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Detroit, MI — Auburn Hills, MI-based LEID Products, LLC, a cutting edge technology company offering electronic storage solutions with asset tracking and management software, will be introducing their new state-of-the-art Biometric Access Control System (BACSTM) Evidence Storage Lockers at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference in Chicago, IL, at McCormick Place West, October 23 – 25, 2011. LEID Products systems are used to streamline operations at law enforcement departments, military facilities, medical facilities, and crime and research labs by securing, tracking and providing full accountability to clients' weapons, evidence, medications, and other critical assets. Visit LEID Products at booth #2437.
"The IACP Exposition is the perfect venue for displaying our new technology, attendees are always looking for ways to improve their operations" says Sam Hoff, president of LEID Products, "we offer the most advanced systems available today, our new BACSTM Evidence Storage Lockers fills the critical need for better standards for securing and tracking evidence filling in gaps in 'Chain of Custody' reporting which is so vital to the allowable use of evidence in the court room."
LEID's electronic locker, cabinet and gun rack storage systems offer identity protected access via biometric finger print (BACSTM Systems), or LCD-keypad with card swipe (Access.it® Systems). LEID's systems all offer the option to add RFID or barcode readers to further enhance secure and accurate tracking and accountability of stored items. Web-enabled remote management allows for flexible management of the system; the administrator can access and manage the system from his laptop or computer at home or any location offering internet access. In addition to the BACS Evidence Storage Lockers, also on display will be LEID's electronic lockers and gun rack.
According to Hoff, "LEID Products customer base has grown from its' roots in law enforcement to include other sectors that will be attending the IACP Show, including military and federal government agencies. The BACSTM systems have been specified and received glowing reviews because of increased accountability and ease and depth of reporting."
The IACP has been instrumental in forwarding breakthrough technologies and philosophies from the early years of their establishment to now. From spearheading national use of fingerprint identification to partnering in a consortium on community policing to gathering top experts in criminal justice. The Annual IACP Conference & Exposition is open to members, sworn officers, first responders, and civilian employees of public safety and government agencies and the armed forces.
About LEID Products:
Law Enforcement Intelligent Devices (LEID), LLC was originally founded to assist police departments in securing their assets (guns, weapons and radios) through an electronic tracking and fingerprinting system. LEID's products since have been utilized by military facilities, medical facilities, government agencies, libraries and businesses to secure and track a wide variety of items including evidence; controlled meds; vital research and development materials; books, tapes and magazines within a library system; and even the securing of business documents to selected personnel. For more information and to see on-line demonstrations of our products, log on to www.leidproducts.com


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Richland College Garland Campus
Ongoing technical and business training for 62 manufacturing companies
To provide resources, workforce training and job placement services for manufacturing companies in the Dallas
County Manufacturers' Association who are members of the Garland Chamber of Commerce. Garland is one of the largest
manufacturing cities in the state, with more than 375 industry-specific companies.
Richland College began working with the Garland Chamber of Commerce on specific training issues for area
employers in 2005 and has worked with the Dallas County Manufacturers' Association (DCMA) since it was established
in 2006. Richland's Garland Campus opened in 2009 to offer highly specialized corporate and workforce training to
the city of Garland's manufacturing corridor.
Funding is provided by Skills Development Fund (SDF) grants awarded to Richland College by the Texas Workforce
Commission (TWC). Richland has received training grants totaling more than $2,500,000 for DCMA companies to date.
In August 2014, the TWC awarded Richland College an SDF grant for an additional $629,602 to train 334 employees at
DCMA member companies Ecolab, General Dynamics, J&A Manufacturing, Karlee, Kraft Foods, Marlow Industries and
Micropac Industries, Inc.
View a transcript.
Richland College has provided training for more than 2,000 employees in 25 DCMA member companies. Topics have
included management, industrial maintenance, Lean Six Sigma, manufacturing, business productivity, Microsoft Office
applications, language skills and safety. Certificate programs were also created for precision machine operator,
construction-masonry and office support specialist.
TWC policy specified that companies weren't eligible to participate in subsequent grants for 12 months once
their SDF grant concluded — restricting the college's ability to meet rapidly changing needs for high-tech
manufacturing companies. After meeting with colleges and companies about their concerns, the TWC changed its
restriction to six months.
TWC policy decreed a training mix for SDF grants to be at least 55% business technical, 45%
general technical and no more than 10% nontechnical training. To address this challenge, Richland partnered
with Senseability Technical Training LLC to provide a wide array of industrial maintenance training to its DCMA
companies. Richland's 2014-2015 SDF grant comprised 67% business technical, 32% general technical and
1% nontechnical training.
With the TWC excluding soft skills from grant training, Richland's Corporate Services Division has greatly
increased its offerings in this area with DCMA company partners to fill the gap in developing leadership and
supervisory skills with their organizations. The college is now on its third round of DCMA Leadership Academy
classes with the Garland Chamber of Commerce.
Richland College's liaison maintains regular contact with DCMA companies through scheduled committee meetings
and on-site visits to discuss training and hiring needs. Seats on the Workforce Solutions of Greater Dallas board
of directors enable partners to have a voice at the local level. Representatives also maintain advocacy with the
Texas Workforce Commission, which administers the grants.
Listening to and developing trust with business partners is crucial. Understanding their businesses and what is
required for them to be successful makes Richland College and DCCCD players in finding solutions to workforce
training and hiring challenges.
Larry Anderson, a highly respected leader in the U.S. on continuous improvement, summed up the
partnership between (DCCCD) and the Dallas County Manufacturers' Association as a 'best practice.' There is no
higher designation than being a model of performing at the highest level. The Garland Chamber formed the DCMA in
partnership with the DCCCD almost 10 years ago. The millions of dollars of grant funds and the hundreds of workers
trained in that time are a testament to the success of the relationship. The economy of Garland, Texas, has
benefitted immensely from this unique collaboration.
Micropac has received many benefits as a DCMA member company. We received training through a Richland
College/DCMA grant for broad-level skills development across our company. A couple of years ago, we experienced a
downturn in one of our divisions, while we had a significant increase in our sister division. As a direct result of
the skills training, we avoided layoffs by transferring employees across divisions who fortunately had the skills
training needed.
Workforce Solutions of Greater Dallas lists projected job openings and salaries in its 2014-2015 Targeted
Occupations list:
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Eastport, Maine, to get special wood pellet facility near pier
EASTPORT, Maine (AP) � Maine's easternmost city is getting a manufacturing plant for a special type of wood pellet that will be shipped overseas as an alternative, cleaner-burning fuel for coal-fired power plants.
Thermogen Industries, a subsidiary of Portsmouth, N.H.-based Cate Street Capital, said Friday it has signed a letter of intent with the Eastport Port Authority to build the plant next to the port's Estes Head Terminal.
Thermogen wants to produce up to 300,000 tons of torrefied wood pellets annually � a more fuel-efficient pellet. The company's already working on a production facility in Millinocket.
Former Senate President Kevin Raye calls the development "a monumental moment for Eastport and for Washington County" that will create jobs. The Perry Republicans says it was helped by a $4.5 million bond issue in 2009.


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Malaysia: Prime Minister Visits for Business
PENANG, Malaysia -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir
visit to Burma is mainly for business and not for human rights,
critics here
Mahathir, who arrived in Burma Wednesday for a two-day working
visit and
then a holiday, arrived two days before a U.N. special envoy
tasked to
broker a dialogue between the military regime and the party it
blocked from
power, the National League for Democracy (NLD).
Mahathir, accompanied by 30 Malaysian delegates, was met on
arrival by
the country's military ruler Senior Gen Than Shwe, with whom he
later held
talks on the eve of Burma's independence day celebration.
But no one expects him to raise the touchy issues of human
rights and
political openness with Burmese leaders during his stay in the
Malaysia has traditionally glossed over Burma's human rights
record and
defended that nation in the face of international criticism and
demands for
foreign pressure for more openness there.
Human rights complaints against Burma have ranged from
arbitrary arrests,
torture, forced relocation of civilians, forced labour, official
in drug trafficking and smuggling of natural resources.
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Karens have been displaced and
have fled
into refugee camps along the border with Thailand.
Still, local politicians urged Mahathir to push for dialogue
Burma's rulers and the opposition led by NLD leader and Nobel
laureate Aung
San Suu Kyi.
Syed Azman Syed Ahmad, international affairs bureau chairman of
Malaysia's opposition front, urged Mahathir to visit Suu Kyi ''as
a gesture
of concern for her situation and her untiring struggle for
democracy in
''It is high time that Malaysia and other ASEAN (Association of
South-east Asian Nations) countries engage in dialogue with both
the State
Peace and Development Council (the Burmese government) and the
NLD, and we
hope that your trip can start off this new process of
engagement,'' he said
in an open letter to Mahathir.
Syed Azman urged Mahathir and other officials to ''to engage in
with the heads of SPDC government on the importance or speeding up
process of change and to improve the situation in Burma, for the
sake of the
50 million suffering Burmese people.''
Burma's military leaders have periodically cracked down on Suu
Kyi's NLD
ever since her party swept general elections in 1990, but was
barred from
taking power.
Suu Kyi herself has been restricted to her home since Sep. 22
after she
tried twice to defy the military regime by travelling outside the
Nine NLD leaders in all were put under confinement. Six were
released on
Dec. 1 but party stalwarts NLD Chairman Aung Shwe and Vice-
Chairman Tin Oo
remain detained. About 80 NLD supporters arrested at the same time
are also
believed to still be in detention.
But it is business interests rather than human rights and
democracy that
are on the top of the two countries' agenda.
Malaysian firms have invested 587 million U.S. dollars in 25
since 1988, when Burma opened up to foreign investment. Malaysia
ranks as
the fourth largest investor in Burma after Singapore, Britain and
In July, 'Oil and Gas Journal Online' reported that the
Authority of Thailand (PTT) and Malaysian state oil firm Petronas
reviewing the feasibility of a plant capable of processing natural
gas. The
complex was supposed to be located in southern Burma, on the
Daimensek coast
in Mon state.
The report added that PTT and Petronas hoped to include Burmese
firms as partners in the project, although formal discussions had
not yet
taken place then.
Petronas is a partner in the 650 million dollar Yetagun gas
development in a consortium that includes British, Thai and
Japanese oil firms.
''The government (in Burma) is bankrupt,'' said one analyst.
''They have
to get foreign exchange to survive.''
Critics say the military regime is counting on the large
presence of
multinational corporations, especially petroleum firms, to gain
and fend off proposed international economic sanctions.
Money is also needed for Burma's military, which faces
movements and dissent. Critics have long said that Burma has been
its natural resources -- oil and gas, teak, tin, tungsten, copper,
zinc, and precious stones -- to raise funds.
Mahathir's last trip to Burma was in 1988 and since then the
international community, apart from ASEAN, has largely shunned it.
Some say it is time for real dialogue to be encouraged by
ASEAN, of which
Burma is a member.
''It is important for ASEAN countries to voice our protests and
complaints against the human rights violations in Burma to the
government,'' said Syed Azman.
Instability in Burma would not only bring instability to the
ASEAN region
but would also jeopardise the investments of the ASEAN business
community in
Burma, he pointed out.
The U.N. special envoy due to arrive in Burma Friday is Razali
Malaysia's permanent envoy to the United Nations. His five-day
visit will be
his third since his appointment in April. Razali managed to meet
Suu Kyi
twice during his last visit in October.
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Over enthusiastic PM for AIX service = could annoy administrators!
nagger 100000MRSJ Comments (2) Visits (16266)
We have had the Global Services offering "Performance Management for AIX" server for years (even decades) - it gets shorten to "PM for AIX" or "PM for Power Systems" which sounds like a "Prime Minister for the Electricity Board" to English people! Anyway, briefly this offers:
The new "opportunity" is this service gets switched on when you install AIX 6.1 TL06 SP3 and AIX 7.1 TL 00 SP2 and presumably later levels of AIX. It does this without asking. The first the AIX user knows is that they get an odd email from IBM - see below. Obviously, some marketing person thought this was a great way for the service to show its capabilities but the mistake was that we did not tell anybody in advance and techies really don't like surprises - like machines doing things unexpectedly.
The email looks like this:
From email@example.com
To the contact named on the HMC (we think)
Title IBM PM for Power Systems Registration Key for Server/System Name XXXXXXXX
You are receiving this letter and registration key(s) because IBM recently received a first time transmission of Performance Management for Power Systems performance data from your serv
The attachment contains the registration key(s) with additional information and actions.
IBM Corporation
Performance Management for Power Systems
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Attached Regi
The Attachment is a detailed letter about what is going on, the website to see the reports, a key (password) to get access and a link to explain how to switch it off.
The How to Switch It Off link is http
For new AIX releases the following steps switch it off:
It is fairly simple but here is a worked example
# smitty topas
Move down to "List active Recordings"
Select "persistent"
Yes there is a recording taking place - we need to check if this is sending data and then switch it off. Use Escape+3 (or Function3) to get to the top menu.
Select "Stop Recording" + ENTER
Select "Stop Persistent Recording" (this means it is started every day) + ENTER
Select "Stop Persistent local Binary Recording" (local means just this AIX) + ENTER
Here we see the recording has "PM Service = Enabled" - change to disabled with the TAB key.
It displays "Disabled" then hit ENTER
It wants you to confirm you mean this - so confirm by hitting ENTER again
It reports that it worked.
Job done.
I hope this helps, thanks, Nigel Griffiths.


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Dale Andreatta along with Fred Barrett is the inventor of the Water Pasteurization Indicator (WAPI), a simple thermometer that indicates when water has reached pasteurization temperature and is safe to drink.
Dale writes:
- "I am educated in mechanical engineering, getting BS and MS degrees from The Ohio State University in 1983 and 1984. After working for SEA, Ltd., an engineering consulting company, I went to Berkeley for a Ph.D. completing that in 1995. One of my minor areas was heat transfer, which is highly relevant in solar cooking and a number of other areas. While in California I hooked up with Solar Cookers International, and finished the design of the original WAPI. I also worked on several low-cost methods of water pasterurization. After graduating I moved back to Columbus Ohio and went back to work for SEA, continuing to work on water pasteurization as my time permitted. Along with others, I have authored several papers for the American Solar Energy Society about solar water pasteurization methods.
- Currently I am heavily involved with efforts to design clean and efficient cooking methods for the developing world using biofuels. All of this work is encouraged by my company as time allows, and they provide me with a small budget and laboratory space."
Recent news and developments
- February 2014: Dale Andreatta, inventor of the WAPI, discusses the latest developments in water pasteurization at the ETHOS 2013 conference in Kirkland, Washington, USA. He describes three uses for low temperature (below boiling) solar-heated water, and three simple devices for producing that hot water. In Johnson and Bryden (2012) it is estimated that in a particular village in Mali, 22% of the domestic wood consumption went for water heating exclusive of cooking, while another 52% went for cooking. In a sunny climate the methods presented here would provide most of the energy required for water heating exclusive of cooking, and a substantial fraction of the energy needs for cooking. Read more at: Solar Thermal Energy for the Village - Dale Andreatta
- January 2009: Water Pasteurization as a Means of Providing Clean Drinking Water - Dale Andreatta, Ph.D., P.E.
- March 2008: Plastic sheets may offer alternative to bags as "greenhouse" for pots - Dale Andreatta, Ph.D., P.E.
- February 2007: A Summary of Water Pasteurization Techniques - Dale Andreatta, Ph.D., P.E.
- Water pasteurization
Audio and video
- January 2009:
Dale Andreatta
Email: email@example.com
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Adds face on X Y plane in selected groups or components. Useful for imported 2D drawings to better see their position in 3D space.
Saves the camera position in just 2 clicks so it can be retrieved later. Works between models. Perfect for version comparison for instance.
Toggle whether ruby console should be open on start. Opens before most other other script runs.
When cuts that aren't flat are desired the model can be manually divided into groups representing each side of the cuts. This script helps putting the cut geometry on its own layer so it can be hidden when the model as a whole is shown.
Deletes both the selection and all its bounding edges that doesn't bind anything else.
Set fog start and end distances precisely from points in model or custom lengths.
Splits every selected face to smaller ones and randomly moves around endpoints to make it look more like a natural terrain.
Moves the camera to look at the same object from the opposite side.
Pan camera precisely using inference.
Like Sketchup's native Top View but has the same relation to the previous view as Top View has to Front View. Useful to set plan views that are aligned to a building or other content instead of having north up.


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"What does it mean to truly love another?"
That's the question Nicholas Sparks, in his wiley, tear-jerking way, asks in "Dear John," the most recent film adaptation from the author who has become one of the most successful franchises in Hollywood thanks to films like "The Notebook" ("It wasn't over for me. It still isn't over." Smooooch).
"Dear John," the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a Special Forces solider who falls in love with Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) while on leave at home in North Carolina, is about "first love, that one you cannot get right no matter how hard you try." At least that's how Tatum, sporting a goatee and a luxurious black cashmere sweater, explained it after settling into a table at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.
The actor, who deftly exposes a masculine yet vulnerable John Tyree, has been attached to the project since it began development four years ago, long before the studio had a script, a director or a co-star. He says it was the imperfection of the love story that first attracted him to the material.
"You're supposed to not do things right," Tatum smiles. "That's what I loved about reading the book and that's what I love about the movie. It's not a fantastical box of a movie with a bow on top. It's real. It has more edge and darkness to it than some of [Sparks'] novels in the past."
Adding to the realism was the inclusion of Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallstrom ("What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "The Cider House Rules," "My Life As a Dog"). Whenever anything veered toward the maudlin, the director would revolt. "'It just seems like the worst movie moment. I can see it in the trailer and I just can't have it,'" Tatum, in a soft, spot-on Swedish accent, imitates, chuckling. "He doesn't do things badly. He has a sort of allergic reaction to anything that's cheesy."
It's an interesting affliction for the man who helmed a catalogue of ABBA videos during their prime years, from 1974-1982, including classics for "Dancing Queen" and "Supertrouper." Filled with soft focus, smoke machine haze, star filters and silver leisure suits, those videos made frequent appearances on the "Dear John" set. "He'll show you on his iPod," Tatum laughs. "He'll be like, 'Hey guys, would you like to see my earlier work?'"


text: Sooooooooo, my tax return has come in and is burning a good hole in my pocket. While I could stand to budget something higher in price the knives that have been itching the back of my brain are a 240 masamoto KS WaGyuto, a 240 Kiritsuke, or a Mukimono. My current working knife collection consists of the following - Tadatsuna INOX 240mm Hiromoto AS 240mm Hiromoto limited white steel 240mm Masahiro virgin carbon 240mm Carter kuro-uchi funayuki 7.2 sun Suisin Inox petty 180mm Kikuichi elite carbon sujihiki 270mm Masahiro stainless sujihiki 240mm Masahiro stainless petty 150mm CCK 1303 Dojo parer I work the line and da a fairly broad range of prep work daily so all of these are workers, and get used on the line 5 days a week. I like to run with one for a week or so and then I'll change it up. So I ask of you fellow knife folk, for thoughts, opinions, and or suggestions for other possible purchases. Also if anyone has a KS and could post up some good pics so I could get a better perception of it that would be awesome as well.


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Supporting the Most Exciting and Meaningful Missions in the World
Mail Clerk
San Francisco, CA
PAE has an opportunity for a Mail Clerk to join our team on our Federal Government contract.
The Mail Clerk (General Clerk I) is responsible for providing administrative support to those personnel supporting the adjudication process of individuals who have applied for immigration and citizenship benefits.
Essential duties and responsibilities for the position include the following:
Required Qualifications:
Other Essential Qualifications:
Minimum Experience, Education and Licensure:
Preferred Qualifications:
Prior experience working with the public is preferred.
Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to sit or stand for long periods of time, stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle, or feel objects, office equipment, or supplies. Use fingers and hands to type or write; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee must also be able to conduct repetitive body movements, push, reach, stoop and/ or bend and lift up to 45 pounds repetitively at times.
Work Environment:
This position is primarily performed in a traditional office environment, but may also include all other work environments as required.
About PAE
From our founding in 1955, PAE has offered enduring support for the essential missions of a wide range of customers, including the U.S. government, its allied partners and international organizations. To support our customer's complex missions around the world, PAE's current portfolio includes capabilities in aviation, capacity building and stabilization, critical infrastructure, expeditionary logistics, identity and information management solutions, integrated security solutions, test and training ranges, and training solutions; and enterprise-level technology products and software.
Over the past several years, PAE has increased the breadth of services we offer our customers by integrating companies with proven capabilities and a customer-focused workforce culture. Today, the approximately 20,000 members of our global workforce perform with excellence and dedication in over 60 countries, on all seven continents, in some of the world's most challenging regions. We attribute our success to the quality of our work and the integrity and high ethical standards that define our business operations.
As we grow, the values that have set us apart over the past six decades continue to guide our company in leading with integrity and excellence. We are strongly committed to diversity, recognizing our success depends on bringing together a wide range of perspectives, skills and experiences to find the most innovative, cost-effective solutions for our customers. Above all, PAE dedicates itself to the missions of our customers. The entire workforce maintains a focus and commitment on delivering the highest quality of support of the critical work of the U.S. government, its allied partners and international organizations.
PAE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
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The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with
"I don't have a whole lot of choice," said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of
Dr. Anderson is one of the more outspoken proponents of an idea that is gaining interest among some physicians. They are prescribing stimulants to struggling students in schools starved of extra money — not to treat A.D.H.D., necessarily, but to boost their academic performance.
It is not yet clear whether Dr. Anderson is representative of a widening trend. But some experts note that as wealthy students abuse stimulants to raise already-good grades in colleges and high schools, the medications are being used on low-income elementary school children with faltering grades and parents eager to see them succeed.Continue reading the main story
"We as a society have been unwilling to invest in very effective nonpharmaceutical interventions for these children and their families," said Dr. Ramesh Raghavan, a child mental-health services researcher at
Dr. Nancy Rappaport, a child psychiatrist in
Dr. Anderson's instinct, he said, is that of a "social justice thinker" who is "evening the scales a little bit." He said that the children he sees with academic problems are essentially "mismatched with their environment" — square pegs chafing the round holes of public education. Because their families can rarely afford behavior-based therapies like tutoring and family counseling, he said, medication becomes the most reliable and pragmatic way to redirect the student toward success.
"People who are getting A's and B's, I won't give it to them," he said. For some parents the pills provide great relief. Jacqueline Williams said she can't thank Dr. Anderson enough for diagnosing A.D.H.D. in her children — Eric, 15; Chekiara, 14; and Shamya, 11 — and prescribing Concerta, a long-acting stimulant, for them all. She said each was having trouble listening to instructions and concentrating on schoolwork.
"My kids don't want to take it, but I told them, 'These are your grades when you're taking it, this is when you don't,' and they understood," Ms. Williams said, noting that
Some experts see little harm in a responsible physician using A.D.H.D. medications to help a struggling student. Others — even among the many like Dr. Rappaport who praise the use of stimulants as treatment for classic A.D.H.D. — fear that doctors are exposing children to unwarranted physical and psychological risks. Reported side effects of the drugs have included growth suppression, increased
The disorder, which is characterized by severe inattention and impulsivity, is an increasingly common psychiatric diagnosis among American youth: about 9.5 percent of Americans ages 4 to 17 were judged to have it in 2007, or about 5.4 million children, according to the
The reported prevalence of the disorder has risen steadily for more than a decade, with some doctors gratified by its widening recognition but others fearful that the diagnosis, and the drugs to treat it, are handed out too loosely and at the exclusion of nonpharmaceutical therapies.
According to guidelines published last year by the
On the Rocafort family's kitchen shelf in Ball Ground, Ga., next to the peanut butter and chicken broth, sits a wire basket brimming with bottles of the children's medications, prescribed by Dr. Anderson: Adderall for Alexis, 12; and Ethan, 9; Risperdal (an antipsychotic for mood stabilization) for Quintn and Perry, both 11; and Clonidine (a sleep aid to counteract the other medications) for all four, taken nightly.
Quintn began taking Adderall for A.D.H.D. about five years ago, when his disruptive school behavior led to calls home and in-school suspensions. He immediately settled down and became a more earnest, attentive student — a little bit more like Perry, who also took Adderall for his A.D.H.D.
While telling this story, the Rocaforts called Quintn into the kitchen and asked him to describe why he had been given Adderall.
"To help me focus on my school work, my homework, listening to Mom and Dad, and not doing what I used to do to my teachers, to make them mad," he said. He described the week in the hospital and the effects of Risperdal: "If I don't take my medicine I'd be having attitudes. I'd be disrespecting my parents. I wouldn't be like this."
Despite Quintn's experience with Adderall, the Rocaforts decided to use it with their 12-year-old daughter, Alexis, and 9-year-old son, Ethan. These children don't have A.D.H.D., their parents said. The Adderall is merely to help their grades, and because Alexis was, in her father's words, "a little blah."
"We've seen both sides of the spectrum: we've seen positive, we've seen negative," the father, Rocky Rocafort, said. Acknowledging that Alexis's use of Adderall is "cosmetic," he added, "If they're feeling positive, happy, socializing more, and it's helping them, why wouldn't you? Why not?"
Dr. William Graf, a pediatrician and child neurologist who serves many poor families in
"These children are still in the developmental phase, and we still don't know how these drugs biologically affect the developing brain," he said. "There's an obligation for parents, doctors and teachers to respect the authenticity issue, and I'm not sure that's always happening."
Dr. Anderson said that every child he treats with A.D.H.D. medication has met qualifications. But he also railed against those criteria, saying they were codified only to "make something completely subjective look objective." He added that teacher reports almost invariably come back as citing the behaviors that would warrant a diagnosis, a decision he called more economic than medical.
"The school said if they had other ideas they would," Dr. Anderson said. "But the other ideas cost money and resources compared to meds."
Dr. Anderson cited William G. Hasty Elementary School here in Canton as one school he deals with often. Izell McGruder, the school's principal, did not respond to several messages seeking comment.
Several educators contacted for this article considered the subject of A.D.H.D. so controversial — the diagnosis was misused at times, they said, but for many children it is a serious learning disability — that they declined to comment. The superintendent of one major school district in
"It's scary to think that this is what we've come to; how not funding public education to meet the needs of all kids has led to this," said the superintendent, referring to the use of stimulants in children without classic A.D.H.D. "I don't know, but it could be happening right here. Maybe not as knowingly, but it could be a consequence of a doctor who sees a kid failing in overcrowded classes with 42 other kids and the frustrated parents asking what they can do. The doctor says, 'Maybe it's A.D.H.D., let's give this a try.' "
When told that the Rocaforts insist that their two children on Adderall do not have A.D.H.D. and never did, Dr. Anderson said he was surprised. He consulted their charts and found the parent questionnaire. Every category, which assessed the severity of behaviors associated with A.D.H.D., received a five out of five except one, which was a four.
"This is my whole angst about the thing," Dr. Anderson said. "We put a label on something that isn't binary — you have it or you don't. We won't just say that there is a student who has problems in school, problems at home, and probably, according to the doctor with agreement of the parents, will try medical treatment."
He added, "We might not know the long-term effects, but we do know the short-term costs of school failure, which are real. I am looking to the individual person and where they are right now. I am the doctor for the patient, not for society."Continue reading the main story


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The handling of software vulnerabilities has come a long way in the past decade with the emergence of generally accepted procedures for reporting and responding to vulnerabilities. Responsible vendors have formal programs for issuing patches and updates for their software with automated systems for downloading them.
Yet security has not noticeably improved, and monthly and regular reports assessing the state of our security show that known vulnerabilities for which fixes are available, some of them years old, continue to account for the bulk of successful exploits.
These problems persist not just because end users are ignorant or lazy or because system administrators are overworked, understaffed and have inadequate budgets. Someone, either the users, the administrators or their bosses, is a making conscious decision that installing software patches is not worth the effort.
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They are not necessarily ignoring the problem. They have decided that the continuous flood of updates cannot be effectively handled and that it makes more sense to ignore them until a breach occurs.
Whether this is a rational response to the issue is arguable. If your computer or system is not compromised, it looks like a good decision. If you are compromised, it might still be a good decision if the problem is small and easily cleaned up. Even if the compromise is serious, dealing with it might be easier than dealing with the possible disruptions of services through continually updating software.
Even if this is a rational business decision, it is not good security. In the long run, everyone suffers because the bad guys are able to operate and finance their operations with exploits that put not only the system owners but everyone who depends on those systems as employees, customers or third-party users at risk.
The problem is that patching is a stop-gap approach to IT security that has evolved into an end in itself. A lot of effort is going into finding and patching vulnerabilities after the fact, and the industry has not done an adequate job of addressing the underlying problem of vulnerable software.
Patching should not be a primary security tool. Even with automation and tools to help, it is cumbersome at best and a major headache at worst. The lack of stable software versions can threaten the stability of systems that are in a constant state of flux. Eventually, someone says, Enough! Let things stay as they are and we'll deal with problems if and when they occur.
The solution is to eliminate the need to patch by preventing vulnerabilities in software in the first place. This would not be easy, of course. It probably is not possible. But there has to be a better way of producing software than is being done today.
Microsoft is one of the leaders in the effort to improve software development with its Trustworthy Computing initiative, yet after a decade not a Patch Tuesday passes without a list of security bulletins.
Security through patching seems to have hit a wall, or at least is reaching the point of diminishing returns. We are unlikely to see large-scale improvements in security until underlying issues are more effectively addressed.
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The first indications of the Naval Base's possible demise appeared in the 1990s as the
retain military presence, the Navy pullout continued into the 21st century, and by 2000 its hourglass had run dry and there was no active naval operation based at the Philadelphia Base. The yard itself was sold, dirt cheap, to the city of
In a desperate effort scrap together a plan for making the base profitable,
After the Transpax corporation went belly up several months later the city found itself stuck with a fleet of dilapidated ships for which nobody was willing to foot the bill.
In 2003, during a routine inspection of the base, a city worker detected a steady stream of toxic fluids leaking from the hull of a ship belonging to the defunct company Transpax.
The city sent in a team of environmental investigators who found that nearly all of
During this time the South Philadelphia Mafia had taken an interest in the port as a secure place to ship illegal goods. In order to keep the area out of the hands of bums and gangs they began posting a contingent of heavily armed wise guys in the area. Reports of strange activity occurring within the hulls of the old ships started to come in, increasing in frequency as time passed.
The Crumbling
On August 21, 2004 a fierce thunderstorm struck the
The Mafia lost all communication with their wise guys posted there and, following the storm, another entourage of tough guys were dispatched to investigate. Although all returned, many were badly injured, and one had a message scrawled into the flesh of his back stating that the base was no longer the "domain of humans".
The injured Mafioso (before succumbing to his injuries and blood loss,) managed to tell his comrades his wounds had been inflicted by blind individuals which now only vaguely resembled humans, most of which were gibbering in wet, runny voices about "the next evolution," and "the crumbling of humanity."
Not ones to be intimidated by a bunch of homeless upstarts with skin conditions, the Mafia is rumored to be gearing up for a major offensive to retake the docks and reclaim territory they say is rightfully theirs.
For the cities part, unofficially they are only to happy to let the criminal syndicate have control of their dirty little secret, especially when their presence with the rusting wastelands helps deter safety inspectors, and anyone else who may blow the whistle on the floating toxic waste dump.
Like the rest of
During the frigid winters, the hulks of rusting metal can be heard to groan and twist in protest, the sound of mechanical abandonment echoing mournfully across the area in wee hours of the morning.
Locations of Interest:
The Loading Dock
This is the hub of mafia operations in the area, where the majority of their cargo is quietly loaded to and from supply ships slipping into the ship graveyard, most of the illegal goods being quickly distributed among the few secure, uncontaminated vessels in the harbor for later resale and usage.
At any given time one can expect to find at least a half dozen "workers" lounging about the area, eager to give nosey reporters and lost tourists the once over for poking into their safe haven.
The Suarez Tanker
Once a large and state of the art oil tanker, the Suarez is now a rusted shadow of its former glory. The highly computerized interior has been long since gutted by workers in preparation for it's mothballing, and the hold quietly pumped full of toxic compounds from Transpax manufacturing facilities.
During the early mafia presence in the shipyards this ship was briefly used as a storage point for several shipments of assault rifles and grenades, some of which are rumored to still be stashed in the lower holds for emergencies.
The Crimson Navigator
The former luxury yacht of Transpax CEO Charles Hansel, this 120' long vessel sits mostly forgotten, sandwiched between a weather beaten tugboat and several smaller fishing trawlers, its gleaming paint job flecked with rust and all but leeched of color in the aftermath of seasonal storms.
The Seraphim
Despite the angelic sounding name this ships history is quite the opposite, in reality little more then a floating medical research platform. In its day the Seraphim was infamous for conducting experiments on laboratory animals searching for cures to various maladies and afflictions. The researchers on board used the legal freedom of international waters to get around otherwise restrictive treaties preventing the more extreme experiments conducted on human volunteers. Now the ship runs low in the waterline with a belly full of medical waste, much of it radioactive and infectious, as the mutated marine life beneath the waves will attest.
Little more then a registry designation IG-42 was a solid cargo vessel, often transporting expensive cargo and perishable goods from the west coast, south through the Panama Canal to east coast conglomerates and the well to do. She was moored here well over a year ago, after a fire in her engine compartment asphyxiated most of the crew and left her drifting without power off the gulf coast.
Wave Runner
A small sailing vessel with cleverly concealed hydro jets just beneath the water line, it was used for smuggling of contraband from both Cuba and African drug lords in its heyday, until a run in with a US Customs patrol boat left it riddled with bullet holes and no longer sea worthy, now orphaned amidst the other rusting hulks as nothing more then a curiosity. The rumors of a cache of blood diamonds still onboard is circulated among smugglers and syndicate members, but none have bothered to investigate the ship so far.
Ammo Depot
This low slung building is made from concrete and reinforced with heavy armor designed to withstand bombardment from a coastal assault or air raid. Back when the shipyard was still a naval facility all manner of weaponry was stored here, from cruise missiles to full auto shotguns, the majority of which was relocated when the military abandoned the base over a decade ago.
Barracks Compound
Where many of the seamen lived aboard the shipyard during naval ownership, these long brick and wood buildings are now sagging in their foundations from years of neglect. The Mafia made the more inhabited structures home for their garrison of enforcers, at least until better accommodations on board some of the decommissioned vessel became possible.
The Majestic
A full fledged cruise liner taking up an entire berthing platform itself lists drunkenly to port, the majority of its windows shot out by bored mafia pistol duelists over the years. Its interior was only partially stripped before decommission, with many of the staterooms and luxury suites still fully furnished. The exact reasons for the ships mothball is unknown to all but a few of its former employees, none of which will speak of the ship without cursing its name and that of the captain Armando.
Plot Hooks:
The Made Men
"A bunch of what?! Listen, I don't care how many of the boys it takes, or if you need ta hire mercenaries to sink half the freak'n ships moored out there, I want this problem solved and it be back to business as usual by the end of the week! You hear me?!"
Don Carlene is unhappy; this local insurgency by mutated freaks is interrupting his import export business, and when the Don is unhappy, everyone who works for the Don is unhappy.
Enter the player group, a bunch of heavy hitters and ne'er-do-wells hired, (for a generous fee) by the family to clean up the docks and eliminate whatever threat is in the shipyard by any means necessary.
The Don is willing to provide guns, explosives, and even a little disposable muscle if they ask nicely. Of course failure is unthinkable, and running futile. Succeed and you could have a bright future as a "made man," that is of course assuming you aren't irradiated or driven insane by whatever lurks in the shipyard first.
An Easy Scam
"I'm telling you the job's easy mate, slip in while these Mafia goons are distracted, grab the data and slip back out. You'll be home in time for tea an crumpets, and best of all, filthy stinkin rich!"
It seems the former CEO's yacht; The Crimson Navigator wasn't thoroughly stripped before being deposited among the other derelicts. According to a former Transpax accountant "Slim Jim," the Crimson Navigator contained a entire server room within in its depths, a server that was used not only to track the corporations holdings and stock options, but also contained the bank accounts and passwords for many of the executives.
Retrieving this encrypted information for Slim will net the characters a considerable share of the profits, enough money to retire on, or at least take a couple years vacation in the tropics. Of course finding the luxury yacht amidst the sea of decommissioned vessels is no easy feat, especially with the mafia in a running gun battle with some new occupants, occupants that seem to have a taste for human flesh and don't like trespassers.
Even after the ship is located, acquiring the data will be harder then throwing some switches and booting up a mainframe. The ships engines have gone untended for a few years now, and any battery power onboard has long since lost its charge. Bringing along a generator and splicing it into the ships power grid, or simply yanking the drives from the server room are options. Both options however will take time, and draw the attention of curious parties on both sides of the war that rages around them.
Witless Protection
"I'm not telling ya to like it, I'm telling ya to do it or find another job! Smitty's one of our best undercover agents even if he's an accident prone putz, and he's the only one who knows what the hell's going on down there. Find him, and make sure he gets out alive and with his tongue intact, or by god you'll be writing parking tickets for the rest of your careers!
Smitty, a deep cover agent for the Philly police precinct, who was helping them keep tabs on the Mafias smuggling ring is in over his head. From the short phone call they received he's been pinned down with some other wise guys on a freighter, fighting against what he described as men in Halloween costumes, before his call was abruptly terminated.
The characters, part of the cities S.W.A.T team have been given the thankless task of extracting the mole and getting him back for debriefing. With his long history of bad luck and broken bones, chances are he'll need a wheel chair by the time the group finds his location.
Fortunately for the team, the dispatcher was able to narrow down his cell phone signal to the west side of the docks, near a group of abandoned structures and a decommissioned medical research vessel.
Even with it being the dead of night and temperatures dipping into the single digits as the worse blizzard Philly has seen in decade's approaches, a rescue op must be sent. Even after Smitty is found, it's unlikely he'll leave without the flash drive he copied the last three months of shipping manifests onto. It's a real shame he left it back in his quarters in the Mafia barracks.
We Need a Scavanger
"While worth nearly nothing to people like you, the portrait of dear Harold is essential to completing my restoration of the Sheinberg estate, where it hung proudly over the mantle piece before that fiend Armando placed him on that floating money pit of his.
Some rich people have more money then intellect, and others obsess over worthless trinkets. When the two flaws combine however, it often spells profit for those willing to put up with their eccentricities long enough to get paid.
Lady Eleanor Sheinberg is rebuilding her family estate, and it's nearly complete save for one final piece, the portrait of her great grandfather, the founder of the Sheinberg family fortune.
Finding The Majestic is easy, the ship itself takes up a huge section of the former Naval yard, navigating its slanted decks and successfully locating the painting however, will be slightly more difficult.
There's also one other little complication, Armando has heard of his ex wife's desire for the painting, and he's every bit as eager to find it and keep it from her out of spite for the pittance the divorce settlement awarded him. The crack team of ex military commandoes he's black mailed into doing the job won't give up easily, and thanks to Armando, they know right where the painting is stored.
A Touch of the Orient
"The Mafia dogs have lost control of their smuggling port to a bunch of irradiated squatters, and now they struggle to regain control of what is rightfully ours. You will bring us much honor when you finish removing the mafia presence from the docks and scrub the ships free of their stain."
Seeing a prime opportunity to lay claim to valuable piece of real-estate, the Yakuza have taken the opportunity to invade the docks in force. Slipping among the shadows with silenced weaponry and razor katanas they are wrecking havoc in the Mafia's otherwise organized response to the mutant infestation.
As new recruits into the Japanese crime syndicate, the characters are tasked with assisting this offensive and driving both the mafia and the monstrosities from the shipyard, hopefully without sparking another syndicate war.
While simple on the surface this task has become complicated by a recent tropical storm pounding the docks with its fury. Keeping a firm footing on pitching ship decks is difficult even for Yakuza martial artists, while the driving wind and rain makes easy identification of enemies all but impossible for even the keenest eyed seer.
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U.S.S Endurance
A older destroyer dating back a couple decades, this ship was sent into permanent retirement after a new radar and missile guidance system malfunctioned, burning out the wiring on several decks and creating a repair job that simply wasn't cost effective.
Now all but lost among larger vessels, the ships enhanced radar suite and IFF transponder are unexpected prizes for the lucky (or curious) salvager.
The Golitsyn (SECRET SUNKEN STEAM SHIP FROM CZARIST RUSSIA!) (try saying that three times)
In 1863, during the height of the American Civil War the Russian Atlantic and Pacific Fleets wintered in the Union Ports on the North America. Like all things Russian, the gesture was significant but the exact meaning was enigmatic. The Lincoln administration spun it as a sign of support for the Union cause and as counter weight to the threat of French and English intervention on the Confederate behalf. Others have suggested that Russia believed itself to be on the brink of war with England and France over the question of Polish sovereignty and wanted to prevent their fleets from becoming ice bound or blockaded. While most of the Russian Atlantic fleet laid anchor in New York, one ship, the Steam frigate Aleksandr Mikhailovich Golitsyn, arrived in Philadelphia. Whether the Golitsyn had an official mission to Philadelphia or was "separated" from the fleet during the crossing will never be known. Confederate spies had learned of the Golistyn's approach and decided not to let Russian influence go uncontested. Considering what the Golitsyn was carrying it is also possible and likely that other parties had found a way to influence the Confederate agents towards their own end.
The day after he (According to the author's memory of Tom Clancy novels, Russian ships are always male) set anchor, Confederate saboteurs boarded and blew the boiler on the Golitsyn. The ship, most of her crew and all of her cargo sank in less than a quarter hour. The Golitsyn's presence and its sinking was kept a secret and never officially acknowledged by either the Union government or the Russian Admiralty. The Lincoln administration did not wish to advertise the success Confederate saboteurs. The Russian Admiralty was not truly interested or capable of becoming involved in an American Civil War and did not wish to deal with the consequences of acknowledging an isolated act of aggression against their forces by the Confederacy. Today the half buried wreckage of the Golitsyn sits under the decaying remains of the Philadelphia Shipyard's "younger" retirees. But thanks to his cargo, the Golitsyn has not entirely been forgotten.
In the 1800s pogroms against Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe had been on the rise. Immigration of Eastern European Jews to the United States had also been on the rise. The USA of the 1860s presented an interesting problem for the Jews, true there had been a rise of anti-Semitism manifested by General Order Number 11 and wide spread scapegoating of their communities all over the North. But there was also hope, Lincoln had over turned Order Number 11, they allowed Jewish Chaplains into the military and there was always the promise of the American Constitution that a man was free to have his religion. It seemed clear that even after centuries of living side by side the Russian masses were never going to accept Jews as true countrymen. It was decided that one of greatest treasure of the Eastern European Jewish Communities would be smuggled out of Europe and into the United States. The captain of the Golitsyn agreed to carry the treasure to the United States and this treasure is still with the Golitsyn's wreckage.
The Golitsyn was carrying the Golem. After the Golem's creation in Prague it was moved secretly around Europe, staying mostly dormant (met), only occasionally be reanimated to protect communities but he was always a power too great to be wielded by flawed mortal men (maybe if they had let women study…). If the Golem is brought up from the wreckage he can be animated by changing the inscription on his head from met to emet. After that he will serve to protect his master and his family from any perceived threats. Let us hope the calligrapher speaks Hebrew.
There was also a survivor of the Golitsyn, a Russian-Jew, who hid his identity and settled in Philadelphia. His family has quietly passed the story of the Golitsyn and the Golem down for generations. Plus there are still rumors (in circles that gossip about Jewish mysticism) that the Golem was smuggled to Philadelphia in the 1860s, but these rumors have forgotten the Golitsyn.
There is also another connection to present time in the form of an hourglass. The Golitsyn still used watch hourglasses and when the boiler blew the mid-shipman in command of the deck watched his life and the sands of the watch hourglass drain the simultaneously. That glass survives to this day and still has air in it. If it ever comes free from the wood and rot binding it, the hourglass will float to the surface. The Mid-shipman's spirit or psionic shadow is linked to the glass. Whoever, finds it will be haunted until at least some piece (the hour glass counts) of the Mid-shipman and his young lover (who was also a sailor on the ship) are brought up and returned to their home city of Perm (third class mail would be fine).


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Duke Nukem's Awkward PR Fallout
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Come the first breaking of news that the Redner Group, a US PR firm representing 2K Games, had publicly announced that "Too many went too far with their [Duke Nukem Forever] reviews…we are reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn't based on today's venom", the glacial RPS hivemind elected not to post about it. An unfortunate spat involving a PR firm and sites from another country: no need to seek drama from such a thing. But now it's rolling on – despite a public apology, 2K dropped Redner and announced as such on Twitter, adding that "We maintain a mutually respectful relationship with the press and will continue to do so. We don't condone The Redner Group's actions at all." This then led to Eurogamer revealing that they'd been "blacklisted" by 2K themselves (EG chose not to say why), something that "seems to be standard practice." Blimey.
Then, after a few days of silence, Redner boss Jim Redner last night cropped up on Wired defending and clarifying his outburst – plus claiming that a journalist who went 'too far' should "have to pay for his actions."
While it's still not clear which particular review triggered his all-too-public, career-damaging outburst, he does claim this:
"Hardworking people, including myself, spent thousands of hours away from family and friends working on Duke Nukem Forever. The game is what it is, but we poured our hearts into bringing the game back from video game purgatory. That single story hurt and I acted rashly, vented my frustration and I am paying for my actions, more so than you know. Shouldn't the journalist have to pay for his? Should I continue to support him?"
And a whole lot more. It's hard not to feel that his defense is a rather contradictory piece, as he says the above in one breath and "I do not support the McCarthy era notion of blacklisting" in another. Crucially, he tries to draw a distinction between "reviews, when backed by fact" and "a scathing diatribe masked as a review", which apparently the mystery writer was guilty of.
For me, his argument is primarily undone by the fact that this wasn't a private dispute with one writer/site, whether or not that writer/site had gone what others might agree was "too far", but instead a public shot across the bow to, essentially, any and all journalists Redner worked with. Maybe he believes that he didn't mean that, but my reading of that initial, since-deleted tweet that cost him the 2K contract was an inference of 'play my marketing game or you won't get to play my videogames'. That's just what my mind conjectured after reading it, not what it actually said, of course. I have no doubt that any amount of nuance wasn't conveyed by the tweet, however – because let's face it, 140 characters is never enough to tackle a controversial issue.
Here's more: "Publishers are under no obligation to send out copies of their game for review. They reserve the right to pick and choose who they want to send their game too, just like writers have the right to publish a review in any manner they choose. It's call selection. It's a choice. Hopefully all PR professionals make their selections based on any and all data available. They should weigh past coverage, personal information gathered from conversations and past dealings. I personally have sent first person shooter games to one editor knowing that he likes FPS games, but then not sent him a copy of a game based on our national pastime because I know he finds baseball boring. That's not blacklisting. It's a selection process."
That's true. They're under no obligation. Any journalist can simply go buy their own copy of the game after all (I know I've often had to). But publishers are not sending out review code as a favour, from the kindness of their philanthropic hearts. They're doing it because, in theory, the more coverage their game gets, the more copies it might sell. Historically, code is sent ahead of release so oodles of hopefully positive coverage can seep into consumer's minds before they head money-in-hand to a game store. (That's happening less than it used to, however: withholding code until release day is a very good way of delaying bad word of mouth so that launch-week marketing can result in maximum sales). Clearly, there will be and are situations where they don't want a particular game to be reviewed, or feel a particular site is likely to be cruel. Disputes happen. But giving out code is not in and of itself an act of big-hearted sympathy – it's part of a huge, ongoing barter system where both parties profit.
Then there's this: "Why would I send out a product for review to someone who has previously shown that they unfairly write over-the-top stories? Let's look at this in a different context. If I walked up to you today, and you hit me in the face as a form of greeting, do you think that I should I approach you again tomorrow? Would you?"
This or any PR who worked on Duke Nukem Forever was not, to the best of my knowledge, physically assaulted by a journalist. Rather more to the point (and without my being pseudo-naively literal), he also wasn't personally singled-out and insulted in a Duke Nukem Forever review. That or any other PR is not Duke Nukem Forever, much as they might quite rightfully feel they're very closely involved with it. Duke Nukem Forever is a videogame that journalists played and wrote their opinions of, in order to tell their readers whether or not they thought they should buy it. It's important to maintain distance: but that very rarely happens.
Quietly, behind the scenes, this kind of conflict happens a whole bunch more than you might suspect, between any number of firms and any number of sites. Both sides of the fence have screwed up as often as the other, and burned bridges usually do get fixed after a time – but what does seem sure is that public pillorying of the opposing camp is unlikely to turn out well.
I do strongly believe that a games journalist should only ever criticise a product or decision, not the people behind the product or decision, and feel deeply uncomfortable about any write-up that does become personal – but I'm not sure it's healthy or accurate for specific people who worked on a game's marketing to equate themselves with the game.
Partly, that's because marketing is often essentially independent from the quality (to use a probably unhelpful abstraction, but there you go) of the game itself – it's passion primarily about the game's success, rather than about what the game does or doesn't achieve creatively.
There are few better examples of this than Duke Nukem Forever, which is very much about the brand standing apart from (and arguably selling far more copies than) the contents of the game itself. The marketing line from the various firms involved in DNF's surprise comeback has, at times, seemed to have a certain implication that the fact this game has the Duke Nukem character in it is reason enough to love it, regardless of other flaws. Quite a few people feel rather differently – myself included.
Did I go too far? I don't think so – and I certainly promise you that I never once thought of any person or persons behind the game as I wrote what I thought of it. I thought only of what was in front of me, and how I didn't think it overall worked too well. Had most critics felt that the game was generally as creative a success as the hype had suggested – well, then this whole mess would never have happened, would it?
(I've seen 'those cynical, fun-hating critics just don't understand the common man' used as a defensive marketing line any number of times – Michael Bay said it about his dreadful second Transformers movie, for instance, even though he's now claiming that film was cock-up as part of a promise that the upcoming third one is the best one yet. I shall be very, very interested to hear what the various firms involved in DNF have to say about that game once they're out on the promotional trail for the inevitable next Duke game.)
Redner also added that "Life is too short to surround ourselves in such baseless hatred. We should focus on the hundreds of other writers who are capable of being fair, even when writing a poor or low scoring review. Reviews are subjective but fairness should always be a constant." So: who's objective enough to decide which writers are "capable of being fair"?
It's certainly a good thing that passions about games run high, on both sides of the fence. But let's not forget that it's a business fence, and one that business products are regularly passed across for mutual benefit.


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Ross Wolf was thinking about retirement while languishing in the minor leagues for a third straight year.
The Texas Rangers right-hander will probably reconsider now.
Wolf pitched five strong innings for his first big league win in his first start in the majors, David Murphy and Adrian Beltre homered in a three-run first inning, and the Rangers avoided a sweep with a 3-1 victory against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old Wolf came up from Triple-A Round Rock for a spot start after the Rangers scratched rookie Nick Tepesch because of a blister.
He beamed in front of the cameras afterward and said "awesome" a lot after escaping trouble in the fourth and fifth and getting a big boost from Neal Cotts when he was replaced in the sixth.
A year ago, Wolf (1-0) had a pregnant wife on bed rest and a boy who missed him at home while be bounced between Double-A Frisco and Round Rock in the Texas farm system.
He spent 2011 in the Houston organization after refusing a minor league assignment with Oakland at the end of the 2010 season.
"It tests your patience," said Wolf, who was making his first big league appearance since Oct. 1, 2010, as a reliever for the A's. "My wife gets a lot of the credit. She told me to stick with it, and thank God I did."
Cotts, pitching a day after getting three outs on six pitches in his game in the majors since May 25, 2009, struck out the side when he came on for Wolf with two runners on and no outs in the sixth.
The left-hander whose best season came with the Chicago White Sox when they won the World Series in 2005 escaped trouble again in the seventh, getting Adam Rosales on a lineout and Coco Crisp on a foul pop with a runner at third.
"He may have been here in Texas a short time, but he hasn't been at the major league level being successful for a short time," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "He's throwing the ball the way I remember him throwing with Chicago."
Joe Nathan pitched a perfect ninth for his 14th save in 14 chances.
Elvis Andrus snapped an 0-for-10 slump with a leadoff single in the first, and Murphy followed with a homer about 10 rows into the lower porch in right field. Two batters later, Beltre hit his 10th of the season halfway up the lawn in center.
Jarrod Parker (2-6) was down 3-0 just four batters into the game, but went seven innings for Oakland. The right-hander retired 11 of the next 12 Rangers after Beltre's homer and allowed six hits with five strikeouts and one walk in seven innings.
"He threw a couple of early-count heaters that they squared up," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "In the past, early in the season, that game gets away from him. It looks like he's more comfortable now."
Wolf, who had 25 career relief appearances, retired the first nine hitters and gave up one run with three strikeouts and two walks in five-plus innings.
It was the second time in three days a Texas pitcher has made his first major league start after previous stints as a reliever with other teams. Josh Lindblom lost to Oakland on Monday.
"For him to come up and pitch against his old team and get his first big league win, it's cool to stay you were a part of it," catcher A.J. Pierzynski said.
The A's scored their only run on a sacrifice fly by Brandon Moss with runners at second and third and one in the fourth against Wolf, who was 1-2 with a 2.02 ERA in Round Rock, including a 1.85 ERA in six starts.
Oakland, which had a five-game winning streak snapped, put runners at second and third with no outs in the fifth when Andrus made a sliding catch over his shoulder on a blooper into left from Eric Sogard. Wolf then got Rosales on an infield popup and Crisp on a grounder.
"I think it meant everything to anyone that's in the game of baseball that have a dream," Washington said. "I think he did a great job of going through a hot team."
Notes: Rangers RHP Cory Burns was optioned to Round Rock to make room for Wolf. ... Tepesch is scheduled to start Sunday at Seattle, and Yu Darvish will pitch the first game of a day-night doubleheader in Arizona on Monday. The second starter is undecided. ... A's SS Jed Lowrie didn't start after getting hit by a pitch on his right foot Tuesday night. ... Oakland OF Josh Reddick (sprained right wrist) was eligible to come off the DL Wednesday and will join the team Friday in Houston for limited batting practice.


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Wiggins' water project hit another snag Wednesday with a change order on a portion of a pipeline — and concerns about water availability prompted an area landowner to request de-annexation of about 130 acres.
Although the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved a plan to run the pipeline through a culvert in a flood control levee, the size of the pipe will have to be reduced, the town's board of trustees was told.
And Raymond Thomas asked to have about 130 acres of land near Wiggins schools that he had planned to develop into housing lots de-annexed.
"I don't think you can get me enough water to develop that," he said. "If you can't give me water, how can I put a house up?"
The culvert at the levee is too small to accommodate a carrier pipe, so the diameter would have to be reduced from 12 inches to 10, trustees were informed.
"Why wasn't it looked at to begin with?" asked trustee Bruce Miller.
"Every time we turn around we get whacked over the head," said trustee Daniel Neal. "It stinks for the town."
Neal indicated dissatisfaction with engineer Tim Holbrook, who was out of the state Wednesday working on another project.
Mayor Margarito "Mac" Leon said he wanted change order costs by noon next Monday, and a special meeting on several matters including the water project is slated next Wednesday at 7 p.m. at town hall.
Other matters on the agenda include possible hire of a town clerk and discussion of a request from a resident for help with costs of a backup from a city sewer line into her basement. Both of those matters were detailed in a story in Thursday's Fort Morgan Times.
Thomas had annexed about 130 acres in 1995 and 2001, looking to develop it into housing, but now wants to de-annex the land.
"It's sitting by the school," he said. "It's prime land."
Numerous people, Thomas believed, would be interested in lots on the property so their children could easily walk to school.
However, he said, an appraiser told him that he had nothing without water.
Wiggins will be in water court later this year or sometime next year on water rights for its project, and those could be cut severely from requested amounts, Thomas said.
Neal said that with blending with existing water supplies the town should be able to about double its existing water resources.
Thomas indicated he was thinking in terms of up to 150 houses; the town now has about 330 businesses and homes, said Jon Rchardson, director of public works.
Thomas said he was thinking of 2 ½ acre lots, possibly supplied by Morgan Quality Water District. If the town gets enough water, people with lots in the area Thomas wants to develop could petition for annexation, he said.
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Resetting Your Pocket PC Phone
Occasionally, you may need to reset your device. A normal (or soft) reset of your device clears all active program memory and shuts down all active programs. This can be useful when your device is running slower than normal, or a program is not performing properly. A soft reset is also necessary after the installation of some programs. If a soft reset is performed when programs are running, unsaved work will be lost. You can also perform a hard reset (also known as a full reset). A hard reset should be performed only if a normal reset does not solve a system problem. After a hard reset, the device is restored to its default settings — the way it was when you first purchased it and turned it on. Any programs you installed, data you entered, and settings you customized on your device will be lost. Only Windows Mobile software and other pre-installed programs will remain.
To perform a Dopod D810 CHT 9100 soft reset
• Use the stylus to press the RESET button found at the bottom center part of your device. Your device restarts and displays the Today screen.
To perform a Dopod D810 hard reset
- Press and hold the Left SOFT KEY and the Right SOFT KEY, and at the same time, use the stylus to press the RESET button at the bottom center part of your device.
- Release the stylus, but continue pressing the two soft key buttons. Release them only when you see the following message on your device screen: "Press SEND to restore factory default, press END to quit."
- Press on your device.
Warning! Your device will be set back to factory default settings. Please ensure any additional installed programs and/or user data have been backed up before a hard reset is performed.


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>>>men's results
MALIBU, Calif.- The Georgia College & State University cross country teams re-wrote the record books at the Pepperdine Invitational today (Oct. 4) as the women had three runners beat the previous school mark in the 6K, and the men came two seconds from having a record in the 8K.
The women's team finished seventh among 10 teams including NAIA and NCAA Division I schools. They were also tops among the Division II programs at the meet. The men's team finished the 8K ninth overall and third in the D-II schools.
Juniors Bonnie Ueltzen (Blairsville, Ga.) and Heather Raines (Lawrenceville, Ga.) led the women's side with times of 24:13 (51st place) and 24:16 (52nd), respectively. Two places behind Raines was sophomore Dani Desitche (Snellville, Ga.) with a time of 24:21. All three bettered the previous school record of 24:30 set by Ueltzen Nov. 3, 2007 at the NCAA South Regional.
A pair of freshmen were fourth and fifth on the team, as Karissa Ekstrom (Alpharetta, Ga.) finished in 24:32 and Sarah Balkcom (Fayetteville, Ga.) crossed the line in 24:47. Ekstrom's time ranks fifth in Georgia College history, while Balkcom's time stands sixth.
For the second straight week, the men were led by freshman Rob Manning (Lawrenceville, Ga.). Manning finished with a time 26:49 which placed him 32nd overall and 5th among D-II schools. Just two seconds faster was Rich Dobson (2004-07) at the 2006 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Championships.
Junior Josh Hollar (Canton, Ga.) finished 51st overall with a time of 27:36 and 11th in the Divison-II results. Rookie Colin Conroy (Dacula, Ga.) was 12th among D-II schools and 56th overall with a time of 27:55.
Freshmen Daniel Horseman (Cohotta, Ga.) and Travis Knight (Oxford, Ga.) rounded out the top five finishers for the Bobcats with times of 28:24 and 28:27, respectively.
UC-Irvine finished first for the men. The individual winner for the men was Erick Garcia of Fresno State University with a time of 24:45. On the women side, the team winner was USC with their very own Zsofia Erdelyi and her time of 20:33.
The Bobcats do not return to action until they host the PBC Championships at the West Campus Cross Country Course Oct. 25.
Visit www.GCSU.edu/Athletics to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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GXR FAQs - By Product
[Question] Details on the VF-2, an electrical external viewfinder.
The VF-2 is the electrical viewfinder specially for GXR, that is used by attaching it to the hot shoe.
In the VF-2, the information is displayed the same as those displayed in the LCD screen. The [DISP.] button also works for switching displays.
|H 38.6 x W 28.9 x D 43.9 mm (not including some projecting parts)
|Approx. 26 g
|Image display
|Reflective CMOS and ferroelectric liquid crystal display
Display resolution: Equivalent to approx. 922,000 dots
|Eyepiece lens
|3 elements in 3 group (1 aspherical lens)
|Viewing angle
|23.8 °
(Viewfinder magnifications: 0.231x at wide end with RICOH LENS S10 24-72mm F2.5-4.4 VC)
|Coverage (field of view)
|-1±3.5 Dpt (with correction)
|Approx. 15.45 mm
(at -1 Dept, from the rear end of eyepiece)
|Diameter of pupil
|ø 5 mm
[Does the optional viewfinder (VF-2) display the shooting information ?]
Mounting Instructions
|Attaching the LCD viewfinder.
Turn the camera off. Remove the hot shoe cover from the camera and the contact cover from the LCD viewfinder, insert the mounting part of the LCD viewfinder into the camera body until it stops at the hot shoe.
|Switching the display to the LCD viewfinder.
Press the [VF/LCD] button on the camera body to switch the display into the LCD viewfinder. Press the button again to return the display into the LCD screen in the camera body.
The information displayed on the LCD viewfinder is the same as those displayed in the LCD screen in the camera body.
|Adjusting the diopter.
Turn the diopter correction dial until the image in the LCD viewfinder looks clear.
|Tilting the LCD viewfinder.
Tilt the top of the LCD viewfinder to the desired angle (approx. 0° ~ 90°).
|Removing the LCD viewfinder.
Turn the camera off. Slide the LCD viewfinder toward the back of the camera and off the hot shoe.
Safety precaution
- •Turn off the camera power for attachment or detachment.
- •Do not apply force more than necessary for attachment or detachment, or the camera may be damaged.
- •Keep the hot shoe cover and contact cover for further usage. After using the LCD viewfinder, replace the hot shoe cover on the camera body, and the contact cover on the LCD viewfinder to protect the contacts.
- •The setting with the LCD/VF button is saved even when the camera is turned off.
- •The maximum tilt angle of the LCD viewfinder is 90°. Do not tilt the LCD viewfinder beyond 90° as this could damage the LCD viewfinder.
- •Do not forcefully turn the diopter correction dial as this could damage it.
Handling Notes
- •The camera body has one hot shoe so that you will not able to use the VF-1 and any external flash at the same time.
- •Be careful not to stain or damage the contact points or the release mechanism parts of the VF-2 or the camera body. Otherwise, it may cause the VF-2 display to not work well.
- •Do not carry the camera by holding the viewfinder only. The camera may drop and cause an injury or malfunction.
- •Check if it is fully attached before use. If it is not attached correctly, the viewfinder may drop.
- •Be sure not to give it a shock, such as dropping it, or hitting it against hard items.
- •In an environment where the temperature changes suddenly, condensation may occur in the product, resulting in troubles such as rust or molds. For lens care, take it out of the bag after the temperature difference from the atmosphere has decreased to a fairly small amount.
- •Avoid high temperature or humidity and store the product in a dry place.
Warning / Caution
- •Do not look at the sun directly through the viewfinder, or you may lose your eyesight.
- •Do not disassemble, repair, or modify this equipment.
- •if the equipment emits visible smoke, an unusual odor, or other signs of malfunction, immediately turn off the camera and remove the battery.
- •Do not allow foreign objects, such as metallic objects or liquids, to enter the equipment. If a foreign object does enter the equipment, immediately turn off the camera.
- •Do not leave the viewfinder or the finder-attached camera under direct sunlight.
Answer ID: EDXR01060
Date created: April 12, 2010
Date modified: February 3, 2012
Product: GXR (GR LENS A12 28mm F2.5), GXR (GR LENS A12 50mm F2.5 MACRO), GXR (RICOH LENS A16 24-85mm F3.5-5.5), GXR (RICOH LENS S10 24-72mm F2.5-4.4 VC), GXR (RICOH LENS P10 28-300mm F3.5-5.6 VC)
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Date created: April 12, 2010
Date modified: February 3, 2012
Product: GXR (GR LENS A12 28mm F2.5), GXR (GR LENS A12 50mm F2.5 MACRO), GXR (RICOH LENS A16 24-85mm F3.5-5.5), GXR (RICOH LENS S10 24-72mm F2.5-4.4 VC), GXR (RICOH LENS P10 28-300mm F3.5-5.6 VC)
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