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The CEO and Chairman of Bank of America says he was threatened by the Bush Administration's Secretary of Treasury when he tried to back out of a deal to rescue Merrill Lynch, according to testimony he gave to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo .
The stunning disclosures of a behind the scenes power play by top government officials are the talk of Wall Street and Washington today.
In his testimony, Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis told New York's Attorney General that then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson threatened him on December 21st with the prospect of removing the management and Board of Directors of the bank if Lewis refused to complete the merger with Merrill Lynch even though Merrill was hemorrhaging money.
Just a few days earlier, on December 14th, Lewis's Chief Financial Officer had told him that Merrill's projected fourth quarter losses had "skyrocketed" from $9 billion to $12 billion in just six days, according to a cover letter Cuomo sent along with the testimony and other documents to senior government officials overseeing the bank bailout.
The letter and the testimony was sent to the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel.
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee is "deeply concerned about these troubling allegations," according to his office. "He has talked today with Attorney General Cuomo about his findings and will carefully assess the documents provided to him by the Attorney General. He will decide on next steps soon," said Dodd's spokesperson, Justine Sessions.
The Congressional Oversight Panel would not comment on the letter, saying they have yet to 'formally' receive it.
Cuomo said he sent the information because of serious concerns about the transparency with which the Troubled Assets Relief Program and other elements of the federal bailout plan are being run, because of his office's responsibility to enforce the securities laws, and because of the "unprecedented circumstances" in which the Merrill – Bank of America merger took place.
Docs Show Regulators and Bank Officials Agreed Not to Alert Shareholders
The documents lay out in detail a troubling set of conversations, emails, and meetings in which federal regulators and senior bank officials admit that they agreed not to alert shareholders at Bank of America to circumstances that could materially affect their investments, admitted not having alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission to discussions which came within its regulatory scope, and in which Lewis, the Chief Executive Officer of a bank, admits he went forward with a deal knowing full well that it could have a negative impact on a large number of shareholders.
The Federal Reserve released a statement late Wednesday denying any allegations that officials there were involved in any decisions over disclosure. "No one at the Federal Reserve advised Ken Lewis or Bank of America on any questions of disclosure. It has long been the Federal Reserve's view that questions of this nature are best addressed by individual institutions and their legal counsel, as they are in a position to understand clearly their obligations and responsibilities, said spokesperson Michelle Smith.
Former Secretary Paulson's spokesperson also released a statement late Wednesday saying that issues of disclosure were left to Bank of America and that Paulson's role was to ensure that no important financial institution be allowed to fail
"By referring to the Fed's supervisory powers, Paulson intended to deliver a strong message reinforcing the view that had been consistently expressed by the Fed, as Bank of America's regulator, and shared by the Treasury that it would be unthinkable that Bank of America take this action for which there was no reasonable legal basis and which would show a lack of judgment," said Paulson's spokesperson.
Lewis' Deposition with the Attorney General's Office
In his deposition, Lewis attempts to explain why he did the deal in this exchange with Benjamin Lawsky of the Attorney General's office:
Q. Wasn't Mr. Paulson, by his instruction, really asking Bank of America shareholders to take a good part of the hit of the Merrill losses?
A. (Lewis) What he was doing was trying to stem a financial disaster in the financial markets, from his perspective.
Q. From your perspective, wasn't that one of the effects of what he was doing?
A. (Lewis) Over the short term, yes, but we still thought we had an entity that filled two big strategic holes for us and over the long term would still be an interest to the shareholders.
Q. What do you mean by "short term"?
A. (Lewis) Two to three years.
Q. So isn't that something that any shareholder at Bank of America who had less than a three-year time horizon would want to know?
A. (Lewis) The situation was that everyone felt like the deal needed to be completed and to be able to say that, or that they would impose a big risk to the financial system if it would not.
This was "an extraordinary use of government power" in "unprecedented circumstances', according to Bob Mintz, former federal prosecutor specializing in financial cases. The government was "breaking new ground in terms of the level of government involvement in the marketplace," said Mintz, "making it up as they went along."
According to the Cuomo letter, when Lewis first learned of the "staggering amount of deterioration" at Merrill on December 14th and had decided it might warrant cancelling the deal, he notified Paulson and the Treasury Secretary asked him to fly to Washington that night.
There he met with Paulson and senior officials including Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, and was asked "to not seek to rescind the merger agreement."
But his bank came under pressure from the government in a series of follow-ups to the meeting and Lewis after attempting to resist, appears to have caved.
Bank of America Says It Acted Legally
On December 21st, when Lewis still considered using a "material adverse event" clause to squash the deal, he told Cuomo, according to the letter, that Paulson threatened to remove the management and Board of Directors of Bank of America. That ended Bank of America's attempts to exit the deal, the letter stated.
"There's no question that this was an extremely heavy handed threat, and there may have been advice here to forget about disclosure obligation which could be seen as aiding and abetting a federal securities law violation," said Professor John Coffee of the Law School at Columbia University.
The letter was sent the day a Wall Street Journal banner headline announced that "Lewis testifies U.S. Urged Silence on the Deal." The Journal account stated that both Paulson and Bernanke barred Lewis disclosure of Merrill's woes because of the potential danger to the financial system. The letter states that Paulson largely corroborated Lewis's account of the threat, and went on to say he made the threat at the behest of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
"In an interview with this Office, Secretary Paulson largely corroborated Lewis's account," the letter states. Cuomo alleges that Paulson told his office he made the threat at the behest of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Bernanke. "According to Secretary Paulson, after he stated that the management and the Board could be removed, Lewis replied, 'that makes this simple. Let's deescalate.' "
In a series of statements, a spokesperson for Paulson largely corroborated Lewis's account to Cuomo but fell short of confirming that Bernanke instructed him to make the threat.
"His prediction of what could happen to Lewis and the Board was his language, but based on what he knew to be the Fed's strong opposition to Bank of America attempting to renounce the deal," said Paulson's spokesperson.
A previous statement said that "Chairman Bernanke did not instruct him [Paulson] to indicate any specific action the Fed might take," said the spokesperson.
Were Laws Broken?
"The point is this: you have to disclose material information to shareholders. You can't violate the law. And that is in effect what appears to come out of this," said Charles Elson Director, of the John Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance.
Bank of America spokesman Scott Silvestri issued a statement saying, "We believe we acted legally and appropriately with regard to the Merrill Lynch transaction."
But Elson said this latest disclosure is quite problematic. "Think of it this way, people bought and sold Bank of America stock for a period, a long period, without being aware of the true state of affairs in the company. The problems with this acquisition were clearly a material event," he said.
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* Monday's decline was S&P 500's biggest since November
* Dell to go private in $24.4 bln deal, shares rise 0.9
* Archer Daniels, Estee Lauder both up after results
* Indexes: Dow 0.9 pct, S&P 0.9 pct, Nasdaq 1 pct
* Monday's decline was S&P 500's biggest since November
* Dell to go private in $24.4 bln deal, shares rise 0.9
* Archer Daniels, Estee Lauder both up after results
* Indexes: Dow 0.9 pct, S&P 0.9 pct, Nasdaq 1 pct
By Angela Moon
NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday,
with the Dow breaking above 14,000, as earnings came in stronger
than expected and investors sought bargains a day after shares'
biggest drop since November.
Dell Inc's stock rose after the world's No. 3
computer maker agreed to be taken private in a $24.4 billion
deal, the largest leveraged buyout since the 2008-2009 financial
crisis. The stock gained 0.9 percent to $13.39 after a delayed
Major stock indexes fell about 1 percent in Monday's
session, pressured by renewed worries over the euro zone's
sovereign debt crisis. Still, equities have been strong
performers recently, with the benchmark S&P 500 index up about 5
percent for 2013.
Wall Street has advanced on strong fourth-quarter earnings
and signs of improved economic growth, suggesting the market's
longer-term trend remains higher.
"For the last couple of weeks, we've been seeing this global
divergence where the U.S. market remains powerful but overseas
emerging markets are pretty weak," said James Dailey, portfolio
manager at TEAM Asset Strategy Fund in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
"We seem to be in this manic buying period, and people are
reluctant to give up the optimism that the market is going to
move higher."
Archer Daniels Midland reported revenue and adjusted
fourth-quarter earnings that beat expectations, boosted by
strong global demand for oilseeds. Shares rose 4.6 percent to
Estee Lauder Cos Inc gained 7 percent to $65.34 after
reporting results.
According to Thomson Reuters data, of the 53 percent of S&P
500 companies that have reported earnings thus far, 69 percent
have beaten profit expectations, over the 62 percent average
since 1994 and the 65 percent average over the past four
Fourth-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are expected
to rise 4.5 percent, according to the data, above the 1.9
percent forecast at the start of earnings season but well below
the 9.9 percent forecast on Oct. 1.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 118.24
points, or 0.85 percent, at 13,998.32. The Standard & Poor's 500
Index was up 13.95 points, or 0.93 percent, at 1,509.66.
The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 31.12 points, or 0.99
percent, at 3,162.29.
The S&P is less than 5 percent away from its all-time
intraday high of 1,576.09, reached in October 2011.
McGraw-Hill extended its Monday decline, slumping
5.4 percent to $47.55 as the U.S. Justice Department launched a
civil lawsuit against the company and its unit, Standard &
Poor's, over mortgage bond ratings. The action marks the first
such federal action against a credit rating agency related to
the financial crisis.
The stock has dropped more than 20 percent over the past two
U.S. shares of BP Plc rose 1.3 percent to $44.18
after the company reported earnings that beat expectations and
said underlying financial momentum would be "strongly evident"
by 2014.
The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing
index was 55.2 in January, as expected and down slightly from
the previous month.

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Will, Sonny, Tad, Chad, and Bryan arrive the pub sweaty and hungry after basketball. Chad goes outside while at the bar, Bryan remarks that Sonny won't be happy when the kid is born. Will smirks and stakes his claim on Sonny and calls him out on making him think he and Sonny had sex. "Sonny is mine." Outside, Chad wants to call a truce with Cameron. Caroline intervenes and Chad tries to warn Cam but Caroline blurts out that she recognizes him. Chad interjects that she knows him from the hospital. She heads in to get him a coffee and Chad tells Cam that she saw him strip! It was probably for therapy with her Alzheimer's group. Cameron doubts this. Caroline returns and gushes about his act being smokin' hot. His secret is safe with her. Back inside, at a table, Tad tells Sonny he's happy to see Will having a good time for a change. He laments not being a good friend in the past. Chad leaves and Bryan and Sonny have a private moment. Bryan mentions Will accusing him of being a flirt. Sonny agrees and asks him to stop. He's in love with Will. At the bar, "T" and Will bond over ball. "T" hopes it doesn't change after his baby comes. Later, they discuss going to an Avril Lavigne concert together. Tad will set Bryan up with Audrey's brother. The guys leave Will and Sonny alone and they talk about their happiness, touch noses, and kiss. Caroline sees the kiss and sternly tells them there will be no PDAs in this pub. The boys go white and she starts to laugh. She's joking. She's happy for them.
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I finally decided to start using Time Machine after having a MacBook for two years because I had a ton of HD video that was sucking up space on my internal hard drive.
My question, and it may be dumb, is this: if I were, after my initial backup, to delete a file intentionally, would the file still remain on my Time Machine backups even after the drive fills up? Or would those files be deleted forever?
In other words, does Time Machine always sync to your computer? Apple says that once the drive fills up files will be "intelligently deleted". So if I delete those 40 GBs of video that are sucking up my hard drive will they disappear from the drive too?
Apologies for being redundant.
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Welcome to Mac Forums.
Time Machine deletes it's oldest backups once the time machine HD fills up, so if the movies are not on the later backups, and have been deleted from your internal HD, then yes, they will be gone forever.
What you need is a large external HD to store your movies on, or to add a partition to the drive that you are using for time machine backups, that you can store the movies on, so that time machine won't erase those when it gets full.
Sounds like you would be better off using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to just make a bootable copy of your HDD. Then you can erase them from your Macbook and view them via the external.64GB iPhone 6, 64GB iPad Air 2.
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6string nailed it.
If Time Machine deleted it's backup of a file every time you deleted the original, it would defeat the purpose of the software. Aside from recovering from a HD failure, the purpose of Time Machine is to be able to go back in time and restore a file that you deleted, intentionally or otherwise. Suppose you intentionally delete a file and two weeks later wish you could get it back...
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TM is made for backup. It should not be used for files you want moved permanently off the computer to be stored elsewhere. I have similar needs and here is what I do.
What I do is have two external hard drives. One is for a backup copy of my computer's hard drive and the other is used to store files I no longer have on my computer which is what you are trying to do. I then have backup DVD copies of the 2nd external hard drive because having only one copy of something means it doesn't have a backup. I'm planning on getting another hard drive so I can just easily clone the 2nd hard drive instead of doing DVD backups.
If you are using your external hard drive for storage then you don't need to use Time Machine or cloning software because you are not backing up your whole computer. Just format the hard drive and then drag and drop the files over like you do in Finder but in your situation you should think about getting two hard drives or partition the one you have but that would reduce the hard drive space for TM and storage space. Backing up and permanently moving files off your computer for storage are two different things so you shouldn't use only TM when you need both.
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WACO - In a match filled with long rallies and runs, Baylor (17-10, 4-8) came up short, falling 3-1 (21-25, 25-23, 23-25, 23-25) to Oklahoma (19-8, 8-4) Wednesday night at the Ferrell Center.
"We didn't serve well at all which doesn't put any pressure on them," head coach Jim Barnes said. "Our passing started to falter, and that can't happen because we could have won this match if we just did what we are supposed to."
Zoe Adom (13) and Thea Munch-Soegaard (13) led an offense that saw four players record double-digit kills on the night. Adom has now hit for double digits in seven-consecutive matches, while Munch-Soegaard picked up her first double-digit performance since Sept. 8 vs. Hampton. Adri Nora added 12 kills and a .360 hitting percentage, while Alyssa Dibbern had 10 kills on the night.
Hope Ogden came up with 20 digs, her second-highest total of the season, while Munch-Soegaard added 14 and Kate Harris collected 12. Harris' 50 assists along with 12 digs gave her her 14th double-double of the year, while Munch-Soegaard recorded her fourth.
Despite outhitting the Sooners in the final three sets, Baylor managed just a .190 hitting percentage to OU's .210. The Bears did have the edge in blocks, 11.5-9, led by Nora's eight.
Baylor held a 17-12 lead in the opening set, only to see it slip away on a 6-1 run from Oklahoma. Tied at 20, OU closed the game with five of the next six points for the 25-21 win.
The Bears trailed for much of the second set before earning a 23-22 lead. After an OU attacking error, the Sooners called timeout, but Dibbern put the set away with a kill for the 25-23 win, evening the match.
Oklahoma came out of the break and jumped out to a 19-9 lead, seemingly putting the set out of reach. But following a service error, the Bears reeled off 10-straight points off the serve of Harris for an 11-0 run and 20-19 lead. The Sooners would quickly answer with a 4-0 run, but back-to-back kills from Adom and Dibbern cut the BU deficit to just one, 23-22. OU's Morgan Reynolds collected two of the sets final three points to close it out, deflating the BU comeback.
Baylor held an early 8-4 lead in set four, only to see Oklahoma come back with a 8-1 run to take a lead it would never fully relinquish. The Bears found themselves down 19-14 but came roaring back to tie the set at 22. A Torri Campbell kill pulled BU to within 23-24 but Reynolds ended the match with a kill of her own for the 25-23.
Baylor will hit the road for two-straight matches, beginning with West Virginia at Noon CT on Sat., Nov. 10 in Morgantown.


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EDMONTON — Julius Williams is the reason the B.C. Lions felt compelled to re-position the Canadian Football League's leading sack artist last season and move Keron Williams to defensive tackle.
When a CFL all-star defensive end is shuffled to make way for a free-agent signing, it's an indication that the newcomer must have something substantial to offer. But, so far, Julius Williams has given the Lions nothing.
He goes into Saturday's game at Commonwealth Stadium against his former team without a single stat to his credit — no sacks, no defensive tackles, not even a special teams tackle.
"I'm going to make something happen," Williams vowed Friday, after the Lions arrived in Edmonton.
Defensive coordinator Rich Stubler, the man who coached Julius Williams in 2011 when he was DC of the Eskimos, recommended the Lions sign the D-end from UConn when he became a free agent in February. Stubler is still convinced of the wisdom of the move, even though Williams has shown some of the same predilection for injury that dogged him in Edmonton.
"I like that Julius plays fast, he has tremendous strength and he plays with a great single-mindedness of purpose," Stubler said. "He just likes to play the game. Keron has started inside (defensive tackle) before and we feel he's one of the better inside guys in the league. He was all-CFL at that position when we picked him up (as a free agent from Montreal in 2010). We don't lose something by having Keron where he is. We gain speed."
Julius Williams has the same pursuit ability as the other Williams, Stubler said, but for the month of June he was reduced to a walk. His knee ballooned up early into training camp, he spent much of his activity in the training room before a 'scope was done to correct the problem. Though his surgery and rehab are past tense, Julius Williams still requires treatment after practice to settle things down.
"To say I'm as good physically as I can be would be lying," he admitted. "It's a process of getting better every single day. I'm good as far as the injury goes. But I have to get it stronger. I am tons better than I was when I first got here. But to say I'm 100 per cent would be pulling your leg."
Though Williams has yet to record his first tackle or sack, he doesn't have a lot of catching up to do to tie for the team lead. Defensive tackle Eric Taylor has one. He is, in fact, the only Lion with a quarterback sack to his credit after two games. Taylor stripped the ball from Argonauts' quarterback Rick Ray last Thursday at BC Place, and the forced fumble was deemed a sack, even though Taylor didn't deposit Ray on the turf.
Takedowns, coaches like to say, are not always the measure of effective defensive line pressure and disruption. Hits, hurries and slapping away passes can be just as suffocating and intimidating for opposing offences.
Still, after leading the CFL in sacks last season with a team total of 48, the Lions are on pace for just nine this year. And the Purolator Tackle Hunger program is not going to get fat if it keeps up. (Purolator donates a quarterback's weight in food to the local food bank every time a CFL QB gets sacked).
"They got me to get sacks. And, as a D-line, you're responsible for sacks, especially at defensive end," said Julius Williams. "I know that's a big responsibility. That's why they brought me here — to get sacks. That's what I'm going to do. Me, not being 100 per cent, is not an excuse. Nobody out there is 100 per cent. The only time you're 100 per cent is in the off-season."
Williams' injury history, however, shows he's not a good percentage player most of the time. He missed a large chunk of last year's Eskimos' training camp with a hip flexor injury and had knee issues by the end of it. In 2011, he began his first season in Edmonton on the IR with a dislocated elbow. The Esks weren't interested in paying for more rehab a possible third time.
"First and foremost, I think Julius is an absolutely phenomenal passer rusher," Eskimos head coach Kavis Reed said Friday. "He was tremendous in our locker-room. That being the case, he missed a lot of last season and the year before due to injury. We wish him all the best, but that (injury history) was part of the decision-making process."
"We get paid to play football," Williams admitted. "If you have a guy who's constantly getting hurt, and can't get on the field, you get frustrated with that. I understand why the Eskimos did what they did. It is a business."
He has the ability to make the Lions an even more punishing defence. But the question is, can Julius Williams stand up to the punishment?


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I am new to this forum, however, I read countless of threads and judging from the posts I am pretty much convinced, you can help me
Here's the thing: I am trying to insert a PCR-amplified 0.5 kb fragment into a 4.9 kb vector. Both are cut with the same REs (NotI-HF and SalI-HF, NEB). A sequential digest of the vector confirmed that both enzymes work. The cutting sites for the fragment lie within the primer-sites. After the digest, I load every sample on a gel, let it run and do a gel purification afterwards, eluting the purified DNA in small amounts of water. Then, I start ligating with T4 ligase at 4 °C over night. Here, I tried different vector:fragment ratios, like 1:3, 1:5, 1:10, and 1:15. I also tried to ligate at room temperature for one to three hours and overall, it seemed that 1:3 at 4 °C over night worked best for me. Then, I do the heating transformation in XL-blue bacteria, plate them (10 % and 90 %) on LB-Amp, and usually see only few colonies the next day - let's say on the 90 % plate around 20 to 30, which is quite low, however somehow it seems to work.
After DNA isolation, I start the double digest and surprisingly, I only see the cut plasmid - no fragment. However, the plasmid runs at ~ 5.5 kb and not 4.9 kb which might imply that the fragment is present. When I do a PCR with these samples and the corresponding primers, I can clearly see a band at 0.5 kb (plasmid as a negative control shows no band).
So it seems the fragment is present but the digest does not work properly. My next idea was to look for a RE that only cuts within the fragment but not the vector and yeah, yesterday I found one so I would try this on monday but nevertheless, I would like to know what's wrong with the digest.
Anyone an idea?
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This Saturday's performance at the Carpenter Theatre Center Stage by Shen Yun, a classical Chinese performing arts company, has been canceled. The cancellation led to rumors that it might be related to diplomatic tensions between Beijing and Washington after a Chinese dissident fled to the American embassy in Beijing last week.
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The contracts valued at $627.79 million were awarded to contractors who will line more than 10,000 linear feet of newly excavated tunnels with permanent structural concrete walls and install complex communications systems in Grand Central Terminal's future LIRR concourse.
One of the contracts, valued at $294.2 million, has been awarded to Frontier-Kemper Constructors to build permanent structural concrete lining, including embedded mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, on the newly excavated tunnels north of Grand Central Terminal, running from 50th Street and Park Avenue to 63rd Street and Second Avenue. Frontier-Kemper will also rehabilitate the segment of the 63rd Street Tunnel under the East River that will be used by LIRR trains, which was completed in the early 1970s. The firm will complete work on the underground portions of two facilities, located at 50th Street and 55th Street, that will ventilate the tunnels and Cavern, which will house the new LIRR station at Grand Central. The above-ground portion of the 50th Street ventilation facility has recently been completed.
The other contract, worth $333.59 million (with options leading to a total of $550.4 million), has been awarded to Tutor Perini Corporation to complete communications systems that will be used by the public and employees in the future LIRR concourse and infrastructure support systems needed to make the space usable by the public. The communications systems include telephone, two-way radio, public address, digital signage and fire detection. The infrastructure support systems include tunnel ventilation, tunnel drainage, tunnel lighting, plumbing and fire protection.
The East Side Access project will bring trains from all 11 branches of the LIRR into a new concourse being built beneath Grand Central Terminal. The new connection will increase the LIRR's capacity into Manhattan and dramatically shorten travel time for Long Island and eastern Queens passengers traveling to the east side of Manhattan. Each cavern will contain four tracks, an upper and lower level platform and a mezzanine.


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Software change and configuration management company AccuRev has called for a more exhaustive approach and adherence to Agile methodologies throughout the development process. The company's CEO Lorne Cooper says that he has spoken to over 50 organizations in recent weeks to glean insights into how they have customized Agile to fit their process requirements. But, says Cooper, while most companies are doing well, some of them say the strangest things.
Cooper references firms who detail their usage of Scrum, but find that that IT team's devotion to the iterative Agile practice stops in the tech department, i.e. it is therefore not carried through to business processes witnessed at other levels of the company. So who is dropping the Agile opportunity? Product Management, Quality Assurance (QA), and the customer for that matter, or so it appears.
The assertion here is that companies are at risk of exhibiting a "Waterfall approach to going Agile" and not really doing Scrum. The biggest chunks of value, the incremental use of customer feedback, and going from "completed state" to "completed state" in each iteration are lost if you can't get more support argues Cooper.
"More than once I've been speaking with an earnest development leader who's describing the Scrum process. They'll launch in (with obvious pride) and tell me how they've gone to two-week iterations, do standup meetings, and
Other realities here include firms that hold a three month release testing tail, which follows a "modified Scrum process" … the project leader estimates the amount of work on each bug QA finds and then assigns it to a developer. The problem here is that new functionality requests crop up during the "release testing tail" … because of course you can't expect the customer to stop needing improvements for three months!
"Builds are going to fail. Get used to it. The problem is not that the build failed, but that you couldn't fix it. Good practices are to have the team drop what they're doing when the build fails and hop on fixing it. If they can't fix it, it needs to get escalated *pronto*. Better is to have the team do local builds and unit testing before they check in. Best Practices are to divide up the build process by team and stage of development, so your team only pollutes itself, not the rest of the development org," said Cooper.
AccuRev's CEO finishes by saying that no one has to pass a test to call themselves "Agile," nor should they. Cooper says that Agile proponents don't have a monopoly on the right way to develop software. But when people believe they've made it to Agile without using critical Agile concepts like time boxing development or getting to "done", they're missing the real value.


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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is considered by many to be an arrogant, cocky and overall contentious character - the ultimate bad boy.
It all started with his childhood past in Rosengard, a Malmo neighbourhood known for its immigrant communities, where he was brought up in a tough environment, due to his strict Croatian mother and hard-drinking Bosnian father. The fact that his parents broke up when he was two didn't help his upbringing. His life was in disarray and this led to stealing. In fact he stole a lot - bikes, sweets, cars, anything and everything.
During his teen years, he was constantly labelled a troublemaker for his erratic behaviour and according to his former headmistress, he was "easily in the top five of the most unruly pupils we have ever had". School was simply not for him.
"I was rowdy, I was mental," the striker agrees. "I just had a hard time sitting still, I had ants in my pants."
He learned to play football on the streets of Rosengard on a small dusty pitch. This is where his footballing genius hails from. Perfecting his technique, tricks and flicks and shooting skills.
It was at the age of 18 when he realised he could have a future and career playing professional football. An escape route from his troublesome past.
The world of football has often witnessed the 'dark side' of Zlatan. Notorious for having fights with teammates, outbursts and verbal attacks, most notably against his former coach Josep Guardiola whom he branded a 'coward' for shunning him.
Although his time at Barcelona was a 'nightmare', everywhere else he has played he has been regarded as a hero, a winner. Winning titles and collecting numerous accolades.
The man is regarded 'more than' just a footballer. He is a word, a way of behaving, a way of life. In France and his native Sweden, 'zlataner' which means "to crush" and 'To Zlatan', doing something audacious or outrageously brilliant, have been made official terms.
This indicates that Ibrahimovic may be the 'good guy' with a big heart after all. Someone who cares about his teammates, coaches and fans and who puts himself second in terms of importance.
Someone who wants to control his temper and improve as a human being.
So the question is hero or villain?
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Changing Email Settings in Joomla 3.1
Your Joomla 3.0 website may send many emails, so it's important to ensure your email is setup properly. For example, Joomla can send emails when new users register, and it can also send new emails when comments are posted on an article. Joomla can use different methods to send these emails, such as the php mail function, sendmail, and SMTP. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps for updating your email settings within Joomla 3.0
To update your mail settings in Joomla 3.0:
- Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard
- Click Global Configuration in the left menu
- Next to Site and System, click the Server tab towards the top of the page
- Find the heading labeled Mail Settings. Fill in the appropriate details underneath, and then click the Save button in the top left of the page.
Joomla 3.0 gives the following description for each email setting:
Mailer Select which mailer for the delivery of site email. From email The email address that will be used to send site email. From Name Text displayed in the header "From:" field when sending a site email. Usually the site name. Sendmail Path Enter the path to the sendmail program directory on the host server. SMTP Authentication Select Yes if your SMTP Host requires SMTP Authentication. SMTP Security Select the security model that your SMTP server uses. SMTP Port Enter the port number of your SMTP server. Use 25 for most unsecure servers and 465 for most secure servers. SMTP Username Enter the username for access to the SMTP host. SMTP Password Enter the password for the SMTP host SMTP Host Enter the name of the SMTP host.
The above are generic steps for updating your email settings in Joomla 3.0. For a specific example, such as setting up email to use SMTP, please see our Could not instantiate mail function troubleshooter.
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It sounds like you need to change the "From Email" address to the email address you wish to send the emails from.
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Much has been made of tablets' deleterious effect on PC sales, but the tablet market has become fragmented in its own right. On Wednesday, Google made things even more interesting by debuting the second generation in its 7-inch Android tablet line, the Nexus 7.
The Nexus is more expensive than its $199 predecessor, but sets several important cost thresholds, including a screen that blows away those of comparably priced alternatives. Nothing is certain until reviews come in, but for now, the Nexus 7 looks like the low-cost tablet to beat.
Android and iOS have dominated the tablet space so far, but Intel and Microsoft hope to jumpstart Windows device sales with a fleet of 8-inch Win8 tablets. Microsoft also hopes to resuscitate its flat-lining Surface RT line with recent price cuts.
[ Thinking about integrating tablets into your workforce? Read The Good And Bad Of Tablets At Work. ]
Future 8-inch Windows 8 tablets will run on modern processors, and should boast slimmer form factors, longer battery life and snappier performance than the category's only current representative, the Acer Iconia W3.
The forthcoming Win8 devices could shake things up, as could Apple's inevitable iPad Mini refresh. But Microsoft and its partners face the tougher path. Apple has a built-in user base, but Windows 8 is still searching for momentum. With one more compelling option in the mix, the Modern UI could have that much more trouble attracting users.
Does the Nexus 7 trump what other tablets have to offer? Here are eight considerations.
1. Nexus 7 Makes Windows 8 Devices Look Even More Expensive
The base Nexus 7 offers 16 GB of storage and Wi-Fi connectivity for $229. The 32-GB model is only $40 more, and a 32-GB option that includes 4G LTE support is $349. This compares quite well against Apple's iPad Mini. Apple's 16-GB model is $329, but adding cellular support boosts the price by $130. Storage increases are also more costly.
The Windows 8 tablets, however, aren't budget-friendly either. The 32-GB Surface RT is $349, and the 32-GB Acer Iconia W3 is $379. Relative to iPads and Android tablets, Windows slates are arguably more reliant on keyboards, which add accessory costs. Neither the Iconia nor the Surface RT offer LTE support.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has said forthcoming Windows 8 tablets will cost less than $300, and a cheaper iPad Mini is rumored as well. But with the Nexus 7's attractive price and head start, the Android ecosystem is only poised to grow.
2. Nexus 7's Screen Sets A New Standard
The Nexus 7 boasts a 1920 x 1200 pixel display. This density is greater than that of Apple's Retina-equipped iPad, let alone what other mini-tablets offer. The iPad Mini's 7.9-inch display offers only 1024 x 768 pixel resolution. The Acer Iconia's 8.1-inch screen is 1200 x 800 pixels, but plagued by poor contrast and color. The Surface RT also has a lackluster screen. At 10.1 inches, it's bigger than other budget tablets, but it only offers 1366 x 768 pixel resolution.
3. For Most Users, The iPad Mini Arguably Offers The Best UI
The divisive response to Windows 8's Modern UI is well established. It's less intuitive than the alternatives, but enjoyable once mastered. Still, users are trading the polish of iOS and the diversity of Android for the ability to run Microsoft Office. So far, that value proposition hasn't worked well for Microsoft.
The Surface RT can't run any other legacy apps, but the Acer can. However, given the size of the Iconia's screen, it's hard to know how many users will care.
Android is less rigid than iOS, which will appeal to some users. This fall, though, iOS 7 could change that, just as Windows 8.1 could give tablets such as the Acer a lift. For now, Android is the most popular tablet OS by market share, but some of that has to do with the platform's abundance of low-cost devices. A variety of measures say iPad and iPhone owners use their devices more than owners of other products do, suggesting that Apple's UI is the most engaging.


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Washington Capitals coach Adam Oates was known as an honest player – and that trait hasn't left him since stepping behind an NHL bench.
Flyers forward Harry Zolnierczyk was whistled for a 5-minute major "kneeing" penalty with under 30 seconds to play in Wednesday's 4-1 shellacking after laying out Washington's Mathieu Perreault in open ice. Video of the hit is below.
Oates' star player, Alex Ovechkin, took exception to the hit and tangled with Zac Rinaldo.
"It was like, 30 seconds left, 4-1 lead," Ovechkin said. "Why you have to kill the guy? It was dirty."
Ovechkin's coach didn't feel the same way, more or less saying Ovechkin's opinion perfectly describes his entire, unimpressive game on Wednesday.
"I don't think it's dirty at all," Oates said. "I think it's a product of our whole game. There is 30 seconds left, the game's over, and 'Matty' thought he could stickhandle through the team. It's not what we do, all of us. The atmosphere clearly dropped in the game, it was over and you think you can bang one through the entire team. You just can't. It'll never work that way."
Zolnierczyk's hit will be reviewed by the NHL's Department of Player Safety, as all questionable hits are automatically, though it's probably unlikely he will receive any supplementary discipline. His knee seemed connect with Perreault's thigh, first of all, and it clearly wasn't a targeted knee shot.
Oates said Perreault was not injured, and teammates suggested he suffered a charley horse on the collision.
The only questionable part of Zolnierczyk's hit was that his skates make have left the ice, but it's not even clear as to whether they are launched after making contact.
Garbage time or not, it's tough to blame Zolnierczyk's effort. He's a 25-year-old role player trying to earn a steady NHL job and was scratched in 4 out of the Flyers' last 7 games.
"I thought it was just a good, hard, hockey hit," Peter Laviolette said.
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Second Business Rises From Brothers' Bakery
In early 2007, brothers Hoover and Wilson Zuluaga saw an opportunity with a Long Island bakery that was struggling and about to close. Paisapan Bakery had been operating for a full year but had failed to gain popularity among the community. The Zuluaga brothers recognized the main cause was poor customer service and felt they could turn operations around.
Although Hoover was a network security specialist and Wilson was an industrial engineer by trade, the Zuluagas were able to develop their entrepreneurial skills, change employee training, product quality and variety to get results within 18 months. By 2010, the brothers had the bakery's profits rising when they noticed a growing demand for Hispanic food specialties in their retail bakery.
"We saw an increased in demand for specialties from Columbia, Peru and Ecuador so we started investigating importers and bringing in more and more products for our bakery," explained Wilson.
Together they capitalized on the business opportunity and developed HWZ Distributors, Inc. dba Latinfood USA, a second business distributing imported specialties from Central and South America. In only six months, Wilson convinced a major product manufacturer in Colombia to sign an exclusive distribution and importing rights agreement for the tri-state area. After intensive marketing efforts, Wilson has increased that manufacturer's position in the market with a sales increase of almost 300 percent.
Today, the company distributes to bodegas, bakeries and chain grocery stores across the tri-state area. Latinfood's wide portfolio of products, ranging from canned and frozen foods to coconut and caramel candies, have also helped the company gain access to large distribution channels such as A&P, Supremo, Shoprite, Westernbeef, and others.
The Zuluaga brothers have benefited from savvy business assistance from the Stony Brook Small Business Development Center (SBDC) since 2011. The SBDC has assisted Latinfoods through its international trade events and Hispanic-based market initiatives. With consistent 30% growth in sales, the retail bakery operations have grown to employ over 25 people and the import distribution division now employs 17. Wilson has also expanded the distribution business to include a line of frozen foods and added operations in Mexico. The company aims to become the most reliable importer for food specialty products from South and Central America by 2015.
Wilson Zuluaga summarizes his entrepreneurial experience: "To be successful, you need to have a clear understanding of where you want to take the business, a laser-like focus to achieve it, and utilizing the tools available to you – such as the SBDC – who have proven to be my partners in my enterprise."


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Gulfstream's crown jewel – the G650 – could enter service within weeks now that the Savannah, Ga. plane maker has secured full type certification (TC). Gulfstream announced it received the TC on Sept. 7, just days after it announced similar certification for its G280 super mid.
Gulfstream is saying both aircraft are expected to enter service before yearend. But service entry is likely to occur much sooner. A number of G650s have long been in completion – the airframer had received provisional TC in November 2011 and delivered the first dozen green aircraft that year. Gulfstream has stated it planned to deliver two dozen more G650s this year.
As for the G280, Gulfstream says the first customer-bound aircraft are in completion. But the company also has stated it planned to deliver 10-15 of its "mid" cabin models this year, and the G280 are expected to make up the majority of those aircraft.
Gulfstream is not expected to slow down its research & development work now that it has certification for the two models. The 650 is anticipated as the first of a family of aircraft, with the next evolution – possibly a truncated version – said to be well in the works and poised to be announced next year.


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Jim Carrey walked the red carpet at "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" premiere Monday night wearing shiny silver boots, gold Elvis-style sunglasses and a white jacket. Hordes of screaming fans along Hollywood Boulevard in front of TCL Chinese Theater made his progress slow.
At one point a group of fans yelled in unison, "We love you Jim Carrey!"
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Judge GIVES APPLE THE FINGER in multitouch iDevice patent case
Or more accurately, lets Samsung give Cupertino two
Samsung is allowed to make phones that enable users to use two fingers on the screen at once, ruled a Dutch judge today, kicking out Apple's infringement claim over its multitouch patent.
Apple's claim was dismissed and it was ordered to pay Samsung's litigation costs this morning by Judge Peter Blok and two other judges at the court in the Hague.
The court agreed with Samsung's defence that the technique it uses to enable multitouch on its Android phones differs from the technique Apple uses.
The Apple patent specifically describes a method for switching off part of a touchscreen when two fingers are being used, to avoid confused input.
According to an IDG news report, Apple's method gives each different part of the screen exclusivity – allowing two parts to work simultaneously but disabling the rest. Android uses what is described as a more "hierarchical" system.
Apple's bid to sue another Android manufacturer, HTC, over the same patent in the UK was kicked out in July.
Samsung told The Reg:
We welcome today's ruling, which affirms our position that our products do not infringe Apple's intellectual property. For decades, we have heavily invested in pioneering the development of technological and design innovations in the mobile industry, which have been constantly reflected in our products.
A trial over the multi-touch patent is ongoing in Germany.
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Making a competively priced gaming PC (steam machine) compared to consoles is hard but doable
Especially given that the Nintendo 64 was a stripped down SGI Indy, and the original Xbox, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One are made with PC parts.
throw in a controller with an expensive touchscreen and it becomes impossible.
What does this say about the Wii U GamePad?
What does this say about the Wii U GamePad?
I'd posit that the Wii U sacrificed a significant amount of hardware in their console for the sake of that fancy gamepad. Even with this new console generation's modest hardware barely being able to render at HD resolutions, the Wii U is still a generation behind. That's not necessarily a criticism, mind you... it's a choice that you have to make about the realities of pricing and hardware specs. Nintendo obviously isn't trying to compete in the high-specs console market, and that's fine. They choose to innovate in other ways.
Valve has to make the same choices regarding price and hardware tradeoffs. Keep in mind that it might not only be about price - it could be that the touchscreen wasn't living up to their expectations in terms of performance. As such, why not go with a tried and true (and cheaper) alternative. After all, the big three have kept their analog sticks and D-pads all this time. There's surely a reason for this other than history or momentum.
Not the lower res/graphical fanciness, but the controller. It isn't that much fun to use as a controller because, well, it is fucking huge. It is a tablet. Thing is, if people wanted to play games on a tablet they'd probably do so and on one that could travel around with them.
Also it is pretty expensive. The screen, wireless interface, processor, all that jazz costs quite a bit and pushed up the cost of the Wii U. Part of what made the Wii successful was that it was really cheap compared to the "big 2" cons
if people wanted to play games on a tablet they'd probably do so and on one that could travel around with them.
Touch-screen tablets are good for positional input. But some game genres are more suited toward directional input than positional input, especially things like platformers and fighting games. Trying to do directional input with a touch screen is painful, as shown in the demo of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure. The advantage of Wii U GamePad over a tablet is that it has both traditional gaming controls (a directional control and discrete trigger buttons) and a touch screen. Only a few uncommon mobile device
This. Every game I play I reach for the Pro controller instead. I don't use the Wii U controller unless I absolutely have to with one exception, when the TV is busy.
It is quite neat having the ability to keep playing on the controller if the TV suddenly becomes occupied and in those few cases turning the console into a portable was actually quite neat.
I'd posit that the Wii U sacrificed a significant amount of hardware in their console for the sake of that fancy gamepad.
They did. I'd still have bought one but it doesn't support 4 controllers with displays. That was a massive failure.
I'd still have bought one but it doesn't support 4 controllers with displays. That was a massive failure.
How many controllers does a typical PC game support, with or without displays? It's been claimed that PC game developers leave out support for split-screen play and spawn installation on purpose, in order to sell multiple copies of a game to one household [cracked.com].
Yeah but Steam sales mean we PC gamers really don't have to care and with AMD chips going so cheap you can build nice gaming PCs for a little of nothing. My oldest has a hexacore with 8Gb of RAM and a TB HDD and it only cost $350 shipped, add in another $70 for his HD7750 and he can play pretty much any shooter he cares to play. the youngest decided to go for a quad and spend the extra for an HD7790 and everything is smooth even with the bling cranked.
So who cares if you have to get more than 1 copy? Thanks to steam we only have to download it once and then just copy the folder to the other 2 PCs and between Steam sales, Humble Bundles, and FTP games we literally have more new games to play than we have hours in the day and as a nice bonus you have a system that will play console games going back to the Atari 2600, PC games going back to DOS, and of course web, video, hell you can even get your work done on it
Oh and if you don't want to even spend that much? head over to Craigslist, plenty of Phenom Is and IIs and C2Qs being sold for cheap. Had a friend that wanted to get into PC gaming but money was tight, found him a nice C2Q system with 19 LCD and KM for just $130, he slapped in an HD6770 he found for $35 and is happily flying his WWII airplanes.
Yeah but Steam sales mean we PC gamers really don't have to care
I thought the expectation that PC gamers would wait for a Steam sale was devaluing PC gaming. This allegedly causes publishers to believe they can't get much more revenue from a Steam bargain hunter than a copyright infringer, which encourages established developers to concentrate on consoles and treat PC as an afterthought. Apparently PC gamers are more likely to wait for Steam sales than PlayStation gamers for Greatest Hits. (References: 1 [slashdot.org] 2 [slashdot.org])
I also thought one had to have multiple Steam accounts in ord
My oldest has a hexacore with 8Gb of RAM and a TB HDD and it only cost $350 shipped
Or $1,400 plus monitors plus OS plus furniture for four players.
you have a system that will play console games going back to the Atari 2600
Good luck dumping your authentic game cartridges to create the ROM files you need to play your console games. Last time I checked, Retrode was discontinued indefinitely [retrode.com].
and of course web, video, hell you can even get your work done on it
As for work or other non-gaming uses of a PC, console gaming families are apparently happy with just taking turns on the family PC, possibly adding a tablet or low-end laptop to the mix.
Had a friend that wanted to get into PC gaming but money was tight, found him a nice C2Q system [on a classified ad website] with 19 LCD and KM for just $130
I know some people who are afraid of buying thi
Realistically, even a bare-minimum gaming PC (with Windows & video card) is going to be $500-$600, and more like $700-$800 for something that can play the big games out now at 1080p. Of course many gamers here will spend $1000+. In addition, that requires you to spend the time/deal with the bother of building your own gaming PC - sure, for some people it's kind of fun, for other people they don't enjoy it, and time is money. And then what you set up is going to be a big noisy box that may work great
Bullshit, you can buy a pretty nice kit that will play anything but the latest ePeen (which lets be honest, some of those guys are just badly coded, see how fans of the original Crysis had to put out a patch because even today's uberrigs choke on the POS code of the last level) at 1600x900 (the most common resolution according to Steam survey last I checked) for less than a Xbone if you shop around.
Oh and do not forget that consoles work on the "razor and blades" model which is why you get assraped on the
I don't know about this. Call of Duty Ghosts is currently $30 for PC, $30 for XBox, $36 for XBone. New releases are all $60, right? Savings don't sound like much.
I don't own an XBOne, I just think gaming PCs are inherently pretty expensive. Your example of $379 for a super cheap gaming PC doesn't include the $100+tax cost of windows, so that's pretty much in line with the $500-$600 I was talking about.
Looking at the survey [steampowered.com], it seems 1080p is much more popular than 1600x900. Obviously going higher is b
Valve has to make the same choices regarding price and hardware tradeoffs.
Yes, but remember, the PC gaming market has already shown a willingness to pay more than twice the cost of a next-gen console for a really kick-ass gaming experience.
The key to Valve's success with its Steam Box, IMO, is to keep in mind that PC gamers are a very different market than console gamers. And, they have more money to spend. If they try to position Steam Box as nothing more than a direct competitor to consoles, they will f
I'm already putting together a Steam Box that's going to end up costing about 4 times what a next-gen console goes for.
But why? If you can get a near equivalent experience for 1/4 the price, why waste money on hardware when you can get more games. Then again... that Steam box actually won't have many games.
And don't tell me that games looking "slightly better" is worth a 4X price premium.
There's a whole video about it from steam dev days. You can look it up on youtube.
Basically the touchscreen meant looking away from the screen, refocusing on the controller, which pulled you out of the game.
What they played with instead is: You have two touchpads and most games steam games have integration with the steam overlay. They've been experimenting with having one of the back buttons pull up a screen actually on screen (I mean, what you would've had on the touchscreen, be it extra buttons, controlle
OEMs can not afford to sell steam machines at a loss. Unless Valve cuts them some margin for steam sales to their devices, but imagine all the early adopters buying the cheap pcs and formatting them (so there would be no way for Valve to know that any steam sale was made from a dell steam machine).
but imagine all the early adopters buying the cheap pcs and formatting them
Why would early adopters need to format a Steam Machine? They can just exit Steam, start GNOME, and run their non-Steam GNU/Linux applications that way.
Well yeah, that further reinforces my point. OEMs can not afford to sell at a loss (or very low profit margin) and expect to get their money back from game sales.
They said their reasoning was that a screen on the controller forced you to split your attention between the TV screen and the controller screen. The screen on the controller would only end up being useful when you weren't playing a game, and the cost wasn't worth it for being used strictly for non-gaming.
So basically cost wasn't the major factor.
Plus, Valve is now using "Ghost Mode".
They now show what you are touching on top of the game while you are touching it.
Details are in the Steam Controller talk during the Steam Dev Days; starting 23:35 [youtube.com].
Well, ghost mode would now be gone since the touchscreen is gone too.
their reasoning was that a screen on the controller forced you to split your attention between the TV screen and the controller screen
Yep... glad to see someone is learning from the Wii U's mistakes.
The DS/3DS treat the two separate screens more like one larger screen. Heck, in the 2DS, they literally are one LCD panel with a bezel stuck on top in the middle. There's a big difference between looking up and down on a tall screen versus shifting your focus from a screen 10 feet away and a screen a foot or two away.
What costs? Don't be fooled by the high price of the Wii U controller. Touch screens, especially small touch screens are very cheap. They scale in cost depending on the size of the screen. A touch digitiser for a typical mobile phone costs less than $10 in small quantities, so for something the size of what they were proposing you could estimate maybe $2-3 in bulk. The screens themselves aren't much more expensive either unless you're aiming for IPS retina or OLED or some other wanky screen from a high-end
This was announced January 15th at Steam Dev Days. It was all over the news.
Here is the presentation in which it was announced, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfN5WK7OzU8 [youtube.com]
http://slashdot.org/submission... [slashdot.org]
It's just that yesterday (or the day before) they actually unveiled some new imagery showing what it looks like.
Is it me or does it look like someone took an XBox One controller and stuck all the buttons underneath rather than on top? I know it doesn't have thumbsticks but the grips and buttons look identical to those of the Xbox One controller and the Steam button is a blatant rip off of the Xbox One button.
Given that this, the Wii U Pro controllers, the PS4 controller, and the Xbox One controller are all blatant rip offs of the XBox 360 controller is there some un-admitted acceptance that the Xbox 360 controller wa
Not that I don't like the idea of a touch screen on the controller but I have yet to see a game take advantage of it properly. So far implementations of the Wii U touch screen have been a major pain to use and serve no real purpose in a game. Even the best example I can think of from the Mario game requires a person to pause, change what they are looking at, and then let go of the controller to press the touch panel.
Have you played Lego City Undercover or Pikmin 3? They both make good use of it.
No though pikmin 3 is on my to-buy list
They probably saw the Wii U and realised the most expensive mistake on it.
Can't say it'll affect my opinion of their product one way or another.
"No gaming control pad should have a touchscreen. It was absolutely ridiculous on the Wii U"
I strongly disagree. Used properly, the touchpad and second display can be a great addition. Just look at some of the DS or 3DS games for how it should be done. In fact, if Nintendo would release a WiiU addon that would allow me to use my 3DS cartridges on it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat and airmail them a thank you cake.
Why the seperate up down left right buttons? Put a decent D pad on there. The seperate buttons instead of a good D pad is why I hate the all Sony controllers. Xbox can't make a decent D pad. Can anyone make a decent D pad anymore.
True, I have one of those controllers. Problem is it isn't that great either.
They improved it again with the Xbox One, have you tried that?
The seperate buttons instead of a good D pad is why I hate the all Sony controllers.
I don't have a PS3 or PS4, but the directional pad on at least PlayStation, Dual Shock, and Dual Shock 2 controllers is all one piece of plastic. It has four separate raised segments to avoid Nintendo patents on the cross shape. And in practice, with the thumb lying flat across a PlayStation directional pad, the feel of rolling the thumb from one direction to the next isn't that different from Nintendo's design.
In practice left - right or up- down is still horrible. You will tear your thumb up on the separating plastic playing a fighting game with any of those type of combo's.
There are these things on the Dual Shock called Analog Sticks, perhaps you should be using them. And if the game is one of those fighting games stuck in 1993 paradigms because the Fighting Game Fanboys insist on it (Street Fighter), perhaps you should play a modern fighting game that uses proper controls.
Or if you must, plug in an arcade stick.
Because the controller by design does not need a dpad. It only needs extra buttons in case you run out of practical mapping.
You have a left analog zone and haptic feedback on it. And a right analog zone with haptic feedback. Each zone notices the difference between push down and just swiping on the surface. Each zone also has 3 parts, where you can do stuff like map things to the outer and inner edges.
So for a lot of 3D games, you would do something like
-Left analog is left zone. Outer edge is used as dpad(
It wasn't impossible, I could tell how hard.....on a controller that wasn't too old. I was able to use the feature in a couple of games. Didn't work so well in Gran Turismo though. I can also bullseye womp-rats.
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How does the brain work? The 100-billion neuron question
For centuries, the brain has been the subject of countless philosophical and scientific debates. Recently, many discoveries and theories have cropped up around how the brain works, and those theories are helping us better understand the brain's role in health and behavior. Faculty members in the College of Health and Human Development are advancing several subfields of neuroscience research, looking at topics that include aggression, movement and iron deficiency.


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Civilians Walk Off with $20M in Army Clothes, Equipment: Report
(WASHINGTON) -- Little by little the Army has lost at least $20 million as civilians and contractors keep walking away from their jobs with military-issued clothing and equipment, according to a new government report.
In the Feb. 22 report, the Pentagon's Inspector General's office said it identified "approximately $20 million in unreturned clothing and equipment" given to the tens of thousands of civilians and contractors working at two stateside U.S. bases from 2006 to 2012. From 2006 to 2007 alone, the IG said that 80 percent of the nearly 1,000 employees deployed that year did not turn in "recoverable" equipment, amounting to a loss of approximately $2.5 million.
The IG made several recommendations for the Army to keep better track of their equipment. The military agreed with many of those reccomendations, the report said.
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2012 Men's Soccer
Cincinnati Christian 4, Bluffton 1
Cincinnati Christian takes down Bluffton men 4-1
Sept. 4, 2012
CINCINNATI, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's soccer team kept Cincinnati Christian off the scoreboard for over 41 minutes, but the Eagles followed up their score at the 41:42 mark with three more tallies in the second half en route to a 4-1 victory over the visitors on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Bluffton dropped to 0-2 while CCU moved to 1-2 after a pair of losses to Heartland Conference schools to open the season.
Nick Smith found David Bungu late in period one for a 1-0 halftime advantage and the home team used that momentum to go up 3-0 11 minutes into the final stanza when Smith and Joey Haselmayer both found the back of the net. CCU added another tally with 10 minutes to play and were less than 10 seconds from a shutout when a Nate Byrum (London) penalty kick made the final score 4-1.
Cincinnati Christian took just one more shot than Bluffton (16-15) and Bluffton finished with a 6-3 edge in corner kicks. CCU was whistled for five more fouls (15-10) than the Beavers.
Tariq Degraffinreed (Columbus/St. Francis DeSales) paced Bluffton with three shots on frame. Byrum, Caleb Berlon (Kettering/Fairmont) and Dylan Mathews (Arlington) chipped in with two shots each.
Bluffton returns to action on Saturday, Sept. 8, when the Beavers travel to Shawnee State as part of a women's and men's doubleheader. The men are slated to start at 3 p.m.


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The Schedule
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 8 pm
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (3-0-0) vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights (2-1-0)
at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium
LIVE on Fox Soccer Channel
Game broadcast on KCSB 91.9 FM
Game available on Gametracker
Big West Live Twitter
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 6 pm
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. Loyola Marymount Lions (1-1-0)
at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium
Game broadcast on KCSB 91.9 FM
Game available on Gametracker
Gauchos Ready For Their Close Up
After picking up a pair of wins in West Virginia over the weekend, UC Santa Barbara (3-0-0) returns to the friendly confines of Meredith Field at Harder Stadium this Friday for a match-up with Rutgers, which will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel as the "Game of the Week." Then, on Sunday, UCSB will remain home for a pairing with Loyola Marymount.
Where To Tune In
Fox Soccer Channel is on channel 265 for Santa Barbara Cox Cable subscribers. Tune into channel 149 on Dish Network or 619 on Direct TV. If you are not in Santa Barbara, contact your local cable provider for station information.
Jousting The Scarlet Knights
Rutgers enters this Friday's game with a 2-1-0 record. During their opening week, the Scarlet Knights defeated Towson, 4-3, and Saint Peter's, 1-0. Their loss came against Stanford on Friday by way of a 2-0 shutout. The Gauchos have faced Rutgers just once before on Sept. 12, 2008. UCSB dropped the match, 3-2 in New Jersey.
Taming The Lions
Loyola Marymount split its first two matches of the 2009 season, dropping a 1-0 game to Cal State Northridge on Sunday after picking up a 2-1 victory over San Diego State last Tuesday. The Gauchos hold an all-time series advantage of 17-11-2 over the Lions. The last meeting was on Sept. 7, 2008 and the Gauchos picked-up a 3-1 victory.
For The Record
The Gauchos won three straight last week to jump out to a 3-0-0 record. This marks the second straight three-win start to the season for the Gauchos, but this start does stand out. The wins over West Virginia and Pittsburgh marked the first time since the 2004 season that UCSB has won back-to-back matches against BCS level opposition. In 2004, UCSB downed Big East foes Seton Hall and Connecticut, then downed the Big Ten's Indiana for a third straight win. The Gauchos have the chance to equal that distinction this season with their Friday game coming against Big East program Rutgers.
What A Week For Walker!
Senior forward David Walker picked up a trio of accolades for his performance during the Gauchos' opening week. Walker led the Gauchos with three goals at the WVU/Nike Classic, tallying one in the 2-0 victory over host WVU and a pair in the 4-3 overtime win over Pitt, including the goal that tied the game in the 86th minute, sending the match into extra time. Walker was awarded with tournament MVP honors, was named to TopDrawerSoccer.com Men's Team of the Week and was also picked as UCSBgauchos.com Athlete of the Week. Walker's three goals this season already ties his total from 2008 and his two goals against Pitt marked the first multi-goal game of his collegiate career.
Nonni Is Canadian For Domination
Freshman Michael Nonni has had a brilliant start to his collegiate career. After tallying a pair of goals in the Gauchos' exhibition win over Westmont, the forward has not let down. He posted two goals and an assist in the match with Bakersfield on Tuesday and then supplied an assist in each of the two games at the WVU/Nike Classic. He leads the team with seven points.
Hedevag's Header
Prior to the start of the season, head coach Tim Vom Steeg pointed out that senior Martin Hedevag's abilities in the air would be an asset to the Gaucho attack. In the first week of the season, Hedevag has proved Vom Steeg to be correct. The senior scored the game-winner in overtime against Pitt with a header. On Tuesday against Bakersfield, he scored the first goal of the contest on a header in the sixth minute. Hedevag has gone 2-for-3 on his shots this season.
The Firing Squad
UCSB has already outshot its opposition 44-19 this season with 17 shots on-frame. David Walker leads the team with nine shots while freshman forward Machael David has fired the ball seven times. In fact, eight players have already recorded three or more shots through the first trio of games.
Triple Threat
Three Gauchos account for nine of the 10 assists recorded over the last week: freshman Michael Nonni and sophomores Danny Barrera and Luis Silva have each tallied three assists. Barrera had two in the game against Bakersfield and also assisted the game-winner against Pitt on Sunday. Silva had one helper in each of the contests last week. Machael David is the only other Gaucho with an assist so far, he assisted David Walker's game tying goal in the 86th minute against Pitt.
We're The Cream Of The Crop, We Rise To The Top
After starting the season with three wins, the Gauchos saw their position in the national polls rise from their initial preseason rankings. UCSB's highest current ranking is fourth in the Top Drawer Soccer poll, moving from the No. 10 poll position. The biggest jump was 10 spots in the NSCAA/adidas poll; the Gauchos moved from 16th to 6th; they also rank sixth in the Soccer Times poll, moving from the No. 14 spot. Soccer America had similar movement as the Gauchos ascended from 15th to 7th. The lowest poll position is College Soccer News' No. 14 ranking, which is still an improvement upon the preseason No. 19 position.
I Am Sam
Junior Sam Hayden has played every minute in goal for the Gauchos and has posted five saves. He has posted a save percentage of .556 and a goals against average of 1.28. He recorded his first shutout win against West Virginia on Friday.
Gauchos Picked First In Big West Preseason Poll
In a vote of the Big West men's soccer coaches in August, UCSB was predicted to win the league championship. The Gauchos garnered a total of 45 points in the poll and picked up four first-place votes. Defending conference champs UC Irvine claimed second-place in the poll with two first-place votes and 40 points. Cal Poly rounded out the top-three with 34 points. The Gauchos will begin their 2009 Big West schedule when they host UC Irvine on Sept. 27.
Who's The Head Cheese?
It will be a battle of the cheese states next week when the Gauchos head to Wisconsin for the Milwaukee Panther Invitational. UCSB will play host Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Friday, Sept. 18 and then take-on Wisconsin for the first time in program history on Sunday, Sept. 20.
They'll Be Back
Friday's game is the first of two Gaucho home matches that will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel. The Oct. 2 game against Indiana will also be televised nationally as the channel's "Game of the Week". Santa Barbara is the only collegiate men's soccer program to have two games televised nationally this season. The Oct. 2 game will also serve as the five-year anniversary celebration of UCSB's 2004 College Cup Final appearance.
Service Personnel Granted Free Admission On Friday
In honor of Patriot Day, UCSB Athletics is offering all service personnel (military, fire, EMS and police) free admission to Friday's game against Rutgers. Just present your respective work identification at the box office at Harder Stadium to receive free tickets for you and your immediate family.
Faculty Free Friday
UCSB staff and faculty can also get into Friday's game for free as part of UCSB Athletics' "Faculty Free Fridays" promotion. Just present your UCSB staff or faculty ID at the Harder Stadium box office to receive your free ticket.
Scarf It Up!
Fans that attend Friday's game will get the first look at the new UCSB soccer scarf that will be making its debut at the Gaucho Shop this weekend. Get one around your neck while supplies last!
Sunday Fun Day!
Sunday's game against Loyola Marymount is also Santa Barbara Soccer Club Night and also a Santa Barbara News-Press Kids to College game. The Kids to College Program is designed to give local youth the opportunity to experience the thrill of athletics events at the collegiate level in person. All youth (eighth grade and under) are invited to attend the games for free. Call (805) 893-UCSB for more information.
Gauchos Add Exhibition With Under-17 Mexican National Team To 2009 Schedule
The Gauchos will host Mexico's U-17 National Team in an exhibition on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. The Mexican team, which won the U-17 World Championship in 2005, has qualified along with the USA for the 2009 U-17 World Championship to be held in Nigeria on Oct. 24. For more information, click here.
Get Your Tickets!
Tickets are now easier than ever to get your hands on. For the first-time, UCSB has also enabled fans to print their tickets at home. No waiting in line necessary! Tickets can be purchased by calling (805) 893-UCSB, visiting the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or by clicking here.


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Professor Paul Noguchi spent the last 39 years of his career sharing his passion for the study of humanity with students at Bucknell University. And in return, he enjoyed watching the growing diversity of both culture and geography in the student body.
During his time at Bucknell, Noguchi published two books. Delayed Departures, Overdue Arrivals: Industrial Familialism and the Japanese National Railways was published in 1990 and explored changes that occurred when the Japanese National Railways were privatized and the impact it had on the lives and careers of railway workers in a Tokyo passenger station. "In my restudies of this station, I investigated career uncertainties and the emergence of a new corporate image," Noguchi says.
His book-in-progress, Things Japanese and Things Unexpected, is a collection of essays on how food and other items reflect Japanese culture. He also is the author of many papers and personal essays, such as, "Savor Slowly: Ekiben - The Fast Food of High-Speed Japan" and "Bean-Picking at Seabrook."
Noguchi's courses, always packed with firsthand cultural data, included foundation seminars on demystifying Japan and subjects spanning Japanese film, Japanese corporations, consumption and material culture and urban anthropology. "I can't say I have a favorite, but the consumption course and urban anthropology allowed me the opportunity to teach using my fieldwork experiences," he says.
With such a body of work spanning so many decades, it's difficult to pinpoint career highlights. But Noguchi says, "I think one of the highlights would be the interviews I had with The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times on my research with lost-and-found departments in New York, London and Tokyo. I also had two interviews with 'NPR' and appearances in three documentaries."
In his years at Bucknell Noguchi has been witness to many changes. One of his favorites? The conveniences of technology meant that he no longer had to lug a slide projector and carousel around campus. He also noted that recent classes of students have seemed less prepared in reading background, critical skills and writing abilities in comparison with earlier generations. But have new talents and an undeniable enthusiasm all their own.
As Noguchi exits the classroom - he never missed a day in his 39 years at Bucknell - he sets his sites on big plans for his retirement. "I am working on projects that involve a cross-cultural examination of the meaning of lost objects, an edited volume on consumption and material culture and a look at the etiquette of cell phone use in Japan," he says. When not immersed in his academic projects, he will shift his focus to a few other areas. Noguchi now holds a Class M license and plans to ride his new Honda SH150i scooter as much as possible, at least when he's not breaking in his new fly-fishing gear.
Over the next year, Noguchi plans to spend time with his four grandchildren and relive his glory days as a third baseman by attending the 50th reunion of his New Jersey Group IV state champion varsity baseball team in Bridgeton, N.J.
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Martin Jol has laughed off suggestions Fulham could make a move for Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard this summer, reports Sky Sports.
The 34-year-old will be available on a free transfer at the end of the season, as he approaches the end of his contract, with the Stamford Bridge club yet to offer the England international a new deal.
Lampard is set to make his 600th Chelsea appearance in tonight's Premier League clash against Fulham at Craven Cottage, and Jol took the opportunity to praise the Blues veteran, before ruling out the possibility of signing him.
"Frank is the most productive midfield player in England in the last 30 or 40 years," he reflected in his pre-match press conference. "Everyone would love to have him.
"He's fit and is a good character. He will have a smile on his face if he listens to Fulham but I would love to have him. But it's hypothetical as he will never play for Fulham."
Still a firm fans' favourite in west London, Roman Abramovich is yet to buckle under the pressure and offer Lampard a new contract to extend his stay at Chelsea.
He's been linked with a move to Italy and the MLS, with Napoli and LA Galaxy both keen to recruit the midfielder, though Jol thinks that Lampard will end up staying at Stamford Bridge.
"I'm not sure he will play for a top-10 team," the Dutchman added. "He's a legend - a living legend over there. He won all the prizes over there. In the end I have a feeling they will keep him."
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Mar 15, 2011
LAKE WALES, Fla. – The Yale women's golf team tees off its spring season Tuesday morning at the Mountain Lake Golf Course. The Bulldogs will take on Longwood University. The Bulldogs then head to William and Mary for the two-day William and Mary Invitational, then travel to Georgetown a week later for the Hoya invitational. The Brown Bear Invitational is Yale's last tune-up before the Ivy League Championships Apr 22, 23 and 24.
As they march to those Ivy League Championships, the Bulldogs will combine a strong groups of returners with their potentially dominant 1-2 freshmen punch: Seo Hee Moon and Sun Park. Moon burst onto the scene in Yale's fall season, taking home four individual wins in five tournaments, while finishing third in the fifth – the highly competitive Nittany Lion Invitational. Park was unable to compete for much of the fall due to injury, and though her scores did not count for the team competition at the Harvard Invitational, the freshman posted the second-best score of any Yalie. At the Sacred Heart Invitational, the Bulldogs' fall finale, Park was the fourth-place individual finisher overall.
Sun and Moon bolster an already strong group of returners, led by captain Alyssa Roland, who used a spectacular Sunday march up the leaderboard – on her 21st birthday no less – to take home the individual Ivy League title last year. She and classmates Harriet Owers-Bradley and Cassie Boles will be massive contributors as three of five of Yale's representatives at last year's Ivy League Championships.
The Bulldogs will also rely heavily on junior Lily Boettcher, who received the Widdy Neale award last year given annually to the player who does the most to boost the morale of the team and who goes the extra step both on and off the course. Sophomore Joy Kim finished tenth at last year's Yale invitational, and had a strong fall for the Bulldogs, as did sophomore Alexandra Lipa, who won her first collegiate tournament ever – the Towson Invitational – last season, before posting a top-30 finish at the Ivy League Championships.
Yale faces a short but intense schedule leading up to the all-important Ivy League Championships in late April. Once there, the Bulldogs hope to better last year's finish and top the Ancient Eight, a feat well within the reach of a squad which has tremendous potential in 2011.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court began its new term this morning by turning away hundreds of appeals.
The justices took the bench just past 10 a.m. even as much of the rest of the government was coping with a partial shutdown.
Chief Justice John Roberts opened the new term without any reference to the partisan impasse over the budget and the new health care law that his vote helped uphold in 2012.
The court has announced it will operate normally at least through the end of this week. The justices are hearing six arguments, including a challenge to limits on campaign contributions.
Among the appeals denied today was Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's request to review a federal appeals court ruling that threw out Virginia's anti-sodomy law. Ten years ago, the Supreme Court struck down the Texas anti-sodomy law in a case involving two adults.
Virginia argued that the Texas ruling did not apply to sex acts between adults and minors.
The court also declined to hear, at least for now, Argentina's appeal of a ruling that orders it to pay hedge funds that bought up some of the country's unpaid debt from its default in 2001. The country is continuing to pursue its case in federal court in New York and could file another appeal with the Supreme Court.


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4 comments:
- kisatrtle said...
Nearly everyday I have a scream moment. It usually invovle my younger two and ends with instructions not to speak to each other the rest of the day
- February 17, 2012 at 6:37 AM
- Recovering Supermom said...
The fighting between my kids drives me bonkers and has led me to many scream moments. I used to fight with my brother a lot when we were kids, so it makes me wonder if this is payback. :/
- February 18, 2012 at 12:40 AM
- Mama Kat said...
Wow! First, I can't imagine what your parents must have endured with a still birth. How incredibly painful! Your boys are lucky to have each other. It just might take them some time to figure that out!
- February 20, 2012 at 11:03 AM
- Suzanne McClendon said...
I am sorry that your parents lost your brother. One of my daughters was stillborn, too. It stays with you forever. There's always someone missing.
I had two younger brothers (twins) and a baby sister after that, all before I was three years old.
Yep. There were arguments and many, especially with my little sister because she was the "baby".
I'm lucky in that my children do not generally argue with each other. If they are arguing, they are doing it out of earshot.
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Barbershop society wants to hear new voices
Like jazz, barbershop harmony singing is one of the unique types of music that originated in the United States. The St. Marys chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society is hoping to bring in some new voices with a guest night held during the group's meeting on Tuesday, March 22 at the American Legion Post 103 along Center Street in St. Marys. Any men from Elk and neighboring counties who like to sing four-part a cappella harmony, or who just enjoy singing, are welcome to attend. Society member Fred Burne, a barbershopper since the 1960s, said men "from the age of 10 to 110" are welcome to come and see what barbershopping is all about. The chapter, formed in 1992, had presented 17 consecutive annual shows staged at the St. Marys Area High School. Members also performed at churches and area nursing homes, presented singing Valentines and went Christmas caroling, and participated in competitions. According to Burne, membership has dwindled over the past few years due to one reason or another, including health issues and loss to other regions. "About three years ago, several members, including the chorus director, broke off to start a new chapter closer to their homes in the DuBois area. Since then, the St. Marys chapter has been hobbling along and has now formulated plans to make a comeback," Burne said. "Right now, we have six members, and it's just not enough." He said people are interested in barbershop music because it has a rich history and tradition and is also fun to sing. Many of the melodies originate from the late 1800s and the first part of the 1900s. The main chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society – also known as The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America and has more than 800 chapters in the U.S. and Canada – was founded in 1938 to preserve and perpetuate this type of singing, which did indeed originate in barbershops and on street corners. "Barbershop is a type of music that four ordinary voices can sound terrific when they sing together and sound in tune. It's a case where the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts," Burne said. For questions or more information about the local Barbershop Harmony Society, the upcoming guest night or barbershopping in general, contact Burne at 814-486-1000 or visit www.barbershop.org.