The Chancellor™ asked:


January 30, 2006 - With a history as legendary and as checkered as Tomb Raider’s, one must wonder how Eidos keeps the idea of another Tomb Raider fresh in anyone’s head. The answer, at least for early January 2006, is to drop a little demo disc into the open hands of the online press corps. Tomb Raider Legend, due on Xbox, PS2, Xbox 360, PSP, and PC this spring, is the seventh Tomb Raider game in less than 10 years, and it’s undergone the biggest transformation the series has seen to date. It’s an old game Crystal Dynamics is hoping to renew and the biggest changes are both subtle yet instantly noticeable. They should greatly please old Tomb Raider fans such as me. But will new adventure-loving gamers who’ve played the likes of Prince of Persia instantly fall in love with Lara? Or will they still feel like Lara is a relic of the past?

The split-level demo we have is a consumer demo: It’s coming to OPM in April on PS2 and then to retail stores in May. The demo doesn’t even comprise an entire level, so the idea is more about whetting our appetites than giving us in-depth preview code. We took about 15-20 minutes to beat it and found the disc offered us a little of everything: rock climbing, rope swinging, shooting and combat, swimming, puzzle solving, and a few new tricks. What we learned from this demo is Tomb Raider still heavily focuses on adventuring. You’re primary objective is to figure out how to get from point A to point B. A little gun action, some puzzle solving including occasional physics puzzles, and a little story progression fill in the gaps. Crystal Dynamics said the final game is split between about 75% adventure and 25% action.

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After a long period of research, Crystal Dynamics felt that restoring Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider series to its roots was important. The focus, Crystal has told us, is to get Lara into a lot of adventuring scenarios, to solve puzzles that don’t require you to pull hard-to-see levers on each side of London (see Tomb Raider 3 for that), and to include action and shooting sequences, but not to dwell on them. She’s a spelunker, not Rambo; although if you saw the Tomb Raider movies starring Angelina Jolie, you might think differently.

In the demo you find yourself climbing mountainsides in Bolivia in search of an ornate stone dais. Crystal Dynamics has ditched the mathematical checkerboard controls that have haunted all the previous games in the series. Lara is now free to go where she wants. Her list of actions is larger than before too. You’ll immediately notice how flexible and generally easy she is to control on any surface, whether it’s simply walking or running around, climbing rocky ledges, swimming, or making precision jumps. The only problem I experienced happened when I tried to jump from a vine to a ledge. The animation I learned a little after my leg-breaking death actually shows you when to jump. While on a rope, vine, or chain, moving the controller to the left or the right starts Lara’s animation. Let’s say you want her to jump right. While using an Xbox or PS2 controller you point the analog stick right, after which she starts prepping. When she is fully extended in the right direction, press the jump button for a successful jump.

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For anyone who’s played the old games, this new control scheme is clearly smoother, more intuitive, and less rigid. Lara is capable of moving quickly and smoothly in numerous situations. If you press a button rapidly while shimmying across a cliff side, she will rhythmically and rapidly shift across the rocky surface. She no longer feels like her boots are magnetically stuck to the ground. Is she the next Prince of Persia? No, sir. But is she highly improved over her old bad self? Yes, sir.
If you want to try the demo, go to www.download.com

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number1pbefan asked:


My girlfriend is 1/4 Chippewa, and we have been together for quite awhile. I know that she gets free college, but if we had children (they’d be 1/8 Chippewa) would they get free college too?

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Ryan A asked:


me and my friends wanna go down tonite. is it open?

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dana b asked:


My daughter is doing a report on jobs that early chippewas had. We found some male jobs but are having a hard time finding about the females.

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inquisitive1 asked:


there was a fight posted on youtube earlier this week and everybody was talking about it and now i went to look for it and its gone….

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Steven Andro asked:


Flying in to Denver then renting a car. Should I just rent a set up there and not be bothered with lugging my board and boots all the way out there?
It’s not much of a money thing becuase if I take my board, I’m going to buy a travel bag for my board plus have to rent an SUV as opposed to economy whip so the money is pretty negligible.

Any opinions? Going to Vail and Breckenridge.

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Linnie asked:


The Doe Network:
Case File 789UMCO

Notebook

Unidentified White Male

The victim was discovered on September 8, 2004 in the Flat Tops, White River National Forest, Garfield County, Colorado
Estimated Date of Death: No longer than 5 years prior to discovery
Skeletal remains

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Vital Statistics

Estimated age: Late 40s to late 50s, but could have been anywhere from 35 to 65.
Approximate Height : 6′0″
Distinguishing Characteristics: Forensic examiners say he suffered some discomfort from degeneration in his back and neck.
Dentals: The man had extensive dental work, including gold work, crowns, bridges and fillings in almost all his teeth, suggesting the man had money.
Clothing: A pair of size 9M Timberland brown-and-black hiking boots.
Possessions: Located was fragments of sleeping cushion, fragments of blue backpack, a yellow-green plastic poncho, parts of a brown sleeping bag, blue hairbrush, two plastic zipper bags, Six $100 bills, one $10 bill, one $5 bill, five $1 bills , green Eureka dome tent, blue-and-black Jansport backpack, green camping pillow, black belt with clinging long underwear fragments, Slumberjack sleeping bag, empty Tylenol bottle, eight multicolored butane lighters, one magnifying glass, one compass, fingernail clippers, bell, spoon, pepper spray, 20 packages of Camel unfiltered cigarettes, Butane stove with two fuel cans, sweetwater water-filtration kit, pocket-sized Battleship game, round red-and-blue canteen, two green plastic military-style canteens, pair of sunglasses, pair of reading glasses, silver Sharper Image binoculars, “4 in 1″ Radio Shack game, two drinking cups, aluminum cooking pot, pair of tweezers, package of foam earplugs, package of razor blades, tent repair kit, pair of blue wool socks with duct tape around the toes, roll of duct tape, two National Geographic trail maps of the Flat Tops.
Other: A pocket-sized, spiral notebook with a green cover with hand-drawn artwork depicting a heart and some figures inside the heart, including what appears to be a cat.
The first page, addressed to “Lib,” begins, “I should wait in case my situation here doesn’t improve. This may be the end of my journey.”
“Would like for you to claim the body . . . services or memoreal. Cremation.”
The CBI found the next section illegible, although individual words such as “I” and “thought” and “favor” or “flavor” could be made out.
On another page, more text could be discerned, but the CBI analysts said the writer’s point is not clear. That sections reads, “Third choice take them up in a glider (I promise not to get sick on you,” before becoming illegible. Some common words - “this,” “you” and “not” - are identifiable.
On yet another page, the writing apparently goes, “ar on the . . . would you call her…d have it sent…you because I . . . want it to . . . where.” Analysts also interpreted a recovered fragment to read, “be . . . er . . . my . . . s are going.”

Possessions

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Case History
The victim was located September 8, 2004, by bow hunters in a remote area north of Glenwood Springs. The site is in the drainage of No Name Creek at about 9,700 feet elevation, about 6 miles as the crow flies from Glenwood Springs, but 12 miles by the Transfer Trail out of town.
The skeleton revealed no cause of death and the sheriff’s office has been assuming it probably was natural.
The man was found in a tent at a campsite in a wooded, remote location. His trousers had rotted away, but the date of currency found at his campsite indicates he apparently had been there no longer than five years.
The letter leaves open the possibility the man was suicidal, although there is no reason to believe he killed himself. Perhaps he was terminally ill and chose to take his life. The man also could have succumbed to unexpected illness or injury while on an outing in the Flat Tops.
Much about the case is conjecture, including a theory that the man entered the Flat Tops Wilderness at a trailhead on the north and hiked four or five days across elevations of 11,000 feet before setting up his tent on a southern drainage at about 9,700 feet. That theory is supported by two moisture-proof National Geographic trail maps of the Flat Tops with a route drawn across them to the area where the remains were discovered. But it’s possible the man picked up the maps someone else had marked and left behind.

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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Garfield County sheriffs Office
970-945-1377, Ext. 1025
Or
Crime Tips
970-384- 3625
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

NCIC Number:
N/A
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Rocky Mountain News

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mic4588 asked:


I go up to Chetek Wisconsin a few times a year as my family owns land on a lake up there. Getting kind of tired of fishing the same lakes and was looking for some different places to fish. I was wondering if it was worth the hour trip to the Chippewa Flowage area? What’s the fishing like? I’ve heard it’s good musky territory. Just looking for some tips and whatnot.

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Rachel Jackson asked:


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mroy8 asked:


My soon-to-be husband graduated Marine boot camp on September 12th 08. and he had his s.o.i training. they kept him stationed in north carolina. i want to know how long it will take for him to get deployed off.

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