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on 06.16.2011
Why I Hate Nintendo
I have been very vocal about my hate of Nintendo. I thought I would point out why. Let's turn the clock back to the 1990's, during the golden age of Nintendo which I would like to attribute to the Nintendo 64.
Great games, which transported me to epic worlds and provided hours upon hours of fun. I used to play StarFox64 twice a day during the peak of my obsession with it. I moved forward, never turning to look at Sony or Microsoft's consoles, because Nintendo made me happy.
The Gamecube came, and I bought it. Played what they delivered to me on that console, but real life matters (read: high school) forced me to give up on gaming for a while.
Fast forward to my college years: The Wii! A revolutionary new motion controlled console which had great potential! Yes! I was excited out of my mind.
I was disappointed
Got myself an Xbox 360, loved the hell out of it even as it started red ringing on me, because it actually had exciting games such as Halo and Gears of War! Gritty, over the top set pieces with tons of challenges and engaging stories the kind I have never seen with Nintendo! It didn't take long to realize the fact that Nintendo really didn't provide too many games that would have interested me, and with the Xbox 360, I found myself with access to an impressively larger library of games to pick and choose from.
Eventually got a PS3, and enjoyed all my consoles thoroughly, believing I was above any fanboy squabbles simply because I had all consoles in my living room, perpetually hooked to my then brand new HD television. My gaming setup was beautiful. I was happy.
The problem came when the Wii started catering to more casual audience. At first I didn't mind because hey, I loved myself some Super Smash Bros. and Fire Emblem from time to time. I was set.
I kept my Wii, simply for the sake of continuing to play this game:
Waiting for more games for the Wii through 2009, 2010 and now 2011, I don't even remember the last game I purchased for a Nintendo console. Yes, I do keep looking for some, because I believe it isn't useful to me without, you know, new exclusives that I would be interested in.
This year was the last straw, the announcement of the Wii-U killed Nintendo for me, because it clearly states what direction they plan to take it. Why would they name it after a console that alienated their core audience, unless they plan on continuing to alienate them.
It isn't the first time I said Nintendo's dead to me, and it won't be the last. I'll keep watching and hope they actually get their act together and give me something that would make me excited.
on 06.08.2011
Nintendo is Dead to Me
Before being bombarded with legions of Nintendo fans, I want to set one thing straight: I am not a hater by nature. I stuck by Nintendo longer than anyone would want to stick with any one brand or gaming company, even long after I wasn't getting anything substantial out of it.
Another thing, I'm not including pictures in this blog post because I believe that anything I may put would offend someone. Please bear with me and my wall of text.
Before E3, I heard news that Nintendo had lost 66% of annual revenue in the past year, and lost even more the year before. The message was clear: It was time Nintendo focused on the audience that really mattered. The oldest and fiercest type of gamers. Not babies. Not "casual gamers."
Hardcore gamers.
Little kids like to act like their elders, and casual gamers already have a device I like to call the iPad. Heck, just two days ago my 10 year old cousin asked me if I wanted to play Mortal Kombat with him.
Then the conference came, and with it, my hopes shattered faster than you could say "It's-a Me, Mario!"
Nothing for me. They didn't announce a single game that got my blood pumping. I really didn't care anymore at that point.
Nintendo just lost a customer, and when I have kids, I won't be getting them Nintendo stuff either.
on 08.07.2010
How Well Do You Know Your Games?
I was wondering, since we all game, how much of the facts of our favorite pastime do we really know? You may translate the results in whatever way you wish. You might say you're a knowledgeable individual when it comes to gaming, or that you're awesome and hardcore.
Before we begin, this test is by no means all-encompassing. I'm sure others will share their own questions in the comments. The exam is divided into three parts. The first part contains straightforward questions. The second part contains questions about the protagonists of different series and games. The final part is about filling the blanks. Good luck.
Answers can be found after the questions.
Take your seats and prepare to be tested.
1.01 What is the most common function of the A button (X button on Playstation consoles)?
1.02 What is the abbreviation usually used to refer to content you download from an online store?
1.03 What is the word used by game experts who want to be rude to an inexperienced gamer?
1.04 What is the number of current generation consoles?
1.05 What are the current generation consoles?
1.06 What part of your controller usually relates to your character's movement?
1.07 When you get 100 collectibles in platformer games, what are you usually rewarded by?
1.08 What is the Konami Code?
1.09 What is the name of the antagonist from the Command & Conquer series?
1.10 What is the game series which had teams of creepy crawlies fighting with ridiculous weapons in destructible environments?
1.11 What is the name of the movie director no gamer wants to see producing another game-related movie ever again?
What is the name of the protagonist in the following games?
2.01 Halo 2
2.02 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
2.03 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
2.04 Super Mario 64
2.05 Final Fantasy VII
2.06 Gears of War
2.07 Ninja Gaiden
2.08 Metal Gear Solid 4
2.09 Half Life
2.10 Tales of Symphonia
2.11 Timesplitters: Future Perfect
2.12 Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
2.13 Mass Effect
2.14 Valkyria Chronicles
2.15 Mirror's Edge
2.16 Brutal Legend
2.17 Resistance 2
2.18 Too Human
2.19 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
2.20 Skies of Arcadia
2.21 Resident Evil 4
2.22 God of War
2.23 Crysis
2.24 Fallout 3
Complete the following:
3.01 When discussing a high-spec PC, a sarcastic question usually asked is "does it run _______?"
3.02 _________.com is a popular website gamers tend to visit to get past some parts of the game they're stuck in
3.03 __________: Source is a popular PC game on Steam
3.04 God of War's protagonist appeared in the fighting game series ______________.
3.05 The number of Pokemon was initially ___.
3.06 ____________ was the most emotional character in the Gears of War franchise.
3.07 ____________ is an addictive, non-violent Facebook game for nature lovers.
3.08 A lot of massive game reveals are made annually in the _______ event.
3.09 Kinect was known initially as ___________.
3.10 ___________ is a term used to define cheap, rushed games that severely lack in quality.
3.11 __________ is an extremely popular strategy game in South Korea.
3.12 ____________ is a game that produced a terrible movie, which was then translated into a game based on the movie.
3.13 _________ was arguably the first game to reveal the protagonist was actually a woman at the end of the game.
3.14 Gamers are prompted to press the ______ button in the main screen of most games.
3.15 RPGs have different ways of being categories, one of which is to classify it as either Japanese or __________.
3.16 ____________ is the mastermind behind many franchises that appear exclusively on Nintendo.
Below are the answers.
Answers for Part 1
1.01 Jump
1.03 Noob
1.04 3
1.05 PS3, Xbox 360, Wii
1.06 Left Analog Stick
1.07 Extra Life
1.08 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
1.09 Kane
1.10 Worms
1.11 Uwe Boll
Answers for Part 2
2.01 Master Chief
2.02 Link
2.03 Nathan Drake
2.04 Mario
2.05 Cloud
2.06 Marcus Fenix
2.07 Ryu Hayabusa
2.08 Solid Snake
2.09 Gordon Freeman
2.10 Lloyd Irving
2.11 Sergeant Cortez
2.12 Mao
2.13 Commander Shepard
2.14 Welkin Gunther
2.15 Faith
2.16 Eddie Riggs
2.17 Nathan Hale
2.18 Baldur
2.19 Starkiller
2.20 Vyse
2.21 Leon Kennedy
2.22 Kratos
2.23 Nomad
2.24 The Lone Wanderer
Answers for Part 3
3.01 Crysis
3.02 Gamefaqs
3.03 Counterstrike
3.04 Soul Calibur
3.05 151
3.06 Dominic Santiago
3.07 Farmville
3.09 Natal
3.10 Shovelware
3.11 Starcraft
3.12 Street Fighter
3.13 Metroid
3.14 Start
3.15 Western
3.16 Shigeru Miyamoto
Feel free to add your own or suggest changes. I'll probably do an updated "test" based on the questions you post in the comments below.
on 08.04.2010
Teh Bias: Respect Me!
There are many games that I enjoy, and many that I disliked. Often the games that I end up disliking are the same ones that the majority of gamers like.
I dislike Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Kirby's Epic Yarn, all annual sports games and the majority of Mario Games.
Did the sentence above catch your attention? Did you disagree? Are you currently thinking about what you're going to write in the comments to defend the games I mentioned?
Perhaps my gaming standards differ from most of the world, but you know what? I'm okay with that.
I figured it out: I
biased toward games that respect me as an intelligent, adult gamer, and respects the console it's running on as a stand-alone system.
What does that respect entail?
List time!
Games should show respect to gamers in the following ways:
1- It should be able to run on the console, without the need for any additional accessories aside from the standard controller, to a maximum of four controllers if you have friends over. I don't want to use a plastic gun, balance board, drum set, guitar, or kitchen sink to be able to play.
2- It should not rely on a basic in-game gimmick as its main appeal. A glaring example in Kirby's Epic Yarn: Let's take Kirby, make him into a ball of yarn, and turn the world he's in into fabric.
3- It should not expect me to be standing while I play. For that matter, it should not expect me to be doing anything but sitting on the couch while I play. God help me, that's what I have a gaming console for.
4- It should not expect me to attempt to verbally communicate with my device. It's an inanimate object. Unless I'm calling someone on the phone, I have no business talking to, or through, an inanimate object.
5- It should not expect me to wave my hands around, or frequently tilt my controller around to move my character in the game. This includes party games on the Wii, and pretty much anything that cannot be translated to "press the button, use analog stick, tap on shoulder button, see desired action on screen."
6- It should not belong to a series that gets annual releases,
not if it has the year at the end of the title. This goes for all sports titles. So you updated the roster of some teams, gave it a negligible graphical upgrade and are selling it again for the price of a full game? I'd rather spend my money elsewhere.
7- It should not belong to a series that gets many releases that have no significant difference between them, which could have just as easily been updated via DLC. This may be a repeat of #6, only with the Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Seriously. Metallic, Green Day, Beatles, etc... why not have them all as downloadable content and get it over with.
8- It should not attempt to tug on my nostalgia. It will ruin my otherwise cherished memories of the experience I've had so many years ago, and will ultimately leave a bitter taste in my mouth when disappointment settles in, when I realize how idealized my memories were of the game. Remember it. Cherish it. Move on.
9- It should not expecting me to work out while I play. That's what I go to the gym for. I don't need a virtual trainer telling me I'm fat, or that I need to change my diet. Dammit I'm here to sit down and play a game! If I wanted some advice, I'd ask the gym instructor for a work plan, not search for health answers when I want to game. I understand that some of you aren't members of a gym. If you want to seriously work out, then exercising just a few feet away from your game library and one room away from the fridge isn't going to help you much.
10- It should not be shovelware. That abomination should not be allowed to exist. This category extends to all game adaptations of movies, TV series, comic books, anime and manga. There always seems to be something lost in translation.
11- It must treat its audience for the mature, intelligent adults that they are. It should not attempt to be too cute, sanitized or pampering. I like my games to have mature themes.
So there you go. The eleven criteria of respect. I have it all laid down. I have opened up, and shared my most personal preferences for picking up games.
This month's topic is about bias. I don't think I can be more biased that to bear my game-loving soul, with all the good and bad it entails.
on 08.02.2010
Teh Bias: Let the Classics Be
I have a confession to make: When it comes to my entertainment, I like to remember what year I'm in. You'll rarely see me go back to play a game that was released over five years ago, and almost never play a game that was released over ten years ago.
Granted, some games can be said to age well, and they're still being played today. Such games have their audience, but I'm not their target audience.
Enjoy your games.
I cringe every single time I hear the words remake, reboot or re-release. I feel it's just a way to draw more money from the fans who liked the game/franchise when it was first released. Here's how I see it:
1. Yes, we all enjoyed the game when it first came out in 1997, but if you go and buy it all over again, you'll probably be disappointed and ruin the memory of the game.
2. A lot of people are fond of a certain game, as nostalgia to the circumstances that surrounded the time they used to play that game. My guess is, circumstances have changed a lot in all of our lives since the game was being played by a widespread audience, so the general experience will inevitably be diminished once the nostalgia element has been satisfied. Some may even be disappointed.
3. No matter how great the game was, it's a safe bet to say that there have been better games, in both gameplay, game mechanics, storyline, scale and overall entertainment value between that time and now.
Bigger, better, bolder
I don't shy away from my criticism of Nintendo: They have more franchises than they know what to do with, and instead of allowing them to grow with their audience, they insist on remaking, rebooting and restarting a predictable selection of games. Granted, they were amazing at their time, but I don't think they can stand up to today's competition.
You can call me out on how I loved the Worms series on the PC, Twisted Metal, and a few other games I thoroughly enjoyed. You can even try to make a big deal out of how I'm looking forward to the upcoming Worms game on Steam, but I say only this: I'm not getting any new Mario, Zelda, Star Fox or Donkey Kong title until one comes out that clearly isn't a remake, cheap ripoff or gimmicky title.
Instead, you'll see me looking out for games that acknowledge the technological developments of the last decade, and respect me as a gamer who owns a current-gen console. I'm looking at you, Twisted Metal, Halo: Reach, Killzone 3, Gears of War 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
I'm talking bigger, bolder and better. That's the direction we're heading in as a community of gamers with systems and games that were nothing more than an impossible fantasy just one decade ago.
And yet, most people are gravitated toward this...
Pictured: I sense a disturbance in the force, like six million seasoned hardcore gaming veterans letting their inner child take over at the very sight of this...
on 07.31.2010
On Worms and War
One of the greatest classic franchises is about to make a comeback, on August 26, through steam. I'm sure you've all seen
this post
My stance toward this development was pretty much set from the moment I heard about it. I'm getting this game.
Now, I started wondering what little fun touches I'll come up with, in terms of turning pictures in my computer into destructible terrains, or whether I'll download the Sound Bank editor and create custom sound sets (I did five, a long,
time ago.)
Then I got to thinking, is it just me, or is there usually one Worm in whatever team you create which seems to be extremely lucky?
I remember one of the Worms in the team I created, which I cheesily called "The Dragons" called Takeshi. For some reason, both computer controlled and human opponents seem to screw up badly when they target him. I'm talking about throwing a Holy Hand Grenade that bounces off Takeshi and falls into a chasm where two of the attacker's comrades are hanging out. I even tried turning the team over to CPU control, set them to be utterly stupid, and Takeshi
persevered. I didn't know what exactly was going on, but I noticed different things about different Worms. One was always extremely destructive, perhaps lucky in offense. Another was extremely unlucky, and usually ended up being the first to die, no matter what I do to prevent that (even Takeshi sitting directly on top of him didn't save him, although Takeshi did survive somehow...) and one which always ends up drowning by a shot that wasn't intended for him.
Did anyone else ever experience anything such as this? I really couldn't figure it out...
One thing is certain, though...
Takeshi will be back!
on 07.27.2010
Epic Action Scene
Or, epic fail blog video
I couldn't help it. This is how NOT to make an action chase scene, taken from an old Indian movie.
on 07.27.2010
My Attempt to a Fail Blog
on 07.27.2010
Islam and Gaming
I just read
a post by Jim Sterling
regarding Islamic ideologies when it comes to gaming. As a Muslim myself, I felt it was necessary to set things straight.
Please take the time to go through a small lesson in Islam. If you wish, think of it as a clear introduction to extinguish the flame war before it begins:
First off, Islam is built on ease of practice, not difficulty or complexity. However, there are some who take our texts and interpret them in ways that fit their individual world views.
In its purest form, Islam is built upon five pillars:
1. The submission to the belief that there is no God but Allah, and that Mohammad is His prophet.
2. Praying five times a day.
3. Fulfilling Zakat (a fixed percentage, usually 2.5%, of your capital, given as annual charity to the poor and needy).
4. Fasting the month of Ramadan
5. Performing pilgrimage to Makkah if capable.
Now, with the pillars established, let's look at a couple of other practices that Muslims agree upon, which are relevant to our argument:
1. It is taboo to murder, commit adultery, steal, drink alcohol, eat pork, listen to music and talk about people behind their backs.
2. It is taboo to draw pictures representing living creatures, and if given an item with such a picture, you should not use it for decoration.
3. It is taboo to disrespect other religions, because its follows will disrespect Islam in return.
4. It is taboo to provide visual representations of Allah, the angels and the Prophets (including Mohammad, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, David, Isaac, etc.)
Some people take such unambiguous laws, along with texts in the Holy Quran and the Hadith (texts of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him)) and misinterpret them, or take the ambiguous parts as justification of their behavior and ignore the unambiguous. They do that although it is clearly stated in the Quran that some parts are clear and some are not, and that there will be those who neglect the clear and embrace the ambiguous to suit their needs.
You see, not everyone who claims to be a Muslim should be taken as a model on which to compare all the Muslims in the world.
Now, let's look at how Sharia law, otherwise known as Islamic law, is meant to be formed: It is built on four aspects, as follows:
1. Quran and Sunnah: Use the texts of the Holy Quran and Hadith for the fundamentals.
2. Ijma'a: If the majority of Islamic scholars in any point of time agree on the Islamic views regarding any newly introduced topic, invention, technology or scientific method, then the consensus is formed and their opinion is written into law.
3. Qiyas: If something new appears, without any historical precedent to return to and/or no consensus is reached, personal judgment should be made by comparing the subject in question with loosely related subjects in which a verdict was reached.
You can probably see where exactly personal efforts can lead some scholars, even those not in any formal position or sufficient knowledge regarding the topic in question, to be lead astray by their research efforts.
Lesson's over.
Let's talk about the subject of gaming now. I have heard that gaming, and all other forms of entertainment, are undesirable under the following conditions:
1. It causes you to delay or neglect your religious duties (ie, when prayer time comes, you don't pray because you're playing a game.)
2. It has content that is deemed offensive to Islam (such as the depiction of God.)
3. It results in your neglecting your worldly responsibilities, including family, work, school and maintaining your physical health.
4. It has sexual overtones (ie, Japanese dating sim games, etc.)
I know a lot of fellow Muslims who are ready not only to play most video games, but to excel in them.
Now, to address any hate in the comment section before it begins:
1. Don't hate on any religion. That includes any and all attempts to question their legitimacy and the existence of any unseen entities related to religion.
2. Don't turn this into a religious flame war. In the VERY long run, we'll all know who is right and who is wrong.
3. No name calling. Not at me, not at Jim Sterling and not at the inevitable offensive commenter above your post.
on 07.20.2010
Gaming in the Future
I read an article in another website about what video game questions could be answered by 2040. I thought of compiling my own collection of predictions, so here goes.
By the year 2040...
Advances in technology made it possible for gamers to have total immersion in a virtual simulation in which games can be played.
Annual gaming tournaments will be as televised as the Olympic Games, and will have a worldwide audience.
Game developers will double as movie producers and directors
The conventional means of social interactions will go the way of the newspaper, and the majority of people will prefer spending "quality" time with their peers pwning others in their game of choice. Face to face interactions will be viewed as a fancy alternative to the norm (similar to how most of us view the people who still read print newspapers every morning).
Game achievements will be considered by potential employers in your CV.
A new form of social segregation will be seen emerging in some circles, built around the pro/noob and/ or hardcore/casual gamers.
Game consoles will continue evolving, with each new generation providing more features until the inevitable cross-compatibility consoles can play each other's games, forced on the gaming industry by increasingly empowered studios to maximize their profits.
A massive gaming world will be built, almost to the scale of 1:1 of Earth, which has geographic locations for different game types, with gamers able to travel (although with some difficulty and item monitoring to ensure the balance issues of different locations are kept,a-la airports) through different genres and settings. Although, you will find some people trying to smuggle healing potions into the futuristic militarized dystopia area, or smuggle firearms into the fantasy realm to try taking over Hyrule. Read the little-known novel Epic by Conor Kostick for a little preview of a world run by a glorified MMO.
Future conflicts will be resolved through FPS or RTS battles.
As games become more mainstream, you can expect more games to have heavy-handed religious and political messages.
Reality TV shows will make place to Reality Gaming Show, where contestants are sent to an unfriendly virtual environment under varying degrees of disadvantage to compete for a prize.
In-game currencies will have an exchange rate with one another, as well as real currencies. Fifty Wasteland Bottlecap equal one Hylian Rupee, which equals 1.8 American Dollars.
That's all I have for now. If you have other ideas, please post them in the comments.
on 07.19.2010
Your Character and You, Beyond the Game
I recently posted a
about the relation between the gamer and your character, and the single comment I received mentioned that I seemed to be building toward something, but didn't really reach my conclusion.
To be honest, I was writing from my train of thoughts, and didn't really know where I was going with it.
A possible conclusion came to me when I was playing Fallout 3. My current character is pretty much evil by now, and I have finished all add-ons except Broken Steel. The Enclave had just appeared, and it seems like my character needs the closure she deserves.
It came to me after a conversation with the character's father in the Project Purity lab, where my character was confronted about the
destruction of Megaton
. This was the first time I made the decision to destroy Megaton in all playthroughs, and the confrontation took me off-guard. The conversation was postponed in favor of more pressing matters, brought forth in the form of having to provide the lab with the resources it required. While I was going around doing my thing, the Enclave appeared, and not noticing me, stormed the lab.
The military force confronted my character's father, and he ended up sacrificing his life to take them down. Through heavily enforced glass, I could see him looking straight at me, and repeatedly telling me to get out of there.
So there it was: Closure. My character started off by escaping from Vault 101 to search for her father, who left without a trace. Here he was, shortly after being found and "saved" from the mess he got himself into, sacrificing himself so a terrible military organization wouldn't get their hands of a critical experiment. In a sense, he has redeemed himself.
So what is left for my character? After going to the Pitt, Point Lookout, the Anchorage simulation, and even Mothership Zeta, all that's left is to take the fight to the Enclave.
I figured out what my character needed: redemption. As much as I enjoy playing a villain in video games, I enjoy the story of a villain's redemption. It would be a nice, heartwarming conclusion for my character's story.
Today I have decided to take it one step further: After finishing the game, I would be parting with a character I spent a lot of time with. As much as I like to see closure, I find myself getting drawn to an interesting idea: Recreating the character in New Vegas. It takes place three years after Fallout 3, so it just feels like it fits.
The conclusion I have arrived at is this: We all find ourselves influenced in varying degrees by our in-game characters. After the game is over, and the controllers are put down, it's the characters with the greatest resonance, mentally and emotionally, that you will eventually revisit. It is just as much about the journey as it is about going out with a bang and leaving you, the player, craving for more.
A final question, for the commenters: Would you recreate the same characters, if you could, in different games that have a character creation feature? Would you focus more on recreating skills, personality traits or physical appearance?
on 07.18.2010
Who Do You Write Like?
I found this interesting website, which compares your writing with that of established authors. I tried it out with all my blog posts here, and got amusing results:
H.P Lovecraft
Kurt Vonnegut
James Joyce
Dan Brown
Margaret Atwood
But only one name appeared multiple times:
David Foster Wallace
So, whose writing is yours like?
Click the link.
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I'm a lifelong gamer who has enjoyed video games through the thick and thin of my life. I'm also a person who speaks my mind often, which is why I chose to start this blog here where others can discuss what I have to say.
Originally a Nintendo fan, I've turned my back on it when they turned their collective backs on their old following. Currently, my Wii is still connected to my TV and I play with it from time to time.
Had an Xbox 360, which got the red ring five times before I put it out of its misery, and got an Elite, which got the E74 error and couldn't be replaced or fixed. Currently, it's on a shelf in some game repair shop, collecting dust, and that doesn't look like it's about to change anytime soon.
Have a PS3, which is going strong. It's currently my primary console.
I also have a DS and am planning to pick up a PSP as soon as Valkyria Chronicles 2 comes out. And a PC that runs Crysis, Supreme Commander and World of Warcraft, often at the same time.
You see, my posts may get responses suggesting I'm a fanboy or a hater, which is why I clarify this here: I tried all consoles, and didn't cling onto them when they started to fail, either in company support or in hardware/software.
My favorite genres are real time strategy and first person shooters, and I often turn to role-playing games and fighting games, with a bit of platforming on the side.
I hate, HATE music games. I love the songs you can play in them, but I hate the concept.
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Access software for a blind person using a braille display
BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode) for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality. The following display models are supported:
* Alva (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680) * Baum * BrailleLite (18, 40, M20/M40) * BrailleNote (18/32) * EcoBraille displays * EuroBraille displays * Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate) * HandyTech displays * HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille) * LogText 32 * MDV braille displays * Papenmeier * Pegasus (20/27/40/80) * Seika 40 * Tieman (Voyager 44/70, CombiBraille, MiniBraille and MultiBraille) * Tivomatic (Albatross) * TSI (PowerBraille/Navigator) * Videobraille * VisioBraille
BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for incoming TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library for clients is provided in the package libbrlapi0.5. A static library, header files and documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other programming languages can be found in cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java) and python-brlapi (Python).
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Available in natural wood, black or white frames, our 10" diameter unique Wall Clocks feature a high-impact plexiglass crystal face and a backside hook for easy hanging. Choose black or white hands to match your wall clock frame and art design choice. Clock sits 1.75" deep and requires 1 AA battery (not included).
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'On Drawing' exhibit at FGCU explores the linear dimension in art
Contemporary artists aren't exactly known for toeing the line in their thinking. Give them a definition of just about anything in art and they'll stretch it almost to the breaking point, perhaps snapping it back in your face for good measure.
So it goes with "On Drawing," an exhibition by six artists who employ a wide spectrum of drawing materials and techniques. On view through Nov. 18 at Florida Gulf Coast University's Arts Complex Gallery, the show contains examples of graphic art ranging from traditional figure drawings done with pencil on paper to abstract engravings incised on glass with a Dremel tool.
Typically, drawings are considered to be works on paper, made with pencil or some other "dry" medium such as charcoal or pastel, as opposed to paint brushed on canvas. Drawings are thought to be defined by the primacy of line over color and mass, and they are often prized for showing the spontaneous execution of an artist's thought rather than the slow process of mixing, blending and layering that characterizes the act of painting.
However, in this show, such conventional formulations are treated like Captain Jack Sparrow's interpretation of the pirate's code — more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
Organized by Geoff Hamel, who teaches painting and drawing at FGCU, "On Drawing" developed from the simplest of impulses. A couple of years ago, in response to a call for faculty-generated exhibit ideas, he proposed to show his own large-scale drawings. In turn, the gallery's interim director, Anica Sturdivant, suggested he broaden the scope of his idea to include other artists' drawings.
Hamel's colored-pencil drawings are certainly worth seeing and puzzling over. They are amazingly obsessive objects, wrought with an intensity that you can practically feel. They are composite landscapes, incorporating bits and pieces of "real life" into scenes that are ultimately improbable.
He works for months at a time on a single composition, stippling, dotting, stroking and smoothing color onto the paper.
"Drawing, I see as unto itself," Hamel said during a walk through the show. "My work is an accumulative experience. I'm trying to create unbelievable spaces and places. I'm trying to create atmospheres and suggest the presence of air, fire, water and earth."
He depicts places where land and water meet, where humanmade and natural elements collide. Guardrails and jetty groins - failed defense mechanisms, Hamel says - are frequent motifs in his art. Pungent titles, like "Can't Spend What You Ain't Got" and "You Don't Want to Go There," allude to an underlying emotional landscape that is real, though not quite visible, in Hamel's pictures.
Hamel's surreal visions contrast with Carl Schwartz's less psychologically fraught responses to nature. Schwartz, who also teaches studio art at FGCU, is well known in Southwest Florida for his luminous, impressionistic paintings of flowers, koi ponds and verdant tropical greenery.
Schwartz is more of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of guy, at least in comparison to Hamel. He seeks to capture the visual phenomena immediately in front of him, while giving free reign to his impulse to create order, pattern and repetition. In two large charcoal drawings of coastal rock formations, for example, he transforms sun-bleached, stony outcrops into dense networks of repeating lines.
However, Schwartz takes a more painterly approach to landscape in two other charcoal studies. Both are titled "Wet Woodland, Study." Atmospheric and supple, these images depict a damp, hazy, humid environment. By including such different types of drawings in one show, it's almost as if Schwartz is saying, "Look what I can do with line. I can make it harsh, choppy and dry, or smoky, flowing and liquid."
Plants sway in the breeze, birds plummet from the sky and the world appears to be in constant motion in the work of Andy Browne. A painter and printmaker who is a program manager at the United Arts Council of Collier County in Naples, Browne creates mixed-media works on paper. They are informed by a deeply felt ecological sensibility, appreciative of both the beauty and fragility of nature.
In "And Now the Dew is Cold and No Bird Sings…After Oscar Wilde," she laments the increasing toxicity of the environment. A pair of hands reaches upward to catch a falling bird. "But, it's too late," Browne says. "The bird is dead."
Still, there's a buoyant quality to Browne's work despite her morbid themes. Her surfaces are animated and complex. Brushed with ink, scribbled with charcoal, dotted with gouache, embellished with cut-out paper shapes and the occasional real feather, they create a formal dynamic that speaks to her love of materials.
Drawing, printmaking, painting and collage meld in Browne's art. Her pieces relate to drawing mainly in her use of charcoal and tendency to employ a restricted palette of white, gray and black. But if you saw these works in a different exhibit, you wouldn't necessarily think "drawing" right off the bat.
It probably wouldn't be the first word that comes to mind while looking at Andy Owen's glass panels, either. Subtly illuminated by battery-powered lights encased in wooden bases, his vitreous engravings are magical evocations of rippling water, reflections of light on water and the contemplative hush of dawn by the sea.
Ironically enough, these serene works are created with the aid of a buzzing mechanical tool. "I went through diamond-tipped drill bits like popcorn this summer," Owen said with a laugh as he described his working process with the Dremel tool, a device not unlike a dentist's drill.
He achieves an extraordinary range of effects with that drill. Around the edges of his compositions, the lines are lacy and delicate, some so fine they just barely catch a fleck of light. Digging deeper in the central part of his plates, Owen excavates soft undulations and ripples reminiscent of sagging skin or weathered rock strata.
One of the key insights to be gleaned from this exhibit is that drawing remains fundamental to an artist's education. It's the means by which art students learn to reproduce the swelling contours of the human body, for instance, and to infuse their marks with personal sensibility, as in Carol Rosenberg's figure drawings.
An artist who is active in the Fort Myers-Sanibel area, Rosenberg's intimate, informal nudes are the product of numerous sessions drawing from the live model in recent months.
Expressionistic still-lifes and portrait heads by Ken Hoffman are rendered with broad, slashing strokes of graphite and pastel. An adjunct faculty member at FGCU, Hoffman is retired from teaching art at Bradley University in Illinois. His vigorous linear expressions have a physicality to them, a gestural quality that reminds the viewer how drawings record the movements of a specific person's hand in the act of perceiving things.
Janice T. Paine is a freelance art writer for the Naples Daily News and program manager for arts education at the United Arts Council of Collier County.
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It was a family affair for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, as they brought the kids along to the Kung Fu Panda 2 Los Angeles premiere on Sunday.
Photos show Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt bringing their kids to the Kung Fu Panda 2 event: Shiloh, Pax, Zahara and Maddox are seen in pics as Angelina and Brad rush them to Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
Brad and Angelina were not photographed on the red carpet with their kids, however.
Angelina Jolie describes the family themes in Kung Fu Panda, saying "I was nervous at first, I didn't know if they [the kids] were going to react to some of the issues in it – there are very personal family issues and adoption and inner peace."
Jolie added, "[I wondered], 'Was it too heavy? Was it too beautiful and not goofy enough?' And they laughed through the whole movie… They loved it, they asked to see it again."
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By Daniel firstname.lastname@example.com The bond hearing was supposed to be completed in a couple of minutes on the 18th floor of the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, but had to be continued when questions came up about the possibility a 42-year-old man would molest young girls, if released. The Wednesday afternoon hearing in United States Magistrate Judge Alan J. Baverman's court was continued to Thursday morning in Atlanta. However, on Thursday, with members of the media and the federal prosecutors office waiting in the courtroom at 10:30 a.m., the bond hearing was continued again, without any official explanation. Douglas Yutaka Rhoades, a security guard who is charged with impersonating a Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent and possession child pornography, was not in court. Prison officials refused to comment on the man's absence. The bond hearing was continued, a second time, to Monday afternoon. The hearing is expected to pick up where it left off, with allegations Rhoades once sent a Mother's Day card to an 11-year-old girl, referring to her as "the mother of my child." The lead prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney Paul Jones, told the court that the FBI suspects Rhoades may have sexually abused girls between the ages of 10 and 12. An FBI agent testified there are two girls -- one who lived near the man's Jonesboro home, and another who is the stepdaughter of Rhoades' closest friend -- who are considered "potential victims," but the investigation is ongoing and charges have not yet been levied. The two girls have been interviewed by Clayton County Police and FBI agents, but initial interviews only looked for indications of sexual abuse and the interviewers did not directly ask the young girls if they had been molested by Rhoades. Federal prosecutors also fear there may be other victims out there who have not yet come forward. Rhoades' picture was released to the media -- something the federal prosecutors do not usually do -- in hopes that others will come forward and report Rhoades to the FBI at (404) 679-9000. Rhoades was initially being investigated on allegations of molestation made by his ex-wife. She reportedly contacted the Clayton County Police department, but warned them he worked for the FBI. A check of his credentials showed he didn't actually work for the bureau, but had apparently been lying to his wife and his friend, telling them he was an undercover agent investigating rogue agents and child pornography. Charges were brought on the allegations of impersonation, and the arrest lead FBI agents to 75 DVDs of what they believe to is child pornography. Investigation into the allegations of molestation continues. Evidence Rhoades molested children, was, initially, inconclusive. Photographs reportedly show him sitting uncomfortably close to a young girl, but, an FBI agent testified, others were in the room, in the photos, and nothing illegal appeared to be happening. When arrested, Rhoades was driving a minivan which carried alleged child pornography, camera equipment, blankets and bags of candy. The federal agency has not yet identified the apparently underage girls provocatively posed in the pictures, though, and do not know how Rhoades came to be in possession of the disks. It was not clear, to the agents, that the blankets, cameras and candy were in the car for devious reasons. The bureau also has the Mother's Day card written to the teen but, at this point, the evidence amounts to suspicions and authorities' feeling that the entire case is "disturbing." Bond can only be denied if Rhoades is considered to be a flight risk or a danger to the community. The prosecutors did not seem to think Rhoades would flee the area, if he was released on bond. His defense attorney said his passport has expired and the man has family here and has lived in the Jonesboro area for most of his life. Prosecutors hope to prove, at the upcoming bond hearing, that Rhoades would be a threat to the community if he were released on bond. Defense attorneys are expected to argue that restrictions can be placed on the bond, ensuring everyone's safety, and that there are not yet any charges or substantial allegations he has hurt anyone. The defense is expected to argue that Rhoades, considered innocent until proven guilty, should be granted a bond unless there is solid evidence proving he's a danger. Both sides should get a chance to make those arguments on Monday.
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South America and Mesoamerica
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TOM D. DILLEHAY. The archaeological context and interpretation: errata (Monte Verde: a late Pleistocene settlement in Chile 2). Pages, figures, tables. 2002. Washington (DC): Smithsonian Institution Press; 1-58834-029-5 paperback.
The errata for Prof. DILLEHAY's important book (reviewed in ANTIQUITY 73: 944-7) are on about 200 pages. The Press explains itself on p. iii.
PAULINA LEDERGERBER-CRESPO (ed.). Formativo sudamericano, una revaluacion--ponencias presentadas en el Simposio internacional de Arqueologia Sudamericana, Cuenca, Ecuador, 13-17 de enero de 1992: homenaje a Alberto Rex Gonzalez y Betty J. Meggers. 404 pages, 128 figures, 7 tables. 1999. Quito: Abya-Yala; 9978-04-466-3 paperback.
COLIN MCEWAN, CRISTIANA BARRETO & EDUARDO NEVES (ed.). Unknown Amazon. 304 pages, 226 colour & b&w figures, 1 table. 2001. London: British Museum; 0-7141-2558-X paperback 19.99 [pounds sterling].
The core of Formativo sudamericano is a review of evidence for the Formative period in South America (three articles on Colombia, five on Ecuador, four on Peru, three on Chile, one on Bolivia, three on Argentina, and a couple each on Brazil and Venezuela). Most of the contributors are South Americans and, but for those on Brazil, in Portuguese, all write in Spanish. BJM herself rounds it all off in typical style by reviewing `the ecological context'. With an eye to Amazonia, but in sympathy with voices from a few other quarters recently, she remarks that the development of hierarchy was not the only way for societies to cohere. Survival is the bottom line, however, she avers ....
Yet, in the first part of Unknown Amazon, G. Politis argues that, far from `determined' by it, foragers `built' the rain forest. Survival, he says, was a spiritual process. Indeed, the following chapter shows that various economies have long been practiced; and his point about Indian awareness that the landscapes are partly anthropogenic is complemented by the other chapter on economics, an appraisal of the `dark earths'. The second set of essays is on pottery; the third on iconography, including essays on basketry and rock art; and the last on the period of `contacts' with Europeans. Not only is the book valuable for reviewing a region now emerging from archaeological obscurity (cf. ANTIQUITY 72: 571ff) but it is also very well illustrated and elegantly produced.
WILLIAM M. FERGUSON & RICHARD E.W. ADAMS. Mesoamerica's ancient cities (2nd edition), xii+260 pages, colour & b&w figures. 2001. Albuquerque (NM): University of New Mexico Press; 0-8263-2801-6 paperback $34.95.
Splendidly illustrated too, the text of ancient cities has been up-dated. Prof. ADAMS has added a short chapter on `Regional states and empires' which helps to show a pattern in all the evidence.
DAVID WEBSTER. The fall of the ancient Maya: solving the mystery of the Maya collapse. 368 pages, 55 figures, 29 b&w photographs, 1 table. 2002. London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-05113-5 hardback 19.95 [pounds sterling].
TRACI ARDREN (ed.). Ancient Maya women. xiv+293 pages, 69 figures, 5 tables. 2002. Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira; 0-7591-0009-8 hardback $75, 0-7591-0010-1 paperback $29.95.
JOHN MONTGOMERY. How to read Maya hieroglyphs. xvi+360 pages, 307 figures, tables, 9 colour plates. …


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I suppose I have to say it each time Human Rights Watch commits another stupidity (appointing people ideologically opposed to the existence of a Jewish state to monitor the Jewish state, hiring as a military analyst a Nazi memorabilia fetishist) but the group has its merits. It has done good work in many regions of the world, including on the Arab states, and yes, including on Israel, but, really, its Middle East division is looking increasingly ridiculous.
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International knowledge healthcare provider BMJ and the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) have announced that they have joined forces to publish the first open access journal dedicated to the poorly understood and potentially life threatening disease, lupus.
Lupus Science & Medicine will offer timely global access to the latest scientific advances in lupus. The title will officially launch early next year. Lupus Science & Medicine will be edited by Jill P Buyon, Division Director of Rheumatology, Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, and Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Professor and Chief, Unit for Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID) The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Lupus research is currently published in a wide array of journals, particularly those in the specialties of rheumatology, immunology, dermatology and nephrology.
The new online title will offer scientists and clinicians a unique focal point
for new developments in the understanding and treatment of this complex and unpredictable autoimmune disease, the causes of which are still not clear.
Lupus represents a significant public health problem, affecting millions of people around the globe. In lupus the body's immune system is out of balance, causing inflammation and tissue damage to any organ system in the body, including the skin, joints, heart and kidneys. Symptoms are varied and changeable, often mimicking other conditions, making lupus hard to diagnose and treat.
Lupus Science & Medicine is owned by the Lupus Foundation of America, and will be published by BMJ as a peer reviewed open access online title, with submissions on basic, clinical, translational, and epidemiological studies on all aspects of lupus and related diseases.
In common with the other open access titles, published by BMJ, the journal
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My War: Killing Time in Iraqby Colby Buzzell
Winner of the 2007 Blooker Prize
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A raw, edgy, yet intimate new voice from the front lines in Iraq-the most authentic we have had yet from the war, heralding this generation's Catch-22.
Like many of his generation, Colby Buzzell was jumping from one dead-end job to another, a paycheck away from moving back home. He spent his time skateboarding and killing as many brain cells as humanly possible. Tired of the monotony, he found himself in front of an army recruiter. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine gunner in the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, an army unit on the cutting edge of combat technology, and the first of its kind.
This is the startlingly honest story of a young man and a war. Trapped amid guerilla warfare, urban-style in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre, absurd, often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing an online web log describing the war — not as it was being reported by CNN or in briefings on Capitol Hill, but as he experienced it. The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the fierce firefight in which the resistance came from men in black; chain-smoking in the guard tower, counting the tracer rounds fired over the city; the raid on an Iraqi home during which a woman couldn't stop screaming as her husband was being taken away; and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight. As the popularity of his blog grew, Buzzell became the embedded reporter the army couldn't control despite its best — and often hilarious — efforts to do so.
My War is the debut of a fresh and remarkable voice, and it is already being compared to the classics ofyouth and combat Herr's Dispatches and Heller's Catch-22. But My War is much more than a war story; it is the story of a generation caught between the hyper-reality of a technological age and an ever more complicated and dangerous world.
"With this relentlessly cynical volume, Buzzell converts his widely read 2004 blog into an episodic but captivating memoir about the year he spent serving as an army 'trigger puller' in Iraq. Posted to Mosul in late 2003, Buzzell's platoon was ordered 'to locate, capture and kill all non compliant forces.' Accordingly, his entries describe experiences pursuing elusive guerrillas (aka 'men in black'); enduring sniping, rocket and mortar attacks; and witnessing the occasional car bomb. Face-to-face fighting almost never occurs. No matter: though the combat scenes are exciting, this book is actually more engrossing as a portrait of the day-to-day life of a young American soldier who has 'read, and re-read, countless times, every single one of [Bukowski's] books.' Like Bukowski, Buzzell appears to be a sentimental misanthrope; he pours scorn on everyone from cooks to generals to President Bush. He also despises the media, the antiwar movement and everyone who thinks they understand what's happening in Iraq. That his superiors kept their hands off his blog for several months, however, shows they understood that — despite its foul language, griping, insults directed at higher officers and occasional exposure of dirty linen — Buzzell's work never really wavers in its portrayal of American forces as the good guys in a dirty war." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Buzzell experienced plenty of firefights in the northern city of Mosul, but there were countless patrols and other duties that required terrific strength just to stay awake....
"With Buzzell's return to the States and the close of an effective soldier's life, neither he nor the reader is sure that he has not come full circle and returned to his civilian life of loss. Recommended." Library Journal
"If military recruitment is down now, wait till the kidsread this book." Kirkus Reviews
"My War...is nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war on our behalf in Iraq." Kurt Vonnegut
"[A] book that stands quite tall in the literature of that conflict to date." Booklist
Trapped amid "guerrilla warfare, urban-style" in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre, absurd, often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing an online web log describing the war — not as it was being reported by CNN or in briefings on Capitol Hill, but as he experienced it.
An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army—and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war—and how it differed from the government's official version. But as his blog's popularity grew, Buzzell became the embedded reporter the Army couldn't control—despite its often hilarious efforts to do so.
The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the Iraqi woman crying uncontrollably during a raid on her home; the soldier too afraid to fight; the troops chain-smoking in a guard tower and counting tracer rounds; the first, fierce firefight against the "men in black." Drawing comparisons to everything from Charles Bukowski to Catch-22, My War depicts a generation caught in a complicated and dangerous world—and marks the debut of a raw, remarkable new voice.
About the Author
Colby Buzzell lived in the San Francisco Bay area until he enlisted in the Army at the age of 26 to straighten out his life. He served two years, including a year in Iraq.
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Do Typhoons Cause Turbulence in Property-Liability Insurers' Stock Prices?
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The aim of this paper is to clarify how natural disasters influence the stock prices of property-liability insurance companies. Examining a series of typhoons that made landfall in Japan, this paper shows that the stock prices of property-liability insurers, on average, increase around typhoon landfalls. However, cross-sectional results indicate that specific insurer or typhoon characteristics can temper the increase. First, a property-liability insurer's stock price reacts more positively around typhoons that have greater precipitation and more negatively around typhoons of greater scale, with longer intervals from the previous typhoon landfall, with longer times to landfall, or that cause more serious residential damage. Second, a property-liability insurer's stock price reacts according to its profitability or business efficiency. In addition, insurers with a larger capital buffer or of greater financial soundness are evaluated relatively higher around typhoon landfall since the deregulation of the insurance industry.
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Sumter Residents Might Suffer Risperdal Side Effects
Risperdal was approved for use by the FDA in 1994. The drug helps manage psychosis related to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. However, almost as soon as the drug launched in the US, Johnson & Johnson began to promote off-label use in children and the elderly. Risperdal was eventually approved for children's prescriptions in 2006, but there are numerous side effects, including gynecomastia (breast tissue growth in men) that the company failed to warn pediatricians of, despite promoting the drug for off-label use as early as 2001.
Risperdal has not been approved for use in the elderly, but J&J still promotes the drug to gerontologists and for use in nursing homes, to help calm patients with dementia-related psychosis. Nursing home use of Risperdal is problematic because, according to lawsuits alleging nursing home abuse, Risperdal is illegally used as a form of chemical restraint.
South Carolina Residents File Risperdal Lawsuits
Like many states, South Carolina sued Johnson & Johnson for fraudulent marketing – the state said the pharmaceutical company sent misleading letters to pediatricians, claiming that Risperdal is safe for use in children. South Carolina won the lawsuit in 2007, and although the state's Supreme Court recently reduced the financial penalty against J&J, the verdict that the pharmaceutical giant defrauded South Carolina and its residents still stands.
As South Carolina's elderly population grows, chemical restraint in nursing homes will become a more important issue. Nursing home staff could feel overwhelmed and it could be tempting to use Risperdal and other antipsychotics to control psychotic behaviors in dementia patients. However, Risperdal has not been approved by the FDA for use in the elderly, and the drug could have harmful side effects. Risperdal has been linked to cardiovascular issues in elderly patients.
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Side effects of Risperdal in young boys include gynecomastia, a personal injury involving breast tissue growth (not just fat deposits) that can not only cause emotional injury, but put the boy at risk of cancer or hormone imbalances later in life.
Risperdal has also been linked to cardiovascular problems in the elderly, when doctors prescribe the drug to treat psychosis related to dementia. Risperdal has not been approved for use in elderly patients, and was not approved for use in children until 2006, and many personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits have been filed alleging that the drug was marketed improperly for off-label use, without Johnson & Johnson warning doctors of the side effects.
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Rob has been involved with the OpenStack community dating to its origins in 2010. He founded NetApp's OpenStack effort and serves as its representative to the Foundation, architected the earliest OpenStack on NetApp deployments, is a frequent speaker at OpenStack Design Summits, conferences and user groups, and is an occasional ATC. His eight year tenure at NetApp has spanned from co-founder of NetApp's field cloud architecture team, to currently leading product management for OpenStack. His charter focuses on strategy, integration and development of NetApp portfolio technologies in and around OpenStack as well as business development, organizational and process alignment for bringing the value of NetApp's OpenStack capabilities to market.
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Nova,Swift,Glance,Horizon,Cinder,Ceilometer,Trove,Ironic,Openstack-ci,Openstack-manuals,Deployment
I've been a volunteer and donor to several primarily international humanitarian and US veteran centric non-profits. However, most of my experience relevant to the role of board member draws from elsewhere in my background.
I see the board, beyond oversight and fiduciary duties defined in the Foundation's bylaws, as charting strategic direction, and providing sustaining measures for the whole of the effort.
At year 4 the set of expecations for OpenStack are rightfully higher than during its earlier, nascent stages. It's critical that the board move to harmonize more closely with the Technical Committee to ensure a consistent and leading quality experience for both the deployer of OpenStack as well the ultimate end user. There are a number of existing efforts underway (among them DefCore & "Win the Enterprise") that can have a strong influence on this outcome. Additionally, the board ought explore and agree upon a way to introduce a product management like discipline to the major programs (perhaps through a multi-year fellowship) to drive and provide accountability transcending releases that focus on end-to-end experience.
The board, again in concert with the TC, needs to consider carefully how to sustain the momentum the community currently enjoys. There have been a number of very well reasoned proposals circulated in recent months that seek to address the resource pressures associated with the burgeoning project count. Incentive (eg convenying ATC status) to community participants could, for example, help address the burgeoning review backlog present within several of the projects. Additionally, the proliferation of meetings and associated travel is placing an increasingly large burden on both individuals and organizations that may not prove to be sustainable. The board ought make these its business.
I am also in favor of amending portions of the Foundation bylaws to provide the board with greater flexibility to affect change when necessary. The Foundation presently has ~17000 registered members, but my experience is that number is not representative of those who are actively engaged in or with the community. Presently, bylaws changes (such as those potentially associated with the DefCore recommendations) require a majority of a quorum of the Foundation membership (defined as 25% of membership). My proposal would be to refine Foundation membership to include both voting and not-voting distinctions. The former could require some evidence of ongoing participation to retain the privilege.