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Hi. I bought the steam early release.My system is Ubuntu 14.04 with HD5870 and 4GB RAM.
In options setting textutes to high will most times crash the game.Also changing the contrast and brigthness options seems to change nothing.Graphics see 'dark' and i cant discern easily thinks like the grid or the spheres .
In creating my fleel i'd be good to select a ship by simply left click and not drag it .Also can i move in 3d space? i mean how can i tell the diff between a point above me in a 2d screen?
Game is crashing as i exit jump space
I agree, and it's really hard to go back to one screen ! The thing is, I know I won't change my settings every time I want to play this game. My desktop becomes a real mess after changing the surround mod, again and again. Even my taskbar goes crazy. That is why I'd really like to find a tip or something, at least to be able to change the resolution in game.
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Got this along with a longer trace after designing a battleship.Even though the console did show "whole log has been copied, pls post", only the above was actually in the clip.
Also, i have a graphical UI issue.When i design a ship, about 50 % of my screen does receive some kinf of greyish 0.5 opacity overlay. But evern after leaving ship design, this overlay stays at the very top. As mentioned its 50 % of the screen height, from bottom to middle.
Also in regards to ship designing and insigia / captain picking, is there a reason why a simble double-click is not working (i.e. double select and auto-select next free slot (== module size if in ship design) but instead you have to resort to drag and drop ?funnily, you can quick-delete modules and you dont need to draw them "out" of the their box.
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Hey guys, keep the bug reports coming - the majority of these are now fixed in UPDATE 4. Will be landing this week with some new mechanics. More information to come soon.
Uhh yes, i might actually play a skirmish with out my game crashing XD
New update! Sweet! Will you have any kind of regular update schedule at all? Or will it be "whenever possible"? I'd like to try scheduling lets play vids around your schedule if possible.
There probably won't be a fixed update schedule, as it's a contant ballance of fixing things and adding new stuff, so the amount of work will vary, but we plan to update 1-2 times per month.
Here's a list of things coming in UPDATE 4, I'll be updating this list frequently. http://forums.shallow.space/t/coming-in-update-4/421
So have the keys been emailed yet? I haven't gotten one yet.
You have to log onto the humble store portal to redeem your key.
Yup. I bought via humble and i had to manually redeem by key from there. Log in, look under "purchases", there you can see Shallow Space and get your key.
Any ETA on update 4 ? I cant play the game at all due to the game crashing when designing ships
We're coming to the end of adding features and bug fixes, just a couple of ships and weapons to add and then it's ready to enter testing. Should be a couple of days or so.
So, I've skimmed through the thread and the Trello and I have a bug might stem from the same problems as this bug. In what the logs seem to differ is, that my game breaks while loading the PlayerShipConfiguration and the 'warp' loading animation just freezes. You can find my Log here. This only happens after at least one game with the custom ships.
My game's version is Alpha 0.8.03_UPDATE_3 KIRK. I am running Win10 64Bit. (Do they even do 32bit anymore?)
I sadly don't have repro-steps, as I cannot pinpoint when exactly things start getting messy. With only 1 or 2 custom Configurations, things seem to laod fine, but as soon as I start going to town with the custom Configurations things get messy. Apparently there's also issues in the Hangar, where clicking a saved Config loads the wrong Configuration (in my case, the one to the right) so that might be an indicator of what could be going on?
According to the logs, you guys create new Scriptable Objects with the new parameter, but afaik that does not work for Scriptable Objects, which needs to use the .createInstance method, as the logs suggest. (layman here, still studying, but I have come across SO's before.. )
I will update the post if I can pinpoint what's causing this and if I can repro it.
The symptom of it not working is the loss of persistency with the attributes stored in the SO, but we are serialising that particular SO to file anyway so it doesn't really matter. The issue is to do with indexing and is a bug in the code, UPDATE 4 fixes this and will be along shortly.
Seeing as you seem to know what you are talking about, would you like to help us test it when it becomes available? and fyi there's a running list of fixes and addtions here http://forums.shallow.space/t/coming-in-update-4/421/5
That is awsome to hear!
Oh, I probably don't know nearly as much as you guys do, I'm still pretty new and don't have much experience, if any. I'm just a guy who loves games so much he decided to make 'em his job, really. If you want/need any help testing, I'd love to help you guys out, if I can make the time!
Thank you so much for the help!
OK so UPDATE 4 has been released, see this thread for support avenue and patch notes. Blog article discussing the changes will be online a little later.
Previous threads will be closed as we don't want confusion between the builds. Thanks!


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no I don't think a red scarf is gay at all for a man~!00|00|0
fashion is way more open minded than it was back in the day. don't be scared to dress how you want because you think it looks "gay" half the things that were considered gay don't even make sense00|00|0
I wish that was true, but I mean my high school is really narrow minded and everyone dresses the same
that can suck but at the end of the day dress for you not for those clones that won't matter later on
Since when is red a "gay" color? People are way too judgmental. Not all homosexuals run around covered in pink, or red, as you say.00|00|0
I guess I meant the idea of scarf more so.
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cool, only if more people thought the same like you.
What would be the fun in that? :P
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nah its not but more over. 1) do you like it? 2) does it achieve the look you want?
if the answers are both yes then wear it :}00|00|0
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Ringling College of Art and Design Senior, Erik Jones, had a fateful meeting with Christian Children's book Author, Kimberly King, and was granted the opportunity to illustate her series of children's books.
For Erik Jones, a senior at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, life is a little bit different than that of his peers. His career as an illustrator is already in full swing with one book in his professional portfolio and another one on the way. "I had no idea that this was going to be the plan for me" exclaims Jones. "God was just in the airplane that's all." Jones alludes to the fateful day that was the major turning point in his professional life.
Jones' mother had just been visiting him in Sarasota from her home outside of Chicago. "My mom called me after she got back home and told me that she gave my email address to a woman she sat next to on the plane. My mom told me the woman had just written a children's book and was looking for an illustrator."
Being a self-publisher, King has complete decision making rights and ownership to everything about the look and feel of the book. Jones and King often exchange ideas over iced mochas at the Panera Bread while Jones sketches and King paints her vision. "This experience is the best one I've ever had", says Jones, "I not only got an employer, I received a mentor and a friend as well. I've learned that self-publishing is hard and it takes a lot of motivation and passion to become successful."
After Jones graduated from Gibbs High School PCCA (Pinellas County Center for the Arts) in 2001, he joined a band for a couple of years but soon realized that art was his real passion. "The illustrations for 'God is in the Refrigerator'
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****Scene1: Michael's POV*********************************
AfterI left Lila's I walked back to Eric's house. By the time I reached hisneighborhood the two lattes I had bought for us were now only mildly warm….theywould both have to be heated up. Good thing Eric didn't mind drinking it cold.When I walked inside Eric was nowhere to be found, neither was his mother.
Perhapshis mother had taken the news so badly that she had left. But that wouldn'texplain why Eric was now missing. I walked upstairs and entered his room andthat's when I found him. He was seated on the side of the bed….his wheelchairwasn't far off. Presumably his mother had helped into the bed; how such a tinywoman like that had managed such a feat was a mystery to me. Howeverexactly Eric got on the bed, that's where I found him.
"EricI'm back." I cried. "I brought your favorite! Cheesecake! I hope you don't mindbut the lattes are a little cold. They are both Apple Pie flavored because werebasic." I laughed.
"Thanksdude!" he said, looking up at me with those big beautiful eyes of his. To getlost in them would have been wonderful. "You know I don't mind about them beingcold; I'm just glad your back."
"Wasit that bad?" I asked, hugging him, before I preceded to take a seat beside himon his bed.
"Waswhat that bad?" he asked all wide eyed.
"Yourtalk with your mother." I began. "Eric I know it must have been really hard foryou to have to tell her about all the despicable things your father did. But youand I both know that nothing stays secret in this town for very long."
"Babeit would have eventually come out. It's just good that she found out from youand not somewhere else like in the courtroom." I continued.
"Speakingof your mother where is she anyway?" I asked. "Eric say something. How did yourmom take the news? She must be mortified."
"Babestop!" Eric finally spoke. "She's not mortified or horrified or anythingbecause I didn't tell her."
"Whatdo you mean you didn't tell her?"
"Imean I didn't tell her.....I didn't tell her ok!" he cried. "After you left Ihad every intention of telling her everything….including about how Jake isactually my brother. I really did mean to tell her everything but when itfinally came down to it…..I just couldn't do it……I just couldn't."
"Ericif you don't tell her the truth somebody is going to." I replied. "When I leftshe had all kinds of questions about how you got that gunshot wound and whyyour father was now in jail. She wouldn't have just left it alone."
"Shedidn't leave it alone." Eric said. "She wouldn't leave it alone no matter howmuch I tried to get her to drop the subject. So I had to tell her something. Ididn't tell her everything but I did tell her that my father was really tryingto shoot you and that I jumped in front of the gun."
"Ericthat's not going to be enough." I replied. "She's going to want to know whyyour father tried to shoot me and why he shot my grandfather. The truth isgoing to come out and she's going to be devastated when it does."
"Mikeyou have to understand." Eric replied. "I can't be the one to tell her. Thiswould crush her…..my mother loves my father; and even though I hate him withevery bone in my body I can't bring myself to break her heart like that."
"Besidesshe was mad as hell when I told her I jumped in front of a gun." He continued
"BabyI do understand. I really do." I began. "But I'm just worried aboutyou….because one way or another she will find out about what your father did. Ijust want to be there to help you get through this."
"Andyou are." Eric interjected.
"Iwant to be here for both you and your mother. Eric you know your mother is likea second mother to me. God knows she's certainly seen a lot of me." I replied.Do you remember when she caught us in your bed? I was so embarrassed!" Ichuckled. "And you didn't even stop thrusting and she was looking right at you."
"BabeI couldn't help it." Eric blushed. "You know I can't resist you." He saidletting his hand make a sensual journey down my leg.
"Waita minute you never said where your mother was?" I asked. "Her car's not in thedriveway."
"Ohrelax she went to see my father." Eric said all calm like.
"What!"I exclaimed. "Are you sure that's wise. Aren't you worried about him tellingher about his indiscretions with Jake's mother?"
"No Inot worried at all." Eric chuckled, completely unnerved. "My father is too muchof a hypocrite to look my mother in the face and tell her the truth. He wouldnever tell her that the whole time he was trying to convince her to hate yourfamily; she really should have been hating him."
"Ericcalm down." I replied, kissing him on the cheek. I got up and was about to walkout the room when Eric called. "Babe don't go!
"Idon't want to sleep alone." He continued. "I need you. I want you and I wantyou in my bed tonight. Please don't go! Please stay the night!"
"Ericyou know I would love to….but my mom" I began. "I would love to and I will." Ismiled. This caused Eric's eyes to light up. He looked so happy. I had promisedmy mother that I would spend the night in my own bed, in my own home becauseshe was starting to miss me. But unfortunately I would have to break thatpromise because I couldn't bear to leave Eric alone…..not like this. He was sohurt and he hated being paralyzed already and not being able to make love to melike he wanted made him hate it even more.
****Scene2: Joe Smith's POV********************************
Eversince I had first been arrested my cell had seemed like New York City's grandcentral station. I never ceased to have visitors it seemed. But they weremostly visitors who were not too happy to see me. These visitors includedgreasy Lawyers, angry prosecutors, and even a few upset high society women whofrom the looks of it had never spent a night in jail let alone step foot in aprison.
Tonightwas no exception; visitors just kept coming. I had in the course of a week injail become rather used to the throngs of visitors. But I was completelyshocked when I found my wife standing there before me; nothing but a cellstanding between me. She looked upset.
"Carolwhat's wrong? You shouldn't be down here."
"Joe!WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK IS WRONG?!" she yelled into my ear. "What do youmean I shouldn't be here?" For a small sweet woman she definitely had a mouthon her.
"Joedo you even KNOW HOW many times I've tried to call you?" she continued to yell."Only to find out that your ass has been sitting in jail for a week….AN ENTIREWEEK for shooting TWO PEOPLE!"
"Honeycalm down." I said, putting my hands up to the bars.
"Don'ttell me to calm down JOE SMITH!" she cried. "How can you tell me to calm downwhen the other person you shot was your own son…..in an attempt to shoot yourson's fiancé. How could you do such a thing?"
"Carolyou don't understand." I replied.
"Joewhat the hell do you mean?" Caroline cried. "You better make damn sure that Iunderstand. And I do mean everything. Why would you want to shoot such a sweetboy?........it just doesn't make any sense."
"Carolyou wouldn't understand." I said, "Just please go. I can't tell you…..you justwouldn't understand."
"Whatthe hell Joe!? How could you say that?!" she yelled. "Joe we have been marriedfor twenty years. We made a vow to have a marriage based on honesty not LIES!"
"I'masking you to tell me the truth and you're feeding me more lies!"
"Carolyou know I never liked those Chandlers." I pleaded. "Victor Chandler destroyedmy father….he drove him to the brink of suicide. He stole his land right fromunder him all because he had the power and the deed to do it."
"Joedon't give me that bull shit!" Carol yelled. "About some long ago ancientfamily feud. This is about something whole lot more. I know it. I can see it inyour eyes you are lying!"
"CarolI'm not lying I do hate the chandlers." I pleaded. "Every last one of them,including that one who stole my son away from me."
"Joestop lying to me!" she yelled at my face. She was furious and her face was asred as a cherry tomato. If she knew the real reason I had tried to shoot myson's boyfriend she would have been even more furious and our marriage wouldhave definitely been over.
"Ifyou hated the kid so much why didn't you try to shoot him when I told you Ifound him in bed with our son. With our son's cock buried inside him?"
"I'lltell you why not….." she screamed. "Because you're still lying to me. You arehiding something from me. Tell me what is right now!"
"CarolI can't….you know I can't."
"Iguess our wedding vows don't really mean much." She cried. "If you can't evengive me enough respect to be honest with me."
"Carolyou don't mean that." I pleaded. "You have to remember what we mean to eachother."
Justthen a guard came downstairs. He come downstairs because my wife was causing adisturbance. "Ma'am can you keep it down…some of the other prisoners are tryingto sleep."
"Tellthem to close their damn ears!" my wife shot back. "Joe I really hope it wasworth it. I really hope it felt good to shoot Victor Chandler………because when hegets out of that coma……and he will he's going to ruin you."
"He'sgoing to make sure you pay for what you did….and I for one will not stand byyour side if all you can do is lie."
"Itold you how much I hated the Chandlers." I cried. "But you just didn'tunderstand. Just know that you can't trust any of them"
"Thereyou go again talking about the Chandlers. You keep saying that the Chandlersare all bad…..but the only person I see sitting in a jail cell would be you. Sotell me again who can't I trust?"
"Becauseit sure as hell ain't you!" she yelled.
****Scene3: Christian DeVille's POV (The Next Day) *************************
It hadbeen several weeks since my parents had revealed to me that they knew exactlywho had shot Victor Chandler. I was shocked but they would not reveal to me whohad really pulled the trigger; they only stated that they knew who it was andthat Haley Macy wasn't the one who did the deed. I pressed the issue but theyrefused to tell me.
But amonth later the secret was out and the whole world learned who had really shotVictor Chandler. It turned out it had really been Eric's father who had firedfour rounds into his fiancé's grandfather. Imagine that, Eric's father shot hisfiancé's grandfather at Michael and his engagement party; if Eric's fatherdidn't go to jail for the two attempted murders it would have made for wholelot of drama at the dinner table especially during the holidays.
Iturned the television on when I woke up in the morning and there it was again,splashed all over the news. The real person involved in the Victor Chandlershooting displayed prominently on every local channel in town.
"Notthis mess again." I cried tossing the remote to the side of my bed. I hoppedoff the bed and grabbed my nearby robe from off my desk chair. "Ok great….we know who shothim….But we don't need to hear about it every five seconds!"
Iwrapped my robe around me and walked downstairs. When I reached the end of thebannister I was greeted by my family's faithful servant. We called him Ramsley.I had no idea what is first name was or even if that was actually his surname.All I knew was that was what my parents called him, so that's what I calledhim. He was not the only servant employed in the mansion but he was the mostsenior. He had been in my family's employment longer then I could evenremember; definitely older than I had been alive. Ramsley was significantlyolder then both my parents by a good thirty years or more.
"Goodmorning Master Deville." Ramsley addressed me. "Your parents are in theLibrary. I was just about to go up there, to let you know that they requiredyour presence downstairs."
Ifollowed Ramsley into the Library and once I was inside he closed the doorbehind me leaving me alone in the room with my parents. My incessantlydemanding parents. They were seated by the fireplace and once I entered theroom they rose from their seats and walked over to where I was standingtrembling from the cold air in the drafty old room.
"Ramsleysaid that you wanted to see me." Ibegan. "What is this about?" I had just woken up and I was still a little outof it.
"Thisis about something that is very important and dear to our hearts….both yourmother and I." my father replied. "We wish to know of your progress in themission we have undertaken."
"Mom….Dad."I started. I knew exactly this was about. This was about me wooing Chandlerheiresses to gain control of more Chandler stock. They would not be pleasedbecause in months' time I was no closer to achieving their goal
"Ramsleywas right. Your father and I both wished to see you." My mother chimed in. "We would like to discuss thegreat matter we discussed a few weeks ago. We had hoped to have gained majoritycontrol of that insipid family's company by the end of the month while theirpatriarch was in the hospital. But unfortunately it has come to our attentionthat we are no closer than we were four weeks ago."
"Wegave you one thing to do….and that was to acquire more Chandler stock." Mymother said coldly. "We asked you to woo those three Chandler heiresses andgain their stock. We told you to use your imagination, to be creative, but togain their stock nevertheless. But you have failed in that task."
"Whathave you been up too!" my father yelled. "We could have eighteen percentfoothold in that company by now, but all we have is a measly 4.5%!" my fatheryelled.
"Fatherit's not my fault." I cried. "No one in that family wants anything to do with aperson with the last name Deville. Youboth know this family is despised in this town."
"Wedon't give a damn what the pathetic common people of this town think." Myfather sneered. "They are nothing but pawns to be used at our pleasure!"
"Butwhy?" I cried. "Why is it so important? Why is it so important for us to gaincontrol of Chandler? It's not like we need the money, DeVille Enterprises ishuge."
"Yesthat's true." My mother replied. "DeVille Enterprises is our pride and joy butChandler dwarfs it and both size and revenue. We need that company if we are tocontinue with our lucrative business."
"Whatkind of business are you talking about?" I asked.
"Thebusiness that we speak of is or no concern just complete the task." My motherreplied. "Just know that the current situation is putting a strain on us. Butwith a company of that size, not the government and definitely not this punypolice department would ever know."
"Oh myGod!" I cried. "You want to use Chandler to launder money." They didn't answerme, but I knew that was exactly what they were planning on doing with Chandler.The Deville's had long been known for their illegal dealings in this town; theleast of which was money laundering.
"Youcan't be serious!" I cried. "The Chandlers would never allow something likethat to happen to their family company let alone sit back and let you do that!"
"Itdoesn't matter what they will allow…..we will have complete control of theircompany all in good time and there won't be damn thing they can do about it!"my mother laughed coldly. "I can't wait to see the look on their snobbish faceswhen they see that their precious company is in the hands of the DeVilles!"
Myparents had to have known that I was right. The Chandlers were very proud ofboth their two hundred year old family owned business as well as their verydistinguished family background; that included Native American Chiefs, Africanroyalty, European nobility and even a few American Presidents (the firstAmerican president in particular) as well.
And asfor the snobbish ways of the Chandler family, that was very real because thatentire family prided themselves on their long history and their exquisitefamily tree that was filled with blue-veined men and women with fair skin,colored eyes and curly hair; and they were very proud of that fact.
Theyalso looked down on anyone who was considered unrefined, and lacking in genteelmanners, family respectability and pristine pedigree. Because of this thatwhole family (except perhaps Michael and his grandmother the only good ones inthe bunch) looked with equal disdain on both the nouveau riche (of which theDeVilles, my family were unfortunately members) as well as the poorer membersof society. To say that they were just as aristocratic as any of their whitecounterparts across the color line would have been a very accurate assumption.
"Won'tit be a supreme treat to see the members of that family get what they so richlydeserve." My mother sneered. "Always looking down at us with their noses heldhigh."
"Reginadid I ever tell you what my father once told me? My father once said that theChandlers have more blue blood in their veins then a stray dog has fleas on hisback!" he laughed.
"Alistairyour too funny." My mother squealed in amusement. "Imagine it. Once we'vegained control over their company and bled it dry they won't dare look down onthis family ever again."
****Scene4: Michael's POV**************************************
Ispent the night at Eric's house. We slept in the same bed and he clung to meall night. It felt so good to be in his bed and to be wrapped in his strongarms. Despite not being able to walk he more than made up for that with hisarms. I couldn't keep him off me; literally. We didn't have sex or anything….Idon't think it was physically possible at the moment.
Wejust laid there in his bed all night holding onto each other; his arms aroundme and my arms around him. It felt so good to feel his arms around me; yeah sexwould have been great…..but looking over and seeing that handsome face was somuch better. Every time I woke in the night and tried to get up to go thebathroom he would always reach out for me; even in his sleep. Finally everytime I awoke in the night I would look over at him…..and every time I did thisI would see a smile dancing across his beautiful sleeping face. He must havebeen dreaming a marvelous dream.
I hadnot intended to spend the night at Eric's house but he had persuaded me to doso…….so I decided to stay. How could I say no to such a face? Especially one ashandsome as his. The short answer I couldn't.
When Iawoke in the morning Eric was already up. He was fiddling on his phone. "Good morning babe." Hesmiled as he leaned in and kissed me.
"Goodmorning Eric." I replied.
A fewminutes later my phone rang. I answered it; it was my mother. She must havebeen calling me to let me know that I was supposed to be home hours ago. "HeyMom. I'm sorry I didn't come home last night…..I would have come home but Ineeded to be with Eric."
"Helloson. Michael never mind that." She replied. "That's not why I'm calling.There's something very important that I need to tell you."
"Whatis it?" I asked.
"Ican't tell you over the phone. It's much too important. Just get to thehospital right away! I'll tell you everything when you get there."
"OkI'll be there in a little bit." I said, ending the phone call.
"Whatwas that?" Eric asked. "Don't tell me you have to go already. You just wokeup." he said half yawning and half protesting. "Babe I barely got to spend anytime with you since I got….well you know."
"EricI'm only going to be gone for a little bit." I replied. "That was my mother onthe phone. She didn't say what it was. But somethings happened at the hospitaland she wants me come there right away."
"Okfine…if you must go hurry back." He smiled. "I'll be here when you getback….Not like I go anywhere in my present condition." He laughed.
Ikissed him goodbye, got dressed, and hurried over to the hospital. When I gotto the hospital I found my mother and father in the waiting room. They were notalone my twin sister Mikayla was there, my younger brother Wesley too; even myelder sister Emily was there. Whatever had happened at the hospital must havebeen very serious to warrant an end to my elder sister's "European travels."That's what my grandfather had called it when a member of the family hadembarrassed the family and was sent off to Europe to hide from the press.
Embarrassingthe family was something my elder sister and my cousin Miles were all toofamiliar with as a result of their various escapades which had resulted intheir expulsion from nearly every prestigious academy, boarding school, andcollege in New England as well as a few on the European continent. My eldersister had even attended Harvard (our family's preferred Ivy League school) fora few years; that is before causing a scandal which had gotten her banished bymy grandfather to Europe where she was enrolled in Oxford.
Myfamily's money being more than enough to gain her acceptance there; after awhile she grew bored of that and withdrew from the university. She had no doubt spent thelast few months in Europe doing God knows what with God knows who. I did knowthat whatever it was that my sister was doing in Europe my grandfather wouldnot have been happy. It was a very good thing he was in a coma for her atleast. I had no idea why my grandfather chose to be hard on everyone in thefamily while favoring me. When I was younger I relished the special attentionmy grandparents gave me, but now that I was older I felt ashamed of it. Iespecially felt this shame when I was growing up and my cousins and sisterincluded would tease me calling me the "heir". It wasn't my sister's fault forbeing born a girl, nor mine for being a boy, nor even my cousin Miles for beingborn three months after my own birth. But Whatever the reason for my sister'slong absence from Harmony she was now home once more.
"Michael!"Emily called when she saw me. She ran to me and nearly jumped in my arms. "HeyEmily….." I said. "I'm glad you missed me…..but you're crushing my bones." Isquealed.
"I'msorry little brother." She chuckled in that all too familiar annoying oldersibling attitude of hers. "I missed you so much."
"Wellmaybe you should spend more time here and not in Europe." I smirked. "I missedyou too."
"Ahhhall that time in Europe and I forgot how annoying my siblings were." Shelaughed. "I see you have been busy while I was away. I go away to Europebecause of indiscretions and you stay home and come out."
"God Iwish I could have seen mother's face." She laughed. "She must have been sohorrified….her eldest son shacking up with some guy."
"Atleast Eric's not like the guys you've been shacking up with." I retorted. "Iknow that's why grandfather sent you away in the first place."
"Let'snot talk about that." She replied. "Just tell me about Grandfather……How did hetake it? He must have been like mother. I actually saw news of your engagementsomewhere in the papers. I think I was in Paris at the time.
"Grandfathertook it surprisingly well." I said, breathing in a little. "I was more thansurprised. I was astonished at how well he took the news. You were still inEurope so you don't know but I actually told them over Thanksgiving Dinner. Thepapers didn't print that because grandfather didn't want them too."
"Andhe's alright with this?" Emily asked.
"Ithink he's completely accepted the fact that I'm with a guy." I replied. "Heled me into the library that same night and told me himself that he wouldrather I lead this family than any other member."
"WowGrandfather's certainly changed since I last saw him." She laughed. "He seems awhole lot nicer. I thought it was just because of all the medicine they havehim doped up on. But now that you've told me this he must be getting a heartafter all."
"Whatdo you mean he seems nicer?" I asked stunned.
"What?You don't know?" Emily asked. "Grandfather's not in a coma anymore he woke uplast night. That's why I'm here he asked for the whole family to comeback……even Miles has been allowed to come home. And we all know what he's doneis far worse than anything I have done."
"What?He's awake!" I cried. "Where is he?"
"He'sin the same room as before." My mother interjected, having walked over to wheremy sister and I were standing. "He really wants to see you."
Minuteslater I was standing before my grandfather. However instead of a sleeping oldman in a coma; he was now fully awake and upright. "Ahhh!" he cried. "Mygrandson you do not know how good it feels to see you here before me."
"Justlook at him Katherine." He laughed, turning to my grandfather. "Just look athim I'm been in a coma for….What was it?"
"Almosta month dear." My Grandmother replied sweetly.
"Justlook I've been gone for nearly a month and just look at how tall he's gotten."He chuckled.
"Yes Ithink he gets that from your side dear." My grandmother cooed. "And I dobelieve he's gotten a whole lot handsomer since the last time I saw him."
"Hedefinitely gets that from your family Katherine." My grandfather chuckled. "Ido recall both your father and your brother were both pretty peacocks back intheir day." I wasn't quite sure why my grandfather was using a century year oldslang term for a pretty boy to compare me to my grandmother's side of thefamily. But I guess I would just take it as a compliment.
"I dobelieve so." My grandmother laughed to herself. "I've been told that all themen in my family were rather gallant beaux in their youth. And our grandson israther handsome."
"Hellograndfather." I replied. "We were all so worried about you when you went intothe coma last month. It really is good to see you too. How are you feeling?"
"Dammit!Dammit!" My grandfather yelled. "Why does everyone keep asking me how I feel. Ifeel fine goddammit!"
"Ignoreyour grandfather dear." My grandmother whispered. "He's just upset thehospital's keeping him here for an extra day. I told him that it was just tomake sure that his wounds are all healed up nice."
"I'mnot mad at him woman!" my grandfather yelled.
"Dearyou must remember what your doctor said." My Grandmother cooed. "He said noover exertions of any kind."
"I'mmad at that damned bastard! JOE SMITH!" he yelled. "He thinks he can unloadfour bullets into me and get away with it! The nerve of that man to pull a gunon my grandson I don't think so. He's dead wrong." I didn't know how he knewabout that part of the story; but he knew about it and was none too pleased.
"Butdear he's not getting away with it." My grandmother replied. "As we speak he'ssitting in a jail cell. The poor man must be mad you can't hold that againsthim."
"Idon't give a damn if he's in a jail cell right now." My grandfather yelled."I'm not going to rest until I've buried him underneath that Jail!"


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There's some Galaxy 2 spoilers, but I got the spoiler bars up.
The number there refers to the number of stars in the game, and no Luigi shenanigans this time around: each one of the stars is its own objective. I'll put some details in spoilers later on, but I feel it was handled much better this time around.
I have all the stars. I've seen the whole thing, and now I feel as though the game really deserves that 10 rating. I'm actually still kind of apprehensive about trying to describe the game, but I'll try to make it sound as good as I feel it actually is. For one thing, I'm still playing it. I have all the stars but I still want to keep going. I think that says a lot about the quality of the game.
Let's start with music. I think nearly all the music in this game is great. Hell, even a good majority of the incidental tracks (like the world map musics) are really good. The worst I can say is that a scant few of tracks aren't amazing, merely good. Flipsville's song is probably my least favorite, and I still think it's at least decent. I'd have trouble choosing a favorite because I like so much of the music.
It's the same with the galaxies. Each galaxy is pretty much centered around one or more game play concepts (with a few exceptions) and each one feels special. One thing most people probably wouldn't notice is the backgrounds. There's a lot more variety this time around. The galaxies often go for specific aesthetics, like Flipsville is sort-of suburban, Clockwork Ruins nails the ancient ruin vibe, and Starshine Beach is very reminiscent of Super Mario Sunshine. Each galaxy stands as a unique experience (unless there's a pair, like Upside Dizzy and Rightside Down, in which case they share the uniqueness together).
The game play concepts follow this trend as well. Powers tend to show up only for a few stars each. Although Yoshi and the Cloud suit are way more prominent than the rest. The Spring and Boo get totally shafted, they're around for one, maybe two stars and that's it. The Drill gets third, and Bee, Rock, and Fire don't get much more air time than the Boo and Spring. That's one complaint I have about the game: there's a lot of variety, but sometimes you wish certain concepts were more established or expanded upon.
The difficulty is also handled very well. The game starts out fairly easy, but it quickly moves on to somewhat challenging. The last few of the first 120 are actually fairly hard, but once you move on the cosmic jewels (more on that in a moment), the game scales back the difficulty somewhat before becoming really difficult, and the last two stars are extremely punishing. 241 is the hardest and longest stage by far, and 242 is that same stage only now with no life, no checkpoints, and no hope. I actually thought for a while there that I couldn't do it. I know I died at least 30 times trying to beat that one. So, I approve of the difficulty curve.
Not much of a story on this one, although Rosalina has a large presence in the end game. Here's the kicker: even though most of the characters don't acknowledge Galaxy 1, she does. I found that interesting. Now, about those Cosmic Jewels, for those who want to know. Cosmic Jewels are Green Stars, this game's post-120. Now Green Stars are kind-of funny. Instead of being their own mission, they're just placed in out of the way or hard to reach spots of the galaxies. This is a lot better than that Luigi business from Galaxy 1. I need to emphasize that these are often really hard to reach.
I really, really like this game. I like enough that, even though I'm essentially done with it, I'll still go out and buy it sometime. I want to keep talking about it... Seriously, does anyone have a question? I got all the stars, I've seen the sights. I could go on and on about this game, and I kind of want to, especially considering that it has to go back to the rental place tomorrow. Really, I want to take questions, I want to try to explain why this game is so great. Sometimes people have eso


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The project examples mentioned in this showcase have been collected over time. The customers may have evolved and enhanced their LANSA based solutions since this article was published.
High on the insurance industry's list of IT concerns seems to be legacy application modernization. Many of the industry's policy administration systems originate from the late 1980s and cannot provide the agility, responsiveness and analytics that the highly competitive insurance industry requires today. Most insurers have gigabytes of data and millions of dollars invested in their legacy systems and need to carefully analyze the risk/reward equation when deciding how to tackle modernization. A growing number of insurers have already gone through that process and are now reaping the rewards.
This showcase provides examples of both end user companies and solution vendors in the insurance industry who used LANSA to extend and modernize existing systems, or to develop entirely new systems.
Common New Developments
We found that the most common extensions and new developments in the IBM i-based insurance community are in the area of:
- Providing Web self-service to policyholders and brokers, as well as quote-and-buy Web sites to prospective clients.
- Web services integration for automated data exchange with brokers and other parties. The same Web services are also used for moving to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Workflow and document management integration. This often starts in the area of quotes, which may not have been properly automated or measured previously. Workflow and document management are then typically expanded to the policy and claims areas.
- Workflow, document management and CRM integration also allow insurers to get a corporate wide view of its customers, allowing process management over multiple divisions or products.
- General application modernization by providing better navigation between applications and a more productive GUI. Modernization typically also includes gradual replacement of legacy applications, starting with the most frequently used programs.
Most companies opt for a blended modernize/replace approach.
AllClear Insurance Services Limited, based in Essex in the U.K., is a market leader with their AllClear Travel insurance, which provides medical travel insurance for people with pre-existing medical conditions who find difficulty in getting travel insurance elsewhere. The company used LANSA to take their insurance product to the Web and to develop and run branded travel insurance sites for a growing number of well-known insurance companies. AllClear is now hosting nearly 100 branded travel insurance sites. AllClear also used LANSA to launch the UK's first specialist travel insurance comparison Web site in December 2010.
www.allcleartravel.co.uk has been ranked for several years in a row as one of the top 10 most popular UK Web sites in the Medical and Health Insurance industry by Experian Hitwise, a leading global online competitive intelligence service.
Nikki Hunt, Head of IT at AllClear Insurance Services, says, "Without LANSA's Web ability, we could not have grown to where we are today. We were the first to offer branded insurance and member benefit sites. While others have followed, no one has had the same success." Read the Bishops Court AllClear Travel Case study
Allianz Ireland, one of Ireland's largest multi-line general insurance companies, is part of the Allianz Group, one of the leading global insurers and financial services providers with over 75 million customers and 150,000 staff worldwide. Allianz's back-end policy administration solution is Insure/90.
In April 2000, Allianz was the first in its field to provide private motor insurance quotes on the Internet. The Web solution was based on MDC's LANSA-developed InsureIT eCommerce framework modules (see MDC) and was soon followed by Web solutions for household insurance, pet insurance and more. After the success of these consumer Web solutions, Allianz chose LANSA as its strategic Web development tool for B2C and B2B projects.
In addition to using LANSA's Web development tool, Allianz uses LANSA's Integration tool to extend its broker communication with Web services. LANSA Integrator is also used as part of an in-house developed smart phone quotation system that directly accesses the InsureIT rating engines for quotes. Read the Allianz Irelenad Case Study
AlphaLife Insurance Company S.A., based in Greece, is a new, rapidly growing insurance company specializing in savings and pension plans. AlphaLife promotes its products exclusively via the 600 branch office network of the Alpha Bank.
AlphaLife uses LINSYS (from SIS) as its core back-end solution to manage its term-life products, but needed a way to provide the branch offices and HQ with browser access. With technical support from LANSA business partner QSYS, the solution was Web enabled using LANSA's aXes modernization product. The integrated aXes and LINSYS solution provides Alpha staff with intuitive and productive browser-based access to update proposals, issue policies and manage the entire policy cycle. This was achieved without having to install or maintain anything on the thousands of PCs at the 600 branch offices and without having to change LINSYS code. Read the AlphaLife Case Study
Chaucer Insurance, based in the U.K. and a division of Chaucer Holdings PLC, provides high quality motor and commercial insurance solutions via a nationwide broker network. Insure/90 has been underpinning Chaucer's growth since 1994, however the legacy 5250 user interface and unproductive RPG development environment became a limiting factor.
Chaucer selected RAMP and Visual LANSA to modernize and re-engineer their heavily customized Insure/90 system, as it provided a balanced approach for delivering innovation, while minimizing risk and costs. In a first step, the claims module was 'RAMP-ed' (modernized using RAMP). A second step, using Visual LANSA, was to start building new applications to support Chaucer's business strategy and deliver them in the same navigation framework as the RAMP-ed claims. In a third step, also using Visual LANSA, Chaucer will provide Web self-service access to claims for policyholders and brokers. Future steps may include modernizing the entire insurance and document management system and getting everything into a common and consistent LANSA framework.
The Groupama Group, headquartered in France, is a major European insurance and banking group with over 39,000 employees worldwide, serving over 16 million customers in 14 countries.
Groupama Assurance Credit in France uses an insurance system that is a heavily customized and extended implementation of BIS, a COBOL-based insurance solution from Practis in Belgium. Groupama AC is using RAMP to modernize this core system. The first modernized module, for managing quotation requests and engagement of buyers, is already in production. The policy management module is next to be modernized. LANSA is also used for specific system extensions. For example, for an alert management and workflow solution for processing new policy requests and for an electronic document management system.
Groupama in the U.K. is a highly respected general insurer and the U.K.'s 8th largest specialist health insurer. Groupama U.K. uses a LANSA-based custom insurance solution. The company also uses LANSA for Web service integration with imarket, the U.K.'s general insurance e-trading industry portal, managed by Polaris on behalf of its members.
Groupama Seguros in Portugal is a general insurance company and a long-time Swiss Life Network representative. In an ever changing environment requiring flexible application development, LANSA has been the company's preferred supplier for over 20 years.
Legal & General Nederland N.V. (L&G) is the Dutch arm of the global Legal & General Group, a leading provider of risk, savings and investment management products, headquartered in the UK, that manages over Euro 400 billion for 6 million clients. (L&G) specializes in life insurance and banking products for clients in the high income segment of the market and works exclusively via a network of financial advisors or brokers. L&G's core system was originally RPG-based and has gradually been extended with LANSA-based functionality.
In 2001, L&G was one of the first companies in the Netherlands to offer its clients and intermediaries Web access. The LANSA WAM based solution, which has been continuously enhanced, allows clients to manage their policy details and change their investment options over the Web. Intermediaries can submit their applications, view the status of policy requests, their historical production and they can drill down to details in their portfolio.
L&G also used Visual LANSA to improve productivity for internal users, such as with a workflow system, creating, accepting and distributing electronic documents and LANSA Integrator for their supply chain management. Francis Vanoni, ICT Manager at L&G, explains, "LANSA's technology plays a crucial role in our ability to provide top quality customer service. It allows us to provide Windows and Web solutions that integrate well with the IBM i, without locking us in."
Francis Vanoni, ICT Manager at L&G, explains "Customers in this high-income market segment invest large amounts with us and have every right to be very demanding. LANSA's technology plays a crucial role in our ability to provide top quality customer service . It allows us to provide Windows and Web solutions that integrate well with the IBM i, without locking us in."
Read the Legal and General Case Study
Marsh in the U.K. provides clients with the full spectrum of risk and insurance products and solutions and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh, the world's leading insurance broker and risk advisor, with over 24,000 employees and clients in over 100 countries. Marsh is a member of Marsh & McLennan Companies. Marsh uses a custom developed RPG-based system to support its business in the U.K. and is using aXes to enable Web access by third party brokers to its client management and financial applications. aXes provided a robust solution in an environment where Marsh could save cost by combining on a single server its external facing Web services with new WebSphere-based services. Read the Marsh Case Study
MDC, a LANSA business partner in Ireland, offers InsureIT, a LANSA-based and table-driven policy administration system and eCommerce framework developed specifically for the general insurance industry. The eCommerce framework module provides a fast and easy way of building Web-enabled insurance products and allows for real-time integration with any IBM i or Windows-based back-end policy administration system already in place, if not used in combination with Insure IT's own back-end system. Insurers and brokers who use MDC's eCommerce framework modules include Allianz Ireland and TopQuote.
Find out more about InsureIT
Glennon Brokers has implemented the Windows-based back office InsureIT system, built using the Visual LANSA Framework, with full cycle policy, renewals and claims management. The back office system returns rates via the Polaris and InsureIT rating engines, using Web services. Glennon's own Web sites integrate with the InsureIT back office system using Web services. All Web services are developed with LANSA Integrator. InsureIT can be deployed on Windows or IBM i servers.
Several insurance companies in the Czech Republic use VERiS, a general insurance system developed by LANSA partner BIZ Data. Originally designed for 5250 deployment, VERiS has recently been redeveloped with the Visual LANSA Framework for Windows client/server deployment. VERiS includes Web self-service access for brokers and policyholders plus automated data exchange via Web services with brokers, regulatory authorities and other third parties. Customers include Hasicska Vzajemna Pojistovna Insurance (HVP), Slavia Insurance, Chartis Europe (the non-life insurance arm of AIG) and Halali Insurance. BIZ Data also uses LANSA for providing software services, for example at the Czech, Slovakian and Croatian branches of the UNIQA Group, one of the biggest nonlife insurers in Eastern Europe.
Hasicska Vzajemna Pojistovna Insurance (HVP), a long established Czech insurance company offering property, life, liability, agricultural and travel insurance, has been using VERiS for over 15 years. HVP has achieved major efficiencies using VERiS and is now receiving over eighty percent of its policies electronically.
Slavia Insurance uses VERiS enhanced with the MIS module for statistics and planning, supporting the company's fast growth and management decision making.
Chartis Europe, the non life insurance arm of AIG is using VERiS for car fleet policy management and claims processing. Their VERiS implementation is enhanced with many LANSA-based integration interfaces for data exchange with other systems within Chartis, as well as with third parties.
Halali Insurance is a recent VERiS user. During 2009, HALALI decided to replace their obsolete insurance system with VERiS. Implementation was fast and smooth and it took HALALI only three months from the date of signing the agreement to going live.
Biz Data also uses LANSA for providing custom software services. For example at the Czech, Slovakian, Croatian and Liechtenstein branches of the UNIQA Group, one of the biggest non-life insurers in Eastern Europe, LANSA is used for extensions and enhancements to INAS an RPG based insurance system from company InsData. LANSA enhancements are in the area of Approvals, Disbursements, Recoveries, Commissions, Workflow integration, SAP Financials integration and reporting
Asia Pacific
Catholic Church Insurances Limited (CCI), based in Melbourne, Australia, has been helping to protect the interests of the Catholic Church in Australia since 1911. CCI provides insurance products to church and religious institutions and uses Insure/90 as its policy administration system.
As part of its front office operation, CCI has implemented Pivotal CRM, a Windows and SQL Server-based CRM system. LANSA Integrator is used to integrate the CRM and Insure/90 in real-time via Web services published from Insure/90.
Julian Ryan, Manager Applications & Business Analysis, says "LANSA Integrator helped us to streamline and automate processes that go across multiple systems and open up the Insure/90 platform by using SOAP Web services. LANSA is part of our plan whenever we need to integrate with Insure/90."
CGU Insurance is the largest provider of general insurance to Australia's regional and rural communities, a leading workers' compensation provider and one of Australia's leading commercial insurers.
For internal users, CGU uses aXes to provide a browser interface to its Insure/90 core policy administration system. aXes is also used to provide CGU's Home Warranty brokers with Web access for historical inquiries into traditional 5250 Insure/90 programs. CGU selected aXes because it allows for easy maintenance as there is no need to install additional software on the user machines, or to provide users with access to Citrix servers. Read more about CGU
Manulife Malaysia is a member of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading financial services group headquartered in Canada and serving millions of customers worldwide.
Manulife Malaysia has extended its in-house developed IBM i-based core life insurance system with LANSA-developed Web portals for agents and policyholders and, in 2000, was one of the first insurance companies in the region to do so. The agent Web portal has been continuously enhanced and offers extensive functionality to the company's 2,000 independent agents.
Agents can follow the status of a policy request or claim, view statistics on new business and retention of existing business, drill down for current and historical details, view which of their customers have or haven't paid their premiums, and so on.
Ooi Sze Chuan, General Manager, Manulife Technology & Services Sdn Bhd, says "The level of detail that agents can zoom into and the amount of history that we keep is unique. LANSA was in 2000 one of the very few tools that could do the job, especially in an AS/400 environment, and has evolved ever since, still meeting today's productivity requirements."
Over 70 insurance brokerage companies in Japan use SompoMate, a LANSA and client/server-based solution for the insurance brokers from Sompo Japan System Solutions Inc. SompoMate provides administration of policies and claims and includes EDI facilities for exchanging details between broker and principal. SompoMate supports the administration of all the broker's insurance business, independently of whether Sompo Japan is the insurer.
QBE Insurance Group, Australia's largest international general insurance and reinsurance group, is one of the top 25 insurers and reinsurers worldwide. QBE Reinsurance has deployed a LANSA-based financial management solution and uses LANSA for in-house development.
The Americas
The Argus Group, the largest local insurance company in Bermuda, has used LANSA to redevelop and integrate its previously separate core systems for group insurance including health, life and disability, pensions and property.
More recent development has been with the Visual LANSA Framework and LANSA Integrator. Applications include a treasury system for the recording of customer payments which integrates with other systems and credit card gateways. LANSA was also used for an international life policy application, which automates the generation and email distribution of policy statements and payment requests to customers and brokers, again integrating with third party applications. Read more about the Argus Group
The Beacon Insurance Company Ltd, headquartered in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and with branch offices throughout the southern Caribbean, offers a full range of insurance products and financial services. Beacon has streamlined its procedures and modernized its Insure/90 core policy administration system, using a combination of the LANSA Workflow Framework, RAMP and LANSA Integrator tools.
Christopher Woodhams, VP Information Systems, says, "We now have complete visibility and control of how documents and work progress through the organization, regardless of divisions and locations. Turnaround times are consistently fast and competitive and we can offer our clients a one window view of their business with us. The system is opening up new opportunities, allowing us to reassess how we utilize our real estate and resources. Our business strategy and LANSA system allow us to focus on winning new business." Read the Beacon Insurance Case Study
HMS Insurance Associates, Inc., a leading independent insurance agency based in Baltimore, specializes in risk management, surety and financial services for individuals and businesses. HMS has a team of 135 dedicated insurance professionals. HMS' core policy administration system is a custom developed RPG-based solution.
With the help of LANSA business partner BDK Inc, the solution has been extended with a LANSA and Windows-based solution for managing proposals. The solution retrieves data from the core IBM i system and merges information into MS Word templates for proposal generation and distribution.
Merchants Insurance Group, headquartered in Buffalo, New York, provides tailored property and casualty insurance products to businesses and individuals through a network of 650 independent insurance agents. Merchants uses WINS, an IBM i and COBOL-based insurance solution and LANSA for all Web extensions.
Agents can get quotes, issue and endorse policies, enquire on policies and claims and view different aspects of billing. Agents also have various reporting functions available and can access electronic manuals. Policyholders can view their policies and bills and pay online.
Merchants uses LANSA's Integrator for publishing and consuming Web services with third parties. For example to exchange data with the Department of Motor Vehicles to allow the instantaneous approval of commercial automobile insurance applications. Other examples include automatically obtaining underwriting reports and credit scores from outside sources, and integration with various service providers in the insurance industry.
Clark Sykes, Vice President Information Technology at Merchants, explains, "One of the main reasons to use LANSA is its versatility and ability to deploy to different platforms. Also, LANSA integrates well with WINS data and functionality, without the need for data conversion." Read the Merchants Insurance Group Case Study
Western Financial Group Insurance Solutions (WES), one of the largest insurance brokers in Canada, specializes in providing unique and cost-effective insurance and risk management solutions. WES has a mixture of LANSA and .NET systems and Web sites, as well as legacy RPG applications, running on multiple Windows and IBM i servers. WES uses LANSA to fuse these heterogeneous systems in its move towards a SOA environment.
After having successfully redeveloped the front-end processes of several of its IBM i-based insurance systems with Visual LANSA, WES used the Visual LANSA Framework to develop a Windows rich-client CRM solution to keep track of prospect and customer activity. The CRM solution integrates with MS Word, MS Outlook, RightFax and several third-party Web sites, for example for address validation and mapping.
WES is going through the structured process of rebuilding many functional workflows from the legacy RPG environment into the Visual LANSA Framework architecture. Integration between WES' .NET SQL server-based self administration Web site and the TotalGUARD quoting engine is handled with Web services developed with LANSA Integrator.
Brian Hynes, Vice President of Business Systems at WES, says, "Tight integration between our IBM i systems, Microsoft Office and our .NET-based Web sites helps to eliminate many redundant tasks, increase productivity and improve system performance. We are now looking at our systems from a holistic perspective. Our RPG and .NET developers are integrated with my LANSA team and we are all moving towards an object oriented mindset." Read the WES (HED) Case Study
Application modernization in the insurance industry has gone far beyond providing quote-and- buy Web access. Web service integration of the core insurance solution with CRM, document management, workflow and other internal systems is crucial. Real-time data exchange with brokers, authorities and other third parties is essential as well. Web extending to policyholders and brokers offers a level of efficiency that can be provided by no other means. And general application modernization, including gradual or partial replacement of legacy code, is on most insurers' agendas as well. LANSA can be the cornerstone in all these modernization projects.


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Hi all, this is my project on the impalassforum.
It is a 1992 olds custom cruiser that i swapped to a HM-290 (NV3500) 5-speed. Its relevance here is that i am considering repowering it with an LD28 that i will turbo, the goal being good fuel mileage.
I think it is possible to boost the. LD and get comparable power to the stock TBI 350 (180hp@3600,300lb/ft@3200).
Keep in mind its just an idea and dont try to talk me out of it
My question is finding an adaptor plate to adapt the NV3500 to the L series. I've found kits that ironically go the other way.
I know i could get a 280zx-t bell and use a T5 but if im gonna buy another transmission It will be a T-56 (attatched to a LSx).The ratio spread in the HM290 imo is good for a small turbo diesel, plus i already modded the car to fit it, the shifter location is VERY far forward.
The HM290 has an integral bellhousing. Gen1 chev pattern.
So, my options, if i keep my current trans, are:
1) forget the idea
2) put in a 6.2 gm diesel (but they inly had like 90hp as well,idk if mileage gains would be substantial and there would be no room for a turbo)
3) vortec 8.1 and gas mileage be damned lol
4) Adaptor plate and flywheel spacer(i would like to keep the stock gm flywheel and clutch if possible)
Anyone here into possibly making me an adaptor?
Nissan LD28 into GM
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Posted 26 January 2014 - 01:20 PM
And I'm living here in Allentown...
Posted 26 January 2014 - 02:22 PM
Dude that's a sweet project, but I don't have any info for you. If you were to have an adapter machined, your best bet would be to cad it first.
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Posted 08 February 2014 - 02:03 AM
What Isuzu Commonrail Turbodiesels exist? They are generally GM swap friendly. They're in Chevy Colorado trucks all over Asia.
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Though the centralisation of the supervision of credit rating agencies with ESMA is justifiable, it is not absolutely necessary. At the same time, it is questionable whether or not it is inn line with EU law. Therefore, the maintenance of federal supervisory structures for ESMA and for the supervision rating agencies is a better solution.
The Commission is going too far. The Regulation should apply only to credit rating agencies whose ratings are to be used in the calculation by financial service providers of necessary own funds. Ratings of credit rating agency from outside the EU should also be useable to this end, when these agencies are subject to regulatory standards which are similar to those in the EU.
The rules on investment policy, maturity and liquidity increase investor confidence. Cash buffers for money market funds with a constant asset value are not suitable for striking the right balance between investor confidence and financial market stability. The only alternative is a general ban on money market funds with a constant redemption value. Banning money market funds from soliciting external credit ratings from rating agencies obstructs the efficient allocation of capital.
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Social game giant Zynga is holding a press conference in San Francisco right now, and the company has announced that it will be releasing a series of new games for Facebook, all built in HTML 5 rather than Flash. That's especially interesting for us iPad users, because it means that those games will show up, fully playable, inside the new Facebook for iPad app, released yesterday. Currently, the iPad app will link out to other games you have installed on the iPad (so if you click a link for Words with Friends or Zynga Poker, for example, the iPad will actually load up that game), but with these HTML 5 games, the games will play right inside the Facebook app itself.
That's pretty huge, especially for fans of these social games like Farmville and Empires and Allies (which are indeed extremely popular, as much as people may make fun of "cow clicking"). Zynga didn't reveal just what these HTML 5 games were yet. There is currently a version of Farmville available on the iPad, so I doubt these will be remakes. More likely, they'll be all-new games, built especially for HTML 5, that will run in both the browser and the iPad app. We'll have to see going forward how the company makes use of this new platform on the iPad app itself.


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Workers at Fiat's Melfi plant, which produces the Fiat Punto car and makes components, have given their final approval to a deal between unions and the carmaker. The approval finally ends a period of month-long period of industrial action that disrupted Fat production across the country.
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NatWest Pro40 - Division Two
Leicestershire Foxes 175-5 Innings Complete v Northamptonshire Steelbacks 37-1
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Bad weather once again intervened at Wantage Road on Sunday with Northamptonshire's Pro40 Division Two clash against Leicestershire being washed out.
Twenty-four hours after the Steelbacks' match against Derbyshire also fell victim to the weather, a no result was declared after the heavens opened with the home side just four overs into their innings.
Having been put into bat, Leicestershire had earlier reached 175-5 off 30 overs with James Allenby and Josh Cobb each making 43.
Monty Panesar claimed the scalps of James Taylor (9) and Jacques Du Toit (14) on his way to figures of 2-27.
Northants' attack made a good start as Matthew Boyce fell in Lee Daggett's first over after edging to keeper Riki Wessels.
But Cobb and Allenby then fought back, the former reaching his total off 37 balls before pulling Nicky Boje's delivery to Daggett at mid-wicket.
Their run rate then slowed and wickets also started to tumble more regularly - Panesar dismissing Taylor with a turning ball that clipped the off stump.
A brief rain delay came after the 23rd over with Allenby soon dismissed by Boje before Panesar caught and bowled Du Toit.
Another delay soon arrived although Tom New (16) and Boeta Dippenaar (28) subsequently managed to survive the final four-and-a-half overs.
Chasing a revised target of 186, Northants' attempts were frustrated by another downpour, which brought about a newly-revised total of 122 off 17 overs.
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In a desirable location on Holland's Northside you will find this charming home near Lake Macatawa. This lovely home features 3 bedrooms 2.5 bathrooms and a newly updated kitchen. The kitchen has been completely redone with ceramic flooring, quartz counters, stainless appliances and new recessed LED lighting. There is both a family room and living room on the main level with fireplace in the living room. The huge backyard is fenced and private and great for any season! Upstairs you will find 3 bedrooms, a beautiful master suite with completely updated tile and glass shower and large walk-in closet. There is a finished room in the lower level that could be used for an office or future 4th bedroom. Call today to make this lovely house your home!
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- Address
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- Holland
- Zip
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- County
- Ottawa
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- Total Finished SqFt
- 2,298
- Above Grade SqFt
- 1,968
- Garage
- 2.0
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- Taxes
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Is the Blue Planet Truly 'Going Green'?
Thanks to the consciousness-raising film "An Inconvenient Truth" and the Live Earth concert series, global awareness of environmental issues has increased, prompting attitudinal changes, but consumer behavior at retail is changing more slowly. In many cases, "green" concerns are the unwitting beneficiaries of tough financial times as people drive less and rediscover the versatility of leftovers.By Jonathan Banks -- Business Insight Director -- The Nielsen Company -- Europe
Thanks to the consciousness-raising film "An Inconvenient Truth" and the Live Earth concert series, global awareness of environmental issues has increased, prompting attitudinal changes, but consumer behavior at retail is changing more slowly. In many cases, "green" concerns are the unwitting beneficiaries of tough financial times as people drive less and rediscover the versatility of leftovers.
There's not much that's convenient about climate change and its impact on the food chain. Unfortunately, environmental concerns are taking a back seat to more immediate and pressing financial concerns during this recession. Just one year ago, issues like the environment, health and work/life balance ranked as the primary or secondary concern for consumers. In an April 2009 Nielsen Global Online Survey covering more than 50 countries, it's the economy and job security that are keeping people awake at night, with global warming falling to 14th place on the list of "biggest and second-biggest concerns."
Biggest Concerns
Half of respondents felt that, over the next 10 years, their lives would be negatively affected by climate change, while one-third anticipated little difference. On a country-by-country basis, six of the top seven "most concerned" populations resided in the Latin American countries of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. The sole European exception -- and most concerned country overall -- was Greece.
Prudent Practices
Forced to review spending habits in an attempt to hold the line on costs, green concerns are emerging as an inadvertent winner. For example, lower new car sales translate into fewer cars on the road and lower exhaust emissions, with a positive impact on global warming. In rosier times, households tended to waste up to 30 percent of food -- today, families are searching recipe Web sites for ways to repurpose leftovers.
Even as consumers are adopting more environmentally prudent practices, a disparity remains between the percentage of people who claim to be "concerned about the global environment" (80 percent) and those who say they have proactively changed their daily behavior in the last six months to address climate change (51 percent).
Measuring Miles
A great debate rages as to the appropriate way to measure the costs of sustainability efforts. Some tout the value of food miles -- promoting the benefits of buying locally and limiting transportation costs. Others prefer carbon emissions, because mode of transport and time of year can actually make imported products less damaging to the environment.
The carbon emissions method takes into account the energy required to grow and process a product, which can outweigh the cost of transportation. Examples of cost-effective imports to Europe include New Zealand lamb, Spanish tomatoes, New Zealand winter apples and Kenyan roses.
Trailblazing Initiative
Consumers want retailers to step up and bring clarity to the sustainability issue, as they have with food labeling. In mid-July 2009, Walmart Stores made the bold move of announcing an environmental labeling program that would require every vendor -- no exceptions -- to calculate the full environmental impact and cost of their products.
Based on this input, Walmart would then assign a green rating to every product in the store. The actual rating system may take as long as five years to implement, but represents a landmark moment for the sustainability movement.
Consumer Contribution
The Nielsen Global Online Survey findings suggest that shoppers are trying to make a contribution to the sustainability movement in a number of ways. More than half of consumers purchase energy-efficient products and appliances as well as locally made items. Over 40 percent of shoppers choose products in recyclable packaging or buy at a farmers' market.
Sustainability Movement
More than 30 percent seek out products with little or no packaging and opt for organics where available. More than one-quarter prefer fair trade products, those that are ethically produced or grown, and locally sourced alternatives.
Gone Fishy
One example of an environmentally sensitive program has been introduced by the seafood industry. Demand for seafood is on the rise, thanks to the combined impact of publicity campaigns touting the health benefits of omega-3 and -6 fatty acids found in fish, and the negative health and environmental aspects of bringing red meat to the table. Fully 92 percent of people around the world reported eating fish in the last year.
The downside of increased demand for seafood has been a related upswing in over-fishing, leading to the depletion of many species at world fisheries. In response, the Marine Stewardship Council developed a logo now featured on millions of products that tells consumers the producing company employs sustainable fishing practices. Seven in 10 survey respondents felt that the on-pack accreditation stamp for sustainably sourced fish was important to their purchase decision.
Among the countries most heavily influenced by the fish sustainability label were Vietnam, Philippines, Brazil, Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, India, Chile, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates.
Tackling Responsibility
When asked where responsibility rested for monitoring fishing practices and protecting the sea's fish stocks, survey respondents voted for country governments (67 percent), the fishing industry itself (46 percent), fish manufacturers and processors (28 percent), people who buy or eat fish (19 percent), non-government organizations (18 percent) and fish product retailers (16 percent).
Table Stakes
While many see the move by major player Walmart as a way to differentiate itself from the competition and build consumer loyalty, others believe that in the future, aggressive sustainability programs will become table stakes -- simply the price of entry at retail. The ultimate goal is to achieve a triple play where the people, planet and profits all benefit from environmental activism.


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Make your own amadou crafts! This light, warm and slightly spongy Amadou felt was hand crafted from tinder fungus mushrooms grown in Korond, Romania. The Maker, Mako Csaba, was nice enough to go through the exhaustive process of, foraging and carrying home the large Fomes fomentarius (tinder fungus), peeling off the hard surface, extracting the soft fibers found inside and pounding it into felted material. Just thinking about it makes me tired!
It's called tinder fungus for a reason, it is extremely flammable so choose your projects carefully!
For crafting Mako Csaba uses a white water based glue called Aracet. In old times people made a grain based glue for amadou.
Each piece is hand crafted so please allow for variation in color, shape and size.
approximately 5x9 inches - Just enough to make a nice codpiece or small handbag.


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San Bernardino Mountains > San Gorgonio > Climber's Log
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|Vivian Creek
Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2013
|Nice peak, great trail. Took about 6 hours 45 minute round trip.
|Posted Apr 9, 2013 12:25 am
|Run via South Fork
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2009
|4th time up San G, 3rd time running. Started at the South fork trail head, ran to the summit in 1:57:27, a new personal record. My all time favorite mountain run, can't wait to be in good enough shape to run it once again someday.
|Posted Apr 4, 2013 9:20 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 14, 2012
|Posted Mar 18, 2013 4:49 am
Date Climbed: Mar 10, 2013
|Solo from South Fork
|Posted Mar 11, 2013 10:27 am
|Jeff Hester
|Vivian Creek to San Gorgonio
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2010
|Part of our training for the John Muir Trail. Hiked this with a group from HikingOC meetup group. Beautiful weather, although I wish there were a few clouds in the sky (makes for more dramatic photos).
Full details and photos of our hike here: http://socalhiker.net/2010/07/san-gorgonio-via-vivian-creek/
|Posted Jan 31, 2013 8:56 pm
|Long overdue
Date Climbed: Nov 17, 2010
|Misty, rainy day.
|Posted Jan 20, 2013 1:25 pm
|Vivian Trail
Date Climbed: Jan 9, 2013
|Winter solo. 10 hours round-trip.
|Posted Jan 9, 2013 7:36 pm
|Vivian Creek
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2009
|Geojed style "big day"
|Posted Dec 26, 2012 2:21 pm
|San Gorgonio 9 Peak Traverse - Peak #1
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2012
|From Vivian, starting the traverse. Also climbed north face in winter in 2011.
|Posted Dec 25, 2012 6:05 pm
Date Climbed: Nov 18, 2012
|My puppy's paws got a little tired so we camped about a mile short of the summit. Made it up and back down the next morning, but we didn't traverse the ridge like we had planned.
|Posted Nov 19, 2012 1:55 pm
|From Vivian Creek
Date Climbed: Jan 26, 1986
|Great winter hike; IMHO much better than doing in the heat and crowds of summer!
|Posted Nov 13, 2012 4:03 pm
|From Vivian Creek
Date Climbed: Nov 2, 2012
|Enjoyable hike with Mark J. Easier than Big Iron.
|Posted Nov 3, 2012 2:30 am
|From Angelus Oaks via SB Divide
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2012
|Summit #8 in traverse along the San Bernardino Divide. Descended via Vivian Creek. Really long day.
|Posted Oct 15, 2012 2:39 pm
|From Momyer via San Bernardino Divide
Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2012
|Challenging climb from the Momyer trailhead, then linked up with the trail coming from Dollar Lake and headed to summit. Descended via Vivian Creek. Long day.
|Posted Oct 15, 2012 1:35 pm
|San Gorgonio
Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2012
|Started at 2:30 am to beat the heat. Great view of the city lights on top.
|Posted Sep 24, 2012 1:40 am
|whew! twentysome mile day hike!
|Posted Sep 20, 2012 4:22 am
|Traverse from Bighorn Mtn
Date Climbed: Oct 22, 2011
|From Bighorn, descended back to The Tarn, then took gully straight up to San G summit, intercepting the trail coming from Mineshaft Saddle and bypassing it. Fabulous steep slope, gains 1000' in half a mile!
|Posted Aug 26, 2012 7:41 pm
|Thanksgiving on San Gorgonio
Date Climbed: Nov 24, 2011
|Put in first tracks all the way to the summit. Snow was waist deep in some places. Awesome!
|Posted Aug 7, 2012 2:42 pm
|Vivian Creek Again
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2012
|Went and tagged Dragon's Head on the way back. Beat my best time to the summit by over 20 minutes too.
|Posted Jul 30, 2012 3:01 pm
|South Fork One Day.
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2012
|Hiked starting via the South Fork@5:45AM Went through the Dollar Lake Path. Summited around 12:30PM. My friend carried up the sign the Mt. San Gorgonio 11,503 with our initials on it. 6hrs to descend. It was very cloudy and we had no vision at the summit.
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Dominican College is a Catholic school under the trusteeship of Le Chéile; it was founded in 1870 as both a boarding and day school. It is situated on a height overlooking Wicklow Town with a superb view over Wicklow Bay and the surrounding countryside.
A school rich in traditions and talents, this tradition has been handed down to us through the vision and dedication of our predecessors in Dominican education and continues to inspire us today. We are inclusive in our intake, comprehensive in our curriculum, encouraging justice and fairness in our structures and behaviour management strategies. We endeavour to promote Christian Values. Justice, Peace, Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Mutual Understanding are promoted in the daily life of the school community. Dominican education is concerned with the education of the whole person; strong emphasis is placed on each student attaining her full potential academically, care is also taken to ensure that the student benefits from an enriching all-round education.
An important facet of Dominican is the recognition and acceptance of the difference in ability and gifts of each student. We help students to make sound judgements; that is done through developing a love for truth. The Dominican motto 'Veritas', meaning 'Truth', is the inspiration for our work. Students are encouraged to probe and discuss the issues raised in life and respond with positive action according to the possibilities open to them.
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