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Humble WB Games Bundle contains GOTY editions for Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Asylum
Humble Bundle has gone live with a new offering this week, and it's full of lovely Warner Brothers titles such as Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin and Lord of the Rings: War in the North. If you pay over the $4.06 average at the moment, you can also nab Scribblenauts and Batman: […]
Scribblenauts headlines
5th Cell and Warner Bros. being sued over use of Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat in Scribblenauts
Warner Bros. and 5th Cell are being sued by the creators of Internet memes Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat over copyright infringement.
Scribblenauts Remix tops App Store charts
Gamasutra reports the iOS port of 5th Cell's DS bestseller Scribblenauts has knocked perennial favourite Angry Birds off the App Store's top spot.Full chart through the break.
5th Cell launches Scribblenauts Remix for iOS
Warner and 5th Cell have launched an iOS version of Scribblenauts, known as Scribblenauts Remix. The title will bring ten new exclusive levels, iCloud support to switch between iPhone and iPad without hastle, Game Center support and more.You can get it on iPhone or iPad for £2.99 or $4.99.
Warner Bros. registers Scribblenauts Remix domain
More Scribblenauts games may be on the way, if a domain registration is anything to go by.
Scribblenauts success inspired by Nintendogs
Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell looked to Nintendogs for cues as to how to become a platform leader on the DS.
5th Cell's Slaczka on the road from Scribblenauts to Hybrid
A gritty sci-fi shooter from the makers of… Scribblenauts? To quote one of today's greatest cultural luminaries: "all the ladies in the house say 'whaaat?'" But that's exactly where 5th Cell is headed, and lest you fear the developer's colorful creative streak has aged to a dull gray, know this: Hybrid was one of our […]
5th Cell reveals LtD Scribblenauts sales
5th Cell bosses Jeremiah Slaczka and Joseph Tringali have announced lifetime-to-date sales of the Scribblenauts series at DICE.
Uncharted 2 wins 10 AIAS awards at DICE
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has won big time at the AIAS awards: the Naughty Dog action title walked away with ten gongs.Get all the results below.
Scribblenauts sells more than one million units worldwide
Warner Bros. has announced that Scribblenauts has sold over one million units worldwide on DS.
5th Cell keen on Scribblenauts Wii
Speaking with ONM, 5th Cell's Marius Fahlbusch has hinted that it would be "interesting" to see the developer do a Wii version of Scribblenauts."It certainly would be interesting to do the game for Wii," said Fahlbusch."We're always looking to do something new something that hasn't been done before. We're going to continue on that path."Via […]
Scribblenauts chalks up serious US sales
According to NPD figures, 5th Cell's Scribblenauts sold almost 194,000 units in the US last month.Which is a good deal. As Kotaku points out, this means we may get another. Best fix that washing machine thing first though, eh?
Scribblenauts development time revealed
5th Cell's creative director Jeremiah Slaczka has revealed in an interview with Gama that Scribblenauts was in development for over a year.One year and three months, to be exact."[We worked on Scribblenauts for] a year and three months, which is crazy. That's probably the only thing I don't like about 5th Cell's development. It's just […]
Scribblenauts launches in Europe
It's here, DS-playing word-loving gamers. Warner Bros has released Scribblenauts in Europe, as you'll see in the PR after the break."There's never before been a game like Scribblenauts," said Samantha Ryan, Warner dev boss."It is truly a game for everyone, as it challenges players to use their imagination and creativity to solve puzzles in an […]
5th Cell says original name for Scribblenauts was "Wordplay"
Scribblenauts wasn't always called Scribblenauts, according to creative director Jeremiah Slaczka.Originally, it was called "Wordplay"."We had a lot of different names before Scribblenauts," said Slaczka. "The original name was Wordplay, which is really lame and not fun and very generic…We've always gone through a lot of names before we kinda settle on a final name…"Scribblenauts […]
Scribblenauts team teases "very special" announcement
Over on Scribblenauts' Facebook page, 5th Cell is teasing a big announcement for its tiny game."Get your rooster hats ready," reads the status update. "We have a very special announcement coming very soon…"What could it be? A sequel? New items? More rooster regalia? We have no idea. Do you? If so, why not comment on […]
Warner hopes Scribblenauts has same appeal as Layton games
The marketing manager for Warner Bros., Phil Lamb, has said that due to the popularity of titles like Professor Layton, Scribblenauts should appeal to casual, female, and "grey" gamers.Because of this, Warner expects the title to become a new franchise for the DS market."The stylized look of Scribblenauts offers something fresh and friendly that doesn't […]
First Scribblenauts reviews are fair to excellent
The first few Scribblenauts reviews have gone live. It's looking like it might not be quite the super-game E3 promised, but it's rosy nonetheless.But still. Essential DS purchase, surely. The 5th Cell puzzler's out on October 9. Eurogamer – 7/10 PocketGamer – 7/10 USA Today – No score: "This is the most innovative new game […]
Pfft - 22,802 words? Scribblenauts has more than that
Over the weekend, an enterprising hacker claimed to have used his evil techno-wizardry to extract Scribblenauts' 22,802-piece soul, which he then put on display for the entire Internet to see. However, speaking with Fast Company, lead designer Jeremiah Slaczka had a few choice words for said hacker:"That [number] was leaked by a hacker who does […]
Scribblenauts to be fully localised for UK
Scribblenauts dev 5th Cell said today that the DS word-play game will be fully worked for the UK, so don't expect to see the likes of sidewalks and diapers popping up on your porta-screen this side of the pond.Thank God for that. PR after the break. The game's out in October.
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Humble WB Games Bundle contains GOTY editions for Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Asylum
5th Cell and Warner Bros. being sued over use of Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat in Scribblenauts
5th Cell says original name for Scribblenauts was "Wordplay"
5th Cell – Scribblenauts would "definitely work on other platforms"


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Hello Johnny Thunder, greetings and welcome to the Narutopedia! Thanks for your edit to the Fū Yamanaka page.
We do hope that you will stay for a long time. Enjoy your stay as we work to become the best Naruto info site out there. BELIEVE IT!
If you're looking for something to do why not look over the Forums or more specifically Narutopedia Collaboration for a list of projects we're working on. And the Community portal has a lot of recent discussions and places to go listed on it.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Jacce (Talk) 19:03, March 7, 2012
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Stop vandalising the wiki by adding nonsense and false information into the articles. It may lead to blocking. --Speysider (Talk Page) 19:26, April 8, 2012 (UTC)
- What. The. Hell. Do. You. Mean. O.o --Who cares about signature? 19:30, April 8, 2012 (UTC)
- I mean like the edit you made on Naruto Uzumaki's Relationships. If you've even read the manga, then it was Naruto that headbutted Tobi, not the converse. That is considered vandalism. Also. The. One. Word. Sentences. Make. You. Look. Like. A. 5. Year. Old. So. I. Suggest. You. Stop. Doing. That. --Speysider (Talk Page) 19:33, April 8, 2012 (UTC)
- Oh that.. Well you could at least leave a proper comment in the summary, not just "lolwut" as I'm not from an English speaking country, I mean, I do know what headbutt means but I had no idea that it has a certain order to be written in. Sorry. I will try and make better edits from now on. And. This. I was really surprised, because I really didn't think it would count as vandalism. Double sorry. --Who cares about signature? 19:37, April 8, 2012 (UTC)
- Just as an fyi, anything that has not been confirmed or given any official source or is just wrong in general because it's already confirmed in the manga is considered vandalism. As an example so you know what I mean, if you started adding things that Naruto was SO6P, when it's not confirmed, that would be considered vandalism. Make sure that what you add is officially stated in the manga and/or the anime. Also, apologies for the stupid summary message, it was because it was to reference that you should've looked at the picture and thought about it first. --Speysider (Talk Page) 19:40, April 8, 2012 (UTC)
- Oh you mean like I did by saying that Karin sensed the chakra of Kurama in Naruto when it isn't confirmed? I thought that was pretty obvious, but if it's not confirmed, well okay then. --Who cares about signature? 20:01, April 8, 2012 (UTC)
- She sensed an evil chakra, but she did not know that it was Kurama. It's best to add things only if they have been confirmed. Most of the time, the other editors like Cerez, Deva, LeafShinobi and some others will add in the correct information along with references. --Speysider (Talk Page) 20:04, April 8, 2012 (UTC)

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PM rejects BJP demand to put on hold CBI chief's appointment
Published: 23rd November 2012 11:27 PM | Last Updated: 23rd November 2012 11:58 PM | A+A A-
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight rejected BJP's demand to hold in abeyance appointment of new CBI Director Ranjit Sinha and termed as "unwarranted" insinuation the charge that the decision was to preempt the procedure recommended by the Select Committee on Lokpal.
In a letter to BJP leader Arun Jaitley, the Prime Minister said the premier investigating agency could not be kept without a head pending the enactment of the Lokpal and "the question of keeping the new appointment in abeyance does not arise."
Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj had written letters to the Prime Minister saying that appointment of the new CBI Director should not have been done when the Rajya Sabha Select Committee had recommended that such appointments should be done through a collegium.
The Prime Minister said "insinuation that the appointment was made to preempt the procedure recommended by the Select Committee is wholly unwarranted and devoid of any merit."
"I also refute the suggestion that the appointments to this post in the past by the UPA Government were motivated by collateral considerations," he said.
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill was still awaiting passage in the Rajya Sabha and it was referred to a Select Committee which has tabled its report today in the Rajya Sabha, Singh said.
"Many changes have been suggested by the Select Committee which are required to be considered by the Government for introducing official amendments. After the Bill as amended is duly passed by the Rajya Sabha, it will be returned to the Lok Sabha for further consideration," he said.
He said even as the Government was making all efforts to enact the new law, the top post in the CBI could not be kept vacant.
"Under the circumstances the Government has, in public interest, made the appointment in accordance with the provisions of the CVC Act as presently applicable and the extant procedures, which had been set in motion much earlier," the Prime Minister said.
Sinha, a 1974 batch officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed as the next CBI chief. He is presently the Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force.


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Charlie is awakened in the middle of the night by loud screams that seem to be getting closer. As she sits up in her bed several empty rum empty bottles roll off the blanket and crash to the floor. She rolls out of bed onto the floor, hastily pushing all of them underneath it.
Innkeeper Brianna runs into Charlie's room with a lantern held above her hed "Whos in here?" Charlie raises her hand as she gets to her feet "Is just me Bree, I musta accidently nodded off in one of your rooms last night."
The innkeeper shakes her head with disapproval "Accidentally my ass Charlie!" She approaches Charlie and sets her lantern on the night stand before continuing "I dont minda ya sneakin a free night stay when I aint booked up, but you got ta stop with the screamin! Your scarin my payin customers."
Charlie gasps "Aint me!"
Brianna raises an eyebrow curiously "Oh? Then what were ya dreamin about?"
Charlie's countenance changes to a neutral stare when she answers "Orcs, I guess."
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Charlie stares through Brianna as she replies "I dunno. I start hacken em up fore I can find out."
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Charlie shakes her head "No ma'am."
"Thats that, get back ta sleep...and you better clean up all them empty bottles under tha bed when you leave." Brianna looks back over her shoulder smiling as she leaves the room "This is my inn, I see everything!"
Charlie flops onto the bed face first letting out a sigh of relief. She then pulls out a bottle of brandy conveniently tucked underneath her pillow "Now ima need a night cap ta help me sleep after all that comotion." Charlie's hands shake as she removes the cap. "Damn, my last bottle." She rolls onto her back, drinking until her eyes grow heavy "Wonder if this is how all tha other Paladins feel when they start workin fer tha Light? Aint as easy as I thot it'd be..."
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Juliana is a professional actress with an MA in Acting from the Guildford School of Acting in England. Originally from Los Angeles, Juliana has been living and working in New York for her "adult life", and most recently spent a year in the UK, expanding her life experience and immersed in On-Camera, Classical Theatre, Voice, Physical Acting and Stanislavski- based training at one of the top accredited programs in England.
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The Window Sex Project is a dance performance that tackles the everyday practice in which women are "window shopped," or forced to bear unsolicited harassment from men while walking on the street. An innovative performance grounded in personal experiences, feminist theory, and a collective need to take action, The Window Sex Project fosters conversation in the community about the need to eradicate unsolicited verbal harassment and restores agency to women by celebrating their bodies in a public artwork informed by members of the Harlem community, for the Harlem community. The work places women of varying races and body types on pedestals in an art gallery setting, forcing audiences to contend with the objectification of the female body in a contemporary society. The dance investigates how a woman's sexuality is perceived based on these physical attributes. It aims to equally celebrate all the bodies which are unique, and do not fit into generic models of womanhood.
Produced by Sydnie L. Mosley '07, BCRW's first Alumna Fellow, the performance will be followed by a discussion with the dancers about their artistic process and about actions against street harassment that are taking place in New York City. The piece also includes a sound score orchestrated by Ebonie Smith '07 and integrates excerpts of "Can I Get A Smile?," a one-woman theater show written and performed by Leah King '04.


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Xavier necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 97 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Simbora is a brazilian word (slang) for "let's ride".
The project aims to bring the hitchhiking experience up to the web2.0 in a meshup website that connects Simbora with the most important social network websites (namely facebook, twitter, orkut, and so on) plus maps from google maps. Letting users to easily search or share their rides within their social network.
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Young people, university students or recently graduated, that travels a lot, wants to save some money and/or stay in touch with their friends.
We look for a logo to represent our product in such a young, enthusiastic and energetic market.
1. Font: a clean, simple and bold font. Saved any (little bit) fancier style that brings the idea of speed / movement. Favorite colors are green, yellow and orange. But, others may be accepted as well.
2. Mascot icon can be one of the below. Icon in full color wanted, background will be green. Style: twitter-like, mozilla-like or gowalla-like is the styles we are looking for.
2.a) a roadrunner (like the one in this draw http://www.intersonic.com.br/navelo…leguas.jpg )
2.b) a sandal (search for havaianas in google).
2.c) a person carrying a backpack.
But, feel free to try different mascots as well.
3. The current logo is attached below. See that it won't be hard to make something better.. :D
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- http://vimeo.com - Nice example of simple, clean and fun design we look for.
- http://twitter.com - Nice example of simple, clean and fun design we look for.
- http://gowalla.com - See logo at the bottom. Nice mascot. Although it's green and orange too, we look for more bright colors.
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- http://www.everlater.com - Although website design is fantastic, logo is too much simple.
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There currently is no MIPS BIOS file for Qemu. However if passed a -kernel argument qemu will not call the firmware at all, so this does no harm at all.
There currently is no MIPS BIOS file for Qemu. However if passed a -kernel argument qemu will not call the firmware at all, so this does no harm at all. a command such as
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin bs=1024 count=128
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin bs=1024 count=128
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Qemu is a generic open source processor and system emulator. It achieves good performance from using a Just-in-time compilation.
- 1 System architecture
- 2 Status
- 3 Patches
- 4 Common Problems
- 6 See also
- 7 Credits
System architecture
This paragraph describes the architecture of the MIPS system that currently is being emulated by Qemu. As Qemu is still very much work in progress this is expected to change.
There currently is no firmware for Qemu. This is only a minor problem as unlike on a real system Qemu's virtual hardware is mostly initialized after a reset.
Memory map
Qemu is emulating a simply machine with ISA-like bus. ISA IO space mapped to the 0x14000000 (PHYS) and ISA memory at the 0x10000000 (PHYS, 16Mb in size). All peripherial devices are attached to this "bus" with the standart PC ISA addresses.
Qemu is simulating a 4Kc MIPS32 processor with a 16 entry TLB. Both I-cache and D-cache are 4kB each, 2-way set-associative with 16 bytes per cacheline however the cache effects are not simulated and cacheops are treated as noops. This is a design decission to improve performance over accuracy. No benchmarking has been done however it is expected that the performance of the virtual MIPS system will be comparable to emulation of the other processors.
Qemu's source code can also be configured to be built with support for a 4Km processor. However being TLB-less this processor is not of interest for Linux, so does not currently receive any sort of attention.
Interrupt controller
Qemu is emulating the standard builtin interrrupt controller including soft interrupts and the count/compare interrupt of R4000-class processors. Cascaded externally to that is a i8259 PIC interrupt controller that is cascaded to the CPU's INT0.
In addition to the CPU builtin timer Linux support the i8254 PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) which is cascaded to the PIC's interrupt 0 input.
Graphics card
Qemu is emulating a standard VGA graphics card however underlined, bold and blinking attributes are not supported.
Serial interface
Qemu is emulating a PC-style 8250-based serial interface.
Network interface
Qemu is emulating a single ISA NE2000 network card.
Other peripherals
Qemu supports other peripherals however support for them has not been integrated or tested into the MIPS port.
At this time the MIPS support still is in pre-alpha stage. There is no firmware for qemu yet and the kernel will only run to the point where it enters userspace.
MIPS support is integrated into Qemu (CVS HEAD, still experimental), but not in the Linux kernel, so maybe you'll need to apply some patches.
Kernel patches
Qemu currently doesn't emulate any existing MIPS system. Therefore the Linux kernel needs patches to add support the Qemu platform. The patch is meant to be applied on top of a Linux 2.6 kernel from the CVS archive. The patches are already merged in the current Git archive.
Qemu patches
All MIPS Qemu patches have been integrated into the Qemu CVS.
Common Problems
MIPS BIOS not found on startup
[ralf@box qemu]$ qemu-system-mips -kernel /tftboot/192.168.0.1/vmlinux.bin -m 16 -nographic (qemu) mips_r4k_init: start mips_r4k_init: load BIOS '/usr/local/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin' size 131072 qemu: could not load MIPS bios '/usr/local/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin' [ralf@box qemu]$
There currently is no MIPS BIOS file for Qemu. However if passed a -kernel argument qemu will not call the firmware at all, so this does no harm at all. Therefore, a command such as
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin bs=1024 count=128
will generate a firmware file that will do the job for now.
In 2004, I successfully compiled QEMU on a SGI machine, using a patch found here:
I hope this patch could merge into the new qemu release. Thanks! -- Tinybit <tinybit at tom dot com>
See also
- The Qemu homepage at http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu.
Originally authored by French wizzard Fabrice Bellard, Jocelyn Mayer did add support for MIPS as a target, others are now trying to complete the project.


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Supermarket Fails [Pics]
My first real job job that I showed up regularly to was at a supermarket, so these fails hit close to home. In fact I can't help but think that some of these were done on purpose for the amusement of some disgruntled bag boy. Check them out.


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I will remember that one. LOLYou can still look good in long-johns trust me. Long as they are tight, LOL.
I would love to trashtalk but the cowboys despite their talent have played sloppy, penalty ridden games all year. Very few times does it appear Wade has had this team ready to play. Injuries have been a killer...but that's all part of the game. It's resting on Romo this week....and the reality is the cowboys have to play like they want it and they certainly need it.
This is one of my favorite rivalries. Two of the most storied, winning franchises that together have brought football fans three of the better Superbowls ever played. If this game doesn't get the blood pumping, better check the pulse. You might be dead. Regardless of the Cowboys struggles this season they are still a dangerous team and this game should be a great one. Cowboys are second in the league behind the Steelers in sacks and we have had some protection issues this year. To say I am a little concerned about lard-*** Max Starks protecting Ben's blindside against Demarcus Ware is an understatement. The winner of that matchup could decide the game.
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"Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in or you're out."-Pat Riley
This game will be the most interesting game of our season I think. Romo gets skittish if he gets pressure and throws his share of picks. But if our secondary isn't 100% and charged up, we'll see the score quickly get out of range to win. Very interesting game.
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil... For I am the meanest S.O.B. in the valley.
I always look forward to games where I have friends coming over to cheer on their team. This week its my little buddy from work. He's young but pretty knowledgeable about the game. When he bashed the prevent Def, he was in...lol However, this is a match up I have always loved because of the rich history between the two teams. The rivalry is great, and the games are always good ones. This is the first between Ben and Romo, and it is a highly anticipated showdown. Should live up to the hype, and I hope it set a stage for maybe a SB showdown sometime in the future between the two QB.
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STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — With housing demand driving rents and prices up in some areas of Massachusetts, all manner of construction could serve to relieve the pressure, according to an affordable housing developer in Somerville.
"There is such pent-up demand in a place like Somerville that simply building housing at all levels will help," said Somerville Community Corporation Executive CEO Danny LeBlanc, during a lobby day for affordable housing proponents. He told the News Service, "My work is on the affordable side, but developers wouldn't be building luxury condos if there weren't people to buy them and my general feeling is if we don't build new housing for that segment of the population, they're simply going to be seeking to buy existing housing, which will bid those prices up."
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At the top of its spending priorities, CHAPA is seeking $87.5 million for the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program, which they say will increase the number of housing vouchers by 2,000 from the roughly 7,000 vouchers in circulation. Gov. Deval Patrick level-funded MRVP at $57.5 million in his budget recommendation unveiled last week and currently being reviewed by a House committee.
Rep. Antonio Cabral, of New Bedford, and Sen. Benjamin Downing, of Pittsfield, wrote to legislative leadership in January, asking for funding to recapitalize the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund, which finances the cleanup of contaminated properties.
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"At all levels of housing, we're not building it fast enough. And that runs from private market-rate unsubsidized housing all the way down to housing for homeless families," LeBlanc said.
The homeless shelters that help the state meet its mandate to provide shelter to those in need have long been overcrowded, making it difficult to find a place for a homeless person in need, Alston-Follansbee said.
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In his State of the Commonwealth address Tuesday night, Gov. Patrick said multi-family housing starts have tripled in Massachusetts and described commercial development as "on the rebound."


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Murder in the Abstract takes place in the museum and gallery worlds of San Francisco and Santa Fe—locations can be a good enough reason to read a book. Susan C. Shea worked in fundraising for education and arts organizations before turning her talents to writing fiction so she gets the role of development director for a museum just right. There is some product name-dropping at the start, to create bona fides for a wealthy milieu, I suppose. That is such a tired tactic that it stands out. But events and motives quickly overtake the ads and a suicide at an art museum exhibit opening moves front and center.
The suicide is really a homicide—an artist who pitched himself, or was pushed, from the fifth floor window of the museum's development director. She is flabbergasted and freaked out—apparently the artist had a letter, signed by her and on museum stationery, inviting him to meet her in her office. OK, she didn't send it but Dani O'Rourke has history with the splattered artist. Their brief relationship ended in a very public disagreement and now she is a suspect. She gives a first-person account of events–the voice is competently managed. And the cast is studded with artists, museum directors, collectors, gallery owners and cute cops. Hmmm.
Dani's ex (husband, not the now-abstract boyfriend) is a charming and exceptionally wealthy playboy who can't resist coming to her rescue, invited or not. Her best friend is an artist who is somehow endangered by events and nearly ends up dead herself. A development assistant is too flirtatious and invites suspicion. Dani's boss, the museum director, owns a very risky secret. A collusion to hoard and market a new kind of forgery shadows events from the background as Dani takes a break from tense doings in San Francisco and steps into a lethal mix of treacherous media in charming Santa Fe. Museums are not sanctuaries in this mystery and galleries are perilous repositories of experimental paintings and unsentimental perps.
Murder in the Abstract is really a lot of fun. People do die—not the amusing parts—but the heroine's voice is a kind of sophisticated Bridget Jones Diary persona and the tension is pretty low-key. The art world is ripe for cruising and the insider knowledge about nefarious collecting practices adds to the appeal. The book was a fast, light read and a reprieve from the longer daily volumes that inevitably cost me sleep. I need to look for a few more of those to vary this marathon. I'd read another book by Susan Shea, if she sticks to the volatile intersection of greed and art with all the trappings to lure an armchair voyeur.
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Melanie Rockwell was 19 when she donned the white dress and walked down the aisle, revelling in the day she'd been planning for since she was a little girl. Even though there was some doubt in her mind that the man standing beside her at the altar really was her soulmate, she vowed to stick with him for better or worse, in sickness and in health, till death do them part.
Seventeen years later — some good, most bad — her marriage was over.
Rockwell is not alone. If statistics are anything to go by, four out of every 10 couples who marry in Canada today will be separated not by death but by that other dreaded d-word: divorce.
In an effort to help those tying the knot in the coming months avoid such a fate, The Sun embarked upon a highly unscientific study of what kills marriages. We spoke to academics and counsellors, and men and women who have themselves been through a divorce.
Infidelity didn't figure highly in our top-10 list of marriage killers. Neither did financial differences.
While every marriage, and every divorce, is unique, there is some consensus about the biggest marriage killers out there. Our research suggests one of the biggest may in fact be the people sitting in the pews when the wedding march strikes up.
1. In-laws and outlaws
Interference in the relationship by extended family members was the most frequently occurring theme in our discussions with divorcees on what breaks up marriages.
According to Vancouver-based relationship counsellor John Boland, this is not simply a case of shifting the blame for the demise of the marriage onto someone else's shoulders.
"It's huge," he said. "I think extended families can make it very difficult to stay happily married together."
For a marriage to work, Boland said, the loyalty has to be to the couplehood and not to the extended family.
"But that's really hard for a lot of people, especially when mother-in-laws or father-in-laws or other family members are undermining the marital relationship."
The unsolicited involvement of friends and family was a factor in the divorce of Surrey-based rodeo announcer and building contractor Rod MacBeth. MacBeth's professions took him out of town for days at a time and his ex-wife's parents didn't approve of it, he said. This put a strain on their relationship.
"Her parents didn't agree with what I did, but they're still great people," he said. "People tend to listen to what other people think. I like to think I'm my own person and can make my own way, but not everybody's like that."
The over-involvement of extended family is also something Rockwell said she has seen put a heavy strain on the marriages of her friends.
"It's manipulative, it's premeditated and it's causing all kinds of ripples because if you love somebody and you care about them, you don't like to see them hurt. Family ... kind of feel like they have that right to kind of walk all over you, and your spouse is standing there like 'Are you kidding me with this?' "
2. Under pressure
Pressure from family, or society in general, can also influence the decision to tie the knot in the first place — leading some to get married not because they're in love, but because it was what was expected of them.
Marrying the wrong person out of a sense of expectation or obligation was something all members of our informal focus group identified as a contributing, but not decisive, factor in their breakups.
Boland, however, said this may be something of a red herring.
"There is no magical right person," Boland said. "There's always work to do in any relationship, whether you get married at 18 or at 45, there's always ways of growing and maturing together and working through your issues. Or not."
MacBeth held off getting married until he was in his 40s, eventually taking the plunge when he met someone whose company he enjoyed. "It just seemed like the right thing to do at the time," he said.
MacBeth emphasized that the decision was his own, but says he was to some extent influenced by what his family had done in the past.
"I was looking at what my grandparents and my parents did," he said. "I felt like that was the way things were supposed to be and now I have come to realize that I really don't think marriage is necessary."
The expectations of family and community in small-town England weighed heavily on Derek Spragg when he married in 1962 at age 25.
"When I got married, it was sort of the 'done' thing to do. You didn't ... question it," said Spragg. "Your role in life was to find yourself a girl and get married, have babies."
In those days, Spragg said, it really was till death do you part. Divorce was not on the radar — he was brought up to believe that you worked at marriage until you solved the problem.
Cultural and familial expectations may also have been indirectly responsible for the demise of Spragg's marriage.
The couple lived with Spragg's parents initially, something "nobody should do," he cautioned. He found himself in the middle of conflicts between his mother and his wife, but the living arrangement was necessary to save money to leave the country.
"I'd reached an age where I just had to get away from other people's expectations," he explained.
Twenty years later, in the 1980s, Rockwell was coping with many of the same expectations.
"There wasn't really any question in my family that I was going to get married, it was just a matter of who," she said. "It was expected, it was just a given. It wasn't really even discussed."
Rockwell, now 48, said she married her husband at 19 because "I felt that's what I was supposed to be doing."
In hindsight, she said, "I never would have married the man I married, to be perfectly honest, and I knew that at the time. I knew it on the day of the wedding."
3. Failure to grow
Rockwell does not, however, blame the demise of her marriage on a vague sense of familial expectation. She chalks it up to something much more basic: a lack of intimacy.
"There wasn't this connection that will keep you through the years, because we change," she said.
Women, in particular, change immensely throughout their 20s, Rockwell said, and in ways that are difficult to predict. Sometimes that change means people grow apart.
In Love in the Present Tense, relationship counsellors Morrie and Arleah Shechtman argue that one of the most common marriage killers is the failure of one or both partners to grow as a person. "If your partner doesn't grow, then he becomes boring to you. If you don't grow, then you become boring to yourself."
The Shechtmans emphasize it is essential for couples to share common core values. One of the most important of these, they say, is a mutual commitment to personal growth.
4. Lack of connection
Constant bickering is one thing that can chip away at the intimacy at the heart of a healthy marriage, Boland said.
"If you're having a lot of conflict about anything, whether it's who cleans the bathroom or who takes care of the kids, that might not be the reason why people are saying they're divorcing, but it kind of undermines the connection, the glue that keeps people together."
This is why, for a marriage to be successful, couples need some kind of common interest — a fun activity both enjoy doing — to keep them connected on a level that transcends the kids, the bills and the household, Rockwell observed.
"If you're not both interested in some sort of similar push, you're going to drift, it's going to fade, and nothing will hold you together," she said.
As important as having some common interests is, however, partners should not try to mould the other person to themselves, expecting them to have all the same interests, said Boland. Partners can be quite different and still have a secure and long relationship.
Rockwell expressed the same sentiment another way: "Don't make your boyfriend or your husband into your girlfriend. Biggest mistake women make."
Pressuring one's partner to do things he or she is not interested in doing is a surefire way to put strain on a relationship, Rockwell said.
5. Child-centric relationships
Another common mistake is thinking a child will be the glue that keeps a relationship together.
Boland puts what he calls a "child-centred family" at the top of his list of "ways to mess up."
Parents allow their own relationship to become secondary, sacrificing marital satisfaction in a misguided attempt to be there for their kids, Boland said. In doing so, they not only shortchange themselves, but also their children.
"You can't put marriage and intimacy on hold until your kid is 18," Boland says. "What you want to model for your children is a healthy mom-and-dad connection."
Rockwell, who has a son with her ex-husband, emphasized that children sense when a parent is suffering and can tell when the other parent is the cause.
"Children won't hold you together and staying together for the children is not always the best thing. Kids are a lot smarter than people give them credit for and they're sponges. They'll pick it up."
6. Wandering eyes
Another common cause of marital strife Boland comes across in his therapy work is "when everybody else starts to look better."
"It's not really a fair contest" when a person who intimately knows their partner's flaws starts fantasizing that another man or woman would be the really perfect partner, said Boland. "I see it all the time."
7. Avoiding conflict
Many couples incorrectly assume that if they're not in conflict, they must be okay, Boland said.
"But avoiding conflict can easily lead to disconnection," Boland said. "If there's tension, it's best to bring it up — to raise what's bugging you in as kind a way as possible."
8. The need to be right
But any relationship will have a much better chance if a couple doesn't succumb to another marriage destroyer identified by Boland: The need to be right.
It's not useful during times of tension to see your partner as either a "jerk," "bitch" or "idiot." Instead, Boland said, it's crucial to shift to curiosity, to wondering why an apparently trivial issue has become so huge for your partner.
The key to a good lifelong relationship is to develop a genuine interest in one's partner, he added.
9. Lack of honesty
Our informal poll of Vancouverites with first-hand experience turned up a few other potential marriage breakers.
For rodeo announcer MacBeth, it was a lack of honesty that ended his marriage; something from his past that he hadn't been completely open about with his wife.
"Once everything came out, it was a problem," he said. "You have to be totally honest no matter what you get into."
10. Location, location, location
As a man in his mid-20s desperate to escape the "boring" small-town life he saw his friends falling into, Spragg moved from England with his pregnant wife — a city girl from Manchester — to Port Alice, a logging community on the northern tip of Vancouver Island, in the late '60s.
His wife was not happy about the move.
"That gave her a lot of stress. It gave me a lot of adventure, which was what I was looking for."
The marriage lasted 16 years, but it never really recovered from that initial blow.
The physical space where a couple resides — whether that's the city, the town or even the apartment they live in — can affect the success of the relationship, Spragg said, arguing that this is of particular concern in cities such as Vancouver where high housing prices sometimes result in couples living in cramped conditions.
A one-bedroom apartment or condo is too small for couples to have the space to pursue their own interests, he said.
Having a workshop to putter about in might have gone a long way to relieving some of the tension in his marriage, he said.
MacBeth said he learned to be more supportive and affectionate as a result of his marriage.
"You have to sit down, listen, and say, 'Yeah, it's okay, I'm here for you.' You have to be ... supportive and I wasn't totally supportive in some things."
Asked whether he would ever get married again, MacBeth was indifferent. "If it happens, it happens, but if it doesn't, I don't care. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it."
Spragg said he realizes now how hard the move to Canada must have been for his wife.
"In hindsight, as an older man, they were problems that I should have understood. But I didn't ... as a younger man and there was a lot of tension in the marriage," he said. "I was certainly naive."
Given the chance to do it all over again, Spragg said he would never have married.
Spragg also noted that the sense of inevitability around getting married, so prevalent when he was a young man, no longer exists and young people today don't feel the same pressure to tie the knot. This, he says, is a good thing.
It's slightly different for women, some of whom still plan for their weddings from the time they are little girls and are subject to the ticking of the biological clock, Rockwell said.
However, there is a big difference between the university students Rockwell teaches today and her female classmates in the 1980s.
Well over half the latter group was only in school to become a doctor's wife, Rockwell said, while her current female students are almost exclusively focused on their careers. They have a deeper sense of self and are clear about who they are as individuals, a quality they will take into any relationship, she said. Or not.
"That Cinderella thing maybe has kind of been washed away a bit."
For one of Canada's leading couples therapists, Sue Johnson, formerly of the University of B.C. and now head of Ottawa's Couple and Family Institute, most couples' problems boil down to a deceptively simple factor.
The loss of that thing called "love."
In her research into the neurobiology of bonding and attachment, Johnson is among those who have concluded, even in this cynical age, that love, indeed, is the answer.
In her book, Hold Me Tight, Johnson writes: "The demise of marriage begins with a growing absence of responsive, intimate interactions."
And, more importantly, "lasting passion is entirely possible in love."
But to flourish, it needs attention, Johnson says. It requires knowing yourself, and your partner.