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Whitepaper: Best Practices for the Design of Large-Scale Services on Windows Azure Cloud Services
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I just hade some time to browse through and read portions of a new whitepaper that was released and titled: Best Practices for the Design of Large-Scale Services on Windows Azure Cloud Services . It is an amazing overview of core concepts around Windows Azure, followed by best practices that were derived...
18 Oct 2012
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Database Sharding in the Cloud: SQL Azure Federations
Luka Debeljak
I just had some time on my hands to try out the new Windows Azure feature called SQL Azure Federations. While it is not fully obvious from the name, SQL Azure Federation basically enables building elastic and scalable database tiers. Your application can now scale beyond a single SQL Azure database and...
27 Dec 2011
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Live Now: Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure
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A new version of Enterprise Library has been released by the Patterns & Practices team @ Microsoft. This library has been extended with an Integration Pack that focuses specifically on the development patterns and architectural guidance of the applications running on Windows Azure. So what is in...
4 Dec 2011
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P&P: Windows Azure Auto-Scaling Block (Preview)
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Patterns & Practices team is working hard to enhance the Enterprise Library with new functionality. The version Enterprise Library 5.0 will include also guidance on how to auto-scale Windows Azure applications , which really optimizes the dynamic allocation of cloud resources. The beta preview of...
22 Oct 2011
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Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles
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Released less then a month ago, I believe this accelerator really makes it easy to deploy multiple web sites across your Windows Azure Web Role instances… Get details here , short description follows: "The Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles makes it quick and easy for you to deploy one or more websites...
7 Sep 2011
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Building Composite Applications with Windows Azure AppFabric
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I recently reviewed a great blog post on the topic of Composite Applications on top of the Windows Azure Platform . It explains briefly the concepts around the Composition Model , based on .NET Framework, that enables to define the components of your Windows Azure application along with their characteristics...
30 Mar 2011
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Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 is Live!
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This might be interesting for all the architects that want to do things structurally. Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 is ready to download , basic description goes like this: "Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers...
22 Apr 2010
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Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition
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I just had the time to quickly review the 2nd Edition of Microsoft Application Architecture Guide . It was published already back in Oct'09 and it thoroughly describes all key aspects of the Application Architecture on Microsoft Platform. Available freely on-line or via Amazon , Barnes & Noble or...
2 Mar 2010
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New Web Application Toolkits Available!
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Web Application Toolkits help ASP.NET web developers quickly complete common tasks. Each Web Application Toolkit download contains reusable assets - i.e. controls, class libraries, endpoints etc. and a sample application that shows how to use them. So far the following Toolkits were available:...
19 Feb 2010
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Gartner: Maturity of AJAX Technologies and RIA platforms
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In case your next investment or product will include inter-/intranet facing components (which app today doesn't ;)), it is interesting to check out the latest Gartner report on the evolution of AJAX Technologies and RIA Platforms. Good Read! The Report: MarketScope for Ajax Technologies and Rich Internet...
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By 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets …
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Gartner recently posted a list of predictions for IT organizations and users in 2010 and beyond … Some things on the list are really interesting as the statement that "20% of businesses will not own any IT assets", which basically means that the future looks really "cloudy" indeed ;)!
18 Jan 2010
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Microsoft .NET Services November CTP Release
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Hey, news about .NET Services November CTP are available at the team's blog . They have outlined the launch functionality available @PDC in 2 weeks time: Access Control Service Feature-Complete Capabilities The Access Control Service provides an easy way to control access to REST web services and Service...
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Oslo and the Data Programmability stack
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Read this interesting post by Doug Purdy describing the direction Oslo is taking. Basically the Data Programmability team is merging with the Oslo team in Microsoft, so we can expect a tighter alignment of the M with EF/EDM, which in my opinion makes sense at the end. Anyway PDC will reveal a lot of...
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Visual Studio Team System for Oracle Developers
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TeamFuze ( www.teamfuze.net ) is working on a Visual Studio Team System 2010 add-in that will bring database manipulation and versioning capabilities for Oracle databases into the Visual Studio environment, of course, by leveraging Team Foundation Server. This is basically an add-in that enriches functionalities...
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ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released
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The ASP.NET team has released a first public preview of the ASP.NET MVC Version 2 and it can be downloaded here . For the quick overview of the new features including Areas Support DataAnnotation Validation Support jQuery Validation Plugin (coming later) Strongly Typed UI Helpers UI Templating Support...
4 Aug 2009
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SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System available
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I just came across the following process template for Visual Studio Team System that can include Security Development Lifecycle features into your VSTS project. It is a great template that really helps you integrate security concerns and checks into all of the stages of the development lifecycle and...
20 May 2009
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Geneva Beta 2 and Identity Developer Training Kit
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I just found out that Beta 2 release of the "Geneva" products (Geneva Framework, Server and Windows CardSpace) are available for download here . You can read a quick overview of what Geneva is all about on the Forefront Team Blog . For those who would like to try out Geneva functionality in your applications...
12 May 2009
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SOAP vs REST: a must read by David Chappell
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If you are wondering which type of communication to use with your services in the future I would definitely recommend this blog post by David Chappell (go and read the PDF file). He basically tries to compare two ways of exposing services: via SOAP or REST-fully and he comes to some interesting conclusions...
16 Apr 2009
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Application Architecture Guide Cheat Sheets
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I was just revisiting Application Architecture Guide on CodePlex and found Technology Cheat Sheets (look under Appendix) excellent reference when deciding about which technology to use in a certain part of your application. So go check the details about pros and cons of a certain approach under these...
31 Mar 2009
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MGrammar, Oslo and YACC …
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I just got to play around with Microsoft Oslo which is basically a modeling platform (or set of technical investments as officially described) and is currently available as a CTP download . Part of the platform is also a so-called "M language" that helps you write you own modeling constructs that can...
26 Jan 2009
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SOA is Dead; Long live Services
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There is an interesting post on the Burton Group blog talking about the SOA buzzword and the end of it's era... I can say that I can agree with lots of things written in the post, so check it out for yourself as well.
8 Jan 2009
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Distributed Cache and Microsoft Project Velocity
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One of my favorite topics with software architecture and development is definitely storage of data in distributed applications. If you basically look at the fact that data in distributed apps is usually stored in all layers in all sorts of different ways, you soon end up thinking about a way on how to...
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Biztalk 2009 Public Beta available
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I have just had time to catch up on some news around Biztalk Server and implementation of Enterprise Service Bus. If you are really keen on getting up-to-speed with the latest release of Biztalk Server 2009, you can access a public Beta through Microsoft Connect Site . What is new in BizTalk Server 2009...
19 Dec 2008
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Debugging the Cloud
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A couple of days ago I started playing around with Azure applications and tried to review the whole process of developing applications in the Cloud. First thing that I have noticed is that the Cloud brings additional complexity to our development and especially testing part of the whole app lifecycle...
10 Nov 2008
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Microsoft's road from Zermatt to Geneva @ PDC
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I was attending a great session about (newly codenamed) Geneva platform and services. Basically it is the evolution of the so called Zermatt project you might have read about in the past. The new Geneva stuff totally blew my mind away... Imagine that you actually don't have to worry about user identities...
29 Oct 2008
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Any direct comparison between Mexico and Pakistan is a huge stretch. Pakistan is failing, and it isn't clear that the central government has the power or political will to address fundamental ethnic, economic, demographic and ideological challenges. Mexico is a threatened state, but the country has political will to confront the threats posed by violent drug cartels and its own legacy of corrupt politics. President Felipe Calderon made that quite evident when he launched The Cartel War in December 2006. Even accounting for Chiapas (Maya land) and numerous wannabe separatists, Mexico also has money, education and a comparative political-social coherence the entirety of South and Central Asia should envy.
Gen. (retired) Barry McCaffrey's recent report to the West Point social sciences department on Mexico (memo dated Dec. 29, 2008) praises the Mexican government's will to act decisively and provides sound advice to U.S. policymakers: "Now is the time during the opening months of a new U.S. administration to jointly commit to a fully resourced major partnership as political equals of the Mexican government Specifically, we must support the government of Mexico's efforts to confront the ultra violent drug cartels. We must do so in ways that are acceptable to the Mexican polity and that take into account Mexican sensitivities to sovereignty. The U.S. government cannot impose a solution. The political will is present in Mexico to make the tough decisions that are required to confront a severe menace to the rule of law and the authority of the Mexican state."
McCaffrey's report also noted: "President Calderon has committed his government to the "Limpiemos Mexico" campaign to "clean up Mexico." This is not rhetoric. They have energized their departments of social development, public education and health to be integral parts of this campaign. Finally, there is a clear understanding that this is an eight-year campaign -- not a short-term surge."
The Mexican people are fighting a war for modernity -- it is a long war, but it is a war they are winning.
Austin Bay is the author of three novels. His third novel, The Wrong Side of Brightness, was published by Putnam/Jove in June 2003. He has also co-authored four non-fiction books, to include A Quick and Dirty Guide to War: Third Edition (with James Dunnigan, Morrow, 1996).
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How many times have I been here making new plans for the new year. What can I do to make this year different. What can I do make my goals come to fruition? I need to come to the Lord on my knees. Every morning, every meal, every evenning and... Read more
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The golden age of the arcade is certainly over, but that doesn't mean old classics need to be forgotten. That's exactly why we are now getting another reboot of the Spy Hunter franchise. That's right! Midway may no longer exist, but this time it's the good folks at WB Games and TT Fusion that cooked up this reintroduction to the Action-Driving game that was so addictive back in the day. Was reviving this franchise worth the effort, or should this spy remain in the dark?
This is actually the second time this franchise is rebooted. While the original came out on arcade and various machines back in 1983, Midway had decided to give it a proper reboot back in 2001. While the result was a mixed bag, many enjoyed the nostalgia trip brought on by the experience. For this 2012 edition, TT Fusion has mostly played it safe. It doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel. You're still a nameless agent driving a particularly awesome car that would make Optimus Prime jealous. As usual, the player is given various missions to complete, but no real narrative aspect is present to keep you engaged. As a result of that, you may find the campaign mode a little bit bland, feeling more like an extended tutorial than anything else.
"This franchise deserves better."
The car you drive, the Interceptor, can do practically anything to get you out of a sour situation. You can transform into a boat and drop off a bridge to flee your opponents on water. Or, how about using a blinding flash of light to cause everyone around you to lose control of their vehicle and crash into walls. You can even fire up a flamethrower to burn down hordes of enemies, and many more things. All of that would be really nice if it wasn't for the twitchy controls that just don't work well with the 3DS' circle pad. Precision driving requires slight pushes, but in the heat of the action, the controls simply feel loose, and you'll often find yourself crashing into various things despite trying hard to avoid them. Fighting a ton of enemies may be fun, but fighting with the controls isn't. To add insult to the injury, various collision bugs and problems were left in the game, which caused me to fail my mission unfairly more than a few times.
While the core gameplay is fun, the game simply feels cheap and rushed; the more I played it, the more I noticed how little variety there was. After playing it for 2 hours, I started wondering if I was given a demo version rather than a copy of the full game. The content is simply way too light. Not only does the campaign feel repetitive, as the game seems happy to simply throw more enemies at you with each new mission (instead of having a fair difficulty curve and varied objectives), but the single player mode is pretty much all you have! The game offers absolutely no multiplayer options, save for a measly street pass feature that I couldn't even try due to being unable to find someone else who had the game. The only thing you can really do after finishing the short campaign is to try to unlock the 25 "performances", which are basically the game's version of achievements/trophies.
Graphically, Spy Hunter also seems to suffer from a lack of polish. The reflections on cars can be nice, but the uninspired track design falls flat, and the unstable framerate (especially while playing in 3D) can really ruin it for some. The 3D remains pretty discreet - which is a good thing for racing games since 3D effects can be distracting - but turning it off is definitely the best option. Not only does that cause the framerate to increase to an acceptable level, but it also makes the visuals sharper and cleaner. Either way, we've already seen a lot better graphics on Nintendo's handheld, even from launch titles. On the audio side of things, it's not much better. Nostalgic gamers will be happy to hear some classic tunes, but the voice acting is rare and unfortunately not very good. As for the sound effects, they're competent without exactly being noteworthy at any point.
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No matter how I look at it, it would be hard for me to recommend this game to anyone, unless you're desperate for a new racing game on the 3DS or are simply a huge Spy Hunter fan. The saddest part is that I could see glimpses of a genuinely good game under all of the imperfections, but the lack of content, the frustrating controls and the overall lack of polish caused this game to get stale very quickly. This franchise deserves better.
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Let's face it: buying digital games is significantly more convenient than buying from a retail store. You don't have to put pants on to go outside, nor do you even have to go outside. You don't have to drive to the store, nor do you have to wait in line at said store. On top of that, the price is generally the exact same, if not more for the physical version.
Let's face it: staying in just your underwear, FTW.
Despite the overwhelming advantages of buying digital, I still can't fully commit to it. While I understand I am more in the minority with each day that goes by, I truly believe I have a legitimate case about buying physical copies of games.
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In some sort of cosmic twist, I have seen the future. No, I didn't find out where/when/why I'll die, nor did I even find out what I'll have for breakfast tomorrow (I hope it's pancakes). But I assure you, I have seen the future.
The future of video games that is. I recently got to test out Morpheus - uh, I mean PlayStation VR - Sony's answer to the ever-growing interest in virtual reality. Although the headset is currently far from completion, it's also far from shotty.
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Whether it's a rainy day, a sickness, or some other reason not to go outside and enjoy the beautiful summer air, video games are the perfect way to spend your time - that is, if you can find a game to play. In terms of releases, summer generally isn't the most fruitful of seasons, and this year is no different. So what games could/should you be sinking your teeth into during the dog days?
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So are the Marines a conversion faction or a separate one from the U.S Army?
Modern Combat transports players into the midst of a high-tech war between the current-day Chinese and U.S. militaries. Incorporating all-new factions, units, doctrines, gamemodes, artwork, music, maps, and singleplayer missions, we aim to craft the most immersive and enjoyable strategic representation of 21st-century combat possible on the PC.
So are the Marines a conversion faction or a separate one from the U.S Army?
There are separate it appears and those are a USMC fireteam, a marksmen, two LAV-25's one with ATGM and one with standard Bushmaster cannon plus an AAVP APC.
Sorry, they're a reward element for the US faction. I'm assuming the news post up front didn't exist when you commented?
Thank you guys for this wondeful vehicles.... great work...=)
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In the final days of its 2013–14 term, the Supreme Court handed down three rulings of major consequence for women. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a 5-4 majority held that requiring some for-profit employers to pay for insurance that covers contraception was a violation of religious freedom. In McCullen v. Coakley, the Court unanimously found that a Massachusetts law creating a thirty-five-foot "buffer zone" around abortion clinics violated protesters' free speech guarantees. In Harris v. Quinn, the Court ruled 5 to 4 that it was unconstitutional to require homecare workers to pay fees to the unions representing them.
While the McCullen and Harris decisions were adjudicated primarily on First Amendment grounds, and while the Hobby Lobby and McCullen cases, in particular, have often been framed as "culture war" issues, all three rulings have profoundly important implications for women's economic rights. What does it mean when an employer is able to paternalistically restrict how a worker chooses to use her own health benefits? How does restricted access to abortion and contraception affect women economically? How does the setback the Court dealt to homecare workers—a workforce composed overwhelmingly of women of color—affect their decades-long fight better pay and working conditions, and the feminist project to revalue care work? We explore these issues and more in this week's roundtable. —Kathleen Geier
Sarah Jaffe: When SCOTUS handed down its decisions, a handful of journalists discussed Hobby Lobby and Harris together—they came out on the last day of the Court's session, they were written by the same justice (George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito, certainly no friend of women, workers or women as workers), both split 5-4, and both clearly issues of rights in the workplace. McCullen was discussed separately: the abortion clinic buffer zone ruling came out on a different day, was unanimous, and was written by a different justice (Chief Justice Roberts). But McCullen too is a decision that will affect women (and men) in the workplace.
How many other people go to work each day being accosted, called murderers, and violently threatened as they attempt to cross the parking lot?
An abortion clinic is a fraught location, a front in the so-called culture wars, and an institution with which even some pro-choice people have an ambivalent relationship. Decades of legal and legislative attempts to chip away at Roe v. Wade have isolated abortion clinics and the doctors, nurses and other workers there from other, less controversial medical establishments. Decades of anti-abortion rhetoric that calls doctors murderers has painted targets on the backs of physicians who perform abortions. We understand the need for a buffer zone in order to help the patients reach the clinic in safety, but we should also understand it as a way to keep the workers safe on the job. How many other people go to work each day being accosted, called murderers and violently threatened as they attempt to cross the parking lot?
The attempts by lawmakers to make abortion more difficult, more arduous, more expensive to access have a disproportionate effect on lower-income people. Waiting period? Try taking several days off of work, and in a post–Hobby Lobby world, do you really want to explain to your boss why you need that time? For the 40 million workers in this country who have no access to paid sick time, it means losing several days' pay for an expensive procedure not covered by insurance if you're lucky, and added travel costs if you aren't. Add to that the prospect of having to run a gauntlet of people trying to shame you, harangue you, and yes, possibly out you.


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While we've looked at a couple of efforts to upgrade the humble white cane's capabilities, such as the ultrasonic Ultracane and the laser scanning cane, the decidedly low tech white cane is still one of the most commonly used tools to help the visually impaired get around without bumping into things. Now, through their project called NAVI (Navigation Aids for the Visually Impaired), students at Germany's Universität Konstanz have leveraged the 3D imaging capabilities of Microsoft's Kinect camera to detect objects that lie outside a cane's small radius and alert the wearer to the location of obstacles through audio and vibro-tactile feedback.
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My real name I won't openly share, if you deduce it, please keep it to yourself. No links this time, I am sure you can do a quick search (don't know why you would).
SoulUrge Number: 5
People with this name have a deep inner desire for travel and adventure, and want to set their own pace in life without being governed by tradition.
Expression Number: 7
People with this name are excellent at analyzing, understanding, and learning. They tend to be mystics, philosophers, scholars, and teachers. Because they live so much in the mind, they tend to be quiet and introspective, and are usually introverts. When presented with issues, they will see the larger picture. Their solitary thoughtfulness and analysis of people and world events may make them seem aloof, and sometimes even melancholy
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That isn't how names are always picked though. Sometimes, parents decide names long before a child is even conceived.
So, going with the same vein of thought, might it be possible that the parents invoke their children's character? The relationship between a child and parents is a two way street.edit on 2-1-2014 by King3x because: (no reason given)


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THE NEA BRIDGE by Phillip Alder
Warren Spahn, a Hall of Fame pitcher who in 1957 won the World Series and Cy Young award playing for the Milwaukee Braves, said, "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."
What a simple way to sum up baseball. In bridge, timing can also be vital. In today's deal, how should South time the play to make four hearts after West leads the spade queen? Let's assume that declarer ducks (loses) the first trick and takes the second with dummy's ace.
That South hand is worth more than 18 points because of all those aces and kings.
South needs to assume that the trumps are breaking 3-2; otherwise, the contract has no chance. But even then, declarer still has four potential losers: one spade, one heart and two diamonds. The major-suit losers are unavoidable. If the missing diamonds are 3-3, there won't be a problem. If, though, they are the more likely 4-2, declarer will have to ruff a diamond in the dummy.
Suppose South cashes his top trumps, then plays three rounds of diamonds. West wins the third diamond, cashes his heart jack, and takes the diamond queen for down one.
If instead South immediately plays three rounds of diamonds, West wins and plays a fourth diamond, which promotes a second trump trick for the defense.
The correct timing is not obvious. South must duck the first round of diamonds. Probably East will win and play another spade. South ruffs, draws two rounds of trumps, then reverts to diamonds. Even if a defender could ruff a high diamond, the contract would still be safe.
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I know nothing can replace the original, but since those of us that are choosing the make the move over here are gonna be stuck without our beloved Confessions thread...i thought i would kickstart the confessions.
Confessions...Version 2.0 (January 2009 Mommies)
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i confess i am not a fan of the new BBC format, but am trying to make the best of it.
I confess that since my boss cut me off from the old BBC, its probably only a matter of time before he cuts me off from here.
i confess it was a pleasant surprise to be able to log in to even THIS BBC. Any BBC message board is better than no BBC message board to me.
I confess i have found a real comraderie with the ladies on the old BBC, and hope it carries over here.
i confess that i am SUPER stoked today is Friday, i am more than halfway through my pregnancy (ugh), and have been feeling the little guy kicking all morning.
i confess i can't wait for lunch...in...10 minutes.
i confess i sincerely apologize if someone has already started this thread for January 2009 mommies, but i couldnt find it, and patience is not one of my more porminent characteristics these days.
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confessing that yuou dont like this baby center is nothing new, all I hear lately is everyone hating on it. I really dont mind it so much, but I get the bad reaction from others, I think we need to start a support group.
That I photoshop all the zits off my face in my family photos (im a grpahic designer).
Mom to Diego Manuel Lleras. Born January 8th, 2009 at Home at 6:17 am, weighing 8 pounds and 2 ounces and measuring 21 inches long!
i confess that i made my son take a nap today, he usualy only has to have quiet time, because i wanted time to clean lol which is highly unusual for me.
i confess that i started painting the baby's room purple yesterday, and hubby came home and saw it and said it's alot of purple he thinks we should do each wall a differnt color, but since i'm mad at him for riding his motorcycle without his helmet AGAIN and he doesn't see why i'm mad because it's not a big deal, i'm gonna paint it all purple anyways while he's at work next week.
i confess that i'm not enjoying being pregnant at all, i'm not sick anymore but i have no sex drive and i'm a raging bitch most of the time lol both of which i hate.
I confess that I'm only confessing to get the new confession thread back up and running. Thanks, Hannah!
I confess my favorite thing about new BBC is I already added a picture. On OBBC my pics were too big so I never bothered. I know people remember each other better that way, so maybe I'll feel more connected that way.
I confess I made healthy french toast for breakfast with organic double-fiber whole wheat bread, and organic cage-free eggs, and low-fat turkey sausage, then slathered it all with butter and syrup.
Susannah Marie 12/10/03--01/25/04, Sarah Elizabeth 01/04/09, Maxwell William 06/16/2010, EDD May 2013
I confess that I'm excited to find that there are now two confessions boards (the other one's in the Pregnancy group) so when I run out of funny stuff to read on one, I've got another!! I confess that I've kinda become addicted to posting stuff, because it just makes me feel better to get stuff out that may be bothering me, whether others want to listen or not. I confess that I've stopped talking so much about my pregnancy at work because I don't want to be annoying to everyone else, like some people I've known before, so I love that that's all we do on BBC. I confess that I'm counting down the days til maternity leave when I plan to do nothing in those last days before little man comes along but eat, play Wii, watch tv, and maybe a little prenatal yoga or something good for me... and sleep lots!!! :)
CG Momma and proud Navy wife to Jason & FTMommy loving our new life with Alex born January 9, 2009. ...Expecting #2 Sept. 9, 2010!!
I confess that I have a secret stash of herseys kisses at my desk at work.
I confess that I don't do my kegels and I lie to my midwife about it every appointment. I guess I think I either don't need them or that my vagina is strong enough without them.
Either way I confess I don't care.
Mom to Diego Manuel Lleras. Born January 8th, 2009 at Home at 6:17 am, weighing 8 pounds and 2 ounces and measuring 21 inches long!
lol i confess that i don't do my kegels because i can't figure out how.
i confess that i want to work on putting my house together today but i also have a new disk of heros season two and that will probably take priority
i confess that if my boss yells at me one more time, he is going to be down his one and only assistant.
i confess i make this threat, to myself, every time he yells at me and never follow through. Harumph...
i confess i dont do my kegels, but only because i am lazy, lazy, lazy.
i confess i have a stash of EVERY KIND OF CHOCOLATE in my desk...but not Hershey's Kisses, so guess i'm making a stop at lunch.
i confess my husband and I went to dinner last night, and he ordered a beer, and i inhaled one deep whiff of it because i miss alcohol so much. I've found that nothing drives a girl to drink like being pregnant...
I confess i hate mondays, even more today than last week, especially since everyone has gone back to work and school and traffic has become almost suicide-inducing.
i confess i could never live anywhere other than southern california, but this traffic makes me want to pack up my car and move to the Ozarks...
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During the search, dogs located a hidden panel in the out-building where officers found a three-by-three foot hole behind a wall that led to the buried school bus, much to the disappointment of the three men/complete f'ing geniuses now being held on drug charges.
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Package Quality: 4.3
Price: $
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Other, Fine
Eyes: Blue
I read the reviews here and got some since I always have really shiny skin. I like these better than any blotting sheets I've ever used because they leave my face "dewy" and it's not really noticeable if I missed a spot. I usually put one or 2 in a small ziplock bag, roll or fold it up and put it in my purse so it won't get dirty from all the garbage I have in there. I use it throughout the day, since it's big and then I just toss it.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
These are great for removing excess oil, however I find that the tiny little perforated marks on the napkin leave the same impression in my make up so it looks like I have bad pores! I can't fault these because they are napkins, they're free, and they do quite a good job. I'll use these when I don't have my blotting papers to hand.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Whenever I stop by Starbucks and Chipotle, I make sure to grab some extra napkins for future use. I thought the Clean & Clear oil blotting sheets were the best thing ever before I knew that the napkins do the same thing.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
After reading all of these hilarious reviews, I had to try this for myself. I took a whole wad of Starbucks napkins and kept them in my purse for future usage. After trying them about ten times, I can say that they do NOT beat Shiseido Pureness blotting papers, but they trump Clean and Clear by a country mile. And since they're free, all bets are off. Take and use at will, ladies and gents.
Edit to say that I'm cracking up that the "price" qualifier on the Starbucks napkins is 1.5. Which joker tried to complain about something completely free?
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
First of all, I haven't used Starbucks or any other napkins to blot my face. I just stumbled on this review and wanted to mention that if you are not a coffee drinker, you can buy recycled, brown paper napkins at the store by Seventh Generation. There might be other brands that make them, But I know those for sure.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Blue
Awesome for absorbing oil. I also use Clean & Clear oil absorbing sheets because the package is more conducive to carrying around in my purse, but these napkins are nice to have on my desk/in my car or even to just grab one on the go. I've actually found that Chipotle's work a little better than Starbucks'.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Other, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
I don't do the starbucks either but they use these in the cafe were I work so of course I tried it and your right ladies it works.In this recession we could use all the cheap beauty tricks we can find
Age: Unknown
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Warm
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It presents brief bios and bibliographies for 30 imaginary right-wing writers from North and South America.
Although Nazi Literature was first published in 1996, it follows its catalog of writers past that date and into the future: Willy Schürholz, for example, born into a mysterious, walled-off community of Germans within Chile, is a solitary poet who sets out "countless variations on the theme of a barbed-wire fence crossing an almost empty space," and eventually publishes a book of children's stories that idealize "a childhood that was suspiciously aphasic, amnesic, obedient and silent." Its nameless boy protagonist "displaced Papelucho as the emblematic protagonist of children's and teen fiction in Chile," while Schürholz himself ends up in Africa working as a photographer and guide until his death in 2029.
Bolaño's writers interact with recognizable historic and literary worlds; they are wandering Colombians who fight for the fascists in Spain; they are aristocratic Argentines handled by Hitler as infants; they are Beat-influenced North American poets who, after being hit on by Allen Ginsberg, flee to panicked careers filled with homophobic and anti-Semitic invective, becoming enormously successful in the process. They write stories, poems, and novels with titles like Cosmogony of the New Order, I Was Happy with Hitler ("misunderstood by the Right and the Left alike"), and The Children of Jim O'Brady in the American Dawn. In Bolaño's hands, these biographies are hilarious. At the same time, they are often surprisingly moving and sometimes terrifying.
Throughout Bolaño's translated work, from By Night in Chile (New Directions, 144 pages, 2003), the monologue of a dying priest, to The Savage Detectives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, 2007), which follows a group of avant-garde poets in Mexico in the '70s along their downward-spiraling paths, he is concerned with the sometimes surprising intermingling of radical and conservative literary and political realities. If Bolaño's monsters are occasionally ridiculous and moronic, it is to his credit that they are also always complicated, and sometimes brilliant and romantic. His Nazi writers are not so different from his non-Nazi writers; they are ambitious or derivative or avant-garde in equal measure. They fall tragically in love and develop drinking problems alongside their leftist peers. Bolaño's clear-sighted examinations of social context underline the insight that literature isn't innocent an invigorating insight in our own cultural moment, when the very act of reading or writing is usually considered harmless but inherently ennobling.
Perhaps Bolaño's most seductive, fascinating, and terrifying monster is the Chilean poet Carlos Ramírez Hoffman. Bolaño readers will recognize his story as that of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, elaborated in more detail in Bolaño's second novel to be translated into English, Distant Star (New Directions, 149 pages, 2004). His tale is worth revisiting for those readers, as it functions differently as the conclusion to Nazi Literature. The book suddenly becomes more intimate, more frightening, and more ambiguous, as Bolaño appears for the first time as a character and becomes personally linked to the fate of Ramírez Hoffman. "Bolaño," like the author of the same name, is arrested and briefly imprisoned by the Pinochet dictatorship after the coup in 1973. While Ramírez Hoffman transforms himself into a torturer, a murderer of women, and a skywriter, Bolaño watches the ephemeral poems appear in the sky from the prison yard. The story of the narrator's obsession with the traces of this enigmatic antihero's literary career becomes a discomfiting m
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Clearly, what our nation needs is more "separation of church and state." If those obnoxious, right-wing Bible thumpers would simply quit bellowing about the need for revival – a return to the deeply held Judeo-Christian principles embraced by our Founding Fathers – America would be a much better place.
Secular-humanism – that's the ticket! We need more reliance on man and less on God.
At the time of this writing, I'm sitting just a few miles from a Century 16 theatre in Aurora, Colo., where, in the early morning hours of July 20, 2012, a deranged, fame-starved gunman shot dead at least 12 innocent people and wounded scores more at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," a Batman sequel.
One of the victims killed was a 6-year-old child. I won't even share the gutless dirt bag's name because that's exactly what he wants.
I had an entirely different column prepared for this week, but, in light of this horrific event, its subject matter seemed trivial and inappropriate.
Like most decent Americans, I am sickened today – mournful in a way words cannot describe. Please join me in the coming hours, days and weeks in, yes, praying for the victims, their families and the state of our lost union.
It's times like this when we're reminded that, when the smoke clears, we're left with our relationships alone: family, friends, prayer and, most importantly, a deep, childlike need for God's love, mercy and comfort.
Still, we shouldn't be surprised by this mass murder. In fact, if we're honest, we're not surprised. We've become almost numb to such reports – desensitized to what only a few short decades ago would have been unimaginable. Although no one is to blame for this man's objectively evil actions but he alone, those actions are, sadly, a dreadful sign of our desperate times.
Today, children are reared in a culture that glorifies – even worships – death and violence. But brutal crimes such as this are not the cause of our culture of death; they are merely a symptom.
In an opinion piece penned for the Telegraph in 2008, columnist Jenny McCartney used a prior Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," to illustrate, in a cursory way, our rising death-culture problem. In many ways her words were eerily prophetic and sickly ironic.
Matt Barber is founder and editor-in chief of BarbWire.com. He is an author, columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war. (Follow Matt on Twitter: @jmattbarber).


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12 Most Memorable Business Quotes from 5 Days in the Blogosphere
Are you like me? Are you a quote junky? I can't get enough of those inspirational little maxims — I gobble them up like candy. Especially for business, one-liners are poignant and catchy enough to easily be put into action.
But, you know what? I kind of feel like reading the same quotes all of the time. Napolean Hill. Peter Drucker. Seth Godin. So on and so on. All great stuff, but I think there's a goldmine of insightful and actionable quotes that most of us probably haven't really thought of… the blogosphere.
Yes, blogs. They aren't just (as I'm sure most of you know) angst-ridden rants of teenage girls anymore. Thousands of brilliant writers flood the web everyday with new and effective ideas. I think it's time we start listening.
So, I created a list of quotes I thought were worth noting from my daily blog reading. In the first five days, this is what I've come up with…
1. "When you know why customers buy from you, you can make sure you do it better and do more of it." ~ Jim Keenan
2. "A platform is not a website. It's not your Twitter feed or speaking schedule. It's people. Plain and simple." ~ Jeff Goins
3. "Don't hide behind busy." ~ Kneale Mann
4. "Curiosity is probably the single most important trait of creative people." ~ Kim Phillips
5. "It's not that we're ungrateful; it's that, as humans, we need to keep moving. We're like sharks: if we don't swim, we sink." ~ Jerry Kennedy
6. "The most successful people don't face any less adversity than their less successful counterparts; they just believe deeply that they can overcome the adversity and act accordingly." ~ S. Anthony Iannarino
7. "Nothing gets me up in the morning and makes me hungrier than knowing my competition is doing the same thing." ~ Jason B. Douglas
8. "We'd rather have ideas than actually execute them. We'd rather talk a big game than actually play one. Otherwise we might actually have to take personal responsibility for our work." ~ Scott Ginsberg
9. "Stop asking others for permission to dream big dreams." ~ Dan Waldschmidt
10. "If you're in sales, you've learned to hate marketing. If you're in marketing, you've learned to hate sales. If you're in management, you've learned to hate them both!" ~ Mark Hunter
11. "Hearing is a function. Listening is a skill." ~ Becky Gaylord
12. "There's no room for finger-pointing or excuses. You have to mean business — and revenue generation — for your company." ~ Barbette Ten Haken
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I would encourage you to pack your RSS reader with solid material (the writers listed are a great start) and get to work at harvesting the many gems within.
What about you? What is your favorite quote that you discovered in a blog post? Share it in the comments below.
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Great list - this was refreshing! #5 was my favorite! Thank you for sharing!
@RaoulPicello thx for sharing!
#6 was my Fav. RT @JamieCrager @12Most 12 Most Memorable Business Quotes from 5 Days in the Blogosphere By Doug Rice http://t.co/DAEfOPoJ
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@siteIQKenna thx, Kenna!
Wow, thanks @douglaserice, for this great list. I was reading each one and nodding my head in agreement. And then I saw one from a recent 12 Most post of mine and felt really flattered and honored. Much appreciated, Doug.
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@RachLaurenMarks thx Rachel!
"Hearing is a Function - Listening is a Skill" is high on my list! I also appreciate "Don't hide behind Busy".
Aarrgh - I'm busy ;). Actually, busy is a good thing. However, it becomes an issue when you can only think/react tactically versus step back and plan/execute strategically!
@elizonthego Yes, that was a great one and so true! :) Have a fantastic weekend Elizabeth!
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Africa United: Duduvision Part 2
The second part of the animated stories by Dudu to keep the rest of the children's spirits up on their journey to South Africa.
Beautiful mixed media animation intersects the live action in Africa United, as the children journey onwards to the World Cup. The second part of Dudu's story reimagines how they met their two new friends, newly escaped child soldier and and child prostitute.
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A band of pre-teen misfits from Rwanda try to get to the World Cup in South Africa to get a player to the opening games in one week.
The first part of the animated stories by Dudu to keep the rest of the children's spirits up on their journey to South Africa.
In this pilot episode, Dudu, Thandi, Chep and Omar find themselves in 16th century Timbuktu in the middle of a military invasion that thr...
Director: Debs Paterson Animation Director: Simon Willows
Writer: Rhidian Brook
Country: Rwanda/South Africa/UK
Language: English
Year: 2010
Cast: Eriya Ndayambaje Roger Nsengiyumva Joanita Kintu Yves Dusenge
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Lord Mandelson and MG Rover: another day, another spin
The vast official report into the demise of MG Rover Group provides a fascinating insight into the murky world of Labour's special advisers, the political aides who do ministers' dirty work.
Lord Mandelson, whose Business Department has published the report, is energetically trying to keep the focus on the Phoenix Four and their fortunes. But the report does raise some questions for the Government.
In 2005, as MG Rover sought to stay alive through a deal with a Chinese firm, newspapers were mysteriously briefed that the talks had stalled.
That briefing was "irresponsible," the report says. Exonerating the company and the civil servants involved, it strongly suggests the briefing was done by special advisers.
That was put to Lord Mandelson on Sky News a moment ago.
His answer: "The conclusion reached by the inspectors is that this alleged briefing of newspapers made no material difference to the outcome and what happened to the company."
Regular readers may recall that I like to keep a close eye on the old pussycat's public utterances, just in case he should, no doubt unwittingly, bend the truth or slant the facts.
So I thought I'd double check, just to see if the report does indeed find that those "alleged briefings" did no harm to MG Rover.
This is paragraph 222 of Chapter XX: The events leading to administration.
It concludes: "In our view, MGRG would in fact have had to cease trading soon even without the press coverage. There was, though, an obvious danger that press briefings which referred to the talks having "stalled" would aggravate MGRG's problems with its suppliers – as indeed they probably did." (My bold)
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BizTalk Oracle BPEL PM interoperability
Two months ago I wrote an article about WS-Security interoperability between Oracle BPEL Process Manager and WSE 3.0. The article explained how to invoke WSE 3.0 Services from an Oracle BPEL PM Process. Now with the WSE 3.0 adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 we can apply the same technique to develop BizTalk Server apps that can interact with the Oracle BPEL PM using WS-Security.
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Sun Project Tango is now a reality. This is the first technology suite specifically oriented to WCF and Java interoperability. Congratulations to the team
CodePlex is online now and available in a beta version. Those guys are coming up with a ton of ideas to enhance the .NET communities and open source projects. Great stuff!!
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Thank to my buddy Rick Pelletier and Didiosky Benitez (again) the first draft of the WSE 3.0 adapter documentation is now available for download at AdapterWorx.
Invoking WCF services from BizTalk Server using the WSE 3.0 adapter
One of the main purposes of the Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 project was to provide a high degree of interoperability with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Both WSE and WCF services can be designed to be compliant with the WS-I profiles to guarantees interoperability. The Turnkey Security Assertions in WSE 3.0 can be mapped directly to WCF bindings.
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Thanks to Didiosky Benitez (Lead Developer) and other contributors; I'm very happy to announce that WSE 3.0 adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 it's been released!!!!!!!. Yesterday we presented for first time in a WebCast with Mark Fussell. So go ahead try it and provide feedback
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Tomorrow at 4 pm (EST), I'll be presenting the WSE 3.0 adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 in a WebCast with some special guests from the WSE team. Yeap, you got it, Mark Fussell (Lead Program Manager for WSE) will be joining me and Javier Mariscal in this presentation to talk about WSE, Security, BizTalk, etc….
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I had planned on writing a full review of Helene Wecker's fantasy novel The Golem and the Jinni but before I could get to it, I discovered a terrific review by Susann Cokal at the NYT. It pretty much said everything (and much more elegantly I think) that I was thinking about the novel. So let me be brief here. Buy the novel. You will love it. And here are two reasons (among many) why I found it so remarkable.
1. The two most important characters are both fantastic creatures -- 1) a newly "born to life" Golem in the form of a young woman who almost immediately becomes master-less, and whose only purpose is to serve the needs of humans around her (imagine the din of those endless requests) and 2) a 2,000 year old entirely self absorbed, amoral Syrian Jinni, recently freed from a long captivity in a brass bottle. Both are immigrants to NYC in the very late 19th century. The novel turns on how these two compelling creatures come to recognize each other across a huge city of immigrants, and learn how to adapt as their interaction with human beings change them in unexpected ways. It is about discovering the self (even when the self is a complicated, fantastic creature) and discovering the possibilities of life in radically new context. Their philosophical conversations (and fights) alone are worth reading the novel.
2. I also love novels that make the setting into a character in the book. Here is the fullness of a New York in 1899, a patchwork of immigrant neighborhoods -- each one distinct in community, foods, smells, houses of worship, tenements, and shops. Wecker renders in rich and evocative details all these different neighborhoods -- from the Jewish neighborhoods, the Christian Syrian enclaves, the bakeries, the docks and its desperate immigrants, the glittering dance halls, a luminous Central Park, the wealthy homes up the upper west side, and the poverty of the Bowery -- complete with almost mirror version of the city on the tenement roof tops.
And I should mention too that Wecker's prose is wonderful -- deliberate, clean, and elegant .Really, trust me. You will not be disappointed.


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Autor: Bryan
22.10.2014 10:582/5
Wheels warp very easily, which cause the tire to pop out the side. The wheels are a cheap plastic. And only a one year warranty. Had to spend $150 on new tire and wheel sets all the way around. Also the wheels say inflate to 22 psi while the tires say 36 psi?? Be sure to inflate to 22, not 36, or your wheels wil warp and deform. Once this happens you will need to buy new ones, and they are only sold in a set (tire, wheel, and tube together) so have to pay a fortune to fix.
A design flaw??
Autor: Hannah78
01.10.2014 13:214/5
This was the third inner tube and tyre I've needed for my Explorer pram and the second actual wheel. The Explorer has been a terrific pram but the front wheel has been a real pain even though we have been careful always not to overinflate the tyre and we are by no means rough with our pram; we use it in an urban setting. It's like the plastic of the actual wheel doesn't grab tightly enough to the tyre allowing the inner tube to bulge and dislodge the tyre, subsequently causing damage to all three parts! Here's hoping it's third time lucky with this one?
Doesn't fit Explorer model
Autor: Phil
02.08.2014 10:541/5
Axel didn't fit into my stroller frame. Compared it to my original axel and it was longer thus why it wouldn't line up with the pin. Ended up having to put the new tire onto my old axel. Waste of money. Should've just ordered a new "rear" tire had I known better.
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