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Light, warm, comfy casual coat
Warm, comfortable coat for Maryland winters. A bit longer than some such styles, which I found more comfortable to wear. I like the fact that the hood is detachable. I wouldn't say...Read complete review
Warm, comfortable coat for Maryland winters. A bit longer than some such styles, which I found more comfortable to wear. I like the fact that the hood is detachable. I wouldn't say it is a very high quality product, but for the price it is a good value. I did remove the fake fur from the hood because I thought it looked really bad. ( I'm not a fan of fur-fake or otherwise)
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It being a Totes, I had high expectations and overall they were fulfilled but I must say that the big issue for me is the thinness of the lining. Within 2 weeks of wearing...Read complete review
It being a Totes, I had high expectations and overall they were fulfilled but I must say that the big issue for me is the thinness of the lining. Within 2 weeks of wearing it, the lining already split/separated and had to be hand repaired. Even the hand repair was delicate as the lining is super thin and not substantial enough to sew. I only give this a thumbs-up because it IS warm, comfy and not bulky but I suggest you NOT use the inside pockets to carry anything other than small change or lose money (not a wallet or small coin purse).
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Excellent Choice!
By JK
from Cumberland, MD
About Me Classic Dresser
Comments about Chevron Quilted Coat by totes®:
Very happy that this came the day before a snowstorm! Warm when standing in or shoveling windy snow, longer length keeps you warmer, knitted cuffs, neck that zips up, hood snaps shut really keeps cold air out. I am so glad I took a chance on this coat!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Love this coat!!!
By Sharon
from Houston, Texas
About Me Casual Dresser
I haven't worn my coat yet because we are having a light winter so far but I have tried it on and it feels great. It's not to light nor too heavy. Just feels just right on. The color is an off white and very nice.
Isotoner coat
By Yard Lady
from Winston Salem,NC
Needed something warm and big enough for layering underneath.
Chevron quilted coat
By Jo2pat
from Bronx, NT
Love this coat
Quilted Coat
By Terry
from Wasilla Alasks
The coat is feather light and very warm.
I would buy this product again
By nana
from Athens, Alabama
It is nice and warm and soft. I have enjoyed wearing it.
Love It!!
By Betty Boop
from Roanoke VA
I love the light weight, but warm and I like the hood when it's windy. The side pockets are very stiff and hard to slide, difficult to open. I would really like for the coat too be a little shorter because I'm short. But I would still like for it to give me enough leg space to climb into a high vehicle without having to unzip it.
By Sarah'sGommie
from Philadelphia, PA
Merchant response: Your National purchase is guaranteed to give you 100% satisfaction in every way, or we will cheerfully replace or refund your money. You are the judge and there are no questions asked.
Comfy warmth
By ruralgal
from Russellville, AR
Using this for daily wear and appreciate the longer length (knee)for warmth. The detachable hood really keeps my head and ears warm. Wish the fur trim was a better quality.
Thankful I purchased this!
By Carolthecatlover
from South Orange, NJ
Comments about Chevron Quilted Coat by Totes®:
When I ordered this coat I hesitated a bit because I wasn't really sure if I needed another one in my wardrobe. I am really thankful now that I did though because we have had an unusually cold winter and this has been my go-to coat for when I run errands. I like the length, the fact that it has a hood and what I really like is that it keeps me very warm! I would have thought about getting another one but I guess it was a popular item because in my size they only had the same color left that I have and I couldn't see getting two in the same color. Even my husband commented that it looks like one of the warmest coats he has ever seen me wear.
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Great coat
By Guitar girl
from NJ
I love this coat. I have had one for five years and was glad I was able to find it again. The old one is now used for my morning walks and shoveling snow. My only disappointment in this coat is that the color is darker than in the picture. It looks like a winter white in the pic, but the actual color is more of a taupe.
Got it in time for below zero temp
By momishere
from Minneapolis, MN
I survived walking a short distance outside in below-zero temp with this coat over a warm fleece jacket and mittens.
nice coat/nice price
By cl
from Los Angeles
I was looking for a longer coat to wear with pants for rain /winter -it might be overkill for the wet winter. But it should be cozy.
Beautiful Jacket
By None
from Belleview, Marion, Florida
Love this product! looks good , feels good, and wares beautifuly..Recomend this jacket...
Love this coat!
By Shari
from Mukwonago, Wisconsin
Would recommend this to a friend, but was told th at this coat is being dicontinued. Too Bad.
A perfect gift for my mother-in-law
By LoLo123
from Northern NJ
It fit the bill....great color, warm with good coverage for the legs and torso, NOT made of down feathers (she's allergic), washable, stylish and a great price. She usually wears a small and the small fit perfectly.
Love the two-way zipper!
By Kat
from Florida
The two-way zipper is great when driving a car or sitting down. The hood fits well around the face and snaps comfortably at the chin--usually I don't even need a neck scarf. The longer length of the coat adds warmth. The pockets in the lining of the coat are flimsy, so I don't use them. The stitching on the zipper is not straight.
By Lisa
from Michigan
This coat is just perfect in size and color too-I love it and will have it many years.
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
Not good for old lady
By Sis
from Dowagiac, Michigan
returned. Too small in chest area. Lovely warm coat. I am 87 it was not comfortable for me.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Keeping Warm
By Coat Lover
from Hartsdale, N.Y.
I love my new coat, and wear it every day. It is so comfortable.


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fruhulda Dec 14, 2012 11:54 PM
in response to Zaphodsplanet
You can use the free application Onyx for maintenance of your computer. http://www.titanium.free.fr/
Once in awhile you can do a Secure restart by press down the Shift key when you hear the stating chime. Keep it pressed until you see a bar emerging on the screen. Secure start do also delete some unnecessary cache files. Try Pages and see if it works now.
twenty61 Dec 15, 2012 4:54 PM
in response to fruhulda
SIGH..it still does not work ;-(
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 11:04 AM
in response to twenty61
I know your pain. I found a file I had exported into Word..... so I have something to build off of... but it blows because it looks like I've lost over 500 pages of data and 100,000 + words..... I feel like I'm at the recieving end of a Microsoft Product. I can't believe they haven't issued some kind of fix. I don't understand all that's generated with the crash report but I'm guessing the program is having issues dealing with large files..... which is insane because 30MB is not really a large file per se. I'm going to download the 9.3 update off the site and trying reinstalling that as a kind of last ditch effort. I'll report back with the results.... good... or most likely ... BAD. UGH!!
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 11:22 AM
in response to twenty61
Well..... same deal. Reinstalled the update and no change. I wish there were a way to remove the update so I could work on this file again.
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 4:19 PM
in response to fruhulda
OMG.... that worked Fruhulda. I wasn't too keen on downloading and installing a program I had never heard of before.... but after I cleared enough of the caches I'm back in business. Thank you gain for posting the link to Onyx. I love apple once again.....LOL
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 4:35 PM
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2061.... It's working again.....!!!
At the top of the second page of this discussion Fruhulda posted a link to a free program called Onyx. I wasn't keen at all on trying it as the site wasn't in the states and I had never heard of it before. but as I was so desperate I relented and installed it...and....it worked....
Follow that link and then download the program.
I may or may not have done this all in the correct order but here's what I did. There are several main menu items ... what I used primarily were the options in the "Cleaning" menu. When you click on that you'll see a second menu of items that appear. I started out with "Fonts" since I had read on one site that if you deleted all the font caches that it could clear up some of these problems. In each case I just left the selection of what caches to delete checked as they are by default. After doing each one of these I restarted my computer and ran "repair permissions" in the disk utility. My guess is that if you do all of these and then you repair permissions then you'll be fine, but know that most of these will require you to reboot your machine.
-User (all three of these required reboots)
Each time I did one of these cache clearings I tried to fire Pages back up with the file that was giving me issues. Once I had done all that was listed above then Wammo.... IT WORKED!!!!!!!!! It took forever for it to reopen the offending file the first time but I think that's because it was building up all the info for the stats I have selected at the bottom of the page. All 2357 pages and 695,794 words.....LOL. Anyway, I hope this get's you working again. Looks like I'm back in business thanks to Fruhulda and Onyx.
Take care
twenty61 Dec 17, 2012 9:48 PM
in response to Zaphodsplanet
I was all excited after your great news but...it did not work for me ;-(...still waiting to hear from the iWork team at Apple....twiddling my thumbs...what's a decent alternative to Pages...I really need to get into my documents...
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 9:53 PM
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Awe man.... total bummer. There's one last thing I did do that I didn't put on there. Do you know how to access the terminal? And do you know how to make your computer show hidden files?
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 9:55 PM
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Actually it wasn't the last thing but the first thing.
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 10:12 PM
in response to twenty61
Actually... you don't need to use terminal to show the hidden files.... there's an easier way. Fruhulda to the rescue yet again. Okay..... try this if you haven't already. Some of this should have been deleted when you ran Onyx but maybe not. What I did prior to running Onyx was delete the entire Cache folder in the user library.
Now by the looks of it you're using 10.8 while I'm still using 10.7. But give this a try. Open a finder window and then click on "Go" in the top menu while holding down the "Option" key. You'll see a folder called "Library" in the listing. Try clicking with and without the option key and you'll see it come and go. Anyway... select the Library and it should come up in the finder window. You'll see a whole slew of folders. This is not the system libarary directory that you can see by default... but the library directory for your username which is usually hidden.
In this list of folders/directories you'll see one called "cache".... delete the whole thing. Don't worry about anything inside as the system will recreate it when you restart your machine. This was one of the first things I did.... but I did what was called a "secure" delete. In other words you hold down the command key when you drag the folder to the trash. Doing the secure delete took my machine a couple hours to do as there were close to 20,000 files in there so it took it a while to write over everything as it did the "secure delete". You could probabably skip the secure delete but it's what I had done initially.
Give that a try.... reboot, run repair permissions in the disk utility and see what happens.
Last thing.... did you wait for the program to totally crash before force quitting it? I thought for sure that running Onyx didn't do crap.... opening the file the first time took forever, and it looked like it was going to crash Pages just like it did before.... and then finally, w/o warning it kept running.....LOL.
Let me know if this last proceedure that I also did makes it work or not.
Zaphodsplanet Dec 17, 2012 10:47 PM
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Happy feeling gone... I shut down Pages thinking all was safe and sound, and to test to see if it would work as it should. So I quit pages and then hit the icon for it in the doc..... freaking crashed the stinking application. So I go to restart it yet again but w/o reopening the windows (two documents... a one pager cover letter and the massive doc I've been having issues with).... so the application opens/starts. I then go to select the problem file... and WOW... it totally FREAKING CRASHED THE WHOLE STINKING OPERATING SYSTEM.
I have been using OSX since 10.0 beta.... and up until tonight I had only experienced 3 system crashes. All 3 of those were with the beta version and first out of the box versions of OS X. But tonight guess what the wonderful programmers of Pages have enabled.... system wide crash number 4..... I feel like I'm using Microsoft product all of a sudden. What in the **** did they do to this program?
twenty61 Dec 18, 2012 11:43 AM
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;(...i contacted the iWork team about the progress of my enquiry and this is their answer:
It's still being investigated. I've forwarded over to one of the Pages engineers to look at.
If they do find that the issue is a bug, it will be addressed in the next update.
Thanks for your help in making our products better!
Sigh, I am actually trying to get your products to work ;-) What happens if it is not a bug? and how long until the next update?
Happy New (Pageless) Year everyone ;-)
Zaphodsplanet Dec 18, 2012 12:37 PM
in response to twenty61
2061, Their answer completely blows. I've been searching how to uninstall and reinstall Pages in the forum...and funny enough... I run into yet more people having similar issues with Pages as you and I are. This is so below par for Apple. I'm going to ping Mac Rumors and see if they can do a story on this, and maybe if someone has found an actual fix it can be posted. I'll let you know if I hear back from them. Or better yet....contact them too... along with any other Mac Rumors and Tech kind of site.
twenty61 Dec 18, 2012 3:07 PM
in response to Zaphodsplanet
More from the iWork team:
I'm sorry to hear about this and I recommend two options:
1) take your computer to the nearest Apple Store (make an appointment with a Genius first) and have them look at it.
2) Call Apple support and see if they can help you over the phone.
My role is more of looking for issues that customers are experiencing and reporting this back to the engineering team. It's not really support but more of a proactive way for us to look at real world issues.
Thanks for your patience.
I am confounded by the words GENIUS (who is a Genius?) PROACTIVE (for whom and for what purpose?) REAL WORLD ISSUES (instead of?) ;-)
I am on holiday now: As a genius in my field, I have decided to take a proactive approach to real world issues. ;-)
Zaphodsplanet Dec 18, 2012 4:06 PM
in response to twenty61
You see it's all about thinking "outside the box" (of reality). In order to properly quantify the true synergy behind this person's answer you must be able to fathom the gestalt of it. In leu of an actual answer that a mere common human being might understand, might you not actually be much better off understanding that no answer is better than any answer squared?
As a professional Genius myself, I can see through this haze and straight into the mud behind it. Rub two sticks together and you too can be a Genius.
It doesn't sound like you're talking to tech support any more.... but PR.... or someone fresh off the Obama campaign.
Sounds like they're going into a CYA (Cover ur a$$) mode.
Someone screwd up something. Most of the people posting about this issue are well aware of some of the simple maint. required to keep our macs healthy and happy. And the fact that I am experiencing zero other problems with my machine, as is probably the same with you, just confirms that update 9.3 may in fact be some kind of spawn of Satan...:)
Oh... I did shoot an email to one of the editors of Mac Rumors, still no response yet.... will go and shoot a similar message to someone at Apple Insider.
I really hate when companies feel the need to do this. Just grow a pair, be honest and say something is not right and you're working on it with a periodic status update. Pages is the only app on my computer... out of the 107+(not including the utilities) on my computer giving me a headache. I probably use 60% of those applications on a semi-regular basis and aside from Adobe CS5 doing something odd every now and then.... most everything is rock solid.
Watch.... they'll soon release Update 9.4 as a fix to 9.3 which had a hidden flaw because someone was distraugt and forgot to create 9.2, which is what 9.3 should have been because the update prior to 9.3 was 9.1. You know... like the time NASA sent that probe to Mars and someone mixed up and used Metric measurements instead of imperial, in NASA's case the probe went head first at high speed into the Martian ground, we should feel lucky that it's just crashing our computers and limiting access to our work, so it's like almost nothing (shift blame).


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The red text is one thing - but could we please have the same layout format as in un-featured threads? I'd sure appreciate it! :)
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1. Put a little box around the 1st post
2. At the top of the box write a caption like "Featured post" (or whatever...)
3. Put a space between the featured post and the rest of the posts.
4. Slap a nice adsense 728x90 box in this space. I can supply the necessary adsense code for this if required.
5. Leave the borders and indentation around the other posts exactly as they always have been, because you are trying to hightlight the first post, not demote the discussion following it.
6. Have an option for registered users to turn this off if desired.
I'm running a monitor at 1152 x 864px with a maximized broswer window. This means the lines are quite long, but also that the number of lines on the screen is smaller, and that any given block of text takes up less vertical space than it would in a narrower window.
In spite of this, twice today, I've clicked into homepage threads, read the first post, seen that there were no replies and clicked back before realizing that there were replies but that I hadn't even been able to see the top of the second message because the gap underneath the initial message was so huge (and the initial messages in both threads were very short).
The kicker: I already knew about the new homepage format experiments and I still had problems...
I suggest running future improvements past the usability/accessibility forum [webmasterworld.com] before taking them live ;-p
However, if you would like to put adsense in there instead, your welcome to borrow my publisher id.
If you want to recognize someone for posts that make the homepage, then recognize the poster, not the post (which is how it appears now). Thats what all that info in the profile and along side the posts is for.
I think the font size is too large, the colour's too blue and think the layout method looks broken. If this is a reward for those who have written a decent enough post to warrant homepage inclusion why not do something more subtle for those who care for this sort of thing?
Given the chioce I'd pick an a simple 'rosette' gif or less intrusive subtitle. Or perhaps a complimentary tone for the initial post background colour?
But I have to vote nay on the current one.
The whole idea here is to make the first message of a homepage post something posters will strive to hit.
If you really want to encourage people making super-post and gaining reconigtion out of it, add a counter of how many post have hit the homepage for the poster, then may be give them some stars ranking and people will know even before reding the first post ;-).
Secondly, I like incrediBills idea. However, I think that would be better served as a customization available a la control panel. It could cause some problems otherwise, pushing other content which may be just as good (if not better) farther down the forum.
Another idea is to take away the right padding of the other posts (while leaving the left padding), and above it write 'Discussion' (or something similar) to fill in the blank space, while still offering the original post its deserved glory.
>>I like moltar's idea of a small icon indicating a home page topic.
Ditto that, but those who click to the thread from the homepage already know it's featured there. A small icon would be even more helpful on the active list, and maybe visibly displayed for those who surf by forum (very helpful for finding quality older threads), rather than the thread itself since not everyone comes to the site via the homepage.
I'd much rather see little simple indicators here for the high quality threads
It would be very handy for those whose time is at a premium.
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Though some have dubbed the Dan Rather docugate story a distraction from the real issues of campaign 2004, I would argue that, in some ways, the episode illuminates those issues.
For more than 30 years, John Kerry has been vaulting back and forth over the Vietnam fence -- believing that the war was his trump. As his coattails flapped with each jump, he radiated confidence. He had the thing nailed. He opposed the war, but he served. He was wounded and he protested. How perfect. Through the years, he sometimes ran on his credentials as a war protestor and sometimes as a war hero. He threw his ribbons away. He kept his medals. His undistinguished career in the Senate would not damage him, Kerry reasoned, because he had that gold-plated, two-sided, Vietnam credential. Others suggested that the Democratic Convention focus on the economy. But Kerry was determined to make it a Vietnam-fest.
In 2004, the jig is up. Vietnam veterans who have seethed for decades about Kerry's treachery are getting their licks in. Kerry's lies (such as the shameful declaration that the memory of being in Cambodia in 1968 "is seared in me") have been exposed. Kerry's grotesque and deceitful 1971 testimony before the United States Senate about the war -- calling American soldiers "monsters" -- has been remembered.
How does this connect to Dan Rather? Aside from Kerry, there is no man more responsible for libeling Vietnam veterans and derivatively, America, than Dan Rather. As B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley document in "Stolen Valor" (must reading), Rather produced a program for CBS in 1988 called "The Wall Within" (see "The First Rathergate" by Anne Morse in National Review Online).
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435 Back to Government? Reregulating British Railways Peter Leyland* Introduction This article examines questions of constitutional accountability arising from the privatization of British Rail in the mid-1990s, but I would like to declare a personal interest in this issue at the outset since the manifest shortcomings in rail performance have affected me as one of the many thousands of commuters who rely on trains to get to work each day. Rail privatization in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was a complex affair that involved taking a single industry and breaking it up into distinct parts. It also required separate regimes of statutory regulation to oversee the general operation of the railways, the bidding process for franchised routes, and safety. The entire enterprise lacked a clear rationale. Not only did the proposals appear flawed from the outset, but the policy was pursued by an unpopular government in the face of strong opposition from the rail industry and trade unions, opposition parties in Parliament, and the public at large. After a relatively short time it became obvious that standards of service were declining alarmingly on the entire rail network, and later, the cause of serious rail accidents indicated that passenger safety was being compromised through neglect of the system. The difficulties encountered by government in responding to what had rapidly turned into a crisis raise important legal and constitutional questions. This article begins by explaining the constitutional relationship of Parliament and the executive by mentioning the important convention of individual ministerial responsibility. Secondly, it provides a narrative of the British Rail episode that dis*Professor of Public Law, London Metropolitan University. This article originated from a contribution to the round table at the end of the symposium Back to Government? The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, June 2004. Papers from this symposium are published in 12 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 409, 409–716 (2005). I would like to thank Colin Scott and Professor Cosmo Graham for their help with the preparation of this article. This article was researched and written in the Autumn of 2004 before the Railways Act 2005 was approved by Parliament. In consequence, it has not been possible to take full account of changes made during the later parliamentary stages of the legislation which coincided with when the article went to press. 436 Peter Leyland cusses the main features of nationalization, privatization, and statutory regulation. However, this narrative is narrowly focused in order to concentrate attention on the main institutional failings and successive attempts to repair the damage. It will be suggested that the deep-rooted problems encountered in regulating a fragmented, loss-making railway expose the limits of regulation, and perhaps the limits of the privatization project in the United Kingdom. The Labour government continues to declare its commitment to public/private partnerships and free market principles, but we will see here that in a number of key respects, the levers of control are reverting back to government. I. Political Accountability and Ministerial Responsibility When considering regulation and accountability in this context, it is important to remember that the fundamental underlying issue is the protection of an important public interest which can be identified in distinct ways. This interest can be defined in terms of the preservation of a railway that serves the public and forms an important part of the nation's transport infrastructure. And obviously, the public interest requires the efficient and safe operation of the rail network. In addition, large sums in public subsidy have been and continue to be spent on the railways. Finally, there is a public interest in the control of a monopoly power. In an important sense we are concerned with the capacity of government and of Parliament to safeguard the public interest defined in all these ways.1 In the United Kingdom, the convention of individual ministerial responsibility is the constitutional mechanism for establishing accountability between political decisionmakers and professional civil servants responsible for implementing policy. Further down the policy chain, accountability extends in varying degrees to "next steps" agencies as reconstituted administrative units within the civil service; nondepartmental governmental bodies, including regulators; and to certain aspects of policy to devolved government and...


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Hello, I moved from NYC to Paris France when I was 6 months pregnant. The move itself was not too painful (we sold most of the furniture and shipped everything else by boat), but it was hard to settle in a new city at that point of my pregnancy. I felt really lonely and it was hard to adjust to the new life.posted 12/15/2005 by a BabyCenter Member
My advice is the sooner the better. I moved at 7 months pregnant, and I don't think I could have helped with the packing and unpacking if I had waited much longer, not to mention you will have to get things ready for your family and the new little one to live there. Accept all the help offered, and be sure you are moving somewhere you intend to stay for at least the first 6 months or so of you new ones life.-Jessicaposted 09/10/2007 by 092606
We moved about four hours away when I was six months pregnant. It was very stressful, because my husband was already up there, so I had to worry about packing and moving everything. I could not have done it without my mother. She made sure that I didn't lift hardly anything and she packed everything while I dictated. So please make sure that you have some help. And remember that stressing out only makes things worse.posted 12/11/2006 by kimberlywimberly
I had to move our entire household while my husband was out of the country. I started packing literally 2 months in advance, doing however much I could each evening. I wanted the time and opportunity to really sort and organize. I hired movers, and did none of the lifting. I moved to an area where I had a lot of friends. Many of them had offered to help on moving day, but instead I recruited them for an unpacking party. I let the movers put all the boxes in the appropriate rooms. Then I had my friends over, hosted a potluck, had them all bring their tools and let them hang the paintings, install shelves, hook up the home entertainment system, and unpack just about all of the boxes. It was the ideal housewarming. I spent about a week after that rearranging and making sure that everything was just where I would most like it. But mostly, my work on the packing end paid off, and my friends were able to unpack for me easily and neatly. It really made a big difference. I felt entirely settled in less than a week.posted 12/15/2005 by PreggerPod
I had a friend who moved with her husband when their son was just a few months old. Once there, they both struggled with depression. They saw a psychotherapist who said they were experiencing this disorder due to the significant transitions they had been required to endure. (Birth of the new baby, new job, new home, wife had needed gall bladder surgery, etc.) My advice to you is to be aware that such significant life changes can take an emotional toll. Seek professional help if you or your husband lose sight of your positive attitude for more than just a few weeks.posted 12/15/2005 by PreggerPod
My husband and are are planning an overseas move when I will be 14 weeks pregnant. I am a bit nervous about the strain this will take on the baby. We of course, have to hire movers, but I plan to do all my own packing so that if something is broken, I have no one but myself to blame. I will have my husband do all of the heavy lifting and pulling things down from cabinets, but I will do all the wrapping and labeling. My biggest concern is not the move but that when we get there, because this is a voluntary move and not a work prompted move, I won't have health insurance for the first three months. Any advice?posted 06/01/2007 by kalerfamily
I recently made an in-state move and found that apart from the hassles of moving, the real problem for me was adjusting to the new city. Since I'm not working and pregnant, it is increasingly hard to meet people. The places that my husband and I also enjoy frequenting (bars, pool halls, dance clubs, poker tournaments) are smoke-filled. My husband's temporary job in construction also meant that there were no office parties, or even wives to socialize to with. I quickly found myself desperately missing friends and family. While I was going to join a prenatal yoga class in our old town, there were no such organizations or classes in our new location. I hope you have better luck in your move, but maybe preparing yourself for these changes (plus hormonal ones!) and looking for a friendship base in your new town will help.posted 04/16/2007 by *Ruckeliene*
My husband is in the military and I too will be relocating at almost 33 weeks. Not something I am looking forward to but I like knowing I am not alone!posted 03/05/2007 by armymama604
My husband is leaving next month for basic military training. I'm 26 weeks pregnant. My husband and I will be reuniting in about 8 weeks, and then I will DRIVE to wherever he gets stationed. By then I will be 35 weeks pregnant, and alone. Is this safe? Any advice?posted 01/17/2007 by alliemr87
I moved when I was 7 1/2 months along. We only moved an hour away from where we lived before but I could not find a doctor in my area to take me because I was in my third trimester. Please try to set yourself up with a doctor before you move. I ended up having my baby in the closest hospital by a doctor I did not know.posted 12/17/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
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Definitions for kelpieˈkɛl pi
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Princeton's WordNet
kelpy, kelpie(noun)
(Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears
(Celtic folklore) A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
An Australian breed of sheepdog.
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alt. of Kelpy
The kelpie is a supernatural water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland; the name may be from Scottish Gaelic cailpeach or colpach "heifer, colt".
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an imaginary water-spirit which, it is said, appears generally in the form of a horse.
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how do you have so many strawberries? D:
um...i don't suppose you could tell me what lipgloss or lipstick you used?
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No cupids bow was it photophoped out?
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Hmm weird somehow i started to feel like i would like to have some strawberries
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The lips are so glossy.
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I love the lip gloss colour!
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I love the colours and the shine of the lips
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uberly sexy. Love the high gloss and deep color <3
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it's... a caterpillar dragon!! it is fiercely cute!! i bet i would get a minor degree burn if it breathed on me ><
This is beautiful.
Love all the colours.
Love all the colours.
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BEHOLD the mighty... err...gecko?
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Stylish. And I love the colors!
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Beautyfull colours, the whole composition and so much details.
Beautyfull colours, the whole composition and so much details.
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Pandas are cute! Pandas are endangered! Pandasare too cute to be endangered!
My submission for =peppersnot's SAVE THE PANDAS contest, and that is her uber moe OC miru
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art mine, oc peppers.
My submission for =peppersnot's SAVE THE PANDAS contest, and that is her uber moe OC miru
Hope it wins something orz
art mine, oc peppers.
SO cute!
Awww! So cute!
Yes! Save the pandas! They are way too cute for them to be endangered!
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Everything is so cute and cuddly and as always, your colors are brilliant <3
I love the way you did her eyes and all the soft glowy pink you used in this <3 <3
The background is amazing and in such a cool style- I can't- even-
GAAAAhhaHH not to mention that adorable hat and those little tiny panda plushies that look so soft and squishyyy <3 <3 <3
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so cute!!!
tablets yes plenty but not the plant!!!!!!!!!! its not enough to feed the pandas!!!!
yeah the plant bamboos are what i'm really talking about. not didnt mean anything about the tablets.
but still, this isn't good, especially since the weather can cause deaths to the bamboo trees. D:
we must find away to continue the growth of bamboo and keep them alive and healthy for the pandas.


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Re: Windows 8.1 and Devastation DLC
Ever since the 5/13/14 patch I've been having similar issues. I'm lucky if I can get more than one round in before it locks up tighter than a drum and I have to fight to get the Task Manager up to kill it. When I do kill Ghosts it takes Steam down with it. I'm running Windows 8.1 64bit, AMD FX-4170 4GHz, 8GB RAM and an nVidia GTX 760. Was running smooth as silk previously.Dead_God (in response to jimintoronto) Member
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That's very interesting. I wasn't aware there was also a patch released May 13. I have noticed that my gameplay has been getting some hiccups recently, though, which have been rare. Occasionally, I get a slight freeze, especially when switching to sights. There are so many variables with online gaming, though, so it's hard to pin anything down. Everything starting with your own computer's performance, your internet connection, and the servers where the games are hosted are all contributing factors.
UPDATE: Was playing Squad Assault and a couple of the rounds picked a Devastation map for the first time. This is not the same as choosing Devastation from the menu. The first time through on the Ruins map it went fine with no problems. A few rounds later the Devastation Ruins map was chosen again and part way through, it crashed. I was able to get out of the crash by signing out from the Task Manager menu. Once it completed the sign out process, I logged back in. This at least saved me a reboot.
So far, everything's still pointing to the Devastation maps for my crashes. I don't get them otherwise.jimintoronto (in response to Dead_God) Member
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Re: Windows 8.1 and Devastation DLC
It turns out in my case it wasn't the Ghosts client crashing after all. It was SteamServices.exe. It would quit in the middle of a match and cause Ghosts to lock up. I ended up doing a couple of Google searches and found this article on how to fix it: Steam Service Crashing :: Help and Tips. I had to do the second option, deleting SteamServices.exe and then starting Steam, but it seems to have resolved the problem for me.Dead_God (in response to jimintoronto) Member
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Re: Windows 8.1 and Devastation DLC
Same problem here. No PC changes only added DLC.
COD Ghost screen freezes random all maps.
With Ghost en 2 separate DLC's
Since last DLC PC screen freeze
Windows 8.1
Core I7 3820, 16Gb, MSI GTX780 OC Gaming
Shame! maybe last time i buy COD game.
I now try lower effects....Marski69 (in response to Dead_God) Member
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Re: Windows 8.1 and Devastation DLC
After change "Screen Space ambient occlusion" other then "High" problem seems solved 4 me.
Maybe combination Nvidia Driver and COD Ghost patch.
My Nvidia driver is: 335.23
Nope that wasn't the solution.
Nvidia driver 3D settings
- Multi Display/mixed GPU acceleration->Single display performace mode
- Power managment mode ->Prefer maximum performance
Did the trick 4 me.Marski69 (in response to Marski69) Member
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Re: Windows 8.1 and Devastation DLC
I think I have the same problem here. Ever since the May 13th devastation map pack/update the entire game is unplayable. When it works, it works very well, but you'll suddenly notice a glitch around 5-25 minutes into a game, then everything stops moving completely. It remains in that locked state for 2-3 minutes, then crashes. I am using an apple wireless keyboard, and haven't gotten ctrl-alt-del to work on it (it doesn't have a delete key) so can't say if that would allow me to exit after the crash. Windows event log points to steamclientservice.exe as the culprit...
My system, I believe, is more than capable of playing this game. In game cpu temp is ~45C @ ~20% utilization, GPU maxes at 60C (usually 55 or so) @~95% utilization. Memory usage is only ~30%.
Computer specs are:
i5 4670k @ 4.5Ghz @1.224v core
MSI R9 270X @1185Mhz & 1500Mhz Memory
16Gb Mushkin DDR3 @2133Mhz
OCZ Vertex III 110Gb
Asus Z87-A MB
Windows 8.1x64 - Latest Updates
Windows Defender for AV (Also manually initiate Spybot/Malwarebytes - but never during gaming)
Also updated all other drivers to latest
I only game in 1080p (living room PC) using an Xbox controller with the microsoft receiver, and see between 25-60fps on ultra settings. Freezes occur at all temps and framerates. I have already tried updating to the latest beta graphics drivers, setting all graphics setting to off or lowest setting, removing steam overlay and msi afterburner/riva tuner OSDs, verifying game cache integrity, updating steam to latest beta, going through the steam client service repair process (as noted in the link another poster provided above) and other things I can't recall at the moment.
Very frustrating, as it takes so long to determine if something worked or not and I am really annoying people on extinction (just when it starts to get fun I crash and leave the other 3 to finish).
I'll keep an eye on this thread, as it seems to be one of the few documenting similar problems I am having, very little information out there about this one...
Okay, so I have just managed to play two glitch/crash free hours tonight; I think the problem has been resolved, although I can't be completely sure yet. In my case, what finally seemed to fix it was deleting all files in my steam folder, besides the steamapps folder and steam.exe, running steam.exe, then running a repair of the steam client (using this command, including quotation marks, in an admin command prompt: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\SteamService.exe" /repair).
I was led to this solution on a steam forum (can't recall link at the moment) through searching for "steam client service crashing," which I knew was happening because of windows event log entries pointing to that file crashing when COD would crash. Deleting all of the files in the steam "program files" folder followed by running of the steam.exe forces a redownload of all the deleted files, fixing your issue if it was indeed corruption of one of those files. I'm not sure if the steam client service repair and reboot afterwards were really necessary, but I wanted to be thorough. The download was only about 80mb, all games were kept and save data was fine too.
Hope this works for some of you.DaBeantownLegend (in response to Marski69) Member
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Re: Windows 8.1 and Devastation DLC
I was having more problems with games freezing part way in yesterday and noticed a couple of things. When I managed to get to the Task Manager, the Windows (Win 8.1 64 bit) Problem Reporter was doing a huge amount of I/O activity. My hard drive was running more or less flat out, which is when the freezing started. Ghosts itself was also doing lots of I/O activity, even though I had cancelled it and Task Manager reported it was not responding. Steam was also doing lots of I/O. It seems like all this started with either Ghosts or Steam crashing. In one instance, I also got the message Vrserver has stopped working, which has something to do with Steam. I have set my Windows Action Center options never to report problems, which was a tip I found on a Google search. Once Action Center finds a problem, it starts all the I/O activity, presumably creating a dump file of some kind. I don't know if that will help the situation, but Ghosts ran fine again after I rebooted to get out of the crash mess.
EDIT: I should add that the freezing problem had nothing to do with Devastation. I occasionally get a Devastation map when playing Squad Assault and I haven't had an issue lately. There's been at least a couple of software updates since I started this thread, though. The version number shows up in the lower right hand corner of the menu screen.
UPDATE: Found another tip on Google about disabling Vrserver in Steam. A lot of people are reporting Vrserver not working messages even though they don't knowingly use it. I'm not clear on what it even does, but it has something to do with Oculus VR (Virtual Reality) and 3D headphones. I think Steam/Valve partnered with Oculus a while ago and, in March, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook announced here https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971 that it's buying the company. Also, many are reporting that Vrserver causes issues when they plug in USB devices like a mouse or headphones. Users have either renamed the Vrserver.exe file or deleted the Steam/vr directory. I deleted the directory yesterday and played Ghosts for a couple of hours and I had no issues whatsoever.


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Hunting Red-tailed Hawk with a catch
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Is it normal to see red tailed hawks in north east U.S.A.?
I see them all the time, also appearing in dreams.
I see them all the time, also appearing in dreams.
As far as I know, they are common throughout north America. Never had one in my dreams tho,,,
Good one!!
WOW!! beautiful!!!
Great focus on the eyes, do you know what is between its talons?
I am lucky i get to see this in happen in the field a lot. Its always mesmerizing
You are lucky and it is amazing to watch!!!!
What a grate photo!
Great Capture
Thats a lovely shot.