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Diablo III becomes fastest-selling PC game ever, deluge of broken PC mice likely to follow

Chalk one up for an at least temporary resurgence in PC gaming. Blizzard can vouch that Diablo III has set a new record for the fastest-selling PC game to date: at 3.5 million copies trading hands through Battle.net downloads or retailers in the first 24 hours, and 6.3 million after a week, that's a whole lot of people battling the biggest of Prime Evils in a very short time. Naturally, a Blizzard-obsessed South Korea is accounting for even more activity, where over 39 percent of play at local gaming houses can be pinned on the action RPG, and the tally doesn't even include the 1.2 million bonus copies coming through a World of Warcraft annual pass promo. Before console gamers start packing up their PlayStations and Xboxes in symbolic resignation, D3 isn't the record-setter for the most copies of any game sold in one day -- that distinction goes to Modern Warfare 3's 6.5 million copies spread across multiple platforms. That's still enough to spur on some furious clicking and possibly a glut of dead mouse buttons, but you'll be glad to know there are suitably-themed replacement mice waiting in the wings.

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La. school psychologist quits over allegedly racist online posts

WDSU-TV

'People are just sick and tired of the crime,' said Mark Traina, who was a psychologist with the Jefferson Parish, La., Public Schools.

By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com

The suburban New Orleans public school psychologist whose allegedly racist online comments triggered to a discrimination complaint with the federal government has resigned, the school system said.

Mark Traina, 55, of Slidell, La., worked with students in the Jefferson Parish Public Schools' "alternative schools," where elementary and middle-school pupils "with difficulties in learning and, in some cases, in adapting to the rules of school or community" are sent, according to the school district.

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He was the subject of a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a liberal-leaning civil rights advocacy group, which cited comments on Twitter like this:

• "Angry young black males with no respect for life destroying the U.S."
• "Serpas should be warning people to stay the hell out of New Orleans! These black dudes will kill you!" (The reference is to Ronal Serpas, the New Orleans police superintendent.)
• "2 New Orleans policemen shot, 1 suspect dead, another injured. UPDATE|NOLA Quick Someone call David Duke before the NAACP gets here."

Msnbc.com highlighted the case?Tuesday, reporting that Traina stood behind his comments, which he said he'd made out of frustration with crime in general. Late Tuesday, Beth Branley, a spokeswoman for the school district, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune that Traina had resigned, effective immediately.

School board members had urged acting Superintendent James Meza to take quick action, NBC station WDSU of New Orleans reported. Late Tuesday, the board members said Traina would have been fired had he not resigned.

Investigators for the Civil Rights Division were already separately investigating allegations of discrimination against African-Americans and students with disabilities in Jefferson Parish. Traina's online comments could still be part of that investigation, the Times-Picayune reported.

Traina, who in his Times-Picayune user profile describes himself as a "civil rights activist," called the complaint "unfair" Tuesday in an interview with WDSU.

"Whenever someone speaks out, the liberal media just wants to demonize you," he said.

Traina expanded on those remarks in a long comment posted to the Times-Picayune website last week:

The Southern Poverty Center knows that these allegations are ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE! This is just another way to harass the Jefferson Parish Public School System. One only needs to read the Times Picayune to see who the real trouble makers are. Sadly, it is disproportionately young black males. Everyone knows that our jails throughout the United States are disproportionately filled with black people. Why would the rate be any different in an educational environment?

(Earlier versions of this article included a link to Traina's profile and comments on the Times-Picayune site. The link redirected to an error page late Wednesday.)?

Traina said he isn't a racist, telling WDSU that he made the online comments "out of frustration."

"There's too much killing going on," he said. "There's just too much crime in the country, and it's not all black on black.

"It's got to be put down. It's got to stop," he added. "People are just sick and tired of the crime."

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Post Office struggles may mean more junk mail

By Herb Weisbaum, The ConsumerMan

The U.S. Postal Service needs to boost revenue and it sees your mailbox as a potential moneymaker.

It?s created a service, Every Door Direct Mail, to encourage small businesses to send advertisements through the mail.?

You?ve probably seen more junk mail in the last year because of Every Door Direct. And you can expect to see even more in the future.?

The Every Door Direct program is simple and cost effective. For just 14.5 cents per mailing, a business can send fliers, coupons, menus or other advertising materials to people in a targeted area.?

This is unaddressed mail; it does not require a person?s name or street address. The mailing goes to everyone on the carrier?s route. Another benefit: A business can buy as little as a single route (between 500 and 550 deliveries) for about $75.?

?These are offers that people want because they are from the stores where they shop,? says David Mastervitch, manager of saturation mail and catalogs at USPS.? ?They don?t consider this junk. They consider this relevant mail because it gives them offers for the local businesses they deal with.??

The Postal Service says the small business community has embraced the service. In its first year, the Every Door Direct program generated more than $180 million for USPS.?

?I think the product is going to help small business grow and help the Postal Service in the future,? Mastervitch says.?

That?s what worries Chuck Teller, executive director of Catalog Choice, a non-profit group that helps people stop unwanted catalogs and other advertising mail.?

?More than 1.7 billion pieces of unaddressed mail are sent every year and the USPS plans to increase this by five times, generating billions more pieces of unwanted mail annually,? Teller says. ?It is imperative that the USPS respect consumer?s right to control the amount and type of advertising mail they receive.??

Teller insists he is not against direct advertising mail. He just wants people to have the ability to say no to unsolicited ads going into their mailbox.?

I don?t want this!?
What if you don?t want unaddressed advertising mail from a particular business in your area??

The Postal Service says you should contact the business sending the mailing. Ask to be placed on its ?do not mail? list. The company is supposed to pass this information along to the post office, so the carrier will not deliver to your address.?

Catalog Choice says this is not always happening. People have complained that if they ask to have a mailing stopped, some companies say that cannot be done with this type of mail. That?s clearly wrong.?

People are being told they can?t stop this type of mail ? which is clearly wrong. Some respond by telling the person to contact their post office. Again, that?s wrong. The Postal Service does not maintain any sort of ?do not mail? list. That is done by individual companies.?

But if a company tells the post office you don?t want its advertising mail, there is a process in place to make sure the carrier doesn?t deliver it to you.?

?There is massive confusion between the post office and companies about whether an individual has the right to opt-out of unaddressed mail,? Teller says.?

About a month ago, Catalog Choice started a campaign, which included an online petition to the Postmaster General encouraging him to ?respect consumers? right to control the amount and type of advertising material they receive.? So far, more than 40,000 people have signed the Citizens for Mail Choice petition.?

It asks U.S. Postal Service to train its staff about opt-out policies and procedures, provide clear information to businesses about how to honor opt-outs with Every Door Direct Mail and penalize companies that fail to honor opt-outs from these mailings.?

Teller believes a successful opt-out program for Every Door Direct mail will be good for the post office because the mail people get will be more relevant. The Postal Service says it agrees.?

?This is a new product,? David Mastervitch at U.S.P.S. tells me. ?As we go out and do our training with businesses, we will absolutely talk about the fact that every business should honor consumer choice. And if the choice of the consumer is to not get that mailing piece, then you have to have a method to tell us.??

My two cents?
I hate junk mail as much as the next person. But I also know that the Postal Service needs money and small businesses need a way to grow. Do you really want to pay more to mail a letter or have your local post office closed??

The mail is there for all of us. The beauty of this new mail service is that it?s simple. It goes to every door. And quite frankly, an unwanted ad in the mailbox is not the same as a telemarketing call during dinner. With the mailing, you just toss it into the recycle bin.?

Still, smart businesspeople know that if someone doesn?t want to be contacted, they should honor those wishes. Hopefully, that word will get out and everyone can benefit from this service.?

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