![]() As you play the game, you will be exploring various nations of the world, all of which are a play on words for different areas of Japan, like Ho Kaido or Tokio.Įach nation has a grid-like map, where you move from point to point to enter each location. When you first start out the game, you’ll have some scenes to introduce the main characters and will be shown a tutorial for battles as well as navigating the World Map. GameplayĪt its heart, Monster Monpiece is a card collecting and card battling game. It starts out, showing a large struggle from May, but as the game progresses, it shows how their bonds grow strong and come together to achieve their goal. The plot of the game I wouldn’t call absolutely fantastic, but I wouldn’t call it terrible, either. May, Fia, and Karen rush after the Quartz’, themselves, in hopes of saving both the world and their friend. Soon after, she begins to steal Magic Quartz from each nation, threatening the fate of the world. While doing this, Elsa becomes possessed and “Lost” by an unknown assailant. The four of them become friends as they travel throughout the world to perform Card Battles, in which they release Monster Girls to do battle in a grid-based card game. The story of the game revolves around Humans May, Karen, and Elza as well as Monster Girl Fia. These two races co-exist, though Monster Girls may be stores in cards to preserve their energy, and there are many Monster Girls who become insane and “Lost”. ![]() In this world, there are two races of people, Humans and Monster Girls (Half-Human, Half-Monster female creatures). In this land, there are two massive pillars that are known as the Hammers of God that penetrate the planet. The plot of Monster Monpiece takes place in the world of Yafanir. Having the honor of receiving a review code from Idea Factory, themselves, here is our official review of Monster Monpiece. ![]() Monster Monpiece had some of its content censored to deem it acceptable for a release in the West.Īside from all of the criticism the game gets for being censored, just what is the game and how is it? We at the PS Vita Review Network, are here to answer those questions. This title was very interesting in coming to the West in that not only does the game include some mature content, but it also has gotten what very few titles do get: Censorship. One title in particular is called Monster Monpiece. Idea Factory International is crossing even more borders into this territory by bringing over some of their titles. These were titles that made you think “This is actually getting localized?” and the titles are still coming. These two titles have mini-games and very obvious references to sex and sexual play. Lately, we have seen that on the PlayStation Vita with the likes of Valhalla Knights 3 and Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars. It is a recently-known fact that some Japanese developers are getting more and more daring when they are choosing which games to localize and bring to the Western regions.
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![]() Unlike previous generals, Grant had the President’s confidence-and Grant showed his confidence in the President by sharing his plans. Lincoln on his plans - and President Lincoln gave Grant a similar warning. Henry Halleck had told Grant not to brief Mr. At the White House again, he met privately with President Lincoln. Grant left town as soon as possible, returned to Nashville, and then came back to Washington to visit President Lincoln. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.” 5 Lincoln would do me, but time is very important now-and really-Mr. Lincoln’s dinner without you, would be Hamlet with Hamlet left out.” Responded Grant: “I appreciate the honor Mrs. Lincoln responded: “But we can’t excuse you. General Grant briefly visited the Army of the Potomac and then returned to the White House, where President Lincoln attempted to convince him to stay for dinner. The crowd, enlarged beyond the norm tonight by the news that he would be there, fell silent as he entered, then parted before him to disclose at the far end of the room the tall form of Abraham Lincoln, who watched him approach, then put out a long arm for a handshake. He found himself being ushered up the steps, through the foyer, down a corridor, and finally into the brightly lighted East Room, where the reception was in full swing. “If he had known that the President’s weekly receptions were held on Tuesday evenings he would perhaps have postponed his call, but by the time he completed the short walk up the avenue to the gates of the executive mansion it was too late. “Word of his arrival having spread, he found on his return to Parlor 6 a special invitation to come by the White House, presumably for a conference with the Commander in Chief, whom he had never met although they both were from Illinois and were by now the two most famous men in the country,” wrote historian Shelby Foote. 3Īgainst his wishes, Grant came to Washington and was named General-in-Chief of the Army in March 1864, in which capacity he served until 1869. If there is anything wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me know it.Īnd now with a brave Army, and a just cause, may God sustain you. I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. While I am very anxious that any great disaster, or the capture of our men in great numbers, shall be avoided. You are vigilant and self-reliant and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. The particulars of your plans I neither know, or seek to know. “Not expecting to see you again before the Spring campaign opens, I wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. I heard nothing direct from him and wrote to him to know why, and whether I could do anything to promote this success, and Grant replied that he had tried to do the best he could with what he had: that he believed if he had more men and arms he could use them to good advantage and do more than he had done, but he supposed I had done and was doing all I could that if I could do more he felt that I would do it.’ Lincoln said that Grant’s conduct was so different from other generals in command that he could scarcely comprehend it.'” 2 The President’s attitude toward Grant was summed up in a letter he sent the Union commander on April 30, 1864: Lincoln say, on one occasion: ‘General Grant is the most extraordinary man in command that I know of. He isn’t shrieking for reinforcements all the time….And if Grant only does thing down there-I don’t care much how, so long as he does it right-why, Grant is my man and I am his the rest of the war!” 1 Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher “heard Mr. Lincoln’s respect for Grant had grown during 18, On Jbefore he learned of the Union victory at Vicksburg, the President said of the western commander: “He doesn’t worry and bother me. Loyal to his subordinates, straightforward and simple in his dealings with others, he was calm, stubborn and determined in battle. His occasional lapses into liquor were controlled by his wife and loyal lieutenants like John Rawlins and William T. He reentered the Army with difficulty in Civil War, but after capture of Fort Donelson, he swiftly rose to command Army of Mississippi, leading it to the capture of Vicksburg. “Unconditional Surrender.” Union general who was a West Point graduate. Too many experiences, too many experiences in music. Special Thanks: Wendy Brynford-Jones (Conqueroo PR) and Doug "Cosmo" Clifford Interview by Michael Limnios (Transcription by Katerina Lefkidou) People may be surprised by the power and presence of Clifford’s lead vocals, but he’s been singing all of his life. Chris Solberg contributed bass and keyboards and Rob Polomsky added rhythm guitar to several tracks. Russell DaShiell played lead and rhythm guitars, synthesizer and sang harmonies. When it was time to record, Clifford invited three friends to his home studio for the freewheeling sessions. The songs on Magic Window took shape organically, over several years. Last year, while cleaning out his garage, Clifford found the Magic Window masters. They released an RIAA certified platinum live album. They have performed worldwide for 25 years, amassing many fans and crossing multiple generations to bring the wonderful CCR hits to people. Some of those projects included producing albums for Doug Sahm of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, playing in Steve Miller’s band and then joining Stu Cook to play Creedence hits with Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Doug "Cosmo" Clifford / Photo by Wendy Brynford-Jones ![]() Doug released in April 2020, t he recently re-discovered solo album “Magic Window” was recorded in 1985 at Clifford’s Lake Tahoe home with the help of engineer/guitarist Russell DaShiell, bassist Chris Solberg and rhythm guitarist Rob Polomsky. ![]() After a lifetime on the road – ten years with Creedence Clearwater Revival and its predecessors and 25 years with Creedence Clearwater Revisited – the band he put together with bassist Stu Cook to perform live tunes from the Creedence catalogue – he’s ready to again make his mark as a singer and songwriter. ![]() He’s been singing, writing songs and making music for as long as he can remember. Although best known as a drummer, Clifford sang harmony vocals and contributed songs to the Creedence catalogue. They were in junior high school when they started playing and achieved worldwide success after signing with Fantasy Records in 1967. We’ve seen it in our shows with Revisited and in the old days with Revival, music that pounds you in the chest, its rock and roll after all, not opera, it’s something powerful and something that makes your heart beat, something that excites you, something that makes you think, but you don’t know that you’re thinking, sparks your imagination, takes you away from your everyday worries or job, or whatever it might be, it takes you to a place that is your own spot."ĭoug Clifford achieved fame as the drummer of Creedence Clearwater Revival, a band he put together with his friends Stu Cook, John Fogerty and Tom Fogerty. Art is in the eye or ear in this case, of the beholder. "I want to give them something positive to think about. ![]() It was originally conceived as part of a full-featured music player called audioMotion, but I later decided to make just the spectrum analyzer available as a self-contained module, so other developers could use it in. This Wordpress player installs just like any other Wordpress plugin, simply add your stream URL and your website visitors will enjoy this feature package HTML5 player with easy customization and responsive design. The demo app provides a simple UI that enables the opening and playback of various audio file formats showing off both the stock and custom Spectrum analyzer and VU meter controls with the graphics running smoothly at 60FPS and frame accurately in sync with the audio playback. audioMotion-analyzer is a high-resolution real-time audio spectrum analyzer built upon Web Audio and Canvas JavaScript APIs. ![]() HTML5 Sticky Player Standard Version HTML5 Sticky Player Wordpress Version With wavesurfer.js you can create anything from an HTML5 audio player to a sophisticated DJ application. Audio Visualizer can be defined as a tool that visually displays the rhythm, loudness, and frequency of music via animated images. Features audio spectrum visualizer, responsive layout, fully customizable for your SHOUTcast or Icecast stream. wavesurfer.js is a customizable audio waveform visualization, built on top of Web Audio API and HTML5 Canvas. ![]() Luna Standard Version Luna Wordpress VersionĪttach this amazing player to the top or bottom of your website. Get this fully customizable HTML5 SHOUTcast or Icecast player featuring current track, artist image, mobile compatible, responsive, animated audio visualizer and much more. This means she was suffering and fighting with the Painter for a year before she decided to take her life.It’s not often that we have more than one walkthrough of a game here at One Angry Gamer but in this case Layers of Fear had an Early Access walkthrough but the game wasn’t finished at the time. Using the wife's notes as a time frame, we can figure out that she was injured sometime in late September or early October, and judging by her final note, she committed suicide on October 2nd, the following year. The portraits of the protagonist's wife are made by Andrzej Dybowski The wife and the daughter are both voiced by Kristen Lennox. This means it's possible that the arguments between the two are simply a case of miscommunication and bitterness left to fester between the couple. This is said directly in the argument said if you take the Father Route of Inheritance, and due to this, he feels nothing when he looks at her, and it scares the hell out of him. It's implied that from the Painter's perspective, it's the wife's emptiness post-fire that bothers him most of all. Her monster form may instead represent his horror at seeing her beauty marred and her talents gone, a living corpse that paled in comparison to what she used to be. While the marriage fell apart after her accident, the marriage between the Painter and his Wife was very happy. However, it seems that the daughter had a liking for cats as well, due to her love of her toy, Mr. The wife suggested the couple get a cat before their daughter was born, but the Painter ultimately decided to bring home a dog. Newsclipping showing the news for the Department Store fire. Using his wife's remains as artistic material, he attempts to "take back what life took from him". ![]() Her death is what propels him to take drastic measures to bring his career back. ![]() This is made clear with the flashback heard when you pick up the Whispered Words object, a bloody knife, where we hear the Painter attempt to get into the bathroom (believing his wife is taking way too much time), and then entering to see her dead body. Tired of the fights, her husband's negligence, and feeling like he cared more about his paintings than her, she committed suicide in the bathroom. The Artist more and more locked himself away as he tried to revive his work. Due to these feelings, she ended up treating the Artist in the same manner. The Painter's neglect caused her to delve into herself and feel all the more isolated, and she assumed he was disgusted with her. After that, the Painter began to avoid her, perhaps to avoid more loud fights. This caused them to have loud fights which lead to their neighbors telling them to quiet down, otherwise they would call the police. The Wife felt frustrated, as she was unable to play her instruments, and began to lash out at her husband. He began to drink heavily, which was apparently an issue he had before during their relationship, as she expresses exasperation at this in a note ('not again'). ![]() Despite the Painter's attempts to seek medical help that could restore his wife, the medical technology available was not enough to undo all of the fire's damage. ![]() She was largely wheelchair-bound, and suffered from chronic pain and random muscle spasms. Her painful recovery, along with the loss of her beauty and ability to play, led to further tensions in their household. Later in their marriage, she was in a department store when it caught fire and burned her severely, causing her to become permanently disfigured. She got pregnant before they eventually married and moved into a mansion together. Her talents helped inspire the Artist to paint, and became a crucial source for his talent. While critics at first saw her as an amateur, she became praised for her musical abilities. Not much is known about her life before the marriage, aside from the fact that she was exceptionally talented as a musician, despite her family looking down on her career. ![]() Keen to stay alive, Lui Jian flees the scene, but not before screaming, mad and completely hat stand police inspector Richard (Tcheky Caryo in his typically delirious role) sends just about every hardened police psycho after him. But the French police just happen to be heavily, heavily corrupt and kill Mr. Basically, Jet Li plays a Chinese cop Lui Jian who travels to Paris to help the police bring a crime boss to justice. KOTD is the perfect excuse for action, with minimal plot and impossible odds. After Jet Li's fans were left disappointed with the fake, CGI-enhanced fighting in Romeo Must Die he decided to go back to practical, hand-to-hand combat with literally no strings attached. You will stretch deeply and feel fresh and recovered afterwards.Kiss of the Dragon is a hyperactive martial arts movie with a heavy European feel. You will only move when changing from pose to pose, the rest of the time, you will try to relax and let go of as much tensions inside as possible. Sometimes the sequence will include little counter movements. if it is stretched gently by holding a Yin pose for long time, the body will respond by making it longer and stronger.ĭuring a Yin Yoga class you will be on the floor, practicing 9-13 poses with a short Savasana between each pose. Connective tissue is different from muscle and needs to be exercised differently. In a Taoist perspective the connective tissues are described as Yin, the muscles as the Yang tissues.Ī yin practice stretches the connective tissues around the joints without force. The connective tissue (ligaments, tendons and fascia) are dryer, harder and stiffer than muscles which are fluid-filled, soft and elastic. James Oschman (US) explore the possibility that the connective tissues running throughout the body provide these pathways for the flow of energy described by ancient texts. Yin Yoga holds the concept of Taoist Yoga which includes the science of Acupuncture, a flow of Qi, or Prana, or energy through pathways called Meridians or Nadis.The exercises were developed to harmonize the flow. Dr. Which can be used to burn anything you want.ĭepending on the day and students in the class,Ĭombined with 1 -3 meditations in between. The positive one empowers us at the same time. Is a symbol in a psychological perspectiveīoth visions of the dragon don ́t have to be contradictory Of the enemy forces holding the self from its liberation, See the dragon as a personification of power and rule, Some psychodynamic and psychoanalytic interpretations It needed a hero or god to fight the dragon for the earth to arise and sustain. In the myth of the west, the dragon was a symbol of chaos, a misanthropic monster destroying sun and moon, holding the fruitful waters. Their qualities are positive, including power, dignity, fertilityĪnd wisdom, although their appearance can be frightening. The movements symbolise historic roles of dragonsĭragons are believed to bring luck and rain. The Dragon Dance is celebrated in the chinese culture. It challenges the balance, the ability to combine breath and movement, enhances the communication between both hemispheres and the awareness of the body moving through time and space. This way of sequencing makes it a moving meditation. ![]() The practice itself follows a flowing, repetitive structure.Įach breath to be one movement like in Thai Chi. Using the mythic symbolism from the Chinese Dragon Dance ![]() You can also use VxVM to dynamically configure storage while the system is active. VxVM provides the tools to improve performance and ensure data availability and integrity. This allows volumes to span multiple disks and LUNs. VxVM overcomes restrictions imposed by hardware disk devices and by LUNs by providing a logical volume management layer. Volume management lets us edit the storage configuration, for example, setting up a software RAID or extending volume size, etc., without actually changing. Additionally, VxVM provides features that enhance fault tolerance and fast recovery from disk failure or storage array failure. By supporting the Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) model, VxVM can be configured to protect against disk and hardware failure, and to increase I/O throughput. VxVM provides easy-to-use online disk storage management for computing environments and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. veritas volume manager 5.0 with exchange 2003 Quick access Search related threads Answered by: veritas volume manager 5.0 with exchange 2003 Archived Forums 641-660 > High Availability (Clustering) Question 0 Sign in to vote Hi does anybody have a best practice guide on exchange 2003 with veritas volume manager (without ha). A VxVM volume appears to applications and the operating system as a physical device on which file systems, databases and other managed data objects can be configured. The lawsuit was dropped in 2008 terms were not disclosed.Veritas TM Volume Manager (VxVM) by Symantec is a storage management subsystem that allows you to manage physical disks and logical unit numbers (LUNs) as logical devices called volumes. A representative claims Microsoft bought all "intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004". Symantec acquired Veritas on July 2, 2005, and claimed Microsoft misused their intellectual property to develop functionalities in Windows Server 2003, later Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which competed with Veritas' Storage Foundation, according to Michael Schallop, the director of legal affairs at Symantec. Microsoft once licensed a version of Veritas Volume Manager for Windows 2000, allowing operating systems to store and modify large amounts of data. Release date (Windows): December 2011.Release date (Windows): February 2019.The Veritas Volume Manager Storage Administrator (VMSA) is a GUI manager. VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows (now called VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows) provides additional dynamic disk management and replication functionality above that available in the default Windows dynamic disk management services. 32-node clusters are supported with Backup Exec for Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows Server 2003. Note By default, Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 don't support dynamic disks in a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) environment. It offers volume management and Multipath I/O functionalities (when used with Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing feature). You can use a third-party software such as Veritas Volume Manager to add the dynamic disk features to a Microsoft cluster infrastructure. A modified version is bundled with HP-UX as its built-in volume manager. ![]() It is available for Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX. The Veritas Volume Manager ( VVM or VxVM) is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas (which was part of Symantec until January 2016). ![]() Proof-of-principle demonstrations are presented for several molecular systems based on quantum simulators as well as IBM quantum devices.Īccurate molecular force fields are of paramount importance for the efficient implementation of molecular dynamics techniques at large scales. ClusterVQE therefore allows exact simulation of the problem by using fewer qubits and shallower circuit depth at the cost of additional classical resources, making it a potential leader for quantum chemistry simulations on NISQ devices. The clusters are obtained based on mutual information reflecting maximal entanglement between qubits, whereas inter-cluster correlation is taken into account via a new “dressed” Hamiltonian. Our ClusterVQE algorithm splits the initial qubit space into clusters which are further distributed on individual (shallower) quantum circuits. Here we present an approach to reduce quantum circuit complexity in VQE for electronic structure calculations. The practical realization is limited by the complexity of quantum circuits. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising algorithms to find eigenstates of a given Hamiltonian on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices (NISQ). Extensive numerical experiments corroborate our theoretical results in a variety of scenarios, including Rydberg atom systems, 2D random Heisenberg models, symmetry-protected topological phases, and topologically ordered phases. Our arguments are based on the concept of a classical shadow, a succinct classical description of a many-body quantum state that can be constructed in feasible quantum experiments and be used to predict many properties of the state. We also prove that classical ML algorithms can efficiently classify a wide range of quantum phases of matter. In contrast, under widely accepted complexity theory assumptions, classical algorithms that do not learn from data cannot achieve the same guarantee. In this work, we prove that classical ML algorithms can efficiently predict ground state properties of gapped Hamiltonians in finite spatial dimensions, after learning from data obtained by measuring other Hamiltonians in the same quantum phase of matter. However, the advantages of ML over more traditional methods have not been firmly established. We expect our contribution will enhance the applications of quantum computers in the study of quantum chemistry and quantum materials.Ĭlassical machine learning (ML) provides a potentially powerful approach to solving challenging quantum many-body problems in physics and chemistry. The results show that our scheme reproduces well the first and second excitation energies as well as the transition dipole moment between the ground states and excited states only from the ground states as inputs. We illustrate the predictive ability of our model by numerical simulations for small molecules with and without noise inevitable in near-term quantum computers. The number of runs for quantum computers is saved by training only the classical machine learning unit, and the whole model requires modest resources of quantum hardware that may be implemented in current experiments. The quantum reservoir effectively transforms the single-qubit operators into complicated multi-qubit ones which contain essential information of the system, so that the classical machine learning unit may decode them appropriately. Our model is comprised of a quantum reservoir and a classical machine learning unit which processes the measurement results of single-qubit Pauli operators with the output state from the reservoir. In this study, we propose a scheme of supervised quantum machine learning which predicts the excited-state properties of molecules only from their ground state wavefunction resulting in reducing the computational cost for calculating the excited states. The recent development in quantum computational chemistry leads to inventions of a variety of algorithms that calculate the excited states of molecules on near-term quantum computers, but they require more computational burdens than the algorithms for calculating the ground states. Excited states of molecules lie in the heart of photochemistry and chemical reactions. ![]() For example, the search term "pink" could bring up Fairy Kei, Morute, and Vintage Parisian. This led to some variation on what appeared in the search bar. From there, communities were centered around who was following who, without an established name that encompassed all the community.įor example, for Vintage Parisian, one of the aesthetics on that site, people would tag it #pink, #old-hollywood, #feminine, #romantic, #vintage, #parisian, etc. Of course, there are common terms that appeared, such as kawaii, hipster, and grunge, but the extent was not to the one in the late 2010s-2020s. TikTok has since replaced it as the culturally significant platform.īefore the aesthetic community largely segmented itself off into aesthetic communities, people would "find" their aesthetic through tags which were based on adjectives and objects that described the photograph itself, rather than an entire community that comes with it. Nowadays, Tumblr remains a popular platform for certain fandoms, pop cultures and alternative subcultures, but it is no longer culturally influential. Several aesthetic or fashion styles, for instance the Pastel Goth, were either pioneered or popularised by Tumblr users.Īfter 2016, the platform declined in mainstream popularity. It was at its peak of popularity around 2013-2015 during this time, it was highly influential in many forms of internet and popular culture, including aesthetics. Tumblr is a social media platform in the form of blogging. 4 Aesthetics that were on 2014-era Tumblr. It also falls below the new iFi Audio ZEN Signature ($249) lineup which was just released. ![]() The ZEN DAC was already an excellent DAC/Headphone Amp but the iFi Audio ZEN DAC V2 looks like a significant upgrade. The iFi Audio ZEN DAC V2 ($159) will be of great interest to those who use Tidal and want to experience their TIDAL Masters streams in hi-res audio. Is the zaZen more effective underneath lighter equipment that is more susceptible to vibration or footfalls (in the case of a turntable)? Unquestionably so.įi Audio have been introducing new products in 2021 at a rather fast clip and we’re not surprised to see an update to its best-selling ZEN Series of products. Placed underneath both a Croft RIAA phono pre-amplifier and Naim Uniti Atom network amplifier (see review) had a very positive impact on the sound the Croft which suffers from a tiny degree of hum was quieter than usual (I’ve always suspected that its thin metal chassis was the cause), and the Naim’s midrange was more transparent sounding. The presentation moved slightly forward with the zaZen installed which was a benefit with the Q Acoustics 3050i loudspeakers in my system. The NAD C 588 weighs substantially less than either one of my restored Thorens tables and benefitted the most from the zaZen which lowered its noise floor, tightened up the bass response, and improved the overall transparency of the sound. We took delivery of a zaZen II platform and experimented with three turntables a Thorens TD-145, NAD C 588, and Thorens TD-160 Super. Improvements in one area of sound reproduction are offset by a negative change elsewhere. Isolation products come in many different shapes and sizes and while they certainly have an impact on the sound – the results are not always what you expected. The zaZen features an elegant medium gloss black finish over a dense fiber construction. ![]() The zaZen will be available in two sizes: zaZen I with a weight capacity of 25lbs (11.3kg) and the zaZen II with a weight capacity of 40lbs (18.1kg). The combination of the platform mass and the integrated IsoAcoustics isolation technology allows audio gear to reveal greater acoustic clarity and detail. ![]() The zaZen is a new isolation platform designed for turntables, tube amps, and other sensitive audio equipment. |