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Looking back on two decades of fragging, from computer lab LANs to the TI-85.
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Commodore 64 was my first.
I distinctly remember sitting in a dorm room watching someone play for the first time, and all of us oohing when after the shotgun was fired, the reload animation played.
And one word....
I remember my dad spending a whole evening trying (successfully) to set up a boot disk so that I could play the game. Our computer at the time only had 4 mb of RAM, and needed every bit of it to run the game. Thus the boot disk to bypass Windows and go straight into DOS + Doom.
Played the game almost 20 years ago, as recently as 4 months ago. Just noticed the Doom marines space armour is specifically designed to show his cleanly shaved abs. I guess my brain allowed the ultra-violence to repress the homo-eroticism.
Doom was the final nail in the coffin for my trusty Amiga 1200. As horrible as MS-DOS and Windows were at the time, I got a used 486 so I could play the game.
Michael Bushnell wrote:
I remember my dad spending a whole evening trying (successfully) to set up a boot disk so that I could play the game. Our computer at the time only had 4 mb of RAM, and needed every bit of it to run the game. Thus the boot disk to bypass Windows and go straight into DOS + Doom.
Heh, I did this for friends all the time - boot disks with menus for all the games. I had to optimize each menu choice to make sure there was enough free conventional memory to launch the game (fuck you, FALCON 3.0 and your 604K free conventional memory requirement). Setting all the sound and mouse drivers to devicehigh and loadhigh. Tweaking order and doing what I can to free up conventional memory.
Oh those were the days.
Wow. Yeah, I remember sitting in my college apartment waiting for it to download over the dog slow twinsock 28.8kbps connection.
I fire up Doom/Doom2/Heretic about this time every year with the help of Doomsday/JDoom. Still a lot of fun.
I was working at a computer store at the time, and was able to fashion myself a pretty nice 386DX-40 system that ran Doom really well. It wasn't until the next year that I got a Gateway 486DX2-66 that could really play it. I couldn't remember if I got my Ensoniq Soundscape card working with Doom (X-Wing fighter was awesome sounding) so I did a search. Here's a nice thread from December '94 about sound cards and IRQs:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/a ... 7eFi156BwJ
E1L1 has, to me, the same iconic status as Donkey Kong's first level or Space Invaders. Play the soundtrack on your phone at work, and everyone knows what you're doing (pro tip: turn your device's sound off before going to the bathroom).
Doom, ah! The joys of IPX networking over BNC. The joys of dual-stacking TCP/IP and IPX at work and getting busted by the network team.
Setting up 3 PCs to provide left-and-right hand views... (that _was_ Doom, right?)
Ah! The first game to scare the crap out of me.... genuinely terrifying!
Played it first at the behest of a friend's dad. He was rather proud to be showing it off. It was really impressive. It was far more impressive a year later when I was in a college dorm with a 4 port parallel switch and $100 worth of cables snaked across and down the dorm hallway, and we were fragging each other from different rooms. Probably seems ridiculous to younger folks, but at the time, it was amazing.
FWIW, I still think nothing beats Doom 2 for one on one deathmatch (though you really needed to run it with the command line -turbo 200; that set the speed to just about perfect).
Hey those computer labs at school were awesome! Nothing ever beat the graphics and open world of Oregon Trail back in the 90's!!!!
Having grown up and been born during the 90s, my parents thought Doom was too violent of a game to let into the house. Oh but when Chex packaged Chex Quest for those few months in its boxes of cereal, my gosh did we have a ball. I didn't even like Chex that much, but after the promotion we had ended up with three copies of the game. My siblings and I would play it with an old db9 joystick hooked into our Packard Bell and we would always try to beat it but never could. How excited we were whenever we would make it to the Bazoik Caverns, all the way to fight The Flembrane only to lose right before rescuing the prisoners. What can I say, we were young.
It wasn't until I was in high school that I'd pick it up again on a whim and finally beat it. Now I still load it up occasionally to do speed runs and it is still just as much fun as I remember.
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Kyle's story reminds me of my own first experiences with Doom. My parents considered us to be too young to play something so violent and scary so we were strictly forbidden from playing it. But...
...whenever my mother was out of the house, my dad would start up the game and all of us boys would quickly gather in a circle around him. We were entranced by the game - it was scary and violent and so, so awesome. Such fun memories!
My first memory of Doom doesn't directly involve Doom at all. The day it came out, it managed to bring down CMU's internal network. (Something to do with broadcast packets IIRC.)
I remember enjoying playing Doom a lot in high school when it first came out. But, I do not pine for the "good ol' days" of separate autoexec.bat and config.sys and making sure the interrupts were set properly. Oh, and don't forget QEMM.
Doom is the game that made me finally switch to the dark side (PC) from my beloved Amiga 1200. Up to that point, I'd always argue how superior Amiga was, especially in gaming. After that point, I still believed Amiga was superior, but not for gaming any more, which I admitted and had seen the Wolf3D as a potent of things to come.
With the arrival of Quake in 1996, and the Windows 95 the year before, I completed my switch to the PC platform, coexisting with my Amiga, which readily handled my video editing, animation (Lightwave), platform & side scrolling games, and music (mods etc) needs for a little while.
PC was not my main gaming platform for a long time though. It was Amiga still mid 1990s, then I switched to Playstation till the advent of PS2, but then I switched to PC (instead of PS2). I experimented with the Dreamcast a bit, but the PS2 killed it, so I welcomed XBox, which was very much like a modded PC, which I got hacked easily, using it as a media PC for the living room.
And nowadays, I am mainly an IOS gamer on the go
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Just noticed the Doom marines space armour is specifically designed to show his cleanly shaved abs. I guess my brain allowed the ultra-violence to repress the homo-eroticism.
Is that a BFG in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
Recall playing level 2 or 3 when you entered the power outage scenario and those pink running beasts were coming at me IT WAS A TOTALLY NEW GAMING EXPERIENCE. I was hanging on to my keyboard like the edge of a Cliff.
I had great fun with Doom, but I remember always thinking it was weird that you couldn't look up or down. I seem to remember that most of the time this didn't matter, but there were some more outdoor type maps with quite a few differences in elevation and it could make it difficult to find enemies when they were shooting you from above or below. Luckily, IIRC, it would auto-aim your shots up or down to them if you were pointed at them.
But the novelty of the game wore off after a bit. The story and gameplay was basically "Find [color] key, open [color] door, kill everything that movies". Fun for the catharsis and carnage (especially with the shotgun), but I remember wanting more.
Then Marathon came out and all was right in the world.
WASD as an input convention wouldn't become a thing until a few years later when Quake and GLQuake took over the scene.
Not true. Many of us were using mouse+kbd with doom.
people who didn't play games 20 years ago don't realize what a big deal Doom was
Oh hell yes we did! I clearly remember the fearless 20-somethings running up and down the halls at work, shouting at each other because we didn't have any rooms with two or more computers. (In deference to the new boss, they did wait until after 5:00 to do that.) That was on a 16 mb token ring LAN.
Edit: I'll never get the punctuation right. {sigh}
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Heh, I did this for friends all the time - boot disks with menus for all the games. I had to optimize each menu choice to make sure there was enough free conventional memory to launch the game (fuck you, FALCON 3.0 and your 604K free conventional memory requirement). Setting all the sound and mouse drivers to devicehigh and loadhigh. Tweaking order and doing what I can to free up conventional memory.
I also remember Falcon 3.0 as being THE hardest ever boot disk to get working
Doom was trivial to get going in comparison. It used some sort of fancy built in memory manager that took care of it all.
These comments need a link to Evil Horde's remix of E1M1 from OCReMix's Dark Side of Phobo (Doom 1) remix album.
That guitar! Oonf!
I didn't have a computer at the time, but I got a 32X for Christmas. DOOM was the only game I needed.
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What made ultimately made me switch to PC from Mac in 1995 were the games. Descent, Dark Forces, MechWarrior, Flight Simulator. I was never a DOOM fan because of the gore factor, though.
Doom wasn't just a new gaming experience for me, it was also the first game that scared the crap out of me, playing alone in the dark with head phones; not quite knowing when some monster would charge out of the darkness; the weird, fleshy, flowing walls.
I still distinctly remember opening some random door to see a group of imps kneeling around some kind of altar or shrine or something. To realize these monsters did something other than mindlessly attack you, that they worshipped and obeyed some higher power freaked me out.
who voted down the Commodore64, we will find you but we may forget, darn old age.
My best memory of playing Doom was one day after school, I was playing, I had the old-school full ear headphones with Tool playing on my CD player. I was playing through one of the levels and our cat decided that it would be a good time to jump on my lap.
It scared the shit out of me, and the cat wasn't too enthusiastic about me screaming at the top of my lungs and jumping out of the chair.
That was in the days when having a 486 Gateway 2000 was a status symbol, and you looked forward to drooling over their foldout ads in Computer Shopper.
And like all great video game originals, it was turned into a crappy movie, because Hollywood is more hack than talent now. Hell any decent sized liberal arts college you can find will have a bigger pool of original writing talent than Hollywood does these days. Countdown to stupid COD movie...
I remember playing Doom for the first time on my cousins' 486SX-25 computer just after Christmas '93. My uncle had downloaded Doom v1.1 from somewhere, and I was just in awe of Doom's graphics compared to Wolf3D or anything else to that point. The following month his order of Doom v1.2 registered came in and (naturally) he shared it with us.
Later that year Doom II came out, and many a Deathmatch was played over our modems, especially between me and #2 cousin. It got to the point that my parents sprung for a separate phone line just for our computer, and I think my uncle did too. Doom was also the reason for my first-ever computer upgrade: our 486 came with AdLib sound, which was just FM-synthesized music, plus the PC speaker. At some point I used birthday money to buy a Sound Blaster 32 Basic so I could get proper digital sound effects... I think my uncle was partly to blame since he bought a sound card first.
I still play Doom now and again, with the GZDoom source port and Brutal Doom modpack, plus hirez textures and sounds. It's still a hell of a lot of fun with the right PWADs.
I first saw someone playing it on a laptop at some IT seminar in '94.
"Hey, that looks pretty good!"
I downloaded the shareware copy from one of the BBSes I frequented. The game rewired my visual cortex.
This game brought my 486 SX 33, 4MB RAM to its knees. Its the first thing that drove home the fact that my mom had cheaped out on not getting the DX. I could sort of play it. That time of my life was also responsible for shaping my initial computer knowledge, having to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat on my own, with no internet to tell me how. I had a few reference books from the old IBM XT.
I'm surprised I haven't noticed anyone mention WAD files. I remember spending hours creating levels, a few years down the road when I upgraded.
The keycards, Taggart! Tell us what they mean!
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This game brought my 486 SX 33, 4MB RAM to its knees. Its the first thing that drove home the fact that my mom had cheaped out on not getting the DX. I could sort of play it.
Wanna hear something crazy? My local BBS had a shareware program that would emulate an 8087 math co-processor (it was called EM87), and I swear to you that running this on my 486SX-25 made Doom 2-3 FPS faster (checked with Doom's -devmode switch that added an FPS indicator in a bottom corner).
The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that Doom used floating-point emulation in a library that would be auto-disabled if a coprocessor was detected, this was triggered by EM87, and since EM87 emulated a simpler FPU it was faster.
My computer would get bogged down too, though; there were several deathmatches I played that ended with my computer or theirs getting locked for anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. This eventually went away when I installed a DX2-50 OverDrive chip.
Love Doom - still play occasionally. I can remember calling my friend's modem to play co-op or head-to-head. No net play unless you were on a local lan.
And the Simpsons mod was the first I ever saw of user-modified gaming.
edit: "local lan" - that's kinda redundant....doh!
Doom for me on a Packard Bell. But it was wolf3d that made my father buy the computer. i played wolf3d for 8 hours straight in circuit city on a demo computer. (shocked they let me play that long).
the sales guy said. buy the computer and i will give your kid the game. Thus we went home with a brand new computer, and a copy of wolf3d. is it bad i still have the disk?
Doom cost my parents almost 25 dollars in long distance since we lived in the boon docs. i was so obessed i went to my neighbors and ran up their phone bill too.
finally both familys removed the phone lines from the computers when i was around.
also loved hertic,
Doom was also the only game i ever bought a strategy book for in my life.
probably 400 + hours in every one of these games
also played blake stone till my eye's bled
and duke nukem 3d over HEAT baby!!!!!! 56K host!!!!! lol had to be there. miss every minute of it
college was the lans, and now sadly online multiplayer is half the fun, i miss being there.
i don't miss loading up a car and trailer though for the hardware!!!
good times....
I remember we were a group of students in high school who had privileged access to the computer rooms. Some of us were interested in programming, others in graphics or were computer enthusiasts in general ("hackers" in those days).
One of us got hold of the "Press Release"-version of Doom and spread it over the Novell Netware-based network to others. The graphics were mind-blowing. Hitherto, graphics in PC games had not been particularly interesting compared to the Amigas that many of us used at home.
The Press Release-version was limited to two or three levels (not he first three of the final game) and would stop work after a certain date. We reset the clock on the PCs so that we could play the game.
When the final version came, with networked multi-player, the use of the computer room exploded. We were sitting there every break period, playing Doom. Unfortunately, lots of people who did not have the special pass to sit there also got in.. and it did get a little bit out of hand, and sadly the computer room-privileges were revoked for everyone.
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Doom is the game that made me finally switch to the dark side (PC) from my beloved Amiga 1200. Up to that point, I'd always argue how superior Amiga was, especially in gaming.
Amiga was great at side-scroller type games, but Doom type games that needed to address single pixels did horrible. I remember discussing the best C2P routines in comp.sys.amiga.programmer back in the mid 90's but the Amiga's bit-plane graphics were just too slow.
I played Doom a bit when it was first released, but wasn't really all that impressed by it. Ultima Underworld had a similar but better pseudo-3D engine than Doom, but was released a couple months before Wolfenstein 3D. Doom had steps, but Ultima Underworld already had that, and had ramps too, and flowing water, and primitive 3D objects that you could stand on to create bridges that you could stand on and walk/swim under (which Doom couldn't do). You could also look up and down. In Ultima Underworld, you could pick up objects, and also drop them back into the world if your inventory was too full (with basic physics for tossing them), and come back for them later. Also, I generally find RPGs more interesting than shooters.
It always amazes me how overlooked Ultima Underworld is, considering how awesome it was for its time (March 1992). The only area where Doom really beats Ultima Underworld is multi-player (Underworld was a single-player game). Generally, playing video games is something I tend to do when I want to avoid other people, so multi-player games kind of defeat the purpose.
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The five-foot-three 18-year-old has put herself in position to become the most successful female in the history of motorcycle road racing. She is the only woman ever to win an AMA Pro Racing event, having done so twice, most recently at Daytona earlier this year.
"Young girls come up to me all the time at the racetrack and say, 'Oh, you're my hero,' and they're just so excited about it," Myers said. "Danica Patrick's a household name and that's kind of what I want to become. Indy Car and NASCAR have been helped by her being in the series and I want to do the same thing in AMA."
Myers will conclude what could be her final season in the AMA SuperSport class this weekend in the Triumph Big Kahuna Nationals at the NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans. Her goal is to move next to the Daytona SportBike series.
She will need to demonstrate continued success at higher levels to get the kind of sponsorships she needs to sustain her career while reaching for her ultimate goal of racing worldwide in MotoGP, the motorcycle equivalent of Formula 1.
"Obviously I want to get a ride (at higher levels) based on the fact I deserve that ride, not because I'm a girl," Myers said. "I think it will certainly help me, being a girl, to get opportunities ... but ultimately it's not going to help me race MotoGP if I'm not fast enough."
More established riders readily acknowledge her potential. AMA SuperBike rider Ben Bostrom counts himself as a fan. Also impressed is Martin Cardenas, this season's Daytona SportBike champion.
"If she gets a little bit stronger, she will be a real threat to any rider," Cardenas said. "She's pretty smooth on the race track. She's aggressive and everything. It seems to me she's not scared."
Myers has always loved speed. Her father, Matt Myers, said she was "a daredevil" as a child, gravitating to roller coasters at amusement parks.
He started a racing club near their northern California town of Brentwood as a way to spend time with his daughter and got her started on pocket bikes when she was 8. By the time she'd turned 16, AMA team owner John Ulrich had noticed her talent and signed her. She won her first race in 2010 at Sonoma Raceway.
Despite her success, Myers still gets the impression that many who meet her come away thinking, "That little girl is doing dangerous things."
Of course, Myers knows the dangers as well as anyone.
At 14, she was bucked off her motorcycle in a 225 km/h "high-side" wreck that knocked her out, lacerated her spleen and left her with a third-degree burn on her calf, where her motorcycle had come to rest while she lay unconscious.
The burn scar remains in the shape or a large puffy sand dollar. She could have it removed, but sees it as a "battle wound."
Oddly, Myers said she is "scared to death" of riding on the back of motorcycles. She does not ride on streets or have a motorcycle license.
"I get all my thrills on the track. I can go as fast as want. I don't have to worry about any cars," she said. "I'm so into motorcycles and pushing a bike to a limit, if I can't do it on a street there's really no point."
Matt Myers said he's as supportive as possible because he can see how much his daughter loves to race, but he has daddy's-little-girl moments when he worries about her safety — and her future, because only top riders at the highest levels make a good living.
"You see crashes. You see some of the kids sustain serious injuries. I certainly have concerns," Matt Myers said. "That's why I think it's so important for her to first of all enjoy it and not put too much pressure on herself, and she needs to make some money in this at some point. There has to be an end game to why she's risking her life. ... She is on a big team. She's got everything certainly logistically, but there's still a lot missing that makes me wonder if this is all worth it."
Elena Myers knows she must improve, but won't put any limits on herself.
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It depends on why your mole needs to be removed. The most important reason for having a mole removed is to rule out any cancerous changes.
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ATLANTA (Jan. 4, 2012) – One of the most exciting bowl games of the season has become the most watched in its history.
An average of 8.56 million viewers tuned in for this year's Chick-fil-A Bowl, establishing it as the most-viewed non-BCS bowl game telecast in ESPN history. The game was also the most-viewed Chick-fil-A Bowl in history, surpassing the 2007 match-up of Auburn and Clemson that delivered 7.52 million viewers.
Featuring a match-up of two 10-win teams, #8 LSU vs. #14 Clemson, the 2012 edition of the Chick-fil-A Bowl earned a 5.6 household coverage rating. Viewers saw Clemson (11-2) erase an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter and kick a last-second field goal to down LSU (10-3) on the game's final play.
"This was certainly one of the top three or four bowls of the post season and the game and the viewership definitely confirmed that fact," said Gary Stokan, Chick-fil-A Bowl president and CEO. "With an unopposed ESPN TV slot and a great game, we were thrilled the Chick-fil-A Bowl set this record and we thank ESPN, Clemson and LSU for their partnership."
The Chick-fil-A Bowl has been telecast by ESPN every year since 1992. Chick-fil-A Bowl games are now the number-one most-viewed, four of the top 10 and seven of the top-25 most-viewed non-BCS bowl game telecasts in ESPN history.
The game was also the Chick-fil-A Bowl's 16th consecutive sellout, a mark second only to the Rose Bowl among all bowl games in the country. In 2012, the Chick-fil-A Bowl furthered its mission as college football's most charitable bowl game by distributing an all-time high of $1.48 million in charitable and scholarship contributions.
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KALAMAZOO—A range of job opportunities for engineers will be showcased at Western Michigan University during a recruiting event set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27.
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- Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K.
- Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
- Büchner, Woyzeck
- Parks, Venus
- Maureen McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
- Butler, Parable of the Sower
- Films: Amandla!, Black Girl, Herzog's Woyzeck (and maybe János Szász's, but I haven't had a chance yet to see it), and The Elephant Man
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Ronald E. Dahl, MD, was officially installed as the Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Nov.30.
The Staunton Professorship was endowed by the Staunton Farm Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation in 1987. This endowed chair sits between the departments of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine with the goal of helping to promote collaborative advances in behavioral and emotional health in youth.
At the installation ceremony, Dr. Dahl presented his inaugural lecture, Adolescent Brain Development: An Interface of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Psychology and Neuroscience.
Dr. Dahl was introduced to psychiatry research while attending medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, and during his psychiatric residency at Duke University, he developed a further interest in pediatric behavioral and emotional disorders, including a particular focus on sleep disorders. These themes remain central to his present research focus on the emotional and motivational changes that emerge in adolescence, and their relevance to the significant behavioral and emotional health problems that emerge during this period of development.
"I can think of no one more deserving than Ron Dahl to receive this endowed chair," said Arthur S. Levine, MD, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. "His work to increase our understanding of the emotional health and development of adolescents supports the work of the Staunton Farm Foundation, which for more than 65 years has been supporting mental health treatment in the communities of Southwestern Pennsylvania."
"We are most pleased that Ron Dahl is the occupant of this important endowed chair which provides major opportunities for the conduct of interdisciplinary research in psychiatry, pediatrics, mental health and development," said David J. Kupfer, M.D., Thomas Detre Professor and chair, department of psychiatry.
"Adolescence is a period of great vulnerability," said Dr. Dahl. "It is a time of risk for problems such as depression, alcohol, nicotine and drug use and dependence, and a great deal of risk-taking and reckless behavior; yet it also is a period of opportunity for developing healthy goals and patterns of behavior. Current advances in neurobehavioral research are beginning to shed light on several aspects of these complex problems and are an exciting area of future research."
Dr. Dahl received his undergraduate degrees from Penn State University and his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1984 to 1987 he completed a pediatric residency at Duke University, then from 1987 to 1988 received training in sleep medicine at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
Dr. Dahl has served as a core member of several prominent transdisciplinary research groups including the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Psychopathology and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence and the WT Grant Consortium on the Developmental Psychobiology of Stress.
He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Society for Research in Child Development and the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.
Dr. Dahl has published extensively on adolescent development, pediatric sleep disorders, and behavioral/emotional health in children.
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MARANA, Ariz. (AP) -- An Arizona Army National Guard helicopter unit is returning from deployment to Afghanistan.
The 37 soldiers of B Company of the 1st Battalion of the 285th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion are returning to Arizona after their second deployment since 2007.
The Guard says the company set standards for operational readiness and execution of assigned missions while in Afghanistan.
The Arizona Guard says more than 475 soldiers are currently serving on federal active duty in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
More than 6,000 Arizona Army National Guard and Air National Guard soldiers and airmen have answered the call and been ordered to federal active duty in support of Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom since Sept. 11, 2001.


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Google I/O (Google's annual developer conference) attendees in San Francisco got a very nice surprise this week, a shiny new limited edition Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to take away with them. Of course Pocket-lint was on hand to grab a hands-on with the new slightly tweaked model, over the one we previously played with at US mobile trade show CTIA.
The big differences are the ditching of Samsung TouchWiz layer giving you a pure "Google experience" and a new back plate so you can show you that you're special.
Out of the box and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (remember this is a different design to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1V) is the Honeycomb tablet most likely to be mistaken for an iPad. In fact several passers by asked how we liked our new iPad as we were using the Tab.
Design wise it has a similar sleek silver design (the limited edition version from the Google I/O conference that we looked at has a design of little grey and white droids on the back) and is a very similar size.
It's not exactly the same - the Tab 10.1 sports a 16:9 screen ratio that it's a little longer than the iPad, and it's actually some 25g lighter if we are getting picky, and that screen ratio and the slightly-off centre positioning of the battery means it looks and feels a little larger and less balanced. Still a quick glance will make you wonder which one you are looking at.
The oversized power button and volume control are on the top edge of the screen (although it auto-rotates at the slightest twist of your wrist, almost too readily), along with the headphone socket (and the extreme thinness of the Tab makes the socket look unusually large). Tiny speakers are on either side and the sound is reasonably good, although we certainly noticed distortion at high volumes.
On the bottom is a proprietary Samsung USB port (and it's not the same proprietary Samsung USB port as their MP3 players or any other Samsung devices we've had our hands on lately). And that's it; no SD card socket or USB port, no HDMI connector (and as this is a Wi-Fi-only version, no SIM card socket).
Google is obviously hoping you'll use services like the new Music Beta (US-only) to get content.
You can plug it into your PC but when so many other tablets and smartphones make it easier to load content that seems beyond minimalist.
The screen is extremely, almost excessively shiny and we had significant problems with reflection if we tried turning the brightness down; turn off the power saving ambient light sensor and you get a bright and very colourful screen that's much easier to see (but that uses up rather more battery - a quarter of the battery life gone in under 2 hours). Pictures and video look vivid and saturated.
The 3 megapixel camera on the back is a little slower than we'd like to focus and to adjust the white balance (indoors we saw a yellow cast until the automatic adjustments kicked in) and with such a large image to paint on-screen, live preview can show a clear lag if you move the tab around.
When you take your photo it's reasonable quality although it's odd to have a camera app (not the standard Honeycomb one) that lets you set the white balance but not zoom in or out.
The Google I/O version of the Tab doesn't have Samsung's TouchWiz UX interface; this is a "Google Experience" tablet with the stock Honeycomb interface, including Honeycomb versions of apps like Google Maps and the new Music Beta interface and just a couple of extra apps.
Samsung Apps is a store, currently with nothing but some strange Korean apps; Pulse is a news aggregator that's nicely designed for the tablet form factor (many Android apps don't scale up well, so it's good to have something that shows it off) and there's the ubiquitous 7digital Music Store.
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It's turning out to be a great year for jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette.
In January, he was named an NEA Jazz Master for lifetime achievement. He began celebrating his 70th birthday early — it's August 9 — by going on a short performance tour this month with his old friends, Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. The celebration continues this summer, as he tours Europe with the Keith Jarrett trio. As if that's not enough, he also released one of the best albums of the year in any genre, Sound Travels.
So, as a way of saying "congratulations and happy birthday year," here are just a few highlights from the ongoing career of one of America's finest and most versatile musicians.
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Glenda M. Sisson, 69, of Poteau died Jan. 6, 2013, in Fort Smith, Ark. She was born April 1, 1943, in Thackerville to O.C. and Mildred (Scivally) Sampson. She was a foster parent, homemaker and loving mother and grandmother.She was preceded in death by her parents; her beloved husband, Robert W. Sisson; three brothers, Virgil Sampson, V.J. Sampson and James Sampson; a brother-in-law, Chance West; a daughter-in-law, Sherry Langston; and parents-in-law, Robert and Margie SissonGlenda is survived by six sons and spouses, David and Mary Langston of Madill, Russell and Jodie Broussard of Gilmore, Bobby and Jennifer Sisson of Virginia Beach, Va., Brian Sisson of Virginia Beach, Glenn and Cheryl Sisson of Wister, and Cody Shipman and Jessica Whitlow of Oklahoma City; three daughters and spouses, Tammy and Wally Lambert of Oklahoma City, Teresa and Earl Seagraves of Spiro, and Diane and Kevin Yarbrough of Poteau; five sisters and their spouses, Edith Marchbanks of Thackerville, Sharon and Phil Migues of Denton, Texas, Violet and W. M. Gowdy of Amarillo, Texas, Murlene and Jerry Sanders of Poteau, and Elaine and Clifford Midgley of Wister; sister-in-law, Judy Sampson of Thackerville; special grandson Heith Allen Payne; special friend Trisha Hilderbrant; 39 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews and loved ones.Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, at Grace Manor Memorial Chapel, Poteau, with the Rev. P.J. Atkinson officiating. Burial will be in Mount View Cemetery, Glendale. Pallbearers will be David Langston, Russell Broussard, Glenn Sisson, Cody Shipman, Heith Allen Payne, George Midgley and Lance Midgley.Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Grace Manor Funeral Home. You may leave an online greeting to the family at www.gracemanorfh.com.


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June 3, 2013
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All of this is just-in-time for our Silicon Valley BeagleBoard Users' Group meeting being held immediately following the Embedded Systems Conference. We'll be enjoying a few beers and discussing the BeagleBoard.org sponsored project program. The meeting will be held in room B1 in the convention center right after the show closes at 4 PM, Thursday, April 2nd. Join us in the ESC Theater an hour earlier for a chance to win a BeagleBoard and a Tektronix scope. Hope to see you there!


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Google is taking another swing at commanding the television with its new Chromecast, a low-cost accessory that plugs into a TV and allows users to stream video, share tabs from the Google Chrome browser, or play music from their smartphones, tablet or computer on the big screen.
The big selling point? The Chromecast lets users stream or share while also allowing the device to do other tasks.
With the Chromecast, analysts said, Google appears to have learned a lesson from some of its own missteps and those of its competitors. The small device, which fits into a TV's HDMI port, eliminates some of the usual frustrations with TV streaming. For example, while Apple TV and, to a lesser extent, the Xbox allow users to beam some content from their mobile devices to the television, the mobile devices then can't be used for anything else at the same time. Google says that the Chromecast will enable multitasking on the laptop, tablet or other device without interrupting what's streaming on the TV.
Chromecast also comes with built-in support not only for Google devices but also for Apple's iPhone and Google's Chrome browser on Macs and PCs. That means that nearly every television can now get a Google upgrade — a major shift for the competitive landscape, analysts said.
Now, said James McQuivey, a principal analyst at Forrester, "it's not a war of smart versus dumb TVs — it's a war of which smart TV."
The Chromecast hasn't caught up with the content offerings of competitors Roku and Apple TV — it launched with support for Netflix, but other popular services such as Pandora are yet to come, the company says. But during its announcement Wednesday, Google pointed out that it's easy for developers to add Chromecast support to their existing apps, which could have the double benefit of beefing up content for Chromecast quickly and giving apps on Google Play a little something extra that competitors don't offer.
And, finally, there's the price. Apple TV and Roku are both priced to move with their newest models starting at $99. Chromecast costs $35.
That lower price, McQuivey said, draws a sharp line between Google and competitors such as Apple and Microsoft and shows that the company has a different vision for how to make money off the television. Apple, he explained, aims for profit from the sale of its popular devices and won't take a run at a new product unless it believes it can make money off the sales of that hardware. Microsoft is splitting the difference by packaging multimedia entertainment in a dedicated device of its own, the Xbox One.
But for Google — which hasn't made much inroad with its own TV devices — the motivations are now completely different.
"Google doesn't care about making any money on the device," McQuivey said. "The future is about software."
This new strategy doesn't even focus so much on selling the content, he noted. It's aimed more at gathering information on consumer habits — data that Google could combine with search and other data from its services to expand its user profiles.
"This is a deep, deep relationship built with you," he said. "It opens potential for them to do much more for you than they could before."
The Chromecast is now available on Google Play, Amazon.com and BestBuy.com, and will be available in U.S. Best Buy stores starting Sunday.


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Affordable Health Care, Everywhere
Karen Field is Senior Vice President of Content at UBM Electronics.
Over the last 50 years, engineers have made great strides in the development of medical device technology.
Sparked by the first commercially integrated circuits in the 1950s and the promise of ever cheaper computing power, a whole generation of engineers would go on to invent an awe-inspiring list of medical devices: From artificial hearts to MRI and CAT scan machines to advanced linear accelerators that more accurately target radiation therapy for cancer, to name just a few.
These inventions have had a dramatic impact, helping countless people live longer and more productive lives.
But developments in medical technology need to move further, faster. Our health care system in the U.S. today is wobbling: Instead of preventing disease in many cases, we spend billions to treat the symptoms. Far too many people have inadequate access to health care, while many more have none at all.
In places like East Africa, where there is just one doctor for every 50,000 people as compared to one doctor for every 390 people in the U.S., the situation is even more dire. Here, some people have never had their blood pressure taken or weight measured in their lives.
However, the momentum behind providing health care to everyone is growing.
In 2009, I was inspired by a keynote talk given by Khanjan Mehta, a senior research associate in the School of Engineering at Penn State University at NI Week, a worldwide conference for engineers on measurement and automation held by National Instruments. He described an innovative program that is bringing networked health solutions to developing regions like East Africa.
One of the primary engineering goals of the program is to develop low-cost medical devices such as a spirometer and a pulse rate monitor, which can operate under conditions that can be rugged and unforgiving.
The aim is to keep the devices simple - just a sensor, minimal hardware and a cardboard backing - and move the intelligence to the network. Once patient information is collected, it can be uploaded to a server, where a doctor anywhere can read it.
More recently, I was thrilled by the announcement of two new X PRIZE competitions designed to revolutionize healthcare: the Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE, which aims to achieve affordable, personalized healthcare for all people through the application of sophisticated sensing technologies and devices, and the Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE, which challenges participants to develop a portable, wireless handheld device that will monitor and diagnose a person's health conditions.
Given their tradition of technical expertise and proven ability to solve some of the most challenging technical problems, I hope that a new generation of entrepreneurial engineers will seize these opportunities to help make the world a better place.


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Center for Biological Diversity Statement on Kerry, Lieberman, Graham Press Conference on
Climate Change and Energy Independence
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following statement today from Executive Director Kierán Suckling in response to the news that Senators Kerry, Lieberman, and Graham will hold a press conference on Climate Change and Energy Independence:
"The current Kerry-Boxer climate bill falls far short of what scientists tell us is necessary to stop global warming. The unlikely trio of Senators Kerry, Lieberman, and Graham has an historic opportunity to inject reality into the Senate deliberations by requiring the deep, swift pollution reductions necessary to avert catastrophic global warming. We are concerned, however, that earlier statements by the senators suggest they will weaken an already too-weak approach to climate change.
"If a Senate bill is to have any chance of heading off the climate disaster threatening millions of people, it must guarantee that the planet's carbon dioxide level is reduced to 350 parts per million by reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. It must preserve all of the Clean Air Act's proven mechanisms for reducing air pollution. And it must eliminate offsets.
"That the United States is the odd man out among developed countries at the Copenhagen negotiations is a strong indication of how far from scientific reality both the House and Senate have been so far in crafting global warming policy. The Center hopes that Senators Kerry, Lieberman, and Graham can bring Congress back to reality with a climate bill that reflects the severity of the crisis and offers effective solutions instead of pointless compromises."
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 240,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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