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It's known that most days in Florida are hot or rainy and sometimes, both hot and rainy. I wish I could say that our days were always in the mid-70's BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. We do have those perfect outdoor days where the beach calls your name, or you can choose to spend your time walking around downtown Tampa or another area with lots of shops to poke your head into. Days like this beg for you to taste the fresh air, open the windows of your home and bask in the glory that is Florida.
We had one such day a couple of months ago, but this day…well, it was better than I can describe. Clear blue skies with not a cloud on the horizon, a gentle breeze, a perfect 75 degrees and sunny. I think even the grass was truly greener. On this day, I was contacted by one of my favorite buddies, Blaire, and asked if I wanted to accompany her to Bamboozle Café, a small Vietnamese restaurant in downtown Tampa.
Bamboozle Café is located in the middle of a strip of stores and shops on Tampa Street and from the outside, I didn't expect too much. However, from the moment you walk into Bamboozle Café, your sense of smell is on overdrive. So many delightfully pungent aromas wafting into your nostrils…it's enough to make you want to order one of everything.
Glad to be dining with someone who knew what to order, I allowed Blaire to take the reins here and decide on what we would be exposing our wanting palates to. The food will come later, but let me share the sauces one can find at Bamboozle.
The offerings include: Hoisin, Soy Sauce Vinaigrette, Peanut, Shallot Vinaigrette, BBQ and Sweet Chili. Alongside these sauce, there are peanuts, red pepper flakes and more to add to your dish.
This gorgeous-hued dish is none other than the Beef Banh-Mi with green leaf lettuce, cucumbers, pickled daikon, carrots, jalapeno, mayo and a mound of cilantro, all within a toasted baguette.
I hate soggy bread. If you actually enjoy soggy bread, I would have to wonder what's wrong with you. I had something wrong with me on this day, sitting in my seat at Bamboozle and watching the passersby. I was eating and enjoying soggy bread. It may have been the intoxicating spices. It may have been the sweet tangy flavors that I was consuming that put me into a semi-delirious state. Whatever the case may be, there I was, consuming soggy bread from the juice of the beef and loving every second of it.
Like I mentioned, I am not familiar enough with Vietnamese cuisine to really know and accurately pair flavors. But, I got lucky in both my dining companion and my choice of items to place in my roll. Along with chicken, I decided on mandarin oranges, roasted shallots, bean sprouts and mint. All rolls also come with vermicelli noodles and green leaf lettuce, wrapped in rice paper.
If we're going to compare the noodle bowls from Thai Temple and Bamboozle Cafe, Thai Temple will win, in my opinion. That doesn't mean that Bamboozle has bad bowls- quite the opposite. The entire bowl was flavorful, from the broth to the heat from jalapenos.
Lastly, we feasted on some cupcakes. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is on the left and coffee cake with coffee bean frosting is on the right. I can't favor one cupcake over the other because they were both that great. I loved the creaminess of the cream cheese icing and the bits of coffee bean in the frosting of the coffee cupcake.
It was a beautiful day with tasty food and enjoyable company. I suggest you try it out.


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[UPDATE] from version 1.5.0 arduino has its own official CLI, see https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/ide-1.5.x/build/shared/manpage.adoc following tool is unofficial but still on development
There is a command line toolkit for working with Arduino. It is called Ino and available at http://inotool.org/.
PlatformIO is a cross-platform code builder and the missing library manager for Arduino. It has pre-configured settings for most Arduino Boards.
It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (+ARMv6).
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Here is a Makefile for compiling and uploading Arduino programs from the command line without the use of the Arduino environment or Java. You will still need a number of other programs. On the Mac or Windows, it's probably easiest just to download and install the Arduino software. Then grab this makefile: Attach:Makefile
On Linux, you will need to install avr-gcc (whose package is usually called gcc-avr), avr-libc and avrdude. On Debian you might try
sudo apt-get install gcc-avr avr-libc avrdude
On Gentoo, see the instructions, but don't worry about installing Java, RXTX, subversion, or jikes or checking anything out of subversion, but do substitute avrdude for uisp. Then, download this zip archive of the Arduino core (it includes the Makefile): Attach:arduino-core-0005.zip
Instructions for writing, compiling/verifying, and uploading your programs are in the Makefile.
Minor detail: on my OS X 10.4 box, I had to add a "-C /location/to/avrdude.conf" to AVRDUDE_FLAGS otherwise it's bombing out when avrdude wants to upload your code.
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Barcelona Zoo Entrance Ticket
- Visit Barcelona Zoo for a fun and educational day
- Spend a day at Spain's most modern zoo in the middle of Barcelona's Parc de la Ciutadella
- Learn about Snowflake, Barcelona Zoo's famous white gorilla
- Visit spacious enclosures and see big cats, hippos, monkeys and more
- See dolphins without getting wet in the dolphinarium
What You Can Expect
Reproducing the natural habitat of the animals that live in it, Barcelona Zoo is split into different spacious sections with open enclosures for mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles. Additional areas include the 'infants' zoo' where kids can get up close to tamer animals, and the dolphinarium, where friendly dolphins perform in front of large viewing windows.
Until recently, Barcelona Zoo was particularly well known for being the home of a rare white gorilla called Snowflake (Floquet de Neu), who sadly died in 2003. To keep the memory of Snowflake alive, the zoo is passionate about helping endangered gorillas – participating in numerous endangered species awareness and conservation programs.
See all the big-name animals that you'd expect to see in a top zoo, like hippos, lions, tigers and monkeys, as well as animals that are native to Spain, like the Iberian wolf. As you explore, learn all about these fascinating creatures from information signs and interactive zones around the zoo.
With plenty of leafy picnic areas, cafés and restaurants on site, you can eat lunch at the zoo (own expense), or simply sit down and relax in between seeing Barcelona's impressive collection of animals!
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great selection of animals, one of the best dolphin shows in Europe if not the world. Easy to navigate, so much to see and do. Well worth a second visit. So many rare breeds of animals too not seen anywhere else...lots of places to eat and drink and good entrance ticket value made for an unforgettable day trip


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She returns in May to launch her first single at radio with a short tour with co writer and multi instrumentalist Kai Welch. Abigail has been touring extensively in the US including SXSW and is set to continue with appearances at Bonnaroo, Telluride and a tour of the West Coast this summer along with UK summer Festivals. "A real gem" – FRoots (Folk Roots)
"This is an album we love a little bit more each time we play it, and it's already certain of a place in our end-of-year Top 10. We're struggling for comparisons but we'd place City of Refuge somewhere in a world where the Cowboy Junkies' second album and Stevie Nicks' solo CDs are stacked on top of Harry Smith's quixotic Anthology of American Folk Music. In China. But that's not even half the story" – Holy Moly
"A lavish record that turns the heat under Washburn's melting pot a further few notches" – The Guardian "Purveyor of clawhammer banjostress turns outs something astonishing.."- Mojo 4* "and very lovely it is too" -The Independent "An interesting and Original album ..City Of Refuge is an album that gets better each time you listen to it. Washburn's own beautiful clawhammer banjo playing is augmented by a brilliant ensemble cast of musicians to bring together what she has described as 'a huge community record'." The Telegraph "City of Refuge melds Washburn's classic, old-time storytelling with indie-pop songwriter Kai Welch and renowned producer Tucker Martine creating "the best kind of crossover – one that anyone can find comfort in" (LA Times). "gorgeous, joyful new sound" – Newsweek "…Appalachia and folk-pop, with tinges of Asia and Bruce Springsteen" – Jon Pareles, TheNew York Times "The indie influence makes City of Refuge seem almost mainstream in places and certainly less of an acquired taste than any of Washburn's previous projects but it is far from being bland. Multi-textured and multicultural, though simple and soulful too, the album is for the most part just an inspiriting listen: original, inventive and twinkling" – The Line of Best Fit "In her singing Washburn exhibits a versatility to match her bold creative leaps and everywhere the musical seasoning is finely judged" – Maverick.
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Episode 30 – Must Have Accessories
For Episode 30 we discussed photography accessories in our camera bags that we absolutely cannot live without. Having a camera and a nice lineup of lenses is just beginning. Various tools and accessories become essential to our photography at Disney parks!
Here is a list of the accessories discussed:
- The Lens Pen
A handy cleaning tool for quickly removing dust and smudges from the front lens element. Tom, recommends the use of his shirt but you will have to ask him if you can purchase one for your kit, otherwise we recommend the Lens Pen!
- Neutral Density Filters
We discuss the different ND filters we use. An ND is especially useful for fireworks photography at the parks!
- Camera Strap
A good camera strap is a must. Long days at the parks call for something comfortable around your neck. A very popular lineup of straps is the Black Rapid sling strap series.
- Bubble Leveler
One handy tool that is essential for leveling a shot on a tripod is a bubble level. Some of the newest cameras have an internal digital leveler but if your camera does not have that feature, we recommend a bubble leveler that attaches to your camera's hot shoe.
- Remote Shutter Release
We discuss the use of remote shutter releases, both wireless IR remotes and wired. We discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of each type.
- Battery Grip
A battery grip not only helps extend your camera's battery life, it also helps with a more comfortable grip when shooting vertically.
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If your idea of an adventure is sitting on the left end of the couch instead of the right, then today's Groupon will push your limits without throwing you in the deep end – well actually, it will, but you'll have an oxygen tank. Enjoy a two-hour introductory scuba pool session, including equipment for R200 with C2 Divers.
If you're looking for something different that's fun, but not too extreme then today's Groupon is right up your alley. Accredited by the NAUI (National Association of Underwater Instructors), Durban's C2 Diving School teaches scuba diving from entry level right up to instructor's level - but because you're merely a guppy in the scheme of things, you'll get a two-hour pool session where you can familiarise yourself with the equipment, learn the theory and practice the basics of 'how not to drown'.
If you've been planning your dream tropical getaway, but don't know how to dive or you've always felt like a mermaid without the fins, then grab today's opportunity by the gills and learn a skill that will stay with you forever. With a maximum of six students per session, the instructor will be able to give you individual attention while making sure that you have a good time.
If you're shaking like a scaredy-cat-fish, don't worry – if you follow the rules and listen and learn then everything should go swimmingly.
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I'll Have What She's Having: White clothing tips to not look like a bride, a nurse, or the Good Humor man! According to old school fashion rules, Memorial Day is the official time to finally break out the whites. There's no need to look at calendar to see when wearing white looks right, if you know how to put it together!But mixed in the right way, white is fantastic!Take for instance, Gwenyth Paltrow in her white blazer and shirt. She layered delicate chain necklaces to create some "texture" near her face and opted for tan slim pants and chunky tobacco platforms to create a casual and neutral palette.Kelly Rutherford accents a cream sheath dress with a beige Kelly bag and nude pumps for classic chic. Both ladies are playing with the nuance of shades to create interest and keep it modern.Here's how you can wear white…Published on April 26, 2014
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I"ll Have What She's Having: Taking something urbane & edgy and pairing it with something casual however classically chic makes for a winning look Leather pants seem to come & go in & out of style about as quickly as hem lengths and while we've never been big fans of the many connotations they bring to…Published on December 08, 2011
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With all the insane streams of money coming her way, Kim K still manages to look cheap. We get celebrity style pr tip sheets of almost every celebrity and celebutard that you can imagine wearing something or another. Usually they end upon the trash, but this time I couldn't bear not to share this…Published on October 13, 2011
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The French Chic Formula for Everyday Style a la Emmanuelle Alt. I'll Have What She's Having: Off-handed, easy, wearable Parisian style. Emmanuelle Alt Makes Cool French Chic Look So Easy, so can you!Style is a lot like cooking.If you start out with poor ingredients, no matter how many spices you add, the dish doesn't work… well, at best, it could be just passable.But if there are a few very special ingredients, the result can be superb!I've been observing the very covetable, easy-going style of Emmanuelle Alt for some time as she is one of my poster girls for pulling off everyday élan in an attainable, distinctive and fuss-free way. What's most interesting is the relatable way that Alt carries herself and the ease in the way that she wears her better than basic basics that are iconic of a busy modern working woman and mom.Published on September 02, 2011
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It may seem simple, but sometimes how to wear a straw hat with style can get a little tricky. Every once in a while there is a fashion accessory that seems so easy yet becomes impossible for many women to stylishly pull off. The cute summer straw hat is today's fashion conundrum, SOLVED.Effortless and breezy straw Panana hats, raffia fedoras, a feminine take on a classic trilby, and the 70's-esque straw floppy hat are all on trend this summer.Published on June 23, 2011
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About Long Hill
This former family retreat has been renowned for its gardens for almost a century.
What makes Long Hill a special place?
In 1916, this 114-acre hillside property attracted Atlantic Monthly editor and publisher Ellery Sedgwick and his wife for its lovely views of the rural North Shore. But Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, an accomplished gardener and horticulturist, had more ambitious – and aesthetic – ideas.
As the couple formulated plans for the elegant Federal-style home that would become their summer retreat, Mabel Sedgwick also set about designing gardens and landscape amenities that are renowned a century later.
After her death in 1937, her vision was sustained and expanded by the second Mrs. Sedgwick, the former Marjorie Russell, a rare plants specialist, who added new and rare species of trees and shrubs to the estate, some introduced by the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain.
The gardens are laid out in a series of separate garden "rooms" surrounding the handsome, Federal-style, brick house. Each "room" is distinct in its own way, accented by ornaments and statuary.
Today, the gardens retain the "Garden for Living"–style with integrated outdoor rooms, mature plantings that blend into the surrounding woodlands, and a spirit of innovation in horticulture.
To design their indoor living space, the Sedgwicks hired the Boston firm of Richardson, Barrott and Richardson. The family wanted to bring the outdoors in, and they decorated the rooms with lovely murals of garden scenes and flowers. Its interiors also boast elegant woodwork and mantelpieces from the Isaac Ball House in Charleston, South Carolina.
The gardens are flanked on all sides by more than 100 acres of woodland as well as an apple orchard, meadow, children's garden, and agricultural fields, including a 2-acre organic vegetable farm run by The Food Project as a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project.
A popular 1.2-mile main loop trail – great for families – passes through quintessentially New England woodlands dotted by vernal pools and imposing boulders.
When to Visit
Year-round, daily, 8am to 5pm. Allow a minimum of 1½ hours. Peak bloom in May and June. Guided tours are offered in spring, summer, and fall. See Programs for details.
The Sedgwick Garden Library contains an extensive reference collection of horticultural periodicals and books that may be used in the library during business hours. Please call 978.921.1944 x1813 for an appointment.
Regulations & Advisories
We hope you enjoy your visit. For your safety, and to help protect this unique resource, we ask that you please comply with the following regulations:
- Please respect the tranquility of this reservation and others' enjoyment of their visit here.
- Dogs are welcome, but on-leash only. Please dispose of dog waste properly off the property.
- Long Hill is open from sunrise to sunset. Entering or remaining on the property after that time is prohibited.
- The following are prohibited at Long Hill:
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On Tue 24 May 05, 3:10 AM, Richard Harke <@earthlink.net> said:
> On Monday 23 May 2005 15:37, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > any demos of the output that you mentioned?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > Yeah, sure thing. Download it here:
> >
> > http://www.dirac.org/p/dylan.tar.bz2
> Neat, definitively.
AFAIK, what you saw is the first numerical demonstration of quantum
mechanical wavefunction collapse, and the first known numerical solution to
the Schrodinger Newton quantum gravity scheme.
> Was this a part of your dissertation?
Yeah, if you change "was" to "is". I'm still writing, but hope to be done
in about 2 weeks. Part of the problem is that I'm firmly, utterly, and
completely a *theoretical* physicist, but my dissertation's main thesis is
the proposal of an experiment to disprove a theory of quantum gravity.
Unfortunately, experimentalists haven't been doing mass-on-spring or Young's
double slit experiments for 2 or 3 hundred years. Modern experiments are
considerably complicated, and have a theoretical framework that is very
challenging. I know the gist of modern day matter-wave experiments, but I
need to become an expert very quickly (if anybody really understands the
Talbot effect, the Lau effect or Talbot-Lau interferometry, please email
One thing I've learned in grad school is respect for experimentalists. The
types of theory a *real* experimentalist does (not a grad student performing
someone else's experiment) requires theory that's often less abstract but
more complicated than what a theoretician does. As an example of this, pick
up any book on electricity and magnetism. Very easy to expand the Coulomb
potential if you know the theory of expanding 1/|x-x'| in terms of
orthogonal functions like spherical harmonics. But try to use the theory
to calculate something useful, like the potential at the tip of a
semi-spherical probe or even the electric field off-axis of a solenoid, and
you have a problem that would make most theoreticians pee in their pants.
Also, it didn't help that my main workstation died last week (hence, my
recent postings on vox-tech). Luckily, I back everything up like a crazed
maniac on steroids. I lost nothing. Absolutely nothing. Except time.
> Are you ever going to post your dissertation to your web site? Your web
> site looks like it hasn't been updated since you went east.
That's pretty much true. I had a full time professorship at a local college
teaching physics and calculus. You can't get away with the shenanigans that
some professors do at UC Davis at community college. Try it, and you'll
have a 90% fail rate. They definitely need a lot of hand holding because
half of them are woefully unprepared for classes in math and physics.
The metric that community colleges use to indicate success is graduation
rates. High graduation rate == college effectiveness, so it behooves them
to push as many people through as possible as fast as possible. It looks
good for the college and they get loads of federal/state $$$ to do that.
That also means when you teach calc, you have a class that couldn't graph
y = mx + b without a graphing calculator. BTW, it's not just community
colleges --- many high schools are also guilty of this.
The punchline is -- I didn't have much time to work on my dissertation in
the past year. I really tried, but it was beyond difficult. The job was
great experience, and is good resume material. But was terrible for getting
my thesis done.
Luckily my position was eliminated, and I declined summer adjuncting, so
I've been going full steam on my thesis. Losing the job was the best thing
that ever happened to me.
I definitely plan on posting the dissertation. I'll post an announcement.
You'll probably hear me yell "huzzah" all the way from NJ. ;) I think the
dissertation is also worth 2 or 3 physics papers, and perhaps another 2 or 3
papers in some kind of numerical research journal. Maybe computational
fluids. I've been thinking that some Dr. Dobbs articles might be
appropriate too. A lot of neat stuff went into solving this. And the whole
thing was done, from start to finish, using nothing but open source tools.
In fact, in my dissertation, I spend a few paragraphs explaining why it
would be detrimental from a *technical view* to use certain proprietary
I'll post those papers too, including latex source. ;)
> Its ok to be modest but don't over do it. One of my instructors told me
> he was told he could not be a theoretical physicist because he
> wasn't arrogant enough.
I've heard that before. I think "busy" often gets confused with arrogant.
We normally talk with a daemon running in our head that filters or
rearranges what comes out of our mouth. So instead of saying "you are an
idiot and have your head up your ass", most of us would say "I think you're
looking at the problem the wrong way".
Most successful researchers don't seem to want that daemon taking CPU
cycles. It's like running portmap when there's no RPC services. They want
to end whatever interaction they're engaged in quickly so they can get back
to work. It gets interpreted as arrogance, but I don't think it is.
Honestly, the only people I met at UCD that I'd label as "arrogant" would be
some of the grad students.
Wow. Sorry for the long email!
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich yesterday delivered his second "State of the State" speech, a reportedly hilarious mockery of political tradition that ranged from harmlessly wacky to straight-up sexist, while making a pit stop in the "Parkinson's disease is funny" category.
Kasich's apparent intention was to announce a new broadband plan, introduce an award honoring courageous Ohioans and try to say that his plans for shale drilling in the Northeastern part of the state are totally going to respect the environment.
But the 90-minute speech in a Steubenville elementary school auditorium included far more Kasich bloopers than usual. The Enquirer included in the first paragraph of its recap Kasich's references to "non-bluetongue cows going to Turkey" and "a dream about Jerry Seinfeld in the back seat of a car." The AP described the speech as "peppered with Kasich's usual array of off-the-cuff, sometimes puzzling remarks."
Those familiar with Kasich's governing style will find these descriptions to be only slightly surprising. Remember last January when he called a police officer an "idiot" in a speech for giving him a speeding ticket? Or when he mocked Ohio's drivers license for being pink (PINK IS SO GAY!)? Or that time he told a group of business owners that he wanted to make Ohio cool because the executives at LexisNexis said all their employees would rather live on the coasts instead of sucky-ass Ohio?
Kasich has proposed to cut income tax 8.5 percent across the board by 2016, which would help drive Ohio's top tax rate below 5 percent. The governor claims single mothers making $30,000 would save an extra few hundred dollars on taxes every year as part of his proposed tax cut, a claim Neuhardt called "despicable and wrong."
During the press conference, Neuhardt said Kasich is using the plight of single mothers to propagate a tax cut that would disproportionately benefit Ohio's upper echelon.
"I want to really emphasize pay equality is always an important issue," Neuhardt said.
doesn't have a plan to square the $11,600 pay disparity between genders in 2012
that she cites, but she did say that her administration would need to reverse
everything Kasich's administration has done in order to get Ohio's economy
moving forward, should she and her running mate, gubernatorial candidate Ed
Fitzgerald, win office in November.
"We need Ohio's working class to have money in their pocket," Neuhardt said.
Kasich's previous budget took the first steps toward pushing the state's top tax rate below 5 percent by lowering income tax across the board and raising sales tax, a combination that disproportionately favors the wealthy. CityBeat covered that plan here and Kasich's early 2013 budget proposals here and here.
Council members P.G. Sittenfield and Yvette Simpson spoke about pay disparity before Neurhardt took the podium on Tuesday.
Simpson stated women on average are earning 27 percent less than men in Ohio and Latin American women are earning 57 percent less.
"In the year 2014, that's unacceptable," Simpson said.
She also stated that Cincinnati has a 50-percent single mother rate and that 53 percent of children are living in poverty.
Sittenfield said the way toward eliminating pay disparity is through "meaningful reforms," not tax cuts.
"Wage equality is not just a women's issue — it's a family issue and it's an Ohio issue," Sittenfield said.
Kasich proposed the cuts as part of a mid-biennium review intended to lay out administrative goals for next year.
Fresh from a successful effort at stopping a budget amendment to block the replacement of a deteriorating Cincinnati bridge, State Rep. Denise Driehaus (D-31st District) will hold a town hall meeting to discuss the Ohio budget with constituents.
Driehaus marshaled forces in the Ohio House this week after she noticed an amendment that affected the $66.5 million project had quietly been added to the state budget bill by State Rep. Bob Peterson (R-85thDistrict).
POLITICO says Kasich met privately with billionaire Sheldon Adelson at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino during last month's Republican Governors Association winter meeting. A call to Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols to confirm the meeting and inquire as to what was discussed was not immediately returned.
POLITICO, which often deals in political gossip, postulates that Kasich could run for president in 2016. The newspaper reports that Adelson also met with Govs. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Bob McDonnell of Virginia — also rumored 2016 GOP candidates.
Adelson and his family have donated $84 million to Republican groups. Those donations include $20 million each to super PACs supporting Romney and Gingrich.
"After shadowy outside groups spent more than $40 million to support Josh Mandel's losing campaign for Senate, Governor Kasich is actively positioning to be the next Ohio darling of the special interests," Ohio Democratic Party spokesman Jerid Kurtz said in an emailed statement.
"Ohio voters should be deeply disturbed that over two years away from his re-election campaign, Kasich is already showing signs he's willing to serve the special interests and take the same path as Josh Mandel."
Adelson is under federal investigation by the Justice Department for allegations of bribery and money laundering. A majority of his casino empire is based in Asia.
Tea party activists are working to gather the 380,000 signatures needed to get the Ohio Workplace Freedom Act on the ballot. They have until July 3.
The Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the first of two right-to-work bills, both of which were passed by the state Senate last week. Gov. Rick Snyder has told multiple media outlets that he could sign the bills as early as Wednesday.
Michigan would be the 24th right-to-work state in the nation and the second in the Midwest. Indiana passed a similar law earlier this year.
Members of the Ohio House Democratic Caucus wore red carnations — Ohio's state flower and a symbol of the labor movement — at the Statehouse Tuesday to show support for Michigan workers.
"Put simply, so called 'right to work' is wrong. Statistics show states with this anti-working family legislation have lower wages and higher poverty rates," Ohio state Rep. Connie Pillich, D-Montgomery, wrote in an emailed statement.
"We will continue to stand together and fight against these unfair attacks on workers in Ohio, Michigan and across the country."
Despite the effort to put a right-to-work law on the ballot next year — a similar effort was unsuccessful in 2012 — it doesn't seem like Ohio is in any rush to join Michigan and Indiana.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio Gov. John Kasich has higher priorities than passing a right-to-work law. The newspaper reports that Ohio added 127,000 jobs in the past two years and ranks fourth nationally and first in the Midwest in terms of job creation.
Kasich said the agenda for the last two years of his first term include tax cuts, an education overhaul and infrastructure improvement to keep the state competitive.
"I have an agenda that I think is going to benefit the state of Ohio," Kasich told the newspaper. "We're doing very well vis-a-vis the rest of the country now, and I think if we continue to pursue the agenda I have and the legislature has, I think we'll continue to be successful."
FUN FACT: Michigan's right-to-work bill will be signed into law in the Romney Building. George Romney, former Michigan governor and father of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was an opponent of right-to-work laws.
Gov. John Kasich today denied a request for executive clemency from Mark Wayne Wiles, who was convicted in 1986 of the murder of 15-year-old Mark Klima in the northeast Ohio township of Rootstown.
Wiles is scheduled to
be executed April 18 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in
Lucasville. According to the clemency report, members of the Ohio
Parole Board on March 2 interviewed Wiles via video-conference from
the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, after which arguments in
support of and in opposition to clemency were presented. The board
voted 8-0 against recommending clemency.
Ohio was subjected to a moratorium on executions from November of 2011 until April 4, 2012, when U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost of Newark lifted the moratorium he invoked for the state's inability to follow its own execution protocol. The moratorium was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in February.
CityBeat reported here that despite lifting the moratorium, Frost expressed frustration with the state's problems carrying out executions, despite the errors being largely minor paperwork technicalities, including "not properly documenting that an inmate's medical files were reviewed and switching the official whose job it was to announce the start and finish times of the lethal injection."
From CityBeat's Politics/Issues blog April 6:
Since the moratorium, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has allegedly scrutinized its procedural policies and implemented a new "Incident Command System," which sounds like an initiative for ORDC Director Gary Mohr to more closely micromanage the processes during state executions.To date, Ohio has executed 386 convicted murderers. Click here for a schedule of upcoming executions in Ohio and here for recent clemency reports.
"This court is therefore willing to trust Ohio just enough to permit the scheduled execution," Frost wrote regarding his rejection of Wiles' stay of execution. "The court reaches this conclusion with some trepidation given Ohio's history of telling this court what (they) think they need to say in order to conduct executions and then not following through on promised reforms."
Outgoing Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis is retiring after his current term and Jim Neil will replace him on Jan. 6, 2013, but that doesn't mean Leis is done with public life.
The lawman best known for the raid of the Contemporary Arts Center over an allegedly obscene Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit and his prosecution of pornographer Larry Flynt will begin serving as a visiting judge in 2013, according to letters first published by The Enquirer.
Before being appointed sheriff, Leis served as a Hamilton County Common Pleas judge from 1982 to 1987. Prior to that he was Hamilton County prosecutor for 12 years.
The letters dated May 1, 2012 and Oct. 22, 2012 indicate that Leis wrote Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor to let her know he was retiring and was interested in being assigned as a visiting judge.
Visiting judges are in charge of all of the cases other judges are assigned but can't get to due to full dockets. Leis will be paid the standard visiting judge rate of $60.68 per hour.
Since Leis last served as judge 25 years ago, O'Connor is requiring him to shadow another judge for a day or so to get back up to speed. Leis has kept his law license current since becoming sheriff.


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When NDE doesn't meet the smell test: Find Dr Ko
The elites in Manila, who have rejected Catholicism (they love money, and push green stuff while promoting the RH Bill, but don't fight bribery or help the poor) tend to love new age stuff, but I find it silly.
Yes, I believe in NDE 's (although some are obviously subconscious wishes, most probably are accurate).
But her story, being pushed by new age gurus, doesn't meet the "Smell" test.
So where is her pathology or medical records?
Dr.PennySantori says one Dr Peter Ko checked them and they were accurate.
So who is Dr Peter Ko?
Supposedly he is a famous American oncologist (cancer specialist) at USC (university of southern California), yet this list of him as an oncologist doesn't give his address or affiliation but only articles associated with Ms Moojari.
Then why is the only Dr Peter Ko found by Google a family practitioner from Kentucky?
or this one, who is an endocrinologist in Singapore?
or this one, from British Colombia? (specialty unknown)
Or this one, a Family practitioner in Flushing NY (a NYCity blue collar suburb)
or this one, an optomotrist (not an MD) from Beverly Hills California?
not on Linked in.
The USC site shows a David Ko in the Neurology Department.
Specialty service recruits included Dr. Said Beydoun (neuromuscular disorders), Drs. Christopher DeGiorgio (now vice chair of neurology at UCLA), David Ko, Christi Heck, and Laura Kalayjian (EEG and epilepsy).and they have a Dr Chester Koh listed too: a pediatric urologic surgeon.
no Dr peter Ko on their radiation oncology site
comment 169 on Santori's blog says:
Hi Penny,Oh, if it's been on the radio it must be true (sarcasm off)
Regina ( Anita Moorjani's assistant sent me an excellent reply when I questioned Dr. Ko's existence. ) She sent me a link showing Dr. Ko with a young girl. This is the same Dr. Ko on Anita's video( see http://china.usc.edu/(S(1cfhxuffOtsjkz55mqmo1u45)A ). She also stated that Phil Whelan a well respected journalist and broadcaster has met Dr. Ko and can attest that both Dr. Ko and Anita's physician Dr. Walker exist. Mr. Whelan still works at radio station RTHK . I checked and the station and the man do exist. http://programme.rthk.org.hk/channel/radio/index.php?c=radio3
There is also a radio interview on Anita's website with the same doctors. If one needs to verify they can contact Phil Whelan and have him refer to the interview in 2006. Hope this helps .Regina has been most helpful.
another comment answers with several links.
BTW…with about 5 mins. of research, the following came up either as articles written about Dr. Peter Ko, articles he co-wrote with other physicians, or references to him as a practicing MD:
Your comments, Julie, are spot on and any truly honest person would do exactly as you suggest. I suspect, however, we needn't hold our breath waiting for this to happen.
One of them lists Dr Peter Ko as being associated with USC
HSC Organizers spearhead effort to bring health books to China
In an effort orchestrated by Peter Ko, assistant professor of clinical surgery, more than 2,000 pounds of books, journals and instructional materials have been sent to health sciences libraries throughout China.
hmmm.the USC site doesn't name him as a physician, so is he the optomtirist mentioned above? Or has he left (notice that article dates to 1998. Maybe he moved on or retired).
This article mentions a peter Ko MD
this one says he is a FACS but discusses his involvement in telemedicine to China.
Overseas, there is plan to organize a group of academic centers with demonstrated excellence to jointly design and carry out clinical trials. Such multicenter collaboration in telemedicine investigation would promote efficient use of resources and establish credibility. An effort along this line is a monthly case conference series with the University of Southern California School of Medicine, to study the efficacy of teleconsultation over great distances, due to begin at the end of 1998 (Professor Clarke B. Hazlett email@example.com / Professor Frederick W. George firstname.lastname@example.com).
Thus far, the pace of progress in telemedicine in Hong Kong has been rapid, and could not have been accomplished without shared vision and uniform dedication among forward-thinking individuals.
Peter Ko, MD, FACX
Assistant Clinical Professor
Research Associate in Telemedicine
U of Southern California School of Medicine
Advanced Biotelecommunications and Bioinformatics Center
Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Fellow
Chinese U of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Faculty of Medicine
Center for Telemedicine
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
one small problem: The article is very old:
An effort along this line is a monthly case conference series with the University of Southern California School of Medicine, to study the efficacy of teleconsultation over great distances, due to begin at the end of 1998 (Professor Clarke B. Hazlett email@example.com / Professor Frederick W. George firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Now, if you check LinkedIN Hong Kong,etc we have several Peter Ko listed. none seem to be physicians.
the commenter includs this link which indeed shows a Dr Peter Ko who is a pathologist. ...in pasadena.
Uh, a pathologist would be able to evaluate medical records of a supposed cancer cure, but if so, why does he say he is a cancer specialist?
However, pub med doesn't have a lot of articles by any Peter Ko's... I did find one article, an old article on orthopedics written by dr PPKo.
there is a radiation oncologist a Wui Jin Koh at Univ Washington.
he is Chinese/Malaysian.
The confusion is because Ko/Koh/Go/Goh is a common Chinese name.
Yet Ko can also be a Korean name, and is a common name there.
As of the 2000 South Korean census, there were 435,000 Kohs in South Korea, accounting for just under 1% of the population
Dr. Howard Ko is even a big shot doc in the HHS.
the comment has this interesting link: this one, which is about the telemedicine link, but doesn't mention a doctor ko. Since the telemedicine stuff is with Hong Kong, that would make him Chinese, not Malaysian, Sinagapore, or Korean.
What is interesting is that presumably this is the organization cited above with Peter Ko mentioned.
more googling:
Dr Andrew Ko is an oncologist, but he works in San Francisco, not USC. and has lots of articles on line and also has has writen a popular book on cancer LINK more HERE.
Dr. Clifford Ko is a surgeon who does cancer surgery in UCLA.
Dr. Micki Ko is a radiation oncologist too, but she's a she, and works in Toronto.
Dr. Stephen Ko is a radiation oncologist too, but works in Florida
Dr. Mi Kyung Ko is also a radiation oncologist in LA. She works in Rush, not USC.
Dr. Stephen Ko works at Mayo clinic.in radiation oncology.
Interesting factoid: This article discusses spontaneous regression on an "alternative medicine" site. and starts with the title: Doctor Peter Ko MD.
But Doctor Peter Ko MD is not mentioned in the article, nor is the blog written by him. Huh?
that's nice, but no mention of Dr Peter Ko MD in the article.
Having missed several of Adam's earlier presentations due to scheduling incompatibility, I finally made time to attend the INTENTION TO HEAL workshop in Vancouver BC on June 2 and 3.I was also eager to hear his co-presenters, Drs. Bruce Lipton and Edgar Mitchell, both of whom hold some very thought-provoking ideas on consciousness and healing…
How do thoughts and emotions influence certain gene expressions via molecular signaling mechanisms? How does one person's mental state influence another's physical health remotely? And, if validated, how would these ideas change our concepts of reality and view of ourselves!?
The author of the blog post is a "molecular biologist" who makes a living selling new age healing.
Yup. hangs around with all the usual suspects.
Adam has had a number of guest speakers at his conferences including Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who in the film "The Living Matrix" credits Adam with distantly healing his kidney carcinoma, Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr. Lee Pulos. He has presented at the Association of Complementary and Integrative Physicians of BC conferences with Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. David Suzuki. Adam was the keynote presenter at the Northwest Naturopathic Physicians Convention. More recently he presented in a conference with Dr. Deepak Chopra. More answers to your questions about the workshops can be found in FAQ.
his linkedin page says:
Adam has a B.Sc. First Class Honors in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Educationand is a First Nations healer, speaker and international best selling author with books printed in 21 languages in 35 countries around the world.
yeah. the dreamcatcher should have alerted you that he is "first nation": the dream catcher is Objibwe, but I've found it being sold as indigenous Filipino tribal art in Baguio, so it does get around (sarcasm off).
And he gave a talk to naturopathic quacks. Heh. Yeah, I had a patient whose husband was a naturopath. Why me? well, her husband delivered her first baby at home in a natural way, and the kid died (and she almost died) and they knew I didn't go around blasting them for their irrational beliefs that let their first child die from ignorance, like the other docs in town.
Edgar Mitchell is an astronaut who went bonkers and got into new age stuff, but he's not an MD.
Dr Bruce Lipton is a "doctor": of development biology. So he isn't a physician either. and although he claims research and teaching at first line universities, it is interesting that he doesn't have tenure, and his last university listed was 1993...the wikipedia article links to Pubmed, but when I checked bruce lipton there, the only article by one burce lipton was about measuring a CVP via ultrasound, written in 2000, so it's probably another guy with the same name.
this alternative medicine site describes his way to treat the sick: If you think it, it will happen.
Sounds like Christian Science redux. and yes, conspiracy fans, you can find him on Coast TO Coast AM.
One of these days I'll write a long article on hypnosis/delusion/placebo effect and faith healing: they are all connected.
Put it this way: If they cure someone with a low measurement of hypnotizability (Low eye roll test) and they cure him, maybe I'll belive.
Or if they can explain why a baby is suffering and dying maybe I'll listen. These treatments are shamanistic: Reminds me of a Nigerian Psychiatrist who operated using hypnosis during that country's civil war: No he didn't learn it from medical school in the UK, he learned it from his grandmother, a shaman (witchdoctor, or a person who diagnoses witch craft). He knew a lot of her healing was placebo/suggestion. Which is why if you go to a native healer in many African countries, they treat you and give you a shot of penicillin, just to be on the safe side...
Back to our mistress of happiness, Ms Moojari.
Did you know on her website if you pay big money, she and Dr. Wayne Dyer will let you buy their course.
only $75 bucks and you too can learn to love.
and no, Dr. Wayne Dyer isn't a physician either. From a discussion at Randi's site:
Dyer holds a doctorate in educational counseling from Wayne State University ." That is not a Ph.D., rather an Ed. D. ...how bad is Dyer? well when the PBS ombudsman wonders if their support of him goes against their policy of allowing proselytizing, you know you have a problem
From the back of one of his more recent books: "Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-development.... Dyer holds a doctorate in educational counseling from Wayne State University and was an associate professor at St. John's University in New York."
On a book published in 1989 the back cover reads simply that he has a "doctorate in counseling psychology and is a psychotherapist."
Many of his previous books just claim he has a "doctorate in counseling psychology."
Jeff Corey5th November 2008, 04:36 PM
and what is that about the white crow? Well an occult book publisher has that name.
As Chesterton said, when people stop believing in god, they start believing in anything.
A good explanation on why these biochemists/physicists etc. go bonkers over the new age cults can be found in Professor Raia's UCLA course on science magic and religion, now on youtube.
Blame the pre socratic philosophers who started the trend.
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HISTORIANS have a new way to determine the age of books and engravings. The same wooden or metal blocks were sometimes used for many years to produce copies of documents or prints. Over that time, the flaws that developed in these blocks got worse, and these show up on the printed page. Evolutionary biologist Blair Hedges of Pennsylvania State University at University Park realised that these flaws could be used to date printed material. He took high-resolution scans of versions of the same prints made at different times and used imaging software to detect the flaws. For documents printed from wooden blocks he found a direct relation between the number of flaws in a solid line and the block's age, while with copper plates lines become fainter (Proceedings of the Royal Society A, DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1736).
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A VERY angry and young Maes said:
Dear PC Master, first of all I'd like to congratulate you for your contents, which really cover all the spectrum of informatics, ranging from games and hardware all the way up to expensive commercial packages. No other computer magazine in Greece has this versatility and this so particular way of presenting stuff that you have. Kudos, then!
However you must have your "downs" now and then, huh? I mean, what was that all about with that unfair and unacceptable review of FINAL DOOM in issue 78 of PC MASTER? Sound and graphics 55%? Gameplay 85%? Overall 65% ?! What you did was the very least SACRILEGIOUS, HIGH TREASON in the eyes of every true gamer!
How could you do that to a game that in December 1994 (issue 57) had scored Graphics 91%, Sound 94%, Gameplay 99%, Endurance 97%, ATMOSPHERE 100% [Note: yup, they had really written that in the review. No other game ever received an "atmosphere" rating], 97% OVERALL? But I'm sure that the actual issue at hand is another one, isn't it?
Ah, DOOM. I can hear a lot of you folk laughing and saying "but DOOM is dead by now!" or "…is this guy straight from the…'past' or what?", "but now we have QUAKE" and other things along these lines.
There are many blokes out there who would like to "get rid" of DOOM once and for all.
Not that QUAKE isn't a great game too, but DOOM is its equal in many points, which I can support: e,g, many things that were mentioned as new and exclusive features in QUAKE already existed in some form in DOOM: e.g. doors that open to the touch and shootable switches existed in DOOM since day one, and don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about [Note: in their overly enthusiastic review of Quake, they actually mentioned these things among Quake's "exclusive improvements" over Doom. So justice had to be done].
Doom's environment is 3D [Note: they called it "illusion of 3D", which I couldn't stand], but it has a small limitation for which however none ever complained, and is exactly what gives DOOM the fastest 3D rendering engine in the PC gaming world: it only allows one floor and ceiling per 'sector', thus making the construction of bridges, multi-floored buildings, slopes etc. impossible. However many level designers have managed to approximate this sensation (sic), it's up to them and their ability.
QUAKE doesn't have this limitation, of course, but in all QUAKE levels I've seen this feature is only used sparingly, mainly for small bridges and short slopes, while its very existence makes the game painfully slow (and needlessly so), especially compared to DOOM.
Some of QUAKE's features (e.g. the ability to freely look up and down) already existed in HERETIC and its sequel, HEXEN, which use DOOM's engine and have no performance penalty for doing so.
Also, it might be true that QUAKE's "real 3D sprites" may be more realistic than DOOM's 2D sprites, but their very existence, too, slows the game down to a crawl. I mean, seriously, a QUAKE room with more than 30 enemies, wouldn't be horribly slow, even with a PENTIUM PRO @ 200 MHz? I have seen locations in DOOM with dozens of enemies at once, hordes, mobs, at the pre-maximum view window size, with HIGH DETAIL (another useful option which was unfortunately removed from QUAKE) on my 486DX/40 while I still had 4 MB of RAM, that were lightning-fast, according to DOOM's FPS meter (20-24 fps).
Really, of all the games you reviewed in that fatidic issue 78, which one could even run on a 486 with 4 MB? That's another point of strength for DOOM.
Also, the status bar: DOOM's was simple, functional, clear, and the clearly visible visage of our hero made us feel the one and the same with him, love him, feeling joy or pain along with him according to the circumstances. On the opposite, that microscopic, sheepish looking face they put in QUAKE could never cause those same feelings.
What else is there to say? How about the DUMB, oh wait, I mean the ULTRA DUMB weapons of QUAKE? Somehow we started with kickass weapons such as the 'Chainsaw' that has grinded tons of daemonic meat (a DOOM's exclusive), to the 'Plasma Gun', to the one and only BFG 9000 (Big Fucking Gun 9000), and we ended up with…axes and nailguns in QUAKE. You could hardly define this as "progress".
What about the enemies then? Almost all of the classic and successful enemies that made DOOM so famous are gone, disappeared instead of making an improved return. Where else will you find something like the CACODEMON? The CYBER DEMON? The BARON OF HELL? The ARCH VILE? Only in DOOM! Let alone that DOOM has more lively colors, yet it also manages to have those famous "dark locations" that you claim are "typical of QUAKE"… [Note: Yeah, they also mentioned that as an exclusive trait of Quake]
Then, if we stick to the overall graphical presentation, I firmly believe that in SIMPLE VGA MODE, QUAKE is way worse than DOOM, much slower and demanding in comparison for what it offers. SVGA mode is another story, and only in that case could QUAKE be considered superior to DOOM (then again, only if you have a Pentium 133 and above, with 16(66) MB of RAM). However, when played in full screen and HIGH DETAIL, DOOM is pure delight and requires VIRTUALLY NOTHING to run compared with modern games: a 486DX/66 with 4 (and not 8, just 4 MB) is enough for full screen, HD and 36 fps, while a 386 DX/40 is enough for pre-maximum window size at LD and 25 fps. Any Pentium from 75 MHz onwards should theoretically give 70 fps at HD, that's better than a PLAYSTATION!
I mean, really, if someone saw for the first time QUAKE and then DOOM (on a machine capable of running both perfectly), I'm pretty sure that he would find DOOM more lively, faster, smoother, slicker, more SATANIC and ATMOSPHERIC than QUAKE. For QUAKE, he would probably only notice the slightly more varied environment, and the prettier "water". But NOTHING else.
The enemies (in QUAKE) would appear to be slower, the weapons would suck ass, and gameplay would also appear slow and tedious in comparison.
An expert DOOMER, on a good machine (to have fast gameplay) can easily make short work of these turtles that pretend to be QUAKE's "enemies".
But what if he witnessed them on a machine that can only run DOOM well? In that case he would add that DOOM is technically light years ahead of QUAKE, tech-wise, and that the latter is simply…unplayable!
[Note: I had made a pun between "cannot be played" and "unplayable", as the former means that something is actually too good to defeat/overcome].
Honestly, when there's such a heavy frame drop at the slightest movement, it's hard up to impossible for someone to aim accurately, which is often fatal (just try in play QUAKE on a 486DX/40 with 8 MB, which FIY ROCKS DOOM and tell me if I ain't right).
Let alone that, when so many books have been written about a game, so many editors and new levels were created for it, so many sequels were made (DOOM,DOOM II,ULTIMATE DOOM,FINAL DOOM), when it has become a new discussion topic for such a long time, when it's still used as a reference whenever something "new" and "better" comes out, when at last it affirmed the PC's dominance in gaming, by sending (at last) thousands of AMIGAs, ATARIs, SNES straight to the trash bin, and made the AMIGA goers WORSHIP the PC and its real power, when it set new quality and most importantly, technical excellency standards which many game companies today CANNOT follow, when it (almost) created a new religion…can it possibly die so easily?
You gotta understand, Doom is not like one of those stupid commercial games "designed" for Pentium and/or WINDOWS 95 (want some examples? Here you go: FOOTBALL, HELLBENDER, KRAZY IVAN, XS, et al.) that will forever pass into oblivion and indifference between two issues of your magazine, and whose dumb demo versions waste 100s of MBs from your magazine's CD-ROM each month, MBs which could be used much more creatively: source code, MODs, S3Ms, DEMOS (not commercial ones, but demoscene demos like FUTURE CREW's etc.), DOOM levels, utilities (is it possible that on a 650 MB CD-ROM there are only 10-15 mediocre utilities to be found?). I actually rejoiced when some game companies announced their intentions to "kill off" DEMOS once and for all. Hallelujah!
DOOM is the LIVING LEGEND, it is the MASTER, the LORD, the GOD of video games (and not only).
Doubtlessly, QUAKE is like day and night compared to DOOM in many aspects, but there's nothing going on about it that will make it into the "new King". If it had kept certain of Doom's good aspects, which allowed it to sit on top for so many years, then maybe it could, but it didn't, so there's not a chance in hell.
Really, if DOOM is considered so "outdated", then why does every gaming magazine and gaming company compare every DOOM clone with DOOM itself? The very same DOOM that was released in 1993 and 1994? Why did DOOM's first serious contender, DARK FORCES (yeah, I consider THAT one as a serious opponent) has remained in the dark since it was released? Maybe because it's IMPOSSIBLE to even touch THE GOD?
All other games will ALWAYS be called DOOM clones, to be reminded of their inferiority compared to GOD itself, DOOM! On the other hand, trying to compare DOOM with POOR or even TONGUE-IN-CHEEK knockoffs such as DUKE NUKEM 3D, RISE OF THE TRIAD, THE TERMINATOR: RAMPAGE etc. is really pointless. Sorry, but there can be no serious grounds for comparison. None of them has Doom's fast and precise control or attractive gameplay. Even if it may disappoint many of you fellas, DOOM's shotguns are going to roar for a long, long time to come, and endless hordes of demons will be slaughtered in its name.
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myk said:
Doom IS a religion.
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Maes said:
And apparently I was its prophet...if only I knew ;-)
Mr. T said:
I bet they had fun reading that lol
Maes said:
Heh if I knew about 1337 speak back then, I'd probably shorten the letter to "H0w fuc|<1ng |)4r3 j00? DOOM s1 t3h p4wn 4dn t3h h4x j00 fux0rs I'm g0nn4 rijp j00r @$$ w1+|-| 4 r4z0r d1ld0!!1!!!111!!onehundredandeleven!!!11!".
It would have saved me and them some time, as well as making my point more powerful ;-)
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Was there any sort of reply?
Maes said:
E.g. the Dark Forces review terminated with the phrase "Doom is dead. Long live Dark Forces" -> HA HA HA HA HA !!!
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even with a PENTIUM PRO @ 200 MHz
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PRIMEVAL said:
lol that was amusing. I personally love Quake, but I keep it equal with DOOM in awesomeness. Something about Quake just draws me in, probably the more Gothic theme in it and slightly more modern weapons.
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Maes said:
on my 486DX/40 while I still had 4 MB of RAM, that were lightning-fast, according to DOOM's FPS meter (20-24 fps).
Krispavera said:
Post of the Year Nominee 2010.
eargosedown said:
I'm sorry, but this made me laugh for a good minute. Ah, the old days when anything over 20 was amazing. Technology sure has gone crazy huh?
Maes said:
Exceeding the framerate of what can be actually displayed and/or perceived by the human eye is also pointless
Super Jamie said:
Some beg to differ
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Maes said:
Exceeding the framerate of what can be actually perceived by the human eye is also pointless,
Maes said:
Exceeding the framerate of what can be actually displayed is also pointless,
Graf Zahl said:
Clearly wrong. 35 to 60 Hz makes a big difference, and even 60 to 85 is clearly perceivable as an improvement.
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#2 by HeliumPhoenix at January 6th, 2010
The real issue here isn't framerates per-se….but motion-delta framerates. How 'fast' something is moving on the screen translates into so many pixels of distance between the same object on successively rendered frames. If the frame-rate of update is high enough (and the resolution sufficient)……or the motion is slow enough, then the number of pixels 'jumped' by an on-screen object that is moving will small enough that it becomes imperceptible as a 'jump'……it looks smooth. But, when the object is moving faster than the screen can update for the same delta in screen-space, the jumps get bigger, and soon it becomes not only perceptible, but noticible and distracting.
Motion blur only obscures this.
The 'framerate' resolution of the eye is around 80-100 Hz for a stationary object. Beyond that, changes that are faster (like a flashing LED) no longer are perceptible as changing, and appear to be a continuous (if slightly dimmer than always-on).
Moving objects are more complex, as it also involves the resolving power of the human eye (max around 1 arc-second). So, if your monitors resolution (and your distance from it) make 1 pixel to be around 1 arc-second wide/tall, then for NO noticible motion artifacts, your framerate needs to be fast enough that no object shifts more than 1 pixel in any direction per frame.
Of course, you also have to concern yourself with LCD or CRT response times too, as most LCDs shift on/off much slower than the GtG times they like to advertise.
So, if your LCD has a 5ms GtG response time, it's On/Off response time is probably around 7-8ms. Which means a max displayable frame rate of 160fps or so. Anything higher than that is invisible (your monitor simply can't display the changes that fast.)
There are a LOT of factors that interact when it comes to perception limits. And different people have slightly better (or worse) limits perceptually as well. So, claiming that 30fps is better/worse than 60fps is somewhat nonsensical, without more information on the type of motion, resolution, distance, and speed on screen that are involved for a particular game…
Gez said:
HeliumPhoenix's bunch of bullshit anal crap
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Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание Prestuplenie i nakazanie) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil, worthless parasite. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by relating himself to Napoleon, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.
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update on the Sugar Bet
Do you ever stop and think about the ways karma just flows and flows? When I was over six months into my year-long Sugar Bet, last February, I confessed that I'd screwed up, when I was in Hawaii. I came clean immediately when I got home. Not just here on the blog, but I went […]8 Comments • Continue Reading →
Ben's son goes psycho when he eats sugar
Recently my friend Ben was telling me a story about his younger son who has a completely insane reaction to sugar. Ben and his ex-wife are normally vigilant about keeping Alex and sugar faaaaarrr apart. Ben said, "But it was spring break, and I was with my buddy, and I just thought, what the heck. […]6 Comments • Continue Reading →
A sad update on the sugar bet….part 2 of 2
Next morning after I screwed up the sugar bet, I went for a run. I thought about telling Matthew. I knew I had to. I would rather have a peaceful conscience than $10,000. That much was clear. I thought about telling you, my readers, who think I'm better than that. I ran along the beach […]32 Comments • Continue Reading →
A sad update on the Sugar Bet….part 1 of 2
It's shameful that I've been delaying writing this post. You might know that on Sept. 11, I swore off all refined sugar, for a year. My friend Matthew Flinders and I put $10,000 on that bet. I haven't eaten much sugar in recent years. A tiny fraction of what most Americans eat, for sure. I […]13 Comments • Continue Reading →
Two great recipes and an awesome new ingredient!
I recently gave a lecture in St. George, Utah, and in three other Nevada and Cali cities. In St. George, we stayed with my longtime friends, vegan raw foodists Denley and Jan, whose kitchen and fridge contents always inspire me. Denley was raised on sodas and Twinkies, and eventually he was so ill that he […]18 Comments • Continue Reading →
A Year Without Sugar
It's been 2 months since I bet Matthew Flinders $10,000 that I wouldn't eat sugar for a year. Here, he and I talk about it. It's just NO BIG DEAL! (Kristin is behind the camera, if you're wondering why I'm assuring her that I still love her even though she ate treats all through Texas […]8 Comments • Continue Reading →
My kids and the Sugar Bet
The night before my bet with Matthew started—I must pay $10,000 if I eat any sugar—I told the kids. I wanted them to be part of watching me. (Matthew's mom and grandma had come to my class in Sandy the week before we started, and I asked his mom to let me know if she […]3 Comments • Continue Reading →
It's September 11, 2011. Today Matthew and I make a bet that we will pay an astonishing sum of money to each other, if we eat sugar anytime in the next year. (He has been texting me, "OMG! There's sugar in my SOUP! It's in Corn Nuts!" On and on goes the list.) Check out […]56 Comments • Continue Reading →


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The Power of Independent Thinking
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
Recorded: Saturday, August 2, 2014
David J. Theroux, founder and president of The Independent Institute and the C.S. Lewis Society of California, discusses the writings of C.S. Lewis and Lewis's views on individual liberty, natural law and statism.
The presentation was the keynote talk at the first annual conference of Christians for Liberty, that was held at St. Edwards University in Austin, TX, August 2, 2014.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: Other EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Culture/ Society, Education, Family, Freedom, Government Power, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Privatization, Property Rights, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion, Science, Taxes, Welfare
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
Recorded: Saturday, August 2, 2014
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Independent Institute Founder, President and CEO David Theroux is introduced by Julian Charles on the United Kingdom's Revelations Radio Network's program The Mind Renewed. In an address from the Christians for Liberty Conference in August 2014, David Theroux talks about Lewis' world view championing truth, excellence, liberty and other similar virtues, as opposed to the state which often tramples on individual rights and freedoms.
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David J. Theroux on Price of Business Radio Show
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Host Kevin Price and Independent Institute President and Founder David Theroux discuss the topic How to Maintain Liberty in this segment of the Price of Business on KTEK 1110 AM of the Wall Street Radio Network.
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David J. Theroux Discusses Libertarianism on WichitaLiberty.TV
Recorded: Sunday, December 1, 2013
Independent Institute Founder and President, David J. Theroux discusses libertarianism and gives liberty-based perspectives on current events with host Bob Weeks on WichitaLiberty.TV.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Political Ideology and Philosophy
C.S. Lewis Challenge in our Secular Age
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David Theroux and panel members Andrew Dósa and Roy Carlisle speak on C. S. Lewis perspectives at the "To Everyone an Answer: 10th Annual EPS Apologetics Conference" at Biola University. David is President of the C. S. Lewis Society of California.
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Independent Institute Founder and President, David J. Theroux discusses libertarianism, politics, and today's youth with host Gary Franchi on the Next News Network.
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Research Fellow Peter J. Boettke interviewed by Russell Roberts of EconTalk on his new Independent Institute book Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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