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Tràng An – Bai Dinh Pagoda Tour
Trang An, the eco tourism attraction located in the East of Ninh Binh, with area of 2000 ha. Bai Dinh Pagoda is one of the biggest one in Vietnam and also of the South East Asia with hundreds of statues.
Itinerary Trang An - Bai Dinh Pagoda one day tour:
8:00 – 8:30:
Tour guide and car pick you up at your address to depart for Ninh Binh province (98 Kms).Start tour Trang An – Bai Dinh Pagoda.
10:30 – 12:00:
Arrive in Buddha Prayer place in Bai Dinh Pagoda, the biggest pagoda in Vietnam with 500 La Han statues, biggest bronze Buddha statue in Vietnam with 10 meters in height, 100 tons in weight.
Have lunch in local restaurant with some local special dishes such as Goat meat with elderberry, pork ….
Depart to visit Trang An tourist attraction, take boat trip to visit cave complex: Sang Cave, Toi Cave, Ba Giot Cave, Nau Ruou in mystery and wildness, see scenery of mountain and rivers. Trang An is considered as Ha Long on the land.
Getting on the car for returning to Hanoi.
Back to Hanoi at your address, Trang An – Bai Dinh Pagoda Tour ends.
- Pick up and drop off at your hotel with modern car with air-conditioner
- 1 bottle of water/tour/person
- Enthusiastic, experienced driver & English speaking guide
- Vietnamese lunch at local restaurant
- Entrance fees & boat
- Insurance.
- Electric car: 3 USD/ person
- Tips, personal expense, drinks.
- Anything not explicitly mentioned above is not included in the price
- Long sleeve clothes,
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Bomb Jack (Mophun)
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DescriptionIn Bomb Jack, the player controls Jack, who must collect all the bombs in order to complete the current round and go onto the next one. This sounds easy, right? Wrong! Making Jack's task difficult are numerous enemies such as birds, mummies, turtles, and orbs.
In each round, collecting a number of bombs results in a bonus coin appearing, and collecting this coin will make the player's score increase 2 to 4 times. More often than not, the "power ball" appears, and when you collect this, you can defeat enemies and have more time to collect all the bombs. There is also the "E" coin, which gives Jack one additional life, but rarely does this coin appear.
The more you progress through the game, the more difficult it becomes, as enemies travel more quickly to get you.
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- "Arcade Archives: Bomb Jack" -- PlayStation 4 title
- "ボンジャック" -- Japanese spelling
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1001 Video GamesBomb Jack appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Background graphicsThe two sides of the original tape for the C16 version had different background graphics
MusicThe A BGM of the original arcade game is in fact a cover of the theme song of the animated TV series Spoon obasan (Mrs. Pepperpot), sung by Mari Iijima.
- Computer Gamer
- February 1986 (issue #17) - Included in the list Spectrum Collection (the best Spectrum ZX games since 1985 by editorial staff choice)
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- Issue 04/1987 - #20 Best Game in 1986 (Readers' Vote)
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Using the 'Stunt Double' and 'Pause Button' in DT training
Some simulations necessitate the use of physical intervention skills or hard-contact offensive and defensive tactics
Editor's Note: PoliceOne Columnist Gary Klugiewicz says that over the last thirty years, he has attended "literally hundreds of training programs" and says further than that "Ken Murray's Reality Based Training Instructor Program was one of the best. Two of the most important simulation training concepts that I got out of his course — which summaries his book, 'Training at the Speed of Life,' — are the Stunt Double and Pause Button Concepts that he explains in the following article."
Reality-based training is a concept that provides simulations that approximate various situations that officers might encounter in the real world. RBT runs the gamut between guided use of the imagination all the way up through dynamic and complex simulations involving realistic sites, situations, and role players. When using role players, some simulations might necessitate the use of physical intervention skills or hard-contact offensive and defensive tactics to effectively handle the situation. Such simulations would be extremely dangerous without the use of protective equipment to lessen the likelihood of physical injury to both student and role player.
Although these protective suits effectively permit hard-contact DT, there are a number of limitations to using any of the big suits available. Of these limitations, two that pose the greatest issues are mobility and trainer comfort. Given the number of different suits available on the market, some provide greater mobility and some provide greater protection. The general rule is, the greater the mobility the less the protection and vice versa. I tend to refer to the suits with the greatest mobility as dynamic combative suits, and those with the greatest protection as "mobile heavy bags."
The reduced protection of the suits with greater mobility often requires a dialing down of the level of force. Lack of mobility decreases realism and in some instances can actually pose a safety hazard to the trainer, while the comfort issues that can be associated with either style increase trainer fatigue. A third limitation of all of these suits is the visual realism, sometimes resulting in preconditioning a student with certain expectations during a scenario. In our scenario training program we have found several useful training techniques to address these issues.
The Stunt Double
Let's first deal with the issue of realism and preconditioning. It is important to recognize that realism is not a factor if you are simply running drills — it is only really an issue during high-level scenarios that incorporate a story line and are designed to test an officer's response to various situations.
Just like during K-9 training where the dog is preconditioned for a bite when someone shows up wearing a bite suit, many officers can be preconditioned during dynamic simulations to use hard DT techniques if they enter a scenario and observe two different role players: one wearing conventional safety gear and the other wearing the "Michelin Man" suit.
"Which one of these two am I going to have to fight?" In order to avoid this training issue, we have used a technique we call the "Stunt Double" approach. Having your student enter a training venue simulating a domestic disturbance problem, for instance, we would have the two role players dressed identically in basic protective gear: face, throat, hand, and groin protection with no exposed skin.
As the problem between the two begins to escalate it becomes obvious that one of the role players is the aggressor and one is the victim. Once the student officer creates a separation between the two and force options on the aggressor are being utilized (i.e. spray or TASER) we would have the aggressor role player simulate that the intermediate force options are ineffective. It becomes increasingly apparent that the student officer is going to have to go "hands on." The problem is, of course, that neither of the role players is physically prepared with the appropriate equipment for hard-contact tactics.
This is the point where we press the "pause button."
Pressing the pause button means physically touching the student and interrupting the scenario temporarily to ask the student what they are thinking at that point. This is an extremely effective intervention technique that we will expand on later in the article, and is particularly useful in this instance. Once the pause button is pressed and the student is interacting with the instructor, the student will usually state that at that point that they would go hands on with the belligerent role player.
The instructor would reply, "Good. Stand by."
The inappropriately-dressed belligerent role player is removed and replaced by the guy wearing the big suit and the scenario is restarted. The student officer is now able to use hard-contact techniques with someone who is appropriately dressed for that level of contact.
This accomplishes three things. First, there is no preconditioning of the student officer as to the nature of force response that is ultimately necessary. Since the student should always be equipped with training versions of all of their duty equipment — inert chemical agent, training TASER, rubber baton, and firearm converted to marking cartridges — the officer is forced to think their way through the escalating danger and choose the appropriate option.
Second, there is reduced danger for the role player since pressing the pause button before hard contact is initiated will ensure that the officer can use the correct level of physical force and the role player (the stunt double) can provide a realistic level of resistance.
Third, this addresses the issue of trainer comfort. Wearing that suit all day long is hot and tiring, but by allowing them to relax during the evolution of the scenario until the point where they are actually required for the fight, there is much less wear and tear on the trainer in the big suit. This drastically reduces the fatigue factor.
It is important to note, however, that while subbing in the guy in the big suit solves a few of your problems, a new potential safety hazard is created. Handcuffing a role player in such a suit can be extremely dangerous for the role player. Imagine a guy the size of Gary Klugiewicz wearing a RedMan DT suit. As compliant as Gary tries to be, I'll bet you green money that he would be hard pressed to put his hands close enough behind his back to be adequately handcuffed. As Gary tries his best to comply, his arms simply do not permit this and the bulk of the suit aggravates the situation. A student will read this as "resistance" and will attempt to overcome it with additional force. Now Gary's shoulder is being hyperextended and he begins to move away from the pain which is read by the student as much more active resistance and the fight — the REAL fight — is on. Beware.
To that end, if your scenario is designed to test not only the physical force options but also handcuffing, once the skirmish is over and the student has delivered appropriately effective physical force, the pause button can once again be pressed and the role player wearing the lower level of protective gear can be subbed back in for handcuffing and final custodial techniques.
It's important to recognize that when running high level scenarios there will always be a tradeoff between safety and realism. Always err on the side of safety. It is also important to note that in order to effectively use the above techniques of the pause button and the stunt double, there are several essential preconditions.
First, your scenario must be very tightly controlled. You can't simply dump students into a scenario to "see what happens." This is much more difficult than you might think — the complexities are beyond the scope of this article.
Second, the trainer has to be very close to the student during the scenario in order to stop the student just prior to hard contact. Again, this is a technique that must be learned in the context of broader scenario development techniques.
Third, it is usually important to script your belligerent role player on how to use fighting words, furniture barriers, and scripted responses on how other intermediate options have failed, leading to the student officer's decision process to use hard contact. It takes a special type of individual to be a good role player and an even more specialized individual to be a good stunt double whose attitude includes understanding that it is not their place to defeat the student, but rather challenge them at the appropriate level of resistance such that the student is giving it their all.
The Pause Button
Using the pause button as described above is an extremely useful intervention technique that we use for a number of purposes in our training programs. Keep two things in mind, however:
1. Judicious use in training can be very effective
2. Overuse can reduce training effectiveness
It is as much art form as it is science. In addition to using the technique for subbing in a stunt double, we use it to intervene in one of three instances — a Goofy Loop, an Unnatural Pause, or a Meltdown.
We have all seen Goofy Loops in action — "drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun." The situation is going nowhere, the officer is stuck, and we need to bump the needle on the record.
An Unnatural Pause occurs when there is absolutely nothing going on or going forward — as they call it in the broadcast industry, you're in "dead air."
A Meltdown can occur physiologically, psychologically, or technologically. The first time someone gets hit with a marking cartridge and shuts down because it hurts or they roll their ankle and stop fighting even though they are truly physically capable of continuing but choose to stop are examples of a physical meltdown. Our first question is always "do you need medical attention?" If the answer is no, then we encourage them to finish the fight. This programs them for success in combat where they have been injured but can still continue. Of course we need to make a judgment call here since you will have some officers that would tell you that they don't need medical attention when they actually do. It bears repeating: always err on the side of safety.
A technological meltdown can occur when a piece of training equipment fails. If protective gear falls off, we pause the scenario to replace it. If a training weapon goes down and the student has done all they can to solve the problem, we pause the scenario to interject the information that the weapon is irreparable and the student might have to think through other options.
One example of this would be a catastrophic malfunction of a weapon loaded with marking cartridges. On occasion these training weapons go down and a student is tapping and racking their way through fifty dollars worth of training munitions. Pressing the pause button and informing them that they will not be able to clear that weapon and must finish the scenario with a non-functional firearm is a very interesting situation. Where on the range do we ever allow a student to turn and run? It might be the one thing that saves their life some day, and I don't believe in squandering an opportunity to give them that survival experience.
A psychological meltdown can occur when a student feels dejected and simply quits or starts slipping into Condition Black. Allowing them to simply quit is NOT OK in my book, and I do everything I can to get such a student to finish the fight. We then debrief what went wrong and run the exact scenario again — a "Do Over" — and give them experience of getting it right.
I've had to re-run scenarios up to a half dozen times for a student to finally get it right. It is never a giveaway. Students must win through superior tactics or endurance but I don't let them leave with a failure on their ledger. This is, to my mind, one of the most important things we can do in scenario training: we are programming future behavior in combat and my obligation to the student is to ensure they are programmed with winning behaviors. Trainers who continue to "kill" their students in training need to either evolve or head to the tar pit. There is zero value in giving your students the experience of failure. No right minded K-9 trainer would ever do this. The things some trainers do to their human students would destroy a perfectly good dog.
Using the Pause Button during a scenario is part of the training philosophy that embodies an interruptive process that many trainers who have not experienced it find controversial. Those who have never experienced it before often feel that pressing the Pause Button breaks the "flow" of the scenario. This is insignificant since the part of the brain that is being programmed by the experiential learning really has no concept of time. It merely records experience for future playback. If the pause button is used elegantly and appropriately, the interruption is not the least bit counterproductive to the learning process.
As a quick note of wrap up, the techniques mentioned above have proven extremely successful in the past but are most effective within the confines of a tightly-controlled and well-orchestrated scenario training program. While described within the broader context of scenario based training, when used appropriately we have found that most of the limitations of the large DT suits can be minimized while maximizing their benefits.
Until next time, train hard and train safe!


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For so many of us, the daily stresses of life can lead us to take shorter, shallower breaths. Ironically yet not surprisingly, this kind of breathing only compounds stress in the body, by depriving the cells of oxygen and by not fully exhaling toxins from the lungs. As few as three deep focused breaths can be extremely calming to your entire body and your mind. So next time you get stressed out, check your breathing – you'll almost always find it's shallow and that is the time to stop and take a deep breath. Please don't put it off and remember "Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee." {Montaigne}
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The television remote was invented in 1955.
I'm not sure why.
Today we have hundreds of channels and nothing to watch. Back then, we had three channels and nothing to watch.
The options were so limited that in my house we watched opera once a week. At a very early age I couldn't wait for the fat lady to sing.
Today it's difficult to imagine life without the remote, particularly for men, who when it comes to watching television have the attention span of cocker spaniels.
I think it was Jerry Seinfeld who observed that men don't care about what's on, they care about what else is on.
In terms of healthy lifestyle choices, the remote is the Cheez Whiz of electronic devises.
Imagine if men had to get up from their recliners (the hot fudge sundaes of furniture) and walk over to the television every time they wanted to change the channel. So many calories would be burned that we would look like a nation of breatharians.
The problem of the remote has grown into the problem of the remotes. If I didn't know better I'd swear that the way remotes multiply they must be having some kind of kinky electronic sex. To watch television or a DVD in my house requires the use of no less than four different remotes: TV, cable box, DVD player, surround sound.
As you might imagine I live in constant fear that one or all of these devices might one day get it on with up my garage-door remote. Were this to come about I fear the resulting inbreeding of microchips could lead to viewing chaos: beer commercials airing during "Sesame Street;" episodes of "The View" suddenly popping up in the middle of NFL games. Oh, the horror!
Anyway, even if this doomsday scenario never comes to pass, there is still the matter of the modern remotes ever increasing complexity.
Mindlessly hit the wrong button on a remote and you can find yourself so lost in menu loops that your only way out is to buy a new television.
An alternative to multiple remotes is the "universal remote," which incorporates several remotes into one easy to use unit ... if you happen to be a NASA computer programmer.
I have at least a half dozen universal remotes sitting in a drawer somewhere. Now that I think of it, I only remember putting two of them in there.


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Italy sold 3 billion euros ($4 billion) of five-year bonds, the maximum target, at the highest yield in more than 14 years as Mario Monti seeks to form a new government to restore investor confidence in public finances.
The Rome-based Treasury sold the bonds to yield 6.29 percent, the highest since June 1997 and up from 5.32 percent at the last auction on Oct. 13. Demand was 1.47 times the amount on offer, compared with 1.34 times last month.
... Monti, 68, accepted a mandate from President Giorgio Napolitano yesterday to succeed Silvio Berlusconi, who resigned as premier on Nov. 12 after defections eroded his parliamentary majority and the country's 10-year bond yield surged over the 7 percent threshold that prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts. The yield on Italy's benchmark 10-year bond was 6.4 percent at 11:15 a.m. in Rome after the auction, down from a euro-era record of 7.48 percent on Nov. 9.
Italy was forced to pay 6.087 percent on one-year bills at an auction on Nov. 10, the most in more than 14 years, amid the worsening European debt crisis. Monti, an economist and former adviser to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will try to reassure investors that Italy can cut a 1.9 trillion-euro debt and spur economic growth that has lagged behind the euro-region average for more than a decade.
The country faces about 200 billion euros in bond maturities next year, more than twice as much as Spain, which has also seen yields surge on fallout from the debt crisis. The first bond redemption comes on Feb. 1, when Italy must pay back 26 billion euros for debt sold 10 years ago.Whoa.. This was hard to see coming, wasn't it? Yeah, right. BoomBustBlog subscribers reference the explicit warning from early 2010 -
Italy public finances projection.
These severe devaluation in bonds definitely do take their toll, and not just on those who gorged on Grecian debt, as Bloomberg also reports UniCredit Posts a Record $14.5 Billion Loss on Impairments; Shares Tumble:
UniCredit SpA (UCG), Italy's biggest bank, posted a record loss of 10.6 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in the third quarter after writing down goodwill on acquisitions and investments.
The stock fell as much as 9.6 percent as UniCredit unveiled a plan to raise as much as 7.5 billion euros by selling shares. The company took an impairment of 8.7 billion euros as it wrote off goodwill on purchases in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, UniCredit said in a statement today. The bank said it will exit non- strategic units, without elaborating.
Wider spreads on government bonds contributed to a 285 million-euro trading loss, the company said. The lender also scrapped its dividend for this year and plans 5,200 job cuts through 2015. UniCredit is raising money as it faces the biggest capital shortfall among Italy's lenders, as ranked by the European Banking Authority last month.
"Our decision to write down the goodwill of several brands and to raise capital will reinforce the bank from both a balance-sheet and capital point of view," Chief Executive Officer Federico Ghizzoni told reporters in Milan.
UniCredit shares were 6.3 percent lower at 77.3 cents as of 3:34 p.m. Milan time.
The lender said the goodwill charges won't affect UniCredit's cash and capital positions. UniCredit's loan-loss provisions rose to 1.85 billion euros in the quarter from 1.63 billion euros a year earlier. Revenue declined 11 percent to 5.7 billion euros in the quarter.
The stock sale is part of UniCredit's new business plan, which targets net income of 6.5 billion euros by 2015.
Wow! What a surprise... Oh, my mistake... From Subscriber download dated February 2010, Italian Banking Macro-Fundamental Discussion Note, page 7 - Italian banks at risk!
You see, this is the problem. This Pan-European debacle has been moving in relatively slow motion and was very, very easily foreseeable. As a matter of fact, I have called it with nigh unerring precision from the first quarter of 2010. Reference the series of 40 or so articles starting in January of 2010, together known as Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis.
In The Coming Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis, dated Sunday, 07 February 2010 (please take notice of the date), I introduced the crisis and identified it as a pan-European problem, not a localized one. You see, the media and the sell side attempted to make this all about Greece when the reality of the matter was that it was anything but. This is a Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis, not a Greek, Irish or even Italian debt crisis. As excerpted:
Much of the analysis that I have seen fails to put enough weight on the bad loan/NPA issue in each country's respective banking system, which essentially is the cause of most of the countries' particular malaise to begin with. I have thrown together a crude, rudimentary chart to put this into perspective...
When comparing these sovereigns using metrics that encompass more than the usual suspects, you get a clearer picture. The bank bailouts were expensive, arguably too expensive. It may have been better to let them fail in the market and nationalize them. Notice how the nations with the highest NPAs are doing the worst. In addition, one should remain cognizant that the "extend and pretend" game has allowed hundreds of billions of "phantom" NPAs to roam free in each of these countries' GDPs unrecorded. I believe there may be some surprises left in quite a few of the German banks. We will probably see if I'm right over the next few quarters. See German Recovery Stalls Unexpectedly in Fourth Quarter:German gross domestic product showed no growth in the final quarter of last year, official data showed on Friday, leaving Europe's largest economy on a weak footing going into 2010.
And you wonder what happend to Unicredit???
In the piece What Country is Next in the Coming Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis?, dated Tuesday, 09 February 2010 (please take notice of the date) – I illustrated the potential for the domino effect, as excerpted:
It is beyond a hallucinogenic-induced pipe dream to even consider that the Eurozone will come out of this attempt at replicating the US "extend and pretend" policy intact and unscathed. The mere concept of global equity rallies should have macro traders and fundamental investors chomping at the bit. The US won't even get away with it, and we have the world's reserve currency printing press in our basement running with an ink-based, inter-cooled, twin-turbo supercharger strapped on that will make those German engineers green with envy, not to mention green with splattered printer ink as the presses go berserk!
In part 2 of my series on the Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis, we will review Italy and Ireland in comparison to the whipping child of the media - Greece (see "The Coming Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis" for part one covering Greece and Spain along with tear sheets for the Spanish banks at risk for subscribers).
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As seen above, Italy's gross debt as a % of GDP is worse than that of Greeces. Spain's stuctural balance is nearly as bad as Greece's and their GDP is heading backwards at a faster rate than Greece. Spain's high unemployment trumps all in the comparison, with Ireland coming a close second. Despite all of this, Greece has two to three times the CDS spread. Greece is a dress rehearsal for sovereign debt failure in several larger countries. Ireland is in very bad shape, and the UK is heavily levered into Ireland through the banking system and bonds (to the tune of $190 billion+) which exacerbates the issues that the UK already has (we will get to this in a future post). Spain and Italy combined are a sizeable chunk of the entire EU, and they are at risk. I say this just to keep things in perspective. We still have at least 9 or 10 more nations to review, and it doesn't necessarily get any better from here.
The worst has yet to come. With nearly all of Europe's banking system in the toilet, and roughly half a trillion Euros of mortgage loans coming due for rollover on a property market that is currently underwater with increasing vacancies, softening rents and a fukked macro outlook, pray tell what do you think will come of it?
Reggie Middleton Featured in Property EU, one of Europes leading real estate publicatios
Those who wish to download the full article in PDF format can do so here: Reggie Middleton on Stagflation, Sovereign Debt and the Potential for bank Failure at the ING ACADEMY-v2.
Of course, you can bet the farm on the industry group that will be hit second hardest by all of this, and yet somehow has not recieved nearly enough attention. Stay tuned, collapses commencing shortly. BoomBustBlog subscribers should hit the professional (professional only) addendum to the (all paying subscribers) Sovereign Debt Exposure of European Debt Exposed Industry (439.61 kB 2010-05-19 01:56:52) which can be found online here: Sovereign Debt Exposure Worksheets - Professional. I will be updating this list within a week.


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Sony announces bevy of PSP and mini titles releasing through PS Vita Store
Sony has posted a massive list of games which will be available through the PS Vita store starting today. Below the break you will find minis as well as PSP Titles with Sony promising more "soon."
Minis headlines
Sony aware of Vita issue with minis, working on a resolution
Sony has said it is aware of an issue which is preventing Vita users from playing minis and is looking to resolve the problem "as quickly as possible."
Velocity releasing in March, soundtrack created by Killzone composer
FuturLab has announced Velocity, scrolling minis shooter with gameplay featuring a teleport mechanic which allows players to jump around the screen and return to previous areas of a level to solve "time sensitive logic puzzles."
SNK Playmore releases eight pre-NEOGEO era classics on US PS Store
SNK Playmore USA has announced the North American release of eight SNK Arcade Classics as PlayStation minis titles for the PSP and PS3.
Heads up: PlayStation Store Spring offers
A whole raft of offers are detailed on the EU PlayStation blog, check inside for the highlights.
Classification Board outs Mega Minis bundles
The always-reliable Australian Classification Board has listed yet another unannounced project – three "Mega Minis" bundles for the PSP.
Sony wants ideas for minis game via the Gamocracy project
Sony wants folks to help Swedish developer The Bearded Ladies Consulting make a PlayStation Network game.
Pac-Man Championship Edition going live for PS minis tomorrow
Namco Bandai's announced on the US PS Blog that Pac-Man Championship Edition will be available on PS minis for $4.99 tomorrow. The title will be "a relatively more traditional take on PAC-MAN" than what Championship Edition DX was when it released on PS3 and PSP last year.
Angry Birds hits PS3, PSP this week
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The federal agency approved the company's "Diolase 10" laser for 80 new procedures in 19 different branches of medicine, including dermatology, neurosurgery, gynecology, podiatry, urology, ophthalmology, lung surgery and heart surgery. Federico Pignatelli, the company's Italian-born chairman and chief executive officer, sees a glittering new frontier.
"Now we can expand this wonderful technology into the medical fields, and there are plenty of applications," Pignatelli said. "We are talking about a multibillion dollar market." He said the company will gear up to sell the laser in many of these new medical markets. He declined to put a number on the potential boost to Biolase's bottom line, but said it would be "very significant."
Biolase has lost money every year since 2003, a state of affairs that Pignatelli ascribed to misguided moves by previous managers. The most egregious of them, he says, was a decision to grant exclusive distribution rights to a large company that took catalogue orders but did not market the products it was selling.
"These lasers, at this point, don't sell by themselves," Pignatelli said. "You need to explain to dentists why they need them."
That may help explain why the lasers have not exactly become an immutable fixture in dental offices, despite their ostensibly large potential. The company's revenues peaked at around $70 million in 2006 and then slid significantly in subsequent years. In 2011, revenues totaled $48.9 million, and the company lost $4.49 million, excluding one-off items. Analysts expect a significant gain to be reported for 2012, with revenue projected to hit $55.4 million, though the company is still expected to lose $4.42 million, according to Bloomberg's estimates.
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The key advantage of the Biolase laser, Pignatelli says, is that unlike standard lasers and traditional surgical tools, the device produces neither heat nor trauma – both of which damage tissue. He speaks at length about what he considers almost a moral issue of safety: Traditional surgical tools, such as a dentist's drill, are hard to sterilize and can spread disease, he says. That doesn't happen with lasers, which kill bacteria.
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MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — On a recent weekday morning, the parking lots at Foxwoods Resort Casino were crowded with cars registered in Massachusetts. They were parked there by patrons who drove an hour or more to play the games, but in a few years will have Las Vegas-style gambling much closer to home.
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Butera figures that Foxwoods, which is 100 miles from Boston, has until late 2016 to ready itself for a new wave of competition from Bay State gambling resorts. Massachusetts is planning to license as many as three casino resorts and one slot parlor, with the intent to intercept Foxwoods' customers and keep them in-state.
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Foxwoods, and its nearby tribal casino competitor Mohegan Sun, felt the bite of competition in recent years from New York, which began to open slot parlors in 2004, and Pennsylvania, which opened its first casino in 2007, according to the American Gaming Association.
"It is difficult to compete with assets that are more convenient," said Butera. "You've got to accept the fact you will lose some part of your business."
Foxwoods need only look to Atlantic City for a lesson on the perils of new gambling businesses popping up in emerging markets.
In 2006, Atlantic City casinos reported $5.2 billion in gambling revenue, said Greg Roselli, a casino analyst for UBS Securities. Since that 2006 peak, new competition has cut into Atlantic City's business; the city's gambling revenue the last 12 months was about $3.1 billion, he said.
"The two main hits to A.C. have been Pennsylvania and New York, and obviously the macro economy," said Roselli, who said Hurricane Sandy may have depressed business at New Jersey casinos in 2012, though not by enough to dramatically affect the numbers.
Foxwoods is in "a decent amount" of danger from new competition from Massachusetts, Roselli said. "It's hard to quantify what Foxwoods is going to lose and what the impact on their bottom is going to be, but they're going to feel a hit." He said Foxwoods appears more vulnerable than Mohegan Sun, which depends less on Massachusetts customers.
About 32 percent of Foxwoods' patrons are from Massachusetts, according to estimates from Clyde Barrow, a casino specialist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Mohegan Sun gets about 20 percent from the Bay State.
Saverio Scheri, chief executive of WhiteSand Gaming, a gambling industry consulting firm, said Foxwoods enjoys a tremendous headstart in developing loyalty among regional casino customers, and is in a solid position to market to its existing patrons.
"It's important they keep the property up to date," he said. "A customer will not drive past one casino to go to another without a compelling reason, when they all have the same slot machines."
Some customers can be persuaded to drive further for more interesting restaurants and entertainment, a greater confidence that the facility is safe, and superior customer service, he said.
In Rhode Island this year, lawmakers moved to protect revenue at two state slot parlors by asking voters to approve table games, such as blackjack, as an additional attraction. Voters in November approved table games at one facility, Twin River, in Lincoln, which already offers about 4,700 slots.
Twin River expects to open 65 table games by next July, according to a spokeswoman.
In New Hampshire, the election of a new governor, Democrat Maggie Hassan, has revived an effort to legalize casino gaming. "There is certainly the potential for change," said University of New Hampshire political scientist Dante Scala.
Casino proponents in New Hampshire make the same argument proponents did in Massachusetts: Local casinos would keep gamblers from spending money across the state line.
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Sadi Carnot was the eldest son of Lazare Carnot and he was born in the Palais du Petit-Luxembourg. His younger brother was Hippolyte Carnot. At the time of Sadi's birth, his father was a member of the Directory, the French Revolutionary government which lasted four years from November 1795 to November 1799. Sadi was given named after a medieval Persian poet and philosopher called Sa'di of Shiraz.
Sadi Carnot was born at a time of unrest and political turmoil in France and, due the position of his father, whose fortunes changed dramatically many times, he was brought up in a totally unstable environment of interacting politics and science. His father was appointed to the high office of Napoleon's minister of war in 1799. Lazare Carnot resigned in 1807 and devoted himself to the education of his two sons. Sadi had a fine teacher in his father, who taught him mathematics and science as well as languages and music.
Under his father's tuition, Sadi Carnot showed great promise and was sent to the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris to prepare him for the examinations to the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1812, at age 16 the minimum age possible, Carnot entered the École Polytechnique where Poisson, Ampère and Arago were among his teachers. Chasles was in the same class as Carnot and their friendship lasted throughout Carnot's life. Carnot graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1814 but, before he graduated, Carnot and other students from the École Polytechnique fought unsuccessfully with Napoleon to defend Vincennes. This skirmish against the Allies was fought just outside Paris, to the east of the city.
After graduating, Carnot went to the École du Génie at Metz to take the two year course in military engineering. In 1815 Napoleon returned from exile for his famed Hundred Days rule. Carnot's father was appointed minister of the interior and Sadi Carnot was put in a somewhat difficult position in the military academy with his father in such a prominent position. In October 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon, Carnot's father was exiled and he went to Germany never to return to France.
It is probable that a military career was not the easiest one for Carnot with his father in exile. Carnot was moved from place to place, given jobs of inspecting fortifications, drawing up plans and writing reports. However, it seems that he was not well treated and his recommendations were ignored. Unhappy at his lack of promotion and the refusal to give him a job which allowed him to make use of his training, in 1819, he sat and passed the examinations to join the recently formed General Staff Corps in Paris. Almost immediately he took leave on half pay, living in Paris in his father's former apartment, but he remained on call for army duty.
Carnot began to attend courses at various institutions in Paris, including the Sorbonne and the Collège de France. At this time he became interested in industrial problems and, in particular, began to study the theory of gases. His interests were wide [1]:-
He made frequent visits to factories and workshops, studied the latest theories of political economy, and left in his notes detailed proposals on such current problems as tax reform. Beyond this, his activity and ability embraced mathematics and the fine arts.Carnot visited his father in 1821 in his exiled home in Magdeburg. Hippolyte Carnot, his brother, was living with his father at this time. It is clear that there were many discussions about steam engines. The first steam engine had come to Magdeburg three years earlier and had interested Lazare Carnot, and Sadi Carnot left Magdeburg filled with enthusiasm to develop a theory for steam engines. After returning to Paris, Carnot began the work which led to the mathematical theory of heat and helped start the modern theory of thermodynamics. E Mendoza explains in [2] the background:-
The problem occupying Carnot was how to design good steam engines. Steam power already had many uses - draining water from mines, excavating ports and rivers, forging iron, grinding grain, and spinning and weaving cloth - but it was inefficient. The import into France of advanced engines after the war with Britain showed Carnot how far French design had fallen behind. It irked him particularly that the British had progressed so far through the genius of a few engineers who lacked formal scientific education. British engineers had also accumulated and published reliable data about the efficiency of many types of engines under actual running conditions; and they vigorously argued the merits of low- and high-pressure engines and of single-cylinder and multi-cylinder engines.The first of Carnot's major works was a paper which he wrote in 1822-23. This paper attempted to find a mathematical expression for the work produced by one kilogram of steam. The paper is similar in its aims and also in its methods to several other papers which appeared around this time by Hachette, Navier and Petit. However [1]:-
Carnot's work is distinguished for his careful, clear analysis of the units and concepts employed and for his use of both an adiabatic working stage and an isothermal stage in which work is consumed.From its style and detailed descriptions the paper was clearly intended for publication but Carnot never published it and its existence was only discovered in manuscript form in 1966.
When Lazare Carnot died in August 1823, Hippolyte Carnot returned to Paris and there he helped Sadi Carnot to make the book on steam engines that he was working on at the time more understandable to the general public. In 1824 Carnot published this work, the only one he published during his lifetime, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissanceⓉ which includes his description of the "Carnot cycle". This book only became well known after Clapeyron published an analytic reformulation of it in 1834. Carnot's ideas were later incorporated into the thermodynamic theory of Clausius and Thomson.
Carnot continued with his research after the publication of his book and although nothing of this was published, notes that Carnot made as his ideas developed have survived. In 1827, however, the General Staff Corps in Paris was reorganised and he was recalled to full time duties. He served for rather less than one year as a military engineer, being posted first to Lyon and then to Auxonne. Still unhappy with his career, Carnot retired permanently and returned to live in Paris where he aimed to continue with his research into the theory of heat.
Following his father's political views, Carnot was strongly republican so he was pleased with the direction France seemed to be going with the July 1830 Revolution. Around this time he became interested in public life, in particular he was interested in improving public education. He was suggested for a government position, but he declined and, after the monarchy was restored, he returned to his scientific work. In June 1832 he took ill and had not fully regained his strength when the cholera epidemic of 1832 hit Paris. Although only 36 years of age, he died within a day of contracting cholera.
That Carnot's important book Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissanceⓉ should have been neglected at the time of its publication is certainly not because it went unnoticed. It was published on 12 June 1824 and on 26 July of that year Pierre Girard gave a long review of it to the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Pierre Girard's review was a very positive one and was published in the Revue encyclopédique. Perhaps the problem with the review was that although it stated the theorems and the conclusions of Carnot's work fully, it did not comment on the highly original reasoning which Carnot had employed to achieve his results.
It is possible that Carnot's personality played a role in the lack of enthusiasm for his work in his lifetime. He is described in [2] as follows:-
Friends described him as reserved, almost taciturn, but insatiably curious about science and technical processes.In [1] he is described in similar terms:-
Although sensitive and perceptive, he appeared extremely introverted, even aloof, to all but a few close friends ...The Réflexions was an attempt by Carnot to answer two fundamental questions, firstly whether there was an upper limit to the power of heat, and secondly whether there was a better means than steam to produce this power. His attack on these questions was to produce a much more general theory than had previously been attempted based not on heat as random motion of atoms, as Hooke and Boyle had done, but by the concept of heat as a weightless fluid called caloric. He introduced the concept of the "Carnot engine", an ideal heat engine. He showed that the efficiency of the "Carnot engine" depends only on the temperature difference within the engine and not on the substance such as steam that drives the mechanism. He also introduced the important concept of reversibility, namely that motive power can be used to produce the temperature difference in the engine.
Notes which Carnot made between 1824 and 1826 show that he was moving away from the caloric theory. He set out in his notes details of experiments which he intended to carry out to study the temperature effects of friction in fluids. Some of these proposed experiments were identical with those actually performed by Joule twenty years later. It is likely that Carnot would have made many more significant scientific contributions had his life not been so tragically short.
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Posted: September 16 2006 at 20:18
Hi Being rather new to prog rock/metal I am wondering does My Dying Bride have any prog style to thier music thank you
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Personally I find that there are progressive tendencies in My Dying Bride's music throughout their entire career, more so on Turn Loose The Swans, The Angel And The Dark River and the Percent Album.
However, as I am just one of the many members of the Prog-Metal Team, I am in a minority here and, bad news, My Dying Bride has been rejected and will not appear on the site in the nearest future, although I think they would be a worthwhile, justified and completely deserving addition.
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|Posted: September 17 2006 at 07:10
since you woke me up and as a metal fan myself, i can only find prog (and very little) in the % album... all the others sound just doom to me...
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The fact is, there is no such thing as pure Doom(ok, there is, but in other Doom bands but My Dying Bride). I don't normally agree with Mike on the genres and their necessity, but any band can be judged on how much they have progressive elements, elements of some specific genre and elements outside of its borders. What these borders are and how we find what is progressive and what is not is the main difficulty in our situation.
For example, you say My Dying Bride can be seen as simply just a Doom Metal band. But is Doom Metal something that is the opposite of progressive music? Can't Doom Metal be mixed with progressive elements, much like Death Metal and Black Metal are? For example, is Opeth's Deliverance just Death Metal? Is Emperor's Prometheus album just a typical Black Metal release? I have started a thread, which got deteriorated quickly, in which I developed the idea about each type of Metal being compatible with Prog. Of course, I talked about compatibility, rather than about the existence of some specific Metal genre that is entirely progressive.
Now, back to My Dying Bride. They started as a Doom Metal band, which can be seen on the very first debut album, as well as the Trinity compilation. A doom metal band, with sick, twisted, slow riffs and an obvious death metal influence, with (IMO) elements of Thrash, that they kept throughout their entire career. It is known to the fans of Doom Metal that the sound developed within MDB's music was called 'avant-garde' at the time for its nihilism, experimentation with pianos and violins and nothingarian song structures that transcended metal. However, if you ask me whether I honestly believe that the album is an avant-garde release, I will tell you that whilst it is certainly earth-shattering, it is not 'avant-garde' in the same meaning our site accepts and I consider it my duty to make decisions based on site's specific set of definitions only.
To sum it up, if we shuld make a conclusion on whether MDB are a progressive metal band, I'd like to ignore the fact they recorded As The Flower Withers, as I tend to think only after that things started to get really interesting, intricate, surrealistic and progressive.
Turn Loose The Swans was an album released before the early releases of Cynic, Opeth and Novembre, and defined Progressive Extreme Metal. Before MDB nobody besides certain 80's dark Thrash/1st wave of BM bands, whose progressiveness is not only questionable but from my point of view unlikely, could combine the concepts of beauty and extreme way of expressing emotion as well as MDB did. Turn Loose The Swans not only layed the blueprint for future compositions of bands in the likes of Opeth, but also still remains as a progressive, surrealistic, emotionally intricate and bizarre album up to this day, with violins, keyboards, horns and clean vocals making the essential core of the progressive sound.
I tend to look on The Angel And The Dark River(my favourite) as a continuation of Turn Loose The Swans with all the extreme expression removed and more progressive tendencies added. These two albums were way ahead of their time and I can't see how someone can not see the traits of Prog-Metal in this music. Next was Like Gods Of The Sun, with its watered down, short songs. It is quite a pleasant album, but not one the progressiveness of which I look serious on. The percent album, however, while not being done in a particularly prog-metallish way had more experimentation than ever, with bleak gothic rock songs with influenced from post-rock, avant-garde and even trip hop. As for their other albums, I think they represent the progressive qualities of MDB in the weakest way, although Voivod influenced thrash riffs and keyboards and long compositions with contrast between quiet and extreme can be found there as well. I think their newest album is not too progressive either.
So there, had to make the last paragraph shorter to save me time on talking about less progressive of the band's output.
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|Posted: September 17 2006 at 07:51
i read very carefully what you wrote but still i would have to disagree... all these string instruments, long tracks, piano and anything else that, indeed, reveals a certain progress - not prog - actually makes MBD kinda avant-garde... you see, % album aside, i believe that MBD are an atmospheric doom/death band all the way... MDB along with Paradise Lost and Anathema "co-founded" the genre and all three of them progressed to sth different but that doesn't make them prog... all different elements in their music exist to create the atmosphere needed, that's all...
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|Posted: September 19 2006 at 02:52
"Turn Loose The Swans" is quite good album, didn't TIAMAT do something similar?
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Doom/Death all the way? What about the two albums with ZERO Death Metal contained?
I also can't see the logic in saying that MDB are not a prog band because they use their instruments to make a certain atmosphere. Are you trying to say that an artist is Prog only if he emphasizes his technical ability, ignoring creating the atmosphere completely? If so, I absolutely disagree.
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|Posted: September 19 2006 at 08:22
Today I listened to "Turn Loose the Swans" again ... and I'd say that a few songs might be prog related. The whole album is "sort of" experimental ... but the song structures are way too predictable to be prog - even with the signature changes. And symphonic ... well, adding a violin and piano parts don't necessarily make something symphonic.
A decent album, but ... not prog.
Next I'll listen to the "Percent album" again ...
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