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Matt Lynley, writing for the Business Insider on April 7th, reported that employees are jumping ship at Apple. Running a search on LinkedIn, a professional social media site, Lynley looked for individuals whose past employer was Apple. Lynley found 17 of those former Apple employees at Zynga, a social gaming leader.
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CHICAGO – Chicago authorities are revamping how police respond to 911 calls in hopes of freeing up more officers to respond to the most serious crimes.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that starting Sunday officers won't respond in person to lesser crimes. Those include vehicle theft or incidents where the victim is safe and doesn't need medical attention.
Those calls will go to another department and police reports taken over the phone.
The move is expected to make the equivalent of 44 police officers available and comes as the city has seen a spike in murders.
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar, which only recently emerged from a half-century of dictatorship and self-imposed isolation, has one of the world's worst health care systems, with tens of thousands dying each year because treatment is lacking for many diseases, including AIDS.
Though international aid has been flowing into the country since 2011, when military rulers handed over power to a nominally civilian government, the country remains one of the hardest places to get care for HIV. Of the estimated 190,000 people who lived with the virus last year, only around a third were receiving treatment, and more than 15,000 died from the disease, according to UNAIDS.
A center set up by the opposition party headed by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been providing care and treatment for people with HIV for nearly two decades, but they have repeatedly been forced to move, in part because of harassment by government officials. Now, they are hoping they've found a permanent home on the outskirts of the country's biggest city, Yangon.
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CARSON, Calif. -- With Landon Donovan "unlikely" to appear this weekend against the San Jose Earthquakes and seemingly targeting to return by the playoffs, the LA Galaxy must answer the question -- who starts alongside Irish forward Robbie Keane.
Head coach Bruce Arena has a wealth of options to replace Donovan including forwards Edson Buddle, Jose Villarreal, and Pat Noonan as well as versatile midfielders Mike Magee and Christian Wilhelmsson. It was Magee, who started a majority of games when Donovan was absent earlier in the year, but after training on Friday, Keane told reporters that Magee would not be starting up front.
With one name seemingly crossed off, that leaves us to speculate on which player will take Donovan's spot up top.
The likeliest option appears to be Buddle, who has played in the Galaxy's last seven matches in all competitions since returning from knee surgery. While Buddle's physicality and ability to get in dangerous scoring positions makes him a valuable asset, he has yet to score since returning from injury. But as he has proved throughout his career, once Buddle gets one goal, the odds are that he'll get another soon.
Meanwhile, Villarreal's speed and ability to score highlight-reel goals makes him an option to start alongside Keane. However, the 18-year-old forward has seen limited minutes recently, making just two substitute appearances since the end of August. Noonan remains the unlikeliest of the bunch as he has appeared in just one game since August, but has shined for the Galaxy Reserve League squad—even scoring a brilliant goal in their recent 6-0 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps Reserves.
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What do you do in the wake of a missile attack scare?
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Indeed, a day after Hawaii issued false alarms that a ballistic missile was rocketing toward the state in the Pacific Ocean, a shop in Honolulu began selling tees that ironically acknowledged the scare.
As you can see below, the shirts say, "I Survived the Hawaii Ballistic Missile." The image of the shirts in the shop is courtesy of Alastair Gale, The Wall Street Journal's Japan editor.
The Honolulu store was far from the only retail entity eager to capitalize on the false alarm with T-shirts. A quick Google search revealed similarly themed tees for sale on sites that included Amazon, Redbubble, and Etsy.
As you've probably heard, the missile attack was really no such thing. A worker at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency accidentally issued an alert that a missile was inbound. The message caused pervasive panic, fueled particularly by increased tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. Some 40 minutes after the alert went out, Hawaiian officials issued a second message saying that the first message was a false alarm.
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After more than a month, we're starting to come to terms with Avengers: Infinity War 's outrageous climax.
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5-year-old was lost in Gilmanton woods, but was not afraid, family saysBy NANCY BEAN FOSTER
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Lost in the woods for more than seven hours, Eleanor Coutermarsh, 5, happily returned to her Brookline home on Monday with her two siblings and very tired parents.
Kevin Coutermarsh said when he heard his daughter was found safe Sunday in Loudon — a mile as the crow flies from where she started in Gilmanton — the relief was overwhelming.
"I'm surprised I didn't just fall to the ground crying. It was the biggest relief of my life," he said. "I'm very thankful to everybody who was there and searching for her."
Eleanor, known as Ella to her family, was playing with her twin sister, Lilly, her brother, Robert, and her cousins at her aunt's home on Rollins Pond Road in Gilmanton around noon Sunday.
"The other kids were playing 'capture the kid,' and they scared me away," said Ella.
Not wanting to be captured, Ella ran off into the woods. Her mother, Annie Coutermarsh, who was babysitting for her sister's kids, said that she was watching the children, but they wandered away from her while playing. When she went to find them, Ella was gone.
"She didn't know which way she was going or how to get back," her mother said.
The family immediately started searching. They called emergency responders around 1 p.m., when the kindergartner, who attends the Richard Maghakian Memorial School, couldn't be found. A full-scale search ensued with officers from the State Police, Fish and Game and local police and firefighters. Dogs were brought in to trace the girl's scent, and as dark threatened to complicate the search, a helicopter was requested from Massachusetts State Police.
Annie Coutermarsh attempted to reach her husband to get him to come to Gilmanton, but didn't tell him what had happened until he arrived.
"The first thing you do is freak out," said Kevin Coutermarsh, "but then you try not to panic."
He said that during the search, officials were careful about keeping the family informed of what they were doing every step of the way.
Then, around 7:15 p.m., after hours of crying, praying and searching the woods, the little girl was found. She had wandered into a barn in neighboring Loudon and was discovered by a resident who had heard that the girl was missing.
"She knew my name," Ella said of the woman who found her. Though she wasn't scared when she was in the woods, she did scratch her ankles walking through the brush and got her sneakers muddy.
"I threw those dirty pink shoes away," she said.
Rick Coutermarsh, Ella's grandfather, said when he was en route Sunday to Gilmanton from Brookline, he spent the entire trip thinking about what could go wrong. It was getting dark, he said, and there was a swamp in the woods.
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I have actually run a campaign where the Dwarves spoke with a Russian accent, rather than generic scottish... now one of my friends accuses me of influencing him to make russian dwarves.
You call the conventions of fantasy "cliches" as if that's somehow bad. Your wacked out druggy wizard wouldn't be particularly funny, if it wasn't for the established conventions. They are the reason he works as a different type of character.
Groups also work for the same reasons society works. You must specialize to become really good at something. That's why there's room for each type of character in a group. If you had some demigod type guy who could do everything, it would ruin the fun entirely. Group games thrive on adversity and especially cooperation.
In Exalted, the typical sorcerer (as in a magician, not DnD's definition of a sorcerer) is in a big shiny armor with a big ass sword (at least, considering the trappings of the Sorcerer constellation). Also, exalts live thousands of year (2-3k for celestials, 5k for sidereals) without taking into account life extending charms, sorcery and artefacts.
In Mage, a good Life mage will keep his body young. Why wouldn't he? He's got the power to alter living things.
Fear the "young" mage in top physical shape, for he's surely a lot more powerful than the one that can't stay young.
The mechanical cliché about leveling and classes is really a bad one. You don't need levels and classes to railroad how you'll develop your character. I think it's as bad as story railroading. Multiclassing doesn't change that since it just gives you the choice of railroad you want to choose.
Having played and STed a lot of Exalted games were players all play some kind of demigods rarely weak in a field and no perfect circles (one character for each role), I can say you're pretty wrong with that statement.
Some are better than others in some fields. The twilights (crafters/mages) have more technical knowledge than the dawn (warriors), but they can still fight pretty well. The dawn can still investigate better than your average joe. That doesn't mean there's no collaboration or adversity.
Players in a baseball game have a lot more skill in common than an average DnD party, but they still work together.
I think that party roles are an extension of the old adage "divide and conquer" - as in divide specialties and conquer challenges. If characters are truly random, some will be smart enough to figure out how magic works, and convince the others to use their shields while they work their magic. In 2nd ed D&D at least, stats were rolled, then you chose your class based on what the dice gave you (3d6 straight up, no tweaks or extra die to drop).
I've been working off and on on my own roleplaying system that eschews the idea of a class title as a stack of gained abilities. Instead, such titles can be gained or given by how the character acts, or what the character actually does. I had established barbarian as the active anarchists, wizards as mind-using (wit, intelligence, and concentration based) casters, and paladins as actively good characters (divorcing them from forcibly being lawful or religious - though they do support good churches as a local locus of good). These labels reinforce character actions without handing them particular abilities.
As for wizard robes, I think Rowling gave a good reason why they may like them in HP 4, just before the World Cup. Extra long tunics also don't require as much maintenance and are easier to clean. Wizards are busy people who would rather spend time researching than darning.
Agreed. My last name starts with Mac and I still like dwarves and dwarven characters. I have trouble imagining them with any other accent.
I remember reading somewhere that Salvatore made Drizzt quirky on purpose as a sidekick to Wulfgar, who was supposed to be the main character. However, it was written that he realized the true star of the story early on and adjusted the story to suit. Besides, Drizzt is awesome and deep as a character - who wouldn't want to be him (well, up and until the 4th ed setting anyway)? That and tabletop gamers are mainstream social outcasts so being the good outcast I think really resonates with us.
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Well, Drizzt bashing tends to gloss over the fact that he was a good character, and people were really just indirectly hating on him because too many people imitated him.
Sometimes, though, I like cliches...sometimes in all the fervor to be new and original people forget that one of the reasons people play games like DnD is to live out a certain character fantasy. Maybe I WANT to be a muscles and loincloth Frazetta barbarian or a pointy-hat elven wizard. Originality is nice, but it's about what makes your experience fun.
What I really DON'T like, though, is when people use cliches but try to have pretenses of originality. We don't have halflings, halflings are a cliche, we have "smallkyn", they have a distinct Norse flair (not a rural english flair). Our wizards use magyck and don't wear pointy hats because pointy hats are cliche. Our orcs are orks and are really noble shamanistic individuals not just senseless barbarians because that would be a cliche. Our dragons hatch from Gemstones, not Eggs.
If you want to make an entirely new and interesting setting that's cool, but so many people make only superficial changes and think that's enough to escape cliche.
You mean mages like in the World of Darkness?
Also, I really like how orcs are in WoW.
But yeah, I agree with you when they only change the name to something unpronounceable to be "original". I've seen it a lot in "original" LARPs settings.
Actually, since paladins can no longer "Fall" in vanilla 4e (the ritual is a permanent bond that cannot be removed), you can technically be the paladin of a good god and still be evil.
I just figured that dwarves were given a random accent from the general United Kingdom area since thats where most medieval stories revolve around.
I guess it's a good way to attract avengers of your god that want you to stop spoiling its name.
Hmmm... A few things I should mention.
One: it's good to really consider the "why" of a cliche before you go upending it. For example, while I don't really have a problem with a barbarian wizard who works some kind of wild, improvisational magic, magic is frequently depicted as a sort of art or science that requires intense study and the utmost control (which is often part of why every sword-swinger doesn't also cast spells). And requires, more to the point, things like literacy, books, and schools. You simply don't get those things from a "savage" background; paper and ink are fundamentally the artifacts of a people who live under a roof most of the time and have enough stability in their lives to create things that aren't necessary for a day-to-day existence. In short, make your "barbarian" wizard, but fully consider just how different that creature is from the "classic" model.
(Though I suppose a different sort of "barbarian" wizard could just be "My master decided he had had enough of people and raised me in his tower in the middle of nowhere, and he didn't see no need for stinkin' table manners.")
Two: Yes, you need some kind of fall for "ruined" dungeons, but it doesn't always follow that whole civilizations rose and fell for such same to exist. The thieves' guild used to use these tunnels to hide and smuggle stolen goods; then there was a violent schism within the Guild, the people who knew the tunnels well were killed, and some monsters moved in to make those who knew them "less well" less than eager to explore them. The Necromancer's enemies assaulted his castle and undermined it, bringing it crashing down around his ears; they didn't know that he had already crossed the border into undeath himself, and has been plotting his return to power as those who remembered him grow old and die. And so on.
Finally, while some cliches can be tried and obnoxious, be aware that reflexively subverting a cliche at every turn can also quickly become tired and obnoxious. Don't invoke tropes lazily, but don't dismiss them reflexively. Do it because you want to do something interesting, something that makes sense. So you think a dwarven monk who studied a dance-like martial art with the elves would be humorous... Go beyond that. How did they get there? What is it in their "native" culture that they're turning their back on? What has it made them like, to live between worlds? What have they done to make themselves more acceptable to their chosen peers?
in one of the latest RPG's i played i made a crazy German called Herman who wore a chicken suit and had 2 Glock 18's. Around 15 minutes into the game i had jumped through a window to escape tear gas thrown by guards who were looking to arrest everyone in a dog fighting ring. I ended up killing two of the guards with head shots and dodging a ridiculous amount of fire from three AK-47's. the rest of the campaign got even crazier later on.
Aren't Sorcerers more like barbaric wizards?
"The sorcerer is the arcane antithesis of the wizard.
I like the idea of some level 1 chancer wearing all of the over the top wizard garb. Using it to pass himself off as all powerful with just a hand full of cantrips, some alchemy and a mountain of bullshit. It fits with the wandering adventurers thing as he would have to move on quickly once found out, after free loading an milking a town dry.
I might even wear a disguise to look older, a bit like Hannibal always did in the A Team.
I'd probably take some rogue early on to fit.
As far as stereotypes go, RP is meant to be entertainment. If you want to roleplay a stereotype and enjoy it then do it. I think its up to the DM to do things differently and keep NPCs fresh, players can play what they enjoy.
Isn't there a 'Wildmage' class too? That is, insane wizards who can cast random spells and are generally uncontrollable too, sounds like a pretty apt fit for a barbarian styled mage.
I once played a fire-heritage centaur barbarian/sorceror in a one-off. He rocked VERY hard. =D
That does sound freaking awesome.
Go for it! :)
Mc is still Scottish. Just more anglophied. In my school there's more Mcs than Macs. A lot more. (I live in Scotland.)
Well, WoW orcs are pretty cool, but they're kind of the exception that proves the rule. In Warcraft and Warcraft 2, Orcs were just Orcs, a savage race of ugly evil warriors. And there really was nothing else. When Warcraft III hit, and Blizzard wanted to expand the game and had more storytelling chops, they went for "How can we make orcs something more complex without actually contradicting our prior works...so to that end Warcraft Orcs are pretty awesome...I do like that they go for trying to embrace the cliches and build on them instead of trying to act too good for them.
cliches are exactly why I hate even the existence of Dragon Age.
I just have to say that Freud would have a field day with that "Conan the Usurper" cover. It truly is amazingly suggestive.
A friend of mine actually played a Halfling Paladin once. Any time he tried to reprimand people for their immoral behavior, people always thought he was a child and sent him on his way, or gave him a piece of candy.
This friend is very well-known for playing interesting/unique characters. One of my favorites was his Gay Dwarf...Bard, I think. Maybe Rogue... I dunno, whose profession was Tailor. He shaved his beard entirely off, and he just had so much fun with the character that the DM asked him to get rid of it, because the other players were just tired of him.
we kind of broke this in our TTRPG, umm...our dark elf (yours truly) was not only a girl with a sour attitude, but also the tank of the group, absorbing obscene amounts of damage, great for crowd control and with a few spells to boost ourself. Our wizard was a little boy who could turn into either a water nymph or a muscle-bound fighter (and did both actually on regular occasion) our last member, the dexterity based one was a samurai girl so...not many cliche's there right?
The difference is that in fantasy rpgs the civilization that has fallen is much more technologically advanced than the civilization that the PCs are from. If you lived in the area of the Mayan civilization something like 50-100 years after it fell, you could be in a fantasy rpg type setting. What you dug up in Mayan ruins would be far beyond anything your current society could produce.
However I will venture to say that all people who play fantasy rpgs come from our modern civilization of cars, guns, lasers, and air conditioning :) While we can dig up art, architecture, etc that might rival anything modern, we aren't going to find any usable artifacts that are going to even equal what we can make today (talking about pure utility here, not craftsmanship which is art). Nevermind come across anything like the super-powerful only-one-of-these-was-ever-made items your hero can acquire in a fantasy campaign.
Your talk of samurai reminds me of the one and only time I played "Mountain Witch". There were three players and the GM, and I was the only girl in the group. My character was also female and got some very mixed reactions from the two male samurai during the journey up the mountain. It all became much clearer at the end of the game, where it was revealed that one of the "male" samurai was actually also a girl but in disguise and the other was male but wanted to be a girl. Man, that was a strange game.
I was just totally full of fail in my post, all round fail.
I concede all points against mine.
However, interesting to note that I was reading the Scion book (It's a White Wolf game, sort of like Exalted Modern), and the Dwarves in the preface story talk in a Minnesotean accent.. It really more reads like a really bad canadian accent, or a really bad Sarah Palin impression.
But it reminded me of this thread.
I'm pretty sure that Neil Gaiman's American Gods was a strong inspiration for Scion. If you've read it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, GET IT!
I once played Neverwinter Nights with a friend, and his first character defied all cliches. He made Gurkin Smockbash, the half-orc palladin, who couldnt string a sentence together, killed a merchant for no reason, and had a crush on Lady Aribeth.
I wish i knew some people who played D&D it sounds fun. I would love to play a foul mouthed hard drinking palladin
Good stuff here Greg. I agree that sometimes you need the cliches even in the aesthetics, especially for beginners. Just to get them comfortable, but as you grow in role playing, you should seek to branch out and be original :)
Dwarves are Scottish because they hold grudges for ever, drink too much and are overly aggressive.
Our party has a halfling paladin. He helped to negotiate a larger payment for saving a town from orcs, not because he was greedy, but because he had a wife and seven kids to support. That's right, a salaryman halfling paladin. We also have:
A healer trained by an order of pacifists, who comes from a millitary family, and so has no problems with killing. Oh, and he worships all the gods, even the contradictory ones, all equally and all at the same time. NG because he generaly wants to help people, and the god thing is more out of respect than actuall fervrent worship.
An elven ranger who favors goblins and the longbow style. She is also a lesbian and enjoys stirring up trouble in an impish manner. She also is racist against humans, seeing them as oportunistic, greedy, and racist.
A halfling rouge who's on the run from her old thieves guild because she did some double dealing with stolen goods under the table without giving the guild its cut. See tried to stir up a conflict between a dwarven mining company and the towns government so that she could rob the mayor blind and blame it on the dwarves.
As the DM, I filled my world with cliche on purpose just to see what happens when I let these guys lose on it. When you have to say 'Ok, you used up your free action for talking' when your healer is trying to have a phylosophical discussion with your evil masked spellcaster ridding a flying monster, you know things have gone crazy. Naturaly, I have plenty of origional points in there too. Such as the dragon the town is scared of and has only seen in the distance is actually only a draggone. The PCs have viewed it off in the distance twice, but rolled low enough that they drew the conclusion themselves that it is a dragon. I never stated that is was, it only had shiny scales, was large, and had batlike wings and a long tail.
When you throw in the odd piece, disguise it so that they think it's a cliche at first. Dragon filling a town with fear that it will eventually attack? *yawn* Wait, it's not a dragon but a rarely used monster that the town mistook for a dragon? How will that play out?
In the end, it doesn't matter, as long as the game functions. As was pointed out above, baseball is comprised of the same (extremely boring) types, yet it still functions (in its own boring fashion).
Regardless, I think there is more fun to be had by being unique. If you're the only one who can heal, you better do it right because people depend on you. Same for tanking, AOEing, kiting, etc. People have roles to play and you're not easily substituted. If the healer goes down, suddenly tactics might have to change. If the tank dies, same thing. In a group comprised of homogenous same type all-round players, it's only a mild loss if someone perishes. Nobody really cares until enough of the group has gone that it starts looking bleak.
In a baseball team, if some guy is out, who really cares? Not many. How about in an online baseball game where nobody is famous, then nobody truly cares at all.
Had a cliche played out quite sweetly in one of our games. Our 2nd level wizard got given a pointy hat by the children of a chap we saved, " 'cause you must have lost it."
The guy kept that hat for the whole campaign.
Our hated one was always 'my parents were killed by orcs' though.
I'm probably a little late on this one, but it seems like no one mentioned it so I figured I might as well. The traditional idea of a wizard as "wizened old man with a pointy hat, robe and staff" is at least partially based on the Norse idea of Odin the Wanderer, a guise that the god Odin would take while traveling around Midgard. His appearance was meant to be that of a simple, fragile traveler, and he would use peoples' misconceptions based on this as a way of testing them.
Since Odin was strong, wise, and a god, he was obviously capable of fantastic, superhuman feats. Tolkien drew directly from this idea when designing his wizards, especially Gandalf, which helped it root itself even further in the public's subconscious.
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Just felt the need to make this point, and though I'm focusing this post in the Ubuntu thread, I think it's important to make this a widespread effort from the entire linux-based OS community... GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT, JUST LIKE THE ELECTION LAST YEAR... GET INVOLVED TO MAKE THE CHANGE...
Talking points:
* Point out that the majority (something like 80-90%) of the developers who contribute to the linux kernel and other open source programs like openoffice ARE NOT pimply-faced teens but software developers and engineers working for fortune500 companies in corprate environments who RESPECT the open-source software model of taking open-source code and using it, modifying if necessary and giving back the improved code, "paying it forward" in a way, to help the community thrive and to help the next individual or company
* Point out that the only real thing that people really "need" to rely on Windows for right now is gaming and even that has been glossed over and in large part neglected in Windows 7. direct them to this artticle which makes a great point about why gaming has been neglected... http://kotaku.com/5384543/windows-7-what-happened-to-gaming -- Also accentuate that as more people use linux-based systems that use OpenGL that the game manufactures who are programming (and probably get funded in part, with discounts and bonuses, etc...) for DirectX, they will program for the system that is used by the consumers they are trying to sell to.
* Show how Wine can be used to effectively run certain productivity applications but that even then there are programs like OpenOffice, Gimp, and Inkscape that are quite compatible in doing the things that people do.
* Showcase the apps!!! Sell them on it... AND SUPPORT THEM UNTIL THEY GET THE CONCEPTS... It's like someone who switches from windows to a mac... it's different. Even though most of the concepts are the same, many people just need to know 'what button to push'. A lot of us understand that at this point, a distro can be set up really quickly for someone to just use by people who don't download apps and only check email, occasionally skype or im, use facebook, twitter and look at youtube videos... We all know these people, a lot of times they are our parents, aunts and uncles and grandparents.... Suggestion: Show off compiz-fusion and eye--candy like that... The desktop cube switcher... the desklets... cairo-dock... themes... make it look like windows, then like osx then like something they like that's different. get them involved...
* In Ubuntu 9.10 especially, show off the Ubuntu Software Center and show the number of completely free applications.... Point out something like FontForge and compare it to an app like FontLab ( the main difference is the hundreds of dollars), the difference between MS Office and Open Office (again mainly just the hundreds of dollars),
It could be easy to show how unethical M$ is just by sharing a few of the recent news items that just show how many times Microsoft tries to 'get away with' stuff and have repeatedly done the same kind of thing that it has become obvious that it's not just them innocently pushing the envolope and 'not knowing' that they were doing something wrong, but intentionally doing something and hoping to not get caught, relying on their financial backing and legal team to keep them out of trouble...
* share how Microsoft KNOWINGLY STOLE the xml code that was patented by i4i and is now fighting that lawsuit in court
* share how Microsoft's Firefox plugins (point out firefox being a competing browser with IE) were disabled by Mozilla (the maker of Firefox, if they don't know) because of crashing and security holes experienced by the firefox browser. The plugin generated controversy earlier this year because Microsoft surreptitiously injected it into Firefox via a Windows Update, without prompting or notifying users
* share how Microsoft in pretending like it supports open-source talked in July about contributing 20,000 lines of code to the linux kernel ( http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-linux-windows-driver-code,831... ) but that it was several months before the code was actually released and even then was 'a good 6,000 lines short of what they claimed, and was not at all a "contribution" but a self-serving self-inclusion" ( http://boycottnovell.com/2009/08/04/hyper-v-14010-lines-of-code/ )
I'm sure there's many of you that will know of more examples...
Here's hoping that we all can do our part to stand up as consumers and empower other users to take a stand against the Goliath that is the Microsoft beast and take it down once and for all, that perhaps in a couple years when Microsoft's user base has dwindled to less than half of the computers in the world and they release another half-baked, last ditch effort at an operating system that will be so full of holes a 5 year old can hack it with their robot dog toy.... ;)
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The U.S. Labor Department won't release its monthly employment report if the federal government is closed on Oct. 4, the day of the scheduled release, according to an Obama administration official.
The official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the process and spoke on condition of anonymity, couldn't say how the report might be affected if the government is shut down and re-opens before the end of the week.
The U.S. government is poised at midnight for its first partial shutdown in 17 years. Republicans and Democrats remained at odds over whether to tie any changes to the 2010 Affordable Care Act to a short-term extension of government funding.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will suspend operations and close its offices tomorrow morning if there is a lapse in appropriations, Steve Barr, a Labor Department spokesman, said in an interview. The agency "will continue to assess the situation" in the event of a shutdown, he said. The bureau is an agency of the Labor Department.
In contingency plans posted on its website last week, the Labor Department left open the possibility of publishing certain data compiled by BLS should a release be seen as part of an "orderly cessation of activities." It cited the example of the 1995 federal government shutdown that occurred after consumer price index figures had been prepared and not yet released to the public.
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The risk of disclosure of the data was considered unacceptable and releasing the report "was deemed to be part of the orderly cessation of activities," Erica Groshen, commissioner of the BLS, said in the memo last week.
Suspending operations tomorrow would not involve releasing any economic data from the BLS, Barr said. Weekly data on claims for unemployment benefits, issued by the Employment and Training Administration, will continue to be published, according to the Labor Department's plans.
Data supplied by private companies, including tomorrow's Institute for Supply Management factory index and employment figures from the ADP Research Institute on Oct. 2, would not be affected, according to Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York.
"Our sense is that a disruption beyond 24 hours would result in a postponement of the jobs report, and in turn, the ADP report would take on far greater significance," LaVorgna said today in a note to clients. If the BLS employment report is delayed, "we will be comfortable relying on the ADP series as a close proxy of September hiring."
A shutdown could reduce fourth-quarter economic growth by as much as 1.4 percentage points, depending on its duration, according to some economists. The biggest effect would come from the output lost from furloughed workers.
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A brief government shutdown won't lead to any significant change of the U.S. Treasury Department's forecast for when the country will breach the debt limit, a spokeswoman said yesterday in an e-mail. The Treasury has said measures to avoid breaching the debt ceiling will be exhausted on Oct. 17.
The Treasury would keep paying interest on the government's debt and maintain collections and daily cash management in the event of a shutdown, it said in a Sept. 27 blog post.
The Commerce Department will suspend the release of economic data provided by its agencies in a shutdown, it said in its contingency plan. Data on construction spending, scheduled for release tomorrow, as well as factory orders, retail sales and gross domestic product are all reported by agencies within the department.
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There was a 10-vehicle accident Friday morning on Highway 17 in Crocker.
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Eva Mendes has reportedly been cast in the upcoming film How to Catch a Monster, which is being directed by her boyfriend Ryan Gosling.
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The flick will also star Christina Hendricks, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rob Zabrecky.
How to Catch a Monster revolves around "a single mother of two being swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town."
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Defence Information '18 Event: 18 & 19 April 2018 | ''Maximising value from Team Defence information''
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Jointly presented by Team Defence Information, MOD & Cranfield University in Swindon, Wiltshire | May count towards Continual Professional Development (CPD) for MOD staff
Defence Information (DI) is the major annual communications event for the Joint Information Group (JIG) that reports to the Defence Suppliers Forum. At DI'18 we anticipate that a new MOD CIO will be in post and trust that our jointly-planned MOD/Industry Event will provide a timely communications opportunity, capitalising on a 2-day programme with excellent opportunities to network and learn at this informative and productive 'Team Defence' engagement.
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With around 350 professionals and Whole Force representation, the Event has strong engagement from leaders and practitioners in both Industry and MOD. Whilst 'Information' is the common thread, Day 1 will focus on Information, Cyber & Information Enablers; Day 2 on Support, Services & Support Information.
DI'18 facilitates sharing of collective wisdom on current Team Defence thinking. Participants benefit from the active participation of defence seniors and thought leaders, innovators and suppliers, practitioners and subject matter experts, academics and those with 'other sector' know-how.
The stimulating format of DI'18 includes a range of Keynote Speakers, Interactive Workshops, the TD-Info Excellence Awards, Exhibition Stands and plenty of opportunities for networking - including a dinner at STEAM, all supported by an interactive DI'18 App. This multi-faceted event has wide MOD/Industry appeal for both Information and Support professionals and reliably delivers a sustained 'buzz' of interaction amongst attendees.
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Slide Pack in pdf format about Team Defence Information covers: Members, structure, reporting & operating model; What we do; values; staff members; Joint Information Group (JIG) ICEF, Trading Forum; Defence & Industry Support Chain Optimisation Group (DISCOG) Activities & Working Groups; New Green Box construct and activities; Defence Support Network Transformation- DSN(T); Skills Collaboration, Learning & Development; Events, Conferences, Seminars, Good Practice Awards
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This document presents two independent views on Defence Information 2018 . The first, from Simon Harries, comments on what he saw as the three major themes - Integration, Transformation and People - present throughout this two-day event that attracted over 270 from both MOD and Industry. The second piece is copied from a blog post called My favo(u)rite conference of the year from Kevin Parker, the lead of the independent judges for the 2018 Excellence Award. We also include mention of the results of the TD-Info 2018 Excellence Award, won by GBR14, and the Appendix includes a summary of DI18.
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Congratulations to all finalists in the Team Defence Information 2018 Excellence Awards. The awards are:
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Kevin Parker, on behalf of the independent judging panel, presented an overview of the finalists for the Defence Information 2018, leading to announcement of the winners from a very stong set of finalists. A video of this presentation is on YouTube at https://youtu.be/G9IbqDJ5JMI
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November 25. 2013 8:35PM
State will cover costs to clean up Difeo oil site in Derry
By HUNTER McGEE
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— Money from a state fund would pay for the cleanup of low level petroleum contamination found on the property known as the former Difeo oil site, according to officials.
And the property can be cleaned up and turned into a park or sold if the town opts to, said Mike Fowler, public works director.
Fowler gave the Town Council an update last week on the status of the property. Councilor Thomas Cardon has said the site should be turned into a park, while other councilors have suggested the property should be sold.
The town purchased the property in 2009 and has been recently clearing brush and other debris from it, Fowler said. A number of storage tanks that date to 1912 have all been removed, along with concrete slabs, he said.
In the process, some low petroleum contaminated soils were discovered.
"In this particular instance, it's a low-level contaminant; it's not a solvent, it's not a chemical that has to be dealt with," Fowler said, adding that the low-level contamination doesn't pose a threat to humans in its current position.
After the soil was identified and stockpiled, the town received word from the state Department of Environmental Services last week that the cleanup and removal costs will be covered by the state.
"In this particular case, what was discovered will be transferred off site and basically destroyed," Fowler said.
Councilor Al Dimmock said he was glad to hear such possible future costs would be covered by the state.
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McCain presses Obama on secret emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' use of secret government email accounts at work, saying that Congress cannot tell the American people what its government is doing if it creates a "secret alternate communications network."
The letter from McCain, the senior Republican on the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, comes in response to an Associated Press report earlier this month, which found that some top administration officials were using unpublished email accounts to conduct official business. McCain said the practice undermines congressional oversight and complicates access to records under the Freedom of Information Act.
"Four years ago, you pledged to usher in a new era of government transparency. Since then, however, your administration has habitually circumvented congressional oversight," McCain wrote to Obama, alluding to past dust-ups between congressional Republicans and the president over access to executive branch documents.
White House spokesman Jay Carney subsequently acknowledged the practice of having alternate accounts and said all emails — public or otherwise — were subject to congressional oversight. The White House did not immediately comment Monday on McCain's letter.
McCain asked Obama to answer several questions by July 1, including how many alternative email accounts are used in his administration and whether the practice comports with federal record-keeping standards.
The National Archives and Records Administration's chief records officer, Paul M. Wester Jr., told The Washington Post on Monday that his agency is revising its guidelines to make sure that emails in nonpublic government accounts are preserved as required under the Federal Records Act. Wester told the newspaper that he did not know how widely used the accounts are and said having secret accounts for government officials is "not a good practice to follow" because doing so makes it harder for agencies to find and turn over e-mails sought under FOIA requests or other inquiries.
Earlier this month, the AP found the scope of using secret accounts across the government was a mystery: Most agencies haven't turned over lists of political appointees' email addresses, which the AP sought under FOIA more than three months ago.
The Health and Human Services Department first declined to disclose Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' address in the name of personal privacy, but ultimately released it after the AP objected. The Labor Department asked the AP pay more than $1 million in processing fees, a stipulation it later apologized for and said was in error.
The AP asked for the addresses following last year's disclosures that the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency used separate email accounts at work. The practice is separate from officials who use personal, non-government email accounts for work, which generally is discouraged — but often happens anyway — due to laws requiring that most federal records be preserved.
The AP also reviewed hundreds of pages of government emails released under the nation's open-records law and couldn't independently find instances when material from any of the secret accounts it identified was turned over. Congressional oversight committees told the AP they were unfamiliar with the few nonpublic government addresses that AP identified so far, including one for Sebelius.
Having separate accounts could put an agency in a difficult spot when it is compelled to search for and release emails as part of congressional or internal investigations, civil lawsuits and public records requests. That's because employees assigned to compile such responses would necessarily need to know about the accounts to search them. Secret accounts also drive perceptions that government officials try to hide actions or decisions.
Late last year, the EPA's critics — including Republicans in Congress — accused former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson of using an email account under the name "Richard Windsor" to sidestep disclosure rules. The EPA said emails Jackson sent using her Windsor alias were turned over under open records requests. The agency's inspector general is investigating the use of such accounts, after being asked to do so by Congress.
The White House has said the Executive Branch processes hundreds of thousands of records requests each year, has decreased request backlogs and has proactively disclosed information during Obama's presidency. It said those efforts met the president's commitment to openness since he took office in 2009.
Associated Press writer Donna Cassata contributed to this report.
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Updated 10:30 a.m. — Police want to locate a 31-year-old Charleston, S.C., man suspected of crashing a stolen car while being chased, and then fleeing on foot early Friday.
Sherrard Gathers, a black male thought to have some connection with Galax, stands 6-foot, one-inch tall and weights 200 pounds, said Virginia State Police First Sgt. Mike Musser. The man was last seen wearing a black coat, dark jeans and a black ball cap.
Police have obtained warrants on Gathers for possession of stolen property, felony eluding police and driving on a suspended license after Trooper Chuck Campbell spotted a vehicle on Faddis Hill at about 1:30 a.m.
Campbell started after the vehicle because police were looking for it. The 2000 Saturn has been reported as stolen out of Charleston.
The suspect vehicle ducked into a driveway on Cranberry, but took off again after Campbell pulled in behind it, Musser said. After taking off towards Galax, the vehicle wrecked and received minor damage.
The driver and a passenger attempted to flee. Police caught the passenger, Reynolds Junior Washington, also of Charleston, and charged him with being intoxicated in public, according to Virginia State Police.
The driver escaped on foot in the vicinity of Trapper Drive, Musser said. The Carroll Sheriff's Office had a tracking dog there within minutes, but officers were unable to locate the man.
"We're trying to have an increased police presence where he was last seen," Musser said.
Carroll Sheriff Warren Manning added that on Thursday at about 11 a.m. a home invasion occurred in Cana.
An elderly woman reported that a black male entered her home, according to a report from the sheriff's office. The man knocked the phone out of her hand when she tried to call authorities and he ran out of the house.
The homeowner's car was not outside the house because the owner was getting it worked on then. Manning believes the suspect thought the home was empty at the time.
"Neighbors observed a silver PT Cruiser with North Carolina tags leaving the residence and traveling south on Oak Ridge Road toward White Pines Country Club Road in North Carolina," a news release from the sheriff's office said.
Police believe the two incidents may be related. "Suspect is a black male, mid 20's, approximately 6' to 6'3", around 250 pounds, and may be missing a front tooth."
Anyone with information on the Gathers suspect should call the Virginia State Police at 800-542-8716.
Anyone with information on the PT Cruiser should contact the sheriff's office at (276) 728-4146.
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The Moab Valley Fire Department, assisted by a Bureau of Land Management helicopter that was used to drop buckets of water on the flames, was able to "quickly control the fire and keep the area burned relatively small," according to a news release from the Grand County Sheriff's Office.
The blaze primarily burned grass and Russian olive trees. No structures were burned. However, the vinyl siding on one home was melted by the heat, according to the news release. Residents in the immediate area were asked to evacuate their homes until authorities determined it was safe to return.
Firefighters remained at the scene throughout the night to make sure the fire was completely extinguished.
Todd and Cathy Beeman were visiting with other guests at a missionary farewell party at Steve Risenhoover's home Sunday afternoon when Risenhoover, a volunteer firefighter, got called away to respond to the fire. A few minutes later, Risenhoover called his own house and told his sister to tell the Beemans to go home immediately.
"You guys better get home … the fire is right behind your house," Cathy Beeman said as she recalled the urgent message they were given.
The Beemans drove quickly to their property a couple miles away. "The closer we got, the more nervous we were, because it looked like it was right at our house," recalled Todd Beeman.
Upon arriving home, the Beemans turned on their sprinklers and grabbed garden hoses to wet down the edges of their property as the flames burned across the road east of their home. Cassy and Colman Swasey, the Beemans' daughter and son-in-law, arrived shortly thereafter and joined in the effort.
Meanwhile, firefighters from the Moab Valley Fire Protection District and the Moab Interagency Fire Center were already working on scene to contain the blaze and keep it from spreading to the houses along Kerby Lane, as well as along East Bench Lane to the north. A firefighting helicopter was deployed, repeatedly filling its container in a pond at the nearby golf course and dumping water on the fire.
"Fortunately, we have a bit of a green buffer around our house," said Todd Beeman, adding that if the wind had shifted and burned across the road, it could have burned several homes. "Thankfully, the wind shifted and it blew it back away from the houses," he said.
"It was scary," added Cathy Beeman. "But we were really impressed with the response. The firefighters got there quickly and they all did a great job. We were able to sleep well that night knowing they had it under control."
According to the Beemans, their neighbor Clark Minson was outside working on his air conditioner when he first spotted smoke and flames on an adjacent property and called 911.
The Beemans also had high praise for Rocky Mountain Power crews, who installed a new pole and restored their electrical power by 10:30 p.m. that same night.
Times-Independent reporter Jeff Richards contributed to this story.


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i get it but in real life "the puzzle" still far away from finish ..... and the picture near puzzle is not just a "duck" .. a lot of picture near the puzzle
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
*** Devil's advocate mode on *** Could be a two-sided puzzle. Maybe the duck is on the other side of the puzzle (in another dimension, so to speak). Did they look on the other side?*** Devil's advocate mode off ***
i'm agree with you until now evolution theory is the best explanation than religion told ( creation )but is not possible in one day appear another theory is make more sense than evolution
Quote from: zen_livin on April 22, 2012, 02:45:47 AMi'm agree with you until now evolution theory is the best explanation than religion told ( creation )but is not possible in one day appear another theory is make more sense than evolutionSure, but don't forget. Evolutionary theory has millions of pieces of supporting data. A new theory would have to explain those just as well as evolution, plus, it would have to be able to explain some new data that evolution fails to explain. In terms of the analogy presented at the beginning of this post, if evolution claimed that we had a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, but that very last piece had a picture of a duck on it when we found it, the new theory would say that we had a picture of Winnie, Tigger, and a duck. Notice that, even then, our answer wouldn't be "it's a duck" (i.e., creationism) because we can already see enough of the puzzle to definitively state that the puzzle we're working on doesn't match the box.So, what would it look like if evolution were proved to be incorrect tomorrow? We have a good example of that in Newtonian mechanics. Relativity replaced Newtonian mechanics because it could not adequately describe the motion of objects with a very high energy, or in a very large gravitational field. Despite that, Newtonian mechanics is still adequate to solve almost all problems we deal with in day-to-day life, and it is still taught in all basic physics courses. In that same vein, if tomorrow evolution were found to be incorrect, it would still have the same predictive power as before, but we would recognize that under certain conditions it did not make the correct predictions, and the new theory would have to be used.


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Peg + Cat "The Honey Problem/The Penguin Problem" The Honey Problem - Peg's Pizza Place. The 3 Bees will produce honey for Peg and Cat's super-popular honey cake - but only if Peg and Cat will dance for the Bees in a certain pattern! Primary Content: Weight. The Penguin Problem - The South Pole. D
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Prior to being captured by the evil Dr. Eggman, Sonic and Tails were normal, everyday creatures. But, through vast experimentation and genetic alterations, Sonic was rebirthed into the speed freak he is today. Running faster than the speed of sound, Sonic's goal has always been to retake the seven Chaos Emeralds initially used to grant him sentience and superpowers. With them he aims to take down Dr. Eggman and free all his fellow animals from the evil mastermind's clutches.
Along his journey, he met a fox named Tails. Originally the prey of the elusive fox, Sonic took Tails under his wing as his helpful sidekick. Together they sprint and fly through the dense forests, concrete jungles, and underwater worlds of Dr. Eggman's various creature troves freeing their friends. One step closer to justice, Sonic and Tails have banded together to become Sega's most iconic duo and the world's most adorable superheroes.
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Following up on my last blog post, and also on some of the information I presented in the 4D Summit 2011 Pre-Class, I've updated one of my systems to an Intel 7-series motherboard and benchmarked a RAID 0 SSD array. Read on for the results!
Exciting news this week as Intel has announced (via journalists apparently, I can't find an official posting) that the TRIM command is now passed though to RAID 0 SSD arrays.
Today I posted an update to the CodeExport GitHub project to remove its one and only plug-in dependency (for compile-time at least). Thanks to Kirk Brooks for pointing out the problem! Read on to find out what I did.
Just a quick update today, prompted by a The Tech Report article presenting an in-depth analysis of the plummeting cost of SSD's over the last year. I've also been watching the prices daily, read on for more details.
If you're at all involved in other projects besides 4D you're probably aware of GitHub, or perhaps you've heard of it otherwise (I mentioned it during the recent webinar about SVN and 4D).
GitHub is hugely popular with the Web-development crowd and, to a larger/growing extent, anyone involved in the Open Source community. It might seem strange that 4D, being a proprietary platform vendor, would get involved with GitHub (or maybe even look like band-wagoning :). That's definitely not the case though, this is really a guerrilla effort to get the 4D community out in the open in a more structured fashion. If you want access to some cool 4D tools, or have something the contribute, read on!
The consumer SSD space is evolving at quite a rapid pace, so I've decided it might be useful to the 4D community to try to do a regular series of updates as I come across interesting SDD news items. I'm calling it the "4D SSD Watch". I'm also a huge advocate for the switch to flash storage, so I do this not because I think I'm an expert but, rather, because I'm trying to keep a close eye on this stuff. For this update I'm looking at three important items:
Welcome to my first 4D Blog post! I don't know who gave me permission to do this but they must be crazy (right Michel?!)
I'm hoping to make my 4D Blog less of a marketing outlet and more of a personal journal (as Blogs are supposed to be). Most importantly my plan is to post information relevent to 4D developers. We have a renewed mandate to foster a community amoung the 4D faithful (and maybe get a few more to join the fold!)
With that in mind...
In this blog post, Thomas Maul gives a preview of a topic that he'll explain in great detail as one of the in-depth subjects of the 4D Summit 2011 Pre-class. The Pre-class will give attendees a unique opportunity to learn master-level skills from 4D's senior engineers.
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text: not at all, frankly if your LSAT is high enough you can overcome almost any poor gpa. This is Especailly the case if your crappy school days are WAY behind you. Look at my stats - not a great LSAT, but still high enough to get in at some top 25's. A 2.69 can be overcome with 160-170, depending on the school of course.gl


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In addition to affecting memory and other cognitive skills, Alzheimer's disease often affects the way people feel and act.
Common changes in behavior
Many people find the changes in behavior caused by Alzheimer's to be the most challenging and distressing effect of the disease. The chief cause of behavioral symptoms is the progressive deterioration of brain cells. However, medication, environmental influences and some medical conditions also can cause symptoms or make them worse.
In early stages, people may experience behavior and personality changes such as:
- Irritability
- Anxiety
- Depression
In later stages, other symptoms may occur including:
- Anger
- Agitation
- Aggression
- General emotional distress
- Physical or verbal outbursts
- Restlessness, pacing, shredding paper or tissues
- Hallucinations (seeing, hearing or feeling things that are not really there)
- Delusions (firmly held belief in things that are not true)
- Sleep disturbances
Learn more: Behaviors and Caregivers and Coping
Help is available
Your local Alzheimer's Association chapter can connect you with the resources you need to cope with the challenges of Alzheimer's. Find a chapter in your community
Our free 24/7 Helpline provides information, referral and care consultation by professionals in more than 200 languages.
Our Greenfield Library houses more than 5,000 books, journals and resources. Access it online.
Triggering situations
Events or changes in a person's surroundings often play a role in triggering behavioral symptoms.
Change can be stressful for anyone and can be especially difficult for a person with Alzheimer's disease. It can increase the fear and fatigue of trying to make sense out of an increasingly confusing world.
Situations affecting behavior may include:
- Moving to a new residence or nursing home
- Changes in a familiar environment or caregiver arrangements
- Misperceived threats
- Admission to a hospital
- Being asked to bathe or change clothes
Identifying what has triggered a behavior can often help in selecting the best approach to deal with it.
Medical evaluation for contributing factors
Everyone who develops behavior changes should receive a thorough medical evaluation, especially if symptoms appear suddenly.
Even though the chief cause of behavioral symptoms is the effect of Alzheimer's disease on the brain, an examination may reveal other treatable conditions that are contributing to the behavior.
Contributing conditions may include:
Difficulty with communicationBecause people with Alzheimer's gradually lose the ability to communicate, it's important to regularly monitor their comfort and anticipate their needs.
Learn more: Communication Tips
- Drug side effects. Many people with Alzheimer's take prescription medications for other health issues. Drug side effects or interactions among drugs can affect behavior.
- Discomfort from infections or other conditions. As the disease gets worse, those with Alzheimer's have increasing difficulty communicating with others about their experience. As a result, they may be unable to report symptoms of common illnesses. Pain from infections of the urinary tract, ear or sinuses may lead to restlessness or agitation. Discomfort from a full bladder, constipation, or feeling too hot or too cold also may be expressed through behavior.
- Uncorrected problems with hearing or vision. These can contribute to confusion and frustration and foster a sense of isolation.
Non-drug approaches
Non-drug approaches to managing behavior symptoms promote physical and emotional comfort.
Many of these strategies aim to identify and address needs that the person with Alzheimer's may have difficulty expressing as the disease progresses. Non-drug approaches should always be tried first.
Steps to developing successful non-drug treatments include:
- Recognizing that the person is not just "acting mean or ornery," but is having further symptoms of the disease
- Identifying the cause and how the symptom may relate to the experience of the person with Alzheimer's
- Changing the environment to resolve challenges and obstacles to comfort, security and ease of mind
Coping tips
- Monitor personal comfort. Check for pain, hunger, thirst, constipation, full bladder, fatigue, infections and skin irritation. Maintain a comfortable room temperature.
- Avoid being confrontational or arguing about facts. For example, if a person expresses a wish to go visit a parent who died years ago, don't point out that the parent is dead. Instead, say, "Your mother is a wonderful person. I would like to see her too."
- Redirect the person's attention. Try to remain flexible, patient and supportive by responding to the emotion, not the behavior.
- Create a calm environment. Avoid noise, glare, insecure space and too much background distraction, including television.
- Allow adequate rest between stimulating events.
- Provide a security object.
- Acknowledge requests, and respond to them.
- Look for reasons behind each behavior. Consult a physician to identify any causes related to medications or illness.
- Explore various solutions.
- Don't take the behavior personally, and share your experiences with others.
Our online social networking community can also help you. Join AlzConnected and learn tips for coping with a loved one's behavior and find support from other caregivers.
Medications for behavioral symptoms
If non-drug approaches fail after being applied consistently, introducing medications may be appropriate for individuals with severe symptoms or who have the potential to harm themselves or others. While prescription medications can be effective in some situations, they must be used carefully and are most effective when combined with non-drug approaches.
When considering use of medications, it is important to understand that no drugs are specifically approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat behavioral and psychiatric dementia symptoms. Some of the examples discussed below represent "off label" use, a medical practice in which a physician may prescribe a drug for a different purpose than the ones for which it is approved.
Learn more: Antidepressants (for mood), Anxiolytics (for anxiety/restlessness), Antipsychotic medications (for hallucinations)
Guiding principles
The following general principles can help guide appropriate use of medications:
Learn more: Alzheimer's Association Statement Regarding Treatment of Behavioral and Psychiatric Symptoms
Medication examples
Some medications commonly used to treat behavioral and psychiatric symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, listed in alphabetical order by generic name, include the following:
Antidepressants for low mood and irritability:
- citalopram (Celexa)
- fluoxetine (Prozac)
- paroxeine (Paxil)
- sertraline (Zoloft)
- trazodone (Desyrel)
Anxiolytics for anxiety, restlessness, verbally disruptive behavior and resistance:
- lorazepam (Ativan)
- oxazepam (Serax)
Antipsychotic medications for hallucinations, delusions, aggression, agitation, hostility and uncooperativeness:
- aripiprazole (Abilify)
- clozapine (Clozaril)
- haloperidol (Haldol)
- olanzapine (Zyprexa)
- quetiapine (Seroquel)
- risperidone (Risperdal)
- ziprasidone (Geodon)
Antipsychotic Medications
The decision to use an antipsychotic drug needs to be considered with extreme caution. Research has shown that these drugs are associated with an increased risk of stroke and death in older adults with dementia. The FDA has ordered manufacturers to label such drugs with a "black box" warning about their risks and a reminder that they are not approved to treat dementia symptoms.
Learn more: FDA's Safety Alert About Antipsychotics
Based on scientific evidence, as well as governmental warnings and guidance from care oversight bodies, individuals with dementia should use antipsychotic medications only under one of the following conditions:
- Behavioral symptoms are due to mania or psychosis
- The symptoms present a danger to the person or others
- The person is experiencing inconsolable or persistent distress, a significant decline in function or substantial difficulty receiving needed care
Antipsychotic medications should not be used to sedate or restrain persons with dementia. The minimum dosage should be used for the minimum amount of time possible. Adverse side effects require careful monitoring.
Although antipsychotics are the most frequently used medications for agitation, some physicians may prescribe a seizure medication/mood stabilizer, such as:
- carbamazepine (Tegretol)