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It's a no-brainer to use Kerberos authentication to access SharePoint when Active Directory (AD) is your identity store. The Kerberos authentication protocol is the highest performance Windows Server authentication mechanism out of the box, and Kerberos is currently the most secure authentication mechanism supported by AD. (For more information about Kerberos, check out the sidebar, "10 Important Kerberos Facts," page 78.)
In the Windows SharePoint 3.0 (WSS 3.0) Central Administration interface, Microsoft recommends that you use Kerberos authentication. Unfortunately, when you choose Kerberos authentication, Microsoft displays an ambiguous message that says an administrator might have to configure an application pool account to allow for Kerberos authentication if the application pool account is not Network Service. Further, there's no reference to any documentation where you can figure out what the heck to do to make Kerberos authentication work. To complicate matters, Microsoft's article explaining how to configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) to use Kerberos authentication (see support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832769) actually contains the following quote: "Most of the time, you should choose NTLM \\[NT LAN Manager\\] authentication." How's that for an inconsistent message?
But we've found that Kerberos is truly the best authentication method, especially for such uses as authentication over a slow link or a public network and with smart cards. And when you have finished reading our article, you will know which Kerberos authentication features you need, what to do to configure these features in a SharePoint environment, and how to verify that Kerberos authentication is working.
System Requirements
To run in a Windows network, Kerberos authentication requires several components, which Figure 1 shows. If you're running AD, you probably have most of the pieces in place already: a trusted authority called the Key Distribution Center (KDC-for details on exactly what the KDC does, see the Microsoft article "How the Kerberos Version 5 Authentication Protocol Works," at technet2.microsoft.com/ windowsserver/en/library/4a1daa3e-b45c- 44ea-a0b6-fe8910f92f281033.mspx?pf=true), clients that support Kerberos authentication, a time service, TCP/IP, AD-integrated DNS, and the ability to configure Service Principal Names (SPNs).
The KDC arbitrates secure communication between two clients. Each AD domain controller (DC) is already a KDC. The KDC uses timestamps in the authentication process. Because AD relies on a time service for directory service activities such as replication, if you're already using AD the time service will be configured for a properly functioning AD implementation. In addition, it's likely that you have AD-integrated DNS already operating in your network. Of course, you can also support BIND DNS servers in an AD implementation. If you do use BIND DNS, all you have to do to implement Kerberos is add SRV records for each AD domain specifically to support the LDAP and Kerberos protocols. (For information on how to configure your BIND DNS server to support Kerberos, see the article "Configure BIND DNS to Answer Active Directory Queries" at www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/Configure_BIND_DNS_to_Answer_Active_Directory_Queries.)
Finally, all Windows 2000 clients and beyond support Kerberos authentication. Kerberos is an open standard so, as you might expect, additional clients such as Mac OS X, Sun Microsystems Solaris, and Red Hat Linux also support Kerberos authentication. After you verify that your network meets the basic requirements, the next step is configuration.
Initial Steps to Support Kerberos Authentication
The first steps in configuring Kerberos authentication, namely setting one or more SPNs and configuring each SharePoint Web application to use Kerberos authentication, apply to all MOSS/ WSS 3.0 implementations. Before diving too deeply into how you accomplish these two configuration steps, it's important to understand the underlying MOSS/WSS Web application architecture and how it maps to the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site architecture on which it runs.
A typical MOSS instance contains multiple Web applications. For example, a Web application is assigned to host SharePoint Central Administration and another hosts the Share- Point Shared Service Provider (SSP). You create these two Web applications when you install and initially configure MOSS. To let users interact with MOSS, you then create one or more Web applications to host your portal. Users log on to this Web application. In addition, you create another Web application if you want to implement the MySite feature. Each Web application is an IIS 6.0 Web site. Although the MOSS/WSS 3.0 interface lets you create the MySite feature in the SSP, the setup procedure advises you to create a separate Web Application. This is a good idea, especially for simplifying disaster recovery.
An essential part of an IIS 6.0 or later Web site is its application pool. Each IIS 6.0 Web site is assigned to an application pool. For security and stability, the application pool separates the worker process for one or more Web sites from the content and configuration settings for those Web sites. Although you can assign more than one IIS Web application to the same application pool, you should configure each MOSS Web application to use its own application pool. Within the application pool you specify the identity of a user account for running the Web site process. By default, IIS assigns the built-in Network Service identity to an application pool. However, Microsoft doesn't recommend this configuration for MOSS/WSS 3.0 Web applications. Instead, each application pool should use a unique domain user account and be assigned to a single Web application. See the Microsoft article "Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office SharePoint Server)," (technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f07768d4-ca37-447a-a056-1a67d93ef5401033.mspx?mfr=true).
What's a Service Principal Name?
Each user account that is used by an application pool requires that an SPN be set against it to allow Kerberos authentication to work. An SPN uniquely identifies a user account or computer account as a service host at a specific target address. This distinction is essential for helping to prevent service (daemon) spoofing, which occurs when a system accidentally connects to a malicious daemon of the same name running on a different machine or operating with a different user account. In addition, the SPN is critical to the proper operation of the KDC ticket-granting process. To learn more about the Kerberos authentication protocol architecture, review the resources listed in the Web Learning Path at www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/97376/Windows_97376.html.
In Kerberos 5, the different parts of the SPN are delimited with a forward slash: class/host: port/name. The class name is a value such as HOST, HTTP, or LDAP. HOST is a special name and always represents the builtin services running on a computer registered in AD. Any other class name acts as an alias of a HOST name. It's useful to assign a symbolic class name to differentiate specific types of services you might be providing, such as http services. For example, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and IIS use the HTTP class name for Kerberos authentication. Note that the HTTP class name is not the same as the http protocol, so you can use the HTTP class name for both http and https services.
The next part of the SPN is the host name, not to be confused with the HOST class name; the host name can include a port value. The two types of host names you should register for an SPN are the NetBIOS name (computer name) and the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). By registering both, you can be sure that a user who browses to either name will authenticate using Kerberos.
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You can also include a port value if you want to limit the SPN to a specific port or you are using non-standard ports for a particular Web application. For example, if your central administration site is hosted on port 35000, you might want to include this specification in your SPN registrations for the SharePoint Central Administration site. To offer a more detailed example, if you host Central Administration on a computer named CA01 in the fabrikam .com domain on port 35000, your SPNs for this site would be HTTP/CA01.fabrikam.com:35000 and HTTP/CA01:35000.
Finally, the name part of the SPN is rarely used except for services that are replicated. You can safely omit the name part of an SPN for your MOSS-related SPN registrations.
In terms of AD, the SPNs are values automatically written to the servicePrincipalName multivalued attribute of a computer account when it's registered in an AD domain. For example, workstation01 in the fabrikam.com domain will have the following two SPNs automatically registered: HOST/WORKSTATION01 and HOST/workstation01.fabrikam.com. Servers registered in the domain will also have the HOST SPN entries and are likely to have some symbolic class as well, such as SMTPSVC. Because of this automatic registration, your AD client can use Kerberos authentication to authenticate you to a domain. In addition, the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE (aka Network Service) acts as the computer on the network and therefore inherits the SPN settings of the computer.
You might ask then, if Network Service has an SPN on it already, why bother having to set the SPN if an IIS application pool can use this account for its identity? To that we would say, great question! Microsoft recommends that you use an AD user account for each application pool supporting a MOSS Web application. Although we don't have specific information about this, we believe Microsoft discourages the use of Network Service for this purpose because it would require that you assign several permissions to this ubiquitous and typically low-privilege account. Therefore, when you assign a user account to an Application Pool's identity that will provide Kerberos authentication, you must then assign an SPN to that account. During the authentication handshake between the client browser and the Web application, IIS uses the SPN to retrieve a Kerberos ticket from the KDC and a session key on behalf of the logged-on user.
Setting SPNs
With the aptly named setspn command-line tool that's part of Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later (and included as a support tool for Windows 2000 Server), you can perform SPN create, read, update, and delete operations. The create operation is referred to as registering an SPN. Figure 2 shows the registration process.
Because registering an SPN is a securitysensitive operation, you must have administrative permissions in the domain to create, update or delete an SPN. Any authenticated user can read SPNs created for a user account or computer. Being able to read an SPN is important, especially if you work in an organization where you don't have administrative permission in the domain to set it yourself, so you can check for configuration accuracy and troubleshoot errors.
In the example of a host named corpweb and corpweb.fabrikam.com, if the application user account assigned to the MOSS Application Pool identity is fabrikam\PortalAppPool, the following SetSPN commands prepare the account for Kerberos authentication:
setspn -A HTTP/corpweb fabrikam\
setspn -A HTTP/corpweb.fabrikam .
com fabrikam\PortalAppPool
The first command sets the HTTP class and the NetBIOS name of the Web server on the fabrikam\PortalAppPool user account. The second command sets the HTTP class and fully qualified host name (DNS name) for the portal on the same user account. After registering the user account with the required SPNs, running the following command:
setspn -L portalapppol
returns the following output:
Registered ServicePrincipalNames for CN=
The -L parameter shows the distinguished name of the PortalAppPool account and the SPNs registered on that account. Note the command parameter syntax suggests that you can run setspn commands only against computer names. However, it also works for user accounts, as the previous example demonstrates.
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SPNs to Set for MOSS
To support Kerberos authentication for MOSS, run the setspn command against the application pool accounts you have created for your MOSS Web applications to register the published names. In a typical MOSS installation, the Web applications that require SPN registrations on their associated application pool accounts are SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, SSP, MySite, and the portal. Published names include the FQDN as it appears in your DNS (i.e., corpweb.fabrikam.com), the NetBIOS name (i.e., corpweb) and any other FQDNs that might be associated with a portal site (i.e., a DNS CNAME entry of portal.fabrikam.com that resolves to corpweb.fabrikam.com or host header addresses).
Use the port designation in the SPN host name for Web applications that are published over non-standard ports. If a particular Web application is using port 80 or 443, you don't need to specify the port.
We have provided a simple example in the previous section for registering two SPNs and you can refer to the article "Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 1 - Base Configuration for SharePoint," (blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-1-base-configuration-for-sharepoint.aspx) to see other example SPN commands for a MOSS instance. The author, Martin Kearn, also suggests that you configure an SPN against the SharePoint Farm Service account. However, we haven't been able to confirm why this is necessary for this initial configuration to support Kerberos authentication.
Preparing Your Web Applications
Now that your SPNs are set, the next step is to configure the default Windows membership provider for each Web application to use Kerberos. You can complete this task from SharePoint Central Administration by following this path: Central Administration, Application Management, Authentication Providers. From the Web Application drop-down menu in the tool bar, select each Web application, then click the Default zone for the Windows membership provider.
From the Edit Authentication Web page, verify that Integrated Windows Authentication (which is synonymous with Windows Integrated Authentication) is checked, then select Negotiate (Kerberos). This option means that the Web application will attempt Kerberos authentication with the client. If this authentication fails, the Web application will downgrade to NTLM authentication. If non-Windows Integrated Authentication protocols are enabled, such as basic and digest authentication, and the client browser can't support Kerberos or NTLM, the server will let the browser attempt basic and then digest authentication.
If you're supporting Kerberos authentication on the Web application hosting the shared service provider, you also have to run the following stsadm command to enable Kerberos authentication:
STSADM.exe -o SetSharedWebService
Authn -negotiate
This is Step 4 in the Martin Kearn blog article we mentioned in the previous section. Note that Martin mentions additional steps required for configuring Kerberos delegation (Step 2 and part of Step 5). However, neither of these steps is necessary for the initial MOSS configuration to support Kerberos authentication.
When Kerberos Delegation Is Essential
A deciding factor for using Kerberos is whether you need to support the delegation feature. Web Figure 1 (www.windowsitpro.com, InstantDoc ID 97376), shows the process delegation and constrained delegation go through.
To understand delegation, consider impersonation. Impersonation is the process of acting as the logged-on user account to access resources. Impersonation is necessary when a service account (i.e., a MOSS application pool identity) is accessing back-end systems on behalf of a user and there is a security requirement that users must use their identity to connect to the back-end resource. Delegation simply extends impersonation across machine boundaries.
To decide whether you need this feature, you must evaluate the type of application that will serve as the front end to the authentication process, what back-end applications are involved in the authentication process, and how secure the authentication process needs to be. The following three scenarios illustrate the issues involved:
Scenario 1: A user logs on to a Windows network. The user can run Microsoft Word and open a Word document located on a network file share. The client computer contains a Kerberos ticket generated upon each user's logon (called a Ticket-granting ticket-TGT). When a logged-on user wants to access a Word document on a file share, the user (via the client computer's local security authority) communicates with a ticket-granting service-i.e., a KDC server. The KDC uses additional Kerberos tickets to facilitate the mutual authentication between the client and the file server containing the Word document. Each DC in an AD domain acts as a KDC. Although this explanation about how the interaction between the client and the file server occurs is significantly oversimplified, it demonstrates that base Kerberos services, not delegation, are needed in this case.
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Scenario 2: A client application authenticates with a middle-tier application and the middle-tier application then serves data from one or more back-end applications. In this case, the client application is a Web browser or Office application, the middle-tier application is the MOSS portal, and the back-end application can be a point solution (i.e., Project Server) or an integration services layer that accesses the back-end system.
Scenario 3: A service account accesses resources on behalf of a user. This process is referred to as the trusted sub-system model. The sub-system (or back-end application) trusts the middle-tier application service account so that the service account can retrieve data for a user by using the service account's identity and hand that data to the user. This scenario scales well, but should only be used to retrieve data that doesn't have to be secured by the user account or that requires per-user auditing.
So where is delegation necessary? The first scenario, in which a single application accesses a file share, doesn't involve delegation. The user logs on to the system and there is no service running on another computer acting on behalf of the user to authenticate to a file share containing the Word document. In the second scenario, delegation is essential for supporting a single sign-on (SSO) experience and for authenticating to remote resources as the logged-on user. In the third scenario, the trusted sub-system model, delegation isn't necessary because, by design, the service account isn't impersonating users.
How to Configure Kerberos Delegation
Configuring delegation to a user account assigned as an application pool identity for a SharePoint Web application is relatively straightforward. The simplest way to enable this delegation is to navigate to the properties of a user account in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
Once there, take one of two paths depending on your domain functional level. If you're running a Win2K domain or your Windows 2003 domain is running in Win2K domain functional level, click the Account tab and under Account Options select the Account is trusted for delegation check box. If you're running in Windows 2003 domain functional level, select the Delegation tab in the user properties dialog box, which Figure 3 shows. (If the Delegation tab isn't present and the domain is set to a Windows 2003 functional level, you need to go back and set an SPN on the service account.) In the Delegation tab, select one of the following three options:
Do not trust this user for delegation. This option is the default selection and doesn't let the user account impersonate another user to any back-end system.
Trust this user for delegation to any service (Kerberos only). This option lets the user account impersonate another user to any backend system that supports Kerberos authentication. It's time constrained because a Kerberos session key's default expiration lifetime is 10 hours. However, it's not constrained to a specific target. The application pool account will attempt to access any Kerberos-enabled backend target as an impersonated user.
Trust this user for delegation to specified services only. This option constrains the application pool account to a specific target or targets. As Keith Brown describes in The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security (Addison Wesley, 2005), this option constrains delegation not only in time, but also in space. We specifically say "target" and not "back-end system" because the only valid target for constrained delegation is an SPN. The two typical targets are either SPN-enabled computers or user accounts. If your goal is to limit delegation to a back-end system that uses an application pool user account, you have two choices: You can either register an SPN for a target user account, as we described earlier in this article, or you can choose one of the existing SPNs assigned to the target back-end computer.
Typically, using an existing SPN assigned to the computer is adequate. Some reasons why you might want to register additional SPNs include the following:
• Users access the back-end system by a custom FQDN.
• You want to further constrain delegation by designating a specific port to which the backend service listens.
• The back-end service uses a custom service name (SPN class field) that isn't registered in the default set of SPNs on a target system.
• You choose to constrain delegation to specific user accounts rather than to specific target computers.
Figure 3 shows constrained delegation (i.e., the check box Trust this user for delegation to specified services only is selected) to a back-end system with a custom FQDN of BackEnd01. Server.Sys, two ports designated for two SPNs, one service on usahsvulm268 that's listening on port 4000, and another service on BackEnd01 .Server.Sys that's listening on port 45000.
When and How to Configure Protocol Transition
When one or more users accessing your portal Web applications can't use Kerberos from their client computers or when your front-end Web servers don't provide Windows Integrated Authentication, you can use the Kerberos Protocol Transition feature. The former case is relatively rare. However, in the latter case, some routers or firewalls won't let you negotiate to Kerberos or even NTLM authentication. In these situations, configuring IIS to use Basic authentication over SSL is the best you can do. After IIS authenticates a user by using Basic authentication, the Kerberos Protocol Transition feature lets the front-end Web servers negotiate up to Kerberos authentication on behalf of the user.
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Configuring protocol transition is straightforward. In Figure 3, beneath the Trust this user for delegation to specified services only option are two radio buttons that let you select either Use Kerberos only or Use any authentication protocol. If you select Use Kerberos only, then constrained delegation will work only with inbound Kerberos authentication of the user. Selecting Use any authentication protocol, which Figure 3 shows, lets you use protocol transition so that the middle-tier application (MOSS, in this case) changes the incoming authentication to Kerberos from some other authentication protocol, such as Basic authentication or NTLM.
For the service to obtain an impersonation token, its service account must have the "act as part of the operating system" privilege. If it doesn't, the service will get only an identification token.
Getting an impersonation token is essential if your goal is to allow both protocol transition and delegation. However, the impersonation token does expose your system to attacks where a user logs on as the application pool account to compromise a system. Therefore, use this feature with caution.
An identity token, however, is usually adequate if all you need is to allow protocol transition. See Web Figure 2 to get a picture of what it takes to support protocol transition. The Learning Path that appears with this article online directs you to more resources about protocol transition and Kerberos. After you configure Kerberos, you'll need to check out the Web sidebar "Testing and Troubleshooting Kerberos," InstantDoc ID 97378, to ensure you've done it correctly.
Get to Know the Three-Headed Watchdog
As you can see, Kerberos authentication in a MOSS environment is a significant and sometimes challenging topic. Small wonder that it's named for the three-headed dog in Greek mythology that guarded the gates of the underworld. But, with a little research, perseverance, and some testing in your lab environment, you'll soon gain experience with the threeheaded dog and hopefully let it loose on your MOSS portal. We recommend you try it!


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POWER.XTi: twisted roll blocks for Naish, Gun and Severne Sails
Problem: Roller blocks that are twisted by 90° can only be used with many rope crossings, so trimming the rig with a normal POWER.XT / XTR is not recommended.
Remedy: The POWER.XTi can be used with twisted role blocks. The POWER.XTi axis can also be ordered separately and allows you to build a XTi out of a XT / XTR / XT RDM by exchanging only the axes.
The XTi axis is available at your local dealer or directly at NorthSails.
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The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum, housed in the historic Allan Herschell Company Factory building at 180 Thompson St., North Tonawanda, hosts its "Halloween Spooktacular" from 5:30m to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 19.
This family-friendly event is appropriate for even the youngest ghosts and goblins. Children and their parents can enjoy Halloween games, crafts and treats within the safety and comfort of the museum. Join in for a fun-filled night of "frog bowling," "pin the nose on the pumpkin," "witch hat hula hoop toss" and more hilarious Halloween games. Children will enjoy making crafts such as paper pumpkins, tissue ghosts and scary spiders. The museum's talented wood carvers will be on hand to demonstrate carving techniques. The finished products, along with other great items for kids and adults, will be raffled off at the end of the evening. And Charlie and Checkers will present a special comedy magic show.
The cost for this frighteningly fun event is $8 for children ages 2 to 12 and $2 for adults (sorry, no coupons or passes accepted). Children must be accompanied by an adult. Admission includes all activities, refreshments, a treat bag for children, and a ride on the carrousel. For more information, call the museum at 716-693-1885.
For directions and further information about special events, programs or group tours, visit www.carrouselmuseum.org, call 716-693-1885 or email [email protected]. This program is made possible in part with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.


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As Congress and the White House prepare for a conference to work out disagreements on the proposed federal highway bill, a final resolution is poised to significantly help the Delta.
Chip Morgan, executive vice president of the Stoneville, Miss.-based Delta Council, said the council is "very pleased" with the bill, which could pump millions more dollars than anticipated into improving Mississippi roads, including the construction of a planned superhighway and creating new jobs.
"We think we are in a perfect position, we are exactly where we need to be," Morgan said.
The House and Senate have agreed on a $280-billion bill, one that is about $11 billion, or about 4 percent, higher than President Bush proposed.
Since 2003, when the last year of a six-year spending plan for roads expired, Congress has wrangled over how much money should be allocated in a new five-year bill.
While the president has threatened to veto the bill because it exceeds his outlined price limit, Morgan is optimistic that the bill will be approved in nearly its current form.
"We're doubtful that the conferees will back out of the commitments they have already made in the bill, and the White House, though it will definitely have a prominent role in the talks, wants this bill to get passed too," he said.
A specific portion of the bill, called the corridors and borders provision, would re-authorize four-year funds for construction of Interstate 69 through Mississippi and the Delta, which accounts for between $150 million and $200 million in subsidies. That amount would represent a substantial increase for Mississippi.
"The big issue is would we get more money in this bill, and that looks promising," Morgan said. "If we do, it will be tremendous."
The conference finish in June, but likely will wrap up in August.
Morgan said an unexpected revision of a part of the overall bill, if approved, could also be beneficial to the Magnolia State.
That provision calls for a change in the federal gas-tax formula — which funds the National Highway Trust Fund — used by Washington to reimburse states for road and bridge improvements. While drivers in all states pay a little more than 18 cents for every dollar toward the tax, some states get a larger share of reimbursement than other states.
In 1998, Mississippi's gas tax reimbursement was increased from about 84 percent to about 91 percent. The new proposal would increase the amount to about 95 percent.
Also, Morgan said, Delta Council representatives are watching for any available funding that would be earmarked toward improving Highway 6 between Clarksdale and Batesville. He said such development, though, is doubtful.
Morgan noted, however, that two members of the Mississippi congressional delegation, Sen. Trent Lott and Rep. Charles Pickering, are directly involved with the conference. "That means Mississippi will be well represented," he said.
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Neal Cohane, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Reed's, Inc., commented, "Geyser Beverage Co has been specializing in the distribution of premium, specialty soft drink brands in the greater San Francisco market for more than 30 years. Our partnership with Geyser will ensure consumers will not only be able to find our Reed's and Virgil's brands in the city of San Francisco, but our new Reed's Culture Club Kombucha will soon be found in many specialty stores and eateries throughout the Bay Area. Demand for Reed's and Virgil's Premium Craft soda continues to intensify, while our new kombucha launch gains distribution traction throughout the US."
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Geyser Beverage Co is a beverage distribution company that has been serving the greater San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years. Geyser has been involved in pioneering many products within their geographic territory, including Evian Water, Orangina, Nantucket Nectars and many more. Geyser has continued to grow and evolve as the industry has changed, always seeking products that are current, introducing something new to the industry, while continuing to deliver favorites to new and different channels of business.
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Reed's, Inc. makes the top-selling natural sodas in the natural foods industry sold in over 13,000 natural food markets and supermarkets nationwide. Its six award-winning non-alcoholic Ginger Brews are unique in the beverage industry, being brewed, not manufactured and using fresh ginger, spices and fruits in a brewing process that predates commercial soft drinks. The Company owns the top-selling root beer line in natural foods, the Virgil's Root Beer product line, and the top-selling cola line in natural foods, the China Cola product line. In 2012, the Company launched Reed's Culture Club Kombucha line of organic live beverages. Other product lines include: Reed's Ginger Candies and Reed's Ginger Ice Creams. In 2009, Reed's started producing private label natural beverages for select national chains. Reed's products are sold through specialty gourmet and natural food stores, mainstream supermarket chains, retail stores and restaurants nationwide, and in Canada, as well as through private label relationships with major supermarket chains.
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We have only seen a stereotype of NZ Pinot - that of chocolate covered cherries and Ocean Spray/cranberry sweet-tartness - that I really hate. So I was pretty much ready to forget about the whole region. But gladly we have some small, intrepid importers here than do try to get us something good. And on the basis of these two wines, I feel I must now say goodbye to my anti-NZ PN stance.
Cambridge Road "Animus" Pinot Noir 2011 - Martinborough
This is perfumed and sexy with bright aromas of Pinosity - it isn't the stereotype of chocolate covered cherries than so much of NZ PN is. Lovely structure, refreshing, no cranberry harshness, and the 14% abv is not noticeable. So, yes, it works for me (I already liked the Pinot of 2009 but Lance Redgwell has since tried to make wines in an even more elegant style). This is a very nice Pinot. It's not Burgundy (nor should it be since it's from the other side of the planet) but it has wonderfully expressive Pinosity and not at as much obvious oak as the 2009. So it is enjoyable and very good.
Pyramid Valley Cowley Family Vineyard Pinot Noir 2009 - Marlborough
To further smash my preconceptions of NZ PN to smithereens we opened this Pyramid Valley. There is no cranberry harshness that Kiwi Pinot often has, instead it is full of what can only be described as Pinosity of a sexy and earthy and ripe style. The 14,5% alcohol is slightly noticeable, but not so much that I'd worry about it. It's moreish. Great stuff. Apparently some new oak is used, but I didn't notice it.
I would gladly buy both wines again. (Which is something I don't think I've ever said about NZ PN before!)


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The exchange of gifts is a de rigueur part of every papal audience but Thursday's presentation had an unusually loud element to it. A metal support holding up the top of President Barack Obama's gift — a chest of seeds from the White House garden — twice crashed onto the marble floor of the pope's library as reporters and photographers rushed to get into position to record the moment for posterity.
At first some in the room thought the pope's gift to Obama, two bronze medallions, had fallen to the floor.
But even after it became clear that the culprit was the flimsy metal stilt, the Vatican's protocol monsignors glared at journalists and even Obama appeared cross at the interruption.
Eventually, aides gave up and let the top of the seed chest hang down without the support.
"These I think are carrots," Obama told the pope as he pulled out a blue velvet pouch from the seed chest.
The White House said the gift was inspired by Francis' decision to open to the public the gardens of Castel Gandolfo, the pope's summer residence in the hills south of Rome. The 55 hectares (135 acres) of gardens actually cover more ground than Vatican City and include gardens of herbs, roses, fountains and fish ponds.
Pope Benedict XVI spent the first two months of his retirement there, and popes for centuries have spent at least part of the hot summer months there. But Francis has decided not to use the retreat, preferring to work through the summer from his headquarters at the Vatican hotel.
The White House said that, in addition to the gift of seeds, it would donate even more seeds to a charity in Francis' honor that will yield "several tons of fresh produce."
"This gift honors the commitment of Your Holiness to sow the seeds of global peace for future generations," the White House said in its description of the gift.
Francis typically presents Vatican-themed bronze medallions to his visitors and Obama was no different, though he did get two rather than the usual one.
The smaller medallion depicts an angel bringing together the northern and southern hemispheres — appropriate for a gift from a South American pope to a North American president.
The larger medallion depicts the original project that Bernini had for St. Peter's Square, which involved a never-built third colonnade to enclose the piazza.
But the gift that most drew Obama's attention was the red-bound copy of the pope's apostolic exhortation, "The Joy of the Gospel," Francis' mission statement for his papacy in which he denounced the global economic system that excludes the poor.
"You know, I actually will probably read this when I'm in the Oval Office, when I am deeply frustrated, and I am sure it will give me strength and will calm me down," Obama said.
Some conservatives in the U.S. have pointed to the document as evidence that Francis is a "Marxist" — a description Francis rejects while saying, somewhat in jest, that he has many friends who are Marxists.
To Obama, a stadium, even an ancient one, means modern-day sports.
The rain in Rome had stopped long enough for him to visit the Colosseum, an ancient ruin and major tourist attraction in the Italian capital. And during a tour that lasted about half an hour, Obama was asked whether he could imagine it in its day. He said he could.
"This is bigger than some current baseball stadiums," Obama said, who is a fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team. "I have to check on what it seats. It's remarkable. Unbelievable."
Obama, who had removed his neck tie, unbuttoned his shirt collar and donned an overcoat to ward off the chill, was surrounded on all sides by the towering red brick and stone seating areas where thousands of people would have crammed into the stadium for hand-to-hand combats between gladiators.
AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace in Rome contributed to this report.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Andre Previn's opera version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" finally made it to New York — 15 years after its world premiere.
It is interesting. It has moments. But it is far from compelling.
Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, with a libretto by Philip Littell, returned for Thursday night's semistaged concert performance at Carnegie Hall with Renee Fleming, who sang Blanche Dubois at the San Francisco Opera's world premiere production.
This "Streetcar" meanders along for much of the first two acts, more words with background music than music that drives the drama. Only in the final half-hour of the third act does the opera really take off.
Previn's score for his first opera is most successful during its jazzier moments, when horns and the clarinet take prominence and give the boozy, detached feel of Blanche. The music conveys her struggle to both integrate and differentiate her alternate reality from the world around her in the New Orleans home of her sister and brother-in-law. There are echoes of Britten and a short segment meant to remind the audience of the presentation of the rose in Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier."
The arias seem to be plopped in rather than flowing extensions of the drama. Stella's first-act "I can hardly stand it" is the most natural, an explanation of what attracts her to her husband. Mitch's "I'm not a boy" in the second act and Blanche's "I want magic!" and "I can smell the sea air" in the third are fine musical showpieces but come off as Shakespearean soliloquies that are inert segments failing to flow from what precedes and stream into what follows.
Blanche is a natural for the 54-year-old Fleming, soaring vocal lines fitting her lyric soprano. Coming back to the role years later, Fleming inhabits the role with a deeper understanding of Blanche than she did in the original run.
Anthony Dean Griffey also returned, displaying a sweet tenor and Mitch's awkwardness and yearning.
Teddy Tahu Rhodes was a menacing Stanley Kowalski, his bald head and tattoo on his left arm in stark contrast to Fleming in Johann Stegmeir's glamorous dresses. Bare-chested or in a tank top for much of the evening, Rhodes walked with a hulking bluntness, and his baritone seethed with contempt.
Soprano Susanna Phillips sang Stella Kowalski, struggling and savoring her surroundings. Mezzo Victoria Livengood (Eunice Hubbell), tenor Dominic Armstrong (Steve Hubbell) and tenor Andrew Bidlack (A Young Collector) were part of an appealing supporting cast.
Patrick Summers conducted the Orchestra of St. Luke's with verve and feeling for the bluesy action and the chilling moments. The orchestra was at the back of the stage, with the action toward the front. A bed, chairs and tables, and Blanche's trunk were the primary props, and Brad Dalton directed almost as if this had been a fully staged performance. Alan Adelman designed the striking, moody lighting.
Watching from a first-tier box, the 83-year-old composer was given a big ovation during the curtain calls. Despite the work's flaws, it is entertaining.
There are four performances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from March 26 to April 6, with the same primary singers and Evan Rogister conducting.


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I love all fruits madly, but if I had to select my last supper menu, the mango sits darn near top of the list. However, my love comes with a caveat: it's a long-distance relationship. Unlike my darling brambles and cherries, which flourish in most of the country's foodsheds, the mango is a denizen of the tropics. Within the 50 states, mango country is limited to south Florida, Hawaii and to a lesser extent, southern California.
My kid brother Tim is among the lucky few with a backyard mango supply. In a recent phone call from Key West, he made his sister crazy with envy, singing the praises of his newly harvested Nam Doc Mai, a variety from Thailand.
The thing about a mango (and I think Tim would agree) is that it's more than a fruit; it's an experience.
Exhibit A:
It was a summer night a dozen or so years ago in Barbados. My old codger friend Gordon was fixing rum cocktails, then he made formal introductions.
"This is Julie," he said, presenting me with a hunk of fruit in a glorious shade of hot pink tinged with orange. "She is the sweetest mango there is," he said. "Go on, taste her."
I placed the slice of fruit between my lips and grabbed at the fluorescent flesh with my teeth, coaxing away the leathery skin. I let the fruit sit on my tongue and closed my eyes, swishing the fruit around the interior of my mouth, as if I were tasting wine.
Seated next to me at the kitchen table, the old man alternately sliced the fruit with his penknife and shared the mango loot. Honeyed nectar stained our cheeks and clothes. Slurps replaced words. Time stood still, and nothing else mattered.
Exhibit B:
Indian cooking doyenne Madhur Jaffrey details her childhood in India in the 1930s and 40s in her 2006 memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees. In the following scene, excerpted from the prologue, the mango is part of the furniture, on many levels:
"My grandfather had built his house in what was a thriving orchard of jujubes, mulberries, tamarinds and mangoes. His numerous grandchildren, like hungry flocks of birds, attacked the mangoes while they were still green and sour. As grown-ups snored through the hot afternoon in rooms cooled with wetted, sweet-smelling vetiver curtains, the unsupervised children were on every branch of every mango tree, armed with a ground mixture of salt, pepper, red chilies and roasted cumin. The older children, on the higher branches, peeled and sliced the mangoes with penknives and passed the slices down to the smaller fry on the lower branches. We would dip the slices into our spice mixture and eat, our tingling mouths telling us that we had ceased to be babies."
If that doesn't inspire passion for a taste of mango, nothing will...
Brief History
Cultivated and revered in India since at least 2,000 BC, the mango's exact point of origin is likely to encompass Bangladesh and Burma to the east, according to many historians.
For millennia, the mango has been a vital cultural and religious symbol in India. Traveling Buddhist monks - the likely mango Johnny Appleseeds throughout eastern Asia - noted that the Buddha (who taught primarily in northeastern India) was gifted a mango grove in 500 BC as a place for meditation.
The mango tree worked its way into the friezes of a Buddhist stupa (a holy site) built in Bharhut, India in 100 BC.
The mango is a symbol of love in Vedic mythology. Surya Bai, the daughter of the sun, became a golden lotus so she could escape an evil sorceress. The King fell in love with the lotus, so the sorceress burnt the flower into ashes. The ashes transformed into a mango tree, from which Surya appears, and as the story goes, the two lived happily ever after.
The Portuguese (from their outpost in Goa, on India's west coast ) brought the mango to Africa in the 16th century, and then on to Brazil in the 18th century, around the same time it arrived in Barbados, Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies. It would be another hundred years - probably late 1800s - before the mango would debut in Florida, Hawaii and southern California.
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- Officially recognized as the national fruit of both India and Pakistan, the mango is known as the "king of fruit" in both countries.
- In 2010, Bangladesh officially recognized the mango tree as the national tree.
- Although not officially recognized in the Philippines, the mango is a beloved icon there.
- In 2006, the George W. Bush administration lifted a 17-year-long import ban on Indian mangoes. The first shipment, which included the famed Alphonso variety, made its debut in the spring of 2007.
- In 2010, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to pave the way for imports of Pakistani mangos. The ban was lifted, but the costs of shipping and irradiating (required by law), made mangos from south Asia prohibitively expensive, dashing many mango dreams.
- Coral Gables, Florida is home to an International Mango Festival, now in its 21st year. Located at the world renowned Fairchild Tropical Gardens (where more than 500 varieties of mango are grown), this year's festival (July 13-14 ) celebrates the mangos of Mexico.
Botanically, we're talking about Mangifera indica, a member of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), which interestingly makes it related to the pistachio as well as the highly irritant backyard plants better known as poison ivy and poison sumac.
There are hundreds of cultivars thriving in only the warmest spots around the world, from Barbados to Brazil, Haiti to Hawaii. The top three mango producing countries are India, China and Thailand.
The bulk of US mango imports come from Mexico, the balance coming from Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Guatemala and Haiti. (See Environmental Impact section below about Fair Trade mangos from Haiti.)
The mango is a fruit of summer, regardless where it grows. In India, mango season is officially recognized as 100 days long, from late March through June.
When International Mango Festival goers gather in south Florida next month, the local mango season will be in full swing; typically it runs from late May or early June until September.
Environmental Impact
Conventional mangos rank #44 on the Environmental Working Group's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, a relatively low pesticide load that earned a spot on the "Clean Fifteen" list.
But as mentioned earlier, the commercial mango in American supermarkets is an import item, so it comes with a heavier carbon footprint associated with shipping. It's also subject to USDA regulations requiring pest control, either through a hot water treatment or radiation. The FDA requires all irradiated mangos to be labeled, something to watch for in the produce section.
Since 2010, Whole Foods Market, along with NGO partners Fair Trade USA and Technoserve, has offered certified Fair Trade mangos from Haiti. According to a press release, "Whole Foods Market is the sole buyer of Fair Trade Certified mangos and purchases the fruit from small Haitian growers, sometimes buying from a family with just one tree." WFM spokesperson Liz Burkhart told me that stores still have supplies of the Francique mango, which season is running later than usual (typically it lasts from May to early June). The stores are selling a mix of both organic and conventional mangos, says Burkhart.
Like the plum, cherry and olive, the mango is a drupe - a fleshy fruit with a thin skin and a pit (which contains the seed). Ranging in size from four ounces to two pounds, the mango also varies in shape, from big and bulbous to slender and kidney-esque. They come in various shades of red, orange, yellow and green, and color is no indicator of ripeness.
What to look for
You want the skin to be leathery smooth (like a purse) not leathery wrinkled (like someone who's spent too much time in the sun). Black spots are okay, likely the result of sap leaking from the stem, but do make sure there's nothing squishy or moldy. I've also noticed that as mangos age, the skin begins to recede. Take a pass on a mango that smells sour rather than sweet (mangos do ferment as they age).
A ripe and ready-to-eat mango will yield to thumb pressure, and it should smell fragrant.
If you're looking for a source of vitamin A and its antioxidant companion betacarotene, you're in the right place. The mango is also rich in vitamin C and a respectable source of fiber as well as potassium - in fact, it actually beats the banana in the potassium contest.
The mango has been an important remedy in ayurvedic and other traditional schools of medicine. The bark, gum, leaves, pit and flower have been used for thousands of years to treat sundry ailments, from diarhhea to rheumatism, asthma to scabies. A paper published in 2010 in the Pharmacognosy Review highlights various studies on the potential antioxidative effects of the fruit, the potential for treating diabetes with the leaves and bark and showing great promise as a "phytomedicine." The authors recommend that "more clinical trials be conducted to support its therapeutic use."
I predict more news to emerge on the magic of mangiferin, a compound found in the mango with potential antiviral antimicrobial and gastro-protective benefits.
A note of caution: Keep in mind that the mango is related to poison ivy and poison sumac, and that the fruit, particularly with skin attached, may cause contact dermatitis, or worse. The skin of the fruit contains urushiol, a compound that can cause a rash, swelling of the lips or anaphylaxis. Seek medical attention if you experience a reaction after eating mango.
What to Do with It
If you've never had the pleasure, start by eating a mango as is, standing over the sink, or in the bathtub. But first thing's first: Learning how to properly cut a mango is essential to maximizing mango euphoria.
Do not refrigerate. Keep at room temperature. If you only want to eat half a mango, cut and score the remaining half, remove from the skin and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator, where it will keep for a few days.
You can also purée scored mango, then freeze for later.
Cooking tips
Speaking of mango purée, this is one of the easiest ways to get your mango on. Blend with a banana, berries, plain yogurt and fresh mint (or any combination of these) to make a killer smoothie or lassi.
I've shared a loose-leaf template for a mango salsa that can be used infinite ways - atop rice or your favorite grain, alongside grilled fish, shrimp or chicken, on a chip-and-dip platter or on a bed of greens.
Mango Salsa
1 ripe mango, cut and scored into dice (see video how-to above)
Place diced mango into a medium mixing bowl, then add any or all of the following:
1 small red onion, peeled and diced
½ red bell pepper, seeded and diced
1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced
½ jalapeno chile pepper, seeded and diced, or your favorite ground chile pepper
¼ to ½ cup cilantro leaves, washed and roughly chopped
Juice of ½ lime
Unsalted roasted peanuts
Stir to mix well, and taste for salt, acid and heat, and adjust accordingly. Best eaten day of serving.
This post was originally published in June 2013.


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- Individualized, workshop, and computer-aided instruction offered to all enrolled at Eastern Illinois University who wish to improve their language/grammar, reading and study skills
- GST 1000- Reading and Study Skills Improvement; courses offered every fall and spring semester. The grade earned contributes toward a cumulative grade point average; no credit counts towards graduation.
- Partnership with the Gateway Program at EIU. Through this partnership, the Reading Center provides facilities for monitored study hours for students wishing to complete their study hours in a quiet, distraction-free environment with resources and staff available for help.
- Home to the Diagnostic and Remedial reading program organized to provide individualized programs for children in grades 2-7 who may not be achieving up to their full potential in reading. Clinicians who are graduate students in the Masters' Program assess reading skill, implement needed instruction, and provide parents with a detailed report. This service is offered through the Clinical Reading Practicum, and is held on Thursday evenings in the Reading Center.
- Students within the College of Education and Professional Studies are encouraged to take advantage of the resources available in the Reading Center when preparing for the Basic Skills/TAP.


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Square Enix announced that they would be making an announcement about Final Fantasy at E3, but what if they aren't announcing Final Fantasy Versus XIII like so many believe? GP writer Jared discusses a few other games that Square Enix might be alluding to.
Then they aren't announcing it. But come on they're probably going to announce it.
who the hell cares?? the game looked great and promising 7 YEARS AGO but now it's good as dead!
I gotta be honest, this game sure looks promising but the latest Final Fantasy titles are a letdown. Should I be excited for this game when FFXIII trailer reveal looked so good and it ended up to be something else entirely diferent from the game itself. Versus might just be a new disapointment again. Also, all the "great" game announced that were continuosly delayed ended up being crap.
BTW, they will announce FFVersus for the GoogleStation in 2076. -_-
Is this still even an exclusive to the PS?
I dont know the entire story behind versus but is Sony publishing or is funding Versus.
Gran Turismo 5 didnt end up crap ;)
While nothing official, is has been rumored that Sony started helping with it's development, but it's just a rumor. Nothing has been stated on whether or not it's still an exclusive.
If the game does get transferred over to next generation, the chances of it becoming multi-platform go up some if Sony isn't helping, since the ps4/720 aren't radically different to develop for like the ps3/360 and releasing on both wouldn't be a big problem for SE in terms of cost.
Obviously, till we hear otherwise, however, the game is Sony exclusive, whether it be ps3 or ps4. We'll just have to wait a another couple months. Probably, although they could wait for TGS. Main reason to show it at E3 is if it's coming out for next-gen. It would be a massive game to show off for each consoles official showings.
Seeing three games of the same sequel FFXIII, they should change this game name's to FF Versus 39 not 13.
I dunno dude ...
Creating weapons out of thin air, teleporting and killing armored soldiers while looking bored is a game I'd REALLLY wanna play.
Square Enix isn't going to show FFv13 at E3 this year? I am shocked!
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I'm sure the FFv13 we all saw those years ago is scrapped. SquareEnix will announce FF15 and it will be primarily designed for PS4 (Hence why they scrapped v13), Sony wanted a good launch exclusive for the new console, asked SE, they said OK, scrapped the progress they had done and started from scratch. And there you got the explanation of why this game has been so long in development. Now this is what I think, but I believe it would be kinda plausible.
Yeah, they won't be announcing it at E3 but who cares. They obviously don't care about it.
Maybe the reason we haven't heard any announcement is because FF13 was a dud for Square Enix. I'm sure they have other FF games in the pipeline, but not versus 13.
FF13 was a dud for Square?? That is so wrong. Yea it was disappointing to many people, though I personally loved it. But from a sales standpoint, it was a huge seller, and it also received pretty good reviews. So from a Square point of view, it was a big success, from gamers, that is purely opinion.
Whether or not it was considered a failure by players or SE, there is a good chance the announcements just stopped because the game shifted focus to next generation. I would not be surprised in the least if the game is announced as FFXV for the ps4, and they have been working on it as such for the past couple of years.
If FFVersus is now FFXV then it's going multiplat. Of that I can be almost 100% certain.
Just a wild guess, but I think there's a chance Microsoft have stolen this to be an exclusive for their new console.
Let's face it, there's been no specific news about this game for months.
Also, what's the easiest way for MS to steal some thunder from SONY? That's right, drop massive cash to steal an exclusive that EVERYBODY thought was going to be on a SONY platform.
At the same time, they can grab the attention of Japanese gamers too as, hey, this is a highly anticipated Final Fantasy.
Just a wild guess. I'm probably wrong, but if I was MS and had the cash...
I don't know. I doubt it'll be shown at E3, not when SE has FFXHD, Lightning Returns, KHHD, and FFXIV to show off. Plus the next gen FF too.
I thing TGS is where Versus will be but hopefully SE proves me wrong.
More like vice versa FFVSXIII at E3 and the others at TGS.
The thing is Versus is probably the next gen FF. At least that's what the rumors and hints point towards.
Yeah, considering what Wada said a while back (Yeah, I know... It's Wada, but still...) He mentioned that he'd seen a new build of the game that would blow us away. Guessing that's why they haven't shown anything on it recently, because of a next-gen leap or something. Could be wrong, but it seems that way. Now that the PS4 has been confirmed, they can show it off at E3 is what I'm guessing.
I doubt that anyone is really expecting anything of real substance from them this E3.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII renamed XV and PS4 exclusive revealed at E3 with release date of sometime in 2014
calling it now
i hope so. if they dont announce it im done waiting.
But then, come 2014, they will make another Lightning game for the same year, which would mean this vs13 game will be pushed back to 2015.
If they don't say anything about Versus XIII at E3, everyone should boo them out of the stage. People need to do something like that, so that Square Enix finally understand that they are screwing with fans. They need to get publicly embarrassed so that they start getting their Sh1t together.
If Versus XIII does become Final Fantasy XV,then you can forget about it being a PS4 exclusive.
Actually, it's still gonna be an exclusive.
SONY is said to be co-Developing "Final Fantasy Versus XIII" aka FFXV is PS4 Exclusive and will be a major seller. Cause of the massive sales Square-Enix will make more Exclusives for PS4 since making games cost PC development and its easier to develop for.
FFXV will be announced as it was FF Versus XIII, and SCE is publishing the game.
Calling it NOW!!!!
why would i care
thier game, my money, if they want it they should, if not, well my money go for the other company which willing to offer thier game
after all i just fred up with all of SE promise
What if they do announce it? Who will actually believe in the game anymore? I think gamer's can only be teased and screwed over so many times.
they are also supposed to have another FF main game in development directed by the dude who did FFXII and it was rumoured to be "like Skyrim".
TBH i dont care, People have been waiting for this for 7 years now since it was mentioned back in 2006
Won't be surprised if the game ends up disappointing many fans due to the massive hype surrounding it.
they already announced it..... 6 years ago
its Vaporware
Thats what they used to say about Duke Nukem Forever.
I dont see how people can judge a whole game by a few screen shots and story teases, i see far to many people praising it before they have even played it.
Although i must admit noctus with his army of invisible butter scrappers and the behemoth being taken for a walk around the city looks cool but for me gameplay is a first and must be enjoyable no matter how good a story is, if the gameplays poo then i cant play it and then theres the setting the whole era/world needs to appeal to me and the story must coincide with it. Im sorry but i cant see why people are so psyched for it when hardly nothings been shown yet.
I'm excited because it's a darker Final Fantasy with Kingdom Hearts-style gameplay, switchable party members, open world, with a pilot-able airship, directed by Tetsuya Nomura, and has music by Yoko Shimomura.
That's just me though lol.
I know where your coming from but they are just small things to a bigger picture they are good additions to a modern day ff but my statement still stands the above needs to be met or i wont be happy.
Only time will tell i will await till the reveal and hopefully my faith will be restored because ive enjoyed every ff apart from 13.
I hope they don't.
That company is going down the toilet and the only way they can save it is if they swallow their pride and remake VII, VIII and IX.
Only through bringing rediscovering what made these three games so popular can Square hope to repeat or even exceed their success in a new title.
This idea they have that they must first beat the success of VII before they remake it is absurd, as they won't beat its success until they've reengaged with the title.
They must study the past if they wish to proceed into the future with strength.
Screw remakes of 7, 8 & 9. Those were great, but I've already played and beat them all. I'd rather square's next three big games not be something I've already played. I've played 8 so many times, I'd rather play whatever new 13 game they have coming out then retread that again
Yes, but they wouldn't look anything like they did back when they came out in the nineties.
Everything would be grander and better, the music would have superior production values and the characters would be deeper.
They might even change small elements or even extend the games to keep them fresh, though this would need to be done very carefully.
I'd love to play a new 13 game if it was good, but given what we've seen in recent years, the chances are it'll be another flop, and I'd rather play a glorious complete remake than the junk they're currently churning out.
Not only that, but if Square Enix are to survive, they're going to need to attract new youngsters to the franchise, and as FFVII-IX attracted many of us as children/teens (for me it was IX), I'm willing to bet remakes of those games would not only provide us with a dose of warm nostalgia, but also enrich the gaming experience of today's children, securing a future for the Final Fantasy series.
They're going to announce "Final Fantasy 13-4: Lighting Returns. Again."
No, it's "FF 13-4: Serah Returns from Mars" :P
It's the same thing every year. "Surely they'll announce something this E3, GDC, TGS, SONY EVENT, Shareholders Meeting, PTA, AA, or BBC."
It never happens and people just rinse and repeat every single year like a bad pop song on loop.
They will either re-reveal as as Versus XIII or announce as FF XV.
Nomura has recently said that he knows the date of the next reveal for Versus, so E3 seems an obvious place since they've had months to get their stuff together since they said they are waiting for the right time to show new info. Then we have Square Enix who said at the PS4 reveal event they will make an announcement at E3.
Then there's this rumour and these guys have been right before: http://bit.ly/15nmg6F
Yea. I hope it's for ps4 and stay exclusive too .. They will show it for sure this time. It's obvious and if people can't see it then it will be a surprise hehehehe
What if they don't show Versus at E3? Then this will happen:
"Please be excited for e3 in 2014.
Didn't the man at the Playstation 4's reveal event told us to, "Prease, prease be excited foh E-thu-ree."?
Nah, I won't hold my breath for E3. The last time I was excited for E3 was last year, but it wasn't for anything Square-Enix; I was excited for anything but Square-Enix.
Maybe SE will drop another bombshell in the form of FFvs13 no longer a Sony exclusive; I guess that's something to get excited about when you own the console it will become available to. Pffft...
hue. that would be rather interesting. everyone would be so ass-mad.
really hope that it will be revealed thou.
To all the people saying it won't be good after all this time of being in development I say, Tetsuya Nomura has NEVER released a bad game while he was creative producer/director. All the kingdom hearts games, ff7: crisis core, (while we haven't seen a US release) Type-0, all have received at least an 8 on metacritic. Tetsuya Nomura doesn't make bad games, period. He is seriously SE secret weapon if you ask me.
I can't help but suspect that the current FF team is incapable of making the type of game that old school FF fans are craving. The real talent left years ago, so I highly doubt that Versus will be anything more then another pretty but utterly boring piece of rubbish.
Right now would be a good time for Sony to dig Legend of Dragoon out of their vault and start working on a PS4 sequel.
Amen brother, I literary beg SONY for a new LoD game the past many years & although I haven't see light in the tunel yet I never stop hoping.
To be honest, I'm not expecting anything major from Square's jpn studios. Not saying they're not good at what they do, but So far they're giving us an HD port and another sequel to a game that DOES NOT NEED A SEQUEL (FF13-3)! They screwed up FF13...why are they releasing sequels to try to "fix" what they messed up on? Why not...Idk...RELEASE FF13VS instead of revisiting FF13 again?
Then there are games like FFZero that should've been released over here as a psp or ps3 game (hd port). I want to love FF again, so they will need to announce and show that their game is GOING TO BE RELEASED SOON. I bought a ps3 for KH3 and FF13vs (MGS4 and the ability to play jpn games being the other system seller game for me)! 2 games that have yet to be made/completed/RELEASED!
Thankfully, JRPGs like Valkyria Chronicles, Ni no Kuni, and Xenoblade filled that Jrpg void pretty well. FF13-2 was good and was better than 13...but it doesn't hold a candle to the ones I named.
They won't announce it at E3 because they've already announced it. All they have to do is say when it's releasing.
Does anyone even care about FF vs 13 anymore? It baffles me how people are still excited about this and The Last Guardian when they seem to be going the way of DNF.
All i'm saying is wait and see like other people have said Tetsuya Nomura knows the date of the next reveal for Versus 13. i believe it will be E3. To all the none believers if it dose happen i'm just gonna be laughing.
If FFVS13 is not announced I'll have at least get to enjoy on great Final Fantasy on my PS3 and that is FFX.
it looks cool and all but if it doesn't happen then whatever
i'm not looking too much forward into it
instead i'd just want the next FF game
and this time without the sucking part
As awesome as versus XIII looked I wouldn't mind too much as long as the new FF they show looks good. E3's not the last hope for it though, TGS is still a fairly big
square enix has proved themselves as an incompetent company as of late. They have this game AND Kingdom Hearts 3...both of which would absolutely energize their fanbase...but they're so ridiculously stupid they cant figure out a way to make this happen and they start laying off people
Wada is gone got a new boss i would think this game might see some more light now i had thoughts Wada didn't know what to do at times


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