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|Dev: Rocksteady Studios
|Pub: Warner Bros. Interactive / Eidos Interactive
|Release: Q3 2011
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Lindsey Weedston
Batman: Arkham Asylum surprised many gamers last year by being very, very good, proving to us all that even a Batman game can achieve greatness. It received high scores from critics and a long list of awards, including a spot in the Guinness World Records as the Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game.
As expected, Arkham Asylum is back, and bigger than ever. In Batman: Arkham City, Gotham has become so full of criminals that the prison and asylum can't hold them all. The new mayor, former asylum warden Quincy Sharp, therefore decides to wall off part of the city and set the deviants loose inside to fight among themselves for control. Sounds like a bad idea? Of course it does. To top it off, Sharp puts obvious villain Hugo Strange in charge, giving him control of the military guards who keep the inmates from escaping Arkham City. In the latest trailer, Strange interrogates one of these guards about their doomed fight with Batman. After the caped crusader is shown giving them a thorough beat down, Strange ominously reveals that he knows everything about Batman, including his true name.
The first thing I noticed about the new Arkham City trailer, besides the improved graphics, was Batman's face. Maybe it's the fact that the graphics allow me to see every pore or that his eyes seem way too clear through those tiny eye holes or that it looks like his nose is way too far away from his mouth, but there's something alien about it. I'm not sure what's going on with his voice, either, but Arkham City's Batman will again be voiced by Kevin Conroy, so I trust that it will be fine in the actual game. As strange as Batman looks in the new trailer, there's no denying that it's a well-made cinematic. The atmosphere, lighting, and somewhat gruesome imagery sets up a game that, according to Conroy, will be "really, really dark."
The trailer released during the 2009 Video Game Awards gave us a glimpse of Arkham City itself, which is of course in total chaos, as the camera pans around to the sound of the Joker's laughter. The Joker is shown weak and wounded, being nursed back to health by Harley Quinn. It's not yet clear what role the Joker will play in Arkham City, but he may not get much face time considering how many other villains the game is promising. The list of confirmed characters includes Two-Face, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, The Riddler, Talia al Ghul, Victor Zsasz, and Calendar Man. The game begins when Two-Face decides to impress his fellow inmates by publicly executing Catwoman, thus prompting Batman to swoop in to the rescue.
If that doesn't get you excited, Rocksteady has announced improvements and fixes to Arkham Asylum's flaws. Art director David Hego said that the detective mode, which allowed players x-ray vision of sorts that highlighted important objects and armed enemies, would be toned down in the new game, so that players can't go through the whole game with it on, rendering Hego's hard work pointless. Arkham City's Batman will have smoke bombs and a broadcast tracer device, in addition to his gadgets from the first game. Combat will involve twice as many moves, a multi-enemy counter feature, and the ability to use all of Batman's gadgets during a fight.Completing the Riddler's puzzles may be a bit more challenging, as players will have to locate them through methods that include the interrogation (i.e. face-punching) of the Riddler's cronies. Rumors are circulating that there will be some form of multiplayer, but no details about this have yet been released. Unfortunately, players will not be able to ride in the Batmobile, or any other bat-related vehicles, even though Arkham City is four or five times larger than the asylum.
Arkham City's bigness will likely be one of its most interesting features. Not only will there be more to explore, but having such a large area will allow for mass independent NPC action such as territory battles between rival gangs. Batman will have to deal with navigating these different territories and the unique qualities of the criminals within. However, game director Sefton Hill promises that quality will not be sacrificed for quantity. "Rocksteady remains absolutely committed to making the best game possible and so our design decisions are driven by this simple goal. Batman: Arkham City is a significantly larger game world, but it is still rammed with an incredible level of detail." Arkham City will also contain sub-plots for each of the many classic Batman villains featured, deepening the game's overall narrative.
With such a huge game to be crammed with so much substance, it seems likely that Batman: Arkham City has the potential to be as good as or even better than its predecessor. A promise of a game that's bigger, better, and darker than the best reviewed superhero game of all time is sure to make the Batfans impatient for the Q3 2011 release.
Lindsey Weedston
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Hit me! UVA's E-texts lead the field
UVA's new library goes underground
UVA is known not just for its historic collections, but also for its vision in digitizing its collection.
Back in the digital stone age, 1992, UVA opened the Electronic Text Center, which began building a prodigious online archive of texts and images. Now, the University has won worldwide recognition for its work. The online holdings– which get about 40,000 hits a day– contain texts in 11 languages, including Latin, Apache, Latvian, Chinese, and Japanese.
Students and scholars from around the world read and download electronic editions of everything from Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars to Beatrix Potter's Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Also in 1992, UVA opened its Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Working closely with the E-Text Center, the Institute guides and supports the development of digital technologies in fields like English, foreign languages, history, art history, and anthropology – subject areas where 15 years ago computers were rarely used as anything more than word processors.
Today, the Institute has sponsored nearly 50 projects, two dozen of which are still active with websites covering such things as the history of England's Salisbury Cathedral; the geology and archaeology of ancient Pompeii; the text of Piers Ploughman, a medieval English classic; American circus history; and the Salem witch trials. The Institute's virtual tour of the 1851 Crystal Palace now stands as a centerpiece display in the Museum of London.
Closer to home, UVA hosts has digitized about one-third of the 9,000-plus photographs taken by the late Rufus W. Holsinger, whose most famous shot must be the 1895 Rotunda fire. UVA also serves up a good portion of the 6,000 photographs of African-American schools taken throughout the Southeast U.S. by Jackson Davis.
Students and scholars visiting Harrison/Small can tap into digital riches for their own research. Many exhibitions in Alderman and the new library are digitized, as are many of the library's most precious holdings, including a number of Jefferson's architectural drawings of the university.
The tour begins at lib.virginia.edu/small/.

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Forensic Technologies International is co-founded by Dan Luczak and Joseph Reynolds in a small warehouse in Annapolis, Md. Luczak and Reynolds are visionaries who revolutionize the presentation of technological courtroom evidence with computer models that help courtroom staff and jury members understand the technical merits of cases.
The State of Illinois hires the firm to determine the cause of a central telephone office fire and make recommendations to prevent future disasters.
Forensic Technologies International lands a product defect case in the construction industry that elevates the firms reputation as provider of complex technical investigations and litigation services.
The company provides courtroom graphics and jury consultation for the O.J. Simpson trial.
Forensic Technologies International goes public in May of 1996. Trading under the ticker symbol FTIC, the firm raises $11.1 million on the NASDAQ, becoming one of the first public litigation-support services companies.
Forensic Technologies International acquires LWG, which provides consulting services to property and casualty insurance claim adjusters and attorneys. The acquisition also expands the company's presence into Canada.
Forensic Technologies International changes its name to FTI Consulting.
The firm expands its investigation and research capabilities with the acquisition of S.E.A., Inc., and enters the financial disputes business with the acquisition of Klick, Kent and Allen, Inc. The company also purchases Kahn Consulting, a turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting practice.
The firm provides trial graphics and courtroom presentation technology for the landmark Bush vs. Gore case to resolve the disputed presidential election results.
As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the company forms its Technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software.
FTI Consulting begins trading as a public company and is now on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FCN.
The company makes a major move into the corporate restructuring business with the acquisition of the business recovery services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The firm assists in the bankruptcy cases of Enron, WorldCom and Adelphia Communications.
The company acquires the economic consulting firm Lexecon and the Disputes Advisory Services business from KPMG.
The firm acquires Ten Eyck Associates, which specializes in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations and litigation.
The company has grown to 1,000 professionals located in 24 major U.S. cities and London.
Acquisition of litigation technology firm Ringtail Solutions Group (Ringtail) adds operations in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company acquires Cambio Health Solutions, a Tennessee-based hospital turnaround firm. The acquisition represents a major step in plans to deepen domain expertise in strategic industries.
The firm acquires the intellectual property practice of Stone Turn. The firm develops its first five-year plan. The goal is to double revenues from approximately $427 million to $1 billion in five years. FTI Consulting now works for 97 of the top 100 U.S. law firms, nine of the country's 10 largest banks and 66 Fortune 100 clients.
The company acquires Financial Dynamics (FD), a large, global strategic communications firm, diversifying the company's consulting capabilities and providing it with a significant presence outside the United States. The firm acquires International Risk, Ltd, forming the Global Risk and Investigations team in Asia.
The firm acquires Brower Kriz & Stynchcomb, which provides dispute, litigation and investigations services for the construction industry. The firm's Technology practice plays a substantial role in the Major League Baseball steroids investigation and acquires G3 Ltd to expand its UK technology client base.
FTI Consulting enters the Latin American market with the acquisition of Holder International.
FTI Consulting achieves revenues of $1 billion — two years ahead of its five-year plan.
The company firm aids the investigation into the oil-for-food program bribery scandal tied to the Saddam Hussein regime.
FTI Consulting acquires Attenex Corporation, a leading e-discovery software provider, and Strategic Discovery, Inc., a provider of litigation discovery and records management. The firm enhances its presence in the United Kingdom with the acquisition of London-based Forensic Accounting LLP, and significantly expands its Construction Solutions services in the United Kingdom, Dubai and Abu Dhabi with the acquisition of Brewer Consulting.
The firm extends its construction industry and government contracts solutions with the acquisition of Rubino & McGeehin Consulting Group. Lexecon and Competition Policy Associates (COMPASS), two of the premier economic consulting firms in the world, combine to form Compass Lexecon, a wholly owned subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc.
The firm acquires CXO, L.L.C., an interim management and turnaround services firm.
FTI Consulting helps track down the ill-gotten gains of Bernie Madoff and serves on many of the largest, highest profile corporate restructurings of the year, including Lehman Brothers, General Motors and CIT.
The firm acquires FS Asia Advisory Limited, significantly expanding the company's corporate finance, restructuring and turnaround capabilities in Asia.
Revenues exceed $1.4 billion. Market capitalization approaches $2 billion.
FTI Consulting acquires various operations of LECG, adding approximately 200 professionals from Europe, Latin America and the United States.
The company now has offices in 24 countries on six continents and employs more than 3,800 people, including Nobel Laureate economists and government, corporate and financial players from around the world. Thirty percent reside outside the United States.
More than 20 percent of FTI Consulting revenues come from outside the United States. Revenues in Latin America grow by 24 percent, and total revenues in Asia and the Pacific more than double.
FTI Consulting has grown from 75 employees and $6 million in annual revenues in the United States in 1992 to become a global enterprise with more than 3,800 employees in 24 countries and $1.58 billion in revenues during 2012. More than 25 percent of FTI Consulting revenues come from outside the United States.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Jack B. Dunn, IV, is named one of Consulting Magazine's "Top 25 Consultants" for 2012. Mr. Dunn received the honor in the leadership category in recognition of his two decades of service to the Company, including 17 years as Chief Executive Officer.
The firm acquires KordaMentha (Qld) (KMQ), establishing its Corporate Finance & Restructuring practice in Australia.
FTI Consulting acquires Think First, bolstering its Health Solutions practice.
On December 16, the Company's Board of Directors named Steven H. Gunby President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gunby brings more than 30 years of strategic, operational and performance improvement experience in global management consulting.
Growth continued with $1.65 billion in revenues and more than 4,200 employees in 26 countries. Twenty-eight percent of revenues were generated internationally. Also, the firm invested $51.0 million in six acquisitions that expanded its service offering, geographic footprint or industry expertise.
The Company had "the most professionals by firm" on Who's Who Legal List of Commercial Arbitration Expert Witnesses for the fourth consecutive year; remained the #1 crisis management firm in The Deal League Tables for the seventh consecutive year; and remained the #1 Communications Advisor in Mergermarket League Tables of PR Advisers in Global M&A deal volume.
On January 20th, Steven H. Gunby became President and CEO of FTI Consulting, bringing more than 30 years of strategic, operational and performance improvement experience to the firm. Joining Gunby on the executive management team on August 25th were David Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, Holly Paul, Chief Human Resources Officer and Paul Linton, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer.
In 2014, FTI Consulting had "the most professionals by firm" on Who's Who Legal List of Commercial Arbitration Expert Witnesses (fifth consecutive year); was named one of the Best Economics Firms in the World by Global Competition Review (ninth consecutive year); the firm's Ringtail E-discovery Software was named to the "Leaders" Quadrant in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for E-discovery Software" report (second consecutive year); and the firm won the 2014 Operational Performance Spotlight Award from the Association of Management Consulting Firms.
$1.4 billion equity market capitalization (total Shares outstanding times the closing share price as of December 31, 2015). Advisor to the world's top 10 bank holding companies, clients of 92 of the world's top 100 law firms and 48 of the Global 100 corporations are clients.
The Company's organic growth strategy is showing success. Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, the Company reported organic revenue growth of 10 percent cumulatively from 2013 to 2015, the best two-year organic growth rate the Company has achieved in more than half a decade.
During 2015, the Company rebuilt its pipeline of talent, improving our leverage ratios and growing net headcount, excluding divestitures, by seven percent. The overwhelming majority of the growth, 98 percent, came from below the Senior Managing Director level.
On a percentage basis, the Company reported the largest gain in Adjusted Earnings Per Share since 2009.
In 2016, FTI Consulting delivered record revenues of $1.81 billion and double-digit GAAP and adjusted earnings per share gains for the second year in a row. The Company's 2016 results were driven by record revenues in the Corporate Finance & Restructuring and Economic Consulting segments. The Europe, Middle East, and Africa region also delivered record revenues and increased headcount by 11% from 2015.
During the year, FTI Consulting was named by Forbes magazine in its inaugural list of America's Best Management Consulting Firms in 17 categories, and was recognized by Corporate Counsel as a top service provider in the legal industry. FTI Consulting and Compass Lexecon were recognized as the Most Highly Regarded Firms in the inaugural edition of Who's Who Legal: Consulting Experts Guide, with the most experts named from 12 countries in 24 cities across the globe. The firm's Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment was ranked as the #1 U.S. Crisis Management Firm by The Deal Pipeline for the ninth consecutive year.
Full year 2017 was the third year in a row the Company achieved sustained GAAP and Adjusted earnings per share gains. Full year 2017 revenue was driven by second half strength and outperformance in the Forensic & Litigation Consulting, Corporate Finance & Restructuring and Strategic Communications segments. In the second half of 2017, the Company had the largest increase in Adjusted EBITDA year-over-year in a decade.
In July 2017, the Company acquired the CDG Group, a leading restructuring advisory, turnaround management, value enhancement and transaction advisory firm in New York. This is the first acquisition made since President and Chief Executive Officer, Steven H. Gunby, joined the firm in January 2014.
The Company was named to Forbes magazine list of America's Best Management Consulting Firms and had the most experts recognized in the Who's Who Legal Consulting Experts Guide for the second consecutive year.


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Chum wrote:bada wrote:TheBodyGuard wrote:Chum wrote:lol it cracks me up to hear Warriors fans pissed off after a great game and great win like that.
- Curry has another great game. Another step closer to ROY.
- Monta had a great game and played like a true SG. Awesome D!
- Tolliver 14 and 13. Battled hard on D the whole game.
- Turiaf had game changing blocks.
- Nellie out-coached the most likely Coach of the Year.
Great game!
I thought Keith Smart was coaching?
it is funny.. I have read in a few places (not just here) that Nellie did an unusually good job coaching last night. Funny because Nelson did not coach last night. He let Smart coach the game.
Nellie looked like he was coaching part of the game and Smart looked like he was coaching part of the game. If Nellie didn't coach at all then his assistant out coached the COY
supposedly he turned over the reigns after the terrible first qtr. I did not catch the first half so I can not confirm that.


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By Fran Blinebury, NBA.com
VIDEO: Lillard's buzzer-beater sends Rockets home, Blazers to next round
PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian Lillard's "Rip Ciiiitttyyy!" shout was still bouncing off the walls and his dagger remained stuck right in their gut when Rockets team owner Leslie Alexander and club president Tad Brown stood in a back hallway of the Moda Center, heads down, eyes searching.
For what? For whom? Carmelo Anthony? Chris Bosh? LeBron James?
Will a few more high-dollar free agents finally get the Rockets out of the first round of the playoffs for only the second time since 1997? Is the idea to buy up every available big name in the NBA so there will be nobody left to do what the Blazers consistently did in the fourth quarter?
That is, perform down the stretch.
Clutch City, indeed. The Rockets routinely treated the fourth quarters like a wad of cash in the pocket of a drunken sailor and wound up with the same kind of what-happened hangover.
"This is the worst feeling I've ever had in my life," Chandler Parsons said after he watched Lilllard run away from him in the last 0.9 seconds and into NBA lore.
Parsons, of course, is just 25 and quite likely too young yet to comprehend that if a basketball game is the worst loss you've ever suffered, then life has been pretty darned good.
Dwight Howard, on the other hand, just finished his 10th NBA season no closer to a championship than when he left Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy.
"It hurts," Howard said. "We can't grow anymore. We go home."
The Rockets go home to an offseason of having to wonder if the combination of Howard and James Harden will ever enough to take the franchise back to the glory years of truly contending — and winning — or if they are simply pair of celebrities in search of a lead dog who can pull their wagon to a championship.
Harden is now working on three straight years and three straight series of shrinking in the playoffs. His 34 points in Game 6 was the first time he came close to looking like a front-line star. In his last three playoff series — vs. Miami in 2012, OKC in 2013 and now Portland — the only thing more bedraggled than his beard has been his shooting percentage. Is the playoff air, when teams can scheme against him for seven games and employ elite level defenders, too thin for Harden? He hardly ever shoulders the burden of responsibility or the mantle of leadership.
Howard has worked diligently with Hakeem Olajuwon, with the coaching staff, with anybody offering help, to improve his game and yet the coin toss odds on having him at the free-throw line and his happy-go-lucky persona will always leave questions until or unless he gets it all done.
"We didn't win, so in my mind having a good regular season is nothing," Howard said. "You're sitting at home watching another team hold up a trophy. That's what we all play for. So it hurts too be going home early. It's hurts to be watching somebody [else] holding up the trophy. We wanted a chance to get it this season. This should just push us next season.
"I know it's going to make me continue in the gym, continue to get better and also push these young guys so they can understand that you can't take these moments for granted. Nothing's promised. The playoffs aren't promised. Rings aren't promised. You gotta go out there and earn it."
The bashing of coach Kevin McHale will sound like a bass drum throughout the summer and maybe it will be proven that he is not the one to guide them down the championship path. But McHale did not lose Game 6. He did not fail to tell his players not to give up anything but a 3-point shot in the last 0.9 seconds. He cannot turn back the clock and play like the Hall of Famer he was during all those years in Boston.
Sweeping McHale out of the door is not the answer. The team responds to him. They play for him. He has a year left on his contract at the team's option and so you give it to him with a last chance.
The championing of Jeremy Lin as a creative cross between Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson and Leonardo Da Vinci by his cult following will persist. Lin is a capable, hard-working player who has proven he belongs in the league. But he is not transcendent and, if the Rockets are going to make a big play in free agency this summer, he and Omer Asik will both be gone to make room under the salary cap.
"It's a tough loss, but something we've got to learn from," said Howard. "Like I said the whole series, we can't take any possessions off. We can't relax. Every bucket counts. Portland came in and played with a lot of confidence.
"We've got a great nucleus of guys. Everybody has to come back next season and see the mistakes we made this year as a team and try to learn from them so next year we don't have situations like this.
"You've got to play with confidence. You can't relax. Some of the guys on our team, including myself at times, we relaxed on the floor. Nothing is easy. I've been to the Finals. I've been to the Eastern Conference finals. I've been to the top and it's not easy getting there.
"You've got to make everything count. I think that's a big lesson for us all. No matter who we play, no matter what happens in the regular season, you can't take any team for granted.
"Portland came out and played from the first game. … Those guys played together. Just watching their mentality on the floor, it was good. It was a seasoned team. So there's a lot of things we can learn from this series and hopefully come back next year and be a lot better."


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A Florida man has been indicted on charges of lying to a federal grand jury in Boston that was investigating alleged interstate gun trafficking in a case linked to Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriot charged with murdering a Dorchester man.
Oscar "Papoo" Hernandez Jr., 23, of Orlando, is charged with lying to the grand jury in December, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday in US District Court in Boston. The panel was investigating the "transportation of firearms" from Florida to Massachusetts.
Oscar and Aaron Hernandez are not related.
The grand jury probe was prompted, in part, by a federal review of three firearms that Massachusetts State Police recovered during an investigation into "a June 17, 2013 homicide in North Attleboro," the indictment said. The only homicide in North Attleborough that day was the early morning shooting of Odin L. Lloyd, 27. His body was found in an industrial yard near Aaron Hernandez's home.
Aaron Hernandez, 24, has pleaded not guilty to murder and weapons charges in connection with Lloyd's death and is being held without bail.
On Thursday, a federal judge in Florida ordered Oscar Hernandez detained until his transfer to Massachusetts to face the indictment. A lawyer who represented him did not respond to inquiries seeking comment.
The indictment accuses Oscar Hernandez of lying to the Boston grand jury on Dec. 4, when he testified that he did not purchase a Toyota Camry last April in Florida or have it shipped to Massachusetts.
State Police investigators in Massachusetts executed a search warrant on the Camry on June 22 at the North Attleborough residence of a man identified only as John Doe #3, and they recovered a rifle from the vehicle, according to the indictment. A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said that John Doe #3 is Aaron Hernandez.
Massachusetts troopers investigating the athlete also recovered two other firearms referenced in the Oscar Hernandez indictment: .22 -caliber pistols that two unnamed people purchased several days apart last April in Belle Glade, Fla., according to court records and authorities. The indictment does not specify where the two guns were found.
Oscar Hernandez had been living in Belle Glade until roughly mid-September, court records show. However, the buyers of the pistols are identified in his indictment only as John Doe #1 and John Doe #2.
Oscar Hernandez's testimony in December in Boston about the Camry was relevant "because the grand jury was investigating the interstate transportation of firearms from Florida to Massachusetts in, among other things, the Toyota Camry," the indictment said.
Oscar Hernandez is also accused of trying to influence the testimony of a person, identified as KS, who authorities say sold him the Camry that later ended up in Aaron Hernandez's garage.
Attorneys for Aaron Hernandez could not be reached for comment Thursday.
They had previously written in court documents that Oscar Hernandez "may be an important witness" in the murder case and requested notes on statements that he made to investigators in June.
The weapon used to kill Lloyd in North Attleborough, which authorities believe was a .45-caliber firearm, has not been recovered.
The indictment against Oscar Hernandez comes after two associates of Aaron Hernandez, Carlos Ortiz, 28, and Ernest Wallace, 42, both of Bristol, Conn., were indicted last week on murder charges in Lloyd's death.
Prosecutors say the two men and Aaron Hernandez picked Lloyd up at his Dorchester home and drove him to the North Attleborough industrial yard where he was killed. Ortiz and Wallace had previously been charged as accessories after the fact of Lloyd's murder.
Ortiz and Wallace's arraignments on the murder counts have not been set.
Gerard T. Leone Jr., a former state and federal prosecutor now working in private practice at Nixon Peabody, said that Oscar Hernandez, if he has any knowledge of Lloyd's slaying, "certainly would have reason to cooperate," since he faces up to 45 years if convicted on all counts in the federal indictment.
He is charged with lying to a grand jury, obstructing justice, and witness tampering. No date had been set Thursday night for his initial appearance in federal court in Boston.Martin Finucane of the Globe staff contributed to this report.


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Devil May Cry 4 – Secret Mission Guide
Secret Mission Guide by Excruciatix
Version: 1.25 | Updated: 02/27/08
Secret Mission Cross-Console Guide v1.25 (Feb 27, 2008)
By Excruciatix
Ver. History
1.25 - Added Table of Contents with Finder
1.20 - Added further User Tips and Tricks to Missions 08 (Royal
Blocker), 12 (Steeplechase), and 11 (Point of Impact)
1.10 - Updated and Fixed up some sections
Also added in additional methods and tricks to Missions
06 (Vermifuge), 12 (Steeplechase), and 05 (Sky Scraper)
by James. T (Thanks James!)
1.00 - Guide Created Missions 01 - 12
Table of Contents
(Ctrl+F with the [SMXX] including brackets to jump to sections.)
Secret Missions
Secret Mission 01 (Annihilation) [SM01]
Secret Mission 02 (Alley-Oop) [SM02]
Secret Mission 03 (Non-Violent Resistance) [SM03]
Secret Mission 04 (Tracking Treasure Down) [SM04]
Secret Mission 05 (Sky Scraper) [SM05]
Secret Mission 06 (Vermifuge) [SM06]
Secret Mission 07 (Free Running) [SM07]
Secret Mission 08 (Royal Blocker) [SM08]
Secret Mission 09 (Unbreakable) [SM09]
Secret Mission 10 (Puppet Master) [SM10]
Secret Mission 11 (Point of Impact) [SM11]
Secret Mission 12 (Steeplechase) [SM12]
I wrote this guide as a compilation of my experiences matched with the guides
I've seen so far. I've put more depth and detail to the actual missions,
especially the problem missions like the Royal Guard one and the Unbreakable
one. With this hopefully u can enjoy having all 12 shards easily and with
less hassle than I went through. Lulz.
By the way, these secret missions are a way to practice the basic skills that
you need to do well in missions, especially the later ones. If you can
finish these missions before you finish Son of Sparda mode, then your pretty
well set to do well on them. Another note, when I was first looking through
these guides, I was kind of dissapointed that the missions weren't laid out
according to how you find them (as you will see, they aren't numbered in
order), however, due to the difficulty of some of the missions requiring
extra health, weapons, upgrades, etc, you won't be able to do them in order
anyways, so just use that little hand ctrl-f function and you'll be fine.
And one last note, even if you hate me for it, I did all these in "automatic
mode" cuz it just makes my life a whole lot easier :)
[SM01] Secret Mission 01 (Annihilation):
Pre-requisites: None
Difficulty - Very Easy
Mission 02: La Porte De L'Enfer
Directions: You really shouldn't miss out on this one, about 1/4 way through
the map, and if u have tutorials on, you'll see a piece of paper with demonic
writing on it stuck on a post and the tutorial will tell you what to do.
Practices: Introduction to killing skills.
Guide: This one's pretty straightforward and by far the easiest of all the
secret missions. If you know how to combo and kill things quickly, then
this shard will be yours. For those who need extra help or are just starting
out, this should help. If you're just beginning, just stick with the Y,Y,Y,Y
combo along with Buster (Your arm move [B]) and you should be able to take
them out fast enough.
[SM02] Secret Mission 02 (Alley-Oop):
Pre-requisites: None
Difficulty - Very Easy
Mission 04: Cold Blooded
Directions: As you're going through the missions, you can't really miss this
one as opening this secret mission is a requirement to progress through the
level. When you see giant fireballs shooting down a corridor, ur at the right
place. Where the fireballs emanate from, the secret mission is right behind
it so use ur Anima Mercury on the Gyro Blade near the entrance and use it as
a shield as u progress down the corridor, eventually hitting the fireball
shooting thing. Animation occurs revealing this mission.
Practices: Shows you how to use buster in the air continuously, specially
useful since you use this tactic in an upcoming mission and higher
difficulty levels. (no spoilers).
Guide: This is an essential skill to use, but fairly easy to learn. Basically
your supposed to stay in the air and keep using the Buster move on the mobs
without touching the ground. This is a lot easier than it sounds. If you
have automatic on like I did, all you have to do is go toward the middle,
wait a bit for the Scarecrows to gather around you (not too long) then jump
and spam the [B] button. this will essentially grab one, smash them to the
ground, grab another one, etc.. If you don't have automatic on, I'd imagine
you'd have to [RB] to target etc etc. But thats for you to figure out if u
think your too good for Automatic xP
[SM03] Secret Mission 03 (Nonviolent Resistance):
Pre-requisites: Aegis Shield (From Mission 08, after you fight Angelo Credo
Difficulty - Very Hard
Mission 05: Trisagion (Or 16 as Dante)
Directions: I'm only going to list the Nero version since It's a lot easier to
do with Nero. Entering the graveyard, kill the 2 Mephistos and move forward.
You'll see a set of stairs with a fence to each side. Break one of the fences
or leap over them, whichever u think is flashier, then go towards the
backside of the stairs. Mission 03 awaits.
Practices: This one pretty much shows you that you can get style points even
if you don't attack. I guess it encourages using some of the skills that some
people don't generally use.
Guide: This one was one of the 2 most pain-in-the-ass missions that I
encountered until I finally found a good method to it (found on the forums
somewhere, forgot who so credit to the community :P). When you start off, 3
mobs spawn, a Frost to your left, then after a second, a Scarecrow behind you
and in front of you. You're going to need to wait for the scarecrow in front
of you to appear fully before you can grab him or you'll just knock him down.
Grab him then run to the corner nearest you then quickly face the other
Scarecrow and Frost. Now, keep taunting so that they'll attack you.
Essentially, any damage done by the other mobs to the mob your holding is
counted, style-wise, as your damage. So as they keep attacking, eventually
the poor Scarecrow will get too much of a beating and pop into a sea of red
and green M&Ms. The moment this happens, you should have at least a D-Style
ranking by now, grab the other Scarecrow and hold, staying in the same corner.
Around the same time, another Frost should have appeared and will come
curiously to inspect you. keep in mind that this is your last chance as the
Frosts can only be held for a certain amount of time before freeing
themselves. With the second scarecrow, just stay in ur corner and keep
taunting. If you're lucky, both Frosts will cast Ice Nova on the Scarecrow
and put you into the C-rank which gives you your shard. If this doesn't
work, althought I haven't tried, if your second Scarecrow dies before you
get your C ranking, grab one of the Frosts and hopefully that will boost
you up the remaining style that you need. Good luck on this one.
[SM04] Secret Mission 04 (Tracking Treasure Down):
Pre-requisites: The Dangly Bit from the Toad Guy
Difficulty - Medium
Mission 06: Resurrection
Directions: When you get to a metal room with a catwalk in front of you,
AkA the Angel Creation lab, to Nero's left, upon entering, you will see 3 guys
whose souls were sucked to make the Angelos. Towards the left corner, beside
the guy nearest to the entrance, thats where the mission is. You'll only see
a vague sliver of red to signify where it is, plus your Dangly Bit glowing.
But it's there.
Practices: Shows you how to use your Dangly bit to find hidden stashes of red
orbs and other secret missions.
Guide: This one takes some getting used to if you haven't used ur Dangly Bit
(DB) to find the red orbs before. Essentially if theres a hidden pocket of
red orbs in the air, if you stand in the center of where they're at for a
second, they will pop out and suck into you. Generally they are centralized
wherever they are, so generally it wouldn't be right up against a wall unless
it was a little enclave. If that confuses you, just ignore it. The main thing
is to use your Dangly Bit to find them. When you get near a spot, you'll hear
a slight whine from your Dangly Bit indicating that your near a spot. Your
arm should slightly glow if your on the outside edge. Just move around the
area and try to triangulate where the center is. When your at the very center
or very near the center of it, ur arm will glow very brightly and have a
bright blue thin halo glowing around it, thats the signal that you've found
Now, to give you a general idea of where to look, here are some spots:
-1F Right near your spawn, if you move a bit and u hear the whine, it should
be either where the benches and chairs were or between you and teh fallen
-1F By the main entrance (Be careful with this one) if you hear the whine
near the entrance way, then the orbs are in front of the door. Don't go too
near the door or it wont activate, its slightly in front of it. And by no
means press [A] or [B] or else you will fail the mission as that's one way
to exit the mission.
-1F In the Gyro Blade. For this one you will actually have to move the GB in
order to center.
-2F where the Hit Switch is to the right section of his Holiness' portrait.
-2F in front of his Holiness' Portrait
-2F near one of the columns. U have to go around from where the gyro blade is
to either side to get these. It's right in the middle of the corridor
wherever your arm starts to glow.
-Roof, Use the bounce pad and you will be able to get it.
[SM05] Secret Mission 05 (Sky Scraper):
Pre-requisites: Wing Talisman, Grim Grip
Difficulty - Hard
Mission 07: The She-viper
Directions: As you go through the level, about 1/3-1/2 way through, you'll end
up seeing a bridge in the area called the Lapis River. once you cross the
bridge, you would normally go right to go to the next area, instead make a
left towards the tree. Once you approach, the camera perspective will change
and you'll see it.
Practices: Using Jump pads properly. Not really essential to combat, but
useful for timing and coordinating jumping nonetheless since you do this a
fair bit in the game.
Guide: This one takes a bit to learn, but with a bit of perseverance, you'll
make it through. You don't take damage or anything, so however frustrating it
might be the first few times, just stick with it and you'll get ur shard. You
have one minute to get to the top, using 5 jump pads. Once you actually get it
down, it takes less than 20 seconds to do everything, if u do it perfectly, so
the time itself gives you room for error. Some people say Air Hike is
necessary, but I don't find it so as it can be done without. Air Hike just
helps the last jump pad method, which I will get to later. For this one, the
entry jump is important since the angle that you grab onto the pylons
determines your end location, so if you grab it at the wrong angle, your going
to end up just slightly off course and miss the next jump pad.
-For the first one, just run straight at the jump pad and Grim Grip twice very
fast. Basically just hold [RB] while spamming [B] and you'll end up on the next
jump pad.
-The second one requires you to shift your positions as ur jumping to ensure
that you get to the next jump pad. Once you hit the second jump pad, fly a
little bit to the bottom left of the screen, as ur camera angle should be the
same as mine was if u came in from the same side on the first jump. While
your jumping, keep holding [RB] until you hear the targetting 'ping' then
spam [B] again, this should guide you to your next pad.
-The third jump requires you to destroy a fence in mid-air. One thing to keep
in mind is that once you jump, you wont be able to change the direction your
facing until you do the little flip at the very top of ur jump, once u flip,
then [Important] press Y, turn the stick towards the fence, press Y again.
This ensures that you fall back down to the pad instead of falling all the way
down to the bottom, because if you move the stick first, you will stray your
course away from the jump pad and might miss on the way down.
-The fourth one requires a double Grim Grip or a bit of maneouvering. This one
pretty much boils down to practice as the angle that you have from pad 3 to
pylon to pad 4 does NOT align properly, so you can do one of 2 things. If
you're good at timing, then from the 3rd pad, slightly fly towards the bottom
of the screen, not too much though, while holding [RB]. Once you hear the
ping, then grab and let go of every thing, including [RB], the moment u let
go of everything, press [RB] again quickly and once you hear the ping, grab
again, and that should make you have done a pendulum type maneouver that lets
you get on the last pad. An easier one by my take is to get on the catwalk
near the pylon and do it in 2 steps. First step is to get off the 3rd pad and
stray towards the bottom of the screen a lot, then grab the pylon. This should
put you towards the catwalk. After, just press [RB] while on the platform,
align yourself to the pad, then fall off, wait 1/4 of a second, then grab
the pylon. Though it takes practice, it should get you on the pylon.
This last pad just takes practice since camera angles and such make it hard
to explain. Once you get the feel of it, it should be cake.
Additional Info:
By James T.
On the very last jump, if you jump to the very far right of the pad
(knowing where the pad is beforehand is a must), then latch on to the pylon,
you will be able to get on the pad with one maneouver. You need to know exactly
where to place yourself with this method however, so just keep on practicing.
[SM06] Secret Mission 06 (Vermifuge):
Pre-requisites: {Trick} Aegis Shield, Air Hike {Normal} Shitload of skill
Difficulty: {Trick} Medium {Normal} Near-Impossible
Mission 10: Wrapped In Glory (12 as Dante)
Directions: The actual area this is located is easy to remember since its the
only one of its type in the game. It's the chamber that has lazers that you
have to jump past with the slow-mo dealy. At the end of the lazers, go to
your right, perspective should change, and your challenge awaits.
Practices: Fast Killing.
Guide: I'm only going to explain how to do the trick for this one, because the
normal way just requires you to know some good AoE moves to handle the
chimeras. There are actually 2 tricks for this. One is with Dante and the
ever powerful pandora, but that one takes some preparation and boils down to
luck. The one with Nero is a lot easier. Missions starts, scarecrow spawns,
wait for it to spawn completely or you'll just knock the poor guy down. Grab
him and hold him with the Aegis Shield, then Air Hike towards your right,
past the Gyro Blade and into the little corridor. Don't go too far into the
corridor or else you'll get zoned out. Make sure to only Air Hike all the way
here to prevent jumping chimera's from ruining your day. Slam the scarecrow
to rest here then walk back to the chimeras and kill them in order from the
scarecrow's area towards the spawn. The scarecrow can get himself into
trouble cuz he tends to wander back towards the Gyro Blade area within 10-20
seconds of you slamming him down, so make sure that area is clear first before
you clear the rest of the chimera's. Quick and easy way is to Buster Rip the
chimeras, its a one hit kill. Clear all the chimera's and the shard is yours.
Notes: Don't slam down the scarecrow more than once since it'll die.
Additional Info:
By James T.
When you use the Buster Hold (Aegis Shield) on the scarecrow, you can
streak forward from where you have spawned (or air hike) towards the staircase
that leads to the entrance of the Combat Adjuticator building (where the
water fountain is). This gives you a little more time and space to deal with
the chimera's as they come up the stairs.
[SM07] Secret Mission 07 (Free Running):
Pre-Requisites: N/A
Difficulty: {Trick} Medium {Normal} Hard
Mission 12: A New Beginning (Dante), Mission 10: Wrapped In Glory (Nero
Directions: You might have noticed this one as Nero in Mission 10 or you can
do it with Dante in mission 12 if your going to do it legitly. As dante, it's
in the room after you fight the Angelos in the circular room. It's directly
accross from the Divine Statue.
Practices: Various methods of evasion and blocking.
Guide: There is 2 ways to do this. The Legit way is to use Dante with Royal
Blocker stance on. Just go through the level blocking and activate your DT
when you need health. You can't go through the level blocking alone so you
will need to have some skill in jump dodging the Mephisto's attacks, but be
careful of stray attacks that will get you knocked out of the level.
Second way is to kill the Mephistos off first, then merrily make your way
through without them bugging you. This is near impossible while on a platform
since any stray attack will knock you off. So you have to activate the
platforms via the Hit Switch, and then spawn the Mephistos then run back
to the hit switch and kill them there, in the safety of non-dissapearing
ground. Keep in mind that the Mephistos spawn off the second panel of the
first set that appears (Theres 2 squares that spawn off the start). So you
have to get on the second panel first then hop back to spawn. Once you've
killed the mephistos, wait for the panels to reset (might take a while)
then redo it and the fragment will be yours.
*But of course theres always the Dante Missile pod way..but that's too
cheap to explain here.. :P*
[SM08] Secret Mission 08 (Royal Blocker):
Pre-Requisites: N/A
Difficulty: Very-Hard
Mission 14: Forest of Ruin (You can get to this with Nero {Mission 07} but you
need Dante to actually do it)
Directions: At the very end of the stage (or almost the end), inside a little
gazebo looking thing, go inside it and you'll see it. If your having trouble
finding it, look for a big hollow log that normally has pods inside it. It's
right next to it.
Practices: Royal Blocking :)
Guide: This one is a royal pain in the ass (hah pun, gimme cookie) until you
figure out the frame animations and sounds for this. Be ready to spend a few
K worth of life stars here unless you don't mind restarting the mission from
the beginning. It is HIGHLY reccomended that you save this mission for last,
or at least have 3/4 of your life guage filled already, as this will save you
a glorious amount of retries. Also recommended to fill your devil trigger
guage as you will be regenerating life with this to further lessen the amount
of retries you will require. On with the good stuff.
First and foremost, get rid of one of the mephisto's right off the bad. Just
chuck a laser shot at it with pandora and slice it up. Try not to lose too
much if any health at this point. Once your down to one Mephisto, we can get
down to business.
A Royal Block consists of pressing B within 1/10th of a second of an enemy
attack hitting you. This is very hard to do in an actual game given the
number of attacks, the different number of enemies, and the precision
required to do it. However, this essentially is a block that lets through
no damage whatsoever. Animation wise, a regular block is a red bubble that
gets shown whenever an enemy hits you, a royal block is the bubble with a
shockwave animation through it as well as a distinct clanging sound. Regular
Blocks do not work and if you miss a royal block, then the counter resets.
Mephisto's have 4 attacks. 3 of which are randomly used up close, and 1 of
which is only used long range. I will focus on the 3 attacks as the last
attack should never happen should you be positioned correctly.
The first attack is the Whiny Finger of Doom. The Mephisto circles around
you once, start's charging up his finger with an ominous whine, then pokes
you with it. Then you go 'tee-hee'. Anyways..the trick I've found to
countering this one is the whine itself. If you hear it enough, and aren't
tone deaf, then you will notice that the whine only goes to a certain pitch
before attacking. Once you know what that highest pitch is, thats when you
press B and you will execute your Royal Block.
The second attack is the Hard Scythe. The Mephisto twirls around on the spot
first, then attacks you with a 'scythe' from under his pants. The trick to
this is seeing the twirl, and timing the attack from that. Normally, I press
B just as he's finishing the twirl and that gives me the Block, but depending
on your reaction speed, this will change so just time it around that area
and see when u get the block.
The last attack is the Death Rush. The Mephisto moves back about 2 meters,
then rushes towards you in 2 steps. The trick to blocking this one is waiting
for that second "step". When the mephisto moves back, he'll be quit a ways
back, then he'll dip down and back up to about a meter away, then from there,
he rushes you very quickly. The time to press be is just at the end of his
second step just before he rushes, because he rushes fast enough for it to
Keep these in mind, position yourself in the middle of the room, and hold
[RB] at all times and with a little bit of luck, the shard will be yours.
Additional Info:
By ImmoralFlame and Smoregishwash (Also submitted by 4 other people but
I was a little late in updating so sry guys)
This trick was submitted by several people and involves charging up
the Royal Blocker guage (and getting lvl 4 Royal Blocker) and while you're
doing your thing, If you block twice or 3 times in a row, activate
Dreadnaught and for the last 2 or 3 royal blocks, even if you miss the
timing, your counter won't go down. Gives you a little bit of leeway.
[SM09] Secret Mission 09 (Unbreakable):
Pre-requisites: {Trick} Pandora, Air Hike {Normal} Tremendous amount of skill
and reaction time
Difficulty: {Trick} Easy {Normal} Very-Hard
Mission 15: Fortuna Castle
Directions: During the mission you'll encounter a tall spiral staircase, at
the very bottom of the staircase, without exiting, you will see the mission
behind the wall underneath the stairs. It sounds odd in text but you'll see
Practices: Not getting hit.
Guide: This is by far the Hardest Mission to do legitimately since any hit will
fail the mission, and if you've encountered chimeras before, u know those
damn tentacles hit VERY randomly. Trying to do it legitimately, the first
wave would be best to eliminate the chimeras first, then kill the Dino Dudes.
But once the second wave comes along, There really isn't much to say except
stay back and good luck?
There is a very simple, however non-foolproof method to make your life a lot
easier. Before doing this method however, make sure to have tried it normally
a few times just so you can appreciate how much easier your life is. You need
Air Hike, and Pandora and Dante in Gunslinger mode. Yes, that's right, we're
using the God-Pod. Out of all the guns that Dante can use, the God-Pod does the
most damage while being in the air. This is essentially the trick to not being
hit, however isn't entirely fool proof since some of the mobs can jump (I only
saw it happen once and it happened to quick for me to see which mob it was, but
i think it was a dino dude).
Either way, it boils down to luck and you not getting jumped on or landing on
a chimera. This takes a bit of time, but no more than a minute or 2 at most.
Just do the following: Start Round, Go to the Middle of the map, Jump, Airhike,
Press [B] to activate the pod, Spam X to fire the heat seeking missiles
(usually lets off 2 or 3 missiles at a time without having anything in your
Disaster Meter) and repeat. If all goes well, then you should have the hardest
mission complete.
Note: It is important to be in the very center of the map to prevent the
dino dudes from using their seed attack which can hit you in the air.
[SM10] Secret Mission 10 (Puppet Master):
Pre-requisites: Anima Mercury
Difficulty: Medium
Mission 05: Trisagion
Directions: After the graveyard, you will end up in a bedroom that spawns some
scarecrows then some angelos. Kill all those, then above the fireplace, you'll
see a mirror. Break it and it'll lead into a section which has the mission.
Practices: Moving Gyroblades quickly and Efficiently.
Guide: Fairly easy mission to learn, boils down to how well you can position
yourself and maneouver the GB. Theres really nothing to say since it's really
all up to you find the towers first since its hard to explain all the
positions but I will leave you with a few tips. When your going down straight
away, use the Super Spin (By hitting the GB twice with ur sword) to give it
some good speed. If your going through a bend or you only need a little bit
of distance, just use the Regular Spin, it will only go about 3-5 meters at
a time. And if you have to maneouver tight corners, like the last part of
this mission, then dont put any spin at all and just nudge it with your buster.
Now for the first part, you should be able to easily get the towers around you,
dont forget the one behind where you spawn. Towards the end, there are
3 around the same area, i would suggest getting the ones outside the cage
first starting with the one on the farthest corner, then the one in front
of the gate, then the one inside the gate. Logic being that from the one
outside the gate, you have an easier time maneouvering into the gate with
some speed, saving you some time.
If you don't get it the first few times, it just takes some learning and a
little luck with ur busters. Soon you'll have your piece.
[SM11] Secret Mission 11: Point of Impact
Pre-requisites: Pandora with lazer attachment (Revenge), Ebony and Ivory?
Difficulty: Hard
Mission 16: Inferno
Directions: Showing you where this is through text is pretty tricky since it
involves jumping around spots that don't really have any point of reference.
So....I'll just show you a video of it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=msL_2hAZZ9c Mission 11 is at around 4:32.
Practices: Aiming the Pandora Laser.
Guide: This one I labeled as hard because it takes some doing to actually aim
the blasted laser. This is probobly what most people wonder how to do and
various people have found ways but they didn't work for me, maybe I was just
doing it wrong. But the way I did find worked pretty well for me and I got
this done on my third try. The one way I found to perfectly aim the laser is
to use your running direction as a guideline. The statues on either side of
you are both at the end of long corridors. I got the one on the bottom of the
stairs first. As you run down, keep an eye on the angle that your going down
the stairs. It sounds odd when you read it but you should know what your
looking for when your actually doing it. As your running, make sure that the
stairs are straight, if they aren't, adjust your movement slightly until
your going directly down the middle of the stairs without veering off to
one side. If all goes well and by the end of your run you are perfectly
straight, at the bottom of the steps press X and activate the cannon,
once the cannon is out fire right away. As you are getting the cannon
ready, you should be able to notice if your going to shoot straight or not
by the angle of the gun. If its still off, then its your change to change the
angle slightly by moving FORWARD a bit then hitting X to activate and stop at
the same time. To get it perfectly though, it's best to not have to do this
or you won't have time.
Once you get that one, run back up the stairs and start dashing through. The
moment you shoot the statue should be at about 20 seconds give or take a
second, if its more than that its too slow. For the second statue use the
same method but since you don't have as much distance to adjust, this ones
kind of a crapshoot, but as long as you get the first one down quickly
enough, then the second one shouldn't take too long to get. Just make sure
that your on the same level as the statue so that you dont have to adjust
up and down on the laser, only left and right.
Good luck with this one.
Additional Info:
By Shaun M.
(Not-Tested) According to this method, you don't have to use Pandora to
shoot the statues. You can also use Ebony and Ivory. Here is the actual
e-mail (paraphrased): I'll just say that from the forest is A and from
the HQ is B. By running down the stairs towards A, and about four steps away
from the steps I was able to jump into the air and Rapid fire with E&I,
shattering the statue. Running back to B, halfway across the bridge, I jumped
and fired destroying the second one. This method takes approx. 27 seconds.
If anyone tries this and succeeds please let me know, thanks.
[SM12] Secret Mission 12: Steeplechase
Pre-requisites: Pandora, A Full Disaster Guage
Difficulty: Very Easy
Pratices: Done normally, this would help you with your jumping ability, but
who needs to learn that anyways? :P
Mission 17: Adagio For Strings
Directions: Going through the level, after you finish the street where you
fight the Blob Slicers with the Scarecrows and Cannon Hounds, you go through
a door. Right after the door, go right and there should be a trash can in
front of a gate. Destroy the trash can and reveal the mission.
Guide: For this one I'm not even going to bother with the normal method.
You've done this before in slow mo, but this time it's faster and with
harder jumps. And no slow mo since you can only do this with Dante. Easiest
way is to come in the stage with a full Disaster Meter, double jump
(air hike) as high as you can, then activate the God-Pod from the
gunslinger special [B]. Afterwards, safely fly over those menacing
electric currents and pick up your shard. A few things to keep in mind
is that with a full Disaster meter, you have just enough juice to get
you to the other side, so don't dilly-dally.
And that is the last shard. Grand total of 4 bars worth of health. Good job!
Now find those loose shards and you're ready for Bloody Palace!!
Additional Info:
By James T.
If you don't have a full Disaster Guage for your Pandora, you can also
leave it to chance and use Trickster with Airhike. If you Airhike and
Air Dash over the lasers, and with a little luck of not landing on any
lasers, you will be able to reach the shard within 2 or 3 dashes.
By Darius R.
If you charge up Royal Guard lvl 4 by blocking stuff then use the
Dreadnaught ability, you can stinger through the lasers and takes a little
under half the guage. So if you're a fan of Royal Blocker, then this method
is for you. If you tend to use Pandora more, use the Pandora method. Just
gives a little more options depending on the fighting style you use.
Thanks for all the generous e-mails that you've sent and the tips and tricks
that you have sent in. If there's something here that I've missed, just send
me an e-mail and I'll be sure to update!
Joe Guevara || email@example.com || GT - Excruciatix
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Hasp protects against cutting attacks and provides maximum security for double-drive industrial gates with 1-5/8 or 2-inch frames. Simple four-bolt installation; all mounting hardware included. Adjustable slide fits gate opening from 3 to 6 inches wide.
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The Fern Lake fire advance has been halted to 3,584-acre swatch of Rocky Mountain National Park, after more than doubling in size early Saturday and forcing the evacuation of 583 homes, according to an information center monitoring the blaze.
Strong winds with gusts up to 75 miles-per-hour pushed the fire through lines set up to stop it early Saturday morning.
Fire crews were able to stop the blaze from crossing Bear Lake Road, according to the Joint Information Center.
An unoccupied, privately-owned cabin was destroyed, and others were threatened.
Teams made good progress fighting the fire Saturday, fire spokeswoman Traci Weaver said. "What we really need is snow," Weaver said Saturday.
Snow is not in the forecast, according to the National Weather Service.
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DevOps PaaS Goes Live With 30 Customers
DevOps PaaS Goes Live With 30 Customers
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Nov 28, 2012) - (AWS re:Invent Conference) - CloudMunch Inc., a cloud-based orchestration engine for managing the entire application lifecycle, today announced it has been selected by Amazon Web Services to launch its DevOps Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Selected from hundreds of companies, CloudMunch will be one of eight start-ups to be featured at "Launched," a Live Stage environment where some of the most promising start-ups running on AWS have been invited to present and demonstrate their solution. CloudMunch CEO Pradeep Prabhu and CTO Prasanna Raghavendra will be presenting on Wednesday, November 28th.
Software developers today rely on a variety of cutting-edge cloud-based services to build, deploy, and manage their applications. Tools such as AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Chef, GitHub, Google Docs, JIRA, and New Relic have become indispensible to today's software teams -- especially for distributed teams. However, orchestrating all of these tools into a seamless workflow remains a significant challenge. With the General Availability release of the CloudMunch Platform, software development teams will now have a faster, easier way to Build-Test-Deploy-Run, and Manage applications in the cloud. CloudMunch is available in two editions: a Team Edition -- and with today's launch -- a new Developer Edition. The Developer Edition is designed for individual developers and provides a simple way for them to deploy their application and run it on AWS.
"As a cloud service broker, Jamcracker is constantly innovating to meet the demands of our clients," said Vinay Bhardwaj, Vice President, Engineering, Jamcracker Inc. "CloudMunch allows us to achieve continuous delivery and hence, faster releases."
"A key focus area for AWS is to help companies get started by offering a technology infrastructure with no capital expense and low pay-as-you-go pricing, and providing a technology platform with a broad functionality and global scale," said Ariel Kelman, Head of Worldwide Marketing, AWS. "This year, at the first AWS re:Invent conference, we have pushed 'getting started' to a new level by creating a dynamic, live stage environment for start-up companies to launch publicly for the first time. We're excited to have CloudMunch participate and show off their innovation on AWS."
Founded by former Infosys executives, CloudMunch launched its private beta in May 2012 and its service has since been adopted by over 30 customers ranging from product companies, IT service and SaaS providers, Web 2.0 businesses and innovative start-ups, demonstrating compelling user benefits such as faster time-to-market, improved quality and substantially lower costs. Customers include Beyond Square, Bizosys Technologies, Compassites, Evam Technologies, Jamcracker, LogicMatter, Tarento, Thinking Hut, and Wolken Software, to name a few.
"The reality of distributed teams coupled with a new generation of cloud-based tools means that delivering quality software on a continuous basis is becoming even more complex and fraught with risk. CloudMunch addresses this with a 'Hub in the Cloud' architecture, orchestrating the entire application lifecycle into a single workflow, enabling developers to use the tools they're already comfortable with," said Pradeep Prabhu, CEO and co-founder of CloudMunch. "CloudMunch provides in-context, real time analytics for the entire application lifecycle. Our mission is to let development teams focus on code and innovation, and in the process, raise the bar on software delivery speed and quality."
About CloudMunch Inc.
CloudMunch Inc. was incorporated in Seattle WA by long-term Infosys executives, Pradeep Prabhu, CEO and Prasanna Raghavendra, CTO. The CloudMunch DevOps Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) represents a faster, easier way to Build-Test-Run and Manage software applications. CloudMunch orchestrates the entire application lifecycle, enabling developers to plug-and-play with their favorite tools. The platform enables developers across globally distributed software teams, product companies and software System Integrators to sustain competitive advantage by delivering faster releases, better quality and achieving significantly lower costs.
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Nice. I usually hate rap, and I don't agree with everything he said, but it was very thoughtful. I especially like the chorus just put your trust in us.
Yeah, I'm not a rap fan either... I was hoping to find an atheist Bob Dylan
Evidently there's a lot of atheist rap. Here's another one....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFY6dPlf_ug
Hehehe... good one. The rap thing is a little surprising to me. I have a skewed perspective, teaching in the Bible Belt, but my African American students have by and large been staunch believers and severe homophobes.
Yes, I don't know the actual statistics but I've heard it said that the black community in general is largely against homosexuality. I don't know if there is a gay gene, so I'm not sure if it's a race issue. It is a civil rights and equality issue though, so it's ironic that American blacks would be against gay rights.
Not sure what the mechanism is there. I went to Grad school at the Citadel when it was males only. The black cadets seemed most vehement about keeping women out even though very similar arguments were used 50 years ago to keep black people out.
Someone made a good observation the other day on this subject. He said that the Irish
The Irish ....
we are wanting the rest of the story : )
Wow, I typed more than that.... The Irish used to be discriminated against in early America. When that was over, they joined in the discrimination of other groups almost immediately. The first Christians were hunted down and killed by the Romans. We all know what they did when they came into power. It makes me wonder which group the gays will discriminate against when their day is over.
"It makes me wonder which group the gays will discriminate against when their day is over."
I'll put my money on... THE ATHEISTS
lol, hopefully we'll be visited by space aliens before then. ;)
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The women's cross country team finished second in their third meet at Percy Warner Park Saturday morning.
Susan Worden placed first for the team again with a 5K time of 19:18.
Elizabeth Schall and Samantha Wood remained close behind finishing only one second apart at 9th and 10th and sophomore Carolyn Latham scored for the first time this season with a time of 20:24 placing four of our runners in the top 20. Also scoring were freshman Shannon Shoemake who finished in 21 minutes and sophomore Erin Pyles two places behind in 21:09.
Rounding out the race was Paige Griffin (21:16) and Julie Alley (21:28) in 28th and 29th, Paloma Floden in 32nd (21:36), Amanda Tanner in 35th (21:49), Rachel Snider in 38th (21:57), and Anna Day in 40th (22:32).
Host Vanderbilt University came in 1st and Union and Tennessee Tech trailed Lipscomb in 3rd and 4th.
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Are You Fooling Anyone?
You might wish everything that has been going on at The University of Montana was a really bad April fools prank. To help take your mind off the mess I've scoured the web (www.aprilfoolzone.com) for some of the best April fools pranks. Enjoy!
- Replace the lotion in someone's favorite lotion bottle with mayo.
- Place a note on your neighbor's car that says "sorry about the dent" and include a fake name and phone number. Hide nearby so you can watch your neighbor look for the dent.
- Attach an old leash and collar to the bumper of your wife's car before going somewhere. Watch the reaction of the other drivers on the road!
- Tell your friend you learned a new trick. Balance a full opened can of beer on the back of your hand (not the palm). Then bet your friend that they can't balance a can on both hands at the same time. As soon as you get the glasses balanced on both of your friend's hands, walk out of the room. They will have to spill the beer in order to free their hands!
- Scoop the top inch out of someone's deodorant, then take cream cheese and put it in the deodorant container being sure to shape it to look like the deodorant you just took out. Put the top back on the container and wait!
- Put a pad of butter on a plate and let it get soft. Tell your friend you learned something new, that salt poured on butter creates heat. Demonstrate by pouring salt on the butter and holding your hand over it and pretend you feel heat. As soon as your friend tries to feel the heat, slam their hand into the butter!
- Seal off a doorway with plastic wrap and then close the door. When your husband tries to walk through it he will bounce right off!
- Put a little ink or paint on your finger. Go to your friend and tell them you see a something on their face. Tell them you will rub it off, but really put a mark on their face. Pretend you got the mark off their face then walk away.
- If you are a woman in a relationship, this will make your boyfriend/husband sweat. Buy a pair of fancy girlie panties and put them in your hubby/boyfriends car. When the two of you are going somewhere, find the panties and make a huge scene. Eventually tell him the truth.
- Ladies, if you're really cruel, find a pregnant lady and have her pee on a pregnancy test. Then take the positive test home and show it to your husband. Enjoy the freak out!
I hope you have enjoyed these pranks and have found at least one that you can use on someone this April Fools Day!
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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian scientists have found that a dietary supplement may help people who can't control their blood pressure with standard drugs.
The secret weapon is garlic, according to a study published in the scientific journal Maturitas.
In a 12-week trial involving 50 patients, Karin Ried and a team of colleagues at the University of Adelaide discovered that those who took four capsules a day of a supplement called aged garlic extract lowered their blood pressure by 10 points more than a group given a placebo.
The effect was only found in those who had a so-called systolic blood pressure of at least 140 — the usual cut-off value for high blood pressure — at the outset of the study.
Ried said that garlic taken in any other way, whether raw, fresh or in powdered form, doesn't have the same effect.
"When you cook fresh garlic the ingredient which is responsible for reducing blood pressure disappears," she said.
"I think the really important point to make is that aged garlic extract as a supplement is the secret weapon for blood pressure."
Garlic has long been thought to be good for the heart, and traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine practitioners have been promoting garlic for high blood pressure for centuries.
"Garlic has been used as a treatment to lower blood pressure in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years," said Sundari Ganesh, a practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine, told Reuters by phone.
But Ried said their research was the first to assess the impact of aged garlic extract, adding that it was evaluated as an additional treatment to other high blood pressure medication — for instance beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors.
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, and heart and kidney failure. The risk of disease increases as the level of blood pressure increases.
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Static or complex quenching arises from non-fluorescent complexes formed between the quencher and fluorophore that serve to limit absorption by reducing the population of active, excitable molecules. This effect occurs when the fluorescent species forms a reversible complex with the quencher molecule in the ground state, and does not rely on diffusion or molecular collisions. In static quenching, fluorescence emission is reduced without altering the excited state lifetime. A fluorophore in the excited state can also be quenched by a dipolar resonance energy transfer mechanism when in close proximity with an acceptor molecule to which the excited state energy can be transferred non-radiatively. In some cases, quenching can occur through non-molecular mechanisms, such as attenuation of incident light by an absorbing species (including the chromophore itself).
The cytoskeletal F-actin network and nuclear DNA present in the culture of COS-7 cells featured in the digital image above were targeted with Alexa Fluor 488 conjugated to phalloidin and the intercalating dye propidium iodide, respectively. The specimen was also labeled with Alexa Fluor 350 conjugated to wheat germ agglutinin, a fluorescent lectin that selectively binds to sialic acid residues, which are found in both mucoproteins and glycoproteins. Images were recorded in grayscale with a QImaging Retiga Fast-EXi camera system coupled to an Olympus BX-51 microscope equipped with bandpass emission fluorescence filter optical blocks provided by Omega Optical. During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.
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Sandia National Laboratories provides innovative, science-based, systems-engineering solutions to our nation's most challenging national security problems. The declining numbers of American students who pursue science and engineering degrees is a national concern. Encouraging students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers is the goal of our K-12 education programs.
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
A Three-Gone Conclusion
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- Joe Torcivia said...
Bet I know who Alfred, Cadbury, and Duckworth are rooting for! Veddy good, Sir!
- April 5, 2010 at 10:28 PM
The final result was much closer than that as the Butler was one missed basket short to victory. Shame....On the other hand; I think this should end that mid-majors cannot compete in the NCAA's meme though.
My original thought was that Butler would have one more upset in them and they would beat Duke. I was three points short which isn't too bad for a losing prediction.
- April 7, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- Chris Barat said...
I frankly was amazed as to how well Butler hung in there with Duke. Not that I thought Duke was great --this is almost certainly the weakest of their four title teams --but I thought Butler was living on borrowed time given the good fortune they had recieved in the Tournament.
I think, had Hayward's shot gone in, it might well have gone down as the single most famous shot in the history of basketball -- college or pro.
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Hungry Buffalonians Crowd Downtown for Taste of Buffalo 2012 [PICTURES]
We're pretty lucky around here when it comes to food. Oh, sure, the whole world knows about our wings and beef on weck, but Buffalo is home to a lot of really awesome restaurants that serve nothing of the sort. So for a foodie -- or just a hungry Buffalonian -- there's nothing better than the Taste of Buffalo.
The 29th annual festival took place this weekend (Saturday, July 7-Sunday, July 8), featuring 51 restaurants, four food trucks and seven wineries selling over 200 food items! And partially thanks to the gorgeous weather on Saturday and Sunday, the crowds packed Delaware Avenue and Niagara Square to get their fill of deliciousness. Check out some photos from the event below!


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Entrada Interactive is an established software company that is currently working on a DayZ inspired post-apocalyptic survival-based game titled Miscreated using CryENGINE3 by CryTek.
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Entrada Interactive is currently recruiting talent for our upcoming game titled Miscreated!
Miscreated is a brutal, post-apocalyptic, survival-based multiplayer online RPG set in the near future that was originally inspired by the popular mod for Arma II, DayZ.
Game Overview:
The year is 2089. The Earth is in ruins from two major nuclear wars. Civilization has collapsed and the majority of mankind has been wiped out. Each day is a struggle to find food and water to live, weapons for defense, and gear to withstand the harsh unforgiving wasteland that was once earth. The city centers and areas once called home and work are now populated by grotesque mutated humans, minds rotten from radiation and sickness. Bandits fight for control of what's left, executing everyone they come across or using them for slave labor and food. This is the world as it exists today, there is no law. Kill or be killed. Survive or Die.
Your Job:
• Responsible for creating custom AI for several types of AI characters (and groups of characters)
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