joyce's written characters, almost his paper family, than with his own flesh-and-blood offspring. Literature replaces living. Mary recalls a few rare special memories - "His moments of full attention were magical…". Still, her account revolves around how she annoyed or angered him, without malice, and would be rewarded by a Dennis the Menace-style smacking.
In contrast, Lucia Joyce's life might seem more liberated, as she eventually studies dance in Paris and by the age of 21 has established herself as a performer and choreographer. One press notice suggested, "When she reaches her full capacity for rhythmic dancing, James Joyce may yet be known as his daughter's father." Dancing was Lucia's life but injuries set her back. Determined to be thoroughly modern, she was not always encouraged by her mother Nora, nor at times by James Joyce himself. He remarked, "Lucia, Lucia. Be content. It's enough if a woman can write a letter and carry an umbrella gracefully.' Later, as they are about to relocate to London, he advises her, "...you needn't trouble yourself about career. As your mother knows, as long as you know how to walk into a room properly, that is all the matters."
This most modern of authors seems to have lacked a modern attitude towards his own daughter. The dashing of hopes for love and an independent existence takes its toll on Lucia who lashes out and is committed to a sanatorium. Artist Bryan Talbot represents her mental disorder in a chilling kaleidoscopic montage of Lucia behind bars and pirouetting a danse macabre in her straitjacket.
Through their wife-and-husband collaboration, rare in comics, Mary and Bryan Talbot demonstrate a playful marriage of minds. Bringing her linguistic expertise to comics, Mary writes with deft candour, adding amusing meta-textual footnotes to correct her husband's interpretative inaccuracies. Bryan orientates the reader by shifting graphic approaches: crisp, clear lines in flat limited colours for the present day; a frameless, softer-focus B-pencil line and wash greys with only small elements (pigtail bows, footballs, a warm kitchen) accented in colours for Mary's grey Fifties childhood of "big brothers, unheated bedroom, chilblains, smog, overcooked veg, no television, hand-me-downs…" ; and dip pen with tints of blue for Lucia's story, with which Mary finds parallels to her own.
The Talbots elegantly elide between these two women's adolescences and adulthoods, from their first romances (Bryan appearing as a scruffy teenage schoolboy in 1970), to aspirations and achievements, often despite their parental discouragement. Lucia Joyce's tragic fate is fortunately not echoed in Mary's experience, and yet both women's struggles comment on the present-day position of women in British society and the further advances of third-wave feminism still to be made, as well as the roles of fathers in family dynamics.
With over twenty-five years' distance since her father's death in 1985, Mary closes the book at his funeral, where to her surprise she meets an American Joycean for whom he was "...the man with the flashing eyes! So warm, so encouraging", and "...an inspiration to us all!" How much has Mary finally become a 'dotter' of her own father's "flashing" eyes? This compelling graphic memoir becomes a daughter's posthumous reappraisal of a difficult, obsessive father, and her journey towards a reconciliation, and forgiveness, of sorts.
Things To Do In A Retirement Home Trailer Park… When You're 29 and Unemployed
by Nye Wright
Myriad Editions
Sometimes, the making of autobiographical comics can provide some form of escape and catharsis from a wrenching experience. What began as a coping mechanism for unemployed illustrator and animator Aneurin Wright, struggling to look after his architect father Neil during his last six months of life, turned into a series of short, self-published booklets and eventually grew into this extraordinary, moving anthropomorphic memoir of over 300 pages.
While grounded in lived experience, Things To Do In A Retirement Trailer Park… may appear fantastical on first glance, because Wright has chosen to portray himself as a big, blue, muscular bull, perhaps referring to the Minotaur, lost in a maze of paternal health care. As for his father Neil, he becomes a rhinoceros, thick-skinned, also blue, and in some childhood scenes, a looming, frightening figure, dishing out corporal punishment. In fact, only some characters are animals - owls, bears, lizards, pigs, or in the case of Wright's roommate Miguel, a reddish-brown chihuahua; the rest, particularly the women, remain human. Dividing the story into three parts, 'Arriving', 'Settling In', and 'Moving On', Wright offers thirty-one different 'activities' ranging from pill-counting, learning about hospice and caretaking to, of course, drawing, which he does especially well, limiting his colour scheme to blues and dark oranges with tints of grey.
The chronicle moves back and forward through the years, charting the course of Neil Wright's smoking and emphysema, described by one doctor as "like a train going over a cliff." The flexibility of comics allows Wright to portray the impossible and to visualise states of mind. Mobile homes can relocate on the backs of gigantic leaping elephants. In one chapter, he can fantasise about becoming a vengeance-driven caped crusader called 'Authorial Persona', seeking revenge on the literally capitalist pigs of the tobacco corporations in "the sleepy hamlet of Carcinogenia". Wright also represents his despair as writhing, multiplying black tentacles which he must finally face.
His father's death cannot come as a surprise but he handles it through another remarkably sensitive visual metaphor. The daringly inventive symbolism and pyrotechnics never overwhelm the emotional honesty grounding this compelling addition to the arena of autobiographical, reconciliatory comics by siblings about their sometimes difficult parents. It also contributes to the burgeoning field of 'graphic medicine' by exploring in both frank and funny terms the complex impact of illness and death on the whole family.
Please God Find Me A Husband
Jonathan Cape
The search for love has not been simple for cartoonist Simone Lia, dumped by email, almost thirty-four and single again, shouting in Leicester Square "Please God, Find Me A Husband!" To her surprise she gets an answer of sorts from the INXS song playing nearby, Need You Tonight. In a reverie she joins the bearded, bespectacled Almighty in a rendition and resolves to 'go on an adventure with God'. She tells Him her plans involving Australia, 'an interesting near-death experience', 'a gorgeous man' and 'a little miracle would be lovely, please'.
Unpromisingly, her adventure starts in a community of Welsh nuns, whose quiet devotion inspires her to seek some inner peace. In one scene of eighteen almost identical panels, we follow her as she tries to listen to the silence, finally hearing the comforting words, 'I value you' - a sequence which echoes this concludes the book. Because Lia is no model Christian, she is all-the-more empathetic for hiding none of her religious failings and doubts, while also communicating her fragile moments of revelation.
She also sidesteps the offputting self-confessional and self-help genres by maintaining a lightness of touch and a refreshing unpredictability. Slipping smoothly between reality, memory, prayer and imagination, she can portray her heart as a shrunken, unshaven grouch with an eyepatch, or follow Jesus back to her childhood self, so upset by her parents' rows that she freezes like a block of concrete.
Lia gets her adventure in Australia, where she falls for handsome horse-trainer Brett. When he compliments her as a Penelope Cruz look-alike, she redraws herself as she feels, with Cruz's movie-star glamour. If only she'd heard the expression, 'If you want to make God laugh, show him your plans'. Lia conveys her quest for love, whether earthly or spiritual, with deceptive simplicity and abundant good humour, accompanied by the recurring, slightly mournful sound effect, 'weenk, weenk', of a spinster's spinning wheel, Lia's suitcase and some impressive wheelies by God on a bike.
Posted: July 8, 2012
These reviews originally appeared in The Independent and The Times Literary Supplement


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D-Series thermal imaging cameras make it possible to observe traffic clearly in total darkness and in bad weather. The D-Series outdoor dome enclosure provides precision pan/tilt control. Combined with FLIR's video detection analytics, the FLIR D-Series ITS offers an advanced incident detection and data collection system.
Fully enabled for control and operation over IP and serial networks, D-Series systems deploy a 640 x 480 pixel thermal imager along with a day/night 36× zoom color CCD camera.
FLIR's D-Series thermal multi-sensor traffic dome cameras are the perfect replacement for day/night dome cameras, providing clear 24/7 imaging capability in an attractive, discrete dome-style enclosure.
All versions are equipped with a long range daylight/low light camera. The daylight camera offers an 36x optical zoom.


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- SimplyEuphoric
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- Wedding: October 2014
Hi all!!!!! My wedding is in just a few days (yay) and i am having a kids table with lots of little activities!! The centerpeice for the kids table will be gold fish in a tank and I'm trying to come up with a fun game for the kids to play so they can win the fish and take them home! Do any bees have any fun ideas!!?? I was thinking of doing some sort of scavenger hunt like: find someone with their hair in an updo and ask them their name. grab a pink lollipop and show it to the bride Etc.
what do you all think?


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Matters of Life and Death
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Christian quotes about life after death:
"Your body is the temple of the holy spirit."
Islam quotes about life after death:
"He brings forth the livng from the dead and the dead from the living. He resurrects the earth after its death. Likewise you shall be raised to life.
Sikhism quotes about life after death:
"The dawn of the new day is the herald of sunset. Earth is not your permanent…
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1st board is an endgrain board I made for my wife for Mothers Day. Its made from Cherry and Maple and is 9 1/2×12. Next is a custom sized board I made for someone I work with. Its made from Cherry and Birch. Dimensions are 13 7/8×22 x 3/4 in thick. 3rd is one I made with some scraps I had left over, Cherry and Tiger Maple I think. One of the Cherry boards had some sapwood at the corner so I cut it to fit in the middle, it made a nice little design. All boards were finished with several coats of mineral oil. Thanks for looking.
-- Measure twice, cut once, then sand a whole bunch
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#1 posted 05-11-2012 08:38 PM
Grain orientation is good and I like the handle/hole/end shape on the third..the curved deds on the first also a nice touch…thanks for posting some well made boards…
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#2 posted 05-12-2012 02:02 AM
Thank You degoose, That is a big complement. I've seen some of the boards you have made and they are amazing.
-- Measure twice, cut once, then sand a whole bunch
#3 posted 05-14-2012 03:07 AM
Nice boards, I also like the handle with the hole, nice feature.
-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.
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Cancer Warrior
Where the Mind Goes
"I'm not a patient! … I'm a prisoner of war." These few words summarize Ruth Levine's outlook on her struggle to overcome the emotional challenges of her diagnosis of stage-four colorectal cancer. In Cancer Warrior, she chronicles her progress from panic and disbelief to acceptance that "where the mind goes, the body often follows."
After her diagnosis, in a fog of fear and anxiety, Mrs. Levine turned to friends. Though supportive, their responses deepened her depression. Ultimately, she proceeds to take charge of her own physical and psychological condition. She first turns to traditional prayer and Reiki to combat crippling anxiety, then learns all she can about her disease and works within and without the traditional medical community to wrestle control of her situation. Facing an extensive surgery, Mrs. Levine begins a strength-training regimen. As she progresses with her treatment, she moves deeper into herself, seeking an explanation for her suffering and a purpose for her life. By focusing on the connection between mind and body, Mrs. Levine comes to view her cancer "not as an affliction but as a challenge."
Cancer Warrior is not a sugary tale of positive thinking overcoming the odds. It is the realistic story of a woman who is transformed by her reaction to extraordinary circumstances. Mrs. Levine does not hide her physical and emotional setbacks from the reader. She describes in detail the ugliness of procedures and of the side effects and impact of treatments on an individual. Though many face a grave diagnosis, few remain as feisty as Mrs. Levine. In spite of post-operative pain, she begins to dress herself and walk the hospital corridors. When she tires of waiting for a hospital escort to return her to her room after a CAT scan, she "sprints" away in her wheel chair with the out-of-shape attendant in pursuit.
This is not just a story about a woman with cancer. Through this book, Ruth Levine achieves the destiny she sought during her illness—to become an example for others and to raise awareness of cancer and its treatment. More importantly, she guides her adult readers, whether or not they are cancer warriors, through an examination of the question, Why is this happening to me?
Reviewed by
Geraldine A. Richards
Disclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. The author of this book provided free copies of the book and paid a small fee to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Foreword Reviews and Clarion Reviews make no guarantee that the author will receive a positive review. Foreword Magazine, Inc. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.


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