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Doctor, treat thyself .. or at least the hospital please
Subject: General Tech | June 29, 2016 - 01:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: hospital, security, winxp, Malware
For the past few years we have heard about some rather horrific security vulnerabilities in hospitals and sadly this has not changed at all. Indeed many hospitals are still on older, unsupported OSes such as WinXP that most security software no longer protects against the malware which was used. In one case a hospital using centralised intrusion detection software, updated endpoint protection, and new model firewall was still compromised using very old malware. In most of the cases described by The Register it was personal data and medical records which were compromised but that doesn't mean the medical appliances and physical security systems are not also vulnerable to attack.
"Attackers have popped three prominent US hospitals, using deliberately ancient malware so old that it slips under the radar of modern security controls to compromise Windows XP boxes and gain network beacheads."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Never-never chip tech Memristor shuffles closer to death row @ The Register
- Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets' @ Slashdot
- A month to go and Microsoft finally offers a 'no thanks' option for Windows 10 @ The Inquirer
- 5 SSH Hardening Tips @ Linux.com
- Corsair Lapdog - Gaming without a Desk @ [H]ard|OCP
- Play Store malware roots phones, installs an app every two minutes @ The Register
- Reverse Engineering Quadcopter Protocols @ Hack a Day
PCPer Live! Radeon RX 480 Live Stream with Raja Koduri!
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | June 29, 2016 - 12:03 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, rx 480, raja koduri, radeon, Polaris, live, giveaway, amd
When it comes to GPU releases, we at PC Perspective take things up a level in the kind of content we produce as well as the amount of information we provide to the community. Part of that commitment is our drive to bring in the very best people from around the industry to talk directly to the consumers, providing interesting and honest views on where their technology is going.
With the pending release of the Radeon RX 480 based on AMD's latest Polaris architecture on Wednesday, June 29th, I am excited to announce that Raja Koduri, SVP and Chief Architect of the Radeon Technologies Group will be joining us in studio to talk about the RX 480 and AMD's plans moving forward.
The AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card
There is much to discuss. AMD and the RTG have promised that the RX 480 will be a revolutionary product, improving on performance per watt and performance per dollar in a way that no other AMD architecture has done. And the drive to include dramatically more gamers in the rising world of VR gaming will be an impressive feat as well, if they can pull it off. Topics like architectural improvements, asynchronous compute, multi-GPU and more are on the docket. You definitely won't want to miss it.
Radeon RX 480 Live Stream with Raja Koduri and Ryan Shrout
10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET - June 29th
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The event will take place Wednesday, June 29th at 1:30pm ET / 10:30am PT at http://www.pcper.com/live. There you'll be able to catch the live video stream as well as use our chat room to interact with the audience, asking questions for me and Raja to answer live.
Raja is one of the more open and honest people in this highly competitive landscape and every time we have had the ability to do an interview he has provided insightful, and sometimes very new, information.
As a price for hosting AMD in the offices, we demanded a sacrifice: in the form of hardware to giveaway to our viewers! We'll have at least two Radeon RX 480s to giveaway during the live stream but I am pushing to get a bump in that count; we'll see if I am persuasive enough. All you have to do to win on the 29th is watch the live stream!
Some Radeon RX 480s will be up for grabs!!
If you have questions, please leave them in the comments below and we'll look through them just before the start of the live stream. Of course you'll be able to tweet us questions @pcper and we'll be keeping an eye on the IRC chat as well for more inquiries. What do you want to know and hear from Raja or me?
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AMD Lists Radeon RX 490 Graphics Card, New APUs in Gaming Promo
Subject: Graphics Cards, Processors | June 29, 2016 - 07:27 AM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: RX 490, radeon, processors, Polaris, graphics card, Bristol Ridge, APU, amd, A12-9800
AMD's current "We're in the Game" promotion offers a glimpse at upcoming product names, including the Radeon RX 490 graphics card, and the new Bristol Ridge APUs.
Visit AMD's gaming promo page and click the link to "check eligibility" to see the following list of products, which includes the new product names:
It seems safe to assume that the new products listed - including the Radeon RX 490 - are close to release, though details on the high-end Polaris GPU are not mentioned. We do have details on the upcoming Bristol Ridge products, with this in-depth preview from Josh published back in April. The A12-9800 and A12-9800E are said to be the flagship products in this new 7th-gen lineup, so there will be new desktop parts with improved graphics soon.
Windows 10 Upgrade Prompt Changes This Week
Subject: General Tech | June 28, 2016 - 07:52 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: windows 10, microsoft
Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet is reporting that the "Get Windows 10" window will be redesigned to make it easier to reject. The option will now have the button "Upgrade now" right beside two obvious link inputs, "Choose time" and "Decline free offer". The close button will also dismiss the notification without accepting it.
Image Credit: ZDNet
Of course, this is what they should have done a year ago, and it probably doesn't matter by now. At this point, I'm not sure how many people who need this change are still fighting Get Windows 10. Most have probably been tricked into upgrading, or have already figured out the direct way to disable it. I tend to encourage companies when they do the right thing, but this just seems too late to even approach its intended effect.
Also, this change occurred a few days after Microsoft decided to not appeal a lawsuit, brought about a woman whose business, a travel agency, suffered downtime related to the OS update. Windows 10 apparently did not work well with her system, causing it to slow down and crash. She won $10,000 in damages. Personally, I know how much Windows 10 can mess up certain devices. While I run Windows 10 on my production machine, and prefer it over Windows 7, a family member's laptop would turn its display's backlight off when brightness is set to 100% (which was default when plugged in). To a general PC user, that would look like Windows 10 upped and killed the device. Worse, rolling back to Windows 8.1 wasn't a sign to stop trying to update -- it wanted to put Windows 10 right back on it!
So yeah, Microsoft is doing the right thing... after about a year.
Cherry's MX RGB Speed swiches in the wild, the Corsair K70 RGB Rapidfire
Subject: General Tech | June 28, 2016 - 04:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: input, RapidFire, K70 RGB, corsair, Cherry MX Speed, cherry
We heard about the new Rapidfire switches from Cherry back in April and today we get a glimpse at how they perform. The Tech Report tested out this rather expensive keyboard and noticed an immediate difference from the Cherry switches they used previously. In fact the reviewer even had issues with accidental keypresses while typing when they first started using the Rapidfire; after some usage that was no longer and issue. That sensitivity translated into gaming well, they rather enjoyed the responsiveness in Overwatch and Battleborn. The board is $170 on Amazon though if you can live without the RGB lighting you can pick up the red model for a mere $130.
"Corsair's K70 RGB Rapidfire is the first keyboard on the market with Cherry's MX Speed switches, a new type of clicker that offers shorter travel and a higher actuation point than the wildly popular MX Red. We got these switches under our fingers to see whether they make a real difference in the heat of battle."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Bloody B188 Light Strike @ Benchmark Reviews
- Cherry MX-Board 3.0 @ Kitguru
- COUGAR ATTACK X3 @ techPowerUp
- Thermaltake Poseidon Z RGB @ Modders-Inc
- XSOUL XM8 Predator @ Modders-Inc
Cooler Master MasterBox 5, Canada Model because that makes it cooler
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 28, 2016 - 01:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: cooler master, MasterBox 5
The Cooler Master MasterBox 5 is not a small case, at 450x220x440mm it will fit up to eATX motherboards, radiators of up to 280mm on the front, or 360mm with an adapter. The lower price point means that there is a lack of grommets, however the empty spaces in the backplate allow you a lot of flexibility for cable management and watercooling paths. The size will also allow you to install any GPU or CPU cooler on the market, not to mention making installation of your system easier. You can see Modders Inc's full review here.
"Cooler Master's current chassis line prioritize function and its design aim is to provide users with the flexibility to make any system they want inside. As part of Cooler Master's massive streamlining process beginning from last year, the simplified look is a distillation of what a Cooler Master case is at its core."
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Cooler Master MasterCase Maker 5 @ Kitguru
- Thermaltake CORE P5 Open Air Mid Tower Case @ Modders-Inc
- Raidmax Narwhal Midi Tower Review @ NikKTech
- Alphacool Eisbaer 240 @ techPowerUp
NVMe testing, torturing both the drives and the reviewer
Subject: General Tech | June 28, 2016 - 12:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: NVMe, 9100, micron
Testing out twelve 9100 NVMe flash drives is not easy as it requires some interesting configurations to make the testing worth while, sticking them all in a box and running ATTO is not going to create valuable information. Those custom configurations revealed some interesting limitations, such as Windows' RAID having an upper limit of 385K IOPS and the Linux flavours tested topped out at 400K IOPS.
Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 turned out to be more stable than Server 2012 R2; somehow using Resource Monitor managed to crash hard enough to break the Server install in one case. 2016 also had that upper IOPS limit which was far below the drives actual capabilities. Drop by The Inquirer for look at the work which was done to set up for testing as well as the results.
"I have spent the past TWO months testing these cards, the past month of which has involved truly tormenting them. I've learned a lot of things. There's the basic "NVMe is faster" that you can get from reading about the theory behind the drives, but there have also been a lot of little practical tidbits that you only get to find out when you run face first into problems."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Lawyer bot has overturned 160,000 parking offences and counting @ The Inquirer
- Office 365 corporate users targeted with zero-day ransomware attack @ The Inquirer
- Now Intel swings axe at sales, marketing peeps @ The Register
- Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam @ Slashdot
- 25,000 malware-riddled CCTV cameras form network-crashing botnet @ The Register
- Microsoft launches Net Core 1.0 for Linux, OS X and Windows @ The Inquirer
- AMD, Nvidia next-generation graphics card competition to begin earlier @ DigiTimes
- US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names @ The Inquirer
Report: Image of Reference Design NVIDIA GTX 1060 Leaked
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 28, 2016 - 10:26 AM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: nvidia, GeForce GTX 1060, GTX1060, rumor, report, leak, pascal, graphics card, video card
A report from VideoCardz.com shows what appears to be an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card with a cooler similar to the "Founders Edition" GTX 1080/1070 design.
Is this the GTX 1060 reference design? (Image via VideoCardz.com)
The image comes via Reddit (original source links in the VideoCardz post), and we cannot verify the validity of the image - though it certainly looks convincing to this writer.
So what does VideoCardz offer as to the specifications of this GTX 1060 card? Quoting from the post:
"NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 will most likely use GP106 GPU with at least 1280 CUDA cores. Earlier rumors suggested that GTX 1060 might get 6 GB GDDR5 memory and 192-bit memory bus."
We await official word on the GTX 1060 from NVIDIA, which VideoCardz surmises "is expected to hit the market shortly after Radeon RX 480".
Frame Time Monday; this time with the GTX 1080
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 27, 2016 - 04:55 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: pascal, nvidia, GTX 1080, gtx, GP104, geforce, founders edition
You have already seen our delve into the frame times provided by the GTX 1080 but perhaps you would like another opinion. The Tech Report also uses the FCAT process which we depend upon to bring you frame time data, however they present the data in a slightly different way which might help you to comprehend the data. They also included Crysis 3 to ensure that the card can indeed play it. Check out their full review here.
"Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 is the company's first consumer graphics card to feature its new Pascal architecture, fabricated on a next-generation 16-nm process. We dig deep into the GTX 1080 to see what the confluence of these advances means for the high-end graphics market."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming Review @HiTech Legion
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI @ techPowerUp
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Review: A Look At 1440p, 4K & Ultrawide Gaming @ Techgage
- Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix GTX 1070 Aura RGB OC @ Kitguru
- MSI Gaming 3 and 4-way SLI Bridge Connector Review @ OCC
- Radeon R9 380 vs. GeForce GTX 960 @ Hardware Secrets
The impact of your CPU on gaming, Intel's 6700K verus 6950X
Subject: Processors | June 27, 2016 - 02:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: dx12, 6700k, Intel, i7-6950X
[H]ard|OCP has been conducting tests using a variety of CPUs to see how well DX12 distributes load between cores as compared to DX11. Their final article which covers the 6700K and 6950X was done a little differently and so cannot be directly compared to the previously tested CPUs. That does not lower the value of the testing, scaling is still very obvious and the new tests were designed to highlight more common usage scenarios for gamers. Read on to see how well, or how poorly, Ashes of the Singularity scales when using DX12.
"This is our fourth and last installment of looking at the new DX12 API and how it works with a game such as Ashes of the Singularity. We have looked at how DX12 is better at distributing workloads across multiple CPU cores than DX11 in AotS when not GPU bound. This time we compare the latest Intel processors in GPU bound workloads."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- Intel Skylake Graphics: Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 + Latest Open-Source Driver Code @ Phoronix
- AMD Wraith Cooler Performance on FX-6350 Black Edition CPU @ Neoseeker
- Athlon X4 880K @ Hardware Secrets
- AMD Athlon X4 845 CPU Review @ OCC
Keep an eye out for big Toshiba NVMe drives
Subject: General Tech | June 27, 2016 - 12:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: NVMe, toshiba, ZD6000
Apeiron is a supplier of NVMe over fabric links for businesses and will be releasing products based on a Toshiba NVMe SSD, which was being kept quiet until now. You will not see these coming to a desktop near you but the announcement contains a very interesting tidbit. The two ZD6000 drives being sold are 1.6TB and 3.2TB in size. While that 3.2TB drive is attractive, Aperion suggests that there will be higher capacity drives released after these models, with The Register speculating on doubling, which would give us some impressively sized drives. The technology used to stack this memory will eventually spill over to the consumer side so you can expect capacities to continue to grow and for prices to steadily decline.
"Toshiba has quietly made 1.6TB and 3.2TB dual-port ZD6000 NVMe SSDs available to OEMs, and we know this because Apeiron says it has certified them."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Dev boss: What will Microsoft do with Windows 10 Mobile? Surprise – it's for work! @ The Register
- Technology shares slide with Brexit vote, except ARM @ The Regsiter
- Updategate: California woman awarded $10,000 for borked Windows 10 upgrade @ The Inquirer
- A ZFS developer's analysis of the good and bad in Apple's new APFS file system @ Ars Technica
- Asus PCE-AC88 Dual-Band AC3100 Desktop Wireless Adapter @ Kitguru
- Google's Gboard Keyboard @ Hardware Secrets
Oculus Backs Down on Hardware Check
Subject: Displays | June 25, 2016 - 02:23 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: valve, oculus rift, Oculus, htc vive
Facebook has disabled their software check that prevents Oculus Store games from running without an Oculus Rift being connected. Further, Motherboard has directly quoted an Oculus spokesperson as saying "We won't use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC in the future". This check prevented these games from running on the HTC Vive using the user-created tool, Revive, until the creator of Revive disabled the DRM in response.
Oculus will continue to develop their DRM itself, of course. They have also been approaching developers to make Oculus-exclusive content, and I expect that will continue. This is where we get into a little bit of a debate that has been brewing online. Some believe that, due to the size of the potential market, exclusivity could bring content to life that otherwise would not be viable. While that does have some merit to muse over, I cannot see how that would be any better (for society) than all the platform holders pitching in to an open incubation fund. This way, art will not locked away unless it absolutely requires a specific feature that some platforms cannot provide, and consumers will have a larger pool of content to justify the initial purchase.
That topic aside, Oculus has not pledged that they won't interfere with third-parties that want to support Oculus-exclusive titles on other headsets. A hardware check will not be involved, now or in the future, though.
Rumor: Intel Adds New Codecs with Kaby Lake-S iGPU
Subject: Processors | June 24, 2016 - 11:15 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, kaby lake, iGPU, h.265, hevc, vp8, vp9, codec, codecs
Fudzilla isn't really talking about their sources, so it's difficult to gauge how confident we should be, but they claim to have information about the video codecs supported by Kaby Lake's iGPU. This update is supposed to include hardware support for HDR video, the Rec.2020 color gamut, and HDCP 2.2, because, if videos are pirated prior to their release date, the solution is clearly to punish your paying customers with restrictive, compatibility-breaking technology. Time-traveling pirates are the worst.
According to their report, Kaby Lake-S will support VP8, VP9, HEVC 8b, and HEVC 10b, both encode and decode. However, they then go on to say that 10-bit VP9 and 10-bit HEVC 10b does not include hardware encoding. I'm not too knowledgeable about video codecs, but I don't know of any benefits to encoding 8-bit HEVC Main 10. Perhaps someone in our comments can clarify.
Steam Summer Sale Has Started!
Subject: General Tech | June 24, 2016 - 03:27 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: steam, sale, sales, steam sale, pc gaming
You probably already know this at this point, but the Steam Summer Sale has begun. The theme, this year, is Steam Summer Picnic Sale. As far as I can tell, it has no relevance other than it ends on July 4th. They do claim to have 12785 titles on sale, though, and filtering all on-sale software by Windows lists 12595 of them.
Some interesting deals include 40% off DOOM, 50% off Fallout 4, 35% off Rise of the Tomb Raider, and 50% off Just Cause 3. The Witcher 3 is also 50% off, although it was like that before the sale and its DLC are still basically full price if you want the both of them. If you're looking for older titles, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is 75% off, as is Civilization V and Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition. As always, have a browse if you are okay with tempting your credit card.
If not? ... ... Sorry.
Mushkin's Triactor, 480GB of TLC for ~$110
Subject: Storage | June 24, 2016 - 01:45 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Mushkin, Triactor, SM2256, tlc
At about $0.23/GB for the 480GB model it would be hard to find a less expensive SSD without waiting for a sale. There are those who will refuse the drive because of the use of 256Gbit TLC SanDisk flash and the Silicon Motion SM2256K controller but those on the lookout for bargains should pop by The SSD Review for a look at the full performance review. Apart from the expected poor performance with large constant write transfers this drive runs at a respectable pace when performing the common tasks you would require.
"We've tested quite a few TLC based SSDs as of late, will the Mushkin Triactor show up the competition? Or will it lag behind in all its TLC "glory?" So far all we can say is that it sure does look cool. Read on as we analyze the new Mushkin Triactor 480GB in today's review!"
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- OCZ RD400 PCIe NVMe SSD @ Benchmark Reviews
- Intel 535 Series 240GB SSD Review @ NikKTech
- WD My Cloud Expert Series EX2100 8TB NAS Server Review @ NikKTech
- Samsung Portable SSD T3 500GB USB 3.1 Gen 1 Drive Review @ NikKTech
You were to bring balance to the ads, not leave us in darkness HTML5
Subject: General Tech | June 24, 2016 - 12:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: VPAID, VAST, security, Malware, javascript, html5, flash
"A study from GeoEdge, an ad scanning vendor, reveals that Flash has been wrongly accused of being the root cause of today's malvertising campaigns, but in reality, switching to HTML5 ads won't safeguard users from attacks because the vulnerabilities are in the ad platforms and advertising standards themselves."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Revive revived: Oculus DRM push shattered as DIY devs strike back @ The Register
- AMD Radeon RX 480 Hands-On Preview @ TechARP
- Remote-code execution flaw identified in OpenAPI framework @ The Inquirer
- SoftIron Overdrive 1000 is a £400 64-bit ARM server for developers @ The Register
- Chrome Bug Makes It Easy To Download Movies From Netflix and Amazon Prime @ Slashdot
- BlackBerry's turnaround stalls @ The Register
- RFC gives route leaks names, to help netops explain why traffic goes missing @ The Register
- Malware Can Use Fan Noise To Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems @ Slashdot
3DMark Sale and a brand new DX12 benchmark, Time Spy
Subject: General Tech | June 23, 2016 - 06:37 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Futuremark. Time Spy, 3dmark
A new version of DirectX hitting the market means we need a new benchmark and once again Futuremark has delivered, with the Time Spy benchmark. Right now 3D Mark is 80% off on Steam and if you pick it up you will get access to the new Time Spy Basic benchmark when it is released.
Time Spy uses the new DirectX 12 API and supports new features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading. It will have reviewers digging out hardware they thought they had already tested to provide you with new benchmark data points that will apply to the currently available DX12 games as well as those which will be released.
This is also a great opportunity to pick up the full version of the benchmark for your own usage, even if you have yet to upgrade to DX12 hardware. You should check out the teaser trailer if you are familiar with past 3D Mark versions as you will see a few glimpses at benchmark screens that caused you mental raster burn in years past.
Check out the impressive work done for the Computex GIGABYTE Case Mod Show
Subject: General Tech | June 23, 2016 - 01:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: case mods, gigabyte, computex 2016
Gigabyte hosted a showcase of impressive case mods from all across the planet at Computex and TechARP posted a slideshow of the best of them. They are all quite incredible, going beyond basic modding to the creation of truly unique enclosures, from Gatling guns to Ghostbusters. It is a pity the forklift wasn't powered by a Steamroller or Bulldozer though. Check out the full slide show and videos of the cases here.
"The GIGABYTE case mod showcase featured incredible case mods by top case modders from around the world, including Maciel Barreto from Brazil and Suchao Prowphong from Thailand."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Intel Security: Connecting with strangers on LinkedIn puts firms at risk of phishing attacks @ The Inquirer
- Huawei Is Working On Its Own Mobile OS In Case Things Sour With Google @ Slashdot
- Microsoft has released another bloody Windows 10 preview build @ The Inquirer
- Intel still chip, chip, chippin' away at the European Commission's anti-trust fine @ The Register
- Fear them: Robot Wars revival introduces two tonnes of retooled house robots @ The Inquirer
- Books You Should Read: The Car Hacker's Handbook @ Hack a Day
- Holy kittens! YouTube screens go blank @ The Register
Podcast #405 - AMD RX 480 Hands-on, 32-core Zen rumors, VBIOS scandal and more!
Subject: General Tech | June 23, 2016 - 01:02 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: Zen, western digital, video, vbios, SM961, sli, Samsung, rx 480, radeon, podcast, My Passport Wireless Pro, msi, GTX 1080, evga, drobo, be quiet, asus, amd, 960 PRO
PC Perspective Podcast #405 - 06/23/2016
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Dennaton Games Releases Hotline Miami 2 Level Editor
Subject: General Tech | June 22, 2016 - 10:35 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: pc gaming, hotline miami, devolver digital, dennaton games
The (Edit June 26th: latest entry in the) Hotline Miami franchise was released a little over a year ago, and it was quite popular with both fans and critics. It is a fast-paced, top-down action game that is unforgiving enough that it tends to feel a little bit like a puzzle game as well, at least to me, in the sense that you need to figure out how to catch enough NPCs off-guard to easily and quickly take them out. As such, level design should have a huge impact on gameplay.
And now users can make their own maps. Dennaton Games and Devolver Digital have released the level editor in today's patch. If you don't like user-generated fun, or you experience bugs or something, then you can stay on Hotline Miami 2 version 1.05.
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Home Portal › Forums › Star Wars: The Old Republic › Vanguard – Assualt Spec – Rotation
This topic contains 7 replies, has 6 voices, and was last updated by nakuri 2 years, 8 months ago.
March 10, 2013 at 5:37 pm
The key to the spec priority system is to remember the following:
Maximize Ammo regen by staying above 8 Ammo as much as possible. Use Hammer Shot if below 8 Ammo and Recharge Cells is on cooldown. Keep the DoT from Incendiary Round up at all times. Use High Impact Bolt on every cooldown and watch for Ionic Accelerator procs. Follow the priority list and use higher priority abilities as often as possible.
I just wanted to point out that the bold and italics portion is wrong (In a way). The Burning DoT produced by Incendiary Round can also be produced by Hammer Shot or Ion Pulse. Not using Incendiary Round makes DPS much more efficient and higher as Incendiary Round takes up too much ammo to be used in a normal rotation, does very little damage not including the DoT, and is not needed to produce the Burning DoT which increases the damage of Ion Pulse, Stockstrike, Hammer Shot, and High Impact Bolt.
Therefore, Incendiary Round should not be number 2 on the priority list (or anywhere on the list). Ion Pulse (or Hammer Shot if low on ammo) should be used to maintain the Burning DoT on targets.March 27, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Big up to NajeeSensei!i never noticed that until u mentioned it. Makes it much simpler. Any suggestions on a good rotation?March 28, 2013 at 8:50 am
After further investigation, i take my last post back, that info is wrong. "incendiary round" is wuts up when it comes to "burn effect".May 13, 2013 at 10:08 am
@najeesensei — This is absolutely incredibly wrong. The burn from Incendiary Round is a completely different DoT from Plasma Cell, which is what Hammer Shot or Ion Pulse procs.May 21, 2013 at 7:40 pm
Here is what I don't understand about ability rotation for vanguard assault specialist. Why is it in the skill tree, it "suggests" you build all the way up in the tree, to Assault Plastique, yet no where in the ability rotation (single target nor aoe) is the ability used, so why the hell waste the point on it if its not being used?
It doesnt make sense to get the ability and not use it. I've talked to a friend who will give me more info later tonight about his rotation, though we have some cross referencing to do, his toon is a BH, but equivalent to the VanAssSpec advanced class. He says that AssPlast is actually very important to the rotation, and when he asked where I was getting my rotation from, he was surprised to hear that it was noxxic, considering most of the people in the guilds we are both in use noxxic for a lot of good info.
As soon as I have his rotation that includes AssPlast in it, i will post it here for yall to see. Hopefully this will increase dps for us.May 24, 2013 at 6:34 am
My friend never got back in touch with me, but after reviewing the AS talent tree and the rotation page here on noxxic, it has come to my attention that who ever did the rotation page, in my opinion, did not do their research properly.
There are 2 abilites that are affected by the talents that are not listed anywhere, not in single target priority, aoe priority or even defense cooldowns. These 2 abilities are highly increased thru the talents that we take in the Assault Specialist Tree. These 2 abilites are Explosive Surge and Assault Plastique.
Explosive Surge gets a total bonus in damage of 9% thru talents and also a talent reduces its use cost by 4 and gives a 100% chance to trigger plasma cell on all affected targets.
Assault Plastique gets a 6% bonus to damage and a 30% chance to crit bonus.
Now I am not including the Periodic Damage done by the burn affects of these 2 abilites… Extra DOT's on target means more sustained dps on the target thru burn affects.
Lets go ahead and review all abilities that are affected by the AS Talent Tree.
PLASMA CELL (Your active ability that should be up at all times)
- Ion Pulse
- Stock Strike
- High Impact Bolt
- Incendiary Round
- Hammer Shot
- Explosive Surge
- Assault Plastique
These are the only abilities that are affected by the Vanguard Assault Specialist Tree. The extra points that you spend in the other two trees, shield specialist and tactics helps to increase the damage of High Impact Bolt, which 2 abilities, Stockstrike and Ion Pulse, can proc and reset the active cool down of High Impact Bolt, no more than every 6 seconds.
- Mortar Volley & Pulse Cannon. Even though these 2 abilities aren't affected by any talents they still do a significant amount of damage. M.V. does around 5k and P.C. does around 4k. The only problem with M.V. is its 1 minute cd.
I will continue to play with these abilities until i come up with a more proper Ability Rotation Priority. Once i am confident that the Rotation Priority is correct i will repost here.May 30, 2013 at 7:02 pm
OK seriously who did the Spec tree for starters on this site its bad…2 the rotation is super bad…
spec should be 10/8/28 no point going past burnout…
roation is Ion, HiB, Ion, Ion, Ion, HiB, Hammer, Ion, Ion, HiB, Ion, Ion, Ion, HIB..
rinse and repeat spent 30 minutes on dummy doing 2.2k+ with no stim just 4 buffs in bis 69/66 gear without Augs and only crafted purple impplants/ears from the crafting vendors never skipped a beat on the proc as well ever 3rd shot it proced in that 30 minutes… i am also running the 4 set bonus armorings from the Partsian Eliminator set for 15% crit increase to HiB with a range bass crit of 20% and tech crit of 26%.. in 30 minutes it crited 51% of the time for HIB which i got to fire every 6 seconds i dont use the IG or SS in my rotation at all its all about the Ion and HiB… works for both PvP and PvEDecember 17, 2013 at 3:54 pm
10/8/28? what is the build? i need to know how to build this toon.
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Donnie Nietes wants all the big names at 112 pounds
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Though still listed as RING champion at flyweight, former WBO titlist Donnie Nietes is gearing up to face Edgar Sosa at 112 pounds on Sept. 24.
RING and WBO junior flyweight titlist Donnie Nietes has decided to abdicate his throne for the pursuit of title success at 112 pounds.
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RING/WBC flyweight champ Roman Gonzalez made quick work of veteran contender Edgar Sosa in the chief support to the Gennady Golovkin-Willie Monroe Jr. fight on Saturday at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Gonzalez dropped Sosa three times in Round 2, forcing referee Raul Caiz Sr. to wave the bout off at 2:37 of the round.
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Then, two days later, I participated in a Board of Directors committee meeting that has been assigned to search for a new Disability Right Network of Pennsylvania chief executive officer. Finally, my next day's Pittsburgh Legal Journal included a notice for Tuesday's Allegheny County Bar Association meeting of those interested in forming a Committee on Issues Affecting People with Disabilities. I concluded that this was all a sign that I should write a column on issues that attorneys, law students, and other legal professionals should be aware of under Title I (employment), Title II (public services) and Title III (public accommodations) of the ADA.
But this week also produced a very different pattern of disability-related new stories, from unlikely sources:
-- National Public Radio News posted on Twitter – at sundown on Yom Kippur, no less – an article entitled "Social Security Wrongfully Paid $1.3 Billion in Disability." The underlying article, which was based on an AP story, said that the Government Accountability Office estimated that 36,000 individuals were both paid for employment and paid Social Security disability benefits from December 2011 to January 2013. However, the GAO used questionable methodology in arriving at its $1.3 billion estimate, and the underlying article pointed out that even that figure represented less than 1% of both beneficiaries and disability payments made during that time frame. Unforgivable headline, NPR News.
--Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman must have thought he was shooting fish in a barrel when he wrote that the state of Iowa's issuance of gun permits to the blind was carrying its state motto to "ridiculous extremes." But the columnist seems to have been caught in the same absolutist trap talking about the ADA that some gun rights advocates are caught in talking about the Second Amendment. The ADA literally requires an individual with a disability to meet "essential eligibility requirements for … the participation in programs or activities provided by a public entity," and therefore a state can defend the denial of a permit to a blind applicant on the basis that he or she is not "qualified." Similarly, Justice Scalia's opinion finding an individual right to own a firearm (District of Columbia v. Heller) states that the Second Amendment right is not unlimited.
"four-legged imposters" that people try to pass off (illegally in California) as service animals.-- Public accommodations (which include law offices) are generally required to modify policies, practices, and procedures to permit the use of a service animal by an individual with a disability. This week NPR News ran a story on service animals – not one focusing on all the task these animals perform for the benefit of the disabled but, instead, one talking about
So instead of writing this week about ways in which people in the legal profession can overcome barriers and succeed, I find myself defending persons with disabilities from accusations that they are dishonest, dangerous, and/or deceptive.
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Jewish Ami Meshulam sent a distress on its website in order to stand with him and his cause after being expelled from Israel after his father Rabbi Uzi Meshulam disclosed the kidnapping and sale of human organs to the innocent Jewish children in Israel according what he said,he said in his letter:
My name is Emanuel Yedidya (Ami) Meshulam - son of Rabbi Uzi Meshulam of Yehud, There is nothing left for me to do other than cry out from the depths of my soul and beg you, in the name of justice, for your help and to call, together with us, for an official committee of investigation that is open for the entire Israeli people to see how my father was hounded and how his blood was spilt, forcing him to be bed-bound, by corrupt authorities who have control of all governmental and security offices in Israel and use this control in the worst possible way by weaving lies and destroying reputations via the press. They also make ugly attempts to wipe us out. Since 1987, they have hounded us and attempted to instill fear in us, Meshulam's family and pupils, in ways that are beyond belief.
It might sound like what they call "something out of science fiction" but they are experienced in hounding people and hurting them, leaving no evidence or signs behind them. It is my duty to record the following in order that the Israeli public not say one day that they didn't know and that they'd never heard anything on the subject.
I intend to tell the painful, terrible story briefly and I hope that it will engender a reaction from people with a conscience and that they will demand justice for those who are innocent and are being hounded.
The Background
The meeting at the Shin Bet headquarters and the carrot and stick tactics
It was the end of 1987. My father had got together much documentary evidence about the Mossad's kidnapping, medical experimentations on and sale of Yemenite children in the first years of the State, and he was summoned to the Shin Bet headquarters at 2 Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem. He met someone there who presented himself as Ilan Raz. This Ilan, who is feared by many prominent people, explained to my father that he had set up this meeting in order to drive home why my father should stop trying to investigate the terrible crime committed by the corrupt authorities. He began by offering my father the "carrot": the job of Chief Rabbi of Israel for life in addition to other tempting suggestions. He was soon to discover that nothing, tempting as it may be, could make my father, for whom the Bible, the truth and the love of Israel came first and foremost, deviate from his quest for moral, legal and religious justice.
When Ilan Raz realized that my father could not be "bought", he changed his strategy to that of "the whip", meaning that he began a campaign of hounding my father and his family using different tactics such as convincing the press to smear my father's name, in order that he end up in jail. In fact, this was Ilan's way of destroying my father with the agreement of a public incited by the press.
My father was not afraid and he continued to seek the truth and justice in the name of his brothers, the people of Israel, all the while bearing in mind the laws of the Holy Bible and the laws of the State of Israel (which does not implement the laws that it makes).
But Ilan kept his promise and until 1988 he used his personal tactics against my father whilst my father was engaged in getting personal testimonials from the families of the kidnapped children.
The first independent audio exposition
In 1988, my father sent out 3 audiocassettes to the general public describing the kidnappings, telling of the attempt to keep them quiet and of Ilan Raz's threats. This was cause for the corrupt authorities to remove their kid gloves and they began to hound my mother and me too. I was still a young child and they came to my school and threatened me. This was to be extremely traumatic for me and I did not, as a result, have a proper childhood. Unfortunately, they did not stop there.
The Rabbi's narrow escape from devious physical assassination (he was wounded) and the beginning of his character assassination
In 1991 there was devious attempt to assassinate my father. It was only through the help of G-d that he was saved from death but he sustained a wound in his sciatic nerve from the bullet that went into his leg and still causes him excruciating phantom pain according to the doctors and specialists. At the time, my father was not famous, but the press began to besmirch his name and call him "the guru from Yehud" or "the leader of a sect" even though nobody knew who he was.
The Rabbi petitions members of the Knesset and brings about a Sitting at the Knesset
We went through hard times while my father was recovering from his wound. He then began to address the press and to petition members of the Knesset in an attempt to find a solution for the terrible crime that has been committed.
The only replies he had from the petition to members of the Knesset were from M.K. Raanan Cohen and M.K. David Magen but his meeting with them yielded nothing. It actually did quite the opposite: it brought about a mudslinging campaign via the press whereby we had desecrated the Knesset synagogue. This was a pure lie.
Continuation of independent exposition via a play and then a pamphlet
When my father saw that nobody was going to help him, he decided to bring the matter to the attention of the public on his own. He produced a play with taped testimonials and documentary evidence about the crime committed. Three months later he issued the first pamphlet in which he told the story of the families of the kidnapped children and included much documentary evidence about the crime committed.
That pamphlet was disseminated throughout the country and, in that way, my father was able to bypass the regulated press and the impermeability of the establishment and expose the crime committed. These steps taken by my father caused the corrupt authorities to go a step further and to incite against my father in a way that would totally destroy my father, his family and his pupils.
The police, in an act of incitement, besieges the Rabbi's house – the Yehud incident
The corrupt authorities systematically incited against my father. They harmed him, his family and his pupils physically, with the help of the army, the police and the Special Forces, which they enlisted in great numbers.
The forces besieged our house and disseminated the news to the press that an eccentric sect was entrenched in a house in Yehud. From the outset, it was obvious that the forces intended to carry out the threats issued by Ilan Raz. A sniper shot directly into the neck of Yehiel Ben Abu, a pupil of my father's, and it is a miracle that he survived. This was only a few minutes after my father had spoken to representatives of the police, Major General Gabi Lest and Brigadier General Yaakov Raz, and asked them why they were besieging the house. It was obvious that they had instructions from above and that the aim was to destroy my father and put an end to his attempt to expose a terrible crime.
Knesset members come to the house in Yehud and sign an agreement with Rabbi Uzi and the police representative
The next day – it was the eve of Pessach – a number of Knesset members, amongst them Avraham Poraz and Dov Shilansky, came to our house. They represented their political parties (Likud, Labor, Mafdal, Meretz) and, together with the police, they signed and agreement with my father. The basic points were as follows:
There would be a public Parliamentary investigation committee dealing with the matter of the crime of the kidnapping and sale of the Yemenite children.
The police would investigate the Yehud events under the supervision of a lawyer of our choice. The police department that investigates police conduct would deal with our complaint regarding police provocation. In this document, the police admitted that the weapons we had were under license.
We all shook hands and MK Dov Shilansky said that he was proud to have his name on an agreement together with that of my father. Even the police officers understood that they had made a mistake, which is why they agreed to sign the document. They even assisted in getting the Rabbi's pupils who had been arrested to get home in time before the Pessach holiday came in. Everyone was happy that there was a solution in sight for terrible injustice and that the corrupt authorities had decided to atone for their crimes.
Unfortunately, however, our happiness was short-lived: a day or two later, the police began to systematically break the agreement, and they even went as far as to state that they considered the agreement to be null and void and that they intended to arrest my father.
The police callously breaks the agreement
It was quite obvious that they were not interested in arresting my father, but rather in destroying him and his name. But how to do that in such a way that it looks "natural"? Well, they besieged the house for 2 whole months. During that time, my father took me and his pupils to the television studios to appear live on Dan Margalit's program. No attempt was made to arrest him there either. Whilst our house was being besieged, they continued to leak information to the public about this crazy group of dangerous people entrenched in a house with a large stock of weapons. And of course, once they had formed public opinion and everybody believed that my father was "crazy", "weird" and "leader of a sect", it would be much easier to carry out what they wanted to do. Not one single one of the many media sources covering the events reported the fact that hordes of people came to our house every day to tell about family members who had been kidnapped, to collect information about our cause, or simply to express support for my father.
The massacre by the police and the end of the siege
My father arranged to meet with General Police Commissioner Assaf Hefetz, representative of the authorities, for one reason: to avoid bloodshed. When my father arrived at the meeting, there was an attempt to kill him in the dark. Luckily, the attempt failed and he said to Assaf Hefetz: "You wanted me? Well, here I am. But you will not shed blood in my home." Unfortunately, this statement did not help and at this moment, under cover of darkness, thousands of police and army combatants, as well as snipers surrounded our house. There was also a helicopter loitering above and four great big bulldozers (D-9) around the house. They cut off the electricity and the phone lines and started to shoot indiscriminately at the house in which my mother and my young brothers, aged between 6 months and 5 were sleeping. The bullets shattered the windows and whizzed over the head of my 5 year-old brother. They continued to shoot mercilessly and one of the snipers made a direct hit at the neck of Shlomi Assoulin, a pupil whom my father loved like a son. And this is how Shlomi, only 21, a distinguished army officer loved by everybody who knew him, was murdered in cold blood.
The trial with the obvious outcome – like that of Dreyfus
Then came the trial with the obvious outcome where my father and some of his pupils were not even given the basic right to defend themselves properly. The Dreyfus-style trial resulted in my father and those pupils being sent to jail for several years where my father's basic rights were not given him and were he suffered continual abuse, clearly ordered by "instructions from above". Even the prison authorities couldn't understand why we were not allowed to visit my father for a long period of time.
The injection of dangerous substances into the Rabbi's body in order to silence him
My father was moved to Shata prison in Emek Israel where the corrupt authorities injected substances into his body for one reason only: to make it look as though his whole body system had collapsed on its own. My father immediately lost consciousness and was rushed to Haemek Hospital in Afula. The entire area around the hospital was surrounded by police and security forces and we, the worried members of his family, were not allowed to go and see him. Worse, we were not even allowed to know anything about his condition, how he was feeling and what was happening with him.
The Rabbi is released from prison in need of constant nursing care
In 1999, my father was released from prison. His whole body system was in a state of collapse and he was bed-bound. His body was full of scars caused, according to a skin doctor who had been to see him in his cell, by insect bites. He was released from prison on the condition that he keep away from the matter of the Yemenite children.
The authorities enlist collaborators among the Rabbi's pupils to incite the Rabbi's son, family and pupils against him
Whilst my father was in prison and after he came out too, the authorities tried to create chaos amid my father's pupils. They had two goals: one was to spread lies, fabrications and falsehoods about my father, his family and his pupils and the other was to incite against my father whilst at the same time incapacitating his genuine pupils. For this purpose, they enlisted collaborators amid my father's pupils, enticing them with promises of material rewards or persuading them with threats. These pupils were at the service of the authorities and, unfortunately, most of them succeeded in inciting some of the people who were closest to us, some of whom were members of the family.
Those among my father's pupils who realized what was happening and saw the extent of the damage that the collaborators were inflicting decided that they wanted no contact whatsoever with them and cut off from them completely.
If we thought that things couldn't get worse, we turned out to be very wrong…
Because then the second phase began…
The authorities persecute Ami, the Rabbi's son, openly
In 2002, not long after my first son was born, the corrupt authorities began to harass me, asserting that I was continuing what my father had begun and attempting to uncover the crimes committed against the Yemenite children. I told them that I didn't know what they were talking about and that I was only a young boy at the time and that I had nothing to do with the subject. They, of course, were not interested in anything I had to say and they summoned me for dozens of investigations during which they put much psychological pressure on me to give them "the abundant documentary evidence that my father had given me". I have never seen any of this so-called evidence, nor do I have any in my possession.
The terrible methods used by the authorities: destruction, intimidation, pressure, threats
They conducted the investigations on the Sabbath and the holidays, late at night, and I was not allowed to let anyone know what I was going through. They warned me that, if I dared say anything, the public would claim that I was imagining things and that I was crazy. In addition, they told me about how they had "dealt" with several famous people who had not obeyed them.
One example was that of a renowned journalist who had investigated crimes committed by the authorities and wanted to expose them. They summoned him. He was sure that he was coming for a normal investigation, conducted under the auspices of a civilized democratic state but was, unfortunately, wrong. They injected cancer cells into his throat in order to shut him up and they told him that if he told anyone about what they had done, everybody would think that he was crazy. In addition, they threatened to harm his family in a way that cannot be traced back to them and looks to be inevitable, like a road accident for example.
"Either you bring all your father's documents or you leave the country for good, or else…"
During the investigations I was told that I had two choices: to give them the evidence they claimed I had or to leave the country for good. If I left the country and told anyone anything, they would find me and my family everywhere, in Israel and abroad, and they would also harm my friends and their children.
We will frame you and your father for murder and we will make sure that it looks like you have done it
I have none of the evidence that they claim I have and I asked them what would happen if I refused to leave the country. Their answer sent shivers down my spine: "if what we have threatened you with so far is not enough, we would like to remind you of something that happened some time ago" and they told me about a doctor who worked for the prison services called Dr. Yaakov Ziegelbaum. The doctor liked my father, he knew about the substances that were being injected into him and was very concerned. In the end, so the authorities told me, he knew too much and they liquidated him! When the news came out, they accused Rabbi Uzi Meshulam of making up the story and this way, they killed two birds with one stone. They then reminded me that, soon afterwards, they arrested my brother-in-law Noam and several other pupils with a lot of media coverage…they were quietly released about two weeks later, but the authorities had succeeded in their quest to discredit them. In answer to my question what would happen if I didn't leave the country, they said they would publish a newspaper article and spin a tale whereby my father and myself had perpetrated the murder. They would pad the tale with other innocent pupils who would end up serving life sentences, and, that way, we would all be totally destroyed.
I told that that they knew perfectly well that we have nothing to do with the murder and they themselves admitted that they had committed it…
In order to show how serious they were, they told me that they had not closed my brother-in-law Noam's police file, just in case I refused to leave the country. If I agreed to leave, my brother-in-law would have no more problems…
Strangely enough, my brother-in-law has been out of the country several times with no problems despite the fact that they had "reserved themselves the right" not to close his criminal file "just in case" they needed to bring out the story anew.
That is how, under threat, I was forced to leave Israel
And so I had no choice but to leave. ,on 28th November 2005, I left Israel and was force to request asylum in Canada. I left with my wife, my three young children and my brother-in-law. We arrived in Canada to the freezing cold of the Canadian winter without knowing the language or the place, in the hope that they would keep their promise not to harm my family and friends.
I am having similar physical symptoms to those of my father
But they didn't keep their promise…I asked for the hearing in my asylum case to be open to the public. A short time later, my blood sugar shot up sky high. It then went back to normal with no medical intervention and the doctors were stymied (such a thing is impossible in natural diabetes)
Despite their promise that they would leave me alone if I left Israel, the corrupt authorities are not keeping their word
Two of my friends who the authorities claimed had also been involved in the things I had been accused of came to visit us in Canada on Rosh Hashana to be part of the "minyan"and to testify in the asylum case. Wonder of wonders! The hearing was postponed. And suddenly, around the time that the hearing was due to take place, an article was published in Israel about Israelis requesting asylum in Canada and the lies they tell about social, political and religious persecution. The article said that Israel was asking Canada to provide information (!) about those seeking asylum. Israel also wanted Canada to discuss each individual case – this is a violation of the Geneva Convention!!!
(Investigating the matter of the newspaper article, I discovered that it had been taken off a Human Rights Internet site called "Bambili" where it had been posted about 6 months ago, and it was definitely not a "new" or "news" item)
I realized that the Israeli authorities were doing all they could to postpone the public asylum hearing in order to make the false accusations before I told my story to the world here in Canada.
The friends who came here to testify for me are people with respectable jobs who cannot spend an undetermined amount of time here because they need to get back to work. The corrupt authorities understand that and are waiting for my friends to go back home and then to make their false accusations. My friends will be arrested and we will all suffer. Nobody will know that the whole thing was planned this way by the corrupt authorities because the hearing was postponed and our story has thus not been told.
Since there is nothing for us to do other than cry out, we ask you to tell our story and to pass this letter on to everyone that you know.
Until when??
Please help us to prevent the spilling of the blood of father, of his family and of his pupils. In the name of truth and justice, join us in our call for a public official investigation that will put an end to persecution and make amends for the injustice done to my father .
In the same context,on 14/8/2009,The students of Rabbi Uzi sent an appeal to to save the family of Ami Meshulam,they said in the Hebrew language:(Rabbi Uzi family living in Canada since 28.11.05,did not hold a hearing on their legal status in Canada,where his daughter Ami who was born in Canada subjected attempted kidnapping,the family are subjected to constant pressure and threats,democracy in Israel is not democratic,we call on people to say no more fear,we appeal to ensure the life of the family in Canda.
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Wells Fargo Settles U.S. Allegations of Home-Loan Bias
Wells Fargo & Co., the largest U.S. mortgage lender, will pay $125 million and set up a $50 million assistance fund to settle U.S. allegations that it discriminated against minority borrowers.
The bank will also stop using outside brokers to create mortgages, according to a statement today from Wells Fargo. The accord settles U.S. accusations in court filings that the bank put creditworthy Hispanic and African-American borrowers into more expensive subprime loans from 2004 to 2007, and that mortgage brokers through 2009 added charges that caused minority borrowers to pay higher fees, costs and interest than similar white borrowers.
"Wells Fargo's internal documents reveal that senior officials were aware of the numerous tactics that subprime originators employed to keep loans in the subprime division," when they could have qualified for prime loans, the Justice Department alleged in a complaint filed with the settlement in Washington.
The San Francisco-based bank, which controls about a third of the market for all new home loans, denied it engaged in illegal discrimination and said it agreed to settle solely to avoid litigation, according to a proposed consent order. The company reported a $15.9 billion profit last year.
"Wells Fargo asserts that throughout the period of time at issue in this proceeding and to the present, it has treated all customers fairly and without regard to impermissible factors such as race and national origin," the bank said in the consent order, which must be approved by a federal judge.
Broker Ban
In a separate statement, Wells Fargo said it will stop funding loans through independent mortgage brokers and after tomorrow won't accept new applications from them. The lender will still process and close existing applications, and the decision to stop dealing with brokers, known as wholesale lending, was made "on its own volition," according to the statement.
The Obama administration has increased scrutiny of banks to discourage loan discrimination as the housing bust fuels loan defaults. The settlement with Wells Fargo is the second largest fair-lending accord reached by the Justice Department after a record $335 million extracted from Bank of America Corp. in a deal announced in December. Countrywide, acquired by Bank of America in 2008, assessed higher fees and interest rates on more than 200,000 black and Hispanic borrowers, the Justice Department said at the time.
Steering Higher
The Justice Department investigation of Wells Fargo uncovered "systemic discrimination" in the bank's lending practices, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said today at a press conference in Washington. About 34,000 borrowers in total were affected, according to the complaint.
In some cases, Wells Fargo steered many borrowers into adjustable-rate mortgages with so-called teaser rates when they qualified for more standard loans, such as those with 30-year fixed rates, the U.S. said in its complaint. The bank created financial incentives by sharing the higher revenue with employees and brokers, the U.S. said.
The settlement ends litigation filed in Illinois and a complaint from Pennsylvania, according to the bank. Wells Fargo also agreed to commit $50 million in direct payments for down-payment assistance in eight U.S. regions where the U.S. alleges the discrimination practices had a significant impact. Those areas include Washington, New York City, Chicago, the Oakland-San Francisco area and Baltimore.
The company said it reached a separate agreement with Baltimore in which the city will end a lawsuit filed in January 2008.
Subprime Review
As part of the accord, Wells Fargo agreed to review some subprime loans made in its retail channel between 2004 and 2008 to see if borrowers might have qualified for prime loans. Wells Fargo will compensate those borrowers if it finds they could have gotten cheaper loans, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said today.
The Comptroller of the Currency and the Justice Department began parallel investigations into the bank's lending practices in 2009. The OCC referred its findings to the Justice Department in 2010, Thomas Curry, the agency's head, said today.
An administrator, who has yet to be named, will oversee the settlement agreement.
Wells Fargo settled Federal Reserve claims last July that it steered reliable borrowers into subprime loans and falsified information in mortgage documents. In that case, Wells Fargo agreed to pay an $85 million fine, the largest assessed by the Fed in a consumer-protection enforcement case at the time, and to compensate clients. The firm didn't admit wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
Quarterly Report
Shares of Wells Fargo fell 0.9 percent to $32.98 at 1:27 p.m. in New York after dropping as much as 1.9 percent. The company had said in a May regulatory filing that the Justice Department might bring claims. The bank is scheduled to report quarterly results tomorrow.
"Our commitment to our customers and to turning the housing market around is stronger than ever," Mike Heid, head of the mortgage business, said in the statement. "We will continue to offer education and meaningful choices through our retail and correspondent mortgage-lending operations."
The company made $7.4 billion of mortgages through brokers in the first quarter, the most of any lender and 21 percent of the industrywide total, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a trade publication. The loans made up about 5 percent of the company's total, the bank said. Wells Fargo accounted for 34 percent of U.S. home loans in the first quarter, the biggest market share ever recorded, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.
The case is U.S. v. Wells Fargo Bank NA, 12-cv-01150, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).


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New York, May 3rd (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:ETFC) closed the session at $10.46, near the 50 day and 200 day moving averages currently set at $10.37 and $10.15 respectively. E*TRADE's price action is above these important levels, which could materialize into a trading opportunity.
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:ETFC) provides online brokerage and related products and services primarily to individual retail investors. The company offers investor-focused banking, primarily sweep deposits and savings products.
Although, the price action is above these moving averages, it's important to highlight that the 50 day moving average is currently above the 200 day moving average. This signals that the stock is not technically broken from the long side and buying the dip strategy might be the best setup to follow.
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Ethics expert: Dallas DA should not represent county commissioners in civil matters
A local government ethics expert says the Dallas County District Attorney's Office should not represent the Commissioners Court in civil matters.
Robert Wechsler of City Ethics Inc., a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, weighed in on the Craig Watkins conflict of interest controversy in a blog post.
Wechsler points out that Watkins did not create the conflict. The DA's civil division has for years served as the commissioners' lawyer.
He concludes that a DA shouldn't give legal advice to a government body when the DA can prosecute officials who don't follow his advice.
The commissioners are more than happy to stop getting advice from Watkins' office. In fact, they recently hired their own counsel – a move that Watkins fought.
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Dining Center dumps trays to reduce food waste
October 11, 2007 1:09 PM
When students' eyes are bigger than their stomachs, it shows in the form of heaps of wasted food left in the dining center.
In an effort to eliminate food waste at SF State's main residential dining center, City Eats, the use of trays has been eliminated beginning this semester.
Although this is the first time SF State has taken this step, it is a growing trend. According to Edward Vicedo, director of dining services for Chartwells, the residential food service provider for SF State, universities across the country have eliminated trays.
Vicedo said the elimination of trays has been successful at other universities and estimated City Eats has reduced its food waste by about 60 percent since it stopped using trays. That's approximately 2,200 pounds saved each week over last semester, Vicedo estimated based on the reduction of food waste pile up in the composting bins.
Between City Eats and Café in the Park, which never used trays, Vicedo estimates that 2,000 to 3,000 meals are served each day. The former use of trays, while convenient to the students, faculty and housing staff that patron the dining center, also contribute to a great amount of food waste because students aren't eating all of the food they're taking, some housing staff said.
Some of the students aren't so happy about the change.
"I liked it better when we had trays," said Pierce Conwi, 19, "By the time you get back for your third time everything is gone."
Fellow student, Chris Turner, 20, agrees.
"It's a good gesture but I don't think it does much for anyone," he said adding that it makes it more challenging to take a plate, a drink, and a piece a fruit back to the table at once.
One time, Turner said, he left one plate on the table to go up and get more food and when he returned he found that one of the staff had removed his plate.
"That was annoying," Turner said.
Other students said they didn't really mind the new no tray policy.
"Every once in awhile you have to get up to get seconds," said Paul Karshner, 18, but that's not too much of an inconvenience."
Vicedo acknowledged that the tray elimination project might not be the most popular among students, and cited that the biggest problem that's developed since the change has to do with keeping the center neater.
"Unfortunately, as a result, our tables are not as clean as we would like," Vicedo said.
Vicedo added that the dining center anticipated that they would have food falling on the center' s floor and intentionally hired someone this semester whose sole duty is to clean the dining center's floors. In addition, Vicedo said that they hope students will participate in cleaning the tables as much as possible.
The elimination of trays is part of the dining center's efforts to reduce waste. The center has composted its food since 2001.
"It's all about protecting the environment and about not leaving too big of an imprint on this earth," Vicedo of the dining center's move towards less waste. "This is one of the steps we took."
At the dining center, hundreds of resident students contribute daily to the compost pile, whether they know it or not, said Vicedo. There is a plan in place to collect both pre- and post-consumption waste.
"Someone takes each [plate] and scrapes off all organics into here," Vicedo said, lifting the lid of an aromatic blue plastic bin. "There are no trash bins out front, so it all comes here."
Downstairs in the preparation kitchen, the cooks discard old fruit and rinds, meat skins and waxed cardboard from tofu boxes into another blue bin.
All told, nearly 800 pounds of organic scraps get composted each week during the semester, Vicedo estimated. As a result, his garbage bill—which is paid to the university for the amount they disposed of—has decreased since spring 2006, when the program began.
Sunset Scavenger offers a discount on hauling that increases if the percentage of trash deferred from the landfill increases, so Vicedo's 800 pounds a week save him money.
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Doing a project here. Never mind how old SGIs are but....
First, here are the A and B facts:
A) I have an Indigo2/XZ teal (GR3-Elan), 195 Mhz R4400 , 4 GB hard drive
(upgraded from IRIX 5.3 to 6.5.x), 368 MB ram....*AND*....
B) let's say I bought from ebay (or reputable.com) an Indigo2/Maximpact purple,
200 Mhz R10000, 4 GB harddrive (IRIX 6.5.x), 256 or whatever RAM.
Removal process:
On my Indigo2/XZ side, take out the motherboard (with its R4400 CPU
daugtherboard removed) and take out its hard drive.
On the Indigo2/impact side, take out the motherboard (with its R10000 cpu
daughterboard removed..to be used in next step) and take out its hard drive,
set aside.
Finally, at my Indigo2/impact side, put my indigo2/XZ's motherboard in that
PURPLE box, install R10000 cpu daughterboard and insert my original hard drive.
Max Impact board is unchanged. Power supply unchanged. Re-connect anything
Not sure how to connect blue ribbon (extra power connector) for Impact board.
Not sure if the "bigger" power supply will fry my original motherboard. Not
sure if R10000 cpu will be acceptable on my original R4400-based motherboard.
Will that following steps above work?
You might asked me "why would you want to swap motherboard?"
Because my Alias software license (1996) will probably NOT work if I get it
installed on an Indigo2/Impact box because of a different motherboard, right?
(as far as I understand, my license is nodelocked to my original Indigo2's
motherboard only, right?).
So instead of spare parts separately, I thought it would be easier to get an
Indigo2/Impact box. I am just hoping (not yet test) that my Alias license
(FlexLMgr) will work after I upgrade from 5.3 to 6.5.x. on my harddrive using
the same Indigo2/XZ's motherboard inside the purple "Impact" box.
Make sense? I still feel that my Alias software license should work on the
Indigo2/MaxImpact because it is still using my Indigo2/XZ's motherboard. I
just wanted to make sure though.
If my Alias software license will NOT run on my Indigo2/XZ after upgrade to
Irix 6.5.x, then there is no reason to swap motherboards but to keep the
Indigo2/Impact as a "second" machine for explorations anyway.
Any suggestions as to what parts I need to make upgrade work? Or links?


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The Saturday Farmer's Market was a little bit cheesier than usual this week.
June is National Dairy Month and the Muskingum County Dairy Princess was at the farmer's market passing out cheese to promote dairy awareness and her knowledge of everything dairy inculding the cows.
"The most common breed is the Holstein they produce 90 percent of dairy milk in the United States, " said Dairy Princess, Brittney Miller.
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The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) are pleased to announce the second year of the ADAA Foundation Curatorial Awards. The purpose of the awards is to provide essential funding for museum curators to develop exhibition projects. The program is intended to honor exceptional curatorial visions and help museums advance deserving projects with funds for early research and development. The Curatorial Awards will support AAMC members in the critical nascent stages of their exhibition projects. Two $10,000 awards will be given out this year: one curator in a pre-World War II field, and one to a curator in a post-World War II field.
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Where Do I Begin?
Where do I begin? How 'bout with a phone call from Tommy Smith! Huh? That's right I did. Just before I started this blog my phone rings and the caller ID says Tommy. Actually it says Gator Cell, but that's for another time. Gator..er ...a Tommy...er..a..again The Outlaw will get better. Keep praying for him and I'll keep you posted. If you want to send Tommy a message thru our web site, we have a way for you to do that.
I haven't been able to post since Thursday but Super Producer Danny-Joe Crofford as always has set me up, and you for that matter with audio from the past three days. Let's roll.........
We did the show Thursday from The Plant Outlet in Conway. The Lord of Landscape Brett Battle made a huge announcement. If that wasn't enough our favorite Aussie was giving away cash and playing games. We needed some help figuring out the names of past Michigan QBs. Thursday's we also talk to ESPN College Football Scoreboard anchor Mark May. He gave some love to the Hogs. Rasslin' Man stopped by to discuss....you know I don't even know why he come around. Seems Rasslin' Man was around for a little longer than normal. He spoke with Burl from All Clean USA and was on hand when David came out wearing two different shoes.
Friday was eventful day to say the least. It started at Fletcher Dodge. Football Friday brings us Lou Holtz. Don't get to close to the computer screen you might get spit on you. Our picks in the Show With No Name vs The Zone gets serious. You know Frank Fletcher likes what he likes and he likes the Razorbacks and the Cowboys.
Today we had the ever popular Harry King. Listen to this Hall of Fame journalist verbalize his thoughts. Harry is not the only expert we have on the show. Not so fast my friend. A rousing and entertaining Razorback Graffiti happened today.
I was among the largest crowd to ever see a Hog game on Saturday. So was my buddy from The Show Me State, Cleman Decker. It could not have been possible for me if it were not for my friends and just really easy to know and gracious hosts Jennings and Mitzi Osborne. Well, Mr. Osborne called in today. It brought back many memories from the old days with his built in sound effects.
Last but not least. Oh heck, I don't mean that. never the less, how about a pair of Hank Williams Jr. tix? Great then we are on the same page. Be the first caller with the correct answer after we come back at the top of the 7:00 hour with the answer to this question. Hank Williams, Jr. would go on to win a Grammy award in 1990 for Best Country Vocal Collaboration for what and with whom? Good Luck!
Thanks for listening and making The Buzz 103.7 your #1 station. Join The Show With No Name from 6a-10a Mon-Fri with Tommy Smith, David Bazzel, Danny-Joe Crofford and myself.


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CATRON - Ralph W. Borton, 48, died Aug. 25, 2005, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Born July 20, 1957, in Placercille, Calif., son of the late Ralph I. and Thelma Davis Borton, he was employed at Noranda, was a member of the CB's in the U.S. Navy, and was a member of the New Madrid Eagles Aerie No. 4206. He was an avid outdoorsman who loved hunting and archery.
On April 29, 1988 in Portland, Ore., he married Ella Beth Clark who survives of the home.
Survivors in addition to his wife include: his stepmother, Martha Borton of Hillsboro, Ore.; three daughters, Hilary E. Borton of the home and Sara B. Borton and Rachel M. Borton of Portland, Ore.; four sons, Elias T. Borton and Hunter R. Borton of the home and Bud W. Borton and Jacob M. Borton of Portland; and two sisters, two brothers and two grandchildren.
Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Monday at Richards Funeral Home in New Madrid where a memorial service is scheduled 11 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Joe McCullough Sr. officiating.
The body will be cremated and the ashes spread at a later date.