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Making the Decision to Have Breast-Conserving Surgery
Breast-conserving surgery may be right for you if you have any of these stages of cancer:
Stage 0, meaning you don't have a tumor but you have ductal carcinoma in situ.
Stage I, meaning you don't have cancer cells in your lymph nodes, or it is in only a few nodes,�and the tumor is less than 2 cm.
Stage II, meaning the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes under your arm and/or the tumor is�2 to 5 cm across.
Stage IIIA, meaning the tumor is less than�5 cm across and the cancer in your underarm lymph nodes is extensive or has spread to other nodes or tissues near the breast.
In some cases,�breast-conserving surgery�is an option for women with Stage IIIB or IIIC cancers as well.
Many women prefer this type of surgery to having their whole breast removed with a mastectomy. Radiation treatment is strongly recommended�afterward; however, this is sometimes true after a mastectomy, too. Deciding whether to have breast-conserving surgery also depends on these factors:
Size and location of your tumor
Size of your breast
Certain features of your mammogram
How you feel about preserving your breast
Keep in mind that even if you are able to have breast-conserving surgery, you can still choose to have a mastectomy. Also know that if the cancer has spread to lymph nodes, you will have to have them removed.�
Breast-conserving surgery with radiation therapy�has been shown to be as effective as a mastectomy for Stage I and Stage II breast cancer. Discuss your options with your doctor.


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Saturday was International Literacy Day, and to kick it off, Barnes and Noble hosted the American Hero Book Fair. In this community, lots of kids look up to our troops and local law enforcement, and today they learned how they can become heros themselves by picking up a book.
"They gave me this so I can decorate it however I want so I'm going to put on some ribbons and maybe some stars," said Elmer. He's a fourth grader who was found along with the other children making pictures of the American flag.
"What we're doing is to help children understand that to be a hero, a policeman, fireman, or border patrol agent, you have to be literate. You have to be able to read. You have to be able to write," said Barbara Sutton with the Yuma Reading Council. She said the children had a blast meeting heros in their own community. Elmer, however, says he knows heros right in his own family.
"My step-dad he knows a lot about military stuff, and he teaches me kind of, and lots of my cousins are in it," said Elmer. He wants to be just like them some day, and he'll start living that dream when he cracks open his new book.
The kids also got to meet some Marines, Border Patrol agents, and firefighters, and they also walked away with a free book.
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I dont know what to say.
That's the truth of What Is.
Last week I took my babies to the ocean and we body surfed in waves that were more caribbean than North Florida. Sunlight glinted, causing us to shut our eyes tight to more than just splashing salt water. And in one of those waves, in a moment of utter contentment and happiness, I finally decided to stop posting on this blog. It was just like that: a wave came, I let my body glide along with it, the two of us moved together a little closer to shore, babies laughed and called to each other, sunshine warmed us, and when I stood up, I knew I was ready to close a door.
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This blog documents a lot of history. In many ways I was a different person than the me I am now when I first started writing here. The texture of my family most certainly was different. Our environment was one that will never exist in that form again. Since the axis point of our life change I have debated how long I would continue here; many, many days the energy here has not seemed to fit. It's been restrictive and I don't feel the freedom to express. But so much change happened at one time and it was necessary not to let everything go at once.
I'm ready to turn the key in new locks. I'm ready for new walls and new folders and fresh air. For awhile I thought I could accomplish the same feeling with different paint. But the feng shui was off and the past year and a half has shown me that no matter the arrangement of things, what I have to say and express would leave wrists and ankles hanging bare. It's just constricting. Not that the things I talk about or want to share are really all that different…but it seems time to say them in a different room.
I thought the new place would need to feel very open to possibility. My life right now is still gypsie-like, with only a few hard and fast parameters. I have to bend and flex daily like no other time in my life and have a very open mind to evolving visions and destinations. There isn't a lot of space for locked in philosophies or ideologies and I don't feel like the voice to promote one of those anyway. Life is made of moments and of very earnest people just taking those moments and making of them what they can. No boxes, no pattern pieces stamping us all out in a row.
One of my favorite things about my "new" life is that the incredible variety of people I now come into contact with. Part of that is the power of the internet and of running an online business. But it happens in person too. It's an amazing high to meet someone from an entirely different background and demographic and find common ground. And most of the time that commonality is over small things we each savor in the midst of our very different journeys.
I wanted the new space to embrace that. I wanted to convey the happy moments that surface even in the midst of the frenzied pace most of my days carry. I've got a lot on the menu and I know most everyone else does too. Sometimes, when I'm pushing through to make it to the next thing, I put in one earbud and turn on my ipod and sing. To no one but me. And it probably looks odd, especially when I stop at a traffic light and my windows are down because my van AC doesn't work. I'm sure I seem "touched" by the heat and a little off kilter. But it always works. By the end of whatever song I was in the mood for, I found enough strength to quit obsessing about my worries and my depleted stamina and to keep going.
So the new site is called www.singingtomyself.com. I'm sure I'll write there but for now it's mostly photo moments; snapshots of what gives me a happiness shot in the arm. Things are a little bare and plain over there right now and that's just what I want. Air. Light. Open possibilities. This site will remain up; gratefully the archives still prove helpful to readers just finding a response to a few things they were searching for. I'm lucky to have been where I have been and blessed anyone read what I wrote along the way. Like any book with chapters, it's time to turn the page.


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"My brethern, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him: He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins."
James 5:19-20
James 5:19-20
excerpt from Two Tramps in Mud Time, by Robert Frost
Excerpt from A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
C. S. Lewis
(Source: dailydoseofstuf)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
by Rudyard Kipling
Mother Theresa
Pope Benedict XVI
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Marcus Tullius Cicero


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GUZARISH (KANNADA VERSION)- kiran
Lyrics & Chords
dis song is from ghajni………,i tryied its kannada version as experiment…….der sonu niigam and javed ALI has done superb job…….specially sonu niigaam's humming
i hav given my best , but dont know whether i reachd their range…….
music:AR RAHMAN
lyrics: kiran
singing: kiran
Priya B said
Very Good try…Kiran!
Nice effort….lyrics was good.
Aiyappa Theethira said
Very Nice Kiran……….Super Songs. Voice very good
Siddharth N said
nice one……\m/
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Three hours in Lafayette Park. Seeing things. Hearing things. Horses and carriages spin around the square much too quickly. The people, also, seem like they are moving in fast forward. She squeezes and paws at a bunch of Spanish Moss that's fallen off the live oaks which she's molded into what looks like a giant hairball.
She sits and stares at Our Lady of Grace Cathedral for about an hour and a half. She watches a group of teenagers leave choir practice, or youth group, or something. They all say goodbye to "Father." Father puts something bulky and oddly shaped in the backseat of his car, and races off in front of a horse-drawn carriage. She thinks about the cobblestone paths and about how Flannery O'Connor supposedly raised chickens in the square as a little girl.
After a while, she takes a walk around the cathedral; passing the rectory and the school - St. Vincent's. She then circles back to the square and sits on a bench facing the Flannery O'Connor house. A group of middle aged women yell excitedly in front of the house. They seem drunk and agitated, and based on how briskly they are walking back and forth over the same stretch of sidewalk, she wonders if they have lost something. Their search spreads out frantically across the corner perimeter of the square; yelling at each other good-naturedly all the while. Their pacing becomes increasingly frantic and one of them, apparently, strays too far from the group. She has designated the loudest one the leader. The leader screams, "LAWANDA!" The others yell, too, and Lawanda starts to make her way back to the center of the search party.
Based on the commotion being made at midnight on a Wednesday, she begins to wonder whether they are on meth or coke, but she is momentarily distracted by a hearse led ghost tour beginning to circle the square. She turns in its direction to her right. When she turns back towards the gang of women, what couldn't have been more than thirty seconds later, they have disappeared completely. And, she is again, left alone in the thick southern air of the antique Savannah square.
A Watched Pot
She stands there staring into the pot slowly heating on the stove. As tiny bubbles begin to rise from the bottom, she adds a few pinches of kosher salt in encouragement. The grains quickly dissolve, clouding the water like a dense fog. Next, she adds a tablespoon of olive oil, so they don't stick together. She hates that. She glances to the right of the stove and sees her mother's old copy of 'The Joy of Cooking'. The binding is coming undone and the light blue cover has been stained and burned; a testament to the feasts prepared under it's direction. The cap to a red pen is peeking out from between the pages, marking a recipe for roast chicken which she should know by heart, but can never remember. She stands there and waits. And wonders what it would feel like to stick her hand into the low boil. Like those times before - standing at the cutting board, holding a carving knife, wondering if I she had it in her to lunge it into her chest. Or run it across her abdomen, disemboweling herself Seppuku-style. But instead she just stands there, and stares, and once the bubbles are quarter-sized, she pours in the pasta.
It is 10pm and she hasn't eaten anything since breakfast. She hasn't been hungry. She use to have an insatiable appetite. As a lanky child, adults would always tell her how eventually her eating habits would catch up with her. Even into her teenage years, she was able to eat pretty much whatever she wanted. She finally packed on some pounds in college due to John Belushi levels of self-destruction. But once she graduated and had her first real breakdown, she was put on antidepressants. She was excited to start taking Prozac; like when you're twelve and all your friends have braces and you want them too. Or being the last to get your period. It was a right of passage. Only now, she had to remind herself to eat.
She sits down on the couch and turned on the TV. It is tuned to the History Channel and there is a special on about ancient astronaut theory. It's a bunch of nut-job talking heads, but she doesn't change the channel, either because she is too lazy, or because she's actually interested. Her phone rings and it's Scott.
"Clara! what's up?"
"Nothing, watching TV, eating dinner."
"Anything good?"
"No. Just flipping."
"Well, what are you up to tonight? Wanna come over?"
"Sure. I'll be there in an hour."
Their paths have crossed for almost ten years, but it is only recently that she and Scott have become friends. Mainly because it is too awkward for them not to be. They don't have much in common, but despite their differences, they have forged a place in each other's lives. They both grew up in Atlanta with mutual friends, however, because they went to different high schools, they didn't know each other. They met when they ended up at the same college, and, again, found themselves moving within the same social circles. But Scott transferred to an Ivy League school their junior year and Clara quickly forgot about him. After graduation, she moved to Chicago with a boyfriend and started running into Scott at bars. He was there working in real estate and she was working as a low level assistant at the Art Institute. Eventually, these random encounters became too frequent for them to remain casual acquaintances. So they started calling each other to meet purposefully. At the time, she didn't really know anyone in Chicago besides her boyfriend, so she was thrilled to have a drinking partner of her own. After several moves and failed relationships, she found herself back in Atlanta and Scott would call her when he was in town. He would ask her to be his date to weddings and holiday parties, and she always said yes. She usually didn't have anything better to do, and he always had good coke. He was back now for a few months, studying for the LSAT, and staying at his mother's house in Buckhead.
She drives up to his house about an hour and a half after his call and parks her dented '92 Integra behind the shiny BMW in the driveway. She doesn't recognize the car, but then remembers how Scott told her he was selling the Mercedes he had just bought on Craigslist, because it was a piece of shit. This must be it's replacement. Before she can ring the bell, Scott opens the front door and Clara notices his Wayfarers sitting on top of his head despite the fact that it's almost midnight. "You want some champagne?" he says with a wine glass in his hand.
Scott has been alone in the house for the past couple of weeks while his mother is in Dubai, or Abu Dhabi, or somewhere. Scott's dad is the US Ambassador to Argentina and hasn't lived in the States for years. Since he's had the house to himself, he and Clara have gotten into a little routine: she comes over at night, they drink champagne and maybe a bottle or two of wine. Then, they fall asleep in his bed, but nothing happens. The first couple of nights, she throws herself at him, but he never takes the bait. Finally, she gives up and wonders if he is gay, but at the same time she doesn't really care enough to ask. She feels a little like they are back in high school, which is maybe why she likes it so much. The routine has become comfortable and she will be sad when it ends.
She walks into the house and sits down at the granite-topped island in the kitchen. Scott pours the champagne and begins the gossip.
"Did you hear about Cash?," he begins.
"No, what happened?," she asks, even though she doesn't want to know.
"He flipped his car Friday night and walked back to his house not remembering what happened. He was covered in blood and told his roommate he ran into a ditch, but the next day the cops found his car overturned on Moreland. "
"Oh my God!" she says, feigning surprise.
Cash has been an alcoholic for years and these stories have become increasingly common. At this point everyone is just waiting for him to die, and she finds herself annoyed that he keeps delaying the inevitable. She wants to scream, "Either get your shit together or just fucking kill yourself already! But quit making us have to listen to these fucking stories!" He has become a terrible cliche and she is sick of having to pretend to be shocked and troubled. Rather, she is relieved that she's not a close friend and doesn't have to go to the interventions or talk to his parents. But she don't tell Scott any of this.
"Holy Shit. That breaks my heart," she says according to script.
They sit there in silence for longer than most would find comfortable; the kind of pauses that have come to define their relationship. "How's the job hunt going? Did you ever hear back from the Botanical Gardens?" he finally asks. She immediately despise anyone who asks her about her search for employment. "Yeah, I have a second interview on Tuesday with the Director." As she says this she already knows that she won't get the job. They will find her resume impressive and the interview will go well, but she will never hear from them again.
"Let's watch a movie," she says as she gets up and walks into the living room. Scott follows her with the bottle of champagne, which they quickly finish off. In the morning, she wakes up next to him, and doesn't care whether he is gay or straight. She is just thankful that his body is warm and that they never have to talk about anything real.
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I Don't Love You
"I don't love you. You know that, right?" She'd decided this was the best worst thing she could say. She wasn't sure when this revelation occurred, but for years she found herself saying it aloud when she was alone or bored. Mostly, while washing her hair in the shower or before falling asleep at night. She rehearsed the phrase as if it were the trigger on a pistol she would need to pull by second nature if her home were burglarized. She had never approved of guns before, but now found it necessary to protect herself. Best not to be caught off guard, she thought.
She'd originally anticipated its use on a boyfriend who had wronged her. But lately she'd begun to wonder in what other capacity it might be used. She could feel her heart hardening like the crust of a baguette that had been left out after a dinner party. With each day that passed she grew further and further from those she had once loved. The life she had once led. It wasn't depression. That she had felt before. This was different. What she was experiencing now was more of a split from her former self than a feeling of constant dread and sadness. She didn't know how exactly, but she was confident that somehow it would all work out. The walls she had begun to build around herself years ago had grown so thick that they were all but impenetrable; a work of masterful masonry only she could admire.
The night before, she'd gotten into an altercation with Jimi Hendrix's nephew at a bar. (Hence forth, he will be referred to simply as JHN.)
She knew his lineage not because she particularly cared about those things, but because it was repeated to her throughout the evening by everyone at the party; who clearly were impressed. Eventually, he even told her himself. When she did not respond with his anticipated awe, it was clear she had left him with a bad taste in his mouth. They were there celebrating the birthday of his friend with whom she happened to have been sleeping with for the past two weeks. As the party came to an end, they each went to close their bar tabs; but not before he ordered one last shot. As he ordered another Jager, the bartender informed him that he'd racked up quite the bill. She, politely, questioned whether he really wanted to order another drink. He paused, looked her up and down, eyeing her with disdain, then laughed and said, "It's fine, sweetie." The "sweetie" was implied.
As the rest of their friends had left, she, her fuck buddy, and he of the Hendrix dynasty, sat there finishing their drinks. It was at this point that the interrogation began. JHN'd had much too much to drink and she'd had not nearly enough. Their disproportionate sobriety had increased both of their aggression, and the altercation became inevitable.
Finally, he got in her face and asked her, "Are you a good person?" Without hesitation, she answered, "Yes." "Why?," he replied. "What makes you a good person?"
She couldn't think of an answer, and realized it was because she probably wasn't one. Maybe once she was, but that had been a long time ago. And she wasn't really even sure how much she cared anyway. It wouldn't be long before she disappeared and was another person entirely. Perhaps then she would be good again.
The boy she was sleeping with. The man she was sleeping with. The boy she was sleeping with, only partially intervened during this altercation, which displeased her. Eventually it was time to leave, and as she'd agreed upon earlier in the evening, she drove JHN back to his penthouse apartment in midtown before driving back to the boy's house. He invited her in, and she declined. She was not impressed with how the evening had unfolded and realized, more importantly, that she wasn't really impressed with him either. That would be the first time they wouldn't sleep together.
He woke up the next morning and texted her apologies with promises of reparations. She shrugged and replied "it's cool." But no one in the history of the world has ever said "it's cool" and actually meant that it was cool. Heated character interrogations from strangers are never cool. What she meant was, "I don't really care enough about you to fight over this." And with that, they both made a silent pact to never discuss that night again. Though, each for entirely different reasons. Or maybe their reasons were exactly the same.
She knew she'd never pull out her pistol on him, but that didn't stop her from continuing rehearsing her lines every night.
There are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. - Flannery O'Connor
La Petite Mort
Clara followed him to his house in a champagne 2005 Jaguar X Type. Her friend Max had gone to Oberammergau that year for the Passion Play, and she'd agreed to watch his dogs while he was in Germany. As Clara was without a car at the time, and Max lived about 30 minutes outside of the city, one of the perks to this arrangement was the use of the Jag. Driving it made her feel free and powerful; things she hadn't felt in a long time. Years of public transportation gave the simple act of starting the ignition the same weight as a NASA countdown, and Clara relished every second in the driver's seat. Now, however, that sense of freedom had been replaced with extreme concentration as she tried to keep her eyes focused on the road and car ahead of her, in an attempt to overcome an act of recklessness. She had met him only a few hours earlier at a smoky dive bar. She was there celebrating a friend's last day of work. By the time she met Timothy it was already late and she'd had plenty to drink. He had tattoos and glasses and made her laugh. After last call, he mentioned he had a bottle of whiskey at his house. She took the bait and they jumped in their respective vehicles. Which is how she found herself driving someone else's luxury sedan through a "transitional" neighborhood at 2am. Clara arrived about five minutes later and proceeded to walk into one of the filthiest inhabited places she had ever seen. "So do you have a roommate?" "Yeah, but she's working late. She probably won't be home for another hour or two." It had to have been at least 2:45am by this point. Clara concluded she was a stripper. "WAIT? You live with a GIRL?" She asked a bit too loudly. "Yeeeaaah…." he answered questioningly, imitating her tone. "No you don't. You're lying. You're joking. Right?," she said as she scanned his kitchen. He stared at her, completely perplexed. He cocked his head to the side and squinted, as if asking: "Why would I lie about that? What possible end could come from that deception?" The thing is, she couldn't have cared less that he lived with a woman, that wasn't where her confusion lay. Rather, she simply could not conceive of a female living contentedly among the amounts of trash that had collected within this East Atlanta domicile. Clara's only experiences with such living conditions were frat houses and drug dealers' homes. Both places she hadn't been since college. So, she chose not to give him an explanation for her irrevocable shock, as she didn't want to seem rude; which, she was. So instead, she quickly changed the subject. A talent at which she was quite adept, and a task which is made all the easier when both parties are adequately inebriated. Tim walked through the kitchen into the living room towards a medium sized pit bull in a dog crate. "I'll be right back. I just need to let her out," he said as he opened the wire door, unleashing a canine so clumsy it seemed made of rubber; like a fawn taking its first steps. "Why don't you make us some drinks? The whiskey is on the counter." He walked out the front door closing it quietly behind him. Clara didn't want another drink at this point, but felt compelled to considering this was the premise of her invite. She walked back into the kitchen and started fixing two whiskeys' in the first clean glasses she found. As she began pouring the second drink, she saw a liter of Coke sitting on the counter next to where she'd grabbed the Jack Daniels. Did he want Jack and Coke? Ugh. She walked to the front door, opened it, and at a ridiculously inappropriate volume for the hour of night, yelled her question. Yes, that is exactly what he wanted. Back in the kitchen, she made his drink while rolling her eyes and sighing dramatically. Surely, there was nothing wrong with a Jack and Coke, but as it happened to be her drink of choice as a teenager, she couldn't smell it, let alone drink it, without an immediate induction of her gag reflex. Also, she was a brat. When she finished mixing his drink, she walked into the living room. While surveying the wreckage he called home, a large dark structure against the left hand wall caught her eye. At first she thought it was a dining table. It became immediately clear its purpose was not for dining. "Is that a coffin?!?!" Surely, she was mistaken, she thought. But upon closer inspection, it became startlingly clear she was not. In a cleaner environment such a gargantuan object wouldn't have been so difficult to discern. The shots of tequila probably didn't help either. Instead of alarm, her first thought after she realized that this was, in fact, a vestibule for the deceased, was "I should totally get in and jump out of it when he comes back inside!" So, she opened the lid - is that what you even call it? Jesus. Anyways, as soon as she did, the unmistakable smell of high school biology class hit her nostrils like a ton of bricks. At this exact moment, her paramour came bursting through the door screaming, "NO! DON'T!" Terrified, she dropped the lid; fearing that she had desecrated some ancient esoteric relic with her uninitiated hands.
"Will a virgin have to be sacrificed?! Where are we going to find a virgin at 3am?! Do they even have virgins in East Atlanta?!" Her mind was racing with pagan worst case scenarios. He explained that the coffin had actually been used by an actual funeral home to hold actual bodies of the actually deceased during wakes. He made a point of noting that it was not his coffin, but his roommate's. His roommate's name was "Misty" or "Tiffany" or something equally as stripper-like. Clara was callously satisfied that Tim's history of the coffin confirmed her suspicions regarding his roommate's line of work. The ole "coffin-in-the-living-room" number should have been her cue to exit. Instead, she thought, "Oh. Well, it's not his, so that makes it alright." Clara had excellent judgment. As soon as she reconciled this Adams Family sex scenario she was about to engage in with her middle class Roman Catholic upbringing, she involuntarily began cleaning Tim's living room so intensely and awkwardly, that he had to force her to stop. It was at this point that they transitioned to the bedroom; because, I mean, what's not sexy about this situation? Clara sat on his bed feeling like she had entered a fifteen-year-old's room. She could hear his mom telling him he had to clean his room before he could go out for the night, and him then yelling back that it was his room and he should be able to keep it however he wanted. She, also, couldn't help but notice how awkwardly his furniture was arranged. She became fixated on it, and even offered to come back the next day to help him feng shui the place. Finally, they got down to what she had come to this house of mirth for; or almost. Precisely at the point of insertion, Tim? Timothy? She still wasn't sure of his name preference. Anyways, he looked into her eyes, and with the deepest sincerity, asked her, "What does this mean to you?" Clara's inner monologue: You have got to be fucking kidding me. What?! Seriously? Why am I totally incapable of a normal one night stand? You have a Goddamn COFFIN in your living room! What is HAPPENNING here?! Do you think this is our "meet cute?" That we'll be telling our grandkids at Christmas about that funny time Grams found a coffin at Pappi's house? Of course, this would happen to me…What actually came out of her mouth:Um, I think they call this sex? Regardless of the annoyingly sentimental preamble, the sex ended up being unexpectedly amazing. At least for Clara. By that point it was pretty clear that if one of them had been wearing pants, metaphorical or literal, it would have been her. So, as things stood, she was able to proceed to engage in the most carefree and uninhibited sex of her life. And in the end, she was able to admit to herself that it was nice to go sleep and wake up with someone's arm adoringly wrapped around her waist. And he made her laugh.
The next morning her phone alarm went off sometime around 8am. She lied and told him she had to leave. Before she could protest, he responded by going down on her. She came, and then left. But not before he asked for her phone number. With heavy hesitation and anticipatory hope, she gave him her number, along with her middle name, social security number, and Gmail username and password. By 10am, she'd received three text messages and a request to be his Facebook friend. And in the end, she accepted; she didn't want to be rude.
Or maybe that's just what she told herself. Maybe she realized that the night before she'd come so casually and prematurely close to death, only to be followed by the potential prospect of love. The dichotomy of the two states was invigorating, and she hoped that love was what she'd be left with. And suddenly, a guy with a coffin didn't seem so bad after all.
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Years ago, I read a profile of US veterans who had fought in various American conflicts. All of their stories were terribly compelling. However, as awful as they all were, there was one story in particular that has stuck with me all these years. The profile was of a young man with a wife and kids at home, who prayed everyday that he would make it home in one piece. His story wasn't much different than those of many of the men and women who have served our country; however, in what was a decidedly academic piece of journalism, a short anecdote this soldier shared, one that others may have thrown away as a triviality, affected me deeply and lastingly.
As a single woman with no husband or children of my own, although I could certainly empathize with the fear he battled and admire the valor with which he fought, I can't say with sincerity that I was truly able to sympathize with his experience. I haven't the slightest clue what it must feel like to put your life on the line day after day, never knowing whether you will see your loved ones again. So what touched me so profoundly about this soldier's story was the one thing to which I could relate. The one thing that, for me, is so intimately personal and immediately humanizing, that even an emotionally naive and inexperienced college girl was able to understand this man, not as a soldier, but as a boy not much older or different than herself.
The interviewer asked the soldier what it was that got him through the horror of war, what maintained his sanity, and lent him some comfort of home. His reply was short and simple, but it's impact resounding. He said that every night he got in bed (when he was lucky enough to have one to sleep in), he put on his headphones, and listened to "Feel Flows," by The Beach Boys. As he listened, he closed his eyes and visualized his wife and children. And for those few minutes the world was perfect. I can't fathom the realities of war, but I can relate to being saved by the transcendent power of music. I read that article over ten years ago now, yet, to this day, I can't think of troops in battle without hearing those hypnotic harmonies.
So, Happy Veteran's Day. Thank you to all who have fought and those who still find themselves in combat. And, whether you're in a far away land or a hostile cubicle downtown; finding a little something to bring you back home for just a moment - whatever (or wherever) that may be - might just make the difference between victory and defeat.
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What you think your reason for being here is.
I think my reason for being here is simple. People need my sense of humor, i brighten up everyone's day someway or another. I feel like i have the ability and words to possibly change the world. i just am not good with public speaking and i don't think people really care about the issues in this world. Do not people understand that some people are dying of hunger? they say that there isn't enough food in this world to feed everyone. but thats all a lie.. most families buy Too Much food and how is it that 32.2% of adults suffer from obesity (that's almost 90 million) and that another 30% of americans are just simply over weight.. and thats JUST america.. imagine the rest of the world.. if everyone ate a good proportion.. there would be no "hungry" people.. but we all don't live in a perfect world.. and i guess we need hungry people to realize how good we have it.
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Marc Savard (born July 17, 1977) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the New York Rangers, by whom he was originally drafted in 1995, the Calgary Flames, and the Atlanta Thrashers.
Savard played major junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the Oshawa Generals, beginning in 1993–94. After his second season with the Generals, in which he scored a league-leading 139 points, he was selected 91st overall in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers. He continued to play in the OHL for two more seasons and earned his second Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as league leading scorer in 1996–97 with 130 points. Savard then added 27 points in 15 playoff games, guiding the Generals to the 1997 J. Ross Robertson Cup and an appearance in the 1997 Memorial Cup.
In 1997–98, Savard was assigned by the Rangers to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Hartford Wolfpack. He put up 74 points with Hartford while being called up to play in 28 games for the Rangers in his rookie professional campaign. The following season, he earned an expanded role with the Rangers and recorded 45 points in 70 games.


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Married to a Did-Enough Dad? Taking Short-Cuts and Using "Convenience Cards" with the Kids
Did-Enough Dads – These are the Dads who do just enough to get by. Domestic Shortcuts (skipping baths and teeth brushing) are Standard Operating Procedure, and they make liberal use of Convenience Cards (TV, McDonald's, 1-800-Grandma).
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Arguing Over Chores: Husbands and Wives Keep Score Over Who Is Working Harder
On any given weekend in millions of homes across globe, wives stand in front of their husbands listing all of the selfless acts they have performed in the last week: "I paid all the bills, bought a birthday present for your mother, read Goodnight Moon five times, took four six-year-olds to Chuck-E-Cheese . . . and that was just Tuesday. . . ."
The husbands return fire: "Excuse me, but did I not make the kids breakfast every morning last week, including the morning it made me late for my presentation, when I really should have gone in early? And I picked up the dry cleaning without being asked, and I did bath duty three times last week. What more do you want?"
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My Husband Is Never Around: Where's Waldo?
When my first kid was about three months old I reached my breaking point. I was downright exhausted and needed my husband, Ross, to pick up some slack. (Let me preface this by saying that Ross is a great guy. This happened during the early days of parenting when 'he just didn't get it.') One time, I remember telling him that all I cared about was stepping on some sort of exercise apparatus, improving my overall hygiene, and getting a few hours of shuteye. At the end of the day, he was no where in sight. Where's Waldo? I called him on his cell and of course he said he was on his way shortly. And what did I hear in the background? I could swear it sounded suspiciously like a combination of Golden Tee and a keg being tapped.
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New Moms and Dads: Dads Are from Mars, Moms Are from Venus
After living much of our pre-parenthood lives as relative equals, it comes as a surprise when, post-baby, men and women start to assume different and not always complementary roles. Our instincts nudge women into the role of nurturers and men into the role of providers. When we become parents our most basic instincts rise to the surface. We find ourselves back in the prehistoric suburbs, where women wonder if baby might be allergic to mammoth and if there are enough wild berries in his diet, and where men stalk buffalo and question whether their hunting abilities will be good enough to get the family through the winter.
It's like our brains get completely rewired, running two separate "his and her" programs, but for good reason. Both programs are equally important for the survival and well-being of the baby. She focuses on the micro, the day-to-day development of the baby, while he focuses on the macro, providing food and shelter for the baby.
In simple terms, she has The Mommy Chip, while he has Provider Panic.
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Who Should Get Up at Night With Your Newborn? Playing Midnight Chicken
During the newborn stage, new parents resort to all manner of fun and games to keep themselves amused during this difficult time. One of our personal favorites is called Midnight Chicken, also known as Who Will Blink First? It goes something like this: It's 3:00 a.m. The baby is awake (again) and crying (again). You are both awake. You both hear her. But nobody moves. Women are tacitly calling in their chit (Surely he knows it's his turn this time?), but men, the masters of this game, simply play dead (maybe they throw in a little snoring). Continue reading
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Does Being a Parent Make You Happy?
USA Today ran an article yesterday titled "Years of Research Point to Strain Kids Put on Relationship." Not exactly breaking news for those of us raising young children. The article refers to the more than 25 separate studies in the past two decades that find that marital quality takes a dive with a baby's birth: babies raise stress, reduce happiness and otherwise upset the household. There seems to be a never-ending series of academic reports that find that those of us who are married with kids are less happy than our childless married friends.
But are all of these studies focusing on the right emotion? Should we really be asking ourselves how happy having kids has made us? Continue reading
What Our Parents and Grandparents Can Teach Us About the Early Parenting Years: Reflections From the Other Side
It's hard to have perspective about this stage of our lives. We can't see too far beyond the next milestone: "Things will be so much easier when he's potty trained/in preschool/making his own lunch/driving a car." But we can get some perspective from couples who have been down this road already. Even though marriage and parenting have changed dramatically in a generation or two, the fundamental experience of adjusting to parenthood remains basically the same. The parenting veterans once found it as shocking as we do now. They felt their way along in the dark just like we're all attempting to do. Continue reading
Are You a Control Freak? The Maternal Gatekeeper
When it comes to taking care of the kids and the house, are you a Maternal Gatekeeper? Do you micromanage your husband when he changes a diaper or cleans a dish? Do you often find yourself in a tit-for-tat scorekeeping argument because you want things done your way?
Many arguments about the division of labor arise because of our differing standards around the house. Women want things done just so. Men just want things done, period. And they will take that short-cut whenever they can. Do any of these sound familiar?
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1. Change the diaper. Put soiled diaper on the floor or on top of the Diaper Genie, but not actually in the Diaper Genie.
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3. Never change the toilet paper roll. Use tissue from the tissue box instead.
4. Place dirty clothes on top of the dirty clothes hamper.
5. Dress the kid in the first thing you pull out of the drawer. Whether it "works" or not is not an issue.
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A pet rhesus monkey — on its way to be euthanized — bit its Phoenix owner on the hand last week, stirring up a renewed brouhaha about monkeys and other primates making bad pets. It doesn't take a zoological scientist to figure that one out.
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AbstractIn this paper two wage observations which relate to the same point in time will be compared and the differences analyzed. The OSA-labor market survey contains information about wages received in April 1985 as reported in April 1985 and as reported in October 1986 by the same respondents. Large differences appear to exist. This paper intends to investigate whether these differences are random, by developing and estimating a maximum likelihood model. The estimation results indicate that the differences are not random. In particular, changes in the individual's labor market position seem to be important in the explanation of the observed differences. This conclusion casts strong doubt on the quality of wage variables as reported from the memories of individuals.
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This paper assesses recent developments affecting the security of the South China Sea in the first half of 2011. The author has discussed earlier developments in several conference papers that cover developments from 2007 until the end of 2010.
By October 2010 the tensions that had arisen earlier in the year over territorial disputes in the South China Sea appeared to have abated. China resumed military‐to‐military contacts with the United States. China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) revived the moribund Joint Working Group to Implement the Declaration on Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC). These and other development led the author to conclude that there were grounds for cautious optimism that some progress could be made in managing South China Sea tensions.2 This assessment appeared to be borne out by testimony in April 2011 given by Admiral Robert Willard, Commander U.S. Pacific Command, that the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) had adopted a less aggressive stance in the Pacific.
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It starts with Stanford. It ends with Stanford. Everyone else is fighting for the right to finish second.
That's the story of Pac-12 women's basketball this season. And really, that's the story for the Pac-12 women every season. The Cardinal are one of the true stalwarts of college basketball, one of the handful of powers that will challenge UConn for the national title on an annual basis.
Pac-12 overview
Predicted order of finish
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2. California
3. Colorado
5. Washington
7. Oregon State
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10. Arizona
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12. Oregon
Team on the rise
UCLA. The Bruins advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, and nine players from the team that made that run. Atonye Nyingifa is one of the best forwards in the conference. The rest of the frontcourt is big and tough. Don't be surprised if the Bruins find a way to sneak into the top three.
Team on the decline
Utah. This may not be entirely fair to the Utes, but it applies. With Taryn Wicijowski, the Utes had a legit shot at finishing top six — maybe even top five — and advancing to the NCAA Tournament. Without her presence up front, Michelle Plouffe will have to be superwoman every night. If Utah isn't careful, it can slip out of the top seven and find itself back in the WNIT. It's almost cruel how big Wicijowski's knee injury is to the overall fortunes of this team.
Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike may not only be the MVP of the Pac-12, she could be MVP of the country. Period. You look at her and it seems like she's been playing college basketball for at least 10 years. But that's a testament to how good she is. She's one of the best power forwards in the country, but has rounded her game out to where she's now comfortable making plays away from the basket. She will be a top five selection in the upcoming WNBA draft, and she's simply one of the premier players in college basketball.
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How good Washington has gotten in a short time under Mike Neighbors. Before he took the reigns, the Huskies hadn't experienced a 20-win season since 1994. Now, they've done it in two consecutive seasons. Washington is deep and experienced. Jazmine Davis was the freshman of the year in 2012 and first team all-conference last season. Whenever you have a guard who can score like she can, you have a chance.
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The numbers are staggering. Stanford has won 30 games in six consecutive seasons. The Cardinal have been to the Final Four in five of the past six years. Chiney Ogwumike is one of the top five players in the country. Tara VanDerveer is one of the coaching icons of the profession. With 10 players returning from last season, don't expect the Stanford train to roll off the track any time soon.
So where does that leave the rest of the conference? More importantly, where does that leave Utah? The Utes are looking for their first NCAA Tournament appearance since Michelle Plouffe's freshman season.
And the conference is unique in its own right. Because of Stanford's dominance it's definitely top-heavy. But it's a league that has some depth and talent as well.
"There is no such thing as a bad team in this conference and that's what our team will have to be ready for," Utah coach Anthony Levrets said. "It's going to be a league that we're going to have to take every game one at a time. Every game will be different from the next. But we're ready. We're excited, and we have an idea of what's coming."
California is probably the one team that can challenge the Cardinal on a consistent basis. Colorado is quick in the backcourt, and talented up front. Washington, UCLA and USC are all getting better as programs. Utah has an All-American candidate in Plouffe and an emerging star in freshman Emily Potter, who has taken up some of the inside scoring slack vacated by Taryn Wicijowski's ACL injury.
But like the Utah men, the women are going to face a grind. The depth of the conference is at its best in recent seasons, with as many as seven teams truly having hopes of going to the NCAA Tournament. That means the Utes will have to play great basketball for 18 games just to survive. Utah lost a lot of close contests last season. Will Levrets and his team have what it takes to be consistent in 2014?
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New Hampshire's coastline is small in comparison to those of Massachusetts and Maine, but that doesn't matter to the fish. Great-tasting fish like Gulf of Maine yellowtail flounder, white hake and cape shark are caught by more than 20 New Hampshire fishing boats. NH Community Seafood Executive Director Josh Weirsma Those fisherman began collaborating with consumers last year to protect the ocean and sustain the state's fishing industry while also supporting the local economy. They created a...Updated : 4 weeks 2 hours ago | more
Ahhh, summer is here. Warmer weather, longer days, and more time outdoors. For the ROC-NH team, the arrival of summer coincides with annual membership meetings, and all the hustle and bustle of working with ROCs as they plan and organize to make the meetings as productive and efficient as possible. Annual meeting is a time for members to connect, vote on the business of their cooperative, and help create a vision for the upcoming year. The election of officers on the board of directors is a...Updated : 1 month 3 weeks ago | more
A homebuyer recently suggested that first-time home buyers would benefit from a handout that covers the basics of the loan process. We do provide a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau booklet called Shopping for your home loan to Welcome Home Loan borrowers. A good home inspection can alert you to problems, and possibly lower the sales price I love working with first-time buyers, who are always excited and full of questions. I've distilled the most common topics we discuss into a top six, and...Updated : 1 month 4 days ago | more
Dan Barber, a renowned chef and author of the book, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, is kicking up dust around the farm-to-table movement. Barber recently wrote in the Sunday New York Times that despite the claims of four-fifths of Americans that sustainability is a priority when they shop for food, "For all its successes, farm-to-table has not, in any fundamental way, reworked the economic and political forces that dictate how our food is grown and raised." Image courtesy...Updated : 4 months 2 days ago | more
Strolling of the Heifers, a Vermont-based local-food advocacy group, has released its 2014 Locavore Index. New Hampshire is ranked third, just behind top-ranked Vermont and Maine. The Locavore Index incorporates data on farmer's markets, community-supported agriculture (CSA), food hub, farm-to-institution activities, and Farm-to-School programs, and compares states on a per-capita basis. Although New Hampshire moved up 10 notches from the 13th position in 2012, its improvement wasn't really...Updated : 4 months 5 days ago | more
Audra Anderson of Newmarket believes in the "knock and visit" approach to community-building. She and her husband, Karl, had lived in Heron Point Estates, a manufactured-home park in Newmarket, for 17 years. Last August, they and their fellow residents formed a cooperative and, with a loan from the Community Loan Fund, bought their community. Audra Anderson at ROC-NH's 2014 Community Leadership graduation. Soon after the conversion, when the co-op needed to conduct a household survey, Audra...Updated : 1 month 1 week ago | more
True story: When Ed Tomey, a highly in-demand organizational consultant, joined our board of directors, it wasn't two weeks before he was inundated with phone calls from our staff. They wanted to pick his brain about one project or another. " ... a deeply serious, productive, and delightfully engaged relationship with a nonprofit organization that fed me." It was almost as if getting Ed to join our board was too good to be true. He has a great mind and a great heart. Pros like Ed don't come...Updated : 4 months 2 weeks ago | more
Our friend Andrea Levere had a great commentary in Saturday's New York Times about the stereotypes that cling to manufactured homes (often referred to as mobile homes). You need look no farther than the comments left online to see some of those outdated perceptions. Andrea, who is president of CFED and ROC USA's board chair, is deeply committed to promoting the reality of modern manufactured housing as affordable, secure (if located in a resident-owned community or on the homeowner's land),...Updated : 3 months 3 weeks ago | more
It was a true honor to attend the National Community Reinvestment Coalition's annual meeting recently in Washington, D.C. The NCRC presented the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund with its Rep. James Leach Award in honor of our pioneering resident-owned manufactured-home communities and Welcome Home Loans. Watch the video of the presentration. The Leach Award recognizes the most outstanding rural nonprofit organization that best promotes fair and equal access to credit and capital and promotes...Updated : 4 months 1 day ago | more
Come April, a lot of us think about money. It's tax time, and we're paying or prioritizing what to do with our rebate. The first warm, sunny days lead to thoughts of summer, and what vacation we're going to be able to afford. Schools also promote Financial Literacy Month in April, to help kids develop good money habits. In the midst of all of this, thinking about whether your finances will allow you to reach your life goals can seem a daunting task. But it's important to keep those goals close...Updated : 4 months 1 week ago | more


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Why is Tomb Raider releasing in February and not the holiday shopping season? Do retailers or publishers take a hit with Black Friday deals? Do any games use the Steel Battalion controller anymore? All this and more covered this week in Ask 411 Games!
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So last week we took a look at what THE game will be for future generations looking back on the various consoles. Some people agreed with my choices, others didn't. So let's do a quick round up of the options listed.
Uncharted 2 for the PS3 is a good choice, that series does have a good shot at being THE series for the console. I tended to weigh the games that had slightly more wide cultural impact, in that I think God of War is slightly more well known outside of gaming circles. But I would be happy with that judgement.
Heavy Rain on the other hand, I don't buy, simply because it's not really a game. It's an interactive movie. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, or a good thing, it's just a thing. And it lacks the replay factor that most other games have, due to that movie aspect. Uncharted is a game that treats itself like a movie but is still a game. Heavy Rain is a movie that pretends it's a game at times. It's just not the same thing.
Again, I'm not bagging on Rain, just not agreeing it's THE game worthy. But if you like it, more power to you.
Little Big Planet… Is a selling point, yes, but Sackboy isn't quite the mascot that some people think it is, I believe. Not that the game isn't impressive,
Just that it lacks that little extra that makes a console's top games list entry into THE game…
As for the Xbox being 'almost exclusively' a FPS console, I don't think I agree with that, at least in terms of reality. Perception, that's different. Because there are a big chunk of players who use it for Halo, Madden and maybe streaming and that's it. I'm not going to deny that. But that doesn't mean that's all it's good for. Just that a big number of people only use it for that. But regardless, Halo and the Xbox are so tied up with each other that THE game will be Halo, short a miracle. But I don't want to start a console war here, just trying to clarify my stance.
Gears of War is the Uncharted/LBP entry for Xbox, I can certainly see the argument, and if it was chosen 'officially' I wouldn't mind that much, my slight problem is that Halo is Microsoft. Halo IS Xbox. GOW is just on the Xbox. Slightly different.
But again, I wouldn't argue against any of these (apart from Heavy Rain) too hard.
And now onto questions, beginning with
I do have a question. I notice that Dead Space 3, Tomb Raider (the reboot) and Bioshock Infinite are scheduled for release around February 2013. These are some major titles not getting out for the holiday season. Is there a strategic shift within the industry leading to games being withheld until they have less competition or is it just that they don't want to put these titles out until they're truly ready? In years past the early part of the year has traditionally been a major dead spot for blockbusters.
Obviously I can't judge an entire industry's strategy, because there is no such thing. The entire industry does not act as one, obviously, so trying to specify what a large group is doing is somewhat hard, since even they don't know. However, I think this isn't so much a permanent switch than it is a one off.
I mean, I'm sure the games do need some extra time to develop, but the end of the year isn't just filled with big game releases like Assassin's Creed III and Halo 4, but more importantly, Wii U is coming out.
A new console launch is a big deal, and so while if the Holiday period was just a few big games you'd see some more games coming out for the Xmas rush, a new console overrides that. The Wii U is a big deal, and so I think this one time, you'll find the early months of 2013 will be more filled with decent games due to the major console release.
Of course, if these games all sell very well, if companies find that games released in the 'dead zone' actually sell, then you may well see a new paradigm, and games might well become released in that period of time more often. But we'll have to wait and see.
So yeah, it's a one off that may well become more permanent, if it works out…
Another question: When retailers like Amazon do Black Friday deals with deep discounts, are the publishers taking a hit at all or just the retailers? Just wondered if that has any impact on delayed releases. Thanks as always for all the work you put into this column.
Just the retailers as a rule. It might be different for some services (Steam for instance springs to mind) but as a rule, when companies discount on Black Friday, they eat into their own profits.
For instance, last year, Wal-Mart sold limited edition blue Wiis for US$99.96 as a loss leader. The hope was to draw people in to get the Wiis and then have them buy other things as well while they were there. Reggie "Body is Ready" Fils-Aime then said, afterwards, that Wall-Mart lost money on every Wii sold. Nintendo did not.
I'm sure some producers do end up losing in some deals, but it appears that the usual M.O is for the retailers to take a hit on some stuff to try and get you to buy other stuff they aren't taking a major hit on. The developers seem to get the same, regardless.
Unless it's pre-owned. Then they get nothing at all.
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This is funny, but for Tara's sake, turn down your volume to the bare minimum before you press play.
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And finally, this is really cool.
Ace Crusher
asks about a infamous accessory.
Did any other game use the Steel Battlion controller from the original xbox? Did anyone ever hack or create ANYTHING ELSE that you can use that controller for? It was just so immersive and awesome it would be a pity if Capcom abandoned it immediately after the disappointing sales for Steel Battalion. Did Capcom or anyone else ever use those controllers for use in an Arcade? Using that controller scheme for a Gundam or other Mech piloting game would have been money in the Japanese Arcades.
Actually I remember playing a game much like that back in the 90's, in a giant arcade at a nearby shopping center, one of the really big ones where they had Virtual Reality boxing and a room full of pinball machines and all that… Man, I miss that place.
Anyway, that one sat you in an actual seated version, an enclosed booth deal, whereas Steel Battalion came with that large 50 button control system, that sold with the game. It was large, complicated, and the game was worse, with perma-death and issues with mechs turning, just like they would in real life.
The game supposedly broke even, but not a profit, as it was more to prove a point, to show what video games could do, rather than be an actual money maker. That's part of the reason it was switched from the PS2 to the Xbox, although online play was removed due to the complicated issues that would cause.
That said, does the controller have more than one use? The original game came out in 2002, and in 2004 there was a sequel, Steel Battalion: Line of Contact. This game did use the same control set up as the first one, and was online only, and was pretty much more an online play expansion than a full game. It wasn't bundled with the controller or anything, although now it's useless as the campaign servers got taken offline in 2005.
There was a third game, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for the 360, but that uses the standard controller and the Kinect sensor to play, and its release in June of this year went by with little attention as the game apparently had issues with sensitivity, it being a prime example of a Kinect/movement based game that had issues reading and interpreting players' inputs.
Anyway, did it work with any other game? Well, not on the Xbox, no. However,
some bright sparks
have worked out ways to convert the controller so as to use the controller on Mech games on the PC, such as Mechwarrior and Freespace, as well as just making it a generic 16 button joystick controller.
But in terms of official, proper usage, it's just the online 'sequel' and that's it, alas.
finishes up this week.
Hey Matt,
I believe that there is a kickstarter which is hoping to make a "wing commander" game but under a different name as they don't own the rights. That's probably as close as it's going to get to a new one for now.
I could look it up and try to find the name... but i'm pretty lazy...
I would imagine that it's
Starlight Inception
would be the one you're talking about. And it did pass funding, so huzzah, in August 2013, we will hopefully get a space combat game.
I really shouldn't look at this site without money. I mean, I could make quests in RPGs, and name a planet in a space trading game, or any number of awesome stuff that just requires money. So I'll end it there, although by all means, if you have some money, consider supporting one of the many games on offer. There seem to be almost anything you could want on there. Except FPS games, I guess…
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