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A beautiful print from 1889 by George Rossi Ashton, depicting a squad from the Victorian Artillery.
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Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
9 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 He told them: "Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt. 4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town. 5 If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them." 6 So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead, 8 others that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life. 9 But Herod said, "I beheaded John. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?" And he tried to see him.
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Since 1991, Montessori Children's Community has been dedicated to the enrichment of children. Based on the philosophy and methodology of Dr. Maria Montessori, Montessori Children's Community started with a Children's House program. Over the past 22 years, under the watchful eye of School Head, Terri Modic, MCC has carefully developed each program. Today we offer a morning and afternoon Children's House program, a Lower Elementary Program, an Upper Elementary Program, and a Middle School Program.
Our curriculum is continuous from Children's House through 8th Grade. The curriculum at each level builds on the skills and knowledge acquired in the previous years. We believe that a child maximizes his/her potential growth by completing each program through 8th grade.
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For years, Lawrence Tech has been an innovator in the use of technology in the classroom. In 2001, we introduced the wireless laptop program — one of the first schools in the nation to do so. And today, all undergraduates receive a powerful "Tech Book" laptop computer that allows access to the University's network and Internet2 from anywhere on campus.
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Today, I have mostly been dozing off on the sofa, eating a chair-creakingly calorific Sunday lunch, and watching the finale of Downton – the dialogue of which is so clunky, cheesy and downright cringable that I neeeearly can't bring myself to view it – but it all looks so lovely that I can't resist.
Anyway. This NaBloPoMo thing. On we go! I require interaction from you today.
The poisoned chalice of PTA chairmanship stopped in front of me this year. A new broom, etc, and for reasons that escape me I exhorted my fellow committee members to include a 'parents' category in the school Autumn Creation competition, in the hope of dissuading everyone from giving their children quite so much Very Obvious assistance with their entries.
Cut a boring story short: John and I were the only two parents that entered, AND I spent nearly 3 hours helping Harry with his.
But at least one of us was assured of victory, which, given that it is John and I, really mattered. But they weren't judged! Woe! The Headteacher kindly – wisely? refrained from choosing between the Hairy Farmers.
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Caring for an ailing parent is a life-changing event. Beyond the sadness and suffering, the experience can teach caregiving children a lot about toughness, perseverance and especially love. WSJ contributor Dave Shiflett shares his story on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Ron Shiflett Jr.
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My Mum and Grandpa were both in the room when this news was given to my Nana last Tuesday. According to my Mum, this was the first time in her entire life that she had ever witnessed her father cry. :( After receiving this news my Nana was then moved straight to a private room in the Intensive Care Unit, where our family was granted 24hr visitor access in order to say our "goodbyes".
Once we arrived it was like something out of a movie. The whole situation was just so surreal to me. To see my Nana in such a bad state and knowing that there was nothing anyone could do for her was truly heartbreaking. What made things even harder was watching my Mum and her older sister clinging on to Nana's hands and crying for the loss that they had been told was about to come. The trigger that opened the floodgates for everybody though was when my Uncle called from overseas and asked to speak to Nana on speaker phone. Perhaps we should have left for the room for that phonecall, because as my Uncle cried his heart out on the phone, the whole room burst into tears. :(
Later that evening (a few hours after the time that the doctors had predicted that she would pass) my Nana woke up from already broken sleep and started screaming/crying for someone to take my Grandpa home to rest. My poor Grandpa of course refused to do so at first, and he started crying into the covers, yelling at anyone who tried to help him up. Eventually Nana's pleading had an effect on him though as he all of a sudden rose from the bed and asked my Mum to drive him home. He told my Nana that he would be back in the morning, all the while believing that she would pass away during the night. For Pa, this was their final goodbye, and he barely made it through the corridor before completely breaking down.


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Travel mates
Screen Play has been traveling a lot lately, ensuring that I've spent lots of time with the DS.
It has given me the chance to try and bolster my Pokemon troupe so I can catch up to the rampant progress my eldest son is making in Diamond, but I've also found a few other cartridges have become essential travel companions.
First in the bag is always the DS browser, which thanks to Nintendo's handy agreement with Telstra, enables me to keep track of the Screen Play chatter without paying those exorbitant mobile data charges.
Another essential is Clubhouse Games, a title which hasn't got the attention it deserves over the last year (despite my praise when reviewed in the SMH). I've since seen the game pop up occasionally on retail catalogues for less than half price and can highly recommend it as a evergreen favourite, great fun whether you've got just a couple of minutes spare or a few hours to kill.
Other games that have proved faithful friends on the road or in the air include Animal Crossing Wide World, Advance Wars Dual Strike and Elite Beat Agents.
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What a Buzz
Everybody is an expert at something, even if it's a topic as trivial as Star Wars bloopers, pop songs of the Great Depression, or Kylie Minogue's love life.
PS3's upcoming Buzz: Quiz TV will let you share your passion for minutiae with the world, and let you compete in customised quizzes that could range from "Gadgets of Star Trek" to "Hill Family Holiday Mishaps". Workplaces could even use Buzz for staff training or office parties.
In addition to letting people write their own questions for others to rate and use, official download packs will be available to purchase online covering a "wide gamut" of trivia categories.
The game will also feature thousands of questions on the disc across multiple genres like sport, television, music and general knowledge rather than the single-topic PS2 versions.
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Grey power
Screen Play readers with good memories might recall last year we explored the best games to introduce your partner to the joys of interactive entertainment.
Following this Asher Moses piece about the elderly embracing the Nintendo Wii, today let's explore the games guaranteed to go get grandma or grandpa gaming.
Have you had any success in introducing games to older family members or friends?
I'll update the post with a Top 10 Grey-friendly list once all of your nominations are in.
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Turning (off) Japanese
During last week's Tokyo Game Show, the world's attention turned to Japan: the spiritual home of video games and still one of the biggest gaming markets in the world.
While Microsoft has enjoyed little success in Japan with either the original Xbox or successor Xbox 360, it continues to throw money at the territory for little result, and last week promised more 360 titles for Japan. But surely it is time to pull the plug.
Despite announcements of Ninja Gaiden II, Rez and Ikaruga, there are signs Microsoft is thinking about abandoning ship. The company has handballed promising role player Infinite Undiscovery (by Star Ocean developers tri-Ace) to Square-Enix, and Lost Odyssey was a no-show in Tokyo despite being 95 per cent complete.
More poignantly, in an interview with Bloomberg, Microsoft's group product manager Aaron Greenberg says: "the number one objective is to win on a global basis and that may mean winning some markets and losing others."
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Finish the fight
So, who's taken the day off today to play Halo 3?
Screen Play didn't join the media scrum to review Halo 3 inside the Microsoft bunker a couple of weeks ago, so like many of you, I'll be spending the next few days finishing the fight, fragging online and tinkering with Forge.
If you're not sure whether to give in to the hype and plonk down your hard-earned for Halo 3, take a look at my colleague Eliot Fish's review. You might also be interested in a series of blogs I posted last month after spending some time with Bungie and the game.
For those of you who lined up at midnight and have already got stuck in, post your impressions below. But please, don't spoil the story or give too much away!
And for those few Xbox 360 owners who aren't going to buy the game: why not? Do you resent the hype and think no game could possibly live up to such lofty expectation? Is it Microsoft's fault that the hype has been so immense, or is it just a result of the passion that fans have for the franchise?
Finally, do you think Halo 3 can significantly boost interest in the Xbox 360 console?
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Worst endings ever
If you're going to be one of the eager punters lining up at midnight tonight for a copy of Halo 3, no doubt you'll be praying that the conclusion of Master Chief's sci-fi trilogy is a lot more satisfying than the second game.
But as much as Halo 2 was derided for its weak ending, is it really the gaming world's worst ending ever?
Games developers in the good 'ol days certainly had it easy. They didn't have to bother with an ending, developers would just make sure the difficulty kept on increasing and increasing as the player repeated the same stages over and over again until finally even those with the reflexes of a ninja would be inevitably staring at the "Game Over" screen. Introducing stories into games was just asking for trouble.
Today Screen Play is keen to hear your nominations for the worst game endings ever, and I've included a few nominations below to get you started.
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Drought breakers
Time to blow the dust off your Wii.
Super Paper Mario is out, and Nintendo has finally confirmed Australian release dates for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (November 8) and Super Mario Galaxy (November 29).
Other upcoming Wii releases include Big Brain Academy (November 8), Pokemon Battle Revolution (November 22) and Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles (December 13), while Capcom's promising Zack and Wiki; Quest for Barbaros' Treasure is also due before Christmas.
MySims for the Wii was also released yesterday and so far is proving as compulsive as Screen Play first suspected. The prevalence of simple fetch quests in the first few hours is more than made up for the wonderful freedom you have in creating objects.
I've also been enjoying the Wii version of Tiger Woods 08 over the past couple of weeks, and am happy to report that it's a much better effort than its predecessor.
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Play games, get rich
It doesn't have a chapter on fragging your way to a fortune, but new tome Get Rich Playing Games does contain plenty of helpful advice for those wanting to break into the games industry.
There are tips for aspiring developers, executives and journalists considering careers in fields like game art, design, programming, audio, management, public relations, marketing, publishing testing and sales.
The book also includes insights from industry luminaries like Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright, Sid Meier, John Romero, Trip Hawkins, Ted Price, Nolan Bushnell and Lorne Lanning.
You can download the book for free from www.getrichgaming.com.
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On the rampage
Regional gaming tournament Rampage Asia has begun, with Australians among the gamers from 15 Asia-Pacific countries invited to compete for US$70,000 in cash.
The official games for competition are Counter Strike 1.6 and WarCraft III, and the tournament mechanics follow a ladder system in which gamers receive points according to their win/loss record after each match.
The tournament is running until December 15. To participate, entrants will need to register and install GamOn, the program that operates World Cyber Games online matches.
Screen Play readers are also reminded that the second practice weekend in the $2 million Fury Challenge starts tomorrow, ahead of two competition weekends starting September 28.
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We're shocked
Sony has finally added rumble functionality to the PlayStation 3 controller.
During a keynote address at the Tokyo Game Show today, Kaz Hirai, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, unveiled one of gaming's worst-kept secrets - the DualShock 3.
Mr Hirai said PlayStation fans had made it clear they wanted the vibration feature back. The controller is otherwise identical to the Sixaxis joypad and will be released in November in Japan, then early next year across the rest of the world.
Sony promised widespread support for the vibration functionality, including titles released before Christmas such as Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
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Create your own fun
My Livewire feature on the user-generated gaming revolution finally ran today. You can check it out here.
One thing I didn't manage to squeeze into the feature which might be an interesting topic for discussion today regards monetising your creations - getting financial reward for your hard work rather than just the satisfaction that others are enjoying the fruit of your labours.
Microsoft certainly had user-generated content in mind well before they released the Xbox 360 console - the Xbox Live Marketplace was originally designed to enable users to trade content with each other.
When Microsoft Vice President J Allard, who oversaw the design of the Xbox 360, unveiled the console for the first time to a selected group of journalists in Seattle, he talked passionately about the possibilities of online marketplaces for user-generated content and envisaged online worlds where people could sell customised items to other players.
Do you think gamers should be able to receive some financial reward for creating popular virtual items or maps? And do you think Sony is being too optimistic by preferring to let the community police itself in upcoming PS3 applications like PlayStation Home, LittleBigPlanet and SingStar?
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Back for Good
Australian television's only dedicated video game program, Good Game, returns for a third series on digital channel ABC2 next Tuesday (September 25) at 8.30pm.
Good Game will also now screen on the ABC every Friday night, which should help it find a bigger audience, and as usual can be viewed anytime on demand at abc.net.au/goodgame.
Screen Play was humbled to read in a question on "who do you admire from the gaming industry?" in ABC's publicity guff that Jeremy "Junglist" Ray is a fan of this blog.
Word on the street suggests the third season of Good Game will feature more stories on video game culture, but today let's give the producers some other constructive feedback. What does everyone think the show's strengths and weaknesses have been in the first two seasons?
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Black power
Readers with good memories might recall Screen Play last year proclaiming Pioneer's 1080p plasma as the best television I had ever seen.
Yesterday I saw Pioneer's new range of Kuro plasmas, which are not only better in every way, but they're more affordable, too.
The Kuro range (which is Japanese for black) includes 42 and 50-inch 720p models, as well as 50 and 60-inch 1080p panels, with prices starting from $4699. Not what anyone would call cheap, but Pioneer are targeting discerning connoisseurs willing to pay a premium for the best.
Pioneer showed a series of demonstrations running simultaneously side-by-side on a range of televisions using the same HDMI input, including a Panasonic Viera plasma and the hugely popular 46-inch Sony Bravia 1080p LCD.
The new Kuro comfortably eclipsed all its rivals in areas like colour richness and vibrancy, deep blacks, fantastic contrast levels and smooth panning and deinterlacing.
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From Atari to PS3
Independent retailer The Gamesmen is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week, a significant achievement considering the many changes to the gaming landscape since 1982, especially the rise of powerful mass-merchants and foreign-owned specialist chains.
The family-run business has three stores in NSW and has seen the ups-and-downs of nearly the entire history of home-based interactive entertainment. It began by selling pioneering products like Nintendo Game & Watches, Commodore 64 games and Atari 2600 consoles.
The Cusumano family is celebrating with a sale at their three stores on Saturday (September 22) which will include up to 25 per cent off software, free SingStar games with the purchase of a bundle, and DS and PS2 consoles for $149. The Penshurst store will also have a visit from Mario, Wii demonstrations, prizes, showbags and a sausage sizzle.
Click below for a chat with Angelo Cusumano about the past and future of the independent gaming specialist.
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Dirty rotten scoundrels
Screen Play was a contributor to a popular children's magazine for over five years, and I would guess that over 90 percent of the (wonderfully honest and passionate) letters that kids used to send me contained requests for cheats.
I don't think it was a reflection on the feeble skills of today's young generation (Gen Z?) nor that games developers make their titles too hard for youngsters, it's just that kids love the idea of beating the system, accessing "secret" content and wringing out everything possible from their favourite games.
Unfortunately, over the last few years, it has become increasingly uncommon for developers to release cheat codes for their new games.
I'm a bit bemused as to why. If people want to cheat (and of course, possibly ruin the game) why not let them?
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Reaching out
Those appalled today by the prospect of video game gambling might be more heartened with the use of gaming as a way to educate young people and combat social problems.
Reach Out today launched a game that helps young people aged 16 to 25 develop skills to manage depression and anxiety.
"Research has found that 72% of young males and 48% of young females play some kind of electronic game," says Jonathan Nicholas, Inspire Foundation's Director of Programs.
"We are the first to bring mental health information to them in the gaming environment and we hope to have a positive impact on young men who are traditionally hard to reach and the most at-risk group. It's a case of taking the message to them rather than trying to get them to seek it out via traditional community-based health services."
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Cash for kills
Making money from video games is currently the domain of only a very small number of professional cyber athletes and "gold farmers" exploited in third-world sweatshops.
But a first-person-shooter currently in development at Canberra's Micro Forte studio might soon let millions of gamers around the world make cash from their fragging skills.
It's also bound to stir controversy, as it brings the worlds of video gaming and that other gaming industry (gambling) closer than ever.
From the outset, Kwari has been designed with cash in mind. This is not just a traditional shooter that simply awards a cash prize to the winner: everything in the game revolves around money, which will radically change the way users play the game.
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Dude raider
As the creators of Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter, California's Naughty Dog have a peerless reputation for delivering high quality and hugely entertaining games.
But following the departure of high-profile co-founders Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin, Naughty Dog's PlayStation 3 debut is a significant change from the studio's cartoon-orientated past.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune still has Naughty Dog trademarks like platforming action and stunning animation, but its realistic characters, focus on gunplay and deep story are aimed at a more mature market than the studio's previous games.
Screen Play chatted with Richard Lemarchand, Lead Game Designer, about Uncharted at the recent Leipzig Games Convention while enjoying some hands-on action with one of PS3's most exciting upcoming titles.
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Gaming girls
Screen Play has been enjoying Heavenly Sword over the last week, not least for its terrific cast of characters.
Nariko is a strong, intriguing and sympathetic character, but it's her delightfully balmy sister Kai who really steals the show.
The game's strong dual female leads got me thinking about video gaming's best female characters, and today I'm keen to hear who you think are some of the best female characters in gaming over the last couple of decades.
I've made some suggestions below to jog your memory, but it's by no means an exhaustive list, so feel free to make your own nominations.
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Heed the Call
Cinematic shooter Call of Duty 4 stole the show at this week's annual Activate Asia conference.
Grant Collier, President of Call of Duty creators Infinity Ward, opened Activate by reiterating his lofty goal of creating the best first person shooter available on each of the game's three platforms - PS3, 360 and PC.
Collier then demonstrated why there is a chance his dream could come true, showing a thrilling (and chilling) AC-130 Spectre Gunship level called "Death from Above" set in Western Russia, where players take to the skies to support SAS troops on the ground using devastating weapons.
An extremely tense sniper mission was then demonstrated, an example of the game's "active stealth" and once again very different to the traditional, tightly-scripted "kill everything that moves" gameplay associated with previous Call of Duty titles.
The mission was slow-paced, with a commander making quiet orders into your headpiece and the objective often to avoid attention: hiding or sneaking quietly past enemies like foot soldiers and tanks rather than engaging your foes.
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Best kept secrets
It might not have been everyone's favourite feature in Halo 2, but it was an impressive achievement for Microsoft and Bungie to manage to keep the secret that you could play as the Arbiter in the 2004 blockbuster.
I wonder what secrets Bungie has for the final part of the trilogy? The studio has certainly been just as careful and secretive, even going so far as not to show Halo 3's opening sequence to journalists.
"The reason why we are very protective is for a very small segment of our population who take it really seriously," says Bungie's Content Manager Frank O'Connor. "They've stuck with us through thick and thin. We don't want to ruin it for them."
It's not an easy job to keep the world's fanatical gaming press in the dark, as well as the millions of gossip-mongering gaming forums, when you have a highly anticipated game that everyone wants to talk about.
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For those about to rock...
Activision's annual Activate Asia conference has begun, and as soon as Screen Play jumped off the plane, it was straight into interviews.
First up was Red Octane co-founder and Vice President of Business Development Charles Huang, who talks below about the features in the upcoming Guitar Hero III and answers some of your questions about the future of the Guitar Hero franchise.
His comments on exploring new ways of letting more people enjoy the Guitar Hero experience and finding ways of rewarding entertaining performances are particularly interesting, and Charles also confirmed that Guitar Hero III will offer Australian rock tracks to download.
Click below for the full interview.
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Battle of the bands
Screen Play will be attending Activision's annual Activate Asia conference next week, which should hopefully ensure plenty of hands-on time with the likes of Guitar Hero III, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Call of Duty 4, plus the LucasArts stable.
As soon as I arrive on Sunday I'll be catching up with Charles Huang, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Red Octane, so if you have any Guitar Hero questions I'll be happy to submit them.
And yes, I will be sure to ask Charles what Red Octane's plans are to counter Rock Band.
As I wrote after jamming with Rock Band at the Leipzig Games Convention, it's amazing how much playing a song together with other people adds to the experience, and I suspect that SingStar and Guitar Hero might soon feel quaint in comparison.
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Educational games
Screen Play isn't usually in the habit of lazy linking or outright theft, but it's Friday and I couldn't resist shamelessly stealing this great topic and seeing what you all might come up with.
The Something Awful forums currently have a great thread on "vocabulary you learned from videogames".
Who wants to start by sharing some words, phrases or concepts that you learned from games?
I'm sure I learnt the word "bulbous" from The Hobbit on the Commodore 64. And I'm also sure there will be plenty of people (including Screen Play) who learned about prophylactics from Leisure Suit Larry...
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Alone with your thoughts
One of the many strengths of recent masterpiece BioShock is the flexibility that players have in dealing with enemies.
But it's really a shame that BioShock should stand out for this reason: shouldn't all interactive games allow player freedom? The capacity to be inventive, creative... playful?
One game that looks to be on par with BioShock in rewarding player ingenuity is survival horror adventure Alone in the Dark, currently due early next year for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC from Atari.
Much of the focus in Edward Carnby's latest quest is on using and combining everyday objects to create devious weapons and traps.
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A League of our own
Fans of the beautiful game will be able to play Australia's A-League competition after Electronic Arts announced yesterday it had added the local competition to FIFA 08.
Ryan Jones, General Manager of Electronic Arts Australia, says soccer is one of the fastest growing sports in Australia and including the A-League in just the third year of the competition was a real coup for the game.
"EA Sports FIFA products have always been about delivering to the fans the most authentic football experience they can have through a videogame: fully licensed leagues, authentic kits, stadiums, even down to the crowd chants. Now Australian fans can experience all this with the Hyundai A-League."
The hero of last year's A-League Grand Final, Archie Thompson, says the inclusion of A-League in FIFA is great for the local sport.
"If you were to ask me three years ago when the A-League season was just beginning if we could get A-League or any Australian competition in a FIFA game I'd have said 'No chance'," Thompson says.
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Through the Haze
First-person shooters are never a rare breed but fans of the popular genre are certainly being spoilt at present, particularly on Xbox 360 with BioShock and the upcoming Halo 3.
At the recent Leipzig Games Convention, Screen Play took a look at some of the other shooters destined to keep trigger fingers very busy over the coming months.
First cab off the rank was Haze, currently a PS3 exclusive by TimeSplitters developer Free Radical and due in November from Ubisoft.
Our demonstration was conducted by industry veteran, Free Radical Director and all-round nice bloke Dave Doak, who Goldeneye fans might remember had a scientist named after him in the Rareware N64 classic.
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Simply fun
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games winning Best Wii Game at the recent Leipzig Games Convention is not the best sign that the standard of third-party Wii releases is improving.
Nor is EA's first Wii exclusive game Boogie, which Screen Play has been wrestling with over the last week without much joy.
But Wii owners can expect a strong finish to the year. Paper Mario will be released on September 20, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is due late October, and the magnificent Super Mario Galaxy is currently scheduled for mid-November.
And don't make the mistake of discounting EA's MySims from your shopping list, either. Due later this month, MySims was easily Screen Play's favourite third-party Wii game at Leipzig.
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FDP Forum / I'd Hit It! - Drums and Percussion / DDrum
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Oct 5th, 2013 10:01 AM Edit Profile
Well now, I'm considering buying a ddrum kit. It's the Reflex Uptown kit. Any fans our there? Any haters out there? I'd love to hear from all of ya before I pull out my wallet.
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Oct 19th, 2013 09:41 PM Edit Profile
Bought'em and I love 'em! Alder wood shells are beautiful and sounded great to me with original Evans heads that came on the kit. Each drum sang! Still experimenting with various heads since our sound guy doesn't really appreciate "singing drums".
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Oct 23rd, 2013 05:50 PM Edit Profile
Dampen them for recording & leave them alone for live use. Maybe some Moon-Gels would do the trick.
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Oct 26th, 2013 12:25 PM Edit Profile
Thanks Hammmond101! I haven't done any recording in many a year so I'd love to be in the "leave them alone" club! I may be part of the problem, cause all the way home, with the new drums still in the car, I kept telling our groups leader, that I knew I needed to change out the heads, because I've yet to buy new drums, that I've ever liked the heads that came on them. When we got this new kit to where we play, they sounded amazing with the original heads. I was drooling! But, he asked me to give the clear pinstripes a try, and I did. The clear pins sounded amazing on my old Tama kit, but they do not sound great on this new ddrum kit. He asked me to leave them alone until this week was over (we played every night), before experimenting with head changes. I agreed. We will play again on Sunday and after that, I will try re-installing the original heads and see how it goes.
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Nov 16th, 2013 07:43 PM Edit Profile
Just a quick update. I did re-install the original heads but, I could never get them tuned to where they were when I bought them. I had an, almost brand new, 16" Evans coated G2. Slapped it on and with some help, from one of my band members, got it tuned to what we thought was a great sound. Then I called the drum shop and began asking if they had G2's in stock for the rest of my toms and they said sure, bring all the drums with ya, if you want, and we'll install them and tune them for you. I thought what the heck. I hauled 'em all over there, and the guy grabbed my 16" FT and I told him that one sounded great and already had the batter head that I wanted on it and that, I'd like, the rest of them tuned so that they sound great with that drum. It was like he wasn't even listening to me as he grabbed his drum key and began turning the tension rods on my 16" er. He had a stick in his left hand that he was tapping, close to the rim, but only in one spot, as he went around the drum turning every rod. (I was thinking that this guy doesn't know anything and he's going to ruin the sound of that drum.) He then quickly, flipped it over and the same routine began on the reso head. In a couple of minutes, he flipped the drum back over and hit the batter head pretty hard. It didn't sound great, but I got the idea real quick that he was definitely on the right track. Then he quickly, turned some more tension rods and had that drum sounding sweet! The whole thing took less than 5 minutes. He made the same sweet sounds come from the rest of my new kit as well. The SD actually took him close to 25 or maybe even 30 minutes to get dialed in. I asked him to change both heads as well as install some better snare wires. This kit rawks! AND, that guy is a drum tuning guru!!!
Nov 17th, 2013 02:09 AM Edit Profile
I use and love Evans coated G2's on the batter... with clear G1's on the reso side.
I do have a set of coated G1's for the batter side I have used for recording.
But not gigging or recording these days... just jamming with mates when they come around... so the G2's have been on there for ages.
Don't be afraid to experiment with tuning... if you don't, you'll never get the knack.
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Nov 17th, 2013 09:38 PM Edit Profile
That's the sound I'm loving as well! I now have G2's for batters on both FT's and G1's are now installed as resos, on all of my toms. (The guy tuned my pin stripes up on my 2 rack toms, to sound good enough that we kept them on. Even though, they sound pretty dang good, I'm thinking they'd sound even better with G2's for batters? This guy didn't appear to be trying to sell me anything. He grabbed each drum and started tuning it, with the heads that were on there. If he couldn't get the sound he was looking for, then he'd say, you may want to consider buying some new reso heads, for example.)
As for the "Don't be afraid to experiment with tuning... if you don't, you'll never get the knack." ……… I get what you're saying but, I just really don't think I have good enough ears for proper tuning. If you know of any books, or anything else, that would help me, please let me know. I've watched countless youtube vids and I own a drum dial as well as the Apple idrum tuning program and I still can't tune worth a crap. I'd love to learn.
Nov 17th, 2013 10:14 PM Edit Profile
Have you read Professor Sound's Drum Tuning Bible...?
Google it... a wealth of knowledge.
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Nov 18th, 2013 07:48 PM Edit Profile
Thank you Lazmo! There really is a wealth of knowledge there!! Maybe there is hope for me. Got some studying to do now.
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