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Happy new year to everyone, first up I'm only posting here because after a conversation with a friend he suggested it is something that might be relevant to share with the IL2 community/developers.
I should first point out what this post isn't. It isn't something I think should be implemented in SOW:BOB because it would be difficult, however I've included it here because I think it has merit to be thought about in future games.
Over the past year I've been having conversations with a friend who is a scientist at an Australian research ogranisation, one of his side projects has to do with AI. Nothing amazing about that, execept he first wanted research how we understand. Why is this different? Because most AI projects deal solely with our behaviour, not with our understanding.
Now this got me thinking so I fired up IL2 and several other games and took notes on the AI behaviour. I started thinking about what AI is currently doing in games or more to the point what it isn't.
All games AI (not just IL2) bar none, try to mimick player behaviour. But the AI doesn't "understand" what a plane is. All it knows is it "behaves" a certain way if you are coordinates x,y,z.
This realisation opened up another can of worms, feedback. We understand things through feedback. But how would AI understand the game? Does it get feedback? If so, how? Take ourselves, when we play IL2 we get feedback from the controls, from the instruments, from the screen etc etc. How does the AI accept feedback? Does it accept feedback?
With this in mind I started googling, and looking at feedback into Neural Networks, mainly because this a programming technique used in some games today (Although it is very resource hungry). What I found is interesting, at present feedback ratio is roughly 1 to 1, that is there is only one input for every output. However again take us homo homo sapiens (well most of us...) our feedback factors are much much greater. You see where I'm going?
So at the moment I'm looking into Neural Networks accepting multiple feedback inputs, and see if this improves the Networks learning ability.
I am not a great programmer, but good enough I can muddle something together, atleast in psuedo code.
Also my friend, has been doing a few experiments in the lab along similiar lines, although he isn't interested in computer games he thinks they could be useful in testing some of his theories. I'm thinking of looking at an open source game and mucking with the AI of it, experimenting with it to see what happens if you give it feedback.
Now as you would imagine this is pretty resource hungry but I think with the advent of multicore processors this can be overcome.
I think Oleg is doing a great job of modelling a world. But it would be great if an AI pilot obtained feedback from this world and it began to understand the information.
Anyway this is all theoretical at the moment but gives us something to hope for and not just in simulations but also in Role Playing Games.
I'll let you know if I turn anything else up.
Excellent post! If I may say you have a much more realistic understanding of what AI is doing, is capable of, and what the options are in the future but not in the present. Very few seem to approach the AI as actual AI (only in name)...I think the "understanding" of the average player is that the AI sees the world more or less as we do but thats not really the case. Admittedly its very hard to abstract to how the AI works unless you've researched AI or written AI as a programmer.
The problem I see with a neural network, resource issue aside, is getting the AI to the point that its capable of providing a realistic opponent but not so capable as to utterly exceed the capabilities of the human player. Because in this case it really is all about us so we want AI that is good...but not too good. You could program that...an AI that is perfect within the game environment so every deflection shot is perfect (if you're a computer which is just a giant calculator then its relatively easy), every bomb drop is spot on, every control surface is moved precisely to the right amount to achieve the intended effect in the flight sim world.
The trick is to make the AI respond appropriately...feedback is essential for sure I agree...but you definitely need to maintain the illusion that its a "human" on the other end. I think the AI in combat flight simulators is the ultimate challenge as its a complex activity for a human nevermind the AI. And of course getting the AI to understand and function largely as we do is a huge challenge...I don't think anyone has cracked that one...certainly not for practical use in games.
It would be interesting to see what your mate comes up with. I've recently bought "Programming Game AI by Example" by Mat Buckland at a garage sale.
Haven't read through all of it but from what I have read it mainly deals with AI in a single or "Atomic" goal driven state, which I think is what IL-2 has now. The AI are out to achieve a single goal, ie. shoot the player down or bomb the target. The AI won't quit until it's done unless they're wounded, damaged or have no ammo. To model this does take a far bit of processing power.
I think what your leading to is AI that has "Composite" goals, which takes actions based in past experience, ie. There are too many enemy planes covering the target area, we'll attack the secondary target instead. The more experince the AI gains the more accurate they get but they'll also take into account "the odds of success" of a situation. This leads into the area of Fuzzy Logic which I would say needs way more CPU time.
Keep us posted this should be an interesting discussion.
I agree with regards to resources, thats why decent AI may not be around for a few years, but I dearly hope someone proves me wrong.
As for the AI being too good, that was something I worried about too. However I read up on some games that used ANN, Colin McRae Rally trained their AI but then they stopped it learning when it was in game...I need to investigate more.
Also I got to thinking about ways of making todays AI seem a little more human.
A while ago a friend wrote a simple program on the Commodore 64 (Ok we are talking years ago now!!!), what is interesting about was it was a trait generator to help him generate characters for an rpg game. It was simple, two columns of traits and each Non Player character would randomly be assigned a trait from each column.
Now the fun bit was there were only 12 traits in each column but 144 combinations (I think). This got me thinking if something simple like this could be implmented into AI for games, have a simple personality fucntion modify the behaviour of the standard AI code.
I'll give you an example: AI Pilot 1 (I'll call him Fred), gets traits Selfish/Arrogant. How this plays out in the game is Fred has a tendancy to steal his squadron mates kills. He is a good shot (accuracy of AI on Veteran level) but the downside is he ignores kills that are trying too hard to be shot down or if it is a deflection shot. He wants to become an Ace the quickest way possible.
Second example AI pilot 2 (I'll call him Bill) is Cruel/Cowardly, often tends to shoot at bailed out enemy pilots. But will turn a blind eye to helping Squadron mates if the action gets hairy (Simple he ignores radio orders to assist other pilots).
Now this isn't a Neural Net, hell it isn't even advanced programming but it is a simple way of giving the AI pilots a little bit of personality, without having to code detailed personalities for each character.
Now imagine human players teaming up with Bill and Fred you can hear the howls if you are assigning flight rosters...."Hey I don't want Bill as my wingman, he runs at the first sign of trouble". Also without realising you've created a reason to become Squadron Leader, so you don't get assigned with some deadbeat...ofcourse it could go the other way you could have a great wingman who always sticks with you, never lets you down. Then you would care what happens to him....if for no other reason than you might get assigned some deadbeat who has poor eyesight and a worse attitude.
Also imagine if you are on the opposing side, and you hear reports of a enemy pilot that machine guns parachutes. What would you think? Anger? Fear? Revenge? All this from a simple 2 dimension array.
This wouldn't be much of a stretch for SOW, and I'm certainly not suggesting holding up production of the game for it. Just something to think about in the future.
Lastly back on ANN, I've being doing a little bit of reading and they may not be the best solution, there is something new called Hierachical Temporal Memory which looks interesting, am going to check it out.
I've done a lot of production work with commercially available self training neural networks and I don't see any advantage to using them in a game engine. The networks are completely dependent on the input sets they were trained on and I can't imagine an input set small enough to be efficient and large enough to be all encompassing enough to produce good results.
I have done some work with traffic simulators using logic similar to yours above. Each vehicle was assigned a set of performance attributes and each driver was assigned a set of "habits" and physical limits. The cars are easy to define with attributes like max. acceleration/deceleration, lateral g, physical size, and sensitivities on all inputs. The driver's habits included attributes like following distance (in seconds), percentage chance that they would stop paying attention to surroundings, amount of time they would not pay attention once attention was lost, percentage of vehicles's performance the driver will use, amount of error in inputs (this paired up with input sensitivity of the vehicle which often lead to over-correction), and error percentages for all attributes (ie some drivers nailed their following distance while some would be off).
From what I've read, BOB WOV uses something similar to the above along with state tracking for each pilot. They had some issues with changing states but they have improved it significantly. IL-2 also has some issues with states as evidenced by the fact that once pilots enter the "rtb and land" mode they will pay no attention to bandits or friendly calls for assistance.
With a fairly small set of attributes it's not too difficult to come up with a robust and varied AI behavior without the use of complicated technologies such as neural networks. Even better, it's all been done before so there is no real technological leap. It's simply a matter of CPU resources and developer time to fine tune the behavior.
What? I thought they had already implemented the Ar$ehole personality into the AI allready!
No but really, what were dealing with in the game isn't Artificial Intelegence as a computer scientist would classify it( sorry in advance to the AI programmers in IL2 and Bob I guess they'ld understand where I'm comming from), Its more of a 'simulated intelegence' that has nothing to do the AI learning or 'understanding'.
Werner Molders or they'ld learn from their mistakes and understand that violence is not the answer and the war would be over after the first mission!!!!
I think our PC's will be having enough trouble Handling Bob when it's released, let alone trying to incorporate sophisticated AI. Also most of the 'real' AI programming is still research into our understanding of how intellegence works. I don't think it's at a state where it ready to be bunged into a flight sim at $80 a copy.
The A.I. needs to "understand" that they can't do plane aerobatics when their flight controls are damaged http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif. They always ram right into the ground doing some crazy move and I'm sure other people have encountered this as well.
I agree with you Outlaw, this has all been done before....and none of it has worked, not even close. So perhaps we need to look at the problem in a different way?
You've hit the nail on the head, Neural Networks even with large samples only succeed at mimicking behaviour, they don't understand the behaviour they are mimicking and without understanding there cannot be intelligence. The more I think about it the more I think a new approach to this whole problem needs to looked into.
It worked very nicely in the traffic simulator and it's not bad in BoB WOV. By, "...it's been done before...", I didn't necessarily mean that it's been done in the applications you are aware of.
A fine tuned decision tree along with variable per AI unit attributes CAN produce reasonable (remembering that reasonable is defined by the attributes) behavior.
Note that I'm talking about fairly high level decisions here such as "should I attack", "should I RTB", "should I climb first", and "what should I attack". States for a flight sim could include the following, "scanning for targets", "attacking enemy air target but wary", "totally fixated and unaware", "RTB but wary", "totally fixated on RTB", "landing", "oh God I'm on fire", "attacking bogey and attempting positive ID", "attacking enemy ground target", etc. with each state having certain criteria that, once met, cause a reevaluation of state.
The question is, why is it so difficult to apply a decent AI to some games or if it is remains a simple question of priorities from the producers.
No AI will ever be complete or human, but the best AI I experienced so far was in UnrealTournament. Except the latest part UT3, which spares out a lot of important options because it was adopted to and from consoles, you could modify a great range of parameters for each bot in the game.
Agressiveness, Maneuverability, Awareness, Speed of Aim, Accuracity, etc. You could even specify what weapons they prefered.
Especially in teamgames, these bots acted together and much more important: They learned! You could sometimes gain an advantage by using a flank attack or sneak into the base by using a hidden shortcut, but the next time you tried this, you had a bot waiting to take you out, so you had to come up with something new.
This was in the original UT-game from 1999, so I just can't believe those who still insist something like this is impossible, yet.
But really that AI was deadly simple because the game mechanics were allot more simple as well. That AI just had to move, point (in a direction), shoot, jump, and otherwise use the mechanics of the in-game weapons. And all done "on foot" (although the low gravity mode involved significant time spend not standing on something) so the complexities of how thats supposed to go are allot less. Plus that AI never used cover or had any group tactics of significant value that I remember seeing. Some of the FPS's incorporate that now as well.
IL-2 AI has allot more work to do like flying the plane, manging the engine settings, firing weapons, leading fire, engaging in limited team tactics (wingman/leader/flight, etc.), avoiding terrain, dealing with damage. I do think the IL-2 AI could be tweaked for largely visual impact so they looked a little more competent but its just not going to be easy to make them allot better.
You think so? Okay UT-Bots don't usually run in formations, but they do react to weapon effects (increase distances against Flak-Cannons and Miniguns or when fighting with long range-weapons, etc.) and they surely teamwork and even more: They interact if you use the command-menues. And especially on higher skillsettings the bots get not only faster or aim better, but they use tactics, rushing, defending, flanking, camping, they control redeemers, use shortcuts, they even switch the ball on "BombRun" to use it as a healing-device. More than that, they can even easily adopt other playing-principles, like using cover (e.g. "Infiltration"-Realism-Mod for UT) or play ball (Deathball).
More than that, they can even fly spacefighters in a fully three-dimensional environment. Sure the flight-modell is still much simplified, but it IS the same AI doing all this and they teamwork and interact without crashing into each other all the time.
I thought they didn't introduce the space ship combat until UT2004.


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On one side is the power and volume button, while on the other is microSD slot and the camera shutter button. Samsung even managed to put in an IR blaster to use the phone as a remote control for various devices. The S4 Zoom has a 16MP 1/2.33” CMOS sensor — the same size sensor is also used in many point and shoot cameras.
Apart from the 10X optical zoom, you get optical image stabilisation, xenon flash and a 24mm wide-angle lens. Combined, this delivers camera performance unseen on a smartphone. Image quality is fantastic — rich colour, sharp details and minimal noise. Video recording in full HD is also great and if you record at 720p resolution, you can record at a remarkable 60fps. The camera interface is similar to the one found on the Galaxy camera and Galaxy S4. The S4 zoom also offer manuals exposure control which is impressive. You can adjust shutter speed, aperture, exposure, ISO, sharpness, metering, drive and so on.
We would have loved it if images could also be saved in RAW. If you have the S4 zoom, there is no need to carry a separate point and shoot. The 4.3-inch super amoled display has good viewing angles, but the 960 x 540 pixels resolution is a letdown. We would have preferred a 1280 x 720 pixel display at this price.
Another issue we have with the device is its weight. At over 200 grams and a protruding lens + grip, it’s not easy to carry in your pocket all the time. General day-to-day smartphone performance is great. The dual core processor with 1.5GB RAM proves to be enough for gaming, HD video files and multitasking. In the image gallery, we noticed that the device takes time to load images only after there are over 100 images in full resolution saved on internal storage.
The battery lasts almost a full day with continuous data connectivity, voice calls and extensive use of camera with its 2330mah battery. With extensive use of xenon flash, the battery life drops considerably. The Galaxy S4 zoom is highly recommended for those who want a hybrid device offering the best of smartphone and a camera.
Although there is nothing in the same price that comes close to the S4 Zoom, you can consider the Nokia Lumia 925. It has a bigger and better screen, lighter and slimmer unibody design and an 8MP Pureview camera that takes great photographs.
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Kevin Love scored nine points on 3-of-9 shooting with 14 rebounds, three assists and two steals in Sunday’s Game 7 win over the Warriors.
Love clearly had designs on getting to the glass as he sacrificed some availability in the corners to immediately chase offensive boards, but mostly he was placed closer to the rim on offense and defensively he saw a lot of minutes against the Warriors bigs that inexplicably got big minutes. Though he was still a liability defensively in the game’s deciding moments he found himself isolated against Stephen Curry, and though the Warriors didn’t execute the set well at all — he slid his feet and forced Curry into a tough miss.
No Cavs player has been criticized more than Love and it would have been easy for him to disappear so this is a moment of redemption any way one slices it. Now whether or not the Cavs decide to keep it together is another question, but they undoubtedly go into next season with less pressure to change the formula that won them a championship.


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Add some boldness to output. Update/fix pkg_needrebuild() for smart-live-rebuild.
Do not attempt to use submodules for which the checkout path does not exist (has been removed), bug #551100.
Respect the EVCS_UMASK variable to override the default umask when writing to the repository.
Mention git-clone man page for URI syntax, bug #511636.
Use ROOT=/ when checking for git features, bug #518374. Patch provided by Michael Haubenwallner.
Stop forcing -m0755 on EGIT3_STORE_DIR and parents, bug #516508.
Fix typo in submodule fetching, reported by Hans Vercammen.
Properly canonicalize relative submodule URIs, bug #501250.
Give an explanatory error when trying to fetch https:// with dev-vcs/git[-curl]. Bug #510768.
Automatically switch to EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=single+tags for Google Code.
Add a single+tags mode to handle Google Code more efficiently, bug #503708.
Force EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=mirror for submodules since they can reference commits in any branch without explicitly naming the branch, bug #503332.
Clarify where EGIT_CLONE_TYPE and EGIT_MIN_CLONE_TYPE is supposed to be set.
Do not try shallow clones on local repositories.
Force non-forward updates on git refs.
Add EGIT_MIN_CLONE_TYPE to control clone type via ebuilds.
Auto-unshallow when fetching by commit hash.
Introduce EGIT_CLONE_TYPE for future use.
Support using a local git mirror.
Fix support for non-master default branch.
Replace "git fetch" checkout with more efficient and compatible pseudo-shared clone.
Use git init+fetch rather than clone in order to fix checking out to non-empty directory. Fixes bug #502400.
Fetch and preserve git notes as well.
Use complete git clones, and clone them onto the checkout directory. This makes it possible for build system to lookup all repository information as requested in bug #489100. Remove shallow clone support since it would require too much effort and make code hard to understand. Additionally obsoletes bug #489100 and git-r3 part of bug #494934.
Use shallow clones for local repos. Bug #491260.
Fix parallel checkout race conditions, bug #489280.
Create a fake ".git" directory inside the checkout to satisfy git rev-parse uses in build systems. Bug #489100.
Strip sub-slot from local repo IDs.
Fix handling relative submodule paths.
Add missing "die" calls as reported by Nikoli.
Skip submodules that have update=none specified in config. Fixes bug #487262.
Fix git-r3 -> git-2 dependency leak, as noted in bug #487026.
Add missing git DEPEND wrt bug #487026.
Always fetch all branches when doing non-shallow fetch.
Fix parsing EGIT_REPO_URI. Bug #486080.
Support EGIT_REPO_URI being an array. This is needed for tests.
Update git URI stripping for gnome.org.
Strip trailing slashes from repo URI when determining local copy directory.
Do not even create shallow repository when EGIT_NONSHALLOW is set. Otherwise, the eclass tries to unshallow it and that breaks broken git servers like Google Code.
Fail early on unreachable URLs. If ls-remote fails due to server being unreachable, there is no point in attempting to fetch.
Do not leak EGIT_NONSHALLOW over loop iterations. Failing URL may cause non-shallow attempt to be made. When attempting next URL in the list, we should try shallow again.
Introduce smart switching between "git fetch" and "git fetch --depth 1" to save bandwidth.
Do not pass --depth when updating a branch, it trrigers issues in git. Instead, use it for the first fetch only.
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It has been more than 2 years since my last post. Where did I go? What have I been doing?
I lead the design and development of Parabo Press.
We did a lot of house hunting.
I killed at least 5 plants.
I turned 30! And Andy threw me my first ever surprise party.
I sprained my ankle during a snowboarding lesson.
I briefly participated in the gray hair trend. My hair is still recovering.
I grew out my bangs for the first time in 20 years.
Penelope continues to be cute.
I’m back because I want to share my thoughts, ideas, inspiration and photos with other people again. My brain is getting crowded. I upgraded the old blog with a brand new outfit (I know, it’s called a theme) from Solo Pine. It’s so pretty and is a great reflection of how my style has evolved and been elevated. You’ll still find almost all my old posts here, some have aged better than others.


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The Garden Route and Knysna are famous for its hospitality and excellent restaurants and cafes. Some are well-known like Ile the Pain or the famous Anchorage. But some gems are hard to find. And if you find them you won’t pop in. But it is worth doing it.
The quality of meat in South Africa is outstanding. Almost everywhere you get a nice steak, but some places you should experience yourself. We tell you which places.
There are so many activities in Knysna and surroundings. But sometimes you just need an easy walk to stretch your legs. We show you some nice and good hikes.

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How will health exchanges affect the marketplace?
The establishment of health insurance exchanges is one of the key elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA.) The exchanges are meant to provide affordable coverage to the uninsured. But their establishment has caused some confusion and with the help of InsuranceHeadlines.com and the Washington Post, we’re going to try and make some sense out of their creation means.
1. If you are an individual buyer do you have to buy insurance through the exchanges? No. As stated above, the exchanges are meant to offer affordable coverage to the uninsured. You an also choose to buy your policy through the private market. Both polices bought through the exchanges and via the private market must meet minimum coverage requirements.
2. Will rates go up for younger people? Maybe. A provision of the ACA says that premiums for older people cannot be more than three times higher than those for younger people. But many young people will qualify for premium subsidies if they make less than $45,960. There will be other money-saving measures available to them, such as high-deductible polices which may require more pay-as-you-go charges. These discounts will help to lessen the impact of possible rate inceases.
3. How does the law impact health insurance savings accounts? To qualify to make tax deductible health savings accounts deposits, the insured’s insurance policy must have a minimum deductible of $1,250 and $2,500 for a family policy.
4. What are the penalties if a consumer chooses to NOT purchase any type of health insurance? The fines in the first year are $95 or 1% of your income for the year. They increase in 2015 and again in 2016.
Open enrollment will take place October 2013 through March 2014.

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If there’s one movement that’s guaranteed to frustrate a rider before they figure it out, it’s travers. The irony is that most horses will tend to carry their haunches to the inside to a certain degree, that is until the rider wants the haunches to come in. Then everything seems to come in except the haunches.
To start travers out of a corner, the haunches are not brought back to the track.
I particularly like the phrase about where the head is looking. Too often I see riders performing a travers (or think they are performing a travers) where the horse is looking toward the outside of the ring rather than straight down the track. This figure therefore has too much angle and not enough bend and, thus, also not enough engagement.
The phrase in regard to four tracks also should help riders understand how much angle is needed. Again, I see so-called travers where the head is indeed looking down the track but the tail remains on the track as well – and thus has no angle at all.
The part that hasn’t changed is at the end where it states that the haunches must leave the track or are not brought back onto the track after a corner or circle. Paying attention to this phrase should help those riders who have trouble with travers to understand that just the front end of the horse finishes a corner or circle before starting that movement.
The travers shows up only at Second Level, but it is hugely important to anyone who aims to move up the levels from there and wants to understand the half pass, which is basically a travers on the diagonal. If you are having trouble with the half pass, it helps to go back to the travers along the track, which gives you a point of reference. If you can’t aim the front end down the track, while at the same time establishing the bend that maintains the haunches to the inside of the track, then you will find it much more difficult to do the same thing on the diagonal.


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You have 160 characters to describe yourself in your Twitter bio. As an aspiring branding specialist, I care a lot about how my profile comes across (hence the profile picture change at least 3 times a week). So, how am I going to position myself... Aspiring journalist? Okay, that's what I am. Aspiring writer? So hipster, yeah that definitely has to be in there. Aspiring public relations professional? That sounds nice, add it. Ballerina? Well, duh.
This piece of writing has taken me awhile to put together, and even longer to actually press "Publish." Not because I'm worried about people reading it, not because it's an end all, but because it's me coming to a major life realization. Not because it's eloquently written or has any profound ideas, but because it's not something I was fully ready to write, and I don't know if I ever will be.
To be fair, this topic requires a book to truly express the immense meaning it has in my life, but this is a blog and I would lose more interest than I already have, so here it goes.
I began dancing when I was around three years old. My mom took me to the Nutcracker as a toddler, and I was (so she says) enthralled by it-all of it. Not many children that young are that captivated by a performance with no words or audience interaction. So from there, she put me in ballet and "the rest is history."
As I grew and time went on, ballet became more and more apparent in my life.
Dance wasn't a hobby. Dance wasn't an extracurricular I did just because. Dance was my passion and my dream.
Along the way, I was told that I could, should and would be a professional ballet dancer. Some days, that is what I wanted with all of my heart. Others, it wasn't at all.
I can see now that amidst the praise, the criticism, the corrections, the passion, the love and the discipline- I slowly made decisions that were leading me to the reality of my future.
I first made the decision to not move away to attend a performing arts high school in pursuit of my dream, in exchange for a normal high school life with my friends and family. I then chose to go to college directly after high school, a school that didn't offer a dance major at all.
Looking back, it seems as though I always knew.
It's not easy to give up on something you hold so near to your heart. It's not easy to give up on a dream that is so idolized by yourself and others, one that if you just tried a little harder, would be right in your grasp.
It's not easy to move on from one of your passions.
Since coming to school, I have danced with different companies around town, performed here and there, and taken classes when I was able. But it was never enough.
It's not easy to get back into something you were once so well-versed in. It's not easy to try to do something you were always able to do, and feel yourself falling short of your old standards.
The other day, I looked back at my writing from the past few years. There remained one constant in all of my desires for self-improvement. I was constantly wishing I would get back into dance, full-on. I was constantly hoping that I could train every day, lose weight, strengthen my body and get back to where I used to be and surpass it.
Goals were set, and goals weren't met.
So why didn't I just do it?
It's not easy, that's why.
I wasn't willing to work for it, to sacrifice my collegiate experience and everything it has been in order to train for that dream. I wasn't willing to make the sacrifices I needed to make for that passion.
I always had an excuse. Whether it was money, time or whatever else- I always had a reason to not work for it.
Maybe it’s because I am actually scared of failing, maybe it’s not my ultimate dream, maybe it’s a little bit of both.
It's not easy to admit that although ballet is something I will always love, something I will always cherish and something that will always be a part of my life, it isn't my entire life.
It's not easy to let go of something that has been held on a pedestal by myself and others for so long. It's not easy to let the possibility of a certain life flee from the reality of your future. It's actually really hard.
I don't think I'll ever be truly happy with myself until I accept where I am headed and fully commit to the path that I have chosen. I will always not be enough, I will always have an unchecked to do. Without accepting my life for what it is, I will continue to set myself up for failure day-in and day-out, because it's easier to do that than to admit to myself that I have given up.
I still have ballet workouts scheduled into my planner that I never do. I still have the goal of making an audition tape to send to companies, even though I probably won't. I still do it, and I still fail.
And maybe, it's because although I'm scared to let it go, so scared in fact that as I sit here typing this my heart actually hurts (I haven't felt this in awhile, this is not very fun), I'm more scared to admit that it's not really my dream and it's not what I'm going to do. I'm scared to admit that I have found different passions and a different life path.
I will always be a ballerina. I will always have a torn identity. I will always wonder. And, in all honesty, I will probably always think "what if." Simply because I'm not ready, simply because it's easier to do that than accept it (although I think this piece of writing might be my first step), simply because I really do wonder "what if."
As I struggled with my "what if," I think I sub-consciously decided that it was either dance every day, or don't dance at all- potentially the root of what fueled my disappointment and failed goals.
All or nothing with ballet? Um, no thanks, because at the end of the day, when you realize your life has taken a different turn and that amidst school, work and everything else, you actually can’t give it your all, then you are left with nothing, and you realize that's not what you wanted at all.
Your biggest regret will follow you around forever, until you decide to change it or move on, although I think I’m choosing both. Choosing to incorporate it into my life- not as I had always imagined maybe, but the picture in your head of the way life should be, could be, is not always the most beautiful possibility.
Ballet will always be a part of my life, and that's the way it should be. But accepting the future and embracing life for what it is, accepting the decisions I have made, realizing my new passions and moving forward is something that I need to work on, and I will.
Maybe I will audition for different companies and it'll work out, maybe I won't. Maybe I'll teach dance in my future, maybe I won’t. However ballet will be in my life in some form, always, because without it, I wouldn't be me ( and my Twitter bio would be much too bland).


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What an amazing opportunity to relax during the 19-night cruise from Brasil to Europe for just €590/£529 per person! Full board meal plan included!
Are you ready for a journey of a lifetime? Take this deal and spend 20 days discovering Brasil, the Canary Islands, Morocco, Spain, France and Italy onboard the glamorous Costa Favolosa. You will visit many interesting destinations on your way. The price is based on double occupancy in a modern interior cabin. Enjoy the spectacular cruise inclusive of all meals (breakfast, lunch, afternoon coffee, dinner, snacks during the day, sometimes midnight snacks), use of on-board facilities and participation in all recreational activities and entertainment programs during the cruise. The price does not include service fee (€10.00 per day / adult) and alcohol on board.


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Gov. Jay Nixon will join state and local officials and mental health professionals in Fulton on Thursday, June 23rd to tour the recently-constructed Energy Control Center (ECC) and Services Building at Fulton State Hospital, the first structure on campus to be completed. Gov. Nixon led the effort to rebuild Fulton State Hospital, the oldest state psychiatric hospital west of the Mississippi, and replace it with a new state-of-the-art facility conducive to modern treatment.
This event marks a milestone in the construction of the new Fulton State Hospital.
Gov. Jay Nixon will join Missouri Department of Mental Health Director Keith Schafer, Mental Health Commissioner Kathy Carter and local elected officials on Wednesday (May 27) to break ground on the new Fulton State Hospital.
Last year, the General Assembly backed the Governor’s plan for replacing the state’s outdated and deteriorating maximum-security psychiatric facility Fulton with a new state-of-the-art mental hospital that will be safer and more conducive to modern treatment.


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The 5th Alberta Chief Power Engineers Education Conference is well into the planning stages for 2019. The last 4 years have been very successful in bringing industry together, answering your questions and informing you about what’s happening around Alberta.
The conference was developed in response to requests from Chief Power Engineers who are currently working within power plants, thermal liquid heating system facilities and heating plants as per the Safety Codes Act (ACT) and the Power Engineers Regulation (PER). This educational conference is designed to provide you with additional education to help you in your role and responsibilities under the PER, help with understanding the need to be in compliance to the ACT and Regulation(s) along with other matters that relate to your duties.
The conference is organized by a committee of industry personnel along with advisors from ABSA. We work each year to provide you with relevant, up to date information that you can use.
We invite Chief Power Engineers or the Person in Charge of a plant, along with Approved Power Engineering Training Providers to attend and encourage you to register a guest that you feel will benefit from the conference.
The 2019 conference will be held at the Delta Hotels by Marriott, Edmonton South Conference Centre again this year on October 30, with the hospitality suite on October 29. The hospitality suite is a great way to meet other people in industry and network.

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Genymobile, the company behind the popular Genymotion Android emulator, has launched a new cloud platform that adds automation and collaboration functionality beyond its traditional emulation capabilities.
Founded in 2011, the company made a name for itself by improving upon the notoriously slow stock Android emulator that came with the Android Studio IDE. It became so popular that the company claims some 4.5 million developers use the Genymotion emulator.
With the new Genymotion Cloud, the company is seeking to expand its market. The cloud offering -- which the company claims is "the first cloud-based Android platform" -- is being marketed on the strength of automation features and collaboration capabilities especially suited to enterprise app development.
Company exec Angelique Zettor emphasized the automation capabilities in announcing the cloud platform, which has been in a beta program since April.
"While we planned for a versatile cloud platform that combined collaboration and automation features in equal parts, our enterprise customers were very quick to adopt the automation features of Genymotion Cloud," said Zettor. "It was simply fascinating to see how both the constituencies at our enterprise customers -- IT as well as Engineering -- were delighted. IT saw a reduction in capital and operating expenses associated with setting up and maintaining various parts of their CI systems, whereas engineering (developers and QA) found a new solution that saved them a lot of hassle and time."
A key part of the automation functionality is integration with popular Continuous Integration (CI) platforms such as Jenkins and Bamboo for building and testing Android apps. "Genymotion Cloud allows developers to test their code incrementally, avoiding cost- and resource-intensive fixes in the future," the company said.
Multiple testing framework support: Genymotion Cloud supports a variety of testing frameworks including but not limited to Robotium, Appium, Calabash, Espresso and UIAutomator.
GMTool command line tool: This enables developers to automate the lifecycle of cloud virtual devices.
Genymotion Gradle plug-in: This lets users run end-to-end instrumented tests in the cloud.
ADB Tunnel: Ability to make local ADB calls that are executed on cloud-hosted virtual devices.
Collaboration features, meanwhile, include: a live demonstration capability so app functionality can be demonstrated in a Web browser; virtual device sharing, so virtual device configurations can be customized remotely; and app sharing, which provides access to the most recent app under development, so, for example, salespeople can have potential app customers try out and test projects while they're being developed without enlisting help from developers.
"We eat our own dog food all the time and this time it was no different," said exec Arnaud Dupuis. "We have been using our on-prem Jenkins CI with Genymotion Cloud for a while now. We don't need to bother our IT with setting up and maintaining Jenkins slaves; we just reach out to our own cloud, instantiate virtual devices, connect to them and run a variety of tests using various testing frameworks! Our developers and QA are very pleased with what we have put out there."
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The Uttar Pradesh government Monday suspended a doctor in a case of medical negligence in which a teenager declared dead by him regained consciousness in a mortuary in Muzaffarnagar district.
Radhey, 17, woke up in the mortuary at the Muzaffarnagar district hospital Sunday, nearly 10 hours after the doctor, Pradeep Mittal, declared him dead, an official said.
The victim was brought to hospital from a forested area where he was found in an unconscious state Saturday, police said.
Mittal declared Radhey dead Sunday morning and directed the ward boys to shift "the body" to the mortuary.
"When police officials along with the hospital staff were about to begin the formalities of the post-mortem, the youth regained consciousness," Chief Medical Officer Anand Swaroop told reporters in Muzaffarnagar, some 300 km from Lucknow.
"When the state health authorities came to know about the incident, an inquiry was ordered. On the recommendations of a panel constituted to probe the incident, Pradeep Mittal was Monday placed under suspension," he added.
Radhey, who hails from Agra, worked as a labourer in a village in Muzaffarnagar, police said.
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If you’re not already familiar with the term “virtual race”, think of it as a race stripped down to the bare essentials: a goal, a run and, of course, a medal. Unlike a traditional race event, a virtual race works around your schedule and can be run at any time of day, from any location in the world. There are no route maps, and no crowds. Just a target distance, a loose time frame and a medal delivered to your doorstep – easy!
Find a virtual race online and select one that suits your schedule and makes you feel excited about getting out for a run.
Register and pay the entry fee.
Run the distance you committed to in the set time frame.
Send in some proof of your run.
Get a medal in the post – it’s that simple.
How do you prove you’ve actually run a virtual race?
This seems to be the number one confusion surrounding virtual races. Generally speaking, most races will require entrants to submit some kind of “evidence”. The definition of this term differs from race to race but can include anything from miles logged with a running app, to running selfies.
Many virtual races operate on an “honour system”. This means the organisers are trusting that the people, who have gone through the trouble of registering and paying, are going to do the right thing.
Though there’s no shame in running at the back of the pack, it is nice to be able to take things at a comfortable speed without being overtaken. Likewise, if you’re a speed demon, you’ll enjoy being able to give the race everything you’ve got without being slowed down by the crowds. In a virtual race, you are the master of your pace. So whether it’s slow and steady or fast and ready, everyone’s a winner!
When you’re first finding your feet as a runner, it can take a while to build up your confidence. During this time, it’s not uncommon for runners to feel self-conscious and keep their progress private. But this solitude can make motivation a challenge. Virtual races offer a fantastic way for new runners to stay focused and build up their miles and their confidence in a stress-free environment.
As virtual races can be run anywhere, at any time, they are a fantastic option for people who live in remote locations, people who have busy schedules and people who work irregular hours. You can run a virtual race as part of your weekly training schedule, as part of your run commute to work or on a treadmill at the gym. The boundaries of a regular race don’t apply so, as long as you’re putting in the miles and submitting your evidence, you’re earning your medal!
Race events, although exhilarating, can be very overwhelming and highly stressful for even the most seasoned athletes. Virtual races present a perfect solution for avoiding the crowds, jitters and anxiety that comes with physically attending a race event.
A term you often hear at race events is “run your own race” – in other words – don’t worry about comparing yourself to other runners and just focus on running the best race you can. A virtual race provides the perfect conditions to get focused, without being distracted by other runners’ performances.
Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been running for years, a little motivation can go a long way and having a goal (with an entry fee, a charity donation and a medal to keep you accountable) can really help you get up off the couch, lace up those trainers and get your runs done.
Although some consider the virtual race craze “impersonal”, the feelings of connection and of being a part of something greater than yourself are still very much alive in virtual races. This is due to the following components: fundraising, shared challenges and date-specific celebrations.
Many charities offer virtual races and, whether you are fundraising with friends or by yourself, there is an undeniable feeling of camaraderie in pounding the pavements for a good cause.
In shared challenges, you contribute to a larger goal you might never have been able to achieve alone. Perhaps the best example of this comes from “Moon Joggers”, who set up a community with the goal of running enough collective miles to reach the moon. They achieved this goal in 2013 and I can only assume they’re over the moon about it (couldn’t resist!).
Many virtual races are set up to commemorate particular events – such as our International Women’s Day or Friendship Day virtual races – these allow people all over the world to feel connected through the shared celebration of something that makes them feel good, whether that be the celebration of great women throughout history or the celebration of a good friendship. And what better way to celebrate than with a run?
International Friendship Day takes place 30 July, so why not celebrate the day by running as far as you can with friends? Simply run at least one mile on 30 July to claim your exclusive Friendship Day medal. Enter now for £10.
Specialising in shorter distances (5K,10K and half marathon) this US based company has a good range of races with cute and quirky bling – unfortunately you do have to pay extra for postage to the UK (rats!). Prices range from around £24-28 (including shipping).
The CALM 10K is a chance to come together in support of men who have suffered, and are still battling mental health issues. Open to men and women who’re running for a friend, simply run 10K between the 7th and 8th of October and submit your evidence, to recieve your CALM #RaceForAMate medal. £2 from every entry goes to CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) a charity organisation that helps men affected by mental health issues. Enter now for £12.
This UK company has some great variety and raises money for some fantastic charities. Its race options range from 5K to 1,000 miles and prices range from £7.50 – £13.50.
How many days can you run in a row? Run at least seven days in a row this July to earn your summer running streak and claim your exclusive Sunstreaker Challenge medal. Each run can be anything from a one-mile recovery run to a 60-mile ultra marathon. As long as you record your runs and submit your evidence, showing at least a one-mile distance for each day, the Sunstreaker Challenge medal is yours. Enter now for £10.
If you’re into comic books and 80s arcade games, the flashy pop-art-inspired style and bright eye-catching medals of Pow! will be right up your alley. There’s more to the series than meets the eye, however –between 20%-100% of the profits from its races go to charity. Entry price ranges from £10 – £25.
On a scale of 1-10, how big a Harry Potter fan are you? If your answer is 9 3/4, you and this running club were made for each other. The club’s themed virtual races and medals do the franchise perfect justice and, since 2014, the club has raised $1.4 million for deserving charities. Entry costs vary from £22 – £40.
Whether you are unable to make one of our live events, or you are just looking to increase your race participation without the need for travel and expensive hotels, we have the virtual race for you! There’s some great medals up for grabs, with some fantastic causes and a range of challenges to complete. Some races even have bespoke t-shirts – the perfect way to commemorate your run! Prices range from £10-12.


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The West Coast Grill is now closed. We are excited to be completely renovating the restaurant space, and will be opening a brand new restaurant concept in early March! Stay tuned for more announcements!
The Grind Station Cafe offers coffee's and lattes roasted by "Kootenay Coffee" in nearby Nelson as well as exceptional Mighty Leaf Teas. Also enjoy locally made soups, sandwiches, wraps, muffins, cookies and the finest banana breads any where. All made in house.

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The cooling with this device is based on the electronic cooling effect produced by the flow of electric current through a Peltier cell. The Peltier cell allows cooling of the medium without the necessity of other means like a refrigerating compressor or cooling water baths. LAMBDA has selected a cooling loop working according to the "heat pipe" principle, which has an advantage of having up to 80 times higher heat conduction compared to copper (!) and can be used with various levels of medium. It works even when the loop is not entirely submerged in the medium.
The LAMBDA Peltier cooling system is extremely compact and advantageous when cultures should be run at temperatures close to the room temperature or few degrees under the room temperature. Lower temperatures can be achieved by isolation of the vessel with convenient isolating material. The LAMBDA Peltier cooling loop eliminates the need of refrigerated circulating baths, which are expensive and take a lot of valuable bench surface.
The LAMBDA Peltier cooling loop is, however, not intended as a replacement of a standard refrigerated cooling bath, in applications, where an intensive and fast cooling of the medium is required.
The cooling intensity of the Peltier cooling module is always maximal. An excessive cooling is compensated by increased heating of the MINIFOR fermenter-bioreactor. In this way precise temperature control is always achieved.


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It’s not what a lot of you think. That is one thing I’m sure of.
A huge part of the crisis is the way our country is treating its citizens, using them as pawns in a battle that neither side is going to win.
The “greater good” doesn’t pay their bills. Any more than it would pay yours.
It just amazes me. I’m heartsick. I’m appalled. And I do not understand how some people can be so cavalier, so uncaring, even cold hearted. Like they really don’t care, as long as they get their own way and are not personally inconvenienced.
Why? What’s happening to our country? How have we become so insensitive to others who are caught in the middle of a controversy not of their choosing, and certainly not caused by anything they’ve done, except be employed by the federal government?
The end does not always justify the means, and certainly not in this case. Not when it’s hurting so very many American families.
Comments I have heard have amazed me. When i mention how these employees are being treated unfairly and how they’re having trouble paying their bills, I hear “yes it’s a shame, but illegals have taken our jobs away and people can’t find work because of them so we need a wall.” So what about the families who now can’t pay their bills? That question wasn’t answered.
It doesn’t work that way. Mortgage companies need their money as well, and most landlords aren’t in a position to let the rent go unpaid, because they have mortgages to pay as well. If this continues then their employees could be affected as well. Vicious cycle, isn’t it? But we need that wall!! The heck with everything else!
“The workers can get unemployment. And food stamps. All they have to do is apply. What’s the problem there? We need a wall!” The problem is, they’ll make far less on unemployment than their regular paychecks, and it takes awhile to get food stamps as well. It’ll help some, certainly, but it takes 2-4-6 weeks to get that first check, depending on where they live. What do they do in the meantime? And just remember they have to pay all that back when they finally get paid.
I guess the wall is far more important than someone’s insulin, or blood pressure meds, or other drugs people have to take regularly. Is this that “greater good” thing again?
Our country is in crisis. Our elected officials aren’t negotiating. Each side blames the other, and as of this writing, neither is willing to compromise, which leaves all of these 800,000+ people and their families, plus all of the government contract employees, in a state of limbo, with no financial security at all. They are at the mercy of others who don’t seem to really care about them.
I am greatly concerned for these families, for what this shutdown is doing to them, and how the entire matter is dividing our country so deeply. It has now reached a point of extreme division, often pitting friends and family against each other in a sometimes vicious war of words and name-calling.
I have yet to hear a valid argument as to why it is ok to leave these federal employees in this situation indefinitely. It seems all we are hearing from each side is either “We have to have a wall!” or “We will not fund a wall!” It’s time for BOTH sides to sit down and negotiate an end to this stalemate. These employees do not deserve this treatment by either side.
And to all of you, no matter what side you’re on in this, please try to put yourselves in these people’s places. Actually picture yourselves being there. No income, or worse, working for no paycheck, with a promise to be paid later. Trying to figure out how to meet your expenses, feed your family, afford your medications, and try to keep a roof over your head.
And for those working for no pay, imagine how that feels. No, really imagine it. Don’t the majority of us really need the money we’re paid for the job we do?
How would you feel if you were actually in that situation? No end in sight, and running out of money? Having to try to get loans, beg landlords or mortgage companies to give you a break, and then being told “no”. Then having people tell you it’s all for the greater good, and you’ll get by somehow.
I’m sorry, but this is a real human crisis we’re facing right now. Where is the compassion we’re supposed to have for others? I’m not seeing it here. And until we stop being on one side or the other, no one is going to win. We’re spending too much time criticizing the “other side” and not enough time trying to solve the problem. Yes, I want illegal immigration stopped, but not at so many peoples’ expense who have no say in the matter. Enforce the laws we have, add more border guards, but for everyone’s sake, stop this shutdown madness.
Our federal employees are caught in limbo, and it’s going to start affecting a lot more people if it continues.
They deserve better. Don’t you agree?
For once let’s put politics aside and do what’s right for everyone concerned.
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Air duct cleaning in Bothell, WA sounds simple enough. However, if the air duct cleaning is not done with professional techniques, all of the dust, particles and other things that are inside the duct might come to reside in your living spaces. Many states require air duct cleaners to be licensed for good reason. When you need to clean your air ducts, look for an experienced company like Dave All Star Cleaners.
We will protect your furniture and possessions by covering them or removing them from harm. Our cleaners use special vacuums that remove all particles from the duct and don't blow them out into your home. Our technicians are familiar with cleaning all types of air ducts, including metals, plastics and fiberglass. Fiberglass air ducts need special care to prevent fibers from the glass from entering your home. There fibers can be dangerous if breathed in over time.
Our cleaners will clean your drain pans, coils, vent covers, humidifiers and fans. Cleaning includes replacing your filters with new ones to keep the air in your home vented cleanly. All of these areas should be free of dust and dirt and dry to the touch. Your vents should be reattached firmly to the wall. Our cleaners plan our cleaning times with our customers. If a job will take more than one day, we form a plan so that the owners of the home are not inconvenienced over night.
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* The OddEven class declares a single private field of type int named input. Every instance of the OddEven class has its own copy of the input field. The private declaration means that no other class can access (read or write) the input field.
* OddEven() is a public constructor. Constructors have the same name as the enclosing class they are declared in, and unlike a method, have no return type. A constructor is used to initialize an object that is a newly created instance of the class.
* OddEven number = new OddEven(); declares a local object reference variable in the main method named number. This variable can hold a reference to an object of type OddEven. The declaration initializes number by first creating an instance of the OddEven class, using the new keyword and the OddEven() constructor, and then assigning this instance to the variable.
* The statement number.showDialog(); calls the calculate method. The instance of OddEven object referenced by the number local variable is used to invoke the method and passed as the undeclared this parameter to the calculate method.
* input = Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog(“Please Enter A Number”)); is a statement that converts the type of String to the primitive data type int by using a utility function in the primitive wrapper class Integer.
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text: Gallehus Horns, pair of gold, horn-shaped artifacts from 5th-century Scandinavia that constituted the most notable examples of goldwork of that period. They were unearthed at Gallehus, Jutland, Den., in 1639 and 1734 and were stolen and melted down in 1802. Replicas made from drawings are now in the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen. The larger horn, which measured more than 2.5 feet (0.75 m) long, bore the runic inscription “I Hlewegast [or Laegaest], Holt’s son, made the horn.” The engraved pictures and symbols (which include animals, hunters, and a three-headed figure), arranged in bands running around the sections of the horns, probably had religious significance.


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When you decide to use our skip hire Leominster activity, you will conceive that we offer quick delivery of your chosen skip and the finest feasible prices on the market. We offer a free pick up service to all customers within the Leominster area and can even assist you with obtaining an on road permit for any, skip, at an additional price.
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When finding a skip, it’s important to imagine how much waste you are likely to make, otherwise you can wrap up with a wrong size container, which can only increase the payment. Furthermore, a skip that’s too small will make you with leftover waste that you may do without.
The length of time you will be hiring a skip for is another factor that affects the price. You may think that the longer you hire a skip for, the more you will need to pay. However, this is not always the case. Various skip hire companies now offer regarding longer periods, but only consider this option if your project is likely to take a few months to end. Keep in mind that if you place the container on public land, you will need permit extensions and renewals from the council before adding the skip on the road. Most councils only issue permits that are valid for a fortnight to at least one month.
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Mortgage Life Insurance | Is It Right For You?
Are you worried about how your loved ones will pay for your home after you pass away? If you want to make certain your loved ones will have a roof over their heads after you pass away, you might want to consider purchasing mortgage life insurance. Before you make this purchase, however, it is a good idea to learn more about mortgage life insurance in order to determine if it is truly the type of policy you need.
As the name implies, mortgage life insurance is a form of life insurance that pays your mortgage off after you pass away. Mortgage life insurance is different from credit life insurance, which is sold through the lender at the time the mortgage is taken out. With credit life insurance, the purpose is to protect the lender if you should pass away. With mortgage life insurance, on the other hand, the purpose is to protect the dependants of the person who passes.
Unlike traditional forms of life insurance, the value of a mortgage life insurance policy actually goes down over time. This is because the value of the policy is only equal to the amount of money you still owe on your mortgage loan. As you pay down the loan, the amount of the pay out goes down as well.
Whether or not you should purchase mortgage life insurance depends upon you and the needs of your loved ones. Unlike a traditional life insurance policy, your loved ones will not receive the money if you pass away. Rather, the life insurance benefit is paid directly to the mortgage company. As such, you can rest assured that your mortgage will be paid off if you should pass away. If your beneficiary or beneficiaries tend to be irresponsible with money, taking out a mortgage life insurance policy is a good way to make sure they have a roof over their heads after you pass away. If your beneficiary or beneficiaries are responsible, on the other hand, you might be better served by a traditional life insurance policy.


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it’s taken a while, but this morning i finally realised the full degree of my stagnation. having ripped a pair of jeans and struggled with a 6km easy pace run at the weekend, the tightness of my once-loose work shirt this morning was the final straw.
since reaching brisbane in september, i have steadily slid backwards into some kind of lazy comfort zone. yeah sure there’s a certain amount of rest and recovery that was needed after travelling across australia on foot, however far too many excuses have been made, and too many false re-starts have been encountered.
the weight has stacked on, good habits have slowly slipped away and bad habits have come creeping back, morbidly picking over the carcass of the good habits and settling back in like they have never been away.
the good news though is that i am not the person i used to be, i have no intention of heading back to where i was before, and i know what is/was wrong – there was no real plan.
the 10km in Bunbury is definitely for fun only and will be a slow pace. some of the parkruns will be walked (or a very slow run) with my son. The 15km MAWA event on Jun 5th will be run as a 10km time trial (sub-60 goal) plus a 5km recovery run.
overall i am very happy with the plan until mid-june – it provides a contrast to the longer stuff i have been doing, should be fun, and most importantly help me get back on track. i know that having a schedule and some goals really helps in all other areas, so i’m very much looking forward to it.
after perth marathon, i will spend a couple of weeks just doing a few easy runs per week. early july sees the start of a 30 week program that will take me up to the 100km event at the 2017 “australia day ultra” in australind.
it is my intention to include a couple of events as part of the 100km training – notably the marathon event at the world masters athletics championships in november, and possibly one of the distances at this year’s city to surf.


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In a development that is expected to contribute to the downward spiral in Turkish-American relations, the United States government has reportedly filed espionage charges against three Department of Defense contractors with Turkish background. The three are believed to have been charged with transferring US military secrets abroad and are currently in prison.
A statement published by the US Pentagon said that the group consists of two men and a woman, all of whom are of Turkish background. Two of them are naturalized American citizens. They are listed as owners of a company that conducts research in military technology and has contracted for many years with the US Pentagon. All contracts were allegedly won following competitive bids and can only be awarded to bidders who are in possession of US citizenship and top security clearances. According to Turkey’s pro-government English-language newspaper, Daily Sabah, the three contractors have helped develop and manufacture parts for missile-launching systems used on American warplanes. They have also worked on several generations of grenade launchers used by the US military.
But on Sunday, the three contractors were arrested in simultaneous raids and charged with “funneling military secrets out of the country”, according to Sabah. The paper said the US government decided to arrest the three once it became known that some hardware parts related to the Pentagon bids handled by their company were being illegally manufactured in Turkey. There is no information in the Pentagon’s press release on whether the top-secret military components were also shared with the Turkish government. Relations between Washington and Ankara, two North Atlantic Treaty Organization member-states, have suffered since the failed July 15 military coup in Turkey. Many in the administration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blame Washington for the coup and for allegedly shielding the man behind it, the Islamic cleric Muhammed Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US state of Pennsylvania.

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