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3Doku brings the traditional Sudoku game to the third dimension. In a 9x9x9 cube, 27 Sudoku schemas intersect one another along the three axis. Every 9x9 bi-dimensional schema must be solved, keeping in mind that every single cell belongs to the selected schema and also to the other two placed on the orthogonal planes. With 4 difficulty levels and 4 initial values distributions, you can customize your game and have every time a new exciting challenge to solve.
54321 is five games in four, three, or two dimensions for one player. 54321 takes five classic two-dimensional puzzle games and extends them into three and four dimensions. 54321 was created for the 1mb SDL Game Programming Contest sponsored by Linux Journal, Loki Software, and No Starch Press.
5ball is similar to klines, but bigger (and meant for at least 1024x768 screen res.). It includes many options such as different board size, number of different colors, undo, different themes, etc. The object is to make a line of 5 like- color balls which will eliminate them from the grid. Score as much as you can before the grid fills. 3 new balls are placed randomly on the grid each time you move without making a line.
Abandoned Bricks is a Tetris clone where bricks of various shapes fall from the top and you can move and arrange them to fit nicely on the bottom. When you fill a line without holes it is removed from the heap. It can be played either in a single-player or in a duel-mode with two players playing hotseat on the same computer. There is also a Bastet mode, based on the Bastet game by Federico Poloni.
In Angry, Drunken Dwarves, you are an angry, drunken dwarf. Why are you so angry? Who knows. But you've decided to take your aggression out on other dwarves, by dropping gems on their heads. Lots of gems. It is a member of the classic "falling blocks" puzzle game family, similar to the Capcom game Puzzle Fighter. The goal of the game is to build large gems by matching up colors, then break them, raining more gems down onto your opponent. The first person whose field fills up, loses.
Data synchronization, replication, and transformation software.
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Ok so we have an Avengers thread, I think TDKR deserves it's own thread as well. This looks to be a movie of epic proportions. I am totally hyped. I think IMAX is the only way to go on this one, especially considering that Nolan shot approximately 1 hour of it on IMAX cameras (support Canadian technology!)
You guys super duper amped as well? What format you gonna watch it in? Anyone get their tickets yet?


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Capacitors bulge on a failed Samsung TV circuit board.
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Problems affected a multitude of users, some several times; Samsung will off up to $300 USD in reimbursement
It would be fair to say that Samsung's display business has some serious issues.
While Samsung Electronic Comp., Ltd. (
) outsold its rivals in 2011 in both the flat-panel segment and the 3D-TV sub-segment [
], it also
hemorrhaged $900M USD
. The company is currently in the midst of spinning off its LCD panel manufacturing
business -- which ironically it just expanded via
buying out a joint stake
in its display partnership with Sony Corp. (
). The deal is set to wrap up on April 1, creating a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Samsung conglomerate dubbed "Samsung Display Company". The spinoff is expected to unshackle Samsung Electronics from the losses, allowing it to
aggressively pursue OLED technology development
I. Persistent Failures Strike Numerous Samsung TV Buyers
But even aside from the balance sheet, Samsung has serious issues to contend with, despite its sales success. The company has just announced details of a class action settlement with consumers over its use of less-expensive failure-prone capacitors.
The failures were sweeping.
first covered this issue in an
early 2011 piece
, after both hearing numerous first hand accounts of failures at CES 2011 and reading yet more accounts of failures on Amazon.com, Inc.'s (
) user reviews section. While anecdotal, these stories painted a disturbing picture.
"Jerry Nichols" writes:
This is my second Samsung purchased from Amazon! The first broke down after six months use and it took the Samsung repairman six weeks to show up to replace one board (less than 15 minutes) and it now works fine.
This time I set the new 3D set up on December 19th and it had a black screen on December 20th. The repairman showed up on December 22. He replaced two boards to no avail. He has now ordered a new front panel, basically a new television to be assembled in my home. It will be sometime after Christmas before the new front panel shows up. In my opinion a new set should have been provided to compensate for the four hours use that we got, and what seems to be an extreme repair in the works!
It is December 30th, 10 days since original failure, The service man has been here twice. The first time he place the Main Board, and the Power Board. The set continued with the same problems dark screen and flashing power light. The service man was convinced it was the LCD Panel (Basically the the entire television except the bezel).
The new panel arrived yesterday. I assisted with the installation. Same problem dark screen and flashing power light! The service man went through a series of trouble shooting steps to discover that they think it is a ten dollar cable from the power board to the display board.
Another user, "Maddie57" writes:
I just received the tv about an hour ago. Easy set-up, blah, blah. However, the monitor is NOT working! All there is to see are colored lines. Called the Samsung customer service and Lamar, who assisted me on the phone, said I need to have it serviced---ALREADY! So here I am, off work to receive the tv, and waiting for a call from a local company to come fix my brand new television.
My previous tv was another Samsung which they had to fix three times for the same problem. There is a Samsung warranty to replace the tv if it continues to have an issue after three fixes. What do you know, the warranty lapsed two weeks after the third visit from a service person. Shouldn't that first experience taught me a lesson? Maybe. But the reviews on the product are so good, I can't believe I got another lemon. I mean, lightning is not supposed to strike twice.
More blown capacitors in a failing Samsung TV circuit board.
[Image Source: The Tech Report Forums]
And the issues weren't constrained to 2010 -- throughout 2011 many similar problems popped up. "P. Breakfield" writes about a newer set in Sept. 2011:
I have purchased TWO of these tvs. The first one was for myself and it arrived promptly and worked without problem. The picture is excellent and everything is great. The second one was for my in-laws. They saw my tv and wanted one just like it. Upon opening the tv, my wife began putting together accessories while I was putting together the wall mount and she immediately noticed that the remote control was missing the battery cartridge. (The remote has a cartridge that pops out, you put your four AAA batteries in and slide the cartridge back in and you are good to go.) We figured that this was an anomaly that could be taken care of by contacting Amazon, and even though it makes setting up the tv a great deal more tedious, mostly you just turn the tv on and off and use the cable box remote to change channels and the surround sound remote to adjust volume. So we figured that we would be ok until a replacement could be sent. She even noted to me that there was a quality inspection sticker that said "passed" in the wrapper with the remote. Ha!
Then, upon mounting the tv and turning it on, it began emitting a high pitched whine and as soon as the Smart TV screen came up, the tv obviously had horizontal lines streaking through the picture. This was before any inputs had been selected or any components were turned on. I went ahead and went through the setup skipping network setup and just got to the point where I could try the HDTV cable box or the Blu-ray player, and both of them also exhibited the horizontal lines while the tv was whining away at a high pitch.
So, either Samsung was able so send out a tv that was missing the battery cartridge in the remote AND was defective, OR this tv was a return/repair/refurb that was not properly vetted and then sold as new. Either of those two scenarios doesn't bode well for Samsung.
For those of you who get a new/working tv, this is a nice tv with a great picture. But Samsung worries me. I have a 52 inch Samsung that has the capacitor problem that you can do a simple search on google and learn about. The short version is that right at the two year mark, the tvs would take longer and longer to turn on while clicking over and over again. Eventually they wouldn't turn on at all. At first Samsung denied the problem and would do nothing, but eventually the internet caught up with them and everyone was publishing the fix (about a half-dozen cheap capacitors on the power supply board that cost about $10 total to replace) and people even began selling kits to solder them in yourself and finally Samsung admitted there was a problem and started fixing the tvs. That was 5+ years ago and I figured that they had gotten their act together since then, but now I'm not so sure.
Samsung, without a doubt, makes one of the best looking LCD screens out there. They look GREAT. But they seem to have serious issues with quality control and cutting corners on part suppliers that make their tvs a gamble to buy. I am waiting now to see how Amazon is going to handle this. I will report back when I hear from them and follow up on how this is handled.
Amazon's reviews pages were littered with hundreds of similar stories of users who purchased Samsung's expensive LCD sets out to be plagued to with quality issues and poor customer service -- problems that typically traced back to a familiar culprit -- the capacitors on Samsung's circuit boards.
II. Failures Cost Customers Time -- and Money
The failures even affected one of
's own -- Mark Kurlyandchik -- who penned a subsequent frustrated blog entitled "
Why I'll Never Buy Another Samsung Product Again
", taking Samsung to task for its well-documented quality control issues and poor customer service.
Some of the problems were reportedly sourced to electrolytic capacitors from firms based in Ching Mai, China [
], but its quite possible that a variety of similar cost-cutting budget components were culprits in other failures, given the diverse kinds of failures afflicting the unfortunate LCD TV owners.
Samsung TVs looked great, but gave users a world of woes when they took them home.
[Image Source: Flickr]
The net result was that owners often would have their sets die at the two year mark -- right when their warranty expired --
leaving them with no recourse, except for paying
may have been unaware of Samsung's blanket repair promise, paying for repairs out of pocket. And users contemplating such an approach were surely unsettled by the reports that many such repairs did not fix the victims' problems even after multiple tries and multiple circuit board replacements.
Even users who had their sets die under warranty lost a great deal of time and money, trying to work through Samsung's warranty system.
III. Samsung Finally Agrees to Pay for Its Alleged Cost-Cutting
Finally Samsung has agreed to offer its users some financial relief. Users who paid out-of-pocket repairs costs on certain sets prone to capacitor failures can now seek to get up to $300 USD in compensation. Even users who did not pay for repairs may be eligible to a smaller settlement.
Writes Samsung:
You must fill out and submit this form to obtain reimbursment for:
Expenses you incurred, prior to March 2, 2012, to evaluate or diagnose the capacitor issue covered by the settlement up to $150
Expenses you incurred, prior to March 2, 2012, to fix the capacitor issue covered by the settlement up to $150, or up to $300 if the repair included replacing a power supply board
Shipping expenses, including insurance costs, you incurred, prior to March 2, 2012 to fix the capacitor issue covered by the settlement, up to $150
A $300 fully transferable debit card if you reported to SEA, prior to March 2, 2012 the capacitor issue covered by the settlement, but did not get it fixed and you now no longer posess your television; or
A payment of $50 if, after March 2, 2012, you require more than on repair to fix the capacitor issue covered by the settlement.
In other words, a customer who repaired the set may receive up to $300 USD
up to $600 for diagnosis, repairs, and shipping, plus $50 if they need more repairs
; while a customer who ditched the set can still receive up to $300, as well
$450 for diagnosis and compensation
The models covered are:
Model Number
Serial Numbers
Plasma TV
The settlement is in direct response to the case
Russell, et al. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
, filed in
District Court of Oklahoma County
, Case No. CJ-2011-7260. It only applies to U.S. TV purchasers, although similar settlements may be pending in the European Union and elsewhere.
If your TV has had issues, the big question is whether it falls under the described "Capacitor Issue", as Samsung's legal documents put it. The settlement refers to "Covered TV Symptoms", but frustratingly never formally defines these symptoms, as far as we saw in the documents linked in the company's
press release
. The documents do state that Samsung can determine from its service records whether your issue was one of those symptoms covered in the case, and that it can also perform a "quick" and "free" evaluation if it could not otherwise determine whether your set qualifies.
Humorously, the settlement has a passage demanding that members of the class not contact the media or criticize its failing products. It writes:
The existence and terms of this Settlement Agreement shall be kept confidential until such time as it is presented to the Court for Preliminary Approval. No discussions regarding the Settlement shall be had with the media or on the Internet, including the disparagement of SEA or the description of this Settlement as a recall.
SEA does not concede any infirmity or weakness in its defenses or its products.
In other words, while it's complete a settlement for mass defects in its product, a settlement which may cost it millions of dollars, it expects customers to be quite and not criticize it. While not exactly atypical legal language, the comments are pretty funny, nonetheless.
A claim form can be found in the link below.
[Update 1]
A Samsung spokesperson want to make it clear that the company
been repairing/replacing the failed capacitor-plagued TVs of customers under warranty, and that the settlement largely applies to repairs out of warranty (as many of the examples listed mention).
Writes the spokesperson:
Regarding the capacitor issue, since originally confirming this issue in early 2010, Samsung has voluntarily provided free repairs for U.S. customers with affected televisions. Recently, a nationwide class settlement covering all affected televisions in the U.S. was reached in Russell, et al. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a lawsuit filed in the District Court of Oklahoma County in the U.S. Customers who believe they have an affected TV should go to
, or call 888-899-7602. As the leading supplier of televisions, Samsung remains committed to delivering superior technology and excellent service to our loyal customers.
The spokesperson also wished to make it clear that it was the LCD panel manufacturing business (which includes TV panel production), not the TV sales unit that was being spun off.
[/Update 1]
[Update 2]
A phone conversation with a Samsung spokesperson provided some additional details and clarifications.
First the bad news:
While the settlement line items (diagnosis; repairs; etc.) sound like they would be additive, they
are not
. Customers who qualify for multiple settlements are entitled to receive one of the payments -- hence the maximum payout is not $650 USD, but actually $300 USD.
Now the good news:
Samsung's spokesperson clarified that
TVs made since 2006 suffering from capacitor issues will be repaired free-of-charge by Samsung, regardless of warranty state. To get started, just call the number listed above. Again, this information wasn't exactly on the settlement page, and many customers on Amazon seemed unaware of it.
But at least we're here to get the good word out.
It's nice to see Samsung fully addressing this issue and offering repairs -- even for customers whose warranties have experied.
[/Update 2]
Samsung [press release]
[claim form; PDF]
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Brosé: Defining Rosé Wine in 2011
Brosé: [broh-zey] –noun a pink wine enjoyed with friends.
'Tis the season… to drink pink, of course! Everyone and anyone who knows me, knows that once spring has sprung and things are starting to blossom and turn green, all I'm thinking is pink.
I wait all year for this season to arrive and look forward to the array of rose-colored bottles that appears on the table at our Cambridge location. So, when a fellow monger asked me to write a little something about rosé for the Formaggio Kitchen blog, I figured it was the perfect excuse to revisit some old favorites while trying some new pinks too!
My go-to pink wine is from Commanderie de Peyrassol. I truly get excited when we open the first case of the year, exposing the perfect watermelon-pink bottles inside. As quickly as possible, I run to the register, purchase a bottle and promptly put it in the walk-in to chill so it's in perfect condition for my post-work libation. This year's Peyrassol did not disappoint. This wine, made from grapes that were harvested in 2010, is not sweet: notes of berries and cherries are balanced with a good acidity. It is full-bodied and dry, but very crisp and easy to drink.
The finish has a nice minerality and it's excellent with most spring/summer meals. When I see someone standing near the rosé table, pondering the selection, I usually steer them in that direction.
But, because I am so familiar with the Peyrassol, I always feel a bit biased. All the rosés need love! In order to remedy this imbalance, one night a week or so ago, a fellow monger and I tasted through six different bottles of rosé.
We put together a plate of nibbles and cheese, chilled the "brosé" and then began the tasting. Not sure what lay in store, we tasted from lightest to darkest on the theory that this would lead us from the most delicate to the deepest flavored wine. In general, this assumption proved to be pretty accurate and, if I were doing the tasting again, I would probably taste in the same order. As we went along, we discussed, took notes and tried the wines both straight up and in combination with food. Here are my notes:
1. Getariako Txakolina, Ameztoi, Rubentis, 2010
I first had this wine last year with tapas. Instantly, I fell in love. Along with the Peyrassol, this is one of the rosés that I have been waiting for all year. The tasting was the first chance I had to try the 2010 vintage. As with the 2009 – it was light, crisp and effervescent, all the things I loved about it the first time I tried it. This winery is perched overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and the sea air gives the grapes a salty tang. This is the wine that I want to drink at the start of a meal, when celebrating, or while eating oysters on a hot summer night – it has fast become one of my new favorites!
2. Mas Sainte Berthe, Passe – Rose, 2010
This rosé is a pale orange-ish, pink color. Despite its pale color, however, it had a much heavier mouth-feel than the Ameztoi. This was the first of two wines we tasted from the Les Baux de Provence region in France – a region so well-known for its wines that it has been awarded the AOC designation. Of the wines we tasted, this was, for me, the most challenging. Flavor notes were citrusy – reminiscent of bitter orange peels or a robust orange marmalade. It was a shame we didn't have any cheesecake to try with it! Or, given its robust citrusy notes, I suggest using it for sangria. Add a little brandy, some triple sec and soda water. Cut up your favorite fruit, let it chill for at least an hour and enjoy a super easy and affordable pink sangria.
3. Mas de la Dame, Rosé du Mas, Les Baux de Provence, 2010
This rosé was slightly more peachy in color with a nice heaviness and a lot of flavors concentrated at the front of the mouth. Like its compatriot, the Mas Sainte Berthe, this rosé also presented notes of bitter orange but in a slightly softer way. We got a little hungry during this round, so we decided to pair it with Lake's Edge, a goat cheese from Blue Ledge Farm. The wine and the cheese complemented each other beautifully, working to bring out their respective brightness and a fresh, not cloying, sweetness.
4. Le Fraghe, Ròdon, Bardolino Chiaretto, 2010
This wine is a deep rose color, but is light tasting with a hint of effervescence. You can definitely taste stone fruit and berries. This is the wine that we thought paired well with everything we were eating: Julie's chicken liver mousse, the Lake's Edge and Ardrahan and Gubbeen (both Irish washed-rind cheeses). The conclusion: this is a perfect picnic wine, not only does it pair awesomely with a variety of foods but it also has a handy screw top!
5. Château Musar, Musar Jeune, 2009
I was particularly intrigued by this wine because, when I think about Lebanon, I don't necessarily think of luscious vineyards. This wine is a lovely deep rose color and, although I don't typically fancy dark rosés (associating deeper color with sweetness), this one was quite delicious. It had a buttery feel on the center of the tongue and a clean, fruity finish. Like the Mas de la Dame, it paired really well with the Lake's Edge.
6. Coturri Winery, Rosé, Sonoma Mountain Rosé Wine, 2009
I confess that, given my predilection for lighter colored rosés, I approached Coturri's wine with skepticism and probably never would have bought a bottle if we hadn't decided to do this tasting. The color of this rosé is really deep, almost brown in color. True to my expectations, it was the sweetest of the rosés we tasted but, contrary to my expectations, it blew me away! It was amazing – complex and unique. Every sip made me want another, just to see what I would taste next. Initially, it was a little tingly on the tip of my tongue but then smoothed out and became sweeter. The sweetness was balanced with a really amazing hint of sourness, kind of working the way sour patch candy does. This is a perfect post-dinner rosé – something to drink with friends, whiling away a summer evening on the porch. This wine was a real lesson to me: never judge a pink by its color!
Well, that's the round-up! We had a lot of fun comparing these wines side-by-side and approaching them in a more formal way – smelling, tasting, discussing and taking notes. It forced me to really think about what was going on in my mouth and with the foods we were eating. As a result, I have a much better idea of which rosé I will choose for different occasions or to pair with different foods. Another takeaway from the evening – we decided we need to do this more often!
p.s. If you decide to do a rosé tasting like this at home, I recommend inserting the Peyrassol in position 3.
Download: if you would like to do a rosé tasting of your own at home or with friends, here is the rosé tasting guide that Erin used. 2011 Rosé Tasting
Among the many hats she wears, Erin Tevlin is a cheesemonger and the Office Manager at Formaggio Kitchen, Cambridge.


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skalibs is a set of general-purpose, low-level C libraries, all in the public domain. It can replace or hide the standard C library to some extent. It is designed to allow building of small static binaries. It is used in building all skarnet.org software, including execline and s6.
Werc is a minimalistic RESTful Web application framework and content management system. It follows the Unix "tool philosophy" and it is designed to be fast, simple, convenient, and easily extensible. It handles both small and big sites and has a flexible system for user and group permissions. All data is stored in plain text files that can be easily manipulated with standard tools, without using any databases or other external dependencies. Existing applications include a blogging engine with RSS/Atom feeds, a wiki system that can easily integrate pre-existing documents (can be enabled for any directory tree), and others.
m9u is a music server, similar to mpd or xmms2. It sits in the background, waiting for commands to be delivered via a 9p file system. m9u embraces the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. As such, it does not try to catalog or otherwise organize music, but aims for the more humble goal of simply playing it. A side effect of this approach is that m9u is trivially extensible to domains aside from music (for example, an image slideshow).
spectrwm is a minimalistic tiling window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact, and fast.


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Brazil's Path to Hardware Manufacturing at Home
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SAO PAULO — Brazil's policies on imported goods are hurting the country's economy. But engineers can do something about it.
That was the message delivered by Jon "Maddog" Hall, president of Linux International, in his keynote at the opening day of the Embedded Systems Conference in Sao Paulo.
"There are many reasons that more companies don't design and manufacture products here in Brazil," Hall said. "They don't trust the market size, and they are concerned about the cost of a manufacturing startup." It comes down to "cost, time, and uncertainty."
Instead, companies have their designs manufactured in places like Taiwan, and that strategy has a major drawback: When the product comes to Brazil, it's hit with a 100% import tax, which is passed on to the consumer. "This is a big mistake and a bad thing for the Brazilian economy."
Hall cited the Raspberry Pi, which has sold more than 3 million units, as a case in point. "The Raspberry Pi has a $35 retail value in the US. Add on $10 for shipping and 100% import taxes, and that same board costs around $90 in Brazil. Given the lower GDP here in Brazil, that means that most consumers are paying about 4X more for the Pi, which is a crime against God and Al Gore."
He then laid out a scenario for how a clone of the Raspberry Pi, only better, could be made in Brazil. Call it the Plum Pi.
"A company could start by taking an already proven design and using open components from a popular architecture like ARM," he said. "Add on an FPGA, WiFi, USB 3.4, and you have a robust platform for students to learn to program something other than a single-core processor."
To overcome skepticism about the market opportunity in Brazil, Hall suggested incorporating new components for developers to use and test and generating 10,000 boards to sell to a test market. The kicker would be to license the board and components freely to companies that wish to manufacture it in Brazil. The Raspberry Pi Foundation does not do that currently.
Under this scenario, Hall said, if the BOM for the new board less than $28 and were sourced from the developer, the cost would be $28 + $5 shipping (amortized over 10K boads) + 6% duty for a total cost of approximately $40 for each board produced in Brazil. That's less than half the current cost of a Raspberry Pi there.
Building this kind of hardware manufacturing capability in Brazil would address the chicken-and-egg challenge that countries often face, he said. By generating more challenging jobs, young people will stay, and then industry will come, because they feel like there is a trained, knowledgeable pool of talent to help make them successful. Industry will not come if they don't see a trained, knowledgeable pool of talent to make their industry successful.
Karen Field is the editor in chief of EE Times and content director for EE Live and the Embedded Systems Conference.


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It may be nearing the end of summer, but last week proved
particularly heated, as media giants Apple and NBC Universal exchanged terse
The dispute began when NBC Universal decided not to renew its contract to sell
its TV content on iTunes. DailyTech reported
on Friday, that the two parties were parting ways, and that after the
contract's expiration in December, iTunes would no longer sell NBC's TV programming,
including the popular shows,
"Heroes," "30 Rock" and "The Office."
NBC openly admitted that much of the dispute was over pricing, as well as NBC
wanting the ability to package content together as it chose.
The split was not the first between Apple and a major media provider. In
June, the Universal Music Group
of Vivendi (UMG) announced that it
would not be renewing its contract with iTunes, and would no longer sell its
music on iTunes. The move was thought to be partially instigated by
Apple's slow adoption of DRM-free music technology. UMG's artists
included pop, rock, and rap acts such Akon, Rhianna and U2.
NBC was the first major television content producer to drop iTunes,
though. ABC, CBS, FOX and The CW, along with
more than 50 cable networks still provided shows with iTunes. Further,
NBC was one of iTunes' largest content providers, providing 30% of iTunes sales
of TV content.DailyTech recently
chronicled the next episode in the Apple and NBC saga, with the breaking
news that the conflict heating up, following the release of a statement from
Apple. Apple claimed in its statement that NBC had demanded an astronomic
150% price increase from $1.99 per episode, to $4.99 episode. Further
Apple decided to drop NBC's content early, in September, before the start of
the next television season.iTunes VP Eddy Cue is quoted by DailyTech as saying, "We are disappointed to see NBC Universal leave
iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase, we hope
they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the tens of millions
of iTunes customers."
Now there is more headline news in the evolving drama between Apple and NBC,
with the entry of a new player: Amazon.com. CNNMoney.com reports
that NBC plans to sell its content through Amazon's Amazon Unbox service, in a
"variety of packages".
Pricing and terms were not disclosed, but many speculate that Amazon.com
offered some of the concessions in price increases that iTunes would not.
Also, the announcement clearly indicates that Amazon is willing to provide NBC
with the ability to control its show's content, something Apple would not
do. The article also states that NBC had been unhappy with Apple's
failure to provide stronger anti-piracy measures.
While NBC did not specify prices for episodes under the new agreement, it did
mention that there would be discounts to customers purchasing entire seasons of
NBC TV shows. Also pilot episodes will be available to download free of
Fans of NBC programming can be happy to know that they will be able to download
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Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have exploded in popularity, and with them come benefits and drawbacks.
On Monday night a deputy sheriff for the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office was involved in a Facebook exchange involving comments about homosexuality.
The deputy made his feelings about homosexuality very clear, even posting as part of the discussion that all gays and lesbians needed to be rounded up and taken to an island so they could be "nuked," to not be able to expose others to their beliefs.
Computer screenshots of the Facebook exchange were sent to the Journal by someone involved in the discussion. The original discussion centered on the Confederate flag controversy at Dolores High School where the school district has banned the flag from being displayed on school grounds after a hateful display.
When contacted about the Facebook discussion, Sheriff Dennis Spruell said the sheriff's office has a policy in place that is enforced for employees both on and off from the job.
Spruell said his employees who use a social media platform in an inappropriate way on their time away from work could be violating the policy, especially if they identify themselves as a MCSO employee.
The deputy's occupation and employer were listed on his Facebook page, however, the page has since been taken down.
"They live in a glass house, and they have to conduct themselves like everyone is watching," Spruell said.
Lt. Ted Meador echoed Spruell's comments, saying there is a social media policy in place to keep any employee from shedding a negative light on the sheriff's office.
Meador had seen the Facebook posts and discussed them with Spruell.
"Do we condone this stuff? Absolutely not and we do have a policy in place," the sheriff said.
On Wednesday morning, Spruell said that the deputy is no longer employed with the sheriff's office. Citing personnel issues, Spruell offered no information about the decision.
He also said that he was frustrated by the way he learned of the situation. He said he would have preferred that the woman had gone through the proper channels and contacted the sheriff's office rather than notifying media outlets.
Neither the county nor the Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 have policies or plans to implement policies to ensure defamatory comments do not appear on a social media site for all to view.
Montezuma County Administrator Ashton Harrison said while he could not comment on the sheriff's office or what they have in place, said there is no policy nor will there be one for what his employees post on a social media website while off work.
"What they do on their own time is their business," Harrison said, adding that creating a policy is not even on the radar.
City Manager Shane Hale said Cortez uses social media to promote the animal shelter and the recreation center programs along with other departments when there is a need.
Hale said the city does have a social media policy for its employees.
Re-1 Superintendent Alex Carter's views are close to how the county looks at social media outside the work place.
"The First Amendment protects freedom of speech for everyone, and social media is also protected," Carter wrote in an email. "Generally, the only thing that will cause the school district to act is if the post is "disruptive to the classroom environment or to the maintenance of a safe and orderly school."
Attempts to reach the deputy in question were unsuccessful.


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We could end up being better without him in a few years if we don't blow up our core. Pass on the accelerated rebuild. Only way I want him now is if we give up either of the pg's and Bargnani +pieces.
We could end up being better without him in a few years if we don't blow up our core. Pass on the accelerated rebuild. Only way I want him now is if we give up either of the pg's and Bargnani +pieces.
I have no problem with a Calderon and DeRozan for Gay deal:
Fields can slide into the SG role with TR backing him up. This is perhaps the only way I can swallow Bargs staying put (only because I don't think he's easy to trade). Gay is an assassin and I can see Memphis going for this deal because of the money and the fact that Calderon (which they can flip) is an expiring contract. I'm into this personally (my opinions of course).
PS> This is also the type of trade BC would pull to save his job (I know it's a bad thing).
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. - Martin Luther King
don't know what colangelo is going to do now that the consensus is rudy gay is no longer the one player we wish we could have gotten. hope he is reading the board so he knows before he makes the trade.
if gay were a real option i would be all over that in an instant. scoring/d/rebounds and assists from the 3
pretty good off year.
be our second best all around player immediately. depending on what is needed to send out***please let it only be cash*** because cleveland is landing him if memphis wants assets. we can't compete with their draft picks and hiesley seems like the kind of guy who would love some first round cheap talent.
I'm a huge Derozan homer, and his work ethic, and love for the game has proven, he's a keeper in this league. But, Rudy Gay is so talented, and only going to get better with time, and experience.
Derozan + Calderon + 2nd Round Picks for Gay? Maybe, but doesn't Derozan's contract kick in after this season?
Twitter: @ReubenJRD NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
Just looking through Gay's career stats. If he can return to 2010-11 form (pre-shoulder injury), then sign me up for any trade that would include DeRozan.
Still yes to Rudy Gay.
I think a Calderon/Bargnani trade would be great, but if Memphis asks for Demar, i'll be fine with it.
Gay still embodies what the Raps have been lacking ever since VC left, scoring and clutch play. Imagine if they had Gay on those 5-6 close games that they lost? They probably wouldve won 4 or maybe even all of those games with Gay taking the last shot.
The reason why i'd let Demar go is because of the emergence of Ross. Ross pretty much resembles Demar's first years as Raptor, difference is, Ross has a 3 point shot. And so does Gay. Three point shooting will open the floor for Lowry to penetrate and the bigs to work inside. Imagine Lowry running the break with Ross and Gay on each side. Yikes.
It is amazing what you'll find on a Google search of "toronto raptors trade Rudy Gay":
I don't know anything about GantDaily.com. Not sure if the league source is from Zach Lowe's Grantland piece from Friday as this was published at 5:16am on Saturday morning. This is on the site's national sports page at the bottom between "Mannny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez V eyed for September" and "Report: Cycling great Lance Armstrong to publicly admit doping."4E Sports Staff
Toronto, ON, Canada (4E Sports) – The Toronto Raptors are reportedly trying to hammer out a deal that would help them land Memphis Grizzlies star forward Rudy Gay, a league source disclosed Thursday.
The Raptors, who are looking for some upgrades at the small forward position, could like come up with a package surrounding Jose Calderon for the versatile swingman.
According to the source, the deal may need other assets other than Calderon to make the deal materialize.
The Raptors are coming off a 105-96 loss at the hands of DeMarcus Cousins and the Sacramento Kings.
Cousins chalked up 31 points and 20 rebounds while John Salmons added 20 points to hand the Raptors only their second loss in 10 games.
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If the trade did not include Ross, I think I'd be fine.
The always popular 4-team trade:
Toronto: Gay, Burks, Foye
Memphis: Udrih, Harris, Dunleavy, GSW 1st rd pick via Utah, 2nd rd pick from Toronto
Utah: Calderon, Kleiza
Milwaukee: Marvin Williams, DeRozan, Selby
Toronto: Gay starting SF. Ross starting SG. Fields 6th man. Burks scoring slasher off bench. Ilyasova stretch 4 who Casey seems to desire and Toronto is reportedly interested in via trade and was interested in last summer as FA.
Memphis: Udrih back up PG (Bayless is sucking majorly in Memphis this year). Dunleavy starting SF floor spacer (42% 3pt) with visions of 2 year ago playoff run minus Gay. Harris SF of future. Picks. $5M in salary cap space taken off and they are no longer tax payer.
Utah: Starting PG acquired while keeping most valuable trade assets in Millsap and Jefferson. Trade one useless combo forward for another but save $3M doing so. Also free up 2 roster spaces should they trade Jefferson's big contract.
Milwaukee: Build their back court of the future with hometown reunion of Jennings and DeRozan. Anderson makes the numbers work. Williams is a player option of $7.5M next season and becomes their SF. Foye is backup PG to replace Udrih. Selby is a throw in for roster space. Milwaukee still has Ellis (and Sammy D's expiring contract) to pursue other trades or if Ellis opts out, he (and Sammy D) becomes cap space.
Reportedly Milwaukee wants to move Ilyasova. Raps trade Bargnani in a package to get Gasol to Minnesota and receive Derrick Williams, Raps could send him to Milwaukee for Ilyasova. That swap would factor in to the above as well because assuming it was all done at same time it might be reported as one big trade but it would technically be 2 separate trades.
When the dust settles, Raps lineup:
PG: Lowry, Foye, Lucas
SG: Ross, Burks, Anderson
SF: Gay, Fields
PF: Davis, Ilyasova, Acy
C: JV, Amir, Gray
Bigs are set.
Wings are thin but Ilyasova could play some 3.
PG is thin.
Conspicuous by his absence in all of this is #tradeBargnani who I am going to assume has been moved for pieces (backup PG and backup wing).
**for the record, not suggesting this plausible or possible, just having fun on a Saturday night with my wife out and kids in bed**
EDIT: Dammit. I hate it when you take off the blinders and realize that if the Bucks could essentially get Gay for all of their assets, well, why wouldn't they take Gay instead of helping Toronto land him. If the Bucks took him on they'd have 11 players under contract for next season with a payroll of about $67.9M assuming Jennings was resigned for $10M, Ilyasova was kept, and Ellis was not traded while exercising his option. I guess it would all depend on how much money Milwaukee wanted to spend and if they thought they could compete with that team.
EDIT 2: But wait, there is more. Lets assume Bargnani is dealt and Derrick Williams comes back in any package i.e. Raps facilitate a Gasol to Minny deal. Again, don't worry about the players, just look at salary numbers: http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=acbm36j Raps would also be able to trade Williams immediately after obtaining as it would be (hypothetically, of course) a 1-for-1 trade to get Ilyasova. Raps would also keep Anderson. So if you were Milwaukee, would you rather go ahead with a Jennings-DeRozan-Williams trio or a Jennings-Ellis-Gay trio? Ellis could leave this summer or next summer as an UFA. Jennings-DD-Williams would be about $25M over the next 2 years while Jennings-Ellis-Gay would be about $39M.... and Williams could very well be a bust.
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Toronto receives
Rudy gay
Josh selby
Phoenix receives
Andrea Bargnani
Sacramento 2014 2nd round pick via Toronto
Toronto 2013 2nd round pick
Memphis receives
Jose Calderon
Michael Beasley
Alan Anderson
Minnesota 1st round pick via Phoenix
Why Toronto?
Rudy gay. That is all.
Why Phoenix?
Beasley isn't the player he was expected to be when they signed him, so they drop his massive contract. They get Bargnani to back up scola and start when scola retires or leaves as a free agent.
Why Memphis?
Key here is cap space. They're deep into the tax and Memphis isn't exactly a big market. They get 10 million dollars off the books from Calderon at the end of the season and get rid of Rudy gays large contract. Hopefully with a change of scenery michael Beasley can perform better or not. First rounder evens it out. Anderson has been playing great and has shown he can 100% be a serviceable backup
Toronto lineup
Kyle Lowry/John Lucas/Josh Selby
Demar Derozan/Terrence Ross
Rudy Gay/Landry Fields/Mickael Pietrus
Ed Davis/Quincy Acy
Jonas Valanciunas/Amir Johnson/Aaron Gray
i really don't think the team will trade demar. i also wouldn't want them too. i understand the reasoning behind it but i would rather keep someone who has shown improvement/work ethic and love for the city. i think toronto needs a spokesman for other players. i think that a player suck as demar who came when we sucked and hopefully will be here as we continue to improve sends a message that we are real.
if we send him out i think it only emphasizes that this team is a revolving door for players waiting to get to america. hopefully he isn't included. i would love gay but not at the cost of any of the young players. not for ed/demar/ross/val. anyone and anything else is ok for me. unfortunately we don't even know what draft we have to give up a pick so we can't include one.
i have a question i hope someone can answer. i know we have to have a pick bi-annually, but does it have to be a raptors pick? if we trade/buy the 30th pick in the draft does that count as one of our picks in 2 seperate years?
Oof get Burks, Gay and Foye while not trading Ross? So in.
Sweet sweet Burksy
if gay comes in i dont want the young guys going out. that is why i think cleveland gets him with their picks because i doubt they want to give up their young guys as well.
+1. I'd like to keep the younger players, because they work hard, and seem like they want to be here.
Gay, I don't know if he'd resign unless we're going to offer him max or start being a serious contender.
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A vision of opportunity for child laborers
Combating forced labor is part of World Vision's holistic approach to protecting children and ensuring that every child has the opportunity to experience life in all its fullness. World Vision works to address the root causes of child labor and create opportunities for affected children to get an education and leave jobs that are often dangerous, dirty, and degrading.
Today, we present the stories of two boys whose lives as child laborers are turning toward new opportunities through World Vision programs.
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In his village, Sukri, 16, is a children's club leader. He participates actively and coordinates activities with his friends. But sometimes Sukri has to choose between his obligation to work and joining in these activities.
His beloved father died when he was young, and now he lives with his mother and relatives. Due to his family's insufficient income, Sukri was forced to leave school after the first grade. He used to spend up to two weeks alone in the jungle tapping pine trees. Selling the sap would earn him about $30.
Two years ago, Sukri joined the Creative Children's Club, supported by World Vision. The group is a safe space for children like Sukri to meet with other children and participate in job skill trainings, which are tailored to their talents and interests. After they finish their training, the youth are placed in internships.
Now Sukri works six days a week, 11 hours a day as a farm laborer. But Sukri has a strong desire to learn everything he can about machinery. "The training will be useful for my future. Now, I have to work as hard as I can to earn money so I can open a machine workshop."
Groups like the Creative Children's Club not only provide a space to learn and develop friendships, but are also a place of protection. Children like Sukri who are out of school and working to support their families are at increased risk for exploitation and trafficking. Through the children's groups, vulnerable children are connected to other children and community members who care for them.
World Vision works with these groups to educate communities about child protection issues, such as how to identify vulnerable children and to report abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence to local authorities so children can receive support and appropriate services.
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Idrees, 13, wakes up at 5:30 in the morning to attend school. He loves school and dreams of being the best student in his class. But for Idrees, it isn't easy to find time to study. In addition to school, Idress also works to support his family, leaving him little time for schoolwork.
His father would often say, "Idrees, it's not time for your homework. Get ready to go to work." His father's salary as a laborer never met all of the family's needs, but when floods washed away the family home, it became even more difficult.
"We are so poor," says Ibrahim, 36, his father. "After three years, I am unable to construct my home. We all are living in single room that was constructed by an NGO [non-governmental organization] after the flood," he says.
Idrees works four to five hours daily, earning just $1.50 per week -- around 5 cents an hour. Aware of his family's situation, Idrees never complains. Instead, he is happy just to be able to continue his studies.
Like many parents in the community, Ibrahim was considering discontinuing his children's education in favor of full-time employment. World Vision works with parents, many of whom did not attend school, to raise awareness about the importance of education and the dangers of child labor.
Ibrahim now supports his son as much as he can. "I've spent more than 15 years laboring, and now I realize the importance of education," he says. "I will allow my son to continue studying."
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World Vision envisions a world where children are free from exploitation and have the opportunity to live life in all its fullness. By raising awareness and establishing child protection committees, communities are able to protect vulnerable children and advocate to their governments for better safeguards against child labor and exploitation.
You can join them: In February 2013, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) passed Congress because of advocates like you. Now, we need to make sure there is strong funding to implement the law.
In 2010, the U.S. government spent 68 cents per American taxpayer to provide services to trafficking survivors, to prosecute their traffickers, and to prevent others from being enslaved around the world. This funding represents just 0.003 percent of the overall federal budget. Even such a small amount will ensure that the gains made through the passage of the TVPRA are sustained.
Jessica Bousquette is a World Vision U.S. Advocacy Associate in Washington, D.C. With additional reporting by Juliarti Sianturi, World Vision Indonesia; and Asif Raza, World Vision Pakistan.
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McKinnon is wanted in the United States for allegedly
hacking into Pentagon and military computers between 2001 and 2002, where
it is claimed he was searching for evidence of a UFO cover-up by the U.S.
government. As a byproduct of his escapades, U.S. authorities accuse
McKinnon of tampering with military log files – some of which were used to
assess the battle readiness of U.S. Navy ships – and deleting critical
information which, in one case, knocked more than 2000 U.S. Army computers
offline in Washington, DC.
In one case, McKinnon even left authorities a calling card in the form of a
note, which read:
"US foreign policy is akin to
government-sponsored terrorism these days ... It was not a mistake that there
was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year ... I am SOLO. I will
continue to disrupt at the highest levels..."
"US foreign policy is akin to
government-sponsored terrorism these days ... It was not a mistake that there
was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year ... I am SOLO. I will
continue to disrupt at the highest levels..."
The Law
Lords' opinion of USA v. McKinnon notes that McKinnon "admitted
responsibility" to his crimes with UK authorities after his arrest in 2002, and
evidence mounting against him across the pond indicates that he has little
chance of walking away with a not-guilty plea in the United States. To that
end, U.S. authorities offered McKinnon a plea deal: if McKinnon plead guilty
and came to the United States willingly, he'd endure a lenient, 6-12 month
sentence at a minimum security prison in the U.S., followed by repatriation to
the UK and most likely supervised or paroled release.
McKinnon has repeatedly turned down this offer, however, and instead spent
the last six years fighting the U.S. government's extradition request. The
sentence he now faces is decidedly more severe: at least 8-10 years in a
medium- or high-security U.S. prison, and have little opportunity for parole or
repatriation to the UK.
In his defense, McKinnon said the U.S. plea-bargaining process – a technique
foreign to UK courts – was a violation of his human rights: the only way to
seek punishment in his own country, he argued, was to give in to the U.S.
plea-bargain and surrender willingly – a process that would have him
automatically admitting guilt and, according to his supporters, opting out of a
fair trial.
McKinnon's defense has also expressed fears of special-category,
Guantanamo-style military treatment, should he be extradited to the United
His supporters note that the Law Lords' opinion, agreed on unanimously by
the court, was written by ex-Intelligence Services Commissioner Lord Brown of
Eaton-under-Haywood, automatically slanting his opinion in favor a cultural
"partnership" mentality with the U.S.


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increasingly popular get-rich scheme in the world of malicious users is to
somehow "trick" users' hardware into dialing or texting
premium numbers. The trick is a pretty old one, dating back 10
to 20 years. Its efficacy has led to a pickup in such schemes within the
U.S. and abroad in places like Russia and China.
The FBI has made some important progress in the fight against one such robo-dialing scheme. The
perpetrator, Asu Pala, executed a low-tech version of this scheme. For
his role in the scheme, a court this week sentenced him to 82-months (almost 7
years) in prison, fined him $7.9M USD, and ordered him to pay $2.2M USD in back
Mr. Pala opened a small internet service provider called Sakhmet that sold
dialup services. That's when a group of European criminals approached him with
an ambitious scheme to use his obscure ISP as an attack platform to deliver
autodialers to dialup customers in Germany, where dialup was still frequent.
The money, they promised, would be great.
And it was. Between 2003 and 2007, the partnership raked in €12M
($16.5M USD) by serving up malicious trojan auto-dialer software that caused
users modems to automatically call the German equivalent of 1-900 numbers (e.g.
sex lines, etc.), racking up huge phone bills.
Mr. Pala's increasingly ostentatious displays of wealth drew the watchful eye
of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations. When he bought a second
Lamborghini sports car, they became suspicious when verifying with the IRS that
his reported income was far below what he appeared to be spending.
Ultimately, Mr. Pala agreed to cooperate with the feds to try to catch his
European business partners in exchange for a reduced sentence. In May
2009 he began to work with the FBI to try to lure its partners into the U.S.
for arrest. But the plot didn't work.
Disappointed, the FBI pulled out. Given that they felt they had credible
evidence the phantom partners were in fact real, the FBI pushed for a partially
reduced sentence, but Mr. Pala ended up getting a couple years in prison more
than originally planned.
His lawyer, Geoffrey Nathan, insists his client didn't understand the full
extent of what was going on. He comments, "Most regrettably, it
turns out that the big fish got away with the crime and they remain in
While that may be true, without their serving partner, they will find it much
harder to execute their attacks in the future. And surely German
authorities are now keeping a closer eye out for the perpetrators.
Mr. Pala, a New Hampshire resident, in April 2010 pled guilty in a U.S.
District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the state where his business
was located. He was sentenced this week and has the opportunity to try to
appeal, should he choose to do so.


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Every day the American people are losing more of our constitutional rights, what after gun control? We are already not allowed to go ATVing and camping on property we pay taxes to support, just to mention a few.
You want to stop things like the Sandy Hook shooting and other school shootings. What about rape and murder of innocent people from kids to adults, you want to stop that too? Why are we not looking at the real problem here?
Lets start by looking at the death penalty, and I don't mean 15 or 20 years down the road; how about 18 to 24 months after conviction. Make a punishment to fit the crime and then see that it is carried out in a fashion that people get to see what happens to anyone who is found guilty.
I have a feeling a parent may own some of the guilt in this case. I also think the video games that kids are allowed to play have a big part in most of these shootings, along with being bullied by others.
A gun just a tool; use it right and it won't hurt anyone, whether it holds one shell or fifty.
So look for who is responsible and make the punishment fit the crime.
Steve Sharp
Via CortezJournal.com


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Compensation Drains NCP Community's Net Worth; NCUA Moves In
As expected, the NCUA seized a federal credit union Friday and placed into conservatorship the $2 million NCP Community Development Federal Credit Union of Norfolk, Va.
The agency said in a release the decision to conserve a credit union enables the institution to "continue regular operations with expert management in place, correcting previous service and operational weaknesses."
According to Financial Performance Reports posted on the NCUA's website, the 709-member credit union saw its net worth plummet from 13.72% as of year-end 2011 to 7.76% as of June 30, 2012. Then in September, net worth sunk below well capitalized to 4.91%. By year end 2012, only 3.83% net worth remained.
Delinquencies and charge offs reported on NCUA's website weren't spotless, but don't indicate a loan loss problem. Other financials appear within reasonable safety and soundness, except for two: during the first quarter of 2012, operating expenses to assets skyrocketed to 15.71% of average assets, from 3.61% during 4th quarter 2011. Operating expenses compared to gross income rose from 84.63% at year-end 2011 to 382.74% during the first quarter of 2012, where it more or less remained all year.
The financial reports reveal that employee compensation increased from $9,819 in 2011 to $151,225 in 2012. That total employee compensation figure is roughly three times the credit union's loan income.
According to the NCUA, the credit union's manager/CEO was Letitia R. Batey.
New board members were elected on Dec. 20, 2012 according to NCP's website, during its annual membership meeting. NCP serves a low-income community in the Hampton Roads area.
Rather than liquidate, the NCUA said in the release it will work to resolve issues affecting the institution's safety and soundness while continuing normal member services.
Members can continue to conduct normal financial transactions, including deposit and access funds, make loan payments and use shares. Deposits at NCP are covered by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
NCP Community Development FCU is the first federally insured credit union placed into conservatorship in 2013.


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March 21 is the new deadline for NACUSO's 2013 Credit Union Collaboration and Innovation award and the 2013 CUSO Collaboration and Innovation award submissions.
NACUSO said it will recognize the credit union demonstrating the successful use of a CUSO collaborative model to serve their members. The awards are given to both a CUSO and a credit union that have demonstrated outstanding collaboration and/or innovation over the past year.
In addition, the award recipients will highlight how CUSOs helped credit unions effectively and efficiently serve their members. This can include how credit unions are using CUSOs to meet the needs of their credit union members, including collaborative operational and IT CUSOs, to help lower costs and provide better service, NACUSO said.
The formal announcement and presentation of both awards will take place on April 18 during the 2013 NACUSO Annual Conference at the Encore in Las Vegas.
Previous winners of the CUSO Collaboration and Innovation Award include CO-OP Network, CUSO Financial Services, CU*Answers, Credit Union Student Choice, Ongoing Operations and TMG Financial Services.
The winner of NACUSO's 2012 Credit Union Collaboration and Innovation Award was the $913 million Workers' Credit Union in Fitchburg, Mass. The 70,000-member cooperative was recognized for its ownership in eight CUSOs and collaboration with several others, according to NACUSO.
For general rules and to download the nomination form, visit the "2013 CUSO & CU Collaboration & Innovation Awards" section online.
Submissions will be accepted up until close of business on March 21, NACUSO said.


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Personal computing discussed
Moderators: farmpuma, just brew it!
BIF wrote:Nice! Yeah, I'm going to let the current work units end so that I can get some things done with my machines.
BIF wrote:The longest running ones will end about 10 or 11 hours from this writing. New WUs will probably be 2+ days again, and I don't want to have those commitments queued up just yet so I won't accept new ones for a couple days. That will give me time to do some unrelated testing and other activities without hearing the laptop's howling fans in the living room or feeling heat in my home office.
I need to give a lot of thought to how I'm going to do folding with my new hardware which is currently planned to be a 6-core SB-E and a GTX 690. I really don't like howling fans or a warm office and I've perceived that it is warmer while folding is running. It could only be one degree F for all I know, but I am sensitive to it.
just brew it! wrote:The SMP client is designed to get out of the way if you use the machine. It runs at a very low CPU priority, and only uses cycles that aren't needed for anything else. I just let 'em run.
It's not your imagination. With modern systems that throttle the CPU down when idle, the difference in heat load from folding can be quite substantial. This (and the related increase in A/C cost) is why I no longer run it during the summer months.
PhilipMcc wrote:I have 1 Q8200 making a modest contribution. It manages 2600 points every 14 hours or so. My goal was to see how far it would push "my team" up the rankings. In 4 years I made it to the top 1600. Participating in Frankie is fun and lets me tinker with the configurations of my PC's.
BIF wrote:When I build the new system, I'll probably not fold on the others; the new one should be capable of an order of magnitude more work anyway. I do wonder if I can set up a schedule to automate the starts and stops of the folding client based on day/time, so that it would only run while I'm out of the house. But I need to see how much the direct electricity costs will be before I get too far down the road.
BIF wrote:My own folding garden (windowbox?) is also back online...
BIF wrote:Status update please. Who's still folding for Frankie?
BIF wrote:Need to start getting serious about my new workstation, and while this has been fun it is a distraction.
just brew it! wrote:BIF wrote:Need to start getting serious about my new workstation, and while this has been fun it is a distraction.
Mmm...? As long as you're not sneakernetting WUs in and out it should be pretty much fire-and-forget. I just check my systems once a day to make sure they're running. Not much of a distraction at all.
arpstorm wrote:@Biff
Folding is a distraction all right but it's a good kind of distraction at least. I really do hope that our efforts help Stanford to break new ground in terms of medical discoveries. I don't know Jack about medicine or drugs or biology but I do know who to keep a computer Folding
BIF wrote:But the laptop, even running at only 75% is noisy in the living room.
BIF wrote:Wow, carports, crawlspaces, and attics. You guys really are hardcore with this stuff!
BIF wrote:I live in a hot climate, so cannot use attic, garage, or outbuilding. Need to run them in a reasonably moderate ambient temperature so that I don't damage any hardware.
arpstorm wrote:That's right. Real Folders Fold in carports, crawlspaces, basements, and attics
BIF wrote:I get frogs, lizards, snakes, cockroaches, and giant dog-sized ants in my garage. I couldn't bear to put any computer in there!
just brew it! wrote:Not even a couple of ghetto computers zip tied into a plastic storage crate?
arpstorm wrote:If the garage is not heated then I'd expect insects to be attracted to a nice warm Folding farm.


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37 years, Boeing's 747 "Jumbo Jet" was the largest
commercial passenger aircraft in the world. The iconic aircraft was
the bread and butter for the company, but sales have dropped as
airlines have looked to the much more advanced and fuel efficient
Airbus A380.The Airbus A380 has not been without its problems
though, some of which forced a delay in the development of the much
awaited A380 freighter
variant. Half of the world's air freight is carried on freighter
versions of the 747, so Boeing saw a huge market opportunity.The
design of the previous generation, the 747-400,
goes back to 1985. The new 747-800 series is much more advanced, and uses
four of General Electric's GEnx-2B engines using technology developed for the 787
Dreamliner. The new aircraft will be larger and quieter, as well
as more fuel-efficient and environmentally
friendly.Lower operating costs are the main reason why
many current 747 operators are looking to purchase new planes. There
are currently 76 orders for the 747-8F freighter model and 32 orders
for the 747-8I Intercontinental passenger model.Boeing
completed the first test flight of a 747-8F yesterday from Paine
Field in Everett, Washington. There are more than 1,600 flight hours
in the test program scheduled."It was a real privilege
to be at the controls of this great airplane on its first flight,
representing the thousands of folks who made today possible,"
said 747 Chief Pilot Mark Feuerstein. "The airplane performed as
expected and handled just like a 747-400."A 747-8I could
fly in the future as Air
Force One, especially since Airbus has decided not to put in a
bid. The current fleet uses two highly modified 747-200B aircraft
delivered in 1990. They are scheduled to be replaced by 2017.First
deliveries of the 747-800 series are expected to begin by the end of this


text: I think Kisame had the best ending because, when they was trying to get intel out of him, he bit his own tongue off, to break the jutsu. Also, he killed himself so they couldn't get any intel out of him, and he know he couldn't beat all of them at once. And to top it off, he manage to trap Naruto, Guy, Killer Bee, and I don't know the other guy name in a water prison jutsu, while the original shark with the scroll got away. He died the way a true Shinobi suppose to.


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frustrating to always watch films like The
Minority Report and Iron
Man II
where characters zip through their ultra-productive days,
leveraging exotic
interfaces that perform the toughest tasks and ease.
And they even look cool using these visualizations to boot. But
when the movie light fades, you're off to your car with its boring
old dash display and probably will greet work the next day in front
of the same boring old UI.Fortunately, the brains
at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Lab (MIT-CSAIL, for short) have created [video]
a real life exotic interface that uses a gaming console that you
might find in your family den or living room.Using ROS ("an
open-source, meta-operating system for your robot")
and libfreenet ("a
lower-level API for sending and receiving messages over a Freenet
connection, and for reading and writing raw data streams"), and
an off-the-shelf Xbox 360 with Microsoft
Kinect, MIT researcher Garratt
Gallagher has created a system similar to The
Minority Report's
hand driven GUI.The Microsoft Kinect can "see" the
position of your fingers and palms, allowing you to control your
floating GUI with ease. You can resize images, move them
around, spin them, delete them, scroll down a list of images, or
relegate images to a special tray in the demonstration.There's
probably a few questions on your mind now. First, why didn't
Microsoft think this up in the first place? Well, give the
folks at Microsoft some credit for designing as impressive a piece of
hardware as the Kinect -- that made life for Mr. Gallagher a whole
lot easier. But hopefully Microsoft does take note and decides
to scoop up this idea and add it to the default Kinect bundle.Your
second question might be, how did this MIT researcher come up with
such a intriguing GUI? Well his creation is perhaps less than
surprising, given that the design team for The
Minority Report and
other typical futuristic flicks are full of MIT alumnis. For
example The
Minority Report leveraged
the talents of MIT Media Lab alumnus John
Underkoffler and former MIT architecture dean William
J. Mitchell.


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With the hype surrounding the iPhone, it should surprise few
that there are already eager consumers lining up to be the first to purchase
Apple's latest consumer electronic.
Beginning on Monday, four days before the launch of the
iPhone, two men were spotted outside the Apple Store Fifth Avenue in New York.
The men sat on camping chairs had with them equipment and supplies for the wait
until Friday.
Gadget blog Gizmodo spoke
with Greg, first in line, finding out that he is single, retired and loves
to camp. Reportedly, Greg also camped out in a similar fashion during the
PlayStation 3 launch.
Unlike the PlayStation 3 launch, the iPhone is widely
believed to be available in adequate quantities. BusinessWeek's sources say
that Apple will have 3
million iPhones ready on launch day – while analysts are pegging the iPhone
to sell only that many in its first year.
Analyses from TheStreet.com
postulate that Apple could sell nearly 400,000 iPhones on launch day. Current
rumors say that each store will have between 100 to 250 units on-hand, though
AT&T representatives are declining to reveal any exact numbers, only to add
that each store will have "a healthy supply" of iPhones.
Last January in an interview on TheStreet.com, investment guru and TheStreet.com founder Jim Cramer admitted his tendency to engage in Apple rumors, claiming, "Spreading the rumors, it's very easy because the people who write about
Apple want that story, and you can claim its credible because you spoke
to someone at Apple."
With approximately 1,962 stores (162 Apple and 1,800
AT&T) in the U.S. set to sell the iPhone on launch day, an estimated 200
phones per store equal 392,000 units – adding up to more than $200 million in
revenues on June 29.
To help cope with the added demand from consumers looking to
purchase the iPhone, AT&T is adding 2,000 temporary workers.


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As Apple mulls over cuts to its Mac prices, iPhone partner AT&T is also looking to trim the contract prices on the Apple iPhone in the U.S. The new decrease would reportedly accompany a new version of the handset hardware, that is widely expected to launch in June, along with Apple's new iPhone operating system.
Michael Cote of Cote Collaborative says that his inside connections at both companies reveal that there is a "strong possibility" that the price of the iPhone's introductory plan will be cut from $69 to $59. He expects the cut to be announced, along with a new iPhone, at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 8.
The iPhone currently retails for $200 which is in line with its smartphone competitors. However, the total cost of basic ownership -- the price of an 8GB phone and 24 months of the most basic iPhone voice and data plan -- amounts to a whopping total of $1,856. A cut would sweeten the deal, dropping this slight to around $1,600.
Apple's previous cost cut proved to be very effective. An early cost cut from $599 to $399 propelled the iPhone to sales of 4 million units in 2007. A second cut in 2008, with the release of the 3G iPhone, saw even greater success, boosting sales to 17 million units.
Cost cutting is a painful, but growing necessity for companies competing in the smart phone market. Research in Motion utilized Verizon's "by one, get one" promotion to propel its Blackberry Curve smart phone past the iPhone in total sales for the first quarter of 2009.
With the much-anticipated Palm Pre set to hit the market, and strong competition from T-Mobile/Google's G1, which recently sold its millionth unit, Apple and AT&T have much at stake. And analysts believe a price cut could be just what they need to restore growth to the iPhone's momentum.


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Southwest Colorado Community College on Tuesday announced the selection of a new executive dean.
Starting immediately, Norm Jones will oversee operations at the East Campus in Durango and West Campus between Mancos and Cortez, as well as a course-offering site in Pagosa Springs.
The move comes after an unsettled six months. In May, Pueblo Community College President Patty Erjavic abruptly announced she was consolidating the two SCCC dean positions into a single executive dean. Incumbents Shannon South and Lynn Urban were fired and replaced with an interim, Cindy Mihelich. The money saved by paying only one salary would be directed to classroom resources, Erjavic said at the time.
Over a 38-year career, Jones has held administrative posts - mostly in admissions and marketing departments - at eight different colleges and universities. He comes to the Four Corners from Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Penn., where he served as vice president for enrollment and athletics.
Jones holds a bachelor's degree in social science from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Education degree in guidance and counseling from West Georgia University.
"I believe strongly in this institution's mission of providing quality educational opportunities that transform the lives of our students, enrich our communities and strengthen the regional economy," Jones said in a news release.
SCCC is currently enrolling and registering students for spring semester classes that will begin Jan. 14. For more information, reach the Mancos/Cortez campus at 564-6200 or Durango campus at 247-2929.


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Media invitation for 82nd INTERPOL General Assembly in Colombia
LYON, France – 'INTERPOL: 190 countries, one vision for a safer world' is the theme of the 82nd INTERPOL General Assembly which will take place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia from 21 – 24 October.
Senior law enforcement officials and security experts from around the world will gather at the event to discuss a range of policing issues including drug and arms trafficking, terrorism, trafficking in illicit goods, and border security, and to shape 21st century policing solutions to evolving criminal threats.
The official opening ceremony and speeches by senior Colombian and INTERPOL officials will take place at 10 am on Monday 21 October and are open to the media. This will be immediately followed by a press conference.
The conference proceedings are closed to the media, however press briefings on a range of subjects will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday 22 – 23 October. Interviews with police officials and international delegates may also be arranged upon request. The closing ceremony is also open to the media and will be held at 1pm on Thursday 24 October.
Journalists wishing to cover this event should apply for accreditation no later than Friday 11 October by sending the application form and photo to Alberto Antonio Cantillo Toncel via email on firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
Journalists without accreditation will not be granted access, and all accredited media representatives will be expected to present their press credentials and national identification documents at the media registration desk upon arrival.