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Google May Get Win in Case Over Privacy Data on Other Websites
Google Inc. (GOOG) can't be forced to remove material from its search engine that was legally posted on other websites, an adviser to the European Union's top court said in a case that may set boundaries between free speech and data-protection rights.
Google can't be considered "the controller" of personal data from other websites, Advocate General Niilo Jaeaeskinen of the EU Court of Justice said in a non-binding opinion today.
"A national data protection authority cannot require an Internet search engine service provider to withdraw information from its index," Jaeaeskinen said. The Luxembourg-based court follows this legal advice in a majority of cases.
The dispute before the EU's top court raises questions about the scope of EU privacy rules related to personal data on the Internet and the rights of search engines to use any online data to remain commercially successful. The case was triggered by about 200 instances of Spain's data-protection authority ordering Google to remove information on people.
Google faces privacy investigations around the world as it adds services and steps up competition with Facebook Inc. (FB) for users and advertisers. The Mountain View, California-based company created a uniform set of privacy policies last year for more than 60 products, unleashing criticism from regulators and consumer advocates over whether it was properly protecting data. Possible privacy issues with Google Glass, its new web-enabled eyeglasses, are also being reviewed.
The information in today's case concerned a Spanish man whose house was auctioned off for failing to pay taxes. Newspaper La Vanguardia published the information in 1998 and years later it could still be found through a Google search.
"This is a good opinion for free expression," Bill Echikson, a spokesman for Google, said in an e-mailed statement. "We're glad to see it supports our long-held view that requiring search engines to suppress 'legitimate and legal information' would amount to censorship."
The case is: C-131/12, Google Spain, S.L., Google Inc. v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos, Mario Costeja Gonzalez.
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephanie Bodoni in Luxembourg at firstname.lastname@example.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anthony Aarons at email@example.com

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Wow, def tracking this, cant wait for a playable demo!
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Morale and food is low, people are starving, which is why those two icons on the CS are blinking.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The Tennessee Titans have added James Kirkland and Mike Yowarsky to their scouting staff.
Yowarsky will cover the Southeast for the Titans. Tim Ruskell, who scouted the Southeast last year, will cross check all areas east of the Mississippi River.
Yowarsky has 21 years of NFL scouting experience and spent the last two seasons with Tampa Bay.
The Titans' pro scouting department added Kirkland, who most recently worked with the Chicago Bears.
Brandon Taylor, who had been the Titans' Combine scout, now will handle the Midwest. Dale Thompson will be the combine scout.
The Titans also hired Luke Steckel as special assistant to head coach Mike Munchak. Dennis Polian, who previously filled that role, now is assistant director of football administration/pro scout.
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"I'm so bored. I hate my life." - Britney Spears
Das Langweilige ist interessant geworden, weil das Interessante angefangen hat langweilig zu werden. – Thomas Mann
"Never for money/always for love" - The Talking Heads
Das Langweilige ist interessant geworden, weil das Interessante angefangen hat langweilig zu werden. – Thomas Mann
"Never for money/always for love" - The Talking Heads
Saturday, July 16, 2005
five hundred years of madness
The problem was a military one. How does a company of soldiers orient itself in the fog? The problem extended to orientation itself. My current fascination with McManus' book on handedness turned me on to the experiments of one Asa A. Schaeffer of the University of Kansas. Schaeffer took advantage of Kansas' outstanding trait – flatness, no trees. He put people in the driving seat in cars, blindfolded them, and had them drive straight. He blindfolded other subjects and had them swim, or walk. The results were reported "in a paper entitled Spiral Movement in Man,(Journal of Morphology and Physiology, Vol. 45,No I, March, 1928). He finds that whether walking, swimming, rowing a boat, or driving an automobile, the tendency of a blindfolded person is always to follow a spiral path." Nature does not abhor a vacuum more than man abhors a straight path.
In a sense, this is the full horror of modernity – the massive imposition of straight paths on spiral seeking creatures. Skyscrapers, the prohibition of LSD, deadlines, formatting – it is all the subtlest of tortures that makes our lives intolerable. Man makes jam -- traffic jam -- out of the straight lines that the masters lay down for him. We long for the spiral. Dostoevsky knew this long ago, and so did Kafka.
According to McManus' site:
"In the studies (Schaeffer, 1928; see Ludwig (1932 pp.327-330.), 57% of people turned to the right and 43% to the left, the size of the circles being surprisingly small, a diameter of about 18 metres when walking or swimming, and about 50 metres when driving. Ludwig speculates that one side is somewhat stronger than the other, and that the difference is accentuated as the person becomes tired, when walking or swimming (but not driving), accounting for the ever tightening spiral. Schaeffer (1931) also carried out studies of protozoa and found that in the majority of cases they spiralled to the right. Bracha et al., 1987. Slight turning tendencies can also be recognised in subjects wearing a backpack attached to a set of detectors, and suggest that slight noises to one side, or carrying a heavy object on one side can cause veering (Millar, 1999). A similar tendency of right handers to turn to the right can be seen in the stepping test used by Previc and Saucedo (Previc & Saucedo, 1992)."
So – take In the Penal Colony. Query: when the sentence is inscribed on the chest of the prisoner, is the handwriting to the left or the right? Perhaps the intolerable compromise of printing, with no handedness to the words at all, destroyed the whole mechanism of a rack in which, in his last throes, the human being tosses bodily to the right. The same disconnect between print and the spiral tending human probably makes this epoch of printed matter -- a short period, actually, starting in the 15th century -- ephemeral. The assault on the unconscious of us spiral tending writers and readers lo these many centuries is being repaired by the blessed illiteracy of eight hours of tv per day. I don't know if that is enough.
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- nightspore said...
Or there's the spiraling in Beckett's Unnameable, where Mahood (is it) spirals outwards for years, and theb tightens inwards for years. I read somewhere recently, though, that animals forage in the mathematically most efficient manner, and I wonder whether a blindfold tendency to spiral (in humans) doesn't indicate such a tendency. Handedness would make you spiral in the direction of maximal readiness to respond. Do the blind spiral?
- roger said...
Suggestive remarks. Beckett got from Joyce the cyclical view of history and narrative, and certainly Leopold Bloom is a great spiraler and forager. And then there are Molloy's sucking stones:
"I took advantage of being at the seaside to lay in a store of
sucking-stones. They were pebbles but I call them stones. Yes, on
this occasion I laid in a considerable store. I distributed them
equally between my four pockets, and sucked them turn and turn
about. This raised a problem which I first solved in the following
way. I had say sixteen stones, four in each of my four pockets these
being the two pockets of my trousers and the two pockets of my
greatcoat. Taking a stone from the right pocket of my greatcoat, and
putting it in my mouth, I replaced it in the right pocket of my
greatcoat by a stone from the right pocket of my trousers, which I
replaced by a stone from the left pocket of my trousers, which I
replaced by a stone from the left pocket of my greatcoat, which I
replaced by the stone which was in my mouth, as soon as I had
finished sucking it. Thus there were still four stones in each of my
four pockets, but not quite the same stones. And when the desire to
suck took hold of me again, I drew again on the right pocket of my
greatcoat, certain of not taking the same stone as the last time.
And while I sucked it I rearranged the other stones in the way I
have just described. And so on."


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Muira PuamaScientific names: Ptychopetalum olacoides, P. uncinatum, Liriosma ovata
Common names: Muira puama also is known as marapuama, potency wood, raiz del macho, and potenzholz.
Efficacy-safety rating:
ÒÒ...Ethno or other evidence of efficacy.
Safety rating:●...Little exposure or very minor concerns.
What is Muira Puama?
P. olacoides is a small tree native to the Brazilian Amazon where the stems and roots are used as a tonic for neuromuscular problems. A root decoction is used externally in massages and baths for paralysis and beriberi. Oral use of tea made from the roots for sexual impotence, rheumatism, and GI problems has been noted.
What is it used for?Traditional/Ethnobotanical uses
Muira puama currently is promoted as a male aphrodisiac or as a treatment for impotence. It is a popular, yet poorly studied, herbal product promoted for erectile dysfunction. This use may be traced back to the 1930s in Europe but has increased with the success of sildenafil (Viagra) and the concurrent promotion of "herbal Viagra" preparations. It also is a constituent of a popular Brazilian herbal tonic, "catuama," consisting of guarana, ginger, Trichilia catigua, and P. olacoides. Muira puama was official in the Brazilian Pharmacopeia of 1956.Male impotence
Muira puama is currently promoted as a male aphrodisiac or as a treatment for impotence. Clinical studies to support the use of muira puama are sparse. Several promotional Web sites cite the work of French clinician Jacques Waynberg to support their claims. However, peer-reviewed publications currently are lacking.
What is the recommended dosage?
Muira puama leaves, stem, and roots typically are used at a dose of 0.5 to 1.5 g/day, although there are no clinical studies supporting this dose.
How safe is it?Contraindications
Contraindications have not yet been identified.Pregnancy/nursing
Information regarding safety and efficacy in pregnancy and lactation is lacking.Interactions
None well documented.Side Effects
Research reveals little or no information about adverse reactions of muira puama.Toxicities
Muira puama does not appear to have the serious side effect potential of yohimbine.
- Muira Puama. Review of Natural Products. factsandcomparisons4.0 [online]. 2004. Available from Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Accessed April 17, 2007.
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Railroads Canada - Travels In Canada
( Originally Published 1927 )
THE railroad has made Canada. Without the locomotive that vast area, incalculably rich in natural resources, stretching from the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains north to the Arctic Ocean, would remain largely unsettled, unproductive, inaccessible to the world. Journey across it on the map by railroad. Two daily trains—the "Ocean Limited" and the "Maritime Express"—carry passengers over the Intercolonial Railway from Halifax to Montreal. From Montreal to Ottawa we are in the populous country of the French-Canadian ; beyond Ottawa the farms are more extensive until the train reaches the great forests along Lake Superior. At Sudbury, half-way between Montreal and Fort William, on Lake Superior, long strings of cars are seen, loaded with copper and nickel, for transport east. One of the richest known deposits of nickel in the world is in this territory, and Sudbury is connected with the railroad systems of the United States by a line running to Sault Ste. Marie.
Trains moving east are laden with cattle, grain and flour. From the Lake Superior country vast quantities of lumber are shipped to the Atlantic. Pioneers are making clearings and building villages in this region that was almost impenetrable before the railroad engineers blazed the way. Many tunnels, deep rock-cuttings, long bridges, high viaducts, all bear witness to the gigantic task of making a railroad north of Lake Superior.
Fort William, on Thunder Bay, is the lake ter-minus of the western section of the Canadian Pacific. On the shore are huge grain elevators, each capable of holding almost two million bushels. Some grain goes east by the railroad, some by boats through the Great Lakes ; there is direct water communication from Fort William to Montreal.
More forests, more pioneer stations, with pulp-mills, saw-mills, flour-mills in the vicinity of the Lake-of-the-Woods, which has been made an enormous mill-pond, with an area of 3000 square miles. Four hundred miles west there is a settlement where in 1871 the Hudson Bay Company had a small fort on the Red River at its junction with the Assiniboine. The site of that fort is now the city of Winnipeg, the commercial metropolis of the 'Canadian Northwest. Here is the great depot that supplies the west from the markets of the east in exchange for western produce, here from the far north come the traders in furs. Manitoba, the province in which Winnipeg is situated, is one of the world's richest fur-bearing lands.
West from Winnipeg the railroad runs for 1000 miles through Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta to the Rocky Mountains. The Canadian government has surveyed these great provinces and, to provide for the inrush of settlers, has divided them like the squares on a chessboard. Each square is six miles on a side; this constitutes a "township." Each town-ship is divided into thirty-six smaller squares, which are called "sections," and each of these sections is itself divided into four squares. A road allowance, one chain in width, is provided between each of the sections running north and south, and between the alternate sections east and west. The sections are numbered and the odd numbers belong to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the even numbers to the govern-ment and the Hudson Bay Company. Two sections in each township are reserved for schools. The lands belonging to the government have been opened for free occupation to properly qualified settlers, each being granted 160 acres.
A plain--a wonderful meadowland for cattle—stretches north and south from the rails as far as the horizon when the train leaves Winnipeg. From Portage la Prairie a branch railroad runs northwest to Prince Albert in Saskatchewan. The next junction is Brandon, situated on the eastern rim of the steppes that rise to the Rockies. This is the land of the buffalo ; here also the soil is very rich and produces splendid wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax, and potatoes.
Regina, the headquarters of the Northwest Mounted Police, 360 miles west of Winnipeg, is a thriving market centre, with railroads running north and south. Moose Jaw is another railroad junction ; west of that is Medicine Hat, where the line forks in two routes to Vancouver. The more northerly road, which was the route of the original through line, goes by way of Calgary and Revelstoke ; the other by Macleod, a ranching centre, and Kootenay in the gold country.
At Calgary the Rocky Mountains come into view and the train climbs upward through scenery unmatched for natural splendor. The government has established a national park near Banff, the point of departure for tourists who wish to explore the Switzerland of Canada. A few miles west of Banff the tracks reach their highest point, a mile above sea-level. From here the road traverses the Kicking Horse Canyon, crossing from ledge to ledge, twisting and turning, cliffs overhead, a roaring river be-low.
A broad valley leads across to the ascent of the Selkirks, covered with thick forests. By many curves the road descends again and rises over the Gold Range. Beyond this range is a plain, then the last mountains, the Cascades, are surmounted, and the train runs to the beautiful harbor of Vancouver on the Pacific coast.
The Canadian government has been a great rail-road builder. The pioneer route of the Canadian Pacific has been supplemented by the Canadian National Railway, builder of what is called the "All-Red Route" across the continent. East and west in the Dominion run the tracks of this government enterprise. In the east they link more securely the Mari-time Provinces with the Province of Quebec. From the Great Lakes and Winnipeg the western division thrusts across the prairies to Saskatoon and Edmonton, crosses the Rockies through the Yellowhead Pass, follows the Fraser River to Prince George, thence swings northwest to the Skeena River,—the "River of the Clouds," as the Indians call it,—and skirts this stream for nearly 190 miles to its Pacific terminus at Prince Rupert.
Meantime two other railroad systems, the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern, were banding outlying points. Presently the Dominion found itself served by three transcontinental roads, competing for traffic. A commission was appointed to study the problem of competition, with the result that the government took over the Canadian North-ern, the Grand Trunk Pacific and its parent road, the Grand Trunk, consolidated them with the Intercolonial and the National Transcontinental, and so formed one great system, the Canadian National Railways.
To serve the "All-Red Route" it was proposed to bridge the St. Lawrence River near Quebec. This was a titanic project. The point of crossing was some eight miles above the city, where the water sweeps between bluffs 200 feet high at a rate of seven miles an hour. The plan called for a bridge of the cantilever type, 3,239 feet in length, with two anchor arms, two cantilever arms, and a central suspended span of 675 feet, making a great channel span of 1,800 feet, or 90 feet more than that of the famous Forth Bridge of the London and North Eastern Railway.
For six years work on the bridge proceeded, until the south anchor arm and almost one-half of its main cantilever span had been built from the south pier; then, on August 29, 1907, while work was in progress, the lower chords in the anchor arms buckled up. The entire 17,000 tons of steel collapsed, and only eleven of the eighty-six men at work were rescued from the ruin.
This catastrophe led to a new consideration of the whole subject of bridge-building on so vast a scale. Many designs were studied and a new plan tried. Again a span fell into the river, with more casualties. Indomitably the engineers persisted, the mighty arch crossed the St. Lawrence, and on October 17, 1917, the first train ran from shore to shore. The Quebec Bridge is the longest and largest bridge of its kind in the world, a structure of great symmetry and beauty, a magnificent link in the transcontinental chain of the Canadian National Railways.


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ACCESSING THE COMMENTARIES: Completing each chapter of the game (Croft Manor, Peru, Greece, Egypt, the Lost Island) unlocks the designers' commentaries for that chapter. To access the commentaries in-game, load a saved game or replay any level in a chapter you have completed and turn Commentary on in the Options menu (i.e., from the Main menu or Pause menu choose Options, then Display, then set Commentary Markers to "On"). Then as you explore the level, you'll see blue crystals here and there. Activating these crystals by pressing Interact plays the commentary tracks recorded for that area by Creative Director Jason Botta and Story/Consultant Designer Toby Gard. If you're not sure what the guys are saying, you can also turn on subtitles under Options > Language. (Many thanks to the awesome Treeble for providing these transcripts, which were first posted at TombRaiderBOARD and are reproduced here by permission.)
Botta: So this is the beginning of the Egypt level, we were trying to sort of theme each of the chapters of Tomb Raider Anniversary around a certain theme. Egypt's theme quickly turned into traps. It became the focus for the level, so this first area is 'trap-less', as sort of a soft lead-in to the level, but quickly we ramp up and have all sorts of 'nasties' in the level to thwart Lara at every turn.
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Toby: In the original, this was pretty much the whole Egypt area that was supposed to be themed around this one room and the goal was we're going to put a Sphinx in, and there's going to be a huge door at one side that's going to lead into the sanctuary of the Scion where you're going to pick up the Scion. And that's going to be that, but I remember being slightly disappointed by the size of the Sphinx in the original one, and that shaped the later level to come.
Botta: That's right. When we were remaking it we went and looked at the original, and [was sort of,] as Toby was saying, they tried to cram a bunch of stuff in there, [like,] you know, the obelisk, and the sphinx, and this giant door. So when we were remaking it, we sort of wanted to add some symmetry to the room and a little bit of balance to it, so it didn't seem such like an architectural hodgepodge. So we duplicated the sphinx and put another one on the other side and [sort of] aligned the room along a central axis [sort of] anchored by that big pillar in the middle. So I think it gives the room a little more believability while keeping all the thematic, and important elements in there.
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Toby: This room literally, in the original, I think was just sort of four blocks or something along each wall that you had to really really imagine hard was supposed to be statues. Kneeling statues, because obviously, based on the old Karnak pharaohs, and it's really good to see that, [you know, actually] now we're able to do justice to the concept of having these sitting chaps around a room.
Botta: Yeah, we really liked the idea of the statues moving very early on so that [sort of] became the theme of how we wanted to recreate this room, was put the statues in, but then make them move about.
Toby: That's the theme of this whole Egypt level, isn't it? You guys went move crazy. It's good!
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Botta: Right, so this area was another one that we did a good deal of repositioning of the elements of the room to give the room more symmetry and make it have a common theme to it. The original [sort of] had the temple of Bastet, the Egyptian cat god, sort of off on the side from where you entered the room. We really wanted to make that the focus this time, so we shifted things around and put it right when you come into the room to give you a more impressive reveal of the space. Other than that, we sort of have kept most of the theme of this area the same.
Toby: Yes, it's pretty good because I think that Egypt for the most part was [sort of] the least fictionally coherent of the levels. And the remake has actually kept the spirit of the original, actually making it a lot more 'real'.
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Botta: Originally this was a pretty bland area. It was just sort of an empty room, and then you worked your way up and there was another room with a bunch of sand in it. This was one of those 'state changing' rooms where the entire room changed after you pulled some switch, in this case, the sand all fell down into the bottom room and—
Toby: Actually the cunning things was both rooms changed, right?
Botta: That's right actually, yeah, the top one isn't sand anymore.
Toby: Nope.
Botta: That's right. So this was, you would do that, and then hop out once the sand had fallen through, so we liked the idea but we wanted to spice it up a little bit. So we created this scarab puzzle here, to provide a little bit more visual interest to the room and a little bit more challenge.
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Toby: In the original game the idea of this room was basically to, you come into a room and there's these six blocks and you can pull them out. It's basically either a reward or a punishment and actually they were all punishments apart from one, which was the thing you were here to grab, and I kind of thought that was just, I don't know, it seemed like a fun little thing to do; but at the end of the day once someone's died a couple of times or once someone reads anywhere which one is the right one to pull out then there's no real puzzle to it. So obviously, you guys did something different this time.
Botta: Yeah, we sort of wanted to, we kept the blocks and the side rooms off of it as a key to exiting the room, but we added a combination lock type thing to the door; it was our effort to both update the room and also to give fictionally more meaning to actually getting through the room and getting into the next area which is the big obelisk area. By making it more difficult to get into that area, it sort of gives more significance to the next part.
[Main Anniversary Page | Temple of Khamoon Walkthrough]
Toby: The obelisk is kind of part of what became a sort of theme for Egypt levels which was we have a very small obelisk out in the front and a very large obelisk, this super 'gigantor' obelisk here and the idea of moving the pieces from the giant obelisk and just whacking them into the little obelisk in order to open the Scion room.
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Botta: When we were [sort of] trying to come up with a theme for Egypt we decided early on that we wanted to make Egypt themed around lots of difficult traps. So, while we wanted to keep the gameplay in a lot of the rooms very similar to how it was in Tomb Raider 1, we felt that we could spice things up long boring hallways with a good amount of traps, which both made them more interesting and also gave us na opportunity to challenge the player in between sort of the main rooms that they remember from TR1. So, I would say that we've done a fairly good job at making just regular traversal down your average hallway pretty difficult.
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Botta: In Tomb Raider 1 Lara, one of the only difficult things that she could do was to make these really large jumps so this area was an area where Lara had to leap precariously back and forth between platforms sticking out along the walls of this room. Now that our current Lara in Tomb Raider Anniversary is way more nimble and attaches to ledges and hangs on a whole lot easier we had to sort of figure out a way to make a room themed around this large ascent and precarious jumping over a large drop, but still sort of keep it challenging for the player. We made a fairly more complicated room themed around these broken floors of a large chamber that had broken away and pillars were remaining that Lara had to traverse up.
[Main Anniversary Page | Obelisk of Khamoon Walkthrough]
Botta: All right Toby, why don't you tell us why there are two sphinxes? One in the beginning and a big one here.
Toby: So um, originally, when we first spec'd out the Egypt area, [there was actually] once you put the pieces into the obelisk the doors opened and it revealed a room that had the Scion in it. But I was really disappointed with the way the sphinx had looked so on one weekend I came in and built the largest sphinx I could possibly build, right, and it was so cool looking that we added it in and turned it into the actual final part of the Egypt area. And part of what, I think, what I liked about it was the way that you approached it because, it would be very, I guess, the obvious thing would be that you approach it from an angle whereby you can see it from the front, or see it from below and get a really good sense of the scale of it, but I wanted to actually come up onto it so that you didn't understand what you were standing on so that it took your mind a while as you walked around on it, to appreciate that you were actually standing on the back of the sphinx. So you go that moment would happen when essentially it's hidden from you because of it's scale.
Botta: And the fog.
Toby: Yes, the fog.
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Toby: So after having modeled this gigantic sphinx, I'm trying to turn it into a real level because it hadn't actually been laid out originally, it was just sort of built as it went along. I ended up essentially just taking a bunch of my test rooms that really pushed Lara's movement to the max and basically exploited more interesting combinations of moves and whacked them in as these side rooms around the outside. So it didn't really make an enormous amount of fictional sense but they were some of the more interesting sort of movement puzzles
Botta: Yeah, and when we went to recreate them, I mean the original one, essentially, one side was just pushing a block through a wall and you had to figure out which way to push the block. And then the other room was themed around [sort of] sliding down and jumping at the right time onto this bridge.
Toby: Yeah, it was sliding direction stuff.
Botta: Which worked really well for Tomb Raider 1 but it's very easy to do in Tomb Raider Anniversary so we [sort of] completely changed the rooms and came up with a brand new puzzle involving the obelisks and the light and themed both of the rooms similarly to [sort of] try to give the area a certain theme.
Toby: That's cool.
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Toby: Originally, what I was trying to do with this room was that, after having built a gigantic sphinx, I had to come in another weekend and build even larger sitting down dudes, basically Horus and Osiris, and I thought it would be really cool if, because, you know, there's supposed to be actually a chamber, or there were rumors that there's a chamber between the actual front paws of the sphinx in Egypt. And I thought it would be cool to go, that's where you'd expect your prize to be, but I wanted to do something a bit different, so I had this really tiny little hole that appears after you've finally opened up, down all the side rooms in the big sphinx room, and then you just [sort of] go 'Ahhh! I wonder what's going to be down there?' But it was such a tiny hole, not a grand entrance at all like you expected, nothing much, and then you dropped down it and you literally dropped into a room with two statues that were even more vast than where you came from. And that sort of reveal, and because it was water filled when you dropped in there, you only really saw them when you dove underwater, you essentially were flying around these massive statues, I thought it was a pretty cool way to introduce them.
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Botta: So, this was one of the more interesting changes that we made to Egypt was moving the sanctuary of the Scion to the bottom of the level. In the original you came down and got this one key and then you were able to go all the way back up to the top, to the stairs, and then go into a little side room and then the Scion was way up there, but we really wanted to [sort of] recreate this area as a vault at the bottom of the entire Egypt level and part of that was us making access into the very back where you can actually get the third piece of the Scion, gated by the other two pieces of the Scion, almost like they were a key that you needed before you could gain access to it.
Toby: Which makes more sense from a story point of view.
Botta: Absolutely.
[Main Anniversary Page | Sanctuary Walkthrough | Greece Commentary | Lost Island Commentary]
Walkthrough text copyright © 2008- Stellalune (). Commentary text is part of Tomb Raider: Anniversary and is copyright © Eidos Interactive, Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Noise at work
This is not a Health and Safety briefing about the perils of excessive noise in your place of work. Quite the reverse, in fact.
Here's a question: how many of those attending the unveiling of the first 2012 F1 car will rush to look at the engine? The focus will be on the actual car, the aerodynamics and all the fiddly bits costing tens of thousands of dollars.
Very little attention will be paid to the collection of alloy and iron poised to create a lot of noise. That's because the V8 will look very much as before and, in any case, the specification has been frozen; so why bother? Talk about watching a male swan floating serenely by when, beneath the surface, his little legs are working like pistons.
Talking of which (did you see what I did there?), I've never ceased to be amazed when a F1 engine man emerges from his dynometer, sniffs the fresh air, blinks in the daylight and tells you about World War III that has been threatening to break out all morning as each of the eight pistons in his pride and joy goes up and down 300 times per second.
I mean, have you tried to visual that? It gives me a headache just thinking about it. And then imagine the explosions of ignited fuel and air across the cylinder block and the 8000g acting on a piston head that, given its natural trajectory, would prefer to fly a mile into the air. And all of this going on for an hour and a half during each Grand Prix. Non-stop.
You may think that the 50,000 kms (310,000 miles) each team completes in a season is as far as it goes for engines. Mercedes-Benz supply three teams - McLaren, Force India and, of course Mercedes GP - which makes a total of 150,000 kms of track action. But that's literally only the half of it.
Mercedes will do that distance again on the dyno; a reminder that the engine is only area of an F1 car that goes testing all year. Indeed, even before a new engine finds its way into the back of a car, it will have undergone a 150 kms (95 miles) shakedown on the dyno.
As you read this, there are guys and girls sitting in manufacturing plants such as Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth and examining tiny detail you and I would never dream of. Not just that, but they have to think of the repercussions caused by the F1 hierarchy deciding to add another race to the calendar, or a Grand Prix being forced to run for endless laps behind the Safety Car.
We tend to shrug off that sort of thing as a fact of F1 life; 'Tough, mate; deal with it.' But spare a thought for what the seemingly innocuous decisions made in a cosy Paris boardroom or in race control are doing for the barely restrained mechanical mayhem waiting to kick off inside an F1 engine.
Throwing in an extra race is all very well for the money-grabbers at CVC Capital Partners but there is no concession for the engine manufacturers as they try to find ways of making the eight engines per driver stretch across this extended season.
Adding another race means and extra 100 kms (60 miles) of running. Doesn't sound much, does it? But the fact is the season's opening engines are loaded more highly than the rest and require an extra 800 kms (500 miles) to give the manufacturer a comfortable set-up for the rest of the year. And, don't forget, this is at 18,000 rpm, give or take the odd drop to a mere 14,000 rpm when the duty cycle gets pushed to the limit going in and out of slow corners.
Then there's the business of the Safety Car. Do you remember the lengthy period we had running in the wet in Montreal last year and the anticipation of an exciting restart? The engine boffins were having kittens - or mental valve bounce or piston knee-knock, or whatever it is that affects these wizards of the whirring crankshaft.
When F1 cars run behind the Safety Car, we often talk with alleged authority - well, I know I have - about the problem of engines overheating because not enough air is passing through the radiators. Right?
Well, here's a thing I didn't realise. If the engine temperature drops too much then it affects the pistons because they shrink. Of course, 'shrink' is a comparative term here. We're not talking about the diminishing of personal private dimensions in brass monkey weather, if you follow my drift. We are talking about a physical reduction which the naked eye and a microscope would never detect but one which could cause damage inside that cylinder bore if the parts are not up to proper working temperature when the driver calls for 18,000 rpm at the restart. It's a very fine balancing act as engine manufacturers do their best to ensure any shrinkage is at the absolute minimum.
I discovered all of this a couple of weeks ago during a visit to the pristine Mercedes facility at Brixworth. They had on display an exploded - not literally, heaven forbid - view of the F1 V8. I'm not mechanically inclined (as you've probably gathered after reading this and previous columns) but even I was hugely impressed by the beauty and intricacy of this shining jewel. It is not pushing the bounds of poetic licence to say it is a work of art.
And then to think, in a month's time at the first F1 test, one of these highly-paid heroes with a crash helmet and heavy right foot is going to come along, rev its nuts off and complain about a lack of power. The driver should see it as a minor miracle that, given the controlled anarchy going on behind him, bits of fractured metal are not winging their way past his ears. It's noise at work - in every sense.
Maurice Hamilton , a freelance motor sport writer and broadcaster since 1977, is the author of more than twenty books and contributes to websites and magazines worldwide.
His weekly column for Grandprix.com was Highly Commended in the 2011 Newspress New Media Awards.
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Former Juneau resident Donald J. Hitchcock died May 13, 2002, in Federal Way, Wash.
He was born Feb. 4, 1925, in San Francisco, and later moved to Red Bluff, Calif., where he graduated from Red Bluff Union High School in 1942. He joined the Navy in 1943 and became an ensign and pilot. He was honorably released from active duty in 1945 and joined the Naval Reserve in 1952, in which he would serve for 20 years.
He married Muriel A. Chaplin on Oct. 1, 1948. After moves to Reno, Nev., Oakland, Calif., and Seattle, Wash., they moved in 1977 to Anchorage, where he became president of Alaska Pacific Assurance Co. They then moved to Juneau, where he became director of risk management for the state.
He was past president of the Juneau Shrine Club and past master of Gastineau Lodge in Juneau. In 1993 he retired and returned to Washington to be near his children and grandchildren. He and his wife made their home on Whidbey Island.
He is survived by his sisters, Helena Montgomery of Mound, Minn., and Joanne Bridges of Santa Cruz, Calif.; sons Robert Hitchcock of Federal Way, Wash., and Richard Hitchcock of Port Angeles, Wash.; grandchildren, Jennifer Titterness, Bryant Hitchcock and Dawn Hitchcock; and great-grandson Riley Titterness.
A celebration of his life was held May 30, at The Church of The Resurrection in Bellevue, Wash.
In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to the Shrine Hospital for Children, c/o Nile Temple, 6601 244th St. SW, Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043-2750
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Silken Puerta America Madrid Reviews
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Comfortable hotel, good location, breakfast would have made it better value Aug 06, 2011
This hotel was part of a package holiday (flights and hotel) from London to Madrid for 3 nights at Easter 2011. The overall price was average (considering flights were included - no transfers though) but I think that the hotel should have definately included breakfast for the deal. The hotel is classed as a 5* boutique hotel - but that is ONLY down to the unique and unusual designs. The bed was a very comfortable mattress but the pillow (long pillow) was WAY too high and on the first night I called reception- who, on the first time I called said there were no other pillow types, I just couldn't sleep (even wrapped up the complimentary gown to make a pillow out of it).
I phoned again half hour later and they sent two ladies from housekeeping up to me holding and offering THREE different styles of pillow for me to choose from! I took all three, and used two of the different types - VERY comfortable after that. The shower basin was most unusual - actually in the room with a curtain to provide privacy.. but good, hot water flow and very nice smelling toiletries. The bar staff in the hotel were very friendly and fast in service and the pizzas were delicious ;)
On day two, I noticed that our room was dirty (easy to see because the whole room was white) At this time I also remembered that when we checked in, they gave us two rooms very shortly after people had just checked out of them.. The room was dusty in places you would not normally check - ie behind my bad, at the bottom of the headboard and behind the desk area - it was not good. We didn't bother complaining as we were busy out and about.. But they did clean it the next day (day 2 of our stay).
The hotel is only a 5 minute walk to the metro stop called Cartegena on the which on line 7 (the Yellow line) and is very handy indeed and it doesnt take long to get into central Madrid areas.
Good things - close to Metro, friendly and helpful staff (all very good looking men!), Delicious pizza at the bar resturant
Not so good things - Dirty room upon check in - very very briefly cleaned initially. No breakfast included, expensive (5* prices) bar
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The best point about this Hotel is its originality. Each floor has been decorated by a different author, so every floor is unique.
If you travel to Madrid very often, you can choose a different floor every time to discover the new little surprises they hide. But if you do not travel so often, you can use the elevator and make a visit to every floor!
Although I recommend this Hotel, I have also found three bad points about it:
- The bathroom gets a little flood when you take a shower.
- The swimming pool is quite small.
- The Hotel is not closed to any touristy hotspot.
So, if you already know Madrid and just want to stay in the Hotel, this is a good option. If you want to see the city, forget it!
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Silken Puerta America Overview
Set along the famous Gran Via, the Silken Puerta America is a good hotel in Madrid for leisure and business travelers alike. It is within easy walking distance of such notable locations as the Puerta del Sol, the Royal Palace, the Museo Nacional and the convention center too. It is also right in the heart of the best dining, shopping and entertainment areas as well. The Silken Puerta America is located at Avenida de América, 41 and is eight miles from the Madrid Barajas International Airport.
The 20 opulent guestrooms in the Silken Puerta America include high-speed Internet access, designer décor, luxury linens and toiletries, cable TV, beverage stations with mini bars, hair dryers, and large private baths.
The Silken Puerta America is an Art Deco building that has been painstakingly renovated to retain its period charms while offering the types of facilities and amenities so necessary for modern travelers. There is a garden, swimming pool, fitness center, florist shop, business center with meeting and banquet facilities, golf course, currency exchange, tour desk, on site parking, restaurant, bar and lounge, and spa with beauty and massage treatments.
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Public trust and confidence in charities has fallen to the lowest recorded level, according to a Charity Commission report.
Findings published on Tuesday reveal that more than a quarter (33%) of the 1,085 people questioned by Populus for the commission say their trust and confidence in charities has decreased over the past two years.
The reasons for a decrease in trust include media stories about charities, too much money being spent on advertising and wages, and a lack of knowledge and trust about how donations are spent.
On average the report states that public trust and confidence in charities has fallen to 5.7 out of 10 - the lowest recorded rating ever recorded by the study.
William Shawcross, chairman of the commission, said: "Charities play a vital role in society and this report shows that the public still overwhelmingly believe that.
"But public support cannot be taken for granted and these results show that action is needed to restore public confidence.
"These results are a call to action for everyone who values public trust in charities."
The survey also found that 67% think charities spend too much of their funds on salaries and administration - up from 58% in 2014.
And 74% of those quizzed said they find some fundraising methods used by charities make them feel uncomfortable - up from 66% in 2014.
Sarah Atkinson, director of policy and communications, said a "fall in trust is not unexpected after a very difficult year for charities".
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"They want to see honest and ethical fundraising, and they want to know that charities are making a positive difference to their causes."
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Roma's new signing Kevin Strootman has expressed his excitement to play in "special" Serie A following confirmation of his move on Wednesday.
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"The library in 2020 will offer a culture of generosity supported by fiscal oversight that reflects rigorous controls and realistic projections," writes Josie Barnes Parker, director of the Ann Arbor District Library, in Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library (Scarecrow). In comparison to many of the predictions in the book of essays, this statement seems very conservative in its pragmatic approach. Nonetheless, it has resonated with me as I think about what drives effective decision making in a time of change.
Parker's focus on how generosity is linked to responsibility points to a fundamental goal of librarianship—delivering the best service for the public dollar. It also provides a path forward, by articulating how generosity connects to responsive services. Even with a strapped budget, a truly generous approach enables a crystal clear view of real needs, and the community will respond with support. This outlook is actually powerful fuel for innovation that matters.
Parker is in good company in Library 2020. The editor of the collection, Joseph Janes, associate professor and chair of the University of Washington's MLIS program, gathered 24 voices from across the profession to think ahead, and they tackle the question with the individuality one would expect from these library leaders. We decided to share some of these visions in these pages to get the creative juices flowing as we at LJ gear up for our upcoming free day-long virtual event, The Digital Shift: Reinventing Libraries, coming October 16.
In this issue, Bill Ptacek envisions a nimble institution that is "more about what it does for people than what it has for people" (see "The Library as Catalyst for Civic Engagement"). Ptacek, director of the King County Library System, LJ's 2011 Library of the Year, articulates many strategies to foster a robust and relevant institution as times change. Two more essays will follow in upcoming issues.
Ptacek is optimistic, as are the bulk of the essayists. But a few share the darkness that lies ahead if the profession does not adapt quickly enough. It's useful to hear the warnings inherent in a dystopian outlook. The potential solutions that populate utopian visions, however, give me tools to work with and energy to embrace the ongoing reinvention we're experiencing.
As you read what these leaders posit, you may not agree with them. And a lot of the particulars are likely to be at least a bit off the mark. Because, while 2020 is right around the corner, it's eons away if change is as rapid as it has been over the last seven years, or even the last three—as Gluejar's Eric Hellman found in his piece on libraries' morphing competitors, "Start-Ups Take Library Jobs." This reinforces that acting creatively in alignment with principles that are tied to core values is more likely to bring success than getting distracted by fads. Parker, for one, shows us that if you act generously now, you can actually build "a culture of generosity" with libraries at the center.
I tried my hand at prediction in 2007, writing "The Library as Storyplace" for an issue of Creative Nonfiction magazine dedicated to the world in 2025. Today I cringe at much in that piece, but appreciate the key principles I attempted to place in that future. Now, in my own answer to Janes, I have a list of things I'd like to see be true for libraries in 2020, but for the moment I will focus on one: the library as the ultimate commons. It is a place where privacy and community meet. It is a vital, and, perhaps most importantly, non-commercial place of private or shared discovery. The library continues to choose not to compromise privacy, even for convenience—its own or its users'. It continues to drive discoveries and robust learning, offering access to unexpected viewpoints and things you didn't know you even needed. And, you can thrive here, because what you have read—and created—is safe with us unless and until you decide you're ready to share it.
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A Matter of Trust / by Lis Wiehl. (A Mia Quinn Mystery, 1)
Thomas Nelson ISBN 9781595549037
A Deadly Business / by Lis Wiehl. (A Mia Quinn Mystery, 2)
Thomas Nelson ISBN 9781595549044
Lethal Beauty / by Lis Wiehl. (A Mia Quinn Mystery, 3)
Thomas Nelson ISBN 9781595549051
Adult Rating: 4
The series centers on Mia Quinn, who is facing both personal and professional struggles in her life. Mia's recently deceased husband left behind a staggering amount of debt, so she has returned to her job as a prosecutor in Seattle's King County Violent Crimes Unit. It is not an easy adjustment, especially with her heavy workload and the demands of motherhood. Mia's dad, who has recently surrendered his life to Christ, is the one witness for Mia. Will she learn to trust God again?
Lis Wiehl starts off each book with a gripping scene that pulls readers into the stories and makes them want to read more. The books include a series of in-depth questions that are perfect for reading group discussions.
In A Matter of Trust, Mia is busy with two high profile cases, both of which have the serious potential to either advance or derail her career. She is the lead investigator looking into the murder of a colleague and the suicide of a teenager linked to bullying. Mia is not pleased when her boss assigns her to work with Charlie Carlson, a homicide detective, with whom she has some unpleasant past work history. Mia struggles with trying to fulfill her duties as a full-time prosecutor while also dealing with a rebellious teenage son and a preschooler who suffers from nightmares.
In A Deadly Business, Mia's boss, who is in a tight race for re-election, puts into her hands the decision of whether to try three teenage boys as juveniles or adults. Mia is under a time constraint, and the fallout from her decision could affect her job security. At the same time, Charlie suspects that the death of Mia's husband was not an accident, but murder, so Mia and Charlie end up conducting an unofficial investigation. Between the two cases, personal issues, and taking on a second job to help make ends meet, Mia is trying to find balance in her life.
In Lethal Beauty, Mia is involved in a prominent businessman's trial for the murder of a Chinese prostitute who is an illegal immigrant. After a mistrial is declared, Mia refuses to give up on proving the businessman's guilt. While Mia and Charlie work together to try and find more evidence to justify a retrial, more dead bodies are discovered. It is up to Mia and Charlie to figure out if there is a connection between the murders. Meanwhile, her son Gabe has made some decisions in order to improve his self-image that could lead to trouble not only for himself but also for his family. Will Mia's personal and professional lives clash?
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Running back Milton Shelton bounced back from two second-half miscues to carry Class AAA No. 6 Blessed Trinity to a 42-20 win over Class AAAA No. 7 St. Pius on Friday.
Coming out of halftime leading 28-7, it was Shelton's fumble on the first play from scrimmage that gave St. Pius life, and the ball on the Blessed Trinity 25-yard line.
Three plays later, the Lions (0-1) were in the end zone, and the game was on at 28-13 after a missed extra point.
On Blessed Trinity's next possession, a Shelton drop on a pass that probably would have led to a first down helped St. Pius get the ball deep in Titan territory with a chance to get within a score.
The defense held, but the opportunity was there. Shelton, a junior, knew he had to make something happen after that.
"What I was proud about was how he handled having fumbled on the first series, and then he dropped the pass," Blessed Trinity coach Tim McFarlin said. "His response to that was to play really, really hard and get a lot of yards in the second half."
He gained 89 of his game-high 150 yards on 20 carries, including 55 on the Titans' backbreaking 9-play, 80-yard drive late in the third quarter that turned a 28-13 lead into 35-13, and the Lions were never in it after that.
He knew the game was on the line, and that drive was key to putting away one of their biggest rivals.
"It was huge," Shelton said. "We were nervous. I was nervous. I thought they were going to make a comeback. I didn't want that to happen. So we started making some more passes, more plays."
After the Titans jumped out to a 14-0 lead behind two lengthy, balanced scoring drives, St. Pius marched 80 yards in 8 plays, capped off by a 36-yard touchdown run from Lawson Cooper that brought St. Pius back within a touchdown after only notching two total first downs on their first two drives.
The ensuing kickoff, though, swung the momentum back.
Higgins caught it with his back foot on the 4-yard line, weaved left through a crowd, then burst free as he crossed his 40 with only the kicker to beat. When he outran him, there was nobody between Higgins and the end zone.
BT – Milton Shelton 2 run (Mitchell Rostowsky kick)
BT – Patrick Jasinski 15 pass from Conor Davis (Rostowsky kick)
SP – Lawson Cooper 36 run (Michael Matthews kick)
BT – Matthew Higgins 96 kickoff return (Rostowsky kick)
BT – Shelton 7 run (Rostowsky kick)
SP – Ransom Klinger 6 run (kick missed)
BT – Shelton 22 run (Rostowsky kick)
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Of the three potential first round match-ups, the Senators were the last team I wanted to draw in the opening round. I know on paper the Senators probably look less scary than the Capitals, but from a systems/coaching standpoint, I think the Rangers are going to have their hands full and part of that is because of their ability to execute a well balanced hybrid trap system. Side note: In case you missed my recent post about the modernization of neutral zone trapping, the term hybrid trap simply means that teams will plug up the neutral zone at certain times in the game (such as when they have the lead or at the end of a period) and forecheck aggressively at other times. What separates one hybrid team from another is how often they use the trap during even strength play. Senators Forecheck: Paul Maclean has his Senators playing an aggressive variation of this style of play and it has given the Rangers fits at various points during the season. The Senators are one of those teams that do
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Question. What are the regulations for bowfishing for carp and suckers?
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The Hollyweird Legal Round-Up is our weekly guide to entertainment industry lawsuits and lawyerly mud-slinging, written by our legal correspondent, real-life Hollywood lawyer "Buttockus Finch." (Probably not his real name). This week he takes on Chris Brown's possibly-fake community service, Rupert Murdoch's divorce, and your most law-related questions.
G's up! Ho's also up! Down with sexism!
I have to be attuned to various sensitivities. For instance, some people will hear a term of art like "c*ck holster" and find it misogynistic or homophobic, when in fact, it is common knowledge that no straight man in Show Business is a stranger to the penis (two words: pilot season). Nevertheless, you've always got your "women's libbers" and "gentiles" ready at any moment to fire up a lawsuit, and not the fun kind.
1. The Fun Kind. These two kids couldn't make it work.
Sepulchral 21st Century Fox oligarch Rupert Murdoch has
liberated divorced former spouse Wendi Deng after fourteen years of marriage. Underneath my jaded exterior, ol' B. Finch is a romantic, and the end of any marriage can be considered mother of holy f*ckknuckle fourteen years. She's been sleeping under this miserable incubus since "Baby One More Time" was a hit. They have two kids together, which means she turned his FX into an FXXX at least twice.
Aaaaaaaand you're picturing it.
Back to Me. Family law is lucrative, and my affection for lucre is well documented, but I avoid this stuff like a seder at the Mel Gibson household. Even poors with zero community property to fight over get vicious when divorces and custody are involved. Throw in vast sums, large homes and incalculable amounts of self-involvement and being a participant will make you lose your affinity for the human race with a quickness. As a disinterested spectator, however, this particular divorce seems like the kind of case that you've been saving your schadenfreude for.
Sadly, it turned out to be a non-event. I mean, the piece in Variety about the settlement is about 60 words long, and that is not a publication known for being terse. After a brief hearing before the judge:
"Both remained composed, displaying little emotion."
She may have displayed little emotion, but I have to imagine she was at least humming "Hello! Ma Baby." I consider Wendi the David Blaine of gold-digging: she does the amazing, but afterwards onlookers are not left wondering "how?" so much as "why?". If I was going to marry somebody for money, I'd like to think there is a list of people I would be willing to turn down, no matter how much money we were talking about. A very short list, possibly nonexistent, but I'll continue to enjoy my illusions. Wendi has no list. Still, as self-nullifying as it must have been to marry Murdoch, it must have felt like heroin to divorce him.
Theory. My guess is that the former Mrs. Murdoch, despite having signed one of history's finest prenuptial agreements, got enough money to overpower her urge to fight for more. Plus, in all likelihood, he had surreptitiously recorded every breath she's taken since the Seinfeld finale. We call that leverage in the negotiating world. She's got to be disappointed that he wasn't summoned back across the Styx while she was his beneficiary, but then, she can't be the only one bummed this guy isn't dead.
Now That They've Lost Love What Are They Gonna Do Without It? Wendert is no more. One assumes that both will move on–they now have five defunct marriages between them, so clearly they love to love. RM is a resilient cat–he got married to Deng after being divorced from his second wife for 17 days, so he'll probably be giving an engagement ring as a Hanukah present. He's an 82 year-old reactionary offering low-impact companionship and the chance to become The Widow Murdoch. Ladies, please, one at a time.
About her, here's the thing: Wendi has hella cash and, for 45, she appears to have kept it admirably tight. HOWEVER, she'd have to be on my teeny list of Not Even For The Money, because if I tried to put it into somebody who has bounced on top of Rupert Murdoch, my penis would secede.
Yikes. I need a brain sorbet to cleanse those images from my mind palate.
2. What Can Brown Do To You? I've been waiting for an excuse to describe somebody as a ne'er-do-well, and the wait is over.
"Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin on Wednesday ordered [Chris] Brown to serve three months in a residential treatment facility and to submit to drug testing."
"I thought this was a movie site" say the hypothetical dickweeds. Well, we're not talking about Chris Brown, crooner, we're talking about Chris Brown, thespian. Recognize.
What Is It This Time? The history is kind of lengthy, but, precís: ne'er-do-well Brown is still on probation for his 2009 UFC bout against properly-rated actress Rihanna. Then, a few months ago:
"Brown was ordered to redo 1,000 hours of community labor that are part of his sentence for felony assault."
The judge thought he had faked the community service he had originally been ordered to do. Which might be for the best insofar as it involved him working at a Children's Center. Not that he's any worse with children than he is with people in general, but his tattoos might have given them night terrors.
In addition, he supposedly punched some guy who wanted a picture with him in D.C. recently, because morons–Brown and anybody who thinks getting a picture with him merits effort. Brown still might get an additional sentence if the California considers that a probation violation.
Jesus, This F*cking Guy. I know, right?
Bright Side, or Possible Downside.
"[T]he expectation for the singer [actor, damn you] for the next few months is to receive treatment and perform community service such as graffiti removal or roadside cleanup."
The technical legal jargon to describe this is "hilarious," except that if I see Chris Brown by the 405 picking up Peet's cups with the pointy stick, I'll probably total my Maserati, either because I'm laughing spasmodically or because I've taken my eyes of the road to aim an Orangina bottle at his head (Orangina: lackluster beverage contained in a tremendous projectile).
Best Part. As with any celebrity case, the people always want to know one thing: "WHO IS HIS LAWYER?" Well CB got himself a good 'un: Mark Geragos. I say this with the utmost respect–Geragos has a client list most people would not approach without wearing a hazmat suit. Brown, of course, but also Gary Condit, Michael Jackson (RIPederast), Roger Clinton, and Barry Bonds's personal trainer. Apparently, Geragos doesn't have enough space on his site to mention his defense of this fun-lovin' criminal:
He is proud, however, to publicize:
"dismissal of murder charges for the third time for a USC co-ed charged with murder in the death of her fetus; and dismissal of a decades-old murder charge against Japanese national Kazuyoshi Miura, a case christened the 'Japanese O.J. Case' by Japanese media."
Everybody is entitled to a defense, but I'm troubled by anyone who still says "co-ed." You can call them "students," Mark; bitches dig that. Also, just a guess, but during the slow-speed freeway chase, the Japanese O.J. probably drove a fuel-efficient SUV.
Scurrilous. Word used by Geragos to describe the accusations against Brown.
Other Best Part. For anybody who gave up on relationships after hearing that Rundi Murdoch went their separate ways, Chris Brown gives you cause to rejoice:
"The singer [ACTOR] appeared in court Wednesday with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran"
That's right: girlfriend. So when the rest of you taxpayers wake up alone and begin another day of being a decent person, the world's dancingest colostomy-bag-made-flesh is rolling off of this. True, between the rehab and the court-enforced tidying he won't have much time to tutor her in modern manners, but I doubt that brightens your mood. Well too bad–I'm not the guy with the good news, I'm just the guy with the news. While you're accepting hard truths, note: wrestling is fake, and so are cycling and baseball.
3. Reader Mail Sack. I haven't acquired any new nemeses lately, although one guy on Vince's Facebook accused me of writing a "run-on sentence." Ahem, that was a long sentence, not a run-on, so step off, Strunk & White. If you consider multiple syllables too much effort, find some gifs to enjoy. Read Sappho. Do some f*cking thing.
But a couple of you did raise interesting points in the comments section last week. For example:
"Counsel's work product has become surprisingly sedate.
Could I offer my own legal non-legal non-advice advice? More porn."
The word "sedate" tweaks me more than you'd think it would, but not enough to make me drop verbal napalm on Martin's village. Also, it's a valid suggestion re: porn. Unfortunately, there has been a lull in that area of late. This site more than adequately covered the recent legislative story involving the erotic arts. My only gripe with the post was, when it was pointed out that LA County was "shooting itself in the foot" with the law requiring condoms, somebody should have mentioned that if they were shooting themselves on the foot. Quentin Tarantino would pay to watch.
Fortunately, there will be another porn lawsuit because there has always been another porn lawsuit. Adult entertainment is consistently at the forefront of new technological advances and First Amendment issues. There will more be idiotic morality laws like this one, despite the fact that porn performers contract HIV less frequently than Tyler Perry characters. So be patient, wee Martin. Be patient.
"suing people should be more labor intensive, to make dumb shit like this less prevalent. or all losing plaintiffs should have to fight a speedo-clad Sting set to prog-rock"
Second point first: yes, more Sting. First point: My accounting team and I insist that you stop discouraging people from hiring lawyers. As we learned from Guido the Killer Pimp, in a sluggish economy, don't f*ck with another man's livelihood. Also, be fair to my beloved profession–Lincoln and Gandhi were attorneys, as were a few admirable people who didn't get shot in the head. Suing people is pretty labor intensive already, and if you're an individual going up against a well-funded corporation, your odds of being outlawyered are exceptionally high. The supposedly socialist media almost always portrays suits against companies as ridiculous; you never have the company saying "OK, you got us, we totally did that sh*t," even when that's absolutely true. So this type of suit is occasionally–occasionally–a Good Thing (not a term of art). Plus, complaining about your society being too litigious is a luxury. Trust me, people in Somalia and North Korea dream of that being their main problem.
But claiming carpal tunnel injuries over a few weeks of work for Ashley Madison? Yeah, that's some bullsh*t.
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It's shaping up to be a bad spring for roof damage in Saskatchewan — the so-called ice dam problem.
Record snowfalls are piling up on rooftops and ice dams — big frozen chunks in eavestroughs that can back up melting water on a roof, causing it to drip into interior walls — are already causing a lot of problems for Saskatchewan residents.
SGI said more than 700 claims have come in from across the province since January 2013 — almost seven times the rate in the snowy year 2011.
In 2010, there were only 22 ice dam insurance claims filed with Saskatchewan Government Insurance.
All the figures quoted relate to about the first three months of each year.
Gordon Giles with SGI said he expects more claims to pour in during the spring melt.
Ice dam claims reported to SGI (Jan. 1 to Mar. 25):
- 2010 — 22
- 2011 — 111
- 2012 — 6
- 2013 — more than 700
"The heavier-than-usual snow load that we've happened to come across this year, plus the freeze and thaw cycles that we've experienced, have all exacerbated the situation," Giles said.
The amount of damage to a roof depends on how well your attic is insulated and ventilated.
"If there is not proper insulation in the attic or the roof is not properly ventilated, what will happen is heat gets trapped in the attic and then sort of absorbs through the shingles onto the roof and will form ice on the roof," Giles said.
SGI recommends people check their insurance policy because not every policy covers ice damming.
An earlier version of this story may have left the impression that the numbers reported were for entire years, previous to 2013. The data related to only the first three months of each year. SGI has provided the total number of ice-dam related claims for the full years of 2011 and 2012. There were 210 claims in 2011 and 27 claims in 2012.Apr 04, 2013 3:00 AM CT


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Newcastle boss Alan Pardew accused Arsenal of a lack of respect for not waiting until after their Premier League encounter at Manchester City before making a bid for midfielder Yohan Cabaye.
Pardew sent Cabaye back to the north-east, believing he was not in the right mental state to do himself justice after news of the approach leaked into the public domain.
In his absence, Newcastle were hammered 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium and Pardew evidently was not impressed.
"I didn't see any reason why that needed to happen," said Pardew.
"When you do a pre-season like we have and been very thorough and prepared for three days with a team that includes Cabaye, it is tough for his head to be turned on the eve of a game.
"Why they couldn't do us the respect and the honour of waiting until Tuesday evening is beyond me."
Pardew could have asked Cabaye to play, but he felt the Frenchman, who has also attracted interest from Manchester United this summer, would have found it impossible to concentrate.
"It is a very difficult situation and hard to get your head round to play a game of this magnitude," he said.
"It is pretty obvious I am upset about it."
The bid was dismissed out of hand, with Pardew insisting it falls well below Newcastle's valuation.
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Appeasement of evil always emboldens and empowers tyrants. Conservatives cannot accept bipartisanship in support of tyranny. We must vigilantly oppose the oppressive and immoral policies that continually usurp our individual liberties and rights and increase the power, reach, and control of government. As history has shown, silence in the face of unjust policies and collaboration with immoral and characterless individuals never bring about genuine peace, freedom, or prosperity. "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent," warned Thomas Jefferson. On the day following the disastrous results of the November 2012 presidential election, Mark Levin issued a passionate call for conservatives to stand on their principles and fight against the spreading of tyranny in America. In his opening monologue on his nationally syndicated radio program, Levin boldly stated that conservatives "do not accept bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny. Period. We...(Read Full Post)