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*********************************************************************** * Paper Mario 2: The Thousand-Year Door (GCN) * * Console: Nintendo Gamecube | Guide/Walkthrough | Version: 1.7 * * © 2007 Jonathan E. Moonen (joecoolaug inc.) * * Author: joecoolaug | Contact: email@example.com * *********************************************************************** 9.1.07 ============================================================================ CONTENTS ============================================================================ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ To quickly find what you're looking for on a PC, hit CTRL+F. ~~~~ ~~~~ Once the search box is opened, type in one of the CONTENTS titles. ~~~~ ~~~~ For more specific searches, type in obvious terms, such as "10 ~~~~ ~~~~ Jabbies", "Ishnail", or "KP Koopas." ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I. Walkthrough (in progress) A. Prologue: A Rogue's Welcome 1. The Harbor 2. Main Rogueport 3. East Rogueport 4. Underground Rogueport 5. Boss B. Chapter 1: Castle and Dragon 1. Petal Meadows 2. Petalburg 3. Shhwonk Fortress 4. Hooktail Castle 5. Boss 6. Interlude C. Chapter 2: The Great Boggly Tree 1. The Boggly Woods 2. The Great Boggly Tree a. 11 Punies b. 101 Punies c. Lord Crump's Chase 3. Boss 4. Interlude 5. West Rogueport a. West Underground Rogueport b. Don Pianta D. Chapter 3: Of Glitz and Glory 1. Glitzville 2. The Glitz Pit a. Minor League b. Major League 3. Boss 4. Interlude E. Chapter 4: For Pigs the Bell Tolls 1. Twilight Town 2. Twilight Trail 3. Creepy Steeple a. Crystal Star b. Shadow Mario 4. Interlude F. Chapter 5: The Key to Pirates 1. Keelhaul Key a. Shantytown b. Keelhaul Trail 2. Pirate's Grotto 3. Boss 4. Interlude II. Quick Guide (under construction) A. General Help (coming sometime) B. Trouble Center (coming soon) C. Star Pieces (coming soon) D. Shine Sprites (coming soon) E. Journal 1. Crystal Stars (in progress) 2. Tattle Log (coming soon) 3. Badges (in progress) 4. Cooking Guide (coming soon) III.Party (in progress) A. Goombella B. Koops C. Flurrie D. Yoshi E. Vivian F. Bobbery G. Miss Mowz IV. Guide Info A. Version History B. Legals ============================================================================ I. WALKTHROUGH ============================================================================ "Mail Call!" is heard at the Mario Bros. house. Luigi goes out to pick up the letter. "Hey, Bro! Check it out! A letter from Princess Peach arrived for you! ... I'll just read it to you, how's that sound? Ahem! Now let's see here..." The letter reads: "Hello there, Mario! I am now on holiday, traveling in the Mushroom Kingdom. / In my travels, I came into possession of a mystical map... a treasure map, actually. / It was inside a box I got from an old merchant in a town called Rogueport. / But since it would be too difficult for me to try to go find treasure all by myself... / I thought you could help me hunt for it! You will, of course, won't you? / I've included the map with this letter, so please bring it with you when you come. / I'll meat you at Rogueport. (That means you MUST come!) - Peach" "What do you know? It's true! There's a weathered old map in here with the letter. Check it out!" Luigi shows the map to Mario... and he's off! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. PROLOGUE: A ROGUE'S WELCOME 1. THE HARBOR Shine Sprites: none Star Pieces: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: none | UNAVAILABLE: #1-2 ............................................................................ (Snoring, Creaking) "Excuse me... Sir? ... Please wake up, sir! The town you'd been speaking of has come into view. Look! That's Rogueport!" Mario slowly opens his eyes to see the little town. "You see? We'll arrive shortly. Please prepare to disembark." "I must apologize, sir. Our arrival was delayed just a bit by rough weather... Are you quite sure you want to disembark here? I...did tell you the sordid tales about Rogueport on our way here, did I not?...What's that? I'm sorry? You say there's a princess waiting here for you? Is that so? Er... Of course, sir. Well, if that's what you think, then I won't stop you. But, uh... You be careful, sir. Don't say I didn't warn you!" Mario gets off the boat into Rogueport. Walk around and get used to the controls if you've never played before. Quickly memorize all the keys. (A) is jump. (B) is hammer. That's all there is to know for now. Get to know some of the locals by pressing (A) when you get close to them. Notice the [SAVE] block over to the left of the dock. Try jumping under it. Over to the right, you see a commotion rising between a Goomba girl and these fat people you've never seen before. He babbles on. Everyone else now seems to keep their distance. You, of course, walk up to the mean fat guys harassing this "sassy little lass." She runs behind you and soon a fight starts. This is a good time to get acquainted with the most important part of this game: the battles. You have three options: hammer, jump, and defend. Either hammer or jump on this fat guy and do what it tells you to do. ____________________________________________________________________________ BATTLE: LORD CRUMP ----------------------Max HP: 5-Attack: 1-Defense: 0------------------------ There's not much to defeating him. I'll let you figure it out on your own. ____________________________________________________________________________ So, once you figure out how to beat him, he dies... or so you think. Hundreds of his little minions rush out from nowhere and try to punish you. You're able to escape... barely. You have no choice but to go up the stairs in the back right. This little Goomba girl introduces herself. Her name is Goombella. It turns out that she's looking for the "legendary treasure" too. You show her the map, and she is amazed. Toadsworth, Princess Peach's butler, shows up. He corroborates the story of Princess Peach's kidnapping then heads off to the inn. Goombella soon joins your party. ____________________________________________________________________________ PARTY: GOOMBELLA ----------------------Max HP: 10-Attack: 1x2-Defense:0---------------------- Abilities: a primer | Press (x) to get information about nearby people, places, and objects. | Attacks: Headbonk(1-2)/Tattle ____________________________________________________________________________ ............................................................................ 2. MAIN ROGUEPORT Shine Sprites: none Star Pieces: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: #4,5,7 | UNAVAILABLE: #3,6 ............................................................................ The gallows in the middle of the square pretty much sum up everything that this town is about. Walk around and get to know the local people and shops. If you go to your far left, at the entrance of west Rogueport is a little toad. If you walk up to him, he tells you to freeze because he lost a contact lens. He reminds you not to move, but you have no choice. You "accidentally" step on it when you move. This aggravated toad tells you to compensate him. He won't let you into West Rogueport, either. So go into the item shop (with the Fire Flower above it) and ask the clerk to order a contact lens. You'll be able to buy it later on. Now leave the shop and head to the right to East Rogueport. This Professor Frankly guy might be there. ............................................................................ 3. EAST ROGUEPORT Shine Sprites: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: none | UNAVAILABLE: #1-3 Star Pieces: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: #9 | UNAVAILABLE: #8,10-12 ............................................................................ A bandit runs past you and steals half your coins! To get them back, just go back into main Rogueport, go to the alley in the back of Rogueport, and go to the shack on the far left. He's in there, and all you have to do is talk to him to get back your coins. Go back to East Rogueport and enter the second building. What do you know? This Professor Frankly is in there. He and Goombella talk for a long time about the legendary treasure. There is not much useful information in their conversation, but you should pay attention anyway. So basically, in order to open this famed Thousand-Year Door and to unlock the treasure, you must find the seven Crystal Stars. When you hold up the map in front of The Thousand-Year Door, it will show you where the first Crystal Star is. After that, you hold up each Crystal Star to see where the next one is. So you first must find The Thousand-Year Door, which is supposedly buried deep beneath Rogueport. Hmmmm... How will you get there? Professor Frankly, Goombella, and Mario finally set off for The Thousand-Year Door! But not so fast. As soon as you walk out the door, the Professor starts talking again. He shows you a tube to the underground parts of the city. He then wants you to learn Action Commands. It's best that you do. Now hop on into the pipe and go below the city! ............................................................................ 4. UNDERGROUND ROGUEPORT Shine Sprites: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: none | UNAVAILABLE: #6-8 Star Pieces: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: 20,21 | UNAVAILABLE: #19,22-26 ............................................................................ Save if you need to and head on over to the right. You run into a trio of bad guys flirting with Goombella. She doesn't take it, and you fight. ____________________________________________________________________________ BATTLE: GOOMBA, SPIKY GOOMBA, AND PARAGOOMBA -----Defense: 0 (each) | HP: 2 (each) | Attack: 1 (2 for Spiky Goomba)------ There's nothing to this battle. The Professor lets you in on a secret: swapping attack order. You should probably swap attack order so that you can get rid of the spiky Goomba with Mario's hammer. ____________________________________________________________________________ Professor Frankly then tells you about First Strikes. It's best to enter a battle by attacking your enemy instead of just walking up to them. If you go all the way to the right, it's a dead end. You'll notice in the middle of this room is a hovering, moving block. You need to get on this in order to get to the Thousand-Year Door, so go to the right of it and you'll find an opening leading to the moving block. Jump on it and go all the way to the left and down the pipe. You'll find a couple of Goombas in front of you. Once you kill them, they'll never bother you again. Down the stairs on the far right, you'll find four yellow boxes and another Goomba. The first two boxes you can hammer for a 'Shroom and a Fire Flower. The fire flower is especially useful in battle. It's a very good item. Save it for the tough guys. The two large yellow boxes on the far left can be smashed to reveal another pipe. Go down the pipe. As you move to the right, you see a tiny bug or something run into a crack. You can't follow him yet. Stand in front of the crack he went into and move "down." Once you reach the near wall, jump to get a Pretty Lucky Badge. Keep on moving to the right, kill the two Spinias, and proceed to hit the blue (!) switch that reveals the stairs. Up top, you find a dark cave. You have no choice, so just go ahead in. Walk up to the creepy box in the middle of the room. Someone's trapped inside it! He tells you that your a legendary hero! What are the chances? Pretty slim, actually. Despite the Professor's misgivings, you decide to help this guy by finding the key to the box. To find the key, walk out of the room and go to your left. You'll notice a little board hanging off the side. It almost looks like a diving board. Anyway, go up against the wall in the back and slowly, dramatically walk to the left (You're NOT on the diving board right now.). Once you fall of the edge, you fall off onto a little ledge. The key's right there. So now bring the key back to him. OHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He fooled you! But... wait a minute...? ____________________________________________________________________________ CURSE: PAPER AIRPLANE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This guy decides to put a... terrible?... curse on you. He shows you that when you step onto platforms that look just like that diving board outside, you'll turn into a paper airplane...Yeah... how terrible. So he explains it to you. Pressing (y) on a diving board will turn you into an airplane. You have to steer with skill... and you MIGHT be able to turn back if you hit (B). ____________________________________________________________________________ "What was THAT guy's beef?" ... Something raw, probably. So let's try out that airplane thing. Outside on the diving board, see if you can skillfully keep yourself high enough and fast enough to reach all the way on the other side of the chamber. Try it a couple times to understand how it works. Once you finally make it across, enter the room on the left. Well... the music changes, and the camera does a panorama of the room. That can't be good, can it? Well, what do you know! You've found the Thousand-Year Door! Go ahead and walk onto the pedestal in the center and see what happens. Cool. The map shows you where the next (first) Crystal Star is. And, you got a new Special Move. What's that? We'll have to try it out. The Professor leads you back to his place then teaches you all about Star Power. No, not celebrity charm; star power from your map. So apparently this can refill your health and Flowwa Powwa. The Professor also tells you a lot about the audience and some other things. Better listen in. Just as soon as you think you're free of him, he explains badges to you. Now go back down to Underground Rogueport. The key to Petal Meadows is there. As you go to your right, you notice an airplane platform. Head on over and see if you can make it to the other side. Through the doorway you find water... that's weird. What's even weirder is the tailfin hanging on the sidewalk. Huh... maybe jump on it... or hammer it. ............................................................................ 5. BOSS ............................................................................ ----BLOOPER-----------------Max HP: 12-Attack: 1-Defense: 0----------------- Attacks: Tentacle Smash and Ink Jet. (?)How do I get it on the ground? (A) Smash both of it's tentacles(HP: 3). (?)So, technically, it has a total HP of 18? (A) Yep. (?)How many Star Points does it give? (A) 20 Once it falls to the ground, It loses a turn before it can sit upright. It also loses a turn when it sits up. There's not much difficulty in this one. You can usually defeat him before he attacks you twice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweet. Once you have it defeated, jump across the floating blocks and enter the pipe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- B. CHAPTER 1: CASTLE AND DRAGON 1. PETAL MEADOWS Shine Sprites: none Star Pieces: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: #32,33 ............................................................................ Here we are, Petal Meadows. If you hammer the first two trees, you'll find some pleasant surprises. Maybe you should hammer every tree? Go to the right, then... WHOA! It's a dragon. I guess it was obvious by the name of the chapter, but, that's scary. Pass the strange rock formation next. Pick up the mushroom from the yellow block. Keep on moving to the right, hammer those trees, kill those Goombas, and hit those (?) blocks. You get a Close Call badge from a red (?) block along the way. Try equipping it. Soon you run into a pipe and a brick block. Jump while under the brick as many times as you can (no, it won't hurt you). Jump into the pipe next. It takes you only a few feet over on top another pipe. You have to jump to reach a badge sitting on a block, but you can't quite reach it. We'll come back to it later. Just beyond the pipe are two blue-striped things sticking out of the grass. You may have noticed more of these along the way. If you hammer the taller one about ten times (it jumps up-and-down), you'll get a horsetail. "What's that good for?" you say. I ask myself the same question. Keep on moving along. Goombella reminds you about her ability to tell you things about your environment. You give her a glazed stare and move on. You come upon four bushes. If you shake the two smaller ones on the near side of the screen, you'll find two coins. When you shake the two bigger ones near the back, you'll find a pipe. When you go through it, you find yourself in the background on the rolling hills. That's cool, but go to the right and hit the switch. Don't go back to the pipe, though. Keep on going right to find a Star Piece. Now you can return to the main path. Cross the new bridge and keep on shaking those bushes! One of them reveals a Mystery. Just don't fall into the river while running after it. You'll see what I mean. You also get a Fire Flower from a yellow block. Wow... someone must have had a lot of time on their hands to leave all this free stuff lying around here. Oh, wait... never mind, it was the game designers :). Keep heading right, and enter Petalburg. ............................................................................ 2. PETALBURG Shine Sprites: none Star Pieces: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: none | UNAVAILABLE: #34-35 ............................................................................ A nice Koopa introduces you to the town then you move along. Apparently he thinks you should talk to the mayor. What kind of a guy lives in a pink house... alone? Anyway, walk around and get to know the locals and maybe even stay the night or buy something. There are two sections to the town of Petalburg. I know, it's not big, but not many people live there. What's really small are the houses. Anyway, the mayor's house is the first house of the second part of Petalburg. Before or after you go in, visit the mayor's front yard. You can walk behind his fence and shake the three bushes in the front. The farthest one reveals a Turtley Leaf, which restores 3 FP. So, once you walk in the house, you discover that the mayor is an extremely old man with... wait... is that... grass growing on his eyes? Maybe it's his eyebrows, I don't know. He's so senile that he won't even let you explain that his idea that you are thieves is not true. Finally he believes you and he gives you the 411 on his eyebrows... I mean, the Crystal Star. He says that an "enormous, ornery dragon" has it. So you tell him that you're reckless fools... I mean, gallant heroes... off to kill Hooktail, the dragon. Apparently, according to the old geezer... I mean, the kind, seasoned mayor... you need to find some stone keys in Shhwonk Fortress in order to enter a secret pipe to Hooktail's Castle. So, you leave, thinking about giving the mayor a lawn mower for Christmas to trim his eyebrows. As you go along, you'll receive an e-mail... two, actually. They're not much use. One is Professor Frankly, and the other is a registration notification. You can read them if you want to. So all you have left to do is go through the gate to the right. The Koopa guarding it will let you through because the mayor said it was okay. Just as you're going to leave, you run into another Koopa. What's he saying? His name is Koops, and, apparently, umm... he's nervous. He runs away before telling you anything. Here we go... ............................................................................ 3. SHHWONK FORTRESS Shine Sprites: none Star Piece: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: #36 ............................................................................ Don't forget to shake all the bushes and bang all the trees. Along the way, there's a yellow block that yields a POW block. NICE. Before you enter the first building (or after you enter, whatever you like better), make sure your Power Smash badge is equipped and you have at least 4 FP. Walk up to either of the pedestals and hit (A). Let the battle begin (first strike is useless, just walk up to them). ____________________________________________________________________________ BATTLE: BALD CLEFTS ------------------------Max HP:2-Attack: 1-Defense: 2----------------------- You can defeat them one at a time with the Power Smash. You can tattle or defend on Goombella's turn. If she is going to defend, put her in front. ____________________________________________________________________________ After defeating them, the gate at the other end opens. It's eerie, but looks fun. Go ahead. A couple of the trees and bushes have some coins. Check 'em out, kill your enemies, and move on. The second bush before the next brick chamber has a very important item. Don't miss it. ____________________________________________________________________________ BATTLE: BRISTLE -----------------------Max HP: 2-Attack: 1-Defense: 4----------------------- This is similar to the Bald Cleft, except you can't attack the Bristles. They will hurt you even if you try to hammer! Your only choice is to use your POW Block. If you want to tattle with Goombella, do that first, because the POW kills them in one blow. ____________________________________________________________________________ The gate opens and you're free to move on. Up ahead you'll see a yellow block to hit. It contains a Fire Flower. Before you move on to fight the enemies, look at the ruins on the near side of the screen. There's an inn coupon "hidden" along them. Near the entrance for the next stone chamber is a block with a heart in it and 5 coins above it. If you hit this block any time in the future, it will cost you how many ever coins are show, but it replenishes the HP of Mario and his partner AND your FP. Once you walk into the chamber, you'll see a (SAVE) block. Go ahead and hit it. Now move up to the Thwomp and talk to him. He reveals to you that you must answer 5 of seven answers correctly in his "65th Super Fun Quirk Quiz." If you win, you get to go to where the stone keys are. If you lose, it's game over. Are you ready? ____________________________________________________________________________ 65th SUPER FUN QUIRK QUIZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the correct answers to all 7 questions. 1)What's hidden in this place? (A) Stone Keys 2)What do one Mr. Softener and one Fire Flower cost at the shop in Petalburg? Total! (A) 16 coins 3)What is the name of the mayor of Petalburg? (A) Kroopa 4)Where is the Crystal Star? (A) Hooktail Castle 5)How can one get from Petal Meadows to Rogueport? (A) Go Through a Pipe 6)Which of the following creatures have hands? (A) Koopa Troopas 7)What number question is this? (A) TOO EASY :) Question Seven ____________________________________________________________________________ You beat him nice and easy. Go back and save the game, then proceed to the underground of Shhwonk Fortress. So it looks now like you're wading in water. Yep, but it thankfully doesn't look like sewage. Over to your right is a red (?) block. Go ahead and hit it to get a Multibounce badge. It's helpful, so you might want to equip it. It doesn't matter which side you enter first, so just choose. It's not that hard. Both ways, you'll fight two little black fuzzies. Harmless, right? Not really. They suck the life out of you. It'll take you a little while to figure out the defense action commands. Once you reach the farthest back room, you'll see a cool-looking stone. The Sun Stone is on the right side and the Moon Stone is on the left side. When you take the first one, you'll battle four black Fuzzies. Not too difficult. Go back to the main chamber then to the other side to retrieve the other stone. Nothing cool happens? That's weird. Go back to the main chamber and out the pipe... wait a minute, I stand corrected. A yellowish fuzzy is standing in the middle of the main room. He's angry that you disturbed him and his friends. He decides to fight you. ____________________________________________________________________________ BATTLE: GOLD FUZZY -----------------------Max HP: 10-Attack: 1-Defense: 0---------------------- Apparently, this fuzzy doesn't suck the HP out of you, it just hurts you. Once you attack him, he says that you're tougher than you look and he brings out his minions. It's a fuzzy horde! They'll attack you one-by-one. All you have to do is hit (A) with good timing, and you won't get hurt. Instead of attacking the Horde, just kill the Gold Fuzzy and they'll all run. ____________________________________________________________________________ Now that you've shown them who's boss, they all run away as fast as they can. Except the Gold Fuzzy. He's a little slow. All you have left to do now is... wait, what do we do? We'll see what happens. Be sure to save on your way out. Just head on back to Petalburg for now. Didn't those stones look a little familiar? I dunno, we'll see. So you're back in Petalburg in no time. What do we do here? Nothing. Go back to Petal Meadows. As you leave, you run into that Koopa again, standing right at the entrance to Petal Meadows. He tells you all about how his dad went to fight the great Hooktail and never came back. He wants to come with you for vengeance, adventure, and pride. Tell him he can come along and he'll join your party. No, not your dance partay, your group party :). ____________________________________________________________________________ PARTY: KOOPS -----------------------Max HP: 10-Attack: 2-Defense: 1---------------------- Abilities: a primer | Press (x) to shoot his shell out far in front of Mario. Hold (x) down to get his shell to stay in place then shoot back whenever you let go. | Attacks: Shell Toss/Power Shell ____________________________________________________________________________ Yay! He joined your team. Now you just have to figure out what those stones were for. Just as you're about to set off, you're stopped by a young Koopa girl. Her name is Koopie Koo, and she's Koops' girlfriend. She's upset that Koops is going to leave her and fight the dragon. Koops tells her that he'll come back a stronger, better Koopa for her. Finally! You're off! On the second screen of Petal Meadows, you run into that pipe with the badge again. You can get it now that you have Koops to reach for it. It's a Happy Heart badge, and it slowly and automatically restores HP during battle. That sounds like something you want to equip. Once you're back to the first screen of Petal Meadows, walk up to the two stone formations with black outlines on them and then press (A). This is where the Sun and Moon Stones go. Once they're both in place, it reveals some writing on the main stone in the center. Go up and read it. You have to hit both the switches simultaneously. Is it a coincidence that Koops can help you with that? Hold Koops in place in front of one of the switches while you walk over to the other. Jump on yours and release Koops at the same time. This reveals two pipes and the way to Hooktail Castle! Here we are! ............................................................................ 4. HOOKTAIL CASTLE Shine Sprites: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: #14-16 Star Pieces: (Check the complete list # near the bottom of the guide.) AVAILABLE: #38-41 | UNAVAILABLE: #37 ............................................................................ Save the game and use the spring to get to the top level. Use the health/FP block if you need to. Now head out to the right and use the airplane panel to cross the broken bridge. Enter the spooky castle. Dead bones are lying everywhere! Fight the Koopas and get the Power Bounce Badge. There's something creepy about these bones. In the next room, you run into a Koopa that looks just like Koops' dad. Oh, No! He didn't make it far! You have to read the note. You discover that a certain sound beginning in cr- and ending in -icket will help you defeat Hooktail. At the end of the note, you find out that it isn't Koops' father! What a relief for Koops. Poor Colorado, though. At the end of the hall, you run into a pile of red bones. That's just creepy, now. He's blocking the door, so you have to try to move him. Instead, he comes back to life... or something, at least. He threatens you, and you're pushed back to the door. The best thing you can do is hammer at them. Once you reach the red-boned guy again, you enter battle! ____________________________________________________________________________ BATTLE: RED BONES/DULL BONES ---------------------Max HP: 5/1-Attack: 3/2-Defense: 1--------------------- The best tactic is to take out the Dull Bones first, because they don't come back to life, like the Red Bones might. You might have to use Koops' Power Shell to get the two Dull Bones behind Red Bones. In fact, you should probably do Power Shell first. If you have to, you can use some items. The only thing this battle takes up is usually time. ____________________________________________________________________________ Once you beat him, he's gone and you can move on to the next room. There's a Shine Sprite in the back of the hall. Eventually you reach some stairs with two moving blocks. In order to get the key to the door, you have to jump onto the ledge on the near side of the screen and hit the yellow control block. Once that's moved up, you can use Koops to hit the red (!) block. This will move the stairs. You can walk up them now and access a ledge with a key. You can move the stairs back by hitting the (!) block again. Now you can unlock the door and move on. Don't forget to get the two hidden Star Pieces before you move one, though! In the next room, save and use the door on the right. The green block, by the way, leads you to nowhere at the moment. I wonder how a Paragoomba got this far into the castle. Anyway, fight the enemies then move along. The red (!) block only allow the bars to be open for a short time, so you'll need to hold Koops in place for this one. In the next room, you encounter a familiarly mysterious black box. I guess you can talk to him. The curse wasn't THAT bad last time. He gives you the whole wrap again. You have no choice but to believe him and hope he doesn't put another TERRIBLE curse on you. You'll find the key in the next room. You'll notice bumps in the floor. Try memorizing a path out of the room without going over the bumps, just walking on the floor. The bumps won't hurt you... yet. It seems almost too easy that we're going to get the key just sitting in the middle of the room. Yeah, it is too easy. Spikes shoot out of the floor and ceiling as you take the key. Follow my instructions. Take your first right out of the area with the treasure box. Keep going right then go down once you reach spikes. Quickly go right and then go almost all the way up. Take the first and only left and follow that path for a little. Once you come to a junction, go all the way down to the bottom of the screen, then left, then up, then right, then out the door as quickly as possible. Now that you have the key, I wonder what terrible curse you're going to get this time. ____________________________________________________________________________ CURSE: PAPER THIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, yeah. This curse is worse than any other. When you hold down )R), you'll flip sideways so you can walk through thin openings. This could be useful. I mean... this could be terrible! ____________________________________________________________________________ At least we now know how to get out of the bars back in the other room. The prison cell on the left has some sort of badge behind it. Use your new curse to get to it. It doesn't use any BP, so equip it immediately. It gives your attacks a cr-icket sound. Go back to the room with the save block and save. You still don't have a castle key, so you'll need to find it two more rooms back. The

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Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of self-assembled Eu-doped ZnO hollow microspheres
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DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201127290
Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
physica status solidi (a)
Volume 208, Issue 12, pages 2833–2838, December 2011
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Xu, J., Wang, N. and Wang, W. (2011), Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of self-assembled Eu-doped ZnO hollow microspheres. Phys. Status Solidi A, 208: 2833–2838. doi: 10.1002/pssa.201127290
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- Issue published online: 23 NOV 2011
- Article first published online: 25 AUG 2011
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Livingston Fourth of July fireworks cut down to one day
The city's annual Fourth of July celebration was supposed to have fireworks shows on three days this year, but officials said Tuesday they cut it back to one show because of drought conditions and increasing demands on firefighting resources.
But organizers said the change won't affect other Fourth of July festivities, with the three-day festival and four-day carnival to go on as planned. There will also be live music, a classic car show, food and craft vendors and a car raffle.
"We were going to do three days of fireworks, but after talking to fire personnel, they couldn't have the resources there all three days," said Julio Valadez, chairman of the Livingston Fourth of July Committee.
Valadez said the decision to cut back on the fireworks shows came after discussions with Merced County Cal Fire officials last week. He said the Fire Department is short-handed and firefighters are being called to different locations because of the drought.
"The Fire Department needed to be available elsewhere because of the dry conditions all around (the state)," he said. "We need the fire personnel to be present in order to make sure everything is OK."
Cal Fire officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Valadez said the one fireworks show will give spectators the biggest bang for their buck. "We will pack the three-day fireworks into one, so it will be the biggest fireworks show in the Valley," he said. "It's going to be a lot bigger than normal."
The 45-minute Fireworks Spectacular will begin at dusk on July 4. Last year, the three-day festival drew an average of 40,000 people from around the Valley, according to organizers.
Livingston Police Chief Ruben Chavez said he's surprised to hear there will only be one fireworks show instead of three but that he understands the reasons behind the decision.
"The fireworks show is always a big hit," Chavez said. "I think it's unfortunate that the drought is causing a situation that we have to pull back, but it's for the safety of the community."
The Livingston Fourth of July festival runs July 4-6 at Memorial Park and Livingston High School. The carnival runs July 3-6.
The classic car show will kick off with a parade of hot rod cars starting at the TravelCenters of America truck stop and ending at Memorial Park. The car show runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 5.
"Some people think the whole festival is just one day and it's not," Valadez said. "We are still having a three-day festival and four days of carnival."
Tickets for the car raffle and carnival can be purchased online or at Livingston City Hall. Carnival tickets are 50 percent off if purchased in advance. For more information, visit www.livingston4thofjuly.com.
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Six Essential Spring Layers
A sweater in an Aran knit never goes out of style. This one stays true to spring's indigo trend and looks just as good with jeans as a pair of white tennis shorts. Think of it as the middle layer meant to be shed when the afternoon sun hits an all time high. $195, available at UnionMade
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The unobtrusiveness of a band collar makes it a go-to base layer, adding extra interest around the neck of your sweater and a mellow-as-hell vibe once the latter's been tied around your waist. $75, available at J.Crew
Distressed jeans - the second best thing to a pair of shorts, allowing just the right amount of air flow and a roughed up look. $250, available at Levi's
Inspired by Kendrick Lamar, L.A.'s favorite son who's been repping Detroit as of late, the baseball cap is spring's beanie alternative. When the sun goes down, just flip the bill to the back. $20, available at New Era
This one's for all the season pushers in need of a little sense. We know you're itching to go sockless in Birkenstocks and and a tank, but when the temperature's still hovering at a balmy forty-seven degrees, it means there's still time to layer-up. And if you're cringing at the thought of pulling out that parka, keep calm - these six essentials will have you well prepared for cooler mornings and warmer afternoons, and not a single one is down filled.
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Needles Gives New Life to Camo
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We've always found the Duff sisters to be pretty bland. Hilary is just like a vanilla version of an Olsen twin, and really the only thing to respect about Haylie is the fact that she's never seem to give a sh*t about the constant criticism about her looks and sister-mooching. So it was seriously awesome to see them throw down again some asshole photographers who were stalking them at a hearing for their parents' divorce. The sisters get sassy, and rightfully so. We like looking at them when they're all drunk and fugly, but when they're dealing with personal stuff that's none of our business? No thanks. Leave them and their fashion mistakes alone while they deal with their family BS, please. [Socialite's Life]
Jessica Sierra: Knocked Up & Locked Up
Last week it was Hollywood darling Jessica Alba who revealed that she was with child, and this week, as the pregnancy announcements continued, we noticed that they seemed to kinda slip in celebrity caliber. Alba and Lily Allen might be A or B List-ish, but Jamie-Lynn Spears is definitely rocking the D List. And now the Z-List rounds out the celebrity baby train, with the depressing news that drug-addicted American Idol finalist Jessica Sierra is knocked up – while locked up. One of the stars of VH1′s upcoming show Celebrity Rehab, Sierra is currently in the infirmary of her Florida jail on a pregnancy diet. She's also reportedly "ecstatic" and says the father is "a rapper."
We guess congratulations are in order, right? Maybe this will be her chance to straighten her shit out and quit that whole 'getting piss drunk and offering to perform fellatio on her arresting officer' thing she's into these days. We just gonna assume that her future kid was not conceived during her sex tape, cause that would just be all sorts of wrong (fingers crossed).
Apatow Addresses Walk Hard Backlash
It's been quite the year for funnyman Judd Apatow. He's the guy responsible for Knocked Up, Superbad and now Walk Hard, not to mention Seth Rogen, the popularity of Canadians in media, and probably had his hand in the mortgage crisis and Ahmadinejad's performance at Columbia University, too! (We kid, we kid.) Anyhow, in the video above, he addresses the inevitable Apatow-backlash in a meta viral video that's all about how pandering and silly viral videos are. The levels! It stars Apatow and some of his regulars: Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Craig Robinson. It's amazing. Also, in a perfectly twist-y sponsorship treat, it features Rock Band. In case you don't know, Rock Band is like the fun version of Guitar Hero. (Dear Rock Band: checks are payable to VH1 Digital.) Enjoy!
Ashlee Simpson Overshadowed By Own Sister, Now Britney's
Poor little Ashlee Simpson. First she's second fiddle to big sis Jess, and Papa Joe's least favorite child. In the pop landscape, Ash hasn't had it easy, what with the frequent surgical updates and the whole lip-syncing thing. Folks don't exactly think of her as an "artist," but that was all supposed to change on Wednesday. Ash was going to make her big announcement, unveiling both the first video for her song "Outta My Head (Ay ya ya)" [Ed: Yikes] and the title for her latest album, Bittersweet World. The single, produced by Timbaland, reflects Ashlee's latest desire: "I wanted to do music with beats."
But all that went out the window when a certain someone's 16-year-old sister went and continued the cycle of dysfunction by getting herself knocked up. ""Ashlee can't believe this happened. She's so disappointed," a source told MSNBC of Jamie-Lynn Spears' announcement. Ashlee stopped by TRL on Thursday to talk about her record, saying "I kind of laugh at things a lot, so you'll hear that on the record." Let's hope Ash is able to laugh at her marketing campaign being overshadowed by teen pregnancy. Hilarious!
2007′s Craziest: Larry Craig's Crazy Legs
Some gossip stories are too big to forget. We're counting down the 20 biggest, baddest, and most ridiculous celeb scandals of the year. You'll get a new one posted every day.
Let's make one thing clear: Larry Craig is NOT GAY. That's what he's said over and over this year, so clearly that's what he wants you to think. Nevermind that he was holed up in an airport bathroom known for cruising, making strange advances to the guy in the stall next to him with his feet. Forget that he pled guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge for his strange behavior, a fact that he hid from his wife, family and the entire world until the press figured it out in August. Disregard the fact that he showed the arresting police officer his senate business card and asked him, "What do you think about that?" And please ignore the rumors that have been circulating since 1982, his obsession with "family values" and support of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and his desire to spank Bill Clinton for being a "naughty boy."
Nope, not gay. And really, his sexual orientation is not the issue, nor should it be. Craig's just a shady jerk – and after all that drama, still a U.S. senator.
Britney's Worst Year Ever: September
You were there through the bad driving, the head-shaving and the Criss Angel thing. It's been a tough year for our girl. No one could have imagined a mere 12 months ago that she'd create such glorious new nonsense every week. Some of the craziness escapes you? Come back every day: We're counting down the events that made up the Year in Britney.
September 9 — Gimme Less – After days of speculation, MTV announces that the recently rehabbed pop star would make her triumphant comeback on the channel that made her. Unfortunately, Spears spent the night before the performance out with Diddy, staying up until 6 a.m. and skipped the dress rehearsal. Sarah Silverman's pre-performance monologue, and what looked like a handful of sedatives derailed Spears: She bombed, moving through her routine like a zombie. The only person who deemed the performance a success was 50 Cent, who called it "a highlight…she worked it." We believe that 50 was in the bathroom at this point in the show. [Us Weekly]
September 12 – Timbaland Says Apologize – In an interview with MTV News, Timbaland says that he and Justin will never work with Britney unless she apologizes. Timbaland remains vague about what caused the bad blood, saying only, "She knows what she's sorry about. She needs to say, 'I was wrong,' and it'll definitely move forward…. That's all she has to say." The producer then called her "big-headed." At press time, it appears Timbaland is still waiting on apology. [MTV News]
September 17 – It's Not Us, It's You – Just hours after her lawyers quit, the pop star found herself without representation when The Firm pulled a Timberlake and dumped her because of her behavior: The company claimed that "current circumstances" prevented them from working with the enormously talented pop star. Current circumstances…could they mean the head-shaving? Or the erratic behavior that might be the result of a serious drug addiction? Or the barefoot-in-public-restroom thing? This is the second time Brit's management has quit in as many months. [People]
September 23 – The Bodyguard – In a sworn deposition in the custody battle between Kevin Federline and Britney Spears, former bodyguard Tony Barretto revealed the torments of his job as her protector: He had to allow her to rub her breasts on him and grind with her on a dancefloor. In addition to sexual harassment, Barretto was charged with keeping her full of Special K (her favorite cereal), and orchestrating the shutting down of Rite-Aids so the star could shop in privacy. [News of the World]
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Just another knocked up Hollywood starlet who won't walk down the aisle with a baby belly. [Us]
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The singer avoided arrest on child porn charges by showing up to court, but claimed the police made him late. Er, or he was too busy chatting up some kids outside the court house. [Bossip]
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Hottie of the Week: Mary J. Blige
The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul and R & B releases her latest record today, Growing Pains. By all accounts, it's a fine addition to her already impressive catalogue, featuring singles like "Work That," which you might have seen on the ol' iPod commercial. (Damn you, Mac! You and your cleverness will rue the day!) We couldn't think of a more fitting pre-holiday hottie than Mary J. You all know her story: Discovered at a mall in 1988 covering Anita Baker's "Rapture," the songstress soon met Andre Harrell and was on her way superstardom. Diddy helmed the production end of her debut, and from there, the sky was the limit. She's been nominated for a Grammy and will no doubt appear at the awards show, so until February, these photographs are just going to have to suffice.
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2007′s Craziest: Vick's Dogfight
Some gossip stories are too big to forget. We're counting down the 20 biggest, baddest, and most ridiculous celeb scandals of the year. You'll get a new one posted every day.
Football star Michael Vick took a beating this summer (kinda like his pit bulls) after federal allegations of dog fighting and killing pups that didn't perform surfaced and landed the football star in prison. The charges were particularly gruesome, and animal lovers and pet owners across the country freaked at accusations of electrocuting and beating dogs to death. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback read a statement after pleading guilty to the charges, stating that "Dogfighting is a terrible thing. I reject it. I totally ask for forgiveness and understanding as I move forward to better Michael Vick the person, not the football player."
Currently, Vick's moving forward behind bars for the next 23 months. Hopefully he'll emerge a changed man, and animal lover. PETA could always use another celeb to pose naked!
Top 20 Albums of the Year (16-20)
Thousands of discs were released this year, but only 20 could make the final cut. With the most scientific of instruments (headphones, and sometimes CD players) we whittled down this year's releases, and for the past three Thursdays, we've delivered five of our faves. Let us know what we missed, and what you loved.
Britney Spears, Blackout (JIVE)
The weirdest chapter in Britney Spears' incredibly weird year was that amid the rehab(s), the head-shaving, the VMAs bombing, the pole-dancing video that made Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me look like actual art, the paparazzi run-ins, the child endangerment and the actual blackouts, Britney was able to turn out the album of her career. The 12-song Blackout isn't art, per se, but it reflects what pop music in 2007 is so well that you wouldn't be faulted for mistaking it as such. How much does its achievement have to do with Brit? Who knows. It could be that she sleepwalked through the making of it, showing up at the studio inebriated and letting producers like Danja, Bloodshy & Avant and the Neptunes do their progressive thing while she essentially rubber-stamped the stomping dance tracks with her notoriously unremarkable larynx. But it matters not: if on Blackout, she's just the puppet she's always been accused of being, she's puppeting remarkably well. In the end, it's reasonable to assume that she had a hand in selecting what made Blackout's final cut, and if that's the case, she made up for a year of bad decisions with 12 fabulous ones.
Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (MERGE)
With a title so dadaist, it's ironic that Spoon's sixth album is their most clear. But maybe it isn't so ironic: the album's title is taken from the onomatopoetic piano line that courses through the album's second track "The Ghost of You Lingers." Rather than sail over the heads of their fans with the prickly, oblique lyrics frontman Britt Daniel has become famous for, the band seems to have gotten down to the bedrock elements of music – sounds and feelings. Examples of the band's movement toward sincerity riddle the record: Daniel tells his own genesis story on "Finer Feelings," empathizes with the long shot on "The Underdog," and even allows listeners behind the curtain on "Don't You Evah," which begins with a studio joke between band members. The band get deeper into their influences, following in the foot steps of their punk-pop forefathers the Clash and experimenting on the down-beat reggae ode to a femme fatale "Eddie's Ragga." "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" recalls Phil Spector's production, filled with heavy reverb and horns. Breezing by in just 36 minutes, the band prove there's no genre they can't deftly maneuver.
Kanye West, Graduation (DEF JAM)
Haughty is as haughty does. Hip-hop's most reliable MC hasn't given up on positioning himself as hip-hop's most successful MC – you know, hitting the club with all that fresh sh*t on and something crazy on his arm. But his bluster ("I always had a passion for flashing") has oodles of creativity behind it, and it's been a long time since any mic fiend dropped three home runs in a row. The rhymes may not be as perfect as those on College Dropout or Late Registration, and subject matter may be a tad monolithic, but with the striver-speak of "Good Life" and "Stronger," the Luis Vuitton don can definitely lay claim to his hat trick.
Feist, The Reminder (INTERSCOPE)
As has been pointed out several times over, Feist once sang "It may be years until the day my dreams will match up with my pay." It only took about three years. The former punk-screecher turned filth-rap posse member turned Canadian musical collective member has worn many hats during her career, but it turned out Feist's solo songs would spawn the most success. From the now ubiquitous revival-type feel goodery of "1 2 3 4" (you know…the iPod song), to her vamping "My Moon My Man," to her update of the Nina Simone's "Sea Lion Woman," Feist appears to have assembled the type of self-revelations ("I'll be the one to break my heart," "There's so much present inside my present," "You're changing your heart, you know who you are") that take people thousands of dollars and years in analysis to come to.
Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad (DEF JAM)
If Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer were to spend their time writing music as opposed to blowing up tractor trailers in movies, this is the kind of record they'd make — a big-budget splashy blockbuster, all done up in vibrant Technicolor with the audio to match. Rihanna, a Barbados-born teen, had shown earlier promise with infectious hits like "SOS" and "Pon de Replay," but nothing on the size and scale of Good Girl, which continues to spawn hits long after its release (and that was only last May, if you can believe it). First, of course, there was "Umbrella," where she stretches the syllables of the word in the chorus to fit the melody — "Umbrella-ella-ella-ay-ay-oh-oh." Genius. With its non-threatening, vaguely maternal offer of shelter from the rain, Rihanna welcomed fans by the dozen. She quickly followed that up with the Michael Jackson-inflected "Don't Stop the Music," the sweet soul of "Hate That I Love You," the sad strains of "Cry" and the tough stuff of "Shut Up and Drive," a song so powerfully poppy that they should probably seal it in a jar and bury it in the Nevada weapons-testing zone lest it get out and inspire generations to skip school and head straight for the studio. Who knew it was possible to craft pop so expertly in 2007?


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Updated 12:48 p.m. with more information about Breaking Waves. New information is in bold type.
Quiksilver said today it has an agreement to sell its swim portfolio to AOM Holdings, LLC.
Brands included in the sale are Raisins, Raisins Girls, Leilani, Island Soul and Island Escape. Roxy swim is not included in the sale.
Breaking Waves International, which is associated with AOM Holdings, has signed a license in perpetuity for the Raisin family of swim brands. Breaking Waves currently makes swimwear under the Breaking Waves label for toddlers through tweens, the company said, and sells to "every major retailer in the United States, including Macy's, Dillard's and Nordstrom," according to a company representative.
The first Raisins line released by Breaking Waves will be the Spring 2011 season. Quiksilver will continue to handle shipping and reorders for spring and summer this year.
Going forward, Quiksilver wants to focus on its core businesses of Quiksilver, Roxy, DC and Mervin, said Bruce Thomas, vice president of investor relations.
He did not know the exact number of Quiksilver employees that worked on the swim brands, but said the total number was in the single digits. The details are still being worked out, but he believes most are moving to Breaking Waves.
Breaking Waves said in a brief release that Brian Ivanhoe, the current vice president of Raisins, is joining Breaking Waves.
The sale is another step in Quiksilver's efforts to streamline its operations, Bruce added.
Since Quiksilver is continuing to streamline its business, I asked specifically about Mervin, which as a maker of snowboards, does not really fit into the company's softgoods wheelhouse.
Bruce pointed to a quote from Americas President Craig Stevenson in its release (below) that specifically noted Quiksilver is increasingly focused on Mervin.
The company views Mervin as an up-and-comer, Bruce said, and is very much a part of Quiksilver's mountain strategy.
Here are the releases, first from Quiksilver and then from Breaking Waves.
Quiksilver, Inc. Sells "Raisins" Portfolio of Women's Swim Brands
Huntington Beach, California, April 14, 2010 — Quiksilver, Inc. (NYSE: ZQK) today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its "Raisins", "Raisins Girls", "Leilani", "Island Soul", and "Island Escape" women's swim brands to AOM Holdings, LLC. Quiksilver has operated these women's swim businesses, primarily in its Americas region, since 1994.
Craig Stevenson, President of Quiksilver Americas, stated, "As we review our operating priorities we are keenly focused on our core businesses of Quiksilver, Roxy, DC and, increasingly, Mervin.
In that context, and after evaluating opportunities for our other women's swim brands, we felt the best course of action for our shareholders, our customers and our employees was to sell these women's swim brands to AOM Holdings, who came forward with an attractive offer. AOM has extensive experience in the swim category and we are pleased that they have expressed their intent to continue to operate these brands within their existing channels of distribution."


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I want to tell everyone who has, and still may send my Daddy a Birthday Card how much we all appreciate you doing so.
When it was time for the family to arrive, Daddy was in the middle of a heart fib spell. He had to have two doses of morphine. So, he was mellowed out. My brother took a chair and sat next to him and he read EVERY CARD!! If my brother started to take it away and he had not read it he would reach out to get it so he could finish reading it.
Thanks so much every one who sent a card. You know who you are and I am so grateful to have net friends that care so much. And will step up to the plate when ever asked for help.
I don't think any one of us could ask for better friends. I know I can say that for myself.
He is still getting cards, so if you are late, he doesn't know, he just enjoys reading them.
We have not reached our 90 Cards yet, so if you please, you can still send one. We are right at 60, so we need a few more. I know it was short notice, like I told you, I am now a legal senior citizen, and it has kicked in FAST!!!!LOL
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I haven't spent much time with YA fiction since I was one a couple of (OK, three) decades ago, but I'd recommend Little Brother to the average teen. Regardless of genre or forum, Cory Doctorow writes passionately about net freedom, privacy, and creativity. Big Brother is a(n unfortunately only slightly) dystopian tale set in the near-future in the U.S. where security has trumped privacy rights and features a Department of Homeland Security run amok in its reaction to a terror attack on San Francisco. The main character is a teen boy and his few friends -- to include strong, capable female characters, good and bad -- who use their wits and technical tricks to expose injustice and free the wrongly detained. It's fast-paced and, at times, even educational. Some reviewers complain that Cory spends a little too much time educating, but I think it's perfect for those who aren't familiar with some of the subject matter, like encryption, RFID, and internet protocol to name a few; those who "know" already know, so Cory could come off as overly pedantic with that audience. Cory's message about the slow erosion of freedom in the U.S. in the name of security is an important one and, I would presume, he's a minority voice in the YA lit sphere. We need more writers like him. The only parental warning I'll throw out is that the main character, Marcus, loses his virginity in the story, but there are no "mechanics" of the event described; I'll just say the parties were protected and it was about as innocent an event as could be portrayed. "It" happened and the story moved on..it wasn't glamorized and no special insight was given that would drive your YA reader into doing.."it." A fun, consistently engaging read and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel, "Homeland." All of Cory's books are free to download at www.craphound.com. If you get something out of them, do him a solid and buy some (or a lot) of copies for school libraries near you.
I loved it. Personally I would have preferred slightly less of the technology explanations and history lessons but maybe that's just because most of it was not new to me. That's really the only reason I didn't give it five stars. Moving on to Homeland straight away.
Sentence description: Teen hacker is abused by the Department of Homeland Security in a near future San Francisco, and proceeds to fights back against the suppression of freedom and government-generated fear that follows a devastating terrorist attack on the city.
I am glad I read (actually, listened to) this book. I am not sure I would say I enjoyed it, completely, but I don't think I was meant to. I did find it frightening. I would find myself going to look at the news and half-expecting to see accounts of the crazy stuff going on in SF. It felt real to me, and believable.
And also, quite often very funny, and informative. I'm a geeky person and a gamer myself so I loved the asides into the games (even LARP!) and technology (especially cause it pretty much all really exists out there!) and gaming and geek culture. I laughed out loud when the main characters used the phrase "a maze of twisty passages, all alike" at one point and loved that one of the critical climactic scenes involved hundreds of people dressing up as vampires and playing a giant vampire game in the middle of the city.
The DHS is portrayed as being pretty much caricatures of evil bullies getting off on power, and there's no time for exploration of any other reason why they might be doing what they are doing. I would have liked to have seen that delved into further, but I admit it's probably outside the scope of this book. I did appreciate, however, the range of reactions we see in the main character's father and friends and schoolmates. Some embrace the curtailment of freedom in the hope it will bring safety, others just look away, still others want to fight but just can't do it.
I have to add a note on the audio-version here: I found the reading a bit odd and stilted in places -- perhaps this is a function of the abundance of IMs and emails and technotalk in the book.
So to sum up, this isn't a light gentle books to entertain, and I suspect it's best for more mature readers due to the amount of "adult content", but for the right reader, this is a book that will linger for a long time.
I was in high school when 9/11 happened, and this book resonated with me in a very personal way. I remember, like the protagonist, being horrified at what was happening to the country, and feeling alone in that sentiment.
And of course, being a Cory Doctorow novel, this book is full of kickass heroes and references to cool real things.
RGG: Amazingly believable story of a teenager who, using technology, organizes a populist rebellion against a homeland security organization who removes personal liberties after a terrorist attack in San Francisco. Scary, exciting, fascinating. Reading Level: YA.
Little Brother represents a great step forward in the burgeoning subgenre of dystopian young-adult SF. It brings a greater degree of political sophistication, geekiness and civil disobedience to a genre that was already serving up a milder dose of rebellion. After this, no YA novel will be able to get away with watering down its youthful revolution.
MY favorite thing about "Little Brother" is that every page is charged with an authentic sense of the personal and ethical need for a better relationship to information technology, a visceral sense that one's continued dignity and independence depend on it: "My technology was working for me, serving me, protecting me. It wasn't spying on me. This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy."
I can't help being on this book's side, even in its clunkiest moments. It's a neat story and a cogently written, passionately felt argument.
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Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're mercilessly interrogated for days.
When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
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Prefabricated hut in modules, of the kind that has four sides, two similar sides, a lower one and an upper one, where the cross sections of the module, viewed from the inside, are concave in the areas close to the lower side and convex in the areas close to the upper side, with an intermediate area where there is a progressive change in curvature, which is situated closer to the lower side than to the upper side.
1. Prefabricated hut in modules, of the kind that has four sides, two that are similar to each other, one lower one and one upper one, characterised because viewed from the inside the cross sections of the module are concave in the areas close to the lower side and convex in the areas close to the upper side, with an intermediate area where there is a progressive change in curvature.
2. Prefabricated hut in modules, according to claim 1, the area of progressive change in curvature is closer to the lower side than to the upper side.
3. Prefabricated hut in modules, according to claim 1, the module is approximately spherical semi-lune in shape and where cross sections (st) are carried out from the center of this sphere at different tilt angles (α), where (R) is the radius of the sphere and (R′) the radius of curvature of each cross section (st), it is true, approximately, that:
4. Prefabricated hut in modules, according to claim 1, the structure of each module is sandwich type or multi-layer.
5. Prefabricated hut in modules, according to claim 4, caracterised ecause the sandwich structure is comprised of an inside wall, an outside wall and at least one insulating element between them.
fabricated huts made from modules that are transported and assembled �in situ� are already known.
More specifically, huts that are shaped approximately like a semi-sphere based on semi-spherical lune modules are well-known, for example Utility Models 164.457, 292.023, Pat. No. 2,134,683 of Spain or U.S. Pat. No. 2,176,712.
These huts are normally used for outdoor shelter.
All of the known huts suffer from the essential defect that in order to be resistant to the forces of nature, such as snow and wind, the material used to make each of the modules is too thick. This means that they are expensive to manufacture and hard to transport, handle and assemble.
This defect has been overcome by the hut of the invention, due to the geometry of each module, which progressively changes from a concave to convex shape.
A vertical section taken through the center of a module of the invention, has a geometry, which, when viewed from the outside, is concave in the upper part and convex in the lower part. This S-shaped geometry represents a considerable increase in the moment of inertia with respect to the axis of the element.
A horizontal section, for example, at the center point of the assembled hut, has a geometry that is a repetition of concave shapes forming a convex shape at the point where the elements are join together. This also represents a much greater moment of inertia with respect to the axis, than any other geometry of the prior art huts made from modules.
The geometry of the invention improves the static performance(snow loads) as well as repetitive variable intensity loads (action of the wind) of each module and of the hut as a whole, thus permitting the use of less thick modules with the relative saving of material.
The whole hut is lighter in weight, meaning that it can be assembled on soft ground and levelled areas because it is not necessary for the land to be prepared to support pillars or supports as often occurs with known prefabricated huts.
Features of the invention include:
The design of the geometry of each module is such that they are manufactured as elementary single-pieces, that is, they are not comprised of other parts, pieces or reinforcements, so there are no joints.
The modules are stacked together guaranteeing the safety of the pack as one part fits into another, preventing the module from slipping, thereby taking up minimal space, and thus optimizing both transport and storage, due to their formal and structural design.
Each individual module is improved as, dimensionally, its shape is maintained, therefore improving its breaking behaviour, each element being able to be handled individually, thus facilitating the assembly.
This invention advocates a hut with outside modular walls, of the kind with four sides, two sides which are similar to each other, a lower one and an upper one, which is characterized because when the cross sections of the modules are viewed from the inside, they are concave in the areas close to the lower side and convex in the areas close to the upper side, with an intermediate area where the curvature progressively changes.
The invention is also characterized because the module is shaped approximately like a semi-spherical lune, where its cross sections (st) are carried out from the center of the sphere at different tilt angles (α) where (R) is the radius of the sphere and (R′) is the radius of curvature of each cross section (st), such that:
For a better understanding of this invention, a preferred form of the invention is shown in the drawings, which are susceptible to accessory changes that take nothing away from its basics.
FIG. 1 is an elevation view of the invention where the hut is approximately semi-spherically-shaped;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line DD′ of the module (1) of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3a, 3 b, 3 c, 3 d are sectional views taken along lines CC′, KK′, QQ′ respectively of FIG. 2, but in a head-on manner of the module;
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line AA′ of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of module (1) with sandwich structures; and
FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line DD′ of the module of FIG. 1 with the sandwich structure of FIG. 5.
Below is an example of a practical, non-limitative, execution of this invention.
The huts of the invention can have any ground plan shape, for example like a circus marquee, ovoid, etc. although they will preferably be semi-spherical as shown in FIG. 1.
Module (1) has four sides: two sides (3), (4) similar to each other, lower side (5) and upper side (6).
If upper side (6) is, in projection, dimensionally similar to lower side (5), module (1) will be rectangular in shape, if it is different it will be trapezium-isosceles-shaped as in FIG. 1 and if the dimension of the upper side should be null, it would be an isosceles triangle.
Sides (3), (4) have traditional anchoring means (8), (8′) to fasten them together, for example, screwed, riveted, glued, braced, press-fitted, etc.
Upper side (6) can have arched finish (7), with or without metal hoop, with or without larmier or light well (11), all of which is conventional.
Lower side (5) can have reinforcement, union or sealing elements.
The material used to make module (1) can be metal, plastic, or composites, etc.
FIG. 1 shows that surface (5) of each module (1) is approximately semi-spherical lune in shape and the hut has generatrix radius (R). The surface of this semi-lune of module (1) does not have, at least in its cross-radial sections (known as parallels) an even radius and it does not maintain its concavity, this is the essence of the invention.
FIG. 4 shows that in section AA taken approximately half way up the hut, section (10) of each module (1) is convex viewed from the inside, whilst the outside edge, that is, lower side (5) is concave.
It can be seen in FIGS. 2 and 3 that as tilt angle (α) increases, with which the radial sections are made from center (0) of the theoretic sphere, the curvature of the cross sections in the semi-lune of module (1), gradually changes from concave to convex. Thus, the statics and dynamics of the module are improved, a great increase in the moment of inertia is achieved with smaller thicknesses.
Preferably the area of progressive change in curvature is closer to lower side (5) than upper side (6).
As an example, good results are obtained, with respect to an increase in habitability and mechanical resistance, under the conditions indicated below, where (R′) is the radius of curvature of each cross section (st) see FIG. 3.
The structure of each module (1)can be sandwich type or multi-layer.
The sandwich type structure can form from one inner wall and another outer wall with similar curvatures, the inner wall having sphere curvature or any other type, the intermediate product between both surfaces being air or another insulating material.
Part of the object of the invention is to make the hut with an outside module structure and an inside modular structure.
FIGS. 5 and 6 show a module with sandwich structure where the inner wall is the one that has been identified as surface (S) of the module in FIGS. 1 to 4, which is made of thermoplastic, polyester, composite, metal, etc. Outer wall (Se), which in this case is sphere-shaped, can be of a similar material to that used for inner wall (S) or it can be made of fabric, for example canvas. Insulating layer (11) is presented with inner wall (S), which can, for example, be of polyurethane, glass canvas, etc., with air (a) filling the unit. Preferably these elements (S), (Se), (11) are assembled �in situ�, but they can come in a block.
For greater rigidity of the outer wall (Se) it can be supplied with transversal ribs (12).
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