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|I've often said that living in SE MA, you need to have at least a hydrangea and a rosa rugosa to mark yourself as a true gardener here. Moving to Upstate SC, what plants are truly a defining part of everyone's garden life?
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|Well I'm in NC, but if anything is particularly in style right now it's probably drought-tolerant, water-wise plants.
I like unusual plants myself. Abutilon 'Orange Hot Lava' is one I plan to put in this year, and it would like your zone very much. I'm not sure if it is drought-tolerant or not, but it loves the heat. I have cool colors in the sunny front yard and I will be putting hot colors in the half-shaded back yard.
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|Veggie wise: Collards, corn, Orka, Toms, Cucs, watermelons, Maybe Kale and of course lettuce is big here, at least in my garden
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- Posted by dibbit z7b SC (email@example.com) on Thu, Mar 27, 08 at 19:44
|I would say the plant/tree/shrub that to me represented the "idea of the South" when I first moved here was a crape myrtle. There are perhaps others now, but that was the deciding one for me - camellias come close, but they also thrive in the PNW - crape myrtles NEED the hot summers here to do well.
|Brugmansia aka Angel's Trumpet is a southern garden standout! I see a lot of Confederate Rose Hibiscus at the SC shore. Robin from Boston, MA now NC
|i'd have to say gardenias and magnolias (not that i have a magnolia- no room!) along with a second for camellias. I didn't know about crape myrtles til i moved south, but had certainly heard of and expected the others. Now i think of them, and brugs, too.
|Evergreen azaleas.
|Thank you! I think it's cool how certain plants "define" a region - I'm not really talking wildflowers, although of course, they do. It seems that certain plants are cultivated regionally, though. Along the south coast of MA and Cape Cod, hydrangeas are cultivated everywhere. Rosa rugosas are cultivated by some of us, but only those who don't mind a little wildness to the garden - they grow wild on the beach here, and some people think of them as weeds. I start them from seed, LOL. Holly is very important here, too.
I definitely hope to have a crape myrtle when I get there. I have successfully germinated them here, but not been able to get them to survive, even the supposedly hardier varieties. The pictures look gorgeous, and I'm looking forward to growing some. I haven't even looked at camellias yet, and gardenias? Well, they're a houseplant here - I can't even imagine the joy it will be to be able to grow these things!
How about herb gardens? Herb gardening seems to be a standard of NE living. I'm hoping to set one up there that will include English garden herbs like lavender, elecampagne, and hypericum ascyron, as well as the classic culinary herbs. The prospect of year-round rosemary is close to a dream come true for me!
|I moved here (Durham) from MA in late 2006 and I couldn't wait to start growing camellias and gardenias. The house we bought already had a magnolia and a couple of redbud trees. The really great thing here is that you can still have a lot of the plants that you grew and loved in MA - plus a lot of wonderful new stuff. Some things won't grow here - lupines, delphiniums and most lilacs, but most other plants do well here. And you're right about the year-round rosemary. I have a huge plant by my side porch, and it's wonderful.
|You need at least one dogwood too. :)
- Posted by mbuckmaster 7B/NC (My Page) on Fri, Mar 28, 08 at 10:43
|I moved here from Florida almost two years ago, and although geographically speaking the move was northern, I definitely had the same idea to get very "Southern" in my garden. After giving the new landscape a chance to settle after the first series of frosts, I planted a dogwood tree and a gardenia bush, and felt more Southern already. Then a fringe tree and a japanese maple, and I moved on to daylilies, irises, columbine, a purple smoketree, some fragrant tea olives, an azalea hedge, a "Miss Kim" lilac, pieris, a yoshino cherry tree, carolina silverbell, magnolia stellata, and tons of bulbs (over 300 planted last year, I think!). This week was spring break for my wife and I, and so instead of freezing our keisters off at the beach, we put in new vegetable and herb gardens to plant after IRS Day, and will finish planting six blueberries today. We also have two apple trees...don't forget about the edible Southern garden!
Still so much to plant until I really feel Southern...great suggestions above, and I want to get into some shade stuff like trillium and hellebores for the woods. I will also admit I have some more "Northern" plants in here as well for contrast--a blue spruce, a weeping willow (a Canadian variety with yellow bark and disease/borer resistance), a hedge of so-called California lilac (ceanothus thyrsiflorus--very neat little evergreen shrub with lilac-like flowers). But I feel like I'm on the way. It's a fun journey--enjoy and welcome!
|Crapes, magnolias, redbuds and dogwoods. Check the Masters golf tournament in a week or so and you'll see most of what is southern-defining there, and looking really good.
- Posted by nannerbelle 7b (My Page) on Fri, Mar 28, 08 at 20:10
|Definatly Dogwood, Magnolia, Azeala, Crape Myrtle. I also see tons of bulbs for spring. We native Carolinians love our first spring color!! :-) For flowering, fruit producing trees, get a pear, apple and peach. Lots of folks plant crabapple. They have beautiful pink blooms in the spring and the wildlife loves the fruit. It is actually consumable by humans, bitter in the natural state, but it makes a GREAT jelley. My Mother and Grandmother used to make it every fall from the trees in the yard where I grew up. Wisteria vine is a pleasant childhood memory as well as honeysuckle. Back then, it was more or less considered a weed.
|"Peaches for me..." :)
|CRAPE MYRTLES baby! Oh my gosh, you are going to have so much fun discovering all the 'new' plants for old southern gardners. I have lived here just under two years and am having a blast. Spend lots of time driving around. The crape myrtles don't start blooming until mid summer and it's a welcome surprise. They are everywhere, lots of different colors, and the bark in the winter is interesting. We planted six last year. They are very fast growing.
Gardenias are wonderful and seem to be easy to grow. There are different varieties. I have one that looks great all winter. The neighbor's variety dies back quite a bit but recovers. Camelias are shocking to this midwestern girl........ who knew you could have something bloom in December???
Dogwoods grow in the woods like redbuds do in the midwest. They are beautiful among the pines. I planted a Forest Pansy redbud last fall..... it's just starting to bloom.
Magnolias obviously scream SOUTH! They are gorgeous year round. Osmantus is a great evergreen with fragrant flowers, either once or twice a year, depending on variety.
Chinese fringe is a nice contrast to green bushes. Landscapers also seem to like laurel.
Just for the record, my husband and I have fescue grass that we LOVE! Some of the neighbor's have Bermuda that they swear by. Coming from a colder climate I can't imagine not having green grass year round if you can! =)
|Being a native South Carolinian, my garden is based on nostalgia plants. I grew up climbing a Dogwood tree so I had to have it in my garden. Luckily the land we bought had a mature tree on site.
I have planted Magnolia trees, Fragrant Tea Olives, Gardenias ( my grandmother grew them) Camellias, Crape Myrtles, Daffodils, Azaleas, Winter honeysuckle, Confederate Jasmine, Hydrangeas, Hosta, Roses- especially Lady Banks Rose, Day lilies, Petunias, Impatiens,Quince, Plum trees, Ornamental Cherry trees, and Hollies.
Quite a few of my plants have been propagated from plants from my Mother's and Grandmother's garden.
|Well, some great noisette roses started life in Charleston, SC. SC is a perfect place to grow some of the old garden roses ( teas, chinas, noisettes) that don't like cold climates. There are two great rose nurseries that I know of in SC...Roses Unlimited and Ashdown. WE have some in NC too. You'll be in a great place for roses, but can't say that you see these in every yard. Roses are remarkably drought tolerant once established.
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|Yeah a Confederate Jasmine is one thing you should get for year-round focus.
- Posted by perenniallybroke z7a/bNC (My Page) on Sat, Mar 29, 08 at 20:49
|You're moving to a zone that offers you the opportunity to grow an incredibly diverse array of plants. You may adore the southern standards already mentioned. On the other hand, there are public gardens, arboretumns, garden tours, open garden days, and commercial display gardens that give you the opportunity to see the abundance available. I recommend you do some looking before planting.
|Linda I'm glad you brought up the roses. Every Southern gardens needs at least one China, tea and noisette.
- Posted by deirdre_2007 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 11:25
|I grew up in MA and only moved to NC three years ago. As far as I'm concerned, every NC garden should have Camellias, Gardenias and Crepe Myrtles. These are plants, that I could never have dreamed of growing back "home" and now I have them flourishing in my garden. I'm sure there are plently more plants, but these are the first that popped into my head.
I love the fact that bulbs that you'd have to dig up in MA, ie Callas, Dahlias, etc, you can leave in the ground here in NC. I love gardening, but digging something up, that I just planted, isn't my idea of fun, especially when I have so much work to do to get my garden up to snuff, that it seems like double the work to me. Now, eventually when I get to a point where I'm just maintaining, then maybe I won't mind digging up tender bulbs, but for right now, forget about it!!
And lastly the most exciting thing that happenend to me last year was the fact that the annuals I planted the year before, petunias and vincas, actually reseeded themselves and I didn't have to plant a single annual last year. I actually had so many more plants that I had to go buy more pots and planters. Never in all my gardening life in MA, did I ever have an annual reseed itself and it was an amazing surprise to me. (Had I known, I may have planted a better variety of colors the year before LOL!)
Welcome to the Carolinas.
- Posted by brookiejunk (My Page) on Thu, Apr 10, 08 at 11:02
|Froma SC gardener, I hate azalea bushes. Yes, they are pretty when in bloom but it doesn't last long and then they are just plain out of control grenn bushes. I love yellow lady banks roses,Mexican petunia, roses, spirea, hydrangea is an always at least one in the yard somewhere. I have three white, one pink and I forgot about the other two it is only there second year and they are babies. But good luck, I also like plumbago, it is a pretty airy bush with light blue flowers. Good luck
- Posted by puppyscruff 7/NC (My Page) on Sun, Apr 13, 08 at 15:06
|I hear you, Drippy...I'm from SE MA too...here for 12 years.
I agree that Crepe Myrtles may tend to replace that empty spot in your heart where lilacs once bloomed.
Did anyone mention the jasmines, Carolina and the oh so sweet Star/Confederate, which is quite hardy here if protected just a bit. You will love violas and pansies during the cold seasons. They really can't be grown effectively up North.
Take a stroll through the UNC Botanical Gardens (free on 15-501 in Chapel Hill) to see plants that strike your fancy.
Claire from Sanford, formerly of Plymouth, MA
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|This evening I was doing some yucky yard work. Raking leaves-moving stones-messing with the compost etc. It was getting late and I was tired but I was on a serious roll and just kept huffing these big rocks (we have them all through our yard) over to our new chiminea. Thank god I had gloves on. I was barefoot but my husband threw down a pair of flip-flops LOL.
I propped this rock on my shoulder and out of the corner of my eye I see this movement and there she was..black widow(I think)! It freaked me out SO bad that I tossed the rock down and in the process smooshed her a little bit that she wasn't moving. I screamed SO loud. I hate spiders. Give me a snake any day over a spider. Well, my husband took her on a stick and she had the hourglass on her underbelly but she also had several red spots on her top. She was shiny black and big! Maybe a male widow or is this common? Well, I just knew I had gotten bit but I didn't and I am fine. Sombody upstairs telling me go inside-you've done enough!! LOL I ran in took a shower and have been suffering with the heeby jeebies all night! Decided to get on here and see what info I could find! Wear your gloves everyone! Oh-and if your huffing rocks that are in the ground a tank top is probably not the best shirt selection for the task! LOL When will I learn?
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|It certainly sounds like you've come across a female black widow spider. Please don't freak!!!! I assure you that they are so non-agressive! The southern black widow can be quite large and often has red or even yellow splotches on her back. It is ONLY the female that has the hour glass pattern on her tummy.
These spiders aren't uncommon, but you truly have to make them bite you. Keep up with the yard work, clearing out their habitats, but don't lose any sleep about these rather lazy, slow critters.
Take care and continue to enjoy your garden.
|WOW! Thanks for the information. I tell you..it scared me SO badly that I called a pest company to come and treat my house and yard!! Then when they came for the free estimate I realized the HARMFUL products they used so I opted against it. Do you possibly have any advice as to how to "Spot" them? What their webs look like or anything? Thanks again! Tonia
|I've attached a pretty good fact sheet for you. The more you know about them, the more in control you'll feel....right?????
The webs are sort of hodge podge, disorganized....no pattern. They tend to make them low to the ground, like between two porch containers, underneath a picnic table or bench, in the garage, a wood pile, stacked pots, etc. They will always choose areas where they do not expect to be disturbed. Outside, look before you stick your hands anywhere. I'll bet if you and your husband walk around the yard, you'll find many such places to investigate.
They don't jump and attack so these spiders can be swept to the ground with a broom and stomped on. I hate spiders, too, and this is what I would do. I've learned to tolerate most spiders and to leave them alone. Poisonous spiders have to go, as do any I find inside the home that are bigger than a pencil eraser! Good luck and don't be afraid.
Here is a link that might be useful: black widow information
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|The natural predator for black widows and other spiders is the mud dauber wasp. If you are not allergic to wasp stings, you can host a mud dauber convention in your garage or shed by leaving a crack open for them to come and go as they please. Mud daubers are very sociable wasps and, after an initial period of curiosity, will leave you completely alone unless you swat at them or happen to poke your finger into their nest. My office has been in my garage for several years, so I've been seeing them come and go with me all this time.
|Thank you for the link. It was very helpful. Just to let you all know...I decided to go on a kindof "hunt" for those creatures and have found 2 more. In my greenhouse I had a big stack of jiffy peet pots on the ground. Picked some up and sure enough another black widow. I was a little more calm and funny thing...she just sat on my potting table. I did kill her though. I am almost glad that I had the original encounter because it has made me more aware of my surroundings and their behaviors.
I found another one under a fake stone in my garden. SO...I am defiantely being more careful.
Thanks for the advice about the wasps-anything particular I need to do to attract them? : ) OH! Almost forgot about the 3rd widow I saw this afternoon. Walking through the back yard-we have a lot of wild ferns and it is shady/wooded. Walked right through a web-low to the ground-there she was!!! Their webs are VERY sticky. I was freaked out all those times but I am MUCH more aware now. Cant they just leave my yard and go to my neighbors? LOL Thanks again!
|My favorite weapon against spidies in or around the house & or garage is my shop vac. DW is phobic of spidies, so all of 'em gotta go around the house. In the garden, compost pile, wood pile, etc., it is a different story ... I leave 'em alone unless they strongly resemble a black widow ... then I do as rhizo suggests and stomp 'em dead.
And I almost never garden in shorts and tank top ... but that is more to protect myself from the sun than from spidies or any other critter.
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|I had some BW's in my Passionvine... I thought I'd "live and let live" until I saw them killing my Gulf Fritillary caterpillars! At least, the ones I had missed and didn't bring in to be hand-raised, anyway. I just knocked them to the ground and beat them with my hand spade. Yuk!
I agree that wasps are an enemy of many spiders including the BW but they also prey upon caterpillars. So, I probably have a different feeling than many others here about wasps. Some are predatory, while others are parasitic. The parasitic wasps will lay eggs on a butterfly caterpillar and the larva burrows into the caterpillar. One may never know this has happened until the time draws close for the new butterfly to emerge from the chrysalis... only to have nothing happen except for a bunch of bugs to come out and a dead butterfly. Certain flies do the same thing. I just had that happen to a Giant Swallowtail... the chrysalis began to darken as though it were getting ready to emerge... I could see the markings of the new butterfly inside... but then the pupa just burst and all these bugs came out. Made me mad!
|I have black widow spiders all over my garage so im careful when i move anything to see if there is one there. I think ill go around this week with my vaccum and try to vaccum up alot of the spider webs in there. Anyone try spraying for them? Gigi
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|We grew a bunch of "cinderella" pumpkins (large, flattish ones), and I swear when I harvested them I found a black widow in the middle under most of them!
My boyfriend has a "black widow relocation program"-- when he finds them in the garage/shed etc, he moves them to the back of the yard. I admit, I kill them, though I've come to appreciate spaiders in general for eating other bugs. I like to check out their "catch" to see what's out there.
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I have a carrot cake recipe that has been past down in the family. I however am diabetic and would like to be able to eat this wonderful cake. Can you make this over for diabetics? preheat oven to 350. cream together, 4 eggs, 1-1/2 c wesson oil, 1 c each of white and brown sugars. Sift together: 2 c flour, 2 tsp cinnamon, 2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt. Mix together creamed and dry ingredients. ADD: 3 c shredded carrots. BAKE 35 to 40 minutes. Frosting: Cook until thick: 3 egg yolks, 1-1/2 c sugar, 1 c evaporated milk, 1 cube butter, 1/2 tsp salt, 1-1/2 vanilla. REMOVE FROM HEAT. Mix with hot mixture: 2 tb peanut butter (i use 1 cup crunchy peanut butter), 1 cup shredded coconut,1/2 c chopped pecans. MIX UNTIL THICK AND COOL. THEN SPREAD.
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Facebook Drops Bing From Search Results
December 15, 2014 by mphillips
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Facebook Inc has discontinued including results from Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine on its social networking site.
The move, confirmed by a company spokesperson, comes as Facebook has revamped its own search offerings, introducing a tool on Monday that allows users to quickly find past comments and other information posted by their friends on Facebook.
The decision may reflect the increasing importance that Facebook sees in Web search technology, a market dominated by rival Google Inc.
Searches on Facebook have long been geared toward helping users connect with friends and to find other information that exists within the walls of the 1.35 billion-user social networking service. But for years, Facebook's search results also included links to standalone websites that were provided by Bing.
"We're not currently showing web search results in Facebook Search because we're focused on helping people find what's been shared with them on Facebook," a company spokesperson told Reuters. "We continue to have a great partnership with Microsoft in lots of different areas."
Microsoft was not immediately available for comment.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has flagged search as one of the company's key growth initiatives, noting in July that there were more than 1 billion search queries occurring on Facebook every day and hinting that the vast amount of information that users share within Facebook could eventually replace the need to search the Web for answers to certain questions.
"There is more than a trillion posts, which some of the search engineers on the team like to remind me, is bigger than any Web search corpus out there," Zuckerberg said on a conference call with analysts in July.
Microsoft's Bing is the No.2 Web search provider in the U.S., with a nearly 20 percent share of the market according to industry research firm comScore.
Facebook and Microsoft have a longstanding relationship dating back to Microsoft's $240 million investment in Facebook, for a 1.6 percent stake in the company, in October 2007. As part of that deal, Microsoft provided banner ads on Facebook's website in international markets.
Microsoft To Focus On Integrating Bing Into Other Apps, Products
Microsoft's director of search admitted that its Bing search engine doesnt' compete well with Google search in a full-on faceoff, but the company will focus instead on search applications.
Stefan Weitz, who leads Microsoft's search efforts, told an audience at the Web Summit conference in Dublin that he's less interested in Bing as a stand-alone search engine and more interested in integrating the technology into the company's other products.
"The question is, where is search really going?" Weitz said, according to areport in The Register. "It's unlikely we're going to take share in [the pure search] space, but in machine learning, natural language search… and how we can make search more part of living. For us, it's less about Bing.com, though that's still important. It's really about how we can instead weave the tech into things you're already doing."
By integrating search into different applications, Microsoft should be able to grab more search market share in the future, Weitz said, according to The Register.
"For pure keyword search, we're around 30% in the U.S. — not so much in Europe," he said. "But search in different areas of life? That mix is to be determined. I'm committed to making sure we have our fair share of search in the future."
Brad Shimmin, an analyst with Current Analysis, toldComputerworld that Microsoft would be smart to focus less on a head-to-head competition with Google search and more on working Bing-based technology into Windows products.
"At the end of the day that isn't a battle that can be fought right now," Shimmin said. "It's a matter of how inured we are with Google. It's now become the, 'Pass me a Coke or hand me a Kleenex.' Our cultural norm has evolved around Google. It's not just a search engine. It's a knowledge engine that helps you find your way home or what time the Dodgers play."
Five years after Microsoft released Bing, the search engine has not been the challenger to Google that Microsoft hoped it would be. While Bing hasn't gained significant market share in those five years, it still remains second in search only to Google.
Earlier this year, Internet tracker comScore Inc. reported that Google still held 67.5% of the search market, while Bing had 18.6% and Yahoo, 10.1%.
Google Adds More Cities To Shopping Delivery Service
October 16, 2014 by mphillips
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Google Inc announed that it would be expanding its same-day shopping delivery service to three additional U.S. cities and start charging customers for the service, which competes with Amazon.com Inc.
The Google Express service, which was earlier only available in certain parts of California and New York City, will be expanded to Boston, Chicago, and Washington D.C., Google said in a blog.
Membership for the service, which was earlier called Google Shopping Express, will cost $95 a year, or $10 a month.
Online retailer Amazon's same-day delivery service, called Prime, charges customers $99 per year, after a free one-year trial.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, at a public speech made in Berlin on Monday, called Amazon its "biggest search competitor", the Financial Times and other media reported.
"Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo. But, really, our biggest search competitor is Amazon," the FT quoted Schmidt as saying.
Schmidt said internet users are likely to go directly to the retailer if they are shopping.
Microsoft Unveils A Re-designed MSN
September 10, 2014 by mphillips
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Microsoft has unveiled its complete makeover of the MSN portal that now combines easy access to personal productivity tools and content from a large number of providers.
As the company tries to revive MSN, the focus this time is also on top content from the Web instead of offering original content. For the relaunch, the company has signed up with over 1,300 publishers worldwide including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Yomiuri, CNN and The Guardian.
A "Services Stripe" at the top of the MSN homepage gives users easy access to personal services including Outlook.com email, OneDrive, Office 365 and Skype, as well as popular third-party sites like Twitter and Facebook, according to an online preview launched by Microsoft on Sunday.
The new MSN also provides "actionable information" and content and personal productivity tools such as shopping lists, a savings calculator, a symptom checker, and a 3D body explorer. Readers will have access to content from 11 sections including sports, news, health and fitness, money, travel and video, wrote Frank Holland, corporate vice president of Microsoft Advertising, in a blog post.
The company said it has rebuilt MSN from the ground up for a mobile-first, cloud-first world. The new MSN helps people complete their key digital tasks across all of their devices, wrote Brian MacDonald, Microsoft's corporate vice president for information and content experiences, in a blog post.
"Information and personalized settings are roamed through the cloud to keep users in the know wherever they are," MacDonald added. Users worldwide can try out the new MSN preview.
In the coming months, Microsoft plans to release MSN apps across iOS and Android to complement its corresponding Windows and Windows Phone apps. "You only need to set your favorites once, and your preferences will be connected across MSN, Cortana, Bing and other Microsoft experiences," MacDonald wrote.
Microsoft claims an audience of more than 437 million people across 50 countries for MSN.
MSN.com ranks number 26 among the top sites in the U.S., behind Microsoft's own Bing site, Google's search site, YouTube, Facebook and Yahoo's portal, according to traffic estimates by Alexa.
Does The NSA Have A "Bing" Like Search Engine?
August 27, 2014 by Michael
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National Security Agency (NSA) has its own homegrown search engine that it offers to similarly minded US intelligence outfits.
Website the Intercept was first to report this and attributes its news to information provided by whistleblowers. It said that the search engine is shared with a number of other US organisations and institutions.
The search tool is called ICREACH, according to the report, and has been available and in use for some years.
Documents gathered by the Intercept show the system in use in 2007, and calls the information that it offers "wholesale sharing". The news website reports that the system is capable of handling two to five billion new records every day, and makes sense of email, phone call, fax, internet and text message metadata. It can also share location information culled from mobile phones.
"The ICREACH team delivered the first-ever wholesale sharing of communications metadata within the US Intelligence Community," (IC) the report notes.
"This team began over two years ago with a basic concept compelled by the IC's increasing need for communications metadata and NSA's ability to collect, process and store vast amounts of communications metadata related to worldwide intelligence targets."
We asked the NSA to comment on this, and it said that intelligence sharing is an important security feature and has been for some time.
"The appropriate and prudent sharing of information is a pillar of the post-9/11 Intelligence Community (IC)," the NSA said. According to the spy agency, the US Congress and two US administrations have requested that data and information not get "stove-piped" within separate US intelligence agencies.
"By allowing other IC organisations to query legally collected foreign-intelligence repositories of appropriately minimised data, analysts can develop vital intelligence leads without requiring access to raw intelligence collected by other IC agencies. The highest priority of the Intelligence Community is to work within the constraints of law to collect, analyse and understand information related to potential threats to our national security," the NSA said.
Microsoft Updates Bing To Make Search Phrasing Easier
August 15, 2014 by mphillips
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Microsoft has included some new updates to its Bing search engine that lets you phrase queries in a way that feels more natural.
The company said the new functionality makes using Bing more like "having a conversation."
It lets you ask questions sequentially that build off each other, so you don't have to keep repeating the topic you're asking about.
For instance, if you ask Bing, "Who wrote Dracula"? "Bram Stoker" pops up at the top of the screen. You can then ask, "Where was he born," and it gives the answer "Dublin, Ireland."
Microsoft said it answers the questions by combining "conversational understanding" with its database of knowledge about people, places and things.
It comes as Bing's largest competitor, Google, is working to make its own search engine better at understanding queries in natural language.
Google also has a conversational search mode that works in a similar way, though currently it only works when doing voice searches in Chrome and in Google's mobile search app.
Bing's new feature works well, and you can take the questions far. After asking about Bram Stoker "Where was he born," you can also ask, "When did he die?" Answer: April 20, 1912. Or, "How did he die?" Syphilis. (But, asking simply "how?" did not work as well.)
In Bing, the feature works on the desktop as well as on mobile devices.
Microsoft has worked to make Bing more useful over the years, partly by integrating a wider range of information from outside sources into results. Data from social sites like Twitter and Facebook plays a part in this, as well as data from services like IMDB and Netflix.
Earlier this year Bing expanded its index of the Web to include more information about professionals like doctors, lawyers and real estate.
With nearly 70 percent market share in the U.S., Google is still by far the dominant player in search, according to comScore. Microsoft's Bing has just under 20 percent share.
But Bing's new feature could give it a leg up against Google when it comes to search, at least for now.
New WorldView 3 Satellite To Provide Improved View Of The World
August 11, 2014 by mphillips
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DigitalGlobe's WorldView 3 satellite, scheduled to launch this week, promises to bring vastly upgraded images.
The satellite will be blasted into space on an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday morning in a launch that has extra significance given a recent U.S. government decision to relax rules regarding the resolution of images that can be sold to companies like Google and Microsoft.
At present, commercial satellite operators are prohibited from selling images with a resolution better than 50 centimeters to customers other than the U.S. government, but with the launch of WorldView 3 that's changing. From early 2015, the limit will be reduced to 30 centimeters, which is a fraction finer than the 31 centimeters that WorldView 3 can manage.
The change should mean better quality images on services like Google Earth and Bing Maps, and will also help DigitalGlobe's other customers.
"Our imagery is used by a lot of state and local governments for urban planning," said Kumar Navulur, director of next generation products at DigitalGlobe. He said the images are used to survey things like back yard swimming pools, but that's not all.
The satellites capture images in visible and infrared light and these latter ones can be used to monitor the environment.
For example, one of the sensors can see the presence of chlorophyll, the green pigment found in plants and trees. By monitoring over time, an early warning of disease can be picked up. Trees tend to lose their chlorophyll as they are stressed and Navulur said the satellite's sensor will detect that long before it's obvious through color changes visible to the eye.
WorldView 3 adds new sensors that capture eight additional infrared bands, some of them useful to energy companies in the exploration of oil and gas, and to geological research. The satellite should also allow analysts to map not just the presence of trees but the type of tree — something that's useful when figuring out the benefits of forests on carbon output.
The sensors also allow the company to monitor the presence of water vapor, aerosols, clouds, ice and snow in the sky — something that can be used to perform accurate color correction so images taken under different conditions have a more consistent look.
DigitalGlobe counts the U.S. government as its most important customer. That includes the U.S. military which, even though it has satellites of its own capable of even greater resolution, turns to DigitalGlobe for images that will be shared with allies or the public.
MS Maps New York Complaints With Bing?
March 12, 2014 by Michael
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Microsoft has decided to map the opinions on New Yorkers and pin their gripes to their locations.
The Redmond firm's researchers have developed Herehere, a complaint cataloguer, and launched it on the hardboiled streets of New York, New York. The firm reckoned that over time it will build up a view of the community.
Microsoft said that "hyperlocal engagement" would "encourage civic response". We think that it might put people off certain areas and funnel others to other locations. Microsoft has provided an image to suggest how this manifests itself. We learn that somewhere has "no asbestos issues" somewhere else does not feel safe, and another location has bad traffic.
"Herehere NYC introduces daily neighbourhood engagement with a light touch," said Kati London, head of the Herehere project.
"It takes neighborhood-specific public data, and it enables the neighbourhoods to communicate how they're doing-expressed through text and cartoonlike icons.
"People can receive the information via a daily email digest, neighborhood-specific Twitter feeds, or status updates on an online map. We want to understand how it changes or impacts the way people relate to their community when they can interact with data in this way.
"Think of it as a meta-status update for the day – a simplification of issues in your neighbourhood compressed into a text that you might get from a friend," added London.
There are 42 New York City locations covered, and the firm thinks that it will boil down the mood of the city into a digestible format with a friendly, occasionally ratlike, face. The data is culled from the 311 phone number in New York City, which is the state's contact number for non-emergency communications.
"The idea is that we are inundated with all kinds of data in our lives, and it's overwhelming. Characterisation helps bring immediacy and a human scale to information," said London.
"When the Lower East Side says it's totally cool with a few vermin complaints, we're giving a human voice to the neighborhood which, hopefully, will stimulate conversations about issues."
Microsoft, Bing Renew Partnership
November 6, 2013 by mphillips
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Microsoft touts its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it's renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, according to both companies.
Tweets have been featured prominently in Bing for a few years, as part of Microsoft's effort to incorporate plenty of information from sites like Twitter, Facebook and Klout. With a smaller market share, the search engine is far from beating Google but hopes to attract more users by weaving in more social data.
"Whether it's a politician, celebrity, thought leader or friend, our renewed partnership with Twitter ensures that you have near real-time access to what people are tweeting tailored to what you're searching for," Microsoft said in a brief blog post Friday. It didn't say how long the partnership has been renewed for.
Google is the market leader in search with nearly 67 percent share in the U.S., according to a September comScore ranking. Microsoft was a distant second with roughly 18 percent share, while Yahoo, which uses Bing on the back end, came in third at about 11 percent.
Microsoft gave Bing a makeover of sorts in September. Along with a new look, it created a new results view that merges social posts with factual information about people, places and things.
Competition between Twitter and rivals like Microsoft, Google and Facebook is likely to heat up once the social network goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. But, "we also depend in part on Internet search engines, such as Google, Bing and Yahoo, to drive traffic to our website," Twitter said in its IPO documents.
Bing Search Engine Gets A New Look, Adds Features
September 19, 2013 by mphillips
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Microsoft outlined on Monday a set of new and re-designed features for Bing that the company hopes will position the search engine as a "next generation" option for users.
For now, Google sits safely at the top, reigning as it has for many years as the most popular search engine. In August, people in the U.S. ran 66.9 percent of their search queries on Google, while Microsoft ranked a distant second with a 17.9 percent share, according to comScore. Yahoo, which uses Bing as its back-end engine, came in third with 11.4 percent.
But a new logo, a remade interface and improved search features signal "the beginning of a new, more modern era for Bing," wrote Lawrence Ripsher, Bing's user experiences general manager, in the blog post.
Greg Sterling, an analyst with Opus Research, said the changes to Bing are unlikely to boost significantly its market share. "But over time Bing could see gains as it continues to build on some of these enhancements," he said via email.
One of the main changes is the merging of two features — Snapshot and Sidebar — which were introduced last year. Snapshot provides factual, structured information about people, places and things, while Sidebar mines users' social media accounts to deliver relevant information posted by their contacts on sites like Twitter and Facebook.
"In our new design, we've combined these two sources of knowledge to provide people with all the supporting context they'll need for any given query," Ripsher wrote.
An entirely new feature is Page Zero, which attempts to resolve a query while the user is still typing it, by displaying links, information and actions on the fly before the first page of results appears.
"We think the time people will save using Page Zero instead of navigating a search results page will be significant," he wrote.
Also new is Pole Position, a set of links and answers displayed prominently and in a larger format at the top of the results page that appear when Bing is highly confident it understands a query's intent.
Bing Including More Facebook In Search Engine
May 13, 2013 by mphillips
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Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by allowing users to comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.
The new tools represent yet another expansion of the Microsoft search site to make it more interactive and useful as the company seeks to distinguish itself from Google search.
In March Bing expanded its center column to incorporate more social information from Facebook, Twitter and Klout into how it displays search results involving people. In January its right-hand Social Sidebar was scaled out to include more content from users' Facebook friends such as status updates, shared links and comments.
Previously, users could see that content, but could not interact with it without leaving the Bing site. But with the latest expansion, they can.
"Now you can see what your friends might know about what you're searching for and engage with them directly without leaving the search page," Bing said last Friday in a blog post.
As an example, if a person is searching for tickets to a Beyonce concert, and a friend posted on Facebook that she has an extra ticket, the person could comment directly on the post on the Bing site to let the friend know that he would like to join her for the concert, Bing said.
The person has to be signed into Facebook for the feature to work. The tool honors the user's account settings and won't share any information without the person's approval, Bing said.
There does not appear to be any restriction on how old the Facebook posts can be.
The feature's focus is on surfacing the most relevant information for the searcher, but on average the technology looks at roughly two years' worth of Facebook data for each person, a Microsoft spokesperson said.
For instance, searching for the just-released film "The Great Gatsby" displayed Facebook posts from as far back as 2011, some of which did not even refer to the recent Hollywood adaptation of the book.
The flow of information between Bing and Facebook goes both ways. In January Facebook announced the beta launch of Graph Search, a social search tool designed to let users discover a wider range of information across the social network. When there are holes in the Graph Search results, information from Bing will be weaved in, Facebook said.
Bing originally rolled out its right-hand Social Sidebar last year, and since then "we've been exploring ways to make it more useful," the site said last Friday.
Microsoft Updates Azure
Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Azure cloud computing service and said that it will match Amazon on price.
Last year Microsoft announced it would preview a host of changes to its Azure cloud computing service including new virtual machine configurations, a virtual private network and a new Azure software development kit. Now the firm has taken those features out of preview and made them generally available in what it is promoting as the largest single update to Windows Azure to date.
Since Microsoft announced most of the features in its "hybrid cloud" last June, the firm said the only changes from the preview release to today's public release are higher memory capacity and higher performance compute nodes. However the firm touted its Windows Azure Virtual Network as a way for customers to view cloud based services as if those were located on their premises.
Microsoft couldn't rely on features alone to take the fight to Amazon and its Web Services division. Amazon's cloud service is the biggest rival to Microsoft Azure and has a reputation for cutting prices aggressively. Now Microsoft has said it will do the same in a bid "to take the price discussion off the table".
Michael Newberry, Windows Azure lead at Microsoft UK said that companies are in a process of moving applications that presently reside on servers located in the office onto the cloud. He said, "It is important that we get them through the process, price shouldn't be a barrier for the customer to choose the best cloud provider.
"At the end of the day it should be about different technical facilities, what is the right environment for a particular workload, a particular application scenario. And that's why we wanted to take the price discussion off the table and say 'look, we know prices are changing and this is a market that is developing, but lets make this about the best environment, the best architecture, the best cloud environment for your particular customer."
Newberry said that Microsoft's Windows Azure service will appeal to those customers who want to make use of existing applications rather than develop ones specifically for cloud deployment. He said, "With customers who have existing infrastructure, existing applications, existing datacenters, that's not something they want to throwaway. They still want to take advantage of cloud technologies, either in terms of private cloud, or using the public cloud as a spiking mechanism – an overflow if you will – for their existing on premise environment."
Microsoft has also started to offer support for Linux on its Azure cloud service. Newberry said customers should have no problem running open source software or Linux on its services. However the firm does see its Windows Azure cloud service being particularly enticing for those firms that already run their network infrastructure services using Microsoft's software, such as Active Directory, SQL Server and Sharepoint.
With Microsoft saying it will match Amazon's pricing, the cloud provider industry might start to see a focus on performance rather than simply competing on low prices to attract customers.
Will Wolfram-Alpha Read Your Mind?
Wolfram Alpha will soon be able to read your mind, its creator Stephen Wolfram said at the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin today.
Speaking at the US technology conference on Monday, Wolfram predicted that his analytics engine will soon work pre-emptively, meaning it will be able to predict what its users are looking for.
"Wolfram Alpha will be able to predict what users are looking for," Wolfram said. "Imagine that combined with augmented reality."
Speaking during a talk on the future of computation, Stephen Wolfram – the creator of Wolfram Alpha and the mastermind behind Apple's Siri personal assistant – also showed off the engine's new ability to analyze images.
Wolfram said, "We're now able to bring in uploaded material, and use our algorithm to analyse it. For example, we can take a picture, ask Wolfram Alpha and it will try and tell us things about it.
"We can compute all sorts of things about this picture – and ask Wolfram Alpha to do a specific computation if need be."
That's not the only new feature of Wolfram Alpha, as it can also now analyse data from uploaded spreadsheet documents.
"We can also do things like uploading a spreadsheet and asking Wolfram [Alpha] to analyse specific data from it," Wolfram said.
He added, "This is an exciting time for me, because a whole lot of things I've been working on for 30 years have begun converging in a nice way."
This upload feature will be available as part of Wolfram Alpha Pro, a paid-for feature where Wolfram hopes the analytical engine will make most of its money. Wolfram Alpha Pro costs $4.99 per month, or $2.99 if you're a student.
Wolfram also showed off Wolfram Alpha's ability to analyse data from Facebook, a feature that was announced last August.
Facebook Acquires Microsoft Ad Technology Platform
March 1, 2013 by mphillips
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Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had agreed to purchase advertising technology from Microsoft Corp that measures the effectiveness of ads on its website, which should aid in its fight with Google Inc for online advertising revenue.
Under the long-rumored transaction, Facebook will purchase the Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad management and measurement platform that Microsoft took on with its $6.3 billion acquisition of digital ad agency aQuantive in 2007. Facebook did not say how much it paid for the technology.
Unable to make it work for its own purposes, Microsoft wrote off $6.2 billion of the aQuantive deal's value last year.
Facebook has long been dogged by doubts about the effectiveness of its ads and was embarrassed just days before its initial public offering in May when General Motors Co declared it was pulling the plug on all paid advertising on Facebook's network.
Since then, Facebook has introduced a number of tools and partnerships to prove to marketers that advertising on its social network delivers enough bang for the buck.
Brian Boland, Facebook's director of monetization product marketing, said the purchase of Atlas was not a step toward creating a much wider ad network beyond the Facebook site, but analysts believe that is Facebook's ultimate goal.
Currently Google leads the $15 billion U.S. market for online display ads with 15.4 percent share, according to researcher eMarketer, followed by Facebook with 14.4 percent.
Bing Adds More Facebook Content To Search Results
January 21, 2013 by mphillips
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Users of Microsoft's Bing search engine can now view a wider range of Facebook content from their friends as part of an effort by Microsoft to make the site more social.
When a person runs a query in Bing, the results include general content from the web as well as related information from social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Google+.
For instance, if a user is logged into Bing through Facebook when performing the search, Bing's Social Sidebar is populated with related information from their Facebook friends. Bing launched the sidebar feature last summer.
Previously, the results included only the Facebook friends' "Likes," photos and profile information, but Microsoft has now expanded that to include status updates, shared links and comments.
The extended data amounts to a five-fold increase in Facebook friends' content that is searchable in the sidebar, Microsoft said wrote in a blog post.
The idea is to give people more useful and personalized results. "This is a much richer set of data that not only helps show what your friends may know, but what knowledge they possess that can aid in your search," a Microsoft spokesperson said. The Social Sidebar is currently available only to users in the U.S.
A person planning a trip to New York, for instance, can find not just information about the city, but also information from Facebook friends who have lived or visited there, Microsoft said.
The information in the sidebar from other social networks works slightly differently — it's not linked to the person's friends, but to other sources deemed to be experts on the topic. That functionality is not affected by today's changes.
The new Bing features are not connected to the Graph Search announcement, according to Microsoft. But the company will "continue to power the web search functionality on Facebook," Microsoft said.


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A bleached out, spaghetti-shaped seagrass called manatee grass made its way to the shores of Longboat Key Wednesday, June 10.
Seaplace resident Barbara Koetsier was surprised to find the brittle manatee grass on the shore just north of The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort.
"It's the first time I have ever seen it on the beach," Koetsier said.
The white blades of grass are cylindrical, rather than flat, and are 4 to 12 inches in length.
Hayley Rutger, public relations specialist for Mote Marine Laboratory, said Mote scientists are uncertain as to why large deposits of the grass have washed up on shore.
"We do know it's white, because by the time it makes its way to shore, it's bleached out," said Rutger, who explained that manatee grass is completely harmless and odorless.
Manatee grass is a shallow species of grass that thrives at depths of 2 to 3 feet, but can also live in areas with a depth of up to 60 feet. The grass got its name from manatees, which munch on the grass as a source of food.
Public Works Director Juan Florensa said the town only cleans up remnants of red tide or foul-smelling seaweed that washes ashore on Longboat Key.
The manatee grass is expected to wash out with the tide – eventually.
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We had contacted 3 companies but in the end we went with a company called Superfly and they were excellent to be fair.
We were picked up at 11am from our hotel bang on time and were driven in the back of an open air van to the jump off area. On route we collected 2 lads from England who were finishing their trip- they had spent 2 months in Africa as well as other places and were finishing in Rio.
When we reached our destination it was incredible, the land area was right on the beach and the take off area was high in the mountians over the rainforest below it.
We met with my diver who luckily for me owned and founded the company
We drove up to our jump off area with U2 blasting in the car to make us feel at home ;-)
We then were told that Rau had done jumps with alot of famous rock and roll banks like
Smashing Pumpkins, The Police, Guns and Roses, Gypsy Kings and he also showed us a dvd of him on BBC so we knew i was in safe hands!!
Butterflies started to come when we reached the top and saw where i would be jumping from- the scenery was unreal. The day was beautiful and Rau said wind conditions were unreal(that you would get 1 day every month like it to jump). To set the scene you are very very high up in the mountains. The take off ramp is about 5 metres long (if even) and it slopes downwards at about 20 degree angle. Below all you can see if rainforest and rich houses high in the hills as well as buildings and of course the beach and sea-the view was just amazing.
Once we got up and signed the disclaimer forms etc i was hooked up and went through some trainig with Rau. We were to run off the ramp side by side as fast as we could and when we got to the end the trick was to run and not jump. So you were meant to run as if the ramp kept going!
After some small pep talks from Rau we wer eready to go-had my hard hat on and all strapped up. Before us were 3 or 4 other jumpers by now and I could see how nervous some of them were-it was gas- A few girls had to be pushed from behind to run because the faster you run the more you will be up in the air after take off
We were now next and i was surprisingly calm even though the run and jump was crazy! We came onto the run way and Rau nudged me and to say jump like a champion and so we did ;-) I am not biased but after we jumped the driver with Sharon told her it was a good one!! I may even take it up professionally-not!
When he said go i was told to look into horizon and just keep running which i did-it was nervewracking just before take off but was class and once we jumped the views were amazing. We were up in air about 15 mins and could see all of Rio including the beaches, christ the redemmer statue, sugarloaf mountain and the rainforest below us filled with wealthy houses with tennis courts and pools. At one stage we were only meters from a flock of birds and Rau the spacer started calling them in his bird language. The jump was incredible and i bought some photos we took while up there with views of Rio. It was unbelieveably calm up there even though you were horizontaly lying in the sky with nothing more than a harness on you. The landing went fine-again Raus words were to act like a champion. He was very pleased with the jump and sad we statred off very high so i think the jump was a success ;-)
Shar was at the bottom and was taping it all even though she was taping wrong person for a while until she was told she was looking at the wrong divers lol! Its hard though with so many divers up there!!
Got car drive back with 2 americans from New York who said they felt just as safe in Rio as they did in Manhattan which was funny- Rio is meant to be dangerous but we have seen nothing really too dangerous even though night time is intimidating at times!
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Does anyone have anything to say about this? I'm wondering why there wasn't more of a warning to women that an attacker was on the loose, etc.
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Thanks for posting that interview. I didn't get a chance to see it. I think at the very least they should have posted signs at the park with his description.
I thought it was very telling that her instinct was that he was going to rape her. IMO LE should have considered the attack an attempted rape at the time based solely on that.
I want to know what else he said to her when she was struggling?! Sexual? Demeaning? Threatening?
It saddens me that even the victims that get away are deeply wounded and scarred emotionally for life. Something has to change. As a society we can't continue to allow these evil monsters to walk amongst our children and create such fear in women.
I think a law should be passed that notifications have to be placed at the enterence to each and every park/gathering place within a few hours of ANY crime occuring there.
Where is James Perryman? http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sho...james+perryman
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So, the trails were busy and no one heard her scream apparently? No one helped her.
I'm surprised she was allowed to give the interview. Amber Dubois' parents have been quoted as saying they're under a gag order not to discuss the case and if that's correct it would seem that this victim would have also been included in the order.
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They should pass a law requiring everyone to wear GPS bracelets, that way when a crime is committed they can punch in the time and location into a computer and immediately see who it was.
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Everyone. It won't protect you, but if someone did something it would be snap to figure out who it was. Just need to give the state the ability to know where everyone is at any particular time .
I saw this interview live, as I had seen a promo for the LKL programs just minutes before the start of the program. I was struck by how poised and self-confident CM was............she has a very out-going personality.
One thing she said that jumped out at me was that when she learned of Chelsea King's disappearance, she was very frightened. I can imagine that learning that another girl disappeared in the very same park where you were jogging just weeks before, and where you had been attacked and escaped, would be momentarily very frightening, realizing that you too could have disappeared.
I noted that CM said there were some things she couldn't discuss, so I suspect that she was advised by LE that there are certain aspects of the case they don't want made public right now as their investigation into JAG continues.
We are commenting on the Amber Dubois thread. Was LE staking out that area after Ms. Moncayo was attacked? If they were, why wasn't the attack on Chelsea prevented? If not, they should have.
Same goes with my feelings about a "well-populated trail" and the attacks. Why didn't anyone help them?
Sorry, but Chelsea is dead, and this could have been prevented.
IMO, women need to protect themselves on these jogging trails, because usually ain't no one going to help you.
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Well its been another successful season.
The girls program has again dominated in both the Mill Park Basketball Stadium Domestic Competition and Diamond Valley Domestic
Competition. During the finals the club was represented in all age groups that teams were entered in.
Un 8 Mixed.
Unlike some clubs where winning at Un 8 is everything, and teams are built around one or two players in the team, Cougars sole
intention with this age group is to teach and develop our youngsters in the fundamentals and skill of the game, coupled with sportsmanship.
The winning comes after the kids have learn't how to play. Both coaches Tracey Way & Kellie Burns have done
a tremendous job in developing their teams.
Un 8 Mixed (1)
Tracey who took over from Melanie Holland, last season's coach, has further advanced the development of her players with a couple
playing a second game in the Un 10 competition, such is their advancement. All players in the first team have displayed good skills
on both sides of their body and this will hold in good stead in the future.
Un 8 Mixed (2)
Kellie had the more difficult job in starting raw beginners in the sport.
With assistance from CEO Rachael McBrien, the team has progressed well beyond the club's expectations. All players now have knowledge
of the game and what they should be required to do. When you consider there are a lot of 5 & 6 year olds in this team,
time for their continual development is certainly with them. Both coaches are to be commended for their excellent efforts this season.
A special mention to Anne Maree Angwin the Un 8 Mixed (2) assistant coach. Her efforts with the team is appreciated by all at Cougars.
Un 12 Girls
Cougars completely dominated the Un 12 competition with premierships in both Un 12 "A" grade & Un 12 "B" grade.
Un 12 "A' Grade
Debbie Coulson who is also the Girl's Coordinator at Cougars passed on her coaching of this team to Vanessa Farruggia half way
through the season. Vanessa had coached the Un 10 girls to a premiership last season and assisted with the Un 12 this season.
Debbie's guidance and direction has enabled Vanessa to further develop as a coach. The team who only lost one game during the season
had a tough tussle with Epping Storm in their grand final but again the Cougars team work overcame a poor start and they registered their third
premiership in the three seasons they have been together.
Un 12 "B" Grade
Made up of most of last season's Un 10 girls, this team coached by Stephanie Kyraciou defeated the previously unbeaten top team Rebels.
Three weeks ago our team lost to Rebels by 25 points. With the extra work that both Stephanie & Michael Ryan put into the girls
over the last 3 weeks, the team reversed their earlier loss to win by 20 points. That is a 45 point turnaround in the space of 3 weeks.
Well done girls and coaches. These girls still have at least 4 more seasons in Un 12.
Un 14 A Grade
Cougars made a clean sweep of this competition with Rino Zancan's team finishing on top and Debbie Coulson's team finishing second.
After the semi and preliminary finals both teams faced off in yesterday's grand final. Rino's team had a 26 point victory, giving this
team their third consecutive premiership. Debbie's team that are much younger gave a very good account of themselves and
lost no friends with their gutsy effort. Again a lot these players started in our Un 8 mixed teams and the grounding they received
have seen Cougars dominate this age group.
Un 16A Girls
Again this was an all Cougars affairs. Both teams during the season were coached by Rino Zancan but whenever there was a game
clash both Debbie Coulson & Bec Valenti filled in coaching the first team. After clinically disposing of Epping Storm in last week's
preliminary finals, Cougars (2) were in with a good chance in beating our first team who were unbeaten this season.
The first team coached by Bec Valenti showed why they were unbeaten all season with a 25 point win over the second team.
They needed to step up from past weeks games and they did. Far from disgraced, the second team put on an excellent effort but
the lack of experience compared to the first team showed in the end. The good point is that both teams are still eligible for
Un 16 next season but the first team have decided to accept the challenge and play Un 19 instead. The club believes that if you have
the ability- you seek the challenge. This is why the first team won't play in an age group where they completely dominate which they
have done this season. The challenge now is to play Un 19 instead. Congratulations on the decision girls.
Un 16 "B" Grade.
In a tight tussle Jeff Dunn's Un 16 girls could not get into their game and lost the grand final by 6 points.
The girls again had a good season and we believe that their continual improvement will see them get over the line shortly.
Diamond Valley Competition
The Un 12 -"B" Grade
Coached by Michael Ryan they had an excellent win in their grand final to continue the tradition that our past Un 12 girl's
teams have had at Diamond Valley. Made up of a mixture of our Un 12 (1) & (2) teams at Mill Park, the girls accounted for Eltham North (2)
who finished on top of the ladder for the season by 7 points. The girls accounted for Hurstbridge in their preliminary final and again
the training cooperation between Michael, Debbie & Stephanie got these girls over the line. Jenna Ryan was MVP.
Coach Michael Ryan gives a special mention to Claudia Kyraciou for her effort in shutting down Eltham North's bigs.
Un14 – "A & AR"
The First team coached by Debbie Coulson lost their preliminary final by 2 points in "A' grade.
Considering most of the girls were still eligible for Un 12 competition the team decided they wanted to accept the challenge and played
in a higher age group. They had been unbeaten in Un 12 "A" grade for the last two seasons where they were premiers.
The second team coached by Jeff Dunn finished bottom of "A" grade but played off for the "AR" final. Coming from fourth spot the girls
worked their way through with wins in the semi and preliminary finals. Unfortunately they fell short by two points in their grand final.
Again it was a superb effort by a team that had been poorly graded but stuck it out after heavy defeats by some of the true "A" grade teams.
MVP was Georgia Fell.
Un 16-AR Grade.
Coached by John Fell the girls lost their semi- final when they could not field their team because of school camp commitments.
Again Cougars Junior Girls program has continued to develop with many of our players being snapped up by representative clubs.
6 of the Un 14 A girls are currently playing VC for their representative club and 9 girls from our Un 16 "A" grade teams are playing VC
for their representative team. The majority of our Un 12 girls are either playing or have been requested to try out at various
representative clubs for next season. The club has more than fulfilled its Mission Statement this season.
Remember we are always looking for beginners & players to join us. See our web site for details.
Congratulations to all that competed during finals and a special well done to Mick Ryan's U18-1 team that took out the 18-B grade final.
The boys teams that competed in finals at Diamond Valley were
Diyana's U12-1
Cooper's U14-2
Jack's U16-1
Mick's U16-3 and U18-1 teams
Scott's U18-2 boys
We had Theo's U14 team play in the finals at Mill Park.
This season has been a very successful one for the boys.
A big decision for the club was to move the majority of teams to Diamond Valley, and the decision was worth it.
The boys found themselves in competitions where they were more competitive, which meant more confidence and more development.
Under 10's - started in D grade, ended up in C grade and were more than competitive
Under 12-1 - played off in the grand final, but unfortunately fell short by 3 points. Fantastic effort by Diyana and the boys
Under 12-2 - most of these boys were playing their first season and their progression as the season went on was fantastic to watch,
credit to Chris as he had 10 players to train and manage.
Under 14-1 - these boys showed a great amount of guts and determination. Let down by a couple of players / parents in the team, they played
with 4 players on several occasions but they gave their all in trying circumstances
Under 14-2 - a couple of these players had not won more than 3 games in the past 2 seasons while playing at Mill Park, they ended up
in the preliminary final, well done to Cooper and the boys.
Under 14-3 - Theo's boys started in C grade, got promoted to B Grade and played off in a final series, well done to all.
Under 16-1 - These boys played off in the finals and were just beaten by the smallest of margins, use that to spur you on to greater
heights next season guys.
Under 16-2 - Dave's guys came together and played some great basketball. Each week they were smaller than their opponents but they
took it to them every game
Under 16-3 - Mick's boys played off in the grand final missing their tallest player as he travels overseas. Lack of numbers and a little more
discipline and the result may have been different. Still a fantastic effort.
Under 18-1 - A lot of hard work went into this grand final victory. Well deserved to all involved.
Under 18-2 - Scott's boys once again played in another final series, with a bit more dedication by a couple the results may have been
different. Still a great result.
Under 18-3 - With a mix of U16 boys filling in, this team gives all they have each week and represent the club well.
A big thank you to Kerry Saccuzzo as the Team Managers manager, she is a huge help in communicating to all of the parents on what
is going on around the club. Thanks to all of the team managers.
To all of the coaches and assistant coaches. I speak on behalf of the parents and the committee, your commitment to the kids of this club
cannot be appreciated enough, you do the job for free, donate your time and effort and guide these boys with your knowledge of the game
of basketball as well as life; thank you.Looking over the season gone, I have seen a lot of development by the boys and a lot of
happy players and parents.
Premierships and finals are a sign of success, but watching the development of the kids, getting families involved in sport and club activities
is just as important and because Cougars value these principles, I believe it sets us apart from other clubs.
Have a great break and I look forward to seeing you all for the start of the summer season.
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