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Dokapon Kingdom | |
Developer(s) | Sting |
Publisher(s) | Sting Atlus |
Series | Dokapon |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Wii |
Release date(s) | PlayStation 2 Wii |
Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
Dokapon Kingdom (ドカポンキングダム Dokapon Kingudamu?) is a 2007 role-playing video game developed and published by Sting in Japan for the Sony PlayStation 2 on November 22, 2007. It was later published by Atlus in North America on October 14, 2008. It is a remake of the 1994 Super Famicom title, Dokapon 3・2・1 - Arashi o Yobu Yuujou.
The PlayStation 2 version was later re-released in Japan on November 20, 2008, with a "Sting The Best" stamp on it. It was later ported to the Wii by Sting Entertainment on July 31, 2008 titled as Dokapon Kingdom for Wii. The Wii version was later published in North America by Atlus on October 14, 2008, and in Europe by BigBen Interactive on March 26, 2010, both without "for Wii" in the names.
The game is a hybrid board game and role-playing video game with modes varying from story mode to battle royale in which four players are assigned a mission.
Players spin a spinner and then move to any spot on the board that is reachable by moving that number of spaces. Players will have the freedom to choose the direction they want to go. Landing on an "empty" yellow space or another player will typically cause a battle, but sometimes the player will encounter a strange traveler that may allow them to play them at a minigame, or hire their services to steal or harm the other players. The battle system plays out in rock-paper-scissors style, with the Attack option beating Counter, the Counter option beating Strike, and the Defend option resisting the Attack option. Multiple magics and stat changes play out both in battle and on the game board, while class-specific skills increase with player level.
Three starting classes are available to the new adventurer (warrior, thief, and magician), and following a pattern of leveling, eleven character classes are possible.
The game will always include at least two characters and the game allows one to four human players to participate. Human players may leave and be replaced by CPU opponents at any stage of the game, and vice-versa.
A key element of the game is hindering the progress of other players. Players can obstruct each other by hiring assassins, or bandits to cause harm to the player. They also have the option of stealing tax revenue and player-controlled cities. Due to the tension these events are likely to cause (known as Dokapon Rage), Atlus has dubbed the game "friendship destroying" in their marketing materials.[1]
The game is won by the player with the most money at the end. The player who wins the story mode gets to marry the king's daughter. The king makes an offer himself if the player is female, but he is apparently rejected.
The game takes place in a fictional land called "Dokapon Kingdom" which is being attacked by an army of monsters. Seeing this, the king offers Penny, his daughter, to be married to the player who finishes the game with the most money at the end of the game. 2-4 heroes hear this, and attempt to save the kingdom. The game ends when each of the main bosses are defeated, although the player can select other game options to make the game end faster. The player with the most gold in the end marries Penny, and takes control of the kingdom (regardless of gender.)
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The Wii version was nominated for Best RPG for the Wii by IGN in its 2008 video game awards.[5]
- ^ Atlus USA Trailer: Dokapon Kingdom - YouTube
- ^ "Dokapon Kingdom at Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ "Dokapon Kingdom". GameRankings. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ^ "Dokapon Kingdom Review". IGN.com.
- ^ "IGN Wii: Best RPG 2008". IGN.com. 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2008-12-19.


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We have a bourbon barrel in my basement working on a big RIS right now. We are thinking down the road at future brews. Thinking about doing Denny's Vanilla Porter and was wondering if tossing a handful of vanilla beans in the barrel would impart any vanilla flavor to the barrel once done? Might be better off to put the vanilla in the secondary before introducing it to the barrel. Anyone have experience using vanilla beans in a bourbon barrel? Thanks Lakedawgs
Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you wouldn't do the vanilla in primary in a carboy and transfer to a barrel to get the flavors you're looking for there? Or are you just worried about getting any vanilla flavor in the barrel in general? If I had a time machine I could probably be of more help here since I literally just finished bottling a vanilla bourbon porter that's been sitting in the barrel for the past week. I initially had it in primary for three weeks with two beans, and opted to add a third when transferring into secondary in the barrel. I'm pretty happy with the initial tasting notes, but there's still a ways to go.
About 20 gallons had vanilla in secondary but about 35 gallons did not. We ended up cutting and scraping 11 vanilla beans, soaking in bourbon and adding to barrel about a week after we filled it. That was about 3 weeks ago and everything looks good. Figure 4 months plus in the barrel and it should be very nice.


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Gorgeous Pickard pink carnation plate. This lovely plate features pairs of hand painted pink and white carnations which have been placed along the wide gold rim. The artist has added golden raised enamel around the leaves arranged amongst the roses and stems. He has outlined and accented the flowers in gold in the usual style of Pickard Studios. Stylized gold stems on a background of white have been added connecting the flowers to the gold center. Artist "Fischer" a listed Pickard artist has signed this piece. The artist Emile Fisher came to Pickard Studio upon coming to the US in 1904. He was an expert and prolific artist and was a master at handling of floral subjects. This design can be found on page 140 of Alan B. Reed's reference book 'Collector's Encyclopedia of Pickard China. There are no chips, hairlines or cracks; manufacturing anomalies do exist, the occasional tiny iron speck, dust 'bump' in the glaze, etc.
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The dirty little secret about Chan Marshall is that she may actually have her shit together. As a recent Harp magazine interview pointed out (in between Marshall's musings on interest rates, real estate, and finances), she's spent the past decade building a successful career without even employing a manager. It's a feat that few, if any, of her contemporaries have been able to pull off-- and given that, at this very moment, a significant portion of the indie music world is salivating for tomorrow's release of the seventh Cat Power record, it would seem she's pulled it off quite well.
Of course, the Cat Power allure has always been tied up in Marshall's notoriously seasick live performances. In 2001, the woman who jumped into the audience mid-performance and shoved me aside while tearfully fleeing the Irving Plaza stage certainly didn't seem capable of balancing a checkbook, let alone single-handedly negotiating a more generous contract with her record label (as the Harp article alleges). But then, the public-vs.-private tightrope-walk is as old as marketing itself: Johnny Cash never shot a man in Reno, either. Still, it's impossible to ignore the pull of the Beautifully Tortured stereotype, no matter what reality lies behind it. But if we didn't want Beautifully Tortured, we'd be obsessing over Norah Jones.
That brings us to The Greatest. Not to knock Norah, but she isn't tortured-- and neither is this album, which, if Nic Harcourt or VH1 get their hands on it, could be battling "Don't Know Why" for airplay supremacy on Mom's car stereo in the coming months. Like all Cat Power records, The Greatest is a mostly sad, heartbroken, hopeless, rainy-day affair; it just isn't damaged. For that reason, it's also going to gain her a lot of new fans.
The Greatest was recorded in Memphis, with several of that city's veteran studio musicians serving as her backing band, including Mabon "Teenie" Hodges on guitar, his brother Leroy "Flick" Hodges on bass, and Steve Potts on drums. These soul legends have played with Al Green, Booker T. and the MG's, Aretha Franklin, Neil Young, and more; in other words, they don't seem like the kind of dudes who'd stand much tortured diva bullshit from some no-name white girl off Matador Records. These are first-rate professionals, and their contributions-- a far cry from those of Steve Shelley and Dirty Three, or even Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl-- add as much to the album as they detract.
The title song opens the album with the same halting, thick-fingered piano style Marshall has relied on since 2000's The Covers Record, but here it's swathed in Henry Mancini strings, teary delay effects, gently nudging drums, and Marshall's own multi-tracked voice echoing her lead vocals like Mary and Flo on the Supremes' loveliest ballads. "The Greatest", with its evocative lyrics of nostalgia and regret is, like "Colors and the Kids" and "Good Woman" before it, bleakness at its most pristine.
But Marshall doesn't wallow long, following the track with "Living Proof", Cat Power's most conventionally sexy song yet. As it swaggers on lazy horns and careening "Like a Rolling Stone" organ, you can almost picture Marshall in a pair of tight jeans, swinging her hips in front of a jukebox. "Lived in Bars" retains that Southern-fried sensuality in its back half: After beginning as a late-night smoky bar lament, the song lifts off on shoo-ba-doo harmonies and a bouncy beat; all of a sudden, it's getting hot and heavy in a pickup truck.
The marriage of Marshall's offbeat musical sensibility to her new backing band's in-the-pocket playing bears its most successful fruit on those three songs. At heart, they're smooth, accessible lite-R&B; tracks-- as close to Chan in Memphis as the album gets. Still, if that's what adult-alternative sounds like in 2006, sign me up for the AARP.
But the middle chunk of The Greatest just feels old. It's beyond "adult": These songs seem musty and outdated, like stuff my grandparents might have danced to during The War. "Could We", "Empty Shell", "Islands", and "After It All" are all finger snaps and jazz hands, Marshall twirling her umbrella in the park as Fred Astaire woos her with clicked heels and a top hat. "Thank you/ It was great/ Let's make/ Another date/ Real soon/ In the afternoon," Marshall purrs over call-and-response horns and hotel bar piano. "After It All" even features whistling and the kind of cabaret melody Nellie McKay drops into a song right before she threatens to kill you.
Worse is "Where Is My Love", the album's rock-bottom low. Marshall moans the title ad infinitum (interspersed with "bring him to me" and stuff about horses galloping and running free) in some sort of high school musical approximation of Nina Simone. She's accompanied only by Cheez Whiz piano scales and those same heart-tugging strings from "The Greatest", only this time they sound creepily manipulative, not heartbreaking or beautiful. I envision Marshall in a fluffy white gown with a plunging neckline singing this song out of a balcony window. At the end, a dove lands on her outstretched finger. This is not what I want from Cat Power. It's not what I want from anybody, not even Norah Jones.
The Greatest regains its composure as it nears the finish line, ending with a pair of songs that wouldn't have seemed out of place on any Cat Power album since What Would the Community Think. "Hate", the only track that might scare off newcomers while delighting her original fanbase, is Marshall alone with her guitar, playing stark, cutting riffs, and murmuring "I hate myself and I want to die." "Love and Communication" is the album's first three tracks as viewed through a fun-house mirror: Instead of the Memphis crew welcoming Marshall into their world, the closing track sees Marshall luring the studio vets down her dark, claustrophobic alley. The strings, horns, and organs press forward in deliberate staccato stabs, advancing on the ear as if programmed by Dr. Dre.
The biggest challenge of this album isn't going to be commercial success; just stick "Could We" on the soundtrack to a hip romantic comedy, and it'll take off on its own. The difficult part will be proving to longtime fans that Chan Marshall is the one in control here. She's made an album that, for the most part, is polished and accessible. For better or worse, she's stretched her musical horizons far beyond the close-knit indie rock world-- a world that likely doesn't want her to change.
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2003 Volkswagen PassatJmichael, Mobile, AL, December 09, 2010 14:44I've owned my 03 Passat, 1.8T for 4 years now. I've had pretty much all the same mechanical problems as everyone else. There is 1 very expensive repair I have to do soon and that's to replace the secondary air pump. VW wants over $800 to do it. I can do it for $350. Ignition coils were covered by a recall as well as the brake light swich. Oil leak is embarrasing when I park in a friends driveway. The only other issue I have with this small engine is turbo-lag and the drive by wire accelerator. I can't rely on a quick burst of speed to get into traffic. Throttle response is very slow. Also, the sealed transimission worries me that I can't monitor the fluid level and condition. Overall I think this is the safest car on the road. My wife was T-Boned on the driver side rear. I didn't know VW put airbags in the seats! Although expensive to repair comfort and safety earn high marks.EnthusiastFlag ThisLike | 5 people like this5
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2003 Volkswagen Passatdazzer, Beverly Hills, CA, November 16, 2008 12:27Overall, I believe this is a great car for the money. I've had to replace the brakes, ignition coils, cv joints, and rear springs so far. I know that I'll have to replace my timing belt and water pump by spring, but oh well, normal wear and tear.EnthusiastFlag ThisLike | 2 people like this2
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Once upon a time, when I was a budding TV producer in Singapore, the only "data" I had to contend with was the Nielsen ratings that came in over night. My relationship with data was "vague and distant," which is, frankly, the way I much prefer it.
But now the era of "big data" is upon us. Suddenly, "data" is no longer just "background noise" but rather something that has real implications on how I create and share content.
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When it comes to "big data," there is one question that everyone in the business of film and video wants the answer to: can big data help us make The Next Big Hit?
Is there an algorithm for producing that viral video? Will our ability to harness vast amounts of data remove the agonizing uncertainty of making our next film or video?
Netflix, a leading video on demand subscription service, claims to have cracked the code for coming up with a surefire hit. When it was developing its first original series "House of Cards," Netflix did not rely on focus groups or surveys. Instead it turned to its gold mine of audience behavior data.
To come up with the magic formula for a hit, Netflix analyzed past viewership patterns. Netflix viewers who love the original British series were also fans of the actor Kevin Spacey and the director David Fincher. Netflix arrived at the Spacey-Fincher dream team by leveraging big data. It also mined audience data for 10 different cuts of the "House of Cards" trailers, each geared toward a different segment.
Netflix has proudly declared its first original series the most viewed show in its history. It is not just a triumph for Netflix; it is a victory for big data.
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Not only can big data take the guesswork out of making your next viral hit. It may turn the entire creative process upside down. While convention dictates that you should first come up with an idea and then find the audience for it, with big data, the reverse is true. You first get to know your audience and then work backwards toward the idea.
A case in point: Chinese video sharing site, iQiyi is developing hit web shows based on the search data of its parent company, Baidu. It has produced a hit cooking series based on the top 100 most searched dishes on Baidu. The most popular episodes in the cooking series have garnered tens of millions of views each.
Big Data Is All About Storytelling
Has big data taken the mystery out of the creative process, once and for all? In theory, big data can help you master viewers' preferences, identify brand advocates, and develop massive audiences for your web series or viral ad.
So should we fire producers and directors and hire data scientists instead? Not so fast. The data scientist's real job is storytelling. Making sense of billions of data points within the human frame is a complex task of interpretation. After all, the data may show us the "what" but only human beings know the "why."
This is especially true in China, where video viewing data remains a black box. Video sharing sites continue to shield even the most basic of such data from the public eye. The fragmentation of the social media environment in China also compounds the difficulty of interpretation. How does one compare apple with oranges, or engagement data on Weibo with WeChat? More importantly, what does it all mean?
The big opportunity of big data can only be approached through a human lens. Before we can know what stories to tell, we need to practice the ancient art of storytelling in the very modern act of data analytics.
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Fifteen year mortality rates are reported for men participating in the Whitehall Study in 1968–1970. Subjects were divided into four groups — normoglycaemic (centiles 1–95 of the blood glucose distribution: n=17,051), glucose intolerant (centiles 96–100: n = 999), newly diagnosed diabetic patients (n=56) and previously diagnosed diabetic patients (n=121) treated with diet±tablets. Relative risks for all causes mortality and from coronary and cardiovascular disease deaths were calculated. Age adjusted relative risks were highest in the newly diagnosed diabetic patients and were also increased in glucose intolerant and previously diagnosed diabetic men (p<0.05), but did not increase with increasing duration of diabetes. With adjustment for other risk factors, relative risks were similar in newly diagnosed and previously diagnosed diabetic men. There was no significant linear trend of adjusted relative risks with duration of diabetes when all diabetic men were pooled and person years at risk calculated. The lack of effect of duration upon relative risk together with other observations suggests common, possibly genetic, antecedents of both Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes and coronary heart disease.
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- Jarrett RJ (1983) Microvascular disease in diabetes mellitus. In: Mann JI, Pyörälä K, Teuscher A (eds) Diabetes in Epidemiological Perspective. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, pp 248–264
- Jarrett RJ, Shipley MJ (1985) Mortality and associated risk factors in diabetes. Acta Endocrinol [Suppl] 272: 21–26
- Fuller JH, Shipley MJ, Rose G, Jarrett RJ Keen H (1983) Mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke in relation to degree of glycaemia; the Whitehall Study. Br Med J 287: 867–870
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- Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease — putative association via common antecedents; further evidence from the whitehall study
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Volume 31, Issue 10 , pp 737-740
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- Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus
- diabetes duration
- cardiovascular disease mortality
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- M. J. Shipley (2)
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Russia is apparently moderating its stance on Syria. So far, President Vladimir Putin has supported Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime through two years of civil war that has cost the lives of 40,000 Syrians.
One might ask why. The obvious and first answer is money; Russia has been Syria's main arms supplier for decades. But the second is more complex: The Russians fear that the government replacing the Assad regime could be even worse.
A pattern is emerging. Islamic countries more often than not replace tyrants with religious dictators who can become even more despotic than their predecessors. Look at Egypt. What we now see there is a theocracy that appears headed in the direction of becoming more oppressive than the autocracy it rebelled against.
Westerners naively believed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi would back down after public protests against his undemocratic power grab. As Eric Trager wrote in The New Republic: From Western journalists' "vantage point, criticism of Morsi's move from within his own government, threats of judicial strikes, and the sheer magnitude of popular anger could force Morsi, in the words of The New York Times, 'to engage in the kind of give and take that democratic government requires.'"
So much for that, eh? Western media almost uniformly cheered on Egypt's second-ever election that took place in June. I sat by watching anxiously. Unfortunately, my negative expectations were borne out.
Morsi has undone the outcome of the hard-fought revolution. Since he took power, the status of women in Egypt has been nothing but downgraded.
Should we be surprised? No. As The New Republic reported, all you needed to do was read Morsi's resume to see he is not someone prone to compromise: "Prior to last year's uprising and his subsequent emergence as Egypt's first civilian president, Morsi was the Muslim Brotherhood's chief internal enforcer within the Guidance Office. …"
The report goes on to cite experiences in which Morsi took extreme positions and refused to yield on his demands. He led the Muslim Brotherhood's 2007 drafting of a political platform that "called for restricting the Egyptian presidency to Muslim men and establishing a council of Islamic scholars to approve all legislation for its sharia-compliance."
Western journalists and governments should wise up and view the so-called Arab Spring with greater suspicion.
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