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And you thought baseball's offseason was quiet
What a winter it was. The Marlins were gutted, Anthony Bosch of Biogenesis fame became a household name and the Yankees, somehow, didn't wind up with either Josh Hamilton or Felix Hernandez (more on that later).
So in New York, this was a relatively quiet offseason - aside from another Alex Rodriguez PED scandal, of course - as two of baseball's biggest prizes, Hamilton and Zack Greinke, wound up on the West Coast.
Not be outdone, their neighbor to the far north, the Mariners, spent the final days leading up to spring training dotting the I's and crossing the T's on a $175-million contract for King Felix. Whether or not Jesus Montero is behind the plate to catch him is another story - we surely haven't heard the last of those accused in the Biogenesis PED fiasco - but no one's been suspended. Yet.
Anyway, because the games actually don't count until March 31, when the Rangers and Astros kick off their brand spanking new American League West rivalry, let's do the only thing we can do before then - talk about everything else. So here's a random list featuring some of the best and worst of what went on since the Giants left Motown with the trophy.
Worst change to this year's regular-season schedule: Daily interleague play. It's bad enough that a tired concept like this will now be forced down everyone's throats from the start of the year to the finish - thanks to the newly aligned 15-team leagues. But think of the havoc it will cause among pitching staffs, which now must take batting practice early and often for the games in the NL parks. While very few pitchers are capable hitters, the large majority are dreadful with a bat in their hands, and it will be interesting to see if a more steady diet of BP will make them any better.
Best use of a top-rated catching prospect: Blue Jays. Maybe Travis d'Arnaud winds up as the next Mike Piazza. But Toronto got the Mets to part with the Cy Young winner by dangling d'Arnaud, and then signed him at the relatively bargain rate of two years, $25 million. Dickey is now the Jays' Opening Day starter, and he's one of the reasons they're also a legit World Series pick.
Worst impression of a major-league team: Astros. They've switched leagues. They've switched uniforms. But for the Astros, there's no disguising what a low-budget operation they've become. With an estimated payroll of around $20 million for 2013 - their highest paid player is Bud Norris ($3 million), followed by Carlos Pena ($2.9 million) - Houston seems primed for a third straight 100-loss season, and playing in the powerful AL West this season should definitely help that cause.
Best reason for demanding a no-trade clause: Jeffrey Loria. For those who always thought money was everything in contract negotiations, we present the Marlins, a team that likes to keep its options open. In what seemed like minutes after Miami tanked the inaugural season in its new $600 million stadium, the Marlins dismantled its roster, starting with disgruntled closer Heath Bell and culminating in a 12-player trade that shipped more than $145 million to Toronto. The ink had barely dried on the contracts for Bell, Jose Reyes and Mark Buehrle.
Best villain in the eyes of the sabermetric crowd: Miguel Cabrera. In perhaps the most polarizing MVP vote in the award's history, Cabrera edged Mike Trout -- champion of sabermetricians everywhere - to set baseball back a good half-century or so (we kid). Bud Selig had a cool trophy made for Cabrera's Triple Crown, but the feat mattered little to the more aggressive faction of the stat crowd, which insisted that Trout was robbed. Trout did get Rookie of the Year as a consolation prize, however.
Best example of brotherly love outside Philadelphia: Braves. After months of internal debate, the Diamondbacks finally chose to pull the trigger on a Justin Upton trade, and what better spot than Atlanta, which had signed his brother, B.J., to a five-year, $75.25-million contract. The two Uptons now combine with Jason Heyward to form one of the better outfields in the sport on a team that will push the Nationals for NL East supremacy.
Best sneak attack on a division rival: Angels. As much of an offensive coup as it was to sign Albert Pujols away from the Cardinals last year, the Angels topped that this winter by swiping Josh Hamilton from underneath the noses of the Rangers with a five-year, $125-million deal. At first glance, it seemed like overkill, but pairing Hamilton with Pujols, Mike Trout, Erick Aybar and Mark Trumbo not only strengthens the Angels' lineup - his absence hurts Texas, too.
Worst poker face by a manager: John Farrell. As it looked more and more like Bobby Valentine was a goner in Boston, Farrell told everyone how happy he was in Toronto. Except during the Jays' last September trip to Fenway Park, when Farrell entertained plenty of questions about Valentine's job and told everyone there how much he loved his time as the Red Sox pitching coach. Two months later, the Jays traded him to Boston.
Worst excuse for appearing on alleged PED documents: Ryan Braun. It was one thing when Braun sidestepped a 50-game suspension over a chain-of-custody dispute regarding a urine sample. Due process is due process, after all. But when his name surfaced on the recently uncovered Biogenesis documents, Braun insisted it was because he used Anthony Bosch as a consultant - nothing more - during his appeal back in 2011. As coincidences go, this is looking like a stretch, but it's still going to take a lot more than handwritten notes to penalize Braun this time, too.


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Choir Director Eric Betthauser directs some Henley Middle School singers at the City Market on Saturday, December 3. As they sang, the Holiday Heritage Parade was rolling along the nearby Downtown Mall. Market vendors (besides myriad wreath and greenery purveyors) included Babes in the Wood pork sausage, Simply Cheddar cheese balls, and Jam According to Daniel.
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The Downtown Mall is a wonderful festive place to be during the holiday season - just sad the occupiers and there campfire had to leave. Diversity is the spice of life.
Just think how much fun it would have been to sing in the holidays with a full moon rising December 10th at Lee Park
Santa are you listening ? For Christmas don't forget to put Daniel's jam in your sleigh, the yummiest jam in town . And make sure there is at least one jar of the apricot/blackberry.
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Sometimes when marketing professionals name new products, they shout them from the page by putting the name in ALL CAPS. Writing something in all capitals, whether in an e-mail or in print, has the effect of drawing attention to that word. That's fair from a marketing perspective, but I suspect I speak for the press and analyst community when I say that this is annoying, and therefore I avoid using the all caps versions whenever possible.
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- literary and scholastic attainments;
- energy to use one's talents to the full, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports;
- truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship;
- moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one's fellow beings.
By all accounts, Rolle seems to qualify. Top student, and the guy is one of the top, top, top players in the country; this isn't some punter who happened to be bright. This guy is fast, strong, and can lay the wood when he hits you. I also want to give Bobby Bowden and FSU some credit -- though with some of the other stories out of there they may not have had much choice -- for letting Rolle off for a rather important game against Maryland. Sometimes, football comes second.
In any event, along with other famous Rhodes Scholars, like Bill Clinton, one of my favorites (for the nickname if nothing else) is Byron "Whizzer" White. The Whizzer earned the nickname as a running back at the University of Colorado.
Try this for a timeline: He is awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, but defers it to play football for the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers, obviously). He leads the NFL in rushing as a rookie. As an encore, he goes off to Oxford to study for a year. Then he returns to the NFL, this time with the Detroit Lions, and leads the NFL in rushing again. His career is then cut short when he entered the Navy during World War II.
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It seems every month, a new food takes over the aisles at Whole Foods, promising to rid your life of all your nutritional woes. There was the month of the pomegranate, acai berry, coconut water, and now, seaweed.
Just because seaweed has become trendy doesn't mean its nutritional benefits are something to be scoffed at. First of all, since seaweed is a green leafy vegetable, it's safe to say it's good for you. In addition, in animal research brown seaweed is shown to burn more body fat due to components in its makeup. Plus, all green sea vegetables are great sources of iodine.
If you're a little scared to try out dried/roasted seaweed on its own (I love this snack, but it's an acquired taste), try Annie Chun's seaweed packages, which are flavored naturally with sesame and canola oil, and salt. Or next time you get sushi, ask for a side of seaweed salad! It's delicious, I promise.
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Playing this through with Kaltos, Charlotte, and Enshadu, set to 'Easy, Unlocked' for this particular post. Further posts may have other characters, but I intend to work my way up through the Normal, Hard, and Absurd versions as well (though I'm likely to continue with it unlocked), just to see if this affects the limits.
World 1: You can get to level 16. You may regret it. After level 14, getting to level 16 relies purely on one enemy in a whole line of random encounters. Have fun.
World 2: 21 before meeting the Aulder, 24 before reaching South Point Bastion, 27 after. Interestingly, Isabelle's own health rises, going up to 105, from 100.
World 3: The first stage, Silent Snowfields, is harder to get points in, but level 31 is attainable before even entering Underport. Don't forget to go backwards & collect the credit chest first though! You need to continuously get though almost to the bridge, then turn around, save, exit back to the menu, and restart from that point. I did say it was harder. Going back and forth, however, does enable us to take a good look at Mark's world again, and note the way the background isn't static, the mountains actually looking like mountains in the distance, the sky above with the sunlight streaming through the clouds, and, tellingly, the strange, twisting remnants of <i>something</i> hidden beneath the ground. Tentacles? The barest hint of a claw? Whatever could it be? It leaves you wanting more. It's these details which makes this kind of levelling up enjoyable, especially in combination with Josh's wonderful soundtrack. The best part is that levelling up in this way doesn't cost credits-per-save, which would have been frankly devestating to my plan. Level 27 takes out one of the enemies from your possible xp-givers; from level 28 onwards, you're again down to only one enemy, but at least these encounters aren't randomised.
It was at this point I hit upon the idea of levelling up my party along with my Fitocracy, as sitting around through the level playthroughs was starting to bother me.
Before fighting the Crone, you can reach level 34. Level 35 after the first time you've met her. Level 37 is automatic after your second battle with the Crone.
World 4: Porto Vale, Part one: You can get up to Level 44. I suspect that if you do some of the fights in different orders, it might be a different total, but level 44 is the level I'm sticking with.
World 5: Oh, the horror. I do not like this level. Not because it is hard, but because I first played through with Ionae, Denever, and PyanPau. Each of them has a specific interaction with members of the town, and it makes this level heartbreaking. Level 55 before the cloud child, 58 immediately after.
World 6: 64 before the Count. 65 immediately after. No enemies from this world after this point provide any XP.
World 7: Woohoo, Jungle level! 78 before reaching Mama Saga, 79 immediately after speaking with her.
World 8: Suddenly, a literal Spirit of the Engine. Now, no matter how much you grind in the first two rooms, you will still have plenty of work ahead of you in the Storage Room, and in the Upper Deck, because while the Monsters don't, for the most part, change, while the XP they give may have reached 0, you will find that the later versions of the same monsters return to dropping XP. Good for your business, gentle grinder, but not so good from the POV of complacency and your party's health. The Upper Deck offers more opportunity for higher level monsters, especially the Principle Armour (a name which confuses me) and the Crystal Contagions. Here too, Josh's deft hand with the soundtrack is seriously changed. While the start of the 'victory' tune sounds, it's followed by the echoing noises, the gentle glockenspiel, and the sudden horrible groaning in the distance. Something is not right. Your possible XP pool soon shrinks to just the Principle Armour, and let me tell you, you're going to regret starting this challenge, in the same way you regretted it when you started it. The Silent Snowfields have, frankly, nothing on this level. When your party hits 87, you have over 70 individual battles with the Principle Armour to fight. I suggest only doing the first one, then leaving the area, returning to the area, lather rinse repeat. On the other hand, it's a good level to practice your Spirit Fitocracy, so long as you instead do it immediately after your battle, not during (especially for situps). I have Charlotte in front here, equipped with the Ambassador's Ring, and as high as she can go on Lucky Lady. Charlotte is suddenly my Tank for this level. Level 88 before reaching the Engineering Breach. Level 91 comes after the first boss battle, the second grants level 92.
World 9: You will only gain XP from the first fight with Shana and her Riflemen; the remaining fights across the Longreach Plains will give you no XP. You face Batiste at no higher than level 96. Which is almost a pity, as you only need 5368 XP to reach level 97. I suspect that some of the enemy groups, if they'd given different results, might have narrowed this gap or more, leading to level 97 so long as the boss fights were done correctly, but that's purely conjecture. You gain an additional, final, 4 levels after you defeat Batiste, taking your final total up to level 100, and which makes me wish there was more gameplay left after that point.
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Only five blocks away to the main square. Even though we are situated downtown, we are in a peaceful neighborhood away from the hustle and bustle of the streets around the main square in a private neighborhood. Our location is perfect because it's near banks, supermarkets, bars, and principal tourist attractions.
A game room with a 32 lcd hd tv and professional pool table.
3 computers with flat-panel with free internet and wifi
Two movie rooms with a 52 lcd hd tv with dvd and an extensive movie collection.
Foosball table and ping pong table.
Play station 3! With the latest games
Patio with hammocks, patio sets and a heater.
Two kitchens good equipped.
Barbicue area
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Free individual lockers
Free tea and coca tea 24/7
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Free wireless internet connection and 3 computers
Free access to guide books from all around the world
Book exchange
Free maps and advice
Free luggage storage
Free satellite tv and films,
Basic breakfast from 7 15 am to 10 am: Bread, butter and jam.
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"Something bad has been looking for him for a long time, he thinks,
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Meddling Kids
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4k Gaming – Reviews of the Best PC's, GPU's, Games, Benchmarks, Monitors Available for Sale 2016
Latest Update: January 10, 2019
Top 5 GPU's for Gaming at 4k Resolution
1. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
|This is it, the Nvidia GTX 1080 is the single best GPU we've yet seen by a long shot, the 4K gaming graphics card we've been waiting for since 4K gaming was a thing and now its on sale for one stunningly affordable price. Across all performance metrics for HD, 1440p and most importantly, 4K gaming, nothing from either AMD or Nvidia beats this superb Pascal-powered GPU and its GDDR5X memory. We can't recommend the GTX 1080 enough!
4.6 - 213 Reviews
2. Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN X
|The GeForce GTX TITAN X combines sleek design with killer graphics. This GPU allows you to enjoy incredibly realistic graphics that don't tear thanks to the NVIDIA G-SYNC display technology. Some technical aspects that amplify your gaming experience include: a 3,072 CUDA Core, 12GB of GDD5 memory, Temperature Target Control and power efficient performance.
4.7 - 175 Reviews
3. Geforce GTX 1070
|Meet Nvidia's spectacularly advanced, VR and HDR-capable GTX 1070 GPU, one of the latest models in the gaming company's next-generation line of high performance graphic cards. The GTX 1070 in particular is the competitive 1440p and high frame rate HD gamer's graphics card par excellence and its heavy duty specs back this claim up nicely with a 1506MHz core clock, 8GB VRAM and Nvidia's new Pascal chipset architecture, which is designed to offer exceptionally fine handling of both Virtual reality gaming and high dynamic range gaming as both emerge much more in late 2016 and 2017.
4.6 - 228 Reviews
4. Geforce GTX 1060
|Nvidia's GTX 1060 is the GPU makers answer to today's frame rate hungry HD and 1440p gamers. Thus this GPU includes the new high-efficiency Pascal chipset architecture of all 2016 Nvidia cards and also offers up the same advanced HDR support and Virtual Reality gaming capacities along with too many other powerful features to list here in detail. Featuring a 1506MHz core clock, 192GB/s memory bandwidth and a 6GB GDDR5 VRAM, the GTX 1060 is one very serious card that comes at a very decent price if you're interested in excellent performance for your competitive 1080p and 1440p gaming needs.
4.7 - 131 Reviews
5. AMD Radeon RX 480
|One of the best mid-range GPU available on the market. Polaris architecture with 14nm processors in order to deliver high performance gaming. HDMI 2.0b, Displayport 1.4 & 1.3, HDR and Freesync. Overall an excellent GPU for the price range.
4.3 - 202 Reviews
Top 5 4k Gaming Monitors
1. Acer Predator XB321HK bmiprz 27-inch / 32 inch IPS UHD G-Sync Monitor
|The Acer Predator XB321HK is probably one of the best 4K gaming monitors we've had the pleasure of reviewing to-date. With superb connectivity for all sorts of PC gaming and workstation needs, the inclusion of Nvidia G-Sync technology for smooth gameplay and some truly excellent color and contrast specs, the XB321HK delivers just about everything a serious 4K PC gamer could want. Its massive 32 inch display also offers plenty of immersion.
Our Rating: A-
2. ASUS MG28UQ 28" 4K 1ms Gaming Monitor
|The Asus MG28UQ may not be the flashiest 4K gaming monitor on the market but it delivers all the essentials superbly and at an excellent price. HDMI 2.0, HDMI 1.4, DisplayPort and multiple USB 3.0 ports all share space in a sleek matte black monitor which is fully adjustable for height, pivot, tilt and rotation. Even better, AMD GPU synchronization in the form of AdaptiveSync technology for an even smoother 4K or 1440p PC gameplay experience at a great budget price.
Our Rating: A-
3. LG Electronics 4K UHD 27" Monitor 27UD68-P
|LG's 27UD68 is one seriously advanced and stylish piece of 4K PC display technology. Its virtually bezel-free display offers excellent immersiveness and includes AMD FreeSync for smoother 4K gameplay. Furthermore, as an IPS monitor with 10-bit color support, the 27UD68 renders excellent color vibrancy and wonderfully wide viewing angles. Even better still, the connectivity specs of this model are downright cutting-edge, with dual HDMI 2.0 ports and DisplayPort 1.2a.
Our Rating: A
4. Samsung UE590 UHD-QHD Monitor U28E590D 28-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor
|AMD FreeSync, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.2 and some truly stunning visual performance all combine together in the stylish design of the Samsung UE590 4K IPS monitors. These are sincerely excellent models of 4K gaming and home office display technology. Coming in both a compact 24 inch model and a spacious 28 inch version, the UE590 is decently priced and one of our favorite 4K gaming monitors to-date.
Our Rating: A
5. Dell 4K S2817Q 28" Screen LCD Monitor with Built In Subwoofer
|Dell's S2817Q comes loaded with superb connectivity specs and offers some of the best performing built-in speakers we've seen on any 4K monitor in recent memory. With multiple USB 3.0 ports, DisplayPort 1.2 and mini DP 1.2 as well as dual HDMI 2.0 ports with MHL, the S2817Q comes with everything you need for a complete gaming hookup. This model's color and contrast performance are great and the IPS panel delivers excellent viewing angles. Also, did we mention that the S2817Q is wonderfully priced?
Our Rating: A
What is 4K Gaming?
4K ultra HD gaming isn't so much about the games themselves as it is about the hardware. Right off the bat, you should understand that.
Yes, there are games being put on the market that are specifically designed for native 4K ultra HD resolution as their ideal and while there are also older games that simply won't work well on a 4K PC. However, the real meat of gaming in this awesome ultra HD resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels really lies in the hardware you use to play all sorts of PC games designed with HD or outright 4K in mind.
This is because if you already have a 4K UHD PC in hand, you can take almost any newer game, even if it hasn't been developed to scale completely to 4K UHD graphics and simply upscale it so that it renders (usually) smoothly on a fully 4K screen. Of course, there are also games being sold that play best at 4K resolutions, are designed for 4K resolutions and can only be played on Full HD PCs if they're actually scaled down to their lowest levels of detail.
Thus, in simple terms, 4K PC gaming is all about having a killer UHD Monitor (or 4K TV that hooks up smoothly to your PC) and a gaming rig PC with the GPU, processing, connectivity and RAM hardware to handle playing the best ultra-detailed games at full-blown ultra HD resolution.
However, this isn't exactly easy to pull off and only very, recently have graphic cards begun to emerge which are genuinely capable of managing 4K gaming at serious frame rates and detail leves.
Best of all, the game hardware landscape has improved a lot since the more pessimistic days of mid-2014. If you read some of the content on the web that comes from mi last year, you'll often hear about how you can only have 4K gaming at 30 frames per second or less, or how you need at least 3 or 4 GPUs running together to manage any sort of ultra HD gameplay at anything resembling a smooth flow of motion and decent detail levels. And then there was also all the talk of pricing and how ridiculously expensive UHD PCs are.
Well, these things have changed quite a bit in the last year, and while 4K gameplay is still not nearly as affordable as normal HD PC gaming, it's getting a lot cheaper than it was even 7 months ago. Best of all, the key manufacturers of GPUs, Nvidia and AMD have finally started kicking out graphics cards that can really chew up 4K resolution on most games at at least decent frame rates in high and ultra detail levels and at excellent frame rates in mid-level detail settings.
This is a definite improvement over 2014 and GPUs like NVIDIA's new 2016 Pascal graphics cards, the somewhat older GTX 980 Ti and Titan X from Nvidia or the new AMD Radeon 300x line and the Radeon 295X2 are not only solid at most types of 4K PC gaming, they're also surprisingly affordable. All the more when you take into account that these new GPUs can work alone in a 4K PC. You no longer need to buy several graphics cards and hook them together.
So what tools will I need to game at ultra HD Resolution
For starters, all gamers who want to do their gameplay at full 4K resolution will need that most basic and fundamental piece of hardware: the 4K ultra HD display screen.
This can take the form of either a 4K PC monitor, of which there are many available models now, or a 4K TV, which will come with a lot more connectivity options and a far more robustly noticeable UHD resolution clarity thanks to its larger size.
Whichever of the two is the case, the display absolutely will also need either an HDMI 2.0 port or a DisplayPort 1.2 connection port built into it. This is crucial for running 4K graphics between the PC and the screen at a robust and smooth Hz instead of the 30 Hz offered by HDMI 1.4 ports.
Almost any smaller, cheaper 4K TV from Samsung, Sony, Vizio or LG will easily give you at least the HDMI 2.0 ports and some models even include DisplayPort 1.2 connections. However, 4K TVs, even small ones, will also cost at least $800 and that's at a bare minimum.
On the other hand, 4K monitors are a lot more affordable and a number of models now well for well below $500, though not all of them include connectivity for HDMI 2.0, so this is something that you'll have to check as you shop around. Additionally, if you can get your hands on a monitor with G-Synch technology built into it. You will not only experience smoother gameplay, the machine is also guaranteed to have compatibility with the best 4K video cards on the market, which come from from Nvidia
Next up is getting your hands on a robust GPU and a solid processor. These are two of the most crucial parts of a clean, smooth gaming experience in 4K and we cover them in a lot more detail below.
GPUs for Gaming your way to 60 frames per second
The real holy grail of gaming in either HD or ultra HD resolution on a PC is managing to pull it off at very close to or even beyond 60 frames per second. This is what has been so difficult with 4K PCs since the possibility of gaming at this resolution even emerged and only now are GPUs emerging that can handle all those pixels fast enough to deliver the smoothness of 60 frames per second.
The bottom line is that this simply isn't easy to pull off and we have to give a lot of kudos to makers like AMD and Nvidia for having pulled off what they've managed. The temperature and power strains on a GPU that manages to refresh 8.2 million pixels 60 times per second are big and this is why even powerful graphics cards like AMD's former flagship the R9 290 couldn't pull off more than 30 fps on resolution heavy 4K games and even then would often heat up to a skin-frying 95 degrees celcius.
Only recently have GPUs like Nvidias amazingly powerful new GTX 1080 and Titan X (2016) Pascal graphics cards, or to a lesser extent their GTX 980 Ti, Titan X (2015) and somewhat older but still very powerful Titan Z emerged with the ability to actually handle many UHD games like Crysis 3, Assasins Creed Unity, Battlefield 4 and Ryse: Son of Rome at speeds of up to or sometimes even beyond 60 fps. Furthermore, all of these are single GPU units, which makes their achievement all the more impressive.
Then there are the newest AMD graphics cards. These can also perform admirably at 4K resolution and relatively high frame rates while managing to do it without running nearly as hot as used to be the case. The AMD Radeon 295X2 is one particularly powerful unit that regularly manages 60 fps even at high detail settings for many middle-weight 4K games and can come close to 60 frames even for really graphics intensive games like Battlefield 4.
Then there are the new 300X GPUs like the R9 390X, which is also a very decent single GPU unit and comparable to Nvidia's GTX 980 Ti in terms of processing power.
Finally, and these are brand new, there are the AMD Radeon Fury and Fury X cards, which are essentially the new flagship GPUs from AMD. Their performance in 4K settings is genuinely impressive and has even been shown to beat the Titan X during benchmark testing in some regards.
These latter GPUs come with high-bandwidth memory (HBM) as an integral feature and due to its ability to run much better memory bandwidth than the aging GDDR5 infrastructure, they offer some of the fastest and most efficient single-GPU power available today.
Another crucial thing to keep in mind about any of the above GPUs is their cooling requirements and power supply needs. For example, the Radeon 295X2, with it's dual GPU architecture, comes with an entire liquid cooling and air cooling combo that your PC tower will have to make room for. Furthermore, it sucks up a monstrous 500 watts of power and you need to be ready for this with the right kind of power box. The Titan X from Nvidia, on the other hand, eats up 600 watts of power and though it's air cooled and much more efficient at keeping to a reasonable temperature, installing it means making sure that that heat gets funneled out of your PC tower and not into the rest of your internal hardware, where it can build up.
Finally, the really hardcore GPUs and power requirements described above are all about gaming at the full 60 frames and at high detail levels. If you're happy with enjoying your 4K games at medium or low detail settings or can manage at a slightly choppy 30 frames per second, your 4K gaming experience becomes a lot easier. AT these settings, even a couple of Nvidia GTX 970 units or possibly a single 980 will be more than enough.
We've actually reviewed several of these graphics cards (or all of them, depending on when you read this) here at 4K.com and you can check out those review above on this same page.
What to look for in a 4K Monitor
4K monitors come in all shapes and sizes, and many of the latest models not only offer better than ever connectivity, they also cost less than they used to.
For the time being, no UHD monitor is equipped to handle ultra HD resolution at more than 60Hz, so pushing your gamin to beyond that level is pretty much pointless for now. However, sooner or later, DisplayPort 1.3 will emerge in newer 4K PC displays and then GPU technology will have to catch up all over again.
Right now however, 4K monitors for PC gaming have a couple of crucial requirements. For starters, make sure your 4K screen comes with at least a DisplayPort 1.2 port. This will give you your 60Hz refresh rate and all of the GPUs we covered above are built with DP 1.2 connectivity.
You can also go for a monitor with both DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 2.0. Of these, there are only a few on sale as of this writing but they offer an entirely new connectivity option for high frame rate UHD gaming and they're also useful for 4K movie/video streaming from a media box when it comes to market. However, bear in mind that the only GPUs which offer HDMI 2.0 connectivity so far are those from Nvidia, and only their latter models. AMD hasn't yet caught up to this trend since Display Port dominates the PC market.
The second major factor in choosing a monitor that's good for gaming involves response time. You want the fastest you can get your hands on and this means going for a TN screen. These monitors offer the best grey-to-grey response times of as little as less than 1 milisecond and –best of all– they're also the most affordable 4K PC displays on sale right now. The downside of TN screen however is that they also don't produce the kind of rich color and off-angle viewing clarity that 4K IPS or IGZO screen manage. However, with IGZO and IPS, things not only get pricier, they also get slower since response times slow down to 4 or even 7 milliseconds.
Finally, aim for a 4K monitor with either FreeSync or G-Sync technology built into it. These will match your screens refresh rate to that of your GPU and create a much smoother overall performance, regardless of the native GPU refresh rate. G-Sync belongs to Nvidia and is designed to mesh with its GPUs, while FreeSync is AMD's technology and aimed at AMD GPUs. Of the two, G-Sync is generally the smoother performer.
Whatever 4K monitor you go for, just make absolutely sure that it is not a 30Hz panel. These are common and very affordable, but what they give you in terms of price is completely ruined by the fact that they simply suck with 4K gaming. No matter how good the rest of your 4K gaming rig is, if your monitor is capable of only 30Hz, it will cause graphics to flicker and you'll never get to enjoy the smoothness of 4K at 60 frames per second. This is no fun if you've already spent $1000 on a GPU specifically because it's supposed to deliver smooth high frame rate gameplay.
Some Recommendations for your 4K Gaming PC
A full blown 4K gaming rig that's built to truly handle high levels of 4K graphics at high fps is simply not going to be cheap. The high end GPUs we mentioned above all cost at least $400 (the AMD R9 390X) and as much as $1000 (the Titan X from Nvidia). And these are just your GPUs.
Your PC monitor will run you to at least $400 for a decent TN 60Hz model, and you'll also need a compatible power supply, motherboard, CPU and some seriously solid RAM, at least 12 and ideally 16 GB of it.
Putting this all together for yourself will cost at least $2300 if you want to play 4K games at maximum possible frame rates and maximum possible detail. If you're willing to settle for lower levels of 4K gaming, then you could probably put together a 4K gaming PC for just over $1000.
A Word on Game Consoles
While 4K PC gaming can be done at 60 fps with upscaled 1080p HD games and even some of the still few 4K 2160p UHD games out there, even if somewhat expensively, console gaming is a slightly different story.
You can definitely play your favorite console games on a PlayStation or Xbox from a 4K TV and get great graphics and decent rendering at 30 fps with the TVs upscaling engine and the console's HDMI 1.4 connection. However, if you want to aim for gameplay at 60 frames, you're still somewhat out of luck.
Most game consoles still just offer Full HD gameplay at 60 frames and their manufacturers are only now beginning to put serious consideration into the upgrades that would make both of the major game consoles on the market fully 4K-ready on the 4K UHD TVs that are growing steadily more popular. Basically, we probably won't see serious advancements on this front for at least a few more months, until near the middle of 2016 that is.
The Future of 4K Gaming
Where is 4K gaming going you wonder? Well, it's definitely headed towards the mainstream of home entertainment. It's already almost there with PC games and it will just be a bit longer before the same happens more formally with console games running with 4K TVs. Here is some available sample 4k videos and here is where you can find movies in 4k.
Just like HD gaming took off and became the gold standard of the gamers experience, the same will happen with its 4K counterpart, at least with offline gaming for the time being and later with online games as internet speeds more widely reach the kinds of 15 to 30Mbps speeds that they'd need to handle game streams at 3840 x 2160 pixels.
Some Awesome 4K Games
Finally, we move down to the meat of the matter with a mention of the kinds of 4K-ready games you can already play. Remember, any game that has been developed with 1080p HD playing in mind is already good to go for any 4K PC or laptop because it can be upscaled by your video card.
But as for native 4K games, the following are some excellent choices to test out if you've got your own 4K PC and are rearing to go:
Grand Theft Auto V
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
BioShock Infinite
September 8, 2015 at 3:10 am
Finally, and these are brand new, there are the AMD Radeon Fury and Fury X cards, which are essentially the new flagship GPUs from Nvida
These must be incredibly new as I haven't so far heard of Nvidia making AMD graphics cards yet…
Possibly give us an update as to when this started happening? 🙂
September 8, 2015 at 3:13 am
Finally, and these are brand new, there are the AMD Radeon Fury and Fury X cards, which are essentially the new flagship GPUs from Nvida
These must be incredibly new as I haven't so far heard of Nvidia making AMD graphics cards yet.
Possibly give us an update as to when this started to happen. 🙂
September 8, 2015 at 12:04 pm
Oops, minor error that got missed in editing. Thank you for pointing this out. Corrected.
September 21, 2015 at 12:53 am
3 monitor 4k setup.?
I'm upgrading my monitors on my pc. And I would like to run ACER CB280HK 4K 28″ ULTRA HD 3 monitors at 6480×3840. But finding a Graphics card or cards to do so isntvas easy as I thought it would be. Any suggestions on some reasonable price card (s) ?
January 12, 2016 at 7:07 am
No single graphics card is up to the task at 60fps. Not even the titan z. Maybe 2 titan z's. Good luck. 🙂
January 26, 2016 at 10:47 am
4 titan X are enough
I think you can try with 1,2 or 3 titan X but with 4 you can run 3 monitors at 4k or 5k at 60 fps (40-65fps)
September 5, 2016 at 4:02 pm
I saw a video of someone running three 40″ 4K monitors with three GTX 980's. Now, with the new Pascal cards, you can easily do this. The GTX 1060 is on par with the GTX 980 of yesteryear. For $750 to $900 you can pick up three of them, and plug one monitor into each card.
If you want to really pump those high / ultra settings on AAA games of 2016, you're going to need 1070's or 1080's, though.
The good news is that 4K is getting more and more accessible for the average enthusiast. A year or two ago, it would cost $2,500 to $4,000 to get into serious 4K gaming… and now you can get into it for $1,500 to $2,000 pretty easily. Good luck on your build!
December 4, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Hi, I've bought this computer for my grandkids. Total War: Attila UHD – Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core, Asus Z97-A ATX, G.Skill Trident 16GB DDR3 2400, Mushkin ECO2 240GB SSD, Corsair 760T Black Full Tower, Rosewill PHOTON 1050W 80 PLUS Gold, (2x) MSI GTX 980 4GB, WD Black 2TB HDD. I read this article but I don't really understand what I'm looking at. Could anyone recommend to me what would be the ideal monitor for what I've purchased. I don't want to get ripped off at Best Buy, thank you.
December 6, 2015 at 8:02 pm
BenQ BL3201PH – a 32 inch 4k monitor. Bigger size makes text scale nicer with the increased resolution.
Another option would be the Acer XB270HU which is a 1440p (less than 4k but better than 1080) that has a faster refresh rate which can make it better for first person shooter types of games.
Sorry if this doesn't help, suppose my best advice would be to look in the store and see what you like best, then write down the model number, go home, and buy it on Amazon
December 7, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Hello Lauren, the GPU your PC comes with is originally from a brand called NVIDIA and is compatible with G-Sync technology while also being HDMI 2.0 capable and includes DisplayPort. Thus, my best recommendation for you would be a 4K UHD monitor with G-Sync and both DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 2.0 connectivity. Right off the top of my head, one clear example whih we've reviewed comes to mind, this one, but it doesn't come with HDMI 2.0, only DisplayPort 1.2:
It is a great gaming monitor and useful for all sorts of other purposes as well. If you want something a little more flashy looking, you can also go for the Asus Swift PG27AQ 4K Ultra HD Monitor if they have it at Best Buy. This is also a very 4K gaming friendly 4K UHD display which also comes with G-Sync technology and it looks great, so your grandkids should love its appearance. We have a review of this Asus monitor pending publication but it won't be up for a couple more days.
Bottom line: Get a 4K UHD PC monitor with G-Sync, DisplayPort 1.2, USB 3.0 and if at all possible HDMI 2.0 connectivity (but this last spec isn't essential). The most important specs, however are that your 4K monitor have DisplayPort 1.2 and that it be ideal for gaming (tell the sales rep that you want a 4K gaming monitor with G-Sync technology if available and that you want DisplayPort 1.2 included).
January 23, 2016 at 11:09 pm
Titan X is a more capable video card than Titan Z. Just because it's more expensive, doesn't mean it's better.
February 5, 2016 at 11:18 am
"No matter which settings you use, the 8 million poxels and 1 billion colors make the game feel as realistic as possible."
8 million poxels? is that better than pixels or is it like chicken pox?
February 5, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Thanks for pointing that out Dean, we try to maintain correct grammar and spelling at all times but errors do slip through here and there. Fixed and appreciate the comment. Gave me a chuckle to boot.
March 11, 2016 at 2:33 pm
I would like to know does an Inspiron Desktop, 4th Generation Intel Core i7 processor good (Atleast) for getting 60fps and 4k quality for gaming and video editing with a two Nvida GPU's i'm new at this so bear with me i'm learning what type of Pc i need for gaming.
March 11, 2016 at 2:55 pm
Hello Harold, I looked at the link you passed me and don't know which specific machine you're considering. More importantly, do you know which model of NVIDIA GPU the desktop unit you have in mind will include? This is the key piece of information. The rest is secondary as long as you have a 4K monitor, 4K compatible motherboard and high-end gaming gpu-compatible power unit.
March 11, 2016 at 5:54 pm
The inspiron for 799.99
March 11, 2016 at 6:01 pm
I'm looking to buy or build (watching videos to learn how to build a pc) if i buy one i would like to know if i can run 6fps with 4k on an Titan X SLI if i was to buy the Dell Inspiron 4th generation i7 Intel Core pc for 799.99 on that site i have left an link to? Would that be a suitable computer to get plus to add an Nvidia GTX Titan X SLI to it once i bought my pc?
March 14, 2016 at 3:39 am
Hi there Harold. In basic terms, I think you should be okay for reasonable frame rates at 4K textures/on a 4K monitor with a Titan X SLI and the PC with the i7 processor you mention. I can't be sure about 60fps but for one thing, getting close to this will vary from game to game, with some games being much more intensive on your GPU than others. Thus, you could have a game that barely hits the 30fps mark and sometimes slides even lower while others zip right up to a respectable 55+fps. Secondly, while the GPU you mention should be okay along with the PC/processor combo, make sure you also have a compatible power unit at work for your rig since the Titan X can easily reach 650+ watts at full load, and you might want to consider a cooling unit for the CPU, though this might not be necessary if you don't really push your gaming to extremes. Again, a lot is going to depend on how intensively you push your 4K gaming. Finally, I'm not sure what sort of 4K monitor you had in mind but the following are some great suggestions I put together recently. TN monitors are generally the cheaper option and offer great response times to boot, so I'd go for one of those, even if they don't have as fine of color output and viewing angles as an IPS display (but who really uses a gaming monitor while looking at it from above or off to one side anyhow??)
March 23, 2016 at 12:37 am
I'm not a PC gamer, I an emulation gamer so a lot of the emulated cabinets run at very low native resolutions.
Except Dreamcast…I use Demul which is a very intensive emulator and pushing 6x internal resolution and 16+ sprite layers brings my rig to a grinding halt.
I'm currently running an i5-4660 using the embedded intel graphics..so no surprise there.
I want to play my setup on a 55″ 4k tv and while it's certain I need a significant GPU upgrade I'm not sure if I how high end I need to go. Any insight?
March 23, 2016 at 8:46 am
Hey there Rob, while I'm not expert on emulation gaming and you should take my advice in this area with a very big grain of salt, I'd say that you should simply aim for real, full-blown 4K PC gaming if you're interested in 4K graphics.
However, if you do just want to see your emultaion setup on the much larger screen of a 4K TV, you might not need any serious GPU upgrades since the TV will handle a lot of the work and upscaling while the games themselves are (I assume) much lower-res than a real 4K game with such graphics programmed into it. One possible card for your PC that's relatively affordable and good enough for a robust boost to its video processing power would be the MSI R9 390X GAMING 8G Graphics Card (AMD Architecture) or, even cheaper but still very decently powerful for what I think would be your needs as you describe them, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 970 4GB 4k GPU.
Here are our reviews of both:
AMD 390X: http://4k.com/gaming/a-review-of-the-amd-radeon-r9-390x-8gb-graphics-processing-card/
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970: http://4k.com/gaming/nvidia-gtx-970-geforce-review-4k-gpu/
March 31, 2016 at 2:00 am
What cpu do you recommend for 4k gaming? For the big money builds I see everyone use a 5960x but I keep also reading the 6700k i7 is faster etc etc. What do you guys recommend, which will be the fastest processor and by how much.
April 1, 2016 at 11:29 am
Hey there Jake, for 4K gaming in a PC, the i7 you mention isn't bad at all if you want something a bit lighter (but still very powerful). It's a solid performer from what I know of the technology. However, for serious CPU gaming power for 4K needs, an even better CPU would be the six-core i7-5820K processor. it gets cooling from Corsair's 240mm liquid cooler the H100i v2 and offers great overclocking capacity as well. Six cores is definitely better than the four cores of the 6700k i7.
April 25, 2016 at 1:35 pm
4k (2160p) 60fps ultra smooth gaming is possible with < $50 processor i7 920 (4 cores, 8 threads HT)
I use it with only 4GB DDR3 RAM, 2x GTX 780ti in SLI, ASUS P6t WS PRO mainboard.
Unreal Tournament 3 is my favourite game. It looks gorgeous on Panasonic 65AX800 inch TV via displayport (30-36 ms lag is not a problem).
I was suprised I do not have to upgrade RAM nor processor.
I would prefer to have single graphic card because many games do not support SLI e.g. UT4.
With my setup I can play Star Wars Battlefront at 1440p on 144hz monitor or on 2040×1536 22 inch CRT Compaq P1220.at 60 or 80Hz refresh rate.
CRT is awesome for games due to zero lag, zero blur and high resolution. I got it for less than $50 second hand.
May 1, 2016 at 3:17 pm
Thank you
July 31, 2016 at 2:17 pm
What would you recommend as a monitor for gaming on the new xbox one s? Are there any monitors that have HDR compatibility?
January 31, 2017 at 7:51 am
One aspect is the noise on gaming at 4K for more than 30 minutes with lot of eye candy on. Personal experience, I love the AMD 295X2 because it being water-cooled does not generate the amount of noise that is disturbing.
This is all the more true if the ambient temperatures are 35 degree Celcius and above
July 23, 2017 at 3:09 am
'Upscaling' really isn't a good way of describing what's going on when you play an old game in 4k. Rasterisation is fundamentally per-pixel and shaders are executed on a per-pixel basis. Only textures are 'upscaled' in any meaningful sense, and even with them the term is an oversimplification. World of Warcraft, for example, has 256×256 terrain textures, and yet moving from 1440p to 4k produces a clearly apparent increase in distant texture detail, just because the game has a very long view distance. Even small textures require very high screen resolutions to fully resolve when far enough away.
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Hal-duino Circuit Update #2
Here are some more recent images and videos of the circuit Ed has put together for my piece. I'm very excited to install it in the doorway. Fingers crossed it goes smoothly! There have been a few technical hitches (see video at the bottom).
As Ed will tell you, its been a mission to get the circuit working properly. Through his extensive experience in electronics he's managed to get it working, whilst correcting an online Instructable! Success all round. I'm incredibly appreciative for his help with this. From my experiments last year with sensors and LEDs, to using an LED screen, to Ed's Halogen circuit.
The circuit will allow for my main concept across these experiments to come to life. The reaction of an artwork to its audience.
Originally, the plan was to make a piece on Perspex with electrical tape. In recent weeks, I've realised that this can be done in a much better way. I'm now getting an acetate print the size of the doorway. This will be placed in between a white scrim in the doorway and the halogen lights. As the viewer approaches the door, the door will illuminate, revealing an abstract impression of internet connections. This aims to replicate the way that we trigger our devices to access information on the internet.
As you can see from the photos below, there have been a few different prototypes.
Printing the revised Custom Boards:
Disaster: Exploding Resistors on the first Circuit Design.
Anglerfish, Candy Crush and Ultrasonic Sensors 05062015
I've been assembling a new version of the circuit I completed last term. With Ed's help, I'm trying to attach a much larger light source to the Ultrasonic sensor. I've had to start using transistors to amplify the current for more LEDs. Alongside this, I've also had to add an external power supply. Unfortunately I think the one HC-SR04 sensor I own has broken! So I've had to order another, which won't arrive till next week…. So this is on the shelf till it arrives.
I've been thinking about the interim show and what I hope to exhibit. If all goes to plan, I aim to use this circuit with a canvas. Instead of laser cutting an image into board, placing it on top of a square of LEDs, and covering it with a thin white material, (Sheets, paper, etc). I'm going to create my composition on the back of a canvas using duct tape. The duct tape will block the light from coming through the canvas, and the image will be displayed.
My recent post (Followers 03063015) as well as previous experiments with similar multiples of imagery, are examples of the sort of composition I hope to use. The Ultrasonic circuit runs on the idea of false discoveries, believing that your the first to find something, like a piece of information. The experience originally aimed to replicate finding something with a torch or head torch in a dark environment. It aims to mimic the way we interact with consumer technology, in terms of us having to activate its use. There are a few questionable elements to this idea, most importantly the word FUNCTION in artwork. Instead of simply being a reactive gimmick, this element aims to question the necessity of consumer technology's reaction to the user. Given the intimate and personal nature of smartphones, smart watches, laptops and tablets, the simple, easy to use interfaces give a false perception of connection. Obviously my iPhone works no differently to anyone else's (other than maybe the cracked screen thats been there for far too long), but still, I feel an intimate connection to it as it stores and gives access to my sensitive information, calendar, social media profiles, contacts, emails, even books and articles. This reliance on the interface, particularly touch screen technology, is fluent in our society and will only grow as we find more uses, or indeed a more advanced interface. (Look at Google's Soli Project). Alongside this idea of discovery, I'm interest in looking at temptation and addiction.
The AppleWatch, another piece of consumer tech that the naysayers couldn't find any use for, but since its release, has been particularly successful. One of the most interesting and questionable of its uses is online betting. Late night TV is riddled with adverts for betting apps. All of these sell their product on the fact that its too easy to use, you can bet wherever you like, and in any way you like, be it slots / roulette / black jack / football / boxing etc. The AppleWatch is no different, and as it interacts with the apps on your phone, these betting options take themselves to a new level of accessibility. There is no longer any need to get your phone out of your pocket to place a bet on the football game your watching in the pub. Mix this fact with a few too many drinks, and you have a dangerous interface upgrade for gambling addicts. This idea of digitally enhanced addiction I find very interesting indeed. Can you be addicted to social media? the news? even the weather? (addiction to the weather is obviously absurd, but the desire for constant live updates of any kind is the point of all this). Is there potential for media addiction in this way? and what role does the interface play in this question?
Can this addiction relate to our bodies? The AppleWatch uses a new type of sensing technology to detect our heart rate and activity levels. This is not a new piece of tech, its just a new way of doing it. I believe they shine a light from the bottom of the watch, onto your wrist, and this somehow detects your blood movement. Health apps and health tech is rising fast as an industry. At the moment, there's a very serious strain on the NHS, both in the hospitals and GPs. If this sort of technology could count our red blood cells, white blood cells, oxygen intake and every other necessary parameter to understand how healthy we are, could this help the NHS focus their efforts on the people who truly need care. This sort of technology would free up time for doctors and nurses, as they themselves wouldn't need to take the tests. If we were given this technology, could we become obsessed, even addicted to monitoring our own health? There are many health addicts and gym monkeys around, but what if the first thing you checked in the morning were the parameters of your own body? This is a necessity for people with Diabetes and other serious illness, but if the technology was available, and had an easy interface, why wouldn't this translate itself to the general, healthy public?
Again, this is a post with a lot of ifs and buts, and unanswerable questions, but there's no doubt that they are both relevant and interesting to consider.
I'm trying to drive the idea of this Ultrasonic Circuit in the direction of consumer interfaces absorbing the user. This can be both for good and bad reasons. On one side, absorbing the user can benefit the creators (Betting apps, targeted marketing) or on the other it can benefit, not only you, but also the community (Disaster warnings, health advice, large-scale events.) Either way, like a moth to flame, we react to the interface's perceived awareness. On the negative side of this, I like the idea of comparing it to Anglerfish, the deep sea creatures that use lights to attract their prey, or even the Sirens, who attract men to sail too close to the rocks by the sounds of their voices. This is best known from The Odyssey, yet, Odysseus (or Ulysses) cleverly warned his men and told them to put cotton wool in their ears to stop them from being distracted. In the end, i guess this post has come down to the ideas of discovery, temptation, addiction, their roles in consumer electronics and our role as the user to be aware of both the dangers and the benefits of an increasing reliance on personal, transportable interfaces.
The Siren, Edward Armitage, 1888
Ulysses and the Sirens, John William Waterhouse, 1891
An interesting point to end on is Candy Crush. A record breaking app thats played by 93 million players a day started by a company thats now $7.1 billion. Its simple game, heart-warming colours, candy and sounds are a temptation, and unfortunately the nature of the game itself is addictive. It benefits the creators and the users but still is there something a little odd about its popularity?
These are a few extracts from an article written by Dana Smith, a Psychology Graduate and Science Writer at The Guardian, April 1st 2014:
This is what Candy Crush Saga does to your brain
LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/apr/01/candy-crush-saga-app-brain
"First off, it's simple. The premise of Candy Crush is basic enough for a preschooler – just match three candies of the same colour. Initially, the game allows us to win and pass levels with ease, giving a strong sense of satisfaction. These accomplishments are experienced as mini rewards in our brains, releasing the neurochemical dopamine and tapping into the same neuro-circuitry involved in addiction, reinforcing our actions. Despite its reputation as a pleasure chemical, dopamine also plays a crucial role in learning, cementing our behaviours and training us to continue performing them."
"Steve Sharman, a PhD student in psychology at the University of Cambridge researching gambling addiction, explains that the impression that we are in control of a game is key to its addictive nature and is vital when playing a slot machine, for example. "The illusion of control is a crucial element in the maintenance of gambling addiction … [as it] instills a feeling of skill or control," he says. "There are a number of in-game features [such as the boosters in Candy Crush] that allow players to believe they are affecting the outcome of the game, and in some cases they are, but those instances are rare."
"Another feature of the game that strongly affects how we respond is the limit on how much we can play at any given time. Candy Crush effectively puts you into "time out" after five losses. This means you can never be completely satiated when playing and always leaves you wanting more. And by not letting you play, the game actually becomes even more rewarding when you are let back into Candyland. This is also how Candy Crush makes its money, letting you buy back into the game if you're willing to purchase extra lives.
Researchers from Harvard and the University of British Columbia have demonstrated this effect, called hedonic adaptation, in a study using real-life candy bars. Participants were divided into two groups: one was told to abstain from eating chocolate for a week, while the other was given pounds of the stuff and told to go wild. After one week, the participants were brought back into the lab and given a piece of chocolate to savour.
The results? Those who had been deprived rated the chocolate as significantly more pleasurable than those who had been able to eat it freely. So it seems the deprivation makes the reward that much sweeter in the end.
Finally, it is no coincidence that the game is played with pieces of candy. As Sharman points out, food is often used in gambling games (think of the infamous fruit machine), tying our happy associations and the pleasure we derive from eating into the game. King acknowledges that candy's positive associations help make the game more fun and relaxing."
Another interesting aspect of Candy Crush, you gain lives if you manage to invite friends to the game…..
If you search Candy Crush addiction online, it comes across as a genuine thing, although its mostly people pretending their addicted, and joking about it…. are they joking?
How long do some of these 93 million people play Candy Crush a day? and what happens if they get it on their AppleWatch?….
In 2013 I was an avid Candy Crusher, I can happily say that I've gone well over a year without playing, and I have no intention of looking back… Hallelujah.


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A number of national news commentators have emphasized the importance of asking Republican candidates where they stand on social issues. That does not seem to be an issue for for the Anchorage Daily News (ADN). Comments to ADN articles about Senatorial Candidate Joe Miller that mention Miller's views on abortion and religion are routinely being deleted by ADN staff , including comments that link to articles published by ADN about candidate Joe Miller (Joe Miller thinks that women who are the victims of rape or insest should bear the child so begotten) Quoting Joe Millers comments as published by ADN:
23. State your position on abortion.
I am unequivocally pro-life. I do not believe that U.S. tax dollars should be used to fund abortions. Unlike my opponent, I would never have voted to repeal the Mexico City Policy, a Reagan-era policy that prohibited "funding of nongovernmental organizations that promote abortion as a method of birth control." Notwithstanding the Hyde Amendment, Senator Sam Brownback stated that repeal of the Mexico City Policy would "send taxpayer dollars to fund abortions overseas."
24. Do you believe abortions should be allowed in the case of rape or incest? What about when the life of the mother is at risk?
They should be allowed when the life of the mother is at risk.
Comments that posit that Joe Miller might loose his Senate bid if he does not receive support from Jerry Prevo's Baptist Temple or the folks that are members of the other big Christian groups in Anchorage, like ChangePoint Ministries, are also being deleted by ADN. ADN is also deleting comments that question Joe Miller's views on the "separation of church and state." What's going on at ADN? Given the tenor of the comments to most articles involving Joe Miller at the ADN website it seems kind of odd that ADN chooses to delete only comments that involve Joe Millers views on religion or social issues?


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After my family flew home, Matt, the doggles, and I took a short trip to the Olympic Peninsula. We found a cottage in Forks, Washington, not too far from the Olympic National Forest and some breathtakingly beautiful beaches. It rained, as expected in the rainiest part of the country. We were in a rainforest, after all. It was glorious.
The four of us donned our raincoats and set out for our first hike together, not encountering any beast or person for the entire two hours on Christmas morning.
Happy New Year! I hope 2012 is filled with happy surprises, time spent with loved ones, and new opportunities for us all!


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I've actually got 2 wonderful obituaries for Octavia. One was sent to me from a cousin that I met through the absolutely wonderful world of message boards (I love those darned boards so very much!). The other I found during Scanfest last Sunday.
Yes, can you believe that I had the obituary published in Wisconsin for years and didn't know it. That's why I'm forever grateful that I finally remembered to tune in and do a scan fest. I knew I had lots to scan, but never seemed to get to it. This find has certainly motivated me to get down to it and get it done!
So for you long-time readers of my blog (there are one or two of you out there)...you may recall the murder trial of Martin Joseph Villers that I posted on back at the end of 2010. Well, Octavia was his wife. She is my husband's great-great grandmother. I'm posting both obituaries, because they are a bit different and they therefore give slightly different genealogical information. It also makes for a pretty good comparison.
|The Bismarck Tribune
The following is from the Bismarck Tribune, July 1940:
Funeral Services Will Be Held At St. James Church Monday
Mrs. Octavia Villers, aged pioneer resident of Jamestown and Stutsman county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary LaJoie, at 6:30 o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Villers came with her parents to the United States 84 years ago from her native land, Belgium, where she was born December 18, 1842. The trip was made in a sailboat and took six weeks. The family went to Rosiere, Wisconsin, near Green Bay. It was 54 years ago when Mrs. Villers came to Stutsman county to Montpelier. She came to Jamestown over 30 years ago and for nearly 20 years lived with her daughter, Mrs. Ella Naze and since that time has lived with Mrs. LaJoie.
Mrs. Villers was active until about two years ago. She was a member of St. James Catholic church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. LaJoie; Mrs. Eli Cayemberg, Pulaski, Wis.; Mrs. Agnes Tardiff, Duluth, Minn.; and a son, Louis Villers, Green Bay, Wisc.; 24 grandchildren; 36 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. Mrs. Naze, a daughter, died several years ago.
Funeral services will be held at St. James Catholic church Monday morning at 9:00 o'clock. The body is at the Daly Funeral Home. The family requests that no flowers be sent. The rosary will be said Sunday night at 8:00 o'clock at the funeral home."
The date is hand-written in as July 5th. No year is given. Octavia died in 1940 at the age of 97. She missed her 98th birthday by 6 months. You can also note that her husband is not mentioned in her obituary at all. Not surprising I guess considering his crimes in the region. He is mentioned in the Wisconsin obituary below.
This obituary was taken from a local Wisconsin newspaper. It's a clipping, so I'm not sure which one, but I'd be willing to bet it wasn't the Green Bay newspaper. Perhaps Algoma's newspaper:
"Former Rosiere Woman Dies in North Dakota
Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Octavia Mary Villers, 98, which occurred Friday morning at the home of her daughters, Mrs. Felix Lajoye, Jamestown, N.D. She was a former resident of Rosiere.
|Unknown Wisconsin newspaper
The deceased was born in Belgium Dec. 22, 1842, and came to America in 1854 with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wagner, settling in Rosiere. She married M. J. Villers in 1864 and lived in Algoma for 10 years before coming to North Dakota 54 years ago.
Survivors are four children, (Florence) Mrs. Eli Cayemberg, Pulaski; (Mary) Mrs. Felix Lajoye, Jamestown; (Agnes) Mrs. Joseph Tardiff, Duluth, Minn.; and Louis Villers, Green Bay; 46 grandchildren and several great grandchildren. A daughter, Mrs. Prosper Naze, died four years ago."
No date on this one, but again, I know when she died. I this obituary they state that she's 98 years old even though they listed her birth date. Ah well...math! It's a small point either way.
This last one is the one that I "found" last weekend, and I'm glad that I did. I've been scanning obituaries that my husband's paternal grandmother collected and have been wondering how they are going to fit into our family tree, if they will at all. This last obituary gives some pretty great information on her children. And you know what? I recognize some of the names. Scoreboard! Naturally, the search isn't over with just this obituary. They are prone to errors. After all, they aren't submitted by the deceased. All second-hand information, which may or may not be accurate. I mean look at the birth dates. They were off. Either by the person submitting the information or the person writing the story. It does give me a great starting point to continue that research though!


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