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Monday, January 2, 2012
Girls Gone Gadgets 03: Chewing through the restraints [NSFW-L]
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The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on their New Year's Resolutions ...
The PocketGamer.biz Mobile Mavens are our panel of experts drawn from all sectors of the mobile gaming industry.
They have talked about serious issues throughout 2011; addressing OnLive's launch, what Rovio should do next, Kindle Fire's potential, Nokia and Microsoft, and HTML5...
Our final question was; What's your New Year's resolution?
Ustwo's eccentric overlord and CHIEF WONKA millsTM continued talking about his studio's Whale Trail game.
"My resolution is to create a new heart-warming paid iOS moisty that sells more than Whale Trail's current 126,509 copies..." he said.
"I'm going to spend ?1,000,000 on making games that make humans who appreciate great things 'moist', but don't sell to the average Joe."
PocketGamer.biz's editor Jon Jordan took issue with mills' downbeat mood.
"Whatever happened to succailure?" he asked, referring to mills' conflation of the words success and failure. "My resolution is to buy mills and ustwo some more capital letters."
Keith Andrew, also of PocketGamer.biz, was quick to get in on the act, saying "He used them all up on CHIEF WONKA."
Four of the best
Andrew's own resolution was defiantly materialistic; "I'm going to convince Nokia to send me scores of Lumia 800s for free."
Christopher Kassulke of HandyGames was jealous. "Scores of? I still don't have a single one. It seems they need all of them for a Xmas sale." The Nokia and Microsoft representatives in the Mavens were, perhaps wisely, silent on this.
Kassulke's own resolutions are simple; "1. Just world domination for HandyGames. 2. Another year with a multiple of 20 of our ad-inventory. 3. More time for the best thing in the world; my family. 4. Help the economy by drinking even more beer and consuming more games."
Bolt Creative's Dave Castelnuovo said; "I intend to learn when to keep my mouth shut".
Don't be quiet
Castelnuovo's propensity to speak truth to power has landed him in hot water more than once in the past, but the Mavens didn't want him to change. He reassured them; "Oh, don't worry, these are New Year's resolutions we're talking about. I'm sure I'll piss off more than a few people in 2012."
The rest of the resolutions were a mixed bunch. Joony Koo of Lustancia was pissed off about fire engines outside his window, obsessed with the cute hotel maid he sees every day from his office window, and wanted to retire to the Caribbean after making billions of dollars.
He also wanted Android developers to use the Apprank app, which shows the global Android market on your device and to partner with "great people in the mobile space".
Thinking big
Machineworks' Andreas Vahsen just wanted everyone else to be happy. "I want them to do well enough so they can buy disgustingly materialistic things... as a reward for their dedications, business acumen and rolling with the punches."
Thomas Nielsen of Progressive Media was terse; "Easy. Cache in. Work less."
We think he means cash, while Florian Stronk of Konami had the mildest ambition we've encountered; "Use Twitter or Facebook for group messaging."
Finally, Wen Chen of Coconut Island was going to get every single Chinese person to buy his next game, One Tap Hero. Now that's ambition...
Source: http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/PG.biz+Mobile+Gaming+Mavens/feature.asp?c=36494
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Chinese coach to train Myanmar gymnasts
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Yangon, Dec 31 (IANS) Chinese gymnastics professional Yan Yunying is training Myanmar coaches and youths at a camp here to help the country develop the sport and get gold medals in the 27th South East Asian Games. The camp started Dec 19, and will run till Jan 11, Xinhua reported. Yan is using modern techniques in training 17 coaches from the sports ministry, the Myanmar Gymnastics Federation and students from the Yangon region. A plan is also under way to give talks to female and male gymnastic referees of the federation on techniques and rules in international competitions. | |
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Yemeni president's son leads crackdown on officers
(AP)? SANAA, Yemen ? The son of Yemen's outgoing president is leading a crackdown to purge the Republican Guard, which he commands, of any rebellious officers found to be siding with anti-government protesters, a military official said Saturday.
The Republican Guard is a pillar of the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the attempts to ensure it remains loyal point to an effort to keep the regime from unraveling in the wake of a deal for Saleh to transfer power after 33 years as president.
His son, Ahmed, has had dozens of members of the powerful military force arrested so far, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The Republican Guard has helped Saleh maintain power despite 10 months of protests, intense international pressure and an assassination attempt in June that forced him to leave the country for medical treatment in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
The Guard, one of the best trained elements of Yemen's military, has not suffered a high number of defections like some other military units whose soldiers and commanders left to join the protest movement.
But with more frequent and serious acts of rebellion breaking out in other parts of the security services, the Guard's commanders are moving to prevent their ranks from doing the same.
The official said Ahmed warned at a Guard meeting over the past week against "copying" the actions of others. They are searching units, barracks, and have banned the use of cell phones inside the camp, the official said.
"We will not permit copying here. Force will be the way to deal with any protest," the official quoted Saleh's son as saying.
Some renegade units in other parts of the military have even locked their commanders out of military installations and demanded the removal of officers accused of corruption or involvement in the deadly crackdown on protesters.
In a significant concession, the defense minister ordered the removal of a longtime Saleh confident within the armed forces, Ali al-Shater, known as one of the regime's strongmen. Protests by subordinates accused al-Shater of corruption and using his connections with the president to illegally amass wealth.
Another sweep in search of rebellious soldiers took place within the ranks of the Central Security forces, led by Saleh's nephew, Yahia, according to a Central Security official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secretive nature of the security measures.
Hundreds of men in military uniform marched on Saturday through the southern city of Taiz, a center of the uprising, calling for trials of top commanders over the killings of unarmed protesters in the regime's crackdown
Labor protests have also swept Yemen since Saleh signed the power transfer deal last month. The deal, brokered by Yemen's neighbors on the Arabian Peninsula, grants him immunity from prosecution in return for stepping down.
He transferred power to his vice president and said he will leave the country and travel to the United States, though Washington has yet to say if he would be granted a visa.
The pact has failed to end street protests, however, because many still want to see Saleh stand trial.
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of protesters held demonstrations in the capital city of Sanaa and in several other cities and vowed to stop Saleh from leaving the country.
Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsGamecore/~3/5Ek63cZjjyk/
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Faster-than-light neutrinos: a timeline
December 31, 2011 |??6
2011 has been a busy year for particle physicists. They?ve found a new particle, closed in on the elusive Higgs boson, and witnessed some neutrinos acting pretty strangely, amongst other things. I?m talking, of course, about the faster than light neutrinos detected by the Opera experiment in Italy. They dominated the science headlines for a few days at the end of September and have been popping up every now and then since as scientists try to grapple with the idea that Einstein?s theory of special relativity may not be as watertight as they would like to think.
In order to make sense of the finding, I collected together lots of the coverage and papers concerning the result and had a go with interactive timeline making tool dipity.com. Have a look at the timeline below. You can zoom in on particular weeks and days, to see the detail of who published what and when, or you can zoom out for a broader overview of how the story unfolded. This is very much a work in progress and I plan to add to it as and when new events occur. If there?s something I haven?t included that you think should be on there please let me know in the comments.
If you need a refresher on how Opera experiment found this result, have a watch of the video by Minute Physics below, which provides a nice and simple explanation.
All that remains for me to say is happy new year to those already in 2012, and I?ll see the rest of you on the other side.
About the Author: Kelly Oakes has just finished a physics degree and is now studying for a master's in science communication, both at Imperial College London. In her spare time she writes about science and drinks cocktails. Follow on Twitter @kahoakes.More??
The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
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'A Big Relief': NASA Probe Enters Lunar Orbit
Enlarge Handout/AFP/Getty Images This undated NASA handout image shows a view of the lunar surface taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft looking southward from high altitude across the Southern Sea.
Handout/AFP/Getty ImagesThis undated NASA handout image shows a view of the lunar surface taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft looking southward from high altitude across the Southern Sea.
A NASA spacecraft fired its engine and slipped into orbit around the moon Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year's weekend.
Ground controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after receiving a signal that the Grail-A probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year's Eve arrival.
"This is great, a big relief," deputy project scientist Sami Asmar told a roomful of family and friends who gathered at the NASA center to watch the drama unfold.
The celebration was brief. Despite the successful maneuver, the work was not over. Its twin Grail-B still had to enter lunar orbit on New Year's Day.
The Grail probes ? short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ? have been cruising independently toward their destination since launching in September aboard the same rocket on a mission to measure lunar gravity.
Hours before Earth revelers counted down the new year, Grail-A flew over the South Pole and slowed itself to get captured into orbit. Deep space antennas in the California desert and Madrid tracked every move and fed real-time updates to ground controllers.
Grail is the 110th mission to target the moon since the dawn of the Space Age, including the six Apollo moon landings that put 12 astronauts on the surface. Despite the attention the moon has received, scientists don't know everything about Earth's nearest neighbor.
Why the moon is ever so slightly lopsided with the far side more mountainous than the side that always faces Earth remains a mystery. A theory put forth earlier this year suggested that Earth once had two moons that collided early in the solar system's history, producing the hummocky region.
Grail is expected to help researchers better understand why the moon is asymmetrical and how it formed by mapping the uneven lunar gravity field that will indicate what's below the surface.
"It seems that the answer is not on the surface," said chief scientist Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We think that the answer is locked in the interior."
Previous lunar missions have attempted to study the moon's gravity ? which is about one-sixth Earth's pull ? with mixed results. Grail is the first mission devoted to this goal.
Once in orbit, the near-identical Grail-A and Grail-B spacecraft will spend the next two months refining their positions until they are just 34 miles (55 kilometers) above the surface and flying in formation. Data collection will begin in March.
The $496 million mission will be closely watched by schoolchildren. An effort by Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, will allow middle school students to use cameras aboard the probes to zoom in and pick out their favorite lunar spots to photograph.
Despite the latest focus on the moon, NASA won't be sending astronauts back anytime soon. The Obama administration last year nixed a lunar return in favor of landing humans on an asteroid and eventually Mars.
A jaunt to the moon is usually speedy. It took the Apollo astronauts three days to zip there aboard the powerful Saturn V rocket. Since NASA wanted to economize by launching on a small rocket, it took Grail a leisurely 3 1/2 months to make a roundabout trip.
NASA's last moonshot occurred in 2009 with the launch of a pair of spacecraft ? one that circled the moon and another that deliberately crashed into the surface and uncovered frozen water in one of the permanently shadowed lunar craters.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/31/144520685/moon-countdown-hours-until-nasa-probes-arrive?ft=1&f=1007
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