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The client is a leading diamond firm in India and overseas. With the diamond district making a shift from Opera House in South Mumbai to a more central Bharat Diamond Bourse in B.K.C., the client required a large office space to manage its operations. The brief required us to provide for dedicated work spaces as well as interaction spaces for buyer and seller meetings.
The meeting rooms and the conference room are provided around the reception and waiting, forming the public area of the office. A central corridor is flanked by work spaces on one side and the executive rooms on the other. The work spaces are rendered with glass partitions for a deeper transparency of space allowing for the security cameras to keep a close eye. Due to the high need for efficiency and security, there was an emphasis to shield the work and interaction spaces from the corridor with the use of stark opaque surfaces.


There is nothing I like better to do than be out with my boys. The picture of the bassets and MT above sums it all up for me. Weekends are the time when we can be together as a pack and do stuff together. When we work as a team things are always much more fun and life seems much more fulfilling.
It was a massive team effort this year to make progress on our land. We started the year making an infinity lawn and it's been non stop strimming, mowing, sowing, weeding and trimming ever since. I never thought I'd see beauty in thistles but when I look through my camera there is beauty all around just waiting to be snapped.
Growing has certainly been a key theme in 2009 and is set to take off to new levels in future years. I've had great fun experimenting in my potager and got great pleasure from eating what I've grown. It's not all been plain sailing but there's been more success than failure. I'd like to say it's my gardening prowess but in truth it's been nature and good luck than judgment.
Aside from growing vegetables the ornamental garden has become more established. I planted bulbs for the first time this year and it was a pleasure to see the bright colours even if the rabbits promptly stole my floral bounty. I knew it was a risk to plant in the open garden so next year will concentrate effort in protected areas.
There is no doubt that having colour in the garden makes a big difference especially when the weather turns bleak and you have the longest winter. The frosts came hard and frequently this year but did offer some cracking photography opportunities.
When the weather was good there is nothing I like more than pottering on outside. I am never alone in this endeavor as my two bassets accompany me like a double shadow. Pity they aren't so handy when it comes to doing anything useful. I can't imagine life without my bassets. They are certainly a constant worry and never more so when they've been sick or ailing. But theirs is a life of simple pleasures which is hard not to enjoy too.
Spending more time thinking about food and cooking has increased the enjoyment of meal times. I am starting to get organised enough to have a well stocked larder so we can rustle up a tasty meal or treats. There's been plenty of experimentation in the kitchen this year, especially on the baking front. I'm still on the quest for the perfect muffin, cake or biscuit and want to learn more about how you construct recipes so I can start to create my own. I see 2010 being full of many more food adventures.
Our adventures to Hong Kong and Shanghai were without doubt some of the most exciting times this year. In a few days we packed in thousands of photographs walking around these exuberant and exotic cities. It was definitely a reminder of how big and diverse the world is and how much I love to travel to new and different places.
Our trip back to the homeland was a sharp reminder of what we miss living in New Zealand. Getting reacquainted with what we love most about the UK. It was a bitter sweet experience to be saying hello but then having to say goodbye. It was a smorgasbord of inspiration too as we day tripped around historic places and I grabbed as many ideas I could for growing food to experiment at home. Most of all the trip was full of precious moments spent with family and friends.
There are some things in life you can count on. The sun coming up in the morning, even if it doesn't always shine. I've had some fun this year trying to master early morning photography. I love the time in the morning when I'm doing morning chores outside, whatever the weather there is always something new to marvel at in nature.
As we head towards our New Zealand summer I'm looking forward to sitting on the back veranda and enjoying the sunset. There is something deeply satisfying to watch the colours glow across the sky.
As the sun sets on this year, in fact this decade, I think about how technology plays a massive role in our lives. The Internet makes it easy for us to communicate and be entertained. Digital cameras and laptop computers make it possible to share life with others quickly and easily. There is no doubt living on the other side of the world would not be so much fun without technology to bridge the miles between our family and friends. Without it I wouldn't be able blog and "meet" such incredible people who share a passion for publishing online. I am so grateful to all the people who read this blog and give me support, encouragement and inspiration to continue to write, photograph and chatter on about the things that matter to me.
2009 has been a busy busy year and we're lucky that we've been blessed with good health, steady income and good fortune of loving and supportive family and friends. I know that for others it's been more challenging and will be wanting to boot 2009 into touch.
Thank you for sharing 2009 with me. I have a good feeling about 2010 so I say, let's brush out the old and bring in the new so we can start another year of life adventures.


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Some Bargain Manga Reviews
February 22, 2015; 11:15 am
In addition to playing a lot of games, I read a ton of manga. 2014 was a packed year as far as trying– and committing to– new manga series goes; as of this writing, I'm currently following nearly twenty different series. There have been loads of great new work being produced lately, as well as old classics I'm either finally catching up on, or reading as they are being published in English for the first time. Perhaps I'll write about some of those works later, but for now, I'll focus on a specific class of manga: cheap, short series picked up from Right Stuf's Bargain Bin and epic year-end sales.
Even when picking up manga on the cheap, I tend to do some basic research beforehand; the length of a given series and its general reception are the two most important factors. The latter's self-explanatory, but as for the former, I try to stick to series that are only a few volumes long at most. Only once have I ever bought a 10+ volume long series at a nice discount without having read any of it, and fortunately, that manga turned out to be excellent: Ouran High School Host Club, picked up in box set form for 50% off (in all fairness, though, I'd previously seen—and loved—the anime). I do have the seven-volume Lament of the Lamb waiting for me in the wings, but if it wasn't for some decent ratings and the set being roughly 67% off cover price, I wouldn't have picked it up.
Anyway, let's get started.
Someday's Dreamers
by Norie Yamada and Kumichi Yoshizuki
US Publisher: Tokyopop
Total Volumes: 2
Original Cover Price: $19.98 for both
Bought For: $11.98 (reduced to $10.78 with Got Anime) for both
I'll start with a short series I picked up in May of last year, Someday's Dreamers. Like most of the books featured in this post, this was localized by Tokyopop, which abruptly shut down its North American publishing operations in 2011. Without going into that too deeply, this move caused quite a stir in the manga blogosphere and led to Tokyopop books being clearanced out of Barnes & Noble. Since Right Stuf's Bargain Bin includes a lot of items returned to publishers by other stores, that's probably what accounts for the large amount of Tokyopop stuff it holds. That said, the condition of these Bargain Bin books ranges from "used bookstore" to "practically new", but either way, it's hard to tell if I truly got my money's worth without actually reading them.
Upon rereading Someday's Dreamers, I confirmed that in this case, I had. This manga, in which magic is a normal thing in contemporary Japan, is about a seventeen year old girl, Yume, who spends a summer in Tokyo for magic-user training and certification. Her everyday adventures, tinged as they are with magic, reveal her to be extremely empathic and wanting to do the right thing, but, at least at first, without much serious thought put into the potential consequences of her actions. Her biggest hurdles come in the form of lessons about life, death, and happiness, and, on top of that, her teacher has issues of his own.
The art style, along with Yume's personality and the slice-of-life nature of the chapters, are unabashedly moe, in a good way. Yume definitely fits the moe mold: she's a sweet, kind girl who you want to be happy, and has the small mouth, smaller nose, and gentle-yet-somewhat-sad eyes endemic amongst this subgenre's characters. Aside from some mild and occassional emphasis on certain body parts in the art and composition, there is nothing creepy here, just a coming-of-age story about a teenager who also happens to know some magic. Like the best works of this type, it's pleasant and rather nostalgic, and the premise enables some particularly dreamlike scenes.
If there is one thing that's unusual about these two volumes, it is that they are both rather short, each one clocking in at around 130 pages, when your standard manga is typically 50-70 pages longer than that. I wonder why Tokyopop chose to release these two volumes individually, rather than compiling them into an omnibus; it could be because of the way the story arcs are structured, or a restriction imposed by the original creators, or something else. Regardless, it's a good purchase for $12 (seven bucks for Vol. 1 and five for Vol. 2) if you're ever in the mood for this sort of thing.
by Tomoko Taniguchi
US Publisher: Central Park Media
Original Cover Price: $9.99
Bought For: $2.49
As it happens, CPM is another defunct anime and manga company, albeit one who had been around a bit longer and whose business practices were less controversial. They didn't publish much printed media, but their manga catalog was as diverse as their anime one. In addition to works such as the notorious hentai Urotsukidoji, series by Kia Asamiya and Youka Nitta, various anime adaptations, and even some manhwa and OEL stuff, they published a handful of one-shots and two volume manga by Tomoko Taniguchi, including the short story collection Aquarium.
There are three stories in the book. In "Aquarium", a high school student drowns her sorrows by gazing at the fish at a local aquarium; "The Flying Stewardess" is about a young flight attendant trying to fit in at her lively job; and finally, "The Heart is Your Kingdom" concerns a girl who has trouble smiling around the boy she likes.
There isn't much about these stories that I could find fault with. The pacing is appropriate to each one and the page layouts convey the tales with clarity. It's also nice that the second story was lighthearted and comedic, serving as a nice break between the drama of "Aquarium" and that of "The Heart is Your Kingdom". Despite the brief time spent with the characters, they are realistic, and their stories are heartfelt, if a bit melodramatic at times.
If there's one thing I would warn potential readers about, it's that this is most definitely an early 90s shoujo manga. The art style is old-fashioned by today's standards, which may be a bit of a turnoff to some people. If you can get past that hurdle, it's definitely worth the four dollars that it's now going for at Right Stuf. Aquarium made such an impression on me that I now have a handful of other short works by this mangaka on order. Here's hoping that they are just as good.
by Kazuya Minekura
Three young men are caught up in a dangerous game, one in which we might call "tower defense". The "towers" are corporate secrets on floppy disks, and they must be either guarded or taken away from a competing team. These three are "Business Gamers", and they play for huge monetary rewards and the amusement of the rich assholes who are their bosses. However, this game becomes more dangerous with each new round, and increasingly difficult to leave.
This "Pilot Edition" of Bus Gamer is all that exists of this series—a series which clearly seems to have been intended to become something longer and more fleshed out. We learn snippets about our heroes' lives and personalities from chapter to chapter, but many of the biggest questions, such as why they need the money they get from playing this game, go unanswered.
At many times, Bus Gamer is very much a character study, with high school student Kazuo the most earnest of the three; it is he who wants to know more about his partners, with the other two, Toki and Nobuto, only rarely revealing new aspects of themselves. The camaraderie that slowly, gradually, develops between them is the most intriuguing thing about this manga, and a major reason why I wished it had continued.
Bus Gamer's art style is detailed, stylized, and imperfect, and a great match for the solid page and panel compositions. The writing has an urban feel to it, with a localization that, thankfully, doesn't go overboard with the slang. The mangaka is best known for a longer series, Saiyuki, which I'm considering checking out now, even though the setting doesn't grab me as much. As for Bus Gamer, this one-shot is, like Aquarium, currently $3.99 in Right Stuf's Bargain Bin and is worth a look if you can tolerate its incompleteness.
Mad Love Chase
by Kazusa Takashima
Original Cover Price: $54.95 for all
Bought For: $24.99 for all
Finally, we have come to the bottom of the stack, in more ways than one. I didn't have the highest expectations for this series, based on its premise, but most people seemed to like it well enough that I figured I should give it a chance. As it turned out, it isn't bad, but it's not really good, either. While I wait for the next volumes of truly great romantic comedies My Love Story!! and Nisekoi, please join me in picking apart Mad Love Chase.
Like I said, the premise of this manga didn't sound like the greatest thing ever, but it did hold some promise. Demon price Kaito runs away from home with his pet cat to avoid his arranged marriage and live freely in our world, disguised as a human. Angered by this, the Demon King sends a team of three agents to find the prince, who can easily be identified by an elaborate tattoo on his back. Hijinks, largely involving the agents trying to remove the prince's shirt, ensue.
This setup is handled quickly and messily. The earliest chapter is particularly bad, as the setup of the premise feels forcefully rushed, without letting the exposition flow naturally. Things get slightly better later on, though new plot holes arise. For example, somewhere in the middle of the series, a new character and his pet mouse come onto the scene to hunt down the prince, though his motives are never made clear, and, after his story arc is over, he is never seen again and only mentioned in passing once or twice. Another new character, a magician, comes along later on and, although he is actually important to the story, his actions seem too serendipitous to take seriously as plot developments. Then there's the "love triangle" that permeates the series, and isn't really a triangle in the traditional sense, if at all. Finally, like the beginning of the manga, the end is rushed and unsatisfying, though it does attempt to tie up all the loose ends for the entire cast.
If there is a high point to this manga, it's the art, which is very good. Unfortunately, there are many places where it suffers from bad layouts, plus the "gag" art of the characters isn't all that great. Most of the characters are likable, though the pacing and layouts often work against them. In general, this is a lighthearted, and frequently silly, romp without a whole lot else going for it. Oddly, it isn't in the Right Stuf Bargain Bin, even though at least a couple of the volumes I got were certainly at that level of condition; it was offered as a bundle during the holiday sales (which is when I picked it up), and again during their recent Valentine's Day promotion. Even if this series does go on sale again, skip it in favor of an actual good romantic comedy.
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November 8, 2013; 7:45 pm
Sorry I haven't posted lately, especially given that I've only just relaunched this blog recently; you can thank a big fanart project and the usual autumn sickness/sluggishness for much of that.
Anyway, I updated the Links page this evening. Amongst other links, I included all of my favorite screenshot Let's Plays. Most of my top recs are fairly short, so if you have the time, check them out. Also, if you have a link you think I should add, let me know.
Finally, I've changed one or two things with the site itself on the technical end of things, but it's nothing you all need to worry about 😛
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Welcome Back to Brainscraps
October 21, 2013; 12:41 pm
I'd been neglecting this place, and I'm still not completely sure why.
Perhaps it was disinterest, or some medical problems I was having (I won't get into that), or that I was fine just talking about what I was playing on Twitter or various forums. I also suspect that my approach to this blog was part of the problem, and that's why I've decided to refresh the site's look, rewrite most of the "About" page, and start posting here regularly again.
So, welcome back. It's been too long, hasn't it—well over a year! I'll do my best not to let this project fall by the wayside again, and part of how I intend to accomplish that is by writing about more than just games. In other words, now that I'm no longer active on LiveJournal, this is my main blog. It's been awhile since I've had one of those, too. Figure reviews and most other collecting-related posts will remain on Tsuki-board, but everything else? Here.
The new theme I've come up with, or rather, frankenstein'd together from other WordPress templates, is something I call Tizia, after the homeworld of Opoona, the main character of the Wii game of the same name. I played Opoona this summer; it had problems (most notably a very-bad-by-modern-standards localization), but was unique and charming. It is also probably the only game I've ever played where art appreciation is a core part of the world. Hell, art in general is; one of Landroll's towns is entirely devoted to the arts, and art-related careers are among the many jobs Opoona can pursue while on this planet.
Opoona has lingered in my mind ever since I beat it, in a good way; this is particularly true of the soundtrack, which is composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto and others at Basiscape, and which I have recently finally ordered a copy of. It's not the best game I've beaten this year (that would probably be 10000000), but it's certainly among the most memorable. I'm not going to ramble on at length about it, since it's been months since I've beaten it, and as such, it's no longer all that fresh in my mind. However, it's a curiosity worth checking out if you like charming games as much as I do.
When a game leaves that strong an impression on me, I usually do a piece of fanart. In this instance, it's a crossover with another memorable game, Ghost Trick, which was one of my favorites from last year's stack of playthroughs. I've also (and this is a first for me) posted some of my process in creating this piece at my new Redirectorium at Tumblr. Yeah, I finally broke down and created a Tumblr like everyone else. I predict that a few years from now, everyone will have moved on to the New Internet Hotness and I, once again, will drag my feet in getting there, but for the time being, yep, I'm on Tumblr.
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Another Quick Site Update
September 21, 2011; 6:45 pm
Today I migrated the okamiblog Archive to Brain Scrap House from the Blue Shinra Project. For future reference, these posts can be found in the "Old Stuff" section.
The first two Gaming Roundups, from 2007 and 2008 respectively, have also been transferred to Brainscraps; they can now be found, as well as the others, under Games.
Aside from possibly fixing a small problem with the site's layout, that's all I have for site business for awhile. The usual lengthy posts about games, games, and more games will resume shortly.
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Quick Site Update
I've just installed and enabled the Disqus WordPress plugin here at Brainscraps, which will hopefully make commenting more convenient. It's been tested (thanks, bitprophet) and it works, but please let me know if you run into any problems nevertheless.
There will be some other changes coming, mostly involving moving and collating old content I have written and stored on other sites to this one. This is something I've been wanting to do for some time now, so hopefully I can get the ball rolling on this soon.
The Pitfalls of Overanalysis
June 21, 2011; 5:42 pm
I've been wanting to write about a couple different things for awhile now, but this post isn't about them.
I'm playing Cave Story again. This marks the sixth time I've started a new game, and if I beat it, it will be my third time doing so on Normal difficulty. Technically, I've already beaten it this go-round with the "bad" ending, but I digress; it's still a helluva lot of fun.
I've also recently been reminded of the existence of a certain segment of the Final Fantasy VII fanbase that is obsessed with analysis. It's a segment I take with a grain of salt since, having dealt directly with them before, I'm aware that they can be blind to inaccuracy and sometimes prone to outright bias. It is a segment that exists to prove and argue, the type of group reminiscent of my early days at the FFVII Citadel: lots of debating, theories being tossed around, and so on. FFVII itself is a magnet for theory tossing—not only because of its shoddy translation, but also due to its haphazard production history and its familiar yet fantastical globalist, capitalist, biotech cyberpunk world.
Other, more recent favorites of mine—especially Cave Story and Halo—also have interesting worlds and behind-the-scenes stories, but aside from doing some bits of fanart, I've managed to avoid getting involved with the fandoms. I'm sick of debates and analyzing the deeper meaning of what are really inconsequential things. When I get a certain item in Bushlands/Grasstown in Cave Story, it has amusing implications, but I'm not about to write a lengthy diatribe about why it wound up in the protagonist's pocket. Similarly, I don't care so much about the true purpose behind, say, the Super Sweeper in Final Fantasy VII. A little speculation every now and again is fine, and can even be fun, but that's as far as I'm willing to take things.
Say I'm getting old or whatever, but in the more than ten years that I've been in online fandom circles (mainly video game-related ones), I've found that overanalysis can get in the way of enjoyment, and that the franchise owners are more than willing to give fans too much of a good thing, if only they ask loudly enough. When a game's obscurities become "clearer" through books and interviews, even when handled well, the loss of what was previously left unsaid can be disquieting if you've given such obscurities any thought at all, and outright infuriating if you've obsessed over it. This is especially true of sequels and spinoffs, such as StarCraft II, in which the deliciously vague became cold hard fact. Amongst its other crimes, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII pulled a similar stunt, in large part by giving ample screen time to Lucrecia, a minor character in the original game. Portal 2 did right by Chell and GLaDOS, but altered the DNA of its single most important character: Aperture Laboratories itself.
Don't get me started on Chrono Cross.
If this is what the fans want, it can only mean that they refuse to embrace their own imaginations, wanting absolute answers. The problem is that all this does is settle some arguments on the internet. Those of us who happen to like imagining the unseen in our games lose something in the process. Not everything has to be concrete.
So to the obsessed fans: dig and analyze and argue all you want, but once that long-awaited sequel or interview comes out, don't be surprised if you find yourself underwhelmed. Nowadays, I prefer to enjoy my games (and manga, and so on) at face value and not sweat over a heavily researched dissertation on the canon. They're more fun that way, be they a fresh experience or one which I've loved for over a decade.
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The Mike Connolly Miskwish San Diego County historical tribal Kumeyaay mapping projects are featured in the Campo-kumeyaay History section and detail Indian history tribal homelands and facts about Southern California first nations of desert, mountain, coastal, river Indians and how today's current California Indian reservations were established in southwest United States.
Mike Connolly Miskwish, Campo Kumeyaay Map details all the 2005 Indigenous Southern California Indian tribes, the Native American Indian reservations rancherias ranchos ejidos of the greater Southern California area and northern Baja California, Mexico, and contrasts them with the Indigenous Kumeyaay territory of 1769.
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HISTORICAL PRE-CONTACT MAP of the California tribal ancestral territories (courtesy of California Indian Library Collections).
This Native American California Indian calendar is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Kumeyaay calendar. Historically, the Kumeyaay calendar was flexible and adaptive to changing conditions.
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Ready or Not, Here Come Tesla Drivers and New Autosteer
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Tesla Model S drivers, most of whom are in California, got a software update for their cars a few weeks ago, giving them access to some cool features—Autosteer, Auto Lane Change and Autopark—and some of them have been posting their unregulated highway beta testing on YouTube.
It's a great success, in that the videos get a lot of hits. But it's not so great if Tesla performance and safety are big factors. One driver in Portland, Oregon, had a friend record his hands-free driving on the freeway while discussing and displaying the car's other new features, including the massive, cluttered console screen he regularly consulted.
The driver said he wasn't as worried about injury as wrecking the car, but acknowledged he had insurance and could buy a new one. They cost upwards of $70,000. He'd just have to wait four months. Everything went fine until the driver entered the exit ramp at the 3-minute mark and the car failed to negotiate the curve.
Fortunately, the driver heeded Tesla owner and CEO Elon Musk admonition not to take your hands far from the steering wheel. The driver grabbed it as the video ended and agreed with the passenger that Tesla was right to recommend the feature only be used on the highway, not in city driving.
Another Tesla driver posted a short video of himself almost dying on a tree-lined two-lane road. He wrote:
"My car was tracking the car in front of me to successfully steer, but I was going closer to the speed limit and that car eventually drifted far ahead of me. Shortly after that, another car was coming in my car's direction from the opposite side of the road. I can only guess at what happened next. My car suddenly veered to the left, crossing the double-yellow road divider line right into its path."
He jerked the wheel right and barely escaped, but felt justified in titling his YouTube video: "Tesla Autopilot Tried to Kill Me."
Tesla has been installing the hardware for its new features for awhile, but didn't push the software out until October 14. The features do not allow the car to become self-driving, like the vehicles being tested by Google and other companies under the watchful eye of government. That would be wrong, and illegal.
Musk has warned, "We tell drivers to keep their hands on the wheel just in case, to exercise caution in the beginning."
To showcase the car's new capabilities, three people in a Tesla let the car drive itself 96% of the time from Redondo Beach, California, to Manhattan. It arrived in New York on Wednesday after being on the road for 57 hours and 48 minutes. There were some scary moments.
Alex Roy, a profession rally driver, said, "There were probably three or four moments where we were on autonomous mode at 90 miles an hour, and hands off the wheel," according to Wired. They hit a curve and, "If I hadn't had my hands there, ready to take over, the car would have gone off the road and killed us."
But he did have his hands there and all is well. Musk congratulated the crew after the cross-country tour, and Tesla spokeswoman Khobi Brooklyn told Wired, "It's so cool to see Model S owners get out there and use this groundbreaking technology. The more people who use it, the better it will get."
Obviously Drivers Are Already Abusing Tesla's Autopilot (by Alex Davies, Wired)
Some Tesla Drivers Are Putting the New Autosteer Feature Through Dangerous Tests (by Gina Hall, San Francisco Business Times)
Tesla Owners Are Ignoring Autopilot Safety Advice and Putting the Results on YouTube (by Rich McCormick, The Verge)
Tesla's Cars Can Drive Themselves Starting Tomorrow (by Chris Ziegler, The Verge)
Tesla Expands Customer Base to Younger and Middle Class Buyers in Used Car Market (Edmonds)
Driverless Test Cars Have Perfect —Unverifiable—No-Fault Crash Road Record (by Ken Broder, AllGov California)


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Q: Why is building a Haskell String from Data.Text so slow So I had a location class
data Location = Location {
    title :: String
  , description :: String
  }

instance Show Location where
  show l = title l ++ "\n"
         ++ replicate (length $ title l) '-' ++ "\n"
         ++ description l

Then I changed it to use Data.Text
data Location = Location {
    title :: Text
  , description :: Text
  }

instance Show Location where
  show l = T.unpack $
    title l <> "\n"
    <> T.replicate (T.length $ title l) "-" <> "\n"
    <> description l

Using criterion, I benchmarked the time taken by show on both the String and Data.Text implementations:
benchmarks = [ bench "show" (whnf show l) ]
  where l = Location {
                title="My Title"
              , description = "This is the description."
              }

The String implementation took 34ns, the Data.Text implementation was almost six times slower, at 170ns
How do I get Data.Text working as fast as String?
Edit: Silly mistakes
I'm not sure how this happened, but I cannot replicate the original speed difference: now for String and Text I get 28ns and 24ns respectively
For the more aggressive bench "length.show" (whnf (length . show) l) benchmark, for String and Text, I get 467ns and 3954ns respectively.
If I use a very basic lazy builder, without the replicated dashes
import qualified Data.Text.Lazy.Builder as Bldr

instance Show Location where
  show l = show $
    Bldr.fromText (title l) <> Bldr.singleton '\n'
  --  <> Bldr.fromText (T.replicate (T.length $ title l) "-") <> Bldr.singleton '\n'
    <> Bldr.fromText (description l)

and try the original, ordinary show benchmark, I get 19ns. Now this is buggy, as using show to convert a builder to a String will escape newlines. If I replace it with LT.unpack $ Bldr.toLazyText, where LT is a qualified import of Data.Text.Lazy, then I get 192ns.
I'm testing this on a Mac laptop, and I suspect my timings are getting horribly corrupted by machine noise. Thanks for the guidance.

A: You can't make it as fast, but you can speed it up some.
Appending
Text is represented as an array. This makes <> rather slow, because a new array has to be allocated and each Text copied into it. You can fix this by converting each piece to a String first, and then concatenating them. I imagine Text probably also offers an efficient way to concatenate multiple texts at once (as a commenter mentions, you can use a lazy builder) but for this purpose that will be slower. Another good option might be the lazy version of Text, which probably supports efficient concatenation.
Sharing
In your String-based implementation, the description field doesn't have to be copied at all. It's just shared between the Location and the result of showing that Location. There's no way to accomplish this with the Text version.

A: In the String case you are not fully evaluating all of the string operations - (++) and replicate.
If you change your benchmark to:
benchmarks = [ bench "show" (whnf (length.show) l) ]

you'll see that the String case takes around 520 ns - approx 10 times longer.

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"The Philosophy of Modern Song": Bob Dylan's Tribute to Christian Culture
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Over sixty years into his career, Bob Dylan remains a prolific artist, resuming his Never Ending Tour after a brief pause due to Covid and building upon his already tremendous body of work with new, provocative material. The latest installment is his book The Philosophy of Modern Song, released in November. The book is not a systematic treatise, as its title might suggest, but rather a series of vignettes of about sixty-six songs chosen from almost every decade of the last century. The majority of the songs covered in the book were recorded in the 1950s and early 1960s as Dylan grew up and came of age. The text exudes classic Dylan: dense imagery, symbolic, abstract, hard to follow, charming, vexing, and full of rich insight. There appears to be no central theme to this book; it reads more like a journal that Dylan fills with thoughts and responses in real time as he listens to each song. It exemplifies what the Anglo-Catholic T.S. Eliot describes in his essay on artists called "Tradition and the Individual Talent": "The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
There have been some intriguing albeit unsubstantiated claims that Dylan recently converted to Catholicism. That a Christian sensibility has been occupying his mind, however, is very possible: during a run of dates last spring, Dylan concluded every set with "Every Grain of Sand," one of his biggest hits during his period of writing Christian music. The Philosophy of Modern Song further suggests that he is indulging that sensibility because it is deeply rooted in Christian culture.
It is at least noteworthy, even if it is only pure coincidence, that there are sixty-six chapters, the same as the number of books in a Protestant Bible, and the book is replete with references to Catholicism and Scripture, some more serious and some more flippant. In the chapter on "Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin, Dylan writes, "Whereas Sinatra just about invented the Roman Catholic Church, Darin was merely an altar boy." Concerning "Ruby, Are You Mad?" by the Osborne Brothers, he calls the song "Church Latin." He references the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael while exploring "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Nina Simone. In his piece on "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, Dylan searches for metaphors in cassocks, bishops' rings, early Christian martyrs, the Vatican, and the Eucharist:
Rosa's Cantina is the same cantina over and over again. The symbolic Rosa, the black gown and the bishop's ring, the bread and the wine, and the blood. The blood of Christian martyrs, blood that dies the white rose red, racked and scourged. A Catholic song, universal, where no insult will go unchallenged. Where every trail goes cold, where Rome has spoken.
It has long been argued that Dylan's music cannot be understood without a deep knowledge of the Bible, and the same is true for the music that Dylan reveres. He compares the principal character in "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard to the Nephilim people in the Pentateuch, and he ponders the pagan god Moloch that appears throughout the Old Testament in the chapter on "El Paso." The protagonist in "Blue Bayou" by Roy Orbison encounters "the Tower of Babel . . . skyscrapers of gibberish and double talk."
One of the reasons people turn away from God is because religion is no longer in the fabric of their lives.
One of the most unexpected passages in the whole book appears in the chapter on "If You Don't Know Me by Now" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, when Dylan ends the chapter with a reflection on the book of Job, which reveals not only his grasp of Scripture but also some familiarity with biblical scholarship:
Supposedly, early readers of the Bible were disturbed by the harshness of God's behavior against Job, but the prologue with God's wager with Satan about Job's piety in the face of continued testing, added later, makes it one of the most exciting and inspirational books of the Old or New Testament.
Many songs Dylan explores clearly signify elements of Christianity, and for good reason: most of these songs were created in a world that was Christian socially, morally, and cultically. Up through the revolutions of the 1960s, elements of Christendom permeated the wider Western culture and held strong influence in the arts. This holds true in most music genres of the time, the same genres that hold Dylan's attention in this book: blues, country, folk, bluegrass, jazz, and early rock and roll. Dylan puts it this way in the same chapter on "If You Don't Know Me by Now":
One of the reasons people turn away from God is because religion is no longer in the fabric of their lives. It is presented as a thing that must be journeyed to as a chore—it's Sunday, we have to go to church. Or, it is used as a weapon of threat by political nutjobs on either side of every argument. But religion used to be in the water we drank, the air we breathed. Songs of praise were as spine-tingling as, and in truth the basis of, songs of carnality. Miracles illuminated behavior and weren't just spectacle.
Part of Dylan's philosophy, it seems, is more than mere nostalgia. We have forgotten the musical traditions that form the bedrock of our music, and we need to return to them. If we heed his words, we will find that those traditions matured in a Christian culture. The very roots of the music we find all around us bring us face to face with an ethos of worship, praise, and petition woven in "the fabric of their lives." The Philosophy of Modern Song, then, has a very timely appearance. In the prime of the streaming era, Bob Dylan chooses to engage in ressourcement, inviting us present-day readers to discover what our musical precursors can teach, and their pedagogy is rife with seeds of the Word.
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Andrew Tolkmith serves as Editing Coordinator for the Word on Fire Publishing team. He studied Theology at Belmont Abbey College with a minor in Christianity and Culture. When not working on books, he is usually found in the chapel, in the garden, or on the porch, playing and singing "the old songs." He lives in the North Carolina mountains with his wife and daughter.
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When it comes to big ol' fame-tastic franchises, Final Fantasy will inevitably be mentioned. For many, this enduring and seminal series (because I'm an alliterate twice in two sentences sort of guy) is the very last word in… RPGing goodness.
This time, we're taking a look at the best game in the series: Final Fantasy IX.
Before rage-spittle starts flying all over your monitor, that's 'best' in the most objective sense it's really possible: the highest compiled score on gamerankings and metacritics and suchlike. So just what is it about the ninth game? Let's have a quick muse.
Final Fantasy IX was released in 2000, the last in the series to hit the PlayStation. At this point, the series had been gathering momentum worldwide thanks to the almighty Final Fantasy VII. This installment, a few years before, popularized the genre and was many gamers' first real taste of it. But for the long-time Fantasists, it was something new.
Games VII and VIII eschewed the familiar job system, in favour of more customisable characters. This had been a hallmark of the games since the first release in 1987, and was a sad loss. It was also one thing that Final Fantasy IX tried to address.
First and foremost, the game is a love letter to the franchise's roots. Everything from the colour scheme of the dialogue boxes to clever little puns about Clouds and Squalls screams throwback. But there's more to it than that.
Without parading over ground which has been endlessly trodden, it's a poignant and gripping story told well, and presented in brilliant style. The game's art has a kind of storybook aesthetic, which I'd say makes it the most 'charming' of the Final Fantasies. I had seen nothing quite like it, and it still looks wonderful today.
The familiar gameplay itself was also buffed to a fine, shiny sheen of… shiny sheen-ery here, and the sidequests are enjoyable and actually rewarding. Then there's the glorious soundtrack. There can be no doubt that this is a very special package.
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Alabama's #7 Health Concern
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. If the spread is not controlled, it can result in death. All cancer cases diagnosed or treated in Alabama are reported to the Alabama Statewide Cancer Registry (ASCR). The ASCR is a statewide, population-based registry that was established in 1995 by the ADPH in response to state law (Act 95-275) that made cancer a reportable condition. The ASCR has achieved the highest national certifications for data quality and completeness since 2004.
Alabamians identified cancer as the seventh greatest current health concern in Alabama with good reason. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Alabama trailing only diseases of the heart. In the United States, males have slightly less than a 1 in 2 risk of developing cancer over the course of a lifetime. For women, the risk is a little more than 1 in 3 over the course of a lifetime. The risk of being diagnosed with cancer increases with age, and approximately 77 percent of all cancers are diagnosed in persons 55 and older. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 26,150 Alabamians will be diagnosed with cancer in 2015, and an estimated 10,560 Alabamians will die from cancer in 2015.
Alabama Cancer Highlights
Although the overall cancer mortality rate for Alabama has been steadily declining for the past few years, Alabamians, particularly men, have higher overall cancer mortality rates than the United States. However, both African American and Caucasian females in Alabama have slightly lower overall cancer mortality rates than their United States counterparts.
Lung cancer is the second most reported cancer in males and Caucasian females and the third most reported in African American females.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Alabama with more deaths each year than deaths from breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer combined.
Alabamians have significantly higher rates of lung cancer incidence and mortality compared to the United States. This is true for all race and gender groupings except African American females which have significantly lower incidence and mortality rates for lung cancer than their United States counterparts.
Colorectal cancer is the third most reported cancer in males and Caucasian females and the second most reported in African American females.
For males and females combined, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in Alabama.
There has been an overall decline in both cancer incidence and mortality rate for colorectal cancer in Alabama over the past few years.
Although Alabamians as a whole have higher incidence rates of colorectal cancer than the United States, only African American males in Alabama have higher mortality rates than their United States counterparts.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer and the second leading cause of death from cancer in women.
African American females in Alabama have significantly higher rates of breast cancer incidence than Caucasian females in Alabama. This is unique because in the rest of the county as a whole, Caucasian females have significantly higher breast cancer incidence rates.
Caucasian females in Alabama have slightly lower incidence and mortality rates for breast cancer than the United States.
African American females in Alabama have significantly higher incidence rates but slightly lower mortality rates than the United States.
Prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer and the second leading cause of death from cancer in men.
Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in Alabama have been significantly declining over the past few years.
Prostate cancer occurs significantly more in African American males than Caucasian men, and African American males also have significantly higher mortality rates for prostate cancer.
Caucasian males in Alabama have approximately the same incidence and mortality rates for prostate cancer as the United States while African American males in Alabama have both higher incidence and mortality rates than their United States comparison group.
Health Indicators
The following indicators have been selected for use in developing a benchmark or starting point for measuring the current state and monitoring future changes in the state of cancer in Alabama:
Cancer Mortality Rate, 2011-2013 | Excel Spreadsheet
Colorectal Cancer Incidence, 2008-2012 | Excel Spreadsheet
Female Breast Cancer Incidence, 2008-2012 | Excel Spreadsheet
Lung and Bronchus Cancer Incidence, 2008-2012 | Excel Spreadsheet
Prostate Cancer Incidence, 2008-2012 | Excel Spreadsheet
These four cancer groupings were chosen because they represent more than 55 percent of all new tumors reported to the ASCR. Additionally, the burden of each of these cancers could be reduced through behavior modifications such as smoking cessation, weight loss, exercise, improved nutrition, and regular screening examinations by a health care professional. More cancer indicators (survival rates, screening rates, and cancer staging) may be added in the future.
100 Voices of Hope
AIM at Melanoma
Alabama Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program
American Cancer Fund
American Cancer Fund (Skin)
American Cancer Society (Bile Duct)
American Cancer Society (Bladder)
American Cancer Society (Brain/CNS Tumors in Adults)
American Cancer Society (Breast)
American Cancer Society (Colorectal)
American Cancer Society (Esophagus)
American Cancer Society (Kidney)
American Cancer Society (Lung)
American Cancer Society (Multiple Myeloma)
American Cancer Society (Ovarian)
American Cancer Society (Pancreatic)
American Cancer Society (Prostate)
American Cancer Society (Skin)
American Cancer Society (Stomach)
American Cancer Society (Uterine Sarcoma)
American Melanoma Foundation
American Skin Association
Anti-Cancer Club
Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama
CDC (Breast)
CDC (Cancer Prevention and Control)
CDC (Lung)
CDC (Oral Cancer)
CDC (Ovarian)
CDC (Prostate)
CDC (Skin)
CDC (Uterine)
Childhood Leukemia Foundation
Colon Cancer Alliance
The Community Guide (Cancer Prevention and Control)
The Community Guide (Reducing Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Smoke Free Policies)
CureSearch for Children's Cancer
Eat to Beat Cancer (The Angeiogenesis Foundation)
Head for the Cure
Joy to Life Foundation
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Lilies of the Valley
Livestrong Foundation
Lung Cancer Alliance
Lung Cancer Foundation
Lymphoma Research Foundation
Medline Plus (Melanoma)
Melanoma Education Foundation
National Cancer Institute (Adult Brain Tumors)
National Cancer Institute (Bladder)
National Cancer Institute (Breast)
National Cancer Institute (Colon and Rectal)
National Cancer Institute (Esophagus)
National Cancer Institute (Kidney)
National Cancer Institute (Leukemia)
National Cancer Institute (Liver)
National Cancer Institute (Lung)
National Cancer Institute (Multiple Myeloma/Other Plasma Cell Neoplasms)
National Cancer Institute (Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma)
National Cancer Institute (Oral Cancer)
National Cancer Institute (Ovarian)
National Cancer Institute (Pancreatic)
National Cancer Institute (Primary CNS Lymphoma)
National Cancer Institute (Prostate)
National Cancer Institute (Stomach)
National Cancer Institute (Uterus)
National Foundation for Cancer Research (Multiple Myeloma)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS Brain and Spinal Tumors)
National Ovarian Cancer Coalition
NIH Senior Health (Prostate Cancer)
The Norma Livingston Ovarian Cancer Foundation
No Stomach for Cancer
Office of Women's Health (Breast Cancer)
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Prevent Cancer Foundation
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Skin Cancer Foundation
US Preventive Services Task Force (Screening for Bladder Cancer in Adults)
Us TOO Prostate Cancer Education and Support Network