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Mergers and acquisitions always have an air of uncertainty about them. But when you combine longtime players in the enterprise computing space, users who have significant real dollars and years of training aligned with a specific vendor, that uncertainty turns to real business concern.
As a result, Sun users who have concerns about Suns ability to support SPARC under Oracle long term need a plan. The following eight steps will help any user who is considering a migration from Sun to a new platform, or considering a mixed platform strategy going forward, to decide what they need to do and how to best accomplish those goals:
Step 1: Decide to make a change - Recognize that you need to make a change and define your level of urgency for that change.
Step 2: Develop a financial baseline - Inventory your existing equipment. Then, determine your current investment and level of depreciation to gauge the ROI of a new or altered infrastructure.
Step 3: Determine the OS(s) that make sense for you - Examine the applications you are running and determine what operating platforms you can move to that will provide the best combination of ROI and performance. Avoid the pitfall of believing that Solaris cant run on other architectures. Implemented correctly, it can.
Step 4: Take an inventory of your mission critical applications - Can they all run on one platform? If not, you'll have to re-engineer your existing applications for your newly chosen platform. Be open to the idea of a mixed environment. In some cases, this may be your best route to cost savings and a better return on investment.
Step 5: Design your target infrastructure A smart migration plan is based on the technical aspects of the new platform, as well as the business aspects uncovered during a thorough analysis of your financial baseline coupled with your total cost of ownership for new equipment.
Step 6: Build a well defined migration plan - Will you move all your applications at once or use a phased approach?
Step 7: Develop a training plan - If youre a loyal Sun user then you have technical staffers well versed in Solaris, but theyll need training to understand the new OS(s) and how your specific applications will run on them.
Step 8: Execute the plan - Now is the time to procure the equipment, get it on site, and begin the physical changeover.
One more piece of advice: When considering a company wide platform migration, remember that your own internal IT staff may know the Sun platform inside and out, but may not know HP, for example. If thats a concern, remember that outsourcing some or all of your regular IT functions even if its just for the period of time it takes for your own staff to ramp up on the new platform can be the smartest thing you do. In the short term, its a cost efficient way to bridge the gap while everyone gets up to speed on the new system.
Brandon Harris is a senior technologist for Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions and services.


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A non-profit organization called Wreaths of America is selling wreaths to be placed on the graves of veterans at Greenwood Cemetery.
Snouffer Funeral Home Director and WAA Location Coordinator for Muskingum County Brad McCune, said every year on Dec.14 at Noon, people from all 50 states participate in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor fallen veterans. If you would like to be a part of that, you can purchase a wreath for $15.
"Wreaths may be purchased two ways actually, they can be purchased online, you can go to www.wreathsacrossamerica.org and you can also stop by our office here any day 9 to 5 p.m and purchase a wreath as well," said McCune.
Last year, McCune says over 400,000 wreaths were sold throughout the U.S. and 100 of those were sold right here in Muskingum County, but he's hoping to top that. The ceremony, which is open to the public, focuses on spreading the Wreaths of America mission, which is to remember, honor and teach.
"Throughout this ceremony those 3 things are emphasized as far as remembering the veterans and what they have done for our freedoms, honoring them whether living or already deceased and then teaching through this service. Teaching the younger generations."
Wreaths can be purchased through the end of November. When they arrive, they will be distributed at Greenwood Cemetery on Dec. 14 before the ceremony.

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Opening address at the Oslo Policy Forum on Changing the Way We Develop: Dealing with Disasters and Climate Change
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Publisert under: Regjeringen Stoltenberg II
Utgiver: Utenriksdepartementet
Oslo, 28 February 2008
Tale/innlegg | Dato: 28.02.2008
We are in Oslo, and we would like to see this conference as one of the transition stations on the road from Kobe via Bali to Copenhagen – and beyond, Foreign Minister Støre said when he opened the Oslo Policy Forum.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to Oslo and to this conference, which will focus on the political challenges behind the images you just saw on the screen.
Take a look at this picture. A man struggling to cross a wild river. The river banks are gone, as are the people who lived there and their homes.
The train line is barely hanging together. His life is hanging in the balance.
But his family, job and the local market could well be on the other side.
And the question we ask ourselves is: Will he make it?
This picture could have been taken in India. Or Bangladesh. Or China. Or Vietnam. Or Zambia.
A frozen image of the devastating human suffering and economic consequences that humanitarian disasters entail.
And there are no short cuts.
Greenpeace has coined the phrase "weather of mass destruction".
This is a snapshot of its collateral damage.
We are in Oslo, and we would like to see this conference as one of the transition stations on the road from Kobe via Bali to Copenhagen – and beyond.
The Norwegian Government is committed to the implementation of the Bali Action Plan. We have pledged to fulfil our Kyoto obligations plus an extra 10 per cent. And we will seek to strengthen inter-national cooperation on adaptation measures.
We want to increase focus on what all of us need to do to prevent this man from falling.
The reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have shown that some of the most dramatic effects of climate change will occur in regions that already have serious problems. They are characterised by weak governance structures, environmental degradation, poverty and violent conflict. And to that we now have to add the accelerating effects of climate change. We know all too well that any disaster – whether linked to climate change or not – will be harder to handle for these countries.
Let me give you a few more snapshots:
- 400 natural disasters reported last year,
- a sharp increase in the number of floods, particularly in Asia, but also in Africa,
- some 16 000 people killed,
- 197 million people affected,
- 14 out of 15 UN Flash Appeals related to climate change,
- current trends consistent with IPCC predictions, and
- damage totalling more than USD 60 billion from disasters caused by natural hazards.
That was in 2007.
And we have every reason to fear that 2008 will bring more storms, heavy rain, floods, droughts and heat waves.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pointed out that progress on the Millennium Development Goals is "a development emergency".
On top of this, climate change is altering the face of disaster risk.
We may, as a result, be facing extreme long-term vulnerabilities on an unprecedented scale.
We see the emerging consequences: already, rapidly expanding humanitarian budgets are unable to keep up with the rise in humanitarian needs triggered by the increase in disasters around the world.
Soaring food prices and increasing populations, particularly in the world's cities, will further widen the funding gap.
We therefore need to see more proactive and concerted initiatives on adaptation in the years leading up to 2015.
If not – if we save and protect more people but allow their livelihoods to be washed away – we will indirectly create more vulnerability and poverty.
This is why we have gathered in Oslo this week:
To come up with some of the policy answers to these challenges and to commit ourselves to them;
To make a push for more adaptation efforts at community level, so that we can make a difference for the most vulnerable;
And to consider guidelines that can help as a reference for new and improved policies.
Let me then turn to another key question: What about conflicts?
Will climate change lead to more violent conflict and wars?
We do not know.
There is no consensus on whether climate wars are already breaking out or not. But we do know that age-old tensions related to scarce grazing land, drying oases and shrinking agricultural areas are aggravated by persistent droughts in the Sahel.
Existing conflicts are worsening.
Climate change did not create the Darfur crisis. People did.
But peace and reconciliation will not come about in Sudan unless the problems of worsening livelihoods for pastoral farmers and nomadic herdsmen are addressed through government actions, development initiatives and environmental investment.
We may not be seeing new inter-state wars, but we need to understand the emerging insecurities at the local, sub-national level – like in Darfur.
And for those who have seen Al Gore's presentation of the Inconvenient Truth will remember the link he made between climate change visible in the Arctic and the drying out of Lake Chad. These are effects of the same global challenge – with different consequences close to the North Pole and at the centre of Africa.
Each of use can draw our own conclusions about what consequences the drying out of Lake Chad will have for all those whose livelihoods traditionally depend on these water sources in the centre of Africa.
What social groups are facing greater marginalisation and discrimination as a result of climate change?
What about displacement and migration?
What about gender issues?
We must make sure that we choose the right level of analysis in order to respond wisely to future security concerns.
We must also build on the proactive agenda that is driving ongoing work on disaster risk reduction – so that adaptation and risk management serve as agents for progressive development.
And we must remember that even countries with sound governance structures and adequate financial resources are struggling to cope with the new challenges of the 21st century.
The US is not a fragile state. But ask the people of Louisiana what they think.
Risk reduction efforts challenge traditional views on governance. Democracies are not always the best at disaster management.
Africa and the Arctic, as well as the greater Himalayan region, are among the regions of the world that will experience the harshest effects of climate change.
In the North, as I said, the melting ice cap poses challenges as well as offering opportunities. The traditional livelihoods and cultures of indigenous peoples, like the Inuit, are threatened. But the prospects of navigating the polar seas could open up new chapters of trade and development, linking China, Russia and Europe closer together.
For vulnerable groups in the South, however, climate change is a question of life and death. The brutal paradox is that the most vulnerable societies have contributed relatively little to global warming.
They cannot shoulder this burden on their own.
Rich and industrialised nations – including my own – must take the lead and bear the heaviest burden.
But in addition we need practical recommendations on how to integrate disaster and climate risk management into development planning and policy.
And we need knowledge.
We need to accumulate country-based experience of how adaptation to climate change can best be implemented – at different levels of government.
Because we have to mitigate and adapt at the same time. We have to mainstream and coordinate. We have to plan and govern. And we have to govern well.
Currently donors are highly committed to both disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. But the challenge is to maintain this level of commitment between now and 2009 – and after.
Of course, funding is key but not enough.
National governments are responsible for defining and developing procedures and measures for strengthening disaster risk reduction as defined by the Hyogo Framework for Action.
UN agencies, the World Bank and other international organisations are supporting this process. As are donors.
But the solutions that are designed globally have to be delivered locally.
It is vital to assess the progress made so far, and we are pleased that the first biennial Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction has been commissioned.
As we reflect on the outcome of this assessment and other upcoming reviews, I believe that we must be more sensitive to the limited administrative capacities at the local level, as well as to the challenges posed by the informal nature of vulnerable settlements and livelihoods.
National policy frameworks, supported by international agencies, tend to have limited applicability in the areas where disaster risk is currently increasing, such as rapidly growing cities and remote rural areas.
Moreover, institutional silos must be broken down, for the collective good. Coordination across sectors is crucial.
How can we work on these problems together? That is another question that I hope this conference will help us all to address.
Norway's ambition is to build new long-term partnerships on adaptation to climate change, disaster risk reduction and conflict management – bilaterally, multilaterally and regionally – and to stimulate South-South cooperation.
Several of our partners are represented at this conference.
We are committed to taking the global challenges of disaster risk reduction seriously.
And for that reason, I believe we have to change the architecture of both foreign policy and development cooperation.
We need to attune international action better to the needs and plans of local partners and national governments. It is those of you who are worst affected by the problems, who have ownership to the solutions.
Adaptive capacity is closely connected to social and economic development, as the IPCC's synthesis report pointed out.
The humanitarian community needs to engage more closely with development partners.
We need to understand the barriers, limits and costs we are up against.
We need to develop norms, recommendations and guidelines.
We must stop getting caught up in the differences between adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction.
And we should consider whether there are a few priority areas that should be given more attention in the short term than others.
Across the relief-to-development spectrum, we need to pay greater attention to the basic welfare needs of populations living in difficult environments.
More than anything, what the man on the screen needs is a safety net – not only to protect him from falling here and now, but to also to make him better equipped to meet future challenges.
We must strive to achieve convergence in relation to risk reduction just as we are seeking to attain carbon footprint convergence. No less.
Before I conclude, I would like to thank our co-organisers UNDP and ProVention for their invaluable contribution to this policy forum.
I hope you will all find this working session useful and inspiring.
Thank you.


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This document describes how to shut down or reboot a Cisco Intelligent Contact Management (ICM) remote system running Microsoft Windows NT by using the shutdown command or the Windows NT Shutdown User Interface.
Note: You should follow this procedure only when instructed by a Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineer, or when instructed by a Cisco ICM Technical Tip.
For more information on document conventions, see the Cisco Technical Tips Conventions.
Readers of this document should be knowledgeable of the following:
Cisco ICM
Microsoft Windows Networking
The information in this document is based on the software and hardware versions below.
All versions of Cisco ICM
The information presented in this document was created from devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If you are working in a live network, ensure that you understand the potential impact of any command before using it.
You can use the shutdown command in a Telnet session to shut down a Cisco ICM remote system.
Note: Use the shutdown command during a scheduled maintenance window.
The output below explains the options available for the shutdown command.
C:\>shutdown /? Usage: SHUTDOWN [machine] [/M:message] [/D:delay] [/Force] [/Reboot] [/Cancel] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ where: machine is the network name of the computer to shutdown message is displayed in the shutdown dialog delay is the amount of time to wait before shutting down /Force Forcibly closes all applications /Reboot Restarts the machine immediately after shutdown /Cancel Cancels an existing shutdown order
In the following example, the shutdown command is going to shut down and reboot a machine called "geociscolgra".
C:\>shutdown \\geociscolgra /force /reboot
To restart your computer using the Microsoft Windows NT Shutdown User Interface, click Start > Shut Down > Restart the computer.


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Shares of Ford Motor Co. (F - Free Report) fell 0.9% and closed at $16.87 on Aug 5, due to the overall market decline, despite media reports revealing the company's plans to expand presence in Africa. The rapidly developing economy of the continent backs Ford's expansion plans.
Ford intends to expand its factory base in the continent from the existing two factories. The automaker looks to tap in on the rapidly growing vehicle market of Africa by meeting the rising demand. The behind-the-wheel count in Africa is projected to improve 55% to 840 million by 2023.
Importantly, Ford has created a new business unit – Ford Middle East and Africa – to capitalize on the growing importance of the respective markets. The combined region is expected to witness a 40% surge in industry sales, taking the figure to 5.5 million by 2020.
To strengthen its foothold in this lucrative market, Ford intends to launch 17 new or revamped cars under the Ford and Lincoln brands in 2014 and 2015. The new vehicles will include right-hand-drive versions of the Mustang, Fusion sedan and Focus small car. The company also intends to make customer support and car parts easily available in the region.
However, Ford faces significant challenges in the Middle East and Africa region, which include the Ebola outbreak in Liberia and Sierra Leone along with the civil unrest in Nigeria aimed at imposing Islamic law. Nevertheless, braving all the odds, Ford will make a detailed analysis of the region to determine the number of factories and dealerships it needs to add in Africa.
Since 2010, Ford has invested $500 million in South Africa in order to manufacture Ranger compact pickups and Duratorq diesel engines. The company manufactures the Ranger at an assembly plant in Pretoria while the engines are produced at Port Elizabeth factories. Ford's total employee base in the country is 3,200 people.
In the Middle East and Africa segment, Ford's revenues totaled $1.1 billion in the second quarter of 2014. The region earned a pre-tax profit of $23 million, compared with $13 million a year ago. Further, Ford expects break-even results at the segment in 2014.
Ford currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Better-ranked automobile stocks worth considering include Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA - Free Report) , Visteon Corporation (VC - Free Report) and Accuride Corp. , which sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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A new dating site for people who can't have intercourse
In contrast to the above post title, the title of the Time article we just read is "A New Dating Site for People Who Can't Have Sex." These are two very different things: you can have sex without having intercourse (hello, oral, manual, frottage, etc.), but if you can't have sex then that implies you can't do anything sexual. We thought this new dating site, 2date4love, was for people who can't or don't want to have any (or much) sex, be it because of illness, faulty equipment, low libido, asexuality, age, past trauma, religious reasons or whatever. But it turns out the site is targeted at people who can't have intercourse (says so right on the homepage).


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Caring for Children
Students taking the Caring for Children option have the opportunity to develop their understanding and knowledge of a variety of aspects in relation to caring for children of differing ages. Students complete a set of assignments that incorporate topics such as keeping children safe, physical activities for children and encouraging young children to eat a healthy diet. The topics covered are often interactive and include work with young children from outside the school.
In construction pupils will cover four units of work. The skills the pupils will acquire will enable them to put into good practice later on in life. Below are the units they will complete and a description of what skills they can acquire.
Creative Media
In Creative Media, pupils will have the chance to develop a range of topics including, animation, photography, audio and video production and advertising. Pupils will be given a range of technology to use in order to complete these tasks including video cameras, cameras, ipads and computers. Pupils will learn to use a range of software to complete their tasks. There is also a focus on team work skills which will be needed in any workplace.
Fashion & Textiles
In Year 9, 10 & 11 pupils are given the option to complete an ABC Award in Fashion and Textiles. During this module pupils get the chance to practice their designing, printing, sewing and making skills.
Hair & Beauty
Students taking the Hair and Beauty option have the opportunity to develop their understanding and knowledge of the Hair and Beauty industry. Students complete a set of assignments relating to aspects of the industry that cover such topics as basic make up, hair styling and nail art.
Students taking the Hospitality option have the option to develop their understanding and knowledge of different aspects of the Hospitality industry. Students complete a set of assignments relating to customer satisfaction. Topics cover such areas as healthy eating, food service and food preparation.
Land Based Studies
Pupils will study 5 units of work based around Horticulture. This is a very practical based course and can lead to either a Level 1 or Entry level qualification. The unit focus on introducing pupils to the skills required for basic horticulture.
Life Skills
Students in Life Skills lessons are encouraged to develop their independence when completing tasks relating to the world outside of school. Students take part in practical workshops that mimic real life situations providing evidence in individual portfolio's that can be taken with them and used as a handbook when they leave school.
Sport & Active Leisure
The BTEC Sport and Active Leisure module allows students who have an interest in sport and Physical Education to gain a qualification as well as broaden their subject knowledge.
The subject is assessed through assignments that require evidence of both practical and written work. Topics covered include health and fitness, working in the Leisure industry, improving sporting performance and how the body works.
Travel & Tourism
This module offers pupils to gain a BTEC level 1 certificate through completion of a set number of units. Pupils encounter and significantly develop a number of skills within this course that are essential for future employment in the Travel and Tourism industry such as ICT, geographical skills, research, delivering presentations, and planning trips. Units are varied and engaging and most units include visits to local tourist attractions or places of employment that offer travel services. This course is one year in length.
Students take part in Physical Education lessons for one double lesson per week. Currently Students have the opportunity to study BTEC Sport and Leisure in years 10 and 11.


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Check BNN and Bulbanews for up-to-date Pokémon news and discuss it on the forums or in the Bulbagarden Discord server.
Marsh tile
A marsh tile is a special tile introduced in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. It is found only around Pastoria City, Route 212, inside the Great Marsh, and in the Johto Safari Zone, all of which being the location of some form of wet ground. When the player walks on them, they may find that they are stuck and are unable move. Getting free requires the player to "struggle and squirm" by using the D-pad to repeatedly change the direction in which they are facing.
The marsh tiles on Route 212 are devoid of grass; no wild Pokémon are found there. Conversely, in the Great Marsh, wild Pokémon are only found in the marsh area, which has grass growing on top of the mud. Despite the grass there, players can still get stuck while moving through the bog. Battling while stuck can and will free the player.
A tile that works in a similar fashion is the Hole trap used in the Underground.
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|Special tiles in the Pokémon games
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Coconut Creek will soon get its own hotel – a Hampton Inn Hotel & Suites. Located on State Rd 7 and the Sawgrass Expressway, it will help fill a void in the area. The Seminole Coconut Creek Casino is very close and I'm sure they will have a shuttle bus. It will also help give options to those staying in the area for business and for the many technical schools in the area. It's also very close to the Mainstreet District, which Coconut Creek hopes will begin more development soon.
The $14 Million Hotel will have 105 rooms a 1,000 foot putting green, five jacuzzi suites, an outdoor spa and heated pool and computer access on every floor. There will also be a gym, a guest laundry room and three meeting rooms. Sounds like a little more to offer than your typical Hampton Inn.


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Discussion in 'Pros' Racquets and Gear' started by Roger Wawrinka, Aug 27, 2013.
I've seen so many players wear these, what so special about them?
They are actually very comfortable shoes
I put a hole in the side of gel res 5s in 2 weeks.
Good shoes. I have a pair and I like them. They are doing a good job with in the tennis field. And like it was mentioned above, they have been very agressive with their marketing.
Thanks for the info. Are they good for support? They must have been very aggressive with there marketing, because all the players are sponsored by others brands like Nike and Adidas.
I find them to be great shoes. Nikes are too narrow for my wide feet. I was wearing the Barricades (5&6), but ultimately suffered too many jammed toes. I really like the Challengers I've had really good results with the 7's and 8's -- its about time for a new pair. Check them out.
I did it my first session. Only good for carpet play now. Shame, as they're otherwise great shoes.
Been wearing them for a few years now. I do wear the tread out somewhat quickly, but have no other problem with them.
Love them right out of the box.
They are excellent shoes. Had barricades before but too heavy and cumbersome. Asics lead the way in tennis shoes for my money.
I cant comment on their longevity just yet but for comfort and breathability they are an excellent shoe.
You may need to wear two pairs of socks though!!
I went from Barricades to Gel Res. My Gel Res is just as good as the Barricades, and feels more fitted and comfortable just like a perfect glove. Durability is just as good surprisingly.
Its nice to see more pros or anyone wearing asics, it seems like everyone wears Nike or Adidas. The gr5's are comfortable but I notice they fit a half size large for me anyways, never tried the solution speeds.
BITD, we bought huge rolls of duct tape. http://freepostermaker.com/uploads/saved_posters/free-poster-me8gktcfik-DUCT-TAPE-SHOES.jpg Don't Hate
What's bitd mean?
I'm guessing "back in the day"?
BTW, loved my Asics GR4 shoes. I just sent them in on Tuesday for the warranty so hopefully the GR5 is just as good.
Ah, makes sense! Thanks.
I thought the 4s were very good and the 5s even better so you should love them. Some info that may or may not apply to your feet, I went up a 1/2 size for the 5s, and Asics warranty were happy to accommodate my color/size request. Good company.
I believe they are successful in combining a supportive shoe with quick feeling ie light weight shoe. I'm probably not one to ask about durability as I get a lot of time out of my shoes even the vapor 9. I really puzzle at how people destroy shoes in a couple of weeks I try not to think of what they are doing to their legs, but I digress the first sentence answers the question
I went down to a 10 on the GR4 based on TW's recommendation so I requested 10.5 (in yellow) for the GR5 replacement. Glad to hear about your experience. I can't wait, hope they show up next week (wishful thinking), haha.
great shoes for me. comfort right out of the box and play very fast. I've been wearing for several years, GR2's, 3's, 4's, 5's and Gel Challenger 8's. I take advantage of the 6 month warranty..its great seeing the popularity, when i first started wearing them, no one did..loving the new styles and colors. I'm currently interchanging 2 pairs of 4's and a pair of 5's. The 4's do run big, I have size 10 in the 4's, every other model, size 10.5.
You're in CA like me so it could well be next week. They'll fit great as I did the same thing. (sized down 1/2 sz in GR4 and back to usual sz in GR5). To me, both the feel and styling are improved on the 5.
My local tennis store had an Asics display 'tower'. Most of the sneakers on this display were running shoes. I picked out the most expensive one ($145) and tried it on. It was the most comfortable sneaker i've ever worn. If I didn't wear a suit to work I would have purchased them on the spot.
Needed another speed shoe after the vapors,haven't enjoyed a shoe like these in a long time. Super comfy/light.great ventilation,traction not the greatest.Stability is surprisingly good for such a light shoe.well padded around the ankles, zero break in time,
Just hideous to look at.had to put the black laces in
Like most if us they won't last 5months, but picked them up for 99$ at a local tennis shop.steal for such a great shoe, you feel like usain bolt in them...
Take care
Are those more yellow or lime green? I've seen them on TW and I can't figure out what color it is.
I wore my GR4 to work one day since I had a match after work and didn't feel like bringing two pairs of shoes, I had never felt so much cushion walking up the stairs!
I don't know what Asics does with the returned shoes but I wished I could have kept them just for walking around in!
Tennis ball yellow would be the best description ^^
Take care
Thanks for posting a pics with black laces.....I was thinking about switching the laces, but now after looking at that, it's fine the way it is.
Yes, most comfy tennis shoe out of the box, no break in time, light....I don't notice an issue with traction though, but I'm not a high level player.
And yes, tennis ball yellow is the best description of the color.
I guess this proves I am officially an old fart. I bought two pair, one clay and one hard court...both in the white.
Why do you say you're an old fart? Because you bought quite possibly the best sneaker in a color that never goes out of style/looks good with everything?
I like your reasoning better.
Don't feel old, see a 73 yo rockin' the Solutions in Black and Orange, http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/Asics_Gel_Solution_Speed_Clay_Bk_Or/descpageMSASICS-ASGSCLO.html
Thanks man! I'll have to get a pair
I have to say that the white/blue TW carries is the best looking shoe out there, IMO.
Let me add that the clay court sole does make a real difference on clay. The hard court sole feels a bit lighter and works well on hard. However, it is a pain in the arse when heading to the club when you're not sure if you're in our out.
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Just over a year ago, Robert
Courtney Jr.'s Rahystrada won the Grade III Arlington Handicap with jockey Inez Karlsson aboard, and then that horse and rider went on to finish fourth in last
summer's Grade I Arlington Million.
This summer, Rahystrada
remains on track for a return engagement in the upcoming Arlington Million on
Aug. 13, but because Karlsson became a mother for the first time in her life just
over a week ago, the 7-year-old gelding will have jockey Sheldon Russell
(aboard for Rahystrada's Colonial Cup win in his last start June 18) in the
However, it would not be
prudent to write off Karlsson's career as a jockey. Arlington's
all-time leading female rider plans to begin getting back on horses as soon as
"That's my plan," said
Karlsson this week. "I feel great right now, but I had to have a
C-section the other day – which I hadn't really planned on – and the doctors
told me to take it easy for awhile until the staples come out.
"I just got her (daughter
Sophia Rose Calcagno) to sleep," explained Karlsson midday Wednesday, "so this
is my private time. But I have a hard time sitting still. I weighed
141 pounds just before I had the baby (July 25) but I've already lost more than
20 of those. I like to stay active and I've been able to go swimming for
about an hour every day."
Was a second-generation jockey
career a possibility for Karlsson's newborn daughter?
"I don't think so," Karlsson
said. "She eats like a horse and she's already grown a half-inch since
she was born, but she could still end up wanting to work with horses without
becoming a jockey. I want to let her be whatever she wants to be.
"I'm really going to try to
come out to Arlington
for the Million to watch Rahystrada run," concluded Karlsson. "Those
people (owner Courtney and trainer Scooter Hughes) have already invited me to join
them and I'd love to come out and root for Rahystrada to win it. I would
consider it an honor to be there."
Just before playing "Boots and
Saddles' for a race midway through Sunday's Arlington Park program, Arlington
bugler Jean Laurenz allowed herself a brief riff from George Gershwin's
"There's a Boat Dat's Leaving Soon for New York" from Gershwin's opera "Porgy
and Bess."
Laurenz' ostinato musical
pattern played prior to the call to the post is proving somewhat prescient,
because Arlington's bugler for the last two and half seasons will be headed up
east after Arlington Million weekend – not by boat, and not exactly to New
York, but a little ways up the Connecticut Turnpike to New Haven's Yale
Born and raised in Arlington
Heights, Illinois, the 24-year-old
Laurenz, who graduated from Northwestern
University with a degree in music and
education, is pursuing more graduate musical studies at Yale, but hopes to
resume her duties at Arlington,
where she also sings the National Anthem before the races, at the beginning of
the 2012 season.
Rachel Serber, who graduated
with a master's degree in trumpet from Northwestern in 2010, and plays for the
Chicago Civic Orchestra, will fill in for the remainder of this season as Arlington's
bugler after Laurenz journeys "on her way to a heavenly land."
Apprentice jockey Constantino
Roman, Arlington's leading "bug" rider so far this season, scored a riding
double Sunday at the local oval, winning the second half of the Daily Double
astride Carmella DiZeo's Huckleberry Boy for trainer Dino DiZeo and a $15.60
win mutuel, and coming back to the winner's circle after taking the fifth on
Lucky 8 Stables' Queen Anna for trainer Daniel Sanner and a $6.80 straight
Roman, whose engagements are
being handled by Dennis Cooper, was scoring the first Arlington
wins of the season for both those conditioners.
Also with two wins on Sunday's
program was leading jockey J. Z. Santana, who resumed his spot as the sole
leader in the standings with his double, winning the fourth race with Jason
Horner, Edward Seltzer and Mike Wiengarten's Love This Kitten for trainer Larry
Rivelli and the ninth aboard Ron Magers, Roe Conn, Robert Marcocchio and
Russell Scurto's Third Chance for conditioner Jimmy DiVito.
2009 jockey champion and 2010 runner-up Junior Alvarado also rode two winners
on the program, scoring in the third with Mt.
Joy Stable's Wrongful Suit for trainer Eric Reed and returning to the winner's
circle after the eighth on Oak Knoll Farm's Charging Home for conditioner Brian
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On my road bike my saddle height is 804mm and my saddle to bar drop is 112mm. I find on my mtb that the saddle is far too high at 804 so drop it a couple of inches which seems to work okay, but I'm not sure what to do about bar height.
I started building up my 29er this evening and it's come to the point where I need to cut the forks. Niner say you should have a max of 40mm of spacers, but then say that you shouldn't ever have spacers above the stem, so can anyone give suggestions as to what I should do to get my bar height correctly. FWIW, I ride XC.


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There was a notorious cat fight in San Diego County in the spring of 2012. It happened at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, but not during the annual cat show. The fight happened during a circus act.
"She had grabbed my hair and shirt pretty much at the same time, and was ripping at it," said soft-spoken Kallie Lamb Helwig. "At the time I had very long hair. It went past and below my waist, and my hair [hung] down straight." Not anymore.
Helwig tried to save her beautiful hair. "I attempted to get her hands out of my hair. So I felt up my head through my hair and pulled [at] her hands. And I tried to pull her hands off, but I couldn't because she'd wrapped my hair multiple times around her hands. So then I followed her arm up to her hair, and I tried pulling it down, and I repeated at least three times, 'Let go and I'll let go!' At the same time, there were so many people converged around us. Everybody was saying, 'Let go!' to both of us."
A witness said both women were bent over at the waist, clutching each other's hair. Then someone took hold of the other woman's shoulders and tried to pull her free. Helwig stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Unfortunately," she said, "I don't think he knew that she had her hands wrapped in my hair."
The scuffle was brief, Helwig said. "From when she first struck until we were separated, I would say no longer than 15 seconds. She ultimately let go, and I felt her release." Helwig was crouched over, down on the ground. Both women were on the ground.
Some of Helwig's hair had been pulled out. There were scabs, later, where hair used to be. Security personnel took photographs of Helwig right after the fracas. In the photos, Helwig has her hair pulled up into a messy ponytail that spills down one side of her head. "The way she had wrapped her hands around my hair, it had matted, and I could not brush it out. And so I had to put it up." It was a quick repair, using a hair tie that Helwig's mother had given her because she was going out on a date.
It was an unsightly incident during a date with a man she was trying to impress. Helwig had arranged the date herself. She bought tickets to the last performance of Cirque du Soleil in San Diego County. This was May 27, 2012. Helwig drove to pick up Gerald Torello, her date. They rented a hotel room near the Del Mar Fairgrounds before heading off to the show.
The scuffle left Helwig hurting. "I had a strain in my neck, and spasms in my neck and back. And headaches. And a contusion to the top of my head." Because of the bare patches where her hair had been ripped out, Helwig cut the rest of her hair short. "Yes, I had to cut my hair."
She admitted that she hit the other woman first, in the head. "I punched her." But Helwig had felt threatened. Then, "I struck her twice more." She admitted, "She never made any specific threat of bodily harm."
Helwig denied that, after the circus performance, she was waiting near the exit specifically to attack the other woman. "Well, I was looking for my mom. I was scanning for my mom. I had attempted to go find her, but I was waiting to exit."
Helwig didn't know where her mom was sitting during the show; they did not have seats together. "I told her I'd see her after the show. We hadn't made any specific plans on where we were going to meet."
Helwig didn't know where Torello was, either, during the slugging and hair-pulling and the tumble to the ground.
After that day, Helwig said, she and Torello "stopped dating."
"Just leave"
After the other woman let go of Helwig's hair, someone told her to "Just leave, just get out of here." She did not see her date, nor her mom, "so I walked down the stairs." She was embarrassed that her shirt was torn, exposing her bra. "I tried to fix my brassiere."
She walked out into the dark parking lot. "They had shuttles, but I didn't take one because I was so embarrassed [about] the way I looked."
Helwig decided to go to the car; she had the keys, but "Nobody was there. So I started returning to the fairgrounds — we were in the fairgrounds still — but [I started] back to the tent. And as I'm walking, I see sheriff's vehicles with their overheads on." Helwig's mom called her cell phone. "'Hey,' [my mom] said, 'the sheriffs [deputies] are on their way. They're going to want a statement from you.' I was already on my way back, so I told my mom, 'I'm on my way. I'll be there shortly.'"
That's when Helwig next saw Torello. She was coming out of the parking lot, walking toward the sheriff's vehicles. Torello looked concerned. "He said, 'What happened to you?' Then he asked me if I was okay because I looked disheveled."
Kallie Helwig explains
Helwig was 25 years old in February 2013, when she took the witness stand to explain herself. She'd been charged with battery, for hitting the other woman. There were other criminal charges, too.
Her own, friendly attorney asked, "Why did the fight begin?"
"It began because she approached me," Helwig said. "I felt threatened, and I felt that I had no other choice but to defend myself."
Prosecutor Tracy Prior said, "Nothing about this was a fight. It was an attack."
Helwig explained that it began when she bought tickets for the Cirque du Soleil show "as a gift" for her mother. "It was my mother's birthday." Helwig bought three tickets to the "Totem" performance. The total cost came to $339.50.
She also invited Torello to the show. They'd been dating about three weeks. They'd gone bowling and to the movies.
When Kallie Lamb Hellwig took the witness box in her own defense, she spoke in a soft voice, and made a demure, gentle appearance. Jury decided: guilty of battery.


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View Poll Results: Should I rename myself Mariella
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July 5th, 2013 11:33 AM #1
Should I rename myself Mariella?
Hi Everyone!
I'm 15 (16 in 16 days!) and in a year I'm changing schools.
I really don't like my nickname that I've had since I was a baby, Ellie, I find it too childish and I really cant picture an adult named Ellie. I've been thinking of alternatives and I've come up with Mariella, which I love. Its a mix of my first and middle name Eleanor Mary. I have the nn Nora and Leigh/Lee/Leah ect and although I like Eleanor, I don't feel like I am one. My surname is Porter. Does Mariella Porter sound weird together? I'm British, so imagine saying it in a British accent
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Honestly, Eleanor is much more beautiful than Mariella and less frilly. I understand you may not feel like your name but I think you should continue searching.
Mariella Potter is a bit too hard on "r"-s and if you are changing your name, I think you should destroy this problem. Do you like Mirabella(same amount of "r" but "be" softens it), Margaret/Margot, Mathilda, Helena? They have the same style but go better with your last name in my opinion.
Also, do you consider changing your nickname not name? Eleanor can also be shortened to Nell or Ann/Annie. And will you be changing your middle name too?
P.S. If you would like to keep searching, I recommend to try the site called Nymbler(maybe you have heard/used it). You add the names you love(or have:Eleanor, Mary, Mariella) and it gives you some suggestions you may like. It's really helpful!
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July 5th, 2013 12:24 PM #9
I have noticed a trend on here of teens wanting to change their names. I really don't mean to be offensive, but it seems like a very "teen" thing to do. Eleanor Mary is beautiful and the name your parents gave you. It is far better than Mariella. If you really need to step out there, use Nora which seems a much more mature thing to do than make up a name.


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2013 Cox Plate Champion Shamus Award was unable to justify his favouritism in the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes (1400m) first-up on February 8th, however trainer Danny O'Brien is confident the three-year-old will be hard to beat in this weekend's Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) after completing a strong hit-out at Moonee Valley last week.
Galloping well over 1400 metres, O'Brien told Racing Victoria News he is anticipating a well-polished run by the talented Snitzel colt on Saturday and will be much better for the first-up run three weeks ago.
"I'm not a form analyst, but I would suspect that the Orr Stakes would be the strongest race of the lead up races" O'Brien said.
"It was weight-for-age against Moment Of Change, who's racing as well as anything in Melbourne at the moment.
"I think both the colts' runs were full of merit in the Orr and no doubt it was the highest-pressure 1400 race that they've run so far this summer.
"I expect it will stand them in good stead when they come back for the Guineas against their own age."
Having slowly built to the task in the 2013 spring, a busy autumn campaign is on the cards for Shamus Award with O'Brien revealing a tilt at the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) only one week later as a strong possibility, depending on Saturday's result.
"He's definitely a chance to run" he added.
"We've left the opportunity to do it by only having the one run leading into the Guineas.
"If he runs up to expectations in the Guineas then he's more likely than not to take on the older horses in the Australian Cup."
Shamus Award is currently the $6 third-favourite and market mover at Ladbrokes.com.au for 2014 Australian Guineas success at Flemington on Saturday behind exciting gelding Hucklebuck ($3.80) and in-form three-year-old Eurozone ($4.20).
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was released back in April, and with it came a slew of problems for users. First of all Microsoft had to halt the release for a week due to an incompatibility issue with Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System. Then it was found anyone running XP with an AMD processor in their machine was getting endless reboots. Finally, Microsoft realised it was shipping SP3 with an out-of-date and vulnerable version of Flash.
Almost 2 months later and all of the issues seem to have been dealt with. At least, that's what Microsoft hopes as it is about to roll SP3 out as an automatic update.
The actual timing of the release has yet to be pinned down, but take this as your warning that machines setup to auto update and install through Windows Update will get it soon.
Those of you who wish to block the update for a while longer can either manually deny the installation or use the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit.
Read more at ComputerWorld.com
Matthew's Opinion
I think Microsoft has probably identified most of the major issues with SP3, but automatic update status means millions more PCs will apply the pack. It won't go completely without a hitch and there are bound to be some more obscure bugs appear. All Microsoft can hope is that they aren't big or newsworthy.
From what I have read SP3 isn't a significant update unless you have a machine that has missed several major security updates. I have installed it on 2 machines so far, both of which were fairly up-to-date anyway. The biggest problem I had was the update download actually stalling. Once past that problem things ran smoothly after the obligatory Windows restart.


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In the struggle to contain SARS, Ma Lin is the man with his finger in the dike. Ma is the vice director of the center for disease control and prevention (CDC) in Guangzhou, and it's his job to track every suspected SARS victim in the capital of China's Guangdong province. That makes him one of the busiest men in China. Last Thursday, a Guangzhou man reported by his employer as running a fever was refusing to submit to a SARS examination. The response was instant. "Tell him he can deal with us now, or deal with the police later," Ma says, dictating an order to one of hundreds of health officials working around the clock. He turns to a reporter from TIME. "The police haven't actually become involved, but people always respond to the threat."
The health department is not normally an agent in mainland China's feared security apparatus, but decisive measures like this seem to have enabled Guangdong, birthplace of SARS, to stabilize the spread of the disease. While Beijing panics, Shanghai quibbles and Hong Kong continues to flounder, Guangdong has apparently seen a reduction in new cases from a peak of almost 50 a day in February to an average of nine for the past month, although it has hit the teens in recent days. "If SARS can be contained in Guangdong," notes World Health Organization (WHO) Beijing representative Hank Bekedam, "it becomes clear that strong action can help other provinces."
So what's Guangdong's secret? First, according to WHO sources, provincial officials on Feb. 3 set up an effective system of reporting new cases and disseminating information among its health-care workers. Unlike in Beijing or Hong Kong, where SARS patients have been scattered throughout the network of hospitals, Guangdong has consolidated them in a handful of its best hospitals. On Feb. 11, when the province publicly admitted to 305 cases, it was already running a central command to coordinate the fight against SARS. "We're tracking down every suspected case, quarantining patients and letting them go only after we're sure they're not infected," says Huang Fei, director of the command office. In the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment, that kind of dogged, shoe-leather epidemiology is vital to bringing an outbreak under control.
A look at how suspected cases are handled reveals a level of sophistication probably unseen in other parts of China. On April 20, Li Junhua, a worker on a construction site, boarded a bus for the five-hour ride to his home province of Hunan. Near the border with Guangdong, the man sitting behind the bus driver suddenly died. The driver contacted the police, who 10 minutes later arrived with health officials. They distributed masks and ordered that nobody was to leave the bus as the officials performed a background check on the dead man. "We were terrified he had died of SARS," says Li. Nine hours later, the officials had their result: the dead man's name turned up on a hospital computer as having been treated days before for a stroke. Doctors concluded the case was not SARS, but still recorded contact details of everyone on the bus and forwarded the list to the CDC in Guangzhou, where Li's contact information remains on file. "The whole process was remarkably efficient," Li told TIME by telephone from his home in Hunan.
Perhaps even more crucial, Guangdong quickly recognized the importance of protecting its medical staff, which early on accounted for nearly 40% of all SARS cases. After an initial delay, in late February front-line workers received full-body protective suits for use in dangerous cases of the disease something doctors and nurses in Hong Kong are only now being given. In the past month, the number of new SARS cases among health-care workers has fallen steadily to "basically none," according to Huang. SARS wards in Guangdong are well ventilated, with open windows and fans circulating air, which doctors in the province and the WHO alike believe plays an important role in preventing hospital infections.
Politically, though, Guangdong has acted as shamefully as Beijing and those mistakes have cost the rest of the world. The province dithered in January when it first identified the virulent new atypical pneumonia that would later be labeled as SARS, losing a chance to stop the disease in its tracks. Even after Guangdong had set up its efficient response system, officials there failed to share their expertise with Beijing and Hong Kong, and misrepresented the extent of the deadly new disease. Although the WHO is "pretty satisfied" with the way the outbreak has been handled medically, "that's distinct from how it was handled politically," says Peter Cordingley, WHO's Asia spokesman.
But infection-control methods alone seem unlikely to account for the SARS tally gap between Guangdong and neighboring Hong Kong, the latter having recorded over 130 more cases in only a month-and-a-half, with a fatality rate that's significantly higher than Guangdong's reported figure of 3.5%. Dumb luck plays a part. Guangdong officials say the province hasn't suffered a single explosive outbreak along the lines of Amoy Gardens in Hong Kong, where 321 people were infected, possibly via contaminated sewage, in a matter of days. That sudden mass of seriously ill patients spread SARS through the local community and overwhelmed hospitals, directly leading to more infections among health-care workers.
It's also possible that Guangdong natives have built up herd immunity to SARS, which occurs when a significant percentage of a population has developed antibodies against a specific disease, slowing its spread. But Malaysian microbiologist Dr. Lam Kai Sit notes that "with SARS, the incidence is so low there cannot be much immunity in the general population." Herd immunity could be aided by large instances of asymptomatic infection (infections with no sign of disease), but scientists have no way of knowing if such cases exist without using wide-scale diagnostic tests.
A more likely, and frightening, possibility is that the unstable SARS coronavirus has mutated since it left Guangdong, perhaps into a more virulent and contagious form. Scientists at the Beijing Genomics Institute announced last week that there were significant genetic differences between coronavirus samples sequenced from patients in Guangdong and in Beijing. In Hong Kong, doctors believe the virus may have mutated when it infected Amoy Gardens residents, who suffer unusual symptoms (including severe diarrhea) and have a higher fatality rate. Says Dr. Michael Lai, a coronavirus expert at the University of Southern California: "As the virus responds to different environments, different strains will emerge."
That possibility weighs on the minds of Guangdong's health officials, who know the province is just one superspreader away from a new outbreak. If SARS returns, it could spread rapidly among the province's 31 million migrant workers, who live in cramped dorms and enjoy few health services. "Even just one case a day is a problem," says Chen Rongchang, vice director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. "One person could easily pass SARS on to 10 people, and then to a hundred. The virus is not dying out." Fortunately, neither is Guangdong's will to stem the tide on this deadly disease.


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We're coming up on Valentine's Day and I'm celebrating the launch of my 10th (OMGOMGOMG – TEN!!!) book release. So I do think it's party time!
What do you get when you mix a military hero on a mission with an independent artist hell-bent on proving something? A battle that can only be won between the sheets.
Sophia Castillo is finally calling the shots in her life, and she's determined to stay in charge. The last thing she needs is a babysitter. Not even a babysitter as sexy as US Army Sergeant First Class and EOD Squad Leader, Maximillian St. James. But when someone is sabotaging her art gallery, she turns to Max for help. When he proves to be a challenge to her independence, she lays down their relationship rules. Hot sex, good times and a lot of laughs are all good. Anything involving their hearts is strictly off limits. Before they catch the vandal, Max and Sophia both have to decide just which rules they are willing to break, and how high a price they are willing to pay.
So it's time to party here in the Lair. And what better way to party than to have Sven man the bar, offering champagne, margaritas and chocolatinis. The cabana boys will be coming around with some special, romantic Valentines inspired desserts – because what better way to celebrate a February release than to tie it into the most romantic holiday of the year.
As our hunky boys make their rounds, here's what they'll be offering…
Tawny's Top Ten Sexy Valentines Desserts
1. Four Layer chocolate mousse cake with ganache
2. Whipped cream. Just, you know, all fluffy and inviting there in a bowl.
3. Strawberries dipped in chocolate. They can visit the whipped cream bowl if you'd like.
4. Éclairs. I imagine eating an éclair like Lady and the Tramp ate spaghetti *g* Nibbling toward the middle together!
5. Tiramisu. Rich, decadent, delicious!
6. Brownie ala mode. Hot chocolate and cold ice cream. Oh my!
7. Flambe Cherries Jubilee. Ohhh, talk about inspiring flaming passion!
8. Caramel Rum Fondue. Dippable, lickable, pourable. So many possibilities.
9. Crème Brulee. Simply delicious, with its crispy sugary crust.
10. Gourmet Chocolate Truffles. Bite sized bits of sexy deliciousness.
Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is! I love dessert anytime, but sexy romantic desserts just have an extra layer of irresistibility.
Which dessert will you be indulging in (remember, all desserts served in the Lair are calorie free!) Is there a dessert you consider romantic, or think of for Valentine's Day, that isn't included here? Just mention it and one of our sexy servers will make it happen for you!!!
To celebrate the release of BREAKING THE RULES, I'm giving away some Valentine's treats to one lucky commenter today! A hand-crafted (by me) heart-shaped tin filled with candy, and a book of the winner's choice from my backlist!
Be sure and check out my upcoming party!
Valentines Party!
I'm so excited that my tenth release, BREAKING THE RULES, is on shelves now! I loved writing this story, because it focuses on something near and dear to my heart – a Military Hero (my own hero-hubby was in the Army). Even more fun was making this a Valentine's story, complete with hearts and flowers.
To celebrate, I'm having an invitation-only Valentine's Day Party! Including:
* A downloadable short story written just for this party as a door prize for everyone who attends
* A sexy Top Ten to wind up my Top Ten tour: Ten Tips for a Hot Valentine's Night
* One lucky person will win a Valentine's Basket!
All you have to do to join the fun is go to the Breaking the Rules Valentines Party page on my website, and let me know you'd like an invitation!


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Jordan and Robin, Sisters, Meet for First Time After 17 Years
Jordan and Robin Jeter never knew of one another until January, when they met at a track meet. The two then discovered that they were sisters, almost making Disney's "The Parent Trap" a reality.
"At first I didn't know I had any siblings," Robin told WUSA 9. "As time went on, I only though I had one sibling. I didn't know I had any more."
Robin, 17, was born nine months before Jordan, who was adopted after she was born. Robin was put into the foster care system before being assigned a legal guardian. While the two never met, they had many things in common, including a passion for track.
The two finally came face-to-face at a track meet and exchanged phone numbers. They couldn't wait to find out more about one another, including their life stories, common interests, and plans for the future.
"My team was like, 'She looks exactly like you,'" Jordan told Fox News. "I started, like, crying. I already knew about my adoption and I knew my last name was Jeter."
"I was so anxious to know more about her," Robin said. "I asked her what's your mother's name on your birth certificate, what's her birthday, what does your birth certificate say at the bottom."
"I was like, 'what is this? An interrogation?" Jordan responded. It's been so long, I just feel like I'll never been apart from her. If I wouldn't have participated in school sports, I would have never met her. I'm so thankful I joined track."
The sisters now spend every weekend together and plan to look for more of their siblings. Four siblings have been found so far, and the sisters plan to continue to work together to find any more who may be out there.
It's unknown exactly how many siblings may either be in the foster care system or have been adopted. Jordan was due to meet her biological mother yesterday on Mother's Day.


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- Leisure Suit Larry (Ends May 2nd | Thread)
- Your World (Ends May 3rd)
- Hard Contact (Ends May 3rd)
- Nekro (Ends May 4th |Thread)
- Sira the Game (Ends May 4th)
- Vigrior : Maneuver Warfare (Ends May 5th)
- Yogventures! (Ends May 6th)
- Starlight Inception™ (Ends May 8th)
- Thomas Was Alone - Final Stages (Ends May 8th)
- Match and Magic (Ends May 10th)
- Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 in Lego form (Ends May 10th)
- Gravitaz (Ends May 10th)
- Republique by Camouflaj + Logan (Ends May 11th | Thread)
- Delaware St. John 4: Asylum of The Lost (Ends May 14th)
- Police Warfare (Ends May 18th | Thread)
- Grim Dawn (Ends May 18th | Thread)
- Jane Jensen's Pinkerton Road 2012-2013 CSG Ends May 19th | Thread)
- Squad Wars (Ends May 19th)
- Ravaged (Ends May 20th)
- Colossal Cave: The Board Game (Ends May 20th)
- Boot Hill Heroes - Wild West Retro RPG with 1-4 Player Co-op (Ends May 21st)
- Legends of Eisenwald (Ends May 22nd)
- Gubble 3D: New Retro Maze Videogame by ex Atari Designers (Ends May 23rd)
- Gubble 3D: New Retro Maze Videogame by ex Atari Designers (Ends May 23rd)
- Atari 2600 Star Castle (Ends May 24th)
- Atari 2600 Star Castle (Ends May 24th)
- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...n?ref=category (Ends May 27th)
- Watch me build a fighting game - EXPO FIGHTER (Ends May 31st)
- Cross of the Dutchman (Ends May 31st)
- Super Fun Time (Ends Jun 2nd)
- Kitaru (Ends Jun 3rd | Thread)
- Turrican Soundtrack Anthology by Chris Huelsbeck (Ends Jun 3rd)
- Flame War - The Card Game of Extreme Moderation (Ends Jun 3rd)
- Erythia: Shattered Dreams (Ends Jun 3rd)
- Dark Meridian (Ends Jun 4th)
- MICROMON: A Monster Capture Game for Mobile Devices (Ends Jun 15th)
- The Battles You Have Always Wanted to See (Ends Jun 23rd)
- Double Fine Adventure ($3,336,371 | Thread)
- Wasteland 2 ($2,933,252 | Thread)
- Shadowrun Returns ($1,836,447 | Thread)
- The Banner Saga ( $723,886 | Thread)
- TAKEDOWN ($221,833 | Thread)
- FTL: Faster Than Light ($200,542)
- Code Hero: A Game That Teaches You To Make Games ($170,954)
- The Dead Linger ($154,968)
- Spriter (gaming related) ($71,179)
- Auditorium 2: Duet ($71,061 | Thread)
- Valdis Story: Abyssal City ($49,574)
- Guns of Icarus Online ($35,237)
- Farmageddon - The frenetic farming game ($25,274)
- Rock Vibe - Accessible Gaming ($17,400)
- Guncraft: Voxel-based First Person Shooter ($16,487)
- Pixel Sand ($13,616)
- Zoneplex - A Board Game Adventure in an Alien Pyramid ($13,459)
- Chuck's Challenge 3D ($13,130)
- City Conquest: Tower Defense Evolved ($11,170)
- Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution ($11,073)
- Aura Tactics ($11,027)
- UFHO2 - A Turn-based Strategy Game ($10,872)
- College-Ruled Universe ($8,628)
- Against the Wall ($8,416)
- The Departure Game App ($8,014)
- Last Class Heroes - 2D Action RPG Eyecandy! ($5,855)
- Americana Dawn ($4,791)
- Team Notion - 2D beat em up for PC and Mac (Vita and Mobile) ($3,596)
- Fly Killer ELITE! ($3,342)
Posting in this format would really help the thread:
- Title of the Kickstarter project with link
- Deadline and target
- Short paragraph about the game (you can just copy the first few lines off the kickstart page)
- any pic's/video's would be nice
Originally Posted by shagg_187
Auditorium 2: Duet
Target: $60,000
Deadline: Apr 1
Auditorium 2: Duet is a sequel to the amazing Auditorium. Duet has cooperative mode added to it. It also uses Steam to it's fullest, taking advantage of their matchmaking, multiplayer, leaderboard, and achievements framework; and has Mac and PC support.
And I think we shouldnt use imgur these days for images, lately popping up with problems everywhere for me. Min.Us works fine though.
So thanks. I think.
what's the problem with imgur? never noticed it.
Since I was considering doing this thread as well... nice thread idea you got there! :P
And I think we shouldnt use imgur these days for images, lately popping up with problems everywhere for me. Min.Us works fine though.
Originally Posted by Juan29.zapata
I am glad that someone did this thread in an organized way. Maybe you can use the second post for describing each project shortly? It could be helpfull, since people might not want to travel through 2 links just to get to read a page that might have walls of text for something they might not even like. Just as a suggestion. Still, awesome thread!
i'll look into it, I will add links to the kickstarter pages in due time like you mentioned.
I think that's May 4th.
- Nekro ($100,000 | Ends Apr 4th)
Nice OP. Didn't know about The Dead Linger and Nekro, will pledge later today. For Nekro, is that a new kickstarter? I didn't find any info. Hope it gets a lot more attention than it is getting now because the concept and the animations look really nice.
Oh shit... adding.
Originally Posted by pixelat3d
No LSL Love?
Cognition, target reached
just added Valdis Story: Abyssal City and The Banner Saga because of this thread ;)
only the minimal amount for a copy of each game though
I just added to it.
do you still keep that spreadsheet up to date?
I can e-mail you it if you want.
EDIT: I have not been keeping track of anything with a goal of under $45k. I realize that would not be productive for this thread. Maybe if there were a Dropbox or Google Something that everyone could contribute to?
EDIT 2: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...z?ref=category (NINJA WARS)
I entered the thread having backed only Wasteland 2, Banner Saga and FTL.
I post now having just pledged to Shadowrun, Leisure Suit Larry and Starlight Inception.
I was considering backing the Jane Jensen project until I read this on their kickstarter page: "Jane is known for games with complex, dark plotlines ala Dan Brown." Ah, well then, no thanks.
But did he really?
You forgot Your World
to my (very limited) knowledge, it's actually a joke
Originally Posted by bonesmccoy
I was considering backing the Jane Jensen project until I read this on their kickstarter page: "Jane is known for games with complex, dark plotlines ala Dan Brown." Ah, well then, no thanks.
Gabriel Knight 3 came out at the same time as The Davinci Code with a similar premise, yet one was successful and the other was not (at least that's the way I understand it)
This one seems a lot more organized though
One suggestion. Could you put links to the Kickstarters themselves in the OP instead of just linking posts?
The fact it has $21,000 makes me realize that there's 65 people I hate in the world.
You forgot Your World
$1,245 at time of posting, $10,000 goal, ends April 29
Orginal presentation from Game Jam Sydney 2010 (bear in mind the final game will be much more complex than this):
And knowing is half the battle!
Originally Posted by bonesmccoy
Well, this was exactly what I didn't need.
I entered the thread having backed only Wasteland 2, Banner Saga and FTL.
I post now having just pledged to Shadowrun, Leisure Suit Larry and Starlight Inception.
Also: the front page photo.
I was considering backing the Jane Jensen project until I read this on their kickstarter page: "Jane is known for games with complex, dark plotlines ala Dan Brown." Ah, well then, no thanks.
Doesn't matter. Your World is actually a really interesting project in this Kickstarter experiment for a few reasons: made by an unknown, highest goal for an indie game ever, and an MMO.
Originally Posted by piratepwnsninja
But did he really?
Also: following Your World is like reading a gloriously bad fanfic that gets updated all the time. How else would I know about the livefeed on the 18th?
A great majority of those only pledged so they could troll Bartlett (and boy howdy, are they). You cannot comment on the page unless you donate. They know full well that they are in no danger of actually having to pay anything.
The fact it has $21,000 makes me realize that there's 65 people I hate in the world.
The only reason I have not pledged a dollar is because I'm not that mean.
Fixed Souls, Deadly Premonition, Lightning Returns, Umihara Kawase, Symphonia, Little King's Story, PhD, likes mimosas.
We already have a lot going on, but we need the support of the community to really make it happen. Would GAF mind me bragging about the project and how we're doing on the Kickstarter project in this thread?
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Most of us will admit that potty training is at the top of the list of things we dread having to go through with our kids. Not being able to leave the house during the initial training period, dealing with accidents, and the annoyance of public restrooms not being kid-friendly can weigh on anyone.
Potty training our son has been challenging from the start. Six months before we took the leap into big boy underpants, I had to put him back in daycare because I accepted a recruiting job in an office. He didn't feel comfortable enough to poop at daycare, so he'd hold it in. I was so distracted by my new job that I hadn't noticed how long it had been since he had a bowel movement.
One day I got a phone call at work and they needed me to pick him up because he was experiencing terrible stomach pain and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. I knew what to do immediately when I picked him up: I took him straight to the ER.
He was drenched in a cold sweat and pale. The 10-minute drive to the hospital was the longest drive of my life. I can't tell you how scary it was to see him to lethargic and unresponsive because even at two years old, he was usually such a communicative little guy.
The doctors ran a bunch of tests, but it turned out to just be constipation in the end and the ultrasound they did on his belly helped him to start to pass gas from all the pressure. So they sent us home with an order to follow up with his doctor.
We had a follow-up visit with our pediatrician the next day and she went over nutrition with us. She explained that the highly processed foods we typically eat as Americans (crackers, granola bars, cereals, pasta, and many other things) can severely disrupt the good bacteria in the gut, which helps keep us regular. We recognized that we needed to cut back on the amount of milk he was drinking and encourage water more often throughout the day. And we also needed to increase the fruits and veggies.
Once we began to implement her dietary recommendations, we started to see improvement. She also advised us that once we started potty training, to have him sit on the potty at regular times during the day, mostly following meal time. This helped us tremendously and we hung a potty chart on the wall with shiny new stickers as a reward for each successful bathroom visit. He would beam with pride every time he got to note an accomplishment on his chart and we celebrated every time.
He trained over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend two years ago with the help of our doctor's suggestions and a baby sign language DVD set I highly recommend: Potty Time by Rachel Coleman. We had used the Signing Time DVD's when he was a baby and he loved the songs and signs, so when they came out with the Potty Time set right before we were ready for training, I bought it right away.
Even though he got the concept fairly quickly and without much resistance, we found that we needed to be vigilant about his diet and fluid intake or else he would slip into his old habit of holding his poop, which would cause constipation, which ended up leading to soiling — a condition I found out through my research is called encopresis — and then the cycle would repeat again.
We took him to a pediatric gastroenterologist who thought he would probably grow out of it if we changed our son's diet and increased his exercise, but even though we did those two things, the problem still persists today, although not nearly as frequent as it used to. It only occurs now when his schedule changes or is disrupted — such as when school started this fall or when we're traveling.
It's incredibly frustrating when episodes happen and we feel like we're starting over again with potty training. We feel as though we're completely alone with this issue, but thankfully, I've found a lot of information online with tips on how to treat the condition and even a few moms who have been through this same thing with their kids. One woman even sent me two books that helped her. That proved to me that if we open up and share the difficult struggles we're living with, others will want to help, and by them sharing their experiences we won't feel so isolated and helpless.
Potty training regression was the main reason we held him back from starting Kindergarten this year (he just barely made the cut-off), and I definitely think we made the right decision. I want to give him time to get through this in his own time. These days we're working on regular potty time — we can them "5-minute sits" — to instill good habits for both of our kids. We make sure they drink plenty of water, eat lots of whole foods, and have time every day for running around.
As frustrating as it is, I know this is just one more phase of parenting that we need to work at and I'm doing my best to remind myself to take things one day at a time. We will get through it, eventually. This too shall pass.


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The question amounted to this. "Why is my teenager so much more easily upset than as a child?"
I believe the answer is because negotiating the adolescent passage is like crossing an experiential minefield with hidden emotional explosives buried all along the way. The young person has to watch their step, often reacting with unexpected and intense expressions of feeling for causes that can be hard for parents to fathom and tolerate.
So what follows is a list of some common FEELING FACTORS that parents might want to consider the next time a puzzling adolescent upset or outburst occurs.
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. For most young people, puberty (the 1 ½ to 3 year process of growth into sexual maturity) begins around early adolescence, during late elementary school and middle school, when the journey to young womanhood and young manhood begins. Not only can this hormone--driven change cause them to feel out of control of their body, it can also bring about an increase in self-consciousness, inadequacy, vulnerability to embarrassment, and moodiness, all made worse if one is socially teased or makes painful criticisms that put oneself down. More discomfort and sensitivity about one's changing body from puberty are all part of the adolescent age.
FRUSTRATION. With the adolescent desire for more room to grow comes a greater need for immediate gratification. The young person seems ruled by a 'Tyranny of Now' in which blockage of any freedom can be painful to endure. At a time when the urge to grow is more intense, it can be intensely difficult to be made to slow down or to wait for or to do without what one wants. Not only can delay and denial frustrate a young person, it can also contribute to more prickly irritability and hasty impulsivity. Because urgency is an emotional imperative, more frustration is part of the adolescent age.
SADNESS. Adolescence begins with loss because the separation from childhood requires giving up and letting go much that was valued during one's early years. Now the young person knows they can't go home to that simpler sheltered time again, but must give up some beloved childish ways, interests, and even things, creating losses that can be sorely missed. Young people who are deeply suffering such grievous loss may be more prone to times of despondency, sorely conflicted about wanting and not wanting to grow up. More sadness over the loss of childhood attachments is part of the adolescent age.
ANGER. The desire to operate more independently and on one's own terms causes the young person to be less tolerant of what parents say must and must not be done. In consequence, there is more resentment of parental rules and restraints: "Who gives you the right to make me more or stop me; you're not the boss of the world!" Except, parents still dictate most terms on which the young person lives. More anger at the unfairness of adult authority is part of the adolescent age.
LONELINESS. Separating more from parents puts more pressure on finding and a family of friends to supplant companionship lost at home. In this community of peers, however, the politics of relationships create ever shifting associations. Constant vigilance is required to remain secure in one's social circle because unlike parents, whose caring is committed, peer relationships are conditional on conforming to belong. There are times for most young people when friendships are broken, when one feels outsider, no longer fitting in, left out, rejected, unpopular, disconnected and alone. More loneliness both at home and in the world of peers is part of the adolescent age.
BOREDOM. Adolescents can have a conflicted relationship with freedom. When they feel entrapped in activities that have no positive meaning to them (like at school), they don't have freedom enough; but when they feel empty of interest or purpose (like in vacation) they have more freedom than they know what to do with. On both counts, restless complaints about being "bored silly," "bored out of my mind," "bored to death" can result. Now doing something, anything, can feel better than having nothing to do, hence the increased vulnerability to joining equally bored peers in some impulsive escapade. More purposelessness and desperation from boredom is part of the adolescent age.
FAILURE. Most adolescents grow up with some positive expectations for themselves from themselves and from their parents. Not meeting these personal or parental goals or ambitions or hopes as sometimes happens can cause disappointment from which feelings of failure can follow. "I really let everybody down, myself included!" Judging oneself by one's peers and not keeping up with their growth or accomplishments can also disappoint. "I didn't do as well as my friends." More feelings of disappointment from actual or comparative failure are part of the adolescent age.
ANXIETY. Passing through the door of early adolescence, the young person enters an immeasurably larger field of play than childhood where daunting older experiences await and many social dangers abound. Growing up is a scary business, and most young people encounter frightening challenges and worry with scary possibilities along the way. This is why adolescence is often an act of courage. Times of feeling afraid, coping with threats, taking risks, and facing fears are all part of the journey. More anxiety at real and imagined dangers are part of the adolescent age.
STRESS. Growing through adolescence to young adulthood, life just gets more complicated as added demands create more responsibilities to manage, and more information and competencies to learn. For example, secondary school is more stressful than elementary school for this reason. The more independent one grows, the more of life there is attend to. Common signs of stress become more apparent: fatigue and negativity, emotional and physical discomfort, loss of traditional caring, inability to function with normal effectiveness. And if pronounced disorganization, distractibility, or habitual procrastination is part of the personal mix, pressure for coping with growing demands just increases. More stress from having more one must do is part of the adolescent age.
SHYNESS. Leaving the shelter of the family circle to spend more time in the company of peers can feel challenging to do. In fact, socializing at this insecure age can feel daunting when reticent about speaking up, feeling at a loss for words, lacking social confidence, worrying about what others will think, avoiding eye contact, staying silent, keeping to oneself, wanting comany but deciding to sit alone. Now four fears from shyness can rule. They are the fear of attracting attention, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being rejected, and the fear of being speechless. Hence the parental advice: "There is nothing wrong in feeling shy, but choosing to act shy usually makes feeling shy much worse." More shyness from increased social exposure is part of the adolescent age.
There are so many emotional explosives set for adolescents, it is no wonder increased intensity and frequent outbursts occur during what is often a more stormy passage than was childhood. For this reason, I believe it becomes a priority for parents to help the young person learn emotional self-management skills when stronger feelings typically arise. As in most education that parents provide, what they are trying to instill has future implications. How the adolescent learns to manage intense emotion now bears directly on how he manages this part of life later as an adult.
There are many teachable moments in adolescence when feelings become extreme, when feelings dictate thoughts or actions, and when emotional outbursts occur. For example, there are emotional ambushes when some event proves unexpectedly upsetting. For example, an unwelcome happening can be allowed to represent some symbolic truth, making the pain more extreme. "I wasn't invited which just goes to show how no one ever really likes me!" This generalized conclusion makes the specific experience unhappier to endure. In this instance, after empathizing with their daughter, parents can encourage her to take a more objective look at the data. Doing so, her larger experience illustrates and affirms how she has made and kept other friends. In addition, parents can suggest that beating up on herself when she is down will not help her feel better. At such times, they can encourage treating herself well instead – to recover positive energy and motivation.
Parents can help the adolescent learn to accept and honor emotions as Good Informants, as agents of an affective awareness system which identifies when something significant is happening in one's world of experience that is worth attending to. However, they also need to help the teenager learn to suspect and distrust emotions as Bad Advisors, because when feelings are allowed to do one's thinking, impulsive actions often intensify the hurt.
Thus, anger can advise: "Attack and strike back!" Fear can advise: "Avoid or run away!" "Depression can advise: "Withdraw and isolate!" Discouragement can advise: "Stop trying and give up!" Resentment can advise: "Hold on to grievance and don't forgive!" Shyness can advise: "Don't join or speak up!" In each case, following emotional advice can make painful feelings worse.
The parent's job is to help the teenager learn to use emotional arousal to direct attention, identify a problem, and energize a response, but to consult considered judgment for creating a solution. So the parent says, "I know that your feelings tell you to break up with your best friend after what he did today, and I want to listen to how what happened hurts. But afterwards, let's think about if there is not something you could say or do to help get this valued relationship back on track."
Finally, when an adolescent emotional outburst is directed at a parent, instead of immediately correcting the young person or defending yourself, or emotionally exploding back, try to remember that at the moment for your teenager "there is no thinking person home." Therefore, your immediate job is to create that "homecoming" by expressing concern for the teenager's upset condition. "If you can lower your voice, I can better hear and understand which is what I want to do. You wouldn't act this upset with me unless there was something really important at stake. Please tell me what's going on. I am here to listen when you are able to talk."
For more about parenting adolescents, see my book, "SURVIVING YOUR CHILD'S ADOLESCENCE," (Wiley, 2013.) More information at: www.carlpickhardt.com
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Dragon Age: Inquisition Trailer: Multiplayer Gameplay Revealed
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Since we got to hear BioWare's official announcement of Dragon Age: Inquisition's multiplayer, we now get to finally see it in action.
BioWare has posted this official video depicting Dragon Age: Inquisition's four-player co-op multiplayer, and it is way better than we thought. Very similar to the multiplayer gameplay we saw in Mass Effect 3, we can't wait to see how well this handles on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. While this online gameplay won't affect the main story in any way, it will still feel authentic to the lore and world that Inquisition depicts. The Inquisitor is joined by specialists and party members in the single-player campaign. In multiplayer, one of the Inquisitor's specialists will be heard orders to your team before each online mission. It'll be nice getting orders from Morrigan or one of the new party members, acting as a sort of announcer for each online game.
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