text: No looking back for Karthikeyan on return to United States 12 November, 2012 Narain Karthikeyan wants to stay in F1 Nov.11 (Reuters) The last time that he competed in a United States Grand Prix, Narain Karthikeyan chalked up a Formula One first while a jeering Indianapolis crowd threw bottles at the racers and demanded their money back. Even if that infamous 2005 six-car race made him the first Indian F1 driver to score points, the 35-year-old would much rather focus on the future as he prepares for next week's return to America for the inaugural grand prix at the new Austin circuit in Texas. "I have no feeling about it," Karthikeyan, now with Spanish-based back-markers HRT, told Reuters when reminded of that farcical June afternoon of seven years ago. "I have nothing much to say really. "I don't think about it like that," he added when asked whether the race held any special place in his affections for at least allowing him to make history for his country by finishing fourth. "It was exceptional circumstances and we were told to do a job and we did it. "Everyone started the race…we didn't know before the race. it was pretty weird to see all of them going out with the warmup lap and back to the pits. Bridgestone had told us to race and we did," he recalled. The Indian was one of just six drivers who started the race, won comfortably by seven-time champion Michael Schumacher in a Ferrari, after all of the teams using Michelin tyres pulled out for safety reasons. The six Bridgestone-shod cars lapped in team formation for 73 laps before the chequered flag and the crowd was outraged on an afternoon that created a wave of negative publicity for a sport that had long sought to win over America. Karthikeyan, who raced for the now-defunct Jordan team in 2005, left the F1 grid at the end of that season to become a Williams test driver. The veteran did not return to the grid until 2011, by which time America was off the calendar. He has not come close to scoring a point since 2005. The first Indian driver to race in Formula One, Karthikeyan's record as the most successful from his country could last for decades to come but he knows that it does not stand up to any real scrutiny. "It was what it was. Maybe it wasn't good to happen in the States…but it's too far in the past now," he said of Indianapolis. F1 has not raced in the United States since 2007 and Austin, a vibrant city with a young student population, represents a new start with what is expected to be a very different atmosphere to the past. Karthikeyan has raced in America outside of F1, competing in the NASCAR truck series in 2010 and being voted by fans as the most popular driver, but a non-F1 return is not in his plans even if he loved the experience. "I doubt it very much. Once you get out of there it's very difficult to go back," said the man whose website proclaims him to be the "Fastest Indian in the world", having already shot down speculation that he was planning a move to Indy Cars. "These Indy Car rumours came about and I've strongly said no and that's my decision," said the Indian, whose place at HRT is not a given for 2013, despite the sponsorship he brings in. "I have very clear plans [of] what I want to do next year and I will focus on that and try and achieve them. "I would love to stay here and see how it shapes out next year…realistically this would be a good place to stay." Subbed by AJN. Tweet Related NewsPirelli purchases 2011 HRT F1 carScorpion F1 team could rise from HRT ashesDe la Rosa confirms F1 dream over for HRTImpossible to keep HRT going reveals SalaUnpaid supplier claims HRT F1 team in liquidationQinghua in talks with Caterham and MarussiaCuquerella admits HRT's F1 adventure definitely overHRT absent from 2013 F1 entry list released by FIAOut of work HRT mechanics in drunken brawl at factoryNo more Spanish team in F1 confirms De la Rosa aks this guy would never earn a single point his whole life if it was not for that race where every racer got points and even in that he came almost last those minardis were of anyways no use


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks finished a volatile week with a thud on Friday.
An underwhelming report on economic growth in China and the predictable return of eurozone worries drove the selling, which comes after two days of gains, including an especially strong bull run Thursday when all three major U.S. equity indices rose more than 1% and finished near the highs of the day.
Negative reactions to some high-profile earnings reports didn't help matters as financial bellwethers JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) both topped Wall Street's consensus profit view but saw their shares slump nearly 4%. Google's (GOOG) profit was above consensus as well but the company saw advertising pricing continue to weaken and was being criticized for a controversial two-for-one stock split plan.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 137 points, or 1%, to close at 12,849, just four points above the blue-chip index's low for the day. The S&P 500 fell 17 points, or 1.3%, to settle at 1370, led lower by banking sector losses after their strong run through the first quarter. Energy and materials were also among the biggest sector losers.The Nasdaq lost 44 points, or 1.5%, at 3011, as heavyweight Apple (AAPL) lost 3% to $605.03. Shares of the iPhone and iPad maker have been among the market's best performers all year, rising more than 50%, but the stock underperformed the broad market this week, losing 4.5%, and retreating after hitting a new all-time peak of $644 on Tuesday. For the week, the Dow fell 1.6%, the S&P 500 lost 2%, and the Nasdaq retreated 2.2%. Year-to-date, the indexes are still up 5.2%, 9.0%, and 15.6% respectively. The VIX, Wall Street's investor fear index, jumped 14% to 19.53. A reading above 20 is considered an indication of heightening distress. The VIX measures implied volatility through options pricing for the S&P 500.
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Easy Beer Batter Recipe
Apr 5, 2012 1:45 pm
Beer is the key to a light, crispy batter recipe
There are two important reasons beer batter is called beer batter, the obvious one being that it contains almost as much beer as flour. The second is that anything you batter and fry with it automatically pairs well with a pint of suds. Need a third reason? This recipe is so easy you could whip up a batch after 10 pints of suds.
While fish fillets are most commonly associated with this concoction, remember the last time you had fried pickle chips? You don't have to say it was at Hooter's, we already know. This batter recipe makes it possible to recreate most of that experience in the sanitized comfort of your own kitchen.
Servings: 2 cups batter (enough for about 1 1/2 pounds of fish)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 bottle beer of your choice (ales work very well)
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
- Combine flour and pepper in a large bowl.
- Slowly pour in beer, whisking constantly until smooth.
- Dip food in batter, allow excess to drip back into bowl and drop directly into deep-fryer.
- Fry for 2 minutes or until dark golden brown, then remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels or newspaper.
- Serve with homemade tartar sauce.
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Did you see us on ABC's Saturday Night Football?
On November 17th, the Oregon Ducks suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Stanford Cardinal. Stanford upset the Ducks winning by a 37 yard field goal in overtime. It was an unfortunate loss that was felt deeply by Duck fans everywhere as it derailed their path to the BCS Championship. We are sure that next year the Ducks will be back at it again, resuming their dogged pursuit of a BCS National Title, and continuing their meteoric rise to legendary college football status.
While the loss was somber, we couldn't help but be elated to see our own winery featured during the nationally televised primetime broadcast, with beautiful shots of the property, our facility, and our wine as well as some hefty endorsement from the hosts of the broadcast.
Watch the video above to see the clip of King Estate that was featured during the broadcast, it was a very proud moment for us at the winery, and we would love to share it with all of you.
People Say…
Welcome to the second edition of People say…. We've rounded up links to recent articles, blog posts, and social media mentions about King Estate, as well as subjects we find interesting. Have something you think we should share? Drop us a line on Facebook, tweet us @kingestate, or just send a message using the contact form. Here are the links for this edition of People say…
The People Have Spoken: King Estate is Eugene's Best Winery & Best Wedding Venue
King Estate stood out in the 4th Annual Register Guard Reader's Choice Awards. We are honored to have won the reader voted contest in two categories as Eugene's Best Local Winery and Best Wedding Venue. Make sure to check out the rest of the winners. We also pulled in second place for Eugene's Best Outdoor Dining option, not bad considering we are 20 miles out of town!
Earlier this year we also took home "Best Winery" in the Eugene Weekly's annual 'Best of Eugene'. They summed it up pretty well:
King Estate, with its pristine setting in the heart of the Willamette Valley's wine country provides the perfect spot to sample its array of masterful wine. One can sit and enjoy a glass and a gourmet meal overlooking the certified organic vineyard in a most picturesque setting. This year the vineyard celebrates its twentieth anniversary and continues to produce some of the most exceptional wines with grapes grown in its own vineyard as well as from various other Northwest regions. King Estate's creations illustrate time and again why the Northwest is known for its wine.
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Welcome to the first edition of People say…. A post in which we round up links to recent articles, blog posts, and occasionally social media mentions for King Estate or about subjects we find interesting. Have something you think we should share? Drop us a line on facebook, tweet us @kingestate, or just send a message using the contact form. In this edition we have six links from four sources, including an article from The New York Times about Oregon Chardonnay.


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The latest World of Warcraft novel, Wolfheart, is now hitting bookstores everywhere. Focusing on a turf war between the Night Elves and the Orcs, the book sees the return of some much loved characters including Jarod Shadowsong and his sister Maiev, as well as a closer look into the mind of Varian Wrynn and his relationship with the Worgen of Gilneas. Last week, we sat down to talk to it's author, fantasy writer Richard A. Knaak about the writing process, what it's like to work with Blizzard's loremasters and how he feels about his losing one of his favourite characters.
Ten Ton Hammer: So how did you start about writing World of Warcraft books for Blizzard?
Richard A Knaak: In the beginning they actually approached me; I'd written several things in the past, including for a series called Dragonlance and they were very familiar with my work, especially The Legend of Huma. Apparently, several of the people at Blizzard had grown up reading my work and so, basically, I'd raised my own employers! They asked me if I'd be willing to do some novels in the worlds that they were working with, Warcraft and Diablo. I went and took a look at those worlds and they were so rich in depth and I was happy to do something in them. Ever since then we've had a really good experience with each other.
Ten Ton Hammer: Do you pitch an idea to them or do they come to you?
Richard: What happens is, usually, they will pick a subject that they want to write about that's going to be important to the game and they'll ask me if it's something I'd be interested in and it usually is. They give me a notion of what they're looking for and then I come back with a synopsis that expands on all of that. Then they go through it and will pick up on things that I've done and say "Yes, we want to expand on those." They'll also suggest other things which come up from what they've seen and this'll go back and forth a few times until we hammer out a synopsis that we both feel very, very happy about. There are about three or four people who I normally deal with on that end, who are very good and dedicated to the storylines.
Ten Ton Hammer: Would you say Blizzard give you free reign then?
Richard: I would say for a work for hire situation, which is what this is, I'd say they give me very good reign. I always like to stay true to what they want and we have an excellent lore staff but things do get missed now and then, you can't help that. But they try to be very careful with things and stay on top of it at all times. Sometimes there are changes which have to be made because the game has expanded so much from Orcs and Humans. Sometimes there are routes they want to go but didn't realise they wanted to originally so we do what we can to make sure everything fits together and flows nicely.
Ten Ton Hammer: So how long did it take you to write Wolfheart?
Richard: I'm usually working on a couple of different projects at the same time because, obviously, it's going to take them quite a bit of time, especially when I have to pass things through them. If I had to condense it down, probably anywhere from four to eight months, while I'm working on other things at the same time. Then there's the editing process that they do as well. Blizzard are very particular and they've actually found little things, even towards the end of the editing process. So, all the way to the very end we're adjusting things and tweaking for people's enjoyment.


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This year's Tour de France is the 99th edition of a bicycle race that is rich in meaning and symbolism for the French nation. Christopher S. Thompson is professor of history at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and author of a widely acclaimed cultural history of the Tour de France. He discusses how the race came about in an era of rising nationalism and how the route itself was loaded with political meaning. Professor Thompson argues the race projected carefully constructed role models and entrenched traditional gender archetypes. More recently, controversies over doping in cycle sport can be linked to concerns about recreational drug use in wider society.
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OGSE original soundtrackJun 16, 2014 Music 6 comments
While you waiting for release of 0.6.9.3, I've prepared a small present to you. This is the digital single release of OGSE title music themes - gloomy...
First idea which brought our mod to life was to recreate the game conception that we had waited for instead of the one we've got, as the original game release turned out to be crippled in content and gameplay features. So we, along with many other STALKER fans, were eager to make it closer to our expectations. OGSE mod was founded in 2008 as a small add-on to the well known OGSM mod, created by a small group of STALKER enthusiasts, and within the following years it has grown into a huge global mod, with lots of exclusive features and advanced gameplay, having totally surpassed its ancestor. Nowadays the OGSE mod has no shared code with the OGSM, and it's team consists of 17 developers and 15 beta-testers.
Our goals are:
1. Rich gameplay with high replayability.
2. Perfect stability
3. Perfect image quality with no loss in game performance.
These are very high goals to be combined in one mod, so our development process takes pretty much time, lots of it being spent on bugfixes and code optimization. Our mod doesn't contain that huge amount of features as e.g. the "Solyanka", but it is well balanced, highly technologically advanced, remarkably stable and free of logical and storyline contradictions. We also offer a good online support for our players.
Some time we found out that our mod was popular even with foreign community - players were spending a lot of time installing OGSE 0692 on World-wide version of the game, and that is quite a non-trivial task, by the way. Even a rough translation was made by some enthusiasts. So it was decided to help the community and an official translation project was initiated. The translation is currently completed, and we are released the official English version of OGSE 0692.
Version 0693 will be released in both Russian and English concurrently, but English release can take some time to appear after the Russian one - the amounts of text in mod are huge and it's take a significant amounts of time to translate it all properly.
We also must inform our players what we are canceled our OGSE 07 development on Clear Sky game engine, due to the fact what all goals we set on 07 are already integrated in currently developed 0693 version. Most likely OGSE 0693 will be the last release of OGSE, but not the last project of OGSE Team, of course. More details are to follow in articles later.
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Keep in mind that this information is not final, so it's subject to change by the time of the mod official release.
Windows XP - at least 3 GB of RAM
Windows 7 x64 - at least 4 GB of RAM
Stable operation of the mod for configurations with Windows XP and less than 3 GB of RAM, as well as Windows 7 x86 with ANY amount of RAM is IMPOSSIBLE, so technical support aren't covering such configurations; 90% of all the problems and CTDs on such configurations are associated with a lack of memory. It is well known and repeatedly confirmed by testing the mod in the development process. So after 0.6.9.3 will be released, please, make sure that your system meets the mod requirements to the amount of memory before reporting some problem. Windows 8 performance testing has not taken place yet, but in general terms the memory requirements of Windows 8 are similar to her predecessor, Windows 7.
System requirements below are estimated under original game's graphic effects set at maximum. With total turn-off of all additional effects video card requirements comply with the original game using full dynamic lighting (R2 render). While working on the 0693 static render (R1) WAS COMPLETELY REMOVED, so now game always starts in the dynamic lighting mode. Note that playing with additional effects requires a graphics card of modern architecture with lots of shader processors.
Attention! The following system requirements are a rough estimate, and may be somewhat overstated. Closer to the release date we'll perform benchmarking on specific test configurations and report on the obtained results.
To play without additional rendering effects or on the minimum settings of additional effects in resolutions up to 1440x900: Intel Core i3-4130 or AMD FX-4100 (or A10-6800K)
To play on minimum or medium settings of additional effects in resolutions up to 1440x900: Intel Core i3- 4130 or AMD FX-4100 (or A10-6800K)
To play on medium or high settings of additional effects in resolutions up to 1440x900: Intel Core i5-3570K or AMD FX-8320
To play on high settings of additional effects in resolutions up to Full HD and higher: Intel Core i7-4770 or AMD FX-8350
To play without additional rendering effects or on the minimum settings of additional effects in resolutions up to 1440x900: AMD Radeon HD3850 or nVidia GeForce 9600GT
To play on minimum or medium settings of additional effects in resolutions up to 1440x900: AMD Radeon HD4870 or nVidia GeForce GTX 260
To play on medium or high settings of additional effects in resolutions up to 1440x900: AMD Radeon HD5870 or nVidia GeForce GTX 480
To play on high settings of additional effects in resolutions up to Full HD and higher: AMD Radeon HD7970 or GeForce GTX 670
Note that powerful graphics cards require powerful processors, so the combination of powerful graphics card suitable for playing at high settings with low-end processor suitable only for playing on low settings will create a bottleneck for performance and you can play comfortably on this combination only on settings, for which your processor is suitable, that is, on low settings. In addition, in any case you can customize the advanced graphics settings of the game individually to best fit for your system, turning on or off any effects (all settings are now provided with clear descriptions of their impact on image quality and performance), so the system requirements are approximate.
12 GB total for the original game and installed modification.
- Microsoft Visual C + + 2005 redist;
- Microsoft. NET Framework 3.51 redist;
- DirectX 9 June 2010 redist.
Note: All this effects don't require any DirectX 10 or DirectX 11 support by hardware, it's all simple old good DirectX 9.
- Shadow of the player (full dynamic shadows from all light sources, not fake ones as on the static render)
- Bloodmarks of the bullet hits on the bodies of humans and monsters.
- Ability to adjust the density and range of grass rendering.
- Ability to turn on shadows cast by grass.
- Antialiasing. Two types are available - FXAA (Fast Approximate AntiAliasing) and SMAA (Subpixel Morphological AntiAliasing), first is faster, second is higher quality, both can significantly improve the image quality.
- Correct shadows cast by trees and landscape from the sun, with a length corresponding to the actual angle of sunlight.
- Volumetric light rays onto the dust particles in the air (aka godrays), you can choose two types: from Crysis or from STALKER: Clear Sky. The second option seems more reliable, but also has a greater performance hit.
- Soft water edges - now the water at the edge of lakes and swamps does not look like rough plane.
- Soft particles - particle effects such as smoke, dust, fog, etc. now have no sharp edges that manifest themselves in particle interaction with the geometry of level.
- Soft shadow edges.
- Global illumination - a technology that allows the calculation of objects luminosity with account of their mutual shading and shadows from small geometry details. Creates a more plausible picture of lighting with penumbras. Two different algorithms are available, SSDO and HBAO.
- Improved surfaces detalization using the Steep parallax mapping algorithm. This algorithm uses ray tracing to calculate bumps instead of height maps, which gives a more realistic and qualitative effect.
- The effects of eyes focusing and the depth of the scene when aiming, reloading and looking at close and distant objects.
- Lamps glows (flares).
- Dirt on the lens.
- Raindrops on helmet or mask glass of the player.
- Dynamic puddles from the rain.
- Wet surfaces during rain.
- Volumetric lights for some lamps.
- Plausible reflection on the water and wet pavement.
- Volumetric fog.
- The increase in the sharpness of the image.
- Real collimator sights on the weapons, with self-luminous aiming mark visible in any light conditions.
- The effects of being under water (work in progress)
- In scripting system we've implemented the unique debugging system for catching script binders deadlocks, which completely eliminates situations with a-life hanging and provides detailed information on the sequence of a module failures and calls in them, that allows us to quickly troubleshoot any problems.
- Liquidation of the original bug with armor bullet protection inoperability. Due to this bug in the original game armor did not give any ballistic protection at all, and even worse, with higher armor's bullet protection, more damage is dealt to the player from firearms.
- We've made entirely new, unique storage system for in-game data and variables, which provides virtually unlimited storage space that allows developers to not cross the limits when creating a lot of quests.
- Redesigned and improved system of widescreen support for game interface - no more stretching textures, UI elements, etc.
- Fixed original game CTDs with e_parent && e_entity error logs, when you kill an NPC in the process of reloading his weapon.
- Added an infrastructure to equip weapons with interchangeable scopes, underbarrel shotguns and other equipment. Unfortunately, we were not able to integrate appropriately such weapons of sane quality within a reasonable time in the game, but the entire system is fully available for use by developers of mod's additions.
- Huge refactoring and optimization of the script code (a critical places was completely rewritten), which resulted in even greater operating stability than in version 0.6.9.2.
- The engine is completely self-contained and DRM-free, but the original game files are still needed for the mod.
- The new system of quick and stored timers.
- Automatic connection of scripting modules with error handling.
- Introduced new handy tools for development and testing - the in-game debugging information collection system, the editor of shapes, etc.
- Completely reworked netpackets system, easy to use and secure.
- Fully corrected all the possible problems with the states manager that caused NPC to hang when changing behavioral patterns.
- All AI behavior schemes were modified, improved, and all possible conflicts between them were eliminated.
- Implemented unique armor effects, not working in the original game, such as wound healing, hemostasis, hunger, fatigue.
- Implemented exoskeletons worn over the armor, they can be put on almost any armor except scientific suits (air regeneration system on theirs back prevents this) and heavy military armor (too bulky).
- Fixed bug with incorrect change of protagonist's visual.
- Night vision goggles (NVG) are now wearable equipment and sold separately from the armor.
- Implemented the thermal imagery device.
- Implemented separate slots for all equipment (knife, detector, biosensors, helmet or mask, NVG).
- Advanced light sources, including outdoor lighting lamps and spotlights with the possibility of scripting control (on / off by schedule, etc.).
- Fixed original game's bug with impossibility to switch type of grenades you are holding.
- Fix original game's bug with NPCs falling in a state of panic, from which they can't get out (in situations of weapon loss for example).
- Interception of keyboard keys - now any Scripting action can be assigned to any key that allows you to conveniently control any appliances, devices and instruments. Widely used in our modification.
- Central unified convenient script spawn base.
- A new engine weather system randomizing weather cycles (still in progress).
- Revised weapons manager.
- Revised and fixed the NPCs danger reaction system, eliminated problems of the original game with oversized reaction to insignificant risk and self-scaring, followed by a prolonged search for the source of danger. Implemented a reaction to the discovery of friendly NPCs corpses.
- Added a lot of unique hand-made quests. Many new devices and items are used in these quests, including readable books, safes with rotating knob locks, appliances, jukebox, etc.
- Supplemented and extended storyline.
- Added guides to move quickly through already visited locations.
- Adapted module of offline a-life from AMK (optional and can be switched off) with generated news based on the offline events.
- Modified and improved the NPCs and companion outfit change scheme.
- Redesigned anomalies traversal algorithm using double restriction-scripted logic. Dynamic anomalies spawn system made to eliminate the anomalies on fixed routes of quest characters and in transition zones.
- Changed the sleep system, its interface and scripting part. You cannot sleep under the rain, you need to be in shelter. Sleeping in the open area in the absence of a friendly NPC or companion nearby may end fatally in an attack on a sleeping protagonist.
- Implemented the control system of population in the Zone, uncontrolled endless respawn is now impossible.
- Seriously modified cars, its physics, interface and interaction with them. Now it is necessary to refuel them, camera angles are corrected, the grass on the locations no longer passes through the car model, and not displayed in its interior. Also, you can ride in the car with a companion.
- Redesigned controlled APC, its control and guidance system. When riding on it with a companion he can help fire the guns, taking over the management and guidance of the shooting. It is also possible to sleep and wait for a blow-out to pass inside the APC.
- During the blow-out, all the electronics are shutting down, including night vision goggles and electronics of APC.
- Refined effects of monsters on protagonist.
- Hand-held machine guns and portable machine gun turrets (you can take a stationary machine gun with you, install it and fire).
- New biosensors system no more requires user to wear on a belt decaying parts of corpses - all recognition patterns are now added by a firmware packages.
- Mini games with quest characters.
- New autodoc with graphical interface, and charging cartridges instead of using drugs from player's inventory.
- A new system of dynamic campfires, reacts the same way to the NPCs and to the protagonist.
- Implemented effects of critical hits for the main character - player can drop the weapon from the hands, can take heavy headshots etc. (this option can be disabled).
- The effects of burning of NPCs and monsters when you are using a flamethrower on them, new realistic flame effects for flamethrower, the usage of a flamethrower by the companion and NPCs.
- Revised slow treatment module and effects of addiction to the action of drugs, implemented new drugs.
- Improved system of shelters from the emission, an icon appears while you in the shelter.
- Redesigned minigun, its model, sounds, animation, etc. Pre-roll of barrels works now.
- Random awards for typical quests with the ability to choose your reward.
- Randomly filling stashes.
- A new revised blow-out (work in progress).
- Redesigned scheme of looting the bodies with new animations and comments on the death.
- New version of the "Companions" scheme - it's improved and carefully modified. With a companion, you can now easily and conveniently, without delay, move between locations, ride in the car, and there is a selector of weapon type implemented. Companions are now provided with improved scripting combat intelligence, and better fighting with experience grows.
- Improved the protagonist's zombied state.
- Improved camps scheme so now NPCs do not fight for a place near the fire, etc.
- New scripting combat AI to replace original AI - with maneuvering, different behaviors, using shelters and arranging ambushes. With the growing complexity proportional to the experience of NPCs.
- All locations redesigned - we've corrected all of the remainder of the original unfinished geometry, added a new, expanded locations, equipped them with three-dimensional panoramas around (it creates the effect of an infinite world), completely redone AI-Net on the locations, corrected all the holes in it and its multiple overlays (sandwiches) in some places.
- Added new locations with the population and quests.
At this point in the development these parts of modification remain requiring finishing:
- Some quests
- Some additions of storyline
- The weather system (engine part)
- Wildlife on locations (will be made after the completion of quests)
- Balance of prices and assortments of traders
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So that's the companions. This behavior scheme allows you to invite NPC as a companion and together explore the Zone. Idea of reconstructing this scheme...
Should I expect a release by the end of the year, or do you still have extensive testing and bugfixing/tweaking?
We hope that realease will be at the end of this year. But it will be released in Russian. Our translator had left us long ago. So there's the problem with translation into English. Google can't translate nothing.
Nooooooooooo!!! D:
Time to learn Russian I guess.
Will we ever see an English release, then?
otherwise i'll have to stick to stalkersoup, OGSE 6.9.2, and Doom's MM. :(
>> Will we ever see an English release, then?
Only if somebody will take this task.
For now - not. Some of the quests are under development.
perhaps you could release the text to the ones that are finished to have them translated, that way by the time you finish those in-development quests those will be done and there will be far less left to translate when 6.9.3 is finished?
I think i'd like to learn russian. I am already learning the cyrillic alphabet, i'll get the mod in russian and see what i can do (rephrasing translated sentences will be a good start)
I have no idea how it works but I would gladly chip in and curate rough Google translations if that's a way to do it.
Schtrelok, that would be only half the job. You also have to roam through all the game's files to find where are these last untranslated sentences hidden..
So we need like a code-stalker then, huh? I wish I was one. What's easier, learning Russian or learning to code? XD
Nope. This version will be translation friendly, if I may tell it so :) All you need to translate is in separate XML files. But we need experienced translator or else no one understand anything.
I'd like to try please :) Did you have a plan in place for work division or was it a one-guy kinda job? E.g. Could I translate the text associated with Wolfs questlines while someone else does Sidorovichs and someone else yet does the inventory descriptions etc.? I mean, I'd love to help but I have no real grasp of the size of such a project.
That would be good since depending on who translates, the NPC would have different personalities and languages.
hi, why cant you just release this mod as a gamedata folder like other mods,ppl can then tweek files as they wish,is a great mod but at present too hard
Because the game engine is working faster with db* archives (up to 10%). And you can always unpack these archives. It's not a rocket science.
Also will yantar have more things to do? I always thought (minus the obvious underground lab) that there was'nt enough to do in yantar.
There will be :)
Sucks to hear that you are cutting the weapon list by almost half (one of the main reasons I play stalker is because of all the juicy guns and other sweets) but I can probably see why... polish n all that gibberish.
I dont get the ppl who complain that the guns are not realistic enough blah blah... more guns = more toys to play with imo.
Someone best get started on making a guns mod for this mod :)
STALKER is not a pure shooter, it's research and survive game. And our mod is always expanding this side of STALKER with every new version. So you don't need too much weapon. Saiga is your main weapon.
Saiga is for complete players. :D
I should seriously do a TOZ-34 run. Get the TOZ-34 asap, then not use anything else other than it throughout the whole game (Except in the arena or where the game requires you use a different weapon)
Hum, they cut half the weapons of their previous mod, there will still be way more than in vanilla.
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Are you interested in starting a freelance writing career? Trying to figure out where to start can be one of the biggest challenges aspiring freelance writers face. To help point you in the right direction, I've put together a list of resources for freelance writers -- tools to help you get started, build a network, learn from freelance writing colleagues, find freelance writing jobs, and more.
Here are 101 resources for freelance writers, whether you're just starting out or you're looking to find new freelance writing opportunities to grow your business.
While most of the writing resources listed below are free, I did include a few paid options that I felt were well worth the cost, including some freelance writing books.
Disclaimer: Several of my resources here at All Indie Writers have been included. Obviously I'm affiliated with those resources wherever you see this site's name mentioned.
Freelance Writing Blogs
Here are 20 freelance writing blogs that I'd recommend you start with (although some don't cover freelance writing exclusively). They provide a wealth of articles and advice on various aspects of building and managing a freelance writing career.
- About Freelance Writing
- About.com Freelance Writing
- All Indie Writers
- Be a Freelance Blogger
- Dear Dr. Freelance
- Fab Freelance Writing
- Freelance Folder
- Freelancer's Union
- Get Paid to Write Online
- Productive Writers
- The Renegade Writer
- The Urban Muse
- The Well-Fed Writer
- The Write Life
- The Writing Realm
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- Write to Done
- Writing Thoughts
Writing Forums
Joining writing forums can be a great way to meet new people. After all, freelance writing can be a solitary line of work. Consider these writing forums to build your network and ask questions of your colleagues.
- About.com Freelance Writing Forum
- About Writing Squared
- Absolute Write Forum
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Writer's Markets
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- All Indie Writers' Writer's Market Directory
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- All Indie Writers' Freelance Writing Job Board
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Books for Freelance Writers
If you're looking for some deeper reading before you jump into a freelance writing career, these books can each serve as a great starting place.
- Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer -- by Jenna Glatzer
- The Freelancer's Bible -- by Sara Horowitz
- The Money Book for Freelancers, part-Timers, and the Self-Employed -- by Joseph D'Agnese and Denise Kiernan
- The Renegade Writer -- by Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell
- The Renegade Writer's Query Letters That Rock -- by Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell
- The Wealthy Freelancer -- by Steve Slaunwhite, Pete Savage, and Ed Gandia
- The Wealthy Writer -- by Michael Meanwell
- The Well-Fed Writer -- by Peter Bowerman
Social Media Tools for Freelance Writers
One of the best ways to get your name out there professionally these days to is to effectively harness the power of social media to build your network. Here are some social media tools that can help you get started -- from social networks to online collaboration tools.
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If you want to improve your writing and self-editing, here are some tools that might help. For example, you'll find free word processors and online editing tools.
Apps for Freelance Writers
Here are some Android and iPhone apps for freelance writers which make it even easier to work on-the-go.
Android Apps for Writers
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- Dropbox
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- Olive Office Premium
- Pomodoro Tracker
- Swype (for it's great voice-to-text abilities)
- Tasks N Todos
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Not sure where to find credible information for your next story? Need to find an expert source for an interview? Then check out these research tools and other resources for writers.
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It's a good idea for any freelance writer to have a professional website. If you aren't sure where to start, give these resources a try.
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- Google Webmaster Tools -- It helps you identify problems (like dead URLs) on your website.
- ThemeForest -- This is an Envato marketplace where you can find premium Web templates and blog themes.
- WordPress (self-hosted)
- WordPress Theme Repository -- Access free themes for WordPress.
Online Tools and Calculators
Here are some of my own free online templates, worksheets, and calculators that you can use when starting (or growing) your freelance writing business.
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- Freelance Project Hourly Rate Calculator -- Find out how much you really earned per hour on a project.
- Keyword Density Analyzer -- Tailored specifically for writers, this tool helps you keep both SEO and readability in mind.
- One Page Business Plan Template
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- One Page Project Plan Template
- SWOT Analysis Worksheet
- Monthly Marketing Calendar
Design Tools for Writers
Whether you're looking for design resources to assist you with a client project or software to simplify design elements of your writing work, give these resources a try.
- Canva -- This is my new favorite image creation tool for my own, and clients', blog posts.
- Flickr -- A good source for free photos to illustrate your articles. Just remember to review each photo's license
- GIMP -- Free image editing software
- GraphicRiver -- Templates for business and client projects (like brochures, newsletters, and your business cards)
- Scribus -- Open source desktop publishing software
This certainly isn't an all-encompassing list. If you can think of a category I didn't cover here that you'd like resources for, please let me know and I'll consider putting them together for you in another post.
Note: This post was originally published on November 20, 2012. The list was updated and nearly doubled in size on its currently-listed publication date.
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Awesome list, Jenn. I will be bookmarking this. I'm familiar with many of these, but there are a couple of new ones and it's sooo nice to have this all in one place.
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Thanks Jenn, for the double "Well-Fed Writer" plug (book and blog)! Sincerely appreciate it.
And just a reminder as well about my complimentary monthly ezine focused on commercial writing, "The Well-Fed E-PUB," 10 years old this past May. Folks can subscribe on any page of The Well-Fed Writer site.
Thanks for a great list with a lot of solid resources.
Have a great Thanksgiving! I know I'm thankful to be a freelancer (19 years this January).
This is an AWESOME list of resources! I was just looking for forums and I love a recommended list of books. Write on!
A real jeeper – thanks, Jenn!
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Jenn, excellent resource of resources!
The research resources are especially helpful. Thanks!
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Thanks for including me, Jenn! Great list all the way around. There are some favorites on it as well as some new ones.
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Thanks for the info: Another good book to check out: The Moonlighter's Guide To Online Writing For Immediate Income by Connie
Thank you, Jennifer! It's so nice to have all of this information in one handy place!
Wow! Thanks for including my blog on this list, Jenn. That's really exciting for me!
A few other resources I personally recommend:
-Be a Freelance Blogger community forums
-Write Your Way Out of the Rat Race…And Step Into a Career You Love (an eBook for people looking to quit their jobs and start freelance writing)
-Make a Living Writing blog (I'm really surprised you didn't include this one)
This is a great list of resources! I love that you've included things like apps and freelance rate calculators.
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What a great list! I'm hanging on to this one. I signed up for Canva a while back, but I haven't used it yet. With your seal of approval, it's worth looking into more closely
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Thanks for this goldmine of information, Jen!
This list is Godsend! More power!!
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If you're on a social networking site, chances are you have less than 100 friends. If you have thousands, you're not only in the minority, but you're probably male.
According to a large study of people with at least one friend on a social networking site, men have more friends than women. Men and women also seem to be motivated by different values. That's the conclusion of a study by Rapleaf of 30.74 million social networkers.
There are some interesting patterns about how the number of friends we have and why. This may not come as a surprise – overall men are more focused on acquiring "friends" than building relationships with them. Women spend more time on social network sites but aren't as likely to have more than 1,000 friends.
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Edward Clay Cole, 87, of Madisonville, went home to be with the Lord at 9:59 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, 2014, surrounded by his loved ones at Starr Regional Medical Center in Athens.
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I am booking a stay in Vienna in the first week of March 2015, and notice most of the hotels are fully booked or have higher prices during 4 to 7 March. What will be happening in Vienna during this period (4-7 March 2015) ?
I'm visiting Vienna for Dec 26-30 and will need to buy a violin case there. Could you please suggest any music instruments store with the variety of choice which will work for those days?
We are a group of three students / recent graduates in our early twenties, traveling through Europe over the coming months. We will be in Vienna for three nights over the New Year period (30th dec - 2nd jan), more by chance than design - although it does look like a fun place for it! We're all on a bit of a budget, so the many galas/concerts aren't really on the cards. The New Year's Eve Trail looks good, and it seems like the streets will be flooded with people and there will be fireworks etc.
My question is: where are the good places to drink and bring in the new year in the evening for a young group such as ours? And particularly after midnight - will we be fine just going to different bars/clubs or do we need to be looking into buying tickets for specific nye events?
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We will arrive on the evening of the 22nd of Dec and made an itinerary of visiting xmas markets and sightseeing. We know that this is a family holiday, will there be any restaurants and cafes open on xmas eve, xmas day and boxing day? Will there be anything to do during those days? We leave early on the 27th.
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"The days of Rambo are over," says Maj. Gen. Sacolick of the impending changes to the military.
Military plans would put women in most combat jobs
Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines.
West Point commander criticized
A report concludes the top administrator at the academy misused his position and resources.
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The Army relieves Joseph Miley of his duties after a five-month sexual-misconduct investigation.
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Maj. Gen. Michael Harrison, head of U.S. Army Japan, is the latest top military commander let go.
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The back-and-forth is part of a high-stakes fight over the Army's multibillion-dollar system.
Fort Hood suspect to defend himself
The Army psychiatrist hints that he will try to justify the 2009 massacre in the upcoming trial.
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Beginning with a comparison between the great German photographer August Sander and the equally great American photographer, Walker Evans, this talk will move on to an analysis of the relation between race and class in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. Its central questions will be about how social structure is understood, how revolutionary change in that structure is understood, and how the aesthetic is imagined to function in understanding that change. An American literary theorist and author, Michaels is a Professor in the Department of English, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Walter Benn Michaels is an American literary theorist and the author of Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism (1995) and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2004). Michaels's work has generated a set of arguments and questions around a host of issues that are central to literary studies: problems of culture and race, identities national and personal, the difference between memory and history, disagreement and difference, and meaning and intention in interpretation.
He is just completing a project, The Shape of the Signifier, on literary and theoretical writing since 1967. His new project - its working title is "The Beauty of a Social Problem" - will be about art and inequality between WWI and WWII, and his teaching over the next few years will probably focus on this period while continuing to engage the issues raised by some more recent texts.
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Out of 26 million Texans, you may have an idea to change the world. You may have had several ideas to change the world. But only a tiny minority of you pushed through the U.S. Patent office from application to successful patent. We've seen Texans change the world many times over. Jack Kilby did it with Texas Instruments in 1958 with the integrated circuit, causing the start of the digital revolution, which, in part, is why you can read these words over your electronic device.
Over the last few years, Texas Business has brought its feature: Texas Business Patent of the Day. This list is of the ones that were either extremely clever, odd or strange. One thing becomes apparent from these patents and the patent that runs daily in Texas Business—Texans have a unique mind set.
Though the history of the Corn Dog is disputed, the State Fair of Texas claims to have introduced the Corny Dog sometime between 1938 and 1942. As a paean to that invention that now sits in the freezer section of every grocery store in the southwest, here are the fried foods the State Fair of Texas has introduced, or tried to introduce, in the last seven years.
Dead Texas musicians live on every time you hear their songs. Their songs play everywhere, so the dead Texas musicians appear to be immortal. Here's the short list.
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Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—Bristow Group Inc., a provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry, announced that Edward Chipman (Chip) Earle will join the company as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary effective July 30, 2012.
Earle comes to the Company with more than ten years of legal experience; six in the energy industry. Before joining Bristow, he served as assistant vice president, Global Legal, with Transocean Ltd., where he managed the worldwide operations legal team.
In this role, Earle was a member of the senior legal leadership team and advised executive management and the board of directors on legal issues related to the strategic and commercial aspects of joint ventures and other legal operations matters. He also served in the roles of general counsel for Transocean's Europe and Africa business unit as well as associate general counsel and corporate secretary. While working at Transocean, Earle lived in several locations including Houston, Grand Cayman, Paris and Geneva. Prior to Transocean, he was employed at Baker Botts LLP in Houston as a corporate and securities lawyer.
Earle started his legal career in Austin as a corporate and securities associate with the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Earle received a master's degree in business administration and a law degree from the University of Texas.
In his new role, Earle will serve on Bristow's senior management team responsible for global legal operations, compliance and internal audit.
"We are delighted to have an individual with Chip's exceptional background and global business acumen join our team and I am sure that he will immediately contribute to the execution of our strategy and plans," said Bristow Group chief executive William E. Chiles in a prepared statement. "His international and commercial experience with customer contractual and service agreements, combined with his background in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, U.S. securities matters and capital markets, is expected to be a major asset and we look forward to Chip contributing greatly to the Bristow team."
Bristow Group Inc. is a provider of helicopter services to the worldwide offshore energy industry based on the number of aircraft operated. Through its subsidiaries, affiliates and joint ventures, the company has transportation operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, and in most of the other major offshore oil and gas producing regions of the world, including Alaska, Australia, Nigeria, Russia and Trinidad.
The Texas News Scrawl is a handy reference to stories Texas Business recommends from other news sources. Some of the stories that Texas Business currently suggests include: Texas regulators not aware of potential CFTC manipulation probe, Irving spends incentive dollars to lure two corporate headquarters and almost 2,000 jobs; Hotels, restaurant operators prep for record Final Four; Star-Telegram presses roll one last time; Robert Rodriguez breathes new life into an old vampire favorite; ClubCorp buys Prestonwood Country Club in Dallas and Plano; Office Depot overcharged Dallas by up to $3.6 million, city auditor finds; Texas power market monitor resigns amid unresolved reform debate; and more.