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Community Relations News - January + February 2012>Table of Contents1. Daily Deviations2. Bi-weekly Critique Nights3. Volunteer Openings4. Share Your Opinions5. Community Projects6. Official Contests7 Project Educate 2011/20128. Art History9. News from the Galleries1. Daily DeviationsRecently, I announced changes to Daily Deviations in this journal and I'm happy to say that the response has been favorable. To review, we have made the following changes:a> The "3-month rule" is now the "6-month rule" meaning an artist cannot receive another DD if they have had one in the last 6 months.b> Daily Deviation selectors are limited to a maximum of one selection per day. This has been put in place to focus on quality vs quantity.The hard-coding of these new guidelines is now in place (special thanks to $ZombieCoder for that ). These changes are part of an ongoing initiative to better our Dai
Pimps and Whoas - March 22, 2012PimpsOfficial dA News Scrap Trap Update The Helpdesk year in review Welcoming New Community Volunteers Cthulhu is Still Calling Alicexz - Living Rainbow Taking Flight
Community Relations Newsletter - March/April 2012Table of Contents1. Gallery Clean Up Project2. Feedback3. Volunteer Openings4. Share Your Opinions5. Community Projects6. Official Contests7 Project Educate 2011/20128. Art History Project9. Gallery Description Project10. News from the Chats and Forums11. News from the Galleries1. Gallery Clean-up ProjectThe Gallery Clean-up Project will focus on literally cleaning up the category tree in several ways. This first part of this project, is all behind the scenes. Over the years there have been categories that have been "removed", merged, or changed and there are back-end changes that need to be done to fully remove them from the tree. This part will not affect you, and if everything goes properly, you won't even notice it The second part of this will be ensuring that the categories are all accepting the correct file-types. If there is a file-type that isn't being allowed in a particular category or
Photography Weekly: Edition SeventeenPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD" Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."– Henri Cartier-BressonLots of people quote the above at me when I start to moan that I've taken a billion photographs on a specific day and none of them turned out to be worth anything. The truth is you might take a thousand or you might take 4 photographs before you unearth something that's recognized, liked and respected. It doesn't matter either way because you're creating first and foremost for yourself. When you start to take money for your hobby is when you need to look at technique, skills and actual finished product to ensure that you are meeting the sort of quality criteria needed. So whilst the quote is a famous thought - provoking one - it isn't necessarily true!With the Seventeenth edition of Photography weekly upon us I'd like to just emphasize that the support given is wonderful, the feedback is fantastic and the general stats o
Seniority Announcement - June 2012This article marks the latest announcements detailing the latest additions to the dizzy height of Senior members in our community. With just over 900 deviants holding the highly saught after ` -- it's clearly a moment that deserves recognition.:faq29:So what does it take to become a Senior? That's a question many have asked and have never really been able to get a straight answer on. Some have gained Seniority as a thank you for their time spent as a Volunteer, or to recognise their contribution to a particular project or collaborative action. Some have gained Seniority because of their community spirit, providing help and assistance to many other deviants and taking time out to promote the work of others in the community. Some people have received Seniority because of their artistic endevours, having a positive influence on their peers by sharing resources, providing constructive criticism and by being a voice t
Self Harm Awareness day 1st March 2012 Today marks an awareness day over a subject that can mean many things to many people. Self Harm (or Self Injury) is the act of physical damage to oneself, usually as a coping strategy for expressing deep distress or coping in difficult situations. Self harm commonly is associated with cutting, but can also refer to any physical damage to the self including burning, hitting, taking overdoses, swallowing chemicals, bleaching, hair pulling ( trichotilliomania), scratching and so forth.You may know what it is, but it is often the reasons why that people are not familiar with. There is still this belief and stereotype surrounding the type of person likely to harming them-self, but the truth is, it could be anyone no matter what gender, culture or age. The reasons behind self harm can be such a huge variety- different people cope in different ways with different distresses. Such issues that may trigger self harm might be bullying, t
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Pimps and Whoas - October 26, 2012PimpsOfficial dA News Odyssey Update 1 Dante's Inferno - What's the Worst that Can Happen? Witch, Sorceress, Enchantress Site Update - Literature Apperance, Sta.sh Writer Site Update: More Like This Updates
Pimps and Whoas - February 9, 2012PimpsOfficial dA News Celebrating Deviousness - February 2012 Pin Up From Objectification to Empowerment The Great Valentine Exchange Site Update Comment Counts on Thumbs and More Giving Your Stacks an Introduction
Pimps and Whoas - January 28, 2012PimpsOfficial dA News Odyssey Into 2012 - In Retrospect Introducing the deviantART Collection on Fotolia Size Does Matter - Artisan Crafts News For My Own Safety Site Updates Week 2 of 2012 Popular Results for Browse The Resource Roundup 4:bulle
Daily Deviations UpdateHappy Monday Morning I started this morning by signing something "Moonbam13" so either this typo means I need more coffee, or this week is going to be BAMTASTIC!I'm rooting for the latter I wanted to post a quick update on changes to Daily Deviations. It is important to note that these changes have not been hard-coded so my team is manually following these new guidelines. This means that errors can and likely will occur until the coding is complete, your patience and understanding is appreciated The following guideline changes are in effect: The 3-month rule is now the 6-month rule, meaning that it must be at least 6-months since the last time an artist received a daily deviation. (This was an overwhelmingly popular suggestion from the community and I agree, it's a good one!) Daily deviation selectors may only select one daily deviation per day maximum. This has been put in place to focus on Quality vs Quantity.
April's Challenge: Stalk a $taffer or CV ResultsIn April, we asked group members to stalk a CV or $taff member to help dispel the myth that these people are too important for everyday deviants to get to know. In fact, many of them produce great art and have fun personalities just like you and me! Here's what we found out:Staffers:iconmoonbeam13: $Moonbeam13Name: Danielle Ward (Danie)Location: CanadaJoined DeviantART: October 19, 2003Role: Director of Community RelationsRegular Articles: Community Relations Newsletter | Pimps and Whoas | Discovered$Moonbeam13 is Unique Because: *MissMorticia writes: "Way back in 2005 when I first started using dA, I remember coming across :dev
Spirit Day 2012"Ultimately, I want Spirit Day to make just one person feel little bit better about his or herself, to feel safe enough in their own skin and to be proud of who they are" - Brittany McMillanIn memory of the young LGBT people who lost their lives to suicide, Brittany encouraged her friends to wear purple on a day in October -- a day that came to be known as Spirit Day. Since then, GLAAD has helped turn Spirit Day into a global event that inspires millions of individuals, celebrities, TV personalities, media outlets, companies and schools to wear purple in a stand against bullying.While Spirit Day does focus on the LGBT community, I believe that it's anti-bullying message is relevant to every community. It only get's better, if we take the pledge to make it so. Practice compassion and understanding, and treat others how you would like to be treated and we can make a difference. Show your support for this anti-bullying me
Celebrating Deviousness - March 2012 Deviousness Award Deviousness Award Congratulations to `RockstarVanity Spirit AJ Stellar What is this Awesome Achievement?The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant. The dawning of each new month brings a new Deviousness recipient, and we're sure you'll agree that `RockstarVanity is very deserving of the award for March 2012. `RockstarVanity's gallery is filled with striking, vibrant photography and endless inspiration. Throughout her time as a Community Volunteer, Tanya promoted positivity whilst providing constructive
Literature CR Update - April 2012Hello all! As you've probably guessed by the title of the journal and the Community Relations journal skin, this is the monthly update from the literature community volunteers.Farewell and New!As with previous months, April saw some changes to the team, and so if you've not already done so, please send some love and thanks to `Alexander-GG, `kuschelirmel, `LabyrinthCreations, `Nyiana-Sama, and `ScENeYmE for their work as volunteers! Also, `anmari is now watching over the Architecture Photography gallery along with her chat/forum duties!Lit CentralApril is the cruellest month for writers taking part in NaPoWriMo and Script Frenzy, but that certainly didn't stop community activity! Here's some of what went on during the past month:General lit news:April's Literature DDs
Gallery Description ProjectMost of you probably are aware that deviantART has a lot of categories. As you've seen over the past few months, we volunteers, in coordination with $Moonbeam13, often help to orchestrate various changes in category structure in order to make the submission and browsing experiences simpler and more advantageous for the community.That said, there's another aspect of categories which, sadly, often have been overlooked. I'm referring to the Gallery Descriptions. Over time, gallery descriptions have fallen into disarray, leaving many categories with old and outdated descriptions, others with incorrect descriptions, and yet others without a description at all.At the moment, gallery descriptions are most prominent when submitting new deviations. However, as part of this project, we hope that they will become more evident as you browse the site. One of our goals is to make a simple, navigable category structure focusing on descriptions that are clear, concise, and consistent.


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It's down to the wire now for the five contenders who have been shortlisted for the ultimate individual accolade in northern hemisphere rugby, ERC European Player of the Year 2013.
"I had the pleasure of working with Kris when I was in charge at Saracens," said executive director of sport Steve Diamond.
"He has a great work ethic, is good in the lineout and is a very tough, uncompromising player. He has been playing well for Toulon since his move to France last year. This is another piece of my jigsaw completed with lots more signings to come."
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A lawyer, chartered secretary, coach, facilitator and accredited Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution mediator, Tesse works with knowledge of company secretarial matters, governance,leadership challenges and group dynamics.
Tesse is interested in change management, board development, personal development, strategic diversity and relationship management. She works with boards to enhance their effectiveness and to minimise and manage risk. She has served as an equal opportunities commissioner. A consultant with OnBoard (a division of Bates, Wells and Braithwaite Solicitors) and an approved National Council for Organisations consultant. A trainer with Independent Theatre Council, she is an associate of the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at City University's business school and of the Centre for Strategy and Communication. Tesse has been appointed as consultant to Marga Inc, based in New York, USA and of Partners for Innovation based in Ohio, USA.
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This is the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete.
Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics.
Then Babe attempted to conquer golf.
One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world.
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There are a number of proposals for improving TCP performance coming out of Google that have some implications for FreeBSD. These proposals have taken the form of a group of IETF proposals, RFCs, patches to the Linux kernel, and research publications. A nice summary of the different initiatives is available from Lets Make TCP Faster on the Google Code Blog.
TCP Fast Open by Radhakrishnan, Cheng, Chu, Jain, and Raghavan is based on the observation that modern web services are dominated by TCP flows so short that they terminate a few round trips after handshaking. This means that the 3-way TCP handshake is a significant source of latency for such flows, and they describe a new mechanism for secure data exchange during the initial handshake to reduce some of the round-trip network transmission and associated latency for such short TCP transfers. This work shares many goals and challenges with T/TCP, which was previously in FreeBSD but suffered from some security vulnerabilities.
David Malone posted some thoughts on my Google+ post about how FreeBSD could implement the various changes. Maybe we could have some Summer of Code students work in this area this summer?
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Updated TCP Proposals and FreeBSD
Friday, August 19, 2011
Two New Videos: SuperPages and NanoBSD
Thanks to Kirk McKusick, I'm happy to announce two new fully edited high quality videos from BSDCan 2011 in the BSD Conferences YouTube channel. I've also created a new playlist for the BSDCan 2011 videos.
The first talk is "Superpages in FreeBSD" by McKusick, and it describes the addition of superpage support to the FreeBSD 8 kernel on the Intel PC architecture. Superpages aggregate together standard-sized hardware pages into much larger "superpages". Each superpage requires only one entry in the page table replacing the numerous entries used by the standard-sized hardware pages.
The second talk is "Updates from NanoBSD: FreeNAS drives NanoBSD development" from Warner Losh, and it describes the basics of NanoBSD and how FreeNAS moved over to NanoBSD.
We now have 108 high-quality videos in the BSD Conferences channel. These videos have been watched in aggregate over 400,000 times, and our most popular video remains McKusick's FreeBSD Kernel Internals Lecture.
As a reminder, this channel was setup specifically for the BSD technical community and does not have the standard limitations on video size for other types of YouTube uploads. If you have additional video content from a conference, presentation, or class about BSD Unix please get in touch and I'd be happy to help you publish the content here.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Luigi Talks Netmap on Google Tech Talks Channel
Last week, Luigi Rizzo visited Google and gave a talk on high-speed networking with Netmap.
This was Luigi's second talk at Google and the third talk about FreeBSD in the Google Tech Talks YouTube channel. We also have more than 100 videos available in the BSD Conferences channel.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
FreeBSD at GSoC Mentor Summit
As in previous years, Google held a "Mentor Summit" to bring together representatives from the open source organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code to share experiences of what worked, what didn't, and generally learn from each other about shepherding students through the program. The mentor summit is always run Unconference-style and it is a great opportunity to meet, learn, and socialize with the many other open source organizations.
In addition to several hours of face to face FreeBSD-related catch-up with Brooks Davis over pizza and beer, I particularly enjoyed catching up with old colleagues and learning about the current state of a variety of other open source projects I use such as R, Boost, NTP, and Ganeti.
This weekend Brooks and I were the only FreeBSD representatives. Given that I'm local and Google sponsors the travel of 2 representatives from each open source organization it's quite unfortunate we couldn't get another FreeBSD mentor here this year. I would strongly encourage some of the other mentors that have never participated in this forum to volunteer to represent FreeBSD next year. This program has funded approximately 117 students to work on FreeBSD over the past 5 years and the mentor summit is best way I know of to improve the experience for students and open source projects next year.
Thanks again to all the FreeBSD mentors that worked with students this summer and hope to see some of you at the post-GSoC Mentor Summit next year...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
FreeBSD Summer of Code Students Highlighted on Google Blog
As in previous years, I've posted a summary of FreeBSD Project participation in Google Summer of Code on the Google Open Source Blog.
By my count we have now mentored at least 117 students on FreeBSD development through this program. As in previous years it was tough to identify a few student projects to highlight given how much cool work is going on here. My list is certainly not complete but at least a few other people mentioned that Efstratios Karatzas, Zheng Liu, and David Forsythe had done a lot of excellent work this summer. Hats off to them, all the students and mentors this summer, and Brooks and Robert for serving as administrators of this whole thing for us.
Friday, August 20, 2010
MeetBSD 2010 Videos in HD on YouTube
Thanks to Tomasz Dudzisz we now have 14 videos from MeetBSD 2010 in Poland. Tomasz has created a playlist for the BSD Conferences YouTube channel, or you can select a video directly from the list below. These videos are all in HD quality and most are in English and a few are in Polish. Thanks Tomasz and the MeetBSD organizers for being so organized with the video recordings again this year.
Sławek Żak - NoSQL
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
BSDCan on Google's Open Source Blog
A coworker of mine, Kirk Russell, just posted an excellent summary of BSDCan through the years on the Google Open Source Blog.
I wasn't able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google's open source blog.
Kirk and I haven't worked closely together but we both do our best at evangelizing BSD and open source inside our respective corners of the company. It's great to see his post about all the excellent work happening in the BSD community on a corporate blog.


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Discover Canada's Prime Ministers
Learn more about Canada's 22 Prime Ministers since Confederation in 1867. Each Prime Minister has had a major impact on the lives of Canadians, helping to shape Canada's identity. The films in this selection span a number of years and a variety of topics, by exploring the films and the associated resources, learners will gain a rich understanding of the role of Canada's Prime Ministers throughout Canadian history and today.
Overview of Canada's Prime Ministers
• Sir John A. Macdonald
• Alexander Mackenzie
• Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
• Sir John Sparrow David Thompson
• Sir Mackenzie Bowell
• Sir Charles Tupper
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• Sir Robert Laird Borden
• Arthur Meighen
• William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Richard Bedford Bennett
• Louis Stephen St. Laurent
• John George Diefenbaker
• Lester Bowles Pearson
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Antivirus performed well in malware removal test, very well in malware blocking test. Firewall resists tampering. Parental control filters HTTPS sites, works on any browser. Includes performance tuneup. 5GB of online backup. Can back up to any local, network, or removable drive.
- Cons Installation on malware-infested systems required hours of remote-control work by tech support. Spam filter discarded much valid mail. Parental control easily evaded, even by a child with a Limited account. Old-school firewall missed most leak tests.
Bottom Line
The main window for BullGuard Internet Security 2013 sticks to the basics; scan the system, check status, and manage backup, with a dashboard for other features. The antivirus component performed well in testing, other components not so much. While it's a definite improvement over the previous edition, this suite still needs work.
Porous Parental Control
The parental control system goes just a bit beyond the basics. Besides content filtering and Internet time scheduling, it can schedule overall computer use, block IM communication, and prevent use of specific programs. It does have a few problems, though.
Parents configure the system separately for each Windows user account. The content filtering component includes 24 categories of potentially inappropriate content, arranged in four major groups. Parents can choose by group, pick individual categories, or select one of three predefined age-based profiles.
If you choose an account with Administrator privilege, you'll get a warning that parental controls should be used only on Standard / Limited accounts. Many parents give the kids Administrator privilege just to avoid the hassle of stepping in for every game installation. Those kids will easily wipe out BullGuard's parental control. A simple three word network command disables it, for example.
Parents can choose to limit either Internet use or overall computer use to times specified on a full-week grid in one-hour increments. There's also an option to set a cap for each day of the week. Here again, a child whose account has Administrator privilege can fool the scheduler by resetting the system clock.
By default, BullGuard blocks access to a number of popular instant messaging solutions, including general Web-based chat. My contacts at the company confirmed that this feature affects the protocol, not just the specific IM client, so the kids couldn't get around it by using an IM aggregator like Trillian.
There's also an option to block access to any parent-specified program. I tested this one out and verified that you can't fool the system by moving or renaming the blocked program. Parents can also set the system to block transmission of too-personal information, like home address and phone number.
Even for a child who has a Limited account, the parental control system has some serious holes. It doesn't try to block anonymizing proxy sites, so any child who finds one of these can go anywhere on the Web without being blocked or monitored. I thought at first that it doesn't block secure HTTPS sites, because I had no trouble finding secure pages displaying unclad young ladies and bared breasts. Eventually I did see it block a secure Twitter page.
If you truly need parental control, go get a standalone parental control system like PCMag Editors' Choice AVG Family Safety. BullGuard does do more than some suite parental control components, but its inability to handle Administrator accounts, spotty filtering of HTTPS sites, and lack of a blocking category for anonymizing proxies limit its usefulness.
Performance Enhancement
Many modern security suites include what they call Game Mode. Any time a full-screen application is running, the suite suppresses popup notifications and postpones scans and other background tasks. BullGuard takes a different approach, engaging Game Mode when it detects specific programs running. It comes with 30 predefined profiles, and you can add your own. Each profile offers fine-tuned configuration of just what security actions will and won't occur while the game is running.
When you launch the PC Tune Up scanner, BullGuard checks your computer for a variety of possible performance slowdowns. It will locate useless temporary files and broken Registry items, report whether you need to defragment the Registry, and identify a number of other settings that could enhance performance. You can click for details in each category or just proceed with cleanup.
BullGuard also offers a startup manager that lets you reversibly disable programs that launch at startup. It's not quite as fancy as Norton's startup manager, which reports the prevalence and resource usage for each startup item and lets you delay startup for some items.
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There are several things that can make you consider using Safari as your Leopard web browser. Let's take a look at them.
Webclip is newly released tool for Safari. With Webclip, you can pick portion of your favorite web pages as an new Dashboard widget. Webclip is located next to the reload button.
I have taken the snapshot for illustrating how the webclip can benefit us. In picture, you will see that I've three widgets for my dashboard, the clock, web browser game, and Hot in Apple upcoming stories on Digg. Therefore, I can monitor the upcoming stories as well as the development of my village in browser game. This is just an example, you don't have to take it seriously.
Apple claims that Safari browsing speed is 1.43, which is 3 times faster than Firefox with 4.52 and 6 times faster than Opera 9.
Gaining RSS Feeds of certain website using Safari is easier than ever now. Safari provides us with RSS button, which is located at the rightmost of the address bar, and it's easy to use.
Bookmarks Bar, which is other handy stuff in Safari, can help you create new bookmark in instant and also can help you refer back to your bookmarks really quick. You will have your top 9 bookmarks assigned to shortcut from Command-1 to Command-9 which will be a great help for you.
Unfortunately, Safari still got a few display issues.
Safari's Standard Font, that can be set inside Safari ▸ Preferences ▸ Appearance, sometimes can ruin the whole display because Safari renders the webpage using this user-defined font, which overwrites the original CSS.
Safari Option Bar cannot work properly in some webpages, such as the sorting feature of Digg.
Perhaps this is Flash compatibility, somehow I cannot manage to use the Share feature of Digg using Safari.
I hope that there will be immediate solution for these issues.
Some articles taken from our resource base, tightly related to current article, to empower you with more knowledge on tweaking the most out of your Mac.
Regarding Safari's speed, benchmarks were cheated a bit, because Safari tells script that it had finished loading the page _before_ rendering, while other browsers do it _after_ rendering. http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.html So they were not quite, ekhm, correct at the time of writing. With new Opera version coming out they'll be way off: http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/
No problem with Safari 3.0.4 on Leopard 10.5.1 for me. Sorry. Regarding the problems.
What's the game you're playing in that web clip?
i don't need benchmark tests to know that apple is bulls***ting about safari's speed. safari 3 is faster than FF in 10.4 (on a G4 PB), but would never touch opera...
The game that I played inside that webclip is called travian. It's a strategy game, so I don't need to waste much time on it but can still get some entertainment.
We just need to stick to our favorite browsers. I usually use Firefox for its developer tools plugins and Safari for browsing the web.
After updating to 10.5.1 I've got Safari issues like ages not loading properly or doing searches on different sites. I force quit and it tells me Safari is not responding - obviously as it's hung in the process of seaching. Happened about 10 times now. Anyone got issues with leopard 10.5.1 and Safari? I'm running a Mac Mini G4 1.4Ghz 80GB HD and 1GB Ram.
We have two MacMinis home and they got very slow after having installed Leopard. With Tiger, there were no problems at all. Performace of the Windows laptop did not chance (validating that it reallly is hte Leopard). I had installed the beat verison of Safari with Tiger before, again there were no issues.


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Entries are now open online for the RYA Eric Twiname Youth and Junior Team Racing Championship 2012, which are set to descend on Oxford Sailing Club, Farmoor Reservoir, on the weekend of the 20 – 21 October 2012.
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West Kirby Sailing Club were crowned champions in the U19 Youth class for a staggering fourth year running at last year's Championships, so with this in mind rival teams will be determined to topple the reigning champions come October. 'Bluefin' were crowned 2011 Junior Team Racing champions for the second consecutive year, will the under 16 sailors from Burghfield, Cardiff Bay and Penarth be able to retain the title for a third year running or will there be a new champion in the making?
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The Christmas break has allowed me to play a fair few games although only a couple made it to completion. The first game I finished was Alan Wake. It's a game that's interested me for a while as it's an 'adventure' not a platformer and didn't look to be straight up shooter so I thought it would be something different to the norm. My first impressions of the game were positive as I like the narrative style and the graphics were good but not outstanding. As I got into the game it soon became clear that this is a game that was made for the story with some decent game play to move it along. Unfortunately didn't really get engrossed in the story and was more interested in how the game played.
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Whilst I breezed through the cutscenes and dialogue, I did get a good appreciation for what was a fairly novel storyline (get it 'novel', he's a writer...nevermind) without the need to read/listen to all the manuscripts and watch the TV shows etc. I did like what they were doing by creating a 'believable' world (for lack of a better term) that was pretty well rounded.
This was also one of the first games where I've bothered to play the DLC. I got it in one of the sales about a year or so ago and as I'd already bought the game, thought it would be worth spending the money at the time in the hope I liked the game. Whilst the two additional episodes didn't really add anything of massive benefit for me personally, I think I enjoyed them more than the main game. Although it used a few of the same locations, they were done differently enough for it not to matter. The addition of needing to shine your torch on words to turn them into items/distractions/lights etc was great as it ramped up the tension and added some strategy to some sections by making the player decide when to use them or whether to use them at all.
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I'm still a bit torn on the idea of the point and click/minimal gameplay genre as I often prefer to ignore boring stories and just get to the action. TWD has a story so good though I often got annoyed when I actually had to do something as it generally meant the story stalled until you finished the fetch quest/mini puzzle and then picked up again once you'd done that. The art style of the game was excellent and will obviously have helped to keep the game flowing between cutscene and game play sections. I played through it as nice as I could be and saved pretty much everyone. Apocalypse TV shows and films really do annoy me that there are so few humans left and they are happily content to just kill each other. I'm sure given the situation there is a need to look after number one, but I'm fairly certain not so many people need to die.
My only real concern with the game is that the decision making often didn't really make enough of a difference to affect the outcome of the game. I suppose I expected too much but the game is actually quite linear and even when you make a decision, the same outcome often happened whichever option you went for. Whilst playing it through though, this is of little concern as every outcome was amazing to watch so it wasn't really noticeable. That's about all that was wrong with it and it's not a major enough concern to even hinder the game being one of my favourites of the year.
I gave the episodes varying scores between 7.5 and 8.5. Although I think it's an amazing game, there's still room to improve for season two and I'd find it hard to score a game higher than that with so little game play. Next up in my pile of un-played games is Red Dead Redemption which I'll most likely start tomorrow. Not a bad way to kick of the new year if it's as good as I've heard it is.
With it being the last day of 2012 I guess I could round up my best games of the year. I haven't actually played that many this year. Only in last few months have I really got back into gaming and that's mostly been clearing out my back catalogue of games I bought before I stopped playing games for ages. With that being said, the only game I actually played in 2012, that came out in 2012 was The Walking Dead so I guess that wins by default! Out of the games I played in 2012 that didn't come out in 2012, my top three by the rating I gave them would be 3. Too Human 2. Rage 1. The Saboteur. Although I thought The Saboteur was just perfect for me and would at least be in my top 5 in any year, as you can see I've not exactly had a stellar year! This year I plan to buy a lot more games closer to release and I'll also have got through the majority of my back catalogue out of the way so I can focus on the newer games.


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It may be a little hard to see, but The Herbal Husband found this insect shell attached to a raspberry leaf the other day. He always likes to scare/surprise me with these little gems! The more scared I am, the better! He thinks it's a bee molt, but I'm not sure. I'm thinking it's a cicada. Click on the picture to enlarge it. I'm going to a Master Gardener recognition ceremony in a little while and I'm going to take it there. See what my fellow master gardeners think! You can take a guess if you want and I'll let you know later. P.S. Tufa Girl is correct. It is a cicada skeleton!
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I'm thinking cicada.
- September 13, 2009 at 6:18 PM
- lemonverbenalady said...
You are correct, Cindy! My colleague on Gardenline agreed with you and me! She said it reminded of her of Iowa as a little girl with a periodical cicada outbreak. Thanks for guessing!
- September 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- comfrey cottages said...
we see these pretty regularly here nancy! a bee molt? what is that?
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The dear Herbal Husband thought it looked like a bee! What can I say! I just try to keep him on course! LOL! Hugs to you for stopping by Leslie!
- September 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM
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What's the title of the last book you read?
What's the title of the last book you bought?
And, yes, e-books count.
I'm an author. My "in" box overflows each day with stuff that makes me wonder about the reading habits, if any, of my fellow Americans. Many seem to be wallowing in political conspiracy theories and expressing themselves using dubious grammar — both possible signs they aren't reading enough.
So ... Do you read books?
Do your children read books?
Is there a bookshelf in your home?
Do the members of your family enjoy reading not for the purpose of preparing for a test, not with the motive of securing a promotion in the workplace, but for the sheer joy of languishing on the sofa with a good story?
Between 2009 and 2012, I made 700 appearances at book signing events. I formed the impression, from observing the crowds, that while the youngest members of our population are curious and want to learn, their parents are holding them back.
I can't document the source but I've read the United States declined from No. 1 to No. 37 in literacy among the nations of the world between 1945 and 2005.
A 2010 survey by the Ralston Institute, a nonpartisan California think tank, concluded 2 million college-educated, adult Americans between ages 28 and 42 do not own a single book unless it was required for school or work. Those are the parents I mentioned.
A 2002 study by the National Center for Educational Statistics found 21 to 23 percent of adult Americans — or some 40 to 44 million of the 191 million adults in this country a decade ago — demonstrated literacy skills at the lowest level. These adults, the study told us, could perform "simple, routine tasks involving brief and uncomplicated texts and documents. For example, they were able to total an entry on a deposit slip, locate the time or place of a meeting on a form, and identify a piece of specific information in a brief news article." Some were unable to perform even these types of tasks and some had such limited literacy they were unable to respond to much of the survey.
As recently as just a few short years ago, my neighbors in Oakton had four bookstores nearby: Barnes & Noble in Fairfax, Borders in Fairfax, Borders Express in Fair Oaks Mall and Books-A-Million in the Oakton Shopping Center. The Borders outlet in Fairfax was making money but its parent company was not: When Borders Group, Inc., filed for bankruptcy Feb. 16, 2011, the company shuttered 20 percent of all bookstores in America, as measured by market value, in one overnight swoop.
Today, only Barnes in Fairfax survives. Thanks to a major shift in retail in recent times, you can now purchase books at Costco, Giant and Safeway — even my own World War II history, "Mission to Berlin" — but the selection of titles is small. Mainstream publishers are commissioning fewer titles today. Small publishers are creating more titles than ever but producing them in small numbers.
In bookselling, as in other fields of retail, more and more American consumers are "showrooming." That's the term for visiting a brick-and-mortar store, choosing the product you want, and subsequently ordering the product online from a different seller.
Their future is uncertain but bookstores have not entirely disappeared from America — yet. A new independent bookstore in Arlington, One More Page Books, opened its doors in January 2011 after two years of planning. Hats off to Eileen McGervey for having the courage to swim against the tide by opening a new retail outlet for literature. I'm unaware of any other independent bookstore in Northern Virginia that sells new books.
My thoughts above undoubtedly pose more questions than they answer. The path ahead is unclear but here are some possibilities: If you've been thinking of reading a book for the first time in a long while, do so. If you have kids, encourage them to read. If you know someone who is contemplating dropping out of school, urge that person to stay in. Above all: Buy books. Buy them, read them, share them and love them.
About me: My latest book, "Mission to Berlin," is a history of American bomber crews in World War II. I write magazine articles and newspaper columns. I like to read crime novels by writers like James Lee Burke, Stephen J. Cannell, Michael Connelly and Michael Gruber.
Nate Wilburn
5:12 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The last book I read was "Nor the Years Condemn" by Justin Sheedy. I am currently reading the last book I bought, "Mission to Berlin" by Robert F. Dorr. I have two teenage sons to whom I read numerous books to when they were in the "impressionable" years; toddlers through grade 6. Everything from Dr. Seuss, the classics, to the Bible and even Marvel comic books. It seems the school's curriculums now push kids to use computers more and more. Now, because there are no keyboards, monitors or a mouse hooked to the books in my extensive personal library, my sons do not spend as much time reading as I did as a teenager, although they have every opportunity. I have younger friends and co-workers who have various e-book readers, but to me, part of the wonder of reading is the feel of the book in your hands, the turning of the page, and being able to judge progress in reading by the amount of pages turned or needing to be. I cannot bring myself to read a book on a computer screen. We have a Barnes and Noble and a Hastings in Great Falls, Montana, and one used book store that is full of mainly paperback romance and pulp stories. Not enough book sellers in my opinion. Thank goodness for websites that pander to book worms like myself, such as Amazon and ABE Books. Soon the Bradbury classic "Fahrenheit 451" will have to be revamped to include the melting point of Nooks and Kindles.
Dan Vandenberg
3:31 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
I've always loved reading books. And I'll always pick and read anything written by Robert F. Dorr. He is a master of his craft - which is not something one can say about most aviation authors. He is right up there with the great Bill Gunston, in the sense that any editor leafing through their manuscripts can just sit back and enjoy - the perfection is routine.
Yes, it's tragic that more folks don't - or won't - appreciate the work of authors, poets, writers and journalists. Books are special. The good ones help us to recover from a bad day in the office (and, let's face it, a good day as well!). My antidote to the daily grind also includes flying airplanes. Listening to music, reading books, flying airplanes - oh, and the odd drop of red wine now and again certainly doesn't do any harm, either.
I'm now off to my local bookstore to buy "Mission to Berlin" on the strict understanding that Mr Dorr will buy a copy of my debut thriller "Codename Capella". I'm about halfway through writing it and so far it's been a blast. Should have done it years ago. Sometimes the words just flow as if something beyond my imagination is driving the narrative. Let's hope the final result manages to take off.
Very best wishes from England and Dan Vandenberg.


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So after my previous posts about GoViral, they contacted me to ask if I'd consider posting a video from TFL highlighting the dangers of illegal minicabs, in return for payment (based on the same pay per view basis discussed below). As I've said before, this is not a brothel, there are no prostitutes here, but then I thought, well, I don't like the idea of taking money, but then I thought, I wonder if we could we turn a straightforward paid media placement into something a bit more worthwhile.
In the spirit of full disclosure, every view of the below video generates payment. And given the nature of the issue, I would like to use any payment generated to donate to Rape Crisis. And because it's the season of goodwill, in the spirit of giving, I will also personally match any revenue generated to double the donation to what I think is a very worthy cause. If you'd also like to support this cause directly, you can donate here. Or you can view the video. Or ideally both.
It's an interesting juxtaposition, though, to think about what a more engaging proposition might be. The aim of the campaign is to generate views & raise awareness of the dangers of illegal minicabs through viewing the film. And so to extend the reach of the TV and Cinema campaign, TFL are also looking at paid-for video placements via the GoViral network. So far so good, a pretty bog standard bought media campaign, which I'm sure will do a fine job. And at 3.5p a view, it's cheap as chips when you compare the cost per impact against TV & Cinema. So fair enough, as far as it goes. Although it's worth noting, as Rachel Clarke observes, that at no point do GoViral ask bloggers to actively disclose that the video is a paid-for placement, as the fact that the GoViral player says 'sponsored' at the beginning is supposed to do the trick. So compliant but not exactly ethical, one might say.
But imagine this. And obviously please note that TFL aren't my client, I don't work for them, don't know anyone who does work for them, and don't know what their current plans are for the campaign outside the bought activity. So treat this purely as the rambling mind of a curious bystander, musing on possibilities, not making recommendations.
Imagine that a proportion of the media budget was ringfenced and instead of being used to buy media directly, it was used as an incentive to earn media. For example, instead of paying bloggers as media owners, and paying them for the real estate to host the video player on their blog, what about if bloggers were asked to share the video in return for the paid media equivalent being donated to a relevant charity. A bit like I've done here. I wonder if a cash-for-good-cause route would be more likely to earn media than a cash-for-views route? And whether the eventual outcome of greater genuine earned media in terms of positive word of mouth, trust and overall engagement would be greater and more valuable than through paid alone?
I genuinely don't know the answer to this. Whilst I'd like to think that the incremental effect of the earned route would be more valuable than the equivalent budget invested in incremental direct paid-for media, this might just be a flight of fancy. But I'd love to think it would be true.
In the mean time, let's try our own experiment and try and raise some money for charity. Let's make something paid into something much better. Please support this very good cause by donating, or viewing, (or both).


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Publication of Amended Ordinance
On August 16, 2012 the Goodhue County Board of Commissioners made the following amendment to the Goodhue County Zoning Ordinance:
On August 16, 2012 the Goodhue County Board of Commissioners made the following amendment to the Goodhue County Zoning Ordinance:
Interim Ordinance 2012-1 was adopted to extend a temporary twelve (12) month moratorium on the issuance of any Conditional Use Permit for a new silica/frac sand mining operation (Mineral Extraction Facility) within rural Goodhue County to allow the above referenced land-use planning study to be completed and any recommended changes in County Plans, Policies or Official Controls to be considered by the County Planning Advisory Commission and County Board of Commissioners; and reserve the right to end the moratorium in less than twelve (12) months upon completion of the land-use planning study and satisfactory resolution of the issues of concerns as determined by the County Board.
Article 14, Mineral Extraction – The County Board accepted the recommended changes to the ordinance as presented by the Planning Advisory Commission with following additional changes:
1.Section 4, Subdivision 4 – Removal of the word "reasonable"
2.Section6, Subdivision 4F – Replace "Best Management Practices" with "County approved practices"
3.Section 6, Subdivision 4L2 – Replace "Three hundred (300) feet" with "One thousand (1000) feet" and add "The setback can be reduced to three hundred (300) feet if…"
The complete ordinance is available for viewing on our website at www.co.goodhue.mn.us or in the Land Use Management office located at 509 West Fifth Street, Red Wing, MN.
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Triple-A Round Rock is expected to confirm a summer's worth of rumors on Thursday by announcing that it will end an 11-year relationship with the Astros to sign a player-development contract with the Rangers.
The affiliation unites two Nolan Ryan-owned ballclubs: The Express are guided by the Ryan-Sanders ownership group and the Rangers finally became Ryan's after he and veteran minor league operator Chuck Greenberg completed an arduous process to purchase the
The move will come on the first day of a 15-day period when teams are allowed to negotiate player development contracts with other clubs and likely will be the biggest move of the affiliation shuffle. It also ends an era in Oklahoma City, Texas' Triple-A affiliate since 1983 and the home ballpark of the Triple-A National Championship game.
The RedHawks, who today will announce the completion of the team's sale to Mandalay Baseball, are arguably the most desirable Triple-A team left on the market thanks to one of the minors' nicest facilities in AT&T Bricktown Ballpark and a loyal fan base. The Astros previously expressed interest in moving to Oklahoma City if they were indeed forced out of Round Rock.
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An Astros move to Oklahoma City would leave just four unsigned Triple-A clubs, all in the Pacific Coast League: Las Vegas (which is currently affiliated with the Blue Jays), Nashville (Brewers), Portland (Padres) and Sacramento (Athletics). The Blue Jays earlier publicly expressed their interest to remain in Las Vegas, despite playing at aging Cashman Field and the affiliate's distance from Toronto, because of the convenience of Las Vegas' expansive international airport. The Athletics and Sacramento have been together since 2000 and make geographic sense to remain aligned. Nashville has been a Brewers affiliate since 2005 but the Sounds have been unsuccessful in their attempts to replace 32-year-old Greer Stadium—a prospect made even more difficult after the disastrous flooding in Nashville last spring.
Portland's situation is easily the most unique. A group headed by Padres owner Jeff Moorad is negotiating to purchase the Beavers, which must leave the city after owner Merritt Paulson agreed to convert PGE Park into a soccer-only facility to host his Major League Soccer
Meanwhile, the Pacific Coast League needs to settle on a temporary location for the
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Posted by William | September 15, 2010 at 11:25 am | ShortcutIt seems that MLB clubs are increasingly interested in having local affiliates, but how much weight does a minor league team give to having a local MLB parent? I can't imagine that Myrtle Beach would have many Rangers fans, especially considering MILB's proximity to Atlanta.
Do you think the Carolina League and MLB would let Atlanta resurrect the Danville 97′s if Atlanta can't find a Carolina affiliate?
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Posted by Josh Leventhal | September 15, 2010 at 3:37 pm | ShortcutWhat about Greensboro in the Carolina League?
Posted by David L Thomas | September 15, 2010 at 7:16 pm | ShortcutWould make sense as part of a greater minor league realignment.
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