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Inside UNGA: Sudan and DarfurTim Shortley, U.S. Senior Representative for Sudan
Washington, DC
September 25, 2008
About the Author: Tim Shortley is the new Senior Representative for Sudan at the U.S. Department of State.
I am in New York this week to attend the United National General Assembly's General Debate and to work on peace and security issues affecting Sudan, and I wanted to write a quick note. I and others who work on Sudan have been having a busy week so far. Sudan is one of the top African issues being discussed this week, given the increased insecurity we have seen over the past few weeks in Darfur and the calls for a ceasefire and political dialogue. We support the efforts of the new Joint Mediator for Darfur, Djibril Bassolé, and his newly-appointed Deputy, Azouz Ennifar, and look forward to discussing how we can assist him to bring a credible process for peace in Darfur.
We are also keen to hear what the Sudan Sanctions Committee's Panel of Experts will brief about the current status of arms in Darfur. The Panel of Experts report is expected to be passed to Security Council members by the end of September. I have also been meeting with U.N. Department of Peacekeeping officials to discuss possible U.S. assistance to increase the number of peacekeepers to be deployed to Darfur in support of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). We would like to increase the number of peacekeepers in Darfur by 4,000 troops before the end of the year. Countries such as Ethiopia, Egypt, Rwanda and Thailand are ready to come to Darfur to play an important role in stabilizing the region. Significant time is also being spent discussing the question of the ICC indictment against Sudanese President Bashir and ways that the facts on the ground can be changed in the next four months. I will provide an update when I return from New York.
Susan in Florida writes:
@ John in Greece --
You made me smile. Your "ironic styled" comments to SNP made a good point. It would be ideal if each nation were responsible for itself. After centuries of wars and death, you would think that mankind would understand that "no man is an island" and what we do to one, will affect all. The world has grown smaller and we need to understand that we are definitely in this together.
Posted on Fri Sep 26, 2008
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Darfur is the size of France, 4000 blue helmets won't do the job.
Now you can make them more effective if their level of force protection includes on demand air support, recon , hundreds of armed UAV's and rules of engagement that befit the situation so they can act with extreme prejudice upon all who would bear arms against innocents.
But I believe it is time for a coalition of the willing to. Diplomacy is utterly exhausted and the UN "hopes" it can get a totally insufficiant number of peacekeepers in place by the end of the year. If folks really got serious Darfur would be a UN protectorate by the end of the year and the guilty would be before the bar in the Hauge.
Start with 250,000 troops, if you want a permanent solution.
There are other folks besides the US that can put boots on the ground while we supply logistics and air cover.
But if nobody's willing, what's everyone complaining about?
You get what you're willing to put up with.
Posted on Fri Sep 26, 2008
Anna in Washington, DC writes:
Thank you for this update, and I look forward to hearing more about your experiences working on the Sudan crisis. I'd be interested in knowing what are the next steps that the American people can take in helping to resolve this situation. Many student groups, churches, synagogues, NGOs, celebrities and others have worked to raise awareness of the situation in Darfur. Many have taken action to press companies to divest from Sudan. Can the public take any other steps to help change the situation? What about helping to meet any assistance needs?
I know you don't have an easy task ahead of you, but congratulate you on the new assignment, thank you for taking it on, and wish you good luck.
Posted on Thu Sep 25, 2008
Joe in Tennessee writes:
QUOTE: We would like to increase the number of peacekeepers in Darfur by 4,000 troops before the end of the year. END QUOTE
Like Stalone said: If you aint bringing guns, you aint changing nothing.
Shame that is the mentality that has to be dealt with.
Posted on Thu Sep 25, 2008
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Tim, with all due respect for your position and efforts made by the US and other nations within the UN; I can only suggest the "experts" be fired immediately, due to lack of results on the ground.
Time I think to get on with "responsibility to protect" in a concete and kinetic way that sends an unequivocable message for any wannabe genocidal militia or government in the future.
"You don't get to do that."
Posted on Thu Sep 25, 2008
John in Greece writes:
SNP statement:
"SNP will change all these, when it comes to power.
SNP has solutions for Sudan too.
SNP has solutions for the whole Africa continent and the Alaska bears.
But, SNP needs some money to do that. Otherwise, No More help in saving the world." END OF IRONY
(Susan in Florida, pls allow me this "irony style", only once more. I can't help it. What can I do? SNP has always the solutions for the whole Globe?, but not Syria!)
Posted on Thu Sep 25, 2008
Sasha in California writes:
@ SNP in Syria....What?
Posted on Thu Sep 25, 2008
SNP in Syria writes:
It all brings to mind Stargate, Enki and his ADAMU the ABZU. When this scam will be over. When this Dark City will have some lights and a real life Kurt Russel will show us who is really behind the masks.
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Today, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to the company's popular MSN Hotmail Web-based email service. Hotmail has been around since 1996 and now has more than 280 million active users, making it one of the most popular Web services ever created. Microsoft said Live Hotmail has the technical underpinnings to take the email service into the next decade.
"Windows Live Hotmail represents an extremely compelling end-to-end email experience that makes it easy for customers to get best-of-breed email access across PCs, mobile devices, and the Web," said Microsoft Senior Vice President Steve Berkowitz. "Windows Live Hotmail is a cornerstone online service for Microsoft and a critical part of our online advertising business because email is a key point of influence for consumer purchases."
Live Hotmail includes a new look and feel, a host of new security- and productivity-related enhancements, and some new features that will make the email service more interesting to users. For example, Microsoft is providing all Live Hotmail customers with a free version of the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector software, which lets customers use Live Hotmail natively in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007; previously, customers had to have a paid Hotmail or MSN account to use Outlook Connector. Soon, Microsoft will ship Windows Live Mail, its new, free, Hotmail-compatible, consumer-oriented email application for customers without Outlook. In addition, customers can now access Live Hotmail on their Windows Mobile devices via the new Windows Live Mobile client.
Microsoft also bolstered some key Hotmail services in the latest version. Email storage has been boosted from 1GB in MSN Hotmail to at least 2GB in Live Hotmail, and the company said it will continue to raise the storage limit as requested by customers. A new premium version of Live Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail Plus, provides 4GB of storage and boosts the email attachment size from 10MB to 20MB. Live Hotmail Plus users can also utilize POP3 aggregation functionality to access other email accounts from within the Live Hotmail interface.
Microsoft said that it will roll out Live Hotmail to customers throughout the week. Existing Hotmail customers can choose to move over to Live Hotmail now or will be automatically moved over by the end of 2007. All new users will receive Live Hotmail, Microsoft said.
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We are thrilled to announce that Rackspace has acquired SharePoint911.
SharePoint911 is a recognized thought-leader and authority in the SharePoint community and brings a technical powerhouse of SharePoint expertise ranging from architecture design, custom development, successful deployments and user adoption to Rackspace. Its team of 16 industry experts, including six Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals), is well-known and respected throughout the SharePoint community and sought out for training and global speaking engagements. Collectively, the team has authored more than 10 SharePoint books such as Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration and Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design as well as nine SharePoint training courses.
Today, Rackspace is one of the largest providers of dedicated SharePoint. Over the coming months, we will integrate the SharePoint911 consulting services into a comprehensive services portfolio to specifically address the needs of enterprise customers as SharePoint becomes more integrated as a business platform with enhanced capabilities.
This acquisition solidifies Rackspace's commitment to the enterprise customer by providing trusted services in addition to our full portfolio of offerings in the business collaboration market and one more step toward our mission to be the service leader in cloud computing.
Sharepoint911 Web site: http://sharepoint911.com
Rackspace Press Release: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/newsarticles/rackspace-acquires-sharepoint911-to-provide-industry-leading-sharepoint-expertise
Rackspace SharePoint Page: http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/services/sharepoint/
Rackspace/SharePoint911 Acquisition – Frequently Asked Questions
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- We ate burgers and pie in Kensington Market.
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Can't get past the cost of doing high-speed remote replication? Latency problems driving you nuts? New TCIP/IP accelerators for IP storage promise some relief.
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|Network accelerators
Source: Marc Staimer, founder, Dragon Slayer Consulting
TCP/IP wasn't designed to transport large volumes of stored data. The pervasive WAN protocol has no problem with small amounts of data that can be sliced and diced into tiny packets.
However, "TCP/IP doesn't handle congestion well. It does a lot of checking back and forth and resending, which just slows things way down," says Marc Staimer, founder, Dragon Slayer Consulting, Beaverton, OR.
As a result, when an organization tries to replicate large amounts of data between sites over, say, a T1 link (1.5 Mb/s) using TCP/IP the performance can't match what it gets when backing up that same data over the LAN at night. And if the organization wants to do anything else with that T1 link, forget it--the link is nearly saturated.
Today storage managers can choose among a growing number of appliances that promise to speed up the movement of large volumes of data over TCP/IP links. These products, network accelerators of various types (see "Network accelerators") allow organizations to transmit more data faster and use less bandwidth, which saves money and boosts performance. Some of the new appliances--dubbed remote network-attached storage (NAS) accelerators or WAN file servers--even promise to eliminate the need to maintain file storage at remote sites, allowing centralized NAS storage to meet the storage needs of remote workers as if they were local.
Finisar Corp., a manufacturer of optical telecommunications tools, figured that it needed two--or even three--T1 links between its Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) NAS box at its Sunnyvale, CA, headquarters and a similar NetApp device at its facility in Malaysia to handle file replication and other data traffic between the sites. Faced with a communication investment running well into thousands of dollars a month, the company tested a network acceleration appliance from Peribit Networks, Santa Clara, CA. The company dropped a 100MB file on the NetApp box in CA, and using NetApp's SnapMirror function, fired it off to the NetApp filer in Malaysia.
"It took four minutes and 21 seconds to get it there compared to over nine minutes if we just used the T1," says Jon Hudson, Finisar's storage area network (SAN) architect. At that rate, the Peribit appliance, which compresses files, would give Finisar "a payback in weeks or a few months," he concludes.
A large Midwest shoe retailer faced a similar problem. "We were looking at having to buy a DS3 [45Mb/s] pipe to replicate data between our two data centers for disaster recovery," says the retailer's IT manager. The company maintains an AS/400 at each site and continuously replicates database transactions between them. In the event of a failure at either site, its hundreds of stores would be able to continue functioning and barely miss a beat.
Hoping to avoid the need for the costly pipe, the shoe retailer turned to NetCelera Networks, a company that provides a WAN acceleration appliance. The appliance terminates a TCP/IP connection and substitutes its own protocol to eliminate the TCP/IP overhead. In addition, it applies compression at Layer 5 of the ISO network stack. "We got 10:1 compression from NetCelera, which saved us from having to buy the DS3," says the manager.
NetCelera and Peribit are just two of a many vendors introducing products to boost the performance of TCP/IP for the transmission of large data sets over the WAN. Many of these products are basic network accelerators that compress traffic, effectively boosting performance of data transmission over the network or allowing the organization to use a smaller, less-costly communications link to achieve the same performance as before. Others don't use conventional compression at all. Instead, they transparently replace TCP/IP for the portion of the link between the primary and target site with an efficient proprietary protocol optimized for large data sets.
Even vendors just doing compression are achieving sizeable performance gains, typically 300%, says Peter Firstbrook, senior research analyst, at the Meta Group. Compression at the application level ordinarily slows down the server. The new products avoid this by moving the processing to an appliance. Other products look at the content of the data being transmitted and can achieve up to a tenfold performance gain with some content, he adds. For example, a product will look at a large data set, identify repeating patterns and assign a tiny token to represent a big chunk of data. The product then sends just the token--instead of the data--and reconstructs all of it on the other side from the token.
|How I-shared works
A Tacit appliance in the data center intercepts TCP/IP and translates it into its proprietary protocol that works faster over the WAN. The appliance at the remote site also caches data and only sends changed files back to the data center, further speeding up WAN transmissions.
WAN file servers
The most radical of the WAN accelerators probably shouldn't be thought of as network accelerators. "We call them WAN file servers," says Arun Taneja, principal at the Taneja Group. Staimer categorizes them as remote NAS accelerators These products focus on the transmission of stored files and enable NFS to operate efficiently at long distances over a TCP/IP connection by taking TCP/IP out of the picture. "They substitute a new protocol and take out TCP/IP's error checking and latency. The result is almost as if everything were local at the data center," Taneja says.
WAN file servers enable an organization to radically re-architect the way it does storage at remote sites. Typically, a branch office might have a file server and disk array or a NAS appliance. Periodically, files would be replicated between the main site and the remote location. Additionally, someone at the remote site would back up the local files to tape, a task that often isn't done.
With a WAN file server appliance in the remote office and another at the central site--such as I-shared from Tacit Networks, South Plainfield, NJ--the organization can eliminate storage at the remote site altogether (see "How I-shared works"). Users access files over the WAN and store their work at the central site as if they were using local NAS storage. The appliance terminates the TCP/IP connection just before it leaves the site and inserts its own communications protocol and file system. When it hits the location on the other end, the appliance restores the TCP/IP connection and the native file system, such as NFS or the common Internet file system (CIFS). The process is transparent to the applications and users on each end. To them, it looks like NAS going out over TCP/IP, but the performance rivals local NAS.
Tacit doesn't eliminate TCP/IP; its I-shared appliance simply ignores it. Tacit uses the TCP/IP link, but terminates/restores TCP at each end. In between, Tacit is able to avoid the problems that slow down conventional TCP/IP network accelerators through so-called difference recognition, which allows it to transmit only changes (deltas) after the initial transmission. In addition, read/write caching holds files locally while allowing users to write as well as read and it reads ahead to anticipate which file the user will want next. Data streaming avoids repeated request-and-wait cycles. Finally, like the conventional accelerators, it also does compression.
"Basically, you are bringing everything back to the central site," says Taneja. "You install a black box on each end. There are no files at the remote site [except in the cache]. You can do this because the protocol is just so much more efficient. And you don't have to worry about protecting remote files because you back everything up centrally."
Too exotic
Although the idea sounds good, "remote NAS is gaining little traction," says Dragon Slayer's Staimer. Most companies are reluctant to install what they think is exotic and proprietary. Instead, they do what Finisar does, install a standard NAS appliance and use a conventional approach to network acceleration to improve performance.
Exotic or not, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, TX, turned to Tacit to not only deliver data to remote locations, but also to run Windows applications over the WAN link as if they were local. It chose Tacit's product after experimenting with more conventional network accelerators from Peribit and Expand Networks.
Anadarko's problem is slow satellite links. "We get a realistic speed of 128Kb/s and a latency of 1.1 seconds," says Barry Fairbanks, Anadarko's network advisor. The company wanted a way to perform basic tasks such as copy a stored file, access e-mail and open a Word document at the distant oil-drilling platform. "Tacit had significant advantages when you wanted to open a non-local file or open any Windows file with our bootup," Fairbanks explains. Anadarko's bootup procedure involves considerable authentication and authorization checking with a central server. "Tacit lets all this happen fast," he says.
Anadarko uses Tacit and Expand products. "Tacit is best where you want to copy Windows files or you have to involve Active Directory," Fairbanks says. On the other hand, Tacit, which is optimized for file systems, does nothing for e-mail, which uses different protocols.
Rewards Network Inc., in Chicago, took another approach and opted for the Expand Networks solution to replicate data between data centers in New Jersey and Miami. The company, which runs a restaurant cash-back customer rewards program, uses a T1 link to replicate data in real time between an AS/400 in each data center. Before it implemented the Expand solution, replication was extremely slow and some transactions were lost.
"We considered upgrading the link, but that was very expensive," says Frank Del Campillo, Real Rewards' senior network architect. An upgraded communications link would cost the company an extra $5,000/month. The cost of two Expand appliances--one in each data center--ran about $20,000, the cost of just four months of higher bandwidth. Del Campillo says the company gained the equivalent of a tenfold increase in network capacity.
Generally, none of the appliances are terribly expensive; most start below $10,000, up to $45,000. An appliance needs to reside at each end of the connection, which means buying two appliances at a minimum, three to support two remote offices, etc.
Transparent operation
All the vendors have made their products transparent to the storage system, servers, applications and even the network. A few vendors include management utilities, "but these appliances don't need much management. Basically, you just drop them in," says Peter Sevcik, president, NetForecast, Charlottesville, VA.
The advent of SANs introduced storage professionals to local networking. With distributed files, long-distance file replication and disaster replication, the storage group now must overcome the challenges of time, distance and the cost of using a WAN protocol not intended for storage. New accelerators promise to change that.
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JERUSALEM, June 17 (UPI) -- U.S. singer Barbra Streisand picked up an honorary doctorate at Hebrew University Monday and used the podium to call for equality for Israeli women.
After expressing her gratitude for being honored with the degree and saying her late father would be proud, Streisand, 71, pressed for gender equality in Israel.
"It's distressing to read of women in Israel being forced to sit in the back of the bus, that Women of the Wall [is] having metal chairs thrown at them, and that women can't sing in public," she said.
"To remain silent about these things is tantamount to accepting them."
Streisand praised the university's efforts to promote harmony between Jewish and Arab students.
"Jews and Arabs sit together in classrooms, sit together in the cafeteria and learn from the same professors," she said. "I wish the world was more like the hallways of Hebrew University. ... [The university] is proof that people [from different backgrounds] can live in peace."
The Jewish Press reported Streisand recently made a large donation to Hebrew University for a building in memory of her father Emanuel, whom she praised as "a teacher, scholar and religious man who devoted himself to education."


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This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective dynamic management objects. You can find a list of all of the deprecated views in the introduction post.
The compatibility view sysfulltextcatalogs is used to describe full text catalog. For every catalog in the database there is one row returned from the compatibility view.
The catalog view sys.fulltext_catalogs replace sysfulltextcatalogs. Like the compatibility view, there is one row returned for every full text catalog from sys.fulltext_catalogs.
Status Column
The compatibility view contains a single status column. The status column contains only one know value; which is 0×1 to indicate if it is the default catalog.
Query Via sysfulltextcatalogs
With only the one value in the status column, queries against sysfulltextcatalogs are fairly simple. Using the query, provided in Listing 1, a query against the compatibility view contains the other three columns in the view without any formatting. The value in pathcolumn will be NULL if the path for the fulltext catalog is in the default location.
--Listing 1 – Query for sys.sysfulltextcatalogs SELECT ftcatid , name , path , CONVERT(INT,status & 0x1) / 1 AS is_default , status FROM sysfulltextcatalogs
Query via sys.fulltext_catalogs
In similar fashion, queries against sys.fulltext_catalogs are also fairly simple. As the query in Listing 2 demonstrates, the status column is replace is the is_default column. Beyond that, the other three columns from the compatibility view are fully represented with a single name change with the ftcatid column. In addition to the columns from the original compatibility view there are some new properties exposed in the catalog view. There are values to identify the accent sensitivity, file group, file, principal that owns the catalog, and import status for the fulltext catalog.
--Listing 2 – Query for sys.fulltext_catalogs SELECT fulltext_catalog_id AS ftcatid , name , path , is_default , is_accent_sensitivity_on , data_space_id , file_id , principal_id , is_importing FROM sys.fulltext_catalogs
In this post, the use of sysfulltextcatalogs over sys.fulltext_catalogs was reviewed. Making the change from the compatibility view to the catalog view is a fairly simple task with only a single column needing to be renamed. After reading all of this, do you see any reason to continue using sysfulltextcatalogs? Is there anything missing from this post that people continuing to use the compatibility view should know?
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By David Connelly, KF10 Peru/KF11 Colombia
Fundacion Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD), Kiva's first and only (for the moment) field partner in Colombia, is celebrating 50 years. To help them out, I've planned a short series of blog posts highlighting a few of the many projects and programs the Foundation has undertaken as it's spanned 5 decades, 3 cities, and somewhere in the neighborhood of $400,000,000,000 Colombian pesos* working to strengthen communities and alleviate poverty in Colombia.
This is a big deal down here. In fact, yesterday, July 13, outgoing Colombia president Alvaro Uribe released a 1700 word "thank you" letter to FMSD for its service to the nation that you can read here (in Spanish). His son was in attendance at a special presentation given a few weeks ago (pictured at bottom).
It's main office is housed in a modest building in downtown Barranquilla
with an even more modest entrance
As it's mission, FMSD has set itself to promote social and economic development by supporting educational activities, cultural programs, scientific research, technological development, income generation, employment, and just about anything else that will help improve Colombians' quality of life, especially in the poorest communities. That's paraphrased,** and it might seem a bit grandiose and overextended if the foundation didn't have such an illustrious history. Just take a look at the figures listed below and you'll see how seriously they've taken this pursuit. (It helps that they were founded by the man behind Avianca (one of the oldest airlines in the world) and continue to enjoy the billionaire family's support.)
Some figures***:
|25 years
|of operation for their microfinance program
|290 thousand
|microloans made
|133 thousand
|entrepreneurs received those loans
|580 billion
|pesos lent
|388 thousand
|training courses run for entrepreneurs (these usually run up to about 24 hours of class time for each course).
|400 billion
|spent on social programs and initiatives apart from microfinance lending
|4300 homes
|built through the sustainable community program
|60 thousand
| homes in the coastal area is the scope of this project
Here's a shot of one of those sustainable communities from a Colombian newspaper article in El Heraldo
Now, FMSD has done a lot of stuff over the years, but in my posts I'm going to try to stay on topic (mostly). I'm skipping over the research funding, university founding, and support for the arts to highlight two programs very intricately wound up with the work and life of micro-entrepreneurs (constructing communities and legalizing gray-market businesses). I'll also do a more in depth interview of an FMSD borrower and, with a little luck, profile a small primary school in the Rosario Islands whose pedagogy incorporates large blocks of time for interpretive dancing.
Closing out, here's a shot of loan officers mixed with borrowers at the celebration:
Interested in more? Here's FMSD's field partner profile.
You can find FMSD loans here.
*The current exchange rate is approximately 2000 COP : 1 USD, but that's varied wildly since 1960, when the rate was more in the neighborhood of 7 COP : 1 USD (see: the Colombian National Bank's breakdown)
** "Promover el bien común y propiciar el desarrollo social del país dando su apoyo a actividades y programas de carácter educativo y cultural, investigaciones científicas y tecnológicas, de salud, beneficencia, generación de ingresos y empleos y todas aquellas que contribuyen a mejorar la calidad de vida de la población, especialmente de las comunidades más pobres." http://www.fmsd.org.co/index.html at La Mision
***See http://www.lanotadigital.com/business/la-fundacion-mario-santo-domingo-celebra-50-anos-de-historia-19770.html


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Ubisoft wants to release major franchises more frequently
And so the b.s. begins.
We want to milk like COD.
"We like your money, and would like more of it. Sincerely yours ... Ubisoft."
Right...uh...that's what a business does. If a business doesn't make money, they don't exist.
Wish I could enjoy Assasins Creed, but the franchise is being milked to hell and just isnt as enticing as it used to be.
prepare for new AC game every 6 months.
Yea...no f*ck u Ubisoft
Hmmm sounds like something Capcom has said in the past Look where that got them
Even more frequently than Assassin's Creed? Lol R.I.P
Ubisoft wants more milk, until they kill the cow
don't they already? -_-
Ubisoft has proven that they have a very good production program. I'm a huge fan of Assassins Creed and I've enjoyed all the games I've played in the series barring the last one (that was Desmond's fault). As long as the games are good I'm all for it. Far Cry 3 was fuckin amazing, I'd gladly play more games in the series if this is where they're going. I'm going to stay away from this whole "milking is bad" bandwagon and just hope that these games turn out good. If you think about it there is nothing in their games that can't be milked (I got a gallon of 1% in my fridge that is just as good as the last gallon). Most game design is just recycled from other games with a new sticker on it. Publishers can't afford to loss money so they do what works and developers try to do the best they can with what they have. If milking get me good games and them money them I'm fine with it; I don't need everything I play to be genre defining or mind blowing, I would have played like 5 games this generation if that was the case.
"(that was Desmond's fault)" Really? I thought his sequences were actually kind of fun. Connor ruined AC3 for me. Such an awful, whiny character with an annoying personality.
Haha that's actually what I meant. Sorry, I was high.
Its ok to have games every year as long as there good .no use releasing game every year if there shit .it will quckly trun of fans .
You can't create a proper game from the ground up every year. Quality takes time, when you cut time you cut quality I'm afraid. That's why games like MGS, Half Life, TES is so great. They got so much time put into them that they're generally considered 'great', while games like COD can be 'good' and even 'great' for some, those annual games are never universally titled as great!
do wan't
Far Cry will now be in the Assassins Creed class.
I am starting to like ubisoft. I loves fc3 and watch dogs looks incredible. Rayman is an awsome series as well as hitman
Hitman was made by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix.. Just letting you know.
Im witness to this
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The singer and celebrity mom chats with us about balancing career and baby, how she and Ty Murray divide diaper duty, and the inspiration behind her children's book.
What was the best parenting advice that you've ever received?
Oh gosh, there are so many great pieces of advice. I think the best thing that I was told was to let go of being a perfectionist. That was hard. I'm a total type A, but I heard that the most miserable moms are the ones who are über-perfectionists. I had to learn to let go of trying to control everything and trust myself in the moment. That definitely made me a lot happier.
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "mom"?
It just makes me smile. It's a real privilege.
How do you balance motherhood and career?
I didn't really work for the first year and I'm now starting again. There are things that I'm just not willing to do and so work has to fit within those parameters. I don't want to be away from home for more than four days. I don't like to leave more than once a month, if I can help it. But if I can't, I try to bring the baby with me. I try to be present when I'm with him and not think about work.
What is the last thing that Kase did that made you laugh?
We were in the elevator when he was 15 months old and a guy said "hi" to him. Kase didn't say "hi," he just nodded his head as if he was going "what's up." It was very cool.
Now that Kase is a toddler, what is he like?
He's definitely more adventurous but he still likes to have me with him. He's pretty brave and silly and just very sweet.
You've spoken about your love of words and your hope that Kase will share that love. How have you been nurturing that in him?
I wrote book and published a book for him. It's called That's What I'd Do. I had written it while I was pregnant. I tried to think of metaphoric or poetic ways of letting him know how I much I love him. It was really fun to have it illustrated, dedicate it to him and read it with him in the morning.
Do you ever spontaneously write him poems?
I do. I write for him a lot and I make up songs for him – just silly things on the spot. I wrote a record called "Lullaby" while I was trying to get pregnant and then I wrote him a children's record called "The Merry Goes Round."
What other celeb moms' parenting styles do you admire?
I'm pretty good friends with Nia Vardalos and she's a great mom. Her baby's older than mine and it's been fun getting little tips on how she teaches him manners and things like that.
How do you and your husband, Ty Murray, split parenting duties?
We share quite a lot. I'm kind of in charge of the diet. He took time off of work to be home with the baby, so he changed the diapers and was up with me from midnight to 2 am during feedings. He's really been with me every step of the way.


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Cheryl Holdridge, the beautiful blond actress who first gained fame as a Mouseketeer on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, has died. She was 64.
Holdridge died Tuesday at her home in Santa Monica after a two-year battle with lung cancer, said Doreen Tracey, another former Mouseketeer.
Holdridge obit: The obituary of former Mouseketeer Cheryl Holdridge that appeared in Friday's California section did not mention that Holdridge is survived by her stepdaughter, Karen Michaels. It also incorrectly referred to "The Nutcracker" ballet as "The Nutcracker Suite." —
"What's amazing is that Cheryl and I have gone through so many things together, I'm glad I could have been there in the end too," Tracey said Thursday.
Holdridge was 11 years old in the spring of 1956 when she auditioned and was hired for "The Mickey Mouse Club," which had debuted on Oct. 3, 1955, with 24 talented youngsters who sang and danced and yet came across as the kids next door.
Holdridge joined the Mouseketeers in the second season of the show, which ran until 1959.
She quickly became part of the core group that appeared on the famous Mouseketeer roll call at the start of each show, along with Tracey, Annette Funicello, Tommy Cole, Cubby O'Brien, Sharon Baird, Bobby Burgess, Karen Pendleton, Lonnie Burr and Darlene Gillespie.
"She was a good technical dancer, but I think she was picked mostly because she had this angelic look and a great smile; she's known for her smile," Tracey said. With a laugh, she added: "We used to try to keep her quiet when she started singing because she sang off key."
The other reason Holdridge was included in the core group was that "her fan mail was quite high, and they need those ratings," Tracey said. "We were trying to win over the American public, which we did.
"Annette had the highest rating, but Cheryl came pretty close."
During her Mouseketeer days, Holdridge appeared in some of the show's episodic serials, including "Boys of the Western Sea" and the "Annette" series.
Unlike some of the other Mouseketeers, Holdridge didn't have trouble finding work in television as a young actress after hanging up her Mouse ears.
She went on to play Wally Cleaver's girlfriend, Julie Foster, for two seasons on "Leave It to Beaver." And she had guest roles on shows such as "The Rifleman," "Bachelor Father," "My Three Sons," "Bewitched" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
"Our reputations as Disney players opened doors," Holdridge told the Chicago Tribune in 2001 during a Mouseketeer autograph session at a Disney memorabilia show in Bloomingdale, Ill., that drew a crowd of more than 1,000.
"Directors knew we understood how to move on camera, how to hit our marks and say lines. Doreen and I went up for many of the same parts. We both did 'Ozzie and Harriet' and 'Bachelor Father.' "
Holdridge left the business in 1964 when she married Lance Reventlow, the son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, "because that's what you did then. You married and stayed home."
Reventlow died in a plane crash in 1972. In 1994, Holdridge married Manning Post, a prominent West Coast Democratic Party fundraiser and advisor, who died in 2000.
Holdridge was born Cheryl Lynn Phelps on June 20, 1944, in New Orleans and moved to Los Angeles when she was 2. Her mother, Julie Austin, was a former Ziegfeld Follies featured dancer and comedian and encouraged her to express herself through dance.
After her mother married Herbert Holdridge, a retired brigadier general, he adopted Cheryl in 1953.
At 9, she was selected by George Balanchine to perform for the New York City Ballet Company in a Los Angeles production of "The Nutcracker Suite." Her first screen appearance was a small role in the 1956 musical "Carousel."
Then came "The Mickey Mouse Club."
"She certainly was a very pretty blond and just had a very winning personality," said Lorraine Santoli, author of "The Official Mickey Mouse Club Book" and a former Disney publicist who worked with the Mouseketeers as adults in the 1980s and '90s.
As an adult, "Cheryl was the most joyous person, is the best way I can put it," she said. "She saw the positive side of everything."
Holdridge enjoyed joining other former Mouseketeers at shows and appearances at Disneyland, Santoli said.
"She got such joy out of it, she really did, and she was so proud of the fact that she was an original Mouseketeer."
Tommy Cole said Thursday that "Cheryl was one of the loves of my life, especially because we were like family."
"Being one of the prettiest girls on the set, I always considered her Miss Sunshine," he recalled. "She'd walk into the room and this ray of sunshine would happen every time she smiled."
Cole was among the former Mouseketeers who visited with Holdridge on Monday night. And, he said, when he heard that she had died two hours after he left her side, "a little bit of sunshine went out of my life."
Holdridge, who had no immediate surviving family members, supported various environmental causes as well as the Children's Burn Foundation in Sherman Oaks, Friendly House of Los Angeles and the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, where donations may be made in her name. A memorial service is pending.


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Wallabies looking to attack French
It won't be willy-nilly, but the Wallabies are pledging to bid au revoir to Les Bleus on Saturday with a far more vibrant attacking display after sealing the series with a lacklustre second-Test win.
The Wallabies' try-less 6-0 victory in Melbourne last Saturday left fans wanting more and skipper Michael Hooper is hoping his side can deliver a refreshing encore at Allianz Stadium.
"We want to be playing attacking rugby - three o'clock, sunny weather is perfect for us," Hooper said on Friday.
"Watching your backs run in tries, it's a really happy day for myself and the team.
"Going back to the first game, it was really nice, really positive to see seven tries being scored.
"To go to the next week and not see a single try scored, we've won two ways and we enjoyed winning the way we did in the first game.
"So we'll be looking to run it and looking to impose our game on the French again and that game is scoring tries."
With the series wrapped up, Hooper admits the pressure has eased but victory - and an historic 3-0 series clean sweep - remains the priority in the the Wallabies' final Test before their Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup opener against the All Blacks in August.
"There's definitely the opportunity to challenge ourselves and be really adventurous when we've got the ball in smart positions," he said.
"We don't want to be a team that's just going to throw it from everywhere because that's been proven that you get punished for mistakes in your own end.
"But we'll be looking to definitely try things."
Few teams have the ability to punish opposition quite like France and halfback Nic White says the Wallabies are expecting Les Bleus to be at their best on Saturday.
"They've got all the ingredients. When it all clicks together, they're a very dangerous side and that's the type of side we're preparing for this weekend, that's for sure," White said.
"They're as physical as the Africans and at times as skilful as the Kiwis so, when they're on, they've got all the ingredients to show why they're at the business end of a World Cup."
Hooper's breakdown battle with French captain and fellow openside flanker Thierry Dusautoir once again looms as key, while the Wallabies are expecting big things from behemoth lock Will Skelton in his much-hyped debut.
The 140kg powerhouse is the biggest player ever to squeeze into a gold jumper and one of eight NSW Waratahs in the starting line-up for a rare Test match at their Moore Park home base.
The Test precedes the Waratahs' Super Rugby clash with White's Brumbies next weekend in what shapes as a make-or-break Australian conference decider.
"This is important for guys moving forward with momentum into Super Rugby," White said.
"It's a pretty big week next week and, first and foremost, we want to win this weekend and then you want to go back to Super Rugby and continue that momentum there.
"Guys will want to put their best foot forward when it comes to selection for the big games, which is the Bledisloe.
"There's no hiding it. That's what we want to get back."
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It's the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners, and later sets off in a mini bus headed for a mining village in deepest Wales to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership. [Synopsis courtesy of Director's Fortnight]
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Letters to the Editor - April 29, 2013
- Written by Readers
I was very surprised when I read the April 8th Letters to the Editor. All us 5th graders were very upset to hear that someone thought we had been forced on our positions because of the very advanced vocabulary we had in our letters. My father even disagreed with my position! I hope you know that we are very active in our writing and take it as a compliment that you think we couldn't have written it. I'd like to thank you for voicing your opinion and telling us what you thought of our letters.
Sarah Hickey, 5th grader at Wellington
In response to Dennis Dearing's letter to the Editor published April 8, 2013:
To my students' credit, they came to their own conclusions without coercion by their parents or teacher.
Educators seek opportunities to connect their classroom lessons to their students' world so learning is authentic and personally applicable. In a unit about persuasive letter writing, what could be better than a chance for students to research a local topic that affects them and provides a real way for their young voices to be heard by their community?
The students took personal interest in the issue of the Wellington Hills County Park, near which many of them live. Over a period of several months, each student thoroughly researched the park's design features. They read articles written by those for and against the park. As a result of that work, they formed their own strong opinions.
By researching a topic thoroughly and using well-documented facts, logic, reasoning and powerful words to persuade others, they learned lessons that will serve them as they progress in their classroom education and beyond. They also gained the experience of allowing their individual voices to be heard in a public forum. These young community members boldly risked putting their voices out into a public (mostly adult) audience —many for the first time. Some of their parents disagreed with their child's opinion, but felt it worthwhile to give their child permission to publicly voice their own opinion. I hope these students will remember these lessons well.
They will also remember the unintentional lesson of being misunderstood and misrepresented. I'm encouraging my students to take what was not intended as a compliment and think of it as a tribute to their efforts. When children write so persuasively, using their own dynamic vocabulary and passionate voices, that they are perceived as having been coerced into their views, that is very high praise indeed. I hope they will continue to learn to use their voices, vocabulary and passion in ways that will shape their world and ours.
Well done, students, well done!
Karen Zehm, 5th grade teacher, Wellington Elementary
What's so wrong about a Value Village? Surely it's not the storefront; it looks like any other store in that strip mall. It's not ugly; it's better than an empty storefront and it's not even in the Woodinville downtown. It seems to come down to the store's offerings: low-price items.
Apparently, affordable stores and the people who shop at them just aren't part of our vision for Woodinville. Instead, our vision is about exclusion. It's clear that not all residents live in expensive houses, especially since 16.7 percent of district students qualify for free or reduced lunches. Still, we ignore the economic needs of low-income individuals. Still, we insist on making our city more expensive under the guise of "beautification." Why do we act like our rich residents are the only people who matter?
Taking issue with Value Village and concerning ourselves with "sprucing up our city" sends the message that low-income residents don't belong and, in fact, are making the city uglier.
If we really want to spruce up our city, I would start by adopting a more inclusive attitude. Until then, I will not be proud of Woodinville.
Celina Gunnarsson, Woodinville
... As many remember, the old Northshore School District administration center was located in the Ricketts building in downtown Bothell. The Ricketts facility was originally an elementary school constructed in 1948. As the district grew, this building no longer met our needs and was becoming increasingly expensive to maintain.
In 2002 the school board asked voters to approve a $12.5 million bond for a new administration facility. Once approved, the Board received reports on possible locations, vacant land and building design. Construction and land costs came in at $18 million, above what voters approved. Then the Monte Villa property became available: large facility, ample parking, centrally located. This 6-year-old property had originally been built for $17.5 million. The district was able to purchase it for $6.4 million, well below its original value and well below what voters had originally approved.
It is a beautiful building, which includes many "extras" we would not have approved on a new construction. This deal was definitely a win for our schools and community.
As co-chair of the 2014 levy/bond committee, I hope this purchase serves as an example of how our district and Boards are excellent stewards of our tax dollars.
B-Z Davis, co-chair Citizens for Northshore Schools
This month the Northshore Community Kitchen — a joint Northshore Council PTSA/Northshore YMCA program — will celebrate its first anniversary, made possible by generous and on-going support from several local businesses, community organizations, PTA units, individual donors, Northshore School District and a wonderful group of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. Over the summer, Farms for Life will be providing weekly deliveries of fresh produce, and we'll be harvesting the benefits of two YMCA-spearheaded mini gardening projects.
Since it began in April 2012, the Kitchen has prepared and distributed almost 3,000 once-a-week ready-to-eat meals to 37 families (141 people), and since October 2012 over 600 once-a-week sack snacks to 25-30 students attending the after-school Hang Time program at Kenmore Junior High. Since February, the Kitchen has also provided some of the items for the 595 sack snacks going to the 85 students who attend Hang Time at Northshore and Skyview junior highs.
In addition to the weekly meals, the families who've enrolled with the Kitchen have the opportunity to pick up a bi-weekly "extra" bag of non-perishable food items courtesy of the Y's participation in the Totes To Go program.
The Northshore Community Kitchen is part of the Northshore Nourishing Network, a collaboration of local groups working to alleviate hunger insecurity in our community. On Monday May 20 members of the public are invited to attend a presentation by registered dietitian Susie Fox about the links between hunger and obesity and how hunger can hurt children, families, and communities. Following the presentation there will be an opportunity for everyone to connect with Northshore Nourishing Network groups, learn more about what they are doing, and find out how to help.
The presentation will be held at the Bothell United Methodist Church, 18515 92nd Avenue NE, Bothell, 98011, May 20 from 6- 8 p.m.
Sue Freeman, Social Services Chair, Northshore Council PTSA


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Losing the Miss America crown was the best thing that ever happened to Vanessa Williams. Instead of being just a beauty queen, Williams succeeded as both an actress and singing sensation. The "Ugly Betty" star turns 49 today. (Photo by Rob Loud/Getty Images)
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This is why I'm shooting with the Hasselblad. Focusing a DSLR compared to a large format camera is much more exact in this regard.
That depends on what large format camera you are comparing to.Old film cameras have very low focusing resolution when used for high-mp digital backs. But for instance an Arca Swiss RM3Di or Factum as the front standard on an Arca view camera has FAR finer focusing resolution than any dSLR, and has the benefit of distinct focus numbers and ticks for stacking. Though of course it has no remote focusing capability.
Henrik,I mark off with tape on the lens, start and stop points as when pulling focus for motionDustbak, Do you know, or would you have the possibility to test if the focus adjuster in Phocus is fine enough to shoot around 80 frames of a watch, with focus starting from around 10cm from the lens, and ending around 12-13cm from the lens? Does the focus tool work when using a space-adaptor?E
While the Arca Swiss does have a very low pitch helicoid focusing mechanism requiring rotating the focus ring quite a bit for even fine adjustmentsyou will never get the precision, speed and accurate repatability that you will get using computer controlled focus stacking.Stating that the Arca camera has finer focusing :resolution" than any dSLR is misleading. There is no problem doing a 100 step focus stack with the focus motor of recent recent better DSLR lenses. Doing a repeatable and accurate stack with many steps manually with a tech camera has many limitations. Just cocking the shutter shifting the focus every time is a problem. While the focus ring has many markings there are not enough for a stack with many steps. Depending on the subject many steps may be needed.Also repeatability is important to several macro techniques such as multiple lighting passes.
I would think that the focusing mechanism on this camera would be very workable, but you have to cock the shutter manually 80 times with the risk of moving the camera just a fraction each time. Helicon Focus is somehow tolerant to very small deviations but I would think this camera would introduce just another factor in the equation. The RM3Di would have tilt and shift, correct?Even if using a Press shutter, how exact is it? If it can't repeat itself 100%, it will introduce banding in smooth surfaces. I see this with my ProFoto flashes.
When working with anything as reflective as watches, I need to be able see through the lens in order to see what each reflector does.
I'm assuming you've never actually used an RM3Di.The resolution is in fact finer focusing and is both more repeatable and more accurate than any computer controlled dSLR lens focus. It is for sure not as fast - which you correctly note. But given the length of the entire process (prep/shooting/stacking/retouching) the increase in time would be very small, and the use of tilt may offset that increase in time. I love that you feel comfortable using a phrase like "While the focus ring has many markings there are not enough for a stack with many steps." It just shows you have never used an RM3Di at all, let alone for the application for which you are providing such conclusive advice.At a magnification of 1:1 (approximate watch face magnification for full-frame digital back) at a steep angle to the watch face, dividing the watch face into 80 focus-step shots there are around 10 times more markings (or 10 times the focus resolution) which is required. Maybe you could consider limiting your advice to systems you've actually used?
Why not use a bellows camera that has tilt and swing on both standards? I seem to think that the old school methods will in the end be much easier and faster, and probably cheaper if you factor in the amount of time you spend doing this. Disclaimer: I do not do macro photography; this post is a question, not a statement.
OK so in the case you mentioned you have enough markings. Not sure that will be the case in all situations, however the real issue is sitting there and going through the 80 steps without getting it wrong, actually being able to see the markings depending on shooting position of the camera and touching the camera 80 times and not moving the camera. In macro situations even the smallest movement is an issue.
I would be more worried about having to touch the setup 80 times in a very fine-tuned macro-setup.I am sure this must be much better to do from the software. As far as I know only Hasselblad andSinar M has this possibillities. I use the Sinar M. A great camera with great lenses, but the softwareis not very good and crashes a lot..Henrik
Also regarding watches.... haven't nearly all watch makers moved away from macro photos to 3D rendering?
Just an idea:What about stacking using a LF camera with the rail just attached to the front standard and the bach standard in fixed position. That should give a minimum of focus shift and using the best lenses on the market this should be good?Is it hard to make?


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A Moberly police officer sustained minor injuries and a Huntsville man is in custody following a Friday afternoon incident.
At 5:24 p.m., an off-duty Moberly police officer observed a while male subject possibly steal a package from a residence in the 1000 block of South Fourth Street and requested additional units to the area.
Contact was made with the 18 year old subject from Huntsville and it was determined he had stolen the package from the residence.
A Moberly police officer attempted to arrest the subject, but the subject resisted and assaulted the officer. The subject was later taken into custody and transported to the Moberly Police Department.
During the struggle, a Moberly police officer, whose name was not released, sustained minor injuries. He was treated at Moberly Regional Medical Center for his injuries and released.
The 18 year old was arrested for stealing-misdemeanor, resisting arrest-misdemeanor, assault law enforcement officer second degree, and distribution/delivery/manufacture of a controlled substance, with a cash only bond of $10,000, which had been set by Randolph Co Associate Circuit Judge Cynthia Suter. The subject was unable to post bond and was transferred to the Randolph County Justice Center.
During the investigation, a 14- year -old male and a 16 year -old male, both from Huntsville, whom had been with the 18- year- old subject, were detained for stealing-misdemeanor and possession of marijuana.
Randolph County Juvenile Office was contacted about the juveniles and arrangements were made to release them back into their parents' custody.
On Saturday, based on a criminal complaint filed by the Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney's office, Randolph County Judge Suter issued a warrant charging Dillon L Johnson with distributing or delivering not more than 5 grams of marijuana and assault law enforcement second degree, with a bond of $70,000.
Moberly Police Department was assisted by the Randolph Co. Sheriff's Department.


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John Miller can�t remember a time when his life didn�t center around the nursery business his dad started in 1936, J.E. Miller Nurseries. Founded in his great-grandfather�s wine cellar at the bottom of Bopple Hill Road in South Bristol, a catalog cover from the early years shows John, a toddler in overalls, in the Miller vineyards picking grapes.
�I grew up in it,� said John, of the family business that grew to fill tens of thousands of gardens, orchards and backyards nationwide with Miller products � everything from roses to berries, pussy willow to patio tubs.
Catalog shipments grew to 2.5 million a year and annual package shipments, to 100,000.
�We had a big following,� said John on Friday, the day Miller Nurseries closed its doors on the hillside above Canandaigua Lake, at 5060 County Road 16, where it had operated since 1946.
John said that after his brother, David Miller, died May 11, he felt it was time to retire. The brothers had bought the business from their dad, J.E. �Ed� Miller, in the 1970s and co-owned it ever since.
Miller Nurseries was the last, free-standing, family business of its kind remaining in the United States, John said from his office above the store where remaining inventory was sold Friday at a discount. On John�s desk, along with a collection of old Miller catalogs, sat the Miller Nurseries 2013 catalog. It was published but never distributed.
Miller Nurseries was sold to Missouri-based Stark Bro�s Nurseries & Orchards Co., a big company nearly 200 years old with the nursery stock, expertise and reputation John said he found the right fit.
�It was the natural place for us to go,� said John, a longtime friend with Stark Bro�s President Cameron Brown. �He is a long-time friend and a very trustworthy fellow, and treats his customers like gold,� John said in a statement for Miller customers. � I knew he would take care of you in exactly the same way. David would have liked this arrangement, and I take comfort in that.�
In a Daily Messenger tribute written for David Miller, employees and customers shared what the Miller family and business has meant to them. Shipping and Farm Manager Howard Morgan, who began working years ago at Miller Nurseries at age 17, said John and Dave were like fathers to him. Garden Store Manager Terri Case, a relative newcomer working 17 years there, said she felt like a member of the Miller family.
For customers, Miller products became traditions. Canandaigua resident Eileen Kelly said her family began buying plants and shrubs � one for each member of their family � between each Mother�s Day and Father�s Day at Miller Nurseries.
With the sale, Miller�s customers can go to StarkBros.com and sign in with their existing username and password and purchase products like they did on the Miller Nurseries website. Miller's "Canandaigua Quality" hardy plants will be available along with the Stark Bro's assortment.
On Friday, those familiar with Miller Nurseries shared thoughts on the Messenger Facebook page. �My favorite memory is of picking grapes up on the hill behind the nurseries and the awesome view of Canandaigua Lake from that vantage point,� said Betsey Stout.
Marcia Farrell said her favorite memory is �Moving here and finding a nursery where everyone could (and did) know the answers to ALL of my gardening queries!�
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Jamie Foxx Sits Down with the Family of Trayvon Martin for Special to Air on Foxx's SiriusXM channel The Foxxhole
"I am Trayvon, Day of Remembrance Peace Walk" special features Foxx's emotional, in-depth conversation with Martin's parents Tracy and Sybrina and attorney/family advocate Benjamin Crump, plus "Day of Remembrance" event speeches from Foxx and other participants
Feb 15, 2013, 12:06 EST
NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that Academy Award®-winning actor Jamie Foxx sat down with Trayvon Martin's father Tracy Martin, mother Sybrina Fulton and family attorney/advocate Benjamin Crump for an emotional, in-depth interview special that will air on Foxx's 24/7 exclusive SiriusXM channel The Foxxhole multiple times in the weeks leading up to the February 26, 2013 one-year anniversary of Trayvon's death.
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Jamie Foxx's "I am Trayvon, Day of Remembrance Peace Walk" special will air back to back on Saturday, February 16 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm; Sunday, February 17 from 8:00 am - 3:00 pm, and again at 6:00 pm and 11:00 pm and Tuesday, February 26 from 8:00 am - 3:00 am on The Foxxhole, SiriusXM channel 98 (all times ET).
In addition to Foxx's emotional, in-depth conversation with the family – during which Tracy Martin reveals why Trayvon was his hero and saved Tracy's life and Sybrina Fulton shares what Trayvon meant and means to the family – the special will feature the "I am Trayvon, Day of Remembrance Peace Walk" speeches delivered by Jamie Foxx and other participants from the event held in Miami, FL.
"I don't think there has ever been a story that has impacted me the way this story has," said Jamie Foxx.
Jamie Foxx's "I am Trayvon, Day of Remembrance Peace Walk" special will be available on SiriusXM On Demand for subscribers listening via the SiriusXM Internet Radio App for smartphones and other mobile devices or online at siriusxm.com.
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Team Kittens needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Hello, young kittens! I'm in the process of starting up as a software developer and am in need of a vibrant, yet cute logo for my business.
Team Kittens
The logo I am looking for needs to look well on both a dark and a light colored background. I have a few images (which I claim no ownership of) that I want to be used as the basis for my logo.
The concept is a cat, sitting in a box:
I would like for the box to be facing the opposite direction though. Another image of the same cat:
The cat itself should look like the one in the following image:
(which resembles my own cat)
Logo type ("Team Kittens") shouldn't be mixed with the logo itself. Keep them separate!
Keep it cute, but
- Clean
- Professional, but a wee bit cute!
- Colorful, vibrant
- The logo type separately
- Must work well on dark backgrounds as well as light ones (use #232C30 as a reference).
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Britney Spears Explains 'F'-Word to Sons After Kesha's Profanity Blunder
Kesha dropped an expletive-laden birthday message to Britney Spears, who celebrated her 30th on Friday, Dec. 2. Brit was enjoying her big day, lounging in bed with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James as she poured through messages, greetings and well-wishes from fans. Fellow pop starlet Kesha sent Brit a video message, saying "Happy f—ing birthday."
That forced Brit to have to explain the meaning of such profanity to her kids! Brit tweeted:"Thanks Miss Kesha. Just watched this in bed w my boys. Now I have to explain what F—ing means!! U rock Xxoo."
Brit probably did a great job explaining it to her sons.
Zap2It pointed out that Brit was deluged by tweets on her big day, with everyone from Miley Cyrus to Rihanna to Justin Bieber to Katy Perry sending her birthday wishes. And that's just a few of the A-listers who dropped by her Twitter feed to send their love. Brit actually replied to almost every birthday tweet she received. She has such good southern manners!
When her former rival Christina Aguilera tweeted a birthday message, Brit replied: "Thank you girl. Max is so cute! Miss you. Xxoo."
Overall, we've learned that in addition to having to school her sons, Brit is quite the polite tweeter.
Hope your 30th year is your best yet, Brit Brit.


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Cubs resting Alfonso Soriano's knee; Derrek Lee out vs. Mets
By Paul Sullivan
NEW YORK -- Lou Piniella and the Cubs are shutting down outfielder Alfonso Soriano until his gimpy knee show signs of improvement.
"The crux of it is his knee is not strong," Piniella said. "He's having trouble playing on it. In fairness to him, we're going to have him continue to do his exercises with the trainer and re-visit it down the road.
"There's no timetable. ... This is not a rest."
Could Soriano be shut down the rest of the year?
"I'm not going to go that far," Piniella said.
Piniella said Soriano was agreeable with the decision.
Derrek Lee is also out of the lineup again as the Cubs face the Mets tonight. Lee missed Thursday's game due to the birth of his son.
Micah Hoffpauir is at first base and batting fifth. Alfonso Soriano is also out of the lineup. Sam Fuld is in left and batting eighth.
Bobby Scales has been called up from Iowa and is on the bench.
The lineup is on the jump.
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Fat ugly technical director of Scuderia Fellatio. Works closely with the Toady Cohort and the Cheating Kraut Bastard in building illegal Formula One cars and running them illegally. Caught cheating on a number of occassions but maintains innocence. Seems unable to recognise his own hipocrisy in pathetic bleating about other teams' and drivers' so called cheating.
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Reviewed by Luis C. (age 8)
I liked the book a lot because it tells all about different kinds of dinosaurs. It also tells about fossil hunters. I learned a lot of new words and facts about dinosaurs and fossils by reading this book.
I think that anybody who likes to read about dinosaurs or fossils would like this book. Also kids who just like to learn about new things would enjoy it too.


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Stocks start mixed; automakers rise
June 3, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are getting off to a mixed start on Wall Street.
Automakers rose as traders anticipate good sales reports for last month.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 36 points to 15,150 shortly after the opening bell Monday. That's a gain of 0.2 percent.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell two points to 1,628, or 0.1 percent. The Nasdaq fell 10 points to 3,445.
Industry analysts believe automakers will report that sales rose 7 percent in May, which would put the annualized rate back above 15 million. Sales dropped below that threshold in April for the first time in six months.
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The Morrison Mustangs shot a 240 to finish behind only Forreston (238) in the Ryder Cup-style Lorrin Fasset Invite on Saturday at Prairie Ridge Golf Course.
Morrison was led by the twosome of Colton and Brock Smith, who took third with a 6-over-par 78. Play consisted of six holes of best ball, six holes of alternate shot, and six holes of scramble.
Fulton tied Stockton for fourth with a 248. Lucas Wiebenga and Blaine Simmons led the way with an 82.
Amboy was sixth with a 252, led by Griffin Kozeal and Logan Thake (81). Polo took seventh with 266, as Tristin Woodin and Brix Clayton (87) paced the Marcos.
West Carroll was ninth (270) and Newman rounded out the top 10 (275). Cameron Ehlers and Hayley Guilinger led the Thunder (88), while Todd Nelson and Shawn Rosengren paced the Comets (89).
Prophetstown finished 11th (289), as Grant and Jackson Ames tied for fourth (80).
Morrison's JV team finished 12th (303). Jaden Workman and Andrew Rinker shot 98.
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Moline 6, Sterling 1: Carlos Gallardo scored the lone goal for the Warriors at Roscoe Eades Stadium.
Oregon 4, Earlville 0: Jarrett Reynolds scored twice in a nonconference match in Oregon.
Juan Ocampo and Zak Zalzalah added goals for the Hawks (8-6-2), who got assists from Konner Wilson, Harry Baldwin and Ryan Bennett, as well as two saves from Jordan Gilmour in goal.
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Hysterica's "The Art of Metal" Coming March 9th; New Promo Video Available
Hysterica started working on the album The Art of Metal in mid-2010 when the keyboardist Marydeath joined the band. The band did a lot of experimenting with the new sound, since they hadn't worked with keyboard combined with guitar previously. The new sound has developed a broader spectrum. Anni De Vil has also augmented her singing techniques by incorporating both extreme singing as well as clean singing in the new songs. Early in the process of creating the album, the band contacted the producers Pontus Norgren and Marcus Jidell who have produced The Art of Metal in the best way possible. All members of the band have taken part in creating the lyrics for the new songs.
Hysterica has been working with visual artists who have been tasked with interpreting seven of the songs on The Art of Metal their respective medium. The artists involved a metal sculptor, a graphic artist, a photographer, a potter, an author, a painter and a tattoo artist, who have been given free rein to interpret a song each in their medium.
Four digital singles have been released during 2011 from the album The Art of Metal in conjunction with the release of the first single Force of Metal. Hysterica was featured on TV4 nyhetsmorgon where they played Force of Metal and Heels of Steel live on the show. The artist Bo Andersson also took part of the show and showed off his metal sculpture and discussed the project surrounding the Art of Metal..
Hysterica has toured Sweden, Europe and Russia, playing both in clubs and on larger stages like the Sweden Rock Festival (SWE) and the Hardrock Hell Festival (UK)
Anni De Vil – Vocals
Bitchie – Lead Guitar
Satanica – Bass Guitar
Marydeath – Keyboards
Hell´n – Drums
1. Breaking the Walls
2. Fighters of the century
3. Live or Die
4. Spirit of the Age
5. Message
6. Fear of the Light
7. Force
8. Heels
9. Hysterica
10. Daughters of the Night
14th of March – Release party at Göta Källare, Stockholm
11th of May – Westbay Heaven And Hell Festival, Västervik
28th of July – Åmot Rock On
Tour is being planned for Sweden, Europe and
Brazil / Latin America 2012-2013
Check out the Promo Clip below!
Damnnnnnn!! I like it. (Except track #9 the growler). Hot Babes, Heavy Metal. Kickin Ass. I dont ever remember hearing this band before. Im going to check them out better! \m/