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Valerie Rapson and Billy Vazquez present the Great Pluto Debate
Twenty kindergarteners and first graders in the Harley School Primary B classroom waited patiently for Pluto.
Valerie Rapson and Billy Vazquez, doctoral students in RIT's astrophysical sciences and technology program, took turns telling the children about each of the planets in the solar system during a school visit on March 12.
"Is Neptune the last planet?" Vazquez asked.
Rapson shrugged and looked at the students. "I ended my solar system talk."
What happened to Pluto, the children wanted to know.
In 2006, when some of the children in the classroom had yet to be born, scientists at the International Astronomical Union booted Pluto out of the planetary pantheon.
"We needed to make rules," Rapson said. "There are tons of space rocks, and not all of them can be planets. Scientists came up with three categories."
Rule No. 1: To be a planet, you must go around the sun.
Rule No. 2: A planet must be shaped like a ball.
Rule No. 3: To be a planet, you must keep your neighborhood clean.
The children thought about that for a moment.
A moon or two—or 66 in Jupiter's case—is one thing, Rapson and Vazquez explained to the class. But to be surrounded and pummeled by rocks and space junk way out in the Kuiper Belt is not planet-like.
Pluto goes around the sun and is shaped like a ball, but it doesn't follow the third rule. Vazquez likened Pluto to a messy child who didn't pick up his room. It hadn't swept away the junk. Because it failed Rule No. 3, Pluto the planet became Pluto the dwarf planet.
Rapson clicked on the next slide of a robotic spaceship en route to Pluto. "New Horizons" launched in 2006—the year Pluto was demoted—and is scheduled to fly past the dwarf planet in 2015.
"Will they stop for lunch?" a girl asked.
Rapson explained that there are no people on the spacecraft because it will take nearly 10 years to reach Pluto.
The astronomy lesson Rapson and Vazquez presented to the children coincided with a unit on space that Harley teachers Gail Hanss and Marilyn Fenster had just begun.
"You gave them new information in a kid-friendly way," Fenster said. "We want you to come back."
Science outreach is an extension of Rapson and Vazquez's fascination with astronomy. Their doctoral research has led Rapson to study star and planet formation and Vazquez to explore Active Galactic Nuclei—the center of galaxies that contain a supermassive black hole surrounded and fed by a luminous disk of gas and dust. Both of them are intrigued by exoplanets and use the observatory Vazquez built in his backyard to look for planets beyond the solar system.
Rapson and Vazquez are active members of the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science. They've shared their passion for the universe with everyone from preschool children to senior citizens at the Rochester Museum and Science Center and the RIT Observatory and joined their efforts for their second Harley presentation.
"Scientists are born at this young age, when their minds are full of wonder and curiosity," Vazquez says. "By the time kids are in high school, if they're not interested in science and math, it's hard to get them interested at all. We have to catch kids when they're young to have a chance of cultivating a scientific mind."
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I was looking through some old posts and reread this one. I hesitate to repost it, because the situation in Liberia is now such that there are no NGOs on the ground thorough whom you can help. The war is over, but its effect remain, and there is very little we can do there. Doctors Without Borders does do this work wherever they're allowed, though. We also still need to understand that this is what happens when we go to war.
"Battlefield" is such a terribly misleading term. It suggests that war is contained somehow, that it has its own special place. It ignores that spaces for war are made only by destroying what was there before.
In order to make space for fighting and killing, farms fall, schools fall, homes fall. Places that were once used for celebration fall that people may have room to fight. People, of course, fall whenever they are not quick enough to flee.
But that isn't all that needs to be destroyed to make room for war. Our inhibitions against killing and hurting one another have to be dismantled. Our empathy, our understanding that others are as fully capable of feeling pain as we are, as entitled to life and joy and dignity–that has to fall too.
Civilization is a necessary casualty of war, and it may be the hardest to rebuild. Civil war makes reestablishing the norms of civilization doubly hard, because there is no physical separation at the end of the war, nothing to say, "That was the battlefield and enemy, there. Here is where the old rules apply, among the people for whom I was fighting."
Liberia is trying to restore civilization after almost fifteen years of internal armed conflict. Revolution, civil conflicts and the brutality of a dictator against his own people created a generation of adults who grew up amid war. They were raised on a battlefield, and now the country must find a way to civilize them as it rebuilds itself.
The results are, unfortunately, as one would expect. From Amnesty International's 2009 report on Liberia:
Violent crime, especially armed robbery, was on the increase throughout the year, fuelled by high unemployment, disputes over land ownership, poverty and readily available small arms. The activities of ex-combatants continued to be a source of instability, particularly in the context of illicit mining activities.
Liberia has instituted harsh penalties for violent crimes, including widespread use of the death penalty, to try to reign in the violence. So far, it isn't working well, and as usual, the more vulnerable members of society are being targeted.
Rape and other forms of sexual violence remained among the most frequently committed crimes. According to the UN there were 349 rapes reported between January and June 2008, a significant increase over the previous year. Access to health facilities to address emergency needs and psychological care continued to be inadequate.
Crimes against children, including rape, sexual violence, physical violence, trafficking and neglect, remained of serious concern.
There were some positive developments in addressing rape and other forms of sexual violence. In May, the government decided to establish a special court dedicated to hearing gender and sexual violence cases. In June, a safe house for survivors of sexual violence, supported by UNMIL and run by a local NGO, opened in Monrovia. During 2008 a national action plan on gender-based violence was adopted and funds were provided by the UN to implement the plan. In July Liberia ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
As grim as the situation is, there is hope for these children. Nicholas D. Kristof has a piece in the NY Times (free registration required) profiling one of the children in the Monrovia safe house.
Yet there are signs of progress. Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected a president in Africa, has sent strong signals that rape is intolerable. Aid groups like the Carter Center are working to promote the rule of law and punish the rapists, recognizing that economic development will be elusive as long as women and girls are prey.
Maybe the greatest reassurance came from Jackie, the resilient 7-year-old. She appeared to have overcome the stigma of rape, for she explained that she wanted to grow up to build shelters for abused girls, adding, "I want to be president for Liberia."
It will take time to fully restore civilization in Liberia. In the meantime, we can help these children, and children in similar situations in far too many more countries than Liberia, get the help they need to recover as well as Jackie has. Doctors Without Borders is providing care to victims of sexual abuse in Liberia, and you can help support their work here.
You can also make sure that your congressional representatives are aware that you support UNMIL (United Nations Mission in Liberia) and other missions like this–and that you expect they will too.
Finally, you can help spread the word. Sheril Kirshenbaum of The Intersection has organized a web event, starting today, called Silence Is the Enemy. Go and read more about this situation, find the posts that will tug on the hearts and purse strings of people you know, and pass them on. If you feel moved to add your voice, make sure Sheril knows so she can add you to the list. Whatever you do, don't remain silent.

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The world lost an incredible man on Wednesday. With Steve Jobs' passing, everyone is reflecting on the impact he had. His life, his vision, his passion and his creations touched everyone, everywhere. As President Obama said in a statement, "There may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
This is a good time to reflect on how Steve's work has impacted our work here at Cisco. Steve spearheaded innovation in so many ways – and his success largely resulted from his strong focus on user experience. Clearly, he wanted to create amazing, innovative products, but at the end of the day his goal was to make them easy-to-use so that everyone would feel like they could take part. From elementary school students to grandparents and everyone in-between, the world is now connecting, learning and embracing technology more. He has fundamentally changed the way that products are designed and has taught us by example about what it means to put the consumer first.
As we work every day, we must pay homage to the man that paved the way for new media and communication experiences for the masses. We all have something we can learn from him. Thank you Steve.
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LOS ANGELES, June 29 (UPI) -- Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are ending their five-year marriage, the actress' attorney told People.com Friday.
"This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family," lawyer Jonathan Wolfe told the celebrity news Web site. "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."
Cruise confirmed the news in a separate statement to People.com.
"Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children," his statement said. "Please allow them their privacy to work this out."
Neither party gave a reason for the split.
The couple married in November 2006 and are the parents of a 6-year-old daughter, Suri.
Cruise also has two adult children from his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman. Actress Mimi Rogers was his first wife.
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Uncivil: Sisks sue son's killer
First there was the horror of losing their only son, Walker Sisk, who died in a pool of blood on 14th street on November 8, 2003, stabbed 18 times by third-year UVA student Andrew Alston.
The ordeal of a trial followed a year later. Barbara and Howard Sisk sat in court to learn the grim details of their 22-year-old son's death– and to hear Alston's defense, which claimed Walker stabbed himself.
No solace came from the trial. The prosecution wanted second-degree murder and 40 years in jail; the jury came back with a voluntary manslaughter conviction and a three-years sentence.
"Obviously, they didn't think our son's life was worth that much," said Howard Sisk after the November 9, 2004, verdict.
Last summer, a juror published an account of the trial and explained how the jurors found no malice in the stabbing– and no second-degree murder– because Alston was "falling-down drunk."
"How can you not find malice when you stab someone that many times?" asked Howard Sisk.
Now the grieving parents are seeking a new round of justice over the loss of their only child. They've filed a $3-million civil suit against Alston "to deter any such violent attacks with deadly weapons upon innocent victims," according to the suit.
Now 24, Alston is scheduled for release from Botetourt Correctional Center June 21. His attorney, Brian Slaughter, was not immediately available for comment.
For the Sisks, reopening the unhealed wound was a difficult decision. "It's the only thing I can do," says Howard Sisk. "It was such a heinous act. I feel this kid will do it again."


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New independent review of World Heritage and the extractive industry was published today in response to growing concerns over the rapidly increasing number of World Heritage Sites threatened by planned mining or oil and gas projects.
This report, the result of a joint project by IUCN, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), JP Morgan Bank, Shell International and UNESCO, proposes practical ways of strengthening the role of the World Heritage Convention in safeguarding these iconic areas.
Companies such as Shell and the financial services firm JP Morgan, as well as ICMM, which brings together many of the world's major mining companies, have recognized the importance of conserving World Heritage Sites and have committed not to undertake activities that would damage them. However, a number of countries and companies still profit from resource exploration in these sensitive areas. Threats to natural World Heritage sites from mining activities are growing, especially in Africa, where one out of four iconic natural areas is negatively affected.
"These exceptional places, which cover less than 1 % of the Earth's surface, have been included on the World Heritage List because they are of outstanding value to all of humanity. It's the duty of every one of us to cooperate in their protection and conservation," says Tim Badman, Director of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "It is clear that the desired conservation outcomes will not be achieved through individual corporate commitments alone; the task of ensuring World Heritage Sites are not impacted by extractive industries cannot be effective if it is a commitment of only a few responsible companies."
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The report also affirms that the World Heritage Committee will not inscribe a natural property of which any part is subject to active or inactive mineral or hydrocarbon exploration or exploitation concessions or permits and requests that the World Heritage Centre and IUCN work with UNEP-WCMC to develop comprehensive and publicly accessible mapping of the buffer zones of natural World Heritage properties, as well as the sites on State Parties' Tentative Lists


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I tried to copy add_subs function from the Pro version but it didn't work. Is there anything I need to do to make the add_subs function work in the Subscriber version?
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"On Oscars night, the social web explodes with millions of conversations," commented Erin Gargan, President of SoCal Socialite. "Our social street team, in partnership with AEG Digital Media, will be monitoring, reporting and making sense of the world's reaction to the Red Carpet and awards ceremony on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram."
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Terrorism and homemade explosive devices are nothing new. They tend to go hand in hand, and are steadily gaining momentum in their deployment (terrorism in one form or another) all over the globe. IEDs (Improvised Explosive Device), pipe bombs, and other homemade incendiaries are showing up in places other than the battlefield, such as movie theaters and college campuses, at such an alarming rate that the DOD (Department of Defense) has taken notice.
The government entity recently awarded Massachusetts-based Bodkin Design and Engineering $890,000 to develop a specialized sensor to detect explosive materials. There are many methods employed today that security personnel have at their disposal to detect explosives, or explosive-related threats, such as dogs, X-ray machines, and spectrometry devices. Biotech firm Incentinal has even done research using trained honey bees, which are monitored by advanced software that looks for "adverse effects" in their behavior when they come in contact with explosive residue (apparently the bees are more sensitive than dogs in terms of smell). None of the current methods of explosive detection employed today, however, have the capability of real-time identification, which can be both aggravating and deadly for those in the military.
The ROE (Rules Of Engagement/s) for combatants deployed in war zones are extremely strict, even for SOF (Special Operations Forces), so much so that it's not uncommon to have JAG (Judge Advocate General or military lawyer) officers accompany soldiers on mission deployments. They're there to make sure soldiers don't engage "suspected" insurgents that could be civilians, even though the individuals are engaged in highly questionable activities, such as placing suspect materials (that can look like garbage or even farm equipment) in areas that soldiers frequently patrol.
When these activities are observed, conventional soldiers will usually call in EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) personnel to examine the material, which, in most cases, ends up being an IED. The bomb squad will then take evidence from the suspect site and use specialized methods to determine the architect of the IED in order to find, and either arrest or eliminate, that individual.
One of these methods is to use explosive chemical analysis kits (such as the Expray Explosive Detection Kit) to take swabs of suspected militants. But these kits can put military personnel in harm's way as the suspect/s can be armed or wearing a suicide vest. These kits, and other subsequent methods, are wholly inefficient when it comes to explosive detection, which is why the company Bodkin is stepping in to develop its homemade explosive device sensor.
According to Bodkin, the sensor will "detect the presence of such threats, classify the nature of the materials, and provide stand-off warning to troops" in an expedient manner. The sensor can be used in various scenarios such as area checkpoints that can detect residue on individuals, equipment, and vehicles, to using the sensor in a hand-held device that can be carried for onsite inspections. The company says the sensor will be adaptable to detect other chemical and biological agents that pose a risk for people in the immediate area.
The sensor itself will include Bodkin's Hyperplexa Array imager, which is a specialized camera that is capable of producing hundreds of colors per-pixel (or spectra) over standard digital cameras. The spectral information is then combined with the spatial information, which results in a 3D "hyperspectral datacube" (two dimensions describe a point in space and the third describes the spectral signature at that point). The imager is able to capture datacubes in a single video frame, as opposed to building the image over time, which is what typical hyperspectral imagers are capable of. According to Bodkin, "this eliminates motion artifacts and increases the signal to noise ratio."
Bodkin will use the imager in conjunction with research provided by the US Army Chemical Research, Development & Engineering Center. The resulting sensor system will work by capturing HD chemical imagery of the scene in question, which is then analyzed by specialized (classified) software that identifies if there are any explosive compounds, and then presents the image in a color-coded display. The company says using the sensor will allow personnel to remain at a safe standoff distance and maintain a defensive posture (take sufficient cover), while scanning for explosive residue.
When Bodkin's sensor will be ready for field use is unknown at this time, but chances are it will be available to military, police, and security agencies in the near future. Not soon enough, in my opinion.
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If you would like to create a HTML version of this guide, please go ahead and do it without my permission, but I do ask that you let me know that youre doing it and where itll be posted so that I can have the link posted on my website, and also be sure to give me credit. Other than that, have fun and I hope this guide helps you out. Thanks! DAY 1 The game begins at St. Georges Book Store, located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. After youve watched the opening scenes, talk to Grace Nakimura; the gal sitting at the desk. Get all of your messages (the last one will be from Gabes pal, Mosely). When youre done, pick up the tweezers and magnifying glass that are on the table near the bottom of your screen. Walk over to the bookshelf and use the HAND icon on the upper left corner of the bookshelf to find a book by Heinz Ritter. When Gabriel has finished reading it, click on the opposite corner to find a book about snakes. When hes finished reading that book, open up the cash register and take the red gift certificate you find inside. Walk back over to the table and read the newspaper and this will become pretty much your daily routine throughout most of the game. Leave the shop and lets get familiarized with the map. To get from place to place, click on the corresponding icon, its as simple as that. Theres also a button to the left and right sides of the map that says New Orleans Map, you would have to click on this if you have to go somewhere outside the French Quarter. Our first stop is to Grandma Knights house, and to get there, click on the New Orleans Map and click on the icon that looks like a portrait of Grandma Knight. Gabe will hop on his motorcycle and drive on over there. After Gabe and Gran have sat down, use the QUESTION icon on Gran and ask her about Gabes parents and grandfather until she can say no more about them. After that, leave the dialogue tree and go up the stairs near Gabe to the attic. In the attic, theres a book thats sitting on the chair near Gabe, so pick it up and then go into your inventory. Use the READ icon on the sketch book and take a look at the pictures you see inside. Leave the inventory and use the OPERATE icon on the clock thats sitting underneath the skylight. In the close-up view, use the PUSH/PULL icon on the clock hands and set it so it shows 3:00 and then move the dial around the clock face until the icon that looks like a dragon is above the 12. Use the OPERATE icon on the key and a small drawer should open. Get the photo and letter that you find inside and go into your inventory and read the letter. Go downstairs and speak to Gran about Heinz Ritter until she cant tell you anymore. Leave the house, and on the map, click on the French Quarter icon and the click on the PD Badge icon to go to the New Orleans Police Station. When you arrive at the station, use the QUESTION icon on the desk sergeant. His name is Frick. Ask him about Detective Mosely and then ask him about the photographs. Exit the dialogue tree and youll get the photos. Go into your inventory and open up the manila envelope and look at the murder picture. You can also look at the other picture if you want, but anyway, leave the station and go to Jackson Square (the icon looks like a park bench). Go to the northwest section of the circle (one screen west, one screen north) and here you can see a mime who likes to follow people around whenever they walk too close to him. As the saying goes; monkey see, monkey do. Walk close to the mime so that he starts to follow you. Head back to where you saw the motorcycle cop, but be careful not to let other people get too close to the mime, otherwise hell lose interest in Gabe and follow them and youll have to start over. Once you finally make it over to the cop, the mime will start acting like a monkey and the cop will chase him off. While he is gone, use the OPERATE icon on the motorcycle and youll overhear a conversation between the dispatcher and a paramedic who got lost. When youre finished, leave Jackson Square and head to the crime scene (click on the New Orleans map button and then on the icon that looks like police tape). When you arrive, watch the sequence. Youll get to meet a woman named Malia Gedde, who comes from a wealthy family. When its finished, look at the vévé marks on the ground near where the uniformed cop was standing. Do you see that patch of grass on the right side of your screen? They may be hard to notice, but there are some marks in the grass that I need you to look at. Use the magnifying glass on those marks once you find them. Bring out your tweezers and use them on what appears to be a scale that you find there. Leave the close-up view and use the sketchbook on the vévé marks. Go over to the lakeshore and pick up some clay, and then leave the crime scene. Go to the police station. Ask Frick about Mosely and hell let you go on back. Use the OPEN icon on Moselys door, and inside, use the QUESTION icon on Mosely and ask him about the patterns, and then ask him about the other six patterns. Leave Moselys office for a moment and talk to female officer, Franks, and when the list of choices comes up, ask her to get a file for you. If you want, you can go into your inventory and open up the folder to see what is inside. When youre finished, put the file on Franks desk and go back into Moselys office. Use the QUESTION icon on him again and ask him about the photographs. Tell him that a cop/author photo might be nice, and Mosely will go and bring in Officer Franks. Watch the little sequence and when a list of choices comes up; say that you need to go check your hair. Take the file off of Franks desk and then use it on the copier near Moselys door. After that, put the file back on Franks desk and go back into Moselys office. When you are able to, leave the station and go to the Dixieland Drug Store (the icon looks like a voodoo doll). When youre inside, read the sign that is sitting to the far left side of the counter and then use the murder photo on the man. Make a note that he says the phrase, cabrit sans cor. Leave the shop and go to St. Georges Book Shop (the icon looks like a suit of armor). When you arrive, talk to Grace and ask her to do some research on Malia Gedde. Leave the dialogue tree and the first day will come to a close. DAY 2 Watch the opening scene and then go through your daily routine. Leave the bookstore and head over to the police station. Ask Frick about Mosely and then use the OPERATE icon on the thermostat that the maintenance worker was playing with when you first entered. Change the temperature so that it is at least 75 degrees (setting it higher than that is okay too). Go into Moselys office and ask him for some coffee. While hes gone, take the badge off of his jacket. Leave Moselys office and waltz on over to Jackson Square. Go to the northeast corner of the Square. Leave this section and then reenter. Watch as the wind blows the artists painting away. Head over to the southwest corner and notice that there is a boy tap dancing for the hot dog vendor. Use the gift certificate on the vendor and youll get a Lucky Dog. Use the hot dog on the boy and hell help you out whenever you need it. Use the TALK icon on him and ask him if he can fit through the bars that are around the statue. Hell get the painting that ended up behind the bars and give it to you. Take the painting to the northeast corner and give it to the artist. Hell help you out whenever you need it as well, so use the six patterns drawing on him and then use the pattern that you got from the crime scene at Lake Pontchartrain. Leave Jackson Square and go to the Gedde Estate (click on the New Orleans map button and then on the mansion icon). When you arrive, use the OPERATE icon on the door and the butler will answer the door. Tell him that you would like to see Malia Gedde and that you DO have official business. When he asks who you are, show him Moselys badge and he will announce you. When Malia enters the room, use the QUESTION icon and pick these choices in order: 1) Voodoo (ask her about this twice) 2) Lake Pontchartrain 3) Flirt with her As a result, Gabe will be kicked out of the house, so leave the estate and go to the Voodoo Museum (go to the French Quarter and click on the African mask icon). Here, youll get to meet Dr. John. Ask him about Voodoo, and then ask him about Current Voodoo until he repeats himself. Do the same for Historical Voodoo and Marie Laveau. Leave the shop and go to the St. Louis Cemetery #1 (Click on the angel statue icon). When you get there, use the QUESTION icon on the watchman and ask him about Marie Laveau until he repeats himself and then ask him about Other Marked Tombs. Use your sketchbook on the symbols that were left on the Laveau tomb. When youre finished, leave the cemetery and go to Magentia Moonbeams residence (click on the crystal ball icon). At Magentias, use the QUESTION icon and ask her about these topics in order. 1) Voodoo 2) St. Johns Eve 3) Snakes 4) Grimwald A problem that some people have with this part is that they cant get the Snakes topic to come up. In this case, just ask her about Voodoo and St. Johns Eve until she starts repeating herself. When you ask her about Grimwald, ask her to show Gabe how she handles the snake and youll be treated with a dance from Magentia Moonbeam. While shes dancing, youll regain control. Take the snakeskin that is sitting in the snakes cage and when shes all done dancing, show her the tomb message you got from the cemetery and shell translate it for you. However, shell get hung up on the words fwet kash. After that, go into your inventory and use the magnifying glass on the snakeskin, and youll discover that it doesnt match the scale that you found at the lake. Leave here and go to the Dixieland Drug Store. When you enter, an elderly lady named Madame Cazaunoux will follow you in. Listen as she explains to Willy that one of her neighbors as been torturing her with some weird Voodoo stuff, and when she leaves, ask Willy about animal masks and then about Willy Jr. He will tell you that hell sell the mask for no less than $100. Leave the shop and go back to the bookstore. Once there, ask Grace to do some research on Madame Cazaunoux. After you leave the dialogue tree, the second day will end. DAY 3 Watch the opening scene (notice that it appears to be the same thing every time, but you get to see a little bit more than the previous time). Ask Grace for all of your messages, and be sure to ask for Wolfgang Ritters phone number. Go through your daily routine, and if a man named Bruno walks in and asks about the painting, sell it to him. Go through the curtain near Graces desk to enter Gabriels studio. Go into the bathroom and take the small red bottle of hair gel thats in the cabinet. Go into your inventory and look at the torn page that Grace gave you. Use the OPERATE icon on the telephone and click the ON button. Dial 555-1280 to get Madame Cazaunouxs residence. After that, dial 555-6170 to get the Cajun Critters Animal Clinic. When a list of choices comes up, ask if they have Madame Cazaunoux as a patient and when your second set of choices comes up, say Im worried about Castro. Hes missed three dance lessons. After youre finished, dial 49-09-324-3333 to get Schloss Ritter, Wolfgang Ritters residence. Listen to what he has to say and then leave the bookstore and go to Jackson Square. Go to the northwest corner and talk to the artist to get your completed pattern. After that, walk over to the northwest corner and walk towards the fortuneteller, and she should start dancing. If not, talk to her and she will. While she is dancing, shell drop her veil, so pick it up. Go into your inventory and use the magnifying glass to inspect the veil. Youll notice that there is a snake scale clinging to it, so use your tweezers on the veil to pick it off. Give the veil back to the fortuneteller and shell give you a free palm reading. Shell become shocked and what she sees, and notice her voice when she says There are forces. Shell then run off, leaving Gabe puzzled. Be sure to check out the new snake scale, but it wont match the scale from the lake. Leave the Square and go to the bookstore. If you havent sold your painting to Bruno yet, do it now. If he doesnt show up right away, wait a bit and he will. Once youve sold the painting, youll have $100 in your pocket. Ask Grace to do some research on the vévé pattern that you got back from the artist. Leave the store and go to the Dixieland Drug Store. When you get to the store, give the $100 to Willy and youll get Willy Jr. and a lagniappe (as Gabe says, everyone in New Orleans knows it means a little something extra) since your purchase was over $50. Exit the shop and go to the police station. Dont bother asking Frick about Mosely, just head on back to his office. When you enter, watch the sequence and when its over, leave and go to St. Louis Cemetery #1. Go two screens to the right and watch the sequence between Malia and Gabe. When its finished, leave the cemetery and go to Tulane University (click on the New Orleans map button, and click on the graduates mortarboard icon). You can finally relax, so listen to the long (and boring) lecture. When its finished, go into Professor Hartridges office (its through the door on the left near the stage). Use the vévé pattern on Hartridge and then show him the murder photo. Use the QUESTION icon on him and ask him about cabrit sans cor and black Voodoo. After youve got what you needed, leave the university and go to the St. Louis Cathedral (go into the French Quarter, and click on the icon that looks like the top half of a church). Open the door on the far right to enter a closet of sorts. Inside, pick up a priests collar from the box on the left hand side of the closet and pick up the black robe as well. Leave the cathedral and go to Madame Cazaunouxs residence (the dog icon). While youre standing outside, use the priests outfit on Gabe and then the hair gel. Use the OPERATE icon on the doorknocker. When she answers the door and youre presented with choices, say that you are Father McLaughlin. Shell let you in, and use the QUESTION icon on her and ask her about cabrit sans cor. When she asks you what you think it means, say goat without horns. Ask her about human sacrifice, real Voodoo queens, and Voodoo hounfour (temple). When you can, use the clay on the snake bracelet to make an impression of it. When the sequence is over, leave the house and go to Grandma Knight's house and ask her about Wolfgang Ritter. After that, leave her house and go to Napoleon House (the icon looks like a bust of Napoleon). Once there, ask Stonewall, the bartender, about Voodoo and then ask him about the bar patrons twice and then about Sam and Voodoo. Afterwards, use the gamblin oil on Sam (the guy with the purple jacket). Choose the first option all the way and watch the sequence. After Sam beats Markus, use the clay impression on Sam. Leave the Napoleon House and the third day will come to a close. DAY 4 This day is short, so go through your daily routine and then go over to Napoleon House. Watch the little sequence, and Sam will give you a completed snake bracelet. Leave and go to the Jackson Square Overlook (the icon looks like the top view of a pair of binoculars). NOTE: If you want to, go to Jackson Square first and go to the northeast corner. You will see Crash hanging out with a drummer. If you get too close to Crash, hell just saunter off somewhere else. I dont believe this will affect any later gameplay (I got this part from the Sins of the Fathers novel by Jane Jensen). At the Overlook, use the OPERATE icon on the far left pair of binoculars. If you look towards the northeast corner of the Square, youll see Crash talking to a drummer. Leave the Overlook and go to the St. Louis Cathedral. Youll see that Crash came here after he was finished talking to the drummer, and he is now hanging out in one of the church pews. Use the snake bracelet on him and hell become paranoid when he sees that you have it. Hell tell you about the snake tattoo that he has on his chest. Ask him about drummers and the Voodoo hounfour. After youre done asking him these, watch as he dies (but how?). Look at Crash (ugly, isnt he?) and open up his shirt. Use the sketchbook on the tattoo and then leave the cathedral. The fourth day will end here. DAY 5 At the beginning of the day, youll get a package from Wolfgang Ritter. Go through your daily routine and go into your inventory and read both the letter and journal that you just got. Ask Grace to do some research on Rada drums. Leave the store and go to Tulane University. Go into Hartridges office and youll find out that Hartridge is dead (Oh no, not another one!). Search his desk and youll get his notes. Leave the university and go to the Voodoo Museum. The first thing youll notice is that the lights are off. If youre really thorough, youll notice that there is something green hiding above you. As soon as youre done looking, youll see that green thing drop down on you and start to choke you. When you have control, use the OPERATE icon on the light switch next to the door and Gabe will turn on the lights, and the green thing was actually Dr. Johns snake. Dr. John will come in and tell Gabe that the museum was closed and they werent expecting any visitors. Leave the museum and go to the bookstore. When you first enter, Grace will wonder what happened to Gabe and notice that he looks a little green. Shell then notice something on Gabe and shell take it off and put it in the ashtray. Use the tweezers on the small green ashtray and youll find that it was a snake scale that Grace took off. Use the magnifying glass on the scale to find out its exactly like the scale you found at the lake! Leave the store and go to the cemetery. Use the sketchbook on the new set of marks on the tomb. Go into your inventory and use that set of codes on the ones you had translated before to decipher part of the new message. Wait until the watchman leaves and then pick up the brick and use it on the tomb. This puzzle is the one puzzle I keep getting emails about, so before you do ANYTHING, pay attention to what I say next!!! When the interface first comes up, read the message that is showing right now. It should read: DJ KEEP E?ES ON GK B?T DO NOT HAR? At the top of the window, you should see a couple buttons labeled ERASE MESSAGE (or something like that), NEXT MESSAGE, and EXIT. Click on the NEXT MESSAGE button. Notice that this message reads: DJ CONCLAVE TONIGHT BRING FWET KASH (this is the message Magentia Moonbeam translated for you) The message I would like you to write on the tomb is DJ BRING SEKEY MADOULE and if you were paying attention this puzzle should be easy. The missing letters are Y, U, and M. E?ES should be EYES, B?T should be BUT, and HAR? should be HARM. Lets see if you can write DJ BRING SEKEY MADOULE on the tomb now. Once youre finished and Gabe hasnt erased the message off of the tomb, leave the cemetery and go to Jackson Square. Go to the northwest corner and talk to the fortuneteller. Notice her appearance when you talk to her, because it appears she was being possessed or something. Shell warn you to stay away from Malia Gedde and then shell mysteriously disappear. Leave the Square and lets go check on Mosely over at the police station. Like with the Crash interview, just head on back to Moselys office. Use the QUESTION icon on Mosely and ask him to reopen the case. A few people have emailed me about this because they couldnt get Mosely to reopen the case, so pay attention to this part if you want to get through it. Ask him to reopen the case, and he says he wont do it unless you can give him a reason why he should. For your reason, show him the reconstructed vévé pattern, then Hartridges notes, and then the 1810 newspaper clipping, and then Dr. Johns snake scales. Mosely will become convinced and hell reopen the case. Leave the police station and what do you know, the fifth day has already ended. DAY 6 At the beginning of the day, Grace will walk in and shell be freaked out when she sees a near dead rooster on the floor surrounded by some sort of sign. Gabriel will come out of his studio and tell Grace to get some coffee while he cleans up the mess. Before she leaves, Grace will become a bit paranoid as she realizes that the Voodoo murderers now know where Gabe lives. Gabe will then reassure her that everything is okay. After that sequence, Grace will give you the Rada drum book. Go through your daily routine and pick up the envelope that will eventually come through the mail slot. Go into your inventory and open up the envelope to find out that it was dropped off by Mosely. Use the tattoo tracing on Grace and when the list of choices comes up, say that youre going to a costume party. When the second set comes up, say if youre jealous and when the sequence is over, go to the Square. Go to the southwest corner and talk to the beignet vendor. Here are the choices you should choose: 1) Havent I seen you before? 2) Didnt you used to be at Royal and Conti? 3) Why dont you go back there? 4) I think you should go back to Royal and Conti. Leave the Square and go to the police station. This next part can be frustrating if you have a faster computer. To get through this next part, if you are playing the version of Gabriel Knight 1 that came with the Gabriel Knight Mysteries limited edition box set, then there is a turbo utility that you can use to slow down your computer. I wouldnt recommend it though because it doesnt really work. Go to Download.com and get CPUKiller 2.0. When you have it installed, run the program and move the slider so that the Slow Down Factor is at least 30%. Click on the Start button within the program and lets continue with Gabriel Knight. Just be sure you leave CPUKiller running though. When Gabriel arrives at the station, the beignet guy you talked to at the Square will show up outside. Franks and Frick will leave to go buy some beignets. While theyre gone, high tail it into Moselys office by opening up the swinging door and then using the brass key on Moselys door. If Frick happens to come back while youre on your way, dont worry about it. As he is sitting at his desk, hell start to doze off, and while hes asleep, you can try entering Moselys office then. Once youre in Moselys office, you can shut down CPUKiller for now if you have it. Anyway, open up the lower right brown desk drawer and use the HAND icon on it and Gabe will bring out a tracker and two signal devices. Leave the station and go back to the Square. Go to the northeast corner and use the Rada drum book on the drummer. The translation for his drumming is call conclave, tonight, swamp so be sure to click on those to get the points. After that, leave the Square and go to the Voodoo Museum. Use a signal device on the small coffin (the sekey madoulé) near the door and Gabriel will slip one in. Leave the museum and go to Bayou St. John (click on the New Orleans map button and click on the tree icon). This next part isnt terribly difficult, but I guess I should explain it Use the tracking device (not a signal device) on Gabriel. Youll notice a small blip on the tracker screen in the lower right hand corner of your screen. To figure where the blip will take you, if it is in the absolute north (if the blip lays right on the line), then go directly north. If its in the southwest corner, then go directly southwest if you can. Sometimes there might be stuff like trees in the way, so go as close as you can in the direction youre supposed to and go to the next screen. If you figured this part out, then you should find yourself near the entrance to the conclave. Before entering, use the alligator mask on Gabe, and hell put in on and then automatically enter. When Dr. John walks up to Gabriel and asks him the first question, reply Damballah. When he asks who the destroyer of men is, say Ogoun Badagris. Sit back, relax, and watch the long sequence. The sixth day will end here. DAY 7 In Gabriels studio, pick up the flashlight that sits on the right side of his dresser. Use the OPERATE icon on the phone and call Wolfgang (his number is 49- 09-324-3333 in case you forgot). Ask him about Tetelo, ask him about the talisman twice, then about Tetelos remains, and then about the possible African homeland. When youre finished, leave the studio and go through your daily routine. Leave the store and go to the cemetery. Go to the Gedde crypt and use the OPERATE icon on the red button. Once inside, go into your inventory and bring out the flashlight. Click somewhere and Gabe will turn it on. Focus the flashlight towards the middle crypt drawer (it has a ring on it) and open it up. Youll discover Moselys body! Gabriel will become shocked and drop his flashlight. Before he can pick it up, hes hit on the head and knocked out for a few minutes. When he comes to, hell get the flashlight. Open up the middle drawer again and get Moselys wallet. Go into your inventory and open it up and youll get Moselys credit card. Use the OPERATE icon on the red button on the right wall of the room to exit the crypt. Leave the cemetery and go back to the bookstore. Go into the studio and use the OPERATE icon on the phone. Dial 585-1130 to get the C the World Travel Agency. When a list of choices comes up, choose the one that says Rittersberg, Germany. When the next set of choices comes up, say Charge it to my Americans Repressed. Leave the shop and go to the New Orleans International Airport (click on the New Orleans map button and then on the plane icon). Gabe will automatically get his tickets and fly to Rittersberg. Youll soon arrive at Schloss Ritter. Once there, head upstairs and enter the bedroom. Look at the writing above the locked door inside the room and then head back downstairs. Walk into the chapel (the doorway opposite the stairs). Look at the panels on the walls as well as the stained glass panel, and then head back out into the main area. Ask Gerde about the portal poem, the chapel panels, and the initiation ceremony. Head back up to the bedroom, and open up the nearby window. Use the OPERATE icon on the snow and Gabe will wash his hands in it. Pick up the scissors that sit on the dresser near the door and use them on Gabe, and hell cut his hair. Pick up the golden bowl that also sits on the dresser and then get the scroll that hangs on the wall just above the dresser, and then go downstairs. Get the knife that hangs on the wall just above the lions head, and then pick up the salt shaker that sits on the floor near Gerde. Go into the chapel, and use the bowl on the altar. Use the salt shaker on the bowl and then use the knife on Gabe. Use the OPERATE icon on the altar and then use the scroll on Gabe. Watch the little sequence and the seventh day will end. DAY 8 When Gabe awakes, pick up the key that is sitting on the table near the bed. Use that key on the portal door. In the library, look at the lower part of the center shelves in the back and then read the book you find there. When Gabes finished reading, look at the upper-right corner of the right shelves in the back and read the book you find there. Look at the shelves on the left wall and read the book you find there. Do the same things for the upper-left corner of the left shelves in the back and the lower right part of the right shelves in the back. Gabe will decide to keep the snake book, so leave the library and head downstairs. Use the book from the library on Gerde and shell go and get a flight scheduled for Gabe. When a list of choices comes up, give her the credit card response. The eighth day will end when Gabe leaves for Africa. DAY 9 When you arrive at the Wheel-Within-A-Wheel, walk Gabe down to the caves. This next puzzle is very tough (mainly because people dont read carefully), so PAY ATTENTION!!! In order to follow what Im saying, you should make a mental map as you go along. Designate the room you are in as Room 6, and notice that it has a bluish tint on the left side to show where the entrance is. If you go up one screen, youll be in Room 7. If you go south one screen from Room 6, youll be in Room 5. These caves loop (the wheel shape should have told you this), so when you go six screens north from Room 6, youll be in the last room, Room 12, before it loops to Room 1. Unless you are in it right now, go back to Room 6 so that we can start solving this puzzle. You can go in either direction, but I chose to start going north. As you enter each room, you may notice tiles lying on the ground or there are some in the walls on the right side of your screen. Be sure to pick these up in EACH room you enter. There are some tiles in a couple of the rooms that are in the walls, but you cant take them. Leave these alone, as you wont need them anyway. In Room 9, youll notice a blue rod on the ground along with some tiles. Be sure to pick up the rod as youll need it later. After youve gone through EACH of the rooms and picked up all of the tiles that you could, go back to Room 6. Go into your inventory and take a look at the tiles. Youll notice that they all have varying numbers of snake patterns on them. For example, if you see a tile with eight snakes on them, then you would put that tile in the groove on the wall in Room 8. If you see a tile with ten snakes on them, then youd put the tile in the groove on the wall in Room 10. You can always use the LOOK icon on the tiles while youre in the inventory to bring up a close-up view of them. Do you get what Ive been explaining so far? Once youve placed all of the tiles where theyre supposed to go, youll hear the chime go off saying that you solved that half of the puzzle and youll get the points. Head back to Room 6 (Im just using this as a point so you dont get yourself lost) and then go three screens south to Room 3. Walk Gabe up to the tile on the wall and then SAVE YOUR GAME!! This next part is VERY tricky and can result in Gabes death if youre not careful. When youre ready, put the snake rod in the knothole that is in the tile and watch as several creatures come to life (Oooooh, crap). From the room youre in, as soon as they start coming to life, start walking one screen north to Room 4. In this room, just hurry up and go through to the next screen, and you shouldnt be killed. In Room 5, the creature is in your way, so what I did was walk out, and then hurried up and walked back in, and the creature had its back facing me. I walked around it and hurried through the door. The death sound might go off, but that doesnt always mean Gabe will be killed (In my case, that sound went off, but Gabe managed to get through the door without a scratch). In Room 6, youll see three creatures blocking your only ways of escaping. However, do you see those thick vines overhead? Use the OPERATE icon on the thick vine and Gabe will grab it and swing to the next room Indiana Jones style (Yeehaw!). When you get to Room 7, youll see three more creatures blocking your way, and just as you thought you were screwed, Wolfgang jumps down from up above and holds the creatures off with a torch. When you regain control, hurry up and use the snake rod on the knothole thats just inside the doorway to the right. Youll now find yourself within the Inner Wheel. Walk one screen to the east and look at the iron bars near the table. Look at the tabletop and then take the bars and Gabriel and Wolfgang will slide them into the table. Do this a second time to put the other bar into the table. Use the OPERATE icon on the bars to find out that you cant lift it without a heart to place in the trough. Walk back one screen to the west and use the knife on the dead creature. Doing this will result in Uncle Wolfgangs death (oh no!) and Gabriel will curse Tetelo for what she has done. The ninth day will soon come to a tragic end. DAY 10 This is the last day of the game, so lets continue. When you get back to New Orleans, go to the bookstore to find Grace missing (this keeps getting worse and worse). Read the newspaper and then get the envelope sitting on the desk to find a letter from Malia. Mosely will come out from the studio and there will be a brief conversation between Gabe and Mosely. When youre in the studio, give Mosely his wallet and credit card back. You can fill him in and you can have him fill you in if you want, but otherwise, ask him about making a plan. Leave the store and go to the cathedral. Enter the far right confessional, which is located on the left wall. Inside, use the snake rod on the knothole (it may be a bit hard to see, but its near the upper right corner of the confessional) and when your elevator trip is over, use the snake rod on the bench and then use the remaining signal device on it as well. Leave the confessional and youll find yourself inside the Voodoo hounfour. Before you start, take the time to save your game because there are some parts that can result in Gabes death if youre not careful. Please read the rest of this walkthrough very carefully. Use the OPERATE icon on the control pad near the other door and youll exit out into the main hallway. This area has some similarities with the Wheel puzzle, but this one isnt quite as difficult. Go up one screen to Room 7. Use the OPERATE icon on the doors control pad and go inside. Take the wolf and boar masks that you see and then if you notice the coat rack in the back to the left, use the HAND icon on it twice to take a costume for each of the masks. Leave the room and go down three screens to Room 4. If youre having a hard time trying to figure what room is which, just look at the red sign above the door. Just look at it and count how many things there are, and thatll be the room number. Enter Room 4 and take the black notebook off of the desk. Leave Room 4 and go up towards Room 5, but dont enter it. Instead, theres a hallway that runs off to the right. Follow it and youll end up in the ceremonial room. Use the OPERATE icon on the nearest set of drums. Send the message Summon Brother Eagle by clicking on Summon in the first book and clicking on Brother Eagle in the other one. Click on the EXIT button and Gabe will send the message. There is a timer now in effect for Dr. Johns arrival, so act quickly. Leave the room via the northeast hallway. Go to Room 2, enter it, and pick up the card that is hanging on the opposite wall. Leave Room 2 and go down to Room 1. Use the keycard on the control pad to unlock the door. Enter it and use the HAND icon on the money three times. Head to Room 11. Use the keycard on the control pad, enter, and then immediately leave. Go down to Room 8, unlock it, and enter. Inside, youll discover Grace lying on a bed. Mosely should enter shortly if you left him the snake rod and signal device back in the confessional. If you didnt, Dr. John will show up and youre screwed. If Mosely entered, continue on. If not, reload your game. Use the talisman on Grace and she will recover. Use the boar outfit on Mosely and then the wolf outfit on Gabriel. Dr. John will come in and youll be told to go to the ceremonial room. Watch the sequence and when you have control, use the talisman on Tetelo and then toss it to Mosely when you have the chance. Hell run off with Grace and now its time for the final encounter between Malia/Tetelo and Gabriel Knight. When is Tetelo is poised to slice Gabe open, use the HAND icon on the idol thats underneath the tabletop and when Malia/Tetelo is hanging from the edge of a crevasse, youll be left with a choice: To betray Malia or to save her. To betray Malia, you can either just sit back and relax or use the knife on her. Betraying her will result in Gabes death, and the alternate ending will show Mosely and Grace talking, and you wont get all of the points. To save Malia, use the HAND icon on her. Shell tell you to let her go and shell fall to her death. Watch the ending sequence, and youll have beat Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. I ended up getting 339 out of 342 points this time around, so Ill have to figure out where the missing three points come from. CREDITS: Protoss for sending me the point list for Gabriel Knight 1 For the FAQ sites that know me (and love me) thanks for adding my guides to your website. It has allowed people who are tired of using other peoples guides (that tend to be vague sometimes) to use mine. Jane Jensen for coming up with such a great idea for an adventure game that spawned two great sequels. Her books Millennium Rising (also known as Judgment Day), Gabriel Knight 1, and Gabriel Knight 2 were also very good. Sierra Studios For publishing the Gabriel Knight series. Im still mad that you wont make a Gabriel Knight 4, but I guess Ill have to wait and see what the future will bring. To anyone else I may have forgotten about Im sorry that I didnt mention you, but you know who you are and youll get as much gratitude as everyone else here. POINT LIST FOR GABRIEL KNIGHT 1 Here's a point list provided to me by Protoss (real name unknown), so if you go through the walkthrough and find any missing/inaccurate information, please email me so that it can be fixed: DAY 1 Bookshop: Read the newspaper 1 Ask Grace for the messages-Granny's message 2 Ask Grace for the messages-Mosely's mesasge 2 Get the tweezers 1 Get the mag glass 1 Read Heinz Ritter book 1 Read snake book 1 Get the gift certificate 1 Granny's House: Ask Granny about Harrison, Margaret, Philip 2 Get Dad's sketchbook 1 Read Dad's sketchbook in inventory 1 Open secret drawer 5 Get Ritter Photo 1 Get Ritter Letter 1 Read Ritter Letter in inventory 1 Ask Granny about Heinz 2 Police Station: Ask Frick about Mosely 2 Get photo envelope from Frick 1 Open photo envelope 1 Jackson Square: Attach Mime to cop 5 Operate the radio while cop is gone 2 Lake Ponchartrain: Use mag glass on marks in glass 1 Use tweezers on the scale 2 Use sketchbook on the pattern 2 Get clay 1 Police Station: Ask Mosely about "other six patterns" 1 Franks hand Gabe the file 2 Ask Mosely for "cop/author photo" 2 Copy file 5 Put file back in Franks inbox 1 Voodoo Shop: Look at the sign 1 Use murder photo on Willy 2 Book Store: Ask Grace to research Malia Gedde 2 DAY 2 Book Store: Grace give Gabe Malia's Address 1 Read newspaper 1 Police Station: Change temperature to 75 or over 1 Ask Mosely for coffee 1 Get the badge 3 Jackson Square: Get hot dog 1 Give hot dog to boy 1 Get drawing 1 Give drawing to artist 1 Giving all paterns to the artist 3 Gedde Mansion: Get into Mansion 3 Get thrown out 2 Voodoo Museum: Ask Dr. J about Modern Voodoo until Moonbeam is mentioned 2 Ask Dr. J about Historical Voodoo until Laveau is mentioned 2 Ask Dr. J about Laveau until he mentions the cemetery 2 St. Louis Cemetery: Ask watchman about Laveau until he mentions other marked tombs 1 Ask watchman about other marked tombs 1 Use sketchbook on the voodoo marks 2 Get the brick 1 Moonbeam's House: Ask about St. John's Eve 2 Get Moonbeam to dance 1 Get snakeskin while Moonbeam dances 2 Use the voodoo code on Moonbeam to get translation 3 Magnify snake skin in inventory 1 Voodoo Shop: Ask Willy about Animal Masks twice 2 Book Shop: Ask Grace to do research on Cazanoux 2 DAY 3 Book Shop: Watch cartoon 1 Get Wolfgang's phone number 1 Read the newspaper 1 Tulane University goes on Orleans Map 1 Studio: Get hair gel 1 Call vet and get Cazanoux's address 2 Call Wolfgang 2 Book Shop: Sell painting for $100 2 Voodoo Shop: Give Willy $100 Gives Gabe mask 1 Give Gabe Gambling Oil 1 Jackson Square: Get veve from artist 1 Pickup on fortune teller while she's dancing 1 Get veil 1 Get scale from veil 2 Give veil to fortune teller 1 Magnify snake scale 1 Book Shop: Ask Grace to research veve pattern 2 Police Station: Watch Crash interview 2 St. Louis Cemetery: See Malia 2 Tulane University: Watch lecture 2 Use veve on Hartridge 2 Ask about Cabrit Sans Cor 1 Use murder photo on Hartridge 2 St. Louis Cathedral: Get priests collar 1 Get priests shirt 1 Cazanoux Residence: Use priests shirt/collar on Gabe 1 Use hair gel on Gabe 1 Get inside house 1 Ask Cazanoux about Cabrit Sans Cor and translate for her 2 Cazanoux hand Gabe the snake bracelet 1 Get clay mold of Bracelet 2 Granny's House: Ask Granny about Wolfgang Ritter after Hienz Ritter 1 Napoleon House: Ask bartender about Sam & Voodoo 1 Use Gamblin' Oil on Sam 1 Sam Wins and agrees to do something 2 Give clay impression of bracelet to Sam 1 DAY 4 Book Shop: Get 1810 clipping 1 Read newspaper 1 Napoleon House: Get bracelet from Sam 1 Jackson Square Overlook: See Crash talk to drummer 3 St. Louis Cathedral: Ask Crash about Drummer 2 Ask Crash about Hounfour after Drummer 1 Use snake bracelet on Crash 1 Get sketch of tattoo 2 Book Shop: Ask Grace to research Rada Drums 2 DAY 5 Book Shop: Get Drum book from Grace 1 Get letter/journal from Grace 1 Read the newspaper 1 Read Wolfgang's Letter in inventory 1 Read Gunter's Journal in inventory 1 Hartridge's Office: Get Hartridge's notes 2 Voodoo Museum: Operate the fan switch 5 Book Shop: Get the snake scale from ashtray 1 In inventory, Magnify the snake scale and put the two together 3 St. Louis Cemetery: Take sketch of second Voodoo code 2 Translate new message 2 Complete correct message on the tomb wall 5 Jackson Square: Talk to fortune teller 3 Mosely's Office: Prove a legit cult 2 Prove the cult is a threat 2 Give Mosely lead 2 DAY 6 Book Shop: Read newspaper 1 Get Mosely's envelope 1 Open the envelope 1 Read the letter 1 Get Grace to put on the tattoo 3 Jackson Square: Talk the vendor to returning to the police station 2 Police Station: Use Mosely's key to get into the office 2 Mosely's Office: Get the tracking device 1 Jackson Square: Translate drum code to get to Bayou St. John 5 Voodoo Museum: Put signal device in coffin 3 Bayou St. John: Find the screen with entrance to ritual 3 Use crocodile mask on Gabe 2 Answer Damballah Question correctly 1 Answer Ogoun question correctly 1 DAY 7 Studio: Get flashlight 1 Ask Wolfgang about the Africa Homeland 3 Book Shop: Read newspaper 1 St. Louis Cemetary: Press button to open tomb door 2 Gedde Tomb: Operate the flashlight in inventory 1 Find Mosely's body 2 Get wallet 2 Open wallet in inventory 1 Studio: Get tickets to Germany 5 Great Hall: Ask Gerde about PORTAL POEM 1 Ask about the INITIATION CEREMONY 1 Bedroom: Wash Hands in snow 1 Get scissors 1 Cut Gabe's hair 1 Get chamber pot 1 Get scroll 1 Great Hall: Get salt 1 Get dagger 1 Chapel: Completes ceremony correctly 5 DAY 8 Bedroom: Get key 1 Open large door 3 Library: Find Snake Mound Book 5 Great Hall: Get Gerde to buy tickets with Credit Card 2 DAY 9 Snake Mound-Outer Ring: Get snake rod 1 Put all 12 tiles in correct rooms 3 Use snake rod on tile 3 5 Operate vine in room 6 2 Use snake rod in secret passage 2 Snake Mound-Inner Ring: Look at carvings on table 1 Pickup each Iron bar 2 Gabe gets the talisman 10 DAY 10 Book Shop: Read newspaper 1 Get Malia's note 1 Studio: Make a plan with Mosely 2 Confessional: Use snake rod on knothole 3 Put snake rod under the bench 1 Put signal device under bench 1 Supply Room: Get BOTH disguises 2 Business Room: Get Gedde tribal book 2 Ceremonial Room: Play correct call Dr. John message on the drums 5 Dr. John's Room: Get keycard 2 Money Room: Unlock door 1 1 Get Money 1 Body Door: Unlock door 11 1 Grace's Room: Unlock door 8 1 Use talisman in Grace 2 Give disguise to Mosely 1 Put disguise on Gabe 1 Ceremonial Room: Save Grace(use talisman on Tetelo 3 Throw talisman to Mosely 3 Smash stone idol 5 Try to save Malia 10 TOTAL 342


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Sunday Sweets: WoW
Some of you know that Jen and I are currently geeking out at the biggest geek fest in the south, Dragon*Con. (For the 98.6 percent of you who read this blog but are not, in the strictest sense of the word, "geeks", Dragon*Con is a convention where the majority of the attendees could tell you, without hesitation, the complete works of Joss Whedon and how Jar Jar Binks single-handedly destroyed Lucas' credibility. But, I digress.
This week, we're going to broaden your horizons with something so geeky that even I know nothing about it: World of Warcraft. Apparently, this is a "game" where "players" spend untold thousands of hours walking around and killing things and otherwise forfeiting what was left of their "lives." To do this, I asked Jen's brother Ben, who is himself a recovering WoW addict, to help decipher these cakes. So let's get started, shall we?
And here's another angle:
"Gold farming" is a term loosely defined as selling imaginary money for real money. Kind of like the stock market, only dominated by Chinese corporations. (Okay, exactly like the stock market.)
And finally, we have a cake based on one of the most popular places in the game, the bank in Ogrimmar, the capital city of the Horde.
On a side note, see those itty bitty game people with the colorful words over their heads? Those are your IT guys, your Microsoft employees, and your computer repair people. In short, the folks who keep the internets running and, thusly, control the world. So be nice to them, or someday, when you least expect it, you just might find yourself barred from Facebook. And then what will you do? Call somebody?
A big thanks to Ben, logger of untold hours in Horde-y land, for finally putting all that knowledge to good use.
(Just kidding, Ben! We all know nothing good comes from the Horde.)
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BlueScope Steel lost more than $436 million from its market value on a day it triumphantly declared that its manufacturing business was back.
Australia's biggest steelmaker reported a full year net loss of $82.4 million, a narrowing of last year's $107.1 million loss.
No dividend was declared, with the company not having handed out one since early 2011.
BlueScope's shares sunk 78 cents, or 12.8 per cent, to $5.32 and was the third-most traded stock on the ASX amid investor disappointment at its fourth consecutive full year loss.
But chief executive Paul O'Malley insisted the steel maker's underlying profit of $112.3 million, up from $6.7 million, was a great result.
The most pleasing aspect, he said, was the coated and industrial products division's near $100 million turnaround to post its first profit since 2010 – a positive earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) result of $65.4 million.
"In my opinion Australian manufacturing is back and we're waiting for others to join us," he told reporters, referring to BlueScope's business.
"Many of us thought that business would never return to the black … you can be a successful manufacturer in Australia.
"Those who are giving up the ghost on the manufacturing sector do so at their peril, it is so important as an employer, innovator and key part of a diversified economy."
BlueScope has been rebuilding since its dark days of 2011 when it cut more than 1,000 jobs and made a $1 billion loss.
It exited steel exporting because it had become uncompetitive, closing a blast furnace at Port Kembla.
There had since been a $500 million underlying EBIT improvement and tremendous transformation, with BlueScope now having a globally diversified portfolio of value added steel products in Asia and north America, Mr O'Malley said.
Chairman Graham Kraehe said the company was getting closer to paying dividends again because of its improved performance.
BlueScope still had problems though, said Morningstar analyst Mathew Hodge, and was not worth the $3.4 billion market capitalisation it started the day with.
The discrepancy between net and underlying profit was $55 million on restructuring and writedowns of $87.6 million to its Australian operations, including its loss-making distribution segment that supplies the supposedly improving construction sector.
BlueScope could not keep separating those charges from its underlying profit every year, Mr Hodge said.
"If cash has gone out the door and you write that off, it is a real loss and to me that's just in the normal course of business in a steel business.
"Steel making is a tough business, very competitive and when your competitors continually pull out costs so you have to too."
The company is forecasting earnings to be flat in the first half but better growth over the next one to three years.
* Net loss of $82.4m, up from $107.1m in 2012/13
* Revenue of $8b, up 10 pct from $7.3b
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Main street Edgartown was littered with candy and lined with smiling faces Saturday morning when the Christmas parade went on as planned despite some drizzle and fog. A crowd of children, parents, grandparents and dogs lined the sidewalks to cheer on a long procession of homespun floats. The holiday mood was evident all over the Island Saturday as people shopped for gifts, trees and crafts at fairs and bazaars. The day saw occasional rain but was mild with temperatures in the fifties. Christmas in Edgartown events go on all weekend; check the Gazette calendar for complete listings.


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The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop)
Townsend's translation (1867)[edit]
The Hare and the Tortoise
A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
- Slow but steady wins the race.
Jacobs' translation (1894)[edit]
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. "I have never yet been beaten," said he, "when I put forth my full speed. I challenge any one here to race with me."
The Tortoise said quietly, "I accept your challenge."
"That is a good joke," said the Hare; "I could dance round you all the way."
"Keep your boasting till you've beaten," answered the Tortoise. "Shall we race?"
So a course was fixed and a start was made. The Hare darted almost out of sight at once, but soon stopped and, to show his contempt for the Tortoise, lay down to have a nap. The Tortoise plodded on and plodded on, and when the Hare awoke from his nap, he saw the Tortoise just near the winning-post and could not run up in time to save the race. Then said the Tortoise:
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Charles Curtis
Called by ArtForum "one of the great cellists" as well as "spellbinding and minimal," Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and musical experimentation. A student of Harvey Shapiro and Leonard Rose at Juilliard and the recipient of the Piatigorsky Prize, upon graduation Curtis was appointed to the faculty of Princeton University. Subsequently he was Principal Cellist of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, where he appeared as soloist with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, André Previn, Günter Wand, John Eliot Gardiner and Christoph Eschenbach. Curtis has been guest soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, National Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Janacek Philharmonic, Orquestra de la Maggio Musicale Florence, and orchestras in Brazil and Chile, among many others.
For more than twenty years Curtis has been closely associated with the legendary avant garde composer La Monte Young. As soloist and as director of Young's Theatre of Eternal Music String Ensemble, Curtis has participated in more performances and premieres of Young's music than any other musician. He is one of the few instrumentalists to have perfected Young's highly complex just intonation tunings, and is one of only a handful of musicians to have appeared in duo formations with Young. The La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela four-hour-long solo composition, "Just Charles and Cello in the Romantic Chord," for solo cello, pre-recorded cello drones and light projection, the only solo composition composed by Young for a performer other than himself, received performances in Berlin, Paris, Lyon, Dijon, Bologna, in the New York Dream House, and in the monastery village of Polling in Bavaria. Curtis has studied the Kirana style of Indian classical music both with La Monte Young and in master classes with the late North Indian master vocalist Pandit Pran Nath since 1989, and has been a regular member of the Just Alap Raga Ensemble, led by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, since 2003.
Already in the early 1980's Curtis was involved in the downtown New York alternative music scene, performing regularly in clubs like the Mudd Club, CBGB, Acme Underground, The Cooler, ABC No Rio, Tonic and the Knitting Factory. He collaborated over a period of years with poetry-rock pioneers King Missile, John S. Hall, You Suck, Dogbowl and Kramer, and with creative musicians such as Donald Miller of Borbetomagus, Michael J. Schumacher, Alan Licht and Dean Roberts. Emerging from this scene in the 1990's, Curtis led the Charles Curtis Trio, presenting sound-installation-style minimal rock music with spoken texts, sine waves and slide projection in clubs and festivals throughout Europe; their double LP/CD "Ultra White Violet Light", designed for simultaneous play on multiple stereo systems, was described by British magazine The Wire as "one of the most treasured sound art objects of the last few years". His large ensemble and electronics work for children, "Richard's Trip", was released in 2000 by Deutsche Grammophon. Curtis has created original music for films by Luke Fowler, Raha Raissnia and Jeff Perkins, whose 2008 film "The Painter Sam Francis" was screened at festivals and museums internationally.
Curtis has enjoyed a distinguished and extensive chamber music career. At the age of nineteen he performed the Tchaikovsky Trio with Oscar Shumsky and Earl Wild at Carnegie Hall, the live recording of which is now available on the Ivory Classics label. As cellist of the Ridge String Quartet he toured Europe, Japan and North America, including numerous concerts with Rudolf Firkusny as guest pianist. A guest at many prominent festivals including Marlboro, Ravinia, Wolf Trap, La Jolla and Schleswig Holstein, Curtis was featured as continuo soloist on Kathleen Battle's album "Grace" for Sony Classical, and toured with Miss Battle and Anthony Newman performing Purcell, Dowland, Handel and Bach. The cultivation of the art of chamber music as an intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is at the heart of the project Camera Lucida, an ensemble and concert series of which Curtis is Artistic Director.
In the last few years Curtis has developed a unique repertoire of major works created expressly for the distinctive qualities of his cello-playing. The great American experimental composer Alvin Lucier has composed numerous works for Curtis, including pieces for cello and sine waves, cello and piano, and cello with large orchestra. French composer liane Radigue created her very first work for a purely acoustic instrument for Curtis, the hour-long solo "Naldjorlak I," which Curtis has performed scores of times throughout the world; more recently "Naldjorlak III" and "Occam 5" have been developed collaboratively with Curtis. Artist and performer Alison Knowles created a unique graphic score for Curtis which has been realized in galleries and alternative settings. These, along with the monumental works of La Monte Young and rarely-heard pieces by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield and Morton Feldman, have been championed by Curtis through regular performances and recordings. In 2005 Curtis presented "Waking States," a series of seven concerts in fifteen days at various New York venues of music by Young and Zazeela, Lucier, Radigue, Jennings and Feldman. Solo concerts in the last few years have taken him to Christchurch Spitalfields London, the Auditorium of the Louvre in Paris, the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, the Kampnagelfabrik in Hamburg, Issue Project Room in New York, the RedCat at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and to festivals, museums and alternative spaces in Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland and Canada. Each summer Curtis performs and teaches in the La Monte Young - Marian Zazeela permanent installation at Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, Bavaria.
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The George W. Bush defense team did not give the Vietnam veteran the respect he deserved.
Yes, Eric Shinseki had to go, and he probably knew it himself once the horror stories surfaced. As the retired four-star general learned at West Point, the commander is ultimately responsible. While the Veterans Administration has been a managerial bleeding sore for years, the chaos and perhaps criminality at subordinate echelons of the VA on Shinseki's watch made his survival impossible.
But let's not forget that Ric Shinseki is not just a highly decorated commander and wounded warrior, losing part of his foot in Vietnam and clawing his way back onto active duty against the wishes of Army brass. He's a truth-teller of the first rank—and that display of character so enraged the George W. Bush defense team that he encountered some of the shabbiest treatment an officer and a gentleman has ever encountered during my 46 years serving in and hanging around the Pentagon.
It didn't help his case with the Bushies that Bill Clinton had appointed him Army chief of staff. Moreover, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who didn't enjoy being challenged, quickly took a dislike to Shinseki after several policy and strategy disagreements.
Rummy was so intent on punishing Shinseki out, in fact, that he directed one of his flack-shop acolytes to leak word of his replacement to The New York Times—15 months before Shinseki's four-year term was up.
This had the instant effect of rendering Shinseki a lame duck within the E-ring, the Pentagon's power corridor. It was cheesy, petty, shameful, and totally unwarranted behavior. The Rumsfeld crowd loved themselves for it.
When Shinseki retired in June of 2003, Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were notable by their absence at his Fort Myer send-off—another gratuitous, small-bore move.
Even then, they were still fuming over Shinseki's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee four months earlier. Asked how many troops would be needed to keep the peace in a postwar Iraq, Shinseki predicted "several hundred thousand."
Rumsfeld went ballistic; that was far more than the low-ball figure he'd been using on Capitol Hill. Wolfowitz blasted Shinseki publicly, calling his estimate "wildly off the mark." The sub-rosa sniping escalated from there; suddenly it wasn't hard at all for reporters to find someone in the Rumsfeld orbit eager to dump all over the Army chief.
Of course, history has shown that Shinseki's principled testimony about Iraq was on the mark, and the Rumsfeld/Cheney/Wolfowitz war hawks were wrong.
Still, Obama was right to insist on Shinseki's resignation from the VA. But he was also right to salute Shinseki as "a very good man; I don't just mean he's an accomplished man … [and] an outstanding soldier. He's a good person who's done exemplary work on our behalf."
In the political game, there's often a difference between needing to go and deserving to go. Not for the first time in a storied career, Ric Shinseki deserved better.