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November 20, 2009
Ms. TCA's Spoiler-Free and Totally Random New Moon Commentary
1) Edward SPARKLES beautifully in New Moon!!! Not like the glitter-glue effect of Twilight. Somehow, they make RPattz even more gorgeous than he is!
2) Vampire make-up is seamlessly beautiful -- It always killed me that I could see Esme's make-up line end halfway up her forehead in Twilight
3) Bella doesn't blink like she's had too much caffeine this time around; KStew gives a really amazing, compelling performance. Loved her!
4) Superior Special Effects -- Now THIS is how Vampires are supposed to move. The stunts were convincing. I love you Chris Weitz!
5) Holy Jailbait -- Wow, I'm a diehard Team Edward gal, but I think Taylor Lautner was amazing as Jacob and I may have to go Team Switzerland from now on. Taylor was great - and so was the chemistry between him and KStew! Who else almost cried during the heartbreaking you-know-what scene? Sob.
6) THE MOVIE's ENDING: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE^100000
Alright, there is so much more to love, but my addled brain is still on a New Moon high. Lorabell will have her own take too.
If you haven't seen it, run thee to the theater.
Update: Oooh, my tun my turn :D Lorabell's (NOT ENTIRELY SPOILER FREE - I've tried and I can't) New Moon best bits:
1) Victoria - killer music, gorgeous hair and awesome special effects!
2) Months - *tear* that is all!
3) Abs - aba + water, abs + sparkles, just plain abs = holy HAWTNESS!
4) Humans - Mike, Eric, Jessica, Charlie - you rock my socks ;)
5) The very nearly almost not quite - you know what I'm talking about - argh, kill me right now!!!
6) Alice's vision - Wait, what?!?! ZOMFE!!!
37 comments:
The movie was grand. Oh, the wolfpack - I think Chris and the CGI/FX team did an amazing job on them and how they move. Someone did their research on actual wolves for this movie. I so want to point out something that they perfected about the pack movement but will wait until later when we are truly discussing the film bit by bit.ReplyDelete
I just want to say that I'm so happy with Chris - he did an amazing job and there were moments I was so moved by how he shot things.
I'm getting chills just thinking about the movie.
it was beautiful. everything i wanted and so much more. kristen, rob and taylor all delivered. the score....amazing too. can't wait to see it again.ReplyDelete
Mrs. TCA, so glad to see that you are still alive. I have missed hearing your comments so much. I have not been able to post on here since you took away the anonymous option as I can't seem to remember how I created my password ( I am very tech challenged!)ReplyDelete
I saw it last night with a prodominantly college-aged crowd (college town) and the theater was so quiet throughout the entire movie, just a few catcalls at shirtless Jacob, crickets when Edward takes his off (J. is a hard act to follow) and appropriate laughs at the jokes. I had been so prepared to not hear most of it!
I was so impressed with TL and KS improved acting. Their scenes had me more teary than the big break up with Edward (?) and I was blindsighted by the ending. (!) Melissa R. redeemed herself with this script although not all of my fave quotes ("blackest blasphemy" and "my life was like a moonless night" sigh)made it in but whole passages of the book did end up !
CW stayed true to the book for us book fans; others might be somewhat confused but who cares! I would love for him to remake Twilight:)
I absolutely loved it!!! Seriously, it was infinitesimally better than Twilight! They stayed sooooo close to the book! Chris Weitz is officially my new hero! KStew was definitely waaaayyyyyy less awkward this time around, and her acting was reaaaalllyy great! I just loved it ALL AROUND!ReplyDelete
THE ENDING WAS SO FREAKIN' GOOD! The whole thing was, when I went to see it at midnight there was a cheer when it started, squeels when Edward/Jacob/kissing/half naked bodies came onto the screen, and gasps and sobs. It was amazing. I love people in cinema's, they really add to the whole atmosphere.ReplyDelete
And what a fab one it was!! It was actually funny in places too, so much better than Twilight :)!
I never, ever, EVER thought I'd say this. But... I kinda... sorta... loved Jacob... just a little... maybe...
Taylor was so good, but I am still Team Edward, all the way. But god, I like Jacob now, I don't know what's going on.
Anyway, much love and good to have you around TCA! As much as we adore Lorabell, you've been missed!
I loved it...so much better than Twilight...camera work was better, sound was better, RPatz accent was better, and acting was a ton better on all accounts. Everyone looked more beautiful overall. The script seemed more fluid and natural. My only concern, which can't be corrected, is that I still want both Edwards and Jacobs voices to be deeper. But I'll live...hahaReplyDelete
Met and exceeded all expectations.. I seriously thought I would be screaming like the fangirls all around but it was sooo good I was speechless the whole way through.. A+++++++++++ReplyDelete
You just said it perfectly!!!!!ReplyDelete
also the score was such a huge plus and improvement. Desplat just killed it!!!
Absolutely loved it! And there was no almost crying, I teared up. The whole theater was snifflingReplyDelete
@ mel 720 same thing for me as far as the crowd and the reactions. There was some teen girls behind me and were screaming before the movie started so I expected not to be able to hear anything, but I could of heard crickets too. I enjoyed the movie very much, I thought the flow was more evenly done visually than Twilight. It was true to SM book so well done!! Congrats to the Wolf CGI and Volturi scenes were awesome. I have one negative comment if you want to call it that, just an opinion I thought the acting from KS was greatly improved, but I personally didn't feel the emotion of her loss of Edward or Jacob come across the screen. I didn't get that same feeling as when I read the books. To me Bella's character is strong, but also so vulnerable with her emotion of tears giving her away all the time. Just never see KS go to that deep level of emotion. I think she is a decent actress and will evolve with time. I won't go on and on about Ashley Greene's acting at this point, cuz it is what it is!! I did enjoy the movie and thought it surpassed Twilight!! If you haven't seen it- you must it is worth the 10 bucks!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Clearly, I was watching a different movie than you guys.ReplyDelete
That said, the technical filming was handled beautifully. Many things were worked very well, visually: the depression scene, the fight scene, the cgi wolves were amazing. I particularly enjoyed the way they worked Bella's monologues in as unsent messages to Alice.
As a whole though, it was entirely too fast paced, especially since the book is slow and agonizing. It left me little time to connect with the characters, thereby when scenes such as the break up and the reunion came along, they did not spark the kind of emotions I was hoping for. I do agree though that it is difficult to shove a book of that size into two hours, but it has been done before (ref. to HP6).
Additionally, I will admit I went into the theatre without high expectations. I am mature enough to recognized the fact that this movie is hardly an oscar contender, by any means. But Kristin did a GREAT job (Bravo!) but Rob picked up that torch and blinked far too much (ref to the Shakespearean quote scene). I couldn't get past the fact that, in every close up of his face, my attention was constantly drawn to his blood shot eyes. Those contacts must have been killing him.
I think I'm going to wait until it comes out on dvd to see it again.
LURVED IT! It was sooooo much better than Twilight. You laughed where you were suppose to laughed and the ending..well the entire audience was shouting and clapping and laughing!!! It was sooo much fun! The acting was so much better and the kissing between Edward and Bella was on a WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL thatsallimmasayin ;)ReplyDelete
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Love the pic.
Ok my opinion:
Acting = awesome
Colors, cinematography, music, and costumes = awesome
Screenplay = Blah.
I walked away thinking Team Edwards would love it and Team Jacob's might feel a little cheated.
*dodging stones*
I saw it WED. night but i like but im not sure i love it, I love Kstew and i like TL, I love Rpatz but i don't know i think that they left out too much like the talk after they come back from italy on the wood, the scene when edward give her tha cd and then hide it and lots lots lots of scenes with Jacob! i mean there was no good explanation that bella jump off the cliff and i just didn`t felt the break up scene =(ReplyDelete
BUT overall i like it and im stil thinking about loving it maybe the 2nd time i see it
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM
I loved it though i agree it was to fast pace i think if i hadn't read the books i'd be a bit confused. And has anybody pointed out that in the books Alice is a fashionista and the clothes she wore were not cute(just my opinion)ReplyDelete
Anywho so worth the wait so worth watching the midnight showing and coming to work all tired
rotten tomatoes is a lousy website. the only people that write reviews on there are single, 40 year old fat men who have no lives xDReplyDelete
i thoroughly enjoyed the movie, however the audience kind of ruined it for me. there were just some people in my theater that were so obnoxious and rude. grrrr. seriously, why would you go to a new moon showing at midnight if you didn't want to see it? beats me. i'm going for a second time tomorrow and i'm hoping to evaluate it a little more. first time around, y'know it's late and you are just way too excited to even take any of it in. haha.
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM
OMGoodness New Moon was amazing I agree with everything you said and it was just awesome!!!ReplyDelete
OMG I'm sooo glad to hear all this.... but... i can't see the movie... it's not showing in my town =[[ SOSReplyDelete
I was SO happy with the movie. Chris Weitz is brilliant and I thought it was very true to the book. The acting was ALOT better. Though I think the reason it was not so good in the first one was because of the director. Gotta say it, Catherine Hardwick really destroyed it for me. She focused too much on making it modern and edgy that we lost a lot of the story and the book. Anyway, back to New Moon. Taylor Lautner did a great job as Jacob, he pulled off the bickering and humor of Jacob's character wonderfully. The wolfpack, yes was great. The Volturi-seriously, Michael Sheen was an exact replica of the Aro I saw in my imagination as I read the book. I was disappointed that they gave Marcus so many lines..he's supposed to be bored and not caring! And Caius was not quite as menacing as he should have been. Bravo to Dakota as Jane and Felix and Demetri. Great portrayals. All that hoopla over that model that played Heidi, and we barely catch a glimpse of her as she walks past. I don't really care about the car change. Actually, I think Edward's car is better in this one than the old one. They didn't do a good job letting everyone know about Jasper's gift, it confused my friend, who hasn't read the books. Loved the Cullens though. Emmett was hillarious, as he was supposed to be. Alice-wardrobe was bad.ReplyDelete
After all that though, the movie was spectacular. Most of the things I had a problem with, weren't that big of a deal to me. Just a nitpicky fan I suppose. The extra things CW added made the movie better I think. So, bravo.
I loved that the vampires truly were absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful, as they should be.ReplyDelete
I didn't like that parts that were in the previews were cut out of the movie (birthday cake).
I am biased, but I'm an intelligent, 34 year old career woman, and i have to say I would give this movie 8/10. Fantastic.
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2009 at 2:30 AM
As a whole, I thought the movie was a dozen times better than Twilight. I was absolutely thrilled with how close they stuck to the book... until the end began. I was so excited for Edward and Bella to reunite and then it happened WAY too quickly. And then they both start having the conversation that's not supposed to happen until they're back in her bedroom! Everything was instantly better between them. It was like zip, zip. Too fast. I felt that the plane ride also needed to be added in because I thought the build up to them reuniting should have been bigger. In a way, I loved the ending and the cliffhanger, but I also wanted it to be as it was played out in the book. (I know -- I'm being picky!)ReplyDelete
However, Kristen and Rob had outstanding, off the charts chemistry (woohoo! Team Edward!). I thought Rob did an ever better Edward than in Twilight, which makes complete sense, but wow, I was very impressed. Kristen was amazing. When you think about how much she had to do in New Moon, it's astonishing how she was SO Bella. I can also think of no one better than Taylor to play Jacob. He was far better than I was expecting. He really became Jacob as well.
Another aspect of the movie that I really enjoyed was the comedy of it. Some great, unexpected, yet laugh-out-lines in there.
The future (dream?) sequence with Edward and Bella was slightly painful for me. I wish they hadn't been running, because it looked really cheesy. The entire theater just started laughing.
The entire cast did a phenomenal job, and Chris Weitz should be extremely proud of himself. All of the scenes were visually stunning. Totally worth the wait.
Omfgggg. What can i say? the ending was absolutely epic. NO JOKE.!!!! It kept me savoring for more.ReplyDelete
I have to agree that the future sequence where bella was running with edward was kinda dissapointing but honestly i do not expect them to actually show a version of the transformed bella.
The part where edward finds out about bella was absolutely wow. The effects were beautiful, and it was more than what i really expected it to be. Chris weitz is a genius.
I do have to admit that i was kinda dissapointed with the music i expected something a little bit more profound and heart breaking but it was still very very very yummy.
It had some good comedy, i liked the color of the movie, without the blue tint, alice looked gorgeous, the glitters!!!!! were ughhhh just breathtaking.
Okay. I am srsly going to shut up now.
I feel like talking about everything.
I am so in love now.
Jacob has sorta captured my heart btw.
I think im team switzerland now.
Lets hope eclipse changes that lolz.
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2009 at 4:49 AM
Cinematography in this one was on a whole new level. I was so afraid the wolves were gonna look cheesy, but they actully looked menacing and believable. Acting was sooooo much better. My disbelief was totally suspended almost 100% of the movie. During twilight I was always, like, "I don't like that." "That's awkward." "So much blinking." This time, I was just totally absorbed. LOVED IT!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2009 at 5:03 AM
omg.. I really couldnt stand the bella blinking and fidgeting in the first movie. I totally agree with you that it made her seem like she had too much caffeine. I thought I was the only one that noticed.ReplyDelete
Ok, THX Lorabell for putting the Name/URL option again, its the only way I could sign in before to comment!ReplyDelete
I love the movie! Everything was perfect! It was beyond my expectations! Chris is amazing!!!!! The visual effect of Bella and her depression? Great!!! The sparkling was way better and the stunts and visual effect of Edward disappearing were incredible! It was like reading the book! They didn't changed that much! AND THE FINAL SCENE?????? SPEECHLESS!!! I was like no way I read the script and this is how they're ending the movie???? No no I'm really happy with this movie!!!! We have to let Summit know what we want Chris for Breaking Dawn really!!!!!ReplyDelete
New Moon is waaay better than Twilight I must say. However, though KStews acting has DEFINATELY improved,it still isn't right. I didn't feel she portrayed the emotion she should've of being manic depressive. Although there are moments when I think she did a great job, there are equal moments when she just falters. I wanted the cliff diving scene to be so much more "impactful" but instead she just does the sorriest lame cliff jump I could've imagined. I wasn't heart wrenching at all! I felt she could've done better with the break up scene with Edward too. She's just too monotone and its just the way she acts. I really hope she improves in the next film, but overall, its definately an improvement from Twilight. Jacob, I loved, I actually felt more sad and like crying during the scene when he breaks up with her than I did with Edward (and I'm team Edward)! I felt sooo bad for him! He did a good job a portraying the torchered love sick puppy. Edward, lurv him. I think his acting was very good and I loved the part in Rio de Janeiro! What can i say, he can't do no wrong! Victoria, I loved, loved the vampire movements, I only wish we got to see more of the wolves though. I do agree with everyone else that the move was WAY to fast paced and like Twilight, I didn't get to fully apreciate any of the characters, I mean you blinked and it was over with! The scene with Emily was soo fast and not to mention Heidi, but I do understand that they have a time frame and I am very grateful that at least they put those scenes in the book instead of leaving them out. I take it fast, hee-hee. If anyone has not read the book, It will be hard for them to keep up and they might get confused, good thing for the rest of us we knew what to expect but just a warning, DO NOT GO WITH ANYONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT TWILIGHT CUZ THEY WILL ASK A THOUSAND QUESTIONS DURING THE MOVIE! My friend did that to me and and I was getting seriously peeved! I will have to go again to catch up on what I missed. Overall, I am happy, but I wanted more! Chris Weitz did a good job and it was definately worth the wait. SO Lorabell, When does the Eclipse clock countdown go up? Hee-Hee
I am a sucker for wee details and I was hoping one of my tiptop favourite things about the book would be included...Bella wondering if Edward would appear in the pictures she took with her new camera, and then Edward subsequently ripping them out of her scrap book when he leaves, and then at the end E. telling B. they were under her floorboard all along, also the new stereo ripping out of truck fiasco.ReplyDelete
I agree with all the people who said it was too fast-paced. They needed to lengthen the movie a bit. They jumped from scene to scene way too fast, almost like they had a check-list of parts of the book that they wanted to include and I could almost feel someone in the editing room saying "check" as they went along. I actually thought Hardwicke did a better job getting the overall essence of the book. New Moon seemed a little flat to me. I didn't see good chemistry between Bella & Jacob or Edward. And yeah, didn't care for the background music either. Thought Carter Burwell's was better. I'll wait for the DVD to see it again also. Still Team Edward though:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2009 at 7:38 AM
I agree with all of the things you said! I have to say that sometime, the crowd you see it with can make it or break it. The crowd I saw it with was more Team Jacob, for sure! And they also laughed during the future of Edward and Bella scene, which kind of ruined it for me (it did look cheesy, but I knew where they were going with it.)ReplyDelete
I was kind of overwhelmed when I walked out of the theater, but I am seeing it again tomorrow...I hope that after that the 2nd time, I LOVE it, because right now I liked it a lot, but I'm undecided if I LOVE it. I saw Twilight the movie before I read the books, then got hooked on the books. I've seen Twilight the movie many, many times since and I'm a huge fan, despite the effects of vampire legs running all wacky because the actors are on wires, LOL! I think we need to remember that Catherine Hardwicke had a much, much lower filming budget than Chris Weitz did!! I just think that there were still some details that were left out, and I kind of had that sense that things were rushed, too. Regardless, I liked it and feel like wow- what to look forward to now?? So- when is Eclipse's release date, LOL! That book is my favorite!!
- Kirrra<3TwilightSaga. (:November 21, 2009 at 8:22 AM
I LOVE NEW MOON! i went to the midnight session & it was a really awesome movie, loved the whole cast, Chris Weitz; GREAT JOB :DReplyDelete
Does anyone else think that the bit in the movie when it shows Bella as a vampire, in the forest with Edward, is the part in Breaking Dawn when shes running in the forest after shes just changed?
I dunno, its just what i think (:
Cant wait for Eclipse & Breaking Dawn!
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM
I watched yesterday and I lover. It's better than Twilight, a 100%.
The only thing that I don't like is that Jake observed the Bella's scar but it's don't show she explain about James for him and that Edward save her. For people thar don't read the book is confused.
Sorry my bad english, I'm a Brasilian.
Amazing. I loved it so much! It was so well done. I really liked Twilight alot, but compared it too much to the book the first time I saw it. This did not happen at all with New Moon. They did a wonderful job.ReplyDelete
One thing I noticed with New Moon, I didn't feel the need to have to explain anything to non-twihards. The movie flowed with out explaination. Twilight, I had to explain stuff to people.
Big thumbs up from me. I can't wait to get babysitters again so this 27 year old mom of a 2 year old and 3 month old can see it again!
I agree with "Anonymous November 20, 2009 2:48 PM"ReplyDelete
I was somewhat disapointed. I expected so much more. Dont get me wrong, I liked it because its New Moon. But I felt everything was rushed. I felt like they could have left some scenes out, to really grasp the important scenes. It was like one second shes sad, the next second shes happy with jacob, and the next she saves edward. It was way to fast. They should have let things gradually happen. If i hadnt read the book, i would have been confused, i think my fiance and his friend were(even though they loved it too). One thing that really got me was, the attraction between edward and bella, it was almost non existant. In twilight you can feel the un-dying love edward has for bella. I didnt see that in this movie. I HOPE TO GOD ECLIPSE FOCUSES ON THAT AGAIN! And fix edwards hear and makeup and make him look sexy again. He was not looking his best in this movie.
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2009 at 1:19 AM
I was disappointed and I'm a huge twihard. I adored the cinematography, which was visually beautiful. Loved Victoria's cliff diving and the new sparkly skin on the vamps. Hated the stupid gold contact lenses, which weren't even black when Edward was near death in Italy! (I mean, the vamps looked like snakepeople or lizards or something). Loved the Thom Yorke song. Loved the Volturi, but not Jane, and I hope Aro laughs less next time. What did they do to Elizabeth Reaser? She looked awful as did Nikki Reed. The vamps needs to resemble Rock Stars; Victoria and Laurent were the only ones who came close. Here's what I didn't like.ReplyDelete
First, I loved the edgy, independent style of Catherine Hardwick and the inside jokes for Twihards, e.g., the wings on Edward in the biology lab, "Jasper's the one who looks like he's in pain," "wouldn't be like drinking your blood, for instance," "are you being safe?" and the apple catch by Edward in the cafeteria. The only laughs my theatre got were for Eric crying during R & J and at the ridiculous, implausible dream sequence.
Second, I thought Chris Weitz's directing lacked the creativity that Hardwicke's did. Not only for a failed sense of humor, it tried to take itself too seriously and dragged along as if it were epic. There was no passion in this film, I mean, there wasn't any sexual tension, any discussion of sex or lust or approach toward it at all. That tension is the driving point of the book, guys. The "I'd rather die than be without you" doesn't work if the characters don't have scenes together expressing that tension and passion. Don't get me wrong: KStew and RPattz were great with what time the script gave them. But this movie could have been rated G as far as I was concerned and I was not convinced theirs was a passionate relationship. Instead of their first scene being a boring discussion of her birthday, why now make it a joyful, fun, passionate time that would be a foil to the depth of her despair at his absence later on? Instead, their first scene about her birthday had all the emotion of an office meeting. The camera work was part of the problem: few close up kisses by the amazing ROBSTEN. Moreover, this is a romantic story, yet the script didn't follow romatic conventions and became an "action film." The key link between the key characters suffered as a result.
Third, there were other script problems. Why waste time on her vision of her grandmother? It added nothing to the story. Why develop Harry Clearwater as a minor character when the other major characters, e.g., Billy Black, Angela, and the Cullens, get little time at all? Why spend time on Bella's birthday gifts from her parents if the movie omits how Edward removed all traces of himself as part of his cruel break-up with her? What about the CD of his music? In fact, his composition never made it into this film, a huge continuity error that could have threaded these films together beautifully. (The musical score was atrocious and the swelling violins reminded me of an attempt to be like Gone With the Wind.) I was deeply annoyed at it and truly missed the Carter Burwell compositions. Most significantly, why rush the final scene? It should have followed the book to the letter. It was a key piece in the story: the tension continues in the book until she's slept off Italy and they're home safe and sound discussing Italy and the break up in her room. Savor the relationship between the characters because it will make the next two movies even more successful. Don't do Eclipse until Eclipse.
I'm concerned that David Slade won't be able to do romance either. There was talk in the beginning about the need for a female director. I totally agree that unless the script is given weight to the romantic tension and character relationship, it too will be an action film. Someone should talk to David Slade now.
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2009 at 7:57 PM
OK, so let me start by saying, I absolutely ADORE Stephanie Meyer and every member of the twilight cast. But on that note, I've made it a point to see the movie twice and also to give myself some time before I commented. I was, quite frankly, dissappointed, I really think they missed the boat on this movie and it makes me sad, because I love the books and the characters and the actors. I didn't feel like the movie flowed well, it was like one scene ended and the next began with know flow in between. I have 3 major complaints 1. Kristen does not shed 1 tear through the entire movie. How can you possibly lose the love or your life/soulmate, sit and watch him walk out of your life and not cry??? 2. Did anyone notice that during the months (Oct., Nov., Dec.,) she had on the same outfit? I loved the scene, but I am fairly certain she didn't where the same clothes for 3 months and again NO TEARS. And, finally 3 which I feel could have been handled easily was them not putting in the scene at the end when Edward brings her home from Italy and has a confrontation with Charlie, I really thought that was pivotol for the lead in into Eclipse.ReplyDelete
Make no doubt about it I will continue to support the films because it's not their fault, but I seriously hope that Eclipse will be different, although with the same director, I doubt it. I am sad, I just don't think it was well done, but who am I.


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Apple's iPad may have a long head start in the tablet market,
and Google is slowly starting
to get its footing in the market with Honeycomb, but don't count Microsoft
out just yet. The boys from Redmond today showed off what they've been working
on when it comes to tablet
functionality in Windows 8.
The entire Windows 8 operating system has full touch support and will scale from small screens (i.e. tablets), to notebooks, to desktops
with their massive screens. Windows 8 can be interfaced using the traditional
mouse and keyboard -- this is the "base" Windows 8 environment -- or completely
through touch-based gestures.
But of course, everyone wants to know how Windows 8 is going
to work with tablet devices, and Microsoft gave us a hint of that today
at the AllThingsD conference. As previously rumored, the tablet-centric
versions of Windows 8 have an interface that is modeled after Windows Phone 7's
"Metro" UI.
The new Start screen includes "Live" tiles and
allows you to swipe and flick your way through the interface like you would with
Windows Phone 7 devices. Transitions are nice and smooth, and multitasking is
accomplished by simply swiping your finger across the screen [video].
Windows 8 will be able to run traditional Windows applications
that we've all come to know and love over the years, or more touch-centric full
screen apps that are written in HTML5 and JavaScript. Microsoft plans to make
tools available to developers to help kick start the app making process to
ensure that Windows 8 doesn't have the dearth of optimized apps that plague the
Honeycomb platform.
Other tidbits that came out of today's announcement include
the fact that Windows 8 won't require any more hardware muscle than Windows 7
to run properly according to Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky.
Likewise, the OS will be optimized for both AMD and Intel x86 processors along
with the hard-charging ARM architecture.
Internet Explorer 10 is fully baked into Windows 8 and is
obviously touch optimized. A new on-screen keyboard is also available including
a new "split keyboard" configuration to make typing with your thumbs
easier on a tablet."And this isn't just about touch PCs. The new Windows experience will ultimately be powered by application and device developers around the world — one experience across a tremendous variety of PCs," said Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President for Windows Experience. "The user interface and new apps will work with or without a keyboard and mouse on a broad range of screen sizes and pixel densities, from small slates to laptops, desktops, all-in-ones, and even classroom-sized displays. Hundreds of millions of PCs will run the new Windows 8 user interface. This breadth of hardware choice is unique to Windows and central to how we see Windows evolving."
All in and all, it looks like Microsoft has made a valiant
effort with Windows 8 for tablets, but it's still more of an "additional
layer" plastered on top of Windows rather than a fully fleshed out,
tablet-specific operating system like iOS or Android. However, this "quirk" allows it to take advantage of new HTML5 apps and still have access to the unparalleled catalog of existing Windows applications.


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PARIS, July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Solvay, a world leader in customised chemical solutions, reports earnings for the second quarter of 2014. CEO Jean-Pierre Clamadieu comments on the Group's financial performance and outlook for the second half of 2014.
Watch video interview and read transcript:
Topics covered in the interview include:
- H1 financial performance
- Regional trends
- Q2 loss explained
- Operating performance compared to the sector
- Polyamide
- Impact of low US energy prices
- Challenges ahead
- Outlook
About Solvay
As an international chemical group, SOLVAY assists industries in finding and implementing ever more responsible and value-creating solutions. Solvay generates 90% of its net sales in activities where it is among the world's top three players. It serves many markets, varying from energy and the environment to automotive and aeronautics or electricity and electronics, with one goal: to raise the performance of its clients and improve society's quality of life. The group is headquartered in Brussels, employs about 29,400 people in 56 countries and generated 9.9 billion euros in net sales in 2013. Solvay SA is listed as SOLB.BE on NYSE Euronext in Brussels and Paris (Bloomberg: SOLB:BB - Reuters: SOLB.BR).
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So vagas had Indiana to win by two points. Shot clock turned off. Ball tipped out of bound. Would giving papers the ball allow them to beat the raps and ensure the two points spread? Yes! Call could have went raps way since they were the home team. And already raps were getting nailed with non calls. Just my thoughts.
They did take their foot off the gas though. Good game in either case.
On another note, how lucky are we for not landing Nash? Would have been a totally different team. He got hurt early in Lakers second loss with a bruised leg. Things happens for a reason. Good or bad!
Go raps


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Roads reopen as other Jamaica projects go on hold for winter
JAMAICA -- The cold weather has come and put some construction work around town on hold.
"Winter closed in on us," said Archie Clark, owner of A.S Clark and Sons from Newfane, who worked on parts of Pike Falls Road this year. "We concurred that it's best to leave the rest of the project until spring."
Since Tropical Storm Irene, the town of Jamaica has been focusing a lot of energy on assessing the damage and dealing with reconstruction efforts.
At the Selectboard meeting on Monday, it was declared that as of Dec. 5, outdoor construction projects for the town have been shut down for the winter.
Construction on Pike Falls Road, which is between the Jamaica House and the town office, began two months ago. Clark's company did part of the project, while Larry Brown Excavating from Londonderry did another portion of it.
The road is now open. Although there have been "road closed" signs up for the past two days, it has been reopened to the public and traffic.
Before it opened, the stream bank had been stabilized, guardrails had been put up and pavement had been put down. When the spring comes, top soil will need to be added as well as seeding. The aesthetics of the road will be further improved in the spring as part of the contract.
There is a sharp curve on the road that will need revised signage, said Rob Faulkner of Cha Engineering at the meeting. He warned that cars should not be going around it faster than 25 mph.
The town has signs that have been put away during construction.
"Our thought was that those signs could be erected on Pike Falls Upper Road," Faulkner told the Selectboard.
West Jamaica Road has been reopened, too.
The bridge should be approached with caution by trucks. The weight it can handle may not be represented correctly by the posting on the sign.
Old Route 8, where the bid was awarded to GPT Maintenance, is "substantially finished," according to Faulkner.
Guardrails will be put up in the spring. Final roadway grading and seeding is to be done to finish that project as well.
The town has been submitting applications to FEMA for Sage Hill Bridge and Goodieville Bridge.
Goodieville Road has gone out to bid. The Selectboard has been asked by Faulkner to decide what they want to do about an issue with a slope in the road.
Water Street is to be finalized by the spring. It will have a finished roadway. On that street, four homes in a row were destroyed in Irene and the Selectboard recently met with FEMA officials about the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. Those property owners had applied for the program but may not be eligible.
After waiting a year for a buyout, the Selectboard and people who work with Community Development Block Grants are figuring out what these displaced property owners should do if FEMA does not come through on the buyouts
Paul Fraser, who has worked extensively with these people and the town on recovery-related issues, has put in for extension dates on other projects in town that may need assistance from FEMA.
The Selectboard was told that it should act before those dates or the town will lose money.
"We have to ask for another extension to complete the work that has to be completed," Selectboard Chair Alexa Clark told the Reformer on Tuesday.
After Irene, there has been concern over some trees on Turkey Mountain Road, which need to come down as they are a danger to the road.
The Selectboard was asked to consider this issue as well as other ones related to recovery after Irene.
"Five small projects haven't opened bids yet," Clark told the Reformer. "FEMA is going to cover some, some they're not. We are kind of seeing which ones they'll pay for then go from there."
Dale Wood Road, Diers Road, Forrester Road and Kings Road all need culvert replacements. Since those culverts haven't been destroyed, FEMA won't grant funds for replacements.
"Everyone worked really hard," said Clark towards the end of the meeting. "When spring comes, we should have more time to get it all done."
Twelve proposals have been sent to the state for disaster recovery funds, which are then sent to FEMA. Five of the proposals have already been sent to FEMA, according to Bob Stomski, of Cha Engineering, who also helped with the report on the progress of the recovery projects.
Stomski has been reviewing FEMA Performance Work Statements to double-check and revise the town's applications for more grants. He is trying to help the town save money and get the best value, Faulkner told the Selectboard.
Chris Mays can be reached at 802-254-2311, ext. 273, or email@example.com. Follow Chris on Twitter @CMaysReformer.
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As smartphones and other mobile devices become the norm to hold conference calls, send highly sensitive emails, shop online and more, mobile banking via these devices has also dramatically increased in popularity. With many banks offering mobile apps, it has become fairly easy and common for consumers to scan checks with their mobile devices, and simultaneously deposit that check into their bank account without ever visiting an ATM or bank branch. This unprecedented convenience has led to a series of risks, ranging from outright fraud to unintended errors.
After all, the people scanning deposits or taking pictures of checks on mobile phones are for the most part neither professional photographers nor check-cashing professionals. Picture angles and shadows may affect image quality, which in turn can lead to processing errors.
The Check 21 Act of 2004 legalized the creation of digital versions of paper checks for processing and spells out a variety of rules required for check-imaging. But in mobile depositing, there is one notable difference — the consumer holds onto the check.
Examples of fraud via mobile deposits
In a world where anyone can deposit a paper check and hold on to the original, the risk of fraud always exists. As with any new technology, people are finding ways to "game" the system by depositing a check through a smartphone, and then cashing that very same check at a currency exchange or unrelated bank. In essence, they are double-cashing (or even triple-cashing) a check, leaving the check issuer liable to make good on all three transactions. In certain circumstances, remote devices are being used to deposit checks at multiple financial institutions. Simply put, there is a growing wave of duplicate check presentments which is uniquely enabled through mobile deposits.
This happens because cyber thieves have learned how to intercept check images and present them for deposit at multiple institutions. Additionally, these thieves have mastered processing the same payment through multiple banking channels without detection.
When this happens (and it clearly does), the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provides an answer to the proverbial question, "Who is left holding the bag?" The answer, of course, is the issuer of the check, who may in turn have a claim against the person who made the multiple deposits. But such a claim will likely be worthless. Simply put, the UCC needs to be updated to address mobile deposits. And financial institutions need to adopt additional security procedures, such as requiring encryption for check image databases. This is not required today at banks or credit unions, let alone other non-bank depositories.
CONIX Systems has reported that high-volume banks intercept between 40 and 100 duplicate items per every one million payments processed, an increase of more than 1,000 percent since 2006. Once currency exchanges and the like are included in the analysis, the numbers will inevitably increase. According to a recent publication from the Federal Reserve, check fraud (which has been termed "a growth crime") affects every financial institution, every business and every individual throughout the United States, and costs upwards of $10 billion per year.
One question to consider is whether there is more security today being employed via mobile deposits than existed in previous decades when a window teller with scant training in fraud detection was responsible for screening false items. One advantage in years past was that banks tended to know their customers. Today, anonymity is unfortunately the norm.
Strategies to help reduce fraud
One tactic that financial institutions can employ to clamp down on such fraud is by not offering mobile deposits to all customers for all accounts. By imposing limits, such as a specific length of time an account needs to be open, or imposing financial limits on deposits, the instances of fraud may be minimized. But this does nothing for currency exchanges, credit unions or other non-bank locations where checks can be cashed.
Fraud issues do not disappear simply by requiring that all checks be directly deposited. Identity theft leaves employees vulnerable, which in turn threatens the stability of a company's workforce. For example, in late 2013, monthly paychecks were stolen from 10 Boston University employees after an Internet scammer obtained usernames and passwords, and changed the direct deposit information for these employees. The same incident happened to a faculty member at Western Michigan University where the school's system was hacked. The employee's paycheck was re-routed to a Utah-based bank, and the crime was traced to a computer in New Mexico. Authorities were only able to recover $11.08 of the paycheck, demonstrating a devastating outcome of mobile banking. Such maladies are not limited to universities. AARP magazine reported that between October 2011 and June 2013, $28 million in social security benefit payments were stolen in a similar fashion.
The backside of a check could also provide part of the solution. Paper checks must be endorsed. Requiring specific endorsements, including account numbers for electronic deposits may help mitigate against the risk of double or triple deposits.
Stripped of its veneer, this is a risk management issue. Financial institutions need to balance the customer experience with risk management strategies. For businesses issuing checks, the goal is getting payment to the correct end-user without having to pay multiple times. And for most of us as individuals, the goals are getting and keeping those dollars that are rightfully ours.


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Will the law make the roads safer? Are drivers ready? Do people
even care?
If you're a Californian who is going to roll the dice and keep chatting on a
phone without using a Bluetooth headset or speaker phone, the first offense
will be $100. If you keep on going, the fines can reach $190 for a second
offense, with the fine continuing to increase with each additional violation.
But if you do end up getting a ticket come next week, Headsets.com will
be giving away 730 free Discovery 925 Bluetooth headsets for drivers who
get busted. A law firm in the Bay Area island town of Alameda will hand
out 2,000 Bluetooth headsets to Bay Area residents even if they don't get a
The law does allow users with Sprint Nextel push-to-talk to continue using the
push-to-talk feature without using Bluetooth technology. If you're
content with simply using your phone's speaker phone, you'll also be allowed to
do that.
In case you're wondering, it's still going to be legal to send text messages
while driving -- for now. California Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who
authored the current hands-free law, recently wrote a new bill that will
ban text messaging while driving.
If you're using a Bluetooth headset, please familiarize yourself with it before
getting into the car and learning how to use your new gadget while driving.
Does using a Bluetooth headset actually make driving safer? The jury is
still out on this one, but either way, we still have to deal with it.
Researcher done at the University of Utah indicate drivers using a cell phone
are 5.36 times more likely to get into a traffic accident, which roughly is on
the same level of danger as driving with a .08 blood-alcohol level.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger believes the new law will help keep
drivers safer, but researchers indicate it's more about a driver's attention
and processing capacity instead of whether or not they're holding a cell phone.
A public survey done by Parrot indicates 63 percent of people who drive at
least one hour per day talk on the cell phone for non-urgent matters.
Remember folks, the law officially goes into effect on Tuesday, July 1!


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Illinois Credit Union League Re-Elects Incumbent Board Members
The Illinois Credit Union League re-elected four incumbent board members at its 83rd annual convention held earlier this month.
Geraldine Burek, president/CEO of the $54 million South Division Credit Union in Evergreen Park, was re-elected as chair and to a three-year term on the league's board as the Class B director for District 2.
Pete Paulson, president/CEO of the $586 million Corporate America Family Credit Union in Elgin, was re-elected vice chair to a three-year term as the Class D director for District 3.
Peggy Cummins, president/CEO, of the $13 million Three Rivers Community Credit Union in Mt. Carmel was re-elected as secretary/treasurer to a three-year term as the Class A director for District 1.
Two other directors re-elected to new three-year terms included Sean Rathjen, president/CEO of the $604 million Consumers Cooperative Credit Union in Waukegan, serving as the Class C director in District 3, and Dennis Schaefer, president/CEO of the $272 million SIU Credit Union in Carbondale, as the Class D director in District 1.
The full ICUL board of directors is:
- District 1 Class A – Peggy Cummins; Class B – Kerry Fearn, president/CEO of the $23 million Area Educational Credit Union in Mattoon; Class C – Alan Meyer, executive vice president/COO of the $505 million 1st MidAmerica Credit Union in Bethalto; and Class D – Dennis Schaefer.
- District 2 Class A - Janet Francoeur, president/CEO of the $27 million Riverside Community Credit Union in Kankakee; Class B – Geraldine Burek; Class C – Tim O'Donnell, executive vice president of the $222 million Financial Plus Credit Union in Ottawa; and Class D – Carl Sorgatz of the $527 million Great Lakes Credit Union in Naperville.
- District 3 Class A – Karen Jurasek, president/CEO of the $16 million Generations Credit Union in Rockford; Class B – Patrick Basler, president/CEO of the $65 million First Financial Credit Union in Chicago; Class C – Sean Rathjen; and Class D - Pete Paulson.


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Cloning extinct species has been a long standing dream of mankind. Well, long standing since the 90s at least, when the movie Jurassic Park stole the imagination of audiences worldwide with a fictitious story in which scientists use DNA extracted from long dead dinosaurs to resurrect the beast through cloning (with disastrous results). Since the movie, cloning science has advanced at a steady pace, and there has been increasing interest within the scientific community in cloning extinct creatures.
While it seems unlikely that dinosaur DNA pristine enough to produce a full genome map would ever be found, it would be reasonably easy to sequence other extinct creatures genomes such as the dodo, Neanderthals, wooly mammoths, and other more recent critters which researchers have recovered soft tissue samples (bone marrow, skin, etc) from. However, such dreams were often scoffed at and remained the realm of pseudoscience.
They were derided -- until now. In an exciting, successful new experiment, researchers at the University of Melbourne report that they have taken DNA from the extinct thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, and inserted it into a mouse embryo which continued to grow with the thylacine gene in place. The process represented the first time DNA from an extinct creature was inserted into an embryo, effectively bringing "back to life" in part the extinct species.
Dr Andrew Pask, who led the research, says the experiment was the first time DNA from an extinct species has been successfully used "to induce a functional response in another living organism". Professor Marilyn Renfree, a member of the team, states, "For those species that have already become extinct, our method shows that access to their genetic biodiversity may not be completely lost."
The findings of the team will be reported in the international science journal PLoS ONE this week.
The Tasmanian tiger, whose scientific name is Thylacinus cynocephalus or thylacine for short, is an extinct marsupial from Australia that looked like a wolf. The last surviving member of the species died in captivity at the Hobart Zoo in 1936. The gene was extracted from tissue samples of flesh preserved in ethanol, which were donated by the Museum Victoria in Melbourne Australia. The DNA was verified to be thylacine, and then was injected into the developing mouse embryo.
The gene injected was the thylacine Col2a1 gene, which controls cartilage and bone growth. The mouse embryo was selected, partially because mice have a similar gene, also labeled Col2a1.
Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales, Mike Archer, is leading a project that aims to fully clone extinct animals, but he warns that success remains far off. He commented on the developments, stating, "The next question then is, well what if you did that with the whole of the DNA of the thylacine? Could you in fact bring back a thylacine? Technically I think this is pretty difficult at the moment but on the other hand this is one very significant step in that direction and I'm delighted."
Despite the steep challenge, Professor Archer isn't giving up. He states, "I'm personally convinced this is going to happen. We are working on a number of projects like this. I've got another group working on another extinct Australian animal and we think this is highly probable."
Aside from possibly leading to clones of extinct animals, the breakthrough also may yield scientific gains in biology and medicine. Professor Richard Behringer, Deputy Head of the Department of Molecular Genetics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, at the University of Texas, says, "This research has enormous potential for many applications including the development of new biomedicines and gaining a better understanding of the biology of extinct animals."
Several groups are working to make real life Jurassic Park-style exhibits with cloned animals. Some like a team in Japan are focusing on finding frozen gametes from ice age animals, while others are focusing on more traditional cloning.
Perhaps most ambitious is the Pleistocene Park currently being built in northeast Siberia by Sergei Zimov. Zimov introduced a grassland ecosystem along with 100 large mammals includingreindeer, horses and moose. He plans on eventually introducing to the park wooly mammoths, extinct saber tooth tigers and prehistoric bears; all cloned of course. On the possible threat of cloned tigers he states, "OK, so one or two people will be killed, like in India, but far more will die of alcohol in this place than from tigers."
While Zimov and others have thus far not revived any extinct species, advances in cloning may one day make their dreams a reality. And with the new Australian breakthrough, that day seems to have come much closer.


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Secure Socket Layer and HTTPS, the bread and butter of internet website security, certainly seem to be getting a bad rap lately – and now they're about to receive yet another blow: SSLStrip, a man-in-the-middle attack tool for spying on and screwing with SSL web sessions, was released Tuesday – and prematurely to boot.
Despite the fact that SSLStrip's webpage was unfinished, an unknown hacker managed to guess the tool's download URL and in turn had it broadcasted on Slashdot for all to see. SSLStrip's author, Moxie Marlinspike, then quickly cleaned up the webpage and gave it a full release.
SSLStrip was originally unveiled during the recently-concluded Black Hat DC computer security conference, in a presentation titled, "New Tricks for Defeating SSL in Practice."
So how exactly does it work? SSLStrip uses a well-known technique called "ARP Poison Routing" to fool a computer on a network into routing all its traffic through the hacker's machine, after which the user is presented with an environment that he or she may think is an HTTPS browser session – but actually isn't. This is reinforced by what Marlinspike calls a switch from "positive" to "negative" feedback: whereas once upon a time web browsers informed users of a successful SSL session through a prevalence of little lock icons and colored URL bars (a.k.a. "positive reinforcement"), they now choose to present users with error messages when something is wrong ("negative reinforcement").
Complicating this is the fact that most sites use a button on login forms, so users can't hover their cursor over a link to figure out where it goes. And since "nobody types https://," the only way that most people experience SSL is through either clicking on links or following webpage redirects.
That's exactly where SSLStrip fits in: since more often than not the website itself is what users look at to determine if something is "secure", why not just silently strip out all that pesky HTTPS stuff and feed the user HTTP instead? It avoids the "negative feedback of death", and most users are none the wiser – and it will even change the site's favicon to a picture of a lock, just in case.
While the actual attack isn't that simple, of course, it is pretty close. There are a few additional things – such as handling compression and manipulating users' cookies – that SSLStrip also performs to make sure the attack works; in his own testing Marlinspike says he grabbed 117 e-mail accounts, 16 credit card numbers, and 7 PayPal logins – all with having absolutely no user response.
So let this be a warning: the only way you know if your session on a website is secure is by looking specifically for the https:// prefix. Be careful when you log in to a site from a public network, because unless you go mucking through a page's source code, you can never really be sure if the login process is secure or not.


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Guest Opinion: Satisfied Employees Create Loyal Members
I advise clients to focus on putting the customer or member in control. To do so in a service economy, leaders must focus on both employees facing the customer as well as the customers themselves. A Harvard Business Review article, "Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work," written nearly 20 years ago, described an approach that rings as true today as when it was written.
Research shows an important chain reaction. Whether you are working in a credit union that services members or an organization that services customers, satisfied employees create loyal customers who in turn become apostles for your business. These apostles are your best customers. They create new customers, and they drive profit and growth. Customer loyalty is a direct result of customer satisfaction. Satisfaction results from the knowledge that the company is delivering value to them. Value is directly tied to employee productivity, which is the result of employee loyalty and engagement. Satisfied, loyal and productive employees create value for customers. Employee engagement is related to their satisfaction, which in turn arises from respect of leadership, high-quality support services and policies that empower employees to deliver results.
When service companies put employees and customers first, a radical shift occurs in the way they manage and measure success. Leadership spends less time setting profit goals or focusing on market share. Frontline workers and customers become the center of concern. Leaders focus on assuring that the links in the chain are attained and maintained. They lead through personally demonstrated values. They are energetic, creative, participatory and caring. They lead by listening, coaching and motivating by mission.
Investment in people and the technology that supports them is a leader's duty. Management assures that every employee knows the mission of the organization and their role in achieving it. Continuous learning is fostered. The employees understand the environment in which they operate. Measurement and analyses are employed.
Successful executives of outstanding service organizations concentrate on profitability drivers. Customer and member loyalty are key. The most satisfied customers are the most profitable ones. Their lifetime value is extremely high, especially when referrals and repeat business are considered. Indeed, many companies have found that the top 20% of customers drive the majority of the profits. Furthermore, retaining a customer is much less costly than gaining a new one.
Member satisfaction creates loyalty. The most satisfied members are much more likely to give repeat business than those who are just satisfied. Value drives member satisfaction. Value represents all that the member receives including convenience and other intangible benefits in relation to the total cost of the product or service, including intangible costs.
The most loyal members can become apostles, letting others know about the great service and exceptional value received, thereby generating additional sales growth. In today's world of social media this effect can be amplified. The converse can be dangerous. Dissatisfied members can damage a firm's reputation through the megaphone of the Internet.
Employee productivity drives value. Productivity can be measured by employee time or labor cost to produce a product or service. But employees are much more than units of cost. The employees facing the customers are the front line of service. They can be listening posts of the organization, feeding back to management important information to be used for continuous improvement in customer service and satisfaction.
The most productive employees are also the most loyal employees. They are most likely to stay. Not only does low employee turnover result in lower recruiting and training costs, but data show that low employee turnover is closely linked to high customer satisfaction.
Empowered engagement drives employee satisfaction. Engaged workers want to make things right for members; empowerment adds depth to their work. Leaders make sure that this member and employee focused approach is instilled in the culture. Statistics related to the member form the foundation of measurement of employee engagement. Employees know the metrics against which they are measured, and how they are performing in relation to them. Compensation is tied to these measurements.
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California League, CURoots in Talks to Transfer CUSO's Ownership
The California Credit Union League and CURoots Cooperative said they are in discussions to transfer the CUSO's ownership to the California League Services Corp.
The Ontario, Calif.-based CUSO offers shared compliance services, internal audit services and CUVitality, a collective health benefits service for credit unions that offers medical benefit plans provided by Kaiser Permanente and United Healthcare.
"The ownership of CURoots would expand from 18 organizations to the 324 credit unions that own the California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues," said Diana Dykstra, president/CEO of the California CU League.
Under terms of the transfer proposal, all member credit unions will become eligible for CURoots' preferred member pricing, according to the league. CURoots' services would continue interrupted.
"This represents a great opportunity for CURoots users and potential users who will benefit from the streamlining of efforts and the cost savings that will be realized," said Gary Perez, CURoots board chairman and president/CEO of the $362 million USC Credit Union in Los Angeles.
The sale and transfer of assets is subject to a membership vote with approval requiring a simple majority, the league said. A special CURoots membership meeting is scheduled for Feb. 15.


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Renal artery stenosis a narrowing of one or both of the main arteries supplying the kidney. This causes a decrease in blood flow to 1 or both kidneys. The kidneys filter and remove waste from the blood.
Each kidney is capable of regulating the body's blood pressure to assure that each organ has an adequate supply of oxygenated blood. Stenosis activates a cascade of hormones known as the renin-angiotensin system. This pattern increases blood pressure. High blood pressure is a leading cause of stroke and heart attack.
The 2 most common causes of renal artery stenosis are:
- Atherosclerosis—Fatty plaque builds up in the arteries and blocks blood flow to the kidneys. This occurs mainly in men over 50 years old.
- Fibromuscular dysplasia—An inherited disorder where muscle and fibrous tissue of the renal artery wall thicken and harden into rings that block blood flow to the kidneys. This occurs mainly in young women in their 30s.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of renal artery stenosis include:
- Smoking
- High blood pressure
- Atherosclerosis elsewhere in your body
- Previous stroke or heart attack
- Diabetes
- Cholesterol or triglyceride disorders
Most people with renal artery stenosis have no symptoms. In those who have them, symptoms may include:
- Fluid retention
- Shortness of breath
- Headaches
- Ankle swelling
If both renal arteries are blocked, kidney failure occurs.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. If you have elevated blood pressure, a search for its cause can involve many different tests. Unless there is a specific reason to suspect renal artery stenosis, it may not be considered at first.
Repeat blood pressure measurements may be done.
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with:
- Blood tests
- Urine tests
Imaging tests may be done to evaluate the kidneys. These may be done with:
- X-rays with contrasting dye
- Renal ultrasound
- Radioisotope imaging
- CT or MRI scans with or without injected contrast agents
Your heart's electrical activity may be measured. This can be done with an electrocardiogram (EKG).
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. If there is significant stenosis and you are healthy, repairing the renal artery may be considered before medical treatment. Treatment options include:
Standard treatment for high blood pressure may be enough if blood pressure can be controlled and the kidneys are functioning well enough. There are many medications that lower blood pressure. You may need several to achieve adequate control. These medications are effective in people who have one blocked renal artery. ACE inhibitors should not be used if hypertension is caused by renal artery stenosis of both kidneys.
Percutaneous Angioplasty
A thin tube is threaded into the renal artery from a puncture in your groin. The tube includes a balloon, laser, or other device that will open the narrowed artery.
Vascular Surgery
If angioplasty cannot be done on the artery, a surgeon may decide to repair the condition through an incision in your abdomen.
Nephrectomy is an option if the affected kidney has been so damaged that it no longer works, but still causes high blood pressure. Nephrectomy is a procedure to remove part or all of the kidney.
Renal artery stenosis is an unusual cause of hypertension, but an important one because it is curable. The best way to detect hypertension is to have routine blood pressure measurements.
You can also prevent atherosclerosis by exercising regularly, eating a heart healthy diet, quitting smoking, and drinking less alcohol.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Adrienne Carmack, MD
- Review Date: 06/2016 -
- Update Date: 05/28/2014 -


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Privacy Mailing Bill Introduced in Senate
Credit unions advanced another step forward Thursday in their effort to eliminate the annual privacy notice mailing when Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced S. 635, the Privacy Notice Modernization Act.
Similar to H.R. 749, which passed the House March 12, S. 635 would amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act by eliminating a requirement that privacy policy notices be mailed to consumers annually.
Should the bill become law, annual privacy policy disclosure mailings would only be required of financial institutions when the policy has changed. The Senate bill also requires the privacy notice be made available to consumers online.
NAFCU, which supports the bill, said credit unions that have no Internet presence would be allowed to distribute the policy at branch locations.
NAFCU President/CEO Fred Becker said the bill will "go a long way" to help ease the regulatory burden on financial institutions.
CUNA President/CEO Bill Cheney said the bill safeguards member awareness of their privacy rights but eliminates repetitive notices that are often ignored by consumers.


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I did this over at RF back in the day and thought it might be nice to do it here to get to know your peeps a little better.
Pretty simple, just "copy & paste" the questions and edit the answers.
1) Age: 37
2) Born: Ottawa, ON
3) Hometown: Almonte, ON
4) What are your ethnic roots? German, Irish & Scottish
5) Favorite All time Raptor: Muggsy Bogues
6) Favorite Current Raptor: Jose
7) Favorite Non Raptors Players: Steve Nash
8) Which NBA team do you hate the most? Heat
9) Which NBA player to you hate the most? LeBron
10) Favorite Raptors moment: The day Vince was traded
11) Outside of basketball, who is your favorite athlete, past or present? Rick Mahorn
12) What team did you cheer for pre-Toronto? 76ers
13) What is your guilty pleasure? Sadly, reality television.
14) Favourite TV show (past or present): The Amazing Race, Deadwood, The Wire, Sopranos, The Office, Parks & Rec, New Girl
15) Things that freak you out: Toe thumbs
16) Music preference: Rock, punk, alt-country
17) Favourite album: "Tim" by The Replacements
18) Beverage preference: Beer and Scotch
19) If your life was turned into a movie, what actor would play you? Chris Farley "Fat guy in a little coat."
20) Assume your still single (if your currently not), celeb wise who would you date? Kate Beckinsale


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After six
years of active exploration and one year of silence on Mars, NASA has
finally decided to call it quits for one tough robot that has been put to rest.
Spirit, a golf cart-sized, solar-powered robot geologist that was sent to Mars
in 2004, spent six long years traveling the Martian surface. But after enduring
many harsh winters on Mars, Spirit finally fell silent last year, and will be
removed from the mission next week.
In January 2004, Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, were parachuted onto
opposite sides of Mars for what was supposed to be a three-month expedition.
The robots were designed to scale craters and hills while drilling into rocks
along the way. The robots would then record data to their flash memory, which
would be sent to deep space antennas in California, Australia and Spain.
Spirit and Opportunity were very popular back on Earth. People would follow
their journey through every crater and rock, eager to hear what was found on
the Red Planet.
But the robots were more than just machines feeding NASA scientific feedback.
They seemed to take on different personalities, with Opportunity being the
overachiever and Spirit being the troublesome and sometimes misguided sibling.
When the robots first landed on Mars, Opportunity ended up in an ancient
lakebed that was rich with water-forming materials, showing that Mars, which is
now a dry planet, was once wet and tropical billions of years ago. Spirit, on
the other hand, landed in a crater named Gusev that was the size of Connecticut
and possessed very little evidence of a watery past for Mars.
Not long after landing, Spirit began sending "nonsense data" back to
Earth and fell into critical condition, but NASA engineers were able to bring
Spirit back to health.
But Spirit's time on Mars was
not frivolous by any means. In 2005, it managed to climb a mountain the height
of the Statue of Liberty, and was even the first to record Martian dust devils.
It also discovered a patch of "nearly pure silica" on
the Home Plate section of Mars.
But in 2006, Spirit showed signs of complications once
again. One of its front wheels stopped spinning, which made Spirit travel backward
and drag the bum wheel. It also started to "forget" to save data to
its flash memory. Then, in April 2009, Spirit got stuck in a sand pit, and
engineers were unable to get it out. Spirit was forced to remain stuck there
until the present time, but in the early days of its self-inflicted solitary
confinement, Spirit was still able to send data back about rocks within reach.
Engineers blame the harsh Martian winters for Spirit's continuous problems. At
times, Spirit's internal temperature was minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit, and
engineers had no way of tilting the robot toward the low winter sun, which
would have warmed Spirit through its solar panels.
In January 2010, NASA officially announced the end of Spirit's career. It was a
stationary spacecraft at that point, and began to fall silent.
For over a year, orbiting spacecraft attempted to provoke any sign of life from
Spirit, but there was no such luck.
NASA plans to make one last effort to make contact with the robot Wednesday,
and a final farewell is planned next week after Memorial Day. Engineers expect
the farewell to be "more like an Irish wake than a funeral" in
celebration of Spirit's long life and revolutionary contributions to space
Over its six years of activity, Spirit traveled 4.8 miles.
"This is a story of perseverance," said Jim Bell, a mission scientist
at Arizona State University. "Spirit got a lot of bum breaks, including
almost dying early on and wheel problems."
While Spirit's journey is over, the exploration of Mars is not. Opportunity is
still scaling Mars' surface at full health, and has traveled 18.5 miles since
landing in 2004. It is now journeying toward a crater called Endeavour, which
is less than three miles away from its present location. NASA expects the robot
to make it to the crater's rim by the end of the year.
In addition, NASA plans to send a Mini Cooper-sized mega-rover onto Mars in
Summer 2012 to accompany Opportunity in its exploration.
Spirit's farewell will
be broadcasted next week on NASA TV.


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chandler all the way. love his game. saw so much of him here in the cba. it was funny how much better he was. starbury has been here the past couple years and is pretty ordinary stats wise with some nice passes they show on the sports channel but chandler embarrassed the entire league. other coaches (even the ones who have nba talent on thier teams) were whining and complaining that chandlers team had an unfair talent advantage. layed down some 50 pointers, awesome blocks on weak to the basket moves. just dominated the entire year. whoever signs chandler is getting the yao ming treatment for their teammates in shoe deals and tv money. he just blew up to the point of sillyness this year.
also on galli, im pretty sure he is restricted so no chance denver lets him go. bargs minus 3 inches with more aggression.
edited to add i also like felton a lot. and i think that if you fill the team out the free agency way you let BigV walk into center and package our pick with Davis/DD to get a superstar type player.
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I know JaVale McGee is a bonehead, but he's young, athletic, has a great wing span and has an attitude which this team is sorely lacking. Perhaps getting him out of the Wizards locker would do him some good character wise. Great talent and isn't a huge name so we might actually have a chance at landing him.
If Kaman could be had for cheap and for a short contract I wouldn't mind bringing him in to mentor Val.
I'm not sold about signing Felton, Gallinari or Wilson Chandler. I think all three might be overrated. Not that I think they are bad, but they'll get the typical D'antoni bonus. And after playing for D'antoni they moved to Denver which plays at one of the leagues highest paces. Their stats, and consequently appreciation and consequently future salary, might very well be inflated. (I'm not even mentioning Landry Fields)
A similar problem can occur with Batum; he has loads of upside and talent, but I think the team that lands him might overpay as well.
I just read Batum said he'd never sign with Toronto because of "what happened before the draft".
Anyone want to shed some light on this?
French swingman Nicolas Batum, projected to be a late first-round NBA draft pick, stopped participating in a workout with the Toronto Raptors earlier this week after a stress echo test -- a treadmill test that measures the health of the heart -- came back in the "borderline" area.
"There is an issue with Batum, and nothing is clear," his agent, Bouna Ndiaye, told ESPN.com on Friday afternoon. "The number [the score on his stress echo test] could be a borderline problem if he had a family history of heart problems. But I talked to Nicolas's mother and she said his father didn't die of a heart problem. His team in France and the French national team test him regularly and said they've never seen any indication that he had a heart issue."
A Sports Illustrated report in February said that Batum's father, Henry, suffered a "massive heart attack" and died at the free throw line while playing pro basketball in France when Nicolas was 2 years old. According to Ndiaye, Batum's father died of an aneurysm, not a heart attack.
Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo, reached by phone, refused to comment on the situation.
Batum was scheduled to be in the three-team workout in New Jersey on Friday, but didn't play. He did take a physical, and Ndiaye said results were similar to those in Toronto. Ndiaye said Batum will undergo another test over the weekend and, if it goes well, he'll be able to begin workouts again next week.
Batum also has canceled an open workout in New York scheduled for Saturday.
"He feels fine," Ndiaye said. "He wants to work out. He's been doing great. This morning he really wanted to work out with Joe Alexander. This is disappointing. I really don't think this is a real issue."
It's unclear whether the issue will affect Batum's draft status. It does come at a bad time. After wowing NBA scouts at the Nike Hoop Summit in April 2007, his draft stock has been on the decline. His play in the French league this year wasn't stellar. Neither was a brief appearance at this year's Reebok Eurocamp.
However, he's had some strong individual workouts for teams and was projected as a potential pick somewhere between 17 and 27.
Source: ESPN.com
If Batum did say that (I can't find a quote for it), it might have something to do with a miscommunication between him and Toronto front office, his opinion he is 100% healthy and the Raptors saying there could be a problem, a sensitivity over his father's health history and his own, or a belief Colangelo/front office spread rumours or misinformation about his health to other teams.
Any and all of the above is speculation on my part.
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Seems Westbrook is off the table, he just signed an extension for the max with OKC.
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
I find Batum incredibly overrated anyway.
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... Might have hurt his draft stock and was never proven or brought up again IIRC. Plus his dad died from heart issue I believe
I don't think Westbrook was EVER on the table. Why would he come to Toronto? Just another unrealistic pipe dream by Raptor fans.
your pal,
Eric Gordon makes so much sense it hurts
Also, that team of basically the same roster plus Batum is not going to win anything. If the past couple years of mediocre basketball has led up to a final goal of JV, Bargs, Batum, DeRozan and Calderon -- kill me now.
But seriously, you are always so negative. You should get out more, you know, do something fun. Maybe catch a nice movie, a comedy even! Maybe go to a bar and meet some new people who don't care about basketball at all.
Do it and you'll see, tomorrow the birds will be singing again.
Ebrain is sorta right tho. That team will be mediocre 7th or 8th seed team. We need the guy who will push us over the top, the Franchise player aka Quincy Miller.
Yeah, he's right.
Sign Gordon and draft MKG or Miller.
Lineup next season:
Big Val
With DeMar/Ed/Amir/Forbes coming off the bench. That's a team.
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