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There are several reasons why people would enter into a relationship, but for most people, it is because they hope it will end in marriage.

So what do you do when after years of courtship, your partner rather leads another person to the altar?

It might seem weird but that was the experience of Naa.

She has been in a relationship with her boyfriend, Tony for five years.? Throughout their courtship, her man never registered his readiness to settle down.

Thus, it was a big shock for Naa when her friend, Yaa informed her that Tony was getting married to none other than Naa?s best friend, Cynthia.

This opened a new chapter in the lives of these four persons in the latest play from the stables of Roverman Productions titled ?Don?t Mess With A Woman.?

The play, written and directed by renowned playwright Uncle Ebo Whyte, took a closer look at the intricacies of relationships like that of Naa and Tony which ended without one party knowing.

While for Tony, the relationship was over, Naa was sure the relationship was just going through a crisis which would be resolved with time.

If the saying ?Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned? was anything to go by, then Naa?s reaction to the marriage of her boyfriend and best friend would either prove or dispel this assertion.

?Don?t mess with a woman? opened to the public from Saturday September 1, 2012, to Sunday September 2, 2012, at the National Theatre in Accra. There would be two shows each day at 4:00 p.m. and then at 8:00 p.m.

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Iolo System Mechanic 11 is compatible with all PCs running Windows XP and higher, including Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8. Unlike most PC tune-up utilities, such as PC Tools Performance Toolkit , which limit you to three licenses, Iolo System Mechanic 11 lets you install the software on any number of computers provided that it's not for business purposes. This is a welcome feature in the age of the multi-PC household.

The interface looks very similar to that of Iolo System Mechanic 10 with its familiar red-white-and-blue color scheme. Like the previous version of System Mechanic, this version has several options in the left pane (Dashboard, ActiveCare, Internet Security, Toolbox, Reports) that have their own individual tool sub-categories that let you run specific apps.

Iolo System Mechanic 11 also installs a useful widget on the desktop that gives you at-a-glance PC health and security readings. From this widget, you can run a system scan to determine your computer's health, or launch any number of Iolo System Mechanic 11's features to begin the clean up process.

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The Overview screen opens by default when the program is launched, and it's where the "Analyze Now" button lives. Clicking the arrow next to it opened drop-down box that presented two choices: "Perform Quick Analysis" and "Perform Deep Analysis." The former is a one- to two-minute scan that looks for the most common PC problems; the latter is a five- to seven-minute scan that checks for all problems. Considering the heavy use that our test laptop had received, I went with the second option. Approximately six minutes later it finished the scan and uncovered numerous problems on my testbed.

Beneath the reading appeared a highlighted message: "Boost speed and stability by removing redundant programs with CRUDD Remover." CRUDD is Iolo's acronym for Commonly Redundant or Unnecessary Decelerators and Destabilizers?fancy talk for duplicate programs that clog your system. The idea behind CRUDD Remover is to eliminate those extra programs as each application install theoretically slows your PC's performance a bit. After running CRUDD Remover, 9 problems were detected on the PC, which were explained in simple detail on the "Problems" screen.

What I found truly cool was that Iolo System Mechanic 11 didn't just serve up a number?it provided blurbs that explained why these problems negatively impact performance. I checked off all nine problems, clicked the "Repair All" button, and performed the required reboot. Performing another deep scan revealed that the problems were addressed.

I ran Iolo's Program Accelerator, which smartly re-aligns all of a program's dependent files on the hard drive. It's touted as being better than disk defragmenters, which can blindly compact and separate files even more. Program Accelerator took approximately 15 minutes to work its magic, and, when it was done, I discovered that it had re-aligned over 20,000 files and eliminated nearly 100 file fragments. Four further files were defragmented after a restart. There are also a ton of other tools backed into the suite such as AcceleWrite (a new real-time feature that helps organize the way data is written to the PC's HDD or SSD) , and IntelliStatus (which displays RAM and hard drive information and serves up cleaning tools).

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I tested Iolo System Mechanic 11's ability to whip a PC back into shape by performing two tests?running the Geekbench system performance tool and measuring boot times?before and after running the software to compare the computer's potency. Each test was run three times and averaged. Before Iolo scrubbed the system, the 2-GHz Intel Core i7 X990 Style-Note notebook with 4GB of RAM, and an 80GB Intel SSD drive achieved a 5,914 Geekbench score, and booted in 50.2 seconds.

After I used Iolo System Mechanic 11, I saw much-improved system performance: The GeekBench score rose to 6,452, and the boot time decreased to just 37.1 seconds. Both scores represent the best post-cleanup measurements. Check out the chart below to see how Iolo System Mechanic 11 fared against the competition.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Having to make quick decisions helps witnesses identify the bad guy in a lineup

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2012) ? Eyewitness identification evidence is often persuasive in the courtroom and yet current eyewitness identification tests often fail to pick the culprit. Even worse, these tests sometimes result in wrongfully accusing innocent suspects. Now psychological scientists are proposing a radical alternative to the traditional police lineup that focuses on eyewitnesses' confidence judgments.

In a new article forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Neil Brewer of Flinders University and colleagues report a new type of lineup in which witnesses are presented with lineup photos one at a time and are simply asked to rate how confident they are that the person in each photo is the culprit. Importantly, witnesses are not given time to mull over their assessments; they must respond within a few seconds.

Brewer and his colleagues have tested this technique, called "deadline confidence judgments," with more than 900 participants across several experiments conducted over the past three years.

In each experiment, volunteers watched short films depicting crimes or a mundane event in which one person was prominent.

Either five minutes later or a full week later, half of the participants were shown a series of individual pictures from a lineup of 12 people and asked to make a confidence decision about each face within three seconds of it appearing on the computer screen. They were asked to choose one of 11 options, ranging from "absolutely confident that this is the culprit" to "absolutely certain this is not the culprit."

The other half of the participants were shown the same faces but given as long as they liked to answer whether each face was or was not the culprit (yes or no). Sometimes the photos included the culprit and sometimes they did not.

Using an algorithm to infer a decision from participants' confidence ratings, the researchers found that overall classification accuracy was 20 to 30 percent higher for the new lineup than the conventional one.

Moreover, the researchers were able to identify particular patterns of confidence judgments that showed either a very high or very low likelihood that an individual witness's judgments were accurate.

The finding that eyewitnesses' judgments were more accurate under a deadline fits with previous research, which has shown that accurate eyewitness identifications are made significantly faster than inaccurate ones, and that a number of outside factors are removed with a short deadline.

"A weakness of the traditional test lies in the fact that it requires a witness to make a single 'yes' or 'no' decision about a lineup, with plenty of time to reflect on their decision," says Brewer. "But the time lapse from the initial viewing to the response often mitigates against witnesses making accurate decisions, as does an array of external factors."

These external factors include the conditions under which people view lineup photos, constraints on attention, and social cues that bias the witness towards a positive identification. For example, a witness might think that she should know they answer just because she viewed a photo for a long time.

According to Brewer, traditional identification tests often fail because the witness feels pressure to identify a guilty party. This new study suggests that witnesses are more likely to make accurate identifications when they do not have to be so precise.

With the rising number of DNA exonerations and the frequent failure of witnesses to identify the true culprit, Brewer believes that there is a compelling case for a new system of lineups.

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(AP) ? The president of Senegal has denounced the execution of two Senegalese citizens who were among nine prisoners killed by firing squad in neighboring Gambia last week.

President Macky Sall told reporters at the airport late Tuesday that he was calling on Gambia's leader "to return to reason," referring to his decision to have all death row prisoners executed before the end of September

On Wednesday, a statement published on the Senegalese government website stated the Senegalese prime minister summoned the top Gambian diplomat in Senegal. The statement says the prime minister made known his "deep reproach," calling the events leading to the executions "opaque."

The Gambian government acknowledged this week that it had executed nine prisoners, among them two Senegalese nationals, a woman, Tabara Samb, and a man, Djibril Ba.

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Montee Ball Attack: Police Arrest 3 In Assault On Wisconsin Running Back

MADISON, Wis. -- Three suspects accused of assaulting Wisconsin running back Montee Ball were arrested Tuesday, nearly a month after the Heisman Trophy finalist suffered a concussion during an early-morning attack near campus.

Three 21-year-old men from Madison are facing battery charges but haven't been formally charged, according to a police report. Authorities have said Ball sustained a concussion when he was attacked by several men in Madison on Aug. 1.

Police have said the attack may have been related to an altercation at a house party that Ball attended a few days earlier, though detectives say they have no evidence suggesting Ball was involved in that fight. The altercation is still being investigated, according to the police report.

Ball, a Heisman finalist last season as a junior, has denied any involvement in the fight and says he hopes to be ready for the season opener.

According to police, Ball was walking down a street around 2:15 a.m. on Aug. 1 when two friends walking ahead of him turned around and saw him on the ground, surrounded by several men who were kicking him in the head and chest. The attackers fled when one of his friends and a man across the street moved to help him.

Ball had a stellar season last year, scoring 39 touchdowns to tie Barry Sanders' NCAA record. He finished the year with 1,923 yards rushing and 2,229 all-purpose yards, second in Wisconsin history only to Ron Dayne's 2,242 yards in 1996. Ball capped the season by rushing for 164 yards and a touchdown in the Badgers' 45-38 loss to Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

He announced days after the bowl game he would return for his senior season after NFL evaluators told him he would have likely been a third-round pick.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Chris Christie is 'ready' for keynote at convention

Chris Christie is set to deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Convention tonight. But he'll have one eye on Isaac, which could make landfall just before the New Jersey governor takes the podium.

"We're all obviously looking very closely at what's going to be happening in the gulf. And our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and hope that any damage that may happen will be minimal and there will be no loss of life," he told me on GMA.

Despite the threatening storm Christie said his speech "has pretty much stayed the way it was intended to be."

Party faithful are expecting a fire and brimstone address from the governor, but Christie wouldn't say if that's what they'll get.

"I'll be talking about the New Jersey experience and what that means for the country, what it can mean and promise for the country. They'll be some other stuff I'll be talking about too. But I'll be ready when I walk out on that stage tonight," he said.

"I think that if the American people watch tonight and leave the speech by saying, 'Yup, that's him, that's who I've heard about. He seems genuine to me,' then think I will have done my job for me and if they say I like the vision he's laid out for the country and for his party for the next four years, then I will have done the job for my party and my country," he said.

Christie had a tip for Mitt Romney when he takes the stage Thursday: open up to the American people.

"I've always said this George?Mitt Romney is going to have to win this campaign. And to do that over the next 70 days he's going to have to let the American people see who he is, put out a bold vision for the future. Remember, he's a challenger?Challengers always get a late look," he said.

Over the weekend Mitt Romney repeated the famous Popeye quote "I am who I am" in several interviews, implying that perhaps he wouldn't show more of his personal side this week.

Christie disagrees, and credits Rep. Paul Ryan for already bringing out a new side of the presidential candidate.

"I think you've seen [Romney] show a lot more of himself even since Paul Ryan has joined the ticket. I think Paul has brought energy to the ticket and he's brought great energy to Governor Romney after a long and arduous campaign. So I think that the American people are going to see a lot more of him and they're going to start seeing it tonight with Mrs. Romney," he said. "Who no one can speak better or more articulately about the man that Mitt Romney is and the leader he'd be for our country than Ann Romney so I think the fun starts tonight, George, and I think the American people are going to start to get a complete picture about who Mitt Romney is and why he'd be a great president."

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Attorney appeals 2-year jail sentences for 3 Pussy Riot band members in Russia

MOSCOW - An attorney for three members of the Pussy Riot punk band says she has appealed the verdict of a Moscow court that sentenced the women to two years each in jail.

The women were put on trial after performing a "punk prayer" at Moscow's Christ the Savior cathedral in which they called on the Virgin Mary to deliver Russia from its leader, Vladimir Putin.

Lawyer Violetta Volkova said the appeal was submitted to the Khamovniki district court Monday.

The punk rockers' trial caused an international furor, and celebrities including Paul McCartney, Madonna and Peter Gabriel have called for the women to be freed.

The pursuit of the band members has further highlighted the Kremlin's spiraling crackdown on the opposition and critics since Putin returned to presidency in May.

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Foxconn International Holdings Registers $226 Million Loss Due To Dismal Phone Orders

fihFoxconn International Holdings Ltd, a Foxconn Technology subsidiary, reported a $226.07 million loss, its highest-ever first-half net loss. Even though it is the largest contract maker of mobile phones in the world, it is largely dependent on the results of its partners. Important clients such as HTC, Nokia, Huawei, Sony Mobile and Motorola posted very disappointing results. As a result, Foxconn International Holdings suffered a decline of manufacturing orders. Last year, the company suffered a much smaller $18 million loss. It is important to note that Foxconn International Holdings does not manufacture Apple, Microsoft, Amazon or Nintendo products. Those devices are manufactured by Foxconn Technology.

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Ask.com parent to buy About.com for about $300M

NEW YORK (AP) ? The parent company of Ask.com says it has agreed to buy The About Group from The New York Times Co. for $300 million in cash.

Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, which also operates the dating site Match.com, announced the deal late Sunday.

About.com provides information on a wide variety of topics and also operates ConsumerSearch.com and Calorie-Count.com. Content is written by paid experts known as guides.

IAC said the addition of About.com will help Ask.com's offering's stand out and more authoritative, while Ask.com's search technology will help direct more users toward About.com and boost its profits.

The Times purchased About.com in 2005 for about $410 million. About.com has suffered in the past year because of a change in the way Google handles search results. That change made About.com content harder to find.

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manageiq-1VMware will spend this week seeking to convince us that it will take the mantle as the cloud leader. But the reality is something far different as we head into VMworld, the company's annual event. This is a space seeing deep disruption as new categories emerge in the change to more easy to use, commodity type services. The lack of leadership is apparent when you spend some time talking with the team from ManageIQ,which is clearly articulating the unique requirements companies need to consider when integrating their data centers to any number of service providers. Their story is about how they abstract the complex management issues that come with orchestrating cloud infrastructures.

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

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China Mobile Needs Business Transformation Due to the Rise of Mobile Internet
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Telecom operators in China are facing tremendous pressure as profits from services such as calls, text and voice messaging are being heavily eroded by the rising popularity of mobile internet services. China Mobile, one of the three main carriers in China, said its revenue dropped to a new low over the first half of this year. Its earnings before interests and taxes have decreased by 3 percent year-on-year. The growth of its voice and text message only increased slightly while its mobile data transmission surged by 17 percent compares to the same period last year. Revenue from its wireless internet service has replaced text messaging to become the third largest income source, amounting to 38 percent of total income in the first half of this year ?

China Mobile has set up new measures and business models such as establishing new channels, open up platforms, and create friendly user interfaces in response to the rise of mobile internet, and providing download services for digital music, e-books and payment services. The company also increased its subsidies for smartphones as the sector?s growth has contributed to its revenue from the mobile internet, which amounts to 101.6 yuan (US$15.9) average revenue per user per month, higher than the 63.81 yuan (US$9.9) of 2G mobile users. Frankly speaking, we are actually more interested in the development of China Mobile?s 4G network. Early this year, the company has unveiled their plan to widely deploy TD-LTE across the country. Chinese mobile user need a better mobile data transmission right now, since the country?s mobile internet speed is second slowest in the world. And the iPhone is currently unavailable on the influential network due to incompatibilities.

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Being dramatic or overreacting will only cause more stress. Stay calm and apply rational analysis to your situation. A mistake isn?t the end of the world. Most mistakes can be rectified, and many can be remedied in a way that ends up better than if you hadn?t made a mistake to begin with. Don?t focus on what you lost; focus on what you have.

TIP! It is essential to have a clearly outlined goal, when working toward improving personal development. You should make your goal very specific.

Understand that not all personal development strategies work for everyone, so you should find what works best for you. With that being said, you need to try and learn as much information as possible to help you in your personal development. This article is filled with different tips you should try.

Check up on how you are doing by staying organized. Setting up a sequence of small steps needed to reach your goal will make its achievement easier. Ten small steps are an easier path than three giant ones. You can use off-the-shelf tools like day planners or diaries to monitor your personal development progress.

TIP! You can?t tend to others needs until your own needs are met. It doesn?t matter where you are in life; you need to take the time for rest and relaxation.

Perhaps you have set high goals for yourself and keep failing to attain them. If this is the case, it is a good idea to stop and think why. Look around online and try to find others that have had similar goals and see how they compare. It?s possible your goals are too lofty, you?re missing a step along the way, or you?re just not putting the resources necessary into meeting your goal.

Stress is one of the biggest road blocks to happiness. While experiencing stress, our entire body is affected in both physical and mental ways. You have to tackle the stress that?s bothering you before you can meet your goals. Have some time every day when you can relax and meditate in solitude. Having a time to refresh can give you peace and improve your self-image.

TIP! Understand what you want from your life. Following through is the next step.

Whether or not a person can make things happen for you, you must treat everyone with respect and gratitude. The way you treat them says more about you than it does about them.

Place your personal central principles into practice. Each person has his or her center of beliefs. Following these beliefs will help your sense of self-esteem. It gives your life meaning and a solid structure to build around. Even better, when you act on your principles, you will become more consistent without having to make any effort to do so. This is an excellent trait to be cultivating.

TIP! Life should be approached with wisdom and modesty. Learn from situations you encounter every day, and make sure that you recognize what you cannot change about circumstances in your life.

Make each day a better one than the last. Keep aiming higher and higher. If you did something pretty well yesterday, tell yourself that wasn?t enough. You need to do it really well today.

Always have an emergency fund. Many people think that a credit card counts as an emergency fund. If you save a couple of dollars each week, before long you will have an emergency fund. Having an emergency fund will prevent you from having to use credit cards to pay for unexpected expenses, which will save you a great deal in interest over the years.

Learn what habits successful people do and try practicing them and applying them to your life. Don?t start with many of the habits, just a few, and practice until they are a part of your everyday life. Maintain the patience required when learning a new habit, as this is a process that can take up to 21 days.

TIP! Read on to find out what other people do to gain success. The most obvious way to avoid pitfalls in both career and personal matters is to know what those pitfalls are and find out how other people avoided them.

You can learn to control your emotions in a stressful situation. Stay graceful under fire, and you will gain confidence that helps in your day to day life. Above all, remember to take a second and breathe deeply before confronting any stressful situation.

Sexual capitol is a trait that is attracting a lot of attention to researchers that study personal development. This isn?t about sexuality, but rather about personal charisma. Not everyone has good social skills, but these can help you go farther in all aspects of your life.

TIP! A necessary component of personal development is an understanding of your life?s ambition. Choosing long-term goals will help you to gain the right perspective for finding success in life.

Whatever your goals are, and however you are trying to reach them, there is one piece of advice, one thing to do, that is certain to be applicable. It is important to play an active role in your own life story, instead of just watching it pass by. Standing back idly will serve you no purpose, so get involved in your own destiny today!

Nobody is perfect, and most of us make the occasional dietary error. Stress can have a negative effect on your health. Do your best to look at things relatively, and stop worrying about details.

TIP! Increasing the good in your life is often a matter of willpower, meaning that what you wish on others can also be wrought upon yourself. Look at other people and wish for them, the very best.

Determine which aspect of yourself needs the most improvement, and concentrate solely on that quality. It may be that you have several such things which you could concentrate on, but by selecting just one, you stand a better chance of prevailing. This also helps ensure long-term change in your personality, as it will be easier for you to maintain new habits if they are introduced slowly.

It is important to have an accurate understanding of the distance you must travel to become the person you ultimately want to be. You need to acknowledge this so you can take your very first step. If you cannot see this need, you can not better yourself.

TIP! Life is unpredictable and taking a few calculated risks is necessary. People often resign themselves to life within their comfort zones.

You must know your own values to come up with a personal development plan. If you go against your values, you are shooting yourself in the foot. When you change your attitude and perspective, difficult situations become easier to manage. By doing this, changes that you choose to make will be much easier to adhere to.

Those who want to succeed often look to mentors for help. Those who are very successful often have coaches or mentors to advise them. It is important for people who are educated in a certain field to pass on their knowledge to people entering the field. How can people achieve their best if this doesn?t happen? Every success story involves a mentor.

TIP! Are you having a hard time finding that special someone? Think about searching online. Surprisingly, forty percent of today?s couples met online.

Judge yourself on your inner qualities rather than your outer beauty. In the end, it should not matter what you look like on the outside! It is the quality of your personality that will be the biggest measure of your life?s worth. Try and change the person you are inside rather than focusing on the outside.

Do you abuse alcohol? Do you use tobacco products or any other harmful things? Mistreating your body will lead to illness, premature aging and an early death. Eradicating negative behaviors is key to leading a better lifestyle. Examine your habits, and determine whether any of them are harmful. Work toward eliminating them.

TIP! Exercise is not just for people trying to lose weight. There are many reason you should do physical exercise.

When you?re trying to improve yourself, failure can be a terrible hit to your self-esteem. However, failure should be a way that you can learn. It shows you what your strengths and your weaknesses are. When you look at it from that perspective, failure can be considered a good thing, as it helps you know more about your personal makeup.

Get rid of any disorganization you have. If you are able to get your life organized and keep it that way, you will see a real boost to your self-confidence. This also helps relieve you from stress caused by disorganization. Knowing where all of your things are is a great feeling.

TIP! Set realistic goals that you can accomplish, and you?ll enjoy life so much more. Once you have identified your own weaknesses, you can begin to improve upon them.

Always have the attitude that you are worth it when working on your personal development plan. With persistence, patience and hard work, you will soon reach your initial goals. You will not regret anything if you know that you have done everything that you can do.

Do not fret! Most of the things you worry about never materialize, and creating them in the present is of no value to your personal development. Worry isn?t productive. Instead, determine the worst that could happen and prepare to address that situation should it arise. You will then feel ready for anything, which will allow you to continue with your daily activities.

Avoid pushing yourself too far, especially in terms of physical limitations. While it is admirable to exert your best effort, do not push yourself past your limit. Making sure you stay healthy is important when you are trying to reach your goals. Your personal development will suffer greatly if you sacrifice your health.

Self discipline is a requirement for successful personal development. Teach yourself how to overrule your body?s desire for things that can harm you. Overcome your body?s desire to overindulge in pleasure. Eating is uncomfortable and unhealthy when it becomes overeating; lustful or drunken behavior will harm your body as well. If you acquire a better sense of discipline, it will be possible for you to keep dangerous vices from damaging your body and soul.

Advice has little meaning if it goes unused. You must implement these tips into your every day life if you would like to see an effect. Success is earned, not granted. You will notice a great improvement in your well being and personal development by applying these tips to your life

Source: http://www.giftsforhappiness.com/change-your-life-with-these-great-self-help-tips/

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

NYPD: Empire State victims hit by police gunfire

Bystanders and a police officer stand on Fifth Avenue to view the scene after a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. At least four people were shot on Friday morning and the gunman was dead, New York City officials said. A witness said the gunman was firing indiscriminately. Police said as many as 10 people were injured, but it is unclear how many were hit by bullets. A law enforcement official said the shooting was related to a workplace dispute. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Bystanders and a police officer stand on Fifth Avenue to view the scene after a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. At least four people were shot on Friday morning and the gunman was dead, New York City officials said. A witness said the gunman was firing indiscriminately. Police said as many as 10 people were injured, but it is unclear how many were hit by bullets. A law enforcement official said the shooting was related to a workplace dispute. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

New York City police approach the lifeless body of Jeffrey Johnson lying on a sidewalk near the Empire State Building in New York following a shooting Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Police say 58-year-old Johnson, who was laid off from a nearby shop in 2011, shot a former colleague to death near the iconic skyscraper, then randomly opened fire on people nearby before firing on police. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said some of the victims may have been hit by police bullets as police and the gunman exchanged fire. (AP Photo/Guillermo Ratzlaff)

In this sequence of images taken from a surveillance video camera and released by the New York City Police Department, police officers approach Jeffrey Johnson, after he shot his former colleague Steven Ercolino, near the Empire State Building in New York, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Johnson, upper left in frames, was shot and killed by police as bystanders fled. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)

This photo posted to an Instagram account belonging to a person identified as mr_mookie, an eyewitness at the scene, shows a victim of a shooting being tended to by pedestrians outside the Empire State Building in New York, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The identity or condition of the victim was not immediately known. Law enforcement officials in New York City say at least four people have been shot outside the Empire State Building in violence that stemmed from a workplace dispute, and that the gunman has been killed by police. The shooting happened at about 9 a.m. Friday at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. (AP Photo/mr_mookie via Instagram)

An unidentified woman is treated by emergency medical technicians inside an ambulance following a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. At least four people were shot on Friday morning and the gunman was dead, New York City officials said. A witness said the gunman was firing indiscriminately. Police said as many as 10 people were injured, but it is unclear how many were hit by bullets. A law enforcement official said the shooting was related to a workplace dispute. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NEW YORK (AP) ? All nine people injured during a dramatic confrontation between police and a gunman outside the Empire State Building were wounded by gunfire from the two officers, police said Saturday, citing ballistics evidence.

The veteran patrolmen who opened fire on the suit-clad gunman, Jeffrey Johnson, had only an instant to react when he whirled around and pointed a .45-caliber pistol at them as they approached him from behind on a busy sidewalk.

Officer Craig Matthews shot seven times, and Officer Robert Sinishtaj fired nine times, police said. Neither had ever fired their weapons before on a patrol.

The volley of gunfire felled Johnson in just a few seconds and left nine other people bleeding on the sidewalk.

In the initial chaos Friday, it wasn't clear whether Johnson or the officers were responsible for the trail of the wounded, but based on ballistic and other evidence, "it appears that all nine of the victims were struck either by fragments or by bullets fired by police," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters Saturday at a community event in Harlem.

Police officials have said the officers appeared to have no choice but to shoot Johnson, whose body had 10 bullet wounds in the chest, arms and legs.

The officers confronted Johnson as he walked, casually, down the street after gunning down a former co-worker on the sidewalk outside the office they once shared. The shooting happened at 9 a.m., as the neighborhood bustled with people arriving for work.

The gunman and his victim, Steve Ercolino, had a history of workplace squabbles before Johnson was laid off from their company, Hazan Import Corp., a year ago. At one point, the two men had grappled physically in an elevator.

John Koch, the property manager at the office building where the men worked, said security camera footage showed the two pushing and shoving. The tussle ended when Ercolino, a much larger man, pinned Johnson against the wall of the elevator by the throat, Koch said. Ercolino let him go after a few moments, and the two men went their separate ways.

"They didn't like each other," Koch said.

After shooting Ercolino, Johnson, an eccentric T-shirt designer and avid bird-watcher who wore a suit every day, even when photographing hawks in Central Park, walked away as if nothing had happened.

Alerted by a construction worker, officers Matthews and Sinishtaj gave chase as Johnson rounded a corner and walked along Fifth Avenue in front of the landmark skyscraper.

A security videotape from the scene shows several civilians ? including three sitting on a bench only a few feet away ? scattering as the officers opened fire.

Police have determined that three people were struck by whole bullets ? two of which were removed from victims at the hospital ? and the rest were grazed "by fragments of some sort," Kelly said.

Two women with leg wounds and a man with a wound to his buttocks required surgery and remained hospitalized Saturday. They were listed in stable condition.

Both Matthews, 39, and Sinishtaj, 40, joined the nation's largest police department 15 years ago.

Matthews had drawn attention this year by suing the New York Police Department, accusing his superiors of unfairly punishing him for not meeting arrest quotas. A judge threw out the complaint.

The union representing the two officers didn't immediately respond to a message left seeking comment.

The shooting didn't deter tourists from flocking to the Empire State Building as usual on Saturday.

Patricia Flynn, 57, a retired schoolteacher, visited the building's peak with her elderly mother, who once worked in the skyscraper as a secretary.

"But I didn't tell her what happened," said Flynn, adding that her mother was unaware of Friday's shooting. "And she really enjoyed the view."

A group of 31 tourists from France held a meeting Friday night at their nearby hotel to decide whether to cancel their planned Empire State Building visit.

"We were scared, and we thought it was a risk," said Catherine Krukar, 38, a teacher.

But in the end, they went ahead with the visit, she said after descending from the observation tower,

"We know it can happen anywhere, and we wanted to see the Empire State Building," Krukar said. "It was beautiful!"

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Contributing to this report from New York were David B. Caruso, Colleen Long and the AP News Research Center.

Associated Press

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You're Being Lied To: Windows 8 Isn't Bad for Gaming

You're Being Lied To: Windows 8 Isn't Bad for GamingWindows 8 is a threat to computer gaming. It's a "catastrophe," if you listen to Gabe Newell at Valve, or heads at a bunch of other major gaming companies. But the thing is, even though everyone in video games is yelling about Windows 8, they're not actually yelling about, well, gaming.

So what's actually going on here?

Counterpoint: Our non-lying friends at Kotaku have a different opinion.

Metro Complaints

Let's start with Gabe Newell, the co-founder and boss at Valve, which owns the megapopular game distribution platform Steam. A few weeks back, he unleashed a polemic about Windows 8. He called it a "catastrophe for everyone in the PC space." Blizzard (Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo) and Notch of Mojang (Minecraft) piled on.

This gave voice to a lot of the concerns that people who haven't had a chance to use Windows 8 have had. But it also wasn't about really about playing video games, either. Mainly, it's been about Metro. Newell said of the new interface, "I think that they will basically rage quit computing after they use it. Things that used to be incredibly simple are now very complicated and hard." Which is, of course, not true at all.

Metro is mostly optional; you can revert to the familiar desktop at any time. Your Steam apps will work exactly the same as they always have. Were you really going through your file hierarchy in the Start Menu and selecting your Steam games like that? Or were you using shortcuts, or just launching through Steam? Because you can still do that. Windows 8 doesn't change that. Or you can just press the Start key, and type out the first few letters of a game's name, just like the old Start Menu. Then press enter. Not much has changed.

They put my game in Accessories but I wanted it in Program Files and I can't believe that they cut my sandwich into squares when I specifically asked for triangles. And so on.

And for actually getting down to gaming? I mean, can we talk about that? Things run better on Windows 8. It's easier and lighter on hardware than Windows 7. Launching apps is basically no different, and in some ways easier. The start screen takes getting used to, yes, but in no way affects gamers while they are playing games. It seems tantamount to killing a restaurant that's making all of your favorite dishes better than ever because it hired a new ma?tre d' who doesn't have his shit totally together.

Certified and the Windows Store

The more valid complaint is that Microsoft's policies and charges for certifying games has been prohibitively expensive. Additionally, people like Notch are worried that the arrival of the Windows store will mean heavy regulations that will negatively affect indie developers.

But how? Sandboxing, one of the more controversial parts of the walled garden approach Apple and Microsoft seem to be taking with desktop apps, doesn't really affect games in the same way it does general apps, since games don't require deep permissions as do-it-all apps.

Here's the key point to Metro apps and games: They're dirt simple for you, the user.

That matters. It matters a lot. Microsoft's ideal world isn't just a unified UI experience, but a frictionless marketplace for the entire platform. You know how Apple makes billions and billions and billions of dollars because its marketplace is so easy to use? And how its developers make way, way, way more money than other platforms' developers because of that? Yeah.

And forget certification and backend stuff and all the inside baseball stuff that we get bogged down in so often. Sure, that stuff has a real, tangible effect on the quality of games, but let's, for a minute, assume that a multi-billion-dollar industry won't just start shitting its pants all over the place and forget how to make good content because of a certification process.

So What We Are Really Talking About

So what's all this really about? Distribution. By creating a Windows Store that lets you buy and store all of your software in one place, Microsoft is moving in on Valve's territory in a big way. And everyone else seems worried that that will also mean Microsoft forcing them to live on that same, misappropriated territory.

Make no mistake: Valve and Blizzard and all the rest of the suddenly unsettled game companies don't give one good goddamn about Metro, or how it affects your day-to-days. They know you're not going anywhere. You didn't after Vista broke your computers, and you won't when Metro rearranges the furniture.

Valve's got even more at stake than you might realize; earlier this month, it announced its intention to start selling non-game apps in Steam. Which is great, except that the Windows Store is moving in on that front?and games too. Blizzard's disapproval has been a little overblown, but even just going on Executive VP of Game Design Rob Pardo's tweet agreeing with Newell, Blizzard has a deep interest in distribution as well, holding its games out of services like Steam, Origin, and the Mac App Store.

But these aren't stupid people or companies. Valve and Blizzard are a lot of things, but they aren't stupid, or careless, most times. This isn't just blind, unthinking lashing out. It's something else.

It's fear.

See, this is Microsoft we're talking about. The gaming industry was able to mostly ignore the Mac App Store?with its sandboxing and 30 percent cut?picking up traction with "newer" titles like Call of Duty 4 and RAGE, because lol gaming on a Mac. Didn't they just get DOOM 3 last month or something? But gaming on Windows? Uh oh. That's looks a lot more like the Microsoft that's been (mostly) kicking Sony and Nintendo's asses up and down the block for the better part of a decade. Microsoft knows gaming, and everyone else knows that it knows. So all this bemoaning Metro before the general public even gets its hands on Windows 8? Pre-emptive carpet bombing.

The list of who isn't complaining about the catastrophe of Windows 8 is telling: Razer, Nvidia, AMD, and pretty much anyone else who isn't heavily vested in distribution. It seems like those companies would have as much to lose as anyone if they really thought that Windows 8 would deeply damage PC gaming. And yet, nothing.

Why Do We Care?

About a week ago, Grantland's Jay Caspian Kang wrote an oppressively smart piece about sports fans' illogical personification of their teams' owners' bank accounts as their own. That, in the dog pile of following all of the minutia of the modern 24-hour sports cycle, we have come to internalize our teams' financial situations instead of just saying, "Give me the best team possible; I don't care what it costs you."

That mindset is clearly not limited to sports.

It makes perfect sense that companies would be worried about a Windows platform that is also a marketplace. You don't just buy games for Xbox, you can buy games from Xbox. And it's great. Apply that same method to the PC, and everyone who's been working as middlemen, or methodically avoiding them, should rightly be nervous.

But that doesn't affect you. It won't affect the stuff you buy, just the bottom lines of the companies that make it. And sure, AAA games are about budget, but companies are already paying Steam for distribution. This scuffle is just about who gets to collect the vig.

The really great games have always been about ideas. And Apple's model has already proven that creative indie developers can thrive in a relatively closed, curated, first party distribution environment. Microsoft just needs to iron out a few issues to follow suit. And anyway, there's no indication that Microsoft even intends to close off competitors. It's got a mixed history when it comes to open platforms, but blindly assuming it's going to happen is wrongheaded.

So no, Windows 8 is not bad for gaming. Unless you're trying to distribute video games.


*Shut up. The UI is called Metro until Microsoft makes up its damn mind.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5937590/youre-being-lied-to-windows-8-isnt-bad-for-gaming

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