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Tropico 5 Being Released For Linux Gamers This Week
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OpenSUSE Announcement On SUSE's Recent Merger
On Monday Phoronix was the first to report from the point that SUSE's parent company was bought out in what's now being referred to as a merger of The Attachmate Group and Micro Focus. The openSUSE community has now issued an announcement concerning this recent corporate activity.
12:04 AM EDT - SUSE - Acquisition - 19 Comments
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04:00 PM EDT - Valve - Graphics Support - 35 Comments
Digia Qt Spinoff Is Called "The Qt Company"
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03:06 PM EDT - Qt - Qt Commercial - 11 Comments
GNOME 3.14 Makes More Progress In Running Natively On Wayland
Red Hat developer Matthias Clasen has shared a status update concerning the state of running the GNOME Shell desktop natively on Wayland without any X11 dependence. With GNOME 3.14, more progress has been made in making the Wayland experience really usable. Clasen also shares that Red Hat is hiring another Wayland developer.
11:46 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Wayland - 9 Comments
RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst At 4K UHD On Linux
Last week I published some open-source performance numbers for running the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver at 4K UHD. Today is a performance comparison of the open and closed-source AMD Linux drivers using the latest code atop Ubuntu while running at 3840 x 2160.
11:20 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 4 Comments
Minix 3.3 Released With Cortex-A8 ARM Support, NetBSD Userland Compatibility
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10:40 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Minix 3.3.0 - 6 Comments
More Intel DRM Changes Queued For Linux 3.18, Including Old i830M Fixes
With the drm-next merge window for Linux 3.18 closing, Intel's open-source developers have submitted another round of changes for ultimately landing with the Linux 3.18 kernel.
09:50 AM EDT - Intel - Intel i915 DRM - 4 Comments
New Code Starts Lining Up For X.Org Server 1.17
X.Org Server 1.17 is planned for release at the start of 2015 and thus puts the closing of the merge window in the middle of October. While some xorg-server 1.17 code has already landed, more is on the way.
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RPM 4.12 Brings New Switches, New Rpm2Archive Utility
RPM 4.12 has been released as the latest version of the RPM Package Manager. This most recent upgrade brings a fair amount of additions, bug-fixes, API changes, binding improvements,a new plug-in system, and more.
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Qt 5.3.2 & Qt Creator 3.2.1 Released
Digia has put out various Qt project updates today.
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MSAA RadeonSI Gallium3D Performance Preview
For those curious about the performance overhead of enabling multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, here are a few benchmarks showing the performance overhead at various MSAA levels with the latest open-source AMD Linux driver.
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Nouveau For Linux 3.18 Gains DP Audio, More Re-Clocking
Ben Skeggs sent in his Nouveau DRM driver changes for the drm-next tree of open-source NVIDIA driver improvements that will land in Linux 3.18.
07:01 PM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau - 2 Comments
SUSE Gets Bought Out Again
SUSE's parent company The Attachmate Group has been bought out.
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Enlightenment E19 Officially Released With Its Own Wayland Compositor
While E19 didn't come out last week as talked about, it was released this morning! The Enlightenment E19 update is a huge upgrade over E18 or E17, especially if you're an early Wayland adopter.
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) this morning officially unveiled the DisplayPort 1.3 specification that takes DP 1.2a even further.
10:09 AM EDT - Hardware - DisplayPort 1.3 - 24 Comments
Opera 25 Beta Has Bookmarks & Linux Support
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CppCon Wrapped Up & There Was A Lot For C++ Developers
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LLVM Clang Now Builds Even More Debian Packages
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Linux Mint 17.1 Is Codenamed Rebecca
A few more details have emerged about the next Linux Mint release.
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Pyston 0.2 Is A Heck Of A Lot Better At Running Python Programs
Earlier this year cloud storage provider Dropbox open-sourced their own high-performance Python implementation, Pyston. Pyston is a JIT-based Python implementation built atop the LLVM compiler stack. The initial Pyston release was a bit basic but now after months of work, Dropbox is announcing the second version of Pyston.
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Linux 3.17-rc5 Kernel Released
Linus Torvalds put out another Sunday release candidate for Linux 3.17.
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FreeBSD 10.1 In Beta Ahead Of Planned Release Next Month
The first beta release of FreeBSD 10.1 is now available ahead of its planned official debut by the end of October.
04:42 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 10.1 - 3 Comments
RadeonSI Gallium3D-Nine Can Beat AMD Catalyst With Some Wine Tests
The out-of-tree Direct3D 9.0 state tracker for Mesa's Gallium3D continues to show much potential for allowing Wine-based games to better perform on Linux with the open-source Gallium3D drivers.
02:02 PM EDT - Mesa - Gallium3D-Nine - 38 Comments
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Support On Nouveau Still Requires More Work
While the Maxwell-based GTX 900 series graphics cards are rumored to be launching in the weeks ahead, the GTX 750 Maxwell graphics cards on the open-source "Nouveau" Linux driver still need some more work before they'll play nicely when not using NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver.
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The Meizu MX4 Phone With Ubuntu Is Expected To Be Out In December
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Intel Core i7 5960X CPU Core Scaling Under Linux
With the Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E is an eight-core processor with Hyper Threading to yield sixteen logical threads, we're seeing how well this extreme Haswell processor really scales with modern open-source workloads as we benchmark the i7-5960X under Ubuntu Linux and see how the benchmarks scale with varying core counts.
11:00 AM EDT - Processors - 8 Comments
These Stainless Steel Chilling Sticks Won't Cool What You Want
As some other cooling hardware coverage this weekend besides the Scythe Mugen MAX CPU heatsink review is a look at two stainless steel chilling sticks that promise to be handy, but in reality come up short.
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Samsung Reportedly Designing Its Own GPU
Reports are coming out that Samsung for the past few years has been working on its own original graphics processor design.
09:25 AM EDT - Hardware - Samsung GPU - 21 Comments
KDE Frameworks 5.2.0 Released
On Friday the second update to KDE Frameworks 5 was released.
13 September
KDevelop 4.7 Has Changes For Cross-Compiling, Bzr Support & More
Developers behind the KDevelop integrated development environment have released their final major update prior to focusing their resources on KDevelop 5 that will be built atop Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
06:41 PM EDT - KDE - KDevelop 4.7 - 4 Comments
Intel Haswell-ULT Graphics Don't Change Much With Linux 3.17, Mesa 10.4
The Linux 3.17 kernel that's currently under development does provide many new features overall but for those using the Intel HD Graphics of Haswell-ULT chips, there doesn't appear to be much in the way of any performance improvements and at least no regressions. Likewise, Mesa 10.4 isn't doing too much for the Haswell hardware on the matter of frame-rates.
12:25 PM EDT - Intel - Benchmarks
Scythe Mugen MAX
If you plan to buy an Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E or any other high-end processor, a good heatsink is needed especially if you plan to do any overclocking. In looking at a new cooling option today we're trying out the Scythe Mugen MAX.
09:50 AM EDT - Peripherals - 15 Comments
Running GCC 5 On Intel's Haswell-E i7-5960X
After comparing GCC 4.9 and LLVM Clang 3.5 as the latest stable compilers on the new Intel Core i7 5960X "Haswell-E" system, here's benchmarks of the thousand dollar processor with the in-development GCC 5.
08:12 AM EDT - Compiler - GCC 4.9 vs. GCC 5.0
Wayland Is Still In Ubuntu 14.10
While Canonical is putting all of its eggs with their Mir display server to fulfill their desktop convergence strategy and providing the next-generation Ubuntu display experience, Wayland isn't totally off-limits for users -- at least through Ubuntu 14.10.
04:10 AM EDT - Wayland - Packaging - 28 Comments
CompuLab's Intense-PC2 Is A Great Haswell-Based Mini Linux PC
Compared to most Linux PC vendors targeting consumers that are just selling re-branded white box systems with Linux preloaded, CompuLab continues to have an interesting set of original offerings that are Linux-friendly and built really well. The latest system we've had the pleasure of trying out is the Intense-PC2.
12:14 AM EDT - Hardware - Intense-PC2 - 6 Comments
12 September
For Now Intel's Beignet Seems Better Off Than Radeon Gallium3D Clover
While Intel's Beignet project for providing open-source OpenCL support for their hardware on Linux was widely criticized upon its debut for being a new project rather than basing the work on Gallium3D's "Clover" OpenCL state tracker, Beignet has matured much more quickly and for now at least seems to be better off than the Gallium3D OpenCL support.
03:36 PM EDT - Mesa - OpenCL - 46 Comments
X.Org Server 1.16 Lands Officially In Ubuntu 14.10
After writing earlier this week about a new AMD Catalyst driver paving the way for X Server 1.16 in Ubuntu 14.10, the updated packages have officially landed within the Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" archive.
01:39 PM EDT - X.Org - X.Org Server 1.16 - 5 Comments
Spliet Spills More Nouveau Re-Clocking Patches
Roy Spliet has been one of the few open-source developers working to tackle re-clocking support for Nouveau so that this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver can better perform. He's already published several sets of patches improving various bits of GPU re-clocking through this work that's being funded by the X.Org Foundation. Today he's published another patch series.
01:20 PM EDT - Nouveau - NVA3 - 4 Comments
Nouveau Lands A OpenGL 4.3 Feature & Fixes MPEG4 Video Decoding
The latest high profile work by prolific Nouveau contributor Ilia Mirkin is the landing of GL_ARB_texture_view for the NV50 and NVC0 Gallium3D drivers.
10:29 AM EDT - Mesa - ARB_texture_view
Wayland/Weston 1.6 RC2 Released
The final release candidate of Wayland 1.6 along with the Weston reference compositor is now available for testing with hopes of officially releasing this quarterly update next week.
09:52 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland 1.6 - 10 Comments
AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Performance For 4K Linux Gaming
While we routinely carry out Ultra HD (4K) Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks at Phoronix, it's generally been conducted with the proprietary NVIDIA and AMD graphics drivers since the open-source drivers traditionally have had a challenge on performance even at 1080p. However, thanks to the maturing open-source Radeon driver stack, it's possible with higher-end AMD graphics processors with the latest open-source Linux driver code to begin running at the 4K UHD resolution of 3840 x 2160.
07:00 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - 22 Comments
X.Org Server 1.17 Likely To Have Built-In KMS Modesetting Driver
Work is moving forward to land the generic, KMS-dependent mode-setting driver into the X.Org Server itself.
04:41 AM EDT - X.Org - xf86-video-modesetting - 15 Comments
Intel Skylake's MPX Is Closer To Providing Linux Memory Protection
Besides Intel publicly working on Skylake "Gen9" graphics support for Linux, Intel open-source developers are also working on other areas of Skylake hardware enablement for Linux. Work on supporting the Intel Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) that are new to the Skylake micro-architecture are still being revised for the Linux kernel and the many other operating system code-bases that need to be updated to work with this security feature.
02:55 AM EDT - Intel - Memory
Radeon DRM With Linux 3.18 To Support Concurrent Buffer Reads
Another Radeon DRM driver update pull request has been submitted to drm-next for merging in the Linux 3.18 kernel.
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Lewiston Choraleers to present popular Christmas concert program at six area churchesby jmaloni
The Lewiston Choraleers will present "A Christmas Potpourri 2012" on Dec. 1, 2, 8 and 9 at six area churches. The schedule of performances is as follows:
- Saturday, Dec. 1, 2 p.m. at St. James United Methodist Church, 4661 Porter Road, Niagara Falls; and 7 p.m. at St. John de LaSalle Roman Catholic Church, 5477 Buffalo Ave., Niagara Falls.
- Sunday, Dec. 2, 2 p.m. at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 140 Rainbow Blvd., Niagara Falls.
- Saturday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church (Old Stone Church), 505 Cayuga St., Lewiston; and 7 p.m. at Bacon Memorial Presbyterian Church, 166-59th St., Niagara Falls
- Sunday, Dec. 9, 2 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church, 915 Oneida St., Lewiston.
The fun-filled family-friendly concerts feature a variety of holiday music, including traditional, contemporary, international and ethnic selections. The choral group will be directed by Donald D. Shrimpton and accompanied by pianist Lynda Williams and percussionist Patrick Kuciewski.
The concerts are open to the public, with a general admission fee of $5 (children under 12 are free).
The Lewiston Choraleers group has been presenting seasonal concerts at Christmas and Easter and in the spring and summer in the Niagara Falls-Lewiston area since forming in 2007. Highlights include a well-received performance at Disney World in 2011. More information, including a variety of videotaped performances, is available atwww.lewistonchoraleers.com.


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A senior al-Qaida leader and son-in-law of Osama bin Laden has pleaded not guilty to plotting against Americans in his role as the terror network's spokesman.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith entered the plea through a lawyer to one count of conspiracy to kill Americans in federal court in New York on Friday.
Prosecutors say Abu Ghaith praised the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and warned there would be more.
U.S. prosecutor John P. Cronan said Friday Abu Ghaith made an "extensive post-arrest statement" that totaled 22 pages. Cronan gave no details about what Abu Ghaith said.
Abu Ghaith pleaded not guilty during the 15-minute proceeding to one count of conspiracy to kill Americans. Defense attorney Philip Weinstein says attorneys met with their client "several times before this proceeding."
Bail was not requested at the hearing and none was set. The judge says he will set a trial date at the next conference in the case, which is scheduled for April 8. Prosecutors say a trial is expected to last about three weeks.
Abu Ghaith was born in Kuwait. Authorities say he was captured in Jordan over the last week.
President Barack Obama's administration has sought to charge senior al-Qaida suspects in American federal courts instead of military tribunals, but Republicans in Congress don't want high-threat terror suspects brought into the United States.
Abu Ghaith was is in U.S. custody in New York City on Thursday, the FBI announced.
Abu Ghaith, formerly a Kuwaiti citizen, was recently deported from Turkey to Jordan, where CIA and FBI operatives captured him, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A federal grand jury has indicted Abu Ghaith with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, the FBI said. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
"No amount of distance or time will weaken our resolve to bring America's enemies to justice," Attorney General Holder said in a statement. "To violent extremists who threaten the American people and seek to undermine our way of life, this arrest sends an unmistakable message: There is no corner of the world where you can escape from justice because we will do everything in our power to hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
Counterterrorism officials believe that he traveled to Afghanistan in 2000 to join Al Qaeda. They consider him to be a longtime core member of the terror group. He appeared in videos alongside bin Laden and also made remarks defending the September 11, 2001, attacks.
"Sulaiman Abu Ghayth held a key position in al Qaeda, comparable to the consigliere in a mob family or propaganda minister in a totalitarian regime," FBI Assistant Director in Charge George Venizelos said in a statement. "He used his position to persuade others to swear loyalty to al Qaeda's murderous cause. He used his position to threaten the United States and incite its enemies. His apprehension is another important step in the campaign to limit the reach of al Qaeda and enhance our national and international security."
"Definitely, one by one, we are getting the top echelons of al-Qaida," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said, according to the AP. "I give the (Obama) administration credit for this: it's steady and it's unrelenting and it's very successful."
King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said that law enforcement officials told him of Abu Ghaith's capture, which happened last week.
U.S. authorities brought Abu Ghaith to New York City sometime in recent days, where the FBI was interrogating him. He is expected toi be arraigned in Federal District Court on Friday, March 8, the FBI said.
After 9/11, the government of Kuwait stripped him of his citizenship, the BBC reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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"Get on with it!"
This is a book in need of an editor. It could easily be cut in half without losing a beat. I had a miserable time getting through it---the characters are bland, by design, as it is some sort of 1984 type saga. But really, once you get a handle on the personalities, nothing they do is unpredictable. I can't imagine taking this thing on in print.
There are interesting ideas. But to me, the book feels like it was written by a 17 year old with a good imagination but no real writing talent. Hey wait! That's the premise of the book "Air Head Chriswillbuythis". Well I did. I don't regret it but don't recommend it either.
Chris Reich
"I Can't Get Through This Awful Reading"
There might be a decent story hidden in there but this narrator is awful. I can't tell half the time if I'm replaying something I've already heard---it seems to just ramble around senselessly.
This is some of the worst reading I've heard on Audible. Very disappointed as I was looking forward to a saga that wasn't loaded with old English.
"This Is the Book We All Should Read"
This book lays bare the mythology we have bought for years about our glorious nation under god. Turns out there's a reason we believe we're special---part of the trappings of power. I agree.
Every American should read this book and learn. Learn that neither party has the honesty market cornered. Nope, you can't even say that one party is a little better than the other party. The lies both parties have told us have cost thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars in treasure. From Johnson to Obama, we haven't had a truly honest man in the White House.
We're not talking about little lies either. Big stuff.
Please give this book a listen. Then buy a few copies of the print version and give them as gifts---or curses. It's pretty rough to face the myths we believe in.
"Excellent and Informative"
This book made my annual Bloomsday read of Ulysses even more meaningful. I gained new insight into Joyce and the struggle to get the greatest novel written published.
This book gives a lot more detail about the struggle with health that Joyce went through. Most biographies somewhat gloss over the health problems and especially the root cause of his eye problems: syphilis. The book makes me wonder about his daughter's madness. Certainly Joyce's wife contracted the disease and likely passed it to the children since both were born prior to the development of antibiotics. Was Lucia's madness a result of syphilis?
This is well presented though the pronunciation at times seems dicey. I swear the reader mispronounces the name of the very book, Ulysses, for the first 2/3rds of the book. Then, almost as though someone catches it, he starts pronouncing it correctly.
What do you think? Am I hearing it wrong?
Anyway, I highly recommend this book if you're a Joyce fan.
"Dull as Waiting for Water to Boil"
While there are a few interesting things in this book and it is well read; it's pretty dull. I love science and particularly the science of household things, common stuff. But this is just too much kitchen chemistry. I believe this is a second volume? It feels like a lot of left over material or an attempt to find some more material after writing a successful book.
I just didn't like it. That doesn't mean you won't. It is, as stated above, well read. That goes a long way with audio books.
"Disappointing and Borderline Offensive"
I have a policy on book reviews that I write. If I really dislike a book, I ponder why for a couple days before writing the review. Sometimes the dislike comes from an author's ability to evoke anger or disgust and that deserves high marks in spite of my 'feelings'. This book is disturbing but for the wrong reasons.
I liked PI. I wanted to like this book.
By the end I was disgusted by the shameless use of one history's great atrocities to sell a book. It doesn't work. The concept doesn't work. The story telling doesn't work. The manipulation of our feelings doesn't work in spite of killing off the family dog. The story's ending is contrived.
The only redeeming part of the book are the games at the end. They are, in the context of the holocaust, poignant.
The remaining 99.9% of the book falls under the emperor's new clothes category. If a reader thinks they see some great depth in this book, it's probably a result of wanting it to be there. I did. It wasn't. Skip it.
They say an author's first book comes from direct experience. An author might squeak through a second book with what she has left. The third book is the separator. That hopefully is not the case but it sure looks that way from here.
"Very Good Look at the History We Were Not Taught"
I am convinced from reading several history books about Russia lately that without the Soviet Union, Hitler may have been more successful. He would not have won, but had Hitler maintained the alliance rather than violate it, the world would be a different place today.
The siege of Leningrad was a horribly grim piece of history. The Soviet Union gave the city virtually no support. The city was on its own. Food ran out. Hundreds of thousands died. No wonder the Russian people are so tough. They had nearly a century of oppressive rule after their centuries of oppressive rule. They beat Napoleon and Hitler but not their own leaders and system.
The book is a little choppy to follow. But, unlike the Rape of Nanking, it is not so grossly graphic that you cannot bear to listen to it.
I highly recommend this book. Well done on all fronts.
"Put This Off"
This isn't worth the time. I found it unhelpful. Was hoping to find some solace for clients who wrestle with procrastination. Didn't find any.
I did find a few statements disturbing. Being late in submitting an article the author informs us that 'everyone is months late' on article submissions. I see this as a failure to honor commitments. Sure, maybe it's true that authors are always late. But shouldn't we keep our deadlines that we agree to? I just don't go with the philosophy that it's okay to do things your way when other people are involved. I tire of waiting for things that people promise me. Sure, there are times when we get behind. That's time to step up and own up, no time to adopt a 'me centric' attitude that you can just wait.
To me, there is a distinction between raking the leaves and doing a work project on time. One doesn't really matter, the other is a commitment to a person. So put off reading this but do get that report in on time.
I'm sure the author is a good guy. You can deduct that from the writing. But I also find working with people who justify bad habits to be annoying in the long run.
Save your credits. Better to focus on getting better than accepting a bad habit.
"Spoiler Alert! DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW"
Okay, people who read my reviews on Amazon know what's coming. I hate "true stories" or historical pieces that are not TRUE.
I was enjoying this listen very much though at times it gets a little 'made up' sounding. Almost like the writer is sort of winging it. So, about 3/4ths through, I start doing some research only to discover the whole thing is a fabrication. It's a lie. Well, so what if it's a good story? That can be up to you. For me, it confirmed what I was sensing in the writing. This guy just wasn't there.
From then on, it was very hard to listen to the story knowing it was all a fake. Then I hit the chapter on their encounter with the abominable snow man. Okay, that was just over the top nonsense.
It is a fun listen if you don't care or don't know it's a complete fake.
I am being generous with the stars. I do not care much for John Lee. Everyone sounds like Dracula regardless of accent. He's better than many, however.
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I have had a very hit-and-miss experience with Greenberg's courses. His opera appreciation course is excellent. His Wagner course abysmal. This course is very good and packed with exactly what I want from a course like this.
I have listened to and seen live performances of Shostakovich's music but never much cared for his modernist style. His music seemed confused and convoluted to me. Of course, discordance was all the rage after the turn of the century so I have for years just taken Shostakovich as "not for me".
This set of lectures does what great teaching ought to do. It opened my mind to a new experience and instilled an enthusiasm to go deeper. That's what I like about the really great courses. They encourage me to go well beyond what is presented.
Dr. Greenberg perfectly balances biography with explanation of the music through stories and music samples. What opened the door for me was knowing what was happening in the composer's life blended with a taste of the music he wrote during that time and completed with some analysis of the music itself. I could see, for the first time, how wonderful and terrible that discordance was that I previously hated. By terrible, I mean the horror that the "circus" sound was expressing.
I actually raced through this course in a week all the while spending like the proverbial drunken sailor. This is fantastic, I must have the MP3 now! And I'll need a CD version as well. Wow! I must hear the rest of this. I want more of that. I bought DVDs of the operas, MP3s and CDs of the symphonies and the quartets, CDs of the piano pieces and the cello concerto. Amazon is very pleased that I took this course.
The new understanding made the music so enjoyable I just had to have some complete piece IMMEDIATELY. That's good teaching.
I do have some criticism of the course. Before I criticize, I want to say again that I absolutely hated Greenberg's Wagner course. That course is packed with awful puns and bad jokes. It's a slap-schtick production. In this course, the corn is scaled back considerably. Greenberg would do well to eliminate his humor completely but at least in this course his poor puns do not detract too much from the course.
His pace is at times manic. He literally talks like someone coked up. It's beyond enthusiasm; it's just too fast.
The other thing I find grating is the pompous use of the words "please" and "we". "Please! We quote,....." Is Greenberg glad to have us listen or is that a composer in his pocket? We wonder. Amusingly, he starts the entire series with an anecdote about someone complaining about the anti-Stalinist content of one of his lectures. The critic says something about others in the audience having the same reaction. Greenberg goes on to say that he immediately dismisses anyone who makes assertions referring to those "others agree with me too" people.
He might benefit from listening to some of that criticism. The pompous use of "we" is annoying. Preceding points or quotes with "Please!" is an affectation that I accept as just a bit of artistic flamboyance. Interestingly, about half way, Greenberg simply starts quotes with, "I quote" and it comes off better than when he later reverts back to royal "we".
Fewer jokes and a scaling back of the pompous presentation and the course would be perfect. As is, it is still a 5 star, highly recommended course.
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I wasn't impressed with this lecture series but wonder if the method of delivery might have something to do with it.
My Great Courses library contains over 25 DVD courses and they are mostly in the 90% percentile for excellence. To date I have purchased three courses on the audio format and have not been impressed with any of them. I'm not sure if it is because the audio format fails against the full video courses or if I have simply chosen courses that do not come across well in audio alone.
For example, Greenberg's Wagner course is awful. He is constantly detracting from the material with sophomoric jokes. Without the silliness, the course would be excellent. Can't blame audio for that. I also purchased the Divine Comedy course. It's like a radio program with two panelists supporting each others position. That's right Bob, Dante based his work on the Bible! Sure Dave, and he used the style of the time.
I find it a bit annoying but haven't passed judgement yet.
This course didn't appeal to me at all. I do like professor Wolfson and greatly enjoy the video series, "Physics in You Life". In this course, he speaks way too fast. I had hoped to gain some scientific insight into climate change but there really is not any new material here. Essentially it amounts to telling us the earth is getting warmer, the warming is caused by carbon and man is at the heart of the problem.
If you already understand that, save the credit.
I wanted to understand the arguments that go like this: The earth has been warmer in the past, well before man, why? How did it cool? Why was the temperature so much higher 200 million years ago? Yes, there was a mini ice age 400 years ago, why? I know these questions do not have definitive answers but I had hoped for some science on those questions.
Also, I believe Wolfson is too definite on his outlook for the future. Carbon content goes up, temperature will rise by this range. He mentions that the earth my have trigger points which could cause climate to change in an opposite direction and then dismisses that in a sentence. I'm not so sure.
The earth is a lot more complex than Venus which is always used for comparison. I don't think we can say with certainty that a temperature increase here will not cause a reaction leading to a decrease in temperature there. For example, if warming causes the heat conveyor of the Atlantic to stop delivering warmth to England, then Europe could plunge into a deep cold period. It is not clear if this is possible but the oceans distribute heat---altering currents can change climate.
Okay, this isn't about my theories. The course is rather basic and might be better in video format.
If you are completely new to the subject, give it a go. If you already have some background, you can probably skip this without missing anything.
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A local mom was horrified after finding out her daughter had been posting nude pictures of herself with a new app that made it easy.A metro Detroit mother discovered something in her daughter's room Monday night, something that made her feel like she did not know her second oldest child at all."I felt sick. I felt really sick. I couldn't believe that my teen would do that. I expected more from her," said the mother from Westland, whose name we're leaving out of this story.Mom was suspicious when "she like hid her iPod, like put it towards her chest."Mom grabbed it, started searching around and when she clicked on a social networking app called Kik, "What do you see? A bunch of nude pictures of random people, grown men on there."Her daughter was messaging these men from her smart phone."Sexual things like what they want to do to each other, and they were showing their private parts. They were saying do you want to have sex and everything else to her," The mother of six was shocked and appalled and confronted her 15-year-old, reminded her of all the dangers like people who may have cruel and criminal intentions towards kids."Not only that, it will ruin your life."You really cannot be sure who is on the other end of that device. On top of that, nothing prevents the recipient from saving, storing and sharing something you send that you are hoping they keep secret."So she had pictures of herself on this?""In the shower, everything.""They see on the news all the time that children get abducted. They meet strangers from the Internet, and obviously they don't care. They just keep doing it and doing it and doing it. So us as parents, we got to be strong and make it to where they can't do it. That's the only way it's going to change is us."Those who use Kik are supposed to agree not to use Kik Messenger to upload, distribute or otherwise use any user content that is vulgar, obscene or offensive or that contains pornography, nudity or that is harmful to minors in any way. However, this mom says the real responsibility should be placed on parents."We're just basically asking for trouble when we give our children that stuff, and I'm one of those moms that just say okay you want an iphone or an ipod, you give it to them, but not knowing the dangers of all the apps and everything else that are on those things that can jeopardize their lives."The app claims you must be 17 to enter, but her daughter got in and she is 15. So this mom's message is simple."She will never ever have an iPod again," said the mom. "She's going to live a regular, normal teen life with no devices, and that's the way it is."Just so we are clear, this parent is not saying that Kik is a horrible site, but there are some people doing some horrible things on it. She just thinks parents should check and see what their kids are up to. She did and she's glad.
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The critical negotiations over a way to avoid the fiscal cliff are fast turning into a game of chicken.
Shedding his optimistic disposition, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, summoned reporters Thursday afternoon to declare it was time that President Obama and the Democrats revealed how they intended to cut spending and slow the rate of growth of Medicare and other costly entitlements as part of a Grand Bargain of deficit reduction. "I've got to tell you, I'm disappointed in where we are and what has happened in the last couple of weeks," Boehner said.
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ntil Federal ReserveBoard Chairman Ben Bernanke raised concern about it in a speech last week to the Economic Club of New York, the fact that the Treasury will once again hit the debt ceiling in a few months has received scant attention from Congress, the White House and the financial markets.
A little more than a year ago, Washington was caught up in a suspenseful political drama as President Obama and House and Senate Republican leaders fought over the terms of raising the national debt limit to avoid the Treasury's first default on borrowing in U.S. history. Republican House Speaker John Boehner insisted that any increase in borrowing authority be matched dollar for dollar with cuts in spending. But today, with all eyes on the looming fiscal cliff, the soon-to-be-expiring $16.4 trillion debt ceiling has become a relative after thought compared to the fears of the effects of year end spending cuts and tax increases.
State and local officials in the U.S. heartland are steeling themselves for the possibility of a major loss of tax revenue, federal aid and grants next year.
In a recent call with reporters, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa signaled he was willing to let the country topple over the fiscal cliff unless President Obama and Congress strike a deal to force wealthy Americans to pay more in taxes and that protects Medicare and Medicaid from deep cuts.
"No deal is better than a bad deal, because things will change after Jan. 1, the positions will change," Harkin explained. "Quite frankly, if we don't get a good deal, we'll just take it up in January or February."
Economists are increasingly worried about the possible psychological scars caused by the fiscal cliff, not just the cash flow issues that Democrats and Republicans must reconcile before the start of next year.
Paging Dr. Freud! The fiscal cliff has the country in need of some serious therapy—and maybe a Xanax or two.
Many economists are warning about the possible psychological scars left by the cliff, not the relatively straightforward cash flow issues that Democrats and Republicans must reconcile before the start of next year.
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Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers what known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), shows that roughly 1 in 4 people eligible to receive the benefits don't get them. The reasons why vary. According to the Food Action and Research Center, many people may not know that their eligible while others don't bother to participate because applying for benefits is a gigantic hassle.
Breaking up big banks is an untested solution to the too big to fail problem that attempts to isolate and dismantle large, troubled institutions while protecting the rest of the economy.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley say in a recent speech that solving the too big to fail problem may require breaking up big banks. He is in favor of trying the resolution authority granted in the Dodd-Frank legislation first, but this is an untested solution to the too big to fail problem that attempts to isolate and dismantle large, troubled institutions while protecting the rest of the economy.
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The five potential steps outlined below to blunt the impact of the fiscal cliff are a mixed proposition for Obama.
Even if the "do nothing Congress" lives up to its reputation and doesn't come up with a deal, President Obama could still soften the economic blow of the fiscal cliff.
That might seem surprising for all the dire warnings being issued by lawmakers about the pending devastation from the combined $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts that are scheduled to hit at the start of 2013.
Following his first news conference since the election, President Obama met with a dozen CEOs on Wednesday afternoon to signal a new start with a group that has viewed his administration as hostile to the business community.
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The outreach effort comes as the Obama administration prepares for negotiations with Congressional Republicans aimed at avoiding the more than $600 billion worth of spending cuts and tax increases set to take effect in 2013 – and the business leaders gathered at the White House reportedly made clear to the president that steering clear of that fiscal cliff would be crucial if he wants to win the support of the business community.
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WhenNovember 30 - January 5
In Advance:
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At the Gate: Starting at 5:30 p.m.
November 30 - December 19
- Adults (13+): $10
- Children (3-12): $5
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Buses are boarded via stairs and are not wheelchair accessible. Accessible parking is available at the Aquarium/Garden lot.
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Dinner at the Shark Reef Cafe
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In 1997, River of Lights began as a fundraiser for the BioPark. Today, proceeds continue to support a variety of ABQ BioPark projects through the New Mexico BioPark Society.
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13 Terrors: haunted houseSitting feet away from the water of Lake Michigan, 13 Terrors: haunted house, takes place in what used to be a sanitarium and today is known as Theater on the Lake. Terror reigns at the eerie Theater on the Lake, as visitors are greeted by ghostly goblins, confronted by evil clowns, and crazed creatures. Visitors will get turned around in the mirror maze and get off balance in the spinning vortex.
This is the 3rd year of 13 Terrors. Last year more than 6,700 patrons visited the event. 13 Terrors is produced by the same creative team that put together Trail of Terror at Peterson Park for 12 years prior to this event.
Free parking is available at Diversey Harbor lot - located north of Fullerton on Cannon.
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13 terrors runs for 2-weekends October 18-20 and October 24-26.
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Address complex natural resource and climate change adaptation issues, with a focus on increasing resiliency in the face of drought and other external shocks.
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Poverty is widespread. Frequent drought, unpredictable harvests and sporadic conflicts put families and rural traditions at risk. Millions are still in urgent need of assistance after the worst drought the region has seen for 60 years.
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Ethiopia: A mother's appeal October 17, 2011
We're outside the Mercy Corps office in Gashamo, Ethiopia – a bone-crunching nine hour drive from Jijiga, the regional capital. It's early in the morning, and the noisy generator is cranking out its last few minutes of power before we shut it down for the day.
Ethiopia: Despite rains, drought is far from over October 14, 2011
On the road halfway between Gashamo and Jijiga, we spent the night with a local family. As we sat and talked on the front stoop, the evening was pleasant, the full moon bright. Then in a matter of an hour or so, I watched the clouds roll in and the stars wink out.
Ethiopia: 'You gave my baby a second life' October 12, 2011
When Istohil Sheik Ahmed Abdi brought her 9-month-old son Sahane to the Mercy Corps mobile clinic in her area, she hoped to learn why he was so weak. The baby cried constantly, was vomiting and refused to nurse. He had a high fever.
Ethiopia: When no tears come October 12, 2011
There was already a crowd at the mobile health site when we arrived. The veranda was a colorful swirl of fabric. Most of the women had a bulge at their side, belly or back that turned out, when unwrapped, to be a baby.
Ethiopia: Bigger harvests, safer food October 10, 2011
I'm writing from under my mosquito net in Jijiga, Ethiopia. If you don't know where that is, don't feel bad. I didn't either. I looked it up before I left home, of course, but Google maps only showed a big empty expanse that I suppose is meant to indicate sand.
Ethiopia: A sense of pride September 14, 2011
We were recently asked to create a large-scale permanent photography collection for the gallery attached to our Portland Action Center. This image by Thatcher Cook was one of the selections.
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya: Water delivery starts in Mogadishu September 2, 2011
Although the crisis in Africa's Horn has fallen off the front pages, the situation "continues to deteriorate," according to the latest UN report. Cholera, measles and malaria are on the rise. Food prices have shot up, livestock are withering, and water is scarce.
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya: The purple dots represent hope August 25, 2011
Ethiopia: Helping more than 647,000 Ethiopians survive drought August 23, 2011
Our emergency response efforts in Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali Regions — two of the areas hit hardest by the region's worst drought in 60 years — continue to expand. We're now reaching 647,005 people, about 22,000 more than reported in our last update from Ethiopia.
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia: Horn of Africa disaster didn't happen overnight August 23, 2011
Photos and stories from the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa — a region that includes Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia — have brought to light suffering on an almost unimaginable scale.


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May 11, 2012 | By Cassie Conklin
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If last year was the end of the Centennial Era for IMS, then this year is the beginning of a new one. Last year's Indianapolis 500 wasn't the closing of a chapter; it was the opening of the next. From 1911 and Ray Harroun to the incredible finish between Dan Wheldon and J.R. Hildebrand in 2011 – this race course has held true to "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing". As the 96th running of the 500 mile race grows closer, I can't help but wonder what historical moments are in store.
I could begin to rattle off a list of the historical moments this race track has given us, but you and I both know that would take 100 years (pun intended). What's important is that those events happened, and they will live inside this oval forever. It will continue to make IMS one of the greatest places on Earth.
But this month of May marks the beginning of the next 100 years, and who knows what's to come. Will Helio join the elite group of 4-time winners? Will a woman win the Indy 500 for the first time? There is still a lot of history to be made. And whether you're in the viewing mounds or E Penthouse, you're about to be a part of it. How cool is that?
So it all begins now with this track, these drivers, and these fans. We are all about to be the beginning of something incredible. There will come a time when people talk about the Indianapolis 500 and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by saying things like "back in the days of Helio Castroneves", "back in the days of Dario Franchitti" or "back in the days of Dave Calabro". It will happen and you will be a part of that. You'll be a part of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500 and all the history that lies here. Forever.
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Some retail stores are tracking you while you shop.
From dollar stores to Nordstrom, retailers have experimented with tracing shoppers' cell phones to find out what departments they visit.
The stores say they could use the info to change store layouts or give shoppers personalized coupons, similar to how online retailers use pop-ups.
If you shopped at Nordstrom Rack on State Street and Washington recently you may or may not have noticed a sign telling customers that they were being tracked. Last September, Nordstrom tested new technology through May of this year, tracking customers' movements through their cell phones' Wi-Fi signals.
"I think that's kinda creepy," says Andrew Nguyen. "They shouldn't be doing that. It's an invasion of privacy."
"It makes me feel scared," Adriana Munoz agrees. "They can see my every move."
Nordstrom is just one of dozens of national brick-and-mortar retailers like Family Dollar and Cabela's trying to track how people shop, the way online retailers can with cookies. They're testing out the use of video surveillance and cell phone signals to watch and gather data about how long it takes someone to buy an item and other shopping behaviors.
"It makes me not want to go into the store," Chicago resident Tina Mitchell comments. "I'd rather deal with an Amazon. At least I know I'm putting my information out there, not taking info without me knowing they have it."
In a statement Nordstrom, the data collection company says, "Euclid provided Nordstrom with anonymous, aggregate reports that gave us a better sense of customer foot traffic. Using this type of technology is another way for us to find opportunities to improve the service we offer customers. "
Chicago Kent College of Law Professor Lori Andrews says data collection companies have been gathering information about you for years. It's is now a multi-billion dollar industry.
"There are now companies called data aggregators," she explains. "One of them has 1600 bits of information on 96% of Americans -- what you bought, where."
While the new technology can mean customized coupons for shoppers, Andrews says all this data can be used against you.
So is this an invasion of privacy? Professor Andrews says this technology that is being tested in stores might be able to be challenged on privacy grounds, though some stores try to get away with it by putting up a sign that serves as an implicit consent.
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State arrest warrant issued for marathon suspect
WOBURN, Mass. — A Massachusetts court issued an arrest warrant Monday for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as prosecutors sought to preserve their right to try him on state charges in the killing of a police officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tsarnaev, 20, remains in custody after pleading not guilty to 30 federal charges stemming from the April 15 explosions, which killed three people and injured more than 260.
State prosecutors sought a default warrant – a type of arrest warrant – because U.S. marshals have said they won't bring Tsarnaev to state court until his federal case concludes.
A magistrate issued the warrant the day Tsarnaev was scheduled to be arraigned on state charges. The step was largely procedural to preserve the state's right to try him in the death of MIT officer Sean Collier and charges stemming from a shootout with Watertown police as he allegedly tried to escape.
Federal prosecutors said Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, built two pressure cooker bombs and placed them near the finish line of the marathon. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died following the shootout with police four days after the bombings.
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Collier was shot and killed hours after the FBI released photos and video of the Tsarnaev brothers as suspects in the bombing.


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Free-to-play Gun Bros unleashes $500 Kraken
Glu, the developer behind the free-to-play multiplayer iOS title Gun Bros, has just given frightening new meaning to the mythological exclamation: "Unleash the Kraken!" The Kraken, in this case, is the name of the most powerful weapon in the game. Part missile-launcher and part laser-cannon, the Kraken lays waste to anything in its path. The catch? Purchasing the damn thing could cost
suckers gamers up to $500-worth of real money.
For the uninitiated, Gun Bros is a top-down, twin-stick shooter featuring asynchronous co-op, and a recently added real-time multiplayer mode that supports WiFi and 3G. The game's hooks include daily challenges and dizzying amounts of upgrades to unlock.
As with many free-to-play titles, Gun Bros features in-game currency--called "war bucks," in this case--which can be accrued by either participating with Glu's advertising partners (like watching ads, or signing up for Netflix), or purchased with hard-earned real-world cash. Spending cash gives quicker access to items, but players with enough time and patience can get access to the same content without spending a dime. In other words, it's a fairly standard free-to-play business model.
Something that's anything but standard though, is the Kraken's price. As you can see, the Kraken (shown below) costs 3,499 "war bucks." The largest purchasable pack of "war bucks" from the Gun Bros in-game store is the "710 war buck pack," which means that someone would need buy five of said packs to meet the Kraken's 3,499 war buck price tag. The shocking part is that the "710 war buck packs" cost $99 each. Yes, you're reading that correctly: Five hundred dollars for a virtual gun. Adding a bit of insult to injury, mobile gaming site TouchArcade notes that the price of the Kraken was actually raised from its initial 1,400 "war buck" price (which still amounted to about $200 of real-world cash).
Now, I've never played Gun Bros, so I can't really comment on its overall quality or fun-factor. However, as much as I love video games, I can't imagine spending anywhere near that much real money on an in-game item. As ultimately silly as the initiative may seem, it's also hard to knock Glu for its attempt to prey on rich idiots. They're a business, trying to make a buck.
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After disclosing one of the largest credit card security hacks in history, Target is now finding itself the target of multiple lawsuits.
At the same time, customers of the giant retailer are flooding phone lines, trying to figure out whether they are victims.
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At least 11 customers from across the United States have now filed lawsuits against Target over the massive security breach that exposed the credit card information of 40 million accounts.
Shoppers at the Target store in the South Loop say they've been taking steps to protect themselves since news broke last week about the stolen credit card information.
"I monitor my card on a daily basis and if I see anything unusual, I'll just get in contact with my bank," Target shopper Janee Johnson says.
"I just came from the bank to make sure my balance was okay and nothing was taken out of my account," Deja Nae tells FOX 32 about taking action.
But in addition to consulting their banks, some Target shoppers are consulting their attorney. Already, 11 lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages have been filed in a half dozen states across the country, including Illinois.
"These are going to be class action lawsuits," attorney Karen Conti says. "There are so many people involved that the way the law usually handles these types of cases is that one lawsuit usually gets brought together."
Chicago attorney Karen Conti, who is not involved in the Target litigation, says lawyers will be looking at whether Target bears any responsibility for the security breach.
"Did target make a mistake by not having the right software, the right computers to prevent this kind of fraud?" Conti asks.
The thieves managed to steal the information by installing malware on checkout credit card readers at some 1,800 stores.
Security researchers say some of the stolen credit card numbers have turned up on underground markets.
Major U.S. banks have moved to limit damages by putting spending limits on credit and debit cards used at Target stores between November 27th and December 15th.
Roberta Goering says Chase Bank put a $300 limit on her husband's card.
"Of course it is [a hassle]," shopper Roberta Goering says. "But you know Target is not the only place that's had security breaches. It's a big one. It's a horrible time of year, cause everybody's buying things they don't normally buy."
"I suspect that as a result of this class action lawsuit, we're going to find that retailers are going to be much more careful in their software and computers in preventing this kind of fraud," Conti adds. "And that's a good thing."
The security breach is also putting the squeeze on Target's profit margins. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the retailer saw sales drop by three or four percent this past weekend compared to a year ago. That's despite a ten percent discount on all purchases in U.S. stores over the weekend as something of a mea culpa to its customers.
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