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What's New in ASP.NET Data Access
ASP.NET version 2.0 continues to offer managed data access using ADO.NET and managed classes for XML. But ASP.NET 2.0 also includes new features to make data access in Web pages easier to implement and manage.
Highlights of the new data access model in ASP.NET 2.0 are:
A simplified data-binding model that uses the new data-source controls and requires no code.
Two-way data binding that can both read and update data.
New and enhanced data controls to display and update data.
Improved support for using middle-tier business object for data access.
Backward Compatibility
An important feature in the new data access model is that existing ASP.NET applications continue to work without changes. The data-binding model used in ASP.NET 1.0 and ASP.NET 1.1 is still supported, and you can still use ADO.NET for data access. Data controls such as the DataList and Repeater controls have been enhanced to work with the new data source controls and to take advantage of automatic data binding, but still work when bound directly to a data source such as a dataset.
Data Binding Using Data Source Controls
In ASP.NET 1.0 and ASP.NET 1.1, you display data on a page using a data control (for example, a Repeater or DataList control). Data control is bound to a data source, such as an ADO.NET dataset filled by an ADO.NET data adapter. You add these data components to the page yourself, and then write code to populate the data source and bind the data controls to the data.
Data Source Controls
In ASP.NET version 2.0, the tasks associated with data access in a Web page are provided by data source controls. A data source control provides a single object in which you can declaratively define the following:
Connection information.
Query information, such as a SQL statement or the names of methods to invoke on an object.
Insert, update, and delete commands to modify data.
Parameters for queries, data modification, and filtering.
Options such as paging and caching (if the data source supports these options).
When you use data source controls, you do not need to write code for data access, such as calls to the DataBind method. (You can still call the DataBind method explicitly to refresh bound data if required in your application.)
ASP.NET provides data source controls for different types of data stores, including SQL-based databases (SQL Server, OLE DB, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) databases), XML data, and business objects. All data source controls expose the same interface to data controls on the page, so that controls such as the DataList and Repeater controls, and the new GridView control can bind the same way to any data source control, regardless of the underlying data store it represents. The result is that you can use the full array of ASP.NET data controls to work with a wide variety of data sources.
Types of Data Source Controls
ASP.NET includes the data source controls listed in the following table.
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Enables you to work with a business object or other class and create Web applications that rely on middle-tier objects to manage data. Supports advanced sorting and paging scenarios unavailable with the other data source controls. For more information, see ObjectDataSource Web Server Control.
Enables you to work with Microsoft SQL Server, OLE DB, ODBC, or Oracle databases. When used with SQL Server, supports advanced caching capabilities. The control also supports sorting, filtering, and paging when data is returned as a DataSet object. For more information, see SqlDataSource Web Server Control.
Enables you to work with a Microsoft Access database. Supports sorting, filtering, and paging when data is returned as a DataSet object. For more information, see AccessDataSource Web Server Control.
Enables you to work with XML data, especially for hierarchical ASP.NET server controls such as the TreeView or Menu controls. Supports filtering capabilities using XPath expressions and enables you to apply an XSLT transformation to the data. The XmlDataSource enables you to update data by saving the entire XML document with changes. For more information, see XmlDataSource Web Server Control.
Used with ASP.NET site navigation. For more information, see ASP.NET Site Navigation Overview.
Enhanced Data Controls
All data controls in ASP.NET 2.0 have been enhanced to work with data source controls. As a result, you can take advantage of automatic data binding in any data-bound control. This includes list controls such as the DropDownList control and composite data-bound controls such as the DataList control.
In addition, ASP.NET 2.0 introduces new data controls that provide additional functionality, as described in the following table.
- GridView
The GridView control is the successor to the ASP.NET DataGrid control. The GridView control automates many of the features of the DataGrid control, so that you do not need to write code for editing, sorting, or paging. For situations in which you want to customize the control's behavior, you can continue to use an object model similar to that of the DataGrid control. For more information, see GridView Web Server Control.
- DetailsView
The DetailsView control displays one record at a time and enables you to edit, delete, and insert records. You can also page through multiple records. For more information see DetailsView Web Server Control.
- FormView
The FormView control is similar to the DetailsView control, but enables you to define a free-form layout for each record. The FormView control is like a DataList control for a single record. For more information, see FormView Web Server Control.
- TreeView
The TreeView control renders data in a hierarchical tree of expandable nodes. For more information, see TreeView Web Server Control.
- Menu
The Menu control renders data in a hierarchical dynamic menu including "flyout" submenus. For more information, see Menu Web Server Control.
DataGrid Control
You can continue to use the DataGrid control, although it is superseded by the GridView control. Existing pages that use the DataGrid control will work as is. As with other data controls, the DataGrid control has been enhanced to interact with data source controls.
Declarative Parameters
For situations in which you need to pass parameters to a data source control, such as for a filtered query or update command, you can declaratively define parameters as part of the data source control. These parameter objects enable you to supply values from server control properties, Session and Application variables, cookies, QueryString values, and user profile properties to parameterized data operations. Using parameters enables filtering and master-details scenarios with little or no custom code.
For more information, see Using Parameters with Data Source Controls.
Simplified Data Binding
The syntax used for data binding within templates has been simplified. In ASP.NET 1.0 and ASP.NET 1.1, you have to specify the Eval method of the DataBinder class and identify the DataItem from the container and the field to bind, you can now specify just the Eval method and the name of the field to bind. You can optionally include a format for the bound field based on the System.String.Format method.
A Bind method has also been added for two-way data-binding scenarios in edit item templates and update item templates. For more information on the Eval and Bind methods, see Data-Binding Expression Syntax.
When binding to XML data, you can make use of the XPath and XPathSelect methods to bind to the results of an XPath query against the source XML. For more information, see Binding a Tabular Control to the XmlDataSource Control.
The App_Data Folder
To improve the security of the data used by your ASP.NET application, a new subfolder named App_Data has been added for ASP.NET applications. Files stored in the App_Data folder are not returned in response to direct HTTP requests, which makes the App_Data folder the recommended location for data stored with your application, including .mdf (SQL Server Express Edition), .mdb (Microsoft Access), or XML files. Note that when using the App_Data folder to store your application data, the identity of your application has read and write permissions to the App_Data folder.


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PacLII User Survey 2011
PILON Members may recall that an independent review of the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) was conducted in May – June 2011. The review was conducted by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy using an online user survey to obtain feedback for the evaluation.
A summary and analysis of the results of the user survey has now been published on the PacLII website. Analysis of the survey shows that PacLII is an extremely valuable resource that lawyers in Pacific Island Nations rely on. Every jurisdiction that PacLII serves was represented in the survey. 60.6% of survey respondents said PacLII was the most important resource for legal information for their work.
The report also contains a summary of comments received from the survey, and a response from PacLII to suggestions for improvement or new material.
The survey summary and analysis report can be accessed at http://www.paclii.org/paclii/2011-paclii-user-survey.pdf%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BF.

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I noticed this tree the other day while I was walking along the neighborhood trail looking for birds. As to birds, I mostly saw the usual suspects, though I did see Cedar Waxwings, which was the first time I've seen them in the neighborhood. The Ring-necked Ducks finally returned as well, but this time, I tried to see the trees and spend some time with them.
It was cold here last week, the coldest it's been since 1976 according to the paper, and so I set out to see if things looked different in that brittle winter light we see so rarely here.
It's been dry so no snow or freezing precipitation, but I did see some ice along the muddy edge of the stream. I doubt I would have seen it if I hadn't first heard my boots crunching through it. Nothing too impressive as far as ice cover goes, but ice outside of a drinking glass is a novelty around here.
This is the view looking up the stream (southwest). I still can't get over the damage last summer's hailstorm did. Most of the trees that lost their fight with the sky that night have been cleared away, but I like that this one was left over the creek like a little bridge for night-scurrying animals.
I wonder if a small tornado came through this part of the trail since so many trees were felled. If you draw a line from this spot to our house and a few blocks beyond, most of the roofs along that line had to be replaced (including ours). I guess the trees didn't stand much of a chance.
I'll write about the birds and my big medium small year that concluded with this icy walk in the next few days.
Just for grins, I recoded my site so that the sidebar loads after the posts, a thing which needed doing for quite some time. It's nothing a reader would likely notice except that the site might load faster now, but what prompted me to do it is this nice enhanced gallery feature in WordPress 2.9. Here's a gallery of pictures from my walk. Clicking on them will display them at a higher resolution on their own image pages.
In non, tree, bird or WordPress news, I was happy to see that my prose/poetry piece "The Man Who Spoke the Law" (originally published at qarrtsiluni back in October) was included on Adam Ford's January 2010 Poetry Mixtape. Check it out. He says nice things about "The Man Who Spoke the Law" and there are links to some really terrific poems on the same mixtape.


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The cusk or tusk, which it is sometimes called, is a saltwater cod-like fish which is member of the ling family. They live on the Atlantic coast from New Jersey to the arctic region normally in water deeper than sixty feet with rocky bottoms.
The cusk has a back that's color ranges from gray to reddish brown yet it's belly has a dirty white appearance. A younger fish may have faint yellow vertical bars. It is similar in shape to the hake or whiting having a long body and a back fin running the full length of the fish. They have a large mouth and a single barbell under their chin.
They are sometimes found under the name of brismak, torsk or moomfish. Many people also give the name cusk to the burbot. The burbot is a freshwater member of the cod family which is similar in appearance.
The cusk is a slow moving, bottom feeder and has been known to grow to 27 pounds and 3 ½ feet in length but it averages 1 to 4 pounds. They are not a schooling fish therefore they are usually found foraging alone. They mature at about 5-6 years although they have a life expectancy of about 15 years.
The cusk is a lean fish with a mild, sweet flavor and a texture similar to lobster. The best way to cook it is to bake, broil, deep fry, poach or steam. For ways of cooking cusk , click on one of these links.
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For information on other fish and how to cook them go to http://tocookafish.com/fish-index
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Vinegar…the natural all-purpose cleaner
Vinegar has been used as a household all purpose cleaner throughout centuries, and is still being used today. Here are a few tips and tools to get you started to a greener clean! Directions: Mix a solution of equal parts of water and vinegar in a spray bottle and you have a solution that will […]Read More


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Research on how human beings relate with the built environment shows a link between dwelling in high-rise flats with such behavioral problems in children like bedwetting, temper tantrums, hyperactivity, and hostility. In interdisciplinary exploration of literature on social sciences, psychology and architecture researchers disclose findings worthy any loving parent's attention.
High-rise dwelling has exposure to stressors that leads to stress and anxiety which in turn can cause or precipitate behavioral challenges in children. According to experts divorce, family relocation, or being picked on or punished at school are other stressors that can affect children.


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Columbus Ranked as #19 Most Competitive Metro
New Geography has a new post about data compiled by EMSI that lists the Most Competitive US Metro Areas Since 2010, and Columbus clocks in at a healthy #19. This study takes a look at job change from 2010 to 2012, industry mix, the relation to national economic growth and other quantitative factors.
The only regional cities to top Columbus are Grand Rapids, Detroit and Louisville. Fellow Ohio cities fell much further on the list with Cincinnati at 42, Dayton at 59, Akron at 61, Youngstown at 67, Toledo at 68 and Cleveland at 88.
For more info about the numbers, the study, and what it all means, visit www.newgeography.com.


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Since I travel so much, this keyboard works wonderful for me. Instead of trying to type on the tablet screen, it allows much easier access to the keys. The case also has a kickstand which acts as a holder for your tablet. This is awesome for watching movies, browsing the internet, or listening to music. The IRulu keyboard is a well priced investment as an add on to your IRulu tablet.
The keyboard has a micro USB that attaches directly into your IRulu tablet for easy accessibility. I love how thin it is, so it is perfect for carrying in your purse or diaper bag. This keyboard works great for me, on the go. It allows me to access all my documents and social media, but also allows me to type easily.
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Catch European classics at film fest in capitalJune 9th, 2010 - 3:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Cinema buffs in the capital can look forward to catching a quality selection of meaningful movies touching upon war, modern myths, environment, romance and religion at the European Film Festival (EUFF), being held June 12-20.
As many as 23 movies will be showcased at the festival and Belgian movie "The Hell of Tangiers" will flag it off at the Teen Murti Bhavan auditorium.
It was earlier held in Goa, Mumbai and Chennai. The flavour of the fest is contemporary with the movies casting spotlight on the diverse gamut of socio-political and cultural realities and human drama that the European Union has been battling as it struggles to bind the disparate racial ethos.
Some of the movies to be screened at the festival include "Investigator (Hungary)", "Chopin, Desire for Love (Poland)", "Small Engine Repair (Ireland)", "One Hundred Nails (Italy)", "Solitude (Spain)", "Grave Decisions (Germany)", "Roosters Breakfast (Slovenia)", "7 yrs (France)", "In Real Life (Netherlands)", "Soul at Peace (Slovakia)", "The Age of Stupid (UK)", "The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (Bulgaria)", "All the Queen's Men (Austria)" and "Playing Solo (Finland)".
Entry to the festival will be free on a first-come-first-served basis at the Teen Murti Bhavan as well as the India Habitat Centre.
An annual affair, the fest gives a perspective of the growing socio-cultural ties between India and the European Union.
- Goa to host European Union film festival - Apr 23, 2010
- Slovenia invites Indian investments and tourists - Dec 27, 2011
- Indian gypsy cultures on show ahead of Games - Jul 29, 2010
- Karnataka bans holding of tomatoes festival Sunday - Sep 16, 2011
- 'Little Europe' in Delhi University - Oct 12, 2010
- Jamia to host 3rd Arab film fest - Nov 19, 2011
- Tisca Chopra to host 42nd IFFI opening ceremony - Nov 22, 2011
- Taking magic of Indian cinema to 'film-friendly' Melbourne - Jun 02, 2012
- Taiwan film fest to start in capital - Sep 06, 2010
- Flower show lures tourists to Chandigarh - Feb 28, 2010
- Missed it at Cannes? Catch it in Mumbai - Oct 18, 2011
- My art is my aspiration for Telangana: Thota Vaikuntam (With Images) - Mar 12, 2011
- Kerala set for literature gala - Nov 15, 2011
- Festival of India in France to begin April 14 - Mar 20, 2010
- Karbi Anglong's Ronthean Festival promoting a unique Assamese lifestyle - Dec 07, 2010
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Lake Haven Escape...Studio apartment 90 minutes north of Sydney CBD
1 bedroom Holiday apartment for rent in Lake Haven
$109.00 - $199.00*per dayprice range estimate for 2 guests*
Fully renovated private self contained ground level apartment within a 3 storey house. Modern kitchen and bathroom, TV/DVD, lounge, separate bedroom/queen size bed & access to fantastic pool and spa. Approx 1.5hr drive north of the Sydney CBD. Only minutes to major shopping centre, lakes & beaches.
The guest apartment was re-fitted with quality and functionality in mind. As the little touches are what make a trip memorable we've tried our best to compliment the area with tasteful furnishings and fittings. The space will comfortably accommodate up to 4 people (2 adults, 2 children) and includes everything you'll need for a great stay. A fold-out bed is also included and a port-a-cot or air bed is available at no charge if required.
The apartment
The apartment is fully self-contained and includes your own kitchen complete with gas cooktop, DeLonghi Nespresso coffee maker, lounge area, TV/DVD and bathroom. You'll have your own private entrance via the side of the house making coming and going easy. The pool and spa is available for guest use during your stay as are the BBQ(s) in the pool area.
As the apartment is a section of the ground floor of our house (albeit completely private) we're available for any questions or requirements you may have. We're happy to share our thoughts on the best places to see around the Coast or if you prefer privacy that's fine as well.
We would ask that guests treat our house with the same respect they would their own. Smoking is only permitted in the outside courtyard. Most importantly we hope our guests have a good time and enjoy themselves!
Details on the area- Where is Lake Haven?
Lake Haven is a suburb at the northern end of the Central Coast on the way to Lake Macquarie. If your driving from the Sydney CBD it's around a 1.5hr drive north up the M1 motorway. Close enough for a weekend away but a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Less than a 1 minute drive from Lake Haven shopping centre and cinemas around 2 mins from Tuggerah lake (some good fishing spots) and less than a 10 minute drive from Budgewoi, Norah Head and beautiful Soldiers beaches. There's plenty to do for a night or a week! The Entrance is a 20 minute drive away and has markets/activities on most weekends and if you feel like venturing a little further out the Hunter Valley vineyards are around 50 minutes away.
Plenty of parking is available, shops and lake are within walking distance and local buses run regularly with a bus stop 50 metres from our property.
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The last film in the second phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe carries a lot of weight on its tiny shoulders, even if we aren't entirely sure if ants have shoulders.
Writers: Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay, Paul Rudd
Runtime: 117 minutes
Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Tip "T.I." Harris, Wood Harris, Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, Michael Douglas
Distributor: Disney
Country: US
Rating: ★★★½ (7/10)
When it comes to things that are certain in life, death and taxes have recently seen Marvel Studios box office success join them as a roommate. Even so-called risky prospects like Guardians of the Galaxy have won over the world thanks to the Marvel gold standard, and it's been in no small measure due to the singular vision of producer Kevin Feige and his team, along with a string of unlikely creators who have brought their voice to classic comics characters. Not for nothing, but a series of creator walkouts from Marvel productions raises reasonable questions about pressure to conform to that brand. Arguably, the most highly publicised of these was director Edgar Wright's split with ANT-MAN.
There's still a lot of Wright and co-writer Joe Cornish's DNA in the ANT-MAN script, or at least their style, although there are a multitude of other voices as well. Picking up on a thread in the current Nick Spencer/Ramon Rosanas run of the Marvel comic, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is an ex-con and expert robber who is trying to get his life back on track and spend time with his estranged daughter. Drawn back into a life of crime by a trio of friends, Lang is hired by legendary tech wizard Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) to steal back technology he created from rival Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), much to the scepticism of Pym's daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly).
After a triptych of films that climaxed in large objects or cities threatening death from above, including the lurching monolith that was Avengers: Age of Ultron, it's refreshing to see an event film that has a (pardon the pun) "smaller" view of the world. After a pre-credits flashback to the 1980s, employing some nifty digital de-ageing of Michael Douglas, ANT-MAN establishes its comedic tone and its distinction from the rest of the Marvel universe fairly early on. Tony Stark is a billionaire genius, Steve Rogers a super soldier, Thor an Asgardian immortal and Peter Quill a space jockey. Scott Lang, on the other hand, gets fired from a Baskin Robbins and robs people for a living. Sidekick Michael Peña's rapid-fire descriptions of potential jobs offer surprisingly hilarious and random non sequiturs, and the notion of an ordinary guy given a tremendous power (and great responsibility) is played with the deadpan of Rudd. The 80's are actually very present in the film, with it mostly feeling like one of the batty high-concept outings that were commonplace during that decade, and worked based on their sheer audacity.
Yet that tone is also incredibly inconsistent. The humour slaps up against a familiar plot of corporate rivalry and conflicting ideals for technology – so familiar in fact that it was largely the basis for the Obadiah Stane character in 2008's Iron Man. However, Stoll's Darren Cross is nowhere near as compelling as Jeff Bridges, or given anywhere near as much depth as his triumphant House of Cards role, and the stakes of his plans never feel particularly high. Even the strongest parts of the film, around the preparation of the heist, are muddied by a plan that is ill-explained and ultimately inconsequential to the final fight sequence.
Comic fans may be disappointed that Hank Pym, a founding member of the Avengers, is relegated to supporting role in Ant-Man's first cinematic outing. Yet Lang's loveable rogue is an excellent choice, and both actors make the most of their roles. It's a shame that the rest of the cast don't fare as well, including the horribly underused Judy Greer as Lang's ex (and the second helpless mother character she's played this year after Jurassic World). Lilly is almost there purely to provide a foil for Rudd, not to mention set up the future adventures of another famous Ant-Man character. Bobby Cannavale is far more of an active adversary for the hero than the actual foe, although his beleaguered cop has the most direct line to those 80s action flicks.
ANT-MAN still works best when it sticks to its loose heist movie premise, and the back half of the film leading up to the final action showdown is inventive, funny and combines the best elements of the film's intended vibe. While there are multiple references and cameos from other members of the Avengers and the expanding universe, it also does a reasonably good job of standing on it own two diminutive feet. (It also goes without saying that you should stay throughout the credits for two extra ghost monkeys). Whether it is a victim of too many cooks in the kitchen is a matter for a tell-all biography, but the slower pace of the first act and an inharmonious tone keeps this firmly in the realm of fun diversions.
ANT-MAN is released in Australia on 16 July 2015, and in the US on 17 July 2015 from Disney, on full-sized Giant Man sized screens.


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There were never any grand promenades surrounding Shea Stadium. When it stood, it carried on demurely among the Bedouin village of chop shops along 126th Street and under LaGuardia landing patterns. When it returned to the Flushing dirt, not a lot changed. For all its nouveau-New York eats and anatomically-considered seat pitches, the gleaming, near-billion-dollar hulk that sprouted in its parking lot is the same heartbreak hotel with a better pool and free cable, flanked by the same mottled streets. If you've aligned yourself with the Mets, you probably like it that way, because that's how it's always been.
"My unique qualification is that I'm not sure anybody else would want to do this."
In sports, fandom usually and neatly can be reduced to pride of place. To cheer for a team is to cheer for your hometown, which ultimately is to cheer for yourself. In New York, the distinction is muddied. You have, as it were, a choice, and to choose the Mets is an immediate and intractable signifier. It announces a few things: That you welcome sadness, and have cultivated a life of self-flagellation. That you come from a place on the emotional margins, of craggy streets ignored by mayorsthe Outer Borough as psychic deficit. But also that you find joy in things not guaranteed to you. That you have learned to prize industriousness over a good box score, and recognize the good box score as a gift.
There are few who articulate the schizophrenic self-affirmation-lament complex of Mets allegiance better than Greg Prince, whose Faith and Fear in Flushing blog and 2009 personal history of the same name Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets offers a literate and interior study of what it means, (compromised expectations, usually) of choosing the team from Queens. Prince's new project, The Happiest Recap: 50 Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500 Amazin' Wins is a planned four-volume pandect in a decidedly more positive pose. The Happiest Recap: First Base (1962-1973): 50 Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500 Amazin' Wins (Volume 1), the opening entry, includes the team's well-trod origins and Miracle squad, but also seizes upon what Prince calls "the moments in between"the small miracles that raise the Mets fan aloft and define his belief. What follows are excerpts from a conversation on the project between Prince and Gelf, edited for clarity and length.
Greg Prince: The impetus for The Happiest Recap (a project originally conceived for the blog in a somewhat different format) was the 50th anniversary of the franchise. I wanted a different and deeper way to tell an oft-told story. It's usually boiled down to this: Mets founded; they're terrible but lovable; then they pull off a miracle and a near-miracle; then they're terrible and not lovable; then they're rebuilt and succeed wildly; then life goes on and somewhere in there Mike Piazza hits a home run that lifts a city's spirits; toss in a nod to whatever's going on at the moment. This same basic story is told yet again.You rarely get the moments in between. You rarely get that night when you saw something you thrilled to for weeks thereafter, something that remains lodged in your subconscious and needs only the slightest jostling to come out to play again. You don't necessarily get that storyline that preoccupied us for a portion of a season that we surely lived through. And if there was a victory or a performance or an oddity that occurred in the midst of a not necessarily lovable or successful era, it's as if it never happened. I wanted to confirm that the Mets are always happening, that every ballgame tells a story and that our lives as Mets fans are defined by all of them.
My unique qualification is that I'm not sure anybody else would want to do this. It's the big dig of Mets research, and even after you've run through every winning Mets box score several times and made your selections, you have to know why you did. This would be deadly dull if it were just a string of summations. My construction project is built on a foundation of context. I'm in my 45th season of taking the Mets very seriously. I know where the stories are buried, or at least where to find their pieces and how to put them together.
Gelf Magazine: How much is a project focusing on wins a kind of antidote to the general malaise of recent years, which has featured fewer of those?
Greg Prince: I first thought of this in the depths of 2009, so the timing might speak to the desire to have something uplifting on which to focus when everything around us was falling apart. Come to think of it, the Mets haven't had a winning season since I began contemplating The Happiest Recap.
Gelf Magazine: Which are some favorite stories previously unknown to you?
Greg Prince: Tim Harkness belting a grand slam in the bottom of the 14th inning to beat the Cubs in 1963 at the Polo Grounds, and the delirious reaction to it, was something I didn't know and am now very glad I do. The Mets fell behind in the top of the 14th on an inside-the-park home run hit by future Hall of Famer Billy Williams. Earlier, the Mets had stormed from behind to tie. In the middle of this very long game, Mets relievers combined for a veritable no-hitter from the fifth to the 14th. Not only an incredible game with an Amazin' ending, but one that lived on for every fan who was 13 years old in 1963 and recorded their memories on Ultimate Mets Database decades later. The whole thing played out like a messier, lower-stakes version of the Shot Heard 'Round The World. I loved the chance to discover and present wins from the years when the Mets experience is usually portrayed as completely hopeless. There was always hope. It just wasn't cashed in on very often.
Gelf Magazine: Were there years when the Mets were terriblesay, 1964, of which Casey Stengel said, "Lyndon Johnson wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team"but the storylines were rich?
Greg Prince: Every year has rich storylines, or wonderfully aberrant breathers from the prevailing futility. The second chapter in the first book, for example, covers 1965 to 1968, after the novelty of the Mets' prodigious losing and the opening of a new ballpark presumably wears off and before the miracle of 1969 unspools. Yet in the heart of the Wes Westrum era, if you will, you have the practitioners of the miracle emerging: Cleon Jones stroking a walkoff home run; Ron Swoboda foiling Juan Marichal's otherwise in-the-bag usual win over the Mets; Jerry Grote throwing out Lou Brock, hauling in foul pops, nursing his pitchers through a shutout and driving in the winning run in the 10th; Bud Harrelson stealing home. That's all from 1966. You might not have understood what they meant as they were happening, but that's the beauty of hindsight.
Gelf Magazine: What have been your best resources for recreating some of the franchise's earliest games?
Greg Prince: I couldn't do this without Baseball Reference, which has every box score
and all play-by-play. BB-Ref uses data from Retrosheet, so I couldn't do it without them, either. Ultimate Mets Database is a terrific reality check in terms of the fan memories. I can tell Tim Harkness's 14th-inning grand slam was great, but learning how it affected so many fans via UMDB was a revelation. The Times, the Sporting News, and whatever newspapers are available through Google News Archive are a boon. But for the early years, I was greatly influenced by my "baseball library," as Bob Murphy would've called it in a promo for the "official" yearbook. Those are the books I'd been reading and occasionally picking up again from the time I was 12, most notably The Amazing Mets by Jerry Mitchell; The New York Mets: The Whole Story by Leonard Koppett; and Joy In Mudville by George Vecsey. The stuff they wrote has stuck with me forever, so revisiting and researching the games to which they alluded didn't feel like entering virgin territory, even though pre-1969 is the only period of Mets history I didn't experience first-hand.
The Mets were a legend from the get-go, which is what made the first volume1962 through 1973both enticing and challenging. Everything the Mets still are at heart was on display in those first dozen years, which made me want to spread their gospel to the generations who hadn't seen them or read much about them. But it also meant striving for new and more textured ways to tell some familiar stories, particularly from 1969. It helped that so many talented writers wrote so many compelling books after that World Series, but ultimately I had to find slightly different ways into those games so it didn't feel like a rehash of what you already knew.
Gelf Magazine: As you revisit those old seasons, do you feel like you were born in the wrong erawishing you could inhabit some Woody Allen plot device and be on the beat in the '60s, '70s, or '80s?
Greg Prince: As long as I'm writing about a given season, I feel like I'm there, so maybe I'm my own Zelig. When I moved into the second volume and I had to tackle the Mets after they traded Tom Seaver; or, for that matter, the Mets who let Tom Seaver go to the White Sox; I was back in those seasons and those moments. It probably helps that when we get to Second Base, which covers 1974 to 1986, my memories are already pretty layered. The research in that case mostly supplements (and occasionally corrects) what I already pretty much know and have retained. I think the arc of the Mets rising from the occasionally exciting win of the mostly morose late 1970s to the consistently spectacular seasons of the mid-1980s will be tangible here.
On the other hand, no matter that this series only profiles Mets wins, it's impossible to not acknowledge the context surrounding them in disappointing or devastating seasons. I'm writing the third volume1987 to 1999right now and can't swear that the names Terry Pendleton and Mike Scioscia don't come up at least in passing. I look at it this way: If the Mets didn't lose the way they lose, we would have no idea why we love it so much when the Mets win.
Gelf Magazine: It helps that in baseball even bad teams get to win at least 40 games.
Greg Prince: The Mets lost 17 in a row in 1962, but they've never gone 0-16, so, yes, that's one for baseball over football. While there was no hiding the Mets' 120 losses at the beginning of the first volume, it really did make those games that were won stand out. Marv Throneberry pinch-hits a walkoff home run in the same game in which he was coachingnot playingfirst base, for goodness' sake. Who else but the worst Mets team ever could've come up with something that marvelous?
Gelf Magazine: Do any of today's Mets know or care about some of the history you're recapping?
Greg Prince: Maybe if they were part of itthe fourth volume, which covers "2000 and Beyond," includes the coming of David Wright and likely ends with a bonus 501st game pitched by Johan Santana on June 1, 2012but I doubt it. In 2011, Justin Turner broke Ron Swoboda's record for consecutive games with an RBI by a rookiea record that never occurred to me existedand Turner, a perfectly nice kid, admitted he hadn't heard of Swoboda. That makes perfect sense given his vintage and Swoboda not having been Henry Aaron, yet it made me sad nonetheless. Swoboda is an über-Met. They made a movie, Frequency, in which a Queens cop in 1999 swears he'll never forget Ron Swoboda. The right-field gate at Citi Field is adorned with a silhouette of Swoboda robbing Brooks Robinson in the 1969 World Series. He's Ron Swoboda! It made me wish the Mets took each of their call-ups to their sparkling little museum and give them a 10-minute tour, ideally conducted by Mookie Wilson or John Franco. Barring that fantasy coming to fruition, I'd be immensely satisfied if the current Mets simply make the kind of history I relish writing about for my fellow fans.


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Kimora Lee Simmons welcomes new son
The baby boy is the model's fourth child
It's been a little over a year since Kimora Lee Simmons' ex-hubby, Russell Simmons, let slip that Kimora had married investment banker Tim Leissner. And yesterday the couple welcomed their first child, a boy they've called Wolfe Lee Leissner.
"We are filled with joy, adoration and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our son," said the couple in a statement to People. Wolfe's siblings, Ming, Aoki and Kenzo Lee were also reportedly "happy, excited and helping out." Congratulations to the family!
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Nowadays popularity of multimedia demands efficient and intelligent strategies in order to cope with the large amount of multimedia data. Recent efforts in the area of Multimedia Retrieval Systems (MMRS) have led to a growing research community and a number of International, national and industrial projects.
Besides concentrating on single media retrieval systems (e.g., only images are considered), latest technologies target on multimodal retrieval engines. This development explicitly forms the mainstream trend as queries such as "Show me the movie and related material for the given score available by melody and text snippets" (maybe by humming) or "Give me all media (text, image, video, audio) containing information about the city Paris" come into vogue. In order to support those challenging requests, research needs to work on a.) new (ontology-based) semantic models for combining individual media models, b.) new retrieval engines considering crossing the media and annotation boundary during search, c.) new interfaces coping the input and presentation of various media data.
In this context, the Interoperable Multimedia Retrieval in Distributed Systems (I.R.I.S) Working Group has been established which is hosted at the University of Passau at the Department of Information Systems and concentrates on the research of retrieval in heterogeneous multimedia repositories.
Research Topics:
- Multimedia Query Languages
- Multimedia content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
- Cross-media clustering, indexing and retrieval
- Multimedia analysis for advanced multimedia applications (Medical Domain, Satellite imaging)
- Distributed heterogeneous multimedia systems and shared applications
- Semantics modeling of cross media collections
- Multimedia search engines and interfaces
- Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems
- Cross media modeling concerning low- and high-level feature annotation and extraction.


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Ever been "Rick Rolled?"
That's when somebody tricks you into clicking a link to a video of Rick Astley's awesome/unbearable '80s hit, "Never Gonna give You Up."
Geeky, I know. But widespread. Widespread enough for Seattle's own Stone Gossard, of Pearl Jam, to record his own rendition and offer it to the viral online gods.
Thanks to music site Sound on the Sound for pointing this out. Considering its shrieky, badly dressed origins, it's a damn fine remake.


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Amid a string of bestiality allegations raised across the Midstate, Metro Police filed charges against a Brentwood woman Wednesday claiming she engaged in oral sex with her dog.
Home videos confiscated by Brentwood Police officers executing an unrelated search warrant showed Devan L. Johnson, 28, of Wicklow Road, enticing her dog to perform oral sex on her, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday in Davidson County Criminal Court.
Brentwood Police turned the evidence over to Nashville officials after they determined — through lease records and backgrounds from the video — that Johnson lived on Charlotte Pike when the video allegedly was filmed.
The video was filmed between July 2008 and January 2009, according to the filing.
Johnson faces one count of sexual activity with an animal. She is being prosecuted under a new bestiality law that went on the books in 2007. The law makes it a Class E felony to engage in sexual activity with an animal or to take or possess videos of such activities.
Johnson, who has no previous offenses in Davidson County, is free on $2,500 bond.
People in Maury and Humphreys counties and well as a couple in Davidson County are all facing or have faced bestiality-related charges in recent months.
Williamson County officials would offer no comment on the original investigation that led to the discovery of the tapes.
Attempts to contact Johnson for this story were unsuccessful.
How did the Brentwood police get their hands on a private video? Is it possible that this video was for sale?
And all this time I thought doggiestyle was a different position.
The story indicates that police obtained the video while they were executing an unrelated search warrant. Exceeding the scope of a search warrant is otherwise known as stealing.
By the way, has anyone ever before heard of a dog that required "entice[ment]" to lick someone's crotch?
This story is one for the record books. If she, who looks somewhat attractive from this mugshot, was filming this as a porno, "For Sale" tape...who'd buy this?
How did the cops 'stumble" upon it? I wonder what the original search warrant was for, anyway?
Don't worry, d7, I'm sure you'll be able to find a copy on the internet very soon.
I wonder if Peter Pan was an accomplice...
Pain: Since you're the resident expert in Animal Husbandry, give the poor lady a call.
Cheese whiz?
"Kibbles & Naughty Bits"?
''Cool whip''?
The movie may not be a hit. The dog should have gotten a bigger name actress.
OMG! She is, like, Totally GROSS.
NewYorker1: You need to get out more. This woman isn't "gross". Seen other mug shots, of big name Hollywood stars?
I eagerly await the sequel.
Brentwood police always after the badest of the bad,
although this extremely cruel act(LMAO)occured in
Davidson Co!
What do you expect? The dog was a Labradildo...
lol, house!
I am at a point that nothing is impossible. You have this women and a couple of weeks ago in Cincinnati a morgue worker was convicted of having sex with corpses. Two of them were actually beheaded.
My dog, Mack, is begging me to set them up on a date.
Reminds me of a story Ron White tells about his bulldog Sluggo...
Come and get it, Fido. Ruff, ruff.
I came here for laughs and I got them. Wondering whether those other 'offenses' from the rural counties involved larger, woollier animals.....
Certainly this video had to be intended for sale. Who on earth would be stupid enough to film something like that for their own entertainment? Then again.......
The mental images and jokes that are running through my mind are not fit for public comsumption so I'll just end it here.
artsmart: That was a Sam Kinneson bit 15 years ago!
Two ladies are waiting in the veterinarians office and start chatting. The lady with the Great Dane asks the lady with the Chihuahua what she's in for. She replies, "Little Pepe here has a bad habit of trying to hu/\/\p my leg whenever I walk around the house. I'm having him put down."
The lady with the Great Dane says,"That's too bad. I'm having a similar problem with Brutus here, but you know, he's quite taller than Pepe."
"Goodness! Are you having him put down too?"
"Are you kidding?! I'm just having his nails clipped."
This is hilarious. Seriously, though, how'd she keep the dog from biting? Did it not have teeth? And who foamed first??
Gross! Gross! GROSS! She needs her @$$ whooped. Well, I always hear my female friends say there's a man shortage, but GROSS.
im dressing up like a dog for halloweenie
jimmigjb, LOL, you're a mess. I'll dress up like a Brentwood women then.
where is the party!! ill sniff my way there!!
I love NYC
"...Why must I feel like that
Why must I chase the cat
Nothin' but the dog in me..
I'm wondering how many people trick-or-treated on Wicklow Road in dog costumes.
I have it on good authority that the pup was a female!
wow,..... remember her from powerhouse gym in Ga...small town girl...I knew south east ga would do that to you! She was a real stuck up broad too....oh man people could clown on her now!


text: Johannesburg - The man who allegedly gunned down Teazers boss Lolly Jackson earlier this year is hiding out in Cyprus and has been in regular telephonic contact with billionaire Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir."George Smith is alive and living in Cyprus," Krejcir – who currently lives in Bedfordview - told Beeld during an interview this week. "There were rumours that I killed him, that I put him in the Vaal Dam. It is not true."George calls me quite often, sometimes 20 times a day. At the weekend he kept me awake."An associate of Krejcir's, Jerome Safi, also confirmed the calls this week.Jackson was gunned down on May 3 after visiting Smith, also known as George Louka, at a house in Kempton Park.Krejcir – who has long been linked by Czech authorities to organised crime syndicates, a claim he vehemently denies – was a close friend of both Smith and Jackson.Krejcir arrived in South Africa in April 2007 and was arrested by police and intelligence agents on an Interpol "red notice". Police, at the time, described Krejcir as an "international fugitive" and said he was wanted in the Czech Republic on charges of fraud and conspiracy to commit murder.Met in jailOn Monday, prosecutors will attempt to revive efforts to have him extradited when they lodge an application in the South Gauteng High Court for the review of a magistrate's court decision that allowed him to remain in the country.It was while he was in custody after his arrest that Krejcir met Smith. Smith had been arrested for theft and the two men shared a cell at the Kempton Park police station."George was the first person I met in South Africa. We got released about the same time and he showed me around and gave me advice where to buy a house."But Smith's habitual drinking and drug abuse gradually soured their relationship.According to Krejcir, Czech intelligence agents have been in contact with Smith and have attempted to persuade him to implicate Krejcir in Jackson's murder.Krejcir says he is in possession of an affidavit made by Smith in which he claims he was offered €15 000 (about R140 000) and help getting immunity from prosecution if he "signed a statement saying that Radovan killed Lolly Jackson or sent Smith to kill Lolly Jackson"."They want to use that statement against me to get me extradited," Krejcir claimed this week.Krejcir said he had given South African police the number Smith called him from. 'I am not hiding anything'"I don't want to be involved in anything funny. They must record all my messages and phone calls. I am not hiding anything. "If I really sent George to kill Lolly and he is as drunk as he is every night and under the influence of drugs he will probably say something on the phone."According to Krejcir, Smith refuses to discuss why he allegedly shot Jackson.Krejcir said Smith and Jackson had a tempestuous relationship and did "a lot of deals and very secret things together"."One week they were enemies, the next they were friends."According to Krejcir, Jackson used Smith as his muscle, sending him to "punish one guy" and also to "destroy" a News Café in Kensington, owned by businessman Michael Kalymnios who had fallen for one of Jackson's Ukrainian strippers."I always said there must be money or women involved in Lolly's murder. I don't think there was a woman involved. I don't know if George tried to kill Lolly or Lolly tried to kill George. Only those two know what happened and unfortunately Lolly is not alive to tell us. There were no cameras and no witnesses."firstname.lastname@example.com


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Writing For Fun
( Originally Published 1906 )
MY third mental recreation should be writing. Do you know that you do not know yourself until you push yourself outside of yourself and look at yourself ? That is one thing for which conversation is useful ; it enables you to get a fair impression of your mind, with all its brilliancy and dulness, its hastiness and pains-taking, its flaws and its beauties. " As a small boy empties his pockets to see what is in them," says Dr. Holmes, " so I talk to see what is in my mind." But writing sets out your very self before you in permanent, unmistakable black and white. f your spirit stammers, stutters, is inaccurate, stupid, dull, so splutters your pen, and such dull lines stare up at you from the telltale paper.
Moreover, writing does more than disclose the writer : it enlarges him. A life is doubled that is well written out in one's private journal. Its joys are greater, its pangs are softened. A life is quadrupled that is repeated in cordial, gay letters to one's friends. And if one's life has attained the magic multiplying mirror of the printing-press, who can tell how many times it is magnified to the good of the world ?
Nowadays—as the editors tell us when they send back our manuscripts—nowadays every one is writing. And that is well, even if literally true, because every one also is reading, and every one is getting to think. Those are the three R's, you know : reading, the receptive; 'rithmetic, the thoughtful; and 'riting, the expressive,—the three R's, the three recreations, that is.
Do you know what joys are the most permanent in this world, the blessings handed down through the ages as most precious heir-looms, when paintings and temples and jewels and thrones are resigned to dust ? They are bits of recorded human life, fragments of human joys and sorrows embalmed in biographies, histories, poems, and stories, in journals and letters. What is the great joy of the world may be the great joy of the individual. Not that we should all turn authors in the technical sense of the term, but that we should all come to know what the fortunate few have hitherto understood, the delight of expression.
Poetry ? Yes, even poetry. The rhyme sters of my acquaintance get a vast amount of enjoyment from their " home-roams " and their " given-rivens." The editors may send them all back with that cruel printed slip, but never mind. "'Tis better to have rhymed and been rejected, than never to have rhymed at all," as Tennyson might have said.
That, then, is my list of mental amusements, —conversing, reading, writing. I do not despise more labored indoor sports. I have a catholic taste for all of them, from music, checkers, chess, dominoes, crambo, logomachy, proverbs, portrait authors, spello, halma, to that sensible game with the very silly name, " tiddledy-winks." None are perfect ; some are good for large groups, some for small, some for thoughtful people and some for the jovial, some for dexterity and some for wit, and some for ready knowledge. Lay up in your minds and houses a good supply of them, for they are rich treasures. Learn every one of them that is described in this book, and keep your eyes and ears open for more.
I have a mind to close this series of chapters with a six-sentence sermon. Why should there not be a wee mite of seriousness, even in this treatise on amusement ? Listen, my brethren:
Recreation for mind and body is a part of God's plan for our living, made necessary by constant waste of mind and body, which re-quire constant renewal. Do not expect to have health and cheer for nothing ; they are bought with a price, as are all best things. You must pay time for them, and thoughtful planning, and eager energy. But when you have won the art of praying, then, let me urge you, go on to the higher art, the art that is born of this,—the art of putting your play into your work. Vigorous body and active mind, sparkling eye and kindly jollity, brain and body thus recreated daily,—this, the end of sport, is worthily so only as it is the beginning of manly and womanly toil. Only as our muscles, renewed by exercise, are strengthened for the wielding of God's tools, only as our quickened brains are enlivened for God's thinking, only as our buoyed spirits are exalted for Christlike, helpful living, has recreation won its crown of entire success.


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I'm not sure I understand this. I think you're referring to the horizontal white line between the upper and lower window panes, and to the fact that it's totally horizontal. But The perspective is straight on (i.e. the line is exactly at eye level), so isn't that how it should be? Unless you're talking about somethings else.
It's subtle, but the logo can be interpreted two ways (and I think that was the point from a design perspective)...
1. As a window with 4 panes with horizontal perspective.
2. As a clear window (no panes) with horizontal perspective overlooking a metro-style screen in the background with no perspective (the plane of the 4 metro "boxes" in the background is completely flat... Like metro is)
That's my interpretation anyway. And even if I'm wrong, a good logo makes people's gears turn unconsciously when they look at it. By all the discussion about it I think it worked...
Edited 2012-02-18 05:07 UTC
Maybe it's better to look at it as a head-on window, but just a bit misshapen one, generally a bit "broken" or "wrong" (could it be that logo team wanted to sneak in some hints? )
More curiously, this logo is essentially... anti-Finnish (flag); not sure what to make out of it, in light of Nokia alliance.
(alternatively, it's some perverse tribute to Shetland; or maybe Calais)
Not going to buy the T shirt of anything but it looks nice.
Talking about branding and logos Apple has dropped the "Mac" from it's new OS X mountain Lion.
It looks strange and it is a missed opportunity:
Microsoft could probably put black and white monochorome printed lables on it's products and it will still sell hundreds of millions.
No one buy windows for styling or the nice box it comes in or the beautiful logo that appear when it boot.
This is because Windows is a tool like piece of equipment lying in hardware store. You just need it.
I personally like it.
But I get what your'e saying too.
Edited 2012-02-19 01:47 UTC
More interesting, for me, is the blue text.
From a purely technical perspective, black text is always better from a usability perspective, especially with the recent corporate moves towards proper accessibility in their UI design.
Blue text here is a clear statement that the focus with Windows has shifted towards satisfying more modern, consumer trends.
Obviously that vibe is coming across in other ways (the metro launcher ). But I really think that the text change is a sign that the Windows message has fundamentally changed.
Leads me to believe the color will be tied to the theme of the OS in some way.
From the article:
Am I the only one who sees the irony and backwards thinking in this? With only two primary colors--blue and white--and no real curves to think of, this logo is probably *the* most bland, simplistic logo in Windows history. And yet, here it is, in 2012. The successor to some much more colorful and complex logos (ie. with curves) of the past.
This thing is, literally, just one light-blue rectangle, separated in the center both horizontally and vertically with two straight white lines, and at a very slight angle so it looks less square/rectangle-like. That's it. No gradients, no more than two basic colors, no curves, nothing. If this is all our technology for developing images can do right here in 2012... then it looks like we're going backwards. But then, maybe that's the point: with Metro, Windows *is* making clear strides backwards in terms of usability, at least for those users of desktop, non-portable, non-touchscreen devices. So I guess in that way it does make sense; a hint at what's to come with our real-life experience of the future versions of Windows?
Microsoft's marketing department seems to be so desperate for change, so hell-bent on doing everything for everyone no matter what class of computer they use, and so desperate to change things drastically so they can spout new bullshit aside from the usual "faster, more intuitive, more secure than ever before" that they'll even dumb down their logo. Wow.
Edited 2012-02-18 00:29 UTC
This thing is, literally, just one light-blue rectangle, separated in the center both horizontally and vertically with two straight white lines, and at a very slight angle so it looks less square/rectangle-like. That's it. No gradients, no more than two basic colors, no curves, nothing. If this is all our technology for developing images can do right here in 2012... then it looks like we're going backwards.
Are you being serious with this? Do you want more gradients, rounded corners, gloss, striped backgrounds, colors and curves? Personally I'm glad those days are over (in the web design world). But I can not wrap my head around your assumption that better computing/graphics technology must yield fancier logos, and that a logo's fanciness has actually something to do with its quality.
That's not necessarily what I meant, although it's pretty hard to explain and I *knew* people would respond taking what I meant, and understanding it the exact opposite. Hell, even if I read it and--assuming I didn't even know what I was talking about--I would probably think the same. It's just one of those balancing acts that you just can't get right; my point is, too much complexity *or*, in this case, too much simplicity are both bad.
Take four light sky-blue sheets of construction paper and lay them down sideways, side-by-side and in two columns on a white surface--a desktop, floor, whatever. There you have it... that's it... the Windows 8 "logo". Maybe tape the sheets to the surface and hold one side up for the "angle" effect. The classic Windows logo is not a whole lot more in-your-face and complex than that (not too many curves, colors, gradiants, etc.), but with it there's no mistaking the brand and it looks nice; it was a lot more effective.
I'm not saying add all the fancy shit you can--just that this logo is so damn bland, it's pathetic (and laughable). What they had worked; why ruin it? Ironically, even the first Windows logo pictured in the article, I'd argue, is better; it had rounded corners and the white lines were not just slapped right through the center (for the most part).
Edited 2012-02-18 05:07 UTC
honestly it hurts to look at. the strange perspective of it, I mean.
and it hasn't gotten any easier to look at since the logo first leaked days ago.
for comparison: this guy on the windows blog was like "yo try this" http://www.flickr.com/photos/36724189@N05/6892887411/in/photostream or http://www.flickr.com/photos/36724189@N05/6892887709/in/photostream
not saying I'm married to his design. but it lacks some of the KNIFING ME IN THE EYE of the new microsoft windows logo design.
anyway, its done, so on with the show. insert windows 8 feature complete beta into my snozz please.
I can't believe people are actually whining about the perspective of the lines in this new logo. I suppose there will always be those who aren't happy unless they're spouting off about Microsoft. What's funny though is that if you want to cry about perspective, then you should realize both lines are technically incorrect. However, there's nothing 'wrong' with the logo. There is no such thing, their images may be anything they choose.
Is the logo simplistic? Yup. Are people reading way too much into it? Hell yup. I'm sure some of you will cringe when you hear this but the logo will do exactly what it needs to -- become widely recognized (thanks in part to the smart choice of colors).
My personal opinion is I neither like nor dislike it. I'm not impressed. I'm not disappointed. Beyond that I'll say it's silly some of you are so emotionally moved and so strongly opinionated over something that shouldn't have any relevance to you in the first place. *shrug*
I can't stop seeing a flashing black square where the white lines meet. I think Microsoft meant for that to be an optical illusion like this:
I for one am glad they don't feel the need to make it perfect aka unapproachable by critics. I'm sure Microsoft had ten times the amount of internal folks saying the same critical things said here, but they didn't feel the need to capitulate.
This logo is designed to have a Metro theme. But, Metro is primarily for running full-screen applications, or perhaps one primary application with a second docked to the side. The notion of a window with four panes is not applicable to Metro.
Maybe it should just be a solid sheet of glass instead...
If I had made this logo I wouldn't be so quick to take jabs at other companies, especially not those that are actually excelling at style.
Yeah well, you managed to make it dull as hell. It sure does not give me an impression of motion and style, quite the opposite.
It's too damn wide and if you make it narrower by removing the text you'd never know what it was.
I don't understand what's up with you all, this logo transmits a fantastic image of Windows 8 :
1/Ugly (Gratuitous and amateurish perspective, a blue that just doesn't feel right on a white background)
2/Unusable (Window with no handle)
3/Unproductive (Most productive use of the previous logos was in printer tests)
4/Locked-down (That window is closed, there's no easy way to open it, and you only get to see it from a side)
5/Misleading (Good luck getting 4 windows on your screen in that square layout with Win8)
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1/Ugly (Gratuitous and amateurish perspective, a blue that just doesn't feel right on a white background)
2/Unusable (Window with no handle)
3/Unproductive (Most productive use of the previous logos was in printer tests)
4/Locked-down (That window is closed, there's no easy way to open it, and you only get to see it from a side)
5/Misleading (Good luck getting 4 windows on your screen in that square layout with Win8)
All but no. 4 is really correct.
Now the funny thing, which strikes me right now, is that Windows 8 with Metro gets back to the roots of Windows 1.0 - no overlapping Windows any more and a logo that is similar in simplicity.
Actually having some clever desktop with non-overlapping windows seems to be a good idea to me, as long as the available space is used. This reminds me of the old music trackers for DOS at around 1995 which also had some sort of non-overlapping windows, such that you always had the information available that you need for a specific task. I really liked that concept and would love to give it a try with a modern operating system.
To me it looks like they took the windows 1 logo, made it even simpler ( windows are not different sizes anymore ) and rotated it.
I guess it represents the metro interface exactly, since with it you have even less options than in windows 1.
I really hope MSFT pushes windows 8 to everyone everywhere and makes it really hard for users to go back to windows 7 !
Disclaimer: I'm really not a fan of MSFT and i haven't used any of their products outside of a VM for a very long time.
These explanations for new logos - do they come from the design consultants (to help justify their costs) or from corporate HQ?
One of my favourites is BP's:
"The colours of the 'Helios' - named after the Greek god of the sun – suggest heat, light and nature. It is also a pattern of interlocking shapes: like BP, a single entity created by many different parts working as one."
Ugly it just is and that's undeniable. I wonder if the wrong perspective is meant to add something Escherian to the whole thing. It also looks like the flag of some Scandinavian country, which makes it quite unoriginal. A minimalistic logo for a product which is anything but uncomplicated and unencumbering.
It just didn't have the ability to overlap windows and preferred fulscreen modes for running programs. Sounds familiar? :-)
See screenshots of the v1 series of "Windows" (and the pre-release demos) here:
From that source: Rather than letting windows overlap or leaving part of the desktop empty, Microsoft Windows always gives all the space on the screen to the applications that are running.
After all, "tiling WM" sounds appropriate. :-)
Someone posted this link in an article about the new Windows logo on another site:
Good call, although judging by the other logos it was probably meant to be a joke, also the future Nokia logo seems to becoming reality aswell.
Compared to all the great logo designs in the World and that's what they have come up with? Lame!
This new logo is yet another statement of the companys obvious gross incompetence in the realm of graphic design.
After so many years of accumulated experience it's quite unnerving that improvements in design seem so unattainable for a company such as Microsoft. Seems like the blind are still leading the blind. Or in this case, the incompetent leading the incompetent.
Apple did this, too: their iconic rainbow apple, replaced with a flat vector shape. By making color not part of their logo, they make it easier to port recognizably... not to mention, they make it easier to render in a vector-based UI.
Doesn't mean it's a good move, but there's an obvious reason for it.
Comparing the new logo for WIN-8 with its predecessors, I have to wonder how much money was spent (hundreds of thousands? ... millions?) only to come up with something which hearkens back to Win-1, without being half as interesting.
As I understand it, Win-8 deprecates windowing anyway, why not just flat, matte blue panel, i.e. one pane sans sub-panels? ;-) None of my business anyway, I have no intention of getting a Win-8 only box. Enjoy, MS-fans!
And either way, the rough shape of window from Windows logo (~"cross" dividing it into 4 panels - hm, now I wonder if it had also some ~mythological inspiration in the Christendom) is far from universal nowadays ...didn't stop MS with the logo ;p
I keep thinking that Microsoft would be better off in moving away from the windows name, at least partially, with this next release.
for x86 market it as
Microsoft Metro (with Windows 8)
for ARM etc - simply
Microsoft Metro
It would be a clear break - good for consumers as they wouldn't be expecting the windows experience of the past. Since Metro doesn't have "windows" in a traditional sense then it seems crazy to give it that name.
Dropping the "with windows 8" part for the ARM version would make it pretty clear that customers shouldn't expect to run legacy win32 applications.
The term windows doesn't really reflect the nature of the OS any more - for clarity's sake and for customer expectations, they'd be better off calling a spade a spade.


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Manny Pacquiao's tireless agent, Michael Koncz, has no Ivy League background.
The Canadian is no blueblood and was not hatched with a silver spoon plus balut in his mouth.
He didn't even have any spoon. He's a working class guy, always has been.
But, like the hard-charging hockey defenseman who hustles and digs into the corner to get the puckhandler, Koncz is always on the move.
Right now, Koncz is just back from Singapore and getting ready to accompany the Pinoy Idol and Congressman from Sarangani to Los Angeles, New York, Washington and San Francisco for a media tour to hype the nearly sold out May 7 title defense against sagacious veteran Sugar Shane Mosley.
Ronnie Nathanielsz reported the details about Koncz and Pacman pal, powerful politician Luis "Chavit" Singson trekking to Singapore.
I asked Koncz if a fight in that Asian location might require Manny and Coach Freddie Roach to develop a new punch.
Yeah, that's right...the Singapore Sling...but without the tiny parasols. The "Manila Ice Singapore Sling" we could label it.
"We just got back last night," Koncz told me late Tuesday night by phone.
"It was OK. I've got no names to report to you, only to say these are solid, well-heeled business people, some of whom brought the F1 (auto racing) to Singapore.
"No doubt about them, they're a legitimate group. They're not casino or gambling people but Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas ower broker and casino mogul) has two casinos there," Koncz said.
(Adelson and promoter Bob Arum move in the same Vegas social circles.)
Will it be November? I don't know because we're totally focused on Mosley. As Manny keeps on saying, he's never fought anyone with as deep an amatuer background or with all the pro experience that Shane brings into the ring.
"For five, maybe six rounds, Mosley is very dangerous. In later rounds, yes his age might play a factor but not early on in the fight.
"I'm thrilled at how fast tickets sold (16,000 went out the MGM Grand window in 180 minutes) but I am not surprised. Despite what some critics have said, the public does not view Mosley as any kind of dead man, any opponent from the graveyard," Koncz said.
The agent said discussions with the Singapore group are not tied to a specific opponent or time frame. And the name Floyd Mayweather Jr. was never mentioned.
"This is about Manny giving back to the fans, to give fans who can't get to Dallas or to Las Vegas to have a chance to see him fight in person. I also think it keeps Manny excited and fresh, going to different countries and having a change of scenery.
"Mayweather, as far as we know now, is unavailable. So numbers we discussed in Singapore would change and change dramatically and drastically if Mayweather was the likely opponent."
Koncz said Pacman will arrive in LA Feb. 9, spend two days there and then continue on his dog and pony promotional schedule.
Koncz also reported that Pacquiao is in talks for a second video game endorsement with a creative backdrop away from his boxing exploits.
A group from Abu Dhabi is keen on doing this, according to Koncz.
Finally, in terms of Pacman perhaps visiting the Oval Office in Amercia's capital city, Koncz said the wheels are in motion.
"The two big factors are President Obama's schedule, of course, and then we requested Secret Service and all other necessary clearances for the four people in our group who would meet President Obama," Koncz said.
"We've already got a clear invitation to go to the US Senate floor as personal guests of Sen. Harry Reid.
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Art of War parent company SUN Sports & Entertainment Inc. has announced a deal with FOX Sports Net that will have the network air the promotion's new television series, "GI Vs. Pro."
The series, which will air nine new episodes over a three-month period on Saturday nights, will pit current and former MMA-trained armed services members against professional mixed martial arts fighters from around the country.
"MMA is on fire," said FSN VP of Production Gary Garcia. "This show, featuring intense battles between elite, fine-tuned athletes, is the perfect brand extension for the U.S. military to hit their target demo right between the eyes."
Jay Glazer and Frank Trigg, who have teamed up in the past as hosts of PRIDE Fighting Championships shows on FSN, will serve as the broadcast team for the series.
Art of War will hold one of the events that will be featured on the show on April 19th. Headlining the card will be Ron Faircloth challenging fellow heavyweight Damien Steely. Nick Agallar will take on Nuri Shakur in the co-main event.
Alexandre Franca Nogueira throws a right hand at Shuichiro Katsumura at a K-1 Hero's event in July 2007. Photo courtesy of FEG.
In a move that will surely bolster the WEC's featherweight division, World Extreme Cagefighting is reportedly close to signing former Shooto champion Alexandre Franca "Pequeno" Nogueira.
The news comes from Sherdog, who also reports that a proposed deal to join the ranks of the promotion also comes with an opponent as Nogueira would face BodogFight veteran Nick Agallar in his debut.
After upsetting Shooto star Noboru Asahi twice in his first three bouts, with the second giving Nogueira the featherweight belt, Nogueira would go on to hold championship gold for seven years until he was stripped of his title due to injury in May 2006.
Nogueira was long considered the world's best fighter at 145 lbs until he dropped consecutive fights to Koutetsu Boku and Hideo Tokoro respectively. His last fight was a knockout win over Shuichiro Katsumura at the opening round of K-1 Hero's middleweight tournament last July.
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If you've tuned into BodogFight on Ion Television, you know it goes through a full round of production before airing. Many camera angles, splashy backgrounds and a full round of editing.
I wondered how this event would be live. Ten fights in one night. A good-sized card taking place with no chance for edits or MTV-style cuts.
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Austin loves playing goalie. He had two great saves, even if one was a shot straight to the stomach.
Connor has surprised me with his speed. He doesn't always know where he's supposed to be, but he sure can get there fast when he needs to!
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HAuing treated of Wardes in London, on the North ſide of the Thames (in number 25.) I am now to croſſe ouer the ſaid Riuer into the Borough of Southwark, which is alſo a Warde of London, without the walles, on the South ſide thereof, as is Portſoken on the Eaſt, and Faringdon extra on the Weſt.
This Borough being in the County of Surrey, conſiſteth of diuers ſtreetes, wayes, and winding lanes, all full of buildings, inhabited: and firſt to begin at the WEſt part thereof, ouer againſt the weſt Suburbe of the Citie.
On the banke of the Riuer Thames there is now a continuall building of tenements, about halfe a mile in length to the bridge. Then from the Bridge ſtraight towards the South a continuall ſtreete, called long Southwarke, builded on both ſides with diuers lanes and alleyes up to S. Georges church, and beyond it through Blackman ſtreete towardes New Town (or Newington) the liberties of which Borough extend almoſt to the parriſh Church of New town aforeſaid, diſtant one mile from London Bridge, and alſo ſouthweſt a continuall building, almoſt to Lambeth more then one mile form the ſaid bridge.
Then from the bridge along bythe Thames Eaſtwarde, is ſaint Olaues ſtreet hauing continuall building on both the ſides, with lanes and alleyes up to Battle bridge, to Horſedowne, and towardes Rother hith: alſo ſome good halfe mile in length from London bridge.
So that I account the whole continual buildings on the banke of the ſaid riuer, from the weſt towardes the eaſt to be more then a large mile in length.
Then haue ye from the entering towards the ſaid Horſedown one other continuall ſtreete called Bermondes eye ſtreete, which ſtretcheth ſouth, likewiſe furniſhed with buildinges on both ſides, almoſt halfe a mile in length, up to the late diſſolued Monaſterie of S. Sauiour called Bermondſey. And from thence is one long lane (ſo called of the length) turning weſt to ſaint Georges church afore named. Out of which lane mentioned Long lane breaketh one other ſtreete towardes the ſouth and by eaſt, and this is called Kentiſh ſtreete for that is the way leading into that countrie: and ſo haue you the bounds of this Borough.
- Stow, John. A suruay of London· Conteyning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that city, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow citizen of London. Since by the same author increased, with diuers rare notes of antiquity, and published in the yeare, 1603. Also an apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that citie, the greatnesse thereof. VVith an appendix, contayning in Latine Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. London: John Windet, 1603. STC 23343. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus) copy Reprint. Early English Books Online. Web.
- Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. [Also available as a reprint from Elibron Classics (2001). Articles written before 2011 cite from the print edition by volume and page number.]
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An Indian Paramilitary force has busted two wildlife smugglers carrying pangolin scales toward the Myanmar border.
The Times of India reported on the Assam Rifles' recent bust, explaining that the duo were illegally transporting twelve kilograms of pangolin scales and appeared to be moving toward the border town of Moreh.
Myanmar is a known smuggling route, popular amongst wildlife traffickers transporting contraband to and from China.
Last November, the Rifles also seized fourteen kilograms of scales from a pair of suspects near Moreh, but the outcome of their criminal proceedings is unknown.
This appears to be India's first pangolin bust so far this year.
Media reported on at least eight in 2011, which amounted to no fewer than 700 of the scaly anteaters in sum — and perhaps as many as almost 1,000.
Interestingly, it seems that it is mostly the animals' scales that are moving through India, as scales alone (no bodies, no flesh) were sized in all but one of the eight incidents.
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An estimated 41,000 (and perhaps as many as 60,000) pangolins were poached from the wild in 2011 alone.
The demand for these insectivorous mammals stems primarily from China and Vietnam, where their flesh considered a delicacy and is also consumed for perceived "health benefits", such as kidney nourishment.
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There is no scientific evidence to support any of the medicinal claims made about pangolin body parts.
In fact, rhino horn and pangolin scales, much like our own hair and nails, are chiefly composed of keratin and studies have repeatedly shown rhino horn to be void of any curative properties.
Demand for pangolin parts is likely being stimulated by lucrative pangolin farming ventures in China. (Read more about it here.)
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The Jolson Mystique
by John Kenrick
He was billed as "the world's greatest entertainer," and critics invariably concurred with this claim. Al Jolson won acclaim in every entertainment genre of his time stage, screen, radio and recordings. However, when watching his films or listening to his recorded performances today, many are left wondering what all the fuss was about. Jolson's oversized emotions seem corny, and his frequent use of blackface makeup strikes us as offensive. What was the secret was to Al Jolson's appeal? Although Al Jolson came to fame barely a century ago, America's cultural mindset was vastly different from ours.
A Night With Jolson
Try to see yourself catching Jolson in one of his hit shows. It is March of 1916, and you've just come in from the clamor of Times Square to the posh warmth of The Winter Garden, so named because its spacious interior suggests the open air rooftop gardens theatergoers frequent on summer nights. The crowd around you is certainly posh, with tuxedoed men and bejeweled, satin-gowned women packing the main floor and the mezzanine above. A blend of exotic perfumes and cigar smoke fills the air smoking in theatres is, after all, quite legal.
A quick look at your program tells you the show is called Robinson Crusoe Jr., but the title hardly matters. Same goes for names of the authors, as well as the songs and skits they've written. Everyone packing the house tonight is here for just one reason Al Jolson. Ever since he made his Broadway debut on this same stage five years ago in La Belle Paree, he's been the toast of New York. Everybody who is anybody has come here to see what all the fuss is about, and they invariably wind up cheering for this little man who smears his face with burnt cork and belts songs all the way to the back rows. Those who see his shows multiple times delight in the new gags and songs he interpolates to keep things fresh. Many have caught him sans blackface in one of his Sunday night concerts, where his solo turns often hold audiences in thrall for an hour or more. No one ever complains when Jolson sings, time is irrelevant.
The house lights dim, and you settle in to enjoy the show. There's a quick overture and the usual disposable opening chorus number, but no one pays much attention. Its far more fun to note which celebrities are on hand, and to see which are accompanied by someone other than their wives. Suddenly, the energy on stage changes, and Jolson makes his entrance to tumultuous applause. He stands, basking in the sound, the broad line of white around his mouth accenting his shameless grin. But it's the eyes that get you. Without saying a word, the jolt of his glance hits everyone in the room, and the cheering somehow gets even louder.
At moments like this, you've seen him set the script aside and simply sing the night away, but it's still too early in the evening for that. After all, everyone will want to see what predicaments Jolson's resourceful character "Gus" will have to get himself out of tonight. He's a millionaire's chauffeur in Act One, but when his boss dreams of being the fictional castaway Robinson Crusoe, Gus turns into faithful man Friday. They then pass inexplicably (this is a dream, after all) from tropical island to a castle, a pirate ship and even a harem where Gus masquerades as a girl named Fatima. There are plenty of opportunities for laughs, and Jolson makes the most of every one of them
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PILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans has been transformed into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world.
With a hip music track, never-before-seen archival footage and a story-telling style that features young and old, reveals how the Japanese American community reclaimed a national experience that had almost been deleted from public understanding.PILGRIMAGE shows how the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage now has new meaning for diverse generations who realize that when the US government herded thousands of innocent Americans into what the government itself called concentration camps, it was failure of democracy that would affect all Americans.