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- SP, also known as Security Police is a Japanese television drama based on the real life security police unit of Japan which is responsible for protecting domestic and foreign VIPs. The series script was written by famed GO author Kazuki Kaneshiro and marks his first time writing for a television drama. The drama centers on a newly recruited SP officer named Kaoru Inoue, who is the only SP officer known in the force to have sharp senses that enables him to conduct his duties by using this ESP sense to take down the threat before it appears to threaten the VIP and the civilians who are caught in the middle. The franchise consists of the TV series, two film adaptations of the series released in 2010 and 2011 with an ongoing manga adaptation.
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Courtesy of the Oklahoma Gazette. Click here for the original article and for links to more stories about the Oklahoma Christian alumni involved in the project.
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What if seven local musicians collaborated on seven songs in seven days? You get The 7 Project, and the resulting album just adds up.
The 7 Project
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Right in the thick of a deep run into the NBA playoffs, Oklahoma City came together earlier this year in not only a frenzy of fandom, but a dawning realization that this indeed is a major-league city and, by extension, state.
Somewhere between the OKC Thunder sweeping the Dallas Mavericks and taking its bittersweet trip into the finals, local producer Kelcy White approached songwriter and fellow OC alum Brianna Gaither with an idea of how to connect Oklahomans in something beyond sports.
"That hype led to so much unity in Oklahoma. It made us think, 'How could this apply to music and how can musicians become a part of that unity?'" Gaither said of the result, The 7 Project, in which seven local musicians wrote and recorded seven songs in seven days. "It's an experiment in community."
Group dynamicsThe two found no shortage of talent interested in being part of what every one felt was something special. Gaither was joined by Keri Blumer (Fos), Matt Stansberry, Denver Duncan, Alberto Roubert (Defining Times), Zach Zeller (The Non) and Michael Bewley (The Rockettops), with White producing and recording the album. Stansberry and Zeller also are OC alumni.
They were given access to rehearsal and studio spaces at Oklahoma Christian University in September, writing songs in the first two days, and recording and refining every part in the last five. No one came in with preconceived songs or even melodies, just his or her instrument and skill set.
"We had a structure for how we were going to accomplish what we wanted to accomplish, but we had no ideas going in," Blumer said. "I felt blind, like, 'How's this going to work?' It's not that I ever thought it couldn't be done … but I didn't know how it could be done."
The seven wrote furiously for the first 48 hours, sometimes working as a full group, sometimes breaking off into smaller ones.
"There was no room or reason to stop," Blumer said.
With the artists having vastly different backgrounds, ranging from acoustic hip-hop to folk and indie rock, the songs rarely resembled any one's usual motif, rather becoming a collective canvas to which all contributed their own stroke.
"We have a distinctness about us. Naturally, those things come out," Gaither said. "At no point did I feel like I had to impress myself into something; my personality just comes through. When everyone is collaborating, you can totally pinpoint influence from every person. It's cohesive as a record; it's eclectic and a lot of different sounds, but it's those same seven people."
The finished product — recalling anything from Radiohead to Justin Timberlake — is tied together by a level of quality none of the contributors thought possible, given the situation.
"It's one thing to write seven songs with people in seven days," Gaither said. "It's another to actually like them."
Final equation
Weeks removed from the experience and prepping to release the record on Sunday, all parties involved have found themselves to be more capable musicians.
"You always grow when you're forced to put out a product," Duncan said. "Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. This experience was good."
Added Stansberry, "I really learned that my ideas aren't always the best ones on the table, and listening is just as important in collaborating as contributing my two cents. When my ideas are good, I need to be subtly assertive with them, but much of the time, just listening and bouncing off other ideas leads to a better end product."
"There was this sense of wanting to do something great, something exceptional," Gaither said. "There's a respectful honesty that is a wonderful grounds for growth."
No one is prouder than White, who has seen his idea come to fruition.
"I wanted this project to show what a community of talented Okie artists could accomplish under a high amount of pressure," White said. "This record proves they can accomplish a lot."
And with so much still to learn, something like this will happen again sooner, rather than later.
"When you're in a band, it's easy to get caught up in your own music, but this project forces you to give that up for the sake of collaboration," Zeller said. "Hopefully, we can share in what we have in common, despite our diversity. I hope people want more, because I'm surely hooked on the idea."


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Eating disorders often develop during adolescence or early adulthood, but may also start during childhood or later in adulthood. Females are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder.
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Raymond James (RJF) rolled out a compensation grid for employee advisors last week that goes into effect in October. The firm changes its payout plan very infrequently, which means the new comp grid should be in place for at least several years.
The changes are generally seen as positive, since they will most likely be financially neutral to advisors across the firm, are "product neutral" for reps and include more compensation levels than before, experts say.
"They got rid of their past product-based compensation categories, which were limiting, and have stretched out their grid, which is much more like the current industry standard, with 10 tiers or so," said Andy Tasnady (left), a compensation consultant with Tasnady & Associates, in an interview with AdvisorOne.
"It provides some additional incentives to work a bit harder to get to the next tier, where there are additional opportunities for higher payouts," Tasnady said, rather than just reaching for the broader $1 million-and-up category that was in place in the earlier grid. "Now [in the next fiscal year], you can get an additional percent" for growing production to the $1.5 million- $2.5 million tier, for instance.
Raymond James' wirehouse rivals have had a product-neutral grid for the past five to 10 years, he adds. "And doing this, in my opinion, was long overdue," noted Tasnady.
Advisors and branch managers, like Steve Fricke or Orlando, Fla., say the product-neutral feature had been planned for some time. Fricke, a branch manager on the Raymond James & Associates Executive Council that worked on the grid, points out that—with the exception of some tweaking in 2010—grid changes are not part of the firm's culture.
"This is really the first new compensation plan that I have seen in my 13 years here," he said in an interview. "Unlike our competitors, compensation changes are not a regular event at Raymond James. When we do this, we want to be sure be get it right, so it can stay in place for some time, maybe even the next 20 years."
The Executive Council, Fricke adds, "really aimed for a simple, easy-to-understand comp plan that was more in line with the industry, structurally speaking."
When Fricke spoke with the 50 or so advisors that he supervises, he stressed that the plan aimed "to be revenue neutral for Raymond James, and that winners and losers would come out of it." Still, he says, the pay increases for his branch should see "more winners than losers."
Advisors had been given a "heads up" more than a year ago, Fricke said. "They knew we were going to a product-neutral grid. They'd examined their business mix and had made strategic changes, so they could be on track to build up [business] and this could be a positive change for them."
For some, the new grid had some unexpected upside. "There was one advisor, who came from a rival firm five years ago, who said, 'I have never been through a change where I made more money. I thought it would be a pay cut, and it's a 2% increase. ' " Raymond James & Associates' new grid applies to those advisors with seven years or more of industry experience. Thus, two of the three new advisors that joined the firm on Friday from Morgan Stanley—Philip T. Maurer, David M. Kushner and Barbara Maurer—will be eligible for it in October.
(The team, M2K Financial, moves to Raymond James with about $146 million in client assets and annual fees and commissions of more than $935,000).
What RJA hasn't done, says Tasnady, "is to jump on the bandwagon of additional behavior-based awards, i.e., incentive bonuses for targeted growth in assets, number of ultrahigh-net-worth clients, fee-based revenue, etc."
The company says that type of compensation, though important, doesn't work with its grid format.
"Raymond James is committed, now more than ever, to a simplified, one-page, transparent compensation grid so, no, we do not pay additional compensation for certain 'behaviors'—knowing that if our advisors are successful they will be rewarded commensurate with their success," said Tash Elwyn, head of private client operations for RJA, in a statement.
"We do, however, recognize the value of a number of professional designations and credentials as well as an advisor's continuing education and development," Elwyn said. "Those competencies are included in an advisor's qualification for our recognition clubs, which in turn provide valuable wealth-building benefits."


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Boy Scout Troop #398 meets at the Cedar Creek Bible Church from 7-8:30 p.m. each Tuesday. For more information, call (903) 498-5725 or (903) 498-3830.
Cedar Creek Art Society meets from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the last Thursday of each month at the Mabank Volunteer Fire Department. A $3 donation per artist is asked.
Cedar Creek Domino Club meets each week on Wednesday and Thursday mornings and Saturday afternoons at the Mabank Volunteer Fire Department. For more info, call (903) 498-4351.
Cedar Creek NAR-ANON meets at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at 715 S. Hwy. 274, Ste. D in Seven Points.
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Cedar Creek Lake Kiwanis Club meets at noon each Wednesday at Lakeridge RV Park in Gun Barrel City (across from D.Q.), except the second week of the month, when the club meets Thursday in conjunction with the area chamber of commerce luncheon.
Cedar Creek Optimist Club meets every Tuesday at noon at the Dairy Queen in Seven Points. For more information please call Danny Hampel at (903) 778-4508.
Cedar Creek Republican Club meets every fourth Thursday. For more information call (903) 887-4867.
Cedar Creek Rotary Club meets at noon each Friday at Vetoni's Italian Restaurant. For more information, call Dee Ann Owens at (903) 340-2415.
Cub Scout Pack #333 meets at the First United Methodist Church of Mabank the second and fourth Monday at 7 p.m. For information, call Mary Harris at (903) 451-5280 or Tonya Capley at (903) 498-4725.
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Disabled American Veterans Chapter 101 meets the second Monday of each month at the Senior Citizens Center on Hwy. 31 in Athens.
Friendship Club meets at 1:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Tri-County Resource Center. For more information, call Janie Ivey at (903) 887-4666.
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Gun Barrel Quilter's Guild meets from 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the Tri-County Library in Mabank. For more information, please call (903) 451-4221.
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SUICIDE SURVIVORS GROUP for those grieving the loss of someone by suicide, meets every Monday at 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Mabank.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meet at 6 p.m. each Monday at the First Baptist Church of Mabank. Contact Gaye Ward at (903) 887-5913 for more info.
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There are just 39 days left in 2012, which means that here at NPR Music, we're locked in the final days of picking our favorite music of the year. On Dec. 5, we'll share with you lists of our favorite albums and songs of 2012, plus individual picks from team members and the All Songs Considered year-end discussion show. We'll also give you the chance to vote on your favorite albums. And over the rest of the month, we'll have much more: mixes and lists of station favorites, essays and news coverage about the year in music.
Right now, though, there's so much music to hear, from dozens of genres and places of origin, that we'll likely be arguing up to the final moments before we reveal the results. But we agreed on a few picks early, so we decided to share them with the folks at All Things Considered and with you. You can hear team members Tom Huizenga, Frannie Kelley and Stephen Thompson talk about six albums that will be on the list of our favorite albums of 2012 on the show (and at the link on this page), and listen to samples from each below.
Johann Sebastian Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Performed by the Berlin Philharmonic
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
directed by Peter Sellars
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe
Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. Happy Thanksgiving. This is the time of year to take stock, to give thanks for those things you appreciate: friends, family. And if you're a music critic, it's time to look back at the year in music.
FUN: (Singing) ...carry me home. Tonight, we are young.
GOTYE: (Singing) ...somebody that you used to know. But you didn't have to cut me out.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN: (Singing) Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy. But here's my number, so call me maybe. Hey...
CORNISH: That's Carly Rae Jepsen, Gotye and the band Fun. All dominated the charts this year. Were they really turning out the best music of 2012? Our friends at NPR Music have been hard at work figuring out their favorite albums of the year. And for a preview, we're joined now by three members of the NPR Music team. We've got Tom Huizenga, the classical music producer. Hey there, Tom.
TOM HUIZENGA, BYLINE: Hey.
CORNISH: Frannie Kelley, writer and editor, covers hip-hop and R&B.
FRANNIE KELLEY, BYLINE: Hey, Audie.
CORNISH: And Stephen Thompson. Hi there, Stephen. Doing rock and pop, I think.
STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: Sure. Hello, Audie.
CORNISH: Well, you guys are in the midst of actually deciding doing all the fighting upstairs, right, about your favorite music of the year.
KELLEY: Turbulent time. Of course.
THOMPSON: These are difficult days for NPR Music.
CORNISH: And we asked all of you to bring two albums that you think are actually going to make the list, all right, a little - just a little preview. And I want to jump right into it. And, Tom, let's start with you. What made the list?
HUIZENGA: Well, one release I'm just been in awe of is a DVD release of a concert performance of Bach's "St. Matthew Passion."
HUIZENGA: The performance is by the Berlin Philharmonic. Pop this in your DVD player. Three hours later, your life will change.
CORNISH: Three hours.
HUIZENGA: It's a long piece.
CORNISH: What makes it remarkable?
HUIZENGA: Well, I - have you ever been to, like, a movie, a play, a concert where it's over and you're speechless, you're in tears, and something has happened to you?
CORNISH: No. But it sounds like...
KELLEY: Oh, my God.
CORNISH: ...this is the time.
HUIZENGA: I don't feel - I don't really feel joy.
THOMPSON: You've got to get out more.
HUIZENGA: Well, that's what happened to me after watching this performance. And what is special about it is this performance has been semi-staged by Peter Sellars, a radical director who's, like, known for doing things like staging Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in Harlem. He has actually required the choristers to actually memorize all the parts to free them up from looking at the sheet music, and they can actually move around on stage as actors. And this really pulls you so much deeper into the music, into the drama. And it becomes not just a performance. It becomes almost more like a ritual.
HUIZENGA: I just want to make one thing clear, that, you know, religious convictions aside, I think that the - you know, this music, with all of its sweetness and its suffering and its strength, really, I mean, it tells more of a universal story of hope, of loss and of possibilities for the future.
CORNISH: Well, what's interesting is the kind of sweetness and suffering and emotion, all these words you're using are also words I've heard to describe your next pick, which is going to sound very different.
HUIZENGA: That's true. It's from Sharon Van Etten.
SHARON VAN ETTEN: (Singing) There he goes. He finally closed the door. I turn the lock feeling more confused than before.
CORNISH: How did she end up on your list, actually? I'm a little surprised to see her there.
HUIZENGA: Well, you know, man cannot live by classical music alone.
HUIZENGA: I listen to a lot of music. And this record is really just about tops on my list. And her first record was only in 2009. And now, with "Tramp," this record released early in 2012, I think that we're seeing an artist peaking.
ETTEN: (Singing) ...just walk away surprised. He loved you. Well, well, I am bad.
CORNISH: Frannie, what do you think about the year? I'm interested to hear what music you brought because I feel like there's always this kind of perennial handwringing, in hip-hop in particular, about the state of the scene.
KELLEY: I think it's the year of the vet, honestly. As much as there's been a whole bunch of talk about some really great newcomers, I think this Killer Mike album was probably the best.
KILLER MIKE: (Rapping) You are witnessing elegance in the form of a black elephant. On terraces. Will I die slain like my king by a terrorist? Will my woman be Coretta, take my name and cherish it?
KELLEY: He's been around for over 10 years, sort of working in Atlanta with that Outkast family. What he put out this year, "R.A.P Music," he just came at it right, and he's just like fluent at rapping. He's also sort of become a man. He talks a lot about growing up. And you hear him grapple with mistakes that he's made and overcome and want to push his listeners to move with him
MIKE: The Lord give a load, you got to carry it like Mary did. That's why I'm giving honor to all these baby mommas. It takes a woman's womb to make a Christ or Dalai Lama. The world might take that child, turn that child into a monster. The Lord'll take a monster and fashion him a saint. I present you Malcolm X for those who's saying that he can't.
CORNISH: That's Killer Mike out of Atlanta. And, Frannie, who is the other vet you had on your list.
KELLEY: Bobby Womack with Damon Albarn of Blur and Richard Russell of a label called XL. On this record, too, even though it's a collaboration, you really hear Bobby Womack, like right up front.
BOBBY WOMACK: (Singing) I could try to say I'm sorry, but that won't be quite enough.
KELLEY: And this is a guy who was behind the scenes for a long time. He was Sam Cooke's protege, and then he wrote songs for a whole bunch of people. You know, he wrote...
CORNISH: And he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I mean, I think in only 2009.
KELLEY: Only a few years ago. Yeah, exactly. But - and then, you know, sometimes that means the end of the road. That's like the cap on your career. And this album proves that he's not done, he hasn't slowed down. He's paying attention to everything.
WOMACK: (Singing) Please forgive my heart. It's not that the problem lies anywhere in there. I'm a liar. I'm in a dream.
CORNISH: You know, Frannie, what's interesting about hearing this is there's a strain of pop music, of younger artists trying to kind of mimic or emulate those soul sounds.
KELLEY: Get retro with it.
CORNISH: And here, it's the reverse, essentially.
KELLEY: Yeah, Bobby Womack actually told WEEKENDS ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED that he didn't recognize himself all the time on this album.
THOMPSON: Yeah. And, I mean, it's definitely an overarching theme. And it's a theme of - really, any good year for music is when you have musicians of every generation sort of reaching beyond themselves. And, you know, so much of my favorite music of this year, it is not content to be what it is on the surface. And, you know, one of the records that I brought that I think we sort of all agreed on the entire music scene as a great record is "Channel Orange" by Frank Ocean.
FRANK OCEAN: (Singing) A tornado flew around my room before you came. Excuse the mess it made. It usually doesn't rain in Southern California much like Arizona. My eyes...
THOMPSON: He's a guy who's been bubbling up for, you know, for a few years, you know, where everybody has kind of been operating under the assumption that he's going to break out and become a huge star. And that's what happened in 2012. My experience with this record sort of began with the song "Thinking About You," and I just became endlessly smitten with it, you know, where I would sing along with it in the car in a way that would just curdle all the milk within 10 miles.
THOMPSON: But, you know, but I just - I, you know, I fell in love with kind of the vulnerability of the song and the emotion of the song. In about two minutes of the song, he hits the bridge and there are these beautiful sounds kind of hitting underneath them that just punch me in the guts.
OCEAN: (Singing) Yes, of course, I remember. How could I forget how you feel? How you feel. You know, you were my first time, a new feel. It will never get old, not in my soul, not in my spirit, keep it alive.
THOMPSON: I love the way he continuously really kind of tries to get a handle on love. It's this concept that's very uncomfortable and unfamiliar and sort of how to even...
CORNISH: And that is an artist who also come out as bisexual that (unintelligible) also remarked on a lot.
THOMPSON: Yeah. And that undercurrent definitely comes through in, you know, in some songs more than others. It's much more universal than that. It's a very easy peg to hang this record on, but there's a lot more to it than that.
KELLEY: Yeah. It was everybody's make-out mix this year.
THOMPSON: Oh.
CORNISH: So, Stephen, this next group is not - it's not exactly something we would put on our make-out playlist, but it's definitely very energetic, a lot of fun. It's Japandroids.
THOMPSON: Yes. Japandroids, it's a duo from Vancouver, and it's called "Celebration Rock."
JAPANDROIDS: (Singing) A northern soul in southern lands will always find his way to southern hands. She'll kiss away your gypsy fears.
THOMPSON: There's good music, there's great music, and there's awesome music. And the Japandroids record is the awesomest album of 2012.
JAPANDROIDS: (Singing) Hearts from hell collide on fire's highway tonight. We dreamed it. Now we know. Hearts from hell collide on fire's highway tonight. Now we know.
CORNISH: Hearing all of you talk about your picks, you're all pretty emotional about it. And I'm wondering how you actually decide what makes the cut. Frannie.
KELLEY: I mean, it's kind of crazy because you start - as you look back at the year in music, you start thinking about your life that year. You know, I turned 30 this year, and so I'm really into these albums where people are like older is better, like, something like that. (Unintelligible).
HUIZENGA: I've been to that.
THOMPSON: Yeah, me too.
CORNISH: For you, Tom?
HUIZENGA: You know, I just go for - Stephen mentioned awesome. I just go for awesomeness. I think of all the years I put mixtapes together for friends and stuff like that, and you need to start up a mixtape with something really, really awesome. I mean, it's almost like some kind of drug.
CORNISH: So it's the idea that you actually - you have to want to share because there's something...
HUIZENGA: Absolutely.
CORNISH: ...love, but you don't necessarily want to share it.
THOMPSON: Well, I mean, writing about music is a little bit like writing about your friends. You want to play matchmaker with it a little bit. And so, you know, you wind up investing music with a lot of feelings, you know, because getting people into music is - I mean, Tom used the phrase like a drug - it's like a drug. When I attach to a record, it's like falling in love.
HUIZENGA: Oh, yeah. Ask my wife about those type of things.
HUIZENGA: When the record gets played again and again and again and again and again and again.
THOMPSON: Yeah. I mean, in some ways, music is so much better than people.
HUIZENGA: Speak for yourself.
CORNISH: Well, you guys, best of luck with coming up with the rest of the music that's going to make the favorite music of the year list. Stephen Thompson, Frannie Kelley and Tom Huizenga, thank you.
THOMPSON: Thank you, Audie.
KELLEY: Thank you, Audie.
HUIZENGA: Great to be here.
JAPANDROIDS: (Singing) ...on fire's highway tonight. Now we know.
CORNISH: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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iPhone Game Review: Rise of Lost Empires
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In the spirit of Warcraft franchise and true real-time strategy gameplay, Rise of Lost Empires brings that all-too-familiar good vs. evil (humans vs. Orcs) rushing battles and frantic farming and building experience to the iPhone and iPod touch. Played entirely in campaign form, the game offers 20 levels with 6 heroes and troops that include warriors, archers, knights, catapults and more.
RTS games have gone from thinking and strategizing hard to rushing to battle as early as possible thanks to the Warcraft series. Building farms to earn money and building barracks and archeries to make troops are a prelude to the real thing: bashing enemies? heads and burning down their camps and castles. Rise of Lost Empires fashioned over 20 levels of rushing campaigns in this new RTS manner, providing enough lengthy battles that qualifies the game as a mini-epic title. The levels start out easy: you are a paladin leading troops of swordsmen and archers, you must complete various objectives including cut through enemy encampments, take out enemy installations, defend your own castle and land, and more. Once you capture a flag (it turns to your color), you can use that flag to build farms, barracks, archery, siege weapon factories, guard towers and more. As you go through the first couple of missions, the game walks you through the basic controls for building and for fighting. Soon you join two other heroes (an archer and a sorcerer) and embark on more complex and lengthy missions.
When you start each level, the game gives you objectives, and off you go. There will often be further objectives, like frag orders in the Marines, that come after you?ve completed the last ones. As an RTS game, Rise of Lost Empires has a small set of farming and building element compared to a desktop RTS game. The only building that has upgrades is the research building, and the rest of them are only for producing money and units. Like in most RTS games, you need to not only take out enemy?s castle and buildings but also protect your own. This often requires you to split up your troops; one for attacking and one for defending. The heroes have super powers, especially healing powers that can regenerate their own health as well as the units in his or her group. So it?s beneficial to move your units with your heroes together and heal them together. Like a good Warcraft game, the enemies in Rise of Lost Empires like to rush you. As soon as you captured a few flags and started building a few building, the enemy units will start to show up.
The AI heavily favors the heroes vs. normal troops. If you keep healing your hero, he is virtually invincible against normal enemy units. But not all of your heroes have healing abilities. The warrior and range heroes often can take care of themselves as all of them have healing abilities, but the sorcerers don?t. They often are the first to die and should always travel in packs with another hero who can heal. Luckily you can bring your heroes back after they die, it just costs you some money and time but your castle will respawn your heroes as often as you need. There aren?t a lot of types of fighting units, but they come in a good number of varieties.
After the first 10 missions, the world in Rise of Lost Empires turns upside down. You switch from the human side to the Orc side. The Orc champions and lords have different powers than the human heroes, some more powerful like Earthquake that can easily take out a building in two or three tries. Under a different banner and with overgrown muscles, you set out to destroy the same heroes you were a minute ago and the same villages you?ve just built. Fun! The Orc missions have a couple small twists, like figuring out how to open fire gates, escorting a totem, etc., but they largely stay the same as human missions. It can feel repetitive after say mission 16.
Graphics & Sound
Rise of Lost Empires has impressive top-down view graphics that look sharp and color saturated. Building and units have their distinctive looks and the controls are touch friendly. The units move very smoothly and animations are impressive. The game did a great job at creating very different environments and units in the human levels from the Orc levels. Path finding is also smooth and flawless; there was never once a unit got lost in the woods while trying to get to the valley.
Rise of Lost Empires has the typical epic, serious sound track that without looking you?d guess it?s an epic RTS battle playing out on the screen. Voice dubbing is also interesting and appropriately fitting each hero character. You wouldn?t want a paladin knight and an Orc champion sound similar, would you?
If you ever want to experience Warcraft on a small screen, Rise of Lost Empires is a must have title. Though Rise of Lost Empires doesn?t have the gorgeous 3D world found in today?s online WoW games, this iPhone RST packs a tight gameplay in a good number of missions spreading to several heroes on both sides of the war. The idea is ambitions and the execution flawless. Some missions are harder than others, and you might have to try it once or twice more to beat them, but in the end you will not regret taking the journey that very few iPhone/iPod touch games have to offer.
Ratings (scale of 1 to 5):
Graphics: - 5 -
Top grade graphics, unit movements are smooth.
Sound: - 5 -
Typical RTS music, plenty of sound FX and nice voice dubbing.
Controls: - 5 -
Every building and hero has very touch friendly controls.
Gameplay: - 5 -
A good number of missions packed into a tight package. Has great replay value.
Playing Hints and Tips:
- Remember to use your hero?s healing abilities with the entire unit by selecting them together into a group.
- The knights are often better at defending. Spread a few of them to guard your camp entrances along with the guard towers.
- The heroes can usually finish the jobs at hand, so make sure you keep an eye on each one of them and make sure they are doing something to complete the missions.
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The United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) has announced a three-year deal with CricHQ (www.crichq.com) and this will see the New Zealand-based cricket technology company provide online scoring and tournament management for all USACA-sanctioned cricket across the country.
As the peak body for cricket in the United States, USACA administers over 35,000 players playing in eight regions across the country and continually strives to provide tangible benefits to Leagues and Clubs that will enhance the experience of cricket for everyone.
USACA CEO Mr Darren Beazley said the deal was great news for everyone associated with American cricket at the grassroots level and beyond.
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I am pleased to advise that all financial 2013 USACA members will receive access to the CricHQ package at a significantly reduced rate. This is yet another service USACA provides to its members and a very public commitment to enhancing the game right across the USA."
CricHQ Chief Executive Simon Baker said the deal with USACA was another significant milestone for CricHQ.
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It's still early days, but with the support of a professional body such as USACA working with us, we're looking forward to providing the American cricketing community with some really useful new functionality and technology."
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Ichiro thanks 'Ichi-Meter Lady' with handwritten note and milestone memento
Though Ichiro Suzuki was traded to the New York Yankees during the 2012 season and elected to re-sign there last winter, many of his biggest fans and supporters remain in Seattle, where he spent the first 11 1/2 years of his MLB career. Among those fans — and perhaps the most loyal of them all — is Amy Franz, who became famous for keeping track of Ichiro's hit total with her "Ichi-Meter" during his record-breaking 262 hit season in 2004.
As Ichiro closed in on another career milestone, his 4,000th hit between Japan and MLB, Franz decided she was going to fly to New York to support him and hopefully be there firsthand for the historic moment. Her trip would end up taking her to Boston and eventually back to New York, but the persistence paid off as she was in attendance at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 21 when Ichiro slapped one of his trademark singles by a diving Brett Lawrie to join Pete Rose and Ty Cobb as the only professional baseball players to collect 4,000 or more hits.
Milestone accomplished for Ichiro.
Mission accomplished for Franz, who was also fortunate enough to share a few moments with an appreciative Ichiro following the game.
Waited forever and finally Ichiro came out of garage! Stopped, talked to me, gave me hug and autograph!!!!! I'll tweet picture later
— Amy Franz (@ichimeterlady) August 22, 2013
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Wristband from August 21, 2013 game...the 4000th hit!!! pic.twitter.com/uxudviKUrZ
— Amy Franz (@ichimeterlady) December 5, 2013
Apparently, Ichiro thought Franz was due a little more appreciation for traveling all that distance to support him, so he thanked her again with a handwritten note and a memento from the game itself.
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Dear Amy:
I didn't know your Ichi Meter could count to 4,000.
Thanks for being there in New York, Boston, and New York again to show me it could. In appreciation of your continued support, please have the wristband I was wearing when you changed it to 4,000.
A simple and classy gesture by one of the game's undisputed class acts.
4,000 plus hits will define Ichiro's legacy on the field and eventually lead him to baseball's Hall of Fame. But it's his kindness off the field that is truly second to none and will be always worth remembering.
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Rick Simmers, head of the state's Division of Oil and Gas Resources, said the first four new permits went out Tuesday to sites in Athens, Portage and Washington counties. He said another 28 sites will be permitted in small batches of five or under in coming months.
"We never had an official moratorium on issuing the permits, but we've asked the companies to work cooperatively with us as we upgrade our statutes and rules to make them even more stringent, and the companies have," Simmer said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Showcase offers a feast of international prospects
Brewers manager Doug Melvin was perched in the front row near the third-base line, scribbling notes. On the other side of the field, D-backs general manager Kevin Towers sat in the stands near first base with his arms folded, staring at the field. Arizona manager Kirk Gibson was seated behind Towers and Padres senior vice president of baseball operations Omar Minaya was next to him.
They were watching the second annual MLB Prospect International Showcase, featuring some of the top teens from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Curacao and Panama -- players who will be eligible to sign with Major League clubs beginning July 2.
But what they witnessed was a scene unlike any other in the history of international scouting: a baseball festival complete with local dignitaries, Major League Baseball legends like Joe Torre and Pedro Martinez, hundreds of family and friends and at least 300 scouts representing all 30 teams.
For two days, much of the baseball community came together in the Dominican Republic for a sneak peak into the game's future in Latin America. They also celebrated the game's past.
"I really enjoy being here. The players from Latin America, they eat and sleep baseball," Towers said. "If you have baseball passion, what is better than coming to the Dominican Republic to watch kids play baseball? It's also great to see your friends. Guys you either worked with or for or compete against you. It's a great time here."
The showcase began Wednesday morning on the warning track down the third-base line with timed 60-yard sprints. Then the prospects showed off their defensive skills with a series of drills before taking batting practice. The prospects were separated into two teams and scrimmaged to cap off the afternoon, but not before a special pregame ceremony that honored former big league outfielder Raul Mondesi, who is now the city's mayor.
Mondesi later presented an award to Martinez. Among those also recognized were Torre, Major League Baseball's executive VP of baseball operations; Kim Ng, MLB's senior vice president of baseball operations; and Joel Araujo, manager of Latin American game development. Also introduced were former Major League pitcher Pedro Astacio, Dominican baseball legend Eliodoro Arias and representatives from the countries participating in the showcase.
Torre threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Martinez, who was crouched behind the plate, and Mondesi, who was standing in the batter's box, swung and missed. The crowd roared and the game began. The prospects played again on Thursday.
"What we have been able to incorporate is the sense of community around this game and having Joe [Torre] down here is the pinnacle of what we have done as far as representation," Ng said. "What we at MLB are trying to achieve down here and let everyone in the international community know [is] that this means a lot to us. Growth of the game is a high item on our agenda and to have this many countries represented here is just tremendous and hopefully we can keep growing it."
Last year's international showcase in Boca Chica drew around 200 people, primarily scouts, and only featured prospects from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. This year's crowd was nearly double.
"This event is well-organized, well-run and you get a chance to see a lot of players in one place," Melvin said. "I had heard about the showcases, and I always wanted to see how they operate. For us, the Brewers want to get more involved and have more of a presence. We know with the new CBA and rules, we think there is an opportunity here with the showcases and there is value to them."
In accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement, each team was allotted $2.9 million to spend on the international market starting July 2, 2012, without penalty. Exceptions -- such as a team's six highest signing bonuses of $50,000 or less and players signed for $7,500 or less -- do not count against the spending cap.
This July's international signing period will work in a similar way, and the amount clubs are allowed to spend will be based largely on their records in the 2012 season. The pools for each team will range from an estimated $4.9 million (for the lowest winning percentage) to $1.8 million (for the highest winning percentage). Clubs will be allowed to trade pool money.
The Astros, whose record was last in the Major Leagues last season, had at least 10 scouts at the event. Most teams had at least five representatives.
"This showcase is a great opportunity for the kids, even if they don't get signed, because they are all being seen," Martinez said. "It was totally different for players like me. We had to go to the academies and try out. You had to be spotted or maybe somebody takes you like my brother Ramon did with me. Now there is better scouting, better stadiums, better everything."
The smile on Martinez's face showed how happy he was to be there. The joy emanating from the dugout proved he was not the only one.
"This has been an unforgettable experience," said outfield prospect Eloy Jimenez. "I never thought I would be on the same field as Pedro Martinez and Joe Torre. It's like a dream come true. The next dream is the big leagues and then the Hall of Fame."


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