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Vietnam Luxury tourism remains stable despite glo

December 23rd, 2009 admin No comments

The company has just launched a new luxurious travel experience Vietnam in 2010 for their sophisticated travelers . Click here too view this luxury travel experience,

In the past five years, the average expenditure of tourists visiting the country with Luxury Travel Company has grown by 50 percent.

“Even though the international financial crisis has beaten the country’s inbound tourism,Replica Purses, luxury tourist rates remain stable,” added Tony.

Luxury Travel Co., Ltd is a 100% fully registered and privately-owned Vietnamese company. The company’s depth of experience and large infrastructure enable it to create unique itineraries with the operational confidence to fulfill client expectations.

Luxury Travel is Vietnam’s first luxury tour company and full service travel agency, experienced in providing special services and unique tourism products to luxury global travelers.

Despite the global economic crisis, luxury tourism in Vietnam remains stable while average daily per capita expenditure reaches up to $1000, Luxury Travel Company’s spokesman Tony Pham reported last month.

Among their needs are personal and spiritual growth through luxury adventure activities, community experiences and relaxation, among others, all this linked to exclusive and personalized attention.

Last year, the company served 10,000 satisfied customers. Among Luxury Travel’s clients are ambassadors, ministers, Deputy Prime Minister…and others. Luxury Travel has won numerous travel awards in Vietnam

“Tourists usually stay between seven or ten days and their per capita expenditure reaches up to $1,000 per day, which covers lodging, meals and transportation, and greatly contributes to the growth of the sector,” he revealed.

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Even Prisoners Need To Dream(cast) As Well

December 14th, 2009 admin No comments

- Finally, this is neither Sega nor DS related, and I don’t even know what the story behind it is, but I just find this, for whatever reason, totally amazing.

- As mentioned previously, in addition to the Dreamcast, the DS is getting plenty of use; aside from me caring for my Nintendog, MK is obsessed with Lost in Blue. Yesterday I mentioned how she asked me to help build a bed for her since it requires really fast and tricky use of the stylus, but now she insists on doing it herself.

It’s funny because Sega seems to be all over the news, so since I’,Replica Purses;m on the subject already…

- Most are completely unaware of the existence of the Sonic the Hedgehog arcade game that came out way back in ‘92 which was controlled by a trackerball (you know, that ball thing you used in Centipede). Well here’s a super-play vid of the game in action, and it looks pretty damn awesome actually.

- Here’s some French site that’s predicting that both NiGTHS and Burning Rangers are PSP bound. A Burning Rangers sequel on the other-hand I can firmly stand behind; I loved the game on the Saturn, but it was simply too much for the system at the time. That NiGHTS screenshot, for those who are wondering, is from a recent EyeToy mini-game.

- Sega has just trademarked four new names with “Virtua” in them. And no, Virtua Hamster 2 is not included I’m afraid.

- And I know we go through the same song and dance every year, but rumors of a next-gen iteration of NiGHTS is stronger than ever (and the Rev is the one system everyone’s guessing on). Personally, as diehard NiGHTS fanboy, I almost don’t want to see a sequel, since there’s no way in hell that it could ever equal the impact of the first game. Somethings are better left in the past… though I won’t mind a straight-forward port of the original with a graphical facelift, so long as no one touches the music.

Hey, Radilgy and Under Defeat (finally) arrived today! Thank God, I was starting to get worried… I never have much luck with mail it seems. Now all I have to worry about is the stuff Katie (and I think Dave as well) sent for my birthday last week.

- Going from the Dreamcast to the DS, I just found out from Jonnyram that the man behind Chibi Robo, Kenichi Nishi, is set to work on a new DS game called LOL DS! The funny thing is here is that Nishi he made Lack of Love, more commonly known as LOL, for the Dreamcast, which is this super esoteric adventure title that features the music of (and was even co-designed by?) Ryuichi Sakamoto, of Yellow Magic Orchestra fame.

- Gamestop reports that downloadable games aren’t just heading towards the Revolution but also the Xbox Live Arcade later this year. This obvious steals much of the thunder from Nintendo, but to be honest, I already love the idea of playing Ranger X on the 360 controller already.

- With E3 just around the corner, they’re also announcing a new game each day till the show. Thus far we have Virtua Tennis for the PS3 & 360 (it seems that Table Tennis might be some serious competition. I wouldn’t be surprised if Yakuza ends up being one of the big bombshells they wait till the end to reveal.

Perfect timing too, since I’ve been on a real Dreamcast kick as of late. I spent much of last night going through my library: Tech Romancer, Project Justice, Mars Matrix, Zero Gunner 2, and Typing of the Dead, of course.

- Plus, here’s a story of some inmate that’s pissed that the folks who run his prison has broken his Dreamcast.

- And some more footage from Sonic Xtreme was recently released. Check out the Red Sands level.

Speaking off, I just found out that Sega made another typing game utilizing Space Harrier. And while it does looks fairly neat, in the end, I’d much rather use fast and accurate typing skills to kill zombies instead of double ended dragons, I’m afraid.

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Two Reviews

December 3rd, 2009 admin No comments

,Replica Purses

and Two.

of the book “The Rest is Noise“:
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Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand ???more seeingly??? in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly.

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The Joy of Black Swans

December 3rd, 2009 admin No comments

Bruce Sterling writes about a talk by Nassim Taleb. And there is this:

Thus there are two kinds of experts. A souffl?? chef really is an expert and can be trusted. An economist is a pseudo-expert. “Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.” All you get from a Council of Economic Advisors is an illusion of control. Stock market analysts have proved to be worse than nothing.

I think in music we have two kinds of “hits”. The manufactured ones, where producer, money, marketing, promotion and connections do make a hit… and the black swans. NF was a black swan. It surprised everyone. It surprised the record-companies, who tried to find and sign similar artists/music, and it surprised other artists who imitated the sound. And what about Nevermind by Nirvana. After the appearance of that black swan, musicians were moving to Seattle as if they believed there was something in the air or in the water of Seattle that helped Kurt Cobain create that album.

The Joy of Black Swans | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
A “black swan,” Taleb explained, is an event which is 1) Hard to predict; 2) Highly consequential,Replica Purses; 3) Wrongly retro-predicted. We pretend we know why the big event happened, and so entrench our inability to deal with the next world-changing improbable event.

Don’t focus on probability. Focus on consequences. Black Swans will come. Prepare against the negative ones; be ready to soar with the positive ones.

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CD Burner

December 1st, 2009 admin No comments

When I burn a CD using Toast on my laptop, it will play in the other CD players in the house, but not in the kitchen…

So I investigated: my G4 PowerBook has a MATSHITA DVD-R drive, while my G4 (Dual 1.25) in the studio has a Toshiba DVD-R drive. My laptop runs Tiger and uses the latest Toast version while the studio computer runs 10.3.8 (I have no plans to switch during the next six months) and uses a 6. version that is a few months old.

Any CDs I burn using Toast in the studio play on every CD player in my house,Replica Purses, including the cheap JVC unit in my kitchen that has become my benchmark – if it plays in the kitchen it will play anywhere…

I think it has nothing to do with the software however, since yesterday I created a CD in Jam (so I can enter the ISRC code for each song), then I created a Disc Image of the CD to be burned, transfered that file to the studio Mac using a portable FireWire drive, imported the Disc Image to Toast and burned a CD. The CD plays in the kitchen.

Has anybody else noticed something similar? One CD or DVD drive being more compatible than others?

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Köln-Hamburg-Mainz

December 1st, 2009 admin No comments

On Flickr you can also find this photo of me playing in the Spiegelzelt (Mirror Tent) in Munich –,Replica Purses; by Gudrun and this photo Boris took inside the tent.

Kulturkirche in Köln

Kleiner Musiksaal in Hamburg

Frankfurter Hof in Mainz

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Spencer Theater

December 1st, 2009 admin No comments

Oh, and I should probably mention that Alto might be the only New Mexico show we are doing this year.

I would love to have a theater in Santa Fe, where I could perform regularly. Where I could hand-pick the other artists performing and where I could design the whole experience for the audience…. pipe-dream…

Check out the title-link. The theater put together a really nice page announcing our performance.

I am looking forward to playing in this beautiful theater! Damn, just look at these!! Ah, if I could only perform in a space like that for two or three months,Replica Purses, and have the audience travel there rather than us traveling…

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Freon-Free AC

December 1st, 2009 admin No comments

Three teenagers have come with an idea that would eliminate the use of Freon in automobile air-conditioning systems by relying on the Peltier effect. With their invention, Tyler Lyon, Daniel Winegar and Chad Thornley won the first-ever ‘Ricoh Sustainable Development Award’,Replica Purses; in May. Their device taps into the car’s electrical system, using fans to blow hot air through five Peltier chips and then releasing cold air.
(Via Treehugger)

Excellent. Don’t just be the future, create the future.

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Brush Guitar

November 30th, 2009 admin No comments

How beautifully said! At first I attacked my guitar,Replica Purses, tried to make it submit… but years later I woke up one day and she was a friend and I could submit to her.

What a beginner I am! Each time I try, I have to make friends again with the brush, paper and ink. Patience.

From an email I received. Change a few words and the note could be about playing guitar…
Some thoughts: third week into writing with a brush and ink… so hard! The tip of the brush must always be pointed and not loaded up too heavily with ink. Posture has to be perfect. Holding the paper down correctly takes effort. Remembering to breathe. Each stroke/style has to be carefully controlled and at the same time there needs to be enough freedom to make the movement fluid.

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Random Construct

November 30th, 2009 admin No comments

The author of the book Translucent Revolution uses the words transparent vs translucent,Replica Purses, and I think they would be useful here. While a human could certainly become transparent, or disappear, i.e. without an ego or personality – holy men in India are known to have achieved this – it might not be at all useful in our society… so, becoming translucent is the choice that makes sense. It means there is an ego, there is a personality but the human is aware that it is a random collection of stuff (likes, dislikes, preferences, opinions etc.) that can be adjusted when necessary.

Realizing that a personality is a random construct should enable us to let it go, but instead we often cling to it because we feel it is all we got…

Dealing with understanding the randomness of one’s personality is particular interesting for designers, artists and musicians – because we are valued exactly for our TASTE, our little collection of preferences… That private collection is what makes us sound a certain way if we are musicians, or what makes our designs or artwork look a certain way. And imagine how strange this is for a critic! While an artist can lose himself in his work sometimes and afterwards have no idea how or why I did that what does a critic do?

At 6:16 AM, Just Me said…
there was an article in national geographic eons ago that always stuck with me. it talked about memory and personality. as much as we think our personality is unique and the only one we’re capable of “owning” apparently amnesia victims who never regain their past memories will actually develop completely different personalities, different likes, dislikes, etc. so it raises the question: could we be different than who we are? how much of our personality is inherent in our brain and how much is affected by environment.

A personality is a random occurrence, built by Time and Ego on the basis of genetic inheritance and the environment. If you wipe out the memory of that personality, Time and Ego will work together to create a new personality. In fact, this little construct we call personality depends on so many random factors that it is hilarious how much we tend to hold on to it. We hold on to that personality more than we hold on to anything else… We say: this is me – take IT or leave IT! …when we should wisely leave IT ourselves…

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