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I noticed that Luigi's accent dropped a hell of a lot since the first episode, this one sounded a lot like he's just adding "a" for a comedic "Oh I get it, Italians always-a speak-a like this-a" type thing.
But this series is far too good to nitpick, I love that most of the SSB characters have been giving a gritty, darkish realism. And it's funny that Luigi is standing up and being a man about this.
DDD was very well done, and so was the fight.
It was Issac from Golden Sun. He was a trophy assist in Brawl, and I checked the credits after I noticed him and it was confirmed that it was him.
i dont think samus needs an accent. if she was to have one i dont think it would go down to well
I loved the pikmin part. I also love the idea of Samus being a stripper. She needs a stronger role, by the way. In fact, all of the female characters do.
It's pretty funny with the retarded monkey mask. Also, the lack of sound effects makes it much less dramatic...
I'm just waiting to find out that its Master Hand pulling all the strings...
BUT, this is the best episode so far (4 was the worst)
And awesome dramatic twist at the end!
He wasn't disemboweled... disemboweled means that they got their heads chopped off.
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My only gripe with Brawl is that it can be difficult to make out what is being said, given how many in-jokes and obscurer references there are this can make it difficult to follow.
Lil Mac going down in the third... do I sense a reference to Pulp Fiction? Very nicely done. The character designs always get. Nice job with Dedede, Saria, Malon... everything.
Haha yea, I was thinking the same thing, They all got disemboweled!! It does not mean they got their heads chopped off, whoever wrote that must be either 5 or illiterate.
I think that Frogg was thinking Decapitated. It's OK sweetie, we love you anyway! :x
This one was the best episode so far. I loved it when Mario was knocked down and there was a sign right behind him that said "No Brawling".
Yay, good episode. I am happy, I was worried that the new episode wouldn't come out when it was late. Good job production people! You all get +1 life points.
Wow. Really great job, guys. You guys seem to be getting better and better at what you're doing here.
Let's see, this episode especially. I loved the inclusion of Saria, Malon, and all those women. That was really well done. Olimar's scene was amazing, although I'm unsure of whether that white thing in the chair was Sandbag (or Sandman or whatever) or not.
The action scene was FAR better than the previous one, with the Star Fox team. This one actually felt, well, real rather than staged.
Although, it might be nice if you had explained why Samus was there. I didn't quite catch that part.
Five out of Five Super Mushrooms.
you are thinking of decapitated
I agree. Just to clarify, I think Samus was there because she was a female pimp (I know there's a different word for that, but I can't quite remember), and Deedeedee's prostitutes were on "her" streets.
Ah, that makes sense. I can't believe I didn't think about that.
I also can't believe I haven't put you on my friend's list yet. We always seem to quote each other, yet I guess I never got around to it. Hrm.
I think the killer and kidnapper is Link (or he at least is part of it all). Look at all he is putting into play with Peach gone. We all know Zelda is his squeeze and he needs a new kingdom. Hell I think old enemies have put the past aside and Ganondorf is working with Link to cut out each others competition. Link needs the rightful legal power out of the way while Ganondorf needs the other mob bosses gone. Plus Link must really hate playing second fiddle to the Mario Bros. Plus on an unrelated note I think Link must be the most popular character to play in the Smash Brothers games.
I noticed that Samus hung back when Luigi and Pauline ran out to see Mario fight DK. She was looking towards Dee's curtain. I also seem to recall that attempts at reverse engineering her morph ball technology yielded some very messy results. She's smart, strong, and nobody seems to suspect her.
Say it ain't so, Sam...
Now, hold on, remember the cardinal rule of who-dunnits. Nobody's dead unless you see their dead body, and then only about an eighth of the time then. Just cuz we saw the big pile o' innards doesn't mean we know that ddd is dead. He could still be the killer.
So I imagine you guys can't sell a DVD because of the usage rights and all, but I was wondering about something. Would you consider giving out DVDs of the finished product to people who make a $20 donations to Child's Play or some other charity?
It would not be selling the material so (I think) you'd still be in the clear legally. It could also get the word out about this great show, and bring in more viewers. Most of all, even if only fifty people did it, that would be $1,000 of donations right there; could do some real good, y'know.
An excellent point. I still wonder why Samus was staying behind, and if she's not involved then how did she not see what happened to DDD. Foreshadowing or red herring? I guess we have to wait and see.
Also, I really want to know what Olimar made for Gannondorf.
I love this series, keep it up
Also, of all the people who could be the killer, no one has mentioned Mother Brain or the the Metroids. Eating people is what they do, plus they're sneaky and kinda hard to kill. Also, I wonder what the chances are that Crono will show up in the series.
Love this show, its so damn dark! And waleswiththunbs... i share youre problem, Samus ;P
I have to comment just to say that the DeDeDe costume was absolutely amazing. Awesome job guys!
Wow this is getting pretty sick...I can't WAIT for the episode 6 *shocked* Wow...King Dede died :( He was actually cool in this...wasn't bad as I thought he'd be wow. And Mario omg he owned XD sad though...the first part with that guy chopping up his Pikmin was so creepy...scary even
Wow, this series is doing really good. I am thoroughly impressed. Especially with Ganondorf, I love the whole young Marlon Brando style Mob Boss you're going with. Very nice and very well executed. Also, its a shame Little Mac isn't a more important Brawl character because I would love to see more of him, he does a great job with him. Can't wait to see more. I have my suspicion on who the killer is, but I would rather see it play out.
Excellent! Really interesting and great cliff-hanger.
Also Samus is hot.
Jesus Christ that was awesome. I have to say the amount of effort you guys put into the series, has really payed off! Right now I'm leaning on Ganon, being the one who's murdering every body. Remember what he said about Olimars capsules.. "Just enough to keep the others at bay." or something like that.
Well that was amazing, it really was.
OMG that was F-ING AMAZING!!!
Ok, first off great Episode you guys // This short is keep me glued to escapist // Also, I want to move to Mushroom kingdom, the women there at HOT!!!
But what is goin on with the ending, Mario has lost it and what heppened to blue break there?!?
Any chance we could ever get a big group picture of all the actors in costume? That would look awesome.
I was hoping to see Mario stomp on Donkey Kong as well as hit him with the Impact Hammer.
Any chance of that in the future? It's not only a homage but completely brutal.
Isn't there supposed to be a new episode up by now? Or is it next friday?
You can catch all past episodes here or at http://www.therewillbebrawl.com. As for the release schedule, I think it's been changed to the last Friday of every month. Episode 6 will come out in two weeks (And will be WELL worth the wait).
In the mean time, if you're a fan of the series, the Brawl crew has a forum at Anime Expo, July 3 at 8pm. So, if you're at the Expo or live in Los Angeles, come out and talk to us.
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Ah, y'all, y'all, y'all! I gotta clear this up...it's From the Cradle, and it's one of my favorite albums, ever. "Blues Before Sunrise" was the first track.
Now, as for what I'm currently listening to...I'm going back and forth between Ancient Faith Radio podcasts and streaming audio, and Southern Rock (Skynyrd, Allman bros, CCR, Marshall Tucker).
Funny...I own the Cd and still missed the title.
Today's playlist starts off with the soundtrack to "Shock Treatment", which, while having a better overall feel than Richard O'Brien's previous songwriting in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" just doesn't have the "hits" that its latter soundtrack had.I believe next in line will be the classic streetpunk album "Shock Troops" by Cock Sparrer.
Punk that early in the morning would be dangerous to my health. Does it wake you up?
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Yeah!! And how about The 1712 OvertureEbor
please explain, as I am not familiar with this performer; I am guessing it is some kind of humorous spoof-type thing? (is it the Wierd Al Yankovich of classical music?).Sounds interesting.
My ring tone...Garryowen
Substance by Joy Division
Man, that's depressing stuff.
Man, that's depressing stuff. I hope everything's OK.
They just had a baby... it's probably exhaustion.
Yeah, it's because it's soft and has a rhythmic beat. It's quite soothing, actually. The Cure, too, for similar reasons.
I figured that it was something like that. Rhythm is often soothing to newborns. Remember they're used to hearing things like the mother's heartbeat as well as other internal sounds along with the softer muffled sounds from outside.Ebor
Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes. Better be careful, though, because piano music makes me cry and I'm already a pressure tank of hormones and stress.
I'd stay away from Jim Brinkman for awhile then.
Not to alarm you, but once ours got past the first few weeks after birth, sometimes it was *loud* music that got them to sleep. Our oldest would start to get upset while riding in the car because he was tired, and it was Beethoven turned up that got him to relax and sleep. I don't know why, though it was suggested that it just stunned him. Ebor
Ebor - was your baby riding in the car and falling asleep or did you put him in the car with the purpose of getting him to fall asleep? Everyone raise your hand who has driven around for an hour trying to get the baby to go to sleep when all else fails?
Today? The classics; Stevie Ray Vaughan and The Who. "Talkin' 'bout my generation..."
I have to say that we didn't do that. The Loud Music treatment was when we were going somewhere on purpose and he would get to the "I'm-tired-but-I'm-cranky-so-I'm-NOT-going-to-just-drop-off-quietly-to-sleep" stage. Cue the loud music. It wasn't just Beethoven, though he seemed to work the best. Ebor
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Rock and debris from a landslide lie along five miles of what had been an ice-white glacier inside Glacier Bay National Park.
A massive landslide sent tons of rock and debris tumbling more than five miles down a glacier in Alaska, the National Park Service reported in an event that could be yet another sign of a warming world.
Located in a remote area of Glacier Bay National Park, the slide was so big it registered on earthquake monitors as a magnitude 3.4 event.
Officials noticed the monitor blip on June 11 but it wasn't until July 2 that a pilot passing over the site took photos that showed just how large it was, Glacier Bay National Park announced on its Facebook page.
"It's certainly the largest that we're aware of" inside the park, Glacier Bay ecologist Lewis Sharman told msnbc.com.
Larger landslides have happened over geologic time, Marten Geertsema, a natural hazards researcher for the Forest Service in nearby British Columbia, told msnbc.com, but it definitely was "one of the longest runout landslides on a glacier in Alaska and Canada in recent times."
Moreover, the force was enormous, Geertsema said. No one was present, but had anyone been there they probably "would be blown over by the air blast," he told the Associated Press.
Officials ruled out an earthquake as the trigger that caused part of the nearly 12,000-foot Lituya Mountain to give way, smothering the ice-white Johns Hopkins Glacier with dark rock and debris over an area a half-mile wide and 5.5 miles long.
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The landslide is viewed from above the Johns Hopkins Glacier.
One possibility is that thawing permafrost, which is ground that stays frozen for two more our years, caused the slide.
"We are seeing an increase in rock slides in mountain areas throughout the world because of permafrost degradation," said Geertsema.
"I don't know whether permafrost degradation played a role here, but we can be almost certain that permafrost exists on Lituya Mountain," said Geertsema, who reviewed aerial photos of the mountain and slide area. "Certainly this type of event could happen from permafrost degradation."
Many areas of mountain permafrost have been thawing in recent decades as temperatures warm, and some experts are becoming convinced that thawing is a factor in the frequency of rock slides, Geertsema said, pointing to data by Swiss scientists studying the Alps.
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The section of rock and ice that slid off Lituya Mountain is seen here. Marten Geertsema estimates it was 200 meters, or about 600 feet, wide.
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Sharman, the park ecologist, echoed that sentiment, saying he's heard from experts that "they would not be surprised" to see more such landslides inside the national park if temperatures continue to warm.
"Certainly we are seeing an increase in large landslides over the past decades," Geertsema said, citing his 2006 study that found between 1973 and 2003 the average in northern British Columbia increased from 1.3 large landslides per year to 2.3.
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Landslides like this one can also be triggered by other factors, Geertsema added, such as a combination of large snowpack and a cold spring that results in a delayed and then rapid melt.
The slide itself was miles from areas used by park visitors, most of whom see Glacier Bay by cruise ship.
"You can't see it from a boat or the bay. You've got to be up flying. And it's not on a typical flying route," park service spokesman John Quinley told Reuters. "It would have been pretty horrific if you'd been camped on the glacier."
And it won't reach the bay for a long time.
The frozen ground that covers the top of the world has been thawing rapidly over the last three decades. But there is cause for concern beyond the far north, because the carbon released from thawing permafrost could raise global temeratures even higher. NBC's Anne Thompson reports for "Changing Planet," produced by NBC Learn in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
"The landslide is approximately 12-14 miles up the glacier," the park said on its Facebook page, and the glacier itself moves material towards the bay only about 10-15 feet a day. "So this debris may not reach the face of the glacier for many years," it added.
Officials are currently trying to estimate the volume of material that fell in the slide.
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In 1958, a nearby landslide, this one above Lituya Bay and triggered by a 7.7 earthquake, created a wave hundreds of feet high that washed 1,720 feet up a narrow inlet. Two people on a fishing boat vanished and three others on land were killed.
One fishing vessel was able to ride out the wave, Geertsema noted.
"They looked below them and they could see the tops of the Sitka spruce trees way below," he said. "The other boat disappeared."
Last month's slide covered more land area than the 1958 incident, but even so it probably won't go down as the biggest one by volume in North America.
"We do not know the volume of the recent landslide on the Johns Hopkins Glacier yet, but it is unlikely to break the volume record," Rex Baum, a U.S. Geological Survey expert, told msnbc.com.
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Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid and the Columbia Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony before the plane took off. "I think this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship," McDavid said to Frontier Airlines Sales Director Andrea Tollar.
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Readers, we're hear to tell you that the 'Rock N Roll Wrestling Connection' is back, with a bit of casino fun and games thrown into the mix, both in Australia and in the USA.
'Ocean's Eleven' has been chosen as the best movie remake of all time in a recent poll.
Australia casino king James Packer, is probably going to be pleased to hear that land based casino themed movies are in vogue, since he's looking to open or take over his own Sydney, Australia casino soon. Obviously, JP won't be hoping for a casino robbery - to state the obvious. Vegas casino and hotel tycoon Steve Wynn would have caught the 'Ocean's Eleven' news no doubt. Not sure if Kevin Nash (once upon a time known as Vinnie Vegas) did. Nash, also a former leading member of the nWo is currently off the WWE wrestling roster, following a feud with Triple H.
The movie, which is based on an original 1960 film, hit screens in 2001 and went on to gross over 450 million dollars worldwide.
It sees Clooney lead an all-star cast of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts in an attempted casino robbery in Las Vegas.
Danny Ocean and his eleven accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
Clooney has been dating former WWE wrestler - diva Stacey Keibler for over 6 months and they attended the Oscars together.
Leading man Clooney was up for a Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
And despite losing out on the Best Actor accolade, Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Keibler made sure he went home with an Oscar of his own as her dress appeared to have been inspired by the statuette.
Attending her first Academy Awards on Clooney's arm, Keibler looked stunning in a gold Grecian-style Marchesa creation.
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: George Clayton Johnson (1960 story), Jack Golden Russell (1960 story)
Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis arm wrestle...
Hollywood tough guys and action heroes Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis challenged each other to an arm wrestle during a recent night out.
The actors were enjoying a meal with their respective wives when they started arguing about who was in better shape.
Stallone, 65, challenged 56-year-old Willis to an arm wrestling match and the pair then swept aside glasses, cutlery and plates to lock arms and start their fight.
Diners at nearby tables were initially stunned but as as they recognised the wrestler like actors they started cheering and Willis and Stallone grunted, groaned and wheezed for several minutes.
However, the men's wives were not impressed and asked them to "break it up", which they duly listened to.
It's understood that soon after their meal, Stallone went into hospital to have an operation on his shoulder, although it is not thought to have any link to his night out with Willis.
A Media Man agency spokesperson said "We suspect this may be another elaborate publicity stunt by Team Stallone, although we can't prove it. Stallone fans will recall that only a week ago Stallone was photographed in a hospital bed alongside long time mate Arnold Schwarzenegger, both nursing the same injury, and Arnold took a photo for the world to see. Well, as least the cast of Expendables 2 is doing well, and it seems that they sure as heck know how to promote a movie".
Action movie fans take note however that in the filming of the original Expendables WWE wrestling legend "Stone Cold" Steve Austin did break the neck of Stallone for real, or so the story goes.
Wrestling Legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper In Fancypants Movie...
Fancypants is a 2011 film directed by Joshua Russell and starring Patrick Gleason, Roddy Piper, and Robert Carradine. Featuring Nick Turturro, Richard Kind, and introducing Jackson Dunn.
It is a comedy/drama about a professional wrestler who is afraid of conflict in real life. He is nearing the end of his career and finds out he has one fan left in an 8-year old boy, who hides a secret that will change Leo's life forever. The film was shot entirely on location in Chicago.
The film won Best Feature at the 2011 Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was an official selection at the 2011 Seattle True Independent Film Festival.
Roddy Piper is also rumoured to be one of the house-mates in upcoming WWE reality TV show, 'Legends House'.
Four Canadians indicted on US gambling charges; Online Casino Royale or Ocean's Eleven...
US authorities seized the gambling website Bodog on Tuesday and announced the indictment of four Canadians on charges of illegal sports betting and money laundering, including founder Calvin Ayre.
The federal grand jury indictment of Ayre, James Philip, David Ferguson, Derrick Maloney and the Bodog Entertainment Group was unsealed in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the latest blow by US prosecutors against online gambling.
"Sports betting is illegal in Maryland, and federal law prohibits bookmakers from flouting that law simply because they are located outside the country," US Attorney Rod Rosenstein said in a statement.
"Many of the harms that underlie gambling prohibitions are exacerbated when the enterprises operate over the Internet without regulation," Rosenstein said.
US law prohibits US financial institutions from knowingly accepting payments for online gambling made through credit cards, electronic transfers and checks, but bills have been introduced in the US Congress to ease the restrictions.
In April, 11 people were charged with bank fraud, money laundering and other offenses in a crackdown on the three largest online poker companies -- Absolute Poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.
A spokeswoman for the US Attorney's Office told the press that none of the four accused Canadians is in custody but warrants have been issued for their arrests and the United States would seek their extradition.
The indictment accuses Bodog and the defendants of conducting an illegal online sports gambling business and conspiring to commit money laundering between June 2005 and January 2012.
"The defendants and their conspirators allegedly moved funds from Bodog's accounts located in Switzerland, England, Malta, Canada and elsewhere to pay winnings to gamblers, and to pay media brokers and advertisers located in the United States," the US Attorney's Office said.
"The conspirators directed payment processors to send at least $100 million by wire and by check to gamblers located in Maryland and elsewhere," it said.
Internal Revenue Service special agent Eric Hylton said "laundering money from illegal activity such as illegal Internet gambling is a crime.
"Regardless of how the money changes hands -- via cash, check, wire transfers or credit cards -- and regardless of where the money is stored -- in a United States financial institution or an offshore bank -- we will trace the funds," Hylton said.
In an affidavit supporting a seizure warrant for the Bodog.com website domain name, a former employee of Bodog was quoted as saying the gambling operation has hundreds of employees in Canada and Costa Rica.
A visitor to Bodog.com is met with a message reading "This domain name has been seized" and pictures of the official seals of the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.
In a statement on his website, Ayre, who is described by Forbes magazine as a "former billionaire," said the Bodog.com domain name has been dormant for some time.
"Not sure what to say," Ayre said. "The brand left the market last year and the domain in question has been dormant globally for longer than that."
Ayre, 50, who launched Bodog.com in 1994 and operates several other gaming websites, also said he was a victim of "abuse of the US criminal justice system for the commercial gain of large US corporations.
"It is clear that the online gaming industry is legal under international law," he said. "It is also clear that the rule of law was not allowed to slow down a rush to try to win the war of public opinion."
The gambling charges are punishable by up to five years in prison while a conviction for money laundering conspiracy can bring 20 years behind bars.
The Four Horsemen Including Ric Flair To Be Inducted Into WWE Hall Of Fame 2012; Jim Ross Tweets - 27th Feb 2012...
Ross on Ric Flair's Birthday: Happy Birthday to Ric Flair. Naitch called me this past week to catch up. He's got a great opportunity with Coca Cola's energy drink along with his state lottery work. I went on You Tube and checked out Ric's TV commercials for the lotteries he promotes and they were hilarious.
Some of my fondest memories in the business involve Ric Flair and I'm so blessed to have been able to broadcast not only many Ric Flair bout but @ShawnMichaels bouts over the years, too as they are widely considered the two, best, all around pro wrestlers ever. That's a debate that will rage on until the end of time but no one can intelligently say that Naitch and HBK aren't on an abbreviated list of the best ever.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Continues His Journey Towards WrestleMania Match With John Cena...
Never before, never again, reads the tagline for this WrestleMania match of the decade (if not century).
One one side of the ring is wrestler, turned Hollywood movie megastar, Johnson, and on the other side, wrestler - rapper (and occasional actor, John Cena).
In old school terms, there is a lot of "heat" between the two, or at least that's what the WWE storyline would have you believe.
WWE head honcho Vince McMahon is set to make a financial killing with this with live tickets, PPV (including Australia's Foxtel - Main Event), merchandising, advertising and god knows what else.
Fruity pebbles are set to collide as Mr 'You Can't See Me' Cena wrestles with "The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment" with a lot of 'Boots To Asses" thrown in there.
WrestleMania is a bit of a triple headliner this year with CM Punk ("The Best In The World" VS Chris Jericho ("The best in the world at everything I do", then there's Daniel Bryan VS Sheamus, and how can forget The Undertaker VS Triple H, as Hunter attempts to end The Undertakers's WrestleMania winning streak inside a 'Hell In A Cell' cage match.
All up the show is pretty loaded and may actually produce one or two matches of the year, but time will tell. Before you ask, no Brock Lesnar as he's still under contract to the UFC, even though he's retired from MMA. UFC are set to invade Sydney's AllPhones Arena on the 3rd March 2012.
The live WWE RAW tour will hit Sydney, Australia on Friday 31st August 2012. And if they tour Perth, WA they will likely perform at Crown Perth (formally known as Burswood Casino or Burswood Entertainment Complex).
Something tells us that Austin will be leaving his Broken Skull Ranch in Texas to catch WrestleMania lose up, and so should you.
Oh, if you didn't hear already, The Rock stars in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which is currently breaking box office records in Australia, the US, and in most other parts of the world.
Keep checking Street Corner and the Media Man blog network for more on these developing news stories and more.
One last thing... kids, don't try this at home or anywhere else. Leave it to the professionals.
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The Wisdom of Ben Sira derives its title from the author, "Yeshua [Jesus], son of Eleazar, son of Sira" (50:27). This seems to be the earliest title of the book. The designation "Liber Ecclesiasticus," meaning "Church Book," appended to some Greek and Latin manuscripts, is perhaps due to the extensive use the church made of this book in presenting moral teaching to catechumens and to the faithful. The title "Sirach" comes from the Greek form of the author's name.
The author, a sage who lived in Jerusalem, was thoroughly imbued with love for the wisdom tradition, and also for the law, priesthood, Temple, and divine worship. As a wise and experienced observer of life he addressed himself to his contemporaries with the motive of helping them to maintain religious faith and integrity through study of the books sacred to the Jewish tradition.
The book contains numerous well-crafted maxims, grouped by affinity, and dealing with a variety of subjects such as the individual, the family, and the community in their relations with one another and with God. It treats of friendship, education, poverty and wealth, laws, religious worship, and many other matters that reflect the religious and social customs of the time.
Written in Hebrew in the early years of the second century B.C., the book was finished by ca. 175. The text was translated into Greek by the author's grandson after 117 B.C. He also wrote a foreword which contains valuable information about the book, its author, and himself as translator. Until the close of the nineteenth century the Wisdom of Ben Sira was known to Christians in translations, of which the Greek rendering was the most important. From it the Latin version was made. Between 1896 and 1900, again in 1931, and several times since 1956, incomplete manuscripts were discovered, so that more than two thirds of the book in Hebrew is available; these Hebrew texts agree substantially with the Greek. One such text, from Masada, is pre-Christian in date. The New American Bible provides a critical translation based on the evidence of all the ancient texts.
Though not included in the Jewish Bible after the first century A.D., nor, therefore, accepted by Protestants, the Wisdom of Ben Sira has been recognized by the Catholic Church as inspired and canonical. The Foreword, though not properly part of the book, is always included with it because of its antiquity and importance.
The contents of the Wisdom of Ben Sira are of a discursive nature, not easily divided into separate parts. Chapters 1–43 deal largely with moral instruction; 44:1–50:24 contain a eulogy of the heroes of Israel. There are two appendixes in which the author expresses his gratitude to God (51:1–12), and invites the unschooled to acquire true wisdom (51:13–30).
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source of some of the country's most magnificent and mysterious art
The Mekong is a river I have always feared a little—it is sea-like, sinister, inscrutable. It breeds some of the world's largest freshwater beasts: Irrawaddy dolphins, giant catfish, and stingrays. It begins in Tibet and is the earth's most productive freshwater fishery. In November, it turns into a floodplain, and as I crossed it then its waves were thick with rotting flowers and roots and knotted floating grass. Birds swooped around the boat, following it, and their nests could be seen in the tops of drowned trees. After forty minutes, a silhouette came into view as if rising out of this temporary and demented unnatural sea: the forbidding "sacred mountain" of Phnom Da, its tower black against the storm and stark in its enforced solitude.
Steps rose up steeply through still-wet jungle. At the top, the Mekong waters appeared on all sides and an imposing brick-and-stone _prasat _(the Khmer word for a tower or pagoda) stood alone in a froth of wildflowers, its walls dark rust-red and black. Beautiful carvings soared above the doorways, and the chiseled plinths were still firm and elegant. But the prasat itself was clearly empty: looted, or gutted by archaeologists—one never knows in Cambodia.
A cowherd stood with his cattle before the main doorway. As I appeared, he simply held out a casual hand and said, "One dollar"—that Khmer refrain which every traveler guiltily repels. With him was a man suffering from some kind of illness, his hands twisted and his eyes lopsided. He seemed to be in informal charge of the shrine within. They watched me silently. Inside, there was a lingam stand (an emblem of the god Shiva) with two bowls of incense sticks, now exposed to the sky: Concentric brick rectangles rose vertiginously upward to an opening through which the rain fell. The tower was engulfed in forest, intimate amid its surroundings, and inaccessible to historical knowledge. The guardian came rolling toward me on his misaligned hips, his hand outstretched.
He croaked out a greeting, which sounded like, "B'muray."
"B'muray," I said.
"No," he repeated. "You Bill Murray. You give me five dollar."
(It is true that there is a resemblance.)
For years, and especially when I lived in Phnom Penh, I had been coming to the National Museum and admiring a strange group of statues. They are kept in a gallery to one side, a little ignored, and are unlike any other in Cambodia. Dark green in color, far older than the masterpieces from Angkor Wat which otherwise crowd the museum, these huge pieces possess a style and sexual grace that seem to come from an entirely different civilization. They were discovered in the ruins of Phnom Da in 1935, by Henri Mauger, and were dated to about the sixth century A.D. In the middle was a gigantic figure of Vishnu with eight arms, his hands clutching a flame, an antelope skin, and a flask, and on either side of him two smaller figures of Rama and Balarama. To me, they were the most beautiful and imposing things in the museum, and the most emotionally appealing. And so I had always wanted to get to know the place where they had come from—the remote southern Cambodian province of Takéo. How could a site so unknown have produced art so great?
The "Phnom Da style" is the most ancient sculptural genre in what is now Cambodia. The ten-foot figure of Vishnu is carved from a single block of sandstone, and only five of his eight hands are still attached to surviving arms. But all of them are carved with finesse, the individual nails carefully delineated. Like a young pharaoh, the god wears a tall cylindrical hat and a folded loincloth. His physique, too—slender and lifelike, with wide shoulders and a little bulging belly fat below the navel—reminds one of Egyptian figures. This is the oldest known Cambodian sculpture. Even the dark-green polished, shiny surface of Vishnu seems different from the texture of later styles.
Where do these oval faces, aquiline noses, and almond-shaped eyes come from? Even the tear ducts, the pupils, and canthi of the eyes are perfectly carved. The figure of Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna, whcih stands to the right of Vishnu, is particularly moving. His left eye has been obliterated, but his gentle smile is still intact, as is the symbolic plow he carries. His figure is boyish, tilted at the hips. Rama, meanwhile, holds a tall bow and gazes down at us with a haughty gentility. As an avatar of Vishnu, he is associated with chivalry and virtue.
I knew where Phnom Da was on the map—it lies a few miles from the Vietnam border, in the Mekong floodplain. This means that in winter it turns into an island and one has to get there by boat. This was forbiddingly appealing. Since none of the Khmer temples outside the tourist circuit of Angkor Wat are well known, I was well aware that it would be more arduous than simply taking a plane to Siem Reap and staying in yet another Royal Angkor Village boutique lodge with an Anantara spa. But there are only so many times you can walk around Angkor Wat at dawn with fifty thousand Korean tourists, searching for mystical solitude. People said that the temples of Takéo were like Angkor fifty years ago, even if they were nowhere near as grand. It was, I thought, unlikely to be true, but it would be enough for me if they were merely different.
When I arrived in the port town of Takéo, the waters were so high that the longtails for hire at the jetties were almost level with the street behind them. Takéo is always a lethargic proposition: a market caked with fruit skins, a few lok-lak restaurants with nightly song and dance, a handful of wretched guesthouses with those balconies of oddly plasticated columns that Cambodians love. They were now milky-brown under storm clouds. The tops of submerged mango trees swarmed with swallows, grasses floating between them. It's about a fifty-dollar longtail ride to cross this strange landscape that does not promise hospitality. On the far side of it can be found both Phnom Da and a very different place called Angkor Borei, a village in a lagoon with some unusual remains. They lie within an area known as "the cradle of Khmer civilization."
Sixteen hundred years ago, Angkor Borei was a huge city named Vyadhapurya, the capital of a state that Chinese chroniclers of the third century A.D. called Funan. In A.D. 240, two Chinese ambassadors named Kang Tai and Zhu Ying visited the kingdom and provided a few fragmented descriptions of it. The Chinese gave the title "Fan" to the Funan kings, so their names have come down to us in Chinese forms—the founder king was known as Fan Shi Man. Funan was the first great state of Southeast Asia—and is also the least known, with much of its architecture having all but disappeared.
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As I stood there on top of Phnom Da, I recalled that Rudravarman, the last significant king of Funan, is believed to have built the temple in the sixth century. The prasat, though, is thought to date from the eleventh. It is therefore likely to be a reconstruction of an earlier original. Lower down the hill are five man-made caves filled with Shiva lingams that were used as cremation sites during Pol Pot genocide. Farther down still stands an even more haunting building, a small seventh-century temple known as Ashram Maha Rosei, or the Sanctuary of the Great Ascetic. It is considered architecturally unique in Cambodia because of its use of stone at a time when stone was not readily accessible in the region (most Khmer temples of this antiquity are brick). From Maha Rosei came a magnificent statue of Harihara, a fusion of Shiva and Vishnu, that is now a star exhibit at the Musée Guimet in Paris. But today the shrine is empty; its beauty lies in the massive size of its single inner vault and its exterior. The effect is that of a cave holding a single image of a god—such as might be used by an ascetic—and is very like the austere seventh-century temples of Sambor Prei Kuk, a hundred miles to the north. Like Prei Kuk, it is one of the few Khmer temples where you can be alone, undisturbed by a chattering tourist machinery.
One thinks of the thousands of people who gaze at the Harihara of Maha Rosei every year in Paris, and of the quiet desolation of the place where it once belonged. A less war-torn land might have been able to keep its treasures. But Cambodia is a looter's paradise, and its more obscure temples have proved easy prey because they are not guarded.
An hour later, I was in Angkor Borei. It is a very different place, soporific and outwardly plain but charmingly approached through narrow, curving waterways overgrown with jungle, where knee-high shrines and upturned boats sit inside the mangroves. These are the ancient, clearly man-made canals of Funan, as far as anyone can tell. Aerial photographs taken by the French geographer and photographer Pierre Paris in the 1930s show that there was once a vast system of these canals connecting Angkor Borei to the Mekong Delta city of Óc Eo, sixty miles away in Vietnam.
Funan, after all, was a maritime state controlling the seaborne trade between India and China that hugged the coastlines all the way between the Ganges and the Champa kingdom of Vietnam. Water was its lifeblood. The state declined in the mid sixth century—most probably because improvements in naval technology finally enabled ships to cross open ocean and so avoid Funan's tax collectors—and was absorbed into the more northerly kingdom of Zhenla. But one of its paradoxes is that its greatest art seems to have come from the very period of its terminal decline. No one knows why.
Angkor Borei retains a lost-world atmosphere from its past. The boat dropped me off at a museum on the water, next to a decomposing French mansion of moss-thickened vaults and balconies not dissimilar to some antebellum plantation house. I wandered through the rooms while the curator turned on the fans one by one. "A visitor!" his eyes seemed to cry.
"You look familiar," he said slyly. "I have seen you before."
I prepared my one dollar in my pocket, but it was never asked for. Instead, we went together through the museum.
"Have you ever heard of Funan?" he politely inquired.
"Never heard of it before."
"Cambodians never heard of it either."
He told me about the Funanese—a mysterious people, a lost people—and showed me exhibits of piled human bones from funerary sites, beautiful pottery and stone friezes depicting Vishnu. Out in the garden stood massive replicas of Funan-era Vishnu and Shiva statues (some of the originals are in Phnom Penh), but they were less interesting to me than the remains of the city walls, which are practically the only thing of brick left of ancient Vyadhapurya.
A short ride on a motodop, a hired motorbike, took me to where pieces of the massive brick and masonry walls (parts of it were damaged by the American bombing of Cambodia) stand festering in weeds, wildflowers, and damp, and are happily incorporated into the texture of village life. I thought of the Roman walls in Istanbul, which are similarly neglected and casually worked into the daily life of the city.
The University of Hawaii and the Cambodian Royal University of Fine Arts have come together in the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project to unearth more of this culture's remains, convinced that they hold the key to later Khmer culture. All over town, orchards and empty lots and backyards are quietly being dug up. The archaeologists are enticed, no doubt, by Louis Malleret's famous excavations at Óc Eo in the 1940s, during which he discovered Roman coins. Funan was where the Romans came to trade with the Chinese. It was as far east as they ever got, and maybe they also left their coins and fibulae in Angkor Borei. It's a strange thought: a Roman of the Augustan empire standing by these same canals, eating a mango.
A cultural crossroads, then. But no one knows what the people of this ancient state called themselves. Historians are not sure if they were entirely Khmer. Their writing was Sanskrit, but their enigmatic inscriptions do not refer to a vernacular tongue. What we do know is that although Funan is murkily revealed to us through the Chinese, it was Brahmin Indian emissaries who shaped its Hindu culture.
According to one legend, Funan was founded by a Brahmin prince called Kaundinya, who married a local princess named Soma, the daughter of a serpent king, or naga. To Kaundinya, it is said, the kingdom owed its Indian laws, itsSanskrit writing, and its Hindu pantheon. The Indianization of Southeast Asia— which reached its culmination in Angkor Wat—began here, in the watery landscape of the Mekong Delta.
I took my boat back to Takéo at dusk. There are few places to stay in town—ten-dollar-a-night guesthouses offering windowless cells to Khmer traveling salesmen—but I found the Meas Family Home Stay, just outside town, run by two Khmer schoolteachers, Siphen Meas and Im Mach. They gladly host Peace Corps volunteers who come here to build toilets for local farmers and the odd wandering archaeologist. Bill Murray, I discovered, had not yet sampled its charms.
It was a farm of sorts, with paddies spread around it. I spent much of the early hours awake, listening to night birds, to funereal music rolling out of the darkness, and to the demented Cambodian cockerels that begin their chorus at 1 A.M. A cacophony of pure life, of life before electricity. ("We are being hooked up to the electricity grid next week," Siphen said. "What an unprecedented event!")
Yet no one forgets here that this is a wounded land and that the wounds have not yet healed. Earlier, by candlelight, Siphen told me how the Khmer Rouge had murdered her brother back in the 1970s and that the family had discovered this fact only the week before. And so a murder in 1977 had now resurfaced to cast its shadow upon the living. It was a past that was not at all passed.
"Forty years after the event, we begin our morning. It's a strange relation to the past, don't you think?"
"Perhaps it's a denial."
"Yes, it is. This country is only just beginning to get back to its past." As with the personal past, so with the archaeological.
We sat by a large fish pool that had been carved out by a huge American bomb. The Khmer are masters of improvisation. They had also looted most of the temples that lay scattered around the province, and it was a blessing, Siphen had to admit, that so many of the sacred artworks had ended up in the Musée Guimet, thousands of miles away. Most had been spirited off to the illicit antiques stores of Bangkok and Cambodia and would never come back. Even the lintels and pieces of lathed columns had been carried away—it was like an army of nocturnal mice nibbling at an unguarded granary. Takéo, she suggested, was too poor not to loot its own heritage.
THE FOLLOWING MORNING, I took a car down to the border of Vietnam to visit one of Cambodia's most remote temples: Phnom Bayong. Route 2, which connects Takéo to Phnom Penh, takes you all the way there. The turnoff for the temple lies off a small side road near the village of Kiri Vong.
On this road, schoolgirls in navy skirts were riding their bikes, glancing down at the foreigner sweating in the heat with his can of soursop juice. Their expressions were hard to gauge. There was amusement in their distant and hesitant curiosity, as well as a subtle surprise. The grinning farmers in their pickups looked as if they were armed, and they probably were.
It's a lonely three-hour walk up to the summit of the holy hill Bayong, where the temple stands with its views of the flooded Mekong and the mountains of Vietnam. On the way, the footpath winds through towering banyan trees. Music was coming from little radios in the huts of the farmers; in a clearing, dark stones lay underfoot like the threshold of a massive gate that had been torn apart. Black-silk butterflies swarmed across the path.
A few Buddhist pilgrims still make their way up the monumental steps that lead to Phnom Bayong, but the site, like so many in Cambodia, is open and wild, unstructured by either tourism or archaeology. It feels religious in a way that a tourist temple never could, but this is also because of its setting. Unled, unguided, you are left to piece it together by yourself.
The site itself is heavily damaged, though it is thought to have been built to celebrate a victory of the kingdom of Zhenla over Funan. Halfway up to it, as I slithered along small gullies of rock and mud, tailed by black butterflies, a boy appeared out of nowhere, a kind of Khmer Huck Finn chewing a piece of grass, and suggested that I give him a dollar to avoid getting lost. Because the path was looking less and less like a path, I paid.
"Good job, you," he said grimly. "Otherwise, lost ever so long time."
Most of the temples in Takéo Province can be reached handily from Phnom Penh.
The walk to the summit proved the accuracy of this pessimism. It's little wonder no one comes here. Surrounded by cliffs and ruined walls, Phnom Bayong is reached by a near-vertical staircase and is infested with murmuring bats. The boy told me that the mountain was sacred and that Buddhist nuns were looking after the ruins. They browsed the jungle surrounding it in search of ingredients used in traditional folk medicines. If I wanted, they would paint spells on my body to protect me from illness. It would be one dollar more. I readily agreed to this and paid up, but instead of visiting the spell-writing nuns, for some reason we ended up trudging down to another little temple nearby, from where the great delta waters could also be seen, a pale-brown brightness reaching to a somberly green horizon.
Like Phnom Bayong, it was enigmatic, fragmented in some way, and on the point of disappearing into forest. The Hindu images had long ago been removed. My dollar-sucking guide explained that there were four other temples on the sacred mountain and that there was a Buddhist hermit whom I could meet. The hermit would also paint spells on my body, and they would be even more powerful than the spells painted by the nuns. It would be one dollar more. What about the nuns? I asked. The nuns had run away, he said. They were afraid of foreigners. "Can't we pay them to come back?"
"Pay? They nuns. Come to hermit."
I paid up again, but as with the nuns the Buddhist hermit could not be found, and we ended up wandering all over the mountain as the afternoon waned. No one ever painted any spells on my body, but the boy did tell me the most famous legend of Phnom Bayong, which goes something like this:
Once upon a time a king called Preah Bat Bayong Kaur lived on this mountain with his wife, Neang Sak Kra'op (meaning roughly "the lady with perfumed hair"). The nefarious King of Siam—the Thais are always the bad guys in Khmer stories—heard of her beauty and sailed to the mountain in a ship. He threw a party for the queen, and while the Khmer guests were distracted, he made off with her and never returned. Years later, her son, Dey Khley, went in search of her and happened to come across her without knowing who she was. He fell in love with his mother and married her. But when they returned to Bayong, the king recognized his former wife and sentenced his son to build twelve huge ponds. The prince, said the king, could be reincarnated only when the twelve ponds ran dry. But even today they are full of water, and so the luckless son is still waiting in the afterlife for a drought. Thus are punished even the unwitting perpetrators of royal incest.
The Cambodian countryside is filled with such myths, which are like the rumors that come out of a past that recent history has all but obliterated. This is a land of submerged memories—a secretive and wary land which is mindful that bad things can always happen again. On the way back to Phnom Penh the next day, I stopped at the magnificent Angkorian-era temple of Phnom Chisor, built in the eleventh century by King Suryavarman I of Angkor. It's the closest and most forbidding large-scale temple complex to Phnom Penh, apart from the lovely ruins of Ta Prohm on the Tonlé Bati lake. There is a kind of imperial swagger to it, a sense of overarching power. Both Ta Prohm and Phnom Chisor are more spectacular than the older Takéo temples—especially Chisor, with its superb terraces and richly carved reliefs. But now Chisor seemed to me less poignant than mysterious Phnom Da or Phnom Bayong.
Two other temples are connected to Chisor by a monumental staircase that winds its way down the side of the mountain, and the whole complex possesses a coherent splendor that Bayong cannot match. Yet Chisor feels more like what one experiences on a larger scale at Angkor. Coming down the enormous staircase, I enjoyed watching the boys playing soccer in a field of motionless cows that seemed not to notice the football flying between their legs. I was glad there weren't five thousand tour guides ready to explain what this meant.
I TOOK MY CAR back to Route 2 and on the way stumbled upon two neglected brick towers that stood at the edge of a modern shrine. They are the remains of a place called Prasat Neang Khmau, or "Black Lady" in Khmer, a tenth-century temple whose name perhaps alludes to Kali, the dark destructive goddess. I knew that from here had come two enigmatic statues that are now also in the National Museum in Phnom Penh. Like the sculptures of Phnom Da, they have fascinated me for years, and when I returned to Phnom Penh I went in to look at them. One is an equine avatar of Vishnu known as Vajimukha, a male body with a horse's head, and the other is a female divinity of some kind dressed in a fluted robe that is tied above a lustrous, smooth navel. Her head is missing, and her surface is now a dark-jade color.
They stand in the same room as the great pieces from Phnom Da, and although they are from a later century, they have the same archaic otherness about them. They are more beautiful, more human somehow than the masterpieces of Angkor that occupy the foreground of our perceptions of Cambodia. And like the place from which they were torn long ago by French experts, they are something of a quiet secret—a civilization within a civilization, waiting to be rediscovered when Cambodia can finally afford the splendid luxury of memory.


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Gears of War 3 is the last chapter of the Xbox exclusive Gears of War franchise. It follows 18 months after Gears of War 2 and sees the return of Delta Squad, with you taking the controls of Marcus Fenix. The complete game is due to land on 20 September 2011, and is set to be one of the biggest games of the year for Xbox 360.
However, this time around, Epic Games has had the chance to develop a multiplayer beta for Gears of War 3 which is open to the public.
Here comes the rub: to get access to the multiplayer beta you have to pre-order Gears of War 3 (available from Game or Gamestation) to then get the code. In addition, if you bought Bulletstorm Epic Edition you'll find you also have 1-week preview access to Team Deathmatch on the four new maps.
The beta runs from 25 April to 15 May 2011 through Xbox Live and will give you a chance to test out the multiplayer maps and the weapons, and provide feedback to Epic, as well as giving Epic the chance to test their new dedicated servers - which Rod Fergusson, GoW producer, told us would avoid some of the problems they faced with the multiplayer launch of GoW2.
But this isn't just a standalone beta testing phase. Although most of the elements of the multiplayer game are available from the off, Epic told us there will be some unlockable content - beta exclusives - which participants of the beta will be able to carry over to the full multiplayer game when it launches in September.
So you'll get a beta tester medal, but you'll also be able to unlock the Thrashball Cole version of Gus after you complete 50 beta games. Play 10 matches as Thrashball Cole in the beta and you'll have access to him in the final game.
If you've never played Gears of War then the multiplayer action is full on: full of laughs and full of action, but it is distinctly different from the sort of multiplayer action you get on the current batch of military shooters. You'll find it slower in terms of movement, but you'll often get closer to the action: melee attacks are more common than sniper multikills, and in the hours we were playing the game there were plenty of chainsaw kills.
Team Deathmatch, Capture the Leader and King of the Hill
We had a couple of hours of LAN play on the new maps of the Gears of War 3 multiplayer. There are three game modes: Team Deathmatch, Capture the Leader and King of the Hill.
Team Deathmatch in this case has a respawn limit (for us it was 15 respawns, with 5 players per team), so it isn't just about racking up kills. The aim of the respawn limit is to get the teams whittled down so you can end up in a position where you have one member of one team left, fighting against whoever remains from the other team.
As a team game, it means that the person to get the most kills isn't necessarily the hero - it could be that the one who is left at the end turns the game around for the team victory. It's a blast, and plenty of fun, but if you have problems staying alive (like we do) then you'll find you burn through your team spawns pretty quick. Just make sure you get some kills in the process.
Capture the Leader is exactly as it sounds. You have to get the enemy leader (indicated in the game) and hold on to them for 30 seconds to win the round. It's tough, because you have to get to them first, then hang-on. As soon as you grab them, the rest of his/her team will be alerted and come to stage a rescue.
It's actually a lot of fun. There is the chance for an opportunist to grab the enemy leader unsupported and then just drag him off into a corner and sit it out. As long as the rest of the team keeps the enemy team distracted/dead, victory will be yours. Yes, it's never that simple, which is what makes it so much fun.
King of the Hill (pictured above) is about capturing and holding areas of the map indicated by coloured rings. Of course, the enemy will also be trying to take areas too, so like capture the flag type modes, there is plenty of switching hands before a victorious team emerges.
Out of all the modes we spent the most time on Team Deathmatch, which will probably be the most popular, but each of the game modes has its merits and the variety will appeal to those looking for something more than just straight killing. To be fair, whichever game mode you choose, the killing comes by the bucket load in that imitable Gears of War style.
Teamwork is high on the agenda. The advantage we had playing the beta was that we were all in the same room, so we could shout at other players on the team and listen in on what the other team might be doing. A great atmosphere, but we guess that most of the time you won't get everyone in the same room at the same time - but this is laugh out loud multiplayer gaming you won't want to miss.
Sticking together as a pack has real advantages, not only giving fallen members on your team time to recover themselves, but also reviving those around you when they fall. But if you are caught on your own and five COG/Locust come racing around the corner you have very little chance of surviving.
Unless you are packing some serious firepower that is. Generally speaking you can soak up a number of shots before you are in trouble but if you happen to run into the muzzle of the sawed-off shotgun, it will obliterate you, and probably your friend too.
However, you have to be almost within touching distance for it to be effective - we got a double kill with it and given the close quarters fighting and plenty of cover that the new maps offer, we can see this weapon being a big hit. It's devilishly slow to reload, so slow that you're better firing and changing weapons if you don't evaporate your opponent with your first shot.
There are plenty of weapons, from the chainsaw-equipped Lancer and the retro Lancer tipped with a bayonet, right up to flame throwers, the heavy sniper rifle, Boomshot grenade launcher, Mulcher and so on. There are pros and cons to all the weapons - the Mulcher will pretty much cut down anything, but it takes time to spin up before it starts firing.
Maps: Thrashball, Checkout, Old Town, Trenches
The four new maps are relatively small if you compare them to the sorts of maps you find in other multiplayer shooters. The emphasis on fast-paced close quarters action means there is never really much distance to cover. Perhaps a good job as the characters aren't as swift on their feet as they are in, for example, Call of Duty or Battlefield multiplayers.
Thrashball is a disused stadium with plenty of cover that means you can have pitched (excuse the pun) battles across the middle, or run flanking manoeuvres in the passages down the wings. You also respawn in team locker rooms, so we did find ourselves pinned in by the enemy on one occasion - time for a smoke grenade and a bayonet charge for victory.
Checkout is a disused supermarket and is probably the smallest map, so you are almost always in contact with the enemy. There are also some pretty clear sight lines through the maps so you have a good idea of where the enemy is moving at all times.
Old Town (pictured above) looks like a piece of Mediterranean village with cobbled streets. It's one of the larger maps and respawning in a couple of different spots it's easy to get separated from your teammates. Hit the left shoulder button and you'll be able to see where your team is (as seen at the beginning of the video above), as well as weapons to collect. We loved this map and think it will be the preferred map for Capture the Leader and Team Deathmatch.
Trenches is a rough map with a number of dead ends and strategic high points. We only played one game of King of the Hill on this map (which it seems well suited to) so we didn't get as familiar with it as we did with the other maps. However, we did experience the sandstorm - on the sounding of the horn the visibility drops drastically and you'll have to just plunge in and take your chances - but it's a great time to break the enemy's defences.
All in all, if you're a Gears of War fan, you won't want to miss the opportunity to get some action in the multiplayer beta, so you might as well rush out and pre-order the game now to secure your place. We had a great few hours playing the game and if you've played Gears of War before, you'll be into the thick of the action in no time.


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Indonesia sentencing sets dangerous precedent
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat condemns unjust imprisonment of Ahmadi Muslim in Indonesia
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat condemns in the very strongest terms the sentencing of Mr Deden Sudjana to six months imprisonment by a District Court in Indonesia.
In February Mr Sudjana was one of the many victims of a brutal assault by a mob of over 1,000 people that shocked the entire world. During the attack 3 Ahmadi Muslims were martyred in the most vicious and brutal way imaginable.
Only 12 of the perpetrators of the February attack were charged by the police and each received very negligible sentences. On the other hand Mr Sudjana, who did nothing but defend himself, his fellow Ahmadi Muslims and their mosque has been sentenced to six months imprisonment.
The Press Secretary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Abid Khan said:
"The sentencing of Deden Sudjana to six months imprisonment is an affront to all forms of decency. It is clearly a travesty of justice. Rightly this decision has been condemned by media and human rights agencies across the world.
Let it be absolutely clear that neither Deden Sudjana nor any other Ahmadi Muslim provoked in any way the brutal assault in Banten that took place last February. That attack was caused only by the fanaticism and cruelty of over a thousand extremists determined to see the blood of innocent and peace loving Ahmadi Muslims.
This decision sets an extremely dangerous precedent, whereby the Courts have taken away the right of an Ahmadi Muslim to defend himself or his property even when faced with a violent and brutal assault, whilst on the other hand it gives a free hand to extremists to continue their wave of attacks against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Indonesia."
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat hereby seeks the release of Deden Sudjana immediately and requests the international community to take urgent notice of this case.
Furthermore, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat condemns in the strongest terms another attack on one of its mosques in South Sulawesi on Sunday.
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We all know that securing tickets to one of the annual Duke-Carolina matchups is a difficult task (particularly in the 9,000 seat Cameron Indoor Stadium), but sensing that change is indeed in the air, North Carolina state senator Eddie Goodall (R-Mecklenberg) has decided to offer his senate seat for a pair of tickets to next Wednesday's game. Channelling ousted Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich, Goodall didn't choose to reach out to Jesse Jackson, Jr.; rather, his choice of a targeted customer base was… Ebay?
See, Goodall has for some cockamamie reason put his actual senate seat, as in his chair, on Ebay. We know the economy's bad and all, but you'd think that the NC Senator's salary of $13,951 per annum would leave him in much better shape than that. Ok, probably not, but his tax and financial consulting business probably enabled him to buy the monogrammed $787.95 chair in the first place. A CBS Sportsline report that broke the story today suggests that Goodall cannot legally sell either one of his seats – physical or political – which begs the question as to what his orginal motive was here. He claims that the whole thing is an "elaborate goof," but that rings about as hollow as the assertion of yellowcake in Niger.
We'll have to wait to see what happens with the chair, but we can rest assured of one thing – Goodall may have played ball at UNC-Charlotte instead of Chapel Hill, but he's clearly no Dook fan.


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How IBM Brings the Masters to Golf Fans
The Masters Golf Tournament got under way today and will run through the weekend. While last year's tournament was overshadowed by the controversy involving whether or not IBM CEO Ginni Rometty should be granted membership at (then) all-male Augusta National — an honor generally extended to every IBM CEO before her — this year the focus appears to be more on the action on the course.
As it happens, Rometty's company, IBM, has a pretty close relationship with Augusta National and the tournament. And if you're into golf but don't have the time to watch every minute — and who does? — IBM has made it easy to keep track of it all with a pretty immersive experience, on smartphone, iPad or Web.
Naturally there are a lot of HD video highlights across all three. And on the iPad there's a lot of exclusive coverage from CBS and ESPN. There's also a live leaderboard that is intended to mirror exactly what you'd see on the course.
But it's the iPad app with the feature that everyone will remark on. There's an impressive 360-degree panoramic view of different spots on the course that takes advantage of the device's gyroscope capability. Turn it around and you can better understand from the point of view of the player you happen to be watching on TV at that moment the degree of difficulty of the shot he's trying to make.
But there's a lot more going on behind the scenes. I had a quick chat earlier this week with IBM's John Kent, a program manager who leads Big Blue's many sports sponsorship efforts. The Masters serves as a bit of a demo bed to show what IBM can do.
Sporting occasions like the Masters are by nature unpredictable. A sudden event can generate a sudden burst of activity and interest, and quickly overwhelm unprepared infrastructure. Kent said that IBM had been using its own private cloud technology to adapt to that demand as needed. "We can provision new servers within three minutes if we need to or move workloads to realign capacity; we can move it all around uninterrupted and keep things going," he told me.
Another new feature this year is IBM's favorite word: Analytics. IBM's cloud can predict, based on many different factors, when more people may be checking in on the Web, their iPads or phones, and dynamically provision resources. "It used to be we would project for ourselves, using a spreadsheet, when we'd see our peak traffic," Kent said. "If there's a lot of drama, and it can shift pretty suddenly, it drives a lot of viewers. We're ready to respond right away."