charter amen: October 2013

Monday, October 28, 2013

New looks and a familiar favorite for NBA 2013-14

Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard, center, shoots over San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan. left, and Danny Green (4) during the first half of a preseason NBA basketball game, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) shoots over Brooklyn Nets' Joe Johnson (7) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 in New York. The Nets won the game 86-62. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose warms up before an NBA preseason basketball game against the Denver Nuggets in Chicago on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Los Angeles Clippers power forward Blake Griffin, center, goes up for a dunk as Utah Jazz power forward Derrick Favors and point guard Scott Machado look on during the first half of their NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Dwight Howard moved on and Derrick Rose came back, though Kobe Bryant won't quite yet. Nine first-time coaches are coming in and David Stern will soon head out.

With different looks all around the NBA in 2013-14, one familiar sight remains: LeBron James and the Miami Heat are entering another season as the team to beat.

The two-time defending champions will collect their rings Tuesday night, then open against the Chicago Bulls, who with a healthy Rose might be the team that can unseat the Heat.

Or maybe it's San Antonio or Indiana, both a game away last year — actually, the Spurs were just seconds away — from finishing off Miami. Perhaps it's the Nets or Clippers, after both picked up pieces of the old Celtics that had the Heat's respect but not their number.

If someone does dethrone King James, it won't be because he was satisfied with two titles and lost his edge.

"When the hunger is gone, I'm going to give it up," James said. "I've got a talent and I'm going to take full advantage of it. So I'm hungry.

"I love the game. There's nothing I would do more than play this game of basketball. So the championships are all great, but I'm playing for more than that. I've got a bigger calling than that."

If he means becoming the best ever, he might be on his way. With four MVP trophies and no noticeable weaknesses, the gap with his peers is getting larger and the one with the greats before him is shrinking.

"He's the best on the planet right now. I don't know what you can do, but just hope that he misses," said Nets coach Jason Kidd, one of the nine coaches getting his first opportunity. In total, 13 teams changed coaches.

James did miss in the closing seconds of Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but the Heat got the rebound to set up Ray Allen's tying 3-pointer, pulled it out in overtime and won Game 7 to deny the Spurs a fifth title.

San Antonio may get another chance to finish the job, or may not even be the best team in Texas after Howard joined James Harden in Houston.

Howard bolted after one unfulfilling season in Los Angeles, where he and Bryant never found a working partnership. The center already seems happier and healthier in Houston, where he and Harden can build a potent inside-outside tandem.

As for Bryant, he'll watch the Lakers' opener, and who knows how much more, while he continues to rehab from a torn Achilles' tendon. Questions over how well he can play at 35 after such a serious injury, along with Howard's departure, created unusually low expectations for the Lakers.

Instead, the buzz in Los Angeles is about the Clippers, who hired Doc Rivers to coach while Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett went to Brooklyn after Boston's breakup. That also could make both longtime losers not only the current kings of their cities, but also contenders to reach the NBA Finals — which are returning to the 2-2-1-1-1 format after 29 years of 2-3-2.

Here are five other things to watch around the NBA this season:

SITTING SPEEDSTERS: While Rose returns after sitting out last season with a torn ACL, Russell Westbrook and Rajon Rondo remain out recovering from knee surgeries. A healthy Westbrook makes Oklahoma City a title contender while Rondo could help the Celtics exceed expectations — or perhaps become the next player they trade.

UP AND COMERS: They're not ready to contend for a title, but keep an eye on New Orleans, Washington and Cleveland, all with dynamite young players who may be good enough to carry their franchises back to the postseason.

CHANGING COMMISSIONERS: Adam Silver replaces the retiring Stern as commissioner on Feb. 1, exactly 30 years after Stern took office. Silver has done much of the heavy lifting for years, but he'll be replacing one of the greatest executives sports has seen. "I'm excited for the league and for the future, and for the fact that having been at the league now for 36 years, we've reached this point and there's a really extraordinary executive in Adam ready to take it to the next level," Stern said.

SUMMER STORIES: Business will really pick up after the next NBA champion is crowned. Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins, should he decide to enter the draft, could become the most sought-after prospect in years. Free agency will then open on July 1 with James and Carmelo Anthony perhaps set to top the class.

WHO WINS?: The Heat are the choice of everyone from odds makers to the executives who voted in the NBA.com GM survey. But they were enormous favorites last season after a 27-game winning streak during a 66-win regular season and almost fell. This time, there's even more teams capable of finally knocking them off. "They are the favorites, but I don't think they're the heavy favorites," Hall of Famer and TNT analyst Charles Barkley said. "Everybody's picking the Heat right now, but there's some teams, they're going to have some stiff competition."

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LinkedIn's Intro tool for iPhones could be a juicy target for attackers

Some people think a lot can go wrong if you have your emails pass through LinkedIn's servers with the company's new Intro technology.

Earlier this week, the company released LinkedIn Intro, a plug-in for the iPhone's native email app that attaches people's LinkedIn profile information to their emails. The service is meant to add more professional context to emails, but it does that at the expense of users' private data, some security experts say.

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By transmitting sent and received emails through LinkedIn's servers, which then scrape and analyze them for data, the service essentially amounts to a "man-in-the-middle attack," security consulting firm Bishop Fox wrote in a staff blog post.

"The introduction of new data sources into a medium rife with security issues such as email is a dream for attackers," Bishop Fox wrote, noting that it could only be a matter of time before someone uses the service to launch a phishing attack.

The concept of being watched online, in an age of targeted advertising, cookies, geolocation data and the National Security Agency, is not new. But in trying to embed LinkedIn profile information into people's email, the company looks at too much information, said Carl Livitt, managing securities associate at Bishop Fox. "The company used a massive hammer to crack an egg," Livitt said.

For online attackers, Intro makes LinkedIn a juicy target, he said.

LinkedIn maintains a privacy policy for the service, which states that each piece of data is encrypted with a key that is unique to the user and his device. "The servers themselves are secured and monitored 24/7 to prevent any unauthorized access," it says.

Though LinkedIn doesn't say that it decrypts emails while they're on the servers in order to make modifications and attach people's profile information, that's what's happening, Livitt said.

But some other observers don't think Intro raises any new security issues. "It's the same situation as every other cloud service provider," including Google, Yahoo, AOL and many others, said security expert and author Bruce Schneier. "You have to trust them."

"It's just another company ... in it for the money," he said. "Before, it was 1,000 companies you had to trust -- now it's 1,001."

LinkedIn may already be walking on thin ice when it comes to data security. The company suffered a major breach of its password database last year, which saw millions of hashed passwords appear in an online forum in Russia.

In a statement, a LinkedIn spokeswoman said the company takes the privacy and security of its members' data seriously, and that it has "taken a thoughtful approach to ensure we've put the right security precautions in place for the LinkedIn Intro product."

If the security risks are real, is the service that Intro provides worth it? That comes down to being a personal choice, Bishop Fox's Livitt said, but for him the answer is "no."

"I would not recommend Intro to any of my clients," he said.

Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com.

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Tepco can't yet be trusted to restart world's biggest nuclear plant: governor

By Antoni Slodkowski and Kentaro Hamada

NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co must give a fuller account of the Fukushima disaster and address its "institutionalized lying" before it can expect to restart another nuclear station, the world's largest, said a local government official who holds an effective veto over the utility's revival plan.

"If they don't do what needs to be done, if they keep skimping on costs and manipulating information, they can never be trusted," Niigata Prefecture Governor Hirohiko Izumida told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

Izumida must approve the embattled utility's plans to restart the reactors at Kashiwazaki Kariwa, the world's biggest nuclear complex on the Japan Sea coast some 300 kms (180 miles) northwest of Tokyo.

A former economy and trade ministry bureaucrat who has emerged as a leading critic of Tokyo Electric, or Tepco, Izumida said he would launch his own commission to investigate the causes and handling of the Fukushima crisis and whether strengthened regulatory safeguards were sufficient to prevent a similar disaster.

Izumida, 51, declined to provide a timetable for completing that review - a process that could force the utility to scrap or abandon one of the key assumptions behind its turnaround plan.

"If Tokyo Electric doesn't cooperate closely with the prefecture nothing will be solved," he said. "Unless we start we won't know," he added when asked how long his review could take. "If they cooperate with us, we will be able to proceed smoothly. If not, we won't."

Even if Japan's nuclear safety regulators approve Tepco's restart plans for its Niigata reactors, Izumida can effectively block it because of the utility's need to win backing from local officials. That gives Izumida, a political independent, a platform for calling for a wider reform of Asia's largest listed electricity utility, which provides power to 29 million homes and businesses in and around Tokyo.

REMOVE TEPCO FROM FUKUSHIMA CLEAN-UP

Izumida urged Japan's government to strip Tepco of responsibility for decommissioning the wrecked Fukushima reactors, and consider putting it through a taxpayer-funded bankruptcy similar to the process used to restructure Japan Airlines.

Without that kind of sweeping restructuring, Izumida said, Tepco could be left without the resources needed to ensure the safety of its remaining nuclear plants.

In its current form, the utility threatens to be distracted by how to fund the dismantling of the Fukushima reactors over the next 30 years and the more immediate problem of containing contaminated water at the Fukushima site, Izumida said.

"Unless we create a situation where 80-90 percent of their thinking is devoted to nuclear safety, I don't think we can say they have prioritized safety," he said.

Izumida also called on the government to make more than 6,000 workers involved in decommissioning at Fukushima public employees. A Reuters investigation of working conditions at the plant found widespread abuses, including skimmed wages and the involvement of illegal brokers.

"The workers at the plant are risking their health and giving it their all. They are out in the rain. They are out at night," Izumida said. "The government needs to respect their efforts and address the situation."

A Tepco spokesman said the utility would cooperate with Izumida's investigation. "Safety is our utmost priority and we are not acting on an assumption of nuclear restarts," said Yoshimi Hitotsugi. "We want to work on this issue while gaining the understanding of the local population and related parties."

BEHIND SCHEDULE

Tepco has posted more than $27 billion in losses since a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 crippled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The disaster knocked out cooling systems, triggered meltdowns in three reactors and a radiation release that forced more than 150,000 people from nearby towns to evacuate.

It is behind schedule on its initial business turnaround plan, which had called for firing up at least one reactor at Kashiwazaki Kariwa by April.

The utility says it can return to profitability in the business year to March without restarting the sprawling complex. But if all seven of the Niigata reactors were operational, Tepco says it would save $1 billion in monthly fuel costs.

The utility's admission in July - following months of denials - that the Fukushima plant was leaking radioactive substances into the Pacific Ocean was evidence that Tepco has not changed, Izumida said, adding the utility developed a culture of "institutionalized lying."

He said that unless the utility changes its corporate culture he won't be able to trust it to run the nuclear plant in the prefecture.

"There are three things required of a company that runs nuclear power plants: don't lie, keep your promises and fulfill your social responsibility," Izumida said.

(Editing by Kevin Krolicki, Edmund Klamann and Ian Geoghegan)

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First Listen: Justin Bieber Releases A New Song Titled ‘Recovery’

"You can't just fall and not get over things"

Posted by: Trent on October 28, 2013|

"Yesterday is gone, Tomorrow is Here"

It is time, once again, for a #MusicMondays update from the prince of pop Justin Bieber. His 10 week plan of releasing a new song every Monday morning leading up to the release of his new album in December rolls on today with the release of a new song titled Recovery. This song is a bit more upbeat than the previous songs we’ve heard in Mondays past but the R&B vibe is still going strong. Honestly, for the life of me, I don’t hear the appeal of these songs but JB drives the kiddies wild so there are plenty of folks out there who love his sound. Click the embed above to hear Recovery in full and see if it tickles your fancy … then, click below to read an official statement released by The Biebs that explains to fans the inspiration behind the song.

Yeah, both Justin and Selena Gomez are getting a lot milage out of their break-up … not that I blame them, to be honest. Are any of you digging on Recovery? Have the songs released thus far from Justin Bieber‘s new album inspired you to want to hear more?

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LinkedIn's Intro tool for iPhones could be a juicy target for attackers

Some people think a lot can go wrong if you have your emails pass through LinkedIn's servers with the company's new Intro technology.

For online attackers, Intro makes LinkedIn a juicy target, he said.

Though LinkedIn doesn't say that it decrypts emails while they're on the servers in order to make modifications and attach people's profile information, that's what's happening, Livitt said.

"It's just another company ... in it for the money," he said. "Before, it was 1,000 companies you had to trust -- now it's 1,001."

If the security risks are real, is the service that Intro provides worth it? That comes down to being a personal choice, Bishop Fox's Livitt said, but for him the answer is "no."

"I would not recommend Intro to any of my clients," he said.

Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com.

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Police: Chris Brown charged with assault in DC

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chris Brown was charged with assault after a fight broke out early Sunday near a Washington hotel, the latest problem for the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer with a snarled legal history.

Brown and another man were charged with felony assault in the altercation that started just before 4:30 a.m., D.C. police spokesman Paul Metcalf said.

The man who was attacked received treatment for his injuries at a local hospital and was released Sunday. Police wouldn't elaborate on his injuries but said the felony charge was based in part on the extent of the injuries. The victim's name wasn't released.

Christopher Hollosy, 35, was also charged with felony assault, police said. Police wouldn't say how Brown and Hollosy may have known each other.

Brown and Hollosy were being held pending a court hearing Monday, Metcalf said.

Neither Brown's publicists nor his attorney Mark Geragos responded to messages left Sunday.

Brown was in Washington to perform Saturday night at an event billed as a "Homecoming Weekend" party at a downtown club. Howard University was celebrating its homecoming, though a university spokeswoman said the party was not sponsored by or affiliated with the school.

Brown remains on probation for assaulting his on-again, off-again girlfriend Rihanna just before the Grammy Awards in 2009. The photos of Rihanna's bruised face caused outrage among many fans.

Brown pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault and received five years' probation.

His probation was briefly revoked earlier this year after a traffic accident. A hit-and-run charge was dropped against him, but the judge gave him 1,000 more hours of community service when he reinstated his probation.

Brown, who lives in Los Angeles and is originally from Virginia, has been involved in other altercations since 2009. Police have said a 2012 brawl at a New York nightclub began when members of the rapper Drake's entourage confronted Brown on the dance floor. Neither was charged in the fight that turned into a bottle-throwing free-for-all.

Brown also tussled with singer Frank Ocean and others during an argument about a parking space outside of a recording studio in Los Angeles, according to witness accounts given to deputies at the time. Ocean said he suffered an injured finger, but no charges were filed.

Brown's arrest could affect his probation in the Rihanna assault case. Brown is due back in court Nov. 20 in Los Angeles to update a judge on his probation. Prosecutors could seek a revocation of his probation or ask a judge to impose additional penalties.

Steve Cron, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, said prosecutors and a judge may wait to see how the Washington case plays out before taking any action against Brown.

"Just the fact that some guy says 'he hit me' doesn't mean he's in violation" of his probation, Cron said.

The potential penalties would depend on the exact wording of Brown's sentence, he said.

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Associated Press writers Chris Talbott in Nashville, Tenn.; Anthony McCartney in Los Angeles; and Oscar Gabriel in Washington contributed to this report.

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The Slow, Uneven Rebuilding After Superstorm Sandy

Samantha Langello and her daughter Alanna, 2, stand in front of their flood-damaged house in Fox Beach on Staten Island, N.J.

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Samantha Langello and her daughter Alanna, 2, stand in front of their flood-damaged house in Fox Beach on Staten Island, N.J.

Joel Rose/NPR

After Hurricane Sandy, the south shore of Staten Island looked like it had been hit by a tsunami. The storm surge devastated whole neighborhoods suddenly, in a matter of hours. In the year since the storm, some families have been rebuilding their homes and their lives. Others are ready to sell their flood-damaged properties and move on.

Joe Salluzzo lives in a neighborhood called New Dorp Beach, a few blocks from the ocean. He rode out the storm on the second story of his brick bungalow, which he's been repairing himself every since.

People are coming back "little by little," Salluzzo says. He's staying put: "This is the only house I got."

Around the corner, Linda Azzara is basking in the sunshine on the deck in her front yard. A year ago, she was clinging to it for dear life as the flood waters rose.

"We were the last family rescued here. They took us from the deck here, from the top step, in a boat," she says.

Today Azzara's yard is immaculate. And her house is in good shape, too. But she says the repairs cost her $80,000 out of her own pocket. Azzara says her insurance company was no help. She says few of her neighbors saw any payments from theirs either. Officials at FEMA say they've distributed more than $8 billion in total disaster assistance in New York. But in her neighborhood, Azzara says that help has been inconsistent.

"FEMA helped some of us, and not some of us. It was a weird thing. I think it was who came to your house," she says. "If you were lucky to get somebody with a little heart, they helped you. If not, they gave you $200."

'We Are Staying!!!'

Azzara has a red and white sign on her fence that says "We Are Staying!" You see the same sign in windows and front yards up and down her block. But for many of her neighbors, the hard work continues.

Electricians are still working on the house next door. A few houses on the block have new windows and doors. Others look like they've been abandoned since the storm.

"Everybody thinks a year later, we're New York and ... everybody's fine and dandy. No, it isn't," says Scott McGrath, who lives across the street. "It's real out there. It's still a lot of people needing help."

McGrath and his wife started a non-profit organization called Beacon of Hope New York to help rebuild the neighborhood. They made the "We Are Staying" yard signs. But McGrath admits that not everyone will. Like many of his neighbors, McGrath has to decide whether to meet new requirements to raise his house further off the ground or face a huge jump in his flood insurance premiums.

"You can walk up and down the block and you're gonna see For Sale signs in a lot of areas. They're selling their homes due to the fact they're not gonna be able to pay that flood insurance — so you might as well cut your losses now," McGrath says. "A lot of people are gonna take a hit on their property."

A year after Superstorm Sandy some residents of Fox Beach on Staten Island are determined to stay in the flood-ravaged town.

Joel Rose/NPR

A year after Superstorm Sandy some residents of Fox Beach on Staten Island are determined to stay in the flood-ravaged town.

Joel Rose/NPR

Homeowners across the region are finding they can't sell their houses for anything near what they were worth before the storm. But in another part of Staten Island, there is one big exception to that rule.

When Rebuilding Is Not An Option

Samantha Langello opens the door to her house in the Fox Beach neighborhood — or what's left of it. Sandy was the third big flood here in 5 years.

"It kind of just melted," Langello says. "The salt-water like just ate through the sheet rock."

When the state offered to buy these homeowners out at pre-storm values, almost all of them jumped at the chance. Real estate broker Joseph Tirone — who owns a rental property in Fox Beach — helped organize the effort. Tirone says the first checks went out this month.

"Rebuilding was not an option here. Not in this area," he says. "When they start getting their checks, I think initially they're gonna be extremely happy. But I think walking away from their home, I think that's gonna be tough on them."

Langello — toting a 2-year-old on her hip — says it's not easy to watch the neighborhood where she's been raising her two young children turn back into marshland.

"Sad and relief are probably the two main emotions," she says.

Langello knows her family is lucky to be getting the buyout.

"You get a little tired of picking up your wet sea-smelling clothes and going through things to see what you can salvage. In that sense I'm relieved that I won't have to deal with the clean-up ever again," she says.

Langello hopes other Sandy victims can know that feeling, too. But for most, that sense of relief may still be months or years away.

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First Listen: Swearin', 'Surfing Strange'

Swearin's new album, Surfing Strange, comes out Nov. 5.

Courtesy of the artist

Swearin's new album, Surfing Strange, comes out Nov. 5.

Courtesy of the artist

On their 2012 debut, the four members of Swearin' cohered around a consistent sound: fierce and fuzzy and improbably melodic, with choruses you couldn't help shouting along to once you could make out the words. But there was a tension in hearing things turn slightly sweet or slightly sharp, depending on who happened to be singing at the time. That the co-frontpersons, Allison Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride, are also a couple made things all the more interesting, especially when they sang about love.

With Surfing Strange, out Oct. 29, Swearin' is up from two singers to three, and the personalities at play are even more distinct. Crutchfield's vocals are soft and rounded and tend to sink into their noisy surroundings, letting her tone and the heft of her breaths do as much talking as the words themselves. Gilbride is the best shouter of the bunch, with a nasal edge that could strip paint off hardwood and an acutely cute way of bending his vowels. Bassist Keith Spencer is the group's resident quiet Beatle, or perhaps its James Iha: His hushed turn in "Melanoma" is a spiritual cousin of "Take Me Down," dreamy and sad and sung as if through layers of cheesecloth. And though drummer Jeff Bolt's voice isn't heard, the prankster grin he's known to wear when Swearin' performs is palpable on these recordings as well.

The album opens with the pristine call of a strummed acoustic guitar and ringing bass. It's a moment that feels out of character until Crutchfield appears to deliver an onomatopoeic line — "The crunch of the black ice and the buzz of the semis" — that hints at something heavier. Suddenly, guitar feedback squalls, a kick drum rumbles and the entire ensemble crashes together to meet her challenge. This band does tension right.

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A Doomed Comet Hurtling Toward the Sun

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), launched in 1995, stares mostly at . . . yeah. The sun. But when its instruments are trying to image other things near the sun, all that light gets kind of overwhelming. So sometimes instruments on the SOHO just block the sun out and turn their attention to other things. Like this sungrazer comet.

EasyRes review: Resolution switcher's animated previews set it apart

OS X 10.9 Mavericks is out and it’s full of new features, including improved multi-monitor support. But it still doesn’t provide a quick way to change screen resolutions—you’d think that after a few generations of Retina MacBook Pro laptops, Apple would bring back a way to switch resolutions from the menu bar.

Of course, third-party developers have come to the rescue. The latest, Bright Vertex, offers EasyRes 1.0.4 (Mac App Store link), which joins Eye-Friendly, Pupil, QuickRes, and ResolutionTab in the resolution-switcher fray. Fortunately for EasyRes, it has one feature that makes it stand out from the crowd.

That feature is an immediately useful one: EasyRes provides animated previews of the available settings. Move the pointer over a screen resolution, and EasyRes shows how open windows would be affected by choosing that setting. So if you mouse over a lower resolution than the one you’re currently using—for example, if you mouse over the “1440 x 900” setting while your screen is set at 1920-by-1200 pixels—EasyRes shows a small, animated preview of how your screen will be affected by such a resolution switch.

Even better, the animation isn’t generic—it shows what’s on your screen, so you can actually see how your on-screen items will fill the screen at the new resolution. The animation loops as long as you keep the pointer over the setting, and as you move the pointer over each possible resolution, the preview dynamically changes to reflect that resolution.

Thanks to this animation, you no longer have to actually change resolutions, multiple times, to find the one that best fits what you’re doing. Developers testing Retina-friendly apps will find these previews especially helpful.

When you mouse over a resolution setting, EasyRes shows an animated preview of how your display will be affected.

Unlike some of the other resolution-switching apps I’ve reviewed, however, EasyRes doesn’t have many customization options. For example, though EasyRes does allow you to give custom labels to resolution settings, there’s no way to edit the list of available resolutions—“740 x 450” is always there, whether you use it or not. One workaround here is to use EasyRes’s listing of recently used resolutions: You can have up to ten recently used resolutions appear at the top of EasyRes’s list.

EasyRes lets you give each resolution setting a custom label.

For a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, EasyRes provides 15 resolution settings, the highest being the screen’s native 2880-by-1800-pixel resolution. The QuickRes and Pupil utilities allow you to choose resolutions higher than the native resolution, such as 3840-by-2400.

If you need to switch resolutions frequently, EasyRes’s previews may help you switch a little less often. This feature alone makes it well worth its $8 price.

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Potosi: Abu Dhabi Festival Review

The Bottom Line

Another exposé of modern Mexico as an endless graveyard.

Venue

Abu Dhabi Film Festival (New Horizons), Oct. 25, 2013

Cast

Arcelia Ramirez, Aldo Verastegui, Sonia Couoh, Gerardo Taracena, Don Margarito Sanchez

Director

Alfredo Castruita

Screenwriter

Jose Lomas-Hervert

Sometimes it seems that Mexican cinema is being swept away by the same irresistible wave of extreme violence it decries, which is destroying the very fabric of society. The violent Potosi, a first feature directed by Alfredo Castruita, earnestly shows the human cost of the shoot-outs and mass hysteria, where justice rests in the hands of anyone with a gun. Shot in San Luis Potosi, a state in northern central Mexico which until recently was less devastated than others by organized crime and executions, it shows how they’re now daily occurrences that condition people’s lives.

Dramatically, however, the film suffers from a relentlessly pessimistic tone that leaves the viewer dismayed but without a handhold. Though there is none of the emphasis on outright torture that makes a film like Amat Escalante’s Heli such a shocker, Potosi piles tragedy on tragedy in a way impossible to assimilate. It’s bookended by a quote from Chilean president Salvatore Allende and a sage old lady who ominously remarks that the country has turned into endless graveyard, bringing a civil war with every dawn. Most audiences will need a little more encouragement than this to brave these sad stories, which recently took home the prize of Best Mexican Film at the Guanajuato Film Festival.

Three parallel tales are interwoven until they come together in the last reel in a contrived, rather unilluminating way. In the first, a solitary old goatherd happens to witness, from high on a hill, the summary execution of three men in the desert. Who they are is never explained: it’s just a routine killing that goes on in the background. The old man turns away and goes on grazing his flock.

Elsewhere, a handsome young couple, Ponce (Aldo Verastegui) and his wife Veronica (Sonia Couoh), the parents of a 10-year-old girl, love each other deeply even though they struggle to earn a living. A sense of foreboding hangs over the handsome, honest Ponce as he sells his corn to a rancher and uneasily begs his wife to move somewhere – anywhere. But as she gently points out, there’s no place to go.

In marked contrast to the joyful passion that unites Ponce and Veronica, a second couple is introduced having brutal sex in their bedroom. Estela (Arcelia Ramirez) works in an office and when she’s late getting home one night, her sullen, sadistic husband Javier (Gerardo Taracena, Apocalypto) thinks nothing of beating and raping her in front of their daughter.

Screenwriter-producer Jose Lomas-Hervert’s script uses shifting viewpoints on the amoral war going on between the federal police and gunmen who stage highway robbery, kidnappings and bloodbaths in which innocent bystanders are often killed in the crossfire. Everybody is armed or needs to be and the killings just go on and on. The film concludes with a gruesome newsreel-style collage of executed corpses and dead men dangling from overpasses.

Ramirez (who raged murderously in Arturo Ripstein’s Medea drama Such Is Life) is a nervous, wide-eyed Estela, a depressed victim who keeps the audience at arm’s length. Don Margarito Sanchez appears as an amoral but angst-ridden police sergeant who takes no prisoners.

Santiago Sanchez’s cinematography takes in the region’s infinite vistas and dramatic desert sky, as seen from the viewpoint of the godlike goatherd. Though the temporal structure created by editor Chuy Garcia is interestingly complex, the screenplay doesn’t really link the characters together in any meaningful way. In fact the nasty final twist, which comes as a surprise, seems completely random.

Venue: Abu Dhabi Film Festival (New Horizons), Oct. 25, 2013.
Production company: Bisonte Rojo Films
Cast: Arcelia Ramirez, Aldo Verastegui, Sonia Couoh, Gerardo Taracena, Melissa Alvarado Ramos, Don Margarito Sanchez
Director: Alfredo Castruita
Screenwriter: Jose Lomas-Hervert
Producers: Jose Lomas-Hervert
Executive producer: Melissa Alvarado Ramos
Director of photography: Santiago Sanchez
Production designer: Marcos Demian Vargas
Editor: Chuy Garcia
Music: Yamil Rezc, Jose Manuel Aguilera
No rating, 120 minutes.

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River Phoenix's Eccentric Upbringing, Tragic Death

The young actor died of a drug overdose outside the Hollywood night club 20 years ago this Halloween. Host Rachel Martin talks with Gavin Edwards about his biography of River Phoenix, Last Night at the Viper Room.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

The 1980s and early '90s produced a generation of talented male actors known for taking on complicated, sometimes even controversial roles. Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Ethan Hawke - they all went on to become huge stars, but the legend of one member of that generation stands out, despite his early death - River Phoenix. Here he is in a 1986 classic, "Stand By Me."

(SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "STAND BY ME")

WIL WEATON: (as Gordie) You want to be the Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid - walk and talk and - Jesus (unintelligible). Where'd you get this?

RIVER PHOENIX: (as Chris) Hawked it from my old man's bureau. It's a .45.

WEATON: (as Gordie) Let me see that. Is it loaded?

PHOENIX: (as Chris) Hell, no. what do you think I am?

(SOUNDBITE OF GUNSHOT)

RIVER PHOENIX AND WIL WEATON: (Chris, Gordie) Jesus. Let's get out of here. C'mon.

MARTIN: Just a few years after starring in that film at the age of 18, River Phoenix was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in "Running on Empty." Phoenix was a young man with everything ahead of him when he died of a drug overdose. This Halloween marks the 20th anniversary of the night he died outside the L.A. nightclub The Viper Room. Phoenix was 23 years old. Gavin Edwards' new biography, "Last Night at the Viper Room," explores the young actor's bizarre upbringing in a famously eccentric family. Edwards says that for the first years of River's life, his family belonged to a highly controversial religious group.

GAVIN EDWARDS: The Children of God was a Christian sex cult. They believed that sex was a sacrament and that sort of everyone should be engaged in it. And this, you know, extended to sort of partner swapping and it also extended to encouraging children to, you know, engage with each other. So, at an early age, River was busking on street corners trying to spread the word and proselytize for the culture. But if he didn't bring home enough loose change that day, the family wasn't going to eat. So, it was a lot of weight in a lot of different ways on a very young child.

MARTIN: It was through the Children of God that River and his siblings found their way into show business. Can you describe how that happened?

EDWARDS: River and his sister got used to performing. So, when River was still young, the family left the cult. They decided it had gotten too seamy but the kids had the bug, and River and Rain started entering talent shows. And what really sort of spurred the change from talent shows and music to acting was River's mother happened to grown up in the Bronx with Penny Marshall, who was then the star of "Laverne and Shirley," and sent a letter saying, you know, we have these kids, they're very talented, what do we do? And it got sort of fobbed off to the Paramount casting department, and said, well, if you're ever in town you can come by. And so the family just packed everything up and said, OK. We're driving across the country.

(LAUGHTER)

MARTIN: Through your research, were you able to discern if River Phoenix was a happy person?

EDWARDS: You know, somebody asked him if he had a happy childhood and he's just like, well, it was interesting. But I think he was happy. I mean, even though these, you know, horrible, traumatic things happened to him as a child and you wouldn't begrudge or judge anybody who has said, you know what, I'm going to be antisocial and crawl up in, like, the fetal position for the rest of my life. But, you know, instinctively, that wasn't who he was. And so, you know, carried around that weight with him but it didn't define who he was.

MARTIN: So, there was a lot of media attention given to River Phoenix's death. He died outside the Viper Room. Can you walk us back to that night? What happened?

EDWARDS: So, that night he had got back into town. He had been making a movie called "Dark Blood." They had been filming in the Utah desert. And he almost didn't go out that night. But like he had his brother and sister in town and they wanted, like, we're young, we're in Hollywood, let's go out. So, at the last minute, he grabs his guitar and they go off to a party in the Hollywood Hills where Leonardo DiCaprio was there. Then they head off to the Viper Room. And he had not been there long and he got offered a drink, and it turned out to be a speedball, which is a mix of heroin and cocaine. And, you know, River had done drugs, so, it was not the first time this had ever been in his system, but in this case he had a really bad reaction and pretty quickly they get him outside, get him some fresh air and then he starts having seizures on the sidewalk and they call 911. You know, he was declared dead shortly after at Cedars-Sinai, but he really passed away on the sidewalk outside the Viper Room.

MARTIN: Why did you want to write this book?

EDWARDS: I wanted to write this book for two reasons. One, was that I hadn't been president of the River Phoenix fan club but I did see "My Own Private Idaho" when he was still alive. And it was almost this, like, fever dream I'd had that, you know, it's a very sort of intense, emotional movie. And sort of at, like, 2 A.M. I also felt like I hallucinated it. And for many years, I didn't want to go back and find out more about it but finally I just, like, wanted to sort of poke at it and find, like, who was this guy?

And the other thing was just early on, I found out all the people who were present the night that he died at the Viper Room - aside from River Phoenix and aside from, you know, his brother Joaquin and aside from his sister Rain, and he also brought his girlfriend Samantha Mathis; on stage there was Johnny Depp, who was playing in his band P, Gibby from the Butthole Surfers was in the band, Lee from the Red Hot Chili Peppers was there, Al Jorgenson from Ministry, Benmont Tench, who was Tom Petty's keyboard player, was there, Christina Applegate, the actress, was in the audience. And I said how did this moment happen? It seemed just like all these people at what turned out to be a historic night but which they all just felt was like another Saturday night out in Hollywood.

MARTIN: Gavin Edwards. His new book is called "Last Night at the Viper Room." He talked to us from our studios at NPR West. Gavin, thanks so much.

EDWARDS: Thank you. It was a real pleasure.

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Sunday, October 27, 2013

Company hosting Obamacare data has technical glitch: U.S. official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A data center that hosts the key website for the healthcare exchanges that are at the heart of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law lost connectivity on Sunday, said a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Verizon's Terremark, which operates a data center hosting the Healthcare.gov website and a data system for verifying information, experienced a networking component failure that impacted several government websites.

The October 1 implementation of Obama's healthcare law, also known as Obamacare, has been marred by technical glitches and delays.

"We are working with Terremark to get their timeline for addressing the issue," HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in an email. "We understand that this issue is affecting other customers in addition to HealthCare.gov, and Terremark is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."

(Reporting by David Morgan, writing by Anna Yukhananov and Emily Stephenson; Editing by Paul Simao)

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WORLD SERIES WATCH: Buchholz vs Lynn in Game 4

Budweiser Clydesdales enter Busch Stadium before Game 4 of baseball's World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia sits in the team's dugout before Game 4 of baseball's World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Baseball fans arrive at Busch Stadium for Stadium Game 4 of baseball's World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

World Series baseball caps are on sale at Busch Stadium before Game 4 of baseball's World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Tom Manary takes photos of The Gateway Arch from Busch Stadium before Game 4 of baseball's World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A look at Game 4 of the World Series at Busch Stadium on Sunday night as the Boston Red Sox take on the St. Louis Cardinals:

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UNOBSTRUCTED: Now that everyone from umpires to rappers has weighed in on the obstruction rule, the World Series resumes with Game 4 at Busch Stadium.

The first pitch is minutes away, with Lance Lynn set to start for the Cardinals against Boston right-hander Clay Buchholz, trying to work through some weakness in his shoulder.

What a crazy finish that was last night, though. Tough to swallow for the Red Sox and their fans. But it seems as though, after some rule-book explanations from the experts, most people are realizing the correct call was made.

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Lou Reed, Leader Of The Velvet Underground, Has Died At 71

Musician Lou Reed, for decades a rock icon, died Sunday at age 71. In 2006, he took a picture of an ad for his own photo exhibit in Naples.

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Musician Lou Reed, for decades a rock icon, died Sunday at age 71. In 2006, he took a picture of an ad for his own photo exhibit in Naples.

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Lou Reed, the singer and songwriter whose work as a solo artist and as the leader of cult-favorite band The Velvet Underground influenced generations of musicians, has died at age 71.

Rumors of Reed's possible demise have been circulating for the past week; his death was first reported Sunday by Rolling Stone. The magazine notes that he received a liver transplant earlier this year.

Update at 3:45 p.m. ET: Reed's literary agent, Andrew Wylie, has confirmed to NPR that Reed died Sunday morning at 11, of complications related to his liver transplant. We've made slight changes to this post to reflect that confirmation. Our original post continues:

Singer and songwriter Lou Reed, a leader of the ground-breaking rock group the Velvet Underground, has died at age 71. He's seen here in the 1970s.

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Singer and songwriter Lou Reed, a leader of the ground-breaking rock group the Velvet Underground, has died at age 71. He's seen here in the 1970s.

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Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1942. The musician's official Facebook page didn't announce his passing overtly, choosing instead to post a photo titled "The Door" Sunday morning. More than 1,000 notes of condolence and grief soon followed.

Reed's songs as a guitarist for The Velvet Underground and later during his solo career blended art and noise in deceptively simple combinations, with his New York-inflected voice telling stories of street deals and odd characters.

"One chord is fine," he said of his approach to the guitar, in Rolling Stone's obituary. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."

In a remembrance of Reed, NPR's Neda Ulaby quotes his Velvet Underground co-founder and longtime collaborator John Cale explaining that the band didn't care to make things easy for their listeners:

"We were not user-friendly at all," Cale told NPR in 2000. "Anyone listening to a bass guitar and regular guitar coming out of the same amp — it couldn't have been a really great listening experience."

Along with Cale on viola, bass and other instruments, the band's core personnel included drummer Moe Tucker and guitarist Sterling Morrison. Bassist Doug Yule later replaced Cale in the lineup.

The band's first two albums, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) and White Light/White Heat (1968), became touchstones of art-rock for generations that followed. A third self-titled album, produced without Cale, included the mournful "Pale Blue Eyes."

In a career that spanned New York's Andy Warhol-era experimental art scene and included the unlikely hit "Walk on the Wild Side," Reed never lost his sense of urban grit and cool.

"Walk on the Wild Side came from Transformer, Reed's second solo album that was produced by David Bowie and released in 1972. On the strength of that single and songwriting gems such as "Perfect Day" and "Satellite of Love," the album cemented Reed's status as a star whose music will be played for decades to come.

As Neda reports, "Walk on the Wild Side" was Reed's only Top 40 hit; the song's iconic bass line has been sampled and evoked by musicians producing everything from rock and club music to hip-hop.

Reed is survived by his wife, the musician Laurie Anderson; the pair wed in 2008.

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Rare childhood disease may hold clues to treating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

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Scientists at Rutgers University studying the cause of a rare childhood disease that leaves children unable to walk by adolescence say new findings may provide clues to understanding more common neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and developing better tools to treat them.

In today's online edition of Nature Neuroscience, professors Karl Herrup, Ronald Hart and Jiali Li in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, and Alexander Kusnecov, associate professor in behavioral and systems neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, provide new information about A-T disease, a rare genetic childhood disorder that occurs in an estimated 1 in 40,000 births.

Children born with A-T disease have mutations in both of their copies of the ATM gene and cannot make normal ATM protein. This leads to problems in movement, coordination, equilibrium and muscle control as well as a number of other deficiencies outside the nervous system.

Using mouse and human brain tissue studies, Rutgers researchers found that without ATM, the levels of a regulatory protein known as EZH2 go up. Looking through the characteristics of A-T disease in cells in tissue culture and in brain samples from both humans and mice with ATM mutation, they found that the increase in EZH2 was a major contributing factor to the neuromuscular problems caused by A-T.

"We hope that this work will lead to new therapies to prevent symptoms in those with A-T disease," says Hart. "But on a larger level, this research provides a strong clue toward understanding more common neurodegenerative disorders that may use similar pathways. "It is a theme that has not yet been examined."

While the EZH2 protein has been shown to help determine whether genes get turned on or off, altering the body's ability to perform biological functions, necessary for maintaining good health, the Rutgers study is the first time this protein -- which can cause adverse health effects if there is too much of it -- has been looked at in the mature nerve cells of the brain.

By reducing the excess EZH2 protein that accumulated in mice genetically engineered with A-T disease, and creating a better protein balance within the nerve cells, Rutgers scientists found that mice exhibited improved muscle control, movement and coordination.

In the study, mutant mice that had A-T disease and increased levels of EZH2 were "cured" when this excess EZH2 protein was reduced. The treated mice were able to stay on a rotating rod without falling off almost as long as the mice that did not have A-T disease. By contrast, untreated A-T animals lost their balance and fell off the device almost immediately. The mice were also studied in an open area setting. While the treated A-T mice and normal mice explored a wide area of the open field, the A-T mice, with their excess EZH2 protein, were not as adventurous and stayed behind.

Rutgers scientists say the implications of these findings now need to be validated in a clinical setting. They have begun working with the A-T Clinical Center at Johns Hopkins University, collecting blood samples from children with the disease as well as their parents who carry the genes in order to reprogram them into stem cells. This will allow scientists to create human neurons like those in A-T patients and study the mechanisms that lead from ATM mutations to nerve cell disease in more detail.

The hope is that this new information can be used to develop therapeutic drugs that may result in better neuromuscular control and coordination for those with A-T disease. In addition, the scientists will work to determine whether the EZH2 protein plays a role in other more common neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and could offer a target for developing drugs to treat those brain disorders.

"What is interesting about human health and this research in particular is that it illustrates how a disease that is thought of as 100 percent genetic, actually has a component that is sensitive to the environment," says Herrup, lead author of the study.

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MOGA controller for iPhone leaks out, gamers start salivating

MOGA already makes some pretty fantastic game controller add-ons for gamers on other mobile platforms, but what we see here is purported to be the company's first specifically for iPhone. Posted by notorious leaker, @evleaks, this is claimed to be the MOGA Ace Power complete with 1800mAh on-board battery.

As is so often the way with @evleaks, we get the picture but not much in the way of details. When iOS 7 initially launched back at WWDC 2013, MFI game controller integration was one of the many new features we were looking forward to.

So, what else are we looking at. A dual analog stick setup with a d-pad and the traditional 4 buttons seen on game controllers for generations. So, it looks at least like a serious tool for serious gaming. Better yet, as we see from this second image, the Ace Power appears to close up once you're done gaming and want to pack it away. Clever, portable, and something we're hoping appears sooner rather than later. What do you think?

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