Florida Sheriff?s Deputy Suspended, Ordered To Take Sensitivity Training For Bringing Skittles, Iced Tea To Work?

So dumb.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. ? A veteran Brevard County sheriff?s deputy is now facing a reprimand for his handling of the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin controversy.

Corporal Chris Wood told his supervisors he was trying to send a message about keeping professional and personal opinions separate in the workplace when he brought an Arizona ice tea and a bag of Skittles to the Brevard County Jail on Saturday morning.

He told supervisors he was trying to send a message about professionalism, but the message was lost in translation.

In 10 years with the Sheriff?s Office, Wood has never had any disciplinary action taken against him until the incident.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said Wood made a bad choice and has otherwise been a stellar employee.

Those two items were focal points in the trial of Zimmerman, who was recently acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old Martin.

?His delivery of that message was completely insensitive to not only the people in the room, and the things that were going on in our community, and our society, at that point, and that?s what stimulated us looking at it,? Ivey said.

Source: http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/19/florida-sheriffs-deputy-suspended-ordered-to-take-sensitivity-training-for-bringing-skittles-iced-tea-to-work/

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The True Cost of A La Carte TV Is High

Cord cutters have long dreamed of a future in which they can pick and choose the programming they want, instead of getting 135 mostly useless channels in the cable bundle?but that future has a high cost. Cable companies have long argued for the value of the bundle over the cord-cutter's dream. "The cable package presents an undeniable value and the consumer would pay more and get less with a la carte," an ESPN spokesperson told The Philadelphia Inquirer recently. Getting "less," of course, is the point. People watch an average of 16 channels per month, according to Variety's Andrew Wallenstein, yet typically pay for something like 124, per numbers from the FCC. But, paying for all 16 of your favorite channels separately would add up quickly.

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ESPN, for example, if sold on its own, would cost somewhere in the $20?to?$30 dollar range, according to various analyses. HBO, another valuable property, would cost more than the $15 or $20 per month it gets in the cable bundle. Then add in AMC for Mad Men, Bravo for Top Chef, the FX for Louie, and other sports channels for lesser sporting events, and you're nearing that average $73.44 Americans pay for cable TV. Plus, you might feel compelled to add on more channels just in case of special programming events, like Sharknado on SyFy. Even if each one of those cost less than the $10 per month, as the TV industry says they would, that's still nearly a $100 per month bill.?

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The current system is a deal specifically because all cable subscribers are paying for channels they never ever watch. "We are all paying each other's TV taxes," Derek Thompson explains over at The Atlantic. The people who don't ever watch ESPN pay $4.69 per month, but in turn people who never watch AMC pay around $3.50 per month. "The idea is that if 100+ million households all pay?$70ish a month?for television, the breadth of the customer base will support a diverse and thriving entertainment business without asking any group to pay too much for what they want." Unbundling the channels would put more of a financial burden on each person.?

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In addition, a la carte channels would have to charge even more because the audience drop would result in decreased advertising revenue. The bundle brings more viewers to channels?you can't channel surf your way onto a station you would never watch if you don't pay for it a la carte. It's also a guaranteed sell to advertisers. AMC can say, look we have access to all of Comcast's subscribers. Unbundling that would ruin everything?in theory.?

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In this every-channel-for-itself system, some stations wouldn't last. Big cable companies have already threatened to drop small channels that don't bring enough viewers. Without the bundle to subsidize them, these less-watched channels would die. In some cases, if nobody is watching them, then maybe they deserve that fate. But, others have argued that without the current set-up, a tiny channel like IFC could never produce a gem like Portlandia, or in an even more extreme case AMC would never have enough money to make Mad Men.?

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All of this isn't to show what a great deal you all are getting with pay-TV, but the financial leverage of the companies that control the content. The current scenario is very lucrative for them. Any change to it would have to be equally lucrative. So, cord cutters, you have to consider: Are you willing to pay the high price of unbundled television? Or, on the other hand, you could sacrifice some channels that only have one decent show. For some people, like Wallenstein, that's why a la carte isn't good enough. To him, channels are also just "bundles;" he wants a la carte television programs:

To create a marketplace truly better off without the bundle, content companies would have to share their product in?one massive trove for one stop shopping of tens of thousands of programs, where they can be re-aggregated by consumers free of traditional borders including channels, production companies and the conglomerates themselves. Then let great user experience and data-mining take care of the rest.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/true-cost-la-carte-tv-high-191607736.html

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Despite Windows RT woes, NVIDIA pledges support

1. Birds posted on 3 hours ago 0

RT seriously needs to be tailored for budget gaming on the go, and Microsoft needs strict spec requirements for this tailored gaming. If Microsoft can manage to do this on top of the features it already has, I believe it will sell. Awe hell, who am I kidding. I just want a portable Xbox...LMAO

2. joey_sfb posted on 3 hours ago 0

while nintendo 3ds xl and playstation vista sales is not that hot... i hope there will be another generation of portables coming our way. Awe hell, who am i kidding dedicated gaming device is going the way of the portable mp3 and camera.

7. Shatter posted on 1 hour ago 0

3DS is selling more units than the ps3 and xbox 360 are world wide right now.

3. icyrock1 posted on 2 hours ago 3

Microsoft needs to merge Windows RT with Windows Phone 8. Seriously, why have two different ARM based platforms? Wouldn't it be easier to maintain one?

4. roscuthiii posted on 2 hours ago 0

My thoughts exactly... beat me to it though.

They probably would have been better off with even just a WP8 tablet, and some apps to fill out the RT functionality.

6. --7-- posted on 1 hour ago 0

Windows RT runs on ARM. Windows 8 doesn't run on ARM. So MS needs windows RT if it needs a representative OS in ARM devices. But recently intels bay trail atom processor has shown better performance than ARM architecture chipsets. And full windows 8 can run on it..
so.. If MS wants to kick androids arse in ARM based tablets with RT it needs to make it free for OEM's and people.. All current android OEM's will be interested.. All current android tablet users will have the option of booting into RT. And then MS can use it to unfairly force users to use bing and other MS products.. now that google is clear of such charges.

Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Despite-Windows-RT-woes-NVIDIA-pledges-support_id45472

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'Bye Bye Brazil': Sarah Morris' exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, London

British artist Sarah Morris makes films and paintings about cities. With her lens, she negotiates access into areas most of us can't (Beijing's Olympic venues before the games, the red carpet in Los Angeles, the White House when Bill Clinton was in residency) and records life via subtle camera angles and snippy editing. Inspired by her findings, she creates colourful, abstract canvases in household paint of each city in parallel.

Her latest body of work, entitled Bye Bye Brazil, is on show at the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey. Carnival, modernist architecture, beaches and Brahma beer are the subjects of her 11th film 'Rio'.? Familiar subjects all, but Morris's quirky detailing and the jarringly hypnotic soundtrack by fellow artist Liam Gillick, give them a fresh spin.??

Morris interviewed Niemeyer at his office before he died. There's a shot of his wheelchair in the hallway, and though we see him speak, his words are drowned out by the music. His architecture, and the way people operate within it form the backbone to the film. There's a painter touching up the ceiling of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, and the ebullient 'Winner's Parade' in his Sambadrome carnival stadium. It's long for an art film (88 minutes) and Morris spent many months in Rio exploring the psychology of the mega city.

Niemeyer's geometric and architectural lines are also present in the canvases. Morris calls them 'diagrams' and cites Bossa Nova album covers, Roberto Burle Marx and Lina Bo Bardi as additional inspirations.?

The public spaces in Bye Bye Brazil may still only be known by relatively few, but with Brazil firmly on the radar for the Olympics and the World Cup next year, they will soon be familiar to every household. And with a new White Cube up and running in Sao Paulo, Morris' current body of work is a neat tie-in. Although the exhibition won't be shown in Sao Paulo, the film will be screened in Rio on 3 September to coincide with Art Rio 13.

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Trayvon Martin's parents shocked by verdict

In this image released by NBC, parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, second left, and Tracy Martin, second right, appear on the "Today" show with Fulton's other son Jahvaris Fulton, left, and co-host Matt Lauer in New York. Martin's parents plan to participate in separate vigils on Saturday. Sabrina Fulton and Jahvaris Fulton will join Al Sharpton outside New York Police Department headquarters while Tracy Martin is set to be at a similar event at a federal courthouse in Miami. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)

In this image released by NBC, parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, second left, and Tracy Martin, second right, appear on the "Today" show with Fulton's other son Jahvaris Fulton, left, and co-host Matt Lauer in New York. Martin's parents plan to participate in separate vigils on Saturday. Sabrina Fulton and Jahvaris Fulton will join Al Sharpton outside New York Police Department headquarters while Tracy Martin is set to be at a similar event at a federal courthouse in Miami. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)

In this image released by NBC, parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, left, and Tracy Martin appear on the "Today" show in New York. Martin's parents plan to participate in separate vigils Saturday. Sabrina Fulton and her other son Jahvaris Fulton, will join Al Sharpton outside New York Police Department headquarters while Tracy Martin is set to be at a similar event at a federal courthouse in Miami. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)

In this image released by NBC, parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, left, and Tracy Martin appear on the "Today" show with co-host Matt Lauer in New York. Martin's parents plan to participate in separate vigils on Saturday. Sabrina Fulton and her other son Jahvaris Fulton will join Al Sharpton outside New York Police Department headquarters while Tracy Martin is set to be at a similar event at a federal courthouse in Miami. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)

MIAMI (AP) ? Trayvon Martin's parents made appearances on network morning shows Thursday, saying they are still shocked that jurors acquitted George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of their 17-year-old son.

On NBC's "Today" show, Sybrina Fulton questioned whether jurors looked at the shooting from her son's point of view.

"He was a teenager. He was scared. He did run," Fulton said, who added that she believes the justice system failed her son.

"We didn't get the verdict we wanted because we wanted him to be (held) accountable."

Martin's father, Tracy Martin, expressed disbelief in the verdict handed down Saturday by a six-woman jury following a three-week trial in central Florida.

"We felt in our hearts that we were going to get a conviction," Martin said. "We felt that the killer of our unarmed child was going to be convicted of the crime he committed."

On ABC's "Good Morning America," Tracy Martin said he felt the jury did not get a chance to get to know the teen. "They didn't know him as a human being," he said.

Martin's parents said they still believe Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic, racially profiled their son.

"Obviously, any time you have a person that makes an assumption that a person is up to no good, that's some kind of profiling," Martin said. "Was he racially profiled? I think if Trayvon had been white, this never would have happened."

Martin's parents said they support the federal government looking into the case. The Justice Department announced Sunday it plans to review the case to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that Zimmerman has been acquitted.

Zimmerman, who was charged with second-degree murder, claimed he shot Martin in self-defense.

Martin's mother said she believes the verdict sends a "terrible message to other little black and brown boys."

"They can't walk fast. They can't walk slow. So what do they do? How do they get home without people assuming you are doing something wrong?," Fulton said.

Fulton told "CBS This Morning" her son was not a burglar.

"He simply went to the store and was headed back home," she said. "And for somebody to look at him and perceive that he was a burglar, that was the problem that initiated everything."

The parents' attorney, Benjamin Crump, didn't rule out a civil lawsuit against Zimmerman in response to a question from CBS's Charlie Rose.

"We'll look at all legal options. Right now, we'll ask the Department of Justice to answer ... 'Can a private citizen with a gun profile and follow our children home?'" Crump said.

Associated Press

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Class suit vs Ford infotainment systems filed in California

The Center for Defensive Driving filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Ford Motor Co., claiming that the MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch infotainment systems are defective. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California by the CDD. The complaint alleges that the infotainment system, which was tested in a 2013 Ford F-150 Lariat pickup leased by the CDD -- often freezes and fails to respond to voice and touch commands. It also alleges that the system has a poor connection with mobile phones and MP3 players. The complaint alleges that the carmaker has knowledge of the defects but did not disclose them to potential customers. Ford has issued several technical service bulletins regarding system errors, and upgraded and extended the warranty on the system following complaints in 2012. Ford chief executive Alan Mulally acknowledged problems with the system in 2011, but remarked that customers would be satisfied after the upgrade.

In November 2012, Ford reported that the MyFord Touch system had 400 problems with for every 1,000 vehicles, according to Reuters. The report also said that Ford has vowed to resolve at least 40 of those problems by August. The proposed class action suit cites several NHTSA complaints regarding the defect.

It also points out that David Sargent, vice president of global vehicle research at J.D. Power and Associates, told The New York Times that the infotainment system was one of the main reasons for Ford's decline in the firm's rankings. Jason Zwieg, an attorney for Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP that is representing the CDD, said the lawsuit aims to seek damages related to the inconvenience of the product defects. [source: Reuters]

Source: http://www.4wheelsnews.com/class-suit-vs-ford-infotainment-systems-filed-in-california/

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