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Riza Abbasi, Riza yi-Abbasi or Reza-e Abbasi, رضا عباسی in Persian, usually "Riza" or Reza Abbasi also Aqa Riza (but see below) or Āqā Riżā Kāshānī (c. 1565–1635) was the leading Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I. He is considered to be the last great master of the Persian miniature, best known for his single miniatures for muraqqa or albums, especially single figures of beautiful youths. Reza was possibly born in Kashan, where his father, the miniature artist Ali Asghar, is recorded as having worked in the atelier of the governor, Prince Ibrahim Mirza. Unlike most earlier Persian artists, he typically signed his work, often giving dates and other details as well, though there are many pieces with signatures that scholars now reject. He may have worked on the ambitious, but incomplete Shahnameh, now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. A much later copy of the work, from 1628, at the end of Abbas' reign and rendered in a very different style, may also be his. It is now in the British Library (MS Additional 27258). His first dated drawing is from 1601, in the Topkapi Palace. A book miniature of 1601-2 in the National Library of Russia has been attributed to him; the only other miniature in the book is probably by his father. He is generally attributed with the 19 miniatures in a Khusraw and Shirin of 1631-32, although their quality has been criticised. Sheila Canby's 1996 monograph accepts 128 miniatures and drawings as by Riza, or probably so, and lists as "Rejected" or "Uncertain Attributions" a further 109 that have been ascribed to him at some point. Today, his works can be found in Tehran in the Reza Abbasi Museum and in the library at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. They can also be found in several western museums, such as the Smithsonian, where the Freer Gallery of Art has an album of works by him and pupils,the British Museum, Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Abbasi

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Qualcomm's March into the Gaming Marketby Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/3/2011 12:57 PM EST
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FITCamaro - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkDedicated consoles will be around for a long time. Sorry but OnLive doesn't appeal to everyone. It also is in 720p with medium details and depends on a fast internet connection.
More likely we'll lose disk based games long before cloud based gaming really starts to take hold. I'd put it at at least 20 years. Reply
arnavvdesai - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkthe graphic capabilities are still not close. By the time 360 capabilities arrive, consoles should have moved to something really fast & crazy. Problem is whether game companies are willing to invest to develop those kinda games. Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkthe other thing to realize is when they say "360 level graphics" they mean at native resolution. Not at 1080p. Don't forget input lag due to the low power wireless antenna. Yeah, one day maybe we'll all just have one device, with a home doc and work doc and a car doc. Probably multiple docs for home. But that is at least 10 years out. For gamers, it's all about PC's and for the less involved Consoles. I do both, but consoles are kinda limiting. Reply
Murloc - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkthis is part of the whole "1 item" concept of the future, where you have your smartphone, and when going to work or going back home, you just connect it to a monitor or to other peripherals, and you do everything with it. If high performance is needed, you'd just connect it to external hardware without hassle and use the external hardware.
If video games companies are going to stop making new heavy games like crysis, because they make more money with farmville, then it can happen soon enough, but I don't think this is the case. If the requirements keep going up, there will still be need for computers and consoles. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkTo point out the obvious problems here, they include:
-Computer capabilities did not top out with the Playstation 3. We're centuries from "maxing out" what a game might be...if not longer. That they claim they've caught up in 6-8 years is not particularly impressive, nor a new accomplishment.
-phones do not have proper input devices. The original Gameboy is by and large better for games than a phone or iPod.
-to date, no one has sold games for phones, they're all activation-ladden, whereas most game system games can be purchased.
-phones are a fragmented platform Reply
wifiwolf - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - link"Mobile games still sell for far less than their relatives on PCs and consoles, which is a big barrier to getting AAA titles on these platforms. "
More and more high profile companies are jumping into the Free to Play bandwagon, so that barrier is a ghost from the past.You see - Console -like gaming is reserved for the S4 devices, those who buy it aren't really concerned about how much they pay but are sensible about "the experience". This experience is going hand in hand with purchasable content. Reply
vision33r - Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - linkThe question is can anyone stop iOS's gaming marketshare growth? Already evident that Nintendo 3DS is severely hurt because of iOS gaming is gaining strong.
Android has very little gaming library compare to iOS right now, most Android fanboys are too busy playing emulators with illegal roms to care about the lack of native games. Reply
tayb - Thursday, August 04, 2011 - linkThe power might be there but it's moot because of the horrible OS and hardware fragmentation. Even the power isn't overly impressive when you consider these consoles are approaching 6 years old.
When you have three major OS players with multiple different pieces of hardware all running multiple versions of the same OS you have a development nightmare. This doesn't even go on to mention that the pricing structure for mobile games is not sustainable beyond anything but simple games and apps from small development teams.
Its a nice thought. Reply


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Cruise for kids... that are girls... under 10: Disney Magic Cruise Review by pointoit
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Cruise for kids... that are girls... under 10
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Galveston
FREE sodas, bagged teas, and coffee with half and half or whole milk with all the artificial or real sugar.
Wave phone! It's your own, free, and easy to use, on board cell phone! Fee for lost of stolen phone is $250. Don't lose it! How it works: just call or text the room number of the person you want to reach. If it's someone in your family it's your room number plus 1 or 2 or 3 or 4.
Formal night and a semi-formal night plus an added pirate's night. Pirate's night is the only night there is a late night buffet that goes from 10:30pm-12am.
The boat is clean and in good shape.
Restrooms were sooooo clean.
A February cruise was not bad at all for Texas winter. Some cloudy days, but two good days of More beautiful sunny weather. Highs were in the lower 80's.
Bingo: six cards is $40. You have to buy six cards if you want to play.
Your ship card is your credit card.
The trip would have started out great if we weren't directed to the employee's security check line. So, they thought we were workers and treated us as such. What an experience! And to make it better, passengers thought we were crew members. Crew were not friendly at all to us and everyone kept on thinking we were Chinese and asked if we were. We get that a lot even though we aren't Asian. Well, we got a good experience of what it's like to be treated differently on this cruise.
Boo-ing of the BINGO game winner; that isn't Disney's fault but I don't think I have even been to a BINGO game where the winner was booed.
Stateroom hosts love to hang around your room and ask what you did, what you ate, and how many hours you slept last night. There's a point of being friendly and nosy.
There is lots of waiting... for food, for drinks, for excursions, to get out, to get in. Kind of boring for non-kids.
One night they served macarons that were made wrong. I think that was the grossest things I had ever tried.
Shows are geared towards kids.
A big con about food: it wasn't readily available all the time. There is no buffet style dinner; it's sit and eat or to-go. Pizza is your snack option.
Outdated directories.
We weren't given the next day's schedule three times by our room host because he forgot.
Leaky faucets.
It's a creaky boat. Poor Magic.
Our room clock didn't work.
Lots and lots of yelling parents, lots and lots of crying babies, and lots of irritated workers. Be prepared.
Go on Disney Cruises only if you have a daughter or two or three or four that are under 10 years old. Lots of princesses.
Go on this cruise if you love Disney cartoon movies (On this Feb cruise, we saw lots of Princess and the Frog, Toy Story, Wreck it Ralph, Cinderella, Brave, Finding Nemo, Lilo and Stitch, Sleeping Beauty, Mulan, ...etc. Lots of princess gatherings, dresses in the shops, and in all the shows.
Don't go on this cruise if you aren't ready to buy your child a lot of stuffed animals and costumes.
THERE ARE MINI DESSERTS IN CAFE COVE and you don't have to pay for them. This is the only place to get any kind of sweet thing on the cruise that's self serve (excluding when the buffet is open)
Last piece of advice I promise... be nice to everyone (every race and every age) all the time even if they are wearing their grumpy face. Most likely, that's when they need kindness the most. Less
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With 7.3 on the horizon, Blizzard did an official preview of new caster animations with videos and developer comments.
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With patch 7.3 on the horizon, we thought it was time to share some updates to combat animations for several casting classes. Similar to what we did with the melee classes at the launch of Legion, these updates are all about priests, mages, Restoration and Elemental shaman, and some additional refinements to Restoration druid casting animations! We're also continuing to work on even more enhancements for additional classes at a later point in development.
A little over two years ago, we set our sights on revamping combat animations. The team has wanted to renovate it somehow, but what exactly does that mean? To determine the answer, our development leadership put together a small group of people to come up with a prototype of what we thought could use some cleaning up. You are currently experiencing the fruits of this work with the new melee animations. Our final goal was to create new melee moves that would make the game feel better, but not change how the game was played. During this prototype phase, we also came up with a plan for casters, but didn't have time to put it into production until now. Let's dig into some of the things we did.
We hope you enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look at the new caster visual updates. We had lots of fun creating all these animations and effects and look forward to hearing your thoughts on them.
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In Patch 7.3, Blizzard will be increasing the difficulty and rewards from dungeons across the board. The changes help keep dungeons relevant even at the end of the expansion.
The following changes will be effective when Patch 7.3 goes live:
Normal Difficulty
Item level 845 (up from 825). Heroic Difficulty
Item level 865 (up from 845). Mythic Difficulty
Item level 885 (up from 865). Mythic Keystone
Loot item level will be increased only after Antorus the Burning Throne raid opens. World Bosses
Loot from old world bosses remains at 860. Loot from Broken Shore world bosses remains at 900. Loot from Argus world bosses in Greater Invasion Points is at 930.
By Stan
Our returing player guide is stuffed with relevant information for players that haven't played WoW for a while and they'd like to give it a go in 7.3.
If you haven't played WoW for a while, we have a guide for you with all relevant information.
The main goal of the guide is to keep it short and simple.
General Tips
In Patch 7.3, the 3rd relic slot will be unlocked immediately once you reach 110 and there's no need to complete individual campaigns all over again. (Source) You can forget about the Broken Shore content. Artifact Knowledge is now shared. All player start at AK Level 41 and will automatically gain 1 AK Level per week. Only one new Legendary item is added in 7.3. Any player that defeats Argus the Unmaker can get Insignia of the Grand Army. It's rewarded from the quest called The Death of a Titan. More details about the Netherlight Crucible can be found here. Two new factions are added in Patch 7.3: Argussian Reach & Army of the Light, both having new emissary quests. A new Heirloom with an interesting affix was added to the game. Man'ari Training Amulet. Sacrifice 10% HP to gain 40% increased movement speed for 10 seconds. There are no plans to enable Draenor flying for those that haven't unlocked Draenor Pathfinder. Patch 7.3 Content Rollout
Not all 7.3 content will be available on day 1.From the latest developer Q/A, the content rollout should look like this:
Week 1
Krokuun and the first two chapters of the Argus story will unlock. Players will be able to unlock Krokuun World Quests. Week 2
The second Argus zone Mac'Aree will become available and with it the third and fourth chapter of the Argus story. Once you progress through those chapters, you will gain access to Mac'aree World Quests, Kil'jaeden's Terrace World Quests and Western Mac'Aree World Quests. Invasion Points will also open. Week 3
The last week marks the opening of Argus's last zone, Antoran Wastes. Players will gain access to Antoran Wastes World Quests, the Netherlight Crucible and the new dungeon - Seat of the Triumvirate. All you need to know at this point is that Argus has three zones and once you finish the story in each zone, you will gain access to world quests.
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We datamined two Bind-to-Account items related to reputation catch-up with Broken Isles & Argus factions. Sources remain unknown for now. Nathrezim Tome of Manipulation increases rep gains with Broken Isles factions by 200% for 2 hours. The item's intended for alts and doesn't work past level 109. Demon's Soulstone can only be used on Argus and the item increases your reputation standing by 1,000 with all factions. It's good for catching up reputation with the Nightfallen. Gear Catch-up
New Relinquished items are being added in 7.3 with a base item level of 910. (Source) All items can be purchased for 650 Veiled Argunite (a new currency from Argus World Quests). Crafted gear is now ilvl 885 and can be upgraded with Primal Sargerite via Primal Obliterum up to item level 935. Old crafted gear can't be upgraded.You can disenchant it into Chaos Crystal. There's a new shoulder enchant on Argus that will help you farm Primal Sargerite. More information can be found here. Dungeons have had their ilvl increased by 20 item levels on every difficulty. Normal: ilvl 845 (was 825) Heroic: ilvl 865 (was 845) Mythic: ilvl 885 (was 865) World Quest rewards scale up to item level 895. (Source) With the introduction of the Netherlight Crucible, you can now target specific relic types. Antorus the Burning Throne
The raid won't open immediately with 7.3, but at a later point (probably in Patch 7.3.5). Once Antorus opens, Legendary items will have a base item level of 1,000. (Source) For more information about Patch 7.3, check out our Argus hub.
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We're going back to Antorus to test some more bosses starting Thursday, and it's all Mythic all the time this week! We also get the first wing of LFR starting Friday.
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On Thursday, August 17th and Friday, August 18th we will be conducting raid tests of Antorus, the Burning Throne. Once testing has concluded on Friday we will be testing the first wing of Raid Finder difficulty over the weekend.
Thursday, August 17th
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Imonar the Soulhunter - Mythic Antorus, the Burning Throne
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Q: How do I get into the raid zone?
A: In Dalaran, Orgrimmar, or Stormwind, you may speak to Nexus-Lord Donjon Rade Sr. in order to teleport into the raid zone while it is open for testing. (The option to teleport into a zone will not be available when the zone is not open for testing.)
Q: What character should I use to test the raid?
A: Whichever you prefer. We will be scaling players' effective level to 110 for raid testing, and their item level to an appropriate threshold for the encounter(s) being tested.
Q: How long does testing last?
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When I was growing up, we didn't have a lot of money. While I never heard it said, in the scope of things back then, we were probably considered fairly poor. Oh, we always had plenty of food on the table, an assortment of nice clothes and a warm house to come home to, but by and large, I have since learned the adults in my family went without a lot to make sure we had everything we needed ... maybe not everything we wanted, but everything we needed.
As I think back, most of my friends came from families who had far more than I did. Those kids lived in homes that never knew about drafts that made the curtains move ever so slightly in the winter; and in the summer, those same homes were cooled with air conditioners that were nothing more than a pipe dream for us in our old farmhouse.
Those same kids went on vacation every summer to exciting places like Disneyland in California, the Grand Canyon and the beaches in Florida, however, we instinctively knew Mickey Mouse ears would never find their way into our kingdom. Likewise, my friends usually had clothes and shoes from the nice places on Main Street, while ours came via the Sears Roebuck catalogue. And even though we lived on a farm and butchered our own cattle/hogs (which I really didn't understand until I was an adult — ugh!), hamburger, chicken and hot dogs graced our table far more often than my city friends who were known to have steaks quite often.
As a young adult, I used to say my friends came from a "milk and cookie family, which basically meant they had a Dad who went to work every day, and a stay-at-home Mom who made sure there were warm chocolate chip cookies and a cold glass of milk waiting for the kids when they came from school. Dad would come home from work, put on his slippers and read the newspaper, while Mom prepared a wonderful meal and ran out to quickly pick the kids up from piano lessons.
At my place, Dad wasn't even in the picture; Mom and Grandma were at work; Grandpa was doing farm chores before he left for his night job; our after-school snack never consisted of warm chocolate chip cookies — store-bought cookies seldom even existed; and piano lessons were replaced with farm chores we had to do before we helped with dinner, did our homework and tended to other household duties. To say the very least, a milk and cookie family we were not.
Fast forward many, many years ... I've learned a lot since I was that not-so-wealthy kid from long ago. Basically, the biggest lesson I've learned was that things weren't nearly as sweet as I thought they were in all those milk and cookie families. Talking with those friends from my childhood, I've learned that what appeared to me as perfect ... a home life I yearned for ... was actually for them filled with many troubles, problems, worries, issues. Yes, there may have been milk and cookies, but love was often absent; daily issues reared their ugly heads behind closed doors; and life was not nearly as perfect as it appeared.
On the other hand, we may have been eating hot dogs instead of steak and getting our hands dirty feeding the sheep, the hogs and ponies instead of learning piano scales, but love was never absent. Any issues or problems we had, they were shared by the entire family, and we never pretended they didn't exist. In a nutshell, life was not perfect, but we didn't pretend it was either.
It's taken quite some time, but I think I've finally realized the best family — minus the milk and cookies — was right under my nose. My grandma always used to say "the grass is always greener ...," but from where I live now, I'm fairly sure our lawn — even though there were a good share of weeds, was right where I needed to be.


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FREE play is the name of the game at Hi5 children's camp, which runs every school holiday to provide childcare for parents.
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Helen Smith, camp leader at Hi5, said the take up for this holiday, running until Thursday, had been very strong.
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"Kids will come in and we do a themed craft activity each day.
"This week has been to do with the film Brave, because Disney is our theme for the whole year. Next week being Easter, we will have an Easter theme.
"They will have a bouncy castle and sports equipment each day, and we try to get in a trampolining session at least each week. We have got box games for dressing up and lots of other stuff they can play with throughout the day.
"Normally we have a minimum of two qualified staff on duty, which means we can have up to 20 children here at a time. If we are able to get a third member of staff we can take up to 30.
"It is going really well and we have been fully booked for most of the time. We have got a waiting list at the moment, but there are places available for the end of the week. It is advisable to book early.
"We usually open bookings up a week after half term has finished, and the next camp will be at May half term. We do it every single school holiday."
Children can look forward to an action-packed day with a wide range of games and activities.
"Some children will come in for the early start," said Helen. "They will have free play which goes on until about 9.30am, when we go into the sports hall to wait for all the rest of the children to arrive. We will then go through the golden rules, like fire safety and no bullying.
"We will play some games like dodgeball before getting into craft activities. We will then go back into the hall for the bouncy castle and various sports equipment where they have free choice. We might then have a two-hour trampolining session to ensure that all children have an equal go. They can then return for free play.
"We also have a smaller outside area where they can go to play outdoors as well."
The camp runs from 9.30am to 4.30pm, with an early start available at 8.15am and a late finish until 5.45pm.
Prices range from £18.55 for a standard day with a Swindon Leisure card, to £42.75 for an extended day without.
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East Coast black belt seminar to beat Cancer coming to Stamford CT
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The below info comes from the gym that I currently train MMA at, C3 Athletics in Stamford, CT. It is a good cause, and a great way to receive some top notch instruction.
"Andre Margutti, a good friend and teammate of ours at Team Yamasaki, has been diagnosed with cancer. Andre came to the US a little more than 10 years ago and has been a great friend to all of us at Team Yamasaki. In addition to being a very upbeat and friendly guy, Andre is a hard worker. He turned 30 this year and recently started up his own construction company. He's also competed in numerous BJJ competitions, has had a couple of amateur MMA fights, and has also taught capoeira.
Last week, Andre started radiotherapy and he will soon be starting chemotherapy. As you know, the costs for Andre's treatment will be astronomical.
To help with some of these costs, we're going to hold seminars at academies in the New England and Mid-Atlantic area of the east coast. All the money raised will go to Andre's medical costs. In addition to black belts from Team Yamasaki, the following black belts have agreed to help us by teaching and / or opening up their schools to host seminars"
All of these locations are open to everyone.
We are asking a minimum donation of $50 to attend.
The seminars will be approximately 3 hours long.
Thanks to everyone for the support. The response was so overwhelming that we were actually unable to accommodate all of the requests to have seminars. There simply weren't enough weekends and instructors to go around. Maybe we can add some October dates if we get some additional instructors.
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A NEW band from Bradford on Avon is set for big things in the new year, after they were discovered by a fan at one of their gigs in Bristol.
The four-piece, The Daturas, have gone from strength to strength since music promoter Randall Phillips came to one of their gigs and offered them a helping hand.
At the time the band had no idea about the contacts Phillips had, but he quickly began creating interest around The Daturas, with notable producers eager to work with the band.
The band, made up of Joe Chowles, 23, Will Southward, 25, Isaac Phillips, 19, and Chris Marsh, 25, describe their music as indie/psychedelic folk, and admit they were extremely lucky to come across Phillips – who is now their manager.
Lead singer Joe said: "We were managing ourselves until Randall came along. He asked us if we wanted help and before we knew it we were working with Ian Grimble in a studio in Crouch End, which was completely surreal.
"We picked the six songs we wanted to record and then practised them until our fingers bled. Ian was an incredible person to work with, we all learnt a lot from our time in the studio with him."
Grimble co-founded and runs the music label Comm-union, which works to promote major artists such as Gotye, Michael Kiwanuka, Daughter and Ben Howard. He has also previously worked with Cat Stevens, Manic Street Preachers and The Libertines. After finishing the recording, Grimble booked The Daturas in with Sean Magee at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, much to the band's surprise.
Joe said: "It was an experience on a whole different level. The studio just has so much history that you can't help but be inspired."
The Daturas' debut EP is called Overlooked By The End and is due to be released early in 2013. The band will also be performing in the Bradford Roots Acoustic Music Festival at Wiltshire Music Centre on January 12.


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RICHMOND, KY – 13 September 1989 – Ruth McCollom Combs, 87, a former hospital board chairman and long-time community volunteer, died yesterday (article written in Lexington Herald-Leader, on September 14, 1989) at Kenwood House in Richmond after a long illness.
The Owsley County native and her husband, the late Earle B. Combs, came to Richmond in 1921. She was best known for her volunteer work in the community, particularly with the local hospital board. She was chairman of the board when the Pattie A. Clay Hospital was built in 1969.
"We are all saddened by the death of Mrs. Combs," said Robert R. Martin of Richmond, president emeritus of Eastern Kentucky University. "She was a gracious lady who devoted her life to her family, friends, church, and the Pattie A. Clay Hospital.
"She was at all times a great supporter of Eastern, and she and Mr. Combs were our very good friends."
Mrs. Combs was a member of the First Christian Church, Richmond. She was active in the local chapters of the American Red Cross and the Daughters of the American Revolution, and she was a member of the Richmond Woman's Club, Richmond Garden Club, and other civic organizations. An active genealogist, she served as the Combs family historian, and she was a charter member of the Boonesborough Historical Society.
Her husband, Earle B. Combs was one of Major league baseball's greatest players. A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, he played for the New York Yankees in the 1920s and 1930s and was a member of the famous Murderer's Row team of 1927, which included such greats as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Combs was a member of the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents from 1957 to 1975 and as chairman from 1972 to 1974. He also was Kentucky's commissioner of banking.
Survivors include two sons, Earle B. Combs, Jr., Spring Hill, FL, Donald G. Combs, Richmond, director of athletics at Eastern Kentucky University; three sisters, Norma M. Sutton and Martha M. Reynolds, both of Richmond, and Mabel M. Brown; a brother, Charles B. McCollum of Hudson, FL; 11 grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church. Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Turpin Funeral Home
Contributions can be made to the Ruth and Earle B. Combs Memorial Scholarship Fund, Eastern Kentucky University Foundation, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475-3101


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PUPILS from Worcestershire schools have tested out their legal skills in the Schools Mock Trial competition.
The annual competition was held at Worcester Magistrates Court and included students aged 12 to 14 from 10 schools across the county.
The pupils competed against each other in a specially written case in which the defendant is accused of dishonestly receiving a stolen bicycle.
They played the parts of the magistrates, the prosecution and defence lawyers, the defendant, witnesses and court officials, with their performances judged by local magistrates and other legal professionals.
Taking part were students from Christopher Whitehead Language College, Worcester, Droitwich Spa High School, Tenbury Wells High School as well as Aston Fields Middle School, North Bromsgrove High School and St John's Middle School, all in Bromsgrove.
Pupils from Prince Henry's High School, Evesham, the King Charles 1 school in Kidderminster, The Bewdley High School and Alcester Academy also joined in.
Aston Fields Middle School won the Worcestershire heat and will now go forward to the regional finals in Nottingham in May.
Runners up were Prince Henry's High School Evesham, and 3rd prize went to King Charles 1 School, Kidderminster.
The cup for best student bench of magistrates was won by Christopher Whitehead Language College, Worcester, and the most outstanding pupil award went to Tom Parkin, from Prince Henry's.
After the event, awards were presented at Worcester Crown Court by Judge Robert Juckes.
Peter John, group editor of Midlands Newsquest, presented the press cup for best court reporter to Eleanor Bedford from Aston Fields, and the best court artist award went to Gaby Kranson-Smith from Prince Henry's, presented by local artist Richard Crabtree.
The Schools Mock Trials competition is organised by the Citizenship Foundation in partnership with the Magistrates' Association.
Around 6,000 students from 400 schools across the country are taking part this year when they will find out about the legal system, and practise their public speaking, analysis techniques and teamwork.
The Worcestershire heat was held on Saturday, March 8.


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Smooth pavements could save drivers money at the gas pump and create safe, pleasant driving conditions, even when gas prices are on the rise. A study by Auburn University's National Center for Asphalt Technology, or NCAT, and Department of Mechanical Engineering has found that smoother pavements are characterized by less rolling resistance, which requires less energy for a car when compared to a rough surface.
"It takes less force to keep your vehicle going on a smoother pavement because it's bouncing less," said Robert Jackson, faculty member in Auburn's Department of Mechanical Engineering. "A tire deforms when rolling over rough pavement, and you lose energy, and as a result, fuel efficiency."
Auburn researchers are studying and developing ways engineers and contractors can construct more fuel efficient asphalt pavements. The first phase of the study, a review of past analyses, suggests that improving pavement texture and smoothness could improve each driver's fuel efficiency by 2 to 6 percent, according to Richard Willis, assistant research professor at NCAT. He and Jackson examined several pavement characteristics and fuel efficiency studies from the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Creating long-lasting, smooth pavements that will improve a vehicle's gas mileage starts with a flexible base layer of asphalt to help prevent pavement cracking, followed by minor surface rehabilitations. These steps can help maintain smooth pavements for up to 50 years before reconstruction would be needed, saving money for budget-crunched states and drivers.
Jackson, who has a background in contact mechanics, helped with the study to clarify pavement properties that affect rolling resistance. Some research has suggested that pavement stiffness and type, whether asphalt or concrete, are major factors in controlling rolling resistance, but Jackson says it ultimately comes down to smoothness.
"If states can work to ensure smooth pavements are constructed and maintained, the general public and the state and federal governments will see the effects in their day to day budgeting," said Willis.
One roadblock to implementing smooth pavements throughout the U.S. is a lack of consistency in testing equipment and standards for concrete and asphalt roadways. Willis and Jackson agree that an experiment to better quantify more fuel efficient asphalt is still needed before agencies make any drastic changes to their pavement smoothness standards.
One method that NCAT suggests is a test trailer that can isolate tires from the vehicle, measuring the force under the tire. NCAT also uses an Automatic Road Analyzer, or ARAN, van that measures pavement smoothness. These hands-on field methods are more feasible and accurate than laboratory tests for measuring resistance on existing pavements, Jackson says.
If Jackson and Willis' continued research conclusively shows that smoother pavements lead to increased fuel efficiency, the driving public, trucking industry and government could see significant savings beyond the gas pump.
"This means that each individual has the chance to save money, and even more so for the businesses and government agencies that have much larger fleets," Willis said. "We could also see reduced costs at the grocery store because the cost to ship food would be less."
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Son of Jeremiah Chamberlain (1740-1829) and Margaret Carmichael (1765-1821), of Grainger Co., TN. Husband of Mary West (1798-1886). Thompson and Mary removed to Johnson Co., MO, in c1835 and continued on to TX some time between 1846 and 1850, settling in Manor, Travis Co. They had at least nine children, most of them born in TN: Catherine Elizabeth; Jeremiah; Samuel West; two unnamed children who died in infancy; Martha Jane; James; Andrew; and Sterling. Some sources suggest that both Thompson and Mary are buried in Manor Cemetery, but there seems currently to be no clear confirmation of this available.
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DAVID Moyes has left Manchester United after 10 months in charge.
The move was confirmed on the club's official Twitter account this morning.
The first tweet read: "Manchester United announces that David Moyes has left the club."
It was followed shortly by: "The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role."
The club has struggled this season - the first since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson - and currently sits in seventh position in the Barclays Premier League, 23 points behind leaders Liverpool.
Moyes' 10-month reign saw them exit the FA Cup in the third round, losing to Swansea, and the Champions League in the quarter finals after defeat to Bayern Munich.
A struggling Moyes was not helped by the performances of players bought during his first forays into the transfer market.
Marouane Fellaini costs the club £27.5m but has been anonymous, and although Juan Mata has shown glimpses of quality since his move from Chelsea, it has not been enough for Moyes.
The Scot was picked as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor by the man himself but despite a solid start - a 2-0 win in the Community Shield and a 4-1 win against Swansea in the Premier League - he has failed to show any signs of improvement.
So where next for Manchester United?
Dutchman Louis Van Gaal is currently the bookies' favourite, followed by Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp.
Ryan Giggs is also in the mix, while Sir Alex himself sits at 14/1 to be the next manager. Would he take over until the end of the season? An interesting thought.
Here is a rundown of the likely candidates:
Klopp has certainly caught the eye on the European stage in recent years, guiding his dynamic Borussia Dortmund side to the Champions League final in 2012/13 off the back of the Bundesliga titles they won under him in each of the previous two seasons. The German is a charismatic, young coach and would surely prove a popular choice among United fans.
The Holland coach has a vast amount of top-level experience and success on his CV, having previously been in charge of Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Ajax, and has been heavily linked with both United and Tottenham of late.
Another youthful coach who has rapidly risen to prominence over the past few seasons, former Argentina international Simeone led Atletico Madrid to the Europa League title in 2012 and has overseen their run to the Champions League semi-finals this campaign, while they are also currently leading the Primera Division ahead of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Blanc won the Ligue 1 title as Bordeaux coach and looks set to secure it again this term with Paris St Germain, having had a stint in charge of the France national team in between. The fact that he spent time at Manchester United at the end of his playing career would likely count in his favour in terms of how he would be perceived by the club's supporters.
There are few players as revered among the Old Trafford faithful as the 40-year-old Welsh midfielder, who is already part of the current United coaching staff on top of being a squad member. There would be considerable goodwill towards him from fans if he were to land the top job, but he lacks management experience. He looks a likely candidate to take the job on an interim basis, if not permanently.
The 72-year-old Scot, who has stayed on at the club as a director since finishing as manager, returning to the hot seat so soon after selecting Moyes to be his successor would certainly be interesting. Whether Ferguson would even entertain the idea is very much up for debate, as is the issue of what his comeback would mean for United in the long-term, given the age-old question of 'how do you replace Fergie?' would be straight back on the agenda. Red Devils fans would take considerable comfort from the sight of their most successful boss in the dugout again, though.
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A very different menorah for this year's Modern Menorahs 2007 list. "Coin" Menorah by Lior Gluska, Bright Blue Lior Gluska is an Israeli born artist, goldsmith & Judaica Designer. All of her products are made in Israel. Lior draws her inspiration from seemingly opposite sources: Ancient Mediterranean style and contemporary art. She uses a variety of metals and several casting techniques, and combines simple materials with elaborate and expansive materials to decorate her pieces. Lior art pieces explode with colors; intricate enamel designs with multiple colored beads and gems are her signature. This Menorah is made of "Coin" shaped candleholders connected with chain that can be arranged in many different ways. ~ Menorah measures 23" long when opened. Each "Coin" measures 1.25"Dia. ~ Perfect as a travel menorah as it rolls into a 3.5" x 3.5" x 2" gift box. ~ Made of zinc alloy, decorated with beads and enamel and finished in brushed silver tone. The "Coins" are in bright blue with blue beads. The Shamash is turquoise blue. ~ We highly recommend using dripless candles with this menorah. ~ Hand made in Israel.


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Android 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Coming to AOSPby Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2011 5:05 PM EST
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Connoisseur - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkHope Cyanogen can get this modded to the HP Touchpad asap. Would be sweet... Reply
EpsilonKore - Monday, November 14, 2011 - link+1 Reply
djc208 - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkYes, but considering they're still in Alpha with Gingerbread it will probably be a while, especially since no one really knows how hard it will be to port to ICS. Reply
Kensei - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - linkThe Cyanogen team is not that far behind. CyanogenMod 7 was first released early this year for Gingerbread. The last update was back in October with version 7.1. It's probably the final update for Gingerbread. I'm running it now on my Nook Color.
Work on CyanogenMod 9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is well underway. Reply
Camikazi - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - linkThey mean Alpha for the TouchPad, which is right it is Alpha right now, but CM7 for other phones is pretty stable and working fine (except for brand new just released phones). Reply
Camikazi - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkMy guess is the first to release outside of Samsung will be the modders of the world, since I doubt any of the companies who make the hardware can get it done before them :P Reply
InternetGeek - Monday, November 14, 2011 - linkSo it seems it'll be at least 2 months more for the Nexus S. Reply
Mugur - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - link... and any current CM7 device? :-) Reply
umbrel - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - linkI think some modders will want to get it running a real Android, kind of jailbraking from Amazon. Reply


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AMD's Phil Hester Speaks: Next Generation Architecture, Sort ofby Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/14/2005 6:33 PM EST
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erinlegault - Monday, October 17, 2005 - link
We want roadmaps, with firm dates and code names and features, and we've yet to see or hear it. So the best we can report today, is what we told you back at IDF: with the exception of some minor updates as well as the migration to DDR2, the Athlon 64 micro-architecture will remain unchanged throughout 2006.
I don't. We are all convinced that AMD has a superior product. Intel claims during IDF are just a marketing ploy.
For AMD to remain ahead and competitive I don't think it is in their best interests to reveal any information to far ahead of time. Because, with Intels huge source of money and man power, they can probably come up with a counter product before AMD can.
Intel's recent dual core processors are a perfect example. Intel didn't have dual core on their books, but once AMD was getting close, they designed a new chipset to support their "glued" processors and developed the technology to "glue" to processors together.
If AMD put a time frame on DDR3, or anything else, Intel would probably beat them to it. Reply
Quanticles - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkI think people need to keep in mind that AMD is more about engineering and less about marketing. They cant afford to waste time on features they dont think are important.
Intel keeps changing their architecture, but look how it's changing...
Pentium 3 -> Pentium 4 -> Pentium 4 HT -> Pentium 3
AMD just stuck w/ the best solution to begin with and they're not going to waste any effort on unnecessary features. Reply
xsilver - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkdude, most people have moved on from thinking that the pentium M is just a p3 souped up
it has evolved far beyond that
you just have to understand that all silicone has to have evolved from somewhere.. no chip is designed from scratch
and jarred, has there been info about hypertransport 2? are there structural changes or just a speed bump from 2000mhz to 2400? 2800? Reply
Quanticles - Sunday, October 16, 2005 - linkWhat is so different about pentium M? A few extra features like virus protection and SSE3? That doesnt change the raw performance of normal operation.
They probably took the original P4 fetch stage, if anything. Reply
highlandsun - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkWhile it's true that everything evolves from something earlier, it's also true that Pentium M largely discards the work that went into Pentium 4. P4 is an evolutionary dead-end. Reply
mamisano - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkhttp://www.hypertransport.org">HyperTransport Consortium Website
The most current HyperTransport technology I/O Link Specification is Release 2.0. To previous specifications, HyperTransport Release 2.0 adds three new speed grades: 2.0 GigaTransfers/second, 2.4 GigaTransfers/second and 2.8 GigaTransfers/second. These new speed grades yield a 16 Gigabyte/second, 19.2 Gigabyte/second and 22.4 Gigabyte/second aggregate bandwidth, an improvement of 75 percent as compared to previous 1.x specifications. In addition, HyperTransport Release 2.0 adds to the existing PCI and PCI-X mapping to include a mapping to PCI Express.
One of the important features of this new specification is that Specification 2.0 devices are fully backward compatible with prior 1.x devices. This means that existing investments in the technology will continue to be leveraged in the future.
These new capabilities make HyperTransport technology the highest performance, lowest latency chip-to-chip I/O link available today and continue the HyperTransport tradition of interoperability with popular industry technologies. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkRegarding HT 2 (and 3/4), I don't know anything other than a name. For CPU to CPU communication, a faster HT link could prove useful. Most system communication isn't even coming close to maxing out 1 GHz HT links, though. Reply
msiemsen - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkIt's sadly ironic that the sponsored link "Dual Core Architecture" in the table in the article goes to the intel website. Reply
ksherman - Friday, October 14, 2005 - linkbet they got it waiting... just waiting for the "ship" button to be pushed... why release it now, when Intel doesnt have much to fight with? if they have been sooooo quiet, makes you wonder what could be waiting under the wings.... Reply
xsilver - Friday, October 14, 2005 - linkactually, I was wondering if they may be waiting for ddr2 to mature enough (eg. higher speeds) in order to bring the m2 socket out...
I mean, is there any speculation on the increases that ddr2 are going to bring to amd64?
on ddr1 cas 2@ddr400 = about cas3@ddr500 so if that trend continues for ddr2 quite a bit of bandwidth will be needed to overcome the higher latencies of ddr2.
is hypertransport 2.0 the only other feature of the m2 socket??
personally, I'm trying to figure out if its the right time to jump to pci-e yet as i'm holding onto a highend agp system; sockets are changing soon, so i'm trying to hold out. Reply
Marlin1975 - Friday, October 14, 2005 - linkWell socket 939 brought out the sempron in 754 for oems. Now there are some early socket 939 semprons, I am thinking sometime early to mid next year we will see M2. Only seems to follow suit. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkAMD told me they expect DDR2-667 to offer about 10 to 15 percent more performance than the best official DDR. So, without other changes AMD was guessing 15% more from DDR2. That means a 2.4 GHz M2 would about match the FX-57, which is pretty good. I think that 15% might also be for dual-core multitasking scenarios, so it might be more like 8% for single core. Reply
Quanticles - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkWouldnt that mean memory performance, not necessarily application performance? Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkNo, AMD stated that overall performance would go up 10 to 15%. Basically, they said DDR2-533 didn't offer enough of a difference to make it worthwhile, but DDR2-667 started to show real benefits of 10% or more. Makes sense, as at 667+ MHz the bandwidth offered is far more than even the best DDR. Reply
PrinceGaz - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkIf that's true, it does pose an interesting question regarding the PR of the new Socket M2 chips compared with existing S939 chips, specifically the Windsor vs the current Toledo-
Athlon 64 X2 4800+ - Toledo (2x 1MB L2) clocked at 2.4GHz (12.0 x 200MHz)
Athlon 64 X2 5000+ - Windsor (2x 1MB L2) clocked at 2.667GHz (8.0 x 333MHz)
Now if the DDR2-667 memory was only equal to DDR400, and not 10-15% faster, you would expect the 2.667GHz part to have a rating of 5300+ (or at least 5200+) rather than 5000+. If there is a real-world 10% performance improvement with DDR2-667, then the rating for it should actually be cranked up to about 5800+, instead of lowered to 5000+.
So either the M2 parts will be slightly lower performing because of DDR2-667, or AMD have decided to re-align the PR again. I suspect they are re-aligning the PR though it seems rather pointless doing so, even counter-productive for dual-core chips, as the rating corresponds to nothing that can be compared with Intel parts. Reply
johnsonx - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkI don't think the model number of X2 chips is supposed to be a 'PR Rating' at all. What would the rating compare to? It's just a model number where a bigger number = higher performance. I don't think it's supposed to scale linearly either (ie a 5% increase in model number isn't supposed to mean a 5% performance increase... it may be only 2%, or it may be 15%). AMD doesn't need a 'PR Rating' anymore anyway, now that Intel has stopped clockspeed marketing. You're reading too much into the choice of model number, at least for X2 chips.
JarredWalton - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - linkThe PR numbers come from a battery of benchmarks that AMD runs. The tests have been updated a couple times over the years, but most of the applications are getting a bit old (i.e. little SMP support). So they are relative to performance on other CPUs, though I'm not sure what the baseline is. Some "rounding" does occur, of course. Basically, 4200+ scores about 10% faster than the 3800+ (X2) on the benchmark suite.
As for the M2 chips, I hadn't heard the 2.66 GHz figure or model number. Is that a guess, or did I just miss that one? If so, 2.66 GHz X2 would have to rate higher than a 5200+ (unless AMD is just realigning PR again). Reply
PrinceGaz - Sunday, October 16, 2005 - linkJust do a google for "X2 5000+". You'll get tons of hits from all the major hardware-review sites. Oddly enough it didn't appear in AT's news at the time (around Sep 26-27). VR-Zone is a good example.
"AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Info
AMD has confirmed on the Socket M2 design and will be unveiling the Socket M2 processors in Q2 2006. Single-core Athlon 64/FX "Orleans" and Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 "Windsor" will be based on 90nm processor technology and will support DDR-II 667 memory bus, bi-directional 1GHz HT bus, Presidio Security as well Pacifica Virtualization. The Athlon 64 X2 5000+ is based on Socket "Windsor" core and is clocked at 2.667GHz (8.0 x 333.3MHz) and contains 2 x 1MB L2." Reply
ElFenix - Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - linksounds like the processor i'm waiting for Reply
ashegam - Friday, October 14, 2005 - linkReply
ksherman - Friday, October 14, 2005 - linknice... real nice... Reply


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TAMPA, Fla. – The men's soccer team dropped a non-conference game to the University of Tampa on Thursday night at Pepin Stadium by a final score of 5-0.
Tampa struck first in the 13th minute when Naysir Rodriguez received a cross from Alex Knaggs and kicked it in the right side of the goal, giving the Spartans a 1-0 lead.
In the 25th minute the Spartans took a 2-0 lead when Matt Noble placed one to the right of the Lions' 'keeper. The assists came from Dominic Goncalves and Brian Fekete. Under seven minutes later Noble struck again, also off of an assist from Goncalves, giving the Spartans a 3-0 lead going into the half. The Lions managed just two shots and one corner in the first half.
The Spartans continued to put pressure on the Saint Leo defense, striking for the fourth time in the 52nd minute with an unassisted shot into the upper-right corner from Joshua Freese.
Just five minutes later Samonda Johnson found the back of the net off of a pass from Freese. That goal extended the Spartans lead to five.
The Lions did manage to get four shots off in the second half, totaling six shots on the night. Saint Leo goalkeepers had a combined five saves on the night.
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Zafehouse: Diaries (turn-based survival horror / post-apocalyptic strategy)
Some of you might remember the original Zafehouse, released way back in 2008 and reviewed (sort of) on Rock, Paper, Shotgun by the vivacious Kieron Gillen. It was coded in seven days and wasn't a very complex game, but people really seemed to love the zombie simulation angle. With that motivation, I started hammering away at a sequel.
Three prototypes later, I wasn't making a lot of progress. Working full-time didn't afford me the hours I needed to build the game I wanted so, in late 2011, I quit my job at Firemint and dived head long into what would become Zafehouse: Diaries. A friend and I started a business to make the endeavour official and together we journeyed into the maddening world of indie development.
After much teeth-gnashing, we released the game in late September of this year. Now we're on Greenlight, doing our best to get onto Steam.
In a nutshell, Zafehouse: Diaries is a turn-based strategy game set in a zombie-infested town. The player has to manage a group of five survivors, each with their own backgrounds, prejudices and motivations. If you want to try the demo, please go right ahead!
Almost everything is procedurally generated, from the town's construction and the placement of items, to your group of survivors and their occupations and idiosyncrasies. In fact, managing your survivors' relationships is a core part of the game. You can spread rumours about the survivors to try and influence their opinions but, mostly, your control is exerted by making good decisions about who works with who on what tasks.
If you let the relationships crumble, your survivors will fight each other, have arguments and fail to work together. Relationships permeate every system of the game -- if Sally hates Bob, she might not come to his aid when zombies bust in, disagree with his plan of attack and separate, or the pair might argue on the way to the police station, creating unwanted noise and attracting the undead.
Speaking of noise -- zombies act like actual genre zombies. If you leave them alone and stay quiet, they won't have much interest in you. But, if you exchange your cricket bats and golf clubs for handguns and shotguns, or decide to barricade a location using power tools instead of hammers, you'll quickly get their attention. Good thing then, you can set bonfires or bang pans together to create distractions, or enlist the help of the mysterious Pied Piper to lead the walking dead away.
It's a difficult game, where dying is a common occurrence. Instead of hit points, your survivors will take injuries, from simple lacerations to broken limbs or internal bleeding. You can use medical supplies -- bandages, splints, painkillers, etc -- to manage these injuries, but for the most part, a broken leg is a massive problem that you can't get rid of with a glowing medikit. Again, relationships are important here -- try to move that survivor to another location with others that don't like him and, chances are, they'll just leave him behind.
Of course, survivors can get infected and yes, you'll have to make some tough decisions about their future.
You have to deal with various dilemmas that can radically change the dynamics of the group. For example, one dilemma requires you to handle a situation where a survivor has stolen some painkillers for "chronic pain". You can leave it be, or take the painkillers away. Resources, or relationships? The choice is yours.
Probably the best comparison would be King of Dragon pass with zombies. KoDP is a much larger game, but we've been adding content over the past several months and Z:D now features a lot of variety and replayability. And we're still adding content now and will continue to do so.
The game was designed to be extremely customisable, either using the built-in custom content manager to add yourself into the game, defining your age, education, wealth, occupation and name, or via C# to generate new items, orders and gameplay logic.
When we initially released Z:D, we thought people would latch onto the diary-sharing mechanic; when a game ends -- in victory or defeat -- you can export a log of everything that happened and upload it or send it around, as the game supports loading the diaries of others. We even included an external diary editor, so you could tweak the entries.
However, that hasn't quite taken off. Instead, players have been customising the crap out of the game, adding photos of themselves, creating new survivor occupations and crafting imaginative post-apocalyptic adventures, using Z:D as a base. Here are some examples:
On the Dwarf Fortress forums (the amount of detail in this is amazing)
Over on RPG Codex (where it is shown that librarians would be next to useless in a zombie apocalypse... or not)
A series of YouTube videos (Not a bad way to learn how the game works)
I won't mince words -- the game involves reading text. Quite a bit of it. The diary entries contain a lot of important information and keeping abreast of those entries can foreshadow breakdowns in the group, hints about supply caches and awareness of zombie movement.
As for Greenlight, we're currently sitting at 69%, so any thumbs-up would be greatly appreciated. I'll be sure to update you guys on our progress, whichever way it goes (yes, these percentages do go down).
Any questions, please fire away. For the curious, Screwfly Studios is a small indie studio made up of two Australians -- one based in Sydney and the other (me) in Melbourne. Australia has a reputation for making popular mobile titles, but we're dedicated to hardcore PC stuff, because, well, that's what we like to play.
Finally, you can purchase the game directly from us. Alternatively, the game is available on Desura and GamersGate, though naturally they take a cut so direct is preferred.
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Thought I'd share another mammoth Let's Play, this one's managed to reach 18 pages and is still going.
The first group disintegrated quickly after an ill-informed rumour was spread about two survivors having had a family feud in their past. Most of the injuries came from survivor in-fighting, with wardrobes being thrown and whatnot.
(I also bought it. :D )
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Just a quick update guys, we've just released a new patch, v1.1.6, that adds a new game mode. It's easily the biggest patch we've done since the game was released in September.
As for Greenlight, we're currently sitting on 71%, so if you have a vote handy, throw it our way. :)
Finally, we got a small mention on Kotaku today -- in the same paragraph as Minecraft and FTL, no less. We took it as a high compliment. :)
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The Project Zomboid guys just gave Zafehouse: Diaries a mention in their latest podcast, including how it's influenced a bit of the design for their game. You'll need to skip to the 43:30 mark.
Here's a link to the related blog post: http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index...-the-darkness/
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I bought this last night as I'm mainly playing games on my not-quite-up-to-scratch laptop these days (XCOM:EU makes it so hot but its the most up to date thing I can run. Even zombie smasher causes too much fuss) and this seemed pretty perfect.
Plus I can keep the game running when I work from home and make a few quick turns whilst waiting for people to email me :)
It's fun! Not sure I really like the very small time limit in the original two game modes. When I've tried people are just a bit too shit at getting anything done and far too petty for them to survive through the week - they go to check out a building and all end up getting wiped out by the four zombies there. Would be good to have a OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT RUN RUN option when breaching - possibly with a chance to lead a horde back to the safehouse - as too many times I breach a seemingly empty place to have everyone killed within the hour.
However it's definitely going to get played more. Only annoyance is I haven't worked out how to save the game so lost my amazing run of 3 hours play last night, where day 3 had me kitted out with mad max style improvised weaponry, lots of bullets and a couple of SMGs and two super competent guys carrying 3 middling oafs as they secured the town.
Apparently it can be done but I assumed that was what the bookmark feature did and the manual doesn't say how to save, frustratingly.


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A woman who recently turned 100 claims she is "not bored yet".
Doris Smith, nicknamed 'The Queen' by family and friends, celebrated her birthday on Sunday with cream tea and champagne at The Grove Hotel in Watford.
Mrs Smith, who lives in Harrows Meade, Edgware, said: "I don't feel old. I live from day to day, and take it as it comes. Every day is a bonus, and I'm not bored yet.
She has two daughters, Valerie Grundy, who also lives in Edgware, and Jennifer Brown, who lives in Hendon. Her family also includes four grandchildren, and six great grandchildren, with another grandchild due in March.
Mrs Grundy, 72, who works as a hairdresser, said: "People don't believe it when we tell them she's 100. They ask her what her secret is."
Mrs Smith added: "I have the support of all my lovely family. I couldn't do what I do without them. I have never had to worry about anything, and I won't start now."
Mrs Smith was born in Kentish Town shortly after the First World War started. Her father was killed fighting in the trenches in 1915, when she was eight months old.
She met her husband Bill when she was 17 at Stanley Hall, a dance hall in Tufnell Park that she used to visit twice a week. She said: "I love ballroom dancing. I could still do it now but I can't stand for very long."
Mr Smith, who died 20 years ago, ran a wholesale business in Paddington. He worked in the fire brigade during the Second World War.
Mrs Brown, 67, who teaches English at the Garden Suburb Infant School in Hampstead, said: "He would tell us how the city would be lit up at night because the whole of the docks were on fire. He never really talked about the war. He would say it was a terrible time because he never knew if we would survive."
The family home, in Kentish Town, was damaged during the war, after a bomb went off down their street. A crack was left down the side of the house, and the floor was destroyed. As a result, Mrs Smith went to live with her sister for three years in Leicester, before returning in time to celebrate VE day. She added: "By that time, there were bombsites everywhere."
Mr and Mrs Smith moved to Edgware 40 years ago. She said: "You can see the difference in Edgware, there are a lot more buildings now and it's much busier. The immediate area hasn't changed a lot though."
The family eventually all ended up moving to within a five-mile radius of one another.
Apart from the celebrations, there is one other thing about turning 100 Doris is looking forward to.
"I'm thrilled to get the letter from the actual Queen", she added. "I'm going to put it in a gold frame."


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WHEN students across Australia sing as one on Thursday, November 1, it will be Kiama High School graduate Joe Mungovan's voice they will sing to.
Mungovan lent his vocals and drumming skills to Different People (Stand Together), this year's song for Music Count Us In.
Described by mentor and producer John Foreman as taking an "Indie folk approach", the song was written by three students with the help of musician Josh Pyke.
Another 11 students from Sydney and the South Coast, Mungovan among them, were called in to work with the industry's best session musicians.
The year 12 student, who starts his HSC on October 15, recorded the drums and lead male vocals across two days of recording under the guidance of leading Sydney studio drummer Gordon Rytmeister and Foreman himself.
"The things Gordon can do are crazy - it was fantastic working with him," he said.
Mungovan said he had played drums in a studio before, but drumming for an unfamiliar song was a challenge.
"All I had was a vocal line and guitar ... but John knew where the song was going and Gordon would get an idea and I'd play it," he said.
Mungovan said he had not thought about students nationally listening to his voice before. "It's a weird thought," he said.
Mungovan also recently recorded his solo track, The Strength - it is currently available on YouTube and Triple J Unearthed.
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I want the one with the green legs!!!
Does Hurley actually make them or just put their logo/style on it? If so, how do they compare with Xcel, Ripcurl, etc.
i don't know how the new ones are, but I have one that's close to ten years old that still works. Yes it's at the end of it's life, but I still wear it. 3/2
They don't offer a hooded wetsuit nor gloves. They only have 3/3 booties too, so I'm thinking they aren't really into the wetsuit scene. I'm sure these are farmed out to some chinese company and Hurley/Nike (you know that's who owns them right?) just puts their names on them.
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The success of a football match, traditionally measured by who scores the most goals, can now also be measured by who scores the most tweets.
Twitter said that last night's final between Germany and Argentina generated a new "tweets per minute" record, with a peak TPM of 618,725 World Cup related tweets as the final whistle blew.
During the final, the second-highest TPM of 556,449 occurred when Germany's Mario Götze scored the winning goal against Argentina – the aftermath of which can be seen in Twitter's real-time interactive animation of World Cup tweets during extra time, with much of the world lighting up in white in the seconds after the goal: Read more


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Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed that's so full of good shit I don't even have to make any jokes about the sensual Christmas massages Fish and I never, ever gave each other in an Applebee's parking lot. We've got Jaden Smith looking jazzed *tips cap* to promote another movie his dad bought for him to star in, Bill Clinton with who I initially thought was Aaron Sorkin and now wonder who would be more offended by that mix-up, as well as Bryan Cranston expressing with his face more than I could ever say in words, but I'll try anyway "Wow, what an annoying twat." Then there's Jenelle Evans' mugshot for the arrest that might finally teach her a less–HAHAHAHA! No, it won't do anything like that and finally Billy Ray Cyrus wearing Travolta's wig on his face.
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By Richard Thiel — February 2003
For me, cruising is about exploring new places. So when my friend Pat Brown invited me on a cruise in southeast Alaska, I was leery. I'd already been on a memorable trip there two years earlier with him aboard a lovely wooden double-ender called Explorer, where he'd earned his reputation as chef and raconteur extraordinaire. My dad, daughter, and I had seen scores of breaching whales and calving glaciers, but I didn't particularly want to go back and see the same landscape all over again.
Brown assured me that although the general area we'd be cruising in would be the same, we'd be covering new ground: leaving from Sitka instead of Juneau, heading west instead of south, and cruising aboard a different vessel (a 65-foot sistership to Explorer named Ursa Major) accompanied by her owner. Brown being an indisputable expert on food, boats, and Alaska, I signed on.
I landed in Sitka in late July to typical Alaskan drizzle and mid-50s temperatures. Brown met me with a hearty hello and slap on the back, and we were off to the docks. When you're on a boat that cruises at 7 knots, every moment counts, so after I met Capt. Ron Miller, owner Dr. Joyce Gauthier, and mate Cami Cash, we were headed northwest, past old Sitka, where Russia ceded Alaska to the United States in 1867.
We settled into a leisurely 7 1/2 knots with the big diesel turning 850 rpm. At 109 tons, not much disturbs Ursa, even after we cleared Neva Strait and Salisbury Sound and entered the notorious Gulf of Alaska. She took the six- and eight-footers so well, I quickly fell asleep. When I awakened we were entering Piehle Pass, an unmarked passage through scores of rocky islets, named after a famous Sitka rumrunner. Piehl used to hang an anchor light on one of these islets to fool the revenuers so he could deliver his hootch. All went well until he fell asleep one night and his boat dragged anchor. The Coast Guard spotted him and, thinking he needed help, hailed him. Figuring he was busted, he reportedly said, "Well, ya got me." The Feds investigated and soon had him in custody.
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Energy Minister Martin Ferguson will release the government's final energy white paper in Melbourne on Thursday.
It will advocate charging more for power at peak times and using new technologies to help households manage their bills.
Smart meters, which allow customers to monitor and adjust their energy usage, could be a key part of the proposals.
The meters have the support of opposition energy spokesman Ian Macfarlane, who says their proper use could help families cut electricity usage and lower their bills.
The white paper is also expected to campaign for more efficient investment in infrastructure so cash is not pumped into projects that are only used in occasional peak times.
Mr Ferguson will also urge the states to follow Victoria's lead and deregulate their electricity sectors.
Queensland has indicated it is not ready to sell off its electricity assets without putting the sale to voters.
Mr Macfarlane said some states would need encouragement to get them across the line on deregulation.
"But you won't get the states to do what needs to be done by politicising the issue as Julia Gillard has done or by waving a big stick at them," he told ABC radio.
Victoria had the lowest transmission charges, due to its privatised network, Mr Macfarlane said.
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