The chef's quest for perfection and his lack of awareness about the costs of that perfection mean that the restaurant is on the brink of financial collapse when he and his wife Janice ( played by Caroline Lee-Johnson ) buy it early in the first series.

* Araby – A boy falls in love with the sister of his friend, but fails in his quest to buy her a worthy gift from the Araby bazaar.

In many other RPGs it is possible to buy many cheap healing potions, and use them to heal after random encounters throughout a dungeon, and immediately before a boss battle-such an option is not available in Paladin's Quest, and finding ways to maintain adequate HP and healing bottles throughout a quest is an important part of a successful strategy to beating the game.

The purchase of the AM station was a fallback plan for MPR, which wanted to acquire a second FM station to split its Twin Cities station KSJN-FM into separate talk and classical music stations ; MPR had tried to buy KBEM-FM 88. 5 a year earlier in that quest.

The builtin headache of the Barnett regime thus far has been the steady stream of job-seekers and others who feel they were given commitments by Barnett at some stage of his eight-year quest for the governor's office.

Children and, to some extent, adults are mesmerized by good story-tellers when they become animated in their quest to tell a good fable.

Bathing, wearing of perfume or cologne, wearing of leather shoes, and sexual relations are some of the other prohibitions on Yom Kippur-all them designed to ensure one's attention is completely and absolutely focused on the quest for atonement with God.

In their quest to attain the spiritual goal of life, some Hindus choose the path of monasticism ( Sannyasa ).

According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the Āgamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment.

After escaping from some goblins who intended to eat him, he discovers that he has been brought on a quest to rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil sorcerer Sordid.

A motive for seeking a ToE, apart from the pure intellectual satisfaction of completing a centuries-long quest, is that all prior examples of unification have predicted new phenomena, some of which ( e. g., electrical generators ) have proved of great practical importance.

He meets some new friends during the Exam, and the struggles he must face on his quest will be beyond anything he's ever imagined.

In some versions of the quest for the Golden Fleece, for instance that published by Robert Graves in 1944, Atalanta sailed with the Argonauts as the only female among them.

The evacuees eventually settle a newly terraformed Mars while some form the crew of a Ship of the Law to hunt down the home world of the killers, a quest described in the sequel, Anvil of Stars.

For example, some of the " great pains " that engineers now go to in order to shield users from complexity " under the hood " are the " contextual help " paradigm ; automation ( as with engine control units, anti-lock braking systems, and traction control systems that make car operation closer to foolproof than it used to be ); weak artificial intelligence ( AI ) ( such as today's expert systems ); and the ongoing quest for strong AI ( to build tomorrow's expert systems ).

Over the course of his quest, Ness is joined by three other children his age: Paula, another powerful psychic ; Jeff, a mechanical genius and child prodigy ; and Poo, a martial arts master with some psychic ability.

The group, an example of some of the countercultures seeking to disrupt society, resorted to bombings, kidnappings and murder in order to try achieve their quest.

This advanced knowledge may require a substantial cash payment or some kind of quest to obtain, however.

The Hollywood film 47 Ronin is currently under production by Universal Pictures and will star Keanu Reeves as an outcast who joins the samurai in their quest to avenge their slain master along with some of the biggest Japanese actors such as Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Kô Shibasaki, Rinko Kikuchi, and Jin Akanishi.

* Sleeping Car to Trieste ( 1948 ): Film by the Rank Organization, story by Clifford Grey, a stolen diplomatic document is the quest of some various groups on the Orient Express from Paris to Trieste.

His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals — depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals ' quest for acceptance — namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room ( 1956 ), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America.

* A tongue-in-cheek French adventure comic series, Lanfeust of Troy, has also come up with a few characteristics similar to some from the World of Xanth, such as: humans possessing a single magical talents ranging from benign to powerful, jungle medieval / fantasy land with weird and extensive fauna, a young villager with an unknown-yet-powerful talent bound to become the hero, an arch-enemy wanting to conquer and rule the world, a quest for the source of magic ending up in the discovery of a fabulous creature, hero's love interest shifting from a beautiful and vain girl to a more complete type of women, humorous play on words on many names and titles, and so on.

Although there are many similarities between the two, they differ in some fundamental aspects, particularly regarding man's quest toward spiritual perfection and the manner by which the followers of each practice their beliefs.

Wagner wrote several stories that bring the immortal character into the 20th century and which imply that at some point he succeeded in his quest to kill God.

Solomon and his team ( dubbed " Veritas ," Latin for " truth ") search for the answers to some of the world's mysteries, a quest began because of the mysterious disappearance of Nikko's mother during an archaeological dig.

Graham helped her condition by giving her some chicken soup, and she rewarded him with some items to help him in his quest.

Set after the events of the anime series,. hack // Sign, the games focus on a player named Kite and his quest to discover why some users have fallen into comas as a result of playing The World.

* Vision quest in some Native American cultures

* Rick Riordan ( author ), " The Lost Hero "; Medea, having geing resurrected by vengeful goddess Gaia, runs a department store in Chicago that the three main heroes Jason, Leo & Piper encounter on their quest to rescue Hera / Juno.

However, the rite runs into difficulties, leading to a much longer quest to escort Elena across the continent to meet Pope Zera, leader of the Church of Granas.

The odd chapters tell the 15 year old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister.

During Henry Aaron's quest to break Babe Ruth's record for career home runs in Major League Baseball, the bar was briefly advertised as being linked to him, even though it was first marketed years before he was even born.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The Council of Bishops speaks to the Church and through the Church into the world and gives leadership in the quest for Christian unity and interreligious relationships.

The word chemistry comes from the word alchemy, an earlier set of practices that encompassed elements of chemistry, metallurgy, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, mysticism and medicine ; it is commonly thought of as the quest to turn lead or another common starting material into gold.

Apparently handcuffed by the Tribune's bankruptcy and the sale of the club to the Ricketts family, the Cubs ' quest for a NL Central 3-peat started with notice that there would be less invested into contracts than in previous years.

The Caribbean Sea was an unknown body of water to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia.

The move to Cornwall grew out of Ethan's father's quest for freedom of religion during a time of turmoil: the Great Awakening, when Puritans were separating into churches with differing dogmas, in particular about the proper form of conversion: by works or by grace.

His first foray into television was a documentary for NBC's Omnibus, Dancing is a Man's Game ( 1958 ) where he assembled a group of America's greatest sportsmen – including Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson and Bob Cousy – and re-interpreted their moves choreographically, as part of his lifelong quest to remove the effeminate stereotype of the art of dance, while articulating the philosophy behind his dance style.

According to Tracey R. Rich of the website " Judaism 101 ", Judaism, unlike other world-religions, is not focused on the quest of getting into heaven but on life and how to live it.

Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").

Duncan Kenworthy's 2011 film The Eagle depicts the quest of a Roman officer, portrayed as the son of the commander of the Ninth Legion, into the country of the Picts to retrieve the Ninth's standard along with his Brigantian slave, whom he frees during their journey.

He offers to divest himself of his powers and guide humanity in its quest into uncharted territories and prepare it for unknown threats.

Dundee becomes obsessed with his quest and heads deep into the wilderness of Mexico with his exhausted men in tow.

The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).

While on a quest to learn more about her nature as the Slayer, Buffy is told " death is her gift, a message she has difficulty understanding until the episode " The Gift ", in which she sacrifices her own life to save Dawn's by diving into Glory's interdimensional portal and closing it.

Although the Gunslinger does not bring " The Pusher " with him into his own world ( as might be guessed based upon what has happened regarding the previous two doors ), his quest for the Dark Tower is not lost, because Roland does draw his third.

The most infamous of these is a quest given by the Daedric Prince Boethiah where the Dragonborn must sacrifice one of his or her followers in order to progress further into the quest and the Daedric Prince Molag Bol requires the player to sacrifice a corrupt priest by murdering him with a rusted mace once he is caught in one of Molag Bol's traps.

Recurring themes in the show are James's desperate search for a wife, a quest in which he often involves WNYX, and his considerable inside knowledge into conspiracies and government cover-ups.

Shortly before and after the turn of the 19th century, many of Franklin County's old families began to move into Windham County, Vermont, in the generational quest for inexpensive land and frontiers to tame.

Unlike its television predecessors, the film moved into the realm of children's fantasy, and saw the group fighting evil scientist Victor Gaghan in his quest to clone the world's pop stars.

Britain's adoption of New Imperialism in the 1890s followed by its quick emergence as the front-runner in the scramble for African territories may be seen as a quest for captive markets or fields for investment of surplus capital, or ( somewhat more cynically ) as a primarily strategic or preemptive attempt to protect existing trade links and to prevent the absorption of its overseas markets into the imperial trading blocs of rival powers.

Hundreds of volunteers from the United States of America headed into the fledgling Republic of Texas to assist in its quest for independence.

The video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion features an alternative hellish world called " Oblivion ", as well as a painting you can climb into and a quest where you enter a dream world.

This quest entails a series of dream-visions and an examination into the lives of three allegorical characters, Dowel (" Do-Well "), Dobet (" Do-Better "), and Dobest (" Do-Best ").

In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes embarked upon a quest in which he called all his previous beliefs into doubt, in order to find out of what he could be certain.