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A job practice serves as the basis for the exam and requirements to earn the certification. This job practice consists of task and knowledge statements, organized by domains.
Notice: A CISA job practice analysis has been completed. This analysis resulted in a new CISA job practice which reflects the vital and evolving responsibilities of IT auditors. The new CISA job practice (identified below) was effective beginning with the June 2011 CISA exam administration.
For purposes of these statements, the terms "enterprise" and "organization" or "organizational" are considered synonymous.
The job practice domains and task and knowledge statements are as follows:
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)Domain 3—Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Implementation (19%)Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)Domain 5—Protection of Information Assets (30%)
Provide audit services in accordance with IT audit standards to assist the organization in protecting and controlling information systems.
1.1 Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy in compliance with IT audit standards to ensure that key areas are included.1.2 Plan specific audits to determine whether information systems are protected, controlled and provide value to the organization.1.3 Conduct audits in accordance with IT audit standards to achieve planned audit objectives.1.4 Report audit findings and make recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and effect change when necessary.1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure appropriate actions have been taken by management in a timely manner.
1.1 Knowledge of ISACA IT Audit and Assurance Standards, Guidelines and Tools and Techniques, Code of Professional Ethics and other applicable standards1.2 Knowledge of risk assessment concepts, tools and techniques in an audit context1.3 Knowledge of control objectives and controls related to information systems1.4 Knowledge of audit planning and audit project management techniques, including follow-up1.5 Knowledge of fundamental business processes (e.g., purchasing, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable) including relevant IT1.6 Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations which affect the scope, evidence collection and preservation, and frequency of audits1.7 Knowledge of evidence collection techniques (e.g., observation, inquiry, inspection, interview, data analysis, fraud investigation) used to gather, protect and preserve audit evidence1.8 Knowledge of different sampling methodologies1.9 Knowledge of reporting and communication techniques (e.g., facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, audit report structure)1.10 Knowledge of audit quality assurance systems and frameworks
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership and organization structure and processes are in place to achieve objectives and to support the organization's strategy.
2.1 Evaluate the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to determine whether IT decisions, directions and performance support the organization's strategies and objectives.2.2 Evaluate IT organizational structure and human resources (personnel) management to determine whether they support the organization's strategies and objectives.2.3 Evaluate the IT strategy, including the IT direction, and the processes for the strategy's development, approval, implementation and maintenance for alignment with the organization's strategies and objectives.2.4 Evaluate the organization's IT policies, standards, and procedures, and the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to determine whether they support the IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.2.5 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to determine whether it supports the organization's strategies and objectives in a cost-effective manner.2.6 Evaluate IT management and monitoring of controls (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organization's policies, standards and procedures.2.7 Evaluate IT resource investment, use and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, for alignment with the organization's strategies and objectives.2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies and policies, and contract management practices to determine whether they support the organization's strategies and objectives.2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to determine whether the organization's IT-related risks are properly managed.2.10 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to determine whether the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information about IT performance.2.11 Evaluate the organization's business continuity plan to determine the organization's ability to continue essential business operations during the period of an IT disruption.
2.1 Knowledge of IT governance, management, security and control frameworks, and related standards, guidelines, and practices2.2 Knowledge of the purpose of IT strategy, policies, standards and procedures for an organization and the essential elements of each2.3 Knowledge of organizational structure, roles and responsibilities related to IT2.4 Knowledge of the processes for the development, implementation and maintenance of IT strategy, policies, standards and procedures2.5 Knowledge of the organization's technology direction and IT architecture and their implications for setting long-term strategic directions2.6 Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations and industry standards affecting the organization2.7 Knowledge of quality management systems2.8 Knowledge of the use of maturity models2.9 Knowledge of process optimization techniques2.10 Knowledge of IT resource investment and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria (e.g., portfolio management, value management, project management) 2.11 Knowledge of IT supplier selection, contract management, relationship management and performance monitoring processes including third party outsourcing relationships2.12 Knowledge of enterprise risk management2.13 Knowledge of practices for monitoring and reporting of IT performance (e.g., balanced scorecards, key performance indicators [KPI])2.14 Knowledge of IT human resources (personnel) management practices used to invoke the business continuity plan 2.15 Knowledge of business impact analysis (BIA) related to business continuity planning2.16 Knowledge of the standards and procedures for the development and maintenance of the business continuity plan and testing methods
Provide assurance that the practices for the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems meet the organization's strategies and objectives.
3.1 Evaluate the business case for the proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance and subsequent retirement to determine whether it meets business objectives.3.2 Evaluate the project management practices and controls to determine whether business requirements are achieved in a cost-effective manner while managing risks to the organization.3.3 Conduct reviews to determine whether a project is progressing in accordance with project plans, is adequately supported by documentation and status reporting is accurate.3.4 Evaluate controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development and testing phases for compliance with the organization's policies, standards, procedures and applicable external requirements.3.5 Evaluate the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration into production to determine whether project deliverables, controls and organization's requirements are met.3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to determine whether project deliverables, controls and organization's requirements are met.
3.1 Knowledge of benefits realization practices, (e.g., feasibility studies, business cases, total cost of ownership [TCO], ROI)3.2 Knowledge of project governance mechanisms (e.g., steering committee, project oversight board, project management office)3.3 Knowledge of project management control frameworks, practices and tools3.4 Knowledge of risk management practices applied to projects3.5 Knowledge of IT architecture related to data, applications and technology (e.g., distributed applications, web-based applications, web services, n-tier applications)3.6 Knowledge of acquisition practices (e.g., evaluation of vendors, vendor management, escrow)3.7 Knowledge of requirements analysis and management practices (e.g., requirements verification, traceability, gap analysis, vulnerability management, security requirements)3.8 Knowledge of project success criteria and risks3.9 Knowledge of control objectives and techniques that ensure the completeness, accuracy, validity and authorization of transactions and data3.10 Knowledge of system development methodologies and tools including their strengths and weaknesses (e.g., agile development practices, prototyping, rapid application development [RAD], object-oriented design techniques)3.11 Knowledge of testing methodologies and practices related to information systems development3.12 Knowledge of configuration and release management relating to the development of information systems3.13 Knowledge of system migration and infrastructure deployment practices and data conversion tools, techniques and procedures.3.14 Knowledge of post-implementation review objectives and practices (e.g., project closure, control implementation, benefits realization, performance measurement)
Provide assurance that the processes for information systems operations, maintenance and support meet the organization's strategies and objectives.
4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to determine whether they continue to meet the organization's objectives.4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to determine whether the level of service from internal and external service providers is defined and managed.4.3 Evaluate third party management practices to determine whether the levels of controls expected by the organization are being adhered to by the provider.4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to determine whether scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.4.5 Evaluate the process of information systems maintenance to determine whether they are controlled effectively and continue to support the organization's objectives.4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimization of databases.4.7 Evaluate the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine whether IT services meet the organization's objectives.4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to determine whether incidents, problems or errors are recorded, analyzed and resolved in a timely manner.4.9 Evaluate change, configuration and release management practices to determine whether scheduled and non-scheduled changes made to the organization's production environment are adequately controlled and documented.4.10 Evaluate the adequacy of backup and restore provisions to determine the availability of information required to resume processing.4.11 Evaluate the organization's disaster recovery plan to determine whether it enables the recovery of IT processing capabilities in the event of a disaster.
4.1 Knowledge of service level management practices and the components within a service level agreement4.2 Knowledge of techniques for monitoring third party compliance with the organization's internal controls4.3 Knowledge of operations and end-user procedures for managing scheduled and non-scheduled processes4.4 Knowledge of the technology concepts related to hardware and network components, system software and database management systems4.5 Knowledge of control techniques that ensure the integrity of system interfaces4.6 Knowledge of software licensing and inventory practices4.7 Knowledge of system resiliency tools and techniques (e.g., fault tolerant hardware, elimination of single point of failure, clustering)4.8 Knowledge of database administration practices4.9 Knowledge of capacity planning and related monitoring tools and techniques4.10 Knowledge of systems performance monitoring processes, tools and techniques (e.g., network analyzers, system utilization reports, load balancing)4.11 Knowledge of problem and incident management practices (e.g., help desk, escalation procedures, tracking)4.12 Knowledge of processes, for managing scheduled and non-scheduled changes to the production systems and/or infrastructure including change, configuration, release and patch management practices4.13 Knowledge of data backup, storage, maintenance, retention and restoration practices4.14 Knowledge of regulatory, legal, contractual and insurance issues related to disaster recovery4.15 Knowledge of business impact analysis (BIA) related to disaster recovery planning4.16 Knowledge of the development and maintenance of disaster recovery plans4.17 Knowledge of types of alternate processing sites and methods used to monitor the contractual agreements (e.g., hot sites, warm sites, cold sites)4.18 Knowledge of processes used to invoke the disaster recovery plans4.19 Knowledge of disaster recovery testing methods
Provide assurance that the organization's security policies, standards, procedures and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets.
5.1 Evaluate the information security policies, standards and procedures for completeness and alignment with generally accepted practices.5.2 Evaluate the design, implementation and monitoring of system and logical security controls to verify the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.5.3 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of the data classification processes and procedures for alignment with the organization's policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.5.4 Evaluate the design, implementation and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to determine whether information assets are adequately safeguarded.5.5 Evaluate the processes and procedures used to store, retrieve, transport and dispose of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy/print data, and softcopy media) to determine whether information assets are adequately safeguarded.
5.1 Knowledge of the techniques for the design, implementation, and monitoring of security controls, including security awareness programs5.2 Knowledge of processes related to monitoring and responding to security incidents (e.g., escalation procedures, emergency incident response team)5.3 Knowledge of logical access controls for the identification, authentication and restriction of users to authorized functions and data5.4 Knowledge of the security controls related to hardware, system software (e.g., applications, operating systems), and database management systems.5.5 Knowledge of risks and controls associated with virtualization of systems5.6 Knowledge of the configuration, implementation, operation and maintenance of network security controls5.7 Knowledge of network and Internet security devices, protocols, and techniques5.8 Knowledge of information system attack methods and techniques5.9 Knowledge of detection tools and control techniques (e.g., malware, virus detection, spyware)5.10 Knowledge of security testing techniques (e.g., intrusion testing, social engineering testing, vulnerability scanning)5.11 Knowledge of risks and controls associated with data leakage5.12 Knowledge of encryption-related techniques 5.13 Knowledge of public key infrastructure (PKI) components and digital signature techniques 5.14 Knowledge of risks and controls associated with peer-to-peer computing, instant messaging, and web-based technologies (e.g., social networking, message boards, blogs)5.15 Knowledge of controls and risks associated with the use of mobile & wireless devices5.16 Knowledge of voice communications security (e.g., PBX, VoIP)5.17 Knowledge of the evidence preservation techniques and processes followed in forensics investigations (e.g., IT, process, chain of custody, fraud evidence collection)5.18 Knowledge of data classification standards and supporting procedures5.19 Knowledge of physical access controls for the identification, authentication and restriction of users to authorized facilities5.20 Knowledge of environmental protection devices and supporting practices5.21 Knowledge of the processes and procedures used to store, retrieve, transport and dispose of confidential information assets


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My Elastic Mind
My Elastic Mind > Senior > Grendel
John Gardner
Key Facts
full title · Grendel
author · John Gardner
type of work · Novel
genre · Postmodern novel; prose poem; bildungsroman (novel about the growth of the protagonist)
language · English
time and place written · 1969–1970; San Francisco
date of first publication · 1971
publisher · Knopf
narrator · Grendel
point of view · Grendel narrates in the first person, conveying his inner thoughts and observations; occasionally he narrates from the point of view of another character
tone · Grendel attempts to maintain a satirical, mocking distance throughout the novel, but often finds himself slipping into an impassioned earnestness
tense · Present, but with substantial flashbacks in Chapters 1–8
setting (time) · The fourth century a.d.
setting (place) · Denmark
protagonist · Grendel
major conflict · Grendel struggles, within his own mind, to understand his place in a potentially meaningless world
rising action · Grendel's exposure to the opposing philosophies of the Shaper and the dragon provide him with two options of how to live in a world without inherent meaning or values: he can either try to create and assert his own meaning in the world or resign and accept the fact that such an endeavor is futile.
climax · By engaging in a full-scale war with the humans, Grendel chooses to create a system of meaning for himself.
falling action · Though warfare fulfills Grendel for a time, it soon becomes just as mechanical and empty as anything else. At this point, the only way out of Grendel's trap is death.
themes · Art as falsehood; the incompatibility of reason and emotion; the power of stories; the pain of isolation
motifs · The seasons; the zodiac; machinery
symbols · The bull; the corpse; Hart
foreshadowing · The unresponsive ram foreshadows the unresponsive humans; the allusion to the curse of Cain foreshadows the charm of the dragon and the Christian imagery that surrounds Beowulf; the dark presence that Grendel feels in the woods and the snake he mistakes for a vine foreshadow his meeting with the dragon; the onset of winter foreshadows Grendel's death.
Chapter One Notes:
Grendel is a monster who is self-aware, yet "unnatural," and opposed to human beings because of his own nature. Therefore, the narration of this chapter (and the rest of the novel) is a slippery mix of human-like feelings, protests against nature, and sly, undercutting comments revealing how Grendel is both an outsider to nature and to human experience and yet connected to those two worlds. Grendel treats his attack on the humans as if it is outside of his control, part of a meaningless springtime ritual. In fact, Grendel protests against all kinds of meaningful patterns, spoken and unspoken, especially the rhythm of the seasons and the "voices" of animals, trees, and the lake. Grendel may only be pretending not to like the war that he is waging.
Grendel himself undercuts many of his protests against his war and nature by claiming he is joking, or trying to fool himself. At one point, Grendel compares himself with an "objective" observer of a thousand years later. But the emotional nature of his narration reveals that Grendel is anything but objective and thus an unreliable narrator. He is, after all, in control of some of the decisions that lead to this cruel, painful war. But Grendel cannot resist his war against the people in Hrothgar's hall, in part because he is fascinated by the humans' attempt to make meaning from it. Grendel downplays his own violence, spending little time describing the actual attack on Hrothgar's hall. He pretends the violence is all a big misunderstanding, a theme that continues throughout the novel. Misunderstanding exists on a grand scale between Grendel and the humans he encounters, but there is also an undercurrent of connectedness.
There are several examples of foreshadowing in the first chapter - hints that Grendel has more to say about humans, his experience with a dragon, and his admiration for the Shaper. The Shaper will be a key character in later chapters. He is a blind singer, not unlike the anonymous author of Beowulf. In many ways he parallels Grendel. Grendel notices the Shaper smartly sneaking out the back window rather than confronting Grendel directly. The Shaper is a survivor, despite his handicap, much like Grendel himself. The language of this chapter captures the feel of ancient Anglo-Saxon while using modern words. For example, the author uses three compound words ("rockslide," "cowshed," and "skull-size") in the first paragraph alone, an common technique for creating new words in ancient English. Also, the stream-of-consciousness style brings readers closer to Grendel's state of mind.
Chapter Two Notes
This chapter is a twisted, monstrous version of the fight that all children must go through to distinguish themselves from their parents, combined with a real life-or-death struggle against men. It is comical or absurd in parts. The blunt language of the men especially serves as a comical contrast to Grendel's sly self-awareness. The men seem at first to be dull-witted in comparison to Grendel, but Grendel soon learns that they are, in fact, aware of their surroundings, able to adapt, and therefore dangerous to him. The contrast between the men and the bull, unable to adapt to Grendel's situation, repeating the same attack over and over, is clear. The men attempt to understand what Grendel is. Unfortunately, they fail, in part because of the language difference that Grendel mentions at the beginning of the chapter, but also because he is so foreign to them that they do not recognize him as anything close to human. According to Grendel, it is the men's misunderstanding that leads them to attack him, not anything threatening that he does. Grendel, however, is an unreliable witness, and it is possible he sounded threatening to the men.
Grendel's struggle to distinguish himself from his mother is exposed in this chapter. He begins by keeping his adventures outside the cave and in the world of men secret from her. When he gets stuck in the tree and realizes that his mother might not come for him, Grendel swings to the extreme conclusion that "I alone exist." This swing from not being separate from mother to being the only identity in the world mirrors a child's selfishness. To become a healthy adult, it is essential to separate oneself from parents without adopting an all-or-nothing view of the world. In Grendel's account, his mother is the real monster, knowing only a disgusting, basic kind of love that expresses itself physically, without words, while his own self-absorbed talk is not monstrous. In fact, his monstrous self-absorption is destructive to the world of men and to Grendel himself. Grendel's self-awareness and his web of words are designed to protect him from his mother's trapping love, but they are not entirely successful at it. At the end of the chapter, he is engrossed in his mother's embrace once again, and he cannot escape it mentally or physically. Grendel ultimately fails to define himself as separate from his mother, and his struggle to escape her embrace leads only to the other extreme of self-absorption.
Chapter Three Notes
Grendel announces at the beginning of the chapter that, as an outsider, his soul is committed to a slow, cruel war against Hrothgar. Grendel knows that he is, in fact, related to people, since he can understand their language. He does not understand men's actions, though. The wars they fight baffle Grendel. He understands violence, but not violence against one's own kind. Grendel sees the violence that surrounds men as wasteful. In fact, he tries to preserve some of the wasted "meat" and bring it back to the cave, but his mother complains about the smell. Still, he cannot resist observing the world of men.
The Shaper's song destroys Grendel's ability to distance himself from men. The song, quoted directly for the first time in this chapter, creates a heroic version of events that shatters Grendel's ability to cope with man's intrusions on his world. From Grendel's perspective, the song writes a new history, although it claims to be an ancient song about how things really were. This attempt to create history drives Grendel mad with rage. He decides to launch his war on Hrothgar partially because his past has been taken away. Grendel's narration itself is an attempt to write a counter-story to the myths the Shaper creates, but it is not entirely successful. Bits and pieces of the Shaper's song are retained. Grendel remembers the Shaper's version of events as well as his own, and he seems to know that he writes a loser's version of history. Hence, in the very first chapter, he calls his war "idiotic," even as he goes down to fight it for the twelfth time.
Chapter Four Notes
Grendel encounters two alternate versions of reality opposed to his own philosophy. Both versions of reality compete for his attention, while Grendel struggles to be understood by people. Grendel at first holds the idea that the world is nothing but pure mechanical instinct and "bruteness," without meaning. His narcissism and isolation continue, with him believing it is him against the world. Then, in the stories the Shaper sings, he encounters an alternate version of reality, as well as a call to justice. Hrothgar takes up the cause of building a glorious empire that would "give out treasures" and last for generations. The Shaper's song inspires this effort. Hrothgar seems successful to some degree to Grendel, and Grendel is drawn in to hear more of the Shaper's song.
The symbolism of snakes is important here. The snake is the traditional enemy of mankind in the Adam and Eve story, the tempter that tricks people into eating the forbidden fruit, leading to their exile from Eden. In the same way, snakes appear to Grendel when he is drawn toward people and tempted by their version of reality. The first appearance of a snake comes when Grendel begins to believe that the Shaper's song can change the world of men. Comically, he picks up a snake on purpose, looking for someone to talk to about men. But at the same time as Grendel begins to believe the Shaper's song, he hears an answering echo to his question, "Why not?" coming from deep in the forest. This is the dragon's version of reality, revealed more fully in the next chapter. Dragons have magical abilities and powerful minds in this novel, and the dragon projects his thoughts to Grendel, opposing both men and Grendel. The dragon's mental projections cause Grendel to doubt his own investigations of people.
A dragon is, essentially, a big snake, so the presence of snakes in the forest connect the dots between the consciousness Grendel feels and the dragon. When Grendel feels the consciousness a second time, he looks for a snake. Instead, comically, he finds a vine. Grendel wants to believe the version of the world that the Shaper offers, but he is drawn back into the forest by nagging doubts. Grendel is confused and bewildered by these two alternate realities, and wants to believe that everything is meaningless but cannot. When he stumbles across the man's naked body, he wants to believe the Shaper's song and reaches out to people as a "conversion" to their religion, but he is confronted with men's cruelty toward each other and, ultimately, toward himself. The men attack him.
Grendel rages against the men's religion, feeling betrayed after his failed attempt at reconciliation with men. Still, he is addicted to their religion and returns to hear more of the Shaper's song. He hears the answering, taunting, "Why not?" coming from the dragon's consciousness, reaches out a hand to steady himself on a vine, and this time, encounters a snake when he does not expect it. He is terrified at first and runs back to his mama, but then, still unsatisfied with his mother's brutal love, he ventures out onto the moor and is drawn into the dragon's lair.
Chapter Five Notes
This chapter is both comical and philosophical, offering a contrast between questioning belief and atheism as represented by the characters of the two monsters The dragon is clearly a key character, foreshadowed in previous chapters and referred back to in later chapters. There is no mistaking the evil intent of the dragon, who does everything he can to undermine Grendel's just-beginning, questioning belief in the human's religion. The dragon represents an atheistic understanding of the world. Knowing the future, he is like an evil god.
At the beginning of the chapter, Grendel is not quite a believer but not quite ready to abandon belief. He is baffled by the dragon's philosophical and scientific discourse, but his instincts eventually lead him to believe that there is no god. Still, he remains attached to the humans' account of a loving god who created the world, and he is almost ready to fight the dragon to defend that belief. Grendel is not satisfied with the dragon's advice to be selfish and seek out plunder, nor does he like being called a "brute existent" against which the humans define themselves. Grendel is "addicted" to the human religion. He wants to believe, even if he knows it is not the truth. This desire will ultimately lead him to greater and greater confrontations with men and the surprise ending in Chapter 12 (at least it is a surprise to Grendel), but for now, it is enough for Grendel that "something will come of" the Shaper's song.
If Chapter 5 is a contest between belief and atheism, Chapter 6 is to some extent a battle between heroism and fate. The dragon's smell referred to in the beginning of the chapter symbolizes both fate and the cynicism a belief in fate creates. Cynicism can be defined as the belief in the impossibility of positive change. From the beginning of the chapter on, the dragon's belief system has infected Grendel with both a grave sense of doom and a conviction that everything is meaningless. On the other hand, heroism, represented by Unferth, attempts to defy fate by latching on to high ideals and seeking to defend a reputation. Grendel immediately adopts a cynical, indifferent stance toward heroism in this chapter, seeking to make fun of Unferth's "absurd" pretensions, in contrast to the rage he feels when confronted with the Shaper's song.
Like all wars, Grendel's war against Hrothgar begins with a sense of strategic advantage and continues through a gradual hardening of positions. Grendel never stops fearing men, but the dragon's charm emboldens him, showcasing how the belief in doom or fate effects Grendel. Grendel finds a liberating but isolating new identity as the destroyer of men. But Grendel's discovery of his invulnerability to the humans' blades, like cynicism, also works against him. Grendel's literal advantage in the fight against men causes a hardening of positions, prolongs the war and Grendel's cynicism toward men and isolation from them grows. Cynicism in its turn, like a protective charm, negates any reason for hope. Cynicism labels hope blind belief. In the same way, the dragon's charm simply negates the attack of the enemy without eliminating his fear of men.
When Unferth heroically enters the scene, Grendel's response is to laugh. Unferth is made to look foolish, but he does have some genuine heroic qualities. He confronts the monster in a more intentional way than the drunken boasts of the other thanes. He bravely tracks down Grendel and swims through the firesnakes, risking and receiving serious bodily injuries. Still, he is only a youth, and his strength is not enough to overcome Grendel's natural and unnatural protections. Unferth's lengthy attempt to explain heroism to Grendel is met only with indifference, and his vision of heroism is much less compelling to Grendel than that of the Shaper. Unferth's heroism fails in part because it is dependent on the vision of others, and in part because the hope for defying fate that heroes possess is simply denied by Grendel's cynicism and grounding in what Grendel calls reality. Unferth's attempt to live up to an impossible ideal and to defend his reputation is comical in light of Grendel's immunity
This chapter describes Grendel as a tortured and love-struck hero who watches his love from afar. He cannot resist the influence of the queen, Wealtheow. He begins by feigning control, but is actually terribly unbalanced in the winter of the twelfth year of war. Grendel introduces the chapter with a strained bit of poetry, encourages himself to dance, and shouts across the cliff-edge to invite far-off riders to come his way. Seemingly coming apart at the seams, he pulls himself together to announce this law: "There is no limit to desire but desire's needs." Grendel seems to have regained his old, self-indulgent mentality.When he tells of how he first saw the queen, it is quite apparent that Grendel is in love with her. He notices her beauty, and he attributes a number of good qualities to her. Ultimately, he cannot bring himself to kill her, although he holds out the weak promise that he may yet do it. When Wealtheow appears at a peace treaty between two warring groups of men. Grendel sees how she has a calming influence everywhere she goes, and the potential for men and women to rise above their base instincts is raised again. Her status as a peace offering seems to bother only Grendel, not the people most directly affected by it. Grendel sees into their hearts and knows her loneliness. When the chapter reaches its climax, with Grendel holding the queen upside down, readers know that he will not kill her. This makes the scene all the more tragic, as Grendel himself seems convinced that he could do it but truly does not have the heart. He claims to be "cured" of his love for Wealtheow by his adventure, but he is love-sick to the end, wanting to take his own life after losing his hold on hers. He returns to the idea of balance with the next to last line of the chapter, but he is clearly not in balance.
Grendel, the outsider, gives true insight into the kingdom in this chapter. He sees it torn apart internally and externally by the battle over succession brought on by Hrothulf's entrance and the war with Grendel. He does not acknowledge his role in the decline of Hrothgar's kingdom until the very end, when he claims that it is simply in his nature to be violent toward men. Yet his nature does not stop him from observing and analyzing Hrothgar's society.
Hrothulf represents the radical element of a society at war, opposing the ruling class and willing to use its own violence to express that opposition. Red Horse, like the "Communist Reds" of the Cold War, sees revolution as inevitable and violence as necessary to end the current government. This theorizing is advanced political thinking in this context and thus ironic. Hrothulf is a king's nephew who wants the throne for himself, but he justifies those desires by witnessing the injustices around him. Like Grendel, he sees himself as an outsider to the society, and he imagines himself taking up violence to end those injustices. He is actually an insider seeing himself as an outsider, mirroring Grendel's desires to be both a part of and outside of human society.
This chapter reads like a small play in the middle of the novel. Grendel attributes lines of poetry to each character in the small family drama of inviting Hrothulf into the meadhall, shifting the style of the novel to fit a changing perspective. At the end of the chapter, Grendel returns to poetry to make predictions about Hrothgar. Hrothgar is Grendel's enemy, so the dream Grendel gives Hrothgar is not a good one. Still, the use of poetry makes it more suggestive of high art and some empathy toward Hrothgar.
Grendel's ironic take on religion is presented in this chapter. He is a skeptic, but he cannot bring himself to kill the priests, as he ordinarily might. He does not view killing them as wrong because of their sacred duties; instead, he is simply disgusted by their way of thinking. Grendel to some extent represents an atheistic "will to power." He has just called himself a killing "machine" in the previous chapter, and despite all his self-awareness, he is essentially that. He wants to dominate the life of human beings and deny their hopes. In that sense, it makes sense that he would look down on the priests and their religion. But Grendel is a monster torn by love, hope, and the songs of the Shaper. Whereas he is enraged by human beings in previous chapters, in this chapter he believes he is simply making fun of them.
In fact, Grendel does not attack anyone in this chapter, does not humiliate anyone or deny them their beliefs. Even Unferth, the would-be hero, appears at the end of the chapter, and Grendel makes no attempt to humiliate him. In fact, Grendel goes a long way toward confirming two of the priests' belief in the nature of God and existence, despite his original intent to make fun of the religion. Grendel alone knows that he is the one that the blind priest saw, not the Great Destroyer. He takes ironic pleasure in filling that role, but does not reveal himself and destroy the illusion he has created. He is content to let the humans sort it out for themselves. This ironic twist, when Grendel confirms the religion he intended to mock, shows the flexibility and fragility of the priest's religion.
The dialogue between the three priests comically represents the lowest form of religion possible, while Ork's philosophical ruminations represent the highest realm of thought associated with religion. Ork's thoughts do not necessarily add up, but they are at least an attempt at explaining the nature of God, whereas the other priests dwell on rules, traditions, and mindless quotation from some ancient source. The fourth priest who comes later and accepts Ork's "vision" represents an approach to religion based on emotion that is contrary to Ork's rationalism. The varieties of religion conflict and reinforce one another in turn. Ultimately, however, all are based on either trickery or tradition and thereby add up to very little.
Life and death are contrasted in this chapter. Grendel's vicious side is seen in the attack on the goat. Grendel views the goat as a part of mindless nature, to which he is constantly opposed. Grendel, a thinking creature unlike the goat, faces the same fate as the goat. All human beings, monsters, and animals face death, so Grendel's killing of the goat is symbolic of both the relentless march of nature toward death and the futile struggle even thinking creatures put up against death. Grendel wants to stop time. He rages against the changing seasons. But he knows he cannot stop time from moving forward. The attack on the goat is an attempt to stop nature. However, the goat stubbornly persists and will not die. Grendel keeps throwing rocks at the goat, and the last line of the paragraph describes Grendel picking up another rock to throw, as if he and the goat are locked in a never-ending battle. The goat does die, but offstage, so to speak, because Grendel does not describe its final moment. Therefore, the goat represents life struggling to forever avoid death.
The goat's death is contrasted with the Shaper's. Grendel presents the Shaper's death in full detail, even recording his final words. Grendel has no role in the Shaper's death except as an onlooker, and he mourns the Shaper, lamenting that the Shaper's death marks the end of an epoch. The Shaper's life is, however, an unfinished story. We learn after his death that he sang certain songs especially for a married woman, but nothing came of the relationship. That this interesting detail of the Shaper's life is buried until after he dies reveals that Grendel knows the Shaper well and preserves his memory in his own way. The Shaper's life continues beyond death as the young assistant takes up his song at the funeral pyre, but more importantly, as Grendel confronts the "pastness" of the past and includes the Shaper in his web of words. Grendel does not acknowledge the Shaper's influence, but it is there in his narration. Grendel wishes only that he had killed the Shaper mid-song.
Two other items of note are glossed over in Grendel's account. First, Grendel kills children in this chapter, proving he is still a monster. He mentions it as if it is a normal part of life, and for him, it still is. Grendel is the bogeyman that children ought to be afraid of, so he fulfills his role. His only remark on this is "So it goes." Secondly, the old woman makes the sole mention of a hero who will come to save the Danes from afar. This is a foreshadowing of the end of the story, where Grendel faces this hero with the strength of 30 men.
Chapter Eleven Notes:
Grendel is excited because, finally, something has come to change the rhythm of his war against the humans. There is something "inexorable" about the way this new person comes to challenge Grendel, but at least it is different. The mysterious hints that the leader of the Geats is holding something in reserve are important foreshadowing of the next chapter, in which the climax of the novel will occur. Grendel is sucked in by this mysterious power, so much so that he observes even the boasting that he dismissed earlier in the novel. The boasting seems ordinary enough, but the "murderous tongue" of the stranger is revealed through it, in addition to his strength. Unferth's shame is an important contrast to the glory the new "hero" enjoys. The leader of the Geats brings real power with him, not just a desire to prove his reputation. The memory of the dragon is distant to Grendel, but this Geat leader resurrects that memory.
Grendel's philosophizes about the nature of human beings and the heart's desire for revenge, which both he and humans share. He says, "All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal - a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world - two snakepits." He still cannot achieve balance and define himself against the world without violence. He kills because it is in his nature to kill, without attaching any false meaning to it. He kills because of a desire for revenge which his mind can only defend against for so long.
Chapter Twelve Notes:
If Grendel embodied the Destroyer while all the time creating this narrative account of his war, the man who destroys Grendel is a Creator, even as he destroys Grendel. The leader of the Geats is unnamed in Grendel's account, but he is recognizable as Beowulf, the hero of the epic poem on which the novel is based. Beowulf tells Grendel in his final whispers, "Time is the mind, the hand that makes (fingers on harpstrings, hero-swords, the acts, the eyes of queens). By that I kill you." Beowulf believes it is possible to create a new world to replace the old, and by killing Grendel, he stakes a claim to that belief. Beowulf's superhuman strength is described by Grendel as if he is part-man, part-dragon. It is unclear whether it is simply Grendel's imagination or real magic that he is seeing. The references to time strongly echo the discussion with the dragon in Chapter 5, and the descriptions suggest either that Beowulf has encountered the dragon himself or that he is a dragon in disguise. Beowulf is a powerful foe who aims to recreate the world - a force on the side of order or fate in contrast to Grendel's emphasis on random chance.
This time, it is Grendel's turn to play the comic dunce. Instead of holding back, as Grendel does when confronting foolishness, Beowulf forces Grendel to wallow in his undoing. The bit of poetry Grendel composes in the midst of the struggle is actually quite ironic, and it surprises even Beowulf with its quality. But it is only one in a series of comic bits that Grendel performs, beginning by tucking in a napkin under his chin, followed by his slipping in blood. Grendel is unable to escape his fate, but his moment-by-moment account of his final battle is touching. He talks throughout his final moments. Readers may feel sympathy for this monster, who feels love, rage, fear, and revenge, and who worries about time, fate, and meaning throughout the novel. His final plunge, taken of his own free will, is a defiant action that says, "I will resist the universe that is not me to the very end."
Grendel's fate is ultimately neither comic, meaning a good end, nor tragic, meaning a bad end that ultimately shows the heroic quality of human nature. Grendel does not believe human beings are heroic, and his accounts of how people respond to his attacks convinces on that point. On the other hand, Grendel does take on some human characteristics and play the role of the tragic hero. Grendel seeks to defy his own fate, even as he feels himself "inexorably" drawn toward his final confrontation with Beowulf. In the midst of that battle, Grendel resorts to the explanation that it is all an accident, even as he confronts the terrifying reality that Beowulf has superior force and the power of fate, or the dragon, behind him. Ultimately, though, Grendel is an anti-hero who does the opposite of what a tragic hero would do. He neither confronts death heroically nor accepts responsibility for his mistakes. Nor does he maintain an ideal to the very end. Instead, his final words are a curse and a final explanation of the world as randomness. He is fighting for meaninglessness, fighting against his own heroism, even as he chooses his own fate.
In the end, human beings are spared a terrible fate at Grendel's hands, a good outcome for human society. But at the same time, humans face the terrifying prospect that any monster can be overcome by the power of fate and superior strength of arms (literally). Beowulf's power is more frightening than Grendel's self-absorbed, monstrous ways because Beowulf believes that he can recreate the world by sheer force of will. Beowulf is the true "will to power" in the novel. A thinking, feeling creature is destroyed on the other end of his battle. Grendel's attempt to tell his side of the story forces readers to confront the possibilities of a life lived without the comfortable truths humans tell themselves.
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NBC comedy "30 Rock" often finds laughs in real-life events in the show business world it inhabits.
But Thursday's edition targeted one of its own cast members, Tracy Morgan, whofound himself in real-life hot water last June after making anti-gay remarks during a stand-up appearance in Nashville, Tenn.
On the "30 Rock" episode, Tracy Jordan, the character Morgan plays, sparked a protest after making a couple of ridiculous gay-oriented jokes at a club date.
A contrite Jordan mistakenly apologizes to the makers of Glad bags, rather than to the Gay&Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, known as GLAAD.
Jordan's boss, played by series star Tina Fey, is forced to apologize for him.
"He's not capable of hate," she assures the media. "He's just an idiot who doesn't know what he's saying."
In real life, Tracy Morgan publicly apologized to his fans and the gay and lesbian community for what he called "my choice of words." He denied being a hateful person and acknowledged that "even in a comedy club" what he said went too far "and was not funny in any context." During his rant, Morgan had said in part that if his son were gay, he would "pull out a knife and stab" him.
Fey, who is also the creator and an executive producer of "30 Rock," issued a statement at the time declaring "I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian co-workers at '30 Rock.'"
Mirroring that real-life statement on Thursday's episode, Fey's character, Liz Lemon, chides Jordan by saying, "Do you know how many of your hardworking and dedicated co-workers are gay?"
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That doesn't mean it is necessarily tasteful or humorous, or that I should consider it such simply because Mr. Stewart meant it as a joke. If you'd like to adopt a regressive mindset regarding world crises, I suppose that would be your prerogative; leave me to mine.
"BTW, no offense meant, but if you meant your last post as a joke you REALLY need to learn that."
If one were going by my last post alone, it would seem I already have.
Um, no?
I tought it was funny ^_- I mean come on ... think of the littles kids in africa! you got to do it for them!
I wish Brad Pitt will give abit to charity... and others people too, be sure to choose who you giving you money too, if you arent christian and dont want to force any charity to "convert" poor people in echange of money, be sure to read the little characters...
If you are christian and want to convert people, well read the little characters too ^_-
I personnality give a little, what I can in fact ^^ Its not alot but its stupiditly make me feel better ^^
Good job; it just takes a bit of thought.
"Well, it would look PRETTIER with a comma, and read more poetically. Sorry that you don't want to be poetic."
I didn't see a need to utilize poetic license while writing a forum post, especially one about the proper use of grammar. I am poetic, however, and I could direct you to some poems I've written if I really wanted you to read them.
"Why are you such a prude, Overmann?"
You say it as if that's a bad thing.
eh, I'd still hit that.
By the way, this website prevents you from exercising proper grammar in every respect COMPLETELY; it converts your two spaces (which follow the end of a sentence) into one, WITHOUT EXCEPTION! You should write buddy about that.
I think that rule reguarding apostrophies and the word "it" is very frustrating, because in proper indications of possession, you always position the apostrophie inbetween the end of the subject word and the s which indicates posession. I guess I was always worried that if people put an s at the end of an "it" without using an apostrophe, people would interpret that as multiple its, rather than possessive its. But I guess there is no such thing as a plural it, so I guess I answered my own question!
Think of my use of 'though' as 'albeit' and no comma is necessary - not that a comma is necessary as is because its usage is the same.
"Oh, and you probably had problems with your picture due to it's format."
You mean "its" format? Probably, but I'm not taking any chances. It's there for all to see and if they'd like to make presumptions about how obsessed I'd have to be to put it up there: oh well.
Second "I," just thought it could have used a comma.
Oh, and you probably had problems with your picture due to it's format.
Try this one; seemed to work for me:
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Mind giving me a direct quote?
"You can still change it, you know!"
I know, but I had a hell of a time getting the picture to stay and I don't much feel like going through that again. Besides that, I don't particularly feel the urge to change it anyway. I'm not sure why anyone ever does, it's just an avatar.
I fear you're going to have to come up with something better than your opinion, Suicism, to back up an argument. If all any IDer had to do was say the "theory" of Intelligent Design "was evident" in regards to proving it...
"Oh, and nice EDIT. I noticed you missed a comma on page 2 in post 2, paragraph 2, sentence 3, word 24 as well."
I don't believe I did. Are talking about my use of the word 'but' without a comma?
"I think that edit more appropriately describes your presumptuousness in instructing others on their grammar"
Oh just you, Suicism, because unlike the others, you do try so very hard.
"Let me rephrase that; what ARE you doing about it..."
Aside from giving more of a sh*t than you, you mean? I donate 20 dollars to the Red Cross each month. When I enter my better paying career and make, oh, about 115 grand a year max starting, I'll donate a greater percentage.
Let me rephrase that; what ARE you doing about it, besides complaining here in the I-Am-Bored forum to a bunch of online cronies who are far less aware of the technical erroniousness of their capricious capitalizations than myself?
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INGOMAR – Fans that are in need of a high school sports "fix" only need to drive to Ingomar during the next few weeks to catch prep action in boys and girls basketball plus fast pitch softball. Girls basketball hit the hardwood on Tuesday with a full slate of games, 15 in total. Union County […]
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JACKSON – Three Union county baseball players closed their high school careers on Saturday as participants in the MAC All-Star game at Smith-Willis Stadium in Jackson, Miss. Despite the North team leading for the majority of the game, the South squad just edged them out in the final inning for a walk-off base hit, winning […]
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TUPELO – Two New Albany Bulldogs received the opportunity to compete as some of the top football talent in the state. Rising seniors Jake McDonald and Devin Wilson took part in the Southern Select Combine at Tupelo High School on Saturday, increasing their visibility for recruiters in the hope of furthering their careers after high […]
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BLUE SPRINGS – Summer league baseball jumped out to a strong start for the East Union Urchins, who swept Ingomar, Myrtle and Booneville in a Thursday afternoon tournament of three five-inning contests. Ingomar also picked up a win, defeating Booneville 4-0 in the second game of the day. East Union 4, Booneville 3 Rising senior […]
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Getting better. With five seasons in the books, the Nolan Brothers Cotton States League will embark on its sixth season with that motto in mind. "It's what the players do, they come spend a couple of months playing a game they love and getting better at it," Director of Baseball Operations Frank Dodds said. What […]
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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2
In order to unlock extra characters, complete the level listed on any difficulty.
Unlockable How to Unlock Ace Act 2-4 Akainu Final Act-2 Brook Act 1-3 Brook (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Buggy Act 3-5 Chopper Act 1-3 Chopper (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Crocodile Act 3-3 Eneru Final Act-1 Franky Act 1-1 Franky (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Garp Act 4-1 Hancock Act 2-3 Jimbei Act 1-2 Kizaru Final Act-1 Kuma Act 3-1 Kuzan Act 2-1 Law Act 4-2, Must Rescue Whitebeard Luffy Available from the start Luffy (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Marco Act 1-4 Mihawk Act 3-2 Nami Prologue-2 Nami (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Perona Act 2-2 Robin Act 3-4 Robin (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Sanji Act 3-6 Sanji (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Smoker Prologue-2 Teach Final Act-2 Teach (Double Ability) Complete all Straw Hat Crew Missions, then Teach's Crew Mission Usopp Act 3-4 Usopp (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission Whitebeard Act 4-2, Must Rescue Whitebeard Zoro 3-6 Zoro (2 years ago) Complete Final Act-2, then complete Crew Mission
Free 500,000 Beli (Pirate cash)
Simply start a game with save data from the first game on your hard drive to unlock a nice 500,000 Beli to start your shopping early.
Unlockable How to Unlock 500,000 Beli Start a new game with save data from the first game on your hard drive.
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Movies unlockable
One of the trophy (I'm ready for my close up) requires players to unlock all movies. Most movies will be unlocked automatically, but some movies can be missed for several reason, like not playing the correct character. Below is the list of unlockable movies. Some movies title have some spoilers to the game.
Unlockable How to Unlock 01. Opening Movie Start the game 02. The beginning of a New Adventure Prologue 1 03. Maxim Surfacing Prologue 1 04. The natural enemy of "God" Prologue 1 05. White Hunter Smoker Prologue 2 06. Prelude to Madness Prologue 2 07. The Raging "Iron Man" Chapter 1-1 08. The Man Who was Admiral Chapter 1-1 09. Fist of Love (Missable) Chapter 1-2, play as Luffy and meet Garp 10. The Marines' Greatest War Ability Chapter 1-2 11. Shadow Shadow Fruit User Chapter 1-3 12. First Son of the Sea Jinbei Chapter 1-3 13. Want to be a Monster! (Missable) Chapter 1-4, play as Chopper and score 1000 K.O. 14. Phoenix Marco Chapter 1-4 15. Fire Fist Ace(Missable) Chapter 1-4, play as Smoker and meet Ace 16. The Enforcer of Justice Chapter 2-1 17. Unexpected Helper Chapter 2-1 18. The Sand King Chapter 2-2 19. "Gatekeeper of Hell" Chapter 2-3 20. Love-Love Mellow (Missable) Chapter 2-3, let Magellan invade home base(where Hancock stays). Don't capture any top area for easier invasion by Magellan. 21. Ace and Teach Chapter 2-4 22. Legendary Marine (Missable) Chapter 2-4, play as Marco, and don't attack Marine/red faction. Attack pirate/yellow faction until Garp arrives and meet him. 23. Complete Justice Chapter 2-4 24. The Battle of Marineford Chapter 2-4 25. A New Threat Chapter 2-4 26. Feast of "God" Chapter 3-1 27. It's Now or Never Kuma Chapter 3-1 28. The World's Greatest Swordsman Chapter 3-2 29. Soul King (Missable) Chapter 3-2, play as Brook, and face Mihawk when he becomes Yellow faction member. 30. Devilish Swordsman of the Triple Sword (Missable) Chapter 3-2, play as Luffy and face Zorro when he becomes the victory condition(he shows up at enemy main base). 31. Raging "Devil Child" Chapter 3-3 32. Negative Champ (Missable) Chapter 3-4, play as Perona and defeat Usopp when Moria tries to escape. Defeating Usopp and Robin will clear the stage. 33. The Legendary Buggy Chapter 3-5 34. Raging "Gatekeeper of Hell" Chapter 3-5 35. Raging "Pirate Hunter" Chapter 3-6 36. Ragin "Black Leg" Chapter 3-6 37. Even if I Die, I'll Never Kick a Woman Chapter 3-6 38. Light and Thunder Chapter 4-1 39. The Nefarious Couple Chapter 4-1 40. Raging "Whitebeard" Chapter 4-2 41. Whitebeard Dies Chapter 4-2 42. The Pirate that Spurs Corpses Chapter 4-2 43. I Lose to No One Chapter 4-2 44. The Strongest Paramecia Chapter 4-3 45. Straw Hat Pirates vs Teach Chapter 4-3 46. Continuing the Adventure Clear chapter 4-3 47. Whitebeard Lives Chapter 4-2 48. The Power of the Dark Dark Fruit Chapter 4-2 49. "Dial" Rampage Chapter 4-2 50. "Surgeon of Death" Final Chapter 1 51. Raging "God" Final Chapter 1 52. The Final Battle Final Chapter 2 53. Raging "Blackbeard" Final Chapter 2 54. Power of the New Generation vs. Teach Final Chapter 2 55. The Grand Finale Clear Final Chapter 2
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True Ending
To unlock the True Ending first beat the game normally on any difficulty by completing Act 4-3. Then complete all available Crew Missions on any difficulty. Once this is done replay Act 4-2 and a new mission will appear during the level to "Convince Whitebeard". Complete this mission and finish the level to unlock the Final Act and the True Ending.
There are 23 Bronze Trophies, 13 Silver Trophies, 3 Gold Trophy, and 1 Platinum Trophy.
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Trophy Description Type A new adventure is beginning! Cleared the first Episode. Bronze All the treasure in the world is mine! Acquired all Secret Coins. Silver Alright! I got it! Collected your first Coin. Bronze Big spender! Spent a total of 100,000 or more Beli at the Beli Shop. Bronze Bring on a thousand more! Total number of defeated enemies exceeds 100,000. Silver Business is good! Spent a total of 10,000,000 or more Beli at the Beli Shop. Silver Come with me! Cleared 5 stages each with 5 different characters. Bronze From here on out is the New World! Cleared the Prologue. Bronze Getting back my captured allies! Cleared the Third Chapter. Bronze Got something rare. Acquired your first Secret Coin. Bronze He already has so many wonderful allies. Cleared 5 stages each with 20 different characters. Bronze I think I'll buy the world! Spent a total of 100,000,000 or more Beli at the Beli Shop. Silver I'll only grow stronger. Acquired your first skill. Bronze I'm getting fired up! Defeated 500 enemies while in Style Action. Silver I'm hungry for some meat! Acquired 100 or more Giant Meat. Bronze I'm ready for my close-up. Unlocked all movies in the gallery. Silver It's hiding a terrible power! Acquired your first Skill Note. Bronze Join my crew! Assembled 10 or more allies. Bronze Let's adventure together! Assembled 30 or more allies. Silver Like some sort of legendary monster! Defeated a total of 10,000 or more enemies with Special Attacks. Bronze Look at this big haul! Acquired all Secret Coins in any single Main Episode. Bronze Luffy's true allies... Defeated 10,000 enemies with Crew Strike. Bronze My skills are all... evolving. Performed your first Style Action. Bronze My strength has grown! Acquired 10 skills. Bronze Now it's my turn! Cleared the Second Chapter. Bronze People's dreams never die! (secret) Cleared all Episodes on the highest difficulty level. Gold Possessing tremendous power! Cleared 5 stages each with 10 different characters. Bronze Rise to the top! All Trophies acquired! Platinum Thanks! I owe you one! Performed your first Crew Strike. Bronze The Pirate King is the freest person on the seas! (secret) Obtained a True Ending. Gold There's only room for one Pirate King! Cleared all Challenge Scenarios. Silver There's probably a lot more of these. Collected 100 or more different Coins. Bronze This'll buy a lot of meat! Acquired a total of 100,000,000 Beli. Silver Unbelievable power...! Stunned the enemy 1,000 times. Bronze Victory is mine! (secret) Obtained a Normal Ending. Silver We... know everything... Unlocked everything in the gallery. Silver What!? I missed! Dodged a Style Action enemy's attack. Bronze Wow! He's amazing! Collected 250 or more different Coins. Silver You can count on me! Acquired 20 skills. Silver You're all my family... Cleared all Crew Episodes. Gold
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The officer looked quietly at the people around him, still pointing his blaster at the man. He switched the weapon from stun to kill with one flick of a switch before turning to a random person who didn't belong to the pirates and shot him in the crotch.After which he turned back to the man and took a step closer.
"Let's try that again" he said and took yet another step towards the man, lowering the barrel of his blaster to point at his crotch. It was more of a threat to men than anything else. Live the rest of your life without sexual pleasure or die instantly. Not many would take the first choise.
"This time the truth, the full truth and nothing but the truth"
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Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
In our obscurity in all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
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Advocates and service providers work most effectively when equipped with clear, comprehensive analysis of relevant policies and developments in the field. To meet this need, the MSMGF engages in knowledge translation and knowledge production, generating numerous publications on issues that impact MSM health and human rights at regional and global levels.
This global consultation report focuses on increasing access to treatment services for MSM living with HIV worldwide.
Youth Reference Group Action Plan 2015-2017
December 2014
This document outlines the MSMGF Youth Reference Group's Action Plan to support the health and human rights of young MSM (YMSM) over the next three years.
MSM in Sub-Saharan Africa: Health, Access, & HIV
This policy brief examines access to basic HIV services among MSM in Sub-Saharan Africa, including the roles of stigma, violence, and community engagement in impacting levels of access among MSM in the region. (Erratum)
Access Challenges for HIV Treatment: People Living with HIV and Key Populations in Middle-Income Countries
Coverage of Key Populations at the 2012 International AIDS Conference
This publication features a systematic analysis of the number, quality, and geographic coverage of abstracts on key populations at the 2012 International AIDS Conference (IAC).
Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: Health, Access, & HIV
This policy brief examines housing, violence, and other HIV risk factors among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) globally using data from the 2012 Global Men's Health and Rights survey (2012 GMHR).
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The "metarheinmain chaosdays" is a conference for those who are interested in the it sector and especially the it security aspect of it. Our goal is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and the meeting of like minded individuals. The mrmcd101b - the fifth metarheinmain chaosdays - written in binary 101b - is an event sponsored by the university student group "chaos darmstadt", a part of the ccc germany.
This event is being held through the good graces of the technical university of darmstadt who has donated their facilities to the conference. It is an effort to bring the diverse perespectives of both academia and the specialized knowledge of the hacker scence together. Users, Developers and Scientists have the possibility to engage in innovative technical discourse. With the doors open to the academic scence there is a chance to display topics related to the social imperative while maintaining the atmosphere of a technical conference. This endeavour seeks to tackle the social problems of our time with technology as our greatest tool.
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Please see 3 PARTS of this WUNRN Release on Saudi Arabla.
Date of signature
Date of receipt of the instrument of ratification,
Saudi Arabia
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Thursday, 17 January 2008
Combined initial and second periodic reports of States Parties
"In Saudi Arabia, a male guardian, who could be the woman's grandfather, father, uncle, husband, son or brother, literally controls her life."
DUBAI (AFP) — Women in the ultra-conservative Muslim powerhouse of Saudi Arabia navigate through life amid harsh restrictions imposed by a rigid interpretation of Islam and stringent tradition.
These constraints were highlighted again this month after a judge sentenced to six months in jail and 200 lashes of the whip a 19-year-old woman who was kidnapped at knife-point with a male companion and then gang-raped.
They are mostly unwritten restrictions based on tradition and religion and as such have come to be considered law.
Home to Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is ruled by Wahhabism, a rigorous doctrine of Sunni Islam whose sharia (laws) impose a total segretation of the sexes.
So in the view of the kingdom's conservative society, the young rape victim broke the first of a string of cardinal rules and sinned by being in the physical presence of a male who is not a directly-related relative.
In Saudi Arabia, a male guardian, who could be the woman's grandfather, father, uncle, husband, son or brother, literally controls her life.
And no matter how old they are, Saudi women need a "mahram" or a guardian -- a husband or close male relative if they are widowed or single -- in order to apply for and obtain a passport.
"Here, the son is the male guardian of his mother if she is a widow or divorced. She would need his written approval for anything... She has no value," said Saudi activist Wajiha al-Hweider
Fellow women rights activist Hatoon al-Fassi said women in Saudi Arabia suffer from the lack of written laws, which subjects rulings concerning them to the discretion of jugdes, and complained of "male-chauvinism" in her country.
"A woman is treated always as a minor and as a second-class citizen," said Fassi, a history at King Saud University in Riyadh.
In Saudi Arabia, sex segretation means that women attending a conference must sit behind a partition to ensure no eye or physical contact with male delegates.
And they certainly cannot eat alone in restaurants, where seating is arranged for "families' -- women accompanied by husbands or male guardians -- or for men only.
A religious police known as "mutawas", or pious men, criss-cross the kingdom's streets to ensure that the rules are strictly observed and shield the nation against vice.
The "mutawas", who stop couples to check their identities, belong to the Saudi Commission for the Protection of Virtue and Suppression of Vice, which also ensure that Saudi women are dressed properly according.
Women must be covered from head to toe, hiding their shapes thanks to a loose-fitting black "abaya" gown, and most of them wear as well a "hijab" veil over the heads and a "niqab" mask concealing the faces, except for the eyes.
Some women, however, have begun to remove the "niqab".
But in Saudi Arabia none of them have the right to drive.
Information Minister Iyad bin Amin Madani was quoted as saying last year that nothing in the law prevented women from applying for a driving licence.
A group of 47 women defied the taboo in November 1990, and cruised Riyadh unchecked for half an hour before police swooped down, detained them and reprimanded their male guardians.
Although women cannot drive or be in the presence of an unrelated male relative, they can be chauffeured around by hired drivers not related to the family.
Political constraints also mean that Saudi women are totally absent from the Shura (consultative) Council, an all-male body whose members are appointed by the king, and were barred from landmark municipal elections in 2005.
But despite the restrictions more women than men in Saudi Arabia pursue higher education and the number of females active in the business sector is on the rise.
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Informed in large part by fashion illustration and pinup culture, Peter McNierney's digital works pack a graphic punch. We like that his sense of sexuality is a little bit androgynous, best exemplified in his portrait of the iconic Grace Jones. McNierney is a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.


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16 May 2011
The Lawyer
A&O approves German expansion plans as part of worldwide growth strategy
Allen & Overy (A&O) Germany has been given the green light by global management to expand aggressively, following a two-month tour of its offices by worldwide senior partner David Morley.
A&O, Links set the tone with associate pay freeze
Associates hoping for bumper pay rises will be left disappointed if rival firms do as expected and follow the lead of Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters.
Addleshaws names new corporate chief
Addleshaw Goddard has appointed partner Philip Goodstone as divisional managing partner in charge of the firm's corporate group.
Appleby appoints first chair as part of management shake-up
Appleby, the world's largest offshore firm, has revamped its management structure to broaden its strategic mandate.
Ashurst seals Lloyds' loyalty with treble placement
Ashurst has cemented a burgeoning relationship with Lloyds Banking Group by committing a three-lawyer team to an extended placement at the bank on what a source described as a "balance-sheet management project".
Awards contenders show corporate is still a big deal
This year's deals highlight the West to East shift in the balance of economic power, says Gavriel Hollander
BLG chief predicts great things as figures go north
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has posted a 35 per cent jump in net profit, from £16.8m to £22.7m, at the end of a year of significant change for the firm.
Bribery Act will need strong backing to be effective
The Bribery Act 2010 has been pored over and debated ceaselessly since its passage through Parliament in April 2010.
Capital better
The Indian firms traditionally strong in capital markets work are facing increased competition in a revved-up market from both domestic and international rivals, reports Kian Ganz
CC teams with German partners on €300m high-yield debt issue
Clifford Chance has fielded an Anglo-German team on a mandate advising German printing press manufacturer Heidelberg Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft on its inaugural high-yield debt issue as part of an €800m (£700m) refinancing package.
Clydes beats panel rivals to Lukoil Iraqi oilfield brief
Clyde & Co's energy group has won a major mandate after being appointed to advise Lukoil Mid-East in support of the development of its West Qurna-2 oilfield in Iraq.
Clydes joins Akin Gump, CC on Lukoil's ME panel
Russian oil producer Lukoil has appointed a three-firm panel for its upstream Middle East subsidiary Lukoil Middle East after winning a contract to develop a major Iraqi oilfield.
Egorov to install English-qualifieds in partnership
Russian firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is planning an aggressive expansion strategy that will incorporate the first hires of English-qualified lawyers by a domestic Russian firm.
Eversheds swaps Lupicinio for Nicea
Eversheds is set to tie up with Spanish firm Nicea Abogados following its split from alliance partner Eversheds Lupicinio.
Focus: Reed Smith, United we stand
Vereins may be the structure du jour, but Reed Smith's unified compensation system helped make its merger with Richards Butler one of the smoothest ever
From toilets to torches: Freshfields' Olympic procurement team has it covered
As London gears up to host the greatest show on earth, a team of lawyers is hard at work behind the scenes drafting vital contracts that will ensure every need of both the athletes and spectators at the Olympics is catered for.
Herbie's Aussie energy rush
It's tough keeping up with all the energy and natural resources-related international expansion these days. UK firms in particular are flocking to the supposedly overlawyered Australian market.
Herbies mulls Australia to jump-start global plan
Firm yet to decide on launch or merger as it follows UK rivals
Hill Dickinson growth inspires structural shift
Hill Dickinson has scrapped its management board and revamped its business structure.
Honest governor
Increasingly the courts are faced with issues of dishonesty by professionals and with this trend comes a hike in use of the illegality defence. James Roberts and Chris Dunlop examine its evolution in recent case law
Matters of opinions
The Supreme Court's decision to remove immunity of suit from expert witnesses might be less dramatic than first expected. Nicholas Heaton reports
Media lawyers in the driving seat as Mosley crashes and burns in ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) won favour with newspaper media lawyers last week after it rejected a bid by former International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley to force newspapers to warn people beforehand if they are going to publish details of their private lives.
Mishcon, DLA Piper seal London Gate deal
DLA Piper and Mishcon de Reya both landed roles on PPP developer Cathedral Group and property developer Development Securities's joint acquisition of London Gate business park in Hayes, Middlesex.
Onside Law plays above par to secure Ryder Cup mandate
Sports boutique Onside Law has landed a major mandate after advising Ryder Cup Europe on the bidding process to decide the host for the 2018 staging of the biennial golf tournament.
People moves
South West firm Foot Anstey has continued its high-profile recruitment drive with the arrival of real estate expert partner Richard Walford (left).
SE firm taps into local community with new India group
South East firm Dutton Gregory has launched an India practice, hoping to gain leverage from the region's sizeable Asian community.
Top of the World: Elizabeth Shurdom, WorldPay
Since Advent and Bain took WorldPay off RBS's hands Elizabeth Shurdom has assumed a whole new level of responsibility. But as James Swift finds, the GC's enthusiasm has kept pace with the company's rate of expansion
Tulkinghorn: Cool runnings
Tulkinghorn tends not to go in much for giving worthy causes the oxygen of publicity.
Willheim Müller
Willheim Müller Rechtsanwälte managing partner Johannes Willheim is not one for modesty.


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Win Tickets to the SOLD OUT Ellie Goulding Show at the Fox Theater During the Daly Download
March 10, 2014 5:00 AM
Ellie Goulding is truly an incredible artist. We obviously love her, and with hits like Burn, Lights and Anything Could Happen she's not going anywhere soon.
This is just one of the many reasons we're happy to be giving away tickets to her show at Fox Theater this week during the Daly Download.
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Baby Rhino At ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Jamil, the four week old Greater One Horned Rhinoceros stands with... News PhotoAnimal,Dunstable,Enclosure,England,Human Interest,Mother,UK,Vertical,Week,ZSL Whipsnade ZooPhotographer Dan KitwoodCollection: Getty Images News 2013 Getty ImagesDUNSTABLE, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Jamil, the four week old Greater One Horned Rhinoceros stands with her mother Behan in their enclosure at Whipsnade Zoo on January 8, 2013 in Dunstable, England. The 3ft high baby rhino weighing 59kg at birth made her first public appearance today as keepers at the zoo undertook their annual stocktake. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)


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Tagliamonte 7x5mm Amethyst Cabachon Rhodium Over Sterling Silver With 14k Yellow Gold Accents Medusa Cameo Cross Pendant With Rolo Link Chain. Pendant Measures Approximately 2 1/2"l X 1 15/16"w And Chain Has A Lobster Claw Clasp. Made In Italy.
Tagliamonte continues the rich tradition of fine jewelry craftsmanship begun by Stanislao Tagliamonte in Torre del Greco, Naples in 1943. Since 1985, Tagliamonte has dedicated their work to the creation of Venetian cameo jewelry, becoming the only company in the world with mastery of this authentic 18th century process. Today, Nino Tagliamonte teams with two Venetian artists dedicated to preserving this ancient manufacturing style. Master artisans hand craft each piece in 18kt gold over sterling silver inspired by age-old gold crafting techniques. Nino has revived symbolic elements and designs by having them made in delicate pastel colors of Venetian glass and incorporated into the jewelry, thus creating works of art as unique and individual as the process and artisans themselves. Tagliamonte jewelry requires special care and handling. To protect your items, please keep them away from harsh chemicals and use only mild soap and water for cleaning. Enjoy these remarkable moments of history and add this unique collection today to your jewelry wardrobe.
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5Willie Jefferson
Willie Jefferson Plays in Texans First Exhibition of 2013
Former Lumberjack All-American makes plays in exhibition game
Former 'Jacks Leave Impression in First NFL Exhibition
Aubrey, Roberson turn in strong performances for the Browns
Former 'Jacks Performing Well at NFL Camps
A trio of Lumberjacks trying to makes dreams come true at the next level
Jamey Rootes Speaks at Nacogdoches Rotary
Houston Texans' President Jamey Rootes promotes annual rivalry game
Ward Named to CFPA Preseason Watch List
Junior DJ Ward expected to be among the nation's top wide outs in 2013
Ford Stadium - Dallas, Texas Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012
2011 Second-Team Sports Network All-America
2011 Second-Team College Sports Madness FCS All-America
2011 Third-Team Phil Steele's Magazine All-America
2011 Third-Team Beyond College Sports All-America
2011 Honorable Mention CSN Fabulous 50 All-America
2011 Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year
2011 (Junior): A second-team College Sports Madness FCS All-American ... CSN Fabulous 50 Honorable Mention All-America ... Named SLC Newcomer of the Year ... Two-time SLC Defensive Player of the Week ... Appeared in all 11 games recording 29 total tackles, including 19 solo stops, and 15 sacks for 114 yards in losses ... Picked off two passes which he returned for scores ... Broke up three passes ... Finished first in the Southland Conference, and fourth nationally with 15 sacks ... Set a new school record with 4.5 sacks against McNeese State ... Also picked off a pass in the end zone for a touchdown against the Cowboys ... Was named national defensive player of the week following his performance against McNeese State ... Had a season-high six solo tackles, including a conference record five sacks, at Northwestern State ... Picked off a pass and returned it 41 yards for a touchdown against McMurry ... Also caught three two-point conversions against the War Hawks.
2009 (True Freshman): Played in all 12 games... saw action as receiver in 11 of 12 games and earned one start... Earned first collegiate letter... One of eight true freshmen to letter in 2009... Totaled five receptions for 101 yards and one touchdown on season, also made one tackle on special teams... Caught touchdown pass on first career reception in win over Northwestern State in third game... Had five games with one reception each, with a career-long of 36 yards at Iowa State in sixth game... Had one catch and made one solo tackle vs. No. 19 Oklahoma in fifth game... Made career-first start in season finale vs. Texas Tech, no receptions.
High School: Two-sport star at Ozen High School ... Named second-team 4A all-state as a senior ... First-team All-District 20-4 selection and Port Arthur News Super Team selection at wide receiver as senior ... Credited with 13 receptions for 130 yards as junior in 2007... Scored 11 touchdowns on junior varsity as sophomore in 2006.
Personal:Son of Willie and Marion Jefferson ... Born Jan. 31, 1991, in Beaumont, Texas... Majoring in health science studies.


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Posted 07/02 · 10:24 AM · MMH EditorialShow organizer reports attendance up 16%.
Beverage distributors: Masters of the end-to-end supply chain
Posted 07/01 · 11:50 AM · MMH EditorialRetail distributors are looking to the storage, fulfillment and delivery strategies of beverage distributors to learn how to more closely connect the DC with the storefront.
Automated palletizing gives bottled water company a clear advantage
Posted 07/01 · 11:48 AM · MMH EditorialFollowing the installation of an automatic palletizer, the company cut labor costs and increased total volume.
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Welcome to the Quantal Quetzal edition of Ubuntu Studio, a free, easy-to-use and powerful Linux-based operating system built around the lightweight Xfce desktop environment and offering some of the best open source applications for multimedia production.
Distributed as Live DVDs for 64-bit and 32-bit architectures
Ubuntu Studio 12.10 was officially announced on October 18, 2012 along wih many other Ubuntu flavors, and supported until May 16, 2014. The operating system is available for download as Live DVD ISO images of over 2GB in size, which means that the user must write them to DVD discs or USB thumb drives of 4GB or higher capacity in order to boot them from the BIOS of a PC.
The boot menu of the Live DVDs is identical with the one of the Ubuntu Studio 12.04 LTS release, allowing the user to start the live environment, permanently install the distribution on a local drive, boot an existing OS from the first disk, perform a memory check, as well as to verify the integrity of the bootable medium (only if using a DVD media).
Using the same beautiful Xfce desktop environment with even more multimedia apps
While the beautiful and lightweight Xfce desktop environment uses the same panel/dock layout, wallpaper and desktop theme that was available since Ubuntu Studio 12.04 LTS, it has been tweaked a little to be more responsive and look good.
The first thing we've noticed about Ubuntu Studio 12.10 was its size, which is bigger than the previous version with approximately 300MB. This means that it includes even more multimedia apps, among which we can mention SooperLooper, Agave, Rapid Photo Downloader, Scribus, FontForge, as well as a wide range of audio effects.
Bottom line
Summing up, Ubuntu 12.10 is a really great, good looking, stable and powerful Ubuntu-based operating system designed from the ground up for creative people. Unfortunately, this version is no longer maintained by Canonical and has been archived for historical purposes only.


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Media Advisory: Conyers, Ellison, Grijalva, and Grayson to Demand that Boehner Hold a Vote on the One-Sentence "Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013"
(WASHINGTON) – The Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) will host a press conference on Capitol Hill this Thursday to demand an up or down vote on H.R. 900, the "Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013," introduced by CPC Member John Conyers (D-MI). Members of Moveon.org, Social Security Works, and Americans who have had their access to critical services and their livelihoods threatened by the devastating across-the-board cuts known as the "sequester" are expected to be in attendance. The citizen advocates will deliver more than 250,000 petitions signed nationwide to Speaker Boehner's office on Thursday.
What: Progressive Caucus Leaders, Citizen Advocates to Call for a Vote on the Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013
• Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)
• Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
• Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ)
• Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)
• Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and other supporters of H.R. 900.
When: Thursday March 14th, 2013, 12pm
Where: Rayburn House Office Building, 2237