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The number of new U.S. jobless claims fell to a new three month low, suggesting a strengthening labor market.
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Bemidji State University's Optivation venture kicks off its 2011 training and seminar schedule with a pair of events on or beginning Tuesday, Jan. 11.
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2. That no foreign protein can be absorbed into the blood stream unless it is digested in the alimentary canal into its basic amino acids;
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If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." Thomas Jefferson.
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The Real America
Is vastly different that what you read about in the American press or on Facebook or Twitter. Well, in most of the press, that is. There are still a few real reporters out there. Like Salena Zito:
: Since boarding a jetliner on Christmas night last year, this reporter has logged more than 8,600 miles in 21 states and has interviewed more than 1,200 people registered as or identifying with Democrats, all in an attempt to tell the stories of their pocketbooks, their families and their America.
Reality is like gravity: It can pull you down in an instant. From a distance, pundits and reporters hail President Barack Obama's accomplishments and the ideology of his first term. Yet many voters who supported him in 2008 now face strikingly different realities.
Kelly Foote, a waitress at the Moonlight Diner, a classic old-time eatery on Tower Road in Denver, said she had a home, a car and a savings account in 2008 but "lost everything. Every bad economic condition … converged at the same time, and by 2010 I had lost it all."
The 40-year-old said business dropped by more than half "and I just couldn't keep up. I tried juggling but, in the end, I had to surrender everything."
Foote has not given up "on the possibility of what I can achieve" but won't vote for Obama.
I like Zito's reporting. She is actually reporting what her interviewees are saying, not spinning. I've mentioned before how I am being surprised – rather often – at how many people are paying attention. Little wisecracks that indicate that they are not buying the media spin. Small comments that indicate Obama has a lot more problems than the press lets on.
People are looking around and seeing what Obamanomics is doing to them. I don't think they like it as much as the press says they do. More than 90% of people are refusing to participate in polls or simply not picking up the phone when pollsters call.
I'm betting that the 91% have a different story than the one being dictated by Obama's media arm. I agree with Zito, the Real America is different than the fictional one the media lives in.
This is my first post over here at RWN. My thanks to John Hawkins for letting me borrow the keys to the place. This is cross-posted back at my home blog, Blue Crab Boulevard. Thanks for reading.
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Trooper Matt Zistel repeatedly told a motorist to stay in his car, then the suspect suddenly opened fire
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon State police released dash cam video showing a fatal shootout between an officer and suspect at a traffic stop.
Trooper Matt Zistel stopped John Van Allen on August 29, who was driving with his three children in the vehicle, according to Oregon Live.
Allen stepped out of his Cadillac and squared off, demanding to know why he had been stopped. He then advanced on the trooper, pulling a firearm from his waistband and firing at Zistel, who is off camera.
Zistel returned fire, shooting Allen in the chest. Allen returned to his vehicle and fled the scene.
"Shots fired, shots fired," Zistel can be heard saying over the radio to the dispatcher. "I've been hit in the side. I'm OK."
Responding officers found Allen in his vehicle about a half mile down on the highway's shoulder, dead.
Allen's family had no explanation for his actions, saying he was returning to his native South Carolina at the time. Allen had finished serving in the U.S. Army Reserve in 2012, according to the report.
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Actress Liv Tyler is expecting her first child with rocker husband Royston Langdon, frontman of the band Spacehog, The Associated Press reports. According to People magazine, Tyler, 26, who recently starred as the Elven princess Arwen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is due this winter. She and Langdon have been married since March 2003.
More baby news…
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer is expecting her second child with husband Matthew Vaughn, a British film producer, Reuters reports. Schiffer's spokeswoman said the model is four months pregnant. The couple, who live in Suffolk, England, have a son, Caspar, born in January of last year.
Affleck bluffs his way to jackpot
Cha-ching! Ben Affleck won $356,400 at a poker tournament, outlasting a field of 90 players to capture the Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship, AP reports. At the final table, Affleck beat poker pro Stan Goldstein, who finished second, and knocked out Chuck Pacheco, president and co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment, who finished third. Fellow actor Tobey Maguire went out on the first day of the three-day tournament that ended Sunday. The win in the $10,000 buy-in event earned Affleck the opportunity to take a $25,000 seat in the World Poker Tour Championship to be held next April in Las Vegas, AP reports.
Clinton's book looks to be hot seller
Hundreds of Bill Clinton's fans stood in line Tuesday at a Manhattan bookstore waiting for a chance to see the former president, who was scheduled to sign copies of his new memoir My Life, AP reports. The Rockefeller Center Barnes & Noble planned to give out more than 1,000 wristbands that would allow customers to purchase several copies, only one to be autographed by Clinton, before the book hits the stands Tuesday at midnight. "Bill Clinton is a rock star," Lynne Roberts, 37, told AP, who set up camp Monday night, nearly 15 hours before the signing was to begin. "He is our cultural icon and we miss him now more than ever, given everything that's going on in the world." With advance orders already topping 2 million, Clinton's book, which details his life from his Arkansas childhood through his presidency, appears guaranteed to justify his reported $10 million advance and outsell the memoirs of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who received $8 million.
Anti-camcordering rewards program unveiled
Theater employees who report moviegoers illegally recording films to police will be rewarded up to $500 under the Anti-Camcording Rewards Program unveiled Monday by the Motion Picture Assn. of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), Reuters reports. The program is being funded by the MPAA, which represents the major studios, in a bid to thwart movie piracy. According to the organization, films are typically camcordered during the first few days of their U.S. release, then distributed in digital form worldwide on file-sharing networks and other online outlets. The dollar amount awarded will be decoded by the MPAA and is based on several factors, including whether the suspect was apprehended and the timing of the piracy in relation to the movie's release.
Rating for Fahrenheit 9/11 expected today
The MPAA's Rating Appeals Board is expected to render its final verdict today on the rating for filmmaker Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which opens Wednesday in New York and nationwide Friday. The MPAA gave the film an R rating earlier this month "for violence, disturbing images and language," but Lions Gate president Tom Ortenberg is appealing the decision on the basis the documentary will contribute to the national political debate and should be available to the widest audience possible. The biggest sticking point in the ratings debate appears to be the use of the word "motherf***er" several times by an American soldier in Iraq, as well as some graphic footage of Iraqi civilian casualties. Distributor Lions Gate has said the R would cost the pic as much as 20 percent of its audience, but according to the latest tracking research by Nielsen NRG, people over age 25, especially men, are the most interested in seeing the film.
Court rejects Jenny Jones appeal
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from the family of a guest murdered days after he admitted a secret crush on another man during the taping of The Jenny Jones Show, the AP reports. Scott Amedure's family initially won a $29.3 million award against distributor Warner Brothers and The Jenny Jones Show, but that decision was thrown out last year by a Michigan appeals court. The family then appealed to the Supreme Court, claiming the Michigan judges were biased and should have disqualified themselves from the case. In 1995, Amedure appeared on the show, which is taped in Chicago, and revealed his secret crush on guest Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz killed Amedure three days after the taping and is now serving a 25- to 50-year prison sentence for second-degree murder.
HBO boards reality bandwagon with Family Bonds
HBO has ordered 10 episodes of the reality series Family Bonds, which follows the real-life adventures of one of the country's top bounty hunters, Tom Evangelista, who runs a bail bond/bounty office with his family in Queens, N.Y., Variety reports. The series' producer-director Steven Cantor describes the project as "the Sopranos without all the heaviness and murder." Each half-hour episode will follow Evangelista and his family as they track criminals while personal drama ensues as his son tries to join the business just as his daughter wants out. Family Bonds, the first series to come out of the pay cabler's documentary/family arm, will have little of the traditional documentary earmarks such as voiceovers, narration or talking heads. The show is slated to premiere this fall on HBO.
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Billy Donovan says SEC schedule needs balance
When the Southeastern Conference signed a new television deal with ESPN in 2008, the network requested that the league adopt a scheduling format in which conference games were mostly played on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday so as many contests as possible could be aired on ESPN's array of channels.
Though commissioner Mike Slive received approval from the SEC's coaches to adjust the schedule and make the deal, the league has found and continued to do its best to work out kinks in the scheduling ever since.
During No. 13/14 Florida Gators head coach Billy Donovan's press conference on Monday, he spoke at length (nearly nine full minutes) about one major flaw in the schedule – teams being forced to play late games on Thursday and early games on Saturday. This type of scheduling, he argues, provides the players with little (if any) time to rest and the coaches with even less time to put a solid game plan in place.
Florida is set to face Ole Miss Thursday at 7 p.m. on the road before turning around and returning home to take on No. 16/18 Mississippi State on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
Donovan's complete thoughts on the issue and how he believes it makes the SEC schedule unbalanced for some of the teams in the league is available…after the break.
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Blurred Lines has to be the summer anthem! Check out his performance on the BET Awards this passed Sunday!
If you are like most Americans, you have long since lost interest in American Idol.
A Las Cruces hotel will soon be featured in the second season of the reality show called Hotel Hell on the Fox network.
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Control the turret which moves in front of your base, and fires machine gun or heavy cannon at the enemies. The turret is protected by a force field, so it can "catch" the enemy shells, preventing the damage to the base.
Use special weapons:
• The Orbital Ion Cannon capable of destroying multiple targets at once
• The impact of electromagnetic waves that paralyzes enemy vehicles
• The force field that protects the entire base and
• The Nuclear bomb which blast covers the whole battlefield.
For every enemy destroyed you get silver coins, and gold coins for the completing of missions, and protecting your base.
Spend the coins between missions to upgrade weapons and protection of the base, and to improve special weapons as well!
Get awards for various achievements, and even for the fact of starting the game! Play every day, and your daily award will be bigger and bigger!
What's New
World of Tanks Blitz
Drawing inspiration from the PC version, World of Tanks Blitz is built specifically for optimal online mobile gameplay and is currently available on your Android device.
With an impressive roster of over 100 massive tanks, stunning graphics, and intuitive touch-screen controls, World of Tanks Blitz makes it easy to jump into short, action-packed 7vs7 tank battles no matter where you are!
"World of Tanks Blitz is definitely worth picking up if you're into complex MMO war games that let you show off your tactical precision and execution."
"We've seen a lot of less ambitious tank games come out on mobile. Everyone has the same idea. They all want to be the World of Tanks on mobile."
"The game played extremely well on the tablet."
• Over 100 iconic vehicles from Germany, Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR
• 4 different tank classes including light, medium, heavy, and tank destroyers
• Strategic 7v7 online multiplayer gameplay
• 10 unique battle arenas
• In-game chat functionality
• Innovative crew upgrade system
• Constant graphics enhancement and updates, as well as optimization for various devices
• Real-life physics to create realistic tank movement and damage mechanics
• Detailed tutorials
• Ability to invite your friends to play online
• In-game achievements
• Free to play with equal access to in-game elements for paying and non-paying players
• Easy to learn, intuitive touch screen controls
Download World of Tanks Blitz now FREE!
Languages supported:
• English
• Russian
• German
• French
• Korean and more
For more information please visit http://wotblitz.com/
Super Tank Battle
Prepare the battle, prepare the tank war!
There are 5 different difficulty levels (from easy to crazy). It should meet different people need.
Game Rule:
- Defence your base, and destroy all enemy tanks.
- If your tank or your base is destroyed, it will be game over.
- have 500 Maps can be played ( Super Cool! )
- helper tank, it is like a 2nd player to help you
- special items in game
- classical tank battle game's style
- 20 enemy tanks per map
Super Tank Battle is available on:
iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/app/super-tank-battle/id507828762
iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/app/super-tank-battle-hd/id526064033
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unknownprojectx.tank.free
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.unknownprojectx.tank.free
"Super Tank Battle" extended version : "Tank Battle - Mini War" is now available on iOS and Android!
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Tank Attack War 3D
The prosperous city behind the mountainous outskirts of the country is once again facing imminent ill fate of being burnt to ashes, as enemy troops have initiated yet another deadly attack on the city and its people. John Taggert, a man of conviction, is a trained ex-military, who led his army to victory in the first place when war broke out on the city years ago.
Now that the country's finest have succumbed to the fast flowing, artillery shooting enemy attack, John Taggert is once again called by the military generals as a last resort of defense.
John Taggert is provided with the latest and most deadly war machines the army has. Now his mission is to rescue the city from the claws of enemy gunner tanks and shooters, ensuring the least possible collateral damage.
Navigate through the vast lands of the environments with advanced controls of the gunner tank, including swipe aiming of the tank turret, enemy detection radars and a heavily optimized scope with enemy tagging zoom.
Play through five intense and deadly levels of gameplay, gunning and shooting down enemy gunner tanks, soldiers with death defying attack and heavy impact bombs.
Your primary mission is to remove all resistance and take down the enemy tank army generals, who are ordering and assisting the enemy to attack and raise havoc on the area. The enemy generals will be strongly guarded by gunner tanks and soldiers inside the buildings. You will have to inflict a deadly attack and tear the enemy apart with extreme shooting skills with accuracy, eliminating enemies at point blank range.
- 5 intense levels of gameplay with increased difficulty in enemy tanks and soldiers as you progress further
- Vivid and breathtaking environment graphics and detailed particle effects
- Swift camera and tank navigations for the player tank
- Objective based missions to keep player on his toes at all times
- Scope and zoom enhancements for the tank in first player switching mode for precise aiming
The country's hopes are once again led on John Taggert as he prepares for a battle he once thought was already won. Will he be able to rescue the city once again from an imminent destruction? Only time will tell.
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Helicopter Tanks War
Your Apache helicopter is equipped with all the necessary weapons to take down all these massive machines roaming the streets. But the task will test out your skills to the limit as you are clearly outnumbered by the panzer force.
The panzer tanks are the best and advanced machines around, and equipped with devastating turrets and tracking missiles. You will have to showcase your immense skills and impeccable accuracy to take out this massive army as you progress further into the area, where you will have to face even more formidable opponents.
The enemy tank army also has an artillery of rocket launchers along with a human army to operate them. Once you pilot your way through to the inner suburban city, you will have even more formidable opponents as the difficulty to complete this mission will seem insurmountable.
Game Play:
- Use the on screen navigational controls to move forward and backwards
- Use gyroscopic controls for rotation and altitude control
- You are equipped with two weapons, Mounted machine gun and missile launcher
- Use the radar to track down enemy tanks and soldiers
- Mounted machine gun can inflict damage from long range, whereas missile launcher operates effectively at short range
- Real 3D Graphics environment.
- Natural sound of Helicopter.
- No connectivity required while playing.
- Radar system to indicate enemies.
- Loving, addictive and Full of fun.
Tanks War 2015
In Tanks War 215 you drive your tank inside 3D Mountain to destroy the Enemy Tank and highly advanced machinery.
Your tank is to destroy enemy tanks as many as possible while getting survival as long as possible.
Tanks War 2015 Features :
* High quality graphic.
* Extremely addictive game play
* Kill thousands of enemies!
How to Tanks War 2015:
1. Use left joystick to control tank movement
2. Use right joystick to turn turret left/right and move up/down the gun
3. Use fire button to shoot. Keep in mind that gun needs time to reload shell
How to play?
# Touch screen to shoot arrows.
# Drag and drop spell icon to cast a spell.
# City Wall: Upgrade city wall to increase health point.
# Mana: Mana is required to cast a spell.
# Magic Tower: Upgrade magic tower to increase MANA.
# Strength: Increase the damange of a arrow.
# Agility: Increase shooting frequency.
# Weapon: Select and equip proper bow to defend.
# Power shot: Repel monsters.
# Fatal Blow: Double damange with certain possibility.
Watch out, intruders will be stronger and stronger. New BOSSES will come out as stage goes. Be the hero, and win the HONORS!
Any suggestion/feedback is welcome!
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Tank Defense: Gunner Storm 3D
fueled by enemy's patrolling tanks. Invading inch by inch, they are about to storm the base outpost and
would be able to take over it if any resistance won't come in forth. Unfortunately, almost all army
resources are exhausted in building defense of the outskirt of the city.
Yet the army has one trick up their sleeve, an arsenal of highly advanced battle gunner tanks. Operate the tank of your choice and storm attack on the enemy machines.
Choose from a wide variety of gunner tanks, operating high precision weapons and attachments. Your
tank will be equipped with state of the art assaulting turret, a highly efficient navigation and tracking
radar and a first person view controller with zoom feature.
Fight through numerous levels of the game, eliminating light and heavy gunner tanks as you head on to
face even more difficult enemies ahead. Keep an eye out for the enemy soldiers attacking your tank, as
they are equipped with damaging rocket launchers as well.
The efficient radar system and first person controller will prove to be a decisive factor in tough and
varying weather conditions against these enemies.
Take Control of any of these tanks to gain advantage on your enemies
- FV4034 Challenger 2
Smooth navigational controller with screen swiping to rotate turret independently
Switch controls between First Person & Third Person Shooting
Realistic tank controls with gear system, turret rotation and radar tagging system
Seamlessly distant targeting of cannon bombs
Challenging levels with varying environments and weather conditions
Zombie Tank
Upgrade your armored tanks and buy new zombies to get extra nitro, fuel, coins and abilities.
Tanks Fortress: Strike Ambush
A thorough investigation into the matter has revealed that the enemy, equipped with armoured vehicles, pillboxes, tanks, apache helicopters and soldiers operating RPG's have stationed themselves near the fortress and building up a massive ambush on the army.
Your next task includes the strike down of this ambush plan by the enemy. You will have to lead the fortress defense and lay assault on the enemies, taking them down and advancing forward, keeping in mind your tank integrity to avoid your own destruction.
Your will have to complete various set of mission with your strike tank, your weapon being a heavy duty machine gun. Strike through the enemy ambush, avoiding deadly obstacles like trenches and mines spread throughout the enemy fortress. You will need to push the enemy backward and take the fight to the armoured trucks stationed in the far villages near the border along with apache helicopter.
Also, be prepared for a devastating ambush strike by enemy aerial forces. Being a little witty can prove advantageous at this moment, where you might need to capture and take control of one enemy tanks to continue the war.
• Realistic battlefield environments and stunning visuals
• Fight against variety of opponents like RPG soldiers, fighter planes, helicopters, tanks, and armoured vehicles
• Smooth navigational controls
• Deadly surprises and challenges posed during gameplay
World War 2 Tanks
Use the left joystick to drive the tank and the right joystick to control the turret. The reticle will hit targets accurately up to a certain distance, but the further they are away the more you will have to adjust it to compensate for the shell falling down due to gravity. When you are ready to shoot press the red button and it will turn red again once the cannon has been reloaded.
Tank Helicopter Urban Warfare
Your massive war tank in battlefield is equipped with all the necessary weapons, steamy explosives & cannon to take down all enemy gunship helicopter machines firing on your modern tanks. Your specialized military skills will be tested to the limit by the task mission given to you as they are clearly out numbered by your panzer tank force. Let's see how you can deal with a battle tank vs air battle helicopter combat missions!
The panzer tanks are the best and advanced machines around, and equipped with devastating turrets and tracking missiles. You will have to showcase your immense skills and impeccable accuracy to take out this massive army as you progress further into the area, where you will have to face even more formidable opponents. Aim & shoot the terrorist gunship helicopters to destroy the undercover terrorist groups. Avoid cross firing, it may hurt you. You have to run tanks simulator and then Shoot the Apache Gunship Helicopters. The enemy helicopter flying army also has artillery of high-tech professional rocket launchers along with human commando to operate them.
Enjoy the 3D battle world of army tank & helicopter war games with battle tank, army gunship helicopter simulator and never ending tank simulator in action. Apache Helicopter, Army battle tanks are a source of great inspiration for those who are fond of action games.
Tank vs Helicopter Urban Warfare 3D Game Features
- Customized aim focus with greater scope
- Higher potential urban destructive tank machine
- Ground to air strike physical machine war
- Smooth toggle screen touch controls
- Intense slug shooter urban battlefield arena
- Jam packed 4 intense shooting missions
Tank Invaders: War on Terror
** Voice-over and soundtrack by the unparalleled composer Carl Clark
Prepare yourself, soldier! The maniac villain Terror has readied his devious machines for war and is launching a massive offensive against our allies' bases around the world! Being a prodigious bombing specialist, you've been summoned by General Rogers to put an end to this threat!
INSPIRED BY THE 80s ACTION MOVIES
Over-the-top explosions! Lone wolf antiheroes and machiavellian foes! The 80's are back in full force here, so you'd better call all your expendable mercenary friends and be ready to crush your enemies!
Tank Invaders will bring back those glorious days of being in command of missiles to fend off invaders from the space and raid the enemy over the river. Power-ups, waves of enemies, powerful giant bosses – they're all back!
With intuitive touch-based mechanics, you'll control unstoppable missile launchers, deadly machine guns and special magnetic bombs with your bare hands – and it will feel like you were born to do that!
From the heavily armed Destroyer to the legendary flying fortress Thunderhawk, you'll face colossal enemies that'll keep you on your toes and will not be defeated until the bomber spirit in you is completely unleashed!
Join the army as an inexperienced recruit and gradually earn experience and Rogers's respect to climb up the military ranks! Expend your earned war funds in weapon enhancements until one day you may become known and feared as a bombing legend!
Tanks War Mission Survival 3D
Tanks and helicopters are considered to be the backbone of any army unit and keeping your strengths in mind, you have been chosen to drive a tank and eliminate all the terrorists. These terrorists are dangerous and have rocket launchers, tanks in their own armory. But they dun have a soldier like you who can drive a tank without taking care of his own life. This is modern war
Tanks War Mission Survival 3D Features
Game Play:
- Use the on screen navigational controls to move forward and backwards
- Use gyroscopic controls for rotation and altitude control
- You are equipped with two weapons, Mounted machine gun and missile launcher
- Use the radar to track down enemy tanks and soldiers
- Mounted machine gun can inflict damage from long range, whereas missile launcher operates effectively at short range
- Real 3D Graphics environment.
- Natural sound of Helicopter.
- No connectivity required while playing.
- Radar system to indicate enemies.
- Loving, addictive and Full of fun.
Манай танк
Улаанбаатар хотын өмнө орших Зайсан толгойн оройд Халх голын тулалдаанд амь үрэгдсэн Зөвлөлтийн дайчдын дурсгалт цогцолбор бий. Харин хормойд нь нэгэн танкны хөшөө байх.
Хөшөөний суурийн нүүрэн талд "МОНГОЛЫН АРД ТҮМНИЙ ХӨРӨНГӨӨР БАЙГУУЛАГДСАН ХУВЬСГАЛТ МОНГОЛ ТАНКИЙН БРИГАД ГИТЛЕРИЙН ГЕРМАНЫ ЭСРЭГ ДАЙНД ОРОЛЦСОН ЮМ" гэсэн бичиг, баруун талд авсан одонгууд, зүүн талд туулсан зам нь сийлээстэй байдаг.
Энэ бол алдарт "Гвардын танкийн 44 дүгээр бригад" -ынхны "нэг" бөгөөд түүний баатарлаг төрх, гарамгай үйлсээс санаа төрж энэхүү тоглоомыг бүтээв.
Тоглоомын онцлог:
Тоглоход хялбар, дэлгэц дээр товшиж буудна;
Оргинал 2D график зураг;
Оргинал хөгжим, шум;
5 Бүлэг 100 үе;
Манай танк 3 төрөл;
Дайсны танк 4 төрөл;
Тоглогч та үе бүрийг 3 мөрдэстэйгээр давахыг зориорой.
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Хэрэв танд ажил хэрэгч, хамтран ажиллах санал байгаа бол бидэнтэй холбогдож болно. Холбогдохын тулд имэйл илгээнэ үү.
CKG Mongolia
Iron Force
This app offers in-app purchases. You may restrict in-app purchasing using your device settings.
• Play online with friends or just jump into a game with anyone!
• Take part in 4 vs 4 Team battles, Finders Keepers mode or in 6 player Free-for-All mode.
• Create a Legion with your friends and play together!
• Practice your skills against intelligent AI bots.
• 15 powerful tanks to choose from with more coming soon!
• Increase your tank's firepower, speed, fire rate and more than 500 awesome upgrades.
• Go to war in one of 5 arenas, watch out for those choke points.
• 8 in-game power ups to find on the battlefield.
• Give your tank a bonus boost with specific patterns and decals.
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GUNSHIP BATTLE : Helicopter 3D
★★★ 30 million downloads!!! ★★★
Become a helicopter pilot and engage in combat missions across the world.
Select from a variety of rotary and fixed-wing VTOL aircraft to complete your missions.
『GUNSHIP BATTLE』 is a helicopter action game that combines stunning 3D graphics with flight control simulation and engaging military scenarios to pull you into an immersive combat experience the moment you start the game.
【 Features 】
★ Enjoy controls optimized for 3D flight.
★ Select from a wide range of helicopters, each with unique characteristics.
★ Arm your chopper with a variety of weapons and equipment.
★ Complete missions in Episode mode inspired by real-life conflicts.
★ Challenge yourself with the next mission or replay a custom mission.
★ Also optimized for tablet devices.
If you enjoy FPS, shooting, or racing games, this is the perfect game for you.
You'll find yourself whirling through the skies across intense crossfire.
"Fun and engrossing" - Pocketmeta
"Perfectly suited for any action players out there" - Appzoom
"Fans of the genre should try this game" - Appgamer
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Gunspell - RPG & Puzzle!
Vampires and demons, heroes and monsters await you in realms of Gunspell.
It is completely free game with an option to purchase packs of in-game currency or a premium account.
• Match 3 battles with a lot of features
• Multiple strange new worlds to explore
• Hordes of enemies to fight
• Tons of different weapons, items and spells!
• No need to wait! Replenish stamina with a mini-game any time!
• Awesome graphics!
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Minimally invasive procedures have several advantages over more traditional back surgeries. When surgeons take a less invasive approach, patients experience reduced operation time, blood loss, scarring, post-op pain, hospital stays and recovery time.
Kailey Elfstrum, 20, of Oswego, had suffered from back problems from a horrific fall she sustained in 7th grade. The accident led to persistent shooting pains, a one-year break from her full-scale gymnastics training and her mother's vigorous search for the most effective help for her daughter. Over the years Kailey saw several orthopedic specialists, neurosurgeons and other doctors. She was diagnosed with spondylolisthesis, a condition in which one of the vertebrae slips out of place, sometimes causing pressure on a nerve. Her displacement was believed to be caused by earlier, undetected stress fractures. Extensive physical therapy and chiropractic treatments followed.
In the fall of 2011, the Elfstrum's consulted orthopedic spine surgeon, Dr. Ronjon Paul, of Dupage Medical Group, who performed a minimally invasive lumbar fusion at Edward. The goal of this surgery, which required two tiny incisions less than an inch and a half each, was to fuse Kailey's problematic vertebrae together to form a single, solid bone.
"Dr. Paul (said he) wasn't going to cut my muscles during surgery, he was only going to move them to the side," says Kailey.
After the surgery, Elfstrum faced physical therapy and months of wearing a brace over much of her torso. The moment of truth came an exceptionally short 33 weeks after her surgery when she tried out for her college cheerleading squad. Her efforts paid off. She secured a place on the team and a scholarship. She now cheers for Northwest Missouri State University's national championship team. Click here to read more of Kailey's story.
Wayne Zaininger, 45, of Warrenville, had lower back pain for more than a decade before he asked his primary care physician about it. X-rays showed he had bone spurs and an MRI revealed he had a deformity and spinal stenosis – a narrowing of the spine that puts pressure on the spinal cord or nerves leading from the spinal canal. He couldn't stand for more than 20 minutes without pain radiating down his legs.
"My legs were always tired," Zaininger said. "I felt like I just got done running a marathon. I don't run marathons, by the way. But if I did, I imagine that's what it'd feel like."
In March, his surgeon took the XLIF (eXtreme lateral interbody fusion) approach to grind off the bone spurs and fuse the problem vertebrae. In two days, Zaininger climbed 10 flights of stairs, nearly pain-free, and was able to go home. In two weeks, he returned to work at the St. James Farm in Warrenville, where his job as site manager often requires him to walk or drive the farm's 600 acres.
"This is fantastic because it's taking care of all the problems that I have," Zaininger said.
Barb Sieja, 68, of Naperville, had three back surgeries in 20 years: the first for a fusion with older screws and plates, a second to remove the plates and other hardware ("I have enough to make a clock!" she said), and a third for decompression. Her primary care physician and neurosurgeon both advised against more surgery when her pain returned a year ago.
"Sometimes I had to cut my walking short because of the pain in my hips or down my leg, and another day my knee would hurt, and other days my upper back," said Sieja, a retired pediatric nurse. "It was never the same. I thought, 'Maybe I'm just getting old.'"
With an MRI, her Edward Hospital surgeon diagnosed Sieja with spinal stenosis and severe misalignment. He used XLIF to replace the old disc and fuse the vertebrae. He also removed all of the scar tissue from her previous operations.
It took her a year to recover from her first back surgery. This time, she felt better after two weeks.
"I'm 20 years older than I was for my first surgery, and I feel 100 times better," she said.
Tamas Takacs, 39, of Batavia, saw Edward surgeons for a stress fracture in his spine about five years ago. He returned last summer when a wrestling bout with his nephew aggravated a herniated disc caused by disc degeneration.
"Most of my life I've done construction work," he said. "And, I've been in manufacturing a long time – bending, heavy lifting – so over time it took a toll."
Takacs underwent a minimally invasive TLIF (transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion) procedure. Four hours after his surgery in February, Takacs was up and walking. He expected to need his wife's help at home for two or three months, but he said it was more like two or three weeks. He returned to the office of his own construction company in March.
"I know people who had (back surgery) 10 or 15 years ago, and they were laid up for six months, recuperating for two years," he said. "This felt like outpatient surgery."
Rolande Michael, of Lisle, a 68-year-old retired nuclear medicine technologist, already knew osteoarthritis was affecting her back. Pinched spinal nerves and vertebral slippage caused a constant stabbing and burning sensation down her left leg.
"I had become a prisoner in my body," she said. "Prior to the surgery, I could not even climb my own stairs. I was going on my floor like a 2-year-old baby."
In October 2009, Michael underwent a fusion and decompression procedure called ILIF (interspinous lumbar fusion) – a process Michael said the surgeons made easy by explaining exactly what to expect.
"I was a new person," she said. "The following day I was walking in the hallway, and it was unreal."
At 38, Cheryl Gilsdorf, of Bolingbrook, ruptured a disc in her spine. The injury was radiating pain from her lower back to her leg, making it impossible for her to work full-time. But she thought she was too young for back surgery.
For five years, she tried to control the pain with shots, nerve burns and pain patches. The chronic physical pain also weighed on her emotionally. She had been diagnosed with depression before her injury; afterward, her depression worsened.
Gilsdorf and her husband talked to their surgeon about how surgery could increase mobility and decrease pain. In February, Gilsdorf underwent the ALIF (anterior lumbar interbody fusion) procedure.
Three months later, she started working in an office full-time again. Now 42, she can run errands, ride a motorcycle and go boating without pain. She's also back to managing her depression and says her Edward surgeon cared about things like that – her whole lifestyle.
"I had seen three other surgeons over the years, and they were just all about the surgery," she said. "He was all about the impact on your life before and after the surgery."
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2014 SEED Awards Open for Applications [viewed]
11 February 2014: The SEED Initiative, which sponsors start-up social and environmental entrepreneurs from emerging economies and developing countries, has opened nominations for its 2014 Awards.
11 February 2014: The SEED Initiative, which sponsors start-up social and environmental entrepreneurs from emerging economies and developing countries, has opened nominations for its 2014 Awards.
The Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Americas is a multi-stakeholder forum that brings together key DRR stakeholders throughout the Americas. It is a participative space for knowledge sharing that promotes the planning, monitoring and collective decision making and strategy, as well as actions to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), all with linkages to international and national climate change adaptation efforts. The Fourth Session is co-organized by the UNISDR Regional Office for the Americas (UNISDR - Americas) and Ecuador's Secretariat of Risk Management and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), UN Development Programme (UNDP) and participation planned by subregional DRR organizations. The Platform will feature a high level panel on mainstreaming DRR and climate change adaptation in public policies, as well as four thematic sessions on: risk reduction and special segments of society; DDR, climate change and the development agenda; governance and public policies on risk reduction; regional consultation surrounding the new framework for DDR post-2015 (HFA2).
21 January 2014: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) Asia-Pacific and the Government of Sweden released a video on managing climate finance effectively. The video provides guidelines on how countries can prepare for climate change and manage development by ensuring appropriate national budget allocations.
22 January 2014: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a global call for nominations for the Equator Prize 2014, which will focus on the theme 'Local Climate Action.' The Equator Prize is awarded annually to community-based initiatives that tackle poverty while advancing environmental conservation.
14 January 2014: The UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (UN-REDD) has reported that Kenya's Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources has launched 'A Corruption Risk Assessment for REDD+ in Kenya.' The study was conducted by the Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4) with the support of the UN-REDD Programme with engagement of Kenya's Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission.
10 December 2013: The UN Development Programme released a series of thematic policy briefs and training modules on climate change and gender for the Asia-Pacific region. The series includes five policy briefs and five training modules, each on: an overview of linkages between gender and climate change; gender and adaptation; gender and disaster risk reduction (DRR); gender and energy; and gender and climate finance.
23 December 2013: The Millennium Development Goal Carbon (MDG Carbon) initiative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) published a Guidance Note for Standardized Baselines (SBs), which aims to make SBs more comprehensible and easy to implement, so they can be used more widely across a range of sectors.
6 January 2014: The UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (UN-REDD) released a report on 'Sharing National Experiences in Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, and Integrity for REDD+.' The publication features examples from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Nepal and the Philippines.
6 January 2014: The Global Forum on Using Country Systems to Manage Climate Change Finance gathered over 170 participants from ministries of finance, planning and environment to share climate finance effectiveness lessons.
3 January 2014: The UN Development Group (UNDG) has issued a 'People's Voices Issue Brief' conveying views on topics for the seventh session of the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including consumption and production patterns, urbanization, climate change, and disaster risk reduction.