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Happy Sysadmin Day, now put Win10 on my work lappy immediately
Subject: General Tech | July 30, 2015 - 12:34 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: windows 10
You are nowhere near as fed up with Win10 stories as you will be in a week or so sit down and get reading. So far the biggest new issue has been those who have over 512 apps in their Start menu, not inconceivable but certainly not common. Over at The Register a story has been put up covering Win10 by a person who admits to having 4,000 open browser tabs and sending the machine into hibernation in that state. Their experiences show that Win10 doesn't care and even likes this sort of abuse as long as it is on an SSD. That is not to say all is good, for there is still the technicolour yawn which is the new Start menu and the disturbing tendency for the OS to call on mom more often than Norman Bates. Read the full article to see the good, bad and bothersome.
"It's Windows 10 day. That means it's time for a completely biased and in-no-way-even-remotely-objective assessment of Windows 10."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Sysadmin Day 2015: Fun things to do – and prizes to win from El Reg @ The Register
- Russian hackers use Hammertoss and Twitter in backdoor malware scam @ The Inquirer
- PC replacement pushed by Windows 10 may come slowly, say Taiwan makers @ DigiTimes
- MORE Windows 10 bugs! Too many Start menu apps BREAK it @ The Register
- Windows 10 @ The Inquirer
- Windows 10 launch seems like the start of something exciting @ Kitguru
A few years ago, we took our first look at the inexpensive 27" 1440p monitors which were starting to flood the market via eBay sellers located in Korea. These monitors proved to be immensely popular and largely credited for moving a large number of gamers past 1080p.
However, in the past few months we have seen a new trend from some of these same Korean monitor manufacturers. Just like the Seiki Pro SM40UNP 40" 4K display that we took a look at a few weeks ago, the new trend is large 4K monitors.
Built around a 42-in LG AH-IPS panel, the Wasabi Mango UHD420 is an impressive display. Inclusion of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 allow you to achieve 4K at a full 60Hz and 4:4:4 color gamut. At a cost of just under $800 on Amazon, this is an incredibly appealing value.
Whether or not the UHD420 is a TV or a monitor is actually quite the tossup. The lack of a tuner
might initially lead you to believe it's not a TV. Inclusion of a DisplayPort connector, and USB 3.0 hub might make you believe it's a monitor, but it's bundled with a remote control (entirely in Korean). In reality, this display could really be used for either use case (unless you use OTA tuning), and really starts to blur the lines between a "dumb" TV and a monitor. You'll also find VESA 400x400mm mounting holes on this display for easy wall mounting.
Continue reading our overview of the Wasabi Mango UHD420 4K HDMI 2.0 FreeSync Display!!
Another look at the Gigabyte Champion Series X99-Gaming 5P
Subject: Motherboards | July 29, 2015 - 05:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: X99-Gaming 5P, LGA2011-v3, Intel X99, Haswell-E, gigabyte
It has been a few months since Morry's review of the Gigabyte Champion Series X99-Gaming 5P and its funky LED enhanced backplate was posted so it seems time for a second opinion from The Tech Report. The i7-5960X they used was not as forgiving as the one Morry tested, their overclocking topped out at 4.1GHz, while still decent it is a reminder that overclocking results can vary widely on similar equipment. Read their full review here for a reminder of what this board can do and see if it garnered a recommendation.
"Gigabyte's X99-Gaming 5P gives buyers a full-featured Haswell-E board with a gaming twist. We dug into its features and ran it through our testing gauntlet to figure out what makes this premium motherboard tick."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark S @ [H]ard|OCP
- MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Motherboard Review @ Hardware Asylum
- ASRock X99 OC FORMULA/3.1 (Intel LGA 2011-3) @ techPowerUp
- GIGABYTE X99 SLI Review, Excellence On A Budget! @ Bjorn3d
- ASRock N3150 Braswell Motherboard Round-up @ eTeknix
- Gigabyte MU70-SU0 (Intel C612) Server Motherboard @ eTeknix
How exactly does one kickstart a Battlemech?
Subject: General Tech | July 29, 2015 - 01:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, Mechwarrior, battletech
BattleTech is coming back baby! Harebrained Schemes who have successfully rebooted the Shadowrun RPG system on PC and who are in the final steps of releasing the third game in that world have just announced plans to start a new Kickstarter campaign. This time it will be a trip to the world of Battletech, the details are slim but we can expect to see both the larger view of the Battletech galaxy and the Houses that populate it as well as mech management and combat. From what Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN were told this will be turn-based, not the FPS style of the Mechwarrior series of old. No matter, this news is still exciting so keep your eyes peeled for more information.
"Harebrained Schemes is pleased to announce their return to Kickstarter this Fall to partner with backers in co-funding the creation of BATTLETECH. Jordan Weisman, the creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior, is back with the first turn-based BattleTech game for PC in over two decades."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Minions, Ho! In Overlord: Fellowship Of Evil Trailer @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Royal with cheese: A King's Quest primer @ Polygon
- Espionage Expansion: Endless Legend – Shadows @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Gives You Stealth Boss Fights If You Choose To @ Clipping Error
Stagefright not causing butterflies anymore
Subject: General Tech | July 29, 2015 - 01:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: google, stagefright, security
The Stagefright media player vulnerability on Android powered Nexus devices which allowed the possibility of running remotely execute code via an MMS containing a specially crafted media file. It made headlines everywhere even though it is incredibly unlikely the bug was ever used in an attack. Regardless, you no longer need to worry as Google has crafted a patch and has released it to the carriers. You should keep an eye out this week and next for the update and if you do not see it apply you should reach out to your carrier. More at The Inquirer.
"GOOGLE HAS SAID THAT THE STAGEFRIGHT PROBLEM is well in hand, and that it rushed to sort out the Android OS jitters before anything bad happened."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Windows 10 Image @ Microsoft
- Windows 10 Launches @ Slashdot
- Desperate Microsoft PAYS Win Server 2003 laggards to jump ship @ The Register
- Must-Know Linux Commands For New Users @ Linux.com
- Slashdot, SourceForge looking for new owners after parent dumps them on the web's doorstep @ The Register
- Qualcomm's updated WiPower can now wirelessly charge metal-bodied phones @ The Inquirer
- Quantum dot market to grow at CAGR of 30.4% during 2015-2020, says research firm @ DigiTimes
Maybe stick with last years Pebble Steel for now?
Subject: Mobile | July 28, 2015 - 02:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: pebble, pebble time, smartwatch
The Register tried out the new Pebble Time which features a colour e-paper Gorilla glass screen for better visibility outdoors, a battery which will last a full week, waterproofing to 90' and all for a $200 price tag. With over 8000 apps for the device it offers most of the functionality of the Apple watch for a fraction of the price. Certain features it lacks such as a heart rate monitor or GPS can be added by using Smartstraps, which not only allows the watch to stay on your wrist but also adds functionality as well. The improvements were noticeable but The Register preferred last years Steel but if you are in the market for a smartwatch you might be wise to hold on as the new Pebble Time Steel is due out in the near future.
"I love what Eric Migovsky has done with the Pebble by creating an antidote to modern smartwatches. The two generations of Pebble so far have been useful, durable and practical – qualities which elude the over-specced and costly Apple and Android kit."
Here are some more Mobile articles from around the web:
- Acer Iconia One 7 is a £99 Lollipop-powered iPad Mini rival @ The Inquirer
- Asus ROG G551J Gaming Laptop @ Kitguru
- Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi @ Kitguru
- VKWorld VK6735 Smartphone Review @ Madshrimps
- How Useful Is The Extra Memory In The ASUS ZenFone 2 @ TechARP
Killing those end of summer blues
As we approach the end of summer and the beginning of the life of Windows 10, PC Perspective and Gigabyte (along with Thermaltake and Kingston) have teamed up to bring our readers a system build guide and giveaway that is sure to get your gears turning. If you think that an X99-based system with an 8-core Intel Extreme processor, SLI graphics, 480GB SSD and 32GB of memory sounds up your alley...pay attention.
Deep in thought...
Even with the dawn of Skylake nearly upon us, there is no debate that the Haswell-E platform will continue to be the basis of the enthusiasts dream system for a long time. Lower power consumption is great, but nothing is going to top 8-cores, 16-threads and all the PCI Express lanes you could need for expansion to faster storage and accessories. With that in mind Gigabyte has partnered with PC Perspective to showcase the power of X99 and what a builder today can expect when putting together a system with a fairly high budget, but with lofty goals in mind as well.
Let's take a look at the components we are using today.
|Gigabyte X99 System Build
|Intel Core i7-5960X - $1048
|Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5P - $309
|Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-2666 32GB - $325
|Graphics Card
|2 x Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 960 2GB - $199
|Kingston HyperX Savage 480GB SSD - $194
|Thermaltake Core V51 - $82
|Power Supply
|Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 850 watt - $189
|CPU Cooler
|Thermaltake Water 3.0 Extreme S - $94
|Total Price
|$1591 - Amazon Full Card (except CPU)
$1048 - Amazon Intel Core i7-5960X
Grand Total: $2639
Continue reading our system build and find out how you can WIN this PC!!
RTM? Satya don't need no steenking RTM
Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2015 - 12:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: microsoft, windows 10
With not many hours left until launch, Windows 10 is still very obviously a service that is sill being serviced and the pressure is on at Microsoft. NVIDIA users have discovered that having a clearly drawn display is not something they are likely to have by launch day, much to the amusement of us AMD users. Until this week those used to uninstalling programs with the Control Panel as opposed to the new procedure of heading to Settings -> System -> Apps & features will find they are punished for their temerity with a Windows Explorer crash, certainly an interesting choice to reinforce the new behaviour. Less common, though still frequent enough for The Register to make note of and for a patch to be released yesterday is a similar crash if you were to disable an active network connection manually.
Surface users may have noticed new firmware arriving to mitigate some of the compatibility issues Windows 10 testers have used, though there is not that much time left to test them en masse, the fact that the tablets were built by Microsoft should help ensure the updates are stable and useful. Not so much for other tablets as The Register shows in this story.
Creating a new version of an OS is a non-trivial task and for the most part Windows 10 should be ready for a consumer release this week. Microsoft have changed a lot about the look and function of Windows and made even more changes to their business model and licensing. The real hurdle is Enterprise, the huge customer base that ignored Windows 8(.x) and to a lesser extent Windows 7. With the stability and functionality of the OS already in question, will the poorly communicated changes to the licensing models of Windows 10 mean that we will once again see extremely slow or non-existent adoption in Enterprise and even SMB for that matter?
"Build 10240, which was released to the Windows Insider program two weeks ago, is widely considered to be the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) build, even though Redmond itself says the RTM concept doesn't apply in its brave new world of Windows as a Service."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Plexistor's latest box sounds a lot like flash memory as virtual DRAM @ The Register
- Chrome Extension Thwarts User Profiling Based On Typing Behavior @ Slashdot
- Controlling a Robot with a Wearable Lego Exosuit @ MAKE:Blog
- Ballmer's billion-dollar blunders: When he gambled Microsoft's money and lost @ The Register
- Hold that upgrade: Critical bug in .NET 4.6 'breaks applications' @ The Register
Breaking: Intel and Micron announce 3D XPoint Technology - 1000x Faster Than NAND
Subject: Storage | July 28, 2015 - 12:41 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: XPoint, non-volatile RAM, micron, memory, Intel
Everyone that reads SSD reviews knows that NAND Flash memory comes with advantages and disadvantages. The cost is relatively good as compared to RAM, and the data remains even with power removed (non-volatile), but there are penalties in the relatively slow programming (write) speeds. To help solve this, today Intel and Micron jointly launched a new type of memory technology.
XPoint (spoken 'cross point') is a new class of memory technology with some amazing characteristics. 10x the density (vs. DRAM), 1000x the speed, and most importantly, 1000x the endurance as compared to current NAND Flash technology.
128Gb XPoint memory dies, currently being made by Intel / Micron, are of a similar capacity to current generation NAND dies. This is impressive for a first generation part, especially since it is physically smaller than a current gen NAND die of the same capacity.
Intel stated that the method used to store the bits is vastly different from what is being used in NAND flash memory today. Intel stated that the 'whole cell' properties change as a bit is being programmed, and that the fundamental physics involved is different, and that it is writable in small amounts (NAND flash must be erased in large blocks). While they did not specifically state it, it looks to be phase change memory (*edit* at the Q&A Intel stated this is not Phase Change). The cost of this technology should end up falling somewhere between the cost of DRAM and NAND Flash.
3D XPoint memory is already being produced at the Intel / Micron Flash Technology plant at Lehi, Utah. We toured this facility a few years ago.
Intel and Micron stated that this technology is coming very soon. 2016 was stated as a launch year, and there was a wafer shown to us on stage:
You know I'm a sucker for good wafer / die photos. As soon as this session breaks I'll get a better shot!
There will be more analysis to follow on this exciting new technology, but for now I need to run to a Q&A meeting with the engineers who worked on it. Feel free to throw some questions in the comments and I'll answer what I can!
*edit* - here's a die shot:
Added note - this wafer was manufactured on a 20nm process, and consists of a 2-layer matrix. Future versions should scale with additional layers to achieve higher capacities.
Something is cooking in San Francisco
Subject: Storage | July 28, 2015 - 11:26 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: Intel, micron, flash
...stay tuned!
You have a 4K monitor and $650USD, what do you do?
Subject: Graphics Cards | July 27, 2015 - 04:33 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: 4k, amd, R9 FuryX, GTX 980 Ti, gtx titan x
[H]ard|OCP have set up their testbed for a 4K showdown between the similarly priced GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 Fury X with the $1000 TITAN X tossed in there for those with more money than sense. The test uses the new Catalyst 15.7 and the GeForce 353.30 drivers to give a more even playing field while benchmarking Witcher 3, GTA V and other games. When the dust settled the pattern was obvious and the performance differences could be seen. The deltas were not huge but when you are paying $650 + tax for a GPU even performance a few frames better or a graphical option that can be used really matters. Perhaps the most interesting result was the redemption of the TITAN X, its extra price was reflected in the performance results. Check them out for yourself here.
"We take the new AMD Radeon R9 Fury X and evaluate the 4K gaming experience. We will also compare against the price competitive GeForce GTX 980 Ti as well as a GeForce GTX TITAN X. Which video card provides the best experience and performance when gaming at glorious 4K resolution?"
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- PowerColor PCS+ R9 380 4GB: The Affordable 4GB Solution @ Bjorn3D
- AMD Fury X "Fiji" Voltage Scaling @ techPowerUp
- HIS Radeon R9 390 IceQ X2 OC 8GB Video Card Review @ Madshrimps
- XFX R9 380 Double Dissipation 4GB @ [H]ard|OCP
- The New AMD GPU Open-Source Driver On Linux 4.2 Works, But Still A Lot Of Work Ahead @ Phoronix
- MSI Radeon R7 370 GAMING 4G @ Phoronix
- 15-Way AMD/NVIDIA Graphics Card Comparison For 4K Linux Gaming @ Phoronix
- PNY GTX980 Ti XLR8 OC @ Kitguru
- ASUS GTX 980 Ti STRIX Gaming 6 GB @ techPowerUp
- PNY GTX 960 XLR8 Review @ OCC
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 WindForce 3X OC 4GB Graphics Card Review @ NikKTech
- Inno3D iChill GTX 980 Ti HerculeZ X3 Air Boss Ultra @ HardwareOverclock
If you aren't into the hefty ones, check out the Noctua NH-L9x65
Subject: Cases and Cooling | July 27, 2015 - 02:19 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: noctua, NH-L9x65, low profile cooler
Morry likes big coolers and Noctua is one of his preferred brands when he wants to test the tensile stregth of a motherboard. Not all of Noctua's coolers are up to his preferences, such as the slender NH-L9x65, a waif-like 413g with the fan attached and a cute 95x95x79mm in size with a 14mm lift from that fan. TechPowerUp's testing shows that the fan is quite quiet even when spinning at full speed but even still the temperatures of the i7-4770K it was cooling were the highest on the charts. If you are cooling a CPU with a lower TDP in a small case, or even a 4770K then check out this review, the NH-L9x65 is a little expensive but certainly usable.
"Noctua's new NH-L9x65 is a low profile, small form-factor cooler. When I say small, I mean tiny as it is only slightly larger than the Intel stock heatsink, which is surprising and begs me to question its maximum potential. While performance most likely won't be its strong point, there is a chance this pint-sized offering will have a few surprises in store"
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- be quiet! Shadow Rock LP Low Profile CPU Cooler Review @HiTech Legion
- be quiet! Dark Rock TF CPU Cooler Review @ Neoseeker
- NZXT Kraken X61 @ Benchmark Reviews
- Alphacool Eisberg 240 Liquid CPU Cooler Review @ NikKTech
- CableMod ModFlex Cables @ Kitguru
- EK Vardar F4-120ER fan @ HardwareOverclock
- be quiet! Silent Base 800 @ Kitguru
- Thermaltake Suppressor F51 @ Benchmark Reviews
- BitFenix Prodigy M Micro-Tower Chassis Review @ Techgage
- be quiet! Silent Base 800 Windowed Edition Mid-Tower @ eTeknix
- Zalman Z11 NEO @ techPowerUp
- Antec S10 Full-Tower @ eTeknix
Introduction and First Impressions
The MSI GT72 Dominator Pro G gaming laptop is a beast of a portable, with a GeForce GTX 980M graphics card and a 5th-Gen Intel Core i7 processor within its massive frame. And this iteration of the GT72 features NVIDIA's G-SYNC technology, which should help provide smooth gameplay on its 75 Hz IPS display.
The gaming laptop market is filled with options at just about any price you can imagine (as long as your imagination starts at around $1000), and there are seemingly limitless combinations of specs and minute configuration differences even within a particular brand's offering. A few names stand out in this market, and MSI has created a product meant to stand tall against the likes of Alienware and ASUS ROG. And it doesn't just stand tall, it stands wide - and deep for that matter. Running about the size of home plate on a regulation baseball diamond (well, approximately anyway), this is nearly 8 ½ lbs of PC gaming goodness.
Not everyone needs a 17-inch notebook, but there's something awesome about these giant things when you see them in person. The design of this GT72 series is reminiscent of an exotic sports car (gaming laptops in general seem to have fully embraced the sports car theme), and if you're considering completely replacing a desktop for gaming and all of your other computing the extra space it takes up is more than worth it if you value a large display and full keyboard. Doubtless there are some who would simply be augmenting a desktop experience with a supremely powerful notebook like this, but for most people laptops like this are a major investment that generally replaces the need for a dedicated PC tower.
What about the cost? It certainly isn't "cheap" considering the top-of-the-line specs, and price is clearly the biggest barrier to entry with a product like this - far beyond the gargantuan size. Right off the bat I'll bring up this laptop's $2099 retail price - and not because I think it's high. It's actually very competitive as equipped. And in addition to competitive pricing MSI is also ahead of the curve a bit with its adoption of the 5th-Gen Core i7 Broadwell mobile processors, while most gaming laptops are still on Haswell. Broadwell's improved efficiency should help with battery life a bit, but your time away from a power plug is always going to be limited with gaming laptops!
Continue reading our review of the MSI GT72 Dominator Pro G G-Sync Notebook!!
Don't want Win10 patches? We have a patch for that
Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2015 - 01:24 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: microsoft, windows 10
Microsoft's decision to push out updates to non-enterprise Windows 10 without user intervention or even notification has been a bit of a hot topic recently. While those of us who have been supporting machines for a while have all seen a bad Windows update or 10 which render machines unusable, however we have also seen machines over 100 updates behind that are completely riddled with malware, trojans and other nasties which would have been blocked if those updates had been applied.
Whichever side of that debate you fall on, thanks to the nosy reporters at The Register you now can have a choice. They've posted a link to the "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package in this recent article, a tool from Microsoft which would allow you to hide certain updates before they were installed and ensure that they are not installed in the future. Patch Tuesday is gone but there will still be people keeping track of which updates are released so that if you encounter an issue you can roll back and hide that update. Of course, that assumes you enabled System Restore, which is has been disabled by default in Windows 10.
lifted from securityaffairs.co
"MICROSOFT HAS QUIETLY released a tool to stop Windows 10 downloading and installing everything it finds in Windows Update."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- AT&T swallows DirecTV in $50 BEELLION biz gulp – moments after FCC OK @ The Register
- Intel promises 'scores' of deals to underpin enterprise cloud @ The Register
- 'Stagefright' Flaw: Compromise Android With Just a Text @ Slashdot
- Microsoft delivers Exchange 2016 Preview @ The Register
- Intel to adopt Skylake CPUs in NUC and Compute Stick solutions @ DigiTimes
- All wristjobs are as insecure as $#@%, reveals unsurprising research @ The Register
... But Is the Timing Right?
Windows 10 is about to launch and, with it, DirectX 12. Apart from the massive increase in draw calls, Explicit Multiadapter, both Linked and Unlinked, has been the cause of a few pockets of excitement here and there. I am a bit concerned, though. People seem to find this a new, novel concept that gives game developers the tools that they've never had before. It really isn't. Depending on what you want to do with secondary GPUs, game developers could have used them for years. Years!
Before we talk about the cross-platform examples, we should talk about Mantle. It is the closest analog to DirectX 12 and Vulkan that we have. It served as the base specification for Vulkan that the Khronos Group modified with SPIR-V instead of HLSL and so forth. Some claim that it was also the foundation of DirectX 12, which would not surprise me given what I've seen online and in the SDK. Allow me to show you how the API works.
Mantle is an interface that mixes Graphics, Compute, and DMA (memory access) into queues of commands. This is easily done in parallel, as each thread can create commands on its own, which is great for multi-core processors. Each queue, which are lists leading to the GPU that commands are placed in, can be handled independently, too. An interesting side-effect is that, since each device uses standard data structures, such as IEEE754 decimal numbers, no-one cares where these queues go as long as the work is done quick enough.
Since each queue is independent, an application can choose to manage many of them. None of these lists really need to know what is happening to any other. As such, they can be pointed to multiple, even wildly different graphics devices. Different model GPUs with different capabilities can work together, as long as they support the core of Mantle.
DirectX 12 and Vulkan took this metaphor so their respective developers could use this functionality across vendors. Mantle did not invent the concept, however. What Mantle did is expose this architecture to graphics, which can make use of all the fixed-function hardware that is unique to GPUs. Prior to AMD's usage, this was how GPU compute architectures were designed. Game developers could have spun up an OpenCL workload to process physics, audio, pathfinding, visibility, or even lighting and post-processing effects... on a secondary GPU, even from a completely different vendor.
Vista's multi-GPU bug might get in the way, but it was possible in 7 and, I believe, XP too.
Read on to see a couple reasons why we are only getting this now...
Zounds, the Amiga is 30 years old?
Subject: General Tech | July 24, 2015 - 03:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: commodore, amiga
30 years ago Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry's voice introduced a computer which had people dropping their ZX Spectrums and Commie64's in awe, the original Commodore Amiga. It had such incredible specifications, 256KB of RAM which was upgradable to 512KB, a Motorola 68000 CPU that could handle both 16 and 32 bit addressing and OCS graphics which could manage an unheard of 640×400 resolution with 12 onscreen colour or 4096 at 320x400. There was one problem though, they were rarer than hen's teeth as Commodore vastly underestimated demand and overestimated their production capability. If you happen to be in California then check out the link at The Inquirer for there is a celebration this weekend and you might still be able to score tickets. It is amazing how far we have come in a mere generation.
"1980S BEDROOM BRILLIANCE the Commodore Amiga computer has reached the ripe old age of 30 and is still blazing in the hearts and minds of anyone who took keyboard and joystick in hand and shut the door on their parents."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- BARMY bio-boffins are growing DINOSAUR SNOUTS on CHICKENS @ The Register
- Google gives away 100 PETABYTES of storage to irritate AWS @ The Register
- Flash zero-day monster Angler dominates exploit kit crime market @ The Register
- Four PC hijack bugs revealed in Internet Explorer after Microsoft misses patch deadline @ The Register
- OpenSSH server open to almost unlimited password-guessing bug @ The Register
- BlackBerry pecks up crisis squawker AtHoc to add sauce to BBM @ The Register
- NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Review @ OCC
Subject: General Tech | July 24, 2015 - 03:39 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Intel Skylake, Intel
As always you should take these leaks with a bit of salt but if they are accurate Skylake may well offer enough enhancements to make a convincing argument for buying a new machine. The GPU portion of the high end mobile processors will be 34-41% faster than the models available now, with the desktop seeing a moderate 28% jump for those who do not have an add-in card. The low powered mobile model's performance is not much improved over the previous generation but the claimed 80% reduction in power usage is more than enough to make up for that.
SPECint benchmarks show that Skylak will offer a performance boost a bit over 10% but the added 1.4 hours of battery life is rather impressive, even the desktop part is more efficient with a 65W TDP. As for accessories, Skylake will support 4k cameras and new and improved RealSense 3D cameras, Wake on Voice support and improved touch sensors. You can see the other two leaked slides at FanlessTech.
Acer Cloudbook Windows 10 PCs in August
Subject: Systems | July 24, 2015 - 03:05 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: acer, cloudbook, Chromebook
If you think about price when you think about Chromebooks, then Microsoft is hoping to have options in Windows 10 for you. Laptops that boot into a web browser still have interesting security and ease-of-use implications, which this will not address. From the previously mentioned cost standpoint though, full-featured Windows laptops can get down to those levels, especially when Microsoft helps out on the OS license fees.
This is the more-expensive Chromebook running Google Chrome OS.
Acer will launch their Cloudbook line in August, with 11-inch and 14-inch versions, starting at $169. While you can get Chromebooks for $149, Acer's Chromebook 11 is currently selling for $179.99, which puts the Windows 10 model $10 cheaper than it. On the other hand, we don't know anything about the system specifications. It is possible that the Cloudbook could have less than an Intel Celeron with HD Graphics and 2GB of RAM -- but we hope not.
The Acer Cloudbook will not make Microsoft's July 29th launch date of Windows. Instead, as previously stated, look for it some time in August. Prices start at $169 USD.
Rumor: NVIDIA Pascal up to 17 Billion Transistors, 32GB HBM2
Subject: Graphics Cards | July 24, 2015 - 12:16 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: rumor, pascal, nvidia, HBM2, hbm, graphics card, gpu
An exclusive report from Fudzilla claims some outlandish numbers for the upcoming NVIDIA Pascal GPU, including 17 billion transistors and a massive amount of second-gen HBM memory.
According to the report:
"Pascal is the successor to the Maxwell Titan X GM200 and we have been tipped off by some reliable sources that it will have more than a double the number of transistors. The huge increase comes from Pascal's 16 nm FinFET process and its transistor size is close to two times smaller."
The NVIDIA Pascal board (Image credit: Legit Reviews)
Pascal's 16nm FinFET production will be a major change from the existing 28nm process found on all current NVIDIA GPUs. And if this report is accurate they are taking full advantage considering that transistor count is more than double the 8 billion found in the TITAN X.
(Image credit: Fudzilla)
And what about memory? We have long known that Pascal will be NVIDIA's first forray into HBM, and Fudzilla is reporting that up to 32GB of second-gen HBM (HBM2) will be present on the highest model, which is a rather outrageous number even compared to the 12GB TITAN X.
"HBM2 enables cards with 4 HBM 2.0 cards with 4GB per chip, or four HBM 2.0 cards with 8GB per chips results with 16GB and 32GB respectively. Pascal has power to do both, depending on the SKU."
Pascal is expected in 2016, so we'll have plenty of time to speculate on these and doubtless other rumors to come.
Team Red gets NASty with QNAP
Subject: Storage | July 23, 2015 - 07:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: TVS-x63, qnap, Puma, amd
AMD is exploring alternate product routes to raise their income and the latest seems to be the Puma powered QNAP TVS-x63. It is a four bay NAS which is powered by the 2.4GHz AMD GX424-CC SoC which happens to have a 28 stream processor GCN Radeon clocked at 497 MHz. It has a pair of gigabit ports with an optional add-in card offering a single 10Gb or two additional 1Gb ports, though that will raise you above the cost of the $630 base model. Bjorn3d found the power consumption to be higher than the competition but the overall operation was flawless.
"The QNAP TVS-x63 marked the world's first NAS featuring AMD processor. AMD's new strategy is targeting the markets with high profit return and the company is returning to the server market. NAS, by extension, is like a small scale server, so it makes sense to see AMD putting their processors into these devices."
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The death of Charlotte civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers gives us the opportunity and, perhaps, the responsibility to reflect upon his importance as a public figure. Simply put, Chambers's work and the work of others he inspired are directly responsible for North Carolina casting off a culture of segregation and repression and replacing it with one of inclusion and opportunity.
That said, his passing brought to my mind many personal memories.
I remember the first time I heard Chambers's name more than 50 years ago. In 1962, as a student at Davidson College, still all male, all white, I heard a radio report saying that a Negro law student at the University of North Carolina School of Law had been appointed editor of the Law Review and had the highest grades in his class. I never forgot his name. From that moment on I understood that blacks could not only be just as good lawyers or law students as whites, they could be better, much better.
Six years later I got to meet Chambers for the first time. It was the spring of 1968 and I was in my last year at Yale Law School when I learned that he had started an integrated law firm in Charlotte. So I decided to come back to North Carolina to knock on Chambers's door and visit other law firms.
I started in Raleigh where I got my friend John McConnell to introduce me to people in his law firm, Broughton and Broughton. Everyone there was busy working on Mel Broughton's campaign for governor in the upcoming Democratic primary.
Then, thanks to a good friend's dad, W. W. Taylor Jr., I visited his firm, Maupin, Taylor, and Ellis, where I got a warm welcome. But after waiting a long time to see Mr. Ellis, I learned that he was meeting with Jesse Helms about a political campaign, probably Mel Broughton's.
In Charlotte, my friend, Ross Smyth, got me an invitation to visit Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell, and Hickman. Marcus Hickman invited me into his office to talk. Before we got started, he took a telephone call. For a long time, he counseled Jack Stickley, who was a gubernatorial candidate in the Republican primary. That talk went on for a half an hour before Hickman had a chance to look me over.
Later that day, I walked down East Trade Street. to visit the Chambers law firm in a walk-up office above pawn shops and low-end clothing stores. Chambers's partner, Adam Stein, greeted me and sat me down outside Chambers's office. I watched and listened through an open door as Chambers gave Dr. Reginald Hawkins advice about his Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign. After a long while, he motioned for me to come in, and we spent a few minutes talking about his hopes for his law firm and for the community's future.
Neither Broughton, nor Stickley, nor Hawkins won their primary elections. I returned to law school without an offer from any of the firms I visited.
But the glimpse I got of lawyers and their political lives demonstrated that North Carolina was going to be a very interesting place for me to live and work.
A month later, Marcus Hickman's firm gave me an offer that led to 20 happy and fulfilling years of law practice with that group.
It took Julius Chambers 30 years to offer me a job. While serving as chancellor of North Carolina Central University, he asked me to serve a short time as a vice chancellor. It gave me the chance to experience up close his determined work ethic and hard-driving, demanding leadership style, together with the quiet authority his service and success had earned him.
For these memories and the better North Carolina he left us, I will always be grateful to Julius Chambers.
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This week's (Aug. 11, 15) guest is Wiley Cash author of "A Land More Kind than Home."
Gastonia native Wiley Cash exploded on to the national literary scene with his debut novel, "A Land More Kind than Home." Readers meet a storefront, snake-handling preacher who turns out to be one of the most complicated and interesting villains I have ever encountered in fiction.
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Gossip Girl Recap of Season 6, Episode 8, "It's Really Complicated": Love Is a Winning Game
Just when we thought our favorite CW soap had lost its grip on dramatic tension, style, and all things Chair (read: the most important things in life), showrunners served up Gossip Girl Season 6, Episode 8, "It's Really Complicated." Although the characters were meeting under the guise of a traditional holiday meal, it was essentially just a way to roundup up all of the UES' most dysfunctional characters at one big table. Aside from the usual hilarious quips and meddling moments, the show took the time to funnel all the lessons from the past six years into one succinct message: Do you want to be happy or do you want to win?
In Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) and Blair (Leighton Meester)'s case, happiness and winning are tied together in a single fate. The episode begins with the OTP fated love birds not speaking to each other. In fact, Chuck has gone so far as to have Blair banned from The Empire (unsuccessfully, naturally). Chuck's failure to ruin his father has landed him flat on his face in bed. Or, as Nate puts it, Chuck's only hobbies are "drinking in bed and arguing with Monkey." Hey, we'd watch that reality show.
Blair weasels her way into The Empire by posing as a stripper, wins Chuck back with "a push up bra, a purse pouch, and Bart [Bass]'s passwords." A murderous wolf in sheep's clothing — and we wouldn't have it any other way. Blair's two coy plays work: Thanksgiving dinner ends in disaster for Serena (Blake Lively) and Dan (Penn Badgley) (more on that later), toppling her BFF's dysfunctional relationship. Then, Blair bests Chuck at his own game of war, persuading Lily (Kelly Rutherford) to finally see the homicidal light shining from her husband's heart hole.
Blair wins Chuck back by showing him that Bart can be toppled — with a strategy focused fully on truth rather than deception. Lily needs to believe that her stepson is the one who is honest, and it is Blair who finally convinces her.
In stark comparison to Chuck and Blair, Serena and Dan's future hinges upon dishonesty. Dan is out to prove that he is no longer an outsider to the UES, while Serena is blind to Dan's motives — and hungry to believe their love is a real thing. When Dan tells his father he can't "win" without Serena, we didn't fathom that he meant 'win' by ruining her — and ruin her he does, vis a vis Vanity Fair on Thanksgiving Day. Of all of the ways to fall from grace, this one smacks especially of a van der Woodsen unseating.
Dan has written not one but two chapters on Serena. The first, as Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg) so cunningly puts it, is Dan's love song for Serena, the second being the honest and frank take-down they've been plotting all summer. Dan's wordy-entitled chapter, "Serena van der Woodsen: Golden Girl Falls From Grace, a Faux Love Story" is published mid-Thanksgiving dinner, vindicating everyone — especially Blair, who had just called him a "wool-headed whiner."
Serena is shocked by Dan's betrayal (seemingly the only one of them who is), and spends the rest of her Thanksgiving evening pouring over the chapter on her iPad. "Serena is nothing, she is a golden shell," Dan writes (what is this? Sweet Valley High?). Dan tells her he only wrote the truth, hoping to break into the UES castle, upon whose steel doors he's been pounding since we first met him. Serena still can't see that she considers Dan an outsider, and is furious with his betrayal. "You used to be different," she tells him. "I used to be, but it got me nowhere," Dan retorts. Then, to really send the ostracism message home, Nate (Chace Crawford) punches him in the face.
Lily and Bart are supposed to be in St. Bart's by the time Thanksgiving hits, but instead get waylaid by a "storm" (and Lily's empty Valium bottle). In perhaps the best scene in the entire episode, Lily chortles to Blair about the hors d'oeuvres: "The toasted almonds are such a lovely surprise." Blair promptly segues into murder: "Speaking of surprises, did you hear Bruce Caplan died by falling off the Bart Industries yacht?" Lily is aghast that her husband has entangled himself in yet another murder.
By the end of the episode, Lily has somehow recovered her wits from where she's been storing them for the past 7 episodes and calls Chuck while she's running away to the country. She tells Chuck that she read all the microfilm containing the top secret info before tossing them in the fire. Worried for both of their safety, Lily's decided to turn her trust — and implicating information — over to Chuck. "Be safe, Charles," she cautions.
Nate, crippled by guilt about what he's done to Chuck by selling him out to Bart, falls back into Sage (Sofia Black-D'Elia)'s wily grip. "Now you're the good boy and the bad boy. I'm not going anywhere." Truer words, never spoken.
Of course he's gluten-free. And tieless.
Rufus (Matthew Settle)'s wardrobe is cheating on him with Nate Archibald. Details TBD.


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On August 22 and 23, KidsPeace will be holding its 12th Annual Soccer Invitational on the Orchard Hills Campus and a few auxiliary fields. We have 90 teams signed up to play, but we have very few volunteers to make sure that the weekend runs smoothly. There are so many things to do from directing traffic and parking, selling tee shirts and food and drinks, giving visitors information and directions, preparing the fields between games, and many other tasks that can be assigned to adults and older children. If you know adult or teen community members who would like to volunteer and get to watch some great soccer, please pass this request on to them as well. To learn more about how you can help, please call Kelly Fritzinger at 610-799-7495.
Enjoy a great day of outdoor competition and a chance to show off your marksmanship skills. KidsPeace will be holding a sporting clays fundraiser at Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays in Coplay, PA, on September 25, 2009. The proceeds of this event will go directly to the KidsPeace Children's Fund to provide resources for children receiving services from the various KidsPeace sites. Register with friends or through your company and please consider a corporate sponsorship for your team. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. and includes a barbecue after the competition. The deadline for registration is September 15, but register by August 15 and receive a 10% discount. For more information on this fun day, call Colleen Kulp at 610-799-7906. Download the event brochure by clicking here.
The Axis Young Adult Ministry will be holding a concert to benefit KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs in Wayne County, PA, on Sunday, August 2, 2009. The concert will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 10:00 p.m. and be held in the auditorium of Grace Episcopal Church, 827 Church Street, Honesdale, PA, 18431. Featured performers include Cabinet, Dealer in Wares and Last Remnants, local Bluegrass, Clasic Rock and Blues bands. Coffee will be donated by Bean's Roasting House and Cafe, and there will be a bake sale that will also benefit KidsPeace. Tickets are $6 per person, $5 if a canned good is donated. For more informatioln, email firstname.lastname@example.com. KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs is grateful to the Axis Young Adult Ministry for improving the lives of foster children in Wayne County.
National KidsDay is an opportunity to plan a special day with the children in your life. August 2nd is the first Sunday in August and the day designated by Congress to recognize the importance of spending time with children -- your sons and daughters, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends' children or any child you can make feel important and special. KidsPeace created this day to recognize and celebrate the importance of the children in our lives and their need for positive time with caring adults. Tell us how you celebrated this year by writing a comment and forwarding it to KidsPeace.
Dear Friends of KidsPeace
I am writing to inform you of a fire we had early Thursday morning at our Pioneer Center building in Orefield, Pennsylvania. Let me assure you that there were no injuries and all children and KidsPeace associates were evacuated quickly and calmly. The fire, which began at around 3:00 a.m., was contained in an administrative section of the building and never threatened the children who were on site. The local fire departments responded rapidly and had the fire under control within 2 hours. These dedicated volunteer fire fighters remained on the scene for several hours to ensure that the fire was completely out and the building secured. We are extremely proud of the KidsPeace associates who acted according to protocols and removed the children from the premises in an orderly, rapid manner. The 25 children were immediately transported to the Therapeutic Education Center on our Orchard Hills Campus and beds were made ready for them so that they could get back to sleep after this incident. We are preparing two residential houses on the Orchard Hills campus for these young men, and they should be able to move in very soon. Counselors are available to talk to the children about the incident and to provide whatever support they require to deal with this event. The extent of damage to the building has not yet been determined, and the fire marshal is investigating to find the cause, which is believed to be an electrical issue in the administrative section of the building. Safety is the number one element of the KidsPeace Model of Care, and this incident demonstrates that we take the safety of our children and associates very seriously. All of the children at KidsPeace are safe, unharmed and participating in their daily summer counseling sessions and activities. We want to extend a special thank you to all of the local businesses, referral sources, community members and religious organizations that have reached out to offer support and assistance to our organization. We truly appreciate each and every overture and we are thankful to have such an extended network of support to help us as we help those in our care.Yours Truly,Will IsemannPresident and CEO
The KidsPeace 12th annual Soccer Tournament is extending the registration deadline to July 24, 2009. Many coaches have contacted us saying that they have been on vacation and couldn't make the registration deadline. The tournament will be held on the Orchard Hills Campus of KidsPeace in Orefield, PA, on August 22 and 23. Each team is guaranteed 3 games, and the tournament is open to girls and boys from U-9 to U-15 and girls U-9 - U-17. Click here for registration information, or call Jennelle Perich at 610-799-8493.
Please note that volunteering at this tournament is considered a community service, which youth can use for scouting, churches or other service organizations. For more information on volunteering, please call Kelly Fritzinger at 610-799-7495.
Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) is a process by which families participate in planning the best course of action for their children during a comprehensive meeting that is facilitated by a caseworker. Jennifer Cox is the KidsPeace Family Group Conferencing Coordinator and Facilitator in Duncansville, PA, who directs these meeting for families in Blair County. Following the assumption that families know their children the best and are therefore best suited to set and attain goals with their children, county agencies refer families with at-risk children to participate in FGDM. The meeting includes the child, family members, caseworkers and other adults who care about the child and are committed to finding the best solutions to address concerns; thereby, maintaining the child safely in his or her home. The family, along with professionals, provides information (Strengths and Concerns) throughout the first part of the meeting, but the family group meets in private to actually develop the plan of action and gain commitment from all attendees to follow through and ensure success of the plan. KidsPeace in Duncansville has been extremely successful with FGDM, and hopes to be expanding the program to other counties. Recently, Director of the Family Unity Project Jim Nice, who has introduced FGDM to 33 states, visited the Blair County Implementation team and met with Judge Jolene Kopriva, county workers, and KidsPeace Family Group Conferencing Coordinator/Facilitator Jennifer Cox. After the group meeting, Mr. Nice, who has co-authored two books on the subject, sat in on an actual FGDM meeting conducted by KidsPeace. Mr. Nice wrote a report following his day with the KidsPeace facilitated FGDM meeting and had kind words for Jennifer and the KidsPeace approach:I had the honor of being invited to observe a Blair County family conference. It was held at the Valley View Park in Altoona on Saturday afternoon, June 27. Jennifer Cox had worked with a young woman living at a treatment center, who was transitioning from high school into college, emancipating into adulthood, away from her family and needing help, support and friendship. She invited those close to her and her family. Her father, who had not been in her life since she was a child, responded positively as did her friends. Her maternal family did not participate, related to issues involved with her being in treatment. She decided to have a conference with those that would participate. She chose the park on a beautiful early summer day.She needed help. Blair County helped her do FGDM, careful that she understood the process, was free to decide to move forward with it, and prepare her and all those invited for the event. Her father came early and spent some time with her. They all gathered at the reserved park pavilion. Jennifer and Shari McConnell (of KidsPeace) had arrived early and prepared the pavilion for the conference and provided refreshments. I admired their flexibility, patience and respect and that of her county caseworker, Melissa Stump. They were helpful through every step of the conference. Some guests arrived late. The family decided when to wait, when to start. The noise and the wind made things clumsy, but they did it very well. After the strengths and concerns were listened to and recorded in phase one, those of us who were not in the family group retired under a tree on a nearby hillside. When we were called back to listen to their plan, Jennifer and Shari carefully learned what had been decided, with close attention to details, before asking Melissa for the agency support. She was careful to understand the plan. She gladly gave agreement and support to what had been decided. Attention was paid to a follow-up to assure the plans were working.There was clearly sadness that often goes with major changes in life, especially in troubled and difficult times. I also sensed in this young woman some hope and reassurance from having people who love and care for her gather around to help. As I left that night, I admired the county, Jennifer, Shari, Melissa, and those who work with her at the center, for helping her a gather those who love her, to help her through these times.These words of praise are especially precious since Mr. Nice is considered to be the person who introduced FGDM to the child welfare system. He has been a teacher, CPS caseworker, family therapist and parenting educator, as well as a consultant to the Child Welfare League of America, National Council of Family and Juvenile Court Judges, University of Iowa, University of Washington, University of California, Davis, Iowa State University, Eastern Kentucky University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He lives in rural Polk County in Oregon and worked for Oregon's Children's Services from 1981 to 1994.Thanks to KidsPeace's success in Duncansville, we have been awarded a contract to provide FGDM in Schuylkill County. We hope to eventually grow our programming to many other counties in PA and eventually to other states that provide funding for this type of initiative, which focuses on family strengths, keeps families together and gives them the tools to address concerns and make home a safer, more empowering environment for all family members.
Please join us for the 8th Annual KidsPeace Toy Run. Sponsored by the Independent Bikers of Pennsylvania
Sunday, July 19, 2009 (Rain or shine)
Leaves at 12 p.m. (Noon). Registration starts at 10 a.m. from Werry's Pub to KidsPeace in Orefield, PA. There will be live music, food, pavillion and pool for kids, auction, raffles and more at Werry's Pub.
$15 donation. Kids 12 and under, $2.50. Donations of new toys, clothes, videos, etc., for children 10-18 years old are appreciated and needed.
Directions to Werry's Pub: I-80 to Exit 309 (old 52), follow Rte. 209 North for 4 miles. Make right approx. 1 1/4 miles. Werry's Pub is on the left after fleamarket.
Contact Owen for more information at 570-223-9934 or 917-488-3957.
The 12th Annual KidsPeace Soccer Invitational will be held on August 22 and 23, 2009. The registration deadline is drawing near, so teams are encouraged to sign up today to ensure a spot on the roster. We are accepting U11 teams in both 8v8 and 11v11 format, and we are also offering a $25 discount per team if 5 teams or more from the same club register for this great weekend. Remember that all teams are guaranteed 3 games, more if they reach the finals. There will be family activities and camping available on our beautiful campus. For more information, call Jenelle Perich at 610-799-8493.
This letter was passed along by Program Manager Lance Edminister of KidsPeace Mesabi Academy in Buhl, Minnesota. They young man wanted it to go to the "person in charge" and was very sincere in his desire to have this associate receive recognition of his great work with the kids.Vice President of Mesabi Academy:I have somewhat of an unexpected request. My one on one (Mr. Lenzen) has done a remarkable job since I have been here. I cannot explain how well he does at his job. However, I can say that he is a big part of why I am so successful in my treatment. The people who work on our unit are the people who change lives. I could not have done this without Mr. Lenzen. I do not know you, so I do not how supportive you will be of this letter. But I made a decision that if I am being recognized for my work, then he should be too. He is a great staff and a great person. I am not sure how he can be recognized, but I hope you will possibly find some way to do so. Thank you for reading my letter.Sincerely,Michael*
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Jeffrey Kahn joined the SMU Law faculty in Fall 2006. He teaches and writes on American constitutional law, Russian law, human rights, and counterterrorism. In 2007-2008, he received the Maguire Teaching Fellow Award from the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at SMU for his seminar, "Perspectives on Counterterrorism." In 2008-2009, he was named a Colin Powell Fellow of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. In 2010, he received SMU's Outstanding Faculty Award, a university-wide award given each year to a junior, tenure-track faculty member for excellence in teaching, curricular development, and scholarship. In 2011, the year he was tenured and promoted to associate professor, he received the Law School's Excellence in Teaching Award.
His latest research on U.S. legal topics focuses on the right to travel and national security law. His most recent book, Mrs. Shipley's Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists (University of Michigan Press, 2013), critically examines the U.S. Government's No Fly List. Among other publications, his articles have appeared in the UCLA Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and the peer-reviewed Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
His work on Russian law has been noted by name by the editors of the New York Times and published in various law reviews as well as the peer-reviewed journals Post-Soviet Affairs and Review of Central and East European Law. His latest research has focused primarily on the influence in Russia of the European Convention on Human Rights. In 2011, Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev's Human Rights Council asked him─the one American among six other experts from Russia, one from Germany, and one from the Netherlands─to write an expert report on the second conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. This work and its repercussions was described in a recent essay published in the New York Times (online) and International Herald Tribune (print).
He is a graduate of Yale College, Oxford University (where he won the Hodgson Martin Prize for Best Dissertation for his doctoral work on Russian federalism), and the University of Michigan Law School. His first book, based on that dissertation, was published by Oxford University Press while he was a law student. During law school, he also served as a lecturer on European human rights law at summer training programs in Moscow for Russian lawyers sponsored by the Council of Europe. After law school, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas P. Griesa of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division, United States Department of Justice from October 2003 until April 2006.
He is a founding member of the Advisory Board for the SMU Embrey Human Rights Education Program. SMU is the first university in the South, and only the fifth in the country, to offer an academic major in human rights. The major is currently the fastest growing major in the University. He is also a Faculty Associate of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies.
International Travel and the U.S. Constitution, 56 UCLA Law Review 271-350 (2008).
Zoya's Standing Problem, or, When Should the Constitution Follow the Flag? 108 Michigan Law Review 673-725 (2010).
Ten Questions on National Security (invited contribution), 36 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. J. of the Nat'l Security Forum 5041-5060 (2010).
No-Limit Texas Hold'em, or, The Voir Dire in Dallas County, 13 Green Bag 2D 383-97 (2010).
The Extraordinary Mrs. Shipley: How the United States Controlled International Travel before the Age of Terrorism, 43 Conn. L. Rev. 819-888 (2011) (Selected for Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, 2010).
The Case of Colonel Abel, 5 Journal of National Security Law & Policy (forthcoming 2011).
Report on the Verdict against M.B. Khodorkovsky and P.L. Lebedev, 4 Journal of Eurasian Law 321-534 (2011) (entire issue devoted to report)
The Unification of Law in the Russian Federation (with A. Trochev & N. Balayan), 25 Post-Soviet Affairs 310-46 (Oct.-Dec. 2009).
Vladimir Putin & the Rule of Law in Russia, 36 Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law 511-58 (2008) (lead article) (quoted in New York Times editorial, Russia's Dictatorship of Law, Nov. 21, 2010, Week in Review Section, p. 7).
Russia's Criminal Procedure Code Five Years Out, (with William Burnham) in 33 Review of Central & East European Law 1-93 (2008) (lead article).
The Search for the Rule of Law in Russia, 37 Georgetown Journal of International Law 353-409 (2006).
Russia's 'Dictatorship of Law' and the European Court of Human Rights, 29 Review of Central & East European Law 1-14 (2004) (lead article).
Russian Compliance with Articles Five & Six of the European Convention of Human Rights as a Barometer of Legal Reform & Human Rights in Russia, 35 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 641-94 (2002).
The Parade of Sovereignties: Establishing the Vocabulary of the New Russian Federalism, 16 Post-Soviet Affairs 58-89 (2000).
Mrs. Shipley's Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists. University of Michigan Press, 2013.
Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia. Oxford University Press, 2002.


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Shelburne Museum to open art center in AugustThe Associated Press | April 03,2013SHELBURNE — The Shelburne Museum's new Center for Art and Education is scheduled to open on Aug. 18.
The opening will mark the first time in the museum's 66-year history that it will be open year-round.
The center will allow the museum to have an expanded range of exhibitions and new programming.
The 18,000-square-foot center was designed by Ann Beha Architects, a Boston-based firm. The center includes galleries, an auditorium and a classroom.
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Mike Perkis will be on the ballot for the May 7 election.
Old news, right? Perkis announced he was running for Sullivan's Island mayor, and no one else decided to run against him. But, state code allows unopposed races not to be put to an election in a cost-saving practice. Five people are running for three expiring town council seats, though, so the Town of Sullivan's Island will put Perkis' name on the ballot. It's also a way for the town to have political transparency, clerk Ellen Miller said Friday morning after the Sullivan's Island election commission met briefly.
The lawsuit brought forward by three Sullivan's Island residents against the town concerning Sullivan's Island Elementary School will proceed into the courts.
The Town of Sullivan's Island asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit Friday, but that request was denied, administrator Andy Benke confirmed Monday morning.
Mayor pro tem Mike Perkis admitted the town's lawyers considered it a "long shot" to have it dismissed, but said it was worth a try. "This is just a procedural move, and the next decision will be based on the facts and the laws. "The case now goes through the legal system just like any other case." A rebuilt Sullivan's Island Elementary is scheduled to open the fall of 2014. The school, a $26.5 million project, will be 74,000 square feet. The lawsuit is seeking to accomplish a town vote on the school, because the size and design – about twice as big as the former building – have been controversial. A group against the proposed school obtained the necessary amount of petitions for a referendum, but legal counsel representing the town, as well as outside counsel, determined the petition was defective.
"The young children in this area are entitled to their school, and nothing in this suit by a few residents can get in the way of the rebuilding of SIES on Sullivan's Island," Perkis said. "Our lawyers are just as confident today as they were before that the suit has no merit, and the town will prevail when the case is presented."
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DOBSON — The Surry County Child Protective Services Team is offering support to help keep residents safe from carbon monoxide poisoning and to comfort the homeless.
"Everyone is predicting that it's going to be a bad winter," said Amanda Dolinger, who works in the state department of public safety. "Social workers with local agencies are reporting that we will be seeing more families without proper heating sources."
Dolinger, who is the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Division of Juvenile Justice Court counselor supervisor, characterized the protective services team as a team of 15 professionals from a variety of local agencies that identifies needs and coordinates stop gap, short-term measures to fill in the gaps.
"There is not enough financial help out there to meet the fuel bill needs of these families," added Dolinger, who said she knows of instances in which families use a charcoal stove for heating. "We are seeing families that have the option to use a kerosene stove or freezer. Our approach is if you have to use potentially dangerous heaters, make yourself a little safer with a carbon monoxide detector that is installed in the home.
"We are seeing a lot of families that do not have the means to afford a carbon monoxide detector," said Dolinger. "We are hoping to approach local fire departments for their support to get them to help install the detectors for these families."
The need for such was brought home tragically when two Elkin children, a 7-year-old and an 8-year-old, died as a result of carbon monoxide build up in their home.
Dolinger said the Mount Airy Fire Department already is providing detectors. The protective services team also is accepting donations of batteries and carbon monoxide detectors for needy families. Dolinger said a drop-off center for these items has been set up at the Reece Building in Dobson. She said the Surry County School system has volunteered the use of the building as a central location for the initiative. Persons may drop off detectors or batteries at the building Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
She said another need that has been identified by the protective services is extending some comfort to the homeless.
"There is a homeless issue in Surry County," explained Dolinger. "They are not sleeping on the streets or under bridges. A lot of what we are seeing now is many sleeping on someone's floor in the clothes that are on their backs. This really impacts the children. When mom and dad lose their jobs, they lose the kids when the children go to live with someone else with limited resources."
A short-term solution offered by the team is to provide blankets for the homeless. Several sites have been established as pick-up or drop-off zones for blankets. Dolinger said that no questions will be asked for persons asking for adult or baby blankets at the sites.
Dolinger said drop boxes for gently used or new blankets have been set up at Pilot Mountain Outreach Center on Old Highway 52. Other sites include the Easter Seals office and in Mount Airy on Lebanon Street, The Salvation Army in Mount Airy and at TriCounty Christian Crisis Ministries in Elkin. Health professionals will provide those going to TriCounty with special strips they will turn in there for blankets.
She said already many faith-based organizations have staged events to benefit the homeless. She said the First Baptist Church in Pilot Mountain's youth group has collected and made blankets for a recent drive. Dolinger said Cornerstone Baptist Church women also have sponsored a blanket drive.
"The faith-based community has picked up the torch on this in our area," said Dolinger. She said the Dobson First Baptist Church has agreed to clean gently used blankets being donated for the homeless.
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The Todd McFarlane Show starts its second season April 3 on MLB Radio at MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball. Todd's show, which will run each Thursday from 4 to 5 PM Eastern during baseball's regular season, offers listeners an eclectic mix of sports talk and entertainment, a concept we call "Homers and Hollywood," similar to Fox Sports' Best Damn Sports Show Period.
During March, the show takes a different twist, as MLB.com focuses on spring training games. On Fridays in March (7, 14, 21 and 28), Todd and Seth will talk baseball from 12:30 to 1 PM Eastern, without guests.
With more schedule changes than a reality TV show, how can you keep track of it all? By visiting the new spawn.com special events page dedicated to the show. Simply head over to http://www.spawn.com/news/events/mlbradio.aspx where you can listen to the live show each week, as well as check out highlight clips of past guests. The page features a direct link to MLB Radio's home page to listen live, as well as segments from past shows that have aired since Todd started his gig in June 2002. The page is accessible from anywhere on spawn.com by a special banner on the right side of the window.
And now, on to Todd's Sports Picks Challenge: During the Feb. 28 show, Todd and Seth compared notes on the order teams would finish in each of the six MLB divisions (American League and National League - West, Central and East). On air, Todd challenged listeners (and anyone reading spawn.com) to beat his predictions for the 2003 season. If someone does, that successful prognosticator will win all of the new McFarlane's Sports Picks baseball figures produced in 2003, which adds up to, well a lot of little men in tight plastic pants.
To enter the contest, send an e-mail to email@example.com with your NAME, MAILING ADDRESS and your PICKS for the standings in each division at the end of the regular season, placing equal weight on the exact (and we mean EXACT) placement of all teams, whether it's the first-, third- or last-place team.NL West (five teams)
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Contest rules and points system: Having each team listed in their correct finish (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc) in all six divisions at the end of the regular baseball season is worth zero (0) points, which is a perfect score. If your pick for 2nd place in the NL West ends up in 5th, you are charged 3 points. If that same pick finishes in first, you lose 1 point. So, it doesn't matter if a team finishes better or worse than your pick, it still costs you. Remember, we said exact!
The person who scores closest to "0" (cumulative for all divisions) AND beats Todd's score wins the toys. If more than one person beats Todd, we will have a random drawing for the winner. If no one beats Todd, we keep the goods. Ties go to the company (just like Las Vegas, baby!)
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Entry deadline is Friday March 21, 2003. To be eligible, include your picks, along with name, street address and phone number. Duplicate, multiple (from the same person) or incomplete entries will be deleted. The winner (if there is one) will be announced on spawn.com, Friday Oct. 3, 2003.
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