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I totally agree with the previous review. The food and service were wonderful. And you can not beat the view. It should not be compared to the other Korean restaurants. We all enjoyed it.
Posted by anonymous on 12/18/2012
I dined here three times and fully understand that those who are used to typical low-end Korean restaurants may complain about Gaonnuri, a new concept of "Korean" restaurant. It is different from typical Korean restaurants in the following ways. 1. Gaonnuri is simply amazing WOW with a 270 degree open view on the 39th floor over the mid-Manhattan buildings. The place fits important, romantic, anniversary, or very personal meetings best. 2. Related to above, its ambience is upscale. You don't see diners yell at one another or call servers freely any time. 3. Quality matters here. It doesn't mean that all their portions are small. They give a lot. What I am saying is that unlike other Korean restaurants on the 32nd St. Korea-Town it doesn't use MSG or low-quality ingredients. It imports seasonings and dried vegetables directly from Korea and purchases quality-graded meat. 4. Its food is authentic. It tries to deliver truly Korean food, not mixing non-Korean seasonings or ingredients. If you are lover of genuine, no fusion, Korean food, this is the right place for you. I strongly recommend Gaonnuri to all of you except those who are used to MSG and free refills from low-quality Korean restaurants.
Posted by anonymous on 12/08/2012
This restaurant does not have any concept about Korean food. The atmosphere is like eating inside the conference room. The view is good, but that is not the reason people visit the restaurants. Service was disappointing with no genuine hospitality. Food was so so, but way too expensive for that quality. Will not recommend. Go to Empire State Building for a view.


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1 (10.75 ounce) can
Campbell's® Condensed Tomato Soup
1 tablespoon
lemon juice
1 tablespoon
finely shredded fresh basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon
garlic powder
4 medium
zucchini, sliced
1 small
green pepper, cut into 2-inch strips
1 large
onion, sliced
1/4 cup
grated Parmesan cheese
I give this 5 stars on the condition of using a can of Italian diced tomatoes instead of the soup. Every thing else was the same except I used lots of fresh minced garlic. We loved it with these changes-wish I could used fresh tomatoes!
This definitely has potential. I used a can of Tomato Soup and it was too salty and it tasted way too much like the soup. I'm definitely going to try this again with fresh tomatos, and I think it will be great!
18 Ratings
I found a big zucchini in the garden and needed a healthy side dish for dinner. This recipe was the ticket. I didn't use the tomato soup. Instead I used a can of chopped Italian tomatoes. I sauteed the onion and 3 garlic minced cloves and zucchini pieces before adding in the tomatoes. I thought this was very good and healthy stewed dish.
Yum yum yum! This is a great alternative to my standard 'don't know what to do with the zucchini so just saute it with onion' recipe. Perfect flavor, excellent blend of veggies! Only change i made was to add some sliced mushrooms.
I loved this recipe. I too made some changes, I used a lot of fresh garlic and a dash of celery salt. I used ramano cheese as well and a ton of the two chesses. We had it as a soup type dish, and the cheeses helped thicken it up. I also tried with diced tomatoes instead of tomato soup, and didn't like it as much, not enough flavor defussion. Side note: If you have a gaint zucchini like mike garden likes to produce, cube it without the seeds for a thicker dish, or with the seeds for the more soupie varity.
Nice side dish, flavorful. Took one reviewers advice and used diced tomatoes. 3 of us ate it all (shows how good it was!)
Wonderful! I'm not a big fan of green pepper so I substituted with sliced mushrooms instead. It was fantastic!
I thru away my other zucchini recipe and now I make only this one. Great flavor (which is great because zucchini doesn't have any flavor) Added a bit of my own seasonings with the ones listed. Perfect!
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Reagan: Exit of an American hero
By Pat UtomiWednesday, June 09, 2004
I CHANCED upon breaking news last Saturday. It was the announcement of the passing away of the 40th President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan. Nostalgia surged up my whole being. In many ways my love-hate relationship with the Reagan legacy had impacted remarkably on my worldview. Few can imagine how many lessons I have learnt from the life of this President whose 1980 campaign cost me a television set I knocked over in anger but whose disposition I came to admire as President.
In spite of whatever popular comments may make acceptable I have remained unapologetic through the years of how much my American experience has affected me. It is such that I often say that my story can be summarised as "A Nigerian life, an American Journey and a Global Consciousness". The American journey aspect, four years of graduate study traversed the Carter and Reagan era. They were the years in which how I saw the world took concrete form and the Reagan legacy rubbed off on me.
I have been very forthcoming on the heroes that shaped my views, the role models that were the exemplars on which I constructed my path. They were primarily American. Ronald Reagan was not one of them. But he brought one of them to Washington. Perhaps because my academic focus at the time was in Public Finance and Budgeting, the 33-year-old Director of Budget Reagan named in 1981, was an instant hit with me. David Stockman would later leave the Reagan administration and write about the "Triumph of Politics" but he left enough of an impression on me that I dreamt in those days of being a Nigerian David Stockman.
Along with George F. Will and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Stockman made up the trinity of American persons around which I would model my life. Clearly the prime role model for me was Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the intellectual in public life, to borrow the title of Robert Katzman's recent book on the American legend who Newsweek Magazine editors called the Greatest Living American before his recent demise. Still Reagan affected me in significant ways.
As candidate for the US Presidency Reagan did not manage to attract me as one of his fans. His Republican rival who called his policy ideas voodoo economics, appealed more to me. But it was not George Bush, who would become his Vice-President that I favoured. I supported the incumbent President Jimmy Carter. After Reagan's victory I enjoyed good laughs as a humorous visually challenged, American classmate, made jokes like, McDonald has moved to the White House... right wings and (something not fit to print which refers to a part of the chicken's anatomy from which waste exits).
But Reagan grew on me. One afternoon while in my apartment working on my dissertation I had the radio on and suddenly Paul Harvey's harangue was interrupted by breaking news. The President had been shot. The paradox of his jovial nature, "darling I forgot to duck" as he said to First Lady Nancy Reagan, and his hope that the Doctors struggling to save his life were Republicans, brought out something I could relate to, his humanity. The ultimate Reagan effect on me, however, lay not in these domains, but in his strength of conviction, and how he had fun doing his work.
The persistence and passion with which Reagan pursued his vision of the world, like it or not, was for me a great example. It would influence my way. As I reflected on the Reagan legacy, this part of him and its effect on me was brought into sharp relief by a point made by another US President, Thomas Jefferson. "In matters of fashion swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stands like a rock".
I would come to add to that statement the fact that when a rock stands in your way, act like the stream, with tireless perseverance it wears down the rock. Again, I learnt from Reagan that you can have fun working hard as E B White put it. "I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and also have a one hell of a good time. Sometimes that makes planning the day a little difficult".
I have had a few difficult to plan days but thanks to being able to see Reagan beyond the stereotypes of the "cowboy" who rode roughshod over the New International Economic Order and the North-South dialogue at Cancun in Mexico, I have learnt to persist on matters of conscience and to do those things I enjoy such that much of my work is more or less play.
It is not all who are at ease with the American way of being
self-assertive. Some even think of it as self-promotion. With a personality shortcoming of being basically shy and a core personal preference for the simple, detached life, I have found the lessons of the passionate commitment to promoting one's ideals which I have taken from my American heroes, quite a liberating phenomenon. I am therefore always grateful for my American journey and to those who symbolise that way. Few did so better than President Ronald Reagan. A tribute to him is a debt I owe. It is a debt for the persona that I believe has flavoured the person inside, and allowed me to manage the ironies of my circumstance, a person who does not take himself seriously but takes his work very seriously.
I learnt much also about delegation from watching Reagan operate as President. This is why I assert often that I am a big picture person unwilling to manage again. For these, and many more, I bid a Nigerian burial farewell to the US President with whom I shared a birthday. No we were not born the same day, just February 6 of different years. That would be a Reagan kind of joke.
Outside my personal lessons, the Reagan legacy was phenomenal in ways opponents do not often acknowledge. Most will recall his contributions to bringing about the demise of the Soviet Union and improving East-West relations but I prefer to remember the man who was elected at a time of much self-doubt in America and its declining economic competitiveness. He restored America's confidence in itself and beginning with the competitiveness commission and such incentives as the Baldridge award, named for then Commerce Secretary Malcolm Balridge, got the quality of U.S products, which had paled in comparison with Japanese products, on the ascendance. When he became President, the average college senior was much engaged in the ritual of preparing CVs for the job hunt. By the end of the Reagan years, the average senior was working on his business plan and dreaming of being a billionaire come that initial public offering (IPO) before his 26th birthday.
Some have been very critical of this age of greed. A book peering at me from my shelf, as I write, an edited volume from Nicolaus Mills, Culture in the Age of Money is in that tradition. But that spirit which Reagan brought, gave new life to American capitalism, and an enhanced quality of life for both the poor and the rich. He had his failings though. Those who charged that his supply side economics gave Arthur Laffer room to elevate his ideas beyond the limits of the Laffar curve to a religion, would quickly point to the huge deficits and state of National Debt that was his legacy.
The judgment of history is still out. One thing is certain though, Reagan was an American hero and affected his times no matter where on the planet you pitched your tent.
Professor Utomi is with the Lagos Business School
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Technology update
Nov 20, 2008
In brief: research round-up
Thin film grows into lens array
Depositing silicon dioxide (SiO2) over a square-patterned substrate could turn out to be an attractive route to making arrays of micro and nanosized lenses. "There's no need for substrate etching and [the process] results in a high fill factor," commented the researchers in their paper. Rather than conforming to the shape of the individual squares, the deposited SiO2 layer adopts an almost spherical profile that is ideal for optical applications. The scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago, US, used e-beam lithography to pattern their sample, but point out that nanoimprint techniques could also be used to prepare the substrate.
Device maker formulates copper nanoink
Engineers at Samsung, Korea, have synthesized copper nanoparticles for use in inkjet-printed electronics. According to the results reported in Nanotechnology, the formulation suits low-temperature sintering, which is significant as it opens the door to the use of inexpensive plastic substrates. Inkjet printing is a versatile approach to patterning electronic circuits with additional benefits such as the ability to perform corrective overprinting. Silver inks have been shown to be effective, but are relatively expensive. Copper is a cheaper alternative, but has proved much harder to formulate for inkjet printing applications.
Cobalt nanoparticles damage cancer cells
Graphitic carbon-coated ferromagnetic cobalt nanoparticles are a promising candidate for the thermal ablation of tumours in vivo, according to the results of a recent study published in Nanotechnology. The cobalt-rich particles measure around 7 nm in diameter and are covered with 2–4 layers of grahitic carbon, which provides a protective barrier between the metallic core and the liquid biological environment.
When excited by low radio frequency radiation, the structures heat up and induce localized damage in the surrounding cells. In tests, the team found that 75.2–90.1% of the cells were destroyed when magnetic cobalt nanoparticles were used as the thermal agent compared with only 3.1–6.6% when the experiment was repeated with carbon nanotubes.
Lithography prepares CNT for electrical test
Making reliable electrical connections to nanowires and nanotubes can be problematic, but researchers based at the National University of Singapore think that they have found a solution. The scientists have devised a self-aligning technique that places a top layer of metal on electrodes at either end of the nanostructure. Nanowires are guided into position using dielectrophoresis and then the sample is flipped over and exposed from the substrate side using the same light source that was used earlier for the front-side lithography of the primary electrodes. For full details of the self-masking process, see Nanotechnology 19 455305.
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Fitness center groundbreaking brings new energy to campus
The groundbreaking for the new Student Fitness Center took place on Sept. 22, 2011 on the McNichols Campus, led by University of Detroit Mercy President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Board Trustee William C. Young, Student Senate President Alvin Ford and other UDM representatives.
The 40,000 square-foot facility will be completed in two phases. The first phase will have a gym with two courts, an elevated three-lane track, men's and women's locker rooms, a large group exercise room, a weight lifting room and two rooms for cardiovascular workouts, each with a full range of equipment.
The second phase will be added at a later time once additional funds have been raised. Phase II of the project will encompass an eight-lane pool for competitive meets and recreational swimming with bleacher seating for 250, a concessions area, team locker rooms, additional offices and an alumni board room.
Located on the east side of the Engineering Building, the Student Fitness Center will face the Lillie B. Kassab Mall. It is just a short walk to the new tennis courts, practice fields and Calihan Hall as well as the residence halls.
The brick building features a spacious lobby, large span of windows, vaulted ceilings and easy access. It complements the architecture of the campus' classic buildings as designed by TMP Architecture and Peter Basso Associates, Inc. When Phase I opens in fall 2012, students will be able to work out on campus without having to drive to an off-site fitness center.
Phase I funding is in place; fundraising is under way to complete Phase II, with naming opportunities available. For more information, please contact Vice President for University Advancement Gregory Cascione at 313-993-1250 or email@example.com.
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The lives of a Marine commander known for helping critically ill children in Iraq and a curious Charleston Southern University student will intersect Thursday when the Marine comes to campus to speak.
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What: U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Kevin Jarrard talk
When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: Wingate by Wyndham hotel on CSU's campus in North Charleston
Cost: Free
U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Kevin Jarrard, a Citadel graduate, was on routine patrol in Haditha in 2007 when he spotted little Amenah Thabit. The 2-year-old crawled across a floor, struggling to breathe, her fingers and lips turning blue.
The commanding officer thought of his own daughter, Rachel.
Amenah suffered from a rare heart defect. Without medical treatment, she would die.
While surgery to repair it would be easy enough in the U.S., it was impossible in Iraq at the time.
Among things Jarrard and his battalion set out to secure for the girl: flights, pass- ports, finances, Homeland Security visas, oxygen during a 14-hour flight, surgeons and medical facilities that would donate time and space, translators, female chaperones, post-surgery housing and culturally appropriate meals.
Amenah underwent open-heart surgery in 2008 at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. It saved her life.
The story, with its lessons in leadership, perseverance, faith and critical thinking, became a key story in the book, "Now You're Thinking," used in a CSU organizational management degree course.
As student Gerald Addison read the story last fall preparing for an assignment, however, his mind churned with questions unanswered in the text.
So, he tracked down Jarrard.
"I needed more insight into events and people. And most of all, I needed to know Kevin Jarrard better," Addison recalls. "I realized there was probably more to be learned about the Marine who was so intent on helping a child survive in a place where he could not be sure he himself would survive."
Jarrard responded. The student and Marine commander struck up a friendship, trading emails and phone calls during the eight-week course last year. Now, they will meet in person when Jarrard comes to campus.
He will speak at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wingate by Wyndham hotel on CSU's campus in North Charleston. The public is welcome to attend.
Jarrard, a Bronze Star recipient, has been featured on the national news for his efforts to help Amenah and a young Iraqi boy, Ammar Muhammed, who came to the Lowcountry in 2008 to receive care and assistance from local residents.
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Marine Corps Lt. Col. Kevin Jarrard reunited in 2008 with Ammar Muhammed, 5, from Haditha, Iraq, and his father, Ammad Muhammed, an Iraqi police lieutenant, in Charleston after Ammad had heart surgery at MUSC. Jarrard is scheduled to speak Thursday.×
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Is vicodin withdrawal as bad as suboxone withdrawal?
Vicodin withdrawal versus Suboxone withdrawal
I don't know that hydrocodone (Vicodin) withdrawal is much different than Suboxone withdrawal. Nonetheless, Suboxone withdrawal is likely longer than with short-acting opioids, because of its longer half-life. The main ingredient in Vicodin (hydrocodone) has a half life of about 3.8 hours, making hydrocodone half life relatively shorter than Suboxone.
People have different experiences, but overall, Suboxone withdrawal is milder, because it's only a partial opioid. In fact, Suboxone (containing both buprenorphine and naloxone) was designed to make it difficult to get high on Suboxone , which may be why people tend to abuse it less. However, you can read on the internet how some people have tremendous difficulty getting off of Suboxone. Just be aware to recognize withdrawal symptoms (such as sneezing and runny nose) as opioid withdrawal symptoms, and know that these symptoms may be caused by withdrawal and not other conditions, such as allergies. Education is key here.
When will I start feeling better?
Many opioid addicts feel crummy for weeks to months after they stop all of their opioids. We think this is because our bodies stop making their own opioids, called endorphins, when we take opioids of any kind, for any reason. It should be noted that it's only a theory that we stop making our own endorphins after taking opioid pills. Since we can't actually measure endorphins, this theory is not accepted fact, because it's not universally accepted – though it does make sense.
In some people, it takes a long time to feel normal again, and sadly there are some people who never feel right off of opioids. This is why so many people stay on maintenance medications like methadone and buprenorphine (Suboxone). They can function normally, other than taking a once-daily dose of the medication, which replaces the missing endorphins.
Alternatives to methadone maintenance
Many people have gotten off opioids and stayed clean without methadone or Suboxone, but it's not easy. Often, it takes more than a month in a residential treatment center to accomplish this. For example, addicted doctors or pharmacists often have to spend three to six months in treatment. Because of the expense and time involved, not many people have this luxury.
There are thousands of recovering opioid addicts, now off of all opioids, in the meeting rooms of Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous. This help is free, and you have the advantage of being able to talk to other people who know exactly what you are feeling. They can tell you how they got through the withdrawal without relapsing.
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Can you you become habituated from 5/500 pills over 13 days if you took one every four hours as prescribed? And experience withdrawal ?
It's not likely. You'll probably have a difficult time sleeping, maybe feel like you have restless leg syndrome. It won't be too bad, if at all. Especially because it was not that long of a time frame, and you didn't abuse the medicine. Withdrawal is really bad when people are on the meds for a significantly long time, especially if they abused the meds. Also, in my experience, the first 3 days are the worst. If you can make it through that, you'll be golden!
Has ANYONE experienced intense burning, painful burning sensations from Suboxone withdrawing or not?
Please I need some answers. Also, I have abnormal RBC, Hemoglobin and Hemocratin results, all being high.
To the Medical community, have you ever seen a connection to Suboxone use and these kind of blood results?
I need some answers. I have gone from 32mg. for 2 years to 1 1/2 mg. now, but can't go below this without extreme burning sensations. My Doctor says the burning is inconsistent with Suboxone "as far as he knows".
Please ADVISE. Any input would be greatly appreciated. My life is being hugely affected by whatever is causing this.
Thank you,
You poor thing…I detoxed from Suboxone and didn't experience what you're describing; however, I will say that it was completely miserable and one of the most painful experiences of my life. It stayed in my system until day 3 (even though they say it only lasts 16 hours, which is wrong) and on this day my world crumbled. It threw me into an extreme depression, so bad that I couldn't move. It took every ounce of energy to move from the bed to the bathroom. I cried constantly and after a few days of this wanted to die….and I was down to one 8mg tablet a day when I stopped with my doctor's advice. I ended up checking myself into the hospital, where I stayed for a week. The doctors helped make the detox more comfortable, but it was still awful. My heart goes out to anyone who goes through withdrawls from opiate dependancy. Before I was diagnosed with bulging discs and needed fusions and such, doctors just gave me pain pills and before I knew it I was dependent. And then 2 pills weren't helping, then 3, then 6, then a whole bottle a day. With addiction running in my family, I should have known better, but I thought it wouldn't happen to me.
After getting over the Suboxone, all I did was obsess over NOT using, and those thoughts overtook my life. I would slip up a lot, was constantly feeling guilty about it, and then stay clean, only to do it all over again.
This went on for over a year when I started seeing a new doctor who asked why I'd stopped taking Suboxone in the first place. I didn't know that people stay on a maintenance program for long periods of time, if not indefinitely. Since I was still obsessing about pills to the point it was affecting my life, I decided to start taking it again. And it was a good decision for me.
I now feel "normal"…I don't think about using at all, take my meds with my vitamins and go about my day with a much greater quality of life. My decision isn't for everyone, but it was the right one for me. I am a better mother because I'm more "present" for her, don't feel as depressed and have an overall feeling of calm…like I felt long before I popped my first pill.
So think about it and what might be the best thing to do for YOU. You don't have to quit taking it, and it may be the answer that allows you to take back your life.
Good luck and God Bless. I truly hope you get through this no matter what you decide to do. I completely understand and know how miserable this road is.
seriously? how much does it suck to come off of your "meds"? imagine it thousands of tine worse when your doc gives you THAT med to come off of the med you're coming off of… 5 years after pain meeds, i tried to "kick" my "new" pain med… i wish i'd just gone thru the initial withdrawal. subtext, as withdrawal/pain management med- omfg: !!! don't do it. so much worse than the acute withdrawals of oxycodone. so much worse. suck it up!!!! suffer (no joke) but do not, seriously, DO NOT subject yourself to subutex/suboxone withdrawals. it's worse. really. seriously. i don't know wht to say except that it sucks THAT BAD. sorry
I hope smbdy answers this. I HAVE NEVER EVER writen on a blog like this. History I was taking about 20 Vicodine a day. I tried to clean up. I have been taking about 3 8 m/g Suboxin per day for about 3 years. Then went rto generic when it came available ( Subutex : for what 5 years? I am on day 5 of cold turkey. My wife has been GREAT. She suggested doing this to ask others WHEN will this get better. One my qualities is I like to think I will fight. Cannot tell by my drug use, but I do. I am just out here asking somebody who is normal , meaning not somebody who takes a crao on Mars, but just somebdy with a same pattern as me. Wanhting to be fighter I need to ask WHEN is the hump. I WANT to hear day 5 , but will accept somebody elses truth. I am 61 years old , but a young 61. I am far fdrom down and out. I have a successful company ( partner ) I ache, I am so weak, I have NO apotite NONE. Can somebody share with me?
I understand what you are going through because I have been there myself.
In my experience, at day 5 it was important to have some mild physical activity like walking in the park for at few minutes at a time just so I could move the energy in my body and breathe some fresh air. It made me feel somewhat better.
The reality is that I started feeling better at about 3 weeks, I do not exactly know if this was due to the fact that my physical withdrawal symptoms started to fade or because I set myself up in an halfway house and started to go to NA meetings since day 8. Both of these actions helped me a lot.
In that context of 12 step meetings I met many experienced recovering people that kindly gave me the emotional support that I needed during these difficult time. Have you consider going to a treatment center or seeking other outside help?
I first started on the Suboxone 8mg with my Pain Doctor because over the years he had upped my Norco and Opana ER levels, and he hoped that a "break" from the opiates would bring my tolerance down, and allow me to decrease my medication levels. I started off taking one 8mg sub-lingual tablet every 8 hours (or 3/day).
I stayed at this level for about five months, as I recall, and really had no problems, aside from the first night getting on it. I'd been familiar with opiate withdrawals before this, and to all of you who have experienced them, my heart goes out to you. Around five or six months I decided I was doing really well and, by accident really, ended up not taking my pills exactly when I was supposed to; so instead of 8 hours apart I started taking them 10 hours apart and then 12 hours apart, and then I was taking them only twice a day. I felt no ill effects from this transition.
When I checked back in with my doctor at my next appointment, and told him what I had been doing, and asked about continuing to get off the Suboxone, he said that was fine, to continue to taper off, and to take my time with it, and let my body tell me when it was time to taper down to the next level.
Over the next two months I tapered down to one pill in the morning and half at night, then a half in the morning and half at night, and finally just a half if I ever just felt jumpy or achy, until such time as I found myself going days and days and not needing any medicine.
I know I wouldn't have been able to do it this way had a not had such a patient and cooperative and supportive doctor, and if I had not been understanding of "just enough but no more" of what my body needed. And time, was invaluable.
Since I have discontinued the Suboxone I have managed to cut my Norco use by 2/3 and discontinue my use of Opana ER completely. It did sometimes give me headaches, but overall it was a wonderful medicine.
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I suggested that Barack Obama needed a rational explanation for all the flip-flopping other than denial. Along comes Gail Collins, who, in what is either one of the stupidest or most disingenuous columns ever written, says we misunderstood the entire history of Barack Obama's stated political worldview. (And adds an incomprehensible metaphor involving penguins. No really. Read it. Paragraphs 7-9.)
She says he never "was about ideology"–he was just against being dumb. But the full list of his complete policy reversals from FISA to NAFTA to campaign finance (even Collins has thrown in the towel on that one) to Kyl-Lieberman to corporate taxes to an undivided Jerusalem to . . . well you get the idea. . . it is a really long. The facts are facts.
This is just another variation on the "why are you all so dense?" defense. Although she says Obama only stood for "dumb-avoidance," this isn't quite right. And what she's up to now is calling the voters and many of her own colleagues dumb. They are apparently too stupid to realize that Obama's campaign wasn't about any of the issues, his ads didn't matter, his debate answers were outright lies, and he never intended for us to take him seriously. Hillary Clinton had it right all along: it was just words. In other words, it isn't that he is flip-flopping: he just lacks any real "core principles." (Or, as Daniel Henninger puts it, he's a "flexible opportunist" who "lacks personal and political clarity.") And this counts, somehow, as a defense?
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What if going back in time to learn about the Civil War were as simple as taking a short drive? In Durham, it is. Civil War buffs ranging from academic historians to the casually interested can visit three State Historic Sites (more than any other city in North Carolina) to learn more about Durham's role before, during, and after the conflict.
In Northern Durham, Historic Stagville was the epicenter of North Carolina's largest plantation complex, comprising some 30,000 acres and 900 slaves. Unlike many of its antebellum counterparts, the original plantation house is modest and utilitarian. Original slave quarters are just a short walk away from the house, and are similarly preserved as a place to visit and learn. Historic Stagville maintains robust records about the slaves who lived there, and it continues to serve today as a resource to those seeking information about their families' past.
On the western edge of Durham County, Bennett Place was the site of the largest troop surrender, and therefore the effective end, of the war. This site is where negotiations between generals Joseph E. Johnston and William T. Sherman occurred, and where nearly 83,000 troops ceased fighting. A contemporary museum, memorial and Civil War history library welcome visitors, and historic and reconstructed buildings provide a complete picture of life and war in the mid 1800s. A regular location for re-enactments, Bennett Place is gearing up for the sesquicentennial of the surrender in April 2015.
Duke Homestead, just north of I-85, represents Durham's transition after the war into an international tobacco powerhouse. Upon returning home to the family farm after the war, Washington Duke continued growing tobacco as he had prior to military service. It was on this land that Duke produced his first brand of tobacco, Pro Bono Publico, which provided the cornerstone of his family's future success with The American Tobacco Company. The preserved site consists of the original house from 1852, as well as the curing barns, a smokehouse, early tobacco factory buildings, and more. Duke Homestead hosts annual events and festivals that highlight the farm life of the 19th century.
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Many critics and International bodies have hypothesized that about 60 million uneducated adult and about 11 million out of school children are in Nigerian, and that we are certainly one of the most illiterate country in the world. In its latest report on the literacy status of various countries of the world, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) classified Nigeria as one of the countries at a serious risk of not attaining the Education for All (EFA) goal by 2015(Sunnewsonline, 2009).
However, these results were not very encouraging, but that should not make us inferior. The first serious discussions and analyses should be what is Education? Education can be described as a process of preparing an individual for a successful living in the society. In today's world, and especially with Nigeria, it is a man with chains of university degree that is educated. Today's interpretation of education overlooks much of the historical research. The Greek idea of education is to be mentally and physically fit, the Roman's idea of education is oration and military. The Norsemen idea of education from the "Great Age" of the Vikings from the 8th to the 11th century A.D is re-education of the world, and warriors roamed the world, fighting ferociously in battle and distributing moral wisdom. The Spartans believe in military power in preference to academics. The English, the man with nobility and good character is the educated man. What yardstick was UNESCO using to determine and rank illiteracy?
The Nigerian philosophy of education is the integration of the individual into a perceived unfavourable environment, where financial and monetary values in interpersonal and human relations are the most important. This philosophy sets out several illaudable goals detrimental to the development of the country. This has considerably deemphasised national consciousness and the right attitude for the survival of the Nigerian society. Nevertheless, the strategy that will escape criticism from the world over and should be our paramount goals are: (1) promotion of the physical and psychological health of the children, (2) faith in our ability to use our cultural and traditional history to make rational national decisions, (3) deemphasise British education as the ultimate bedrock of success in life and the foundation of good character. Our mentality about education should be that which should delivers us from the evil forces of ignorance and modern-day slavery, as well as delivers one from poverty. That which should put confidence in our mind to face life with hope and aspirations should be our sermon. The challenge for us is to encourage education of the mind of the youth in the right way no matter the cost, even with our blood. The need arises now more than ever to emphasise this type of education. Aside the full imitation and adoption of the western education, I am not convinced of a better future for Nigeria without this type of education.
Rowland Adewumi
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Re: Nigeria's Idea Of Education
Law Mefor posted on 03-11-2009, 13:37:25 PM
To add to your kitty, are you aware of the government position on education standard? Ministry of labour told us recently that 70% of Nigerian graduates are not employable. Not unemployed – unemployable – which means Nigerian (decree) certificates are 70% useless. Another government source states that government is in fact waiting for Nigerians that will be forced back to Nigeria by the global economic meltdown to address this awful deficiency rather than address directly.
If this is true, isn't it fair to assume that Nigeria's educational system has been officially shut down?


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As the main Crisis Commons blog shared yesterday, Crisis Camp expanded to 12 cities in its second week, with locations around the globe. Today, there will be volunteers working in United States, UK, Canada and Colombia.
As projects expand and go live, this movement could be called "geeks without borders," to riff on the extraordinary work done by Doctors without Borders and Reporters without Borders. Around the world, developers, GIS engineers, online media professionals and volunteers are collaborating on information technology projects in support of disaster relief for post-earthquake Haiti.
Two projects are already live:
Tradui: As Brady Forrest wrote at O'Reilly, this free offline dictionaryconverts Creole to English and vice-versa. "The data came from the HaitiSurf Creole to English Dictionary. It was built by Intridea and came out of Crisis Camp DC. It was released to the Android market on 1/19."
WeHaveWeNeed.org – this is a "craigslist" for exchanges of tech, services or other needs for NGOs. "It's a place where relief organizations can quickly post their most urgent needs and have them matched by generous donors during a time of crisis." If you'd like to participate in the program, please let them know.
Much more to come: A list of ongoing projects is available at CrisisCommons.org.
Follow this livestream (archived)Â for kickoff in DC.


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Here is something you already know: housing market conditions are most commonly judged by national statistics. For instance, according to figures from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau, sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 7.9 percent in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 421,000 units. We all can probably agree that is a good thing.
But few among us break ground far beyond our own backyard, which is to say that while a 7.9 percent increase is certainly encouraging, it is no way indicative of business conditions everywhere. We know certain areas of the country saw new construction go gangbusters this summer while others were stymied by higher interest rates. From 10,000 feet, the market is looking healthier each day. Look a little closer and you'll see, from region to region, conditions run the gamut.
For instance, according to the National Association of Home Builders, "Three out of four regions posted solid gains in new-home sales activity in August. Sales rose 8.8 percent in the Northeast, 19.6 percent in the Midwest and 15.3 percent in the South for the month. The West was the exception to the rule, with a 14.6 percent decline."
A 14.6 percent decline?
As the first week of autumn draws to an end, we're curious to know how your summer went. Was it better than the previous summer? How did it compare to the mid-'00s? Was it better or worse than expected? What were the biggest market forces in your area?


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Shouldn't test fixtures give an Error?
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Marco Martins (1 post)
in the book we have this text fixtures for products controller: @ one: title: MyString description: MyText image_url: MyString price: 9.99
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When we run the unit tests why don't we have errors reporting that the image_url is not jpeg/png etc nor that we are trying to insert 2 products with the same name?
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Field Stations
Hepner Ecology Lab at Camp Karoondinha
Henstep Run and Faylor Lake are just a few of the ecological resources available for fieldtrips and student projects at this Boy Scout camp. The property features more than 600 acres from 600 to 1,800 feet above sea level. It includes deciduous and mixed coniferous forests, an eight-acre lake, Penns Creek and small streams.
PennDOT Wetland
Just two miles from campus, this constructed wetland along Penns Creek offers many opportunities for groundwater chemistry and ecosystem structure studies.
Montandon Marsh
A palustrine wetland in an ancient, abandoned channel of the Susquehanna River, Montandon Marsh provides unique glacial outwash sediments that support a variety of native and even rare species.
Urban Wetland in Sunbury
Urban wetlands offer an interesting mix of urban influence on natural ecology. The site combines groundwater discharge and stormwater runoff into a basin that supports common reeds, cattails, turtles and songbirds.


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Posts Tagged 'Mountain Laurel Designs'
Mountain Laurel Designs LittleStar
Greetings All,
Here is something a lot of us have been waiting for… the Mountain Laurel Designs LittleStar – the solo version of the crazy popular MLD TrailStar!!
I know I am not alone when I say I am very excited to see shelter hit the market.
The Mountain Laurel Designs TrailStar has been one of, if not the, most desired and awarded cottage made shelter over the last few years. Its ability to handle horrific wind conditions has proven to hikers around the world that it is a shelter to be contended with.
For some of us though, we felt the original TrailStar just had to big of a footprint. I know I am not alone in that. Every time I have seen a TrailStar setup I just went "wow, that sucker is huge". Those of us who have felt that way have been long waiting for MLD to release a smaller version of the shelter, and now they have done so.
Mountain Laurel Designs is stating that the LittleStar has a 15% smaller footprint.
They have also indicated that it "will handle wind as well or better than the larger TrailStar", which of course makes sense as there is less material for the wind to sit and pound against, due to its 15% smaller size.
Mountain Laurel Designs, eVENT Rain Mitts
Greetings Hikers,
In the world of hiking rain mitts, there are very few that really stand out to me. Without a doubt the one at the very top of my list is the Mountain Laurel Designs, eVENT Rain Mitts.
I have been using these rain mitts from Mountain Laurel Designs for a few years and absolutely love them.
There are actually very few rain mittss on the list of UL/SUL rain mits these days. The ones off the top of my head are the Mountain Laurel Designs, eVENT Rain Mitts, the Black Rock Gear Overmitts, and the ZPacks WPBCF Rain Mitts. The Black Rock Gear ones are the lightest ones out there (13.6 grams) but also the ones most prone to suffering damage because of their use of 0.34 cuben fiber and they are also the least breathable ones. The ZPacks WPBCF Rain Mitts are mid-weight (23 grams), and are 100% made from WPB CF so their breathablity is better than the ones from Black Rock Gear, but nowhere near as good as the (36 gram) eVENT ones from Mountain Laurel Designs.
As I have written so many times over the last few years, it is always my goal to go as light as possible, yet also strike a balance between weight and usability. This is one of those times when the additional 10-20 grams of weight are put aside for the fact of usability – specifically breathablity.
Sawyer Squeeze – Updated 2013 Version
Greetings Hikers,
A few days ago, on January 15, Ron Bell from Mountain Laurel Designs announced on their facebook page that a new 2013 version of the Sawyer Squeeze had been released. (read my review of the original 2012 product)
The announcement included the fact that (a) Sawyer has redesigned the water bladder material, (b) they have reduced the included bags from three bags to a single bag, and (c) they have reduced the price a few dollars.
Ron Bell, like a few of us in the hiking industry, have been in contact with Sawyer since the release of the Squeeze filter, about trying to resolve the high failure rate issues with the original Squeeze bag. Thankfully Ron has a larger voice than some of us and has actually been able to get some direct input on these new bags.
I, and others, have been huge supporters of the Sawyer Squeeze filter. But we have not been able to support the bags that Sawyer produced. The Squeeze filter itself is the absolute best filter presently in the hiking world on a performance to weight ratio. As I try to make a key point of within my review of the Sawyer Sqeeuze it is the only filter out there that provides us with an Absolute One Micron filter – and that word "absolute" is a big issue. Do a search for the word "absolute" on the CDC page concerning water filtration if you do not believe me. If you do not want to believe both the CDC and myself, just do a google search for "absolute vs nominal micron" and research it yourself. Simply put, as a backcountry hiker, what I want in my backpack is an Absolute One Micron filter, and the Sawyer Squeeze is the one filter out there that provides me that level of filtration – and does so at only 93.64 grams (3.303 ounces) Read the rest of this entry »
Black Rock Gear Undermitts
Greetings Hikers,
In the world of hiking keeping your hands and your feet warm are a vital key in the quest to having a successful hike. While your hands and feet, arms and legs, are not as vital as keeping your core temperature under control – a situation the vast majority of sul/xul hikers rarely face – the necessity of keeping ones hands and feet warm goes a long way towards the overall well-being, pleasure, and adventure, of being outdoors.
The Black Rock Gear Undermitts are perfecting for helping you keep your hands warm throughout most of the climates and conditions that most of us, all but those who go into the most extreme environments, face each and every time we go out.
For many years a lot of people have been using gear made by Black Rock Gear to keep their core temperatures as stable as possible. They have been the manufacture of the highly popular – and always in demand – Black Rock Hat which has been used pretty much around the world by those going out for a day hike to those hiking the highest mountains in the world. The Black Rock Hat gram for gram (19-25 grams / 0.67 – 0.88 ounces) is very likely the best down hat on the market and one or two of them are almost always in my backpack.
As a hiker in the Northern regions of California I encounter cold ocean wind, rain forest rain, and high mountain snow over the course of a year hiking. Having a good hand layering system has proven to be important to me.
The Black Rock Gear Undermitts provide the perfect mid-layer glove for the colder temperatures, both while hiking and while sleeping. Read the rest of this entry »
Two-person Sub 900 gram Fully Enclosed Shelters
Greetings Hiker,
A number of months back I wrote an article and corresponding spreadsheet which went into detail many of the lightest fully enclosed solo shelters on the market. It quickly and to my surprise, became a sort of de facto reference guy for hikers around the world. Since it was published I have received countless requests to put together a similar article that focused on two person shelters. So a number of months ago I started working on compiling the mass amount of data that is required to put together an article and spreadsheet of this kind. It has taken me much longer than I expected it would, but I am now ready to release this.
I think it is important to note a few things from the very start.
First is the fact that I had initially set some minimum and maximum weight limits for the chart and have had to change it along the way. I asked the public for feedback and asked many cottage owners for feedback regarding this as well. It was wonderful. I have, however, made slight modifications to the maximum weight limit that will be focused on within the chart. Details of why are explained below. What I would like to mention is that I have received an amazing amount of feedback from almost all of the cottage owners. It has been an honor and pleasure.
Next aspect to note is the fact that this is not an all-encompassing list of the lightest two person shelters in the world.
There are a number of reasons for this, but the two primary reasons are:
(1) I initially set some criteria for what the spreadsheet would be based on in regards to Total Shelter Weight. Along the way the maximum weight changed a few times, all as a result of the list of shelters becoming much too long to detail them all; it would have taken countless hours of work. As it is this article has consumed a little over 65 hours of work and over two hundred emails. There simply had to come a point where I was forced to reduce the maximum weight limit in order to reduce the amount of work, the complicated, and length of the spreadsheet. When I started this article there were a number of shelters that I wanted to include but they ended up being well over 1300 grams Total Shelter Weight – and if I were to include them than people would make the case that I should have included others in the same weight category, and a list which is already long enough would have become three to four times longer. I very much respect these cottage companies out there producing amazing two person shelters that are in the 1000-1200 gram range, make no mistake about it.
(2) There are a number of companies out there that fail(ed) to provide the true weights of their shelters. Most of them simply do not list accurate Total Shelter Weights on their website. There were around a half-dozen companies that I emailed asking for accurate numbers on their shelters and they never responded. I would be doing a dis service to my readers to pull numbers out of nowhere and use them just for the sake of including a specific shelter. Companies that do not publish exact weights of their shelters are doing nothing but losing business. I can say that for a fact, as last year I was looking at one specific shelter that I really wanted, but the company fails to list accurate weights of their shelters. Rather than dealing with the back-and-forth emails to try to get it out of them, I simply moved on and purchased a shelter from another cottage manufacture. So again, there are a few shelters on the market that I highly suspect might be less than 900 grams, and even more under 1300 grams, but because they fail to provide technical details about their shelters on their websites, and in many cases never responded to my emails, their shelters are not within the chart. I make no excuse for this. I simply will not make up numbers on my own because a company is unwilling to provide information that their customers should have.
Evernew "Water Carry" Bags
Greetings Hikers,
How to carry water while hiking… this is one of those issues that very much falls into the HYOH factor, and I have never been a huge advocate for one specific method over another.
When I first started hiking I used the Everyday CamelBak bottles. Those got replaced with the CamelBak 70oz Antidote Reservoir which got replaced with the Platypus Big Zip 3 liter, which got replaced with a Hydrapak 70-Ounce Reservoir and so on and so forth. I even bought myself a Camelbak HydroBak 50 oz Hydration Pack somewhere along the way. One of the few bags I never did buy was the MSR Dromedary Bag.
When I got close to reaching the SUL weight I knew that none of those were going to be able to keep being used so I made the switch over to using water bottles such as Gatorade, than to the Smart Water bottles which were a bit lighter and proved to be durable enough. This meant that not only did I get to reduce the weight of using a reservoir but I also no longer needed to weight of the reservoir sleeves within backpacks. (extra perk: no longer needing a backpack with a hole in it to push your tube through, thereby making it just a weebit more water resistant)
Through a set of events I never saw coming and I did not realize until after it had all happened, I am now back to using bags to carry my water in… Read the rest of this entry »
MLD Announces The Initial Release of a Cuben Fiber TrailStar Shelter!
I just got word about two hours ago that Mountain Laurel Designs has formally announced an initial product release of a cuben fiber version of their hugely popular TrailStar shelter called the Cuben TrailStar!
This is some pretty sweet news for those of us that are SUL hikers because it takes the weight of this tarp (MLD calls it a 'shelter', I consider it a tarp, as it is not a fully enclosed "shelter") from 482 grams (17 ounces) down to 283 grams (10 ounces). Ron Bell, the owner of MLD, noted that if you remove the 10 LineLock 3's that it has you can save around one ounce, so you could end up with a very sweet 255 gram (9 ounce) tarp!
Online at: http://www.mountainlaureldesigns.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=102
The price on the Cuben Fiber TrailStar is $335 USD.
One of the many awesome features of this tent is that it is made up of five panels of the same length, and each panel is 7 feet long. Hikers around the world have been putting the TrailStar to a test over the last few years and every single report I have read about it says its the most rock solid tarp they have ever seen in the wind – and a lot of reports out there documenting its very strong in snow too!
Here at HikeLighter.Com I prefer to focus on gear that is SUL/XUL in nature, obviously, so it should be safe to say that MLD bringing the TrailStar into the Cuben Fiber world I do not think there are very many SUL hikers out there who are going to argue the fact that this new Cuben Fiber TrailStar is going to be a serious contender in the SUL tarp industry for a rather long time to come!
It is made, like all of the MLD Cuben Fiber tarps/shelters, using 0.74 cuben fiber. The 0.74 CF has been proven to be the sweet spot for tarps – it holds threads very well, it resists water permeation better than the 0.51 cuben fiber. It will last long, will probably never tear if a pine cone lands on top of it (with the possible exception of a Pinus lambertiana cone), and while most SUL hikers have gotten over a need for privacy, the 0.74 provides a little bit more see-through protection than the 0.51 does. Not that that matter of course, right ;)
The TrailStar gives you a whopping 50 sq/ft of space underneath it. The one chance I have had to see a TrailStar I was amazed at the room it provides. Another neat thing about the design is it gives you the ability to really set it up in some unique ways. I remember seeing some photos awhile back of a guy that had setup the TrailStar in some really unique configurations – possible because of the five equal sides. With enough guyline and a tall enough piece of wood you could have this be a raised shelter for a group, or you can put it all the way down to the ground for some serious protection in hard driving rain.
As you can see in the photograph above there is the ability to use one of the five sides as a raised entrance. Just use a second pole or stick and you got yourself a nice entry that can also give you some nice air flow to reduce condensation. Or, close the door for if you find yourself getting pounded by hard wind or driving rain or snow.
All in all, if you are looking for a tarp that will give you a serious amount of room that is under 284 grams (10 ounces) you should be giving this new Cuben Fiber TrailStar a serious about of consideration!
(disclaimer: I do not own this tarp, I was not paid to write this article. This is one uber sweet tarp and thus I am announcing it to my readers!)


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Gamers are more social and educated than non-gamers says study
There are plenty of people out there that don't like video games and believe that games are bad for you. A new study that was commission by Twitch, the steaming game platform, has found some interesting results. According to the study, gamers are more social and educated than non-gamers.
The study, performed by LifeCourse Associates, looked at 1227 Americans in the 13-64 demographic. According to the report, people who play games tend to be more educated with 43% of players holding a college degree or higher.
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GOG announces its own DRM-free Steam-like service
Retro gaming revivalists at GOG.com have just announced a DRM-free gaming service that looks a little like its own version of Steam.
GOG Galaxy will let players get gaming without connecting to the internet. There's "no online activation required," the company said in a trailer. "Being online will always be optional."
Perhaps it goes without saying but web-enabled features such as gaming with friends or social achievement sharing will need internet access.
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Oculus Rift exclusive game called Lucky's Tale in the works
The Oculus rift VR headset has created quite a stir in the gaming industry as people have become very excited at the thought of gaming with a virtual reality headset. A new game is in the works that will be an Oculus Rift exclusive title and it comes from the man who co-created Words with Friends, Paul Bettner.
The game is a third-person platforming adventure called Lucky's Tale and it will be displayed at E3. "Virtual reality--I mean truly accurate, comfortable virtual reality--is the most important thing to happen to interactive entertainment in decades," Bettner said in a statement. "I know it sounds like exaggeration, but it's impossible to explain what this is like to someone who hasn't experienced it for themselves. Your brain is convinced that you are somewhere else, that you are in another world. I have worked my entire career to get to this moment, to create something like this."
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Popular mobile game Temple Run tops 1 billion download mark
Popular mobile game Temple Run from Imangi Studios has been downloaded more than 1 billion times since it was released in August 2011, according to company officials. Originally developed by three people, the game has seen continued success as casual gaming still increases even higher in popularity.
Gamers have run more than 50 trillion meters in the game, playing 32 billion games, according to Keith Shepherd, co-developer of the game.
It's possible Imangi Studios, which has seen great success with Temple Run 1 and Temple Run 2, could develop a third game in the future. However, the studio currently has other mobile games currently in development, so no public announcements have been made just yet.
Sony PSP shipments to end in Japan after nearly a decade
The Sony PSP is a portable game console that has been around for years. The console originally shipped to try and put a dent in the reign of the Nintendo DS portable. Sony proved unable to really compete with the Nintendo DS, but the PSP was reasonably popular.
After nearly ten years, Sony has now announced that the PSP is no longer shipping to Japanese retailers. The final shipments of the portable will be made this month and no more will follow. Sony does expect to continue offering the PSP in other Asian countries for a while longer.
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Valve Polka Dot VR headset prototype to challenge Oculus Rift
The Oculus Rift VR headset made some very big waves in the VR world when it was unveiled and left many gamers aching to get their hands-on the headset. Oculus isn't the only company working on VR headsets for gamers. Gaming firm Valve is working on its own VR headset with a prototype VR headset that has white dots all over it.
The white dots all over the headset are there so that the tabletop camera used with the system can track the headset location. Sources that have used the headset say that inside there are a pair of screens. The prototype headset is more of a proof of concept than something that is destined for production in its current form.
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ROCCAT announces the Tyon gaming mouse
Gaming peripheral company ROCCAT has unveiled the Tyon customizable PC gaming mouse, aimed at giving gamers a mouse that can be modified. The Tyon has 16 assignable buttons, 31 distinct functions, with an 82000 DPI laser sensor, and 32-bit processor with 576KB memory. Release information and pricing hasn't been released for the United States.
The PC gaming industry is evolving and changing rapidly, and it's important for peripheral makers to try to keep up. The Tyon also has a 2-way analog stick and easy-shift on-the-fly button duplicator, so gamers can make adjustments while playing.
"Today's gaming experience demands that players adapt to the many dimensions of gameplay, whether on land, at sea, in air or space," said Rene Korte, ROCCAT founder and CEO. "Our designers and developers worked in close collaboration with gaming experts to craft, test, fine-tune, and ensure that the Tyon's abilities meet these challenges."
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Razer announces its Junglecat iOS gamepad controller for mobile
Razer today announced the Junglecat gamepad for Apple iOS devices, entering the mobile phone hardware market in a highly-anticipated move. The peripheral was designed to attach comfortably to the Apple iPhone - and it can be left attached to the smartphone - with all buttons and ports still available. The device is fully supported by iOS 7 and has been designed for the iPhone 5/5s models.
In addition to the peripheral, the Junglecat also includes an iOS app so users are able to customize and remap button functions. The Razer Jungecat will be available in July with a $99.99 MSRP.
"Game development is cascading into mobile with incredible production values and at a record pace, and the crossover of console gamers playing on their iOS and other mobile devices is growing in stride," said Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO, in a statement. "The opportunity to design a sleek, high-performance gamepad controller for the iPhone was an exciting proposition that we can't wait to share with our community and the world."
Mortal Kombat X teased on Amazon UK's site
It looks like we can expect another Mortal Kombat game, with "Mortal Kombat X" listed on Amazon's UK store. Mortal Kombat X will reportedly reach the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC sometime in 2015.
We reported a few months ago now that Jack Bauer himself, Keifer Sutherland, was involved in a new Mortal Kombat game, so this is probably it. Mortal Kombat's creator, Ed Boon, has been teasing over Twitter, with a countdown that only has hours to go. Hopefully we'll find out more then.
Watch Dogs' launch trailer has been recreated in GTA 4
Watch Dogs is here, and while there are some people who love it, there are some people who hate it - or have had so much trouble with the game they've given up, for now. Well, to cheer you up, here's the Watch Dogs launch trailer recreated shot-for-shot in Grand Theft Auto 4.
The hard work was done by YouTuber RavenswestR1, who would've spent a considerable amount of time recreating the trailer in GTA 4. Every shot, and every camera angle is created as it was shown in Watch Dogs' launch trailer. It looks like this is a hobby of his, as he has done the same with the Need for Speed movie trailer, and the trailer for The Other Guys in GTA 4.
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