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An Interview with Colin Moriarty, Game Developer
From writing about games to making them; we present a behind-the-scenes look at Colin's remarkable journey
Bryan Finck
Jul 1, 2020 • 10 min read
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Many of you know Colin Moriarty as a veteran games journalist and industry personality. Since mid-2018 however, he's become Colin Moriarty, Game Developer. Following a career in games journalism that has taken him from GameFAQs writer to Senior Editor at IGN, then on to founding two of the most popular Patreon-based companies in history, he's now taking on the other side of the screen.
Having just announced the purchase by his company, Colin's Last Stand, of 49% interest in games developer Lillymo Games, where he will act as Chief Creative Officer and Lead Writer, I sat down (virtually) with Colin to discuss the process of creating their latest game, Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure, as a very small development team; how he dealt with the criticism of the game, and a whole lot more.
Full disclosure: I have been a Patreon supporter of Colin's Last Stand since its inception. Though this in no way influences my writing or the questions I posed to Colin, you as the audience deserve to know in order to preserve transparency and allow you to parse what is written here in the manner you see fit. Now without further ado, on to the interview.
Colin Moriarty. Source: The Outerhaven.
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I want to start by saying congratulations on the success of Twin Breaker. Have you been surprised by the sales the game has seen and the demand for physical copies?
COLIN MORIARTY
Thank you! Yes, sales figures — especially for physical copies — was well in excess of our expectations, and we're glad to have met the demand for those copies. But we've surpassed 10,000 copies sold in total, which isn't so bad for an indie brick-breaker. We're really happy with how it's done.
In light of your purchase of a 49% stake in Lillymo Games, makers of Perils of Baking, Habroxia, and of course Twin Breaker, you obviously have confidence in the studio and its future. Looking at it a different way, what do you see in the fandom and zeitgeist of gaming today that gives you confidence in the continued success of the types of games Lillymo has made and will continue to make with you as Chief Creative Officer?
I think in Barry I have someone who works hard, who has experience, who wants to make great games, or wants to put in the time and effort, who doesn't complain. These are all wonderful qualities to have not only in a friend, but in a business partner. It remains his company, but now I have a stake in it, and I believe we're capable of doing great things together.
Obviously, our partnership is a capitalistic pursuit. Barry can make the games, I can write them. I can use my marketing muscle and access to my community to sell games. There's a lot that went into us deciding to permanently collaborate with each other, but I'm thrilled we've decided to go down this road together. I'm telling you, we're going to make great games.
As a follow-up, do you see a point in time where big-name, AAA studios will pivot to making games that are smaller and shorter, still of a quality befitting the studio, but getting them made more quickly, say every 1–2 years? Or will the trend of making these massive games, that take the studio 5–6 years to complete, continue?
I think that you've already kind of seen that with some studios. I think of Dontnod, who started by making a game like Remember Me, only to pivot to smaller, episodic adventure games, only to then pivot to making both at the same time. I feel like studios need to do what's best for them and their survival and vision. But there's no doubt that AAA is an arms race, and I personally have no interest in being there. We'd love to get a game out every year if we can. We don't want to demand too much of your time or your money. We want to give you supplemental content that acts as a bulwark towards quieter times in the release schedule.
When you were a teenager writing on GameFAQs, did you ever imagine that you would actually write and develop your own game?
No! I'm not even sure it's something that I truly considered doing until I worked at IGN, and got an inside look day-in and day-out as to how the industry operates, how game devs work, and how I might fit into the scheme as a piece of the puzzle. Now that I understand my skill-set within the realm of game dev, it's really cool to be a part of it… but I never expected it would happen for me. It's a thrill.
With your long career in games journalism, you've seen and talked to a lot of different studios and developers. What made you choose to work with Lillymo Games and develop Twin Breaker with Barry?
Barry actually approached me, and if I'm being candid, it's his industriousness, hard work, and knowledge that allowed us to put out the game. I was just along for the ride, providing story, notes on the game itself, and obviously some marketing heft. I'm thrilled to work with someone so talented and knowledgeable in his craft. He really wants to make great games, try new things, and whatnot. It's really awesome.
I would like to give our readers a view into the process of a small team developing a game. The idea for the game was yours, of course, Barry was responsible for the programming while you did the writing of the story. What was that collaboration like, and what kind of input did you have on each other's parts of the game?
Well, Barry knew I loved brick breakers and he sent me a prototype of what would become Twin Breaker. I loved it, and I wanted to be a part of it. I wondered to him: What would a game like this look like with actual story, actual context, characters, stakes. Why couldn't you have an arcade-style Arkanoid or Breakout clone, but have it be more than that? That was kind of the genesis of the project. Barry lives in Ontario, Canada, and I was in in California at the time dev began and in Virginia by the time we launched, so we are far distant. He kind of makes the game in his silo, he sends me builds, and I provide notes. I then wrote the story in my own little silo, presented it to him, we tweaked it a bunch, added collectible documents, dialogue, etc. Then we fused it together. It's probably not the best way to make a game, but it works for us.
Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure. Source: Nintendo.
You stated you were surprised at people saying the game was really hard, because it was easy for you after playing it so much. What was the testing process with this one, and how would you do it differently for your next game?
One of the primary lessons we learned making this game is that we have to let more people play our stuff before we launch moving forward. The old conventional wisdom of game development is true: You get too close to your game, and you can't see its flaws or imbalances very well. We played Twin Breaker over and over and over again, so it's funny, because my thought was: "This game is going to be easy for people."
But it ended up being really hard, even impossibly hard, for some people. That surprised us. I don't know that we would have changed anything in the end, but we would have known better if we were more open with the process. More people behind-the-scenes will play our future games before we launch, so that we can clean things up. I mean, we did have to patch the game several times for broken Trophies and the like. We can't do that again. Lesson learned.
You've obviously been writing, prolifically, for most of your career, yet you were candid on your shows that you found the writing for Twin Breaker to be difficult to push through at times. What was the difference you found between the writing you've always done and what you were doing for the game?
Well, creative writing is just so different than journalistic pursuits, non-fiction, history and politics, the things I would otherwise creatively chase after. But I, like virtually all of us, am such a lover of fictional worlds and characters and adventures, and while I've written them for myself and have half-finished novels and stuff like any of us, I've never put something like this forward for people to digest and enjoy or criticize.
It was difficult honing the game's story down to something small, because I had more I wanted to say, and it took some creativity to fit the story into the game in a way that was unintrusive. I think one of the things I'm most happy about with Twin Breaker is that the story is there if you want it, but it never gets in the way from what is a fun, raw, and replayable core game. Everything around it is additive if you want it to be there, and I think most people understood that, though I'll admit it was difficult to read some of the criticisms of the game's plot!
Following up on that, can you share a bit of what your process was like for writing Twin Breaker? Were you able to sit for long stretches of time to write, or did your busy podcasting schedule make it more fractured?
Well, I wrote the first draft in October of 2019. I actually wrote it on Long Island at my dad's house, and I even have a notebook with the sketches of the opening sequences that I wanted to see, et cetera… not that I'm a talented artist, because I'm absolutely not. But I had this vision for what the game would be, what inspirations I was drawing from, and wanted to try to set it in motion. By the time the game was wrapping up, I started to rewrite the story pretty drastically, including the opening and ending sequences.
I also wrote the collectible documents to add more texture to the world. And at what seems to be the very last minute, I added the dialogue scenes into the game between Chris and I (and the aliens). So, it was a bit scattered and disorganized, which is actually very unlike me… but this was my first experience doing this. Eventually, I had to let it go.
One of the hardest things for many creatives to deal with is the public reaction to their work. Some reviewers weren't exactly complimentary to Twin Breaker's story, how did you handle that aspect of it?
Yeah. As I said above, it was hard to take some of it, but that's me being on the other side for the first time. If anything, it was extremely instructive as to what that's like, how to handle the criticisms, how to take on board the valid points and cast off the rest, and how to utilize all of that in making our next game better. I'm disappointed that more people didn't get the intent of the story — it's an anti-war game about the danger humanity poses to itself, and how individual countries can strive not to fight, but to act peacefully — but if that didn't shine through to anyone, that's a problem with the writing, I suppose.
Your love of twin-stick shooters is well known, which I assume led in some part to making Twin Breaker. Your love of JRPGs and tactics-style RPGs is also well known, do you see yourself making games in those genres at any point?
Yes! We will absolutely be exploring those genres. We're ramping up to bigger and more detailed projects. Habroxia 2 is next up, which is a sequel to Barry's arcade space shooter. Then we'll do a sequel to Twin Breaker next year. And then in 2022, we're looking to launch a JRPG-style, 16-bit aesthetic, pixel art-driven game, since that's a genre and look Barry and I both love. I'm already writing the story for that, we're contracting artists for help and getting assets created and whatnot, and we're really looking forward to showing the world what it is, how it works, and what it's all about. As far as a tactics-style RPG, yes! We'd love to do that, too, and we actually have the idea for that. But we need to work up to that point first.
You have said since Twin Breaker was released that you plan on doing a sequel, will that be your next project? How do you think your experience with the first game will inform the development and process of creating the next game?
Well, I think with a sequel to Twin Breaker, we need to keep intact what made it work so well, make some tweaks, maybe adjust the difficulty settings or have multiple difficulty settings. Some of the stuff I was talking to Barry about was maybe adding upgrade trees, tweaking the RNG-dependence of the game a bit (which was a major complaint with the gameplay from critics, which I understand), and more. But we have a special formula with that game that I wouldn't want to mess with too much. I think people liked it more than our Metacritic score suggests. But no, our next project is Habroxia 2, and then Twin Breaker 2.
Let's end with a fun one… assume you have an unlimited budget, unlimited personnel, etc. What game do you make?
I've always wanted to make a Mega Man reboot. A third-person, gritty, open-world game that takes place somewhere between Mega Man 1–3. I've always had this vision for it in my head, and I know I could write that game, but that'll obviously never happen.
I'd also love to be involved in bringing Castlevania back to prominence, but obviously that's not going to happen either.
At Lillymo, we need to prove that we can make consistently great games, and then who knows? Maybe those opportunities will present themselves to us.
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Thanks so much, Colin for taking time from all you have going on to make this interview happen. Best of luck with all your projects, congratulations on the new house and pup, and we're all looking forward to what comes next from you and Lillymo Games!
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words.


Behind the bucolic plantation estates of Northern Virginia lies a history of scandal. The region has a rotating cast of greedy supervisors, vain senators, bullying occupiers and party bosses. The Aryan Nations once flooded the streets of Arlington. Infamous floating brothels once sailed the Potomac. Even George Washington's death at his historic estate outside the capital is shrouded in mystery. Join journalist and author Michael Lee Pope as he serves a cookie full of arsenic on a cold platter of revenge.
This first-of-its-kind reference book presents detailed information on the structure, composition and casualties of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during its entire four year history, 1861-1865. Readers will know at a glance who commanded each unit, and when. Unit strengths and casualties are given for the Army's major campaigns. Meticulously compiled from the 128 volumes of the Official Records, this reliable source provides a comprehensive record of the Army's development, from its formation to its demise.
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On the 27 June, 1862, with the American Civil War already a year old, General Robert E. Lee assumed personal command of troops engaged in driving the Federal Army of the Potomac out of Richmond troops which would henceforth be known as The Army of Northern Virginia. Philip Katcher explores in absorbing detail all aspects of the army, including infantry, cavalry, artillery, technical and medical corps, paying particular attention to equipment, weapons and uniforms. Contemporary and museum photographs, together with the author's expert text, combine to a paint a vivid and accurate picture of what life was like for the average confederate soldier.
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Many reminders of the Civil War were left behind in Northern Virginia for future generations to ponder. Also left behind were the graves of those who took part in the tumultuous events of war. Northern Virginia is a treasure house of history, perhaps more so than any other part of the country. One unique way of experiencing that history is by visiting one of the region's many historic cemeteries. Cemeteries have been called open-air museums, and every gravestone has a story to tell. There are some 1,000 cemeteries in Northern Virginia, ranging from small family plots to huge national cemeteries covering hundreds of acres. Many of these cemeteries contain the remains of Civil War veterans. This book is not meant to be an inclusive survey of every cemetery in the region, but rather it is a presentation of the Civil War history of Northern Virginia through the medium of cemeteries.


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Feb 5, 2019 @ 11:40am
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect until noon on Wednesday for much of Eastern Kansas.
"It started out in the Kansas City metro area when they issued it yesterday and then has sort of moved on off to the west gradually as we've seen more moisture come in from the south," said Meteorologist Dan Holiday. "This is a difficult forecast. It's very, very, very tough to see this on radar."
Ground observations of slick conditions are vital to get the message out to drivers.
"As long as you're below 32 degrees, being in the 20s, it does not take much at all before the roads become just a sheet of ice," said Holiday. "We saw that this morning, where precipitation wasn't even supposed to form until later this afternoon in Wichita. It started early around 6:30 a.m. Then, before you know it, they had black ice and accidents everywhere."
Bridges and overpasses are always first to freeze in these conditions.
"It looks like the freezing drizzle is going to be moving a little bit further to the southeast this evening," said Holiday. "We have some that will come back tomorrow morning, maybe a little bit, but then temperatures warm above freezing."
There will be an above freezing period Wednesday afternoon before temperatures drop back down Wednesday night. Moisture will likely be in the area until early Thursday.
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Employment Act to apply to all employees from 1 September 2022, some sections subject to increased salary threshold of RM4,000/month
By Marcus Van Geyzel on August 16, 2022
When the Employment (Amendment) Act 2022 ("the Amendment Act") was gazetted earlier this year, there was much confusion regarding what the scope of the Employment Act ("EA") would be once the Amendment Act came into force. This confusion was fuelled by the government not amending the First Schedule at the same time the Amendment Act was passed, and also repeatedly stating that the EA's scope would be expanded so that all employees regardless of salary would be entitled to the EA benefits and protections, with many industry experts sharing the view that such a blanket expansion would be impractical for many reasons.
With the gazetting of the Employment (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2022 ("First Schedule Amendment Order") on 15 August 2022, there finally is clarity on the scope of the EA from 1 September 2022.
EA salary threshold increased from RM2,000 to RM4,000
Prior to the new amendments, the vast majority of the EA only applied to employees earning up to RM2,000/month, or to specified groups of employees irrespective of wages (e.g. those engaged in or supervising manual labour, and several other groups). The existing EA set out specific provisions to enable non-EA employees to also be included in the sections of the EA regarding maternity protection (Part IX) and sexual harassment (Part XVA).
Following the First Schedule Amendment Order which will come into force on 1 September 2022, the way the EA scope is defined has been reversed. While it previously only applied to employees earning up to RM2,000/month with some specific sections applying to all employees, it will now apply to all employees irrespective of wages, with some specific sections not applying to employees earning more than RM4,000/month. Here are the details:
The EA will now apply to "any person who has entered into a contract of service".
However, the sections of the EA in relation to overtime payments and termination benefits will not apply to employees whose wages exceed RM4,000/month (the full list of excluded EA provisions is listed below).
The list of EA provisions which do not apply to domestic employees (previously known as domestic servants) has also been expanded.
This is the full list of EA provisions which will not apply to employees earning more than RM4,000/month:
Subsection 60(3): Overtime for work on rest days.
Subsection 60A(3): Overtime for work outside of normal working hours.
Subsection 60C(2A): Shift work allowance.
Subsection 60D(3): Overtime and allowance for work on public holidays.
Subsection 60D(4): Overtime for work on holidays on half working days.
Subsection 60J: Termination, lay-off, and retirement benefits.
What employers need to do
All employers will need to review their existing employment contracts and policies to ensure that they comply with the EA. It should be noted that Section 7 of the EA states that any terms or conditions which are less favourable to an employee than those provided under the EA will be void and of no effect. This includes contracts which were entered into before 1 September 2022.
(For a more comprehensive look at the changes under the Amendment Act, read my earlier article: "Malaysia Employment Act amendments: 7 key changes for employers to note")
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Kinetic inductance detector (KID) is a promising technology for astronomy with high sensitivity, microsecond timing and intrinsic multiplexing readout properties. Based on these advantages, a wide range of application has been proposed from millimeter to X-ray. With simple fabrication and frequency domain multiplexing readout, hundreds of KID pixels could be easily read out with single cable. In the last decade, KID has been developed rapidly. This talk will introduce the recent development of KIDs for frequency range from 100 GHz to 1 THz.
The first observations of gravitational waves emitted by merging binary black holes demonstrated the existence of black holes more massive than ever observed in our Galaxy. Future observations with ground-based interferometers such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo will probe the mass and spin distributions of black holes in various galactic environments and may also detect the stochastic gravitational-wave background from unresolved mergers. These measurements will provide a new tool for stellar and galaxy evolution studies.
Wojtak, Hansen and Hjorth and others have measured the long-predicted gravitational redshift of light escaping from galaxy clusters. The effect is very small, corresponding to a velocity shift of only ~10 km/s, but the result appears to be fairly robust and seemed to be in good agreement with general relativity predictions and possibly in conflict with some alternative theories. The effect was initially imagined to be a simple astronomical analogue of the famous terrestrial Pound and Rebka experiment that verified Einstein's theoretical prediction.
Martin Kilbinger (CEA) will speak with us about weak-lensing peak counts, and a new statistical method that he has been using lately called Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC). This is a likelihood-free parameter inference technique which is gaining popularity in cosmology, so it might be interesting for a wider audience than just weak lensing.
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is using four probes to investigate the dynamics of the expansion of the Universe. The DES Supernova Program (DES-SN) is observing 27 square degrees with a 6-day cadence to obtain a large sample of type Ia supernovae for cosmology. In collaboration with DES, OzDES is using the AAT to obtain redshifts and classifications for objects in the DES fields.
Eric Aubourg will discuss LSST/Euclid synergy and give an update on recent negotiations between the two. See also https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08489.
Cosmic voids can supply powerful insights into the nature of dark energy, provided that we have accurate models of their statistical properties. In this talk I will present a new method to identify and predict void density profiles, and show how we can reduce systematic errors when probing the growth rate around voids. This will be crucial for testing non-standard dark energy models with upcoming large survey campaigns.
Extension of the Standard Model (SM) by gauged SU(3) symmetry of families involves new physics at high energy scales. Even elusive from direct experimental probes, such construction can be tested in the combination of Particle physics, Astrophysics and Cosmological signatures. We point out possible Cosmological impact of the new scalars, gauge bosons and vector-like quarks and leptons, including sterile neutrinos, of the vector-like SU(3) family symmetry.


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An important village since the Middle Ages, Hartington was granted a market charter in 1203 by William De Ferres and became a major centre for a large rural population from the many isolated farms in the surrounding area.
A pretty village at the northern end of Dovedale, the village is set in some of the very best walking country.
Hartington's past wealth and importance can be seen in the impressive stone cottages and houses around the village square and many ancient routes and trackways still meet in the village, although it has been years since a market has been held.
One of the most impressive buildings in the village is Hartington Hall, now the local YHA. Dating back to 1611, the manor house still retains much of its original character and is one of the most popular youth hostels in the Peak District, with a restaurant open to the public serving locally sourced produce.
The scenery in and around this charming old limestone village is outstanding. The village is centred around the spacious square, with the much photographed duck pond as a focal point. There are some fine old buildings, including the Charles Cotton Hotel, St. Giles Church, the Market Hall and Hartington Hall. There is as a good selection of gift shops, cafes and pubs and there is a small pottery. The Hartington creamery is unfortunately now closed but the adjacent speciality cheese shop remains and indeed thrives.
Things to do; This popular village is surrounded by beautiful scenery with a network of footpaths radiating from it. To the south is romantic Beresford Dale, leading to Wovescote Dale and the famous Dovedale or venture north, in the Upper Dove valley on quieter paths to Pilsbury Castle and Crowdecote.


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Ministers appreciate working with Buhari
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, jokingly thanked Buhari for not converting him to Islam, saying he was misunderstood and criticised for associating with the president.
Amaechi narrated how he was almost chased out of Christ the King Catholic Church in 2014 for supporting the president, whom they alleged was trying to Islamise the country.
"Mr President, let me thank you for not converting me to Islam. I say that specifically because in 2014 when I walked into Christ the King Catholic Church, I was literally chased out of the church as a governor because I was accused of supporting a man whose agenda was to Islamise Nigeria.
"And in Rivers state they began to call me `Alhaji Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi'. I thank you because they have dropped the `Alhaji' and back to Mr Chibuike Amaechi,'' he said.
President Buhari at Valedictory Session of FEC (NGRPresident)
Amaechi said some persons initially thought that the president would be an autocratic leader only for him to turn out to be an "extreme democrat''.
"I was told in the course of the campaign that you were autocratic and therefore you would not be democratic.
"Most of us are not happy that you have moved from your autocratic nature to an extreme democrat that everything puts to test of the people, to the extent that the people now feel that the only way things can go on in this country is by the rule of law.
"We all know that the rule of law is the beginning and the end of this government. Talking about the financial impunity that we saw before, people were making money without having any productive capacity for that,'' he said.
On his part, the Minister of state, Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, who described his appointment as minister by the president as unique, said he learnt three things from Buhari.
"Three things I have learnt from you which have been very helpful; the first is the power of silence, especially if you don't have anything to say that is meaningful.
"The second is the power of calm(ness) when the water is turbulent and the third is the audacity of integrity.
"That integrity is what has led us to take some of the bold steps that we have taken that ordinarily Nigerians wouldn't have forgiven inclusive of the lifting of the price of petroleum products which was essential at the time.
"I thank you Mr President for these lessons and the guidance,'' he said.
The Ministers of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the opportunity given him to serve was a great one that would never be forgotten.
He commended the president for inculcating a lot of discipline into the Federal Executive Council.
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"I want to crave the indulgence of the president to most sincerely thank him for the opportunity he has given me to serve as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the past three and a half years.
"This is a great privilege for anyone to serve his or her country, especially at this level.
"Whatever little achievements one has recorded in the past three and half years wouldn't have been possible without the support, encouragement and guidance of Mr President and for that I am immensely grateful. I must say that I have learnt a lot from the president's leadership style.
"Here in this council, you have brought dignity and discipline to the council meetings,'' Mohammed said.
The Minister of Finance, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, said she had acquired a lot of knowledge, skills and experience as a member of the FEC under the leadership of Buhari.
She said members were compelled to learn from each other.
She said: "For me every encounter I had with Mr President is like going to school. Today, I'm proud to be graduating with first degree from the PMB's School of Governance, Integrity, Accountability and Due Process.
"I'm proud to say that I was in the department of EMT that was ably chaired by His Excellency, the Vice-President which we all call silently as workaholic who expects you to be there sometime till 2:00a.m. – he is never tired.''
The Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Abubakar, thanked God for seeing members of the cabinet through their tenure in spite of the trials they went through.
"The scriptures have taught us that whatever has a beginning must have an end.
"So, today I give thanks to God for seeing us through to the end of this tenure despite all the trials and tribulations, the good and the bad times and the difficult challenges.
"Till today Your Excellency I do not understand how I was picked as a Minister, I do not understand how I have fared but it has been a rare opportunity that I never took for granted.
"My prayer is that I have served well, compared to the wealth of experience, skills and exposure I have received within this tenure,'' she said.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, commended the president for guiding the team through the successes recorded, especially during the most trying periods.
"Mr President, it is indeed a privilege to have had the opportunity of serving with you.
"I must say that we thank you for selecting us in the first place, we thank the Senate for clearing us, we thank our party for abiding with us and thank you for the lessons you have taught us in these four years which have passed.
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"When we came in we quickly ran into very strong headwinds; one of them was the challenge of your ill health out of which the Almighty God delivered us and you.
"The other were two helicopter crashes of the Vice-President, again the hand of God was there to deliver him. Then we lost a colleague of ours, Ocholi, his wife and son in an accident, it was very traumatic.
"Later we entered recession but your strong leadership saw us through all of these trials and then we entered an election, a very strongly fought election, but your character and your leadership saw us through.
"We thank you Mr President for the confidence you gave to us; for giving us responsibility without breathing down our throats on a daily basis and allowing us as ministers to use our initiatives and capacities to work.
"Where we failed, we apologise and where we succeeded, we hereby thank you for your leadership and support,'' Ogbeh said.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, thanked the president for giving him the freedom to run the ministry without any interference.
"As a journalist who has been very critical of government and perhaps, a nobody, I would never have become a minister but for this gesture of Mr President
"I will like to thank Mr President for giving me freedom. Since I became a minister the president has never asked me to give anybody a contract or directed me to employ anybody and I think this is very rare.
"In addition, I will like to thank the Vice-President for his humility. Like I have said on other occasions, Nigeria has never been lucky to have a combination like this – The president who is famous for integrity and the Vice-President who is a true man of God.
"Sir, both of you have the greatest burden on your shoulders to ensure that this alliance that produced you prevails and is maintained.
"And sir, it will not prevail until something is done because immediately after you what will happen to Nigeria if you are not succeeded by your own type of integrity, then we are going back to something worse than the one you succeeded.
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"This is very important, I hope this occupies your mind, the next cabinet and perhaps the party,'' Adamu said.
He stressed the need for the Federal Government to provide adequate budgetary allocations to the Ministry of Education, saying that the ministry should not get less than one trillion naira annually.
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This is a port of the [AWS iOS SDK for PHP](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php) to Objective-C. It is designed for increased coverage of the official AWS SDK for iOS (eventually), and for the improved usage of queuing and blocks for handling responses.

*Note: This is pre-release software and as such is subject to changes that may break backwards compatibility. Particularly, not all enums have been set for EC2-related objects yet.*

## Advantages

The Unsigned Apps Edition has the following advantages over the official AWS SDK for iOS:

* Fully asynchronous out of the box.
* Uses completion blocks for responses and errors instead of the delegate pattern.
* **Strongly Typed** Enums are used where appropriate instead of strings.
* The entire model is made out of a [Mantle](https://github.com/MantleFramework/Mantle/) derivative, and so is NSCopying and NSCoding compatible and can be easily serialised to/from JSON.
* Uses an adaption of [KissXML](https://github.com/robbiehanson/KissXML) and [MantleXMLAdapter](https://github.com/mbaranowski/MantleXMLAdapter) and so can be easily serialised to/from XML.
* Built around NSOperationQueue and NSURLSessions so you can use familiar tools to control your communication with AWS.

## AWS Coverage

At the moment, we support the following AWS Services:

* AutoScaling
* CloudWatch
* EC2
* ELB
* IAM (not supported by the official SDK)
* SNS
* SQS
* VPC (not supported by the official SDK)

Our target is the to support the full offering, or at least as much as the [AWS SDK for PHP]() supports, as all code is generated from their service definitions.

## Documentation

Documentation is sparse at the moment, but will be fleshed out in time (as in, once we can figure out an easy way of automating it). In the meantime you can use the official docs for the AWS APIs.

For example, documentation for the usage of `UAEC2DescribeInstances` can be found at the corresponding EC2 API page for [DescribeInstances](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/ApiReference-query-DescribeInstances.html). Use the symbol browser or your autocomplete for some slight naming differences.

## Installation

*This SDK presently supports iOS 7.0 and above only!*

You can either either install using [CocoaPods](http://cocoapods.org) (search for UAAWSSDK), or by cloning this repo into your own work.

It is recommended that you only `#import` the service that you're looking to use, and not the whole SDK.

```objc
#import <UAAWSSDK/UAAutoScaling.h>
#import <UAAWSSDK/UACloudWatch.h>
#import <UAAWSSDK/UAEC2.h>
#import <UAAWSSDK/UAELB.h>
#import <UAAWSSDK/UAIAM.h>
#import <UAAWSSDK/UASNS.h>
```

you can of course import the lot if you like:

```objc
#import <UAAWSSDK/UAAWSSDK.h>
```

When installing via CocoaPods, you can use subspecs to limit the installation to specific services:

```ruby
platform :ios, '7.0'

pod 'UAAWSSDK/EC2'
pod 'UAAWSSDK/CW'
```

## Authentication and Region selection

As always, you will need to know your Access Key and Secret Key to use this SDK. Likewise you need to select a region to target your requests to (otherwise we default to US-East-1). You can either supply them on a per-request basis:

```objc
UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest *request = [[UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest alloc] init];
[request setUA_Credentials:[[UAAWSCredentials alloc] initWithAccessKey:@"xxx" secretKey:@"yyy"]];
[request setUA_Region:UAAWSRegionAPSoutheast2];
```

or, create a small authentication delegate and provide that to the UAAWSOperationQueue:

in *MyAuthProvider.h*:
```objc
#import <UAAWSSDK/UAAWSOperationAuthenticationDelegate.h>

@interface MyAuthProvider : NSObject <UAAWSOperationAuthenticationDelegate>

@end
```

and *MyAuthProvider.m*:
```objc
#import "MyAuthProvider.h"

@implementation MyAuthProvider

- (UAAWSCredentials *)credentialsForRequest:(UAAWSRequest *)request
{
    return [[UAAWSCredentials alloc] initWithAccessKey:@"xxx" secretKey:@"yyy"];
}

- (UAAWSRegion)regionForRequest:(UAAWSRequest *)request
{
    return UAAWSRegionAPNortheast1;
}

@end
```

then in your code:

```objc
[[UAAWSOperationQueue sharedInstance] setDelegate:[[MyAuthProvider alloc] init]];
```

The `UAAWSOperationQueue` will strongly retain its Authentication Delegate, so you don't need to.

## Executing Requests

To execute your requests against the AWS APIs, you need only create, and then `invoke` them:

```objc
UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest *request = [[UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest alloc] init];
[request invoke];
```

Of course, that will discard the output and you won't know what happened. The preferred way is to invoke it with an owner and a completion block:

```objc
UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest *request = [[UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest alloc] init];
[request invokeWithOwner:self completionBlock:^(UAEC2DescribeInstancesResponse *response, NSError *error) {
    if (error != nil) {
        // your error handling here.
    }
    else {
        // success code.
    }
}];
```

Everything is strongly typed, so the properties on the response object will be exactly what the API returns. See the note on ownership below for info on the owner argument.

Of course, there's one final way to execute requests if you want all of the control. If you inspect each request object, such as `UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest`, the inheritance looks something like: `UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest` > `UAEC2Request` > `UAAWSRequest` > `NSOperation`.

All requests will extend `NSOperation`, so you can add them directly to the singleton queue that this SDK provides:

```objc
[[UAAWSOperationQueue sharedInstance] addRequest:request];
```

Or to your own `NSOperationQueue`, if you're so inclined. *Note: while this is theoretically possible, it is mostly untested. The `UAAWSRequest` class does depend on the `UAAWSOperationQueue` instance for some functionality.*

## Request Ownership

Some requests against the AWS APIs can be long lived, or take time to execute. We recommend for each request that an owner object be specified via `-setUA_Owner:` or `-invokeWithOwner:completionBlock:`.

A weak reference to the request's owner will be maintained and allow you to cancel operations that are no longer needed:

```objc
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];

    [[UAAWSOperationQueue sharedInstance] cancelAllRequestsForOwner:self];
}
```

This is particularly effective at cancelling active requests when your View Controller is no longer going to be around to use them, or in `-dealloc` of many other objects.

## Waiters

One of the features that is great in the AWS SDK for PHP is the concept of waiters. In this SDK, a waiter is a request that will wait for a specific condition to occur before informing your completion block.

Not all changes you make in AWS via the APIs occur instantly. For instance, it takes time to stop an EC2 Instance, or to create an EC2 Image of an instance. In this SDK, you can use  `-waitWithOwner:untilValueAtKeyPath:isInArray:completionBlock:` to let the SDK poll the API for you until the conditions are met. *Note: waiting requests will not block others requests, a copy is made and given to a NSTimer on the main thread to be inserted back into the queue at the configured interval.*

For example, in respond to a `UAEC2StartInstancesRequest` request, you could use a `UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest` to wait until that instance has reached a *Running* state:
```objc
UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest *request = [[UAEC2DescribeInstancesRequest alloc] init];
[request addInstanceID:@"i-12345678"];
[request waitWithOwner:self
   untilValueAtKeyPath:@"reservations.@unionOfObjects.instances.@unionOfObjects.state"
             isInArray:@[ @(UAEC2InstanceStateRunning) ]
       completionBlock:^(UAEC2DescribeInstancesResponse *response, NSError *error)
{
    if (error != nil) {
        // do something with the error
    }
    else {
        // do something with the instance
    }
}];
```

The request will apply the specified keyPath to the `UAEC2DescribeInstancesResponse` object and check the result against the supplied NSArray. If any of the values returned by the keyPath is found in the NSArray, or if an error occurs at any time, it will call the completionBlock with the current response.

You can also set the `UA_ShouldContinueWaiting` property on the request directly and provide your own block for determining if a request should wait or not (return YES to continue waiting, NO to finish up).

## Request Properties

There are many properties on `UAAWSRequest` that you can set in your requests:

### UA_Owner

The object that has "ownership" over this request. It can also be set via `-invokeWithOwner:completionBlock:` or `-waitWithOwner:untilValueAtKeyPath:isInArray:completionBlock:`. A weak reference to the object is maintained.

You can use the owners to cancel specific batches of requests with `[[UAAWSOperationQueue sharedInstance] cancelAllRequestsWithOwner:obj]`. See the section on **Request Ownership** for more.

### UA_Credentials

The credentials used for signing the request to the AWS APIs. Set this to an instance of `UAAWSCredentials` to set credentials for a specific request.

If the `UA_Credentials` is nil, the `UAAWSOperationQueue` will ask its `delegate` for the credentials when it attempts to connect. The delegate should implement `<UAAWSOperationAuthenticationDelegate>`.

### UA_Region

The region you want to connect to for this request. Set this to one of the UAAWSRegion enum values.

If `UA_Region` is set to `UAAWSRegionUnknown`, the `UAAWSOperationsQueue` will ask its `delegate` for the region when it attempts to connect. The delegate should implement `<UAAWSOperationAuthenticationDelegate>`.

*Note: some services (such as IAM) operate globally and not in specific regions. For these the SDK will ignore the UA_Region value and default back to `UAAWSRegionUSEast1` for connection.*

### UA_RequestCompletionBlock

The block to be executed when the operation completes. This is typically set via `-invokeWithOwner:completionBlock:` or `-waitWithOwner:untilValueAtKeyPath:isInArray:completionBlock:` but you may want to set it explicitly on the request if your code will add the request to an NSOperationQueue directly.

The `UAAWSOperationCompletionBlock` (and its kin) has two arguments: a `UAAWSResponse` subclass (`response), and an NSError (`error`). In the event of a successful request, the `response` argument will be non-nil, and the `error` nil. If an error occurred `response` will be nil and the `error` non-nil.

The block should not return anything.

### UA_ShouldContinueWaiting

The block to be used to determine if this request should continue to wait or not.

The `UAAWSOperationQueueShouldContinueWaitingBlock` (and its kin) has two arguments: a `UAAWSResponse` subclass (`response`), and an NSError (`error`). In the event of a successful request, the `response` argument will be non-nil, and the `error` nil. If an error occurred `response` will be nil and the `error` non-nil.

The block should return `YES` if the request is to continue waiting, `NO` otherwise.

## Support

The AWS SDK for iOS (Unsigned Apps Edition) is provided open source with no warranty and no guarantee of support. Best efforts are made to address [issues](https://github.com/unsignedapps/ua-aws-sdk-ios/issues) raised on GitHub.

You can email the author at bok@<github username>.com. Where <github username> should hopefully be apparent from the URL to this repo (https://github.com/unsignedapps/ua-aws-sdk-ios).

## Contributions

All contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated. It is worth noting that 99% of the SDK is code generated, and that generator is not yet part of this repository. If you find something that should be fixed it may be easier for me to fix the generator and re-generate, at least until the generator is published on GitHub also.

## License

The AWS SDK for iOS is released under a MIT License. See the `LICENSE` file for more.

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Q: magento event not working I'm trying to obvserve the adminhtml_block_salesrule_actions_prepareform event thats dispatched in the app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Promo/Quote/Edit/Tab/Actions.php file in the _prepareForm() method.  But I keep getting an error message and I'm not sure why?

Warning: Mage_Core_Model_App::dispatchEvent()
  [mage-core-model-app.dispatchevent]: Node no longer exists  in
  /var/www/server/www.site.com/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php on
  line 1249

This is the part of my config.xml in my module - I'm not doing something wrong am I?
  <adminhtml>
        <events>
            <adminhtml_block_salesrule_actions_prepareform>
                <shoppingcartrules>
                    <class>shoppingcartrules/observer</class>
                    <method>prepareForm</method>
                </shoppingcartrules>
            </adminhtml_block_salesrule_actions_prepareform>
        </events>
    </adminhtml>

A: I figured it out...was missing the  node in my XML.
<adminhtml>
    <events>
        <adminhtml_block_salesrule_actions_prepareform>
            <observers>
                <shoppingcartrules>
                    <class>shoppingcartrules/observer</class>
                    <method>prepareForm</method>
                </shoppingcartrules>
            </observers>
        </adminhtml_block_salesrule_actions_prepareform>
    </events>
</adminhtml>

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Andy Breckman – amerykański scenarzysta, twórca Detektywa Monka i innych filmów i seriali telewizyjnych.

Dwukrotnie żonaty. Ma 5 dzieci. Zdobył jedną nagrodę Emmy Daytime.

Filmografia

Filmy

Scenariusz
 1988:
  Przeprowadzka (Moving)
  Artur 2 (Arthur 2: On the Rocks)
 1991:
  True Identity
 1994:
  Narzeczona dla geniusza (I.Q.)
 1996:
  Sierżant Bilko (Sgt. Bilko)
 1998:
  Tam i z powrotem (Tourist Trap)
 2001:
   Wyścig szczurów (Rat Race)
 2002:
  Detektyw Monk (pilot) (Monk)

Wystąpienie
 2001:
  Making 'Rat Race'

Seriale

Scenariusz
 2000-2001:
  TV Funhouse
 2002-2009
  Detektyw Monk (Monk)

Produkcja
 2002-2009
  Detektyw Monk (Monk) (producent wykonawczy)

Rodzina
 Żony:
 Mary – ?-2003 (rozwód)
 Beth Landau – 2004-nadal
 Dzieci:
 z Mary – Joshua, Rachel, Julie
 z Beth Landau – Molly, Evan

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańscy scenarzyści filmowi
Urodzeni w 1955
Ludzie urodzeni w Filadelfii

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ESPN.com had its correspondents make "bold predictions" some of which are below. You can read all of them here.
Before anyone accuses me of being fixated on Aaron Rodgers and the woes of the Packers, can I present in my defense that the article around which this post is based was sent to be my a colleague who is a Packers fan. If even he can see the dysfunction across the border (and worry about it), who am I to disagree?
So let me point you to a piece in Forbes, written by contributor Rob Reischel, a self-described longtime Packers writer for various outlets. Reischel takes an interesting piece-by-piece look at a lot of ex-Packers being critical this offseason of their former teammate and current Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers — and specifically about how the relationship between Rodgers and new 39-year-old head coach Matt LaFleur will play out.
As someone on record as both poking fun at Rodgers height sensitivity and also proclaiming he's the greatest quarterback I've ever seen, I am here for this.
First, there was former tight end Jermichael Finley: "He's coachable to a point," Finley said of Rodgers. "Once you try to overcoach him, that's when he's going to do his own thing. With (former coach Mike) McCarthy, McCarthy used to call a play and Aaron would look at him and (then) it's a whole different play.
All the players except Janis have been off the team for several years, so maybe they aren't experts on the Rodgers of 2019. But they certainly paint the picture of a guy who has a large ego and doesn't accept a share of the blame easily.
How he and an offensive-minded coach four years older than him can get along and work together figures to define the rest of Rodgers' career.
The Packers are the only NFL team that has not played or is not scheduled to play a game in London and one prominent player on the team would like that to change.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers said in an interview with NFL UK that he has made his feelings known about wanting to play a game in the United Kingdom, but acknowledged the logistics that make it difficult. The Packers are not willing to give up a home game to play overseas and other teams don't want to lose a home date against a team that's historically been a popular attraction.
"Nobody wants to give up a home game with the Packers because they know it's going to be a full house … We're not going to give up a home game, because we're sold out for the next 30 years," Rodgers said.
Rodgers said he hopes the league will "intervene" and force the situation. In 2020, the Packers are set to play road games against three teams — the Texans, Buccaneers and Bears — who will play in London next season. If none of them get another trip and the Packers still aren't giving up a home date, the Vikings, Lions, Saints, Colts and a NFC West opponent to be determined would be the other options for getting Green Bay over the Atlantic.
Cam Newton's shoulder issue appeared obvious to anyone who watched the Carolina Panthers quarterback skip passes short of receivers, toss low-flying worm-burners and struggle-bus his way through the latter portion of his season before finally being shut down for good with two weeks left in the campaign.
If the TV-watching world noticed Newton's limitations, clearly defenses took advantage as well.
In the final six games of Newton's season, all losses, the quarterback attempted just 16 passes of 20-plus air-yards, completing four and throwing three interceptions, per Next Gen Stats. Seven of those passes went 25-plus yards, zero were completed and one was intercepted.
When it comes to the kicker position, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been forced to think outside the box (see: Roberto Aguayo). Now, they're looking outside the country.
Tampa Bay announced Thursday that it signed Phillip Andersen, a Danish kicker who most recently booted for the Berlin Rebels of the German Football League.
The Bucs signed Andersen after seeing him kick at the Husted Kicking Pro Camp in Mobile, Ala. during the Senior Bowl and then bringing him to Tampa Bay for a personal workout.
Andersen is currently the only kicker on the Bucs' roster for 2019, as Cairo Santos' contract has expired. Matt Bryant, formerly of the Bucs and most recently cut by the Atlanta Falcons, is expected to be a veteran target.
For now though, skål, Andersen, for your entry into the National Football League.
And just like that, Robert Alford has found a new home.
The Arizona Cardinals have signed the cornerback to a three-year contract, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per sources informed of the deal. The team later made the news official.
Alford's deal is worth $22.5 million in base salary and up to $24 million, a source told Rapoport, and the cornerback will reap $13.5 million in guaranteed money.
The veteran was just released by the Falcons on Tuesday after spending six seasons in Atlanta. Alford was due $8.5 million in 2019 before the Falcons cut him loose.
The 30-year-old spent his entire career with the Falcons, appearing in 88 games in six seasons, recording 303 tackles, 85 passes defended, 10 interceptions, one forced fumble and two defensive touchdowns. Alford turned a brilliant 2016 season, when he snagged two picks including a pick-six en route to a Super Bowl berth, into a four-year contract extension.
Now after a substandard 2018 and his ensuing release, the corner will have to rebound and rise like a phoenix in Arizona.
We note that the Lions and Falcons have allowed QB MATTHEW STAFFORD and QB MATT RYAN to play on a church co-ed basketball team in the Atlanta area in the recent past.
After the Chiefs' season came to an end in the AFC Championship Game, Dee Ford said he has no problem with the team using the franchise tag to keep him in the fold in 2019.
The Chiefs have not made any announcements about their plans on that front, but it certainly sounds like there are no plans to let Ford get away this offseason. The defensive look is expected to change with Steve Spagnuolo taking over as defensive coordinator for Bob Sutton, but pass rushers are always at a premium and General Manager Brett Veach didn't sound like he's preparing to say goodbye to Ford.
"We're excited about bringing him back," Veach said, via Matt Derrick of Chiefs Digest.
Veach was not quite as emphatic when it came to Justin Houston's future in Kansas City. Houston is set to make $15.25 million with a cap hit of $21.1 million with $14 million coming back to the team if they move on without him. They could also look into other alterations to the contract and Veach said there will "be a time and place" to go through the various scenarios involving Houston.
On a loop Tuesday, new Bengals head coach Zac Taylor preached his sermon of culture, character and accountability.
Two days later, Taylor officially announced the first hires to his staff. Among them were former Texas A&M offensive line coach Jim Turner, who comes with a checkered past of being fired for being aware of and participating in a bullying scandal with the Miami Dolphins as well as suspended for his role in using sexually suggestive language in a football clinic for women two years ago at Texas A&M.
The potential for hypocrisy is front and center.
Taylor didn't back down. In fact, he offered the exact opposite in an emphatic defense of the character of one of his most prominent early hires, one he said was No. 1 on his list for the offensive line job.
Turner is a 54-year-old ex-Marine who worked with Taylor nearly every step of his career. From Texas A&M to Miami to the University of Cincinnati, Turner spent every year he coached from 2008-16 on a staff with Taylor at some point.
Taylor knows and trusts Turner, that much was clear. He's already staking his early reputation on it.
Yet, Turner's background certainly conflicts with the mission statement set forth on Tuesday.
Turner was fired as the offensive line coach in Miami during the bullying scandal involving Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito. In a Ted Wells report on the incident, investigators concluded not only was Turner aware of the harassment of Martin and others, but participated in it.
"… certainly aware of some of the insulting comments directed to Martin by Incognito … never sought to stop the behavior," the report stated.
Turner also allegedly knew players engaged in homophobic taunting of an unnamed Dolphins player. It was alleged he even joined in the abuse.
Turner later sued Wells and his law firm for defamation, but the suit was dismissed last year.
Notably, the Bengals' current Walter Payton Man of the Year, Carlos Dunlap, prominently runs an anti-bullying campaign that's been among the most successful off-field ventures on the current club with billboards displayed around town.
Taylor backed up his opinion in hiring Turner to coach running backs at UC upon taking the offensive coordinator job in 2016. He was the first to hire Turner following his hiatus from coaching post-Miami.
After a couple weeks, Turner left when offered the position of offensive line coach at Texas A&M.
At College Station, Turner ended up in the middle of another incident. This time it came during a football clinic for women and was suspended two weeks without pay for using sexually suggestive powerpoint slides in a presentation. Those slides went viral.
Turner and another coach involved also issued a joint apology as part of the process.
Sumlin kept Turner on staff and he was one of two assistants new A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher retained in 2018 upon taking over the program.
Upon confirming Turner was leaving the program for the Bengals job on Wednesday, Fisher offered one final opinion on the way out.
As for his work on the field, he runs a system that fits the scheme Taylor looks to employ and last year Trayveon Williams broke the program's single-season rushing record.
Those aren't the records that matter to the message Taylor preached this week, though. Despite Turner's history, there is no denying where the new head coach stands on the matter as he draws his first controversial line in the sand.
Le'Veon Bell calls Houston home in 2019.
Arthur Smith on Tuesday spoke to the media for the first time as the Tennessee Titans' offensive coordinator. He made it clear he plans to maintain the continuity Tennessee established late in the 2018 season on offense and keep developing the unit's physical mindset.
When it comes to running the ball, Smith has seen his share of gap schemes, power running schemes and, most recently, zone schemes. Maintaining a lot of the zone concepts from last season's offense will be one key to maintaining that desired continuity.
Expect to see a physical attack from Smith that will strive for balance, but rely heavily on running back Derrick Henry. The 6-foot-3, 247-pound bruiser gained 1,059 yards on the ground — his first 1,000-yard rushing season — with more than half his yards coming in the final four weeks.
"Derrick will be a big part of the offense," Smith said. "He has a rare skill set. Derrick's a home-run hitter. We are taking another step hopefully with him. What he did over the last five weeks will open up a lot of things.
Smith wouldn't share what he envisions the run-pass ratio to be, but he promised to run the football consistently. That's a good sign for the running backs, considering last season the offense got away from the run game because the Titans allowed opposing defenses to dictate the flow of the game.
This fall, the offense plans to be the unit doing the dictating, but that doesn't mean Smith will recklessly call run plays against defensive fronts loaded up to stop the ground attack.
Henry's emergence helped other parts of the offense to open up, particularly the play-action passing game. Establishing the run will, in turn, help quarterback Marcus Mariota and the passing game. Mariota is heading into his fifth NFL season and will be playing for his fifth offensive coordinator. However, a lot of the same principles from 2018 will be carried over under Smith.
Before the offseason gets going in earnest, let's pause a minute and look back at some quarterbacks who either far exceeded or fell drastically short of expectations in 2018. Below are three quarterbacks whose stock is pointing up after strong seasons — and three quarterbacks whose stock is pointing down after disappointing campaigns.
Quarterbacks are supposed to struggle in their first full seasons as NFL starters. Mahomes, to put it simply, did not. He threw 14 touchdown passes before finally tossing his first interception of the year in Week 5. He blazed through the season at a blistering pace, leading an offense that scored at least 26 points in every game and finishing with the third 50-touchdown campaign in NFL history, joining Peyton Manning (55 in 2013) and Tom Brady (50 in 2007). Unlike Philip Rivers and Jared Goff, he did not lay an egg against the eventual-champion Patriots in the playoffs. The only thing New England — or anyone — could do to stop him was keep him off the field by controlling the ball against Kansas City's 31st-ranked defense.
Mahomes will only get better from here. As well as he played in 2018, don't forget that he's still only 23 years old and actually does not have a lot of experience, given that he sat on the bench for most of 2017 and only started two full years at Texas Tech. History tells us that the 30-start mark is when NFL quarterbacks really start to get a feel for the game and know what they're doing. So, yes — it's likely that we haven't even seen yet just how good Mahomes can be.
Nobody was sure what to expect from Luck after he missed all of 2017 with shoulder issues. Well, his 2018 campaign couldn't have gone any better. Luck flourished in the offensive system installed by new coach Frank Reich, setting career highs in completions (430), attempts (639), completion percentage (67.3) and passer rating (98.7), while his yardage (4,593) and passing-touchdown totals (39) were the second-highest of his career. He finished in the top five in the NFL in touchdowns, completions and passing yards. Luck also threw three or more TD passes in eight consecutive games (Week 4 through Week 12), which was the longest streak in the league this season and tied for the second longest in history. He rallied Indy to become the second team since the merger to win a playoff game after starting 1-5.
And he did all of that without much in the way of proven weapons by his side, beyond T.Y. Hilton. Just wait until the Colts upgrade his supporting cast. Between Reich and the vastly improved offensive line, I think we'll see Luck continue to live up to his pedigree as a former No. 1 overall pick in the years to come.
Expectations are automatically sky high for any No. 1 overall draft pick, let alone a quarterback heading to the success-starved Browns. Mayfield couldn't have handled the pressure any better. He came off the bench in Week 3, snapped Cleveland's 19-game winless streak and, really, never looked back, setting a new record for touchdown passes by a rookie (27) despite only starting 13 games. Mayfield became the first Browns quarterback since Frank Ryan in 1966 to throw at least one touchdown pass in 13 consecutive starts in the same season, and he kept the Browns in the playoff discussion deep into December. It's no accident that Mayfield started playing especially well when Freddie Kitchens became the team's offensive coordinator in October; in eight games under Kitchens, Mayfield compiled a passer rating of 106.2, a 68.4 percent completion rate, a 19:8 TD-to-INT ratio and a 5-3 record. I've known Kitchens — who has since been promoted to head coach — a long time, and I think he has the right mix of scheme, teaching ability and personality to be helpful to Mayfield going forward.
Mayfield has IT. He showed it at Oklahoma and he showed it in Cleveland, bringing swagger to an organization in desperate need of some. He'll have to contend with opponents in 2019 who now have 13 games of pro tape on him, but I think he'll continue to succeed and prove he belongs in the upper echelon of quarterbacks long term.
Cousins was not horrible in 2018. He just wasn't able to live up to the (perhaps unfair) expectations that followed him into the season. He was handed $84 million guaranteed last March to push a Super Bowl contender over the hump. Instead, Minnesota (8-7-1) barely finished with a winning record. He was right around his career averages as a full-season starter entering the season (4,392 yards, 27 touchdowns and 12 picks per year, with a passer rating of 97.5), and his completion percentage (70.1) was actually the second-best in the NFL. But the fact remains the Vikings went 1-6 against playoff teams and ended up watching the postseason from home one year after reaching the NFC title game.
I don't think the Vikings' offensive scheme in 2018 helped Cousins, with the tragic passing of O-line coach Tony Sparano in July further hindering the offense's performance. I think the Vikings are hoping new offensive adviser Gary Kubiak, working with coordinator Kevin Stefanski (who took over as OC after John DeFilippo was fired last season), can help Cousins by introducing elements of the West Coast offense, returning Cousins to a system that resembles the one he operated in under Mike Shanahan and Jay Gruden in Washington.
The Jaguars took a leap of faith with Bortles following a solid 2017 season, signing him to a three-year, $54 million deal last offseason and electing not to draft a high-profile quarterback prospect. That decision failed to pay dividends. Whatever growth Bortles experienced in 2017 came to an abrupt halt in '18. A 3-1 start proved to be a mirage, with Bortles compiling a TD-to-INT ratio of 6:8 the rest of the way. His play was bad enough that he ended up being benched for Cody Kessler, and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett lost his job.
I was kind of surprised when Jacksonville drafted Bortles third overall in 2014; I expected him to be a first-rounder, but I did not think he'd go nearly that high. Coming out of 2017, the Jags looked to be in fairly good shape, with a dominant defense driving them to the AFC title game. Now, they're looking to find a new answer under center before the window of opportunity that opened two years ago becomes completely closed for this group of players. As for Bortles, he'll almost certainly be elsewhere in 2019, likely as a backup.
Ten dazzling years as a starter in Green Bay helped Rodgers earn a four-year extension worth $134 million in August. And then, for a variety of reasons, he suffered one of the worst full-season performances of his NFL tenure, posting a sub-100 passer rating while making 15-plus starts for just the third time in his career. The difference in performance is best encapsulated in his touchdown rate. In his first 10 seasons as the Packers' starter, Rodgers threw 2.20 touchdown passes per game. In 2018, that number plummeted to 1.56 per game. He only threw two picks this season, but his completion rate of 62.3 percent suggests he was throwing the ball away far more quickly than usual to avoid sacks.
Of course, Rodgers also dealt with a lingering knee injury, as well as a less-experienced receiver group, with 37 percent of his targets going to players who were 24 or younger. And after working with coach Mike McCarthy for the entirety of his time as Green Bay's starter, Rodgers probably needed a fresh voice in his ear. I think new coach Matt LaFleur will play a key role in getting Rodgers back on track in 2019. Can the blossoming group of young receiver talent also help the two-time MVP return to form?


It's usual to belittle symptomatic relief.
All forms of healing, whether alternative or allopathic, put down symptomatic relief. Symptomatic relief is supposedly, by Western medical standards, what you get in the drugstore, not what you get from your doctor. And many alternative practitioners accuse doctors of providing only symptomatic relief.
But all these healing practitioners are also aware that when you see a symptom fade, you may well be witnessing the disappearance of a disease from the body.
This is why we teach you to address and remove symptoms directly. When you feel that certainty that you've killed a symptom, and then you watch it disappear in an hour or a day, you can safely congratulate yourself. You struck a real blow against your illness.
Most illnesses Harmonic masters address are not physical.
Most symptoms Harmonic masters eradicate are in the life of the Harmonic master and in her environment. Your symptom may be not enough money, too little time, blocked love, miscommunication, passivity. All these symptoms, and others, indicate non-physical diseases that would surely have turned physical at some point.
When a symptom like that turns physical, it will show up as anything from a backache to cancer.
A friend of mine came down with one of those diseases that doctors can't diagnose. First they said she had lupus, then AIDS (but she wasn't HIV positive), then Epstein-Barr. Then they admitted they hadn't a clue.
How did she defeat this disease?
By removing symptoms, one by one.
But that only happened after she rallied.
It only happened when she realized she was on her own with the disease. And then, one step at a time, day by day, hour by hour, she began her walk out of hell.
And what did her doctor say after the mysterious disease disappeared without a trace? He literally said this. He said "Oh, you must have just been run down."
After all those medical experts told her all those things, the only explanation this expert could come up with was one that discounted everything he and his colleagues had told her before. Doctors' destructive skepticism often turns back and bites them.
When you're not feeling great, when you've got a symptom, yes, it pays to find the cause. In the 10 applications of Skill 1 you've been given a myriad of places to look for those causes. Now I've got a little secret to tell you.
The cause you find may not be the cause, it may be just another symptom you're removing.
So if you're pressed for time, you might do well not to bother with the cause right then and there. Go ahead and attack the symptom directly. You can get rid of it in minutes and feel great.
And if it doesn't come back any time soon, you'll know you had a deep removal.
Removing a symptom isn't just a shorthand way of feeling better. It's a way of defeating the disease at its very core.


At first, it's really a interesting bug. I can't help writing it down.
I write a perl script which should be running quietly and infinitely on the background. I don't like to do writing the run-time log into a file directly in the script. So, I decide to just redirect the stdout to a file when I execute the script.
Now, here comes the werid bug. I start up the script. It works well. Everything is well except there is no log in the redirected stdout file. But after I disable the infinite loop, let it just run one time and exit. Suprisedly, the run-time logs appear in the redirected stdout file.
Fortunately, I realize that the problem of perl's output functionality at last. With default behavior, Perl saves the output strings in a buffer instead of do phsical write to screen everytime. If I kill the script when it's running, then Perl doesn't have the opportunity to write the buffered strings to the screen. The solution is simply adding the code '$| = 1;' to the begining of the script . It tells Perl using non-buffered I/O to the screen.
Furthermore, in the case of using the non-buffered I/O to other device. We can refer to the example below.


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Tag: Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – Cheek To Cheek
Pop culture fans live for unlikely pairings and collaborations and the pairing of Lady Gaga, one of the top pop stars to emerge in the 21st century with Tony Bennett, one of the most successful crooners of the 20th century, is among the most unlikely yet. The two got together for a recording on Tony's 2012 album Duets II felt like a natural match for the both of them. So naturally, they're singing cheek to cheek.
Cheek To Cheek consists of traditional pop and jazz standards from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, including a few from the Great American Songbook. Tony is once again in his element with a top notch performance that doesn't at all suggest his abilities have waned after seven decades. It's even more impressive when you consider that he's 88 and still going strong. Plus, he just broke his own record for being the oldest artist to have a #1 album.
After the Muppets were reintroduced to young generations in 2011's The Muppets, they faced the challenge of following it up with something just as entertaining, heartwarming and funny.
The challenge is met with in the film as the Muppets are about to set out on a comeback world tour to capitalize on their resurgence with new tour manager Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais) – pronounced "bædgee", it's french.
Badguy insists they start their tour in Berlin and, as we quickly discover, he has ulterior motives that involve an uncanny lookalike to our beloved Kermit: Constantine.
What's new in tunes for 2014
It's a new year and that means a new selection of new music to look forward to. As every online news and information blog wraps up the best of 2013 with a list of what's coming out in 2014, I'm following suit, if only because this year already has a selection of albums on the horizon that I have my eyes on.
It's Grammy night
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Tonight is the Grammy awards, the biggest night in music, and I'll be live-blogging as well as the occasional tweet. The awards begin to be given out in about 40 minutes for the non-televised categories. It all starts there. The ones I pick up on during that time I'll mention here before the actual awards start tonight. Bringing the Grammys


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Джейми Уоркинс Бернадетт () (род. 14 сентября 1987, Канкаки, штат Иллинойс, США) — американская актриса. Снималась в ряде фильмов ужасов.

Биография
Джейми Уоркинс родилась и выросла в Канкаки (штат Иллинойс). В семье она была младшей из девятерых детей — пяти сестёр и четырёх братьев. Отец умер через четыре месяца после её рождения и мать, оставшись почти без средств должна была подымать всех детей.
Джейми мечтала о том, чтобы стать актрисой с пятилетнего возраста. Она смотрела фильмы и разыгрывала сцены, подражая любимым актрисам.
Примерно с десятилетнего возраста она начала играть в постановках Общественного театра, а в старших классах и в школьном театре. Изучала актерское мастерство в студии Margie Haber Studios и в Академии кино и телевидения Van Mar.

После окончания школы Уоткинс оказалась на распутье и перед выбором: остаться ли в любимом родном городе, остепениться и выйти замуж или отправиться в Лос-Анджелес, где ее ждали мечты об актерской карьере. Она рискнула попробовать себя в Голливуде и отправилась туда одна через всю страну с 600 долларами в кармане.

Среди её первых опытов в кино были роли в фильмах 2008 года: «Сын Сэма» и «Пораженный» с Келли Престон и Дженной Эльфман в главных ролях.
В 2009 году у нее была более крупная роль в фильме «Абсолютное зло», где она снималась вместе с Дэвидом Кэррадайном. Начиная с 2010 года её можно встретить в более популярных фильмах, таких как «Мамаша» (2010) и другие.

В 2016 году она снялась в фильмах «Давай будем злыми» и «Выходные для всех девушек». Она также сыграла главную роль в фильме «Я плюю на ваши могилы: Дежавю».

Фильмография

Награды
 Обладательница премии за лучшую женскую роль 2017 года (Independent Cinema Foundation и Festival Academy) (ICFFA)
 Лучшая женская роль в художественном фильме «Шестой друг» на фестивале фильмов ужасов «Freak Show» — 2016
 Лучшая женская роль в художественном фильме «Шестой друг» на фестивале фильмов ужасов RIP — 2016
 Номинация на лучший оригинальный сценарий художественного фильма «Шестой друг» на Мадридском международном кинофестивале 2017 года.
 Лучший полнометражный фильм «Шестой друг» на фестивале фильмов ужасов Freak Show 2016
 Лучший полнометражный фильм ужасов «Шестой друг» на фестивале независимых кинематографистов IFS Film Festival 2017
 Лучший ансамбль для художественного фильма «Smothered by Mothers» на New York Film Awards 2017

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My bag is packed and safely in the hands of airline attendants. Fellowship was had, the rites were performed; the year of Heru-sa-Aset begins. As I sit at the gate waiting for my flight home from the annual Wep Ronpet celebrations, I can feel both pangs of loss and waves of joy. Loss, because some of the dearest people to my heart will once again, for all too long, be reachable only though the Internet or by phone; joy, because I have been blessed with a week spent in fellowship with all of them.
Every year I return more invigorated, renewed in my desire to serve the Netjeru and Their people. I refocus myself. It's almost like recalibrating my navigational systems. I adjust in small, sometimes imperceptible ways, realigning myself with the path I am taking.
It's just about time to board, but I have much and more to say here. I just wanted to leave my note here, while the feelings are still fresh.
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This marks another addition to the regular feature here at little Indiana: Indiana Blogs! If you are an Indiana Blogger, please use the contact form and send me an email. You may be featured right here on little Indiana.
Wonderfully chaotic is an Indiana blog that reveals the life of this young family.
Since 2009, this personal blog has followed all along their journey: marriage, kids, homeschool, faith–and blogs it all.
Take a peek into the life of a Hoosier that is Wonderfully Chaotic.
Why did you start Wonderfully Chaotic?
I started blogging in 2004 as a way to keep family and friends updated on my life, and then on my children. At Wonderfully Chaotic I first began blogging just about my kids and parenting.
Since then it's expanded quite a bit – I've blogged about our homeschooling journey from the very beginning, I write about marriage, faith, and a bunch of other topics. I also host giveaways and write reviews of products. Oh, and I still write about our family – a lot!
What about that name? Why Wonderfully Chaotic?
As I said, I've been blogging for awhile but in 2009 I made my permanent home at Wonderfully Chaotic. I'd been blogging some place else but didn't feel like that blog really captured what I was writing about.
My hubby and I mulled it over for awhile and eventually decided "Wonderfully Chaotic" suited our life and family pretty well.
I love writing and sharing my thoughts with others. I blog to do just that – connect with other moms and maybe even help them. I also like having a record of things we've been doing and good (or bad!) times we've shared.
Is there anything about homeschooling that has surprised you and your family?
The schedule homeschooling allows you to have is so family friendly – you can schedule your subjects around whatever is going on in your life at the time. When I was pregnant, we added in a weekly lesson about baby growth and development.
Any holiday gets its own unit study added to our regular schedule. And I've also noticed that the learning never seems to stop, even when we're "off the clock" so to speak. The kids are always asking questions, exploring, and wanting to know more about the things in our everyday lives.
It varies, depending on what we have going on but usually we start our day off slowly – we are not morning people, haha. We get some chores done & out of the way before school and eat breakfast together.
We start working on our different subjects in the living room (our homeschool nook is in there) or sometimes outside if it's nice. My oldest is going into second grade, my middle child is preschool age, and my youngest is a baby so it requires a bit of juggling sometimes and we do end up taking the occasional break for diaper changes or snacks.
We work through our subjects (Science, Math, Reading, etc.) and then have lunch. Afternoons are spent on school projects and naps. (Myself included sometimes!) Other days we spend the afternoon at the park with our homeschool co-op group or with friends. Evenings are spent doing the rest of our chores, playing, having dinner and baths.
My younger ones go to bed first and then I usually do a read-aloud book with my oldest son – we're going through the Little House on the Prairie books now. After I get all the kiddos to bed, I usually get on the computer for awhile and/or dive into a book before I collapse…I mean, go to bed.
I saw you are an avid reader: what are your five favorite books of all time?
I cheated a little since some are part of a series…oh well.
Is there anything else that you would like little Indiana readers to know about you or your blog?
Feel free to stop by my blog to say hello and leave a link to your blog – I'll come by and visit you too! Thanks for reading, and for having me here!
Anyone else a huge fan of those Little House on the Prairie books? That would be a good one to read to Kid #1. Thanks to Shay for popping over to Little Indiana today.