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General Guidelines and Limitations (Windows Azure SQL Database)
This topic describes the Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Database general guidelines and limitations. The general guidelines and limitations details are covered in the following headings:
Driver, library, and protocol support
Visual Studio support
Tools and technology support
Data migration support
SQL Server Agent/Jobs
Transaction support
Row Versioning-Based Isolation Levels
SQL Server collation support
Clustered index requirement
Database count and size limit
Naming requirements
Connection constraints
For information about security-related guidelines and limitations, see Security Guidelines and Limitations (Windows Azure SQL Database).
Driver, Library, and Protocol Support
When writing applications for Windows Azure SQL Database, you can use the following drivers and libraries:
.NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (System.Data.SqlClient) from the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 or later.
Entity Framework from the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 or later.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client ODBC driver. SQL Server 2008 Native Client ODBC driver is also supported, but has less functionality.
SQL Server 2008 Driver for PHP version 1.1 or later.
An updated version of SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 that supports SQL Database.
Windows Azure SQL Database supports tabular data stream (TDS) protocol client version 7.3 or later. Earlier versions of TDS protocol are not supported.
Connecting to Windows Azure SQL Database by using OLE DB or ADO is not supported.
Visual Studio Support
When you write applications for Windows Azure SQL Database, you can use one of the .NET Framework programming languages, which come with Visual Studio: Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C#, or Microsoft Visual C++. Visual Studio provides a server management console, Server Explorer, to open data connections and to log on to servers and explore databases. Starting with Visual Studio 2010, you can use the Server Explorer to connect to and to explore your databases in SQL Database. Previous versions of Server Explorer are not supported. For more information, see Visual Studio documentation on MSDN.
Tools and Technology Support
Consider the following points when using tools to connect to Windows Azure SQL Database:
Only TCP/IP connections are allowed.
Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) is supported.
Because some tools implement tabular data stream (TDS) differently, you may need to append the SQL Database server name to the login portion of the connection string using the
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The SQL Server 2008 SQL Server browser is not supported because Windows Azure SQL Database does not have dynamic ports, only port 1433.
For more information about tools support, see Tools and Utilities Support (Windows Azure SQL Database).
ODBC Support
You can use Configuring ODBC Data Sources to define user and system data sources for Windows Azure SQL Database. To see the list of the user and system data sources, check the User DSN or System DSN tabs of the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box.
When using the data source name (DSN) wizard to define a data source for Windows Azure SQL Database, click the With SQL Server Authentication using a login ID and password entered by the user option and select the Connect to SQL Server to obtain default settings for the additional configuration options. Enter your user name and password to connect to your SQL Database server as Login ID and Password. When using the SQL Server 2008 Native Client, clear the Connect to SQL Server to obtain default settings… checkbox. Starting with the SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client ODBC driver, it is not necessary to clear the Connect to SQL Server to obtain default settings checkbox. Click Change the default database to: and enter the name of your SQL Database even if it does not show up in the list. Note that the wizard lists several languages in the Change the language of SQL Server system messages to: list.
In this release, Windows Azure SQL Database supports only English, so select English as a language. Windows Azure SQL Database does not support Mirror Server or Attach Database, so leave those items empty. Click Test Connection.
When using the SQL Server 2008 Native Client ODBC driver, the Test Connection button may result in an error that master.dbo.syscharsets is not supported. Ignore this error, save the DSN, and use it. In addition, when you choose to connect to a different database other than
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With the SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client ODBC driver, you will not receive the error stating that the master.dbo.syscharsets is not supported even when connected to a different database.
Data Migration Support
You can transfer data to Windows Azure SQL Database by using the following:
SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS)
The bulk copy utility (BCP.exe)
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy class
Scripts that use
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Windows Azure SQL Database does not support:
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Attaching a database to the SQL Database server.
For more information about SSIS, see SQL Server Integration Services.
SQL Server Agent/Jobs
Windows Azure SQL Database does not support SQL Server Agent or jobs. You can, however, run SQL Server Agent on your on-premise SQL Server and connect to Windows Azure SQL Database.
Transaction Support
Windows Azure SQL Database does not support distributed transactions, which are transactions that affect several resources. For more information, see Distributed Transactions (ADO.NET).
Starting with the .NET Framework version 2.0, application transactions may be automatically promoted to distributed transactions. This applies to applications that use the System.Data.SqlClient class to perform database operations in the context of a System.Transactions transaction.
Transaction promotion occurs when you open multiple connections to different servers or databases within a TransactionScope, or when you enlist multiple connections in a System.Transactions object by using the EnlistTransaction method. Transaction promotion also occurs when you open multiple concurrent connections to the same server and database either within the same TransactionScope or by using the EnlistTransaction method.
Starting with the .NET Framework version 3.5, the transaction will not be promoted if the connection strings for the concurrent connections are exactly the same. For more information about transactions and avoiding transaction promotion, see System.Transactions Integration with SQL Server (ADO.NET).
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Windows Azure SQL Database may not preserve the uncommitted timestamp values of the current database (DBTS) across failovers. |
Row Versioning-Based Isolation Levels
Both the READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT and ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION database options are set to ON in Windows Azure SQL Database. Because SET <snapshot_option> in the ALTER DATABASE Transact-SQL statement is not supported, these database options cannot be changed. For more information on row versioning-based isolation levels, see Understanding Row Versioning-Based Isolation Levels.
SQL Server Collation Support
The default database collation used by Windows Azure SQL Database is SQL_LATIN1_GENERAL_CP1_CI_AS, where LATIN1_GENERAL is English (United States), CP1 is code page 1252, CI is case-insensitive, and AS is accent-sensitive.
When using an on-premise SQL Server, you can set collations at server, database, column, and expression levels. Windows Azure SQL Database does not allow setting the collation at the server level. To use the non-default collation with Windows Azure SQL Database, set the collation with the Create Database Collate option, or at the column level or the expression level. SQL Database does not support the Collate option with the Alter Database command. By default, in SQL Database, temporary data will have the same collation as the database. For more information about how to set the collation, see COLLATE (Transact-SQL) in SQL Server Books Online.
Clustered Index Requirement
Windows Azure SQL Database does not support tables without clustered indexes. A table must have a clustered index. If a table is created without a clustered constraint, a clustered index must be created before an insert operation is allowed on the table.
For example, the following Transact-SQL creates a new table, creates a clustered index on the table, and then inserts data into the table. Performing the insert without creating the clustered index will result in an error.
CREATE TABLE Table1 (Col1 int, Col2 char(20)) CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX Table1_Index ON Table1 (Col1) INSERT INTO Table1 VALUES (1, 'string1')
Database Count and Size Limits
By default, Windows Azure SQL Database supports up to 150 databases in each SQL Database server, including the master database. You can create up to 149 databases in each SQL Database server. An extension of this limit may be available for your SQL Database server. For more information, contact a customer support representative at the Microsoft Online Services Customer Portal.
Windows Azure SQL Database provides two database editions: Web Edition and Business Edition. Web Edition databases can grow up to a size of 5 GB and Business Edition databases can grow up to a size of 150 GB. The MAXSIZE is specified when the database is first created and can later be changed using ALTER DATABASE. MAXSIZE provides the ability to limit the size of the database. If the size of the database reaches its MAXSIZE, you will receive an error code 40544. When this occurs, you cannot insert or update data, or create new objects, such as tables, stored procedures, views, and functions. However, you can still read and delete data, truncate tables, drop tables and indexes, and rebuild indexes. If you remove some data to free storage space, there can be as much as a fifteen-minute delay before you can insert new data.
For information about how to specify the size of the database, see CREATE DATABASE (Windows Azure SQL Database).
Naming Requirements
Certain user names are not allowed for security reasons. You cannot use the following names:
Names for all new objects must comply with the SQL Server rules for identifiers. For more information, see Identifiers.
Additionally, login and user names cannot contain the \
character (Windows Authentication is not supported).
Connection Constraints
Windows Azure SQL Database provides a large-scale multi-tenant database service on shared resources. In order to provide a good experience to all Windows Azure SQL Database customers, your connection to the service may be closed due to the following conditions:
Excessive resource usage
Connections that have been idle for 30 minutes or longer
Failover because of server failures
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Maximum allowable durations are subject to change depending on the resource usage. A logged-in session that has been idle for 30 minutes will be terminated automatically. We strongly recommend that you use the connection pooling and always close the connection when you are finished using it so that the unused connection will be returned to the pool. For more information about connection pooling, see Connection Pooling. |
When your connection to the service is closed, you will receive an error. For more information on the error, see Connection-Loss Errors.
A SQL Database application should determine if a closed connection is caused by a transient error. If a transient error causes a closed connection, an application should be able to re-establish the connection and execute the failed commands or the query. For more information about retrying closed connections, see:
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DRACUT - Growing up on Pleasant Street, Mark Willett lived in a two-family home with little frontage but with a backyard that seemingly went on forever.
Willett, the sixth of seven children born to Robert and Connie Willett, had to wait his turn before the responsibility of manicuring the large expanse of greenery behind the house fell to him. By then, his dad had purchased a lawn tractor, making Willett's job that much easier.
In the early 1980s, Willett began his career as a high school math and science teacher at Fellowship Christian Academy in Methuen. With a wife and the first of his four children on the way, he soon realized he would have to supplement his teacher's salary. Willett began working part-time with a professional landscaper who taught him the finer points of lawn care and yard maintenance.
In 1985, he began his own business, Willett Lawn and Property Services. Today he has a client list of about 30 regular customers in Dracut, Methuen, Andover, Tyngsboro and Pelham, N.H.
Willett still teaches at FCA, but after school on most days you can find him riding a John Deere mower, trimming a hedge and doing whatever else it takes to make the property look good. All three of his now-grown daughters worked with him when they were teens. Today, he works alongside his 24-year-old son, Greg, a student at UMass Lowell.
Q. How much of an impact did the recent winter without snow have on your business?
Q. Are there any special tricks you've had to learn while working around stone and concrete?
A. "No tricks, really. You just have to be very careful, especially with a trimmer. You can easily pick up stones and hurl them at a very high velocity at your legs or worse, through a window. I had one that blasted through a sliding-glass patio door. The door just exploded like a bomb went off. That was an expensive day for me."
Q. What's the best kind of mulch for the average home and is there such a thing as too much mulch?
A. "I prefer hemlock mulch but you want to be careful about putting it too close to the house because it tends to attract bugs. You want to use it mainly around your trees, shrubs and flowerbeds but try to keep it away from the house.
"To answer the second part of your question, yes. Absolutely. Some people just pile on the mulch year after year without taking the old stuff out. The next thing you know, you have all kinds of fungus growing underneath, which can be really bad for your plants and your shrubs."
Q. How long is the landscaping season?
A. "I usually begin in late March and go all the way until the beginning of December. We do spring and fall cleanup -- that's one of our specialties. Because I teach school, I can only do this about three afternoons a week, but when summer comes, it's every day, early in the morning until sometimes early in the evening. "
Q. Do you enjoy landscaping or do you treat it simply as a job?
A. "I really do enjoy it. There's something about the smell of freshly cut grass that makes me nostalgic for when I was a little boy and my grandfather would be cutting the grass behind the big house on Pleasant Street. We had an enormous yard behind the house with that good Dracut soil that grew that lush green grass. I can still see him pushing that old yellow rotary mower. You know, the old push mower. I guess those are making a comeback as people go green. I don't think it would be too practical for me to use one."

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Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Mat Mladin celebrated his fifth AMA Superbike win of the year and his 68th such career victory at Monterey, California's Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday afternoon. The six-time AMA Superbike Champion put in an impressive ride on his Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000, finishing 10 seconds in front of his teammate Ben Spies.
Defending, two time AMA Superbike Champion Spies started from pole position (his fifth of the year and 21st of his career) and got the holeshot in the 28-lap race, but – having just finished a remarkable eighth place in the day's earlier MotoGP race – was passed by his teammate and finished in second place.
Finally, Rockstar Makita Suzuki's Tommy Hayden returned to racing after having been out due to injury for more than two months. The former AMA Supersport Champion raced his Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000 to a more-than-respectable fifth-place finish.
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American flags stand tall on Landis Green, assembling 911 in remembrance of those that lost their lives on September, 11. / Charneisha Pates/FSView
Junior Olivia Pardi places an American flag in the ground in memory of her fathers cousin, who lost his life in the September 11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. / Charneisha Pates/FSView
Posters crafted by organizations including the College Republicans and Thank A Soldier stand on Landis Green, marking the 9/11: The Never Forget Project. / Charneisha Pates/ FSView
The U.S. national anthem played as students attached messages of remembrance to American flags. Placing them carefully in the ground, they formed a display on Landis Green that read 9/11.
Marking the eleventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks that shook the United States, organizations including the College Republicans and Thank A Soldier put together a display of American flags forming a memorial entitled 911: Never Forget Project.
The memorial, which stood on Landis from sun-up to sundown, was created to help the community remember those lost and to give thanks to all those continuing to fight for the U.S.
Many students stopped by to pay their respects to lost loved ones or to give thanks to soldiers and veterans.
My dads cousin was killed in one of the towers, so I feel its important to show my respect, said Olivia Pardi, a junior in attendance.
Members of the Thank A Soldier organization encouraged onlookers to thank soldiers who are serving or have served the U.S. Through volunteer trips to veteran hospitals, thank you letters and care packages, Thank A Soldier has supported troops around the world.
We as American citizens take so much for granted, said Shannon Mitchell, web master of Thank A Soldier organization. I think its really important to say thank you to anyone that has fought for our freedom."
Thank A Soldier was not the only organization paying its and the College Republicans were not the only organizations showing respect. The Center for Global Engagement and representatives from the Marines also tabled at the memorial.
Despite political affiliation, we should be out here remembering everybody that lost their lives on 9/11, said Taylor Fisk, philanthropy chair for the College Republicans.
Florida State also held a memorial program entitled 9/11: Day of Remembrance and Service in the College of Law Rotunda in the morning. Sponsored by the Tallahassee office of Holland & Knight law firm and Leon County, the event featured speakers who shared firsthand accounts of September 11.
The memorial gave recognition to First Responders, veterans and those serving in the military.
During the memorial, the creation of the Glenn J. Winuk Humanitarian Award was also announced. The award was named for a partner of the law firm who died in the South Tower of the World Trade Center while trying to save others. The memorial is set to remember those lost and to recognize those diligently fighting for the United States, and is affiliated with the I Will 9/11 Day Movement. This movement encourages people to perform a good deed on September 11. At the end of the event, those in attendance helped craft care packages for local soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.
Florida State University ends its memorial activities with a lecture by Jonathan Haidt in the Askew Student Life Center. Haidt, from the New York University Stern School of Business, will discuss a lecture entitled The Righteous Mind: How Morality Bind Us Together and Tear Us Apart. The event starts at 8 p.m. and lasts until 9:30 p.m.


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Date: Saturday, July 13, 2013–Sunday, September 29, 2013Every Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
Time: 10:00 AM–05:00 PMEvery Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
Tags: Focus Show, Manuscripts, Baltimore-Book-Festival
Today, medieval books are treated as works of art, untouchable treasures to be locked away in cabinets. Yet many were intended for regular use as vital components of everyday life for monks and nuns.
Date: Saturday, September 14, 2013–Sunday, April 13, 2014Every Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
Tags: Jacob-Lawrence, Exhibition-Related, Baltimore-Book-Festival
Painter Jacob Lawrence is known for using a series format to render in colorful expressive imagery and text the narrative stories of historical African American figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Each of the eight works on view in Jacob Lawrence's Genesis Series (1990) describes a passage from the book of Genesis in the King James version of the Bible.
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
Tags: ArtTots
ArtTots is our early childhood museum program specially designed just for 2-3 year olds and their favorite adult! Each ArtTots class will introduce toddlers to art and the museum through age-appropriate short stories, gallery play activities, and an art activity. Explore language through art!
Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum
Date: 10/06/13 - 01/05/14
Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
The Book of the Faiyum is an exquisitely illustrated papyrus from Greco-Roman Egypt. One of the most intriguing ancient representations of a place ever found, the papyrus depicts the Faiyum oasis, located to the west of the Nile, as a center of prosperity and ritual. Egyptian jewelry, papyri, statues, reliefs and ritual objects will illuminate the religious context that gave rise to this enigmatic text, which celebrates the crocodile god Sobek and his special relationship with the Faiyum.
Drop-In Art Activities: Marvelous Music
Date: 12/01/13 - 12/29/13
Time: 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Bring the beat back as we build instruments together in our art and music studio all December long. Discover your inner rhythm and share it through each tap of your drum. Tune your strings to play sitar scales and ring in the winter season by shaking your jingle bells! Become a little luthier this month and discover painted and sculpted instruments throughout the museum. Every Saturday and Sunday! No registration is required. Drop-in, make and take a fantastic piece of art home with you!
Sensory Morning
Date: 12/08/13
Time: 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Join us for a morning of accessible museum programming designed specifically for children with Sensory Processing Disorders, and their entire family! Enjoy the collections of the Walters Art Museum during quiet, less stimulating hours. Tour selected galleries, participate in multiple hands-on stations that include tactile activities, visual supports and interpretive materials. Create a work of art in the comfort of a private studio.


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The Tylersport Volunteer Fire Company's 18th Annual Haunted Hayride starts next week. Skit Coordinator Kyle Matz says they have 13 scary skits along a course of about a mile, and their volunteer actors put a lot of time and effort into the show.
"We give them our best and try to give them the most bang for the buck. Tickets are only $10, and for children under the age of 5 it's free."
He says they use flat hay wagons pulled behind several kinds of tractors.
"We run them on Farmalls, John Deeres, all owned by people that run with the fire company, and they're antiques or moderns. I think we run 8 tractors and wagons simultaneously. We time them out. I think we have about 5 to 7 minutes in between each wagon."
Matz says they sell hamburgers and soup, and they give everyone getting off the hay wagon a complementary cup of hot cider and a marshmallow to roast over a wood fire. The Haunted Hayride is held on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23, and again the following Friday and Saturday, October 29 and 30, on trails behind the Tylersport Fire Station on Ridge Road near Allentown Road. Hours are 7:00 to 10:00pm. All proceeds benefit the volunteer fire company.


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George Lucas Will Donate Billions From Disney Deal: Most Generous Celebrity?
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In 1998 media mogul Ted Turner pledged to donate $1 billion to U.N.-related causes. So far he's reached $841 million: keep going, Ted!
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People are still trying to work out whether Disney's $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm was a good or bad idea for the company, but thanks to George Lucas it will certainly prove to have been a good thing for the world. The legendary "Star Wars" creator has apparently decided to donate the vast majority of that money to charity.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lucas plans to put the money into a foundation that focuses on educational issues, a cause close to his heart. A spokesperson said that "George Lucas has expressed his intention, in the event the deal closes, to donate the majority of the proceeds to his philanthropic endeavors."
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lucas plans to put the money into a foundation that focuses on educational issues, a cause close to his heart. A spokesperson said that "George Lucas has expressed his intention, in the event the deal closes, to donate the majority of the proceeds to his philanthropic endeavors."
In a statement on Wednesday, Lucas himself commented: "For 41 years, the majority of my time and money has been put into the company. As I start a new chapter in my life, it is gratifying that I have the opportunity to devote more time and resources to philanthropy."
This holds up with Lucas' generous behavior over the last few years. In 2010 he signed The Giving Pledge, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's effort to get America's wealthiest to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. Around the same time, he declared that he would be "dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education," which he described as "the key to the survival of the human race."
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- Jackal 2012/11/07 18:29:57Bill Gates
- seance 2012/11/07 13:41:29Herb AlpertReally DON'T think any one of them are at all!!!! but it's a nice idea that one might be over the others.
- mark 2012/11/07 07:54:09Bill Gates
- disclaimer 2012/11/07 03:50:55Bill Gates
- TimothyBrianFoley 2012/11/06 20:34:07Warren Buffett
The latest news is that George Lucas will be donating to the "Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers" Association.
- U Mad Bro? 2012/11/06 15:46:40
Bill GatesBill Gates, along with many others, have decided to give billions away a couple years ago. This is nothing new. As generous as it is, I still wouldn't say Lucas is the most generous.
- sandra 2012/11/06 01:32:20
- ♥Havebntohvn♥ 2012/11/06 00:58:16
- calvin236 2012/11/06 00:36:34Warren BuffettI also think Bill Gates and George Lucas should be mentioned because of how much they have and will donate.
- Michael 2012/11/05 22:12:39Warren BuffettIn order of donation amount as of 2011:
Warren Buffett (Total Donations: $40,780,000,000);
Bill & Melinda Gates ( Total Donations: $28,144,000,000);
Gordon and Betty Moore (Total Donations: $7,404,000,000);
George Soros (Total Donations: $6,401,000,000);
George Kaiser (Total Donations: $2, 522,000,000);
Ted Turner (Total Donations: $1,500,000,000)
The amounts are staggering! I doubt that any "celebrity" has matched these.
Whatever the amounts, however, they are fantastic. - Earl Hickey 2012/11/05 14:58:20
The latest news is that George Lucas will be donating to the "Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers" Association.
- Kazaira 2012/11/05 08:47:55
- the judgebigdogeagle-~PWCM~JLA 2012/11/04 21:07:55
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- brandy 2012/11/04 17:50:20
- Bob, the reasonable one 2012/11/04 13:14:30Bill GatesGeorge Lucas has got to grow his beard out and hide his double chin...it looks seriously stupid when the double chin sticks out beyond the beard...just sayin, cuz he looks rediculous
- Nat™ 2012/11/04 08:38:05
- exhon2009 2012/11/04 03:35:11Bill Gates
I suspect it's all the good works the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does. It doesn't go unnoticed. What do you have against Bill Gates?
I'm so glad you asked.
"Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really "donating" anything, but instead of paying taxes to the state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions. On the contrary, their "donations" finance projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of the world. What a coincidence, former Secretary of Health Julio Frenk and Ernesto Zedillo are advisers of the Foundation".
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George LucasNOT Lucas. Paul Newman only used his celebrity to promote the charity, Johnny Carson, and many others kept it anonymous, how it should be. Let's first see if Lucas really does this. Bill Gates and Ted Turner--YOU'RE KIDDING?
+1Years ago Ted Turner "announced" at a press conference that he called that he was going to donate 1 Billion dollars to the U.N. over the succeeding ten years. He then proceeded to excoriate Bill Gates because he had "only" given, (note the past tense form of the verb), something like 300 Million to charity.
Gates didn't restrict his donation to beneficiaries outside the U.S. and he had given REAL money. To this date I've no idea if Turner ever made good on his promise of FUTURE giving. Turner deserves his title of Mouth of the South. -
Ted never paid it. Bill Gates's Charity is a tax write off. He believes in Eugenics and so does Turner and I have no respect for either of them at all. They're both Socialists.
That Ted Turncoat didn't pay up doesn't surprise me one bit. I agree with you that both of them are socialist or, in Gate's case, has socialist tendencies. With respect to a tax write off it's important to keep in mind that one receives at most a 40 cent reduction in taxes in return for paying 1.00 to the charity. If most of Gate's income is capital gains then his donation is worth even less as a tax deduction, perhaps 25 to 30%.
He owns a Monopoly. When his court case went to trial it was fixed.
The U.S. even years ago proved AT&T was a monopoly in court. They dropped their rates on long distance calls dramatically when competition entered the marketplace. Gates has no competition and the likelihood of his taxes being audited are almost as nonexistence as Obama's taxes being audited. - Kiki,Pixie,Worm 2012/11/04 01:35:02Bill Gates
- Pele Emerging 2012/11/03 22:15:28George Lucas+3Before Bill Gates married, he was notoriously cheap and had a terrible track record about giving, in spite of having more wealth than even a small nation might be able to spend. He is more generous now, thanks in part to his wife.
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Gates cheated enough people just on his "convenient success of the lawsuit" that calimed Microsoft was not a monopoly, to feed all the poor of a small country.
If I stole a lot of money I might be super generous, after all it's actually someone else's money. -
Please note that I did NOT choose him, either. I don't think he'd be giving one red cent, if it was up to him personally. However, his significant other, as well as his PR department, push him in that direction.
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- Release Date: Dec 11, 2012
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Jan 31, 2013This is easily the best game in 2012 for story. The fact that some people think it is not a game just sickens me. How can people nitpick and use any straws they can cling to in order to say that it is not worthy of the high score it has?
Dec 26, 2012This game has you emotionally engaged on a level similar to the Walking Dead series, if not even more so because of the length of it. (It's shorter so the 'big' events happen more regularly than in the tv series). The last time a game has had me so emotionally captured was Final Fantasy 10.
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Jan 16, 2013I find that the "choice" factor in the game is meaningless. The ending, no matter what you choose, is the same. The only thing that changes with these choices is the dialogue. However, the story was so good in my opinion that it deserves an eight.
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Mar 25, 2013I usually hate story focused games. I just want a game to PLAY, and prefer to enjoy my storytelling in books, movies, even TV. Maybe that's because most games just do an abysmally amateurish job of it, but this game is one of very few exceptions. The story is almost good enough to forget it doesn't even have any gameplay. For a gamer like me, that's saying a whole lot. Highly recommended.
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Jan 28, 2013Anyone who doesn't view Telltale's The Walking Dead as a masterpiece doesn't have a good taste in games. After a frustrating experience with AMC's The Walking Dead television adaptation, I was surprised to see that Telltale was able to capture the gruesome dark horror of Kirkman's comic, with some amazing new characters and stories. A must play.
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If you know TWD, you sure as hell also know that everybody dies, but what matters is what you do before you get taken out. The game shows that splendidly, you may know that those characters won`t probably last long, but you get to care for them and their deaths (excluding a couple of them) are really felt.
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Jan 27, 2013I haven't played all of this series yet, but so far it has been absolutely amazing. I'm doing a 'LetsPlay' of it and I even have fun while editing it.
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Jun 3, 2013I was thouroughly suprised that i enjoyed this game as much as I did. I really enjoyed the story just as much as the show or the comic. The characters were well written and there was a ton of suspense. I will definately pick up another installment if they make one.
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Jan 16, 2013It took me about an hour and a half to get The Walking Dead Episode 5: No Time Left running properly. Between mouse problems (fixed by changing the resolution and then changing it back), save import bugs (especially hard to solve on this Mac laptop), and the metaphorical Sword of Damocles that is review season creating a limit on how much time I can spend fixing the game, it
Dec 30, 2012Excellent story and character development. But a very limited gameplay, filled with quick time events, and some serious design flaws.
The graphics are poor, with plenty of low resolution textures, stiff character animations and bad facial expressions.
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Dec 25, 2012It's the best game i've ever played! its worth game of the year awesome story! Awesome graphics/game i really enjoyed every second i played the game! Best game EVER!!
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Dec 30, 2012Fantastic game. One of the best i ever played. Its so immersive that we become Lee, always trying to save Clementine. The Finale is great and rational. I cant see a sequel to this game. Its perfect the way it is since the beginning to the end closing superbly. A must have!
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Mar 5, 2013An Amazing game! I'm not really into this kind of adventure games but the story was exceptional. Very immersive with a lot of spins and unforeseeable twists
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Jul 2, 2013Masterpiece storytelling, that's why i give it an 8 score, but thinking about the interactions or chooses you make throughout the game inflicting mostly character reactions rather than real changes to the story and almost zero gameplay (no challenging puzzles or action sequences), i decrease the score by 2.
Dec 25, 2012The story telling ability displayed by tattletale games is nothing short of incredible, the player almost instantly cares for the characters. If more games like this existed the book industry would be in trouble.
Dec 27, 2012
Dec 27, 2012An unexpected tour de force. It's like a classic Goosebumps Create-Your-Own-Adventure in real-time, with beautiful animation and facial expressions and an incredible plot to boot.
Dec 28, 2012good game nice story and nice emotion too. but not good in grafic really much but however game isnt good about grapic at all but story should have more ending maybe Lee survive or something change
more than example help dock or someguy that girl and die in chapter 3 NICE -
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Jan 8, 2013It's an awesome game with nice graphic and a exceptional sound, prooving this in every second when you play it.But the best part is the amazing story.
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Jan 12, 2013I had a lot of fun going through all the episodes, but I feel that too many choices you make have a very minimal impact on the plot, so there is basically no reason to play it again. Because of that, I can't give more than 7 to this game.
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Jan 15, 2013A great game for sure, i have never seen and experienced such great story in a video game but as far as the game play is concerned its not much then just quick time events and button mashing.Its not a game of the year for me but had much fun playing through it. Its story was very addictive and i wanted to keep playing through it. A must play game for sure
Jan 17, 2013
Feb 26, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
Feb 14, 2013Though it may be debatable that there may be not much game, it is made up by everything else. These tense moments, emotions and great story and dialogue makes up for this far beyond what I even expected to experience.
Feb 18, 2013
Jan 23, 2013Beautiful, spectacular, emotional a few of the words to describe this outstanding game. In my 13 hours of experiencing this game, this masterpiece, i was amazed at the dialogue choices, varied environments, game play, and story. way worth the price and time, buy it buy it now.
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Feb 12, 2013I think this game is rather a movie than a game, but thats aint a problem! The story is well written with fantastic characters. The graphic is a bit rusty but its somehow fits perfectly for the whole atmosphere.
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Mar 6, 2013Bugs, glitches and broken aspects to this game should be a reflection on the user reviews, yet they are rating this game well above what it deserves. Obviously there are many fans of the whole 'zombie invasion' genre out there who will blanket this game 10s 100%. In reality, the game was released too early and needed much fixing before it is worth more than a 6 out of 10.
Feb 16, 2013The Walking Dead has some of the best storytelling in video games and also characters you actually cared about and became emotionally attached. Definitely the best game of 2012, 10/10
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Mar 15, 2013One of the best games I have ever played, if not the best. This game provides a GREAT storyline. I don't normally feel too much emotion when playing a game, but when I play this, I truly feel for what the characters are going through. I would especially recommend this for fans of the comic book and show.
Mar 9, 2013Rather an interactive movie than a game. If you look at it like this, it's amazing. And you get to make a lot of hard choices, which really affect the story. I highly recommend it if you like horror movies. Only reason I'm not giving it a 10 is because the graphics is not especially great, and for given level of detail it stresses my PC quite a lot.
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Mar 8, 2013This is more than just simply click and point game, this game is pure art of story telling, definitly must play for every casual and hardcore gamer who´s into zombies
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May 9, 2013this game has one of the greatest stories you will encounter in games and the ending will surely make you cry although it lacks some freedom but the choices you make affect the story telling which gives you a high replayability simply one of the best games of 2012
Mar 12, 2013
Mar 18, 2013This is the only (as far as I know) a game about zombies, where the meaning of the game is not based on action movie (Left4Dead) and not on the horror (Dead Island), namely, the character of the people, their emotions, actions, etc.
Mar 20, 2013the game is very fun nice story strangely nice comics graphics just in some places it was boring to play but game is cool waiting for season 2 if they will work more for this game it will be my favorite game i didint like the end though because Lee died i wanted him in season 2 i even cried :D
Mar 18, 2013Absolutely stunning, first game with an ending that made me cry, ever! The way the game captures the emotion is flawless and is filled with accurate AI, the ability to make your own choices, and plenty of friends (and enemies) to make. Must Get 10 out of 10
Mar 20, 2013I only picked up this game in a steam sale as im a fan of the series, I was expecting the usual crappy excuse of a game trying to make a quick buck. How wrong was I! I was addicted from start to finish. It's a different style of game which is completely story driven, it makes you feel like the decisions you make matter and immerses you into the experience! A must buy for any Walking Dead Fan!
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May 9, 2013It's not perfect but The Walking Dead is one of the most important advances in interactive fiction for a generation, with some of the most memorable characters of any video game.
Mar 15, 2013The Walking Dead is a serious, solid, but clay-footed work; in truth, it wouldn't stand out from the crowd if video game storytelling wasn't so impoverished to begin with.
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My original plan was to hang some, if not all, of them on a long wall in the kitchen eating area. But the longer they sat outside waiting to be used, the more I thought that they needed to be transformed into something much more interesting than just "wall art".
This is my late afternoon reading spot hidden under an old maple tree in the back corner of my garden. Don't look at the faded turquoise paint on the chair, look at the chain link fence and the neighbour's pool. The fence I'm not worried about because in about a month that grapevine will cover a lot of it. But I needed some privacy from the neighbour's deck and pool area. Shutters to the rescue!!
By joining them together with some old brass door hinges, I've created a privacy screen where I can sit and read for a moment or two without being watched over by the neighbours. I kept the screens au natural choosing to embrace the chipped paint and years of outdoor abuse. A good hosing down every now and then with some soapy water should get some of the grime off.
For the Mother's Day Tea Party over the weekend, I wanted to dress it up a bit. Originally bought for flavoured olive oil (a future project), these Ikea bottles quickly became vases for some tulips from garden.
This is now a great spot to rest my bones after digging in the garden. And where I plan on spending most of today after a very busy weekend.
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Vodkavaiator, on 14 June 2012 - 01:49 PM, said:
IDK, the Clans and their invasion brings to mind many of the tactical/strategical mistakes of the Germans in WWII.
*Too much focus on quality as opposed to quantity, ease of repair/replacement and cost efficiency(lets compare Soviet weapons/tactics/etc to the German ones and the results)
*Underestimating the determination of their enemies to resist despite fielding less skilled or trained units(again Soviet Union vs. Germany is a great example)
*Engaging a combined enemy force that severely outnumbers your own(though of course it could be argued that this was unavoidable)
Or the Mongols, who ruled the largest (contiguous) empire the world ever saw.
You have a small force that focused almost exclusively not only on mounted combat, but on mounted archery. They almost always were outnumbered. They were born and raised in the saddle, to a much greater extent than the European knights, Arabic nobles, and Chinese that they fought.
I think that the Clan invasion also suffered from one of the failings of the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan: The Clans didn't just expect the Inner Sphere governments to rapidly collapse under their combined assault, they also expected to be greeted as liberators, with Spheroid civilians throwing roses on the roads they marched on, now that they were free from the yokes of their feudal lords.


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Yet another connection problem
Hello everyone :)
I have the usual problem with the connection error:
--- Quote ---Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy.
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It happens time to time (i suppose when the server is under load). The overall performance and uptime is great.
It's hosted on my own server with FreeBSD 8.2 amd64. PHP version 5.3.10 and mysql 5.5.22.
I thought the error was connected to the max_connections and I changed them (to test the forum for a few days) to 100. Maybe a little better, but sometimes still happens that the error is displayed.
In the MySQL error log there is nothing relevant with that. Can you give me some hints or ideas what to check and how to tune the server to avoid such errors.
Doctor Deejay:
What host are you using?
mysql is installed in a FreeBSD jail, and the hostname of the jail is server.supersecurity.org. But if that was wrong the forum won't work on every request. But that not the case, this happens very rarely. You can see the forum here: http://fordclub.bg/forum
青山 素子:
Are you using persistent connections for connecting to the database? This can be checked in the server options area of SMF's admin section.
Usually, if you hit the maximum number of connections, it will be logged in the MySQL error log.
Also, double-check the database connection information. If you're using a DNS name, you may be having occasional trouble resolving the name which will cause connection trouble as well.
Thank you, Motoko!
The persistent connections is disabled. It's a good idea to try them enabled. The hostname is "localhost" and won't be causing the problems.
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Black Officer Alleges Racial Profiling in Arrest By: Lynette Holloway Dec. 7 2013 8:35 AM Despite identifying herself as an officer last month, the 19-year veteran of the Long Island, N.Y., police force says she was arrested.
My Ancestral Town Disappeared From the Map! By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kristin Britanik, NEHGS Researcher Dec. 6 2013 6:05 PM Tracing Your Roots: Where to look when there's no trace online of the town from where your family says it originated.
10 Films and Songs of the Anti-Apartheid Movement By: Diamond Sharp Dec. 6 2013 4:33 PM Here's a look at moments in pop culture that captured the fight for freedom in South Africa.
Scandal Recap: Who's the Bad Guy, Again? By: Helena Andrews Dec. 6 2013 4:08 PM Huck turns into the world's worst dentist. Mama Pope may be shadier than we thought. And Sally Langston is going to need a fixer.
Unemployment Rate Drops to a 5-Year Low By: Breanna Edwards Dec. 6 2013 3:45 PM November was another good month for hiring, with the U.S. economy adding more than 200,000 jobs.
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The Coast Guard Mutual Assistance (CGMA) Supplemental Education Grant (SEG) is intended to help defray non-tuition costs of your education that are required for the course(s) you're taking (up to $250 per year). This program is designed to help individuals obtain their first associate or bachelor degree, students having an associate or bachelor degree and seeking a second degree at the same level do not qualify, nor do those seeking a graduate degree. However students who have an associate degree and are seeking a bachelor degree do qualify.
You can submit multiple grant requests during the calendar year as long as the total isn't more than $250. Make sure your applications get to your CGMA representative within 12 months after the date of the expense. Each grant applies to the current calendar year, regardless of when the costs were incurred. Eligibility is based on the status of the CGMA client and student as of the first day of the course for which the SEG is applied.
To be eligible, the student must be:
enrolled in an undergraduate (associate's/bachelor's) degree program,
pursuing a VoTech program approved by the Department of Veterans' Affairs or Department of Education, and designed to prepare the student for entry into a career field, or
seeking a General Equivalency Diploma (GED).
For more information about eligibility, what it covers, etc., read the CGMA brochure. For a SEG application go to your command's CGMA representative or the CGMA web site.
The CGFEG and VPEG are meant to help active duty enlisted personnel pursue higher education by reimbursing them (up to $500 per calendar year) for many costs not covered by tuition assistance. Examples of items you can be reimbursed for are listed at the Coast Guard Institute's web site.
In addition, Mr. Roy Vander Putten, a former enlisted member of the Coast Guard and now a senior executive in the insurance industry, has funded another grant of $250 for those who have received the maximum available under the Coast Guard Foundation Grant.
Applicants will be considered automatically for a Vander Putten grant if they request a grant for more than $500. As a result, the maximum available under this merged grant program is effectively $750 per calendar year.
Once you've completed the application, you can submit it with or without an endorsement. Although those at the Institute who decide whether to approve or disapprove grant requests prefer you to have an endorsement from someone in your chain of command on the form, your request won't be disapproved solely because there's no endorsement.
CAVEAT: There's no guarantee that if you apply for these grants you'll receive one or both. They both depend on separate private funding sources – individuals, military and civilian – which may not always be available.
This being the case, don't pay for something you don't absolutely need assuming you'll get reimbursed through these grants.
Grant requests may be submitted at any time of the year; the 31 December deadline has been eliminated. You may submit a grant request up to one year after you incur an eligible expense. All applications will be held for a year (in the order in which they were received) OR until a grant has been awarded, whichever occurs first. After that, your application will be shredded.
Even if it's been less than a year since the expense was incurred, you may not resubmit a grant request for amounts not reimbursed during the previous calendar year.
EXAMPLE: You submit a request for a $1,100 grant in March 2011 and receive $500 from the Foundation grant and $250 from the Vander Putten grant in October 2011. You can't then submit an application for the 2012 funding cycle for the $350 worth of items not reimbursed in 2011.
Even after grant
requests have been approved (which most are), disbursement of funds by the
Institute depends on whether funds are available. The CG Foundation and Mr.
Vander Putten disburse funds to the Institute at irregular and unpredictable
As soon as the Institute has money, it disburses it. When the Institute's
pot of money runs out, no disbursements are made.
From 01 April through 01 June 2012, the Coast Guard Foundation is accepting applications for a needs-based education grant for spouses of Coast Guard enlisted personnel. The grant ($500) is intended to help the spouses personnel on active duty (E-3 through E-6) in the regular Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Reserve.
Applicants need only show enrollment in an education program or proof of a course completion at any time after 31 March 2010. Types of courses for which reimbursement is available include those offered by vocational and certification programs, as well as those offered at colleges and universities.
Applicants will not need to provide receipts for expenses, but they will need to itemize expenses. They will also need to list some basic financial information. Transportation and child care expenses can be listed as legitimate expenses for the grant. Also part of the application process is an essay (no longer than 500 words) which addresses what it means to the applicant to be a Coast Guard spouse and describing the difference education has made to the applicant's life and the lives of the applicant's family members.
In June 2012, a
selection committee will convene to select grantees.
Coast Guard Mutual Assistance also offers a grant to reimburse clients for the 3% loan origination fee on Federal Stafford Loans and Federal Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS).
The lender ordinarily deducts this fee from the loan amount before disbursing the loan funds. After confirming use of the loan, CGMA will reimburse the dollar amount of the loan origination fee to the client.
Pell Grants are named after their congressional sponsor, Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, are gifts of money from the federal Treasury to financially deserving undergraduate students.
For the current year (01 July 2011 - 30 June 2012), students may receive a maximum of $5,550.
Many factors determine eligibility and how much you might be eligible for. Eligibility is determined by the Department of Education, based on information you provide on a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Funds are paid directly to your school and you may not receive Pell Grant funds for more than one school at a time. But "your school may credit the Pell Grant funds to your school account, pay you directly (usually by check), or combine these methods. The school must tell you in writing how and when you'll be paid and how much your Pell Grant will be."


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The great writer, director, and film producer, Nora Ephron, died yesterday at the age of 71. To close her book titled I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections she created a list of the things she would and would not miss. So in the spirit of Nora Ephron, I offer this list of things I will and will not miss.
Things I will not miss:
100+ degree heat in the summer
Sarah Palin
reality TV
the loose postcard-sized paper stuck inside magazines
online banking
insurance companies
text messages
pecan trees
airport security
Things I will miss:
my dogs
dogs in general
good, cheap TexMex
walks by the lake
my bed
good conversation
reading the NY Times
Robert Browning poetry
starry nights
Broadway musicals
I've only been water skiing once in my life. I was 12 years old. A friend of mine invited me to go out on a boat with her family one Saturday. I was so excited.
Finally, late in the afternoon the adults decided that I could try the water skiing. I lowered myself into the lake, handed my glasses to my friend (which rendered me practically blind), then put my feet into the too big pair of skis. My friend's dad gave me a short lesson on how to position myself to get up on the skis and what to expect when the rope tightens. Then engine revved and the boat began to pull away. My world became very fast.
Now I was an athletic kid growing up and the whole water skiing thing looked pretty easy. So I positioned my skis and braced myself for the tug of the rope. I fought my way up onto the skis only to fall forward flat on my face. The part of the lesson that my friend's dad left out was what to do when you fall. Panicked, I tightened my grip on the rope. Speed-snorkeling along the surface of the water, I lifted up my head and could see a blurry figure frantically waving their arms in the air and yelling, "Let go! Let go of the rope!" It took my mind several seconds to process this message, then I let go and in an instant life went from chaos to calm.
Have you ever experienced a moment like this? A moment where life is chaotic and then instantly becomes calm? Many times this transition from chaotic to calm is the result of making a hard decision. The inner turmoil that comes with being dragged through a bad relationship, or the constant rub of an unsatisfying work situation, can feel like being dragged along the surface of a lake face down. The process of getting on the other side of a decision typically requires us to let go of the current state in order to move toward a healthier existence. For me, I usually splash around in the pool (or lake, in this case) for a long time before the decision becomes clear. But once the decision is made, my focus becomes sharp and my life converts to a composed state. Sometimes the transition from chaos to calm is instantaneous like my water skiing experience. Other times the calm arrives more slowly. Most of us are not very patient with splashing around in the decision pool. We keep wondering when will all this end?
I am not the best with patience when it comes to making hard decisions. However, I've learned to accept the splashing around as part of my process of knowing that an answer or solution will eventually appear. It's usually not on my timetable, but if I can step back and make my vision a bit blurry, I begin to notice the signs around me that are screaming at me to let go.
And then I am up on my skis taming the rough waters.
We are organizational development practitioners and training professionals with deep experience in both the corporate world and in the public sector. Lifelong learning is our passion.
We have experienced many transitions of our own, some intended and some not, and have found that each ending has always yielded a better beginning. This is one of them.


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The reason a lot of New Year's resolutions don't last much beyond a week or a few days, is because they do not connect to a "bigger picture" . Usually they are just one "nice to do" type empty promises. You know, things I "should do", like, give up smoking, lose 20 kg, go to a gym, etc. etc. If they are not part of a bigger picture or "Vision" we have for our lives, then there is no motivation to follow through. You need a roadmap for your life.
Whoops, I think I took the wrong road. I turn left, right?
Where is your road map to your destiny in life taking you?
Take some time to seriously identify what really matters most in your life and what you really want to be and do. To really begin your journey with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so you better understand where you are now so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
Find your passion. What do you care about most? Allow your passion to take more priority in life.
Follow the big picture of your life. Allocate your time more efficiently and don't waste time on things that aren't important to the big picture.
Spell out to yourself a dream version of your passion. How does it feel? What does it look like? Where would it take you?
Get a move on. Don't wait until a better time to move toward what you want. There is no better time. The time is now.
Stay open to changes. Just because things aren't going exactly to plan doesn't mean they are not in alignment. Trust the process.
Focus on the big picture or Vision for your life and continually check in with yourself and ask "Is what I am doing right now taking me closer to my life's vision / goal?" If the answer is "No' then do something else.
Good luck.


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President Obama's State of the Union Address (right-click to copy direct link)
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Washington, DC Tuesday, January 25, 2011
In a televised speech to the nation, President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. The President laid out his top priorities, focusing much of the speech on the economy, job creation, proposals to improve education, reforming government and reducing the nation's federal debt. "At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country, or somewhere else," Obama said. "To win the future, we'll need to take on challenges that have been decades in the making." Also adding, "We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world,"
He was followed by House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who delivered the Republican response. Rep. Ryan discussed the President's approach to the central issues of spending and the economy. "All of this new government spending was sold as "investment." Yet after two years, the unemployment rate remains above 9 percent and government has added over $3 trillion to our debt," he said.
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