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Monday, June 28, 2010
Punk Babe - PTU Tags
9:13 AM | Posted by ღ⇢Rieka_Rafita⇠ღ | Edit Post
This awesome tags is created by Angel (Lynn),
you can find her tut's on here :
she using my PTU Punk Babe kits,
that you all can get it here,
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Why did you bring me here, Lord?
An aid worker's diary: today, Mikhaela De Leon -- media engagement officer for World Vision Philippines -- reflects on her experience of Typhoon Haiyan and why God brought her to Tacloban on that day.
I shouldn't have been there. Over and over I asked God in prayer, "Why did you bring me here to Tacloban, Lord?" It didn't make sense.
I was safe in Manila. I had no family in Leyte, couldn't speak the dialect, didn't know the place. It was my first time there, and it had to be at a time like this. Was it a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
But I am reminded: God's timing is perfect. God's will is always right. I surrendered myself to God's bidding, trusting fully that if he sent me to it, he would deliver me from it.
Amazingly, after that initial prayer, I was calm and peaceful. I knew, from day one, I was going to survive. It was purely God's grace, I tell you. Not by my might or power — I had none of that.
I have no real emergency skills. But what I lack in that department, I made up for with my relational skills. I made friends.
People kept me company during those uncertain nights in the dark, where we could hear the whistling wind and crashing glasses and metal sheets. I comforted two women — one of whom lost all her siblings to the flood. I was scared, too, but I knew that they had exhausted all strength and hope; I wanted to give some of mine.
It dawned on me this morning the answer to that prayer: "God, why did you bring me to Tacloban?"
His answer: "You are my servant."
I am in God's ministry, to bring hope in the midst of disaster. He gave me such a resilient and joyful personality so I could cheer people up.
He sent me as an ambassador to the foreign guests in our hotel. I translated for them news I was able to pick up on the way. I met Philippine Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, learned that there was a C-130 plane, and immediately informed the right people.
In my little way, I was able to help at least six families evacuate to safety, including an elderly couple who almost drowned in another hotel. My heart goes out to those now homeless and those who perished. I hope I can go back to give relief to them.
I am a relief worker turned evacuee. God wanted me to understand the plight of the people I help on a more personal level.
He wanted me to know the value of every relief good that we hand to them. How every canned good is precious to a child who has lost his home and family.
When I initially asked why God wanted me here, my friend said, "Maybe God sent you here for the experience."
She was right. And I thank God for it. I thank the Lord for taking me out of my comfort zone and to this time of testing for my faith to grow and for showing me the strength I didn't know I have in me.
World Vision has launched an emergency response to help survivors of Typhoon Haiyan – possibly the strongest storm in recorded history – after it slammed the Philippines. An estimated 9.5 million people are affected.
World Vision is rushing to meet the most urgent needs of food, clean water, and emergency shelter for 400,000 people. Make a one-time donation to help provide vital relief to children and families devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.


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Personal computing discussed
DreamlandDenizen wrote:Much thanks to anyone who takes the time out to humor this.
BTW: If you feel this is just a bad idea, you can let me know. I can take it.
just brew it! wrote:Make sure your hero has managed to pull down a full mirror of a major Linux distro's repository before the 'net goes dark, so that he (or she!) plausibly has access to all of the software tools and source code that might be required to re-purpose hardware to run the backbone. (Hey, can't do it with Windows if Microsoft's activation servers are inaccessible or destroyed by zombies! )
Back on topic: How long has your zombie apocalypse been going on for? I think it would take a few years for the internet to "go down"... though this is me purely expecting nodes to have half decent ups systems... but I haven't seen one myself.
mnecaise wrote:And that includes the power plants themselves. The coal-fired plants rely on trainloads of coal arriving on a regular basis; if that is disrupted, then the plant shuts down and there goes your house of cards. Diesel and gas likewise. And if something happens to the folks manning the nuclear plants -- whether they're taken out directly or simply leave to take care of their families and don't come back -- then it's Fukushima but worse, one after another (unless they had a chance to put the plant into orderly shutdown). At least the glow will help you see the zombies coming. Even hydro plants need watching to keep water levels within acceptable limits and to make sure everything continues to run. We've seen large parts of the modern grid can go down with just a single point disruption; in a widespread "apocalypse" it is going away and not coming back. With that goes all your long-distance communication. You'll be able to scrounge batteries for walkie-talkies for a while, and the ham operators can do point-to-point digital communication if there are at least two of them still alive with power and functioning equipment (and, if there are more than two, maybe store-and-forward). But the "net" is gone and it won't be back until civilization is -- it's a result, not a precursor.I've never seen anyone outside a military installation that had more than a few days worth of fuel on hand.
thegleek wrote:This sounds so so close to that of season 3 of The Walking Dead... (TV series) or in the Walking Dead comic book world (#93 forward).
If you're writing a story for-profit, I would check into how similar your story is to theirs and compare notes. The only real difference you have to far is "the internet" and that's just another means of communication.
mnecaise wrote:It would last days. Week or two tops. Power and infrastructure (in general) are the issues. While automation is pretty good, systems would not stay up without human intervention.
just brew it! wrote:Make sure your hero has managed to pull down a full mirror of a major Linux distro's repository before the 'net goes dark, so that he (or she!) plausibly has access to all of the software tools and source code that might be required to re-purpose hardware to run the backbone. (Hey, can't do it with Windows if Microsoft's activation servers are inaccessible or destroyed by zombies! )
dragmor wrote:Think WW2 communications not 2010 facebook.
That aside protected cities don't really work, you can't have good enough defence and provide food and equipment for the people. One slip, a sewer tunnel, an infected scavenger and it all comes undone. Do your zombies have a time out? Also why is this always USA focused? What about China, Russia or somewhere else with the balls to shutdown access i.e. level ports and airports with conventional weapons and nuke them selves a 200km dead zone border around the country.
DreamlandDenizen wrote:I don't think I'm quite well traveled enough to write a convincing story in another culture. Besides, maybe America is the perfect setting for what I have in mind. Since they don't have the balls to nuke a deadzone maybe walled cities would actually be the next viable option? They are a big part of my story. Obviously security won't be 100% reliable, there'll be a breach every now and then, but walled cities have existed before on a smaller scale so I think with modern day resources they could definitely exist again. Maybe the cities would have had to preempt the apocalypse a bit to get the walls up in time, but i figure with modern technology and full resources devoted to it, a city could be walled pretty quickly especially if it borders a natural barrier like an ocean.
DreamlandDenizen wrote:ISo anyway assuming only a small portion of the internet's backbone can be powered, the main character would need to change the routing information at the nodes right? To make sure the routers don't send data to a dead portion of the internet?
Jason181 wrote:Even though it goes against the original design of the internet, I would imagine at first you'd set up one city as the datacenter where all packets were processed, rather than having a bunch of nodes.
DreamlandDenizen wrote:The people in these walled cities are trying to get back the quality of life they had before the apocalypse at all costs, so I am thinking they're aiming at least for 2010 facebook.
just brew it! wrote:I disagree. The infrastructure to connect other cities to the datacenter probably wouldn't exist yet.
I think the network would rebuild starting with local pockets, which eventually reconnect and merge with each other as the backbone servers and links are restored/replaced.
DreamlandDenizen wrote:The real story is him re-uniting with his estranged wife. It's a small world now and she happens to be employed at the outpost too. The two of them are at odds over the fact that he killed their son (who had been turned into a zombie). I hope nothing like that is on the Walking Dead? At any rate plenty stories sound exactly the same when you boil them down to the bare basics, it's the execution that makes all the difference.
Season 1 (2010) wrote:Season one follows sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes as he attempts to find his family and lead them to safety. The series begins with Rick waking up from a coma. He awakes to a post-apocalyptic world overrun with the walking dead ("walkers"). Leaving the hospital Rick discovers his wife and son are missing. Acting on a rumour from a fellow survivor he arms himself and begins a perilous journey to Atlanta, Georgia, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is said to have set up a quarantined "safe-zone" in the city, reasoning that his family may be there. During his journey, Rick sees the devastation to both society and infrastructure left by the disaster. Upon reaching Atlanta, he soon discovers that the city is overrun by the undead and is no longer a safe zone.
A few miles outside the city Rick's wife Lori and son Carl have been hiding from the walkers with Shane Walsh, Rick's former colleague and best friend. They have established a camp with a small group of survivors. After being rescued from Atlanta by the group and reunited with Lori and Carl, Rick assumes command of the group with Shane. Part of the group goes back into Atlanta to recover weapons, where they come into conflict with other survivors but Rick soon eases the tensions. On their return to their camp, they find it has been nearly overrun by walkers. Hoping to find medical treatment for an injured member, the remainder of the group decide to return to Atlanta and seek aid from the CDC.
BloodSoul wrote:I am in a bit of a rush so I can't go to in-depth, but you might want to look into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi
Basically it is wifi that uses lower frequencies and can consequently travel farther and penetrate walls etc better.
JustAnEngineer wrote:On the plus side, you could feed the bandwidth-hogging pirates, spammers and Netflix creators to the zombie hordes to keep the backbone traffic to a manageable level.
dragmor wrote:1. If Russia or China surived, there would be no other countries left. They would destroy every thing not in their safe zones, probably several times over for several years. Have you seen 42 days later? Scary fast zombies (actually a scary movie). The rest of the world would not let it get to 42 days later. It would take 5 days before all countries agree to cut out the cancer i.e. destroy everything that is infected with large margins of error for saftey. All world trade would stop, countries would have to be self sufficient, etc (Maybe there is more of a story in that).
2. Why do people think water is safe with zombies. Sure they probably can't swim, but they don't need to breath. They just walk on the ocean floor, creating zombie fish and zombie sharks.
spitfire650 wrote:Wouldn't things like taking back the rest of the country trump getting Facebook back? It's hard to imagine a small number of walled, cut off cities being well off enough to try to get that level of functionality back before far more basic needs, like farmland. Cities only survive because of the goods that ship in from the rest of the country. Granted I don't know the whole story, but that's my impression of it.
just brew it! wrote:Solar powered UAVs hovering between cities could be used as repeaters, at least during the daytime...
Seems like everyone is in agreement that they would use wifi or radio instead of the fiberoptic cables. Thats actually good because I think I can understand and research wifi better.
Left_SHifted wrote:As long as you're sold on the radio links, why not try Wimax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX it's got a longer range, hence fewer towers to maintain the link.
Its used pretty extensively between remote locations where the cost of extending a fiber link is too high, just my 2 cents.
UberGerbil wrote:And if something happens to the folks manning the nuclear plants -- whether they're taken out directly or simply leave to take care of their families and don't come back -- then it's Fukushima but worse, one after another (unless they had a chance to put the plant into orderly shutdown). At least the glow will help you see the zombies coming.
It's quite possible to envisage an apocalypse without requiring the zombies. I realize it's less fun because the ravenous hordes you'll be blowing away with your hoarded firearms will belong to hungry real people not fantastical undead, but that just makes it more important to think about (if only to encourage whatever steps necessary to avoid it).


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Sharing global expertise focus of forensic science symposium at INTERPOL
LYON, France – The need for countries to share forensic expertise to better support criminal investigations at the regional and global levels was underlined as essential at the opening of the 17th International Forensic Sciences Symposium at the INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters.
The three-day (8 – 10 October) forum brings together more than 160 forensic scientists, investigators and researchers from 61 countries and three international organizations in addition to private companies to discuss the latest advances in techniques, applications and best practices.
Issues on the agenda include criminalistics - firearms, marks, paint, fibres and forensic geology; forensic chemistry - fire investigation, explosives, drugs and toxicology; media evidence - audio, video, imaging and digital evidence; and identification sciences - fingerprints, DNA and documents. Three thematic sessions on Scene of Crime, Management and State of the Art of Forensics will also be held throughout the conference.
Opening the symposium, INTERPOL's Executive Director of Police Services Jean-Michel Louboutin said the work by forensic scientists played a vital role, pointing to the recent deployment of an INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) to Kenya following the terrorist attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi.
"Forensic evidence is a vital link between criminal investigations and prosecution," said Mr Louboutin.
"The collection, analysis and sharing of forensic evidence from crime scenes, suspects and victims can make a difference not only in investigations as recent as the one in Kenya, but also in the coldest of cases.
"This is why INTERPOL is working to ensure that our tools and services, including our global databases on DNA and fingerprints, are readily accessible, as there is no way to predict when this evidence will lead to a break in a case from anywhere in the world," concluded Mr Louboutin.
Held every three years, the International Forensic Science Managers Symposium brings together experts from the world, including from the International Forensic Strategic Alliance, to present advances in scientific methods and identify ways in which they can be applied to criminal investigations.


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Will Goldman Sachs unleash another exec on weary public in the form of a senior administration advisor or even cabinet official? CEO Lloyd Blankfein isn't ruling it out, hinting he might like the job, just not any time soon.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, Blankfein said he had no plans to leave Goldman: "The combination of this being who I am and what I do and having absolutely no other interests makes me think this is what I'll be doing for a while."
But he also noted that while he "would love to be wanted" for the role of Treasury Secretary, he diplomatically added that it "seems like such a distant hypothetical."
Blankfein on what his next move will be:
"Could you imagine giving up all this? Of course not. The combination of this being who I am and what I do and having absolutely no other interests makes me think I want to be doing this for a while."
On whether he might be Treasury Secretary one day:
"I would love to be wanted. And that seems like such a distant hypothetical at this point, I'll sort of end it there."
On whether he ever wonders why CEOs like Tim Cook don't get the same scrutiny that bank CEOs do:
"I'll tell you, here's another slogan that's trite. It is what it is. We are a very key part, again, of our own industry and help drive other people's industry. When things go well, we've gotten a lot of credit. People of our industry also have made a lot of money in the past when things went well.
You could debate who caused what and how many people contributed, but we were certainly near the scene of an accident, and you can debate who contributed and what other things, who could have told what, but you know something? The trauma was very recent. There's going to be a lot of focus on us for a while, and you know something? That also goes with the territory.
So pointing finger and acting defensive and saying, gosh, I wish it wasn't here, the way I'm trying to live is I want to spend most of my time learning forward, trying to help finance businesses that will improve the economy and those companies, that will improve the health and welfare of people in this country and world. And guess what? I'm not going to outrun the legacy issues, and we'll have to deal with those also. But it's not going to be 90% legacy, 10% the future."
"We were an underwriter as well. Let me say this. An IPO is the beginning of a life of a public company. It is not the end of it. We regard Facebook as a very important client and a franchise account, and we will continue to try to be all over them and help them do their business. It is certainly one of the more important new companies to become public in the United States over the last several years."
On Tim Cook sitting with Michelle Obama at the State of the Union address and whether Blankfein should be considered an innovator in the same respect:
"He's there for a variety of reasons, including just the importance to the country and to the market of Apple not only for its innovation, but for the scale of its business and its market cap and how important it is. The fact is all of us have to be innovators, otherwise we would have been weeded out. We must be an innovator in our business because if I think of a number of big broker-dealers and investment banks that were thriving when i entered this industry 30 years ago and how few are left—and this can go industry by industry—we must all execute well and innovate or else our clients will leave us."
On whether he believes he gets enough credit for how innovative Goldman Sachs is:
"The fact of the matter is we are in an industry that will always be somewhat controversial. In most industries, you make a strategic decision of consequence once or twice a year. We make strategic decisions about ourselves, but also for our clients, and when we do it for our clients, we stand by them and we own that decision also.
"And a lot of them will be right. Some will be wrong. And even the ones that are right, won't look good for a long time. So we are always going to be a bit in the limelight, and some people will wish we had done things differently. Why did you recommend this company be sold to that company? Why did you recommend to somebody that they not finance or expand their business? Why did you recommend to somebody that they do something domestically or overseas? We will always be second-guessed on these things. I think some of that comes with the territory throughout a very challenging period. I am always reminding myself, all you can do is the best you can do. By and large, our clients have voted. They have stuck with us and we seem to do ok."
"This was an important element of our business, so we didn't have an interest in acquiring those assets. But you make a good point. When they got in trouble, we not only had the risk profile and the kind of market-making attitude, we also had the financial heft to be able to go in and buy positions in the marketplace. So that's very important. I think we are pretty nimble. Look, what's the most nimble economy in the world when you look at the problems in Europe? The most nimble economy in the world is the U.S. economy, the U.S. economy which makes its adjustments very quickly, industries sort itself out, deleverage faster than any other economy in the world. You'd have to say the biggest economy in the world by far, the U.S. economy, is also the most nimble economy. Nimbleness is not always the enemy of size or vice versa."
On how Goldman will have as good a year as 2012 when high yields could be facing a bubble:
"Certain things worked better last year than we thought, and certain things worked worse than we thought. Now it's nice to say—I'll say something—that our returns were nearly 11%, but in the history of our firm and what our expectations are, it's only against the backdrop of very lowered expectations that that looks like it was such an extraordinarily good year. It wasn't.
We still have a lot of work to do, but I wouldn't have called last year a first-quartile opportunity set or even a second quartile. It certainly got a little bit better towards the end of the year. But you commented and others have commented about the low volumes in the fixed-income market, in the equity markets, the low volume of M&A for this part of the cycle."
"Well, guess what? A lot of the year when you talk about yourself and you want to extol how great everything is, you talk about how wonderful things are. The minute you turn to what's going to happen next year, you start to really be happy about all the things that are not going well so they can improve. My expectation is the cycle does shift, and M&A will get better and the volumes will go out, if not next quarter then the quarter after.
"But you know something? A lot of things in the world have changed forever, but a lot of things are cyclical. And one of the things in the world that are cyclical now is people's anxiety about the future, the low state of security about what happens next, and consequently, the low level of activity is more of a cyclical thing than a secular change. Other secular changes we adapt to wholeheartedly, like technology, like regulation, like the demographics of the world that lead to BRICs becoming very important economies. But certain things like volume and low expectations and anxiety about the future, those are cyclical things that will come and go."
On whether the U.S. can be considered nimble given the political gridlock in Washington right now:
"The politics are tough and some of it is chaos. And I know we're providing great theater to the rest of the world who could point at us and be amused by it. But the fact of the matter, for all the bad politics that we're seeing, a lot of stuff is done. Our banks have deleveraged. Consumer has largely deleveraged. Even the budget deficit, which we're fighting over hammer and tong, we did $1.5 trillion of deficit reduction the sequestration, and the sequestration builds in another $1.1 trillion or $1.2 trillion, and that will happen. It may not be the sequestration. Hopefully that could be put off. It may not be. But if it is put off, it has to be replaced by other deficit reduction. So for all the noise, the US will have done something like $2.6 trillion of deficit reduction, and the man in the street thinks nothing was done. It's not a neat process. It's not enough. More has to be done, but it's not nothing, and it's more than anyone else in the world did."


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The Southern Ute Indian Tribe will hold a runoff election Friday at the SunUte Community Center to select two new council members for the Tribal Council.
The election comes after no candidate received the required 170 votes in the first election, held Nov. 2.
The Tribal Council consists of six council members and a chairman, who regulates tribal relations, enacts ordinances, manages tribal funds and performs a variety of other tasks at the local and federal level.
Elections are held annually to elect two new council members to three-year terms.
The four candidates seeking seats Friday are Delbert D. Cuthair Jr., Adam Red, Alex S. Cloud and incumbent Howard D. Richards Sr.
In the Nov. 2 election, Cloud received 161 votes, or 46 percent of the ballots cast. Richards followed with 146 votes, 42 percent of those cast, while Red and Cuthair received 123 and 112 votes respectively.
The winners of the runoff will fill the seats of council members Joycelyn Dutchie and Howard Richards Sr., who is seeking re-election.
Those elected Friday will be sworn in Monday.
Candidates Richards Sr. and Cloud have both served on the council before. Cloud held a term from 2008 to 2011 while incumbent Richards Sr. also previously served as vice chairman and chairman.
In order to run for the Tribal Council, candidates must be at least 25 years old and have lived in the exterior boundaries of the Southern Ute Reservation for at least 90 days before the election. Additionally, candidates may serve only three terms.
Beth Santisteven, Tribal Council media coordinator, said the main concerns of tribal members include employment, health and maintaining tribal culture and traditions.
The main thing is that all tribal members should not have to worry about their jobs being in jeopardy, Cuthair said in a letter to Southern Ute Indian Tribe members published in the bimonthly tribal paper, The Drum.
Cuthair said Southern Ute members should never be excluded from a job because the position requires some training or because an employer believes the tribal member is not ready.
Red also spoke about education and jobs in his letter.
My goal is to improve educational opportunities for anyone regardless of age. I also believe there is much needed improvement regarding housing for tribal membership on the reservation, Red said in the letter.
Richards Sr. echoed these sentiments, saying the tribe needed to start identifying land on the reservation where additional homes could be built. He also called for continued budget reform and additional structure to Tribal Member Health.
Santisteven said runoff elections are frequent occurrences because of competitive council races.
It is very important for tribal members to come out and vote because (members of the Tribal Council) are our voice at the federal level she said.
Sarah Ford is an intern at The Durango Herald and a student at the University of Denver. Reach her at email@example.com.


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AND always seems like its the same people hating on demar everytime. I can list them....maybe others can add a name or two if i forget others.
T-REX, Nilanka, CalgaryRapsFan....the usual suspects. "One-dimensional, inefficient, can't dribble, below average, overpaid".....LMAO. A weird bunch of haters you guys are!!
Demar makes 3.34 million this year! I would say that he's putting up good numbers compared to others in his pay range don't you think???.....Overpaid? Let's say NOT YET! I can come up with a few names on THIS team who are OVERPAID BUT I think you guys are all pretty knowledgeable when it comes to this team
Do you guys remember Demar when he just came into the league??? Are you honestly going to continue writing posts whine'n about him not being a great player??? Sorry to hear that your expectations were so high, it was clearly unrealistic. Demar is in his 4th year and is a VERY GOOD player for us! Rudy (in his own words) said Demar is the best SG he's EVER played with. I think I would take his word over you incredibly consistent whiners.
I just hope you temper your expectations of TRoss because you WILL be dissappointed!
Demar 2012/13 stats (23 years old in his 4th year)- 17.7 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 2.6 apg (one-dimensional??? - GTFOH)
Demar 2011/12 stats (22 years old in his 3rd year) - 16.7 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 2.0 apg
Demar 2010/11 stats (21 years old in his 2nd year) - 17.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 1.8 apg
Demar has Career highs in points, rebounds, free throw %, free throw attempts, steals and assists this year and still IMPROVING.....I repeat one dimensional?? LOL hahaha....hilarious


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Ace snow creates a snow falling effect for Titanium apps. It creates animated flakes which fall on the application window starting from a random position at the top of the screen and disappear when they fall below the top of the screen. The flakes animation can be paused and resumed any time. The image, quantity, and speed of the snow flakes are configurable parameters.
Bidwell (named for Shelford Bidwell, the inventor of the first true fax machine way back in the late 1800s) is a set of Perl scripts that are designed to run as a cron job on a Unix-like system to download emails from a POP3 account and send their contents to a CUPS or lpr printer.
Bluepot is a Bluetooth honeypot. It is designed to accept and store any malware sent to it and to interact with common Bluetooth attacks such as "BlueBugging" and "BlueSnarfing". Bluetooth connectivity is provided via hardware Bluetooth dongles. The system also allows monitoring of attacks via a graphical user interface that provides graphs, lists, a dashboard, and further detailed analysis from log files. The system is also highly configurable through said interface.
C4 is a creative-coding framework which lets you build expressive user experiences and create works of art on iOS. It gives you the power of the native iOS programming environment with a simplified API which lets you get down to working with media right away. It lets you build artworks, design interfaces, and explore new possibilities of working with media and interaction.
Countly is a real-time, mobile analytics application. It collects event data from mobile phones and visualizes this information to analyze mobile application usage. Countly dashboard gives a complete overview of your application's performance. You can view detailed metrics, including session length, hardware type, operator (carrier), connection type or speed, activity length, and more.
Crystal Ball Mobile is a desktop sharing and remote access application for Java-enabled mobile phones. Key features: high performance data compression, optional encryption, access behind firewalls and routers, mouse/keyboard emulation (J2ME version only), and no proprietary software needing to be installed on a remote computer.
Cura is a mobile phone application bundle of remote server administration tools. It provides a personalized terminal emulator, a syslog module that allows for reading logs directly from a server, a SysMonitor module that visually graphs CPU and RAM usage percentages, access to Nmap, and Server Stats will offer general server information like its Vitals, Hardware information, Memory information, processes, and so on. A security feature allows you to have Cura's database wiped when you send the compromised phone a secret pattern of your choosing. (e.g. send an SMS message containing "phone has been stolen!" to your Android phone to wipe Cura's database and receive the location of the compromised phone as an SMS to your emergency phone number or as an e-mail to your emergency email address).
A family of graph partitioning programs.
Groupware that lets you share projects, calendars, files, and email online.


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The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) most
recent State
of the Climate Report,
released on September 8, claims that the summer of 2010 was the
fourth hottest
summer on record for the United States.
NOAA has been conducting the State
of the Climate Report since
1895, taking factors into account such as storm patterns,
precipitation and temperature.
Results are compiled at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in
Asheville, NC.
the lower 48 states, only seven had normal temperatures through the
months of June, July and August. 10 were classified as "above
normal," 29 were "much above normal," and two were
"below normal."
the summer of 2010, 10 states experienced their warmest summer ever.
These states were Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, North
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
The Southeast had their warmest
summer ever while the Northeast had their fourth warmest and
the Central states had their third warmest.
above normal warmth occurred mostly on the eastern side of the
country, setting temperature records in cities like Asheville, NC,
Tallahassee, FL, Wilmington, DE, Tenton, NJ, Philadelphia and New
York City.
trends were off as well. For the first five months of the year, the
Upper Midwest received no rainfall. When the summer months hit, heavy
rainfall swarmed the area. States like Minnesota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan had their wettest summer in the
top 10 this year, while Wisconsin experienced their wettest yet with
6.91 inches of rainfall above average. On the other hand, the
Mid-Atlantic and Southeast experienced below average levels of
precipitation due to a lack of tropical weather activity and a high
pressure system.
far as weather goes, Minnesota is set to break its record of 74
tornado's from 2001 while wildfires have settled down in the Western
states due to milder weather.
NOAA's State
of the Climate Report for
August can be seen here.


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Police, community and calendar briefs for May 8, 2013.
Man accused of touching girl, 12, inappropriately
A 27-year-old man accused of inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl was charged Monday with lewd and lascivious molestation.
The girl was interviewed at Kimberly's Center for Child Protection on May 1, where she said she and Robert Rambo Brown were "four-wheeling" when he touched her twice inappropriately, tried to lift her shirt and touch her and asked if he could see her chest, the report notes.
On Friday, Brown told Detective Mark Peavy he was riding with the minor and was playing around and may have accidentally touched her. He admitted asking her to show him her breasts, but said he was joking around.
Brown was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail.
Man charged with calling in bomb threat at eatery
A man who deputies said called in a bomb threat at a fast-food restaurant was arrested Monday and charged with threatening to discharge a bomb.
Marion County Sheriff's Office Detective Stephen Osborne and Lt. Lewis Pulford went to a McDonald's restaurant, where an employee told them she and her former boyfriend had broken up in March and that since then he has held signs containing "rude and obscene things" outside the eatery, reports note.
The woman listened to the bomb threat call and told deputies she believed it was the voice of her former boyfriend, John Heatherly. Another employee listened to the recording and also said the voice sounded like Heatherly.
The deputies went to Heatherly's residence. He said he made the threat because he wanted to see his ex-girlfriend run out of the restaurant because she owes him money and he was trying to get back at her.
Heatherly, 53, was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail.
Report: Man had more than 200 grams of weed
Sheriff's deputies charged a man Monday with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia after finding more than 200 grams of the substance in a vehicle he was driving.
Shortly before 9:30 p.m., deputies saw a vehicle that did not have brake lights and stopped it on Water Road in Silver Springs Shores. They detected a strong odor of marijuana and the driver, Jose Junior Vigil, 28, said he had smoked marijuana in the vehicle about 20 minutes earlier, according to reports.
Behind the driver's seat were four clear plastic bags containing marijuana, two digital scales and two empty plastic bags. Vigil said the marijuana belonged to him.
The drugs weighed 217 grams.
Deputies also searched a passenger and found fewer than 20 grams of marijuana in his right front pocket. He was given a notice to appear.
Virgil was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail.
Man charged with armed burglary and grand theft
A man was charged Tuesday with armed burglary of a structure and grand theft in connection to the theft Monday of more than $10,000 worth of items from a hunting camp.
Robert Allen Turgeon, 36, of Fort McCoy, was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail.
Sheriff's Office Detective Barney Gaskin interviewed the victim, who said someone stole items including a shotgun, a roll of wire and some jewelry from a building in the 15800 block of Northeast 239th Lane in Fort McCoy.
Gaskin canvassed the community and talked with Turgeon and a woman, who gave permission to search her home and vehicle. Gaskin found a roll of wire, a crow bar and other items in the vehicle.
The victim was shown the wire and said it was his.
Turgeon admitted taking the wire and said he also took other materials from the building that he sold for scrap.
Inspector searching for victim in sex case
A Sheriff's Office inspector is hoping to learn the identity of a teenage girl who may have been victimized by a 25-year-old man arrested Friday for having sex with another 14-year-old.
One 14-year-old girl told Inspector Mike Mongeluzzo that in April she and another girl the same age, who she would not identify, had sex with Jonathan David Monteith at his Marion Oaks home.
Monteith denied the allegations. He was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a victim age 12 to 16.
Mongeluzzo is searching for the other girl.
The teen who filed the report against Monteith also told Mongeluzzo she had sex with Ashley Nicole Hedrick, 19, at Hedrick's residence, in April. Hedrick admitted the act occurred and also was taken into custody and will face charges.
Anyone with information can call Mongeluzzo at 368-3508 or Crime Stoppers at 368-STOP, or visit www.ocalacrimestoppers.com.
2 charged with stealing vehicle from parking lot
Ocala police on Tuesday afternoon recovered a car reported stolen from a parking lot earlier in the day and arrested two people.
Police said shortly after 12:30 p.m., they received a report that the owner of a four-door, light blue, 2001 Buick Le Sabre had left the keys in the ignition while he went inside the Metro PC building in the 2700 block of Southwest College Road. When he came back outside, the car was gone.
As officers were investigating a home invasion robbery at the Paddock Park Apartments, Officer Casey Walsh saw the stolen car and pursued it. The car eventually crashed in a ditch in the 2700 block of Southwest 42nd Street.
The driver, Nakeria Pinckney, 25, and a passenger, Justin Oliver, 27, reportedly tried to escape but were apprehended. Both were taken to Munroe Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, officials said.
Upon their release from the hospital, Pinckney will be charged with not having a valid driver's license, grand theft auto, fleeing and eluding, and reckless driving. Oliver will be charged with grand theft auto.
Man charged with murder appears in Pinellas court
A Umatilla man wanted on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the shooting death of a man on Saturday, made his first appearance in front of a judge on Tuesday, according to a Pinellas County records clerk.
The official said Lamar Lee Maddox, now in the Pinellas County Jail, made his appearance in front of a judge via video at 1:30 p.m. and was given a no bond status.
The 29-year-old man is awaiting transportation from Marion County Sheriff's Office officials who are expected to pick him up from the Pinellas County Jail and bring back to Marion County to face his charge.
Maddox is charging with the murder of Brandon Simmons, 25, after an argument between the defendant and several people.
Veterans meeting planned this week
- DAV Chapter 85, 1 p.m., 9892 SE 58th Ave., Belleview. (245-9080)
- Vietnam Veterans of America Post 814, 7 p.m., USMC League, 2529 N. Magnolia Ave., Ocala.
- Charles A. Whiteacre Memorial VFW Post 10208 and auxiliary, 7 p.m., 23498 NE County Road 314, Salt Springs. (685-2707)
- Eugene Quinn VFW Post 4337 and auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., 906 E. State Road 44, Inverness. (344-3495)
- Leroy Rooks Jr. VFW Post 4252 and auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., 3190 N. Carl G. Rose Highway, Hernando. (726-3339)
- Brady Owens VFW Post 7193, 7:30 p.m., auxiliary 5 p.m., Mount Moriah Baptist Church Annex, 55 SW Third Ave. (629-4285)
- DAV Chapter 70, 2 p.m., Gerald Shook DAV, 1039 N. Paul Drive, Inverness.
- Marine Corp League E.J. Mederios Sr. 950 Detachment, 7 p.m., American Legion Post 284, 515 SE 109 St., Belleview. (245-4911 or 347-1643)
- Spruce Creek Golf and Country Club Veterans Association, 8 a.m., Spruce Creek Clubhouse. (245-6094)
- Spruce Creek South Military Club, 7 p.m., Community Center. (245-6094)
- Blind Veterans Association, 10 a.m., Florida Center for the Blind, 7325 SW 32 St., Ocala. (800-324-8387 ext. 5560)
- North Central Florida All Airborne Chapter, 1 p.m., VFW Post 8083, 12666 SE U.S. 441, Belleview. (873-1625)
- WAVES Post 99, noon, call for location. (595-4464 or 622-5401)
- American Legion Post 21, 6 p.m., Lillian Bryant Center, 2200 NW 17th Place, Ocala. (732-0409)
- VFW Post 9986, 7 p.m., 55620 Veterans Drive, Astor. (759-3514)
- Dumas Hartson VFW Post 8189 and auxiliary, 7 p.m., 8856 W. Veterans Drive, Crystal River. (795-5012. 352-795-5012)
- Greater South Ocala DAV and DAVA Chapter 149, 4 p.m., Angela S. Santos VFW Post 4781, 9401 SW 110th St., Ocala. (245-1455)
- McCullough-Misson VFW Post 4209 and auxiliary, 7 p.m., 4805 NE 36th Ave., Ocala. (732-7744 or 867-0117)
- Kamikaze Survivors, lunch and meeting 11:30 a.m., Elks Lodge, 702 NE 25th Ave., Ocala. (622-8470)
- Edward W. Penno VFW Post 4864, 7 p.m., 10199 N. Citrus Springs Blvd., Citrus Springs. (465-0885 or 465-4854)
- AMVETS Post 25, women's auxiliary, 7 p.m., 16535 N. U.S. 301, Citra. (595-5867)
- VFW Post 10733, men's auxiliary, 7 p.m., 19241 N. U.S. 441, Orange Lake. (591-4359)
- Wall-Rives American Legion Dunnellon Young Marines, 6 p.m., 10730 U.S. 41, Dunnellon. (489-4453)
- SummerGlen Veterans Club, 7 p.m., Resident Center, 1450 SW 154th St. Road, Ocala. (307-2975)
VA2K to benefit Homeless veterans
The North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System will participate in the third annual VA2K on May 15. Several facilities will be hosting walks and collecting items for the homeless veteran program.
Recommended donations include coats, clothing, underwear, toiletries, footwear, blankets, canned goods and other non-perishables. In Ocala, donations can be dropped off at the Ocala Community Based Outpatient Clinic at 1515 E. Silver Springs Blvd.
For information, call Barry Murphy at 376-1611, Ext. 4499, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Golf tournament benefit is Friday
A golf tournament to benefit a boy battling cancer will begin at 1 p.m. Friday at the Ocala Golf Club, 3130 E. Silver Springs Blvd.
The cost is $100 a player or $500 for a foursome, which includes a hole sponsorship.
The event is to benefit Kaedyn Ballew, a 3-year-old boy diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2010, who is in need of a bone marrow transplant and other medical procedures.
To register for the event, call Dan Clark at 286-7608 or email Shane Godwin at email@example.com.
Broadway Street closed until May 17
Broadway Street between State Road 40 and Pine Avenue will be closed through May 17 for construction.
For more information, call 572-0377.
Lifeguarding course next week
An American Red Cross lifeguarding course will be held at the College of Central Florida from May 13-19.
The cost of the 25-hour course is $175.
Certifications will be granted in lifeguarding, CPR/AED for the professional rescuer and first aid, valid for two years.
For more information, call 208-0819 or 873-5811.
Book signing is Wednesday in Leesburg
Twenty years ago Dorothy Lewis, shot repeatedly and fearful her attackers would return, walked down a dirt road to find help for her two young daughters after being carjacked. The girls, ages 3 and 7, were killed.
Lewis now co-pastors the New Directions Church in Candler in Marion County. She will sign copies Wednesday of "Unbroken, The Dorothy Lewis Story," with author Frank Stanfield, at 4:30 p.m. at Lake-Sumter College, 9501 U.S. Highway 441, Leesburg.
The book costs $15; a portion of proceeds will go to a scholarship fund in memory of the girls.
For more information, call 425-0940.
Forest Service lifts fire restrictions
The U.S. Forest Service has lifted its temporary fire restrictions because of recent rain. The ban on campfires in the Ocala National Forest was imposed in April due to extreme drought conditions at the time, according to an agency news release. Now that the fire restrictions have been lifted, the Ocala National Forest will be conducting prescribed burns to help prevent wildfires and promote a healthy forest.
JOB FAIR: Workforce Connection job fair, 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday, College of Central Florida's Klein Conference Center, 3001 SW College Road, Ocala. (873-7939, ext. 1141, or www.WorkforceConnectionFL.com)
"GODSPELL": Thespian Troupe from Forest High School presents "Godspell," 7 p.m. today through Friday, 5000 Maricamp Road, Ocala. $5-$10. (671-4700)
ESL: English as second language classes, 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, College Road Baptist Church, 5010 SW College Road, Ocala (854-6981 or 237-5741) and also First Baptist Church of Ocala 2801 SE Maricamp Road, Room 202/204, Ocala. Free. (629-5683)
BNI PROFIT MAKERS: 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Country Club of Ocala, 6823 SE 12th Circle, Ocala. (209-1068)
BINGO: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Marion Oaks Community Center, 294 Marion Oaks Lane. (347-5753)
THINK TANK: Teens help plan library activities and programs, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Freedom Public Library, 5870 SW 95th St., Ocala. (438-2580)
TUTORING: 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Christ Community Church, 37 Dogwood Road, Ocala. $1 per session. (687-2009)
GENEALOGY HELP: 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Marion County Public library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. (671-8551)
ART CLUB: For adults, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
QUILTING: Bear Paws Quilters, 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
KIDS ART CLUB: Ages 6-16, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. $1. (438-2840)
CURRENT EVENTS: Discussion group, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Silver Springs Shores Community Center, 690 Silver Road, Silver Springs (687-4188)
HEALING MISSION: The Rev. Albert MacPherson, 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Blessed Trinity Catholic Church, 5 SE 17th St., Ocala. (629-8092)
ALS: Lou Gerhig disease support group, 3 p.m. Thursday, Paddock Park South Clubhouse, 8880 SW 27th Ave., Ocala. (629-3031)
COPD: Ocala Airheads, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, West Marion Medical Plaza, 4600 SW 46th Court, Building 200, Ocala (484-5458)
FRIENDS: Friends of the Fort McCoy Public Library, 10 a.m. Thursday, at the library, 14660 NE County Road 315, Fort McCoy. (438-2560)
MOM'S NITE OUT: Rethink varicose veins, 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Paddock Mall, 3100 SW College Road, Ocala. (237-1223)
ART RECEPTION: Westport High School exhibit, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Brick City Center for the Arts, 23 SW Broadway St., Ocala. Exhibit runs through May 25. (369-1500)
KIWANIS: Silver Springs Shores Kiwanis Club, noon Thursdays, Silver Springs Shores Presbyterian Church, 674 Silver Road, Ocala. (687-1119 or silverspringsshoreskiwanis.org)
PET VACCINES: Florida International Teaching Zoo low-cost pet vaccinations, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Puppy Kutz, 923 N. Magnolia Ave., Suite 401, Ocala, and 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Gander Mountain, 3970 SW Third St., Ocala. $6 rabies, $14 distemper/parvo. (867-7788 or www.facebook.com/#!/PetVaccinations)
To submit information for this list, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.ocala.com, scroll down and click on EVENTS CALENDAR on the right.


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Milan is Italy`s window on Europe, its most sophisticated and high-tech metropolis. La Scala, its landmark, is one of Europe's most prestigious opera houses. In addition, it's the site of several world-renowned annual trade fairs. Milan is one of Europe's top shopping cities, with an incredible concentration of sophisticated, high style boutiques - and that's only fitting because Milan is the dynamo of the Italian fashion industry. Dolce & Gabbana, Ferré, Krizia, Moschino, Prada, Armani, and Versace have all catapulted to international stardom from design studios based here. Inevitably, shopping is of almost religious significance.
Recommended Stay: 2 nights
Must See`s:
The Last Supper by Michelangelo, The Duomo, Pinacoteca di Brera, Quadrilatero d'Oro, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Scala museum and theatre, Piazza Fontana. Arco della Pace, the churches of Santa Maria delle Grazie and San Lorenzo, Corso Venezia and Piazza San Babila and Sforzesco Castle.
A medieval hill, known for being the birthplace of Saint Francis and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, its represents `a series of masterpieces of man`s creative spirit.` Everything revolves around its most renowned citizen, St. Francis, Patron Saint of Italy: from the Basilica, which is dedicated to the Saint and contains his tomb, to the hermitage (Eremo delle Carceri), a few miles outside the town walls, where St. Francis used to retreat in prayer.
Must See`s:
Basilica of Saint Francis (UNESCO World Heritage Site from the 13th century); Church of Santa Chiara (houses the San Damiano Crucifix which spoke to Francis in 1206); San Rufino Cathedral (12th century Romanesque façade); Rocca Maggiore Castle; Roman Amphitheater from the first century surrounded by medieval houses; Piazza del Commune (with the 13th century Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo and Palazzo dei Priori and the Temple of Minerva facing the square.
Best known for the world famous Leaning Tower, yet there are other architectural and artistic marvels of this beautiful city. Around the Campo dei Miracoli`s perimeter you`ll also find the Camposanto, Opera del Duomo museum and Museum of the Sinopie. A few blocks away, the Piazza dei Cavalieri once was the heart of power in the city and later the headquarters of the Knights of St. Stephen. Today, it is a center of culture and learning as the famous Scuola Normale di Pisa has its base in the Palazzo della Carovana that faces onto the piazza. Birthplace of the famed Galileo Galilei, Pisa is also home to one of Italy's top universities. The city is animated by the students, who organize parties, shows, and cultural events, and fill the central street of the city at night. The University of Pisa has 60,000 students in a city of about 100,000 inhabitants. Few bother to find out that Pisa was founded circa 1000 b.c. and became an important maritime republic alongside Venice, Amalfi, and Genoa.
Tuscan Coast, Lucca
Florence - 62 miles, Lucca - 10 miles, Forte dei Marmi - 25 miles, Tirrenia - 10 miles
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A Durango teen suspected of breaking into a womans home and sexually assaulting her appeared Friday in District Court. The biggest question centered around whether he can be tried as an adult.
Aaron Sandoval, who was 17 at the time, is being charged as an adult with burglary, sexual assault and being in possession of burglary tools. He is suspected of being armed with a screwdriver.
The incident occurred early on Aug. 14 near 30th Street and West Second Avenue in Durango. Police identified Sandoval as a suspect early in the investigation, but it took several months to collect enough evidence to make an arrest.
In the meantime, residents remained on high alert for an at-large burglar and possible rapist.
Sandoval, who is now 18, appeared Friday in 6th Judicial District Court wearing an orange jail-issued jumpsuit. He sat still and appeared attentive to the proceedings. He is being held at the La Plata County Jail on $250,000 bail.
Fridays hearing covered two issues:
During a preliminary hearing prosecutors presented evidence to convince District Judge Jeffrey Wilson that a crime was committed and that Sandoval was connected to it.
During a reverse-transfer hearing, defense lawyers argued Sandoval shouldnt be charged as an adult. It then becomes the judges decision whether prosecutors can proceed with charging him as an adult. It is a new state law, and this is the first time it has been argued locally or by the Colorado Public Defenders Office.
Wilson found probable cause to allow prosecutors to go forward with their charges, but the reverse-transfer hearing ran long and had to be continued until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Prosecutors played an hour-long recording Friday in which Sandoval told police he broke into the womans home and had sexual contact with her.
Joe Farmer, an investigator with the Durango Police Department, said the 20-year-old woman awoke to find him on top of her holding a screwdriver.
She asked how he got into her house and if he would leave, Farmer said. Sandoval said he entered through a window and that he had stolen $10,000 and was in trouble.
Theyre going to kill me, he told her.
The woman asked if he would leave if she allowed him to have sex with her. Sandoval agreed, and the woman asked him to wear a condom, which she provided him from her nightstand, according to her statements to police.
He apologized during the act, tried to hug her afterward and held her arm as she showed him to the door, Farmer testified.
Sandoval is suspected of leaving the condom in the bedroom at the foot of the bed.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation performed a DNA analysis that returned a match to Sandoval, according to an arrest affidavit.
A substance-abuse counselor who mentored Sandoval and a doctor who evaluated him testified he had a troubled childhood. He experienced domestic violence in the household growing up, he didnt have a father figure, he possibly was sexually assaulted by an uncle, his aunt died in a fire, and he started using drugs and alcohol at about age 7.
Defense lawyers have argued that these factors have delayed Sandovals development.
The same experts said Sandoval knows the difference between right and wrong, but he keeps making bad decisions, regardless of the treatment he receives in youth correctional facilities.
If Sandoval is adjudicated as a juvenile, the most he can serve is about two years, when he turns 21.


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has been boasting for a while that it plans to dominate the PC market
thanks to aggressive pricing and good products. The company has some
of the nicer netbooks and notebooks on the market already, however,
the PC market is traditionally topped by American firms like Dell and
HP.The latest results
for the PC industry for Q2 2010 are in from Gartner and Acer
has booted Dell from the second place spot for global PC shipments
and is surprisingly close to HP, which still holds the top spot.HP
owns 17.4% of the global computer market and posted growth of 12.3%
compared to Q2 2009. Acer owns the second sport with 13% of the
global market with growth of 31.6% compared to Q2 2009. Dell is now
in the third sport with 12.4% of the global market and 19% growth
compared to last year. The biggest mover on the chart compared to
last year is Lenovo with 47.2% growth from Q2 2009 to Q2 2010. Lenovo
holds 10% of the global PC market. ASUS and Toshiba round out the top
six global PC vendors with 5.2% and 5.1% of the market
respectively."The preliminary second quarter results
indicate ongoing improvement of the PC market, and it marks the third
consecutive quarter of double-digit growth on a year-over-year
basis," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.
"End-user spending grew approximately 13 percent in the second
quarter. Average selling prices (ASPs) continue to decline, but at a
much slower rate compared with the last two years."The
numbers for the quarter show that the netbooks or "mini-notebooks"
as Gartner calls them are now entering the mature stage. Netbook
shipments reportedly grew in the low 20% range, down significantly
from the 70% and higher growth posted in Q4 2009 and Q2
2010."Mini-notebook shipment growth slowed significantly
in the second quarter of 2010," Ms. Kitagawa said.
"Mini-notebook shipment growth still exceeded growth rates of
the overall mobile PC market, but mini-notebook growth slowed to the
low 20 percent range compared with more than 70 percent in the last
two quarters. This slowdown indicates that mini-notebooks are
entering a mature growth stage."HP still dominates
shipments in the U.S. market with 25.7% share, Dell is second with
23.7%, Acer is third with 11.3%, and Apple is fourth with 9.8% of the
U.S. market. Acer actually lost ground by a slight 0.1% compared to
Q2 2009 in the U.S. market while Toshiba grew the most with 39.7%
growth compared to 2009. Apple also grew significantly during Q2 in
the U.S. with 24.7% growth compared to Q2 2009.


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NCUA Reviewing Federal Pay Freeze
NCUA Public Affairs Specialist John Fairbanks said Friday the agency is reviewing the spending bill passed by Congress this week to determine how the federal pay freeze, included in H.R. 933, will apply to the agency's employees and budget.
The Senate passed the $984 billion spending bill Wednesday by a 73-26 vote and the House passed it Thursday 318-109. It now awaits President Barack Obama's signature. Obama has expressed disappointment with the pay freeze but has not threatened to veto it. The bill will fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30.
The NCUA's 2013 budget includes a 7.5% increase in employee pay and benefits, which reflected the possibility of a federal employee pay raise. However, the agency said when it unveiled the budget in November 2012 that the raise was subject to Congressional approval.
Chairman Debbie Matz said if Congress did not approve the pay increase, the budgeted amount – as much as $9 million – would be returned at the board's mid-year budget review in July.
This is the third consecutive year some NCUA employees have not received a pay increase. Obama is expected to propose a 1% federal pay increase in his 2014 budget, which has not yet been released.


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It looks as though Gizmodo and Gawker Media has just landed
themselves in hot water. Last week's scoop
on the fourth generation iPhone brought the site massive page
views and coverage on CNN, the Today Show, and even The View.
However, as we noted last last week, law
enforcement in the Silicon Valley area are investigating the
details surrounding how the iPhone was lost and Gizmodo's
$5,000 transaction to retrieve said phone. Today, Gizmodo
snuck in a tiny headline on its frontpage that shows that editor
Jason Chen had a few visitors to his home on Friday night:
Last Friday night, California's
Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered
editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four
computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of
Superior Court of San Mateo. According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of
Gawker Media LLC, the search warrant to remove these computers was
invalid under section 1524(g) of the California Penal Code.
According to Chen's account of the events, the police bashed down
his door while he was out. By the time he arrived at home, the police
had already been there for a few hours and were well into cataloging
his electronic possessions. In total, the task force seized 19 items
from Chen's home including his MacBook, a ThinkPad laptop, MediaSmart
server, a few external hard drives, two USB thumb drives, digital
cameras, and an iPod.
The Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team is looking for email
communications, call records, contact lists, text messages, and any
other material relating to the sale of the iPhone 4G.
While the fourth generation iPhone saga has been detailed here on
DailyTech in a few articles, you can see Gizmodo's coverage
here. The full subpoena
along with Gizmodo's response can be seen here.