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By Josh Richman
Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 12:41 pm in same-sex marriage.

David Boies – the famed litigator who helped convince a federal judge to rule this week that California’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage as enacted by Proposition 8 of 2008 violates the U.S. Constitution – had a lot of interesting things to say at the Commonwealth Club of California last night, far more than we had room for in the paper.

Follow me after the jump for a more complete readout…

Boies said we’re a nation based on a culture of equality – at first only for a fraction of the populace, but expanded gradually over time to benefit more and more in areas of race and gender. “We have a long, long way to go in this country in many areas where discrimination continues.”

Yet LGBT rights remain the only official, state-enforced area of discrimination, he said. “The great thing about what happened yesterday is I think we took an enormous step, … an important first step in eliminating this last bastion of official, state-sponsored discrimination in this country.”

It’s fine to move toward equality at the ballot box or by legislative act, he said, but ultimately a question of individual rights can’t be decided by a majority; fundamental rights must never be put to a vote. Majority rule must be consistent with protection of everyone’s individual, fundamental rights, he said.

And when Mexico, Argentina, South Africa and Spain are ahead of the United States in recognizing and protecting such rights, he said, something is definitely wrong.

Boies recalled litigating civil rights cases in Mississippi early in his career. The best Southern judges, whether conservative Democrats or Republicans, were prepared to follow the dictates of the law even at extreme cost to their reputations or their safety. “It’s through that process that we have made enormous progress, and it’s through that process we had the decision we had yesterday.”

Boies said he and the rest of his legal team set out to prove marriage is a fundamental right; that depriving gay and lesbian citizens of that right seriously harmed them and their children; and that letting them marry couldn’t harm anyone else or undermine the institution of marriage. “We proved every one of those things,” he said, adding U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling “lays to rest in a thorough, thoughtful, careful way every one of the arguments” set out by Proposition 8’s proponents.

Even witnesses called by the proponents acknowledged during cross-examination that depriving gay and lesbian citizens of the right to marry seriously harmed them and their children, he said, “and yesterday the court found that as fact.”

Testimony under oath is “a powerful crucible for truth,” he said, yet he’s sure opponents of same-sex marriage will now attack Walker’s objectivity and conclusions.

“Activist judges are judges who do things that you don’t like,” he said, drawing laughter from the audience as he recalled his litigation of the U.S. Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election. “I remember thinking five of the justices on Bush v. Gore were activist judges.”

He urged the audience to confront anyone who attacks Walker and ask them what specifically about the decision they disagree with, what facts they find false; it’s time to move this debate out of the realm of emotion and bias and into the realm of logic and fact.

Boies said many cases he has litigated had good arguments on both sides, but “there is not, I suggest to you, something to balance here.” People are being harmed every day by this discrimination and nobody is benefiting except people who want to keep others classified as not equal, he said.

People with firmly held religious beliefs against homosexuality and same-sex marriage are entirely entitled to hold those beliefs under the First Amendment’s free exercise clause, he said, but the same amendment’s establishment clause precludes them from imposing their views on others.

Boies recalled cross-examining David Blankenhorn, one of the proponents’ witnesses, and asking him whether he believed in the American culture and ideal of equality; Blankenhorn replied that he did. Boies said he then asked if it’s inconsistent with that ideal to say gays and lesbians can’t marry, “and interestingly, he agreed with that.” And Boies said he then asked Blankenhorn whether we’d all be more American on the day after we legalize gay marriage than we were on the day before, “and much to the surprise of people on both sides, he said we would.”

“When you’re up on the witness stand, there’s no place to hide,” Boies said Thursday. “We’re all diminished when we have that kind of discrimination in our country.”

Boies paused and choked up as he finished his opening remarks, saying Wednesday’s victory belonged not to the lawyers in this case but rather to the people who’ve fought for gay and lesbian rights for so long at such high cost to themselves.

Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan moderated and aggregated questions sent up from the audience. First she asked Boies what his worst-case scenario had been, and what inspired him and his colleagues to proceed anyway.

Boies replied the worst-case scenario would be not only to lose but to lose with an opinion filled with anti-gay, anti-lesbian rhetoric that would not only close this legal avenue but could be used against other civil-rights efforts. But “we were convinced the country and the courts have moved beyond that,” he said. “We believe that this was a case that the time was right to bring, we believed we could win this case.”

They were inspired to proceed by the opportunity to make a complete trial record, which itself could influence public opinion. “This is a decision that teaches, it is a decision that explains, it is a decision that anyone who reads it, I think ,will be affected in their views.”

There aren’t many things on which he and co-counsel Ted Olson – his nemesis in the Bush v. Gore litigation, and a former U.S. Solicitor General – agree outside of this issue, Boies said, so their cooperation was symbolic in and of itself. “This is not a conservative or liberal issue, this is not a Democratic or Republican issue; this is a civil-rights issue, this is a Constitutional issue.”

Karlan asked what the other side had been thinking, and why they didn’t mount a stronger case.

Boies recalled that near the trial’s end, a spokesperson (who wasn’t a lawyer) for the proponents had accused him of trying to elevate science over religion – an accusation he basically accepted. “They had good lawyers, they had able, energetic lawyers that did the best they could to put on a case,” he said. “The problem was, there wasn’t a case to present.”

The proponents had named about six to eight expert witnesses they intended to call, and Boies’ team took video depositions from them all; some of those witnesses’ assertions ended up being so unfounded in fact that Boies’ team chose to show the video depositions at trial.

Karlan asked what Boies’ favorite moments had been at trial; he replied there had been three.

One, he said, was Olson’s strong, 30-minute rebuttal argument, composed on the fly following the proponents’ closing argument but strong enough to stir onlookers in an overflow courtroom into cheers.

The second, he said, was cross-examining Blankenhorn, who has spoken about and debated this issue all over the nation. “He’s an articulate, effective person in those forums, but as I said, the witness box is a lonely place” where it’s “hard to hide assertions that aren’t backed up with facts,” Boies said.

The third, he said, was questioning Dr. William Tam, one of the measure’s proponents. Boies said Tam’s testimony illustrated how the proponents had concentrated during the Proposition 8 campaign on people’s fear, particularly that of having students in public school taught that same-sex marriage is legal and acceptable, but at trial they concentrated on casting marriage as a framework for procreation and same-sex marriage as a danger to heterosexual marriage – neither of which was convincing. Boies said he reminded Tam of California’s history of discrimination against Asian-Americans, and Tam replied he wouldn’t want to be deprived of his own rights but that this wouldn’t change his mind about other people’s – a moment that “showed the extent to which certain views are beyond reason.”

Karlan asked whether Boies was surprised by Walkers’ ruling.

“I’m not sure I was surprised but I was certainly impressed,” Boies replied, noting armies of lawyers had litigated the case while the judge wrote the opinion with a few clerks’ aid. “He really mastered the record in a way that was awesome.”

Karlan noted Walker’s higher courts must give deference to Walker’s findings of fact, although they’ll be able to review his legal conclusions from scratch. She then asked Boies what’s next.

Boies said Walker will decide next week whether to stay his ruling pending appeal; he’s not sure what the judge will do, although the judge clearly held that the same-sex marriage ban is a serious deprivation of constitutional rights and there’s a strong judicial tendency not to stay such rulings. If Walker doesn’t issue a stay, the measure’s proponents can seek one from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Boies said if a stay is granted, he believes the 9th Circuit will expedite a ruling for the plaintiffs’ sake; if a stay isn’t granted, the appellate court will expedite a ruling for the proponents’ sake. So either way, the appellate court will want to take this up quickly, and that could mean bypassing the usual three-judge panel in favor of an “en banc,” 11-judge panel.

After that, he said, it’s on to the U.S. Supreme Court. Boies said it’s conceivable that the case could be argued to the 9th Circuit before this year’s end, get a ruling in the first half of 2011, and have it before the Supreme Court late next year.

In a case such as this, where a court has held a state law unconstitutional with a decision so broad as to have potential national effect, the U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly want to do its own review, Boies said. However, if the 9th Circuit makes a narrower ruling on the case – something particular to California, where 18,000 same-sex couples already are legally married but their peers can’t do the same, so that identically situated people are treated differently under the law – perhaps the nation’s highest court wouldn’t take it up.

Karlan noted the State of California didn’t try to defend Proposition 8’s constitutionality, and in fact filed papers agreeing with the plaintiffs. Boies said there’s some “real doubt” as to whether the measure’s proponents, who were intervening defendants in the trial court, have standing to pursue an appeal.

Karlan asked what Boies believed of the roles that Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, the presumptive swing vote on this issue; Chief Justice John Roberts; and newly confirmed and about-to-be-sworn Associate Justice Elena Kagan will play in this case.

“We are not taking any justice for granted on this issue, and we’re not giving up on any justice,” he replied. “This is a complicated issue, it’s an issue on which people have had conflicting views over the years, it’s an issue on which I hope and expect the court, when it gets this case, is going to look at the record we made.”

“If they do that, I think we ought to win every one of those justices,” he asserted. “I’m not saying we’re going to, but we’re not giving up on anybody.”

He said he thinks it’s significant that he’ll be arguing to judges of his own generation, who’ve witnessed decades of institutionalized discrimination against gays and lesbians. “What you have to do is you have to ask judges to put those cultural influences aside … but judges are taught to do that, and the best judges do.”

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    A source said that there are concerns in the PCB about the situation in Bangladesh and the growing anti-Pakistan sentiments.

    Karachi: The Pakistani cricket authorities might be maintaining a diplomatic stance on their national team's participation in the forthcoming Asia Cup and World T20 events in Bangladesh, to be held early next year, but chances of a pullout are looming large.

    A source told PTI that there are concerns in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about the situation in Bangladesh and the growing anti-Pakistan sentiments.

    "We are monitoring the situation but we are waiting to see what the International Cricket Council decides in January whether to hold the World T20 in Bangladesh in March-April or shift it somewhere else," he said.

    "If the ICC shifts the World T20 from Bangladesh then the Asia Cup (in Feb-March) will also be called off in Bangladesh and postponed for the next few months until a feasible window and host is found for the tournament," he said.

    The official said that since both events were multi-nation tournaments, the PCB would wait to see how the Asian Cricket Council and ICC react to the situation in Bangladesh.

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Aldo Moro, the forner Italian prime minister who was murdered by the Communist Red Brigades in 1978, may become beatified, the first step toward sainthood, according to the Rome Diocese.

In one of the most traumatic events of post-war Italian history, Moro, who had served as prime minister for the Christian Democratic party in two separate terms, was abducted in Rome on March 16, 1978, by the Red Brigades, who killed five of his bodyguards in the most brazen terrorist attack in Italy's bloody 1970s.

The kidnappers demanded the release of 16 of their comrades in prison.

During his disappearance, the abductors held a mock "trial" for Moro and "sentenced" him to death.

Pope Paul VI pleaded publicly for Moro’s release. The pope even offered himself to the kidnappers in exchange for Moro’s freedom.

Moro’s body was found in the trunk of a car almost two months later -- symbolically, the car was parked halfway between the Rome headquarters of the Christian Democrat Party and the Communist Party.

According to French and Italian media reports, Moro might now be considered a “martyr to the faith” since he was murdered by people with a deep hostility toward the Catholic Church. Moreover, during his 55 days as a hostage, Moro reportedly asked for a Bible and also expressed the Christian act of forgiving his kidnappers.

Moro, who came from the more progressive wing of the Christian Democrats, first became prime minister of Italy in 1963, with support from the Italian Socialist Party, and remained in power until 1968. After serving as foreign minister from 1969 to 1974, he regained the job of prime minister, which he held until 1976.

In 1976, when the Italian Communist Party gained more than one-third of the votes in a national elections Moro (now as president of the Christian Democratic party) sought to include Communists in the cabinet -- a move that was opposed by right-wing members of the Christian Democrat party, as well as by some foreign powers, including the U.S.

During his two months of captivity, Moro was permitted to write letters to friends and family, while security forces aggressively conducted a huge manhunt across the country to find him. The government (led by Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, a fellow Chridtian Democrat but of a different faction) refused to negotiate with the kidnappers.

Mario Moretti, the leader of the Red Brigades, who admitted to organizing the kidnapping and murder of Moro, was eventually sentenced to six life terms in prison. However, he was paroled in the 1990s and is allowed to work outside of prison by day, while returning at night.

The murder of Moro elicited outrage not only from Italian lawmakers and security forces, but also from other left-wing militant figures, including even Alberto Franceschini, one of the founders of the Brigades, who had already been arrested by the time Moro was kidnapped.

In the wake of Moro’s disappearance and killing, conspiracy theories have abounded, some even suggesting that the Red Brigades were not the real culprits, but rather the patsies of reactionaries who wanted Moro’s removal from Italy’s body politic.

Some conspiracy theorists have proposed that the shadowy “Gladio network” (under the direction of NATO) orchestrated Moro’s abduction and murder over fears that he was too friendly with Communists. In fact, both Franceschini and a Communist scholar named Sergio Flamigni believed Mario Moretti was a spy who secretly worked on behalf of Gladio. Some have speculated that the United States government may also have been involved. Reportedly, one month before his kidnapping, Moro met with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who warned him against bringing Communists into the Italian cabinet.

Steve Pieczenik, a former member of the U.S. State Department, said in a 2006 documentary on Moro, "We had to sacrifice Aldo Moro to maintain the stability of Italy."

However, as with the mystery surrounding the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the theories behind Moro’s murder are numerous, but the matter may never be solved.

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) -- Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said there was "clear evidence" of war crimes by Israel during its offensive in Gaza as he met International Criminal Court prosecutors on Tuesday to push for an investigation.

Malki visited The Hague shortly after Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement that rules Gaza entered a 72-hour truce mediated by Egypt in an effort to pave the way for an extended cease-fire.

Malki said the Palestinian Authority wanted to give the ICC jurisdiction to investigate alleged crimes by all sides and had discussed a timeline with prosecutors to join the court. He did not provide details.

By joining the court, the Palestinian territories would automatically open themselves up to possible investigations into crimes within their borders and could also grant jurisdiction to investigate crimes dating back to July 1, 2002, during the bloody Second Intifada.

"If it entails action committed by Palestinian groups, then we are ready to accept that," Malki said. "But nothing compares to the atrocities, the carnage, committed by Israel."

Israel and the Palestinians traded accusations of war crimes during the Israeli military onslaught into Gaza, during which Hamas kept up rocket fire into the Jewish state. Both sides defended their actions as consistent with international law.

Last week, the United Nations launched an inquiry into human rights violations and crimes alleged to have been committed by Israel during the offensive given the far higher toll of civilian deaths and destruction on the Palestinian side.

Malki, visiting the court to lobby for action against Israel over its Gaza incursion, said the Palestinians aimed to formally joint the ICC to open the legal avenue for an investigation.

"Everything that has happened in the last 28 days is clear evidence of war crimes committed by Israel, amounting to crimes against humanity," he told reporters in The Hague. "There is no difficulty for us to show or build the case. Evidence is there ... Israel is in clear violation of international law."

Israel declined public comment, but a senior Israeli official who asked not to be identified said any ICC legal action against Israel over the Gaza conflict would prompt an Israeli counter-suit at the ICC against the Palestinians.

However, as neither Israel nor the Palestinians are members of the ICC, the court has no jurisdiction over Gaza at this time. This could be granted in a U.N. Security Council resolution, but Israel's main ally, the United States, would have the power to veto any such proposal.

Israel has said it does its utmost to avoid civilian casualties in conflict with the Palestinians but has accusedHamas of putting its people in harm's way by launching rockets from within densely populated areas of Gaza.

Membership of the ICC opens countries to investigations both on their behalf and against them. Several major powers, including the United States, as well as Israel have declined not to ratify the court's founding treaty, theRome Statute, citing the possibility of politically motivated prosecutions.

The ICC, created more than a decade ago to prosecute individuals for war crimes, is a court of last resort, meaning that it will only intervene when a country is found to be unwilling or unable to carry out its own investigation.

ICC prosecutors declined to investigate allegations against Israel relating to its 2012 incursion into Gaza to counter Hamas rocket salvoes, citing the unclear status of Palestinians' quest for statehood recognition at theUnited Nations.

Gaza officials say 1,834 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in the latest Gaza war. Israel maintains that almost half of those killed were militants.

Israel has put its own death toll at 64 soldiers and three civilians.

Amnesty International appealed to the United States on Monday to halt transfers of fuel shipments to the Israeli military. It said there was mounting evidence of war crimes from both Israel and the Palestinians and an ICC investigation would be crucial in stopping the cycle of violations.

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    • plug (see also Asphyxia, mucus) 933.1
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National Center for Early Development and Learning Multistate Study of Pre-Kindergarten, 2001-2003 Clifford, Dick Bryant, Donna Burchinal, Margaret Barbarin, Oscar Early, Diane Howes, Carollee Pianta, Robert Winton, Pam academic achievement classroom environment early childhood education educational policy educational programs educationally disadvantaged funding government regulation literacy education mathematics outcome evaluation poverty prediction teacher education teacher qualifications teacher salaries teacher student relationship teaching conditions CCEERC.VI.A.6 ICPSR.V.A CCEERC.VI CCEERC.I CCEERC.II CCEERC.I.B CCEERC.VI.A

The National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL) Multi-State Study of Pre-Kindergarten examined the pre-kindergarten programs of six states: California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and Georgia. For this study, pre-kindergarten (pre-k) included center-based programs for four-year-olds that are fully or partially funded by state education agencies and that are operated in schools or under the direction of state and local education agencies.

The study had two primary purposes:

To describe the variations of experiences for children in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs in school-related settings (public schools and state-funded pre-k classrooms in community-based settings), and

To examine the relationships between variations in pre-kindergarten/kindergarten experiences and children's outcomes in early elementary school.

The study addressed six primary groups of research questions:

What is the nature and distribution of education and experience of teachers and teacher assistants in pre-k public school programs?

What is the nature and distribution of global quality and specific practices in key areas such as literacy, math, and teacher-child relationships in a diverse sample of pre-k public school programs for four-year-olds as well as in a similarly diverse sample of kindergarten classes?

How do quality and practices vary as a result of child and teacher characteristics (e.g., child gender, race, home language, family income, and teacher's years of education) and classroom, program, community, and state structural variables (e.g., teacher-child ratio, funding base of the program, teacher salary, and degree of state regulation) for children with different demographic characteristics (e.g., race, gender, home language, and family income)?

Do quality and practice vary in relation to combinations of these variables? For example, are quality and practice a function of family poverty and teacher pay or education?

Can children's outcomes at the end of their pre-kindergarten year be predicted by the children's experiences in pre-k programs? Are the various dimensions of quality and/or practice differentially related to outcomes? Are these relationships constant across a population of children with different characteristics (e.g., race, gender, home language, and family income)?

Do pre-kindergarten program quality and practices predict children's transitions to kindergarten and children's skills at the end of the kindergarten year? Are these transitions moderated by children's characteristics, like race, gender, and family income?

The six states in the study were selected based on the significant amount of resources they have committed to pre-k initiatives. States were also selected to maximize the diversity in geography, program settings (public school or community), program intensity (full day versus part day), and educational requirements for teachers. Within each state, a random sample of 40 centers/schools was selected. One classroom in each center/school was selected at random for observation, and four children in each classroom were selected for individual assessment. The children were followed from the beginning of pre-k through the end of kindergarten. In five of the six states, families were also visited in their homes.

Classroom Services and Specific Instructional Practices

Within the 40 classrooms in each participating state, carefully trained data collectors conducted classroom observations twice each year, while additional surveys were used to gather information from administrators/principals, teachers, and parents. Data were gathered on program services, (e.g., healthcare, meals, and transportation), program curriculum, teacher training and education, teachers' opinions of child development, and their instructional practices on subjects such as language, literacy, mathematics concepts, and social-emotional competencies. Data were also collected as to what types of steps were taken to aid children in their transitions from pre-k to kindergarten.

Within each participating pre-k classroom, four randomly selected children were assessed using a battery of individual instruments to measure language, literacy, mathematics, and related concept development, as well as social competence. A panel of expert reviewers aided the researchers in selecting a variety of standardized and nonstandardized assessments. The pre-k child assessments were conducted in the fall and spring of 2001-2002. The same children were followed into kindergarten and assessed in the fall and spring of 2002-2003 to examine whether specific practices employed by pre-k teachers made a difference in their transitions to kindergarten.

In individual home-based interviews, information on socio-economic, socio-cultural, and familial contexts were obtained through open-ended questions, structured ratings, and videotaped parent-child interactions. Specifically, parents were asked about (1) family life as it relates to socio-economic status and socio-cultural environment, (2) family educational practices and beliefs about the comparative roles of school and family in educating children, (3) the nature and quality of the home-school relationship, and (4) their own ratings of their children's psychological development and social competence.

Demographic information collected includes race, gender, family income, and mother's education level.

The above information pertains to the Main Child Level Public-Use Version and the Main Child Level Restricted-Use Version. From these main datasets, subsets were created at the classroom level for Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K Classroom Level Public-Use Version and Pre-K Classroom Level Restricted-Use Version) and for Kindergarten (Kindergarten Classroom Level Public-Use Version and Kindergarten Classroom Level Restricted-Use Version).

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Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010: Insights From U.S. Academic Library Directors (ICPSR 33862)

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The Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010 was an attitudinal survey of library directors at the libraries of institutions that grant degrees at the bachelor's level or higher. The survey focused on themes such as the future of the academic library, strategies library administrators are pursuing for their libraries, the management of print journal collections, the development of new digital collections, services provided to library patrons, the creation of new services to meet changing user needs, and practices for digital preservation. It also measured the attitudes of the library community towards e-books, open access, purchasing decisions, and collections management.

Series: Ithaka S R Surveys of Higher Education Series

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Long, Matthew P., and Roger C. Schonfeld. Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010: Insights From U.S. Academic Library Directors. ICPSR33862-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research[distributor], 2014-05-14. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33862.v3

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Subject Terms:   academic libraries, attitudes, digital preservation, higher education, information dissemination, information management, library collections, library services

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:

  • 2010-11-11--2010-12-02

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  • 2010-11-11--2010-12-02

Unit of Observation:   individual

Universe:   Directors of academic libraries at colleges and universities in the United States that grant bachelor's degrees or higher.

Data Types:   survey data

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Further information on this study, including the full report, may be found at the Ithaka S+R web site.

Study Purpose:   This study aims to help academic libraries and other members of the higher education community understand the changing role of the library and how to strategically adapt to an increasingly digital environment.

Time Method:   Longitudinal

Mode of Data Collection:   web-based survey

Description of Variables:   Variables include information about library and staff including position, balance of research and teaching at institutions, group memberships of libraries, library strategies, opinions and attitudes of staff, library budget, library services, and moving from print to online or electronic resources.

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United States Census Data, 1900: Public Use Sample (ICPSR 7825)

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This study was conducted under the auspices of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. It is a nationally representative sample of the population of the United States in 1900, drawn from the manuscript returns of individuals enumerated in the 1900 United States Census. Household variables include region, state and county of household, size of household, and type and ownership of dwelling. Individual variables for each household member include relationship to head of household, race, sex, age, marital status, number of children, and birthplace. Immigration variables include parents' birthplace, year of immigration and number of years in the United States. Occupation variables include occupation, coded by both the 1900 and 1950 systems, and number of months unemployed. Education variables include number of months in school, whether respondents could read or write a language, and whether they spoke English.

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Preston, Samuel H., and Robert L. Higgs. United States Census Data, 1900: Public Use Sample. ICPSR07825-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07825.v1

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Universe:   All persons residing in the United States on June 1, 1900.

Data Types:   survey data

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Sample:   National probability sample, yielding 27,069 households comprising 100,438 individuals who represent 1/760th of the total population of the United States in 1900.

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Robbie Daw / November 14, 2011

Two weeks after her very first live performance of Born This Way single “Marry The Night”, Lady Gaga has upped the ante with each subsequent appearance she’s made while singing the dramatic tune. Her latest gig was on last night’s results episode of The X Factor in the UK. Things started out typical enough, with Gaga incorporating religious imagery (she was placed inside a confessional) on the stage. But then out she popped, holding her own decapitated head. And here you thought Halloween was over! Watch the creepy performance below.

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Judge greenlights iPhone location tracking lawsuit

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Today’s a particularly bad day for Apple’s legal sharks. Just as we learned that Apple won’t be able to stop June 21 launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S III in the U.S. as it hoped it would, Reuters now reports that Apple also failed to fend off the high-profile iPhone tracking lawsuit. Though a federal judge ruled against Apple, he conspicuously let the likes of Google, AdMarval, AdMob, Flurry and Medialets off the hook…

As a result, Apple will now have to defend aganist accusations that it allowed advertisers to secretly track the activity of millions of iOS device users.

Reuters has the story:

Owners of iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches may pursue claims against Apple under two California consumer protection laws, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, said in a decision late Tuesday. Koh oversees nationwide litigation combining 19 lawsuits.

But the judge threw out claims that Apple violated customers’ privacy rights, and also threw out claims under federal laws addressing computer fraud, wiretaps, and records disclosure.

Things aren’t looking good.

Remember the firestorm following a discovery that the iPhone collects location data from users without their consent?

The plaintiffs in their lawsuit blamed Apple for letting advertisers and analytics companies gather data on users’ addresses, genders, ages, UDIDs and even app usage habits.

Steve Jobs denied publicly that Apple had ever been tracking down its users. With an iOS firmware update issued subsequently, location tracking became an opt-in feature and location history was limited to seven days.

Jobs in an alleged email wrote “we don’t track anyone” and later called Android “a probe in your pocket”. Apple also published a detailed Q&A, saying that “Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years”.

Indeed, during the unveiling of Apple’s in-house Maps solution at the WWDC keynote, iOS boss Scott Forstall made a point by saying that traffic incidents and other traffic data in Maps is crowd-sourced in real-time and anonymously gathered from other iOS users.

Be that as it may, Apple will now have to provide sound arguments in a nationwide litigation combining 19 lawsuits that it did not intentionally design iOS devices to allow third-parties to collect location data without users’ consent.

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    Every company faces a challenge, or at least should face a challenge.  Apple has been winning many of its fights so far.  It really does not make a difference if they lose one, or a few.  Their main focus is innovation and future of the company and its products.

  • http://twitter.com/workaholocaust Michael

    I’m glad they didn’t win that injunction because I pre-ordered my GS3 this past Sunday. I will still hold on to my iPhone 4 and I’m a fan of technology as a whole, not one or the other. After 3 years I am no longer impressed, at this time, with the direction in which Apple is going. That may or may not change.

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        Your SG3 needs to teach you how to spell..

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        LOL. I present you with the “most awesome comment of the year” award! :)

    • Ernesto Carrillo

      Well sell me ur iphone 4. Im an apple fan an im not changing until apple goes bankrupt…. Well u figure out when that is. Maybe u can google that on ur sg3. Lol

      • http://twitter.com/workaholocaust Michael

        I’m not selling it to anyone. I’ll still use it just not as a phone. I don’t understand why it is so hard for people to enjoy tech as a whole and not just bash other companies and each other. I have a Nokia too. Should I turn myself in?

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A study published in Clinical Interventions in Aging shows that citicoline, a nutrient found in every cell of the human body, may improve mild vascular cognitive impairment in elderly people who experience everyday lapses in memory.

The study, conducted by multiple health centers in Italy, included 349 patients with a mean age of 79.9. Participants who complained of memory lapses, but showed no signs of brain damage or Alzheimer’s, were given 500 mg of citicoline, produced by Kyowa Hakko Bio. The participants’ memory was tested at three, six, and nine months, and then compared to tests given to a control group taking no supplements.

Each group was given a series of questions called the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). Healthcare professionals use the MMSE common test to help diagnose and assess the progression and severity of memory problems. The researchers found a “significant difference” between the study and control groups at both three and six months. The control group MMSE scores declined significantly, while the citicoline group remained at baseline. This difference is an indicator that citicoline has neuroprotective effects. Participants taking citicoline also reported no adverse side effects.


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This week's hot N64-themed computer wallpapers: 3DO's Army Men: Sarge's Heroes.

Are you still staring at that boring old Windows background -- or is that happy Mac OS face smiling back at you in all its purple glory? IGN64 thinks it's time for a change.

Every week, we will present you with a different desktop pattern/wallpaper, based on popular upcoming and released Nintendo 64 games. To set the image as your desktop background, follow these instructions:

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Download the picture of choice to a directory on your harddrive. Access the Apple Menu, select Control Panel, Desktop Pictures. Simply drag the image icon onto the Desktop Pictures field and hit "Set Desktop."

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Open the image file of your choice and wait till your browser stops loading. Right-click the image with your mouse and select "Set As Wallpaper" from the menu.

Today's images: Army Men: Sarge's Heroes

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Ok guys so this blog isn't part of my Caddy Girls blog series-which will return next week, I've been putting this blog off since November when I shot this and now obviously is the time :)

This week's special model is Stephanie B. she is being featured in a spread in this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine (on shelves on V-Day). She apparently won the Kru 82 vodka competition which gave her this great honor. Out of all the models I've ever worked with (lost count a long time ago) she is definitely on my top 3 list-not only because her amazing looks & curves, or had to apply very little photoshop, or the great pics we got; but because she was just a blast to shoot with!

Shot on my D7000 with my 24-70mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.4, and 35mm f/1.8 at my favorite beach-actually going to do a shoot this weekend there-Dania Beach, FL

These three pics were my favorite from the shoot!

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Have a great Valentine's Day! Next week will be part 2 of my Caddy Girls Series & as always more to come :)

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Achievement Roadmap

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Here is a handy guide to finding all of the achievements in the game.

Story-Specific Achievements

These achievements will be earned simply by playing the game. Theoretically, you could beat the game without hitting the level-specific ones at the end, but it would be almost impossible to beat the game under level 25.

Class-Specific Achievements

These are all tied to different Classes. While Maya and Axton's are fairly easy, Zer0 requires leveling up to unlock the Many Must Fall skill in the Bloodshed tree to earn. The same is true for Salvadore, but with a focus on the skills Last Longer and Yippie Ki Yay in the Rampage skill tree.

Side-Quest Related Achievements

These all are tied to Side Quests. some involve completing specific quests, and others are about the quantity of quests.

Discovery-related Achievements

These achievements are all related to discovering of Locations in Pandora. To get these, simply discover the locations on the map by walking into them.

Very Easy to Unlock

These achievements are really easy to unlock, and you will probably get them just from a normal play through.

Harder to Unlock

These require more effort to unlock.

  • Capped Out...For Now
    • Reached level 50
  • Challenge Accepted
    • Completed level 1 of all non-level-specific challenges with a single character. These are the challenges that will earn you Badass Points. To view what challenges you still need to complete, look in your menu by where you use your Badass Tokens.
  • High-Flying Hurler
    • Killed a flying enemy with a thrown Tediore weapon. When reloading, aim carefully.
  • What does it mean?
    • A reference to a famous Internet video, you must first travel to The Highlands. Once there, make it up to Aggregate Acquisitions, the Hyperion compound close to Overlook. After fighting through it, wrap around up top, and walk over the bridge. Once off the bridge, there is a cliff straight ahead with a small camp that you can drop down to. Drop down, then look up at Sanctuary. .

Enemy-Specific Achievements

These achievements are specific to different Enemies.

  • Goliath, Meet David
    • Allowed a Goliath to level up four times all the way to Godliath before killing him. To let a Goliath level up, get a headshot, but do not kill the Goliath. The Goliath then must build up his rage by killing other enemies. Start in a heavily occupied area for the Goliath to have the best results.
  • Build Buster
    • Killed a Constructor without it ever building another bot.
  • Definitely An Italian Plumber
    • Killed Donkey Mong. Donkey Mong is a special Bullymong that will randomly spawn in Eridium Blight down by the entrance to Ore Chasm. He throws exploding barrels. If underleveled, use a vehicle to help you out.
  • Cute Loot
    • Kill a Chubby. Chubbies are randomly spawned variants on Midgets, Rakk, Skags, Spiderants, Stalkers, or Varkid.

Multi-Player Dependent Achievements

To get this achievement, you must be playing in a co-op game with someone from your friends list.

  • Friendship Rules
    • Revived someone from "Fight for Your Life!" that is on your friends list. This achievement requires having a co-op session running.

Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage Achievements

These achievements require the Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage downloadable add-on.

  • Motorhead
    • Completed all Campaign of Carnage side missions.

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FUT Rewards

So this is just a bit more of an in depth breakdown of the rewards you can unlock in FUT.

Increased Consumable Pile Size

This gives you the ability to have up to 75 consumables that your club can hold at any one time, this is a very good thing to have as if you want to have more than just contracts in your clubs pile it gives you that ability to have a little bit extra and not have to worry so much on what to keep and what to sell in your consumable list if you start to hit the original cap of 50.

FUT Coin Reward Boost

Coin reward boosts give you an additional amount of coins after you finish playing a game whether it be in seasons or tournament and that applies to both online and offline play they're nice to have as they allow you to save up for things that little bit quicker so its a recommended purchase.

FUT Extra Squad Slot

FUT extra squad slot simply gives you the ability to build another squad as although you have your main squad, people often great a subs team so when the main team's fitness levels are low they'll be rested and the other team will play. People also like to create multiple teams of just like say a full country team or full league team just for their own purposes.

FUT Increased Trade Pile Size

An increased trade pile size is a good thing to have especially if you want to make money using the auctions as it gives you the ability to sell more players at once rather than waiting for certain cards to finish their auction before you're able to put new ones up on the auction.

FUT Change Team Name

This one's quite simple when you start FUT you choose what you want the name of your club to be this simply allows you to change that name.

Increased Watch List Pile Size

Watch list pile increase is also another good one for the exact same reason as the trade pile but this time its because your able to buy more and have more in your list so you dont have to pick and choose which players to watch and bid on.

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Compound Eyes is a Pokemon Ability that increases the user's accuracy by 30% (1.3x) in battle.

Outside of battle, if a Pokemon with Compound Eyes is in the lead position of your party, you will have a higher chance of encountering a wild Pokemon holding an item.

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Tomb Raider II

Prima Fast Track Guide

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Barkhang Monastery 1

Follow the passage and enjoy the show. The monks generally make short work of the mercenaries, so save your ammo. Climb the tall ladder in front of the monastery. Jump from the ledge at the top of the ladder to the small space nearby, and from there to an upper pathway. Dispose of more crows en route to the top of the rock pile. Jump to the slope, slide, and grab the ledge below. Drop down below the slope and grab the crack, then shimmy right to a walkway near the monastery. Shoot open the window and head inside. Hang a right into the hallway.

From the hallway intersection, the left-hand route leads to the main hall. Straight ahead is the Strongroom. Duck into the first doorway on the left in the direction of the main hall, then roll and head for the Strongroom. Check the ledge outside for Grenades. Double back toward the main hall and head through the first doorway on the left. Climb the tall ladder. Up above the main hall, take the Main Hall Key from the small platform.

Continue along the upper pathway to the right of the huge statue. Drop down from the end of the upper walkway and watch out for the boulder that rolls down the sloped hall. Where the first hallway intersects another, expect more boulder trouble. Hang a left and head up the passage.

The small blue pool has a strong current. Swim low along the wall to the right. It takes some time reach the underwater opening. Follow the path and drop to the water far below. Pop a Flare, and roll through the bladed doors. Climb up the ladder. When you enter the antechamber, another bad guy appears inside. When the second thug finds the floor, jump over the inoperative fixtures, and claim the first Prayer Wheel.

When you take the Prayer Wheel, the burners come to life. Jump between them to make your escape. In the outer room, move the boxes aside to reveal a passage in the wall. Backtrack toward the main hall. Follow the walkway back through the main hall. Insert the Main Hall Key into the lock near the large double doors and venture inside.

Head straight for the large statue and a fight breaks out behind you. On one side of the main hall is a pair of passages. Check the hallway on the right. Run and jump over the blade in the right-hand hallway, and enter the room on the left. Gather the Strongroom Key, and jump back over the single blade in the hall. Head back through the main hall toward the Strongroom.

In the Strongroom is nothing but the Rooftops Key. Pick it up. Head back toward the main hall and check the doorway where the blades roll back and forth. Go inside. Hug the left-hand wall to the corner of the room and time your run toward the Rooftops Key Door. Follow the passage beyond. Stand and jump forward over the burners until you reach the intersection. Head down into the open area on the left, angling toward the opening on the left. Round the corner to the left.

Throw the switch on the pillar and drop down to the area below. Blow open the glass case and take the two Gemstones. Throw the switch and climb back to the upper area. Return to the hallway, and take a left. Farther down the burner hall, place one of the Gemstones in the fixture. The huge golden door slides inward. Go inside the small chamber, and pull out the box on the left. Behind the box is a second Prayer Wheel. Grab it and head back to the main hall.

Barkhang Monastery 2

Back in the main hall, investigate the passages on the left. Climb the tall ladder up to a level near the hands of the huge statue. Run, jump, and grab the upturned palm of the statue from the ledge above the tall ladder. Now climb up the hand with the burner, and run, jump, and grab the top of the statue's head. Cross over the head, then jump and grab from the hand to the niche. Place the second Gemstone in the fixture high above the main hall, and a trapdoor opens below the statue. Run and jump back to the statue, and slide down its front.

Down the wide hallway near the base of the statue, enter the doorway on the right. Inside you'll find boxes and barrels. Follow the dim passage past the barrels. In the narrow passage, run into the pit and grab the ladder to make it safely across. In the interconnecting hallways, head up the stairs and shoot open the window as mercenaries close in from behind. Bail out the window.

In the courtyard below, throw the switch on the wall and the monks run off to take care of business. Throw the switch again to close the door behind them. Climb the series of tall ladders leading up from the large courtyard. In the upper chamber is the third Prayer Wheel. Take it and return to the courtyard far below.

Back across the ladder pit, return to the broad passage and look to the right. Head all the way to the end of the hall and duck inside the narrower passage on the left. Through the narrower passage at the end of the wide hall waits an impressive gauntlet. The burner will be extinguished if you walk slowly forward. Sticking close to one wall, run forward as the spiked obstacle begins to swing away. You may take a nick, but you'll drop into a safe hall.

Climb out of the lower passage back in the direction of the swinging obstacle. Climb out of the second safe lower passage to the area beside the rolling blade. Run past the last blade and grab up the Trapdoor Key. Backtrack to the huge statue in the main hall. Enter the chamber below the huge statue and drop through the trapdoor that opened. Follow the passage beneath the statue. In the small pump room, throw the switch to open the door nearby.

Through the open door, jump over the slope on the left and push the box, cutting off the water flow. Double back through the pump room, and slide down the slope to the dry chamber. Push the box aside and take the fourth Prayer Wheel. The Trapdoor Key goes in the lock in the main hall. Drop down into the area below.

In the area below the unlocked trapdoor, loop to the left and throw the switch on the wall. When the battle concludes, check the path in the opposite direction. Follow the path through the rocks and look for a hole in the wall where it terminates. Climb the ladder to the walkway above. Approach the bridge along the upper pathway with caution. Roll just inside the rock opening leading to the bridge. Approach the bridge with the M-16 at the ready, and punish the criminal that appears.

Jump from the rock ledges to grab the roof of the building, and drop through the opening there. Take the fifth and final Prayer Wheel from inside the building. Backtrack all the way to the huge statue. There's an open room to the left of the statue's base. Place all five of the Prayer Wheels in the fixtures around the room, and the huge double doors open. Now take the Seraph that you collected at the end of "The Deck," and place it on the huge golden fixture. Exit through the door that opens nearby.

Catacombs of the Talion

Stand still as the level gets underway: you'll have to avoid the stairs or risk beginning with a quick death. Drop off the stairs to one side, and watch out for the second set of lethal icicles en route to the doorway. Shimmy right, and pull up on top of the ledge where space permits. Behind the ledge are a pack of Flares. Use the crack to shimmy back to the flat spot above the ledge, and look down the ladder. Climb down the ladder until the yeti is freaking out directly below Lara. Use the jump command to backflip from the ladder, and apply the Uzis liberally.

The switch in the lower chamber opens a door across the steep slope. Climb the ladder back up. Slide down the slope, and jump from the very bottom to grab the distant walkway. A blue pool dominates the large adjacent chamber. The object is to get the mask out of the cage on the left. Take the stairway down and get those Uzis out. As you reach the last step you run into an ambush. Kill them all. Gather the Uzi clips and Large Medi Pack from near the bodies, then jump over beneath the ledge.

Walk forward up the slope. The boulders are released from above. Jump backward. Lara should land safely on the ledge with the mask in the cage. Drop down to the slope, and then down to the floor of the room. Drop down to the slope, and then down to the floor of the room. Climb the ledge near the entrance to the hallway. Run and jump across the room to the ledges there. Run down the collapsible plank until Lara hits the wall, then jump and grab the ladder. Climb to the very top. Jump from the top of the ladder, and Lara backflips to the ledge. Throw the switch to open the cage.

Slide down the slope, and use the backflip trick to reach the Tibetan Mask. When you reach it, the blue pool drains. Hang and drop down into the passage below the pool, and use a Flare to make sure you don't fall into the pit. Follow the hallway. Place the Tibetan Mask in the fixture and the gate rises. Put away those guns and proceed with extreme caution beyond the gate. Hang a left just through the gate, and use the forward and action commands to climb the wall ahead of the avalanche. Now whip out those guns and begin putting a serious downward trend in the local cat population. You'll need to use the Uzis to kill them all quickly.

Climb to the low left side of the stairway, and jump and grab to the ledge. Drop down into the area beyond the wall. Watch your back when you go to check the icy pool. As you step onto the icy surface, more felines roll in from the pointed passage. Keep those guns handy and explore through the pointed passage, ready to backflip and open fire. In the dark pool behind a snowcapped pillar is a second Tibetan Mask. Backtrack with the second Tibetan Mask past the huge doors and around the corner to the right. Beside the closed door is the fixture for the second Tibetan Mask.

Inside the huge dark chamber, hug the left-hand wall. Jump across the small gaps to reach the switch that opens the cages. Open fire with the Pistols, then bail off when they get close and open fire again. Stay mobile in the large area.

Throwing the switch also raises small gates, allowing access to a dark antechamber. Pull the movable block over and shove it beneath a gate, like so. Throw the switch to open a door back above the icy pool. Backtrack with extreme caution. Outside the room of yeti cages, several mercenaries stage a merciless ambush from the left. Lob five or six Grenades into the crowd from a distance.

Up the ledge past the huge doors, a long suspension bridge arcs up toward a waiting avalanche. Run through the opening across the second bridge and hang a hard left. There's a small ledge just to the left inside the opening where Lara can stand to avoid the storm. Continue to the ledge above. Run, jump, and grab from the upper area to the nearby ladder, then climb to the upper chamber. You have to drop in the pool, but you'll want to exit immediately. Shoot the fish. Then, stand in the right-hand side of the opening in the wall. Wade and climb ashore on the right near the wall.

Swim and climb ashore on the small white ledge between this cove and the next area. From the ledge along the right-hand wall, you can see through into another cavern. Walk forward to the edge, then turn around and look up. Climb the ladder to the chamber above. You'll see a sliding slope on each side of the top of the ladder and a statuette in a small room. Move to the far left at the top of the ladder and drop. Use the jump command as Lara falls, and hold it until Lara can safely slide to a stop. Claim the Jade Dragon.

Jump to grab the ladder, and swim to the block near the door. Climb up on the block, and run and jump to grab the very bottom of the distant ladder. Climb to the upper right corner of the ladder and use the jump command to backflip. Throw the switch on the ledge to open the door below. Drop to the water away from the door, avoiding the block.

Look to the left as you enter the new area. Throw the switch on the small pillar and turn left on the outside ledge. Drop from that corner. The switch on the small pillar opens the huge doors. Jump across to the ledge above the pit. Run and jump across the pit, then snipe the mess of kitties from above. Then drop in the hole. Roll when you hit the switch. Clean house, and backtrack across the pit above.

Stand at the base of the narrow slope. Jump forward at the bottom of the slope, then jump again as you slide. Bail off to the left. The snowballs knock open an adjacent chamber. Inside, you'll use the right-hand pad to open the level exit. Roll on the pressure pad, then run and jump back over the snowballs. Jump back to the ledge of the nearby open door and run straight across the room.

The door to the exit hall stays open only a short time, so you have to run. But there's a deep hole just inside the door, so you have to be prepared to jump it. Jump and grab the ladder from just inside the timed door, and climb down to the passage far below. Follow the corridor to exit the level.

Ice Palace

Shoot the bell in the small chamber, and the door opens. Be careful going near the wooden springboards. You'll see a double-wide pad in the direction of a gate and a single to the right. Avoid them for now and loop around the corner to the right. Run onto the small springboard in the wide dead-end hall, and Lara pops through a hole in the ceiling into the upper area. Back on the floor, run toward the bell and onto the small pad.

Shooting the bell opens the first of two large black gates below. Run onto the double-wide pad in the direction of the remaining gate, and lean forward to land on a high ledge. On the high ledge, check the drop to the ledge just below. Hit the switch to release the yetis. You want to drop down a single level to do battle. Chip away at the Yeti with the Pistols, dropping to the floor when they get too close.

Return to the second tier via the stairs and check the hallway that opened up when the yeti cage fell. Check the far end of the barred passage, where it turns to the right, and a yeti comes out in a disturbing hurry. Hop backward and apply the Uzis. In the small chamber upstairs, throw the switch to open the shutters nearby. Backtrack down the barred passage. On the floor outside the remaining black gate, run onto the small springboard in the direction of the open shutters above. Lean forward to land safely. On top of the shutter, hop and shoot the bell. The second black gate opens.

Jump to the slope above the gateway, and grab the edge to drop safely to the floor. Run onto the pad in the direction of the right-hand wall, and use the action button as Lara soars high into the air. You can grab the edge, but the slope above is too steep to stand on. Pull up, and jump immediately. Keep jumping back and forth, and lean to the right. At the far end of the sloping space is another bell to shoot. Get out those Pistols and do the deed, then lean to the left, back the way you came. Just keep leaning left and eventually you'll reach a flat ledge. Climb through the open gate and up the ladder to a ledge.

Run and jump from the edge of the ledge to the walkway and Lara will hit it squarely. Take out the charging yeti. Take the Flares from the block and check the yeti's tunnel. Check the short path off the safe ledge and cross the tunnel. Proceed with caution. White tigers in two waves await you at the end of the tunnel. Climb the box in the white tiger cavern and take the Tibetan Mask. Back in the yeti's tunnel, a door in the hallway near the dark path has opened.

Through the open door, drop down into the barred passage, ready for immediate action. Toss a Flare or two below to make sure Lara doesn't jump down into a spiked section of the floor. On the outside ledge are a Small Medi Pack and the fixture for the Tibetan Mask. The door to the bridge outside opens. Run and jump off to the left of the bridge and gather Flares, then run and jump back to the bridge and span the distance.

Inside the cavern, you reach a ledge high above a familiar area. You'll find a switch on the wall. Throw the switch, and molten lava melts a hole through the icy top of the pool. Expect immediate tiger trouble when you drop down to check the pool. Down in the pool that the lava melted through, pass by the gong hammer for the time being and swim through the hole in the wall. Hug the wall on the left in the new chamber. Wade up onto the shore near the wall, and avoid the icicles while chipping away at the yeti.

Return and grab the gong hammer. Quickly climb the right-hand ledge through the opening and shoot the killer fish. There are passages to the left and right up from the pool. Approach the left-hand cave. Pull up to the ledge in front of the cave opening and immediately step back as icicles fall. Pop a Flare, and head inside. Grab the Grenades on the other side of the wall. Backtrack to the right-hand tunnel up from the pool and get out the Pistols.

Up the ice blocks, the wide passage opens onto an impending avalanche. Step close to the end of the hallway to coax out the first batch. Hang a left in the opposite direction from the wall of snowballs and run for it. You need to veer over toward the far wall to jump safely to the snowy ledge. Follow the short passage and note the opening to the right in the far wall. Slide backward down the slope and shimmy left to near the far wall. Pull up and jump immediately from the slope. Lara should backflip to a safe ledge, beyond which the passage continues.

At the tall ice wall, run and jump to grab anywhere on the climbable surface. Max out Lara's health and hang from the ledge above the huge gong. Drop down and readjust your health once more. Give the gong a mighty blow with the gong hammer, and the doors to the Ice Palace are shattered open. Don't go inside just yet. Slide down the front of the Ice Palace and cross the huge snowy field, veering toward the far left corner.

Climb the low icy ledges and follow the rough trail to a doorway. There was ice blocking the Palace portals until Lara struck the gong. Inside the Ice Palace lies the Talion. When you take it, you can expect the Guardian of the Talion to come crashing out of his cave outside. Exit back to the low snowy ledges outside. The Guardian is bound to come within range to investigate, but he can't reach you as long as you stay on the ledge. Killing the Guardian with Pistols saves mucho ammo, and the snowfield is a tricky area. When the Guardian finally falls, the level ends.

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Harpy Queen Contract

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After Phillipa heals Saskia, head to Cecil at his house and speak to him. As you are back for the harpy's lair, by default you will have killed the queen. Speak to Cecil and claim your reward. The side quest will show as completed after you finish speaking to Cecil Burdon.

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